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LENA HORNE REFUSES TO ENTERTAIN IN JIM CROW ARMY CAMPS Washington (Pl’Nit Continuing! her hit.er opposition against the in- J si.ster.ee of prejudiced sources to ad- ; here to jim crow policies during her appearance, Lena Horne, first lady of the stage and screen, announced tf is wetk that in the face of unrelent ins jim-crovvism encountered on her USO Army toui she felt It her duty to call a halt to the itinerary. Though personally suffering the affects of southern jim-crow laws while enroute to and from various camps, tae determing action responsi ble for the star’s decision was an in cident that occured at Camp Robin son in Little Rock, Ark. According to Miss Horne, the camp command- j er not only steadfastly refused to allow the fifty colored soldiers as signed to the post to visit her shows, but was “rude and definitely un friendly.” She further stated that German prisoners of war were ad mitted to her shows, while "FREE." Negroes in the uniforms of their country were shunned. Miss Horne, wso certainly expect ed some forms of jim crow, said, however, that the exhibit of race bia: at Camp Robinson was more glagrant than that prevalent at any other of the southern camps- In most cases, she stated, the rigid jim crow rules were relaxea somewhat to rtirrrTrfdT allow Negro soldiers to attend camp theatres where she appeared. Al a later date, Miss Horne re vealed to reporters, she will resume her Hollywood sponsored tour of servicemen's camps and hopes that by that time the Army will have seen fit to accord their Negro fighting men more civil treatment. ne an equally false sense of race in- j feriority. 1 pointed out' too, that while there >vas reigious degregation in the Mid ile Ages, we did not have race seg regation until the coming of the cap italist era. and that this proved that it was not a law of nature- But there isn’t space to develop that here Finally, in pointing out that while flowers may not grow in the desert, you can irrigate and change the des ert into a veritable garden, I emphas ized how prevailing social and eco nomic conditions determine men’s outlook, and how the latter can be changed by changing the former. ‘GOOSE” TATUM, SPARKS LINCOLN AIR BASE QUINT SCHEDULED TO PLAY AT CREIGHTON U., FEBR. 2) FOR BENEFIT OF THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL Lincoln. Army Airtase Field. Neb. January 7—A trio of Negro basket ball stars headed by the famous “Goose” Tatum, of Chicago, have sparked the Lincoln, Nebraska's Ar my Airfield Wings to a prominent spot among the nation’s leading ser vice quints moved this week to hire additional clerical workers as well as operators it was learned “The company has been preparing to hire colored girls for sometime Howard D. Gould- director of Indus trial Relations for the Chicago Ur ban League, announced Thursday, “but official announcement has prob ably been delayed until final plans have been completed.” On the basis of past experiences with the company, Gould added, it is evident that company officials us ually carefully map out their employ ment policies and then proceed to hire people with little publicity The Illinois Bell Telephone com pany’s decision to lower the color bar to switchboard operator jobs follows the precedent set by the New 't ork Telephone company, which hired 26 Negro girls recently- Recent adver tisements for operators in the daily press, along with the company’s re luctance to reveal its plans for hir ing Negro girls, was pointed out in a recent issue of the Chicago De fender. INFANTILE PARALYSIS— the enemy on *TttE home FRONT * A Good Place to Eat j Home Cooking j LITTLE Diner j 2314 North 24th St. Regular QCC* Meals 03T| "READY TO SERVE” — i —11:30 A. M. TO 8 :30 P. 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Lena Horne, exciting s-nger. joins the stellar galaxy for MGM’s “Zieg feld Follies”, technicolor musical with the greatest array of stars yet to reach the screen. Miss Home not only has a solo stelalr spot with her number “Love” for the revue, but teams with Avon I-ong of “Por gy and Bess” fame for “Liza”- This is tl<e George Gershwin number which woil fame on Broadway and comes to the screen for the first time in “Ziegfeld Follies"- Incident ally. Miss Home and Long started their careers nine years ago as youngsters at the famous Cotton Club. (CNS). NEW TRIAL ASKED TOR NEGRO SAILORS Chicago, III.,-President Roose velt and Secretary of the Navy For restal Saturday were called upon to correct “a shocking injustice per meated by racial prejudice” by order ing a new trial for 50 Negro seamen recently convicted of mutiny. The seamen were convicted by a court martial for failing to load am munition at Mare Island. 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The Department says the brown and white stickers, which bear on their face a photograph of a Negro locomotive fireman and the words: "For Jobs and Justice" are controv ersial But the office of Ramsey S- Black Third Assistant Postmaster General, which took the action, added yester day in Washington that it objected neither to the photograph of the Ne gro or the quoted words. According to a spokesman of the Department, its fire was drawn by the phrase: “March on Washington Movement,” which appears at the bottom of the 2 by 3-8 inch stamp. The Department bases its censor ship on the "controversality” of the movement and a fear that the use of the group's name on letters passing through the mails would be construed as an indorsement of the organizat ion's aims by the Government. The March on Washington Move ment- whose national director is A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Por ters- AFL is chiefly known for its picketing last year of the New York offices of the Metropolitan Life In surance Company, in protest against the company's policy of segregation in its housing development and its alleged discriminatory employment practices. The movement is now -busy organizing the estimated 2500 Negro policy-holders in the USA. It has no present plans for an actual march on the Capital The Post Office Department's ac tion provoked a sharp rejoiner yester day from Randolph who called it “high-handed, undemocratic censor ship-” He charged that the ban was an evidence of discrimination against the fight for far employment, race, color- religions, or national origins. Randolph charged that so long as the material sent through the mails is “not definitely obscene” and “does not tend to provoke overt subversive” action, the Department has no right to ban it /—-n The Day is Comin BY ERIC HAAS far Calvin's News Service It's an old argument- It isn't ev en new to me- But my counter-ar gument may be new to you. Some of my white friends argued the other night that if Negroes are not segre gated by law, or by conditions which practically prevent dispersal, they wih segregate themselves voluntar ily Thus- no matter what kind of a social system we have or how high our living standards, there will al ways be all-colored communities. The argument went something like this: It‘s more comfortable and conven ient for a Negro to have fellow Ne groes next door and across the street They won’t look down their noses if you go around in your cultural un dershirt, whereas in a predominantly white neighborhood you'd have to be stiff and formal and eternally on your ^ unday behavior. Then- too, you're accustomed to the social pat tern of the all-colored community and suffer a national disinclination to face the host of problems you im agine would arise the moment you left it. Finally, a lot of people who help to shape “Negro opinion”, such as Negro civic officials- Negro prea chers, Negro politicians and Negro businessmen, have vested interests in segregation I hat s just the gist of the argu meiit- I countered it this way: Lin net our present capitalist society, with its prejudices-breeding economic strife and vested interests- there is some merit in what you say. Many Negroes feel that it is not only more comfortable and convenient, but al so that it is safer, to live in an all colored community. But let us as sutr.t that this society were to col lapse under the weight of insoluble economic contradictions, and that a new sohiety were built on the found ation of dollertive ownership of the i mills, mines, fautories and work- I shops. Under this setup, progress could come only through collective effort. And this would mean the end or prejudice-breeding economic strire as well as the end of vested interests. It dould also mean a fundamental change in our individual attitude to card our fellowman. Instead of see ing them as exploiters and compet tors (which they could no longer be under the changed conditions), or as Negroes or whites, or Jews or Gen tiles, we would regard them as fel low humans, collaborators in a great and good joint enterprise In the collectiveism toward which society is inexorably moving not on ly would all the legal and extra-lc ga. forces of community race segre gation relax and disappear, but ev ery reason for voluntary grouping in all-colored neighborhoods would also vanish- Men of all races would be safe everywhere. They would be comfortable eevrywher too, because as there would be no false attitude of race superiority, neither would there \1C10RY Bowl 2410 LAKE STREET JA-9175 Hours from 32 P. M. to 12 A. M. Friday only 12 P. M. to 5 P. M. Start 12 Midnight each Friday till 4 A. M. 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Rounding out the trio is the very able Ralph Brady, former Litt.*e All-America grid star with Wash bum University of Topeka- Ralph stepped from a successful year with the Wings’ football squad and while J filling a spot on the cage team has proved of great value in defensive roles. I As the air force quint levels its drive toward national service honors, these boys and their team mates must wade through such competition as Ottumwa Naval Station, Patterson Field Air-Tecs. Phillips 66. and oth er leading service and pro teams. The “Goose” and his team mates are scheduled to perform at the Om aha Creighton University gym Sat urday, February 24, for the benefit of the Children’s Hospital CHICAGO PHONE CO. SET TO HIRE NEGRO OPERATORS The Lllinois Bell Telephone Co., will soon begin hiring Negro girls as switchboard operators. 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