Liberal Quits St. Louis II.
When Race Couples Barred
St Louis, Mo tCNS) Liberal,!
Rev Claude H Heithaus, who
more than any man here at St
Louis University has been lesponsi
ble for the banishment of racial
barriers in enrolling students, has
resigned from the faculty when the
College barred some Negro students
from a college orpin
Rev Heithers was in open defi
ance to University President. Rev
Patrick J Hallorant S J , when he
decided to protest
decided to prevent from 80 to 100
race students from attending the
dance at the swank Hotel Jefferson
Four Negro couples were allowed
to come and mingle with other stu
Iv dents without interference
Immediately following the ac
ceptance of the resignation of Hei
t turns. Rev George Dunne handed
in his resignation Too. an out
spoken champion of tolerance, he
decided to leave the faculty when a
recorded address of his on racial
tolerance was deleted from a sched
uled program, KW( the universltys
radio station
Meanwhile, Father Halloran is
denying that the race question had
anything to do with the resigning
of two key men from his faculty
MBTROPOLITA > IVilHiMK CO
TKLLS MOWM IT W ILL STICK
HV A M'l-III AS IIILI.
New York (CNS) "The comp
any will abide by the law" (mean
ing the Ives Quinn Bill) said a rep
resentative of the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Co. to committee of pic
keteers of the March on Washing
ton Movement who maintained a
picket line around the head office
of the Metropolitan Life on April
ISth. the day of the biennial elec.
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^tion of the company's directors
When the March representatives
pointed out that the New York
KEPT? was inoperative outside of
New York and asked what change
would be followed elsewhere the
official could not state He assur
| ed the picketers though that “we
| will cut no corners in complying
| with the law.”
Because of the increased interest
I in the March program as a result of
I the campaign against the discrimin
, atory policies of the Metropolitan
the local unit of the March has
launched its annual membership
drive Miss Lucille Barnes active
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civic worker. assisted by Mrs
Mattie Dowf. will head up the cam
paign
llltOTHEKIIOOII l’RO\ ISIliN \l.
COMMITTEE TO ASSEMBLE
IN WASHINGTON, l)C, MAY JS-1H
I TO OltGA NI/.K COLORED
KIKE MEM
The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters' Provisional Committee to
Organize Colored Locomotive Fire
men will assemble in Washington.
May 18th and 19th to review the
liappenings of the past year and
prepare for action against the
Southeastern Carrier Agreement.
It is to be remembered that the
hearings in Washington have had
ittle or no results to the Negro
Railroad workers. The case of the
Firemen was certified to the Pres
ident and later to the Stacy Com
mittee whose task It was to find a
solution for problems growing out
of the Southeastern Carriers' A
greement. Up to the present date,
little or nothing has been done to
assist the Negro Worker The hope
of the fireman grows dimmer daily
because the white Brotherhood has
increased its effort to eliminate the
Negro from the higher brackets of
the railroad industry
Ail firemen are urged and re
quested to be in attendance at this
conference. A. Philip Randolph.
National hairman of the Brother
hood of Sleeping Car Porters' Pro
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vlional Committee will review the
successes and failures of the past
year and outline a future program
while Milton P Webster. Vice
Chairman of the Committee will
give the facts concerning the gov.
ernment’s action in the Firemen
Case
Other officials attending the Con
ference will be Ashley L Totten,
International Secretary-Treasurer.
Thomas T Patterson. Eastern Zone
Supevisir and B F. McLaurin, Int’l
Field Organizer.
URBAN LEAGUE
SURVEYS GARY’S
SOCIAL ECONOMIC
PROBLEMS
New York:—Gary, Indiana, is at
present seriously studying prelim
inary findings developed by the
Community Relations Project of the
National Urban League. Following
a report made early in April by Dr.
Warren M. Banner, the League's
Research Director, an editing com
mittee was appointed to study the
recommendations. Mrs. Wilbur
Hardaway, real estate dealer, and
H. Theo Tatum, principal of the
Roosevelt School, are Negro mem
bers of this committee. The survey
is sponsored by a city-wide inter
racial committee representing all
phases of community life. Develop
ments in Gary are of particular in
terest for Negroes constitute a
larger percentage of the population
than is true of any other northern
city. H. B. Snyder, Chairman of the
Chamber of Commerce Race Re
lations Committee, refered to the
question of race relations as “pro
bably the most important problem
to be solved by the City after the
war."
Intensive surveys in health, hous
ing, employment, recreation and
group work are now being conduct
ed by a team of specialists, under
the supervision of Dr. William H
Dean. Project Director. Seaton W.
Manning, industrial relations spec
ialist. in making his preliminary
tatement, asked for the appointment
of a sub-committee to serve as the
“conscience of the community” in
labor relations.
The report of Dr. Paul I! Cornely
health specialist of the National
Urban Deague, showed Gary to be
far below national standards in
practically every respect. The city
spends 75-85 cents per capita for
health, as against $1.75-J250 for the
nation Striking need was shown
for increased facilities for fighting
tuberculosis. for expanding the
veneral desease clinic, and for im
proving pre-natal and infant care.
The exclusion of Gary's 11 Negro
physicians from practicing in the
two largest hospitals was pointed
out as making it almost impossible
for these men to serve the commun
ity adequately. Mayor Joseph E..
Finerty said he had asked Dr
Cornely to “go into the whole health
problem completely and look over
all areas."
The full report will be withheld
from publication until the editing
committee acts on the recommend
ations made by the National Urban
Deague.
PROTEST REDUCTION
OF SEAMEN’S WAR
RISK BONUSES
New York—700 members of the Nat
ional Maritime Union at a special
meeting in the Port of New York
today vigorously protested the an
nouncement of the Maritime Emer
gency Board that it contemplates
putting into effect a reduction in
the war risk bonus for merchant
seamen “in anticipation of the end
of hostilities in Europe.”
The MWEB has called a meeting
for May 12, 1945 of representatives
of seamen's union's to discuss its
proposed program of establishing a
worldwide floor of 33 and cne third
percent (540 monthly minimum) be
low which bonuses will not be re
duced during the period of the war
In the discussion that followed
Vice-Persident Myers' presentation
of the MWEB proposals to the NMU
membership, it was agreed that:
1. The contemplated reduction in
seamen's take-home pay would
make increasingly difficult ue
merchant seaman's problem of mak
ing ends meet in this period of ris
ing living costs. Basic wages for
seamen today are sub-standard-as
low as 34 cents an hour in some
ratings.
2. The proposed order would
have the effect of drving many mer
chant seamen into shoreside indust
ry where wages are higher, in a
period when the War Shipping Ad
ministration is still advertising for
skilled men to meet the shortage of
merchant seamen.
3. Regardless of any action tak
en by the MWEB. the members of
the National Maritime Union would
retain their no-strike pledge and
continue to deliver the goods to the
battlefronts all over the world The
' membership was emphatic that
come what may, they would not be
provoked into “pulling the pin."
The meeting endorsed unanimous
ly the wire sent by NMU officials
to the MWEB calling for a 60 day
postponement of the May 12 meeting
The text of the wire follows:
Regarding the statement issued to
the maritime unions re the bonus
cuts to be discussed in Washington
May 12, the National Maritime Un
ion requests that this meeting be
postponed for at least 60 days on
the following grounds:
1. The bonus cut are in effect
cats in wartime wages in a most
vital industry and this time is nec
essary to properly present the prob
lem to the membership.
2. The War Shipping Administ
ration has requested another gov
ernment agency, to wit. the Depart
ment of Labor, to undertake a sur
vey of seamen's take-home money
in terms of basic wages, which are
as low as 34 cents per hour The
MWEB action should be posponed
until the government agency will
have had an opportunity to com
plete this survey
3 The National Maritime Union
is in the process of negotiating with
the steamship companies to adjust
seamen's substandard wages as they
now exist and in the alternative
compel adjustment by the National
War Labor Board under the sub
standard stabilization provision
During these 60 days with good
faith on all sides this entire issue
can be resolved.
4 In conclusion, we wish to J
FORMER CONCERT SINGER NOW MERCHANT SEAMAN
Cieighton Thompson, American Negro concert artist who was ousted from Germany at the out
break of war, has been taking cracks at the master race as a member of the U. S. Merchant Marine.
His ship was sunk in the Mediterranean and he was brought to the United Seamen’s Service rest
center at Oyster Bay, L. I., after that organization had taken care of him in Italy and the United
Kingdom. Before shipping out again, he sang “My Lord What a Morning” at the third annual meeting
of the United Seamen’s Service, a member agency of the National War Fund. He is shown being inter
viewed by Douglas P. Falconer, Executive Director of USS. He has given up bis concert career
until after Hitler’s burial at which function he has volunteered to sing a cheerful song of freedom.
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. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Soundphoto—President Harry S. Truman greets the “big four” from
Capitol Hill for the first time since taking office. Left to right: Sen. Kenneth McKellar, of Tenn.,
president-pro-tem of the senate; Sen. A. W. Barkley, of Ky., majority leader of the senate, and Rep.
John W. McCormack, of Mass, majority leader of the house. President Truman is seated.*^
state that the war is obviously not
over. Final victory is yet to be won
The chaos that may result in other
sections of the industry is impos
sible for the National Maritime Un
ion to fortell. It would seem that
the postponement of the considerat
ion of this problem will have a Ren
eral beneficial effect upon the war
effort.
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K. L. C.—My husband is about 10
years older than 1 and he is so
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lieves that he knows all there is
to know and doesn't mind hurting
my feelings or anyone else. He
thinks other folks have no feelings.
He is my third husband and I am
his 4th or 5th wife. We don't have
any children but he has some by
his first and second wives and now
he always wants to go see about
them but he left them when thev
were little and their mothers had to
take care of them and since they
are all grown, he loves them so
much he can't come home and stay
like he ought to. Please help me
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M. V.H.—My home burned down
year before last and I want to knot
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year or will I have to wait until
after the war is over. I lead your j
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K. M. M.—I am a lady 27 yejirs of
age. I married once and my husband
and 1 are seperated on account of
people talking to him. 1 still love
him and believe he still loves me.
He has another girl friend now but
he still seems to care for me. His
people think a lot of me and I have
not seen anyone I love like I do
him. What should I do?
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to recapture his affection. The fact
that he still shows an interest in
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How They
Do It In
Washington
(BY DON DrLEIGHBlK)
New York—Down in the Capital
of the Nation, the Washington Tri
bune is still campaigning against
Uline Arena’s owner, Mile Uline be
cause of the policy at the Arena
which bars Negroes from seeing the
ice shows. A sign still remains in
the Arena. “No Negroes Admitted
To The Tee Shows.” However Neg
roes are admitted to the boxing
shows and the Uline excuse for not
admitting Negroes to the ice shows
is quoted by the Tribune as follows;
"Boxing is savagery and Negroes
can appreciate anything savage, but
the ice shows are educational and
Negroes cannot understand educat
ional sports." So the Washington
Tribune and others are carrying on
a campaign with the slogan., "Stay
Out of Uline’s,” being shouted from
the hilltops. Three thousand score
cards pointing out the un-American
Pro-Aryan policy of Mike Uline
have been put out by the Tribune,
but still you can't get in the damn
place whenever a fight is held there
as Negroes fall all over one another
trying to buy tickets.
Recently Jimmy Bivins of Cleve
land. the so-called ‘ duration heavy
weight champion” boxed George
Parks> another hamed heavyweight,
and the score cards put out by the
Tribune had the following excerpts;
‘‘Do you know That while Mr.
Uline will take the public's money
and welcome all to this fight, he
will not admit all the public to his
ice capades if they are Negroes?
"George Parks and Jimmy Bivins
iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiimiiimtt
that does not seem to stop her
Please publish an answer as quick
as possible because I am hoping you
will give me some advice.
Ans;—To put an end to this af
fair once and for all. refuse to ac
cept her letters or to see her. Re
turn the mail unopened if you do
so for a few times, she will not con
tinue to bother you. Don't fail to
appreciate your girl friend's broad
minded attitude as she has been
mighty sporting about the whole
affair, four other question was a
little to personal to answer in the
column. Send 25 cents for your
Astro Reading and 1 will be glad to
go over it with you. Be sure to send
your correct address and birth date.
Released by U. S. War Department, Bureau of Public Relations
' MISS HELEN KELLER, world famous blind author, talks with
Private First Class Raymond Craft, Columbia, S. C., while touring
the wards at Stark General Hospital, Charleston, S. C. Miss Polly
Thompson, her constant companion, tells Miss Keller about Craft,
who served with a Quartermaster unit in the European Theater for
12 months, by using the finger language. Craft wears the Purpl#
Heart and was returned from overseas on the hospital ship Wisteria.
(U. S. Army Signal Corps photo from BPR.)
I —
cannot buy a ticket to the Ice Cap
ades even though they are the No. I
attraction here tonight?” "Is Uline
fair to Parks and Bivins? They are
good enough to bring you here to
night but not good enough to see
the Ice Capades?" "\Vhy is it that
Mr. Uline admits Negroes to this
fight? He stated that DECENT
white people of Washington do not
want to sit with them at the Ice
Follies. Is it that he needs Negroe's
money? Or is it that Mr. Uline
doesn't consider the white patrons
here tonight DECENT?”
But there were still Negroes out
side fighting to get in from reports
I received from Washington. It
would appear that Negroes in Wash
ington would have more sense on
this matter than all Negroes living
in any other place because the
Washington preasure is so heavy
upon them they should, by all rea
son unite on a program if for no
other purpose than self-preservation
and self-respect; but they don't.
Negro fans load up by the hun
dreds with blankets, flags, horns
and other apparatus to follow the
Washington Redskins to the Polo
Grounds in New York City to play
the Giants. These rooting sections
of Negroes, supporting a team upon
which no Negro football player can
ever hope to play, is as strange to
the eyes of fans in New York City
who know the score in Washington
as would the sight of Jews parading
down the street behind Hitler. The ;
National Football League has made
no bones about its intention of keep j
ing the game lilywhite and it has ,
yet to take a Negro under consider
ation since the early 1930s when
Joe Lillard of Oregan and Duke
Slater of Iowa played for the
Chicago Cardinals. Those were the
last Negroes to don the uniform of
a national professional league clul
and probably will be the only ones
so long as Negroes act as they act
in Washington.
The Uline fight is small in com
parison with the general problem.
Since Washington is a Jlni-cro>v
town despite the fact that it is the
seat of the national government,
Negroes should be as clanish as
possible on the race question be
cause it is factual that they are
barred from practically everything.
The Tribune fight is worthy of sup
port and the situation has national
implications because what goes on
in Washington could very well in
dicate the course of action to be ■
pursued in other cities. But when
people in nortern communities
where jim-crow laws, exist notice
how simple Negroes in Washington
act in regard to breaking their neck
to see what they want to see, they
cannot help but draw their own con
clusions and continue doing the
same thing.
Of course, the building of an
arena by Negroes in Washington
could be undertaken because there
is enough money floating around
down there among our people to
build a Madison Square Garden if
they were of that mind. But it ev
idently seems that they are not of
such mind and instead would rather
take their money to Mike Uline who
won't let them in to see an ice show
because it is too educational, but
who will take their money for a
boxing show because it is "savagery
and Mike Uline thinks Negroes ap
preciate savagery.
Washington is a good town for
cports right now on account of the
war and because of the influx of
war workers in governmental de
partments If there were enough
Negroes with the ability and leader
ship to outline the proper procedure
to pursue in establishing Negro
sports as such ip Washington. Mile
Uline could be effectively combat
ted If a stadium were built by
Negroes in the Capital there would
be no worry about support The
attractions naturally would come
there Ray Robinson. Joe Louis,
Jimmy Bivens, Henry Armstrong.
Ike Williams, Willie Joyce. Bob
Montgomery. Beau Jack. Tommy
Bell, among the boxers; the Harlen
Globetrotters among the pro bas
ketball teams; and all the Negro
colleges along the Eastern Seaboard
at least could b* shown to packed
houses Financially, the venture
would prove a smash hit success
As a rival enterprise to persons who
hold to jim-crow theories, like Mike
Uline. it probably would be the
wedge which would push such per
sons out of the picture because in
sports, such as boxing and basket
ball, Negroes are the prime attrac
tions
I hope these few lines might
catch an eye or an ear here or there
in Washington and somebody com
es to the fore with enough courage
and money to take the proper steps
to provide a sane way of Kelting
around people like Mike Uline
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