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PARAFRAGS OVER FORMOSA
Washington, D. C. — Army Air
Force Photo — Soundphoto — Call
them para-frag or para-demolition
bombs, these charges of destruc
tion will momentarily land on a
parked train in Formosa’s Chick
unan railroad yards, and one more
mess for Jap transportation goes
on the brilliant record of the low
flying medium -bombers of the U.
S. Army 5th Air Force. /
Tallest Building
The tallest building in the south,
Louisiana’s capitol at Baton Rouge
—34 stories. 450 feet in height—
stands on the campus of the old
state university. It supersedes the
modest structure completed in 1849
and equipped with furnishings from
Europe that had been dispatched to
Emperor Maximillian of Mexico but
arrived after his death.
Prewar Syria
Prewar population of Syria was
about 1,696,600. Intermixed are
Arabs, Turks, Kurds. Circassians,
Armenians, Greeks, Persians and
Jews. A sprinking of tribal elements,
such as the Druzes, figure in census
totals. Capital and biggest city is
Damas (Damascus), population 193,
912, believed to be the world's old
est city still inhabited. About 195 air
miles northeast lies Alep (Aleppo),
second in size, with 177,313 dwell
ers. Between these two cities are
situated Homs, population 52,792,
and Hama. 39.360. ranking third
and fourth.
Tire Slip
On a steep hill, either going up or
down, tire slip is greater and it is
not possible to get high tread mile
age even with the most careful
driving.
“SOMEFHF.RE IN EUROPE”
2 May 1945.
Dear Editor:
I wish to commend you and your
staff on the unlimited effort you
are putting forth to secure equal
rights for we men and women in
the service as well as the civilian
on the “home front.”
I also wish to congratulate you
on the superb job you are accom
plishing on the home front in keep
ing the folk informed of the vital
role Negro troops are playing in
the prosecution of the war on dis
tant battle fields of the world. It
is a boost to our morale to see
our names in “print” and I also
feel our relatives and friends feel
the same way when they see our
name or picture in the local news
paper.
From recent accounts, Negro
newspapers are now reaching to
the four comers of the world. I
attribute the expansion of the
Negro newspaper to the excellent
work of Negro Correspondents.
These men are doing a fine job!
Amid the confusion of War here
on the continent of Europe. I am
devoting my leisure time to writ
ing a book on the Negroes in the
field of Journalism which I am
dedicating to the Negro War Cor
respondents of World War II.
Herewith enclosed is a copy of
the outline of the book I am work
ing on. Five chapters are being
devoted to the Negro Newspapers
of the United States of America.
My military duties here in the
European Theater of Operations
makes it impossible for me to con
duct a personal interview of every
Negro newspaper office of the
United States to secure the infor
mation I desire. Therefore, I
must resort to correspondence.
I would like for you to send me
a two to four page, double spaced
history of the origin, development,
expansion, war time operations,
present functions and post war
plans of your publication. Names
and dates will be greatly apprecia
ted. Should you desire to write
more than four pages, feel free
to do so. (Please enclose the names
of your war correspondents and
your method of obtaining war
news? Thanks ....!).
I am the Unit Public Relations
Representative of the 1314th En
gineer Regiment and I am under
taking the writing of this book in
collaboration with my Journalism
Correspondence Course offered
through the United States Armed
Force Institute. Your cooperation
in regard to the above requested
matter will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for your cooperation.
Yours truly,
George Woods, Jr.
Milky Dishes
If milky dishes and fabrics are
rinsed with clear cold water before
coming in contact with warm,
soapy water much of the calcium
and protein w-ill be carried away so
that the washing may be done satis
factorily. say the home economists.
IOWANS SEE NAVY CAST
Des Moines, la.—These “Music
Makers” are featured in a variety
act on the special program follow
ing the June 16th broadcast of
“Meet Your Navy” when this pop
ular air show makes a personal
appearance at the Shrine Temple
here to stimulate war bond sales
during the mighty seventh drive.
Often heard on the regular Sat
urday evening broadcast from
Great Lakes, the Music Makers
variety act hero includes their own
version of “Stumbling,” “Laura”
and “Boogie Woogie;” Carl Para
diso singing “I Should Care;” and
the comedy skit “Together” by
Paradiso and Bob Manners. Left
to right, the Music Makers are:
Bob Manners, Mus2c; John Pietro,
Mus2c; Carl Paradiso, Mus2c; Bob
by Westmoreland, S2c; and Fred
Consorte, Mus2c.
FOR PHILIPPINES
More than 60 tons of clothing
and emergency supplies have ar
rived on Luzon, comprising the
first shipment of nearly 1,000,000
garments being sent to the Philip
pines by the American Red Cross.
They were distributed immediate
ly to civilian and military casual
ties, liberated prisoners of war and
civilian internees, and to civilian
non casualties upon recommenda
tion of the Army.
Additional Red Cross supplies
for civilians are being shipped from
the United States at the request
of the military authorities.
SMILE AWHILE
By Leonard Ewing
The war between Leonard Ewing
and the Thing that writes the
(Loud Talk) column in the Omaha
Star newspaper will come into its
second stage this week. They tell
me that you can’t get Nylon stock
ings, but some people say that
they seen a brand new pair on
the glamor girl of Miami Street,
who is if you don’t know, is none
other than Nona Mae Robinson.
I wonder where she got the Nylon
Stockings when they are so hard
to get ?
It is also rumored that Nona
Mae has finally got a job! Believe
me the rate she was going I
thought she was going to learn
to mind her own business but it
seems that she has her a little
column in the news paper. Now
she can let people know just how
much she watches them so she
can write it in the paper. If I
was the public I would watch what
I did because the big ears of Nona
Mae are always on the job to
find out just what you did the
night before, last night, and to
morrow night. So before you talk
to your friends or even to your
self look around to see if there is
a big ear listing or if two little
eyes that see all, tell, which is a
bad policy, is watching you.
So I finish with my little slogan,
“WATCH OUT”
OR
“BE FOUND OUT”
RED CROSS NEWS MAN
LAUDS NEGRO REPORTERS
COVERING PACIFIC WAR
Washington — Negro war cor
respondents recently received the
praise of William Kadison, Red
Cross overseas correspondent who
is now in the United States on
rotation leave. Kadison praised
most highly “Charlie” (Charles)
Loeb, former correspondent for
the Negro Newspaper Publishers
Association, who was with the
Cleveland “Call-Post” before go
ing overseas.
"Negro correspondents are hard
workers,” he said. “Frequently j
they not only dig out and write
up their stories, but take pictures
as well. They go to all sorts of
pains, and into ail sorts of places,
to give their peapers and their
readers good coverage. All the
correspondents club together and
work together in the rough life
of front-line service.”
Kadison, senior Red Cross cor
respondent in the Southwest Pa
cific, has been- closely connected
with General MacArthur’s com
mand. He also arranged and broad
cast many programs as “Your
Red Cross Reporter” over the Mu
tual network. Before going to Aus
tralia in 1937, Kadison was one
of the organizers of the American
Newspaper Guiid in Los Angeles.
Burley Tobacco
Burley tobacco is usually aged
from 18 months to approximately
30 months before being used in the
manufacture of cigarettes.
BORNEO INVADERS DRIVE
AHEAD
New York — The North Borneo
campaign, which began when the
Australian 9th Division stormed
ashore under the personal direction
of General MacArthur, is pro
gressing favorably and Allied Cas
ualties are light. The above close
up of the invasion area shows the
key invasion sites: (1) Muara
Island and Brooketon on the main
land, from which they pushed
ahead to Brunei town (2). On
Labuan (3), where other landings
were made, Victoria was taken
and an air base acquired.
GOOD LUCK GEN. BRADLEY
Washington, D. C.—Soundphoto
—Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, right,
Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs,
wishing every success to his suc
cessor General Omar Bradley, left,
who is taking over direction of
the Veterans Administration. Rep.
John E. Rankin, center, looks on.
NASH UNVEILS 1946 CAR
Detroit, Michigan — Above you
get a first look at a new 1946 low
priced passenger automobile which
will feature light weight, more
room and more economy accord
ing to George W. Mason, president
of Nash-Kielviuator Corporation.
The car will give 25 to 30 miles
per gallon of gas at moderate
speed and embodies many improve
ments in styling. These will be
the first new cars turned out by
the company since 1942. Its war
time experience in mass producing
air craft engines. Mason said, will
result in many improvements.
RELEASE KITS
American Red Cross release kits
for liberated prisoners of war in
clude soap, razor blades, tooth
brush and paste, socks, handker
chiefs, candy, chewing gum, a
small book, and other articles.
Thousands of them have been dis
tributed in Europe and the Philip
pines.
AID TO VETERANS
As one of the organizations
authorized by the government to
represent veterans, the American
Red Cross now has 117 specially
trained field directors in 53 Vet
erans Administration offices
throughout the country.
These Red Cross workers have
access to official records, and may
represent the discharged service
man before the Veterans Admin
istration’s rating boards, which
pass on claims for pensions and
benefits.
It is their special job to be fa
miliar with the Veterans Adminis
tration procedure, to interpret it
to the Red Cross Home Service
workers in the chapters, to give
advice on what evidence should be
obtained, and to do everything pos
sible to assist the veteran or his
family to obtain the full benefits
to which they are entitled.
PROGRESS ON OKINAWA
(New York — Soundphoto — On
June 20th, after two months of
bloody battle in which every con
ceivable handicap and hazard fac
ed American forces, collapse of
Shuri (1) and Naha, to hold which
the Japs have made the most des
perate efforts, appeared close at
hand. This map provides general
outline of what has happened since j
April 1st, when the Marines made
their first landing on Okinawa
coast (2). Some invasion groups
moved rapidly northward and on
April 12th had reached the area ]
below Nago (3) and drove to the!
peak a week later. South Okinawa,
with vital airbases which will be
used for knock out blows, is shown
in the inset. Battle lines and dates
of the most important engage
ments are indicated. Last week
Naha was taken, and the airfield
and harbor are now being used by
our forces.
U. S. TROOPS IN NORWAY
Norway — U. S. Signal Corps
Radiophoto — Soundphoto — U. S.
troops land for the first time in
Norway as Task Force “A” docks
at Oslo. Task Force “A” was
sent to Norway to aid the govern
ment of that country as a police
and military force in demilitari
zation and handling of 600,000
armed Germans in the country at
the time of Nazi surrender.
Milk Rations
Army rations call for one-half pint
■>? fresh milk per day per man.
S-Sgt L.P. Lewis
Writes From...
the PACIFIC
(by S /Sj5t. Liwrfioe P. Lew1\
INTO THE INTERIOR
Mr. C. C. Galloway, Editor
The Omaha Guide
2420 Grant Street
Omaha, 10, Nebraska
As the train slowly pulled out,
I became anxious and very ex
cited about the trip to come. I
thought of all the grand sights I
should be able to see. I might be
able to see one of those Indian
rajahs, or some of those beauti
ful Indian women I had heard so
much about. I could picture my
self stretching my neck, looking at
the elephants, camels, and all the
wonders of India I had read so
much about. I did not dread the
train ride at that moment. It
was just an adventure I had been
looking forward to.
The first morning on that train
found me up and looking for some
of the wonders I had so expected
to see. The first sight that came
into a clear view was the Indian
villages that looked like the pic
tures I saw of Africa, instead of
what I thought I would see in In
dia. I waved and smiled my best
smile at the Indians from the train
window, but they only stared at
me. It seemed to me that I wasn’t
getting off to such a good start,
but there was so much I had to
learn about these Indians and their
ways.
The huts were mostly grass cov
ered, and to my knowledge are
mostly built by the Indians who
live in them. They are small, and
many are grouped together; hav
ing a foot trail leading to the vil
lage. Very seldom you are able
to see many of the inhabitants.
Most .of them stay inside when
they see you passing. In the
larger communities this is not so,
as far as men are concerned. I
have visited a city, which to my
estimation, must have had a pop
ulation of at least ten thousand,
but I did not see one woman dur
ing my afternoon there. Some
times you may see a few in the
market place selling vegetables,
fruit, or fish, but I had no business
there, and I was not going to buy
any of their goods. Often you may
see a large group of Indian women
working on the roads, in tea fields,
oh doing some type of construction
work, but “Big Baboo,” as they
very frequently call him. will keep
you a safe distance away.
I felt a little nervous as the
train moved through, what I would
term, the wilderness. I cannot say
for sure if it was jungles, but I
am not experienced as far as jun
gles are concerned. Somehow I
was afraid of the darkness of these
long and lonely nights. I had lit
tle to be frightened of, but how
was I to know. I didn’t know
where I was going, and that train
was putting many a mile behind
us. It could have been the silence
of this strange country with these
Indians who did not wave at you
or the continued rain that left me
damp and with a cold. If all hell
had broken loose, I would not have
been surprised, but I have never
seen a day of hell, such as thou
sands of Americans have been
through.
Every town we entered, I thought
and prayed would be the last. The
train continued on and on just
the same. Fields of rice were evi
dent most of the way, and cattle.
I have no right to mention cattle.
They were all along the side of
the tracks, on the roads, every
where you looked you could see
cattle of all descriptions. Many
of the huts in which the Indians
lived housed the cattle in a shed
that was built connecting to the
hut. Water Buffaloes, enormous
in size, and greyish-black in color,
nulled the plows that cultivated the
fields. Little cows, big cows, black
cows, white cows, skinny cows, all |
kinds of cows, roaming here and :
there. I don’t see how they keep
track of them. Goats, no use talk
ing about goats. I’ll just skip them.
Sometimes we laughed and joked,
I trying to keep the ride from get
' ting on or nerves. We played cards
until you couldn’t tel) an ace from
a kimr Gone wa* ny e:p 'Sta
tion of seeing the beautiful and
romantic spots that I thought I
would see. Instead of being a trip
that I had hoped would be enjoy
able; I felt the sting of the mos
quito, and kept the taste of chlor
ine in my mouth, which we used
to purify the water. Flies, I have
never seen so many of them. I
tried to knock them off my food,
but they must have been pretty
hungry, because they hesitated, and
did not fly away quickly like the
flies in the states. Even the flies
act strangely.
One very hot day the train sud
denly stopped puffing and blowing.
One of the officers yelled, “This is
it, everybody off.” The first sol
dier I saw was a Negro, and he
was entering a Chinese cafe. He
said something about “Fresh
Meat,” but I so envied his going
into that place to eat, I forgot his
remark.
Yes, we had reached our destina
tion. That long ride left me weak,
tired, dirty, hot, and very hun
gry. It was just a small town
where we unloaded, but the Amer
ican trucks that were going up and
down the road in such numbers,
reminded me of the traffic on 16th
and Famam on a Saturday, at
noon. I knew I was to be a part
of this, but somehow the bigness
of it all amazed me, and left me
feeling quite small and out of
place.
I did not see much of the beauty
of India in that train ride. Not
one elephant or even a monkey.
The only noise beside the rumb
ling and screeching of the train,
was the far away whine of the
jackal. That whine, wrhich was
only heard at night, just made the
touchy situation a little more un
comfortable. No one had to tell
me what to expect now. All I had
to do was look about me. I slowly
placed my pack on my tjred shoul
ders, and moved closer to the truck
which would take us to a good bath,
food, and a much needed rest. I
hesitated a moment, and then
smiled. I was lucky, I hadn’t even
heard the whine of a shell, nor
looked into the face of a Jap.
NAACP RALLIES
ENTIRE MEMBERSHIP
TO SAVE FEPC
Only Tornado of Wires Can
Prolong Agency
Washington, D. C.—Following
the tie vote, 6-6, June 12th in the
House Rules Committee, defeating
the ru\e to bring the bill for a
Fair Employment Practice Com
mittee to the floor, the NAACP
threw the full force of its ma
chinery to work to prevent the
death of FEPC. In order to help
secure the balance of the 218 sig
natures needed June 18th to get
the bill to the floor of the House
by June 25th for passage prior
to June 30th, when appropriations
for the present agency end, the
NAACP sent wires to 155 Repub
lican congressmen and 43 demo
crats in northern and border states
where Negroes vote. In urging
the 198 Congressmen to sign the
Discharge Petition immediately,
the NAACP said;
Yesterday’s tie vote in rules
committee on fair employment
practice commission bill follow
ing appropriation committee’s
withholding funds for tempo
rary FEPC because legislation
for permanent FEPC was pend
ing is heavy blow not only to
minorities whose sole protection
against job discrimination is im
periled, but to all decent Amer
icans. We respectfully but vig
orously urge you to sign dis
charge petition No. 4 today so
that bill may come to floor of
house for debate and vote be
fore June 30th deadline. Please
be good enough to notify us
when you have signed petition.
In addition, NAACP secretary,
Walter White wired all presidents
of Association State Conferences
giving them names of representa
tives to whom urgent wires must
be sent. Besides this the NAACP
:s working vigorously now with the
Senate Appropriations Committee.
In written pledges to the Council
for a permanent FEPC the fol
lowing Senate members have given
promises of support for appro
priations: Carl Hayden (D., Ariz.);
Joseph Ball (R.. Minn.); Theo
dore F. Green (D., R. I.); Dennis
Chevez (D., New Mexico); James
M. Mead (D„ N. Y.); Abe Mur
j dock, (D., Utah).
Because the situation is so crit
| ica! the NAACP urges immediate
action of every organization and
individual concerned with the fate
of the FEPC to wire members of
the Senate Appropriations Com
mittee to support restoration of
funds for FEPC.
On June 1st the House Appro
priations Committee announced it
would not include any funds for
the FEPC for the fiscal year be
ginning July 1, 1945, on the ground
that legislation is pending and
therefore “the only logical course
is to await legislative develop
ments before a recommendation.”
The completion of signatures to
the Discharge Petition bringing
the bill to the House floor for a
vote will prove definite support
of Congress for the measure and
force the Appropriations Commit
tee to favor F. E. P. C. for an
other year.
Only Telegrams Can Save FEPC
Now
Because the situation is so crit
ical, the NAACP urges immediate
action of every organization and
individuals concerned with the fate
of the FEPC to wire members of
the Appropriations Committee and
Senators generally, insisting that
the Congress vote appropriations
for continuance of the present F
EPC until legislation for the pre
manent Fair Employment Prac
tices Committee can be enacted.
The only thing that can save F
EPC is now a tornado of tele
grams. Members of the Senate Ap
propriations Committee are: Dem
ocrats: Carter Glass, Virginia,
Chairman; Kenneth McKellar,
Tenn.; Carl Hayden, Arizona; El
mer Thomas, Okla.; Millard E.
Tydings, Md.; Richard B. Russell,
Ga.; Pat McCarran, Nevada; John
H. Overton, La.; John H. Bank
head, Ala.; Joseph C. O’Mahoney,
Wyo.; Theodore Francis Green,
R. I.; Dennis Chavez, New Mexico;
James M. Mead, N. Y.; Burnet R.
Maybank, S. C.
Republicans: Styles Bridges,
New Hapmshire; Wallace H.
White, Jr., Maine; Chan Gurney,
South Dakota; C. Wayland Brooks,
Illinois.; Clyde M. Reed, Kansas;
Harold H. Burton, Ohio; Joseph
H. Ball, Minn.; Raymond E. Willis,
Indiana; Homer Ferguson, Mich
igan; Kenneth S. Wherry, Ne
braska.
Southern Hate Revealed
The visciousness which certain
elements in the South have reach
ed in their attitude toward FEPC
is revealed in the magazines Ala
bama and the Southern Outlook.
The Alabama (June 1st, issue)
demands, “Southern senators, or
ganize your ranks for this vital
showdown. The South is squarely
behind you. You know all too
well that this is one thing we
won’t take.” In glaring headlines,
the Southern Outlook (June 3rd,
issue) yells — “FEPC WILL HIT
LERIZE U. S. A.” Going to great
lengths the article quotes Rep.
Joe Irvin (D. North Carolina) in
his effort to prove that minorities
hold the best of all jobs and the
edge in employment.
GEN. EISENHOWER DECO
RATED BY DE GAULLE
Paris, France — Radiophoto —
Soundphoto — In a ceremony be
fore the tomb of France’s Un
known Soldier, Gen. Charles De
Gaulle is shown as he decorated
General Eisenhower with the
bronze medal that made him a
Fellow of the Liberation. The
reception tendered Gen. “Ike” in
the French capitol last week,
ceremony was a part of the hero’s
MORE MAIL FOR HER THAN
THE PRESIDENT
St. Louis, Mo.—Little Rose Ma
rie Chostner, 8, has gotten more
than 131,000 pieces of mail from
kind people all over the U. S. in
the last week, and it is still coming
in — a record in the history of
the local post office for any indi
vidual, officials state. Victim of
paralysis, she sent a touching let
ter to her favorite radio artist,
“Smilin’ Ed McConnell, and His
Buster Brown Gang,” asking for
someone to send her just one card
for her birthday. Smilin’ Ed read
her letter on the air.
—
FINDS LOVE AT 101
Racine, Wisconsin — Soundphoto
— Photo shows James Cooper, who
claims to be 101 years old. and a
tree trimmer by profession, and
his bride to be, Mrs. Julius Wes
patet, age 62, a waitress also of
Racine. The couple will be mar
ried soon.
U. S. S. SARATOGA RECOVERS
FROM BATTLE WOUNDS
Official U. S. Navy Photo —
Soundphoto — This photo shows
-moke rolling back from Jap hits
on the Saratoga as confusion de
scends on the port side of the
forward sector of the flight deck.
WANTED: CALORIES
The aged and the youth of lib
erated Europe present a most seri
ous post war problem, according
to member agencies of the Na
tional War Fund. Against normal
ca’oric needs of from 2,400 to
3 000 in daily meals, the deficiency
diets of war years fell below 1,200
calories. American dollars con
tributed for the National War
I Fund through local community war
! funds are aiding in meeting this
I problem.
THE LIVING :
SOUTH i
(BY HAROLD PREECE) ^
(Copyright, 1945, by New South
Features)
THE LIVING SOUTH
THE LIVING SOUTH
m
By Harold Preeee
(Copyright, 1945, by New South
Features)
All social progress in Dixie is
going to be slowed up for the
next 20 years if FEPC is not made
permanent.
It will take us at least that
long to gain back the ground we’ll
lose if the thousands of Negro
workers now holding good jobs at
good wages, now learning the
meaning of American citizenship,
are forced back to nursing cotton
and waiting on the white folks.
It might mean 20 more years of
lynch rope and 20 more years of
the poll tax. It might mean 20
more years of the riding boss down
in Georgia and 20 more years of
Bilbo up in Washington.
We can talk about all kinds of
reforms in Dixie, and we ought
to fight for every kind of reform.
But we ought also to understand
that every reform is going to
operate with sand in the gears
until the Negro worker of the
South has the right to the same
jobs and the same pay as the
white worker.
Wages Underwrite Democracy
“Equality of opportunity in em
ployment is the very minimum we
must insist upon to assure democ
racy for all of our people,” In
ternational Vice President E. Carl
Mattern of the CIO Oil Workers
Union in Ft. Worth, Texas, said
in a recent statement supporting
FEPC. And Brother Mattern is
speaking for the whole awakening
South in demanding that the fed
eral government underwrite de
mocracy in Dixie by underwriting
a man’s right to bring a week’s
wages home to his family.
But without FEPC, Negroes will
be bringing home sowbelly and not
dollar bills to their wives and
their youngsters. Without FEPC,
Negroes will be unable to vote in
large numbers, will be unable to
build decent homes, churches and
schools, unable to be more than
semi-slaves in a section where
slavery is the state religion of the
ruling class.
Two Freedoms
Virginia, Florida, Louisiana,
North Carolina, and Georgia hare
repealed the poll tax by enact
ment of their own state legisla
tures. The U. S. Supreme Court
has killed the Southern white pri
mary. But the Negro vote in the
South is still practically nil. By
and large the Negro will be denied
the right to vote in the South so
long as he is denied the right to
work. He cannot win full politi
cal freedom until he wins economic
freedom, until he can use his
strength as a wage earner protect
ed by a permanent government
agency, to knock down the jim crow
sign on the ballot box.
Now, the five Southern states
which wiped out the poll tax took
a big step toward that complete
democracy which won’t be smear
ed up with any color lines. But
they failed to go further and pass
legislation which would permit
Negroes to be something besides
plow pushers and diaper washers.
I believe it could easily be shown
that the reason Negroes Have made
progress during the war is that
their economic strength has been
greater than in any previous period
of history. Many of them left
the plantations and got on payrolls
so that they had money to join
labor unions, to fight teacher equal
ization suits, to finance movements
for the ballot, and to subscribe to
Negro newspapers. Today, the
Southern congressmen are fighting
FEPC like the Devil fights a saint
because the old plantation South
knows the FEPC is, as Brother
Mattern implies, the “minimum”
guarantee of a New South, great
and free because its people will
be free.
This is an S. 0. S. from Dixie
for the black people and the white
people who have gotten stronger
in heart because they’ve gotten
a little stronger in their pocket
books.
Rally your forces as we are
rallying ours. Don’t let FEPC die
if you want a New South which
will be the beginning of a New
America for black Americans ev
erywhere.
Right now. we’re perched on the
edge of an earthquake. If the
earthquake pops, if Dixie’s plant
ers and Dixie’s politicians kill the
FEPC, then everything gained by
our people of both colors during
these bitter years of struggle may
go sliding down the hole.
And it’s mighty hard to dig out
from under an earthquake once it
has closed down over you.
NAACP ENTERS SUIT
TO MAINTAIN
WHITE PRIMARY
Atlanta, Ga.—Suit filed June
13th in the Federal District Court
here against T. E. Suttles, local
tax collector and registrar for his
refusal to forward the list of Ne
gro electors elegible to vote in
the 1944 democratic primaries,
marks the beginning of the NAA
CP's all out attack on these states
defying the U. S. Supreme Court
decision granting full enfranchise
ment to Negroes by maintaining
the “White Primary.” The plain
tiff, Wallace Van Jackson, Negro
registered voter of Georgia, is be
ing represented by NAACP Spe
cial Counsel, Thurgood Marshall
and A. T. Walden of the NAACP
National Legal Committee. The
action in behalf of the plaintiff and
other Negro registered voters in
Georgia is a class suit which seeks
a declaratory judgment and injunc
tion.
The complaint sets out that Sut
tles in violation of sections 2 and
4 of Article I and Amendments 14,
15 and 17 of the United States
Constitution, kept separate lists
for Negro and White registered
voters; that last year in accord
ance with the state law of Georgia
and at the request of the execu
tive committee of the Georgia dem
ocratic party, he sent only the
white list of voters to the polls
on primary day and refused to
send the names of the registered
Negro voters.
Commenting on the suit when
the case was filed, Marshall and
Walden stated that the state of
Georgia had refused to abide by
the decision of the U. S. Supreme
Court in the Texas primary case,
and this action was for the purpose
of destroying the white primary
in Georgia as was done in Texas.
It is expected other cases involv
ing “primary” violations as well
as those to break discrimnatory
practices in Alabama and Louisi
ana, will follow.
SOUTHERN WHITE
EDITOR SPEAKS
OUT LOUD
Chicago, Jnue 15.—(Atlas News
Service)—The South must take
seven chances, one of which is on
the Negro, declares John Tample
Graves, noted writer for the Bir
mingham News and the Age-Her
ald. “For decency’s sake, for eco
nomy’s and society’s, the 10,000,
000 Negroes who live there must
be not only permitted but encour
aged to continue advancements
which have carried them far since
the first World War.” In this ar
ticle Mr. Graves goes out on a
limb in expressing his views on
the Southern situation.
This penetrating analysis of
the South appears in the July issue
of NEW VISTA MAGAZINE, a
publication which stresses a pos
itive approach to interracial re
lationships, published at 366 East
47th Street. Chicago.
Appearing in the same issue is
a timely and enlightening article
about the “White Primary and the
Supreme Court” by one of Chi
cago’s outstanding young Negro
lawyers, Attorney Sidney A. Jones,
Jr. This article gives an account of
the history and significance of the
Texas white primary. The deci
sion given by the supreme court
in the case of Smith vs. Allwright,
states Mr. Jones, might well go
down in history as one of the
greatest decisions ever made by
the court.
NAACP STANDS FOR
IMMEDIATE PASSAGE OF
FELL EMPLOYMENT BILL
New York—A resolution urging
immediate enactment of the Full
Employment Act (S. 380) of
1945, was passed at the June Board
meeting of the NAACP. The res
olution read:
“WHEREAS, it is the funda
mental right of every person in
a democracy to have full-time re
munerative employment in a use
ful occupation, and
“WHEREAS this nation has
suffered recurring depressions in
which millions of its citizens have
been unable to obtain any employ
ment, and
“WHEREAS, there is a grave
danger that reconversion from
wartime production to peacetime
will result in great economic dislo
cation, leaving millions of return
ing soldiers and war workers with
out jobs,
“RESOLVED, that the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People endorses S. 380,
known as the Full Employment
Act of 1945, and urges its im
mediate enactment by the Cong
ress of the United States.”