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NATION’S TOPFLIGHT ENTERTAINERS CHEER GIs OVERSEAS The Armed Forces Radio Service, a combined operation of War and Navy Departments, has been bringing all forms of enttrtainment, information and education by radio to service men and women of the U. S. in all theaters of war. AFRS employs shortwave and transcription units as its main methods of reaching American forces in the field. Pictured above are a few of America’s topflight entertainers who have given their services unstintingly to overseas GI listeners since shortly after Pearl Harbor. Their con tributions are broadcast over the weekly “Jubilee Programs.” Top row of photos, from left: Jimmy Durante and Maurice Rocco; Josh White, best known for his version of “One Meat Ball, teams up with Ida James, whose Knock Me a Kiss lyric on records ia appealing; Ruth Ford, AFRS script girl, talks “shop” with comedian Jack Benny and his ever-devoted radio valet, Rochester; and on the end, Ernie Whitman, Dorothy Donegan and Eddie Green, with members of the “Sweethearts of Rhythm” orchestra prepare a “Jubilee” transcription. Bottom row: Les Paul, Ed (Archie) Gardner, Eddie Haywood„ and Billy Eckstein get “groovy;” Lucky Millinder and Ethel Waters; Ella Fitzgerald, Cpl. James Funda, Claude Hopkins and Slam Stewart run over their script; and on the end. King Cole Trio member does his bit with Jimmy Lunceford and the vivacious Lena Horne. (Photos by Armed Forces Radio Service from Bureaa of Publie Relations, U. S. War Department.) Scholarships To College Provided For Aegro Boys and Girls In StatesWith Separate Educational Systems Throughout Rest of Country, Negro Students Compete on Equal Basis in New, Free, Nation Wide Competition. Program is Made Possible Through Lthe LPepsi Cola Company As a Public Service; Policies and Administration Carried Out by Special Board of Educators, Including LDr. Mordecai W. Johnson, Pres, of Howard University; College Entrance Examination Board Prepares and Scores Test. School Officials Urged to Give Students Chance of Participation. Nineteen Negro students. 8 boys, and 11 girls, are strting off to col lege this Fall on scholarships which they won in a new, nation-wide competition, financed by Pepsi-Cola Company as a public service, and planned and administered by a group of noted educators includ ing Dr. Morddecai W. Johnson, President of Howard university. The purpose of the Program is to give an opportunity to promising I MATTIES TEA ROOM i! 2113 GRANT ST. ? Open from 12 noon until 7 p.m. j> > JA-5519 i| students to go to college and es pecially to enable those students a mong them to continue their educ ation who could not do so without financial assistance. All Pepsi-Cola scholarship win ners are receiving complete tuition and oth-: required fees for four years at any acred ite<j college or university of the student’s choice in the United States> together with 125 a month to help defray living costs, and a further allowance for travel. In presenting plans of the Pro gram to leading educators w-ho com prise the National Administrative Board for Pepsi~Cola Scholarships^ which is entirely responsible for the policy and execution of the pro ?ram, Mr. Walter S. Mack, Jr., President or repsi-v ola Company, emphagized that the Company would meet any financial require ment which would enable Negro school children in all parts of the country to participate in the com petition on a fair and equal basis with other ehildren. “To give Negro pupils an equal opportunity,” says President Mor decai Johnson, "in the 17 States and the District of Columbia which have separate school systems for Negro es and whites, it was decided that twenty scholarships—for Negro tudents only—would be added for the District of Columbia and those states having separate educational systems. In this way, thanks to the realitic approach of the Board and the generoity of Pepsi-Cola Company an<j its President, Mr. Mack, at least twenty Negro child ren wTould emerge winners of the generous four year college schol arships- In addition, throughout the rest of the country., there would be as many more colored winners as would distinguish them selves in general competition which determined final selection.” Negro pupils in nil hut the southern stat es compete for the two scholarships offered in each state on the same basis as all other pupils. In accordance with this policy, special scholarships for Negro stu dents were offered in the following States: two each in South Carolina and Mississippi; and one each in Nebraska Clothing Co. ... in hi' jfrade sport clothes Add up the comfort and tailoring of these sport coats and slacks and you have the sum total of every thing you'd want for school. In camel, tan, vacuna brown or blue . fancy tweeds, plaids and checks, $15. Other sport coats, $10 to 21.50. Sizes 8 to 22. Slacks in varied colors and pat terns, sizes 24 to 32 ... from 3.95 to 9.50. Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Dis trict of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky Louisiana, Maryland,! Missuri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and W. Virginia. Commenting on the response to the scholarship program, John M. Stalnaker, Director of the National Administrative Board for Pepsi Cola Scholarships, and Dean of Stu dents at Stanford University said, "All states with separate education al systemg will be represented by Negro scholarship winners when college opens this Fall (with the exception of the State of Delaware, which did not enter a single Negro candidate for the competition). Selections are based on the results of an examination which was pre pared and scored by the Colleg'e Entrance Examination Board. This examination was given before grad uation in participating schools throughout the United States, to candidates elected prior to that by their classmates as ‘most likely to succeed’ and thus eligible to take the test. Seniors were permitted to elect from their class 5% of their number for this purpose. Where the class had fewer than 50 mem oers, two students were permitted to take the test. There was no charge, premium, or fee to students or schools for entering the compet ition or for taking the test. The only obligation of scholarship win ners is that they remain in good standing in the college which they enter, progressing normally from year to year,” continued Dean Stal naker. “There were only 179 Negro schools which participated by send ing 562 applicants,” pointed out Dean Stalnaker. “In spite of the large Negro population in Missis sippi, for example, there were only 25 competing for the two Negro scholarships offered in that State. In South Carolina where there i8 also an especially large Negro pop ulation. two scholarships were al so offered, to give a more equitable opportunity t° the Negro boys and girls from this State; and here, too the number of applicants was not proportional to the number of col ored high-school senoirs. I know that Negro school officials are alive to the opportunity being given their students. An improved mail ing list for the second year'g com petition will allow us to send let ters directly to the Principals and School Superintendents of all Ne gro High Schools. Undoubtedly, they will arrange to give all their boys and girls the opportunity to enter thi8 unusual and generous scholarship competition. Schools which wish to make this opportun ity available to their seniors should request information from the office of the National Adminis trative Board for Pepsi-Cola Schol arships at 532 Emerson Street, Palo Alto, California. General announc ements will be distributed in Dec ember, 1945,” concluded Dean Stal naker. The highest score among this year’s winners in the sPecial Negro scholarship awards for the 17 Stat es was made by 18 year old Charlie Jack Jolley, a graduate of Hub bard Traiinng School, Forsyth, Ga. who plans to specialize in engineer ing alter nis aiscnarge irom the arme<j services. The highest-scor ing girl was 17 year old Artrelle Hazel Miller of Kimball High School, Kimball, West Virginia, who will specialize in chemistry at the Virginia State College for Ne groes. The second highest-scoring boy was 17-year old Charles Wheel er Ratliff, of Dunbar High School. Shawnee, Oklahoma, who is enter ing Tennessee State Teachers Coll ege. The second highest-gooring girl is Huberta Nicholson, of Shady Grove High school, New Boston Texas, about to enter Tuskegee In stitute. Negro winners and honorable mentions ip all StatCg where sep ^— “Small” business...but the plans are btg Many men in uniform hope to set up shop for them selves after the war. Suppose a million of them realize their ambition.That means a minimum of 1,000,000 telephones—nearly as many as this Company already has in the five states in which it operates. That gives you some idea of the problems looming up for your telephone company—in planning, in equipment to buy and install, in the enormous investment of new capital it will take to make telephone service available for all who will want it. And ... as more and more people have telephone serv ice, the more valuable and useful it becomes to users in general. The circle of swift communication is expanded for everybody. ■WHAT ABOUT MY NEW TELEPHONE?” We’d like to tell you we could install it at once. We’re sorry we can't—there will still be considerable delay for many. In the Bell System about two million orders for telephone service are unfilled. Telephones will become available in fast-increasing volume—but a tougher problem is the manufacturing and installing of other facilities including the tremendously complex job of expanding central office switchboards. For your patience in this final period of waiting, our warmest thanks. NORTHWESTERN BEIL TELEPHONE COMPANY I arate scholarships were awarded are as follows: (Winners and Honorable Mentions in {he States Having Separate Educational Systems for Whites and Negroes. In those States Separate Awards and Honorable Mentions were given to the Fol lowing Negro Winners.) ALABAMA: Winner, Clarence Holsey Holmes, Decatur Negro High School, Decatur. Honorable Mentions: Sylvia Claud ell Flowers. Pike County Training School, rundige; Archie Augustus Cunningham, Rosedalg High school, Homewood; Rosamond William Shaw, St. John the Baptist High School, Montgomery: Annie Laura Richardson, Hooper City High School, Sayreton; Marion Isabella Spruce. Hooper City High School, Sayreton. ARKANSAS; Winner: Siddie Par ker, Eliza Miller High Schocl, Hel ena. Honorable Mentions: Lola Fergugon Foote, Eliza Miller High School, Helena; Irma Christine Lamb, Langston High School, Hot Springs; Major George Pruitt Jr. Langston High School, Hot Springs’ Fannie Jean Fisher, Dunbar High School, Little Rock; Eddie Lee Jack son, J. C. Corbin High School, Pine I Bluff. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Win ner; William B. ranch, Dunbar high School. Honorable Mentions: June Delores Austin, Dunbar High school Lauretta Inez Chambers, Dunbar High School; David Hodges Dabney Dunbar High school; Alvin Vincent Labat, Dunbar High School; Hean on Monroe Wilkins Dunbar High School. FLORIDA: Winner: Julious Ellis Rollerson, Union Academy, Bartow; Honorable Mentions: George Hosea Rawls, Lincoln High school, Gains ville; Mertice Lee Jones, Stanton High School, Jacksonville; Barbara Althea McKinney, Dorsey High School, Miami, GEORGIA: Winner: Charlie Jack Jolley, Hubbard Training School,1 Forsyth. Honorable Mentions: — Morris Jugtice Cheney,J Hubbard Training School, Forsyth; Alvin j Frederick Ponder^ rooks High | School, Quitman; Henry Spencer' Walton, Jr., Brooks High School, j Quitman. KENTUCKY: Winner: Violet Grace Beard, Central High school, Louisville. Honorable Mentions: — William Edwar<j Lee Jr., Central High School, Louisville: Louis Wil kins Parker, Central High School, Louisville; Arthur Albert Lee Lin coln High School, Paducah. LOUISIANA: Winner: Countess Willette Twifty, McDonogh. Num. 35 High School. New Orleans: Hon I orable Mentions': Clyde Peter Jupi ter, Xavier University Preparatory New Orleans: Anaise Theresa Vic DIAMOND GENUINE DIAMONDS SOLID YKL-j LOW GOLD ] MONK Y BACK Gl AH. ANTKK. A charm i n p .Matched Wed j dinp *tt" ' that we are | ;offerinp for, a limited ! time at the LOW price of J10.95> or either ring eparately only $5.95, plus tax. If for ANY reason you are not sat isfied after wearing thgse rings 10 dajs return them and your money will be refunded. As supply is low —ORDER AT ONCE. Lovely gift box FREE. SEND NO MONEY _ pay postman plus postal fee Tax 20%. VICTORYDIAMOND COMPANY W. Va. torianne, Xavier University Prep aratory, New Orleans; Jones Lev. elle Ellis, Lincoln High School, Ruston. MARYLAND: Winner: Clarence Goldsborough, Garnett High School Chestertown. Honorable Mentions; Ursula eaye Mays, Garnett High School. Chestertown; Henrietta Rose Mackall. Brooks High School Prince Frederick; McDaniel Wat k:ns, Brooks High School, Prince Frederick; Mary Louis Fleet, Doug lass High School, Upper Marlboro. MISSISSIPPI: Winners: Marcella Yalree Ellis, Oak Park High school, Laurel; Doris Catheryn McCulluni Oak Park High School, Laurel; Honorable Mentions: Annie Lee Burt, Attala County Training School, Kosciusko; Agnes Lucile Holsey, Attala County Training School, Kosciusko. MISSOURI: Winner: Ann Eliza beth Thomas, Lincoln High school, Kansas City. Honorable Mentions: Walter James Baskett, Lincoln High School, Kansas City; Delores Marguerite Berry, Lincoln High School, Kansas City; Etta Lou Wil ginson, Lincoln High School, Kan sas City; Don June Granberry Sumner High School, St. Louis; Nelson Stewart Gipson, G. C. Hub bard High School, Sedalia. NORTH CAROLINA: Winner: _ Edwina McAlister, Fuquay Springs Colored High School Fuquay Springs. Honorable Mentions: Mary Inez Cogdell, E. E. Smith High School, Fayettesville; Wilma Ber ene Davis, Fuquay Springs Colored High School, Fuquay Springs; Dor is Elizabeth Mills, West Street high school, New Bern; Mary Doris Sim mons, Currituck County Training School, Snowden; Willie Leon Spence, Currituck County Training school, Snowden. OKLAHOMA; Winner: Charles Wheeler Ratliff, Dunbar High School, Shawnee. Honorable Men tions: Clara Mae Brown, Booker T. Washington High School, Tulsa; Verd Leola Richardson, Booker T. Washington High School, Tulsa; James Ellsworth Sims, Booker T. Washington High School. Tulsa; Amanda Elizabeth Etewart, Booker T. Washington High School, Tulsa; Abilene Calhoun, Lincoln High School Wynnewood. SOUTH CAROLINA: Winners: — David Leeman Jones, Jackson Higk School, Camden; Ralph Waring Tracy, Colleton Traiinng School, Walterboro. TENNESSEE; Winner: James Deotha Malone, Union High School, Gallatin. Honorable Mention: Jam es Hudson Jr., Union High School, Gallatin. TEXAS: Winner: Huberta Nichol son, Shady Grove, High School, New Boston. Honorable Mentiong: Car olyn Marie Dixon, Booker T. Wash ; ington High School, Dallas; Delia i Mae MdClelland, Garland High ' School DeKalb; Ella Leg Lang, Ju dea High School, Jefferson; Sadie Louise Sheppard, Judea High gchool Jefferson; Bonnie B. Tyson. Judea High School, Jefferson. VIRGINIA: Winner: Eleanor Vaughn Green, Booker T. Washing ton High School, Norfolk. Honor able Mentions: Sarah Margaret Gregg, Central High School. Char lotte Court House; Flora Elaine Alexander, Lylburn Downing school Lexington; Charles Pratt, Jr., Hun tington High School, Newport News James Edward Newby Jr., Booker T. Washington High School. Nor folk; Janice Idenia Hylton, Lucy Addison High School. Roanoke. WEST VIRGINIA: Winner: Art relle Hazel Miller, Kimball High School. Kimball. Honorable Men tions; Novella Fairesteen Wooten, j Byrd Prillerman High School, A. migo; Sherman Conrade Graves, Bluestone High School, Bramwell; Bland Ashley Robert, Dunbar High School, Fairmont; Jean Gertrude Thomas, Kimball High School, Kim ball; Margaret Jong*. Sumner High School, Parkersburg. | WILL FEAR AM) INTIMIDATION SILENCE RAPED VICTIMS—THEY C.\ \ IDENTIFY THE POLICE Memphis, Tenn.—Subdued voices in secluded corners speak out as loudly as they dare, against the outrageous attack made upon two Negro girls by two of Memphis' horde of Negro-hating police. In fluential white citizens exerted pressure where it would do the most good, and, aj a result, prosccuMve action will be taken. IF POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION of th i police In volved is made. 1 he police chief has made state ments '<> the white press that pros ecution steps will be taken if tho nun '. volved are “positively identi fied. The girls can identify them, the girls allegedly identified them and tney are reported to have vol utiiai ly "quit”.but now the giiF aren’t certain -bout tht identity of their : ttackers. T »' e 1 of us who know Memphis injw why tli • girls have undergone a lapse of memory and on one hand, we dos’t blame them. And on the other hand, some of Us must learn to die for our rights. The conse quences won't he as had as many folk thing but we will never actual ly know until it happens. The girls say they were told that they would “be killed" if they told what happened. They defied death to tell, the policemen were appre hended. and W>H be released for "lack of prosecution," and reinstat ed with back pay_free to go on preying on our innocent girls. Memphis Negro leaders are bitter ly against thi8 type of treatment, but are afraid of their own shad ows. If these leaders would speak up, and out, now, while the liberal class of whites are inclined toward helping prosecute this outrage, much could he accomplished. Lead ers are fearless and have but one life to give for right and principle. Such a report with the principals reversed in color hut the same in sex would result In a riot.and possibly a lynching! The girls' fa thers would shoot the guilty ne gro on sight and later be acquitted in court.We do not advocate tha* type of justice Instead, make a mass protest in an intelligent way and the proper authorities would be forced to make the right move. It has been indicated that justice will prevail if the assailants are identi fied. Will the policemen be identi fied charges filed and brought to trial? Now is the time to speak out! LOUISIANA CITIZENS SEEK *100,000 TO BATTLE FOR BALLOT, EQUAL SALARIES New Orleans, La.—A campaign for $100 000 to finance a four-point program for civil rights was launch ed here September 9, by th« Citiz ens' Committee of the NAACP of Louisiana in a meeting at Booker T. Washington high school. The program outlined is (a) to secure the ballot and break of dis criminatory registration practices and to maintain registration schools throughout the state; (b> to institute a Berleg of court cases to equalize educational facilities in the gtate from the university level down to the elementary schools (c) to combat Police brutality; and (d) [ to integrate Negroes' into the Home i Guard. The first cage in the program is already under way in the form of a suit brought by Edward Hall colored citizen against T. J. Nagel, registrar of St. John the Baptigt Parish. Hall charges that he was illegally denied the opportunity to register. Argument on the motion to dismiss was held in the Federal District Court here September 12. Thurgood Marshall, NAACP special counsel of New York, was the speak er at the Sunday masg meeting and argued the case in Federal Court September 12.