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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
