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CHICAGO MEHARRY1TES GREET PRESIDENT Dr. M. Don Clawson, able president of Meharry Medical College, was a guest at the annual banquet held recently in Chicago at the YWCA. Chicago alumni of the school have contributed over §18,000 toward the $200,000 student-alumni dormitory. President Clawson revealed that over §125,000 is already collected. Photo shows, top: Dr. S. W. Smith, §1,000; H. H. Miller, architect; Dr. Joshua H. Brown. §1,000; Dr. and Mrs. Clawson, and Dr. T. M. Smith, §1,000. The wives of Drs. Brown and S. W. Smith have contributed §100 each. Others who have entered the §1000 class include Dr. j. W. Anderson, Dallas, Texas, Dr. J. L. Leach. Flint, Michigan. §5,000; Dr. E. N. Ezidore, Lutcher, Ga., and Dr. A. B. Cooper, Atlanta, Ga. The drive ends with the commencement in June 1946. (Atlas News Photo) HUPP ANNOUNCES U. S. BOND CROUP Allen T. Hupp of Omaha, Chair man of the Nebraska Advisory Committee to the US Savings Bond Division, today announced the membership of the state group which will assist the Treasury De partment in the promotion and sale of US Savings Bonds to Ne braskans. “The Advisory Committee is composed of a group of prominent citizens, representing various state wide associations, said Mr. Hupp, the committee feels that the con tinued sale of US Savings Bonds is of extreeme importance. One of the problems facing America today is the preservation of the financial and economic stability of the nation. Our committee urges Nebrask ans to continue buying govern ment bonds, as a sound invest ment, and to hold those already purchased as a curb on runaway inflation. Habits of thrift and sa vings developed in the war period through systematic bond purcha ses should be encouraged. Serving as vice chairmen of the Advisory committee are: Cel. J. Francis McDermott, vice president of the first National Na. tional Bank of Omaha, who or ganized the Nebraska Defense Savings an^ War Savings Com mittee and George W. Holmes of Lincoln, president of the First Na tional Bank of Lincoln. Other committee members and the groups they will represent in clude: Agriculture, Tom Leadly, Lincoln, Editor of the Nebraska Farmer,1 who served as Agricultural chair man of the Nebraska War Fin ance Committee; Banking, Rob erts I. Stout, Tekamah, President of the First National Bank of Tekamah, and past president of the Nebraska Bankers Association who also served as American Bankers Association state War Bond Chairman: Women, Mrs Robert H. Thorpe, Omaha, for merly chairman of the Women’s Division of the Nebraska War Finance Committee; Industry, J. L. Paxton, Jr„ Omaha, president of the Pexton-Mitchell Company and president of the Associated Industries of Nebraska; Labor, J. THEY’LL NEVER DIE g. ?** SELDOM DOES A PERSON WITH AS MANY HANDICAPS RISE TO THE GREATNESS OF THIS SIMPLE AND UNAFFECTED MAN- HE WAS BORN l2o YEARS AGO IN NEW TERSEY THE YOUNGEST OF 18 CHILDREN/ WITHOUT FORMAL SCHOOLING HE TAUGHT HIMSELF ENOUGH TO WRITE A BOOK-THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD"-AND ALSO TO CONDUCT A SUCCESSFUL COAL BUSINESS IN PHII-A-, PA, WITH ALL OF THIS HE NEVER FORGOT TO LEND A HELPING HAND , TO THE "LITTLE PEOPLE. FOR THIS,ALONE. WILLIAM STILL WILL " NiVER DIE/ - —' ***%$%* :'*"" ■ IVW- MViU» THE WOODCUTTER WHO BECAME A TRUSTED _ - ^ CHAMPION OF THE PEOPLE/ J. Guether, Omaha, president of the Nebraska State (Federation of Labor (A F of L) and George Paulson, Omaha, district repre sentative of the Iowa-Nebraska Congress of Industrial Organiza tion. Motion Picture Industry, William Miskell, Omaha, district manager Tri-States Theatres and Chairman of that industry’s War Activities committee; Newspapers, E C. Leggett, Ord, editor of the Ord Quiz and vice president of the Nebraska Press Association; Ra dio, Lumir Urban, Fremont, man ager of Radio Station KORN and president of the Nebraska Broad casters’ Association; Retailers, Nathan J. Gold, Lincoln, president of Gold & Company, who served as chairman of the Retailers di-" vision of the Nebraska War Fin ance Committee; and Schools, Dr. Archer, L. Burnham, Lincoln, exe' cutive secretary of the Nebraska State Education Association, who headed the Nebraska Schools at War Committee. ‘SUGAR' ROBINSON GIVES 10 Per cent PURSE TO VET Baltimors, Md.—(C)—Generous IP P U/ HO SKYRCCKETEDTO FAME AND TT FORTUNE BY SIN6INS HER OWN COMPOSITION ^ATISKET-ATASKET,” AND CO-WINNER OF ESQUIRES 1946 SOLD AWARD FOR THE NATIONS TOP FEMALE VOCAL HONORS,- ONCE RECEIVED THE <60NS'lNI AN AMATEUR CONTEST IK> 1935. FATE, AND THE LATE CHICK WEBB WAS ^ IN THE AUDIENCE THAT NIGHT AND THRU H'S LrfORiS,STARTED HER ON THE ROAD ^ to succtss. elia, hails from NEWPORT NEWS.VA. ’** -^.T N V. '■ r 2 ^ > •' . PRESIDENT OF / r ^ MORE HOUSE COUfO* , IS T«E Fwt nefoo .' elected vice-mcs. Of THt FEDERATION COUNCIL Q F CM WCKES Of CHRIST i V} AMES'E a . ^ O'? MASS. THE FORMER SEAN OF -^S RJi-ISlWiATfOWAPOr' f U, K THE AUTHOOSi-r-^^; Of'thE 'IEG00'<tet ? CHUniH AHD THE VEGRO'S ! GOD . A GRADUATE OP B ATES C ' lES*, - #t£ Rf CEl' ’ID HiS MA ?„-<£ PnD nU'My -Jf C/CO. Ray Robinson is partittg With 10 percent of his purse frOta the Izzy Janazzo fight here Thursday to veteran Johnny Braun, a Parple heart recipient. Johnny was of the 104th Medical Regiment. Week By H. W. Smitji LOCAL Mrs. L. V. Gray, the president of the Women’s Society of Chri stian Service of Clair Chapel had the same smile on her face on Sunday morning after four weeks illness. Mr. Sanderson Brown of 2123 N 29th St. is very much improved from a stroke. Mrs. Pankey and Mrs. Johnson New York Show Fronts... JOSH W HITE, BILLIE HOLIDAY TOASTS TO N Y’s WHITE NIGHTLIFE; WHY IS DESCRIBED New York—Two Negro music ians are assured of their places in the listening schedules and pro grams of most music loving whites that is, the whites who enjoy the jazz and swing. One, Bilie Holi day, will probably go down in the books as one of the popular mu sic's all time great artists; the other Josh White, will undoubted ly be accepted as the king of the blues, although such a classifica tion may be open to debate since there are many greater blues sin gers and players than Josh. However, Billie Holiday does something in her singing so odd that listeners become bewitched with her art and finally become fanatic addicts of her stylings. Josh White’s singing of the blues is singular in that "hat he leaves out becomes more import ant than what he plays and sings and that is what makes him dis tinctive among thousands of blues singers and guitarists. Today Bil lie Holiday and Josh White* are establishes firmly in New York’s diadem of stars of the nightclubs. Without Billie Holiday in one of the several music rooms on 52 street, the whole street, sometimes called Swing Lane, suffers. Without Josh White at either Uptown or Downtown Cafe So ciety, Barney Josephson would feel it immediately, whether in receipts or in commnt of his many guests Bilie Holiday, Albert Ammons, Meade Lux Lewis and Pete John son, plus Big Joe Turner, Teddy! Wilson, Hazel Scott and Ida Cox | are Cafe Society pioneers. Josh, White came 'way late to be in- i eluded in that class. But once I arrived, Josh has carved a place j for himself and today ranks as! one of nightlife's greatest attrac-1 tions He has to have an audience that is sympathetic and willing to listen as he musically weaves the blue story of the Negro's ’soul. In the Zanzibar, Latin Quarter, or ome of the rubberneck’ joints, Josh might presumably be lost. Josh White’s climb to fame on the vehicle of social conscious singing in which he seeks through music to impress idea3 of politica’ thinking. “Social consciousness’’ or t wasn’t any good. Remember such plays as “Sing For Your Supper’,’? “Sing Out Sweet Land’ ? “Stevedore” ? Those were "social conscious” plays stri vng to effect a political reaction upon the playgoer. Josh White’s New York intro duuction came via an album of recordings on Columbia under di rection of John Hammond, Jr., called ‘Chain Gang Blues’. Sup ported by a quartet and with his guitar eloquently painting in the background of woe, trouble and rumors of woe, and with his voice singing in the plaintive, broken style of the cane field blues shou ter gone citified as in church, his climb up the ladder was thus be gun. Josh White came from South Carolna—and I think he plans to remain FROM South Carolina. He is the usual Negro story of abject poverty during childhood, but also includes the factor of a badly cut right hand which might have for ced him to a life of drudgery at menial labor and thus changed his whole outlook. But Josh seems to have been made of sterner stuff and surmounted the obstacle han dily. As a child. Josh White escorted and accompanied blind men for pennies and nickels and whatever he could get his hands upon. In thig capacity, he came to leam life as it is—hard and cruel and disillusioning. That is a reason why his interpretations ring true and why white’s who don’t know of these things, sit enthralled lis tening to him sing his songs. The Josh White who was scuff of Clair Chapel are convelesc.ng. We often wonder how very im portant it would be if we would take time out to give ourselve3 the once over and let some of the items that are looking in our face and wake up and produce some thing to inspire the forward up ward step in keeping with the times. Encourage our firemen and po liceman by lending a very willing hand as we hope for a continu ation of our race in those lines. Major General Hershey of the Selective Service sent a letter io Chairman Kyle of the US Military Affairs Committee opposing the bill to continue the draft after May 15, 1946. General Motors has issued a statement that the strike is not over until all men return to their jobs. An Army plane crashed near Truckie, Calif, on March 18 and it is feared 26 persons were kil led. New York approves war vets bonus of four hundred million dol lars. Railroads are planning thru sleeping cars from coast to coast. US Senator Wherry of Nebr told the Nebr. State Republican convention in Omaha that the Truman administration does not understand the foreign policy. Suzanne Froediere, the Milwa ukee heiress was released by the police of Detroit on March 19. The Westinghouse Electric Co. of NY made their first wage pro posal since the strike started on Jan- 15. Ex-President Hoover said that he hopes to ship 13 million tons of food to hungry Europe by July 1946. B ishop Frank j. Haas of Grand Rapids, Mich., said the Soviet dic tatorship was a policy of untruth fulness and deception on March 19th. Behind the Play BY DON DELEIGHBUR WOMEN’S BOWLING CONGRESS BARS CHINESE AMERICANS, NEGROES New York—Roger Treat, liberal sports scribe of the Washington (D, C.) Daily News, recently took the Women’s International Bow ling Congress over the barrel for its unholy fellowship with the Wa shington chapter of the AAU on the race question. Treat, writing in his column This Is On Me' de scribed how a Chinese-American girls’ bowling team was barred from league competition by the MIBC and told it could not bowl because the members are not of the Caucasian race. This action took place, Treat said, after 16 weeks of league competition, and after enrollment ffees had been accepted by the Wr6men’s Interna tional Bowling Congress. Treat made a parallel of the bowling story with the Washing ton chapter of the AAU and its ridiculous program of barring Ne gro boxers, even though they are members of the AAU. (This sit uation has reached another stage 9Wverein the District Court of Ap peal# rilled that the AAU is pur suing # wrong course). The Chinese girls, Treat stated, have appealed to the Chinese con sul general, and their appeal will doubtelss result in the receipt of a double talk answer from some member of our State Departments ranks who will try to appease the girls with a basket full of high toned, meaningless words dres sed in the usual striped pants gib berish. But the disgraceful action of the Women’s Bowling Congress has created a smelly mess that just cannot be excused or condon ed. Not in this country. The members of the barred, the TENANTS CAN INSURE COTTON CROP —USDA Photo by Forsythe. Dr. W. H. Jernagin of the Fraternal Council of Negro Churches is shown asking James P. Davis, right, of the U. S. Department of Agriculture whether or not tenants and sharecroppers, as well as owners, can insure their cotton | crop against unavoidable hazards with the Department’s Federal Crop Insur ance Corporation. Mr. Davis’ reply is yes, and he explains that sharecroppers can insure their part of a crop whether the landlord insures his part or not. He adds, however, that the deadline date for insuring the 1946 cotton crop comes within the next few weeks in most areas. Mr. Davis, who is a mem | ber of the field staff of the Field Service Branch's Southern Region, and Dr. , Jernagin are looking at a miniature bale of cotton. names leave no doubt that they , are Chlnese-Americans, a fact that must have been evident at the time of their enrollment in the league, all have husbands, brothers and other close relatives in the armed forces- And their barring is particularly shameful, | when on the same day, a story was written by Andy Anderson, a Scripps-Howard staff writer, tel ling of the courageous living of . wme^ cninese-^merican veter ans in hospitals in another Calif city. .ie officials of the Women's In ternational Bowling Congress have followed the tactics of our local AAU by threatening other teams in the league with a two-year banning of all members if the Chinese-American girls continue -o enroll in the league. It has been t reported in this column before ana We repeat now, that one of the leading members of the local AAU who believes he is upholding his public duties as an American by barring Negro boxers because of Washington social philosphy of fe~ed the same threat to this wri ter. vVe were discussing the possib ility of an open amatuer boxing I tournament without AAU sanction t the AAU made that necessary, and were advised by this man that ' any white boxers who participa ted in such a tournament would be barred for life for any further amatuer competition under the AAU in Washington. We have been hoping for a long time that the citizens of Washington would rouse from their lethargy and de manjj that the local chapter of the AAU follow the suggestions of its own national body, join the policy of American sports and throw the bigots out on their ears. If that should ever happen, this West Coast story will tell Joseph Aron off, Dr. O. U. Singer, Winfree P. Johnson and other members of the (Washington) AAU who may vote the same way, where they find kindred souls, and where the social philosphy of race hatred will be appreciated—in the Women’s In ternational Bowling Congress. There is no place for it in the nation’s capital. What Roger Treat hag said here is part and parcel of every clear - thing Negro sports writer's stock in trade. The point I want to make however, is that our fight should be centered in sports on breaking down racial barriers within, the framework of sports orgahlgations MRS. SCHUYLER GIVES INSIGHT ON INTER MIXES, | New York—Writ'n<r in the Mar-' • ch issue of the American Mercury I .Toseohine Schuyler,, wife of Geo. S. Schuyler, gives some first hand views on Interracial marriages; also some insights on Human Na ture vs. State Laws. In recalling her childhood in the South where she was born, Mrs. Schuyler states: “Early I had found out that the deacon of a local Baptist church, a most re s vctabl-e man, ha<j had a colored companion for 20 years with ev eryone aware of the intimacy. I knew, too, that an important fam ily there had numerous colored “cousins” whom they privately acknowledged and visited. I knew, besides, that the same system ex isted in my own family, with my father drawing no color line in his love life, and that my eldest bro ther, publicly thought to be child less, had a colored daughter at tending school outside the state. So interracial love was not un kr~ Tm ’n rr» environment.’’ Mr. and Mrs. Schuyler are pro fessional writers and reside in N^w York. Their fourteen year 200 IV1U8ICAL COMPOSITIONS TO HER CREDIT__ PHILIPPA SCHUYLER old daughter, Philippa Schuyle. has 200 musical compositions t< her credit, including a score for a 100-piece symphony, which wa premiered last year by the Nev York Philharmonic Symphony O: chestra. By Don DeLeighbur ling with the hest of showlife’s unemployed back in 1939. has now advanced to the point where he has turned down parts in movie3 that would have brought him around §87,000 had he been in clined to portray the roles of the Negro that are beneath the ra cial dignity. This is part of tne training of our performers absorb from Barney Johnson, owner of the two Cafe Society ventures and who personally manages several artists himself Josephson knows the indignities to which we are exposed and is A r --i n r1 1 —tt—i -in t ■ » naturally against and attempt to bring the Negro down to a com mon level. That is a reason why in the movies you saw of Hazel Scott, she always appeared as Miss Hazel Scott and never seen in an Aunt Dinah situation. The Tom stuff is strictly taboo in the Josephson ventures and Josh's turning down the chances to get into the movies is part of the gen eral eucation that Cafe Society ar tists must acquire Love Too Fiery For Heaven... Too Rapturous For Earth! JOHN PAVNENJ MAUREEN O’HARA WILLIAM BENOIX ,n eifljpfeiital journey CINTUKT-rOX J/T Directed by WALTER LANG • Produced by WALTER MOROSCO^ and this to my way of thinking, | is a first step. Let’s purge the I Women’s International Bowling1 Congress, the American Lawn | Tennis Association, the Golf As-1 sociations, swimming organiza tions, professional football, bas-) ketball and baseball leagues and circuits of anti-race barriers. Onc“ we have opener that door wide, then we can proceed on to the other doos which bar the way. This principle is present in the AAU controversy over Negro-star athletes participating in the out door track and field championship this June at San Antonio, Texas. It- happens in this case, however, that South Texas Association of the AAU has agreed and invited all Negro contestants to come and take part. The holdouts are contending that the state of Texas Jim Crows Ne groes, that discrimination and se gregation are rife in Texas as it is elsewhere in the South, and that unless the AAU or somebody lifts all Jim Crow laws. (thus solving the problem, at long last, in Texas, at least) they would ra ther stay in the North. But Rome wasn’t built that way. Suppose Texas, or San Antonio, did sus pend anti-Negro laws for one day in hotels, restaurants, on trolleys, busses, etc ? What good would do the Negroes in Texas ? What good would it i do the visiting Negro athletes in | the South for two dalys only ? The fact must be kept before the eyes that the main issue in this whole matter is the fact that Negro ath-1 letes have been invited to take a part in a track meet involving white contestants in a southern state. There is no AAU rule, law 1 or regulation involved here as in Washington, barring Negroes. . There are state laws or customs preventing Negroes from living in whit} hotels or eating in whtte ; ov.ned restaurants. Aa the NAAC'P • finally brought the infamous Te ] xas primary Law to the US Sup 1 reme Court whiich voided it. a similar action might take place over the social equality regula tions that now exist in Texas. The * We wish to Announce i, | THE OPENING OF THE | G & J Smoke Shop i; | 2118 NORTH 24th Street !| i Everything in the Line of ]; J CIGARS, CIGARETTES, & | > ' _ SOFT DRINKS L Jacksori A Coibey, Props. * j The ALPINE BOOK STORE Invites You . . 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