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- NASHVILLE, ~Tenn, y~ (SNSs)~
The local division of ~the Vultee
Aircraft company here not only
refuses to Negroes as a
part of its ~regular working force,~
but holds out~ only the slightest
hope of ~employing~them im menial
Capacities such as porters and

~cleaners, Mrs. E. W. Grant, secre~tary of the Nashville hranch of the

National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored ~ People revealed today.

Mrs. Grani made public a letter
received by Dr.: Eli S. Marks,
@hairman of the branch~s educa
\ tional committee. from G. S. Hast
ings, industrial relations manager
of aircraft company~s local, plant
located at Berry Field near here.
The letter was written in response
to.a conimittee inquiry on the employment of Negro skilled workers
at the plant.

The committee.sent the letter,
Mrs. Grant said, after the local
schoo] board had advised them that
little: premise cOuld be held out for
the establishment of defense training classes: for Negroes in Nashville, becamse the ~Vultee plant
would not employ Megroes ~in
skilled capacities, even if properly
trained persons were available.~
~-The complete text of the aircraft
6fficial~s letter to Dr. Marks, follows:

*~Tn reply to your letter of FebTuery 5, 1941, may we advise that
we do not believe it advisable to
inciude colored people with our
regular working force. We may,
ta later date. be in a position to~d some colored people in minor
Capacities. such as os and
~ Méaners.

~In discussing this matter with
some of the members of the Board
of Education, they Have advised
that they are considering starting
tcurses in occupations which colOred people would experience no
difficulty in obtaining employment.
fPhese courses, I believe, cOver such
subjects as to repair, construction
~work, cement finishers, moulders,
etc., ~If I can be of any further service jplease do not. hesitate to contact me.~ F

Boy, 14, Held In
Stabbing Of Girl,

kh, 13, Last Friday

Ala.~(SNS)~
Of stabbing a

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~18-year-old e~hool girl in the back

last ~Priday afternoon had been ar
~rested Monday and turned over to

Juvenile authorities, City Detectives
and Taylor reported.: ~The suspect was arrested at a
-Glenn Street: address and was listed, by the detectives as Eldredge,Colbert, 14. Officer Holland said
_ the boy admitted the stabbing.

~Bobbie Mae Bankston, of 111
Lucy Street, S. E., was quoted by
~the detectives as saying Colbert
~stabbed her and boarded a street
car at-the corner of Irwin and
Howell Streets following an argument at school about her hat.

The stab wound was not
ous.

seri-. FRANK WARFIELD, manager of
the Washington Pilots, succumbed
to an internal hemorrhage eight
~years ago at the age of 34, when
Negro Baseball League officials
_Werei nclined to rate him the best
manager in faseball....his pet
name was ~the weasel,~ due to fact
that like his namesake, he
~eunning, brainy and a_ strategist
~ par-excellence.(?).

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Dr. FRED Palmer~s

SKIN WHITENER

Lobby: Fund TT
$100,000 Gets
Bishops~ Okeh

NEW ORLEANS, La~(SNS)~
The Bishops~ Council of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
meeting as guests of Bishop S. lL.
Greene, at the conclusion of a his: |
toric three-day conference. in New
Crleans indorsed unanimously and
approved the proclamation of the
National Negro Council ' calling for
a united front of 12,000,000 Negroes
back of the Council~s $100,000 lobby, the first to be established ia
Washington to protect and~ advance
the welfare of colored citizens in
every section of the country through
~a nation-wide campaign~. |

~We must demand justide from
Congress and the federal fovernment~, said Bishop Reverdy C.
~Ransom, Wilberforce, Ohio, ~Negro
people everywhere should put up
nickles.and dimes to get their
share of the billions of dollars for
which we, to, are being taxed in the
name of National Defense~ |

~Each member of every Negro
family in America must send a siJver coin to the National Race Defense Fund, Citizens and Southern

Jim Crow
~On Spot~

Pledge Given
Negro Builders
j At Hampton

HAMPTON INSTITUTE, Va.
(SNS)~ The 15th biennial Hampton Builders~ Conference meeting in
conjunction with the National
Buijders~ Association on February
10, 11, and 12 at Hampton Institute, was packed with nationally
significant events concerning -Defense construction and the Negro.

In a personal~ letter to the assembled delegates, John M. Carmcody, administrator of the ~Federal
Works Agency announced for the
first time the opening of an immediate inquiry into discrimination

Bank and Trust Company, 19th and
South streets, Philadelphia, Penr- |
sylvania, Major R. R. Wright, president~for he who would be free!
must strike the first blow. He who
pays calls the tune~.

~Taxation without representation
make my blood boil in 1941, no less
than it did Crispus Attucks in 1770.~
said Bishop S. D. Greene, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Bishop W. A. Fountain, Atlanta,
Georgia, presiding senior bishop of
the A. M. E. Bishops~ Counci] in
the absence of Bishop J g.| Flipper,
South Carolina,: said, ~We are
unanimously back of the National
Negro Council~s $100,000 lobby in
Washington and we join in the
proclamation that Sunday, March
30, 1941, be cbserved by our people
as NATIONAL -RACE AND RELIGIOUS DAY RALLY, to be held
Sunday, March: 30, 1941, in every
Negro church in the United States
and all funds collected sent to National Race Defense Fund, Citizens~
Southern Bank and Trust Company.
ig9th and South street, Philadelphia, Pennsylwania.~*>

JOSHUA JONES
By I. P. Reynolds

Brother Bell says: ~If/a man
doesn~t use his head some smart
woman wil] come. along jam put

him in the red.~

against. Negroes on National De
fense housing projects in the
| Hampton Roads area.
With this hurdle passed, the

200 delegates from 20 states listened to George Zuidema, sole hir
ing agent for all contractors engaged in construction work at
Fort Eustis, Virginia, as' he at
tempted to answer the personal
charges made on his discriminatory
practices again skilled Negroes. |

Unsatisfied with Zuidema~s explanation that you ~can~t change
a: custom overnight,~ the Conference dispatched a 580-word _ telegram to President Franklin D.
Roosevelt and 19 other key government officials, denouncing discriminatory practices, submitting
specific proof, and asking for immediate, action.

The National Defense program
of vocational education training for
Negroes was praised in a resolution
passed at the ~close of the meeting.

Organized in 1923, this meeting
of the Hampton Builders~ Conference proved to be most outstanding
in its ~history. Elected president of
the. National ~~ Association

bd ~Walter H.. > oe n

tractor. Tt~ ha
next year~s pie hos ig Will ~ be
held -in the Municipal Auditorium,
Atlanta, ~Dr. Malcolm S. McLean

addressed the conference at a banquet on Monday evening and introduced H. Whittemore Brown,
who organized the conference in
1923.

In explaining his reasons for not
hiring a single Negro carpenter
among the 2000 carpenters employed at the Fort Eustis project, Mr.
Zuidema told the delegates that
2300 of the 5800 employees at the

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REV. WENDELL C. SOMERVILLE
~who was elected full time executive secretary of the Lott Carey
Baptist, Foreign Mission convention at the recent~ ccnvention in
Washingten, D.C. A graduate of
Shaw and Oberlin, he will have his
headquarters in the capital city.~
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Council Orders ~
Angle And Double
Parking Stopped

ATLANTA, Ga. ~ (SNS) ~

Elimination of two major Atlanta
traffic evils~angle parking and
rush-hour double parking~was ordered Monday by City Council in
two ordinances embodying the first
recommendations of Mayor Le-.
Craw~s traffic board.

Fort were colored workers. He did
however, refused to answer a
pointed question to explain why
~he felt that skilled Negro carpenters cannot work side by side with
white carpenters at Fort Eustis~
when it is now being done successfully at Fort Monroe, a few miles
away.~

The resolution sent to Presi
dent Roasevelt, lagen offi- | bad
~idals,, and the. 7

the action of numierous. firms olding government contracts and cer-~
tain organized labor groups.

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Life Can Be "Beautiful.... 15~

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The Issue At Stake.

URING THE PAST week this writer has been
a cet interested spectator in the Alanta District
Federal Court where W. F. Sutherland, a member
of the Atlanta police force, is on trial for allegedly ~violating the civil rights~ of a 16-year-old Ne
gro boy.

The purpose of this piece is not
to argue as to the guilt or innocence of Mr. Sutherland. Twelve
good men and true-seated on the
jury in Judge Marvin E. Underwood~s court are charged with
that duty. ~: But the fact that such a trial
is being held in the heart of a section of the country,

" MACKAY guarding the civil rights of its
black citizens, to this writer augurs well as to the
strength of this democratic way of life and is a

democracy is weak and tottering.

GREAT ISSUE AT STAKE
There is a greater: isSue at stake in the Suther
land trial than the guilt or innocence of this white

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to torture practices reminescent of the Middle Ages
to wring a bogus confession from a Negro boy.

tire system of police investigation is being weighed and to this writer~s mind is being found wanting The thoroughness with which U. S. Assistant
District Attorney Raymond W. Martin is delving
into this ~confession~ system used at Atlanta Police Headquarters is. testimony to the government~s apparent intention to break up an bres
stitutional practice which fér too long has, prevail
ed in a free America.

Witness after withess summoned by the defense
and put through a rigid and gruelling cross examination by Mr. Martin, despite efforts|to keep from
baring the system, have brought startling facts to
light.

TOLD TO TALK |

Disclosed Friday morning through the testimony of police officers was how prisoners ~~~desiring to make confessions~ were carried~ to a
front office in the police station, seated next ~to a
y man with a ty r and ~told to talk. |
} ~ This in itse ft wotlld be all Hight, if the i Ree

as the government charges ~the ~Suthetland

cm He

] case, has not been coerced. rae tata 9 old Quin
tar South, ~it is alleged, was buried with an elec
which has
been far from zealous in safe
telling refutation of the Axis partners charge that

detective, whom the government charges stooped

More than iar. Sutherland is on trial. An en
And further the officer at the typewriter taking the. statement, so testimony shows, makes no
effort at all to warn the ~confessing prisoner~ of
his rights under the United States Constitution,
nor even writes the ~confession~ as the prisoner
gives it. Inserted at all times, one officer admitted
was the clause that the statement is being made
~voluntary, of your own free will and accord, with
out fear of intimidation, nor hope of reward~ and
iunat the ~confession~ may be used against him in
a ~court of law.~

INSERT OWN WORDS

~ These words are the officer~s, not those of the
prisoner, yet the prisoner is called upon to sign
it and very few there are black or white in Georgia who will not forthwith sign when surrounded
with a hostile squadron of men armed with pistols,
badges, blackjacks and flashlights.

It was in this far from sympathetic atmosphere
that 16-year-old Quintar South, his body still smarting from the raw wounds left by the torture iron,
was called upon to sign. And he signed, knowing
ai] the time that he was signing away his freedom
in a statement describing a situation which had
not happened.

The difference between South and hundreds
of other prisoners black and white, who have been
~put through the mill~ at Atlanta~s police headquarters was that South worked for a kind-hearted
white woman, intereSted in his welfare. Had not
this woman, Mrs. C. E. Harrison, insisted on g.
to. the bottom of this case, South undoubted
by now would be-serving a term for a burglary
he did not commit.

FAITH NOT MISPLACED

- Black Americans have pivaye kept an abiding
faith in the. majesty, the fairh less and justice of
the federal government. The vigorous manner in
which the Sutherland case is being prosecuted is
ample proof that this faith,has not been misplaced.

More than a year ago Federal Judge Underwood, in a charge to the U. S. Grand Jury con
demned the wreckless disregard of civil. liberties|.
practiced by many officers sworn to uphold the:

law and urged a thorough investigation.
Unlike many promised invest
failed to to simmer out inxo nothingness, but has

grown into a determined crusade to stamp out

cossack-like methods of many members of the At-| 4
Hlanta police force. ="

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Guards For
Slaying

Reformatory
Inmate, 16,.
Beaten to Death

CHICAGO~ (ANP) ~ Charged
with murdering James Williams, 16,

~who a year. ago was sent to the

St. Charles School for Boys for
auto thievery, two white employees
of the reform school, Robert Adams, 33, amd William Liard, 27,
were arrested Thursday On orders
of the stdte~s attorney. of Kane
county.
Charges were preferred against
the guards after ga investigation
by officials and statements from
other prisoners of both races who
saw the fatal beating which took

the disciplinary cottages.

Witnesss said Adams was drunk
and slapped and struck Williams
with a paddle, pinewood club and
Laird beat the youth with a heavy
hose nozzle. The beating _ started
in the afternoon when Williams
complained of illness as he and
others were shoveling coal. Adams:
who later admitted having three
drinks of whiskey before going on
duty, made the youth step in line
and slapped him, telling Williams
he would give him a ~hot reception~ as soon as they arTived at the
cottage.

When the bOy was slow in-removing his clothing later af the
cottage prior to taking a shower
with the others, witnesses said Adams hit him with a wooden paddle.
A few minutes later he again hit
the lad, breaking the paddle. After
ordering another inmate to get the
nozzle and club from the shelf, Adams again started beating Williams.
The latter tried tc protect himself
and fled to another room where a
tussle started. There Laird, who

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aimee ~sald Adams tinued
to beat the unconscious youth until John Armstrong, chief disciplinary officer. summoned by other inmates, arrived. Williams was rushed to the hospital where he was
found to have suffered a cerebral
hemorrhage and severe brain concussion.

Investigators later found the
splintered paddle, club and nozzle
on the floor. It was also learned
that Adams was not permitted to
use the club, which is for the protection of night guards from attacks.

Date Set For
Texas White
Primary Case

HOUSTON, Tex.~(SNS)~Acting
under the new federal rules of civil
procedure, Judge T. M. Kennerly,
of the United States District Court
here has set February 24, as the
date for holding a preliminary conference in \the forthcoming court
action against the Texas ~White
Primary,~ which is being fought by
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People.

The NAACP on January 15, filed
a case here on behalf of Sidney
Hasgett, a Negro voter who was
denied the right to vote in the
Democratic primary last year.

The association seeks $10,000
damages on the ground that the
15th amendment to the Constitution has been violated. Thurgood
Marshall. special NAACP counsel is
expected to come here in time for
the opening of the case.

Other NAACP lawyers working in
the case include: W. J. Durham, of
Sherman, Texas; William H. Hastie, Leon A. Ranson, James N. Nabrit, and Robert Ming, Jr., all

members of the association~s national ~legal committee,

irregardless of the outcome ~of the present trial |:.:

best is no question that st will have a deterring
e ffect on on Cpe who in the past have

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place Wednesday night in one of

Painted cellophane figures in the

Miss E. Elizabeth Catlett, instructor in art at
Dillard Universiy, New Orleans, views three of the

Disney originals
Two of the illustrations ave taken from Disney~s |
Snow. 2 Whites the sea iss from one of the ge. ~ ~~ Duck~series.

exhibition of

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now showing at the University.

NEW YORK) ~(SNs)~ Mrs.
Franklin D. Reosevelt,; Phillip Murray, president of the Gongress of
Industrial Organizations, A. Phillip Randolpk, president of the
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and Lester Granger, assistant
executive secretary of; the national
Urban. League will be among~ the
prominent witnesses to testify at a
preliminary Senate hearing to investigate discrimingtion against
Negroes in rad aa Defeles

Randolph And
Granger to Also.
Be Witnesses

National Association for the Ad- |
vancement of Colored People anBounced.

The hearing, according to the
NAACP, is Scheduléd to take place

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in Latino iat yD. just sctsna

First Lady To Testify At

Senate~s Defense Hearing -

to the introduction of a resohution
in the Senate calling for an ~investigation of discrimina
against the Negro-in the government~s national defense program,

Introduction of tke resolution: which is being sponsored by several senators, has been~ held. up
because of the illness of Senator
Robert Wagner, of New York, who
with Senator Warren B: > oF
New Jersey is taking the ~lead in
organizing the plans Dysins | the
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Curtis, local school teacher, was

Gaston Rose.

Several civic and religious or-~
ganizations in the city including
the Upper City Baptist Ministers,
Laymen and Teachers union with
a combined membership of more
than 15000 signed protests condemn
ing and asking for the removal of
Conductor H. Bourgeois for his unwarranted actions.

According to Miss Curtis, daughter of Rev. Isaac E. Curtis, she
boarded the car accompanied by a

| 12-year-old ghild and they took two

vacant seats toward the rear. When
all the seats but one, which was
part of a long side-seat at the extreme back of the car, had been
taken, the conductor asked her to
give her place to a white passenger
who boarded the Car.

~This I refused to do, and Bourgeois procured the statements
several passengers who said that 1
refused to move when asked, but

me to move: refused to sign the
statement, saying that she did not

see why. I should get up, since
there was no other vacant seat~,

Bobby Gwynn Now
In Fourth Month
At Coast Nitery

LOS ANGELES~(Ws)~ Bobbie

she desires. Patrons rave over this
girl~s voice which has stumped
many people because of its wide
range and versatility.

When the singer entered the Bal
Tabarin, she did ~Old Man River.~
She has often had that number requested by some one in the place.
sings this number

NEW ORL FANS, La TLE ANY Betis 9 she ehiseh to}
give her, seat to a white passenger when ordered to do so by the
conductor of.the street < car on pvhich she was riding, Miss Celestine

of

the young. girl for whom he asked [

taken from the car to the police

station in a patrol wagon where she was tried and fined by. Judge |

declared Miss Curtis.

~When he reached Broad street
where the crew changed, he still |

Fined Because She Refused

there ~with two policemen, an ine
Berto and the patrol wagon~, she

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The little girl with Miss Ciirtis
was left to get back home as ~best
she could while the young woman
was taken to the police station.
Rev. Curtis states that the case~ will
be carried ta a higher court. ~

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