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~Foreigners and even dogs are

Dogs,But NoBlack Americans

eligible for duty with the United

Sgisted Marine ~Corps, but native-born Americans whose skin chances to

~be black apply, in vain for membership in this arm of the nation~s fight
ing forces.. -No other unit draws the color line so stringently. Here,
~Corky; police dog, mascot at the San Diego, Cal., recruiting station
stands at ~atéention~ when the colors pass by.

et Delay Will
elp Red Caps Suit

|Penn. R.R.

NEW YORK~(ANP)~Delays in

Back Pay
Sought Of

the $40,000 suit being brought by
22 Penn Sta~te red caps against the
Pennsylvani. R. R. for back wages
under the Fair Labor Standards
act are not wituout their advantages, according to William McKelvey, attorney for the complainants,
The suit was filed in southern district federa] court, New York, in
January, and papers wére served
the company. on January 31.

Cooperation on the part of attorneys. for~ the railroad in making
available to~ Mr. McKelvey necessary information in the preparation of his case the attorney said,
will obviate the necessity of taking
testimony to deduce the facts
sought. In this way, he said, the
formal complaint of the red caps
may be amended thereby eliminating uncontested points and fortifying others.at issue. Attorney
McKelvey felt that in all probability a motion for summary judg<
ment will be argued in March.

Since the inception of the case
~several other red caps have signed
retainers thus increasing the number of original complaints to ap- |
proximately 27. It is believed others may yet follow suit.

The action is a claim for wages
due the men for the period covered
by October.24, 1938 when the act
went into effect, to June 1, 1949,
when the present minimum wage
system was begun.

An accounting of the coeripen~s
books in cooperation with their attorneys, according to Mr. McKel
Captured Ital

NAIROBI~A number of

Italian guns have
arrived here and have been placed on a site where
the public can be sure to see them near the town

ian. Guns On

hall.

Nairobi residents view with interest the captured Italian guns and ammunition, (Acme.)

Exhibit:

Fellow Soldier
Is Jailed For

Questioning

vey, reveals that the sum involved,

plus liquidated damages, amounts

ig weg er Reis We

iat a.- WASHINGTON, D.- C.~ (SNS)
3 The outstanding feature of
yovernment-sponsored unemployment -work-relief.durigg 1940,
was the whole hearted cooperation of the Negro. public, press,
ulpit, organizations and_ instituAe ion! ~Alfved Edgar Smith, Staff
_Advisor on race relations for the
Work | Projects. Administration,
says in Wis aniital report just
made public. ~Unprecedented ~and
full, -this. cooperation practically
converted work relief for Negro
workers. into work rehabilitation.
In-addition it paid unexpected
and* weléome dividends in public
services.
~NePally aware that work relief
Wak initiated~ as an emergency
tieastire and never intended as a

Solution for unemployment, the
Negro* public apparently was
arotised to action by the =~ fact

that even during boom employment periods Negro workers on
relief experienced great difficul
securing jobs. in private in-|~

aang~ such as ~would remove
lem temporarily or permanently
fron the relief rolis.
A~ nation-wide campaign gradalt ay~ gained momentum. It has

been two-fold in purpose, (1) to

cooperate with placement agen-|.

cies, in locating employment t opr

Morehouse ~Artist
To Play Before
af Stokowski

ATLANTA, Ga.~ (SNS) ~

- Vernon McLean, ~student at
Morehouse College and a violinst,
was~ ~one Of four young musicians~
Bem cel ~to play before Leopold
-Stekowski in March,: it was announced Monday. The others are
white.

Selection~ of ~four ~people is Tesalt: of Georgia auditions of young
| $s competing for places in
All-American

have been man
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portunities and in educating private employers to the availability
and desirability of Negro ~workers; and (2) to cooperate with
the WPA in training: and generally rehabilitating Negro workers
so that they would be both capable and anxious to take advantage of private employment when
offered,~ the report continues.
~The Negro Press -was_ the
leader in~ this campaign. Even
the late-year diversions of polities
and defense failed to swerve editors from their avowed purpose
of ~training for coléred workers
~ jobs for the unemployed.~
Tne National. Association for the!
Advancement of Colored People,

to ~approximately $40;000.

At the time of McKelvey~s an-}

rouncement on the status of his suit

Circuit Court of Appeals for the
fifth district a decision in a similar
coe ~ainda Tecoctiaas, in behalf of 45 men

' a
ae $77,000. popes ie. fp Talon ane.
ing handled by A. z Pickett. law
ver and chairman of the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship
Clerks.

Questioned on the importance oi

through it a definite precedent
would be set by which his and
other such suits might well be
guided. It is unlikely, however
that settlement any of these

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toreme court.

its branches, The National Negro
Fusiness league, local welfare and
civi group; churches, ~ schools,
all joined the crusade. Ac
tive individuals included national,
state and focal. officials, with
hundreds of educational, frater
the Nationa] Urban League andnal and civic leaders.~

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NOTE:~YOUR

~Private

euie all ietterc

B. D.~Please tell me what ~is
wrong wih my: hubsand and me?

We can~t seem to get along. I}

w6uld appreciate any advice?

Ans: I -honestly feel that you
~do not have enough time to spend
with your husband. Why don~t you
leok around for an~ther type of
job so you can have more time
off. Things wil) be quite differen~
at home when you can do m@re for
him, Hé must have attention or
he can~t be satisfied long at a
time. |

J. C~I-am a young fellow who
want to join the C. C. Camp. Now
I want to join so I can help out
my poor grandmother who has
been taking care of me all my
life. Will I be successful? ~

Ans: Make your application at.
question will be answered FREE in this column.
ONLY when you include a clipping of this column and sign your
full name, birthdate, and correct address to your letter. For a
Reply~...send only (25c) and a selt-addressea. stamped
envelope for my new ASTROLOGY RFADING and receive 4y
rotare inail FREE ADVICE on (3} Questions. ot: ABBE WALLACE, care or Thf& SCOTT
NEWSPAPER SYNDICATE. 216 Auburn Avenue. Atlanta. G&

your mate..

and I like ~him best; wees ~_
I do?

~Ans: As: loons as you feel that

Way.... go along with both
of them.... If you~ were in
love with either one of them, it
wouldn~t
make your choice. Both of the fellows l6ve you very devotedly and
I don~. think you would be doing wrong to choose either, one, for

L. M.~~I am interested in taking up ~social. service work and
would like to know ~what ~you~ think
about~ it?;

Ans. I believe it- would be very
nice for. you to take up this kind
of work if that is what you are.
interested in doing. I advise you.
entering college this fal) and_complete your training. You will stand
a- better chance of qaitrying out

yous, plalle M rea ieee

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there, was still pending in the U. $ |

this. case, Atty. McKelvey felt that!

suits will be made before a final] -
appeal has been taken to the su- i

take you ~very long to |

~WEST \POINT, N. Y.~(ANP) ~

Complete details surrounding the
killing of a~~private attached to the
10th davalry over last week-ens
were being closely guarded by
army officials, All that is admitted
is.that Ll. T. ~Miller, ~a first. ser
tent was jailed ~by ~ military~ |"s

authorities on a charge of technical homicide after it was said
that he had shot and killed Private
Paul Mayo of Oklahoma during an
altercation that occurred. while he
was taking Mayo to the guardhouse.

Miller~s explanation of the incident, according to Major William
Maglin, provost marshal of the
| military academy, was that a
scuffle had taken place in an upper
hallway of the medical
ment barracks in which Mayo had
lashed at him with his uniform
belt. =

Temporarily subduing the private Sgh ~Miller said he placed
him under arrest and, arming him' self, marched him eff to the guardhouse. En route Mayo is said to
have again turned on his escort
swinging~ the buckle end of his
belt as he did. Although -he had
fired two shots in the air, Miller
claims that Mayo~s persisténce
compelled him to fire at his prisoner twice.

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Private. Mayo was a native of
Vian, Okla., and was to have been

transferred to Camp Lee, Va., this
week.,. Whether or not an army board
of ~ investigation. convened immediately after the incident, was
reported, ~~ not be determined,

detach
| that the company is not solicit
Probe Slaying Of Negro
Cavalryman At West Point

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa~(ANP)~(Delayed Correspondence) ~ Speaking in the
Southern Rhodesian parliament
recent] fi Major Walker, D. ~S..0.,

ade a strgng~ plea for im is
e improve! seat in the rates of
pay, allowances to dependents,

and general treatment of men
serving in the Colored Transport
company of that colony and now
on active service in East Afriéa.

~T think I was largely responsible for getting a transport company formed of these colored
men and of inducing them to go

S.Africa Pays Black
TroopsLessThanWhite

to serve the empire in East Africa,~ Major Walker said.

~J must say,~ he continued,
~that I have been uneasy in my

mind ever since, in view of the}
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bad conditions and~ the
of pay which I induc
accept, also the daistonte? al
lowanée wé are making for their
independents and the génerally
unsatisfactory manner in -~which
they have been treated.
- ~The pay of these men is only
three shillings, six pence per day
(about 43c). White ~soldiers get
more than twice as na:

low

CHICAGO~(ANP) ~ Coincident with the announcement by
the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company of New York, that it
had reached an al] time high record of $1,700,000,000 worth of
new paid business for. 1940,
came word from observers that
the Metropolitan is making little
effort to secure new Negro business,.

Ordinary life business, policies
of $500 and up, a~e not being
solicited by Metropolitan agents,
a here said. If a former
ae holder or even a new pros
~visits the offices of the
Metropolitan or makes an appli| aeorie he may be written.

It is quite apparent, however,

ing new ~accounts except in the
nickel, dime and.quarter field,
where it has long been dominant,
it was pointed out. These observers _who include Negro ifsur
Preshyteri; ~TUSKEGEE,

Presbyterian Church of Vernon
~Texas, recently presented. Dr.
George W. Carver with a certifi
cate of award as~ a testim
their esteem ony of

ers who were in need. -
The award was accompanied by

~a~ letter from the Réverend J: Al
bert Steele, pastor of = Presbyterian Church.

eqn Rev. Mr. Steele said. in part
ne not, often that I am given.

in my eventful life has it been my
happy lot to share in the. confer
~wai SQUARE STA.

JERSEY Cir~, WN. J.

a.

Dr. George W. Carver

Ala.~(SNS)~The city streets as well as in office.

~king club of the Presbyterian

ans Honor

shop and home. The kindly, conSiderate ~and helpful things you
havé said and done in behalf of
those in need or distress have been |

the. earnest testimony of some ot
these that the The Sunday Morn
Church in Vernon Texas, has
come to know of your life's best
efforts for. others. ~

Metro Seeks No Race
Ordinary Business

remembered by ~many, and it is by 5

ance men said it was their belief
that the company had wearied of
protests upon the part of Negroes that members of the group
should be given employment.

Metropolitan agents are said
to have told. policyholders that
the company felt it was doing its
full duty by Negroes when it offered them a reservoir for their
money and~ adequate protection
in the ease of death.

369th Regiment
Gets Increased
At Ft. Ontario

By FRANK G. ELLIS

SYRACUSE N. Y}~) ANP)
The 369th Anti-aircraft regiment,
now stationed at Fort Ontario, Oswego, has 1,450 officers and mer
on its roster. Within: the next
month, however, the outfit will be
increased to 1,800 men, Lt. Gen.
Hugh Drum, commanding genera)

asad
ard

crisis:

The findings and recommendations of these instructors, who represent all fields*of education from
Political Science to Military Science and Tactics, will be made public at a series of 24 lectures
to be held at Howard University
during the months of February

| March, April, May and June.

- The lecture series will be sponsored by the University-Wide Committee on Education and National
Defense of Howard University, and
cutstanding scholars, historians
and medical men and women will
give their interpretation of what
the Negro should do in order to
survive the present crisis.

WILKERSON. TO OPEN SERIES

Speaking on ~Education and
War~, Prof. Doxey A. Wilkersozi,
of the Department of Education,
will begin the series of Jectures on
Februay 27, in Douglass Hal} Auditorium.
Prof. Charles S, Parker, of the
Department of Botany, will deliver
the second address on March 4
based upon ~The Educational Resnonsibility of Botany in the Program of National Defense.~
Prof. E. E. Just and Dr. Li A.
Hansborough, of the Department
of Zoology, will ~collaborate in presenting their interpretation of ~Zoology in the National Defense~ on
March 6, which will be followed by:
an address on ~Psychology | in the
National rus e iy
oy Prof. ~P. Watts, of the
ZOEY. or einen

LOGAN TO SPEAK.

ieee

~Phe International Position. of
the Negro as Reflected in Litera:
ture~ will be the tovie of a lecture
by. Dr: John T.ovell. Jr.. of the De
nartment of En@lish. on March 13
and Prof. Ravford W. Logan, of

delivered a number of 2ddresses
Anring the nast few months on the
Nesro in the
eneal March 1% on ~The Negro. in
tha Nations~ Defense.~

Dr. Ralph J. Bunche. of tle Denartment of Political Science, who
verantly declared that never since
the Civil War has a conflict meant
ca much to the Negro and hie f11 -
warld. will outline the role of ~PoVitien| Sejenre ih the National Defenea. Program~ in a lecture on
Moreh 96.

Tha-March seriee of lectures will
eome ta a clnce with a ioint naner
en ~Some, Fffert<e af the National
Mefonen Prncram~ to he Atccussed
he Dent WM Rrgwn and Samnel
7* Stunna of the ~ of
ik lected i
Wednesday, as he visiteq the camp.
The general remarked:

~This anti-aircraft rgimnt, stationed. inland from the Atlantic
coast mainly because of difficulty
of finding suitable target ranges and
firing areas in the more congested
coast areas, will. work in close conjunction with the armored troops.

Gen. Drum said that Fort Onpds hg sie pir Sr Srl
ing ~Ost for all the colored trainees ~called up in the Second Corps

of the sa army. ~announced

Carolina and part of Georgia,

~Confession Dr. Carter~s
Theme Past Sunday Morn

interest by the presence as a coi
n Defense To
Be Discuss

Lechits Suries to He Sy te He
Conducted at Howard Univ.

WASHINGTON, D. C~-(SNS)~The ~ role the
must play in the National Defense. Program end the present worl
crisis has become of such national significance to the.Negro race
rhole that more than thirty members of the faculty at Howniversity are at work making pea es

present national and world state of affairs, in an effort ~to enlightest the masses as to the best road to follow oad the present

>in Augusta, on er
ed 20, igre
to be delivered rd

the Denartment of History. who has~

world crisis. will

tire on thie which now-engilts the |;

Negro

~stulies of the

edacnior Dies,

DR. NATHAN W. COLLIER

ed

Dr. Nathan W. Collier, who serVed for forty-five years as president of the Florida Normal and Industria] Institute, located at Saint
Augustine, Florida, died at his home

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broary mbirgge op at

'Tom-Toms Call

Ethiopians To
War On Duce.

ETHIOPIAN - SUDENESE
FRONTIER ~ (ANP)~tThe rhythmie beat of 44 royal tom-toms
has. broken the silence of thie
desert area with area with a summons to Ethiopian patriots to rise

_in arms against their Italian mas
ters,

From peak to peak the thumping carried the message from former Emperor Haile Selassie) Wednesday night, and Thursday hundreds of trained Ethiopiang slip.
ped.across. the border back to
their homeland to help their comTrades reported assemblying an
army in Gojjam, near Lake Tana
in northwestern Ethiopia> ~~

The signal tells the ~natives the
one-time Negus, ~the King~ of
Kings,~ is near, and that the
moment. for jarmed. revolt approaches.

~PREACHER LEAVES LIBRARY

~J ~Some aa! aa valuaWilson Knight, ~D. ~D. pnee

~the praying parson.~
The Rev. Mr. Clements offered

of church
loyalty. T. J. Morgan, its teacher,
was in charge of Opening Hour
~ Willie Sims preside~
uring. Closing exercises. Miss
Rhett Brittain,