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the Fair Labor Standards

increased to the minimum
which rate was ordered in. Washington.

of the increase in the daily

Waiters To PayF: or Meals

_- NEW HAVEN, Conn.~It was announced here
last week that effective April 1, dining car waiters on
the New Haven railroad will pay 20c for each meal
eaten while on the road. Railroads are authorized by

-meals served to dining car employes whose pay was

' this month by the Wages and Hours administration) in

Heretofore meals have been considered as
~ of dining car cooks and waiters. Deduc' tions for two meals a day will absorb about two-thirds

act to make deductions for

rate of 36c an hour, and:
effect on the first day of

part

wage.

~Tuskegee Clinic
Starts April 6

TUSKEGEE~ (ANP) ~

Dr. John A. Kenney, _ secre
tary-treasurer of thé John A. Andrew Clinica] society, anyounces that the 30th annual clinic and the 24th annual
meeting of the society will be held at the John A, Andrew

Memorial hospital, Tuskegee,
wi'l be held at the Veteran~
jacent. tc Tuskegee J:stitute.

According to Dr. Kenney charter member and ~leading spirit.in.~
the society since its beginning, the
194% clinic will offer not only the
uswal: outstanding professional attractions, but several innovaitions
further to. extend the benefits of
the meeting. To mention only one,
three didatic clinics will be held
for oné~hour each during the aft
ernoon ~at which time there will be |

_no~counter attractions.

weve

" covered during the institute

~

/the pediatric service;

Dr. Kenney has been authorized
by Dr...J..N. Baker, state health
officer of.. Alabama to announce
that..a, special.pre-clinic attraction |
this. _year will~ be a public health
institute conducted at the John A.
Andrew Memorial hospital under
the auspices of the state health department ahd the National Tuber~ulosis - association. This meeting
will be. held.on Thursday, Friday.
and -Saturday, April 3, 4,5. The
institute: will recess for the Robert
R..Moton Memoriel exercises on

Friday, April 4, and will imme- ~

diately precede Founder~s day, Sunday, April 6. There will be no registratioh ~fee for the institute.

Three important subjects to be
are:
tuberculosis, venereal diseases, maternal and infant hygiene. Among
the lecturers to conduct the Institute are: Dr. Roderick Brown of

Pittsburgh, who will lecture on

tuberculosis: Dr. T. K.. Lawless of |
Chicago will present the subject
of syphilis, Dr. C. Leon Wilson of |

\Prévident hospital, Chicago, will |
give instruction in obstetrics.
Those who attend the annual

clinic will this year have the opportunity to inspect the work and

~set-up of the new $161,350 infan
tile paralysis unit of the John A.
Andrew hospital, the maternal
service which accommodates
200~ maternity patients, annually,
the crippled
service: the venereal
with a travelling

children~s
disease service
clinic carrying examinations
treatments five days a ~week to patients in every part of the county.

Gy April, first preparations will
be under way for the opening of
the..new school of midwifery con- |
ducted conjointly by the children~s |
bureau.in Washington, the Rosen- |. wld. fund, the Alabama State De
partment of Health. and Tuskegee.
This school of midwifery will be
the ~firstof its kind. Its object is

to give special training to graduate |
nurses and fit them for midwifery |

in the rural districts.

DF~-FPrederitk D. Pattersun, president. of Tuskegee.. the trustees,
faculty 2nd families of the community, have assured~ Dr. Kenney
of ~their cordial welcome to phycicfans; nurses, and dentists who
wih--make the spring nilgrimage to

vareee oF aw

FREE HOROSCOPE

over.

and |

of King Sclomon~s

April 6 to 11. One session
$ Administration facility ad
U. S. Chamber
Urged To Rap
~Discrimination

NEW YORK~~SNS)~The United
States Chamber of Commerce, located in Washington, D; C. has: been urged ~at the earliest prictii cable date to go officially and unequivocally on record against all
discrimination in employment on
account of race, creed, or color~ by
Walter White, secretary of the N.
SAO. P.

Mr: White made the reyuest in
a letter to F. Stuart Fitzpatrick,
pele of the Civic Development Department of the U. S. Chamber.

Mr. Whites~ action was the result of information which came tc
the NAACP that the Indian@ Chamber of Commerce w0s opposing a
oill in the state legislature which
would operate against unions which
' discriminate against Negroes.
| In ~response to gq rrotest on this
alleged action, the United States
Chamber of Commerce replied, thru
its president, James S. Kemper that
lit Cid not have any authority over
| the Indiana chamber, but that it
| was referring the whole question to
| its committee on civic development.

'The matter in turn had been re~ferred to the Deparment committee of the U. S. Chamber.

harge Papers Fail
~o Give Black Men

~redit For Fighting

Duce's Rout
Accomplished
By Africans

ETHIOPIA, ~(HNS) ~ The
devastating Italian defeats in Africa that began earlier in Libya are
continuing with the Fascist hordes
of Mussotini being rapidly swept
backward thrqugh Ethiopia. Authoritative military observers confidently predict that in the course of
the ~next few weeks, the Italians
will not only have lost their temporary foothold in Ethiopia, but
will more than~ probably _ lose
Italian Somaliland, as well.

Even more important than the

news of the Italian defeats in
Africa is a dramatic behind-the- |.
headlines story that most of the

white war correspondents stationed
with the armies here are weli
aware of, but which they pointedly
refrain from cabling to their whiteedited and white-controlled papers.

Several weeks ago, the editor on

American affairs for the Negro
News Syndicate pointed out tha~
whatever white European power

emerged victor in the present con- |. flict in Africa,

in the long run it
might be found that while a war
had been won, Africa itself had
been lost to its white overlords
The rapid march of current events
in Africa points to the ultimate
truth of that prediction. Recent
~British~~~ successes in Ethiopia have
brought the situation to a head.

Important native seaders in
Ethiopia,; and elsewhere throughout Africa, have been quick to observe the manner) in which the
present fight in Africa has been
played up in the white press
throughout the world. Victories
are attributed to whatever white
power is. in the field. Reported
casualties are for the white soldiers
killed or wounded. Heart-breaking
stories of the hardships suffered
by the troops are sent back by
various war correspondents, but
they deal with the life of white
troops only.:

At the same time, it is open
knowledge that the present success of the ~British~ in the conflict with Italy on Ethiopian soil,
is due in large part~IN. VERY
LARGE PART~to the African
fighters serving, under British colors.;

Mussolini~s forces are retreating
in blind flight not before a handful
of white British soldiers, but from
the stalwart troops from Kenya,
the fierce, splendid warriors from
the Uganda tribes, and the intensely patriotic fighters of Ethiopia
sworn to vengeance against the
Italians who raped their rich land,
stole their properties, murdered
their wives and children.

Patriotic, nationalistic Ethiopians
remember other portions from
their past history. The fact that
their leader is still called Negusa |
~the King of Kings~is not without meaning to them, for -. there
was & time, mot many centuries
past, when Emperor of Abyssinia
was in actuality a King of Kings.
At the-same time that Columbus

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Top picture, left to right:
J. S.. Clark, Mrs, J. S.

Middle picture.
Negro education; Mrs. J.

Clark, Ts...
Miss A. A. Roley caught by Southern University~s
photogripher attending the alumni~s annual recep:
tior: honoring the founder, his wife, and son during
the celebration of the 27th Founder~s Day.

Mrs. R. L. Shade, Dr.

J, E. Williams, state director of
S, Clark, Dr. Felton G.
Clark, Y. L, Fontenot, president of the state school
for blind white children, and J. S. sil state di
cA RAN RL ANG

F. G. Clark, and

They ae,

As Southern Founder's Was Observed

rector of W. P. A. education for Negroes, after) hearing Dr. Clark~s address.

Lower picture:
alumni chatting over ~old times~ at the annual alumni
reception honoring the founder, his wife, and son.
left to right,
Tensas Parish Training School;
O~Connor, Jeanes supervisor; Mrs. Jewel Thompson,
secretary to coordinator of national defense at Southern, and Miss Albertine Parker, instructor at Louisiana Rural Normal at Grambling.

A group of Southern University

~Charles Keel, instructor,
Miss Sadie Mae

Attempts Suicide:
Twelve Hours After
Husband Passes

CHICAGO~(ANP)~A = remarkable example of adherence to the
martial vow, ~till Death do us
part,~ came to light here Seaturday at the Ida B. Wells Homes,
when. according to police, an aged
weman sought to asphyziate her
self ard join her husband in
death.
The old couple, Mr. ane - Mrs.

William cay, lived at 3855. Vincenfier, in the ~Southwise low-rent
housing project and the

inz on

stove shut cff, the neighbor. in
was discovering America, Prester
John was King of Abyssinia, and
leader of Africa, with.seventy-two
kings under him. In his court
seven kings were his servants, and
sixty dukes and three hundred and
sixty-five counts, one for every day
in the year.

Because Prester John was a
Christian, he had as well twelve
archbishops;- and twenty bishoos
and a high priest. When he went
to war thirteen crosses made - of
pure -gold rode in the wagons before him. each followed by. ten

thousand knights and a -hundred
} thousand footmen.

These things the Ethiopians | lare
remembering now. as they watch
and suffer from the greedy wr
ling of the white power's.
men have been driven out ore
in the long history of Africa they
say, and what has happned 4
may well happen again. History

has a way of repeating itself. ~

white

| to the floor below.
| alarm, police were. summoned and

She ~spread the

ithey in turn-called the Fire~ Dppartment~s pulmotor squad:
Entering the first-floor, two
tragedy |
was revealed when a housewife, liv- ~
the floor ahove, detected.
the odor of gas. Finding her own:

vestigated, traced the gas: smell |

a meee

ro% Project apartment, police diseovered the old woman, past 70,:
sitting in a chair before the gas
stove, a Bible at her side and gas
In

pcuring from the open jets.

Aged Widow Seeks To Join
Mate In Death; Uses Gas

the other room lay the inert body
of her tall, powerfully built husband, who, aacording {0 the coro-.

ner~s physician, had been dead for)

at Jeast 12 hours, the victim of a
heart attack The woman revived as
soon as the rooms were.clared of
the deadly fumes and the, pulmotor
wes not needed:

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siter: ~: ABBE WALLACE, care ot ThE SCOTT

~RP F ~"~F SYNDICATE, 210 Auburn Avenue. Atlanta, G@

M. C.~I had a little girl raising
her, I am her aunt. Her mother
came and took the child from me
after I raised her up and I want to
get it back. Tell me if I can or
not?.

Ans: I doubt it. You should have
adopted the child at the time you
tock it, then the mother e~nld not
take the child. It is unfertunate
for you, but,under the circumstances forget it and do not..try
te ~make trouk~e for the mother.
Adopt you another baby.

I. J~ { have been going with a |
bey for the past two. years. He has |

tf

in the U.

gro school children.

The case marks the opening gun
in the campaign %o secure equal
bus. transportation for Negro students in the South an NAACP announcement declares. It will. serve
ns @ test case in the same manner as the earlier teachers~ salary

educational opportunities wil, be
continued until Negroes are fur
as other Americans.

_ Ollie Mew Branch, the Negro
schcol child, sues through her
father as next friend. The defendants are the schcol board Of
Greensville County, Va., and H.L.
Webb, superintendent of schools of
Greenville county. The theory of
the case is the same as the theory
of the teerhers salarv cases. which
is that the local board, throygh
custom and usage, is depriving Negroes of the equal protection of the
lews cuaranteed them by the U.S.
Constitution.

The complaint alleges that Ollie
May Branch is a student and that
her father is a resident and taxpever living in Greensville county.
It alleges that the school system
is under the defendant board of
education and superintendent.

zustom and usage is a violation~ of
the.U. 'S.
complaint requests a permanent injunction.

Sixty-eight per cent of the Negroes living in the southern states
live in rural areas. More than half
of the schoo, children in this area
live more than 11-2 miles from the
schools they attend. It is therefore clear that bus tramsportation
is a necessity for adequate educational opportunity for these ies
children.

The latest figures show that during the year 1935-36 while $11,870,344 were spent for ~transportation of white pupils, ~only
$346300. were. spent. for transrortation of Negro children.
This means that Negro pupils received less than one-tenth as great
an amount 95 would be warranted by their relative needs for
transportation service.

vases. The campaign to equalize!

nished the exact type of education.

Constitution and the~

pelice deduced that the woman
must have spent the previous night
planning her suicide while her
mate lay dead in the next room.
Beth were drawing State old age
yensions, they said. Outside on @
window ledge lay untouched, the
Asily papers of Wednesday and the
day before.

A table in the combination
kitchen-dinette was set for only
one person, which also seemed to
indicate the old woman had eaten
alone what she thought was her
lost meal. And, but for the keen
sense of smell of her neighbor, it
would have been her last. Police
said Mrs. Gay ~would suffer no
il) effects from her experience.

It, is alleged that this practice, |

~

First Court Attack On ~~
Wholesale Discrimination ~

NEW YORK, N. Y.~(SNS)~On Tuesday, March 11,

5. District Court for the Eastern District of. Vir| ginia, (Richmond) a case was filed fora declaratory judgment and mandatory injunction to compel] the school beard
of Greenville county. to furnish bus sera gt 0: to Ne
Redcaps Seeking
$24,928 In Suit
Filed In N.C.

RALEPGH, N, C.~(ANP)~
Redcaps of this city joined in
the fight in which thousands
of redcaps all over the country
| are engaged for back wages
allegedly cwed them by the
' Southern. and Seabcard railways. Under the federal wageheur law, 13 men employed at
the Union station here are seeking $24,928 due them since Oc~
tober, 1938, when the law went
into effect.
| The action was filed by Harvey Black, individually and 25
| agent for 12 other redcaps.
Named as defendents were the
receivers for the Southern and
Seaboard railways.

N..0. Teachers.
Laying Plans For ~

-|Equal Pay Fight

NEW ORLEANS, La~(SNS)~A

| group of teachers here. who are

greatly interested in equalizing the
salaries paid to Negro and white
teachers, are prepared to initiate a
test case in the courts.

~With this ideal in mind, the local
group invited Thurgood Marshall,
specialtcounsel for the National
Association for the Advancement
nf Coloréd~ People in New York, to
confer. with them over the week
|end, March~ 15~16, ~and~ advise on
to obtath

legay their ob="
jective,

The New Orleans teachers, in
planning their action, considered
the successful legal action of the~
NAACP. in Maryland and Virginia,
and the legal case which has started already in the State~of Florida.
They bear in mind, also, the fact
that the legisleture of South Carolina has agreed to.consider the
equalization of teerhers~ salaries;
end that the legislature of Alabama recently passed a bill eqalizing minimum salaries in the state.
From this time forward, both Ne-.
gro and white teachers wil start
at the same minimums in Alabama.

The New Orleans teachers also |
have studied the recent decision
of the Louisville,

Mr. Marshall. - advised with the
group. Legal acticn by the NAACP
under his guidance will be filed if
found necessary.

NEW YORK~(SNS) ~ Fear of
Bitler has forced the British to
drop the rigid color bar and to
enlist Negroes from Africa, and the
West Indies, and Indians from
India, in the exclusive~ Royal Air
Force according to an article -by
George Padmore in the March issue of The CRISIS magazine.

Not only has the fear of the
Germans broken down the color
line in the RAF., but it has caused the heads ~of British religious
bodies, including the Archbishop of
Canterbury, to issue a statement to
the press urging the wiping out of
the color line in all phases of
British life.

The letter urges the ~abolition of
color barriers in the colonies; the
elimination of discrimination in
the hotels and hospitals and the
somplete wiping cut the color -
Y~ne in employment,

The letter further urges the
rather astounding step that Neeroes be extended ~the hosvitality
of English homes in this country.~

clothes te together.... yeu are going
to have the time of your life.

| IF YOU ARE LONESOME

Hitler Makes Britons
Forget Old Color Bar

Mr. Padmore asserts that the
total collapse of France was followed by a serious consideration by
the British of the effect of their
color discrimination. He declares
that the iminent danger of German.
invasion has forced the British to
abandon the color line and to
welcome all defenders, regardlers
of race or ~":

Women~ Pertods Delayed? Chu-Man-ie Triple XXX aids func
tion (3 boxes $5). Chuman~e Medicine Oe. LP, New Richmond, Ohfo.

Ky., school board ~
"to equalize salaries in that city.

Va