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Meharry Tutor~ Honored -

NASHVILLE, Tenn.~(SNS)~Dr. W. S. Quinland, professor

of pathology at Meharry Medical College, Nashvile,

Tenn.,. has

Leen named a member of the editorial board of the Punjab Medical Journal, published~ in Banga, Punjab, India, it was annousced

sara week ss Dr.

risen ens hiat

Edward L. Turner, president of Meharry.

Aviation Firm~s |

*olicy Protested

i NEW YORK CITY~(SNS) ~ A statement by J. H.
Nindeiberger, president and general manager of North Amer.

ican Aviation, Inc.,

that his: company employed no Negro

skilled workers, and definitely would not employ them under

any. circumstances, brought a.storm of protest this
from officials of the National Urban League.
herger~s statement was published in the
March 17.
telephone from Inglewood, California,

STAR on Monday,

has its principal office.

Mr. Kindelberger said that
North Ameriean would send about
1,000 men to Kansas City early in

~~ May to open up the company~s new

ten-million-dolar plant there.
~Applications for jobs in the plant,
where we will employ upward of
16,000 persons, will be received at
the temporary Kansas City offices
in the near future,~ Mr. Kindelberger said. ~We will receive applications from ~both white and Negro
workers. |However, the Negroes will
~be considered only as janitors and
in other ~similar capacities.~
DRAWS ~COEOR LINE: ~It was the first statement made
~by the North American president
concerning the ~mployment of Negroes. in the plant to be operated
by his company as Fairfex. He
emphasized that under no circumstances would Negroes be employed
as aircraft workers or mechanics:in
the plant.

~While we*are in complete sympathy with the Negro, it is against
the company~ policy to employ them
as mechanics or aircraft, workers,~
Mr. Kindelberger said. ~We use
none~ except white workers in the
plant here in Inglewood and the
plant in Dallas and we intend to
maintain -the same ~policy in Kansas city.

~*~There will be some jobs as
janitors for Negroes. Regardless of
their training as aircraft workers,
we will not employ them in the
North American plant.~

Be: a letter addressed to William: Knudsen and Sidney Hillman. of
son Office of ~Production Management, Eugeve Kinckle Jones executive secretary of the League, branded the aircfaft industry~s discrimination policy ~the principal disgrace which we are facing inter
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week
Mr. KindelKANSAS CITY
He had been interviewed by
where his company

nally today.~ The interview with
Mr. Kindelberger, he went _ on,
~lays bare the fact that the aircraft
industry does not intend to wse
Negroes, even if trained, in skilled
and semi-skilled positions.
TAKE NEGRO SCHOOL

~But the article does not state
a further fact. Not only will Ne
|Pay Demands

_~{out federal contro) will be made to

| | salaries equal to those of white in= | structors.

ernment.

ment of a junior college in the
Delta section for training the Ne
toward which there is a growing
tendency.

well,
been supplied in a great many of

state.

will continue their efforts before
Congress

educejtional problems,~ he conclud
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JACKSON, Miss.~(ANP)~State
superintendent of schools, J. S.
Vrtndiver. announced Tuesday
morning that applications for federa] funds for state schools with
Mect| the recent United States supreme court ruling that Negro
teachers in public~ schools be paid

It has been estimated that the
increase in salaries for colored
teachers would cost ~Mississiippi

$1,950,000, but Mr. Vandiver said
the department of education had
not confirmed the figures. He exnlained that the state is now making every effort to ~equalize educational advantages of its: white
and colored children, and that the
additional: mounts. to rise. ~Negro
as well as white teachers~* salaries
to a living wage,~ would have to
be procured from the. federal gov
The superintendent enumerated
recent. benefits to Negro ~ education saying: ~By the last legislature. both white and black scho~s
were provided free textbooks. ~The
Mississippi Training schoo] in~
Jackson was also provided. Steps
are now underway for establish
gro,.who already has three ~ appreved agriculturdl! high schools,

~In the adult education program,
the Negro has fared extremely
and.vocational sehools have

the Negro high schools of the
~Leading educators of Mississippi

to secure federal funds
in tha solution of this and other

groes not be given a chance to hecome trained, but the Negro vocational school in Kansas City, Mis
for classes of white trainees, for
which Negroes are to be barred.

forbid that this travesty on

sioner in the Office of Education;

and Mrs. Bleanor Roosevelt.

sougi~in a |segregated system
though it is~is to be utilized

~Isn~t there something you can
do about this??? Mr. Jones asked
the O. P. M. executives. ~God
justicé should spread and give our
nation~s enernies weapons more
effective than bullets.~

Copies of the letter were sent to
Dr. John W. Studebaker, Commis
John Carmody, Director of the
Bureau of Employment Security*

COLUMBUS, Qhio~(SNS)~. Expansion of defense work for youth
at Wilberforce University~ in 4
$110,060 federal and state develop
ment Was announced tcday | by
Leo B. Jacobs, Ohio National
Youth Administrator. Wilherfiorce

has been. designated as one |:
NYA's ~Home-Defense~ bases, |

The NYA will lead in the expansion with projects costing,$63,Additional federa] funds allocated through the U. S. Office
of Education and State Department of Education will total $37.coo. The State of Ohig is contributing $10,000 to the new Wi beerforce program,

NYA _ will |construct four iniew
buildings on Wilberforce campus,
near Xenia, Ohio. These will. be
additional units-of NYA~s resident

of

of the cenfer will be increased
from 5 members to 17 full-time supervisors: =

Machine shops, g. " sheet metal
fabrication unit, ~welding an d
ferge shop, and an auto mechanics

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center for Ohic Negro youth. Staff,

Wilberforce To Be
Made ~Defense~ Base

wil) be included in the NYA section..

-Present courses in aviation mechanics handled by th2 University
wili be continued -and expandec
under direction of instructors from
the State Department of mes
tion,

NYA will construct. an intiinsts
to house a new health program
for. the 175 members of the resident center. A registered nurse
will orgenize the health progranr
and a vhysician will be in consultation on the program, as well
as a dentist. The health projec~
is in line with NYA~s national
health program recently begun
with the recommendation of the
Defense Commission and U. S. Department of Public Health.

The continuation~ of the aviation
work at Wilberforce is of particular interest to Ohio observers
because of the construction by air
craft companies of four large
plants in Ohio,
Alp expansion plans announced

here: fer Wilbeforce are based up
-April 15, and additional girls ar:

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FLINT BROWNSVILLE NEWS, FLINT, MICH.

Pict;
almost 100 girls who have

ed the contest for the salcawien |

of ~Miss Brown-Bell~ sponsored
by the Brown-Belle Bottling CoThe lucky girl will win $100 in
cash and her beauty will grace
the advertising of the bottling
firm. The contest will end op

urged to enter this week. Person:
who purchase Browne-Belle prod
ucts are given coupons that count
five votes, The name of their
choice should | be written on the
coupon and given to the contestant or the dealer.

Reading from left to right
above are Huberta Hunt, Anita
Hinton, Florrie S. Evans, Essie
Cheathem and Elois Arnold.

School Buses

Forthcoming
After Suit

RICHMOND, Va. ~(SNS)~ Aftfer a coleregd parent and tax-payér of Greenville county, Virginia,
had filed suit against the board ol
education seeking to compel it tc
provide bus transportation for Nefro pupils, the attorney for the
schoo] board made overtures to
settle the matter out of court, anc
to consider a proposition for the
providing of bus transportation.

Cliver W. Hill. an NAACP attorney cf Richmond, Va. acting
for the parents, was approached by
Ennis Enneés, an attorney and
chairman of the Greenville county
school board. Mr. Ennes askee
for a corference and ihdicated
ever the telephone that the school
board' desires to settle the case
without going to court.

Jay G. Cotton
Extradition Case
Is Postponed

~BROOKLYN, N. Y.~(ANP)~The
case of 'young. Jay Gould Cotton.
extradition papers for whom. are
awaiting signature of Gov. Lehman
before returnng him to Georgia

was again postponed by Masgisirate Charles; Colomon. The
case will again by heard on April
16. ~ 4} *t x

The 15- -year- old boy was convicted of a $~0 holdup and sentenced to the chain gang. Making
good his escape, he came to New
York and obtained a smal] job.
Georgia authorities got wind of
his whereabouts and Started extradition proceedings. The boy is
now out in $1,500 bail furnished
by Bill ~Bojangtes~ Robinson. Attorney Lennie I.. George is defending him.

on the need for experienced young
workerg in industries holding defense contracts. Ohio State Employment Service reports rises in
Negro employment in the _ state,
and recently 12 Negro youth were
taken from NYA~'s Cleveland Youth
Center for employment in industrial companies,

League Broadcast:To Make Public

ke the & general~ public. of America aware of the~ fact
tsctlisination against) skilled Negro workers is bei

ng

irabticed daily in the nation~s defense industries; the National Urban ~League will present a one-hour coast-to-coast

Invite

tion.

~ogram over the Columbia network on Sunday afterlarch 30, from 3:00 to 6:00 p. m. EST.

yn - those expected to take part in the program are
nderson, Bthe] Waters, Bill Robinson, Joe hauls
thews, ia. Wiggins Brown, Kenneth Sp)

known Negro stars. The

mstrong, John Kirby, Ella Fitzgerald and Duke

i comtel bate several numbers -each..

lude Fi orello H. LaG *

Graham, president of the University|

a Jones, executive:
rae Lensains, and a re

iia, Mayor

ment in W.
Y Sitien has ~ donated

ware Of Barriers Negroes~ Face

| A EW YORK CITY~(SINS)~Continuing its campaign

facilities for this one-hour program, including the asisst-|'
ance of its writing and production staff.

The program is being arranged for the Urban League
by Edward Lawson, managing editor of OPPORTUNITY;
and Miss Ann Tanneyhill, assistant in charge of guidance

and personnel of the League~s.
lations.

en of Industrial Re
~will hsve the first army. camp

when 2,000 troops, ordered here by

ndo| First Race Troops Encamp In Texas

GALVESTON, Texas ~(ANP)~
Through _ army orders, Texas

for Negro soldiers in seVera] years
the government, go into camp near

this city.
The mevement of the troop: to

~the camp ig for training purposes.

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but locai citizens | are predicting
that one of the main anti-aircraft
units ~will be ~establishea here. It
will be for the protection of the
Gulf Coast. region. 6

Preparations ore
by b
ment

ee eR

| than Alabama, Georgia and Mis
| dependence.~

POvECRERE mammals tahaR ee nee pe tae mints ce

i ~Mowaec

when he wrote ~an article,

last week,

He was surprised that even then
the NAACP and Urban league were
not able to foresee that war was
inevitable and thus were not able
to make the necessary adjustments
on behalf of the group. He _ was.
even more Surprised that after
Munich in September, 1938, the
Urban league and the NAACP were
sti@ asleep; but he could hardly
forgive them. for: still being asleep
at, the switch when in September,
1939, Great Britain and France
declared war on Germeny.

It was left to Hampton Institute in November, 1940, to call the
first conference of Negroes in National defense. That was the first

occasion on which Negroes were
able to devowe serious:attention
to the problem with which they

were facéd. The Negro Press, in
the meantime, valiently fought for
the cause.

STRESSES GAIN

Admitting that ~the one epitaph
which he was desirous of having
on his tombstone was: ~The white
man~s distress is the black man~s
gain!~ Dr. Logan stressed the importance of war in the Negro~s
fight for self-determination..

~For five hundred years the
white world has been tramping under its feet yellow coolies, red peons
and black slaves,~ he recalled.
~For the first. time in history, during the last world~s, war one dark
race~thank God~the Japanese
found opportunity for equality.
Ang if Mahatma Ghandi has the
intelligence that he is supposed to
have, those. some.370,000.milliofs
of Indians will ~achieve their fight
for self-determination in the present crisis.

~J am no war-monger, but I say
if the self-determination ~ of ~Negroes~necessitates a third world
war, I say let it come by all means
so that the millions of Negroes in
Africa and scattered all over the
globe will be able to walk with
dignity wherever they choose.
WAR AID TO RACE

~The Negro reached his highest
economic position in this country
during the period of the world war.
On the other hand, what was his
position during peacetime? The
Negro plight was so appalling that
I was forced to agree with a friend
of mine who said we were going
back to slavery. During pacetime
thousands of Negroes have been
buried without having had a
chance to earn a decent day~s wage

~Comes a flood, or an earthquake or an international war and
his importance increases. During
peacetime Ethiopia was sold down
the river by England and branded as savages. Comes an international war and what do we find:
These same Englishmen drafting
of all people, South Africans~
whose country is the only country
more fascistic towards the Negro

~sissippi~to fight for Ethiopian ~in
SAMUEL A, BOYEA
VY YAla.~ (ANP) ~Both the NAACP and
the National Urban League were asleep at the switch in 1935
~The Negro Studies War Some
More,~ Dr. Rayford Logan, eminent historina and educator, |
told the Alabama State Teachers Association in session here

ing the slégan: ~~There is no defeat;

such a transformation that ever
your Montgomery Advertiser anc
- Birmingham Age and Herald hail
the Ethiopians as ~patriots,~ That is
what war does for the Negro.~
AGAINST SEGREGATION

Dr. Logan then branded the
treatment of the Negro in the defense set-up as a violation of the
spirit or, letter and sometimes both
the spirit and letter of the Declaration of-Independence and _ the

Constitution.

He was against all segregation
and singled out the South for perpetuating this. menace to the nation~s progress. He, too, emphasized
the value of publicity pointing out
that ~some. people in the country
were.peculiarly sensitive to criticism,.~ By shaming them~ in public
print, the Negro might be able. tc
achieve most of his needs. Dedicat
there is. only a postponement ol
victory,~ to the association he
warned Negro teacher to be alive
to their high responsibilities and
never fall asleep at the switch.

Spirits Get
Mrs. Futtam
In Trouble

NEW YORK ~ (ANP) ~ They
hauled "Mme. Fu Futtam, spiritual
adviser and, widow of the late Suti Abdul Hamid, self-styled ~Biack
ffiller,~ into felony court ast
week on a charge that through
cele ostigl aid. and material contriFyance she had reduced to $350

the total. assests of a Mrs. Idzé
Liiantainen, white. She gave her
mun
non-professional and more
dane name as Dorothy~ Mathews

Mrs. Liinatainen~s complaint set
forth that fer seven years Mme
Futtam had -been engaged in the
process of stopping ~evil things~
from following her. In this course
of time the spiritualist is said te
have extracted the $350 from her
client for services rerdered.

The complaint says that on
March 3, date of the last visit, the
realization dawned on Mrs. Lainatazinen that the chase was as hot
as ever and that pethaps Mme.
Futtam was committed to a very
materia] jail, pending further
court action

Deans, Resistrars
To Meet This Week

NASHVILLE, Tenn. ~(ANP)}~
Highlights of the annual meeting
of the National Association of
Collegiate Deans and Registrars in
Negro Schools to be heid at A.
and I State college March 26-28,
include discussion by Dean J. T.
Cater of Talladega. Professor HA. Bullock, of Prairie View, and a
banquet address by Hamptcn~s new

Tstanse result has ~ about

president, Dr. Malcolm S. Mac
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NEW. YORK. _ (ANP). tg

<é

i Riclisond Barthe, Se aeally recog
be

nized as ote of America~s foremost sculptors, is the only Negito tq
receive a 1941 fellowship from Guggenheim foundation which gave,
grants to 84 whites. The stipend is usually $2,500 for a year
Lean.
Meeting in their 15th annual
convention, college officiais will |

give to each other the benefit of
experience unique to their particular. set-ups. Dr. M: J. Bent,
associate dean in the Meharry
School of Medicine will discuss
~The Health Programm as a Factor
in Improving the Quality of College Education.~ Dean Cater will
acquaint his colleagues with the
working of the. Talladega experiments in a liberal arts survey system. Professor Bullock is to teli
of Prairie Views experiments in
coopeative service. -~

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