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Meharry Tutor~ Honored

NASHVILLE, Tenn.~(SNS)~Dr.
_of pathology at Meharry Medical College, Nashvile,
~been named a member of the editorial board of the Punjab Medi-'

W. S. Quinland, professor

Tenn.,. has
cal Journal,

Monday week oy Dr. Edward L. Turner, president of Meharry.

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Aviation Firm~s

Policy Protested

___NEW YORK CITY~(SNS) ~ A statement by J. H.
Aindelberger, 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,

STAR on Monday,

1 brought a storm of protest this
from officials of the National Urban League.
herger~s statement was published in the
March 17.

week
Mr. KindelKANSAS CITY
He had been interviéwed by

telephone from Inglewood, California, where his company

~has its principal office.

Mr. Kindelberger said that
North American would send aboui
1,000 men to- Kansas. City early in
~-\ May to.open up- the company~s new

fen-million-delar plant there.
~Applications for jobs in the plant,
where we will employ upward of
10,000 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: COLOR LINE

~It was the first statement made
by the North. American president
concerning the. employment 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
ihe company policy to employ them
as mechanics or aircraft workers,~
Mr. Kihdelberger 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 spoliey 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.~

In a letter addressed to William |

S. Knudsen and Sidney. Hillman of
the Office of ~Production Management, Hugene Kinckle Jones executive secretary.of the League, brand~d the ~aircraft industry~s discrimination. policy ~the principal disgrace which.we are facing inter
nally today.~ The interview with
Mr. Kindelberger, he went on,
~lays bare the fact that the aircraft
industry does not intend to use
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
published in Banga, Punjab, India, it was annousced.

~| increase

| Meet Equal
{Pay Demands

JACKSON, Miss.~(ANP)~State
superintendent of schools, J. S.
Vetndiver, announced Tuesday
morning that applications for federa] funds for state schools with
|out federal control will be made to;]Meet the recent United States su||} preme court ruling that
~| teachers in public~ schools be paid
|| salaries equa] to those of white in~| structors.

Negro

It has been estimated that the
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 exMlained 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 government. |; 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 school in~
Jackson was also provided. Steps |
are, now. underway for establish- |
ment of a junior college in the
Delta section for training the Negro,..who already has three apypreved agriculturd] high schools,
toward which there is a growing
tendency.

~In the adult education program,
the Negro has fared extremely
well, and vocational schools have
been supplied in a great many of
ro Negro high schools of the
state.

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girts {
od the contest for the selection

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

-April 15, and additional girls ar:

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 contest.
znt or the dealer.

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

tibia Chbbadaawereeenen piesa taimaiiniin tat st

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m Beauties May. Be ~Miss Brown Belle~

met eee eC CCC na
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~AMONTGO
when he wrote an article,
last week.

He was surprised that even then
the NAACP and Urban league were

argesLeague,

SAMUEL A, BOYEA |

Y, Ala.~(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

such a transformation that ever
your Montgomery Advertiser anc

School Buses

~Teacing educators of Mississippi
will continue. their efforts before

Congress to secure. federal funds
in the solution of this and other

cf A
Forthcoming ~
rm games problems,~ he conclud-: ~ i ailivemndint
After Suit

groes not be given a chance to bejome trained, but the Negro vocational school in Kansas City, Missougi~in a jsegregated system
though it is~is to be utilized
for classes of white trainees, for.
which ~Negroes are to be barred.
~Isn~t there something you can
do about this??? Mr. Jones asked
the O. P. M. executives. ~God
forbid that this travesty on jus
a me eo

RICHMOND, Va. ~(SNS)~ Affer a colereq parent and tax-payé~r of Greenville county, Virginia,
had filed suit against the board of
education seeking to compel it tc
provide bus transportatién for Negro pupils, the attornzy for the
schoo] board made overtures to
settle the matter out of court, anc
to consider a proposition for thé
providing of bus transportation.

tice. should~ spread and give our Oliver W. Hill. an NAACP. atnation~s enernies weapons more] torney of Richmond, Va. acting

effective than bullets.~

Copies of the letter were sent to
Dr. John W. Studebaker, Commissioner in the Office of Education;
John Carmody, Director of the -
Bureau of Employment Security*
and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt.

for the parents, Was appro cached by
Ennis Ennés, an attorney and
chairman of the Greenville county
school board. ~Mr. Ennes askee
for a conference and ihdicated
over the telephone that the school
board desires to settle the case

COLUMBUS, Ohio~(SNS)~ Ex
pansion of defense work for youth
at Wilberforce University in| a
$110,060 federal and state develop:

ment was announced tcday {by
Lec B. Jacobs, Ohio National
Youth Administrator. Wilherforce

has been designated as one
NYA~s ~Home-Defense~ bases,
The NYA will lead in the expansion with projects costing.$63,009. Additional federa] funds allocated through the U.'S. Office
of Education and State Department of Education will total $37.C00. The State of Ohiy is contributing $10,000 to the new. Wilkverforce program.;
NYA will construct four mew
buildings on Wilberforce campos,
near Xenia, Ohio. These will be
additional umits of NYA~s ~resident
center for Ohic Negro youth. Staff
ef the cenfer will be increased
from 5 members to 17 full-time supervisors; ~ Re
Machine shops, g sheet metal

| Of

fabrication unit, ~welding a nd
forge shop, and an auto mechanics

Wilberforce To Be
Made ~Defense~ Base

Jay G. Cotton
Extradition Case
Is Postponed

BROOKLYN, N. Y.~(ANP)~The
ease of 'young Jay Gould Cotton.
extradition paners for whom. are
awaiting signature of Gov. Lehman

wih be included in the NYA séc:
tion.

Present courses in aviation mechanics handled by th2 University

wili be continued and expandec | ~vas again postponed by Magisunder direction of instructors from | ~ile Charle; Colomon. The, the State Department | of Educa | case wil! again bz heard on April
tion, 16. ah ~a

NYA will construct an infirmary The 15-year-old boy was conto house a new health program victed of a $60, holdup and sentfor the 175 members of the resi- | ~7~ed to the chain gang. Making

good: his escape, he came to New
York and obtained qa small Job.
Georgia authorities got wind of
his whereabouts and Started extradition proceedings. Tne ~boy is
now out in $1,500 bail. furnished
by Bill ~Bojangtes~ Robinson. Attorney Lennie I.. George is deiending him.

dent 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 project
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 paiticular interest to Ohio observers
because of the construction by air
on the need for experienced young
workers in. industries holding defense contracts. Ohio State Employment Service reports rises in
Negro employment in the _ state,

craft companies of four large | and recently 12 Negro youth were
plants in Ohio, _ _| taken from NYA~S Cleveland Youth
Aif expansion plans announced! Center for employment in indus
here: fer Wilbeforce are based up: trial companies.

not able to foresee that war was
inevitable and thus were not able
to make the necessary: adjustments

-Birmingham Age and Herald hail
the Ethiopians as ~patriots,~ That is
what war does for the Negro.~

before returnng: him to Georgia }

League Broadcast To Make Pablic
Aware Of Barriers Negroes~ Face

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iminaticn against/

YEW YORK CITY~(SINS)~Continuing its campaign
neral public. of. America aware of the fact
skilled Negro workers is being

practiced daily in the nation~s defense industries; the Na
tional Urban League will ~present a one-hour coast-to-coast

radio. program over the Columbia network on Sunday afternoon, ~March 30, from 3:00 to 6:00 p. m. EST.

~those expected to take part in the program are

n Anderson, Bthe} Waters, Bill Robinson, Joe Louis,

'M; jatthews Anne Wiggins Brown, Kenneth ncer

her eas enally known Negro stars, The, John Kirby, Ella Fitzgerald and Duke

) will conielt bute several numbers each.. =|
-invi
ers: Frank ry

lude Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Mayor, president of the University.

un Kinckle Jones, executive

rban League; and a representative

a eduction casting $9 anagement in W.
g System has donated its full

facilities for this one-hour program, including the asisstance 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 Tannheyhill, assistant in charge of guidance
and personnel of the League~s. sean nae: of Industrial Re
lations.

~will heve the first army

|

~the camp ig for

First Race Troops Encamp In Texas

GALVESTON, Texas ~(ANP)~
Through. army orders, Texas
camp
for Negro soldiers: in seVer&] years
when 2,000 troops, ordered here by
the government, go into camp near
this city.

The mevement of the troops. to
training purposes.

but loca citizens are predicting
that one of the main- anti-aircraft
units ~will be ~establisheq: here. It
will be for the protection of the
Gulf Coast. region.

Preparations ore being rushed
by b s for. the. entertainment of~ the troops. _t

on behalf of the group. He was
even. more Surprised that after
Munich in September, 1938, the
Urban league ang 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 Goda~the Japanese
found opportunity for equality.
And if Mahatma Ghandi has the
intelligence that he is supposed to
have, those. some~. 370,000 millions
of- Indians will ~achieve their fight
for self-determination in the present crisis.

~T am no war-monger, but I say
if the self-determination ' of ~Neégroes~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 frieng
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

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| ing the slogan: ~There is no defeat;
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. ~Blacix
filler,~ into felony court ast
week on ~a charge that through 4
celestig! aid and material contrivance she had reduced to $350
the total. assests of a Mrs. Idz
Liiantainen, white.. She gave her
non-professional and more Murr
~dane name as Dorothy Mathews

Mrs. Liinatainen~s complaint set
forth that for 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

NEW: YORK. ~ (ANP). _ _ Richmond Barthe, pate ar
nized as one ~of America~s foremost sculptors, is the only Negro ms.
receive a 1941 fellowship from Guggenheim foundation which gave:
grants to 84 whites. The stipend is usually $2,500 for a year
Lear.

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. Jd. Bent,
associate dean in the Meharry
School of Medicine will discuss
~The Health Progratn as a Factor
in Improving the Quality of Col
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working of the, Talladega experiments in a liberal arts survey system..Professor Bullock igs to teli
of Prairie Views experiments. in
coopeative service.

client for services rendered.

~The complaint says that on
March 3, date of the last visit, the
reajization dawned on Mrs. Liinatainen that the chase was as hot
as ever and that perhaps Mme.
Futtam was committed to a very
material jail pending further
court action

~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
than Alabama, Georgia and Mis-.sissippi~to fight for Ethiopian ~independence.~

*The result has ~ about

Deans, Registrars
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, 1

include discussion by Dean J. T.
Cater of Talladega. Professor HA. Bulleck, of Prairie View, and a,

banquet address by Hamptcn~s new
president, Dr. Malcolm S. Mac
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