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- FLINT BROWNSVILLE NEWS, FLJNT, MICHIGAN

SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1941

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Dr. R. A. Billings of Atlanta, G

dent of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity, was guest of |
Rho chapter at Southern university, Scotlandville,
La., during the annual celeliration of Bigger and
Better Negro Business Week, and spoke on the pub-_
lic program presented by the ~chapter.

| Sigma President Honored

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a., national presi_

Pictured

At Southern

at a luncheon in his honor are, left to~ right: Dean
J. B. Cade of Southern; Dr. Billings, G. Leon Netterville, business manager; John Thompson, Atlanta U.
student; R. L. Shade, director of printing; and Dr.
J. W. Hazzard, biology instructor. ~

Southern Whites Equally

Divided On Race Schools

Good Percentage
Favors Equal
Opportunities

The white people of the South
apparently are divided half ano
* on the question of providing
Pers public school advantages for

Negro children, according to a

statement by R, B, Kleazer, educa
tional divectcr of the Commission
of Interracial Cooperation. The
statement is based on a poll recent~ly taken: hy. the. Institute of Public

Opinion for the National Educa
tion association.

In this poll 45 percent of adult

Southern whites interviewed on

the subject favored equal advan- |

tages for Negro chlidfen, 46 per
cent were opposed, and 9 per cent
expressed no
eight per cent of Southern Neerces
interviewed expressed themselves
as favorable, 11 per cent were opposed, and 11 per cent declined
to express an opinion.

In~ the North the favorable vote
was much higher, running to 36
per cen: of the whites interviewed and 96 per cent of the Negroes
Th avefage for the country as 4
whole was 78 per cent im favor of

equal advantages, 16 percent op: |

posed, anid 6. per cent undecided.

~These results, the statement says, |

~are believed to be much more

favorable to the Negro child than |

would have been the case ten years
ago, and may be taken as indica
tion of.a favorable trend of opinicn |
on this subject. Meantime in most |
of the southern states Negro school |
steadily im-,
the |

facilities have been
proving though in general
scales are still weighted. heavily
against the Negro child.~

DRIVE SHOWING SUCCESS

COLUMBUS, O~(A N.P)~The
drive for civil and economic rights
Vanguard League started early in
in Columbus, which the militant
1941, is showing success according

to! Frank. Shearer, president of

~the league.

opinion,. Seventy- |

Kappas Guide Right ~

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was atso killed in the accident,

lost contro! of the machine,

Sisters Killed En Route
To Final Rites For Third

CHICAGO~(ANP)~Driving from. Chicago to Pershing, La.,
to attend the funeral services of their sister, Mrs, Leona Thomas
and Mrs, Donnie Dothard were killed early..Wednesday morning ~
when the car in which they were riding left the road as it failed

\ to take a curve near Oswego, Ill. Mrs. Juanita Richardson, a niece,

The driver of the car, Robert Dothard, 37, escaped with slight
scratches, as did two other occupants o the car.
Sheriff Woodward, Dothard was traveling at a high rate of speed
and did not see the dangerous curve until he was into it and then.

According to

Week Opens Sunday

TOPEKA, Kansas--(A N P)~
When Atty. R, J. Reynolds speaks
on Sunday, April 20, on the ~Wings
~ Over Jordan~ program from Cleveland, he will be opening the an| nual: Guide Right week of the
| Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, which
will be observed until April 27 = in
nearly 100 cities and college céenters in the United States.

Several chapters are planning
Guide Right breakfast meetings to
hear Atty. Reynolds, who is also
| national director of the Guide
| Right movement, which was first
| started in 1932.

The program of the week is ded~.
cated to inspiring and stimuiating
Negro youth into making thei!
mark in life, and in helping them
~o evaluate their own futuire careers realistically, in the end that
Negro youth shall miss some of the

ger that they shall apply their

Alphas Debate Position

OfNegro After The War

WASHINGTON, D. C.~(SNS)~
The Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
is launching upon an expanded
program necessitated by the present ~international crisis, according
to a statement made today by Dr
~Rayford W. Logan of Howard University, the general president 3g

the> fraternity.

THiege activities include plans for
wISTORY OF ALPHA PHI ALPHA

World War, Dr. W. E. B. DuBois
held the first Pan-African Conzress in Paris which was followed
by three others in various Huropean capitals and in New York
White scholars are already at work
on THEIR plans for a New World
Bociety. ~
~But~, Dr. Logan pointed out.
~however sympathetic they may
me, they cannot know the yeartings in our hearts, And however
learned they may be, we can adc
to their store of knowledge.~ As yet
these white scholars have not accepted the cooperation of colored
scholars. If; however, Our own s0 -
otind:alleys of the past, and in or- |

cial scientists can draft definite |.

talents according to their capacities.

As a result of past. experiences,
the Guide Right movement ~ has
found that hundreds, perhaps
thousands, of young people. fail in
nigh, school or college because they
aid not have understanding and
real guidance, while other thousands, capable of the most exacting
studies have been shunted in other
jirection ~by advisers who felt that
Negroes should~ only prepare for
zertain -vocations,

(McNutt

Tells Of
Trend

WASHINGTON, D,. C.~(SNS)~
Federal Security Administrator
Paul V. McNutt Monday announced
that moré thar. 76,000 Negro workers found jobs in January through
the nation-wide chain of State embdloyment offices coordinated by
the United States Employment
Service. According: to Mr. McNutt,
Negro placements for January accounted for 21.1 percent of all the
job filled by the State Employment
Services~an increase of more than
10 percent over December 1940.

~The expansion of defense industries is undoubtedly responsible in large part of the increased
Gemand for Negro workers,~ Mr.
McNutt said. Indicative of the
trend toward greater job opportunities for Negroes is the fact
that in January Negro male workers~placed in jobs~outnumbered
female workers by more than 10,0. Usually, placements cf women predominate in many states because of the number employed in
domestic service,

FILL VACANT JOBS

In some instances~according to
statistics gathered by the Bureau
of Employment Security~the increase in the plecement of Negro
male workers showed a growing
Aemand for such ~labor in defense

~More Than 76,000 Negroes oiled sins, Report Shows

production. In other ~instances,
Negro industrial workers are fill- |
ing jobs: made vacant as a result |
of the movement of other workers |
to defense industries.
- More~ jobs were -
male than for female workers in
New Hampshire,. Maryland, North
Carolina, Virginia, Alabama, Plorida, Georgia, Mississippi, South
Carclina Arkansas, Kansas, and
Texas. In Delaware, District of
Columbia, Virginia, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Louisiana more than 50 percent of all
the placements in January were.of Negro workers.

Calling attention, to specific
~xamples of job Opportunities arisIng out of national defense, Paul
V. McNutt pointed out that. in the
shipbuilding industry -on the Middle Atlantic Seaboard, Negro workers are being employed in many
plants as bolsters, riveters, heaters, catchers, wood caulkers,
acetylene burner operator, riggers,
and machinists. Many of these oceupations are those on which Nezro workers were so_ successfully
amnloyed in 1917 and 1918.
MOLDERS ARE PLACED. In Louisiana, according to the
Louisiana State Employment Serv(ce, many unskilled and some skilled Negro. workers have been placed
on jobs constructing cantonments.
And in Nashville, Tennessee. of
more than 200 Negro moulders
registered a year ago with the
Nashville State employment of
fice, almost all have been placed
{n jobs.

~As the national defense program continues, increasing opportunities can be expected for Negro
werkers,~ Mr. McNutt said. Pointing out that the 1.500 full-time and
3,000 part-time State employment
affices joined together by the United States Employment Service~
ronstituted the defense agency for
matching men and jebs, the Federal~ Security Administrator urged
those Inoking for work to use the
facilities of their local office,

He particularly warned workers
against leaving their homes in

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Members of the 1941 Board

| the Memphis Cotton Makers Jubilee. Inset, left to
right: E. F. Hayes, 1936 king and vice-chairman;
Charles Futle, district manager Jubilee; of Dyersburg, Tenn.; Lieut. G. W. Lee, insurance executive of Atlanta Life Insurance Company,

Standing, left to right: Prof.

Prof. R. H.-Morris, chairman of

Montro Hall, chairman of

publicity director; Clifton Satterfield, secretary;

Jubilee

a

of Directors of

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N. D. Williams,

transportation;

Promotional | housing.

Memphians Planning ~41 Cotton Jubilee

Committee; Lewis O. Swingler, editez, Memphis
World; Dr. B. F. McCleave, comptroller and 1939
king; and O. L. Moss, popular 1938 king.

Sitting, left to right:
first queen and chairman. of the Juvenile King and
Queen Selection; Dr. S. B. Hickman, chairman of
musical organizations; Miss Maud _ Tillman,
chairman of housing; Mrs. Annie Byrd Hickman,
1937 queen and chairman of Queen Selection;
Mrs. ~Susie Hightower, chairman of gratuities and

Mrs. R. Q. Venson, |

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N. G. Henderson
Is Sworn in By
Houston Judge

HOUSTON, Texas~(A N P)~
Fox: the first time in the history

of~ Harris couniy, 2 colored man
was sworn in as a grand - jury
commissioner this past week. He

was N. Q. Henderson, white-haired
venerable 75-year-old educator.

The appointment of Henderson
Was made/as a result of the recent
supreme court verdict that Negroes
had been ~systematically~ exc:uded
from grand Jury service. Henderson has been principal of Bruce
Elementary school for the past 32
years and igs known to most of the
people in Harris county.

Sworn in by Judge L. G. King,
he will serve with J. M, Cary and
Harold L, Saddler, both white business men, The appointment: was
made by Judge Ewing Boyd who

search Of rumorgd jobs. in other
areas -before first checking with
their local State employment office
to find out whether job __opportunities are available for worker!
with their particular qualifications,
Each local State employment office, he said, knows or can quickly
find out how many and what kind

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W. J. _A.~My husband and I
are happily married all but one
thing. He says that if we don~t
start raising a family by this
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the situation te him better than
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of workers are needed in_ other
| localities. It can refer workers to

jobs in any part of the country
~where there is a need for people
| With their qualifications. *Check
' with your local State employment
office before you travel,~ he said.
| ~and you will save yourself need| less waste of time and money, as; well as probable failure to land the

| desired job.~, tell me- what I must do?

| ~Ans: Make the best of your
predicament for a few weeks...I

am sure that your husband is going

~te return; He hasn~t gotten over
the fuss you two had a couple of
weeks ago...this in the main reason he left as he did. This little

_ vacation may have a tendency to

Was unable to administer the oath
because of illness.
| In commenting on the appoint| ment, Judge King said, ~I believe
| the supreme court case resulted in
| the appointment. of Henderson. 1

| think it is the first time in the

nistory of Harris county that 2a
Negro has been appointed. There

TEXAS GETS FIRST NEGRO
GRAND JURY COMMISSIONER

may have been Negroes on grand
jury commissions during reconstruction days. but it is safe say
that it is the first time in modern
history.;
Henderson is a native of Texas,
having been born near Columbus,
where he taught school for 24
years befcre coming to Houston.

PHILADELPHIA~ (ANP)~ "A
threat to. democracy~ is the manne~ in which the Arch Street yearly meeting of the Society of Friends
described racial discrimination last
week. Pleading for race quality,

its annual report, which was adopted, said:

~Negroes are not the only victims
of racial discrimination, but they

the committee on race relations in
-Quukers Reaffirm Their

Stand On Discrimination

bear the brunt more heavily than
other races. Even churches in
some ~parts of the country are
guilty of race discrimination, and
ali over the United States it is
more difficulty for Negroes to get
an education than it is for whites

~Many kinds of work, not skill
-cd, are closed ~to qualified persons

oecause of color. That naturally
results in a high rate of ~unemrloyment among Negroes, and pro
Senate Committee Back Following
Recess To Take Up Defense Probe

Look For
Action |

This Week

NEW YORK~(S N S)~Further
action will be taken~ on Senate
Resolution 75, this week when~ the
ten-day recess of Congress ends,
and Senator H. H. Schwartz of
Wyoming, chairman of the.. subcommitteé to hear the resolution,
returns to Washington.

Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, in a letter to Senator Schwartz
scored J. H. Kindelberger, president and general manager of the
North American Aviation. Com<~
pany, for its refusa] to hire Negro
labor at its new plant in Kansas
~City, Kansas. Capper expressed the
belief that if S. R. 75, which would
set up machinery for investigating
discrimination in defense industry,
were passed it could lessen much of
the dissension which now. exists.

The American Civil Liberties Union notified Senator W. Warren
Barbour, another of the resdlu_ticn~s sponsors, of its earnest sup-,
port of the measure, Walter White,
secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, will be in Washington
for the sub-committee hearing.

Arkansas Sheriff

Foils Mobsters
ARKANSAS CITY, Ark.~(ANP)
~Prompt action last Saturday by
Sheriff Howard Clayton of this
city in foiling a mob of 200 men
gathered outside city jail doubtless saved the life of Jchn- Riney.

25, who was being held as a sus- ~

pect: in connection with a criminal
assault on a young white matron
in McGehee, Ark..

When the mob arrived and demanded the prisoner Sheriff Ciayton told them to seleet a commit-.

to*find the man they sought.

Clayton had transferred Riney
to another jail, whose location he
said would be kept a@ secret until
the trial is héid. ~The sheriff said
that on Sunday night, after prolonged questioning, Riney confessed attacking the woman.

Riney is a Missouri Pacific track
Jaborer, has lived all his life in the
-McGehee_ district. He is married ~
end the father of several children.

The first factory in Yugoslavia
for the production of radio sets

-coin. Dr. Rodney, 3451

has begun operations, 65 per cent of
ee eee:
ducts, ~

vides at ready argument for those
who would make capital of democracy~s failure to provide for al
classes.~

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