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Pau strong letters to
President ~Roosevelt a n d
Henry L, Stimson, secretary
of war, the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People urged complete investigation of the
death of Private Felix Hall,
of the 24th Infantry, located
at Ft. Benning, Ga.

The letter "s ~asked ~action
deemed necessary to discover
and punish, the perpetrators
of this crime.~

The Association | branded the,, killing of Private Hall as a lynch.
~ ing, and in its letter to Secretary

_ Stimson said:

~We. feel certain that the War
Department doés ~not wish the
erime of lynching tg be perpetrated on the reservation of one of
its largest forts, in connection wth
the training of an army supposedly for the defense of democracy.~

To President..Roosevelt, the N. A
#. ~. P. wrote that failure of the
proper authorities to seek out and
Punish the lynchers ~would be a
further blow at the morale of col.
oreti: Americans who are being
urged daily to give unstinted supme to the national defense efort.~ i

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Neegro~s Play Is
Given By Univ, \ ~
Of Iowa Students

* TOWA CITY, lowa~(A N ~P}~

- Among the plays recently present
ea in the experimental series at
the University of Iowa was
~Mirage,~ a Negro folk play written
by Milton L. Wood, graduate stucent in speech and drama. Mr
Wood is co-author with George A.
Moore of Cleveland, of ~Deep River Reflections,~~ a bi-monthly proeram of Négro life.broadcast over
the university radio station, WSUI

He is a graduate of West. Virginia State college where he served as
president~ of the ~West ~ Virgini:
players and as the result of out~ sanding work with the players and
the summer -theatre was awarded
the diamond-studded Players
Achievement key.

Before coming to Iowa, Mr,
Wood wrote and presented musical
comedies which were presented at
Virginia State college and at West
Virginia State coliege and held the

fo talent. at radio, station WBRW,
elch, West Virginia.

en Carter, Fox
Star, Opens House
Ft. Huachucha

~LOS. ANGELES~(ANP)~ Dis
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SYDNEY, Australia~Sailors
States squadron which visited, at

from the United

Sydney, Austra- | visit,

lia, are shown piling into the victuals during one

iGpneral: Short
Blamed For
Raising Question

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NEW: YORK CITY~(S N: S)~
A> protest.against the injection of
the race issue into a.plan by the
War department to. send a Idbor

battalion to Honolulu, T.H:, was
voiced in gq letter to, Secretary of
War Stimson by the National As
Colored * People.:

The NAACP: protested agiwiht a
statement of Lt. General Walter
Short which seemed to emphasize
and express regret for the proposed
plan of the War department to
send 600 members of a Negro labor
battalion to Honolulu to handle
Army and Navy cargo.

The NAACP cited clippings from
Honolulu newspapers indicating
that civic organizations had taken
the cue from Lt. General Short
and had filed protests! on the. basis
of race,

Union labor representatives: in
Honolulu, however, were reported
in, Honqlulu. papers as issuing the
following statement:

~It should be clear that we re
flaving business qualities, seldom
shown by Negro members of the
movie world, Ben Carter, lucrative
long-term contract to Twentieth
Century-Fox studio; has built the
Gate theatre in Ft..Huachucha, N.
M. Opening it with all the glitter

and~. glamor, of: a Hollywood * ~primi
omer ~Carter. his far to; keep

the, thus nbs of ~s

~; workers ~ and ~{lo~al | citiiens | < well.
Sg: supplied? with ica tae *stage~ en
tertainment.
For. the: stage shows he- organized~ a. complete - here,

company

~from: the best theatre and
night club. circles. Among. these
were Hattie Knowlle, famous radio
artist; Napoleon Whiting, eastern
eomedian, Janette. Dancer, singer,
Gertrude Brown, a dancer, and
Faith Crain~s dancing chorus.

iets, defense, || ~fitari

sent the. explanation of Lt, Gehera)
Walter Short, commanding _ the
Hawaii4n department of the Army,
for its implications that our) protest is because Negro laborers. are
the soldiers involved. Our protest
has no racial connotation. whatsoever; it is against, all forced or
zed. iabd,' The | géneral
seems to-say that he is sorry. it, is
~neeessary~ to: pring = Negro ~ ~workers.
If. workers are needed we would
welcome Negroes as we would all
races, creeds and. colors.~

The NAACP letter to Secretary

Stimson also protested the) sending
| of military labor battalions to com| pete with civiliam labor unless it
is demonstrated that there/is 4
shortage of lahor in the area concerned,

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WASHINGTON~A, N. P)Robert,...Weaver, on the. staff.o
the labor supply and training sm
tion. of the Office. of,Production
Management; has-been transferred
toa ~new ~position, with the, same
p-dealing.. with the development of programs for the integration of Negroes into the defense;
In carrying out his. function, ii
~ Dry Weaver will be di
ion In: OPM

Dr. enter is on loan
federal. government from his position as, vice. president. of the. Rosenwald. fund. He and Dr. Weave:
will work in close conjunction with
Mr... Hillman, who apparently i:
hearing the brunt of all frontai
attacks on the short-comings o!

onset. for. the Advancement: of | physician. fok army. service, ~Tues
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~ofthe banquets given in their honor dene the

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RACE ISSUED SCORE IN
HAWAII STEVEDORE PLAN. INSTITUTE. =
dueyothe U.. v. S. Veterans: Administration, Eugene H. Dibble,
M.D., manager, released its - first

day, April 15, when Vance. -Hunter
Marchbanks, Jr.. M.D., left to~report for duty at Fort- Bragg, North
Carolina. Dr. Marchbangs. a ~first
Lieutenant Medical Corp Reserve.
was appointed to the medical staft
of the Veteran~s, Administration in
1940.

Dr, Marchbanks is not new io |
Army life, He is the son of Cap
tain V. H. Marci:banks, Sr., who

Tuskegee Physician
Reports To Ft. Brags

ice. Born.aand reared at Army
Posts, young, Marchbanks went: to
Howard University for his medical
training.

~1 Aeng ~with: Capteiter Ben farriin- Ot

Davis, Jr., and Cadet Robért Tressvile now completing his second
year at West Point Military Academy, Dr. Marchbanks stands out
aS one of the few sons of oldey Négro Army men who have. followed
their father~s footsteps.

Dr. Marchbanks~ wife and three
months~ old daughter will continue
for the present to make their home
at Tuskegee risa

in Wiikey

Mero In ~
Defense
Is Probed

WASHINGTON, D, C.~(ANP) ~
Prominent churchmen and churchwomen from more than half of the
states of the nation assembled
Thursday and Friday at the School
of Religion of Howard University
for the third annual two-day meeting of the National Conference of
Chureh Leaders.

Sponsored by the Home Mission
Council of North America and the
Department of Race Relations of
the Federal Council of the Church.
~s of Christ in America, the conference attracted more than..100 -
nationally-known~ leaders to discUss
current~ problems facing the
churches.

Twp daily seminars, symposiums; addresses, lectures and reports were devoted to the crises in
the rural church, the war situation,
the ecumenical movement, and the
dilemnas confronting modern youth,
BISHOP GREENE PRESIDES

Presiding over the opening session was Bishop S. L. Greene, AME
prelate of Little Rock, Arkansas,
while the jnitial worship period was
conducted by the Rev, S. G. Spottswood, pastor, John Wesley AME
Zion Church, Washington, and the
welcome address delivered by Dr.
William Stuart Nelson, Dean of the
School of Religion.

DISCUSS RURAL CHURCH

R, W. Hudgens and Giles A, Hubert, both. of the Farm Sécurity Administration, the Rev. H. V. Richardson, and the Rev. B, Julian
Smith, participated in the éarly
aftérnoon seminar on the rural
church program; while in a later
sessions about youth problems, the
Revs. S. S, Morris and B. Julian
Smith. were the leaders.

The Rev. Howard Thurman led
the worship period Friday, while
Dr. Talley presided,. with the opening seminar on ~Church Comity
and the Ecumenical Movement,~
under the guidance of the Revs.
John L, Mixon, M..A, Dawber, J
M. Ellison, and H. Paul Douglas,
Secretary of the Commission on
Unity, Federal Council of Churches.

Bishop L. W. Kyles reported for~
the Business: Committee, and Dr.
Géoge E. Haynes, Secretary of the
conference, at the Friday luncheon,
presided over by Dr. E, Nathaniel
Ellis of Atlanta, Georgia.
DISCUSS DEFENSE JOB

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By Cliff Mackay |

THE PHYLON INSTITUTE

THROUGH THIS writer's mind. is whirling a
maze of figures, of charts and of statistics which def_
initely prove to even the few who may have doubted
it that the Negro is not getting his full and propor.
ionate share in this thing called democracy, The
mathematical nightmare was the result of sitting
through three~ sessiong of the First Phylon Institute
and the oo Atlanta University Conference
called by Dr. W. E. B. DuBois during the past heb
end.

Government experts and the
~best brains~ among -Negroes discussed and debated in its entirety
the profound theme: ~The EconcMmic
Condition and Trends of American
Negroes, and Plans for their Eco. -
nomic Security.~: i
REPORTS ARE MADE

Heard were reports from observers in widely separated sections Of
the nation. They detailed for the

most ~part the few -bright spots in their particular
community, ahd then all came right down to the
same summary~ that. Negroes are just not considered:n the South, the North, the East, nor the West for
any of the -jobs demanding technical skill, conse.
quently offering the. greatest remuneration.

Government experts explained how the United,States through what one spea.ker termed. ~sanctions~

sought to guarantee the Negro~s equal participation in
the various federal agencies, but in the end admitted
that those holding power in the local.communities are
wise in the ways of evading these clauses.

All of the discussions. left: unanswered the very
puzzling question, what to do to bring about this
necded economic security? The fact that this problem iafter all the discussions remained unsolved has
raised another question in this writer's mind. Just
how effective in.actually accomplishing anything are
all the sundry conferences that are perennially held
by. over and about the unhappy situation of the Ne_; ~To ir this country.

base USS. LABOR MOVEMENT)

Learned scholars took the floor and discussed at
length the labor movement.
~they had integrated themselves into unions stood so
much better chances of securing employment under
the defense program. How skilled Negro workers
in those sections wherg.they had not been permitted
to form. locals, ~were not securing any Work in their
~trades. Statistics, graphs and charts proved their
point. e

Yet somehow. or other-the crazy idea ac ag
this-writer~s mind. that: this: information would hav,

- organize workers. |

~fice of Production Management wag speaking of job

How Negroes where}

drawn.
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seundead. so much. more authentic coming from. ~el 3

lips of someone wito hag actually stood on a picket
line. Or from someone from the rank and ~file of
labor who wears a union button and has faced the
wrath of irate employers because of his efforts to

The same reaction grigped us concerning the
very learned discussiong about Negro business, There
may have been a few there who had operated businesses, but for the most part their sole knowledge
of business was what had been obtained through
academic halls.

In Atlanta, nore so possibly than any other city.
there are Negroes a@tually engaged in business, whc
eculd have given a much more practical illustration
of the problems busines8 men face, None of
these were called In.

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ANOTHER QUESTION

And then the question arose in this writer~s mind
as to jUst how many of these experts in economics
and social science were making more than academic
use of their higher knowledge in these fields. How
many,.who were speaking so fluently of union organization, of lack of job opportunities, and of the
rCor management of Negro business haq actually
gone out into their communities and made definite
efforts to do something about it?

Possessing all of this advanced knowledge, logically they should be the leaders in this needed campaign among Negroes everywhere. The question
was not posed on the floor of the conference for fear
it might. embarrass too many of the profound ~
crists present,

The most ironic thing that occurred during ~the
conference came when Robert C. Weaver of the Of
opportunities for Negro skilled workers, He was
lamenting the denial of jobs to these workers in most
sections of the country. Several delegates gazing
through the window of the Atlanta University library

lecture room to the scene across the street ~
laughed. ~.

NOT A BLACK FACE

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Over there a million doliaes was being spent to
erect the new Clark College. The strongest building
unions among Negroes in Atlanta are those of thc
trowel trades~bricklaying, plastering and cement
finisHing. But not a black face:could be seen filling
this demand. on oe ne 2 ee
_ And ~that raised. another question.
thé economists and sociologists o
these contracts were

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KENYA, Africa~A company of the Royal West
African Frontier force on the. Kenya_lItalian So.
maliland frontier moves back the Italian frontier | ACME Photo.

They Literally Move Ifalian~ Frorfiee~

boundary line ~by removing a stone placed. og
Italians to mark the new~but now lost~frnotier. -

WASHINGTON, -D. C~(SNS)~
The Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
will conduct its twenty-first. observance of Education-For-Citizenship Week through its:116 chapters beginning Sunday, April 27th
and extending through Sundiy,
May 4th. eae,
as a GO-To- High School, Go-ToCollege Campaign in June 1921
under the stimulation of a Commission on Graduate Work and Public
Affairs created at Chicago in~ December 1919 with Messsr. Roscoe
C. Giles, Ormand A. Foote, F. H.
Miller, Charles H. Garvin and S.
S. Booker serving as the first members of the commission.

The. position. of director of education was created in 1927 and has
been filled by, Messrs. Raymond W.
Cannon (1927-31), Mathew E. Car
Dr; Trenholm:
Is Director Of
1941 Campaign

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Logan~: (1983-40); prior. tothe elec--
tid of President H.Councill Trenholm of Alabama State, Teachers
College to that office in December

In 1933, the program was expand.
ed to include an emphasis upon
education for citizenship. In that
same year, the Alpha Phi Alpha
Education Foundation was established to administer the Scholarships and fellowships which are
awarded annually by the Fratern
ity to stimulate scholarship and

~ jaslelihasttaed Wt ther of
with. the ene Gee that ie~

Alphas To Launch 21st
Educational~ Drive On Sian

productive research. Ee ae

As in previous years, -the
grams will be projected as the local.
chapters deem most advisable.. Increasing emphasis is: being placed:
upon the constructive approach: to
some - how ontnint Foard ae hoe
the developn }

groes register and. vote and~ tha~
they. aggressively utilize heise
portunities to. make

contributions to the wider olga.
tions of citizenship in our ~
ican democracy.

A. series of challenging meetings
and: conferences in high ~ schools,
célleges and~ communities have
been planned for the week~s observance by the various. chapters of
this oldest Greek-Letter
fraternity of Negro College M

MONTGOMERY: ~Ala.~(ANP)~
Atty. Gén, Thomas S. Lawson ahnounced Tuesday that 10~ southern

segregation laws in a brief which
was to have been filed in the
United States supréme court Monday.

Completed when legal representatives from. the 10 states met for
a second conference Tuesday, the
brief will be filed in the names of
Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Florida, ~ Louisiana, Virginia, Mississ
states participated in a defense of |

Lawson Fears
High Court Will
Hit Segregation

ippi, Tennessee, Texas and Kentucky. Tuesday~s: meeting followed

a recent conference called by Law- -

son who said that the case involving Congressman Arthur Mitchell
ocitstituted a threat go. segregation

Ten Southern States Defend
Jim Crow tn. Mitchell's Case

| laws in general.

_ Representative Mitchell, only Negro congressman, has brought the
case to the supreme court claiming
that he was forced to leave a sleep- 7
ing car in Hot Springs. Ark., Mm
April 1937, although his ticker calied for first class travel accommodations. At the Tuestay meeing of
southern attorney-generals or their
representatives, Texas and Kentucky delegates were not present

~but they have advised that they

Wish to join in the case.

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark ~(A N P)~
Thirty million dollars has been set
as the goal for writing new business during the National Negro Insurance week to be observed ~May
5-16 by members of the National
Negro - Insurance association. The |.
committee which sponsors this
year~s program is composed ct
agency officers of forty-two com-~
tional Defense~~ was the theme of
the afternoon cession, with a report ~resented by Dr. John A.

Gregg, co-chairman. of the Depart
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Thirty Millions In New Business.

All Over Nation
In Single Effort

panies, assisted by state directors |

appointed by Chrirman F.- A.
es Christians to say the needed

things to the hearts and minds of
men who are cenfused and troubled,
We have heretofore preacheéd,a gospe! of love~love your enemies; pray

for them that despitefuliy- use you |

~we cannot tay that aside during
war and pick it up again. We
imust hold to it now.~: Negro~ Tusurance Week

Is Goal Of Nat~! Insurance: Week

Young; in each pr the twesty-tive
States in: which Negro: companites
operate.

Chairman Young, of this city,
agency supervisor cf the Universal
Life Insurance company, reports
that 150060 men and. women. who

ste emp.oyed by companies cf the ~~

association are engaged in a con
~cntrated effort) to reach this ~
year~s goal.
The first. Naiional Negro In
surance week resulted in $2;

~worth of insurance placed

members of the race. In 1940
affiliated: organizations ~wrote