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noi~commissioned posts in the his
toric 24th Infantry at Fort Benning are filled by | more detailed to the 24th. Pictured | to r~are Ser| geant Bradford, Sergeant Joseph L. Colbert and
Private ~ & Kaba WE idk: 5 des Photo. )

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f the Interstate Commerce commission toward the question
f eqtal aecomodations for colored passengers may be ascerained, 2 4 result/of the filing of an informal complaint
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ored travelers.

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Tite complaint was filed by the that ~the carrier in questi0On proSouthern Conference of | NAACP. vides~ luxrious coach accomodiaBranches on April 12 through J. tions for white passengers, TurL. LeFlore, chairman, It sisi nishing in. appointment comfort

dy Agaihst the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio~ railroad |
ecause "of coach and pullman discrimination affecting col- |

checking over reports are three of the score or

~ailroad Discrimination

~harged By South~s NAACP

' heavily

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MOBILE, Ala~(ANP)~Perhaps the present attitude

| regular equipment in same trains

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individual
over-stuffed;

ible reclining ~ Seats,
lavatories |
hot ~and cold water in al
toilet arrangement; |
and lounge section with radio.
Colored passengers, although paying same fare for distance traveled, have assigned to them. as

with

coaches of an inferior type, wil:
rigiq back hard seats which permit the seating of two persons to
a seat; no hot witer; arid only
ohne. coach with lounge section and
it without radio.~

Continuing, the
ther declares that

complaint, fure
~pullman acco
Uncle Sam Is Very Particular About Health.. Yes, boys this is it! The thing many selectees

bejng called fear is the serious vaccinations the
army puts you through, but these two youngsters

babos inducted do not seem to be exprcesing.

tefror. The ~two young men with needles in_ har

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are selectees themselves,
in the hospital at Fort Benning and assigned to
the medical detail. They are | to r Joseph S, White
of Birmingham and George M. Bynes, a former.

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Highway Projects

PORT AU ~PRINCE, HAITI-~(ANP)~The Governments of the
United ~

areement has been reached in principle regarding ja long-term program

-of cooperation ijn the developmen:

of Hxitian agiiemlture and economy.

The central fewture of this proeram wit! be a broiad plan of rubber
developments; an increase of rubber
plantings; the plar.~ting of oil crops,
spices, drug plants, ~food plants and
fiber plants,. Cacaci improvement;
the development of Hlaitian forestry
resourees, and the; stimulation of
small handicraft intiustries.

Although details for the carrying |
out of the project jare yet to be
worked out, it is contemplated that
the development will) begin at carefully selected centizal plantations
~rom which a small g;rower industry
may be stimulated anid directed, and
technical~information alWd:assistance

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Republic of Hiiiti announce that |

pr~ ovided. The ab scape is iat i on

To Be Completed

numerous surveys and long experience of the ~United States DepartStates of America and, the | ment of Agriculture, which has already established in Haiti breeding | 3
gardens for rubber plants and an| ~

experiment station,

This ~cooperative program wia althe
amount of up to $500,000 in the existing contract entering into the
1938 by the Export Import) Bank
~and the J. G White Ergineering

so involve an extensich in

Cororation, to permit the comple.

tion of certain highway and ivrigation ~projejcts now in process and
to provide adequate -transportstion
acilities to the areas suitable for
the rubber and general agricultural

development. _

Discussions which have led to the
agreements in principle in the above
sense have been conducted between |,
the appropriate agencies of the Gov.
ernment of the United Statas and|/:
His Excellency Elie Lescot, Haitian
Minister to Washington and, Prasi
i tes elect of ne Beings se: Haiti.

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Drive For Race Labor

CLEVELAN D-~(ANP)~ A recent
editorial appearing: in the Cleveland
Plain Dealer, leading white daily,
points to the rekwilding of. St.
James A. M. E. &hurch by Negro
artisans and uses this fact as an
argument. for their capability and a
Plea that they shouJd be employed
in industrial trades.. The editorial
read in part:

~At a time when jthe leaders of
this race (Negro) have been trying
with the active cooperation of many

others in all walks off life, to break

~down th enotion that~ the Negro
lacks. ability in the more _ skilled
crafts, this church ~has bedn ~built

modations are denied to colored
patrons, The czrrie;; attempts to
excuse its position ~with indefinite
promises for future~ arrangements,
and the lke. We challenge its
practice under Rule. 11, of the
Pullman Company~s Tariff regulations and decision of the vv. 8S.
Supreme court in the case, McCabe v,.A. T. and S. F. Ry. Co.~

On April 29 the commission communicated with Gulf, Mobile and
Ohio~ officials with regard to the
mutter, The railtoad~s reply and
subsequent action by the commission are awaited with keen interest. The complaint was directeg against the St. Louis and
Mobile line of the carrier,

Since 1934 the Southern NAACP
group has) opened Pullman accomodations to. colored people on
seven of the major railroad systems in the South. It has also
been responsible for improved
coach accomodations on practicatly all southern lines.

Not neces

entirely by Negro attisans.
fact should help a great

trades.

~Nor will the removal,
prejucice benerit the
alone.
whole community would

gro workman.

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to some of our own

Foot Oil Seen
As Relief To

| Athletes Foot

NEW YORK, N. Y~With the
epproacd of summér and hot
~veather, medically determined. always to be extremely favorable to
an alarming incrdase. in the
zrowth of ~Athlete~s Foot~ and
other infectious foot ailments due
to exercise and athletic crowding
in, swimnung _ pools, locker-rooms
and congested areas, a general de~mand has, arisen among ~draftees~
in Army, Navy and Marine Corps
training camps; and aMiong their

That |
deal in
eliminating opposition to the employment ot: Negroes in the more
ekiJled and more lucrative industrial

of that
colored race
Even in normal times, the
gain: by
raising the living standard-and increasing the self-respect, of the Ne-;
In this time of national emergency it is especially impertant that this great reserve of
used, Even. if. it were.
to cur physical safety,
it would be essential to our spiritua!
defense; for so long as we have not
given all the benefits of democracy
citizens we
shall not be completely unassailable
in our effort to restore democracy
to the citizens of other nations.~

Phd.

Der, Oil Crops

This recruit Thomas Earl Hines of Roanoke,

Alabama had rever made a bed in his life until
Uncle Sam called him and after three days in the
army he finds himself learning how to spread and

His Own Bed To ree In

| fold blankets smoothly so they will fit inside the
pup tent the army uses on field duty. The photo
graph was made at Fort Benning near Columbus, ~; Ga.~(SNS Staff Photo.)

Joe Menus has joined the Army,
at Fort Benning.
And almost

immediateiy after

mothers and fathers as well for
some remedial foot oil which
would correct such conditicns, ac| cording to a survey recently conduted here.

Letters both of. advice and request have been received and
published in hundreds of the lead| Ing daily newspapers of the United States during the past few
fweeks suggesting tha, ~draftees~~
and ~volunteers~ in training ~oil
their feet~ as the best means and
method: of preventing ~Athlete's
Focet~"~with which half of the
population of the United States is
said by the United States Depetment of Public Health, to be afflicted at some time~and of preventing and ~correcting.~Marching Feet~, so cailed because of the
burns, blisters, calluses, skin-cracks
and other ailments resulting from
excessive use of the feet in marching and training.

The Globe Trotter

By Cliff Mackay

The Best Labor

pleasure

ley's dynamic.program was
~ Talmadge.

ple.

of Huey Long,
of Louisiana,

Rae to hold him in like esteem.
SOUND THEORIES:

ing approach
none who sat in the
lege Who could find any

Friday.

typical-of his administration. of

in position to do ug good.

b ity. and the strength of Negro

-Rative ~skilp with tools drew.

FORT VALLEY, Ga.~It was the writer's good
last Friday to sit in during the first annual services given under the sponsorship of Fort
Valley State College memoralizing of the late William Merida Bubbard, truly one of the greats of
not Negro education, but.education in Georgia.
Through. the influence and, appeal of Fort Valyoung president Dr.
Bond, and the still living power of Professor Hubme bard. the principal speaker on the
Georgia~s
chief executive, Governor Eugene

Many there are among our peowho, not knowing him,
~as they: did the late Huey Long;
firmly and profoundly dislike Mr.
Talmadge. And just as in the case
whom the Negro~s |
I have been told,
really loved, so do the colored citizens of Mr. Talmadge~s native Mc.

Whether you are among those orb like Or dis- |
~like our chief executive's blunt and uncompromis.
to various issues, certainly there were
audience. at Fort Valley Coldisagreement with the belief, of policies he expoundeg during his address

For our trail.blazing governor with the boldness
state affairs spoke
cut his beliets on a question so often appr
moot manner by many of our so-called white friends

And that question was the very vilal issue of
Negro~ labor. For Jo these many score years, the
Southern white man has, known the velue, the foy
labor.
NS Ta ie yore, Se
~us. Were.Negroes, born mpegs Ww:
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of the South.

Seuth. For it is

Horace Mann

is iow puzzling
unusual

fense centracts,

just

in these plants.

matter.

ance. Any race

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of.

~. ities of black workers.
ing unqualifiedly,
continuing. he said; ~None can equal colored men in
performing & job with patience, strength and endur
SKILLED. BLACK: FINGERS

Most of the beautiful wroughtjiron work that
is the very breath of picturesque New Orleans is
the work cf skilleq black fingers.
bleck hands with the trowel is gtill reflected even in
those fading days Negro

The genius of

skilled workers in the
in these trades of bricklaying, plas
tering and cementAinishing that Negro skilled work~rs noW have the best Chance..

But back to Governor Talmadge. The governor
answered in bold words the question that Probably

many an industrialist on whose desk

is piled high thousands of dollars worth of de
but in whose plant a black man is

not even allowed to sweep the floor.

The problems becomes increasingly important
to these industrialists in view o
sent out from the Office of Production Management
by Mr. Sidney Hillsnan, who heads the labor division.
~And to follow this letter so the writer has heard,
will come further efforts to integrate Negro workers

the recent letter

One committee has gone so far as

NEED HAVE NO FEAR

But, according to Governor Talmadge, these. in.
dustrialists need have ng fear of the productive abil
~Negro labor,~ he said, speak.
~is the best in the world.~ And

should be proud of the record Ne
gro workers: have made.~

That is the truth as all of us know. ~But getting
a member of the opposite race, particularly in view
from a just share cf the jobs accruing in the presof all. the nationwide efforts to bar black workers

faced ex-Tennessean ley down on
a table and went to sleep!

Joe, believed tc be the younges*
and smaller applicant the Army
ever hes had, was assigned: to the
colored branch of the Bakers and
Cooks, School.

to ask President Roosevelt to ~speak out on the |

~charge of the colored branch.

Being a husky, healthy individual
and having had previous experience
in patrol and guard work, Joe was
assigned - immediately to 24-hour
duty to guard the colored tent
area of the B and GC School.

DOES FINE JOB

Tecnnical Sgt. George ~Daniel
acting first. sergeant of the colored branch of the, school and native of Huntsville, -Aia., reported

thet Joe had done a~ creditable job -

his first day. The sergeant feared,
however, that Joe might get lazv
and seek a shady spot for a nap
when the weather gets hot.

The. fact that Joe lay down and
went to sleep right. after. being
sworn in probably wil! not be held
against him provided he does not
let himself be caught napping on
duty, according to Capt. John W.
Merrill, who administered the oath
of allegiance.

Jce's serja] number Is z10210, and *
application for a full daily ration;
for him has been made by first |

Lic Vi Me.
Cooks School

Nease, Bakers anc
officer who is in

ISN~T MARRIED

And, girls, Joe isn~t married!
Just in case you ate interested, he
has a light complexion, big brown
kindly eyes. and blond hair. You

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This Is The Story Of Fort.
Benning~s Youngest Recruit ~

FORT. BENNING, Ga,~(SNS)~ '-he-had been: swarn in.the chubby
enlistment application She's U
of him, however, because Joe
made only 20 bones a month at the
Kennels while he will. get 21 bones
in the Army.

All Gospel. Songs

God Be With You...-.....--

How Many Times....--...--- 14

All ts Well... 106

Life Can be Beautiful. Se
Send Ali Orders To

THOMAS A, DORSEY
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may.not like his size for he~s only
11 inchés tal] and weighs only 14
~pounds~bout he~s growing fast for

he~s only three mcnths. old. |

Because of his age his mother,

BLACK STR

ONLY 60~ at ALL DRUG

KNOW THE JOY OF
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