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FLINT, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1941

As Cotton Queen Was CrownedIn Memphis |

MEMPHIS, Tenn.~While her consort ~King~
J. E. Burke, Forrest City, Ark., dentist, looks on
}. apprevingly, Thelma Margaret Young is crowned |

Queen of the 1941 Cotton Makers~
Memphis. Doing the crowning is Miss Ethel (Vinson, who was first queen of ihe. ann: Jubilee * i

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Bluford Case Is Mucund

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JEFFERSON CITY, MO. (SNS)--
The famous case of Lucillé Bluford
vs. the University of Missouri. was
opened again Thursday, May 15.

~The appeal of Miss Bluford, Kan
sas City, Mo. from a judgment
denying her a writ of mandamus
to tompel the registrar of the University of Missouri to issue her a
permit to register in the graduate
school of the university for. work in
journalism was heard by the Mis.
_ gouri Supreme Court and taken under advisement.

In the Missouri Supréme Court
co r the University of Missuuri spent most of their time trying to prove that Miss Blufor
did not want instruction in journalism but was merely lending her
name to an NAACP campaign to
break down the state policy of segregation..

Charles H. Houston and Sidney
R. Redmond of the national legal
committee of the NAACP who represented Miss Bluford, answered by
stating that the NAACP was fighting to make the state obey the equal
protection clause of the Fourteenth
- Amendment to the Constitution of

Soldiers Stand
By Man Charged
With Assault ~

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.~(ANP)~A
special escort of apprcximately 40C
soldiers from nearby Camp Robin~o9n was provided for John Henry
Riney as he was taken from the
jail here Wednesday to McGehee
county. in southeastern Arkansat
to face trial for the alleged attack
of a white woman in April.

The troops were sent at the request of Gov. Adkins, who wired
President Roosevelt asking tht
protection of federa} soldiers in
the absence of the Arkansas National guard, now fey mustered
into federal service,

The soldiers who. - pucenred at
in

Al at vf Be

Still Seeking to Be Admitted

To State~s Journalism School

the United States and that they
were determined to see that the
state did not give white citizens an
education while all it offered to
Negroes was a law suit,

They showed that: the University
of Missouri was the only place in
Missouri where graduate training
in journalism wag offered by the

| State, and that under those cir
cumstances Miss Bluford was entitled to admission to the University instantly.

The University counsel argued
that the NAACP was engaged in
a campaign throughout the states to
break -down the laws setting up
separate education for the races.
Miss Bluford~; counsel. stated the
NAACP was engaged in a campaign
to make the states obey the Federal]
constitution, and that as _ long

as a single Negro student was denied
an equal share gin public education
the NAACP would fight his battle;
that on the question of segregation
Negroes had just as much right to
fight segregation as white people
had to uphold it, and they insisted
on the exercise of the right of free
American citizens to have their own
opinions about segregation and every other matter of public concern.

The court was told by Miss Bluford~s counsel that when the next
registration period at the University
of Missouri came in Sept., 1941,
they wanted Miss Bluford to start
her graduate training in journalism
the same day as the, white students,
The attortieys said that if the only
place in Missouri or her to take
such work Was the University of
Missouri they wanted the court to
see that the Registrar admitted her
then and there without any further equivocation.

Teachers: Pay

Case Is Filed
In New Orleans.

+ NEW ORLEANS, La~(SNS)~
(SNS)~With a teachers~ salary
differential reportedly amounting
to $275,000 a year, the New OrIcans schoo] board will soon have
to take action on the petition of

Not On Ethions.

Joe Louis
Celebrating his 27th birthday
at his training camp near Wash
ington, Heavyweight. Crampion

Joe Louis douses the candles on
his virtnday cake. Joe meets

Buddy Baer, brother of former
chatap Maxie, in Washington, May
23,

Here's One To
Bee-lieve or

irateng. tue sommie~ at
Selassié to the Ethiopian

Move Against
Two Remaining
Occupied Areas

Fascist Captives

Losses Admitted

BY THE SCOTT NEWSPAPER
SYNDICATE

The Italian high command
acknowledged Monday that
the lofty fortress. of Amba
Alaji in Ethiopia, occupied
by the European conqueror
for five years, had fallen to
the British and native armies.

The fortress was the last
stronghold~. position of the
Fascists in northeast Ethiopia and its surrender; along
with some 7,000 troops by
British estimate, and the Italian. commander, the Duke. of

he land

- gs
Lau i)

of ~ nort
ita area in tae south.

The British and Ethiopians hurried their offensive against the remaining two areas of ~gecupation
in the hope of breaking the whole
of the colony despite the arrival
of the rainy season. The- Italians
said their resistance was contin.
uing.

Originally it had been reported
that the Italian garrison at Amba
Aliji numbered 38,000, but later
announcement limited "Fascist cap.
tives to be a probable 7,000.

The Italians admitted that their
losses were enormous, They salut.
ed Aosta and his y dowres as heroes
who had not quit/until last of
their cartridges, food a id water
were gone and they could rio longer
treat their wounded.

Meanwhile, the North African
front presented a see-saw situation
with varied claims of victory by
the British and their Axis oppon.
ents in and about the border
Egyptian village of Salum. The
British situation will be greatly
strengthened if their army of Ethi.
opia is able to smash a final victory there. at an early date.

The Britisti RAF took 2 contin.
ued teMing offensive ugainst the
Germans by bombing the channel
ports and industrial cities ~f the

' interior,

In Syria, the French have opened
~a shooting war against their old
British allies.

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some ee

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Pressing a pedal operates a new

~soldering iron and feeds solder

from -a ree] to leave a workman~s

a free for his work. _

Number 7,000; Big.

Aosta, left. only. two areas of
Si; it ~of Haile

Champaign, Ml., and Pvt. Thomas

Sidne Pa Og~ NOt ee aia See anor

om ' Mistita, Ga (army. ~Alr_~

The 99th Pursuit. Squadron at Chanute Field, home of the nation~s
largest: air corps technical: school, has formed a giee club of 14 voices.
The above picture was taken when the glee club gave its first per.
formance at the field at an all.colored boxing program, Pvt William
P. Cobb, New York, N. Y., is director, The remainder are: back row
(left to right)~Pvt. * William McBride,. Atlanta, Ga.; Pvt. James Black.
stone, Annapolis, Md; Pvt Alexander Crawford, Dayton, 0.; Pvt, Lee
Young, Dayton 0; Pvt. James Jackson, Atlanta, Ga.; Pvt. James Webb,

Washington, Benton Harbor, Mich.

cont. row~Pvt. eon Ward, Memphis, Riders A Evt. ames Anderson,

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NASHVILLE~ (ANP)~ At the
corclusion of the five-day. celebration of the 75th anniversary of the
founding of Fisk university, L. Hollingsworth Wood, vice-chairman of
the university~s board of trustees
announced that $300,000 has béen
willed to the school for the erection of a building in honor of Erastus; Cravath, first Fisk vresident.
Paul D. Cravath, chairman of the
board of trustees at Fisk until his
death last July, stipulated in his
will that upon the death of his
wife,. the $300,000, be paid. the
school for the erection of a building in-memory of ~ father, Erastus Cravath;

In addition to this gift, the board
of directors of.the Congregational
and Christian churches have authorized.that $125,000, to be known as
the American. Missionary Association fund, be. used for work in religion. This sum will be+ matche
by the General Education board.
-Mr. Wood alse said that an anonymous gift of $100,000 for the establishment of a-professorship in the
department of religion would be
matched by the General Education

board. These gifts bring the pres
Fish ~s Endoutent~

Million

Announcements of the gifts were
made at the convocation ~ servic?
held in Fisk Memorial chapel at
which delegates from 72 of the naticn~s higher institutes of learning
were present. One of the speakers
for the occasion was John D. Rockefeller who declined an honorary
degree from the university because
of his family~s policy not to accept
gifts from institutions or individuals benefitting from their philanthropics. He said: ~I want to make
it clear that were I free to accept
it, there is no educational institutional of higher learning in the
country from which I would be
preuder to receive an honorary degree than Fisk.~

The United States exported
11,795 bicycles, 76 per cent more
than in 1939, last year, chiefly to
Cuba and Canada.

About 64 per dink of the Belgian
Congois expotts consist of mjnerals, chiefly diamonds, _ gold,
radium, copper and tin.

Bell Aircraft Drops Bar

Against Race Employment

~At Plant

Thirty Given Jobs

In Niagara Falls, New York *

jof further placements in the near

that places woulg be made for
them in skilled capacities.

~These develépitients at the Bell
plant brighten still further.. the
employment prospects of Negroes
in Buffalo~s defense industries.
Last Fall, it is recalled, the Ur.
ban League led a ~strong: fight
which forced school officials to
open their auto mechanics and
aviation mechanics courses to Ne
Name Dr.

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Tuskegee~ s Famed Dr. Carag. Fy
Named ~Greatest Humanitarian~

Atlantans Heard in Seng

Carver ef

~Humanitarian~

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.~(SNS)

Amid the cheers of thousands 0f

members assembled here for the
national convention of the ae te

al mb g Club Saturdey night,

George W, Carver, eminen~ a
kegee scientist, was given the club~s
plaque as the ~world~s - greatest
humanitarian~ and wes presented

& $1,000 check.: ~Dr. Carver, who attended ~the
banque. against the advice of
Tuskegee~s president, Dr. F. D.

Patterson, and his physician. in a
brief address forecast that ~after
the smoke of this ruin and destruction has cleared there will srise
the most marvelous civilization the
world has ever known.~

Dr. Carver was presented ~ the
Plaque by Johnny f Harris, natioral

|obtet. barker of the Variety. Cubs,
| tormed of thé
theatrical men. The organization
has for its purp.sé.. the. helping
of the nation~s needy-... $850,090 was.
contributed during the past tweélve
~months, it was reported.

~Pather S. J. Flanagau of ~Boy's
Town~- fame, New York City: in
responding to. Dr; Carver's address
dec that it was a ~great privi>~
lege to be here tonight to~ honor
this truly great American.~ ~~ 3

~Thank God,~ he gaid,. ~for a.
nation like America ~where ~it~
possible for a man to achieve; ir-.

tegardiess of. his his -race.
or his creed.~ ~~~
my setae - cereetian

ness, a citizens~ <ahichiier led by
Dean H. M. Smith of the Chicago
Baptist. institute Wedhesday went
down to the office of Daniel J.
Conerty, chief field deputy of the
internal revenue department, and

obtained a three weeks time exten
sion for Mrs. Annie P,. Malone,
Poro founder and president,

During the three weeks period
the committee will be alloweg to
work out a plan with Mrs. Malone
for raising the necessary fuhds,
and if found feasible by internal]
revenue: departmet heads a prob.
able further extension of 60 or 90
days will be granted.

A sud-committee selected by
Dean Smith when the Citizens~
Committee to Save Poro met with
Mrs. Malone Thursday morning~ is
composed of A. L. Foster, execu.
tive secretary of the Chicago Urban
league: the Rev. H. B. Hawkins,
president of the Baptist Ministers
Conference of Chicago ang vicini-.
ty; the Rev. A: Waymayn - Ward,
pastor of Greater Bethel ~ AME
Church; Mrs,- Nannie Reed, club

woman; and Carl Hansberry; real. |,
confer }
with Mrs. Malone, investigate the |

tor, This committee will

institution~s books, and make definite. plans to be presented to
Deputy Chief Conerty. Pending the

~Increase In

CCC Expected.

WASHINGTON, C.~An tat
crease in: the pape Be of Negra
youth in the CCC is anticipated in
the very near future, with a 13,.

This will bring the total enroll,

ment of Negroes in these camps te |.

* oe joking

tax defaults for. the past, five years,
it was not generally known.

the 41 year gid~ inst, onde
worth more than $1,000,000, was in?

was pointed out to Mr.~: Conerty by
the committee that Poro is more
than a business institution;~it ~is@ symbol to the Negro race of what
can be accomplished PY, Rn,
business.

For this reason, admittedly.
sentimental one,. the commits
feels that every ~ara should be
made to save Poro.

Proposed Beer~

designed to step the sale of.
~from Saturday night until
day morning is a yery direct
fo the personal ~liberties of |

if

nation~s. leading..

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