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+ NEW YORK~Mrs.

Franklin D. Roosevelt,

National Music Week. Opposite hie in the New

wife of the President of the United States,
shdwn speaking over the National Broadcasting

York City studio is Jules Bledsoe, Negro baritone
who, with the Philadelphia N.Y.A.. Mixed Chorus,: Dh: made by Largston

Fhight Instructor.

~ Red Network~ May 11 to inaugurate

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q Tuskegee
Students Pass
Pilot's Test: Three Average. ~97; Nineteen |
i 'Okehed on Ground

truskegee Institute, Ala~ (SNS)
yenty-seven students

in~ Primary Civilian Pilot Training
Course at Tuskegee Institute were
given examination in ground work
nére Friday by Gerald D. Latham
off Washington, D. q. All of the

twenty-seven students who took
part in the examinetion passed.
The ~Class average was 93. ~Three

members of the cless. Faythe Mc
Ghnnis, Oklahoma; James Wright,
Ge@orgia, and Fleming F. Rose,
Virginia, each had an__ individual |
ivprage of: 97. *: ~
Qwenty studenis enrolled in
Sécondary Civilian Piiot training
copirse, took the ground school

expmination. Nineteen passed

al} subjects. The class average was

85,5. Individual high point average
Caidweil,

nver Colorado with an average
of, 90..
eorge Bolling,

Linkwood Williams

Hickman
Walter

Tully
and

LaWson ~came second with an av. |

erabé 6fF S$~. "The sécondary ground
elk culgatsins Was given by L. E.
M&rden; Ground School Inspector
ch A. 'A. Washington, D. Cc
Ground instructor fur the Primar;

Cirse at Tuskegee Institute is |

for the Sec.
Wiimot |

Jaseph T.. Camilleri;
ondary; Warren G. Varty

} aH Rhodes, Lewis A. Jackson anc |

Spseph T. Camilleri.. Li. Washington, director ol |
the division of Aeronautics stated

Mat he wes well pleas: with the
~ made. This is the fourth
up to complete the Primary anc

tiprd to complete the Secondary |

simce Tuskegee began Civilian
Pot training in October. 1939. un& the Civil Aeronautics Authori.
tv Five courses 19 civitian flying
e now in operation at the Tus.
k dee Airport:. Primary
Past Training, Secondary avillan
ot Training, Student (Apprent.
Loe poenebrartor: Commercial Refresher, ang Secondary Instruc.
te Refresher.:
Charls A. Anderson is the Chiet

get a chance to work as skil!

Motors To Give Race Jobs

Circular Discloses Dire

Need for Skilled Workers:

By ROBERT A. CRUMP
DETROIT~(ANP)~That Negroes might at long last
ed artisans in ~General Motors

| plants, on jobs heretofore denied them loomed over the past
| week as General. Motors corporation sent letters and qués| tionnaires to its 160,000 automotive employes telling them
| there is a crying need for many skilled laborers on defense
| production in its plants amounting to $750,000,000.

enrolled |

The letter implies that skilled
men within the plants will be!
given preference before more Men |
are hired. The letter says in part: |
~Every. possible facility of the cor. |

complete facts as to Men qualified
and available for special work we

are giving you an opportunity of |:

filling out the attached question_
nairé.~ |

|\Work Sale By Side

LONDON, aig SCAND) Spiele government policy is

to accept the services of colored people in aiding the war effort, according to Iver Cummings, native of Sierra Leone,
Africa, who is acting as liaison officer between the British

Colonial office and the:mitigtry of labor on behalf of a group |

of colored technicians who have arrived here from Jamaica,
B. W L, to take part in Great Britains war program.~

~All
now freely accepted among their
fellow-workers in the ~war effort,~
according to Mr: Cummings, who
is also ~warden of - the
House club here for students of

| African descent and who formerly

acted as adviser to the colorea
students in Great Britain.

SEGREGATION ABSENT

~The: government's.policy.--is. not.

ohe of segregation,~ he~ adds.~The
views of those who: favor segregation are only a personaj expression and ~do not reflect~ the -views
ot the government:'or of the people
as a whole: The acceptance..and
treatment of my. ~people everywhere in the services and in the
factories prove this.~

The club members ~of Aggrey
house include.A.R.P.. workers,
senior wardens, auxiliary fire service members and.ambulantice drivers~in fact, all-branches of. the
civil defense are represented. All
the services * are open to members
of the coiored races, any one of
whom ~can receive~ an officer~s commission if: he is competent ~ fulfill the requirements.

At present there are several colored officers~two in the infantry.
ome in.the Royal Army Medica)
corps and one in the Royal Dental corps. Babatunde Alkija who
is. training with the Royal Ai
Force is 2 Nigerian of noble birth

He will probably become an_ office:.

of one of the West African ait
crews. There are also three doctors; one dentist and several nurses
of African descent working
England.

HONORED AT LUNCHEON

~When the Jamaican technician:
arrived in response to British Labor ~Minister Ernest~ ~Bevin~s~ call

cO0l0red people are! Mackintosh,

Agerey |

ra

in |

Mivilian

poration that is needed must be |
used~buildings, tools, machines, |
etc. But the greater importance is |
the ~know how~ of the trained -per- |!
sonnel available for responsible |
positions, General Motors is for-'
tunate in having, so large a group}
of men with this practical train- |
ing.;

some of these; is that
' let down,
' ~Th order that We may have the

The questionnaire, which makes
no designation as to race lists a
great number of skilleg jobs.
how many colored men within the.
plants will be able to qualify for
jobs is, of course,
not known but the significant thing
-if the barriers are béing
it may offer a chance to
those who are prepared for special

for volunteers, the welfare officer
of that area met them and took
them to a special luncheon a!
which the local~ provost made 9
speech of wélcome. The senior
baillie for Scotland and Majo1

Just

work to break through when the
corporation brings in skilled men
from the outside.

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The Globe Trotter.

By Cliff Mackay

~Save The WPA

AS IF YOUR thus far unsuccessful effort to
smash the rigid color lines erected by industrialists and contractors against Negro workers is not
enough, a still more discordant note affecting your
| pitiful economic status is now being loudly: sound
ed in Congressional halls,
The same lineup of senators: and representa
| tives who throughcut the eight-year-old<history of:

| the New Deal have blindly and
| stubbornly fought a losing battle
| against the gocial gains carried
| forward by Mr. Roosevelt are
) waging a new campaign and it
| seems unless quick action is taken they will gin. this time.

Covering their actions with
the much. cover-worked theme of
| ~national, defense~ this group of
| congressmen, small in number,
| but loud in voice, are now turning all of their guns against: the
Works Progress Administration,

Their reasoning is that with all the increase
in empleyment, the WPA is no longer necessary.
The conclusibn of course, in your case, is not
| based on fact.

True large number of pecple have secured
jobs in the rapidly expanding defense industries.
| But for the most part this has not greatly affect| ed the bulk of persons who, through no fault of

their own, are now dependent cn the small wages
they obtain from WPA for thelr very meagre ex| istence,

MACKAY

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| It should be remembered that most of ~those
| securing jobs in defense industries are skilled.
| Many of them were employed before the defense
a and merely shifted from producing
consufer goods ~to making articles necessary to
|_supply the nations~ armed forces. The great pro| pertion of those~on WPA are unskilled, and as a
consequence have nct been integrated into jobs
created by the defense effort,;

A slash of WPA- funds: would therefore not
only work undue hardships on the Negrc workers,
hut most of the white now employed by WPA as
well.
This means that mot only Negro workers would
suffer, but those white classed~as unskilled, who
are obtaining support from WPA, would become
vietims.. All ~of the white skilled workers who -had
been. on WPA fer the most part have obtained
defense employment. But in the case of the Ne~gro his skill availeth him nothing, so far as jobs
in discrimination-bound factories are concerned.
Thus the: Negro still finds WPA. his last resort. and
sole barrier to starvation.

The congressmen who seek to remove this
last very barrier would certainly not be working

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in harmony with the President~s repeated calls for

national unity. How can there be unity when a
large percentage of the population is forced to
starvation?

The slashing of WPA would mean that this
large group of persons would be thrown back on
the local communities for support. And the past
experience that made necessary the creation of
WPA has definitely proved this ig a task which
most communities with limited revenue, cannot
perform.

Serious consideration, too, should be given before slashing the Works Progress Administration in
view of, how quickly this agency has turned its
efforts toward national. defense. Possibly no~ other
has done more to. speed up the nation~s frantic
move. to rearm itself.

WPA is building roads leading to army cantonments. WPA is grading wide areas of land to
make air bases. And most important of all WPA,
along with the NYA and the United States office cf Education is carrying on a widespread program of adult education, providing ~refresher
courses for those who have become rusty in their
skills and teaching others the various techniques
needed to handle industrial tools.

This is a vitally néedéed service, particularly
amcng Negroes who have not always had an opportunity to become familiar with these industrial
skills.

And too, it must be remembered that WPA
is just the starting point for these who ever since
the inception of the New Deal have been bitterly
opposed tc the social program it. advocated. Unless this effort to stifle those social~ gains is immediately halted, after q victory over WPA, this
same group of congressmen~ will soon be proposing
a drastic slash in the. National Youth Administration, closely followed by an attempt to do away
with the Civilian Conservation Corps.

All cf these agencies, the most effective
weapons the government has designed to combat
the wave of despair sweeping the youth of the nation
seven years ago, have now dove-tailed their program perfectly with the defense emergency.

Their dissolution would have a disastrous effect-not only on the defense effort,-but- on Negro
life!~ Make no mistake about that. To resist the
efforts: of these short-sighted congressmen. to knife
these agencies, therefore, would not bea purely
selfish move on the~part of Negroes, And resist
them we must. - -

~The desks cf President. Roosevelt,. John M,
Carmody, administrator..of.the Federal Works
Agency and your. representatives and senators -in
Washington should be flooded with. letters.pro
testing this attempt to curtail and possibly do
away with WPA until the way has-been.cleared
for private employment to-absorly-the-large number of people who- would-be be left without any means
of support.

There should be no delay in sending these
letters as the matter is now ignite coniered: br

Congressional committees, Write at once,

who is~*Mr. Bev\4)~s
prgge in + RooRmaene, also entertained~ them

Hach believes Was employee
immediately, and from the ouset
enjoyed the status of a trades unionist. In the factories,
many of these colored worker:
have joined special units of the
home guard and. air raid precautions, they toil side by side with
Britons in whose homes they receive hospitality~ during

hours,

Commissions ~
In Army Given
300 Race Medics

Two Officers Of
NMA Have Gone
Into Service ~

NORFOLK, Va.~.SNS)~The
Negro in America is really doing
his share in America~s great emergency.- Additional evidence that
the nation~s colored brothers have
not failed in the crisis was shown
this week when the files~ of the
National Medical Association revealed that over 300 eolored doctors had volunteered for~ the
United States Army
Corps since the beginning of the
vast Selective Service Program.

This item of. evidence was added to the rapidly growing list
of patriotic contributions of the
race by Dr. John T. Givens, gen.
eral secretary. of the National
Medial Association in an announcement issued from his office here this week. Dr. Givens,
who is in the midst of preparations,for the 47th annual. convention of the NMA in Chicago,
August 18-22; has received many
letters from physicians who have
been assigned to the medical
corps to-serve units of the Army
at stations all over the country.

The general secretary pointed
out that *through recommendations from = its president, Dr.
Vaughn of St. Louis, several] Negro physicians ~have been granted
commissions in the United States
Army.

The Association itself must
handle some of the important
phases of its annual convention
this year. without: the services of
some of its key officeholders who
have gone into the service of the
country. Among them are Dr. A.
C. Terrence, of Opelousas, La. assistant secretary, and Dr. William
E, Allen, of St. Lovis director of
exhibits.

Dr. Givens gave a brief outline
of the. highly interesting program
for the annual meeting which
will be held at DuSable High
Schcol and at Provident Hospital
in Chicago during August.

Fla. F ederation:
To Hold Its 33rd
Meeting In June

WEST PALM BEACH Fila~
(ANP)~The Florida State Federation of Colored Women~s Clubs,
one of the most active state grvups,
will hold its 33rd annua] convention at Ocala, June 8.

Mrs. Fannie Kerbo_Smith, corrésponding secretary has announced

that two projects of the federa--

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ducted into the United States Army at Fort Benning, Ga., these youthful draftees, shown checking i
in ~their temporary bedding, are getting ~y to | is from Alabama.~(SNS~ Staff Photo.)

days being in
leave for Fort Bragg, N. C., where they will be
permanently assigned as members of the 76th and
77th Coast Artillery regiments, Mast of thig group

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Migration May
Even Increase,
~Says Dr. Stouffer

CHICAGO~(ANP)~ Deciine of
job opportunities for Negroes in
southern~ agriculture and a. higher
relief. ~standard in ~the North
caused the net migration of 403,000
Negroes from southern states in
the 1930-40 decade, according to
Dr. Samuel A. ~Stouffer, professor
of socioiogy af the University of
Chicago, who has just completed
a study of new census date.

Dr. Stouffer asserted that if the
defense program offers new job
opportunities to Negrées in the
North, the flew northward ~may
be expected to continue and even
increase.~

The recent migration was not as
gteat as in either of the two
previous decades. In 1920-30 the
figure for the country was 682,000,
while from 1910, tc 1920 the totai
was 439,000. Lowest figure for the
century was 171,000 for 1900-10
These figures represent migrants
15 years old or more at the end of
each decade.

~In the two decades before the
depression Negroes left the ~South
by the hundreds of thousands to
find jobs.in northern industry.~
said Dr. Stouffer. ~The curtailment of foreign immigration created a labor shortage in northern
factories which Negroes could fill.
The depression, however. hit the
Negroes harder _than any otner
ethnic (racial) group in the North,
but still they swarmed north.

~Several theories might. be advanced to account for this movement. One is the possibility that |
the Negro Ras been losing out in |
southern agriculture. Another is
that relief itself was an attraction. The Nezyo in the-South did
not~ receive any such relief bounties as were handed out in the
North.~ |

tion.will receive special attention |
this. year: the student loan fund, |
and the activities of the state Fed. |
eration of Colored Girls sponsored |
by the parent organization.

State president Mrs. A. G. Mick_ |
ens, has been working all year |
with the junior department. j

Says Relief Drew 403,00C
North During Past Decade

Delaware. Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri and the District of Columbit~border states~-got 76,000 of

the: 403,000 migrants with the
northern and ~western states getting the remaining 327,000 of which
44,000 came to ~

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Foes Would Bury ~

Senate Ru

NEW YORK~(SNS)-~Forces

opposing Senate~ Resolution 75
are working hard to. have it
smothered, it was learned _ this

week by the National Association
fer the Advancement of Colored
People. The resolution proposes
an investigation into discrimination against. the Negro~in the defense program.

Efforts are being made to side
track the issue of racial bias by
ineluding the resolution in the
work of the Truman Committee

Put Something In
His Head, Father

~Pleads With Teacher

PHILADELPHIA~(ANP) ~

~Stop peeping info my boy~s
mouth and put something in his
head,~ was the brusque comeback from a Philadelphia father
last week when a teacher sent
a note home~ saying that the
child needed medical attention.

The school doctor had examined the child and the fetter
followed. ~Papa~, who doesn~t
like doctors, was sore and ~he
wert to the Smith Elementary
school of Which George!.yle is
principal.

~Nothing is wrong with my
sen,~ he told Mir. Lyle. ~The
trouble ~with you people is that
you spend aH your time peeping into the children~s mouth<
and having them say ah! ~a-a-h!

"ang don~t do nothing about putting something in their head!~

which would hear only four or
five witnesses and where the importance of S. R. 75 would be
lest.

Delayed in the Senate Commit
tee on Labor and Education, the
resolution was expected to have
been ~reported to the Senate ~tor
action before this time. ~

It is important that every person who is-concerned about the
run-around the Negro is being

given in the matter of jobs, vo~ _

cational training, and integration
into the armed fcrees, send~ im:
mediately strong telegrams ~to thé
Senate Labor and Education
Committee, headed by Senator
Elbert D. Thonas,

fail immediately to the Senate.

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panionship, ~Money, Gambling, |
Drinking, Employment.~ Help

Guaranteed. Send 25~ Coin. Dr,

Rodney, 3451 So. Michigan, Chif
eago, Illinois.

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