Brownsville Weekly News

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VILLE NEWS, diem.

~SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1941.

They Make Selective Service Plans

Roosevelt for the general plans of the Selective
Service Administration which has just completed the

Above is the National Advisory Committee | second registration of men fer defense training. They
on Selective Service that is responsible to President | are from left to right: Col. Wm. H. Draper, Jr.

Wayne Coy, Channing H. Tobias, Frederick Osborn,
chairman; Floyd W. Reeves and Joseph P. Harris.

Urg e Naming Of NegroesOn
OPM~s Investigating Unit

NAACP Encouches Suggestion

In Convention Resolutions

HOUSTON, Tex.~(SNS)

dent~s executive order banning discrimination in defense industries~ were objected to in resolutions passed by delegates
from 36 states at the closing meeting of the 32nd NAACP
conference here Saturday, June 28. Los Angeles, California,
was named as 1942 convention city.

The resolution dealing with the executive order stated
that the government has taken a step in the right direction.
It was suggested that in order to prevent certain states from

~ avoiding obedience to the order,
be adopted to set qualifications for employment.

- URGE NEGRO MEMBERS
It was also pointed out that there. was nothing in the order which
would make it apply to plants now
- operating under government con* tract. The third and strongest ob* jection was to the complete failure of the decree-to touch the matter of discrimination in the arm
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~ Weaknesses in the Presi
firm federal rules should

ea forces.

The resolution recommended that
the committee of five to be attached to the Office~ of Production
Management to hear and act upon
complaints of discrimination include Negro members.

Other resdlutions passed blasted

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WASHINGTON, D. C.~(SNS)~
' President Roosevelt was asked by
* the National Negro Congress to
~ take steps to prevent the War De~ partment from distorting the, ~meaning of his recent executive; ~order abolishing discriminations, against Negroes in defence indus~gry, following an investigation of a
166-million-dollar contract which
* the War Department let. to the
~Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Company
~five days after the President~s order
~was announced.
According to War Department
~Officials the contract: contained no
~ ~lause stipulating that workers must
' pe hired regardless of race, creed,
4 bier. or national origin, because
~f the contract was ~discussed~ prior
_ to the issuance of the President's
~order and therefore was not bound
Peby it. With the mew order the
~company~s defense contracts now
total more than 616 million dollars.
ex -The request for action by the

b President was contained in a tele-\

ram sent to the nation~s Chief

ecutive. The telegram said~ in
~- Part:
-~On June 30 the: War Department announced that a_ contract
for construction of aircraft had
been signed on that day with the
Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Company
and that the amount to be received by the company would be $166,261,526. We have been advised both
by Major Holland in the office of
~ the anna oD of War, and
+ by Colonel W. F. Ballant, in the

- * Procurement Division of the Army
~ Air Corps that this contract con4 tains no provision such as demand@ ed by your Executive Order.

~ ~We are advised that officials of
the War Department contend that

~any. contract upon which any dis*~ ~cussion~ has been held prior to your
& order is not subject to the provision
against tion. If this interpretation of the phrase ~hereafter negotiated~, is allowed to

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placed concrete has been developed by the Bureau of Standards,
Department of Commerce.

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No Jim Crow Order

stand then it is clear that contracts not yet signed amounting to
billions of dollars may be authorized without any protection against
discrimination. We cannot believe
such an interpretation is within

either the letter or the epee of
your executive order.~

Congress~ failure to pass the ~antilynch bill, condemned the murder
of Bob White and called upon justice, demanded action on the lynching of Private Felix Hall at.Fort
Benning, Georgia, urged passage
of federal legislation outlawing the

the polt tax and regulation pri
maries, called for more slum cléatance funds. }

Efforts of Negro trade unionists
to gain full integration of race
workers into labor. unions were
highly praised. Workers were urg~q to join unions wherever possible. Ay
RAP SEN.. BYRNES f

~We applaud the slow but steady
growth of consciousness of American workers toward the realization that white labor will never
be free until all labor is free,~ the
resolution stated..

Senator Jamés F. Byrnes~ appointment as associate justice of
the Supreme Court was called ~unfortunate at this crucial period in
the life of the nation.~ The hope
was expressed that he, we rise
to the heights of judicial -
ship recently attained by _dustice
Hugo L. Black.

The work of the slewichsae
Washington committee was _ endorsed by the conference.

A demand that Congress include
domestic and agricultural workers
under the wages and hours and
social security laws Was made and
the whole system of tenant farm:
ing deplored. ~

The conference pledged a continvance of the fight against discrimination in. all tax-supported
institutions and for equal facilities and equal pay tor Negro and
white teachers.

~- BROWNS

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Another White

{Texan Shoots

Negro In Back

70-Year-Old
Farmer Shot After
He ~Talked Back~

(HOUSTON~(ANP)~ The wave
of shooting Negroes in the back
ecntinues in this section of Texas.
Mayes Ca'rmichael, 10-year-old
farmer, was shot fatally this week
by Robert Charpiot, white farmer,
who accuses the Negro of calling.
him a liar, Carmichael~s sons told

white man a liar after the white
man had called him the same.

Two shots fired from a.22 rifle
~struck the elderly man in the back
as he ran down a highway. According to the sous, in an ~argument the white man called the
colored man a liar and the colored
man retorted ~vou~re another~. The
white man then returnéd to his
home seized the rifle and fired the
fatal shots while Carmichael was
running away from him.

Despite the killing the slayer was
not lodged in jail immediately. A
justice~ conducted a~ perfunctory
inquest, permitted the killer to
deliver himself to the sheriff and
make a statement.

This is the third killing of a
Negro by a white man in the past
few months, in this section of the
state. Bob White was killed in a
courtroom recently and a colored
man by the name of Jack Oattes

ing ~April. None of the killers has
been punished.

Twenty Hurt In
Philly Riot

ELPHIA~(A N P)~Following ea pe of a 14-yearold Negro boy a m
swimming pool by a group of white
boys, a race riot ensued in~ which
more than 20 persons were hurt,

It.is said that ill feeling has existed since two Negro life guards
were assigned last week for full
time duty at the pool which is located between a white section and
Negro community of 87,000.

Three white boys were slashed
in a fight in which fists and knives
were used. When the pool was clos
dic outbreaks occurred about the
streets, with the belligerents
wielding. milk bottles, bricks, stones,
baseball bats and pikers.

Fifty police cars and_ several

[Th he Globe Trotter.

By Cliff Mackay

STRANGE IT IS how history,
traveling in constantly changing
cycles. oftimes repeats itself. The
crisis that grips the world today
is a repetition of similar historymaking events of past eras. Twe
decades after the first World Wa

same direction
once again.
Hitler~s hordes
travel the same
road to Moscow
that proved sc
disastrous in
1812 to an earlier would-be ruler of the world
One _ instance

MACKAY
part it has gone unnoticed. Twentyfour years ago a migration that in

for

comparison made the ~Oakies~
shift to California in the 30~s look
like small stuff occurred. Thousands
~eupon thousands of Negroes, grown
tired of being exploited and denied
the rights of citizenship, left the
South and moved into the industrial areas of Ohio, Michigan.
Pennsylvania, New York, -Tilinois.

The United States had entered
the war and the shutting off of
sources Of European emigrants
caused a shortage of common labor
in the nation~s big industrial centets. Labor agents began flocking
South offering black men wages
unheard of in their lifetime. Whole
families uprooted themselVes from
Mississippi,
Georgia, Tennessee and moved + ae
Nawth,~

PLANTERS BECOME FRANTIC
| Railroads cashed in, offering low
excursion rates. In a single year
the Negro population of Chicage

|} leaped more than 400 per cent. New

York became a focal point of othe:

ar P the 200,000 point.
The migration became so wholesale that Southern planters were
getting frantic. Negro workers whc

hall~ Boch toe ict victims of cruel ex
we find ourselves traveling in the.

Alabama, Florida |.

thousands swelling. Harlem to be- |, ae

Halting The Migration

ploitation and peonage were begged
to stay. The states hurriedly passed laws seeking to control the
activities of Northern labor agents
All sorts of stories went the
rounds about how unscrupulous
methods were employed to keep the
formerly despised black man ~dowr
on the plantation.~ In one Georgie
county, so one of the stories goes
armed ~posses~ were formed by
irate planters to drive out labo
agents. In another the sheriff was
said to have stood guard at the
railroad station preventing any Negroes from purchasing tickets.

History repeats itself. Negroes
are moving northward once again
as industries begin opening wider
job opportunities. The difference is
the movement has not grown yeti

into the wholesale proportions ol
the last migration.

SHORTAGE OF LABOR

Once again efforts are being made
through ~law to keep thése ~people
seeking to better their economic
lot from seizing these opportunities in more lucrative fields.

So acute has become the shortage of labor that the sheriff oi
one Georgia county has taken it
upon himself to place under arrest
every able-bodied man, who ik
not working and force him to take
a job. Pleas are sounded that people be cut) off the WPA which pays
37 cents an hour, so that they will
be at the mercy.of Southern labor
exploiters at eight cents an hour.
as it was discovered one ~laundry
in Macon, Ga., was paying. -

Now Georgia's director of the bureau of tnemployment compensation, J. E. B. Stewart, charges that
other states are

leas be convicted and other agent

THE WRONG APPROACH

Mr. Stewart is plainly tackling
the problem of halting the migra
tion of Georgia~s needed labor
from the wrong end. His efforts
resemble a man trying to hold

back a flood with a tissue paper
dam.

The more logical attack would be
ta make wages, hours, and working
conditions more attractive to labor
in Georgia. That. would be the
most effective defense against the

sabotage work of labor agents.
Most of the men now leaving prefer to remain in their native state
if they were insured of obtaining

anything approaching just. compensation, for their labor.
Cotton is going up, Cottonseed

oil leaped to a fifteen-year peak ot
13 cents per pound, an increase of
100 per cent in four months, yet
adamant Southern planters are
not willing to share these increased
profits with those who produce the
cotton. Food and clothing has
sky-rocketed more than 29 per
cent; yet. a farm laborer is supposed to still be able to get along with
fifty cents a day.

WORKERS GET $1.50. Georgia is a lumber producing
state. Saw-mills dot the state from

increase building program brought
about by the national defense
emergency, lumber is in demand.

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was killed by a shotgun blast dur- |

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DOCTOR ATTENDS
N.C. MOTHER
FOR 18 BIRTHS

CHAPEL HILL, N. C.~
(ANP)~Both Mrs. Sandy
Patterson and Dr.
Lloyd, white physician, are
claiming some sort of record. | 5

Recently Dr. Lloyd attended Mrs. Patterson in
Chatham county and helped bring into the world)
her 18th child, 15 of whom
are living. There were 12
beys and six girls. Dr.
Lloyd delivered every one
of the 18 children.

Black | |

Negro in national defense.

The Courier editorial charged the
NAACP with ~selfish leadership~
and singled out Walter White, N
A. A. C. P. secretary, for a bitter
personal, castigation.

The N. A. A. C. P. statement

Report 3Lynchings
For First 6 Months

TUSKEGEE, Ala~(ANP)~Three
lynchings took place during the
first six months of 1941, according
to the semi-annual report released
July 1 by Dr. F. D. Patterson, president of Tuskegee institute.

~All of the persons lynched were
Negroes,~ his report reveals. ~The
offenses charged were attempted
rape, stealing from employer and
altercation with a white man.~

They took place at Quincy, Fla.;
Blakely, Ga., and Gastonia, N. C
However North Carolina _ officials

prefer calling their reported lynching a ~murder~ and have convicteo
and sentenced the white persons
involved. i

It took place on Sunday, April
13, when Robert Melker, 23 yea
old farmer, was shot and killed at
his home following a rock fight
growing out of an argument with
four white boys, Graham and Haywood Dellinger, Robert Sellers and
Fred Hudson. Within 10 days they
were sentenced to prison terms
tanging from 14 to 25 years, which
they are now serving.

Fish Reports For
Duty At Ft. Bragg

{ Pea has erie N. C~(A N P)
~Col. Hamil a special
ist reservist and: ages: eles ~from
pot York, reported for 26~ days
active duty with the army at Fort
Bragg early Wednesday morning,
arriving by train from his office in
Washington.

Col. Fish served with a _ regiment of Negro tfoops in France
during the World war and, at his
own request, has been assigned to
duty with colored troops while on
duty here. He will serve initially
with the 4lst Engineer regiment
commanded by Lt. Col John E.
Wood and is expected to also sez
duty with Fort Bragg~s two colored regiments of anti-aircraft
coast artillery during his tour of
duty here,

After reporting for duty, Col.
Fish visited the command posts of
both the 4{ist Engineers and the
Ninth division who have been engaged in field exercises for the
past three days, preparatory to
large scale army mameuvers later
in the year.

~en.,

hundred patrolmen hurried into
the troubled zone in answer to six
riot calls.

Col. Fish expressed himself as
delighted with Fort Bragg and said
the ~climate here ~is ideal for
training. He
summers in the south are hot,
~most important battles have~ been

' fought between April and Novem
ber and the training afforded the
54,000 troops stationeq here this
~Summer should therefore prove of
great value.~

Seize Big Quantity
Of Illegal: Liquor

ATLANTA, Ga.~(SNS)~ ~

Radio Patrolmen W. D. Nash and
E. V. Forrester late Saturday
seized an autemobile containing 130
gallons of illegal whiskey. The officers said they found the car..in
front of. 739 Cairo Street, Booked
on suspicion of being in charge of
tne liquor car were two men listed as Paul Johnson, 32, alleged
driver, of 5041-2 Dover Street, SW,
and James Barnes, 26, of 157
Chapel Street, SW. Both men were
hooked*on disorderly ~conduct~-whiskey charges.

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To Editorial

NEW YORK CITY~(SNS)~In reply to an editorial in
the Pittsburgh Courier attacking it for blocking the hearing before the Truman committee in Washington, the National Asscciation for the Advancement of Colored People | ~
Saturday issued a statement declaring that. the Truman| ~
hearing represented ~a frenzied and hasty attempt~ to
dodge a real investigation into discrimination against the

| bor #0. table 8. Be ~1 in: view of
pointed out that ~while | Fay ci

gave the history of the attempts to
get the Senate to investigate discrimination last February 13, and declared that the only
reason the. Truman committee
scheduled hearings for June 30 and
July 1 was because it hoped to head
off the scheduled March-on-Washington.

SEEK OTHER WITNESSES

The N. A. A. C. P. statement also declared that the plans for the
Truman hearing called for Negro
government employes ~and a few
outsiders~ as the only witnesses
whereas an adequate investigation
demanded the inclusion of many
other witnesses.

It was explained that Senate Resolution 75, providing for the appointment of a committee of eight
senators to make a full and complete investigation into participation of Negroes in all industrial and
other phases of the national defense
program, including education courses and apprentice training, was introduced into the Senate
months ago.

BYRNES OPPOSES MEASURE

The introduction of the resolu- | 4%

tion and favorable action on it
were bitterly opposed by certain
senators, led by James F. Byrnes
of South Carolina. In spite of the
opposition, S. R. 75 was favorably
reported by the Senate sub-com
mittee on April 24 which forced its | |
enemies to devise some other means |

of sidetracking ~the issue of Negro
discrimination.

They -succeeded in _getting the
Committee on Education and i

having it
man investigating ~ J
Truman committee ~was git: hee
~to investigate the allocation of contracts in the defense ~ program.
Senator Truman had told the N.
A. A. C. P. that his committee was
so swamped with work that it
could not possibly consider~ discrimination until mid-summer or
later and that even then his committee could hear only two or three
witnesses.

The statement continues, ~It ~ts
the NAACP~s position then and now
that discrimination against the Negro is so widespread and so enormous an issue that it should not be
tacked on as a minor appendage to
some other issue but shoiild. be considered on its merit. We are convinced that the Negroes of the
country feel the same way. THAT
IS WHY WE OPPOSE THE FRENZIED AND HASTY ATTEMPT TO
COMMENCE HEARINGS ON
JUNE 30.:

~PREPARATIONS NOT ADEQUATE

~No adequate preparation had
been made by the committee. | It
was planned to hold brief hearings
at which a few Negroes would be
permitted to talk about discrimination. The principal witnesses were
to be Negro government employees,
with a few outsiders.~

It continues, ~It is tragic for the
Negro that an influential paper like
the Pittsburgh COURIER should,
wittingly or unwittingly, play right
into the hands of the Persons in
Washington who alarmed by the
country-wide protests of Negroes
against discrimination, would
to silence our people by giving them
a brief and perfunctory hearing.~
UNITY STRESSED

~The plight of the Negro is. sv
desperate and the destiny not only
of Negroes now living but of future
generations is so. important that we
must not let personal ambition of
any group, individual or institution
jeopardize the welfare of the race.

No isa! Warko?

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Mrs. Mildred Carmichael Smith,
who was awarded the Master of
Social Work degree last month from
the Atlanta University School* of
Social Work, has recently been appointed case worker for the Fulton
~~ Department of Public Welare. Mrs. Smith is the
of Mrs. Hattie Cuemutncd Sat oa
wife of Joel W. Smith, noted sports
writer, and instructor at Booker T.
Washington High School. She is also a graduate of Atlanta University
and was actively engaged in the
teaching profession for a number
of years prior to her decision to se~eure graduate training in social

work.

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wile been appointed assistas
lattorney general of Ilinois
torney General George. F. int A
who took office in January.
Blakey, long active in Republican
politics, has also attracted. wide
attention for his numerous _ civil
fights victories on behalf of the
Chicago Branch NAACP.:

Invests $5,000.

In Govt Bonds

MEMPHIS~(A N P)~Although
George Lee, World war vokaratt aia and
author has passed the age for military service, he has demonstrated
his eagerness to help in the national emergency by investing ~$5,000
in national defense bonds.:

During the first World war, Lee
was sent to the officers~ Sainte
camp in Des Moines, Ia., when he
pushed up his age and volunteer
ed.. There he became a _ lieutenant

and spent. nearly 13 months~ zs
France where he was cited.
bfavery in the. Argorine and
Battle of Bannarville.

Lt. Lee is now engaged in the
insurance business. He said when
he withdrew $5,000 of his parines
and purchased defense bonds:

| think every citizen should be a

fense conscious and give every aid
possible to make our nation sécure

against the great wave of autocracy |

that sweeps over 4,000 miles of
ocean and is now crashing sullenly at our shores.~

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as to how accurate and just is the
Pittsburgh COURIER~S charge of
~weak, selfish, hypocritical leadership.~ We believe the 32-year Téc
~The NAACP leaves to the judg)ment of the people of the country

ord ~of the NAACP is sufficient an
swer to such a charge. rv

~Native Son~ Folds:
$36,000 In The Red

NEW YORK~(C)~Native Son~,
the only four star play on Broadway, suddenly closed last Saturday.

beginning a radio prises on the
rational hook-up désigned ~solély
to hetp Negro pre S dteren ~

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