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ELINT BROWNSVILLE NEWS, FLINT, MICHIZAN: ~These ~Scout Leaders Received Certificates Sunday ~

+ These Boy Scout leaders from. most of the Eastern and many of the
South Central state awarded their Sunday
after having completed a ten-day training course at Atlanta~s
Washington high school. The institute was sponsored by the Inter.

were certificates

racial division of the National Boy Scout Council in an effort tg im
prove the work being done among Negro boys.

Approximately 93

~scouters~~ attended the sessions. While in Atlanta they were housed
in tents on the Harper Field, just to the rear of Washington High.

~Force. Prexy

Technicians To
Hold Meeting

Pickens Speaker
On CBS Aug. 31

CLEVELAND, O.~(ANP) ~.of the best known men in Amer
Plans For

Unity Of Action |
Hope Of Meeting -

FLUSHING, New York-~(SNS)~Preparations are underway in New York, Washington and a number of other
cities in the country to assemble one thousand young people
in a National Conference of Negro Youth, it was announced
Saturday by Miss Winifred Norman of Flushing, New York,

National
Conference Being Mat

At Tuskegee
13th Session

To ~Begin Tuesday,
August 29

~TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, Ala.~
(SNS)~More than 300 trained technicians, students of technical~ collegés and -employes. of trained
technicians ofthe race will participate in the most significant meeting in the history of the National
Technic! Association when that
body convenes at Tuskegee Institute, August 29, 30, and 31 for its
thirteenth antWial convention.

The convention theme is:
~Trained technicians for National
Defense.~ Richard C. White, president of the NTA, has issued a call
urging all Bssociation members to
be present for the opening session,
Friday, August 29, at 2 P. M:, in
the William G. Willcox Trades
Building.

Carpenters, masons, plumbers,
and electricians will be interested
in: the national ~~~get-to-gether~~ because of the opportunity to hear
Calvin McKissack of McKissack and
McKissack, Negro construction Company, that is turning ~ architect
Robinson~s blue prints into hangers,
mess halls, shops, offices and bar-racks of: wood and steel almost
over night. McKiss3ck has firsthand information for a revealing
close-up of Negro technicians, good,
bad, and indifferent, in the building construction field.

| Young Negro graduates with the
signatures of their degrees in civil
engineering not yet dry~and many
not so young~will sieze the opporturity to attend the annual meeting of the National Technicians
to see in the flesh A. A.~Alexander,
@ Negro engineer who has done
e.two million dollar job for a state
university, built railroad bridges for
the traffic transcontinental steam -
Iined palace cars, sewage system
for cities whose Negro population
is negligible.

~James C. Evans. Natfonal secretary, who is on leave from his
duties as Head of Vocational Training at West. Virginia State College
to work -with OPM, announces that
Tuskegee meeting is ~One of ae
w. sessions to be held at one 0
te creat ~institutions of technical
training.~

~~@Gthers among those expected to
attend the national.meeting are:
Joni A.,
D. &.

Bishop R. R Wright, Jr., Ph. D.,
who has been named acting president of Wilberforce | University,
Ohio. Previously president of Wilberforce from 1932 until 1936, Bishop
Wright will serve this time for one
year while the board continues to
look for a permanent president. It
was the first time~ in the histery
of Wilberforce that both state and
church departments united in the
naming of the president,

Dean William Pickens, special as-; ica. His entire life since gradua
sistant t~ the Secretary of the U./tion from Yale

S.- Treasury and for many years
field secretary of the Naticnal
Association forthe Advancement
of Colored Peogdle, is to be the
speaker on ~~Wings Over Jordan,~
over the Columbia Brcadcasting

System, Sunday. morning, August

31, Rev. Glenn. T. Settle, director
of the famous radio program announced here this week.

Dean, Pickens, regarded as one
of the foremcst thinkers and

most effective~ orators in current: the naillions of | listeners. on

university. has
been spent in the fields.of educaticn and in the struggle for
civil rights for his group and
better living conditions for humanity.:

World traveller and as_ nearly
as anyone withi1. the race, an internaticnal figure, Mr. Pickens~s
appearance on the program. which
brings to the air the cream of Negnu thought and opinion is certa~'n to be a popular occasion with

Negro life, is also perhaps cone /~coas* ~eceust broadcast,

Meeting

Of Race

Leaders Canceled

NEW YORK~(ANP) ~ The
three-day conference of ~~the real
leaders, not the puppets~ of Neern; masses, to have been held
here Friday, Saturday and Sun
day, was called off Thrusday afternoon by Ccordinating Committee
with the
that the meeting wculd be post
for Employment, ~sponsors

brief announcement

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Miss Winifred Norman,
of the national committee;
has announced plans for the ago

wide Negro youth conpol Arges a vited all young people who wish to
volunteer for service on commitfinanting

the! ference In November. Miss Nor
man is a well] known
civic worker.

poned to the fall.~

Reason given was that, contrary to earlier reports, all of the
delegates who had been invited
could not have attended at this
time. They were to have, come
from such points as Miami, Atlanta, New Orleans, Los Angeles,
St. Leuis, Dallas, Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh and New Haven.

General reference was made to
the fact that many persons were
making preparation to attend
various conventions being held
elsewhere such as the Elks, the

fraternal and

medics, Baptists, dentists and
others,

Nathan Straus

May Leave USHA

Post Is Rumor

Administrator
Has Been Fair
To All People

SHINGTON, D. C. ~ (ANP)

be es in the administrative
offices of the United States Housing autherity now under the direction of Nathan Straus of New York

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are expected, although under the;

appointment Mr. Straus~ term

a leader of Deita Sigma Theta Sorority and chairman of the
Initiating Committee.

Leaders of youth ~ organizations
and adult sponsors from coast to
coast are respondiing enthusiastically, Miss Norman said, and. iending their names to the impressive
list of backers already secured for
the Conference. %

The plan for the Conference was
born on July 6th in Philadelphia
when more than a hundred young
people who are active members in
a wide variety of organizations in
all parts of the country, agreed
that the ~challense of international and national events requires of
Negro youth greater unity of
thought and action than ever before.~:

An active member of Delta Sig
Youth Leader

ma Theta Sorority and many other
civic groups, Miss Norman. declared:

~As Negro youth We have unlimited resources ~o contribute to
the struggles of our people for advancement and the national effort
of our. government to preserve democracy. We seek merely to make
our contribution on the basis of
complete equality with ail other
youth. Decisions affecting the future of our entire generation - are
being made on th battle-fjelds cf
Europe, in government halls and
industrial centers in our own land.
It is in the interests of demoracy
that we have a sav in making these
decisions.;
~Our afmy Will %~ a stronger inst:ument of
shameful discriminations against
Negro youth and the growing
abuses against Negy> selectees art
brought to an end. We pledge ourselves to this tass. Our great industrial plants, producing implements for the destruction of Hitlerism, will be doing the job halfway unless President Roosevelt~s
splendid executive order is given
immediate effect. Only if we win
jobs NOW in defense industries
and all phases of America~s worklife will we have any assurance of
security in the future. We pledge
ourselves to this task, too.

~And these are bit two of the
mafy problems which will make
this call to action imperative. Together with poll taxes, lynching,
questions of civil liberties and community welfare, they comprise the
conditions that Negro youth are
most ~anxious to work unitedly to

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" committees have. already
Bee
arations. The Conference headarters in New York City have in
tees relating to publicity,
cing, technical work,.
and speaking to write. to 137-62
Juniper Avenue, Flushing, New
York. The date and place of the
Conference are to be announced
with the issuance of the call.

Among those listed as members
of the initiating committee are:
Madison Jones, Youth Director of
the National Association for the
Advancement for Colored People;
Olivia Stokes, newly-elected Secretary of the Christian Youth Coun
-cil of North America; Hugo Men
tor, of the West Indies National
Council; Erline Morrison, a YWCA

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democracy if the |.

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Dr. J. M. Ellison, president of Virginia Union ~University, Richmond, is shown here with President F. D. Bluford of ~A. and T. College, Greensboro, N. C., after he had delivered the commencement
address to the summer graduating class of the Carolina college. The

degrees were conferred by President ~Bluford.

A program is underway to afford
the colored soldiers of Fort Riley
recipational facilities. cymparable
to those already enjoyed by white
soldiers in this arena. This program is being initiated by a colored entertainer, Wayne ~ Harshaw,
who is a representative of the
WPA recreation program for national defense. He comes directly
from Kansas City, Kansas, but has
been organizing recreation clubs at

Fort Leavenworth for the past
Helping Mr. Harshaw in _ this

work is Miss Evelyn Forney, 2
YWCA representative who is working conjunction with the USO. She
has accepted the job of bringing
girls to the colored dances.
Pending the completion of recreational facilities, - entertainment
will be staged on the outside. This
entertamment will consist ot

danwes, band concerts by the WPA

| fall and maxe mcre money.

J. L. B~1I feef that I would
like to take high school work at

poems and pick cotton during -
believe I can make money in.a

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care of ThE SCOTT

will see to it that she finds out
what real love is like.

P. D. S.~He and I got along
good before he started
big money. Now his friends have
turned his head and I feel like

Riley Recreation ~
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band, comedy acts, talent Ws,
et., and will be comprised of talent
taken from colored regiments in
the Fort Riley area.;
Mr. Harshaw and Miss Forney
plan to make their headquarters
in nearby Junction City. They
promise to develop their recreation
program there and to furnish the
colored soldiers of this area som2
soon entertainnisnt in the néar

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NAMING DEFENSE COMMITTEE
- DURHAM, N. C.~(ANP)~Formation of a National. Defense Vigilance committee to see that Negroes
secure equal training and jobs. in

taking

Insuranee association.

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W. J.~I had a girl friend and
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was going to write to me and I
want to know why she_ doesn~t
write me as she_ said she really
did love me and I want to know

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