Brownsville Weekly News

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FLINT BROWNSVILLE NEWS, FLINT, MICHIGAN

_ SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1941,

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Pres. Brawley

Of Clark Gets
-Ph.D. Degree

Executive Gets
Recognition At
Northwestern U.

President,James P. Brawley of
Clark College, was the reqipient of
the Doctor of Philosophy degree at
Northwestern University at the
close of the summer session, it was
revealed Saturday. The doctor's
degree was awarded in administration, higher education and_ social
foundations.

President Brawley was elevated to
' the Clark presidency this year, hav~me served as dean of the college

and professor of education and re
ligious~ education from 1926 to the
time of the appointment and 4s a

~feacher of education and religious
education 1925-26.

The Clark executive received his
A.B. dégree from Samuel Huston
College. He spent a year at, the
University of Southern California
~ studying English, sociology and religion,=twe years at Northwestern,
studying religious education and
and education. He was awarded the
M. A. degree in 1925. After two
years of study of administration
and higher education at the University.of Chicago and one vear at
Northwestern, he was awarded the
Ph.D. degree.

Samuel Huston honored him with
the Ed., Sc. D. degree this year.

Dr. Brawley~s. dissertation was
~A comparative analysis of certain
factors in the dual educational system of Georgia, with specific reference to financial support, 1918
to 1938.~

Hospital
Closed To
Calif. Lady

ANGELES ~(ANP ~
Investigation in the constant refusal of General ~hospital attaches. to admit a local woman
into the hospital for an urgent
operation will be launched this
week. The investigation reSulted in.a disclosure made Monday by Miss Sadie Fowler
whose efforts to eriter the hospital since last February 7
have been of no avail.

Miss Fowler, suffering from
a stomach ailment, has made
several trips to the hospital
armed with letters from prominent physicians including one
signed by a Dr. Show, of the
hospital staff urging that she~
be admitted, she said, and in
spite of several treatments ~to
prepare her for an operation,
hospital attaches- steadfastly
have refused to admit her. ~

Her lengthy ailment has
handicapped her financial income and as & result she has

_ been forced to reside with rela
Believe Ru n-around
Given Race By The ~
Truman Committee
= St. Louis
Holds Hearing

oe ST: LOUIS~(SNS)~That the Truman committee is
| giving Negroes the run-around is the general opinion being

Group |

expressed by interested race persons here following the close

_Thursday, August 21, of a series of hearings on various
charges, with race leaders expressing the fact that Negro

workers are being purposely shut out of defense employment

| on account of race.

Outstanding of all is the story,

| presented briefly in a statement by; the two men, Elvin S. Mathews and
| Blyden Steele, only race members
of S4 Louis No.
| union, an A. F. L. affiliate, to the
| effedt that they have been def_ initely denied employment on the

1 Bricklayers

Small Arms plant, being constructed for the government by a
local concern, on a plus cost fee
basis, solely because they are Negroes. The affadavit submitted by
the men clearly shows the stand
taken by the employers, the union
and the O. P. M., in its helpless
miannet.
Representing the NAACP was
Attorney Robert L. Witherspoon
who notified the committee ~that
the local branch was considering
going to court to force the hiring
of qualified Negro workmen on de
Fair Rent:
Committees ~~

Rent increasessranging from 20
to 100 per cent-since October, 1939,
have been reported in more than
one hundred defense centers, ac.
cording.to Federal surveys and
thousands of letters. of complaint
received by OPM~s Rent Section.

To forestall rent gouging and
profiteering at the expense of the
national emergency, OPACS has
set up ~Fair Rent Committees,~
composed of local citizens, in communities where abuses are reported.~/To determine a reasonable rent
figure, each committee establishes
a basic ~Fair Rent Day~~....a date
on which local housing costs had
not yet been affected by the boom.

Given evidence of. profiteering,
the committee calls the landlord
and complainant to a hearing. If
the landlord complies with~ the
~qpmmitt'<~s recommenchtion, no
further action is taken. If he rejects them, full publicity is given to
his refusal. In additon, by aggreement with OPACS, the Defense
housing Coordination Unit will no*
list at its Home Registraton: Office
any property on which an unfair

Appointed.

price has been placeq by the landlord.

fense jobs. ~ es
Speaking for the general group
was Attorney Robert N. Owens,
chairman of the Negro Committee
~on National
Louis area, a group,composed of
150 race organizations which was
responsible for a huge protest rally at the City atditorium last winter attended by more than 7,000.

Representing the Interdenominational ~Alliance were the ~Revs.
James A. Bracy and Noah W.
Clark, pastors of First Baptist and
Lane Tabernacle C. M. E., respectively. The two ministers contend
that because of the size of the
congregations and the large sectors of the city they cover, that
they have been able to discern
that contractors. and unions are
using discriminatory tactics in refusing jobs to Negroes not only on
the Carr Square low cost housing
project for Negroes but in many
io filling national defense or
ers.

Columbus Perry, race building
contractor, told of his interesting
but disquieting experiences.

Just back from: an extended
tour, Arnold~ Walker, industrial
secretary of the St Louis Urban
League, told of the efforts of the
League to secure skilled jobs for
workers on defense projects.

Other representatives ~at the
meeting were John R. Steele, Richard jefferson, Fred Simms, the
Rev. Fred Hughes, Leyton Weston.
the Rev. E. W. Kelley, pastor of
Union, Memorial, A. Oliver Thornton; exalted ruler Greater St, Louis
Lodge I. B. P. O. E. W., Marcus
Murphy and Attorney Joseph L.
McLemore.:

Newspaper articles and editorials supporting the contentions of
the racial group were presented
by Editors J. E. Mitchell of the
Argus and C. E. Stovall of the
Call.

In the city, and present at some
of the hearings, was a quintet of
race officials from governmental
agendies, including a former St.
Louisan, Attorney Louis Clymer,
now with OPM; Clarence Johnson
and: Will Hill, representatives - of
the U. S. Housing Authority, and
Lieut. Lawrence A. Oxley and Roy
A. Ellis of the U. S. Employment
Service.

lota Phi Lamda Sorors In Seventh

Iota Phi Lambda sorority is meeting in its seventh annual conclave in St. Lotls with a record bseaking attendance from all parts of. the country, Among the leaders in

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Annual Conclave In St. Louis

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attendance are, left to right: Alice P. Allen, Alpha Eta chapter, dean of pledges, secretary to the president of Miles Memoria] college, Birmingham, Ala; Lucille Culpepper, Alpha
Kappa chapter, second vice-president, Columbus, Ohio; Margaret Harvey, Gamma chapter, journalist, employe of the hoard of education of the District of Columbia; Theodosia
Skinner, Epsilon chapter, northern regional directress, clerk probate court, Cleveland, Ohio; Fuschia Miller, Alpha Chapter, regional directress, auditing clerk, of Supreme Liberty.

Defense of the St.

9300,000

HAMPTON INSTITUTE, Va.
~~-(SNS)~A $300,009 Negro
hespital for Newport News has

been designed by William H. |

Moses, Jr., acting chairman of
the building contruction department of the Hampton Institute
Division of* Trades and Industries,

The hospital which, it is hoped,
will be constructed with federal
funds under the contemplated
Lanhan bill, will be called the
Whitaker Memoriai Hospital and
will replace the present, old and
overcrowded Whitaker Hospital.
It will be located, if finally approved by the government, at
Orcutt avenue and 28th street,
and will be a modern, fireproof
structure with a bed capacity of
124.

Mr. Meses had as his associates
in the designing of this building,
Benscn L. Dutton of the. Hampton Institute department as civil
engineer and Charles T. Russell
of Richmond, Va., as associate
architect. It is expected that the
Lanham bill will authorize a
$150,000,000 program of federal aid for important community
facilties in National Defense
Areas:, =e
OLD BUILDING
INSUFFICIENT

The present Whitaker Hospital
was built in 1915 and \is an ~old
frame building with a capacity
of cnly 50 beds. With the tremendous influx of population in the
Newport News area those hospital facilities have already proven inadequate, and the Hamptcn
Roads Defense ceuncil has approved the application for a federal. grant to build a new hosnital.

Mr. Moses~ plans call for two
majcr operating rooms, one minor
surgery rocm, and two obstetrical rooms. The hospital will have
12 private rooms and 56 semiprivate rooms according to present plans. A modern élinie and

Dark Lauguier....

BY OL HARRINGTON

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~Oh, brother dear, I want you to meet Mr. Bootsie, the gent I was teling you about, *

who Said he could -get-me a job singin~ with any of the large:

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Teacher Designs

Hospital

outpatient department are located in the basement of the building with special consulation anj
examination, rooms,

Dr. W. P. Dickerson, ~chairman of the Board of Directors of
Whitaker Hospital authonized
Mr. Moses to make the preliminary studies for the new hospital
for federal authorities in Washington. The plans have heen certified by the Boara of Directors
ef the hospital. by the Newport
News City authorities and the
Hampton. Roads Defense council.

YOUNG GRADS HELP

_ Also associated with Mr. Moses
in the preparation of preliminary
plans were two 1941 graduates. of
the Hampton Institute building
construction department, William
E. Streat nf Lawrenceville, Virginla, and George Gilliard of
Taylor, South Carolina.

An Associated Press release of
Tuesday, August 19 stated that,
among the few projects which
President Roosevelt approved for
federal grants under the Lahan
bill, was the grant for $348,000
for the consiruction of the new
Whitaker Memorial Hospital and
para romomenne ofthe old hospital.

NAACP Scores

Ft. Bragg On

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Recent Act

_Aims Criticism
At Authorities
Of Army Camp

NEW YORK~(SNS)~Leveling criticism at Fort Bragg authorities, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People drew a parallel between the ~case of a northern
white draftee who was sentenced
to 10 years and nine months at
hard labcr for refusing to clean
his quarters, and the case of the
military police there who bullied
and insulted Negro soldiers and
officers after the shooting of a
Negre private and a white sergeant August 6,

Sergeant Russell Owens was
acquitted last week for the shooting of Private Ned Turman in
the fracas on a bus bound for the
camp. Acquittal came from General Court from which there is
no appeal. Other military policemen, and white soldiers at the
camp who had a hand in _ the
round-up, disarming and insulting
of Negrces on the night of August 6, have not been punished.

The NAACP stated ~that if
such drastic punishment can be
meted out to a soldier for not
cleaning his quarters and _ for
~spitting on the floor,~ Fort
Bragg authorities shmuld be made
to explain their failure to prosecuté the Scldiers who swore at,
bullied, and i unnecessary indignities on fellow _ soldiers and superior officers.

"This is further evidence, said
the Association, that routine army procedure is not sati
or sufficient to deal with the~
sonditions arising from the conflict between colored soldiers

and prejudiced military and civ1 authorities in the south.

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Driver Jailed
For Roughing
Bus Passenger

Incident One

Of Many Listed
By N. A. A.C. P.

NEW YORK (SNS)~Because he
refused to give up his non-reserved
seat in the front of a Quaker City
bus to a white passenger, Charles
Edwards, member of the New York
Youth Council No. 1 of the NAACP
was forcibly ejected by the driver
and a bus dispatcher at the Quaker City terminal here August 18.
The driver has been arrested,

Edwards was returning on a
round-trip ticket to Camden, New
Jersey, where he is employed in a
shipyard. He had no reservation,
but was informed by the ticket
agent, 15 minutes before the bus
was to leave, that he could take
any available seat. At about two
ménutes before the bus was to
pull out, Edwards got on and took
@ vacent seat near the front. Immediately the driver told him to
move back, that a white passenger
was entitleq to that seat. Edg@vards
protested thatthe seat Was n
reserved and that he did not intend to move.

The driver told Edwards that he
would put him off the bus, and followed the statemeht by forcibly
ejecting him with the assistance of
the dispatcher. In the melee, Edwards~ jacket was torn and several
passengers remonstrateq with the
bus driver. Edwards~ formal complaint for assault led to the arrest
of the driver.

The hearing on the camplaint
was set for two oclock the same
day. Mrs. Edwards called the national office of the NAACP and
Attorney Donald Crichton was called to represent the plaintiff. Because Edwards~ two witnesses were
not available, the hearing was adjourned: until Monday. %

The incident is one of mahy reported to the national office concerning the policy of various companies operating out of New York
City to points above the jim crow
line in assigning colored passengers
to the rear of these buses. Further
action to remedy this condition is
planned by the NAACP legal staff.

New Marole Chief
Questioned As To
Race Appointment

NEW YORK~With the appointment of: Frederick H. Osborn to be
brigadier-general and in charge of
the Army~s morale division last
week, the National Association for
the Advancement - peepee sino

le made inquiries 0 e new
ae chief if he would appoint a
Negro on his staff, taking the position that recent outbursts in Fort
Bragg, N. C., and in Arkansas indicate the low morale in army
camps and point to the necessity
for immediate and sympathetic
treatment of the situation. 5

WASHINGTON, D. C.~(SNS)~
The National Negro Congress this
week asked President Franklin D.
Roosevelt to extend aid under the
Lease-Lend Act to Ethiopia. Congres officials pointed out in a letter
to the President that there was
grave danger to American. interests
from possible attacks by the Nazis!
on Africa fillowing their unsuccessful effort to invade the Soviet

Union. They asked that Negro pilots}

and quantities of material and war
supplies be shipped to Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia by way of
British Somaliland on the Red Sea
to enable Ethiopia to fight back
possible invasion attempts by either
Italy or Germany.

~It should be possible~, stated.
the letter, ~to send to Ethiopia
training planes and trained Negro
pilots to aid in establishing an
Ethiopian air force capable of combatting. any threatened attacks. It
should also be possible to send arms
and munitions in quantities sufficient to equip in modern fashion
a section of the Ethiopian ~Army.
And finally our government should
send a complement of Negro -doc
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Signal Corps =

Seeks Trained
Young Males

WASHINGTON, D. C.~(SNS) ~
From the War Department the
NAACP learned last week that the
signal corps is recruiting civilians
with certain qualifications for second lieutenants.

Seck Lend-Lease
Aid To Ethopia

tors, nurses, mechanics and other
technicians to aid Ethiopia in the.
same way as these services are
now. being rendered to Great Britain.~ <

Back To Georgia

MISS CARRIE LOUISE ADAMS
~popular Georgia State College
teacher, who will return to the
college for the September term after a year~s study at Columbia
University where she received the
Master of Arts degree. She attended public school in New York and
Spelman ~college, Atlanta. ate

Applicants must. have, a college
degree in electrical engineering.
with a specialty in radio communication or they must be electonic
physicists. They must be unmarried, without dependents, between

the ages of 21 and 35 years and.

able to meet the physical requirements.

Applications should be made by
letter to the Chief of the Signal
Corps, Washington, D. C., giving
name, address, age, technical qualifications and experience.

The NAACP is urging its branches to circulate this information in
their communities so that qualified
Negroes may apply.

PILGRIM HELPS
SISTER CHURCH

SOUTH BEND, Ind.~(ANP)~ The
Pilgrim Baptist Church of South
Bend, Ind., with its choir and a
goodly number of its membership,
journeyed to Chicago last Sunday
to take part in the reopening of
Olivet Baptist Church, Led by its
youthful pastor, Rev. John tL.
Branham, the Pilgrim group took
with it a financial gift of near!
$100 to do its bit in helping to rehabilitate the famous: Baptist in
stitution. More than 100 of Pil
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grim~s congregation made the trip.

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