Brownsville Weekly News

- University.-for

PAGE TWO

pre ee ee ae ae ee + te?

mee
a
es
i
}

eWstee. sea le ene
Smiling Over That Sever Millions

___.\ SAPULA, Okla.~Willie Mayweather, left, and
his brother, Floyd, packing plant workers, who in
~

Minnehoma Qil Companies, defendants in a law
suit, te pay the heirs cash, which represents cash

herited seven millioe dollars cash, when District | pn; royalfies on cif and gag produced from,..the

Judge V. O. Beavers ordered the Sinclair

awarded cash.

and | land cf Mrs. Ozra Alexander Lee, who also was

Dr. Ernest Just, Noted ~

WASHINGTON, D. C..~ Dr.
Erriest Everett Just, international:
ly Known scientist and head of: the
Department of Zoology at Howard
twenty-six years,

s buried Tuesday at Lincoln
emetery here. He died Monday
ternoon at the home of his sis-, Miss Inez Just; 1846 Third
treet, Northwest, after an illness

several weeks.

i Dr, Just was outstanding mainly
Because of his researches in the
Biology of the ce~l, which he exjerimented with over a period of
years in an effort to exploit the
iddie of life. He won an interational reputation for his re> ora werk in leboratories in Italy. ~
nce, and Germany where he rethained for eight years.

For distinction gained in connection with studies on the origin
of life, he was.awarded the Spingarn Medal mn 1915. For twenty. years he spent his summers in research at the. Merine Biological
Laboratery, Woods Hole, Mass.
~NOTED AUTHOR
~Moré than fifty Scholarly papers
have been published based upon

researches, and he proved himelf to be an efficient writer in

sb books ~General Cytology~ and
~Jerome ~Alexander~s Colloid Che
} ~? published in 1934 and
respectively.? Together with several well:

Rnown scientists, in 1924, he pubiished an outstanding -treatise on
ystology, Later he was chosen ~by
he leading biologists of Getmany
s the best fitted. among the
world~s scholars to write a treatise
n fertilization. He was. also one
f the editors of the international
gjournel, Protoplasma, and of the
offiial organ of the Marine Biological Society,

faT HOWARD 34 YEARS

2

i Dr, Just was a member. of the
_staff at Howard University for 34
p years. He was born in Charles* # tion, 8,C.in*1883 where he received
this @lementary education, He
fgraduated from Dartmouth college
sin 1907 and received his Ph. D.
[degree from the University of Chicago in 1916.

j The professor was vice-president,of the American Society of Zooj ogists, 1930-31, and at~ his death

Rasses. In eh

E
i

s

g

tae. died. illpoe a ee
jreputation for his ~research work
~in the.biglogy of the cell as a re| ait sf his work in laboratories in
Italy, Jtance,.Germany ané. at.
Ca ete
Fraternity,? é

_ Biologist Was
Howard Faculty
Member 34 Years

was a member of the following national and. international lesrned
societies:

American Association ox Zoologists, American Society of
Naturalists, American Society of
Ecologists, Washington Academy of
Science, and a foreign member of
the Mathematical.and Natural
Science Society of France,

PHI BETA KAPPA
HONOR MAN

Dr, Just was-also a Fellow of the
Amerian Association for the Advancement of Science, and was an
associate editor of several pvublications on. science, He was a _ Phi
Beta Kappa honor man, a membe1
of Sigma Xi, and one of the.found-.
ers of Omega Psi~ Phi fraternity.

Scientist, Dies In D. C.

the professor taught. besides science, Latan, Greek and History, He
is' considered a pioneer Negrc
scholar jn his field.

REV. JOHNSON
OFFICIATES

Funeral services were heid at
nocn Tuesday at McGuire~s Funera]
home with the Rev. L. Z. Johngon, a former colleague of Dr, Just
at Howard University, officiating
Dr, Charles H. Wesley, dean of the
Cirdauate School, delivered the
eulogy and obituary.

The pallbearers were:

Dr, Percy Julian, Dr: Abram L.
Harris, Dr. Ralp~ J.- Bunche, Dr.
Alain Locke, Dr. J. Leon ~hereshefsky, Dr. ~Louis: A. Hansborough and Sterling Brown, all
members of the
University,

He is survived by his sister, Miss
Inez Just, a daughter, Mrs. Margaret Just Wormley,.a son, Hi~warden Just, an instructor at
Howard University, and a grand
faculty at Howard |.

"FLINT BROWNSVILLE NEWS, FLINT, MICHIGAN _

estate of $7,413,286 in ~cash

home..:

~J just~ didn~t ever have money
to get my rights,~ Knightten said.
~In 1930, 1 raiseé $100 and went
to Oklahoma and gaye it to 4
lawyer, but he told me to go home
and wait. Nothing happened. Last
year I got another lawyer in Tulsé, Okla.~

SHOWS LETTER

Hp displayed a Jetter he had received last year from the second |
attorney which stated it was too
late to intervene in the 20 year old
case then on trial, and advised him
to await a decision before going
into court.:

In engaging Atty. George C. Adams and Investigator Sheridan
Brusseaux his new representatives,
Knighten said he could lay. his
hands on documentary evidence
of his marriage, his wife~s previous
Givorce from an Indian, and of a
grazing lease to prove it was her
land which has been producing oil
since 1915.

After martying Lete in 1907,
Knighten said he went to Louisiana in 1912 where his brother had
died. He said that he had received
letters from her and in 1915 she
wrote him to come home because
she had oil iand and a lot of
money. The claimant further
stateq that ar Indian who was
friendly with Lete killed her with
Knighten~s ~own shotgun ~ upon
hearing of his return. The killer
was convicted and sentenced to 20
years in the state penitentiary at
McAlester by a court at Okmulgee.
ONLY ONE WITNESS

~y was at the trial.~ Knighten
said. ~This Indian was paroled.in
1924, but is in again for another
killing. Hp is only one of 20 witnesses I could find who knew that
I Wag Lete~s husband.~ i

District Judge C. OG. Beavers, of.
Sapulpa, Okla., held that one-half
~o& the estate should go to Lete~s
half sister, Mrs. Qzora Alexander
Lee, and one-fourth each to two
nephews - of Lete~s supposed, nusHowever,

daughter, Miss
Wortley,

When he first became a member
of the Howard University staff.

band, Joe Stevens.

Everett
ee | Knighten states he never heard of

Shery!

The Globe Trotter -

~

ae By Cliff. Mackay |

Second Emancipation

TRUE WORDS were uttered by some philosopher,
whose name escapes the writer just now, when he
said ~ito be completely free, one must be free physically, politically and economically.~

No other people knows better
the truth of this statement than~
does the American Negro. Physi
cal freedom was achieved three
quarters of a century ago at thes
cost of one of the most -blood
wars in world history. Thoughs
some historians like to pass quick- ~
ly over the fact, black men paid
dearly with their blood to help Hie
bring this revolutionary change ie
about.

Almost simultaneous with the.
casting away of the chains of phy
MACKAY

sical slavery, the other chains of enslavement, political and. economical, were fastened securely about
the freedmens~ ankles. They are still holding him

fast in America. In the SoUth the political chains
are most binding; in the rest of the ngtion, the black
man is confronted by economic enslavement.

GOVERNMENT LENDS HAND ~

Just as the federal government finally acted to
remove the chains of physical slavery, we find it today moving with gathering momentum to unshackle
the far more cruel chains of economic slavery,

The: government has just issued a booklet, ~Minorities in Defense~ which niight be labeled the
~white paper~ outlining plans of the the second
emancipation.

The information contained in this 19-page publication is not only enlightening, but is most ~~ncouraging. It has been released by the Labor Division of the Office of Production Management.

Detailed in chronological order are sixteen steps
- the government has taken in its apparently determined program to wipe oUt the hostile discriminations which have kept the masses of black workers everlastingly proscribed to the non-skilled, least
desirable and lowest paid occupations.

WOULD DISCREDIT RANDOLPH.. Reading between the lines, one can see an effort
to prove that the threatened march of 100,000 Negroes

| 0n Washington actually had nothing to dd with the

President~s issuance of his historic June 25, 1941 &xecutive order,.in which he spoke out boldly against
job discrimination, There will be many who wil~
cuestion this.

The first of the sixteen federal. steps toward

economic. freedom which. the govenment took -was.
the appointment of Dr. Robert C. Weaver, as admin.
istrative assistant to Sidney Hillman~s staff in the
labor division of the National Defense Advisory Com.
mission. His. duty was the development of policies
for the integration of Negro workers into the trainBenth ae employment phases of~the national defense

U. S. Office. of Education announced ~that ~in the
expenditure of Federal ~funds for. vocational train-.

\ ing for defense, there should be no discrimination

~Phe same month Dr. J. W. Studebaker of the}

on account of race, creed, or color.~

_| August 31, 1940, the National Defense Advisory
~Commission announced a statement of labor policy
which forbid job discrimination based on ~race,, sex, creed, or color.~

ie On October ~7, 1940, Congress inserted: this clause
in legislation appropriating money for defense training: ~No trainee under the foregoing appropriation
shall be discriminated againsy because of sex, race
dr color; and where separate schools are required by
~law. for separate population groups, to the extént
needed for trainees of such groups, equitable provision shall be made for facilities for training of
like quality.~:

THE LAW IGNORED

Qne wonders ig Southern educational boards,

who restrict the ~defense~ training of Negro youths
to washing cars and repairing tires, while white
youths learn automobile mechanics, know of the
above Clause in this federal law.
It was on June 12, 1941, that the President issued his memorandum to Messrs. Hillman and Knudsen of the OPM, in which he strongly condemned
racial discrimination in defense job opportunities.

Thirteen days later on~June 25, after Mr Randolph and his ~March-on Washington~ committee
contended that the memorandum did~ not go far
enough, the President issued the Executive Order.
calling for the formation of the Committee on Pair
Employment Practice. -

President Roosevelt~ moved again on September
6, 1941, when he addressed a letter to all heads of
departments and independent establishments of the
Federal Government emphasizing the necessity of impartial administration of the Federal Civil Service,
~entirely without prejudice based on ~reed, race, or
nationa} origin.~ This was the last of the sixteen
steps the government has taken.:

In the organized drive the government is taking
te insure democracy in the matter of employment
three separate units have been formed.

In addition to the Fair. Employmept Practice
| Committee, there are the Negro Eraployment and
Training Branch of the Labor Division, OPM and the
Minority Groups Branch, Labor Division OMP. Al
three have specific and definite duties to perform.

WORK EFFECTIVE

Their work without question has been most effective in helping to eradicate these unjust discrimDr. Weayer~s task as ~minister without

inations.

CHICAGO~(ANP)~Claiming that he was the husband. and. rightful heir of..Lete Kalvin, Creek Indian whose

plus oil producing properties

was awarded by an Oklahoma court last Friday to her half
sister and two nephews of her supposed husband, now dead,
Mitchell Knighten, 54, plans to:
of ~the seven-million. dollar estate. Knighten has been a
roofing contractor here for 15 years, and owns his own

petition the court for q share

Stevens and that ~I sure was
Lete~s husband as legal as anything
ean be.~

Arkansans To

Outstate Study

| Seek Permanent
dolution To)
Graduate Issue

~LITTLE ROCK, Ark.~(ANP)~
The state department of education
will ask Gov. Homer M.~ Adkins to

-cy fund to be-used as scholarship
faid to Arkansas Negro college
graduates now enrolled in professional. and graduate schools outSide of Arkansas, according to an
announcement made Thursday by
W. Harold Flowers, Pine Bluff lawyer-and secretary of the committee on Negro organization.

This action ioiiowed a two-hour
conference held in the office of
the commissioner. of éducation,
Ralph B. Jones, %

Through the persistent efforts
of the committee on Negro organization over a period of 19 months
a definite effort is now being
made to work out a permanent
solution to the problem of gradwate and. proiiessional opportunities for Negro college graduates.
The members of tha conference
unanimously agreed upon a cOop
erative effort to aid 30 or more |

Negro students now enfolled in
gradaute.and professional schools
outside of Arkansas,
Whatever funds are made available will be awarded by the state
department of education: It is expected that an advisory comittee
will be named to assist in, making
the awards to stduents now enrolled in schcols outside~ of Ark:

Heli Laugh Af
Newsmen sPants

KANSAS CITY, Kans~(A N P)
~The most amusing incident happening ta the Mayweather brothers, Kansas City~s new millionaires,
came about as they were being
interviewed and photographed by
@ representative of one of the
white news syndicates.

The young heirs stated that 4
local white paper had snapped 42
picture of them grinning like they
were. silly, But, quite to the contrary, they were highly amused at
the appearance of a white news- |
man dressed in true jitterbus
fashion. The picture was snapped
as they laughed aj the ridiculousness of his attire.

Beware Coughs
from common colds

Creomulision relieves promptly beoquee ~ eae t to the seat of the
trouble loosen and -expel
germ lgden 2 i
to soothe and heal raw, tender, inflamed bronchial mucous membranes. Tell your ist to sell you
@ bottle of Creomulsion with the unpone plipae der hongrns borg Sg
quickly allays the cough or you are
to have your money back.

CREOMULSION
fer Getic arene
CF ~

wept Desiring

1

ov
TUXEDO

iHE |}

if 4

**

transfer $5,000 from his emergen--

Stenographer Drops

es

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1941

wee
SF Hi

They Couldn't

~event their- tean
emerged victorious over.

earth Saturday when the

Ring The Victory Bell

by

s

lesson, 19-6. The game marked the

we
tl

ae

Tt Ree &

homecem-. Jefferson City school. Pictured 1 to t i

tralia, Tinois.

NYAts\

President Rooseyelt's Move. -
Is Hailed As Significant = = 39 ~

NEW YORK~(A N_ P)-~-Leaders
here on the social and~ economic
fronts looked with approval on the.
proposal made last week by Presi~

Claims Estate

18

@ &

MITCHELL KNIGHTEN

Claiming he was the legal hushand of a Creek Indian woman
who left a fabulous estate now decreed by a court to go to two Ne |
gro kinsmen and a half-sister of
the dead woman, Mitchell Knighten, 54, of Chicago, threatens court
action to win a share of the
$7,413,286 estate. Knighten insists
he was the legal busband of Lete
Alexander, the Indian woman who
owned a rich. oil-producing tract
near Drumright, Okla. The court
deeree gave the estate to Floyd
and Willie Mayweather, packing
house emploves in Kansas City,
who are described as nephews of
the late Joe Stephens, the woman~s
second husband, and to Mrs. Izora
Alexander Lee, half-sister.

Dead On The Job

CHICAGO~(ANP)~ Death suddenly claimed the life of Mrs. Alice
May Eberhardt at Good Shepherd i
Community house here Friday. Mrs.
Eberhardt, employed as secretary of
the Joint Service Bureau, was

dent Reosevelt to consolidate the
CCC with the NYA all within the
framework of the Federal. Security
agehcy..'The reaction apparently is
a logical one and based upon the

certain cover-all

The fore, prior to that.
taken to Fina nal | liberality must have
FSA. McNutt, along with Federal

Works Administrator John P. Car
mody and Secretary of the Interior |:
Harold Ickes, is one of the few highplacea government officials who
has dared to take an ~unequivocal
Stand on ~the race question as it
bears upon the functioning of their
respective organizations. eS ae

The anticipated advantages. to be
derived from the consolidation are
expected to be all in favor of the
CCC, which agency since its inception has been handled by the war
department with its policy of seg
Consolidation Of CCC And
~elcomedByLeaders |

Negro is concerned.

The NYA, on the other hand, ~is
considered to have shown remarkrable liberal tendencies. This con-.
dition may be accounted for~in several ways other than the declared
policy of the FSA. After all, _ it;
was not more than a year ago that
the President~ een eat ri
was put into effect which transfer-:
red many independent agencies into

time the NYA

regation and subjugation. where the

LET THE
NU-HAIR
BESGRO
FORMULA
HELP YOU AS
IT HAS HELPED
THOUSANDS
OF OTHERS!

How You Can Grow

Certain parts of the body grow | >
itching. When you

healthy > You must help: nse e Keep it clean, sof,
with head sores or scars do

if sufferi F Si
a wg i an you will lose your hair. To

complete treatment or keep

Me pee

SEND NO MONEY

~Just send name snd oddress. Pay Posten only $1.00 plus few
Bien Se ane teens > ~ Pee to please o;

Hair Grows always if you ai iiling 9

rking properly and rantee yourself a healthy, beautiful
weg: H porabesty a complete Nu-Hair Treatment. ~

conte

MU-HAIR PRODUCTS, 1133 Broadway, New York, ny.

mplete Nu-Hair Scalp Treatment consists of:

es

~0