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By ALBERT ANDERSON
AUSKEGEE ~ (ANP) ~|
There could scarcely

be a
more inspiring sight for one |
who was interested in a dem- |
onstration of the abilities of |

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- Negroes in the field of con- |

struction, than to observe the.,
progress of the two airports |
being erected here at Tuske-|
gee, each of which is being
built~ bv Negro contractors |
and their crews. | |

Bcth ~are being developed imci- |
dent to the training of the 99th |
Pursuit. SEquadren, the all-Negro |
group of. flying cadets. This group
is really in. training st the Civilian Army Training field, almost
completed and such is owned by |
Tuskegee institute. As soon as the |
students graduate from this pre-|
liminary army colirse. required be- |
fore the sir corps accepts them |
as cadets, they will be, given their |
broader, more exactine training a1
the big 1700 acre airfield which is
mushrcoming up much after the
fashion of a vigoreus, growing
young city,

THREE AIRUORTS

There will be three fiying fields Ls

here. Tuskegee had a! temporary |
field..where the _CAA _ primary'|
course is given. Some 40 students~
are enrolled there at present. Because of the superior record which
dhe youth cf this schoo) have made
Tuskegee was selected for the more |
difficult civilian army training
course. That required a more ade- |
quate field so Tuskegee which plans
to miake aviation a definite part |
of its future program, bought land |
at another more favorable location |
and erected a new field at= a -cOst |
of $200,000 for field and equip- |
ment,

This new fiela is almost finished. but training has been going
on there for several weeks. There
are some 50 students there. Archie
Alexander, the famous Negro con
the eontrect for~ building this -airport and while small in area compared with its huge neighbor be- |
ing érécted by the air corps. it is |
one of the slickest, trimmest air
fields you ever looked at. Its large |
brick hangar. accommodates ten:
army training planes an@ working
quarters for Capt Parish. army |
supervisor; G.. L. Washington,
civilian mgnager, chief pilot Alfred Anderson -and their various
aides. The students have living
quarters st Tuskegee,

1,500~ WORK

A stant six miles fuither, 15,00 |
workmen, tciling day and night. on |
three eight hour shifts are rushing |
~to completion ihe third airport, the
big ~two million dollar army field |
which..is.éxpected to be named,
~Moten field.~: f

The immensity of this joo,
staggers an onlooker. Apparently |
it does not phase Calvin McKissack, |
younger.of the two noted archi- |

inde ile ahr eegcansonineancieegtonl cnn amastnantiing

activ qigaged in charge of the
job whilé his brother, Mose, looks
aftey other contracts, Calvin Mc- |
Kissack; with his quiet menner,
smooth. almvust ~unctuous voice,

shoots his car over, hills, ruts and |
flitches ana clambers where the |
} ~ tpese |
hundreds of acres as they emerge |
from a hilly, wooded, stretch of |
into ~a, com- |
munity which wis house~ anc af- |

car just cannot go over

red clay farm land

ford: training end working auart~ers for a thousand /or twe ofticers, flying! cadets. soldiers, me
_ chahics and employes, as calmly
zs if he were constructing one of
the ehurches for~ which his firm |
is famed~throughout the southland. |
Mr. McKissack won~t talk much |
about.his job. He modestly says_
that: his task is to turn over to
the United States army a plant
completed to specifications laid out
by army~engineers, within the, pre*scribed time -and cost limits~ and
to reve when he does so thai
no mistake was msde - when the

contract _ awardéd to a colored
firm. Un him are 1,500 skilled
and. vwnskied men, black and

white, ~The ratio runs about 1,000
colored to 500 white. He has emPloyed all the competent skilled
black: men he could find most of
the white men working for white
subcontractors who handle certain
phases of the work which were sublet and secured on bid. Most cf the
meh have been employed frorTuskegee and nearby counties. A
few..are his regular foremen and
~who go with him whereever he has a job to do
Here in the dcep south these men
that there is
not the slightest difficulty in hav
ing side by side under the gen
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Left to right: Mr. Franklin F. Hopper, the new/Director if
the New York Public Library, Dr. L. D. Reddick, Carator of the
Library~s Schomburg Collection cf Negro Literature and Dr. Rulx
Leon, Consul-General, Republic of Haiti. A

In line with the good neighbor policy of Inter-American good
will, on Wedresday, October 22, Director Hopper presented 1,000
books on American life to Dr. Leon as a gift of/the N. Y. Public Library to the schools and libraries of the Republic of Haiti. This gift
came as a result of Dr. Reddick~s visit last May to the inauguration
of the new Haitian President, Elie Lascot/ In exchange, Haiti will
send government publications and works/of Haitian authors to the
Schomburg Cellection of the New York Public Library.

WASHINGTON, /D. C.~(ANP)~
~~The Remington Arms Company
does not practicé, nor will it countenance discrimination against any
employe because of race, creed or
color, and ~we expect all employes
to abide by the national policy of
this company.~ With this firm and
clear statement_-the supervisor of
the Denver Ordnance works, at
Denver, inaugurated the comrany~s

~| new plant in a city of 367,000 in
habitants, of which only 7,000 are

_V Negroes,

~John R. Hastings. personnel director, fermerly with the

1.9000 persons Cperating machines
in the plant. And he has made it
clear-he expects to expand this
number ts.) absork as many Negroes
as are found, available for work
in the plant.

Negroes will be hired in all departments, Mr. Hastings. states,
and insists that in every training
sroup of-10 whites. there must be
one: Negre. There have been. 50
such groups going through the
plant, abserbing information as to
what the plant manufactures and
the importance of this work to the
government,:

According to Dr. Robett 0:

Weaver of the OPM Training and

On Two Fronts, Says Leader

Dr. Lindeman Describes This

Nation~s /Unfinished Business

HAMPTON, INST., Va.~(SNS)~!front as abroad if America will

The battle for~ democracy must be |
fought as vigorously on the home!

remain free of serfdom, ~said Dr.
Edward CC. Lindeman, keynote

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"Sena 2ii ectere cot ABBE WALLACE, care ot 1is~ SCOTS
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Ww. C. M.~My husband and I
have thought of adcpting a baby
boy and we have talked to ow
family doctor. He thinks it is alright. He says he thinks he can get
us a cnild, Do you think that it
would tuzn out for the best or give
up the idea? ~

Ans:: You want a baby and
this is your only chance of getting it....by all means adopt a
baby boy, both of you are home
loving people and you centainly
would miake some helpless. baby
fine parents, Get the baty by
Christmas tine if possil'e.

R. W.-~-Every time my boy friend
brings me home from the show c:
church he treats'me nice when he
gets ready to leave, he tries to give

~me a kiss. I have worried and woer
ried about~-it snd wonder if it
would be wrong to let him kiss me
and then run? |

Ans.: Be sure you allow him
only ore good night kiss and then
go to bed. One kiss shouldn't huri
much since he is an~ extra specia!
friend, but de not cheapen your
M.~My husband is a professional man 2nd 3s to be doing nicely here in city. The

trouble is with. me, I cannot seem
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to be contented here and I want
to make a change. He doesn~t
agree with me as he is afraid that
it will také him too long to build up
a practice at some other city. Advise me what is best to do.

Ans.: Please don~t continue to
fret your husband about making
a change... he is established and
well liked right where you are
and you really should make an effort te: be contented. [ am sure
that if you were to get out and
make friends you would like t/
place better. Take an active interest in P-TA work, church work,
all kinds of social activities and
hy doing so, you will become a~
tached to the place too, It wili help |

your husband~s practice for you to
snow more interest in the people
around you. ~

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'ero community of

America Must Fight Battle

speaker at the opening of the
three-day Youth Conference of the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, here
Saturday evening.

Addressing 100 delegates, from
colleges all over the nation and the
student body and staff of Hampton
Institute, Dr, Lindeman, a prominent educator and government con
of Social Work, outlined what he
termea the ~unfinished business~
that faces this nation if it is to
successfully adapt itself to a war
economy.

~fmulating Chiha touay, this uation must make its greatest strides
toward the fulfillment of democracy at home at the same time that it
calls for ~all-out~ battle ~to smack
cown tyranny ~abroad,~ he said. He

alled these two simtltaneous batwhich Americans should participate.

Urge Negroes
To Visit Enaland

LONDON, FEng.~(ANP)~At a
~special conference: of the Foreign
Press association over which Mr.
Prendan Bracken, the minister of
information,. presided. Rudolph
Nunbar. the London editor of the
Associated Negro Press, asked the
minister why the Negro leaders in
America had not been invited to
come to London in the same category as the white dignitarics.

He pointed out that they are not
all ~apostles of gaiety~ and that
there are a great multitude of the
Negroes in America who represent
the intellectual~ aristocracy of their
race.

Infreply. the minister said that
he welcomed the question being
reised. He fully~ agreed that it was
hivh time that the accredited reptesentatives of the important Nethe. United
States of America sent a delegation to England. He said that they
should come for two reasons. Firstly. because thev- were American
citizens; secondly, because they
played an important part in all
spheres of American life.

Said the minister, ~You should

America to visit us: England will
give them a most hearty welcome
aud there is no limit on what we
would show them.~ Mr. Brendan
Bracken praise the American Ne
Ford |
Motor company of Detroit, has -al- |

1eady hired 77 Negroes out of- the |
employed in thé hallastics depart
No Race Ban At
Remington Plant

| announced, one for white soldiers
| overlooking El Estero, and one for

sultant of tne New York School /

tles the only kind of ~total war~ in |

encourage the Negro leaders of |

grO, universities. The foreign press |

| not laborers, but

jin the examining physician~s of
Supply division, this plant will bs
one of the outstanding examples
of what has been accomplished
through the cooperation of plant
déwners. menagers and workers,

Already there are two cafeterias
eperated by the plant, in which 33
of~ the 75 employes are Negroes.
Ancther cafeteria is te be opened
which will have an eniire Megro
crew of cooks

The workers.. in the pdanf are
are empioytd as
an
ma
machinist, with 35 operating
nealing, acid dip and othe
chines.

Five of the Negro workers~ are
ment; two: colored girls in the first
aid rooms and three colored girls

fice. One of the latter is a feceptionist.

There is no segregation nar discrimination in the plant ih any
manner. In.fact, the Negroes are
being integrated as fast ag they
are employed. Denver~ will be a
boom town ~for the 7,000 Negroes
there if the Remington people continue building in this area.

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ARE.NEGRO TROOPS CATTLE?

MONTEREY, Calif~(A N P)~
The sites of two USO recreation
centers here~ have been approved by
Washington authorities, it was

Negroes, located east of Southern
Pacific stock corral. Much conjecture is going the rounds as to
whether the site chosen for Negroes
is another act of discrimination..

The question, bluntly stated by
some, is ~Are Negro troops also
cattle?~

~

Professor HH Clinton Taylor receiving the. congratulations of Prof.
Robert Pcole onthe completion of the beautiful portrait ~entitled Mother
and their daughter of sixteen. Both Mr. Taylor and Mr. Poole are on
and their duaghter.of sixteen. Both Mr. Taylor and Mr. Poole are on

- _By OF: Harrington| I

| these facilities,~

Not Half Enough

Z Is Charge Made \

By Edgar Brown \
By ALVIN E. WHITE

WASHINGTON~(ANP)~ Ni

soldiers are ~not in the

erection of re~reation~ centers. to
the full extent and according to

~the interpretation of Public Law

| RED JoBp~ 2m? ~ FOLLOW JIVE 137. under which these recreation
Pe ent be constructed. The}
Pre McK GREY WEEK ON cate Ae cae al

buildings are to be constructed and~
placed according to ~need "Sd

One hundred and fifty millions
of dollars were @ for
this work of which $16,000,000 was
to go into recreation centers.

"To date, some 31 recreation cen
ters have been approved by the
President for Negroes, which according to Edgar G. Brown, president of the United Government
Employes is ~not half enough.~ ~

The total amount appropriated
thu, far for the Ne recreation:

i centers reaches $1 2 905 out of

the 16 millions.

It has been. pointed out by Mr~
Brown that down at. Jacksonville,

\ which is 40~ miles 'from Camp
| Blanding, where

some 4,000 Negro
troops are stationed, the need for
additiona] facilities for Negroes is
urgent. This town has two projects for whites, one costing $80,000
and another $45,000. Besides at
Starke, just 12 miles from Camp

~| Blanding, there are facilities for

the whites costing $80,000 while ~

there are none for Negroes

Inasmuch. as the public law under which these facilities were
made possible ~sets forth specifically that ~need shall be the determining factor in erection of
it. would seem
that the need of the Negro is being overlooked.

A soldier requires about one-half
bale of cotton a year, ten times ~
more than the average civilian, the

the staff at A. and T/ College, Greensboro, N. C.

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Michigan NAACP Plans To Find
Who Defense Council Will Be

conference acclaimed his courteous |
zesture.

CAMP CUSTER, Mich. (ANP) = j.ted to him by McKinley Lee and
Acting upon information transmit- | Hesper Jackson of the Lansing

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NAACP branch, Dr. U. ~& Buagjley, state president of Michigan
NAACP branches, took menmtbers of
his cabinet to Camp Custer te investigate charges that five soidiers of the 94th engineers were beus responsible for the

corps and veteran in the ~World
war, Dr, Leach interviewed Lt.
Col~ Marcus B. Ray 184th field
jartillery~ who assured them that
officers of both regiments had se| cured all the facts in regard w
the incident at Camp ~Robinson,
and stated that he felt suxe tne
men would be fairly treated and
would receive a fair trial. before
the proper military tribunal.

The group, at the suggesticn~ of
Dr, Leach, plans to writs the
judge advo~pie general of the
flifth ~division inquiring who the
defens2 ~counse! would be, the date.
of the trail and the members who
will compose the court martial..

At the state conference to be
held in~ Flint, the advisability of
contacting congress and the war
department~ in an effort to charge ~
tthe present system and provide
more military cfficers will be discussed, ~ hes