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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22. 1941

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PERTINENT INFORMATION.

- FLINT, Michigan~John Ernest
Matzeliger, @ Negro, (died 1899) invented the first machine that performed automatically. all operations
involved in attaching soles to

shoes, thus laying the basis for the

foundation of the United Shoe*Machinery Company fortune.

It is not generally known that
the great old American songs ~Carry
Me Back ta Old Virginny, a. #an
the Evening By the Moonlight~ and
~Down by ~the Old Mill Stream~
ean written by a Negro, James

nd.

Paul Robeson, world renowned
artist, sang at the Free Browder
rally in Madison Square Garden. His
first song was the ~Bill of Rights~.
He -prefaced his songs with a short
speech: to fae tumulitious applause
of 25,000 people. Mr. Robeson, calling for the freedom of Browder,
Said in.part: ~.. In the long struggle against fascism, there has been
One voice raised loud and lear
from the very@beginning, the voice
of one who has been in the front

lines of the fields of Spain, Earl

Browder.~

Free Negroes and slaves fought
on both sides on the Revolutipnary
War, serving in all branches of the
patriots~ army and in the same outfits with white soldiers.

Negroes served in the Confederate
army not because they wished to
keep themselves enslaved, but because they believed the promise of
their owners that if the Confederacy won, all slaves would _be freed
and Negro freedmen allowed more
liberties. ~

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~Montague Ring~ ig the pen name
of a famous English composer,
daughter of Ira Aldridge, internationally noted Negro Shakesperian
actor of the mid-19th century. Her
real name is Ira Amanda Anatiee.

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The zig-zag fence, commanly
used by farmers throughout the
South, was introduced into this
country by Africaris brought here
as slaves.

Mt. Olive~s Family
Affair

FLINT, ~Michigan~The
Affair~ held at Mt. Olive three
nights two weeks ago, was
thoroughly enjoyable to say the
least.. Short comedies were directed by Mrs. L. R. Renfro. The
casts were made up of the following member families: Morgans,
Paynes and Perdues.;

The children~s progréim was Girected by Miss Beulah McGee. These
numbers of the wWeek~s. program
furnished delightful entertainment.

On Wednesday night, the Wynn
family received a beautiful maga
~Family

zine rack, for foeing the Targest
complete family present. This
gift was donated to the ccomniit
tee by the Flint hoine furnishing |,
| company. Thursday evening,

the
souvenir quilt of Names was
awarded to the Brown family. in
appreciation of their reporting 100
names to go in the quilt. The
iadies~ Bible class is responsible
for the quilt. Mrs. F. Hill reported $3 names and was awarded
a hand crocheted buffet set. Friday morning, the Kimble family
received q dainty floor lamp,
donation from Kobackers Furniture
Company. This family~ reported
the largest amount of ticket
money..

A free gift was given every
family in attendance. It was a
handy kitchen reminder from Kobackers. The whole bazaar was a
complete success,

Ex-Convict Freed
In $600 Robbery

CHICAGO~(ANP)~Deliberating
only five minutes, a jury acquitted
Harvey Rogers, white 39-year ol~
ex-convict, of a robbery charge
here Wednesday. The trial was
held before Judge John A. res
in criminal court.

The complaining witness, p 7

C. (Big Jim) Martin, testifieg that
Rogers and two other Men had
kidnapped him, his wife and
chauffeur last -May 27, and demanded $100,000 ransom. Instead
of waiting for the ransom money,

they fled with $300, and a $300]'

ring. Martin is alleged to be king of
the west side policy racket.

TWO RECEIVE ONE YEAR
CHICAGO~(ANP) ~~ Municipal
Judge Erwin J. Hasten sentenced
James R. Boll, 33, and Carter
Ashford, 32, to one year each ih
county jail on charges of defrauding the ~state of $2,800 through
unemployment compensation
claims, The two men, former.
ors in the state thémpldymen'
compensation. - bureau,
guilty -to the charges. ~

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Georgia Peaches At. State

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~Georgia Peaches~
Georgia #State College, Industrial, Georgia, At the Homecoming activities, the cream of the crop,~ Miss Geraldine Moody, senior of. Waycross, |
Georgia, was crowned ~Miss: Georgia State.~ Her lovely attendants are
(left) Miss Gwendolyn Edwards, junior, of Sparta, Georgia, and Miss. Nov. 20, at least:

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Puhleese! Dont Ax Me!

( ~You think you got troubles. Well, maybe so, but they don't
compare with mine. ij4nd don~t AX me to tell why until,

(Driat that F. D. R.) You know, we used
~to enjoy life a week longer until that man came into the
White House, but for two years now~we've had to decorate

kick too much, howéver, for next year they'll be safe until the
last Tharsday in November.~ eS

I suppose my youngsters can~t

NEW YORK CITY~(S N S)~Cab
Calloway whose forte for the past
ten years has been leading an. orchestra and singing songs in the
inimatable Calloway manner, last
week, for a single evening, entered
into the field of politics and as us
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Flint, Mich.

41 Calloway Aids
N. York Mayor

ual with the King of Hi De Ho, he
backed a winner.

Invited by the Colored Division: of
the Citizen~s Committee for the Reelection of Mayor LaGuardia, to
participate in the rally to be held
in Harlem the eve of the election,
Calloway made special arrangements
for his orchestra and himself to be
in New York on that. evening.

The rally, held in Colonial P:
was jammed with 20,000 pers
The meeting began at 9 p.m. withs
a concert by Cab and the band..
The Mayor arrived at 10 p. m. and
the honor of introducing His
Honor to what has been termed

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to Calloway. -

Without any fanfare, Cab ~atte:
duced La Guardia as ~the best Mayor the city has ever had.~

La Guardia, visibly impressed, had,
the crowd cheering. from the out
a political meeting but a party.
among friends.~

the 4
largest crowd to ever gather in Haflem for an election mééting, fell |

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Flier At W. Va.

INSTITUTE. W. Va: ~ (SNS)~
Miss Willa Brown, president of
the National Airman~s A ition.
of America and the top woman
aviation expert of the co _ Tate
in America; visited the ~virgivia State.College~.,.en | _route to
Chicago from the~ Civilian) Pilot.
Training Conference~ for Negro~
Colleges,. held at Hampton Institute,,November 8 and 9.

At this. conference.: of coordinators of the C. P. T. training program West Virginia State College
was~ represented * by Prof. ~Jantes
C. Evans,~ Director of Trade: ard
Technical Education, now cn leave
with the O. P. M., who set up. the
~. A: A. instruction at! Institute,

~| Prof. F. J. Lacy, Acting Director,

Prof. J. W. Grider, instructor in
aviation theory and Albert Coureau, Haitian students at the college.

Machine Tool Plant
Bars Race Workers

DETIOIT, Mich. ~tsNS)~Wil.
liam Kennedy of thi, city found
that the Vickers company, Inc.,
makers of machine tools for the
mandfacture of hydraulic equipment, and holding defense contracts amounting to about $26,530,000, will not hire Negroes except
as ~janitors, the NAACP announced
this week.

Kennedy~s affidavit which he
sent to the NAACP and the President~s Committee on Fair. Employment Practice, states that he
applied at Vicker~s, Inc., on November 3, for employment as a
machine {ool operator and was
refused by a Mr. McRoberts.
Whites are being employed for the
same werk. @

Kennedy gives as hig qualifications the completion of 348 hours
of training in the national defense
course for machine tool operation,
a two vear. college ~course in
chemical engineering and his employment as a chemist with the
~Potter Chemical and Drug company from 1923 to 1928,

According to the affidavit, McRoberts tcld Kennedy that the
supervisors: of the plant do not
allow Negroes to work on machines.
The plant official said that he had
been visited by
three from the /Detroit NAACP
after which he had asked on several occasions -for permission to
place Negroes on machines, but
that each time the request was refused by the supervisors.
McRoberts implied that. the
white employees would not work
with ~Negroes in et jobs.

GALVESTON, Tex ~ (ANP)~
Camp Wallace near here has 6,000
Negro trops, who are among the
most neglected nephews Uncle Sam
has in his great army.

White soldiers in Camp Wallace
have all the available luxuries pro.
vided including service clubs, airconditioned theaters with comfortable seats, chapel, library,
guest house for civilian guests at.
the camp, senior and junior hostesses and a librarian to look after
their needs.

Negro soldiers have! ~no service
club, library, chapel or guest house.
They have no librarian, no hostesses, either senior or. junior, but
they do have One large barn like
building, with rough flooring, rude
hard benches, which has to serve:
for all purposes. The Négroes have
only moving pictures and dances.
in this spot, when they do have
them, It is the only place they can
zo, but they prefer to stay away.
The place ig very uncomfortable
and rough and the men are not
satisfied when they compare their
lot with that of the white troops
who are in the same camp serving
for the same pay ahd supposedly
for the same cause.

Complajnts aimed at alleviating
and. remedying these conditions
had been made to local authorities
who are in position to engage the
Services of adequate personnel to
help the soldiers. But to date,
nothing has come of their ~pleas
and the Negro soldiers are left to
shift. for themselves when it comes
to entertainment. and morals.

a committee of |

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Participants in | Peak gredilete course, in care of

Infantile Paralysis victims, held at Tuskegee Institute Infantile Paralysis Center, recently.

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GREENVILLE, S. C.~(ANP)~
Greenville~s only Armistice day
parade was the colored parade.
Headed by their regimental band

|-over 500 fully equipped members of

the famed 76th Coast artillery,
anti-aircraft parade through the
downtown streets. There appearance received with mingled emotions by both races.

This~ was thé first time that
Greenvillians have been treated to
a view of the new army on parade
and one of the few times in histery that this bustling South Carolina city has ever seen fully armed
colored soldiers, passing in review.
The parade was the culmination of
an Armistice day celebration sponsored by the local colored veterans,
not an American legion post since
Negroes are not allowed to join the
American legion~ in South Carolina.

Cver 600 soldiers of the 76th are
stationed in or near the Greenville air base vreparing for the
forthcoming Carolina maneuvers.
Equipped with the Very latest in
anti-aircraft guns,~ searchlights,

Race Soldiers:

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76th Coast Ackittery Nik cies My

Proudly in Carolina Community:

machine guns, etc., this contingent
is just a part of\the 4,000 colored
troops doing similar duties in the
two Carolinas in the mimic warfare between the Reds and Blues.

Around the Greenville airport
miles of telephone wires have been

the 76th. Past masters in the art of
camouflage, these youngsters have
done a fine job in not only concealing their big guns but their
camp asywell. One clump. of Carolina pines, hardly large enough to
conceal a jack rabbit, hides a half
dozen trucks, a field kitchen, 20 or
more pup tents and the truck for
communication to the various batteries.

The pup tent seems to blend well
with the red and brown Carolina
landscape..One isolated battery
from a hundred feet cn the highway appears to be a lonescrub pine
and a pile.of~ leaves ~underneath.
On closer scrutiny it is a machine
gun and a pup tent, and two very
alert colored soldiers. From the air
you just could not fing them.

The morale of these boys issplen.

By AL WHITE
WASHINGTON, D. C.~(A N P)
aiak Byrd Fauset frowned and
an erudite eyebrow Saturwhen some Loaprid

themselv

es at

the Hampton
Saturday at!
Howard game, looking on with the
very charming Harriet West and
Pauline Redmond of the NYA, with

~Cute~ Carter, former Virginia
State. halfback, and Ralph Garner
furnishing the background.

That was the first trme I ever
saw a drum majorette without a
band. She was prancing, and carrying on in front of the AKA float
in the disorganized homecoming
celebration....but with no band.
She did the best she could. Some
of the floats were OK....Sigma
looked like a gang of pall bearers,
their men béing dressed in Tuxe
the float,

Ralph Garner says there are
three types of Negro, One says
he comes from down south
when you ask him where his
home is; the second type says
~Pm: from ~ Virginia,~ but the
third group says with gusto
and pride, ~I'm from ~ Richmond.~ Just as if Richmond -
was in the same group of cities
as Paris, London, New York,
etc,

Homecoming at Howard without a band or music. Since the director of the band is in camp, the
band couldn~t function And when
the referee failed to fire the pistol ending the first half, someone
blamed it on national defense and
the shortage, of blank cartridges!

Ernest Johnson of New York, in

fact, he was the New York cor
respondent, - in town for a brief

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the Stanley Theatre in Utica, New
York last week. and ~is currently ap
entertainment.;

VICKSBURG, Miss.~(SNS)~
The International
Twelve, The Knights and Daugh
Thirty-eighth ~Annual Grand session here in Vicksburg this week.
It promises to ke the most exciting session in years.

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