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Associate Editor
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MR, JOHN H. TURNER

Thanksgiving 1941
By RUTH TAYLOR

~Can we give thanks? Can we in all honesty celebrate
Thanksgiving this year~when famine stalks a war torn
Europe, when violence and threats of war are at our very
door step, when even the elements themse.ves seem to conspire to the feeling of desolation?~

So speak the gloomy souls.

They know as all of us

know that Thanksgiving Day is the day. set apart for the
annual festival of thanksgiving for the year~s blessings~but

they do.not see the blessings.

Last year at Thanksgiving time, they were

sure we

would be at war in a few weeks~they set the date~so many

dates that never happened.
fall,
tions.

They were sure England wou d
that they would never withstand raids and deprivaThey ~were sure the Russian-German coalition would

-be too strong for the world: The one thing they were con
fident of was disaster.

Let~s see what has happened. The Low Countries have

fallen. France lies helopless.

have been overrun.

The Scandanavian countries

Greece was devastated but in a battle

of Themopolae that has far surpassed the ancient heroism

as this war has surpassed the wars of the ancients.

But~

the coalition is broken; the conquered countries are seething
with revoit, even against the greatest odds; England ~still
~stands firm, united and courageous. With us~we have still

not declared war, but within the country is arising, despite |

an avalanche of Nazi inspired propaganda. a sense of cooperation, a national unity which is our best safeguard of

defense.
responsibility, of idealism. of
are becoming armed for any
bring forth.

Slowly but surely we are struggiing to a sense of

high morale. Spiritually we |
crisis the coming year may

Thanksgiving is: the expression of gratitude for divine
mercies. Not only can we give thanks this November~but
we must, We, who still have peace, whose shores war has not
penetrated, who still can enjoy the blessings of freedom,
have a solemn duty to rejoice and give thanks unto the
Lord for His many favors bestowed upon us as individuals

and as a nation._

In the spirit of thanksgiving for the divine

favor of the past year. and with a deep and abiding trust. in.
His mercies in the future we must celebrate this day of

Thanksgiving, 1941 as a UNITED people in a UNITED
States.

a ~ 2 the corporation. Although the well; P ar tner Slain is still producing, it is understood

(Continued from Pag~ *)

Hill, Julian Black, Atty. Houston
Hall, A. L. Lovett, William A
Green, Daniel Gaines, C. A. Hansberry and Atty. Howard Jeter.

GO TO COURT

Confusion over interests of
various investors resulted in. the

the

whole matter being thrown into
am and a. Licaatboll appointed for

that. funds are still tied up because
of unsettled litigation.

Scott withdrew from the partnership more than a year ago and
secured land near the Flanders
Lane property and organized the
Black Panther Oil company of St.
Louis about June, 1940. After raising funds, he drilled three wells,
which began producing. Horn and
Faulkner filed claims against the
Black ~Panther before Scott could

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bus, deterred the latter from
three of the military poli@emen who were inside the bus.

All six chambers were emptied.

Five of the six ~bullets are
definitely accounted for: Sergeant Hargrave was killed; two
other white military policemen ~
were wounded; a colored soldier was wounded; and one
nuller struck the framework
of-a2 seat.and dropped to the
flocr. The effect of the sixth
bullet is determined only upon
presumptive evidence. That is,
the bullet removed from the ~
-body of Private New Turmar |
is of the same commercial

make and of the same type

of that make, as the bullet

fired from Sergeant Hargrave~s

going aboderd. The driver of the

bus, fearing trouble from the

disorderly disposition of his load

refused to take the bus out

without the protection of the

military police. The delay pro
vided for more disorder, some

attempting to get off, others

trying to crowd aboard, White

military policemen~ boarded

the bus and attempted to talk

the group into a sense of order
liness. This failing they at- ~
tempted to quell the disturb
ance by force, pushing some

into seats and undertaking to

remove one of the ringleaders,

A congestion in the cisle of the

bus was surging first toward

the rear and then toward the

front. Following one of these

forward thrusts, a cclored sold
ier withdrew from close con
tact with Sergeant Elwyn L.

Hargrave, holding in his. hand

the sergeant~s revolver which

had hung:in a holster at his

side. The spldiev t~mediete
ly opened fire directly toward

revolver, killing him and

wounding two other white mili
tary policemen.and a colored

soldier.

EXAMINES BULLETS

~The bullets taken from the
bodies of Sergeant Hargrave
and Private Turman were identified by Federal Bureau of
Investigation laboratery examination to be of exactly similar
manufactire and type (Reming 45 caliber, with nickelplated bullets) and to correspond as to the extent of their
surface wear caused by age and
handling. No other person,
armed with a service revo)ver
and known to be present at
the scene, carried that particular ammunition. Upon this
state of related fact, the investigating officers report that
it is most probable that Private Turman was killed by the
sixth bullet fired by the soldier
who killed Sergeant Hargrave

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and that the score against the

- murderer has added to it the
- life of this soldier..

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of \Private Turman by Sergeant Owens, the report shows
that Sergeant Owens used government-issue ammunition. fitted into a metal clip that
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ficers report it to be their in
geant Owens did not kill Privi Turman and that, although he fired twice, h2 shot
nobody. One of his shots went
through the roof of the bus.
The other left no trace.

~The nature of Private Turman~s wound is indicative of
the probable manner in which
he was~ shot. The bullet struck
him squarely at the front of
the left shoulder and coursed
in a straight line to a position just right of the center
of.the lower part of his back.

Honored Women

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ticna] Portraitures~ were created
by Mrs. Lucille R. Wilkins and
Mrs. Jeanette Triplett.

Throughout the week there: was
an exhibition of hobbies of women
end girls, Mrs. Loraine Green,
chairman. Among the exhibits
were a stamp collection owned by
Mrs. Dixie Brooks Gilmer; a collection of prize dahlias and other
flowers owned by Mrs. David A.
McGoward, co-chairman; clay
models, Dr, Lillian S. Dove; bugs
used in zoology, Mrs. Herman
Brown; old French prints gathered by Mrs. William J. Yerbe in
France; china and pewter owned
by Mrs. U. Grant Dailey; chests
of old silver, Mrs, C, N. Langston; Chinese and Japanese objects, Mrs. W. Y. Browne; and a
Mexican display by Mrs. Dorothy
Newsome.

| escapable conclusion that Ser
HILL-TOLLIVER

DALTON, Ga.~Miss Alberta Hili
became the bride of Lincoln Tolliver November 2 in a lovely ceremony performed at the residence

|of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Tolliver.

The Rev. A. L. McCamey officiated.: The Humber Kings

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WALTER CHIVERS SAYS,

By

~ R. CHIVERS

Are A Reality

I TRAVEL AROUND quite a bit.
This offers me an unusual opportunity for pursuing my hobby which
is to observe how the ~other half~
of Negroes
liable statistics on displacement and
unemployment they should be dead
or most assuredly dying from despair and starvation. But yet they
continue to live and for the moment,
anyway, are apparently carefree.
Wnat is the secret? Upon what is
the hope based that enables them~
to laugh in the face of adversity?
I do not have the~ final answer. I
am still searching for: the formula.. One lead that I am followingwith
some success has as its guide the

possibility that
these folk have
accepted a I!
philosophy of economic despair.
That is, economic despair in,
relationship to
an big sens
for earning
@ livelihood in~
vlegitima t e
ways. Consequently their il-.. legitimate ways
CHIVERS: of supporting
themselves are compensatory reactions. Their justification for seeking money illegally is self-preservation. This is not self-preservation
as it relates to ~keeping up wth the
society Joneses~ but as it relates to
bare subsistence living.

A RAY OF HOPE

One ray of hope for surviving is
found ~in playing the numbers~~
an ~lusive ray, I admit, but you can
not tell ~What kind of straw yok will

live. According to re- |.

$3 the~ numbers~ ~seems Silks~ eel atten

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This is
zeal

cover the hidden ~lucky gare
in certain printed, -

They patronize fortune Pa noiga = ans
~yoodoe~ doctors as dispensers of
the right combination of numbers.
They note carefully every seemingly unusual event in normally rather
dull lives for clues to be translated
into lucky numbers.

BECOME ~BANKERS~

This fanaticism for the ~numbers~ has opened up an avenue of
large income for the more intelligent adventurous and astute of
the Negro masses. They becomé
~bankers~. This type of banking is
an even more lucrative. mpm
than legitimdte banking ane od
is free from legalistic cont:
is exceedingly profitable up to a
certain point~the more balanced of
ethese ~bankers~ are beginning ~ to
sense the attainment of this point
and quitting the business. A former ~banker~ told me that-he kept
his income taxes paid, thereby eliminating any interference from the
federal government. When the local
authorities convicted him ~the first
time he figured that it was ~time to
quit and husband the future insured living which he-had prepared
for himself and family.

The ~bankers~ with real business
ability and acumen accumulate. big
money hurriedly and invest it wisely. Because of their wealth they
soon develop prestige equivalent
~among Negroes to that of licensed
stock brokers among whit: people. It

reach for until you are continuous
prove inferiority. So if the routine:
of democratic society prevents them
from achieving by the established
rules of the game they are. likely
to find a way out. You know, a
@ way or make one~.
teliect and ambition have a way of
not being denied.

It is generally true that once
the numbers kings are established
in the financial world as ~figures~
of consequence the convenient memories of ~society~ forget the ways
in which the initial capital was
gathered. These erstwhile ~bankers~
become masters of the fate of a
considerable group of the masses
and the pet lions of Negro ~Society~~not exclusively Walter Winchell~s Cafe, Society either.

It seems as though the~ American plan of democracy is for ll
groups within its borders except
Negroes. They are being forced in
significant numbers to develop protective ways of life contrary to
their professed religious and moral
beliefs. The privileged status given
the number ~kings~ is the proof I

is interesting to note, at this

submit for the present.
(TO BE CONTINUED)

BETWEEN THE LINES

By GORDON B. HANCOCK
(ANP Feature Writer)

the meeting would be held at Mt..
Olive on the South Side, and no
mention of the election of -officers

so as to get new mem
haps the president dia not we
any New members. ~

something up his sleeve in
calling cf the meeting with regard.to. time and place. Then during the gathering of: the folk,
sent one of his best cunservative
generals Cver to see me, bringing
the olive branch, stating that the
Boss will not run, Then he suggested that I nominate a Minister of their own choosing, so I did.
When ke declined, I thought that
they must have been together So,
the Boss was re-elected. The membership present was not examined
to know who was eligible to vote.
The members Gid not receive the |.
Opportunity to elect a tetrporary
chairman, he was appointed by the
outgoing "president.
kept his seat and did the counting of votes for ~president and
vice president, altho we have implicit faith in the secretary.
rest of the officers were elected by
acclamation. It was thy most perfect J. F. election I ever witnessed. The state president was there

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| the, natioy tion
_ FLINT, ~Editor: | He we bs
| The letter I wrcete in this column jover, before E
democratic tactics used* by the [ed me, now re
president of the local branch of. a ae. se Ww
~warded, in my Spinion, judge by Tires Siected*yy m
the static created in the November ja few others would be ite
meeting at the Metrovolitan | tive board and that was
There was a good atiendance fiance Of three of his
of the meeting despite che tact | After |
that ge wes only a week gusted, walked out, leaving
regular meeting. Some of the ee eee ce
paid-up members were not noti- eer ihe caine:
tion of cfficers was tobe held at | iin eg- rh * me
that meeting. In a previous meet- |: ~ H. H. CLARK
ing it haf been announced that Sa.

The Barrister proved that he had
the

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Watch Russia

THAT THE UNITED States will
in the not distant future become
a dictator nation, is becoming more
and more a dreadful possibility.
There is grave danger that we are
going to be destroyed by the devious game of politics which~ congress insists on playing, while the
fate of democracy hangs in the
balance. As Patrick declared to
the Colonials, we are ~listening to
the song. of a siren~ until she
transforms ~into slaves. The
siren song af German propaganda
has lulled our nation to sleep; and
we are joined to our political idols
in such way that -we seem incabable: of looking over a critical. situation. ~
~ Isolationism aid obetriedionieth
have handcuffed our defense efforts;
and it. has rémained for much abused and much maligned Russia to
save the faces of. remaining democracies. It:4makes\ us sick at
heart to imagifie what would have
happened to Britain without the
respite of Russian: arms. It makes
us even sicker at heart to imagine
what would have happened to the
United States with Britain flattened by German fury. Whether
we admit it or not, we owe the
Russians a deep debt of gratitude
for relieving the pressure on ~~ the
democracies.

NO RESISTANCE

Even today we cannot feel proud
of the part Britain is playing in
Russia~s defense. Her air raids are
becoming more and more desultory
and there is nothing to suggest that
full advantage is being taken of
the respite. that the Russians are
giving. In Britcin as in the United

party against another. There is
much ~squabbling~. but there is very
little effective resistance to the
might of German arms. The fact
remains, wherever Germany has-met
the democratic nations the latter
have been vanquished.

Great Britain has been saved by
fortuitous cifcumstances rather than
by the might of British arms. We
are not arguing against the bravery
of the British people; we are arguing against the vacillation and indecision and the lack of preparedness that common _- sense _ should
have provided. In the last analysis it must be admitted that Germany has made ~monkeys~ out of
the democracies, It may be argued

o'manking; but fe mune woo be| a0

admitted. that the democracies by
their failure to face ugly facts
have abetted and encouraged Hitlerism by not a preparing
~ cope-with him.

BLOOD ATONING

Russia today is bleeding but her
blood is in many ways atoning for
the stupid blunders the democracies
have madeé! So valiantly is Russia
fighting -that she is winning the
sympathy of the civilized world. If
Hitlerism is finally put down, the
historians of the future are going
to give great credit to Russia.. For
did not the stubborn resistance of
Russia give the democracies the respite without which they would possibly have been wiped from the
earth? Did not Russia absorb the
damnation that would have been
poured out upon the democracies?
Did not Russia weaken the front of
the German attack, and explode the
notion that the blitzkreig was in
States, there is a lot of charges and
counter charges by one _ political

vincible? Did not Russia prove to
the world that German arms.are

not invincible?

Russia may succumb today. or
next year; but she has rendered the
cause of. democracy a great serv
makes no difference. Although the
democracies have been jittery, they
have not been too jittery to disparage the valor of Russian arms. Had
news accounts been taken seriously, we would have expected the
complete collapse of. Russia within
30 days after Hitler turned his legions toward the East. But after
nearly five. months | Russia still

she fights the battles of the. democracies just as doen, pe tain
fights her own. en
afi ~
and is evén so whi
wherever a nation resorts to arms.

STEALIN G THE SHOW

ing to vex the democracies once
peace is declared, is how to stem
the sympathye and respect that
communism is begetting in the
minds and hearts of the democracies who much feel obligated to Russia for the valiant part she is playing in ~holding the fort~ until they
come. Politicians may forget Rus-sia~s sacrifice. but in the heart of
mankind there is going to remain
an admiration for the valor of the
Russians.

Unless democracies bestir them
becoming more. and more afraid
that Russia is going to steal. the
show. In the final analysis the
world will know. who should be
thanked for the saving of democracy. Russia~s solo fight is not
strengthening wager 4 as we
know it! |

CONVERSAT

ION PIECE

By DR. MARC MORELAND

Maytime For The
Mayweathers.

~IT~S MAYTI1ME in the lives of
Willie and Floyd Mayweather.
Willie and Floyd are the two
young Kansas: City brothers who
are to get two-thirds of a $7,000,000 estate as the result of an
Oklahoma court decision. The
court ordered two oil companies to
pay this amount in cash to the
estate f the brothers~ Indian
aunt

This money represents royalties
on. oil ~ from the _ aunt~s
property since 1915, The other
third of the money will go to
Willie and Floyd~s aunt, a 66-yedr
old half sister of the Indian, ~who
lives at Claremore, Oklahoma, Will
Rogers~ old hemetown.and where
I once made a speech at commencement to a high school graduating
class,

Willie is ~34 and Floyd ~s ats
and if these Mayweather lads
aren't in the Maytime

_|a roiling, winding Oklahoma high-, and thirtieth years jn Oklahoma, as

never enjoyed a mellow moon on
way, with a vrairie wind sdbbing
plaintively of the picturesque past
of this one-time Indian country!

And when I tell you that I spent
a period covering my twenty-sixth

dolege ptpfessor gnd -newspaper
editor, as green and impressicnable
@ young doctor of philosophy as
ever a university loosed on an unsuspecting world, brother, you
know I enjoyed those mellow Oklahoma moons!

LOVES OKLAHOMA ~
Now before Willie and Floyd
Mayweather, an? their Claremore
~aunt, get the impression that I~m
doing all this talking about their
native Oklahoma to soften them
up for a ~touch, though __ they
sou be, as: believe they are,
against such an eventualite, I want to say that I toved
Oklahoma long: before I ever
heard of them.,..and I can prove
it too! Now ~there!
The very idea, pinkie I _
erftertain any such dishonorjble
thought. Just let them ask = any:

at Claremore, largely through. the
intercession of W. T. Jr.; but
dont forget I got other commencement savrtetions that same vear!
So now!

ENJOYED SPEECH

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What I~m wondering about, is
whether Willie. and Floyd~s -aunt
~was in the audience that night, And
I~m wondering about this....because I know that if she was there,
she enjoyed that speech I made.
Everybody said she did, And |
I~ refuse to believe that, since she
must have been there, she would
have said if she didn~t mean it, she
enjoyed that speech especially
when she had had the good fortune and good sense to be the one
who, in the month of ~October,
1941; would be left a fortune of
a couple million bucks ~ (which
ain~t no hay even in a corntry

grass).

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district brought a ruling from|Claremore, over which my friend
Judge Long that the case of|W. T. Jones, Sr., presided as
~MeDaniels vs. Escambia | county| principal (his son, WT. Jct.,
was in the same category as. the | was a student of mine at the
~case upheld by the U. S_. Su- State college and a roomer in~ my
preme Court. This was the first| cottage at Langston).
~case of this kind contested inthe} All right, go ahead and say it.
staté. Yes, I got the invitation to speak

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