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aN FLINT BROWNIES =m FLINT, MICHIGAN. TUSKEGEE, Ala~Member~ of the first class of
Negro piléts from the nation~s first Negro air school,
here; received their. wings and now are second lieu
tenants in the U.S. Air Forces.

Col. Frederick ~V. H, Kimble, presenting ~wings ' to}
assisted by Major N. F. Parrish.

Shown here are

(left to right), Capt, Benjamin 0. Davis, Jr.,
Washington, D. C.;
ford, Conn.; Charles Henry De Bow, of Indianapolis,
Ind; Georée Spencer Roberts of Fairmont, West Va.,
and Mac Ross; ~of Dayton, Ohio.

of
Lemue] Rodney Custis, of Hart
Col. Kimble was

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41,000 Whites, Only 6, 000

Negroes To Army In Carolina

Senakior On Goodwill Hour.

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Negro citizens are determined that in the final analysis,
fighters of a democratic world. shall prevail;

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Attorney Joseph F.

Craigen, Michigan deputy labor commissioner, told the radio audience
~ sof. WJLB, Detroit, during the Interracial Goodwill Hour last Sunday.

~The Negro,~ the speaker said,

~is asking only that

America nat

Ylese her,sense of common fairtess and to remember that 13 million

Molack souls are willing to give their all so that victory will be ours.~

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(CME~s To Meet

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' KANSAS ~CITY, Mo.~(A N P)
*.CME~s will converge on Cleve~land beginning Wednesday, March
725, and concluding Sunday, March
* 29. This will be the final gatherog of a general nature of national
~seope for leaders of the Colored
i Methodist Episcopal church prior
ito the setting of the approaching; general -conferenee. which is _sche-; duled to-open its.quadrennial ses-; Sion in St. Paul- Church, Chicago,; Wednesday, May 6
According to the Rev. C. kt.; Chapman, general secretary..of the

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' department of public relations, a
is likely that the gather of C
at Lane Metropolitan church, Ls
Ohio~s first city will be of par-.
ticular significance and will uhdoubtediy attract leaders, ~-both
clergy and iaymen, from all nihe
of the episcopal districts of the
church, coming at a time whphnr
there is no other meeting of special and widespread interest to de
meeting.

~There are two major Lttractidns
~the annual session of the bishops~
council and the. mammoth prfogram to be sponsored in connerction with the celebration of - the
40th anniversary of the episcopal
career of Bishop: Charles H. Phillips as bishop of one of the major
Methodist bodies of the world.~ |

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With Penetro. 25~. Double size,

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Causes Senator

To Investigate:

COLUMBIA, S. C. ~(ANP)

|| South Carolinians, white, have been
| much
|| great disparity between the number
~of Negoes and whites who have been

disturbed because of the

inducted into the army. Although
Negroes constitute almost half of
the population of South Carolina,

| up-to-date there have been. 41,000

white South Carolinans sent to the
army and only 6,000 Negroes.

The sentiment ~among white people who see the flower of. their
youth being drafted with the Negroes left behind, reached such a
point that an appeal was made to
Senator Maybank to look into the
matter.

Reports from Washington from
Senator Maybank who called upon
the adjutant generals~ office to inquire why there were so few Negroes being drafted, were to the effect that the department said 17,500 South Carolina Negroes would
be inducted during April. Maybank
said further that there were 147,219
white boys registered and only 107,610 Neproes.

Coléred observers point! to two
reasons for the disparity in numbers between the races. First, although 2,708 Negroes were placed in
class A-1 recently, white~ boys had
to be substituted because the army
did not have enough facilities to
care for the colored troops in the
segregated units already set up.
Second, a large number of colored
boys have been unable to pass the
literary test. South Carolina spends
only $8 a year to educate her -colored youth while she spends $24
per year.for whites. The result. is
that. white boys pass the literary
test with ease -

Senator Maybank, while governor,
made an honest effort to improve
Negro education facilities by coming out for equalization of pay for
Negro and white teachers. The Ku
Klux Klan lambasted him for ~his
efforts. There is many a wry smile
| as the Kluxers~ sons are inducted~; into..serviee-. leaving -their Prete

a cousins beltind:

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MISERIES

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SET BLACK -WAIR. COLORING.

Wide Disparity:

| Army

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in the army.

For the first time in the h tory
of the United States army, Negro
medical ~professiorais willbe *'ad~'
mitted on the basis of their a -bility,
given adequate rank and the opportunity to do full work in keieping
with their training. In World; War
No. 1, Negro doctors were iri fact
mere first aid attendants. No he got
above rank of captain with the exception of Maj. J. H. Ware, who
received his majority in rather
oblique fashion and not becaiase the
medical corps in general wished him.
to have it. From the ~majors
inducted into this new uni~t, three
will be advanced to lieuten~ant colonel and one to colonel.

TO BE SEPERATE

The opening created by the arm):
through the surgeon general~s office
comes as a direct result of the agitation which has been ~carried o1
~py the National Medical Association.
It will be a completely separate unit,
stationed with the-all-INegro division at Fort Huachuca, Ariz.

Dr. M. O. Bousfield, chairman of
the sub-committee of the National
Medical Association Procurement
and Assignment service, who made
the announcement after a conference with the ~surgeon ~ general,
pointed out the new unit is a victory for the;protest against exclusion of Negro doctors.

~It gives protection,~ said Dr.
Bousfield, ~to our best physicians
in two ways; it prevents their being
drafted into the,sanks and gives
greater protection/through being assigned to a station hospital which
will not be disturbed unless the
country is bontbed ~or successfully
invaded. The men in this group will
not likely see active service with the
fighting forces.~

YOUNG DOCTORS NEEDED

Negro physicians will be selected
on the same basis that white physicians were selected. The! Nas
been some misappreé n; Dr.
Bousfield ~said,~ because doctors felt
that unless they were members of
the National Medical Association,
the American Medical Association or
their state, or city, or county bodies,
that they would not be eligible.
~That is not true,~ Bousfield. reported, ~medical men may join regardless of their affiliations or
lack of them.~
Colored physicians who are within the draft age or who are interested in joining the armed forces are.
requested: to write immediately -to

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Fort Huachua To
Get Experiment

The war department has plans for
the development ~ of a complete hospital unit to be located: at
Fort Huachuca, to ~be staff with Negro physicians who will
be drawn from both- the reserve corps and from civil life
and who will be in command positions bear the highest military rank which Negro) medical men ~have ever attained
The list of-needed personnel calls for 16 majors, 11 captains and ~ten. lieutenants in the medical corps;

for three majors, a caritain and lieutenant in the dental
corps; and six medical administrative officers.
there will be 70 nurses arid 370 enlisted men.

In on

4901 Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.

The entire complement of physicians must ~be passed upon ~and their
names submitted immediately. At
~the ee ae there willbe no rank"
above -that of m@jor: sPromotions
from this rank to the grades~ dbove
occur after six month~s satisfactory
digcharge> of duties. aa ~

More Graduates
To Be Sent Out
By Meharry

Program Being

Stepped up To
Meet Demands

statement issued here last week, Dr.
E. L. Turner, president of Meharry
Medical college, declared the medical school which now supplies more
than. 50 per cent of all Negro medical students in the United States
and: Canada, is to continue increas
medical officers to attend the nee
of Negro énlisted army personnel.
~During the past few months,
the number of men under arms has.
increased greatly,~ said Dr. Turner.
~Not only that, but plans already
perfected call for a still greater in-'
crease, Such an increase in the enlisted personnel naturally calls for:
an increase in the number of medi-.
cal officers~
~ ~These~ ~medical officers must come:
~from the: younger phy: already in practice and f those to

tbe graduated by the medical ~schools

during the next few years. A larger
number ~of physicians must be produced.:

~Meharry has already increased
its output of physicians and ~ will
continue to'do'so for several years
This has been accomplished by increasing the size of graduating
classes from around 30 to 50 or
more. Careful selections of students,
with a subsequent. lower loss due to
failures, has been largely responsi
Dr. M. O. SBousfield, - chairman,
Committee on Negro Health, Procurement and Assignment service,

ble. A greater percentage of those
enter. as freshmen graduates. Thus,
Meharry has increased its output of

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NASHVILLE ~ (ANP) ~ In_ a/

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Editors and damptiets o~ ~The Negro Caravan,~ ~3
monumental an logy. of American Negro creative
writing recently published py the Dryden press, New

Arthur P. Davis, Virginia Union.

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here. Left to right, they are Sterling Brown, How* ard ~university; Ulysses Lee, Lincoin vom maa and

WASHINGTON, D. C~(SNS)~
An agreement that Negro union
carpenters will veceive the first 75
of an estimate 200 new carpentry
jobs in the constructicn of the
Voluntecr Ordnance Works in
Tennessee was announced today
by Dr: Robert ~. Weaver, chief of
the Negro Emplcyment and Training Branch, Labor: Division, WPB:

This agreement was reached on
Merch if, 1942, by representatives
of: Dr. Weaver's office and the
President~s Committee on Fair
Employment Practice in a conference with ~represeritatives of
Negro and white carpenters~ locais
~in Chattanooga, the contractors,
Abe War. Department _ and the
United Em erit. Service!
b ae
cluding two feremen, are already
employed on *he project which is

nhiyiicialas over 50 per cote and the
great probability that classes of over 60 will graduate.in 1943 will show

ater percentage.
r3 correspondingly ie 2 Z: place its full aciditional memiber
increase.~

The administrative group at Meharry rejected ithe four-quarter system for the present time, after
making a comprehensive survey
which revealed that 75 Lg heey of
the undergraduates need ~the 3 1-2

months) of summer vacation to engage in bicvaie soaked employment.

The Globe Trotter

By Cliff Macher

The Vicious Circle

LOOMING AS A definite challenge to the million or more Negro-workers in Georgia is the determined: effort to limit their vocational activities to~ the low-wage
industrial or agricultural pursuits.

This pattern of economic... enslavement - a people, whose only
sin ~is that their
skins are black,
becomes increasingly clear with
each day~s passing. It is a low
scheme which the
present head. of
the state government: has. stated

~his belief in on
F repeated occaa sions.

~Now whether
knowingly or not,

MACKAY
the federal government, through~

local representatives of its varied
agencies, has become a party to

block black Georgians from the
good-paying industrial pursuits was
subtle. Now. the forces, which would
again enslave Negroes have, under
~the guise of national
come-out in the open.

MOVEMENT DANGEROUS

Like an ugly spider carefully
weaving a web of sticky~ entanglement about the feet of an unsus
jon movement to vee the

ache and. aspiration of the
black. worker to take his place beride those. of other races on ~ the

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fly has been this under-|,

plants turning out defense contracts have devised new schemes
net only to thwart this tradition,
but to sidestep the stated policy of
the national administration that
there would be no discrimination
based on. race.;

VICIOUS CIRCLE FORMED

A vicious circle has been formed
around the Negro =-worker who
either seeks to learn a defense
trade or would seas a his ae
skill as a worker.

This circle is formed with such
malicious intent that it leaves the
Negro worker but one avenue of
escape. He either must take. the
menial, the dirty, the unwanted
and despised occupations in. industry, or accept the miserable lot
of a peonage-like existence as a
farm laborer in ~. or
Starve.

In -Georgia, the circle ts formed
by four angles. One, the state director of vocational defense train
handles federal money appropriated by Congress for the training of defense workers.
The other three angles include
the various local advisory councils,
the local school boards and the
U. S. Employment Offices,.which
under tthe management of local

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NYA, CCC CURTAILED

Only) the NYA and the CCC in
Georgia were | giving Negroes training as ~skilled | workers. The ~circle~
frowned upon this. Now the activities of the NYA are. being sharply curtailed. Quickly on the heels
of this comes the order that no
more Negroes in Georgia will be
certified for) the CCC, although

whites are being taken in at the
rate of 900 per month.
Georgia~s governor ~cooperates~

by pointing out the ~places~ the

~circle~ should relegate Negroes as
workers. He lets some fifty out
of the chaingang to do the kind
of work he thinks all Negroes are
best fitted for~farm labor. And,
he adds, if they don~t like | that
back into the chaingang they will
go. Of course the United States
Supreme Court has called this
practice of ~leasing~ out~ prisoners
to not-so-merciful plantation owners. nothing but another form of
slavery, but) thus far this ruling
has not served at a deterrent.

The writer contends that this
vicious circle is a challenge to
the black men of Georgia, comprising as they do 40 percent of
the state~s population.

It is a, policy diametrically opposed to that outlined time and
time again by the President. It is
an undemocratic penalty imposed

at the time when unity and mutual confidence are the paramount
need.,

HAMPERS TRAIN IN G PROGRAM

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400 Hired At Ordnance Works

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being ~erected by the Stone and
~Webster ~Commeny. The 75 new
Negro carpenters will be in addition to the mumber already at
work on the job. *

The 7 Negro carpenters will ne
referred to the job by Local 2216
of Chattanooga, who had coimplained ty) the Negro Employment anid
Training Branch and the Committee on Fair Employment Practice
that its members had been discriminated against in recruitmerit
of carpenters for the Stone and
Webster preject.. Earlier, com-.
plaints~ to Dr. Weaver's office~ ~by
Odell, Lowery, buciness - agent of
Local 2216, had~ resulted in an increase of colered catpenters to the
41 ~at work at the ~tine: a the
10~agreement.. hie Clee
-FoHowing subsequent covapatais
trom the local, Dr. Weaver dispatched Cy W. Record of his staff

to Chattanooga. Mr. Recer@ ~ arranged the ccnference which rfTesulted in the agreement that

Local 2216 would be ~perrhitted to

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Negro Carpenters To ~Get
Jobs On Tennessee Project

before another white)
was employed.

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'Booklets On Health

Week Are Available

WASHINGTON, D. C~(A N P)
With National Negro Health
Week set for the dates, Sunday,
April 5, through Sunday, April 12,
the U. S. Public) Health ~ service
announces the publication of several bocklets and pamphlets. heljful for the successful conduct of
this week.

National

Among them are the
Negro Week bulle > the National
Negro Health W poster;. the

National Negro

donb Defense Pr
Improvement
Health~ the U. S. Public Health
service asks that persons interested make early uests for these
publications since there will not be.
enough to supply~ ~ entire d2 -mand.

ship| of 75 carpenters on

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CAN COME.

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the name of ~dream cream~

KE a dream come trve, flattering
Black and White Vanishing Cream
is bringing women everywherearevela- )
tion in the pleasing and desirable quales that every woman wants in beauty
care. Every woman who dreams of the
loveliness that omazes men and holds
their admiration, can have, in thiscream,
every help that perfect Vanishing Cream "
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off that old-look to your complexion * |
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