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Henry R: Luce Asks oa
Of National Urban League Week

ing between American citizens of} | fie

~NEW YORK, ~- / ANP ~ The!
Negro~ community. of America is
urged to observe National Urban
League Week, May 25-31, in a
statement issued by the chairman
of the league~s national $450,000
campaign, Henry, R, Luce, editor
of Time and Life,

As head. of a ~committee of Negro and white leaders from all
fields, Mr. Luce said the league~s
program of promoting economic
opportunities for Negroes..and
improving interracial relations
merits the widest: possible support because it is practical and
~goats things done.~

_His statement reads: ~We do
not say that the Negro problem
can be solved this year or next
year. What we do say is this ~
based on 36 years of patient, expert work of the league ~ that
with help thf problem can be
kept from becoming insoluble.
Progress can ~be made; mroEpess
has been. made.

~To hundreds of thousands of
Negroes the work of the League
and its friehds means just that
little chance for decent opportunity which can make all the

difference in a man~s life,
~To hundreds of American cities and towns the work of the. Urban league means just that

little smaller chance of bitterness
and resentment which can poison
the spirit ~ and the prosperity~
of your city and town,

~TI support the Urban league
also because we as 2 nation have
an immense amount of work to
aoc

~There is no immediate problem for America which cannot
be solved by work. But without
work ~ hard work ~ none of

-our problems will or can be solv
ed. A working America will provide the means to save ourselves
and the world from economic
ruin and war. A lazy America or
an America which closes the door
to. any_man~s honest labor will
invite disaster for America and
the world.

~In this situation ~ quite sim.
ple, yet profoundly critical ~ it
is imperative that every Negro
be given a* wide open chance to
work to the fullest of his capacity, In this. situation it is imperative that every Negro and every
white man should put his most
earnest effort into whatever job
he has,

~The objectives of the Urban
league are the objectives of
American democracy. The meth
ods of this organization are wholly consistent with the spirit of
democratic and cooperative liv
~any race.

~The National Urban iawn: is
the coordinating, driving force
behind the basic, important activities undertaken to carry out
the League program throughout
the country ~ with government
officials and agencies, with large

industrial firms, with labor un-|

ions, with national social ee
agencies.

~The work of the national office directly helps the local leagues. It should be supported with
contributions sent to 1133 Broadway, New York 10, N Y.~

Shaw University
Baccalaureate.
Speaker Dies

RALEIGH, N. C. ~ (ANP) ~
The Rev. H. G. Pope of Salem
Baptist church, Jersey City, died
in Baltimore Tuesday morning
of last week after several weeks
of ill health.

Rev. Pope, a.. graduate of
North Carolina college, was
scheduled..to, deliyer the. baccalaureate sermon in connection
with the 82nd commencement
exercises of Shaw university on
Sunday afternoon, May 25.

Poultry Range
Work at agricultural wxporiciaie
stations shows that savings of 5 per
cent to over 20 per cent in feed
result when poultry has access to
a good grass pasture as compared

to those raised on a bare range.

~HI REGGIE!
HAVE A HUNK

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A. & T? CHAMPIONSHIP DE.
BATING SQUAD ~ Kappa Phi
Kappa Forensic Society of the A.
and T. College, Greensboro, N,
C., recent winner of 1947 TriState Debating League championship competing against teams
from Virginia State and South
Carolina A, and M. colleges,
shown with~ the championship
trophy. Holding the cup are Ce.
tire Streater, Cheraw, S. C,, and
Lillie B. Hairston of Winston
Salem, N. C.

Second Row ~ George ~Lawson,
Greensboro, N, C.; Samuel Hill,
High Point, and Levi E, Fonville of Jacksonville, N. C. Back
row~James W. Turner, (Coach),
L. Yolande Mebane, Pantego, N.
C,; and Andrew A, Best of King.
ston, N. C. Prof Roy H. Brown,

debate. at A.

~(Poole Photo).

Navy and Coast Guard May
Stop Segregation in Their Branches

WASHINGTON ~. ANP ~
House bill | 279 introduced by

Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.,

FIRST NEGRO BAND
PLAYS WHITE MIAMI CAFE

By James B. Lafourche

MIAMI ~ ANP Twentyseven years ago, Chauncey Lee~s
Whispering orchestra attempted
to play white Miami and its musicians were physically beaten and
ran out of town.

Last week, Sammy Wilson and
his Rockland Palace orchestra,
featuring such stars as Emory
Evans, Ester Gardner, Bobbie
Lopez, Marion Griffin and Dave
Young, played the. Frolic club,
most popular, of | Miami~s Bay
Shore Palace fntertainment night
spots, and eof a rousing welcome
from a capadity crowded house,

Several Ne#ro bands have played white Miami night\spots recently, but never has an attempt

been made to stage.a_ show.
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~sto prohibit race segregation in
the armed forces of the United
States after the termination of
hostilities in the present war and
the begining of demobilization,~
has been given the green light by
the navy and treasury departments.

In a letter to Walter G. Andrews, chairman of the committee on armed services, O. S. Cololough, rear admiral and judge
advocate general.of the navy,
wrote. ~~the navy department interposes no objection -to the enactment of the bill H.R. 279.~
A similar letter was sent to Andrews by E. H. Foley, Jr., acting secretary of the treasury.

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as a great.source of pleasure, not
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Only 1,000.
Jamaicans Slated
For U. S. Work

By Wilbert E. Hemming
KINGSTON, Jamaica ~ANP~
Labor recruiting quthorities here
this week marked off four-fifths
of 5,000 farm workers billed to
come to the U. S,, leaving only a
paltry 1,000 of the number who
will actually be sailing as soon

as transportation is~ available.

ise, AFPD representatives~ ~who
were in the island a couple of
weeks ago, said everything: depended on orders from Washington. But certain members of elected. government here said that
the hitch was a financial one.
From what could be gathered,
the financial proposals embodied
in the terms of contract between
the U. S. and Jamaica governments were very poor. So Jamaiea is said to have-placed her
cards on the table in the interest
of the workers This would still
take a little time before Washington could reply, thus recruitment has been stalled.

cated that there is no objection.
~My bill is complete in ~that it
will abolish
separate mess ~halls, or otherwise.~ 4

With rapand to the army, Powell continued: ~It is) regrettable
that the army~ is so. far behind
the times as to disagree with the
navy and treasury departments.
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| there are only~ 48 commissioned
| Negro officers on active duty out
ne over 20,000.~ ~

Secy. of War Robert P. Patterson explained his objection to
the Powell bill as follows: ~~The
~War Department ~has long con
| sidered the matter of utilizing

Negro manpower consonant with
its desité to achieve maximum
offectiveness, The war department does. not believe that effective utilization of its mannower could be obtained by the
enactment of the proposed lesislation, at the present time. Reeent]y the matter was studied
~or four months by a board of
s>neral officers, during which

}time more than 60 civilian and

military leaders. white and Nesro. gave testimonv. Forward~ooking recommendations were
~toresented ag a result of. the
~oerd's deliberation.

~The war denartment approvod and nromulaated these recommerdations e~ estahlished policy
fon 27 Avril 2946. The basic policv evisions comovlete interspversal of duty assignment. on the. basis -of individual ability; for
white and Negro nersonnel in
overhérd and special units, such
as. headauarters,. hospitals, post
and station complement, recruit
tins eetvice. ete.

~It also provides for the assignment of small all-Negro organizations of combat and service types as an organic part of
larger white units. The war devartment believes that progressive experimentation pursuant to.. the recommendation of the board

of general officers will. in time
accomplish tha vourpose of the
~rnvosed leislation.~

Powell, however. concluded
that ~on the basis of this correspondence, I'am now pressing Mr.
Andrews for a full hearing on

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my bill.~

Failure to live up to the prom-~

separate quarters, |

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WASHIGNTON ~ ANP ~ A
lack of Negro

ed Dr. Ralph Bunche, director of
-the UN division of trusteeship, to
express alarm here last week
during his appearance in the 3rd
of a series-of forum addresses at
Howard university.

Only a few Negroes have attended the UN meetings, he said.
Negro organizations and the Negro press have developed: shortsighted. attitudes, he charged, and
the narrow conception of Negro
schools and the Negro pulpits has
~a tendency to let these affairs go
to default as far as they are con.
cerned.

Dr, Bunche said such attitudes,
in this atomic age, are ~~foolha>dy~ and ~~suicidal,~ He explained
the relationship of colonial peoples~ problems to. those confronting American Negroes as exploitations for economic reasons rather than race. Non self governing
peoples constitute one-sixth of

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Lack of Negro Interest In
U.N. Alarms Dr. Ralph Bunche

world~s popuiation. he said, with

interest in the; the majority of them being non| United nations organization caus-| white.

He revealed that three of the
19 chapters of the UN~s San
Francisco charter. were devoted
to the problems of~ non-self-governing peoples, which was one of
the first operations to get underway at the United Nations. But
this interes. of peoples in dependent territories and recognition of
their political aspirations, is only
a ~crack in ~the door~ as far as
international ~ accountability is
concernéd, he declared.

Dr. Bunche explained how his
branch of the UN: functions to

aid non-self governing peoples by

providing a peaceful means of
making the transition from colonial to self government status,
The system has its waeknesses
he said, in that the dependent
people have no voice and the

~council has no definite standards

mse Woodard~s
Wife Jailed for
Striking Cop

HARTFORD, Conn. ~ ANP~~
Police probation officers are investigating the case of assault
brought against the wife of Isaac~
Woodard, blind ex-serviceman
who lost his sight last year. as 2
result of brutality by southern
police. ~

The assault charges grew out
of a recent visit to the Woodard~s home by Policeman William J. Santame. According to his
testimony, Santame was attacked from behind by Mrs. Hazel
Woodard as he! walked into the
housé.. Before she could be sub- *
dued by other officers and taken
to jail, she inflicted a number of
cuts, scratches and abrasions on
Santame

At a hzaring in police court
here, Mrs. Woodard told the
judge that she ~~shouldn~t hate all
policemen because of the action

as to when they are prepared for | of one, but it was just the way

self government,

ATLANTA
James M. Nabrit, cheers eee
tary of the National Baptist Convention, Inc., and pastor of First
Baptist church, Memphis, was
funeralized and buried here as
thousands joined to spay tribute
to the fallen leader. ~

Dr. Nabrit had died in the
home of his last pastorate. He

had been a Georgia and Atlanta pastor for many years previously.

The Rev. W. W. Weatherspool, pastor of Mt. Olive Baptist church,: where Dr. Nabrit
had pastored for many years,

served as master of ~ ceremonies,

Dr. D. V. Jemison, of Selma,
Ala., president of the National Baptist Convention, Inc.,
headed the list of national representatives and friends pay
ing brief oral tribute to Dr. Na~prit~s last remains. Among other
speakers were Dr.. Louie D. Newton, white, pesident of the Southern Baptist convention and representative of the World Baptist
alliance; Dr. B. E. Mays, president of Morehouse college; Dr.
L. A. Pinkston, president of the
Georgia Baptist Missionary convention; Dr. R. W. Riley, presi.
dent of the American Theological saminary, Nashville; Presi
~| dent Florence M. Read of Spel
Fman College and Atlanta university.

Ministers of the Atlanta Baptist Ministers~ union served as
| Interment took
place at Lincoln Memorial cemetery in the family lot.

The Memphis funeral for Dr.
Nabrit was held at his-First. Baptist church. Among leaders to
speak there were: Dr. Roland
Smith, statistician of the National Baptist convention; Dr. B. J.
Perkins, of Cleveland, convention
treasurer; the Rev. H. H. Humes,

Baptist convention; L. O. Swingler, editor of the Memphis World
~Dr. J. L. Campbell, representing the National Baptist convention; Dr. W. H. Jernagin, of
Washington, president of the
Sunday School and BAU congress; Dr. S. A. Owen, president
of the Tennessee State Baptist
~convention; T. O Fuller, Jr., of
the First Baptist Trustee board,

president of the Mississippi State |

Hundreds Attend Final Rites of
Dr. J. M. Nabrit, Vet Baptist Leader -.,and Dr. D. Albert Jackson,. pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist Church,
Knoxville, Tenn., who served as
master of ceremonies.

A native of Atlanta, Dr. Nabrit rounded out his young manhood here. He pastored at Mount
Olive Baptist chureh for 16. 1-2
years and it was under his leadership that the chureh was er~cted. He served for 17 years as
president of the Georgia Missionary. Baptist convention and because of his outstanding services
was mzde president - emeritus
for life. Dr Nabrit was one of
the oldest living graduates of
Morehouse and at the time of his
death was a trustee of both Morehouse and Atlanta U. He earned
his M. A. degree from Chicago
university and held honorary degrees from Selma and Morris
colleges and Morehouse and Atlanta U.

Going to Tennessee in 1936,
Dr. Nabrit. organized the National Baptist. Training school at
Nashville, while carrying out the
duties of president of American
Baptist seminary. As a member
of the World Baptist Alliance Executive board, he visited in Germany several years ago and had
planned to attend the session of
this body in Copsnhagen this
summer. He was a member of the
Fraternal Council of Negro
churches. He succeeded the late
Dr. T. O. Fuller as pastor of First
Baptist church in Memphis

Survivors include eight children: J. M. Nabrit, Jr., Secretary
of Howard university; Samuel
Nabit, Morehouse professor; Mrs.
Margaret Curry, dean at Spelman college; Rev. Henry Nabrit,
supervisor of religious education,
West Virginia State college; Mesdames Ann Young, Detroit; Cecelia Adkins, of Nashville; Gertrude Thomas, New York City,
and J. H. Clarke, Knoxville, the
latter being wives of doctors.

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NFw YORK ~ ANP ~ Larrv
Doveles, who hails from Detroit
and who now resides in Jamaica,
Long Island. is now with the
Long Island Daily Press 99 a fea.
tured writer. the first Negro to
write for this shzet. Doretas~s
first storv was on the contribu-:
tion made hy Count Basie. swing ~
king which caused a niad rush
ty nurehasa copies on the part of
Ranie~s fons. t

A slim vouth, Mr. Douglas
lives in the Merrick Park. sector.
His writing hegan back in his.
enllese davs when he was at the
Universitv of Michigan. He had
worked on the staff*of the New
Voark ~ttehurch Courier. Clave.
Tand Worald P.M. and Pennle~s
Waine ond hac frooe Janced vwrrit.
ins orticles for Ebony and Life
~mocazines.:

Vorestile. he said at one time
ha wae the Jeader of one of the
moet nonilar 15 piece dance ormhastrag in tha midwest. Larry
himecsall urac the first Neern to
niav in the Tiniversity of Mirhigan Symphony orchestra where
he carried on with the bass violin under the direction of Thor

Johnson, who is now the con- ~.|

ductor of the Cincinnati Symphony orchestra. ~~Sissle got me
my first dance engagement in
1935 at Chicago~s Savoy balk
room,~ he said, + ~ oft 2

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