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RALEIGH. N. C. GOV. O’CONOR backs JC REPEAL BILL Adam Powell Intrcjjuces Travel Bifl MANPOWER MUST BENEFIT WAR EFFORT Musun K. Swearingen, War .Manpower Area Director for the Durham - Raleigh labor mark •. aiea today stated that loc-al offic- of the USES aie not revolving manpower mvenioiy fr -nj em- : ployers m expectiMd numbers •Tho lomvs—known as WMC- faiiA—were mailed to employers of | 25 or more workers early in Jan uary," said Air. Swearingen, ' with the request that they be complet ed and returned to their noaresl local office of the United State.: En.ploymeni Servn-.- bv F.-buia- ry 15." Many oi the lortns havi' been returned, jceordmg tu tiie Ar..i D;ri-«-tor. bat there ar.* -.t;!! manv « ii'plny. IS who jK.ve n.it b--. n heard Iioin. Mr. Swearingen - .-efibed the form as necessatw in "Ide: t.hat ufieial.« IlKlv: ai lUiale KIlOW.eKlg. .rt !,h- pi.-!ent ii..inp^»wer .Situation. • I on back pagei I'Ol.i i A\ VHiTijSlIKI) l\ GI'OKt.lA Lmu Powell Introduces NAACP Bill Banning J. C. Travel y^.l MKXXV. KALEIGH. NORTH CAKOU.XA SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10. 1946 ?FlCE FIVE CEN'TS BAPTISTS ELECT STATE SEC’Y RALEIGH, NORTH CAROU.XA SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1946 U1 Ih. • Ii " i; t.i.. •I; •. I measure. (iuVM'iu.r AiiL.il h i'.i v .iu.ed U.v 1 .. Ilut if U..- bill Ueu- liOl P-.>4-d uy ibe H.ni>e I.e amuU: uypei.J It b.% e\eeim\-. diui.i 'iJie owl was pa.-'ed by HI Xkj 'll Seven icn.a.i.au ^.ittivii. -tates still have the pell la.\--Teiiiiessce. .-Mabama, .Aik^nis..-, Ali... ; .ppi, V'liginia Te.\«s Snd .S..utt. Caiolina. Proud of tlie jctiei. taken by his i.'itc. the governor cumiinnted, I'edBy Geeigia 'pok f 'l Democ racy '• \.(;.t;0bLEGKPK()F. TO SPEAK ATI. OE .VIKTUGAN Durham, N. C.—D». Jt/hn Hope Franklin, professor of American Til. Ill, LADY" FETED BV WILMINGTON DELTAS ■li.- r"u C'Mh\eh^ r* Sigma Tiieta Sorority entertained Mrs. Mary McLeixi Betliune at M s WVhhn here to make a speech recently at St SU pW's A M F. Ch'Arch .\l.. B ihune L« ahown with ofiicer and members of the sorority. NEGfiOES SUP PORT WALLACE AND TEU FDR New York. N. Y, Eeburary 1 ••’The Negro's stake in the na tion’s *10 million jobs program, for which Henry A W^lace Speedy Action Asked In Bill For Federal Education Aid Washington. D. C.—Support of tile Federal Aid to Education : Bill, S181 was urged by Leslie S. j Perry, AdminislraUve Assistant j of the NAACP Washington Bu- [ reau, m testimony January 31.be- j fore the Education anr La‘boi Committee of the United States ' c .. . , r, , . StaU'd b the United States Cofn- missioner of Education. "We are ol the firm opinion that few, if any, of the Southern State^ who would be the beneficlaxica. imdec .the *dii be 'aUe in theiorseeahleiuture to bri^ their sy'stecns of public REV. KILGORE K ELECTED SECT STATE BAPTIST PtAI.^toH - nie Rev. Tliymas h'h-ore§j^c,cr of the , Friendship ■ 'Pli-'t^urch nf Winston-Saleir it IS b«t elected executive secre- :iry o/, the'General Baptist Slav f .-iivn^on of North Carolina, it was Bribouncod last week by Presi- ■'■'nt ^A. Bishop of the Convert t'un. Ik succeeds the Rev C. F G'-iffJnJwhn •■ . accepted the pas ior:ie f( the First Calvary Baoiiw Ch'trclfaf Norfolk. Va . and will as- •ume .‘•s new duties immediately The paw executive secretary Is a S'l duafp of Morehouse College. At lanta, nd has done graduate work .at the poward University School of H Uglok Before golnj to Winston- Salem,^ aerved as pastor of the New ■•tbel Baptist Church of -\. heviii and as Instructor In the Hatherprd County public schools. He is a native of Brevard. In leip than six years at Winston- Salem, ttte Re\ Mr. Kilgore has de- velopedjfc a comparatively smsii ..hurchfkito one of the leading fa the State. The church, members, has a budget ol Jie beautiful cnurch build- loderuly equipped and op- eraten ^nursery school, with thrM .LiUtLtg -Tha Am Me. Kilgore also has been serving as co'lege minister at the Wln^n- Washington, D. C.—At the re quest of the NAACP, Congress man Adam Ciaylon Powell, Jr., of New York, mtroduced a hill, drafted by the NAACP Legal Committee and the Washington Bureau, to prohibit segregation in interstate traveL The bill provides “It shall be •unlawful to segregate passengers traveling on any instrumentality or facility of carriage, or using any terminal facility, subject to this Act on account of such pas sengers' race or color. Any such segregation or attempt to segre-' gate by any person or persons' subject to this Act shall subject violation of this Act." In introducing the bill, Repre- -ientative Powell declared “The passage of an Anti-Jim Crow Transportation Act will be a blow against Hitler just as will the fall 01 Beilin. It wiU Jet the Negro (jTs know that they are fighting a peoples' war, It will reassure the white GI’s that their feUo'w Negro fighters, good enough to die in Europe and the Pacific, arc good enough to ride anywnere in ihe United States of America.” Commenting upon the introduc COAUiv. tion of the bill, Lesue h. r'cny ul the Washington Bureau, NAACP Slated tiiai it covered segregation m railroads, busses and boats cressing stale lines. It also pri> hibits segregation in bus and rail road stations, their restaurants •Cyminued on oack pdgej 17 RED CROSS WORKERS ARRIVE OVERSEAS Washington, D. C.—Arrival of 1? Neffx> American Red Cross workers overseas to augment ataffa already on duty is announc ed this week by natk®-*’ head quarters. Five workers arrived in Xife * Magazine Artist Praises Race Troops BY VLE.\A ABVEY LOS ANGELEla, Calif. iCNS> — Negro soldiers have t relauvely good time abroad, declared Tom .Craig, leading Southern California artist who recently returned from many months spent overseas in com oat zones as an artist war corres pondent for Life Magazine. The men go to the opera bouse when one is nearby, play musical instruments, and some of them have discovered hidden talents for draw ing, in addition to their regula* Army duties. They make use of every cultural opportunity that pre- 1 laiiy nv>leu Ultir SyleUUiU inorala, LwUlbgewU* spuU oUU LHiirfi.iog aense oi numi..r. Never aia ne see a Negro soiuier aowutast, ue oeciared. One man, wno wa« oeaig vcaseu oy ms companions, came oacx at laem iwito inis Classic remri; “When J will you, you won't eveu know you ; are dead. YouU just wake up ud I find your head in your lap." , One of the best known and ; generally admired of California j^imters, Tom Craig Is a nauve no. Wes of Scotch-lrish ancestry, with I a dash of American Indian thrown in. He was bom in Uoiaid. CaiiS/if. Durham, N. C.—Di. John Hope Frartklin, professor of American history at North Carolina College here, will .speak in Rackham Am- I^ilheatre at the University of Mich«an Monday, February 12, on “The Negro in Post-War Re adjustment: A Historical Review.” Dr. A.. S. Alton, professor of Hispanic American History- at the Ann Arbor (Mich.) institution. wUl introduce Dr. Franklin who will speak under the auspices of the University Interracial Associ ation, an organization of graduate and undergraduate students and ■ Continued on back pagei VoiR. l-'eLai'..; 1 —"The Negro's stake in the na tion’s 60 million jobs program, for which Henry WMlace proposes clear-cut plans, is in- dtsi^nsable to the welfare of the race and the nation in the post- wat period. ' reau, in testimony January 31,be- fore the Education and La'boi Committee of the United States Senate. Mr, Perry estimated that expenditures for Negro children and the salaries of Negro teach- . , ; ers would increase more than 100 Wito these Olds, the Nation-1 percent in every southern state M Negro Congress informed | if this Bill is passed. w-inacl"'hiS“o ‘ ,ta“suppoH i „ -S-1 ■ Thr Nom people wlio con "’ouW authorize an ap- slituled sucral^e 'pan o. X W00 «00.000 to aa- nation-wide democratic coalition . ^ f' which reelected President yiilei, w!.„'w,ouUCTra!S?l»P*»«aer,-» ben^iclazxg wtt fJh.UlwaTfaivjc**}* iiPiiip Ban- Mr. be able in the lorseeable future; Kilgore also has been serving as to bri^ their systems of public - college minister at the Winston- education up to a desirable level Salem Teadiers College, and Is a without an enlarged program of former president of the Ministers direct financial aid from the Fed- ^nd Deacons’ union of the city, eral Government,” Pe^ testified. He will be the third fulltime ex- Expresslng satisfaction with ^e tcutive secretary of the present cu- gtneral provisions in the bill pro- operative setup, adopted ten years iConiinui?d on back pagei (Continued on back page) Continued on back page) ,, . , . *- — . . _ . *; _ _ all public schools open for a term RED CROSS BLOOD NNC Calls For Action On Non-Discrimination Policy POLICY UNCHANGED —-- - V— Kew Y’ork, N. Y.. February 1 ,and sub-standerd salaries of —Following information receiv- j teachers would be raised and ad- ’ ed from thr Navy Dcparimeni [justed in line with the increased • Uial "There is no policy in the : cost of living. Provision is also Navy which disvi iimnato .said. "We urge all qualified Ne- gixi nurses to ap^ly for service, and we further recomend ex it tine vigilance on the part of • ery inaividual, and of com- made for the employment of ad- against tiu- utilization of Negro “‘unit organizations, to see to ditional $100,000,000 would be ap- nurses." the National Negro ■ propriated under the bill to more Congress tudav issued a call to all New York—Althoueh ii iiiav be National Office of the nearly equalize the school systems Negro nurses to take fullest ad- 4r.!l . .ii 1 ® ^ NAACP asking that an office m the Soutli with those in the vaiTtage of the policy as stated true, ao lepoited by some \sar Lhairman be appointed and soli- North. F-jnds under this legisla- "’'he action nmled takes two coi respondents overseas tiiat in Fund actual practice Negro blotxi plas- In reply, Roy Wilkins, acting ma is not separattKl from that of sccretaiy. asked whether the Red whites, the American Red Cross Cross had changed its blood pias- is still following its declared pol- ma policy. .Miss Vanderbogel icy of segregation and separate ’ wrote; I am sorry the question labeling. ' of Biood Plasma has come up This policy was legreifully re- again. I hoped that the decision iterated by Miss Ella Mae Van- made in the War Department dtibogel of the New York Chap- would be satisfactory to all of you ter of the American Red Cross in concerned. a letter to the NAACP. ••! can only repeal to vou that Miss Vanderbogel, chau-inan ol the Red Cross must abide by the the social and employment agen- in-structions given by the Govern- cies division in the ann-jal Red inent. W’e have created no policy Cross Drive scheduled for Maich, and have had no sav in the mak- citations made for the Red Cross mg of it." Federal Grand Jury Fails To Indict Florida Officials tion would be apportioned to the the Congies?- .statement Miami, Fla.—Failuie of a .spe- •Woik-oi-Fight'■ i-oder is il- cial Federal Grand Jury meeting here to indict officials of Broward •on working here on the cases all week, assail^ thei praeuci- of ar- County, Florida, for arresting and rt.ting Negro workers as ' a new lining without trials about fitty ••>laver.” Negro residents of Ft. Laudei dak- on charges of vagrancy, wa. sharply criticized by Rev. Aron S Gilartin, national chairman of the Workers Defer.se League. The W'orkers Defense Leag'je caused the Grand Jury hearings by presenting to the Department of Justice twelve affidavits fron. Negroes finbd without trials, after 1 being airested on vagrancy charg- Les. All had means of support. B Declaring that Governor Cald- week, assailed the practice of ar- it leased by WDL National Secre- tai-y Morris Milgram, follows: HONESTY STILL EXISTS REGARDLESS OF COLOR Samuel Brown, of the Erectoi-s Dept. North Carolina Ship building Compaiy, found a pockeibook containing over nineij' dollars. He promptly turned it into the office, where it was dis covered that the white welder, shown on this picture, had lost it. The welder was holding the pocket book for a friend, and the .smile he displays is easily understood. It that the stated policy of the Navy Department on acceptance ol iNegro nurses is executed by every person responsibile for Currying it thruu^.” Tne Navy statement was con- tmued in a letter from Rear Ad miral W. J. C. Agnew, Acting L'tuel of the Navy Nurse Bureau, ‘Continued on back page) AAAGP Asks For Action AowOnFEPCBUl New York—Request for favor able action on FEPC legislation was asked by the NAACP wires January 31 to House Labor Committee Chairman, Mary T. Norton, and 15 oither Committee iTiembers. Signed by the Acting Secretary the message read. “Na tional Association for Advance ment of Colored People with 800 local chapters in 40 states and Dis trict of Col'ombia urges House La bor Committee to report favorab ly best bill providing for estab lishment of Committee on Fair Employment Practices. This legis lation is of paramount interest to 13,000,000 Negro Americans who remember same was pledged by Republican platform last summer and by President Roo^ve. in campaign address.” workers overseas to augment . - staffa already on duty is announc- . addition to their regular ed thifi we^ by nati/wiat head- duties. They make use ol quarters. Five wwkers arrived in ®''®ry cultural opportunity that pre- Italy for f'jrther assignemnt in itself. the Mediterranean theatre, and 1.2 Craig saw many colored fliers, are in New Guinea for duty in the * group of colored engln- Scuthwest Pacific. three days, interviewed Italian arrivals: colored officers and sketched a ra- Walter D. Calvin, assistant field dtunp with a colored guard, director, 7 W. Brigade St, praised the fine job the Charleston, S. C.; Geo. T. Drum- soldiers are doing, and espec- mond. field director. 416 S. 15th if* kr^fi~r\nnr\o^ St.. Riiladelphia, Pa.; Ernest NAACP OPPOSES Hemby, assistant field lirector, aO Momingside Ave, New York MAY-BAfFiEY RIII City: Alice B. Shaw, assistant OfllLiCiI DILL club diTMtor, 515 W. 143rd St, New York City Claude Randolph Taylor, club director, 8A Anga St., Ord Village, Monterey, Calif. New Guinea arrives: Jean M. BriAt, staff assistant, 11- 16 Perkins St, Greensboro, N. C.; Alfred Russell Brool^ assistant field director, 901 Lindsay St Greensboro, N. C.; Wilma J. Bur ton, staff assistant, 735 E. 65th St, Chicago, IlL; Inez Juanita Fergu son, staff assistant. 301 Moore St. Fayetteville, N. C.; Hester C. Hawknins, staff assistant 515 W. 143rd St, New York City; Walter R. Mitchell, assistant field direc- MfPPiiPiliiiRB He s ol Scotch-lfi«h ancestry, with a dash of American Indian thrown m. He waa born in Uplaid, Caiilor* «ua. hut did not discover hi* aruiuc talent unui he was iweniy five, and j>earclung toi some utuviiy to oc cupy his mind and hands whue re- covcrign Horn an uuiess. At Uiai ume, he suddenly discarded bis ear ly amOiuun lo oe a rc»eaxui seieu- ust and decided lo devote mmyaif enUrely to art. Since then, he has won many prues and has exhibited m some of ims counirv s finest gal leries. His wonts have been purchas- ^ by me Metropolitan Museum la New York, Chicago An Institute, Califonua Paiace of me Legion of honor in San rrancisco, Los Ange- es Museum and other an ana eau- vdtomai centers. In iwi he won a ouggenheim Fellowship. Ai me pieaem Uuic, Mr. Craig is at his home m Los Angeles, wori-- Washington—Telegrams oppos ing passage of the May-Bailey limited national service bill were sent to approximately 100 con gressmen by the NAACP Febru ary 1. ^—, ..... NAACP opposition was based I ,'",1 m upon the assertion that all avail- j the magazine some time after the able man and woman-power had ■ 'Middle of March, not been utilized. The Associa-! p ^ tion asserted that use of Negro ' BrSCg SoldiCF SaVCd women in war plants had lagged n ° o n “for behind that of Negro men •’rom C^VerC Punibllllient tOT, 28M Ashland St.. Cincinnati, and white women” and declared Gftio; Duke Montgomery, assist-i that a labor draft was unnessary' LillinBton Cnuntv Mr ant field director. 1041 E. 2I6thias long as all manpower ^ ^ue St., Bronx, N. Y.; Ossie Marie! were not exhausted release of Private Silas Aaker- Rountree, staff assistant. 2932 The Association aUo asserted civilian authoriue* its experience with “work-or to face co-irt martial before —— _-i vi^-gisiauon. ..as been secured by the NAACP. . rial by civLian authorities in • orth Carolina may nav -esuited -11 a possio.e death se..tonce for Uic dexenaant, wno eniered the heme of a Mrs. B^ack wnJe mtoz- icated. In a subsequent court-fartial c * J t.—T:.— . T, — i-roceeding, A^xerneese was sen- Supported by Governor O Con- to all groups of Citizenry.” tonced to dishonorable discharge or a bill to repeal Maryland's That it was not Consistent tc conxmement at hard lalw forty years old “Jim Crow” sta- deny "basic righu and equalities" tor six months. Upon a review bv tute has been introduced into the at home while thousands of col- the Judge Advocate General’s Maryland State legislature and is or^ citizens fight on foreign tice m Washington, the sentence now receiving the consideration fields for these rights and privi- 1*'** reduced to six' months im- of the Maryland Senate Judicial, leges. prisonment. There is poxiibilitv Proj^ings Committee it was re-; That the State government had that the Cl may be re- J.c. APPEAL BACKED BY MARYLAND GOV. WOUNDED VETERAN CHAR(2ES DISCRIMINATION AND ILL-TREATMENT IN SEAMEN’S INSTITUTE ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ vrw ‘Mlantic War Z-jne Bar former singer with Lucky came to Harlem. He found most of . i:.w lUKK 'CN.S/ — Samuel C-immendations confiring activ.e R*’berts‘ Orchestra, the seaman has the downtown service centers *tay Y'orker. service with the U S Merchant Mi- ^teel plates iti his leg, which open all night but those uptown i-ers>eas, indicated he had been badly ciushed, aiid wears a close early. "I won’t call any names Seaborn l.a'.vson, j New ho received 6erious injuries when rines ^ Listen To X “THE NEGRO NEWS J OF THE WEEK” ^ Tune In Station WKAL ^ i his ^ip. the "Mibsion Solano. ” was refe.red to the Seaman's Institute. buce. Aftei his argument down- of the varioiH agencies 1 went to ▲ ■ I' that jiie noted 25 South Streep in New York, by tow-n, Lawson, thirtyish and angry. iContinuad on back page) ♦ Friday at 7;30 p.m. - ....ipeaoeu. uigigeo mat me noted 25 South Street in New York, by fT-. ▼ Seaman": Insutute. which receives the Gladstone Rest Center in New ^ liiise doiigtioi.s for the work il is Jersey where he had been a con- ♦ carrying on definitely discriminatej valcsccnti for quiet quarters until against Xe^ro..- He found this to he could be transferred to a marine RACES OF MANKIND FEB. EXHIBIT DEBUIfKS INFERORITIES ♦ ♦ ♦ A Weekly Featare of THE CAROLINIAN CHARLES A. RAY Announcer ir,,.. . n. -.A .1.. ■ ‘J L.;.' Viw a New York—Announcement of science (data with the graphic arts The .Negroes seem lo all j by Charles written by Governor O'Conor to. Chairman Joseph P. Healy of the ' Commission for Study of Prob- ' lems Affecting the Colored Pop ulation. The repeal legislation, expect ed to come before the Senate dur- irig the week of Febroary 5, is understood to contain clauses re moving segregational restrictions placed on Negroes on buses and trains and puolic carriers. It A*as dropped in the Maryland State Legislature "hoK>er” by E. MU- foid Altfeld. democrat, of Baiti- Oiore. Citing his position on the ques-1 tion as part of a general plan to! assist Negroes in Maryland Gov ernor O'Conor asked the Commis sioner to riven formal expression on the bill and gave several rea- sons on behalf of repeal 'Continued on back page) the period of imprisonment bc- cause of a previous good record. race ever The Pres* Week ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ I Among the reasora set forth by ‘V««ro .Newspa'^PpuSSlSJ*A**^ fSS’ i? w *’,!**' ****■ «m- the Governor were: ciauon h*. completed pSrl^or^* social iContmueu on back page) |pie jurtioe and hunanity applied . aoove a. they oat aSTcSL, , who holds both the Pac- lar whether you ^ \