TAKES POLL ON NURSES NEGRO NURSES ACCEPTED BY MA JORITY OF PUBLIC DENVER. Ffb. 17 (Spc-cial)— At a time when the acceptance by the Army and Navy of Negro nur ses is much discussed, it is sign! - .. . • ^ . » • I ..rr .ifr.v-A o'/«e in n cent include 3 per in ^spitals, as revealed in a na tion-wide survey conducted by the National Opinion Research Center. University of Denver. NORC’s personally trained in terviewers questioned a national tirces-section of white civilian adults—men and women, young and old, rich and poor,—in citie If you were sick in a hos pital. would it be all right with you if you had a Negro nurse, or wouldn’t you like it?” All right - 57% Wouldn't like it 42 Undecided 1 Negro cara 100% but who express a preference for while nurses. The more education a person has the more willing he is to have a Negro nurse take care of hi^ Seventy per cent of persons with a college background, but only 53 per cent of the high school edu- cated and 45 per cent of tjiosa with no more than a grade school education answer “All right,” Six out of tne (627o) residents of the North and West, bat only four out out of the (62%) residents of the be willing to receive care from a Negro nurse in a hospital. Comments from individuals to- terviewed reveal that many white people think very highly of Negro (Continued on back page) s is muen aiscu.ssvu. n is jmui- ... — M WILLiAS^IS TAKES BiLBO’S BLAST CALMLY 1 Ihe South, particularly In MiisUilppi where, ho said, the per capita WASHINGTON. D. C.—Senator Theodore G. Bilbo hurled a verbal broadside at 2sV doUars a year'touched off the Bilbo blast the liberal racial views of Aub.-ey Williams Monday. February 19. at the Senate income i. about 266 doUars a year touched AgricuUuro Committee hearings investigating the fitness of the former NYA Iwad for the position of Rural Electrification Administration director for which Mr. Wil liams is now being considered by Ihe U. S. Senate. A reference made by Mr. WiUianu to the poor living condition among the share ’•We haven't got as many. r8..s and fiUh In Mississippi as you have in the slums of Washington/' said the Senator heatedly. "There is loo much in both places" calmly countered Mr. Williams. When asked about his views on tho fair employment practices act (See back page) IMPROVES RACIAL RELA- ■ diesd manufacturing fum, bv- TIONS Samuel C. Klein, liwed that his own office was above, co-owner of a St. Louis i "the best place to prove" his_ theories about improvement of , racial relations. He employed a I Negro, Miss Ruth Seals, as his ! secretary three years ago. Races Can Work Together Officer Worker Proves PLAN TO DITCH WAR WORKERS PROTESTED Washington, D, C.—Tlie Wash' ington Bureau NAACP is seek ing to hall action of John B Blaiuiford. Jr., Aminisiraior. Na tional Hoiising Agency in ije pro-, pcsed transfer ot white workers lo 200 housing units in New Boa ton. Texas, originally built t o r Negro war workers. Joseph r. Tufts, the regional representative ol NHA. had recommended, over me protest ol Johon Jay Jones, president of the Taxarkana. Ar- Kansas. NAACP that this hous ing be turned over to whites and "that UK) houses be built at a later date for Negroes. Of 2500 units of war housmg m the Texarkana area, oidy 124 are for Negro occupancy. Because ot the urgent need for facihti^ to ho'osc more than 3,000 Negro workers, 200 units were built tor faeir use at New boston and com- ST. LOUIS—Samuel C. Klein, co-owner of a dress manufact'or- ing firm, is convinced he has prov ed in practice what he long has preached about improvement of racial relations. Believing that liis own office was "the best place to prove” his iheories. Klein employed a Negro - .Miss Ruth Seals—as his secre- lary three years ago. E.xcept for two expresaions of ,iisemment, Klein says, other em- pioye.s have accepted the eecre- , laiy lor iier ‘appareni ability and .•luciency." Mr. Klein, who for several years has served cn the board of the L’lbjii league, a national organiza- ,uon to improve relations between ihc Negro and white races, ex- I plains: •T've always believed any per- of talent and ability deserv CAPT,PERRY WHILE GUHLESS (“d an oppuruinity to use them. I pointed out to our office staff that lit already presented a broad cross- section oi' American citizens— • Continued on back pago Atlantic City, N. J.—Ihvo Oer- inan fighter pilots will have a lot of explaining to do if word ever gets back to Luftwaffe headqaari- ei-s of how Capl. Henry B. Perry, graduate of St. Augustine's Col- llege at Raleigh, N. C., won his 'Distinguished Flying Cross over Udine, Northern. Italy, i As it wac, it look a lot of in testinal fortitude on Captain Per ry's part. The P-51 pilot, opera tions officer of the famed 99th Fighter iiquadron, which is now a pari of the 332nd Fighter Group, wa.*? returning from a bomber es- • Continued on back page) Cbiaf of the Surgical Service, Regional Station Hospital No. 1, Fort Huachuea, Arizona, who re cently lectured on the Negro soldier Second Case To Equalize Teachers Salaries Filed in American his tory In connec tion with the Armjr's orienta tion course adapted from the War Department manual ''Leader ship and the Negro Soldier.” Colonel Giles was tka^ first Negro graduate of Cor- Wise inorv J.UUU *411 - - '-uilt foi workers, 200 units were built for 4heir use at New boston and com pleted last December. Army oXlioers.in charge of the Lone Star and Red River war plants located in the area encour aged the construction of a Negro project, pointing to the fact tnat Negro employes had to commute as much as 70 miles e day to get lo work. The erection of I'ousmg near the plant, they said, would reduce absenteeism and the heavy turnover among much needed col ored workers thereby increasing production. The City Manager ui New Boston had also endorsed this project for Negro occupancy. Included in the project was a school equipped to accommodate 230 pupils b-ailt by FWA at a cost of $U0J)0U. About 160 Negro fam ilies had made applications for housing. Later local groups in New Bos ton sought to have the project turned over to white workers and enlisted the aid of Congressman Wright Patman (D. Tex.) from (Continued on back page) Coluiribia.'S. C.—The case of Al bert N. Thomspon was filed in the United States District Court here February 7 by NAACP attorneys against the School Board of Col umbia in an effort to lest the sta tute passed by the State legisla ture in 1944 seeking to prevent suits in federal courts for equal ization of teachers salaries. The state law adopted by the U-gislature provides that teachers who believe their salaries unreas- i nable, proceed by peiition to the local school board, then to the county board, then to the State CONFERENCE ON HEALTH HELD AT SHAW RALEIGH — At the call of Dr. C. Horace Hamilton, head of the De partment of Rural Sociology at State College a good representation ot leaders In rural life areas of the state met in the Baptist Headquar ters at Shaw University recently to discuss the general outlook lor col ored people in the projected rural health and hospitalization plan in augurated by Governor Broughton. Representatives of The Old North State Medical Society presented the need of facilities for training colored doctors to serve in North Carolina. 'The opsiti'jn taken by these spokesmen was that the state should provide a school within the borders of North Carolina to do Uiis job. The opening of hospital facili ties to colored physicians was dis cussed and the relationship of hos pital faciliticB to the work of the physician clearly pointed out. Y Representatives of federal agen cies outlined the part their offices could play in promoting rural co operatives which would underwrite support for a medical care and hos- > pitalization program in the coun ties. 'Die F.SA plan was explained as was the Tyrell County projects inaugurated by Mr. S. P. Dean, ru ral school principal, who was seek ing ways and mean.s to add medi cal services as one of the additional features desired in the program of his community. While the general concensus of opinion prevailed that the Jim Crow i>attern of medical services should be dispensed with as soon as possible, the confreecs recognized that first steps in any program pro jected under the plans set forth by the Poe Commision would have to start within the existing patterns. Among those attending the con- . ference were: (Continued on back page) 1 eachers salaries riiea Departnjent of Education, then to the local state court, then on ap- pt'al to t h e Supreme Court of South Carolina. 'The NAACP con tends that aggrieved Negro teach ers arc nut required to go through tills lung, drawn-out state proce dure to setutre their rights, anJ that the State Legislature cannot close the doors of the federal touils to aggrieved parties. Spe cial NAACP Counsel Thurgood Marshall and Shadrack Morgan of Orangeburg, S. C.. are handling the case. Polltax Undemocratic, Says Alabama Gov. Washington—'The poll tax in Alabama must go” says Senator Hill (D., Ala.) in a statement in which he refers lo the recent re peal of the levy in Georgia as a •'.-splendid example." Characterizing the Alabama law ; "the most burdensome, restric tive, indefensible, and undemo cratic of any State,” he criticUes severely the cumulative provisi ons of the law. Senator Hill's criticism of the Alabama law follows closely a re cent statement of Governor Chauncey Sparks of Alabama who declared that Negroes should be permitted to vote in the dem ocratic primaries. The poll tax issue is expected to come before the Ala. Legisla- 'ture, which meets in May. th«_first Nagro rradnate of Cor nell Umverslty’s College of Medi cine. (U. S. Army Photo.) Oil Mufdi 1, Antals m Kaicig i ui.u Wake County will drop back isj tne level efieclive March 1. lL/44, ueeording lo an aaiioOiicc- nienl by District UPA Du'cclor Tiicdore S Jotmsun. It will be illegal, Uie diieclive staled, for landlords to routct more rent on or before Maveli 1. lSt45 Uian was charged on idaren 1. „ f This order covers all types of living ejuarUrs (not conuncrjia- tLiablLhiiients), inc.uuing jkju-;^. , apurunents, liotcls, rotiining es, private roouu, and traiA" camps. It was necessary for l..e gov ernment to step in and lake over ct/nlrol ol rents because of Uie, sharp incline taken in Inis direc- ^ lion for Uie past year. Kents had ' reached a "serious stage a: | shown by independent survey: j conducted Uirougnoui uie counlj by representatives of the Bureau ,01 Labor SUrtistics. | ' No refunds will be made m' coses of excess rent paid priori to March 1, 1945. I L .iJXiuiqs. Raleigh Defense -Awi will RotrnNS. Tt« K the tOahtA-CtO^ 'Building, corner of ifartin and COLLEGE FUND APPOINTED RANDALL L. TVUS. Appoim '! I Secretary for bccond annual Unilea Negru Coilego Fond campaign ihU ■Driua. FURLOUGH GAS The Wake County War Price and Rationing Board wishes to call to the attention ot all members of the armed services who plan to apply for furlough gas that th^ must present along with their ap plication blank, the mileage ration record (Form No. R- 534) covering the car in which ' Ete-gnoUnn. ie to be used. Failure to do ihb will ne cessitate unnecessary delay. NEW YORK—Randall L. Tyus, alumni secretary of Fisk Univer sity, has been granted a four- month leave of absence lo accept appomtmtmt as field secretary v/Jih the United Negro College * Fund during its second annual campargu this spring. W J. Trent, Jr., executive sec retary of Uie i'und, announced tnat Mr. Tyus will serve as a iifcld organizer in various cam paign ciUes Uu-ougbout the coun- Uy and will also be active in or ganizing alumni groups in New )fork Cuy during the campaign. Durmg the iiutial fund-raising (dfort last year Mr. 'I'yus served the Umted Negro CoUmc Fund Willi the prcsidenls of Fisk and Lincoln Umversiues and tne col lege alumni in Fniiau(npnia, one of the campaign ciUes that sur- oass^ its h'und goal. Mr. Tyus received his Bache 101/; degree in economics and bus iness ^ministration from I^sk Universit., ir T«‘«2 and latm - uni- ‘ graduate work at Cdtuauma > versify. His experience jnch... selling, organization, and proBMi* tion. i'or seven years he wbrkbd on the natioiiai salisi staff of the Rumford Works ha the Rumford Baking Powder DMaion; ,hr>rL Visit llniv^raitv aa Field nmmip JUnlal Area will 'he r Roo-n Ns. tt the C« .Building, comer of Martin and Salisbury Streets. 534) covering the car in which ttw-yfoHnn ia so bo uaod. Failure to do this wUl ne cessitate unnecessary delay. tion. For seven years he 1 on the national sales stafl of tM Rumford Chemical Works in the Cites Achievements Of Negro In World War II Rumford Baking Powder DMiion: Fisk University as Field r U. 8. Wm 0«p«rtinrrit I of PobHi Bolotlnn- Hospital Bill Approved . HAMPTON INST., Va. — The History Week at Hampton, imorc than 1,00U,U0L) Negro men Inlioduced by President Ra^h and women m uniform who arejp. Bridgman of the college, Dr. The Senate Mental Institutions Committee gave the "go" sign to two bills introduced by Senator Thomas O'Berry last week, pro viding for the establishment of •( hospital for children Miffering from spastic ailments, and one for the erection of an instilulioa wWro feeble-mindtKl Negro vliil- dren might receive care and treat ment. The bill providing for doing thei rparl, frequently un heralded and unsung, m World War II were hailed at Hampton .institute Friday night (Feb. 16) :by Dr. Henry J. McGuinn of Vir- i raining Scliool for Feeble-Mind- gir.ia Union University who de- . d Childic'n''s and its capacity livered a le-cturc on thU subject v.culd allow for 60 patients. during the observance of Negro McGuinn cited the war heroes of Negro history from the death of Crispus Attacks in the Boston Aiassacre, down to the rec(mt feats of members of the 669th Artillery Battalion at Batogne. Deploring the fact that white (Continued on back page) JCCHARGEDINMEASURE AFFECTING BORDENTOWN, N. J. SCHOOL Jr-rs! y City—A bill to change Frcxl W. Martin of the Legal struction show that there are in liu- 'ulministralion of the Borden- Ftdress Division of the NAACP New Jersey 61 "Jim Crow" pub- r„,' X, i in Jersey City charges that the lie schools out of two thousand (naclment of the bill would wipe public schools; Both he and Gow- then to Fisk Universi^ > Secretary in connection with the University's endowment cam paign. in 1941 Mr. Tyus became a member of the executive stafl of the National Association for tiie Advancement of Colored Pe^Ie with headquarters in New York City. He later served as executive secretary of the Baltimore branch of the NAACP, the position from which he resided m December, 1943, to retuTii to Fisk University where he serves as alumni secre- lary, director of the Placement Bureau, and editor of the alumni nagazinc. His parents are Rev. Guorae L. Tyus, former president of Texas College, Tyler, Texas, and Mrs. Tyus, both ot whom have retired alter forty years of service in the classroom. They reside now in Washington, Arkansas, where ‘l.eir son was bom. Mr. Tyus’ wife is the former Lois, of Gal- ■ c-ston, Texas, who is also a grad uate of Fisk. -V- ioutherners in Congress 5latc Board of Education to ^Jj^crimination and would Tcgalizc N. J. CIO "declare th'at "the figures Avoid PoU TaX InnuirV New Jersey Commissioner of cu^ent practice ot maiSlain- do not teil the true story since, u.rjuxaj Education ha.S been condemnid con-trof,. c/-hnr»I.; fur MryOTnf>i: manv Tlnv» BIX »nn-i Senate Bill Supports W&M Students Racial Views P'tal hospital with 'nine board members to bo ‘"S separate^schools for Nogroc.s many communities have so zon-. „ c 4k r- governor. The board ttould be au- by the New Jersey N^CP and jn^erlain parts of the slate. ed school districts as to bring Southern Con; resawn Uiorized to find a suitable unused tl.c- New Jersey State CIO as an i^ttontion to tho about the segregation of Negro appear at a hca. ing Frl- Slate buildine for immediate and legalize Jirn ftet that despite the New Jersey school children into spools aruwer questioM tf-mno-arv occauation perchance Supreme court ruling in 1944 pro- v hich are for practical purpose.*; ' c-nding ^err rights to sit m temporary occupation, ptrtn.mc measures prepared by Govern- hibUing discrimination against Negro schools. u .^gress smee they came from the appropriations for ^ E. Ed&c's Commission Irsisting that Jersey’s "Jim A measure to deny Federal funds to any college or university which discriminates against any persons because of "race, color or ed” or because of his views ^n racial matters was introduced m the United Stales Congress Thurs day Feb. 15, by Senator Langer (R., N. Dak.). Senator Langer said that his bill was an outgrowth of the af fair in which an editorial by a student at the college of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va.. received Nationwide publicity. The editorial which proposed un- limate fraternization and misce genation of whites and Negroes di.'iposed of "’white supremacy nonsense ", the St-nator said. Having ousted the Flat Hat edi tor, Miss Marilyn Kaemmerle whit.e whose editorial on race re lations led to suspension of the student publication, officials of the College of William and Mary announced last Thursday, Feb. 15, that students of the Virginia school had agreed through the student body president to the re- isumption of publication with the understanding that a faculty counsellor be consulted on any material of a doubtful nature. Meanwhile in New York the .United States Student Assembly said that its organization was ask ing colleges all over the country to support Miss Kaemmerle for her editorial. Miss Kaemmerle’s editorial which created a sensation In the press last week declar i that eventually Negroes should attend the same colleges as whites and "marry among us.” Poor Management of Ho.spital Reported by Committee ‘ • - , , • r.. . A J • • V « • -D - ..... JIL-glUk-a IL-UUl l* Ui IIIC IXL-W .JCtaeV building arc not authorized bv on State Administiati\e Rcorgan- Department of Public la the present General aXssembly. iz;.lion, IS scheduled lo be present- . The bill concerning the «'rection i n by Republican Assemblyman of a hospital for feeble-minded V/alter H. Jones from Bergen Co., Negro children set.s for the jro- Mr. Jone.s denies any purpose of vision for such a building to be discrimination behind tho bill but constructed near the site of, and suitge-sts that if there is a quc.s- in connection with the state Hos- l;on of segregation in the propo.s- )ital for Negroes at Goldsboro. (d legislation “it is up to the leg- *^1 would be known as "The Negro ixlature to take it out.” Continued on back page) in which poll tax A sub-committee headed by Rev. John W. Umstead, Jr. of Orange, recently visited each of the four Stale’s hospitals for the insane, to study the conditions in these institutions. In their report to the Jount Appropriations Com mittee last week they declared 'that the unsatisfactory conditions found to be existing in the hos pitals were the result of "poor management or conflict between management and professional treatment,” The sub-committee, however, recommended an in crease of appropriations totaling $610,360. The Budget Commission had pievioosly recommended increas es over the 1943-45 biennium ap propriations for the institutions as follows; Raleigh hospital: $707,4- 79; Morganton hospital. $950,402: Goldsboro hospital,,$343,164; Cas well Training School, $191, 610. The sub-committees recom mendations according to hospitals —Raleigh, $276,240 for 1945-46; and $5,040 for 1946-47; Morgan ton, $164,000 for 1945-47; Morgan- (Continued on back page) NNPA Sponsors National Observance Of Negro Newspaper Week The 118th anniversary of the Negro Pres will be observed througout the country from February 24 through March 3 under auspices of the Negro Newspaper Publishers' Association. Beside an essay contest for high sch(X}l student, sponsored by local member papers of the Association, and individually ar ranged radio programs on local stations, there will be two national radio broadcasts over the National Broadcasting Company and Columbi Broadcasting System chains. The purpose of the observance U lo point up the part the Ne gro press U playing in reporting our efforts in the war at home and abroad, and in keeping up morale. The first half-hour national radio program of Ihe week will be broadcast on Saturday, February 24, at 2:30 p.m. (EWT). Enter tainment featured on this program will be Jack Benny, Rochester, Lena Horne and Lionel Hampton. There will also be reports from two war correspondents—John (Rover) Jordan of the Norfolk Journal and puide. who will talk about the 92nd Division with which he has been working for th elast four or five months: and Enoc Waters of the Chicago Defender, who will speak from Pearl Harbor where he will interview a Negro naval officer staiioned there. Waters will also tell of some of Ihe roles Negroes are r’*yin3 in th Pacific, where he has been a correspondent for two yews. In addition to these features, there will be a dramatization of the heroic exploits of Corp. Waverly B. Woodson. On D-Day. during the invasion of France, Woodson, as a member of the medical corps, performed one of the heroic efforts of the war. He is now in a hoqiital in this country and will be brought lo New York for a personal appearance on the program. Ralph Cooper, stage and screen star, wjU be master of cere monies for the NBC broadcast. The second national broadcast will be made on Friday. March 2, at 7:15 p.m. (EWT). Details will be given next week. Maryland Senate Passes Jim Crow Repeal Nalionai Keallors l.aiincli Hoii.sing Ca ampaign .■\nnapolis, Md.—^A measure to repeal Maryland’s forty-one years old law requiring separate accom- niodations on common carriers for Negroes and whites passed the ,^ial•yland Senate on February 15, _ and has been sent to the House The Na.io„al Association of R«al Estate Boards has aiinounc- With the support of Maryland’s ed the launching of a program de- Governor O’Conor the bill’s pas- signed lo encourage home oumcv- sage in the Senate was assured sl.ips and improve housing con- ditlons for Negroes according to ^^5,5 fl,„e was no debate on a report of the Washington Even- the- legislation Republican Senator ing Star newspaper Friday, Feb. James W. Hughes voting “age” ,g qut“stioned “whether this action .... Tr • r. '“'li prove lo be an advance of A spcKTial Negro Housing Com- which Maryland will be proud tr niittec with Harry L. Seldon, Df.- a retrogression from which we Uoit real estate man. as chairman shall all taste grief.” h;.s boon appointed to eany out “ Uie proobable passage of the re- th( ends of the plan, jhe commt- measure should become real- will seek to intert'st builders ity it “will bo most important . . ol small homes in the Negro hous- fo;- all of us to use ftat self-dis ing field. cipline which so well hbricates Declaring that the provision of the points of friction which in- Negro housing “is pa.st the ex* evitably exist” r( rimcnta! sUigc” the committee Senator Hughes urged those fnnouncement revealed that who doubted the wisdom of the throughout the country realtors bill to "refrain from rash judg- “have many successhl examples n.ent” and those who expect it to of both sale and rental to No- be beneficial to duigent lo groes.” sec that pitfalls are avoom^'’’ regulations seem to obstruct the voting of a large proportion of the f opulation of their reflective tales end districts it was reveal ed by an Assoociated Press dis patch Saturday, Feb. 17. The requests to attend the hear ing were made by Attorney Moss A. Plunkett, white, of Roanoke, Va., who is an attempt to test the poll tax laws is contesting the elecUon of sixty-nine members of Congress from seven Southern States. Mr. Plunkett had provid ed a set of questions and a sten ographer notary public to record the answers ii* a hotel near the capitol building. After waiting in vain for moat of the day Mr. Plunkett suggest ed that he wcrald ask the courts about the absences. He neverthe less called off a similar session scheduled for Saturday, Feb.l7. The members of Congress called w^e Senators Connally (D. Tex as), BUbo (D, Miss.), Byrd (D. Va,,), and McKellar (D., Teem.) ^d Representatives Rankin (D.! Miss.). Rayburn (D., Texas), and Smith (D., Va,). -MRS. ROOSEVTLl TO RALEIGH. MARCH 12 RALEIGH — We are bapoT to know that Mrs. FranUfii D. Koosevett, ttonorary Fre«i(tMit of Girl Scoots of America, wtll be In Ralel^ March X2th. Qtrl bcoot Birthday. She will he nest speaker of the lutitote of Religion at Memorial Aodltor- lom at eight o'clock that eve- nJnr. Annoaneen)4nit will be made at tbe Hi-UThg Lead ers' meetins If speelal arrange- DKSRa can be asdo for aeo(^

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