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THE CAKOUNA TIHESt SATDEOAY. SEPTEHBEK M. 1940.
JIM-CROWISM SHOWN IN AIRCRAFT FIRMS
STARTS CAMPAIGN FOR
ENLARGING MEMBERSHIP
DURHAM — For the pa»t tout
weeks the Dtirham BnaincM and
Profes»ion«| Chain has attempted
to Explain, throu^ the CAJlO
LINA TIMES, theip-fall ]»roj«ctfi
for loeal' Negro buslneaa (*nd pro
fessional improvement. Officers of
the chain hav^ introduced to the
public the educational phase of
their program whkh is destined
to inisrtrlict businei^ pr«oprietors
in. the latest methods In conduct
ing modern businesses, and educslt
injr ithe family to m«ans of s«v-
in«» and arrancring' the family
b'ldjret. More recently they have
introduced e phase that was de
voted exclusively to women.
With these project* in mind,
you will be called upon tx> become
a member of the Dtirham Busi.
ness and Professional Chain, and
each member will be readily iden
tified by the emblem of the or
ganization which will be available
in a few days. This emblem is to
be placed on the windows of ail
member businesses and the auto
mobiles of all professiomfls. Non-
members who desire to sftiow their
in't«rest in the chain will be g'iven
buttons.
There is a very small mtfmber
ship fee per year and it entiles
the members to all the benefits
to be derived from the organiza
tions eeorrts duripg the year. The
activities of the year include the
the first effort of tthe chctin to- specif featured business weeks,
ward seeing their proposed pro- each of which offers «om« special
jects materialize is going to be^for that week; adboce and other
a campaign for the enlarginsr of aids in the success pf your busi-
the membership. This is eonsider-jness, and the educational project
ed a highly important feature of which ds designed to aid every-
the drive be!ause it is tthrough one.
_^faithful members pledged to| Thus it is the hope of the com-
carry out the chain’s projects that mittee that when you are a|)-
the soiccess of th« new fall pro-'proath^d by the membeiship com'-
gram wilJ be assured. I mitftiee, you will cooperate by en-
So within the nex£ ftw days rolling as a member of the chain.
SOUTHERN GOP LEADER
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AlTEMPTS TO DEFEND
INACrmTY
Army Recruiting
Slumps As Negro
Quota Is FiUed
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept.
10— (ANP)— Laet week army
officers reported a slump in
army recruting thd|t since last
May, has set a successive
weeMy rectmte for peace
time enlistments. Reason given
for the slump was the filling of
vacancies for ttie various Negro
units.
With the Negro quota filled,
officiate said enlistnlents dropped
to 8449 as compared with 8(T8^
for the previous week. Tofaal pre.
sent army enlistment was esti-
maJted at 289,000, another peace
time record.
Introducing Miss Bronze America
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 10—
By Leon .Lewis for ANiP—-Among
the Rii^ny strange ihappenings
within Southern Lily-white Repu
blican ranks was a cry-out de.
fense against Secretary of Inte
rior ■ Ickes’ chilffge the “the south
ern Republican , machine consti
tutes the greatest scandal in A-
merican politics.” This d^ense
came from Louisiana’s Republican
dictator, John E. Jackson who
most recently organized et lily-
white Young Republican club.
N«groes were completely left
out of the renewed attempt to
agitate Republicanism in the state
of Louisiana, particularty New
OrleiSna. Even Jamea Lewis, Jr.
and Dr. J. A. Hardin, Negro del-
cirates to the Philadelphia con
vention and stalwaits in the Re
publican regime since the days of
Walter Gohen, were side tracked
in this particular setup.
The sad part about this lily-
white move is the fact thaft: of
the 800 Republican votes in this
city less than 200 are white. The
rem,el(ning are Negroes.
The Seventh ward of New Or
leans, reputedly a Republican
stronghold and under the influ
ence of Dr. Hardin, ^contains a
majority of the GO"? %’otes of the
city. The lily-whiters seit up an
all-white organization in this
ward last week leaving the Negro
constituent out of the picture.
They say the Negroes would form
ttheir own organization.
No one can explain the sud
den doublecross to Dr. Hardin
and Mr. Lewis, who (h®l* held the
reigns of GO>P initiative for
years. They murmur that it ia no
doubleeross. The public wonders
why they are not included in the
setup.
It is the consensus of opindoji
that Jackson's nvove to form the
Young Republican club is an at-
attempt to discredit the fin© ef
forts of Jrfnies Wodds to- build
up the party last spring, durin«
which time he included Negroes
a primary tickelt from seyeral
WSTC To
Re-Open
Sept. 10
WINSTON SALEM, ^ C. —
President Fraiicis L. Atkins of
the Winston St\Jem Teachers Col
lege announced yesterday that
the 48lbh session of the well
known Carolina institution will
iKsinmence on September lO. Ao.
cording to a report from the Re
gistrar’s office a record enroll
ment i® expected. The Winston
Salem Teachers College is .the
first Negro institution an the U.
S. to grant degrees in the ele-
mentrfry grades. From a one-room
frame structure with twenty* five
pupils and one teacher, this ideal
place of learning has made such
consistant progr^ • tha^t today
there are more ^ao five hundred
students regularly enrolled and
all of college grade. The physiead
plant consisting of fifty-five
acres and housing numerous well
equipped buildings is valued at
approxim8.tely one million dol
lars. Much credit for the remark-
abfle development of this institu
tion is due to the vision of i|s
unassuming president who suc
cessfully followed in the footsteps
of Ihis illustrious father who was
known for his ability as jIn edu
cator.
Of pif^ticular interesifc to the
visitor at Teachers College is the
new Piano Mtisic Department un
der the direction of Prof^'Noati
F. Rydeijyrf^'ree piano instruction
is offered all staidents. There
are nineteen practice rooms, a
clalssroom " for pia.no instruction
and an assembly room. From an
electrically controlled keyboard,
numerous students are taught at
the same time.
wards and went to the front in
getting Negroes registered to
vo.te.
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ONLY ONE NEGRO HIRED
OUT OF OVER 60,000 MEN
To the beautiful brown girl
pictured here went the title rf
*'Miss Bronze America” and $300
in cash awarded by the Aj»erica.n
Negro Exposition in a nationwide
contest to select the damsel who
best represents the ideals of Ne
gro womanhood. Hi« winner. Miss
BfSriam Ali, 19, Miss Chicargo
Defender,” was the choice of jud
ges at the finals during which
Duke Ellington’s band played. A
native of Chicago, Miss AH is a
siophomore student at lU. ^tate
Normal University, More than
10,000 saw her crowned ast Mon
day night.
Miss Bronze America
Chosen At Exposition
As Ten Tiiousand Cheer
People Of Chad Tossed Into War
by French Ruler
(By Crusader New* Ag«ncy)
Another colonial people were
were jthro.wji willy-nilly into the
raging inferno of war this week
with the decision of French civil
end- military officials in the col
ony of Chad in central Africa to
tlr^w in their lot with Brttish Im
perialism for a. re-'division of the
world.
Announciement of the develop
ment in the Chad wall madei by
General DeGaullo, leiader of the
"Free Prench” forces in Enig4anid
Chad has a population of l,48ii,
OOO Ne*roes and 1500 whites.
Mo«t of the lat^r occupy civil
and military position in the alien
Frencih regime. Hhe native popu^
iation was not consulted as to
their wishes in the matter, al
though, now that the die has
been east for thein, they will
have to bej^* the brunt of the
defense of their country against
one set of robbers and in behalf
of another robber gang’.
Chad is situated itn^gicaUy
on the borders of both Italian-
Liby®. in North Africa and the
Anglo-Efeyptian Sudan, .and it is
considered by its French ruler to
5 Stabbed
In Coast
Fight
CHICAGO, Sept. 1«-^ A 19
year old student at Illinois State
Nonna4 university is the nation’s
most beautiful browrt girl £>^d
owns the title, “Mias Bronze
America,” bestowed upon her a-
long with |300 cash by the A-
merican Negro exposition last
Monday night.
She is Miriam Ali, a gorgeous
bundle of copper colored loveli
ness representing the Chicago
Defender, who crowned be
fore 10,000 widly cheering en-
thusif^ of bol3i races attended
the finals and listened to ithe tor
rid strains of Duke Ellington’s
great band.
Finishing second and third
were two girls likewis® pretty e-
nough to make a sultan desert
hi9 harem and renounce aU
thoughts of bigamy. Iona Var-
num, represenitdn* Uie Chicago
Bee, was second and got $150
with Gladys Wells, representing
the Levy Chappel agency, Jack
son, MIgs., third. Her prize was
$50.
These were three winners a-
mong the most dazzling amfer of
Negro beauty ever assembled. A
totail of 26 girls, all of them win
ners in preliminary contests con
ducted by newspapers through
out t3ie nation, were present to
compete in the finals. They were
survivors of a starting field num
bering more tluVn 1,500.
Finals were held beginning ali
midnight in the Exposition The
atre. Eacb contestant, dressed in
an organdy evening gown, para
ded alone across the stage before
the nine Judges who used speeiifl
ballots to grade her on populari
ty, personality, carriage, grace-
fullness, symmetry, poise, torso
i»«H generai features.
There were five ratings on
each of these, poor, fair,, good
excellent, extraordinary. Points
were from one, for poor, to five,
for extraordinary. ^
The judges were locked in a
room guarded by police while a
statistician checked the point to
tals- to decide the winner. Each
Judge wais permitted to recheck
the vote to insure absolute fair
ness. Because of the care exer
cised by the judges to insure
complete impartiaiity, it was not
until 2:30 a. m. that the winner
could be announced and crowned
in the Court of Dioranutl where
Duke Ellington was playing. The
crown was placed on the winner
by James W. Washington, presi
dent and founder of the Expo
sition.
Choice of the Judges was not
made until 15 m.inutes before
the finals started. A list wsfe pre-
■•entcd and the judges chosen
from this list by members of the
Exposition Authority.
.SANTA MONICA, Calif.,-
Five men, four of them white, |
were stabbed in a fight at a pier’
riding -device in the Ocean Park
amusement etea. The clash was
provokied l^y a group of white
thugs, and before it ended about
fifty Ifegroes and the same num
ber of whites had participated,
according to the police.
The injured, all suffering from
knife wounds, were taken to a
hospital.
Police Killing Of Man
Evokes Wide Protests
LOS ANGBLflS, Sept 10,—(C
NA)—“A Nfgro has one chance
in 60,000 of getting a job in an
aircraft factory.
“R:|.’ial discrimination in this
and other key indiutries in Los
Angeles has forced from 50 to
65 per cent of the Negr> popu
lation here to depend on some
form of relief.'” ”
These facts were revealed this
week by the National Negro Con-
crese, Los. Angeles Council.
At the same time, the NNC,
through its executive secretary,
Robert S. Ro^nson re4ea.«ied an
exchange of corre.spondence be
tween the NNC ifeid leading air
craft corpora.tions, fully substan
tiating its chaises.
'fVe hage corporations, depen
ding largely on “natjonal defe«-
•sp” government contracts for
their rrtp-idly expanding business
refused even to discuss their Jim
Trow policies. Three others hed-
red on the question, and another
stated flatly that it would hire
only “Caucasians.” This Jim Crow
policy has created a situation
whereby Nazi spies htfve held key
posJtions in many aircl^ft plants,
according to reeeni: dfs«bveries,
thus endangerinjr the defenses
of this country, while black Ame
ricans have been barred from em
ployment in these plants.
The Negro Congress this week
persuaded the county boa^d of
supervisors to memorialize Con
gress against continuing io opur
government funds into thes>e com
names. The federal government
has been heavily swbsidizinsr the
aircraft industry with huge loans
for expansion.
The Negro Congress has also
ar,poaled to . labor and to all pei^
sons opposed to “un-American
practices of racial diserimina-
tion”. to send their protests to
Conerees aAd tp CalifomijVs two
Senators.
"tTAUCASIAHS” ONLY
In letters addressed to North
rop, Vultce, Lockheed, Nsvtii
American, Dougia.i Aircraft cor
porations. and trt Doaghis' El Ss-
gundo diviaion, the Hegro Coii*
gress staged.
“It has been called to our
tention that there are no Ne|nr«»cs
at present emploved by jour
company in the constrtk*tion of
Aircraft to be used in our eoon-
try’s program of defence.
“We are aware that you htfre
more than doubled yo r person-
ne4 during the past eigiit months
t».., meet the demands of milffom
I of dollars in orders ^Eaced byAe
ll?fiited States Goverament. We
are loyaJ citizens and supporters
of this coiintry’s financul ber-
|dens; we have contributed our'"'
share to our country’s economic
development; therefore we feel
justified in expectii^ eq«al op
portunities in employment, —es-
pecially where that empioynaent
is made available throogh .our
government.
There are many Negro rea-
dents in this community who
meet every retjuir^'meat to hold
skilled, semi-skilled and unskill
ed ?obs in the aircraft indusfcry.
Mav we therefore urge you to
avail yourselves immediately of
their services.’’
Vttltee Aircraft, Inc., in a let
ter signed by W. Gerard Taltle,
manager of industrial relatisns,
replied.
“This will aricnowledge your
•ie'tter of July 25, cdBing our at
tention 'to the fact that tiiere ®re
many Negro residenta av»i«i|ible
for employment in this industry.
I regret to say that it is not the
I policy of this cmpany to employ
people other than of the Cauca^
sian race, consequently, we are
not nn a positionto offer you?
people employment at this time.’*
Which Would You Choose?
BUFFAtLO, N. Y.— Unbridkd I Aug. 13 when James Young, 40, J and young left the restaurant,
police brutality agrainst Negroes I was done to death in cold Wood | The whites then called the po-
resuilting in the death of one and I on ithe sidewalks of the ^fth l lice, whomataaged to pick up
the serious wounding of another [ Ward by two white .plainclothes j Young and began ^ questioning
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Of the three gorgeous brown :Chii-ago Defender,” as «ma«r ef
beauties pictured here, whicbjthe Miss Bronze . Ame: ea
would you choose ai$ Miss Bronze land $300 in> ea^h with Iona
America? If you think that is a ■ nam, right, “Miss Chicago
hard question, consider the ^dges run»«r up lind recipisnt
i& this nationwide Miss Bronse|Left is Miss Gladys
America contest sponsored by the senting the Levy Chappel
American Negro Expmition whoij^clnoB, Mi»., who took
had not only these young lovelies $50. More 19»9i9
be ideal for rearguard
against tiie Iitalians.
actions
victim in the
h£l3 aroused a wave
tion Here and called
past two weeks, j men, identified as Detectives, him. Young, not reeognizing the^but 23 other ilatter»«s f^ls, all|erowded ibe
of indigna-j Matthew Getz, and Kibie. Young-ptainclottesmea as police, refus- wisners of prcKminary contests j night to see
forth ajwas in a restaurant when twojed to answer. They then slugged throughout the nation. After due,to the music IM*
broad protest movement.
The first incident oceured
I whites entered and began beat-
on )ing him. A brief tussle ensbed, ^
him brutally. Young begtan to and lengthy eoosidetation,
Co'tatinued on pa^ 8, section 2fl*:oo8e Miriam Ali, center
*Mias