Barkley Denies Trying to Smother Lynch
Learning And Earning
LEARNING «nd tmning go .FA project, looking ever the zam-i ledge of what oum'ne«s da ail
hand in hand in timet like these ed commiinity's largest colorec- bout. During the past fiv« yenra,
when #o many people are u.a«m-owned electric aippliance sto.-e, iimiliar project* have been
ployed. Photo (above) fthows two Turner’s. On WPA they are get- operated throughout the country,
young women from a Harlem WI ting a practical working know-'
Senator SaysHe Didn’t
Call Bill Dead Horse’
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THE CAROUNA TIME^ SATURDAY, SATURDAY OCT. 5, 1940
OFFERS AID TO MEN
REJECTED FROM ARMY
Serological Tests To
Be Given Men Who
Register For Draft
NEW YORK—Refuting %'g-
n«d ttory which appeared in the
Chicago Defender, September 14,
Senator Albeii Barkley iMued a
■tatement denying that he had
recently told Negro delegatioa
that thft Anti-lynching bill is a
"dead home,” and ‘‘hai been rp-
moyed as an issue from tb« pre
sent. fampaijri^ by i|iu|;;al |fn‘eer
nicnt) of both partiMi toncernel.
The Semat* Majority Leader's
statenient was contained fn a
letter to the National Associati'cn
for the Advancement) of Colored
People. fatted> ^pte«nber £0. Ha
wrotie in response te the NAACP
tclagrams asking him to deny or
affirm the charge and to nanjie
the representativeB of the two
parties who made the agreement,
if the charge was true.
Characterizing the story na a
“wilful misrepresentation,” the
senator said: “I am amazed th%t
any newspaper should be gu’lty
of such exegetical error. In
"I am here not only to express
a tremendous interest in the
work you have been doin^, but
also to emphasize the importan
ce of the great task to which
you Are now about to dedicate
yourselves,” Governor Clyde R.
Hoey told health officers from
all over North Carolina, assemb
led at the State Board of Health
Tuesday, to formulate plans for
making serological tests among
the 404,000 North Carolinaians
expected to register for the
draft, October 16,
“I ask you,” he went on “to
. .., . envision the beneficial results
Anti-lynchmg bill w,II or will accrue to humanity in
ba an issue in the political cam-jfjyg^ ygg even fifty years
from now, as the result of the
“In other words, the entire I program you 4re now launch-
itatenkent as quoted in your tele- ing.
The meeting w&s called by Dr.
Carl B. Reynolds, State Health
the representatives! of l>oth poli-1
tieal parties as to whether the'
the first place, I have not been'gram i^ without the Slightest
called upon by any Negro dele, foundation and I am amaMd that
gatiori recently concerning the any publication that regards It-*
Antl-lynching bill and 'never made self as responsible would be guilty
any such statement as that con- of -such wilful in5«representa-
tflined in your telegram to anj- tion.
body at any time.
■ “I have never discusscd . the
Anti-lynching bill aa a poUt chI
issue with alftybody at any time
and no agreement of any sort has
either jjeen made or even dis
cussed so f^ir. as I lyiow betiween
^: i ■
Neither President Roosevelt
nor Wendell Willkie, both of
whom were asked to make a
statement on the charges againbt
Barkley, has replied to the NAAj
CP telegrams, officials of the or
(ranizations said today.
NAACP Calls Oa Senate To Bring Up
Anti-Lynching Bill Before Congress Ends
CITES SEVEN LYNCHINGS IN (votes of almost
1940 AND BUMES ADMINIS-statement said.
TRATION FOR EAIUJRE TOL^reT 1
AlCT WHILE TAUCING ABOUT ,®, ^ disgraceful
DEMOCRACY
NEW YORK — Lett‘>rs re
questing aetion on the anti,
lynching bill before the adjour
nment of congress ‘•were sent
this week to fourteen key sena
tors of both parties by the Na
tional Assooiation for the Ad.
vrancement of Colored People,
a to I/' the
“The Senate
filibustar
lasfcjngs set^n weeks in early '38.
After the House passed the bill
a second time, the Senate has re
fused to act to bring it up for
a vote. We feel that the Admini-
atration could have got this b.ll
to the floor if it bad wanted to
do so.
Toolmakers Wanted
By Government As
Defense Work Starts
Officer for North Carolina who
is chairman of the sub-commit
tee the Federal lUlations
Committee of the State and Tefr-
ritorial Health Officers’ Associa
tion for securing serologic tests
among the approximately six
teen and a half million men who
will register throughout the U-
nited States.
Dr. Reynolds, who had previ
ously explained the purpose of
the meeting, presented the Gov
ernor, who declared that .“it is
not only necessary for my fam
ily and your families to be heal
thy, but also for the communi
ties in which we live.” He said
that, through te 265 public ven
ereal disease clinics in North
Carolina, it ought to be possible
to exsunine, tr^t and rehabili-
tatie young men not only for
military duty, but for useful
civilian li^^ as welU when the
war, if it comes, is over and the
citizenry t^irns again to peace-
gul pursuits.
“Nothing gives me greater
satisfaction than the work that
has been accomplished in the
Wall Street
Broker Cut
In ‘Love Nesf
NEW YORK (ANP) ~ A Wall
Street broker and pronaineTit
socialite, who was seriously stabb
ed white in a Harlem ‘Love Nest'
in July, 193.9, was sued for c'i-
VOTce by his socially prominent
wife, Mrs. Virginia Pallert Ma?-
smore Exton in Reno, Nev., this
year. The decree was granted
this week.
Although granted on charwes
of cruelty, the divorce followed
a suit for separation filed a y^r
ago by Mrs. Exton, who decKv-d
then that her husband, Richard
K. Exition, 33^ had gone to Har
lem to "visit >a woman.’!U,t- .
On July 16, 1939, Exton was
taken to Hariem hospital with
stab wotinds of the abdomen. He
told police he was in the t«p-
floor hallway of a house on West
120th Street, when two men halt
ed him. One stabbed him, he .^a'd
while the other rifled his pockets
of $10.
In her separation suit, Mrs.
Exton .said “My husband's family
tried' to make this appear as a
simple robbery but I am con
vinced, that he went to 204 West
120t}i St. to visit a wqman. Other
wise, how can anyone aocouot
for Ws being found qn the s'xth
floor with his shoes and socks off
and his car parked three blocks
away?
Exton had been married to
Mrs. EScton only four mont)*s
when the incident occurred. Both
parties had been married before.
APPOINTMENT OF WEAVER
TO DEFENSE COUNCIL
AIDS NEGROES CAUSE
NAACP WIU HEP ANY
APPUCANT WHO FILES SUIT
AGAINST U. S. GOVERNMENT
In Chicago you can purchase
civic opera tickets for a dollar
field of public health in North | down and ten weeks to pay.
To meet the great demand for Carolina in recent years, “Gov
I toolmakers for the National De-ernor Hoey declared, pointing In Boston they sell canaries
In recent years our Presidsnt fense Program, the United Sta- that in the particular risk on the basia of 80 cents down
and our State Department have Service Commission ur- now under discussion it should and 60 cents a week,
issued statements rebuking what Persons to apply borne in mind that mass ac-
A special request was m>ad4 of -^11 the forces of brutality . position. Immediate ap-^(.ynjulation of men will mean
. . . - ' rv/\nKi4*»v»n«'f a Oi*a ^r\ Ko nnft#lA Sffr. * a. ^ aT
NEW~YORX-^Robert C. Wea-
ver, for seven years anintegral
part of President RoosevelVs New
Deal family, wSs recently named
administrative assistant in the
labor supply division- of the Ad
visory Commission of the Coun
cil of National Defense. In his
new capacity, Dr. Weaver not
only will help shape the policies
of the commission, fiut will be
in position to advise on Negro
affairs.
A few months after President
Roosevelt took office. Dr. Weaver,
was appcdnted aasbeiate advisor
on economic status of the Negro
in the Department of the Interior
Later on, he became advisor in
Negro affairs in that department,
where he served ab consultant in
the housing division of the Pub
lic Works Administration.
NEW YORK Court action
against the 5ecr«t«rles’ of War
and Navy to cempcl th* aecep.
taace of all who vohiateer f.»r
service in either af these braa-
che* of th« country'! delenne
forces, regardless of race or 'o-
,lor, is promised by the National
fAsarociation for the Advancemeiit
jof Colored People, according to
an announcement made here to-
day. , ^
I The announcement followed
^passage of the following resolu-
• tion by unanimoua vote of the
jAssociation’s board of directors
at its monthly meeting held aere
at 69 Fifth Avenue, Sept. 9;
1 “That the NAACP Legal
fense Committee give aid to any
American citiaan desiring to en
list in the Army or Navy, who
is refused (he privilege of enlist
ing on account of race or color,
to the extent that it will institute
appropriate, affirmative legal
action against the Secretary jf
War or the Secretary of Navy as
the ease may Se, to corap^ ♦he
Army or Navy to accept such
volunteer into~fhe anftifir'br na
val fowes."
The resolution was passed fol
lowing a report on an erehange
of correspondence between Ae
War and Navy Departinents in
whic}j the Association Asked th;»t
there be no discrimination again
st Negrroes in the new defense
program, and that colored eitl-
tens be in'tegra^ad into ^e armed
forces without segreE»tlon be-
cause of race or color.
Secretary of War Stiinaaa
made the following statement U
the NAACP in a letter about t>a
matter:
“The success of the NatioiuJ
Defense .Program can best be es
tablished by united support •£
the War Department plana, which
have been worked out «ft»r
years of study by those who
devoted their lives to th«K qac^
tions. Unity can be destroyed by
attempting to eatablish a program
which is contrary to the War De-
partaaent’s plana, by tho»e wh*
are not fawUiar either with the
principles involved or the reqiui«
oientg «f such plans.
“In the augmentation atf th«
Army now under way, additioaal
colored units have been author^,
zed. These include one Field Ar
tillery Regiment^ two Coast Ar
tillery Anti-aireraft Battalions,
Engineer Regiment for («n.
eral service, twelve Quarterntas-
ter Tmck Companies and one
Chemical decontan»ination eo.’»-
C. W. Nimita, Navy Depa^-
ment Bureau ehief made J?!®
following statement setting fevtn
the Navy's policy of reJeyafiw
Negroes to the service of mess-
men only: “After many years of
experieivce, the policy of not
Hsting men of the colored race
for any branch naval
vice except the messman, br«ntt,
tWs adopted to meet ihe beat
reirts tft geneT»} effieienfy.
Minneapolis Gives
Recognition To
Bannarn's Work
and dictatoi«hip.an all parts of "fl" A ®
♦u 1,1 'Ti,o„ -Uo o «5iin ordnance and naval establish-thus assembled but for the
the worid.^ They have read Su - n^ents in Philadelphia, Pa.; Bos- civilian population as well, and
day School iecturep to other na- ton, Springfield and Watertown that this was all the more rea-
tions. They have talked about Mass.; Watervliet, N. Y.; and
Democracy but they have chosen Washington, D. C. Approximate-
to ignore the dastardly crimj of ly 600 appointments will be
lynching in our own backyard. I made in the Frankford Arsenal’
alone. The pay scales vary accor-
I “America can never stend a* ,Jing to the place of employ-
per said he was doing everytU*ng an example tp, other in*ti»ns on ranging from $6.24 a day
he could do to bring up the '>111,'the treatment of minority people to $1.17 an hour.
the three senators sponsoring the
bill in tihe Senate, Robert Wag-
ner, New York; Arthur Capper,
Kansas; and Frederick Van Nuya
Indiana. Senator Van Nuys wir
ed that he would consult with
Seni^or Wagner on the matter
but that he did niot have mucii
hope of any action. Senator Cap-
and would follow (Senator Wag- as long as human beings are bhot
ner’s lead.
Senator Vandenberg of Michi
gan wrote that he would consuit
with Senator Wagner and Itnd
any aid he could, but explained
that even if Congress did not ad
journ, a recess until after election
was inevitable.
'The NAACP letter cited Euvjp
lynchings during 1940. The list
was announced recently as
but since that time a killing at
Dyersburg, Tenn., August 3, has
been verified as a lynching, mak
ing the seventh of 1940. Roose
velt Jones, 26, was the victim.
In a' statement made this week
the NAAOP blamed the Adminis
tration for failure to act on the
bfll.
“Twice In the last i^ee
the R««m ba* paaeed tiiic bil by
hanged and roasted to death here
son why such a fact-finding pro
gram as that about to be under
taken should be carried to a suc
cessful. conclusion.
Prior to Grovernor Hoey's ad
dress, the conference was ad'
dressed by Miss Katherine P.
Lenroot, Chief of the Children's
Applicants must have comple- United States Do-
. , , « , ted a 4-year apprenticeship as Payment of Labor, who was
without that federll government, must have had 4 J®**®.
lifting a finger to do anything practical experience in Cooper, Assistant State Health
about it. Hitler has a perfect trade. They must be able to
right to sneer ab our statements j-gad blueprints and mush be ex-
a» long as we handle our mino- perienced ih the use of precis-
rities in much the same manner ion gauges, measuring instru-
that he handles hi*.
“Perhaps the most shameful
lynching of this year occured
ments, etc.
The proper application forms
may be obtained from R. J. Ba
in Brownsville, Tenn., in June, Secretary, Board of U. S.
when a peaceful, law-abiding co- Qivil Service Examiners, at the
lored citiien wias done to death post office or customhouse in
for the enormous crime of at- this city, or from the secretary
tempting to register so that l.e of the board of examiners at
pould vote in the Presidential any first- or second-class post
election November Brownsville office.
Tenn., is a ^ African bushmen also buy
craey in a nutshell and will rt- instalment plan
main so until om and, if there is a failure to m^f
does something to puni»h .payments, the girl^ father oi
chera,'
(brothers repossess her.
Officer, in charge of maternal
and child welfare servics of the
State Board of Health, on her
way to Chapel Hill, where she
was to deliver an address later
in the day.
Miss Lehtoot said that the
maternal and infancy program,
in which, she declared. North
Continued on page eight
Health is something that is
appreciated by those who need
it most.
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MINNEAPOLIS, (ANP) Frcm
October 7 to 24 the recent wor’ss
of Henry W. Bannam in paint
ing, sculpture and drawing will
be exhibited in a one man show
at the Harriet Hanley gallery,
one of the largest private g-\ller
ies in the city.
While the name of Henry Ben.
narn is not new to the Minnea
polis cultural public as has p: e-
ThWft is never any scarcity of
axeusss for ^oing what you want
to do.
Governments are not apt to
Exceed the collective wisdom of P«»onal blessing of Mrs. Roose-
the voters. ■ velt, Jjerself an ardent theattc
GROES were given
did opportunity to demonstrate
their Jiistorionic ability through
the Federal theatre, one of the
pet New Deal projects, said to
have been established with the
goer.
Here we see Rex Ingram stand
ing and Louis Sharp, in a scene
from the highly successful p o-
duction, Haiti, which eoJoyed i
long run at New York’s L*
Fayette theatre.
Washington, D. C. and he has
bad his work exhibited at **i>e
Pennsylvania Academy of
Arts, the Carnegie In^tute
tern Art association, Hamtoif ^
hibit, Baltitnon Museum of Att,
Dillard university. New
Labor club, American Art Sehoo^
Harlem Conamunity Art eea«er»
Brroklyn YWCA and in isivstii
At* •llections throufhout the eMtB«
viously won prizes in art a n d|tr5. A head of Mathew HeaaSB*
sculpture at the Minneapolis In- polar explorer. » located at
stitute of Art, the State Fair Fine 1 ward Univernty. and boaii|^ |£
Art galleries and the Woman's Richard B. Harriaon,Harriet ML
eluh, this is the first time his
works of sctilpture Is both wood
and stone, paintings and draw
ings will be combined in
exhibition.
man, Frederick Dotiglas are i|
the Schomburg eoUed;|on. |l|;
designed the placque ]^aain«p#
onejto John L. LewSi at the thM
i National Negro Congress in ifm
Mr. Bannam’s name is inclnd-,ington this year wkieh
“d in the 1940-41 Wh«>*a Who »n|tlie brin^g together el
American Ai% published bgr the ^ and whHe miners in a
American Feedration of Arts, the first time in laber's Mlfcanjk,
Navy Buying 13,000
Finger Bowk For
Defeme, For Whit^
Thirteen thousand
ed ffnjrar bewit—with
■ilw-plated trft^ to |o tlwa
■I
tIUm—seemed to "Rupt
John Taller of New Yortt
|to i&dieate tlie Ua^Ml
Navy i* emrvytsg ^Jbm
defme bosiiMa* toa
. Mr. T»b*r.
do« of tks liwe|»
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«Mh was