them Negro Youth Congress
rites President Roosevelt About
nfair Tactics Used In Memphis, Tenn.
nmrhinc ot •‘Hos!'’’ Kd (,'ruuip.
Thf letter said, in part :'“Thpn«
is lo^uui«?ntary »*vi(lfiu*e available
to warrant 4 PVderal investiga-
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‘ ' .r. iK'inc ostablihhe«l in Tennessee
stron^jhold
'■i e-tablishsnenti, ^anl the
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an American Fascist
with itji race hatred, enmity 4o
;bt»r, and enpprcMiloB of t’ree-
,Uim of sj>eech and press." ^
The full text of the letter
Mei:).liis Tenn. The at-
M^m]•lli^ machine puli-
tiriKn> 1. diivi' leading Xiaro
citizen.'
fcrenc'
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Htid -lander heaped ujxm
i.lciil Nti'ro citizen? by
pntilic Ilf fflal city .'ince
the last eld'tions were the ,>ub-
j»'e: of an nj*en letter to I’r»‘^*dent
from the twnthern Ne*|
pro Youth font,Tes^, a^kintr that Franklin D. RoosctcU
the Feijenil Government iiteryene,'pjjp White Honse
to protf.t the lives and pr'il^rtv'washinjrlon, D. C.
i»f Xesro residents. iVesident:
The letter, f'ijrned by Edward
f^roBjc:, CnnprosR secretary’, re-* F**!* tl'*’ two months in the
ferred to Police (oramissioner *ity of Memphis, Tenn. American
Boyle of Memphis who recently citizens have been daily harrassed
declared, “This is a white nran’s by ^ity police, stopi^ed and search
countrx’, and always will be, and ^d in the streets, publicly sland-
«ny Xeirro who doesn’t apree to ered, and threatened with their
Ihi^ better move on.” This state-'very lives because they tried to
inent, Mr. Strong declared, was an exercise the common right of
incitement to violence against the selecting the political leaders of
Negroes of the city. Mr. Strong,their choice.
indicated that behind the situa-j There is a concerted drive upon
tion in Meini>his was the attempt the part of Mayor Chandler of
to force Xtigroes to vote for only Memphis, Police Commissioner
those eandiiiates endorsed by the Boyle, and “Boss” Ed ,|p^ump,
aided by the police department
and j)art of the metropolitan
j)re*s to force Xegro leaders out
of business and out of town nd
to intimidate the entire Negro
popnlafion by wholesale arrests
every day and by the placing of
heavy jwlice guards in peaceful
Negro neighborhoods. Memphis
residents suffeiing under ihe
Crumj) njachine domination cannot
protest for they know that Speak
ing out would mean the end of
their economic security and p#g-
sihly the bloodshed that has been
threatened in the press and in
.letters received by leading citi
zens. Nineteen prominent Negroes
have nrloady been individually-
pointed out by the machine to be
held reasonsible for anything
that may oecur.
The atfempts on the part of
Memphis oflficials to provoke ra-
jcial unrest and nolenco are not
^accidental or pressing oecurenee.
Attention has previously been
!directed to the workings of a
CONDUCT FLYING TRAINING AT LINCOLN “U” MO.
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(/KNOWLEDGE
Beadying the stage for the
introduction of secondary
flight instmction at Lincoln
University, Jefferson City,
Mo., these four members of
the Liacoln staff look toward
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eorrnpt core of politicians in the
city by the^xcessive police bru-
Itality, beating of labor organizers
and the manipulation of elections.
These are the means by which the
same politicians have maintained
theinsolves in power for over two
decades. The current campaign
against Negroes and Negro lead
ers is only a part of the warfare
constantly waged by the “mach
ine” against the fundamental
rights of the people. The domina
tion of the Cramp machine means
a ban on freedom of speech nd
of the press. It means 1 the sup
pression of the right of laborers
to organize freely unions of
their own choice and the driving
of labor organizers out x>t the
city by lawless gangs under the
very eyes of the police.
There is documentary evidence , We feel that in the defense of
available to prove that there is its citizens and in defense of
sufficient violation of Constitu- fundamental American principles,
EMPLOYMEN*ft
Employment on United States
farm declined approximately 15
percont during the month of Nov.
less than the usual sea.sonal de
cline, reports the XT. S. Agricul
tural Marketing Service.
The State College man sug-
'gests that where such conditions
w(;re noted in crops in 1940,
fanners should plan their fertili
zation program for 1041 so as to
elimin to thi« trouble again. He
urges tobacco farmerss, especially,
to consider the effect that potash
might have on the quality of
their crop.
ful for in thia great nation of
peace and opportunity.
increased attendance and per
sonnel in the avi«tion courses
being planned for next semes
ter. Ten »tudents have just
completed the primary flight
training course under Erskine
Boberts, extreme left ground
instructor, and Charles M.
Ashe, second from left,' fly.ing
instructor, are now tailing
the OAA examination for pri
vate pUot licenses.
All freight cars, owned by the
railroads if joined together on
one track would make a train
nearly 13,000 miles in length.
Regardless of our complain
ing, we have muc to be thank-
Turkjsh editor says Hitler
advised ally to quit Albania.
•
Peak activity for 1941 is pre
dicted by business editors.
•
U. S. sports, flourished dur
ing 1940 as upsets abounded.
•
* Army is developing shell to
explode on hitting plane.
•
Regular army rolls reach 400,-
000, the highest since World
War.
•
The scientists that are work
ing to eliminate static from ra
dio might get busy and see if
they can eliminate the slop out
of the programs.
Our favorite months for 1941:
March, May, August and No
vember. Cany ou figure it out?
Churchill advises the Italians
to quit while the quitting is
good, but his words will i>e
unheeded; it takes projectiles
and bombs to make a nation re
pent.
Training in parachute and
plane transport warfare pushed.
(Protest War Department Plan To
Segregate Negroe§, Through Plan To
Call Only White Draftees
New York — A viijorous pro
test against the studied polijy of
carefully preparing the ground
for complete'segregation ’of Ne-
tional rights ^ Memphis to way-[the Federal Government should g^o troops from white troops in
rant a Federal investigation of .intervene in Memphis to halt camps by selecting and
the Crupip machine. There is corrupt workings of the Crump white draftees
being established in Tennessee a'machine and its associates and,
little dicttitorship, the beginnings j at this time especially, to preserve
of an American fascist strong
hold within our very borders,
with its race hatreds, enmity to
labor, and suppression of civil
liberties. , ,
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the threatened security in life
and work of its Negro population.
Respectfully ,your%
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Executive Secretary
Scarborough & Hargett
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into the army until “camp facili
ties are available for Negro
troops," was lauiiehcd with the
War Department on Monday, Dec.
23, by the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People.
The protest was made following
the issuance of an order to local
draft boards here on Monday by
!New York City's selective service
, headquarters, advising board
I members that only white draf
tees will be selected and inducted
into the army under the first
COTTON “RUSH”
YOURW
UiSURED
SOME MONTHS ago National
Cotton Week was observed. The
retailers of America joined to-
srether in a great mass effort to
stimulate sales of all manner of
cotton products.
Now, in the opinion of John P.
Nichols, managing directoE of th«
Institute of Distribution, an or
ganization which represents
America’s principal non-grocery
chain systems, special effort
should be given to “pushing”
cotton the year around.
That should be done, he said, in
conjunction with a year round
education program provided by
1941 draft call until sometime durjthe cotton industry itself,
ing February, when facilities for “Through the work of such a pro
gram,” he added “a hard hitting
effort should be provided, for ex
ample, to educate America to call
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Negro troops are expected to be
ready. The order means that, re
gardless of number, Negro diaft-
ees will be passed over and only
white draftees will be ordered to
report for training during the
pres«||t period.
We wouldn’t be surprised if
some of those Americans who
were so valiantly defending the
Supreme Court a few years ago.
for’ cotton when you buy; to en
courage the development of
vorthy new cotton uses; to re^
emphasize the miracle of •cotton
schools, in the public press and
elsewhere—in short, to “sell” the
story of cotton.”
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North Carolina is playing its
part in National Defense—trac
tors and terracing machines for
agricultural defense and Army
tanks for niilitary defense. For
the past six years the State Col
lege Extension Service has oiganiz
ed and directed Soil Conserva
tion Associations which operate
heavy .equipment to terrace land
and control equipment. Farmers
who terrace their !«««? Mrn soil-
building payments through the
AAA program. Thus, while the
soldiers operating the tank are
pacticing maneuvers which stren
gthen the Nation's armed defense,
Tar Heel farmers are carrying on
soil defense work by terracing
more than 70,000 acresi of land
every year.
Reports from Budapest say that upward of 150,000 Nazi
troops are passing into Slovakia and through Hungary to the
southern border of Rumania (1). The movement may be in
tended to checkmate Russia, which is said to be preparing to
occupy Noldavia up to the Siretul Rliver (2). In this connec
tion it is reported that German engineers are directing the con
struction of successive defense lines on the Pruth and Siretul
Rivers and in the Carpathian Mountains. The Soviet apparent
ly has closed the frontier at Galati (3). The Germans also may
be preparing to go through Bulgaria to attack Greece. In the
Greco-Italian hostilities the port of Valona (4) was reported to
be again smashed by aerial bombs, and Greeco snow men storm
ed heights at Klisura, taking 500 prisoners, most of them fresh
Italian troops sent to halt the Greeks recently by Mussolini.
Naples (5) was likewise raided by British, said to have been
gruided to thir target by the non-blacked out Mt. Vesuvius tow
ering 4,000 feet above the bay of Naples.
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