j yjjr&ji t/j With tht Times J FUT l you n. no. i,-;: . . Negro Workers I Benefit From War Effort Negro workers have received more than $1^500,000 In the construction of schools, hospitals, recreation buildings' and olher community facilities ln^SrltAl " war areas, according to o recent report to Major General Philip B. Fleming, federal works administrator, by William 'J. Trent, Jr., racial, relations officer. This amount .'represents payments to skilled and Unskilled Negro labor employed on War public works during the first ten months of 1042. .. More than half of the total pay rolls on projects In North and South Carolina was earned by Negro labor; more than a third In Alabama, Arkansas,-' Georgia. Kentucky, Louisiana^'Maryland, Mississippi, and Virginia. To South Carolina Negro workers earned 23 per cent of the. skilled payroll; in Kentucky. 22 per cent; and Wi .North Carolina. IB per cent. * Under contractual' provjidons, war public works contractors are required <04employ Negroes In proportion to their; availability In the communities fn^whlch.t the - projecLb qre located. jEtttttaa construction begins on *rt given .contractor is Informed as to [theyapproximate.,percentage of. Negroes Iri ^the focal supply of constructioa laboiv^^Ved as well as unskllland . these, percentages, are expected *_to* be ^reflcted^ In radol em^ioytn??t,on .^the .projct. Census ocjsigpajhyaJ data,' field ~ reports and 3S8r*z6erant sources are used In determining appropriate percentages to BjHHty.eiperleoce of Negroes on roJtcta^haa l>een very favor^^^Ofjfthe' j,total wage payments fiKpTOjp>rt;.of the program last '.;hare received more ptttrent^W hen this Is com-1 j Mmmffihe1proportion of Negroes , jWj KfoW&dldlng-construction .la- *" ^b^g^o^^^M^reported "by the Social o It Indicates the eflnv lav r t of Negro Work- j, T\lWliSu^^Lr?V?/\rtl c jj ORE -v' - GRBENSI -Jazel Harrison, C( Play On Bennett r-'" Hazel ' Harrison, concert pi- ' an 1st, of Washington, D. ncert Pianist, Will Lyceum Program '/fV/v X'V ? vk ijmH I'''' inarkuhle success In every section of this country and baa played la some of the lending . symphonies of America and Kurope. Miss Harrison* was born In Indiana and received her early music eduction In Boston nnd New * York ' liefore going to Munich and to Berlin to study under the world renown Busonl and the equally great Egou Petri. She wns formerlly soloist for the Minneapolis Syniphony Orchestra. I Negro Employment Is On the Upgrade More extensive employment ol Negroes and women and more Intend slve training and upgrading", art among the inimediute steps thai should be taken to meet current and future personnel requirements in tin for-hlre trucking industry. Otto S Beyer, tllrector of the division ol transport itersonnel, office of defeats trniiK|k?rtatlon, declared this week. Mr. Beyer's statement was prompt ed by an OT>T report on current ant anticipated emplnyiuent In the Indus try based on. the latent bi-inouthlj surrey of the United States employ ment service. Tlie survey covered 011 companies, employing 93,045 person* or 18.1 per cent of the eetlinnted em ployment for the entire for-hln trucking Industry. The survey showed that.there hai been virtually no i Increase In ? . tin number of Negroes employed ln-.th for-blre trucking Industry, althougl In one .company al^but six or the J2 sniployees' werc Negroes* I - percentage, of Negroes j.y*a found io.be'higher In the south thai ji) the norths In skilled;** well as or Bki|led occupation., Only 3.8 perceti of^the employees/Of- .all coinpanle ; jfcorered by theSnirveyjhowgver, -wer Negroes... "Next',t'fmo y'ou .break a fl.nger na! ouly^portw nyv roeod It vith ffaA?J\ cent Scotch tape and apply two coat of r??rl' not I" li ovor the mend. 1 Re JTU SB It, 194? Mr. Rosenwald ! Thanks Movie Industry 1 Within three months 8i>,000,000 American moviegoers will find out , how any family, taking n hint from ^ Henry Aldrlch's famous movie fam- j lly. can take part In the continuing j nationwide effort to KHlvnge scrap ^ Iron, steel, copper, aluminum, rubber, ?j tin cans and fats. f Lesslng J. Rosenwuld. director of the WPB conservation division, today ? thanked the movie Industry for its 4 excellent work In producing, dlstrlbuting nnd exhibiting motion pictures c like the new Aldrlch film that bring a the lessons of conservation and sal- r vnge nto every community in America. Mr. Rosenwald*s message of t thanks was extended to the industry on the occasion of a special screenIng in Washington of three "short f subject" war pictures.- The pictures will he shown to an estimated 85.000,000 movie patrons.lit more than 37,000 motion picture theaters In the ? next few months. t.a In addition to the Aldrich'picture, a entitled "The Aldrich Family Gets , in the'Scrap," the Washington audi- ^ ence heard and-saw an Illustrated tolls by Vice-President Henry Wal- ^ lace and. "Everybody's War," nar- c rated by Henry Fonda. Wallace's t talk emphasized the four freedoms for which America Is fighting. t "Everybody's War" is the story of i nn unnamed American community, z whose sons marched off with the < National Guard way back in 1W0. Incorporated In ' the Ariny of 'the | United States and sent to the Philip- < pines, tills annonymous Notional < Guard outfit took part In the battles i of Ilataan and the surrender of Corregldor. Only when tlieir boys were 1 prisoners of the Japs, .the picture story reveals, .did the cdmmunlty t thoroughly wake up to Its re*|?onnlbillties. Tlien it discovered the many little things,.like buying war bonds ; and collecting scrap, that the folks , on the home front must do to' keep t America's war machine rolling to vie- ' I lory. . ^ Price Endorsement Has r Support of Government Price Administrator I-eon Hender. son today declaretl that the depurtI ment of agriculture's recently an_ iKiurimr price support program for j ninny major farm commodities had . his complete and unqualified en\ dorsement. .At the snme time, he said ^ that the office of price adminlstro. tiqn," In setting price' ceilings over f these support "floors," has not and will not take any action which might n hamper maximum farm output, p '"It la essential," Mr. Henderson ft ?tnted,; "that American furmers be ti prorlded th$ greatent possible asslst% ance -It tfiey%;are~ to fulfill the 1043 J 4Food'For-^Freedmn'r' production goals ft ?whlch call for. (in all-time record rv agHcpltural;. Qdtpo't. Thla 1 necessary i; Incandv^iw^far as'- prlc^ are cont corned. '\n provide*!* by* the' depart im-nt . of .-"agriculture's recently ane nouneed 'support prtce program." r" - ?* '-"r'i* . - *- " " , V '"l-NewftTork city.residents eontrlbi) uffdy^rr^old plftnra^to^ the scrap! K metal^dtrre,*-!n^t vro-and -* ha 1 f days, a Each' piano*; contained about 900 nw?tal ad The Future Outlook! | JOK ~ PRICE: 5c - . ' v'* Skrobarczyk and Daughter Plead , Mot Guilty The I>epnrtment. pf Justice nnlounred this week thHt pleas of not* "x fullty were entered by Alex Skro-' * ' . 1 mrczyk and his daughter, Susie, of 1 '' Jeeville, Texas, Monday when they cere arraigned at Corpus Christie," / Texas, on charges 'of violating the ederal anti-peonage statutes. ,--i \ The Skrolmrczyks were indicted by ' ... i federal grand Jury at Laredo, Tex., . ;*'< ? n November 9, 1942, on..charges of . . . lolding n Negro, Alfred Irving. In "a* /"^ 'f"r ondltlon of peonage and slavery for . i period of four years to.'^ork on a ?w*\? iretended debt, .'v.' V. Accordlng*to the'--Indictment, the,' , - :.?* 'krobarczyks paid Irving 44.65 peci&j \ aonth In addition to $12.50 for food ^ nd clothing during tiiq; four-year pefed. .. . 4? '&. tfr M At the time of tlte.defendant's r4est, Irving was foumi^iu^a badlj^V mdernourished condition,'feeding ^ he mouth, and .with' nd arms covered r a well as old sears/?/.He tatifledr*. jfetL hat on various .occasions lie een beaten*-with* a ind plunk.*'. Twl6s.'vchen' hi?taV? wa&?& * rom the Skrobar<^y kajtann tainted, he was returned; by \he d endauts to Involuntary, servitude. The Skrobarczyka ^ .wera.. mder Section 443 and J .S. Code, both . of .which -carry" a nnxluiuin penalty o^5rye&rt_ Imprls? inrnent, or a $5,000 The Grand Jury Innttlfitfkty^rd ?'& pies ted by Assistant Attorney^ sral Wendell Berge, lor charge -oDJhej1 Criminal Division, following the' re-"' turn of a no-blll by a' state gratid-v.* Jury, was directed by.U/S, Attorney Douglas McGregor. ^ . m ?~3i ' '1 '< }^V-1'a5 jV Concern Showin '/?? ;? .;> Because of Movie Fires' /; Expressing J Conc?fr& usual number of ture theater reported > frmy^MouhJfeC^jm/ parts of the country. In ? ueA paat&J^'. neverHl weeks," C! t.'Dmnphy^liltd? of. the amusement dlrlaioii, today urged theater'* ?' ters to observe carefully nine rules.' of fire prevention drafted by the sec-' 2;/^ Hon. - ' "There have been several fires're-, ported to ua recently?some of whiclffi. ^ resulted In much d u m a go?tha t-c^l ft^T have I teen avoided ^lf more'care I?een exercised In theater operation,. Mr. Dutnphy suld. "This problem-'lai'{{'* f$jg& serious enough- in normal; today, when every-ounce of ma^rlal^yVj, must t>e guarded, iiiaterlal?'for'-re^'-'building or repairing damage cause*! by fire are not always available. W*:-Zfivj^g? are confronted with .the'prolwblllty-'ii-.^^^ff that a theater damaged by Ore today will have to r ema I a ctoMd I'/otjf duration-^- thereby depritfn^^ic^Oj^|rp?^|fcfl caf population of an\1mpor^n^yo^^BHH| of recreation and ih(, KISS??1 T!"V TV?- T??r-/lo 'C'nTT.^*