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Dedicate First Negro Arjny Flying School
TUSKEGEE, Ala.—Standing in the shadow
o; the monument to Booker T. Washington, fam
o ' Negro leader, Major General Walter R. Weav
ev commanding the Southeast Air Corps Training
Center, makes the inaugural address at the dedica
tion of the 99th Pursuit Squadron Base and P»1 ®t
Training School, first school to train Negro st'a
dents as officers in the Air Corps. He stressed tiie
fact that because this is the only air school to
train Negro pilots, the Negro cadets have a signal
responsibility to establish “a wonderful record.
Urge Probe Of Most Flagrant
Firms In Denial Ot Positions
! Son Is Born To
•Judge Jane Bolin
NEW YORK—(ANP)—
Judge Jape E. Bolin gave
rth to a seven-pound son
resday night at Flower
J 'ifth hospital. The baby
■ the first child born to
! :e Bolin and Attv.
? ?ph E. Mizelle. She is
>n appointee of Mayor La
<nardia and the first Ne
ro woman judge in Ameri
ca. A|ty. Mizelle is an as
r i t int solicitor in the post
' Hire department in Wash
ington, D. C,
ifat'l Bar Ass'n
pens Sessions
i :®x! Thursday
330 Lawyers Are
Expected To
Attend Meeting
ST LOUIS (SNS)— According
to the response and interest being
thewfc on the part of lawyers :n
* il sections of the country, an at
tendance of fully 350 lawyers at the
1941 sessions of the National Bar
.V sedation, is predicted by Attor
ney S. R. Redmond, presient of
the national group, when the ses
ns get underway, Thursday
morning, August seventh at Little
Peek, Ark.
One of the highlights of the
ir'eting will come Friday morn
ing when the session will be held
at the Supreme Court Building of
the State cf Arkansas with the Hon.
C riff in Smith, chief justice of
kaxisas, delivering- a special ad
dress to the visiting barristers.
Other features of that morning
: ion, which will be presided
over by Vice Presidejnt 'lihomas
Ca mpbell of Denver, will be ad
dresses by Prof. Scovel Richard
son of the Lincoln University Law'
School faculty on "Trends in U.
S Supreme Court Decisions" and
.Attorney Z. Alexander Looby of
Nashville on "New Slants cm the
Ballot.”
Registration will be Thursday
morning e.t Dunbar High school
with the convention banquet at
the cafeteria that same night.
J’rrry Howard of Washington, D.
C. presiding. The public meeting
that night will feature an address
on -Jim Crow Laws and Travel in
the United States" by Congressman
Arthur W. MitcheH himself a law
yer. i
Fnday will be marked by the
election of officers with entertain -
ment at Club Aristocrat that night
Saturday, under the direction of
Attorney Richard D. Westbrooks of
Chicago the meeting -will come to
on informal close with relaxation
Pt famed Hot Springs
List of Companies L Given
“Fair l abor” Group Of OPM
WASH I f N GTON, D C.— (SNS)— In a memorandum to
the new committee on fair practices created under the
President's executive order banning racial discrimination in
defense employment, it has been suggested by the NAACP
that eight or ten firms known to be most flagrant in the
i discrimination against Negro workers be investigated at the
outset.
Among the firms suggested in
the NAACP memorandum are Con
solidated Aircraft Corporation. San
Diego. Cal.: Glenn L. Martin Com
pany. Baltimore, Md.; Baldwin Lo
comotive Works, Eddystone, Pa.;
' North American Aviation. Ingle
1 wood. Cal.: General Motors Corp
oration: Sperry Company, Brook
lyn, N. Y.; Colt Firearms Company.
Hartford, Conn,; Vultee Aircraft
Corporation; United Aircraft Cor
i poration, Hartford. Conn.; Boeing
Aircraft Company, Seattle, Wash
I ington, Spartan Aircraft Company,
' Tulsa, Okla.
The NAACP memorandum de
clared “we believe that such an
approach (to these firms) would
: be most salutary and that investi
gation of and corrective action
against discrimination in these
larger plants will dramatically af
fect employment policies of other
concerns as well as the ones chosen
for initial action.”
Two Drowned
EUDORA. Ark—Leroy Leonard,
18 and Jesse Goulden 20. tenants
on the Meriwether plantation west
of Eudora, were drowned in Boueff
r.Ver, when the boat in w'hich they
were riding over-turned. The
youths w?ere riding with four others,
two of the boys could swim, each
rescued one, but Leonard and
Goulden sank before the swimmers
could return to them.
Kentuckians Planning
Graduate Work Test
Sperry Hires .
First Crew Of
Negro Workers
Assemble Sound
Locater Horns At
Brooklyn Plant /
WASHINGTON, D. C.- (SNS> —
Following notification to the Negro
Employment and Training
Branch of the Labor Division of
! OPM that it had altered its em
ployment policiesf the Sperry Gyro
scope Company, Inc., of Brooklyn,
hired its first crew of skilled pro
duction workers last w"eek.
At the same time, the Brooklyn
firm, which manufactures sound
locaters, anti-aircraft searchlights,
fire control equipment and other
instruments for the nation’s armed
forces, instituted an upgrading pro
gram for the Negro shipping clerks,
platform workers and maintenance
employees already at work in the
plant.
These developments were report- !
! ed to Sidney Hillman, Associate j
Director of OPM, by Dr. Robert C. j
i Weaver, Chief of the Negro Em- j
ployment and Training Branch,
following conferences between a
| field representative of Dr. Weav
er's staff and officials of the com- j
, pany.
i “Sperry Gyroscope’s new policy j
will extend to the Ford Instrument j
Company,’’ Dr. Weaver reported.
“This subsidiary of the Sperry
Corporation hired its first six Ne
gro employees last week, and skill
ed coloied workers will be hired
within a week or ten days.”
Implementing its new non-dis- 1
crimination policy, the Sperry Gy- j
roscope Company summoned five j
Negro skilled workers to the plant |
last Monday. The four who report
ed w’ere put to work immediately
assembling sound locater horns
Officials of the Company said that
additional crew’s of five Negro
skilled workers each will be offered j
employment.
Skilled employment will be of
fered also to a number of shipping
clerks and loading pliatform work
ers now employed in the plant.
Many of these employees are high
ly skilled workers, the officials
stated, and others wall be given an
opportunity to learn to operate the
machines in the plant.
The Ford Instrument Company,
I also of Brooklyn, hired a Negro ele
vator operator and five mainte
nance workers—the first colored
! employees in the history of the j
Company; but announced that Ne
; gro skilled workers and helpers |
: would be given employment within j
i the next two weeks.
At the same time, employment:
| officials there announced that Ne- |
I gro toolmakers and casters would j
The Globe Trotter . * By cuff Mackay
w
Black Lindberghs
INTERESTING, YET sad, to this writer was the
lineup of “big names” on a letter announcing the
formation of a “Charles A. Young Division” of the
America First Committee, which reached the desk
this week.
That “America First” is liable to
fool yoiUi unless you are aware ol
the activities being conducted b}
the gioup bearing this misnomer.
This group, whose loudest and most
prolific spokesmen, are Charles A.
Lindbergh and Senator Burton K
Wheeler, is to all intents and pur
poses dedicated to the under
handed proposition of knifing thi
foreign policy outlined by Presi
dent Roosevelt.
There are some who would SO
so far as to say that Messrs. Wheel
er and Lindbergh are actually more sympathetic
to Hitler and his ways than they are to the United
States and the democratic way. And their utter
ances and recent actions would tend to bear this
out.
EXTREMELY PUZZLING ACTION
That's why it becomes all the more puzzling
how Negroes, who call themselves leaders, can con
sent to lend themselves as tools of a crowd, whose
members are working so ardently for the man. whose
life is dedicated to crushing the only philosophy of
government in the world, which gives members of
their race a chance.
Look over this list of names and weep over the
short-sightedness that many of our group who thv
to lead seem to possess: J. Finley Wilson, grand ex
alted ruler of the Elks: Perry W Howard, Republi
can national commiteeman from Mississippi; Sidney
p, Redmond, president. National Bar Association;
Dr. W. H. Jernagin, president, National BYPU Con
gress; Judge Edward W. Henry, Philadelphia; Marse
Calloway, realtor and political leader of Maryland;
Bishops J. A Gregg and David Sims of the AME
church: Bishop A. P. Shaw 0f the Methodist church;
Bishop W. J. Wall of the AME Zion church and
many others.
'Those of you who are astute students of Pi
ties. no doubt nave already noticed the one thing
wrich every member of this group, that would hang
onto Lindbergh's coat-tails, agree upon.
ALL AGAINST ROOSEVELT
That’s right. They’re all members of that close
knit. unbending old-line Republican circle. Every
one of them in 1936 was against President Roosevelt,
l our years later in 1940 they were still against
Roosevelt and were out preaching the doctrine of
Wendell Wilikie.
ijooking ahead, you see which way the wind
will blow in 1944. ' The Republican bosses have
cracked their whips, and the darker satellites art
rapidly falling into line. The Republicans will
probably put Lindbergh up as their candidate on the
platform that he “will keep 'Us out of war, that is
if we are not already in by that time. In that case
Lindbergh will become the great missionary of peace.
Backed by unlimited funds, the American First
| Committee, emerging now as the child of the Re
publican Party, doubtlgss had little difficulty in
! lining up this crowd of black Lindberghs. The job
: ahead of selling this Hitler-endorsed program tc
j their followers, though, is certainly not one to bt
j envied.
i /
KNOW HITLER’S DOCTRINE
Negroes to well know what their fate will be in
I a Hitler-controlled world. The Austrian paper
hanger has clearly stated his low opinion of all
human beings whose faces are black. How cculd
I anyone forget his prize declaration that “the free
ing of the American slaves was one of the collossal
blunders of modern civilization’’?
Wh0 is it that hasn’t heard his description ol
Negroes as “half-apes,” his oft-repeated intention ol
denying to the world’s black population a chance
to obtain an education, of enjoying any of the other
things that make life worth living?
And .vet Messrs. Howard and Wilson, ©t al.
i would lead their followers down the road that would
i carry them inevitably into the arms of this avowed
: hater of Negroes.
The writer finds it hard to believe that these
! leaders whose good work in the past is unquestioned,
j are actually serious about this “America First” bus
iness.
! SHOULD REALIZE CONSEQUENCES
Surely they can realize the dire cbnsequences of
this not so subtle attempt to sabotage this nation’s
foreign policy. Never in history have black men
been led. by word or deed, to betray their country.
This is certainly no time tQ mar that spotless rec
: ord.
The Republicans have already been charged
with being the party of the appeasers. This charge
is supported by the fact that most of the big bus
iness men. who are quite willing to do business
with Hitler, are members of that party.
Partisan politics, however, should be laid aside
during this emergency when both country and race
are threatened The writer chooses to believe that
Messrs. Howard and Wilson have just been misled,
that they actually do not believe the type of propa
ganda that Lindbergh is expounding; and that they
will quickly see the error of their ways and re
pudiate this obnoxjious lineup. _ .. .
Superintendent
NEW ORLEANS—John L. Pro
cope, business manager of the
Mercy Hospital, Philadelphia, since
August, 1939, has been appointed
superintendent of the Flint-Good
ridge Hospital of Dillard I'uiversi
ty, President A. W. Dent announc
ed. The new superintendent will
begin work on September 1,
Perry Howard,
Others To Aid
Col. Lindbergh
Form Race Unit
Of America First
Committee
WASHINGTON, D C(ANP)
Apparently looking ^»rward to
the Republican presidential cam
paign of 1944 instead of the world
crisis of today, Exalted Ruler J.
Finley Wilson of the Elks and
Republican National Committee
pian Perry W. Howard of Missis
sippi have launched a campaign to
secure Negro members of a sepa
rate section of the American First
committee to be known as the
“Charles A. Young division.”
The America First Committee is
the most important of the isola
tionist group and has no particular
political complexion being compos
ed of outstanding Democrats and
Republicans along with such per
sons as Col. Lindbergh.
However, Sen. Taft of Ohio is
also a leading committee membei
hnd in 1940 he was a prospective
Republican presidential! candidate
with Perry Howard his leader
among Negroes. Although losing out
to Wendell Willkie. he is known to
have aspirations for 1944.
Mr Howard is secretary of the
Negro division of the America. First
Committee and bis committee is
composed of Republicans who ordi
narily are expected to be active
in the campaign cf 1944.
In addition to J. Finley Wilson as
chairman and Perry Howard as
secretary, other “members” are
listed as Bishop J. A. Gregg. AME
Bishop A. iP. Shaw, ME.; Bishop
W. J. Walls, AME Zion: Atty.
Sidney R. Redmond, president of
National Bar Association; Bishop
Dlavid H. Sims. AME; Dr. W. H.
be hired immediately if they can
show the required experience.
According to the new employ
ment policy, Negroes will be hired
in any position for which they are
trained.
Negro Mudents
Now Receiving
Scholarships
To Seek Admission
To University Of
Kentucky Classes
Bv LEON TAYLOR
LOUISVILLE. Ky. — <ANP> —
: Negroes are anticipating a show- |
down on the momentous question
of higher education for the Negro j
as provided by the state.
A group of energetic leaders in
this city recently drew up plans to j
1 inaugurate proceedings against the j
commonwealth by first having
| qualified students apply for pro
fessional courses at Kentucky State
College in Frankfort.
It they are unable to obtain such
! there, and this state school offers
few, applications for entrance will
I then be made at the University of
Kentucky in Lexington. Admit
! tance refusal there as authorized
| by state law—will furnish grounds
for court action which ultimately
will decide once and for all the
educational guarantees of Negroes
as defined under the laws of this
state and by decisions of the su
preme court.
WAIT TRAINING
According to a member of the
sponsoring body, “Our aim is to
obtain broadened fields for life
pursuits .... We want all profes
• sional training for our youth that
is provided for others by law.”
I Though a single fundamental ob
j jective is sought, it can be attained !
in only 1 of 3 ways as outlined
by the committee: first, admission
to all state-supported schools with
out regard to race or color: second
appropriation of several millions of
dollars to establish complete pro
fessional schools at Kentucky State
College in Frankfort: third, pro
vide ALL necessary funds to en
able Negro students to complete
four-year courses in northern in
| stitutions.
The first method will necessitate
a repeal of the Day law which sep
| arated races in public schools; the
| second and third would call for
! huge appropriations, many times
more than now apportioned in the
feeble and abortive gesture aimed
| at easing over a troublesome bump.
; NOW GIVEN DOLE
Under the present setup. Negro ]
students seeking a course not offer
ed at Kentucky State are given ’f
; a dole from the state treasure, an
i amount far insufficient to begin to
i meet necessary expenses.
When the question of admission ,
to the University of Kentucky first
| came into prominence several years
1 ago, President Frank L. McVey
Jernagin BYPU Congress; Dr. E
E. Howard; Judge Edward W
; Henry, Marse Calloway, Dr. B. G. 1
! Key, J. Anthony Josey, J. G. j
I Brown, Henry Lincoln Johnson.
| Dr. J. H. Branham. Charles H.
I Mahoney end Hobson R. Reynolds
Draftee Medic Made Officer
FT. DIX, N, J.— (ANP)—Private Herbert P. Henderson, Co.
F.., (Selective Service- 1229th Recruit Reception Center, Fort Dix,
N. J., being congratulated by Is Sargeant James W. Stubblefield on
leceiving notification that he is to be commissioned a 1st L'eutenan!
in the Medical Corps Reserve. Private Henderson lives at 249 Wes*
128th Street, New York City and was the first colored physician
to be drafted.
First Drafted Medic
is Given Commission
FORT DIX, N. J.— (ANP) —The
first colored physician to be draft
ed, Pvt. Herbert Bernard Hender
son, has received his commission in
the army of the United States and
will soon report for duty with the
372nd infantry which is stationed
at Fort Dix.
Pvt. Henderson will bo discharg
ed from the army on July 31 and
will then report to Fort Dix foi
extended active duty as a first lieu
tenant in the medical corps re
serve.
After receiving a bachelor of arts
degree from Johnson C. Smith
university in 1931. he studied medi
cine at Howard university in Wash
ington, graduating in 1935.
Pvt. Henderson spent his first
year of interneship at Freedmen’s
hospital, Washington, and his sec
ond year with the Harlem hospital
in New York City.
He started private practice, in
medicine and surgery, in Charlotte
N. C. in 1937 and 1938—continued
in New York City until March 11
when he was drafted under the
Selective Service act.
merely stated that he was bound
by law to refuse a Negro admission. ‘
Sen. A. B. (Happy) Chandler, gov
ernor of Kentucky at the time,
sought to calm the situation tem
porarily bv immediately transfer
ring money from his emergency
fund and making it available for
the expenses of Negro students
studying out of the state.
With the retirement of Dr. Mc
Vey from the presidency of the
University of Kentucky and the
election of Dr. Herman L. Donovan
as its head, the question of admit
ting Negroes there has arisen with
new vigor. Thus the president-elect
at the very outset of his tenure willl
be faced with one of the most im- ;
portant issues of his career, and '
one which may set a precedent fui
the whole south, if carried through
as now planned by the group re
cently organized.
Kentucky needs no new -preced
ent for the admission of Negro
students to its institutions of high
er learning. Long ago Berea col
lege listed many Negroes in its en
rollment who enjoyed the thorough
training of that pioneering school.
However, shortly after the turn of
the century, with the passage of |
the Day law in 1904, Berea was i
forced to yield to the separation of I
races.
Negroes Already Working
In FBI, Asserts Hoover
NEW YORK, N. Y.— (SNS) —
Fn answer to an inquiry by the
NAACP, J. Edgar Hoover, direc
tor of the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation (G-Men) of the De
partment of Justice, writes stat
ing:
“Please be advised that this
Bureau has no ban on the em
' plovment «f Negroes, and, as a
matter of fact, there are a num
ber of Negroes in the employ of
this Bureau at the present
time. With regard to your ques
tion as to the positions in
which these persons are employ
ed, you are advised that they
are employed in both investiga
tive and clerical capacities.”
Jumps From Roof But Police Net Gets Him
McDaniel jumps
For 55 minutes Freddie McDaniel, 20-year
old Puerto Rican accused of slashing a girl '«* a
card game squabble, perched on the roof of a
four-story Brooklyn, N. Y., tenement threatening
In the net
to jump. A police emegency squad rushed a safety
net to the scene and set it up in time to catch
McDaniel, who was arrested on a felonious assault
charge. The youth had fled to the rooftop when
I
police attempted to arrest him.
Supply Sergeant
LLOYL ALEXANDER, of 316^
North 18th Street. Birmingham,
Alabama, has been appointed Sup
ply Sergeant of the Cadet Corps
of the St. Emma Military School,
and will assume his new duties on
his return to the school at Rock
Castle, Va., early in September.
Dr. Comely On
Medical Council
WASHINGTON, D. C.—(ANP"1 —
Dr. Paul B. Comely, of Howard
University Medical school, has been
appointed to the medical advisory
council of the selective service sys
tem, National Selective Service
headquarters announced Thursday.
The duties of the council are to
provide liaison between national
headquarters selective service sys
tem. the American Medical Asso
ciation, National Medical Associa
tion, as well as the medical pro
fession at large, and to acquaint
these organizations with the medi
cal needs for the most effective
administration of selective service.
Girl Dies From
Kerosene Burns
PINE BLUFF, Ark.—Ersalene Ja
cobs, 17 died at the United Links
hospital of burns received when a
five-gallon kerosene can explodec
as she was pouring oil on a fire
in the backyard of the B. F
Daniels home on East 17th Avenue
| The girl was starting* a blaze
| under a wash pot when the ex
i plosion occurred. She was sprayed
! with burning kerosene and suffered
serious burns over the entire body
Mrs. Daniels who was sitting on
the porch when the accident hap
pened, was burned about the
arms, when the girl with burning
clothes, ran into the house,