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San Francisco Hospitals Denied To Negro Doctors
Leaders Form
Committee Fo
Leaders in virtually every phase
of community life joined yester
day (Saturday) to form an educa
tional committee to direct a con
certed drive for the success of
three proposed bond issues for
water, sewer and airport expansion
in Phoenix.
A special city election on the
bond issues will be held November
19. Only real property owners may
vote in the bond election. They
must be registered with the City
Clerk. The closing date for regis
tration is October 28th.
Organization of the educational
committee grew out of conferences
among representative of industry,
business and labor, all with a com
mon interest in providing the
greater facilities necessary to
match Phoenix’ tremendous growth
in population.
As a result of these conferences,
Lewis Haas, General Manager of
the Chamber of Commerce, and
Ross Goodwin, President of the
Phoenix Central Labor Council,
were chosen to direct formation
of the bond campaign group, to
be known as the “Phoenix Bond
Development Committee.”
Newell Stewart, Phoenix drug
gist, and former mayor, was se
lected ad chairman, and will lead
the education campaign in behalf
of the proposed $9,600,000 com
bined bond issues. The total bond
financing program is divided $6,-
000,000 for water development,
$2,500,000 for sewer repair and ex
p ansion, and $1,100,000 for expan
sio nos Sky Harbor Airport. The
$1,100,000 for the airport repre
sents the city’s share of a $4,500,-
000 development, the balance to be
provided by federal grant.
The membership of the commit
tee is still subject to additions. In
announcing the names of those
who already have agreed to serve,
Haas and Goodwin issued a joint
statement:
“Phoenix literally is bursting at
the seams. The population has
grown so rapidly that our water
and sewer systems, so important to
the health and sanitation of- the
community, long since have be
come inadequate. The end of this i
growth i snot yet in sight. Each of
us must join in the community re
sponsibility of helping to catch up
with our population increase and
providing added safety factors in
health and fire protection.”
“Every person should ,be in
formed of the unsanitary condi
tion and the inadequacy of our
sewage system, as well as the cess
pool menace in areas adjoining the
city. Every resident likewise should
become fully familiar with the
critical fire hazard which was cre
ated during the summer by the ser
ious lack of water and the low
pressures. This condition will grow
worse each year until our water
supplies are increased. This is a
‘must’ if we hope to avoid disas
ter.”
‘Likewise, development of our
airport facilities to meet the con
stantly increasing requirements of
the modern growth of aviation is
essential, if we are to take advan
tage of the great opportunity of
creating here in Phoenix one of
the outstanding air centers in the
nation. Already Phoenix is an im
portant link in a trans-continental
OPA Sticks Building
Bosses For Over Pay
Excessive wage rates paid by
four employers of bricklayers and
floorlayers in Arizona and North
ern California resulted in penal
ties totalling $27,620, Richard A.
Perkins, Regional Attorney for the
Te nth Regional Wage tSabiliza
tion Board nanounced today.
The Board, which levied the pen
alties, said the amounts will be
disallowed b ythe Internal Revenue
in computing the employers costs
of operation for income tax pur
poses.
Contractors in Phoenix, Arizona
receiving fines were: John D. Lof
tin, $17,900; Arizona Construction,
$6,500 and Everett Morgan $1,300.
A penalty of $1,920 was levied
against Horst and Thompson,
Stockton, Calif.
“Legal area wage rates for me
chanics and laborers in the build
ing and construction industry" have
recently been published in the Fed
eral Register beginning with the
September 27 issue,” Perkins said,
and will provide employers who
have any doubt as to what is the
legal wage payment, with the
complete information.
“Contractors who pay more than
the legal rates as approved are
threatening the government’s ef
forts to expedite the construction
of homes so vital at the present
time.”
Lists of legal rates for Arizona
may be obtained from the Wage
and Hour Office, and for Califor
nia from the Regional Wage Sta
bilization Board, Federal Office
Building;, San Francisco.
ARIZOMA SUN
Published in the Interest of the Social, Political jmic Welfare of 40,000 Negroes of Arizona.
Educational
ir Bond Drive
Notice f~"
Not being able to get news
print in Phoenix, we were
forced to seek elsewhere; in do
ing so, it has greatly increased
the cost of publication, in pro
portion to the increased cost of
everything else.
In order to continue you*
favorite weekly paper, we are
forced to increase prices on ad
vertising. No increase in sub- a i
scription rates. The SUN is still
$2.00 per year and 5c per copy!
Grand Secretary
Visits Local Lodge ?
Returning from the funeral Os
the Grand Esquire, Eugene Sorral
of Los Angeles, Mr. James Kelley,
Grand Secretary of IBPO of Elks
of the World, spent two days in
Phoenix visiting William H. Pat
terson Lodge.
He was a guest last Tuesday
evening when the lodge initiated
18 more candidates. In addressing
the lodge he said, “I have traveled
all over, and I find this to be the
niost outstanding Elks home in the
country in structure, in manage
ment and in cooperation. It is a
credit to the city of Phoenix, a
credit to whole Negro population
of Arizona as well to the brother
hood of Elkdom everywhere.”
Mr. Kelley was grateful of hav
ing the honor of being the first
to occupy the special guest suite
at the home, built especially for
Elk dignataries.
chain of air commerce, but our fa
cilities are wholly inadequate. It
is no idle comment that to be on
the airlanes is to be on the maj%
of the future.”
“Every citizen of this great
“Valley of the Sun” will benefit by
the success of this bond financing
program. Every part of the pro
gram has been thoroughly investi
gated by engineering experts whose
interests lie solely in the sound
economic and social progress of
Phoenix.”
The members of the educational
committee’, in addition to Stewart
as chairman, are: Kenneth C. Bell,
President, Phoenix Real Estate
Board; Mrs. D. F. Benson, Urban
League, Women’s Division; D. F.
Benson, Editor, Arizona Sun; M. O.
Best, M. O. Best Produce Com
pany; Walter Bimson, President,
Valley National Bank; Mr. F. A.
Bons, Member, Board of Education,
Phoenix Union High Schools and
Junior College.
Jack H. Brahm, President, Com
munity Chest; Frank Brophy,
President, Bank of Douglas; James
; Byrd, State Chairman, Consumers’
’ | Advisory Committee, O. P. A, Vet
erans of Foreign Wars; Wade
; | Church, American Federation of
; Labor; Henry J. Coerver, President
First Ntaional Bank; Joseph P.
Condrey, Arizona Associated Gen
eral Contractors.
‘ John Dutch, Secretary-Treasure,
Arizona State CIO Le gislative
Council; Ralph Estrada, Attorney;
Robert Goldwater, Goldwater’s De
partment Store; Henry Goodman,
Arizona Cooperative Association;
Ross Goodwin, President, Phoenix
Central Labor Council; Wade Ham
mond, U. S. Army Retired; Alfred
j Knight. Real Estate; Charles Kor
! hick, Korrick Department Store.
J Rabbi A. L. Krohn, Beth Israel
j Temple; Rev. Rollo C. LaPorte,
'First Presbyterian Church; Rev.
Emmett J. McLoughlin, Pastur
Sacred Heart Catholic Church; Ce
cil Miller, Cattleman: E. W. Mont-
I gomery, Superintendent, Phoenix
j High cShools; Ben Projan, Vic
j Hanny’s Clothing Comnany; W. A.
! Robinson, Principal, Carver High
School; Lois Rogers, President,
Phoenix Elementary Classroom
Teacher’s Asosciation; Charles N.
Ronan, Attorney, Chairman Catho
lic Forum; Mrs. James P. Ryan,
j former President, Arizona Parent-
I Teachers Associatipn.
j Frank Snell, Attorney; James
i Stewart, Principal North Phoenix
' High School; Harry Valentine,
Attorney; Mrs. Olga Welch, Board
-of Social Security & Welfare, Pub
lic Relations; A. E. Williams, Presi
-1 dent, Phoenix Building and Trades
1 Council; Roy B. Yanez, Phoenix
‘ Housing Authority.
In addition to the individuals on
the committee, the bond campaign
has been endorsed by the Phoenix
■ Chamber of Commerce, the Phoe
nix Real Estate Board, the Phoe
nix Central Labor Council, the
Associated General Contractors of
Arizona, and the Phoenix Building
1 Trades Council.
Vote 107—NO.
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VOTE 107—NO! S
PHOENIX, ARIZONA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1946
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GRAND RAPIDS MICH.—A Junior Red Cross member in a vocational
class at Burton Junior High School puts the finishing touches on a book
cart for one of the nation’s military hospitals.
Veteran Denies Statements
Slurring Carpenter Union
Paul Atkerson, veteran of World
War 11, who realizes fully the dan-:
ger of the proposed “right” to
starve proposition, and who has
been making speeches against it
and helping in other ways to defeat j
it, in an address last night over
KOY had the following to say
about the smear campaign against
the carpnters’ union:
“Not only do they try to mislead
you with a set of false whiskers as
a camouflage, but they have cooked 1
up a fine batch of atrocity stories
to tell you. These stories are in the
form of tailor-made affidavits
written strictly for campaign pur- j
poses. One of their leading orators,
Mr. George Hill, usd one of these
j stories recently in a public address.
He read the affidavit of a man who
said he was a war veteran and that j
a contractor friend offered him a
job but told him he would have to
join the union in order to work.
The affidavit went on to say that
this man went to the offices of the i
Carpenter’s Union whom he does
not identify in the affidavit. He
! says taht this man told him that
the membership rolls of the union
; were closed and that they would
| not accept his application and as a
j result he was unable to go to work
j on this job.
It should be noted that nowhere'
! in the affidavit does this party say
!he was a carpenter or had ever
I worked at the carpenter trade. Ob
jviously, the Carpenter’s Union is
! for carpenters. The contractors
j would be the first people to com
plain if the Carpenter’s Union took
in people who were not carpenters.
But the affidavit was false in other
respects as well.
The union contract with all
| building contractors contain the
( following provision, and I quote,
“The contractor shall have the
right to hire and lay off men at
; his discretion.” Whoever wrote
Elks Return From
Los Angeles Funeral
Charles M. Patterson, Ben Nich
! olson, Arthur Arbow, Kermit Cagle
and Doc Benson returned Sunday
' from Los Angeles where last Sat
urday they attended the funeral of
Eugene Sorral, Grand Esquire of
Elks, who died after a long illness
in his Los Angeles home.
The funeral was conducted in
the auditorium of the Elks home
where thousands of people in all
walks of life came to pay last re
spects to America’s most colorful
Elk and humanitarian.
Gene, (as he was called) left
Douglas, Ariz., 30 years ago, went
to Los Angeles where he entered
business and at the time of his;
death was considered moderately
well-to-do.
His expensive bronze casket was
entirely surrounded by hundreds
: of flowers sent by other lodges
Note To Jergens Journal,
Strike Enters 9th Month
Burbank, Calif.—(FP)—Walter
Winchell, the man who knows
the inside story of everything
and tells all to millions of radio
listeners via the Jergens Jour
nal, is keeping it a dead secret.
But members of the Inti. Bro.
of Teamsters (AFL) who have
, been on strike for eight months
at the local plant of his sponsors
are letting the country know
that the world famed “liberal”
commentator is being backed by
a company which eould give even
S. L. Avery a few lessons in
unionbusting.
this propaganda affidavit apparent
| ly didn’t know the terms of the j
i union contract with the Associated i
I General Contractors.
| Secondly, the carpenter’s union
does not now have, and never has
! had an office or other place of busi
ness at 302 W. Washington Street
in Phoenix. Yet this affidavit posi
| tivly states that this Don C. Scott,
! who is no relation of the former
City Manager of Phoenix, went to
302 W. Washington Street.
tbp rr>prnv. ers hin rolls of
the Carpenter’s Union have never
been closed. The Carpenter’s Union
is taking in new members right
, along and are anxious to get more,
! tbp^p’s a demand fnr them.
On the admission of veterans the
rule of the Carpenter’s Union is,
quote, “Ex-service men with an
I honorable discharge less than one
year old NO initiation fee. They
are admitted on payment of one
month’s dues,” end of quote. Doz
ens of veterans have been admitted
every day without any initiation
fee. There are more than 500 vet
erans working in and around Phoe
nix as apprentice carpenters, learn
ing the trade. The Carpenter’s
Union can use all the qualified
carpenters they can get right now
because of the very fact that this
I anti-labor amendment is before the
' people of Arizona has caused near
ly a complete stoppage of the in
flux of carpenters from other
states. Skilled carpenters don’t
want to live in Arizona if there is
. any chance that they will have to
live under a repressive anti-labor
amendment
But to go back to that affidavit
of Don C. Scott, whoever he may
be. What do you think of tactics
UVp Does it strike you as
being fair, or truthful or honest in
this campaign? Doesn’t it prove to
you that this is no veteran’s bill?
. I No worthy veteran’s bill would re
quire such desperate tactics.
throughout the country as well as
by friends and admirers.
After the services were over the
body was escorted through an aisle
flanked by lodge brothers, to the
waiting hearse in front of the
building, where the streets were
blocked by thousands of people
who wanted to get a last glance
of the remains of the beloved Gene.
Crowds lined the sidewalks for sev
eral blocks as the procession passed
on its way to Evergreen cemetery
where Gene was buried in the same
grave with his wife, at his request,
who died several years ago.
Housing Problem
Solved By Giants
Phoenix, Oct. 24 (Special)—
The problem of housing may
plague some folks for months, but
it was solved for the entire New
York Giants National League base
ball team in a brief three-day vis
it here by Horace G. Stoneham,
club president.
Mr. Stoneham, who came here to
locate housing for his team when it
arrives next February for spring
training, credited an assist to the
Phoenix Chamber of Commerce for
prompt action.
While here, arrangements were
made for members of the team,
their wives, and visiting news
papermen to make exclusive use of
the Autopia Guest Lodge—includ
ing the lodge’s restaurant.
The two big league teams were
attracted to Arizona as a result of
a coordinated campaign waged by
the Phoenix and Tucson Chambers
of Commerce and the Tucson Sun
shine Climate Club,
exhibition games in Phoenix
The Giants will play at least 11
'Right-10-Woik' Bill
Defeat b Predicted
The so-called “Right-to-Work”
amendment to the State constitu
tion will be defeated by a substan
tial majority at the polls on No
vember 5, Darrell R. Parker, direc
tor of the campaign against the
measure predicted today.
“The people of Arizona”, he de
clared, “will never permit them
selves to be set out on an economic |
island as an experimental guinea j
pig in the contest between labor;
and management, regardless of j
whether any appreciable number
of them may be prejudiced against
organized labor or not.
‘They cannot help but know that
such a course would be suicidal to
er or not there are practices with
the prosperity of the state. Wheth
in the ranks of union labor that
need correction, this bill would
not accomplish the purpose. It
would simply serve to strangle
Arizona economically and set back
our progress 50 years while the
rest of the nation forges ahead.
Wouldn’t that be foolish —just for
the sake of astisfying a prejudice
which few of us may hold?
“I predict the defeat of this
crackpot amendment by a sub
stantial majority at the polls next
month.”
There'll Be An Empty
Seat, No Doubt
New York, Oct. 17—(FP)—The
Civil Rights Congress is holding
a special’ dinner for Sen. Theo
dore Bilbo (D., Miss.) tonight—
but the guest of honor isn't ex
pected to attend.
Dashiell Hammett, author and
presidnt of the congress' New
York division, informed Bilbo of
the dinner and said his political
and personal record would be
discussed, including charges he
had accepted a bribe as state
senator as a result of which he
missed expulsion from the state
body by one vote.
“By the way,” wrote Ham
mett, “if you come, please leave
your Ku Klux Klan outfit home.
Dress will be informal.”
Dunbar P-TA Holds
; First Meeting
i The first P.-T.A. meeting of the
fall term was held at the Dunbar
school, Thursday, Oct. 17.
A very entertaining program was
presented by the primary classes,
i Songs, choral readings, poems and
: | folk dances were included on the
i j crogram under the direction of
i i Mrs. V’Esser Mcßeynolds, as chair
•! man of the program committee.
Although the teachers and chil
dren worked hard to give the par
: ents the best of their effots. there
, were only ten parents present
’ i There are over eight hundred chil-
I dren enrolled in the school, yet the
| j teachers outnumbered the parents.
, An open invitation is extended
at all times, for the parents to visit
the schools to watch the progress
of their children.
The P.-T.A. only meets once a
’ month for one hour. The meetings
,! are held on the third Thursday of
' j each month from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
| Notices are sent out from the
|! school, and appear in the Arizona
Republic, and the Phoenix Gazette.
—Mrs. Risby, President.
Mrs. Helen Ballard, Secy
Mrs. K. E. Bass, Pub.
College Fraternity
Organized On Coast
The twelfth district of Omega
Psi Phi fraternity rpet last Satur
day and Sunday at the Lincoln
Memorial Church, Los Angeles,
with Lambda Chapter serving as
host and James P. Perry, Jr., 12th
District representative, presiding.
The therne of the meeting was
“The re-adjustment of the Negro
on the West Coast.” The principal
speaker at the Memorial services,
Sunday morning was Charles H.
Matthews. Attendance from Phoe
nix were: Dr. Lowell C. Wormly,
and Carl C. Weems, who were ac
’ companied by Messrs. Ernest Bart
, lett, Lloyd Dickey, William War-
I ren, and Drs. E. D. Perdue, and
j David M. Solomon who were initi-
S ated into the fraternity and who
ij will serve as charter members of
the Phoenix Chapter which was or
ganized at that time.
| The Vice-Grand Basileus of the
j Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Mr.
John C. Calhoun, flew out from
Atlanta to preside over the initi
ations and assist in the establish
ment of Arizona’s finest Negro fra
ternity.
Mr. Carl C. Weems of the Phoe
nix Chapter was elected Director
of Publicity of the 12th District.
By MASON ROBERSON
San Francisco. —Prejudice is a
curious thing to observe when it
! appears in the minds of so-called
sane men. But it has a distinction
all its own when it appears in the
minds and hearts of men who are
professionally scientific in their
thinking and who boast of being
disciples of fact and logic in their
approach to life.
For instance, here in San Fran
cisco, the medical big-wigs insist
that there is no prejudice being
practiced against Negro physicians.
I And they could probably back up
j this claim with a clean record as
| far as any formal written policy
| is concerned.
But record or n record —no Ne
gro doctor can practice in any San
Francisco’s major hospitals. No
Negro doctor can operate.
They can enter patients In most
hospitals, but they cannot treat
the patients once they are en
tered. Staff doctors do that.
No Negroes are on any San
Francisco hospital staffs.
When you start to investigate
! things like that, everyone assures
! you that prejudice has nothing to
I do with it. In fact, some doctors
i grow indignant at the very
| thought.
Discrimination, they tell you,
has nothing to do with the case at
all.
Their explanation is something
like this:
“All hospitals in San Francisco
have their own staffs—doctors who
either work full time in the hospi
tal or are associate members of the
staff who work in and out of the
hospitals. Almost all the hospitals
are private. So the choice of staff
members is up to the doctors them
selves.
Case In Point
“In the case of the City and
County hospital and in the case
of the univrsity hospitals—all of
which are supported in part or on
the whole by public funds —the
staffs are made up of teachrs from
the University of California or
Stanford who use the hospitals and
patients in connection with their
lcurs.
“So a Negro doctor would have
to be either an instructor at one
of the two universities or be in
i vited to join the staff of a private
j hospital in order to work in one.
Just because no Negroes ARE in
this category means nothing. There
are scores of white doctors in ex
actlv the same position . . .”
This would clear everything up
nicely, unlss you know:
That one Negro doctor in San
Francisico not only has a medical
degree but also a degree as a doc
tor of philosophy and that he is a
graduate of the University of Cali
fornia with several years exoeri
! ence teaching in a Grade A Negro
j medical college and that he is also
I recognized as one of the finest
diagnosticians in the city.
This doctor, has tried in every
possible way to obtain an ap
pointment as a visiting nhvsician
on the staff of the county hos
pital. He has also tried to obtain
a post as a teacher at Stanford
or the University of California
hosnitals.
Always he is told that he is
eminently qualifid but that the
l hospitals are not taking on any
additional doctors ju“st at this
! time.”
“Come bac kin two years,”
1 they tell him.
; Stanford hosnital, meanwhile is
opening up its fifth floor in an ex
;; pansion program and appointing
!! new doctors to the visiting staff.
1 All the hospitals, in fact rgularly
’ appoint ne wdoetors to their staffs.
All this leaves San Francisco’s
Negro doctors faced iwth one of
two choices in the matter of treat
ing their seriously ill patients:
They can either treat the pa
tients at bom, at great incon
venience to the doctor and with
limited quipment, or they can
turn them over to a white doc
tor on the staff of one of the hos
pitals. This latter alternative de
stroys the patient-doctor rela
tionship and compels the patient
to trust himself to a strange phy
sician.
And it means great financial loss
to the Negro doctor who thereby
loses all his operational cases as
well as diagnostic which require
hospitalization.
“. . . Os course, there’s no pre
judice connected with all this . . .”
Nevertheless, Negro doctors
claim to have been offered in pri
vate conversations, segregated
Negro hospitals, and again, wings
in white hospitals—which they’ve
refused on the ground that it would
, compromise the fundamental rights
of Negro patients as well as doc
tors—that seb re gated medicine is
bad medicine.
”... of course tiler's no pre
judice in all this. Every doctor is
subjected to delays and 'proce
dure' before he gets a hospital
- appointment. This applies to Ne
groes as well as whites . .
But there’s one Negro doctor in*
■ San Francisco who’s been practic
■ ing here for twenty years.
And he's still outside.
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