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FAIR FEARLESS 'FINISH FIGHT' NAACP OFFICIAL URGES The TULSA, Okla., Apr. 6 (ANP)— The fight for democracy, as waged by the NAACP, can never be over as long as one human being is look ed down upon as being inferior be cause of his race or color, Miss Ella .Baker told delegates to the mid west regional conference of the organization meeting here. Miss Baker, director of branches of the association, was one of the official attending the two-day con ference on leadership. Introduced by Roscoe Dunjee, editor of the Black Dispatch, Oklahoma City weekly, Miss Baker warned that the world is not in a state of peace, but on’y enjoying an armistice, and said there will be no peace until human justice prevails. Concluding, the speaker declar ed: “Race prejudice will destroy the very democracy we are trying to preserve.” The goal set for the NAACP is “Finish the fight,” she stated. Others attending the meet ing were Miss Clark, secretary of the nation office Leroy Carter, assistant field secretary, and Amos T. Hall, attorney, president of the local branch, who served as master of ceremonies. DAUGHTER OF EX-CHIEF JUSTICE TO HEAD COLLEGE FUND DRIVE NEW YORK, April 6 (ANP)— Mrs. Chauncey L. Waddell, daugh ter of former Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, has been appointed as chairman of the New York wom en’s committee of the United Negro college fund, which will begin its third annual appeal on April 17. The New York City quota for the fund’s 1946 appeal has been set at $200,000, with $1,300,000 as the na tional goal, said Frank M. Totten, national chairman of the drive in behalf of 33 Negro institutions. 1 ‘A group of prominent women dis cussed higher education for Ne groes during a luncheon Friday in the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. Tfte lun cheon was sponsored by Mrs. Win throp W. Aldrich, Mrs. Ira A. Campbell, Mrs. Howard Cullman, Mrs. Cleveland E. Dodge, Mrs. Marshall Field, Mrs. Lucius R. Eastman JrM Mrs. William Henry Hays, Mrs. Alfred E. Hess, Mrs. Elon Huntington Hooker, Mrs. Walter Heving and Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes Jr. Vol. 5—No. 12 DAYTON, OHIO. SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1946 NEW YORK, April 6 (ANP)— New York City Councilman Benja min J. Davis Jr., and Rubin Saltz man, secretary of the Jewish Peo ples Fraternal Order, I WO, will be honored at a testimonial dinner in PILOTS GET COMMISSIONS AND WINGS AT TUSKEGEE TUSKEGEE, Apr. 6 (ANP) Twelve pilots were awarded com missions and wings in an impres sive ceremony in post chapel here following an inspiring address by H. Councill Trenholm, president of Alabama State Teachers’ Col lege. Honor members of the gradu ating class were Second. Lt. Thomas W. Love, Ardmore, Pa., honored as top student in the class for all round excellence in all phases of training Flight Officer Eugene O. Briggs, Boston, second honors and Flight Officer George A. Bates, third honors. Other members were 2nd Lts. Jewell B. Butler, Denison, Tex. James H. Gallway, Owesgo, N. Y. Jacob W. Greenwell, Ft. Worth, Tex. Harry E. Lanuzo, Washing ton, D. C. Charles R. Matthews, Philadelphia Charles W. Cham bers, Camden, N. J. Flight Of ficer Floyd J. y Carter, Norfolk, Va. Flight Officer Abe B. Moore, Austin, Tex. and James M. Barks dale, Detroit. NEGRO STUDENT HONORED AT COLLEGE CONFAB HARRISBURG, Pa, 'April 6 (ANP)—Paul Simmons of Pitts burgh, senior at the University of Pittsburgh, was elected chairman of the important rules committee Friday by delegates from 35 Penn sylvania colleges attending the an nual, fourday Intercollegiate Con ference on Government here. Simmons was nominated at a pre liminary meeting of committees in conference headquarters at the Pgjnn-Harris hotel- and was elected over three other candidates in this morning’s balloting. The conven tion/to which over 300 students from colleges throughout Pennsyl vania have come, is the first which the young Pittsburgher has attend ed.* Bulletin "■TBl DAILY Combined With THE OHIO EXPRESS THE TWO ONLY NEGRO DAILIES IN TH Negro Congress To Meet In Detroit Initate Fund For The New Harlem Community Center recognition of their contributions to Negro and white unity and in terracial progress on May 5 at Py thian plaza here. Proceeds of the $30 per plate dinner, sponsored by International Workers Order Soli darity Lodge, will be used to equip the new $10,000 new Harlem Com munity center. The center, founded by Solidar ity Lodge, is dedicated to serving the Negro people and to promoting interracial activities. In observa tions about the center, which has been enthusiastically received by Negroes and whites, Saltzman says: “The establishment of Solidarity center in Harlem is a most import ant milestone in the life of our I WO and in American democracy. When we were building. the foundation of the order in 1930, in the center of our aspirations was the desire to create a truly interracial fraternal order. The cornerstone of our pro gram was the unity of all people for a progressive democratic Amer ica cleansed of jim crow, anti Semitism, race hatred and oppres sion of minorities.” Saltzman commended Harlem members of the order for erecting the “edifice of unity.” The JPFO will do everything in its power to help build the center as a symbol of efforts for unity of Negro anc white, and full freedom and equal ity of all Americans, regardless of the color of their skins,” he prom ised. Judge Dismisses Injunction Against Church School BIRMINGHAM, Apr. 4 (ANP) —Judge Gardner Goodwyn dis missed a bill of injunction enjoin ing the conference of the Colored Methodist Episcopal church here from moving Miles Memorial col lege from its present location at Vinesville on the ground he had no jurisdiction in the matter over an institution owned and operated by the church. The Bessemer Circuit Court judge allowed the plaintiffs 20 days in which to amend the injunction, said Hugh Locke, attorney for the conference. The injunction was ob tained several months ago from Judge Verde Elmore, Fayette, by CONSTRUCTIVE PROGRESSIVE E WORLD* Price 3c NEW YORK, April 6 (ANP)— More than a 100 nationally promin ent Negro and white delegates from 48 states of the union, representing labor, churches, city, state, and na tional government, cultural, con sumer, and education fields, will convene in Detroit May 30 to June 2 for the 10th anniversary conven tion of the National Negro Con gress. This announcement was made by Revels Cayton, executive secretary of the National Negro Congress, who is also nationally known as an outstanding trade unionist in his former capacity of vice-president the California State CIO. Mr. Cay ton also made public the National Negro Congress edited call to the Detroit national convention which sounds a clarion call for a nation wide drive to deal “a death blow to jim-crow.” The latter slogan will highlight the entire purpose of the parley. Highlight of the conference call for representation of delegates from all progressive organizations and people is the emphasis for the inauguration of an all out cam paign in support of the National CIO’s drive to organize labor, Ne gro and white in the southern states of the union. JO BAKER IN STOCKHOLM STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Apr. 4 (ANP)—Josephine Baker, dancer and toast of Paris for a decade be fore World War II, began a Euro pean tour. After a month here, she will go. to Italy and to England. During the war, she entertained troops in Africa, and made her home there until France was lib erated. E. W. Windham and two other churchmen. Horace C. Alford, lawyer for the plaintiffs, said he will amend the injunction and will appeal to the supreme court of Alabama if neces sary. Both parties agreed to the transfer of the original case to Bessemer. Locke denied that the conference is planning to transfer the college to a new site. The conference mere ly wishes to be free to fulfill re quests any foundations might make in connection with grants, he said. Applicants to various foundations have already been made by the con ference, he disclosed.