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.*
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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
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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.