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April 12, 1947.
The Hartford Chronicle
COLLEGE FRATERNITY SPONSORS
VASCO HALE TESTIMONIAL
LOCAL OMEGA CHAPTER
HONORS BLIND VETERAN
A public meeting in tribute
to the courageous achievement
of ex-Lieut. Vasco D. Hale,
blind amputee will be held at
3:00 p. m. Sunday afternoon,
April 13, at the Union Baptist
Church. The local chapter of
Omega Psi Psi is sponsorisg
the event.
Besides being totally blind,
Lieut. Hale is battling against
the handicap of having lost his
right arm and four fingers of
his left hand. He spent 3 years
in militajry hospitals before ar
riving in this section at Avon
Old Farms Convalescent Hos
pital. He and his wife are
making their home-in a Hart
ford suburb".
This meeting brings togeth
er Omega men and friends from
three different states who come
to honor the outstanding ac
complishments of Vasco D.
Hale.- Mr. .Hatfe was the guid
ing influence in the organiza
toin of the local chapter and
has been most active in frater
nal circles since his undergrad
uate days at West Virginia
State College. He is now pur
suing graduate work toward a
Master's degree at Boston Un
iversity. The guest speaker on 'this
occasion will be Madison S.
Jones of New York City, ad
ministrative assistant to Wal
ter White, Executive Secretary
of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People.
The District Representative
of Omegfe will award a plaque
to Mr. Hale in recognition of
his meritorious services to the
fraternity.
IN THIS ISSUE
Page
City, State and National 2
Hartford Features . 3
Betty Lou Allen 4
Middletown-Bristol .... 5
Woman's Page 6
With the Younger Set . 7
Editorials 8
Book Review 9
Entertainment Page 11
Fraternal-Church 12
Springfield 13
Sports Review 14
Stamford 15
N. E. Regional
Conference
March 29-30
"Pressure groups are exert
ing force to get a peace where
by 'J" benefit but not my
black or yellow brother," the
Rev. Walter P. Offutt told an
audience of New England
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored
People delegates and guests
Sunday in the Greenwich High
School auditorium. Mr. Offutt
is the newlv appointed church
'secretary of the NAACP and
(asserted that the victories of
(war in Europe and the Pacific
,are yet to be consummated,
for "V-A day.
Mr. Offutt's militant add
ress to a public mass meeting
winding up the Regional Con
ference of 17 branch chapters
of the NAACP hit at the
"Bilbos, who are willing to
do the same things as those
whom we ust fought. The only
difference between Bilbo and
Rankin and those in Germany
is their location".
Turning to what he termed
"thin ice," Mr. Offutt declared
that the government's plan to
spend millions in fighting
communist infiltrationat home
and abroad would be precluded
as soon as "every man can get
a job, every child an educa
tion, and homes can be built
in peace in America.
When that happens," he
asserted, the government won't
"have to spend $100 to keep
communism out. "I wish the
government would do this. If
they spend 450 millions in
keeping communism out of
foreign countries why don't
they spend the same amount
to deal with the Fascists in
the North, South, East and
West?" Turning to the F.B.I.
,Mr. Offutt asserted that "they
can go anywhere in Europe or
the rest of the world and find
a man they want. But they
still can't' find the people who
shot down four Negroes in a
Georgia county where every
one knows everybodv -else's
life history.'"
"Pearl Harbor." he said,
"was called a stab inthe back.
Well, some of those hate
mongers who were high up in
the government then were so
anxious to keep their foot on
the Negro's neck thay had their
backs turned toward the Japs.
That's how it was a stab in
the back." r
The speaker called for stren
gth in the NAACP in reaching
its objectives, "for people are
tired and disgusted with
would-be leaders.'" He asked
for cooperation between the
organization and the churches,
synagogues, and "all.organiza
tions for good " in the com
munity." Othewise, he said
"we will destroy ourselves."
Fifty-one delegates from the
17 chapters throughout New
England adopted some 14 res
olutions at the weekend con-
Pupil of R. Augustus
Lawson Wins
Naumbcrg Award
Jane Carlson, pianist and a
former pupil of R. Augustus
Lawson of Hartford, has re
ceived one of the three awards
given this year to outstanding
young musicians by the Wal
ter D.' Naumburg Musical
Foundation' Miss Carlson was
chose from 170 applicants in
the 23rd competition which
sponsors the winner in a m.e
tropolitan debut at Town Hall
the following year.
Miss Carlson has been solo
ist with the Gordon String
Quartet and has played before
the musical club of Hartford.
She will assist at the Julliard
School of "Music as a piano in
structor at the' summer "ses
sion. This adds another to a long
string of professional triumphs
by pupils of Mr. La,wson.
ference, calling for support of
an anti-lynching bill abolition
of the poll tax, continuation
of rent control and support of
David E. . Lilenthal's nomina
tion as head of the Atomic
Energy Commission.
The group supported the
Taft-Wagner-Ellender housing
bill, and urged admission of
Negro veterans to housing pro
jects, "in accordance with their
needs and numbers,'" and also
gave wholehearted support to
,the adoption of FEPC legis
lation and in Connecticut to
the Ward-Gillie bill.
The Conference lauded Con
gress for its stand . against
seating Senator Theodore Bil
bo, and called on Negro vet
erans to affiliate themselves
with "A liberal veterans organ
ization" in their community.
Opposition was., registered
to separate units in the New
England National Guard, and
praised "with pride" Gov.
James L. McConaughy's stand
for integration of Colored Vet
erans. Lieut. Gov. James C. Shan
non and First Selectman Wil
bur M. Peck welcomed the
convention to Greenwich and
Mr. Shannon conveyed the
best wishes of the Governor.
Delegates represented bran
ches in Boston, Bridgeport,
Ansonia, Greenwich. Hartford,
Mernmac Valley, Mass., New
Britain, New Haven, Newport.
R. I:, New Bedford, Mass.,
Pittsfield. Mass., Providence,
Springfield. Waterbury, Wor
cester and New Canaan, Conn.
Officers elected for the com
ing year were George C. Gor
don, Springfield, President :
Attorney Joseph G. LeCount.
Providence, R. I. president
emeritus ; Mrs. ' Ely Carter
Brooks, John W. Laucaster.
Jr., Dr. Allen F. Jackson and
James Parham, vice-presidents,
Martin L. Canavan, treasurer:
John F. Lopez, secretary; and
William Newsom, assistant
treasurer.
The place selected for the
next meeting of the Regional
Conference was Worcester,
Massachusetts.
I N FLUK OF I LLEG ITI MATES
CAUSING NATIONAL CONCERN
U. Mo. Publication
Banned by
Authorities
Columbia, Mo.-More and more
these days;-young white men
and women at Colleges and
Universities with a "southern
tradition, are rising up with
convictions that are no com
patable with the thinking of
their predecessors.
This town got the full im
pact of such a development
the other day when an article
that had been writen by a GI
student Jon Moon resulted in
the Winter issue of Tower
Time,.' University of Missouri
paper, being susupended. Jack
Schwartz the editor refused
to kill Moon's article and the
printers refused to go to press.
The following excerpts
from Moon's article explain
the crux of the difficulties.
(Subsequently, . the editorial
staff had the issue mimeograp
hed and distributed on the
campus and thoughout the
state.)
"Within your generation,
colored students will be en
rolled at. the University of
Missouri, They will not hide
or isolate themselves.- They
will demand equality in social
affairs and will win it in
scholariship and athletics.
"They will perhaps be over
aggressive and perhaps in
sufferable in their new found
freedom. But when they be
lieve and feel their freedom is
permanent, they will settle
down to the normal routine of
school life. -
"The University must en
gage outstanding colored edu
cators for the teaching staff,
and see that the rights of
colored students are protected
in the local community."
His article ran in this vein
throughout ' and shocked so
many natives that printers
who ordinarily bid for Univer
sity work, ran from the job
like it was the plague.
Ga. Sets House
In Legal Order
Atlanta, Ga. The Georgia
Supreme Court by a vote of 5
to 2 settled onee and for all the
question of who was entitled to
be the legal Governor of the
state for the unexpired term
of the late Eugene Talmadge.
This decision means that all
of the legislation . thus . far
enacted must either be signed
or vetoed by Governor M. T.
Thompson. Thic means that
the new Governor is immedi
ately faced with the necessity
of registering his opinion on
the white primary bill, which
is a big bone of contention
throughout the state. -
Another vital issue is what
instructions the Governor in
tends to pass on to the office of
the. Attorney General about the
revocation of corporate char
ters of the Klan and the Col
umbians.
5000 GI BABIES TO BE
SHIPPED TO AMERICA
The most recent news about
illigitimate war children is the
fact that 5000 babies of Negro
American troops in England
are to be shipped to America
in the next nine months. That
these children are to be offerer
for adoptoion in various collor-
ed families.
This is not a part of a gen
eral program to ship to Amer
ica all of the illegitimate
children of American soldiers
in England, for at the peak
I II
100,000 Negfo soldiers m Eng-,
land, while there were roughly
2,000,000 white soldiers would
easily have approximated
number of the white American
soldiers got married to the
English girl, ' nowhere near
the number married that came
home and left them.
The Negro soldier on the
other hand was in a very diffi
cult plight. For in ' the first
instance no GI could get mar
ried without the consent of his
Commanding Officer. 'And
rare indeed were the COs that
would endorse such legality
even though both parties and
111C pctiCllLa VJ L Lilt gill ni vji t vv.
were willing.
So now America is about
to harvest a crop of 5,000 ill
egitimate babies, a goodly
portion of whom would never,
have been in this plight ex
cept for the assinine attitude
of the American command.
relationship to occur but they
could not prevent it, but they
could have prevented placintr
a. iiieuiiie sugiua ju many ui
these ' children.
, The prime purpose of course
iirae r mdintain Vi fialliMMns
tion of racial purety, but
failing in that they could at
least cling to the hope of
branding these children as
rmtrnctQ whirVi thev Hid.
Right after the decision of
the State Supreme Court was
made public the. Georgia Sen
ate rescinded confirmation of
all the Talmadge appointees,
declaring it had acted uder a
disapprehension of the law.
Herman Talmadge relin
quished his occupancy of the
Governor's quarters . promptly
upon hearing the decision. His
brief remarks were: "Get our
stuff together now and well
move out this afternoon. The
court of last resort is the peo
ple of Georgia. This case will
be taken to the court' of last
resort."
The colored population thru
out the state is happy about the
courts decision but as they
speak about Gov. Thompson,
they do so with their tongues
in their cheeks because they
have not forgotten that Gov.
Thompson was Talmadge, Sr.'s
running mate.