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SATURDAY, JULY 10, 194 S
Service Honor Roll Dedicated at St. Emma
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KOCK CASTLE, VIRGINIA—The Cadet Corps of the St. Emma Military School, at an impres
sive ceremony, present to the school an Honor Roll containing the names of the hundreds of former
cadets now in the service. The students of this boarding high school have completed their year’s work
in class room, shop and farm, and are now returning to their homes in all parts of the country.
NAACP PUSHES
FOR U. S. ACTION
(Continued from Pag:e 1)
outnumbered Negroes is the now
famous shot of a Negro on Wood
ward avenue surrounded by a
crowd of civilians and mounted
police and supposedly in the cus
tody of two policemen who grip
his arms while a white assailant
strikes him full in the face. An
other is a picture of a cowering
fear-stricken Negro on whom sev
eral white police are closing in.
The NAACP again asked why
Jeffries and police commissioner
Witherspoon could not make ar
rests out of the nearly 1000 white
rioters whose faces are clearly
identifiable in these pictures and
who could be easily apprehended
by even a mediocre detective. In
picture after picture white men
are shown maiming, killing and
destroying the property of lone i
Negroes.
White surface quiet has settled,'
here. Negro citizens continue to j
fear- that another outbreak will
accompany the complete removel
of troops from the streets. A grad - ■
ual withdrawal of these soldiers, '
all of whom are white, is already
in progress.
Governor Harry Kelly informed
the NAACP on July 2 that he had
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"requested that the troops remain
until the state ot emergency has
[ been lifted. I believe my request
will be honored. Everything is be
ing done to keep the situation un
, der control and to determine the
causes of the disturbances.’’
The NAACP wired the war de-
I partment: “We understand war
department proposes withdrawal
, troops from Detroit immediately
after July 4. Personal investiga
. lion and other inquiries by NAA
• CP indicate likelihood that such
' withdrawal will result in resump
tion of rioting. Urge troops re-
■ main until tension is relieved. It
■ is better to keep troops there in
. definitely than to remove them
one day too soon. We see no hope
Detroit police force has ability
cope with situation.”
Arrested rioters have been
charged with 931 misdemeanors
and 432 felonies including one
murder.
| Thurgood Marshall, NAACP
special counsel who after consuit-
I ing with the department of jus
i lice in Washington flew to De-
■ troit during the rioting reports
; this week that the NAACP De-
I troit office has been so swamped
with requests for legal aid that
the legal staff has been forced to
I restrict its investigations and de
fense only to the most worthy of
the cases. The legal defense is be-
THE SOUTHERN NEWS
ing handled by members of the
Detroit Branch Legal committee,
the Wolverine Bar Association and
a committee from the local Na
tional Lawyers Guild. Along with
NAACP lawyers as the cases erach
the office of the NAACP they are
immediately referred to lawyers,
trials are conducted each day.
Marshall said that he is now work
ing on writs of habeas corpus
for mayn of the Negroes who
were sentenced to 90 days’ im
prisonment last week. Marshall
revealed that at least two of those
sentenced were not given oppor
tunity to secure counsel and were
to go into the army last week.
"Most of thees men had been
held in jails without opportunity
to secure counsel or even to tele
phone their families," Marshall
said. The members of the fam
ilies were prevented from seeing
these men because the officials
told them they could not be lo
cated. They.were moving the Ne
groes around during Monday and
Tuesday from jail to jail and
many of them were confined in
the garage behind Piquette Ar
mory. The research and other
work done on these writs of ha
beos corpus will be by the end
of the week.”
Work In Handicrafts
To Be Exhibited
At Atlanta University
ATLANTA, Ga., July 2 —Special
—A number of fine handicrafts
by students in the Arts and Crafts
Workshop at the Atlanta Univer
sity summer school, will be on
view Thursday afternoon. July 8,
from 2:30 until five o'clock in
the Exhibition Room of the At
lanta University Library. The Arts
and Crafts Workshop, unlike oth
er divisions of the sesison, has
not felt the impact of the war In
enrollment, although there have
been fewer metals for the work
in crafts and a scarcity of metal
tools. In previous years, the en
rollment was limited to twenty
five, but this year there are thirty
taking wor kin crafts and thirteen
in the painting classes. Many of
the enrollees are teachers in ele
mentary and high schools and one
teacher rural schools. There is al
so a small group whose main in
terest is in the pursuit of a hobby.
Students working in crafts are
taught design, metal work, weav
ing, pottery work and ceramics,
leather tooling, and modelling in
clay, plaster-paris, and papier
mache. A small fee entitles a stu
dent to free use of all materials
and tools.
Much of the metal work has
been confined to copper, and out
of this medium are emerging
handsome trays, bookends, plates,
will plaques and other decorative
pieces. Mop yarn has been used
for weaving attractive cotton rugs,
mats, and pocketbooks on looms
that have been made from old
picture frames.
In the modelling classes, the red
Georgia clay is a great favorite
with rural teachers as their chief
Interests is in materials which are
native and easy to secure. Vases of
different types and colors, animal
heads, figurines, bookends, and
candlesticks tre usually wrought in
this medium. This year a kiln for
drying was built by members of
the class from discarded metals.
Instruction, however, is given In
plaster-paris, as a substitute for
for clay where a kiln is not avail
able.
Because leather is expensive to
work on, modelling paper is sub
stituted as it can be treated in
exactly the same way. From this
medium the students are taught to
make book covers, portfolios, util
ity boxes, waste paper containers,
and packetbooks.
Work In design can be seen in
colorful wooden salad bowls.
In the group of paintings, there
are oils and water colors. The sub
jects Include landscapes and still
life designs.
Classes at the summer work
shop meet during the mornings of
the session from eight until one
o'clock. The students are privi
leged to work afternoons in the
studio until six o'clock.
The crafts are taught by Mrs.
Mary Tobias Dean, a graduate of
Teachers, College, Columbia Uni
versity, and a former teacher at
Paine College and Bennett Col
lege. The painting classes are
taught by Hale Woodruff, inter
nationally famous painter, who is
also director ot the workshop.
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TECH. SGT. ALBERT ALEX
ANDER, JR., son of Mr. and Mrs.
Alexander of Asheville and Green
ville, S. C„ Sgt. Alexander is in
North Africa.
SIR WILLIAM BEVERIDGE
WAS A RECENT VISITOR
AT ATLANTA UNIVERS.
July 2, 1943—Special—Sir Wil
liam Beveridge, author of the well
known British proposals for social
Insurance and allied services, vis
ited Atlanta university on June 22
to confer with a group of Negro
and white educators and officials
in the busines sand civil life of
Atlanta. The conference included
officials of most of the Atlanta
colleges, members of the LTniver
sity faculty in the social sciences,
an attorney, insurance executive,
and the presidents of Tuskeegee
Institute and Fort Valley State
College. The discussion centered
around the Beveridge report and
various aspects of the social se
curity program in America. Sir
William was accompanied by Mr.
Jackson Davis, associate director
of the General Education Board,
under whose auspices the Ameri
can trip is being conducted.
Sir William has devoted much
of his life to the study of em
ployment problems. At the age of
26, he was a member of the Cen
tral (Unemployed) Body for lon
don, then became the first chair
man of Employment Exchanges
committee in the Board of Trade
and Director of Labor Exchanges.
During the last war he served in
the ministry of munitions and in
the ministry of food. In 1919, the
distinguished Briton became di
rector of the London School of
Economics and Political Science,
serving in that capacity until 1937
when he assumed his present post
of Master of University College at
Oxford.
MOVIE-STAR SPONSORS
UNITY PLEDGE IN N. Y.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Citizens of
’New York’s five boroughs are be
ing asked to sign the following
.pledge of unity; "We the citizens
of New York say it can’t happen
here, but we want to make sure:
moved by a deep sense of anguish
and horror that in the midst of a
war being fought for democracy
there could be manifestations of
racial hatred and violence against
Americans of any race, color or
creed, we pledge:
1. That we shall not be moved
to mob action against any fellow
citizen or group of fellow citizens.
>. That we shall not listen to,
nor repeat, any rumors designed
lo divide us among ourselves.
DRINK "
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FORT RILEY, KANSAS—Ser
geant Louis Howard of Hudson,
New York, has had 31 years of
Cavalry to his credit. Looking for
adventure, he has served on the
Mexican Border, in the Philippines,
and has been an instructor at West
Point, New York.
NAACP COUNSEL SCORES
TIMES LETTER WRITER
ON RACE “SOLUTION”
Continued from page one
long as Negroes are denied the
basic decencies of human exist
ence. ‘thoughtful colored people’
will go on fighting for their birth
■ right.
I “By ‘fighting’ I do not mean
that responsible Negro leadership
■ countenances the use of force and
, violence; on the contrary, they
i make every effort to channel re
sentment and opposition into a
struggle on the legal, legislative
i and educational fronts. And in this
struggle all who hold dear and
sacred the concept of human dig
nity, all who believe that man
was created in the image of God,
will find themselves allied with
the Negro.”
3. That we shall, at ail times,
live up to the spirit of our Ameri
can citizenship and do what is in
our power to forward mutual un
derstanding and friendliness
among all the various groups
which make up our city and our
America.
The pledge was conceived by
Jean Muir, popllar movie star,
who this week caled a meeting of
some forty national organizations
at her home to make plans for a
program of racial unity. The
pledge has already been signed
by Mayor LaGuardia who along
With Miss Muir and Walter White
of the NXXCP addressed the
group at Miss Muir’s home. Ac
tive in circularizing the pledge are
labor unions, church and civic
groups and members of the thea
tre profession.
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■ C “ NFI:R n, ' V ] TH J* RESIDENT -Following a conference with President Roosevelt
m the White House Tuesday, June 15, eight prominent clergymen announced that Bishop John
A Gregg of the African Methodist Episcopal Church has been selected to represent the Fraternal
Council of Negro Churches in America on a tour of training camps and various war fronts where
Negro troops are stationed. Bishop Gregg resides in Kansis City, Mo.
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WELTERWEIGHT CHAMPION—Private First Class William
Garrett, 106 Mill Avenue, Braddock, Pennsylvania, won the welter
weight title of the U. S. Army, European Theatre of Operations,
when he won a three-round decision over Corporal Bat Rossi, 240
North School Avenue, Oglesby, Illinois.
I Other members of the theatre,
radio, and screen shocked by the
.brutality of the recent riots have
also made known their plans to
work toward greater raciti har
mony. Some of the best known
stars of the entertainment world
including Laurence Tibbett, Geo.
Heller, Jane Cowl, Ralph Bellamy,
Tallulah Bankhead, Max Gordon,
Paul Robeson, Maxwell Anderson,
Serge Koussevitsky and James
Cagney have agreed to sponsor a
coast to coast CBS broadcast with
WDendell Willkie dramatizing the
Detroit riot on July 10 from 7:30
to 8 o’clock. William Robeson
will produce the skit with Paul
Muni as one of the stare.
Like many other famous sing
ers, Dorothy Maynor, who makes
her third appearance on "The
Pause That Refreshes On The
Air” via CBS Sunday afternoon
(June 27) received her first taste
of music in a church choir. The
daughter of a Norfolk, Va., min
ister, Miss Maynor also studied at
Hampton Institute and at the
Westminister Choir School, Prince
dom N. J.
Versatile Andre Kostelantez,
who features strings on his Sun
day CBS program, "The Pause
That Refreshes On The Air,” late
ly has gone for brass sections in
personal appearances. The reason
—he's been serving as guest con
ductor at numerous army camps
and personally defraying his ex
penses for each appearance. The
maestro's first experience with a
brass band was at Albion (Michi
gan) College in 1939 when he was
awarded a degree of Doctor of
Music.