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YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOLUME LX1II
BLACK REPRESENT AT ICES
AT PEACE CONFERENCE—The
group at the top is the delega¬
tion from the Republic of Libe¬
ria in attenance at the UNCIO
„n San Francisco. Lett to
right are Col. Moses N. Grant
of the Liberian Frontier force
of which he is the commanding
ofiicer; Gabriel Dennis, secre¬
tary of state of Liberia and co-
chairman of delegation; C.ar-
cnce L. Simipson, vice-president
Winners In National High School
f Essay Contest Announced
P'S G RO NEWSPAPER
PUBLISHERS ASSN. WAS
THE SPONSOR
LOUISVILLE, Ky.— Winners
in the National High School Es¬
say contest, sponsored by the
Negro Newspaper Publishers A s_
sociation, vfjre announced this
-wuek by the organization’s
Newspaper Week committee.
The prize winning essay on
the subject, -The Negro News¬
paper, Crusader for Real -De
mocracy,” was written by
James Burns, Jr., sophomore
stnduet at the Sumner high
school of Kansas City, Kansas.
He was given an awar of -1,00 in
war bonds.
Second prize wtent to Audire
H. White of the Hampton Inst.
Continued on page three
USO Assist.
Director
John Q. Jefferson, director of
the West Broad Street USO an¬
nounces the appointment of
Mrs. Rebecca V. Beard as as¬
sistant director of the West
% J9-oad Street USO club, as of
6 .
m tMrs. Beard is a graduate of
Kentucky State college and
Morris Brown college. She did
graduate work at, Chicago uni¬
versity. and is a former teacher
Continued on page three
of Liberia and chairman of the
delegation to UNCIO; Senator
J. Lemuel Gibson of the Liberi¬
an legislature; Richard A. Hen¬
ries, member of the House of
Representatives of the Liberian
legislature, and Walter Walker
who is an adviser :f the delega¬
tion and the secretary of Public
Works.
The Liberians are quartered
in the exclusive Mark Hopkins
Statesboro
Boys Win
1st Place
IJV ANNUAL FAT CATTLE
SHOW
STATESBORO, May 2—For
the second year in succession
the Statesboro high school New
Farmers of America chapter
won first place in the Negro Ju¬
nior Division of the Annual
Statesboro Fat Cattle Show
here today.
The feeding and care of these
cattle have been under the su¬
pervision of R. W. Campbell,
teacher of vocational agricul¬
ture and adviser to the States¬
boro NFA chapter.
The following NFA members
were the winners: J. W. Wil¬
liams, first and third premi¬
ums; Tacola Love, fourth pre¬
mium; James Russell, sixth pre
mium; Hubert Lawton, seventh
premium; James Russell, eighth
premium; Harry Presley, ninth |
premium, and Louis Stephens, i
tenth premium.
The second and fifth pre-
Continued on page 3
3 WOODVILLE STU¬
DENTS WIN STATE
PRIZES
Three students in the agri¬
cultural department of the
Woodville school won three of
of the twelve prizes in the food
production contest conducted
by the state division of voca¬
tional education, under ^the
sponsorship of the Georgia As¬
sociation of New Farmers of
America, in cooperation with I
the Sears. Roebuck Foundation.
2810 boys studying vocational I
agriculture in eighty seven Ne¬
gro departments throughout
the state were enrolled in the
contest.
A special program in honor of
these students was conducted
in the Community center with
the principal, Mrs. S. M. Tomp-
Continued on page three
hotel.
The delegates from Ethiopia,
a serious minded group oi'
young men are, left to right,
seated, Dr. A rubai Wold-Mari-
an, Bitweedded Makonnon En-
dalkatan, chairman of the dele¬
gation; Aklilou Atto Wold,
Blatta Ephram Tweldo Modhon,
and Emammanuel Abraham
and Emanuel A. Abraham
rear,—photo by E. F. Joseph for
ANP)
Special guests at the launch¬
ing of the S. S. Fisk Victory
were the Honorable Gabriel
Dennis, secretary of state, Libe-
ria, delegate to the San Francis
Segregation In The Navy
Is Slowly Melting Away
by Harry McAlpin
WASHINGTON, D. C. (N.NPA >
- Segregati on in the navy is
slowly melting away without a
great deal of fanfare. Recent
developments have included:
1. A circular letter sent out by j
Vice Admiral Randall Jacobs,
chief of the Bureau of Naval I
Personnel, announcing the eli- 1
gibility of Negroes for duty!
aboard all auxiliary vessels in !
all general service ratings up to
ten percent of the ship’s crew.
This general order is the out¬
growth of an experiment con¬
ducted on 25 auxiliary vessels
over the past nine months.
e Separate, technical train-1
mg schools arc dwindling In en- j
(CenUauedoa page eight)
Arkansas Teachers Take Salary
l ase To IJ. S. Court Of
192 Negro Police Officers
In ill Southern States
ONLY FOUR SOUTHERN
STATES HAVE NO SUCH
OFFICERS
Tampa Latest City To
Employ Them
COLUMBIA, S. C (ANP» —
No less than 192 colored police
officers are serving in 41 south¬
ern cities, a survey conducted
by the Lighthouse and Inform¬
er disclosed last we^k. These
include patrolmen, detectives,
police women, deputy sheriffs
and special officers.
Their tenure of service ranges
from 1897 at Houston, to April,
1945, in Tampa, Fla. Only four
southern states have no Negro
policemen. They are Alabama,
Georgia, Mississippi, Virginia
and South Carolina.
The survey reveals 151, patrol¬
men, 17 detectives, four police¬
women and 20 special officers.
No less than 15 Oklahoma cit¬
ies and practically every Okla¬
homa community uses Negro of¬
ficers, the number varying in
proportion to the percentage of
Negro population.
A detective investigator at
San Antonio has a higher rat¬
ing than any detective on the
force and receives, subsequent¬
ly, higher pay. San Antonio
has one retired officer on pen¬
sion who has served more than
20 years. Their pay in San An¬
tonio is the same as whiteoffi-
cers. They have served 35
Continued on page Eight
I co conference; Hugh McBeth, j
' attorney, Lo s Angeles, Californ- ;
| jia; Mrs. Ogden Reid, New York,
sponsor of the S.S. Fisk Victory,
1 and Mrs. Hugh McBeth. Mes- )
Conn. Senate
Passes FEPC
Measure
HARTFORD, Conn. A state
IEPC oill was passed her., last
week by the Connecticut state
senate by a vote of 25-10. The
ten votes against it were cast
by Republicans, but five Repub¬
licans were among the 25 vot¬
ing for the bill.
The bill now goes to the low¬
er house where the Republicans
are in the majority and the
prospects arc not regarded as I
Continued on page three
KILLED IN ACTION
il; ; p 11
Walter Wallace, steward, sec¬
ond class, U. S. N. R„ who was
killed in action while serving-
in the Pacific. lie was attend¬
ing Beach high school when he
entered the navy. He is the
son of Steven Wallace, stepson
of Mrs. Steven Wallace of 416
West 32nd street, and the bro¬
ther of Marion Wallace who is
now with the army in New Gui¬
nea. He is also the grandson
of Mrs. Nellie Manner of Sav¬
annah.
“After all, intelligence is what
man acquires; the soui is the
apex in all the finer qualities
that God gave him."
s rs. MacBeth and Dennis are a-
lumni , . of , Fi&k . university. The
launching took place at 11 p. m.
Wednesday, April 25.
Eleven Banks
Hold 13 Mil-
lion Securities
WASHINGTON iANP)— Elev¬
en Negro banks hold nearly |
$13 X09,000 in war securiies,
William Pickens of the U. S. I
Treasury department disclosed
last week. They are the Me-
c anics and Farmers bank oi
Durbam-Raleigh, N. C., $2,662.-
905.38; Industrial Bank of Wash
ington. D. C . $2,537,041.57; Con-
solidated Bank and Trust Co.
Richmond, Va, $1/My.oon, cit-
Coatinued |
on page Eight J
Train Porters
To Meet In
Atlanta
IN A TWO-DAY PLAN¬
NING MEETING
ATLANTA, May 6 The Train
Porters of the Southeastern
part of the country will assem¬
ble here May 21-22, in the But-
Street YMCA for a regional con
ference to work out a program
to safeguard their jobs during
the post war period.
The conference will have rep¬
resentation from practically ev¬
ery southern road and will be
educational in nature.
A. Philip Randolph, Interna¬
tional President of the Broth¬
erhood of Sleeping Car Porters,
and Milton p. Webster, chair¬
man of the International Exec¬
utive Board; Thomas T. Patter¬
son, eastern zone supervisor,
and B. F. McLaurin, Interna¬
tional field organizer, will be
in attendance.
FEPC REPRESENTATIVE
WARRENTON Gl BACK
IN THE STATES
Atlantic City, N. J.—Pfc. Wil¬
lie Hill, 26, of Warrenton, Ga.,
of Mrs. Catherine Johnson,
recently returned from ser¬
outside limits of continen¬
tal United States and is now
stationed at the Army Ground
Service Forces Redistribu¬
tion Station here, awaiting
tests for reassignment. Pic.
who served 24 months as
in the Asiatic-Pacific
of operations, is the re¬
cipient of the Asiatic-Pacific
ribbon and the
Defense medal.
The nearest
Negroes came-to be-
1I? within the official fold at
United Nations conference
international organization
as keen In the role of consult¬
In the upper photo, Mrs,
McLeod Betiiune, a con-
at the San Francisco
WERE THE LOWER DEFEATED COURT IN |
j
Result Will Have Far-
Reaching Effect
STL PAUL, Minn. The light
o fthe teachers of Little Rock,
Arkansas, for equal salaries was
carried to the U. S. Circuit
Court of Appeals for the 8th
Circuit here Monday.
The Ivttle Rock teachers filed)
their original suit February 28,1
1942. They charged that Ne¬
gro teachers with seme train-1
ing and experience, performing i
paid essentially less than the same white duties, teachers arej
of the same grade and experl
ence, and that this differential
is due solely to race and color.
The case was tried on its mer
its September 26, 1942, in the
U. S. court for the Eastern dis¬
trict of Arkansas and on March
10, 1944, Judge Trimble decid¬
ed against the Negro teachers
and gave judgment for the de¬
fendant school board.
From this decision the teach-
<Continued on page 3)
10 Sgts. Promoted To Lieuts.
For Courage on Battlefield
Local Deltas
To Observe
May Week
MRS. JULIA PATE BOR¬
DERS, THE SPEAKER
Beta Delta Sigma chapter of
Delta Sigma 1 am.i sorority mats
recently completed plans for its
May Week activities, a week of
events in eoniunetion with the
r.'.mmd orrmb.atum SUXrhng
a world security program
The chapter is bringing to
the city Mrs. Jul'.i Pule Bor
: . presided' of the Atlanta
Continued on page three
Peace conference sonsuits
immediately after the ple-
sultant through being a vice-
president of the NAAOP, con¬
duits immediately alter the ple¬
na r session :- Uh ice Presi-| j
dent Clarence Simpson of Labe-
na, left, and Senator J. country,! Lemuel j
Gibson of the same
songs ana
aaninj
anoA
eavnsjjtfs
NUMBER 29
Uhio Gover¬
nor Saves Life
of Woman *
Jane Hunter, who led in
the fight to keep young
woman from the electric
chair.
COLUMBUS, Ohio— Demon¬
his great humantartan
ism, Ohio's Governor Frank J.
this week commuted
life imprisonment Johnnie
Gardner, young woman
Continued on Page Eight
GEORGIAN LISTED
AMONG THEM
ITALY -The Infantry Is quick
recognize ability on the bat-
and to prove it here’s
story of ten Negro second,
Until a few weeks ago they
sergeants with the 92nd
of the Fifth Army in
Their calmneas and
judgement under fire
the eye of their superi-
They were sent to the
for j ui advanced auvaiiucu training, uituuu^, and a
each wears a gold bar.
The -r, lieutenants were com¬
recently at the Lead-
and Battle school, where
Continued on page Eight
both delegates.
In the pictire Mr. Simp¬
son. left, stops to chat with
Walter White, center, and Dr.
W. E. B DuBoi,- both represen¬
tatives cf the NAA-CF and serv¬
ing as official consultants to
the American delegation,—pho¬
to by E. F. Josiph iur ANP) j: