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Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
152 Recruits
Leave Philly

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 90
(ANP)-One hundred and fifty
two young Philadelphians left here
last week for Fort Bragg, N. c.,
this areas contribution to the new
10th Coast Artillery, anti-aircraft
unit, now being formed and COM
posed of Negro personnel.
The enlistment of the youths
took place over the past four
weeks, with different agencies
helping. No public announce
ment was made until the entire
number Of men wanted had been
enrolled.
The recruits took their oath be-
fore the Soldiers and Sailors
monument in FairmOnt park with
members Of the Veterans Of For
eign Wars and American Legion
present. The unit will be COM
pleted with men from other Sec
tons of the country.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
NURSES TO
AID NATL
DEF N S E

NEW YORK CITY, Aug. %
(ANP)-A conference to discuss
a national survey of nurses and
other defense plans recently call
ed by the American Nurses As
ISOLATION, has resulted in fOrma-
ton Of the Nursing Council Of
National Defense, this council to
be representative Of all national
nursing organizations and SER
vices.
Organizations comprising the
council are: American Nurses As
ISOLATION, National League Of
Nursing Education, National Or
qanization for Public Health
Nursing, Association Of Cole
giate Schools Of Nursing, Nation
al Association of Colored Gradu-
ate Nurses, American Red Cross,
Army Nurse Corps, Navy Nurse
Corps, United States Public
Health Nursing Service, the Vet
Grams Administration and the
Nursing Service on Indian AT
fairs.
The nurses who will represent
the National Association Of Col
Ored Graduate Nurses on the
Council are: Mrs. Frances Foulkes
Gaines Of Chicago, president, and
Mrs. Mable K. Staupers Of New
York, executive secretary.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
# LAY RUM0RS
ABOUT 0USTING
OF TH0MPkINS

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29-(AN
UP)-Rumors circulating in and
around Washington to the effect
that DR.. William j. Thompkins
will soon be "out" are not being
received with any credence by
those who follow the political stu
alton.
AS one Of the opposite party
says, Perhaps the wish is father
to the thought Declaring that
DR.. Thompkins split with the New
York faction following the Chi
cago convention has a great deal
to do with it and that Boss
Flynn, the new chairman of the
National Democratic party. is lis
tening to the importunings of his
own New Workers against DR..
Thompkins, busy gossipers are
pointing the finger at DR.. Thomp-
kins, declaring he is on the way
"out" Whether that means po-
liticaHy- or as an Office holder, is
not directly said. -- Hill
But DIR. 4Thompkins has politi-
cal enemies by the scores, many
of whom do not agree with his
method of conducting his affairs
outside of his office. Declaring
that the doctor has a "jim-crow
back door" set up, Negroes who
have power at the polls feel that
his methods are a hindrance tc
their welfare and not help.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
Southern Youth Congress Wants Peace
THE OLDEST
NEGRO WILL
is FOUND

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. ga
NP)-The oldest will ever filed
by a Negro in Philadelphia, AND
perhaps the oldest will by a Ne
gro in the United States, lies in
the City Hall here, made on the
22nd day Of January 1888 by Ne
gro Cuffee.
Totalling $3.50 Expressed in
English money! the will lists an
estate including apparel, an old
bedstead. "a Darrell of peese, and
8 Darrell Of pickle" among other
things.
Written in the flowery hand
writing of the 18th century, the
will is valued at $500, according
to Joseph T. O'Nell, chief clerk in
the register of the wills office.
The paper was recently reen-
forced with silk at cost Of $50.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
Launch Negro
Job Drive In
Defense Plants

NEW YORK, Aug. ga ma
tionwide campaign to open up
jobs for Negroes in industrial
plants, whose owners have OBJ
tanned billions of dollars in con-
tracts from the United States
government to carry forward the
national defense program, was
launched last week by the Ma
tional Association for the Adj
vancement of Colored People.
Branches of the association
throughout the country have been
furnished with lists of plants in
their states that have received
government contracts. Associa-
ton members have been urged to
lead the drive in contracting the
plant managers to urge them to
employ Negroes in skilled as well
as unskilled jobs. Robert A.
Weaver, administrative assistant
on the advisory commission, to
the Council Of National Defense
at the request Of the N. "A. A. G.
P. has furnished the association
with a complete list of manufac-
turing plants all over the coun-
try whose contracts with the gov.
eminent have been cleared. AS
ISOLATION members have also been
urged to form delegations to Wis,
it WPA and NYA projects, all d
which have been increased ii
scope under the defense program
to urge the employment of more
Negroes on these projects.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 29-(ANP)-
Atty. S. r. Redmond, president
Of the National Bar Association,
last week announced the follow
ing program Of II detectives
which the association plans to
accomplish during the year ending
Aug. 7, 1871:
1. Publication of a law 1ourn-
al.
2. To obtain increased repre-
sentation for Negro lawyers on
the state and federal judiciary
and on the legal stats of federal,
state, county, and city prosecu-
tors, to insure the impartial ad-
ministration of justice.
8. Establishments Of local free
legal aid bureaus to assist those
without funds.
4. Closer cooperation between
the National Bar Association and
other organizations whose object
i've is to promote the welfare of
Negroes.
5. Abolition Of discrimination
by all federal and state agencies.
6. To wage vigorous campaign
in every state for equal educa-
tional opportunities for Negroes
from the grammar school to the
highest level.
z. Have representation on all
juries in communities where Ne
groes reside.
s. Abolition of discrimination IN
public places and with public
funds.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
Plan Nationwide
Bathing Beauty
Contest in 194l

ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 29-
(By L. D. Wright, for AMP
Plans are being made, it was
learned this week, for a nation
wide, all-colored bathing beauty
contest to be held here next Sum
mer. Agencies sponsoring the
idea are the convention and pub
Lefty committee, the bureau OF
the Board of Trade and the leg
islative department of the Nation
al Beauty Culturists' League.
During the conventions Of the
State and National beauty Gull
ture associations held here in Au-
gust bathing beauty party was
given with marked success and
out of it came the idea of the
beauty contest. The local con-
vention committee and Mrs.
Marjorie S. Joyner, former
league president met to discuss
preliminary plans and announc-
ed the contest will be held during
July, 1941.
All state and territorial units OF
the NBCL will compete, it was
stated, and the group is consid-
ering the possibility Of participa-
ton in the contest by business
organizations Of the various cit
les.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
MASS. Ne OR Q
GUARD TO man
COAST Defense:
Will Not Become
Labor Unit

BOSTON,, Aug. 29-(ANP)-
The 372nd Rifle Infantry. Third
Battalion Of the Massachusetts
National guard, Major Alexander
Davis in command, will, accord
ing to recent published statements,
trained for one year with the
26th (Yankee division) unit here
in the East at the Atlantic Cape
training reservation which is ca
pable Of holding $4,000 troops.
Don't Believe RumOr
There appears to be no belief
among the Massachusetts militant
NEGRO officers that their crack
battalion will ever become a la
Dor unit and there is at least one
known case where the war de-
partment has been asked to make
the 372nd an entire New England
regiment, with units at Boston
Providence, Springfield, and
Hartford.
The 372nd at present is wide
~ DCiJCl dLCQ Willie IIlG 1NGW VI
369th and Chicago 370th are
compact regimental units.
Up until a few years ago. il
was expected that the 369th,
37Oth and 372nd might provide
the nucleus for a Negro division.
Today with these units being
changed from rifle regiments to
artillery and other more spe-
cialized branches, some observ-
ers see the formation Of separate
Negro units attached to white
units on the order of the old
French colonial plan. This will
eliminates any complete Negro
army set-up or any reestablish-
ment Of the Negro division ex-
perments Of 1917. 1t would also
fit in with expected colonial eX-
pansion of this nation.
Just whether those observers
are correct and whether Negro
units will only reach the strength
Of separate regiments, time only
will tell.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
Mayor LaGuardia
Outlaws Forty
Lurid Magazines

NEW YORK, Aug. 29-(C)-
IN a blunt warning against the
sale Of lurid literature on the
neWsstands Of New York City,
Mayer F. H. LaGuardia yesterday
outlawed 40 magazines among
which was the Harlem Tattler,
published at 2247 18th avenue.
Speaking in the presence of the
40 publishers and distributors
and newsstand dealers that he
summoned to the Summer City
Hall, the Mayor threatened to
put out Of business distributors
who attempted by coercive meth
DDS to force dealers to take these
indecent magazines.
Said the Mayor, II am not go
ing to tolerate no monkey bust
ness you are not going to
distribute filth and smut in New
York, 1T least, not in the next Is
months (The Mayors term ex-
pires Dec. 81, 1940).
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
Richard Wright
Sponsors Youth
Photo Contest

Richard Wright. prominent Ne
gro author of Native Son." is
one of the sponsors of Youth in
Focus, the national photography
contest which offers camera fans
under Is years of age the oppor-
tunity to win $155O.OO in cash
prizes for pictures about young
people in America today. In his
statement to Joseph gladden., Elk
ecutive Secretary of the Ameri-
can Youth Congress, accepting the
invitation to sponsor YOUTH IN
FOCUS, Mr.. Wright stated, II
realize the deep importance Of
the work you are doing through
the contest and wish you all the
success possible"
The sponsors of YOUTH IN
FOCUS are particularly interest
ed in having Negro young people
from all parts Of the country
participate in this contest. What
they do for living, what schools
they attend, the houses they live
in, the recreation they enjoy, the
discrimination they face, and the
contribution which they make to
our American culture, are very
important part of the photograph
ic document YOUTH IN FOCUS
will produce. Through the seven
subject classes, work, play, mar
riage, school, home, religion, and
citizenship, YOUTH IN FOCUS
offers them an unusual opportun-
ity to bring local conditions to
national attention.
In addition to the 281 cash priz-
es YOUTH, IN FOCUS will re-
ward contestants by publishing a
weekly page of pictures in Friday
magazine, by publishing book
of prize winning pictures, and by
arranging a travelling exhibit
which will tour the entire coun-
try. -'
YOUTH IN FOCUS. is sponsor
ed jointly by the American Youth
Congress and FRIDAY magazine
In its initial announcement, il
stated that pictures will be judg-
ed by "The skill with which you
put Youth in focus. On how well
you capture young people doing
interesting things in an interest
ing way. The subject, the story
and the skill will determine the
winner. Technical ability will be
entirely incidental"
The board OF judges includes
Margaret Bourke-White, heaC
photographer of PM, Daniel S
Gilmore, publisher of Friday
magazine, Joris Ivens, preSiden
of the Association of Documentary
Film Producers; Carson, Kanin
director-producer for RKO pic
lures; Rockwell Kent, noted art
list, and Roy E. Stryker, chief o
the Historical Section of the Farm
Security Administration.
In addition to Mr.. Wright, thu
sponsors are: Sheldon Dick, vii
liam 0. Field, Jr., Dorothy Can
field Fisher, DR.. Frank P. Ora
ham, Jay Leyda, Hon. Vito Mar
cantonio, Hon. James E. Murray
Alfred K. Stern, DR.. Mary E
Woolley.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
Ace Electrician
A ppointed to
Housing Project

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. %
(ANP)-Walter M. Dawson, only
Negro member Of the Internation-
al Brotherhood of Electrical Work
ers and only race employe of the
Sargent Engineering company here,
has been appointed maintenance
electrician for Bedford Dwellings
and Terrace Village, new Federal
Housing projects, it was announc-
ed last week.
Grouped with the topmost rank
ing electrical engineers, with a
rating of 81 under Civil Service
status, Mr.. Dawson is described
by electrical authorities as one of
the outstanding electricians in
the country. He has been en-
ployed in his field by the Ameri-
can Wooden company, the Pullman
Manufacturing company, and as
chief division electrician for the
Northern Pacific Railroad.
Born in Fort Valley, Ca, Mr.
DdWoO1l OCSolllC 4l4ICA CoICO III SISC-
tricity when he helped his father
operate coal chute for the. Cen
trail Of Georgia Railroad. His
early education received in Geor-
gia, he later attended the Haw-
ley Electrical Engineering school,
Boston, and the Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology. Married,
he is the husband of Mary Card
well Dawson, president Of the Ma
tional Association Of Negro Mu-
sicians.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
5 WHITES
HELD FOR
WHIPPING

SPARTANBURG, S. c., Aug.
29-tANP)-Five white men were
placed under $4,000 bonds each
last week to await preliminary
hearings on charges that they
donned masks and DISCUSSES on
July Is and flogged four Negro
tenant farmers on the Sam SnOd-
dy farm near here.
The five, J. George Sher-
bert, 46, Earl Porter, "a, Ed Wat
son, 27, and Andrew Bennett, 80,
were arrested after a four week
investigation. The reported vic
TINS said they were dragged from
their homes by their assailants
carried several miles and flogged
with a leather strap.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
STACKING WHEAT IOINS
LIST OF LOST ARTS

Tall symmetrical stacks Of
wheat, once a common sight on
farms Of the middle west, have
gradually disappeared from the
agricultural scene in this state.
These towering heaps Of bum
died grain, forming natural ovens
for drying the wheat, were believ-
ed to be the best means of sea-
Isoning the grain for high quail
ity flour. So much Importance
was attached to this phase Of
harvesting, says one historian, that
no real farmer ever thought of
threshing until the wheat had gone
through a natural "sweat" in the
stacks. .l.. .. ~ s--,.Lt.l,As
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
Jim Crow School
Better Than None

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. %
(ANP)-"A segregated school is
better than none," declared the
Rev. Joseph NJ. Schmutz, Of Biz
mingham, as he returned last
week to his native Philadelphia to
address the st. Ignatius Forum.
Father Schmutz has founded
the Immaculate high during his
stay in the southern city and ex-
planned that, through the Catholic
church, streets had been paved,
lights installed, and general con-
ditions improved.
"The next STEP" he said, ''is to
get Negroes qualified as voters all
over the state"
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
NATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION
announce Il POINT PROGRAM

9. Improvement of the econom-
ic and ethical standards of the
bar.
10. Complete indignation Of the
Negro in the armed forces of the
country.
IL. Enactment of legislation to
secure and safeguard civil rights
and repeal of legislation hostile
to Negro welfare.
The association at its annual
meeting in Columbus voted to es-
tablish free legal aid bureaus in
every city in the country having
population of 5000 or more
Negroes. These bureaus will as
sist INDECENT persons in both civ
ic and criminal matters. Atty.
Henry J. Richardson, Jr., Of In
dianapolis was appointed nation
al director of this department.
The following regional direc-
tors were appointed: Attys. Irwin
T. Dortch, Boston; Eunice H.
Carter, New York; Josiah F. Hen
ry, Baltimore; Joseph w. Civ
ems, Pittsburgh; David D. White,
Columbus; Thurman Dodson,
Washington; Daniel w. Ambrose,
Jr., Charleston; S. D. McGill,
Jacksonville; A. A. Latting, Mem
phis; J. r. Booker, Little Rock;
Charles H. Mahoney, Lansing,
Mich; Richard E. Westbrooks,
Chicago; John A. Davis, st. Louis;
Prentice Thomas, Louisville; Pri-
mus c. Wade, Tulsa; and Walter
! L. Gordon, Los Angeles.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
BRITISH SEAMEN
Want HOMEFOR
THEIR CHILDREN
Seeking Aid Of
Negroes Here

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 29-(A
NP)-Thirty colored British sea-
men, waiting here for orders last
week told Of their wives and chill
dren in Cardiff, Wales, and asked
if there is not something colored
Americans can do to help evacu-
ate their children to safety from
the bomb-peppered regions of
Britain.
Former Nigerians, natives Of
Sierra Leone, the West Indies and
South America, these men, to-
gether with several Malayans,
have lived in Britain as long as
40 years, have married into the
native stock, and have made their
living on the sea.
Some of them had seen the ac-
tual bombing Of English ports,
one was an air raid warden at
home. While they all expressed
surety that England would ulti-
mately be victorious, they also
revealed that, so far, only a few
children have been sent out of the
country, and most Of these to veal
thy American families from we'll
to-do British families.
The men cannot be quoted as
individuals, since anything may
be a violation of law these days,
but they told a little Of life in
Wales.
eve are all members Of the
British Trade unions, get medical
care through the established med
ical service of Britain; our child
rem go to the same schools as any,
one else, although in Cardiff there
have been attempts to set up sep
arate schools.
Girls Can't Find Work
'Our boys go to sea, largely,
but our. girls have had difficulty
finding work in factories. Most of
the jobs open to them are domes-
tic, but now that war has boosted
all industries several of them are
getting more opportunities. The
domestic work means small pay
and the girls must sleep in at
nights" .----
When they arrived and when
they would leave, the men could
not tell, because of war regula-
tons, but they seemed waiting to
man ships back to the war zone
They have already crossed the
mines of the North Sea several
times, but have nothing unusual
to report.
If there is any organization
that would like to learn more how
they can help our children, the
men gave the address Of H. Nc
Cornell, secretary, the Colonial
Defense association, Angelina anc
Moriah streets, as the person tc
write. .@->.. !:
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Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
400 FLOOD
REFUGEES
HON ELESS

TILLERY, N. c., Aug. 29-(AN
P)-More than 400 farmers, their
wives and children, residents OF
the Roanoke Farm development
of the Farm Security Admins
tration, were in a desperate plight
last week after the Roanoke river
had Inundated their homes anC
swept away most Of their belong
ngs.
Having been rescued by WPA
emergency Workmen in flat-bot-
toned scoWs, scores of men, Wo-
men and children walked down
the dirt roads carrying what they
could Of their belongingssh-eet
bags, half-drowned chickens,
small pieces of furniture. Strand
ed families had been taken from
roof tops, trees, and whatever
solid land they could find.
Victims DaZed
L. L. McLendon, manager Of the
F. S. A. farms, said there were
some 900 persons on the govern
northumberland and private
farms in the flood areas. There
were 25 on the Walker tract, Is
on the Pope farm, SO on the Wal
lace-Hines, so on the Doggest
tract, and almost 500 resettlement
and and independent areas.
Huddled on marshy strips of
land most of the flood victims
seemed dazed. They were quiet
and orderly, and many were pray
ing for help. Hungry and miser-
able they waited. Future unem-
ployment and rehabilitation is
the problem faced by the flood
stricken areas.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01

Infantry, comprising Negro SOL
diers stationed at Fort Huachuca,
Arizona, have turned over $17O
in membership subscriptions to the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People,
William Pickens, director of N. A.
A. c. P. branches announced here
this week.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
NEGRO INFANTRY in
ARIZONA CONTRIBUTES
$40 TO

SIIU IU N. n. "A. Z. +.
NEW YORK, Aug, 29-Mem-
bers of the 25th United States
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01

GENERAL SPENCER C. DICK
ERSON, of Chicago, chairman
of the Citizens Committee seek
ing to secure an airport for
Tuskegee Institute, where
youthful Negroes from all over
the nation may receive adj
vanced training. General Dick
ersOn, former commander of the
8th Illir.3is National Guard,
who was retired with the rank
of Brigadier General, points out
that unless citizens help with
funds i'm this campaign to OBJ
tain adequate facilities for
training Negro youth i'm ad-
vanced flying, our group may
be left sadly in the rear.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01

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Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-06
BY HENRY NCLEMORE-

LOS ANGELES. Feb 6. Up
The Tan Tornado. the Sepla Slug
ger, the Hommlcidal Hammerer. the
Hustlln Hurricane. whom. in my
own inlmitable way. I call Henry
Armstrong, may Very we'll wind up
fighting Joe Louis for the heavy
weight championship.
Armstrong first Won the feather
weight title. He thea added a pork
chop and a second helping OF hom-
Ing grits 10 his evening meal and
went out and Won the lightweight
title. Squaring his shoulders he
started taking double portions OF
everything, and Il wasn't long be-
fore he fought for. and Won. the
WelterWeight championship.
Now. within a few weeks. mere in
his home city, he Will challenge Cef-
erlno Garcia for the mlddleWeight
crown. l am not man who is
noted for his long vision but l can
forsee what is going 10 happen at-
ter that bout. Armstrong Ike an
alexander in tights. viii crave new
worlds 70 conquer and With gall
not divided into three parts. start
eyeing the lightheayyWelght title Of
Billy Conn and tie heavyweight
robes Of Louis.
Ridiculous: Perhaps, ogt a study
OF the record books Will reveal fights
in which tremendous amounts OF
weight were given away by fighters.