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The Phoenix index., 1940-12-14

one of the liviest issues on the
campus is the students resentment
against discrimination which faces
Negroes in the national defense
program, including the Army,
Navy, Air Corps and particularly
in the industrial phases of that
program.
Commenting on Mr.. Whites ap-
pearance on the campus the
DAILY Californian" student daily
paper of the University of Cali
fornia at Berkeley, said editorial
ly:
"A fascist theology sown in
American soil by Americans, cul-
tivated by American economics
and camouflaged by American poll
tics was described by a remark
able man in the fourth of a series
of lectures on the problem OF
racial minorities Friday evening.
The speakers name is Walter
White, Secretary of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People
"On the negative side, %" the
NAACP secretary said, "T found
that in some cities there was a
tendency on the part of some OF
our people, who have lived in GER
tain cities all their lives or who
have come to the West Coast from
the South, to believe that be-
cause the more obvious forms OF
determinations do not exist in
their locality, they face no prob
lem.
'"This tendency, however, is be-
ing broken down and predlcr
that it will be changed even more
by the fact that a great many
southern white people from Okla
homa, Texas, Mississippi, Louisi-
ana and Arkansas have migrated
to the west coast, particularly in
to Southern California. Some o.
these people, unfortunately are
bringing their traditional prejh-
dices and are enthusiastically
spreading them"
White had high praise for tnC
loyal work over a period of years
exhibited by branch officials anc
members, whom he contacted or
the tour. "Added to- this" he said
''I found a tremendous amount o1
interest on the part of young peo-
pie for the work of the Association
particularly among student groups.
DEEP INTEREST
Particularly significant" ne
pointed out, twas the deep inter-
est in and knowledge of the work
of the Association and its impor-
tance to the fight for democracy
for all Americans which 1 founo
among white people on the coast.
Particularly was this true In the
colleges among the faculty mem
bers and students"
The NAACP secretary spoke at
the following colleges during his
tour: Occidental College, Los An
geles: University of California at
Berkeley; College of Puget Sound,
Tacoma: and the University OF
Washington, Seattle.
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Bishop King TO Lead Appeal
For Methodists War Relief
Bishops Council
Closes Session At
Atlantic City

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.-(SNS)
Responsibility for leading the
Methodists of the Atlantic Coast
Area in their share in million
dollar campaign for various forms
of war relief was laid upon Bishop
Lorengo H. King of Atlanta, by
the Council of Bishops of the
Methodist Church in four-day
session which just closed here
Three appeals are to be united
in the largest offering the Church
has ever sought on single day, to
be taken the first Sunday in Lent
in the $4,000 Methodist churches
religious work among soldiers and
sailors in training camps through
regular chaplains and in auxiliary
social and religious centers located
near to camps; aid to British
Methodism, both to meet distress
in England to carry on British
missions which would otherwise
have to be abandoned; general re-
lief for civilians in war areas.
SET UP COMMITTEE
Other matters demanding the
attention of the more than thirty
bishops who supervise the eight
million Methodists of the recently
united denomination included pro-
vision of a committee to set stand
ards and endorse candidates for
army and navy chaplaincies, re-
iteration of the church's official
declaration of support to those
who for reasons of conscience seek
exemption from military service,
approval of a reformed calendar
with fixed Easter, and considera-
ton of conditions in the Far East
as they affect the more than six
hundred missionaries the church is
supporting in Korea, Japan and
China.
Bishop King was unable to be
present at the special ceremony in
which he and Bishop Bruce r.
Baxter of Portland, oregon were
to be recognized as new bishops
and received formally into the fel-
lowsnip of the Council of Bishops
A liturgical service was conducted
by Bishop Adna Wright Leonard in
the Ozone Room of Hotel Dennis
here.
Bishop Francis j. Mcconnell ct
New York City made a specoal ref
erence to his new colleague Bish-
op King who had for a number CT
years previous to his election 80
the episcopacy last June. been pas
tor IF st Marks Methodist church.
Harlem. in Bishop McConnePs
Area. He seid that tho absent.
Bishop King was in the thou9ht
Of the Bishops as thew carried on
the service for RECOGNITION. Negro
Bishops Shaw of Baltimore and
Jones of Columbus, Ohio. were
present, the latter pronouncing the
eulogy in a service of commemoro-
tion honoring the memory of the
late Bishop w. A. c.. Hughes
whose death occurred less than
six weeks after his conservation as
The Phoenix index., 1940-12-14
Omegas Prep
For 2oth
Annual Meet

NASHVILLE, Tenn (SNS) -
The twenty-ninth annual conclaHe
Of the omega Psi Phi Fraternity
will be held in Nashville, Tenn,
December 27-30, both inclusive,
with plans for the entertainment
in the hands of DR.. John w. Max
well, Grand Marshall.
The four chapters of the frater
nity-located at Fisk University,
Meharrv Medical School, Tennessee
State College, and the graduate
chapter, serving as joint hosts,
have put the final touches on the
four day meet, with the program
approved by Grand Basileus A.
w Dent, Superintendent of Flint
Goodrioge Hospital, New Orleans,
La
TO START LECTURE SERIES
>, High lights of the conclave will
,he the Inauguration of an annual
lecture series, the first being given
in the Fisk Memorial Chapel, by
Or. Allison Davis, author of the
recert book, CHILDREN OF
BONDAGE, eminent sociologist of
billiard University who is. now
making a sociological study for the
American Youth Commission in
Chicago, Illinois.
=, Dr. Davis was selected for the
lecture by a committee headed by
DR.. Ira D. Reid, of Atlanta Univer-
sity, DR.. James Nabrit, Howard
University secretary, and John
: Purnell, State Department Of
iEducation, st. Louis, Mo.
+ The other feature will be a
forum on the Negro in the National
i Defense Program with a panel Of
4 Government officials leading the
discussion Participating on the
nAnel will be DR.. Robert C. Weaver
administrative assistant to the De-
fense Advisory Commission; DR..
William H. Hastie, civilian aide to
the Secretary of War; Major
4 Campbell C. Johnson, executive
assistant to the Selective Service
Director; lieutenant Lawrence A.
Oxley, DR.. Frank Horne and Mr..
William Trent, Jr., of the defense
set up in Washington.
+ FULL PROGRAM
These two public features of the
I Conclave. together with the closed
i business sessions of the Greeks
? and their social prooram, assures
them of full program for the
Tour DAYS.
+ DR.. Dovis was error eouslv re-
ported in the rrees last week as
having been selected to receive the
coveted National Achievement
4 Awerded made annually bv the
fraternity TO the NEGRO, regard
less uf fraternal affiliation, OF
sev. who had made sn outstanding
contribution IN racial edvarcen1 ent
: in some field of er1deavor- The
-recfpient of tine award has not
seer an ~~i'~"ed by the Achieve
o'qrtl Committee, beaded by Ma
ior Car~rhel' = Tohnsor. hut will
- 90 ICED prior to the Con-
clayes
The Phoenix index., 1940-12-14
Suggestion Made
By President Of
Natl Bar Assn

of never a traitor to the Ameri-
can cause" was set forth in a
communication sent Monday, De-
cember second TO President Frank
lin Delano Roosevelt by Attorne.
Sidney R. Redmond, president O.
the National Bar Association.
'"This action on your part" At
torney Redmond stated in his
message to President Roosevelt
will show Negroes in a forceful
manner that our armed forces ar
open equally to all rather than to
certain ones.
cit may be interesting to call to
your attention the fact that the
only Negro in st. Louis, T know
of. who refused to register, was one
who had been rejected as volun-
teer in the Navy and for that rea-
son thought it was unnecessary.
His ignorance was no excuse, but
The Phoenix index., 1940-12-14
The Globe Trotter .*~4 B, cliff M~ekey

haps Mr. Dies as a better searcher than the writer.
For MIR Dies information, there are things oc-
curing every day in the South that do more to STIR
resentment in the hearts of black Americans thal
any amount of poisonous whisperlngs coming from
left-wingers
We have been repeating these things in this COL
umn now for several years, but we'll go all over 1t
again for Mr. Dies especial benefit.
The primary thing that stirs resentment in the
breasts of loyal Negro Americans in the failure OF
most Souherners to practice the democracy they 50
fervently and ardently give lipservice to- Negroes
resent the studied effort to place them outside the
benefits of Anercanism they profoundly hate those
who oppose democracy for all Americans
The Phoenix index., 1940-12-14
Aircraft Com panies Won't Hire
UntrainedMen n SchooIsRefuse Them
Walter White DiscLoses
Hopeless Coat Situation

NEW YORK-(S N S)-Some-
thing of the manner in which bill
lion-dollar industrial plants par
ticularly aillraft manufacturers,
on the west coast have succeeded
with the aid of local boards of
education in keeping Negro job
applicants out of defense industry,
was revealed here by Walter
White, executive. secretary for the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People.
Mr.. White returned this week
from months speaking tour in
connection with the Associations
campaign to break down discrimi-
nation against the Negro in the
national defense program, includ-
ing the army and navy. He adj
dressed 62 meetings, twenty ! of
them sponsored by NAACP
branches in sixteen cities from
Boston to San Francisco.
BARRED FROM COURSE
81 found at San Diego, Cali
fornia. for example, he said,
Tthat the school board has is
sued an order barring Negro chill
dren from taking vocational
courses unless they can produce
letters from employers like the
Consolidated Aircraft Corporation
insuring them jobs. And yet, MI.
Gott, manager of this huge air.
craft corporation which is making
planes for the national defense
program, told members of a dele
cation from our San Diego branch
that he was unable to employ Ne
groes because they were untrain-
ed.
Thoughtful white and colored
people on the coast are now see
ing the vicious circle-Negroes can
not get jobs because they are not
trained and they cannot get train
ing because no jobs are guaran-
teed them.
Particularly acute is the situa-
ton in the Boeing aircraft plant at
Seattle, Washington, where it was
recently revealed that large
number of Nazi Bundists are not
only employed but occupy stra-
tegic positions in the plant. while
Negroes, whatever their qualifica-
tions, ale denied jobs in the plant
because of the attitude of the plant
management. These facts are
slowly; being driven home to Ne,
groes all over the country, who are
beginning to realize that they
have a common interest in this
fight.
white college students he
said, "are becoming more and
more aware of the problems now
faced by the Negro in national de-
fense and they have healthy de-
sire to do something about it.
cat the University of Califor-
nia," he continued. II found that
The Phoenix index., 1940-12-14

Bishop IN st. Louis last June.
Bishop Hughes had been assigned
to supervise the work among the
Negro conferences in the New Or
leands Area. Before his elevation
to the episcopal office he had for
twenv years been a secretary of
the Board of Home Missions OF
the Methodist Episcopal Church
with headquarters in Philadelphia.
The Phoenix index., 1940-12-14
HAMPTON TO Launch
3rd Defense Program

HAMPTON INST, Va.-(SNS)-
Hampton Institute will launch it's
third and greatest program Of
evening National Defense courses
on Thursday, January 9, according
to an official announcement re-
leased by Alfred Wick of the
Hampton Institute faculty in con-
junction with DR.. Benjamin H. Van
Got, supervisor of Trade and IN
dustrial Education in the State of
Virginia.
With registration set for Monday
and Tuesday, December 16 and IL,
from 8 to p. m. in the Trade
School office, instructors in the 13
supplementary trade school courses
offered are optimistic that the new
courses will hit a new high in
registration
ENROLMENT 500
Hampton first entered the de-
fense picture on July %, when it
instituted it's first series of even
ing courses. Over 80 men earned
certificates during the 12-Week
courses, and the enrolment Jumps
ed to over 200 in the second course,
which ends on January 7.
Mr.. Wick has announced that
Trade School facilities will accom-
modate only 288 men, whose apph-
cations should be made either on
registration nights, December 10
and II, or through the mail pror
to that time.
The courses offered are Automo-
bile Mechanics, Auto Maintenance,
Rricklaying, Furnace Building anc
Repairing: Woodworking ana
Carpentry; Electrical Maintenance;
Forging and Tool Dressing, Acct
elvne and Electric Welding, Ma
chine Shop Operations; Bench
Work, Lathe, Drill Press and Ad-
vanced Machine operation; Air
The Phoenix index., 1940-12-14

1010|, 1I1e'IAI11S q IOG0OtIN = OOOkI
during which he plans to review
his committees findings, started
out in a section of the country he
has peculiarly avoided Investigate
ing-the South.
Speaking at Nashville, Tennessee,
last Thursday night, Mr.. Dies is
quoted as finding that "the Com
munist party has made little head
way" in what he terms its efforts
to stir racial hatred among
Southern Negroes.
The Phoenix index., 1940-12-14
UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES

And Mr. DIGS well knows no other section OF the
United States has more enemies of democracy tnan
his own native South He has but to look arouho
to find all kinds of evidence of un-Amerlcan actVl
ties right IN the Texas district he supposedly repre-
sents in Congress
I'm American is the fact that no Negroes, though
they compose twenty y-seven per cent OF his con-
sttuents permitted to- cast their balot eltnel
for or against his election Un-Amercan is the fact
that MIR Dies own Texas. as does every other South'
ern state. pays its teachers on the basis OF color
rather than ability.
TJn-Amercsn is the policy of many of the pig
manufacturers who would rather hire whte lor
eigers than give employment to natve-Dorn Amerl-
cars whose faces are black And American TOO,
is the policy of the Army and Navy in closing most
doors of opportunity to black Americans.
The Phoenix index., 1940-12-14
VIEWED AS SURPRISE

This well-knoWn fact which has been repeated
day after day by writers in the Negro press and all
Cthers who are well informed on Negro affairs, ap-
rarently is viewed surprising to the searcher
for treachery Mr.. Dies.
For continuing he pointed out during his lee
ture that he had information to the effect that agents
paid by the Soviet Government were busly engaged
spreading Communist propaganda in eve y Southern
state, esre-ialy smong Negroes.
ut is a tribute to the Negroes however, that
hey have withstood for the most part the work of
t'cse agents." Mr.. Dies is quoted as concluding.
Mr.. Dies staten mt and co7cuding 1eft-handed
con1pliment to the proven loyalty and patriotism Of
5iack men to America leave the writer cold.
# the hundreds Of thousands of collars he has
obtained from he public treasury have been ex-
pended in effort 70 find factons in the history
long loyalty of Negroes to America, it has been a
plain waste of the taxpayers hard-earned money
The Phoenix index., 1940-12-14
DEACON WILSON DowELL

AMFRICUS, Ga.-Funeral serv-
ices for Deacon Wilson Dowdell,
who died Saturday. Nov, 20, were
held from the Bethesda Baptist
church with the Rev. w. NJ Hobbs
officiating,
The Phoenix index., 1940-12-14
Urge FDR To AppointNegro
Aide To Secretary OF Navy

ST. LOUIS -(SNS)-That the
appointment of Negro as civilian
aid to the secretary of the Navy
may go far towards helping keep
the Negro in his traditional role
The Phoenix index., 1940-12-14
FORM REAL DANGERS

These are the things that stirring resentment
- Nero hearts rot the paid activities OF Commun-
ists eGents if there are any. Ard peculiarly enough
Mr. Dies efter three years cf searching 1or un-
hmerican ectivt:e es has never thought about the
Car gers to Ibis ration lurking in these native un
American activities.
Negroes are being called upon to pay in even
measure with other Americans for the impending
struggle to save this country for democracy 1t may
not be long before they will be called upon to sac
1fice their lives once again to protect democracy
How ironic it is that must pay, fight and die
for sopething one has never possessed
The Phoenix index., 1940-12-14
Mr.. Dies Discovery

CONGRESSMAN MARTIN A. DIES whose COM
nllttee investigating un-American activities has not
always received the blessings of this writer after
three years of ferreting evidence investigat
ing, has suddenly made startling discovery
The Phoenix index., 1940-12-14
WHAT PROPAGANDA?

In the first place this observer, who sits every
cay on the editorial desk of a Southern newspaper
he looical place for the communists or anybody
else to PIT across prora aganda has strangely enough
Cd to notce any flood of articles designed to stir
"ocs 10 state Of racial hatred. Per-
The Phoenix index., 1940-12-14

FORT WORTH, Tex.-(ANP)-
Anthony Bradford, 81, janitor OF
the First Presbyterian churcn
Cwhite) for II years, was founo
shot to death at his home. The
body was discovered by his wife. A
shotgun was found gripped in MS
hands. Justice of the Peace Brown
returned a verdict of suicide Mon
dav and that this suicide marked
the third or fourth ever listed here
for Negroes.
The Phoenix index., 1940-12-14

Brush Painting; Pipefitting; Sheet
Me al Work, Mechanical Drafting
and Blueprint Reading; ana
Structural Drafting and Blueprint
Reading.
NEED SKILLED MEN
The courses are offered four
evenings a week-Monday, Tues
Gay. Thursday, and Friday from
$50 to $50. They will be given
l2-week period and are in answer
to the great demand for skilled
men in the defense fields.
There is a scarcity and demand
for skilled technicians in the trades
being taught in the Hampton Inst.
defense courses. Industrial expan-
sion and the building boom In
housing and cantonment construc-
ton work in the Peninsula area
have put a premium on men III
these trades. At present hunoreoS
of students come to Hampton IN
the evening from the entire Tide
water area, the majority belng
workers in the Portsmouth Navy
Yard and Newport News Ship
building and Dry Dock Company.
Many Government contractors
have recommended the courses 10
men interested in advancement.
Though the only qualification for
adrnittance is that the student DC
at least 18 years of age, preference
will be given to those students VINO
are at present working in allied
defense industry, says Mr.. WICK.
Evening star., 1940-08-05
Schools Operated
For Soboteurs,
If. B. |. Reveals
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
J. Edgar Hoover disclosed today
that acts of sabotage against the
national defense program uncovered
by the F. B. I. included the placing
of emery dust in airplane engines
and destructive metal in the motive
power of naval vessels.
He told national conference of
Federal and State law enforcement
officials that subversive agencies
conducted schools for teaching
"the most terrible means of creating
destruction"
"Incendiary bombs have been de-
signed, no larger than a cigar,
which will create disaster" Mr..
Hoover said plans to place chem
icals in boilers, with the idea of
creating wholesale destruction, have
been discovered
I'VE find" the F. B. I. chief con-
tinued, that every one of these
heinous things has been done and
is being done by persons shielded
by innocent but subversive forces"
Mr.. Hoover recommended that
every city survey its utilities to in
sure maximum of protection be-
cause decentralization of cities by
means of water famine has already
been used by totalitarian saboteurs. p"
Evening star., 1940-08-05
Dr.. RuhIand Warns
Virginia 10 Make Own
Pre-MaritaI Tests
Says D. c. Authorities
Connot Aid Couples
To Speed Marriages

FlOOded with requests from Vlr-
ginia couples desiring blood tests to
meet the new State marriage law,
DR.. George C. Rutland served no.
tice today on people living outside
Washington that this service of
the District Health Department
cannot be made available to them.
He emphasized that the District
and its facilities are first and fore
most for the use of District of Co.
lumbia taxpayers. Other cities and
communities are expected TO take
care of their own problems"
Publicity Brings Requests.
Recently a couple at the WASH
1ngton Tourist Camp desiring to
take ouG a Virginia marriage license
was given a blood test at the Dis
trlct Health Department. Publicity
given this instance, it was said, has
resulted in a number of similar re-
quests. DR.. Rutland emphasized the
department cannot afford to give
this health service to outsiders.
DR.. Rutland issued his warning
as Virginia authorities, after a few
Gays experience with the new law.
1ound 1t was causing only a few
hours delay in communities near
State-operated Laboratories where
the blood tests are made.
Designed primarily as a health
measure, it was originally believed
the statute, which became effective
Thursday, also would impose about
a f1ve-day wait period as an obstacle
to hasty weddings.
1t was learned today. however
that instead of waiting the full
nve days required for a blood an
alysls to be made by the Virginia
. state Health Department, couples
may be married in a number of
communities within a few hours.
The Memorial Hospital in VIM
chester has been designated as an
oflclal laboratory and marriage
applicants applying before noon may
undergo the tests, obtain their
licenses, 60 through the marriage
ceremony and be on their wedding
trips within a few hours.
Ofhclal laboratories which are
capable of completing tests in
similar speedy fashion have been
established at Richmond, Danville.
Luray, Newport News and Roanoke
1t was said in Winchester TODAY
that the marriage mill slowed per-
ceptlbly when the new statute first
became effective, but that it picked
up again Saturday and about so
licenses were issued b. city and
county clerks.
Some ministers of the Fauouier
county town were said to be ton-
sidering foregoing their usual Au-
gust vacations and remaining at
home because of the pickup in busi-
ness.
Many Couples from Pennsylvani MIA,
1t also developed today that
many of the couples married at
Winchester are coming from Penn
sylvania primarily because of eco
nomlc reasons.
We were told by some of the
PennSylvanians," one clerk said,
that the premarital medical test in
that State is not only more rigid
than Virginia's, but that the cost is
much higher.
Each party in a proposed mar
riage is charged $40 for the test"