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branch of the war department, and
the naval air service, branch oil
the navy department-neither OK
which, unfortunately, can quite see
their way clear to give Negro tax
payers representation, otner than
an occasional cook or flunky. Ais
corpsmen are trained at Randolph
field, San Antonio, Texas. Naviga-
tors at the Naval Air station, Pen
sacola, Fla.
Fair minded service officers
and we know several personally
who are 100 percent square shooters
maintain that the southern" To-
Gale for training would present
multifold difficulties for colored
flying cadets. Obviously true. And.
unfortunately, training feds must
remain in southern climes to as
sure all-year-'round flying. All OF
which makes us most unhappy for
the coming youth who wants so
badly to fly. Back in 80 we had
our hearts broken by rejected
army-navy applications. so we
know whereof we speak. And now.
ali orchid to the fairminded Civil
Aeronautics authority, which APP
pointed 4 Negro instructress ana
approved four colleges for its new
flying training program. Happy
LandingSl
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Admit All To State
School,, NAACP Says

NEW YORK-(SNS)- Solu-
ton to Kentucky's problem of what
TO do with Negro college students
who wish to pursue graduate and
professional training within the
state is TO admit these students to
state institutions without further
ado.
This was the position taken by
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People i'll
q letter to Frank l.. McVey, presl-
dent of the University OF Ken
lucky, and chairman of an ad-
visory committee appointed by the
Governor of Kentucky to look into
the matter in the light of the Su-
preme Court decision handed down
in the Gaines case.
A report recently made public py
the committee, admits that the
United States Supreme Court de-
cision calling for Gaines admiS-
sion to the University of Missouri
unless another school, equal III
every detail is set up, is perfectly
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Name Two For
Guggenheim
FeIIowships

NEW YORK-(ANP)- P)-Two Ne
groes, Richmond Barthe and f.
Franklin Frazier, are among the 70
Guggenheim Award winners, who
will receive feliowships for research
and creative work, it was an
announced by the John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
this week.
Barthe, 39-year-old sculptor of
this city, will execute a memorial
to James Weldon Johnson, noted
writer, for which he was recently
commissioned, and E. Franklin Fra
Ier, professor of sociology at How
ard university, will make a COM
parative study of the Negro family
in the West Indies and Brazil.
Richard Wright, author of the
current best-seller, Native Son"
was the lone colored recipient of a
Guggenheim fellowship in 1889. The
Foundation, established in 1925 by
former United States Senator and
Mrs. Simon Guggenheim as me-
mortal to a son, has granted 913
FelloWships in the past Is years to
assist original work by scholars
and artists.
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clear. However, the report takes
no positive stand on the issue,
merely pointing out that a Ken
tucky statute of 1904 might make
it difficult for the state to COM
ply with the High Courts decision
unless this law is modified.
The report recommends that
facilities be expanded TO meet the
educational needs of the Negro
population in Kentucky through
the expansion of the present Louis
Vile Municipal College, Wherever
Negro students find it impossible
to get the training they want at
either this school or at the Ken
lucky state College, then the state
must necessarily provide for the
student in other ways" the report
says.
This is as far as the report goes
i'll actually making recommends
ton to solve this particular prob
lem, although many other sugges-
ti6ns aI;aut other problems are CIV
Ell.
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Says Census
Will Wipe Out
All Guessing

NEW YORK CIT'Y-(SNS)- "It
Is of paramount Importance for the
Negro to cooperate in every re-
spect in the Census of 1940," says
Elmer Anderson Carter, editor of
OPPORTUNITY Magazine, in an
editorial appearing in the April
issue of that periodical.
The Negro Mr. Garter adds,
has everything to gain and moth
ing to lose by helping to substitute
facts for gueSseS as to his status
in America"
Pointing out that publicity given
to few persons who have opposed
certain questions has served to OBJ
scure the real purpose of the Cen
sus and to minimize its Importance
in the minds of many, he writes:
1T would be catastrophe If any
considerable number of Negroes
should adopt this attitude. No
group in America suffers as much
as the Negro from the absence OF
authentic information, or perhaps
from the mass of miSinformation,
concerning the extent of his par
ticipation in life of America. And
it is to the deCennial Census that
the economist, the sociologist, the
politician or the business man must
inevitably turn in order to measure
progress or to interpret trends, OF
to plan for the future"
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| The revival of the poll tax in
the 1905, according TO Professor
Clarence Nixon, who was one of
the witnesses at the hearing Tues
day, shows that the revival was di-
rected even more against the poor
whites, who belonged to the Popu-
list Party. than against the Ne
grOeS.
BY swallowing racial propagan-
da, the whites of the hills helped
to vote the Negroes out of politics
Immediately and at the same time
to prepare the way fer their own
gradual loss of the vote.
The unWarranted fear of Negro
domination has been disproved by
the states which have repealed the
poll tax prerequisite such as North
Carolina, Louisiana and Florida.
II is estimated that 64 percent OF
all OF the white adult voters have
been diSfranchised in the poll-tax
states and in every one of them,
mere white than Negroes are bar
red from the ballot box as a direct
result of this tax Aiding in the
fight to revise the situation are the
NAACP and the National Negro
Congress.
A report, basedon survey, and
published this week by the South
eru Conference for Human Welfare
and the American Council of Pub
lie Affairs, pumped for elimination
of the tax, "to save the disinherit-
ed millions from becoming the in
struments and victims of dicta-
tors" DR.. Frank Graham, Southern
conference chairman, declared:
"The poll tax stands as a sur
viving barrier to the participation
in self government of Americans
even now disinherited in the land
of their fathers
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-13
Plays In Denver
Symphony Orchestra

DENVER-(ANP)-Jack Brad
lev Junior in the music college
of Denver university, played in the
viola section with the Denver SYM
phony orchestra Monday when
Misha Elman, noted violinlSt ap-
peared at the Denver City audi
torium. This is the first time thai
a Negro has been SO honored In
local musical circles.
Young Bradley also plays the
violin in the Denver University or
chestra and the Denver Junior SYM
phony and is the only Negro IN
the Civic Symphony orchestra with
which he plays the viola.
The lad, who is the son OF MT
and Mrs. Earl H. Bradley, has mao
additions for the NYA Youth
orchestra which will tour Central
and South America, under the ol-
rection of the noted conductor,
Leopold Stokowski of the Ph1ladel-
pllia symphony. His additions were
for both the violin and viola.
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This was the strongly worded
sentiment expressed by Bert {.
Ashby. former assistant district at
torney in Texas, in a recent letter
to Senator Tom Connally, urging
the Texas solon to reconsider his
threats to lead another filibuster
against the Anti-lynching bill
Recalling the lynching that took
place in Houston, Texas, while the
democratic national convention
was in session, Ashby said: Way
back in 1923, four days before the
start of our great Democratic par
ty was in the aScendency, our
party convention in Houston was
marred by one of these lynchings
Now on the eve of our great con-
vention and with one of our Tex
ans, John Garner, as a possible
nominee, the raising of this race
hatred may actually keep him from
winning the nomination, and it
certainly will deprive him of many
votes if he is nominated.
"Mr Garner himself is favorable
to this bill and for this very rea-
son, every loyal Texan should
align himself with Garner and GER
tainly not curtail and jeopardize
his chances by filibuster on this
legislation
On the question of whether the
bill violates states rights, an ar
grunent often used by the late
Senator Borah, Mr.. Ashby is firm
in pointing out that the states
have not been able to curb this
crime for adequate reasons. Of this
he says:
1--WE cannot succeed in the State
Courts with prosecution of the
mob members. The prosecutor looks
at it from political angle: the
business man who sits on the jury
is afraid it will hurt his business;
and in many intances members OF
the mob are called for grand jury
and petit jury service. and they
are afraid they will incriminate
themselves"
The former Assistant. district at
torney concludes his letter to Con-
nhlly with dramatic appeal fol
the keeping alive of the bill OF
rights for all Americans. He says:
either of God or man, can one
stand in opposing this bill so We
hemently as to filibuster it through
out long periods of time? Let us
give the black man that assurance
of life, liberty and the pursuit OF
happiness which we ourselves as
white men like to read out OF the
hill of rights"
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Catholic Center
Holds AntiIynch
Exhibit In NY.

NEW YORK-(SNS)- exhibit
against lynching and in favor of
the passage of the federal anti
lynching bill now in the Senate is
being held here at the De PORES
Interracial Center, 20 Vesey street.
The exhibit opened April 8 and will
remain until April Is.
Senator Robert F. Wagner, one
of the sponsors of the anti-lynch-
ing bill, and Senator James M.
Mead, both of New York, have sent
greetings to the exhibit and have
promised to visit it if they are in
New York City before it closes.
Mayor F. H. LaGuardia also has
been invited to visit the showing.
Largest piece on exhibit is the
original of Reginald Marsh's famous
drawing. This Is Her First Lynch
ing" This drawing appeared first
in The New Yorker magazine and
later the original was presented to
the NAACP by Mr.. Marsh. The as
sociation loaned it for the exhibit
A wood carving of a lynching
'Dixie Holiday, by William Mosely
and several drawings touching up
on 1ynching and the anti-lynching
bill are featured in the exhibit
Photographs and literature dis
play round out the showing.
The exhibit is sponsored by the
Catholic Interracial Council and
the committee in charge consists
of DR.. Hudson Oliver, Gerard l.
Carroll, Maceo A. Thomas ano
George K. Hunton.
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African Case
Shows Need Of
Appeal Court

SWAZILAND, South Africa -
(ANP)-The case of Fakisandhla,
a chief in the southern district
here sentenced to death a year ago
for murder, emphasized Swazi-
lands need for a criminal court of
appeals recently when the defend
ant, protesting his innocence of
charges placed against him, was
compelled to take his case to the
Ptivy Council in England for a
rehearing.
This action was allowed the
prisoner because Of his status as
chief, it was reliably stated, but in
cases where the prisoner is less in
fluential he often is railroaded to
jail or death without chance Of all
appeal according to reports. Swazi-
land is subject to British protec-
ton, but never has been annexed
or formed a part of the British
DominionS
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Texas Agog Over
Medical Meeting

HOUSTON lamp Prepare
tons are already in the advanced
stage for the coming meeting of
the National Medical association at
Houston August IL to 16.
Besides the scientific program
which promises to be the best in
history, there will be many other
attractions which will give the ia
nous hospitality of the Texans a
chance to demonstrate itself.
Houston, one of the fastest grow
ing cities in the country, will fur
>'"h nmule entertainment in itself
)ut side trips, at no expense to
delegates. are planned to be
made TO Galveston's beach, Prairie
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-13
Fioht AGAINST Southern Poll Taxes Is Pus he'd
Fiqures Show wHow
Voters Are Barred

WASHINGTON-(ANP)- Carrying the battle for the
elimination of poll straight the House judiciary ubcon
mee Representative Lee E. Geyer this week said he expects
o prove the vicious exists be abolished
to free millions dsracsed under the present unfair ruling
The oon said that less than e-fQtwth Of the adults eight
southern under the poll tax rule In Virginia, 70 per
cent vote South Carolina ia Tennessee 33
per cent Georgia 20 per Alabama 20 per Mississippi
10 per Texas 20 per and Aransa Is Thus
an average of "a per of the total population of these states
votes whereas the national average of voters around GA
cent
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View College. San JaCinto Monu-
ment, and even TO Mexico, The
doors of all the public buildings
and of the hospitals will be thrown
open to the visitors freely during
the whole week.
The Lone Star State Medical,
Dental, and Pharmaceutical asso-
citation is host for the convention,
and the members of that associa-
ton all over the state, together
with the citizens committees, are
working to the end that this 46tsr
convention of the NINA. will be
the biggest and the best in its
history.
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TEACHERS HEAR MRS.
CARTER

JACKSON, Miss.-(A N p -
Eunice H. Carter, assistant on the
staff of Thomas E. Dewey, ad-
dressed the Mississippi State
Teachers association here last Fri
Gay. Almost two thousand teachers
were crowded into the auditorium
of the Lanier High school and an
other thousand were in the cor
ridor and nearby class rooms.
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-13
EMPLOYMENT FOR NEGRO
WOMEN BRIGHT SPOT

WASHINGTON - (ANP) The
opportunity to work and acquire
new skills, which the WPA IS CIV
ing 100000 Negro women, is de-
scribed in recent reports of the
women's bureau of the department
of labor as one bright spot in the
employment status of Negro
women.
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topShaming Us,
ConnaUy Is Told

DALLAS Texas-(S (SNS)-"There are enough Bibos, Tai
nadges and other demagogues the South do the dirty work
without anng herself the eyes Of the nation long united
On bill of rights which distinction between whites and
blacks"
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WASHINGTON HoNoRED
PHILADELPHIA-(A \

PHILADELPHIA-(A N p -
Forgetting fraternity lines, the
April Kappa Alpha Psi journal
official organ of the Kappa Alpha
Psi fraternity, pays special honor
to Booker r. Washington, founder
hf T'uskegee Institute, whose
memory is being commemorateo
with the Issuance Of a u S. posi-
age stamp on April z,
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M. C.-I am sixteen, born Decem-
ber 8. 1 really want you to tell me
what profession 1 am talented for
and would I succeed? I finish high
school this year.
Ans: You have all the malungs
Of a NURSE. According to your
birthdate, it is indicated to me
that you will be very successful
i'm your choice of work. Register
at one of the best hospitals now
-. try to get get lined up so that
you can go Immediately into
study after school closes.
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Americas air defense rests in the
hands of the army air corps,
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l.. 8. C.-I wish to know why my
husband and l can't get along. Do
you think he wants me without
fighting me all the time? Why does
he insist on fighting?
Ans: 1t makes him mean as
the very D to see you SO
thick with boys like r. b. and
l.. J. Your husband knows dog
gone well they hang around you
for no good purpse. It's no won
der he feels like fighting all the
time, and if you know what's goOo
for you. you will give them a
cold shoulder and send them on
their way.
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-13

l.. M. HI have read your col
umn with interest and admire the
manner in which you answer
questions / feel that ] can be help
ed by asking you to analyze my
problem. l am in love with a young
man and he is very desirable to
NE as a husband. I was born i'll
1916 so you can see am old
enough to make up my mind and
I wish to know if this Is the real
thing oil not?
Ans: He's not sure OF his love
love for you and he will continue
to put you off until he has made
up his mind. i do not believe
that a marriage will take place In
your life with this fellow. Guilt
vate new friends for someone else
is going to mean more to you
than he does.
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-13
BY JAMES L. III. PECK
AMP Aviation Editor

(AuthOr of armies With Wings
There's no reason why the race
at large should not know about
air forces, airpower, bombers and
such. The advent of airpower has
changed the worlds conception OF
military strategy in general, ano
u S. defense in particular-all OF
which most certainly affects the
darker citizenry and Park avenue
alike. When the bombs fall, they
create carnage among which SO
ever "creeds" as happen to be
around. Secondly, many a penny
from tan-tented workers finds It's
way into defense funds, and in this
day of uncertainty it's not at all
poor policy to know where and how
and for what the penny goes.
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AIS: OF course you will. you
are getting along quite nicely in
your course OF study and there
is no reason to doubt your abili-
ty to pass the examination offer
ed by the State. Make up your
mind that this is an examination
that HAS TO BE PASSED and
you won't miss.
P, r. C.-Let me know if 1 should
invite this friend l have in mind to
the reception or whom should
invite?
Ans: BY all means do. He wotIlG
make you charming companion.
B. B. C.-The girl that is in my
bow friends class seems to stay in
my boy friends face constantly.
Should / overlook her actions OF
will it. amount to anything?
Ans: She's made up her mind
to take this hoy for her own and
she will do it too if you aren't
careful. II is my suggestion that
YOU "shine" around a bit in front
of the fellows in your class and
show him that you too are popu-
lar. =. making him jealous will
keep him straight.
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p. C.-The trip that | am plal =
ming is long one and | wish TO
know if it would be worth my
while to take it?
Ans: Yes. Don't allow change
of mind to take place at this late
date. Arrange to take the young
girl that you have already con-
tacted and start on this trip the
latter part of this month. The
change will do more good than
all the pills in the world and fol-
low your doctors orders very
closely while you are away.
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-13

The eminent navy official, Com
mander p. j. SearleS, said OF our
recent book in the Boston Tran
script. "If YOU want to know what
an air force is and how 1t fights,
here is a book to tell you" We do
sincerely appreciate such an Official
recommendation, and Will CLOSELY
follow said text.
Air forces are divided into
branches. and each branch uses
tvpe of plane which best fits thaC
branch Fighters and pursuit-lnter-
ceptors are combat planes whose
purpose is to destroy enemy bomb
ers and combat ships. Attack
nlanes assault ground troops with
machine gun fire, small bombs, and
evil chemicals in an operaCloil
called "strafing" Bombers, oulCe
obviously bomb. Reconnaissance, or
observation planes fly over enemy
territory to spy out goings on oe-
hind the lines.
Thus. we have the four general
types of warp1anes. But planes
don't make an air force. There
must be trained pilots to fly them
Air bases on which to keep them
mechanics and technicians TO
service them. Combat crews" OF
o,,nners. bombardiers, radio oper-
ators. etc. to keep the pilots COM
nanv-among other things Execu-
tivee staff officers, clerks, and
utility personnel to tell all these
flying men what to do and help
them to do it. Like that local base
bali team, pursuit and bomber
souadrons practice continually So
that their teamwork is up to par;
thus. training is essential to the
air force.
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j. N-Will I pass the State
Board examination That 1 ahl
studying for this summer?
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Ans: BY all means do. He woult
make you q charming companion.
Evening star., 1940-12-06
Cheap x-Ray Devised
To Reveal tuberculosis
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A new method by which the chest
Of every person in the United States
could be examined for tuberculosis
at 10 cents per X-ray was reported
yesterday by the Public Health Serv-
ice.
A combination of the Horoscope,
which shows X-ray pictures on a
screen instead of on a film; a pyra-
mid-shaped light shield, a miniature
camera and fast Photographic film
makes 1t possible to take an entire
picture of the chest and lungs on a
film inch wide and ~ inches long
DR.. w. Palmer Dearing and Alex
ander E. Turner Of the Public Health
Service said that in most cases these
films are just as easy to read" to
find tubercular damage in the lungs
as the full-size X-ray plates, and
they are cheaper and easier to store.
AS used IN the Army, which already
has ordered IS of the units, the films
bearing complete X-ray examina-
tions of an entire regiment could be
carried In q medical officers pocket.
Evening star., 1940-12-06
1y the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
Come Christmas. 1000 more horses
and mules will be In the Army.
In announcing Forthcoming pur-
chases, the War Department dis
closed that 1882 horses and mules
have been bought for the Remount
Service in the last five months to
keep pace with the expansion Of
military personnel.
On the basis Of purchase prices,
the mules can look down their long
Roman noses at the supposedly more
elegant horses. The Army has paid
an average of $3.50 for good pack
mules, only $3.50 for riding and draft
horses.
Paralleling the reception center
routine established for drafted men,
the horses and mules get two months
of initial training and observation
at receiving depots.
Present plans call for two cav
airy regiments, a National Guard
cavalry brigade, nine other regi-
ments and various miscellaneous
units with full strength of 1929 ON
GERS and 42,744 men.
Military men say there Is a pop
ular misconception that mules and
horses are no longer necessary In
war. They pointed out that the Ger
man Army used some 79l 900 horses,
exclusive of animals in supply COL
umns, during the invasion Of France
and the Low Countries.
A new experience awaits mules and
horses in the United States Army.
The cavalry steeds are supplement-
ed by scout cars and other mecha-
nized equipment. and provision IS
Evening star., 1940-12-06
North CaroIinians Honor
Governor-eIecf al Dance

North Carolinians living in Wash
tngton honored their States Gov
ernor-elect, J. Melville Broughton,
at a reception and dance last night
at the Willard Hotel.
The North Carolina Democratic
Club, Of which John K. Slear, secre-
tary to Representative Bulwinkle, is
president, sponsored the affair.
Mr.. Broughton, presented by former
Gov. o. Max Gardner, spoke briefly
at the dinner. Other speakers were
Senator Bailey of North Carolina
and Mrs. May Thompson Evans,
assistant director Of the women's
division Of the National Democratic
Committee.
The club presented a check for
$500 to the Democratic National
Committee at the dinner. Presenta-
ton was made by Wesley E.
Mcdonald, secretary to Senator
Reynolds. The check was accepted
by j. Leo Cobb of Washington.
Gov-elect Broughton was to con-
fer today with j. I. Anderson, North
Carolinan commissioner of conserva-
ton and development.