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The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1941-04-18

TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE. Ala.
(ANP)-Dr. William j. Schieffe
lin, New York City, chairman Of
the Board of Trustees of Tuske-
gee institute, states that the
meeting of the Board, April S
and 6, was one of the busiest IN
its history, DR.. Schieffelin said
the most important decision by
the board was the resolution to
make military flying a port OF
the educational work Of Tuske-
gee institute. He said the board
voted unanimously to appropri-
ate 100000 to purchase and
equip 500 acre field three miles
from the campus for military fy-
ing program.
DR.. Schieffelin stated further
that the board had expressed sa-
tisfaction that this first oppor-
tunity for young Negro aviators
to serve in the Pursuit Squadron
Of the U. S. Army Corps was to
matelialize at Tuskegee institute.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1941-04-18
Pan-Hellenic Head Asks
More Opportunity
For Race In Defense
WILBERFORCE CAMP

WILBERFORCE (ANP) A
plea for wider opportunity for
Negroes in all branches Of the
armed services as well as in the
various defense industries thru
out the country was made BY Mrs.
Joanna FL. Ransom Thursday
Mrs. Ransom chairman Of the Ma
tional Pan-Hellenic council, Inc,
speaking for the council, said that
the Negro's economic plight can
be largely solved If and when
there is more complete lntegra-
ton within the armed forces and
the defense industries.
Mrs, Ransom said, ''In an ar
tiele entitled It's Our Country
Too appearing in the Saturday
Evening Post for December IA,
Walter White sums up the history
Of the Negroes part in his coun-
try's defense in terse and bril-
liant statement from which We
quote the following: OF the war
time loyalty of Negro troops,
do not believe there is any long
CT much question. There is no
known case Of Negro treason OF
sabotage against the United
States. No minority group in
this country has been freer from
fifth columnist suspicion. In the
numerous photographs of those
companies Of young men who late
| " flocked to the marriage license
bureaus hoping to escape the
! daft, / have yet to find a Negro.
Negroes have fought in every
war in our history and have beer
lauded for their bravery by com
nlanding generals from Andrew
l Jackson to John ]. Peilshing. Twt
Negro regiments -ahe 4h and
10th Cavairy-saved the day Co
Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Ri
ders at San Juan hill In th,
1 World war, another Negro regi
ment, Harlem's 369th, lost 10,
men, killed and wounded, won liz.
| individual French and American
decorations and never surrender
ed foot Of ground to the enemy
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When we review such rec
ord as this, We can but wonder
what kind OF record the army and
navy of these United States re-
quire Of the Negro before they
will admit him to full participa
tion IN the program Of national
defense. The National pan-Hei
h;nic council, composed Of the
Negro college fraternity and sor-
ority members of the nation and
comprising roughly some $4,000
men and women, regrets exceed
ingly the following
-. According to all practices
to date, the plans Of the war de-
partment are to draw as meager-
Continued on page 81
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TEXAS HOUSING PROJECT
CALLED MOST BEAUTIFUL

HOUSTON {ANP)--Conceded
by expert housing authorities 10
be the most beautifully landscap-
ed housing project in America,
the Wright Cuney homes, erected
BY the Houston Housing authori-
ty, have attracted nationwide at
tention because of the natural
scenic beauty of the spot. Situa-
ted in the midst of 36-acre,
wooded tract of land, each unit
in the project is surrounded by
towering shade trees Of every
description.
Names after Wright B. Quincy,
one Of Texas illustrious greats Of
the past, it is said 10 be the
largest low rental project in the
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DETROIT-More than a half
million dollars a day has been
taken out Of circulation here
through the loss in pay OF $4,000
Ford workers caused BY i strike
called by the uAW-CIO at the
Ford River Rouge plant. which
has been IN progress now two
weeks. According to d statement
made by officials Of the Ford Mo.
tor Co., their daily pay roll for
the 11s,000 employees effected by
the strike in all OF the Ford
plants, amounts to 5000, 900.
The big down town merchants
already begun to feel the pinch
as negotiations for an early set
tlement OF the strike drags wear
lily along. They contend that the
average working man spends his
weekly earnings, therefore the
sudden curtailment OF the pur-
chasing power Of this great army
Of workers affects business seri-
ously.
81, The 1000 NEGRO workers at
the ,Rotige nfanl. with i AvsGsge
scale ranging from Sc to S7.20
per day, are losing approximate
u $4,000 in wages each day oi
idleness.
Colored men figure prominent
~ both in the strike and in the
wrangle over conferences FOR
mediation and an election to de-
termlne which union, CIO or AEl.
II any shall have sole bargaining
rights for the Ford men. Dur
ing the first days Of the strike
when tension was at its height
and the fighting the bitterest,
Negro workers were IN the front
line, leading the battle, fighting,
as they said, ito protect our
jobs. These men, many Of whom
are still in the plant along with
many whites who refuse to come
out, have been labeled, Loyal
Workers.
While discussions and separate
conferences have been held BY
Gov. Van Wagner, nnion Off
eials, a government conciliator
and Ford officials, nothing at this
writing has as yet shaped up that
indicates an early settlement Of
the strike. The NLRB has or
dered an election Of the Ford en-
ployes and it is understood that
machinery for such vote is be
inc set up; but there is an allow
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country with such natural beau
ty of landscaping. One Of SIX
similar projects in Houston, II IS
one of two designed for the 9O,-
900 Negroes who live here.
Built at cost Of $1,358,000, i
will contain $50 units when final
ly completed Each building will
house six families and formal de-
dication Of the place will take
place IN July Of this year. Open
ed for occupancy this past Au-
gust, there are 1926 persons liv-
ing there now. An additional 2O4
units will soon be ready for oc-
upancy.
Ii i built IN what is called the
lContiansd On page .
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1941-04-18
IRA BRYANT LOSES
s. S. UNION Fight

The court ruling, by Federal
Judge Davies, demanded that al
Sunday School Union properties,
held for years by rebel See
rctary Ira Bryant, be turned over
to the AME parent body on April
20.
For many years, Bryant had
been secretary Of the great
religious publishing mouse.
which supplies vast literary
needs of the AME Sunday
school and other church
branches. During that per-
iod, substantial additions 10
the Union property and hold 4
sings were made, many As
sertedly in Bryant's nAme.
When the 1896 Gslleral Con.
ference, injecting in New YoIas
City, elected Rev. e. . Selby ID
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The Sunday School Union secre
tgryship, Bryant refused to bulge
Prom his post and precipitated 1
weary, 5-year court conflict.
A flaw in the AME Con-
stitution, chartered under
strict State Of Tennessee
laws. gave the Sunday school
Union Board the right to
I rerpetuatc itself. A bitter
struggle ragged to have the
Constitution altered 30 that
the Union would fill its real
position as "a creature Of
the AME church,
Saturdays decision closed d
chapter Of religious history which
AME ministers have long be wall
ed. However, the legal triumph
of the Conference over rebelliouf
sBrystnt was hailed nationally.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1941-04-18
N. A. c.P. Scores Ford
Far Using Race Workers
10 Break Rouge Strike

DETROIT, Mich. - Declaring
that the use Of Negro workers in
a hired "goon squad to break
the strike called April 2 at the
huge River Rouge plant Of the
Ford Motor Company was dan
sgerous," Walter White, NAACP
!. secretary, issued a statement
April deploring the action and
calling upon the Negroes in Tia,
plant to leave.
The NAACP secretary flew
here April Z when long distance
.telephone reports to New York
seemed to indicate that racial ten
sion had been injected SO strong
ly into the struggle between Ford
and the strikers that riot might
be staged.
"The Ford strike" said Mr..
Whites statement, faces the
Negro with the toughest decision
he has ever had to make in the
matter Of jobs and his relations
with his fellow workers and en-
ployers. Widespread discrimina-
.tion by some employers, even in
national defense industries finan-
ced by taxation Of Negroes as
well as whites, has driven the ma
iority of Negro workers TO the
ragged edge Of existence. Henry
Ford has not only hired more
Negroes than any other Detroit
employer but has given some OF
them the chance to rise above the
menial ranks which contrasts
sharply with Knndsen's Genera.
Motors.
.'The attempt to use Negroes
tas club over the heads OF those
[TWno wish TO organize themselves
in unions in the Ford plants, how
sever, is q dangerous move II
times like these. 1t may mak>
for increased racial tension:
which would hurt the defens,
program. + regret that a few
colored workers, in their desper
alton for jobs have lent them
sselves to staying in the Rive
Rouge plant. They are not help
ing themselves, the cause of tn,
Negro, nor labor relations gener
ALLY. Especially when every on
knows that the Ford compan.
could evacuate the plant in fifteel
sminutes il it really wanted tn
thousand or so white and Negr'
workers out Of there. I agail
plead with the men in the plan
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HOLDINGS TO
BE RETURNED
TO AME'S
Publishing House
Properties Go Back
To Parent Body

WASHINGTON-When Fed
eral court here returned all pro-
pertics Of the Sunday School
Union to the African Methods;
Episcopal church Saturday, the
final curtain was rung down up
on one Of the longest legal dra-
mas in u. S. religious history.
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vltbERF0RcE BUDGET
TOTALS $692,00O
Wilberforce Supt. Pr.i.ed

Wilberforce Supt. Praised
Superintendent Carl C. jenkins
of the C.N. 4 I. Department Of
Wilberforce university, was warm
" commended by William -.
Radcliff, chairman Of the finance
committee Of the Ohio Assembly,
for the fine work Of his depart
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ment.
The letter praising Supt. Jen-
kins, was received after the fin
ance committee had visited Will
berforce university, preparatory
to preparing appropriations for
the department supported by the
State of Ohio.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1941-04-18

MISS ETHYL STEWART,
member Of Dunbar high school
faculty and advisory committee
of the Metropolitan Housing au-
thority, spoke on a forum panel
last Tuesday at pm. at Linden
center on What Can Be Done
About Housing Problems Of Day
ton Negroes"
Evening star., 1941-08-18

to have his more or less annual
fling at the arts. The fling is the
Don Marquis comedy called THE
Old Soak" which Mr.. Macdonald
has performed before at the Cross
Roads Theater with something of
a sensational success at the box
Office, and which he repeats there
throughout the fortnight starting
tomorrow night. This will be the
final offering of the groups summer
session, presenting Mr.. Macdonald
with the problem, in addition to the
one of learning his lines, Of living
down the fact that he closed the
theater. Mr.. MacDonald's support
ing cast includes Ann Coward, Ruth
May, Edith Simmons, Fred Draper,
Allen Andrews, Suzanne Carrier,
Francis x. Nolan and Neal Frizzell
Comedy is the keynote of the pro-
gram announced for the coming sea-
son by the Montgomery Players.
First Of the groups four major pro-
ductions will be George Washington
Slept Here" to be presented Oc-
tober IS. Other items on the slate
are Margin for Error" George
and Margaret" and "Skylark."
Evening star., 1941-08-18

"On Your Toes" Woolley had been
engaged as professor of dramatics
at Yale University.
He spent II years in New Haven,
coaching the boys in such plays ss
king Lear" and Aristophanes'
Frogs" Some of his students and
fellow workers were William c. Bull
lit, once Ambassador to France,
now Assistant Secretary of State;
Cole Porter and the writers, Thorn
ton Wilder and Philip Barry.
He left Yale in 1927 and then
started directing plays on Broad
way. BY way Of showing that he
had completely changed his life
from university professor to Broad
way Snowman Woolley grew the
beard that has become his trade
mark. =.
1T was in 1895 that one Of my
ex-pupils, the producer. Dwight Wi
man, was staging show and asked
me to turn actor for it," Woolley
said. THAT first night of ON Your
AOCo 1Oullu lie u llCIfOuS OCUutdIlt
Of 48. was so frightened I almost
yanked out all my whiskers."
But Woolley proved such an enor-
nous success that no producer
wanted him again as a director
they all offered him acting parts.
And then he decided to take whirl
at Hollywood. His career in Movie
town was brief and inconspicuous.
He soon became a type-just a
"bit" type. at that.
His selection for the top role in
the stage play, "The Man Who Came
to Dinner" saved him.
Woolley's success was such that
he almost became a part of the
play. Veterans were reminded Of
Joseph Jefferson and his play, RIP
Van Wrinkle"
Not bad for a nameless type-a
fellow Hollywood merely identified
as man with beard"
Evening star., 1941-08-18
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Earle-"Manpower." flying sparks
and Marlene Dietrich: II am, 1:40,
4::25. 7:05 and $50 pm. Stage shows:
1885, $40, 6:25 and $40 pm.
Keith's-"Hold That Ghost" Alb
bott and Costello haunt a house:
11:35 am. 1:35. $40, $40, 7:45 and
$50 pm.
Metropolitan-"Bad Men of Mis-
souri," bandit bullets on the frontier:
11:30 an, 1:30. 3:35, 5:35, TAO and
9:45 pm.
Palace-"Charley's Aunt" with
Jack Benny in the well-known i'm
personation: II m, 1:l0. $40, $50.
TAO and $50 pm.
CapitolE"Wild Geese Calling" film
version of the best-seller: II am,
LAO, AIS, 7:20 and 1905 pm. Stage
shows: 12:45. $3.50, 6:25 and e:05 pm.
Little-"Good-by, Mr.. Chips" and
it is, with this farewell" showing:
IL am. los. 3:l5, $40. 7:30 and
9:35 pm.
Columbia Blossoms in the
Dust" story of Mrs. Edna Gladney:
IL am, 1:10. 800, $50. TAO and
$50 pm.
Trans-Lux - News and shorts;
continuous from 10 am.
In the Country.
Roadside-"To Die at Dawn" re-
vival of one of the groups top hits:
$3.50 pm.
Evening star., 1941-08-18

OlQ 1dSt WCCA, plCpdl dtoiy w AiC
opening of the play week from
tonight.
First mention of "Tennessee's
Pardner" came from Andy Kelley,
that astute judge of things theatric,
who advised members of the Road
side group a while back that the
Scott Marble item was just their
dish. Finally some one got around
to reading the play down at the
Library Of Congress. the only place
a copy could be found in town,
reported it fine thing, and mes
sage was dispatched to a play pub
Usher in New York asking for a
copy of the script.
The script came along, all right,
in due course but accompanied by
an admonition that it had better
be guarded with some ones life be-
cause it was the only one there
was outside of museums. possibly. or
unremembered trunks in dusty, for
gotten attics. Possibly because they
wanted to be difficult, the Roadsid-
ers' reply to the publisher was an
other request, this one asking If
sides" were available. Sides" you
may or may not know, are those in
dividual scripts for each role, con-
tanning only one players lines and
the cues which prompt him to say
them.
Well, the sides" came along short
ly, with the same admonition-that
they were the only set. So every
thing was fine. 1t was fine, that is,
until rehearsals started. That first
night Director Ralph Fowler turned
up out at the theater wearing what
Is known as perplexed look, plus
the manner of a man to whom the
fates were not being kind Cath
crime Romney, Roadside's business
manager and publicity department,
wondered why.
That script. Those Sides" NUT
tered Ralph. That script and those
sides are no more alike than To
Die at Dawn is like The BatI"
Furthermore, he added, the play
that comes out Of the sides is lot
better than the one in the script
So, that's the one that's to be used
the play that comes out Of the sides,
which seem to make up the original
"Tennessee's Pardner," while the
script is the version that was copy
righted in 1915 or so. That leaves
the Roadsiders now worrying about
such details as sets and action, fol-
notes on such matters are in the
full script of play, not in the
Sides"
| X \ +
Mr.. Arch Macdonald, the towns
No. 1 radio reporter of Grifath
Stadium activity, returns again tc
the field Of the drahma this week
Evening star., 1941-08-18

wears DearQ. 6uL ne is no longer
"man with beard" They call him
by his first name now.
The personal satisfaction Monty
Woolley gets out Of returning as star
of what promises to be one of the
most important movies of next sea-
son slightly overshadows the finan-
cial compensation. He admits that
he lived q very unhappy year and a
half in Hollywood.
His absence wasn't noted for
weeks. On one Of those rare occca-
sions when q casting director wanted
man with beard" Woolley didn't
answer. His phone had been dis
connected. Next thing Hollywood
knew man with beard" was star
ring in the title role Of the big
Broadway hit, "The Man Who Came
to Dinner"
After creating the title role Of the
show and playing it for two years.
Woo!ley is here now to do it up in
celluloid for Warner Brothers, with
Bette Davis and Ann Sheridan as
his chief cast helpers.
Rights to the splay cost Warmers
In the neighborhood of $50, 900.
They tested almost every available
male star In Hollywood for the role
before finally deciding to bring
Woolley out. Cary Grant once had
the part signed, sealed and almost
delivered.
Bearded Woolley is one of those
who believe that most actors start
their professional careers too early
in life.
Here am 53," he said, "and I've
only had five years of acting ex-
perience. I would much rather be
a star at So than at 81. 1t seems
more permanent at this time of
life" .
Before embarking on his acting
career in the stage production Of
Evening star., 1941-08-18

likes to be called that-WhO have
come through an apprenticeship in
a summer theater stock company to
Evening star., 1941-08-18

gagement of Miss Nelly of New
Orleans"
Mary Ann dreamed, of course,
that such a thing might happen.
She didn't really believe it. She
can hardly believe it now, although
she definitely has signed the papers
and has given her first press inter-
view. Gave it very shyly.
What Mary Ann expected of the
summer was just a chance to- work
like all the other pretty youngsters
who serve apprenticeship in stock
companies like that at Cohasset.
That would mean she might paint
scenery, get props, hold script, run
errands. get the mail, wait on the
stars, and possibly-just barely pos
sibly-get a small part. Apprentice
ship, she knew, meant just that.
There was not the slightest assur-
ance it would bring anything but
the glamorous drudgery. Mary Ann
was content. She just wanted to be
associated with the theater. 1t
did not make much difference how.
When you are close to it, even in a
menial way, anything might hap
pen. 1t if doesn't, there's the ex-
citement of it all as compensation.
Cohasset really tries to do things
for its apprentices. 1t has succeeded
In the case of many. One of its prize
gifts to the theater, and now the
movies, was Humphrey Bogart. Mrs.
Alex Dean, the pleasant, intelligent
lady in charge, still recalls how the
audiences of some years ago grew
weary of seeing Bogart in sue
cession of roles in a particularly
long summer season. Humphrey was
good, don't misunderstood. 1t was
just that he played so long that
summer.
But, to get back to Mary Ann,
who is on the smallish side. When
she left Chicago in June it was Just
to work and hope. She had no
notion what the theater's program
would be, what guest stars would
come in what play. When Miss
George came in Miss Nellie of
New Orleans" which her husband,
William A. Brady, is reviving this
fall, the bit part turned up which
was precise fit for Mary Ann.
She had learned the rudiments of
acting and something about voice
in the Chicago School of Expression.
She took the part, therefore, not
only with considerable excitement,
but with skill enough to carry it
of and impress Miss George as q
youngster of promise.
Mary Ann doesn't know that it
Is necessary to have a reason for
acting, or choosing the theater as
a career, If you must have one, she
Evening star., 1941-08-18

be headed for
Broadway in the
fall. When and
If she becomes
t a m o US, her
press agents will
write that her
career at Cohas-
set, Mass. where
she played with
such vivaciouS
skill in the CON-
pany starring
Grace George
there was Moth
ing to do but
keep her for the
New York en-
Evening star., 1941-08-18
Local Drama Groups
Too Many 'Tennessee's Pardners'
Worry the Roadsiders
By HARRY MACARTHUR.

you always have thought staging play might be Just routine
could tell something that You might have assumed
that the first would be simple that just for script and
before they started work on
Evening star., 1941-08-18
Now They Know the Name
OF This Man With Beard
Hollywood Learns What Broadway
Knew All the Time-That
Monty Woolley's a Star
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN.
HOLLYWOOD.

Hollywood didn't bother to call him by He
diplomats distinguished gentle
types remained the background among the bit players ard
credit titles identify him fandom
Hollywood all the Clicks
turning handngs to his hand slap him the back He st
Evening star., 1941-08-18
Cinderella Fits the Slipper
She Found at Cohasset
Mary Ann Henderson Is One Summer
Theater Apprentice Who's Going
On to Broadway This Fall
BY JAY CARMODY.

You probably have heard of
never hear her again. Or she become that
waggles the subject of the thater
latter So pert pretty terribly
excited about the immediate
She should be really She the children
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