The Omaha guide., 1941-11-01
81 .eaderS
SIGN Statement
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Jim-CrOW
Training of Officers
Training Of Officers
MUTUAL SYSTEM NEWSCAST
Err SAYS EDGAR G. BROWN
AND OTHERS ASKED FOR
SEPARATE SCHOOLS

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AND OTHERS ASKED FOR
SEPARATE SCHOOLS
NEW YORK-Emphatically re-
pudiating the appeal allegedly
made to President Roosevelt eX-
pressing opposition to the Armys
present system Of training Negro
and wEite officers in the Same
schools, forty-one Distinguish
Negro churchmen. editors, lavy
ers. business and professional mA1
signed a statement to the PresId
ent today, urging him to resist any
backward sIep.'
Tie statement came after a
checkup on a broadcast by news
caster Fulton Lewis, Jr., on Octo-
Der ~ over the Mutual Broadcas-
ting system, during which he said,
"a large group of the most res
ponsibIe Negro leaders in the coun-
try has appealed to President
Roosevelt II a formal, official let
ter opposing the present policy OF
the Army whereby Negro Officers
are being trained in the same
schools as white officers"
The newscaster's assistant, Da-
vid Stick, in answer to an inquiry
from the NAACP. about the source
Of his information, replied: "In-
formation from Edgar G. Brown
president, United Government En-.
ployees" ard others.
Anti-Negro forces in Washing
ton and particularly in the Wal
Department are reported to be de-
lighted at the request of Edgar G.
Brown for jim Grow officers
training camps since it permits
them to justify segregation on the
grounG Il at Negroes themselves
have asked for it.
The statement opposing separ-
ate officers training schools
reads: I'VE repudiate any and al
requests that the present success.
full method of training white and
Negro officers in the same camps
be changed and that Negro Officers
be sent to segregated officers
training schools. Segregation has
always led to discrimination and
widening Of the chasm between
races which menaces our country
in this hour of peril. We petition
you as Commander in Chief of the
Army and Navy to resist any back
ward step and to push forward in
the national defense program TO
ward the truest democracy without
distinction of race, creed, color CT
national origin"
Among the signers Of the state
meut are A. Philip Randolph, in
ternational president of the Broth
erhood of Sleeping Car Porters,
New York City; DR.. Dorothy
Roulding Ferebee, president, Al
paa Kappa Alpha cloity; Wash
ington, D. c.; T. G. Nutter, Char
lesion, w. Va, fraternal leader
and former West Virginia State
legislator; Euclid L. Taylor, presi-
dent, National Bar Association,
Chicago, Ill. Rayford w. Logan,
president, Alpha Phi Alpha frat
ernity, Washington, d. c.; j. E.
Smith, chairman of the executive
committee Of the National Negro
Insurance Association, Louisville,
Ky; Leon A. Ransom, acting dean
Howard University Law school,
Washington, D. c.
Also, Bishop John A. Gregg, pre-
siding bishop Of the Fourth Epis-
ccpal District, African Methodist
To scopal Church, Kansas City,
Kans.; Bishop w. j, Walls, Of the
Chicago Distri6,A frican Meth
odist Episcopal Zion Church, G C.
Spaulding, president, National
Negro Insurance Association, Dur
ham, N. c.; Roscoe Dunjee, editor
the Black Dispatch, Oklahoma
City, Okla; w, Robert Ming, Jr.,
professor, Howard University law
school, Washington, d. G.; Judge
Jane Bolin of the Domestic Rela-
tions Court, New DIRK City; Frank
R. Crosswaithe, Chairman Of the
Negro Labor Committee, New
York City; Fred R. Moore, editor
the New ork Age, New York Citp;
DR.. George Haynes, race relations
committee of the Federal Council
of Churches, New ork City; Judge
Charles E. Toney Of the Municip-
al Court, New York City; the Rev.
o. Clay Maxwell, Mt. Olivet Bap-
fist Church, New York City.
Others are Ira F. Lewis, pub