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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-15
Business League
To Hold Biggest
Session In Chi
Convention To
Be Held August
26 to %, 1912

MEMPHIS, (ANP)-"It looks like
a record breaking attendance for
the Chicago convention of the Ma
tional Negro Business league, Aug.
26 to %" said DR.. J. E. Walker,
president on his return this week.
end from midwestern speaking
tour which included Chicago.
with our country at war and
the United Nations facing crisis
In the axis submarine warfare and
threats to Suez ana the Russian
front" continued Or. Walker, NE
gro business has both an OPP
portunity and responsibility to
lend support in this emergency by
converting our production enter
prises to war needs, by promoting
the sale of defense bonds and CO.
operating with all of the govern
ment's defense agencies and pro-
grams"
In a letter to all local branches
Of the league, DR.. Walker urges a
local membership drives to in
crease national memberships and
he has offered a beautiful trophy
to the city which reports the larg-
est national membership for 1912.
This trophy will be presented dur
ing the Chicago convention.
A special invitation has been
sent to local organizations in
cities which have been host-cities
to the business league conventions
since its founding by Booker T
Washington, AZ years ago. Reports
indicate that representatives from
most of these cities will attend and
further augment the increased
delegations from other local af-
filiated groups.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-15

WASHINGTON, d. C.-(S N s.
Negro women will be admitted tt
the Women's Naval Auxiliary Re-
serve, just as they are being admit
ted to the Women's Army Auxiliary
Corps, it was definitely revealed
this week by the Bureau OF Navy
Personnel.
The only difference will be that
no commissions will be given Ne
gro women. Commissions in the
army unit are being allotted to Ne
gro women on the basis Of their
ability
Enlisted colored women and girls
in the WAVES will become an
active part of the regular navy, not
in separate units as they are in the
WAAC, it was learned
The women will perform ground
and shore duties releasing men
for duty abroad ships. Because
there are no colored naval officers,
it was said colored women will not
be permitted beyond the grades now
held by men.
The plans for the Women's Ma
val Reserve, announced by the
Navy Department recently, call for
1000 commissioned officers and
about 10000 enlisted members, to
fn rI,
within the continental United
States.
Unlike the women comprising
the WAAC, members of the Wo-
mems Naval Reserve Corps are
TO receive the same pay as the
navy's male personnel of conlpar-
able grades Or ratings. They will be
ndOctr1nated at Smith College
Northampton, Mass.
WAC plans call for 10 pei
cent representation of coloreG
women and this policy is being fol.
lowed in the army units Officer
| training program at Fort De-
MoineS, Iowa.
Minimum educational require.
ments set by the Bureau of Nava,
Personnel for applicants for COM
missions or appointments as Of
ficer candidates include baccalau-
reate degree from an accredited
university or college, or work In
such an institution plus not less
than two years professional OF
business experience in certain
fields that will fit them for admin
istrative Or technical positions.
Applicants must be between 2(
and 80 years Of age, childless and
II unmarried, must agree not tC
marry prior to the completion OF
their fundamental training.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-15
First Negro Navy
Band Now On Duty

CHAPEL HILL, N. CLAMP
The first and thus far only all
Negro band in the navy reported
at the navy .preflight school here
Friday Composed of AZ musicians
recruited last spring from various
sections of the state, the band has
been undergoing naval indoctri-
nation course at Norfolk since May
81.
All of the musicians are high
school graduates and some have
attended college. Several have had
professional musical experience.
They are led by Charles E. Dud-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-15
Name New Naval
Station After
Negro Captain
Served With
Valor In Civil
War 70 Years Ago

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(S N 81
The special unit at the Great
Lakes Naval Training Station at
Great Lakes. Illinois, now being
used to train approximately two
thousand Negro recruits is now
designated Camp Robert Smalls."
The camp is named after Robert
Smalls, Negro who served with
great distinction in thhe u. s.
Navy in the Civil War.
AS a pilot on the Confederate
transport, PLANTER, on May Is,
1862, Smalls ran her out of Char
lesion Harbor and delivered her to
a Union squadron He was appoint
ed pilot in the U. S. Navy and
served in the USS KEOKUK. He
was promoted TO Captain for gall
liant ana meritorious conduct De-
cember /, 1863, and placed in COM
mand of the PLANTER. He served
with this ship until she was put
out of commission in 1866.
The first recruits arrived tat
Camp Robert Sinails during the
week ending June 6, and the num-
Der has increased weekly SINE
that time. Qualified recruits will
shortly be sent to vocational
schools established by the Navy
for the training Of electricians,
machinists. carpenters, metalsmiths,
shipfitters, quartermasters and
yeOmen.
The remaining recruits will be
assigned to duty aboard district
and defense craft and to other
stations throughout the country,
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-15
White Newspapers of St. Louis
Point to Need of Federal Statute

ST. LOUIS, Mo..-Two of the
largest local dailies here called for
the passage of a federal anti
lynching law after the federal
grand jury investigating the
lynching of Cleo Wright in Skies
ton last January returned a
white wash" statement, July 81,
finding that no federal statue had
been. violated. NO indictments
were returned
The st. Louis POST-DISPATCH
in an editorial headed Not a
Closed Case" said: They (the
grandjurD might well have called
upon Congress to make lynchlng
a federal offense for, through the
crime, the reputation of the ma
ton as well as that Of Missouri
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-15
Failure To |ndict Sikeston
Mob Starts New Law Demand

is the enactment of a federal law
on lynching, and emphasizes thai
no state where lynching has oc-
CURED has machinery which has
been found adequate to deal witt.
this crime. With the enactment
Of a national anti-lynching law
federal grand juries would be
spared the humiliation of being
limited to mere denunciation of
murder committed i'll daylight by
a mob whose acquaintance looked
on from the sidewalks" it con-
Guided.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-15
REGULAR COMBINATION

IN closing, the Colonel advised,
GAS your work progresses, you will
find that your successful operation
depends not only ON these factors,
but on the work Of others: the
men who sustain the ships and
others on the ground who make it
possible for the fighter pilot to
take the air...It is a peculiar COM
bination: one of individualiSm and
self-reliance, and another of reali-
cation and respect for teamwork.
Without team cooperation, no great
success can be accomplished"
The diplomas. and commissions
were awarded by Colonel Kimble.
while Colonies Parrish and Davis
presented the successful graduates
with their wings.
The newly commissioned flying
officers include the following
Second Iieutenants Richard Davis,
Rt. 3, Box 1859, Fort Valley, Ca;
Willie Howell Fuller, Rt. 3, Box "a.
Tarboro, NJ. c.; Cassius Alonzo
Harris, go South Broad ST., Phila-
dephia, Pa; Earl Eugene King, liz
Center Street, Bessemer, Alabama,
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y Z
as previous graduation exercises
was the usual marked simplicity
and deep sincerity, indicative OF
the life and ideals of the aviation
cadet at this base.
SHOULD THINK BACK
ut is but natural that in the
happiness and satisfaction which
you feel today at having completed
your courses as Aviation cadets
and becoming rated pilots in the
Air Forces of the Army you should
think back over the road which you
have Travelled since your thoughts
first centered on a desire to fly
declared Col Kimble in his ad-
dress to the candidates as he began
Ia retrospective history of trans
sportation including mans innate
sdesire to conquer the air.
Some highlights taken from the
.Colonel'S speech are as follows:
'Your desire and determination
TO master the air are typical of the
developments which have marked
many discoveries and tremendous
mans progress throughout the
sages. In most instances these great
scientific and mechanical adj
Vanees have come as a result of the
desire and determination to i'm
prove our health, living conditions
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-15

has suffered. It is lynch law for
which the Nazis most frequently
upbraid us, and it is lynch law
which they exploit in their propa-
ganda to the colored races of the
world"
There was some hope that at
least one mob would be brought
to justice when a federal grand
jury undertook an investigation Of
the lynching of Cleo Wright In
Sikestcn last January" stated the
st, Louis STAR-TIMEsS, in its
editorial headed Another Mob
Escapes" That hope is now gone, y
it continued.
The STAR-TIMEsS points out
that the obvious and only answer
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-15

devastating axis MACKAY
air raids, or that this nation, as
the result of their failure to recog-
nize what we are fighting for,
might actually lose the war.
FIGHTING ALL OVER AGAIN
They are actually fighting the
Civil War all over again. Seventy
years ago it was for the mainten-
ance of slavery. Their battle today
is for the same thing, with one
difference. The first conflict sought
to uphold physical enslavement.
They raise the twO-edged
sword today to uphold the
political and economic enslave-
ment in which black men have
been held ever since they were
given their Emancipation
Make no mistake. That is the
real issue. All of the rest Of the
shouting and hullabaloo is to be-
could this real purpose; to draw
red herring across the trail: to
cover their utter determination that
black men shall not be accorded
their long sought opportunity.
CRUSHING NEGRO SPIRIT
An opportunity is the crux of
every demand, being made by Ne
groes. The denial of opportunity is
the thing that is crushing the very
spirit and soul of thirteen millions
Of Americans. And this same denial
Of opportunity is robbing America
of ten per cent of its most loyal,
its most virile manpower. at I
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-15
Tuskegee Pilots Told They
Need Courage, Confidence

Walter irwin Lawson, NewtoWn,
Va; John William Mcclure, 11O3
North Kennedy Avenue, Kokeno,
Ind; Leon Claud Roberts, Murphy
and MCGEE Street, Pricfard, Ala,
and John Washington Rogers. SAL
South Michigan Ave, Chicago, Ill
Music for the occasion was fur
nished by the Post orchestra under
the direction Of 1t. Frank L. Drye
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-15

WILL ot iOli5 iQot
be given their
stubbornly denied
opportunity.
The fear Is
more real to many
a Dixon, Tai
madge, Rankin
and Bilbo than
the growing pos
sibilitieS that their
states will be-
come targets OF
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-15
LUNCEFORD ADDS SAX
PLAYER

HOLLYWOOD, Calif.-(C)--From
Gee Pee Johnson's band, came
Kirkland Bradford, to fill Willie
Smiths vacant chair as the new
sax man in Jimmie Lunceford's
Blues In The Night band. Smith
left during the engagement here.
Bradford, local 767, came in from
San Diego, Calf.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-15

SEVENTY YEARS AFTER the
Civil War, the same fear that mott
waited that bloody conflict again
grips the hearts of many white
Southerners. 1t is a fear shared
even by some who have prided
themselves on being the Negroes
best friends
The fear is that black Ameri-
cans, under the exigencies of war,
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row, bandmaster, USN (retired) of
Baltimore who re-entered the SER
vice last fall. The band will be
quartered in the Negro Commune
ty Center building here.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-15
OLLIE STEWART IN IRELAND
FOR PAPER

WASHINGTON-(A N P-Ollie
Stewart, war correspondent for
the Afro-American newspapers
with headquarters in Baltimore
was to arrive in Ireland early this
week by clipper plane after being
confirmed Friday. He will report
the activities of Negro troops in
Ireland and England.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-15
HIT THAT RHEUMATIC PAIN
RIGHT WHERE IT HURTS

And look at The SilUer Lining
in those Clouds Of Pain
The big idea is that you want to feel
better. When pain eases, your mind
eases. You get rest that means deliver
ance. So use something that gets at the
pain. C-22a3 brings you pain-relieving
help. Now you will feel as good as
others who enjoyed its help. Don't put
it off. Get C-2223 now. Coo, 81 every
where. Use only as directed. Purchase
price refunded if you are not satisfied.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-15
Fifth Class Given Wings At
AlLNegro Army Flying School

TUSKEGEE Ala.-(SNS) On Wednesday morning,
August g. at 10 another page in the annals OF Amerl-
aviation written when the fifth class of Aviation
Cadets the Tuskegee Army Flying School, Iuskegee,
Ala, received wings
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-15
WANT TO EARN LIVING

States.
WANT TO EARN LIVING
They want an opportunity tc
earn decent living, to properly
feed and clothe and provide ade-
quate housing for their families
They are respondent that there
exists in an America pledged tC
bring the -four freedoms" to the
whole world, a small clique which
would prevent the enjoyment OF
those freedoms right here ir
America.
They want the opportunity to
obtain employment equal to
their skills, without reservation.
If they have been trained as
airplane mechanics, as welderS,
or as machinists, they want the
chance to work at these skills,
draw the same pay as others
doing similar work. Too long
has America lost the skills of
artisans, forced to work as
janitors merely because their
skins were black.
And lastly they want the op-
portunity to enjoy equal justice
They want a chance to move out
from beneath the shadow of ter
rorism that constantly hangs over
black heads. They want to feel
that when they are called into
court that justice is really blind;
that she is not peeking from be-
hind her hood to determine the
color of the defendants skin.
ON WRONG SIDE
Messrs. Talmadge, Dixon, Ran
kin and Bilbo might well argue
that these demands for opportunity
are out of line with Southern
tradition" But they cannot truth
fully say they are not in complete
harmony with the much older
American tradition of giving every
man, regardless of the color of his
skin, his race or his nationality. a
chance.
That is the American way, the
democratic way. Those who argue
otherwise are definitely on the
wrong side in this war for free
dom. They are not serving Ameri-
ca; they are hurting America. They
do not belong in America.
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some instances these developments
have occurred as a necessary
means of protecting one group Of
men from aggressor peoples.
But few young men lived
who did not wish to fly....Air power
is not the only weapon, but it has
proved the way for success You
have been trained in this school
for assignment to fighter squad
rons, single aircraft with individ-
ual pilots. You and your plane are
one. 1t calls for great individual
prowess, To acquire that, fighter
pilots must have courage conf
dence, and ability. Your graduation
is indicative of the fact that trust
is placed in you to carry out this
mission"
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HOTEL MACK

80 Cool Rooms. Hot Water Daily
II up. Reasonable Weekly Rates,
We 1921. Atlanta. Ca.
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They want an opportunity for
their children to secure an educa-
ton on par with the education
given any other citizens of Georgia
under the state system, which their
taxes help support. If their sons
want to become doctors, they want
them to have the same opportuni-
ty to become doctor in state
supported school as is given others,
including many who are not even
citizens of Georgia Or the United
States.
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Characteristic of this and to extend the span oil me
graduation exercises instances these deVee
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ADJUSTMENTS.
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pleasant reminders Of what their
own loved ones may be suffering
-. Incidentally. Warner Bros. pic
ture, "Casablanca. /" win get It's world
premiere In the North African area
with the AEF having the first peep.
oncials have made arrangements
to send 1t over on . bomber. Pic
ture had added scenes made since
the North African campaign started
and is thoroughly up to date !.
George Murphy Of "For Me and My
Gal" was cocktailed by Variety Club
yesterday matinee with Carter Bar
ron Is host =. Metro Goldwyn-
Mayer thinks this Judy Garland
special will be the box of1ce cham
pion Of Leo-the-Lion In 1872, beat
ing Mrs. Miniver." Wouldn't dis
pute them after seeing this feature.
It's beaut. and viii be reviewed
ut length on these pages tomorrow
/. Latest additions to 1.-THE Dough-
girls" opening on e street December
Z, are Doris Nolan, william j. Kelly
and King Calder.
Embassy Aide In Hollywood.
1t. Commander Road Dahl, as
sistant Air Attache Of the British
Embassy in washington and author
OF THE Gremlins," is In Hollywood
comforting with Walt Disney on the
latter's projected screen version
feature Of this story -. Granted
q To-day leave from his Embassy
duties. Dahl is giving Disney the
benefit OF his knowledge of the
whimsical air pixies whose, high
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sequences that illustrate the words
ne Is speaking Short will be
nationally released in early De-
cember =. The other short, and one
the MGM can be proud Of, was
written and directed by william
Saroyan :. It is called 1.-THE Good
Job" and is far removed from the
conventional abbreviated subject
In 1t Saroyan shows his warm COM
passion for human frailties, his deep
insight into mankind's weaknesses
-. The hero is grocery store clerk,
and he merely recites some Of the
idiosyncracies and peculiarities Of
people who come into his store ;.
One is a genteel lady who Is i'm
poverished and steals a cantaloupe
while the clerk is conveniently
looking elsewhere The real hit
OF the short is youngster called
Callahan u. He presses his little
nose against the candy case until
the clerk invites him to come in and
help himself +. Next day Callahan
is back after sampling all the
sweets to report, THE icorice is
the best" In these neonls
Saroyan processes to see just you
and me.
X X X X
Cutting the Light Bill.
Maurice Greet writes: Thank
you so much for your splendid ar
ticle in The Sunday Star r. e,,r.
did bring back memories, and to me
most pleasant ones r.. May I just
Jog your memory about the play
Mr.. Sothern was appearing in in
1907 (under the Shubert banner).
It's title was originally THE Fool
Hath Said in His Heart-There is
No God" You may recollect at the
time that the electric signs in front
OF every theater had to be paid for
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at the rate Of 81 letter. This
meant that the attraction had to
pay $37 for the sign. This was too
much for the agent ahead OF the
attraction, so the title was cut to
that mentioned in your article.
Eventually the title was further cut
to 1.-THE Fool Hath Said" thus saw
ing the management SIS for the
electric sign :. Incidentally, Ran
dom House will publish in the spring,
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udlence accepted it
Shubert called at
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tenIlon OF this
G OIL u m n to the
fact at this
streamlined. re-
vival as five
new characters,
although only
veteran Merry
Widow" addicts
" i'll recognize
the changes /. :.
One was present
Monday nigh t.
Harry Viner In
the front row,
saw the Lehar
original produc-
ton in both
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ink "a fighting planes have lately
been the subject Of stories By lead
ing Newspaper and magazine cor
respondents In Europe All royal
ties from the feature picture are
pledged BY Dahl to the RAJ Bene-
VIOLENT Fund.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-18

Mr.. Greet's recollections Of 50 years
in the theater.
X X X
Women Shun War Films.
Attendance of women at war films
Is very much of, according to ex-
hibitors Pictures like wake
Island" and Flying Tigers" are do
ing super-special business, but pre-
ponderantly male customers q.
The distaff side doesn't like UNI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-18

Aldrich Plays Second Fiddle" which
will be musical. Kreike was as
sociate producer Of Might Plane
From Chungking," acclaimed warm
" by Hollywood preview audiences.
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Manpower Shortage Hits
Operetta Boys Of Chorus
Maxwell Anderson PLAY
Purchased by Hollywood
For 100000 Payment
By ANDREW r. KELLEY.

NaoWeek roundup Of fact
t IMAM paterna interest in THE revival
Lne mnpower problem
started ensemble voices and
services
IN Davenport Iowa. to arrive the
scented the tunefu opereta In sreets-- $50. - 49, ly ~.
clothes. and the audience accepted it
cheefuy that illustrate
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ABBOTT AND COSTELLO As DETEcTIVEs-T,uo bold brave
limbs OF the dU Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
and dignity OF the community their neest pic
ture, Who Done It?" tense moment shous stalking
OF the killers rampant throughout the
feature Picture opens RKO-Keiths screen Thursdau
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Assigned to Produce

Michel Kraike has been assigned
associate producer for Paramount's
next Aldrich Family picture, Henry
Evening star., 1942-11-11

Turn trash into cash ana Ne h -
smAah-ths Axis. Collsct that Junk
install new.
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10000 feet he threw 4 quick burst
at Zero, then veered OIL to catch
another dive-bomber and send il
burning to crash.
Gunner c. E. Brewer was having
his own particular field day. One
dive-bomber tried to turn away
from him at 1000 feet but didn't
get away With that one down
Brewer found himself in a head-on
approach to another close to the
water. 1t went Gown under his fire
A Zero got in his way. also close ia
the water. and Brewer shot 1t down
in passing
Runyon Gets High Score.
At this point the Navy account
took up the story of Runyon's ex-
plot in making the highest score Of
the day.
The Navy gave the following ac-
counting of the destruction of jap
anese planes:
Runyon-Three dive bombers
(these and all others were Aichi
99's). one Zero.
Gunner c. E. Brewer, Indiahoma,
Okla.-Two dive bombers. one Zero.
Ensign G. w. Brooks, Ocean
Beach, Calif.-One dive bomber, one
torpedo plane (Mitsibishi 80.
Ensign r. A. NJ. Dibb. Los Angeles
Two dive bombers.
Ensign R. NJ. Disque, Houston
Two Zeros.
1t. L. H. Bauer. Philadelphia
One dive bomber.
Ensign D. NJ johnson, Olympia,
Wash.-one dive bomber.
1t. q. g. T. S. Gay, San Diego
one Zero.
1t. A. o. Worse, jr., Camp Hill,
Pa.-cne Zero.
Ensign c. w. Lindsey, Danville,
Ala.-one Zero.
Ensign F.. R. Register, Bismarck,
N. Dak.-one Zero and one Messer-
schmitt 100. German type.
Ensign j. A. Ealford, Orosi,
Calif.-one Zero
Ensign March-one torpedo plane
Machinist H. NJ. Sumrall, Ellis
vile, Miss.-one Zero.
Radio Electrician T. w. Rhodes,
Box 127, Blessing, Tex.-one torpedo
plane.
Aviation Pilot CFirst Glass; l.. P.
Mankin, Springfield. Mo.-one dive
bomber.
The total of japanese plane losses
is completed by adding the float
plane shot down by Ensign Barnes
and one dive bomber destroyed by
the combined efforts of three Amer
ican pilots.