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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-12-10

certainly needed If We expect to
overcome them in the two remain
ing quarters. We, now at the end
of the second quarter have them
at place where good tricky play
will, with strategy, get us rolling
to a good point of offensive attack.
Without a doubt you have made
sacrifices since this thing began,
you have gone without a lot of
things you had in pre-war days.
But isn't it true that we waste more
than our grandfathers ever had?
I have never picked up a paper
yet but what see that Mrs. Whistle
hustle and children have made a
trip to Spokane, Yakima or Portland
TO visit old friends and relatives.
Maybe to you that doesn't sound
like anything to be alarmed about.
Perhaps eff you could witness more
Of this war at closer observation
point than your front stoop, you
could see that we need those war
materials you are wasting by making
those many trips.
No, it doesn't sound like much but
remember there are million people
that are doing the same thing. What
we need on the home front is more
chivalry and a little less revelry and
a little less cshasing around. 81
Then there are those war bonds
we would like to see you folks buy
more Of. You may think a new suit
of clothes to replace the pair of pants
that are shiny in the seat or a new
tire for the car or perhaps new
winter coat for the wife is more inn
portant than war bonds. Instead
you ought to consider yourself lucky
to have a seat in those pants at all
and it isn't going to hurt the wife
a bit to wear that coat another sesa-
son. People wouldn't see her in it
so often anyway If she would stay
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-12-10
James Foster Stationed
At QuanticO, Va.

Western Horse Heaven James
Foster, brother of Mrs. Rodney
Travis has been promoted to End
Lieutenant in the Marine corps and
in now taking advanced officers
training at Quantico, Va.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-12-10

Mrs. Alvin Dye entertained with
dinner Sunday evening honoring her
daughter, virginia,s birthday anni-
versary. Guests were Miss Gladys
Northrup and Miss Beryla Bafus.
Members of the Epworth League
enjoyed party at the @. J. Dahlin
home wednesday evening.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-12-10

Mrs. Minnie Ashby left Wednes-
day to visit friends at Kelso, Port
land, and Astoria, Ore.
River View basketball team will
play Kennewick on the local floor
Friday night, Dec. IL. ~
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-12-10
Hover Team Wins
Thirty-FOur to Fifteen

Hover River View basketball
team played at Benton City Friday
night winning 34-15. 49,
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-12-10
Accidental Fall Causes
Fractured Arm

Hover-Jess Sprague accidentally
fell Monday and fractured his arm
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-08

mysterious to him and declared
he would ask an army investiga-
ton.
The elder Tucker said he sus-
beet that "somethirE happened"
to his son, something Stemlned in
the racial prejudice of The south
He declared he knew through his
own experience as q soldier that his
son could not remain a fugitive in
the south for any length Of time
that he could never reach Syracuse
without an authorized Through.
Tucker told Det. Sgt. Arthur
Casey, who was assigned to the
case, that he first learned Of his
sons plight through a letter from
friend of Willie, a Rochester
man stationed at Fort Mcclellan
The Rochester soldier wrote that
about three weeks ago Willie was
sentenced to 90 days in the guard
house for the shooting. He did not
explain whether the NIP was &C
tually wounded or whether Willie
had shot at him and missed.
The letter said in effect, ct was
case of Willie shooting the ME-
or the NIP shooting Willie"
The father declared, Some
things gone haywire down there.
| don't believe Willie could have
e scaped from the guardhouse.'
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-08
CoFEP Moves
To New Home
In Washington
ak of Getting
New Executive
Order from FDR

WASHINGTON LAMP The
Presidents Committee on Fair
Employment Practices moved to its
new location al 10th and You
Streets, N. w, Wednesday, Aug
ust 5th. This step was taken to
furnish more room FOR the COM
mittee, whose work has grown con-
siderably under the plan for re-
organization. There have been one
or two additions to the staff and
more are planned. With the estab-
lishment of branch offices in va
rious cities, there will be a decen-
tralization of the work, it is hoped.
First branch office under consid-
Grafton is one for New York. Pres
ent plans call for an immediate
survey of the city for the site and
when this report is submitted, in
all probability it will be accepted
and the recommended site chosen.
Lawrence Cramer, executive sec
rotary, says there is nothing start
ling in the work being done, just
routine procedure along the lines
found best through trial and fail
ure. Having established a tech
nique which seems workable, Mr.,
Cramer and his associates are salts
fled to proceed as usual.
There was some talk of the new
executive order to supplant Execu-
tive Order 1902 This was true, Mr.
Cramer intimated, but he felt there
was just as much chance for his
new order to fail to obtain the Pres
ident's signature as there was a
chance for it to succeed, He fur
ther stated he did not feel any par
ticular need now for any imple-
mentation Of the original order.
1T is not a question of special
favors now" said Cramer. NE
groes and Jews are being called up
on to serve the country in the time
of war and it is just and fair they
be given opportunity to participate
in the benefits of the country. 1t
is not a social affair, just plain use
of available labor at hand"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-08

Figures on the Negro Baptist
church indicate the faith having
some 17,743 ministers, 22,08t
churches, 3,750,O00 communicates
and property valued at $103, 465 800.
This is the largest of the Negro re-
ligious denominations and one OF
the most powerful.
The finished product is the re-
sulc of the order of President
Roosevelt, who, on September 1,
1899 set the Historical Records
survey TO preform work leading to
the preparing and duplicating in
Ventories of federal, state. coun-
ty municipal, and other public
archives; preparing and duplicat-
ing inventories, guides and calen-
dars OF manuscript collections in
Guiding church archleveS."
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-08
Son Jailed, Charged With
Running Auto Oper Father

WHTTEVILI,E;, N. C-(ANP)-
Joel McRea. 30, is being held in
Jail here, charged with trying to
murder his 82-year-old father,
Mark McRea, who lies in critical
condition in Columbus county hos
pital. Also held as q accomrlicc is
r. P. Smith.
According to Sheriff H. ID. Stan
ley, the elder McRae was riding in
an auto with his son AMI Smith,
when the son, pretending that the
machine had broken down pre-
vailed or his father to get out
and help push the car When he
did so. the son ran over his faith
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-08
u. ). Workers
Get More Pay
Under Mead Bill
Okla. Senator
Withdraws Rider
Affecting Recorder

WASHINGTON-(A " P)--Hun-
dreds of Negroes in governmental
custodial jobs, char women and
such, now receiving less than $1,000
per annurn, Benefit by the passage
of the bill introduced by Senator
James A. Mead of New York which
grants they a pay raise to ~ the
$1,000 level. The bill provides that
no adult working for the federal
government in these capacities
shall receive less than the $12,9O
minimum.
In the District Of ~Columbia alone.
some 10000 persons will profit by
this pay raise. OF this number, q
large percentage is colored.
The bill was held up ir. the Sen
ate last week while amendments
were debated. One Of the amend
ments introduced by Sen. Thomas
of Oklahoma provided for an in
crease in pay for the recorder of
deeds, DR.. William j. Thompkins.
The increase was from $500 to
$4,000 a year. When it was seen
that this amendment would hold
up passage of the Mead measure
to benefit 10000 workers Sen.
Thomas Withdrew his amendment.
thereby assuring the passage of the
bill.
This means an increase in sala-
ries of some $15,000,O00 per an
mum for government employees IN
the cuStOdial services, laundresSeS,
char women and others.
The new bill means that first,
minimum pay for all adults will be
raised from $1,000 to $1,000; second
base pay of building guards will be-
raised from $1,000 to $500; third.
char women will get IS cents an
hour instead of so cents with head
char women getting 70 cents per
hour
If the president signs the bill
the first pay raises
will be included in checks received
on August 8, with the rest of the
group included, receiving their in
creaSes by August Is.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-08

er, according to the story related
by the sheriff
Smith is quoted as having told
Sheriff Stanley that Joel McRae
tried TO get him to kill the old
man the same night, but that he
refused.
Motive for the crime is believed
to have objection of $1,000 in
surance the aged Negro has on
his life. Sheriff Stanley said that
Joel made his father pretty near
drunk with beer and whiskey be-
fore the alleged attempted muir
der. Mark has a double skull
fracture.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-08
Gov. Dixon Nav
Head White
Supremacy League

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.-(SNS)-
A news story Wednesday said
that Gov. Dixon was mentioned as
the likely head of a race relations
committee to achieve purposes de-
scribed as outlined in a speech
made by Judge Horace G. Wilkin-
son recently before the Bessemer
KiwaniS Club.
The story said the proposed
committee would not be the revival
of the Ku Klux Klans nor any
organization like it. However. it
would have political significance
In his race relations speech be-
fore the BeSSemer Kiwanis Club,
Wilkinson is reported to have pro
posed a white supremacy" league.
In his refusal to sign a federal
war-work contract because it con-
tanned discrimination clause,
Gov Dixon explained in a letter
OF rejection that he felt the racial
clause would tend to break down
Southern segregation.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-08
Annual Session
To Be Held At
Cleveland, Ohio

CLEVELAND, O.,c(SNS)-The
first official report on the work
being done at the United States
Army Hospital at Fort Huachuca,
Ariz., will be made before the
nations Negro doctors when the
48th annual convention of the Ma
tional Medical Association con-
Venes in Cleveland, August II to 81.
This report is to be made by Lit.
Colonel M. o. Bousfield, NJ. D.,
commanding officer of the hos
pital, and will feature the Monday
program.
NINA convention is meeting this
year with the approval of federal
officials, despite rationing, be-
cause the convention is concerned
primarily with vital health prob
lens Of q nation in wartime.
Meeting in conjunction with
MIA will be the women's auxil-
larry, Of which DR. Bessie Badham
Small, Denton, Md, is president
and the National Insurance Medi-
cal Examiners Association, of which
DIR. Earl r. Bland, of Memphis, is
chairman.
Key officers of the NINA, who
will direct the convention. are:
DR.. H E. Lee, Houston, Texas.
president; Dr. John T. Owens. of
Norfolk, general secretary; DR.. E
T. Taylor, st. Louis, treasurer and
DR.. G. Hamilton Francis, Norfolk,
speaker Of the house of delegates.
and DR.. r. M Hedrick of Gary.
Ind, Chairman Trustee Board.
A significant change IN the
usual procedure is the fact that
important sessions Of the 48th con-
fvention will be held on Monday
the opening day. Heretofore, the
first day has been devoted to re-
,gistration. Headquarters for the
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-08

Semitics have MACKAY
been feeling the pressure of this
number one home front guardian
of American democracy.
YOU MAY GET RELIEF
Indications are that with the
completion of the tremendous task
OF rounding up these vipers, who
have been gnawing at the very
vitals of America, something will
be done to ease the almost UNI
bearable pressure which the anti
Negro groups have been exerting on
you.
Hopeful signs of this were
shown last week, when among
the twenty-eight indictments
returned by federal grand
jury, one named an official Of
the Ku Klux Khan.
Watching the intense drive the
FBI was making against the Ger
man-American bund, no doubt you
had begun to think that Mr.. Hoo
ver'S very efficient investigators
had somehow or other forgotten
the two-year old marriage of the
bund and the khan at the infamous
New Jersey meeting. Mr.. Hoover is
now showing you that the FBI
never forgetS.
EASIEST TARGETS
No single group IN America IS
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-08
Doctors To Hear Report On
Work DoneAtFt. Huachucn

meeting will be Central High
School while the general public
meeting will be held at Severance
Hall.
Local committees have scheduled
an extensive program of social
entertainments for the physicians
their wives, and their families with
the hope that physicians will
combine their vacations with at
tendance at the NINA meeting.
Such events are listed for each
day with luncheons, receptions, a
bridge party, and smoker in
cluded on the program.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-08
Youth Offers Blood
To Save Life Of
Stabbed White Boy

NEW YORK-(C)--A young
colored boy, who refused to dis
close his name, appeared at Syden-
ham Hospital this week to offer his
blood to Stanley Kolbusz, the
nineteen year-old white youth who
was stabbed in the heart by two
Negroes while visiting Harlem. Kol-
busz had delicate operation per-
formed when DR.. limestone Sewed
up the youths heart with seven
silken stitches.
The boy who offered to donate
blood for a TRANSMISSION exclaimed
how sorry he was that members
Of his race had stabbed Kolbusz,
Pole, but hoped he could do some
thing to help the white youth in
this gallant struggle for life.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-08
Two Volume Directory OF Negro
Baptist Churches Is Off Press

WASHINGTON, D. CLAMP
Just off the press and done in
splendid style is the two volume
national directory of Negro Bap-
list churches and organizations
s,Tas first Of its kind ever attempt
sd Sponsored by the Illinois His
itorical Records survey, a unit OF
the division Of community service
programs, WPA, the work was be
gun in 1910 and bad the complete
endorsement of the late Baptist
s2eader the Rev. L. K. Williams.
The directory lists over $4,000
churches, all state conventions and
association, names and locations of
the churches and where possible
1.-THE pastors of the individuals units
Begun in 1910, with the coopera-
.tion Of presidents and secretaries
'of al state conventions, moderators
siid secretaries of all associations
vaTd thousands of ministers, the
directory could not have been pro-
duced without the active aid and
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-08

Says one of the dispatches, NE
gro troops in Northern Ireland i'm
patiently wait for the order that
will send them at the enemy
cit. Robert j. Lehman of Column
bus, o., one of the units white Of
ficers, said the Negro troops COM
pare favorably with any troops the
United States has sent over. The
commanding colonel agreed
1.-THE officers are pleased with
the cordiality of the Irish toward
their men.
The people of this locality have
been most friendly. They have ar
ranged number of entertainments
for the troops and one church held
a special service for them, which
the soldiers took over. The congre-
cation loved the spirituals and af-
ter the service, the pastor had the
boys into his home for tea.
Negro troops here come from
throughout the United States,
Sgt. Moses Sturdivent of Jackson
vile, Fla, is typical of their non
CONS. He says he has to look out
for the boys.
''His boys are from York, Pa,
Charleston, S. c., Washington, d.
c., and Chicago.
1t is possible that the largest
number of Negro troops in any
area are concentrated in Ireland.
although movies are showing Ne
groes doing excellent work in the
Caribbean area where they are i'll
the coast artillery and anti air.
craft divisions.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-08
B, cliff Maekay
CLUTCHES At STRAW

Georgia's Governor Eugene Tai
madge, now in the midst of a life
and death political struggle, clutch
es like a drowning man at the
straw of racial issue of his own
making and with his inflammatory
statements gives the Axis powers
more fuel for the propaganda fire
our enemies are directing toward
the darker peoples now fighting on
our side.
All over the South persists
the belief that America can
win the war with prejudice as
usual" No other single thing is
doing as much to hold up Anne
rica's war program.
The period of talking is past.
The time for action is at hand
The government has not hesitated
to deal firmly with those who per-
siSt in their attempts to do
business as usual during this
crisis. An equal firmness is now
needed with those who insist on
maintaining prejudice as usual. .
This federal action is necessary for
the preservation of our very exis-
tence.
MUST BE SHARED
America cannot successfully
FIGHT HitleriSm abroad and
merely REGRET definite signs of
it right at home. On every battle
field, on every front, it is becom-
ing increasingly clear that demo-
cracy and freedom must be shared
by all, or it will be shared by
none.
That is why we contend there
can be no halfway ground. The FrBI
has done fine work thus far in
wedding out those who pernicious-
ly cling to this Nazi nonsense in
an America at war They must not
stop here.
II 1t is seditious to talk, write
and publish anti Catholic and
anti-Semitic, it is equally dan
gerous for this country's safe
ty to be anti-Negro.
II those who insist on playing
the game OF the enemy by creating
racial and class cleavages where
none existed before, refuse to
heed the signs of the times. it is
of the utmost Importance for the
very safety of America, that they
be placed for the duration. where
they no longer can be dangerous
stumbling blocks to our supreme
effort Of winning the war.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-08
Liberian Air Mail Starts

1T better highways
between peoples the free Republic
west Africa the United States of
to becoming better friends Early h
ties of the first regular Air Mail
tween these This through
ways took only weeks compared with eight
before The posmaFk letter
IBERIA Air Mail - First Flight States"
The envelope addressed
OF St Me- ard Peoples
Street Montcvia with which the has
business for The world better
when Liberia becomes Mecca America,
Palestine the and Rome to Catholics.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-08
More Than $4,000
Churches Listed;
1913 Pastors

interest Of these church officials
Each volume contains about $50
pages as complete as could be as
certained through sending out
missionaries to various organiza-
tons as well as individuals.
Credit for the work is given to
Herbert R. Rifkind, state editor
field and editorial work, which was
supervised by Al Cohen, was per-
formed by Franklin w. Childs
Charles, A. Watson, Eugene "
Dozier, Benjamin Grumpy and
Walter Herget. Harry Watts drew
the maps showing the area cover
ed by directory
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-08
Seek Soldier Who
Shot White mp

SYRACUSE, N Y. AMP
Staff Sgt. Willie Tucker, we'll
known here and the son of Ed
ward M. Tucker. a veteran Of
World War l, was being sought
by local police last Tuesday on a
warrant issued by the provost mar.
shall of Fort Mcclellan, Ala, fol-
lowing the shooting of a white
military police officer st the fort
Information indicated that
Tucker had escaped from the
guardhouse after the shooting of
the MP. Tucker, Sr., said his sons
reported deSertion sounded too
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-08

stepped up the
long delayed job
of rounding up
these native fas-
cists.
The heat was
first turned on
t he G. erm a n
American bund-
lists. Then dur
ing the past week
the anti Catho-
lies and the anti
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-08
Federal Workers
To Get More Paw

WESTINGHOUSE N S)-Presi-
dent Roosevelt signed legislation
Monday giving raises to thousands
of Government workers, mostly in
the lower-paid classifications. and
boosting the minimum of full. time
adult workers from $1,000 to $1,000
annually. Thousands of colored en-
oloyes are affected by the raise.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-08

as anxious to have these seditious
disturbers of national unity and
morale placed where they belong
than is this nations fourteen
millions of black citizens. Negroes,
though forming the largest minori-
ty, become the easiest targets of
those seeking to create diSSenSion.
In no other country engag-
ed in this global warfare does
there exist the incOngruous
situation where ten per cent of
the population must forever
fight for the opportunity to fight
in defense of their country.
And this situation, as no doubt
Mr.. Hoover realizes, is the di-
rect result of agigation by these
native fascist minded groups
and people.
Perhaps the FBI already has its
eagle eye on them, but for fear
it has not, this writer hastens to
call their attention to others, who
do not fall SO conveniently under
the labels Of bundists or kluxers.
who nevertheless are achieving the
same enemy aiding results as these
groups.
SIGNS OF A TREND
Out OF Alabama and Georgia in
recent weeks have come two out
bursts from little men in high
places that serve no one anv good
but the enemies of this country.
They are the first signs Of
what appears to be a growing
About fight against the ma
tional administrations war pol
icy of utilizing the full poten-
tialities of all American citi-
zens i'm the winning of the war.
1t is a dangerous trend that
could end in disaster for this
country, now facing the most criti-
cal period in it's history.
Alabama Governor Frank Dixon's
refusal to accept war contract
to be filled with prison labor, be-
cause that contract contained
clause fOrbidding racial discrini-
nation, plainly revealed that he is
actually more determined to main
tain at home the type of thing
we are fighting abroad, than he is
y winning the war,
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-08
First American Black Legion Wins
Hearts Of Irish; Attitude P|eases
Praise Is Given
To Race Soldiers

WASHINGTON, D. C-(ANP)-Although the exact
number of Negro soldiers abroad not known and the
war department is hestant about publishing the where
abous of the units dispatches from Ireland are high
their praise Of the Negro soldiers there and their at
ude and the attitude of the native Irish toward them
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-08
The Globe Trotter
Prejudice As Usual

OUR GOVERNMENT is becom-
ing increasingly concerned over
the activities of those organiza-
tons and persons right here in
America who despite the supreme
crisis this nation faces, insist on
stupidity giving ala and comfort to
the enemy
Within the last few weeks the
Federal Bureau of Investigation has
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-08
EASIEST TARGETS

No single group IN America IS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-30

Alme Havoc. appearing with vic- for McIaRlen in RKo Radios sRoWdeF Town" made her screen dehBt 90 years ago at the age Of akaEme.