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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-10-26
PROCLAMATION

Whereas the United States Navy fighting the battle for
freedom in the waters of the aggrsssors
Whereas the United States Navy. conjoined famed
coordnaed the United States estab
shed foothod upon soil held by enemy battling
herocallY to extend that advantage. and
Whereas by National tradition the debt the people of the
United States their Navy annually emphasized through
setting aside day acclaim that branch of the armed
forces;
Therefore. Willard NJ AlburY Mayor the City of Key
West do hereby proclaim Tuesday October
nineteen hundred and forYtwo Navy Day and call
all citizens of Key West take in observance of this day
through the channels them and join in salute
the United States Navy and coordnated
Marine Corps Coast Guard Naval Aviation and the Merchant
Marine
Whereunto have my hand this 26th day of October
nineteen hundred and fortytw
WILLARD NJ ALBURY,
Mayor City of Key West. Florida
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-10-26
REPORT SHIP SINKINGS
CRy Associated Press

MELBOURNE. Oct. &c.
It is estimated 100000 ions
of Japanese shipping. includ-
ing vessels of the merchant
marine and navy. have been
sunk in recent operations in
and aroud Rabaul.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-10-26
Navy Day To Be Observed
Here With Varied Program
80 -. ~ - So ~ 49,
MAYOR ISSUES NAVY
DAY PROCLAMATION

Mayer Willard M. AlburY
has issued proclamation
calling for the observance of
Tuesday. October 81 as Navy
Day.
The citY's chief executive
requests all citizens of Key
West to take part in the OBJ
servance of the day through
the many channels open to
them and to join in salute
to the United States Navy on
the outstanding occasion.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-10-26

Key West, Florida, has the
most equabls climate in the
country; with an average
range of only IL Fahrenheit
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-10-26

Associated Press Day Wire
Service and Wide World
For 62 Years Devoted to the
Best Interests of Key West
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-10-26
FIVE ADDITIONAL NAz1 PLANES SHOT DOWN

CAROFive Naz planes shot down Malta in the las
hours bringing the total to 34 downed in the last is days
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-10-26

w. w.a ST. 81 ~ ~ ~
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01
Negro Workers Hold Responsible
Positions With War Department

Negro workers hold responsible
positions in the reproduction and
distribution section in the War
Department where their duties in
the big Munitions Building in
Washington include stenography
and clerical, multigraph, address
sograph, mineograph and multi
18th operations. On the efficiency
Of their unit depends the prompt
issuance of press releases and in
formation to a mailing list of 49,
900 names.
Of the 80 employees in the sec
ton, Is are colored persons. Thir-
teen Of these colored employees are
young women representing five
states and the District Of Column
bia. They are rated by the Civil
Service Commission as junior
typists and junior clerk-typists,
with two holding the rating Of
junior stenographers. The basic
pay of each is 81 ,440 per annum.
Colored men in the section are
Henry ToWles, multilith operator;
Raymond Simmons, and Alfred
Hammonds, retired Tenth Cavalry
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01
Several Changes
In Agriculture
Department

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 -
Changes in the depart
ment Of agriculture with the
transferral Of several agencies to
other cities, see Giles Hubert,
formerly with the rehabilitation
program, sent to the field; L. H.
Hennigan coming into Farm Sc
curitv as information specialist on
or before March l and Jerome j.
Robinson, assistant to Constance
E. H. Daniel, going to Cincinnati
as personel administrator.
At the same time, it is announc-
ed that in the old department
the additions of colOred workers
has been noticeable. Newcomers
include a statistician; lawyer,
a chemist; a linguist. Thirteen
new college grads will be added
to do a special job in the cooling
section which requires great
deal of skill and intelligence. For
estry division has accepted two
colored girls as messengers, with
the understanding they can be
promoted as their abilities war
1ant.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01

Sergeants, who handle material in
the supply room.
The work of the colored en-
ployes is highly praised by 1t.
Col. v. F. Shaw, Administrative
Officer, and D. Cecil Culbertson,
Chief of the Section, who is in
immediate charge of the 35 work.
ers. When Simmons and Ham
.monds were in the Army, Col.
Shaw was one Of their officers at
Fort Huachuca, AriZ., where the
Tenth Cavalry long was stationed.
Everette Edmond, a graduate Of
the Terrell Law school, has du-
ties in the Administrative office.
Mr.. ToWles is a resaw&nt Of
PittsburgW Cher employees are:
Mrs. Isabelle Preston, Arkansas
City, Kans.; Aida Patterson, Mrs.
Louise Williams, Linda Wilson
and Doris Temple, New York
City; Ann Haynes, Frances Scott,
Mildred Ransom, Ida HAZEL,
Philadelphia; Mrs. Rebekah Nc
Kinney, Pittsburgh; Adele Rich
ardson, Steelton, Pa, Villa Sims,
st. Louis and Louise Brennan,
Jersey City.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01
KANSAS ENDS
THEATR E
JIM CROW

PARSONS, Kans., Feb. 26 -
(ANP)-Acting upon their own
initiative, colored citizens Of this
city on the border line between
Kansas and Oklahoma brought
about an end to segregation in To-
cal theatres. Using the civil rights
law upon the statute books of the
state of Kansas as their weapon,
the battle was won without re-
course to the courts.
A club Of local women gave a
lire party at newly constructed
theatre. Taking seats in the bal
cony, not on the main floor, the
group occupied an entire row Of
seats until asked by the theatre
manager to move. Some Ct the
women left the theatre.
Leland Terry, local undertaken,
and Dale Upton, business man
formed a group of citizens and
contacted the attorney general OF
the state who quoted the state
law forbidding segregation IN
public places. Retaining an at
torney, c. E. Pie, the group wrote
the attorney general who in turn
notified the county attorney. Last
week after a series Of letters and
conferences, the theatre manager
told Negro citizens they could sit
wherever they chose in all four
theatres.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01
SELASSIE SAYS
BRITAIN Kept
He R PROMISE

LONDON, Feb. 26-(ANP)-
The Anglo-Egyptian agreement
proves that Britain is true to the
pledge made after the Italian at
tack, said Emperor Halle Selassie
in a statement published in the
newspaper, Ethiopian Star.
Britain's sole wish, said the en-
peror, is to see Ethiopia restored
to her rightful position as a free,
prosperous and independent mem
Der Of the family Of nations.
until internal trade is re-es-
tablished," he said, II do not think
Ethiopia can be Of any substan-
tial assistance to the allied war
effort as far as supplies are con-
cerned. In armed assistance, il
is my firm intention to supply a
brigade Of Ethiopian troops tC
take their place alongside the
allied and British forces.
Il realize the necessity of re-
tanning a sufficient number OF
Italian technicians until such time
as. they can be replaced by tech
nicians from friendly countries, in
order that essential services may
be maintained. In view Of the
relatively small number who must
remain, | do not consider they are
a danger to allied security"
The emperor described wide
spread reforms he intends to es-
tablish. He will rely on a system
Of responsible government, as
sisted at first by British advisors
Judicial courts will be establish
ed throughout the empire anc
communication will be improved
Slavery and the gabar system
have been abolished. Education
will be made universal and the
most modern health services es-
tablished.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01
Arrest Negro Traitor" In Philadelp hia Pa.
Senate Gets Bill
Against Job
Discrimination

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26-(AN
P)-Introduced into the senate
on Feb. 8 by Sen. Meade of New
York was Senate Bill 1856 MAX
ing it unlawful for any person
engaged in the performance of a
defense contract to discriminate
:gainst or in favor Of any en-
Dloye because Of race, color or
creed"
Brought to Sen. Meade's at
tention by G. N. T, Gray who is
identified with a movement to
sponsor national lobby here for
Negroes, the bill reads as fol-
lows:
BE it enacted by the senate
and the house of representatives
of the United States of America
in Congress assembled, that any
person engaged in the perform
ance Of CD any contract or order
for the government of any coun-
try whose defense the President
deems vital to the defense of the
United States, pursuant to pro-
visions of the act entitled can
act further to promote the de-
Tense Of the United States" and
for other purposes approved
March IL, 1941, or ~ any con-
tract or order for the United
States or (3) any subcontract or
suborder necessary or appropri-
ate to the fulfillment of any con-
tract or order for any such gov
eminent or for the United Stetes,
who shall discriminate against or
in favor of any employe or pros
pective employe or applicant for
employment, because of his race,
color or creed, shall upon con-
viction thereof be punished by a
fine of not exceeding $1,000 or
by Imprisonment for not exceed
ing six months or BOTH
The purpose of the bill is to
put teeth into the orders Of the
President whereby cases of prov
en- discrimination will have a
penalty other than Withdrawal Of
contracts.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01
Slick Supervisors
Foster jim Crow
In Washington

WASHINGTON. Feb. &c -
(ANP)-Day by day the pressure
on Negro government workers
grows stronger, with supervisors
suggesting through gentle hints
segregation in the dining rooms in
the various buildings.
Latest report Of this vicious
practice comes from the Railroad
Retirement building, behind the
Social Security building and ac-
ross from the Census building,
where coIored girls working for
the quartermaster corps Of the
army are told by their superio1s
to use the dining room for colored
workers.
They make the suggestion in the
most subtle manner telling the
girls, it is alleged, ''You may
want to know that there is din
ing room for colored downstairs
where you may be more comfort
able"
The reaction naturally is one Of
resentment and the colored girls
continue to use the main dining
room, leaving the segregated room
for those who care to follow the
advice given by the southern SUI
pervisors.
Thus another government bull
ding attempts to adopt policy Of
segregation among its workers, all
of which is meeting bitter oppo-
siticn from the colored girls them
selves.
Most of the girls are newcomers
to Washington uraccustomed to
the segregated policy obtaining
in Washington. They are quick
to resent any infringement on
their personal privileges and dc
not hesitate to tell others what
they think.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01
Vanguard League
Calls In FEPC
In Job Fight

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 90
(By Barbee w. Durham for ANP)
In it's fight for jobs for colored
women in various plants of Co
lumbus, the Curtiss- Wright and
Thinker plants in particular since
they hold large defense contracts,
the Vanguard league has called in
the FEPC of Washington. This
fact came to light when officials
of the league announced that dur
ing the past three weeks, affi-
davits have been taken from indi-
viduals who have reported racial
discrimination in the hiring poll
cies Of Curtiss-Wright, and in the
interviewing practices Of the Ohio
State Employment service, recent
" changed over to the United
States Employment service.
These sworn statements have
been turned over to the FEPC
and to officials Of the USES. An
other part of this effort which
the league is expecting to have
a great deal of weight is the post
cards which were sent following
the George Schuyler meeting
Nearly 1000 cards were passed
out to the audience, upon which
complaints were written. These
were Immediately sent to Wash
ington.
AS a result Of these efforts, the
league is expecting positive re-
suits within the near future.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01
CIVIL WAR BROUGHT NEW
EXPERIENCES TO CAIRO

The influx Of thousands Of
soldiers to military camp
brought new and varied expert
ences to Cairo in the Civil War
days, reports the Illinois WPA
Writer'S Project. Large numbers
of tradesmen, laborers, and CT
william employees caused an acute
housing shortage, so that rents
soarer and an emergency build
ing boom resulted.
Seeking to prey upon encamp-
ed soldiers, gang Of undesira-
bles descended upon the city and
got badly tangled with military
authorities. Finally, as a matter
Of military expedience, and to
avoid conflict Of authority with
state officials, the city was for
mally transferred by the War
Department from the jurisdiction
of the state Of Illinois to the De-
partment of the Tennessee.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01
The NAz|-jEW
ABUSE NO 7.
LIKE u. s. negro
DR.. Embree Writes
In Book
(BY the AMP

The Nazi propaganda trick Of
comparing German treatment OF
Jews with American treatment Of
Negroes is entirely unjustified,
according to Edwin R. Embree,
president Of the julius RosenWaId
fund and author of Brown Am
erica"
what Hitler tries to cover up
is the difference in direction" Mr..
Emtree writes in an article in the
March issue CT The American
Mercury. While he has crassly
reversed the clock Of civilization,
we. in America have been slowly
meVine toward rore tolerance
and frcer opportunity for all peo-
pes"
The Improvement in the status
and democratic opportunities Of
the American Nag.o since eman-
hipatioA his been phenomenal,
Mr.. Fm3r = roints out. This Ne
gro teracy rate has sWelled from
S per cent to IS per cent. The
death rate has dropped from 80
per 1000 to IA per 1000. Negroes
have accumulated more than ST.
500,0G0,000 in wealth and their
total purchasing power comes to
two billion dollars a year. In
the creative arts they have made
noteworthy contributions.
Mr.. Embree views with optim-
ism the changing attitudes toward
Negroes particularly the trans
formation that has occurred in
the south where increasing edu-
catic7al opportunities are offered
III spite III segregation He stres-
Sos The interest OF the New Deal
administration in this minority
the Presidents charge to defense
industries that there must be no
discrimination in employment, the
establishment of an air school for
Negro pilots, the attitude of the
supreme court in unfolding Negro
rights.
While the evidences Of progress
are encouraging, Mr.. Embree in
sists that much remains to be
done in giving this important
minority a larger share in ma
tional life. He demands for them
the minimum requirements that
all citizens have right to eX-
pect in a democracy: the right to
earn living at work for which
they. are fitted by merit ard abili-
ty; the right to equal opportuni-
ties in education, health, recrea-
ton, and similar public services;
the right to vote; equality before
the law; courteous treatment by
their fellow Americans.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01
Teachers File
Suit For Equal
Paw In Fed. Court

ATLANTA, Feb. 26-(ANP)4-i
To force the Atlanta Board of Ed
ucation to pay them salaries equal
to those paid white teachers, Ne
GRO public school teachers filed
suit here last Wednesday in fed
eral court in the name of William
H. Reeves, instructor in David T.
Howard junior high school and
others. Attorneys for the NAACP
are associated with Reeves coun-
sci.
The suit states that the basic
pay Of Negro teachers in Atlanta
range from IS to 70 per cent Of
that Of white teachers. There are
about $50 Negro teachers and
principals in Atlanta's school sys-
tenn.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01

hotels, while he was just the
handyman. Nevertheless, to
please her eccentric husband, al
though she also liked to save
money, they worked, hard, con-
tinued to save, and as a result
she is 100000 in cash better
off.
According to tire deceased X
friends, only twice in his life did
he leave his native home His
biggest enjoyment was the an
nual Suffolk county fair held at
Riverhead, but even then he did
not bother about money, being
only interested in the livestock
exhibition.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01
New Postal
Superintendent

Alonzo J. Jernigan, a clerk in
the Chicago post Office for the past
IA years, was advanced to the
superintendency of South Water
Market substation last week by
Postmaster Ernest j. Kruetgen.
.Jernigan, an active leader in
the Chicago branch Of the Nat
ional Alliance Of Postal Emploee, S
was born in Sandersville, Ga.
He received his education in the
public schools Of Chicago and at
Morehouse college, Atlanta, Ga
The new official is "a years old
and is married.
Jernigan is the youngest Ne
gro postal executive in the Unit
ed States, according to officials
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01
Cesspool Cleaner Dies; Leaves
His Widow 100000 Estate

QUOQUE, L. l., Feb. 26--(AN
-P) - Last August, Cornelius w.
(Ken) Smith, 74-year-old handy
man and cesspool cleaner, died.
His funeral was preached by a
white minister and a white I'M
dertaker handled the burial. Last
week, however numerous friends
and relatives Of the deceased
man were surprised when Sur
rogate Richard w. Hawkins at
nearby Riverhead, reported that
the one-time cesspool cleaner left
an estate of at least $4,000
when he died Aug. %.
Local residents were not sur
prised by the size of Smiths es-
tate because he had always de-
clared, MY greatest joy is saw
ing money, and if you Cont
spend it, you'll always have it."
These folks had estimated his
wealth at $4,000, but a check Of
records revealed that he had that
amount in more than half a doz-
en- banks. The entire estate was
Willed to the widow, except for
$1,000 bequeathed to his sister,
Mrs. Eddraner S. Pate, who lives
III Harlem.
Mrs. Smith, however, refuses
to discuss her fortune, but at her
nine room house on Old Main
road she stated, I'm going a
way, probably to Washington, and
I'd rather not talk about it. .
Washington is the widows home
She met her late husband, ma
tive of Long Island there in 1914,
when she was 80 and he was "a
She became popular as waitress
Of one Of Quoque's leading white
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01
FINKETT NEW TUSKEGEE
AIR INSTRUCTOR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26-(AN
P)-John E. Pinkett, son Of the
insurance broker and real estate
dealer Of Washington, has been
named flight instructor at Tus-
kegee institute, it is reported and
left the city to assume his duties
at the famous school under the
direction Of the Civil Aeronautics
Authority.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01

plain; Mrs. Alfredo Barnett Dus-
ter, 1899 S. Prairie; Claude Bar
nett, head Of the Associated Negro
Press.
The Negro Exhibit and the Ne
gro History Programs were the
first events of the kind ever fos-
tered in South Chicago. The
Planning Committee consisted Of:
Joseph Cook, 1916 E. 91st street,
general chairman: Mrs. Rosabelle
Cook, Mrs. A. Wainwright, 1911 E.
91st street; Ada Parrish, Mrs.
Leona Washington, Anna Davis,
1882 Avenue o; Mrs. Grace
Brown, 1926 Buffalo; Mrs. Rosena
Harris, 1912 E. 91st street; Lowell
Martin, Librarian South Chicago
Branch and Edith Wokinsky, Pub
lie Relations Assistant, Bertha
Jenkinson, Children's Librarian.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01
DEFENSE WORKER WALKS
FIFTEEN MILES TO WORK

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 26-(AN
P)-Harry Hill discovered during
enc Of the recent sub-zero cold
periods that the regular bus did
not run to the Twin Cities Ord
mace plant at New Brighton, out
side Of Minneapolis. AS a Gus
todian Hills job is to look after
some of the fires in the small
buildings at the plant. Nothwith-
standing the 25 below zero tenn
perature that morning he walk
ed the entire distance and rang
his time card ION time. Hill is
married and the father Of a five
year old girl.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01
TRUCK DRIVER,
SAYS W HIT {
MAN WAR
Held With out
Bail

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 26--(A
NP)-Held without bail awaiting
action of the United States com
missioner by Magistrate Thomas
A. O'Hara last Sunday morning
was a truck driver, accused of
treason and branded a traitor for
declaring "This is a white mans
war. The accused is Harry Car
penter, 54, who was arrested by
Sgt. Edward Simms, an MP at
tached to the 10th Coast artillery,
Negro unit designated to protect
the city from air raiders, along
with II others during a raid Of
a reputed South Philadelphia
gambling house last Saturday
night. The raid was made be-
cause, according to police, sold
iers frequented the establishment.
According to Sgt. Simms' testi-
mony made before Magistrate
O'Hara, Carpenter told him,
you're a crazy n-r wearing
the uniform-you're only fighting
for white trash. This is a white
mans government and war and
it's no damned good" Sgt.
Simms has been in the army %
years.
Carpenter was Immediately Ia
ken along with II others to the
police station. The IL were freed
on bail on gambling charges, but
Carpenter was held on advice of
Asst. Dist. Atty. A. v. Cortese,
who stated. ''The charge probably
should have been sedition. Sc
dition is, where a person sinccS1Ss
disruption M the mochirNTy
the government
1t was said that Carpenter was
scheduled to have hearing be-
fore one Of the u. S. commits
sioners last Tuesday morning,
but a clerk in the commissioners
office disclaimed any knowledge
of such a hearing being sched-
uled.
The anti-seditiOn law Of Penn
sylvania provides penalties up to
20 years Of prison and a $4,000
fine. However, the case is being
referred to U. S. Atty. Gerald
Gleason, who stated he would in
vestigate and prosecute if facts
warranted it. No comment was
made by Gleason on Atty. Gen
Biddle's instructions that sedt-
ton prosecution must have his
approval before beginning.
Counsel for Carpenter, Atty
Raymond Pace Alexander, said.
Well fight this case to the U. S.
Supreme court. There is not the
slightest bit of treason or 'sedl-
ton in fact no actual reason why
the man should be held. This
case strikes at one of the rights
we have always cherished-that
of free speech.
eff what my client said, while
/ do not agree with him, is treas
enable then millions Of people OF
the United States are traitors for
not having exactly complimentary
opinions Of some Of the branches
Of the u. S. government.
IF my client is not given
hearing before an Y. 5. commits
sioner by the end Of this week,
will seek writ Of habeas cor
pus."
The wife Of Carpenter said he
had never talked against the
government before and was ready
to so to war when Uncle Sam
called. drinking might have
made him loose-tongued," she
said.
Carpenter, a Republican, is in
Glass ga Of the selective serv-
ice.