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Evening star., 1942-10-07
Anne Shirley Charges
Producers Doubled
Ugly Legs for Hers
Py the Associated. Press

Fs the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. T.
Screen Actress Anne Shirley
has filed suit for 100000 against
the Charles r. Rogers Produc-
tions, alleging another woman's
legs were substituted for hers in
a scene from The Powers Girl"
Anne, who plays the part of
hosiery model in the picture,
claims the substitution was
made after showing her lifting
her skirt and then changing to
a second scene which displayed
only the legs.
Her complaint, filed in Su-
perior Court by Attorney Paul
P. Schreibman. says:
Defendants used a double for
Miss Shirley and said doubles
legs were of unflattering dimen-
sions, belonging to a former
burlesque actress, and were
more muscular and half again
as large as plaintiffs legs"
Evening star., 1942-10-07
u. 5. Studies Protest
On Custer Of French
Political Prisoners
Moy Join Mexico in
Representations Asoinst
Sermon Proposal

Acting Secretary Of Stat. we,,es
1noicated today that the United
o|a'es may join in protest against
repofted plans to deport l50. 600
pontlcal prisoners now in France to
germany in exchange for French
war prisoners. ~
he said this Government had mt
yet received any information from
mexico concerning a protest re-
ported to be in the making but
would consider very fayorablv s,,ch
suggestion. ~
This Government also will favor
any step possible to assist refugee
IiliuIen IN France left destitute by
uepurtatlon OF their families. Mr.
Weiles told a press conference He
saio ne understood movements were
underway to provide homes in this
country for many of the children
recent British broadcast on
nena1 of the American air forces
Urging evacuation of French in
uoSCrlal centers, Mr.. Welles said
~ response to other questions, is
IN hne with this Governments in
Ientlons to bomb every factory
operating for Germany that may
nc located IN Occupied France.
~ mas been made clear to French
Hutnorltles that wherever there
may be such war objectives as fac
tolles operating in German in
,*,E uereses they will be bombed, Mr..
Weiles said, He added that, Of
course, it is not the American de-
sire That innocent French people
suHer as result of the bombinrs
Evening star., 1942-10-07
Eastman Club Plans Week
OF Armistice Activities

A full week of Armistice Dav ac-
tiVltles will commemorate the fifth
anniversary of Washington's Last
Man Club Of World War veterans.
IT mas been announced. The theme
Tor the program will be AL Out
for Victory"
william B. Covert, editor of the
Main Objective, club publication,
general chairman of the victory pro-
gram. announced plans for the
weeks events as follows:
Sunday, November 8, services in
I'LL churches with prayers for VIC
tory; Monday, November 8, hospital
Vlsltations; Tuesday, November 10.
victory dinner at the Fairfax Hotel
wednesday, November II, Armistice
Day observances at the tomb of
the Unknown Soldier; Thursday,
November IL, letters to the boys in
service; Friday, November 13, war
souvenir salvage, and Saturday, No
vember IA, keep-fit night
On November 13, Mr.. Covert said,
club members and others who wish
to take part will assemble at a place
to be designated by the District Sal
wage Committee and will present
Chairman Horace Walker with a
scrap collection including various
types of trench helmets, rifles bayo-
nets, grenades. shell castings, gas
masks, ammunition, coins, medals
and other items.
Details of the victory program
Mr.. Covert said, will be published
In the Armistice Day edition Of the
Main Objective.
Evening star., 1942-10-07

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Tennessee University
Negro Ban Upheld by
State Supreme Court

Nashville, Tenn. - Holding
that the question of admitting the
Negroes to graduate schools is a
moot one, the Supreme Court of
the State of Tennessee affirmed
this week the Chancery courts
decision in the case of Homer L.
Saunders, Joseph M. Michael,
Clinton M. Marsh, Ezra Totten, P.
L. Smith and S. E. Harday,
against the University of Tennes-
see. The case was argued before
the Supreme Court by DR.. Leon
A. Ransom. member of the NAA-
CP Legal Committee, and Dean
of the Howard University School
of Law. He argued that the cour-
ses which the plaintiffs sought to
study were not available at any
state supported schools other
than the University and that to
bar them from the University of
Tennessee constituted race dis
elimination and was violation of
constitutional rights based solely
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on race and color.

The court held that equivalent
facilities have been authorized by
the state legislature by an act of
1941 and that further decision
of the issues becomes unnecessary
and improper" The court said
further: that the legislature of
1911 took no rights away from
the appellants. On the contrary
the right to equality in education
with white students was specific
ally recognized and methods by
which these rights would be rec
ognized was set forth in the leg
islation. What more could be de-
manded? We find no merit in any
of the assignments of error. The
result is that the degree of the
chancellor must be affirmed.
The case was filed in Knox
County Chancery Court in 1889
by local counsel Carl A. Cowan
and 2. Alexander LOBBY.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1942-11-25
WHAT WOULD YOU
RATHER BE?
BY RUTH TAYLOR

What would you rather be than
an American? Where would you
rather live, if not in American
That is the only question we
need ask ourselves today. That is
the only issue at stake. There is
nothing to be gained and every
thing to be lost trying to push
through detailed demands now or
by eaviling and carping on points
of disagreement.
There is just one issue for each
and every one of us. whether we
are Negro or White, whether we
are Protestant, Catholic or jew,
whether we are employer or work
, er, and that issue is - Would
we rather be Americans? Do we
want to be Americans? Are we
willing to take the responsibility
that is ours as Americans? Do we
thank our lucky star we live here
rather than elsewhere?
If the answer is yes, then the
road before US is plain. We must
stick to the narrow way - and
concentrate on one thing alone,
the preservation of America. We
must put aside everything that
interfcres with our application to
this nomentous task. There will
be time for other things later.
This does not mean that we
must overlook or cease to con-
denim inequalities. discrimination
bad feeling, or prejudice. our
America is not perfect, but its
record since the signing of the
Constitution one hundred and fif-
ty-fve years ago, its record since
the Emancipation Proclamation
seventy-nine years ago, show
greater progress than anywhere
else on the globe in the same |
length of time.
The question before us is -
Do we want to go on. as Ameri-
cans, leveling upward. gaining
ground by the peaceful methods
of education and free discussion,
achieving greater rights for each
succeeding generation through !
rou own merits?
Or do we want to change the
orderly process of democracy for
new masters, who hide the chains
of slavery under garlands of flow
cry words, who offer to free
people the bondage under which |
their own people groan.
What would you rather be? |
You must make your own choice.
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PORTLAND NEWS

Donald Don" Rutherford of
Los Angeles Calf. formerly of
Portland, surprised members of
his family and friends when he
arrived recently for a few days
visit in eye old home town"
Twas a double surprise we should
have said for when Don arrived
Unexpectedly he found no one
home at the family residence in
N. e. Shaver, as dad (Mr. Willie
Rutherford) was somewhere be-
tween Portland and Spokane (his
rum and Mrs. Verdell Rutherford,
his sister-in-law with her two
young sons, Billie and Earl Wayne
We're in Seattle. So it was a COM
plete shut out for the former Or
egonian who has acquired, during
his two years away, much of the
southern ari stocr cy. Utter
ly surprised was the family, when
met at the station as they return
ed to find Don there to greet
them. Three days eliminated a
very pleasant visit rejoicing with
him over his success in his chos-
en- field as Electrical Engineer at
the Douglas Air Field in Los An
geles where two years ago he
started in as messenger and rose
to his present position as white
collar man, boss of his own desk
and officer. Young Rutherford is
at the present the only race man
occupying such position at
Douglas. Mrs. Rutherford and
sons spent three weeks in Seattle,
Wash. visiting sister, Mrs.
Helen Smith. Also at the same
time was their mother, Mrs. M.
Burdine of Yakima, Wash. and
Mrs. Deloris Watson another sis
ter. formerly of Yakima, whose
husband is in defense work in Sc
attic. Mrs. Rutherford was joined
there by her husband, Mr.. Otis
Rutherford in time for reaI
family reunion. There were also
rounds of parties and in between
courtesies to make their stay a
very delightful one.
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MRS. BETHUNE
SCORES WAAC
SEGREGATION;
DENIES APPROVAL

New York, N. Y. = Pointing to
Mary Mcleod Bethunes consis
tent life long record of opposition
to any form of limitation of the
Negroes citizenship and human
rights Gas sufficient record to re-
flute any implication that she fav-
ored segregation of Negro and
White w A ACS at Fort Des
Moines," Walter White, NAACP
Executive Secretary this week
"When it was stated to me that
Mrs. Bethune explicitly or implic-
lilly had given her approval to seq
gregation at Des Moines or any
where else I knew mistake had
been made somewhere. Mrs. Beth
une has always fought for COM
plete Indignation of the Negro.
1--WE understand that the officer
who stated that Mrs. Bethune
Lieutenant Harriet West had ia
vored the Des Moines arrange
ment later denied that he had
made such a statement despite the
fact that he made his original
statement to a number of colored
WAACS."
Earlier in the week Mrs. Beth
une wrot the NAACP:
st have read with great alarm
your findings on the status of
segregation being praeticed in the
training of the Women's Army
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ORDER OF THE
EASTERN STAR

Olympic Chapter o. E. s., of
Tacoma at their regular meeting
on Thursday night, royalty enter
tanned with very delicious lunhc
to several members of Queen of
Sheba and Jephthah chapters of
Seattle and the Grand Master E.
j. Brown of Spokane. The Wor-
thy Matron Sis Atha Taylor and
the Worthy Patron Bro. A. L.
Hayes, and members. made il
very pleasant for the guest, from
Queen of Sheba Chapter, MRS
Sarah Horton, Mrs. Emma Chain
ey, Mrs. Rebecca Taylor, Mrs
Anna Bagley, Mrs. Jeanette Wa
tiers, Bros. ]. H. Lee and j T,
Bradley; from Jephthah, Mrs
Martha Davis, Miss Della Clarke
Mrs. Hattie Howard, Mrs. Mabel
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Have You a Lost Or
Lapsed Insurance Policy?

THE NATIONAL INSURANCE
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Insurance has been obtained by
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Over a period of several years
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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1942-11-25
TACOMA NEWS
BY HELEN b. STAFFORD

The Matrons Club met on
Thursday evening, at the resi-
dence of Mrs. Edgar Pryor. After
an evening of entertainment, the
hostess served a delicious supper.
The next melting will be at the
residence of Mrs. e. e. Elmore.
Miss Fannie Frazier, of Seattle,
will be the hostess.
-
Bethune Chapter of the W. C.
T. U. will hold it's November roll
call. Sunday afternoon, Novem-
Der 20, at the Allen A. M. E.
Church. Guest speakers will be
Mrs, Foley Barwick, Pierce Coun-
ty President, and Mrs. Selma
Lindseth, State Director of Inter
national Affairs. There will be
representatives present from Har-
riet Tubman Chapter of Seattle,
and from the George Washington
Carver Chapter of Longview.
There will be a special presenta-
ton of the LTL's and the Junior
YTC. Also new members of Beth
une Chapter will be introduced.
Devotionals Will be led by Mrs.
B. L. Yount, and there will be
special music by the Misses Free
man of Longview, pianist, violin
list and vocalist. Hot lunch will be
served in the church parlors.
Members and friends are cordial
ly invited to be present. Mrs. Fe-
lecia Ray isc President, and Mrs.
e. C. McCabe is State Director.
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Shilo Baptist
n. Il. 10th and Everette
Rev. r. Il. Donaldson, Minister
s. S. 1000 a. m. Preaching II
a. m. and 8 p. m. Prayer services
Mt. Olivet Baptist
IN. T. First and Schuyler
Rev. James j. Glow, Pastor
Sunday was Youth Day; the
Bethel A. NJ. r..
n. McMillen and Larabee
Rev. b. C. Allen, Pastor
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WENATCHEE NEWS
BY ALICE MAY SMITH

Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Collins and
daughter, Gladys. spent Saturday
and Sunday night at the ranch
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Taylor,
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Johnson
and son, Leonard, arrived from
Seattle by motor Saturday night.
They were the guests of Mrs. JOS
eph Taylor's mother, Mrs. L. ".
Gaines. Later Sunday, Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Taylor and Mrs. Ar
thur Johnson went visiting Mrs.
Taylor's sister, Mrs. Robert Smith.
Mrs. Robert Smith served lunch
con at her home in the country.
They were entertained later at
late dinner and dancing party, a
large number of guests attended.
Robert Jackson, pioneer resi-
dent of East Wenatchee for the
past 80 years, died last Wednes-
day morning at a local hospital.
He was a member of the Baptist
church and is survived by his
daughter, Mrs. Pettis Lott, of
Scott, Miss, one sister, Mrs. Min
ME Duffy, and eight grandchild-
rem. Miss Oleare Mckinney, his
granddaughter, has been living in
Wenatchee for the past year. Fun
eral services will be held at the
Jones funeral home. Burial in the
Evergreen Cemetery.
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ROY WILKINS CALLS FOR
UNITY BETWEEN RACES

Pittsburgh, Calif.-Urging col
ored old settlers and all liberal
white people who can be enlisted
to work out a definite program for
the adjustment of incoming black
and white workers to California
from southern states, Roy Will
kins Assistant NAACP Secretary
and Crisis Editor told a large re-
sponsive audience here this week
that the "main problem of the Ne
gro workers in war industries is
not getting of employment but
getting work at their trades and
getting upgraded on the job to
better paying categories."
Mr.. wilkins has noted the diff
Guilty also in the defense employ
ment of Negro women although
hopeful beginnings have been
made. He said that he has found
a growing problem of adjustment
for Negro and white workers COM
ing from the south of communi-
ties which had had very little ra-
cial friction. Mr.. wilkins is on a
western trip which began in Den
vor. Cole, and continues through
the Pacific Northwest down to the
Coast to the Los Angeles area
where from November 20 to Nov
ember 20 he will address NAACP
branches. On his return eastward,
Mr.. wilkins will visit Fort Hua-
chuca, Ariz., where the 93rd di-
vision is training.
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SAVOY Don't Miss The
Grand Opening
AMERICA MUST COUNTER ACT JAPAN
DEMOCRACY HERE OFFERS THE WAY
CONTINUED from Page y

its "new ORDER though controls the of Europe
Japan has made a start in securing alliances.
To fight Japan only with weapons of confirms
its claim that this is a of We take
other course, and should. We demonstrate here
in America hta who different live together.
We have proven for of different natonalities Let's
finish the job by proving democracy workable for
1t is the only this threat the Orient
LOOK OUT FOR THE JAPANESE
The Japanese say "Asia for Asiatics" today When
they have that what is stop them from copying
Genghis Khans and drive west? American
by taking away the for their when it
can be taken away.
Race prejudice posons democracy at the heart.
who resist democratic practices and
add millions of allies JAPAN and multiply its threat
to *. CALL
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1942-11-25

The Manpower Commission has
stressed the urgency of increasing
Negro employment in war produc-
ton. In the coming months ev-
cry worker black or white,
male or female - must serve in
the post for which he is best fit
ted. This must be done whether
Governor Dixon of Alabama or
/ Tom Ray of Portland likes it or
not. Labor representatives on the
Manpower Commission are oppos-
ing enactment of new work-or-
fight legislation and employment
controls. Green has publicly
pleaded for further trial of "vol-
untary methods" The Negro is
sue is key test. Are A. F. of L.
officials prepared to open all the
doors TO Negroes? Are they ready
to challenge international unions
which cling to constitutional pro-
visions against Negroes? viii
they crack down on intransigent
local officials - not via Western
Union appeals but by summary
dismissal or revocation of char
ters? Autonomy In the fedora
ton is sacrosanct only when its
officials don't want to act. If
union local fell into the hands of
avowed Nazi agents, would its
autonomy be respected? Is Ray
much aaove that level?
The truth is that cleanup Is
neither as difficult nor as COM
pick a process as the A. r. of L.
leaders suggest. A few decisive
steps in individual cases would
have repercussions throughout
the federation; reputation of Jim
Grow by one powerful interna-
tional would put others on the
spot. Instead, Tobin and other A.
F. of L. chiefs have covered up
for the offending unions and
Vol has fashioned various pro-
found legalisms to safeguard
them. - THE NATION.
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N OW ON SALE
1929 Pacific Coast

Negro Directory Csc
Holidays Barbershop,
511 n. W. 9th
9th st. Pool and Lunch
Alb n. w. 9th
Fraternal Association
1876 n. Vancouver
Mrs. M. Dunca, 2216 S. II. 9TH
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A NEW SOUTH--APRA


Southern States have served a
measures, among others, restrict
ing or preventing Negro peoph
from voting. Millions of poo
whites have also been a prey t
the evil designs of these laws. TIL,
Geyer anti-poll tax bill has beer
passed in recent weeks by tn,
lower House of Congress. Their,
Is faint chance that a hostile
Senate may pass the bill before
the end of the administration Of
President Roosevelt. This would
be in keeping with the progressive
social legislation sponsored by
the President.
The poll tax laws have contrib
uted to certain backward condi.
tons of the South. A Federal
law multiplying the poll tax laws
of the South, in regard to Federal
elections. is a progressive step.
The law is protested in the South.
The protest does not represent,
any more necessarily, the fixed ex-
preston of the plain people. The
hue and cry comes from individ-
uals or groups who are basing
their hopes and plans of the flu
ture on outmoded traditions of
yesterday year.
With the coming of a larger
share of the Nations industry to
the South, many minds. including
the lowly white tiller of the soil,
are affecting a change of heart.
Under compelling conditions, the
white worker has learned that
the fate of all workers of the
South has been, and will be, tied
up together. The Negro has been
the chief worker of the South, in
keeping with certain traditions of
the South. In these last observa-
tons any sustained fight for dem
ocracy in the Southland must be
promoted by the people lowest
down.
Recently J. r. Butler, white,
president of the Southern Tenant
Farmers Union, has begun a ma
tionwide tour to promote nation
al sentiment against the poll tax
laws of the Southland and sup
port for the fight on diserimina-
ton against Negroes in the Ma
tons industry. Mr.. Butler is
native of the State of Arkansas.
There is a growing. if restrain
ed, emotionalism in Dixie point
ing the way toward fair play in
the economical and the political
life of the Southland. This reac-
ton must come inevitably as the
people of the South are exposed
to the enlightenment of the Ma
ton. The Land of King Cotton
may yet play a significant role
in 1.-The things to come"
hTe American way of life is the
heritage OF all the people of the
Southland. hTe climate of the
section aqords ideal living sur
roundings. The soil is fertile and
many minerals are found in the
earth of it's vast extent. There
are many natura1 developments
that should promote a promising
industrial growth of this section.
But the South, the promising
section of the land in the new era
of industralism, is the most back
ward, happens as the majority of
the people will it to be. Today a
new spirit. a wee small voice, is
rising in the Southland, the peo-
pies challenge to manners of
their own undoing. We shall have
a great day in hte Southland civ
ilization; justice and progress will
be inevitably the peoples choice
above and beyond the fallacious
social burdens (evils) of yester-
year.-Sepia Socialite N. O., La.
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Auxiliary Corps at Fort Des
Moines. Specifically, I am even
more alarmed because of infor-
gro members of the wAAC indi-
nation coming to you and to Ne
eating that I have given my ap-
prevail to this segregated plan of
operation.
"I have never at any time ap-
proved aggregation at Fort Des
Moines."
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Austin and Mrs. Blanch Stevens,
and the Grand Master of Wash
ington and its Jurisdiction, Mr..
E. j. Brown. Mrs. Callie B. Brad
ley who has been the Secretary
for Olympic Chapter for the last
years, gave a complete and pre-
else report of the last IL months
work. At the close, she was grant.
ed a demit at her request to join
one of the Chapters of Seattle, as
she is making it her home. The
w. M. Sis Atha Taylori N behalf
of Olympic Chapter, presented
Sis Bradley with beautiful past
Matron pin. The association and
work of Mrs. Bradley will live
long in each ones heart. T h e
Writer wishes good luck and sue
cess to Olympic Chapter and is
thankful to have a sister like Mrs.
Bradley to be one of our munger
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Self Improvement Club.
Big Thanksgiving Dance,