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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-12-12
AKA S Hold
Regional At
Langston y.

LANGSTON, Okla, --(ANP) =
Nineteen chapters Of Alpha Kappa
Alpha sorority, located in the mid
western region, convened at Lang
ston university, November 27-29,
for its 18th Annual Regional con-
ference.
The theme of the conference
was "All for Defense, Defense for
ALL" The highlights were talks
made by various officers of the
sorority. The supreme basileus,
Beulah T. Whitby, spoke at the
Friday morning session. She said,
"'I'he sorority should not be con-
cerned for the welfare of the medi-
ocre--but also should sponsor peo-
pie of high scholastic averages for
this group serves as the yardstick
of Negro progress.
The sorority can do much to
regulate the thinking of mediocre
by interest groups, civilian defense,
civic obligation, and in general,
keeping the morale Of members of
our group, high. 1t should be sug-
gested that each chapter partici-
pate in civilian defense Red Cross,
even though we disapprove Of the
blood bank situation. We should Of
fer them our whole-hearted sup
port, with a continued protest
against things we do not approve
There were two general sessions
one at 8 o'clock Saturday morn
ing; the other at 3 o'clock Saturday
afternoon. At both, Midwestern
Regional Director Manila Darden
Hickman of Tulsa presided.
Outstanding personages present
were Supreme Basileus Beulah T.
Whitby and Birdye Jackson, mid
western regional director of Nom
partisan Council on Public Affairs.
Mrs. Jackson said, "The Negroes
hope lies in continued protest.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-12-12

club Of the nursery school.
I'm our parent-teacher discus
SION" she said, we agreed that
the important thing is for the
child to feel is is that his family
stands ready to face emergencies
with him. 1t is futile to suppress
references to the war from family
conversations, since children near
about it Just the same, over the
radio and from their playmateS
outside the home.
Unless they feel free TO discuss
these matter in the home and re-
ceive reinsurance from their par
ents, their negotiations may run
away with them, causing night
mares and other emotional ursets
ITO offset this. parents should
discuss the war frankly, yet calm'
Iy and internationally. They should
take every possible preceution to
meet whatever crisis may come,
while keeping themselves and the
children busy, with as lit g change
in everyday living as possible.
an order to allay the very small
child's fears, he should be cuddled
in order to have the feeling OF
physical security and warmth thai
satisfies him for the moment. Old
er children may be given definite
duties and responsibilities, such as
helping in small ways during an
air raid practice"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-12-12
Hail Child Welfare
Conference As Step
Toward Full Unity

NEW YORK -(SNS)- Two out
standing leaders in the judicial and
1raternal life of New York praised
the Forthcoming conference on
wartime protection for Negro chill
dren, to be held here December -
-, as a forward step in uniting
Negro and white people for pre-
serving the freedom of Americas
future citizens.
me conference, which opens
Saturday at l p. m, at the Mt
Ollyet Baptist Church, 210 Ienoy
Avenue, will conclude with a mass
meeting at the Renaissance Casino
l3oth Street and Seventh Aven,,e
on sunday. 1t is sponsored by the
congress of Fraternal and Benevo-
lent Organizations, comprisino
more than thirty benevolent and
maternal societies in New YORK
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-12-12

Third Officer Frances G. Alex
ander of Toledo, Ohio, is in COM
Ynand of one company Other Of
ficers in this unit are Third Off
GERS Violet w. Askin and Irma j.
Clayton, both of Chicago. Illinois.
The second company is under
the command of Third Officer Ma
taIie F. Donaldson of New York CT
ty. Third Officers Vera Harrison
of WHEREFORE. Ohio, and Mary
Lewis of Philadelphia, are the 9TH
er officers of this company.
Officers Clayton and Harrison
preceded the troops to Fort Hua-
chuca to direct final preparations
before arrival of the WAACS.
Accompanying the companies
were two Army officers, LIST. Lieu
tenant Harry A. Crowley, train
commander, and Captain Nathan
NJ Cohen, surgeon. Both officers
returned to Fort Des Moines after
completion of the movement.
All meals served en- route were
prepared by WAC bakers and
cooks in kitchen car Of the troop
train using field mess kits for serv.
ing the food. Third Officer Corrie
NJ. Sherard of Atlanta, Georgia,
was acting mess officer for both
companies.
The WAACS followed the routine
OF their usual military day as
closely as possible. Bed check was
made and lights extinguished at
the scheduled hour. WAC guards
and sentries we're responsible for
policing the train. The women de-
trained periodically for physical
exercise
On Saturday, November 90, the
companies participated in their
last regimental review. All officers
reviewing the troops were women,
including the assistant regimental
commander and the battalion COM
mander. The ceremonies took place
III the Coliseum in DeS Moines now
used as a drill area by the WAACS
CHARTERED in hotels in the city.
Auxiliary Muriel Fawcett of
Lynchburg, Virginia, in describ-
ing the eagerness of the WAACS as
they awaited their departure, sum-
married. it this way:
Let's go! Let's go! express our
feelings. We have been diligently
working for many weeks to perfect
skills and techniques which will
enable us to relieve men from
non-combat jobs which women can
fill. Each WAAC is bursting with
pride that she made the grade. If
the men doubt that we can do the
job efficiently, they will soon
change their minds!"
The WAACS at Fort Huachuca
will function in such jobs as chauf-
feurs, typistS, stenographers.
switchboard operators and postal
clerks. Included will be MANY wom-
en- who have received specialized
training as bakers and cooks. They
Will operate the WAC messes at
Fort Huachuca which will be sep
arate from those of the soldiers as
on all Army posts at which units
OF the Corps will serve
Both companies had been bar
racked at the hotels Slavery and
Chamberlain taken over by the
Army several months ago to pro-
vide additional accommodations
for the rapidly expanding Women's
Auxiliary to the Army which has
outgrown even the greatly
increased facilities of Fort Des
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-12-12

TUSkEGEE, Ala. -(SNS)-- The
patients in ward five at the Sta
ton Hospital, Tuskegee Army Fly
ing School, have due cause to want
to remain there; at least, as long
as the radiant smile of Miss Abbie
VOORHEES,. a recent graduate nurse
and second lieutenant, is there to
cheer them.
Sparkling with enthusiasm and
charm, Miss VOORHEES, halls from
Alexandria, La. After attending
Xavier University, she finished her
nurse training at the General Hos
pital No. in Kansas City, Mo. At
ter short career at the Charity
Hospital in New Orleans. she was
commissioned second lieutenant
and assigned to duty at the Tus-
kegee Army Flying School, Ala
bama.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-12-12

Although the child needs more
than ever a strong sense of emo
tional and physical security during
war, he should also be taught to
face realistically the possibility OF
bombing and other disasters, she
stated in an interview following d
recent meeting of the Parent Study
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-12-12
Says Lightlueights
Should Beuare OF
Their Condition
BY HELEN JAMESON

distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc)
Uncle Sam, sending thousands Of physicians and
home to be health minded We have york dc. We
must keep strong mentally, physically, spiritually We
must eat ood get restf sleep snatch little time
for cheerful recreations work like demons
padding a
weight the chances that her liz disease present.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-12-12
LANDSCAPE RED
CROSS GROUNDS
FORT LEWIS, Wash.

10, w dSII. = IANPJ
10 show their appreciation for
Red Cross services, men of a Ne
gro battalion at Fort Lewis took
PICKS, shovels and trucks, leveled
OF the ground around the Red
Gross field directors new head
quarters, and handicapped them.
When Field Director Russell within
thanked the men for their "fine
and generous gesture" they said.
We liked the services and we Xix
ed the building, but we didn't give
damn for the grounds, so we i'm
proved them"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-12-12
By MARIE DOWNING

Have you a cosmetic shortage in
your home? 1t may be that you can
expect this little visitor sometime
in the near future. But in the
meantime, allow us to answer your
patriotic question: Does the beauty
business use materials necessary to
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-12-12
CREAM SOUPS GOOD

Cream soups and cuStards are
good chow and they will put fat on
the ribs. Raisins are ricn in sugar.
can be eaten between meals. Nuts
contain oil; they will help carry
on the campaign for. normal
weight.
To keep the diet balanced it is
necessary to include fruits, vege-
tables, meats, sea foods.
Meals should be eaten leisurelv.
Breakfast must be ample, lnclud-
ing fruit, a beverage, 8 cereal.
either an egg or several slices of
bacon, and toast. Our underweig.;r
are inclined to content themselves
with coffee and nibble. That
won't do.
Exercise that is not vigorous is
important. It creates appetite. hus-
ties UP the blood streams, assists
digestion.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-12-12

hair thoroughly, with clean spray
OF water as from a shower.
What are your beauty prob
lens? Write: Marie Downing.
Larieuse Beauty Bureau, 5000
Lndell Blvd, st. Louis, Mo-, and
She will be glad to answer them.
BE sure to enclose a self address,
ed, stamped envelope.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-12-12

OF widespread interest to social
circles in both Atlanta and De-
troit is the recent marriage OF
Miss Jennie Strickland of Detroit
to 1t. Eugene Moya Partee of A.
lanta and Chicago. The marriage
wash sofemI2ized i'm Washington,
d. c., on the completion of 1t.
Partee's training course at Fort
BelvOir, Virginia.
Mrs. Partee is the youngest
daughter of the late DIR. &C.
Strickland of Detroit and is greatly
admired for her winning person.
atty, charm and beauty. She IS
a 1912 graduate of Speimaii Col
lege where she was quite promi
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-12-12

nent and popular figure in school
activities.
1t. Partee is the only son of Mrs.
Nell Cunningham of Chicago and
grandson of Mrs. Owen Hubbard
of Atlanta. He attended college at
both Morehouse and i'm Cham
paigne, Illinois. Prior to his in
duction into the armed forces. ne
was in the United States Postal
Service.
1t. and Mrs. Partee are now at
Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
where 1t. Partee is stationed at the
Engineers Replacement Center.
They are counted amerg the more
popular couples on the post.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-12-12

by competent MEDICAL man to see
if disease is present.
SLEEP NECESSARY
If he gives her n favorable re-
port, she rlust take more rest, ex-
pend less energy. Skinny girls are
usually on the go all the time,
don't give a fat cell chance to
catch up with them. Social activi-
ties should be cut down to the
limit. Hurried eating must be
avoided. Nine hours Of sleep are
necessary, tcn are letter. Any slim
baby can put on five pounds a
month by getting plenty Of s1eep,
slowing up the pace, eating proper
ly. But she is Just as reluctant tc
do that as the. heavyweight is 10
give up butter, sugar and cream
and take off excess poundage.
Normal weight and measurements
are conducive to vitality.
The candidate for curves need
not overeat. She must understand
that more food must be digested
and 'assimilated eacn day than
she needs Tor that days activities.
SO there viii be surplus to tuck
away in the form of fat.
The diet should contain all nee
essary food elements, should be
properly balanced, of the simplest
KIND. To gain weight quickly 3d.
900 Galleries a Gay are necessary.
81 least 2.5h0. A quart of milk is
not too much. A little extra but
te4 On The oreau ana Oh vegetables
will HELP,
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-12-12
SO-GOOD HAIR DRESSING

6O-G0Od Hair Dressings have been man
fractured and sold direct to the people
who usa It for the past 20 years. There
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-12-12

ID no cO6Hx0 IN Cu8
ruaking Of the So
Good Products. The
only change 10 the
name. TheSe goods
will do now what
they have always
done for you, Ter +
Is known most ~.
esywbere.
TRY N TODAY
SEE OUR PRICES
We want 30 agentk
IN your county At
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-12-12
Says Don't Shield
Children From War

HAMPTON INSTITUTE, (SNS)-Chldren should
not be shielded from OF the actual dangers
of wartime Mrs Ida Jones Curry head of the Nursery
School at Hampton Institute.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-12-12
Time Is SHORTAGE
In Beauty Parade

the requirements of war?
The answer is NO! A look be-
hind the scenes will convince you.
You will discover that nothing is
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-12-12
TlUo Companies
OfWAAC,s ArriDe
At Fort Huachuca

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(SNs)-The War Department
has announced the arrival from Fort Des Mones Iowa of
two Womens Army Auxiliary Corps Post Headquarters
Companies at Fort IIuachuca, Arizona
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-12-12

IS Is per cent below normal
ut the chances are that her
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-04-10
Navy Finally
Eases Up Negro
Racial Ban

Washington, April 8.-Secretary
of Navy Frank Knox announced
here Tuesday that Negro Ameri-
cans would be accepted by the
Navy, Marine Corps and Coast
Guard for enlistment in the Naval
Reserve. Thus ends the policy of
accepting Negroes as mess attend
ants in the Navy and the ily-white
policy of the Marine Corps which
has never been open to "known"
Negroes.
The concession ends months of
constant and unrelenting barrage
by the Negro Press of the country
plus one or two dailies, notably
Marshall Field and Ralph Inger-
soils Pm. which is fast becoming
a powerful influence in American
public opinion.
Preliminary announcements say
training school will be set up for
Negro seamen and that they will
probably be assigned to small war
ships with white officers.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-04-10
Credit Union
Forum Sunday
In St. Paul

Karl Wander Horch, Minnesota
Credit Union Supervisor, will be
the principal speaker at the Sun
day Forum sponsored by the Asso-
ciated Negro Credit Union, Sun
day, April IL, at 4 p. m. at Halle
@. Brown House.
In it's program of promoting
thrift, this organization, operating
entirely with volunteer services,
has saved thousands of dollars for
this community during it's brief ex-
istence of about five years.
Rev. S. E. Ware of Pilgrim
Baptist Church will speak. Others
on the program are the Four Pro-
phets, quartette, directed by Miss
jeanette Dorsey, and the Swanee
Singers, trio, directed by Mrs. S. E.
Ware.
Mrs. Nellie Wright, educational
committee chairman, will preside.
A question and answer period
will follow the principal speakers
address. Those wishing to know
more about the operation of credit
unions and their advantages are
urged by the committee in charge
to attend this forum where these
questions will be answered by one
in authority.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-04-10

Cab Co., who was in the Palace at
the time of the shooting, also called
it unnecessary.
"I'll tell you right now," he said,
'they didn't need any shooting.
There was no use for MPs to use
guns"
Others bore out this view. The
fleeing Negro was racing for his
own barracks, only 25 yards away.
If the MP had merely continued to
chase him, witnesses said, he
probably could have collared his
man in the barracks without
trouble because the fleeing man
had no choice but to enter the bar
racks or race around them across
open flats of land where he could
have been spotted easily.
These statements, plus the fact
that MPs at Dix are under strict
orders never to use guns unless
their lives or the lives of others
are endangered, indicate that the
MP was edgy, presumably because
of the growing racial friction.
Tension was high for hours
after the shooting. Employees of
the Sports Palace remained cover
ing inside it for more than two
hours after the battle and then
bolted across the fields to Point
vile and buses out of town.
Taxi drivers, countermen, sol
diers and MPs around Dix and in
Wrightstown and Pointville dis
cussed the battle cagily. Negro
sentries in the southeast corner of
the reservation, formerly a sort of
Little Harlem when Negro troops
quartered there were separated
from the rest of the camp by the
rifle range, were nervous when re-
porters questioned them.
But the tension eased during the
day. By last night everyone
seemed to be acting normally. Bars
got their usual play and Negro and
white soldiers sat and stood side
by side at camp entertainments.
They were meticulously polite.
Some thought too polite.
VICTORY GARDEN FORUM
The first in a series of garden
forums will be held Friday, April
10, at 2 p. m. at the Minneapolis
Gas Light auditorium, sponsored by
the garden committee Of the Min
neapolis Civilian Defense Council.
Men and women interested in home
flower or vegetable gardens are in
vited to attend this meeting to get
first-hand information on how to
make the best of your Victory gar
den. The second in this series will
be held Friday, April II, at the
Minneapolis General Electric Co. at
the same time.
More forums to be held at the
Gas Light Co. and the General
Electric Co. will be announced
later.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-04-10
n. A. A. Drive
Enlists 2S6 as
Drive Continues

A total of 236 memberships and
$276.55 was reported by the cap
tains and workers in the member
ship drive launched by the st. Paul
branch of the National Association
for Advancement of Colored People
on March 25, in a report meeting
in the Halle @. Brown Community
House, Tuesday. Victory Division
No. 2, led by John M. Culver, led
Victory Division No. 1, of which
Mrs. Mabel M. Brown is the cap
tain, by LOT to SO memberships.
Mrs. Ora Reed, lieutenant of the
Blue team of Victory Division No.
2, reported go memberships and
$107.50, to take the team lead in
the drive. Mrs. Ardelia Allen, cap
tain of the "Mop-up" squad, re-
ported Sc memberships.
Mrs. Ethel Maxwell Williams,
chairman of the membership drive,
commended the workers and urged
them to make an all-out effort to
reach the goal before the campaign
closes on April 26. Among the new
members reported were DR.. Thomas
Lowe, president of the Kiwanis
Club of South St. Paul. Rev. Clar-
ence T. R. Nelson, publicity chair
man, secured three memberships
when he addressed the South St.
Paul Kiwanis Club last week. Gov
ernor Harold E. Stassen, who is a
member of the St. Paul Branch, is
a member of the South st. Paul
Kiwanis Club.
Rev. Benjamin N. Moore, presi-
dent of the Branch, is urging every
member to get a new member dur
ing this campaign. Several cases
of discrimination are being investi-
gated, he said.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-04-10
WOmen's Activities
Radio Interview

Mrs. Peavey Hefflefnger, chair
man of the Women's Activities
Council of the Minneapolis Defense,
will interview district chairmen
over WCCO at 6:45 p. m. Saturday.
Among those to be interviewed
will be Mrs. Blanche Mason, chair
man of precincts 1, 10 and II of
Ward 8.
Mrs. Mae Marshall, member of
the executive board of the defense
council, requested that citizens
listen in. She also urged large at
tendance at the big mass meeting
at the Municipal Auditorium, April
Is.
Mrs. Marshall also requested
volunteers to serve as ushers at
the meeting. Twenty-Five women
are needed. Call Colfax 6251.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-04-10
(From N. Y. PM

FORT DIX, N. j., Apr. A
fostering growth of anti-Negro
prejudice today appeared to be the
underlying cause of the pitched
battle between white MPs and Ne
gro troops in which three soldiers
were killed Thursday night, Apr. 2.
Despite official disclaimers,
Army officers have been aware of
the fester-and worried about it
for more than year. Off the rec
ord, some agree with private SOL
diers, cab drivers, countermen and
entertainment hall managers, who
said of the battle:
at was bound to happen"
It was bound to happen, they be-
lieve, because anti-Negro feeling
had been deliberately whipped up
at times and there had been in
creasingly frequent clashes.
Sources OF Prejudice
The sources of the. prejudice are:
Southern frebrands transferred
to Dix from other camps.
Civilian bigots in towns near
Fort Dix, some of whom go out of
their way to insult and disparage
Negro troops.
Although the battle on Thursday
night may have been merely the
outcome of a barroom brawl, as the
Army officially labeled it, the speed
with which it developed and the
calm evidenced by townspeople in
Wrightstown and Pointville indi-
Gated that it was more or less ex-
pected.
That feeling has been running
high was reported by a noncom,
who can't be quoted, whose job
keeps him in touch with all de-
velopments on the post. He said
that there have been frequent fist
fights among the white and Negro
troops, particularly the Southern
soldiers, and that even the drivers
on the Trenton buses were getting
edgy, fearing a clash some night
if Negroes should crowd bus and
leave Southerners standing.
The same noncom reported that
saloon and restaurant keepers in
the neighborhood repeatedly in
suited Negroes to drive them away.
Although the practice is by no
means universal, he said many bar
keepers charge Negroes 80 cents a
glass for dime glass Of beer, or
break the glasses from which they
have drunk to show them they're
not wanted.
Trouble Expected
His reports were corroborated
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-04-10
New York Daily Blames
Fort Dix Riots on NJ. P.'s
and Southern Whites

by several others familiar with
conditions at Dix. And the official
Army version of the battle indi-
Gated that the Negroes expected
trouble.
According to the Army, the fight
started in the Military Sports Pal
ace, a sprawling stucco building,
operated by one August Waldron,
on an island of private property in
side the post. The clash became
serious when a Negro soldier, fee
ing after trying to grab an MP's
revolver, raced out of the sports
palace and toward his barracks, rs
yards away across dirt road. The
Army said the MP fired a shot in
the air to halt him.
That shot, according to the
Army, brought fusillade from the
Negro barracks. 1t was impossible
to check that statement with eye
witnesses. None questioned seemed
to be certain of the sequence of
events.
The fight couldn't have developed
in that fashion, unless the Negroes
in the barracks had their rifles
loaded. This is unlikely because
the men must have stolen the am
munition from the practice range,
serious infraction of rules, and it
isn't likely they left it in their
rifles, where the first inspection
would have shown them up.
That the fight spread swiftly
was corroborated by witnesses on
the scene. George Sherman, man
ager of the Military Sports Palace,
told of hearing a scattering of
shots and seeing an MP fall,
wounded.
81 went to the street to take the
fallen man to the hospital" Sher-
man said.
"MPs were under the parked
cars shooting. They yelled to us to
get back. Inside everybody was on
the floor tried to get the pool
balls so they would not be thrown
around. Then a group of leuten-
ants came in and passed around
rifles"
Shooting Unnecessary
Sherman couldn't explain how
the row started, but was convinced
that the shooting was unnecessary
and probably resulted from edgy
nerves.
This conviction was echoed by an
MP.
'I'm sure it would never have
happened if colored MPs were on
the job," he said.
A driver employed by the Willets