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CHURCH NEWS

WaymAn A.M.E. Church hottest Sunday
was Women's Day at WRymRn. The
spiritual fervor ran high. The theme for
the day was Faith and Courage The
women Of the choir furnished the music,
with Mrs. Ethel Butler as organist. Evan
gelist Hill had charge Of the morning
service Mrs. WinOna Minis and Mrs.
Dorothy Tony sang q beautiful duet.
Evangelist Parkinson was the speaker for
the morning service: she delivered very
inspiring message, full Of food for thought.
Visitors present were Evangelist Z. J.
Of God in Christ Mrs. Pinkie Nelson.
Mrs. Frances Walton, Miss Hvonne Bon
land Of Minneapolis Mrs. Beatrice Miller,
Detroit. Mich. Mrs. Grace Harris, Wash
ington, D. c.. and Elder James G. Jack
son Of Cincinnati. Ohio, Elder Jackson
was presented by the pastor. Rev. L. P.
Ashford.
Sunday afternoon at p. m, the women
Of Wayman held their second service,
Evangelist Cudellus Jackson Of st. Paul,
conducted the services. Mrs. Marie Nc
DOnell was mistress Of eeTemOniea. Mrs,
bessie Gresham sang two beautiful solos,
accompanied by Mrs. Dolores Webb. Mrs.
Martha Lee. speaker for the afternoon,
brought a thOuEht-provOking message which
was enjoyed by all. This service closed the
day with a huge success spiritually and
financially. Mrs. WinonR Minis was pro
moter.
Sunday morning the pastor will occupy
the pulpit.
sunday afternoon at p m. Rev. F
Christ. Los Angeles. Calf, will preach
for the official board. The public is invited
June q. at ?. m, the Pastors Aid
society Is sponsoring James Williams In
a piano recital at the church. Mrs. Fiossie
Harris will give a few readings. Tn
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ence Of death would have attracted
worldwide attention, and would
have inspired a review Of the trial.
A review Of the trial, even at this
time would add further credence to
the growing belief that the U. S.
Army is no place for an American
Negro to look for justice. Jones
received a life sentence because II
was not conclusively proven that
he was guilty Of the crime as
charged.
Primary evidence at any trial is
the confession Of the accused. The
court martial was presented with
a confession by Jones, and had it
been allowed to stand, there would
have been good and sufficient
grounds to believe that he was
guilty, but the confession was
thrown out. Bearing in mind that
five Of the judges were southerners,
stepped in rigid military discipline
and unrelenting southern prejudice,
you will agree that there must have
been something rotten about the
confession and the manner in which
II was obtained. Four members Of
the Military Police testified that
they had seen Jones beaten for
eight hours by Army Criminal In
vestigation men to obtain il.
A fellow prisoner Of Jones', 1t,
Ernest Fidello, who shared the
same detention barracks with him,
was defense counsel. Just imagine
q civilian on trial for his life having
q fellow prisoner for q lawyer, and
you'll get an idea Of the dignity Of
Jones' defense.
As ! recall the reports Of the
! incident that resulted in the court
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martial at which Jones was found
guilty, there was a running battle
between the Military Police and
three fleeing CPS of which Jones
was one. At that time there was
nothing to indicate that Jones had
killed anyone. Perhaps inveStiga-
ton showed that his gun fired the
lethal shot, but he was certainly
entitled to a fair trial.
The atmosphere in the Paris
courtroom was certainly not whole
some enough to inspire confidence
in the verdict. Jones halls from
Cleveland, Ohio, and he might have
come from any Of the cities Of the
United States where this is being
read. He was indicted into the
U. s. military machine, and was
taught to kill mercilessly. At the
same time he was taught to stay
in his place. Whatever the offense
for which he was being pursued so
that he could be locked up, he was
being hunted down as Telentlessly
as any Maxi might have been dur
ing war time.
As a Negro who had stood ready
to die for the freedom that he
knew he could never enjoy, he was
probably fed up and quite willing
to escape into the uncertain exist
enee Of deserter, but it is reason
able to assume that had he not
been forced into the avocation of
murder, the idea would never have
entered his head. Here, obviously
Is a miscarriage Of military justice,
The case Of Eddie Jones merits re.
view by an authority higher and
less biased than that before which
he lost his liberty for life.
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their receipts and expenditures,
have their accounts audited by a
certified public accountant periodi-
cally, and issue annual financial
statements in order that the public
may know what happens to money
II contributes for various purposes.
The efficacy of this is nowhere bet
ter demonstrated than by what
Bishop Nichols has been able to
get the people Of Alabama TO do
for themselves in the matter of
raising tremendous sums Of money
to wrest scores of churches from
the clutches Of greedy loan sharks.
Our argument here is based upon
what has always invariably been
so well pointed out in the case of
the Master who gave several per-
sons varying numbers Of talents
some of whom buried theirs, others
of whom held on to theirs, with no
increase in either case, while the
man who received one but put it
to exchange was able to give a
good accounting Of his stewardship.
For this he was given many talents.
1t was my privilege recently to
talk with the head of the largest
colored State Masonic Grand Lodge
in America-Grand Master Charles
V. Hendly Of Alabama. learned
he heads an upward Of thirty thou
sand member order. Each year the
endowment secretary, Fred c. Jenk-
ms, issues a complete statement
Of the financial transactions and
condition of the Order. The gen.
eral statement is broken down into
detailed departmental statements,
and the general statement is avail
able to newspapers and the public
in general as well as to the mem
bership Of the Order.
This is not true in the case Of
many other organizations. Hence,
there is a lack of faith in them
by many who would give them the
type Of support necessary to enable
them to furnish a freed leadership
without which the Negro cannot
make respectable and genuine prog
ress.
Let the people know what you do
with their money, and they will
give you all you need to do what
ought to be done, the way it ought
be done.
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of trucks arrived in town there was
a mad scramble by the soldiers to
be first in line at one Of the three
brothels. Military police were sta
toned at each brothel to keep the
soldiers in line outside and to see
that they laid their money on the
line on the inside.
One of the MP's who handled this
difficult job is a veteran whom you
read about. His name is Al Hoos-
man. He was one of Joe Louis
sparring partners while the champ
trained for his fight with Billy
Conn. Hoosman had the reputation
of being one of the most clean cut
MP's in the Pacific area. He also
kept good order in the brOthels.
The brothel line is about the only
place in the army where the caste
system does not apply. Officers,
first sergeants and privates took
their places as they arrived at the
brothels. At times, however, a pa
tient soldier at the head of the line
would sell his place to one Of his
more impatient buddies for twice
the cost of a woman inside.
When American trops Of the
Forty-eighth Quartermaster, the
Twenty-ninth Quartermaster, the
Ninety-sixth Engineers and the
394th Port Battalion arrived in
Australia in 1912, the cost Of q
woman in a brothel was five shil'
lings $50 cents to you) and was
regulated by the Australian gov
eminent. Three months later, how
ever, the same brothels were charg'
ing a pound and half Thirty shil
lings or slightly more than So ant
doing a whale of a business.
One Of the first clashes the Aus
tralian soldiers had with American
GPs was over raising the price o
women in brOthels.
We were on foreign soil all tn
while the wives of servicemen wer
supposed to be carrying on s
"scandalOusly" back here in thes
United States, but we are Willing
to lay odds of 3 to l that the aver
age young wife is 100 per cent les
immoral than her wife-beating vet
eran husband.
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Dear Joe
By JAMES L. HICKS
Dear Joe:

Dear Joe:
The unsung heroes of World War
II are the wives of soldiers who
remained faithful while their men
were at war, but they are being
rewarded by being discarded.
The courts are crowded these
days with cases of returned vet
Grams who are either on their way
to Jail for cutting up their wives
or who are seeking divorces because
some busybOdies said their wives
were cutting up while they were
away.
It's no doubt true that many Of the
wives Of soldiers strayed from the
straight and narrow path and yield
ed to the pressure Of the war
worker-wolves but in comparison
with the number of their husbands
who went wrong with mademoi-
selles, frauleins and other foreign
ladies, the wife still looks like the
image Of your patron saint.
The returning veteran has the
advantage over his wife on the
question of morals because the
evidence Of what she did is here
for him to see or some idea Of what
she did may be readily obtained
by simply consulting her very
best girl FRIEND" but the gOings-
on of Joe and mademOiselle is
now a closed book because the
War Department will not tell
about il and CTS don't tell on
each other.
Many of the faithful wives who
are now being kicked around toda!
by their veteran husbands anC
charged with infidelity would b,
shocked to know that approximate.
80 per cent of their CT husband
made a bee line for a house of il
fame as soon as he set his foot OIL
foreign soil.
In Australia, for instance, AM
many other countries where GPi
were stationed, prostitution is lie
galiZed, it was never an unusua
sight to see from rs to 100 soldiers
lined up outside Of a brothel wait
ing their turn for a few minutes
with the inmates.
In Brisbane, Australia, in 1943
the most popular brothel for Ne
gro soldiers was located on Stan
ley Street directly behind tn
George Washington Carver club o
the American Red Cross.
Negro soldiers at that time
were restricted to six blocks in
Brisbane by order of General
Douglas ("T have returned')
Macarthur, and these six blocks
down along the Brisbane river
contained nothing but three
brOthels, three beer joints, two
fruit stores, half the loose wO-
men in Brisbane, all the Negro
soldiers, and the American Red
Cross club for Negro military
personnel.
The nearest Negro soldiers wer
stationed ~ miles out Of Brisbane
and only permitted to visit the i
famed six blocks after 6 o'clock /
the evening.
At that time they were brough
directly to the six blocks area in
convoy of trucks which parked i
front of the Red Cross club an
waited until IL o'clock to take tn
boys back to camp.
Each evening when the cOnvc
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Ask Candidates the FEPc Question

There one question which candidates for Congress and the state
legislature asked by Negro voters white people
who friendly economic justice for all people That question Isl
Of fair
legisaton1"
Every right to know how Senatorial Congressional
legislation them ought be
respite until they their stand the people
offered the 1947 Minnesota
the legislature 1t is therefore highly important that
and Senator be poed they
stand designed halt the widespread practice Of denial Of job
opportunities members Of minority groups.
And how the and seeking your
FEPC after the primary election Any
candidate you FEPC will hardly
elected The thing
cache candidate on
individual citizen being appealed to by the various
candidates their campaign
FEPC Most candidates bashu backward about asking
should be bashu about asking the FEPC
question.
important Negroes climb toward
FEPC gis
aon will 20 long way hating discriminatory practices in
employment We all do elect lawmakers who will
vote FOR FEPC.
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Birthday greetings In St. PAUL. June "a
Mrs. Bernice Duke. 6SS Carroll Ave. June
2B-hrs, c. NJ. VRssAr, 49l st. Anthony
Ave. June 26-OrR McMoore. 1865 Blaine
st. Rufus Carson, Jr., 9I6 AuTorR Ave.
June 27-Lee A. Gwynne, 500 N. Chats
worth Ermon Jean Owens, 6SS ROndO
Ave. Louise @. Brown, ass Rondo Ave. /:
Louise G. Hopkins, 7O2 IElshArt Ave.
June 2S-Mary A. Brister. S44 N. Dale
ST. Mrs, Ida Combs. 66s St. Anthony Ave.
Ave.
Belated birthday greetings to William
Bullard. June 81. A5S W. Central Ave
Out OF town greetings to Earl Weber, Jr..
u. s. Army, June q.
Minneapolis birthdays; June 2S-Mrs.
John Moultrie. SIS Emerson Ave, G. H.
Slaughter. 70s Girard Ave. N. June "a
Mrs. Lena Cobb, 584 GiraFd Ave. N, Mrs.
James Gresham. 9S4 Bryant Ave. N, Riley
N. Gilchrlst, S7l2 Fifth Ave. s. June rs
George A. TOtten, Court House, Mrs. Jessie
Hammond, $50 Bryant Ave. N, Mitchell
Williams, 1910 s. sth ST.. r. Z. Wallace.
Jr., SSS2 Smelling Ave. S. June 27-Mrs.
Lillian Cobb, Ss52 Fifth Ave. s. ARgie
Thomas, bl4 18th Ave. s. June ash. d.
Williams. 9O9 T. 22nd St. Lucy Coleman.
Sadie NJ. HRtchett. 404l Fourth Ave. S.
June 29-Eugene Tucker. 22Oi Fifth Ave.
s., Vernon B. Young. 2I2s Fifth Ave. s,
Out-Of-town greetings June 23-William
=. Commodore. U. s. Navy. June 2t-Bob
Belton California. June 25-Mrs. Theresa
Franklin HRsbrOueh. Washington. u. C,
June 27-John Nswkirk. New York. N. Y.
June 2S-WAlter Lowe. Des MOines. Iowa,
and Pecola Wilson. Mobile, Ala.
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SOUTHERN JUDGES HELP JUSTICE
AND NEGRO CT GETS LIFE

prompted him TO return the
fire in self defense. He was a sol
der, and he had been taught to kill
or be killed. He killed, and follow
ing his capture, he was tried before
an Army cOurt-martial. He was
found guilty, and is now serving a
sentence Of life. Everything seems
TO be in order about this case ex-
cept the circumstances, and when
they are examined carefully, you
will find that the cynical hand Of
Southern justice has reached way
over into Paris, France, to estab-
lish the two-facedness Of American
democracy.
Sitting in austere, Bourbon
minded dignity to hear the case
were FIVE judges from southern
states. On the surface, their pres
ence would presuppose a rugged
time for the hapless CT who fought
the war on the victorious side and
yet lost, but these five military gen.
tlemen Of the South went below
the surface. Their Partially was
80 pronounced, and their determi
nation to convict Jones was so obVi
Gus, 1t Harry Cohen, the con
demned youths defense counsel re
signed as a protest, II can be pre-
sumed that COhsn's resignation
acted to prevent Jones' beinf
sentenced 10 the gallOws. A SAINT
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The church's failing, insofar as
maintenance Of its previously front
position is not due to any inherent
weakness in it, but to the fact
that despite the responsibility Of its
leaders TO lead their followers in
stead Of the followers leading the
leaders as in the white church,
South, its leaders have not followed
the pattern Of other big organiza-
tons which publicly account for
income and expenditures, deposit
all receipts in banks, pay all bills
by check, and have certified public
accountants periodically audit their
books, issue financial statements
setting forth their assets and liza
bilities, and prepare budget esti-
mates Of receipts and disbuTse-
ments for the next fiscal year.
Some four or six years ago, the
Rev. ID. Ward Nichols Of New York
was elevated to the Bishopric in
the A.M.E. church and assigned to
Alabama. Bishop Nichols had led
the upwards Of fifty thousand AZ
rican Methodists in freeing every
church Of that denomination in the
diocese Of Alabama, except one,
from debt-the aggregate Of which
ran upwards of a quarter million
dollars. He wiped out an $4,000
debt on what was known as Greater
Payne university, renamed and
beautified the school, and won ac-
creditation from the Department
Of Education Of Alabama.
The writer called on Bishop Mich
OILS recently TO learn the secret Of
his success in Alabama, and was
shown check books for the six Ala
bama conferences. This testified Ia
the fact that each conference has
a bank account into which its col.
lections are deposited and that all
Withdrawals are made by check
signed by two conference officials
and eountersigned by the Bishop
| was told that the membership il
given the facts and figures on re.
ceipts and expenditures, and that
this is the key to the over-sub,
scription Of any budget set by theil
episcopal leader.
Colored people will contribute
many millions more thany they dc
for their needs, II organizations
little and big, will keep records Of
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an your last letter you sent me
a clipping about a Negro boy who
criminally attacked a white woman,
killed one Of her children, and burn
ed her home. On II you wrote, Dir
ty, savage beasts and you want me
to associate with them and give
them EQUAL oPPoRTUNITIESP
"Your plan Of basing a whole
groups right TO equal opportuni-
ties on the percentage Of sex per-
verts 1t contains interests me and
l have been doing a little research
on the subject. Here are the re-
suits Of some newspaper scanning
l have done with your approach in
mind.
First, a clipping from a Tennes-
see paper about confessed muir
derer, white, Of a forty-one- year
old Negro woman who was preg-
nant. He cut her throat from ear to
ear and stuffed her body under a
railroad bridge.
Next, there came to my mind
the case Of a white Epworth League
friend in Ohio who went berserk
one day, criminally attacked a ten
year-old girl who came to his apart
ment to sell benefit tickets, stran-
gled her, and hid her body in
trunk.
Next, there's the case in De-
troit Of the eight-year-old girl
eriminally attacked by a white man,
and thrown down with her slit
throat to die. And, Of course, there's
the hideous Degnan case-still un-
solved.
do you know, as read and
thought about these cases which
occur so often in our country mot
to mention the bestiality displayed
by men Of all races in war torn
Europe and Asia), an amazing and
horrifying fact became clear. Re-
CARELESS Of the various colOTs, races,
and creeds represented by our sex
murderers, one thing they do have
in common so perhaps your line
of reasoning does have some justi-
fication. They all appear to be male.
AS a result Of using your line
Of reasoning | am compelled to
wonder just how you can bear to
associate with your own sex, or
to be even more specifc-how can
you endure associating with your
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hoped up with patriotism and the
religious rightness Of their cause.
When q man kills, he Is a murderer.
Il matters little whether his act
was premeditated, spontaneous, or
committed at the instigation and
insistsnee Of the high pOtentates
Of the Republic.
When Eddie Jones, Jr., returned
the fire Of the military police who
were pursuing him and two other
soldiers IN Paris q few months back,
his instincts, which had been sharp
ened By the training he had re-
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Racial Equality Conference
Set for Washington, d. c.

WASHINGTON, D. c. (NNPA)
The Committee for Racial De-
mocracy last Saturday issued a call
for a conference on racial democ-
racy in the Nations Capital to be
held at Asbury NJ. E. Church,
Fourteenth and K streets north
west, June 20 and 80.
The aim of the conference is the
establishment of Permanent Com
mittee for Racial Democracy in the
Nations Capital, composed Of COM
munity leaders and representatives
of community and national Organi-
cations to formulate and carry out
united program Of action to in
sure full civil rights for all resi-
dents of the District Of Columbia.
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self? From there, this last rather
simple conclusion seems inevitable
i. e., that women and children
will never be safe in this world
until we keep men ruthlessly segre-
gated and suppressed and deny them
any and all access to equal OPP
portunities.
yours for a safer world,
MARY"
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ton the practice
Of netting out
punis h m emit in
m u er cases.
This corner has
always eontended
that the taking Of
human life is q
crime against so
ciety whether the
act Is committed
by an individual,
or by the preci-
sion-trained arm
les that have beer
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Mr.. Robert A. Jones, 1922 Rondo
Ave, has been confined to his bed on
doctors orders, because of throat
ailment.
Criterion Art club met Tuesday,
June IS, at the home of Mrs.
Gerone Reed, S26 Fuller Ave.
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Has Negro Church
Lost Its Position
Of Race Leadership?

The Negro church in America for long, long time was
the most potent factor of Negro leadership It's potential
power still great but it has lost place the foremost and
effective advocate of the Negro to the press and the
awyerbacked by such organizations the National Asso
ciatinn for Advancement of COlOred People.
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School Teacher Writes
Magazine Open Letter
On Sin, Sex and Sense

The summer edition of Common Ground" magazine has
"a Letter To Southern Gentleman" written by Mataeen
L. Ramsde former War Relocation Center teacher and
instructor at Oak Ridge Tennessee the Atomic Bomb de-
velopment city. The letter is reprinted in full
6fINnnn
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RY Holm n. LEE

BY JUHN NJ. LEE
This Is not a treatise TO prove
that murder under any circum-
stances is iustifable, nor is II in
tended 10 nnea-