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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-04-27
II Nurses Replaced By Whites
In 0teen, N. c. Vets Hospital
Director Lays
Transfer To
Recruiting
By JAMES l.. HICKS
NNPA staff Writer

WASHINGTON, d. C.
(NNPA)-Fourteen colored nurses
on duty at the veterans hospital
in Oteen, North Carolina, have
been replaced by white nurses be-
cause the Veterans Administra-
ton was unable to hire sixteen ad-
ditional colored nurses to join them
in completing the Jim Crow nurs-
ing staff required to care for sixty
six tubercular colored veterans
hospitalized there, it was learned
Wednesday.
The fourteen nurses we're given
their choice of being transferred
to Roanoke, Virginia; Waco, Tex
as; Fort Bayard, New Mexico, or
Tuskegee, Alabama.
DR.. w. R. Southwark, acting di
rector of VA medical services for
North Carolina, Virginia, West
Virginia and the District of CO.
lumbia, said the transfer was made
due to ''the failure of efforts to
recruit sixteen additional Negro
nurses to care for tubercular Ne
gro veterans in the hospital, cou-
pied with an overall shortage of
nurses quarters at the hospital"
FIGHT GILMAN
Although DR.. Southward's state
ment indicated that the transfer
had been forced because of failure
of colored nurses to apply for the
positions, in reality it is the eli
max Of a fight between the Ad-
miniStration and the National AS
ISOLATION of Colored Graduate
Nurses to have colored nurses in
tegrated in VA hospitals without
olscrirGna.ion.
REQ u Els" MADE
DR.. Paul r. Hawley, VA medi-
cal director, revealed recently that
he had requested the Graduate
Nurses Association to furnish him
with sixteen additional nurses to
complete the nursing staff at
Oteen.
He said that unless he wac able
TO get the sixteen nurses he would
be forced to replace them with
white nurses because the fourteen
colored nurses were occupying
quarters which would house 40 per-
sons and that since he could not
move the white nurses in with the
colored ones, unless he got the six
teen additional nurses, housing
space would be wasted.
He said he had written to Mrs.
Mabel X. Staupers. executive sec
rotary of the Colored Graduate
Nurses, concerning the matter, and
was at that time awaiting her re-
ply.
REFERRED REQUEST
Mrs. Staupers had answered DR..
Hawley on April 5, it was learned,
and while protesting the segrega-
ton of colored nurses, referred him
to Mrs. Ruth Cohen of the Nurse
Replacement and Counselling Of
flee in the United States Employ
ment Services in New York and
to Mrs. Bertha Byrnes of the
American Nurses Association Re-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-04-27

WASHINGTON. ~ (ANP) -
THE executives secretary of the Ma
tional Committee to Abolish the
Poll Tax, Mrs. Katherine Shryver
has sent out nationwide appeal
to the churches asking their finan-
cal help in the fight to abolish
the poll tax.
She pointed out that mission
aries from America who are car
rying the Christian message find
it embarrassing when prospective
converts ask: "Why do some peo-
pie have to pay to vote in your
country ?" "Why does the color of
your skin decide what civil liber-
ties one enjoy5?" and other SINH
lar Questl ms.
Quoting .irs. o. G. Robinson
of the Women's Christian Service
division, Methodist, who declared,
"All around the world these ques-
tions are being raised with our
missionaries" Mrs. Shryver laud-
ed the diligent fight that that or
ganization is putting up for the
anti-poH tax, bill. Other church
groups taking a stand for the bill
include the national board of the
United Council of Church Women.
DR.. William Fl. Jernagin. exec
utive director, Washington Bureau,
Fraternal Council Negro Churches
in America, was named by the
committee secretary as one of the
most active members in that body.
He is ON the executive board.
"For the cooperation from the
church people, we are grateful and
proud" declared Mrs. Shryver,
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-04-27
Riot Victims To
Tell Their Story

NEW YORK.-Madison Jones,
NAACP Administrative Assistant,
disclosed plans for carrying eve
witness accounts of the so-called
'riots" in Columbia, Tennessee,
which resulted in mass violence,
police killing of Negro suspects"
and indictment of 81 Negroes on
charges of attempted murder to
the genera, public in a series Of
NAACP branch meetings.
Organized into FIVE teams, the
Columbia group will visit 49
branch meetings being called III an
area extending along the eastern
seaboard from Boston, Massachu-
settts, to Roanoke, Virginia, and
oils. st. Paul, and Kansas.
{ Among the riot" victims, all of
whom were released under bond
from Tennessee justice, are Julius
Blair, 76-year-old Columbia bust
nessman; Saul Blair, his son, who
was also in business in Columbia
before State troops and units of
the Tennessee State Guard com
pletely wrecked every Negro busl-
ness establishment in Columbia,
and the Reverend Calvin Lock
ridge, Columbia minister who was
thrown into prison at tommy gun
and bayonet point.
The teams will be led by Mr.
Jones. Miss Lucille Black, Mem
bership Secretary; Mrs. Miley VIII
hanson. Executive Secretary, Day
ton Branch, and Captain Jesse Y,
Dedmon, Jr., Secretary, Veterans
Affairs. In addition to informing
the public Of the Southern trag-
edy, the teams are part OF a iuhu -
raising drive for the legal defense
of the Columbia victims.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-04-27
National Urban League Opposes
Divided Setup For Veterans
Says Reports Contradict
Findings Given To Bradley

counseling services for colored
veterans.
Such reports, said Mr.. Granger
are "in direct contradiction, not
only to Urban League policy, but
to the report on the adjustment Of
Negro veterans" recently prepared
for General Omar N. Bradley, Ad-
ministrator Of Veterans Affairs.
and released publicly.
"a basic feature of Urban
League policy" Mr.. Granger add
ed, lis that public services should
be stated by persons thorough"
representative of the community
which supports those services and
of the population groups which re-
ceive their benefits.
eve have taken this position
with respect to the United States
Employment Service, veterans
hospitals. and other federal and
state activities. We have consist
emily opposed the establishment
of separate veterans facilities fo1
Negroes in the deep south. Our
position on all of these points has
long been a matter of public rec
ord"
QUESTIONS DISCUSSED
Mr.. Granger revealed that Ju-
Illus A. Thomas. director of the
industrial relations department of
the National Urban League, dis
cussed in executive staff confer
ence his recent talks with Newtor
D. Hathaway, director Of contact
service in the Veterans Admins
tration. and especially the ques-
ton put to him concerning the adj
visibility Of separate veteran cen
ters stated by colored personnel.
eve agreed" said Mr. Granger,
that Mr.. Thomas was completely
right in stating that the estab-
lishment Of separate centers was
All unrealistic and defeatist meth
Cd of attacking discrimination in
veterans contact Offices"
After returning from recent
trip in the South. MI. Thomas
conferred with Mr.. Hathaway. Lat
er. 'le wrote Mr.. Hathaway giving
nm II ISdtllot1S " tiiCli SoIilSl
enc. as follows:
NOT THE ANSWER
81 think we are both in agree
ment on the fact that segregation
is not the answer to this prob
lem. My personal feeling is that
it never solves the problems stem
ming from racial attitudes in
America. and the chances are that
it is more likely to perpetuate the
concept of bi-racialism than it IS
to improve interracial understand
ing.
"I think you realize, also, that
any announced policy on the part
of the Veterans Administration to
set up separate contact offices for
Negroes will be severely criticized
by many leaders of Negro thought
and possibility of accomplishing
the desired detectives through a
non-segregated organization OF
services. I make this as a sugges-
ton which | believe we ought to
explore"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-04-27
Jamaica Labor
Leaders Face
Death Charges
Strike Outbreak
Said To Have
Political Basis

KINGSTON, Jamaica. - (ANPN
Alexander Bustamante and
Frank Pixley. two of this islands
most powerful and distinguished
labor leaders, will appear before
the circuit court here on April "a
on manslaughter CHARGES GROWING
out of the fatal beating Of John
Nichols Feb. 16 during a violent
outbreak Of labor strife between
the Industrial union and the Trade
Union council, headed by Norman
Marley.
Open hostilities between the In
dustrial union, headed by Busta-
mante. and the Trade Union ~oun-
Gil. led by Marley. fared when
mental hospital attendants pulled
a walkout that resulted in sympa-,
thy strikes of civil service work
ers. teachers, railway workers and
other units of the Manley move
ment. Beside Nichols death, sew
eral persons were reported in
iured during the violence. Busta-
mantle is charged with leading
1000 dock workers against the
striking TUG members on Feb
ruary 1G.
POLITICAL BASIS
Basis for animosity between the
Bustamante Manley forces is said
to be political. N. N. Nethersole,
Manley aide, was sent to Lon
don by the Trade Union council
to demand the recall Of Sir John
Nuggins, the governor, and report
other political strife on the island.
Nuggins is reported to have backed
Bustamante, who controls 27 of
the so votes in the house of repre-
sentatives. Manley controls the re-
manning five. Bustamante also con-
trolls the five elected members of
the executive council, which is the
islands governing body.
The Bustamante labor move
ment here, representing illiterates
and common workers. is numeri
cally and politically stronger than
TUG, upon which is based Man
ley's Peoples National party.
Whites here are reported to ia
vor the Bustamante movement
over Manley's group. Bustamante,
minister of communications and a
member Of the legislature, is ma
iority spokesman, while Manley
represents minority opinion as a
member of the house of represent
atives.
Underlying causes for political
wrangling here are said to arise
naturally out of the social evoln-
ton and revolution that is taking
place in the island since achieving
a greater degree of self-govern-
ment.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-04-27
Dr.. SchieffeIin Prais es Negroes
Decorum0n 80th Birthday
Noted Education
Pioneer Notices
Country's Trends

NEW YORK.-(ANP) = Praise
for the wartime behavior and CON
duct of Negroes was expressed
here Sunday by DR.. William Jay
Schieffelin, pioneer in interra-
cial work and Negro education,
during celebration # his 80th
birthday.
DR.. Schietfelln. announcing his
retirement as chairman of the
board Of trustees of Tuskegee In
stitute after % years, said the
nation had reasons to be proud
of our Negro population who have
shown during the war patience
and self-respect in Industrial and
civil life"
"UNBROKFN
ENCOURAGEMENT"
Declaring that the last 80 years
has been marked by "unbrollen en-
enlargement" he said younger
persons. white and Negro, were
growing up in the south with
better education" and were real
izing that we can make no dog
matte story" about race relations
and especially about peoples who
have mixed blood. A study OF Bra
iii will supply an answer to the
theories of racism that he finds
"repugnant" in America, he said,
He noticed a "trend in nublic
opinion both in the south and In
the north to deprecate the So
called evils of race mixture" nc
said. Especially when there are
SO many admirable characters. both
men and women. who are OF mixed
blood and who have excelled IN
scholarship and athletics
DR.. Frederick D. Patterson, pres
ident of Tuskegee, was praised
for making his greatest contrlbu-
tion to Negro education three
wears ago when he brought 80
Negro colleges together to solicit
funds under the same program.
annual fund campaign
had dropped from 100000 to S4o'-
900. said DR.. Schieffelin.
HAVE MORE MONEY
Everybody knows now that col
ored people have more money than
formerly" he said, pointing out
increased tuition at all Negro
schools. ct is no longer a good ar
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-04-27
OAR History Medal
Refused BY School

NEW YORK. - tNNPAl-Ihe
Abraham Lincoln High School III
Brooklyn declined two weeks ago
to accept history medal offered
by the Battle Pass Chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revo-
lution,5 it was disclosed last Fri
day.
Gabriel r. Mason, principal Of the
school, revealed that he referred
the matter to the General Organl-
cation Council of the school, which
rejected the offer.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-04-27

placement Service in Chicago.
In an exchange of correspond
ence with DR.. Hawley, Mrs. Stau-
pers told DR.. Hawley that it was
unjust to ask colored nurses to
leave positions in the north, east
and west to take positions III
southern sections of the country
where they would be denied their
civil and other rights.
She added, however. that she
felt sure colored nurses would re-
spond to the call of the VA just
as they had responded to the
Army's call if they would be CIV
en- the same fair and equitable
treatment the Army had given
them.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-04-27

gument to try to sell the idea
that all Negroes are still poverty
stricken. Most of the school money
must continue to come from large
donors with the aid Of state funds,
but / am pointing out the change
that has taken place in my life
time"
Although he retired as chair
man of the Tuskegee board of
trustees, he will remain on the
board fo Hampton Institute, as
chairman emeritus of the Citizens
Union of New York, as president
of the American Mission to LeperS
and as treasurer of the organiza-
ton for permanent fair employ
ment practice committee.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-04-27
Churches Asked To Back
National Poll Tax Fight

"now, our great need is finance
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-04-27
FAITH IN CONFERENCE

DR.. Tobias declared his faith In
the Southern conference and de
scribed it as ga movement indi-
genous to the South that addresses
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-04-27

WASHINGTON, D. C. -
NPA)-Contrary to reports, the
National Urban League is OPP
posed to any segregated set-up in
veterans facilities.
It's position was made clear by
Lester B. Granger, its executive
secretary, after it was reported
here that the League was support
ing move by the Veterans Ad-
ministration to establish separate
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-04-27

That's the way every man feels when
he sees beautiful woman. But what
mendon 'tknow, and whatevery beauty
wise woman does know, is that her face
powder has lot to do with making
her look beautiful. That's why Black
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vorite. It comes in 6 harmonizing, fat
tering shades. It's easy to find the one
that's right for you. It's soft magic
mist texture adds a glowing freshness,
feels smooth as silk on your skin. And,
though it fluffs on your face, neck and
arms lightly, it clings for hours. Face
bright lights and sun without fear when
you use Black and ~
White Face Powder, NRo
because you know how Se S/I
perfectly it softens the @/ -
glare. Big box only Csc NM
at all toilet counters. W.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-04-27
CARVER TRUSTEES

TUSKE SEE INSTITUTE, Ala,
Thomas D. Russell, Alexander.
CITY industrialist. and Haygood
Paterson, State Defense Council d.
rector, have accepted membership
on the Board of Trustees OF the
George Washington Carver Foun-
dation.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-04-27

NEW YORK. ~ (NNPA) - DR..
Claiming II. Tobias, who ratires
this month as secretary of the in
terracial services of the national
council of the Y. M. C. A., was
honored last Thursday night by a
dinner sponsored by the Southern
Conference for Human Welfare at
the Hotel Roosevelt.
DR.. Tobias, who is co-chalrman
of the New York Committee of
the Southern Conference, will be-
come director Of the Phelps-Stokes
Fund which has sponsored work in
the fields Of colored education and
race relations in America and AT
RIGA. it was learned.
DR.. Frank 2. Graham, president
of the University of North Caro-
lima, and honorary president Of the
Southern Conference, said thot he
was "honored to join in tribute
. distinguished Southerner and
leader in the American metropolis
whose influence reaches across the
nation and beyond, for interracial,
industrial and international under
standing"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-04-18

Carolina Pharmaceutical Associa-
ton officially opens its Goth an
nual convention here.
Meeting with the pharmacists
are the associations Woman's
Auxiliary and the Travelling
Mems Auxiliary.
Tribute was paid last night dur
ing a preconvention meeting to
$50 North Carolina pharmacists
who served in World War II. Me-
mortal services were conducted
for three members who lost their
lives in action. They were H.
Gordon Brown, Elfland; E. F.
Stephenson, Madison; and Frank
A. Greene, Jr., Suffern, N. Y.
Citations for outstanding work
in the sale of war bonds were
awarded to Mr.. and Mrs. Cloyd
S. Goodrum of Davidson, who
sold the most bonds, and E. G.
Green of Durham, whose store
sold the most bonds in 1945.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-04-18
Brief And During
u. s. TAKES FIRM
STAND WITH RUSSIA

WASHINGTON - The United
States and Britain are approach
ing a new and probably decisive
series of clashes with Russia over
the westward extension of Soviet
influence.
The outcome, officials here be-
lieve, will vitality affect the po-
litical organization Of the world
for generations.
Two great issues-control of the
Mediterranean and control of
strategic German territory - are
shaping up first. Both will figure
to some extent in the April Is
foreign ministers meeting at Paris.
Neither, it now appears, will be
settled there, and Germany in
fact may only arise informally.
However, the issues scheduled
for formal consideration at Paris
are such that men high in Gov
eminent councils describe Secre-
tary of State Byrnes as willing to
risk the worst split yet in Anglo
American-Russian unity-even to
foredoom the Paris meeting to
failure-rather than go anything
like all the way to meet Russian
demands.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-04-18
APPALACHIAN STUDENTS
ELECT 1946-47 COUNCIL

BOONE = T e Appalachian
State Teachers College student
body has completed election of
student council members for the
coming year.
The members are: From rising
senior class, Lillian Griffith of
Cabarrus county, Joyce Brook
shire of Alexander county, Marion
Cobb and Imogene Reynolds of
Caldwell county and Rebekah
Rivers of Johnson County, Tenn.
From the rising junior class:
Rogers Whitener of Rutherford
county, Lou Rhyme of Lincolnton
county, Doris Cline of Forsyth
county and Mary Lou Rankin of
Guilford county.
From the rising sophomore
class: Harley jolly of Wilkes
county and Leo Mast of Watauga
county.
Mildred Martin, president of the
student body, becomes president
of the council.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-04-18
MEASLES IN N. G..
SHOW BIG INCREASE

RALEIGH-There were 1,721
cases of measles in North Caro-
lima last month, compared with
only 1872 in March, 1915, the State
Board of Health reported yester-
day.
The number of cases of the dis
ease in the January-March pc
Rod was 1855, up from 371 dur
ing the same period last year.
Most other diseases last month
were less numerous than in
March last year. Whooping cough
dropped from $50 to 282, pulmon-
airy tuberculosis from SGT to 281,
poliomyelitis from IL to two,
meningitis from 80 to Is and scar
let fever from 426 to 2O1. Diph-
iberia rose from 80 to 81.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-04-18
MORE LOW-PRICED
CLOTHES VERY SOON

WASHINGTON - Sterilization
Director Chester Bowles express
ed confidence that the shortage
of Inexpensive clothing will have
eased considerably in thr e
months.
In radio address he appealed
to the public to be patient "a
little while longer"
Stating that production of cloth
and apparel is on the uptrend,
BowleS added:
Ordinarily it takes about IA
weeks for new fabrics to show up
as finished garments in your
stores. This whole troublesome
situation, I am confident, should
be lot better by the middle Of
July"
Bowles, in review of the cloth
ing problem, said that to date the
record of getting low and mod
erately priced garments on the
market sis no credit either to
the industry or the government"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-04-18
Veterans Need
Good Work Shops

''The need for improved estab-
lishments for job training has be-
come more eminent due to the
large amount of veteran contacts
in Ashe county," Beach Keller,
local representative of the USES,
stated today.
Veterans need a chance to
learn trade, Mr.. Keller pointed
out, as a great per cent of them
have fine classifications for en-
try in trades such as masons, car
penters, electricians, plumbers
and mechanics.
Contractors and lumber manu-
facturers are urged by MIR. Kel-
Ter to list their labor needs with
him. mot only well qualified
men, but also men for apprentice
training may be secured through
the USES office" he said.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-04-18
Increase In Lumber Prices
Announced This Week By OPA

Raleigh-A mill ceiling in
crease averaging $3.50 per thou
sand board feet effective April
II for certain grades and thick
nesses of poplar, oak, gum,
beech, cottonwood and other
hardwood items, and dunnage
lumber, produced in North Car
DINA was announced by the Of
flee of Price Administration.
Current price action does not
increase ceilings for hardwood
timbers and dimension lumber
produced in North Carolina, as
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-04-18
Most Sections OF Nation Are
Now Facing Meat Shortage

Washington - Civilians in
Eastern, Southern and far West
ern parts of the country probably
will run into rather severe short
ages of meat during the next few
months.
This prospect was indicated by
an Agriculture Department re-
port on the national food situa-
ton which said the absence of
rationing and other wartime con-
trolls probably will raise many
problems in distribution of small
Ter supplies.
The report said that civilian
supplies are expected to decline
during the months ahead because
of a normal seasonal drop in live
stock marketings, low CONNER
cial stocks of pork, and substan-
tial takings of meat for export to
hungry areas abroad.
Reductions in meat supplies
usually are felt first in areas dis
tant from the Midwest, where the
bulk of the nations livestock is
produced, marketed and slaugh-
tered.
With consumer buying power
continuing at a high level in the
Midwest as well as elsewhere in
the country, the tendency will be
for the former region to take
"first crack" at the supply, with
distant areas receiving what is
left.
Under rationing, it was possible
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-04-18
SUGAR STRIKE HAS
NOW BEEN AVERTED

WASHINGTON-A strike that
would have cut off more than half
the cane sugar production in the
nation was averted.
Edgar L. Warren, chief Govern
ment conciliator, announced that
representatives of the National
and American sugar refining COM
panies reached a wage accord
with A. F. L. and G. I. O. unions
in midafternoon. The companies
agreed to a 15-cent hourly in
crease retroactive in general to
Feb. Is at their plants which are
located at Baltimore, Boston,
Philadelphia and Long Island,
N. Y.