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Last 1ew Jerwr Supreme i usheld her. tayinz Canities, eualitlea and 3 of citizexuhip cannot be denied members of zro race." Blow by tra batter down tne oar MatDm Corp ralam i Ja nllatmnt bat still bar who heln tmr It U. 9. tflMkl mere mm bat who fttt BOt WHIM. Otlt I selected fer aviation only two are colored.

Evl Tjncle Sam dMa't wMt for himyet. war brings many es. Hard pressed for sra and engineers, anti Nazi Germany ia bid Jewiah refugees to re and let bygones be by 3. Similarly if the United ia invaded and hard red, there1 will be no closed to Negroes. 1 democracy will become OF TRAP iMhu.b& from Pagi On) after war of rray clad yioen atUckd 8nfAlMe, lti and.yrnch caught in creAtd by th artillery ef firs and th attackers.

the Impact, the 'rallied quickly and tptrit rh't German charge were and the attackere forced to their orlflnal poeltione. on both eldee were heavy, lary obeervere paid tribute morale and heroism of the 3 troopa, whites, Senegalese leroccans. These troops aper from entrenched positions In ice ef German Infantry cross shell pocketed area created rUUery fire' from both side's, the German counter of Iench mixed I units had ei five day battle' near Sierk uich several village and a I wood in German territory riptnred. j. ty flve miles to the south, encirclement of Saarbrtfcken, 'f the key positions in the Jaar industrial region; con 1 earlier in the week with i and Moroccan troops in there.

Senegalese were alio among' the French, troops Ivaaced towards Trier, east Moselle river." lAuembourg border, detachments report bare driven, beyond the tiny border village of Perl in 4mpt ta the. flank of Moselle Valley army, rman towns were evacuated face of tbe steady German regiments in this sector credited with the capture of ye but unspecif ied, number rman prisoner, mm from Page One) a for Worker and for the coming municipal campaign. ef ielal statement revealed i to be used for or aal work; $115,000 for in 110,00 for farm organize 1 imilr sum for a na school, State school and work. J1Q.000 for Negro work i to. spent largely in i where th party ha uf ''sal defection In Herman 'Maeka irt; and pother Communists rwho quit jiced the arty in recent the radical group ar to give employment to In farty setup which paid riea.

Even Negro sten denied work, in BSSaPP i IF Harlem party offices, they said. BE NEW YORK CITT, Sept 21 rearing foulplay in the disappearance 'of her 14 year old. son more than three weeks go, a distraught Harlem mother appealed to The Pittsburgh Courier this week In an effort to locate his whereabout. The mother, Mrs. Jessie England, 337 West 138th street, informed 'the Courier that her son, Henry, a student at Stltt Junior High school, walked out of their home in the Dorrenc Brooks Apartments op August 31, and has not been heard from since.

HenrV. who has thrice been stricken with pneumonia, walked IMg To (Continued from Page One) PAYERS' MONEY. If ether don't, The Courier doe recognize that the light has Just begun. Thousands ef white who did not know of the dls against Negroes in the United 8 tote Army and Navy have been Informed and wen te the side of fair play. Scores of racial organizations and institutions have joined force in the battle.

The Negro press generally has entered, the fray. Able individual have helped to give point and direction to the campaign. EXPANSION ACT PROVISIONS Th Courier is on the alert to lead all the forces into the next advance. Th act authorizing expansion of the Army Air Corps read in part that the Secretary of War la authorized in pi discretion, "to lend to civilian aviation schools, lone or more of which shall be designated by the Civil Aeronautic Authority for "the training, of any Negro pilot, at which personnel of tbe military establishment are pursuing a course of education and training pursuant to detail thereto under competent orders of the War Department, out of aircraft, aircraft part, aeronautical equipment and accessories for the Air Corp, on hand and belonging to the government, such articles a may appear to be required for instruction, training and malnten fance purposes. i The next step is to see that the law a reproduced above is literally observed.

I The next step i to fight off all attempts, direct and indirect, to permanently! restrict tbe current trainee to Civilian aviatibn. WEST VIRGINIA STATE PREPARES West Virginia State College was prepared asj soon as word was received from the Civil Aeronautics Authority tj proceed1 with the program Por many year, thle institution has ibeen well established in vocational training, and in recent years, the Trade and Technical Division, under the direction of jj Evans, has placed great stress on modern technological programs, including radio and aviation. The present program'' gives offl Similar charge wer made last year by Louis Campbell and Mr. Fraakie Duty, veteran Communist who quit the party and led veral Ideal of Workers' Alliance away from psrty control. Campbell) and Mrs.

Duty accused th radicals of exploiting the Negro unemployed, and of takins; a large percentage of their scanty relief fund for party work in China arid Snain i Haroldj Williams, a former section organizer, who also denounced the party for dlcriminatloa against Negroes, expressed doubts this week that the $10,000 would soak any changes in party practices among Negroes. The money will be used mainly for front organizations like the National Negro. Congress and for Negro, (recruiting throughout the he said. "Th party know that th Har lem situation is hopeless "as a It is concerned, so they will keep the jn party flunkiee on S20 a wek payroll and seek to get it Negro membership elsewhere." fe'jv ill, jperians In ctsntly killed three injured when the rear end cf a hu ra truck crashed intovthe machine hi; which they were, ridsij on River road nesr Magazine Xanej on last Friday afternoom Tfeo dead arJ XJU rtr: i' is WaUra, 23, ,1244 23rd street, and 3es PnUllpa. 252 En worth street and wer pronounced dead on arriyal at St; Agnes Ho pitaL Tbe injured were: Harper Butts, 8, 2325 street, who sufr fered 'a fractured skull, Emma Gine.

22, 211 Webster street, who sustained abrasion of the face and mouUs, and Jardlne Myers, 29, of Wharton lUeet; minor in iurieiC Jardln waa dSscbarged from ther hospitaL 22 Ellsworth street, driver of the automobile, and Ansl Lyons, 4732 Woodland avenue, driver of th track, nd both men wr keldf on charge ef Accordlnr to police, Liyons was backing the truck up on the high way when the machine driven by PoUce MresUd Harpe BtiftsT'HsJrJuig; lltUe' Butt, collided with Ms true Neither driver hurt. Rela tives of the dead said they knew; nothing' of where the. Tic tlm were going, except that both had mentioned. omeuung aooui 1 off in th rain, his mother said, causing her to fear for hi health also. Mrs.

England knew of no reason for hi leaving and thought he was visiting friend in. the neighborhood untl he failed to re turn. The. boy has dark straight hair. a lirht complexion and was bare headed when last seen.

He ha brown eyes, and wore a brown and green sweater at the time of his disappearance. Mrs. England ap pealed to anyone who has seen him to notify her at 337 West 138th street, or to leave the Information at the New York office of the Pittsburgh Courier, 2145 Seventh avenue. Mows tl Ua. clal status to aviation training ac tivities which have extended over th seven years since Wert Field, the municipal airport of the City of Charleston, was established adjacent to.

the college campus in Institute. PRESENT FACILITIES TO BE ADAPTED The established facilities of the institution already includ much highly technical apparatus and equipment which will be adapted to enrich the training procedures of those who enroll in the civilian pilot training program. Work with stroboscopes, Hydraulic dynamometers, surveying and navigating instrument and aerial cameras, as already carried out in other progrms of the institution, wlU be adapted to the new courses. Director Evans is serving as liason officer to co ordinate the relations between the college, the flying field and the CIvU Aeronautics Authority. All students interested In the program wilt receive in the! classroom or workshop.

72 hours of "ground" Instruction and 501 hours of flying instruction at jWertz llARLEll PLEADS FOR HELP TO FlUD UISSIUG SOU Mrs. Jessie England, 337 West 138th street, New York City, has asked Courier readers to help her find her son, Henry (inset), who disappeared August 31st and has not been seen since. She fears foul Jay Pd Smgs (Continued from Pago One) greeting each new guest with: "Folks, this 1 a great friend of mine, a great taxidermist and ladies and genUemen, this 1 the brother of an poet we're gettln' to be a regular JLeague of Nations here The gueats at the party are Field. The Civil Aeronautic An their poverty. thority will pay the college $20 "Prosperous reldent of student for ground school instruc lem," he writes, "Negroes Har who tion, and tbe operator of tbe fly spend then lives doing their mining school from $270 to $290 for ial tasks house boys, liftboys, va each student receiving flying train 1 riety artists, valets, cooks, parlour Ing.

The college will charge each maids, lavatory attendant revel student a laboratory fee of $40. COLLEGES 8EEK QUALEFTED STUDENTS Every effort is being exercised by both colleges named' to secure qualified studentsfor pilot training. Preference is being given to young men who have to their credit at least on year of college work, and much stress Is being given by the college physicians to the requiremnts of physical fltnea. forms to be filled in by prospective students are now available at each college. Applications are to be accepted from student who have reached their eighteenth' but not their tvventy flfth birtbday by September 1, 1939.

unhindered at the Savoy, letting off their individual steam." Of race relations in New York City, he writes: "Here in New York there is little of the bitter hatred they have to endure in the South. Back on Park avenue, the clubman's atti tude to "the damned niggers' is RELIEVE F00TACHES fcnJT tbe quick, sootbinf irtion if ttir se foot ltb trMlnwiit with ABKEXZIO'S 4 rur pooa Feot Can fort Tahletr Highly praiaed tn Health Cwltiir Tr it lor mm, cat lousra. intuimis, AitiUtr'f Fot, savliins, PU. fatipir. Ttial PackM.

10. Onlf fif for lnt lutinc package. Send for jour TO DA. BCKAT SALES SERVICE. Dtpt.

819 East Stmt, fijtibuna. Pa. that he doesn't care so long a they don't come downtown and stay In their place." Revealing that he had instructed hi attorney to file suit immediately. Lieutenant Clifford said: "It was th first time that any whit guest in my house violated the canon of common decency and attempted to commercialize on quoted as talking in Negro dialect a social It shows that and the hostess "with a uucness Beaton is low bred, unscrupulous' of Windsor coiffure, tips cigarette ftnd dishonest crashed the ash into a biscuit tin." An octoroon girl is quoted aa telling Beaton: "I dislike the blacks more than the whites. They smile and pretend friendship, but behind my back they teU my I'm black and I'm fired.

And if whites get friendly they find out some time. I wish to hell I was pure white." Clifford insists that the Englishman was describing a party which the Cliffords gave for relative on February 11, and which Beaton crashed without an Prominent guest at the party included Ethel Waters, Lillian Handy, Harold Jackman, Jimmy Daniels, Count and Countess Frederick Ledlbur of Vienna, Lady Olivia Wyndham of London; Mr. and Mrs. David Tenant, cousins of th Queen of England; Godfrey Rhlne hardt, son of Max Rhlnehardt, famed theatrical producer; Mrs. Elsa de Bruen, poetess; Georgette Harvey and Georgia Burke.

Clifford was even more Incensed, i nswiver, at dciiou a description oi Harlem and Negroes in general. At one point, Beaton wrote: "These people are children. Like children, they could hardly be expected to remember that on this day, many years ago, Abraham Lincoln was born. One doe not expect a child to realize the origin of pancakes on Shrove Tuesday. coloured eggs on easter." Describing Harlem as "a Negro reservation in a white man's city," Beaton declares that Negroes shoot squirrels in the parks and sell the fur, that they rent "hot beds" in three eight hour shifts daily and live a carefree existence amid party" uninvited anyway and even had the eras nerve to write Mrs.

Clifford a note from the Waldorf Astoria telling what a fine time he had at our lovely party. "Snfitn ha1 Kn itlivnn! In David w. Griffith "aia Griffith and a former Congressman, Woodson R. Oglesby, were charged by a former business associate with forelngresldentof th fashionable Edgewater Point section at Mamaroneck to purchase his property there at an exhorbitant price on. the threat of elllng it to Father Divine for a "heaven." According to paper filed hre by Neel R.

Andrew, a whit realtor, Griffith. Ogleby and ven other associates forced Andrews to purchase part of a thirty two acre estate for 363.000 "by threatening to eU otherwi to undesirable people to colored people. In RENEWS THREAT Two year later, Andrews charged, Griffith again used the Father Divine threat and forced him to buywhat thought was all the remaining estate. Then last spring, th realtor stated, the producer tried the dodge for the third time and attempted to make him buy a plot which he and hi When Andrews refused to pur cha the last plot, George F. ReidV his counsel, charged, Griffith and hi asociates then had a dummy tltleholder sell the plot to a woman living in Harlem, using a Negro lawyer and a Negro real the Jews, so ttelng broke in Lon don and imbued with the idea of making money, he holds a whole i race up to ridicule.

I Intend to stop similar commercialization on! Negroes for all time." 1 If ytn riSrr Hum Attnnta I'lrommf. (ram todftit. h.7lni qii'ck fr dr Int ri EE TRIAL OFFER of ml rtlif'. loqulr It from fllrt j'bflprlnt" eut eipeUllf Is KAC0R. S5 SUti Uft Imliual.

I America by his vicious attacks on iniitm. i fc CATUtUJAY, CTPTElinER 23, 193 to Purchase Land cr Sdl It To Cclcred WHITE PLAINS, N. T.iSept. 21 bavid Warfc Griffith, the pioneer movie pruocr who made a tortunfrom his Neero baitine fihn, "The Birth of a Nation, wasac c7sed mprSnfe Court here this week of attempting to AV11 Pi 11 fortune bv cashing VWUf A again on race prejudice. tor In th transaction.

"It was not a real sal at all," Attorney Rid charged. "This deed wa placed on record for the sole purpose o( defrauding my client." DENIES CHARGES the Andrew charges were contained in counterfult to on filed by George H. Wilson, of New York, against Satan' Toe, In, a real estate concern founded by Andrews. Wilson wa seeking to collect 35,000 due on a note for purchase of land on. Edgewater Point.

In. fighting the 35,000 plea, Andrews asked that Griffith, Oglesby and their associates be forced to return hi because of the alleged plot. Supreme Court Justice Graham Wltschlef reserved decision on th Andrews motion to enjoin collection on notes he had, given for purchase of the property. Both Griffith and former Congressman Oglesby denied the alleged Father Divine plot and Accused Andrews of making the charge because he was unable to pay the 35,000 note. The Satan's To property had been used by Griffith In shooting many of.

his films, including the race baiting "Birth Of a Nation." PLOT IS GUEST SPEAKER ntTT.anTTT.PHlA, Sept. th guest speaker when th mcx, ueorgia social Club h.M Mr. and Mrs. Sam Stephen, sserrus au last week. 'Before Mrs.

Bohannon anted the regular buslneM un was ertaciea. mis. mWm 1.W4.. tm other out of town guMts tv. wr fr ClnnM Siim ton; E.

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