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"3 Socal public employment service as a necessary step toward Wj0 ywtaftmts) JtttMTS ISAUmSAHHSfttA 7710 J'fP IF you lack your Energy to 1 enjoy the rood, things of life. treat yourself to the latest aid of Medical Science. Your Happiness depends upon your Health. Unless you have an ade quate supply of Vitamins and I Minerals, you cannot expect to be mentally and physically fit. Enjoy the remarkable rain In strength, vigor and Joy that fol 1 lows the use of VIGORIM Cap sules.

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LNazne i Address State job expansion period. The league's urging, made as part of the ninth annual Vocational Opportunity Campaign, pointed out. that, "gin ning March 15, the U. S. Employment Service is directing a drive fqr national registration and clas sification of all unemployed labor.

The chairmen of Vocational Oppor tunity Campaign committees, local Urban League affiliates and organizations co operating with the league in its vocational opportunity capaign are asked to give all possible support to this drive and insure that Negroes are properly represented among the registrants. The U. S. Employment Service will place emphasis on registering workers who may be available for work or training in defense industries. However, the Urban League points out that many industries not classified at present as.

"essential to defense" may be so classified as the national program develops and the war crisis intensifies. The league also states that as workers' are drawn from non defense occu pations to fill defense jobs, openings will be left vacant for unem ployed Workers, including thousands of Negroes who cannot qualify for defense occupations. JOBS LISTED The government's campaign will also seek to list employed persons with experience and skill hot now being used in any of the following Jobs: "Aircraft manufacturing, including aeroplane sheet metal work ers, aeroplane woodworkers and in spectors; aeronautical engineering: shipbuilding, including carpenters, corkers, marine machinists, machine shop and machinery manu facturing, including machinists, tool makers, lathe operators, die makers and tool designers. In many of these lines of work.Mabor shortages are already appearing. These shortgaes will probably increase after July 1, when 600,000 additional men will leave their homes for i service in military traininr.

unless unemployed Negro work ers and skilled workers who are now denied employment at their regular trades registec during this campaign, from March 15 to April 15, there is every danger that they STRAIGIITi EIIAIR It takes the' real thing in pomade to rule unruly hair. Black and White Pomade has the "hold It down" power you want for real neatness. Insist on Black and Whit Pnmari Sold everywhere. 10c and 25c Try it. ICMVSTniAL MHf IkL CIMCI Sf SMB string Attnctiw sricts.

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537 Dtarfctra, Dtst. 3 CkiciH. III. Willi not have a chance for consideration in the near future when the public employment service be gins to refer workers to employers iu defense industries. There are full time public employment offices in the 48 States, and 3,000 more operating on part time basis, according to information received from the Social Security Board.

At any of these offices Negroes are able to register and interviewers on employment staffs have instructions to register them for the skills toward which they are trained and in which they have had experience. HO TO ON mm POLL TAX LAW WASHINGTON, Mar. 20 Representative JLea E. Geyer, pemocrat, of California, Offered in the House last Wednesday a resolution to make his anti poll tax bill a special order of business. By the terms of the resolution.

upon the day following its adop tion, the Speaker; would recognize Mr. Geyer to yall up for consid eration bis bill ta amend the Hatch Act so as to forbid the requirement that poll taxes': be paid as a pre requisite for at elections for the office of president, vice dent, presidential elector, senator and representative. General debate on the bill would be limited to four hours to be equally divided between the sup Dorttrs and opponents of the mea sure. The special order would be a continuing order until thajblll Is fi nally disposed of The resolution was referred to the House 'Committee on Rules. SOUTHERN YOUTHS BACK MINE PARLEY BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Mar.

20 Rnnn i to the miners' unions in their coming negotiations for con tracts was pledged by the Southern Negro Youth Congress, in a letter to Hartford Knight, District 20 representative of United. MJne Workers of letter further called attention to the more than 1500 deaths which occurred in the mines during 1940 and unted the passage of the' "Federal mine inspection bill, long advocat ed by tha UJLWA. STOLE IMPRESSES NEW lW Mar. 20 rTbeodore Riley, 86, accused of stealing 104 dresses from aJrlowntown loft building, last Week was held in $2,500 bail for the Grand Jury in Manhattan Felony Court, Her mate pleaded guilty on Oc tober 25, 1935, to a charge of as saulting her with a dangerous weapon. He' was sentenced on November 7, 1935, to serve from 2 to 5 years in the United States Reformatory at Lorton.

He will be released on March 22. In her complaint, Mrs. Carter charges her husband deserted his family in February, 1935, and was four children. She 'alleges he broke into her home on the night of August 6, 1935. and attacked her while she and the children were asleep.

She sa3rs he beat her over the head wmt 3k' Mil Hospital with a fractured jaw. WOMAN FORCED TO STAND SO WHITE f3s? A nil MEN CAN SIT later brought into Juvenile Court I NEW YORK, Mar. 20 (ANP) and ordered to pay $7 a week to That a white driver on the Wash wara me support oz ner ana tneir'ington to Portsmouth (Va.) run compelled her to leave her seat to permit two white men to sit down while she stood up was substan tially the complaint filed this week with the Greyhound Bus Company by Mrs. Fay Butler, an elderly with a piece of iron pipe, knockingwoman of this city. NUBY HOME OFFICIALS Founded more than three years ago Oakland; Calif, one of trie finest convalescent homes on the the Nuby Convalescent Picture Jiere are the experts in charge.

of the Home. The present direc tor, pictured at left is a practical nurse who received her previous, experience at the Fabiola hospitaL Center is Rhoda Primrose, who is in charge of diets. Right is Jean Nett? Clay, assistant director! Joseph photo. Get wonderful BIG MONET MAKING Agent plan on our ntwsst Cosmetics. Foods and Medlcintavjt's our EAST WAY plan," apart or fun time.

Puts Coupon to postal card, or write. NUMDERED INCENSE AND GIFTS kknd rnrrpnv I I Dept. AC 10, I Tenn. Sena ms st ones TBXUB Humbert I Incense, the 3 blr rifts end bis; money sctafs proposition. I Ctty JSUte A ill I if' J7 ay lias! 1 fil vv ill near i c.

i ase, Mm fi i 4 1 ft 11 Dru 1 rtn I HOUSTON, March 20 The ease iHII M.V Wtf W.l.f" of Sidney Hassett against the SATURDAY, MARCH 22 PAGE TWO Pittsburgh Courier 1941 raw ion COMMlTEEHEAb IF O.Nv 'RAC nn AND WIVES SAIL FOR TROPICAL HONOLULU EOS JP.ES kaC i v. nil 5, 5vi tS mm .4 6 "i I mm. i .7 111 mm le i sat 3" mm fir JO 1 i I mm 4 lii WW mm li. 'A: I i it t. I' i art il Sir Jill liii! ii si 4 fc mo hmi i i'f IT "nil If IS mm i II til M.1 I pemocratic white primaries Is set for April 14 in Judge T.

M. Ken nerly's court. Several attempts have been made by the defendants to put a clog In the wheels of the trial but this has been successfully topped by the attorneys in the base who are W. H. Durham and Carter W.

Wesley. Many Negroes are expected to attend this trial has the future of the race in its hands, and that the power of the ballot. Last Thursday, three prominent businessmen and their wives sailed from San Pedro Barhor, near Los. Angeles, for Honolulu. They were William Pierson, Roger Price of Cleveland and Irving Rone of Detroit.

In the first photo, left to right: After visiting in Los Angeles for the past six weeka, the travelers take it easy in the deck chairs aboard the Matsonian. Deck steward is showing Mrs. Price how to wear the Hawaian lei. NEW YCtRK, Every unemployed Negro wbrk rer in the country, skilled or unskilled, professional or clerical, as urged by the National Urban League to register with his Center: Mrs. William Pierson, Mr.

Pierson, Mrs. Roger Price and Mra. Anne Roane purchasing leis aboard the ship which car ried them to Honolulu. The group pictured in the cocktail lounge just before sailing. Bottom: William Pierson, Irving Rone and Roger Price, the three businessmen who ate taking their wives on the South.

Seas cruise. Pierson and Price, are owners of Log Cabin in Cleveland and Rone hails, from Detroit. Siminoff photo. Seelks TTn DDwcmircce Fears for Her Life Prompt Action for Legal Separation From Husband Soon to Be Released From Penitentiary. WASHINGTON, D.

Mar. 20 Asserting that she fears for her life upon the release of her husband, James Carter, from the United States Penitentiary at Lorton, Virginia, Mrs. Thelma Carter, 1650 Rpsedal street, northeast, filed suit in the District Courts her unconscious and causing her 11 11.. CONFEDERATE VETERAN DIES IN GEORGIA AUGUSTA, 20 (ANP) "Col." Zachariah J. Smith, nono genarian and widely known in this section as the last of the Confed erate soldiers in Richmond County, is dead.

Friends and admirers of both races throughout the couu ty paid final tribute at his funeral. ALL PR 15. WASHINGTON, D. Mar. 20 Mrs.

Harriet Gibbs Marshall, director of the Washington Conservatory of Music, who died on February 24, left' her property in trust for that institution. In her will, filed for probate last Tuesday, she bequeathed to her brother in law, William H. Hunt, 1115 New avenue, north WHITEYILLE, N. March io An apparent attempt to "scare'his sister, when he came hpme late Monday night, resulted in' the death Alexander Jacobs, 17 year old Negro youth. According to" a statement made by the sister.

Hazel Jacobs, 19, to investigating of ficei 3, she was alone in the house when she was awak ened by the sound of a stealthy scratching on the front door, followed by a slow turning of the door knob. When her queries of "who's there?" brought no reply "as the mysterious actions' were repeated, she i said she became frightened, got out of bed, ran to a nearby dresser, seized a pistol that was kept; there for protective purposes, fired through the wooden door, and heard a sound as of someone Some time later, when she finally summoned sufficient, courage to open the door, she said, she was horrified to see the body of her brother stretched on the'porch outside. Shot through the heart, it later developed, the youth Report" of the tragedy was made to officers by, neighbors, attracted WASHINGTON, Mar. 20 Continuing its fight to wipe Negro and other minorities, the American Youth Congress is sponsoring: Federal. legislaUon which would penalize "any person administering any agency support ed in whole or in part witn runas annronriated by the United States Consrress who discriminates against any individual because of such in diviauars race, coiui dcu.

Drafted by the Washington Bureau of the American Youth Con gress, the bill is being introduced in the House cf Representatives by Vito Marcantonio, American Labor Party Congressman from ew York. Although eaual opportunity for all is theoretically guaranteed by both the words and the spirit or the U. S. "Constitution, the Youth Congress has received evidence of widespread discrimination In pub lic agencies and in plants awaraea Government contracts. A nationwide campaign is under way for the 'passage of this bill which will make it possible to bring cases of discrimination into the "courts and fines on violators of the law.

Penalties for discrimination de scribed in the bill include both dis missal of people administering public agencies and fines for these administrators as well as for car ruirntinnn "with Oflvrnment eon tracts. Passage of the measure will give civic organizations a weapon with which to fight current discrimination in the Army and Navy, as well as the "defense training programs and industries holding government contracts. BUSHyHEATIUS PERTY TC MUSIC SCHOOL There are two conditions attached to her bequest. The first is that the conservatory through its trustees shall preserve her aims through the development and preservation of Negro music and art and of a center of research and composition. The second is that it shall be self supporting and within 10 years of the date of her will the west, property at 902 and 904 endowment fund of $1,100 shall be street, northwest in trust for the Increased to an amount equal to Washington Conservatory of Music.

twice the value of the property. YoEiilhi Shit To isafi By FngKemecS Sister to the scene by the screams 'of the grief stricken girl. A coronor's ju ry later cleared her of all 'blame in the homicide. WINS DECREE FROM FLORIDA RESIDENT WASHINGTON, D. Mar.

20 Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat in the. District Court last Tuesday awarded Clara S. Smith an absolute divorce from James Henry Smith, a resident of Southampton, Long Island, New York, temporarily living in Palm Beach Fla. 1 5 n'.

mi Mr si ACT NOW! 'ill fta X4 I If' ii .3 951 I I tr 1 iPPSr Cjy Popular Mrs. Narvy ri was retenLiy uifrirn cr.a;rEJt of the Promotes nevance commrtee. wife of. Al Anderson. dance promoter.

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Permits curling, marcels, pp. Men just can't help admiring beautiful hairi They notice a woman's hair almost before faction guaranteed or your money they notice her face. So don't let dull, dingy bottle today! 1( your dealer doesn't hi gray irreaKeanairacsiroyine loveliness mat euse fLARRY USE) send 51 sTRP1' your man and others finds so appealing. GODEFROY MFG; CO 35 10 OLl ye Use Larieuse! ST. LOUIS, MO; AT AT 'W aTV mmW I I SM AT I I AS ss Pkss HAIR.

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