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Jul NEXT WEEK TWUS FULL PAGED OF THE FAMOUS PURSUIT SQUADRON i V.Vv If I sn. il inuey 5K X.J. Captain Benjajnin Oliver Davis son of the famed General B. 0. Davis of the United States Army, is, affiliated with the 99th Pursuit Squadron at Tuske gec, and is shown standing beside an advanced trainer plane.

Captain Davis is the highest ranking Ne fro officer in the Army Air Corps. War Department Photo. Mipei charged days oi history. .4 in American Speaks CAI. noted Mutual Broadcasting System radio tteua com iMitri i'fii rmif hi trihiifst in rnl fr0 tl jlmrivr 111 Jiii hw'cr on the Phillies Cigar program last Wednesday eve 7 hr ri.mplete text Jolloivs: "Did you all read what a heroic job was done at Perul Harbor by that colored boy who left the mess hall where he was workin' and helped to man the harbor's drft eK? He showed the spirit that makes the American colored man a credit to the U.S.

fightin' forces. "That's a fine thing about the colored people of this country. They got so little to fight for. I mean when you stop to think how few are the privileges they enjoy in comparison to their white brothers they got so little to fight for you almost have trouble understanding why they would go all out the way they have in the drive to help whip Uncle Sam's enemies. "It's because they don't come more loyal than colored race and because they believe, rightly, that this is Marian Anderson's countrv as much as it is Swarthout's.

"We're all in the same boat together and the col crc i people recognize it. I said a while back that this war ni the. Pacific was a war between the Japanese race n3 th white race. Now, too many of our colored peo Pe in the Army, in uniform, for me to have said and I take back those words. Th.

war in the Pacific is a war betwecnthe pco the U.S., and all its people, and the" Japanese. t.io long delayed in this country givin' the race Islington and Dr. Carver and William C. Handy louis and Marian Anderson the proper break. Talk about the four freedoms.

We got to do a things in this country when this war is over and thrni is to give the colored people a chance to vll as die for their country." the maddened forces of History's new days careen In rush toward them. nder is it that these thirteen million, plagtied. galled. sngored by the prejudice at home which assail them at fvfn they gird to strike the foe from abroad, are stimu ic hypodermic of such words as those of the home spun (Continued on Page 4 Column 1) VOL. XXXIII No.

4 NAACP has announced. "So far as the Navy Is concerned. I wish to tell you that it has never requested the American Red Cross not to take blood from Ne Ero donors." Rear Admiral Mcln The peoples of the tire told the NAACP. His letter, 1 ,1. A 'in romv 10 inc Assonauun lampant ideologies ana ciass struggle o.

kquliyVf the secretaries of the war entered into a deluium of destruction that threat anj navy about the refusals, was return to the Dark Ages and the loss of the material. 'dated January 15. A am ry.mAtl i the Ust five1 Mclntirc stated that of 3.500 blood "iltural Sains which mankind has mads in the last recelvd at the Blood Donor Center in Washington. D. C.

10 "l.ill i. 4 h. tum. i miiiinn rri)M In America dlitn have been eolo received in estl on December 31, 1941. he said The NAACP immediately wrote Norman H.

Davis, president of the American Red Cross, informing him of the Navy's denial of the Red Cross official excuse for 1U refusal of Negroes and asking him as president, to explain the contradiction to the American public. ii 1 Major Jam ei A. EllUon, Army Air Corps official, and hit ataff, recently reviewed the crack 99th Pursuit Squadron, now Rtatloned at Tuakefee, Ala. This pioneer division, the only all Negro tiquadron In the country, hai been undergoing Intensive training preparatory to seeing action against enemy powers, so it Is reported. Determined and grim, ready for whatever may come, these aviators are governed by the same regulations as white units, receive the same pay, and have the same standard equipment.

Their record has been such that those fighting discrimination hope for an increased personnel in the near future in light of Secretary of War Stlmson's recent announcement that the Air Corps would he doubled within the next few months. The left photo shows members of the 99th In line, with Major Ellison and his staff making their official inspection. The planes are the advanced training type. The right picture shows the Major as he returns the salute of Mac Ross of Dayton, O. (War Dept.

photos) in iri i nwr? I jr ft I This white FIEF i TftlKlF Group Meeting in Chicago Cites Two Coast Machinists' Locals for Barring Race WorkersHears Buick Aircraft CHICAGO, Jan. 22. The President's Committee on Fair Employment Practices this week cited twp locals of the American Federation of Labor Machinists' Association for violation of the Executive Order in barring two colored worker from pmnlovnier.t in do i tense plants. The citation is expected to bo tne text of th? effectiveness of the President's decree. The committee recommended to President Roosevelt than he summon Washington the heads 'of the two locals, together with Harvey W.

Browne, internat'onal president of the and require them to take nessiry corrective measures at onco. HEARS BUCK CASE The two locals. No. 751 of Seattle and No. 68 of San Francisco, are.

charged with violation of the nationa. policy to the detriment of vhe war effort on the basis of testimony heard at Angeles last October. The committee charged that Charles Sullivan of San Mateo. had been denied the opportunity to work at the. Bethlehem shipbuilding plant by Local 6S, and that C.

Ik Heliums of Oakland, was barred from ekiMed oc cupation with the Boeing Aircraft Company in Seattle ny Lxj al loi. The action of the committee was taken Monday at its meeting in Chicago prior to tho opening of hearings on discriminations in 1 11 i nols in iusti lal defense plants. The first case hmrd was 'hat of the Euick aircraft engine plant in Mel lose Park, which had been charged with violation of tho fair labor order. Members of the committee present for tho hearings are David Sarncff, Milton Webster and Frank Fenton. representing William Green, and John Erophy, representing Philip Murray.

PITTSBURGH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1942 ffliSInEILT NEXT WEEK! FRANK E. BOLDEN. brilliant Courier staff writer and university Instructor, will pen a series of analytical articles on World War II. WILLIAM L. CAMPFIELD, CPA, Instructor at Southern University.

Scotland vllle, and authority on income taxes, will write a Mmplc but Interpretative aerie for The Courier on "Your Income's Payable, Too!" Since thous ands of Negroes will now be forced to pay Income tuxes, watch this series for the correct way to file returns, Including exemptions, etc. Mrs. Marva Louis Joins Hubby In New York City NEW YORK CITY. Jan. 22 Mrs.

Marva Trotter Louis, wife of the world's heavyweight champion, joined her famous husband this week in New York City just prior to his Joining Uncle Sam's fighting rorces at urap upton, New York. She plans an indefinite stay in the East. SEMES trawl COLORED DONORS mi HOOT BANKS NEW YORK, Jan. 22 The American Red Cross is on the spot. The U.S.

Navy, through Rear Admiral Ross T. Mclntirc, Surgeon General, has just denied that the Navy ever gave instructions to the Red Cross? to refuse to take the blood of Negro donors, thei EX SLAVE CELEBRATES 106TH BIRTHDAY ELGIN. 111.. Jan. 22(ANP) A gift of a plug of chewing tobacco was all that was asked by Robert Wilson, a former slave, who celebrated his 106th birthday here last Wednesday.

Whites May Start New York Paper Rumor Links Names of Harlem Leaders with Proposed 48 Page Tabloid. NEW YORK, Jan. 22 Recurrent rumors, rife now for several weeks, had leading Harlemites speculating this week as to the possible entry into; the Negro newspaper field of combination of white finHnoial interests through tho medium of a nntional 48 page tabloid weekly, newspaper. if the rumors proved to he Harlem leaders were asking them selves and one another why white capital proposed at this time to make a bid for Negro lenders. would seek the influence Negroes which a substantial lication would create.

SKVKRAI. XAMLS MKNTIONED These questions remained (Continued on Page Col. 7) un answered. The reports so far bruited about indicate that the white backing for the newspaper would probably stem from interested persons in the amusement and journalistic worlds. It is acknowledged that anyone of several white booking offices which have made money out of Negro bands and entertain ers mignt get behind such a ven ture.

It is also surmised that certain white journalists, notine the Negro's reaction to favorable news in some white dailies, have sensed the possibilities of success if they made a direct play through a Ne gro tabloid. Although nobody who knows anything is SHying anything for publication, names or several prominent Harlemites have been mentioned in connection with the prospective set up of the newspaper. Charles Buchanan, manager for many years of the Savoy Ballroom FLORIDA WHITE TEACHERS OPPOSE EQUALIZATION MIAMI, Jan. 22 White teachers of the Florida Education association have come out openly to oppose the eaualization of Negro teachers' salaries in Palm Beach coun PRICE TEN CENTS Pllb 1 1 fcV III IT alUilbVll UIU 1 OVV A .3 AAWlll K.I iU AY JO DS IDEAL OUBER By JAMKS K. BOYACK Special Correspondent CAMP UPTON, L.I., Jan.

22 Pvt. Joe Louis, U.S.A., made an immediate hit with his twenty three comrades in Company L. it was learned here today. Sergeant Charles McDonald of See JOE LOUIS PICTURES TURN TO PAGE 5 the U. R.

Am Reserve, spending a few days in Joe's barrack loom order to proceed to an other post to teach motor trans re The first asty. Thurgood Marshall, special counsel for the NAACP, an oimdp'cVa6tb "j'f iily, 1341. and the lat )nolinrPO; today. Joe is a regular guy an Pit! sburgh and avny tha will make Is the first time that a on the ground that the white teach a g' roldler. There nothing up teachers association has had an interest in tne case.ipny anout mai Doy.

i ve lainea in; kt contention was that if a de him several times about iouk. free equalizing Negro and white and my ers. At.ino neanng Deioie eaerai. teachers salaries is granted, it an easier listener and learns fa. t.

Judge Holland Saturday. January would either raise Negro teachers Tve. had a lot of experience with 17, counsel for the Florida Education Association asked leave on the court to intervene In the case salaries or lower that of white enlisted men. With joe (Continued on Pago 4, Col. 1) (Continued on Page 4, Col.

3) ing or attending white Foidieis. The Army has 7.000 nurses in its ranks now nnd has issued a call for 10.000 additional nurses, but the quota of race nurses has been limited to 56. These 56 will only be assigned to two camps in the South. Fort Bragg in North Carolina and Camp Livingston in Louisiana. They will only treat race soldiers.

i IS MNE WITH ARMY POLICY In answers to protests ayainst this policy fioni leading race and white civic and professional Magee declared that the Army was opposed to using Negro nurses to attend white patients. It will prevent this country" 8.000 registeied race nurses from offering their services to their country. It would seem that the army high command would prefer to have soldiers die from lack of adequate nursing care rather than discard its jlm crowism. The Army's attitude' is somewhat mysterious since the American Red Cross has no part in this policy of racial discrimination in nursing. The Red Cross does not draw the color line when it comes to, recruiting nurses, for its own ranks.

IV I nMJ vzisr Art' i 1 1 I Willi III! II I I I I II Vl 'TlsT IV II 1111 VIIIA TgSCSTrPgS WEEKLY Live Features, Latest News Leader In Advertising, Circulation and News Clean and Progressive mm lir "tix'rinWiiwiiff' innir ii iiiWi l.iIWi 'miiTin 1rt1tiriiiiiii fmrt" nmal America's first and only all Negro Air Corps unit, the 99th Pursuit Squadron, stationed at Tuskegee, is making a creditable record in the armed forces of the nation. The above photo shows three of the basic training ships used by the Negro cadets, in flight. Rumor has it that this unit may see real action in early summer. War Department Photo. A bt Jinny ILnnmintis fl (E (mil op all Although Facing Serious Shortage, Army Wants Only 56 Surgeon General Bars Race Nurses from Attending White Soldiers.

NEW YORK. Jan. 22. Although the United States nore. The const rucuve ''efWs or Army faces a critical shortage of trained Surgeon Negroes, and why white capital General James C.

of the U.S. Armv. Tuesdav laid i Mniimnlbeir Read THE WORLD THIS WEEK By OKORGE S. SCHUYLER PAGE 4 WM DEPT. LA.

RIOT General Davis. Investigating Clash Betwcpii Sold crs and Whilp M.IVs. ALEXANDRIA, Jan. 22 ANP Rcpcrcussirns arc still being heard from the riot between military and civilian police, nnd Negri) soldiers stationed nearby at Camps Claiborne ami Livingston. The Hrene of the turhulent" outburst between white officials and Negro soldiers miis laid in the heart of the Ne gro district in Alexandria Salur (Cunt tuw tl on I'nyc C'uf.

JURY AWARDS MAN $8,500 BRIDGEPORT. Jan. 22 suit clothes, and After almost a year of leg.il ic ''ash. ,1,1. i Rs denied th strv.

eontend tion. Homer Rots, elderly handy that afler hp v.3n TMf(lil from man. was awarded damages hosoital. ha vas summoned to army by a Superior Court juvy asiKo'ti's's off fo. triven some liquor own experiences He was, a result of severe burns anou' ait oll suit of clothe, and face Hst vlanuary 26.

Ross persuaded to sign a paper. He dc lived in a teTfement house belong elared that he was thon escorted ing to Nathan Kcenig utalihy to a N('WiYork hound trsin by realtor, who claimed that Ross had two men and threatened not to settled the suit by accepting an return to Bridgeport. 4 .1 1 1 2 til i no ii.