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JUL i rm SI xxxin No. 14 TODAY 3se s. scHurm i it :r.e more bread' ar profit ar? r.z suggested. be an eppor considerable! vir leagues, Commerce in pro get' ir.d thus put work. The; here.

What' snd onJ i ivli.rf td' sr i. it is Jn colored high: fn Ivrwtw rtlgi om choI of if.rd ntrrv "i Nurv Corps and nn wesend. UTSEA (Red vho has been Florida firemen, These n. refusing to a rani2e them. r.h to a white rT.rsent them i crement.

Now r.r has made a brotherhood cf nr.ee rs (white) will elimi r.rerr.en. When Intel would jobs secure. M1 I.A WALLA. Wmb, VKinz an awful be ftei the t3th In iiy's crack rrgtment rations, has barred entering to boa tne omm unity Just jT.tinr do not want Thirty years ago Infantry was st Huh. no such tstHied.

as are worfcterj There UtUe; 5 a 'r tf nr tof new, xz jo EaSas the NY A and 4Af rer .5 ot justiSed, as j.y.: r.roseveii ana tne Isl? pointed out i a is training and! rr.er. Conservation is! 2 iec955arr than ever.f v. uU color bars that! mZ uuui tut, zil" zer. possessed of isTjl NY A and CCC still! 7.e:r friends should! ti before it is too I itLlTL'T for little vrrk 3 the unr fnnt of avail fMll aterpri to xt torerninent inv zroup uf far an form a tom iAr to turn out any nfld to prr j' itnl nttain tov f.ii hlp preparrj ii ort. Vlmot any unutiftrnvf ran nr vary to the Are we rnakes timely rUK CUUKItR DOUBLE VICTORY' ere A 51 OFFICIAL HUE Ml Tl'Tl' lire Fotana.

Latest Sen lt a iUeartinaj, CrccLrfisa caJ ffes CI i mj ProsrMsrre WM 7ziz zs 'excellent at a. I te wcrid what vh i civilization vni i lxr, seep a great; perhi; few letters i Xr; should be a.lrW' 1 1:0 reature. I 0 i1 1 L' XUffS are. rr I hmployment Service; UiiVr'' Mack, lettuce, la ci seeking Waek; kt. ini metai wormer.

Trr. etc far tti PITTSBURGH, PA SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1342 I A i 1 1 AX. i v' 1 I i i 1 i Despite his sensational success as "Bigger Thomas in "Native Canada Lee has taken time out to make love. His lovelv betrothed is pictured above snapped while talking to him in Pittsburgh. from her home in She is Mrs.

Dorothy Hamson Cherry. torv tactics election here recently. RACIAL BAN URGE w4cwTVfrrnv Anr 2 Attention of the Roosevelt called to the necessity cf removing at once barriers which hamper MST ARStJER TO U.S. Hnlrlt WKte Refistrar Asheyille. Ct afsc inW week that Asthur Patton.

reg vestigation by tne we. 4 wt r.u of Investigation. rrtf. KinLi 1 Aahvtae. was arrested on charges, that he denied Negroes the nght to vote in nosation of the Federal Civil rUfhta statata.

The arrest is one of the most significant ever made tn the sourn concernin the voting statue, and is attracting intense inir The arrest was aotaoruea oy i We testa Tt mt EAIIRS I Administration was the Negro workers' r.MV ned. 3.900 aD1iitv to become integrated into the war production drive through a resolution passed by wre beforei fonierence at Lafayette hotel here on Ma tn 24. if riv leaders a imuc Ei v. Tve aciurion as jaanj soasxy UOtE TEST TOO adopted 'iy r. CIO leaiiers head by Presiden: Philip array.

CIO INIT TO UD PROGRAM The need for sr materials is! zreat ana sa lmineciate ian 'the rejection iot the services of: men and women by industry! aia MM 11111 cm. cf UUtmiiiH llfc mmmntm nf nc creed and ifor EVjr icolcr is aa inexcusable nsit ui ASHITLLE, N.C.. April 2 Attorney General Fran myr binainmncq i PRICE TEN CENTS fife IPDsi(E(Bs nDcBCEllsiircBcD IFoDn0 supporxea: a. i uh VIIM' Hr HIIWUV IMUI I PecDle broad HH 1 1 TL JUH I ILIA I IUOU I I WVLl Czr: over NBC net "scon be BIASED' WHIT Colonel of Famous Fighting Unit Issues Order Restricting Soldiers from Twenty Businesses in Walla Walla, Wash. WALLA WALLA.

April 2 Units of the 25th Infantrv stationed in this far northwestern area to go tneir nart in" wardins off anv enemy attempt at invasion, find themselves the victims "of a vicious discriminatory policy. KIIIL'LOCI 1PM IE The soldiers are restricted xn t.ie number cf places they are allowed when they art off duty enjoying a leave. Colonel Ton and signed by Lieut. R. C.

Eldridse Jr Vdjutxnt. 20 places in the downtown section of Walla Walla are dared "Off limits' for members Cs famcixs colored remert. Th was March 21 an 2 sud U.e ac was taken at the wrfttea re jqnest of each of tie biisiseis 'listed. Jiit man Hotel. Second and rioso Arlr TiT treet; Ruawi's.

37 E. Main str Ltl iJL KtA tu Apr. Dacres Hotel. 4th verxue iad 12 With the launching of tWO Main: J. H.

Kelly's Cigar Store, investigations last Wk hto; anueh: the fatal shooting of Sergt. rrhornas B. Foster oy fatroiman; aonrinuM on niQ 4. cox. 5 J.

A. Hay. one civil sad tse cxer military, race citizens are eager. if a Duaiic report of the: circumstances cl dier's death. Foster was kxued, waen he protested the brutal hand (ling of another scmier ay ice c.

ivxlian policemaa. i action JtiUiUft J. Cinttnued on Paye i. Cof. EQUAL PAY SUIT FILED IN ALABAMA General Francis Biddl.

ani Jl1! v' 'r s'Lr niSl Lamar auaie. ommimT filed byiate discriminatory procedures now trict attorney iae so widely practiced by mar.agenal North endorse Bu eOew Jsar siista, the staff of the Las Angeles jCaflfaraU weekly, an the Kappa Alpha tola sy iboOe slogaa Is an rnaVartom tha uaity ta tain personneL Ferdinand national sec A tn the chan res Pa'ton. retary cf the National Maritime ranacitv as registrar, rnede 5 L'mon and chairman of the Warj an arbitrary requirement of Negro Production Board of the Naticna registrants that they reaa a para j. egro onjrres. wmmennu, graph from a book, then repeat iT ianow very wen inai Amfnan ni ornlly and write it from memory.

(diers fighting the Philippines vA turn reauirement were miQw iina eisewnere nma nui i Continued on Page i. Col. If THE LOS ANGELES SENTINEL KAPPA ALPHA PSI JOURNAL this ta express apnreciadoa fr. fly planes, use guns, or run tasks made by black men." JUDGE TO RULE ON MARINE CORPS BAN LOS AyCEIJy. Apr.

5Iafe.J for a hearing in Federal Judge Paul J. McCornuck's Southern Dis trict Court in the near future, is the action brought recently by! Attorney Crlspus Wright to forcel United States Marine Corps to al low capable, eligible Negroes to enlist in its ranks. Wright will has his caa an the 5th and 14th oca American Officers Were Afraid of Embarrassment Soldiers Go Everywhere. Australia, long known as a "white man's country," cheered and applauded as a troopship of specialized Negro Soldiers, disembarked there recently, according to dispatches "which have just passed the censorship. While the identity of the outfit was not revealed, because of war time regulations, it was admitted the majority of the soldiers SBID neiTBTS, Americaa N'esroes want to work and FIGHT for their country.

The War Department has given Negroes token representation in nearly ail the Anns and Services, bat it has placed a preponderance of Negro selectees in quartermaster, engineering and service snita, Altkoogh given some military training in order to be able Ut defend thesnsetves. these units are work units. It is from these that Negroes have been sent to Australia to work behind the white American soldiers who are fighting. We want our fighters snt abroad too, to Australia and every other front occupied by Americaa troop. We want to be in the front lines fighting not in th Mr line working.

We are willing to share the work, but we want to share the fighting, too. We urge the War Denartmnt to send some Ngro fighting units to Australia so that the Australians can see how well we can fight, as well as how weu we can work. are from the St. Louis and Chicn. areas.

Tw mi, r. vt se STones wnxcn gave 2eaxec Ithe 23th soldiers be barred rom i ormation "ltiv to the arrival their estahhihments re. The Crw. irocp were aw oy JiCu stal Cafe. 112 W.

Main street: The Turcott for the New Tork Dailv News and the Chicago Tribune and by Byron Damton, New Tork Times correspondent. I AUSTRALIANS CHEEK AS TROOPS MARCH BY It was Darntoa who said that the American Black Troops were (Cjufiiued on Page i. Col. NATION'S LEAPED US IMF SWMIST TIRI I "ioisle mm their against WASHINGTON. D.C..

April 2 Congressman John W.I eqoa: quaiificaticns and work McCormack. Maioritv Leader of the House of Representa i he South. Nesrro teachers of Sir ij i i 1t Imingham. Alabama, filed it wu wu0icuuu uiixuirica ana nauonauy promment rhe Federal court her on Fr i persons irom an waiKs or me. in endorsmg The Pittsburgh sMarch 2T.

under advisemer.t suits; Courier's campaign for a hon and Beach count.es Isr" ADroad. eqvial salaries. CIO Other distinguished citizens the campaign mciude: W'nd'il L. WtGkie. former Re pbiwan Prendential cnndidate; Sior Jim jf.

Mean Phxiip Jfsi iy. predenr, Corn mirtre of Indunrrxal Organ Jnm i H. Sheldon i i i i len juM, Mix Dcrothy Churches Observe Doable Sunday WASHINGTON. D. C.

pr. 2 Stm America's far Atuig clergicaJ empire aiunimixiv ly endorsed The Pittsburgh Courier's "DouNe campaign here last week, and announced that Double Victory Day will Im celebrated thrnuthmit the nation Easter Sunday. April i Five hundred outstanding church leaders of the AME, Methodist. Z3on and llaplist denomination in a neeclng here placed their stamp approval on the "Double drive, and appealed to M.O09 ministers in every section of the country to join the ci Rirlrflp and the United fctates IjOTenuntui. resolution alo urZ ciu CIS DlQOie Aiivt Uierr ar for the alleged COSCnniina iafriliates to bend every effort to, Thonpton.

puhiwu: Jn thlS Week On a White registrar iur eliminate prejudices and i eohM, bonn owcr; WiUujm. he instltUtea againsi. mwicu Icrirninatory practices their re 'fi. preMoeitr. Amencon rn.

SDecuve rietcs. ana asxea ousinwii Hon. Thontan E. Den Yorii Reptibltrtn chteft'itn Jonrpix F. Gfflry I Continued on Pn je i.

Co. HONOR HERO On CBS PROGRAM NEW YORK CITi'. Apr. 2 As thirteen million voices i clamor for due recognition for the' first two Negro heroes Jin the present ar. Done M.Ir.

Jand Ar.rtre'.v T. mess (men on tl Batties'nip Arizona. vajt outt the Columbia Broad rasticg Svste rtroueht their deeds cioser to hom Sunday r.ight from, 10 to II 00 p. m. EWT.

as; a feature of its nationally heard; program. "They Ive In a clear and dramatic fashion, the program told ho Andre (Continued on Pnje Col. 2.. COP STRIPPED OF BADGE FOR ASSAULT 1 OMAHA. Nr.

Arr. 2Atr ere yrovizhr' nv the Orr.a NAACP against Police (Jack Graham for the ailesed beat cng and kicking of Ruoy Eldririge here, the local poiice commissioner) stripped him of his badze pendinzj investigation. SUPPORT GK017S FOB MEDAL TO Washington. DC, Apr. i Cancels Course to 2 Senator James M.

Mead) Bar Rice Students tive ive forces hers to secure the Congres sional Medal of Honor for Done Miller. Negro mess man of the United States Navy whose heroic exploit at Pearl Harbor last De cember th has macs the young (Continued on Pagm 4 Colu.rn.rn 1 in journalism, and the school has not offered this work to any st dents in Missouri since January 23. according to the answer fl5ed by S. W. Canada, registrar of the university, to the suit of Miss Luf le Bluford against him for ad mxttascs to the school.

HON. JOHN W. MacCORiUCK. Majority Leader of the House cf Representatives seated at his desk in the Capitol reading The and wearing his nuttcn. Ntr i sv5T I Vt T'x i DOROTHY THOMPSON, noted news columnist, is all out for Double Victory at home and abroad.

She is shown reading her favorite newspaper. The Courier, with her VY" pin. i SENATOR JAMES M. MEAD De: is for victories over our enemies acraari while enquer the farces of intolerance at home. He introiuced a bill in the Senate asking for a "Medal of Honor7' for Dorie Miller.

HON. JOHN D. DINGFXL Mich.) is read rs the er.s story of Done Miller. He has introduced a bill the House to secure the Congressional Med 'il for the hero. pics.denf "he A.er ran Fcie amn cf IaSoi nns ZO'inl i 5a ic the S.

Capi Next Week's Story: peauXYJaReDresenta i citt. mo, Apr. John D. Dingell Th. University cf Missouri ha fich.) were marshalling theiri discontinued its graduate wora.

iliout Mi' 'ec tfrn "hteh hf hit mnH tnmou Ul rof "Th" If lite of Dr.itrHct of brnt wiriw yow hnre eve rend. Ware for it Ton will find it on the Feature Page. ej.dent the Indjtrlal Or a.c proud of his VV button. i 11 Pnotnm by International id Pfca'oa. NO ACTIOH YET 111 IDIT CASE DETr.CTT.

Apr. 2 Despite moment nlr pcted action, neither he Federal Grand Jury nor th Housing authorities have taken any action yet is the sew famous Sojourner Truth Housing episode, upon which the eyes of all Negro America ars focused. 4'? i 4 i 1 i Hi I.

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