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iBmvi mm mikmUm: (Pmm MkhmP WirlgM NEWS S3C3 nO eQ C'More VOL.56. No. 40. NEW YORK," N. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1942 TWELVE PAGES UMJUlWal IT ml) wmmw1 uWjm National IMcal Issue Hfitb Secretary of War Od Jim Crowing Negro Army Doctors CHICAGO, 111, (ANP) Disturb td end thrown on the defensive by statement! mad at a press conference by Secretary of War Stimson last Friday in Washington, during which the Secretary cleared that Negro organized medical groups had asked for sep grate Negro wards, staffed by Ne gre physicians, and that these were being set up, officers of the National Medical Association entered denials here Saturday.

Dr. Robert M. Hedrick. ranking official of NMA as chairman of the trustee board, declared hotly that "the National Medical Association would not compromise on any twin Lion less than that sranted by the constitution of the United States." and that he "did not believe the government had any right to set up Jim crow units for Negro doctors and nurses." Dr. Hedrick's assertions were backed up by Drs.

Roscoe Giles and Clarence H. Payne of the NM A Liaison committee set up to secure better opportunities la the army tor Negro physicians. The three officials signed a abatement refuting the Stimson utterance and sent copies to President Basse vett, Secy. Stimson and Surgeon General Jaaoes Jsaaee ef 4 'h man 'whom It wA recent vents have disclosed Bis tanslaeabla foe of fair deal at with Negroes within the saed sspsct of the country's armed forces, Secy. Stimson is thought to have received the miainforma tioa which served as the.

basis of si. statement from Gen. Magee, In a press conference, during which Secy. Stimson answered fl was put to him: "Ha separate hospitaliution been provided at army camps for Negro soldiers?" Mr. Stimson replied: "The hospitalisation of all en listed personnel Is provided by the army in the same wards without regard to race or color.

"At the specific request of the National Medical Association, sep arate wards are being set up for the care of Negro patients exclus ively where the number of Negro patients and availability of Negro doctors and nurses justify this action. These wards are operated exclusively by Negro personnel in cluding doctors, nurses and en lilted personnel Such wards are now established Camp Living ron. and Camp Bragg. N. kXjaest Denied fry NMA The National Medical Association was quick to refute this statement Its officers in a pared statement produced docu mentary evidence to show that as I soon ss the prepardneas program LL began, back in 1040.

organised YjL Negro medicine began Ms move to pro'cci in. Rinrna cm nam hjc ton. They wanted to avoid the Ceetnaed ea page asae) Ask Utfcg cf Because the enlistment of col red men in the Air Corps is long lyed on account of the greatly restricted quota system for the training of Negro flyers and be mum faculties for the training of 'tn has been greatly expanded. NAACP has again requested that the Department accept nd train Negro cadets on the baft ef fit withiut regard to racial qus; that they be admit 1 all training bases, and that induction of Negro youths who already been accepted for the Corp, be postponed by their ft boards pending the enlarge Dt of training program for letter to Secretary of War wnry Stimson ts week. Roy l1.

NAACP assistant secre r. said: We believe that if vur is to have 1.000.000 men air force, with at least a rrtw million of these as pfloU, than the mere handful of Ne in training ehould be ad rtted to that branch of she serv ear War Psparaasnta aew plans Society Takes Cashier Of dosed Back W. Maynerd, recently discharged cashier of Tuskegee Institute Savings Bank, located in the administration building of the famous institution, which was closed by the state banking department officials last Thursday when it was reperted that short aaes of from $39400 to $40,000 existed In accounts. Identified with several enter foists, Mr. Mtynerd aa tery treasurer at the Tuskegee Savings and Loan Association; president at the Tuskegee Com merclal Association and of the Tuskegee Hospital Service Corporation.

A graduate of Morehouse Col lege and the Blackstone College of Law, he Joined the institute facul ty in 1929 as assistant cashier of the bank becoming cashier in 1935 when Robert Cover resigned that position. Pending a final report by state auditors, Maynard and bis former assistant, Frank Seabrcoks. are in technical custody with ne charges filed against them. The shortage in accounts was said to have been discovered by Seabrooks after Maynard's dis charge. HaiS Srpcds Rights For Dsnfea Of War POBT AU PRINCE, Haiti Con atitutional guarantees were sus pended Monday for the duration of the war in decree issued by President H.

Die Lescot The ex ecutive then issued regulations for the registration of all males IS te 40 years of age for possible militray service Other anti Axis steps taken in Haiti included the freezing of all Axis funds and tte closing down of all Axis owned business estab lishrnents. Haiti was among the first of the Latin American nations to declare war an the Axis follow ing the entry of the United States into war. Air Ccrps Quota can for the establishment of the 100th Pursuit Squadron te be set up at Tuskegee Institute. Ala te train Negro cadets, using graduates of the training course for the 99tn Pursuit Squadron as instructors. The NAACP told Stimson: "In recent weeks we have re ceived numeruos statements from bewildered and disappointed young colored men who say that they have bees accepted for the Army Air Corps, and in many instanos have received their physical exam inataons.

but their actual enlistment in the Air Corps has been delayed so long, because of the greatly restricted quota system, hat they are now being called by their local draft boards for general nilitary service. la the meantime, they see white applicants for the Air Force being accepted freely, and. in no cases, promptly. They have noted the turn of events In the Southwest Pacific war theatre and they have reed the announcement of the two man air corns. In the face of all IMS they art told that they cannot be inducted' into the Air AW Copra at this time.

Forcer Trade Star WiD Be 1st Negro Fireman In Yonkers YONKERS, N. Y. Curtls D. Gid dings, of 354 Warburton avenue. former New York University track star, will become Yonkers' first Negro fireman, under an an nouncement made Wednesday by City Manager Raymond J.

Whitney. ihere are two Negro policemen in the city Thomas Brooks and Stewart Freeman. Glddings stands No. 4 on the new civil service list, and will Join before the end of the month. Graduated from Gorton High School, where he played varsity football and starred as a fullback, he was a member of the track team and also a high jumper.

At N. Y. TJ, he came under the wing of Coach Emil von tiling. who coached him as a collegiate runner. In cross country work, he consistently placed high the major tests and later took to indoor and outdoor track.

In his senior year at N. Y. he captained the indoor track team. An all round athlete, he also played basketball and tennis. Mr.

Glddings is the son of Ar thur T. Glddings, designing engin eer in the City Engineering Bureau and a nephew of Walter Glddings, Supreme Court clerk, the first Ne gro appointed to that office in Westchester County. 10 Hy Of Ttlnrder In first Degree A Jury in General Sessions Court on Saturday returned diets of death for two and life for another in the case of Joseph Keelin, 32 year old, laundry work' er who was slain last November 6 for 17 cents and a suit of clothes. Keelin, who lived at S2S West 123rd street, was a victim of "mugging" in Morninside Park. Arrested and charged with the crime were James Clark.

21, of 147 West 144th street; Lawrence Edward. 18. of 286 West 144th street, and Lee Wilkes. 17. ef 78 West 131st street All were found guilty of first degree murder, but mercy was recommended for Wilkes who will be sentenced to life imprisonment The Jury begsn deliberating at 8:15 p.

m. Friday and returned the verdict of guilty at 1:30 a. Saturday to Judge Jonah H. Gold stein whe set March 20 as the date of sentencing. Also on trial In General Ses sions Court is Charles Adams, ga rage worker, charged with the slaying ef Frances Marks, 23, whose body wss found in an ex cavation in front of 339 East 101st street.

On February 22. 1940. ear eelterial ae far artistes ea ttaaely sakjects. Jo. Peace Officers 17am Injured Negro That Hell De Killed If He Testifies Agahst His Assailants CARUTHnUVTLIX.

Mo Peace officers of Caruthersville, scene of recent attacks upon members of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, warned Frank McCallister. southern secretary of the Workers Defense League, that at Scottie Spears, injured Negro union member, testified sgainst bis assailants, he would leave Caruthersville "a dead nigger." An investigation Just. completed by McCallister revealed ttiet prominent local planters and a former city alderman were involved to the attacks. The first meeting held here January 10 the hall of the Operating (AFLi was broken op by planters, and the STFU organiser, W. M.

Tanner, was eecorted from the meeting after being threatened with death if he returned. At the second meeting. January 23. In the same place. Tanner was protected during the meeting by to eal peace officers and was taken to nearby town after the meeting, but Scottie Spears, Negro member of the STFU.

was beaten by mob ss he was lesvinc. and narrowly escaped death. Two abets fired at him as be fled. Edward Rcandtree, IbldTlealrical Man, Dies When Car Phnjes Info Harlem River Return From Liberia The Hon. Lester A.

Walton. U. S. Minister to Liberia, accompanied by Mrs. Walton, arrived here Tuesday on the Ysnkee Clipper.

Minister Walton proceeded Washington to con salt with Stave Department on Libariaa fairs and eamecta tn eon both President Roosevelt and Sec retary of State Hull. The Waltons left Liberia on Saturday via the Yankee Clipper, which at the request of the ate Department and the Civil Aero nautics Board, was diverted from its usual run via Lisbon to proceed to Liberia to take the Waltons aboard. On Monday, the plane stopped in Trinidad where the Minister and his wife were guests of the Governor and his wife at tea. Write Your Own Head 10 Cast 130th Street New York Ci y. N.

Y. February 23, mi Editor. The New York Age: x. nomas parks, age 25 years, sm a young Black man who is scheduled to be inducted in the United States Army the 25th of February, 1942. Due to the vari ous crimes committed sgainst my Race in the name of democracy I decline to serve although being fully aware of the consequences.

Yours truly. THOMAS PARKS. Leaves YI.1CA $350,000 BUFFALO. N. Y.

The Michigan Avenue Branch of the Y.M.C.A, under the terms of the will of George B. Mathews which Sled for probate this week. receive stocks and bonds amount ing to $350,000. Claude F. Cooper.

Blytheville, Arkansas, attorney, and Mr. McCallister conferred here on February 11 with Robert Hawkins, local prosecuting attorney and peace officer. They were advised that the was will YICKSBURG, The Su preme Court of this state has ruled that the "uncorroborated testimony of the woman he is alleged to have raped" is not sufficient evidence to convict Willie Upton, found guilty and sentenced to death on the charge in the Warren County Circuit Court here last snrina. The opinion was handed down Monday and the NAACP branch here which is financing Upton's defense. reports that further action will be taken the Warren County Circuit Court to which case was remanded by the state Supreme Court.

The national office ef the NAA CP will assist in the appeal, set for sometime in March. The case is an unusual one from many aspects According to the Supreme Court opinion: The so pelsnt's (Upton's) defense was an alibi and physical incapacity and his conviction rests on the uncor roborated testimony of the woman he Ss alleged to have raped." The Mississippi court said: This is an appeal from a conviction for rape in which the death penalty was imposed. The appellant's defense wss sn alibi gnd I physical incapacity and his convic tion rests on the uncorroborated testimony of. the woman he la alleged to have raped. It is true that prosecutor would entertain any charges filed, but that he could not guarantee safety of witnesses In any trial held here and he predicted that any effort to hold a (CeaUnaed wa page seven) tary Services for twelve months has consistently evadd adopting the legitimate standards of organization that would include the American Negro as a full participant and builder of a Civilian Defense organization that would serve the world, on behalf of as a rounded, honest and earnest example ef a true democracy at work, reaching out gtori eusly towards a new horizon united in purpose.

Critics snd skeptics know that "token representation" to hide discrimination put further doubts into the minds of 13.000.000 Asner C' I Mrs. Jas. WeHon Johnson Follows Lead of Mrs. Hope In Resipqi frca th A. W.

Y. S. Following the lead ef Mrs. John Hnpe. who resigned recently as administrative assistant from the American Women's Voluntary Service because that organization has ersded the question of full participation of the Negro in the Civil ian Defense program, Mrs.

Grace Nail Johnson, widow of James Weldon Johnson, author, teacher and publicist, tendered her reatf nsUon, under date of February It, as member of the sponsoring committee of that organization. Writing to Mrs. Alice T. McLean. president Mrs.

Johnson said: February It 1041 Dear Mrs. McLean: Amaneaa Wetaea's Volua Therbody of Edward Roundtree. 26 year old entertainer ef Boston, Mass, was recovered from the Harlem River at West 155th street Monday night fifteen hours after bis Ijuick automobile had crashed through an iron railing. The car, bearing Rhode Island license plates, plunged into Har lent River near Macombs Bridge view ef Sergeant Wilson and Patrolmen 'Heine of the 32nd Precinct Grappling crews started immediately in an effort to locate the car which waa flaaUy located at 8:11 a. m.

by Thomas Walsh, 73 year old diver, in forty feet of water. Sentence 4 Soldiers Of 372nd Regiment to Life Imprisonment MOUNT HOLLY, N. J. Four Negro soldiers of the 372nd Regiment at Fort Dix were sentenced te life terms in the state prison by Judge Frank A. Henderson In Bur The dead man was identified, by land.

The Jury recommended mercy bis wife. Elsie Roundtree, as that although the prosecution had ask of her husband, a resident of 505 f0r the dea penalty. Columbus avenue. Boston. The fourth soldier sentenced An entertainer and member of a WM wimam U.

Jones. 25. of Buf weU known, theatrical faIo JoB wu tT2m imprisonment after he had chan last October at the Apollo Thea tre in the act know asThe Three! f. pVjron Florida Aristocrats." According to Sergeant Wilson, who witnessed the tragedy, the Bulck went into the river when Roundtree failed to make a right reprimanded Jones during a drill, turn an West 155th street and were attached to the 372nd plunged through the railing. Regiment Here Is News! Snprema Court Of 14 RevejCavicliri Of Negro Found Guilty cf Kapaj Hngton County Court of Oyer and Terminer on Friday.

Three of the soldiers were convicted by a Jury of murdering Irv ini Habas, 40 year old Trenton jewelry salesman, who was fatally beaten in a holdup on December 3rd. They were Charles A. Gil more, 19; Robert Wilson, 20. and Henry L. Johnson.

19, all of Cleve acicnse hi me cnargc oi sisyuig Sergeant William A. Sims, 22. of Atlantic City. Sims was shot dead last November 15th after he had a conviction for rape, may rest on the uncorroborated testimony of the person raped, but it should always be scrutinized with caution, snd where there is much in the facts snd circumstances in ev' dence to discredit her testimony another jury should be permitted to pass "Without setting, forth the testi nvc.y of the prosecutrix, so no which would serve no necessary purpose, it will be sufficient to say that it does not appear therefrom that the alleged rape left any marks of violence on her person and her version of how the rape was committed sets forth at least' two high ly imnrobable accompaniments of such a crime; in addition her own admitted conduct immediately af ter the alleged rape suggests thst she was not then conscious of such a wrong having been done her and the then conduct attributed by her to the msn whom she says had Just raped her. suggests that he was not then conscious of hsving so done.

Whether a "reasonable man engaged in a search for truth, uninfluenced by Improper motives or consideration' could safely accept or act on her evidence is so doubtful ffiat another Jury should pass thereon. REVERSED AND REMANDED." TusWee Prexv Says Air Force WiD Have To Be Racially Mixed By PETER DANA The 09th and 100th Pursuit squao rons now in training at Tuskegee. the organization of which has been bitterly opposed by colored citizens objecting to separation of the races in the military service, "arc grv ing colored men a foothold in the air corp. and will, in time, lead to mixed air units," according to Dr. F.

D. Patterson, president ef Tuskegee. in an interview here this week at the Hotel Theresa. Dr. Patterson's statement comes Just as It is announced that William Pickens, now engaged in selling defense stamps and bonds for the U.

S. Treasury throughout the county, has been relieved of his position as Director of Branches for the N. A. A. P.

for his publicly announced support of the separate air training center at Tuskegee. Dr. Pickens, on leave of absence from the Association, has found himself at odds with N. A. A C.

P. policy on several occasions recently. His dismissal, according to a statement of the Association, was deemed advisable in view ef his open defiance ef the declare plicy ef me organ itlwi en eagre prion in the armed services. JL HE. BISHOPS REM 1IBERF0RCE PRESIDENT Removed By Colleagues BISHOP B.

B. WRIGHT, JB, LL Sczsr Howard OfimyiyfCcip Db at Field esaaawcaaet DENVER, Col. Funeral services were herd We Saturday afternoon for Lt. Sumner J. S.

Howard. 3L of New York City, attached to the Army Air Corp at Lowria Field. Lt. Howard died suddenly on February 18, following an attack of influenza. He had been in the army tor two years.

His widow and a son. who were with him, survive. Lt. Howard was the youngest son of the Rev. Florsda Howard, vicar of St.

Judes Chapel in West 99th street He. was a native New Yorker. Besides his father, a brother. Dr. Florada Howard, Jr, physician, and several cousins, including the Rev.

John H. Johnson, rector of St. Martin's P. Exarch and chaplain of the Police Department, are among the surviving relatives. Jasitor Fatally Shoots 2 Friends la Crap Gace An argument over a crap game in which a Janitor lost $33 in rent money which he had collected from tenants ended in a double murder early Sunday morning at 2716 Eighth avenue, when the winners refused to return the money.

The victims in the tragedy were identified as Frank B. Fields, S3, of 120 West 12Ch street, and Wilfred Spence, it of 118 West 120th street The killer, according to Detective Barta who made the arrest, is one John Brown, 32, of 275 West 144th street Police said that Brown, Fields and Spence bad been friends for over eleven years and during the last four years had often used vacant apartmenta for crap games. A. F. of Executiye Declares He's Redy to Oust Union Unless It Admits Negro Members Frank Fenton, director of organization for the A.

F. of L. representing William Green, union president pledged Tuesday that be would suspend the charter of a union in Belleville. N. if the union persisted in barring Negroes from employment Mr.

Fenton's statement is believed to be the first time that a high ranking official promised specifically to suspend or expell a union which barred Negroes from mem bership and was made at the final public hearing of the President's Committee on Fair Employment Practices on Tuesday. The statement came when Ken aeta B. Hamilton, manager of The Isetsntiter Inc. at Belleville. N.

admitted that the company bad on January 12th Inserted a newspaper advertisement for white girls saying that in previous advertisements the company had not specified white girls and as resuU em pJeyeea at the plant te Approre Bisb? Cory's, Resolution Removes Bishop R. R. Wright By BAXTER LEACH BALTIMORE. Md. The Bishop! Council of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, neeting here last week, adopted resolution presented by Bishop G.

E. Curry of the Eleventh and Fourteenth Episcopal Districts removing Bishop R. Wright as president of Wllberforce University, The bishops concurred In the resolution and the tention of Bishop Curry that "it' is unfair to our Connection te allow Bishop R. R. Wright to pre.

side over the Thirteenth Episcopal' District and also act as presidenY of Wilfaerforce University. both being supported by the Connac Bishop Curry said that seems to be "Bishop Wright's policy to hold two places and receive twa salaries in our church." Btshoy Carry; KeaelaVaa "Whereas, the Episcopal Dis trkts of the African Methodist' Episcopal Church need dose supervision, and whereas, it requires a bishop's full time te supervisi a District, and whereas, there Ji unrest in our church among the supporters both ministerial and lay because of the two Jobs that's being held by some of our bishops and general officers, and whereas, it is unfair to our' connection to allow Bishop R. R. Wright to preside over the Thirteenth Episcopal District and also act as president of Wilberforce University, both being supported by the' con nection, and whereas, it seems that it is Bishop Wright's policy to hold two places snd receive two sala ties in our church, and whereas, when he was editor of the Chris tun Kecorder, he accepted the Presidency of Wilberforce University, and received money for the same, and also from the editorship of the Christian Recorder, and. whereas, the Church is looking to the Bishops' Council in this mat ter.

and "Whereas, we have two bishop that cannot get to their flelds ef labor on account of the war eon ditions, and whereas, it seems that Bishop Wright would rsther be president of Wilberforce than Bishop of the AME Church. "Be further resolved that th financial secretary be instructed ta discontinue his salary as bishop se long as he acts as president ef Wilberforce University, and thst the Thirteenth Episcopal District be divided between the thirteenth the two foreivn bishops. Kentucky oc given la Bishop Beid, and Ten nessee to Bishop Allen and Btsh op R. Wright continue his office as president of Wilberforce University." To Belinqassh Office la sYarefc It is reported here that Bishop Wright after deciding te preside over the Thirteenth Episcopal Dis. trict will relinquish his office af president of Wilberforce Unlver shy in March.

Hia successor was not announced by the bishops. quit if Negroes were hired. "Why didnt you hire some Ne groes and And out?" Fenton asked him. Hamilton cited the company closed shop and said the hiring ef Negroes would csuse real trouble. "You hire (he Featea replied, "and if they dont takt them Into the union HI guar an tea HI lift the The union is the Chemical and Od Workers Local 23.032, which has a contract al CEa plant, ft is a federal local, which meant ft is chartered directly by the federation which controls its officers and policiec The federation, under its constitution, would have ae power to act against a local union which is pert of an autonomous in ternational union.

The international unions, which comprise th overwhelming bulk of the fa iion't membership, have the right sr ctfy their own qualifications tai rnasabarahia,.