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W ANTED SUBSCRIBE TO Club, Fraternal and Social New» Thia ia YOUR Newspaper . . . h o help make it yours by send ing in these happenings. ornan* Oregon's T^egro Weekly Published each Friday VOLUME 1 nau írer PORTLAND, ORE*.OCTOBER fi, 1944 PRICE 10c Bricker’s Record A-l Posthumus Award to Negro Veteran Dewey Here on Thursday 12th ✓ Ohio Governor Friend oí Negro for Years NEW YORK—Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio, Republican can- | didate for Vice President, has "been known to the hundred» of thou sands of colored folk» an their I friend for all these yearn, recently ■aid a recognized political leader of hi» race, in the Buckeye State. “ Unterrified and unafraid of the color question, he haH gone ahead throuRhout hi« political life in do- inR all he could for colored people in a positive, constructive way,” he continued. "The country, and particularly our people, have heard of him / g » YOUR PROGRESSIVE NEGRO N EW SPAPER NUMBER 13 Appointments Shatter Precedents N L W YORK— Governor Dewey’s list of apfxiintments of colored New Yorkers to responsible official positions exceeds both in quality and quantity all those of his predecessors. The campaign arguments used by his opponents, that his appoint ments of them while Governor, have been made purely for national campaign purposes, falls flat when his record in that respect as District Attorney for New York County is studied. As the gang and racket busting i member of the New York State District Attorney of New York Athletic Commission. He receives County, he appointed colored assist- no salary, but *25 for each meet- ants whose qualifications could not ¡ng of the Commission he attend«, be questioned. Among those ap- Mrs Bertha J. Diggs, a college pointments was that of Mrs. Eu graduate, was named as Secretary nice Hunton Carter, a Smith Col of the Department of Labor with lege graduate, as Assistant District more than 2,500 employees subor Attorney at a salary of $6,000 per dinate to her. Noah C. A .Walter year. Mrs. Carter was the first wo was named by Governor Dewey as man of her race in the history of a member of the Industrial Board New York to be appointed to such a at a salary of $8,500 per year. position. Francis E Rivers, a Yale This appointment, like all of the < O I . O K X I M I H I ' K I N O N — M r . a n i l Mr *. C h u rl « « H a n k « r r r r i t i o x a w a r d for mostly because of the record-mak- I ao n ( n . t r l r « ('. I t a n k * f r o m ( a p t . L. K. H a i l e y , c o m m a n d e r ( 2 n d V e t . Co. | Phi Beta Kappa man, now Justice rest, broke new ground in the of i Rivers, was named by the Republi ficial recognition of their race in fOfficial F o t o O W I ) ing appropriations under him for The Army paid tribute to a hero i in the ceremony. He revealed that can Candidate as a senior District the Empire State. Wilberforce University, his sub from another branch of. the coun- his son had served a hitch in the Attorney at a salary of $10,000 per Four Assistant Attorney Gene stantial ruce appointees like that try’s service recently at Camp Car- Navy in 1935 and had joined the year. He too, was the first of his rals, Governor Dewey has named in of Commissioner Lawrence Payne, son in Colorado when Capt. Lee K. merchant marine in March 1942. people to hold such a position in the persons of Conrad A. Johnson, and his staunch advocacy of a per- Bailey, rommaning officer of the He was serving as chief cook of the New York, and the first of his Stanley M. Douglas, Philip Watson manent fair employment practices 1 42n<l Veterinary Company at the Minotaur at the time of his death group named to prosecute murder and Lamar Perkins. , , ., camp, presented the Mariners’ The citation to young Banks, cases. James Yergan was named Richard L. Baltimore, Sr., was commission, not only for the Na- ,, , ..................... . . . . . . Medal to the mother of the first signed by Vice Admiral Emory S. Assistant District Attorney at a named by the Governor as a Com- ti«*n, but for Ohio. Both have h«-ard j Negro youth from Colorado Springs, Land, War Shipping Administrator salary of $4,000 per year. Surely pensation Claims Referee at a sal- too, what a great governor of Ohio ; Colo., to win a decoration in this and read at the ceremony by Capt. these appointments answer the ary of $5,000 per year. Mr. Balti- he has been, being elected again war. Bailey, stated: Democrats. more, like Assistant Attorney Gen- and again with ever increasing Before a guard of honor and a “ He was one of these men who The record of Governor Frank- oral Philip Watson, who it attached majorities, and h*v he has taken Ico,or 8'uard, Captain Bailey pre- today are so gallantly upholding lin D Roosevelt, now Democratic to the Election Frauds Bureau, had , Rented the medal to Mrs. Frede- the traditions of those hearty ma- Candidate Roosevelt, by compari- no predecessor among his people, is state ou o e rc< e y n Banks, 314 Willamette Ave , riners who defied anyone to stop son, pales into insignificance. Mrs. Mathew V. Boutte and Dr. )i nun rati« pr< < •*< * s h o t s an< pu i Colorado .Springs, as a posthumous the American flag from sailing the The list of Governor Dewey’s ap- Henry O. Harding have been ap- in . in« ih . uk in ■- .*1" ’ ,l •irH' award to her son, Charles C. Banks, seas in the early days of this re- pointments to policy-making( gosi- ; pointed, respectively, to the Board ca».i aurp us nr i»os war » nstru« j 27-year-/>ld mercham satior who public,” said the citation. “ He was tiorts of colored men and women of the New York State Training fi100 , | , | " Un, 7 W<?. rrmPm ™ lost his life in the North Atlantic, one of those men upon whom the has reached so high a mark that School for Boys at Warwick, and to is Hp eni i< vie ory, no, over c «JiocI when his ship, the SS nation now depends to keep our none can question Dewey’s convic- the Board of Visitors o f the New Roosevelt administration in the Minotaur, was torpedoed and sunk ships afloat upon perilous seas to tion that colored Americans must York State Hospital for the Treat- matter of Ohio handling its own by an enemy submarine on January transport our troops across those be integrated into every branch of ment of Incipient Pulmonary Tu relief problems ll, 1943. seas; and to carry to them the vi- their government. These appoint- berculosis at Ray Brook, NewYork. “ But back of all this,” said Charles Banks, father of the tally needed material to keep them ments reveal his confidence in the Governor Dewey appointed last Bricker’s admirer, “ is a simple, maritime hero, accompanied his fighting until victory is certain and character and capacity of his col- April three colored leaders in the straightforward, born and bred wife to the camp and participated liberty is secure.” ored fellow Americans. persons of the Reverend Elijah H. Ohioan, with a warm heart and a He appointed Justice Francis E. Echols, Dr. George H. Sims and family heritage for friendship to Rivers to the City Court of the Dr. C. B. Powell to the New York colored people. Without fuss and City of New York, the first of his State Commission Against Dis feathers he has stood adamant for rate, at a salary of $17,500 a year, crimination. the enforcement of law and order, , 0 . , , ~ ! . , Justice Rivers was subsequently This is the unparalleled appoint- The drive which has been con of equal civil service opportunity Several hundred aviators passed elected to a ten-year term. This is ment record of oGvernor Thomas ducted by the Portland Inquirer to for all. through the camp. They were of the highest paid office to which a E. Dewey. It speaks louder than Against him is running Senator get all the colored population of , \ . , . .... . . „ . the most varied races and natioali- colored American has ever been ap words. The Dewey record augurs rrv S. Truman of Missouri, the Multnomah County registered Harry well for colored Americans when a close this week. The ties- including Eskimos, Negroes, pointed. admitted white-haired hoy of Boss : comes I)r. Clilan B. Powell was the he becomes President. Tom Pendergast, who, prior to his effort put forth by a very small Maoris, 'Chinese, Argentinians and 1 first of his group to be named a (Record on Page 2.) imprisonment for graft, corrupted group of interested Negroes has Brazilians.” the electorate and helped debauch produced surprising results. Actual go wrjtes a visitng isecretarv of Missouri with vice and crime p ro-1 count puts the number registered War p risoners Aid of the y . M. C. tection for a generation. well above a thousand with the NEGRO LYNCHED AT final tabulations still to come in. A * from a transit ca,11P through TRUMAN HOME Starting in Guilds Lake with whkh «■ *■ *• * aviators pass to The local Democratic adherents, The stories that appeared in Sejrator Truman hails from the classes to teach people how to reg- various camps or hospitals in Ger- like all branches of the Democratic local papers concerning me are hostile Missouri county where ( leo , ister, the drive seemed to bog down many. The races mentioned are in party does not mind, it seems, absolutely UNTRUE. I have triid to locate the Wright was so savagely lynched a for lack of interest of the people additon to Americans, British, stooping to anything to fool the source of these rumors and in f,w , , . r . b „ k . Senator Tram.n » „ a . intended to help. Nothin* French> Potes, Serbs, Yugoslavs, Negro voting public. Stories have has a record o f complete indiffer daunted, the workers went into a tend to take action against these . . . ence to the rights of colored citi- huddle and came up with the sug- and a11 the others caught m the been appearing in local papers that people for their attempts to zens. Should Franklin D. Roosevelt i gestion of a house-to-house can- polyglot hopper of thé battlefronts. a Negro minister in Vanport is not harm my reputation. be elected and die, Truman would vass. This finally proved to be the War Prison camps are today only in favor of the Bilbo’s, Ran I am taking this method of let he president. The country needs best method, but with volunteers so I cross sections of the world and of kin’s and their henchmen, but was ting the public know that I am Bricker as Vice President.’ few it was not practical, so* a new most of its nations, and the ne«4s actually trying to persuade other, not taking part in any partisan activity. idea was forthcoming. This time and desires of prisoners are a di Negroes to vote for these thugs. (Signed) H. C. Cheatham. somebody suggested going through verse as their races, religions, edu- The Portland Inquirer could not the project with a Sound Truck, cations, and former occupations. This is one of the cheap tricks believe that any Negro of even This was done and at the same Visiting secretaries of War Pris- moderate intelligence would try to j used by the Democrats all over the time, the Registration Trailer mov- oners Aid 0f the Y. M. C. A., a influence other Negroes to vote country to pretend that some Ne- ed in to Guilds Lake for a two day participating service of the Natio- for a party with people like Bilboa gro leaders are with their party. stay. Results were fair but nothing nal War Fund, with headquarters' and Truman in it. So we decided to No Negro in the Portland area has spectacular. • at Genoa, Switzerland, and New ask this Man of God if the reports permitted his name to be publicly linked with the Democratic Party. After holding classes in Vanport York offices at 347 Madison AVe., were true. No Negro anywhere in the country The following signed letter is his to instruct the newcomers how to receive and pass on to the organi- who has the interest of his race at answer: rogister, the original idea of a zation’s nearest centers, requests as heart would permit his name to be Portland, Oregon house to house canvass was sug- j various as their sources. These in linked with a party that has done October 5, 1944 gested again, but this time w ith , elude books, ranging from the and is still doing his race untold I, Rev. H. C. Cheatham, of my trimmings. 1500 forms were print-; ABS’s to abstruse scientific and harm. own -free will, depose and make ed in duplicate. Each form was J philosophical works, materials for Let this be a warning to the P mO ruled to accommodate 21 names and 1 almost ever> athletic game devised the following statement: ri n r i I have authorized no qne to Colored voting public, do not pay enough of these forms were issued by Man, the media of all of the h I «H publish my name as a campaign any attention to rumors that any » • to each worker to cover the unit great religious, and every known H SC er for the Democratic Party or decent Negro is in favor of the in which he worked. Residents, both musical instrument, from the grand «« • lO Democratic Party. any other party. piano to the tom tom! C CO . (Continued on page 4 Reg i s t r a t i o n Closes Prisoners of War Camp Local DemocratsTry Old Tricks S •P p t* <t> -P O U < t CO o