September 21. 1945
PORTLAND INQUIRER
Pag« 3
French Colonials
Laded for Help in
French Liberation
NEW YORK, N. Y. — M any
F rench forces helped in her lib
eration. The w ork of her colonies
in A frica w ill never be forgotten
and the feats of her new A rm y
raised in N orth A frica, b attle
tested in Italy and cam paigned
through the southern provinces
of France, w ill stand on th e ir
reco rd alongside of the m ost
glorious pages of French history.
This laudatory report was m ade
this w eek by the A m erican Relief
for France, a m em ber of th e
N ational W ar Fund.
D uring the past five years,
F rance had m any striking proofs
of the loyalty of her colonies. It
is w ell know n that th e French
Colonies w ere among the first to
join F ree France. H ow ever, th e
p a rt played by the A fricans, W est
Indians, the M adagascan (Mal-
gaches) and th e Indo-Chinese, in
the F rench Resistance, is not
w idely know n. The risks tak en
by the colored people w ere m uch
greater, due to th e ir easy rec
ognition and th e Nazi feeling to
w ard colored people.
T here are recorded m any s trik
ing exam ples of heroism , stren g th
and perseverance displayed by
them , of w hich a few are given.
The nam es are w ithheld by th e
censors.
A young girl from W est A frica
m et a group of N egro m en in
M arseille, w ho like herself had
n ev er accepted defeat nor th e
countless tem ptations of collabo
ratio n offered them . A fter a p e
riod of tireless activities on th e ir
p art, she w as arrested, p u t in
prison, then in various concentra
tion camps, and finally th ro w n in
th e Nazi prison in M arseille. She
spent 11 m onths u n d er conditions
th a t defy description, defying h er
captors and refusing to reveal th e
nam es of h er group although to r
tu red daily. Finally, she escaped,
m anaged to get to Paris, and
again served her cause until the
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Cor. 99th and S. E. Ash Sts.
W eek Services—T uesday and
F rid ay 8 P. M.
SUNDAY SERVICES
Sunday School 9:45 A. M.
Serm on 11:30 A. M. ‘
Y.P.W.W. 7:00 P. M.
Evening Service 8:00 P. M.
ELD. T. W. RUSSAW, P astor
CHURCH OF GOD
IN CHRIST
338 N. W. 5th Ave.
Sunday School 10:30 A. M.
Serm on 12 Noon
Y.P.W.W. 6:30 P. M.
Evening Service 8 P. M.
Other Meetings
Tue., Fri. Evenings 8 P. M.
Bible Band Wed. Eve. 8 P. M.
REV. J. C. LEWIS, P astor
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Jerry Turner, delegate to the
CIO Portland Council from the
Portland local of the United
Transport Service Employes of
America, gets a Red Feather, em
blem of the 1946 Porlland-Mull-
nomah County United War Chest
campaign, from John McKenna,
chairman of CIO participation in
the United War Chest. Interested
on-looker is Marjorie Patton, War
Chest commercial division sec
retary. with a feather of her own.
very day of liberation.
A doctor from M adagascar, a r
rested by the Nazi in 1940, n ev er
stopped preaching “resistan ce” to
his fellow Negro cell-m ates and
m anaged to get a very large fol
low ing . H e and others m ade th eir
escape an d re tu rn e d to M arseille,
w here he becam e the leader of
one \jf th e fam ous “C om bat”re-
sistance groups.
A n A frican student, also an
active m em ber of th e “C om bat”,
was d istrib u tin g his gro u p ’s new s
paper.
H is b ro th er arrested in
1941, his fa th e r killed d u rin g the
F irst W orld W ar, he had read
“M ein K am p f”, w hich w as all he
needed to join th e resistance
m ovem ent. In the “M aquis”, he
joined a p arach u te group and
la te r th e Special
Com m ando
group. In th is group he engaged in
a w arfare of guerilla activities
and sabotage, ending w ith fig h t
ing th e Nazi h ead q u arters a t Lio-
ran, and th e giant electrical plants
of R ouillac and Poyere.
T. L. Smith Gets
Dep't of Justice
Civil Rights Job
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School here, and—m uch to the
surprise of th e ir offspring—not
only p articip ated actively bu t
form ed an aquatic club of th eir
ow n th a t m eets w eekly for a
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W ASHINGTON — A t t o r n e y
G eneral Tom C. C lark announced
today the appointm ent of T u rn er
. Sm ith to head the Civil R ights
U nit of the D ep artm en t’s C rim
inal Division. Mr. Sm ith succeeds
V ictor W. R otnem who has re
signed to e n te r th e p rivate p rac
tice of law in W ashington.
Born on A ugust 27, 1906, in A l
bany, G eorgia, Mr. Sm ith received
an A. B. in law from M ercer
U niversity in 1928 and practiced
law in A lbany u n til he joined the
Civil R ights U nit of the D ep art
m ent of Ju stice on Septem ber 1,
1943.
Mr. Sm ith w as a m em ber of the
G eorgia leg islatu re during the
1942-43 term and acted as state
Working with All Nations
census director in 1940. A case
S unday school, 9:45 a. m.
w hich occupied m uch of Mr.
R egular Services, 11 a. m.
S m ith ’s tim e w ith the Civil Rights
YPW W Services, 5 p. m.
unit was the H arlan County, Ky.,
E vangelist Services, 7:30 p. m.
election
frau d s
investigation
P ra y e r M eeting every F rid ay
w hich resulted th is y e ar in th e
n ig h t at 309 N. E. H ancock St.
conviction of 71 persons.
W eek-day Services every T ues
He w as active in th e indictm ent day and T hursday, 7:30 p. m.
and conviction of A lb ert Sidney
E lder C. L. SIMMS, P astor.
Johnson,
A rkansas
p lan tatio n
ow ner, on peonage charges. J o h n
son received a heavy fine and a
prison sentence. He prosecuted
election frauds in Tennessee and
in v o lu n tary serv itu d e cases in
F lorida and M ississippi.
Mr. Sm ith lives w ith his wife
and child at 908 Glaizewood Ct.,
Takom a P ark, M aryland.
Mr. Rotnem , 45, a g rad u ate of
the U niversity of M innesota and
H arv ard L aw school, joined the
Civil R ights U nit in Ju ly , 1940,
and succeeded its first chief, H en
ry A. Schw einhaut, w hen th e latt-
te r w as appointed associate ju s t
ice of the U. S. D istrict C ourt
for the D istrict of Colum bia in
1941.
The Civil R ights U nnit w as es
tablished in th e D epartm ent of
Ju stice early in 1939 for “the
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