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Friday. Ociobar 12. 1945 PORTLAND INQUIRER Two Discharged Sailor Beaten, Jailed Teachers Win For Not Addressing Railroad Man Second Battle For Equal Pay Wife and Siglers of Murdered Man U. S. May Have To 'Get Tough' With Liberia New War Secrclary Says Tan Yank Policy To Be Set John Hope Leaves Atlanta U. System ATLANTA tANP) John Hope 11 lias resigned from his position at Atlanta university in order to By Ernst E. Johnson WASHINGTON (ANP) — \ join the stuff of the race rela NEWPORT NEWS. Va. (ANP' Washington tANIM Secy, of possible stiffening in the attitude tions institute at Fisk university, The second battle in the equal of this government toward that War Hubert 1*. Putti rson, at his Nashville. pay struggle for teachers here has of the republic of Liberia is being first news conference since his Son of the first president of been won. deviation from undersecretary, the Atlanta university system, the state department, it has been said on Thursday that the It» The drama of the last of the Hope's new i i-spoiisiliility will learned, and the hope is implied I sons of World Wai 11 with regard two battles to secure equal pay la- to develop under Die auspices that whatever the final decision, to the utilization of Negro sold for local Negro teachers came to of the American Missionary as there should lie the fullest ap iers will b(> among the matters to a victorious end in the U. S. Dis sociation a program aimed ut preciation for and understanding lie reviewed in light of the futui« trict court in Norfolk. Va., on "Damn a White Man" combatting tin- menacing tide of of this fresh position, particularly organization of the army. Aug. 30 when Judge Sterling Hut rueial discrimination in the poet- “White man,” Thompson re here at home. cheson held Joheph S. Saunders, The new secretary led o ff war |iei iod. For the next several torted. "Darn a white man. I've At the time of his official visit W i t h a tribute to his predecessor, months his attention will lie cen superintendent of the Newport been fighting this war for all BEREAVED- Mrs. Erwin Jones Rsmbo who slso made the trip he|0 m form,.r p rt.sldlM„ News schools and the local school Henry L. Stimson. mid declared tered primarily upon the complex men, not just a white man." bereaved by a blast from a shot- here ,rom Louiziana testify at Kdwm Barclay expressed the de- that problems occasioned by the board, in civic contempt. problems of reconversion with Angered, Clodfelter drew a pis closer relationship peace would be large and handled gun in the hands oi a Portland the farce that was called a Cor sire that the pm pose of sustaining the tol, advanced on the sailor who oner's Inquest on Tuesday Oct- between the two countries should Judge Hutcheson also ordered with the same diligence as was movement toward fuir employ immediately raised both hands, Saunders and the school board to Police Officer August 21st. She ob„ g,h _ pho,0 by Margar„ lie sought. He also welcomed the case during th*1 war years. ment practices for Negro wage remarking, “ “you g— d— n black obey the decree of the late Judge is shown sitting between her Robinson, staff Photographer of greater American enterprise, with Unlike Ins predecessor, how earners which was advanced son of a b—. I'll teach you to Luther B. Way, which was issued two sisters Zandree and Susie Portland Inquirer. reasonable safeguards against ex ever, Secy. Patterson received during the wur period. speak to a white man like that." on Jan. 22. 1943, forbidding “these j ploitation, believing that such the spontaneous questioning of j For the pust two years, while Undaunted. Thompson is quoted school officials to pay Negro GUILD'S LAKE would insure to the benefit of reporters with facility and where on leave of absence from Atluntu as inviting the conductor to teachers less than white teachers CORONER'S INQUEST this small West African country he could give d e e d answers university, 11 o | h - was employed shoot. But an MP had observed when they possess equal qualifi (Continued from page 1) The highpoint of that visit was Under these circumstances, he I as a fair practice examiner in the the incident and came up, to be cations and perform similar serv the signing of a lease-lend agree was asked by this correspondent of the house with a shot-gun regional office of the FEPC in told by the conductor he didn’t ices." nient in June, 1943, under which to say whether "tlie department and noticed a small tear in one Atlanta. In this eupacity he dcull want Thompson to continue the mutual commitment were made, intends to revise its basic policy The background of the latest of the window shades. He peer trip. Thompson informed the MP many of which are now in the regarding the utilization of Nr with employes, wur industrialists, fight for equal pay reveals a ed through the window and saw he would get off and went in By Harold G. Miller process of fulfillment although gro soldiers in light of new c government agencies und trade criminal conspiracy by members O'Leary looking through from the unions investigating complaints side to get his belongings. GEORGE, MRTHA TOMB PHILADELPHIA (ANP)—The all lend-lease has been terminated penence .¡allied in this war." of the local school board, includ other side, and heard him tell of discrimination bused on race, MOUNT VERNON, Va —(ANP' Bureau for Colored children has except for certain uncompleted Followed and Beaten The secretary reflectcr u mo religion and national origin. He ing Saunders, to nullify a U. S. the person on the inside to open —When William H. Holland, only offered its shelter and adminis- j matters. ment, then said: Supreme court verdict in favor hud the largest service in this the door. He also testified that colored guard and lecturer on Before the 23-year old sailor tration building in West Phila- j Following this visit a spokes - "This matter will, of course, la region at his termination when duty at the tomb of George and could dislodge his bags, two MPs. of equal pay for Negro teachers. he saw the man on the inside delphia for another year rent- man for the state department under constant study." He pans FEPC was curtailed und main Martha Washington, retires with one of them had left on the plat The supreme court ruled that load the gun which he claimed free for use as a child-care center, publicly declared in an address ed hiicfly and added, “—us all tained u rating of excellent salary discrimination was illegal he used to shoot at his fellow in the next few months after a form, two railroad agents and The offer was made Saturday j that "it is natural that Liberia other epcriencc of this war." throughout his period of servtee 4-year vigil, the 87-year old tra two Hamlet officers— one of but the local school board decided officers. It was then that he by Mrs. Ada B. Carter, executive should constitute our main link Inquiry was net made as to in Alabama, Florida. Georgia, fired the shot that killed Erwin secretary of the bureau, to the with the Africa of today," and dition of having a Negro sen- them the 250-pound chief Gibson to ignore the decision. whether uny specific proposals M ississippi, South Carolina and tinnel among the staff of guards who had beat and kicked a 120- board of education, which has further that in the scheme of There would be no equal pay Jones. hud been set forth on the subject Tennessee. Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Jones were may come to an end. pound colored WAC in his station for Negro teachers, they decided. jurisdiction over the centers. Un- j international security, Liberia It is understood that already seevral weeks ago, and a yard Not even a teachers' petition, pre married in Ringo, Louisana. and der present plans, the centers are "will be one of the focal points to which be replied thut they I Hop«- formerly served as ad plans have been made to have a inspector, known in railroad sented to the school officials in have four children. Erwin, Jr., scheduled to close in another of special importance to the j "haven’t taken concrete form yet viser to tin- Negro Workers coun to discuss today." cil of Atlanta, which wus sponsor white guard succeed Mr. Holland language as a "car knocker" who confidence, moved them. They 9, Jerry 7, Ira 4. and Odora Mar month. Two of the 20 centers lo- Americas.” The matter of revision of basic ed hy the Atluntu Urban league ie 2. Mr. Jones had been ex when he retires. However, so far brought a machinists hammer, replied by intimidation, which cated in the city have already | Private investment on any scale policy is one that the Associated and since 1941 has been a mem as it is known, there is no critic advanced on him. resulted in the discharge of Dr. amined and passed his army phy closed their doors. | thus far has been limited to the Negro Press bus learned was ber of the national panel of ar sical in Louisana and was em ism of Mr. Holland's work. In Told to get off in a hurry or L. F. Palmer, principal of Hun "Social agencies in Philadel- Firestone Rubber company and fact, he is considered the most be thrown off, Thompson inform tington High school, from the ployed in the shipyard in Prtland phia have been very much dis the Pan-American airways. Pub raised more than six months ago bitrators of the American Arbit informed of the staff of guards ed the seven man team that while locai school system. Dr. Palmer, while waiting his call to the ar turbed by the uncertainty of con lic investment, however, is tak within the department, and even ration association. He is u grad who keep a 24-hour vigil at the he was willing to walk off as along with Miss Dorothy E. Roles my, when he met his death. tinuing the child-care centers in ing the form of a huge harbor, more recently thun that. It could uate of Morehouse college, re tomb in three eight-hour shifts. soon as he gathered his belong and others, was active in the fight At the completion of the in our community". Mrs. Carter said suitable for naval purposes, and not be said, however, whether ceived his M A in ecoixiniics at Mr. Holland usually serves on ings. he would have to be thrown for equalization of teachers sal quest, Attorney Goodman told in transmitting the offer. estimated to cost close to $12.- the views have reached the at the University of Chicago where most repiremrnts for the Ph.I). the 8 a. m. to 4 p. m. shift so off if he was to leave earlier. the Inquirer reporter that “The "These centers mean much to 500,000 The job is being handled tention of the secretary. aries. When -'he expansion of the have been completed. that visitors may have the bene fact that a public inquest has mothers who must work because by U. S. Navy engineers. The seven men beset him im Miss Roles was the plaintiff in been held in a courtroom and they are widows or because their fit of his wide knowledge of the mediately, using their clubs, fists Other projects which are being army begun in 1940, Negroes' tomb, its environs, and the entire and kicking him, at the same the first suit against the school was attended by hundreds of! husbands are still in the armed sponsored by the American gov were accepted through selective without. It has la-en constantly service and incorporated into the maintained that the so-culled ed* Mount Vernon estate. His brief time trying to force him off. Each board. The last suit grew out of Negro and White people, is in forces. The full responsibility for ernment in Liberia are these: vane« s made by the army huve lectures to the hundreds who time the sailor caught the back evasive methods to perpetuate a itself a tremendous victory. It the maintenance of their families 1. A public health mission organization on the basis of been of a stop-gap nature only crow wage scale for Negro is these people who attended the has fallen on them, visit the tomb every day consists of a seat to restrain the action, I headed by Col. John West, esti thinking that had been mapped of a thorough-going recital of his the "car conductor” beat him on teachers. That suit was backed inquest and the thousands on the | "Such mothers can only give mated to cost $675,000 over a five us long ago as 1925. The policy and intended simply to meet mi established then was one that ni« diate situations. toric ceremonies which have the fingers and hand with the by the Newport News Negro outside who have supported this their best service to their em- year period. Teachers association, the Virginia case, who are the real jurors." taken place at the tomb, the hammer. ployers when their children are 2. An exploratory mission of limited the army to two infantry names and relationships of the Finally ejected, Thompson was tate Teachers association, and the well cared for. Since the per experts from the Foreign Eco and two cavalry units of Negroes, persons buried on the grounds taken to the Hamlet jail and NAACP. sonnel of the child-care centers nomic Administration taken over and under no circumstance would and in the inner vault of the charged with being drunk and is made of well-trained, exper by the department, cost estimat these units lie more tluin a regi Negro teachers here have ment. Washington tomb, and the histo disorderly. Miss Jackson and Sol ienced individuals, it is not hard ed at $350.000. gained an estimated $75,000 a ry erf each of the trees on the C. Blackshear of Columbia, pas It was not until public pres to see how this eases the minds 3. Assignment of an agricultur year in increased salary through grounds near the tomb. sure hud been exoited upon the sengers on the train, state that at of mothers while on the job. al expert at a cost of $8,000. the successful struggle to estab Mr. Holland says that after 11 no time had they seen the sailor "It is true that the child-care In addition $30,000 is being war department that the brass lish equal pay for all teachers in persons had been buried in the take a drink and point to two centers were started as an ex- pitched in on a nurse training hats yielded to demands to create, ceni the local public schools. Several inner vault of the tomb, some of MPs having ridden the train dur- COLUMBUS, O. (ANP) program, and another -25,500 has a Negro division. The first was, I ient v^pr, measure, but the remaining relatives of WtUi- ing the trip, visiting the coach teasers will receive from $1,000 nation's fair employment pi ecd for thenil is eVery bit as Im !>een expended fo < construct a the 93rd and latrt- the 92nd* d i ' to ^2,000 in back pay, coverin a ington met at the tomb, locked several times and finding no dis movement will be discussed In addition, Negroes d here portant no ri now, during the recon-[dispensary, cofhmunity center, vision. two-year period. and sealed the inner vault and order or drinking. But Hamlet by Dr. ouis Kesselman o f Ohio version period. and to provide machinery for were begrudgingly admitted to then walked down to the Po police, after MPs noted Thomp tate university during the 13th “We still have a responsibility ■ woodworking and to aid in the the army air force in token num tomac which flows by about 100 son’s discharge papers and had annual meeting of the Association in this direction that we m ust1 auto mechanics course at the bers. Other concessions were! yards away and threw the key quickly excused themselves, fined for the Study of Negro Life and face squarely. Funds should be Booker Washington institute. The made in allowing Negroes to In into the stream. him $50 which he paid. History on Oct. 26, 27, 28. made available with as little de- ' U. S. army also has built many assigned in categories outside of > Notary Public Following each lecture, mem Dr. Kesselman, who has given lay as possible to keep the day- miles of good roads, useful and service battalions. 141 3 M W I L L I A M S A V I bers of visiting groups express considerable attention to the care program for working m oth -1 needed. All of these thing.* have The non-discrinunation order j V B 9413 f r a t e r n a l H all their high appreciation of his in steady demand for fair employ- ers alive for at least one year been requested by the Liberian of July, 1944. was written only teresting talks, and ask him ad Dr. Bond resigned from Fort ment practices in America, will from V-J Day” , Mrs. Carter said, government and are designed to after considerable pressure from j Valley as of July 1, the regents analyze “the signfiicance of the J Use for another year o f the lift the general level of develop- ditional questions which he usu CARLLE R. VICKERS, DDS. voting to accept his leaving the FEPC movements" as well as the W. Philadelphia building, which ment of the country and to pro ally answers quickly and satisfac 1471 N. E. Williams Court college at their convenience. His current FEPC bills in congress. torily. SH O P T H E ^ r has been occupied as a child- , vide a more wholesome living at- Portland, Oregon leadership at Fort Valley has Since 1905, Mr. Holland has The opening public session will care center during the past year. VErmont 4208 VANCOUVER commanded national attention. opened the gatese of the tomb for be held at the Columbus Gallery was approved by the bureau's U / n n i w I e f l V a le Troup is a graduate of Morris of Fine Arts. Dr. Carter G Wood- | board of directors. every President and foreign dig FUR FACTORY Portland's Only Negro Dentist VYOUIllJcil vTal V 6IS LOS ANGELES (ANP) — A nitary who has come to Mount movement is being launched here Brown college and studied at son, founder and director of the Vernon to place a wreath on the to maintain good relationships Atlanta university, University of history association, and Dr. Jas. VETERAN MEMPHIS LEYTON'S MARKET sarcophagus of the nation’s first between Negro and Japanese Wisconsin and Ohio State uni H. Rodabbaugh, curator of histo EDUCATOR RETIRES ' i ’u m p lo t « Hho|>|>litft unl«r“ versity, the latter institution ry, Ohio State museum, will be President. Among these have Americans. SPOKANE. Wash.—(ANP)—Im-1 MEMPHIS (ANP) — Principal peachment of Sen. Theodore G G r oo«rl«« - r r u it « - Menta rom which he hopes t« win the been all of the Presidents from the principal speakers. A recent meeting held at the ▼ • g a t a b l « « Daniel Webster Gary of the Bilbo was demanded her last Theodore Roosevelt to Truman, Pilgrim house revealed that an doctor of philosophy degree early At the Ohio State museum, Dr. W f lc o m iN M o n t a v llln T ra d « North Memphis Negro elementa and. also the present king and estimated 40,000 Japanese lived next summer. He was appointed L. D. Turner, Fisk university, week by 500 war veterans a t: C o r. Band « n d M . E G L I 8 A M ry school retired last week from Baxter General queen of England. hospital for in “Little Tokyo” before they principal of Risley High school, will speak on “African influences Two years ago, “We the Peo were sent to relocation centers. Brunswick, where he is a native. in the development of the English his duties after 31 years of ’spreading and fostering racia' ple,” a network broadcast, in About 300 of them have returned. He affected notable expansion in spoken in America., and Prof. service. He was 76 years of age and re)igious discrimination, Xhe ousU>r d,,mand carTU< from vited Mr. Holland to appear on Rev. Harold M. Kingsley, director the physical plant at the coastal Wilson Dumble, Ohio tate, will upon retirement and said he was and Barber Supplies city school and succeeded in hav discuss “A Footnote to Negro "going to sit around, read the the w ar Veterans’ Committee for one of its programs to relate some of Pilgrim house, said: JA C O B MILLER newspapers, visit old friends and EqUaI Ri>?hts which was organjz. “Under no circumstances will ing it recognized by the Southern Literature.” Dr. Eric Williams, 515 S. W. Third Ave. former students . . . and go down ed last July to protest discrimin GENERAL HOME one minority allow itself to an- Association of Colleges and Sec Howard university, will speak on to the courthouse." ondary schools. IMPROVEMENT CO. ation against Japanese-American tafonize another such group.” “Inequalities in the Caribbean,” Besides holding several Mem war veterans by a local Veterans MILLER & TRACEY Fort Valley is now rated as the The meeting was attended by during the afternoon session Sat T M I V A N C O U V IR FU R F A C T O R Y phis school principalships he had of Foreign Wars post. They ex Roofing Funeral Directors Japanese, white and Negro lead leading Negro unit under the urday at the Social Administra J u i f A cro » « ( K t l n l « r i l « l i 8 H 4 | < taught at Alcorn college, Missis pressed resentment against Bil NOW is the time to fix that ers. They agreed that the race Georgia Board of Regents, having tion building. l i l i l í o n S W e » h in | t e n Sit. 7 1 4 S. W . 3 0 th F U O « sippi, his native state. roof . . . come in and see us and minority” group problems will bo’s recently widely-publicized P o r t la n d , O regon a budget approximating The society is showing a three- V a n c o u v e r, W o th . for prices or statements and letters against be acute on the west coast In the $78,000 at the July meeting, the month exhibit on “The Negro in Phons . . , TR 8431 what he termed “agoes” and! next six months. At least 500,000 additional $25,000 grant last week Ohio, in the United tates and in Cor. N. E. 25th & Broadway “Kikos.” Negroes, plus thousands of Jap making the budget almost as Africa.” Poems by Paul Lawrence Their letter to him attacked anese and whites, will be pouring much as the combined total of Dunbar will be included among the other two state units for the rare volumns of Negro lit his “vehement denunciation of into the area. ÇXuxu/¿o (^ yoym coi various segments of the Ameri Many of the migrants will be Negroes. erature as well as the original Dresses - Milinery There had been several entries reports of the first three meet can people” on the fhxjr of con Negro ex-servicemen, who will Coats - Suits gress. not want to remain in the south, in the race for the Fort Valley ings of the Ohio anti-slavery so Shop Where Style and Rev. Kingsley pointed out. Most presidency. ciety, which features the leader Enjoy Schenley Reserve— William V. Worrsl, Realtor Quality Blends of the Japanese released from re ship of John Rankin, famous Ohio 701 S. E. Grand Ave. it's MELLOW as a "The Friendly Store" location centers are residing tem abolitionist. Rankin’s house in Phone VE 4135 or EA 1737 WALKER and ROACH Ripley, O., became the first stop Exclusive But Not Expensive porarily at hotels and the Koya- SUNNY MORNING Jewelers san and Hongwanji Buddhist tem on the underground railroad for 936 S. W. Washington, cor. 10th B O O r iV O C O S T R A C T O R S ples. thousands of slaves. E lR ey S la t« Surfaced Sbin gl«« •19 B. W. Washington Bt. a n d B iding COLUMBIA, S. C. (ANP)—Mc Coy Thompson, steward1! mate first class who was discharged from the navy Sept. 25, after vol unteering and serving two years and 10 months for his country, arrived here Saturday night from Hamlet, N. C., where he had been beaten, jailed and fined be cause a conductor for the Sea board railroad company didn't like the way he talked. Enroute home to visit his par ents, Sam and Mrs. Gracie Thompson of Eastover, S. C., Thompson had boarded the Sea board Palm Land train in New York City. At Hamlet he had stepped off to post a letter for Miss Marlcy Mae Jackson of Florence Villa, Fla. Before fin ishing a soft drink he had pur chased while posting the letter, conductor N. O. Clodfelter gave the “all aboard” signal. Turning to the conductor who stood not far away on the plat form, Thompson is quoted as re marking that he was gald to get out of North Carolina which pro voked the conductor to ask what was said. When Thompson repeat - ed the remark, Clodfelter warned "better mind how you speak to a white man.” Bureau Offers Free Site for Child-Care Center George, Martha Tomb May Lose Negro Guard Daisy L. Warrick Nation's FEPC Movements to Be Discussed at Meet Launch Movement To Keep Amity Between Japs, Negroes Dr. Rond Resigns From Fort Valley Demand Bilbo Ousier BEAUTY SUPPLIES THE FASHION Cloak & Suit Co. GOODMAN & BADER P o r t la n d , O raron 15 1 5 W. 33rd A t «. O A . 3942 LIND & POMEROY The Time Shop llllllllllll!lllllllimi!llllllllillllllllli:!llllllllll|l>!lll!l:!l!!:illll|ll|l|!IKI^ EAT WITH US You are always welcome— The KEYSTONE LUNCH "w e never close" Short Orders our specialty 1621 N Williams Ave. Mrs. Hazel Johnson. 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MUrdock 9533 To Whom It May Concern: We, the Masons of this area of Prince Hall Affiliation, un der the jurisdiction of Wash ington State Grand Lodge and California Grand Lodge and their jurisdictions, do not rec ognise certain spurious organi zations established in t h i s area, therefore, we warn the public against such parties. Enterprise Lodge No. 1 F. 4 A. M. and Excelsior Lodge No. 23 F. A A. M. are the only rec ognized bodies in Portland or Vanport City, Oregon. These lodges meet on the first, sec ond, third and fourtht Monday nights of each month at Prince Hall Temple, 116 N. E. Russell Street. Signed: Charles Rawlins, W. M. Enter prise Lodge No. 1 Boyce Strain, W. M. Excelsior Lodge No. 23 SHASTA CAFE N. W . 4th & Glisan St. Good Food Pleasant Suroundings NEVER CLOSED We Have No Key