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Tw * Friday. October It. 1945 PORTLAND INQUIRER INVENTOR NEW GOP ORGANIZATION FORMED TO WIN NEGRO VOTES White Children Visit Homes of Negro Vacation Playmates Federal Judge Courier Signs Work Contract With Newspaper Guild NEW' YORK —(ANP)— White I Alstead in the western part of NEW YORK—(ANP)—Plan* to S. Mitchell Jr., Massachusetts PITTSBURGH (ANP) — The children from New Hampshire the state. control the Negro vote tor the Atty. James M Stockett Jr., Pittsburgh Courier, one of Am visited the homes of their Negro) The Connecticut program has Republican party ia reported to Rhode Island; William O. Wal erica's leading weeklies, signed 1 vacation playmates here last lifted the horizons of muny peo be the aim of the National Coun ker, editor the Cleveland Call a work contract for its employes week for th week-end from Oct. ple. commented the Rev. Lee, cil of Negro Republicans, a new Post and member of city coun in the circulation, collection, ad 12 to 14. The children were and added many of the Negro organization formed at the Hotel cil, Ohio; Atty. William A. Dart, vertising and editorial depart brought here by the Rev. Brad children wunted to go back a- Roosevelt here about a month assistant city collector, Atlantic ments last week with the Amer ago. ford Young of Manchester, N H , gain. Twelve Negro youngsters City; Sidney Davis, assembly dis ican Newspaper Guild, CIO. A c chairman of the Department of from Hartford were in the first The new group, whose chair trict leader. New York; William cording to Sieve Ripley, inter Christian Social Action of the group last summer and more are man is Joseph V. Bak-T, a Phila C. Wingato, cosmetic manufac national representative of the State Council of Churches. delphia publicist, has already re turer, Joseph W. Giens, assistant expected to bo chosen next sum guild, there is no retroactive pay Similar visits have been made mer. The Connecticut hosts liv ceived the blessings of Herbert to the attorney general, and Bis in the contract. Brownell Jr., chairman of the hop Daid H. Sims, Pennsylvania; by white children from Vermont, ed in or near Riverton. West Tlie unit, organized by James Republican National committee. and Dr. Emmett J. Scott, District the state where the interracial Terrington. Sherman and North- M Reid, news editor, includes Among industry's big-wigs who of Columbia. goodwill program that brought field. full coverage for some (15 m e m were present during the forma Negro children for two weeks in The church should curry bers and partial coverage for a tion of the council was Ernest T. to white homes begun in 1944. through on the affirmative, not number of filler employes whose Weir, chairman of the board of This year the idea for improving "merely talking or adopting reso jobs are of an executive or con National Steel corporation, A. W. relations between racial and re lutions” about goodwill between fidential nature. The negotiations Robertson, chairman of the board ligious groups und building the races und religious groups, began in April und went into ef of Westinghouse Electric com fect Iasi week friendships on a “ natural basis” remarked Rev. Low. Attorney Irvin C. Mollison of spread to New Hampshire, Con pany and onaldson Brown, vice- Courier workers will receive Chicago whom President Truman chairman of the board of General j necticut and Illinois, said the approximately $25,000 more in appointed to the judgeship of U. Rev. A. Ritchie Low. who has Motors corporation. annuul pay, Reid said. S. Customs court in New York WILMINGTON, Del (ANP)— taken an active part in the pro In explaining the objectives of City. Able lawyer, member of gram. the National Council of Negro Brotherhood is the editorial poli Chicago Board oi Education, ac OVERSUBSCRIBES COLLEGE cy of the local Sunday Morning Rev. Low, who was born in Republicans, Baker said FUND QUOTA tive civic worker. Mr. Mollinson’s Star. England and educated in Aver- BIRMINGHAM (ANP) By re- "The National council has been WASHINGTON (ANP) — The new post will pay $10.000 per The introduction of the broth porting $12,583, Jefferson county deen, Montreal and here, dis established as a wholly indepen CIO Food, Tobacco and Agricul year. A native of Mississippi, his erhood idea in this state, which over-raised its $ 10,000 quota in closed a plan to have 90 or more dent organization. It will strive turili Workers Union has once lather was a well known lawyer tlie second annual Negro College Negro children bewteen the ages to be of service to the Republi is somewhat of a “no man’s land ’ more come before the LRB to ' there and in Chicago before he between the north and south, is Fund drive, according to A G. of nine and 12 visit white fami- can party machinery in a number .. ,, . protest the setting up of separ died some years ago. Gaston, county chairman. of ways. These will include credited to Joseph H. Martin, the lies in Vermont. New Hampshire , te Negro and whlte loca,s b |hc The campaign was stimulated counsel on problems which will genial, white-haired editor and and Connecticut next year. In AFL in thl. Larus Brothers’ to I ----------------------------- addition, Chinese children, prob- i.,„.lN, ni__, ,,, '' j .................. ..... by the designation of “ Booker T confront the leaders of that par publisher of the newspaper. Un der the American flag on the ty; the gathering and dissemin ably from New York, may go to|0pposing‘ the „ o f 'the’ AFL SCIENTIFIC HONORS ” i,y" masthead of the Star, the paper’s GARRETT A. MORGAN ation of information which both Vermont he asserted Tobacco Workers International SCIENTIFIC HONORS O ty Commission, Preside, t Co». editorial policy is set forth in party leaders and members of Cleveland, who is credited woolens. Since then he has a He said he would like to see mo„ for certificltion of two LAWRENCE. Kan. (ANP. - J*r «• • “ » praised Mr. these words: should have relative to the Ne with accidentally discovering. 40 number of inventions to his credit the “good will" spread even unions unums in ln the th„ Parus p „ rll. plant— „ 1, contribution one Dcunn LcHoy G. Moore, a mem-1 (,r,'*'n fur h,s gro; the sponsoring of meetings “If my brother strives to reach years ago. the process of straight- including the first American gas farther and suggested that other for white members and the other b*r of ,ht‘ Lan*»lon university and suggested that the event be . . , , . . . . . . . mask for which he was awarded sections of the country, particul for Negroes— FT A has demanded fac“ lty, was recently elected to madc under local auspices in all of the The step on which I stand. " '‘ nual afr‘" r emng human hair. At that time . . . . . , . .. _ * the first grand prise at the Sec- arly the west coast with its an oral hearing before the NLRri. Sl« a Zi> the top-ranking honor- larger Negro communities; and I’ll not, for color, race or creed. he was experimenting with a so- ond lniernalional Exposition of Japanese population, and the the publishing of a regular organ Withhold a helping hand." in a brief filed with the NLRB I ar>' s<ll’nco to eM y in the nation.) lution to heighten the polish of Safety and Sanitation in New southwestern states with sizeable last week_ Nathun Wltt attorncy us well as to the Kunsus Academy | which will be sent to both Negro Delaware resembles the soutn needles in machines used to sew York in 1912.— ANP photo. and white Republican workers." Mexican settlements, might be for tT A declared that it is ..,m. of Science. 317 N. W. Third Ave. No members from Illinois, more than the north. The large fertile territory. He dews not re- propt.r under the National Labor Dr. Moore, who has returned to 1 Negro population lives in a state Michigan and the Pacific coast gard Negroes as problems any ) Relations act to certify two labor Langston after spending a year —For a Limited Tima Only— have been chosen, the executive of semi-segregation. There are no more than whites or other rac organizations in one unit when in graduate study in the chcmis W e Can Make Suits ial groups, he said. council reported, but Oscar De- jim cr*w rules for buses or trains, (Continued from page 1) such lab'r organizations arc set try department ut University of Priest, veteran Chicago Republi and since just before the turn of homicide”, a verdict also render Tho idea is not regard people up on racinl ,ines Kansas, is prepuring un article ! and O'Coats from can leader and third ward aider- the century Negroes have been ed by a handpicked lily white as white and Negro but as hu- The AFL Tobacco union was on his research in conjunction | Finest Material accorded full privileges in the use man, said; man beings, as fellow Amen- bargaining agent for the Larus with Dr. Mary Elvira Weeks foi coroners jury after a two-day . . . All Wool . . . of the Wilmington Public library. ‘The only thing that can win cans to be understood and appre Brothers’ manufacturing plant publication in one of the journals j hearing last Tuesday and Wed The same does not apply to libra PLACE YOUR XMAS ORDER Negro votes for the Republican for the past year, with colored of the American Chemical socie nesday, October 9th and 10th in With the clean-up drive for the ciated, he stated. ries in other parts of the state. NOW party is the willingness of the The Negro children that have members belonging to Local 219- ty- An absence of brotherhood in the courtroom of Judge James 1946 Portland-Multnomah Coun 3 Weeks Tailor Service party to do something for Ne visited in white homes have come b and white members to the par- Delaware is also evident in the Crawford, Room 540 County ty nited War Chest Victory cam- groes. The Democratic party is WE MAKE FULL DRAPE paign in progress, Sid Woodbury, from all faiths, including Rom- ,.„t local, 219. As a result of asserts. local hospitals, which bar Negro Court House. trying to do something. They SUITS Suporting the KTA’s fight on Following the verdict by the general campaign chairman, an Catholic and Jewish. In Con- objections raised by FTA and doctors from visiting patients gave Aty. Mollison one of the best necticut, the Rev. Oscar Lee of other organizations that this set- the issue, the Nutional Federation professionally in colored wards, Coroner's Jury, Irvin Goodman, stressed the importance of in Also Fancy Dry Cleaning jobs a Negro has received from Hartford, a member of the Rural Up is discriminatory, the NLRB for Constitutional Liberties has said the Rev. Delos O'Brian, pas attorney for the family, told a creased giving on the part of Hat Renovating either party.” Life committee of the State ruled on June 30 that the AFL declared that the issue in the j reporter for the Portland In- every contributor to assure meet- tor of the First Unitarian church j Atty. William E. King, another Council of Churches, worked out certification names only the white Larus case “is the same as that here. Local employment practices quirer, "The fact that a public mg the *1,398,742 quota, Chicago Republican veteran, a similar program. Fifty Negro local, giving the Negro local no involved in the FEPC fight. { "I cannot insist too strongly on restrict Negroes “to the dirty inquest has been held in a court- children from Harlem here spent legal standing. withheld comment about the new While the attention of the labor and day-labor jobs that nobody room and was attended by bun- the need for everyone to give Negra Republican organization, The NLRB suggested, however, movement and other progressive D a is y L . W a r r ic k dreds of Negro and White people j more than they did last year,” two week vacations at homes of else wants to do,” he disclosed. wh' je other officials, besides Ba is in itself a tremendous victory, he said. ’The needs are greater. white families in Manchester, that the AFL file a new petition forces has been directed to that ker are; It is these people who attended Servicemen and women are still Nashua, Pembroke, Hollis, Exe for two separate locals, thus in fight, the exponents of racism ¿iarold Burton, assembly dis the inquest and the thousands .overseas, and will bt: tor months ter, illsboro, New London, Merri- dicating the board's approval to have won a major victory in the S ou th « A c w o rth and trict leader, New York, iceihair- Rtn crow unions. The AFL is flftnk they have executed with on the outside who have sup to come. Increased population has m a W c n n a man; Sidney R. Redmond, St. now asking for certification for the supine acquiescence of the ported this case that are the real brought more need for youth Louis attorney and former wes two locals in the Parus plant, and NLRB. This victory cun be rc- ; jurors.” services and child care. Nurses FTA is opposing this request. tern campaign leader, secretary: versed, however, by immediate A meeting was held by the are still scarce and health serv WASHINGTON (ANP) — The committee for the family and im ices are feeling an increasing Ernest T. Weir, Pittsburgh, trea FTA is also asking that Local action. This fight is realty part surer. Members are Atty. Joseph NAACP is in search of a labor mediate action was taken to se load. The decrease in shipyard 45, which has bargaining rights and parcel of the FEPC fight.” secretary, it is learned. in the Larus stemmery— a plant cure a grand jury investigation. personnel, who gave $350,000 last Feeling that its activities in the The Grand Jury was in session year, puts the burden of replace- close by the manufacturing plant | field of labor have grown to such — be added to the ballot. WASHINGTON, (ANP) — The an extent that there ought to be all day Wednesday with prospects mg their contributions on the CHICAGO, (A N P )— The 23rd Other CTO unions actively in M i n i s t e r s A d ill of listening to witnesses all day shoulders of all of us.” emblem for Meritorious Civilian policy-making and coordination annual meeting of the Conference terested in the Larus situation Thursday who are in any way Woodbury praised chairmen service was awarded to Lemuel at the top levels of the organi- of Presidents of Land Grant col are the United Automobile Work- A i ] a n ta V flf p T lp n ia l Notary Public who reported more than 100 per Foster, racial relations analyst for ation, the association wants to connected with the case. leges is scheduled here at the ers and the United Electrical/ " 11®1113 ¥ 0 l e U “ n l 3 1 The only witness to make a M ia W W IL L IA M * A V I . cent at recent United War Chest the army service forces last Fri add to its staff an individual Radio and Machine Workers, who ATLANTA— (ANP) —Baptist V I 0 4 1 3 statement confirming any of the report luncheons, pointing out YMCA on Oct. 23, 24, 25. r m t p r n a l H a ll day afternoon by Maj. Gen. who can do the job. Dr. Horace Menn Bond, until are fighting similar discrimina ministers of Greater Atlanta vot testimony of the Police Officers that their efforts in surpassing Joseph N. Dalton, director of per- Last spring, it is understood, was General Grant, Negro, a resi their quotas should be equalled recently president of Fort Valley tion cases before the board. Join ed last week to send a message CARLLE R. VICKERS. DDS. nel, ASF. State college, Fort Valley, Ga., ing FTA in demanding an oral to U. s. Atty, Gen Tom Clerk, the post was offered to an out dent of Guilds Lake and a known 1471 N E. Williams Court by other solicitors and contrib “For meritorious civilian ser standing individual who did not is president of the college presi hearing, the UAW and UE arc urging him to investigate the de Portland, Oregon vice with army service forces as accept. The name of the person bootlegger and crap game oper utors. dent’s organization and will pre asking to be heard at the same nial to Negroes of the right to VErmont 4208 Special mention was given Mrs. a consultant on minority groups, was not disclosed by the source ator. He said that he and another side over the three-day meeting. time on their motion to have vote in the recent city election. Portland's Only Negro Dentist man, know nas “Half Dollar” , G. L. Pinnock, Capitol Hill dis read the citation which was sign of this information. The matter was turned over to told the police officers that Scott trict block leader, who raised 190 He wil be assisted by R. B. At A IL certification revoked in the ed by Gen. Brehen G. Somervell Throughout its life, theNAACP Thomas, murderer of Beatrice wood, president of Kentucky General Motors case; and the the committee on law enforce per cent of quota, Miss Harriet commanding general of AF, “and has been primarily identified LEVTON'S MARKET State college, Frankfort, secre national CIO has asked to be . ment after the ministers showed " C i i m p l f î » HhopiitnK C« rilar** for active assistance in bringing with the continuing fight for civil Terry, the man whom the police Trayer, Multnomah, with 164 tary. heard in both cases. 1 complete unity against the vote about the maximum use of such rights. In this connection they | were looking for when they killed per cent, Mrs. Lorena Courter, O r o c e r ie s - T ru tta - M e a t i Other officers of the organiza FTA’s brief before the NLRB denial, V affatA bU a groups during America’s greatest have struggled for equal salaries | Jones, had gone to the Guilds Latourell Falls, 130 per cent, and tion are Dr. Sherman D. Scruggs, asserts that: W elcom e* MotitAVlIla T ra d « Lake address. No proof has ever Mrs. Mark Anderson, Rigler, 108 war effort, thereby not only ma for school teachers in the south, vice-president, Lincoln univer C o r. Band and M. I . (l L iti A N "The establishment of separate been submitted that Jones and per cent, al under the super terially aiding war production but the right of Negroes to sit on The health human „ to Thomas knew each other, Captain vision of Mrs. Martin Pratt, Mult sity; and Dr. Fulton G. Clark, segregated locals is a violation of also providing the members of juries, the right to vote in all from of Detectives James J. Fleming nomah County Block leader treasurer, Southern university. the boards own finding that all , urn , he attrntIon a such groups with an opportunity elections, protection of defend now says that he has in his pos chairman. In addition Woodbury Members of the executive com production and maintenance em- ourte,vejli to get absorbt.d m to participate fully in America's ants against forced confessions, and Barber Supplies session a signed statement that cited the names of 73 firms and mittee are Drs. F. D. Paterson, ployes in the manufacturing something we can do 8(and on war effort.” JA C O B M ILLE R and other matters . chairman, Tuskegee; John W. ! plant—both white and Negro— Scott Thomas was in the home of businesses that have contributed our own feet and be respected by In recent years, however, the Erwin Jones on the night of the 515 S. W. T hird A ve. Davis, West Virginia; F. D. Blue- belong in one bargaining unit; more than 100 per cent of their our fellows. There is a great truth GENERAL HOME association has found itself in murder. Fleming further stated ford, North Carolina; L. H. Foster, “Certification by the baard of ! in the saying “He that loses his quotas, and who still are sending IMPROVEMENT CO . volved in more and more labor Virginia; W. R. Banks, Texas; two locals organized along racial MILLER & TRACEY that the people who are demand in reports. life shall find it.” He that loses problmes. It has been counsel to ing that an investigation be held F. G. Clark, Louisiana; G. L. Har lines violates national policy and “Local needs for service men, himself in a piece of work that is Roofing Funeral Directors parties in cases coming before are those who "thrive on strife.” like the USOs, George White rison, Oklahoma; and ex-office the U. S. Constitution.” worth doing finds the kind of life NOW is the time to fix that the National Labor Relations 7 14 S. W . 3 0 th FlACS both the president and secretary. The brief urges the NLRB to that is wholesomely human. P o r t la n d , O r e g o n roof . . . come in and see us board; it was associated witn His statement has been refuted, Center, and United Seamen’s enforce its own proven policy of challenged and denied by Civic Service must be prepared to meet for prices or HR. 2691 other counsel in the Bester refusal to consider race or color H. A. Overstreet. leaders in both races. increased calls for their services Phone . . . TR 8431 Steele case involving Negro em a consideration in determining Irvin Goodman, attorney for for at least the next six months, | Cor. N. E. 25th & Broodway ployes which was settled by the the family of the murdered Jones bargaining rights. “ It would be he said. “The Red Feather serv U. S. Supreme court last year; it states that the case will be carried entirely destructive of the co l ices of the Portland Community has taken the leadership in the to the Supreme Court of the Uni lective bargaining process if race ■ ¿o ¿sÿoym en é Chest, which provide their facili Dresses - Milinery fight against auxiliary unions, or color were considered a basis ted States, if need be. ties on a year-around basis, must and especially against the boiler for dividing workers,” the brief Coats - Suits be provided with funds to carry makers union on the west coast. "HAVE YOU DONATED TO on. Winter, with its threat of Shop Where Style and Enjoy Sth en ley Reserve Civil rights, the association THE UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE William V. Worrel. Realtor Quality Blends cold and hunger, face the people views it, now irtVolve the right FUND?” 701 S. E. Grand Ave. of Europe, China and the Philip- it’s MELLOW os a "The Friendly Store" to work, any infringement of this Phone VE 4135 or EA 1737 | pines. We must send them cloth- Exclusive But Not Expensive job right is justification for in SUNNY MORNING I ing and food. Raising the 1946 936 S. W. Washington, cor. 10th Jewelers terest and action by the associa WALKER and ROACH United War Chest goal is tlie B O O F IM Q C O N T B A C T O B S tion. | responsibility of everyone. / S IS S. W . W a s h i n g t o n St. Newspaper Makes Brotherhood an Editorial Policy Protest Made On Jim Crow Unions United Tailors j INCREASED GIVING NEEDED IN CHEST DRIVE Jones Murder NAACP Seeks « Labor Secretary President of Land Grant Colleges to Hold 23rd Conference Lem Foster Gets Award BEAUTY SUPPLIES THE FASHION Cloak & Suit Co. GOODMAN & BADER Portland, El B e y S la t* S u r fa c e d S h in g le s a n d S id in g Oraron B B . 6 868 The Time Shop Diamonds--Watches--Jewalry EAT WITH US You are alw ays welcome— The KEYSTONE LUNCH "we never close" Short Orders our specialty 1621 N W illiam s A ve. 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