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Friday. October 26, 1945
PORTLAND INQUIRER
Ex-Labor Leader Everell Johnson
Blocks Equality Assigned io Posi
of CIO
Al Fori Huachuca
DEMOCBATS SEEK OUTLAWING
OF WHITE SOUTH S BULE
Class Mates Meet After 25 Years
COLUMBIA, S. C., Oct. 24— (ANP)Bold moves to outlaw
the white south and extend membership to Negroes in the
Democratic party there were main accomplishments of the
National Council of Negro Democrats which ended a two-
day session here Tuesday night, marking the first meeting
of that organization in the deep south.
Resolutions adopted by the convention Tuesday after
noon called for the National Democratic committee exerting
immediate and unrelentless pressure up its southern units
to open them up to Negroes and, denial of office or position
to persons holding federal posts who achieve them through
; alliances with groups who prevent, by scheme and device,
their election or appointments through preventing participa-
; tion by a majority of their fellow citizens.
The latter resolution, officials explained, was aimed at
ousting white federal office holders who are given power
through the white primary.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The re
DETROIT (ANP)— The f a i r
practices committee set up by the cent appointment of Mr. Everett
UAW-CIO to break down dis W. Johnson as American Red
crimination and institute fair Cross field director for Ft. Hua- |
practices among its members chuca has been announced by j
finds that it has a tremendous Verne Simmons, Pacific A rea !
job on its hands trying to curb Manager of the American Red
the activities of a former labor Cross.
Mr. Johnson’s first assignment
leader, Charles Edgecomb, direc
tor of the Detroit Housing com in American Red Cross was as
assistant field director with the
mission.
Edgecomb’s hostile attitude to 92nd Division. After serving for
wards Negroes here concerning some time with the 92nd, he was
the housing situation has been transferred to domestic service
all too apparent. His brazen, ar and has served as an assistant
rogant statement a few days ago field director at Ft. Huachuca
when he implied that the housing since January 1, 1944.
That assignment to the 92nd
oommission
did
d i scriminate
against Negroes and intimated Division was something of a home
Seek Lynching, Poll
.
that they would continue to do coming to Mr. Johnson, since he ]
Monday afternoon during which
Tax Removal
H. George Davenport, w e l l so until ‘ he general public de served as a commissioned officer S t a f f 3 t T l l S k e g e e
Resolutions also called for im rousing speeches were made by
known Chicago Sign painter is manded that they do otherwise in the old 92nd of World War I. 1
mediate passage of federal bills Mrs. Sarah Z. Daniels of Ma,i
Dr. J. M. Henderson of Falls
vacationing with his attractive has rubbed Negroes the wrong He is a graduate of Pennsylvania
to eliminate lynching and the poll ning, S. C. and others in the
daughter in New York City, Mi«i way.
State College and has, in addi Church, Va., who has joined the tax, the latter to be done by leg midst of the south’s voting fight.
Camille Davenport, former Chica
The Michigan Chronicle said tion, taken special lecture courses faculty of the Tuskegee School islation rather than by constitu Hear Many Leaders
go and New Orleans' beautician. editorially: “To be sure the com at Temple University at various of Agriculture. His assignments tional amendment. The conven
The two day session tapered
include teaching chemistry and
Davenport is widely known in missioners have been walking times between 1930 and 1940.
tion, attended by some 600 dele out Tuesday night in a round
supervising
research
in
the
Car-
Following his service in World
the mid-west for his pungent pen backward so long their eyes must
gates from northern, western and table discussion of voting prob
nings which he labeled "Dyna by now be in the back of their War I, Mr. Johnson was Physical ver laboratory. A graduate of eastern states, also requested that lems at Allen university. Parti
Howard
university
and
the
Uni
mite." — Atlas Newsphoto Serv- heads. Charlie Edgecomb is the Education Director at St. Augus
more Negroes be given federal cipants included C. A. Scott, pres
Fred D. Downer, native of has studied voice in New York,
I man who is leading them back tine College in North Carolina, versity of Wisconsin, he has just posts, particularly those agencies ident of the Citizens Democratic
completed
important
war
work
as
Royston, Georgia, left, former Vienna and Naples. His theatrical
and was later Director of the
ward.”
dealing with labor, housing and association, Atlanta, and editor
baseball star, president. Atlas career has included important
t We are reminded that Edge Douglas Center in Toledo, Ohio. junior chemist with the Badger rights of veterans.
Immediate of the Atlanta Daily World; Eme
Newsphoto Service, greets former cinematic anc{ legitimate roles
For
some
time
prior
to
entering
j
Ordnance
works,
Baralow.
Wis.,
comb is a former labor leader,
passage of a permanent FEPC bill ry O. Jackson, president of the
classmate, the most recent of which is "Pete,
having been for a number of Red Cross, he was Executive Sec- and at the Unniversily of Chicago and one to extend federal aid to Progressive Democratic associa Morehouse College
Andrew J. Taylor. Mr. Taylor The Bartender" in the current
retary
of
the
Community
Center
where
he
conducted
a
special
years, prior to taking the position
education were requested. Presi tion, Birmingham, and editor of
who gained recognition as a bari- showing of CARMEN JONES in
war research project. He is the
as director of the housing com at West Chester, Pa.
dent Truman was praisd for his the Birmingham World; J. Logon
tone on the school's quaret. 1916- Chicago's loop.— Atlas Newspho
son
of
E.
S.
Henderson,
noted
During
the
period
of
his
as
mission, general secretary of La
administration, but was urged to Kearse, editor of the Peoples 18. is a nativ eof Macon, Ga. He to Service.
bor’s on-Partisan league“ whicfl signment at Ft. Huachuca, Mr. authority on sports, Washington, guard against domination of it by Spokesman, Winston, N. C., and
was at that time “labor’s political Johnson has continued his inter D. C., and the nephew of Mrs. reactionaries and groups hostile president of the Citizens Political
arm. It has evolved into the pres ests in recreation and sports, and E. D. Washington, daughter-in- to Negroes.
association, Osceola E. McKaine,
CLEVELAND (ANP)— “T h e ent Political Action committee as an accredited football official law of the lale Booker T. Wash-
executive secretary of the Pro
Union Effected
only way the Negro can achieve of Wayne county, NAW political has officiated at many football ington, who resides in the insli-
High point of the convention gressive Democratic party who
unqualified racial recognition and machine.
games held at the Post and in ; tute community.
317 N. W. Third Ave.
was its concluding with complete last year ran against Olin D.
equality is to accept without res
----------------------------
Edgecomb is still a member of the vicinity.
agreement among the delegates Johnston (D-S.C.) for the United
ervation the leadership within the UAW. Pays his dues regular
—For a Limited Time Only—
Mr. Johnson’s eldest son, Ever-
that problems affecting southern States senate, R. O’Hara Lanier,
the group if you expect to be ly, attends all of its conventions ett W. Johnson Jr., is a commis- T a | | r
A h n ilf
former
president
of
Hampton
in
Negroes were also problems ef
W e Can Make Suits
accepted by the others outside.
and conferences and voices his sioned pilot in the Air Corps and
CHICAGO (ANP)—-An effort
fecting Negroes in the northern, stitute and personal emissary to
and O'Coats from
This was the challenge that opinion vociferously on the floor. saw over two years of active D v n r f r n p p T n r w l o
eastern and western sections. The the convention of Congressman to prevent members of the Lake
Dr. McLeod Bethune threw to Yet he is being accused of play combat service in the European F lU y iC d i) J-iQllUd
Finest Material
council went on record as intend William L. Dawson, Mrs. A. B. Union Conference association,
2,000 people who attended a mass ing a “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” Theater.
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ing to prosecute to the fullest de Weston, Harold Preece of Texas /Seventh Day Adventists, from
meeting sponsored by the Cleve role as he clings to Mayor Ed
nials to southern Negroes as its and Tennessee who represented holding church services in their PLACE YOUR XMAS ORDER
land NAACP chapter at Antiloch ward Jefffries’ narrow, biased,
the white south, and John Ger- newly purchased building on
¡first job.
NOW
Baptist church last week.
GEORGETOWN, S. C. (ANP)—
prejudiced v>w s on things per
Lake Park avenue is being made
Host to the convention was the minston of Philadelphia.
3
Weeks
Tailor Service
“Believe in your own surgeons, taining to the welfare of the city,
If you talk about the progress Progressive Democratic party of
James E. Williams, president of by H. E. Raymond, lawyer for
bankers, attorneys and educat while t ehunion of which he is a
WE MAKE FULL DRAPE
colored people appear to be mak Southern Carolina, whose chair- the eastern region of the council white property owners in the dis
ors,” she pleaded. “Stop complain member is working to oust Jef
SUITS
ing in the south, you are liable to man is John H. McCray. Sessions which sponsored the meeting, told trict who have signed agreements
ing and pool your efforts. We fries from his seat as mayor of
WASHINGTON, D. C. (ANP)— find yourself in jail and accused
were held at Allen university and the body Tuesday afternoon in not to sell or lease property to
Also Fancy Dry Cleaning
have had enough segregation. It the city.
Colored GIs who are supplement of being “too smart”, an incident
his address that they had to learn Negroes.
Benedict college.
Hat Renovating
is time for us to become co
ing
their
training
in
colleges
and
reported here Monday by Bunyan Cunningham Hits South
Edgecomb was appointed to his
Raymond, who argued the le
to fight for their rights regard
workers.”
position as housing director by universities overseas may have A. Mills of Philadelphia indi
Emmet S. Cunningham, nation less of concurring fights from gality of racial restrictive coven
Aggressive development of in Jeffries as a gesture toward labor an edge on the boys who are cates.
al council president, hit hard the liberal whites. “They (the liberal ants during a reaent meeting at
dustrial and professional skills when that organization helped to coming back here for training,
Mr. Mills, past president of the south’s political machinery in the whites) will not take our fight all the University of Chicago, has
' and an end of self-pity will be kick his predecessor out of of Roy K. Davenport, war depart alumni association of Benedict
main address Monday night. “The the way unless ably supported,” filed a suit against the associa
the quickest means of arriving fice. Edgecomb took the place of ment psychologist, intimated to college in Columbia, boarded a
lack of free elections in the he said. He also emphasized the tion because it has announced
it a working democracy, the another labor man, George Ed ANP this week.
Greyhound bus at Columbia for south,” he said, “has closed the need for Negroes to regard the that Negroes will attend services
champion of Negro rights said.
Davenport, assistant to the Georgetown Thursday afternoon
wards, who was elected to the
door of hope to the sons of the Constitution as much theirs as in the building. The Seventh
“The war has proved that com commbn council. Mayor Jeffries chief of classification and place- to visit his brother, the Rev. T.
aspire to the presi- any other American’s, closing his Day Adventists recently bought
plete integration of the Negro has fotfcid himself it i extreme dis merit branch of the adju
O. Mills who pastqrs the Beth^-
^ice-presldtency *\f address w^th a pledger to adopt the building, covered by a racial
with the white race is a working favor with labor (lere which is general's officfe, has just retui
da Baptist church tiere./lMlo col
'd
'States.
The Demo1- Patrick Henry’s pledge, “Give me covenant from Mrs. Pauline Por
possibility. But for
minomy sponsoring a candidate for mayor from Paris where he spent )
ored men on the rear seat, he
ter White for a reported $25,000.
and speak advised liberty, or give me death.
groups, even in America, consid from its ranks. It would natur weeks helping to develope a cur said, struck a conversation on
w m .
The round table discussion, Raymond contends that the rac
ly,
will
never
again
nominate
a
erable effort must be expended ally expect Charlie Edgecomb to riculum for training army edu Negro progress in Alabama and
summarized
by
Cunningham, ial agreements apply to church
man
to
these
offices
who
comes
to make justice .freedom and be on its side.
cational counselors. Within six Georgia, which provoked a white
from a poll tax state, or from a brought out that the major weap attendance.
equality working ideals,” the
months,
he estimates that more woman to complain that the men
While it is difficult to deter
Most of the 20 local race re
state that excludes Negroes from on employed agpjnst southern
founder of Bethune-Cookman mine just how Edgecomb is using than 1,000 educational counselors made too much noise.
Negroes
was
that
of
registration,
strictive
suits now pending ap
the
Democratic
primaries.”
college asserted.
Stopping the bus and moving to
while the union of which he is a will have been trained for the
Cunningham also scored secre examples of which were outlined ply to property in the area.
“In our armed forces where a most certainly holding up the entire occupational force.
the woman, the driver who hadn’t
tary of State James F. Byrnes’ by Scott, Jackson, Kearse, Preece Three other covenant suits, in
soldier was a soldier whether his Jeffries banner in his views on
These counselors are to keep understood dearly the complaint
skin was black or white, there Negro housing. These facts are abreast, of social, political and from his seat, was given a new move for fair elections. “When and McKaino. Plans for setting volving property in this area,
was no segregation of courage, being brought to the attention employment developments in the version. The men were drinking Secretary Byrnes makes demands up a council agency to aid in were filed last week against
for free elections in Bulgaria and removing these problems, sup Negro tenants.
service or heroism.”
of the UAW Fair Practices com- United States so that they may and using profanity, she claimed. other Balkan states,” he declared, ported by the Democratic party,
The fight against anti-Negro
Mrs. Bethune, who was an as :::;ttee and Negroes here who be point the men to the types of When neither had any whiskey in
sociate consultant to the Ameri lieve in the sincerity of purpose training which offer the best job proof of her charges, the woman “the cry goes up ‘what about free were being formulated by Cun restricted covenants was given
elections in South Carolina, Mi. ningham and Williams late Tues a temporary setback here during
can delegation at the San Fran of that organization look forward opportunities here at home.
quipped: “You alnt gonna take a
day night at conclusion of the the week when Judge John P.
Notary Public
Byrnes’?”
cisco conference, said freedom is to seeing something done about it.
Because the quota system, nigger’s word ahead of mine, is
session.
McGoorty made a superior court
South Carolina Mayor Target
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n . W IL L IA M S A VE .
not a license. Recognition, like
which is practiced by some uni you?” The driver comforted her
ruling that racial property agree
Columbia’s Mayor Fred D. Mar
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r r a t e r n a l H a ll
freedoms, must be fought for,
versities here, limits and some and resumed the trip.
shall was target of a bitter attack
ments were legal in real estate
worked and paid for. This is the
times actually prevent a number
At Sumter, first stop on the
NACW
WORKSHOP
TO
DIS
from McCray who welcomed the
sales and transactions.
CARLLE R. VICKERS. DDS.
time for working, for beggars
of Negro students from pursuing run, the driver had two officers
CUSS WOMENS PROBLEMS
convention before Cunningham
1471 N. E. Williams Court
with their hands out all the time
the course of their choice, it is arrest one of the men, enroute to
Portland, Oregon
WASHINGTON (ANP) — Na
are accepted only at the back
believed that GIs overseas may Andrews, S. C., to satisfy the spoke. Marshall had turned down
VErmont 4208
VOULU WWE VD
. have a slight advantage for train woman and then issued cards to an invitation to extend greetings tional and international problems
door of American living, she said.
Portland’s Only Negro Dentist
W ork in d in ô MV e r ç ' ing opportunities. In England and all white passengers requesting to the city as governing official of women will be the focal point
at France, colored GIs are attending each to sign his name as witness and Cunningham opened his ad of discussion in the annual work
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a VNEeK/
SAN FRANCISCO (ANP) Rev.
LEVTON'S MARKET
THE UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE
Marshall been mayor of Detroit Negro women, which meets here
and technical schools.
F. D. Haynes, pastor of the 3rd
disorderly.
“ C o m p le t e S h o p p in g C e n t e r "
FUND?”
(Cunningham’s home town) and for two clays beginning Oct. 30, Baptist church here, has announc
Mr. Davenport, who is a grad
When none volunteered to sign
G r o c e r ie s - F r u it a - M e a t «
V e g e t a b le s
uate of Fisk and Columbia, accom a complaint, the woman shouted: have made such a declination, he it was announced last week. The ed his candidacy for supervisor
W e l c o m e s M o n t a v illa T r a d e
GENERAL HOME
panied a group of officers and “That’s just why the niggers done would be kept out of another sessions will be held in the audi of the city and county of San
C o r. 8 2n d a n d N . E . G L I S A N
torium of the department of labor Francisco. He is one of the few
enlisted men who were sent over got so smart here of late. Some term in office.
IMPROVEMENT CO.
Women delegates, led by Mrs as was the case last year.
seas to develop the training pro body’s got to put them back in
candidacies which Negroes have
The theme will be “World ever offered in this city. Now,
Roofing
gram. He was the only civilian to their place.” She took a card for Annie Belle Weston, state secre
tary
of
the
Progressive
Democrat
Peace Through United Action” however, with the migration
be selected for the important as serself and her male escort, affix
NOW is the time to fix that
and Barber Supplies
It MIGHT be logical for the signment.
ic party, held a lively session and will be in recognition of the
ing
both
names,
the
escort
ap*
which increased the Negro popu-
roof . . . come in and see us
government to pay certain people
JACOB MILLER
for prices or
role women have played and tion from 4,00 in 1940 to an esti
As a result of his work, Lt. pearing disinterested. About three
$25 a week for working on cer
515 S. W, Third Ave.
tain
government
jobs
if
they
must still play in interntaional mated 25,000 in 1945, Rev. Haynes
Monroe Dowling and Lt. Charles others also signed, Mr. Mills said,
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could get no other jobs elsewhere.
affairs. Its program, “World Se supporters feel he has an ex
Cor. N. E. 25th & Broadway
Davis have been assigned to coun but most expressed themselves as
MILLER & TRACEY
But the logical outcome of this seling program in France. Both opposed to the action, terming it
curity Month,” sponsored earlier cellent chance. He pastors one
could be that the government
this
year,
laid
the
groundwork
of
these
lieutenants
are
colored.
unfair
and
unjust.
of
the
oldest
Negro
churches
in
Funeral Directors
would soon have to tell every
for the participatoin of Negro the city.
body what jobs to take, where to They were trained at Harvard
Dresses
-
Milinery
714 S. W . 2 0 th F la c a
work, and at what wages.
women in world affairs.
and the University of Chicago.
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Th* “ Southern Harmomzeri,” fast-rlelng vocal quartet featured In a
new eerlee of broadcaete over the Mutual network, are ehown with
their dlreetor-accompanlet, Eeele Hayden, at a atudio rehearsal. The
“ Harmonixera” are (I. to r.j: Herman New, baee; Edward Jonet, second
tenor; Douglae Tandy, baritone, and William Hayden, flret tenor.
Broadcaetlng from Indianapolis, the rhythm and spiritual singers were
reengaged by MBS after a aucceaaful aeries of programs last Spring.