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i Ci v » * ll6 S Àn Associated Negro Press Publication îîmtlauii ïiuutim' Serving the Pacific Northwest Oregon’s ‘Fjegro Weekly PORTLAND, OREGON. DECEMBER 7. 1945 VOLUME 2 PRICE 10c NUMBER 21 Doctor M elville Jacobs Speech Blasts “Superior R ace” M yth Large Audience Attending Membership Meeting of Urban League Hears Noted Lecturer While Officer Calls Army Jim Crow Protest Nonsense Victory Loan Interracial Dinner Brutality Brings Suit Against Seaboard Railway CHICAGO — (ANP) — Despite NEW YORK—(ANP)—Attorn the humiliation of service in seg eys acting at the request of the regated army units, Negro sol International Labor Defense have By ANNE MCRRISON diers have no official right to re filed suit for $25,000 damages sent or protest according to apt. against the receivers for the Sea As part of the program to educate the general public along the lines of racial toler Leroy T. Snyder, white, former board Air Line railway for com ance, the Portland Chapter of the Urban League brought to Portland last Tuesday even plicity in beating up of a Negro commanding officer of the de-ac- ing a noted speaker in the person of Dr. Melville Jacobs, a well known professor of woman passenger and her infant tivated 674th Ordnance Ammu Anthropology. The occasion was the membership meeting of the local branch of the son, it was announced Tuesday. nition company. Urban League held in Library hall at the Central Public Library, 10th and Taylor streets. Mrs. Nina Beltran of New York Rebellion in the face of United States army jim crow asserted and her five-year-old child were Dr. Jacobs is a nationally known author, teacher, lecturer and authority on race. the victims of the assault, which Snyder, an ex-New York City His statement that America will have to stop preaching something that she does not occurred near Hamlet, N C., on cop, is “G—d—n nonsense. practice—Democracy—unless she begins to give the Negro fairer treatment, stamps him August 7. That is the charge leveled as a fearless, frank and outspoken champion of the rights of the minority groups. Mrs. Beltran was travelling to against the officer by George Columbia, S. C., with her child. His subject was “Racial Myths”. Colman Moore, ANP feature writ Because the jim crow car was er, formerly assigned to the unit. Dr. Melville Jacobs lecture At the conclusion of Mrs. Elector Roosevelt's speech at the full, she and a number of other Before the company disbanded Tuesday evening at Library Hall ter conditions. One question con is about 600 and continually Nov. 8, Moore, who is now dis Victory Loan Interracial dinner which was held in the grand Negro passengers sat in the next on Race Ideas was attended by cerned the fact that colored sol growing under the leadership of charged, said 1st Lt. Marvin ballroom of the Hotel Stevens, Chicago, recently, little Patricia car. The conductor repeatedly a large number of people inter diers wbre segregated in camps, a very efficient executive secre Great, white, Eden Rapids, Mich., Cecihini and. Lawrence Kenner, both victims of infantile paralysis, ordered her and the others to ested in the race problems of to but not in the hospitals and on tary, Mr. Edwin C. Berry. There are many people who battle fields. Another question personnel officer, asked him to presented to her a beautiful bouquet of roses in appreciation of move into the jim crow car. Be day. write the history of the organi the great contribution of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt cause there were no seats for her His lecture blasted the mythi asked was, why do the medical still cling to a “Mastery Race” or her child, Mrs. Beltran re —ANP Photo zation for war department rec 10 the Infantile Paralysis foundation. cal idea that the Caucasian Race schools teach there is no differ theory. Dr. Jacobs gave the evi turned to the other car. ords but when the story was com was a superior race, as he stated ence in human beings, yet do not dence that is necessary toTntel- At Hamlet, N. C., the conductor pleted Snyder objected to criti there is no such thing as a pur« accept colored students in the ligently explode this myth. The true facts about race and racial called a local policeman, who, at race; all races have been mixing classes. cism of army segregation policies. A large audience attended the characteristics as they apply to the conductor’s request, struck for over thousands of years. It was then the commander meeting and heard this all en Negroes are known to too few Mrs. Beltran and tried to force shouted in angry rage “what's lightening lecturer, but o n l y Portlanders. The opportunity to the five-year-old boy to carry all this “g—dd—n nonsense” and without discrimination. ATLANTA— (ANP) — Several about one fourth of the audience hear this speech on " R a c i a l a heavy suitcase into the jim crow told Grea't he was striking the 2. Negro veterans hospitalized hundred veterans held a spirited was Negroes. Dr. Jacobs com Myths” should be given Port passages attacking army racial mass meeting last week at More in all veterans’ facilities without car. When the child could not mended the Urban League on landers again and again so that lift the bag, the policeman, en bias. house college and pledged them discrimination. the great strides it had made the true import of these facts couraged by the conductor, struck According to Moore, fourth selves to follow a program of ac 3. Negro veterans employed in in membership in such a short will become stamped indelibly army headquarters at Houston, tion designed to bring a “full the Veterans administration and him and knocked him to the floor. time. The present membership on their minds. Mother and son were finally sent a directive to the 674th at share of the democracy” they all federal agencies on all levels: physically pushed into the jim Camp Gruber, Okla., where it fought for in the war. national, regional and local. crow coach, where they stood the had reassembled after redeploy Sponsored by the Georgia Vet- 4. Negro veterans emjloyed at ment furloughs, requiring the his erans league, Inc., speakers from their highest skills by all em rest of the way to Columbia, S. C. At Columbia, Mrs. Beltran was tory prior to deactivation. The the platform and floor called for ployers. Mrs. Marjorie Humber Jack- so ill she went to the station statement specified the account 5. Full civil and political rights agent, whu, realihiv. tlie respon- , son, program director fir group . , , „ . .. .. . political equality, fair treatment w «k eenrnnmtty J U e s of J » >og-staUstical since a f r B tll of Rights, and protection for every person. sibility of the railroad for her ___ , . health, ... When President Roosevelt pre government "business. They would, th e. Portjaçd YWCA., joined , the such information already existed equal educational and a. The league will work for serious condition, arranged for her sented his four questions to Dr. elect their own chairman annual Association's stuff last "Summer. elsewhere but must be “analyti school facilities, equal salaries every Negro of age becoming a hospitalization for nearly two cal and interpretive” with em Vannever Bush concerning t h e ly. The executive officer of the She came to Portland from Wilm and Negro -police ami firemen/ registered v o t e weeks at railroad expense. Mrs. maintainence of a high level of foundation would be the director ington, Del., where she served phasis on mistakes ifi the fii'ld and fire Beltran, who lives in the Bronx, Acting chairman of the mi*-t 6. NegrSl Ncgrrf policemen poli and suggestions for correction. scientific research — the finding appointed by the members. He as executive director for the YW ing, John Turner, a lieutenant men. [ is still under medical care be Moore said he examined among and fighter pilot, declared: “We out of new things—medical re would receive a salary “fully ade in a building jointly operated by 7. Equal school facilities for Ne cause of the injuries she received other things the army jim crow are determined to bring f u l l gro children, including physical search and provision for the train quate to attract an outstanding the YWCA and YMCA. at that time. pattern and found it unsound, a democracy in every way into plants and equipment. ing of young Americans, Dr. Bush man to the post.” The members In Portland, as she did in Samuel Shapiro, of Neuberger, moral and psychological mistake, established committees which re would establish divisions to ac Wilmington, Mrs. Jackson is do 8. Equal pay for equal work in Shapiro and Rabinowitz, filed the every crack and corner of the nly complete integration in all all occupations and professions. suit on behalf of Mrs. Beltran. commended that the government complish the purposes of the foun ing a pioneering job. She serves state that we love. branches of the services could 9. Eqtm1 and adequate provi “Fourteen points of action” as a resource person on interra The only outstanding reason spend about 20 million dollars dation. “The facts in this case are not possibly be the solution, he wrote. outlined by the group included. sion in public health and hospi the Caucasian Race has such a yearly to support research by uni The Bills Now Before Congress: cial matters for the entire Asso unusual," Louis Colman, ILD sec Pointing out the effect army 1. A fair application of the G. I. tal facilities. ciation and carries some of the foothold over the dark races is versities and research institutes retary, said in announcing filing Of the five bills before con responsibility for administration, segregation has on “the military Bill of Rights for all veterans. 10. Equal justice under the law. of the suit. “If they were, it because of educational advant in the national sciences; chem proficiency, spiritual development 11. Cooperation with and en would not be so important. These a. On the job training for ages which they used to bene istry, physics, biology, mathema gress, two may be considered as program and assistance in de and mental attitudes of Negro Negro veterans in technical couragement of business enter cases of bestial brutality against fit themselves, and keep other tics and allied fields; spend 20 fnajor: S. 1297 introduced by Sens. veloping an integrated, interra million yearly for research in Kilgore, Pepper, and Johnson and cial employed girls’ club. She troops” Moore said such discrim and industrial establishments. prises operated by Negroes. races down. Negro people in the enforcement ination is “in conflict with our 12. Cooperation with organized of the barbaric segregation laws b. Vocational and technical Members of the m i n o r i t y medicine; establish federal science S. 1285 introduced by Sen. Mag- also is concerned with interpret ideals of human justice, the wide labor. school training. of our southern states are all too groups are subject to hard work scholarships and fellowships; seek nuson. The final bill is likely ing the philosophy and purpose ly heralded four freedoms and 13. Cooperation with other or common. Unfortunately, in most c. Loans to Negro veterans and very little pay so they can out in the army and navy per to combine the best features of of the YWCA to the community. specific provisions of the Atlantic ganizations and efforts that work cases the victims fail to keep the not advance themselves any sonnel with scientific training or both with changes growing out In the short period she has charter. In a word, they defeat commanders and enlisted men for the general welfare of the necessary data and obtain the further than the majority race aptitude and assign them to school of the hearings. The important been in Portland, Mrs. Jackson our concept of governance and have, however, frequently failed community. names of essential witnesses, or allows. Poor living conditions to complete their sc:er.tific edu point is that both agree substan has cooperated with the Vanport abort our pledge in a world war 14. Employment of every intel else they simply do not know to remember that Negroes are is one of the strongest holdbacks cation, and the President appoint tially with the Bush report in and Albina Neighborhood Coun to plant the democratic virus in Americans too, soldiers who like ligent and honorable means de their rights, and consequently to any race. Also the lack of a national research foundation to providing federally f i n a n c e d cils and spoken before many the soil of peoples’ minds every wise have spilled their blood for visable to carry out these points take no legal action. educational advantages w h i c h guide U. S. science and to admin scholarships and fellowships and church and community women’s direct federal aid to research. of action throughout the state of God and country. “In Mrs. Beltran’s case the rail leaves them unable to prepare ister the program. groups. She is endeavoring to where. “Commanders and enlisted men The major areas of disagree organize a recreational and edu “There have been numerous in Georgia by organization, the bal road is clearly responsible and On Sept. 6, President Truman for better paying jobs. who have given the matter some stances of discrimination against lot, publicity, picketing, parades the evidence is unimpeachable. Although the races differ only submitted his message to congress ment are the scope and purpose | cational program for employed thought acknowledge that the colored troops storming from of and boycott. We have them dead to rights and in skin color, hair and features, strongly urging the adoption of of a national research foundation, girls in Vanport. The g r o u p philosophy of segregation in the ficial war department policy of the suit will be vigorously prose the brains are the same in all legislation establishing s u c h a its control and the use of any meets Monday evenings at 8 federal research agency with ad research findings. In comparing j o’clock in community building use of Negro troops has proved segregating Nero soldiers into jim cuted. We hope this action will races. a miserable failure. This has been crow units. The whole ramifica the two bills, a labor group sum No. 1. hel pin couraging all enemies of The best way to keep down equate funds. He added true because the arrangement tion of problems this situation marized the differences: jim crow to battle it out until the the race superiority is to educate At the central YWCA building, “Our economic and industrial “The Magnuson b i l l (SI 285) | S. W. Broadway at Taylor, the has been reogenized as psycho presents, both for the individual vicious system is abolished." the people away from the mythi strength, the physical well-being cal ideas of race supremacy, by of our people, the achievement of embodies the recommendations of j employed girls have a special logically bad for the men affected colored serviceman and army and on a larger plane un-merican commanders, cannot escape no teaching in the schools that there full employment and production, the Vannevar Bush report and j program on Thursday evenings. tice because it has a direct bear is no difference in people, also the future of our security and provides for scholarships, military | The dinner meeting at 6:30 p. m. and indeed un-moral. ‘The answer to the myrid un ing on the military proficiency, by talking to the older groups the preservation of our principles research, and pure research in j is followed by a varied program biological j of activities. Workshops in drama happy problems thus created is spiritual development, and men and by practising too much of will be determined by the extent the physical a n d a simple obvious one: complete tal attitudes of Negro troops. the nazism which was the cause to which we give full and sin sciences. crafts, music, dancing and swim integration in all branches of tthe “Such discrimination is of ; of Germany being down today. cere support to the w o r k s of “The Kilgore bill (S1297) in ad ming begin at 8 p. m. The Thurs WASHINGTON — (ANP) — He urged a program of r a c e science. It is with these works dition to provisions similar to day night activities are open to services without regard for race, course in conflice with our ideals | The postwar outlook for Negroes of human justice, the widely her- j harmony and understanding be that we can build the high roads those of the aMgnuson bill calls all employed girls in the 17 to color or creed.” Neither the discovery nor the aided four freedoms and specific Sf in small businesses, technical vo supported by all people. He also to the future.” for research and development in 35 age group. solution, added Moore, was or provisions of the Atlantic char- j cations and the engineering pro stated—there are over a million The program for the next sev fields of recognized public inter The Bush report and President est and for research relating to eral weeks includes: December iginal or new and should have ter. In a word, they defeat our | fessions will be thoroughly dis people of the dark race and un cussed in a three-day conference less conditions are bettered, trou Truman’s message were respon the conservation, development of i 13, dinner and business meeting been familiar to Snyder as a concept of governance and abort \ to be held at Howard university ble will come and destroy and sible, at least in part, for four methods and porcesses beneficial ! In preparation for the Christmas commander of Negro troops yet our pledge in a world war to plant I bills introduced in the senate and to small business enterprises; and ! party; December 20, Christmas he violently opposed the slap at the democratic virus in the soil in April. The ninth annual con bring disastrous effects. ference of the Howard division The part the Urban League is one in the house. The sponsors the adaptation to peacetime use j party with arrangements in army jim crow and ordered its of peoples’ minds everywhere. ROBERT G. WASHINGTON I of the social sciences with the co- “Commanders and enlisted men playing by informing the people agreed to consider these bills to of wartime research and facilities. charge of Miss Gladys Remont, censorship. Moore further con Atsociated Negro Pr«»s foreign in America is a grand contribu gether at joint hearings with the Where the Magnuson bill allows Miss Norma Jarlsburg, Miss Bet tended his position was in order who have given the matter some correspondant whose column "Re- I operation of the school of engi he. . _ „ . neering and architecture, togeth tion toward doing away w i t h hope that a single bill acceptable the proposed foundation to make ty Boulette and Miss Hilda Ul- inasmuch as the directive specifi thought acknowledge that t thp port from Germany , is a reg to all would result. The hear arbitrary disposition of patent lam; January 3, a “l o o k i n g cally asked for a critical estimate. philosophy of segregation in er with a special community ad race prejudice. ular feature of this newspaper. Full text of the section which use of Negro troops has proved 1 visory committee, will devote its Dr. M. Jacobs was introduced in g s began Oct. 24 and continued rights and to promote monopol- ! ahead” dinner to begin the New drew Snyder’s ire follows: entire sessions to the problems a miserable failure. This has been by Mr. William Brewster, Presi through Nov. . In general, the istic commercial exploitation of Year. "The purpose of what follows true because the arrangement has A y l p Y l l i h i t i TinC affecting Négroes. dent of our local Urban League, j visiting scientists and others ex discoveries resulting from feder A 1 - l A l l l U l i L illu O A meeting preparatory to the which sponsored the lecture. Mr. pressed agreement with the basic ally financed research the Kilgore R andolph to Participate it not to call names, nor it is an been recognized as psychological- j effort at preaching a sermon, but ly bad for the men affected, and PHILADELPHIA — (ANP) — conference will name the speak E. Berry, Ex-Secretary of the principles. Most disagreement re bill provides that all such inven In Job a n d P eace Meet it is designed as a plea for real on a larger plane un-American The memorial exhibition of the ers and assign topics. Many League was also on the program. sulted from a fear that govern tions and discoveries are to be -1 ment aid would imply govern NE WYORK—(ANP)—A. Phil ism toward solution of a pressing and indeed un-moral. \ Philadelphia Art alliance, which prominent Washington business Dr. Jacobs is of the University come property of the U n i t e d ‘T he answer to the myriad un- is presenting the paintings of and professional people are in of Washington department of ment control with . the .... consequent . , tates and are to be generally \ ip Randolph, president of the merican military problem. ‘No one will claim that the happy problems thus created is a | Henry O. Tanner, will close on terested in the conference which Anthropology. He also was a stifling of free scientific inquiry. , available for ultimate use by alI 0i Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, was one of the prominent United States army is a demo- simple obvious one: complete in- Sunday at 6 p. m. It opened on will hear a special message by a student of Columbia University The structure of the agency is | us as consumers.” . . held cratic army. Most of us will agree , tegration in all branches of the Oct. 2. representative from the senate of New York. While in the city, of primary concern for the Negro \ Inasmuch as there is no dis- speakers on a symposium Tanner, who died in 1937 in small business committee and a he addressed the student bodies colleges and medical schools w ill, agreement over the prvision of here Wednesday evening at the j that it is autocratic and are will- | gervices without regard for race ing to concede that in the inter-1 color or creed. |his 78th year, will be remember- paper from a representative of of Grant High and Washington deal with one or the other di- federal scholarships and aid for Rand School of Social science. It has | ed as one of America’s most not- the American Society of Civil Other speakers on the program, est of military efficiency there j "Integration canwork. High Schools. visions in the set-up. Bush pro- research, we may confidently ex Engineers, also papers from a j worked successfully on a small j able artists of his generation. At the close of his lecture posed that the national research pect these boons t oNegnoes and “Sixty Million Jobs—A Factor in may be need for it. "Nevertheless few will deny scale in reassembly areas, redis- The pictures which comprised representative of the American questions were asked concerning foundation be guided by a group Negro colleges. It is essential, World Peace,” were M. J. Cold- the way the darker races were I of nine members to serve without however, that we become alert well, a member of the Canadian this greatest of all fighting ma- tnbution centers and on a larger I the exhibit were collected from Society of Mechanical Engineers treated, and what would be the 1 compensation for a period of four and begin immediately to plan parliament; Irving Fisher, pro-1 chines is a people’s army, made one in the various officer candi- museums, art galleries and indi- and an address “Portinent Points up of all the citizens of our lusty, date schols in all sections of the viduals throughout the United in the Program of the U. S. De best way to put over a more years. Members would be en- so that we may enjoy the full fessor of economics at Queens partment of Commerce." college. I hoterogeneous populace. Some country.” I States. democratic program for the bet- titled to their expenses while on benefits of this legislation. Mrs. Jackson Does Pioneering Job in Portland GEORGIA VETERANS PLEDGE TO SEEK DEMOCRACY AT HOME Proposed New Federal Agency Will Be Boon to Negroes and Colleges Howard U. Plans April Confab n 4