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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
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