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Race Relations
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(By Walter A. Stewart) HAMMOND, Ind., Feb. 12—Joining the increasingly Jar^e numbers of Jewish people sharply condemning discrimination and urging the practice of democracy and the brotherhood of men. Rabbi A- J. Feinberg ripped open the bitter lot of Hammond's colored citizenry <md flayed local authorities for doing nothing to relieve their condition. J
MCCLURE SEEKS RENOMINATION TO COURT POST
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Eighty-five per cent of Hammond’s Negro population is “living crowded like sardines in disgraceful quarters,’’ but the Hammond housing authority has made no provision for taking care of these people despite the fact that Columbia Center’s 400 units are only a “little more than half tilled.” This charge was made Sunday at the annual race relations observance program by Rabbi Feinberg of 'Beth-El temple, Hammond, cne of esveral speakers who addressed the meeting in the First Methodist church. No Excuse for Condition. Speaking on the subject, “Race 4n the Community,” Feinberg said: "Hammond is probably no worse in race discrimination than many other communities, yet that is no excuse for its laxity in this re-
spect.
“Other communities that had been faced with this situation allocated a part of the center to (Cont. on Page 2, First Section) RABY REMAINS CRITICAL; GETS BLOOD SUPPLY New light was thrown on the case cf an alleged destitute family this week after an extensive investigation by reporters from The Indianapolis RecorderHenry Mueller, center township trustee, made a statement this week asserting that his office did not refuse aid at 1503% Mill street. Mneller said that an application for help was made by the father September 15 and lhat they received fuel September 29. Furthe** claims were rejected Mueller said, because the husband was at this time employed, end the case was closed on October 10th. The family came Into the limelight last week when numerous calls came into the Recorder office asking that blood donors be secured for the 3-year-old baby of the family who was slowly dying iu city hospital because of the inability of doctors to get enough blood for transfusions. Enough persons rest Jmded to replace the plasma in the hospital blood banks, it was karned. The baby remains In critical condition, hospital authorities re-
vealed.
?0RK OR ELSE' ORDER HALTS KLAN RACE STRIKE
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VOLUME XLVI *
FIRST SECTION Saturday, February 14, 1942
number 11
Solon Asks School Aid
EDWIN McCLURE
Edwin McClure, Indianapolis attorney and former Secretary of the Marion County Republican Central Committee, announces he will be a candidate for renomination on the Republican ticket for Judge of the Marion Probate Court. Mr McClure was the Republican nominee in 1938, and w-as unopposed
in the Primary.
He lias t.rken an active part in the Republican organization for eighteen years, four of which were spent serving officially on the Central Committee. In 1932 he was nominee for State Representative. Mr. McClure is a former deputy prosecutor, assigned to the CrimI inal Court, past president of LoI cal Number Three of the American Federation of Musicfans, and under the NiRA he was a member of the Regional Labor Board. The candidate has been active in civic and fraternal organizations. Past Master of Englewood Masonic Lodge, a member of the Scottish Rite, Murat Shrine, and Royal Ordder of Jesters. For several years last past he has been active as a speaker for the Christmas Seal drives of the Marion County Tuberculosis Association. He attended Indiana Law School, and received his degree in 1926 from the Benjamin Harrison Law School, at which time he was admitted to the Bar, and has been in active practice since ,and is a member of the American, Indiana, and Indianapolis Bar Associations, the Lawyers Association of Indianapolis, and Sigma Delta Kappa, national law fraternity. Mr. McClure is a member of the Broad Ripple Methodist Church, forty-one years old, married and the father of two sons, and lives at 6206 Dean Road.
Dickerson Enters Congressional Race As Chi Independent
LINCOLN'S DAY PROPER TO JOIN NAACP-HILL
CHICAGO, Feb. 13. (ANP)—In a statement issued here last week, Aid. Earl B. Dickerson declared that although he had not been chosen as the regular Democratic candidate for congress from the first congressionaly district of Illinois, he was nevertheless entering the race on an independent ticket. In viewing the need for capable representation in congress, the alderman stated, “One of the most important congressional election campaigns America has ever known lies just ahead of us. It comes in
Two men sat lunching in nearby booths Thursday noon when one raised his head and said:
“Oh. Mr. Hibbitt ”
“How are you, Mr. Hill?” “Very well, thank you. You mentioned the NAACP membership, Mr. Hibbitt, the other day.” “Oh yes, I did. I know you had belonged for years and rather thought you wished to continue
your affiliation.”
“Mr. HiD'Ditt, I believe today. , .... Lincoln’s birthday is a very good dollars must he made, the urn,
Seeks $25,000
Yearly for Students Forced to Leave Home
CITY, FT. WAYNE GROUPS HONOR ABE, DOUGLASS
CIO Official
Backs Management, WPB in Crack-Down
DETROIT, Feb. 13. (ANP) — “Pick up your tools and get to work—or get the h . . -1 out of this
this plant!”
This brusque ultimatum, delivered by management, union, war department and war production board representatives, ended three Ku Klux Klan inspired sit down strikes in the Chrysler Highland Park plant here Monday and expedited the transfer of Negro workers from non-defense to defense
production.
The strikes occu|rred when J. Lawrence Duncan, field assistant in the office of Dr. Robert C. Weaver, chief of the (Negro employment and training branch of WPB, in-
FRAXKFORT, Ky., Feb. 13. (Bp 1 gisted upon the transfer of Negro Marion Blackwell for ANP) ; boxers and loaders from DepartCharles W. Anderson, Jr., Louis- ment 501 in the Dodge mainplant
ville attornep and member of the Kentucky legislature from the 58th district of Jefferson county, introduced in the house of representatives thus week a hill asking for an annual appropriation from the state of $25,000 to help Negro students pay room and board away from home when high school facilities are lacking in their own coun-
ties.
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cne to join the NAACP.
my membership.”
“Thank you. Mr. Hill. You’re quite right—Lincoln’s birthday is a good one to join the NAACP.” That is another of the many lit-
He stories arising os persons fK-1 st'rov'fa<-ism''si. r oad.'
erly renew their NAACP memberships. William A. Hill, holding an
Wiith the Honorable John L. Ni-
the midst of War. It come * fl pbkHk, judge of Municipal court as a phase of this national omer 4 speaking on the great emangeney, the solution of which can . , »„ t-w t„ onlv'be realised through the unity c "’ ator an<1 Attorney Carey D. Jaof American people. I cobs speaking on the Great Aboli“This is a war election. The | ttonist, the Lincoln-Douglass day congress of this country has been dinner will he held Thursday. Feb-
presented with decisive responsi , niar y jq a t 7 p. "m. at the Walker hibits teaching white and Negro bilities Production must be gear- i casln0i j, was announced here this fMWrt* together. Mr. Anderson ed up to meet the demands of \ic- „ said, the state law requires conntory: appropriations of billions of Attorney James n. n: >l / ties to furnish e<|ual elemen
,v,ll bn master of ceremonies. The h scllooI t ; alnlllg ilnd
meeting is under auspices the Maiiou County Republican league, of which Mrs. Anna Washington is
president.
The sum would be distributed on the basis of $100 a year to each girl or boy helped in this manner to obtain a high school education at the expense of the state of Kentucky and of their own county. While the '.State Constitution pro-
now developing throughout our land must he made of an enduring character: the welfare of the people must he raised: their civil liberties protected and their standards of living raised. Democracy here at home must advance as we de
furnish equal elementary
op-
portunities for students of both races, Mr. Anderson further said that the dwindling Negro population in rural communities has created a big problem for school ad-
to lend-lease work in the Chrysler Highland Park plant along with white workers. The sitdown demonstrations ended and the first ten Negroes went to work when R. C. Conder, Chrysler labor relations director, Richard Frankensteen, UAW-CIO vice president, and .plant representatives of the 'U. S. army backed up the WPB commitment and told the striking white workers to return to their jobs or be fired on the spot. The first strike, a two hour demonstration, occurred at 2 p. m., when white workers first learned that Negroes were to be transferred to the plant in keeping with union seniority regulations and the company’s commitments to Dr. Weaver’s office. This demonstration was broken (Cont. on Page 2, First Section
RUY LICENSE AT RECORDER; AVOID THE RUSH
South Loses
Large Numbers In Trek North, West
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. (ANP! —In a report Just issued by the bureau of census, the director writes that the population of the United States shows Negroes as representing 9.8 per cent of the total with a figure of 12.865,518. an increase of 974,375 over the number recorded in 1930. This represented an increaes of 7.2 per cent, or a decrease over the increase in the previous decade -which showed a 13 6 per cent Increase in Negroes from 1920 to 1930. “The regional and divisional patterns of Negro population increase were quite different from those for the total population” said the report. “In all three divisions of the south, the Negro showed a smaller proportional increase than the total population between 1930 and 1940, while In the divisions of the north and west their rates of Increase were uniformly greater than those for the total population. The Negro papulation increased 15.8 per cent In the north during the decade paat; 6.8 per cent in the south and 41.8 per cent in the west. “These facts indicate that there was a large migration of Negroes during the 1930’s from the south to the north and west, probably out of the rural areas in the south to the urban areas of other parts of the country. Over three-fourths of the Negro population, 77 per cent) still lived in the south in 1940, but this represents a slight decrease from the proportion of 78.7 per cent in 1930. The north had 21.7 per cent of the total Negro population in 1940 as compared with 20.3 per cent in 1930, and the West has
1.3 in 1940 compared with one in
1930.”
Divided into sections, the tables show the following:
White
i The North 73,206.738 The South— 31.658.578 The West 13,349.554
Negro
2,790.193 9.904.619
170,706
Like celebration will he held at
Ft. Wayne Monday February 16 i ministrators. In many counties, during a defense rally at Central he said, the number of Negro stulirgh school. William'L. Briggs is f dents is insufficient to maintain an
It is clear that the people must j general chairman of the meeting! approved high school; that only 45
important position in the Foca] their candidates with the and Col. Roscoe Conkling Simmons «ut of 120 counties in Kentu ky postaffice and whose family has greatest care. No one else oan j of chicago is principal speaker. | »>«»w have approved high schools
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lorTg contributed to the civic and j do this for them Now certain cultural life of this city, expressed ly II 1 ^. S1 ’ 0ak ., . the feeling of many when he re-1 Holding that the responsibility of-
newed his active support of the voters in tin
The program committee is comprised of Samuel W. Murray, chair-
first congressional | man. Samuel C. Jones. Mabel
NAACP.
district is second to none, the al- Ftrum, Oliver Lee, Elwyn Firse, - jj e stated that 45 other counties
WOMAN STRUCK IN RAIN DIES
Merman declared that, the district Willie May Alexander. E. J. Un-
j thank, the Rev. William E Guy and (Cont. on Page 2, First Section the Rev. G. W. Lucas.
for Negro students; and that only 30 counties without high schools can transport students daily to high schools in adjoining counties.
are too remote from a Negro high school to even attempt to transport each day due to the distance.
JOE TO REMAIN AT CAMP UPTON
If you are wise, you’ll buy those license plates, driver’s and chauffeur's licenses as quickly as you can conveniently get to the Sweeney brand), located at The RECORDER office, 518 Indiana avenue. For time marches on and the more it marches the bigger the rush and the longer the line. Remember how long you had to stand first on one foot and then on the other last year Like to go through that again? , Of course you don’t. The Sweeney branch at THE RECORDER offers some of the fastest and most efficient service to be found in the ‘ city. “It is nearing the deadline for branches to close”, Mrs. Joyce Stewart Thompson, manager, declared. ‘‘Not only can immediate service on tags and operators’ licenses be given by us but other notarial service is available as well. March 1 is the deadline for all old tags and much loss of time and inconvenience can be avoided by getting ahead of the rush.”
as weather conditions permit, will give boxing instructions in an out-
door ring. .
Joe was visited by Promoter Mike Jacobs. Boxing Commissioner John L. Phelan, and Challenger Killy Conn also last Wednesday.
CAMP UPTON. N. Y., Feb. 13.; Jacobs later conferred with Col. (ANP)—Lieut. Col. H. C. Breni- Brenizer, but it was not learned zer, commanding officer of Camp whether they discussed a proposed Upton, announced last Wednesday Louis title bout for the army relief that. Pvt. Joe Barrow, known fam- fund in March or April. Oommentiliarly as Heavyweight Champion j mg upon the vsit, Col. Brenizer Joe Louis, has been permanently I said. “These three guests came to assigned to the administrative post see—not Joe Louis—but Pvt. Joe and induction center, and as soon j Barrow.”
118,214.870 12,865,518
PROMISE FULL LYNCH PROBE
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Feb- 13. —A -complete inquiry will (be made into the lynching at Sikeston on Jan. 25 of Gleo Wright, Gov. Forrest C. Donnel told a delegation Friday from the Negro Baptist Ministers’ alliance of St. Louis. He said also that he was conferring Monday with Prosecuting Atty. David E. 'Blanton of Scott county and Atty. Gen. Roy McKittrick. “i believe Mr. Blanton is trying to do everything he can in the situation.” said the governor, “and I think the matter will he adequately presented to the grand jury when it is called.” The delegation was headed by the Rev. W. L. Johnson of South Kinloch, president of the alliance, who also submitted a resolution condemning the lynching and urging appointment of a fact finding committee.
Sheets of rain that blinded the vision of a middleraged woman last week caused her eventual death. Mrs. Naomi H. Watkins, 47 years | old, 2119 N. Capitol avenue, was struck by an automobile February 6 as she attempted to cross the street at Indiana avenue and West street during a rain shower. The driver of the car, Theodore Shellie, 403 W. Michigan street, said that he was headed out Indiana avenue and stopped 'at the stop-light at North street. When he went on the go sign, Shellie said, he turned north into West street and Mrs. Watkins who was carrying an umbrella, darted out in front of him. The woman, who suffered a compound fracture of the left leg, developed complications later and died at City Hospital February 7. Dr. L. A. Lewis, deputy coroner, performed an autopsy on the dead woman in conducting his investigation. Funeral services were conducted at the Jacobs Brothers funeral home, Westside chapel, Tuesday afternoon with Rev. J. I. Saunders, pastor of Shiloh 'Baptist church* officiating. Survivors are the widower, Walter, a son, Mahon Holman, a daughter, Mildred Conner, and three brothers. Burial was at Crown Hill cemetery.
“Innocent,” Says Julian Black; Wants Early Trial on Charge of Operating Chi Policy Game
CHICAGO, Feb. 13. (ANP) •" its first witness Wednesday. He While the fourth consecutive coun-1 also stated that after ihe 50 operty grand jury was being impaneled a fois have been question, that an ' * , , , . T . other batch ot 50 or more would here Tuesday by Chief Justice Rob- J)e in ert Jerome Dunne of the criminal Meanwhile the 26 persons named court, First Assistant State’s At- in blanket indictment by January torney Wilbert F. Crowley announc- grand jury, charged with conspired that grand jury subpeonas were acy to violate the gambling law's issued for 50 operators of policy through operating policy games, station. Crowley reviewed the in- prepared to appear before Judge vestiigations made by the Novem- Dunne. Among those indicted and her, December and January juries who' surrendered and gave bond and said the February jury heard | last Tuesday were James Martin, TAXES MOUNTING:
boss of policy and politics on the west side; George and McKissack McHenry Jones, millionaires, who recently obtained a $500,000 income tax comipromise with the government, and Julian Black manager of Joe Louis, who stated “I’m innocent. I want a trial as soon as possible.” Martin and the Jones brothers refused to make a statement. Mrs. Butler Coleman and Mrs. Leslie Williams, also indicted, gave bail and kept silent. Their arraignment
before Judge Julius Miner, acting chief justice of criminal court, has been postponed until Feb. 24. Ac- | cording to Atty. Crowley, it Is planned to try the 26 together some time within the next few months. Crowley stated he had assigned Assistant State’s Atty. William Crawford and William E. Oplatka to question the policy station operators. Their reports 1 are said to show that thees men were agents
MOORELAND BOY DIES IN FLAMES; SISTER LIVES
V Vi • Race Not Fooled by Discrimination In Government, Industrial Jobs
THE AMERICAN WAR MACHINE
By Emmett J. Scott WASHING I ON, D. C.—The Statistical Division of the Civil Service Commission, an executive branch of the Federal Government, has just issued its latest Monthly Report of Employment, bringing its figures np to November 30, 1941. This column last week sought to convey information, in terms of numerical, civilian personnel, as to the War Machine being created
by the Government to defeat the Axis Powers. The Report of the Statistical Division indicates not only the numbers of employed personnel in the various Departments of the Government, but also the payroll totals in terms of dollars and cents. It is important that the information revealed shall be kept in mind by the American public. The smug complacency which contemplates short straggle, a quick victory, is forewarned of bitter experience ahead.
A Long and Costly War Ahead. It will not be a short war. It probably will be a very long war, a costly war—a war of suffering, of blood, sweat and tears. The extensive, high - pressure preparations of the Government pivWe that the president and the Members of the War Production Board fully realize these facts. They are preparing accordingly. We recently quoted a Washington newspaper correspondent as (Cont. on Page 2, First Section)
(Cont. on Page 2, First Section FURNISS URGES FULL WAR AID
Saying that colored persons must support the war efforts of our country without stint. Dr. Sumner A. Furniss, soverign grand commander of Masons, called upon citizens “to roll up their sleeves and piteh in.” “We shall work and fight. We shall be second to no group of people in our country in helping nut down Hitler and all that Hitlerism stands for”, Dr. Furniss declared. His full comments are nublishfHl in the Winter Bulletin of the Masons. released February J-
See, Douglass and Lincoln
on Page 3. First Section;
Page 1, Second Section
MOORELAND, Ind., Feb. 13. — Fred Bemron, 11, was burned to death and his sister, Dorcas, 20. was burned severely today when fire destroyed their two-story homeAfter being burned the girl leaped from an upstairs window, suffering a broken leg. Mrs. Benson, the mother, who was feeding chickens, grabbed a ladder and made an unsuccessful attempt to rescue her son. The fire was said by authorities to have been started by an overheated stove. The boy’s charred body was found three hours later by investigators. The boy- is survived by both parents, another sister, Mrs. R. L. Nayrock of Chicago, and three brothers, Lowell, and Nathaniel, both of an university in Chicago, and Hugard, Jr., 17, who was working at the time the fier started. Funeral rites were conducted Friday at the Main and Son mortuary with burial in the Mooreland cemetery. Elder Boy of Marion was in charge.