Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 June 1944 — Page 9

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VOLUME XLVIH

SECOND SECTION Saturday, june it, 1944

NUMBER 29

Towards Freedom— Read Much, Listen Carefully, Think Clearly, Act Swiftly

Gary Pastor Declares War on Gambling

F«r Better Race Relations Marion Leaders Told Christians Mast Lea

A series of meetings on Industrie! and Race Relations was closed Sunday when Julius A. Thomas, director of Industrial Relations of the National Urban league addressed a mixed audience at the City Hall. His subject was . . . “Realism in Race Relations”. Thomas said, “We as Americans, cannot sell democracy to others if we do not practice what we prpach”. Quoting again, “The church must take the lead in every community in the promotion of heller relations among the races. |f‘Christians do not take the lead the work of other agencies will not he too effective”. The meeting Sunday was sponsored by the Frontiers of America, Luther J. Rhinehardt. president Victor Hood, a member of the Central Trades council and chairman of the Bi-Racial Committee, who leview the work done by the said committee in Influencing the hiring of Negroes in Marion defense plants. He added that the com-

mittee continues its work to promote the upgrading of workers and the retention of gains already made during the post war era. Last Thursday. Thomas spoke to a group of fifty persons representing churches, civic clubs. Council of Church Women, social dubs, < ity administration, schools, labor, and industry at the YWCA under sponsorship of the Race Relations Committee of Carver Community Center, Elsie Suit, chairman. Following his address a round-table was held with representatives from each organization participating. Saturday night a group met at the Carver Commuinty Center and discussed Negro participation in defense work in the city with Mr. Thomas. Mr. Thomas wms scheduled to leave Marion for Ft. Wayne to conduct a series of meetings under sponsorship of' the Phyllis Wheatley social center during the present week.

SO. BEND GROUPS PLEDGE FDR FULL SUPPORT OF WAR EFFORT

SOUTH BEND, Ind., June 15.— (Bpl.) President Roosevelt was asfurtd by citlcens of this city of the 100 perc^ng cooperation nad •Upport of the Negro race on the home front production line and bond buying in support of the natlop’s invasion effort. The message was incorporated ii» a telegram to the chief exeeutite signed by representatives of locfll civic and social clubs at their first annual feature under sponsordhip of Educational Service, Inc., _ last Friday night N, More than 250 persons attended the meeting at which prizes were awarded for the best entertainment. The clubs have handed together to further a program of civic, social and racial advancementment. Winner of the $15 first prize was Delta Sigma Theta sorority, represented by Miss Beatrice Miller. She gave a dramatic conologue illustrating various type* of laugh ter. The Utopian club, represented by a comedy team of two brothers. Reginald and Carlton Howard, aged 12 and nine, respectively, took seeend place and the $10 prize. Honorable mention was awarded to Anita Waters, songstress, of the Olivet AME church, and a tumbling and acrobatic act rfom Bering house, comprising Jackie Woolildge, Leroy Cobb and Paul Alexander. Judges in the contest were Mr*. C. P. Curtis. Mrs. Robert Love and Mrs. Albert Melton. An hour of dancing followed the contest.

B’ham Has High Illegitimate Record

BIRMINGHAM, June 15. (ANP) —Nearly one out of every four Negro children born in Birmingham is illegitimate, figures released by the city’s department of vital statistics disclosed Tuesday. The rate for whites is one out of every 37. Among Negroes, the figures revealed. 18 unwed mothers were 15 years old and there was one 12. A total of 859 Negro babies were born here since Jan. 1 with 195 of that number being classified as Illegitimate, according to their birth certificates. For the whites over a similar period there were 1.406 births of which 38 were illegitimate, the report disclosed. No mention was made of the fact that many white illegitimate births fire never recorded by private physicians who deliver the children, while most Negro unwed mothers because of economic reasons are forced to use public facilities where records are always kept.

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SURVIVAL OF WHITES DEPENDS UPON TREATMENT OF COLORED PEOPLES, EDWIN EMBREE SAYS

CLEVELAND, (AND—Pointing out that today 50,000 Negroes are attending college, that the present day Negro forms a solid part of in du^tfy despite discrimination, and that as Negroer learn to use their rights in every phase of public life” Edwin R. Kmbree of Chicago, president of the Julius Rosenwald fund, told the National Conference of Social Work Wednesday that the economic and cultural alignments are destined to be sharply altered during the next few years. Sharp modification of racial antipathies will he necessary in thr post war era if the white man is not to face possible subordination by the overwhelming majority of colored ijeopies, the speaker em phasized Jtor 300 years, he declared, “the White men of Western Europe and North America ruled the world. Oor development of science and tr.bnology gave ns a power that ; innittad us to conquer and rule jtber peoples, most of whom happened to have ipgment in their ■kins. “The balance has shifted radically during the periods of the first fnd second world wars. Vast numbers of people all over the world have been taking over our technology. Japan has proved that even in war, her relatively few millions can hold at bay the former white masters of America and Europe, China and India and Java, while not yet fully prepared, are moving fast in Industry and power. Meanwhile, the western nations have weakened themselves almost suicHally by two destroying wars in n single generation. “The united nations that will win this war and control the new

world Include about 250,000,000 western white men’ of the United States and British commonwealths. They include also. 450.000.000 yellow Chinese. 350,000,000 brown people of India. 150.000.000 Latin Americans. many of whom are proud of their African and Indian ancestry as well as of their European blood; such millions of the near East and India as can free themselves for the struggle, and 190,000.(<O0 of Soviet Russia, who are passionately committed not only to economic equality* but also to equality of all racial and cultural groups.” Embree said that the white man if the western world was being offered his last chance for equal status in world society. “If he accepts equality he can bold a self-respecting, maybe a leading, place in the new order”, be continued. “But if the western white man persists in trying to run the show, in exploiting the whole earth, in treating the hundreds of millions of his neighbors as inferriors, then the fresh might of the 1,500,000,000 of non-white, non-western people may in surging rebellion, smash him in nonetity.” Lester B. Granger, executive secretary of the National Urban league, discussing hampering influences on Negroes, both socially and idunstrially. urged reorganization of the state employment services to comply with the principles of the FEPC, on the ground that few Americans except the Negro worker himself realize how freely the services have been utilized to perpetuate the inferior job status of the Negro.

OFFICERS RAID VETERANS CLUB

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TERRE HAUTE. Ind. June 15. (Spl.) John L. Rutledge. 45. must answer a charge of selling alcoholic beverages without permit in City Court June 27 as result of a raid by police of the Veterans of Foreign Wars club early last Sunday morning. At a hearing Monday following the arrest of Rutledge and twelve patrons, trial was set for next Tuesday ou his plea of not guilty. The raiding party led by Captain Irving and Lieutenant Eberhardt found approximately fifty persons drinking beer in a basement dugout at the club, located at Twelfth street and College avenue. Police said only a few of those arrested were members of the club and Hutledge admitted he had not checked the membership cards of his patrons although he knew some were non-members. The customers were released on their own recogizace to appear when and if wanted by authorities. Those arrested for frequenting the place are Marvin Leroy Poindexter, 35 years old, of Dayton. Ohio; Orville Alexander, 26, of 720 South Thirteenth street: Thomas Henry Carter, 39, of 624 North Twenty-second street; Joseph William Long, 38. of 1440 South Thirteenth and One-half street; Guy B. Williams, 41, of 1423 South Thirteenth street; Tilford Jackson Blackloek, 48, of 1205 South Thirteenth and One-half street: William Ringer, 41, of 1425 South Fourteenth street; Edward Williams, 38. of 824 South Fourteenth street: Dave Clements, 44, of 513 South Second stret. and Charles B. Killebrew, 44. of 507 South Second st.

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GARY, Indiana.—THESE CENTRAL DISTRICT CIVIC LEADERS are pictured here as they laid plans to organize a YMCA

in Gary. The movement has been underway for several months. Standing is A. B. Whitlock, who presided over the meeting, while

seated left to right are Rev. J. Claude Allen, Marconi E. Ewell, Dr. H. H. Clay, and J. E. Crisp.

AM. LEGION POST NO. 282 EXPANDS

ANDERSON, Ind., June 12—Members of the American Legion Post 282 pledged themselves to increase their efforts to enroll new members in the post at their meeting Tuesday at the Community Center on Fourteenth street. Fred Cajperon. commander, reminded his comrades of the need of the thousands of discharged soldiers for the aid and assistance of the powerful Legion in order that they may most effectively re-ad-just themselves to the swiftly changing conditions of the present and future. Membership in the organization is open to all discharged colored service men and they will be admitted without formality or red tape upon presentation of their discharge papers. C. Jacob Jones publicity chairman. reviewed the many instances in which the Legion may assist the soldier without cost or insonrienre. B. H. Beckham, adjustant predicted that much of the legislation benefitting the millions of men now in the armed services must be initiated and pushed through Ity soldier organizations, of which the Legion is the largest and most influential.

JOHN 0. ROCKEFELLER PRAISES FINE RECORD OF NEGRO COLLEGES NEW 5 0RK —In a nation-wide j 7v rany jf not aiI ot the 27 pribroadcast over the major NBC net- vate institutions in the Negro Col-

man College, one of the institutions in this campaign, was named after my grandmother and has been aided by three generations of her descendants; 3) The General Education Board was established and financed by my father, having largely in mind the promotion of Negro education. It was named ! the General Education Board be-

RnrkPfpVl^rhairm^’orVhe na- le * e Fund ’ which are wa ^ in ^ r a co ' cause it was realized that Negro fion^ f advis 0 ry h b^rd of the Unit- drlve to raise $1,500,000 (education could be developed most iionai aavisoiy ooard 01 ine unn , f or . thoir mainionar.o 1,0 aam 11.. — 1 __ a part of a

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ment, of the injustices that have too often been done him, the inequalities to which he has lomg been subjected, are likewise concious of the phenomenal progress

the promotion of Negro education, been studied, helped and aided fiThe campaign offers an unusual nancially by the General Educaopportunity to every citizen, and , tion Board, a sympathetic hut disto industry. Rockefeller asserted, criminating and critical institubecause it is both co-operative and tion; 5) I. myself, have visited and

he has made as compared to other co „ str „ ctlve . Mr . Rockefeller s ra-| contributed io many of these ina e ’ dio address is as follows: .stitutions and have known and Indicating the background of his “My feeling for the Negro race, counted among my valued friends interest to the Negro race, Rocke-; is not difficult to understand in numbers of their leaders. In the feller reminded his radio audience view of the following facts; 1) My light of these facts I unqualifiedly that, his family had contributed to maternal grandparents were all endorse this campaign and the colNegro institutions of higher edu- Jtreir lives the friends and ardent leges which it represents, cation for three generations. ^supporters of the Negro; 2) Spel-, “Against this background of in-

Dining Car Waiter, Never Late, Never Absent in Fifty Years, Retires With Penn R. R. Highest Award

EX-366TH BAND STILL POPULAR

CAMP BRECKINRIDGE, Ky. (ANP)—Organized Sept. 1, 1941. at Ft. Devens, Mass., this talented unit which boasts 29 versatile musicians was then known as the 366th Infantry band, under direction of Warrant Officer Jerome C. Nicholas. It’s s|econd embarkation was at Camp Atterbury, Ind., then to Breckinridge, Ky. Aside from various radio, dance and bond drive engagements, they played for the President’s birthday ball at Boston Gardens for an audience of 15,000 and were later accepted by the war department in its WAC recruitment drive. The drive carried the band through six states, 3,000 miles. At Atterbury the 366th Infantry band was redesignated and named the 227th Army band, under the command of Warrant Officer William H. Graham jr M who can play every instrument in the band. Many of the musicians are from nationally known dance bands, and include T/Sgt. Paul McPherson, with the late Speed Webb ;Sgt. Lonnie Johnson, formerly with Lucky Millinder: Sgt. William Mason, product of Stuff Smith’s band ; Pfc. Ernest Trotman and Cpl. Joseph Nevils of Blanche Calloway’s troup: Sgt. Jimmie Tyler, one time with Jimmie Dorsey and Sgt. Maxwell Armstrong, former soloist at New York’s Cotton club.

NEW YORK. June 6.—James A. Ware, a dining car waiter for 50 years with one of the most unusual records of service in the annals of American railroading, was awarded the Pennsylvania Railroad’s 50-year Gold Service Button today by George LeBoutillier. vice-president. New York Zone, at

New York.

Leboutillier, in pointing out that the waiter is the first employe of the railroad’s Dining Car Department to achieve a half century of service, commended him for his excellent record, which shows strict observance of the rules governing conduct, courtesy and service, and for the fact that he has never been late, nor missed a day's work. He has traveled more than 5,000,000 miles on duty. The ceremony was attended also by J. F. Finnegan, general superintendent dining car service, who announced Ware's retirement on pension at the same time. IV* expects to live at his present home, 563 West 150th st., New York ('ity. with bl s daughter, Mrs. Lillian Lorraine. His wife, Mrs. Rosa Ware, died in 1942. He has a son. i James A. jr., also of New York City. He is 71 yeras of age, a native of Lynchburg, Va., an active churchman and fraternalist, and enjoys excellent health. Ware did not have to wait a half century for the first of his rewards for devotion to duty. Promotion to a “crack” run, on the famed “Congressional Limited” between New York and Washington. came only six months after he entered dining car service in 1894. He has worked aboard the “Congressional” ever since, although in late years a change in chednle of dining car crews has given him opportunity to make the Washington-Boston run on the ‘Senator” on alternate trips. His original plans did not contemplate a life-long career as dining car waiter. He took the job during the summer of 1894 to help pay his tuition in medical school. But railroading soon got into his blood, and he began to postpone the date of his matriculation in college. Finally, he abandoned the idea altogether. “I’ve had no regrets”, he recalls now. “I could never have been happier than I’ve been in this work. The Pennsylvania Railroad has given me opportunity to raise a god family, educate my children, eud enjoy steady work and income.

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MR. G. LeBOUTILLIER, VicePresident of the Pennsylvania Railroad in charge of the New York Zone, pins the Company’s 50-Year Service Button on the lapel of James A. Ware, diningcar waiter who is the first employe of the Pennsylvania’s Din-

ing-Car Department to achieve a half century of service. Looking on is J. F. Finnegan, general superintendent of dining-car service for the railroad. The ceremony took place in New York, where Mr. Ware makes his home. —Pennsylvania Railroad Photo.

I have tried to reciprocate by doing my best, and I am proud of my

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Ware’s philosophy is reflected in simple kindness. Pase.eugeYs. he says, sometimes come into the di- , ning car a little out of sorts over their wartime problems and troubles. “I try to cheer them up the only way I know how — with kindness. courtesy, and the best service I can give. It always works.” Ware recalls many famous ^personages who have sat at his taoles. The list includes Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson. Calvin Coolidge. Cordell Hull, Queen Mary of England, A1 Smith. J. Edgar Hoover, Ignace Paderewski, Connie Mack, and a host of others. Some of them confided to him their troubles, and many of them left to him the decision as to what they would eat. His exeelleiijt record has resulted in him being chosen for several historical runs. He traveled from Philadelphia to San Francisco on the special train which bore the Liberty Bell to the 1915 World’s Fair, and again six months liter when the historic relic was brought safely back to Independence Hall. He was also aboard the inaugural

trip of the “Pennsylvania Special”, first 18-hour train between New York and Chicago and forerunner of the present-day “Broadway Limited”. He was aboard the first “Congressional” to enter the Pennsylvania Station, New York, the day it opened. “During a half century, I have seen many changes in dining car operation.” he recounts. “Some diners are in two units now, with one car occupied by the kitchen end the entire second car as the dining room. The equipment has been very much improved on all types of cars, so that meals can be prepared more quickly, and in normal times wider choice offered on the menu. The cars are handsome inside and out. We’ve come a long way since 1894.” Mr. Ware is an elder of the St. Augustine Presbyterian church. New York, and member of numercus fraternal organizations. He is the organizer and president of the Welfare Relief Association, a benevolent organization of employes of the Dining Car Department. He has no plans for spending his retirement,-except that he wants to make one more trip to the West Coast*

Rev. L K. Jackson Asks Police Close Vice Dens

C. Jacob Jones Joins N. A. A. C. P. Staff At Anderson

ANDERSON. Ind. June 15. — (Special) Adolph Anram, president of the Madison County Branch of the National Associatio for the Advancement of Colored People has annouced the appointmet of C. Jacob Jones as executive field agent. Jones, whose appointment is considered and asset not only to the local organization but the national one as well has had much experience in various capacities. An able speaker, he has served as director of social welfare and superintendent of public health work. At present, Jones is employed by the federal government as chemist. As teacher and preacher he has l*nstored several important churches of his denomination. He hold* the A.B.. TB. B. S.. and masters degrees from universities in Chicago and Pittsburgh. He will repre sent the local branch at the national conventtion in Chicago next month.

herited and lifelong interest in the Negro race it is not strange that I should regard as a problem of the greatest importance, the wise adjustment ta the life of the Nation of this large segment of our poplation. Some people are seeking to solve this problem exclusively by by law, or by pressure methods. There are many others, however, of both races who, fully conscious of the colored man’s j right to fair treatment, of the injustices that have too often been done him, the inequalities to which he has long been subjected, are likewise conscious of the phenomenal progress he had made as compared with other races. This large group believes that through mutual understanding, forebearance and progress by agreement, supplemented by law when necessary. the solution of the problem can be most wisely approached. “I share that view and am profoundly convinced that this united campaign, participated in by both races working and giving side by side, will do much to further sueh mutual understanding, forbearance and progress by agreement. Because this campaign is both constructive and co-operative, it offers to every citizen an unusual opportunity to indicate concretely his interest in and good' will for the Negro race. To industry, likewise, it brings a similar opportunity and responsibility, for industry is increasingly concerned in a wise and just solution of this great national problem—a . problem which, if rightly dealt with, can and should be converted from a great problem to a source of great enrichment to our national life in many importance spheres.” Walter Hoving. national chairman of the Fund, explained that active city committees are functioning throughout the country and said that Americans of every race, and color have always generously supported American democratic institutions, and that he was sure they would not fail at this time.

SOLDIERS STILL LONG FOR NEWS FROM HOMEFOLK By TREZZVANT W. ANDERSON With The U. S. Invasion Forces* in England, June 8. (ANP)—Yessir. the mailman’s call is still the most eagerly awaited event in this host of Black Yanks poised here in England’s invasion area, and it’s dollars to doughnuts that these sepia lads would most gladly miss any show call to hear the mailman say: “Got a letter for you, buddyrow.” That’s what Cpl. Edgar T. Talbot, public relations man for a battalion in an outstanding engineer aviation regiment, has to say about how much Cpl. Arthur H. Lane of Chattanooga, Tenn., means to his battalion. Cpl. Talbot is from Westfield, N. J., and is a former Howard university student. Cpl. Lane, the battalion mailman, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Lane. 16 Flynn street, Chattanooga, and a graduate of Tennessee State college where he played basketball with the Kappa frat-house gang. Cpl. Talbot tells us that your soldier writes three letters home today, for the two he wrote a year ago, and that he’s never too busy to write either if he can just snatch a few moments, and when he can do that, no place is too inconvenient for him to drop a line from. Cpl. Lane receives letters for mailing around the clock-

GARY, Ind. June 15 (Spl.) — Aroused by the charge by a well informed authority that gambling and vice are rampant throughout Gary with no interference by the police, the Rev. L. K. Jackson, pastor of the St. Paul B a p t i s t church, in a strong statement to .uithorities, has allied his church and himself with other agencies in lemanding that these evils be eradicated. The information concerning gambling was made public a few days ago in an editorial published in the Gary Post-Tribune and listed more than a dozen gambling dens, which it claims, are being permitted to run with immunity. Many of the places referred to were located in Negro neighborhoods. Speaking as a public spirited citizen, a community leader, and a highly respected churchman, thle Rev. Mr. Jackson said: “The church and gambling, vice and oerruption cannot live in harmony in the same commuity.” “As a pastor, I would he indeed remiss lid I fail to laud the editor of The Post-Tribune for his strong and courageous editorial attack upon these wicked devices which arp bolding our community down. ' ■ “No part of our city can be regarded as safe so long as the central distinct is permitted to We a refuge of gambling, rice and rackets. ‘The church is unalterably opposed to all such activities and is solidly behind all other agencies which may be at work to eradicate vueh evils from our community. “It is most inconsistent, to my way of thinking, to decry juvenile oelinquency and appoint committees to eradicate it on the one hand, and at the same time to do ’.othing to drive out of the community vice, gambling and other illegal activities which breed both juvenile and adult delinquency. “This ‘double standard’ has got to go if Gary is to be a wholesome place in which to live I” The St. Paul church, at 1938 Adams street is the largest colored bouse of worship in this part of the state with a membership of nearly five thousand persons. The Rev. Mr. Jackson was called to the pastorate less than two years ago and since that time has taken an active part in the promotion of worthwhile community projects :n furthernoe of the highest civic, social religious principles. Gambling, vice and political corruption have long been vital issues in this conglomerate industrial city which, because of its proximinity. is strongly influenced by forces operating in and from Chicago. the domirfhting capitol of the MldlUe West. Foresigh ted civic, political and industrial leaders are known to be giving serious consideration to the inevitable flock of »ost-war problems with which the city will be faced. Plans already formulated call for the elimination •>f the open vice and gambling infiuence as a disruptive element in < ivic progress.

Letters are slipped under his blanket, stuck into his jacket pockets. and thrust into his hands in odd hours of the night. The first of the month finds money orderg flooding back to the States and the mailman doing double his usual shift as the U. S. Soldier overseas shows where his thoughts are. Everybody knows the mailman, writes Cpl. Talbot, and everybody wants a letter, but the people back home don’t always write. The soldier mail to the states has increased, but the home folks mail to the soldiers has fallen off. Mall means morale and you can take it from the mailman that the “saddest sad sack” in the army any day and every day, is the soldier who didn’t get a letter.

CORPORAL McELROY PROMOTED

RICHMOND, Ind., June 15.— Corporal Joseph McElroy, son of Mrs. John Dillard of 319 South Twelfth street, has been promoted to the rank of sergeant at Fort Riley, Kans., whehe he is stationed. He is serving as instructor in infantry basic training.

PVT. Joseph Simpson

SOUTH BEND, Ind., June 15 — Private Joseph W. Simpson has arrived in Africa, according to word received by his wife, Marie, 221 North Walnut street vnp Vj • WITH MR IRMBt I ttttttftstttl