Protest Beating of Tuske6ee Army Nurse
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PROTEST BEATING OF TUSKE6EE ARMY NURSE ACCURATE THE • LOCAL AND 8 PAGES • NATIONAL ONL Y • NEWS Jackson Advocate 5C VOLUME 3, NUMBER 3 MISS., SEPTEMBER JACKSON, SATURDAY, 26, 1942 PRICE FIVE CENTS Get RFC Loan To Train Civilian Pilots To Seek New Trial For Doomed Soldier TO LAUNCH FIRST LIBERTY SHIP NAMED AFTER NEGRO Noted Singer To He Builds Wings To Keep 'Em Flying Christen Vessel The Chicago Loan Agency of RFC ha* just Jr., general counsel for the Coffey school; Miss WASHINGTON—(SNS)—Marian Anderson, celebrated granted a $25,000 loan to the Coffey School of I Willa Brown, coordinator of pilot training and di- contralto, will christen the Liberty Ship BOOKER T. WASH- Aeronautics in Chicago, holders of civilian pilot | rector of the Coffey school, and Homer Roberts, INGTON when the 10,000-ton vessel is launched by the Cal- contracts in ’excess of Shown in — training $119,000. special consultant for the air school. (ANP ifornia Shipbuilding: Corporation at Wilmington, Cal., the the picture, left to right, are Atty, Harry Gibson, pho*'-) U. S. Maritime Commission announced Sunday. The California Shipbuilding Cor- poration and the Booker T. Wash- ington Ship Launching Committee, Tuskegeans Protest a citizen’s group which is so- Beating in- sponsoring the launching have Motion Filed vited Mrs. Portia Washington Pittman, only living daughter of the educator, and Miss Louise School a to After Of Army Flying Nurse Washington, granddaughter, Jury's witness the ceremony ,Mrs. Pitt- man resides at Tuskegee Institute, Letter Is Sent and the granddaughter is a Gov- Verdict Read ernment employee in Washington. \ To President; BETHUNE INVITED Attorney Walden Chairman S. W. Miller Similar invitations have been ex- Officials Silent ! N tended to Mrs. Mary McLeo<£ Representing Bethune, Director of Negro Affairs TUSKLGKE,Ala.—(SNS) —An ap- for the National Youth Adminis- have the Federal Bureau Reed peal that he tration; Judge William H. Hastie, Private of Investigation to probe the brutal Civilian Aide to the Secretary of and unwarranted beating of Sec- Tells Of Of War; Dr. Robert C. Weaver, Di- Nora Closing BULLETIN ond Lieutenant Green, army rector, Negro Manpower Service, nurse, stationed at the Tuskegee MACON, Ga.-(SNS)—De- War Manpower Commission, and Army Flying School was wired to take other Government officials. claring that they would President Roosevelt Tuesday by a the case to the United States group of indignant Tuskegeans. The Booker T. Washington Ship Race Funds if necessary* oc- USO Drive The dispute, it was learned, Launching Committee .which will Supreme Court, curred in Montgomery over the de- sponsor a mass meeting in Los Defense Attorneys A. T. Wal- nial of a bus seat. Lt. Green, who Angeles, in connection with A. Ja- Prof. S. W. Miller, chairman of the USO Funds Cal., dfn of Atlanta and T. Ne- had gone to purchase additional Negro the in- AIRCRAFT FOR AMERICA—Thousands -of operator above is performing a delicate operation Liberty Ship launching, new overseas Privt cobs filed a motion for a groes have received in on the the in eastern clothes in preparation for (Campaign Committee, announced Thursday that the cludes Peter Ross, General Chair- employment aircraft plants ring of blade a large propeller service had purchased a reserve seat trial after a Bibb super- throughout the country in the last year. Thfe lathe factory—(OWI PHOTO) drive and campaign was brought to a close when Prof. B. B. man, Coley Stafford, Commissioner right on the bus which would arrive at found Pri- Dansby ot Jackson College, treasurer of the funds, on Wed- Jesse L. Teny, Assemblyman ior court jury had Augustus Hawkins, Mrs. Christine Edmund Reed of (Continued on Back Page) nesday, presented Mr. M. L. Burford, state YMCA secretary, vate guilty Wyatt, Dr. Frank A. Pearl, Mrs. with a check for for the National USO Funds. slaying Policeman J .G. (Doc) | $1,500 Charlotta A. Bass, Attorney Loren The Neero USO Funds Cam- Favors. Miller and School Floyd Covington. Facilities paign Drive which began here a Unequal Sunday Cutting | Also Mrs. Camille Ross, Eugene The verdict followed delib- I few weeks ago, accepted a quota Killer Pickett, James A. Anderson, Rev. of less than an hour Laughing $1,500 to be raised by the Negro eration In L. G. Robinson, Gaustina John- Lands One citizens of Jackson as its share of Tuesday night. Private Reed son, John Hargroves, Dr. H. H. the responsibility for a $30,000 was sentenced to Adds Another To Towles, Rev. Grant Harris, Mrs. immediately In fixed for Jackson and Hinds Federal Suit quota William E. Pollard, be executed owt October 23. Challenged Hospital Here county in the $15,000,000 National Mary Troy, A. as USO Funds Campaign. The Norman O. Houston and George Private Reed was calm A night cutting scrape in Murder Toll Here { Beavers Jr. Antiquated Lack Of Sunday amount to be raised by direct ef~ Judge A. M. Anderson, Jr., Buildings, Youngs Alley, just off Hamilton fcrt on the part of the Negro citi- but Street, near the corner of Farish A laughing knire weilder, a man The launching ceremony will be pronounced sentence, | zens. the check presented to the Bus Transportation Pointed Out Negro Carpenters Street, about 10:30 Sunday night, who witnesses say was laughing as broadcast the facilities of Reed’s mother left the court- State YMCA Secretary marked the through created a great deal of excitement, he fatally stabbed another man a West Coast radio station. close of the drive and the attain- house screaming hysterically. brought several car loads of police last Tuesday night, to add another Va.— Union ment of the $1,500 quota. RICHMOND, (ANP)—Five Negro students filed a Organize to the scene, caused one man to to the toll of East Jackson growing MACON, Ga.—(& N S)—private suit in United States District Court here to be in a local while In announcing the close of the All Races Helped Friday .the gain put hospital, killings, was at-large and partially Edmund Reed, changed with the another was the drive, Chairman Miller said that admission to nearby white schools from which they are In Jackson being sought by unidentified, despite continued in- murder of a city policeman, J. G. police for being a party to the dis- the sum of $1,500 raised by the barred on account of race and color.” The was vestigation of Hinds and Rankin Construct Big Ship Favors, and the wounding of a “solely action turbance. James was carried drive which had been carried to Negro Carpenters of Jackson Tyler military officer, M.arvin Whitmire, brought in Sussex county. corner and reach- — to the from a on Back every nook and WASHINGTON— tSNS) Work- completed the organization of a Hospital suffering (Continued Page) is on trial here in Bibb Superior number of stabs and ed evarv rank and of Union here last week, cuts of a se- type Negro ers of many racial extractions— Court. Other charges contained in the which they said were “attractively culminating a total of efforts more than a rious nature. Jim Ellis, with whom citizens, represented Chinese, Filipinos, Mexicans, Ne- suit are that less than 1,000 white designed and staffed and well begun than The new local union to he is reported to have engaged in 4hree or four time greater groes and whites—helped construct Witnesses testifying for the state students of Sussex county have equipped.” year ago. a said to re- At amount raised citi- of be known as Carpenters Local cutting duel, have Bishop Jones any by Negro the Boker T. Washington, first and defense at the beginning four schools, while nearly 3,000 The students alleged that while sulted Union No. 1137 is an affiliate of from an argument over a zens in the history of Jackson. to be named for a the trial told corresponding stories colored students have one Liberty Ship only they live from 31 to 45 miles away woman friend of the Miller also the effect Private Reed the United Brotherhood of Carpen- two, although Cahirman expressed Negro. to that school; that the students live 31 to from Waverly, the only Negro high ters and Joiners of suffering from several cuts and Christ his gratitude and appreciation for The is was struggling to escape when he America, and Temple 10,000-ton vessel being 45 miles from the school, and are school in the county, and have to stabs, made good his escape before the loyal effort an ^cooperation built at shot the city policeman, but that the California Shipbuild- denied bus to and from the on the arrival of the free transportation pay transportation (Continued Back Page) police. Bishop Chas. P. Jones, who be- giv°n by the many workers who at civilians couldl have overpowered ing Company yard Wilming- which is provided for white stu- institution, white students are pro- gan his ministerial career here al- in the campaign with of him without the aid of Favors. participated ton, California Workers of all dents. vided with schools near their most a half century ago as pastor The Macon branch of the Na- these racial groups are employed home, and those who live Rankin of Mt. Helm Baptist Church, (Continued on Back Page) tional Association for the Advance- faraway Co. in that yard. A preliminary injunction against ride free school buses. Police Hold 2 In Jury which he founded the ment of Colored is defend- present More than 500 skilled, semi-skill- People the Sussex County School board of the Reed and has secured the ser- Federal Judge Robert N. Pollard, Church of Christ, one l'o- ed and unskilled workers ing and T.