Observer_1945-04-22

• Volume 3- No.7 PORTLAND, OREGON, APRIL 22, 1945 10 Cents a Copy ~ OPE~INCOFNE~.~ -A~I~U_S~A~O~C~ED No Criterion Scholarship Ball This Year Guide to Be Supplied 1v1ovie Producers Bishop Dagwell :r o Lead Services For Dedication Notice has been giyen by Dr. HOLLYWOOD (ANP) - R. N. Jo) ner, Jr., that the Criter- Movie producers will be offered ion Club \\"ill not spon. or another a new booklet that may be a guide benefit affair this spring; for the in filming Negroes and other mi- Rev. L. 0. Stone, Vicar of the 0 1 raising of a scholars!, · nority groups. That announcement St. Philip's Church at N. E. Knott Navy Board d l R Dr. Joyner explai; last was ma e recent y by the Interna- and odney streets, has announced that the new parish house will be Changes Status of year enough money was raised at tional Film and Radio Guild, Inc. Norman 0. Houston, secretary- s o·~veennedp.Amp.ril 29 from four until 15 Ex-Seabees their initial . dance to supply a f h G c _ treasm·er o t e olden State Mu- scholarship fund for two years. tual Life Insurance Company is Dedication services will ue at WASHINGTON D C Th , . .- e The Negro high school student chairman of the board of directors five p. m. Among those to be pres- S f h N h ecretary o t e avy as ap- who graduates this year with the and Leon Hardwick, theater editor ent at the services are the Rt. Rev. d h d · · f h N prove t e eels!On o t e avy , h· h t h 1 t" · ·11 b of the Los Angeles Sentinel, is sec- B. D. Dagwell, Bishop of Oregon, 1 1g es sc o as JC ratmg WI e Department's Board of Review retary. The IFRG, organized m Rev. Lansing Kempton of Trinity that the dJ'scharges of 14 of 15 entitled to receive the Criterion June, 1944, is now preparing to Church and Donald 1\elson, con- Negro seabees who were dis- scholarship providing the student function on a national basis. tractor. charged by reason of unfitness" I is going to enroll in some college The IFRG booklet will be in !his building wa serected at an or "ordinary discharges under sat- or university this next term. (Continued on Page 2) ~stlmat~d ~ost of ~20,000. It_ has 1 isfactory conditions by reason of I=============:=:::::=========:::;:;~~== an aud1tonum, gu1lr:l room, k1tch- inaptitude" be changed to dis- EXPERT CRANE OPERATORS en, '"()ffice and Sundc;y school charges ~f "under honorable con- . " 1 ' ;-ooms. The public is cordially wei- ditions," ~he Navy Department re- comed to attend the opening. ported this week. John C. Baker Leaves Post as Acme Club Pres. This week John C. Baker, Pres– ident of the Acme Business Club, gave formal notice of his coming resignation from the presidency of this organization. For more than five years he has been at the helm of this organized group of busi– nessmen. Following is the letter which was read to the club mem- bet:s at their last regular meeting: To Whom It May Concern: In October, 1943, 19 Negro sea– bees were discharged by one com– manding officer of the 80th Naval Construction Battalion for either unfitness or inaptitude. These men were sent from an advanced base at which this battalion was sta– tioned to the receiving station in 1 New York, where their discharges ' were effected. Shortly after the enactment of the Servicemen's Re-adjustm'ent Act of 1944, which has a provision therein that discharged men could have their discharges reviewed, 15 of the 19 ex-seebees petitioned the Navy Review Board for a review of their discharges. The review of the discharges of these 15 ~n was held at one and Please accept this letter as my notice that on May 6, 1944, my resignation from the office of President of the Acme Business 1 the same time recent~y in the Navy I Club "vill become effective. Department, Washmgton, D. C. Many reasons have contributed The petitioners were reprrsented to the making of this decision. by the following: Arthur Garfielrl Chief among them is the fact that Hayes of New York City, acting my occupational work has become for the American Civil Liberties <Continued on Page 2) Union and the National Commit- '"d ()9. 0 0 '-"' . 11 '-"' c+ ~ I-' 2: ~ fl t"".. c+ ::r' (ll (1) I-' ::r' 11 (\) P' H) .. <: 0 0 (1) 11 11 11 p. (1) • w r Ill 01 ~ , r ~ ~ tee on Winfred Lynn ; Gerald Weatherly of the Texas bar and of I New York City, acting for the American Oivil Liberties Union I and the National Committee on ' Winfred Lynn; Thurgood Mar– shall of New York City, special counsel for the Legal Defense and Educational F.und, Inc., of the I National Association for the Ad- Negro and white soldiers have become experts in the ~peration vancement of Colored People; cxf crawler c:mnes at ports all over the world. This training and Herbert ]. DeVarco, representing experience should establish them in profitable civilian careers. These the American Civil Liberties photos, taken at an English coast port where extensive petrol loadmgs have been carried on since before D-Day in Normandy, show Ser– Union; Nat Kein, representing the geant Jacob S. Turner, Washington, D. C., above, and Private First National C.I.O. War Relief Com- Class Arol M. Murff, Greenwood, S. C., below. (U. S. Army Signal mittee of New York City. \ . ~photos (rom BPR.) I , Portland Fliers Credited With Two Nazi Planes Lieutenants Harold Morris and William Bell of Portland, Oregon, now attached to the 100th pursuit squadron of the 332nd fighter command in Rome, Italy, are cred– ited with having shot down one German plane each in a recent air battle over Austria. In this colossal air battle more than twenty-five Nazi planes were lost. The Negro pilots did not suf– fer any casualties. Ironically enough, Lt. Bell had the oppQr– tunity to avenge an old grievance. A few months ago, his plane was shot down while he was on a mis– sion over Yugoslavia': First Lt. Charles Duke, · also of Portland, covered his landing when he was forced to parachute to safety. 1 1 Lt. Morris is the husband of Mrs. Jessie Morris of 546 N. E. Stanton street. Lt. Bell is the son of Mrs. Mary Browning. Lt. Duke is the husband of Mrs. Benita Duke of N. · Vancom·er avenue. Dr. Unthank Speaks on Delta Radio Program Radio station KWJJ presented the Beta Psi Chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority in a special program Saturday, April 14. The program was dedicated to the memory of the late President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Vocal I selections with Mrs. Mignon Ca– bell as the accompanist were pre– sented. Dr. DeNorval Unthank, prominent Portland physician was the featured speaker. His talk on this occasion was impressive and magnetic. It furnished a clear and precise understanding of the wav the Negro people felt about Pre~ident Roosevelt generally. The text of Dr. Unthank's speech fol– lows: "The whole world is grieved by the death of our late President. Each generation has but few men who achieve lasting greatness. In Franklin Delano Roosevelt we have a man who will trulv be so I honored. . I I "All nations looked to him morr than any other world leader for a I solution-a new world order-a new type of peace. He was t e I balance wheel--so to speak. 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