College President Helped Indict for Peonage
Savannah reports recall of Horace Mann Bond of Fort Valley State College serving on a 1941 Macon Federal Grand Jury that indicted white individuals for peonage. The juries failed to convict in two cases involving a turpentine manager and a Middle Georgia plantation, with Bond among the principals.
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Savannah
Georgia
Horace Mann Bond
Fort Valley State College
Macon
President Bond
Report on conviction of two soldiers for rape in New Caledonia
Washington under secretary of war seeks full report on the life imprisonment verdicts against Privates Edward R. Lowry and Frank Fisher Jr. of the 211th Port Battalion. The case involves Louise Mounien and a May 2, 1943 incident in a parked jeep with Lieutenant Robert L. Engel.
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Washington, D. C
Robert P. Patterson
Edward R. Lowry
Frank Fisher, Jr
Louise Mounien
New Caledonia
Lowry
Fisher
U.S
Leslie Perry
Naacp Washington Bureau
Miss Mounien
Robert L. Engel
Tennessee teachers sue for equal pay in federal court
Jackson Tenn The Jackson Colored Teachers Association filed a federal suit with 100 percent of teachers signing asking equal salaries with white teachers and back pay. Defendants are the City Commission and C B Ijams. Judge Marion S Boyd presides. The complaint cites 14th Amendment and state and federal laws.
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Jackson, Tenn
Jackson Colored Teachers’ Association
City Commission
C. B. Ijams
United States
Marion S. Boyd
Tennessee
Race Relations Message from Federal Council Urges End to Segregation
The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America issued its annual Race Relations Message urging Christians to bridge racial chasms and oppose discrimination in the armed services and industry. It cautions against white domination and calls for a prophetic, apostolic response to growing resentment among dark-skinned people in a democratic society.
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New York, N. Y
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ
America
Federal Council
Haiti Begins Latex Production From Cryptostegia
Less than a year after contracts with the U S Rubber Development Corporation Haitis large scale cryptostegia plantations moved to experimental latex and rubber production. The Cayes division started on October 15 1943 with regular commercial sheet rubber expected to ship to the United States in December.
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U. S. Rubber Development Corporation
Cayes
Corporation
United States
A Grand Movement for Juvenile Improvement in City
A neighborhood club expansion program aims to establish twenty or more YMCA style clubs in congested city areas especially the West End to aid Negro boys. Each club will have a black mother and boy monitor as president, with church or school spaces as meeting sites and a religious advisor. A Boys' Work Committee member will supervise and promote, forming Neighborhood Councils that meet monthly to discuss shared problems and interests.
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YMCA
West End
Gillespie for Ohio Senate Promoted in 1944 Primary
The Hon Chester Gillespie, long noted for his service in the Ohio Legislature, announces candidacy for the Ohio Senate in the 1944 primary on May 9. He emphasizes courage of convictions and citizen benefit, recalling one Colored Senator in state history, Sir John P Green, fifty years ago.
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Pie
Ohio
Ohio Senate
John P. Green
Gillespie
Elks Pay Grand Secretary James E Kelley Fitting Tribute
Nearly 1,000 Birmingham and Alabama Elks, Daughter Elks and the public honor James E Kelley, native son and 16 year Grand Secretary of the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World. Kelley also led Jones Valley Lodge No 14 in Birmingham, home to one of the nation's largest Elk memberships and its first modern lodge built for $90,000.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Kelley
Jones Valley Lodge No. 14
Elkham
Jones Valley Lodge
Elks
Grand Communion at Union Baptist Church Draws Crowd
The annual communion service Sunday night at Union Baptist Church drew a full house. Rev Page thundered from the pulpit recalling the apostles who spread the holy message from the mountain to open the world.
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Union Baptist Church
Page
Apostles
God
Onyx Lodge Elks in Richmond Near Debt Free Expansion
Richmond Indiana readers learn that Ony x Lodge Elks claims a premier local position in the business district. The lodge owns a splendid property on 61st Street with a large lot and building recently added and nearly out of debt. A small but loyal membership enhances the town pride.
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Richmond
Indiana
Bigelow's Idea Most Beautiful in Letter to Dabney
Cincinnati reader praises Graffis critique and Herbert S Bigelow on racial harmony. He argues that true brotherhood excludes none and compares races to a garden bouquet of many colors. The piece endorses universal equality despite social and economic injustice.
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Dabney
Graffis
Gro
God
Herbert S. Bigelow
Hitler
Bigelow
Earth
War’s grim evolution from hand to hand to bombs
Dabney recalls warfare’s progress from close combat to gunpowder and cannons, then to bombs, airships, and poison gas. He notes that war has become vastly more destructive, yet laments that humanity remains uncivilized and unable to live without it, echoing Sherman that war is hell.
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Sherman
Hell
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Federated Council
Churches of Christ
Tocsin
Haiti
John Lardner
American Fifth Army
Italy
Cer
Ninth Street Y. M. C. A
Chester
Chester K. Gilles
Chester K. Gillespie
James E. Kelley
Onyx Lodge Elks
Cincinnati
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