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« •JANUARY 24, 1942Randolph SaysShot Backat La. M P sRed Cross BiasReeks of Nazism9 «Eyewitness Tells theAFRO How Soldier Avenged Shooting of Comrade; Men Not *Tough, Just Sore.By SUff CorrespondentCAMP LIVINGSTON, La. — 'Don’t kid yourself;—we've got ome brave, tough boys in this nan’* army,” declared one tol-lier as ' he gave the ATflO an yewitness story of the riot whlcr ooked Lee Street In Alexandria Saturday night.One of my company buddies s'jiretty badly shot up over In he camp hospital, but if it hadn’t een for acme of us he would iav» been dead.“That'* why I know we will able to take-care of the Japs ?hen we get to the front. Danger lives you a peculiar kind of ourage which you never knew ■on had.* None of Men ArmedWhin the riot broke out, we lidn*t know whit it was all about. Chey juat told us that the cops vere shooting up tbe street anu u we weren’t armed we started\ NEW YORIC—The refusal of the Red Crcuj to accept the blood of colored persons is an insult to the race that is certain to shake the morale of colored Americans and thu* borders upon treason to the cause of national unity, A. Phdlu Randolph, president of the Brotherhood 4{ Sleeping Car Porters, charged this week.“Refusal of the blood of citizen by the Red Cross or any govemmenUl agency on account of race, color, creed or nationality is subtlt advocacy of racial superiority, the cult and curse of Hitler' and Hitlerism, Japanese and Italian fascism,” he averred. -sDixie Whil4’Mixed Ariroenvpiw«i«~irwroii*Failure to challenge this policy of the Red Cross, which 1s of evil and sinister Import, it to give aid, comfort and encouragement to private and government agencies to insult colored citizens, Mr.Randolph stated..Moreover, he contends, there are reason* to give' basis to the belief that this action of the Red Cross is a reflection of. ttie position of ...the War Department, in views of the- fact that representatives of the Red Cr?** in Detroithave reportedly said that the Red Cross was not. responsible for the policy. _NEW YORK. — Gerald White, young White New Yorker, inducted into the United States Marine Corps 'last Thursday, has requested that he be put into the proposed volunteer division of j the army which would Include meft of any race, color, creed or; nationality, the NAACP an-, nounced this weekV In addition, it was learned that Frank P. Graham, president of; the University of North Carolina and newly-appointed member of the War Laborfcoard, and Mark Ethridge, editor of the Louisville, Ky„ Courier-Journal, and chairman of the Committee on Fair Employment Practice, have enthusiastically endorsed the idea.Gerald White’s request was sent to President Roosevelt, Sec-! retary of War Henry L. Stimson j and Secretary of the Navy Frank I Knox.on January 14. It was1 made after White noted stories1 about the proposed volunteer division in the daily papers.He said: _ ,' Marines BtHe Democracy Tomorrow, January 15, I am; to be inducted into-the U. S.M.C. j which. 1 learned after I had enlisted, restricts Us membership to] members of the white race. Thrsf doss not-statisfy me as being a bright-and shining-example^ of i the democracy for which we are allegedly fighting. *Therefore, in the event such ao run.“One cha{ said he knew where• • Too Dumb tor Army; Too
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Baltimore Afro American
Baltimore, Maryland, US
Sat, Jan 24, 1942
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