Ira F. Lewis Is Guest Speaker At Harvard Defends Policy of Negro Press Color Angle Explained; Says N. S. Not White Man's Country Alone
RED CROSS DRIVE GETS GOOD START The Colored Population Division of the American Red Cross Campaign got off to a good start Monday night at the Y.W.C.A., by the way of a dinner meeting. The dining room was beautifully decorated with patriotic colors and posters showing Red Cross workers at work. A delightful turkey dinner was prepared and served by the American Red Cross Canteen workers to more than one hundred and fifty persons. A. A Wilson, chairman of the Colored Population Division was master of ceremonies. The meeting was opened by singing the "Star Spangled Banner," with the invocation by Rev. D. J. Hughlet. Very inspiring talks were made by Mr. Wilson, who expressed confidence that the colored division would Pruitt, cochairman; Mrs. Hortense Pruitt, co-chairman; Mrs. Horense Young, chairman of the Special Gifts and Mrs. Jessie Scott, secretary of the campaign group, who presented a check for $30.00 given by a friend, Mrs. Elizabeth Armour of White Plains, New York. During the dinner and the speaking, music selections were furnished by Mrs. Sarah Osborne and the Hyatt twins under the direction of Miss Iola Jordan. Folowing talks by the various captains, reports were received from some of the respective divisions in addition to the thirty dollars reported by Mrs. Scott. Dvision I - R.L. Ransaw, chairman, total $71.70 with the following reporting: Mr. Pruitt, $20.00; Mrs. Mayme Brock, $14.45; Charles S. Ware, $19.25; Miss Margaret Blanton, $13.00; Mrs. Ransaw, $5.00. Mr. Wilson reported $10.00. A total of $40.00 was reported by two workers of the Special Gifts Committee. (Continued on page 4)
Stimson Asked To Abandon Army's Soldier Cotton Picking Plan
450,000 Negroes In Army Service
Food For Freedom Day At Capital [photos]
Attorney Settle Dies In Memphis
PUBLIC CONDUCT Don't be loud and boisterous on public conveyances - street cars, buses, and trains. Remember, other people of other races are observing you and they judge all Colored people by the conduct of the worst element.
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"It is extremely hard to distinguish between races. No one criterion can be used." -- Dr. Robert H. Lawrie
Todd Meets With Negroe Leaders Result Regarded as Forward Step G.O.P. Leader Urges Negroes to Get Together and Select Own Leaders One of the most significant of political meetings among Negroes afiliated with the Republican party in Louisville and Jefferson County, was held in the offices of Charles W. Anderson, attorney and member of the Kentucky Assembly, Tuesday night, February 23. The meeting was called at the request of Jouett Ross Todd, chairman of the Louisville and Jefferson County Committee. As defined in the call sent to leading Negro republicans and newspaper men, the meeting was for the purpose of "discussing and exchanging views relative to the participation of Negroes in the affairs of the Republican Party, and for the purpose of outlining a definite program for the common welfare and progrtss of colored Republicans in Jefferson County." The meeting was presided over by Mr. Anderson. Mr. Todd who was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress in the 1942 election, but who is of the opinion that the Republican victories are again on the way, and who is looking for the pendulum to start swinging away [?] the Democrats in the 1943 gubernatorial election in Kentucky and in the 1944 presidential election, took an advanced position in his liberal speech to the Negro leaders. He met them more than half way in the frank discussions and in the demands made by spokesmen for the assembled race group of Republicans. 
Mr. Todd said that the time had come when the Negro leadership should cease to be controlled. He urged colored Republicans to get (Continued on page 4)
Carr, Louisville Printer Passes
H. Clifton Carr, of College Court, passed away at his home, Wednesday afternoon. Carr, who was recognized as the most capable linotypist and printer ever developed in Louisville, had been ill for more than three years, but about a year ago he was able to begin putting some time in with the American Baptist. Carr began his printing career with the I. Willis Cole Publishing Co.. and The Louisville Leader, when the paper was founded in 1917. At fifteen he started as a printer's devil while a student in Central High School, under the tutelage of Ed Dupree and Robert Hogan, who came to Louisville to work in The Leader plant. Hogan is now back with The Leader after an absence of several years. Carr developed fast, and in 1919 he was sent to the Mergenthaler Linotype School in Chicago by The Leader publisher for training, and he became the first operator on a linotype owned by a race publisher in Kentucky. Carr later became foreman of The Leader plant with from ten to fifteen employees under him during his twenty-two years with the paper. He was forced to leave the company in 1941 because of heart illness which was becoming worse. He had to give up on a previous occasion, and he remained at home for six months. During his last five years with The Leader. Mr. Carr did work on The American Baptist which was housed in The Leader Building and printed by The Leader, and when the American Baptist moved (Continued on page 4)
FBI AGENTS CATCH MAN HERE Louis McMurry of 453 S. 7th St., was rounded up this week by F. B. I. agents after a search of more than two years for an alleged automobile theft in Kansas City. McMurray is said to have eluded police in six states before he was apprehended here. He is accused of stealing an automobile in Kansas City and driving it to Amos, Kansas, September 2, 1940. He is being returned to Kansas City.
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