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Number 49
Durham, North Carolina, Saturday, Dec. 7, 1940
MAY FORM NINE NEGRO SQUADRONS
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Organized
Heningbui^ Giallenges Young
Students At Bennett College
Ore«nabon> —* “lien are bow
told^ when to think, how to think,
what to think, and IP to think,”
said Dr. AIjAonse Heninghurg of
the North Carolina CoQege for
Negroes, Durham, to his Bennett
College audience Sunday at the
T«0per hoar. /
Dr. Heninghurg WM rioqaent
la dMsrjptiMi of til*
of things” as created by mn,
which ^ings, he averred ad been
turned toward th» i^ysieial des
truction of man and the lessening
of his individuality. He ehallenged
young students to do more to
' make “democracy a Hving thing.”
“Within your life time tind
mine,” he said, “it may be possible
through scientifie discovery to
bring back the voice of Jesus as
he preached the sermon o>n the
mount, yet we live in a world of
more widespread destruction and
National Weekly To
Publish Article By
N.A.A.C.P. Secretary
N#w York — The Saturday
£rening Post, national Weekly,
Announced today by the forthcom
ing puWieatioa of “IT’S QUR
COUNTIES’ TOO,'^ an itiMi by
Walter White, executive secretary
of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored Peo
ple, which will appear in the
December 14 igsue of the maga
zine. The article will deal with
the political and econotoic handi*
caps faced by Negro citizens, who
are, neverthless expected to defend
American democracy.
Mr. White will address a mass
meeting in Spokan^ Washington,
Sunday, December 1 on “The Ne-
indiscriminate killing than in the National Defense,” when
history of man, w© are living in -vyyi point out the necessity
for giving jobs to N^oes in the
national defense industries. The
address will mark the end of a
Rev. L. E. Galloway, pastor of ,Pacific «oast t^r, which has car-
pastor of the Coi^regational ,ned the N^CP eecreta^ ^
church, Greensboro led the devo- ««>«
tional eervice. Prof. Wm. A. I “tudent grou^ at Occident^ Coll-
Banner presided, and music was at Us ^geles; the Umyer-
rendered by the Bennett College B^ty of California at Berkeley,
choir, which in the absence t^e University of Washington
age in which there is less of free
thinking than in the age of the
aifeients.
Dr. Dett, was ably direced by Miss
Margaret Boykins, junior of
Ridgewood, N. J. ' ; j
Christmas Seal money is used
to fight tuberculosis—the disease
that kills more people betwewi
the ages of 15 and 45 than any
other disease.
at Seattle.
Temperance puts wood on the
fire, meal in the barrel, flour
in the tub, money in the purse,
credit in the country, content
ment in the houses clothes on
the children, vigor in the body,
intelligence in the brainy and
spirit in the whole constitution.
Won’t Tolerate 9mi Crow In New BforB
Draft Area, &y Officials
Jury Ban On
Negroes k Hdd
In Decision
Washington — The United
States Supreme court handed
down another of several recent |
decisions of momentous import tf r
N^^oes when it ruel Monday th«t
racial discrimination resulting 'n
tiye exclusion of qualified Negro
es from gM^ i»i7 WTviee not)
only violatedlthe eoastittfon, ^‘but
is at war with our basic concepts
of a democratic society and a re-
presenative g;gvemment. ”
Justice Black delivered tho un
animous decision, whiih set aside
the convirtion of a Hohston Ne
gro sentenced to life imprison
ment for rriminally assaulting a
woman.
The defendant, Edgar Smith,
contended he had been denied
constitutionas rights because mekn-
bers of his race had been “sys
tematically excluded” from Har
ris county grand juries.
Justice Black explained that
only five of the 384 grand jurors
who served in Hairis county from
1931 through 1939 had been Ne
groes, and added;
*'Chance and accident alone
eould hardly have brought about
the listing for grand jury service
of so few Negroes from among
the thousands shown by undisput
ed evidence to possess the legal
qualifications for jury service.
“No could chance and accident
have been responsible for *ie
combination of circumstance under
which a name, when listed at all,
almokt invariably appeared as
numbraT.K and tmder which num
ber 16 was\TO¥er—eaJTefl for ser
vice unlea^^t proved Ampossivle
to obtain thie required iurors from
tho first 15 names on the list ”
OXFORD ORPHANAGE CHILDREN
ARE HAPPY CHILDREN
Former Bootblack
Is Now A Physician
A former Raleigh man—^who
rose from a bootblack in the old
Yarborougrh House to a respect
ed Negro physician — visited
here recently for the first time
in 27 year^.
Dr. Dennis Branch, whose
story resembles a character out
of Hocatio Alger, was ehininc
shoes i» the Xptfborough ^ 1907
'tToday^'lie sftfVte* tb© pop
ulation of Newport and a radius
of 30 to 40 miles of the Eastern
Tennessee city, as a doctor.
■ Willis Briggs, Raleigh attor
ney, and the late E. T. May
nard, another local lawyer, first
noticed Branch. Impressed by
the boy’s ambition and person
ality, they secured an appoint
ment as mail carrier here for
him.
Nine New Army
Air Squadrons
Are Announced
A strenuous effort is always made to
keep a joyous atmosphere for all of the
children. Pictured above are two little
girl inmates of the orphanage whose smiles
are evidence of the happiness enjoyed by
the other children at all times.
Mother Of One Of Nine Negro Messmen
Now Imprisoned, Makes Plea For Son
Fean Boy, Who Enlisted, May
[Every since October when he and
others had published in the Cour
Oo Til Bane From Hanli Treat- jer how they are being treated in
mMrt
Service, he has been confined and
denied privileges. He has been
•transferred from the USS. Phil-
New York — The inhuman ac
tion of Navy D^artment officials
in imprisoning nine Negro Navy j Ship, San Francisco, California,
messmen in October because the ^ But my son is still in the brig
latter protested, against being sub- and I am worried over the situa-
Mwalimu Festival
Chorus Of New Yoii
C(Ni^ To Sbaw
Raleigh — The Mwaldu Festival
Chorus of New York City under
te direction of Manet Harrison
Fowler is scheduled to appear in
the Shaw University Qreenleaf
Memorial Hall at ei^t o’clock,
Thursday evening, December 5.
This chorus • appeared iBrst six
years ago in the New York Stein-
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Hall and since that time has
through its recitals created con
siderable interest in dances,
dramas, and songs osiginated or
connected with the continent’s
black peoples.
Concemii^ performances of the
and at last he obtain^ enough Mwalimu Festival Chonn masie
to take a medical course at critics rep^eeeatin^ tb* N • ^
With the money he made in
the Post Office Department,
Branch financed a course at
Shaw University. After grad
uation there he obtained em
ployment as a Pullman porter.
Frugal and industrious, he
continued to save his money.
Howard University in Washing
ton, D. C. After graduation, .he
still had a nest egg of $600,
An official of the Aluminum
Company of America persuaded
him to go to Nevf^rt, Tenn,
wherJ* the company had thou
sands of Negro worlq^nen. Dr,
Branch went to Newport in
1915, where he has been ever
since.
Dr. Branch has not forgotten
j t L- j. TTC.O n • • the man who helped him get his
adelphia to the USS R^eivmg 3^^^. birthday and every
N.A.A.C.P.WiAid
U. S. Civil Service
In Extradition Case
New York — Although the
New York — Following a pro
test sent to Governor Herbert
Lehman, by Dean William Pickens
director of NAACP branches, it
was announced at Selective Ser
vice Headquarters b^re that no
segregation was intended, nor
will it be tolerated^ n giving Ramspeck Civil Service Bill was
medical treatment to Negro draft- passed by Congress without the
ees who api>ly either at Harlem Minton amendment requiring that
Hospital or at the Lutheran Hospi .fingerprints be substituted for
tal for examination. photographs, the Ciil Service
Dean Pickens, who is a member .Commission will abolish the use
of the New York State draft ap- of phoographs as means of iden-
Commissions Drops
Photos for Prints
New York — Cooperation with
the attorney acting for James
Catledge, 19 year old Harlem
youth, whom South Carolina au
thorities seek to extradite from
New York to McCormick, South,
Carolina, was announced this week
jected to intolerable conditions of
discrimination reveals itself in
the plea sent out by the mother of
one of the boys to the National
tion because I believe it will af-
by the National Association fori
the Advancement of Colored Peo
ple.
feet him mentally and physically.
Had Good Record
“He enlisted in Brooklyn rear-
Association for the Advancement. ly four years ago, and so far-has
of Colored People urging • h e never had or given anytrouble,
Association to help her “in gett-It© be punished like this, and I
jng my son’s freedom again.’ don’t feel that he and the others
In 5^1 appealing letter, to Walter are being treated just right-. I
White, secretary of the NAACP, ^ had a son to die in the Navy in
the mother of one of the messmen 1937, and now for this to happen,
writing from her home in a small it has deeply affected me. Will
town, tells the story of bow the you please investigate the situa-
Navy’s treatment of her son has tion to the fullest and help iny
A teacher in the son.-We have no NAACP branch
system, she has al- here. I’ve written the Secretary
of the Navy and the Congressman
from this District."
Reiterating ft view expressed in
issued last week in
Christmas he sends Willis
Br^gs a gift. He called on
Briggs and wished him Thank»-
giving greetings.
ready given one son to the Navy.
“He died in 1937,” she says,
“while still in service.” Fearful
peals board, said he. had received tification, the National Associa-
oomplaints that all Negroes w the tion foi^ the Advancement . of for the purpose of preventing im- that her second may go insane, as’a ‘statement
Harlem or adjacent areas had Colored People was informed to-'personation and fraud in exapiiua- a result'of his imprisonment a-'conjunction with a letter sent to
been assigned tQ Harlem Hospital day.
while all whites in this area were! In a letter
assigned to the Lutheran Hospi-James Mead,
tal. A special notice, advising jcopy of which was sent to the'by the. u6e of fingerprints. Sena-
officials in the New York area ofjNAACP, the Commissioners: H
Mo
tions, and the Commission is con^ .hoard ship, the mother asked the Secretary of the Navy Knox, the
to Senator Evinced that such impersonations NAACP to push an investigation'Association orged its members,
sent
of New York, a,^j frauds can best be detected
.tor Mead led the fight in the Sen-
the complaint and also the rule |B. Mitchell, Lucille Foster Me- ,ate, to include the amendment to
to be followed was sent out, Millii^, and Arthur S. Fleming the Ramspeck bill, which would
following receipt o^ Dean Pick-jsaid: “PhotograjAs have been re-^have outlawed the use of photo-
ens’ complaint, , Ignired by the Conunission
of the case, which has been widely and all other persons interested
publicized by the Pittsbuiig|i/Cour-^in seeing that justice is done, to
ier. The text of her letter which,flood the office of President
was sent to the NAAcP and the Roosevelt and Secretary Frank
Courier follows: |Knox, urging that they “inter-
“ Please, help me in getting mylvene in this case” to protect the
son’s freedom again on board hiplrights of these nijpe messmoa.
York Times, the New York Her
ald Tribune, the New York World
Telegram and other publieatioQa
have been in agreement that the
chorusters provide excellent enter
tainment through their eommuQiea
tive vitality and “the infectious
rhythms of their singing.'’
The Mwalimu Festival Chorus’
recital at Shaw is sponsored by the
Shaw University eoneerta and
lectures committee of which the
WASHINGTON — Of impoif-
ance to Necroea is the an-
Bouncemest that 13 new veffi-'
mcnts and nine army air corps
^uadrofn wiH be addaA t* tiw
colored! bi aatfcerof
armed forces. Dean WilUam
Hastie, civilian aide, made this
announcement Friday night be>
for a group at th^ 12th Street
Y.M.CA., referring to the n*«
tiooal defense program.
The additions will be made in
1941, according to I>ean Hastie,
supplementing the present 9th
and 10th cavalry, the 24th and
and 25th infantry and the 47th
and 48th quartermaster resri-
ments.
Anti - Aircraft Unita
Five coast artillery regiments,
principally anti-craft, will be
formed he said, including tlt«
76th and 77th. With colored
national guard regiments
brought to full war strength
the present total of 13^000 col
ored sokliera will be rasad to
about 80,000^ and the additkma
wUl include these organisation^
Ur. Hastie said.
The 349th field artiUary, ao«i
organized, and three or
ganizations authorized; the 41st
engineers now organized, and
one other such regiment; two
additional quartermaaer re^r^
ments to b^ scattered about in
small units at various post^
fields and depots, are included
In the air corps, nine scattered
chairman is Professor Harry-QiT squadrons have been planned
Smythe, director of music at Shaw, from among colored y»kirtni
Ex-Slave, 114, Believed Oldest Woman
In U.S.; 1887 “Pretty Recent” To Her
get away from
Sylvia floods that were then dama^
Intoxicating drinks have prO' - - ,
duced evils more deadly be- Alameda, CaL — Mr». Sylvia L,®”
cause more continuous, than all Hoover, who celebrated here re-'. .
those caused to mankind by the cently her 114th birthday is be- I»op«rty in Mississippi,
pat historic scourges of war.jijeved the oldest woman'in theL ^
faming and pestilence combm- Srnited States, if not in the whole!ffL Harnson,” she said.
ed.-Gladstone. pn»idencyt,7^‘
Up until 3 years ago, I mad*
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OOOODODQC3DOQ
Ihem stui alive and two, Walter eyes aw too
^80, and Rose Ella, 72, were pre
sent at her birthday.
Commentii^ on her life, Mrs.
Hoover began, married in
1856. . I was ^ years younger than
he was. We were separated fop 7
years when were sM apart as
slaves. TbeUf after the eniancipa-
bad. I hurt my right eye 25 years
ago while cutting kinging. But
now my daughter reads to bm.
A Good Word
Aakylesed — Ang^-ki-lost te
short, i short, o Ions),
i - . .» . . “stiffened**
tion^by Abr^ Luicola. we got ^ . joint; the fondMMtal
tether jwL My husband was Greek word from whM ii
the first freed sUv« in the eoun- Lomes signifying “ear^*
try to own his own land. That*, b»w, for example^ or
was in Mississippi, when we had
150 acres. In 1870, he was elected
a supervisor from Holmes County.
I buried him 47 years Sflo.’*
i Mra. Hoovm {ntily
gle'abeak.
Charity is as mia^
giver as it is for ior
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