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DURHAM, H. 0- SATURDAY, DEC. 20, 1941
Voluira? 22
Begins Work On AD- Negro Division
Expect Congress To Put
Okay On Army Unit Made
Entirely Of Race IMen
NAACP To Appeal From
Texas Graduate School Case
Fort Hnschncft, Ariz. — (ANP)
-1- Plans for th« expanaion of Fort
HnnehucA to Mcowodftt© an estra
11,309 goldiers who, combined with
the troops in the 25th and 366th
infantry would make a trianfular
divhioD. we definitely nader way
and conatruetion, when started wUl
be completed iln a raaximnm of six
mooths. The combined force here
wotild be 17,903 men.
Thia new atreamliiMd division is
expected to b« th« K«*ro division
praised in Waahington laat Mon-
a jmnn of Hegro editors by
Oeo; Marshall, ’ekicf of
g^tf at m TIniM 8t^ iwmT.
It \i tlwt «8Wori*atio«
by eoikgnm toe &at iwiilal de
parture froB traditfona) Negro
troop {(tfmations is mH»eatarily
expc^cd. The late Robert Van, ed
itor o^ the Pitiabwil^ Courier,
camfH^ffned ii) Ms eoliunns for cre
ation of an all-Negro division.
The 96th infantry, whoae horns
l^li' HttMhuca, is one of th«
reg^ar army regi>
iin^Qri^edity wmgreas dur-
iO|^ rMoBftxnetioo.' The other thrc^
are* thip 24th inifantry, Tort Ben-
«nd the 9th and 10th
ca^ir^; ‘Bil*?! K»o. The 368-
th wa^; recently forined with the
exptnaion of the armed ser^ces.
I^h , units are officered by
white* and it is conceded that the
co^taift&der of the Negro division
wottlji also be white; A division is
heA'ded by a major..geoeral. High
est office yet »ttah»ed in the r^H-'
lar-Hritfy is that of brigadier gcu-
erftl, ivfith Oen. B.- 0. Davis being
the firpt and only man to be so
honored. -
CoiDpdsii^ the division: will he
three infantry regiments, quarter
master and engiaeorlng battalions,
a medical ■ battalion and aritllery
and rtervice units. It is not-known
wK«tl|er any of the four activated
nationar euard regtmeqts, all with
NegTQ .officer perecqnel, will ,be
u«ed. , ' , ,
I^st we'ek MaJ. Gcteo^nd K.
btdey of -the quartermaster gfn.
eral’s office in Washington arriv".
ed and checked the site and layout
of;th« proposed new buildings co
house the enlarged force.
Knoxville, Tenn.—The National
Association for the Advancement
of. Colored People announced this
week that the national legal com
mittee is taking immediate steps
to appeal the decision handed
down by the Chancellor of Knox
County that questions involved in
jmii MHiinst the,^niversity of J ^ ^ ^
Tennessee are moot-^The pefitiolT The Pair-KfnpWy-
on behalf of six aptdicabts for ad
mission to the graduate and law
school of the university asked for
a decision compelling the untverni-
ty officials to admit them.
*T!hancellor A. E. Mitchell gave
his opinion December 4, a year and
a half after'argument, in spite of
the fact that this was on an inter-
(locntory matter.
The implicatioi| of the decision
is that since the Tennessee legis
lature has passed a bill to provide
for the professional education o^
Negroes, tl^ suit against the school
has no s|^ndii]g in court, the NA
iACP said.
. Attorney Leon A. Ransom, mem
ber of the national legal committee
and chief counsel in the Tennessee
case, stated'this, week that estab
lishment of “paper" rights to an
equal educational opportunity is
not the equivalent sought by the
petitioners. The action of the Ten
nessee legislature, not carricd into
effect, cannot operate to ma^e th>
cases of the petitioners moot, he
aaid, adding that they can only
become moot when there are Ne-
^o professionaT schools, support
ed by the state, in Tennessee, or
Negroes are admitted to other
state-supperted institutions^
The Chancellor has overlooked
the plain imolications of the decis
ion of the United States Supreme
Court in the Gaines vs. Missouri
case, Dr. Ranson said.
PUT NO DISCRmiKATION
FIGHT ON ADBOIMIBTRATIVE
BASIS
Now that the United States is .'»t
war the value of citizen’s commit
tee existing for the purpose of gi-
tating a social problem isahighly
ment Prgjftices committee, the Mi
norities Oroup committee, nor the
Negro training and employment di
vision Of 0PM can hope to deal
adequately with the problem of
race, nationality, and religious di?
crimination, in defense industries
on an individual basis. The prob
lem is simply to, big, and under
present method.s of work, the?e
agencies, particularly FEP, depend
too much upon agitation.
The essential problini is admhi-
istrative; one of mobilizing the
man power of a nation to attain,
maximum production, and maxi-,
mum morale. As an administrative
problem it should be handled on a
mass or administrative basis.
Elizabeth State
Teadinr College
Given Approval
(By L. E. AUSTIN)
The departgMut Of
paid speciaVtribote l:^ 'wi(rtc..t»
T.
B. Pi^c9 ’. (4^tj»r)^^ i^n
completion' o:^
in the d^partai^t.
B. lelt)t..««^aitQl^^
tl^ men'is his o^cer
sented them letters com-
mfMaing their exc|Uent work.
■Mn Campbell imd Jfr. Pierce are
r^ioaal extetujfoa Cirid agents,
. MpenriBing :farm and h^me; dem
onstration -work ia the southern
^tatps. (AOT)»-
IL.
D^artmentot Justice
Attacks Georgia
Labor Contract Law
:ztr
•i tS.;'
Washington, D. C. — The De
partment of Jnstice has fil6d, a
brief amicus'curiae in'the U. S.
Supreme Court attacking t h^
Gewsria Labor- Cohttftc.tr . l a-w ,
Ayhich, it maintains, coerces labovr
,ers into servitude ;and peonage in
vio]atiou of tile Thirteenth Amend
ment to the Constiti?tion.
The brief was filed last week in
.support of the appeal, of Ira Tay-
Ipy, who was convicted under the
Georgia law, the NAACP announc
ed.
The interest of the federal gov-
erriment in .this case stems from
a provision of the Georgia law san
ctioning the conviction of a laborer
for “cheating and swindling”
merely upon showing that he re.
ceived an advance from an ernploy-
er and then failed to carry ont
RED (tm WANT
lO-CERT BAG FEE
CHAR9EP IN FARES
Chicago. -(ANP)- Seeking iri»-\^owed the announcement by the as-
m*dUte adjustment of « 18 month P"
ooatrove^ between the nation's ^
red eap. «»d the t«Md«, the.H ^e-
o^il^ good (jause, aeeprding to th-J
Justice Department. It stated that
the Supreme Court in 1911 held a
similar Alabama statute to be un
constitutional on grounds that it
created a condition of involuntary
servitude.
In this ease Taylor was charged
with receiving $19.50 in advance On
an agreement to assist in the con-
strncfion of a house. His employer
accused him of cheating and swind
ling when he later failed to report
for work. "i
*The Louisville Courier-Journal
fqels that some of the uncertain
ty of the future may be removed
since a Chicago evangelist has
assured his audience that “the
world’s in hell right novF.’'
contract for personal services' with- hadn't.
The, State Teachers College,
Elizabeth City, North Carolina, has
received approval froih the S6uth-
ern Association of Colleges and
Secondary Schools', according to
President Harold L. Trigg.
In a letter dated December 11
notifying the Collt'ge of this rec
ognition Dr. J. Henry Highsmith
states;
“I take real pleasure in inform
ing you that the Elizabeth City
State Teachers College was approv
ed by the Executive Committee of
the Southern Association of Col
leges and Secondary Schools as a
four year College.”
“I congratulate you upon thi?
recognition. I am sure that this
approval by the Southern Associa
tion will serve as an incentive to
even greater efforts to render a>i
increasingly effective sfj^vice to
the young men and worhen who at
tend your Institution.”
Teachers College is in its fourtli Winston-Salem. —(CP)—A po-Isection of town,
year as a four year institution and j lice blitzkrieg against bootleg taxi I Negro cab drivers in Winston-
Salem had appealed to the alder-
Duite Atliletic Officiais
Bar Negroes From Bowl
Game But Will Admit Japs
HeliWoTkWDr.Hughes ‘
Praised By Dr.Carl V. Reynolds
lA. ^
Age Citizen
Passes Atter
kng Nsess
Durham X«tro«*s and tho«e
throuffhout the state and nation
were dealt a sever** blow hen* this
week when efforts on the part of
numerous member* of their raee to
r ‘.«»eenre ti«*ket- to the Rofle Bowl
I Raleigh. I’)— The North jjame to he played here in tive Dnke
j Carolina State Board of He.ilth University stadinm, January 1
hag just been awarded a eertifirate were of no avail.
;for outstandinsr work, among Xe-1 As the news sprrad rapidly over
groes, it waa announced here the eity prominent Negroes, many
j Thursday. of whom have h«en »tanneh Dnlce
1 The award was made by the football supporters throu«rh th
jUnited States Publije health ser-jyears. were defiant in their T'efn.«, !
I vice and the certificate signed by J to believe that offtrials of Dnk *
j-Hoscoe C. Brown, he,a!th edneatio*i- 'aniversity «r the ww»- ►
lal specialist and chairman of the'sanction a policy that wnnld e'
[National Negro Health Week Com-^elude Ne^oes from seeinir th.*
imittee. »■ panie. Even after repeated phone
I The award, according to a letter, ealls to the athletic .Jppartment of
received hr Dr-Carl V. .Reynold.4, the university only proved to es-
se^etary of the State Board of tablish more-definitely that po ae-
Health, is “a formal acknowledue-: eorm¥lati«>n.s wonhl He made for
ment of the contribution of you’’|XesrToes. nianv of them tenarionslv
community to the achievement of ^held on to fheir belief that smell
the current year’s National Negro a policy eould not come ont of
Health eek observance and in f>iike Fniversity. and certainly net
recognition of th^ year-rouinl from- Rose Bowl officials. wh.>
health consciousness and activity • eome From a section of the countrr
Besides Mrs. Carlton the deeeai-j which are essential to effective where Nesrroes not onlv witae^'*
ed is survived by two daughters, participation in the various health j jbe jjame but are memhern of the
Mrs. Survada Cozart of Braddock, j services of yoxir community.” ; teams that nlay in it.
Perin-, Mrs. Pearl Synaker of New | North Carolina was the tirst| Far. far into the ni^ht the die-
York City and Alfonza Carlton of state in the union whose board of ihnrds fought on and on in an ef-
Richard Carlton, husband of I
Mrs. Bettie Carlton well known j
citizen of Durham died here* Mon-1
day, DcL-eniber 8, at 11:30 P. il. I
as a result of a paralytic stroke. '
Mr. Carlton was 70 years of ago
and had resided at .612 Olenu St.
Funeral was held at Markham
Chapel Church in Orange County
with Rev. P. E. Green, former Dur
ham minister officiating. •
Durham.
ksks Navy To
Change Jim Crow
Policy Toward Race
health added a full Negro physi-jfort to hold onto their pride in
cian to its staff. j Durham, ' Dnke T'niversity »n«l
The present post is being held their aconaintance with some* of-
by Dr. alter .1. Husrhes whose fiVinl, member of the faenltv or
work among Negroes has been out-‘student. It waii a most patli^'^
standing and who, in a Durham ad- ' gcene to witness iijanY of Durhum’a.
dress last summer, declared that Xp^o aristocraev (whatever that
I North Carolina has done more to jj, vain attempt to imp»e«»
promote the health of the Negro their ‘‘inferiors” that thev
New York. — Now that war has
beea declared,. the U. S. Navy was
asked last week to change its jim-
crow policy by the National Asso
ciation for the Advancement
Colored People.
The NAACP wired Secretary of
“There are two kinds of col-
lesres in America,” The Adrian
Daily Telegram quotes a noted;the Navy Pi-ank Knox, December
educator. Then follows up with j8, ptating: “Because our, country
“Undoubtedly. Those that wish | is in peril, we ask revision of. the
they had fired the cOach lastlNavy’s policy with respect to the
fall, and those that wish they use of Negroes and the limitation
than any other state.
The staff of health workers a-
mong Negroes in North Carolin-i
includes one full time physician, a
well trained health educator, six
of I dentists, il ffeirt time physicians
apd 30 nurses.
(Continued on Page 8)
Seven Fined In Bootleg
Taxi, Driving Cases
At Winston - $aiem.
its fifty-first year as a State sup-1 business brought seven defendanti
ported institution for training ele-|into court Friday for stiff fines
Uoited Traasport SexvieLEmplov-Interstate Commerce com-‘mentary school teachers. This hon-jand terras on the road.
>. aniofi TOopoi>od to the Aaau 'P^i^sioir within a fe_w days. |or has brought tremendous- satis-[ Solicitor Walter Johnson pre-
eiatiOB ot Aweri^n B»i1rft^dif th« ‘ ““'O" outlin"^ six points to |faction to students and Alumni of sented evidence showing that Nte-
flboli^meat of the 10 aootg aharge assoeiation on ymj the charge.the College and will serve as an ,groes had been cruising along the
fw hendlia* mninnilfr-eliminate# and the ser- effective stimulant to future pro-jbus routes and hauling passengers
sabe at ^roaditatbnt throi^ i“«luded in the passenger ,gress. [for five cents and ten cents a head,
fneloaion of this MrviiM to the reg- sought by the railroads. | The Southern Association is the) the arrests and court cases follow-
■ " “1. At the recent senate in
ttlar paisenger ratea of railroada.
This proposal of the union fol-
(Continued on Pftge 8)
inves- jregional accrediting agency for all jing a long police investigation of
secondary and high institutions in .the cabs which according to' ris-
'the Southern States. 1 ports do big business in the Negro
men long ago to cut their cab rates
from 35 cents to 25 cents because
bootleg cabs “were cutting in on
their business, ” but white cab
drivers opposed to the request on
the grounds that it would be dis
crimination to allow Negro eabs
to haul passengers at reduced fares
and that the white cab men needed
the extra ten cents because of in
creased wages it had brought them.
Bootleg taxi me^ have been pro
secuted several ' tunes hei’e, but
since witnesses can rarely be found
convictions are difficult.
Joe Henry Poster, Clint Simpson
and David Wagner were sentenced
to 30 days on the roads, Foster nnd
Simpson appealing under $200
bond each.
Earl Washington, Charlie Ro'bin-
son and Robert Childs were fined
$35 and eosts and given 30-day
suspended sentenees and Harrison
WilliamiAffwas taxed witk coats.
had ,1 perfect knowledge of the sit
uation which had been sriven to
them ^ bv a cofifidential white
friend that Negroes would b# ad-
inittel—snecial Nesrroes. Ah Bro
ther? SPECIAL negroes.
• The only hope that Ne*rroes in
Dnrham have to avoid beinft kid
ded by members of their r«e* ia
other cities is that some of the or
ders sent to Dnke Fniversity fof
ticket? by mail,^ telegram and tele
phone have been :HIled by tk« of
ficials witboBt tli» knowledge tibat
the recipients^ a» Negroes. If by
chance such Negroes ean get iato
the stadium it will be ennn^
partially resene embarrassed He>
gro Dnrham.
In order that tha reeord mmj
kept clean and elear, let it W def^c
“I think this award is 4 distinct
compliment to North Carolina.”
Dr. Reynolds said, ‘and its ef
forts HI behalf of' our N^^o citi
zens who comprise approximately
a third of- our popnlatibm
“Much credit is due Dr. Hughes
and his Associates, and there is no
reason why this important work
should not proceed with encreasin»
momentum and efficiency.
“The manner in which our Ne
gro population has responded to
what we are trying to do in their
benefit is gratifying to me. Oood^initely understood that Htgrmm
health promotes good feeling and
cooperation among all groups.
“North Carolina has a citizen
ship of which it should and does
feel proud. There is no spot in
America where the relations he*
tween the races are more harmo
nious than here.
The health of any group effect*
the health of the whole, and with
this truth ever before us, we shad
proceed along lineg for whieh the
groundwork already has been so
suecessfnlly laid.”
New low is mad* ia aaemploy-
ment paynents, hat elaiias ris*.
Facts are very often stnhbora.
things and «»Q tonetML
are NOT wanted at the Bom BmtI
game to be i^y^d her# m Janaijr
1. The athletio department
went 80 far as to say it weald eM
tickets to any Japaa«a« who
ed aeenifr th* gaate^ haA thegr
making no provision for
spectators and wonid NOT
any. So aay Negro lAo hjr
flips by the wati^fal tyaa of tfhi;
stadinn ^fite keepen
wlmre be is not vaatad, aaCl
iaff th«r* at hia own of'
cmbairrasnaAt aad poasftly
ham.
Th* aflilatie^
hwa eaJled oa tW saljaH, Ilk*