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nm DEATH ^mm MAILING JLEDITION m VOLUME XXIir- NUMBER 1 DURHAM, N. G, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2nd, 194S General Eisenhower. Praises Negro Troops In N. ■ &COBRT WmPS TE I. S. Cireuit Court %rovM Ban Oh Texas Negro Vote HOOBTOjSf, (ANP) — Texas — Coui^ of Appeals at IBbustoii in a ruling oa tlie appeal of Lonnie Smith from the decision of a faderal district eoart approving the exdniion of Negroes from Dmnocratie primaries. The court upheld the conten tion that the case was governed by the decision of the U. St Supreme !ourt several years ago in QrOTey ya Townsend that tbo Texas Dea^cratic primary is . a private affair of the party sni that exelusion of Negron is not In yiolatioR of thflir cohstitu- tional light to vote. The court denied the eonten- tentvon, of the appellant that the snpreme court in the reeentl? de cided Classic case snperi^eded the Grevey decision when it held that the right to cajit a vote in the Louisiana primary is one Hpstowed by the constitution. Interference with this right was considered an “interference with the effective choice of the voters at the only stage of the election prO(iess where their choice iiJ of nny significance.” In refusing to follow the Classic decision, the court held that it was handed down in n criminal case differing on manv points from the present case and Please turn to Page Eight~ Oaimed % Drath At Virgiffla Hospital HAMPTON, Va. — Mrs. Ro-} bert E. Moton, wife of the htc Dr. Moton, former president ot Tuskegee Institute, died in th Dixie. Hospital at Hampton, Yii. last Wednesday aftertioon. Mrs. Moton was special field representative of the Agri.nil- tural Adjustment Admiaistia- tion. The deceased was educatcp a Hampton Institute. Later shfl tauht in the Whitted School at Hampton, Va. until she married Dr. Moton in 1908. She was close ly associated with Dr. Moton's work at Tuskegee and served as the director of woirten’s iiidirj tries and as president of its wo man's club. Mrs. Moton wrs chairman of the board of trusteiv-i of the Nannie Burrough's Tralnin, sohooll for women and girls. l!he had also as president of th National Fedreatioir—(rf- Coiorea Women’s Clubs. Mr^. Moton traveled thoughout nine southern states for thej SAA yorking with both white | Please turn to Page Eig.it Red Cross Men Help With Soldiers’ Pioblems Personal problems of soldiers ststinned at Tuskegee Air Cor|^ Fadlity, Army .trainiag base ip Alabama, recave immediate atten tion of Red Cross Field Oirectoi Roger Gordon (above, left), his fecretary. Miss Ellen E. Ajihton and Assistant FieM Director Syl vester Reeder. Not all is desk wmrk for the Red Cross men as- sigiMd to the troops tiiere. (Lower left) Mr. Ciordou Imvcs the post to arrange transportation for a sol dier going home becaase of illness in his family, as Mr. Reeder in quires the time of his return to the •ffiee. Young Negro Waiter Otni Life To Snatch Child From Railroad Risks White Track J> Says RaceShoidd B4KNIFfi Proud Of Ne^o Soldiers Abroad old i). TO BE EMTED FRIDAY MARIAN ANDERSON TO SING AT CEREMONY IN DEPT. OF INTERIOR WASHINGTON, 0. C. Marian of the great cultural contribn- Anderson, noted Negro contralto will sing at a special ceremony at the Department of the Interior on January 6,' it was announced today by Secretary of the Inter ior Harold L. Ickes. Miss -Anderson will appear in tions made by Miss Andersou, Secretary lekeg said. The mural to be presented was arranged for by the Marian Anderson Mural Committee, un der the chairmanship of Edward Bruec. It depicts the scene at the the auditorium of the Depart- Lincoln Memorial at Easter, For the first time in tlie his- j ^^aleigh Friday morning fov the _ tory of North Carolina a woman miirder on last August of flarry ^ pay the supreme jjenalty for ittlbnbittiag a crime when Mrs. RoMuan Phillips (Jight) and hfr hnsbod Daniel Phillips will-.;be iftceuted in the gas chamber at Watkins, Durham County land lord. At a late- hour Thursday Governor J. M. Broughton h'td refused to extend executive* cle mency for the woman or husi>and ment of the Interior buildins: for a ceremony to be attended hy a group of prominent Federal officials, members of the dip'~ matic corps, civic leaders, out standing Negro representatives, nnd other prominent perf?ons. Tlio occasion will be the formal presentation to the Federal Government of a mural painting representing Miss Anderson's, first concert in Washington when she sang on the steps oC the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday, 1939. While all details of the pr i- ^am for January 6 have not beer completed, Secretary lekes said that Miss Anderson would sing _ several seleoticMHl. The programs i wili be ^ndaetsd in ree^ition 1939, when Miss Anderson sapg an outdoor concert to a crowd of 79,000 persons gathered before the Lintf>ln Memorial UStJ ot the Memorial was granted bj Secretary Ickes at that tim! following refusal of the use Constitution Hall for a concert by the singer. To memorialize that event, the Marian Anderson Miral ‘Committee was formed. Funds to finanee a painting were raised by* thousands of eontribntiolla from the sehool children aad others throughout the natioa in terested in the strengthening of •racial relations. Mitchell Jtmi^ son was chosen to paint the gttif 4l after a national eompetitian. (Tontinned oo Page Eight V.v ilia MeoqilKS Group May Have B(Mi!tier Naned In Their Honor MEMPHIS. (ANP; — Mem phis Negroes may have » bomber named in their honor as a re ward for passing by $52,W)C their bond selling goal of $^,- 000 in the local Buy a Bomber campaign, it was learned last w§ek from Doddridge^ Nichol.a, #hite, chairman of the Shelby county war savings staff. Chairman of the Negro divi sion was Lt. Geoige W. Lee, au thor and insurance executive, who stated that seven members of his committee sold more th vn $3,000 each in the drive whirh resulted in purchases of .!302.- MO. .'•'•r In congratulating Lt. Lee, Mayor Chandler Said: “Our colored citizens hav* shown their loyalty time and again, and it is a matter of gratifieation to ns of the eity government that, we ean feel free to call on all .the pe^e iu MemiAis, wi^out reg^ds to race or politieal affiliation whenever the ne^ North Africa (Via Cable) Lieutenant ^teneral Dwight Eisenhower, Commander - in t hief of the Allied Forces It North Africa, has commended the courageous service of the American Negroes in the Fnii*-' States Army during a'ction fn North Africa. Among the American units in those ope-a- tions are several Ordnance au munition battalions and cne Quartermaster Truck Regiment composed of colored troops. General Eisenhower report'^d that the Negro soldiers had f.nlr- en part effectively in the am- paign. Americans of the colored race should be proud of th» ser vice of their representatives in combat, the* General continue'. He cited especially the stead- fastn^s and bravery of the Oi- dnance Company which success fully handled the delivery of high explosive bombs at Arztw continuing to put the bombs ashore under heavy fire at this little port near Oran. General Eisenhower said that this demonstration of eoui^age was a significant indication of what could be anticipated from American colored troops in the future. Archie Willid^s, well^nown resident and baseball umpire of Durham who was stabbed to death last week in the Hayti sec tion by Herman MeQua^, local taxi driver. It is reported that the two men were arguing over a woman when they started the fight which resulted in the death, of Willianos. MeQoaig it is reported will jdead self de fense. A man is at his finest towa’-d the finish of the year; He is .almost what hevshould l»e ■ when the Christmas season's here; SMSTWIKLD, Hemait IT waiter at and thnnk«>d from all soorees h this week for the heroic esse of a six-year whit* e from *ertain death ob the road tracks b.v an approaeh train Thursday morniBg. si According to witnessaftl of tfc^: rescue Smith wk^ on Itis mj work_when he saw the ehild i across the tracks in front (d tl train when, she with m grMp their attempt but on^ little >, to beat the train to the « All of them were their ottempt, hat oae who stumbled direetlr in of tbe train as it was down on her. As qniek as a the young Negro tbrw forward on the traekjaii^ the child at the same tine in time to save its life. Yottng Smith lives in nfcat known as the San^ &u ment of Smithfield. His rescue of the yooag: caused quite a Int. at comment. within tke and it is thought t^t ment may be started here to'4 tain for him aa avari act. He is tbe siaa ( Rosetta Smith, aad lias at the Boarding Bowe was eleven yean aid care of his Aeewding to made to a repi Please Tura Kme. 1E8B. Gafiformans Fight To Obtain Jobs Oti 300 Ule CMy Buses LOS ANGELES, CA N P) -- Following the information se cured by a militant eitiisens committee that there were 3*W ears and buses idle because the Los Angeles railway will not hire eolored men and women as crews, the indignation of local Negro citizens rose to new heights last week. A mass meet ing of 1,500 was held at First AHE ehureh'on' Sunday after noon under auspices of the Ne gro Victory eommittee, tbe NAACP and the Natonal Nefi^o congress. Thret.. leading min!f> ters took u aetive paxt in t^ mass meetings. They were Ke^ Ptease Turn Page Eight WILL CONTINIJE FIGHT MCTp INTO Campbell issaat , tarnable for heayij^r ber 28th. htfym hell at 13 eoeab' LiySB will »iaia NEW YORK, (C) — WinfteJ W. l^nn is in the Army now, but he hasn't relinquished his fight against Jin»-Cr©w. Meetieg^ the condition for testlBg the question out as far as the Draft ‘ attoraeys^ Law is concerned laid dowH hy ,Hays and 1^ Judge Mortimear Byers on Dee#wi. tfcrt ber 4th, Lynn pronely a]^»lied!*iP ® for induction. He was aeeei.tei serviee for arm^'" duty on I>eeember 19th and is now stationed at j -A™?*- Upton, New Twk. j* i As soon as his hiother. Con- ^ rad Lynn, had aseeftaieed wh«e j Winfred was asa^ipaad, he sought « Bew wvft H* corpe in ttay Court. His first Tuesday was Wednesday, Jg%i ^
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