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EDITION
VOLUME xxni - NUMBER 7
DURHAM, N.&, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1943
BUY WAR BONDS TODAY
Negro And White Students Cfash Color Bar In Ohio Theatre
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BUS LINE HIRES NEGRO DRIVERS
Beihune And Pickens With Being Reds
SHERIFF ACCUSED OF
AIDING MOBSTERS IN
YEAH'S FIRST LYNCHING
CHICAGO COMPANY
AGREES TO EMPLOY
NEGROES ON BUSES
CHICAGO, P) — That
ChiMj^ buM0 will aoon be oper
»^ed Igik Negro drivers ^ea IndiC'
««ek ChiW|o
CoMh aigiM ^
f#mtm aj:r»eineDt with the All-
Ohieago Couteittee Against
Discriuiination that 50 colored
drivers be employf^d.
The agi-eement ^ia regard.=id in
labor afid ci/il rights circles as
an important a&\>aQ^ in the
long fight to secure employ
ment for Negroes in ^ traiis-
portation Industry here in jobs
other than those of menials.
At the conference whcire t)%
pact was signed wete Aids.
Benjamin Grant and Earl B.
Dickerson of the 3rd and 2nd
wards, O^car Brown, committee
chairman, and president of the
*^loca) branch NAACP, Ishmael
Flory and JameS Pinta, all of the
AlVChicago committee. Benja-
mini Benjamin Wfeintraub, presi
dent represented the motor £oach
company.
The agreement states that Ne
groes will be given drivers’ jobs
as soon as seniority men on the
concern’s preferrred list have
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.1^0 PoEceann
To Li^(»iancy,
CHICAGO,’ (A N P)^ — Rgt.
Harry Deas, a member‘of the
Chicago police force,for the past
28 years, has been elevated to
the rank of lieutenant by Police
Goininissioner James P. Allman,
according to an announcement of
promotions this week. Lt. Deas,
assigned to the Stanton avenue
!(tation, becomes the fourth Ne-
?ro officer to hold this rank.
Other police Hcutenants were
the late William Childs, and
VVilliam Middleton, and Capt.
John Scott commanding officer
if the Stanton avenue station.
Besides ‘ the captain and lieuten
ant, Chicago has 10 Negro ser
geants on the police force,
miong whom is Sgt. Carl Nelson,
fo^rmer bodyguard to heavy
weight champion Joe Louis.
Lt. Deas joined the depart
ment' Feb. 22, 1915, and became
J a sergeant in July, 1938. His
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BAND LEADERS WIFE STARTS FIGHT
AGAINST SWINGING SPIRITUALS
HOLLYWOOD, (ANP, — Be
cause she is adept at transferr
ing her thoughts to the printed
page, Nadine Cole, clever young
dancer and wife of Nat Cole,
leader of the famous King Cole
trio, is preparing a series of
article meant to start a drive
Hgainst swinging the spirituals.
Shoeked by the growing tendene.v
by arrangers and composers in
rewriting some of the sweetest
spirituals into dance tunes, she
hopes to arouse radio listeners
and dance fans into greater res
pect for these rhymns.
Mrs. Cole declares that al
though her husband submitted
once to urgings to feature one
of the swung spirituals, he too
is adverse to its disrespect and
has not erred since. In fact
when one occasion a Jewish pat
ron at the cafe where he plays
insisted on one he asked him.
“Now how would you like to
hear your revered, “Eli fcli, de-
aeorated to swing muiiot”
Lincoln’s Birthday
To Be Celebrated
Over Mutual Feb. 13
BALTIMORE — A special
broadcast commemorating Lin
coln’t birthday will be presented
in a coast to coast hookup of
the Mutual Broadcasting Sys
tem Saturday, February 13 th,
from 7 to 7:30 p. m. The pro-
a;ram will be presented under
the dirrection of Dr. O. Lakes
Imes, director of tHe radio pro
gram, “My People,” which was
heard recently from Station
WBBR Baltimore.
Included in the broadcast will
be a dramatic sketch on Lin
coln’s relations to colored people
and addresses on national unity
by Dr, Frank P. Graham, presi-
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TIME aUT FOR RECREATION
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WRITER GIVES INSIDE STORY OF
FAMOUSl mm TROOPS STATHiED
SOMBWi^ HAWAIAN
Although the iourSe of train
ing at the Coast Guard Training
Station, Manhatton Beach, N.
V., is a tough one with a full
schedule, recreation is not ne
glected. Dances and singing take
up much of the leisure in the
evening. Homer Smith, tenor of
the noted radio Southernaires
Quartet, is director of the Man
hattan Beach Choral Society,
composed of white and colored
enlistees. He is shown rehears
ing part of his jjroup. Alsp shown
*8 James 0. Lewis, another well-
cnown Negro entertainer, who
has charge of dancing and enter
tainment for the Negro ^rsonnel
(t Manhattan Beach. — Official
■)WT Photo by Roger Smith.
Wilberforce Students
Join With Wiiites To
Gain Theatre Admission
JUDGE HASTIE RELEASE FURTHER
INFORMATION ON DKCRiflNATIWl
AGAINST RACE IN U. S. AIR CROPS
James L H Peck writes books
and magazine- articles on milit
ary and civilian aviation. He is
one of America’s best known
authors in this field. SOuve of
his writings have been translat
ed iat^ other languages. He
knows his subject, for he has
been a Skillful flier and a close
student of aviation for years.
He was a fighter pilot in the
Spanish civil war. A veteran in
his field, he is still a young
man in his early thirties. Peck
Is at^Negro. ^
The Army air people are go,
getters. The Air Forces are
growing fast .So the Air Com
mand has been eagerly gather
ii)g in men who know something
about aviation, as well as large
numbers who feow little in this
field, but can learn. Yet, there
was no rush to get Peck. So last
year he volunteered his services.
The army hasn’t yet decided
whether to use him. Probably
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BY V. V. OAK
WILBERFORCE, 0 h i o: —
Once more the members of the
Committee on Correspondence
(COC), a dynamic organization
Founded by Antioch College stu-
lents in Yellow Springs, Ohio,
attempted t^i break the colored
line in Xenia, Ohio, the nearest
city to the village of Wilberforce
On January 22, a group of An
tioch student ((white) purchased
admission tickets to this theater
and gave them to the students
of Wilberforce who \?ould not
buy tickets themselves as the
•iinnn^rem'nt hns been xefusing
to sell tickets to N^oes. Over
sixty white and colored students
sought admission to the theatre
with these tickets, an3 the man
agement, after an hour’s tlelay,
nerniitted them to enter as they
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BY ST. MERLE MILLEE
,. SOMEWHERE IN HAW AH—
“Harleift’s Hellcats,’’ they were
called then. They were m the
Mesuse-Argonne offens|ve, in
the siege of Sechault, in the
slaughter that was Alsace-Lor
raine. They were among the first
Yanks to enter German terri
tory.
From the late 1917 until the
November dawn that brought
the Armistice, they fought with
the Fourth French -Arm^ and
vhen the war ended, their regi-
uent was given the Croix de
Guerre. ‘
Fifty-five officers and men
^ho were through it ail with
the original “hellcats” are on
another war front now — on th#
Island of Oahu, waiting with
fighters as tough as their pre
decessors to show the Japs how
Harlem men fight.
‘ ‘Hopper’s Troopers,’ ’ they
re called on the island.
“Hooper is Col. Chauneey M
Hooper, who was With them in
France. Sixty percent of his
“trocp” are from Manhattan,
and in addition to the veterans
of ’17 and ’18, there > are men
who remember nights at Smalls’
Paradise and Dick Wheaton’s in
Harlem when they would lift
their instrument to paly while
the hep-cats smiled.
“Those studs put down some
fine action,” the cats would say.
At least a quarter of the
Trooperi were professional
musicians; another 25 per cent
played to anyone who would lis
ten — for free.
» Among the professionals are
Cpl. Otis Jolnson, who trumpet
ed with Louis Armstrong; Cpl.
Rudy Williams, wh> clarineted
for Fess Williams; Sgt. Reuben
Reeves, solo trumpet for Cab
'Calloway; Pfe. Dick Thompson,
'larinet for Claude Hopkins, and
Pfc. David Alford, who was with
Cab’s sister, Blanche.
As nLembers of Hawaii’s only
all-Negro eombat unit, they sii
in the sugar eane fields besid*
antiaircraft guns not too fai'
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Elmer Carter To
Write Coiuflm For
Race New^apers
NEW YORK — Elmei Ander-
j^on Carter, brilliant writer, for
fourteen years the editor of
OPPORTUNITY Magazine has
lieen persuaded. to write a week
ly column for a selected group of
papers beginning February 13,
J9W. During his eegime as edi-
tor of OPPORTUNITY he
brought to that magazine the
outstanding writers of America
— both colored and white. He
secured the active interest of
Pearl S. Buck in the problem of
the Negro in America and she
became a regular eontribntor to
the pages of the magazine.
Elmer Carter has been •
Member of the Boad of Appeals
of the Division of Placement
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ALBANY, (ANP) — After aa
;it«en«e of two yMrfe t|ie State
«£ swung ' kaek into the
i,vn(h colttJxin, earniafr w^h tfce_^
biTftaf to deafk ■jfm-
thful Baberi HaU
diStineSion of pforidiag tiK firtHt
illcgnl execution of 1^1, it. wai
^earned thi® week.
Behind the «i«ath of Hall was
a story of aite hot hatred, the
misuse of poliee authority, t"
» warrant, a m/ixiig'*
abduction ami a fletioalike «o
!?pir»cy to take the life ot k b
aian being, tfiat i» so often tc:.
in the south.
Hall was arrested Friday,
January 29, alter hi? had beca
forced opt of bed pn aatomobile
theft charges in a fake warraat
served by,Sheriff Clai^‘':Screwa
q{ .Bake rohnty.
Policeman Prank Joaes.
Positive proof that the war
rant was a fake came to Ijgf •
this Week with the testimony ■
John C. Derm, owner of the tm
from whkh the tire waa allegeu-
ly stolen that no tire had been
rtmovM froA tile vehiell aad
^.hat he had perferred no ckari;-
ea against young Hall. Derm’s
testimony was corroborated by
his brother, Qeorge D^rm,
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TEXAS SENATOR LISTS BETHPffi
CLAYTON POWELL AS COMMUNIST
Red Cross Workers
Arrive In ^ypt. Two
N^oes lo GroiH)
WASHINGTON, (ANP) —
The safe arrival overseas of 17
additional Red Cross workers,
two of whom were Negroes,
was annnun(‘ed this week by the
American Red Cross. Five of
’»ercv aides arrived in ('.iir«
Egypt, and 12 in Sydney, Aus
tralia.
The Negro Workers are Sylves
ter Lee Reeder, and .latues Q.
Tyson, of Washington. D. C.
Both have been assigned as as
sistant field directors • in Aao-
tralia.
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WASHINOTOS*. (A N P> —
Martin Dies. repreantatire
from Texas who is at the eapital
helping Hitler fight Bed Knaaia^^
as a “friend of the Neftro*'
fore congress Monday
listing 40 “Comraonirt
pots,** among them Daaa
Pickens and Mrs. Mary
Bethuoe. This is the
time ^^ttt the head - of th*
(‘omn^lVee has sio^llid oat
two diatii^iahad ieadaM
“dangeroos Red raditeil.**'
Dies painted hiiaetf a '
Negro wkea be tiiM ef-
inf a -Nefro aaaed
in Texas when bo
wonld go into
Wilkea had htea
■cceasOTT to eriai
had kilM thrat
Dica defeiriiedJim
«d him agaiaal
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