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MISSING IN ACTION t ROBEET ROBERSON Some Carolina Sons And Daughters Serving Tlieir Country LT. W. A. CLELAND SGT. GEO. W. LOOAN LT. J0SEP6 CHRISTMAS jililMii-'fr-ui irttfi' WAAC NOLA MAE McLEOD CPL. CHAS. SHEPMAN PVT. JAMES McKGIL LT. THOS. SHAW SALUTE To Negro Soldiers EDITION 5c s-„— VOLUME XXIII - NUMBER 9 DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, .FEBRUARY 27th, 1943 BUY WAR BONDS TODAY UMT TO cm RICE DOCTORS - " I ' — —' "■ — Pickens To Plead Own Case At Hearina VOUh« BUSINESS WOMAN MINORITV GKOUPS MS RESMAHON OF FEPC SET-DP WASHINGTON, ( A N P) - Chairmun Paul V. McNutt of the War Manpower commiflsion and Atty. Oon. Francis Biddle acting it ia reported, upon orders, from I’r«sident Rooseyelt himself, heard in a closed meeting day frank explanations of positions of minority groups i^ this country against the div criminations being pfactwed in war employment and the attituds of these groups toward the emasculation of **T:he FEPC. Ohdirman McNutt called the meeting which wa^ held in- the. Social Security building here, the members of the conference having been sworn to secrecy before the meeting began. Present were A. Philip Rand olph, president of the March ,on Washington committee which originally forced the formation of the FfiPC; Lester B. Granger executive secretary of the N;i- tional Urban league; Walter White, executive secretary, NAACP, Morris Milgram, the Worker’s Defense league; P. B. Young, chairman of the South ern Conference on Race Rela tions, Monsignor Ryan, repre senting the t!atholic church, and delegate Hollender of the Con ference of Christian and Jew3, Neither members of the PEPC nor attaches of the War Man power con^ission were includ ed in the invitation. Newspaper representation was not permitt ed.- A stenotype record of the. oon'lerence was made howevf;r presumably, attentfiiits reported, for tke use of President Roose velt.'^ It is said that the conference had united on a solid front ■which in effect can be outlined as follows: 1. An adequate budget for FEPT job. A million dollars wftS sn'i'eested as a fipTure. 1 Restoration of the hear- higs on railroad employment in cluding 'the systematic Wmino- tion of l^egrb firemen. 3. Reatoration of FEPC as u Please turn to P««|* Six Urge Negro Colonel For 366th Infantry. Stationed At Devens FORT DEVENS, Mass., — Re ports that a white colonel from V'^irginia will be placed in com mand of the 366th Infantry re giment are viewed privateiv with distaste by this all-Negio ontfit which lielieves that it should have a Negro command nf,' pfficer.- Originally the unit was com manded by Col. West Hamilton, now located at Prairie Vie-; ■ollege, Tex. Before leaving 1»‘ was relegated to assistant cciii- mander and actual leadership entrusted to a white colonul. Since then the comraandinK officor has been white, with ('ol Leonard the last in charge. Col. Leonard’s ^eeent depar ture to another post in Washing, ^on has cau.sed Lt. Col. Hownri' D. Queen of Washington, execu- Sve officer and Senior officer of the regiment, to be placed in ’cting command. Col. Queen, n Traduate of Howard university in electrical engineering, was hi; infantry captain in World War 1 in France and has fiaisK'ed several army service schools. The personnel of the 366th fa vor his assignment to cammand- 't;g officer or the elevation of Lt. '’ol. Alonzo Ferguson to the 'K)St. Col. Ferguson also served ii' ■Stance during World War 1 where he was machine gun officer and was wounded in the Mpuse-Argenne sector. He ‘s now executive officer of the, 366th. Either of these two No gro oflPicerB would be thorongh'v acceptable to the 366th which included almost the total milit- iQr produce of Howard and Wi!- b^fore Hniv^rsitics. Offlcera and soldiers of this ’•cgiment are prevented by mili tary regnlations from open op Please tnm to Page Six % J. Mclvulc Bmouohton aOVCONOM STATE or NORTH CAROLINA OOVCRNOR'a OFPICK RALCIOH D«e«db«r 16, 1942 C. A. Irrin Public H«latidna Dlrtetor The Carolina TiM* Durbaa, N. C. dear 3ir: I ajB Tcry aaeh intasted to learn that The Carolina Tina* i> p>n"1"g to pttbliah a epMlal ediUon as "A Salute to North Carolina Negroes in the Anaed Serricea of the Nation". This is highly approjriate and I a* - happy to hare the pririlege of Joining with four enterprising paper in this salute to the men who are so worthily discharging their duty in this world wide conflict. The Negroes of North Carolina, aen‘and.woaim, old and young, — have Mde a wonderful response to every challenge that haa com in this crit ical period. On many occasions in recent laonths 1 have publicly stated that this group of our citizens has always responded to every if^eal that has been oade in Civilian Defense, sal-vage collection, sale of War Bonds, and every other civilian undertaki^. In keeping with this spirit back Hoae, the am of this race i*o are in the armed services are acquitting theaselves in a aanner to reflect credit on the state and nation. ^ I know personally «any of these sen and have had the privilege of hearing and reading the. record of their fine ser vice. » They are aiaking a notable contribution towards the cause of liberty and huMin freedom. The forces of aggression which have sought to doainate the world would iiqpose upon us conditions that would be intolerable to liberty-loving and Ciod-fearing people. In this destiny-freifhted stifle all that we hold dear is involved. Co*|>lete victory will coae only through the united and irttolehearted cooperation of all our citisens of all groups and races. Out of this war I feel .that there is going to cone a finer spirit of hanaony and cooperation between aU groups of our citizens. Those who go through the 7fire togethejr will coae out of it with a deeper huaan understand ing and syafJathy. I Join with your paper in saluting these-gallant aen of the Negro nee froa our state. I can say to thea that all of North Carolina is pro^d of the record which they are asking and will be happy to greet them when they turn victorloualy froa the fields of battle. ^ Governor of North Carolina Zora Hurston Dedes Story Printed In New York Newspapers Lsk Week DAYTONA beach, F 1 a. -- (ANP) — In bitter, disappoint ed words, Zoxa Hurston, author of successfnl books and highlv trained anthropol9gist,, denied the ^jst 0^ an intfervicw' which purported to give her views and v-hich was printed by a New York daijy last week and subse quently carried by numerqi||9 colored weeklies. The article is untrue and twisted,” Miss Hurston said, “I have ^ only high regard for Douglas Gilbert who wrote the story, but I deny categorically that I ever said that Negroes were better off in the south- Jfeither did I approve of segi-e- fation in the south or any where else.” “What I really told Mr. Gil bert, who in trying to fit it in to his brief space left out lha essentials or perhaps permitted his own views to gain ascend ancy, was; do not see the business of race prejudice as a sectional one; thert is plenty of race pre judice both north and south bat the souttf by opportunity of 'ong practice had noi'kcdi out a system, while the north, caught between its declarations of no prejudice and its actaal feelings, when the Situation came up waa groping around for the sam^ Please turn to Page Six Young Physicians To Be loducted chicaoo, (A X P) — Im mediate needs of the army medi • a] corps call for the inductior throughout the nation of not more than 100 Negro doctors ur der 38 years of age, perferabh those who have not established themselves in pi'actice. This information, setting nt rest widely circulated alarmist reports which have disturbed physicians, was revealed follow ing a conference at ProvidCLV hospital Wednesday between of ficials of the army medical corps, tlje -procurement and assign n'ent committee of selective ser vice and representatives of th: National Medical assMiation. Those attending the meeting were Col. George F. Bull, chief of personnel of the surgeon gen eral’s office; Comdr. Maxwell F.. l.apham, executive director of procurement and assignment, Lt. Col. Campbell C. Johnson, execu tive assistant director of selec tive service; Dr. Paul Cornley, member of the nattional medical ndNisory board, selective ser vice; Dr. John W. Lawlah, chair man of the sub-committee, Nc- ?ro health procurement ami as signment; Dr. T. M. Smith, president Of the National Medi cal association, and Dr. Clar ence H. Payne, chairman of the NMA War Defense committee. The meeting was called at the instance of Lt. Col. .Tohnson. - Dr. Clarence H. Payne, speak ing for the committee following the conference, said, “for the immediate needs for the army medical corps, a number les-j. than ICO will be imiucted into ^he service from that group of physicians who are below S3 ears of age. Most of these have just finished a year’s resi dency in the various hospitals throughout the country. It will the intent of the procure- ment and assignment committee ^0 avoid calling men of this •'ge who have been in the pra*- ice of medicine for s o m t length of time, and who ar,' I dtally needed by the civilian j population. In other words, mo^t of the group will he inducted from the younger physician*; Pleaie turn to Page Six MISS MARION BOND, attrac tive young business woman, wh > it is rumored has secured a con tract with % large national i-om- ern. Bond was a visitoi- in New York last week, bat wonM ijive little ot bo^ hint is to the nature of her n%w posi tion. Instead she talked of h»r hobbies, friends and other things of general interest to her.—Calvin’s Photo. FORltR NAACP OFFICIAL TO GIVE OWN PROOF OF HIS LOYALTY TO THE UNtTED STATES WASHINGTON, (A N P )- The hearings by which the country will know whether oi not Dean William Pickens is a radical or red, according ta charges made by Martin Dies, will be held behind closed doors. But, according to the stattaxent of Rep. Kerr of North Carolinu. the committee will hear Only the individuals charged and no char acter witnesses unless it is a very special occasion. The committee, it is said, has l^ided to throw out any case in which there is the slightest loubt about accu'^ed employea loyalty to the United States. ’The fact that an employe has been a niember or has atte^ed nte'*t- ings of a so-called (’omnauni.it front group won't be considerei* suflScient evidence to oost him frtnn his job, it is reported by one writer who has followed the tpg of 6sihi case closely. “This i3 significant," the writer Continues, “becaaa» tcally ail the evidence d|*» .committee has on ers is based on conuectims" “front’ organizations, like League for Peace ami .^•cy, MOW disbanded.' Hep. Kerr has urged si^rta^ tion in dealing with all tH and he is said to have tte mous support of tlie members of the which he heads. Late Thursday «v: Pickens advised tM Negro Press that 1 notified of any ftatik appear%jjc*. It is also repeated eh»imM%..Qf tiUk "[.roma e! a larfi.uiMtMr.ttf tftlefitt* |n i1naHiii|
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