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PREnCTS END OF FEK snw Salute To Negro Soldiers SI mm VOL.XXin-NO.il DURHAM, N. C., Saturday, March 13th, 1943 ! t BUY WAR BONDS TODAY WANTS MORE NEGROES M ARMY BENNEH CHOIR SK FOR SOIDW INEW YORK iMcNutt Wants Different \GE EDITOR Basis For Drafting^Race AT SEilIri U. S. Two appearances lor thp eo- j direction of Orrin Clayton • the Person ‘^reei srtainment of soldiers were ] Suthern, II. The grroup sang for Payettpville, N. USO C. lertainment made Sunday Ma«h 7 by the! the 578th Field Artiltery at j Tranapiortation and arrange- Bennett College* Choir under* the | Fort Bragg, N. C. and later at nients for the trip were made through Chaplain W. B. drorker of the 578th Field Artillery. — (Photo by Dutton). Morale Of FEPC Office Force At Low State; Hope For Organization Fades WASHINQfON, (A N P) ~ With the morale of the office force at a low state and the members of the. committee it self perturbed over the present condition, the three members of the FEPC who met on Mondsy •addressed a very strong letter to President Roosevelt, expres sing entire dissatisfaction at the manner in which Paul V. MeNutt has handled the affanu of that, oi'ganization recently. Present and presiding was Earl Dickerson; with him, JoUn Brophy of the CIO and Morris Shiskin of the AFC were the other ijnepbcTs. Etheridge, the chairman was,- absent as was Milton Webster. Fe«fling that the President has deserted the group in the crisis, there was noThing for the members to do but expi'css their sentiment to the man who origin ated the idea of the committee. With only routine work pro ceeding in the offlce, no policies established, no routines es tablished whereby the committee ■will be able to see its way clear in Marj'land, where about a year ago there was a “March on An- apolis.” Two thousand Negroes laid their grievances on the gov ernor's" doorstep. He promised to “look into all of tlie com plaints." Election time w.is drawing near and somo exouse had to be niaile.' Since then, there has been nothing heard the committee appointed by the governor to investigate the charges. FEPC is in a similar spot. No one seems to know what to dc. The original sponsors have de serted the group leaving the en tire matter in the hands of un derlings who are constantly un der fire and taking a severe go ing over because of their failure to comprehend the situation or attempt to do anything about it. This FEPC is of vital inter est to every member of a mintT- ity group in the United States and the manhandling of that oi^nization may be seen as the handwriting on the wall as far as liberalism toward minority groups is concerned. . , The contents of the l€Tters to to do an effective job, t lere . la President were not revealed little reason to exp^t anything known, that a careful except disgyst and dissentior. would show a complete Some have said tTiis will be the policy of the powers that be, to let the committee die a natuvnl death unoticed and unheeded. The recent meeting of “lw*ad- ers” from all over the country is being considered more or less « political gesture to soften the blow. It is felt in high places that nothing will come of this meeting, no matter what has Ijeen promised. A similar case is pointed out dissatisfaction with both Mr. McNutt and Atty. Oen, Biddle, the latter too strongly influenc ed by the professional whi^e solvers of Negro problems, who know only how to line iheir pockets off Negroes "earnings or live oc their misfortunes, “The Negro is deter.^ined not to let the FEPC die' without holding a wake that will re sound down to the very edges Continued on T’age 6 section 2 CHILD HEALTH PROGRAM is 'SUCCESSFUL Tlie Child Health Pn>,iect which was carried on by tiie Durham Chapter of the Ilanip- ton Tnstitnte Aliimni Associa tion was closed Sunday at the W. G. Pearson • Elementary School by a public program and an address by Mrs. Thyllis J. Tilley, a Supervisor of WPA Nursery Schools in North Oaro- Mna. Mrs. Tilley outlined the need for nursery schools in North Carolina and the present status )f this work in the state. She itated that since the organiza- ' ion of nursery’ schools during 'he depression, the government )as enlarged, nuraery schools »Xten«ively thiroughout the state. ^‘The care of children is '10 longer a home problem, but 's one that has been accepted V the community through its improved nursery schools which !iave been accepted by people in tlie high as well as the low income brackets,” continued Mrs. Tilley. J. J. Henderson, a nember of the Hampton club, introduced Mrs. Tilley to the Durham audience. As a feature of the program R. Kelly Bryant and Mrs. Pearl Grigsby of the Baby Popularity Contest committee presejited ’)rizes to the winners and gifts *0 each contestant from the ■Ililt. Th^ winner of the first was T^ana Forlonia riiompsou, daughter of Cpl, and Mrs, Douglass L. Thompson; Alumni President J. G. Hubbard, president of the Durham Chapter of Hamp ton Institute Alumni Associa tion, which has just completed one of its outstanding programs of the year. The chaf^ter spon sored a Better Care, Health and Training program for chil dren wliich was quite successful. NEW YORK, (Calvin’s News Service) — Fred K. Moore, edi tor and publifiher of' the New York Age and political H.irl'‘i:: leader, died Monday night of pneumonia at his home at 22S We.st 13.)th Street. He wa.s S> years old. Mr. Moore, horn in Virghii.i, educated in Washington, D. C., sold -papers in the capital, lie served as nH^M»(m«er to five Secretaries C Jhe Tre;isury during the Pi>yc9» Arthur and Cleveland ai^nistrntioiis. In 1JK>5, he * hecftfne Editor of !hi* Colored Magazine foi^ Ameri cana. Also In IflO.i, he was ap pointed a deputy collector of in ternal revenue in the Second District of New York. In liMlT, Mr. Moore became Editor and Publisher of the New York Age He was appointed Minister to Liberia by President Taft in 1912, but resigned without hav ing gone to Liberia. In 1027 hr was elected to the Board of Aldermen and was re-elected in 1929. He was a former member^ of th^e board of the Dunbar Na tional Bank, and for several years served as national or ganizer for the National Ne.i^ro Business League, as well as a Inember of the hoard of the National Urban League. Mr. Moore’s wife the former Ida Lawrence, whom he married jn 1879, died in 1939. He leaves two sons, Eugene and Gilbert Moore, and three daughters Mrs. Ida Dudley; Mrs. Marion Day and Mrs. Gladys Walton, wife of the United States Ministey to Liberia. ATHLETE GETS BARS U ASHIXGTON'. ,a N' P) _ Di*aft more Negroes for^ the army, regardles.s of Ihe. pn«r rulings and eonsider»tii«is percent.i-e-i. is the plea of Paul ^. McNutt, who see^ in this #tep the elimination ot the uecesniij f«T .Iraftinsr whites la other claa3ific.it!,>ns. McN'ntt has kept more .Vegroes out of th.i army than any other metbwi. By eli;i»inaUng this method ot calling draftees fnr the army and by teking Xegro?a la «U bezaek- *•8 of the sprricM, army, nary, marine corps, vithoat regard ffit peft*entfcre quota, an on the number of white* called will be effected. McNutt did not elarifv statenient nor elaborate when made to his press ference Monday, however, •tatement was clear be UJlderiiltMxL on Qis it COB- hia CUUUgil to i To our friends and neighbors, iWho were so kind, sympathetic and helpful during the*sickness and death of our husband and ^father, we express our deep ap- ;preciation, and pray that the God of peace and love may com fort and bless them. the second prize* was aw.arded o Elaine and Perry. Lambetli (twiiwi) Hon,and daughter of Mr. and Mra. Earl IjambetU, ind third prize w’as awarded to Evelyn Veronica Marshall, dau ghter of Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Marshall. Prizes were also a- varded to Catherine Elizabeth Burnett, Leon Young, Evelyn Walton Kennedy, Bennie Bl- 'anne Booker, Patricia Deloris Blue, Allen Cornelius Dilard, Grlic Coates Michaux, Sandra S. Taborn, William Earl Wil- 'iams, Jr. and Donald Ray Fleming. Another interesting part of ‘he program was a motion pic ture entitled “More in Life and Living” released by the Dur ham Dairy Council- Continued on Page 6 aeetioa 2 V> TUSKEGEE, Ala. (ANP) - Miss Uola D. Anderson of Tuske-, gee, Ala., was quite thrilled t( pin the bars on Second Lieuten ant Claude B. Govan after he received his commission and wings at tRe graduating exercis- «S here last Tuesday. The r.ew flying officer was distinctly honi nred, along with his classmates, in having set new records in aerial and ground gunnery train ing. , Breaking r«eords, however, was not unusual for this N’»ro- All-American fullback (1937) from Shaw University, Raleigh, North Carolina- He also made the all CIAA in 19.38 and cap tained his track team for f.>ur years, engaging in everything from the sprints to shot putt ing. « in Lieutenant Govan is a memhei’ of the Alpha Phi Alpha frater nity. He hails from 142 Soraer- est St., Newark. N. J.—ANP. N. C. Educator Thrills Students In Deep South With Masterful Lectures BY OEO. K. WILLIAMS GREENSBORO, (Special) — Closing a lecture in * the deep south as guest speaker in the Tuskegee Institute chapel, wh e for a day of more Dr, Ciiar- lotte Hawkins Brown held seminars with freshman young men and women on the varLjns approaches to the ways a a d ’itelligent, «Iean liv- “the message which Dr. Brown brings to college youth is the most vital thing in our liTe of todAy.” During the two weeks tOUT,' this dynamic, cultured persona lity, one of the most powerful speakers on the .^^erican pbt- form regardless of race or sex, was heard by students of seven leading colleges of Georjft.i, iug. President Patferson flaid, Alabama and Louisiana. They actually sat at her feet for coun sel and advice and mao'y of tiie presidents have agreed with tiK students who acclaimed her the most popular visitor th* eol'ecT' has had at any time. It was not unusual to see lar^ groups of students fallowing her from place to place on the eaatpu^eit tilying her with questions in regard to their gn probiemt* Continued on Page 6 MettM 3 War department officials had no comments to make on tkc elimnation ‘ calling While McNtrrt is willing to see that N^roes are called into the army regardless of the namber or percentage, he has done noth ing about the FEPl' in whieh Negroes themselves are intense ly interested. Calhng Negroes for the army by quota has left a large pool of Negroes with 1-A classificatioiie, McNutt saya. On the other Hand. large number of whites have been celled into the army ex hausting completely the I A classification. Earlier in the war it was possible for whites to enlii^ in all branches of the service. Ne groes were denied this privilefftv As a result, white mm wei> al ready draining their own man power pool before Negroes were permitted to join apt In the first days of the selec tive Service system,, even wbeii men were being called to tlM colors, they were slow in eaUieg Negroes, declaring there wers bO facilities for training them at that time. The recent »tatem.'nt of the war department tliat there are now 4-)0,0U0 Negroes ia the armed service. McNutt's new si^ggestiOB vl& bring to the navy, marine ewpt and army an influx of men whiek they sa> they are not ready ta accept. The war and nary bhiatly refused to aetepfA Nstt's f«x>poMd to draft cs with^at mfeMnee to pereeotaf* qnota* whwll have toUewi^ ia tils aetioa woeld spist att^ef psrtHMtal plass aad meBts. Blipel Factor ette •4
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