»AGE EIGHT
THE CAROLINA' TIMES
BUY WAR BONDS .. SATURDAY, MAY 22nd, 1943
tone College
Tl Gnduiite Forty
At Finals Tuesday
SALlslU K Y,
Forty
of th rnitpfrw
Arts of Livingstone i olle>re wil-
thr traditional rap and ,^wii
for the annual 'oui)neiiceine;it
rfW'ration of thi- inatitutio!!
tbis w»-ek, thi siCond wartiniv
riosinf; exereeiSM of th« sc-hool.
Thi* the Livinpr-ton** »om-
mpiM'ement observano* i« uhcn
a spei-ial si>:nificaii e by t!.
emrifrenpy conditions in th*;
country, reflert«Hl in tTie de-
«Te«8«‘ in thi- size of the grrtdii.it
ing class and the number cf
“in abscentia" decrees to !.■
awarded, and by the completuir
and dedication of the .lo:«.‘pi
Charles Price Memorial Buildinp
on the campus, climnxinp th
efforts of the AMK Zion chnr.l
in this prbject.
The graduates will near
•ipps from Dr. Jackson Davi-
associate director of the (Jen
eral Education Board of .N(«
York t’ity, and the Rev. B. C.
Kuiteson, pastor of the f'irfii
church of the Zion connection,
also of Xew York. The Hfv.
Robcson will speak to the gradn
ate* on Sunday in the Mnaaui
sermon and Dr. Davis will de
liver the comuiencemcnt addri’i;-
Ae following Tuesday.
A great throng of frieiui!
and relatives of the membiri ol
the graduating class and of tii.'
laymen of the church is p
pected to fill the spacious audi
torium of the college to i'.'
capacity.
Another highlight of thi'
year’s ^ommfncement program
»ill be the dedication cereinoi-
iea of the new building, to be
under the supervision of tin
boanl of bishops of the AMK
Zion church. Mrs. Netta Wr.r-
wick Fuller, distinguished sculji
tor of Framingham, Mass., has
completed a bust of the foun 1-
er tnd first president oE th;
presentation of the art work to I
the college will be a feature ol
the dedication ceremonies.
The Livingstone class this
year . represents a drop of
eighteen when compared with
last year’s record breaking
group. The elass will be led by
Lydia M. Staton, of East Spen
cer, N. C., who has compiled a
splendid academic record over 4
four year period]'Second honors
go 'to Lois McDougald of Lum-
berton, North Carolina.
The complete commenieenicnt
program is as follcrws:
Friday, May 21st
Senior Cap and Gown Day
President’s Reception to Sen
ior Class
Piano Student’s Recital
Sunday, May 23rd
Baccalaureate service
Monday, May 24th /
Meeting of Board o£ Trustei’s
Alumni Night
Tuesday, May 25th
Dedication of Price Memoilnl
Building
Commencement Exercises
NEGRO MARINES PREPARETOR'ACTION AT CAMP LEJEUNE
WILL ROGERS TOPRESENT SPINGARN
MEDAL TO JUDGE WILLIAM H. HASTIE
DETROIT, Mich. — Will Uo- uury 31 in protest against the
gers, Jr., United States 1,’on- War Departmeut policy on the
greasman from California, will X»gro. The presentation of the
present the Spingarn Medi*l to award will be at the huge Olyin-
Judge William H. Hastie at the^pia ^ena on Sunday afternoon
monster closing meeting •of the
NAACP emegency /war confer
ence to l)€ held here on thu
“Negro in the War For Fre»-
doom” June 3-6.
Rogers won the interest of
the NAACl’ conference delega-
June 6. Among the many ]!ro-
minent figures al.io partiejpat-
ing in the June 0 meeting will )>«»
Philip Mnrray ,C1{> president
who w'ill be introduced by R;
J. Thomas UAW-t'-Io' h.ad,
Dorothy Maynor, famous so-
tes last July at the Los An- prano has been invited to lend
gtles meeting when he offer'd in the s.inging of the natior.il
in a brief and friendly talk, his anthem. Responses to the con-
support of the AssociatiOli's ference call already indioste
stated program. . j that thi^ audience will he the
In his comparatively short largest gathering in the NA.\-
carreer, Rogers, son of the' late CP’s .“M years of existeni’e.
humorist and humanitarian
made clear his beliefs ,n demo-
eraey. As a student at Stan- e *
/ , .. , • , . seen or six conference sessions
ford I niversity he consistent-1. .. . .
, . . . . , ... including the opening meetm;?
ly refused to join fralernitKS, „ , „ i t
' , , I Thursday evf-nmp, June 3, At
there because they excluded 1 , „4.
the Saturday afternoon mfiet-
Jews from membership Koge,-.;|.^^ AehgateB representing the
w-as sent to the 78th Congress
this year by the vote of low aiui
Wearing the uniform of the U. S. Marine Corps for the first time !n
the history of this 167-year-old branch of the armed services, Negro
Marines are now undergoing training at Montford Point, a section of
the 200-square-mil* Marine Base, Camp Lejeune, at New River, N. C.
One unit of Negro Marine graduates has already been assigned to over
seas duty and new recruits are arriving at Camp Lejeune at the rate
40 a day. The first 1,200 N^ro volunteers began training on Sep
tember 1| 1942. Pvt. Howard r. Perry, first Negro to volunteer for
MEDIA DIVISION >OW'
•meUfcMI M«T*S SY nOMM t
Marine Corps service, Is shown In the center. At top left,, "boots" of
3-day enlistment are shown learnir^ to drill, while at top rij^t, Sgts.
Edson Blackman, Jerome Alcorn, Otto Cherry, and Robert T. Davis,
and Pfc. Gus Pittman and Pvt. Renis Black are shown in-the flashy
dress uniform of the Marines. At bottom left, recruits are being^fainad
with a 30-calibre machine gun, while recruits at bottom left take th*
hurdles in bayonet training. Marine Corps Headquarters has annoui)«td
plans for the enlistment of more than 10,000 Negro Marines.'' '•
^ -—:
Race Drummer Is
Dropped From Shew
ter First Ni^ht
\kt
OVEITMCTOP
FOR VICTORT
wNh
OMTED STATES WAR
ELUSD.M^
AND CO.
Fioeral Directors
AlfBULANCe SERVICE
FIEESIDE MUTUAL
^UglAL ASS’N.
tn t>OWD' STREET N-557i
PtmHAK fr. c.
BY JOSEPH HOPSON
STAFF CORRESPONDENCE
The first Negro musician evC’
engaged to paly with a whit '
orchcestra on network pro(''‘uii'i
originating in Hollywood playc :
one show and was dropped with
out notice due to a “request '
issued from some undisclosed
source.
That Is the story told by ^ni
drummer, IjCc Young, one 0!
Hollywood's top-rank mu^ician.s
who appeared last year at Ne’.v
York’s Cafe Society with hi'
brother, the tenor sax star, I.os
ter Young.
TWO ADMIT ‘PRESSURE;'
Here is Young’s account of thi'
incident, an account which i;
substantiated by other evidono('
The names of the music dii'o^'to'
and union oreh(*atr;i contracto;
irt* omitted at th( ir re(|ups*;, b
•ause all indications are that
they acted in good faith with
Young, but were forced to drop
him “by outside i)resRiire.” The'
ftel, and possibly not without
•ause, that use of thcii- rtrniu'j
might cause them trouble af
>onie future time. Both adn>it1
■d pressure had been put O',
them; neither ^wpuld say where
'.he pressure came from.
Young says he rcc-eivod n
hurry call to play the show du?
U> the fact that the druiiim;'.
previously engaged was com
pletely un.satisfa£’tor3^ At fh'
conclusion of the show the con
ductor (who had been usin^ Le
in a film studio recording 0’-
^hestra doing the .score f^r e>i
important picture) told .him h
had done a fine .job ;ind th/it h
was engaged regularly for ih.
show meaning, presumably the 13
weeks cycle.
BEQUEST IS MTSTBEy
When Young appeared for the
next week’s program the
trator told him he hn^T3een
‘requested to get somebody
else. (Another drummer was al
ready i©n hand to work t U ;
show) all efforts to learn where
the “request fame from have
been futile. The network’s top
executiv? here said he had never
heard of the case. He
pointed out that the net-work
merely sold its time and facili
ties to the sponsors arid had no
control whatsoever over the
employment of musicians on .^uch.
a show. —i
AGENCY EXEC INTERESTED
The agency official in chiivge
of producing the program deni-
"ed that any siicfi oiMer or re
quest had come from his or
ganization. He checked with
MCA, which handles the musK-
director, and reported that it
hadn’t come from there. Ho
showed plenty of sincere inter
est in the affair, saying
.would make every effort to .see
that Young was returned to th*
show, if the music director want
ed him. He said; “If a Negro
good enough to fight for this
country’s good enough U>
work on our program, and j_th*'
sponsoring firm wSl back' ;ipe
100 per cent. ” . ' ' v
(Getting Young , back on the
show now would _ probably be
imjiossible because the third
drummer secured for the shsvw
w:orked for the same music •inec
tor on a previous serious for
the same sponsor. Local 47 tops
will rule that this third drum-
nler inutile man w^io is entitled to
the/job.)
NO, NO, SAYS 47 REP
Phil Fischer, radio representa
tive of Local 47 (the “white’
[union) denied shriTy that any
pressure had come from union
sources. Fischer said that thr
contractor had called him to
an okay to use ¥oung on tae-
program and hah been granted.
(Why did the contractor huvc
to call the “white” union to
get permission to use a Negro
nvnsician.
Fischer contended that Young
was engaged for one prograi?i es
substitute for the “regular’’
drummer. He didn’t know wh>
another drummer had played the
two following programs pend
ing return of the “regular’’
drummer. “We don’t tell radio
contractors whom they shall
employ,” he said.
DIRECTOB OUT or UNB
Fischer pointed out that the
music director had'nb fight'
engage Young in the first placo,
since, under union laws, the
hiring and firing of musicians
is strictly the contractor’s pre
rogative.
Edward Bailey, president of
Local'*7^7, the Negro music ia i
union (also an AFM affiliate)
planned to take Lee Young’s
ease before Local 47’s board of
directors at their next m^Ang-
He hoped to get all con
cerned facing each othfr ^ an I
.thereby get the real trtftJi the.
matter.
“It will be'difficnlt to jprove
or disprove that Lee wris no(J .iu8t
the victim of a mijlunderltand-
ing in thinking that he wvt en
gaged to play the show re(ful«>-
ly. We don’t really es^pjBct to get
very far.’ ’
NO COLORED ON &APIO
“But there is one thing no
-one «an -deny,* ’ ■said BaHejr, -“and
that is that, with the exceptio’i
of a^ few of our members • who
get work occasionally in radio as
musical jacts or specialty enter
tainers, not one Local 767 m i :i -
cians has ever been given (i job
on any of the commercial pro-
giams originating in Hollywood
and not one has secured employ
ment in the staff orchestra Uiaiii
tained here by the networks un
der agreement with Local 47
but secured only through the
backing of the 'AFM, to which
we pay our per capita tax the
same as the white musician?.”
middle class wage earner".
Since going to congress Rogers
haii' publicly spoken against dis
crimination and segregation.
HASAIB TO GET MEDAL e
The Spingarn Medal which
goes this j-^ar to its twenty-
eighth winner is being awardel
to Judge Hasite for his retusai
ship of more than 200,000 per-^
sons in 600 branches, yonih
councils and college chapters
will adopt and issue their State
ment to the Nation.
The conference will seek solu
tions for the eradication of the
‘ll'imprring restrictions which,'
now dissipate American mon-
. . , , ipOwer and post pone the com-
to temporize with racial bigo-it „
. fu victory,
try and discrimination in the]
armed forces of the United j Among the topics to be dis -
States. Hastie resigned from tjie^cussed are “The Negro in the
po.st of Civilian ”ATiFe to Recre-| ArhYed Forces,^'TTanpowerT'
tary of War Rtimson last .I.**!!-the Right to work for .JVictory”
' Rtlcued bjr U. S. War Dapartmant Barou of Public Relatioat
CHURCH IN THE FIELD—Officers in the Third Army maneuver area are shown here arranging
for ChurcK^ci vices in the Field. Sliown in the Tiicture, left to right are: Major John H. Adams, Cap
tain Foriest Liehiiert, Chaplain^VMajor) John A. DeVeaux, and Lieutenant E. B. McKemie.
Continued From Page Seven
Snialls, the Rendezous and ]\!ur-
r.njn’s- on his list. Davis i)n’t
to Inactive since the Apolto ha's
ceased its presentation shows.
But Morrison is on Broadway
•tt the Ubangi Club where h;
buys, with the consent of his
boss, Joe Springer, the best
atits available, including the
Three Loose Nuts, Lovey .Lane,
Savannah Churchill, the Cracker
jacks, Chris Columbus ’ otchea-
tra, Pauline Bryant, - Jackie
Mabley and others.
Morrison’s work is in the
Biroadway and New York'trodi-
tibn because he has plenty to
work with includitig money and
Springer, who made his name at
th6 old Plantation Club locate!
in Harlem in the old days. '
Thov^fss Us§ of the Tohphono
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As th« numlMr of local t«l«plioiM calls incr«asM»
m#r* apiHirMt It U thrt civilians should talk
loss in ordor that thoso dirsctly onga9od In our
war offorts may talk mpr*.
W« can no longor sxpond our faeilitlos bo-
causo materials aro moro urgently noodod to
9tiolp our fiffhtort.
Voluntary rationing off your uso of tho tolo-
phono to ono-third fowor local calls than you
normally m'ako ^vill insuro adotfuato local tolo-
phono facUitios for oyoryon«>
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holp In keeping telephone switchboards and linos
clear fpr prompt handling of urgent war business.
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