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VOLUME III, NUMBER 38
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bell (center). USA (Hot.), was
ceremoney held ut the AAF Ovei
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OliD's commanding officer, Col
liluford, president of A. & T. Cc
inson, returned Soutli Pacific vei
College publicity director.
Fifth Annual Y01
Held At Hayes-1
The Fifth Annual City-wide
Youth Conference of HayeaTaylor
Memorial Y. M. C. A.
held its first session Saturday
morning,' July 29, at 10 cCclock,
at the 'Y' building. Guest
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Mr. George Freeman, B o y s'
Work Secretary, Lee Street Y.
M. C. A., Richmond, Va. 'Mr.
Freeman spoke on the subject,
"Faith Men Live By, and H :
Need Be, Die By." During the
course of his speech, he pointed
out that it was only through,
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men who strated the Y. M. C. i
A. movement were able to sue- c
ceed in Bringing forth this na- I
tionwide roganization. He also i
stated that through hew skills i
and techniques, and not by violence,
would the Negro be able !
to advance. In his closing re- I
marks, he said, "T h e Negro 1
youth must have faith that 1
there is a way out of racial dif- 1
ferentiations." (
Dean J. C. McLaughlin, Dean 1
of Agriculture at A .and T. 1
College, member of the Boys' i
Work Committee, and executive 1
committee of Hayes-Taylor Y. ?
M. C. A., delivered the address I
at the afternoon session ,on
"Youth and Post - War Plan- i
ning." Mr. McLaughlin chal. (
' lenged the youth to make some t
definite plans for the future f
and follow them through. He c
also compared traveling after
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the war with the traveling of
today.
At the banquet for the delegates
Saturday night, with Mr.
George W. Freeman presiding.
Dr. F. A. Jackson, Dean of
Economics at Bennett College,
spoke to the group on "Thrift."
Dr. Jackson gave several points
on saving. Some of them are:
(1) Buy war stamps and
bonds. (2) Put your money
in a saving account. (3) Buy
unimproved real estate property.
(4) Buy life insurance.
(5) All young people should
Invest in education. He pointed
out that the desire to buy is
ever pressing, and the need tp
buy is always pressing, and the
Negro should make more gain
in ownership.
Guests at the banquet were
Mr. J. A. Tarpley, chairman of
the Board of Management of
Hayos-Taylor Y. M. C. A., Mr.
Harold Taylor, USO Director,
VIrs. Harold Taylor, Mr. E. E.
Brant, Mrs. Fannie Pookrum,
Mrs. G. T. Channel, Miss Viola
Boone and Pvt. Paul Mac Stallvarth,
of the ORD lecture staff.
Musici was furnished by Miss
Sarah Waddell, the conference
sianist.
At the breakfast session held
n the Y. M. C. A. building, Mr.
3eorge W. Freeman led the
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sleeted as follow: Miss Franks
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Capt. Robert
IP Receives
Capt. Robert Lee Campbell.
U. S. A. (Ret.) member of the
administrative staff of Greensboro's
A. and T. College, and a
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Commuitij and War
Chest Agency Asks
More Funds In x45
Boy Scouts and the Travelers
Aid Society of Greensboro requested
increases of $2,383.40
to carry on their work in 1945
and the Medical and Hospitalization
Fund has asked that
ne.'H year their present budget
be maintained when these agencies
appeared before the budget
committee of the Greensboro
Community and War
Chest on Tuesday night, July
25, at the civic'center.
Oscar W. Burnett, chairman,
presided ,and announced that
budget hearings would be conducted
until all agencies had
presented their proposed budgets.
The next meeting will be
August 8.
W. H. Holderne8s, chairman
or the finance committee, appeared
before the budget committee
of the Boy Scouts and
requested an increase in their
budget of $1,351.22. Hoiderness
explained that the major
portion of this increase in budget
was to provide for the Negro
Scout executive, C. W.
Fairley, who was added to the
staff during the current year
when the budget committee
made a special allocation for
that prupose- George Thomason,
Boy Scout executive, stated
that great strides had been
made in Negro Scouting under
the leadership of Fairley, and
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veteran ot two wars, was presented
here recently with the
Purple Heart for conspicuous
service and sacrifice rendered
during W/orld War One.
Capt- Campbell was wounded
and gassed during the Argonne
Offensive in 1918. He also
wears the Distinguished Service
Cross and the French Croix De
Guerre, awarded twice, for gal.
lantry in action.
The Purple Heart was presented
in a special ceremony at
the AAF Overseas Replacement
Depot here, by Col. Converse
R. Lewis, commanding officer
After suffering wounds and
being gassed, Capt. Campbell
rescued a wounded runner and
carried him to safety across a
field swept by Intense enemy
machine gun and shell fire.
And although wounded and
gassed, he refused to be evacuated
and remained with his
men (Co. I, 368th Infantry), al
the front.
During the same' offensive,
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("lit ? Stuff. Sgt. Lee Saunders
Staff Sergeant Lee Saunders
of Greensboro, N. C-, has com
pleted a 21-day furlough visiting
with his wife, Mrs. Margaret
I. Saunders, his mother, Mrs.
Inez Saunders, and other relatives
and friends. s
He was a member of Co. D,
96th Engineering Regiment,
who were the first American
troops to land In New Guinea.
They are referred to as "t h e
iron men." He was engaged in
three campaigns. He saw active
Bervice 2 years, three months
and 29 days.
Staff Sgt. Saunders was
drafted Into the armed forces
April 3, "1941. '
He will report to Camp Butner,
Durham, N. C.
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Lee Campbell
Purple Heart
the DSC for conduct above and
beyond the call of duty, when,
with a squad of men under liis
command, lie captured an enemy
machine gun nest with
(wo guns and four prisoners.
Maj. Gen. C. C. Ballon, commanding
officer of the 9 2nd
Division, decorated Capt- Campbell
with the DSC at GezenI
court, France, 011 November 7,
1018.
On October 19, 1919, Capt.
Campbell was awarded the
. French Croix De Guerre w i t h
three brown stars in a ceremony
at Greensboro A. and T.
;'College Campus. Later, a sec:
ond award of the Croix De
i Guerre, with one star, w a s
. made.
' Capt. Campbell v:as former
professor of military science
' and tactics at A. and T. College
1 liere and at the A. and T. College
in Huntsville, Alabama.
He served in the Spanish-Amer'
ican war and in the Phillipines
under Gen. Arthur MacArtliur,
1 father of Gen. Douglas MacAr1
thur.
The ceremony was witnessed
I by Mayor W. H. Sullivan of
' j Greensboro, President F. D.
jltluford of A. and T. College,
I Mr. C. A. Irvin, College Publicity
director, and a host of other
friends.
India Red Cross
Gives Forewell
Party For Soldiers
India . . . They are coming
home! The permission has been
granted ,the farewells said and
they are under way; 16 of
America's Negro soldiers will
j soon be saying "Hello, Amerl!
ca!" The men are part of the
| initial contingent of U. S- troops
i which set foot on Indian soil
in May, 19 42. They are the first
able-bodied ground personnel
to be returned to the United
States from the China-BurmaIndia
theater of war.
Goodbyes were movingly said
at an American Red Cross plub
in Bastern India, where the
group, a few guests and friends
held a banquet and farewell.
Master of ceremonies James Nix
of Pittsburgh, made pertinent
comments about each man as
he introduced them one by one.
He has been in India almost as
long as they, and is of the same
port company. The men each
said a few words?words which
varied from deeply moving
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??/Sgt. Claiborne D. Knighten
,one of the returning men,
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