SOLDIERS FORCED TO WORK
BLACKS AND PORTERS ON G01TT
educator studies census forms
4BDWARD LAWiSON, ComuJ-
tflni in the Census Bureau’s De
portment of Putlic Relation*,
ard Dr. Predericlc D. Patterson,
Pieskl«nt of Tuskegee Institute,
go over one of the forms to be ^ able conditions under Vhich
used in the 1940 Population Negroes all to frequently live.
Census, which starts April 1. Di’. I work, and receive their educa-
Patterson said, ‘An intelligent I tion must be based on facts such
Bi;jproach to improving the mis«r-1 will be revealed in this Census.”
Compelled To Practice
War-Tactics On Their
I
Own After Work Hour
JUNCTION CITY, Kansas, —
According to reports from res-
P' Dsible parties, as spring ap-
piaoches the soldiers of Machine
Gun troop, the 9th CavlfL-y,
ftaitiODed three miles north of
th>* citjc, are turning to indoor
machine gun practice. The le»-
•oof are given by non-commiss-
Itiiwd officers during noon hour.
And, unless these should be a
change in the progr^l.n of the
pKst'year, when summer target
tevon draws near the aspirants
wiU be ordered to~ turn out for
pmotlce after a day’s fjtJtigue
which begins at SiSfl a. m., and
ends arund 6 p. m. And should
fl «oIdier fail lo report for prac
tice after the 12-hours of fatl-
iruing labor, he will be subject
eltiher to triaT or such other
punishment which might be con
ceived by his superior.
According to records of the
9th cavalry, the machine gu.i
troop is compost’d of men who
shine boots, polish brafw, Jump
g|iH)age, ScruS’ floors, and do
fthre menial chores, suggested
by white co.nimissioned officers
and their wives who, according
to reliable sources, generally cb-
]ect if a soldier tails to do as
much fB they think he. should.
Under the present administra
tion, apparently in order that
thtse “uniformed chambermaids”
nniqfht be on time, tTiey are com
pelled to :^lll out, like mem.bera
of the guard-house where pri
soners are confined, and answer
to roll-call. This happens twice
each day, despite the fact that
the calijng of a re'll for such
work in white regiments i at the
pest is unknown.
Toward the close of February
a cklis for bootblacks was con
ceived by an officer. It was con
ducted on the govornm(?ht’s
time, although the same men
must leaFri to use a machine gun
on their own time. The purpose
W('ir to teach the _ “uniformed
clfambeifma’ds” how to shine
I boots in a way which might satis
ffy officers-. ....
Ala. Teachers
Discuss Equal
Pay At Confab
RALEIGH PRINCIPAL ..
INJURED JN WRECK
RALEJG/H, N. C. —Prof.
W. H. Fuller, pririiCipal of
the Crosby-Garfield School
w^B painfully'injured' while
enroute to the state teach
er association in Fayette
ville last Friday morning.
The accident occured i-t,
Mr. F'uli'er was attempt
ing to close thie doors of
the car in which he was
riding. ,,
M. W. Akins, principal
of thie Washington Higih
School, driver of the car,
swerved si]|arply to the
left to avoid running
over Mr. Fuller, thus caus
ing his car to overturn,
resulting an injuries to
Mrs. Olivia Glascoe Nan-
ton, local newspaperm.an
and head' of federal hous
ing survey, nd to Mr s.
Akins.
The injured were rusJi-
ed toi Fayetteville where
they received medical at
tention.
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VOLUME 21 NUMBER 13
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1940
PRICE SEVEN CEjrrs
A. W. MITCHELL SPEAKS
ON 3RD TERM FOR FDR
•«^*****
TEACHERS MEET
Congressman
In Favor Of 3rd
Term For FDR
^ BY EMORY 0. JACKSON
BIRMINGSAM, (A N i») —
The Alabama Sttf.e Teachers
Association was in session here
March 18-16 at Parker High
School with ^proximately 1000
out of Birmingham delegatefl"TR
attendance. Approximately 3000
teachers belong lo this voluntary
Oig«pi7’f.fun. Theme for the 1940
ccrivention was “Education For
Living In A Democracy.”
ObservatioTi: A surging milit
ant spirit foF equaliMtion
te,i\:hcrs’ salary. Taken from the
ASTA treasury was half of the
ret membership fees which came
to a figure of al)out |700 which
was turned Over to the educa
tion fund. —
The conference closed out if
Jour-day se.ssTon Saturday with
g aeveji hour Tong bwsineasi sess
ion at which Dr. J. H. Niohol-
lon, of Talladega college, wf*
elected president. ' t
Described as the best a n
largest 'business meeting in the
Iciig history o? the ASTA, they
peformed the herculean job of
modernizing tlieir associflion by
a*opting a new constitution,
provided a plan for financing
■jirheir • 8al*fry-auffr|Bjgo program^!
ac*'0pted a set'bf vital re(*olutions
and lauded MToe Zelia V. Step-
)ieM |B|nd her adminbtration.
Steals Fowls
And Gun Trap
GHE^NVILLE, S. C. (AN(P)
—Ala Baljii’s 40 thieves, Robin
Hood and Fagin mu»t make
r6cm in the thieves’ “hall of
fame” for a Greenville Negro
loci^l police declared this week.
Here, they say, is what happen-
David Rogers’ chickeh house
had midnight visitors and ten of
Rogers’ best pullets disappeared.
Disdaining the Rogers rigg
ed up a ‘shot gun trap’ for
t'ne prowler. A series of pulleys
aod a fishing"' line attached to
his best shot gun loaded with
rock salt he j^ld would be a re
ception committee for the next
chicken thief.
The next morning, approach-
jTig his hen house gingerly to
detach his trap, R^ers dis
covered eight of his hens gone
and also his s^ot gun.
He signed a warrt(nt before
Mngistrate Louis Smith charging
Charlie Cheek with petit lar
ceny. If the charge against
Cheek ia true, police oppioned the
fellow whs stole the ced hot
«lcvf (i a piker,
NCMGUEST
SOLOIST
DURHAM — Miss Evelyn Har-
vtry a recent graduate of Hamp^
ton Institute and te^leher in Mt,
Olive, N. C. was the guest soloist
the North Carolina Mutual
weekly forum, ^e A^as introduc
ed by Mrs. B, A. J. Whitted and
was gr^Hiously I'ecelved by th«
group. Miss Harvey with that
distinctive persoinality that she
aione posesscs sang two numbers
and eiicorc; the applause was
d^iafening but time would not
permit another encore.
Dr. C. C. Spaulding, president
of North Carolina Mutual and
other offic^.4's commented very
highly on the splendid vocal
renditions and invdted Miss Har
vey for a return engagment on
the Foirum hour at an early"
d|i^t6. ^ — — h........^
Qiv Raster Sunday morning
Miss Harvey was presented to a
capacity audience tt.the White
Rock Baptist church by the Rev,
Miles Mark Fisher. The number
splected' for this occasion was the
well known Air “0 Dlnine
Redumes.** During Miss Harvey’t
jstty In the city she was enter-
I tained by several friends and
former school mates. She was
.the dinner guest of Mr. and Mrs",
j G. W. Logan, Easter Sund^^
after. __ ..
Miss Harvey has been innrited
to app««r in evera{ eitie* in
WASHINGTON, (A N P)
Declaring himself unreservedly
in favor of a third term for
Prcsidei^t Roceevelt, Congress
man Arthur W. Mitchell of JH.
in an addresss before the Ifouse
MondiLl) recited a resume of the
accomplishments of the New
Deal as far as Negroes are con
cerned and challenged any other
Pf rty to show that it had done as
much. ...... ....
Going down the line Mr.
Mitchell enumerated the seven
alphabetical agencies which had
contrn>uted to the N^g^oes wel
fare and “saved them not only
from st|irving, but kept them
living.” They were in order, the
WPA, PWA, CCC, FSA, NYA,
and the USHA.
Stating that some 300,000
Negro families, representing 14
per cent of the total on the
WPA payrolls, had been benefit-
ej from the acts of this organize
t’on, Congressman Mitchell fur
ther lauded the New Deal and
c’teJ figures from other de
partment to prove his conten
tions.
He was interrupted in his
speech by fellow representa
tive \^o, listening to Mitchell’s
praise of the Farm' Credit ad
ministration, wanted to know if
Mr. Mitchell would be willing to
hi ve this unit put in the depart
mcnt of agriculture under the
direction of Secretary Wallace.
iJr. Mitchell refused to answe*
this pointed question and refus
ed to yield for further question
ing, However, at the end of his
allotted time, Hamilton Fish of
New York who had asked the
speaker of the house for five
minutes l{.^-inched into Mr.
Mitchell and demanded to know
ji’st how many unemplyed Ne
groes there were in spite of the
New Deal. Mr. Fish also asked if
Mr. Mitchell knew of the suffer
ings of the Negroes in the South
urder the New Deal adminisfrf,!
tion. . ..
Turning to another point in
his attack, Mr*. Fish declared
that while Mr. Mitchell was l^Jud
ing President Roosevelt, Mrs.
RiOsevelt and the catinet, why.
was ft that Mr. Roosevelt refui- j
ed to comrqit himself on the
anti-lynch bill, although he WjRs
greatly interested in the welfare
of other races and creeds three ]
thousand miles aw^y? I
“One word from the White
House,” sa|d Mr. Fl&h,” and the J
anti lynch bill would pass
through the senate without any
difficulty yilt all.”
WHITE FARMER
RESCUES FOUR
NEGRO CHILDREN
TARBORO, N. C.— The
four^small children of Mr.
and Mrs. Ed Davis were re
scued from a burning ten-
an house early Wednesday
m«rniing by Robert Harris,
white farmer here.
Harris, who was attract
ed to the burning houae
by smoke coming from the
windi ws ikid screams of
children, said the tenant
house on his farm caught
fire while parents of tlve
children were out. Break
ing into a window to get
the children, H^lris had o
pull one frc.m under the
bed where he had. crawled
in frigiit. The children
were afi under six.
The house, valued at
$1,000 and insured at
$;500, w^^s burned to the
ground, and all of th'e
househo'd furnishings, val
ued at $100 were destroy-,
ed.
Oldest 1. ('.
Slave 105
FTC Scene Of
59 th Annual
N. C. Gathering
To feature
Clean-Up Week
At Hillside
BY WILLIAM A. TUCK
DURHAM — As a feature of
the annual observance of Na
tional Negro'^Health Week,
March 31 to April 7, the faculty
and students of the Hills'ie Park
High School are sponsoring ^
C’.ean-up and home beautifica.-
tiin. The highldghts of th« week
will be speeches in Chapel by
Dr. W. C. Cleland. His first
spcech will take pljSlce at the
Junior chapel hour on 'Wednes
day, April 3«and the second will
come. on Thursday.
Mrs. W. C. "niomas, head of
the HilMde English department,
1*1 supervising written work in f.11
English classes on cl^anlinesa
and' Health or similar subjects.
The subjects will center around
“niakjng my ‘S3iool. home, and
community more ,4tti»ctiv* or a
n'cre beautiful plac« In which
to live.” .... ....
Undier the superriaion of Miss
J. M. Diggs of the Art depart-
North Cjaj-olina during tha spring
to sing and play the mu«ical
Saw which iha mutert.
ment, posters and other illustrat- ^
ed material will be placed on
e.;h teacher’s ()ulltin bc|rd.
Qlean up projects at home wiill
be carried on by each student in
the school and project reports
are to be made to each bom®
room teiJcher whot will put .the
names of students and projects
on the bulletin board in the home
n>om, .. . •«
H. H. Riddick will supervise
the deaning impro.ved attractive
rjess of the school ground. The
classrooms will be inspected on
Tuesday, Wednesd^V> ®nd Thurs
day, April 2nd, 3rd, and 4th by
a commute® consisting of J. M.
Scbookr, Prof. W. G. Pearson,
and Miss J. M. Diggs. The roonw
will b« judged on cleanllneM and
oa^derly ctratiigement, alitraetive-
ntss of windows and bulletin
boards, ventilation, and a few
other minor points.
WIiNDSOR, N. C. (ANP) —
Last Mondjafcf was a red-letter
day in the life ef “Uncle Tur-
rer” Brewer, for it marked his
105th birthday and still further
strengthened his claim to being
the oldest man in Bertie*. County
and the oldest ex-slave in'^. C.
W^’Uking erect, and hale and
hc-arty despite his great age.
Uncle Turner celebrated by com
ing to Windsor to visit hia old
friends of both races. E. R.
Tyler, white, Superior Court
solicitor, says Brewer can give
the names ^d family relations
of many of Tyler’s ancestors who
died before the Civil War. Brew
er was 20 years old when the
war started. Brewer is gradu-
nte of Hampton Institute arid of
>> Northern college, is now en
gaged in writing his ajito-bio-
) hy, narrating reminiscences"
I i his colorful life. He lives in
PowellSirille with his second wife
69 years old, the same age as
FAYETTEVILLE, N. C. —Ap-
pioximately 2,500 teachers of
the North Carolin^l Negro Teach
ers Association met here thL»
woek in a three-day sessiin in
thsir ‘5!>th annual se.ssion the
Fayetteville State Tethers Col
lege. ....
The principal address for the
occasion was delivered by Dr.
Julian S. Miller, editor of the
Charlotte Observer. Other pro-
m’rent speakers on the program
were Egbert G. Peeler of the
North Carolina Department of
Education; Francis W. Trigg of
the Wilmington city'‘schools vo
cational 'department; Miiyor Hec
tor C. Blackwell who delivered
t} e welcome address, E. A. Arm
strong, high school prtnicpal;
Dr. Fulton G. Clark, Scotland-
ville. La.; Dr. Ben'||nin Hayes
dean of the school of religion,
Howard university (jr^d Elmer
Carter, editor f Opportunity.
Dr. Miller’s address was de
livered Friday afternoon ^.tid
treated of the economic status
of the Negro in the south. He
called attention cf h>s hearers
that the southern Negro compris
ed 30 per ' cent of the farm
populfitkm of the south, and that
“the niche cf the Negro in the
economic bloodstream of the na
tion .is a study of paramount
Rearing upon the so.uth which re-
maiits so largely agricultun^l
both in population extent and
oecepatienal enterprise.”
American ignorasee of the 1-0
mtlli.o Anneric^ln Negroes in the
South—7’5 per cent of the entire
Negro population in the nation—
be teriB»4 “conrplacent ignor
ance." ..
EDUCATORS
HONORDR.
W. S. C R E E C Y
FAYETTEVILLE. N. C. —The
late Dr. W. S. Creecy, of Scot
land Neck, N. C., pioneer North
Carolina educator and minister,
wa honored by the te,U“hers of
North Carolina in a short prayer
at the final general session of
thp Stttte Teachers Association
I'jeeting here last week by C.
M. Epps of Greenville County,
j Kev. Mr. Creecy, who was prin-
cif.al of the W. S. Creecy High
School, in Rich Square, died re
cently.
j A similar prayer was deliver-'
ed by Mr. Epps in the high
school principal’s section.
I A silent moment of .pij t er hcm-
oring all deceased teachers was
onserved at the Thursday n»on»-
ing sesMon.
With Negroes owing in
and title over a million planta
tions covering 40 million jileres
jf land in the United States it is
intperative that the Negro be ktr
strutted in the scientific prcee-
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HILLSIDE HORNETS .
DEFEAT
STERLING HIGH
FLASHI FLASH/
..FAYFTTEVILLE, N. C.
(By Wire) —As we go
to press our spcrts de-
pA'tmemt received news
that Hillside Hornets de^
feated t e powerful
^Sterling High School
team of Greeniville, S. C.
•the Hornets will nwec
the champs cf Gary
Ind. fn the Semi-finals
Friday nigTit.
TOPEiKA, Kans. — Inspired by
a survey showing the relatively
la^ge number of young Negrcies
friling in> college, the Kappa
Alpha Psi Fraternity will seek
t.i correct some of the ci^Uses of
failure, as part of the annual
Guide Right Week of the or
ganization, April 7-14.
The sur^y foimd thtR many
college tiilb were finding it
d.'lficult to oridge the gap bet
ween hig-h school and college;'
tJafc they were failing, some-1
tir.i««, for having too much [
mn«ey; that others, from small t
towns, were losing their b|iCancel
over the beautiful eo-eds around |
tht'm; and meat of ail, that many.;
'failures were due to the poor
choice of the nY(jor program. |
“Most of these ills are bc*
covered in the usual vocational
guidance given in high jmImoI,” »
Attorisey R. J. Reynolds, direc-'
his youngest child by his first
^L^c, and has It cTiiidrsn Ihriaif.*
I tor of- the Guide Righ
sion, observed, in telling tfiis
year's plans. “Too nvJojr ^ tlM
I boys have never had either . the
prcper inspiration or stimuiaticsi
I to do high class work, or. h^l/e
e\er made «n enlightcaed self-
exanaination of themsehws. la
similar nuu>ner, meet of thsM
h£.Ve never rubbed nhoiilrtsni
With men who are expariaaasB.
in the sante fiekia that tiM
men are interested
To this end. Guide RigM.'Wsak;
the young high se&ool maa
going tu be brought into
with the men wko havs
ticveled the road viiiek the ^5^
dent is interested ia,
ttie high school _ ^
helped to'examin* ^||i
ties and eapabiliftte*
In ^^hmiern,
of botb ~jyi
tiss. i
a,nce
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