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VOLUME 22 — NUMBER 35
DURHAM, SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1941
FDR URGED TO SEND NEGRO PILOTS TO AFRICA
Queen City Plans
For ‘Daddy’ GrftcG
Repts Request For Civilian
Military Board To Investigate
Military Police Situation At Ft. Bragg
Special to the TZHES
NEW YORK — Aaeurances
from the Department of War and
from Gcnerai Edwiu W, Watson
on behalf of President Roosevelt
that the killings at Fort Braggs,
North Carolina, involving military
police and Negro soldiers would
be fully investigated are not suf
ficient, the National As»ooiatio|i
for the Advancement of Colored
Peopln stated tb|« week.
• Qeiwal Wilson,* who U s^re-
tary to Mr- B^oscvelt, wrote the
N-iVACP that General B. 0. Pavis
as Asaistant Inspector General of
the Army, is in charge of the Ft.
Brogg investigation and that Gen
eral Gullion, Judge Advocate
General of the Army, recently
appointed Provost *Marshal Gen
eral, has been charged with the
direction and coordination of all
military police activities.
"Supervision of tr^is experi
enced senior officer shoaid be
snfficient to remove any
ground for charges of racial
discrimination on the p«rt of
military police personneV’
Watson wrote.
The NAACP replied that, with
all respect to Generflrl Gullion,
his supervision may not be 5.uffi-
cient, for this issue goes beyond
one ot racial discrimination,
though that is tHe most acute as
pect.
The Associatroa, pointed out
-Wint it believes a civilian or civi
lian military board appointed by
the President to make a thorough
investig’ation of the entire mili
tary police situation is “impera
tive, if further difficulties arc to
(Oontinued on page eight)
ROOSEVELT-
CHURCHILL
CONFERENCE
RENEWS FAITH
NEW YOEK CITY, (Special)
— “This country’s 10,000,000
Negroes, along with the great ma
jority of ait ^m^riean* of every
race and creed, Were given re
newed faith in the democrafic
cause by the historic eight point
pronouncement this week of
President Roosevelt and Winston
Churchill,” Edward W. White,
executive secretary of the Harlem
Division, Fight for Freedom, Inc
declared today. ■ ^
“Althouffh untiniate peace was
the oh,ject of the meeting, both
men realized, as do all free men,
thht tJiWe can be no lasting
peace until the scourge of Naz
ism is defeated,*' Mr. White
said.
“Negroes in the United States
have pledged themselves to fight
side by side with every ether
American group to beat Hitler
and make a world wide democra
tic peace a reality,” Mr. White
asserted.
White declared that several
thotuiand signatures have been
obtained for the petition to
Pr«sident Roosevelt support
ing the Executive order again
st discrimiBation in defense
industries, and supporting the
Administration foreign policy.
(Continued on page eight.)
TEACHER
National Negro Congress Asks
President Roosevelt For. Lrad-
Lease Aid To Ethiopia :
Washington, (SjK-fial) — The
National Negro Congress this
\v(*ek asked President Franklin D. _ , ^
Roosevelt to extend aid under the | I r^lf1A(|
Lease-Lend Act of Ethiopia. Con
gress officials pointed out in a ' M 4 4 PD DfaflAtiaC
letter to the President that there .vIllllLllCo
Corps Seeks
Men
was grave danger to Amerieaii
interests from possible attacks by
the Nazis on Africa following
their unsuccessful effort to invade
the Soviet Union. They asked that
Negro pitotr atfd quantities of
mateVial and war «uppiies be
shipijed to Haile Selassie, Em-
eror of Ethiopia by way of Bri
tish Somaliland on the Red Sea
to enable Ethiopia to fight back
Gilbert S. Derr, a graduate of invasion «ttem,-ts by
either Italy or Germany.
Dr. Busie Davis, Prominent Physician,
Answers Charges In $15,000 Law Suit
By Declaring He Is Not Guilty of Charge
Hampton InHtitute, has been
named by Superintendent W. F,
Warren as a new member of the
faculty at Hillside Park School
for coming school year. It is
likely that he Will replace Mrs.
“It should be iwssible,” stated
the letter, “to send to Ethiopia
training planes and trained Race
pilots to aid in establishing an
Ethiopian air force capable of
combatting any threatened at-
taek«. It should be possible to
send arms and munitions in quan-
„ ^ ,lities sufficient to e«fuip in modern
G. C. Massey who will teach ^ Ethiopian
Army. And finally our govern
ment l?hould send a complement of
Negro doctors,. nurses, mechanics
and other technicians to aid
Ethiopia in the same way as these
services are now being rendered
to Great Britain.”
Pointing to the great stake
East End School this fali.
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Youths Demand
Probe In Police
Killii^ Man In Jail
Dr. J. B. Davis, prominent
Negro physician of this city,
who has teen named defendant
in a $15,000 suit growing out
of the death of a two-year-old
child, son of Grace Burnett, de
nied that the child's death came
from negligence on his part.
The suit is based upon allega
tion that the death of the child
who wlas operated upon by the
physician, was due to an im
proper administration of anes
thesia.
The suit was filed last Friday
in Wake Superior Court by Les
ter Lorenzo Cofield, administra
tor for the child. The complaint
charges that the mother of the
boy took him to Dr. Davis for
a minor operation, circumcism.
She alleges that the doctor was
“under the influence of an in
toxicant or narcotic" when he
performed the operation, and
that she did not know this until
he had begun the operation. She
aUeges that the doctor “poured
chloroform or some other anes
thesia" down the child's throat
and around its face without us
ing any kind of device for prop
erly administering anesthesia.
She also claims that the doc
tor did not give the child an ex
amination to determine whether
not. Her charges go on to say
he could take an anesthetic or
that the doctor, when the child
became strangled, hastily seized
a pair of scissors and tried to
pull the child's tongue from its
mouth, splitting the tongue
and causing much loss of blood.
The child is said to have died
shortly afterward.
Branding the charges taa ridi
culous, Dr. Davis denies the
accusation of being intoxicated,
declaring that he does not use
any kind of intoxicating drugs
that he performed the opera-
or beverage. He further denies
tion without proper anesthetiza
tion, having had his nurse in
attendance at the time of the
(OoQtinued on page eight)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The
Southern Negro Youth Congress
in a letter to Governor Eugene
Talmadge of Georgia demanded
an investigation with the findings
made public within 30 days of
the killing of Arthur Johnson in
the Cordele, Georgia Police Sta
tion. The Youth Congre^ further
asked that the guilty police offi
cers be brought to trial and the
state of Georgia pay an indem
nity to the victim’s family. In-
dividuals and organization? are
urged to write to the Attorney
General requesting an immediate
investigation -of this vicious crime
immediate passage of the Anti-
Lynching Bill, and cash indemn
ity to Johnson’s family.
“The streamlined lynching of
ArtKur Johnson in the oliiee.of
the ('hit'f of Police in Cordele,
Georgia on May 24 has just be-
come tor us stating that he was
though local newspapers have de
clared that Johnson’s death was
caused as a result of ‘resisting
arrest, autoritative reports have
come to use stating that he was
first beaten and then killed by
officers of the law. Johnson, the
father of four children, was pick
ed up by the police because of a
debt he owed of seven dollars.
Put in jail, he was beaten severely
by i>olice officers anil while trying
to ward oft' their blows, was- shot
seven times cjtosintf liLs i^ucdi-
ate death."
AVanhington, D. — From the
War Dei>artinent the NAACP
learned wwk 'tha^ .the Signal
Corps is recruiting civilians with
certain niwli|K'ationa for secjond
lieuteuauts* I ' *
Applicant must bate a college
degree in electrical engiiieerrijfr
with a specialty in ' radio com
munication cfr they m’ust'be elec-
tonic physicists. They mtiSt be
unmarried, w^thout'^ dependents,
between the ages of. 21 and 35
years and able 'to meet the phy
sical .miuirements. ■
' ^^liea^ibhs'R-'shouId L be>maJe
by'letter ta^^itlle'j L’liSei of ",the
Signjtl I)-; C|-,
giving nairte, * ‘^’addresS,. a^e;' tflCh-
liicffl (jualificatlonfi ' and 'experi
ence.’• ' f:' 1 I
The NA'ACP* is, its
braiichesJ te '^'eieailatel thia infor
mation in ‘ their ’ j coinmiinjlie? • so
that qualif^’-Newsies.'.m£^y appj^.
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NEW YOflfli. With the ap
point of FfederieK &. Oabora to
be brigadier^gen^ral. and in charge
of the Army V mbral xlivision Ij^st
Race Bias In
British Corps
, .^EW YORK — Two instances
of British Negro diseriniination
cfopped up fh'is week in New
York, and were consideretl im
portant enough to be published in
PM, liberal York daily. The
first concerns the British Civilian
Technical Corps, which is tryiiifj
to get American technicians to aid
in radio and other work in the
ttesiegel islands.
The Corp’s appliciition fi)nn
asks color and religion ot the
volunteers. Spokesmen tor the
(’orps said the re%iou>i question
was merely for routine rreeortlw
and for chaplains’ information,
and that men of all religions had
been accepted for service.
Color, however, is a different
matter. The s[>okesm'n said no
Negro would be sent with any
contingent of white volunteers,
“for the sake of the “5egro.”
“It we sent one or two Negro-
oes with a contingent of white
(me,” he said, "they might make
it uncomfortable for him. We’re
not arguing the right or wrong ot
it; we’re just be practical. We’re
1 making just the same distinction
as your own Army does.”
CitizeiK To Welcome Daddy Grace
which Negro people heve in the week, the ' National - Association
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coming fight to control the con
tinent of Africa, the letter to the
President contniued, “As deeply
loyal Americans we recognize
that the- occupation of Dakar in
French Senegal by German naval
and air forces would be a serious
threat to the security of Ameri
can interests. As a people wjio
lovp democracy we are disturbed
(Continued on page eight) ,
for the Advancement of Colored
People made inqui’ri^ of the new
morale chief if he would appoint
a Negro on his staff, takiiiij the
position that recent- outbursts in
Fort Hragg, N. C., and in Arkan
sas indicate the low morale in
army Camps and point to the ne
cessity for immediate and sym
pathetic treatment of the situa
tion. . ’
First Colored Woman Elected
To Trustee Board At Riverdale"
(ExclusiTe to TYP)
New York — Mrs. Malvin Proc
tor, of Yonkers, New York, was
last week elected to the Board of
Trustees of the Colored Orjrfian
Asylum in Biverdale, TYP News
Syndicatt* learned in an exclusive
interview. Mrs. Williard Parker,
First Directress, announced that
Mrs. Proctor is the third Negro
to be so honored.
Mrs. Proctor, a Bostonian by
birth, heads the Women’s Auxili
ary of the Westchester Academy
of Medicine which has "adopt
ed” one of the girls’ cottages at
Uiversdale, and gives a tea each
year to help the youngsters.
The ^phanage was founded
105 years ago Tiy members of thj
Society of Friends and today
cares for C50 neglected and de
pendent Negro children, making
it the lai^est Negro foster agency
in the world.
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Youth Congress
Pleads For Use
Of Race Talent
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Deilar-
ing that “the defense of our coiin-
try in 1!)41 requires the wiping
out of all remaining prohibitions
upon the use of the Negi'oN tal
ents,” eveiias “the Prorlaination
of Emancipation was a necessary
war measure in 18(53,” the South
ern Negro Youth i'ongress is
circulating a petition addressed
to President Roosevelt caltin:' fiH-
the proper government agencies ;
to take action to insure job t ppor '
tuuities, full civil liberties, suflr-
age rights, and an end of jim
crow practices in the armed fn--
CCS as a defense measure and in
the interest of democracy for the
Xi>gro people.
Already hundreds of signatures
have been obtainel from leaders
and members of the YWCA,
I I'MWA, CME Women and v irions I
social and religious groups. The I
petition follows in full: ^
“Mr. President: pa
triotic Nt'gro jieople eager to
the defense of our country and
the defeat of Hitler are still deni
ed this privilege by virtue of a
Hitler like system of sui^ression
and discrimination. Their contin
ued disfranchisement through the
operation of the poll tax, and
other nndomoeratie practices mak
es a mockery of their citizenship.
Charlotte Citizens Await 15th
Annual Convocation With Bishop
Grace Followers; Big Parade Planned
Cluirlotte — The citi[H*ns of the , rade is as follows: From the
Queen city are preparing a lous
ing welcome for Bishop C. M.
(Daddy) (irace, founder of the
House of, Prayer and its follow
ers when they march into the
city August 31, to hold their
loth auiiual Holy Convocation.
Thousands of colored homes
have signs displayed which read,
“Welcitme Daddy.”
The Times is reliably infornunl
that the coming convocation will
be one of the most interestiuj?
and picturesque in the history of
the movement.
Followers will trek into I har-
lotte from Virginia, t^uth Car
rolina and Tennesiee.
The introductory sermon, will be
preached by Elder Melvin Adams.
There will l>e a Grand and Glori-
ons picnic on Saturday Se[it. fi giv
en at C'anan Land. The public is
invited.
Sunday morning September 7
the House of Prayer WfU have
their regular 11 o’clock services,
followed by the Baptising in the
Houee of Prayer Blessed Pool. At
3:00 p. m. there will he the great
est Peace parade iu the streets of
Charlotte This parade attracts
thousands of people from all part^
Lottisbarg — A wild tidi
three states ia a stalstt
tmiek, the wrccking^ «t
heneer and hoiis*
of the State wLo spend thousands here ia reeOfiiHr’s
of dollars in preparation for this the adventnm nt
great event. The luate of the pa- berkud jurthi
Hons* of Prayer to 3rd Street,
through 3rd to Myers .street, down
Myers to Seeond thr«ugfa Seeoad
to Hrevard, im Brevard to Liberty
on Liberty to Caldwell, on Cald
well to Boundary on Boundary to
Mc[>owell, on McDowell to 3rd*
down 3rd to Long and on to the
House of I’rayer. All miaisters,
congrei'ations, choirs, qoartettea
are inviteil to participate^in this
wonderful weeks neetins;. Th«
Grace Cafe will swing iride its
dot>rs day and night to serve*^ att
people. , *
'^cattereil throogit this edition at:
the Carolina Tiineti are ini nnjefj
from a number of Charbrtt^
gressire merchants who are ett*
ten^ng a hand of weleomc
^‘Daddy’* Grace and his folkmeiK
These and other wili
pear in the next 1!»«m' of
newspaper.
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