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VOLUME 22 —NUMBER 38
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DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1941
Greyhound Bus Driver Ejects Women Refusing Back Seat
PREDICTS SHAKEUP Al TORT BRAGG
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Mississippi Mob Breaks Up Labor Meeting Of Negroes
Two Hurt When
IMob Interferes,
At Union Meet
“Miss Ebenezer”
LOUSIVIIJjE, Miss., (ANP)
Negroes will not be unionized in
this prejudiced little to'&n if
leading white citizens can help
it. ‘
A Negro and a white man are
in serioQS condition and several
others ate niirsing brnises as tlw*
results Tnesday night of a rack
riot in which an armed mob of
300 white business and profes
siohal
Greets
tempiui
for an X. F, of L. unign organi
zation meeting.
The seriosly wounded men
were Emmett Pendergast, white,
an employe of the Southern Nat
ural Oas Company, shot in the
leg and, a man named Brown,
shot and cut. The latter was not
among those seeking to form the
union but happened to be on the
street when the mob decideid
to chuse into hiding all Necroes
found on local thoroujrhfares.
Sheriff W. B. Holman could
not be reached but members of
his family said he “knew noth
ing” of the riot.
The trouble began with the ar
rival here from Birmingham of
J. C. Barrett, w^hite, A. F. of L.
organizer, bent on unionizing
employes of the D. L. Fair Lum
ber company here. On the night
of Auff. 25 he held an open meet
ing in the courthouse attended
by about 300 men, of whom a-
round 225 were colored.
After the initial meeting, an
organisation meeting was sche
duled f6r Tuesday night at the
courthouse. No secret was made
of the purpose. But when the
hour approached, a mob formed
arounjd the entrance and refus
ed to allow anybody to go inside.
When the number of Negroes
increased, arguments developed
and were quickly followed by
fist fights.
The armed mob then decided
not only to refuse the workers
admittance but to chase them
off the streets. The entire town
was thro^^Ti into an uproar.
Next da^ however, citizens re
fused tblliscuss the affair.
•Barrett was not seen during the
fighting. However, he did not
check out^f his hotel nntil tlic
following morning. He left no'
forwarding address.
It was also ^enrned that Bar
rett left Bruce, MiSi., hurriedly
last Friday Avhen an attempe to
organize employes of the E. L.
Bruce Co. lumber mill there was
met with an invitation from a
group of men to leave town.
Detroit Company
Is Uiider Fire
Detroit, Mich.—^Although the
Briggs Manfacturing Company
here wants all the riveters they
can get, three affidavits sent to
the President’s Committee on
air Employment Practices in
the last two Weeks, charge the
cozQ^>aQ>' lEC^^Ag to em.-^
ploy Negro "workers. • ■
The National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People received copies of tw'o
affidavitsi made August 27 and
28 by Kenneth Offet and Frank
Smith of this city, who were re
ferred to the plant for work by
the Michigan State Employment
Service.
^ffet’s statement ■ claims that
Ii£ reported to Briggs with four
whites, also referred by the em
ployment service, they were all
qualified as aero-riveters. Ac
cording to Offet, the first two
whites w6re hiried, but w’hen his
interview turn came, the em
ployment . manager told them
there was no- more hiring that
day. , ,
On returning to the employ
ment office, Briggs says, they
were shown cards which stated
that ‘Briggs was calling for all
the riveters they can get.” The
next day the three went to the
plant again. Offet claims the
first white boy was taken, but
Offet was asked if hf had not
been out the day before. He
said that he had and fillde out
the necessary application.
(Continued on page four)
New Head May
Be Placed Over
Fayettville Camp
WASHINGTON, a C.—Ft.
Bragg, where Negro soldiers and
white military polic«n«i were
involved in a shooting ftaj’ on
Aug. 6 may be expected soon.
This was learned yesterday from
sources close to the Secretary of
War. How far the house-clean
ing will gq is not known, but at
least one liigh-raMJiSpg
may relieved of all commJtnd of
troops.
Tlie changes will be annouBC-
ed soon i^’ d
MiH Tlffiy wili w
Sp^ialist
fo“Li"NMro
w^hose skill in orthopedic „ork|f«l«tions; scholl libraries seek to
has won him wide praise. Cur
vature of the ^ine, rickets, bow
legs, knock knees fractures of
COOPER,
Mrs. Maude Thorpe of Dur,
ham who was crowned Miss Ebe
nezer in a rally recently held at
the Ebenezer Baptist church.
Out of a large group of contest
ants Mrs. Thorpe raised the
largest amount of money to ob
tain the honor.
Six-Point Anti Racial
Program Proposed
BLUE RIDGE, N. C., (ANP)
A group of 100 educators, re
presenting every state in the
south except Georgia, in attend
ance at the‘Conference on Edu
cation for Soutliern Citizenship
which ended last Sunday, insti
tuted a six-point proposal for the
promotion of better understand
ing between which and Negroes
in southern schools.
The recommendations made
were: *
That every important college
in the south carry a special
course of study on race prob
lems; that this subject be dealt
with objectively also in college
and public school teaching of ge
ography, history, civics, liter
ature, music; that programs and
materials on adult education be
expanded to include a broader
Henry L. StimaotH Tls^
be based on a painstaking in
vestigation by tJ»e Inspector Gen
eral of the Army, in which both
Brig. Gen. Beniamin Davis the
only Negro generel officer in the
Army, and Col. Geoi^e B. Hun
ter aCe investigator for the In
spector GenerflJ’s department,
participated. Col Hunter spent a
week at Fort Bragg and ques
tioned 128 witnesses. Mr. Stim-
son ordered - the investigation
when a series of Jirticles on dis
crimination at F?rt Bragg ap-
N.A.A.C.P. Declares
South Sets Policy
Washington, D. O.—Although
it is reported that the War D©»
partment’s investigation of con
ditions at Fort Bragg is com
pleted, no information on whai
was found has been released.
f%*».,^A^\Cl’ yeeeived' last
eracopy of ^fetter stttt
Senator Pi'entiss M. Brown of
Michigan to Henry L. Stimson,
Secretary of War in which the
senator request a report of the
investigation and a statement of
the action taken;
Jhanking Senator Brown for
the copy of liis letter, the NAA-'
CP said “the War Department
hasn’t yet demonstrated that it
is going to run the “defense pro
gram instead of letting the most
reactionary and prejliiced el-
peared in both Negro and white ements in the South, deterniine
Jurist Refuses
To Turp Over
Accused Men
Bik Company Gives
Promise Complete
Investigation
^ MACOX, G.y, CNN3>—rnit-
■ed States Distri^ Judge
I Dearer last weeli refuaod to or-
[der deliver?- of two Ge)rgia men.
a planter and a lawjer. to Illi
nois for fetleral trial on eharpesi
of conspiring to hold Necroes in
H.‘ KoTbinson, profes*
New' York—The Pennsylvania - bondage.
Greyhound Lines has promised !
to question the bus driver who I Judge Deaver said, the indiet-
8or of matHetnatics and physics ^P^^t Mrs. Dorojhy H. Hydes andj™^nts by a I nited Stotf*s dis
at North Carolfaia for Negroes'Miss Lottie"\favor off a hns *»n I triet .grand jnrr
leaeWlyjMitlii**!! a seholte-r roiitt fifan Baltimore, IM.-. to|sl^^w^ Tto eons|;iracy brtwem^^
br ’pajS^r apiieaiSff in ^e In«n-jNi^ Yn^fc, ,^f) '^nl ’ HaiBitii^ XcWlijiri*c»
ana Journal' of Physics which isito take seats in tlie back of thejney. and"W.. Cunninyliani. own-
published at Calcutta, India.The [bus, the XAACP anm>uneed la.«tt!er of the Mandjt CTdss Plante-
paper is mathematical physics | week. ' tion near here. McWhorter, a
and deals with the effect of an i Mrs. Hydef'^ fhargey that she j former President of Geonria S«^
electric field of certain strength' Mayor boarded the bus I nate, and Cunnineham were in-
on the polariz^bility constant of 1.45 Baltim*re and'dieted May 2«>. 1941. The grand
the Normal Hydrogen atom. The unreserved seats about ,he jtmi' eliarg»Ai that the tow Geor-
result of ttes^work usmg a after igik men had e^^nspired to de
lation method is in dlosc agree-~ ‘
prive Chicago Negroes of tbeir
the driv- civil rights as guaranteed in tlw
turbation ttieoryapmieatottBo,,, «,s 13th Ar«™do.en.. Tbe tadirt-
Stark effect of the hydrogen I'""'*' '> “"If,™™'* » «l«t Nesr., hbnnn
- — - - — ■■ ot the road ajid told the two .vo- were held in bondage on Cunn-
nipn to tilWo apnt« in’ t)iA hui*lr ingham’s plantation “by strik-
ment with that obtained*!^, the . window
first-hand and second-ordcr per* *
turbation theory applied tot the
prpss.
War Department policy.
atom by G; Wentzel, I. Waller
and P. S. Epstein».. Dr. Robin
son is well known in the sci
entific field especially physics,
Business League Records
Remarkable Growth At
41st Annual Session
men to take seats in’ the liack.
They refused, pointipg . oi}t
that ^heir tickets entitled them
to sit anywhere. It is. claimed
that the driver insisted that bo.-
eause they were x*olored. they
had to -sit in the extreme back
of the bus and if they didn’t
they would be put off.
They were put off.
The driver also refused to
: give them their bags, the state-
ing, beating and lashing *>f the
person, and «>ther forms of bod
ily abuse.” /
Cunningham and XleWcrter j
denied the charges. The indict
ment^ grew out of a trin by
Cunningham and McWorter te
Chicago in September 1?>39.
They tried to return t'*ree Ne^
groe to Geonna on charges of J’
When an individudal gets
lifertime job, whether large or.every degree come to Provident
sm^ll, there is the danger that ‘ hospital in Chicago for hia care,
the individual will forget- the ^e Louis, Marian Anderson and
interests of the public and enjoy I Etta Moten are among those
the snecure. (who attest his skill..
provide’ book» and supplemen
tary materials necessary for
such study; that teachers’ col
lege and public school teachinjf'
of geography, history, civics,
literature, music; that programs
(Continued on page four),
MEMPHIS, (By Nat D.^
Williams for ANP) “We hope
that the idea of a closer relation
between Negroes in educational
work andNegroes operating bus
iness enterprises, from peanut
parchers to ^corporation mana
gers, will be accepted by every
community in the nation where
Negroes reside in large numbers
were the words of Dr. J. E. Wal
ker, president of the Universal
Life Insurance Company of
Memphis, and rcelecljed to start
his third term as president of
the National Negro Business
league, expanded the theme of
the 41st annual convention of
the organization.
The league’s convention ses
sions were held at- LeMoyne Col
lege Aug. 27-29. The theme was
“Education and Negro Business.
Meeting in conjunction with the
busing men’s organization was
the National Negro Housewives
league,. headed by Mrs. Fannie
B. Peck, of Detroit.
' Adhering closely to the con
vention theme, delegates from all
sections of the country, repre
senting business institutions and .
women representing the organiz- Washington, D. C., sought to
ed housewives of the nation, en
tered enthusiastically into the
various, panel discusions on dif
ferent aspects of the subject, and
listened to speeches by outstand
ing personalities representing
the busines or professional fields.
Generally harmonious preced-
ure which was the chief feature
of the 1941 league convention
was indicated by the speedy re-
election of all national officers
of the organization, with the ex
ception of several who declined
to serve another year. The con
vention adopted resolutions
whose general tenor expressed
appreciation of past and cur
rent opportunities enjoyed by
Negro business, pointed to the
distbilities suffered by Negroes
under the defense preparaton
program, urged increased em
phasis on vocational training for
Negro youth; and proposed steps
for the organization of proced
ure for securing jncreas^ em*
phasis in Nergo schools on the
nient continues but’told them "J,
from the SancV%' Cross Planta-
have the recommendations com
mittee, for which M. S. Stuart of
Memphis was spokesman, include
an endorsernent of his plans to
raise $100,000 for the establish
ment of a Negro lobby in Wash
ington. The comrtiittee took the
position that it had not the time
to study the background or ob
jectives of the Brown proposal,
nor felt the responsibility to
“serve as a Mother Hubbard for
every scheme proposed as a rac
ial panacea.”
One of the featured address
es of the session was that of L. P.
IXckie of Atlanta, manas^r of
the southeastern division of the
United Statas Chamber of com
merce.
•Mr. Dickie told the businessmen,
among other things, that “90
per cent of thk country’s busi
ness is composed of small enter*
prise” . . . that “the nation is
now facing the danger of having
smaller business thrown out of
commission by larger concerns
needs and requiments of Negro’^0
business.
One brief convention tiff oc-
natibnal defense wmtfaets”
that
they would have to get them at
the ■ terminal, Mrs. Hydes ap
peals that she was cold and
needed her coat, had no affect.
“He said he didn’t care how
cold it w^,” Mrs. Hydes re
ports. “He said we could get
back on the bus on his terms,
but wo refused. He then got in
the bus and drove away.
“We waitetl on the road until
daylight, when a truck driven
by a Negro picked us up and
took me to New York—^As a re
sult of this experience I was sick
for a few days with a severe
cold, a sore throat and pains in
my legs and back.”
J. Cumming, regional manager
of the Greyhound Lines, told the
NAACP he would report the re
sult of the company’s investi
gation of the case.
Whiskey agents of Durham
are having their trouUea. John
Harris has pot off frwn hia adl-
ing force about thve men and
put on about 3 others. And
the public should know the rec
ords of at least two of these
new whiskey merchants.
There is a bis move on for a
new whiskey head to take John's
place. Charlie Amis is being
pushed for the post hy many.
A. P. Gu-lton and t. J, Davia
abaca to have lota of friwodi
tion in 1935. The late Hemy ^
Homer, then Governor of IHi-
nois, refused to extradite the Ne
groes. niinols officials said tiiff
Georgia pair also sought extrir
dition of three other Negroes £fflp|
whom they did not have
rants. Judge O^mr.in
to grant transfer of Cuaaia^-
ham and McWhorter to l)liaoii|
followed in the tnulitional
of Georgia misjustice.
I'
if we don’t take care’ of CharUe Amis, k>eal mar-
it we aon t taxe care on has a big lead for
organizations of all kinds, thecured when Edgar Q. Brown, of .(Continoad OB p«SQ foorX 1 placo
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