SECRETARY PERKINS
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Volume ^2 ^
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Number 44
Durham, North Carolina,Saturday, November 1, 1941
WINS
Brothers Share
Oil Fortune Of
Oklahoma Indian
Rjlises Quota
Sapulpa, Okla., — Half of an
111 fortune of 3,286 and
valuat'le properties of a Creek
Indian woman were awarded laat
wieek to Willie Mayweather, 33,
and his brother, Floyd, 27, pack
ing plant workers of Kansas
City,
Aoeording to the decision of
Federal Judt^e C. O. Beavers,
which climaxed a ten-year law
suit, the other half of the oil
fortune, which flowed from a
160-acre land allotment to Mrs.
Lete Kolvin Stevens, will go to
Mrs. Ozora Alexander Lee, 65,
half-sister of the Indian wom-
The Mayweathers arc neph
ews of Joe Stevens, w4io was
married to Miss Lete Kolvin a
year before she received the land
allotment. The couple lived on
the land until 1906, when itwas
cased out for farming purposes.
The Sinclair and Minnehoma
Oil Companies, defendants in
the lawsuit, were instructed to
pay the heirs "^the $7,413,286 in
cash, which represents royalties
on oil and gas produced from the
land since 1915, with accumulat
ed interest.
The companies were also or
dered by Judge Beavers to sur
render immediately control of
the land located between Dum-
bright and Oilton, a gasoline
plant and fifteen producing
w^lls.
Road Signs Must
Come Down
Be it ordained that the follow
ing ordinance be and the same
is hereby adopted to become ef-
ifective on and after the first
day of November, 1941;
Section No. 41. That whereas,
In the opinion of the State High
way and Public Works Commis-
ision a multiplicity of signs in
close proximity to the State
highways tend to obscure and
distract the attention of the
motorist from the necessary
warning and traffic signs; .
- NOWy Therefore, it is order
ed frtftn and after the'^ftective
date of this ordinance (Nov. 1,
1941) no advertising signs shall
be erected or maintained along
any of the State highways of the
State closer than 50 feet to the
center of the paved section of
the said highway; provided, this
restriction shall not apply to
signs beyond the limits of the
State highway right - of - way
erected at the place of business
advertising such business, or
one sign erected on any prem
ise advertising such premise for
s”ale or advertising for sale the
products produced thereon; and
provided further, that where
signs h^ve been lawfully erected
on any leased property, the
owner of such signs shall have
twelve months from the effec
tive date of this ordinance to re
locate 01^ readjust the said sign
Labor Department
Head Bars Negro
Women Appliances
SECY. PERKINS SNUBS JOB
REQUESTS OF AKA
LEAGUE
WASHINGTON, (ANP) Sec.
Frances Perkins of the depart
ment of labor, in answer to a
plen for .iobd for Negro Women
in the Bureau from National
Non-Partisan league of the AKA
shows , either a disregard for
theif presentation or an igno
rance of the subject, according
to a letter received by the lea
gue discussing the matter.
In September Miss Jeannetta
AVelch, Dr. Ferebee and Miss?
Norma B(»'d, representing the
AKA NonTartisian league, had
an appointment made to talk
with Madame Perkins.
As a result, a letter was sent
following their talk with the sec.
pointitig out there were two wo
men qualified to hold down po
sitions as junior investiirators
and two qualified as stenograph
ers, all four of them being on the
civil service list.
Miadnme Perkins had asked
about these positions and op
pressed herself as being hope
ful that they could be placed.
But to the amazement of the
non-partisan group, they receiv
ed a letter from the secretary
stating:
“We have no vacancies in the
woman’s bureau at the present
time. If we should by any chance
receive money for defense work
and if there should be a quali
fied Negro woman on the civil
service lists, it is likely to be pos
sible then to make such an ap
pointment.”
Miss Welch of the non parti
san league had already pointed
outvto Mrs. Perkins the fact that
these four women were qualified
under the civil service and al
ready M’ere on^he lists.
What adds to situation which
grows ridiculous is the fact that
the bureaa is advertising its
needs along these lines and qua
lified Negro workers are being
overlooked in the shuffle.
However, the non partsan lea
gue is determined to push the
cause and will again call Mrs.
Perkins’ attention to. the fact
that there are qualified workers
available and awaiting call.
J. H. Wheeler, cashier of the
Mechanics and Farmers Bank
of Durham, and head of the Ne
gro Division of the Community
Chest drive who annonnced this
week that his division had gone
over the top by raising more
than its qubta of $2,000 in the
annual Community Chest cam'
PWgn.
A. F. L. Charged with
Being Anti - Negro
At 0. P. M. Meeting
LOfcJ ANGELES, ( ANP)—
“We don’t discriminate. “We
have never discriminated. “We
are complying with the presi
dent’s executive order, “We in
tend to continue compliance with
the ^president’s executive or
der.
Those statements, repeated o-
ver again before the Fair Em
ployment Practices committee, a-
pointed by President Hoosevelt
and holding hearings Monday
and Tuesday at Embassy hall,
were the stock in trade answers
of local*industrialists to charges
that they had barred or were
barring Negroes from employ
ment in their plants.
They were made by Vultee,
which does not have a single Ne
gro worker at its Downey plant
and with Just as much empha
sis as by Douglas, another air
craft concern, which does have
10 Negroes working in various
capacities. They were made with
no less assurance and aplomb by
Consolidated aircraft of San
Diego which has employed a
large number of janitors within
the past few months.
Not overly impressed with the
past answers were Committee
Members Mark Etheridge, pub
lisher of the Louisville Courier-
Journal; Atty. Earl B. Dicker
son of Chicago, David Sarnoff,
head of RCA; M. E. Webester,
Pullman Porter official; John
Brophy of the CIO and John
Fenton, representing the AFL.
In fact Mr. Dickerson, who
did a brilliant job of cross ex
amination for the committee,
forced some of the self white
washed industrialists’ represen
tatives to spend uncomfortable
moments on the witness' stand as
he probed sharply, and same-
times with a touch of sarcasm,
for the reasons why they now'
have so few Negro employees in
(Continued on page eight)
ASKS PRESIDENT
TOPSEmE
ARMY DISPUTE
PRESIDENT ASKED TO DI-
.R£CT PROSECOmU-X>F
ARKANSAS STATE TROOP-
PERS
New York—President Roose
velt has been asked to settle the
dispute between the War De
partment and the Department
of Justice over jurisdiction in
prosecuting Arkansas state
troopers who threatened and in
sult^ members of the 94th En
gineers division last August 10,
and slapped Lieutenant Donald
Curry an officer in command.
In a letter to the Chief Execu
tive Friday, October 24, the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People de
clared :
“There seeuis tjj bo no dispute
as to the fact that a crime has
been committed. If it is true
tiia|f)(ie state troopers were de
putized by the military authori-
ties und if they acted as military
police, then they violated the Ar-
tides of War, especially Section
1536 of Title 10 of the United
States Code.
Regardless of whether the
state troopers were deputized or
not,’? the NAACP said, “they
violated Section 54 of Title 18
of the United States Code which
provides:
*^tf two or more p(!rsons in
any State, Territory or Dis
trict conspire to pervent, by
force, intimidation, or threat,
?ny person from accepting or
holding any office, trust, or
place of confidence under the
United States, or from dis
charging any duties thereof;
Or to induce by like means
any officer of the U. S.
to leave any State, Territory,
District, or place, where his
lawful discharge of the duties
quii’ed to be preformed, or to
injure him in his person or
property on account of his
of his office, or while engaged
in the lawful discharge there
of, or to injury his property
so as to molest,interrupt, hin
der, or impede him in the dis
charge of his official duties,
each of such persons shall be
fined not more than $5,000, or
imprisoned not more than six
years, or both.”
The Association pointed out
that failure by officials to take
affirmative action when Negroes
had been victims of pervious un
provoked assaults'" gave courage
to the people of Arkansas to
extend their disrespect for the
uniform, of the United States
to the White officer in charge
of the company.
“Failure to act in this in-
»tancfe wiE encourage further,
disrespeipt for the United States
uniform whi#T will lead to ad
ditional unprovoked assualts,”
the NAACP asserted.
appealed to the
War Department and the De
partment of Justice,” the letter
continues. “They seem unable
to ^gree as to which agency
should prosecute. In the mean
time, nothing is being done to
punish the persons guilty of
these crimes against tlie United
States goverment and nothing is
being done to prevent similar
occnrrenees.
“We’therefore appeal to you.
MILLIOII SUIT
N. C. College Homecoming Queen and Attendants
The crowing of the Homecoming Queen between the halves of the game played between
the Eagles and Lincoln Lions at the N. C. College stadium was a beautiful affair. In the pic
ture above the queen, Miss Jane Dickerson of C ulver, Indiana is shown with her attendants.
Miss Vivian Brickwell, of Asheville, N, C., Miss'Mattie McGhee, Montgomery, W. Va., Miss
Shirley Tolliver, Winston Salem and Miss Virginia Ely, Murfreesboro, N. C.
70O HOUSING UNITS
READY
WILMINGTON (CP) Of the
1275 units of five defense hous
ing projects here 361 are now
occupied and 720 are available
for occupancy, housing author
ity officials said Monday night.
Hillerest for Negro non-com
missioned army officers lias 90
units, 37 units available and 38
applications.
Hillerest extension for Negro
shipyard workei’s has 120 unitu,
33 occupied and 52 applications.
MAN’S FOOT SHOT NEAR-
LY OFF
NEWTON, (CP) Robert
Pressley is in danger of losing
his right foot and Phil Smyre
is in the Catawba coxinty jail
charged with shooting Pressley
witli a 12-gauge shotgun, follow
ing an argument in Raidertown
Smyre evidently was standing
early Sunday morning.
Chief of Police L. B. Beal said
about 20 feet from Pressley
when the shot was fired, the full
force of the load striking at the
top of his shoe and practically
tearing his foot from the leg.
as Chief Executive, to instruct
one of I’these Departments to
take affirmative action to pun
ish the guilty i>ersons.”
99TH REGIMENT BOWS TO
95TH
WILMINGTON, (CP) The
fighting 95th Ohast Artillery
Regiment stormed half way to
the Camp Davis .softball title
Monday with a 19-1 victory over
the 99tii Coast Artillerj' Hegi-
ment in the first game of a play
off series.
HE JUST CAN’T GET INTO
THE ARMY
GREENSBORO, (CP) Will
iam Hurt, 24- year-old construc
tion worker, was feeling like his
last name Monday because he
could not get into the army.
He made, the latest of hi$ nu
merous trips to R. L. Alexander,
clerk of draft board number 2
and told the elerk.
“There’s so many people run
ning in and out of that place
where I stay that I can’t sleep.
I want to get into the army.”
Alexander told him all the
II men leaving on October 29
are voUtnteers, but if pne of
them drops out, he would be
glad to piit him in with the
others.
He gave Hurt a card for phy
sical examination.Hurt had only
three of the four years schooling
required, but he had gone to
night school, passing his literary
test in flying colors.
■Mrs. Roosevelt
Endorses Youth
Conference
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, inter-
view-ed at the White House by
Mis.s Jes.sie Scott, Chairman of
the Program Committee of the
National Conference of Negro
Youth, expresseil her interest in
the program of the youth group
and .accepted an invitation to
address the gathering at Wash
ington, D. C. on Nov. 16th.
The Conference, which repre
sents a number of the largest Ne
gro youth organizations and
councils in the country has been
called with a view to rallying
Negro youth in defense of demo
cracy. Miss Scott explained to
the First Lady that Negro young
people arewholeheartly opposed
to Hitler and facism. In many
instances, however, they are so
absorbed, in combatting local dis
crimination that they do not see
ly appreciated. “I remarked to
her”, Miss Scott stated “that
we were grateful for the Peeent
steps taken by the Adminktra-
tion toward aboIishiBg discrim
ination sgaimt Negroes in de
fense indystries and Ciril Ser
vice. She said, however tkat
there was no need for gratitxMle;
that these things were only cor
rect.”
Mrs. Roosevelt remarked ahn
that she felt more and mnrt*
people are beooming used to tlm
fact that Negroes are Amerieaa
citizens and are entitled to the
same b^iefits m olker chiseiiB.
Though the ^irst Lady will ham
a bui>y weekend and is aehednlad
to speak at Tassar iIm
expects to take a p^aae ta '
in|(tou to aiMres the
Youth eonf«¥enee.
The Conf ereiue will apcni
their relationship to the problem ^
as a whole. Mrs? Row^elt-oireekend of the 14-HSth
seemed to appreciate the mean- vemher diiicussiii^ the
of this fact and felt that thisjof Ne^rro ycMth and
problem should be more vide-1 jKTimtixmd ob