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C.I.O. Forces U. S. Line To Next Week Full Story On Roxboro Rape 0 i)|^ICC Sc Volume XXIII-No Durham, North Carolina, Saturday, January 31,^1942 Remember Pearl Harbcar NAACP Seeks Quarter-Million New Members For 1942 Halts Army Officers Government Cracks Down On Shipping Line; Gets [oyment For Twenty-Five k Gets M. A. D^ree Defense Course At N.C.C.N Npw York, Jan. 29. —(4NP)—*• A pmtest bj’ the NaWoniri MjirHiuta AUo gq^ ^nment to iraek* ^wn on the y States JAme and compel the company to hire 25 Negro uniou nionihers, whD were “not aceepf- flh’.''" the kiy before, for service on the foriy>r Swedish hixury Tin- f-r SS KungBholm. The quick and stronpr action taken by NMU and the govf^nment made a serious dent in the shipowner’s wall of piejudice apain?t hiring seamen because heir skin is dark. The United Rtatfi^inj?j,^(wre-McC^o^^^ mnek, and Qrace liiie are t!ir(^ it the most important companies who prrfistently refuse to hire colored si'aiiiPH and have caused many ships to sail short-handed. With its new slogan “Keep ’em snilinp,'’ the NUM seeks to throw ovcrbonrd the businesa-ap-usual methods n^d discrhninatory psec- ticps, and have war cargoes deliv- orod on schedule. The S. R. Kungsholm was recent ly taken ovi*r by the govevnmen*, nlthouprh operated by tM% U. S. lines. Last Dec. 2, the company cnVpd the union hall for 140 sea men to mat! the liner. Amftng the lUfn sent were 25 Negroes of a .vnriety of ratings for the stew ards’ department. The personnel office of the company rcjectf?;! pflch one of the 25, making ‘‘not acppptable” on his assignment card. Tn anawr to thire protest, thp colored seamen were to’d “AVrite your senator or congtes-' nifin. ” _ - .NMT’ President Joe Curran im- mrdiately dif^patched a wire to T’vpsident Roosevelt, apprizing hhn thfit the company’s insistence on doing ‘‘businesH as usual’* Wf«s mnking the union’s attempts to man merchant ships difficult. ■ “Tt is the understanding of th;; N‘Mr,” Curran wired, “that the expreaspd policy of the United States government is no discrimi nation against any American be- cnuse of color. Unless thip ope”S* torf! chnnee this jvoyey of business fls usual during the war emergenc.v complete manning of vessels will bppome increasingly difficult.” Before Sending the message to President Roosevelt, Paul War- finld. ,personnel manager of XT. T ’nf's. wan contacted, but he claim ed that he knew nothing of the —V (Continued on PhlDy An^ Office Philadelphia, Pa. — A brig'.it note for the week is the report that an attempt to segregate 20 colored girls in the typist section of the Army Signal Corps dejmrtment here wa* scotched by Major Schtill, in charge of the unit. The incident was reported )a$t week to Theodore Spatil,^iji|f, pres ident of the Philadelphia branch, who said that a Mr. Woingerb, gitp- ervisor of personnel in the office, approached most of the girlSj who are seattered in various parth of the department and. .asked them cd group. According to Mr. Spaulding, Ma jor Schall heard Of the incident and chastised Weinberg in the presence of a number of the girk. He stated “this is -ndt time !?o’' the raising of racial Issues when our country is at war, and we do C, C, Spaiddiig To Spel& At Rally F«lmary t(r -rV-r-' » ’ , . Asheville, N. Of — C. C. Spauld ing, president of the North Caro lina Mutual Life Insurance com pany ^nd president of the Mechan ics and Farmers bank of Durham and Raleigh, ha^ aceepted«an in vitation to be the principal speaker at the patriotic rally to be held by Ne^o residents of Asheville and Buncombe County at the Ste- phens-liee high school the night of February 10, it was announced this week by Rev.N. H. ^Humphries, who will preside at the meeti^g^ , The program will get under way if they vfbuld not be better sat-- at 7:30 o’clock with a musical pro- isfied working together as a color-jpam to be provided by the band pd STOUD.’^ of Stephens-Lee school, the glee Pianist Wins Aeclaini STIMSON GIVES ANNOUNCEMENT OF COLORED DIVISION iiv-tu'o- »( Xwih for with IT stiidi I'*', ij. Rob'mOn it ► tudcnl, lo r 1 iiiii V Stephens club of Stephens-Lee and the A.1- len Home School and combiiie.l choirs from various’churches in tho area. • Dr. Robert M. Hendrick, chair man of the Buncombe Cpunty ci vilian defense set-up for Negro>s, will speak on the “Red Cross :n CongratuTationa were being ex tended Prof. H. A. Hill this week, instructor at JLyon Park school of jj'' Durham who has been informed that he has finished all of, the ;e- quirements for the M. A. degi'c?, jppjjyp which will be awarded him at the oommencement exercises of N. {’. College for Negroes in June. Prof. Hill received his A. B. dc- gi’Pe from the Durham institution in 19.15, .since then he has been a member of the'faculty of the Lyoa Park school. He, started his grnl- uate work in ^he spring quarter of 1940, " ■ The defpH- Chemicaf Ann! Carolina Colh'fje an enrollment nl’ fording to Di'. V «M-not too lat-' t f*r ut 'u enroll in thf tonrse. Kiiiury Jan uary '.10th., is, iln* il;i> for registration in thi- pHi-iicuiar course. The r.-., thp course is one year oT chemistry. The lu'lii'i.t all Rngineerinj;. n agement D» ;o 1 r;iiiiin« PR. The opening tlatr for t fpnse course in Audjtin*'. Pi’i’- duction Supervision and Miina{' ment, Cost Accounting, PcTsonns;! Management and Radio Ciuumiuvi- c.ntion has been delayed, but it is definite t^at some of these courses will start in early Feb. All courses the evenings. R. 0. Punes Has Res^ned Han^ton Isii^^Board Ri^mIs ★ , Hampton Institute, Va.—Thurs (Uiy, January 22., Robert Ogden Vi; e lit H-i- pt'iii ' t>'ndpr**tt hiv WILLIA.n AJjH;IS[ ‘II T: I a II in 111 i (‘‘- aTJ-ffrf'- 111 re-»s- ho- e'ln- •ora- j ■ - il.- V hv r'Ticiii Pa^ eight) not want any disturbing factor>. C introduced which will separate the citizens of our country in their interest to help it.” Stimson Army Must Protect M Men In Uniform New York. — Until the Army gives exact and equal treatment to all soldiers in uniform* and until it protects Negro soldiers from beatings and shootmgs in preju-** diced southern, communities-, tho nation can expect only bitter re sentment and low morale from Ne gro citizens. This was the assertion of •he N. A. A. C. P. in a letter to Henf^* L. Stimson, secretary of war, a- bout the riot nt Alexandria, La., January 9, in which twelve Negro soldiers were shot by civilian po- licp. “This incident,” the N. A. A. C. P. said, “is only one more in (Continued on Pag6~eight) of Durham is expected to be pre.^- ent to speak on the sub.iect “Onr Place in Democracy.’* Invocatioii will be offered l&y Rev. L. A. ■Brown, pastor of Berry Temple Methodist church. At 4:30 o’clock the afternoon of the meeting, Negro America l-ip- ionnaires and other World war v«t- er«ns will lead a parade in which the various schools of .AshevilVj and Buncombe have been invited to participate. . North' Carolina School Band Directors (h^anize en in tne evenings. To clear up some inquiries concerning trainees, being deferred from Se^ Service because of takina; defence courses. Dr. Robinson quoted from a bulletin of the U. S. office of Education. Bnlletln- ESMDT-Misc.l. “Deferment under the Selective Srrvice is a matter of the loe^^:l boards, and ESMDF ti'ftlnees will not necessarLJv be dt'- ferred. Kncouragenient has been given to those boards, however, bv jthe Selective Service hendquartcr? The subject of Mr. Hills thesis 1 to defer persons in training in the was: Determination of the Relation t^e ESMiyT pro- Between the School Achievement of Certain Grammar Grade Negro Pupils in Lyon Park School. Dur ham and Their Intelligence, School Attendance, and Home Environ ment (under the direction of Dr. W. ,T. McKee. Mr. Hill i.= the first alumnus of the local collejfe to receive the M. A. degree and the third since the opening of the graduate school. Luther Gardin, Shot Through Brain, Alive After '4 Days Marion, Jan. 26. —-(CP)-— Lutl.- pi Gardin, shot through the brain About fifteen school band direc- Monday, was continuing his grim pntjon gram. ESMDT traincps who nr-' subject to call for scrvice shpull request the college authorities to give their local boards full inf.ir- mation concerning their training; status;” ' Washington, Jan- 25>. —ASP> —The war department. thron«j4i 3 statement by S*»cretary of W«r Stimson. foruiiil W iinnouBMd Thursday the formation of a fgrn 4ivi*ioi» ^ rnit*»l Hcakfet-.^ army. Oen. Marshall. hif# of fitmU had given advance m>tice that soeh a divi'ion was eontemnjated earlj il' December wfc»*n he addressed a score of Xegrt* pditor^ at a war (lepjiTtmeTit mnfTene», Va Wa^ intftnn. The new divisiun will he known a* the 93rd infaatry and will he Pbrbirlel ■*ti*tioned P’«irt Huaehaea. ATi.«. This will W til** s4»«>Bd time that ... X -r, .T • 1 !* Negro disiiMon has b«*n formed TA Ilham Allen of Fink Uni^rsi Th.in mm - v , within the armv. The S'iml diiti- ty School of Music, acknowledi«d the re-si^n. composed of Sezny trortr**. as one of the leading pianists of on at the Board V regular semi-an- hi th*> first world war today began an extensive tour em-1 nf.al meeting on Saturdaj’, January (>:„{,finer in the VFF in France «n1 bracing a number of Negro colleges .Ji. Mr. Purves' letter of resinnu- last week. Mr. Allen is giving anjtif.,, «-!is a great surprise to all the " icteresting tonch to teh Negro His- ,|)Pi,ihers of the Board .-tnd the A new Nesn’n pursuit tory Week celegration by includ- President MacLean., “All of us ; i.- to be activated aUo. It will he ing the works of a nomber of Ne- regret that he .ees fit 10 known as the HWth T^rsiiit skna^x resign after 22 years of service to ■ ron aiwl will he h;i-«ed at the aef^ the. Institute^” he continued. airfield at Tuskfgee, In his brief letter to the Board. Ala. The 90th Pursuit si)aadroB. Avhich gave no date on which tlis now in trainimr there, retfotres iwtt resignation ’ become eftcr- h «mall ^nirtion «>f the ma;;Qtfic««it tive',' Purves stated that he would Tnskegee airfield. It is rompo#^! be happy to continue on as a meui-jof l{0 flyers anil some her of the Board. . men anrf officer persDWiel. As ♦» President Malcolm S. MacF.enr.? nr as these flyers i>re trained, it announcing the resignation ..o ,i,s expected they will b*» di4T*At4ed jt'i the various schools where liit* ;rro stiidents are being given pa*- liniinary training. a« to ^pwd of up the total numbe. Ihr- isf.ers available. Whether the p{«>i to erentnallv establisli a N«m> gro composers in his repertoire. (ANP Photo) War Dept. Refuses To Allow Hastie To Resip Tough Post (C ontinued ★ on Page eigl^ Rev. T. C. Orabam, pastor I West Durham Baptist ChurcJi Colored Methodist Religious Education Council Takes Firm Position On War tors met in Greensboro recently at Dudley High School, and Organized a Band Directors’ Association with aims to promote more harmony with school officials as well as better bands in "the state. Representatives from Charlolfr, —-V— (Continued on Page eight) fight for life Thursday night with little apparent change in his con dition. '' Bleeding from the wound in his head had stopped, surgeons said, and a slight temperature he had developed had been allayed, but (Continued on Page eight) •lackson, Tennessee. — The Re ligious Education C*ouncil of the C olored Methodist Episcop.il Church, composed of more than a hundred leaders in Christian Edu- from 18. states and 27 an- Washington, Jan. 29.—.Althcm^ii he hlis attempted to step out office no less than three tigies, tht war department refuses to act-epr William Hastie’s resignation, it i--1 iireaching a series,of sermons reliably reported in circles high in; the'Book of Phalms. the admnistratioji's fiii’or. Judgei The public is cordially invited , tt hear the sermons each Sunday (Continued on Page eight) -morning'at eleven o’clock. on I IS (wing or unit was notMeamed. hope is that N^o sqaadroas wiB (Continued on Pag# eight) Walter White Annouces % All-Out Membership Drive; To Visit Seventeen States ( New York. — An all-out drivel The Religious Education Coupcil^ly tke General Board of for a quarter of a million members I is composed of annual conference | ious Ediieation, is the goal of NAACP field staff i directors of religions education; j Bray, PirosidMt; Rrr.' nual conferences, in its annual meeting here last week, through its Committee on Social Action, gave serious study to problems fac ed by the nation in general and the Negro citizens in particular, due to America’s entrance into the (Continued on Page eight) has set for itself for the year 1942. Five staff members will cover 17 states between February and June inclusive, tof push the Association’s fight for equality in national de fense and full eitizenship rights for all American Negroes. Already ijt progress is a mem- war, “i n. deans of regional schools for Chriu- Smitfc, tian workers; iirectors of ehil- ^iembers: dren’s work, y(MU|' peo{de’8 work, adult w(n*k; the president and members of General Conferenca Board: and other leaders ani workers in til# field of reU^omi education. The CoaMil is gpoasored annnal- -Defend Ameiica'~Buy Defense Stamps And Bonds T gflPT: ' V * Director of Lead* Mrs. E. W. F. Harrtet' ChiUren’s Work; Bm Fiekl Adminirtmtw^ L. Steveni, OffSoo' Awirtii»fc ftreetor at
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