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Volume XXIII —Nx 9
Durham, North Carolina, Saturday, February 28, 1942
• Remember Pearl Harbor
Red News-Mississippi Supreme Court Reverses Rape Case
l^inston A.M.E Zion Church Purchases New
nice
President Gets Report
On Attitude Of Tiie Navy
Toward Eniisting Race
(Nd Timers Meet
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Washington, •—(ANP)— Wash
ington is buzzing with reports ?on-
eerning the recent ooitference at
the Navy department with; the
R»»d-«o«u»lasian, uiim
secretnry of the navy, KaJph Baril
was chairman of the group thn^
met to discuss future policy con
cerning the Negro in the United
Htatps navy. .
It is reUahly stated that two re
ports hftv« reached the Preaiden:’H
desk^—:one a minority report of the
more liberal and younger office’-s
included in the afternoon.
The same source is responsiblt
for the information that the old
liners were for maintaining the
same p6licy that now prevails in
the naVy—^that is to limit the c i
listnicnt of Negroes to the me-s at
tendant rating.
Liberals are ■ said to have ad
vised tlie President to open nli
dooi-s, enlistments, and tjhe aor-
demy at Annapolis for a full na"
ticipntion by Negroes—that the-o
may be Admirals as well as me3 >
attendants. They are reported to
have been frank in their discussion
of the situation although tHey wer>
outnumbered 6 to 3 in the comaiH-
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Visits In State
Lt. Lawrence A. Oxley, De
partment of Labor official who
is now touring' North Carolina
studying employment condi
tions. Lt. Oxley is a former
resident of the Old North State.
Winston Negroes
Buy White Ghurcli
Winston-Salem, Feb. 2.1. —(CP)
—Members of the’ East Fourth St.
Baptist church, white, held their
last service in thrir church at F.ast
Fourth street and Dunlieth avenue
Sunday morning.
Goler Memorial church has yoI -
ed to purifh-Hs’e the property >11111
w^ill begin services there on Sun
day, March 4.
The Rev. L. P.* Smith pastor of
the white congregation, and othf^r
church officials tu'ere anxious f ,r
all niiMubers of the- white consti
tuency to attend the final service?
last Sunday when letters were is
sued, to ali persons who desired
them so that they could join aa>
church they choose and the whit'5
congregation was dissolved.
Membership in the white churc’i
became scattered over town and
more Negroes moved into the im
mediate neighborhood than whites.
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Owners put the cost of build
ing the Normandie at 56 mil
lions, experts say she’ll fight in
a year. ——
Urban League Ciiargies
Negroes Being Refused
in Many Defense Plants
Reynolds Tobacco.
Co. First To Initiate
Payroll .Dednctidn
For Defense Bonds
- By C. A. IRVIN,
Public Relations Director
Completes Training
Fatherless - Sons Banquet Held
It was a happy meeting when Zack Alexander, Sr., right
and Billboard Jackson met lasj; week in Ghjirlotte. Both men
are nationally known in Masonic and Elk circles.
It may be interesting to our
readers to know that the very fir;;t
large industry in America to ottfi
to its employees an opportunity fo
purchase I'nited .States Sa .ins-;
Bonds on a payroll deduction plan
was North C'ai’olina’s own H. .(•
! Reynplds Tobacco (’ompany of
Winston^alem.
i\s Early as July .‘JO of !,ast ye;ir
the Reynolds Tobacco (’onipany. in
!keeping with its ^ustoms of provid
ing for the security of its employ
ees, organized and set up the vol
untary systematic Savings pl.^.i
which met with the hearty apt>rov-
al of the federal government, a."!!!
was used as a model by a nnnib.^r
of industries flirougliout the jia-
tion.
Below is a copy of the plan as
initiated, and is published he.? fsr
the purpose of encouraging other
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Tenth Annual Vocational Opportunity I ^Mississippi Supreme
Campaign To Emphasize Defense Jobs Reverses Rape
Case Conviction
History was recorded last Friday night when the Phalanx fVaternity entertained tii»? Fath
erless ^ns with a banquet in the auditorium of the Second Ward High School, Charlottte. The
above photo shows the youngsters enjoying themselves. Among the speakers wtere: J. A.
Jackson, jr., J. S. N. Tross and Atty. F. O. C iarkson, and Lex Klutz of the Central Y.M.C.A.
Edward S. Brown ar^d Hugh R. Hill of the Second St. Branch Y.M.C.A. directed the progi^m.
The 10th Annual Vocational Op-
jportunity Campaign, which is
I sponsored in the Spring of eae^i
year, by the Department of Indtte-
trial Relations of the National t’r-
ban League, has been seheduleti
for March l.'>-22. Miss Ann Tan-
neyhill, Secretary of the League's
Bureau of Guidance and Piace-
m^nt, i? in charge of the Vocation
al Opportunity Campaign.
“Because of the Importance of
the National Defense l^ogram, the
emphasis will be on defense jobs
and training as well as individual
genidance and counsel,” announc
ed Miss Tanneyhill. “As in other
years, Negro schools and iPollege?
in the South, nj^xed schoo’,s in the
North, Urban League bi-anches,
community organizations in nou-
League cities, and intetfsted white
and Negro individuals, are being
asked to "volunteer their services
in conducting the campaign in
their own locality. It is important
that Negro youth be trained bo
that they will be able to take thtir
place in defense industry and to
that end, the campaign should be
carried on with vigor. Every pub
licity channel—th? radio, confer
ences, public meetings, labor un
ions, contacts with employers and
printed material—should be uti
lized.’ ’
Under Miss TanneyhilFs gu'd-
ance, the National Urban League
Office, 1133 Broadway, New Yov’i
City, will help campaign partici
pants in the preparation of print
ed materials, radio arid public
meeting programs, and in organiz
ing the entire campaign week.,
The campaign in its nine years
of existence has stimulated Negro
youth to train and prepare for jobs
and spurred Negro communities on
to find jobs for trained yonta.
Last y*^r the campaign reached
over 75,000 young people in high
schools and colleges.
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The American who said that
one American could lick 20 Japs
should sit down with the man
who saiid the French army was
the greatesfon earth.
Vicksburg, Miss. — The supreru'
court of this state hag ruled that
the “uncorroborated testimony of
the woman he is alleged to have
raped” is not sufficient evidenc;?
to convict Willie Upton,, found
guilty and sentenced to death on
the charge in the Warren County
circuit court here last spring. The
opinion was handed down Monday,
February 9, and the NAACP
branch here which is finaneiag
Upton’s defense, reports that fur
ther action Vill be ^aken in ac
Warren County circuit court to
which the case was remanded by
the state supreme court.
The national office of the NAA
CP will assist in the appear, svt
for sometime in March.
The case is an unusual one from
many aspects. According to the su
preme court opinion: “The appel
lant’s (Upton’s) defen.se was au
alibi and physical incapacity and
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C. RUSSELL HAltKlS
. C. BusmIi Harris, fonunr honor
student at A. and T. CcIIhiv,
Greensboro, N. C., who complete^
the GPT pilot trainins program at;
A. and T. in the fall of 1940, Is
now an Aviation Cadet in the 99tii
Pursuit Sqiudron at Tnskeg«e, Al
abama. when it is reported that
he is making cscellent records. Me.
Harris showed, excellent flying
ability in his pilot trainioc here
finishing among tiie first tkrae in
his class. He has completed all re
quirementa for graduation in the
field of Biiriogical Science at A-
and T. Collage ozcept practice
Teaching and Thew. fie hopes to
receive a conuniasioQ a« ^SecoAd
Lieutenant, Uaited States Army
Air Corps, ia approximately seven
months. While » Stndent at A. an^
T. he was a meatber of the TMCA
and the Kappa Alpha Psi Fratara-
ity.
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President Hbclean
«
Too Modmi For
Hampton IiKtitute
New York. —(ANP)— AU i?
not well with the administrction
of the affairs of Hampton insti
tute, according to information be
ing circulated here, with President
MacLean on the earpet and not
entirely too sure of Us pose des
pite the vote of eonfidenee giv«>ii
him at a recent meeting of tl>c
board of trustees.
It is said that th^ “glamoria-
ing” of the famoos iostitntioa has
met the disapproval of matty^ of
the trustees, who while they
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Rep^psMitativi^s of th«* Urhe*
L»*a}rue «-hargi*il to«lay at the
Kmployiiient PrjM-'tM'**
Ht^arMgH that
di.^riati>utti;ii MgaiiiMt ta
fratning eanrae^ ili>fenii« ituiirs-
tries, pablic aad private enipio -
ment agencies makin" ilefenn**
plaeemeats, unions operating In de-
feiwe ph»nt.^, ami ilefen^ hotiisin^
units. . ••
Basing its remarks on the es-
p**rieB«‘*>- and record of the I'rhun
Lfagne orgaui/.ations in.New
Hrti^lyn. and X**w .Jersey, tlK» Na
tional I'rbaii Lea^urne ^tateroeat
I»iiitel out thxt many iaduHtriai
corporations wwking on large d"-
fen^e contracts ohi*y the lett«*r bat
not th«* spirit of the Pre'^ident'is
Fxecutive Order by placing one or
two Negroes in unskilled positioa.s.
or making “token” pLpcemen *
an dhiring a handful of Ne^^,'s
in plants^ eraployins hundred-* of
men. or by imposing unreano.iahSe
(inalifrcations where Xi‘2Ti>es are
concertied, or by politely ree.*iTing
the applications of Neprroes, |iron
ising consideration and letting the
matter rt»st there.
The practieas »f certain uihods,
likewise, bar Nefpro workers from
defense jobs and handicap tho^
employers who «e attemptiflg td
comply with the President V Et-
ecutive Order. Unions, operatl^ig in
importaht defense plants, soeh as
the Tnternationa! Assoeiatioo of
Machinists, American Wire Weav
ers’ Protection Association a»d
certain marine anions have eonstT>
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Frankk Baker Sws
Repul^ Pktnres
For $250,000.60
St. Louis —(C>— The sgobik was
bad enoilgh. Frankie Baker* who
shot and killed her lover* John,
back in 1899, indicated ear^ thiii
week, but what’s mow, it van't
right.
She said she shot Allen
ny> Britt t^with a .41 a*4 mt •
.44 ealibre gaa,'*^ even
doesn’t rh3rme aa-walt
picture” she daelacci^
than any ■a«t»*
Frankie, bow t%
Portland, Ofe.* to
250,000 ntt
PietBEte
th*. laovi* iif
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