N.C.
Mailing
EDITION
Volume XXIII - No. 11
Durham, North Carolina. Saturday, March 14, 1942
Remember Pearl Harbor
Brigadier General Benjamin 0. Davis
J APS ACCUSED OF FIFTH
COLUMN ACTIVITIES
★ ★ • ★ ★ ★
Federal AgentsIViicover
Efforts Of Nipoiiese To
Spread Propaganda
Oen«ral DaTia, on dnty^at Fort
^iley, KansM, M • brigwe com
mander of the 2nd OaTsiry Divi-
Eion, ITM bom In Washiibton. D.
0., Jnne 1,^1877. >
He the military service
on Jnly IS, 1898, daring the War
with Si>aitv, as a first lieutenant of
of the 8tji United States Infantry,
He was mastered out on March 6,
i899, and on June 14, IBM, he es>-
Usted as a private in Trq^ I, 9th
Cavalry, of Ae Eefular Ai^. He
was promoted to corporal and
squadron sergeant-major and on
February 2, 1901, wa« commission
ed a second lieutenant of Calavry
in the Regular Army. He was pro
moted through all the grades to
that of brigadier general on Oc
tober 25, 1941. %
GOLDSBORO INSANE
ASYLIM ACCUSED OF
GROSS NEGLIGENCE
Raleiffh, Mar. 9. —(C)— The
State Hospital for the Insant at
Goldsboro and the State 6lind In-
stituote here wore still under fire,
last week as the “pitiful and help
less condition of inmates at Golds
boro'’ was given further study.
Dr. Ester L. Richards, psychiat
rist at John Hopkins hospital, and
principal speaker at the sixth aii-
niml ineeting of the North Carii-
linn Mental Hygeine Society her"?,
accused the state of “running her
mental institutions in a shoit-
sighted, parsimonious manner.’’
She said she was not a native of
the state, but that she could guecs
the general attitude, and contin
ued :
'*“..'hCnn you expect a few doc
tors overworked and underpaid
with insufficient nursing and or*
derly help adequately to look afic^r
sevcrfll thousand patients, managfl
tho dairy and farm, do all the buy
ing of supplies and arrange a pro
gram for patients to kijep them
busy and contented, and their re'a-
tives well-informed, and be them
selves well informed about the
homes from which their patienti
come ?
St. Louis, March 13th.—
(ANP) — Federal agents
seeking the source of pro-
Japanese propaganda spread
among Negroes since the at
tack on Pearl Harbor have
uncovered the fact that the
' Pacfic Movement ol the
Easterly .World, a lO-year-
old organization, is spon
sored by Japanese agents as
a “fifth crfumn” organiza
tion to spread confusion-and
dissension and disrupt Am
erica’s war effort.
Sponsors of the movement
here were Dr. Ashima Takis pnd
his superior from Chicago, M:
Liang, who are being sought by
federal agents, but are nowhere
to be found. Those Negroes who
lead the movetnent here view it
now as a perfectly proper fra
ternal organization with no sub
versive • tendencies but the doc
trine preached by its Japanese
sensors htts been revived v^ith
new intensity lately and respon
sible Negro leaders are ularmed
at its spread among the race.
The doctrine preaches that
FIRST NEGROES ARE COMMISSIONED
OFFICERS IN U. S. AIR CORPS
the price you pay.”
A wide-spread movement is un
der way to arouse public sentiment
for better conditions at the state
insane hospitals and the instituti(
for the blind and tie governo.’ r
committee investigating state men
tal hospitals is already at work.
Dir. R. P. Daniel, president of
Shaw university, is said to have
led the way among local Negm
citizens when in an interracial
goodwill addr^s in the ollege .au
ditorium he is quoted as having
said the white people of North
Carolina could do much to prom.ne
goodwill between white? and Ne
groes in the state if they placed
Negro administrative personnel at
the Blind Institute here and at the
Hospital for the Insane at Gold?-
bOro.
It was revealed Sunday that one
inmate who had been treated f«ir
blood syphilis several years finall.-
detested the treatment so that it
was discontinued and the health of
the inmate has improved.
The condition of the inmates
vary so much from day to day in
sortie cases, attendants said, it is n
(Continued on Page six)
Tuskegee, March. 13. — (By
JB. B. Walcott itjr ANP)—An
■event long desired Negroes
throughout the country became
a reality on Saturday, March 7,
wi'hen commissions as Second
lieutenants. in the„ U, S. Army
Air Corps were awarded to a
group of Negro pilots at the
post theatre of the air corps ad
vanced flying school. Among
those to receive commissions
were Capt. M. O. Davis, Jr.;
Cadeta MacRoss and George
Spencer Roberts, both of West
Virginia; Cadet Lemuel R. Cus-
tis, Hartford, Conn.; Cadet
Charles Henry DeBow, Indian
apolis and Hampton Institute.
Capt. Davis is the son of Brig.
Gen. Davis. He is a graduate
of West Point Military Acad
emy. His first assignment was
to Fort Benning,. Ga. After
about one year he was transfer
red to Tuskegee institute as pro-
(Continued on Page six)
Twin City ;T
Gets Secret Mission
Winston-Salem, Mar. !). —(CP)
—An army unit of 50 vehicles and
100 men on a secret mission ar
rived here from the south aboat
10:00 p. m. Monday and spent the
night here.
The convoy, made up mostly of
heavy trucks and trailers and in
cluding several light cars and vt
least one ambulance, came in over
highway 52 and parked on Norlh
Church street behind the city hall.
“We are on a secret mission,”
a soldier reported, “and operatinj:
under sealed orders. There’ll be an
armed guard posted about these
trucks later to night, so ple.i53
don’t come about. Sorry,, that’s «i)
1 can tell you.”
orderlies, attendants and'
so ore
nurses...
“The only criticism thi^t i^ con
structive is a criticism that aroUses
public consciousness to look into
the financial background-of public
hospitals to do a job analysis ori
Vhat the staff is expected to do,
... take a look at the wages of
nurses, orderlies and attendants
«pl honestly ask yourself if you
could do a better business job for
problem iust what treatment thev
Doctors are human after all; jj„ve.
Bishop Wright Says
Tf ilberforce Ousting
Report Is A ‘‘Liar**
PEARL Q
HARBOR/
\Vilberforce, Ohio, — “An error,
a mistake, a lie, an uncalled for
and' malicious lie,” was the lan
guage Bitihop R. R. Wright, Jr.,
used in referring to the statement
in the Chicago Defeilder and other
])apers last week that the Btshops’
Council has passed a resolution
ousting him from Wilberforce.
“The most charitable thing I can
say is that certain newspapers
were duped by some malicious cor
respondent who wanted to hold
ithe Bishops’ Council up to ridicul"
and make it appear that the bis
hops were trying to humiliate one
of their iiumber. It is true that the
Curry resolution was presented,
but it is also true that the Senior
Bishop Flipper, Chairman of the
Council, promptly ruled it out of
order and refused to permit it to
be discussed. “Everybody knows,”
said the venerable bishop, “that
such a resolution has no business
before this cov^ncil.” During some
part of the Bishops ’ session a resj-
lution was passed stating that ih?
Council did not approve of the
policy of a general officer or bis
hop holding two positions but in
order that it would be definitely
understood that this did not -e-
flect upon Bishop Wright, t)»e
Council unanimously voted “that
nothing in this resolution shall be
interpreted to reflect upon Bishop
R. R. Wright, Jr., who is tempo
rarily acting as President of Wil
berforce University,”
Bishop Wright further comment
ed, ‘jitpis very strange that this
correspondent omitted the many
constsuctive things the Bishops’
Council did, but consumed a whole
column propagating a nefarius lie
—giving publicity to something
that never happened. I can only
account for it by saying that he
wanted to discount*the dignity and
seriousness of the Bishops’ Coun
cil, for what reason I confess I
cannot tell. Why did he not pub
lish the aHe address by Bishop
Ransom, or the “Address to the
r
Guarding The Congo ;
m
m
ALTHOUGH BELGIUM PROPER hai been tinder Naai occnpation for nwiy two Bdtimn .
fighting nation i« far from finished. Photo ahowa four native aoldiert of the Belgim Coktmal forc^ gam- |
ing an outpost of the rich Belgian Congo, whence the United NatioBS g« ^ ^
need lor th«r arms ivoduction. Soldiers like theae, together with wtate Belgian. S«^ African and Brittaii .
troopc, and Abytainian “Patriots” also reconquered Ethiopia (Abjrasinia) from the Itaaaaa. _/
President C. C. Spauldins
Reports Over 7 Million In
Assets For Durham Co.
NYA Negro Division Sponsors
Consumer Education Conferences
Country,” by the Bishops? Why
not tell that the Governor of Mary
land, the Mayor of Baltinjore, the
U. S. Senators from Maryland, and
scores of outstahding citizens,
white as well as colored, attended
the public sessions of the CouuvmI
and paid high tribute to the lead
ership of the Bishops, giving spe
cial praise to the local presidine;
bishop ? Why keep silent on the
.$404 offering the first morning to
Allen iTfiiversity after their musi
cal chorus sang f Why not tell that
Government officials of many
branches, as well as scores of priv
ate citizens, came to pay-their re
spects to the bishops, while at
least 500 ministers and laymen
from as far as California, Texas,
Minnesota, Florida, and Massa
chusetts came just for the fellow
ship with the bishops and* their
friends T If the correspondent
wanted to pick me out for publici-
(Continued on Page aix)
J. P. Bond, Negro Affair Of
ficer^ of the Xational Youth Ad
ministration, announced over thir
ty Consumer Education Confer
ences to be held in key cities of
the state. Mrs. Laura Daley, field
representative of the Office ol'
Price Administration, Washingtou,
D. C., will be in charge of these
conferences. These conferences are
an outgrowth of a meeting held in
Greensboro with Miss Frances Wil
liams, Specialist in Consumer Edu
cation, Mrs. Laura Daley, Field
Representative in ConauAier Edu
cation, John Mitchell, Negro Stntc
Agent, Cooperative Extensio.i
Work in Agriculture, Miss lilae E.
Hamlin, NYA Adviser on Negro
Health Education, and J. P. Bond,
at which time plans were made to
educate Negroes in North Carolina
as to the value of Consumer Edu
cation, and lay the ground work
for some person in this- state to
head up Consumer Education work.
It was further planned that at
the end of these conferences, a
state meeting will be held as pari;
of this state meeting will be under
the supervision of extension work
ers, farm agents, and others inte.'-
csted in this tjrpe of work.
Several successful meetir^ hav*
been held up to this writing, anti
a good deal of enthusiasm has be*?.»
arou'sed in the state by the presen
tation of this type of inforraati«»»i
by Mrs. Daley. Local NYA Advis
ory Couimittees, NYA project sup
ervisors and youth have cooperat
ed in making these meetings a
succAs. According to Mr. Bonl,
“the bringing together; of NYA
groups and interested citizens ”?£,
the several communities guaran
teed Mrs. Daley a. cross section of^
public opinion.’'
Representatives of churches,
schools, civic organizations, aad
Civilian Defense Councils turn >d
out in large numbers to attend
these conferences.
Mrs. Daley has already appeir-
cd, or will appear in Greensboro,
■High Point; Winston-Salem. Dur
ham, Salisbury, Henderson, Rocky
Mount. Winston, New Bern, EUia-
beth City, Columbia, Washingtoi,
Kinston. Smithfield, Wilson, R*«i-
ejgh, Fayetteville, Tarboro, Wil
mington, Charlotte. ^
In commenting on the com-t
panjr's experiences during 1941,
C. C. Spaulding, president of
North Carolina Mutual Life In
surance Company, stated: “Not-*
withstanding the year just clos
ed was one of the most criticat
in the world's history, the com-*
pany finds itself in infinitely
better position to serve its 356,«
^ policy-holders and the pub«
He generally than ever before.
Thus, over six per cent of tho
Negro population in the terri*
tocy in whjich the company op«
erates carry North Carolina Mu-*
tual policies, thereliy directly or
indirectly safe guarding the fi-*
nancial interest of fVont twmty
to twenty-five per cent of this
group."
The summ&ry of th« toitf*
third Annual Statenwnt of
sets andi liabilities tbitt appom,
elsewhere in this paper reflects
the growth and ^bevelopment of
the company. Ih cwMBWrtang
on the statement. PnsidHit
S|^\ding calM
three outstandlinc fjwtw
should merit tike
confidence of both (
holders and fmnd «f th>
tution. He eiai mm
fact that:
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