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Volume XXIII —No. 12
Durham, North Carolina. Saturday, .March 21, 1942
Keep ’Em Flying
“‘No Discrimination** Order Of F. EL R. Being Ignored
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U-S-HOSPfTAL GETS NEGRO STAFF
Defense Workers To Parade In Queen City
Get Recognitioii
From War Dep't
Chicago, —(ANP)— The war
doparthient has plans for the de-
velopmeat of a complete hospital
unit to be located at Fort Hua-
ehuch, to be .staffed with Negro
bh^aifiiHOs who win be 4rawn fr«ra
bofb tbc' reserve corpi aqd from
civil life and wWo“%ill be in com
mand positions bear the hig^hest
military rank which Negro medical
men have ever attained in the army.
The list of need personnel calls
for 16 majors, 11 captaing and 10
lieutenants in the medical corps;
for three majors, a captain ‘ and
lieutenant in the dental corps; and
six medical administrative offic
ers. In addition, there will be 70
nurses and 370 enlisted men.
For the first time in the history
of the United States army, Negro
medical professionals will be ad
mitted on the basis of their abili
ty, given adequate rank and the
opportunity to do full work in
keeping with their training. In
World War Ij I^egro doctors were
in fact mere first aid attendants.
None -i?ot above the rank of cap
tain with the exception of Maj.
J. H. Ward, who received hia_ ma
jority in rather oblique fashion and
not because the the medical corps
in general wished him to have it.
From the majors inducted into this
new unit, three will be advanced
to lieutenant colonel and one to
colonel.
The opening created by the ar
my through the surgeon general’s
office comes as direct result of the
agitation which has been carried
On by Ihe National Medical asso
ciation. It will be a completely sep
arate unit, stationed with the all-
Nogro division at Port Huachuca,
Ariz. '
Dr. M. 0. Bousfield, chairman of
the sub-committee of the National
Medical Association Procurement
and Assignment service, who made
the announcejnent after a confer,
ence with the sergeon general,
pointed out the new unit is a vic
tory for the protest against exclu
sion of Negro doctors.
“It gives protection,” said Dt.
BousfielJ, “to Our best physicians
in two ways; it -prevents their be
ing drafted into the ranks and
gives tjreater protection through
being assigned" to a station hos-
pitaj which will not be disturbed
unless the country is bombed or
successfully invaded. The men in
this group will not likely see active
service with the fighting forces."
Negro physicians will be select
ed on the eame basis that white
physieiins were selected* There
hng been some misapprehension^
Dr. Bolisfield said, because doc
tors felt that unless they were
Gen. Senj. 0. Davis
Visits Shaw Univ.
i!Mut«s Atmy Hero
'Raleigh, Mar. 14.-;—General Ben
jamin ^O. Davis, highest ranking
N^o officer in the United States
Army was u guest J^fdnesday,
March 11, at Shaw University,
where he looked over th& campus
and paid special homage to Henry
Martin Tupper, the union army
soldier who founded Shaw Univer
sity in 1865.
During Jus visit. General Davis
address^ briefly the ShaW Uni
versity student body compliment
ing them on their defense program
and encouraging them to put forth
every effort to assist in the de
fense of the country of which they
are a part.
General Davis was introduced by
President Robert P. Daniel who
had extended the officer on invita
tion to stop at Shaw on his tour of
inspection. *
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Pickens To Speak
At Tuskegee Youth
Meeting April 19th
Birmingham, Ala., Mar, 12. —
The statement that Dean William
Pickens, Staff Assistant on the
Defense^ Savings Staff of the
Treasury Department, will be one
of the principal speakers at the
~^THfi¥-^m-^m4iEGR0i£ABAVAN”
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To
Editors and compilers of “The Negro-Caravan”, monunrxcntal anthology of American Ne
gro creative writing recently published by the Dryden press, New'York, wer.e the three univer-
sity professors pictured here. Left to right they are Sterling Brown, Howard, university; Ulys
ses Lee, Lincoln university, and A.rthur P. Davis, Virginia Union. (ANP)
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Of U.S. In South Americl
White AFL ^rkers Axis Tells Brazflians
Th/-eaten. Strike If
Negroes €et Work
Many Defense Industries
Still Refuse To Give Jobs
To Competent Negroes
New York.—Twenty-seven lead
ers who signed an urgent appeal
to President Roosevelt to stop fas
cist tactics from teing applied to
colored Americans in this country,
have so far received only a brief
acknowledgement of the receipt of
their communication from Secre
tary of Labor Frances Perkijis, to
whom it was referred. The letter,
which askod the President to call
a conference to integrate Negroes
into America’s; war effort, was
sent February 5 — more than a
iiuMith ago.
closi2ig session of the Fifth All-' The appeal stated that the latest
Southern Negro Youth Conference act of exclusion by the government
at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, ,was the administration’s failure
Victorious
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on Sunday, April 19th, featured
announcements concerning Confer
ence preparations here this week.
It was- pointed out that Dean
Pickens, whose recent remarks at
Tuskegee dealing with the place of
the Negro in the war effort caused
widespread comment, is one of
many government officials invited
to address the youth delegates at
the famous institution. In point
ing to the importance of giving
young people a chance to hear
speakers who have the moSt inti
mate contact with the gpvern-
ment's activities, the Southern Ne
gro Youth Congress, initiators of
the Conference, declared that its
aim is, ‘ ‘ to stimulate, clearify, and
reassure one thousand delegated
Negro youths from all over the
South; to bring them to a fuller
consciousness of what the war
means to them and how they can
serve th>> nation.”
to appoint a Negro to the War
Labor Board. “Almost without ex
ception, in the war effort Negroes
are being asked to give of their
substance and to make every sacri
fice, without at the same time be
ing permitted to join in the making
and execution of plans for a suc
cessful war and a just peace.”
This adds, the letter said, to the
exclusion and discrimination al
ready practiced by the U. S. Army
and Navy and the insult of the
American Red Cross policy for
fsegregating of Negro bl^d. “What,
Mr. President, is there for the Ne
gro to hope and fight forf" the
letter continues.
“We.urge once again that you
take the lead in arousing members
of your Cabinet, the American gov
ernment and the American people
to the enlightened, selfish point ^
Colored teachers In
Florida Match Blow
For Blow In Equal
Pay Suits Underway
Jacksonville, Fla. — Although
white teachers of Florida are
fighting hard to block the equal
pay suit filed in the U. S. district
court here, the Colored Teachers’
Association intends to match each
action, Thurgopd Marshall, NAA-
CP special counsel, who, with S. D.
McGill, is counsel for the colored
teachers, said this week.
The white teachers filed Febru
ary 10, a petition to intervene in
the suit against the board of^pub-
__ lie instruction of Duval county,
Atty. Georg# W. IiawrencB of against whom Mary White Block-
Ohicago, whose recent victory af- behalf of herself and other
Lester B. Granger, -Execulive
Secretary of the National Urban
League, today called to the atten
tion of William. Green, President
of the American Federation ot
Labor, the threatened strike of the
Amalgamate;! Association of Street
and IQlectric Railway and Motor
("oach Employees of America, in
San Francise.), which would com
pletely tie up transportation in
that key port of defense. The pro
posed stride is being called liecause
the union objects to accepting as a
member a Negro who has. lieen cer
tified by the city for the jol) of
motorman. The letter also pointeil
out that sev-n other A. F. of L.
unions important to defense arc
impeding vital waf production be
cause even though there is a short
age of labor, and Negroes are qual
ified for the jobs which they i>er-
form, these unions continue to
maintain “white only” claui^es iii
their qualifications for member
ship.
Yo^k. March Ifi. — The U.
S. gr«‘C‘nniient had Jietter wake
up to the fact that it^
neighbor [M>licy’’ in In dansjer in
Sioirtb Qnli>^
intt* .ateH Jfegroe^ ntor^**
fully into th#*itattoBal pietare, tl»e
NAACP siaid week.
Althnugli th«* Negro and
f»rganiz»tion>* h a
awar^ of t|ie daBi:**:. ■. ,
ognition of jt:j|;'p - ’tw
when ^A>^hibahi 4.' a :
t»f th» £
Figures, r«*portec? hut ti ,t
nese Embassy in . m. i>
effectively using I . aut
bias to create in >nuifh
America.
ter a six-yeax fight in gaining a
fSOO verdict for Mrs. Hattie Hollo-
day in a diBcrinUnatioa case
against the Hotel Windemere drug
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colored teachers is taking action.
Judge Louis W. Strum of the U.
S. district court, denied the peti
tion, and the white teachers have
store of that city, has received w-J notified the NAACP and the tea-
claim. It was the first time uie
maximum award had been r*«eived
in a case under the Illinois civil
rights bill. (ANP)
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BABLinr^
vLincoln County farmers are rap
idly increasing their acreages.of
barley, using new improved varie
ties, reports J. W. Webster, assis
tant farm agent of the N. C. State
College Extension Ser\nce.
chers of their intention to appeal.
An answer to the appeal will be
filed, Mr. Marshall said.
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Aluminu mplans will expand
again to 2,500,000,000 pounds.
Farm labor plan of “work or
fight” urged to win was.
Work begins on planet-landing
atrip above highways.
FBI Says Lynching
Case Is Still Open;
Inquiry Continiung
Washington. —(ANP)— Despite
the finding of a state grand jury
at Benton, Mo., that there was in
sufficient evidence for an indict
ment, Atty. Gen. Biddle announced,
here last Thursday that the Feder
al Bureau of Investigation would
continue its inquiry into the lynch-,
in^ of - Cleo Wright at Sikeston,
Mo., last Jan. 25.
Biddle said the action of the
state' grand jury did not affect
possible federal prosecution und,"r
the civil rights stations. FBI ag
ents began investigation of the
lynching on Feb. 13 and a prelim
inary report for use before the
grand jury was sent to Gov. Don
nell of Miss.wi Feb. 28.
Drawing attention to the fact
that he was acting up Asst. Atty.
Gen. Wendell Berge’a reeommenda-
tion, Biddle said that the inquiry
was begun “in view of the appar
ent failure of local police authori
ties to provide the prisoner ijith
proper protection." Berge is in
charge of tne justice department’s
icriminal division.
Dr. Mary J. McCrorey. promin-
net natiOTul leader and dean of
vrommi, Johssoo C. Smith
sity, Charlotte who addxesaed Nor
folk Women’s Clnb last Sunday on
the program of clinrch at work in
public affairs and duties of women
in the prognon.
Racial prejurli ’ -ii tho
one nf the mair^ ■'
Axis propagaml’ "^la. T.. ci.
It is particularly . fft -t- p '
zil where one fou ’' i>t rbe 4"
Of^ inhabitants
Axis i« spreadic."
iai violence in N’'rth Auer
circulates word ' U' >urh
of lynchings am*
Negro soldiers, * , ’ '
contention thlit
Negro enjoys c
his fellow Negj
still a slave ?ie
slavery after tl
only a formal a‘*i.
Brazilians are t-M
Amerieanisiia w-u1d mean -!•
for the blaek rac' 't; thsiT > :
It is reportel thii. hir;?t ti'.
of Negroes in Bra 1
suit, gone over
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Queen City Plans
Big Defense
Workers Parade
Charlotte. — A huge Civilian
Defense Exposition and Parade in
which 7,llW Mecklenburg defense
workers will participate, the sec
ond such pr(^ram held in the
South, will be given here on the
night of May 14, according to
plans mad? today at a meeting of
civic jMid defense leaders.
Details of the exposition and pa
rade will be worked ont by am ar
rangements committee iriiich viti
be appointed by Defense Co-Ordi
nator
the business dis!‘. .ml
ont their drties in a show a'
morial Studium.
Otmvw^on Here
The program amu -•mncitte
the thirteenth annual state-i
Industrial Safety ; '* nf» f whi
will draw 1,500 peri’‘t> t^; * i
®n May 14» 15* aaU Lfi. E. G. Pad
gett of Sakii^ dtreeti r >t, if»>ty
in the Notctil Ci».4iua
Co»6aissl8e» met witk the
lal(|» kwiers •norntitt;: at
Cweercf dttei
Paul R. Ae«QHfa«^ ^ aiS
to general plans made today, all
trained defense vohinte«n> in the
various units in the ed«aty will
Itake part in tke' purade tkroaflk
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in the
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