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Durham A.B.C. Officer On Rampage MAILUW; EDITION Volume XXIII— Number 14 —Ruy Defense Stamps AND BONDS Durham, North Carolina. Saturday, April 4, 1942 “KEEP ’EM FLYINC?* hi Oiaffloftd Jiibtlee CelebratioB^ SOLDIERS MURDER INVESTIGATED Missouri Under Fire; Abolishes Journalism Prineipals In Police Brutality Case Little Rock, Ark.—(ANP)—The flelrSoiight (l«y evening during a mele® in the Negro district in connection with liie arrest of another colored sol dier has brought on two separate inT#stigations to determine who was at fault, and whether the ac counts of the priaeipals involved ■ in the altarcatioD “are trua. The separate investigaUons were begun early Monday, but 'oeilher military authorities or civil attthorities would release any information oth er than that a full report will be made public after the investiga tions had been closed. The victim of the shooting was Sgt. Thomas B. Poster, 30-year-old, native of Zebnlon,'N, C., who en listed in the aj-my last May 31 at ‘Baltimore. He was a member of the 92nd engineer battalion, whieh was sent to Camp Robinsort here several months ago ti do construc- tion work. According to city police, the shooting began with the unsuceess- (Continued on Page six) h Aircraft Speed-up Since Peari Harbor New York.—(C)— Thei speedup in ihe aircraft industry since the attack on Pearl Harbor has caused numerous manufacturers to lift the ban on colored help, a- report by the Labor Division of the War. Production Board stated . March 21st. ^ The Douglas Aircraft,Corp, was the only firm to employ colored workers before March, 1941, but in recent months thousands have been added to aircraft and aircraft engine plant payrolls, the report j^ated. Other • companies witli cbWred defense training graduates enroll ed include Glenn L. Mattin Co.,' Lockheed - Vega, Consolidated, North American Aviation and oth er large corporations with plants in New York, New Jersey, Penn sylvania, Ohio and Missouri. The aboTe sceoe shows James Wood, latest victim, of a brutal assault at the hands of Henry Morgan, notorious member of th« the witnesses to the beating. The Durham A. B. C. (Aasault-Bittery and Constrictor) SQuad. Mr. Wood is shown in conference with his at torney, 0. O. Pearson and one o€ case will he tried in the Becorders Oourt of Durham, April 10, and is being backed by the Durham Com mittee on Negro Affairs. Harry Morgan Again Charged With Brutai Attacit onjl^gro IMan mu lilan- Discriwation Labor Order in Housing Haiti Can Grow Most Of Goods Cut Oif By The Pacific War National Negro Health and Trade Week Observance Memphis, April 2 A procla mation issued by J. E- Walker, president of National $^egro Business league, here last week announced the X942 Spring Negro Trade week cami»ign and the observance of the birth day of Booker T. Washington, founder of the league. Combin ed with these two programs is the observance of National Negro Health week a movement which was also started by the late Dr. Washington. All will l)e obsered during the month of April. Call ing all local Ne|rru^ busi ness leagues, chambers of com merce and other gropes devoted to the eqonomic advancement of the race to arrange «i|{tablei programs for the birthday obtar vance and trade stimulating effort, the proclamation declar ed, “Our nation is engaged in a great war to preserve its tradi tions and its basic principles of free government. In this strug gle all groups and individuals in bur nation are impelled by instincts of preservation to de vote their utmost in energy and resources to stay the advance of our aggressors. ’’ The trade week campaign in the spring and fall are sponsor ed by the league for the purpose of advertising the servce and facilities of Negro business en terprises and professional grops This spring’s campaign will pla ces increasod emphasis on the Famous Institution Honored Aptil 6-7 (Cimtinued on Page six) Johnson Smith University ob serves its Diamond Jubilee begin ning Monday, April 6, 1942. The schedule for the events is as fol lows; •On Monday, April 6th at 2:00 P. M. will be the meeting of the Alumni Association. At 8:15 P. M. there will be a discussion of “Smith Through the Years’' at which time various distinguished Alumni will give statements of the highlights in the development of Johnson C. Smith University dur ing the twenty-five year periods. The period of 1867-92 will be cov ered by Dr. G. E. Davis, Executive Secretary of 'the North Carolina Negro Teachers Association. -Dr. Davis is a graduate of Johnson C. ‘^mith University in the class of 1883. He became a member of the faculty in 1886 and is one of the first Negroes to teach in a College. He was present as a member of the faculty when the institution obsen^d its Twenty-fifth Anni versary and its Fiftieth Anniver sary, He will be a speaker on the occasion of its Seventy-fifth Anui- versary. Dr- Da.vis in his talk will review many facts that have not yet been published about the in stitution. ‘At 9:30 P. 'M. Monday an In- ■¥l formal Acquaintance Hour will be held. On Tuesday, April 7th at 3 ;00 P. M. the formal exercises of the Seventy-fifth Anniversary Found ers’ Day Celebration will be held. The Anniversary address will be given by Dr. Julian 8. Miller, Edi tor of the Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, N .C. Greetings on Be half of the Board of Trustees will he given by Dr. John M. Gaston, Seeretary-Treasurer of Johnson C. Smith University, Inc., Rttsburg, Pennsylvania, and Grettings on Behalf of the Alumni will be given by Dr. R. P- Perry, graduate of the class of J92o who at the present time is Director of the Division of Arts and Sciences, Prairie View State College, Prairie View, Texas. With the beginning of these ex ercises the. institution initiates the Diamond Jubilee Anniversary Campaign. A strenuous effort Is being made to raise a fund of $250,000 as a memorial to its founders. It has been suggested that unit donations of $75.00 be given. This amounts to One Dollar for every year of the insfcitntion’s existence. The donors of one or more units will have a gold star placed "beside their namef? for each lUnit contributed. When the late .James B. Duke failed in Pr«sidi.-nl McCrore.v to teJl him of the provi sions he had made for the insti tution in his will he stated that he felt that his gift was a safe invest ment. This has characterised the friends of the institution through the years. Every cent given to the institution has been a safe invest ment which has contributed to the improvement of our American life. For seventy-five years this school has furnished leadership in com munities throughont the United States. Invitations have gone out to all graduates whose addresses are on file in the office. Many graduates from' all over the- country will be returning to their Alma Mater for a general get-to-gether on this oc casion. A number of other institu tions, edueattional foundations, businessmen and citizens will be lupresented on this occasion. Coxswain —Say, "Shief, that sea man has been sitting there all day, doing nothing but wasting his time. ChiefHow do you know? Coxswain — I’ve been matching him,' Washington, April 2 An order extending the non-discrimina tion labor policy initiated by the Public Works administra tion and developed under the U. S. Housing authority and Federal Works agency to cover all defense housing coi\struc- tion, permanent and temporary, was issued by the Federal Pub lic Housing authority in the National Housing agency Frank S. Horne announsed ln^re last week. The order provides against discrimination in employment on all defense housing construt- ed under the Lanham act, and gives specific instructions which are to be adhered to and insert- ^ed in contract documents- for work on defense housing. The order reads in part: "There shall be no discrimina tion l?y reason of race, creed, color, national origin or politi cal affiliations, in eiiiployment of persons, qualified by training and experience, for work in the development of defense hous ing at the site thereof. “In order to ascertain com pliance with the foregoing in struction, in respect to Negro labor, it is requaired that. “1. Contracting officers in charge of the development of defense housing affected by said instruction: “a. Submit to each contractor engaged ’‘in constructing any such defense housing the per centage of Nesrro skilled and unskilled labor in the locality of the project, as reflected by the federal census and • other relevant data, as determine by the federal public housing com missioner. “b. Require each cotnractor engaged in constructing any such defense housing to indi cate. by notation (W for non- Negro, N for Negro) on pay roll forms required to he sub mitted to the government, the race of ea* h laborer, skill or un skilled, listed on such- pasrroH .forms; and The unr^trM»trff mir- 4are that A, B. t'. officer Harrr Morgan has waged on Xejjro eiti- zens of Durham, bmke i»ut anew last Sunday niorniuir. Thi^ tiisn* rtlie TiflTm was .fiiiBies Wiwkls oC '(K)2 Ray Alley, who wa? nnmerci- fidly beaten on a Jiranch roa«l o£ Hifjhway No. 5.*. ilr. WimhIs, c marrieti man with three cluidren, has sworn out a warrant for the arrest of Harry Morgan, «+urgiajj assault and Hat Jery with * A?adly weaj)on. He ha> solicited the sup port of the rhirhaiu t'oniuiittee on. Negri> Affairs in liaiking his and the counsel of’^Attx. C. O. Pearson. W’^ashington. JIar. 2-1. — Haiti mtttV’ be able to |jrovide for the United States stratesric a^rirul- .tural products which were imp«rt'-“ eu fro mthe Far East befoie the wa rin the Pacific started, Presi- dcDt Roosevelt indicated today at his press conference. - Tlie President, discussing hi.s luncheon with President Elie Les cot of Haiti cited Haitian sisal as According to .James Wools, one product which the Latin^Anier- Sunday morning, March be i(*an republic might sell the United stopped at a Dnrham cafe and was States. Sisal is used for hemp and a«ked 8y friends to take them to roj>e, highly necessary in the Navy, j a p*»»t on higikway V>. While driv- and was imported from the Philip- j ing on thir trip a ahert distaocs pines before Dec. 7. His discussion out of Durham eity limits, h* wb9 with the Haitian President woulJstopped by a h%hway patrolman lead to a conference with Mr. Les- j and officer Harry Morgan. Woods lot’s agiienltural adviser, Thomas'was searched and made to walk Fennell, Mar. 25, Mr. Roosevelt | to test his sobriety. He was said. I tioued about drinking and an at- —I tempt was made to make him eoiw People who get tired easily sel- (lt>m accomplish much work. (Continued on Page six) Graduate Course In Journalism Dropped at Mo. U. N. C. Oldk Boys I The University of Missoari hn rt f • A i iscontinued its grmduate wofll: Conference Expects > • has not offered.^his woclc I 200 ’Boys to Atteirf Raleigh. — More than 200 boys from the mountains to the sea shore are expetted to attend the fifteenth annual North Carolina Older Boyi Conferinee whieh is to be held at the Washington High School here on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, April 17,18, 19, 1942, it was announced this week. Registration will start at th« high scboiol at two-o^elofk J’ridayt April 17. The iegkto«tion fee is f^idO for eac^delflfate, whieh will take care ot the board and lodg- (Continued o& six) students in Mi^uri ) uary 29, according to wer filed by S. W. gistrar of the , usi: the suit of M[i^ Lucili against him »r the school. . .... The date given for tinuance of tb« Friday preM^inc, ^ that Lincoln Jefferson City ^ool of Universi^ of Ml takqn to Milt mands tluit fell
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