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Volume XXIII —Number 19
BUY WAE BONDS TODAY Durham, North Carolina, Saturday, May 9, 1942
“^EP ’EM FLYINW*
Detroit Housing Project Occupied
Guards And Troops Give
Protection To Negroes
In Detroit Housing Units
Dist. Representative
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Detroit. —(By Robert A. Cruihp
for ANP)— Surrounded by 1,000
state troopers with rifles and fixed
bayonets, augmented by 1,000 eity
police with still inor^ state police
held in readiness, Negro faipilieg
moved into' th^ much °discu8tied So
journer Truth defense bomea proj
ect here Wednesday. It » fair
ly orderly -crowd who MMmbUd to
watch the caravan of familien with
van after van load of furniture es
corted by a convoy o^^scout cars
approach the project.
Needless to say there Was no at-
tmpted^Tif^pnce. .The *tj»te. tfpop«
pitched their caipp around the proj
ect Tuesday nigrht ready for any
enierffency and it is said they will
remain on the scene until th^ en
tire 200 families have moved in*-
mans, who resiprned a few days ago
but at n ted that he would stay with
thfi police department until the
Truth problem, which had caused
such n long drawn out controversy
and fight over Negro occupancy,
was settled, was in direct charge
of the local police. This, however,
’"flvked a decided change in the at
titude of the former commissioner
who failed to properly instruct the
police in their duties when Negroes
attemnted to move into the woject
lajif Feb. 24, which resulted in a
riot and the arrest .of several, some
of whom are still in custody.
Lenders in the fight for Negro
occupancy, among them' the Rev.
Navy Recruiting
Officers “Haven’t
Heartf^)f New Policy l!n Texas
Acc^ting N^roes Is To fie White
Witnesses Admit
Only Rule For Voting
(Continued on Page four)
New T^ork, (Special) — Secre
tary of the Navy Frank Knox
.told the press on April 7 x that
Negron will be enlisted in the
Navy, hut he evidently hasn’t yot
told the Nary. « -
This week, Walter White,
NAACP executive secretary, in
quired of the Navy as to when the
enlistment of Negroes as seamen
in the Navy begin. Mi^ WhiU
said: “Numerous reporta have
been made to this office that Ne
groes seeking to enlist have been
told by recruiting stations they
have no official knowledge of any
change in policy.”
The New York HERALD TRI-
BUNE, on May 1, reported that
roTnmander B. B. Ralston, in
charge of recruiting in the New
York area, said, “no instruc
tions have been received as yet on
Negro enlistments.” The Herald
Tribune said Ralston stated no
word had come from Washington
as to the prospective date when
such enlistments will commence,
and that he added that “he pre
sumed that plans for trainin^f cen-
ters were being set up’.’
Students Badiy
Beaten On Train
Nashville. —(ANP)— Two Tal
ladega students, part of a group of
a dozen riding on the L. and N.
;*ailroad between Birmingham and
Nashville, early Wednesday morn
ing were severely beaten by. two
trainmen, one the conductor of the
train. The students, returning to
their homes after the commence
ment^ at Talladega college, inter
rupted their trip Here after tv-o of
the party, Reginald Brown of Cin
cinnati and Claude Shafer of Chi
cago were injured. Investigation of
the Incident is under way by both
railroad and college officials.
The students, leaving Talladega
campus after commencement which
was held early this year, changed
trains at Birmingham, to come
north over the Louisvine"and Nash
ville Railroad. About 2:20 in the
morning and some 56 miles from
Nashville, after the students had-
requested the conductor s^veral
*ime» to dim the lights so they
could sleep and been refused, tn
altercation arose over the matter.
The students claim that the half
of the train coach occupied by
vhites had the light* dimmed but |bIows he received.
that the jim crow section in v/hich
they rode did not.
^The conductor when forward
and one of the boys went to the
control box, it is said, and dimmed
th« lights. Returning, the conduc
tor irately demanded to know who
had lowred the light.H. A white
trainman, off duty baf' whone
clothes bore L. and N. buttons,
poipted to Reginald Brown whose
home is in Cincinnati. Brown had
not stirred from his seat but the
conductor assaulted him with his
ticket punch, infircting several
minor contusions of the scalp. At
Meharry college here where Brown
was brought for examination after
the arrival of the train, the stu
dent WPS detained for observations
while t«e other young people were
sent on to their various homes,
Claude Shafer of Morean Park,
Chicago, who was sitting wifh
^rown. T)ecame involved in the
fight also, the second\railroad man
"'itching in to help the conductor.
Shafer received a black eye and
his face was i^ollen from the
Houston, Texas, (Special to the
%IMES) — All anyone Jias to do
to become a member of tht* Demo
cratic party in Texas is to be
white and think he >s a Democrat.
even if a pejrs«« is not »
member of the Democratic party,
he can vote in the Democratic
pritiiiiry. if he is white.
These admissions were made by
the top officers of the state De
mocratic Executive committee^
B. Germany chairman, and C. A.
Butcher, STecretary, on the witness
stand at the trial of the famed
Texas “white primary” case Sat
urday, April 25. These admissions
and oilier testimony at the trial,
along with the statues of Texas,
led to prelictions among .authori
ties in constitutional law that Ne
groes in Texas will soon have the
right to vote.
One of the election judges being
sued by Dr. Lonnie E. Smith, of
this city, for refusing him a ballot
in the Democratic primary, July,
1940, admitted a white prosi)eetive
voter was never questioned about
what party he belonged to. As a
matter of fact, he revealed, white
Democrats, Socialists, Communists
and Independents could vote in
Democratic primary so long as
they were white. No Negroes, re
gardless of their qualifications,
were allowed to vote.
Dr. Smith’s suit against E. S.
Allwright and James J. Luizza,
election judges, was filed here
November IS, 1941. The defend
ants have claimed that Democra
tic primary electionsJj^exas wei’e
party elections and Therefore not
subject to federal or state control.
Thurgood Marshall, NAACP
special counsel, who has just re
turned td New York from Hous
ton, said that testimony brought
out that the Democratic party
here has but few characteristics of
n closed organization. It has no
constitution, no by laws, no rules,
.save statutes of Texas, no mem
bership rolls, and no method for
becoming » . member, except by
considering oneself one. Butcher
and Germany also stated that
Democratic party elections were
run in accordance with the statut
es of Texas.
Mr. Marshall, counsel for Dr,
Smith, pointed out in his argu
ment before the court that under
the facts and law, this case is al
most identical with that of S.
vs Classic, in which the U. S.
Supreme Court held that the pri
mary election in Louisiana was an
integral part the election mach
inery of the state and therefore
subject to federal control. Mr.
Marshall was assisted by Attorney
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(Continued on Page four)
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J. S. Stewart, Basileous of the
DurhaiUj^Cht^tertet' the Omega Psi
"PhT fraternity and treasurer of tlie
Mutual Building and Loan Asso
ciation, who will preside over the
opening program of the Sixth Reg
ional District Conference of the
Omegas which will open a two-day
^^6n~Rerc FTfady, Tffay 87
Attorney E. lvpr''''t Hightowei^"
of (Ireensboro, District Represent
ative of the Omega Fraternity who
will preside over all business ses
sions of the District Conference of
the fraternity when it meets here
|Friiny and.Saturday.
Shaw University firadyates
To Hear Dr. Ryland Kaight
Raleigh, (Special to the TIMES) the .Joint Committee of the four
— Dr. Ryland Knight, pastor of | conventions on Negro Ministerial
the Ponce de Leon Church in At- * '
Itanta, Georgia, and chairman of (Continued on Page four)
NAACP Wants
Negroes On Local
Rationing Boards
New York — N(^o*s shonld b»*
placed on local rationing boards,
and should be considered for em
ployment as p*1d executive secre
taries of the boards, the XAACP
suggested to Leon Henderson ad
ministrator of the Office of Price
Administration in a letter May 1.
The NAACP said that it under
stands the rationing sy-tcm will
provide for local boards of three
or five persons from each 2.),000
population, members of which will
serve without pay. To these jhe
NAACP urved the appointment of
Nebroes, “perhaps in proportion
to population ratio in various com-
sunities. ” -
The .NAACP also that it has
learned that the plan is for each
)M)ard to have a paid executive
secretary. It urved that Negroes
be considered for these i>osilions
and mentioned the precedent set
by the Selective Service Act^
Henderson was also told that
frec>!ing prices at March levels in
certain sections of communities
■’ere prices are very hibh would
work hardships on colored Ameri
cans and other disadvantaged
groups by forcing them to carry a
heavier bhrden due to lower aver
age income, discrimination in em
ployment and the necessity of
paying the same tax as others
more advantaged.
Durham Visitor
White Attorney in Soutli
Caroiina Pleads For Race
Voters I n Tha t State
Rile Ikt NegrojASA SPAUIDING DELIVERS
Must Be 87 To Vote INTERESTING RADIO ADDRESS
May Be Changed In
South Carolina
Columbia, S. C. t— After all the
namfes of Negroes who had regis
tered to vote in the Democratic
primary here were purged from
the lists because of the rule that
they must have voted the Democra
tie ticket continuously for 60
years, a large delegation of arous
ed citizens, led by the locabNAA
CP, succeeded in getting the city
board of elections to ask the con
vention of the state Democratic
committee to consider changing
the rule.
The state committee will meet
this month. Should it change the
rule, it will be a major victory in
colored citizens' fight for full de
mocracy, the NAACP said.
Negroes were allowed to regis
ter for the primary election here,
but according to James M. Hin
ton, chairman of the NAACP ex
ecutive committee, it was an em
pty gesture, since under the rill
ing of the Democratic party, a
Negro must be least 87 years old
TO OPEN NEGRO INSURANCE WEEK
(Continued on Page four)
Durham. —(ANP)— In a spirit
ed speech, delivered Sunday, May
3, on the “Wings Over Jordan”
program, a CBS feature, A. T.
Spadlding, president National Ne
gro Insurance association, official
ly opened the association’s 8th an
nual National Negro Insurance
week.
President Spaulding's message,
lieard from th€^ Atlantic to the
Pacific and from the Canadian
border to the Gulf of Mexico, was
as follows:^
“Tomorrow the 41 member com
panies and 11 associations of the
National Ne|rro Insurance associa
tion begin the observance of the
eighth Annual National Negro In
surance week in the 28 states in
which they operate.
In a time like this, when our
American way of life as well as
our security hang in the balance,
as we seek «ur way in a world
darkened with the vast tragedy
of war, and shaken to its very
center by momentous social, eco
nomic, and political changes, I be
lieve you would b« more interested
in knowing what the attitude of
our insurance conipanies is toward
helping attain and perpetuate the
ideals for which true democracy
stands, than in certain statistic^! or
other facts and figures which I
might present.
History reveals that life and
life insurance have thrived best
under democratic forms of govern
ments. The institution of life in
surance is so closely identified
with the growth, and the develop
ment of the resources of tbs coun
try, that today our 7 per cent of
the world’s population holds over
70 per cent of the world’s life in
surance, and our standard of liv
ing is liigher than is to be found
anywhere else in the world. It is
fitting, therefore, that we hold on
td that which time and experience
have proved to be good, and en
deavor to make it more widespread
and more firmly established.
As the representatives of our
companies go forth in the morning
lo contact the homes of the major
portion of our 13 million Ameri
can Negroes before the week ends,
(Coatinaed on Page four)
Mrs. Margaret Keniicdy-(!(XMh (foodwin, since her marriaf* Tast
win is in the eity visiting'her par- -Iiine. has been raiding ill Wa^-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. kennedy, itvsrton, D. C.
Jr., 1008 Fayettfvillo Street. Mrs.
Omegas To Hold
District Confab.
Friday, Saturday
Detrmt Citizens Are
Praised In Sojourner
Truth Victory
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New . \ork — Although many
forces were at work to secure Ne
gro occupancy' of the Sojourner
Truth Housing project in Detroit,
which began April 29, chief con
gratulations should go to the So
journer Truth Citizen's Com-
Aittee, it was asserted today by
the NAACP.
In a telegram of congratula
tions to Reverend Charles Hill,
chairman of the CitLiens’ Com-
mittiee, the NAACP said;
“National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
sends heartiest congratulations to
you and every member and sup
porter of the Citiaeds’ Committee
on the final victory in the lon^
battle for the oeeupaney of the
Sojourner Truth project. Many
foroes were at work, bnt without
the United and persistent efforts
of the citizens of Detroit through
your committee, we doubt that we
would have won.”
J. S. Stewart, Basileus of tie
local chapter of the Omega Psi Phi
fraternity, announceii this week
that plans have been completed f»r
the entertainment of the Sixth
Regional District Conference of the
organijtation which will eoarene
for a two-day session, Frida? and
Saturday, May 8-9.
The theme of the confemee wU|
be ‘ ‘ Organization for Real Deeoe*
racy’’ which is in keeping with |]M»
Double V program already
cd by Negroes all over the eooatyy.
On Friday eveninfc at eit^t o'
clock at the White Rock
Church a public progrmaa
held at which tiaie the pruii^wl
address of the eonfere— *91 1m'
delivered by Attoftiajr J.
Hopkins, Jr., of the NAACP vlaft
in Richmond, Ta.
Social activities for tkft
tainmeiit of the vtailia||
and friends will be Mi^o4k. Mfr*
(lay and Saturday AJI lH||^
ness sessions wiU h* Mi
North Carolina CaBft Hhr IW
groee.'
Committee on au
M. Hugh HioiBps«i«
D. Hill. John BaOtr, mMi
Harris. '