MAI.LING
EDrtlON
V01i.UME xxm - NUMBER 32
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURBAY," AUGUST 1st, 1942
BUY UNITED STATES WAR BONW
fEDERAL MEN TO INVESTIGATE TEXARKANA LYNCHIHI
ROXBORO M06BISTS PIROLED
Judge Landis Gives
“Greei Light” To
Negro Ball Players
Train For First Aid Detachments
BT XXar JB8SAAIY
New York, (Calvin’s News- Ser
vice) — Judge KeOesaw Moun
tain Landifl, High Commissioner
of Profes$tonal Basf^all, threw
the lie biftk into the teeth of
profesHioltel baseball club owners
and managers when in an inter
view laat ive^k he state! “that
tber« is no rule, formal, iniomat
or otherwise — that says a ball
player must be whUe. There is
nothin;? to prevent one player or
the full limH of twenty five play
ers being color^ on any TOpballTinr -wTiTte—mini IniPTf ttnthiiig
team. It is up to"’the owners and " ’ '■
mana£;ers to put their playei:^ on
the field — the best plf^yrs tliey
pan get — white or Negro. I in
sist there's Ho law now or ever
against it.”
In issuing this statement, I^n-
dis was catching up on a .'J-year-
, old interview granted by Ijeo Dur
ooher, manaker of the National
League champions, the Brooklyn
Dodgers. I^ndis last week called
Duroeher to his office to clear up
a statement Lippy Leo allegedly
t made during an interview wUh
Lester Rodney, now in the U. S.
Army, who at that time was
Sports columnist for the Daily
Worker, newSpajjM backed by the
^ Con)munist PartX Leo the Lip
was quoted as saying at that tMne
‘‘I know a lot of managers v;ho
would use Negro boll players on
th^ir clubs, but the owners would
not stand for it.” When Duroch-
er was coiifroTitPih'wtth
ment^ by Landis, he denied it.
In au interview from Chlcasp,
followiiig the issurance of the
Landis statement, Durochet* was
quoted as saying, ‘"I have no jwe-
judit?e8 against any ball player
on account of race or relig'on.
AftPr all> we’re all Americans. A's
long as I am manager I will play
the best 2") players I can get. Per
sonally, I have seen only one
colored player in recent year.s of
major league caUber_ He’s a short
jitop named Oarcia, whom I play-
ei against in Cuba. I have pl»yed
against Satchell Paige ,and otlic-
fine Negro sters years ago, bn.. I
think those men are too old to
play in the major leagues now ;”
When Landis said that “tj'iere
was no rule, fornmk.informal or
otherwise” bari^H^^^^oes from
organized baseball, hl>\lied. • Or
ganized baseball, both profession
al and semi-pro have been a oios-
cd game as far as Negroes are
concerned. Just a few weeks ago
Ed Barrow, President of the New
y«nkeea was petitioned y
the CIO Sports Council Com
mittee to add Negroes to the ros
ter of the American Lerigite.
Champions. Barrow curtly told
the delegation that “this is »o
tima to bring th»t up.” For “ev-
Coi^[ressnKiii Says
White People Do
Not Know Negroes
Washington — Taking ^
■••t'** enter Wedthrook Poffler^
favorable arflcle on the Negro ip
the Congressional Record,.. Con
gressman Arthur W. MitchcH'.on
Tuesday declared tha^ the Sbuth-
bout the Negro despite protesta
tion to the contrary.
Said the congressman;
“Since I have been a member
of congress, I hare been approach
ed by hundreds of outstanding
men and women of the south,
practically every one of whwn
professes to know the Negro of
the south, I have had leaders of
the white race even argue with
me that they know the Negro bet
ter than I do. Is this true? My
answer is emphatically No!
White people especially of the
south have made no partioular
effort to know the Negro in his
higher aspirations and homo
life
“How many outstanding white
leaders have ever spent as long
as five minutes in a respectable
Negro home? How many of them
have ever visited the Negro
churches and Negro schools?
“How mafty -of- tlumL_haye_ engaged
thinking Negroes in earn^"coif
versation in an effort to become
acquainted wUh the Negro in
his higher o.spirations and real
life?”
“Of course they know the Ne
gro who frequents the police
courts. They know the Negro who
works in their kitclien and does
the mental work around their
homes, but do they know Negro
lawyers, Negro physicians, Negro
businessmen, Negro editors, Ne
gro college presidents, Negro
tea«hers and social leaders, Negro
ministers of the higher type? They
do not and they make no se 'ions
effort to know them.”
Governor Broughton
Orders Release Of Men ,
Accused of Near Lynching
FLA. TEACHERS
WIN EQUAL
SALARYWGHT
Tampa, — Negro teachers of
Marion eomity are jubilant ovei:
their victory in the hard fought
case with the Marion County
School board for equal pay. An
*'\‘deral District Judge Ijouie "V.
Federal District Jurgo Louie W.
iStium, rcstrajninj; the boartl
from paying the Negro teacher^i
a smaller wage scale than that of
the white teachers.
The oiHier in part reals: “Or
dered and adjudged that the de
fendant, board of pubiie iiiHtruc-
lion for Marion county, Florida,}
Broward Lovell, superintendent
of public instruction for said
i county, shall apply the amended
I salary schedule, adopted by said
Baltimore, Md.—Part of the first three groups to be signed up by the Baltimore Red Cross Chapter as t on April 15, 1942, or any
neighborhood first aid detachments, members of the Southern First Aid Detachment learn administration of TYinf^oH nf r
first aid from Elbert C. Carter, Cross instructor. Neighborhood first aid detachments which are still in
the experimental stage, number 25 in Baltimore. Four of the groups are composed of Negroes. Groups of
15 to 50 members, divided into teams of five each, learn how to rescue their neighbors from wreckage
caused by bombs, how to administer first aid relief and to prepare casualties for transportation to hospitals.
ART TEACHER
ATTORNEY GENERAL
ASKS INVESTIGATION
lOF TEXAS LYNCHING
Goldsboro, — The call of con
tractors for carpenters was quick
ly qualified to mean white car
penters when Negro carpenters
showed up on new government
projects here last week.
eral years members of the Ne-g-o
press and several fair minded
white sports writers have been
advocating the admission of Ne
groes to hlg league teams. The
managers and owners of the.^e
clubs gave every conceivable an
swer under the sun, but the right
one.
Washington — Attorney Gener
al Francis Biddle announced to-
da^y that he had ordered an FBI
investigation into the-lynching of
WilHam Vinson, Negro, by a mob
at Texarkana, Texas, on July 20.
According to information in
the hands of the Civil Hights
Section of the Department of
Justice, Vinson is alleged lo have
attempted to rape a white wo
man at the Red River Ordance
Depot trailer camp, near Texar
kana. While being captured he
was shot and critically wounded.
He was then taken to the Texar
kana Hospital for treatment
where, it Is charged, he was left
without a guard or police pro
tection,
' iKjr
It is reported that in the early
morning hours of the following
day a mob ot approximately 50
men entered the hospital, took
Vinson from . his bed, tied 6ne
end of a rope aroun*! his neck and
the other end to the rear bumper
of an automobile, and dragged
him through the streets of the
town. When the eavlcade of
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NAACP CALLS FOR SUPPORT OF WAR
EFFORT AND FULL INTEGRATION
OF MINORITIES M ALL PHASES
NAACP ADOPTS isomefp arO Cs
Los Angeles — The resolutions
adopted by the delegates attend
ing the 33r^ annual conference of
the NAACP hel(F here July 14-19
voiced interest in, and complete
support of the war effort, but
insisted upon complete ‘ integra
tion of colored Americans and
other minorities in every phahe of
it. The preamble to the resolu
tion cited the responsibility of
the Associatioh in seiuring and
protecting the rights of all citi
zens, pointing out that unlehs dt-
mocrnry could be made to work
for America’s largest minority
group, it tfould not and would
not work for any otrers. Excertps
from the strong resolution on
WAR AND NATIONAL POLICY
are quoted below:
.‘The' war against Axis aggres-
other method of rating teachers
for salary purposes, adopted in
lieu thereof to all teachers alike,
both white and colored without
discrimination because of race or
color. ’ ’
sion into which our nation has
been plunged along with Russia,
China, Great Britain, and twen
ty-four other nations js a war in
which racial minorities in this
and other lalTds have a great
stake. We in the NAACP know
that the facial ideas of Nazism
are directly and contrary to every
thing for whirh we have stood
and stand today. We remember
well Hitler’s contemptuous re-
ferenre to Negroes as half apes.
We know that the destruction of
all civil rights, the rights of free
speech, press, and assembly; the
right to worship without state In
terference, and the right to hold
elections aftei*' free discussion,
are all slated for destruction if
Nazism is victorious; and that if
such Nazis doctrines prevail in
SEE NAAGP PA.GE 8~
Negro Sailors Are
Top Notch Seamen
&ys Navy Officer
Chicago (.ANP) — Each of the
1,200 colored sailors at Camp
Morrow in the Great Lakes Naval
TrainWg statfon Is a top notch
tar according to Lieut. Command*
er Daniel W. Armstrong, com
mander of the camp.
Great Lakes'is preparing for
the first graduation of trainees
since naval recruiting was extend
ed to Negroes on June 5. Some of
the graduates will be sent to sea
with battleships, others will be
assTgned -to- HamptoO Insttate,
Va., for special training.’
The colored sailors built their
own obstacle course under the
supervision, of- Commander Arm
strong. One of the obstacles is a
ditch 20 feet wide into wWch the
sailors jump, then climb out.
one Tully dressed enlistee ran
to the brink and ' leaped across.
“I thought I was supposed to
julnp across, so I did it,” he said
to his superior officer.
“With that spirit,” said Com
mander Armslrong, “these men
can’t help but be good sailors.”
Lieut. Commander Armstrong
is the son of the late Gen. A^’m-
strong who founded Hampton in-
atitnte.
BOSS BULULBE M. COBOICE
Beginning with the . acadmnic
year 1942-4J Miss Marlon Co‘-.li»‘e
will occupy the post of instrucior
of Art at the North Carolina
College for Negroes, Durh:i;n.
Miss Cordice was graduated from
Howard University in 1941
the degree of Bachelor of Arts in
Art. During her four years In the
Art Department at Howard she
received, special recognition for
outstanding original contribntions
displayed at the Annual Art Ex
hibition of Students’ work elimax
ing her undergraduate work wilb
a water color painting “The Nr.*i-
vity” and a few pieces of cc'n-
mics at the 1941 Exhibition. In
June 1942 Miss Cordice rei*e:v.'(?
the degree of the Summer School
faculty of State Teachers Coliege,
Elizabeth City, N. C.
/She is the daughter of Dr. and
Mrs J. W. V. Cordice, 1"03
li'avettcvUle Stree^t, Durham.
Raleigh (CP) — Governor J,
M. Broughton Friday paroled fame
of the five^ white mob leadim
fonvictwl of charges of anlawfU
assembly in an attempt to
C-jr -Winstemds* Jr^ mcumI -
raping a whUe woman, froa tk
Person . County jail aad {jqilil
kirn.
The riMB A. P. Sprigga^
Aiken, P. f. Holt aM Coy &urhf
were carried to Roxboni &OW
Durham prison camp where tkey
•were released at 8:00 p. m. af^etf '
their papers had been signed by
Mrs. . C. Wagstaff, superinten-
te»dent of welfaret and thetit:^^ )
leaiers ordered to report to l»r
once a month.
They haJ been convicted,’B
April term of the PersMi Coanty
Superioir Court. J^iggs and Har
ris were serving 18-month sen
tences and Aiken and Holt 13
month terms.
Only five of ten leaders ot'.M
mob ^ 600 who stormed the jail
on the night of August 15 ia an
attempt t»' lynch Winstead wcf*
convicted and sentence, whQe »t
least one of the men against
whom the grand jury had rettmi
cd a bill of indictment was not
even summoned to the trial.
OFFERS BLOOD
TO SAVE
WHITE LAD
New York — A young colored
boy, wKo refused to disclose his
name appeared at Sydenham Hos
pital this week to offer hU
blood. Stanley Kolnsz, the nine
teen year old youth who w.ss
stabbed in the heart bj two Ne
groes while visiting Harlem
Kolbusz haiL a delieate operation
performed w'hen Pr. Finestone
sewed up the wall workers heart
with s^ven silken stitekes.
The boy who off«ed to donate
blood for a transfusion exclaimed
how sorry he was tkat members of
his race had stabbed Kolusz,
Pole, but hoped he eoald do some
thing to help rtie white yovtk i»
this gallant straggle for life.
LABORERS
BEINGSmT
New York —• The NAACP kaa
been asked‘by the War Manpow*
er Commission to a^wist in tud-
Ing qualified skilled Negro w wrk-
ers^for certain specific jobs in
•wr industry. There exists al
most immediate openings for
those with as little as one year's
experience in the types of work
listed below. IndindnaJs w b. o
rfatnk they can qoalify are
to mail name and address to Ed
ward Lawson, FieM Aseistust,
War Manpower Con^inloa,
York City. Applicants »re ask^
positively not to Visit the iffie*
as it Is not equipped to take mtm
of applicants except tkra aor*-
raspondenc^ Some of the jalMt'
available caTt for: Bench Haa4» '
Metal Patterns; Boileiautts^; f
Boring-Machine Operator^
tom»tic; Boring-MiB ;
Centerless-Orlnder Op^tor^
limdrieal-Grinder Operator;
\^ker; Die SSetter; Eil|ciiMfc-]
Operator; Eternal-Ormder
ator; Formini^ Press
Gear-Hobber Operator; Ml
Ists; Latlle operators; Skiial
tal Workers; Mihwrifkt;
maker. PersoBs kpvia^
fieatioBS are askfd to
Mr. Lawson at tka
Office, 132 1.
Yo»k Oty.