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FBI MAILING EDITION I ygHlPtfeUTHliNBRIOgE^^ r~ i ' V* L.iiiHAll, VOLUME XXIII - NO- 34 DURHAM. NORTH CAROUNA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15,1942 BUY UNITED STATES WAft BONDS StYS FH»C nWDS EMDMIGEHED Two Southern Dailies "Call For Anti-Lynching Law SHORTAGE OF FUNDS MAY HINDER WORK FEPC COMMISSION Washington, D_ C. — (Spociul, NAA('l* Bnroau) Most diie re sult of the abblition of the ind« pendent status /of the Committee -on Fair Employment Pructico and its trnnafe^^ to the War Mun- jHMver rornmission7]is the chance it gives the southern bloc in Con gress to out off funds for, the fu ture ojperation o£ the ^he •Hf^AAn’ Was'hlngton fiureau le- ported this week. The Bureau said that the FEPC must now get Us funds from the burgetary allotment of the War l)qmmisttk>n whieft •Jjready restricted because Con- griMs granted it only a little more than o“e-teuth the amount ri- quesled. This would make it ni.*- cosaary for the War Manpower C^onimission to go to Congress for AddUiotial funds and the southern bloc will have i^n opportunity 1, sec to it that no lurther money is provided for the PEPC. Previous ly the“FEPC was responsible only to the I^esident. Keporting that Washington in buzzing with indignation over Clu:: action, the NAACP Bureau re leased a wire dispatched to Pjjepident Roosevelt last Thurs day by Walter White. The wiri; Ktnted: “If all the good accomplish cd thuf^ far by the Committee i** iiol (o bo negated, a“d if reac- tionnrv southern polUice are not to be considered paramount to the federal government and our en tire v;ar effort, then it is impera tive that you take immediately such notion as will restore* tn.- (’onimUtee on Pair Employment Practice to the independent atntui (Continued on Page four) NAVAL CAMP N AMED FOR NEGRO HERO The sp^ial n^it at the Qji’fiat Lakes JiTAval Trainid^ Station uk- Qreat Lakes, Illinois, now being used to tra^n approximately 2,00(1 Negro recruits is now designated “Camp Robert Smalls.” The camp is named after Robert SmallSj a Negro who served with great distmetion m tTie TT’*"ted States Navy in the CivU Wai\ As a pilot on the Confedera.e transport, Planter, on May 13, 1862 Small ran her out of Char leston Harbor and delivered her to a Union squatlron. He was appoint ed a pilot in the U. S. Navy and served in the USSS Keokuk. He was promoted to Captain for gnU lant and meritorious conduct December 1, 1863 and placed In cQmmand of the Planter. He ser ved with, this ship until shp Avns put out of commission in 1866. The first recruits arrived at Camp Robert Smalls during thi^ week ending June 6, and the number has Increased w-Jekly since that time. Qualified recruits will shortly be sent to vocational schools established by the Navy for the training of electrioinns, machinists, carpenters, metal- smiths, shipfitters, quarteriuas- fers and yeomon. The remain’n" recruits will be assigned to'duty aboard district and defense craft and to other stations throughi at the country. NEGRO COOK AND WIFE LISTED AMONG SHIPS SURVIVORS Norfolk — A colojrd ship ’v.ol;, Lotmio Kollock, and Mrs. Kdi*h Kollook, his wife, moss girl, of 4l1 ('mnherland Street, were list- 0(1 niiioinr the survivors of th(‘^ sinking of a s))inll United Stales tnrboat off the East Const bv an nnd(-rsoa explosion, presumably a mine, and landed at an Atluntio port more than a fortnight ago The sinking left John Henip- ton of Norfolk/ along with Fred Tayloc, "white, address unki’own another member of the crew, iis missing and resulted in the land ing of 15 survivors. Right of the survivors were list 6(1 as residents of Norfolk, ^our of whom were colored.-' Beside.^ Mr. and Mrs. Kollock they were Joe Johnson, 803 Wide Street and Henry Sears, fireman, 228 t-2 r.e'vi.-i Street. Mr. Hampto®, who had liti;rally a life-long career at pea, roomed here when ashore wUh Mrs. B. J Holt at 808 East JVt'ainbleton Ave nue. Friends and relative^* hero conclude that ho has ended hi ; •seaffaring life In the service i •' his country. He was a native of QlouciKtov Countv, V.. and like most se.i- men, had limited shore contact. He was born in 1885 and rcccn' ed his first lust of the sea from the water adjacent to QlouctHtcr. A man of typically seamen’s characteristics, light hearted and well-met, but always determined, only a month ago Mr. Hampton had been approached by fr's^d^ ashore and questioned as to ho'.v it felt, to ride the dangnrdu'? waveB now that it is war time. He then laughingly explaine d that .he intended eontinu'ng to keep going to sea untU the ond, “come what Avill or may." ITe has not been ashore since. Cpfflm ( Sn, Prof. Hanum Passes. After 41 Years At y^ingstone College. W. D. Carmichael, Jf-j cnn. troller of the University of North Carolina, will deliver the com mencement address at A and T College, Greensboro, on August 24, at 7 p.'m., in Harrison Aui‘- torium. Nego Recniks Assigned Duties with Coast Guard^ Washington — Three hundicl Negro Coast Guard recruits have been assigned to active duty a» sea and at various Coast Guard stations following completion of a required 4-weeks training c-nuse the U. S. Coast Guard annoum od here this; week. • ,, At the same time, the Cu.ist (Continued on Page four) Salisbury — Mr. W. H. Han- num Professor of Mathematics nt Livingstone College for forty-one years, diejj at the Rowman Ho.'»pi tal August 3rd. The funeral was held in the Auditorium of the «.ollege ‘Wednesday afternoon at 3o’clock. The very simple and brief rites, which were largely attended^ wrt^ conducted byiR^v. J. A. Raibingtqn-Johnson, associ.'s- ited b.V j)ean J. H*. Satterwhfte Rer. J. P. Johnson, a®d Dr. J. E. Masop. President Trent paid tri bute to the deceased a's teacher, associate, nel^]:K)r and trieild. Bishop B. G. Shaw paid a fine tribute to His friendly qualities. Prof. Hannnm was extolled a.«! faithful and a devoted husband and insplrer of youth. Beautiful nnd appropriate music was fur nished by the Moore’s CUnpel Choir with Mrs. Eloise Millor Simpson at the piano, and Miss Fredoricka Flack as soloist. Floral offerings were lovely and pYofuse. A number of telegrams and cards of sympathy were re ceived from many sections of the eniMktry. The deceased was born in Maryville, Tenn., 1869. He gradu ated with honor from Maryville College, and did his graduate work al Columbia University- He was a brilliant scholar and a fine disciplinarian. During the years ho spent at Livingstone College be filled many positions with credit and honor. lie leaves to mourn his passing a loving mother of ripe age, a devoted wife, throe sisters, two brothers, four noices five nephews, a^d a host of friends Succumbs ' Citizens in Seven States Face Five Years In Prison For Peonage Cliarge ^ ^ 2" - M issou fi Papers Call For Anti- Lynching Law . Prof. W_ H. Hunuui, beloved teachcr of who died at liowan HospUai in Salisbury August 3. Prof. Havu.n had been a member,of Livingstonn faeultv for 41 vears. Major Radio Chains Refused to C^rry Nehru Speech New Vork — Three major radidf chains refused to carry a s[jco‘h by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru giv ing the Indian side of the negoti- .atlons recently conducted by Sir Stafford Cripps, the NAACP learned last week. After receiving reports of the refusal from reliable source, the NAACP protested to the Federal Communications Commission and requested to know the reasons for the apparent censorship. The FCC replied last week that tie ('ommisslon has no power ta ap prove or disapprove a program in advance. It was stated that the. broadcasters customarily make do (Continued on Page four) I - Red Ctoes Watkne Progrswa Washington — Discussing war time problems and program of the American Red Cross are Claude A. Barnett of the Associated Ne gro Press; Mrs. Mary McLeod Be- thune of the National Youth Ad min iatratlon; James L. Fieser, Red Cross vice chairman in (jha'*ge of Domestic Operations; Dr. F. D. Patterson, president off Tuskegee Institute and member of the Red Board of Incorporators, and Mrs. Beulah Whitby, Supreme Bas'leus Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Thirteen representatives u£ leading Negro organizations met July 15 with officials of the Red Cross In Washington in a day long conference toi, discuss fur- St. Louis, Mo. — Two of (ho largest loc'al dallies here cpllod for the p«!W8«e of a fwleral lynching law after the federnl grand jury investigating U*e lynching of Cleo Wright in Sike«- ton last Janua^ returned a “white wash” statement, July 31, finding that no federal stat’.ile had been violated. No indictaionts wore returned. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch In an editorial headed “Not a Clos ed Case” said: “They (giand jury) might well have called upon Congress to make lynching n fed eral offense for through *the crime, the reputation of the m- tlon as well as that of Miss'onri has suffered. It is lynch lav: for which the Nazis most frequ*^>itly upbraid us, and it is lynch law which they exploit m their pro paganda to the colored races of the worUJ.” “There was Some hope that a+ least one mob would be brought to justice when a federal .^vand jury undertook an investigation of the lynching of Cleo Wright in SikestoB last January,” stated the St. Louis Star-Times, in editorial headed “Another Mob Escapes.” “That hope is piw gone,” it continued. The Star-Times point out th»t the obvious and only answ*!- In the enactment of a federal law on lynching and empTiasizes that no state where lynching has oc*uit- ed machinery which has been found adequate to deal with this crime. “With the enactment of s national anti-lynching law, fodor- al gr^nd juries would be spared the humiliation of being limited to mere denunciation of murder committed in daylight by a mob whose acquaintances looked on from the sidewalk,” it conclud ed. Prof. Chas. M. Eppes; well- known teacher of Greenville City Schools whose funeral was held at his home last Monday after noon. Prof. Epps had been in the school system of North Carolina for approximately 6o years. DANISH INViarrOE'S DEATH ANHOUNCED The death of Valdemar Pml- gei|, sixty-three, Danish eo-inven- tor\)f a wireless telephony system and discover of the Poulsetr^arcs and waves on which his method of radio-telegraphy wa.s based, w.'»5 announced here yesterday by the thering the work of the Red Cross National American Denmark As- among the Negfro people of Amer sociatios. Supreme Court To Decide Arkansas Voting Case- Little Rock, (ANP) — Tbe'-e was. lltlie doubt here this we*»k that Dr.^ J. M. Robinson, piU'iL-. Sociation of whether or not Nenr.' dent of the Negro Democratic as- tion of whether or not Negroos can- vote in Demo«ratie primar'os to the United States Supremo court for final decision. The answer to th« qsestion is expected to rest upon two twhni- cttlities: one, sinc« the Dein- cratic primaries are the real elee- .tions in Arkansas can the Ne'»rn be denied the right to vote on candidates for noraioation; and two, can Negroes be prevented from participation in electitms for federal »ffiee«. Consensus Is that the hi-'h court will rule favorably on the (Continued on Page fou)) Statiite Violated h: &ven States The Departnieet it now investigating and proaecBt- ing 34 case.s Involvii^ viotatiag at the Federal anti-p>eona^ statute in 7 southern StateS, i the Offie* of War Information annonnc«d this week- axe handled through the Civil Rights Section of the Criminal Division of the Depatment of .Instieo, are in the process of Federal Grand Jury investigations, indietmentf, trials and Federal Burean of Ta- vestigation probes^ Twenty of th% cases are beiHa? Invested in the field by the FBI. An additional twelve have l>een placed before Federal Grand Jur ies following completion of FBI probes, and two—one in Texas and another in Georgiai—are readv for trial. The cases are being condDctedi in the following States: Geor|^, 9; Texas, 8; Mississippi, 5; Ala bama, 4: Florida, 3, Missouri % and one eaci^ i^ Tennessee and Arkansas. The most recent peonage indiet- ment was returned In the Easteni District of Texas ou June 2% 11)42, when a Federal Gran4 Jury* sitting in Tyler, indictied Wallaea Adams of Weldon, Teras, on font counts. Adams was charged with “i»Or- lawfully, wilfully and felonisons- ly” arresting, caoslng to be ar rested, and returning to and nol*!- iiig in a condition of peona*^ Lonnie McQueen* a Nejpro woaiaa. pending payment of a debt. .U’cording to a complaint filial !>y -Miss McQueen, she was foref^ to work 5 1-2 months on AdaTBs’ farm in 11)41 to p«,v off a $3% note m:\de to a local bank aa^ purchased by“ Adams. AiWKi^l she was i^upposed to receive per week and 30 cents a da; far working in the garden, theae mma to be applied to amo^izinir til* note, the $30.00 debt bad been “worked off” at the ead c£ the five months, she eharyad. Penalities for violatloa at tW Federal anti-peonage statute •** imprisonrheat for aot man, tkca five year^ or a fine of Hot than I'f-'j.OOO, or both. Your wom-out elaerie or vasnam eleaaer may the steel that will siak a submarine, or stcf» a bnllet aimed at aa jator.
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