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BOND PUSH MAILfNG EDITION '^aari D&Ea VOLUME XXin - NUMBER 46 DURHAM, N. G, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28,1942 I ^ Australians Denounce Bad Treatment Of INegro Troops Goal Off $110,000 Set In War Bond And Stamp Drive Going On in Durham Beginning with a Commnuity Ring which was held at the City Armory here Moaday eveaini; at eighi o'clock, the N«gro Divin-ioii of the Women's Voluntary Si*i- viee launched a maratuoth Wav Bond and , Stamp selling caiji paign here that will exleud through the entire weeii of Nov. 22-38. Mr«. K. 0. Everett is Chui"- nifln pf the gtneral eopamitteic and B. Bi Wrkhti ia sglj- chihtmn, mA w. i>. HiU i» ehAlriMM of the Kffro dJvIsicu eomta'ittee, Mrs. E. H. Mer»i‘k and Mrs. A. Henifl,l)>irg assis tants. ¥'eat]}ring , Ihe Con>wuiiitjr Sing Monday evening Were Mrs. Nell Hunter, Durham’# own a Camp Butner QttMtet and the N. • C. College Choir, under the d>rec tion of Samnel W. Hill. Th« singing of Mrs. Hunter the fjnartet and the music fuiroiahed bj- the choir served to give the drive the push off necessary to send the Durham Negro Divis ion over the top with its quota. ' A" p^p talt was m«de hy I-ieut. Wes4,, veteran of Pearl Harbor who, tojd of the attack mads by the Japanese on that American territory on the morning of la»t Dec«nb>r 7. ^ Moving p»ctui-e scenes of the conflict now going on were also shown. A prize of $10 to the aehoo aelUng the largest amount o bond* and stamps is being offer ed by the committee and a prize of $5 to the school selUng the second highest number on Mon day which was known as School Day. Tuesday will be Soldier a Day, at which time soldiers sta tioned at Camp Butner will soli^it Negro citizens, of Durham to buy stamps and bonds. Wednesday will be Elks and American Legion Day; Thursduv * Thanksgiving Day or the Am».‘i- ean Home. Friday Joe Loms and Dorie Miller Day. Saturday Busi nesa Day, during which tu^ between the hours of 10 and l- o’clock any person why buy? fl.OO or more in war stampi drive is Country I-ct’r (A N P> — An Washington, early niorning fire of lindeter- miied origin swept through the newly remodelled HgJlywood ris ' ‘SUutnMii c«nnpMt-(‘ly establtShinent. C. C, Colej, proprietor, where he resided an ■ maintitined of Famous Washington Cafe Gutted By Pilre To Be Rebuflt Heart Attack Fatal To Attorney^ C. E. Rich Of Rocky Mount Rocky Mount, (Special to the TlltfES) — Attorney C. F. Rich, well known attorney of Rocky Mount, died suddenly here Sat urday afternoon at three o’clOe>^ in his office of a heart attack. Attorney Rich was in apparenclf good health up to the time of hit> death and his sudden passing, came afi a distinct shock to his many friends in this city and thpoughout the state. The decflUed was a gradnutc of the old Shaw University School and after first fipishins there .prt^cticed J|ifi J?ro|gsioQ i tSVeril y^aw." ‘ at6r moved to Rocky Mount New Tactics Used in Figiit To Prevent Introduction Bill To FreeS outherners will be given a tree ride in a - - 4.U The slcyan oi the “This is Your Keep It So.” The local committee of women is' urging all Negro citizens ^ Durham to do everything with in fHeir power to help Durham fro over the top in this drive and it is hoped that Negro eiti^nf throughout the state whei-e similar drives will be pat op will do their part in purohasnig War stamps and bonds. Production by states loll'>w«^ Massichusett», 525,00 barrels^ New Yersey, 105.0Q0; Wwcon.xH 105,000; Washington, 4i0,000, wu Oregon 10,000. James S. 'Schuyler, printfipil of ‘Lyon Park School and re cent director of the Negro Divi sion of Community Chest who is receiving commendation figi; the fine work done by hia group in raising over $6,000' in ‘th» re cent Community .Chest" C«mpaign( Shaw Students Given Only Five Days For Christmas Vacation Raleigh, (Special) Unless Federal or State regulations rf- qnire a change in plans Shaw University students will havi* this year a brief Christmaa vacation from December 2:{ through December 27 and a be- twcen-seniester holiday lastinft from January 22,'^943 to Febru ary 1, 1943 according to an- nounce^nent oi President Robert P. Daniel » The decision to shorten th Christmas vacation period from December 23 to January 4 as stated in the University Calen dar was reached in a joint , uiee'- ing of the Shaw University Stu dent and Administrative Coun cils in an attempt to conform to the Governmental suggestion to curtail holiday travel. Shaw stu dents are, according to the holi day stipulations, not expected to use public transportation faeih ties during the Christmas sea son, but instead! will occupy themselves with spe/iial Christ inas programs provided at th.; University, After the first semester final examinations the University will have a holiday period of a w«>ck to compensate for the brief Christmas vacation and at tho same have its students do their travelling' during a season of fewer transportation difficul ties. The action of the joint ooaa- oil was approved by the Univer- .sity Faculty. just invested'quite a sum in mak ing the place second to none in town as far as equjpment luid Turrtishings are concerned. Only the , night watchman Was inside at’the time of the,eon flagration and hp could g?vj no coherent account of what happened. A rendezvous for the younger >; in Washington, the Hulfy- wowrt ha,s gained' a national re putation as the gathering , pUicr for visitors. ' a law office up^ to the time his death. ‘ f\incral services will be held at the St. Mark AME CKurch of this city, Tuesday afternoon at four-o^*ek>efc. Atterwy Rich was a member and an officer of the St. Mark ' AME Church for a long'number of years. In addi tion to ’being a staismch laymen of his church, Mr. Rich belonged to the Masonic lodge and i sever al 'other fraternal, o^rganigations. Interment will he at the local J^r, Coley plans to reopen tht: city cemetery. * spot as soon as the necessary] The deceased is survived hr repairs can be made. • his wife, Mrs. Roxie Rich «f this Miss Louise McKinney, secre tary of the Harriet Tubma i Manch of tlfie TWPAPwhp Ts do ing much to increase the fine work being done here bv the local YWCA braneh. ’ Prior to coming to Durham Miss Mc Kinney ^as Secretary of the YWCA at Knoxville, Tenn. Senate Refuses To Hear DePriest On ^ 4 Anti-Poll Tax Bill ' Washington, (ANF) — O-^c.u- Depriest, form«!r congres-smaii from Chicago, was denied pcr- jnis&tUD toantas .tke «ra-.U« chAiilber Wednesday mornitiar under a ruling believed hastily made to fit the occasion. Mr. DePriest has been >iont to , Washington b,v a grouD' of Chicagoans expressly to lobo;- ! for the passage of the anti-i>oll'' lax bill. On his arrival in town ue- coinpanied by Edgar G. Brown, the former Congressman visited several senators’ office seelinT: i ,«ty, two daughters Mrs. Esme-1 Tr«wl-;n« M.. Won,: J voke the rule of clotuYe on sen i Ida Hawkins and Mrs. Franei-s Harper both of Rocky Monnt; three Sons C. F. Rich, Jr., now in the U.; S. Army; Stafford and Dsrid of Washin^on, D. C. One brother Thomas . Rieh of Port Rayal Va.,! also survives. T Dixie Officers; Australians Disagree On Treatment Negro Troo|>s From U. S. San Francisco, (A N P) •- Australianswa nt to accept and trea.t Negroes as their equals but are prevented from doitn» so by white army oflfioers. who have taken the customs and attitudes of the jim crow south to the “land tiown under/” according to a letter from trade ^nion sources in Sydenv, Australia, sent to the Tocal mily People's World, ^nion newspaper, and, the Negro press. The letter makes these speci fic charges: 1. Dixie white soldiers have ‘Started fights in Australian ci ties to drive Negro troops off the streets and out of p'ibiic places; 2. American army officer.^ have visited schools and Icc- tur^led to chil^en not to assocf- ate with Negro troops; 3. Amteican artny officials have conducted a deliberate campaign to prevent Australian soldiers and orgianizations from , associating; -Wlith or welcomiug Negro troops. 4. Negro soldiers are barred from atten^ins the troops cen ter in Sydney established by the American community for Amci- can troops. These chaiiges are In line with others oreviously emanating tr Australia which included. the undenied statement that colored Soldiers have been removed from the populated centers to the barren iaierior, as well as reports of friction between Ne gro and white soldiers in Eng land which led to a personal ■ in vestigation by Brig. Gen. Davis. The complete letter follows' “With thfc |evelopme‘nts' which have brought World War '11 close to these shores, and with the presence ^of, allied forc es on this soil, the people of Australia have become aware of a situation which never before has been brought home, to them with so much force. “We here in Australia knew of the existence of the Anieriean Negro. We were taught about the Civil war ip our history classes. We knew in a vague sor)t of a way that America had her racial problemB^ “We wen^ to the movies and watched a somnajbuli^tie char acter, whosemai n joy in life appeared to be ‘pickin’ cotton’, or; singing ‘massas’s in de’cold, ^eoM ground,” do his little bit to help along the impression that Negroes are simply, pleasure loving folk, but specimens of a kind of mental deficiency. ^We occasionally ready about a mad-;, dened southern mob lynching a Negro; we observered that kini old maniniies’ scolded Scarlett O’Haras at appropriate times; we read Richard Wright's 'Na tive Son' and were shocked and sickened. Then we met the American^ J^egro as a soldier, a defender of democracy — and were astounded 1" “The Australian people are comparativtely free from racial prejudices and problems. We have our own^ colored people - the Australian aboriginal - who, in the majority of cases, stil’ lives in his original state out in the bush, and who very rarely appears in the cities and towns. “Certainly, it cannot be denied that we have a ‘whits Australia policy’ but that pohsy does not iteist because the Aus tralian people realize that they are white, and therefore better than anyone else.' It exists be cause of political reasons, be cause at the beginning of th^s century t^re"arose a condition which wjM gfoving ta be a ser ious threat* to a country alfej^dv Please turn to Page Eiglit ators debating the bill. . ,| Visited were Sens. Chn.rk-s } McNary of Oregon; C. Wajlau'i Brioks of Illinois; Warren “iar- bour of New Jersey;, Robert A. Taft and Harold H. Burton of Ohio, An attempt was mad*} to contact Sen. Vaiiderburg of ”***” Michigan, but the senator w.os absent from his office at th(‘ time. Sens. Austin and Danahei, both Republicans froih Vermont and Connecticut, respectively re fused to commit themselves oii the matter of cloture. The foi-m er Congressman then visited the Senate chamber where the ser- gteAnt-at-a(rms, Che^ley W. Juv- ney, refused DePriest permissioii to .visit with the senators on the floor_ The “ruling” as stated was that former senators, present members of the house, sp.'cial guests of the senate apd men'- l>era-elect to the senate wer*> given the courtesy of %'iskin' the floor, but no former con gressmen. Disagreeing with the* sergeant at-arms, Mr. Brown took thf matter directly to Sen. Bavbour who went to the front for itr. DePriest with little success. Mrs. Nell Hunter, Durham’s t»wn singer and beloVed eitkten# who is helping with the War Bond and Stamp Selling t'am-> paign now _ l^ing conducted hei-e. Mrs Hunter is the wife of Dr A. S. Hunter and has bfn stationed in Washington as an employe of the Treasury i>- Woim of Both Race Study For Army At Fort Des Moines Wlaehington, D. C., (Special) —Segregation in the W’^AA'"' mess hall at Fort Des Moines has been officially abolished an) 10 Negro Auxiliaries are now integrated into the Office L‘''n- didate School it was learned thi.« week when Col. Noel -Maey, Lt Helen Wood, Lt. Helen West. Judge William Hastie, of th Please turn to Page Eight Dr. Walter H^hes Invited To Sfieak At Nashville Meet Raleigh, N. C., (Special t.i tht= TIMES) — Dr. Walter J. Hugh es, Negro physician working with the North Carolina State Board of Health, is one of 30 men and women who have been invited to aiTange for the later participate in the deliberations of a confer ence on rural problems in the South, to be held in Nashville, Tennesse. The conference is be ing sponsored by four Nashville institutions for higher learn-’ig, namely, the QPor^ Peabody ■College for Teachers, Vanderbil* and Fisk universities and Sca''itt College in cooperation with the General education Bourd. Dr. Hi^rhes, the first Negro ever to be employed as a full time worker among meitbers ot bis race by any State "^oard ol Health, will attend a preliminarv conference, November at , which time he will one of thi* members of a subcommittee tr work out a prc^rram. He will ue- vote himself especially to that section of ther profrraHi de»lip,' with the health aad recreation. The conference pro|*r will be ip session January 2T-30. Since hi> unSociaticMi witk tke Nortii ('ari'- lina Board of Health, that iu'ti- tution has received annmal certi icates of mesit far its oatstand- ing work for npwmbers of the Ne gro racei. Washington, (ANP) — f>«*- manconvoring Senate L*a4ler Al- jon Barkeley of Kentuckv, a ^ronp of recalcitrant siinthemers .in«ler the guidance of Sen. (’onnally of Texas pat np a battle of “parliamentary pro cedure” in a successful eti >f. to prevent the introdactioii of th*- anti-poll tax bill before tiiirf session of the senate thi| Tc'k which meant death for the biU ^ imrt- polttirsi' etiillavenieui millions of souther* voters. Using new tactics antli:niijht of before, this group he*«lei on the floor by Sen. Russell of ftpoTgra used every. possible to consume the “ni ifi- ing hour” of the session, ch;- by -preventing the iotroduet'oc -of the- bUI on the ealendar far the day. . Ifaving given the senate a taste of what to expect when Sen. Bilbo startl'd hia fUiJbus- .tor last week, the entire body has settled down to a wntrover- sial fight which threatenett tJ split the ranks of the Democra tic party itsefe - Internal f^hting is apparent from the manner in which ihe fight is being conducted. Sena tors who have heretofore stooJ side by side are now bitterly de nouncing each other on the floor and pei-sonalities are being in jected into the fight to pre\ri:t the introduction of the hiU- A 30 year friendship was al most tested to the winds whea ATcKellar of Tennessee bitterly assailed Barkley who occupies the seat next to UeKellar. Foe two hours, the Teaneseean bera ted Barkley for cansiag his “ar rest’’ to attend a senate ses.-;nn on Saturday. McKellar read into the record a letter he recent?/ wrote to President Rooaevelt rea commending; Barley Tor a se^t cn the supreme court vaeati*d hy Justice Bvrnes. All of this Bi ^ 'M past, from . what. UcKMlla" ferred from the floor. Conally, long an ardent sup* porter of all measures ing on the floor, Conally, long an ardent porter of all measures oi ing on the floor, took th* in this fight agaii^ the aig| poll tax and saixmiadad Self with a select group windjammer. Conally, long an av porter of all meanvcs ing on the fkMir, ti»k in this fight the anti-iid and sorroanded lldttMit select pnap of His fir«^ RaitiaH started for an aataH nnahar al; ^aB» at Tia^f> Jo«fi^|
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