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ETHIOPIA TO GET LEND LEASE AID FROST tt POSTPONEMENT FOR CAPITAL TRANSIT MAILING EDITION aCtnt^ yoLUME xxm - number .51, DURHAM, tLXW SATURDAY, 19thr1942 Insurance Companies To Sponsor “ Victory Bond Rally* 12 RACE CIRLS TAKE JOBS WITH D> C. Company Gets Final Decision On Hiring Negroes Washington — Th* Presidem ^8 ■ " ■ ■ ' Coiiiinitteo on Fair Employment praotice has refused to ^rant to the Capital Transit Company postponement in carrying into pffeet the directions of the C)mmittee tljat buB jsnd »ti’e'i, . Mr opfratorti with- 'out discriminiCtion baseil on race, crecd, iolor, ;6r national oriffin, in keeping witfi Executive Order 8802. •Refgsal to grant the regaeat of the local Transport ilion Company was voted by a full meeting of the Committee Moii- day and communicated to i^aiji- tal Transit yesterday by L«w- encp W. Cramer, Execwtive Soere- tafy. At the same time responsibi lity for the action of presient white employees of the compan> was placed on Division ti89, Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway «nd Motor Coach Employees of America, AF or L, which re presents the Transit Workers. Inelnding Negro employees. The company ' was told that ‘•‘there is no indication that your request is intended to ac complish the Effectuation of the Provisions of Executiv** Order 8802.” on the cortrary, the committee believes "that this request is intended to post pone the date when the employ- men't praetieea of the Capital Transit Company will be, modi fied to conform with its obliga tion to employ persons solely on the basis of their qualifier tions and without regard to race, creed, color, or national Please turn to Page Eight Nommations For 1943 Spiiigarn ' New York, N. Y. — Nom-na- tion are pow open * for the 1943 Spingarn Medalist the NAACF announced thin week. Any ono maye ~s uhuiit the ii« me son considered to be worthy oE rec(^ition and send it to the National Office of the NAACP, 'at 69 Fifth Avenue. The Spin garn Medal Award was institutt^d in 1914 by the late J. E. Spii>- garn, then chairman of tho Board of Directors of the NAA CP who gave annually until his death in 193J) a gold medal “to be awarded for the highest and noblest achievement by an Ameri can Negro during the precehn^ years.” A fund suffiicint to con tinue the award was set up oy- his will. .The Spingarn Medal Award Committee which .vM meet in January inluedcs: Dr. John Haynes Holmes, Doctor Mordecai W. Johnson, Mrs. McLeod Bethune, Dr. Buell W. Gallagher, Supreme Court Jus tice Frank Murphy, Dr. William Allen Neilson and three addi tional members to be elected at the December 14th NAACP Board meeting. miYJiKAB. BONDS Atg> S' General Electric Employs Students Trained In Radio Work At Fayettville State MRS. FDR SAYS CONDITION OF NEGRO TROOPS IN FOREIGN LANDS MTT^ The 1942 recipient of the medal was A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. SINGING ENGINEpgS/KfiUtOUTE TO AFRICA—Left to ri^ht^ Staff Sgt. Rufus Wajmesr of Atlantic City, N. J., Staff Set. Frank W. Wess of Washington, D. 0., Sgt, Willbourn Pogue of Wash- injrton, D. C.. Technician George Wolfe of Atlantic City, N. J., and Sgt. Charles L. Anaerson of Peterabure, Va., with « -group of singing engineers in backcrround dwingist on down Mith them asj uhey play "I Got Kythm" and “you Can Defend oa Me.” Washington, D. C. — In a cpn- ference at the White Housr on December 1st to discuss*the re- rcnt 1’Cport.j of the 4e«atment. 1 Negro soldiers abroad, Mrs, i:k>anor Roosevelt expressed to Walter White, the ExeeuUv« Secretary of the National -As sociation for the Advancfment of Colored People her coavietmn eommert-e estimated tb0£ that Brigadiier-Qencral Benjimun j ,j,e number of women ki wai 0. Davis had done well in 1 indnstries will prohably hav.> to efforts towards lessening t j be increased by ."iO per cent tv*r tension between Negro and wfa'te U},p figure of 12,80iMl0(» soldiers in the American gxpedi- tg replace the men drawn into Militarv service. Womeo War Wwrkors rtjTa Be licreaseA Over 1940 F^e ^)ij-?ctor J. C. (^apc of, Bureau of C of Commert'e Fayetteville, (Speeial) — Aa » result of the training im iiadi* Assembly, Ratlin Ke^ir, Radio t'oile, offer^ at thf NTA Training Ontifr in Fajetterilie^ twelve girls were placed iaat week with Oeneifirf_ Compiiny'^ »f cut, to* il» a^!«eldbb and general radios for tasks aji«l ptaara. .jobs with the (Jenerlil omiMlly' pay approxTsi^lv OMi Army Draftee Denied Habeas Corpis Writ New York — The gallant fight of the two brothers, one who refuses to go into a jini- crow «Ainiy and the other who is his lawyer, continued he*‘p thii week. Winfred Lynn’s pie.*’ for a writ of habeas corpus was (loTiicd emphatically by Judge Mortimer Byers. Lynn contended he was illegally put in prison for draft Evasion because he h;;d been drafted under a “nuotu svstem” for Negroes. Jndg.^ Byers refused to allow Connul Lynn, attorney, to argue the case. Blit a new color was addtd to the courtroom when Atty. Lynn brought Arthur flarriehl Hays, eniinent lawyer, in. Judge Byers refused to hear hini spo'jk, hut Hays, a cripple, continued to walk up to the witness stand. He told how he wants young 1 induction.” And to enlist* in the Army, an! | tinues. The insurance companies of the nation are joining the Trea sury Department in urging the public to buy War Saving Bond? and Stamps to the full extent of its ability. They realize that millions of dol|ars have recen‘)>' released by* • Christmasr Sav'ng* throughout America and that between December 14th and 2.>th other millions will l)e paid in I)onuses to employees of indus tries and businesses in this that Lynn wanted to he in the Country, and that this, ^vith thiv Army but wanted to be treato l high wages now being paid aad as a citizen of New York St.ite | the scarcity of consumer goods, and his rights as a citizen were will serve as a serious threa: to to ho non-segregated. j inflation. The Selective Service act f('v- 1 Insurance Agents Asked To Aid In Bond And Stamp Campaign Dec. 14-Jan. 16 bids discrimination because ot I race or color. That’s what I Lynn is fighting. Judge Hnys I reduced the boil from $2,.>00 to ! $1,000 and Lynn was released f on bond. | When Lynn enters the Army, j a writ will he so^ht asking his immediate discharge on the grounds that he was illcg.illy inducted. Judge Byers, wh»a refusing brief the lawyers offered said, “This is wartime. I’m not go-- ing to grant any writs prior to induction. The proper time to seek relief in the courts is after the trial con- Dnderwriters, ‘the two bil lion dollar mark has been passed by the life insurance agents of the Country in their voluntary nationwide campaign for War Bond sales and purchases,’ ouj- in surance companies are still not satisfied; for history re veals that life apd life insur ance have thrived best under democratic forms of govern* ment. Our Insurance compan- ‘les are exceedingly anxious, therefore, to do all they ;.^n Please turn to Page Eight The period December 14, 1042, to January lfi,l 94;^ (both incl'j- ■sive), has been set aside fo? a NATIONAL BOND EFFORT to be known as the “Four I’re"-1 doms - Victory Bond Rally” for the purpose of siphonii^ some 1 of the excess national income in \ to a channel which will serv? as «■' “connter-attack” upon infla tion. mSU&AKCE COMPANIES I not SATISriEB .T President Asa T. Spaulding, of the National Negro Insurance Association says: ‘ ‘ Although, according to National Association of Lift Grant Taggart, Pres, of the BON VOYAGE BIBTHDAT CAKE—Left to righj. First Sgt. Frank Brown of Pendleton, S. C^. age 25; Staff Sgt. Chester White side catting his cake with ii machete, n^ich is used for cutting under, brush and Corp. Cecil Norwood of Sharpgburge, N. C., age 21. Whiteside asked hia two buddiit to help him eat it; they did. Not« their life preMrrars. tionary Forces stationed iri the British Isles- Mrs, Roosevflt said that friction croatel by prejudiced Southern whites had been somwhat eased. In answer Mr White stated that while the NAACP did not disagree with Mrs. Roosevelt concerning the value of General Davis’ investi gat ion, there could however be iio slackening on the part of the Association in the protest again st the establishment of the Southern Jim-Crowistn abroad. The attacks made and propa ganda spread by white officets in England, Australia, and other parts of the world, to which Ne groes have been sent and the United States, must be regarded as one of the gravest of all pro blems and one which "the NAAC will cohtSiue to fi^ht. Commenting on General Davis report the December 5 issue of The Nation said, “Perhaps General Davis did not get arcrnd as much as he should have ov perhaps he did not consider it wise to make an issue of the matter at this time. An ugly and dangerous situation does exi>t and it Impairs the efficiency of the troops and depresses the morale of the entire Negro • lation, already near the breaking jjoint.” ^ In recent months *OBtrovers> concerning the introduction of American prejudice has also run high in the English press. A letter from a soldier which appeared in the fall issue of the English magazine The New Leader stated: “A talk was given to us yesterday by our detachment officer. During th*' talk he explained that he h^d to bring to onr notice the con tents of a letter written by the Please turn to Page Eight an hour for bef^iaBers. The girls who left fer ford OB Tar«day of . ^ tlMN are: Misses Julia enaus, Departm*.*^^ Davis, Maebird Pailin, p Johnson, Anaie Hary SosarH^ ' and Annie Rnth Jeffries, lU at Raleigh, North Caroikia; Doro* thy Joyner, La Grange, If. Mary Middleton. Warsaw, C.; Louise Woods *and Jehi Taylor of Wake Forest, X.. Dorothy M. Hodg«8. X^^pra, C.; Helen Steele, Hi^^Pbi N. C.; and Rebeeea Smith, Bi nert, N. C. The girls were takek.f from the Fayetteville Center the Rocky Mount Center NTA. bus. Dinner was serred them in Rocky Moont, and' 7:40 p. m. , ,they boarded • special coach reserved for th- thus beginning a trip marks the first time No* Most of these artititiiTnRl workers will be married women, since a very large proportion Of the single women are already in the labor force. Married men of Military a^e made up nearly three-tenths of the “U. S. labor force at the time of the las+ censos, Direeto.' ('apt pointed out. In March 1*>40 the National labor force nf 52,800,000 workers included 40,! 000,000 men, 15,4000.0«,M» of| whom were married men luider 45. Recent trend indicate that more married men of Military age will be drafted in the neir future and Civilians jobs will therefore be filled to an im'i'ea#- ing extent by women. Carolina’s Negro girls hai^ into Defense jobs of this nata^f Lunches were packed for II by the staff at the Roeky Me Center. The National Toath ministration assiimed res bility for all expenses invvJTjd. Please turn to Page Eight FDR Orders Aid For African Kingdom Washington, (Special to' the TIMES) — Declaring that ‘the defense of Ethiopia is vital to the defense of the Untied es,” President Roosevelt nuS ordred Lend-Lease aid exten led to the Oovernment of Eth' the White House announce here today. The action was revealed in a White House announcement which stated “The Presidi-nt has addressed to £ ^etti la.s Jr., Lend-Lease Ada^istrat)r, A letter the text of wheh >il>ws “For purpose of implemen - ing the authority conferred u|jon you as Lend-Lease Admihistra- tor by Executive Order 802fi, dated October 38, IftQ, ani is order to enable you to arrai^ for Cen^'Lease Aid to the (Jovemment ot Ethio|m, I hitr*- by find that tW deiWle-M detc Ethiopia is vital to the of the United State*.’’ Ethiopia was weletMaCi^ membership in thf Cnila#: ti(His by President Rooaentt ixtober 9, IMS. afltfc Selassie, Cuipi^r of liad cabled the Pn*id«it ‘‘My GoyenuuDt ami are anxiens gations of tha Pact, w#^ tilt mm gaia it&> enee, viah (9 a.nd COQB^ nati««t for la
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