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DURHAM BANK HAS BIG GAIN FOB YEAR * - - — ■ ■ - - - , ■■ ■ i. ■ III— ■'fl MAILING EDITION TH -Cifclf VOLUME XXIII - NUMBER 3 DURHAM, N, C. SATURDAY, JANUARY. 16th, 1943 BUY WAR BONDS TODAY CONGRESS I If President Reports Assets Over Two Million For Mechanics&FarmersBank The annual m««ting of thu Mechanics and Farmers I’lnk WAS held on the sixth floj’ of the home office bnildinf^ of the North Carolina Mutual Lif( Insurance Company last Friday evrning, January 8 at wUieh time President C. C. iSpaiiidin;i made hjs report, .to ^e a^ock- holders of the hank which sllnw- e] that the instil'ution has i(- crijascd its assets during 1942 from 1,550,701.88- to $2,112,017.- 2."), an 'increase of over a halt' million dollars for the year. The President told the stock holders that the past year has been the best in the history of the bank and that the ins^itu tion was now well on the way t ) even becoming of more servic.' to the race and the commuRitv. With assets of well over two million dollars the Mechanics and Farmers Bank is now tiie largest owned and operated by Ncjjroea anywhere in the world. In addition it is the only bank in the race that operati's a branch in another city. It wa!^ also broufljit out at at the meet ing that the Kaleigh branch hay shown remarkable gi'owth dur- pnst year, as wf*!! as the home office, 111 referring to the further progres.q of the bank Mr. Sapuld- ing had the following to say: “We are ^lappy to ri'port that in 1942 we experienced thr greatest growth in deposits of any single year during the his 'tory of the bank. From th' statements which have bee'i handed to yOiJ, you can see that the deposit libaility of the bank increased $")81,000.0n from Dec ember .31, 1941 to December .31, 1042. A large portion of this in- Pjrase Turn To Page Five I Succumbs Ministers Asked To. ’jpreach Food For Freedom Sermon CHICAOO, (ANP) — All of the nation’s ministers are .isk- ed to devote part of the servicis Sunday, February 14, to a mes- «age on food for freedom and, designtae February 12, Lin coln's birthday, to February 22, AVashington’s birthday as n per iod of prayer for a more abund ant production of food in 191.1 aid the united nations’ effort to defeat the axis. This was part of the program outlined by the executive meet ing of the Fraternal Council of Negro Churrhes in America held in Chicago at Monumental Bap tist church Wednesday and Pictured above is Mrs. Cyntlii.* Mathis Ross, wife of Dr. W. II. Rosa of Southern Pines, N. who died at L. Richardson Me- ^iKM’ial Hospital, Greensboro, Dacem'ber 29, 1942, after an ^ill ness of two months. In addition to Dr. Ross, the late Mrs. ’k s- is survived by her Father - Hume Mathis of Greenville^, Ky„ two sisters, Mrs. Princie Faulkner wife of Dr, W. Fauik^ior. Xjish. Tenn., and Mrs, Eleanor Fields of Maysfield, Ky. wifa of Prof, C. M. Fields. The late Mrs. Ross received a>; A. B, and M, A. degree from Fisk I'niveraity and up until the past two years was a member of the faculty of Virginia Sfale College, Petersburg, Va. Slie was well known by the young social set of North Carolina "and Virginia and was highly^. c>a- teemed by all of ler acquhini- ances_ She was ,29 years old. The deceased was ■farried to Greenville Ky., home of the family, for buriij. Dr. Johnson Gets Race Relations Post. WitiiAMA Group NASHVILLE, Tenr. (ANP) — Important developmeinfi Vn I the work of three oiiganiz>itioH,s which have played vital role^ >n the progress of the American Negro in the past and which seem destined to exert equally important influence in th’ fu ture are observed in th'* av nouncement that the Avork of thp social science departnient at Fi.ik university here will be enlargeJ to become the Fisk Institute of Social research under the le;"ler ship of Dr. Charles S. Johnson. In addition to the increased scope of the social science divi sion of Fisk university, the American Missionary As.socijj- tion division of the Board of Home Missions of the Congre gational i'hristian churches an nounces that Dr. Johnson wili bi>conie its director of race r;;]a- tions ps of this month. At the same fiine and as a part of tTu^n ititute program Dr. Johnson will also assums the post of co director of the expanded race relations program of theJ nli is Rosenwald fund, of which he is already a trustee. The rc'lated Please Turn To Page Mve Miss Mae Fonville Miti--hi*H> daughter of Mr and Mi'S. lohi: W. Mitchell, of 13C8 Linds.iy Street, Greensboro, became th. bride of Jewitt Lorenzo Wliite, Friday, l>ecemt)cr 18, in Dillon, S. ('. Mrs, White is a fonnia’ stn dent of liennett ('ollegi*. and at ihe time of her marriagfi was a junior at N. College for Ne grot'P, Durham. Mr. White, son of Mr, aad Mrs. Luther G White of Gary, Indiana ‘,was it senior at A a'lJ T College, Greensboro, beforv* enlisting, in the United Stiites navv reserve. NAACP Seeks Federal Legislation Against Poll Tax Or Cut In Congress Rev. Miles M. Fisher Slightly Improved . From Serious Illness Although much improved the condition of Rev. Miles Mark _ Fisher, pastor of White Rock \ Bapti,st ChurcTi was considered Thursday. Present were 2*1 of | serious by physicians attending the 28 members, representing all! the noted minister here this the major and many of the small I Rev. Fisher was taken to er denominations, with PiWhopj IHospital last Tuesd.ny James A. Bray of the CMlC'.n’ght, after suffering a serious church, president, presiding The council also prepaee-J a militant, 17 point charter fo- the Negro churches which it is hoped will be ado])ted by all- Among its salient points are'* a request for appointment by con gress or the President of ■» special committee to survey every aspect of Negro life, a,'" well as abolishment of the vari ous forms of jim crowism. The proclamation asking church observance of the food for freedom program was signed by Bishop Bray, Bishop R, R. Wright Jr., Wilberforce, AMI' Please Turn To Page Five illness, from which he has re mained practically uncons -ious up until Jfuesday noon of this week. Ho had just completed a booklet which portrayed in pic tures and words the ten years he has spent as pastor of White Rock when he was stricken. Always a hard )V’orker and a student. Rev, Fisher has paid little or no attention t« his own physical welfare, but hfts t *rk- ed continuously for the im provement of his church and its' people. Practically each year since coming to Durham he has *pent several month workitig on j Please Turn To Page Five RED CROSS APPOINTS FIRST NEGRO TO IMPORTANT POST WASHINGTON, D. C. — The American Red Cross has ap pointed Jesse O. Thomas of At- lifntff and Washington as special assistant to the director of domestic operations. Mr. Thomas thus becomes the first Neg'o to serve in an im portant e.voi-iitive capacity in the Washington office here. , The appointment, which hii,'! had the hearty concurrence of Chairman Norman Davis, comes as the direct result of recom mendations made by the nationnl colored advi^ry committee which has held several meetings with Red. Cross offioialss - and staff tnemlters during r-'cert months. It is expected to implo ment far reaching suggestions which the committee has made to Red Cross Vice Chairman it Largo .Tames L. Fieser, who has been vitallv interested in seeing that the far flung activities of the Red Cross, touching the liv es of Negroes at so many point? as they do, are pr0f)erly integrat ed and interpreted, feels that a new period of effective service to one of the major grroup served by the organization will result. Mr. Thomas and his secretary will have offices in the hea^l- quartera here. He will assume active charge of^his new work ns soon he secures his-release from the war savings stniT of the U. S. Treasury with which he is now associated. Mr, Thomas, a native of Please Turn To Page Fiv3 KuKluxKtan Invades Chicago As District Attorney Watches Chicago, A N I*) — It n-a? learned this week that the United States district attorney, J. Al bert Well, was studying ei.-cn- lars distributed here by th * K’l Klux Klan, appealing to '‘mor ally sound'’ Americans to joiji. the organization- The circu'avi ■w^re dispatched from Dallas, )>ut '.vere distributed from an undis- •lo.sed loif-al source. ^^ “My attention has been caiW to this situation,” said Well, •‘and it will l»e watched closely !»y office.” The circular demanded “drfif?- tic action now in rem iving •‘(^>mmunism, Nazism, Fasc.is^n, and all other isms from the .;hor- eS of America'.” They safd fur ther that: “The membership of the Ku Klux Klan today is made up of clean, morally sound, white Please Turn To Page Five ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENTS -Governor Charles Harwood of th* V^irgin Islands has announced ap- 3ointment of Dr. Erie O’Neil and Qr. Randoteh Henderson, tMth (rf New York City, as Municipal PUy»- ^ sians of the islands of St. Thomas f md St. Croix, respectively. Gov ernor Harwood, wjio visit^ Waab- iKgton, D. C., on official busineas recently, revealed that Malcirtm Jackson, also a Negro, was. recentl3r appoint^ to the Office of Price Administratioa in-tbe Virgin Islands. jjDr. William H. Dean is alie^y stationed there as an 0P.\ piic« ssecutlve. If you burn letters from you\ sweetheart, you will burn his love. NK'.V VORK, Sp«K*ial to the TlilKH — At the iiauual m >«t- ing of the NAACP Januarv- 4. st Fifth Avenue at whi^ h a ^tatenicnt was made to XAA' P delrtrate-! the us.^iM-intion eti that it mill ask thr 7Mth ‘ gress to ennrt ft*Hera1 h^-ii-*!.- tion to liMillsh the [M)!! ta.i l to yivp irt»per,if Iv- neede1 federal aiif to eduenri- i and health servieeSy and t.> ro- inep representation in the Umi-v ®f Bepresentativ»»s, a* proridpd in Section 2 of the 14th Ami-rnl- Bient, from those states wir. 'e the right to vote is d*mied ta f|ualified voters. This will give filrlMjsteting Souther* tors ind Coag^fesaippn tbe~ rtoiey' between abolition of the poB tax, ihe Democratic “whitf” prim ary, and other- aneonstittltional uhd impchper to the ri#rht to vote ui one fc.-’nd, or drastic reduc-tion in the mim- ber rf Repres€ntatHfi«» % froia th€te .sfates on the 4>ther iKind. In addition to .tht'se spe^fie meusnief, the NAACP's Wash- imrfon Bureau, national office, and branches, will’ ask Ib- Please Turn To Page Fire and women of the r*e« are giv- v of their country. Located at iHr en the necessary preparutldas | «axsp are of the highest for i^rvice in the atiued f>'*ces! trained men and women of tlic At Fort Huachuca, the largest NegrcT^t rain ^ng eamp in the worlH* is located. Here bot^i^-tn^
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