Salute To Negro
aCinte
VOL. xxni - NO. 13
BUY WAR BONDS ..
DURHAM, North Carolina, Saturday, March 27th, 1943
BUY WAR BONDS . .
Bill To Eliminate Employment Discrimination Passes
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TEXANS CONVICTED OF
FORMER AID iriAR
SECRETARY EXPOSES
FLYING SCHOtfL OUTRAGE
The Army Air Forces ^ hftt-e
just aimounced a new progrum
of five months academic train
ing: in selected colleges to" be
given to soldiers before they be
gin army flying training./ The
mm will be tanght by tSe coll
ege faculties and will live on Ihe
««S}pu9. 0^ a handled aehooli
nil over the country have been*
selected to provide this preli-
aiinary college training. But
eligible Negro soldiers are to
be Segregated and all of them
sent to Tuskegee Institute *.o
study physics, mathematics,
history, English and Geography.
Men from all parts of the coun
try,, men with varying education
al background, a large number
of them already graduates of
first rate liberal arts colleges,
must be sent to Tuskegee
for five months of undergradu
ate training, just because they
happen to be colored.
Even if Tuskegee were an out-
standi^ liberal arts college,
which it is not, this newest and
wholly unnecessary Jim Crow
snhelne would be inexCuable. In
all the circumstances the plan is
outrageous. The time has come
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N^o Troops Play.
Important IPart h
Pacific War Zone
with many «i«aMhdg of
9^% combat and servke troops
stationed la tli« . Pat T>%ifrv
Americiin colored soldefs are
playii^ an important part in the
Allied offensive now being
directed by General Douglas
MacArthur in that area.
Arriving with the first units
of American soldiers in N e w
Guinea, these N^o iroops have
not only assisted in maintaining
vital supply lines to the various
fronts, but have also taken part
in the fighting.
According to reports receiv
ed from Office of War Informr.-
tion Outposts, Negro quarter
master arid Engineer units help
ed repulse an attempted Japan
ese landing at Milne Bay in the
early days of the war. Surprised
by the landing parties' while
worning on istallations in the
bay, the Negro soldiers quickly
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HAVE COMMON BOND IN OPPRESSION
Southeri Railway
Pays $3750 For Attack
On Baptist Minister
NEW YORK, — Rev. J. C
Jaekson, distinguished Hart
ford, Connecticut Baptist minis
ter and pjcaident^if Ihe New
England Baptist Convention jvho
Was beaten September 8th by a
white passenger on train in ths
South has received a settlement
of from the Southern Rail
way Company the National As
sociation for the Advancement
of Colored People announceJ
this week. Thnrgood Marshall,
NACP Special Counsel and At*
thur Onrfield Hays of the na
tional NAACP. legal coTOmitt“o,
handled the case which w a
settled out of court. Expressin’
his appreriation to the NAACP
for its successfrtl conduct of
the ense, R^v. Jackson state.!
th;'t he felt that
was entitled to
settlement.”
The settlement was made on
the grounds that a public carr
ier is responsible for the safi
delivery of its passengers to
their destination and the proteo
“the , public
know‘s of the
tion of such passengers against
harm inflicted by fellow passen
gers if the proper authorities
have heen duly warned of the
imminence of such harm.
The attack upon the 76 year
old Rev. Jaekson iceured while
he and his travelling companion.
Rev. S. A. Young, were on a
Southern Railway train enroute
to the National Baptist Con
vention at Memphis, Tenn. Rev.
Jackson and Rev. Young at
tempted to pass through a white
coach and Rev. Young was
struck on the face by J. T. Hud
son of Dectatur, Alabama, who
shouted, ‘'Don’t come throtiga
here. Niggers have been coming
through here all day and I’m
tired of it.” Yoiuig reported
this to the conductor. A half-
hour later Rev. Jackson was
brutally beaten by the same
passenger. The plaintiff that
the conductor had ample op
portunity to restrain Hudson ur
eject him from the train.
Man And Woman Given 4
Years By Federal Court
For Holding N6gro SlaVK
SENATE HALTS BAN
AGAINST RACE WORKER
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ThF darker races of the world
do have a common bond in their
oppression. Here tHe leaders re
presenting . India, Africa, the
Unite(l States gnd China — all
i I
gathered together in a plea for
India’s freedom at a rally in
New York S|K)nsorod by tha
Council on African Affairs.
Shown, left to right: Komar
Goshal, Calcutta, India; Mrs.
Tantu Ntombi from Africa;
Clayton Powell, United
States; and I/in Liang-Mo from
China.
South And West Clash
NAAGP Renews
Fight Fw Passage ,
Of Lynching Bill
WASHINGTON, D. C, — B;?-
oause of the increase in lynch-
ings which brought the 1942
toll to 6 and' included the vicions
murdering of two 14 year old
Mississippi children, itie
NAACP announced this week
that it has entered with renew
ed determinatipn the 35th year
of its fight abolish lynching.
The NAACP stated that voters
throughout the country are urg-
ad to insist by telegram, tele
phone and letter that their re
presentatives in Congress sign
the discharge petition on HR 5
of the Gavagan Anti-Lvnching
bill.
LAST RITES HELD
FOR MRS. A. E.
SPAULDING FRL
CLARKTON, (Special) —Mrs.
Annie E. Spaulding of Clark-
ton, North Carolina died at th«
home of her son in Clarkton,
Wednesday afternqon, March 17.
Mrs. Spaulding was the young
est sisteT of the late Dr. A. M.
Moore. Funeral services we^e
held in Clarkton, Friday, Marcn
19. She leaves to mourn her loss
five daughters, Mrs. Penny Mit
chell, Mrs. Mabel Moore, Mr«(.
Anna Day Webb, Mrs. Badie
White and Mrs. Isadore Srenn-
an; two sons, Andrew and Mc-
Iver Spaulding, and a host of
other relatives and friends.
BT faunSST JOHNSON
WASHINGTON, (A N P) -
Simultaneous with the flareup
over the question of admitting
Negro war workers to the Wil
low Run Housing project in ths
Detroit area, scrap which has
provoked many to see a weaken
ing in the earlier policy of the
Federal Public Housing adminis
tration, comes the announeo-
ment that Landgon W. Post,
FPHA region director fOr the
west coast section, informed all
local housing authorities that he
is against discrimination and
Segregation in any public prol
jecta under his jurisdiction.
His memorandnm to th^ au
thorities, dated Feb. 17, and re
leased here by the racial rela
tion division of FHPA on Wed
nesday, said:
“This is to inform you that
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CREEDMOOR GETS
$33,000 FOR NEW
SCHOOL BUILDING
RICHMOND, Va. — Bids ful
for the construction of an elS-
inentary school building for Ne
gro pupils at Creedmoor in
Granville County, North Caro
lina, for which a Federal ^allot
ment of $33,000 was approTed
last month, will be opened at
the regional office of the Fed*
aral Work Agency in Richmond
on April 2, at 2 p. m, Kenneth
Markwell, FWA regional direc
tor, announced today.
Plans call for a one stor>
frame Structure contaning si'
classrooms and space for the fu
ture installation of lavatory faci
lities. The building will con
form to FWA standard plans
for war emergency construction
and very few critical material^
will be refiuired, Mr. Markwell
said.
A six-room school now opera
ted for Negro children in Creed-
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WASHINGTON, (A X P ) -
Edgar G. Brown, director of tbi
Natioijal Negro Couneil, siid
Monday that the adoption of
the antl-disi-riminatiou ameii»{-
ment is/‘the greatest advance
in the fiffht for the Negro’s
right to work and utilize the
skills God gav« him without dis
crimination by labor unions.”
The amendment, to end raclil
,disf;rimination in employment,
was sponsored by Sens. Wv--
land Brooks (R., III.) and Wil
liam Langer, (R., N. D.) Mon
day. It was approved by the
senate eii?il service cbmmitCee.
The committee listened le
hearings oji the legislation by
Edgar Brown who further stal
ed;
“Seaators Brooks and Lai^r
championed the successful adof-
tion of this vital legislation
prohibiting discrimination again
st 16.000 vitally essential Negro
navy yard and bureau of engrav
ing eivil service workers.
“The 13,000,000 workers are
eternally indebted to the see-
ators who supported the amend
ment.”
WAbHlNQTON. D. C. — At
torney «Vn«*r*l Frant-ia
announ«e«i Thursday (March ISJ
that Ales L. Sfcrebarfrzyk, 62-
yt^ar-olft Rcevik. Texas farrwe*,
and !m» tlattgh1*r, Susie Ser^
'M, h*«i b»en
by H jury In, i'ettcral Coart aj
Corn»» Christ*. Teas, on
tlh» Fedewil *Sl»¥crr
S«tion Title I8i F. S. €od?.
Following conviction, Skr»-
barczyk was sentencpd to
four year prison term and ais
daughter two years. The indiet-
ment had charged that the Hr*
d^en^Ianfs had aided ea^ll otter
“in causing Alfnnl Itfing (a
•Negro) to be heW as a sIA'Tf, if
threatening and iatiimdati^
the said Alfred Irvl^ a^b^lgr
Inflicting great bodily injary sp-
on thje person of said Atfnil
Iriring and by puttiog^lBia iB
fear and eauaing the said Al*
fred Iriviug, against his will, to
perform labor.
At the same bme,.. Altonaa;^
Oeperal Biddle anaooaCcd tbpt &
Federal Grand Jwej' at
Miss-, has ^ xetanied an iaiinh
ment cbargil^ Donald Castle
Lauderale County, Miss., viUl
violatieBfl -4^ th« Federal Aati'
Peonage and Anti-SlaTery Statli^
tea. TTie indietmeat ehtrired
one Rosay Wyse, a N«?*. ' w.h
L'Oinpelled “by thremta, iatimi-
dati^, whipping and beating tj
work and labor iBTtrfiutarily anil
against his will’* for Cast!^.
The Tesas ease, wlueii mam
pwaeated to tli* jMor by
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WOHfflEN ATAandTPREP FOR WAR EFFORT
This all woman elass in En
gineering Drawing now beirj
held at A and T College is fur
ther evidence of the participa
tion of the students and facultj
pf the eoUef^ m the all out
war program* Meeting in the
evenings, this elass is taken
addition to an already fnU coll
ege program Jor tb«B. Upo*
to be