AND POLICE RIO
BUS CASES INVDtVING YOUNG
SCHOOL GIRL AND OFFICER
CONTINUE UNTIL APRIL 20TH
The cas« against Mis# Dorns
Lyon, sixteen year-old sohoo’
girl, who was attacked on »
Ourhnm Public Service huR here
last week has been continued
until April ' 20 aeeoriling to in
formation priven ou^ by pou«i
officials here this wei*. TIi*
continuance was granteil * the
counsel for W. p]. Gates, the of
ficer accused or inanbandlin^ the
youn^i: fJfl when she refused to
move from her neat on the bns.
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|*gHg^UtHDNBRI^Ei^
VOL.XXm NO. 15
BUY WAR BONDS .. DURHAM, North Carolina, S ATURDAY, APRIL 10th- 1943
BUY WAR BONDS
Negro Soldier Saves 12 Then Goes Down With Ship
JOB DiSCRIMNATION
^ENES OF FAYETTEVILLE STREET DURJNG RIOTING SATURDAY
—tuas 10 Rescue"
Officer From
Angered Soldiers
Followinir on the of » •*
near riot h^re two tv*fk« njfo,
whith broke out -an .1' uh
fili’Wt between wjiite HoWieis
nnd white f^iliana, ar\ UHthr« ui:
that thre«teJ^ to i> t[ Hon
here l«te Satui'di ii'.f'’rnonr
when a polit'e ot^ -ern. 1,
Bailey- {became entiiii^ksl with
proup of Negro -.'Idiejs osi
Fn>-etteville St.
The trouble, ■ w!ii ii »t one
time,,'Vesched the riot stage wi>n
bopuli whWi Bniley, who is ii
member of the ABC squad .if
this city, struck one of the soKtf
iers with his fist as the cliinns
to Bh argnbent that deVelbpei’
over the latter’s possession of
more than one liquor ration
book. The scene of the attack on
the soldier was the ABC store
loeated on Fayetteville Street
which at the time was crowded
with both soldiers and civilians.
Following the striking of the
soldier in the stove, other sold
iers liegan to advance on Bailey
vho managed to get to the donv
through wlu«h he fled to th£
ncai'by by home of .lerry^ Mo
rnllev, which is located on ths
corner Fayetteville and \Vhit-.
tod streets, to whieh he was
f^^Continued on Page Two)
Bond Salesmen Bar
Angelic Of_^
Patkr Divirit^ ^
OfEW YOBK, {Calvin’3 News
‘>ervicA.. — FHther Divine tel«-
graphed Pi'esidont liooBeveU
,iml the Seeretaf} of Treasury
because augela like Purity LatT'b
and Biassed Faithful Heart eould*
not bttj’. War Bonds. Offifiiiia in
New York would nst 'sell the»n
bonds, suspecting these were
lot their real names.
So, Father Diyioe, lately «'»f
New York,' bat more recentlj’ ol
Philadelphia, wrote to the Presi-
dent. His telegram was release^!
by his white secretary, John
Lamb. It read:
“To refuse to sell bonds
merely TiiJeauso of the adoptei
names of my followers is a de
cided display of Hitlerism at
worl? in America and is thre/u-
ening the very bulwark of d**-
Ilmoeracy and jeopardising the
fundamental _ principle. _upon
vhreh this governme^ is fuund-
ed.'»
Binr WAR BONDS
ANDSTAII8>SN0W!
Walter White Tells US
Senators Congress Must
Halt Bias In Industry
WASHINGTON, D, C- — Con-
gress must halt practices of
racial ■ discrimination against
workers in war industries be
fore it undertakes legislation
for compulsory employment,
Walter White, executive aecro*
tary of the NAACP, told the
Senate Miltary Affairs com
mittec April 1.
White testified against :he
Austin - Wadsworth biH'vhleh
provijtes for ''the successful
prosecution of the war through
n system of civil selective war
service.”
White pointed ont that th*
bill is based on a false assamp*
tion, for there Still exists »
hnge reservoir of voluotary
mail, and womanpower which
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PASTOR OF ST. JOSEPH AME CHURCH
GIVES VIEWS OF RIOTING IN HA YTI
SECTION OF DURHAM LAST SATURDAY
An Open Letter oh the Disturbance in Dur-
hami Nr€rSaturda3rflftem(x»n 1943t
BY DR. J. A, VALENTINE-
I was an eye «!}tness of the disturbance which occuired on
Fftyetteville Street last Saturday afternoon rlgiit in the heart
of the Negro section. ^
While it was Impossible for me to see every incident in de
tail 1 saw a great portion of the whole affair.
For a while I stood at the window of Dr. E. P. Korrte’s
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which includes 52 conntieis in
the eastern part of the state.
The new officer attended
school in Durham and took a
dejrree from Ohio state univer
sity. Before becoming professor
at N. C. College in 1926 he ler-
ved as principal of schools at
Hamlet for five years. In 1936
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The above scenes are sections
of FayeteviUe street last* Satu''-
daV evening during the riotinj;
which occurred, between soldiers
from Caiivp Butncr and Ihnhs.ii
police oifieors. The trouble w»«s
ber. of the Durham ABU aciu.id.
•itruck a Xegro soldiers Th t;ie
liquor store located on Fayette
ville Street after he had dis
covered that he had more th-»n
one liquor ration book. Timely
intervention of Negro commiss-
ioned^officers and military polii^e
leld the ahgered large crowd of
started when T. L. Bailey, mem-
iOldiers_in_jbeyance until the
arrival of additidhal military
police from Camp Butner. In tba
pwer right hand picture a sold
er was caupht by the camers-
iian attempting to throw a rock
into a passing automobile. He is
being held by a civilian barber
who is attempting vainly to pn*-
vent him from the attack. ^
i)eanJan»BsT. Taylor
Gets OPA Post For
Eastern N. Carolina.
BALEIGH, (ANP) — Theo
dore S. .Johnson, director for
the state office of price admin
istration, last week announced
that James T. Taylor, professur
>f psychology and dean of men
at N. C. College for Negroes,
Durham, ha« been appointed Ne-
'ro information officer for the
state OPA.
Taylor, the first Negro to be
ippointed to a staff position
with the OPA in the eight-state
Atlanta region, was gi^en he
post after a series of confei*-
ene^s with state officials and
'eading Negroes. His duties will-
include the presentation of
OPA facts to Negro schools,
civic groups, and other ^aTerj^Jt^VHER^J^ THE SOUTH-^
n the Raleigh OPA district,
JUINS H(E-«ARMY
Heroic Soldier
Rescues 12 Then
Loses Own Life
BY “8000P” JONES
(Associated' Nefirro Press "War
Correspondent)
WEST PACIFIC, (Censored)
— Pvt. ueorg® Watson, of Bir
mingham heroically went to his
watery gr&ve, 20 miles out of
Ore bay, off th^ enstern coast of
New Gainea, after having i-es-
enSed 12. of iiis fellow passen
gers from a bomb wrecked Dutch
ship.
This was revealed in an inter
view with Robert HawsMi, A’la-
tralian civilian en|^eer aHaoh-
ed to the U. S. army, who was
among survivors of the ship.
attack by Japanese Bombers took
place shortly after the noon
hour early in tWe month of
March. Three dif^t hits we'^e
believed to have been scor^ on
the ship. Within W minutes af
ter the bombing, the ship was
fastly sinking. Passengers hard
ly had time to untie life boats
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William A.
.vas recently inducted into the
irmy at Fort Bragg. Mr. Hil’
s a product of Lincoln Acad
‘my and North Carolina Col-
He was an active member of
'he Union Baptist Church, am*
Sund^ School, and organizei
>f a Boy Scout Troop IBere. Tr*
was the Durham District Com
mission-^r of the Boy .Scout of
he Boy Bcouts of America, an*
i valuab;« Scouter and citisen
''aptions For Encloser $(ats.
BUY WAR BONDSi
ANDSTANPSmW!
Race Giris Get Jok.
AsOerbh.Wfake
Bim^lnifr Stwes.
BIRMINGHAM. (A N P) —
For the first time in the
tory of Birmingham distHet.
Nsgro girls are KStptvyed «■
clerks in white groeery alereik
Unlike other large eitiea there
is still plenty of unein.pIoya*eAt
among both white* mmS
men and especially wotaen of
bt>th groups.
White housewives' of the
wealthy snbarbe jut oat NT
Birmingltem ealled Moeefcabi
Brook, Hollywood aad
Terrace, populated by tiha
ers and officials ^ 4lfaWfaj>-
ham’s ipdustry SBd
are now served thehr rmtiow %
two bronze youths. ThfM tiir*,
young wo—Hi -wttm gt"
as clerks whea tlMy
newaiMfMr advert
store owaer was
their Tfqnest for
ed then a elueer't^weii®"
“Th*y hav«
work a