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VOL. XXIII - NO. 20
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SA’n.)RDAY, MAY 22nd, i94:{
WOHUN BRUTUIY BEATEN
PHYSKUNWnH
WRENCH
JlBb.
Asks Legislature
For$100,000For
Alabama School
MONTOMEBY, Ala. (Atlfj
— Asking for s special appri)-
priation of $100,000 annitally
for the sehoQ^ Qov. Chaunce;'
gparka last week told the Ala-
hania IfHat^ leifialatttre . that
(‘Tttflkegee jnstitbte slioald ^
tied ht with th« edQ«atiOMl>a>#'
tcm of Alabama to the aztont it
is willing to go along with ii6.
At the same time the execa-
tivp naked.“your earnest c.«n-
sideration by way of increased
appropriation to our two Negro
inatituitons of higher learning -
Alabama State Teachers’ eoilejfe
and the Agricultural and Mi-
ehaiUiial institute for Negroes
at Normal, Ala.
“They are both doing good
work,” he said, and “the re-
sntts of an improvement of
that work will grow as the yeurs
pass.’ ’
Continuing hii* appeal for
better educational facilities for
Negroes, Qov. SparVs recall^;!
tre state's association with
Tuskegee’s founding and point
ed out to the legislature:
“Tuskegee has done great
work in training Negro boys and
girls. It touches our own lif« at
n»any point.s. For us to be fsolit-
ed from. it, is to neglect a
duty to ourselves, and to the
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RAPE
AWAITS
WASHINQTON, 6, C./— The
United States Department of
Justice admitted on May 10 in
argument before the Supreme
Court that the United States
Court for the Western District
of Louisiana had no jurisdiction
to try the three Negro soldier.'^
who were convicted on a rape
^harge and sentenced, to death.
The case now awaits maudato
of the Supreme Court on two
techrtieal qt^tions involving
the right of the U. S. District
Court to try the soldiers. The
Circuit Court of Appeals judged
the questions raised by the
NAACP to be of sufficient im
portance to send them up to the
Supreme Court to be answered.
Upon their release if the Sup
reme Court decides they were
tried by the wronsr e«(urt, ,thp
soldiers face probaole eoiirl
martial.
Thurmgood Marshall, NAACP
special counsel, argued for the
soldiers. ,
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N. C. MUTUAL PRESIDENT WARNS
AGAINST TOO MUCH
NEW YORK, (A N P) —
Pointing to, the fact that th?
present employment situation is
artificial, produced by th-3 ne
cessities of our war time e o i-
oray, C. C. Spaulding of Dur
ham, president of , ,the Nort^i
Carolina Mutual Life Insurance
company and president-emeritusi
of the National Negro Business
League, in an interview here
this week said he hoped that his
people would not be like foolisn
virgins during this boom per
iod and waste all their snbst-
ance. but that they would in
stead salt away some of fhe es-
cellent wages being made.
^He urged likewise that •’.veryl
worker on a new job treat that
.job as thought it were his life’.i
opportunity, delivering Such
sterling performance that h^
would have a fair opportunity^
of holding that job against al;
comers when the present de
mand for labor'eases off. Too,
he advised, one who is fortun
ought to make such a rcr-o>’.l
with- it that when that em
ployer needs another man lie
will look for a Negro pure^^ on
the basis of the pei-formancf of
those already working for him.
“Those of yon who are fami
liar with the address delivered
by Maj. (Jen. Phillip B. Flem
ing, the administrator of tie
government’s federal works
program, before the Sales
Rxecutive’s club here Tuesday,
know, said Mr. Spaulding, “that
he predicted there would be
15,000,000 persons out o? Avo'*k
in the United States after the
war. He felt that industries
such as «hipbuilding,’aircraft
production and machine buildint:
alone would discharge some fi,000,
000 people.
“He felt that those industries
which are now manufacturing
war produrts but which would
turn to replenishing peaCe time
1.5 million seen out of s5uEo
needs, might take on a miHion
ate enough to have a good joh^ (Please Turn To Page Three)
VICTIM OF IRON WRENCH ATTACK
The auove photo shqvsrs Mrs. MaeshiF.v' Burt,
USO i,et;retary of Raleigh, who is recovcr-ng in
St. Ag-nes Hospital from wounds inflictcd on
her head with an iron wrencii. by Di. R. P.
Young, white physician of the North Carolina
Health Department. Mrs. Burt was attacked on
USO Secretary VIctom
Of Malicious Attack
By N. C. Health Officer
COLORED MESS
AHENDANT
COMMENDED
WASHIN(JTON A eo'm-
niendation has been awaMie*!
Charles .laekson French, a Ne
gro Mess Attendant, for his
courage in attempting to save n
group of his shipmates on the
CSS GREGORY from shellinjf
by Japanese naval forces follow
ing the sinking of that ship.
Frenh’s citation from Ad-
mTfal' William G. Halsey, Jr.,
USN Commander, South Pificifle
Area and South Pacific Force,
1‘eads:
; “For meritorious conduct in
action while serving on board »
the corner of Hargett and Blount streets as
the aftermath bf an argument she had, v/ith th^ 1
physician when he demanded that she not !
staod near him. Photo By Hamliw, Courtesy transport which was
The Carolinian. • damaged during the en-
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USHERS DELIVER $1,000 CHECK TO ORPHMGE
0.
mw
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vmimmifm
MISS AOGE MAE BELL,
native of Jackson, N. C. an 1
junior at A and T Collee
popular among the student bt*dy.
Her major is English, minor
History. Miss Bell is the daugh
ter of Mrs. Alice Bell oF Jack-*
son. North Carolina,
Asks NonHoations
For C. C. Spaulding
Award For 1943
MExft'HIS, (ANP) — pr. J.
E. Walker, president of the Na
tional Negro Business league,
stated Saturday that Jocal Cosi
ness leagues', Negro chambers
of commerce and other local or
ganization are invited send in
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RALEIGH — (By CAROLINA
j TIMES Staff Writer) — Slore
than angered firizens [Hi*b-
e»! and crowded their way into
the Rush Memorial AMC Ziba
cfaurch here Sunday &ftemo«a ia
in a mass meetiBg ealliFd f#-
the porpose of organiziag sep*
pert for the legii! pros«e«tiOB
Dr. S. P. Yuosg, white phjrai-
eian of the North Carolina De
partment of Health, for vkionsly
attacking Mrs. Mae^shaw Bart»
Paleigh USO Secretary, on la»6
Friday afternoon.
The attack on Mrs. BaH
which was made wfIB an iron
wrench weUded by Dr. Y.»nng
was the aftermath of an .irg»*
taent whi«*h oo^urred betweeq
the young woman and the phy^
sieian in an A & P Store, located
on the corner of Hargett and
Blount streets. According to Mrs.
Bnrt who is now a patient ia
St. Agnes Hospital, sofferia^
from several severe wound!) ■-
bout her face and head, a;*^ a
result of the attack. Dir. Yoang
1 objected to her standing besi«ift '
him at a showcase to make a
selection of meat. She stated
that when she leaned over to •
peer into the showcase, aroond i
which a large number nf peopVii
were standing, that Dr. YoimjpJ
ordered her to get out of 113^1
face and get away from whcr*|
he was standii^. Miff it
standiftg the physician,
Bnrt inquired as t« what Wli
had said he repeated his stafe^ 1
J men, with more emphasis. Mrs*
Burt., then replied that she wvtl-
In no way harming him. aaff
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SCHOOL BOARD OUSTS PLAlNTfK
IN TEACHERS’ SALARY CASE
The above photo is that of the
$1,000 check donated to the Ox
ford Colored Orphanage last
Sunday afternoon at a public
program given in the auditorlu.n
of the institution. Participating
on the program were Superinten
dent T. A. Hamnie who was
master of ceremonies. Dr. E. E.
Toney, chairman of the Board of
Trustees, several members of the
Board and L. E. Austin, presi
dent of the ST. C. Interdenj?mina-
tional Ushers Association who
presMited the check on behalf of
the ushers.
Negro Miners Make Ore Records
Fifteen Negro miners are es?-day, the Negroes were soldiers.
tablishing new ore production
‘records in Nevade at the Victor
ia Lease of the International
Smelting and Refining Company,
P. A. Wardlaw, assistant mana;?
er of the company, revealed thiP
week.
Before they became the ex
pert copper miners they are to-
Last Octoberr, with some 4,000
others, they received furloughs
from the army- to work in, th-;
copper mines and help cure the
critical manpower shortage in
that mo?t critical of induslriea.
After an attempt to put them
to work in the mines a£ Batte,
Mont., had failed they were aent
to Salt Lake City, Utah, whers
hey stayed a week while haus-
ing accommoda^ons were pre
pared for them at the Victoria
Tjease. The orginial number set>t
to work in Nevada was twenty-
one. |Mr. Wardlaw recalls this
period:
“When the soldiers first got
there they were inclined to be
suspicious, and Superintendent
Al Wondersshek was pretty
worried abont the outlook. He
put a number of them to work
in the mine and some of the less
experienced ones on the sar-
face and was soon aware of the
fact that none of the men knew
the first thing about working un-
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.—
Charles H. Stebbins, plaintiff,
in the equalization of teachers’
salaries case here told t li,e
NAACP this week eorrespond-
euce with Thnrgood Marshal'
NAACP special counsel, who is
representing the Negro teachers
that the Pahn Beach Board b!
Instrntion that the school b >aril
has announced it will not re
appoint him.
Toward the end of 1941, Mar
shall, and S. D. McQlll. attomey
for the Jacksonville NAAtT
branch with Stebbins as the'r
client filed suits for read just'
ment of the pay of Race teacher^
and sovght equal pay for etynal
work by Negroes and white. Th*
case is now pending in th? I*.
S. District Court of the
ern District of Florida.
Stebbins alleges that kis
missal was affei^ted in
ion: He eonteods that tte
gro trustee of district S
9 demanded the removal of
priaeipsk This eoald. *01 1
complished. Steb^ins
cause the prtadpsl lU£|
proval of the white
board. But*
letees the school
xioos to
ia t)M
was 4wrtTHilti
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