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BIDOLE CALLS FOR END OF MAILING EDITION VOL. XXIII - ya>WRUtHtiNBRI^EI^ DURHAM, NORTH CAROMMA, SAiUKUAY, MAY 29th, 1943 Three Golored Soldiers Of Army Engineers Decorated JMHUCUS innvE ★ ★ ★ Iron Wrench Doctor Waives Preliminary. Hearing ONE LOST ON SHIP BRINGING AID TO AMERICAN FARMERS lip ■ I ■ I. ^ » - I I , Leading Producm (M N. C. Mutual Durham Branch WASHINdTON, (A N PJ — jf Col. J. T. Taylor, d^uty war food administrator, last vc«k issued a statement confirming a report Hut one of the two shipa on which J«maioan farm' *or’c- cri^ Wi‘i9 ^jybrted to poul try was crowded and without adequate sanitary facilities, that a '‘disturbance'* OPerrrredr nnd that one of the workefa -at- cidentlly fell overboard end was lost at sea. This wfts the first official statement on the incident from the war food administration. The ship carried about 4,000 Jamaican workers, intended in the farm areas of northern and eastern states. Taylor, in charge Of farm labor for the agency said: “The Jamaican workers are now comf(«'lably sheltered in n -jSHrerpment operated cnmp wherf' wiji they remain pending: their ^trrement on farm needfng tKeir^ assistarire, which is new proceeding.'’ The rfrional office of the! Farm Security administration announced that 91.5 more ex perienced farm workers from Jamaica arrived in the oast Tnesday. This boosted to 2,156 the number of seasonal workers were brought from Oiitside the United States to help relieve the labor shortage on farms in the 11 nortfieastern state compris- injr the FSA’s region 1. A'l except 212 Bahamans are from the West Indies. Tuesday’s workers were vlia- tH'buted among four states follows: 100 to^ TvlJ^vtown, Pa.; 120 to Thompaojiville, Conn-; to Hartford, Conn.; 100 to Burlin?- *ton, N. J.; f)00 to Bridcreton, J., and 100 to Hebron, Md. High Honors Given Negroes For Saving. Doomed Plane f pot V T^e Ne^o heroM of a tJ. S. Army. Engineers Tinlt^ wiiFe' accorded high military honor3 recently and decorated by an American Brigadier^ Qeneral for gallantry in the New Qulneu area, an Office of War Infor mation outpost reported thia iveek. , 4 The heroes, given Soldiers’ Medasl for an action which took place several months ago, Averc Pfc. Julius P. Franklin, Pfc. Harvey Crandle and Pvt. Jam«s Seutt. The soldiers distinguished themselves when a fighter plnno crashed into a log while taking off from an aerodrome to inter cept enemy fighters overh?ad. The plane plunged into a river near the airstrip and its petrol and ammunition were igniteJ. Pfc. Prankln jumped into t'.e river, swam through the flames and explosions and pulled rhe pilot clear. Pfc, Crandle and Pvt. Scott waded into the rivf>> and helped Franklin drag t'le pilot ashore at the risk of their lives. The entire organization of Negro ,engineers stage a full (Please Turn To Page Two) Attorney General Says Discrimihotion Hindrance To National War Effort -■HP New Chairman For FEPC Appointed: WASHINGTON — The Com mittee of Fair Empoyment 1‘rite- tice was today officially advised that a new chairman had btcn appointed and that the CKm- mittee^ reoi^gauilatliin will be effected immediately upon his assumption of the chairmnn- ship. The committee has th.;>'.- fore been requested to postp rtie^ its -public • hearings scheduled for Tuesday, May 18, in Was^r ington, D. C., on the Capital Transit Company case. Pursjiant to this request, the committee, at its meeting today, postpouej the Capital Transit Company he^rins .from Tuesday, Mav 18, to Wednesday, June 2. At th« same time and for the sainn reason the committee poatp«in »d its scheduled in DetroU:,-Michi gan, from May 24 ' and ‘25 to June 28 and 29. Hci'e are some"^^ :the leaders of the Durham* Ewtriet of the North Carolina Mutual who aro playing an important paj-t in keeping the local office among the top producing districts ol' the company. At the top left of the photo is L. Z. Creft, who operates the largest debit (1308^6) on the Durham dis- ti'ict. He also had the pleasure and honor of collecting mure money on an industrial bedit for the year 1942 than any other agent in the entire company. In the center is C. C/, Smith, assistant manager who teaches his men by exilmple. Mr. Smith was recently forced ^ operate a debit because one df~ his men was inducted into the armed service, during which time he put on more increase than any man on the district. At the top right is E. W. Oreeti who operates a $236 debit vtnd closed last year without a singli premium on his book being in arrears. Mr. Green also ranks a- mong the top debit managers in production of ordinary ISusiness. At the lowtr left is S. P. Biggers,**' mem;ber of the Junior Cabinet of the district, who is regarded by his co-workers as be ing the most consistent per former in both collections and debit increase of the force. In the lower right is W. W. Barbee, president of the Dur ban} Agency fprce. Mr. Barbee, in addition to his insurance work, finds time to devote to the presidency of the City Parent-Teachers Association. Sgt. Willfam Thomas Baiiey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tho?uas Bailey, wbo visited 'his parencs here last week. Sgt. Bailey stationed at Lnkie Field, Arix. Prior to being inductpd into th‘ army Sgt. Bailey was manager of Bailey’s Store. Today, wh«n every onit of manpower within the nstivna reservoir luast be atilix*d, Ne groes shoolJ Kot and wMt not he excluded, Attorany General Fnuieia BidUe deelaved i» an addre«>« delivered sight. May iS, ia Pkiladrlphi*. Mr. Biddle spoke before mem bers of the Edneational Kr]ua- lity League in the Allen Africa* Method ii^t Episcopal Chorcfe, 17th and Bainbrid^ ?tfeftS.“~ Discrimination'’ a^inst miQOP* ity groups, he said, eannot eo ou in a eountty pledged to re ligious liberty. Mr. Siddle refuted ramon that Ne^oes were not ent,^infe the armed forces in coniparabW numbers by quoting War Dejuirt ment statistics that hatf » million Negroes were ia Anajr service today. He mention^ Nelpoes T^ll both Arnoy and Navy who )iad beea d««orat«d aud cited fai> ^ heroism Tinder fire, mnr/wh» 'fPlease Turn To Page Two> 1 Soldier Returns To A rmv After Bring . Acouitted Of Rape COLTTMBUS, Gn. — Charles soldier, who was acquitted on Mav 10 by a Muscogee Coun tv inrv of a rape char^re hns row returned to the A^JWy, NAACP revealed this week. fttont, a quiet, mild manner..d New York man, did not wait to be drafted, but enlisted in the TT. S. Army because he said hf' (f*lease Turn To Page Two) The photo above is the Drum and Bugle Corps of the !)30tb Field Artillery Battalion which headed tie parade pf the Batla- i civilians viewed with pride the lion last Sunday afternoon ct I military spectacle. ’ Camp Butner v^hich hundreds of I ASSAULT CASE. -ft Dr. R. P. Young, N. C. Health official who brutally ^assaulted Mrs. Maeshaw Burt witli an wrench in Raleigh I’ridiy May 14 has waived preliminary he»ir- ing and will be tried in the next term of Wake County Criminal Court according to information obtained this week from Attor-, neys F. J. Carnage, M. H Thompson and C. J. Gates, coua- sel for the victim of the at tack. »Ifl the meantime Mrs. Burt is slowly recuperating from I nr terrible ordeal wbicK startl'd when she was ordered by th*. physician to not stand near him in a store where she had gone to purchase groceries. Ship To Be Named For Hero Who lost. His Ufeh Battle Secretary of the Navy Prank Knox has approved the assign ment of the name T7SS Harmop to a Destroyer Escort Vessel, now under construction to honor the name of the late iJ^nard Roy Harmon, Negro Mess Atten dant, first class, TJSN, and ha 3^ awarded Harmon the Navy Cross posthmnonsly for “Extraordin ary Heroism^ while serving a- board the USS San Francisco. Harmon who was 26 and the son of Mrs. Naunita Harmon Carroll, of Cuero, Texas, loct his life during action agai’ist enemy Japanese forces in tiip battle of Guadalcanal, Novem ber 12 and 13, 1942. Througho ut the engagement he assisted in caring for the wounded and evacuating them to dress 'sti.- tions aboard the ship, and, ac cording to the citation accfffn- panying the Ravy Cross award, displayed “Unusoal loyalty ^n behalf of the injured Executive Officer.” He was killed when he deli berately ■ exposed himself to hostile gun fire to protect his ^hipmates. THREE PRINCIPALS AND THREE TEACHERS (MISTED FOR TAKWG PART IN EQUAL SALARY FKfflB NEWPORT NEWS, Ta„ — (ANP) — In explaining the ac tion of the Newport News school board last Friday night in oust ing three school principals aiK* three high school teachers. Dr. Tjuttrelle P. Palmer told an. NAACP meeting Sunday how he had served as chairman of the salary equalization committee for the Newport News teai*her«, and inferred that ail of the dismissals were due to their fight for equal pay. • The following day, more than 1,500 people, representatives of educational, religious, fraternal, commonity welfare and labor orgaoiaations, attended a -nry in protest of the school b^rd's action. The principals involved fn the action are, aside from I>“. Palmer of Hvntisgton high school, T. Rodger Thompson and J- Rupert Picott, element iry school principals. The nigh school teachers are Erie Epps. James W. Ivy SNd' ^iss Tannell. ^ s Palmer has been in the sys^ tem 23 years; Thompson, 21, and Picott, 11, according to re ports. According to Dorsey C. Pfa»* Santa. ^ ehairmalt of the city school board, ‘*Tlte board saw fit not to reappoint tb^ far* the benefit of the school tya> tem.” Asked whether tlMttt were any charges against tks three principals, Pleasants Saiii^ “H they want to know, that can come before the board and v* will tell them.” Dr. Palmer said that at tiHI time the equaiiiation coMaiitiM for Newporot News teaeh«rs WMI organized, he was threntrin# with dismissal aniess 1m div> continued his relations witb» organization, hat that W some member^ of tbe > V*u4i would aeeept the eoart*s ion without personal ren Roy W}lkins oi tb* nagaaine aad — tary of the NAACP. speaker at tbs imtiig expressed great the faseisni the !^«port •Dr. Pahaer h» sevttral yean an' tke> Virginia State T ■eeiatiMi.
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