NA ACP Files Complaint Against AFL
The Carolina Times is the only Negro
Newspaper published in North Carolina
whose entire staff of cjKht persons, ex
clusive of printers, is devoted solely to
the priHhiftion of its publication. Last
week’s circulation in Durham alone over
r>. 000,
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VC^ XXIII- NO. 32
Durham, North Carolina, Saturday, August 21,1943
BUY WAR BONDS
Baltimore Host To Business League Annual Session
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USHERS MARCH ON GREENSBORO
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Another Ship To Be Named For North Carolina Man
Raiyer Company And
AFL Union Charged
With Firing Negroes
Ncw York, An ;t. 21 - ( A NP V —
Th(' American Civil fjibertio-
;inion ii;!r> filed wirri riie FKI’('
ill
i nipiaint by lb(» Pol Hainl,
Kraiu'li of ,1ht> NAA('!’
.-iKJiiiis! tfu‘ Knisrc Shipliiiild
iii^X lornjiany of Poi'UuiKi and
•wo iodjii'S of tlu' ilrotln'ihood
nf Hoil(‘rmak(>rs, Ivoji Sliip
liiiililci'rt and llclpers of Ameri
a, A. of L,
'llu' JsIAACP complains tli:it
I hi' Kaiser .shipyard and the
iipioiiM conahoi’jited in Ih.
vfoiurfnl dismissal of nioiH
thuii Ne^i'o worl-er.s in le
'iberate violation of ,the new
Executive Orch i- ‘)4(5.‘^.‘The com
plaint was lodjrod in Washin;.’-
'on by the le^al staff of the
>fAAt'P. —
Discrimination was achieved.,
iccordiiiK to the complaint, by
d('nyin;r No^roes membership
in the local unions of the Hoil-
Carolina Times To
Sponsor Maiumoth
Bond Rally And Song
Fest In Twin-Citv
With tiic >nnonnC(‘in(‘nt oi‘
the i’i’.blic R(l;itioiiS Oflii-e n
the l'’i;>lcl Artilli'ry I{t‘pl;ic0nie>i1
■('(IIIei',, Fori lli'iijv.ir, th 't tiii*
• rJN IKHJ OWAY. youthr J
ful theatrical editor of the >
4iar»Hna'Ttni"es as
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One Thousand Delegates
And Visitors Expected At
Usliers Annual Sessioii
Thv’ above group known as the Ushers Choir, under the direction of Miss Rhucell Alex
ander. will render music for the annual session of the ushers convention which meets in
(Ireensboro this week. Miss Alexander and her choir are jopujar-aiaQPg churrh circles of w-
^iate-Cftyr^ ;
master of ceremonies for the
Winst(Hi Salem 9?ond Ii:iUy \
and Song Festivai. \
makers and Shipbuilders' which j"
h'lve a clos'o'd shop api’ecment
with the Kaiser company. Ne
fjro workers w’ere then faced
with the alternative of Joinin:'-
a jim crow “auxiliary lodjre,”
which has no real status in the
brotherhood, or with discharge
from their jobs.
Negro Aviators
Featured In
Magazine Story
NF;\V — Click niajra-
zinc for September hns a thrc2
liie^e ])i'liin' slory on t li i'
“Black T’iinthors.” Neprro fijrht-
er prrniip, now finishing: trainiiiir
jit Osnoda, Michij?nn. Then men
in this ffi'oiip finished thcii’
first trniiiinpT at TnslcKee Tnn-
stituto, Alabama. The article
decbiVe.'^ the sronp i?r “toufrb,
smart hihI rarin’ to and V’-
rlare.? the instructors of tli'’
squadro(i sa^v the inciid^rH fly
!ind fiirlit “intcHipently, iiravrlv
and skillfully.”
third Hand of the f.-'mcd Siv-
tec'iith 1l;itt:ilioii ’vill tiike pai't
in the All-Xefjro Music Festival
ami War Hond Rally to be pre
sented in the Bowman (iin^y >le-+-s'
TMOrial Stadium, here,i Sunla;v
.'Viiirust ‘JD, under the nuspiees
of Tlie Cnrolina Times, iilnna ar*-:
bciiif; riipid completed ('. A.
Trvin, I’ulilic Ueliitioiis (Hficer
of thi' ])ul)lication stateii today.
The .‘{2 pieces will he conduct
ed by Chief Warrant Officer,
John J. Rricc, who is^now
finishing' up’ hi.s 2fith year of
ser\Mco with Ai'iny hands. A
graduate of the Army Music
School, Mr, Brice has heen in
eh.'irpe of the Third Band since
''Novfmber, Previously, he
waff hand leader at Howard Cni-
versity.
Dr^LJX^paulding^Kejfnot#^
For Annual Meeting Qf
NNBL Meeting Aug. 25-27
j
FDR da^i:
Curtail spending.
Put your savings
unto war houda every
|»ayilav.
Aasistinor Mr. Brice is Tech
nical Serftcant fferman B. Cald
well, ft Wfttrve of Little Rock.
Ark, but a soldier for the last
eijjht .venrs. Before heinjT
stationed at the Field .\vtillery
Repfnci'tnont Training Center,
Srr^ennt fnldwell played in the
Ninllr^Cavalry Band.
Xot exiictly a recruit, either,
is Serfjeant Frank liopnn, the
drum major and a crack saxa-
phonist, who has been in the
Army three years. His home iP,
in Tiilsa, Okln.^
Diirinp: its relativley brief Hf*
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.Baltimore, Auj?. 21-(ANP) —
The entire three day.s, August
25, 26 and 27, of the 43rd an
nual convention of the Nation
al Negro Business league will
be ilevoted to a review of the
post-war expansion posgibili-
ties for business enterprises
conducted by Negroes. Albon
L. Holsey, the league’s execu
tive secretary, in announcing
completion of the official pro-
gram, stated that the Mary
land Association for Promotion
of Business and the citizens of
Baltimore have made adequate
arrangements for the entertain
ment of the convention.
i Spaulding The Keynoter
The keynote address for the
convention w'ill be deliveirM on
I Wednesday morning by C. C.
Spaulding, president-emeritus
I of the national league, presi
dent of the North Carolina
, Mutual Life Insurance com-
’^'pany of Durham, and donor of
•the Spaulding award for ach-
; ievement in bu.siness. Follow-
: ing the address by Mr. Spauld
ing, the day sessions of the
j convention will be devoted to
1 discussion periods . Discussion
chairmen includi? Dr. F. D. Pat-
Plcase turn to Pajje Two
Host President
W^:
Arthur Orump, president of
the Greensboro Usher’s Uinon,
host president. Mr. Crump is
one of the leading ushers of the
€i;ate City and he has worked
tirelessly to see that th^ large
number of visitors to the con
vention will be well entertain
ed.
NAACP Staff To
Give To Chinese
Blood Bank
NEW YORK — Members of the
staff of the national office of
the NAACP, leji by Walter
White, secretary, will contribute
to the Chinese blood bank, L51
Nassau street, New York City,
because the Chinese bank, un
like the American blood banks
under the supervision of thi>
American Red Cross, is imsegra-
ted.
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The appeal for donations to
the Chinese blood bank contains
a quotation from Ccm^ucions:
“Within the four seas all me.i
are brothers. ”
Marines Plea Saves
Buddy From N.Y. Jail
I .Associated Negro Press
NEW YORK — An uncspect-
,ed flood of oratory by a marine
staff sergeant last week In
special sessions court was ae-
credi|,‘d with freeing Negro
j marine being tried for tentativ''
burglary and grand larceny n
an oiigrowth of the, Harlem riol.i
Aug L
The marine defendant
George Lee, 22, who also fac“s
military trial for being AWOL
from his outfit and sodding his
uniform during the disturbances.
He Ws taken into custody by
Det. Terance ]^g;ei*s who said h“
was Caught in the act of looting
a store in Lenox avenue.
ffngora urgg tpgf I'fvi'npr nmnin-tf
the prisoner when the marine
sergeant, Josepr F. Mullane, ask
ed permission to address thn
bench. He declared:
“This defendant ree«ntly wa^
inducted into the marines, an.l
we’d/like to have him hack. ITe
was a longshoreman when Iv
joined us. AlBiough he is record
ed in our ffles as.being absent,
without, he has not yet been
classed as a deserter.
you place—Jiim ^ on—triaL
Travels U. S. A.
Organizations Division War Sa
ings Staff, U. S. Trea>^r. ,
Washington, D. C. make
eountry trip.
She spend two weeks in I.o-
Angeles, and Sau Friintisc i.
then goes muth uj> the we.i‘
coast to Portland, Oiegun all [
Seattle Washington. Then ea^st
to St. Paul, Minneapolis, Dululh
reaching Milwaukee, Wis., Sepi.
1st on to rhieago. then direi *
to her office in Washington.
. Greewjbnru—«it over
T'arolin.n delerates
vi.sitor.s t»i Th»» iV>th Annual Ses
sion ■)£ th: Interden.iminr-t')n-
al Ush^i'r^ A \v-r*
trtkiii*.-- intti Ciroensboro this
week. The vanguard of the
teirarion begirn nrrivtng htH*e=
Thursrlay r.t’T^rri :-n f -r a m*el-
inj.’ of the Thu,r>^day
t-vor.in;; at
’the Cl nve:iti‘m proper,
ivhieh. '.vill in s.^siijn Fri-
iluy. Sunday, la
seh'.-diiIi.! to get into full
.'"•iuK Friday murniair at 10
u’ejoek wirh ihirty miniu s of
fk'V'iti in. r which the set-
iin \«il! be cai!=d to t-rder by
F’resii'ent L. K. Austin.
.\!1 irns point to the largest
ile!t"*;itlnn and most .'•uccessful
meeting in the history of the
organization. Many new church
es have been inltled to the al
ready large membership dur-
iUid munv niore_
are expected to join- during th®
► essinn.
The North ('aroHna Interde-
iiomioational I shers .As.'^ocia-
tion is unique, in that its mem
bership ifi comiw'sed of repre
sentatives of all denotninations.
P.ecause of this fact it has been
able to wield wide intluunc*
and ilo a large amount of g»o«t
among the Negro people of tim
;?tate.
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convict him and place him In
prison, he automatically will be
come a deserter. Then, if he i.s
found guilty by the marine corp?
on that charge, he will be liable
to be sentenced to be shot by a
firing squ.id, because our country
is at war.” !
Justices Frederick L. Hacken -
burg, Alfred J. Hoffman, an«l .
George B. DuLucca conferred
with Livingston Goddard, assist- j
ant prosecuting attorney, then ^
asked the sergeant what pnnis.i- '
R. L. Vann To
HononedAtOregoi
Ship Launching
The apiical tlieh "stntesr
“2000 years later, science prov
ed that he was right. The life
giving element of human blood
the pla.'^ma is identical in all
races.”
ment would be meted out t^ the
marine if released.
“Well,” replied Mullane,
I "he’ll be placed on trial merely j
I for being absent without leave,
I and if found guilty, is liable lo
: be placed on bread and water
I for 15 days and lose a month
^ Whew!” said Justice Hack*n
burg. “That’s worse than giv
ing him a three month workhouse
term.” i
After another conference with
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I The Maritime Commissit’ti
announced today that a Libei-
ty, Ship, assigned to a Stmti*
Portland. Me., shipyard, will be
named for the late Robert 1*.
Vann, no^ed Negro lawyer. an*l
founder' and editor of Th*'
Pittsburgh Courier. ,a weekly
newi; paper.
The ship, fifth in a .series
named for out.standing NVgro
Americana, will be launched it
late September oj- early Octo
ber in the South Portland
yards of the NVw FInglaaf
Shipbuiltling Corporation.
The first thr*’e ships of
.sorie.s. the^ fJoA|*er T.
uiL'ton, the Cn'orge
ington, and the SS Fr*d
. Uouglii.s.-i, :u’e nuvv . jja,,,
, service, two of th«n^ wii
I irro captains with
I The fourth, the SS Jc
i rick, wan recently Ini
i Wilmington, N. C. A
I the I)estr«*yt>r Fscort
1 oy Hannon, was
I P1«KS« tSfS to