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^m.r .« j * - w »- ^ ^ (j' .i-v ~T^ r-':jTs LGE TWO THE CAROLINA TIMES (Our Advertisers 'Are 'Assured Results) Saturday, August 21, 1943 limes To |Negroes Vital In Bond Rally l^roduction ^ 1000 Ex|>ected )nsor tllc Field Training Center, th« Third b4 baa plfiyod «t eonntles^ , The convention will be held tin—tb%-_Irinlty A. M. E. Zion R. L. Vann Honored morvth b ythe Navy Dei^rt* ment at Quincy, Mass. *** VJ *»• ***• *-• «IV«« Church on Washinfrton Stt‘««tT-^—Robert Lee Vann, was born ■ at Aho kie, N. Aagttst-aSEr 1879, and died in Pittsburgh, Pa., October 24, 1940. Educated at Virginia Union - Univeriiity and the University of Pitts burgh, he was admitted to the bar ia 1909 and practiced where aproximately a thousand delegates and visitors are «x- - - How an important part was pected to be in ajttendaVice dur- stfi. In addition to frefjuent ^played by an American Negro in jng the session. In addition to ■day aft»*rnoon I'oncerts at the hflping produce in record tim'j the business program of the f^er’s Dpen Air Amphitheatre thousands of pounds of a secret meetiftg, a public Ratheriftf' ad Bjany performances at social grease urgently needed overseAJ will be held Friday evening, , Dar m lyus ana practiced in •netions, the Band has appesr- i,y General Dwight Eiaenhower ! when the confentiorn will 'be | Pennsyivania until 1936, when oftea on public oeeasions. | revealed by the Standard welcomed to th* city by Maxtor |he decided to give his full time wnj PPATnnE NEOao , Company of New Jer.sey in W. H. Sullivan and other prom- ito his publishing Ijusiness. wiXtb «x. n j anuoujicing thfe production of ment members of both races-. H« was one of the founders MUSIC ^ material. Included in the various sessionrt and Incorporators of The Pitts- The Festival, -w ill bring to- outstripping even its o w a are panel discussions, and ;burgh Courier Publishing Com- I^BtfaT fire clubs and quartettes ^ production records to turn health demonstrations. The pany in March, 1910, and serv- li'Oni a number of North and ^ matter of hours the meeting will reach its tenith ed as editor of the paper and ,.,.1, rAfolina Cities, as well as teeheni- Sunday afternoon at 2:30 when president and treasurer of the These groups will fe«- the annual address will be del „ f cians of btaudard uu tiguiea . singmg of Simple , • , ivered by the president. The nd Negro Spirituals. * n--ta meeting is scheduled to ad iberi' as thev were sung present-daj movie n . journ at 4:30 the same day. origrnar7^mnr5^™+^ ,1. * , for which the grease was to uJ ^ with taodern uDprovr- re- I The songs will depict hi.-^ ihtixtt I lents. I^e work, play, romance, and srama of the Negro people. iJ PAETIcipANTS INVITED Individual vocali.sts as well Church Choirs, and other ’ ^oups are invited lo ate in the festival. One : dollars in War Bonds mps are being offered t j :es for excellcnce I'f ance. ADVISORY COMMITTEE Irvin, also announced that usel. General Eisenhower re- cfutly cabled the U. S. Army t)v- duance Department ordering the lubricant. Ordnance officers turn ed over the order to the Stand ard Oil Company of New eJrsey requesting 45,000 pounds quickly for “an important war opera tion.’ ’ Last Rites Held For Aged Cftizen Sunday, Aug. l$th. I Tin; Mrs. Bessie widow of the : Wingate, di«*d ,nt Lincoln Hospi- | Assigned the job of making', tal here Friday morning at 1) the grease, workers at the o’clock as the result of a paraly- Standard Uil plant at Baltimore , tic stroke. I were told of the importance oi' i Mrs. W ingatc was born in their assignment and weie hei«l Tirnmonsville, S. C., but movod j ax instant} readiness to start the ! to Durham about U years agn ! grease-maSing machines. ' where she has resided at 90!^ Three hours late, the ineredi-1 Fayetteville street ever since. I . j x arrived at 11-30 A M. on a! Up until about three months s}ji» M. Vann was also an arden^ ,e Xhe »lant then went Mrs. Wingate had been in very disciple of education and aided .atmg with the (aroTIn. yreas.? which never before that time she has been con ^ been made in tms countrj. j fiped to her bed f botions to Virginia Union Uni- ! Turning coutinaously, t h » {moved to Lincoln Hospital ^herc where, after his death, she succumbed. ^ p^vi- ■Surviving the deceased art; lion of the New York World s publishing company until death. , Under Mr. Vann’s direction, the Courier became one of the ; largest Negri newspapers in the world with an AB circula- j tion of over 200,000 and read- I ers in mo.st Engli.sb-.speaking countries. Mr. Vann also enjoyed a di.s- tinguished career as a lawyer. In 1917-18, he served as assist- Wingate, age 0->. 1 «nt City Solicitor for Pitts- latr WilUaro .1.burgh. In 1924, he was named by President Coolidge as a member of a flve-man commis sion to investigate condition.s in the Virgin Islands. In 1935, he served as a member of the Con.stitutional Convention of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl vania t revise the state consti tution. Cimos i nan effort to evtend a tree invitation to the citizens of t^estern North Carolina to at tend this unusual evening d?, - . , ■ - f .•ilit^rtaimnent In music and, song ; kettles, with t eir a Hill, President, The driven paddlfs, turned out 1,»«'> u. J reaiuiMiw, Xii^ ' iK iiAi oui viviiij^ i,Winston Mutual Life Insurance ! pails oi grease totaling , . daughters I Co., and Chairman Negro Divig- pouads by Iriday night, i The daughters Hrtiinfv Wur Rntiiil' llcetS i trucks foime I vr«>TQ;* 'PuirTr and two sons, are: Mrs. Lovj,* Fair was renamed the Robert , , xn« uuuKuun. .... ^ L. Vann Memorial Tower, This i« Fofsyth County War Borid'gfifty ' ttos Fairmont; Mrs. Bessie Tavilion was presented to Yir^ ^ive; Dr. J. S. Blaine, Presi-1 cohto^s'tP'i^sh it to a ^^3 Elsie Moore; ' ginia Umon by , the Bel^g^^ dent, Interdenominational Minis-' ready to sail for Afsiea. By ’ Vorkuta rS ters Alliance; Koyal Roberts, i Sa^arday ^igSt^u } additioaaU ^^, Everette, Nor-Jrom New York^ta Richm , Music Director;. W. W, McGee. i 13,000 inade, 1 fojfc^ Va. The sons are William I State Vice Commander, Divi-' operating under intense strain, ^ wingrfte of Philadelphia airl Sion “B”. American Leeion:^the belts and paddlels oe ; Edward R. Winsate of N e xv NNBL vomnjatiaer, ojivi-; — -- 1 v. wingaxe ox rniiuai Biuu “B”, American Legion:! the belts and paddlels oe ; Edward R. Wingate of C.| R. Peebles, President, Sa£« ' of the kettles bioke down. Des- Y. Bus Co.; AT A. Mayfield, DlreC-: pite tfia serioua hodiuap, th-j , pu„eral *«ervicea were held tor Negro News Department, j final 9,000 pounds, completing August 15 at 3 o’clock at I Journal and Sentinel pafiers. j the order, were delivered on tiuitf Hillside Baptist Church on ier«on of Tuskegae^, Jesse O. Dr. J. D. Quick, President, Ne-1 Saturday night. pjpg Street of which the dece*?t ^Thotnas of th«f Red Cross, Dr^ pro Chamber of Comifterce, j Ordnance Department i ed was a member. The ceremony , Luther P. Jacik»^ * * With the Baltimore plant use- , Home. less beeause of the breakdown James Columbian Heights Ctommunity 'Center; Odell Clanton, Insurance nan; E. B. Johnson, Merchant: O. A. Brown, Insurance man; L. W. Crowder, President, Wes^ ^rn North Carolina Ushers As aftd iimtt Si fli*yten ^ At- lariitt ii»ilve«ity. — - - of kettleSj Standard Oil sublet •ociation; A. H. Anders^.n. ^ contract for 110*000 pound;! 1«l» T>Av1r 1?1a. I ^ ^ 1 . is. Principal, Kimberljl' Park Ele aientary School; Robert Black, TaborTeaafe"; Beir^AdjerSr-Direfc tor Community Chorus and Orchestra; Rev. H. C. Jones, Director, Negro Home and Wel- Bociation; ^E. N. Ellis, to another firm, furnishing it with the secret formula. Th*} 150,000 pounds were assigned to the^tindaS plant at Pittsburgh. Army tracks from various ea«terrt Race-Baitii« Is Indulged In By My Associated N^ro Press CHARLEStON, S. 0. - Chat cent bi tlie whole, international Unon, adc salvaged by housewive^* :r,T, Church and Civlf Leaders*,, Pittsburgh grease kettles. ^ «.pert Bell. Director, ^Columbian! j^f^^med of the tremendous j the white ights E]eme^ary School; Dr. | , Edward Harris, taste of how it fe^l^s to L. Smith, President Twin City 1 Assistant Qreasemaker * der Adolph Hitler s ftryanism I the'Pittsburgh pant, alonrmotnijig when no with his co-workera, declared ^Medical Society, and John Tom lin, labor leader. Mrs. Sery Powell, Teacher; E. O. Donoho, Teacher and Maggie E. Palmer, Church t ! Civic leader. COMMUNITY ’ EirrEBPBisE; The Carolina Times, sponsors of this enterprise state that Wednesday motnijig when Nows, and Couriet, whitfe race- baiting d^ly, ptiblifthed four letters of reply to a letter of Woiniiii Who Riot Is In Institutwn fit GEORGE nWLtSE I ! YORK, Har lem’s riot death toll mounted to six on last Saturda'jr when Ben- Ijarain Moody, 2!}23 Seventh Ave- -nrt»p-a4iiifiimbed to twO gunshol wounds in his stomae. Harlem Hospital. > Moody believed an innocent victim, according’ to an eye witness story was shot down in cold blood by patrolmau Bfin- that they would neither eat or rn a letmr ut seep until the job was done. Th-i | jfniin Wallace. Although many Bittsbujgh grease kettles wero i I Thomas . , . atnrira fnlrl of br.i- driven night and day without s let-up and Harris carefully northern soldier statiOToid at the Citadel, famed military conflicting stories told o£ bra vado an4, boldness, it was borne out that Wallace spotted several let-uD and Harris carefully i j Wallace spotted several watched them to prevent a break college Conlon as e 1 hoodlums lOotng the groeery nny differenee in Hitlers rau. ^ -...theast corner ol any differenee t 1 theory and ‘that of the soutJi. Then the sub-contractor uoti- this'Tll N7gr’o***Musica’l Festival | complete its part in Produein A^d War Bond Rally, admission the grease. To the Pittsburg i to which is free, is a community ' plunt fell the task uia 'in^ effort designed as a prelude to i the additional 110,000 poun store oft the northeast corner of 136th Street and Seventh Ave- fied the Army that it could not M'"*- Edgaf Bigoy oi j,jj attempt to catch tied the Army t ai, Charleston, wfof among other things: “The Negro is not equal to the whites in mind, morals, or color (refad your Bible.” SIm' be additional iiu,uou pouua». ^ I wken local interest in the I The grease kettles f f „ mile." I^tion-^ld€ War Bond Drive. : to operate without a slow-dOA'n I'iidlich will be launched S«*ptem- : and Harris and his fellmv 9th and to further promote grease makers turned on i yon wil> find that .W «t«r.raeial goodwilll and unde/- «rease fo^ over 24 hours wlth-itne ^ out food or rest Ricrard "F. SeWard of Charlex ton held, “If you care to check iding. 'Pp this end the wholeheajrted ad loyal support of every eitl- ..‘-0 is foaght and will be appre- 'A •ection of the Stadium will : Mterved for white patrons. VTOUfATlON ed persons or groups information through directed to: C. A. 1(B , E. Third Street, -Salem, Phone 7^9. - f Styes Pal... As fast as the grease wa.^ made it was sped, east in rail road express trains. When the fiasl 22,000 pounds were not made on time for train ahip' ment, Army bombers flew the pails to m embarkation poi't whffl-e they were transferred on shipboard. Totalling the amount of grease made, Standard Oil discovered that 246^54 ponnda were manu* factured - 554 pounds more than were requested by the Army. At the same time, Ordnance officers rex£«ied th^^B^ed was TTf^^Vfoibiirp an- ! such panuncyint importance that redwfcd ! neit^^ Standard Oil nor .the diM^raed the prke o£ the theives emptied his pistd in that ditection. While all the shooting was going on Moody’s family —n Wife and two Children — were away on a brief vacation., Patro! man Wallace must fed like h - -1. percent of j* li^e I ~Willi*#rirMood of ChwTeTton ' thri a N«ro ean i E*»owKl»t ^ Wtp nerson and I as- made it eliar On whrft : : ?hnt Thir t not be tolerated from “out- sure you that t^fe IS concluded: “Pvt., sodtnenicr who is not wmin;' _ , . , , * u i j i. to finht to leq, iim «row. Th.t. ' ««'> '>». 'mghl ,etl be glad that ^ . ... he IS in uniform, for if he weren’t he might well be o^n hi^ way ont of Charleston ” L. C. Soppelbein* whose name hints of Oermanic strain, wrota “If you had a sister would yo.i permit het to marry a Negro I am a Southerner, a native «.f: Charleston, and 1 firftily believa j in discrlfliniatiain and segrega- tiOn of Jle^oes. . .The Hegroe»; bi(f! ohull itcvftf be social equality in the sdnrth.” livered to General Eisenhower, he cabled, ‘The grease ha^ been rece^^ srtid is doing a satisfac tory job/' For their work in prodtieing the grease in record titne. ris and other greasemakers itdin the Pittsburgh and Baltimore plants, were commended by | are your equal up there, Army Ordnance ofTieers a n d j they are our inferior down -Standard Oil officials' at a din- here. . .You are showing yonr WELCOME Ushers Association j> May Your Four-Day Visit To Greensboro Be Fill ed With Many Happy Memories. Our Doors Are Always Open To Members Of Such A Great Or- *’-1 ganization ... _ THIS MESSAGE MADE POSSIBLE BY THE F0LL0WIM5 PROMINENT WNSBORO FIRMS ... 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