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r 1 ••; r ‘ ?-TTOfl wmn ’IWH''n'i V , •wu ^...M .u FDBJUY DISCUS RECENT RNtC YS TJie Oarolint Times is the only Neirro Newspaper published in North Carolina whose entire staff of eight persons, ex clusive of printers, is devoted solely to the production of its publication. I^st week’s circulation in Durham alone over 5,000. VOL. XXII—NO. 33 u%tm TH JDImbri dee q"] Durham, North Carolina, Saturday, August 28, 1943 BUY WAR BONDS Nashville ^ally To $10,000 Shortage Of Pres. Hah NAZIS WELCOME Army Officer Serving In Africa Warns Against Racial Disturbances INU. CLEVELAND, Ohio. — Race riots in America create “a pic ture of conditions in our coun try that is manna from heaven to th« A.'^” tiCfcu;diiH7 to a lett er from Major Myron Weitz, o( this city, serving i« Nmth Africa. ^lajor AVnfz‘9 sentiments were contained in a lett^^r te Mc Dermott’a letter ba» of the ('levi'land Plaindealer for Mon day, August 9. Major Weitz wrote: “Last night, for example, 1 hnd been readin" the recent newspapers and magazines all p.- bout the strikes, the rio’tg iii Detroit, thte disharmony in th" various government agencies Naturally, when I went to bed I was a bit deep in thouifht. The pictures of the riots in the All JFree Men Read This Slaves Won’t Understand ;2N.C. Girls In WAC I FORT DRS MOINES, la. — CHARLESTON, S. C. — T h e retort of an unidentified aokli:!r to a uniformed policeman and the police chauffeur oT a patrol wagon was regarded by observ ers here Thui-sday as the thing'Two Auxiliaries from North that_ saved his life. . | (^rolina are included in the According to the wife of a group of Negro women who prominent minister, before have started training in the Wo- whose door the incident occurr- ' men’s Ai-my Auxiliary Corps at ed, the soldier was walkin;' First WAAC Training Cente’-, down the street and had gone , Fort Dos Moines, la. Their but a few paces when the patrol | Auxiliary rating is the WAAC rollcMl up and the two officers \ C(iuivalent of Private in the jumped out. The policeman held ! Army, tTie soldier while the chauffeur | The new WAACs are: Auxi- officer beat him about t h e ^ li^ries Annie Ruth Cross, Box head with a night *tick in an | 530 Chapel Hill, N. C.; and Ida effort to make him get into the I Ryth Glover, Route 3, Siler City, police patrol. When beating failed to make ! President Roosevelt Ma Voice Sentiment On Riot In His Next Fireside Cha Color Question Is Named On N. Y. A. C. Posed To Leaders At Quebec by NAACP Two of the most recent additions to the North Carolina IVfutual District agency force are: Earl Lambeth (right), former employe of the Durham County ABC Board and F. J'. Johnson, formei- employe of the Liggettt and Myers To bacco Company. Both men are well known in Durham business and church circles. Mr. Lambeth is a graduate of N. C. College. 'Mr. Johnson is a trustee of St. Mark’s A.M.E. Zion Church and president of the Pamlico County Citizens League. „ j *1, I the soldier budge, the men drew newspapers and the magazines I left me disturbed. It is difficult for me, over here, to understand how these things can go on To day. guns and told him they , would shoot if he didn’t obey. [The soldier quickly raised both I hands above his head and re- j torted: ‘ ‘ Hell. Shoot nie^ ShooL ■me through"^he heart. It’4 “I am not so ignorant of fajt j YOUR country Fm supposed to that I do not realize that cer- die for you anyway. Go ahead tain economic problems, that [ and shoot.” are and always will be existent I ^ are, in all probability, at the I Obviuui*ly aBhamed, the twi root of the evil. Yet, I cannot,™''" sheepishly put away their why these riots should oc- military police officers arrived a few minutes later, a large '^Vrowd of colored soldiers had gathered augment- integrity Of Tennessee A & I President Voaciietf For By Negto- ing an ever large crowd of civi lians who denounced the policte- men for their treatment of the soldier, MP’s took the soldier, who went peaceably with them. No see cur today Everybody is supposed ly in,terested in one goal, and one goal Only, and that is tj win tliis war in the quickc.st poa.sible tim'C and with the least loss of man power. ^‘So what happens? Strikes to tie up industrial production wiien production is so vital. Riots doing the same thing to :disposition was production and, in addition, ease, a charge of be- creating a picture of conditions “drunk on the streets. ' in our country that is manna I ~ from heaven to the A^s and its tVAlltflQ WHa propaganda attempts to create! •■■vlll.llu f f HU llVlpVU the scene that it would like the ^ I*. Axjs-controlled countries to be-1 W lllLvO ill l/CLrUll licve is typical of America and |^» x i I *1 J a democracy, to say nothing of. InQt AfG JdllGu the internal minority group dis- scn.'^ion that it produces. “ % DETROIT — Sccause they . “Roth white and black are | were determined to “help the ^fis:btine: this war over here, and white people out” during the they should be figliting it June 21 race riots here five shoulder to shoulder back home, j youths were ordered held for I should' not think that these trial last week. They are charg- Associated Negro Press NASHVILLE — Several pro minent leaders called a meeting last week and held a series of conferences with downtown business men in a rally to the i stippOrt of Dr. J. W. Hale, presi dent of Tennessee A and I State College, Dr. Hale has been char ged with discrepancies of school funds amounting to $10,000 by state auditors. A spokesman for the citizens group all of whom declined use of their names said that ’’.the Negro leaders of Nashville re cognize in Dr. Hale a man who has done more for the Negro citizenship of Nashville and of Tennessee, than any other mem ber of our race. ^ “We realize that he ha.q founded an* institution valued at more than $3,500,000 at r'lative- ly small cost to the state, and we feel that if the charges a- gainst Dr; charges of mistaken methods of handling accounts' or of deficiencies of his subordinates, the great value rioters need be reminded that ed with the murder of Mosa- of'his services should be weigh- Negroes haye been killed, wound Kiska, 54, who was fired upon ed and taken captive on all from'an automobile while wait- fronts. They were on those var- ing to board a street car, ious fronti to protect the people The accused fre Aldo Trani, back home from the very things 16, whom police said admitted that are ot«urriug.” , Please turn to Page Three ed against any responsibility he might have for these practices.” Hale -who has been head of A and I for the past 32 years will be given adequate opportunity to Please turn to Page Three LOTT CAREY COPENTION TO CONVENE IN ORANGE, N. J., AUGUST 31st. TO SEPT. 3rd ■ The Forty - sixth Annual sess ion of the Lott Carey '“Baptist Foreign Mission Convention will meet with the Union Baptist church, Orange, N. J., August" 31 - September 3rd. Dr. J. Vance Mclver, is the host minister. It is reported by. the Reverend Wendell C. Somerville, Execu tive Secretary, that the forth coming session will mark a new epoch in the history of this convention. The convention is free of debt; it has sixty one workers in Africa and Haiti; it has two Haitian students in training at Shaw UiiTversity, and a fiftee nthousand dollar ($15,- 000,000) church building is being erected at St. Mare, Haiti. The report of Rev. Somer ville’s recent trip to the Repub lic of Baitl will highlight the convention. Among the outstand ing speakers to be heard at Or ange will be: Dr. Emory Ross, N'ew York, Mrs Mary HoCloud Bethune, Dr. Earl ,L. Harrison, Please turn to Page Three 1 Over 3,000 Negroes Graduated In’42-’43 From Race Schools NEW IfOiSK Consideratio^i of the problem of the eolar lino in matter of victory and peace was urged upon President Fran klin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winslon Churchill ia their deliberations in Quebec this week by ' Walter White. NAACP secretary. The com plete message: "May I respectfully urge inclusion in your delibera tions consideration of prac tical means of inclusion of welfare of colored peoples of world. The problem of the color line is beyond doubt one of three major issues of the 20th century. Unless it is met and solved the colo red peoples of India, China, Burma, Africa, th^ "WestTji^^ dies, the United States and other parts of the world will continue to view scepti- callv assertions that this is DR. C. B. POWELL Of New York City, who hai just been named by Governor Dewey, a member of the Now York^^STate BT EfiNEST E. JeBKSOlT I Associated Negro Press ; WASHINjJTON, D. t\ — vate sources have lent inen weight to the* report that P tsij dent Roo^velt, in his next side (*h*t to th* nation, wtH voii-e tf> W3 8e»time»ts iir neetion with the now sn%»: tt wave ot‘ racial outbreaks wLu have gripped tht» nation. Immediately after the D«t- riot individuals and orga.: a tions througliout the coaatrj be^^n a stroam of petitons oj their way to tjie White Ho askin? the Chief Executive speak out asrainst “dis^mifj farces” which seek to fom«n1 racial strife. It is now generally known te that his^ Attorney Genera Francis Biddle, had advised to lay off making a full dr spceth on the subject, but tl he might devote a few passa_ to it in Ills never oyer all reri* of the domestic /pictnre. was revealed in the famotn a war for freedom and de mocracy. Failure to solve this problem will inevitably Please furn tor Page Three Athletic n)mtiiissioii I the first a race man hai ; held this post. Dr. Powell, wide- j ly known publisher of the I A'in.st.erdirtB News, is pi:esidcat ^ of the Victory Life Insurance ; company and active in civi ■ and political life in New Yoric. ANP. MOST SUCCESSFUL SESSION NORTH CAROLINA INTERDENOMINATIONAL tJSHERS ASSOCIATION ENDED SUNDAY WEat many term was the ' organization. The Sunday morn- most successful session of the ' ing audience filled to capacity North Carolina Interdenomina- the large and spacious auditoi- tional Ushers Association ever ! ii»n of the Trinity AME Zion I held, closed five minutes after , Church, with tuauy persons be- I the scheduled adjournment hour ' ing forced to stand for lack NEW YORK — A total of 3,-jof 4:30 P. M., here last Sunday of seats. The building is one 756 Negroes were graduated | following the annual address dc- of tbt* largest church stnu-tures from colleges in the school year ’ livered by President L. E. Aus- of tie state and only an audi- 1943-43, according to the 32nd : tin, who had been returned to ence of unusual siz«* is capable annual education number of The i office the day before by a un- of overrunning it. Crisis magazine.' ' animons vote of the entire con vention.. Of this total, 3,286 received the bachelor degree and 209 the master degree. Seventy- five persons were graduated from Howard University professional schools, includ-, ing 25 doctors of pedicine. • Ri>:ty-.seven person's were graduated fiom I\Ii harry Medical school, including 50 doctors of, medicine. There were 101 colored gradu ates from mixed universities re ceiving the bachelor degree. Please turn tg Page Three _ The annual s»rmon was preach eii by the Rev. S. S. Seay, pas- Unlike most rganizations of tor of the church who delivered its ^ind, the 7^. U. Tosher As- a most inspiring message to sociation is noted for holding the many delegat's and vi.sitors. and closing it.« meetings on ; schedule. The five minutes over ‘ voted in the Greens- closing time was due largely to ' meeting to hold the next an over-crowded session that would have ^ken ; 'the average organization a full day or more to carry out. This year’s annual meeting of the ushers, in spite of gis 1 * and tire shortage, was by far j Quebec discussions are said the largest in the history of the to call for ruthless war. annual session in Kinston and the" Mid-Year stssion, which is always held the Sunday after Easter, will-he held in Reids- ville. 'Middle letter*^ of July 15. WFen Vice President Hei A. Wallace addressed himself tq a Detroit audience last moni —the .stmru?—Ltnguago th« he did, he spoke with the nC fr^m the President, so if ijj said reliably. I Current information is that soon as the present conforenc ^ with Prime Minister Winsto I Churchill ari out of the i President Roosevelt will Nthe speech he himself announcl : when he last spoke to the ! tion and outlined his plans rehabilitation of veterans World War It. It is understood that i wori"!#! have been drafted . inclusion in this address, .1 are designed to answer the of protesting organizations, this be true, it will be th* est statement the President . have made on a subject specifically and directly 12.000,000 Negroes. However, it is s.iid that 1 real problem confroetef the Execntive as to a ' ertTnmendstion whieh like to make, i The Congress for Ox^nlzation last mOhft exeeative eommittee adopted a strong ' which, imtmg thor called for th® I ih^er*raeia! rommittatt jvarioos eawratfUiit ieoneern its^ I tlieir rdbixatia. {too tkAt tiy* 1 PI««^ It
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