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NEaOES TO STAGE BOND RALL
More editorials of the Carolina Times
were commented on and republished by
other newspapers (both daily and week*
ly) durng the past twelve months, than
all the other Nef^ro newspapers ol North
and South Carolina combined.
VOL. XXII—NO. 34
Durham, North Carolina, Saturday, September 11, 1943
BUY WAR BOXbS
NLRB Denies Bargaining Unit Based On Color Line
M OURIXD WITH MCE HAS
Citizens Are Strongiy Urged To Support Drive For Scarborougii nursary
Women Forced to Wait
24 Hours In Rocky
Mount Account Jim Crow
AWARDED SOLDIER’S MEDAl
\VARI11N{W0N,T). C. — The
Intprstate Coinracree Commias-
ion wns nsked this woek by thii
N^\A(^r to bring to task the^At-
lantir Cofiat Line Railroad and
other carriers found to disori-
minate ajrainst Ntjj;ro passenjr-
prs in the allotment oE cquip-
inent.
The Association’s demand
followed the receipt of a tele-
phoiie eall from a New York re
sident Avho charjjt'd that she
had i>eein in the station at Rocky
Mount, North ("arolina for most
24 hours and that 9 or 10 north
bound trans had passed throut'h
each of whieh received white
passengers but refused to reeeve
any colored pnssenjfers. Khs
said that there were about 200
colored passengers waiting in the
station and that amonj' them
was a woman with a sick baby.
The New Yox;^ office of the
Atalntie Coast Line Railroad
HEADS DRIVE ‘N. C. Beauticians
To Convene Sept. 13-
15 In Asheville
which operates through Rocky
IMount surmised that the diffi
culty Avas dne to the {jeneral
strain on carriers and the short-
■fgl’ of rqilipment alyiliriti , in nn Pinplovo
Asheville—The Fifth Annua
Session of the North Curolinji
State Benuticians Association
will “convene here Septembei
13, 14, and 15, with a largt
delegation expected from all ov
er the state'. The Asheville un
ion, Local No. 5 is hostess tc
the Annual Session and accord
ingr to Mrs. Lucille Butler, Pres
ident, everything is in readi
ness for entertainment of the
Annual Session in grand style
The meeting will open Tues
day at 8 p. m., with a welcome
address being delivered by City
R. C. Forman. Chairman of Manageer, Tap Burdett. Re-
the drive now going on for the sponse to the address will be
Daisy Scarborough Nursery delivered by Mrs. Elizabeth
City Armory To Be Scene
Of Music And Song Fest
In 3rd War Loan Drive
Mrs. Elizabeth Siiort
First Prize Winner
In Canning Project
NNBL DIRECTOR
travel caused by military de
mands.
who is urging support for the , Shuford of Concord. Guest
local'institution'. Mr. Foreman [speaker for the occasion will be
of the N. C. iMra Cordelia Green Johnson.
Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany and one of Durham's
(Continued on page eight) young civic leaders.
$2,000 For Nursery
Is Goal Set For
For End Of Drive
\ According to R. P'oremuil
the drive for tile ^ Scarborougii
Nursery is meeting with unusual
success and it has been already
Iircdicted that when the finiil
t: bulations are made the goa'
(if .^2,000 will be well over
sn))sc,ribed.
Kverv section of the city in
wlii^i colored people reside has
liPen assigned workers and
ii thorough canvass of every
Negro in these respective com
munities will be made. Church
es clubs' schools and business
will bo solicited before the
drive is completed.
The Daisy Scarborough Nur-
seiiy was started several yeai’S
ni^o by J. C. Scarborough, Sr.,
in honor of his first wife. It
has served a great purpose in
the city by providing n home
for the children of working
mothers during the* day. The
present World War has made it
, iiececssary for a widening of
scope oT the work now being
(lone due to the fact that there
, arc many more women being
r^oinployed in various industries
and businesses. The home has
found it necessary to increase
its personnel and facilities so
that it may meet the demands
I now being mad(^ on by thoes
who are ' desrous of leaving
their children within its care,
j The emergency drive for the
1 home started on August 30 and
j will close September 12 at five
I*. M., with a victcyy meeting
' lo be held at the home, all per-
I sons who have not contribuuted
j to the effort are asl^ed to do
1 (Continued on page eight)
president of the National Beau-
ty Culturist League.
The president of the state
association is MME. J. Quinn
Rogers of Durham who will al
so deliver heiF-‘annual address.
Other officers of the associa
tion are:
Mrs. Millie L. Richards, Vice
President, Wilmington.
Miss Willie Smith, Secretary
Greensboro.
Mrs. Julia Grissom, Treasur-
er-Winston Salem.
Mrs. Willie Ford Hertessee,
Financial Secretary-Ashieville.
Mr. C. H. Beckwith, Record
ing Secretary-Charlotte.
Mme. Helen Starks, Execu-
tive Secretary- Raleigh.
Mme. Helen Starks, Execu
tive Secretary, Raleigh.
Mme. J. DeShazor, Chairman
Social Service Project, Durham.
Mrs. Rheucelle Alexander,
Chairman Field Workers, Gre
ensboro,
SWEET POTATOES
The sweet potato crop in the
U. S. is estimated to be one-
fourth laregr than last year ai\d
growers should) plan to grade,
cure, aivOtora the crop.
ROME ARMY AIR FIELD, N. Y.—First Strgeant Horace J
Porter of New York City, congratulates Corporal John D. Hilton a
few minutes after Corporal Hilton was awarded Use Soldier’s Modal
today for heroism. Admiring the Medal is Mastet Sergeant Arthur
Giron, of Opelousas, Louisinna^ Corporal Hilton was rtwarded the
Soldier’s Medal at a Eeview at the Rome Army Air Field, Rome,
New York, by Brigadier General C. P. Kane Commanding Central,
Aome Air Service Command. Corporal Hilton of Bolivar, West
Virginia, is one of Air Service Command’s groui.d crcw meniDers
nrhoaa job it is to ^egp^’uiu Fly inn.’'
Find Tomato Pickers
Living In ChicKeir—^
Coops In Penn, State
e,
QUAKERTOWN, Pa. The state
greeting from the College, Wil-
ward 0. Mastin for the deaths
of WilTie Cooper and Mrs. OdeH
May, Negro migratory workers
who were burned to death here
August 17 in a barn on the
Mastin farm on Route 2. It Is
expected that the case will be
tried early in October.
A personal investigation by
John Grantham, president of
the Lehigh Valley NAACP
^anch, revealed that 'the vic
tims were two of fifty migra
tory workers wKo were brought
from Flori({a by a white contrac
tor to gather in the tomato
crop on the Mastin farm. To
matoes picked by t^ese worker?
are sold to the government
,'through the Campbell Soup
Company.
Most of the workers are hous
ed in chicken coops; the largest
being about 7 feet square and
only 5 feet in height. Granthaai
said in his report “workers a-
long with their children are liv
ing in these small chicken coopg
and these little coops, even if
they were fit to live in, are too
small for a couple to live in.
comfortably but the most horri
ble thing of all is that nearly
every worker has a large familv
and he and his family live in
these small houses. This condi
tion is worst than slavery couM
pictures of the housing pro-
have ever been.” Unable to take
vided for workers. Grantham
submitted to the NAACP na
tional office a free-hand sketch
of the chiclen coops which he
described as filthy and unfit for
human Habitation.
Though dissatisfied with th«
conditions under which they
have been forced to live, th"
workers said that they have
not been able to earn enough
r?' ney for raiU’i'rd fi.rr?.
The deceased persons were
living in a barn and were bi|rn-
ed to death at midday when
they were trapped by a fire on
(Continued on page eight)
The canning project recently
held here under the au.«;pice.s ot
the Cooperative Civilian De
fense of the federal govern
ment and state of North Caro
lina in coperation with the of
fice of Civilian Defense and
the city of Durham came to a
close here last week with Mrs,
Elizabeth Shprt of 806 Dukt
street winning the first prize,
$25 War Bond and Mrs. Doro
thy Little, 708 E. IJettigrew
street winning the second prizt
of $5.00 in defense stamp.s.
'The*first prize was given by
the North Caroina Mutual Lift
Insurance Company and thx
second prize was given by the
Carolina Times. \
Mrs. Short with t^o in the
family canned a tojial of 22!
MRS. ROSA BROWN BRACY
Director of field operations ot
the National Negro Uusines^
-Leaguti ajid assistant - to the
executive secretary, Albon L.
Holsey, whose field aetivit-
activity added! greatly to the siic-
cess of tha recent convention at
According to E. R. Merrfcfc,
Chairman of the Durham N*
Division of the .3dd War Loan
Drive, evtrv'thinp is in readi-
nesti for an inten:»ive Px'nd - II-
ing campai'z!'. for Durham, ilr
ilerrick str.tfs that his w6rker?
pi-m to visif every h'.me and
place emplovminsr Negroes. N
per!jon will l^e left ,'i'’' of th?
equsion uud everv avi.-nue o£
contact. iufh a.-s newspapers
churches, schools and ^.le ra-
dio v. ill iit used iy ar‘ ^injr in-
tere;;t in the Irive.
On Friday. September 2t, a
Mammoth Bond Rally will be
held at the City Aimory. w'tti
appropriate speaker^ music
furnished by a band from Camp
Butner, local Quartets, Choirs
and Choruses. The program
committee is working hard to
make the occasion one of the
biggest in the history of Dur
ham and everv -^eat and staad-
quarts. Mrs. Little \ with five
in the family cann^ a tota'
of 177 quarts.
Other persons who won $1 in
war stamps for their efforts
was Mrs. C. R. Holmes of 804
Walton avenue with four in
the family, 65 quai-ts; Mrs.
Rosetta B. Webb, First street
with five in family 57 quarts
and Miss H. E. Murray, 60P
Dunbar street one in family -11
quarts.' '
I
' Judges for the contest w'ere,
Mrs. E. R. Merrick, Mrs. M- O. {
Lee and Mrs. W. D. Hill. I
The canning project for Ne
groes of Durham was conduct-1
ed under the direct supervision
of Mrs. E. T. Nixon, Colored;
Home ijnd Farm demonstration
agent and Mrs. S. V. Austin,;
a.ssistant. ;
ing room m the Armory is
pectcd to be taken on that
night. Choruse.s. Choirs and
other :nusic;il orjr.inizations de
siring to contribute thoir -ser-
BflltirtiW. Durluif tiie p-isl nco for the . ctasM.n are aske^“
she organized 10 local leagues
and revived 1C others. — ANP
Photo.
to call L-712-} and register theii
ininie;4 so that they may be
' Continued on page eight i
CIO Wins Approval Of
NLRB In Fight For
Equal Opportunities
Adhering fo its policy of re-Oby neither.
- BAGS
Dr. I. 0. Schaub, director of
Extension at State College, re
quests North Carolina farmers
tp turn excess agricultural bags
back into trade channels to
meet a shortage: of this farm
supply item.
fusing to delimit bargainin;;
uriits on the basis of race, the
National Labor Relations Board
today declared that the color or
race of employees is irrelevau'
in determining the unit appro
priate for the purposes of eolle:;
tive bargaining. The occasion
for the statement was a Board
decision directing that an flec
tion shall be held within 30 day?
among all production and maia-
tenanee employees of U. S. Bed-
Th. company, which present*
ly empioys 214 mun in the ,
of about -J skilled to 7 unskilled
and the AFL union hav-’ m
tained collective bai^aining
gaining reh.tions with ea«J|
other since .Vugust l!Ml. Th
'10 union pietitioned the Bo«f
for a colle tive bargaining e!
tion as the la-it contract
about to expire. The CIO el
ed that the prf>per barg
unit, with minor rxce
should,,include “all
ding Co., Memphis, Xcnn.. tj
determine whether they wisni"od maintenance ensL
to be represented by the AFL’s ■ the easik in t)l«
I’pholsterers' Int ’L Union," loe il bargainings agreements
417, by the CIO's United Fafni- ;the AFL oniou aod tht'
ture W'orkers, Local No. 282, orj (Continued on page