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Federal MEN to INVESTIGATE TEXARKANA LYNCHIHI MAI.LING EDrtlON V01i.UME xxm - NUMBER 32 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURBAY," AUGUST 1st, 1942 BUY UNITED STATES WAR BONW fEDERALROXBORO MEN TO M06BISTSINVESTIGATE TEXARKANA PIROLED LYNCHIHI Judge Landis Gives Train For First Aid Detachments Governor Broughton “ Greei Light” To Orders Release Of Men , Negro Ball Players Accused of Near Lynching Raleigh (CP) — Governor J, BT XXar JB8SAAIY ART TEACHER M. Broughton Friday paroled fame New York, (Calvin’s News- Ser­ FLA. TEACHERS of the five^ white mob leadim vice) — Judge KeOesaw Moun­ Coi^[ressnKiii Says fonvictwl of charges of anlawfU tain Landifl, High Commissioner WIN EQUAL assembly in an attempt to o f Profes$tonal Basf^all, threw White People Do C-jr -Winstemds* Jr^ m cum I - the lie biftk into the teeth of SALARYWGHT raping a whUe woman, froa t k profesHioltel baseball club owners Not Know Negroes Person . County jail aad {jqilil and managers when in an inter­ Tampa, — Negro teachers of kirn. view laat ive^k he state<! “ that Washington — Taking ^ Marion eomity are jubilant ovei: The riMB A. P. Sprigga^ tber« is no rule, formal, iniomat ■••t'** enter Wedthrook Poffler^ Aiken, P . f . Holt aM C oy & u r h f or otherwise — that says a ball their victory in the hard fought favorable arflcle on the Negro ip case with the Marion County were carried to Roxboni &OW player must be whUe. There is the Congressional Record,.. Con­ Durham prison camp where tkey nothin;? to prevent one player or School board for equal pay. An gressman Arthur W. MitchcH'.on *'\‘deral District Judge Ijouie "V. •were released at 8:00 p. m. af^etf ' the full limH of twenty five play­ Tuesday declared tha^ the Sbuth- Federal District Jurgo Louie W. their papers had been signed by ers being color^ on any TOpballTinr -wTiTte—mini IniPTf ttnthiiig iStium, rcstrajninj; the boartl Mrs. C. Wagstaff, superinten- team. It is up to"’the owners and " ’ '■ bout the Negro despite protesta­ from paying the Negro teacher^i te»dent of welfaret and thetit:^^ ) mana£;ers to put their playei:^ on tion to the contrary. a smaller wage scale than that of leaiers ordered to report to l» r the field — the best plf^yrs tliey Said the congressman; the white teachers. once a month. pan get — white or Negro. I in­ “ Since I have been a member The oiHier in part rea<ls: “ Or­ They ha<J been convicted,’B sist there's Ho law now or ever of congress, I hare been approach­ dered and adjudged that the de­ April term of the PersMi Coanty against it.” ed by hundreds of outstanding fendant, board of pubiie iiiHtruc- Superioir Court. J^iggs and Har­ In issuing this statement, I^n- men and women of the south, ris were serving 18-month sen­ < lion for Marion county, Florida,} dis was catching up on a .'J-year- practically every one of whwn Broward Lovell, superintendent tences and Aiken and Holt 13 , old interview granted by Ijeo Dur professes to know the Negro of of public instruction for said BOSS BULULBE M. COBOICE month terms. ooher, manaker of the National the south, I have had leaders of i county, shall apply the amended Beginning with the . acadmnic Only five of ten leaders ot'.M League champions, the Brooklyn the white race even argue with I salary schedule, adopted by said year 1942-4J Miss Marlon Co‘-.li»‘e mob ^ 600 who stormed the jail Dodgers. I^ndis last week called me that they know the Negro bet­ Baltimore, Md.—Part of the first three groups to be signed up by the Baltimore Red Cross Chapter as t on April 15, 1942, or any will occupy the post of instrucior on the night of August 15 ia an Duroeher to his office to clear up ter than I do. Is this true? My neighborhood first aid detachments, members of the Southern First Aid Detachment learn administration of other TYinf^oHmethod nfof rrating teachers of Art at the North Carolina attempt t»' lynch Winstead wcf* a statement Lippy Leo allegedly answer is emphatically No! first aid from Elbert C. Carter, Cross instructor. Neighborhood first aid detachments which are still in College for Negroes, Durh:i;n. convicted and sentence, whQe »t the experimental stage, number 25 in Baltimore. Four of the groups are composed of Negroes. Groups of for salary purposes, adopted in t made during an interview wUh White people especially of the lieu thereof to all teachers alike, Miss Cordice was graduated from least one of the men against Lester Rodney, now in the U. S. 15 to 50 members, divided into teams of five each, learn how to rescue their neighbors from wreckage south have made no partioular caused by bombs, how to administer first aid relief and to prepare casualties for transportation to hospitals. both white and colored without Howard University in 1941 whom the grand jury had rettmi Army, who at that time was effort to know the Negro in his discrimination because of race or the degree of Bachelor of Arts in cd a bill of indictment was not Sports columnist for the Daily higher aspirations and homo color. ’ ’ Art. During her four years In the even summoned to the trial. Worker, newSpajjM backed by the life Art Department at Howard she ^ Con)munist PartX Leo the Lip received, special recognition for was quoted as saying at that tMne “ How many outstanding white ATTORNEY GENERAL outstanding original contribntions ‘‘I know a lot of managers v;ho leaders have ever spent as long Negro Sailors Are displayed at the Annual Art Ex­ LABORERS as five minutes in a respectable would use Negro boll players on hibition of Students’ work elimax th^ir clubs, but the owners would Negro home? How many of them Top Notch Seamen ing her undergraduate work wilb B E I N G S m T have ever visited the Negro ASKS INVESTIGATION not stand for it.” When Duroch- a water color painting “ The Nr.*i- churches and Negro schools? er was coiifroTitPih'wtth & ys Navy Officer vity” and a few pieces of cc'n- New York —• The NAACP kaa ment^ by Landis, he denied it. “How mafty -of- tlumL_haye_ engaged mics at the 1941 Exhibition. In been asked‘by the War Manpow* thinking Negroes in earn^"coif In au interview from Chlcasp, lOF TEXAS LYNCHING Chicago (.ANP) — Each of the June 1942 Miss Cordice rei*e:v.'(? er Commission to a^wist in tu d - versation in an effort to become followiiig the issurance of the the degree of the Summer School acquainted wUh the Negro in 1,200 colored sailors at Camp Ing qualified skilled Negro w wrk- Landis statement, Durochet* was Washington — Attorney Gener­ faculty of State Teachers Coliege, his higher o.spirations and real Morrow in the Great Lakes Naval ers^for certain specific jobs in quoted as saying, ‘"I have no jwe- al Francis Biddle announced to- Elizabeth City, N. C. life?” TrainWg statfon Is a top notch •w<r industry. There exists al­ judit?e8 against any ball player da^y that he had ordered an FBI NAACP CALLS FOR SUPPORT OF WAR /She is the daughter of Dr. and “ Of course they know the Ne­ tar according to Lieut. Command* most immediate openings for on account of race or relig'on. investigation into the-lynching of Mrs J. W. V. Cordice, 1"03 gro who frequents the police er Daniel W. Armstrong, com­ those with as little as one year's AftPr all> we’re all Americans. A's WilHam Vinson, Negro, by a mob EFFORT AND FULL INTEGRATION li'avettcvUle Stree^t, Durham. courts. They know the Negro who mander of the camp. experience in the types of work long as I am manager I will play at Texarkana, Texas, on July 20. Great L ak es'is preparing for listed below. IndindnaJs w b. o the best 2") players I can get. Per­ works in their kitclien and does According to information in the mental work around their OF MINORITIES M ALL PHASES the first graduation of trainees rfatnk they can qoalify are sonally, I have seen only one the hands of the Civil Hights homes, but do they know Negro since naval recruiting was extend to mail name and address to Ed­ colored player in recent year.s of Section of the Department of sion into which our nation has OFFERS BLOOD lawyers, Negro physicians, Negro NAACP ADOPTS isomefp arO Cs ed to Negroes on June 5. Some of ward Lawson, FieM Aseistust, major league caUber_ He’s a short Justice, Vinson is alleged lo have been plunged along with Russia, businessmen, Negro editors, Ne­ Los Angeles — The resolutions the graduates will be sent to sea War Manpower C on^inloa, jitop named Oarcia, whom I play- attempted to rape a white wo­ China, Great Britain, and twen­ TO SAVE gro college presidents, Negro adopted by the delegates attend­ with battleships, others will be York City. Applicants »re ask ^ e<i against in Cuba. I have pl»yed man at the Red River Ordance ty-four other nations js a war in positively not to Visit the iffie* tea«hers and social leaders, Negro ing the 33r^ annual conference of assTgned -to- HamptoO Insttate, against Satchell Paige ,and otlic- Depot trailer camp, near Texar­ which racial minorities in this WHITE LAD as it Is not equipped to take mtm fine Negro sters years ago, bn.. I ministers of the higher type? They the NAACP hel(F here July 14-19 Va., for special training.’ kana.
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