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mmmmmssms • 5 • * V . mm The '•*' W"S.* T * * >K4c ,<4hiv>E$l ^ £, . r,- "7fte Human P>*c<zr /tax /*/*«/» Protasf VOL. XXXIV. No. S FRIDAY, JANUARY 12-19, 1946 P/?/C£ FIVE CENTS ad *. CE ONE CAUSE OF MANPOWER S •*>*>*<*% -fcwv Alma Vessells 4 _ Chief of Minority Groups ENLISTS RED CROSS WORKKRS Servile of WMC Says Vital :;|o War Plants Should Employ /• Negro Workers : / /» .! • i> *•. -'' ( NEGRO WORKERS ARE hower and <4 • „ NEEDED more and more production of certain types or war equip* Negro workers are urgently ment, Mr. Wilson said. W; needed to man critical war The greatest immediate 4' vA?<<>1 I M plants producing "must" war manpower need, Mr. Wilson ^materials for the armed pointed out, is in artillery, *1J?2 J I forces, according to Benjamin mortar and small arms am / ' ; ty< , F. Wilson, Chief of the Min munition plants, forges and t ority Groups Service of the foundaries, tire plants and Miss Alma Vessells is nevMy War Manpower Commission. cotton duck mills. Other war named assistant to Mis. Estelly Mr. Wilson has recently re industries for which more , Mussey Riddle, consultant in Ne- turned from a field trip that nursing for the National workers are needed im Nursing Council for War Service. took him into three WMC mediately to meet pres A native of Philadelphia, Miss regions covering the States sing military demands, he > Vessells is a graduate of Harlem of New York, Michigan, Ohio, added, are shipbuilding and Hospitul School of Nursing and Kentucky, Wisconsin, Illinois naval repair yards, plants pro holds a B.S. degree from New- and Indiana During his trip ducing B-29 bombers and new York University School of Educa he discussed with regional fighter planes, plants making tion. She came to the Council and State WMC officials ways trucks and components, com from directorship of the Harlem «s*r Y.W.C.A. School for Practical and means of intensifying munications wire and wire Nurses. WMC efforts to recruit and rope factories, plants building place Negro workers in vital artillery and gun carriages, war plants in those important tanks and self-propelled guns. war industry centers. Efforts to enlist the help of It Stepped-up military devel more Negro workers in pro opments in Europe and the ducing these urgent war items Pacific have resulted m urgent will be expanded, Mr. Wilson J Retires After 36 WE RESOLVE TO STICK TO OUR JOB! calls from Generals Eisen- said. * • -'-I.., , M|| <|)f, • Years of Service — leaves, Myrtle Louise Goodins, Memorial hospital. Welfare Virginia Eva Greene, Lloyd Island, New York, will speak. Heards Have 4 Chidren In Service West Ya» State- Miise, Edith Laura Poindex- Miss Hill* is a member of the ter, Edythe Geraldine Saun college counseling staff -of the ders, John E. Swanson, Fran national nursing council, The three sons and one 12-27-44 on the youngest dt Washington, D, C.—Mrs. Mary Cheney, newly appointed assistant College News which directs the U. S. Cadet daughter of Prof, and Mrs. the three sons, Squire W. to the Director of Employment, American National Red Cross, will ces Elizabeth Tipton, Elnora B. H. Heard of Wilberforce, Heard: •Mist in recruiting Negro personnel for overseas assignment. Geraldine Walker, Donald Nurse Corps. Before joining the lied Cross staff, Mrs. Cheney was secretary .to Mrs. Margaret James Ohio are all serving in the 'Dr. Squire Heard Wins Vernon Warren, Virginia war effort. Mrs. I7.-Jt1a Jewel Miller. Federal Works Agency, in Washington. Prioi Speaker at the Sunday eve Strickland, daughter of Mr. Commission* to that, she was women s page editor of the Chicago News-Ledger ir Maybelle Williams. and Mrs. Rollins W. James, Beverly H. Heard, jr., is "Dr. Squire W. Heard, Wilber* P Chicago, and a correspondent for the Chicago Defender in New York ning chapel Services of the Music will be furnished by force, who graduated last week City. She served as personnel director or' an educational survey Sr. of Institute, West Vir located in California where lie West Virginia State College, the College choir. from the college of dentistry at W sponsored by the U. S. Department of Interior, and was personnel January 7 at 7:00 p. m. will ginia, a graduate of the West is a skilled worker in airpla te wpervisor of the Federal Theater Project, both in New York. The National George Wash Virginia State College, 1943, manufacture and the recondi Howard University, Washington, Mr*. Cheney is a member of Phi Delta Kappa sorority. New Yorlt be President John W. Davis. ington Carver Week, January tioning of ships of the U. S. D. C., has been commissioned as a chapter, and has been an active volunteer worker for the NAACP il Music by the choir. 7 to 13, announced in West has begun her second quarter , m Ntw York. (Photo by Dan Kiwdau. Iled Cross Photographer#) ,..j. Navy which have had heavy first lieutenant in the army, the Graduation exercises for Virginia byTocl^ation o£ wartime service. war department announced Wed \ the fall and winter semester Governor Neeley, will be elec- nesday. vl of the West Virginia State of parasitology. Her husband, M. Lamar Heard is in Flor brated at the West Virginia a student of the College, is ida working in special service Lt. Heard, son of Prof, and Mrs. College will be held, Sunday, State College by an address M et Basil m'sl January 7, at 7:00 p. m. will now serving overseas on the in the A A F. His grade at B. H. Heard, Wilberforce where on life and character of the Western Front. the present is Staff Sergeant his father is principal of the uni in the Auditorium. great scientist by Austin W. Althea L. Heard is engaged versity's high school, is expected v y Judge Herschel H. Rose of Curtis, Cr., head of the De in the Army Red Cross serv to arrive from Washington at the .'" T: the State Supreme Court of IHBSTON COM MINOS, of the partment of Agriculture, Jan Va. Theological ice out of Washington, D. C. end of this week to visit his par Pgeneral service department, of the Appeals will be the com uary 1.2 at 10:00 a. m. Austin There she completed her ents. He will report to Carlisle, {Standard Oi! Company of Louisiana mencement speaker. W. Curtis, Jr., son of Prof. training at American Univer Pa„ for training February 1, and who recently retired at ag« 05 fron> Invocation will be offered College, Seminary • ». Curtis was assistant to Dr. sity. She is now serving a will go from there to Fort Huach- the Batcn llotigo Refinery of th< by Rev T. B. Wright, B. D. Coni|i;Hiy after KG years of servire Carver until his death. IS BEQUEATHED $20,000 turn as Staff Assistant at uca, Arizona. He is a graduate oi Horn at Bayou Kara in Sfpleinbt'i pastor of Young Street Bap Later Prof. A. C. Warring LYNCHBURG, Va. — The Camp Holabird, Baltimore, Wilberforce University." 187!). Mr. Commings joined the com tist Church, Charleston. ton of the Department of Bi pany and Hiis ivflnery, now ono of Virginia Theological College Maryland. Mrs. M. L. Heard, the The following students are ology will speak on Dr. Car The following is a clipping the nation's vital war plants, wln>n prospective candidates for and Seminary, of which Rev. mother of Lt. Heard attended :* j it was just a field full of stumps ver's contributions to science. W. H. R. Powell is president, from the Xenia, Ohio Gazette- the graduating exercises of and hushes. Hp served his years degrees: Lois Alexander, Conferences for the purpose was the beneficiary of the will her son on December 22nd. with the company without a single Florence Ernestine Allen, of recruiting nurses for the of Mrs. Mary Jane Cachelm, day's work lost by illness. One of Emily Christian Armstead, Lt. Heard received the J. C. his daughters now works In the U. S- War and public health colored, of Amherst Circuit under the will, to take care of Brazier Prize of $50.00 to the Hilton Rony.' Uetinery's synthetic Ethel Spriggs Bamfield Ag- ^ be held at the Wegt vir. Ct., Va., it was revealed last the Alexander Wharton burial senior who made the highest & i ubber plant. He is a deacon of a nes Elizabeth Banks, Bessie state College on Janu Baptist Church, la Baton Rouge. week. The school was be lot at St. Paul's Church, Glas scholastic record throughout v. Mahone Cook, Council Henry ary 9 and 10. Miss Emily Hil- queathed $20,000. gow, Va., but this is not man the four year course in Den Dixson, Betty Jane DuMetz, The institution is asked, datory. tistry. Mary Julia Dunlop, Annestine degarde Hill of the Goldwater i A HEADS DRIVE "THE TANKS ARE IN" 1M. WW k.-ii V i' li' J )ND HAZEL SCOTT IS ON THE WAY V4' By Dolores Calvin krv.^i sense of appreciation for " -"o"'k iCty—(Cdlvin'K dEL'"-de and choral works. And '. Wi-' Service) An ambitious. r's he-* school choir at Tulsa, * \ *!:* f-yed, Oklahoman, Miss she pedalled the organ's melo w [* • sil .Shears, is fast, beeoiiiirg dious strains for her anxious *-|V. ejUs.'jr': ate listeners. * v He ",c runnerup to Hazel V- - .;•> IIar:el, as you know A Tallcdega Girl O'.v roigns over all boogie Basil then majored in music •S£ t •-,vr'i1nr the elnn-'"'-; jafc T* lledgea College where r^rst straight, then pouring she finished in 3941. Finding <Tioir individual personality her talents definitely a la Scott, she struck out in the Richard L.

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