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FAIR FEARLESS ETHEL HILL HELD UNDER $,3000 BOHD Tlt„ Accused of second degree murder in connection with the shooting of Willie Gorman, 56, of 187 Haw thorne street, Ethel Hill, 23, of 1439 Germantown street, was held in $3000 bond for the grand jury yes terday by Common Pleas Judge Null M. Hodapp. The woman is accused of shoot ing Gorman with a .38 calibre re volver during an argument at Ger mantown and Krug streets last Wednesday. TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH HEWS The Fifth Annual Men’s Popu larity Contest ended last Monday evening at the Tabernacle Baptist church, and will go down in history as the most successful one ever con ducted at Tabernacle. The total amount raised during the five weekr was $1942.68. Mr. Shelly Parks, of Home ave nue, and member of the Senior choir was the popular winner. Mr. Parks raised $932.50 and received an all expense trip to the National Bap tist convention in Dallas, Texas next week. Deacon W. C. Copeland, president of the United club who sponsored the contest, was second winner hav ing the amount of $530.00 He re ceived a cash award. Deacon Geo. Andrews was third winner having the amount of $480. 18. He also received a cash award. The following persons will attend the National Baptist convention in Dallas, Texas, which convenes Sept. 5-10: the pastor, Rev. J. Wesley Broaddus, Mr. Shelly Parks, Mrs. Cora Kirby, Mrs. Nettie Bullard, Mr. W. C. Copeland, Miss Bernice Adams, Mrs. Ethel Owings, Mrs. Vashti B. Owens and Mrs. Betty M. Whatley. SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, Sept. 1 (ANP)—It was a great day for members of a Negro ammuni tion company convoy speeding past wildly cheering Frenchmen in Le Mans. Only the day before Lt. Gen. George S. Patton’s hard smashing, fast moving, 3rd Army had kicked out the Germans and leaped on toward the great prize of Paris. This supply outfit was racing toward the front, wherever it was. No one seemed to know precisely [where the front was, the Ameri cans were advancing so rapidly* I The allies were thankful Le Mans fwas in their grip because of the 14 I vital roads stretching from its bor ders and two key railways it har bors. Townspeople were exultant the Boche had been routed and lib TN""B ■■1 i fie Combined VIFith Vol. 3—No. 200 DAYTON, OHIO, FRDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1944 Now, Mrs. Riddle declared, a change is under way. Leading schools are making places for at least a few Negro students, and directors of other schools are open to conviction if a young woman with the requisite high schol di ploma, good grades, and other qual ifications asked by the particular school, make application. “The need now is for qualified applicants,” said Mrs. Riddle. “A great deal of effort has been made to secure this extension of opportu nity. It challenges Negro women everywhere.” Mrs. Riddle said that the 2,000 erating U. S. troops taken.over. We’re all members of the same fight ing team. f' So they shouted and danced about eagerly wrung hands, kissed faces. Many threw bouquets of lilacs onto trucks, several pitched apples and pears into waiting hands. Not a few wept for joy. Le Mans, a densely populated city, artistically laid out with beautiful houses and picturesque buildings was in a state of serious confusion, but did not show the scare of bat tle found in similarly fought over territory. Undoubtedly the hasty “strategic retreat” of the Nazis through the town after their out skirt resistance had been crushed saved Le -Mans from a destructive shelling. ... ... AIL Y iTf I I?T 1J 4 JU Jn ONE OF THE TWO ONLY NEGRO DAILIES 1 N THE W O NEW YORK, Sept. 1 —Enough schools of nursing are newly open ing their doors to Negro students that the qualified young women should not hesitate to apply to the school of her choice, whether or not it is listed as admitting Negroes, according to Mrs. Estelle Massey Riddle, consultant in Negro nursing for the National Nursing Council for War Service. “A definite change in attitude has grown out of the war situa tion,” said Mrs. Riddle in her New York office. “The acute nursing shortage made it apparent that all potential nursing power should be utilized. Although Negro women have a definite flair for nursing, only slightly more than one per cent of the graduate nurses in the coun try are Negro as compared with ten per cent of the population. “It has been hard to increase the supply of Negro nurses because ed ucational facilities are totally in adequate. And because so few of the best schools of nursing were open to Negroes, the better quali fied Negro girls have tended to go into teaching or other work.” More Nursing Schools Are Opened To Negro Students BLACK, WHITE FRENCH AT LE MANS CHEER NEGRO SOLDIERS «£.?-. 1 Negro students now in schools of nursing is a dangerous low, in view of the health problems of the na tion, and of the Negro minority in particular. “At the same time, it never has been easier for a girl to get an edu cation in nursing. Entrance into the U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps gives the student an opportunity to se cure professional education without cost to herself. The Corps provides maintenance, a complete set of uni forms, books, tuition and monthly stipends ranging from $15 the first nine months to a maximum of $30 for the Senior Cadet period. “After graduation, nurses have a wide choice of fields in which to work. These include such special ties as operating room work, nurs ing of children, psychiatry, ortho pedics, public health nursing, teach ing and supervising and work as ad ministrators and specialized con sultants. T' “The post-war era holds bright possibilities for a new and concen trated program of health, utilizing our new knowledge of nutrition anc the near-miraculous new drugs.” A THE OHIO EXI»RESS Mrs. Riddle said that before the expansion now under way 32 schools of nursing have been listed as ad mitting Negroes. She urged pros pective applicants to consult their (Continued on Page 4) BOY HIT BY AUTO Leon Oliver, 10, of 334 Mercer street, suffered lacerations when he was struck at Third and Clemmer streets by a hit-skip motorist last night, Police Patrolman H. J. Fielitz reported. The child was treated at St. Elizabeth hospital and then released. But now all that seemed far away. The war momentarily was forgot ten as French patriots waved their hands, fingers shaped like “Cs,” be neath brilliantly flag-draped streets dressed up for the occasion mere hours ago. Except for the dust and rumble of heavy GI trucks, MPs directing traffic at street corners, and tall, erect, handsome, black French Sen Germans to prisoner cages, the fierce conflict raging was for the time something remote. Of especial interest to the U. S. soldiers were the dark, richly-col ored French women anxious to em brace their fellows from the states. Some were of native French stock, others from the African colonies, scores o* them descendantsof Han TO7 Southern University Plans For Large Freshman Class SCOTLAND VILLE, La., Sept. 1 (ANP) Over 600 prospective freshmen have already made appli cation for admission to Southern university, according to J. J. Hedge man, registrar. This number ex ceeds all previous application fig ures, by this time of the year. “If one can judge by the past,” said Mr. Hedgeman, “Southern can well anticipate a record-breaking en rollment of freshmen students.” The 1944-45 school session will open on Sept. 11, when freshmen will begin a series of orientation ac tivities. Upperclassmen will register on Sept. 14. QUESTIOHED IH SHOOTING Elwood Dansby, 1116 German town street, was held fir question ing by police yesterday, following the shooting of Wilbur DeMar, 28, of 1868 Lakeview avenue. Police said DeMar was wounded Jn a fight at 1037 Germantown street August 15. nibal, an historical reminder of the trek of that sepia warrior’s army/ across the Alps in another century^ A few were American Negro en tertainers caught in the criss-cross of the vicious struggle between Fas cism and Democracy. Yet they were all there as an in visible one to back slap, to shout, to pay homage to the common cause W and inspire its fearless champions^-? It was indeed a great day for the., Americans. Spontaneous jubilation" held sway—intoxicatingly. The 3rd Army was the heroes, these ammu* nition troops immediate objects of plaudits and praise. They were the soldiers of victoryJ And to the victors went the spoils* S i,j!4 CONSTRUCTIVE PROGRESSIVE HARVARD LAW SCHOOt TURKS DOWH 6IRL Price 3c WASHINGTON, Aiig. 29.— (ANP) —The application of a young Negro woman, honor grad uate of the Howard university Law school in June, has been finally rejected by the law school of Har vard,' university, it was learned here. Pauli Murray, the student, has been informed by the law faculty at Harvard that “no action look ing to a change in the present prac tice” of barring women would be taken at this time. They assured her that the matter was before the faculty for three months in 1942 when the decision was first made. The faculty reaffirmed its earlier position, she was told. r.:, V SAVE WASTE PAPER1