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ETHEL HILL HELD
UNDER $,3000 BOHD
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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
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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.
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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.”
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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
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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
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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*
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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.
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