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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27. 1943 Bullets From Belmead to Benito p - T—- S > Ji H Hr Jk* w I^L m WW •• ra : -i ■ W 3 i•' - ' 13w /jP* ' ? : # - - ;< .3 •• &IPU- - ImlifMwZ >. .» 3 'tV ■K-,-w- KOI J CASTLE, VIRGINIA —Many alumni of the St. Emma Military School will recognize this old gun. now on its way to the scrap heap for active duty once more, this time in the form of bullets for Benito. Made of solid brass, it was used on a warship during the Spanish-American War, and has decorated the Parade Grounds at "Belmead" for many years. Loading it are members of the Cadet Corps of St. Emma, a boarding high school teaciiing agriculture and industrial courses in addition to the military activities. Among the Cadets pictured are Lawrence P. Slade, Wil liamstown, N. C.: Robert Petrie. Louisviile, Ky.; Thomas MeEaehin, Norfolk, Va.; Oswald Benoit, New Orleans, La.; •James O. Brooks, Jackson. Tenn.: Elmer Braxton, Hampton, Va., and Edward B. 1 ar ey, Petersburg, Va. \mw O| j dW U.S-WAR 30MDS KEEP THEM SENDING BULLETS FOR VICTORY ASHEVILLE GAS COMPANY 88 PATTON AVE. PHONE 2200 THEY NEED YOU TOO ! V vf ß’6Y Lz Vs cCa?>. WAR Z V .JT BONDS •$<> Ns jß* ;■ . jWMB ■„/ -t V' "jJEksI rut Rrmßuaon courha. Br Ml ™ W.L HOI io WAY CWOOHUT “ WSC «Q • C T'wtirv Department Go Trailways SMOKY MOUNTAIN TRAILWAYS WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA SERVE Through Bus Service from Asheville to Atlanta, Anderson, Knoxville, Chatta nooga, and Local Points. INFORMATION AT LOCAL BUS STATION Smoky Mountain Trailways Asheville, N. C. Phone 955 THE SOUTHERN NEWS B '■ ovt jg* M udeice ON THE ~ r PROBLEMS OF LIFE COURAGf ANO INSP/R4T/ON TO YOU WHO SIM MH* °O. * V"'' - ANO GU/OANCf IN OVIUCOMINS YOUR THOU9t.fi XT F' A ABBE' WALLACE SERVICE D. M. T. l’ve gone with a young man for over a year, but he has gone in service now to protect his country. Every time it gets to be his pay day. his peo- • pie start writing him a lot about what I’ve been doing. He says he still wants to marry me and he has proven in some ways that he loves me but his people keep his mind poisoned against me. Ans.: 'There will be no marriage for you with this boy until the war is ov r. Hr is not sure of his love for you and he hasn’t too much confidence in your love for him . . . so he feels it’s best that your marriage pkyis be post poned until after the ’ Nazis ami Japs” are whipped. 'This is really best for boht of you. E. T. A friend of mine told me about this column and asked me to write your service for ad vice. M\ home has been unhappj for more than two years and 1 want to know if you can run this woman off so that my husband can be hisself and do his home duties. I have 4 small children and you know how hard it is to be sick and worried up all the time by an outside woman. Ans.: Run this woman off and it will only be a matter of time before your husband has another gal. You must wake your hus band up. Show him that you can be independent. Put a stop to having babies every year. Pre pare to get yourself an outside job just as tho you were a widow with these children to look after. When your husband sees you are serious about either being treated right ... or getting rid of him. he will have more respect for you and loss for these other women. T. j. f. lam a graduate in high school and I have two girl friends whom 1 am very fond ot. Will we be successful in getting jobs in the same city? Ans.: You can easily get a job in the city of your choice but . . . won’t stay there long for the old guv with the whiskers will get you . . . OLD UNCLE SAM. HIM SELF. Wes Sir. It’s the army for you and your time is grow ing short. L. D. My parents want me to go to school in Jackson and 1 want to go to school in another town but they arc not able to send me to the place 1 want to go. Now what I want to know is should I go to school in Jackson or must 1 marry? Ans.: You are entirely too young to marry. It is unfortunate for you that your parents cannot send you to the school of your choice but what does it matter? One school is as good as another in your case and I assure you . . . you will be well pleases with tho Jackson School. Mother and Dad know what’s best in this case so try to please them. W. C. I have read your col umn for about six years and like it. I am in prison and have been here for four years and I am expecting to go free in .about four or five months if 1 get any good time off. Now here is my trouble. I met a family of people since I’ve been her and I started going with one of the girls. We wore together one time. She had a baby and said it was mine and everybody says it looks like me. I want to do right but the girl doesn’t care if she even writes and she writes only because her moth er makes her. Her mother treats me like a wife or sister. Ans.: That’s all well and good, but it’s the girl you are to marry and live with . . . not the mother. | If she doesn’t want you and makes no effort to show affection ofr few FOR SILL. OKLA.—Pvt. Willie Wright, Battery B, 31st Battalion, Field Artillery Replacement Train ing Center at Fort Sill, hasn’t as yet had a chance to take a crac at the Axis with a gun but he in finished bombarding the en< with $9,202 worth—count 'em ■ War Bonds. Converting all his as sets into cash, Private Wright marched into his battery orderly room, planked down the money, and said he wanted to invest in a few bonds. Wright’s is the largest single purchase of War Bonds yet recorded m the 31st Battalion, the Replacement Center’s Negro train ing division. Inducted in the Army October 15, 1942, the affluent sol dier hails from San Antonio, Texas. you. then why should you worry yourself about her. If the girl wants you, it is up to her to show it. I. P. We have lost our (’hurch Building. Is there any way we can build again? Why do we have so much trouble with our building? Ans.: This is War now. and it will be a dickens of a job to build a new (’hurch due to shortages of material and the like. My sug gestion N that you buy a house and remodel it for a Church Building until the war is over. I am sure you can do this with out too much trouble or burden on the members. DR. PATTERSON SAYS NEGROES CAN DOUBLE OUTPUT IF AIDED Dr. F. D. Patterson, president of Tuskegee Institute and special assistant to the secretary of agri culture, pointed out in a state ment this week that Negro farm ers could almost double their present food production if ade quately financed and supervised. Said Dr. Patterson, “I believe the 680,000 Negro farmers of America are doing all that they possibly can under the circum stances which they now live and work to meet the food needs of our nation. If, however, they can i get more adequate supervision through additional farm and home demonstration agents, and through other supervisory serv ices, plus the necessary financial aid on a low interest basis. I am sure that they could almost dou ble their present production. “These two items: financial aid and supervision must go hand in hand in my opinion if the most is to be made of either of them.” Dr. Patterson also indicated that colored farmers should try to take full advantage of the lending facilities made possible through the department of agri culture. These include farm cred it administration, regional agricul tural credit corporation, and farm security administration. FSA loans are made available to farmers who cannot qualify for credit from other sources. Fie also emphasized the fact that FSA loans are being made to small farmers who with such financing can become qualified as “essential farm producers” under the war-unit rating by adding to their livestock, or poultry, or by increasing their production of war needed crops. Pointing out that extension ser vice has made a significant step in getting information to fann ers through the organization of “neighborhood leaders,” Dr. Pat terson urged, however, that ex tension increase its staff of farm and home agents to meet the su pervisory need. ARNALL ASKED TO REMOVE SHERIFF AND ARREST HIM FOR MURDER IN LYNCHING NEW YORK The arrest and prosecution on charge of murder of Sheriff Claude Screws and Night Policeman Frank Jones for the lynching of Robert Hall at Newton. Ga., January 29 was de manded this week by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in a letter to Governor Ellis Arnall. Arnall was asked to remove Screws from of fice pending action against him. The NCAAP stated that affi davits which it had secured and sent to the United States depart ment of justice immediately after the lynching named crews and Jones as the persons last seen with Hall before his death. The N'I'AAP had supplied the depart ment of justice with pictures of Hall’s body .s it appeared when ri i , ivi d by the undertaker. The lynch victim's body bore twenty one abrasions, his skull had been beaten until soft, and his wrists deeply cut. “We are certain,” the NAAC'P said, “that the state of Georgia under your administration does not intend that a citizen, no mat ter how humble, shall be snatched from his home at midnight, with out a warrant (and in this case, without even an oral charge of any serious crime) and murdered while in the custody of peace of ficers. All reports point to the tact that Screws and oJnes called for Hall at his home at midnight, handcuffed him and took him away, presumably to pail. The next information comes from a hospital which declares that it re ceived a telephone call from Sher iff Screws ordering the removal of Hall from the jail to the hospit al." CLEANUBLEACHErDEO gWWiWWjg f W WN SREMOVES STAINS REPUBLIC DISTRIBUTES OWI SHORTS FEATURING NEGRO CONTRIBUTIONS NEW YORK Recognized as the company which has been most active in casting Negro play ers and in publicizing these tal ented performers, Republic Pic tures is also in the vanguard in cooperating wit hthe government in the distribution of office of war information films which fea ture the contribution of Negroes to the war effort. Republic is currently distribut ing, through its thirty-three ex changes throughout the country a short subject entitled, “Henry Brown, Farmer," which was pro duced by the department of agri culture. The reel was directed by Roger Barlow, and is narrated by Canada Lee. The musical score is by Gene Forrell. The firm is a tribute to the Negro farmer and the part he is playing in the war effort. It not only instills respect for Negro farmers, but also shows them how to make their land produce the most of crops which are needed. Made in Alabama, the picture concludes with a visit of the Browne family to a son at the air field of the 99th pursuit squadron. A second subject, to be re leased soon, is titled "Negro Col leges in War Time.” It is con cerned with the splendid manner in which Negro colleges and uni versities have responded to the call for trained manpower. Tus kegee Institute in Alabama has been graduating qualified flyers for some time. The U. S. army air forces stationed on Tuskegee's fields hold class on the campus to teach the fundamentals of ground school. Tuskegee shops prepare students for jobs in avia tion plants. Prairie View, one of the state colleges of Texas. is designing courses to supply trained men and women to the increasingly techni cal fields of industrial and mili tary service. At Howard Univer sity, located in Washington, D. C., classes in mechanical designing train men and women for jobs in plants that make our tanks, guns and machines. Howard University Medical School has speeded up training to furnish doctors and nurses for the fighting forces. Hampton Institute, located on the banks of Hampton Roads, Va. is working on what amounts to a twenty-four hour basis, training hundreds of war workers. Stu dents studying building construc tion and architecture built most of the buildings on the Hampton campus. Because of the urgent de mand for trained nurses, Hamp ton is cooperating with nearby hospitals by providing class room and laboratory training. Many of Hampton’s facilities are now be ing used by the armed forces. Se lected men are sent there for training as army motor median-' ics. Thousands of Negro men and women throughout the nation are war effort, highly trained as a now taking their places in our result of work in colleges like these. "Negro Colleegs In War Time” is avivid picturization of how Negro colleegs are helping to produce the trained minds which are necessary to victory. Republic Pictures is gratified at the opportunity to cooperate in the dissemination of this import ant information. which shows how much Negroes are accomp lishing in our war effort: and is giving its wholehearted coopera tion to the war activities commit tee of the motion picture indus try. under whose auspices these reels are being distributed. A Detroit undertaker contri buted an aluminum coffin to the local salvage drive, and in Dead wood, S. 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