811 Asheville Negro Men In Armed Service
Eight hundred and eleven Bun
combe County Negroes are now
serving their country according to
figures from the four draft boards
of this county. Following is the
number of men each board has
sent to the armed services:
Draft Board No. 1, 110
Draft Moard No. 2, 506, with 49
enlisted.
Draft Board No. 3, 25, with 5
enlisted.
Draft Board No. 4, 101, with 15
enlisted.
By the end of the year it is
expected that more than one
thousand Negroes from this county
will be in the various branches of
the armed service.
There have also been several
Negro women joined the WACs.
ITALY’S OUTPOST
ISLANDS FALL;
TENSION MOUNTS
Pre-invasion aerial blows at
Italy’s outlying islands have clear
ed the path from Africa to Sicily
when Lampione, last of the axis
outpost islands, fell to the allied
naval forces Sunday without a
shot.
Pantelleria, Lampedusa and Lin
osa Islands have all been taken by
bombardment or blockade within
the last week without a soldier
being landed. These conquests up
hold the claims of air force men
who have often said that islands
could be forced to surrender by
bombardment alone.
Allied planes, based on Malta
or in Africa, have been rocking
Sicily and Italy with bombs for
the past week as invasion tension
mounted.
Adding to the tension was the
semi-official report that the allies
had closed Syria’s frontier with
Turkey. Implications were that
British and U. S. troops that have
been training in the east may be
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CERTIFICATES OF PROFICIENCY are awarded to graduates of the Mechanics and Drivers School
at a Unit Training Center. Captain Elmer R. Drouant, instructor, stands beside Colonel Wallace E.
Hackett, Executive Officer, who awards the certificates. Receiving his “diploma" is Private First Class
Howard Browne, New York. Others in the group from left to right are: Henry L. Dunson, Indianapolis,
Indiana; Benjamin F. Jenkins. Miami- Florida, and Otis Cenhus. Detroit. Michigan.
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theatre arts, will assume direc
tion of the drama program at Dil
lard University which also in
cludes the New Orleans Little
Theatre Guild and Paul Robeson
Children’s Theatre.
Mr. Ross is the holder of an
undergraduate degree from More
house College and a Master of
Fine Arts degree from the Yale
University department of drama.
His professional experiences in
clude direction of two New Eng
land Summer Theatres for profes
sionals; assistant professor of dra
ma at Spelman College from 1934
to 1939 during which time he was
also technical director of the At
lanta University summer theatre;
and he was the director of the
Little Theatre at Fisk University
from 1939 to 1942.
Best known as an authority on
stage lighting, Mr. Rous is the
author of several plays of the Ne
gro middle class. “Strivin’ ” was
produced in 1939, “One Clear Call”
in 1941, “Rho Kappa Epsilon”
and “Delta Power” is based on
material gathered while making a
survey of folklore in Mississippi
for the library of Congress. After
this survey, Mr. Ross lectured on
the material at Yale, Carnegie
Tech and the University of Pitts
burgh. He is also author of sev
eral one-act plays and the 75th
Anniversary Pageant for Fisk Uni
versity.
Professiinal tribute to Mr. Ross
is expressed by Stanley McCand
less, professor of stage lighting at
Yale, now in the Office of Civilian
Defense in charge of the blackout
system for the United States, who
says, “He. is not only a capable
technician, but he brings with
him a sense of the theatre that
few of any race have.”
Mr. Ross, who is a native of
New Haven, Conn., was a captain
in the Field Artillery in the last
war. While abroad he travelled
extensively in France, Italy and
Spain.
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