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NEW COLORED HOSPITAL TO OPEN
FIRST IN NEWS
AND PICTURES.
THE MOUTHPIECE
OF THE PEOPLE
VOLUME VIII
2,000 MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN
First Lady To Address NAACP
Fifth Annual Student Conereoce
Lincoln University’ Pa. 0ct.29=31
CHESTER COUNTY, Pa.—Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt will address
delegates to the NAACP fifth an
nual Student Conference here at
Lincoln University, October 29-31.
Recently returned from a tour
during which she visited Hawaii,
Australia, New Zealand and
Guadalcanal, Mrs. Roosevelt in
formed the Student Conference
thia week that she would be pres
ent at the conference. Mrs. Roose
velt will deliver the keynote ad
dress on October 29th. For its
theme the Conference will have
“A Blueprint for Action”. Dele
gates representing a total of more
than 4,000 students Negro and
White have already registered.
Mrs. Ruby H. Hurley-, NAACP
director of youth work, stated
this week that the conference will
be an instructional meeting to post
students on techniques for the
procurement of a full franchise
of organized labor. A program of
activity for college students to
carry back to the schools will be
formulated.
Chicago NAACP Branch
Completes Food Survey
Showing Race Pays More
CHICAGO, 111. "Food Coats
Negroes More In Chicago", a
comparative survey of retail food
and household commodity prices
made by the Chicago Branch of
the NAACP has just been com
pleted. The survey, similar to ono
conducted last year in New York
titled "Food Costs More In Har
lem”, represents an intensive stedy
of three representative Chicago
communities, one Negro and the
others white.
Nelson C. Jackson, on leave
from the Atlanta U. School of
Social Work, conducted the sur
vey for the Branch’s Committee
on Social Research, consisting of
Mr. Jackson. Don R. Bonaparte,
Jr., Martha Sutton Calloway. Jos
eph S. Jackson and Joseph O'Neal.
It was just concluded last April
29, which makes its findings
clearly up to date.
WINSTON-SALEM, Oct. 2—State
Chairman Clarence T. Leinbach
announced tonight that North
Carolina had bettered its J145.000,-
000 Third War Loan quota by $4.-
800,000 as of 2 p. m. yesterday,
when the latest figures were
totaled.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—Sena
tor Barkley of Kentucky, the Dem
ocratic leader, said today that “an
official communication from the
war department” may be forth
coming soon on pending proposals
to ease the effect of the fathers
draft on family life.
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Bureau of Public Relations,
U. S. War Department
PROMOTED Major Charity
Edna Adams, supervisor of pians
and training at the First Women’s
Army Corps Training Center, Fort
Des Moines, lowa, whose promo
tion to her present rank was an
nounced September 20 by the War
Department. A teacher in civilian
life, Major Adams is a former com
mander of a WAC company at Fort
Jfa Moines. (Official WAC photo).
Special Correspondents Over North and South Carolina
<§outijernj|§ew
Swing Stars Support
NAACP Youth Program
At Savoy October 16
NEW YORK, N. Y. ln the
interest of greater opportunity for*
Harlem Youth an array of swing
stars will participate in the
NAACP Youth Guidance Series.
The series will get under way to
the tune of Count Basie finger
work at an opening dance rally at
the Savoy- Ballroom on October
16th. Youngsters from the high
schools of New York will rub el
bows with many of the swing he
roes of the nation who are now
honorary members of the NAACP
youth councils. Included in the
group are screen star Lena Horne,
Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Ella
Fitzgerald, Hazel Scott, Cab Cal
loway, Teddy Wilson and Charlie
Barnett.
Distressed at the lack of op
portunity for useful activity of
fered young people in the Harlem
area, Charles Buchanan, manager
of the world-famous Savoy Ball
room has donated the use of the
amusement palace to metropolitan
NAACP Youth Councils. Mrs. Ru
by H. Hurley, National Youth Di
rector of the NAACP announced
this week that all youth regard
less of race or color and from all
sections of the city would find
welcome at the series which will
run well into the spring.
The Youth Guidance Series will
hold bi-monthly Saturday after
noon meetings at which forums on ,
topics of interest to you will be I
conducted. Occasionally there will ■
be matinee dances. Bill Robinson
has been asked to assist in plan
ning a dancing course to be at
tended by interested young people
during these sessions.
John Hammond, member of the
NAACP Board of Directors and
discoverer of many now famous
swing musicians has enlisted the
support of performers from Case
Society, Zanaibar, The Hurricane
and other amusement spots who
will appear from time to time as
guest artists on the Saturday af
ternoon programs.
Newbold Morris, president of
the City Council has been asked
to address the Youth at the Oc
tober 16 dance-rally. Thurgood
Marshall, NAACP Counsel, Assem
blyman William T. Andrews and
Rev. Benjamin Richardson, assist
ant pastor of Abysinnian Baptist
Church are among the civic lead
ers who have been invited to par
ticipate.
Five Join Faculty, Staff
Os Atlanta University
ATLANTA, Ga.—President Ruf
us E. Clement has announced the
addition of five new persons to
the faculty and staff of Atlanta
University.
The group includes Dr. Alfonso
Elder, for nineteen years dean of
the North Carolina College for
Negroes in Durham, who is the
new chairman of the department
of education; and Miss Jennie
Pritchard of Atlanta, a graduate
of Spelman College and Atlanta
University, who has joined the
faculty of the School of Library
Service.
Staff appointments in the Uni
versity Library hove gone to Miss
Gwendolyn Smith of Thomasville,
Georgia: and to Miss Louisa G.
Smith of Orangeburg, South Caro
lina, both of whom are gradu
ates of the Atlanta University
School of Library Service.
Following the resignation of
Mrs. Tressa Middleton as diet.tian
at the University Dormitories, an
appointment was made to Mrs.
Lyda McCree Kennedy, formerly
on the staff of Atlanta University.
FDR baqA:
Every worker
should increase the I*’ X*
amount of bonds he
or she is buying. BSijL |g
ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1943.
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Miss Georgia Anthony of
Warnercoal, N. C., will be one
of the new nurses at the new
hospital to open here next week.
Miss Anthony is a graduate of
Kate Bitting- Reynolds Hospital
of Winston-Salem, N. C.
Blueblood Chickens
‘Should Have Killed Dogs’
WATERLOO. lowa Burr G.
Lichty asked the county board of
supervisors to pay him $75 for
five white spangled game chick
ens killed by dogs. 0
When the supervisors allowed
Lichty $3.75, he protested:
"My chickens ar© not dealt in
by the pound, but on the record
of their ancestors in front-line
combat.”
"At that rate,” Chairman C. V.
Kline told him, "they should have
killed the dogs.”
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Burenu <it Public ReiHtmns U S War Department
JOE LOOTS TAKES KIDE IN JEEP Some one has posed a question: who has the most punch,
Joe Louis of fistiana or the Jeep rugged and m.ghty midget truck of the Army? We cant answer
that one. Sergeant Joe Loirs at Foit Dix on his nation-wide Army camp ♦oui. goes for a ride with
several of his cronies. Seated beside him is Sergeant Don Blackman of the Fort Dix Military Police,
former wrestling star. (Photo by Fort Dix Public Relations Office.)
The Asheville New Hospital will
open this month. The hospital is
to provide facilities to care for
35 patients.
The Asheville New Hospital,
Inc., will open at its new location,
Biltmore and Southside avences,
this month with facilities for the
care of 35 patiente. It will be the
first time in the history of mod
ern Asheville that anything ap
proaching adequate hospital fa
cilities for our group have been
available here.
The remodeling of the structure
at 285 Blltmom. avenue will be
completed some time this month
and plans call for moving from
the present location at 269 College
street next week. It has not been
possible to set the exact date for
the opening, but it is hoped that
the institution can hold open hours
at a future date.
Mrs, Edna Miller, who is super
intendent, announced this week
that Misses Stella Eaton and
Georgia Anthony will be super
visors. These two young ladies
are giaduate and registered
nurses.
A new hospital represents an
investment of approximately $lB.-
000. About $25,000 was raised in
a campaign last winter. Os that
sum, SB,OOO was paid for property,
and about SIO,OOO has been spent
in remodeling and equipping the
new hospital. The institution will
start operations with $7,000.
As remodeled, the two story
brick structure has two private
rooms and six wards, a children’s
ward, an obstetrical ward, two
men’s wards and two women’s. It
can comfortably accimmodate 35
patients, and those facilities In
clude provision for the care of
four delivery cases, which has
been a serious need in the past.
At the back of the hall, an emer
gency room for accident cases is
being built.
In addition, there are operating
and sterilizing rooms, the kitchen.
j
Miss Estell Ernestine Eatmon
of Selma, N. C., will be one of
the inures at the new hospital
to o£>eii here next week. Miss
Eatmon is a graduate of the
Kate Bitting Reynolds Memor
ial Hospital of Winston-Salem,
N. C.
a dinette for the nurses, six bath
rooms, a room for the superin
tendent, and another for the doc
tor. The structure was the former
home of late Dr. P. H. Bryant.
He built it for a hospital, but It
was never so used
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 A
spokesman for the senate’s round
the-world war inspection com
mittee disclosed today that mat
ters likely to affect the imme
diate conduct of the war as well
as the drafting of final peace
terms will be laid before the the
chamber in secret session Wednes
day.
Brief Before Supreme
Court In Fourth Texas
White Primary Case
NEW YORK. N. Y. For tha 1
third time the legal staff of the
National Association for the Ad- (
vancement of Colored People has
tiled a brief, this time titled Lon- J
nle E. Smith vs. S. E. Allwright,
in the U. S. Supreme Court at
tacking the constitutionality of <
the White Primary laws of the
state of Texas. Also filed was a (
brief amicus curiae by the Na- i
tional Lawyers Guild, supporting t
the contention of the NAACP at- 4
torneys that the discriminatory J
balloting system should be abol- §
ished. t
Os the three previous cases car- i
ried from Texas to the Supreme
Court, the first two were decided
in favor of Negroes, but were sue- J
cessively nullified by changes in
Texas Democratic Party procedure. J
The third case, Grovey vs Town- .
send, not handled by the NAACP *
was decided against Negroes on I
the grounds that the Texas State
Democratic Convention had the t
right to restrict membership to c
the party. Basis for NAACP ar- c
gument in support of its third case C
is supplied by the recent United g
States vs. Classic clause which, in- t
volvlng the Louisiana Primary es- n
sentlally similar to the Tezas sys
tem, was decided In favor of Clas- t
sic, the High Court judgment be- s
Ing that the Primary election was! e
"an integral part of the procedure i 'J
of choice" being conducted "un-1 5
der color of’ state law and there-’ s
fore subject to federal control. I
Adding weight to their claim that I
the Negro suffrage and anti-dis
criminatory amendments to the £
Constitution are being deliberately 2
flaunted, NAACP attorneys have 2
established that In an actual White t
Primary election In Texas white *
members of any political party 1
are permitted to vote while all 1
Negroes, regardless of party afflll-1
ation, were barred from the polls. ’
The brief Is filed for the Oc- ‘
tober term of the Supreme Court. '■
Supporting as counsel Thurgood i -
Marshall and Judge William H. |
Hastie, NAACP Special Counsel
and National Committee head, re- ■ 1
spectively, were W. J. Durham,: 1
Sherman, Texas; W. Robert Ming, , '
Jr., Chicago; George M. Johnson, i :
Berkeley, California; Leon A. Ran- , !
som, Columbus, Ohio; Carter Wes- ’
ley, Houston; and Milton R. Kon
vltz, Newark. N. J.
WALTER WHITE SPEAKS
AT WRITERS CONGRESS
LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Walter '
White. NAACP secretary, was one
of five speakers to address the
opening meeting of the Writers
Congress, holding sessions Friday
through Sunday evening. October
1-3, on the campus of the Uni
versity of California at Los An
geles. On the program with Mr.
White were Lt. Col. Evans Carl
son, U. S. Marine Corps; Y. Frank
Freeman. Motion Picture Produc
ers Association; Owen Littimore.
OWI: Col. Carlos Romulo of the
Philippines; and representatives
bringing greetings from many of
the United Nations.
On Saturday evening Mr. White
appeared also as a discussion lead
er on the panel on Minority
Groups, Leonard Bloom. Chairman.
After the Writers Congress Wal
ter White Is speaking at Oakland
and San Francisco In California,
then proceed to Portland, Oregon.
“Did Not Withdraw From
Levy Case,” Says NAACP
WASHINGTON, D. C. The
NAACP refuted this week the As
sociated Negro Press release which
stated that the NAACP had with
drawn from the case of Sergeant
Alton Levy.
"This is Incorrect in two re
spects,” the NAACP wire to all
Negro weeklies read. "The N. A..
A. C. P. has neber formally en
tered the case and could not
therefore have withdrawn. In fact
the NAACP still has the case of
Sgt. Levy under Investigation.”
Levy, a white soldier, court
martlaied and serving four months,
said In letters to friends that he
was being penalized because he
protested the treatment of Negro
soldiers at accunp near Lincoln,
Nebraska.
tlilL LEADING I
NEGRO NEWSPAPER
OF THE" TWO
CAROLINAS
NUMBER 2
W. C. Allen Membership
Campaign Chairman
For lhe N. A. A. C. P.
N. A. A. C. I*. Eighth Campoign
October 10 to ixoveiiwcr 15.
like campaign ciuuiinaii, Air. W.
C. Alien, announced this week
tluit there wouiu be 50 captains
to call on the people of Asheville
and Buncumne County to jo.n tue
N. A. A. C. P. Meinoersuip is
SI.OO a year, 2,00 u niuiiiners are
tne this year. Are you a
member? Why not?
NEGROES TO SHAKE IN
SI2b,UOU,UUO UtlLdl
OF WAK FUfID dkiVE
Americans, Nego and white will
be called upon to pour into the
chest of the National War Fund,
over-all relief agency, SI2S,UUU,-
000 in the tund campaign to be
gin October 4th through. Novem
ber in conjunction with local com
munity campaigns.
Os this sum, $61,226,827 will
be allocated to the L’SO, which
serves more than a million color
ed servicemen during one month.
There are 10$ servicemen’s ciuos
under the U"SO serving Negroes
alone, not including tne many in
Northern cities which cater to all
races.
To the War Prisoners will go
a total of $5,888,168 for recre
ational, educational and religious
activities for the men behind
barbed-wire camps in enemy lands,
many of whom are American Ne
groes and colored colonials of al
lied nations.
To the United Seaman’s Service,
which offers health and recre
ational services to approximately
9.0U0 colored merchant seamen of
America, will go $4,744,097.
To refuge relief, which em
braces aid to those who man
aged to escape from the occupied
countries will be allotted $8,637,-
84 9. Aid to civilians in combat
zones will total $24,973,626, and
relief in occupied countries, where
ther© is assurance that, supplies
‘ will not fall into enemy hands
| will be cared for by $5,925,566.
Contingent Fund $12,807,867.
I In addition to the $125,000,000
National Fund goal, it is ex-
I pected that another $125,000,000
i will be raised by local united com
| munity campaigns for needs of
I the home front agencies for
health, welfare and recreation.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2—The 24-
day Third War Loan ended to
night, with its $15,000,000,000 goal
oversubscribed and Secretary Mor
genthau voicing his satisfaction
for a job well done.
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A Real American!
Sgt. Alton Levy is shown above
in balmier days. In taet, at the
time of the picture he was en
joying' Hie pleasant breeze of
balmy Palm Beach. Things are
not so rosy for the Sergeant any
more—he’s ’ln the guardhouse
now. Worse than that, he is sen
tenced to four months at hal’d
labor, demoted to the rank of
private, and fined SIB.OO a
month reduction in i»ay. Why?
No, he didn’t shoot a general—
no, he didn’t blow up a train—
he only defended Negro soldiersl