The Oklahoma Eagle (Tulsa, Okla.), Vol. 38, No. 43, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 3, 1943 Page: 2 of 8
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zine and newspaper articles, cor-
respondence relating to students,
records of the sources of its sup-
port from various funds and indi-
vidual donations, correspondence of
the Trustees, and the Principal's in-
formation on Booker* T. Washing-
ton s career, including records of
many lecture engagements, his ma-
gazine articles and addresses, and
materials concerning ins oeatn ana
the election of h'S successor as Prin-
cipal. From the stuoy ot iris papers
American historians will find fur-
ther bases lor the tribute which
Henry Watterso wrote to the Tus-
kegee Trustees when word reached
him of Dr. Washington's death: ‘‘No
man, since the war of sections, has
exercised such beneficent influence
and done such real good for the
country — especially to the south”.
In order to avoid an interruption
to the work of scholars now con-
ducting research in the colection at
Tuskegee, the papers will not be
transferred to the Library of Con-
gress until this fall.
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This Includes the Complete Stock of Norik’s
General Rtdse. we just ReceivedFrom Newellton, La.
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duct stands today.
Front the plaster sketch and
with the aid of other members of
the project, Crump used about 1,500
His position as! pounds of clay in making the mold. I
■ Two weeks later, just a month and I
a half alter the Community Club
had made the assignment, the sta- I
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2nd Li ut. Lt .iis R. Purnell, W.
Weaker St., Germantown. Pa.
2i d L'i’.it. Samuel M. Bruce. 319
121h Ax«r-.n ■. Seattle. Washington
2ivi Lieut. James L. McCullin.
.e.'Ci rririum Avenue, St. Louis, Mo.
2nd Lieut. George R. Rolling,
24 Cummin's Ave.. Phoebus. Va.
2nd Lieut. Walter I. Lawson,
Newton, Va.
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Negro and while heroes of world war two in*-Staten Island hospital, covalesce happily
free from Army jun crow.
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flight under i uns of enemy air- ; a
•rat. He brow; . is ship back safe- ! has
ly. ! ly all its personned, commissioned
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trained at Great Lakes to date were
found qualified for advanced train-
ing. The remainder were assigned
to stations for which they were best
fitted immediately upon completing
their basic training.
Trades and'services offered the
Negro Bluejackets here include the
schools for aviation machinist's
mates, aviation metalsmiths, quar-
termasters, signalmen, yeomen, store
keepers, radiomen, gunner's mates,
cooks and bakers. A second school
for Negroes at Hampton Institute,
Hampton, Va., where courses are of-
fered for carpenter’s mates, machni-
ist’s mates, metalsmiths, cooks and
bakers, and in the sutdy of diesel
engines.
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A seven-ton statue created by
a Negro bluejacket now in train-
ing at the U. S. Nav.-l Training Sta-
tion, Great Lake . 111., will be a
MUST for tourists visiting the great
Me.-abi Range in Minnesota this
summer.
( The sculptor of this massive
i work of Leonida Merrit, the man
1 credited with the discovery of Min-
nesota’s wealth of red-gold iron ore,
is Robert Crump II, 33, of 620 St.
I Anthony Ave., St. Paul, Minn. A
It includes rn esti-1 seaman, second class, he has com-
pleted his recruit training and is
awaiting assignment to the Navy’s
Service School for quartermasters.
Crump was a member of the
WPA art project in St. Paul when
he w is given the assignment to do
the Merritt statue two years ago.
As his first step he read Paul De
Kruif's "Seven Iron Men," the sto-
ry of Merritt and his six brothers,
then, using the book’s illustrations
Capt. Lctneul R. Curtis, 67 P.i-
ncy St. Hartford. Conn.
ist Lieut. Herbcr E. Carter, Am-
ory. Miss.
1st Lieut. Erwin B. Lawretie.',
2068 East 90th St.. Cleveland, O
1st Lieut. Herbert V. Clark, 8b
East 67 St.. Pine Bluff, Ark.
1st Lieut. Allen Giane. 205 Citer
ry St Demopolis. Ala.
1st Lieut. James T. Wiley, 705
Woods Run Ave., Pittsbur gh. Pa.
1st Litt. Clarence C. Jamison,
2252 East 85th St.. Cleveland. Ohio.
,1st Lieut. Sidney P. Brooks,
3709 East 142nd St.. Cleveland, O.
I t Lieut. Chas. B. Hall, b 34
Hendrix St.. Brazil, Indiana
1st. Lieut. William A. Campbell.
Tuskegee. Alabama.
1st LIEVIT. JAMES B. KNIGHTEN
1130 N. Greenwood , ’’Tits.'i, Okla.
2nd Lieut. Wiilie II. Fuller, Tar-
boro .North Carolina I
2nd Lieut. Grahan Smith, Ahos- ris. 19 N. Ken >sha; Frank Brown.
kie. N. C 216 N. Frankfort: Jess White. 2126
2nd Lieut. Paul G. M,‘. '' II. 908 i E. 26th St. and Eddie C. Tyes, 21G
I Howard Road. S. E„ Washington. 1 N. Frankfort.
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tuc was completed. Composed of
cast stone, a combination of granite
chips and cement, the work is 10
feet, 2 inches in height and is set
on a four-foot pedestal.
Unveiled as a climax to a three-
day celebration of the golden an-
niversary of the discovery of iron
ore on the Range, the monumental
work show's a squat, barrel-shaped
man, clad in the rough garb of a
timber esuiser. Strapped on his
back is a pack. In his right hand
is a miner’s hammer, in his left a
piece of ore.
Born in York, North Dakota,
Crump moved to Washington, la., in
1923, where after completing two
years of high school, he spent a
year doing cartodns for the Wash-
ington Evening Journal. He then
moved to St. Paul where he work-
ed at various jobs and in 1935 be-
came a member of the WPA pro-
ject, working mostly with oils.
Soon after he tried his hand .
modeling in clay, fashioning a/1^
sortment of figures from the "Mj
terbury Tales", which were dist^^
uted to schools and libraries. lie
tnoted on to sculpture, doing sev-
eral busts for the University of
Minnesota, the Duluth Children's
Theatre and other institutions. His
busts of Booker T. Washington and
Hallie Q. Brown are placed in Twin
City Negro settlement houses. The
St. Paul YWCA has his painting
of James Weldon Johnson.
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gro irt politics during the thirty-
year period from 18^5 to 1915.
The papers also contain impor-
tant information on the Washington
family and the work of its various
members in organizing and develop-
ing Tuskegee Institute from its hum '
ble beginning in 1881 “in a dilapi- |
dated shanty near the colored Me- |
thodist Church, with the church it- I
self a sort of assembly room” to
the .great educational institution it
has become. At the time of Wash-
ington's death 34 years later, it
had more than a hundred substan-
tial buildings, owned 2 900 acres of
local land, had received from Con-
gress 25.000 acres in northern Ala-
bama. had an endowment of near-
ly $2,000,000 with an annual budget |
of $290,000, taught 38 trades and '
professions and had 1537 students
and 197 faculty members, all Ne-
groes.
The collection includes source
material on the history of the I
school, such as slippings of mnga-
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• ;hti d hr i ".ny fight-
fortnal'an ant warned
t as the FV's dived to Quarry Ave., Fairmont, W. Va.
attack.
"They attacked in formation of
four,” said Lieut. Dryden, "and we
counted twelve comttg down on us.
Another ten stayed above as high
cover for the enemy bombers. We
turned into them and they made
diving attacks on us individually.
When they started back up we went
wit hhtem and they began a wide
circle, with us alter them. Thi n
they bloke oil and climbed above
us ted stayed there waiting lor an-
other chance to dive on us. V/e
stayed around until the controler
ordered us home”.
2nd Lieut. Willie Ashley, Jr., of
212 West Bartlett St., Sumter, S. C„
said his gas needle pointed to emp-
ty when lie finally landed. The oth-
er planes were all low on gas also.
Lieut. Rayford said his plane was
hit while he was firing on two FW
190’s. "While 1 was after the two",
he said, “a third one got on my tail.
Iluit’s the first time I’ve ever been
-hot at.”
The Americans were too busy to
get a close look at the bombers al-
though Lieut. Dryden fired one
fleeting burst at them. They were
unable to state whether the bom-
bers had reached their objectives
but. Lieut. Rayford said he saw at
least four bombs strike the water
without doing any damage. Be-
sides Lieutenants Dryden, Rayford.
Ashley and Brooks, pilots participat-
ing in the engagement were Second
Lieutenant Spann Watson of 122 J
St., Hackensack. New Jersey ano
Second Lieutenant Leon C. Roberts
of Murphy and McGee Street, Pri-
chard, Alabama,
An advantage that the squadron
....s over many others is that near-
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Lieut. Col. B. O. Davis. Jr., Com- and enlisted, has worked together
manding Officer of the squadron ' since the outfit was formed in 1941
said, "It was the first time any of I ti10 pilots are einhusiastic in
them ever shot at the enemy They I their praise of their P-40's, said
haye a good account of themseves ’ Lt. Dryden. "I can honestly ay I'J
rather fly the Warhawk than any
other ship I know of," he added.
Most of the pilots arc V'llege-
tmined, while a great many of the
enlisted ground crew have had ci-
vilian training in flying and aircraft
mechanics. The knowledge thu
gi'ined has in most cases been pol-
ished at air corps technical school,
in the United Stetes.
In addition to those niintwncd
above, the following are the pilots
In calling attention to its edi-
I torial of April 13, and referring to
1 ttie arrest of the "six flashily-dress-
1 | cd Negroes,” the paper said: "While
B these boys apparently are not
pjj charged with rape, if permitted to
B I pursue their career of crime it is
£S only a question of time until this
B outrage would be added to their
B other offenses. The citizens of Nas-
S salt County are not safe with these
lid men at large.
’The public has been unwar-
jidj rantedly apathetic toward the wave
Eg of muggings, robberies and attacks
on women and young girls which is
n sweeping the metropolitan area.
B These crimes are not restrict to Har-
as lem and the worst sections of Great-
B er New York. There have been
jS any instances of them in Nassau
Eg County. Mass attacks on girls have
B occurred in several Nassau villages,
but have not been publicized be-
cause the police believe publicity
would make it harder to apprehend
the criminals.”
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said, “It was the first time any of I
them ever shot at the enemy They | their praise of their P-40's.
considering the odds against them,
rrn>st important, they all came back
safely.”
Lieutenant Dryden who left Ci-
’s. New York, where he
ngineerinf student, to be-
ilot. . . . hr thought the
1 I .ivi the flyers the con-
iMteded. the confidence
•>t be gained by mere
Is utenaui Sidney P.
. 009 East .' Street. Cleve- of the first squadron ol its kusi
to see action:
Captain George S. Roberts. 317
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Tolerance Cards
In Gary Buses
New York — June 18 — Last
Tuesday the 120 buses and street
cars in Gary, northern Indiana steel
city, began carrying the first of
the colorful Tolerance Cards which
the Association for Tolerance in
America, 270 Convent Avenue, this
city, is using to "sell” the Negro to
the masses of white people. The
card, executed by Elton C. Fax,
prominent Brooklyn Negro artist,
is in red and black, size 11 by
28 inches, and shows the large hel-
meted head of a coloied American
soidier. The simple text reads, 500,
000 of These Lads Are Fighting for
You . . Let Them and Theirs Share
in Our Democracy". They will ap-
pear for 90 days.
S Dr. L. A. Sewall’s J
•: Office |
JCloscd Each Friday?
Donald G. Bradfield, 19, 1333 S.
Norfolk avenue, was adjudged in-
sane in county court this week and
was ordered committed to the Vini-
ta asylum. The youth had been
charged in common pleas court with
pointing a deadly weapon at Miss
Marie Clair. 33, and ordering her
"to come with me”.
| School Opened
A new Navy Service School for
Negroes was officially opened with
impressive dedication ceremonies at
the U. S. Naval Training Station,
Great Lakes, 111.
Before 1.000 Negro Blejackets,
standing at "Parade Rest” in the
wing ol the structure which will
house the school for machinist’s
mate?. Captain R. R. M. Emmet,
commanding officer of the Train-
ing Station, turned over to the com-
mand of the new school to Captain
H. R. Harris. Service School officer.
Capt Emmet , told his listeners,
500 Service School students, 300 se-
lectees who will begin classes soon,
and 200 men still in recruit training:
"The dedication of this new school
is like the commissioning of a new
qhip. This building is an engine of
destruction which will help to de-
feat our enemies and you men make
up its crew.”
In accepting command. Captain
Harris said: *
“This is a war of highly-train-
ed specialists. You men who train
here today will be the fighting men
of tomorrow. You alone will deter-
mine this building's value. Although
officially this ceremony is being held
to dedicate the school building, in
reality we dedicate ourselves to this
building.”
Taking part in the program in
addition to Captains Emmet and
Harris’ were Cmdr. D. W. Armstrong
—assistant rccrit trtaining officer
in charge of Ni gro training—A. L.
Olson, head of Service School class-
es for Negroes, and the Negro regi-
mental band.
.Located a block north of the
main entrance to Camp Robert
Smalls, parent camp of the two now
devoted to the training of Negroes,
Hhe new building is a two-story
fram structure covered with as-
bestos shingle siding and shaped
like an "L". One wing is 240 feet
> by 60 feet and houses 24 classrooms
t- .‘f’j and 4 group offices. The other wing
<the base of the L >is 60 feet bv
128 feet, ur.partitioned and with a
; garage-type roof. The latter will
. '-'j be home of the machinist’s mates
school.
5 ■-> Bluejackets are selected for Ser
vice Schools through a series of ap-
I titude tests and a persona! interview
given to each tailor during his pe-
IH i nod in recruit training. Between
1 one-fourth and one-third of Negroes
The outstanding collection of the
papers of Booker T. Washington at
the Tuskegee Institute has been pre-
sented in its entirety to the Library
of Congress by unanimous vote of
the Trustees of the Institute, accord-
ing to information recntly received
by Archibald MacLeish, the Libra-
rian of Congress, from Dr. F. D.
Patterson, President of Tuskegee In-
stitute. A particular significance
attaches to this gift to the nation
because it comes at a time when
the enemies of America wage war
on peoples as well as governments,
and because it is a reaffirmation of
the faith of this great leader in a
unity of national purpose and a
I common destiny of freedom. The
collection is generally regarded by
scholars as perhaps the richest
and most important on the history
of the Negro. I.
mated 180.000 pieces, and will form
one of the largest manuscript col-
lections in the Library. In making
the gift. President Patterson said:
"I shall be pleased to have ton re-
i cord our sense of real appreciation
to the Library of Confress for its
services in perpetuating for postcity
'the valuable Booker T. Washington
materials”.
Booker T. Washington, the first
Principal of Tuskegee Institute, not!as a S'aidc, made his original small
only won international fame as an sketch model in plaster,
educational leader, but he also
achieved the stature of genius. Aslmunity club of the lown u[ Moun-
Dr. Frank 1’. Graham, President of
the University of North Carolina,
has said of him: “Wher.- others hat-
ed, he sympathized: where otte r
argued, he understood: where other-,
forced, he taught.” 1
a leader of his race placed him in
contact with many political, indus-
trial and financial leaders, and he
was in great demand throughout
the country as a speaker. His pa-
pers include correspondence with
Theodore Roosevet. F.lihu Root, Wil-
liam Howard Taft and many other
men of historical importance. When
it has been classified and indexed by
the Library of Congress, the co!-1
lection is expected to shed much1
ft
both at Garden City aud along the
Sand Springs line — be could not
aib d io Oldster his machine once
•onsiheted the strongest tn tne
•ounty until the floods virtually
washed it away. . •
Gray and Greer announced they
would let Kinkaid have t ie remain-
der of his patronage, but only when
the chips are counted Tuesday will
thb publie know whether they mean
it.
Members of Gray and Greer's
own pat ty have declared themselves
against such practices, especially
since a bard election i forecast next
year.
Here is a list of what is listed as
Morley’s patronage:
Geerge O. Straughn, county cst-
gtewer; Ira D. Pilcher, chief clerk;
II. S. Moreland, office engineer;
T. C. Hughes, assistant office en-
ginear; Guy IlallaJid, chainman;
Gnptgc Walkley, janitor; Nancy
Quillman, janitor; Opal Limee-
ford, PBX operator; Winifred
Borton, social worker, Dorothy Ay-
Nng, stenographer;, Walter Cook,
janitor; Mrs. Nelson Taylor, in-
take; Nona Eduards, laundress
county farm; Willa Ward, investi-
gator municipal hospital; Dr. E.
P. Nesbitt, assistant county phy-
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Because, according to "THE
LONG ISUAND REVIEW-STAR,
"six llashily-aressed Negroes have
been arrested in Hempstead and are
reported by the police to have con-
ivssed gum in a series of 'mugging
attacks' and petty robberies in that
village," 1'llE REVIEW-STAR has
in an editorial — openy declared
ioi lynching in New York state as
a deterrani to crime.
Reprinting its own editorial of
Tuesday, April 13, in which lynch-
ing is openly advocated, the news-
paper declared "It is customary m
ihe Norm to think of lynch law in
the South as a horrible thing, but it
i ii.is had the one extenuating bene-
! fit of making the South the safest
place in the world lor white women,
even in areas where there is a pre- 1
ponderance of men of another race." | the Library of
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