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Abandoned Bui

Iding On College Gan Recdaae
Defense Work Shop; Nine Divisions Are Op:

peratin::é rs

WILBERFORCE, OHIO, (SN'S)-- power was never much in appear
Behind the, Defense Industry
Building, the ~busiest spot on the
Wilberforce University campus today, lies an interesting story ~ a
story of an abandoned building
and the rehabilitation of -this building, and the part it is now playing
ih the nation~s program of Natiola!
Defense. |

For over thirty years there stood
in the center of the Wilberforce
University campus, on the corner
of two of the principal drives, a
building known as_ the Power
House. This source of a portion of
the University~s heat, light and

ance. It was built in an age when
buildings of that type were considered for their utility value, and
not their aesthetic quality.
Increased service demands necessitated the erection of a new
modern plant on the eastern edge
of the campus, and the abandonment, six years ago, of the old
building. Some were for the immediate razing of the old structure;
but certain phases of the campus
water supply were still connectec
with the old landmark. So, tlw old
building stood, becoming more and
more an eyesore as the years pass
ed. >
The ancient pile had one and
only one champion, Carl C. Jen
kins, superintendent of the Combined Norma] and Industrial Department of Wilberforce.University. He envisioned a remodeled
structure, to be used as a central
storeroom, warehouse, garage, etc
This practical use of the old plant
did not meet with the approval
of the local residents, alumni or
friends of the Institution. The consensus of opinion was for tearing
the old thing down, and the quicker the better.

Nevertheless, remodeling plans

were undertaken; and an. initial
grant of $3,500
basic repairs and enlargements to
be started. About that time, the N.
Y. A. Resident Work Experience
Center, located at Wilberforce, was
hard pressed for suitable and sufficient space to carry on its expanding program. Some _ space,
through a re-assignment of shops
in the Trades Building of the Industrial Arts Department of the
' University, had been turned over. to
the N. Y. A. The space was. not
enough. A building was needed. The
old power. house, then undegoing
remodeling for the central store
enabled certain,

room, was of<ered to the N. Y. A
Here seemed~ to be the solution of
the problem. Using the work al
ready being done on the building |

as a nucleus, and with an appropriation of $20,000 from the
State of Ohio, the old building has
been complefely remodeled and
modernized, upstairs and gown.
The original floor space has been
incre@sed from. 6,000 to 12,000 sq
ft. e building now houses offices,
storérooms, shops and classrooms
and lavatories; and has become a
modern training ~factory~ for the
Wilberforce Residence Work Experience Center.

The work of the Center is a cooperative effort of the Nationa)
Youth Administration for Chio and
the College of. Education at Wilbefore Univeisity. Here one finds
@ combination of the production
type trade training found'in other
N. Y. A. shops, plus arrangements
for related subjects training. This
is Strictly an apprentice training
program, and is separate and distinct from the Industrial Arts
Teacher Training program which
has been in operation at Wilberforce for a number of years. The
work of the Center is under the
supervision of Henry Parks Jr., the

relectric spot welding, forging and

director. James A. Byrd is shop
superintendent. The total staff of
the Center numbers thirty-five.
At present, there are nine divisions of shop instruction, namely: Machine Shop, Sheet Metal,
Automotive, Forging and Welding
(cluding gas, electric arc ano

heat treating), Radio Shop theory,
cede work and construction), Wood:
working (carpentry, pattern and
cabinet making), Airplane Me:
chanics and Buiiding. Trades
(plajstering, cement and_ bricklaying and drafting. The shops are
fully equipped with hand and ma
sass tale we tek a

perp tigate igre eo

pervisors and instructors drawn
from, industry. All of these instructors have had college training, or special courses fitting them
for the work.

Tt is interesting to note that -

these shops are actually giving the
students training on productior
work. The machine shop_ has installed all machinery ~throughoutthe building for ail the shops. It
has made and installed safety guards
for all the machinery; has made
and erected shop benches and racks
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Flint Delegation i in Attendance

FLINT, Michigan~The Shriners
convention closeq two Saturdays
ago in Buffalo, New York. One of
the most interesting condaves the
Nights have held in many years
was the one just ended there, according to reports coming from
Mr. H. York Harrison, Imperia}
Deputy Potentate.

Many helpful resolutions were
adopted and the most important
ones were sent to the President of
the United States and the Secretary
of War. They concerned the urging of.equal opportunity and
placements of Negroes in ak of
the branches of the National Defense setup, including the Army,
Navy, Air corps and industries. The
matter of bad housing in Buffalo
emong Negroes was among some
of these resolutions. It was. also
requested of the President of the
United States that some part of the
proposed 200 Defense Units be
erected for us.

These were some of the most
important matters the Honorable
Shriners took~ care of during the
session in Buffa~o. They are especially commendzble for thesé are
the things we all wish to have become a reality, and those who
push them forward deserve all of
our appreciation ang respect.

Among the other. important
things illustrious gentlemen took
part in was the laying of the new
cornerstone for the transferrance
of Honorable Frederick Douglass~
Monument from the present place

to a more beautiful and imposing
location, in the city of Syracuse,
New York. Incidentally, we might
mention that it was the?idustrious
citizens of Syracuse who declared
a holiday and paradeq thru the
streets of that city in honor of the
mighty Frederick Douglass upon
the solemn occasion of his funeral
and burial,

Those attending the Shriners
Convention from Flint were the
fo? owing: Shriners Richard Moore,
Archie Parks, Dr. J. M. Moore,
deputy of the State of Michigan;
H. York Harr~son, Imperia] Deputy
Potentate? |

The newly elected officers are
the following: Raymond E. Jackson, of Buffalo, Imperial Potentate; A. L.. McKay, Oklahoma, Imperiaf; Chief Robban; Zack Alexander, Charlotte, N. C., Deputy
Imperial Potentate; ang H. York
Harrison, Flint, Michigan Imperial Assistant Robban.

The H, Kanek Patrol, second section, was among the most colorful,
in the parade. It is saiq that the.
parade itself, was the best in ten
years.

DR. BETHUNE HURT.
AS CAR OVERTURNS
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. ~ (SNS)
~Dr. Mary McLeod Bethtne, president of Bethune-Cookman College
and National. Consultant, was painfully injured near here this week
when her automobile overturned.
She was enroute here from Daytona Beach, her home.

Ay Pll.

Fort Davis On
Way To Fort Bragg

CAMP DAVIS, N. C.~(ANP)
~Brig. Gen. Benjamin O. Davis,
only colored soldier in the history cf the army to rise to the
rank of a general officer, is

pending several days at Camp
Davis for informal inspection of
colored regiments.

The 19th Ccast Artillery Training group, under the command of
Col. R. D. Brown, staged a revie:v
for Gen. Davis, who represents
the inspector general~s department.: The 19th grcup consists of
the 99th and 119th C. A.; colored anti-aircraft regiments.

Gen. Davis~ visit will be devoted to a study of the manner in
which cclored trainees are received, assigned and trained, a3
well as general living conditions
relating to clothing, equipment,
housing welfare, morale and state
of discipline.

After leaving Camp Davis, Gen.
Davis is scheduled to go to Fort
Bragg for a similar inspection.
+The inspections are informal and
do not require any fcrmations
or interruption of ncrmal training activities, Gen. Davis pointed
out. ~

About 70 percent of all motor
vehicles are registered in the
United States, the ~e" of
Commerce says.

Dr. Walker Re-elected As
League Ends 1941 Session

Pa Si

By N. D. WILLIAMS

MEMPHIS, Tenn.~(SNS)~~We
hope that the idea of a closer relation between Negroes in educationa] work and Negroes operating
business enterprises.from peanut

to corporation managers,
will be accepted by every. communjty in the nation where Negroes reside in large numbers~, Dr. Joseph
&. Walker, president of Universal

Life Insurance: Company, and re-eleoted to start his third term as
president of the National Negro
Business League, said in expanding
the theme of the forty-first annual
Be Te of = organization.

Steering Group
To Decide Date
_Of Next Confab

gue, headed by Mrs. Fannie B.
Peck, of Detroit.

Adhering closely. to the convention theme, ~Education and Negro
Business,~ delegates from all sections of the country, representing
business institutions and organizations of all kinds, and women re-.
presenting organized housewives of
the nation, entered enthusiastically
into various panel discussions on
different aspects of the ~ subject,
and listened to speeches by outstanding personalities in the commercial, and prefssioan! fields.

The generally harmonious procedure which was the chief feature of
the 1941 League session was indicat
ed by the speedy re-election of all
national officers of the organization.
Only major change was in the position of Auditor, held for the
past three years by G. Stevens
Marchman, of Chicago. Mr. Marchman declined nomination. of his
name for re-election in favor of a
fellow Chicagoan.

Don A. Davis, of Hampton. Institute, Va., retained chairmanship of
the Executive Committee, and Dr.
Frederick D. Patterson, of Tuskegee, Alabaam, of the Steering Committee. Memphians serving on these
two committees are M. S. Stuart,
Executive Committee; and B. G.
Olive, Jr., of the Steering Committee. President Walker is ex-officio
member of all committees.

The convention adopted resolu
tions, tenor of which expressed appreciation of past and
current \ ed

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COLORED DRAFTEES MOLESTED BY LOCAL POLICE IN
ARKANSAS
FLINT, Michigan~The following
| is a copy of the original ~etter sent
his mother by cne of the Selectees now in training in our Uncle
Sam/s Preparatory Army.
Co. ~A~. 94th Engineers Army
Brigade
A. P. O. No. 307
Camp Robinson, Ark.
August 18th, 1941
Dear Mother, = (

Receiveg your letter this
P.M. about Supper time. Glad
to hear everything is O.K.
there. Last night the 33rd
Division moved thru our area
under blackout conditions.
There were no lights except
the Diackout lights which are
little blue lights that can he
seen for about one hurdred
yards. But they are useless for
lighting up the road.

The road was quite dry and
dusty. So the convoy of trucks
ang foot troups moved along
at a pretty slow rate. They be-~
gan at 8 P.M. and were stil
going by about two hours later.

The following is an eye witness account of the incident
between the 94th Engineers
and Civilians of Gordon and
Prescott (as told by the Journal Saturday, August 9th.)
We, the 94th Engineers, moved
into Camp Robinson, Ark., for
Bivouac, naturally most of the
boys went to Little Rock for a
little fun, I was too tired to
go.

The local police started to
meddle with the sodiers, and
as a result one policeman got a
beating. More policenien came
back, but. the odds were so
great they did not even styup
the cars. The policemen were
in the wrong. Early Monday
morning we moved to a point
in the woods about a hundred
miles from Little Rock at a
point between Prescott and ~

Stork Visits Head
| Of Atlanta World

rare Ge~ ~.(SNS) ~
A. Scott, general manager
a the Atlanta Daily World
and the Scott Newspaper Syndicate, and his wife, the former
Miss Ruth Perry, of Social Cir-~
cle, Georgia, became proud
parents of a baby girl early
Monday afternoon.;
The ~blessed event~ took place
at 2:45 p. m. at Dwelle~s Infirmary. Dr. C. Waymond Reeves

Arkansas ca petit

Gurdon, Boys Were given:
passes to go to Gurdon = and
- were moiested again by the ro-. lice and southern MP~s (Military Police), As a result, we
did not have a full night's rest,
Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. As whistles were blowing
us aff out at 2 pm. ete. The
officers (our army officers)
had their hands full keeping
the boys from going to town
with clubs and etc. The - only
solution they thought was to
leave the area. Which we did
Thursday morning in a steady
down pour of rain. Our new
Bivouac area is nine miles from
the spot, about one and a half
miles off tahe highway down a
dusty road. It~s full of cut,
dead trees and not as pleasing
as the area we left. I presume
it was too good for us, as it was
clean and on the higirway too.
Wail, we began hiking down
the highway in the rain. Some
of us were singing. We were
off the highway-about a couple
of feet. That~s as far as we
could. get without getting into
bog and etc. About two miles
from our destination, we were
stopped by: some Army officers

of~ an M.P.. outfit who ques-.

~ tioned our first Lieutenant as
to where we: were going, etc.
As We continued to march, it
wasn~t~ long before an Ark.
State police car and an Army
truck of M.P.~s bore down on
us and halted our column. Out
jumped a big burley plain
clothes man and demanded in ~
@ very nasty way (Quote)
~Whose in charge of these
Niggers?~ The Lieutenant
said, he was. The burley Ark
man then said. ~Well got these
~niegers' off the highway out
there in the rough and keep
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Important Notice

August 25, 1941
To Whom it may Concern:

Be it known by all that one
Miss Marlene M. Moore. is
not nor ever has been Editor
of the Flint-Brownsvil e
News; and we wish to state that

<~ ~ Be JUSTICE ww EQUALITY Fae, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY See ae 6, 1941.

{nd Annual
Grand Lodae

~Big Four~ Of
Elkdom Are
Re-elected

By TREZZVANT W. ANDERSON

ATLANTIC *CITY, J.~ (ANP)
~-The 42nd annual grafid lodge of
the I. B. P, O. E.W. is now history,
and this oceanside resort i~ slowly
pulling itself together from the
relentless bombardment given it by
the thousands of antlered herdsmen who came here from all parts
of the country and held one of the
higgest sessions, and parades in
many years.

There was little in the way of
~fireworks~ to-enliven the sessions,
for the ~Big Four~ of Negro Elkdont
were reelected bv acclamation.
They are Judge W. C. Hueston,
commissioner of education;
Edward W. Henry, grand treasurer;
Perry W. Howard, grand legal adviser, and Jimmy Kelley, secretary.
Others who hold high posts in the
Daughter Elks were also reelected:
Mrs. Elizabeth Gordon, grand
daughter ruler; Mrs. Buena V.
Kelley, secretary, and Mrs. Elizabeth Kimbrough, treasurer, of the
women~s group..

All signs point to very spirited
contests next year, however, when
some of. the high posts will go on
the block, and it is predicted that
from out of nowhere apparently, J.
Finley, himself, will have opposition for the grand exalted ruler
ship, for which election will be
held in 1942.
The reports of the treasurer

showed that. the finances were in
good shape, and from new legislation enacted, if was evident that
the Elks plan to enter into a more
vigorous civil liberties _ program
during the next few months, for
wpecial funds were set aside for this
department.

The parade was 2% feature, as
usual, and carried participants
from Boston to New Orleans, and
from the Atlantic coast to the
Pacific. Coming from the farthest-away point was Daughter Ruler
Gladys Jobnson, of Evergreen tem
ple, at Seattle,-Wash. The parade
took more time to pass a given
point than any in the last 11 years,
despite a delay of one hour and 10
minutes in getting started, due to
the delay of the grand exalted
Tuler in putting in his appearaance.
Prizes. were given units from
Charlestown, W. Va., and _ first

Se = oer

prize
ard of Baltimore.

Judge

Francine Everett, of Durham, N.

the events at

Hope Day - Hospital, two of
Harlem~s worthiest charities, ~'
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News Photo)

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At Horse Show

*Twas a great day for the horses:
and the photographers at the Harlem
horse show last week-end. Here Miss

is shown in riding habit as she watches
Speedway Gardens.
First of its kind ever held in New
York, the event was for the benefi*
of the New York Urban League an?

Cc.

Fails To Procure
Shells For Duel;
Man Fatally Shot

GAFFNEY, S. C~(ANP) ~
George Brown, 54, was fatally
shot at a result cf a shotgun
duel with Sam Lee Dunn, 18, in
Wilkinsville community here
Sunday, Investigating police
brought to light the fact that it
was a one-sided duel, as Brown~s
shotgun had never been loaded.

The two farm hands had made
a promise to meet each other in
a past rudbuenae cmf
a pasture and shcot it out, as a
result of a fight early in the afternoon. After telling Brown to
get his gun and they would fight
it out, Dunn procured his shotgun, despite his parents entreaties
and struck out for Brown~s home.

In the meantime, Brown had
secured his gun, -

the two began their battle. Sam
fired cne with his single barreled
shotgun, from a distance cf 100
feet.
Brown from, his face to his
knees. One pellet pierced his
jugular vein and he died within
a half hour.._.
> On order cf a coroner~s jury,

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