The Informer and Texas Freeman (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 46, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 3, 1942 Page: 2 of 20
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THE INFORMER. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 3,1942
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WASHINGTON.- (ANP)—Reaf-
firming the President’s recent
promise that the Fair Employment
Practice committee, transferred to
the War Manpower commission,
would be free of investigation and
have a substantial increase in per-
sonnel. Commission Chairman Paul
V. McNutt last week stated:
•‘Although the details of the or-
vanization have not as yet been
; worked out, the supervisory con-
I trol exercised by my office will
naturally be limited to the major
questions of organization and pro-
cedure which have to do with the
coordination of work of the com-
mittee with other units of the
WMC.
“There is no intention to exer-
cise a detailed supervision or con-
trol over any particular investiga-
tions which the committee may
make into complaints submitted to
it."
99th May
Take New
Post Soon
TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE.
— (ANP)—The men of the
99th Pursuit squadron are
champing at the bit. The first
unit, feeling rather confident
of their flying ability, having
passed their firing tests, but
realizing that far wider ex-
perience awaits them before
they are actually able to enter
aerial battle, are anxious to be on
the move.
May Leave Soon
Rumors indicate that the group
will be leaving the local air field
where they received their training
and won their wings, within a very
short time. No announcement re-
garding where they will go or the
exact time they will leave has been
revealed, neither has the exact per-
sonnel been made known.
There is a general understanding
however that Lt. Col. Benjamin O.
Davis will be the leader of the
squadron when it moves on from
Tuskegee field toward the fields of
action. The 100th squadron will
move into the 99th‘s berth as soon
as it is vacant.
Battalion Named For Him
Dorie Miller, Texas' own hero at Pearl Harber, was honored here last
week when a large battalion of Seabees recruited from the Houston area
was named for the Waco sailor.
All Set For Long Ride East
Dorie Miller Battalion
This is the contingent of seabees Houston last Friday to the S.P. oversea.
that form the Doric Miller battalion, station, where they entrained for —(Courtesy Houston Chronicle
They paraded down the streets of training before taking up duties
1,200 Students Study War
Time Course At Howard U.
Leaders Map
Plan For War
Chest Drive
Fifty leaders, men and women.
1 of church and lay life of the city
met Monday evening in the annex
of St. John’s Baptist church on
Dowling to consider definite plans
for launching the Negro division of
the Houston War Cheat Monday,
October 5th.
With each minister serving as
chairman of his congregation and
church community the drive offi-
cials will look to each pastor to see
to it that every member of his
church is solicited.
A large central committee will
solicit clubs, fraternities, firms and
special individuals.
The attendants of the meeting
were of the opinion that gifts from
Negroes must be larger this year
than ever before because of the
many war appeals being underwrit-
ten by the chest.
Rev. S. A. Pleasant, Jr., is gen-
eral chairman and W. C. Craver,
executive secretary of the Colored
Branch YWCA, is director.
All pastors of Houston churches
of whatever denomination and all
members of the central committee
are requested to meet again in
special session at St. John’s on
Dowling Friday evening at 5 o’-
clock.
L. H. Spivey, Jr., director of the
Dowling Street USO, Houston, who
left this week to attend the West
Coast Conference of USO workers
to be held in Santa Crus, California.
The center has been of much serv-
ice to soldier* stationed at Camp
Wallace and Ellington Field as well
as traveling sailors and soldiers. He
is *" a son of Mr. and Mrs. L. H.
Spivey, Sr.
USO Man To
Attend Meet
In California
HOUSTON— L. H. Spivey, Jr.,
Dowling Street USO director, left
Thursday to attend the West Coast
conference of USO workers to be
held in Santa Cruz, Cal., Oct. 5-8.
Some 300 USO workers, Negro and
white, will attend the conference,
YMCA officials in charge of the
conference stated.
in representing the Houston USO,
Mr. Spivey is representing one of
the finest units in the Southwest.
The Houston center costing $10,000,
‘ was opened to the public and mem-
bers of the armed forces in June,
1942. Spivey was called back from
New York City to become direc-
tor of the unit.
Served Army, Navy
Since its opening the USO cen-
ter has served more than 2,000
members of the army and navy.
Rated highly by USO officials, the
Dowling Street USO is well equip-
ped to be of service to men in ser-
vice, There arc 30 beds, a reading
and lounging room, a game room,
a radio and piano, and facilities
for dancing and entertaining.
To some 200 girls who have form-
ed themselves into a GSO club,
goes credit for their unselfish at-
tendance at affairs given for the
boys. 'Chaperons are furnished by
the older women. Dances at the
center are given each Saturday
night and at least once a month
a large dance is given at Emanci-
pation Park. Vesper services are
held in the USO center every Sun-
day with some local minister in
charge. $ C.
Director Spivey, the son or
Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Spivey, Sr.,
was born and schooled in Hous-
ton, attended Bishop College,
Harvard University and gradu-
ated from New York University
in business administration.
He obtained practical experience
in social work by serving with the
New York Department of Welfare
as a social worker for more than
eight years.
He is married to the former Miss
Ella Harrell of New York, who is
now librarian at Houston College.
They are the parents of a boy and
a girl.
Other members of the staff in-
clude Mrs. Theo, Harris, Mrs. Rosa
L. Ryan, Kennison Glord, and Ed
Williams.
A group of the 300 Houston and Harris County Seabees who entrain-
ed for training in the navy are shown comfortably seated and ready to
“pull out." They traveled first class with meals served on dining car and
comfortable rest in lowers and uppers at night.
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The crack 65-piece Prairie View serenaded the men at the station chore Aweigh" for the men on the
State College band led the parade of before the train departed. They are train.
300 Negro volunteer Seabees and shown here as they played “An-
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At Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, 6.000
Boy Scouts recently were admitted
to a Dodgers ball game on the
strength of six tons of scrap they
brought along.
Washington, D. C. — The en-
gineering, science and manage-
ment defense training program at
Howard University, under the
sponsorship of the U. S. Office of
Education, has enrolled more than
1200 students in seventeen dif-
ferent engineering course as - a
part ol the National War Pro-
gram. Thirty-seven instructors,
including members of the regular
university faculty and govern-
ment experts, have been employed
to accomplish the work of the
program.
New Courses
New courses, including qualita-
tive chemistry, quantitative chem-
istry, electrical circuits and ma-
chinery, electric power machinery
and equipment, physics for ad-
vanced students and teachers,
mathematics for teachers, photo-
grametry, metallurgy, and geo-
detic computer are being planned
for offering in the near future.
The school of engineering and
architecture is also expanding its
regular degree course programs
in civil engineering, electrical en-
gineeting, mechanical engineering
and architecture
The program prepares high
school and college graduates,
men and women, for critical oc-
cupations.
The school will operate on an
accelerated program basis for the
period of the duration. Beginning
with the fall term, September 30,
the quarter system plan will be
used for the regular degree
courses.
U. S. Government loans, and a
limited number of university
scholarships will be available to
needy students who have high
scholastic records.
83,000 Engineers Needed
According to government re-
ports, more than 83,000 engineers
will be needed by the end of 1943.
Engineering Schools are expect-
ing to graduate approximately
16,000 students in 1943, or about
one-fifth the number needed for
the critical occupations of Civil,
Electrical and Mechanical Engin-
eering.
Negroes who have qualified for
work in these occupations are be-
ing employed by the Aircraft
plants, Army bases, U. S. Civil
Service and War industries.
All Howard University grad-
uates of the School of Engineer-
ing and Architecture are em-
ployed.
Students interested in defense
courses or engineering and archi-
tecture are urged to contact L. K.
Downing, dean of the school of
architecture and engineering, at
Howard University, Washington,
D. C., immediately.
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