LAUNCH SS JOHN MERRICK, FOURTH LIBERTY SHIP NAMED FOR NEGRO The SS. John Merrick, fourth Liberty Ship to be named for an outstanding American Negro, was launched Sunday afternoon, July 11. at the North Carolina Ship building Company of Wilmington, N.C. The vessel was spoosired by Mrs. Martha Merrick Donnell ,of Dur ham. daughter of John Merrick, whi was one of- the founders of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, one of the i countries largest Negri financial inst unions. The MERRICK is the first Liberty ship built in North Carolina to be named for a Negro. Mrs. Donnel’s attendants were: Mrs oMrtha Williams Wheel er, of Durham, matron of honor: Mrs. Hazel Scott of Washington, D, C., matron of ohnor, and the wives of four shipyard employees. James Gordon, Jerry McGhee, Charles Sparrow and George Judge, all of Wilmington. Orchard & Wilhelm Co. 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The company now has assets of iver six million dollars and insurance in force of more than fifty million dollars. i ■ The launching was preceded bv a meeting at the Central Baptist Church devoted to discussions of national defense and post war se curity. Both the Governor and Dr. Spaulding spoke at the church meeting, along with Mayor B. B., Cameron of Wilmington. At this meeting Dr. Spaulding pleaded for racial harmony and urged Negroes to invest in war bonds. The all-Negro 35 piece band from the U.S. Navy Preflight I RABE S j * Buffet 1 for Popular Brands * of BEER and LIQUORS 2229 Lake Street | % —Always a place to park— SERVING GOD AND COUNTRY Fort Desmoines, la., Flanked^ by their Country’s Flag, three mem bers of the Women’s Army Corps 'iiiiimiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiii School at the University of North Carolina furnished music for the launching. The North Carolina Shipbuilding Company was one of the yards cit ed recently by the Special Comm ittee Investigating the National Defense Program, headed by Sen ator Harry S. Truman, as the most efficient producers of Dlberty Ships and Naval vessels. At this yard, 5,300 Negroes are employed as machine operators, blacksmiths, painters, dismantlers, stage build ers, riggers .bolters, drillers, slab benders, erectors, riveters and oth er skilled and semi-skilled capac ities. Negoes constitute 29.8 per cent of all employees in the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company s Wilmington yard. ^ raised their voices in sacred song at one of the Post Chapels at First WAC Traiinng Center, Fort Desmoines, Iowa. (PPS. Inc.) FEDERAL WORKER SPEAKS OX CIVIL SERVICE Jefferson City, Mo.—Mr. Th >m is Roberts, assistant to the Dir > j* ir of Personnel in th Agriculture, addressed the Lin V.n University summer school oonv > cation audience Thursday, July 15, on “The Opportunities in Federal Civil Service”. Mr. Roberts admitted that the Civil Service Commission has been forced by wartime labor shortages to modify certain of its require ments. but adivsed against emerg ency lowering of standards by the training schools. Pointing to the increase of Ne gro workers in Federal Civil Ser vice, Mr. Roberts stated a 275 per cent increase in the absolute num ■ » ^ » — m The Photo Queen Committee,9 composed of Servicemen who as sembled last week at the Service men’s Center in Chicago, unani mously eslected the Gibson sisters queens of the week. Ruthe, left, and Lessr^e resi|fle wfith their parents at 4124 South Parkway, Chicago. Both girls are papular* in Chicago’s Junior Socialites, and they are select sales ladies at the Jones Brother Ben Frankiln Store. bers and a 110 percent rise in grade classification during the Present war as compared to employment figures for World War No. 1. oRberts conceded that Negroes still have ‘‘a tough .competitive job” ahead, but waged a program of work preparation and a breaking away from job forms as a means of making further gains in civil service. IF YOU LIKE GOOD READIN’, SUBSCRIBE FOR.,.. THE OMAHA GUIDE l ■gaa in t C /) w» ' *• ' . ca Twen' cv pc d tubbv * U 1, Di» j a 1 toe' .atei » d& oncec jmmm.UNIC^ Of ** *« *. . , i '• *. *'>i* Tonight when you come Home From your job, another day passes—an other opportunity to build greater security and happiness for your family. That’s what this declara tion really means. 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No believer in American Free Enterprise, no business or professional man opposed to gov ernment in business, can afford to sit idly by when any business or industry is endangered. No man’s business or profession is safe, nor exempt, from this program of socialization. Every man with a job should be on guard. Today the “politicians - in - business” program touches the electric business. Tomorrow it may be the food business or the medical profes sion or any other. Who knows who is next? f I NEBRASKA POWER COMPANY Help Hasten Victory ★ Buy MORE War Bondst Bishop Gregg Leaves for Pacific War Area Bishop John A. Gregg of Kansas City, Kansas, Bishop of the Fourth Episcopal District of the African Methodist Epis-Vpal Church, has left for the Pacific War fronts to visit Negro troops of the United States Army, the War Department announces. 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