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.
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Governor J_ Melville Broughton
of North Carolina and C. C Spauld
ing, president of thie North Caro
lina Mutual Life Insurance tom
pony, were the principal speakers
at the launching. Dr. Spaulding
declared that the launching was
■‘one of the hig^iligts of my life”
and laundcd the accomplishments
of his former co-worker in the in
surance firm. Mr Merrcik, a
bricklayer, started the insurance
company in 1898 along with the
late Dr. A. M. Moore and Mr.
Spaulding. The company now has
assets of iver six million dollars
and insurance in force of more
than fifty million dollars.
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■ 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
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Fort Desmoines, la., Flanked^ by
their Country’s Flag, three mem
bers of the Women’s Army Corps
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
Bishop Gregg's request for auth
orization of the trip was made to
the President, who referred it to
the War Department, noting his
approval provided the necessary
arrangements could be made
Bishop Gregg is accompanied by
Chaplain (Major) John A. DeVeaux,
also of the AME. church, the Ar
my’s senior Negro caplain, whose
i regular assignment is with the (fid
Infantry Division. Before leaving
for overseas. Bishop Gregg address
ed 2,000 Negro troops in one West
Coast art a.
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overseas with a message for'fight
ing men on various fronts. Bishop
Gregg was later invited by the Fra
ternal Council of Negro Churches
to be its representative.
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