Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-09-21


worked on the street corners and raised
$4,000.
It is said that merchant marine train
ing ship for Negroes is to be established at
San Francisco.
A colored civic league in New Iberia, La,
raised $5,3O5 by the sale of War Savings
Stamps among 2709 persons.
The Y. w. G. A. is erecting Hostess
Houses for colored troops at Camp Jackson,
South Carolina, and at Camp Gordan, Ga.
John H. Downey, a colored man Of Ports
mouth, N. H., has been accepted in the Ma
val Reserve and rated as second class ma
chinist. He has been assigned to duty at
the Naval Hospital
A program has bene worked out involving
the expenditure of $450O00 for the colored
troops at Newport News, Va.
The correspondent Of the United Press
writes: American Negro troops proved their
value as fighters in line east of Verdun on
June IL, it is now permissible to state The
Germans attempted raid in that sector but
were completely repulsed by the Negroes.
The Boches began terrific bombardment at
one minute after midnight Throwing over
between 5000 and 1000 shells from guns
ranging in size from 81 to $40 millimeters)
The bombardment was concentrated on
small areas. Many of the shells made holes
from ten to fifteen feet across.
In the midst of this inferno the Negroes
coolly stuck to their posts, operating ma
chine guns and automatic rifles and keeping
up such steady barrage that the German
infantry failed to penetrate the american
lines. The Americans miraculously sustain
ed only two wounded.
co. ie duck was a-working," explained
one. eve all got knocked down lots o
h11t rot 1rhf
Private Henry Gaillard, of New York
City, under shell fire. took his automatic
rifle from it's place of concealment, placed
it on the parapet and met the attacking
Boches with a rain Of bullets.
John Ward, Negro of Goldsboro, S. c.,
has thirteen of his eighteen sons in the
Ninth and Tenth United States Cavalry and
seventeen daughters doing war work.
G. w. Rice young colored volunteer Of
Austin, Texas, during the last six months
has held among colored people seventeen
one-day Institutes, organized sixteen new in
stitutes with a total membership Of 784, and
delivered fifty-nine additional addresses to
an aggregate attendance of 1891, under
Agriculture.
In Memphis, Ten, Negroes pledged $174,-
1923 in Thrift Stamps the colored city of
Mound Bayou, Miss, subscribed $1,105 in
War Savings Stamps.
A club for colored soldiers and sailors
with accommodation for 200 has been op-
ened in Baltimore, Nd; recreation club
for colored soldiers and sailors has been
opened in New York City at the Music
School Settlement for Colored People.
Industry Colored women elevator opera
tors are being used in the Railway Exch-
ange Building, st. Louis, Mo-, and some de-
partment stores in this city are employing
colored saleswomen
Colored mattresses have been installed in
Baltimore Nd, at the Baltimore, Merchants
University and Maryland Clubs.
One thousand colored women in the vicin-
ity of Birmingham, Ala. are engaged in
manual labor formerly done by men.
The Midvale Steel Works, Philadelphia,
Pa, employs ffty-six colored women in their
ammunition works. Colored men are work
ing day and night, making from $48 to $50
per week, including overtime.
TWENTY-FIVE cO]Ored women are being en-