Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-07-19

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! did not hear anyone else In the
room.
"He took me 10 the Veterans
Hospital In Columbia, s. G. When
! got there, the doctor was not In
Mt the time, so he laid me on a
bench. A nurse took my name and
asked me where I was from and
everything. so ! told her was from
Winnsboro, 8. G.
THE doctor came In and he queG-
toned the policeman and asked him
what was the matter. The police
man told him that | was raising
q disturbance on the bus and drunk. |
The doctor asked the policeman
was I drunk then, and he said no. |
So the doctor had an attendant
carry me In q room, and the at |
tsndant undressed me and put me
10 bed.
About or 10 minutes after
was In bed, the nurse came around
and started giving me shots In my
arm,
zone Of the contact men came
around one day and said 70 me they
we're going 70 take out a pension
for me. ] believe that the doctor
who cared for me was named DIR.
Clarence. | told him what had hap
pened 10 me. He made no comment,
but told me should join u blind
school.
II stayed In the hospital for two
mOnths--l went In on the 18th Of
February and came out on the 18th !
Of April. My sisters came down TO |
see me, and since they discharged |
me while they were down there, |
they brought ms back up 10 New
York 10 my fathers home In the
Bronx, where I am still staying"
Walter white, executive secFe-
taTy Of the NAACP, who as a
war correspondent and special
observer for the War Depart
ment visited Negro troop In both
the European and Pacific theaters
during World War II, stated:
For sheer bestiAlity and fascist
terror the terrible story told by
young Woodland In without paral-
lei In all my experience. This
man served his country for four
years, fifteen months Of that time
In the South Pacific where he
managed 10 live through and &C.
cept all Of the horrors Of Jungle
warfare only To return 20 what
he had been told was q grateful
nation. Here In the homeland
he'd fought for and protected he
was given q taste Of that graft
tude by southern policemen who
MANNED him for life"
DT. Chester W. Chinn, we'll
known eye specialist who exam
ined WOOdaTd'a eyes at the re-
quest Of the NAACP, declared
that there was absolutely moth.
Ing that medical science could do
for the vet. The boys eyes are
completely hopeless" stated DIR.
Chinn.
The War Department. which
was asked 10 conduct an inyesti-
CATION into WOOdaTd's case by the
NAACP In May, has had nothing
to say In the case.
MARY THOMAS DIES
Mrs, Mary Thomas, formerly Of !
81 W. Jessamine, st. Paul, died |
Monday morning, July Is. ut the |
uptegroye Rest Home, at the age |
Of 80 years, She was born in Vicks- |
burg, Mich, April ~, 1854, and |
had resided IN the community for
the past 90 years.
Funeral services were held Wed |
nesday, July II. 2 p. m, at Brooks |
Chapel. lnterment was at Oakland |
cemetery Rev. u. N. Moore oirici. |
atod and Mrs. Cora Moore sang
the solos, accompanied by Mines. |
Bertha King, Milton Barber and |
Birdie Jones. Mrs. Thomas was a
member Of the Odd Fellows lodge,
House Of Ruth No, $50.
Son Of Retired Colonel
Reports at West Point
WASHINGTON. u. G. (NNPAl |
Stating that he was "elated'
over being the thirty-hrst Negro
appointed 10 the United States
Military Academy at West Point,
Robert William Green. IL. Of Oak.
land, California, said here last Mon
day that he does not have any par
tieular preference among the vari-
Gus arms and services but likes
them all,
MIR, Green reported for duty at
West Point last Wednesday after
being appointed to the famed acad-
envy by Representative John II.
TOlan, Democrat, VI California. lie
is the son of John h. Green, retired
lieutenant colonel 1T the Twenty
fourth and Twenty nth infantry
regiments.