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Saturday, September 23, 1944
By W.E.B DuBOIS

NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS

Rather Interesting, be sure to read.

Rapid Changes Mark Army Nurse Corps

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posed of local business employed young women, are sponsoring a bene-fit show and dance on Wednesday evening, September 27th at Joe Morris' Plantation Club. The entire proceeds of the affair will be turned over to the American Red Cross to provide Christmas parcels for 'our boys' overseas. Mr. Morris has graciously donated his place to the club that evening, with Count Basie, his feature orchestra sup-plying the music. The regular club show will go on as usual. Members of the One-Eleven club, include the president Celeste Moore, Juanita Adams, secretary, Ida Here-ford, Ethel Smith, Delores Sutton, Juanita Truitt, Bus. Mgr., Lois Galloway, Christines Rayon, Helen Revels Brown and Rosa Harris. 

socialite and operator of a popular beauty salon in Cleveland, Ohio, is one of the Angel City's charming visitors. Interesting highlights of her visit, already include trips to movie studio's and autographing the stars. 

Play School Open At Utopia Center

Working mothers who wish to enroll their 5 to 12-years-old boys and girls for the winter session of the Utopia Children's Center, 170 West 130th Street, may still register them by applying directly at the center any day between 8 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. 

Increasing community support and city-wide interest in the health educational and recreational pro-

Qualified Women Rally to Enroll In Equalized Units
By CONSTANCE CURTIS

Della Chief

Things are happening in a hurry within the Army Nurse Corps. With-in the past month, so many changes have been made that officials have even had a little difficulty in keeping the public advised as to the many changes which have occurred.

From a group which had 219 Negro women as members, these changes have been so radical that qualified Negro women are joining the corps in great number. Statistics have not at present been complied on how many women have joined the corps within the past month but they are rallying to it enmasse.

Up until month ago the continued call for Negro women to join the corps were not bringing responses in the numbers desired. Fundamental reasons for this lack of responses hinged upon the fact that discrimination within the corps tied qualified women to work which many of them felt did not make full use of their services. Most of them were stationed at Fort Huachuca, with even the hope of being placed on overseas duty growing dimmer as the months went by.

be assigned to any overseas area- and they were returned to this country. The picture has changed materially now, however. At the present time, two groups have already arrived at overseas bases, one in the European Theatre of War and the other in the Pacific area. Also enroute to a destination which has not yet been revealed is a third contingent of nurses. This is all within the space of a month's time. At the recent Senate hearing of the Fair Employment Practice Committee, Miss Charlotte K. May, president of the Northeastern branch of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, protested the continued exclusion of Negro women from the Navy as nurses. It was pointed out that the Navy has seen fit, within the past few months, to admit a Negro doctor and that the