Forty-four young colored men of Williamsport representing approximately five percent of the Negro population of this city, are enrolled in the armed forces of the United States of America.

An honor roll recently at the Bethune-Douglass Center on Walnut Street, and to which additional are being made as each new draft call summons additional selectees, provides a permanent roster of these soldiers.

Included are the names of one commissioned officer, eight sergeants and 13 corporals.

Three of Williamsport’s contingent are already in foreign service, Sgt. Eldridge M. Jackson in North Africa, with a company of engineers, and Corporals Thomas Anderson and Ruby Swanson in India.

The commissioned officer is Second Lieutenant John J. Tyler, Jr., son of the assistant custodian at the courthouse. He was commissioned a week ago and assigned to command duties. His parents were without information about his new duty station.

Lt. Tyler was with the Civilian Conservation Corps for 18 months following his graduation from Williamsport High School. He is serving with the Army Signal Corps.

Other members of the honor roll are: Sgt. Thomas Brewer, Andrew T. Roy, Sgt. R. L. Robinson, Sgt. Edward Quartman and Sgt. Edward D. Watson, Sgts. Donald Jackson, Frederick Stills and Harold Jones,

The list also includes 12 corporals and 22 Negro privates from Williamsport. The lone seaman is Otto D. Thompson, a musician second class now at the Washington naval aviation base.