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APTISTS FIGHT TO END IN JUSTICES \ I. C. SMITH HE AD RUMORED TO RESIGN POST South Offers Greater Opportunities ATLANTA. Oa The greatest opportunity of the Negro is in the j South. C c. Spaulding, president of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Compan:, told the Ns tional Baptist Convention here Fri day night. He said that most of the Negy.i owned insurance companies are in the South and that north of the . Ms on and Nixie Line there is onlv one Negro-owned bank. Officer Aids Man In Escape Fugitive Has Narrow Escape in Fleeing Mob Vet Charged With Leading Fight Against Miss. Peace Officers JACKSON. Miss. 'ANPj An unidentified peare officer !.-■ credit ed with blocking a possible lynch ing here recently by misleading n all-white posse in search <i Johnny Craft, marine veteran, who is be ing held in the Hinds County jail on charges of being the leader in the battle of Sullivan's Hollow in Smith LOCAL MINISTER PUBLISHES BOOK RALEIGH The Rev M W Williams, minister and author and president of the Raleigh Citizens Commltee. has Ju»t gone tn pr~ with the first edition of bis latest book. The Deacrp, His Duty and the Doctrine of the Baptist Church," a 200-page volume which will be off the press in aboul three week,; He has already published sever al editions of“ Who's Who Among Negro Baptists Tn North Carolina. ' and The Deacon’s Place In The Church.” and while publishing the various volumes has maintained a vig rous pastorate as minister of the First Baptist Church. Franklin ton and the Springfield Baptist Church at Auborn V Hospital Patients To Get X-Ray On Entrance RALEIGH Preparations have been oornpleted for 2 national anti tuberculosis campaign to promote routine chest X-raying of all hospit al personnel and of patients of ad mission, according to a statement issued recently by the American Hospital Asswiy;;,., Lae u. s. Pub lic Health Service and the Nationa l Tuberculosis, joint sponsors of the program. In a mesage to hospital trustee >Continued on page eight; Kay Kyser Cites Need For Medical Schools In N. C. GREYHOUND CONTINUES SEGREGATION FREDERICKSBURG. Va. CANP’ Several instances of intimida tion o' Negroes to segregated rear sections of Greyhound buses have been reported here within the past few weeks In one instance local police were called when Negro pas sengers refused to leave their seats. Finally the persons changed “to avoid trouble" this source disclos ed. I In another case, the driver at- j tempted to force a Negro passeng er, who was seated beside a white woman, to change his scat for ac commodating a white passenger, j The Negro passenger refused to j change, police were called but fair ed to appear So the driver left the. \ station with the same seatrng. Unauthorized sources report let- j ters sent to all drivers of this com j pany from the president, request- | '»*** * 4-V. rt-mt oeW all onlrtfoN tnac. I u ‘h *> a. 1 ——* s , sengers to sit in the back. However, I they were instructed .to ‘refrain 1 from any rough piay or display at- i tracting unusual attention.’ THE CAROLINIAN -c-- ...'.v--' .. •• ■ - - : :.v w-' > ' w*" \ . v v* . ;..,v$ c i VOLUME XXVI, NO. 1! FAFKIGIi, NORTH CAROLINA WEEK ENDING ; ATI r KT>.A V, SEPTEMBER I I l>i'j i’l.'in'.V ~—- —— — County where four peace officers were u ' urirlort Craft's escape, according to of ficers here Saturday, was affected by help of a white law enforce ment office] who knew where he and other fugitives were hiding in the woods that were surrounded o:> a cordon <>f the 200-man posse. Tin. oificer is said to have steered the posse in another direction and later picked up Craft, gave him a ride toward Jackson, and advised him to surrender to the Hind- County jailer in order to be placed in the “m-'h p«-r>of” Hinds County jail Jehnny told the jailer be had slipped through the pose by walk ing to Mandenali and down the G and S I railroad to Florence where he caught a ride here, offic eis said Craft's surrender on Aug 13 climaxed a 24-hour manhunt lor I iiii-myen of the Ci'dft and CoOpei families allegedly involved in the Sullivan's Hollow -ho ting in w*»ich j one Negro was also wounded in j the battle. i Reports, following the capture if ; if) member, < f the tw- Negro fami- I lies, charged two white familie? I with the shooting during feuding over hiring Negro farm workers, j I Police nabbed last week 89-year-o!d H J, Sullivan and his !9-ypar-old ; nephew, Herbert H Sullivan, both ! whites, after receiving information that the four peace officers wer’ wounded during ”a smoldering i feud between white families.” Johnny is said to "eve admittc d : shooting into a car *n which two ! white men were riding but denied firing on the peace officers H ■ is being held in Hinds County jail along with Garfield. WOT .1 1 and Bili Craft No reports were made on what authoenie- pij.;* Lu j ao with the two Sullivans, nor what i action vrill oc taken against the four Craft brothers. Speculation is also rife as to what will be the white lav,- enfwcemen* | officer's fate that helped save John* i ny from possible lynching. BV CAROL I F.H i ROCKY MOUNT 'Special) A special Negro medical institution ’ for training North Caroiinians was! advocated here last week by Kay i I Kyser in a plan which started a! 1 i 1 tremendous statewide movement for j better health. Addressing 200 leaders represent ing a cross-section of Tar Heel bus . Nursery School Opens At S! ;n* I hiversity RALEIGH Registration for the Shaw University Nursery School will be held at the school Thursday and Friday mornings September 12 i and 13 from io until 12. Parents of | j children who were enrolled in the j ’ school last year will be expected to 1 register them Thursday. A few new nupils will be accepted. Nurset / : j school hours will he from R in the j morning until 3 in the afternoon. Mrs B Yancey Jervay will serve j I ‘his year as director of the school. ! ! Mrs. Jervay, who holds the L S.' degree from Hampton Institute and I the A. M. degree from Columbia j University, is an instructor in the | Home Economics department at i I Shaw Thrpp tpachers will complete l i I the nursery school staff: Mrs. Aim? j: ' Trotter. Mrs. Irene Clarke Scales ; land Bessie O. Thorpe, ail graduate,- j of Shaw University. OR. JEMISGN SOUNDS NOTE IN BAPTIST MEET nv WILLIAM A. FOWLKES ATLANTA «ANPi Dr D. V. Jemison, president, and the entire , slate of incumbent officials of the National Baptist Convention. Inc. were reelected by roaring aecia- 1 nriati n Wednesday, a few hours al ter the nation's largi .t Negro or- 1 g-vnization opened officially and : immediately following the reading of the sixth annual message of the ■ Salem, Aia.. leader to the mam moth gathering at Ci'y auditorium Upward of 20,000 Baptists gath ered front the far flung corners of the nation, taxed Atlanta's e nven iion hospitality and in many tit stances, because of the rush and press of the throngs, some were de » med a; comm datir-ns of nousing un i til the convention meeting was spen*. Dr. -Jewison's message, read to ] the convention by the Kev. J. G | Washington, < f Alabama, challeng ed America and the world to fair- 1 oy t i-pyjf ry-jpj-jA Fjhp t~) rfyr\ *3Qi ?»t-lfl/g ! t-u tilt jurCtrui Hicto-'dCih o C ixT Tv*'-Fa- I roe. Ga.. as a blot to the nation’s history and as areas 11 some dele gates might have refrain from i coming to this part of the country ; for trip convention meeting. Citing th; histcrv of the Am.-r-j j ican Negro's iovajtv to and defense of his country. Dr. Jemison laid' down a plats; rm of race relations ; expresisng what the Negro “stands I for what wp believe to he right, j i just and fair for our group,” The i ■ plan rm declared. “We do not desire, when a Ne- ■ gro has committed a crime, that I j he be shielded or harbored by rnem ; hers of his race Wp want, when j -j Negro has coiuiTjitteod a crime ; that ne be given a fair trial before 1 ’an unprejudiced, interracial jury, j ■■nd m t have to suffer mob violence We plead for equal rights in the . courts of the country. ‘ r. \i *'y »"» ♦ * Fw» '» r>i A > 1 " »■* <• ■ ' 1-. 1 1 ‘ which i'as been a ■ tench in th« nos trils of cocrigress. to be passed We ivant the Fair Employment | Practice commission bill to be pas j ed The passing of this bill •ml' 'Continued >n beck page; iness. professional, agricultural li tigious activities, the former Roctty Mount resident, now big-time en tertainer. declared: “There are less than 1 fi hospital beds for Negro patients per l.noo colored population >:i the state, whereas the national minimum re quirement is 1.5 beds per 1,000 pop ulation; “There is only one Negr" physi cian for every 7,97! Negroes which means North Carolina needs 650 more Negro doctors to meet normal Health standards; “There are only 11 Negro hospit als t.hrouhgout the entire state; Less than 4,000 is being invested by the state of North Carolina on ’he education of Negro medical students this year and enrollment must be in out-of-state colleges; “North Carolina’s selective ser vice record revealed that, the state had trie highest number of rejects in the nation; 74 per rent Negroes, 55 per cent whites. “Any over-all state health plan must face intelligently the acute i Negro health problem,” stated Kyser. *m-f- . ui Nitfuui, »»• doctors, nurses, dentists hospitals and clinical facilities, provisions for the indigent Shouting "Hallelujah ’ 'the band master added ", . and we've al- i ready raised SIOO,OOO to light a I 'fgSSmßFs i (Continued on back page) ! , 4& " *" * .Miss Gloria Gram, Research V>- sistanv of the Southern Negro Youth Congress diseu* >es conic tus of pre-convention bulletin with Louis Burnham. Organizational Secretary while Miss Virgin l " Cox. stenographer, takes notes. Miss Grant has .just completed a pamphlet entitlerf “Busting the White Supremacy Myth." This <- one of a series of pamphlets the s\Yc is publishing as background maerial for the use of delegates to the SOUTHERN YOUTH LEGIS LATURE which meet:; in Colutsi hia. S. C., October 3R.JH and hi BREAK EXPECTED IN LOUISIANA j VMPUIWf' NEW YORK What is described ■ by an NAACP official as mo. dramatic break in the current wove of lynch terror hovering aver south ern Negro communities’ "is expert "d almost momentarily. The lynching of John C. Jones, Negr-n war ve:- ! eran whose mutilated body ; found m a Louisiana swamp, may ‘provide the opening wedge in the desperate drive bieng conducted by j the Association to drive lynch mobs out of existence. Focal point in the drive is Al bert Han is, shy. gangling 17-year old Negro youth who owes his Tfe ’to the bungling of Louisiana “ia". enforcement." officers tit! the Lou isiana lynch mob which apparent Iv possessed a rather startling | knowledge of developments ir: ’ n local sheriff s f fice The testimony of young Harris (Continued on back page) South Still Schemes To Bar Negro Vote COLUMBIA, S. O iANP.i - Va Hops schemes have been adopted in s u thorn slates to circumvent decisions of the U. S Supreme court prohibiting electi n officials in the .south from pairing Negroes from the Democratic primaries, it was disposed last v/cck by a review of events in several localities by- loiidor? othfr sections of the south. More Negroes voted in this year's primaries in the sou'h than eve" before. In the Demociatir primary in Georgia alone about 100,000 Ne groes cast their vote helping to swell the majority received by .Tames Carmicnaet who was aeteated »v Eugene Talmadge who captured a NEW FIGHT FOP, MUCH NEEDED LEGISLATION WASHINGTON ■ \>;v, He dm ins that existing i-,ws restrict ft del Hi h•:11'i11 in » --.v • ■ iii■ -• he : Vvririvng in Geoi'iTa, and inr-fft c: ive instrument:- of critn- I in;»l law 'in ,•<*• men*. Thcr-m i I j Caudle. :>ssj'>iant hUoi ney gs'neral. PI '.i"i iast wcolf ihat "necessarv rein !’'iTom-"nt" of oxj';' in;; law is wed ■ " 1.0 n affirm our frith in out grin: nation.” ■~.,v kir.r in 'hr Nor’h Carolina rjar association. Candle. who i- na i iotml president of the Federal B i : a-r-ociation, point'd out that ah i though $42,000 has been offered in t the Georgia lynch case, still o<> ■ 'break' has come. His attitude "Cr:Ch *o confirm the stetemon} ■.f i Edward B. Smith, Scripps-Howard ■ reporter, that “indifference and in action'' are contributing to the fail ure of federal and Georgia state au ' t.horities to solve tin* heinous inur : | dors. Congressional faci> show that ihe hous> has passed o federal anti lyiifh bill, and probably would . gain. But i,he senate, where unlimit ed deb,ale prevails, will not even , vote on Mil’ll a hill long a" fii'bUS terers-, eiijefly southern Democrats, , can -i\oid it. Such a bill has a chance of pa -sin?,, if it were brought , to a vote Filibusterer- know this, , and prepare for i.h One chance for the bill is through change in the . • aster of the senate through this (Continued on be k page..' majority of the units in tine state. Georgia Democrats resorted most- J ty I-, ir; I jm irl-if jpf! In ivr#>vent No gt- ■ from voting. In seme instance-* : Negroes were told repeatedly that blanks for registration were ex hausted. in other cases as in Fulton County election officials arbitrarily , purged the qualified iist of vot.io by removing names of Negroes from the i oil. Wholesale elimination of Negro names was reported in Ful ’ ton County. Negro haters in all sections ate determined to uphold white supre macy in politics and in job cm ployment. In Arkansas strategists (Continued on back page) University Officials Lack Knowledge Os Resignation By TREZVANT W. ANDERSON r II A RLOTTE—;jS,OO(t N. pto. s thronKcd the streets <>•. -foiin.son SrnitJi University, reportedly said last week that h'- had no knowlodife of any plans of the retirement, of !)i . ll< my L. Mef'rorey, president of the university, which was recenti\ staterj to lake place this year. Dr. IVlcv’rorey has been identified with Smith I .'Diversity lor r> 1 years; IJ, as a teacher, and V.) years as president. immn hots AGAINST RACIAL PREJUDiDES WASHING TON 'AND In a letter written to Charles G. Bole, chairman of (he American Veterans e mm'ttee. President. Truman came out squarely Wednesday against in loi'.’i ancc and prejudice. The Prcsi dent'' letter was in reply to one which Bolte had written him prais ing his appointment of a commis sion on higher education and criti- ! cizing discrimination against min ors in campuses arid elsewhere. We have only recently complet ed long and bitter war against intolerance and hatred in other lands," President, Truman v/rotc. A cruel price in blood and suf fering was paid by the American people in bringing that, war to a iiceosfu! conclusion. Vfl, in this country today there i’xi -'ts disturbing evidence of into!, '•ranee and prejudice similar ir: kind, i,hr 1 ugh perhaps not in de-| give, to that against which w« fought the war '•Discrimination. like disease,. musi 1,0 attacked wherever ii ap pears This applies to the oppot- , tuuitv to vote, to hold and retain a ; i cli, and to secure adequate shell v* •md medical care, no less than to ] obtain an education cumpatable j j with r.he needs and ability of the individual. 'Thin* who desire to see the full est. expression of our democracy can i never rest, until the opportunity for |; an education at all levels has heen 1 given in all qualified Americans ; 1 regardless of race, creed, color, na- j 1 t.ioiViii origin, sex or economic j status.” l < 35,000 Witness Daddy Grace’s Parade CHAIiEOTI Iv—Dr. If. II of this city's Second Ward ai AI. "Daddy ' Grace stage and baptize many eager cat House of Prayer For All Pe From as far away as Florid? :a in the north, there came fc annual Convocation Service Sunday affairs, after a week The streets around the church were packed with a milling mob vL humans popcorn and soda water stands did a flourishing business; shot shine boys were ignored, as the crowds pushed and shoved in their efforts to : see either the baptism or 'Dad dy'' Grace himself. They saw both. When the big parade started Sunday afternoon it required one houi and three minutes to pass a given point, according to the watch. The streets were lin ed with whites, as well as with Negro watchers, ai!. of them anx ious to see the bishop whose leadership power had made pos -Ihe display, which was to med as one of the greatest examples of Negro unity ever seen in Charlotte ’•Daddy” rode in a sea-going amphibious jeep, which incident aiiy had been bought here in C arlotte last year. Attendants E* Id an umbrella over his bead, and others carefully waved fans t ■ drive off the blistering heat which suddenly came, after a coining of sunless skies. Youth In Forefront in Parade The youngsters took the spot light in the parade, with sever al really snappy drum majors and majorettes, doing the ‘‘cam el walk", cutting a rug, and per forming other fancy moves in - the line of march. The Grace Scouts were in evidence in a big way, with many groups of the young boys, even including sev eral boys bands. There weie oldsters, too, m the parade. Some of them were si ny-haired women, other weie men who seemed to get a kick cut of showing off fancy steps despite* their advanced age. It was a carefree parade group, and numbers of the costumes blew the applause of watchers 1 a!- ng the line. But the young st'.-rs had the day. They stole the 1 Continued on back page) An article in. a local daily paper recertify, stated that Dr. McCrorey would retire this year, ending his more than a halt century of ser vice, which has seen she uni versity grow from a minor place to a national status in educational fields, with em phasis on religious educa tion. Investigation by a reporter disclosed that the basis of the article in the local daily was the reported statements given in two Northern journals, The Philadelphia PRESBYTERIAN, or the CHURCH TIMES, the lat ter published in Utica, New York. Their stories came from the May session of the North ern General Assembly of the P:esbyterian Church, U. S A., which met in May at Atlantic Cilv, Now Jersey, and followed statements made, after Dr. Me Crorev received no ovation when (Continued on back page) Gary Wipes Out Special School For Negro Children GARY, Ind. iANP) Special j schools for local Negro children f will disappear with the opening of J the new 11)47 fall term. Announcement of the historic i mow i.o banish jim crow from this | city's public school system by the j Gary tioarrl of education came prior lo i.'tc return of children to school here Tuesday in an unprecedented ruling that outlawed the long-stand jnr, finliey of snocial school-, for Negroes. All children may attend school in their immediate vicinity, which means that Negro children will no longer be compelled to so out of their school zones to attend Froebel, East Pulaski and Roosevelt schools. 1 "Children under the jurisdiction , of the Gary public schools shall not ] lardy Liston, Ex. V. President ,i*OH Sunday, to watch Bishop a parade over a mile long, ndiciat.es in the pool at The copies on South Long Street, a in the South, to Pennsylvan ollowers of the bishop, as the came to an end in the big of church activities here. COMMUNITY CHEST SETS 1948 GOAL RALEIGH A goal of $135.995 53 O r the lS4fi Community Chest cam paign was set Lite yesterday by the Board of Directors, The drive wiU Oe held from October 24 through November 5. under the cbaiiman , :iip •'f Eari Hostetler. The ,i! was determined after a t wo-inontns -tody <>f agency bud ,w‘is and need:- had been made by • Ihiruen local citizens ■he com pose i.he Chest budget committee Raymond Stv w, chairman of the committee in his report to the board showed that the goal repre sents the absolute minimum which is neeecssary for the continuation of the local, state-wide and na tional agencies which are members of she Chest. The Chest invited all agencices which are raising funds in this county to join forces in ■ tie annual campaign tor .joint budgeting and. ■ fund raising, thereby relieving the punli< of the expense and annoy ance of many campaigns. Among the igencies which have joined are the North Carolina League for Crippled Children. Salvation Army. Blood worth S*ree* '/MCA for Ne groes. the national appeal of the .Salvation Army. North Carolina C. mrn'ssion on Interracial Cooper ation, and the USO Other agencies which conduct campaigns locally declined mem bership or where forbidden by t.hfdr national organization to join . federated community appeal Continued on hack page) WAITER WHITE SAVE LIVES OF INNOCENT CROUP NEW YORK It was disclosed at NAA. CP National Office today that the prompt action of Walter White, executive secretary, in ur ging Lt. Governor Fielding WrighjA to use his powers to avoid threat* | c-ned lynchings during the recent episode in Smith County, Missis sippi had undoubtedly saved many lives. A reliable source on tbs scene stated, “He saved the lives of innocent Negroes who nc ' doubt would have been slaughter ed wholesale." According to the same source it was disclosed that the situation grew ut of a feud among the j whites due to labor conditions. Since then it has been fairly .well established that the pre.ss was as tuallyy guilty of gross misrepresen tation since the Negroes never : fired on either a car or upon the law enforcement officers us char ged. Signifincant-ly, several Missis sippi white men have been arrest ed in this connection recently. Ibe discriminated against in rh* | school districts in which they at j tend because of race, color or re j ligion." the school board ruled. 'ln pursuance of these democrat*?: | educational ideals the board tff sS ■ ! ucation is determined to end dis crimination in the public schools and to adopt such measures as msiy be deemed advisable and necessary to put a program of equal access to education into effect. “Implementation of this policy will begin not later than September 1. 1947." the bqard said V The original American Expedi tionary Force in North Africa re quired 700,000 items of oc-fip* ment and supplies.