JURY ADJOURNS IN GA. SLAYING OF SEVEN
SHS FOUND DEAD
IN WARREN SPRING
i
MACON Final rites for Rich- j
n < llti Williams u! Folk Township I
who was found dead in u spring |
Vavidir- wore conducted litre Thurs
dar .
William.- Dad he n in poor health
ami Ed Petar. Wan 00 County l or
ottci 1 . said an inques' was not net**
0.-sary. Hr is survived l>y hi- v ifc.
and sevem 1 children, giimdehildrcn
and brothers and sisters.
Negro Police On Increases
ik 'fa ife • tk ik "At iAt
Benefits Seen in Truman Speech
Speech Heard On
Major Networks
And Short Wave
NEW YORK .There wore ir -
Creations that President Trumans j
speech at the Lincoln Memorial
Mass Meetin g <>f the Nati< > na! As
sedation for the Advancement or
Colored People on June 29*'1 (
would (produce far reaching ei
frets of s beneficial nature in do- 1
mestir race relations as well as in
some sections of international re
lations.
The President’s speech, which,
closed the 38tii Annual Confer- ,
cnee of the NAAOP. was brou : .
cast over the four major networks ,
;.nd by short wave to every sec- *
tier* of the globe where American j
influence was being maintained
According to reliable observers .
the foreign press devoted a good .
deal of editorial space to ih c j
Chief executive's discussion r>:
• civil rights. It was considered sig
niricant that the short - wave .
transmission of Mr. Truman’s • ‘
speech was made through direct )
*•••:.! Department request.
Although the effect of the t
Siuech on foreign listeners wni- .
i.,»t underestimated, NAACP of ,
licials were concerned primarily
v ith the more immediate results
of a forthright official statemwd 1
in areas of the nation where Nr- 1
gives are constantly unde, pres- ;
sure. Th< fact that many South
ern newspapers devoted part of
then editorial pages to the speech
was considered one of the more
(Continued on back page)
British Empire Ends
Color Bar In Army
London (ANP) The Brits;-
Empire has removed its restric
tions on the acceptance of ite
non-white subjects into the army
ant* royal navy, according to an
announcement made by A. V,
Alexander, minister of defense,
in re last month.
The defense minister had been
asked what progress had been
mode toward the abolition of the
co'or bar in the army and royal
navy when the two services
would assimulate their practice
u- that of the RAF,” and on wha l
definition of the term pure Eur
opean descent this discrimination
the royal navy and army on the
same conditions as the royal ar
ia reef”
N. Y. Times Comments
On Decision Os S. C.
NKVt YORK i NKJ’A • - The
York Tiir.es, commenting iasl Mon
day on the decisions ot Federal
Judge Wattes 'Waring of the United
States Court for the eastern district
oi South Carolina striking down
the lily-white primary in South
Carolina and requiring the State
to sci up a iav. v school for colored
law students or admit them to the
PORTER INJURED IN
TRAIN COLLISION
Chicago {ANP} Oihal
Livingston, -porter on the Bal
timore aad Ohio's Shenan
doah, was reported in a ser
ious condition last week fol
lowing a collision in which
the train rammed into a
switch engine near Grand
Central station. The Shenan
dSctah was pulling into tb e
Cbieagn stotton after » west
bound nm from New York at
ih«s time of the collision.
Ninety-nine passengers, in
cluded several major league
baseball, stars, wsm in tented,
most of them only slightly.
Udagslen U a native of
Lteerl -,C ftrit.
THE CAROLINIAN
\ ()i.i : MK XXVII, NO, 2 RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA WEEK ENDING SATI HI)AY, -H EY 1!), 1917
CGL B, 0. DAVIS
AND SON OFF
TO MONROVIA
Washington ..AN Pi Benja
nin O. Davis. ,vith Id. .von Cut
Beniamin O. Dav:.*. Ji. Sidney
De Labuc. and Dudley Bast wick
sailed for Monrovia Sa'urd; ■
c- board Ihi li. S. S Palau.
Gen Davis was appointed anv ;
bassador by President Tinman to
3(.present the United States at the
Lite: ian Centennial exposition
which begins July 24.
Col. Davis, a West Point gradu
ate. was commissioned as military
aside to his father on this trip.,
."'tkVt • '.4' Kl c? >. rv'T'yo rv-, Icc 1 ryrn 'X 1 '"’ f: 1
administered in the stale depart
ment last week by Stanley Wood
ward, chief of the division oi Pio
- col.
Sidney Dt La-Rue is special an
si slant to the office of near i-aC
err and African affairs in tnc
slate department and Dudley
fit stwick is the state department
Liberian desk cfficei.
Two destroyers accompanied
tie Palau, which sailed from
Bay on re , M. J.
cun vi v\ i«mns
Cary Waters around the out
skirts of Cary claimed the life of
Luther Royster. 25. to boost
W;.kt County's third drowning in
12 days.
Royster was swimming in a
• nearby pond, after having dived
cti a board and gone out some
; 200-yards, it was stated. He was
• in a swimming party with a group
of friends. Royster was single.
-He is survived by his mother
1 Mrs. Lottie Mason, of Cary, and
• . several ‘brothers and sisters. Up to
this writing, no funeral plans
hrd been made, it was learned
••• ■'University of Smith Carolina, said.
A political party does not et uSe
| u be such whtr. it culls itself a
j chib Nor ran a repeal of thi pri
■ ne-rv election laws reduce ii to that
' status. Hence, in the State of South
: Carolina, when three years ago the
primary laws were repealed, tlv
!up as an organization of kindred
1 souls which can exclude unwel
come members. It must admit .qual
ified Negro voters as well as quali
i fil'd white voters. This is the deci
i soon handed down in Charleston on
Saturday by Federal Judge 3
i Waiies Waring, himself a demo
crat and a native ot that old Con
federate city. Judge Waring de
j scribed as ‘pure sophistry the as
:{ s.ition that "there is any material
i difference in the governance of the
; Democratic part* in tins state prios
j to. and subsequent to, 1944 "
PRIMARY VICTORY FINAL
"There has been, of course, nr;
doubt in anybody’.* mind as to whaj
j the legislators in 1944 aspired ft
; do. They wanted to get around th<
j Fifteenth Amendment. In South
Carolina, as in other 'dates of the
; s- I'd South, a victory m the- pri
■ tii,.nes is final and to deny a citi-
J iConKnuoa 03. bgl| j>agg>
MISS. NEGROES
LAUNCH HUE
SCHOOL DRIVE
Jackson, Misr. (ANP) Con
t acts have already Cm on a warn
ed for Uk- coiutructoin of fout
St. hool buildings for Negroes in
binds countv. Fifteen often
school will bo crewed m variou.
sr-cions o ; f the c-ajnly after nici
3ei secured at a later date. Tht
. contracts arc first in a sloo.ook
con 1.-,t met ion program which is
being shared equally by the state*
building commission and the
1. ounty.
Three of iT.c schools will b*
elected of heilev. tii- *9 ■ ■ -t of
$7 187 17 1 • h ere
Cl'tie biocks Si ■*. I Mh 4 r
Tnir program puts ilmds county
in the lead oi counties in the stale
in improving school faeili: ie>* for
Nigra youth.
Also nearing completion is a
p; c gram for repairing all boilo
mgr at Hinds county ag: ;<■ iltura ■
high school (formerly 19 a insti
tute,'.
Dies .Suddenly In Ore.
-i.i
.Ihnmif l unctrford, above, c.il
crtol "Hoi Music" hand teartev,
whose sudd in clealh in Seaside.
; ( re. cai»»i a- a distinct shuck to
the music woriti. an.i Iff', « pall of
gloom nvi'i' his beloved toandmen
and hi:- devout follov ' in. Ittiiec
lord, the 111311 of "solid iasf.z" was
.i by-werd with the music public,
1 being "tops’* with both his eio
> rofessionuls anti every devotee
1 ilu* mtisic world. So downcast
-.ere his players that they derided
a> liisiiiinei altogether.
mmiwii in . i,ii,, n^ -nirini-iiriir»ni-iirn»rrpi-rriig-iiiiMtfL-ir-iaMilT--wiT-W'fW-»«' 'Xiiiiraira-M'«n--
j A. AND T. COLIJELF EDICATIONAL WORKSHOP
“i
e i Principals and. teachers from
i- 1 all over the state, participants
i- i in the educational workshop at
the titrate: rummer geasiM ei
• —.- - u,u,-1 n ifi
j SAFE \T SECOND
| % M
.yite-ryy ; *
J ascitic Robinson is safe at .nd
as Rud Blattner tries to pin the
hall on him. This seen* is of the
AOl TH UIVHTTI D
i.S. UTDiMI
Washington, D. C. Douglas
F. Wainer, of Norwalk, Connect 1
cut has been admitted to the U.
S. Military Academy, Represent::
tevt Adam 0 Poweil, Dt’-nocrat
c-j New York, announced last F;i
day.
He was nominated by Mr. Pow
ell on May 39 and was admitted
July 1.
lie is a -wot veteran He gradu
ated from the Army Air Forcer.
Cramer School in September,
lt-44, and was trained as n bom
bardier at Camp Hondo. Texas.
“Raleigh Dollar Days”
Offer Galore Values
Shi -Dpi : s arc ,n slur:.' cm values.
: ore Thursday and Friday -
when the progressive memllieys oi
tin Ba k-igh Merehantf Bureau
jew; ir presenting their swin.j
I iOit-war tr adc event —'' K a feign
D'-llar Days”.
"Our members have left no
• stone unturned to furthei prove
: tu our many customers that thru
collars go further m Raleigh'
Wesley Williams, Executive Sec •
rotary of the Merchants Bureau ,
announced Tuesday. 'Williams,,
F t sident Wade C Lewis, Sr. ana .
o-he. Bureau officials declared
that there will be extra special
valuer city -tv;...; is .. a, v i,. i. Dal
iiu Days”.
Ihe last city wide Dollar Day.-. -
held in Raleigh was ir, 1939. Ea
ii-igh merchants are trying to re
turn to a full peacetime trade
i r-. .motional basis despite war
time obstacles which have not yet
been removed. Official slogan fvn
the two day event is “Your Dol
lars Go Further In Raleigh”.
The promotion is expected to
attract many out of town shop
pers who have increased Raleigh's
i A. and T, college, shown shove,
hrc+tsghl thiiir individual teach
tog problems to the -workshop
tor si&tiiic&tion, study and so-
.'.line 29th game which the Pod
;ors won from the New t ork
Giants.
MISSISSIPPI POLICE
111 NT WHITE HAPIS'!
Jackson. Miss. (ANP) Hinds
county peace officers ’oegein, 3
-.,... oh Saturday for an unidtrnti
' > d white man who raped 3 12-
> ar old girl in a wot'ded section
1 i•< les south bf T erry.
The white man had been to
her home several times , recently
I-, get her to "keep the children''
while he and his wife went fish
ing. the girl told police. Who:
tiie finally agreed, h. picked her
1.!'; Sutunlay m trning around 7,
a.m. and drove her to a secluded
place near Terry
popularity as a good shopping
center- Fho Buicnu ‘'as an
ia,uncod that all can come ex
p vting surprising values.
The promotion generally will
nature dollar savings. Some
c.i res are reducing items to one
c liar. Some are offering addi
t onal items for one dollar. Oth
i are reducing items one dollar
and more. ‘'lt all sums up to an
i id-fashioned city - wide dollar
day sale/ Williams said.
"Raleigh Dollar Days" is a noth,
er effort of the Raleigh Merchant.
Bureau to build Raleigh as a
greater shopping center. It has
been planned by the following,
I, mniittee: Rt n jam in B<> see
James E. Briggs. .1. O. Bullock
1. ,3. Carter, Nathan Marcus, E
Stc.nhope Dunn, E. J Ellisberg
Albert Levine, Will J. Hudson.
Jr.. Rochelle Johnson. Walter H
Lazarus. A. C. Moore, Mr.-.. Helen
Jordan Bourke, P. J. Phelan, Jo
r me Feiler. Miss Alvirada Leo
Mi's. Gertrude Ewer, Clyde Orif
f;n, Harry Shorr, M. R. Spivey
William 6. Brooks and Graham
McCartney.
luison. The workshop is direct
ed by W. T. Gibbs, director cl j
the summer scblJo! snd includ
ed on She staff cs 9
■ * - —a--t. jmm- 'M- v- « "
PRICE 7c |
— j
13 CITIES IN
SOUTH have
WOE POLICE
Atlanta. Ga. (.Special The j
employment :>f Negroes as police '
men in the South is spreading, j
r.i-ci ■: i; ;n v to recent survey ;
•.'■‘i : Savannah became the tenth j
t : tiio thirteer citu > A Old South i
t, lake on YU"" patrolmen.
The actions of ail these cities i
ti ;dd Negro policeman, was mo- j
: re, ed by an effort to curb crime •
in districts predominately col- ;
cod.
!1. is rough!;, estimated tha« ■;
a. bout 230 Negro policerm o arc :
•n duly in forty two cities oi j
1 ten States. Thwc statistic-';
• vere compiled by the Southern ;
Regional Council in Atlanta
Five Negro Policewoman
Five Ni : r. so ruiiicev. otn< n art* on
dutv in three cities —two each :
ir Charlotte and Raleigh. N. C
fOnnlrir«.' A»i
Sets Precedent
& M'-
Berkeley, Calif, :AMP) Dr.
Howard Thurman, pastor of
San Francisco's Church for the
Fellowship of All Peoples, be
came last week the first Negro
:e officiate at a commencement
exercise '•of a stale university
when he performed the duties
of a clergyman during the Uni
versity of California’s gradua
tion on Berkeley campus. Last
spring, he gave the famous In
orrsoll lecture on Immortality
of Man in ihe Andover chapel
at Harvard university and re
peated ihe lecture before 1,500
persons at Temple Emanu-El in.
San Francisco.
leaders in the fields of e lemon -
j iary and secondary education.
Seven Prisoners
Killed By Guards
In Georgia Prison
I MAN FATALLY
SHOT NEAR APEX
Apex (Special) lntervening
in tht other man's affairs cost
Walter Jones, of Holly Springs
Township, his life here recently
! mier being shot through the
!hr art by Thomas Taylor, Apex
j t on e-keeper.
j !
: The shooting was the result ol
! -Jones' interference when Taylor
| vent to his (Taylor's home) to
i get his estranged wife. The shoot*
i in? occurred in the front yard
i oi she dead man’s home.
! Taylor, who claimed the shoot
ino was in self defense, was ar
. *cd and lodged oi Wake
; County jail.
RA Y RESIGNS POST
AS CIVILIAN AIDE
By LOUIS LAUTIER
Washington. D. C. (NNPA? —|
j Kteretary of War Robert P. Pat
teison and Marcus H. Ray, whose
j resignation as civilian aide to the
i $ ec) etary became effective July
; 1.7. tossed bouquets at each ot.h- .
; (1 in an exchange of letters made ,
public last Thursday.
Mr. Ray resgned to accept a
colonelcy in the Army and as-
Mpnmcnt on the staff of General
Lucius Clay, commanding gen
; c a? of the European theater,
.-.•horn he will advise on policy
'•ncerning colored troops in the
\. 1 ?*icfin occupied zone of Ger
n • ny.
The problem of colored troops :
■ll Germany is of a two-fold na
uiic. Despite the Gillem Board
.■.pot on effective utilization oi
ctei reel manpower in the postwai
A any. which Mr. Ray praised in !
i is letter to Judge Patterson, col
.-;ed 'troops in Germany are used
ahnost wholly as service troops.
On the othei hand, they have
a high crime and venereal rate.;
T>) addition, there is the matter ,
ci friction between colored ana
-> ,-hite American soldiers over the
fevers of the German frauleins.
In accepting Mr Ray’s resigna
-1 *on, Secretary Patterson ex
pressed regret at his leaving the
War Department and praised his
service ar; "loyal, effective and oi
decided value to the Army.
Mr. Ray became civilian aide
to the Secretary of War Janu- i
ary 2, 1944. succeeding Truman
K Gibson, Jr., of Chicago, who
ofigned to return to the practice i
Continued on page eight
Negro GFs Better Loan
I Risk Than White-Ebony
j
i Chicago (ANP) Though no.
S only one out of eight Negro ap
p!7-ants is successful in obtaining-
Vderans administration - spon
sored loans, a photo story in
i August Ebony declares that thr
! percentage of failures among
colored G. 1.7. receiving loans is
fewer than that for whites.
"Only 960 white and colored
: vets out of 59,450 have failed,’
says the Ebony feature which it.
I entitled I 'GI loans.’’ This is a low ;
; percentage of only 1.6. And ot
• this percentage the rate for col
ored is even lower than that for
j v hites.
Negroes Against Military
\ Training Powell Warns
j
i Washington, D. C. <’NNPA> ■
1 Representative Adam C. Powell, j'
! Democrat, of New York, told the :
- House Armed Services Commit
, u-e last Friday that as a citizen. .
| the pastor of one of the largest ;i
I Prc testant congregations in the ;
! v orid and a colored man he is;
■ in alterably opposed to universal! ,
| military training.
After quoting a number ot j j
1 ranking Army and Navy officer:--;
. rind outstanding scientists to sup j
! port his contortion that eonscrip- j
tion ■will not have the nation;
j pr« pared for an attack by an ag- j
| giessot uslion, Mi. Powell argued |
:to at universal military training (
j will plunge the country furthei ;
j along the road to war.
; “Contrary to Napoleon in j
; Clausewitz! God does not march i
{with the biggest battalions/’ said .
| Mr. Powell, after telling the com
; rrvftee that Abyssinian Baptist
i C-iiurch, of which he is the pastor.;
!is one of the largest Protest astt
; churches in the world and the i
second oldest Baptist Church in :
New York City.
“We are striving to be a Chris
• ticn nation, ’’ he added. “With
j c,inscription our striving would
i be in vain. Conscription has nev- i
!er stopped war. We have dont j
! pretty good as a nation without i
»it. You saimot nave conscription
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (NNPA) A
coroner's jury which investigated
the massacre of seven chaingang
I : Goner- at the Glynn County Pri
son camp at Anguilla Georgia
'velve miles from here adjourned
I s Saturday without returning a
v rdict.
•Vs the verdict of the coroner’s
li re was .withheld Judge Gordon
Knox of Glynn Superior Court, call
id the grand jury to convene Wed
nesday to investigate the shooting
Th verdict of the coroner's jury will
be withheld until after the grand
jury investigation.
The cornorer's investigation was
conducted at the prison camp by
Coroner J D. Baldwin 88, and was
attended by five members of the
Brunswick branch of the National
Association for the Advancement ot
Colored People
Seven prisoners were killed and
si-i others wounded b> a fusiliagt
■Continued on back page)
DURHAM SCOUT
SLATED FOR TRIP
TO PARIS
Johnnie Chavis of Durham, the
only Negro Boy Scout of ten o 1
the sixth Regional District, Boy
Scouts of America, will b«
among those present at pre-tram
irg activities sponsored by Cha
vis Heights Park., 1
These activities are being held
i rior to the World Jamboree sche
duled for Paris, France, August 5
t : -ugh August 15 The pre-ae
tivities program will get under
jw ay Thursday and lasi through
Friday of this week. All activities
i under this set-up will be under
the supervision of Deputy Re*
| g : cnal Director, Gilbert Bush
white, it was learned by The
CAROLINIAN.
The names of the other nine
boys could not be learned. The
. sponsoring States are. South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida and
Alabama. Just what per cent of
the delegation will be made up
of colored Scouts could not be
■ learned, but it is estimated that
some 30,000 from the sponsoring
States will leave America. Frftv
. even nations will participate
The cost will he SSOO per boy
,to make the voyage from here
ic France.
Bankers insist on 24-earat, gift
edge collalera and previous bust
ness experience is granting a G1
loan, the feature explains. And
gaining bank approval is like tak
ing a beach head under fire,
For Negroes it is even .harder
than for whites, the article cor.-
tinues and most loans to colored
vets are made north of the Mason
; -id Dixon line, whereas 63 pen
cent of all Negro vets live in the
i south. A survey of the 13 largest
( :t;es in Mississippi discloses on
3v two Negroes whom VA okayed
for loans out of a total of 3,229
granted in the entire state
of body without conscription oi
rnird. and that would mark the
end of what freedom we now
have.”
Mr. Powell gave as a final rea
stm for his opposition to univer
sal military training the fact -that
he belongs “to a race which is
r:< st 100 per cent against con
setiption/’
THIS CAR IS ONLY
FOR WHITE WINNER
AHORKIE • Harvey
had the winning ticket amt wm
entitled to the $3,3(1® automobile
which the AtooskSe SCawanS*
Club was giving away here
Tuesday, bus was awakenad at
home at I:3® Tuesday nomine
and told toy Sheriff Charlto
Parker that he could not win
the car, “lacaww ft wasn't for
colored people ’ Jones reported
here Tuesday.
Tickets were sold everywltetw
to white and colored -persons, it
was reported, mwi at least six
other Negroes had (mitliMeJ
tickets. Jones' Si, purchase twice
of the winning tiekrt vtoiefe
would have torooekt hint a iSJt##
CatMßesc. was i-etostdrs.
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