STEAMSHIP LINE SUED FOLLOWING ASSAULT Bush Testifies Against Would-Be Lynch Party; Jailer Held For Action JACKSON North Carolina’s Governor Ft. Gregg Cherry, revert ing to a State statue enacted in 1893, permitting the Governor to order special hearings in lynch cases, or dered severs Northampton white men for reappearance in court to arr-wpr charges on attempted lynch ing of Godwin "Buddy" Bush May 23. Bush had been arrested earlier on alleged attack with intension to rape a Rich Square white w orn-! an After being jailed, a band of seven white masked men entered Bush's cell and took him away In sn automobile. Bush made good his escape from the car. While fleeing, a shot e at- fired after him without ; effect. During the grand jury hearing, the seven white men freed of the attempted lynch charge and Bush era® given his freedom when the same jury failed to indict on the Negro Named To Pepsi- Cola Scholarship Group PAL ALTO, Calif. - Paul F. Lawrence who received the de gree of Doe:of Education from Stanford University her just, been appointed to the staff of the Pepsi- Cola Scholarship Board in Palo Alto California, and he will as tiume his duties there on Septem ber 1 Chosen because of his specialized knowledge of the problems of Ne gro education. Dr. Lawrence will j have charge of that pari of the. Pepsi-Cola scholarship program which is directly concerned with discovering Negro students -if un- * usual ability. Hr will also art as; s consultant on ail relations of the- Scholarship Board with Negro high School principals, colleger, and Ne gro Students who receive the; Pepsi-Cola Scholarships and Col lege Entrance Awards. These Pepsi-Cola scholarship swards arc financed by the Prpsi Cola Company as a part of its pub lic service program, and they arc administered by the Pepsi-Coif Scholarship Board This Board is Comprised of a group of distinguish ed educators including Mnrdeeai j W. Johnson, president of Howard! tjrHverslty; and ft yearly swards j il9 Four-Year College Scholar ship!' and 550 fifty-dollar College Entrance Awards to boys and girls Local Racial Relations \ Good, Editor Believes OITY MANAGER TO SPEAK AT LOCAL CHURCH SUNDAY RALEIGH Rny S Braden. Ra- j leigh City Manager, will make bin! first formal appearance before a i Negro audience when he speak;? Sunday afternoon. September 7 at < i p m. at the Martin Street Rap fist Church He is expected to be; accompanied by Mayor P. D Snypes who will Introduce him. j Mayor Snypes will be introduced i by Atty. Fred J. Carnage Also on the program will be s j solo by Wilbert Sanders, which will i probably be his first appearance in such a capacity before a purely: civic organization of the city. Even though the invitation was extended to the Mayor and City Manager by the East Raleigh Civic j Furuit for its first after-vacation' monthly meeting, 'he meeting is opened to the public. Everyone it. or pod to attend. Bishop “Daddy” Grace ! Lashes Out At Critics j * —_—————. —— • CHARLOTTE CANPi On his arrival here Monday, Bishop C. M (Daddy> Grace challenged his en tices to “prove my doctrine false,** I offered $1,090,000 to anyone who - ! would get on the radio and con vince his followers otherwise and predicted that the new south would become a reality when, re gardless of race and color, the people learn to stand together, Grace, who made headlines in ■ Hew York, recently by purchasing $2. j RALEIGH - North Carolina is not beset with petty hatreds, pre ■ judices an diensions between races "i and religions, and because of the 'common sense and spirit if coop ! oration exhibited by .members of I both races," Negro-white relations ; in the state have been ‘'steadily bet- 1 - tering," an editorial in the Raleigh . Timis said last Thursday. ; "While North Carolina is not per ! feet." the editorial reads, "it is evi ! dent that religious and racial preju j dices are at an extreme minimum ! Hero in Raleigh, as in other Tat , Heel communities. Catholics, Jews j -and Protestants associate and do | i business together without any eon | flict regarding their respective re - j i iigions. - . For that matter. Negro-white j | relations in North Carolina have | | been stead illy bettering, because ot ; j the common sense and spirit of co- j i operation exhibited by members of j ; both races. When racial issues arise, i : they are usually brought up by th; j ! action of outside agitators | "So far as the press is concerned ! : regarding race and religious mat- ' i ters, its duty is to report and com-1 [ ment on conditions ">s they arc. it i should not balk at he menion of! • the terms Catholic, Jew. Protestant (Continued on back page) — i leader.-' in the East was seen in his amiouncemet that oHns for a $5,- ; 009,000,000 housing orojcct in Phil- j •' adclphia were being studied by his j | key aids. KkK Allowed To Hold 1 Picnic And Parade Knoxville. Term. ( ANP) - The iKu Klux Klan was allowed t<. j ; have their picnic and parade on j | Labor day at a .suburban park 1 here but only because it had ; promised aforehand that the | [pioup would burn no crosses La«d : [ An*. 3 -the KKK was refused use ■/. f a local park here. Huge crowds of K kinsmen from , , i < arby towns were present to sec j I Dr. Samuel Greers, Atlanta Green ; | Dragan. KKK’s in this vicinitv ! said that no masks were worn iend that there wer- no demon ijHreticng yiiat Local Co-Op Fanned Here ■ The Carolinian VOLUME XXVII, NO. 0 liALEIOU, NORTH CAROLINA V KICK. END!NO SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1947 PRICE 7c Negroes Urged To Become Democrats NEW GROUP HAS BROAD PROGRAM ON ITS SLATE - Raleigh A number of ft.*- I lcigh's wide-awake an 1 alerl j business nr.d prof*, ssional nu-ii j have been recently granted j Certificate of Incorporation un icier which, the group will operate j under the name o7 Wake Con sumers Mutual Association, Inc j The purpose of this newly j formed organization is to, fost : ; a closer relationship among local :lv owned and operated Negro I •••us.iness enterprises, according to ! \. T. Whitaker, manager >f th«. ! Association Among some of the objectives ; of the Wake Consumers Mutual j Association arc "to own and ope ’ rate a general mcrchantile bus 1 - ! ness, including a garage and fill |mg station; to acquire and or I handle and market the farm com modities of its members in any i capacity and on any cooperative 1 basis that may be agieed upon. ' ■ 1 o Borrev.' Money > Provisions will he- made to be - I row money without limitation a. !to amount of corporate indebt ness. The Association will also act as agent or representative of am oi its members in all activitier allied to its purpose;-;. Its program provides that th Consumers Association will do ah ’...thin its power to do everythin*' ic.ssible that is conducive to aid the policy of the United States C-.ngress in carrying out its agr; cultural act, which was approved | June 16. 1929. There are many [ other far reaching policies err.- ! bodied in the program of this row local venture Prom time t - ; time they will be released to the public. Meetings of the Wake Consum ers Mutual Association are being Continued on page eight Halifax Mail Faces Trial In V Y. Death NEW YORK September 17 has bee nset a.-, the date for a hearing for Harris Grey. 18-year-old youth of Scotland Neck, on a chage of : homicide in the fatal shooting of 1 Pidrlmnn Thomas Gargan here on - August 17. Magistrate Frederick L. | Strong reported Thursday. Gagao was fatally wounded m a | dak. empty house on Bank Street j who nhe a tempted to arerst. Gray j on a burglary rhsgr and Grev was j hot three times during a gun fat ! tie bv Patrolman Gerard Hughes, j The defendant was confined to i Beilcveu Hospial until Thursday, Salisbury Principal Retires After 16 \ ears Salisbury (ANP) Prof. L. H Hall of Prince high school here has retired after 36 years in the field of education in this com munity. When Prof. Hall began . ;r 1911. there was but a small | building and 275 students. Today j here are three adequate build | 'jgr and 1,150 students. At pres :t nl the professor is planning an | historical oaper dealing with rae* i ■ Nations in and around Salisbury. ! I FHA ill Make Loans i ToF armere This A ear j i | WASHINGTON The U. S. | Department of Agriculture an nounced last week that the Farmers Home Adminfi.trz.tion i w ill be able to make approxi mately iltflSOi) farm operating ! and ownership loans ft urine the current fiscal year to white and colored ftenmerss who are unable u, obtain credit ! from any other source, ! Ttie>i* loans will he triad* out i of the tti fund authorised by Cmp-en. As nay been the practice during the last .feu years, veterans will rereive pre ! feresu-e Additional credit *Sd will be made available to farmers through the new in-wired mort gage program. HAMPTON Ti:\l HERS 101? BUND DF.MONSTRATF, HAMPTON INSTITUTE. Na.-- Teachers in Hampton Institute Sommer S« s««on classes for the Biinii demonstrate appliances used in teaching in schools for the blind Hampton was host August 18-18 to a conference of the Nation*! Sneieti of Special Education i! N.Y. LOOKING FOS ANOTHER NEGRO POLICE CAPTAIN New York (ANP) Police Lieut. George Redding, one y New York City's three ranking i Negro police officers, is expected, to learn soon whether he is eligi ' bit? for appointment as a cap.air-. ; Lieut. Redding, one of two NV -1 groes to take the examination so ! captaincy several weeks age will t disappoint thousands if it devel i ops that he has failed to pass th" ~ examination. Most -'' t> 35ft Legr :n<-rr , be rs ol the policy department at t willing to wager that Lieut. Red , ding passed high on the list j \ ciigibles. As one of them put ''Ceorge is a studious fellow. H *! has never failed before and h ■ "'has always turned up high on the 3 list. r Some months ago. Lieut. Erna.i •*el Kline was named an acting captain when Cong. Adam Clac ton Powell passed the politic <' card along that Negroes of this : ity were entitled to more recog nition. Chicagoan Linuoln’**- ' New Business Manager i ; CHESTER. Pa. here. Scott, who holds an ad - vanced degree from the University of Chicago, was on executive in the - I Illinois regional office of the War Manpower commission during the j war. Lily-White Union Faces $4,150,000 Jim Crow Suit Filed By Negro Employees •St. Louisa (ANT’ - A B<*. ISO ! f-f.Hi jimerow suit han£fi over Ihc h< ads of four aU-white railroao 1 tin tofts. following a peT.on stied ' here last w eek in United States District court by five- Neffro ris niuyes os’ the St Louis-San Fran cq railway company. Defendants in the suit are of j floats of the Brotherhood of Rai road Trainmen, Brolhvrh'Vki ol ' Locomotive Fmeinar: and ,En ■ Ordco. of v Co^ t aiders acti Srbtiierhooa ol L-i Hie demonstrators and the trots whose use they are illustrat ing ,ivr left to right. Georsf Mc- Clendon :Georgia Academy tor F.indj, pencil: George Jenkins -Chicago. Illinois, Brartif writer; Miss Ernestine Archie iPlney Woods School Miss.!. Braille slate, Mrs. Carrie R En/or, co-founder .Tsj&pP '.'A >K # ; William F. Boswci; BOSWELL MADE ADMINISTRATIVE INTERNE IN D. 0. W ASHINGTON C training and apprentice- I -hip u: -gov-: rumen: for approxi (Con'rinucd on back page suit, officials -tii those uaiofc attempted, both by d rod agree p>(j-.{ and D.v indirect ocuori, vo ihniiKb Negroes from r-aisTaati ; Suit Seeks Equal Rights- The petition includes the names • .id James 1... Til.'mon. Oktebom:; coy, Ok la., Theodore E, Harper i tonwttve Engineers. According 1 , James L Howard and N L. Bo- i n, afi ■•■'■ Ala. and I Ah. Smith Men'!.'"' TeH.ii TV. ( ' . ... of the \ilanla Metropolitan As •■ociation for the Colored Blind, (Atlanta, Ga.t. typewriter; Mrs. Anna B. Jon*- (Virginia State School for Deaf and Blind, Hamp ton!, looking on; and Miss Alberta Jones (School for Deaf and Blind, Spartanburg, S, C-i, cube rhyth mic slate. Photo by IV. R. Brown, Jr. J. FINLEY WILSON IS RE-ELECTED ELKS ‘‘GRAND" Philadelphia (NNPA.) Th> forty-seventh annual convention ! of. the Improved Bc’sevoleni and Protective Order of Elk" of the Tumid. closed here last Saturday ; ‘ter what is believed to have been one of the most successful ;: v.y-iems that tlit o.\ dec has eve; I*.fid. The coveted vacancy in the po s’lion of treasurer of the order s won by Theodore E. Green of Akron. Ohio, in a close con test with Loyal Randolph of Bal timore The office became vacant 1 v hen Dr Marcus Wheatland, : and treasurer, died in the early cummer. Finley WilsCn Is Re-elected J Finley Wilson who has held 1 trio office of grand exalted ruler : ->■■■ nearly 25 years, was reelected 'for another two-year term by act latnation. Joseph A. Brown of New York v ht\ was reelected grand es teemed leading knight. He has : held the office tor twelve years. Also reelected were Herbert E hones. ■■>: Washington. D C. • nd esteemed loyal knight, and Robert Johnson of this city, ■ : and esteemed lecturing knight Samuel D. Halsey of Reading. : Pennsylvania. w.as elected grand : i' icr, and Dr. Simpson E. Smith, oi Huntington. West Virginia, ’as ek-c’teri grand inner guard William 0. Hueston of Wash ington, D. C.. was reelected con • ,'ssinnc-; of education, and Ma : y .crate Hobson R. Reynolds of Continued on page eight | Pratt is Is First Negro S In Press Galleries j I vt-tsHIXGTtW (ANT) A. | check of facts on die first Neywt i •lew'sroan to be admitted to the j eorsreggfontU press galleries rc | \ '•»!<*« last week that P. L j Prattis. ». newspaper ant) mag*- I dwe * rtf»r, me seated in the | periodical press gallery at least. | four days before Louis R. !,a« j tier, the National Negro Press | agaecteiinnS bureau chief. ! An ASP caption for a photo r fast week MWiirMWlj Utd ».a«- -! tier nm the firs* Negro nem j man to he seated to the owngres j stonsl. press paMhrtos. The NNPA j chief was the first Negro jour i imsii.% to he seated in the gai ! fery for daily newspapers. RIP ROBERTS, LA. CIVIC LEADER ASKS 810 VOTE NEW ORLEANS AN!’- - "Not ,»n!v must Negroes become tegist . erert voters but those who are regis tered ;*> Republica-.ts should bc , itnt.- Dem<*cr,,;s Si. spoke Rip .obt-: r popular civic leader here •a ho is working for a large regis -gtion oi NejTO vot- s in the Cre ' ent city. Ko! i .fottn-i out List week that .- e were <•■■■:■.r N - Or lean Sr • es resist".red as Republican;--. He pointed out that it was more to the nithrrn Negro’s adv titage to he otric . nd remain a Democrat DEMOCRATS IN CONTROL "The Democrats e-'-ntroi the tier- L.-tis in the South end particularly i.i New Oceans. Ho • can we dc i inand better recrc-alional facilities : or the right to use our municipal auditorium or receive other benefits as citizens of we fellow Republi cans who never win an office here? Roberts was speaking at a meeting : of a group of civic leaders. “What we need is a strong regis i t rati on as Democrats. We can’t as , ford at this time to split our party .iffiliation," he continued. Roberts, who conducts p popular place oi business. known as "Rip’s ; Playhouse," has invited the public to come there once a week where he conducts a school for voters in an effort to make the public more vote conscious. Southern I niversitv (rets Lao School Baton Rouge, La. -'ANP)--Sou them university announced last week that, registration for its new school of law would begin <>n Sept. 15 and 56. The school of law. approved by the Veterans administration, is the result of an Jl month-old fight be tween Charles Hatfield 111. a war veteran and graduate of Xavier university in Niw Orleans, and Lvuiriani. State- vhiver.si’y here. Hatfield filed a suit against the uaiipei-sity last Oct. HI, when he was refssed admittanie becasse of hi- lolor At that time there was no law school at Lolisiarsa.s State school for Negroes. Snlthem uni* i versify. Although Louisian State uni versity won the descisicm in court, appropriations were made to Sou thern for a law library, also for a ■ ,-hool and faculty which totaled S! 10.00 ft HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION IT Highway construction costs in MH6 were 63 per cent above those : oi fiMI. Traffic deaths in the United States have declined from about. 20 per 1 0ft.090,000 motor vehicle miles r: JS2S to leas than 10 m 1946. ™— ~ ; Teachers, Principals Are ; Named For 1947-48 Year — RALEIGH City Superintend er, Jessie O Sanderson Friday an nounced the principals and te*ch : era for the four city schools, a to tal of ftfl including a secretary for the Washington High School, who f.,cc*d thousands of vocation-weary pupils for the first time Wednes day morning. Pupils in the grammar grades at tended school until !2 norm Wed nesday. and are following complete schedules, but first grade pupils will be released at noon Wednesday end for several weeks thereafter until they become arctisiomd to : school routine. Teachers and principals actually i began work Tuesday since teachers had to assemble in the morning for combined meetings and then meet their principals Tuesday afternoon. The complete list of toschevs sic as follows: Washington Kish School C. H. McLendon, principal; Mi* M;- V g*ref B, p- gg. TTbel T. NEGRO KIGKEB IN MOUTH BY WHITE SEAMAN ! SIO,OOO Damages Being Asked Along With Service Dismissal NEW YORK The Legal D»- •rtment of the National Ai.socijt ton for the Advancement of Col ored Pi oplc announced that it would take immediate action in be i half of a Negro mess-man who was brutally assaulted by a white I crewmember aboard the Lucken ! bach Line's SSt James Fenimor* | Cooper. NAACP attorney Louis R. Harolds ! disclosed that tie had been assigned to represent tin messmsn, Joseph j Deßlanc. in a sde . thus booming the first. Negro > school head in the history of this . 1 city Cobb's appointment brought to s - total of two the number of Negro educators in the San Francisco . school system Teachers and priti ciapls in the city's schools number more than 3.000. 1 A graduate of the University of Southern California and Texas col lege, Cobb is now taking post-grad uate work for a degree in education r at the University of California He j I assumed his new position when . school opened on September 3. 21 Farm Prisoners : Escape In Texas Storm : HOUSTON, Tex. fNNPA) Tak i ing advantage of a tropical storm that formed off the Texas coast and ■ struck Galveston. Houston and Texas City and plunged Inland ; about 100 miles before blowing it : self out in rain squalls, forty-one prisoners at. Ramsey prisoft farm, near hear, last Sunday sawed their i way to freedom, i Five were recaptured, but the i others were believed to have head ed for Houston. - Clark. Gecrgp C Exum. Benjamin ■IF. French, Miss MnrelJe v. Giles. ■ Mrs. Gertrude Harris. Miss Jean ette Hicks, Merriman C. Kill, H. T. Johnson, Mr*. Emily Morgan k:«v ) iy, Mrs. Alberta Livingston, -Jobfi ’ C Levingston. Misr Mae Edna x,i gon. Mrs. Joyce McLendon, Sirs. I Virgi.ua R Newel! Mrs. Louise F, Perrin. Mrs. Susie V. Perry, life*. - Etta Emren Toole. R. Herndon Topic. Mm Td-a Spans Washington! i Peter R. WilitfittmL Mtss Efffe M. ' Veargln. and Miss prxsdlla Mebas*, • secretary Washington ElflPetrtm ddhwl James H. Baker. Mrs. Ctonewg f. ■ Brown. Mrs. Ruth B. ■ Miss Helen B. Davie. Mrs Mary. H. Karl. Mrs Lucy P. Baton. Mrs. Mar i the K Jackson. Mrs Mild«ed.--¥. James*. Miss Doris L. Lsrkir. Mw*. : Faye Peace May;-. Mrs Lott tag Morgan. Mrs. Came M. Psw&dn Mrs Gwendolyn Y. Reid. Miss Msav ' the '. SoWwn Mrs. Kathiero L. L, OwtfwwMS on f*st . j.