OFFER PLAIN FO END i\RMY BIAS •X***★★★** ★ '* ★ * * * * * DIES IN PLUNGE ,j p *.. j. 1 i>, . I ,, ' . , _ ——--■—— ——— COPY 16 Pages | NORTH CAROLINA’S LEADING WEEKLY j SINGLE JOc \ UIJ .VJE XXVI!I RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA VYEKK ENDIN'(I SATURDAY, SI Home at the Giady Hospital he: - early Saturday morning. Miss Wil:- n 'V- iu -d to thv’ Colored Clime, sru! wa . iun; \- :C ed dead by atrending ph.v.-ic-ians on arrival. R W. Bovct and R H Scott, ~..-• rolmen. read two notes let! i.y th<' student nurse - one addressed ic Miss Wilson s ro. m mate and the athet to Mis- Ethel Hilliard, her .in structor in anatomy and listed the death as a suicide COWAIUVS HAY OFT ••1 can not receive my cap," Miss Wilson v. rote in the nun to ho instructor, "so 1 will take- the cow aid’s way out." Hie capping cere monies were scheduled for Friday night, September 3, but an official ot Nursmg Service informed hi i Friday that she had Jailed in he* st u dies The note to Miss Hillaipd, an (Continued on page 8, Ist Section) SR. £NURSES ON FOLIO OBTY IN WINSTON SALEM WASHINGTON—tANBi— There : are five nurses from Pittsbu: rh. Jamaica New York, JjVju-hincton and Winston-Salem, one under graduate and aaide and i maid or duty to attend the 12 polio patients at Kate Bitting Reynolds Memo rial hospital, Winston-Sa j-m, C it was announced by the American Red Cross Mrs. Gladys Johnson, R. N . of Fort Worth, Tex., formerly an iti-: iterant nurse teaching home nun* j mg for the national Red Cross was recruited *r supervisory polio duty there by the American Red Cross. In a letter to Miss Lena Trott,! MCtcvui stem Area Nursing Ser | vice director, Mrs. Johnson said, “Day Ly day 1 find my Red Crcm ' tram mg helping to solve problems.! (Continued on back page) LAST RITES HELD FOR YA. EDUCATOR • '■ - v ", - i , L . r t , , HAMPTON, Va. (ANP)—The re main* of Mrs. Janie Porter Bar rett. distinguished Virginia educa tional lec.de, who died August 2i in Dixie hospital after a ;-S»ort ill ness were inter red in FJmerton cemetery here last week, fol lowing* funeral services in Bethel AME church Mrs Barrett was superintendent and co-founder c»f fcbe Virginia In dustrial School ior girl;., at Peake, Va., from li15 : -if)4b, She was prom inent nationally n women Y club wta*k. She wor; s Harmon founda tion award in 1R46 for ' inspir*- 44oii and. aehieemenl in educatiort 1 She and her bus-bund vm.e fctdfe g'<*dv*i*B of HwsSploc institute Uongressman Powell “Hasn't. Decided \ri srg YORK tANPi Con j gressut&n Adam t taytsti Pew- j til last week denied a pub lished repori that he has brok en relations with Congressman Vito Marciintouio and decided t« supper. President Truman. In a public statement the fiery Harlem minister and po Uticai figure made U clear that he and Marcantonio "are as l, lendly today as nr have ever been” and that "i have not de cided as yet whether i.i sup port Truman. Wallace or I)e --w e> 08, ELDER LISTS 26 ORANGES ON FACULTY OF NOG DURHAM - Two major appoint-1 !,rents, those of business lnanage' and dean of women, have- re-spec --vt’v gen- to William Jones, form . ; tu.-ines- manager at Fayetteville State Teach is’ College, who will report October 1, and to t-aiS-S! Louise M. Latham of Raleigh. N. C former a-sistant dean ot wont i-tt at Howard University, Mi-.- ; Latham began duties September j. Four leaves of absences have i r-rei granted to .Moo lia J. Blue -.f the Department of English, t- ~ ! Raleigh Morgan, French to Leroy' Walker, physical education; and t* , Miss Erma Stripling, assistant li- , : (Continued on page 8, Ist Section) PATTERSON DENIES ' KEGEE STUDENTS PICKETED WALLACE ATLANTA— (ANP> —ln an cm- | j phatic telegram to the Atlanta Constitution, local daily, which) I had carried a statement Thursday , ; that Tuskegee students had pick- j I eted the Henry Wallace meeting ! m Birmingham, President F D. Patterson, toid ihe newspaper that | ihe doubted tlie accuracy of the 1 | Pattersor* said t' \ not only did! lie doubt that in.j ruskegee tud-; |ants had gone to Birmingham mote; | than 100 miles to picket a Wallace: i ..’ottering but shat even it it weft | true, such an act was from the j ! point of view* of the adminsuauon i 1 j .it Tuskegee institute deely regret-1 I labife. "We share with those who hold I the opinion that the Progressive • 1 party candidate h entitled to a j ; ciMftebus hearing as is true of j •'• candidates of every other party; •, jvnd shade of opinion." Dr. Pat- j ,; tetrswr sa>d. “It should ot noted.; however, that the story m the At i lanta Cpnstitu*Kin varies from that I ■ which stated that the placard re- l • 1 appearing ih Birmingham papersi ' i sefcmid to merely stated the size j s! of Tuskegor- institute evidently as J (# tign Qi progress hi the tooth ” • NEW TEACHERS I MRS. GLADYS A. TURNER Mrs. Gladys A. Turner of Ra leigh i% a recent graduate of siiaw l nivetaify with a batch*- lar of Arts degree in elementary education. She taught the first grade at Spring Hope last year, she will teach one section of the lirst grade in the i uciilt tluntei School this term. Bruce !!. I tenting of Richmond. Va.. is a 1942 graduate of Virgina State College with a batchelor of science in industrial education and holds a Masters Degree in industrial Arts from New York L'niversi.). He taught industrial arts at the Walker Grant school in Freder icksburg, Va.. for & short time be REP. DAWSON URGES NATION'S CHURCHES TO MARK RIGHTS DAY NEW YORK Congressman William L. Dawson, Chairman of !hv National Citizens Committee for the Reelectlon of President Truman, this week called upon churchgoers throughout the Nation to reded irate themselves to the ;achievement of true democracy for , all Americans. The Congressman appealed tc ; ministers of all faiths to set aside I one Sunday durng the period Sep tember 12-26 as National Truman I Civil Rights Day. ! He urged them to impress upon | meir congregations, the individual : responsibility of every person tor i supporting the President’s Civil I Rights Program which he termed j "the essence of democracy and the key to world peace. FREEDOM NEAR “Freedom, peace and security are ! within our reach at this time," jCorrgresman Dawson said. He re | minded, however, that historically, | freedom has been bought with sac | rifiees often with blood, swea* ; and tears. He urged church congregations to j rally financially behind the Na i tional r trie experience teaching in this 2 ate. He also conducted a 90 voice male chorus in the army where he was commissioned sec ond lieutenant. He will teach pub lie music in the upper grades and direct the school glee club. Report- coming into the Nation ;.,i Citizens Committee headquarters: at the ESfTmore Hotel indicate that : numerous communities are moving; .full speed ahead on their Truman Civil Rights Day plans, i j "These encouraging reports are an indication that American citi zens have stopped murmuring; about civil rights and are pitching in financial!; 1 ., politically, and spir itually to jmake it a vital reality in our national life and throughout ; the world,” Congressman Dawson ; ! -said. Thomas Committee ! ■ To Question Hunton In Communist Probe 11 . I NEW YORK. vANP) Alpheus j Hunton, former educational direc . | tor of the Council on African at > i fairs, has been subpoenaed to ap j pear before Thomas’ House Corn- ; i. inf tie e on Un-American activities. . i Dr. Hunton has been ordered to produce any document; the Corn s' rnittee wishes to inspect. The Hun -1 ton questioning is expected to j | touch off a new phase in the cur - j rent investigation of Communist, 1 movements. {i The disposed educational direc-; - j tor of the Council • n African as-; ' i fairs, has been a difficulty with: lihis former associate D». Max Yer- j i gan since last December, when the j - j Department of Justice, listed their, s •rgar.isation as subversive. A left-j s | wing faction m the council, was t I said to have been led by Hunton i f : :o oust Y erg an who it was claim-! led was anti-Communist. CAMPAIGN DUE TO BEGIN FRIDAY AT MEETING A campaign to secure 1,000 new members and to raise $15,000 in cash will be launched Friday nigh* ' by the Wake Consumers Mutual j Association with a mas; meeting attended by approximately 100 out- i standing Raleigh citizens who have i been named as campaign workers, The mass meeting, which will be ' held in the new Cooper Building at Cabarrus arid Bloodworth Streets, i will be marked by the briefing of | the campaign workers who will be ; instructed to cover the entire city ; u, raise the funds and membership I Which will be used toward the! • stocking of the association's new ' tood supermarket. James A. Shepard has been cam- j r'd director. Other officers of the . campaign include: E. L Raiford, | ; chairman; Dr O S Bullock, C : 1 L Law, Mrs. Mary Lyon, W. H ; Thomas, Monroe James, Clifton | j Sills, J. W, Eaton. C. A Haywood, I ‘V. C Parrish, Mrs. Rosa H j ' Birdsall, Z.ack Ellis, Lawrence ] : Ltghtner Also, the Rev G. E. Cheek, the I ' Rev p. H. Johnson, the Rev William Smith, S M McCullers, | the Rev. D L. Thomas, J. T. | Locke Alfred Jones, Leonidas Fra j zier, Moses Lord, Joseph Stredwick, i ' A tty F. J Carnage and Mr: j Nora Lockhart. VIOLENT DEATHS FOB IS IN GITY OF! BROTHERLY LOVE PHILA.—(ANP)— JDeath was ; it well-fed victor in Philadelphia i ever last weekend as marital dis ; cord, possible foul play, youthful; ■ eanp fighting, mystery, accidents, drowning-, and a record-breaking j ; heat wave all paid the grim reapci ; : Wis fare, and his fare was a life— ; id lives all told. Nine persons died from the heal, j two young wives were allegedly j slain by their husbands, a 17-year- : old ooy died front stabs, kicks and ! i punches inflicted by 10 other j i youngsters in a fatal battle started j by a "sweater girl," two box cars ! came together and snuffed out the > life of a worker, j According to police, 27-year-old! Ralph Stroud and his wife, Barba-! • ra, differed as to who should be j i the beneficiary on his insurance, policy. He said his mother, she j said as- his wife she should be In j ; a tense and determined battle, j YA. TO OFFER NEW ! EDUCATIONAL PLAN ! RICHMOND, Va. (ANP) —Sup!. Willett of the local public school system told the annual pre-school | convocation of Negro teachers in i Baker school here last week that; a plan is to be inaugurated this j , year to train qualified teachers for j 1 administiative, supervisory or git- j ; dance posts The purpose of the! program is to give teachers an op- j • port unity of "advancing to post - j |lions Os tvlQre responsibility," where; ! openings are available and iridiv i iduals show they have the ability to handle the posts, Willett had anqMMjl this plan i earlier So white d - -#i meeting in the John school ! auditorium. ‘ FORRESTAL SETS i SUGGESTIONS OF CITIZENS GROUP WASHINGTON A seven i point plan for the ending oi seg regation and jimerow in the armed services was made__public this week by Secretary of De tense Jarnos For rest eh The report, prepared by a group of sixteen Negro leaders was the outgrowth ot a national defense conference on Negroes and the Armed Services which was started by the Secretary of i Defense last April It was slated for presentation to the President’s Committee on Equality of Treatment and Op portunity in the Armed Services which wc.,: created bv President Truman on July 26 by Executive Order, but which has not yet been I set into operation. j | Insistent | Insistent upon their demands j ! that “all types” of discrimina- ' ed, the committee admitted the j ; tion in the armed services be end- 1 j impossibility of effecting the en I tire desired change '‘overnight”, , 1 but. press o l determinedly for the ; immediate activiation of pro • grams which would lead eventu j ally to the desired end of ful" I equality ot' opportunity and e’uni ! ination of segregation. | The seven points which 1h v | committee suggested tow a r ’ starting *he process of bringini (Continued on back page) WHITE CONFERS WITH PRESIDENT ST WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON (ANPi In a ; conference with Walter White on i Tuesday President Tiuman ex pressd his disapproval of the anti Wallace demonstration which was canted out in North Carolina • the Progressive Presidential car ! didate attempted to speak in sev-; eral of the southern towns Just prior to this discussion with | the secretary of the NAACP. F | secretary Charles O. F - hud j quoted the President as saying he] ■ thought that the throwing of eggs ! ; and othr missiles were "certain-! jiy highly un-American business and violated the American concept j . of fair play.' The Wallace discussion between President Truman and Mr. White i was apparently incidental as th. ! NAACP secretary claims to have. (Continued on bac-K pagt-i EX-HAMPTON HEW TO NEW ! JOB IN DETROIT j HAMFI ON, Va. Ralph P j Bridgman, for the past four ! ; years president of Hampton In- j stitute during the coming year j : will serve as chairman of the De- ! partment of Family Life at Mer- I ] nil- Pa!rne° School in Detroit In *his professional position in j ; his specialized field of study and ; i service, ho will be engaged in j ! education for inter- personal and J ; inter-group relationships, with | I special emphasis on on rent-child ] relationshuis and family life. Mr. Bridgman, whose resigns- j ; tion h orn the Hampton presiden- j 1 cy became effective August 31 j has been on leave from admini : stration s.nce February 20. Mr. Bridgman came to Hamp j : ton Institute in February, 1&44, 1 ! after serving four years as Dear. ; nf Students at Brooklyn Collet Previous to that, he had spent 13 1 years in the field 01 education ! parenthood, A cum laude gradu for marriage, family life, and lof Harvard and a magna cum | ; laude graduate of Union Theo i logical S,. mi nary, he holds the j ! M. A. degree from the Teacher* ; College of Columbia University MIAMI NUMBERS MEN FAIL TO PAY OFF i MIAMI fANP)— More than 800 j j Negroes, whose winnings amount .to several thousand dollars, were 1 the victims of welching bolita a {gents here last week when the la* - ter refused to pay off on the win ,mng number, single two (2) rnak- Img its appearance tor the first ; time in two years. :j Single 2, said to have been hot ter than a cowboy’s six-shooter, was a difficult number to pur chase. Most books were loaded on the hard played digit, and writers | were warned by their respective j houses to discourage plays on the ; numeral. Persons playing with the Green House, however, sgem to have ex perienced most of the trouble. Two armed men sought a writer who failed to pay oil, but on entering his home, was told hy his wife! that the agent had gone to wort. « . _ 4 I . . '1 .. I. *».!». .1? »•» t «•*... I IN YWCA WEDDING Above ire shown \\. T. Jones of Dur ham and .Mrs Harriet Smith of Kaleigh who were united in mar riage September 2, in a. double nng ceremony at the Sojourner 1 ruth Branch YWCA, Raleigh. The ceremony was performed by Dr Robert P. Daniel, presi dent of Shaw University'. The bride's only attendant was Mrs. And Without Eggs BELIEVES WALLACE CAN BEAT THURMOND IN SOUTHERN STATES NEW YORK (ANP) jertnmqs Petry. leader of the Na lions! Committee io Abolish the Poll Tax am! former southern t edlatt, has declared that Henry A. Wallace, presidential candl in the south than Strom Thurmond, Dixtccrai candidate. ; date cn the Progressive parly ticket will get more popuular votes Writing in the New York Star, formerly known as PM, Mr. Perry expresses belief thai iho violent reception given Wal lace on his southern tour is ibt an accurate pictur of Lie overage southerners' attitude. He bases his conclusion on the belief tnsi the New Deal is still popular and that Wallace's identification with it has made a deep impression. Mr. Perry dotuuot say that the Progressive | party will beat ih& traditional Democratic vote but he firmly believes that t he "slate lighters" efiLrl' to revive the Civil war have failed. To sum it up the white columnists declars: "Most of the people d. 1 ! the south cannot vote. But the little j people, who really believe in democracy, who look upon Thur mend as a curiosity, who have seen how Truman's promises fare at the hands of Truman's party, will come out from under the rocks in surprising numbers to support the man whose concern ; for civil rights (Wallace) is most above suspicion of expediency.' | DIXIECRATS FEAR REV. BOONE MAKES PLEA TO PORT CITY | HOSPITAL BOARD LAST RITES HELD FOR BISHOP DARST j j 1 Sol-mn end simple funeral rites ; : were conducted Friday afternoon, j 3 o’clock from St James P E. ' Church for- the Rt Rev. f'homa . • ! Campbell Darst, D D„ retired} Bishop of the Diocese of Las*-. , Carolina. j A cap ’City crowd, including; ! two dozen Negroes, attended, aa did six Bishops of the Episcopal; I church art fifty clergvmcn from | ] the Diocere ot East Carolina. Five } i Negro priest;-; were ,- -en in the • ■ procession ; The Rt. Rev. Thomas H. Wright, ! ,D. 0.. jv ho succeeded Bishop! j Darst as spiritual head of the ! : Diocese of East Carolina upon, the j (Continued on back r-ge > TOLI MRIA S. C. | DR AFT BOARDS REGISTER 400 ! j COLUMEIA, SC- (AND—The . first day of draft registration saw i local boards swamped with men i ] 18-25 years of age signing up. At local board 40, in Columbia } township auditorium, alone, there ; were 307 white and 193 Negroes } . registered. The processing was done with- j I on; Incident, according it* W. K. : Turbevftie. chief of Richland ; eouttty weJeetive service system, j ! He said there was no “civil dl