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ME NT NmTABI RS— Mr» Susie
eeNimi f.ETAO SHKi) fMJ Stitt
Ann** 1 Neely «f St. Augustine.
1-M. wen “highest honor' amorrg
-171 graduates who received rti
pleirias and degrees during Tus
kepce In'titnte’s Summer Scl'GTtil
Boom Houston As
Medical Center
Houston. Tex, (ANPt Houston
> hould became the medical eentw
of the state of Texas, Isr K. W.
Hf rtner, president of, the Texas
Medical center h'-r<. declared last
w<ck
Commenting on the fact, that
Ho t are <S3»i,s3ls Negroes in Texas,
till only, 13S doctors to serve them.
i>r. Fortner said that it is time
for the state to do something about
the health of Its Negroes.
His plan is to set. up a medical
echoed at. Texas State univerßitv in
Houston, the states newly estab
lished bool designed to bait Mm
drive for Negroes to enter the
white schools. Key cc liter for this
•school. and medical education ~f
Negroes will he the Medical eon
ft”, itself. Dr, Bertner said:
“From the beginning the Texas
Medical /center has expected to con-
GA. TIGHTENS
MARHIAGE LAWS
ATLANTA AXP) L win be
i:. ic : :■ < a diffii ult to set mar
n rd G<cry,id now than it has
Jx-.n ■ i thf pas' because of the re*
retitly fxt.-sed state marriage laws.
I’ntJf r the new statures < ouples
w 1! have pa.v-. rrn-fIK-al examina
tion* before they will be issued a
liter >♦ The aim of the new law j«
to tut down on tht spread of sy
philis.
Bore is what a couple of lovers
will have to d< before they say
"! do” in Georjria. First lake a
Ihomigh p?. vs.ral examination
from a physieiaTi. Take their blood
sample.® !<• th« health department i
laboratory who,» they will hr test-
If the saji.pl-w v. l e Okay the •
health department physical will
niOi h p'-s-mariU)l cr-rtifK-ate and
j-nv* tc the applicants. At this
point the couple may seek the rna l
riagt* iiionsu- itself.
Persons objecting to the results
<■> ibe feats may app.'-ai m»«* P?u
per tor court, Connies- <v-» . cannot
afford their own i-bysf ;c :i- mav b r
tested by y. local b<.. ' officer
wiftout charge.
i feorKi-i'-c whe v, h y < ircum- •
vent the law ...y i* •rack if they
decide ro .< : if :he : .arc in
Jess than 6<t cays Jf they return
within the RO day they must under
go the procedure* required by law
Violators of tht statute will b<-
chaiter.tf with &. raisaenunuuM and
!'vc iriai .0 i ay court*
f'ominrrscement exercises.
Left to tight President t. It.
Patti rstiii: Mrs Neely: Pres, .fa
ce b 1 Keddix of fackson col
elegf in Jaiksen, Miss., and co?n
inenoi ment speaker and Vice-
Pie‘ii»itt 1. A. Derhigny. iANPt.
> tribute to the medicaJ educatiot, of
- Tt xas Negroes
FEW Qt'AUFY
s "One factor should be retuein
i tared In the I'nited States, and!
tspeciallv in the South, the preliu'- j
t inary eduratior available to No-'
sroe« has not hen such that large,
numbers could qualify to enter the
. medical school a
t
'Texas State university tor No
j groes will make more and more :
'* . graduates available for the studv i
cf medicine, dentistry, nursing
and pharmacy as the years go on '
Dr. Benner s statement is in '/no
with what the Negro medical and
r dental societies have been demand- •
ing it. their recent state conven
tions Both want Texas to provide |
for th* medical education of No-, 1
groes much, better than it has ir
the past
A recent survey puolicizcd by th
Houston Post last month reveElesi
the following figures oh the Negro •
:healtb situation in Texas:
DOCTORS SCARCE
,
A trta.i of 203 out of 254 coun
ties ir the state have no Negro
» doctors and 21 counties have only
one. Harris county, where Houston
; is. located, has only 20 donor* cor
.. 103.745 Negroes, but has 730 ocv-t; r< i
for 425,000 white citizens
Counties That, have no Negro dor !
tors bevy a population of 2*7,33-'
' colored citizens. Counties with •
only me medic average 15,000 • ifi
zens. o”.< doctor per 3,000 citizen* ,
•in tli. United States is consider,■
I €<: a heavy lead
i Negro death safe* !.•««•» on age ,
80 p«-r cent higher than those for
whites. Death rates per I.oo<i I
. jbirths ITT' I <5.9 compared to uily 2 7
fcl whiNs,
i espitf. these conditions The only
thing Texas has done for Negr
medical e.du<-atiou is u- adroit oro- 1
student to the University of Texas
medical school and ‘Va.'iti S" \
si7s,oC<' f‘r a twe-year opera; it), ;
fund tor a Ne.grc med'-.a'i schoo ! ' j
at Texas F!a:- univt .-wity. NV-thiia. |
has beer; dr.re fe a/rtuaily se-i ur i
a medical M*hool for colored stn- j
de uts.
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ROCKINGHAM NOTES
(gala WEEK US staged
BY HARIETT SPENCER
The Service Club cf Rockinghdin
(which is a ciuh to bring young
i people into the church and to pro
> icie w holesome entertainment for
, teen-agers, held the first annual
j Service Club Week from August
twenty-first through August tweu-
I ty-sixth.
The week beg; n on Sunday night,
t August twenty-first with a sermon
by th* pastor
Or Monday an lnrurma) sociai
w’es heirs on the law’ of the home
c! Mi and Mrs. A. B. Pemberton.
Everyone had i delightful time.
J On Tuesday evening a weiner
j roast was hr id ; -r» the lawn of the
• AME Church. Festivities then end
ed until Thursday evening at
’ eight o'clock when a watermelon
t slicing was held on the church
le wn.
i The week was climaxed with a
j semi-formal banquet which was
held in the basement of the AME.
Zion Church the Reverend Fred
Terry who is a young minister gave
the address for the evening.
- Following the Reverend Mr
Terry’s address, Arthur W Spen
! cor, president of the club, made »
! short address
A delicious chicken dinner was
i then served to approximately thir-’
tv members and guests. This was
1 e of the most enjoyable weeks
for teen-apers curing the sum me.. :
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LUMBER TON. S. C.
•WYATT CHAFFIN PAUL EDMUNS E. G. LACKS
CRAXtfXXTK CHAFFIN J. S WAIMN .IR,
! Raps Va. Cops For
Unsolved Crimes
B\ CARTER JEWED
Norfolk V it. iAN Hi ! ; No,
tolk acted on the :<iivi< -- ,>f Be-!
fat’d Shaw, note*) Engßsh ~: i>
wrigh* and stage exp* 1 1 and •!■
idded *i> kill i.if al! i;s criminal:--
ii would still need ftirtlier advi ■
how to apprehend them.
f’riminais in rec<-nt years ha*
hen getting away with mm-ue-.-'
iii -his aeashore eity. Too it:auv o.
SAOWS SRAKRH
SEINSTSTES 3
NEGRO WOMEN
Vv'asingtou <A.sT) - Three N •
gi‘> women. Mrs Mart Church T
rell. Mi-- OTelia Cromwell and Mi--
Mary E Cromwell, were r*?in.-'ate«! !
in the Washington branch of the
American Association of Universi- 1
•y Winner al the national head- .
quarters last Monday night with
around 10C women in attendance. ,
At the same meeting a new presi- 1
dent was elected io head up the j
completely reorganized bra noh. j
which is composed only of those •
members who did not withdraw i
from the organization when the I
j AAI'W convention voted by more
, than 2MOO to iess than 7.” to make .
‘educational qualificatious the sole,
, requirement for uiemhei-ship.'
the branch of which she had be. i
The local branch split w heii Mrs.
Terrell a graduate of Oberliu Col
lege applied for re admission into:'
a member since 1905. In 1.910. how
ever, she let her membership elapse 1
due to pressure of other duties.
1-ast year she applied tor reinstate
ment upon the insistence of Mrs ,
Clarence F. Swift, a former college I
mate and long time friend.
This request brought about a dis- i
pui.e among the members of th**.
local branch which resulted in the'
adoption of a by-laws provision giv
ing this group the right to screen !
applications Upon that, technical
ity. Mrs. Terrel! was barred from
membership. T his movement
brought the mother organization
into the fray. After --a.rc.fu! cons id !
* eration the national AAtTVV side*'!
with the minority decision stating
: that alt qualified college women,
irrespective of color had a right :
to he admitted to the organization.
The members of .’he local grreip
who refused to comply with the na
tional organization’s decision, with
drew from ih« group and establish
*d what they rail a University,
.Women’s chib which operates only
as a local organization.
The Cromwell sisters along with
Mrs Terrell, had been members-; of '
th*- assoi Tatiori for some 3fl years.
PAGE SEVEN
'hem ato never caught. This j- ,-..
’.»x-iai!y tru- the victims of th< ti
cri’ n inal - .sr*- Nr-”r-n-
There is tin- case of James Dig*:-’
aho r< wanted in eonn-nclion with
The death ->f his wife and • w<» -ad
dren early this summer. J>iggs.
who used to drive a. truck to ihe
, Norfolk Nav> yard, maijuged <,j , ;
jivvav himself and to mak;- awe,
with his truck with on; being ;,p
preh-iiflrd nntii now
APoTTil;> TWICE"
Spoiled in sevciai j.‘i;io:-s lu
North fa folds:.. Diggs has „ .
i’uii/Oged to slip away !>.-< ,?>• - -
;h:'.v showed !,]:. H: was •v. , .w'•■■
:!o 'innnd an oficer crßk’allr by
i)«K>ting him it. the mouth whl -
lie was being yu--'amf-d in an a::
;r, irbih.
Nt> -.Uie was ever a I>;n i-hcn-i <| ;ii
.the rape-m-urder ot v, Negro gi<-'
whoso nude hod* w.is 10-iind in a
vacant lot ;it the ••orn.-:- if ii--,;..
land Landing Streets almost two
years ago. The x ictim was kilb- i
' by strangulation and unless Johi •
uie James, who was
mi connectk>n with the rape-mu:,r
.of another yoiiug woman here laic
I last spring, is the same men who
'is responsible for the first re. ,
;n<> one has lieen brought to iusti.-e
|for the first ca >■
, In another case a young girl w»*
|raped in the back yard of a i-.>si
' deuce in the Berkley section r
Norfolk last spring. When the
| owner came out and discovered the
■man. he made off with the girl
on the bicycle and has never been
caught according to latest reports
>«n the cast' available h< re. The man
■ bad already attacked the .girl on
: the front porch of the home but
i tiK/k her around to the back when
ho heard some one in the house.
A white man in July abducted a
three-year-old colored girl.and went
! off with her on his bicycle, but
’be has never been apprehended so
i far as reports on the case are ccn
i corned The child was enticed ’•■■:•
’the offer of a nickel, according :.
iher brother who reported the iuci
: dent to the child's parents.
The child wa-s found <«i the third
floor of a pickle plant at 10 p.c
•’by an employee when ho tame ;
ibis, job She had ben left in
, locked room.
Ho!ice combed the vicinity u the
(pickle plant but no trace? of the
abductors were found.
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