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TAYLOR IMPRESSIVE IN DEFEAT; RANKS NINTH Prominent Winston-Salem Matron’s Career Ends POINTED PARAGRAPHS LUCIUS L. JONF.S COMMUNISM SURE TO DiE ONE HUNDRED and eight* persons first engineeded the Corniminist Party piatl'onn and pi,nyram <d' racism an ! o'ovej nnu’iital s e i z u i c and control. Today, there is an estimated rigid million Com munist in the world. Her fact that this great surge, numerically in tilt* rise <>t < iill■ inol>i>tit- propaganda and "HCtl 'dictators- has spread like ivild-fire, makes a majority t'l ilio nation lielicve that Com munism, it mil curbed at the expense cost of war and human bloodshed, vvill overwhelm the spun of democracy and vv ill lead to the domination of ail nations which believe ill tree enterprise . . (by imperialistic and avaricious ( uioiiiiinisvie C/4IS | The people who believe that l.oniiminl.sm will live am!, may eventually dominate democratic ideals that will be- destroyed arid C: lishrd In sniilhel ecus, do not look a: the univ<r u! menace. Commun ism fiom the eorceet point ol v iew j tic correct viewpoint is that «>od. The Heavenly lather, does not hms tolerate siiilul i.ess, unrighteousness, greed, materialism —1101 imperialism, colonialism, racism, or any oth ••r types of "ism", heie will be no blessing or .tv Lorn the Heaven b other the fkinful and infatnotis. race Jng Communists. There will oe blessing or mercy from the fr-- ator for those Americans, and oth er nationalities, who -profess to be standard bearers in defense of pure democracy and freedoms ol speech, from fear, of assembly, and of per sonal security . . win. . at the same time, persecuting and prose eiitiiig minorities of various racial groups, notably, Negroes and Jews. There w ill he no blessing and mercy from God for any na tions, states, cities, towns . or their population groups . , , if they arc wicked, iniquitous, aml excessively suit us without a heart and moral consecleme tor repentance and redemption attd conversion before their Heavenly Father. God does not too long tolerate avarice, paganism, and political corruption ambling . . lying cheating . . cheating . udui t, i v . drunkenness . . prosti tution . bootlegging blasphe my and general sinfulness whether it is tiie condition ot a few «,i the many humans who make trouble in the whole universe. Re gardless of tilt fewness «nS the manifold, God does not love ma terialism. love ot wealth, and love of unchristian pleasures . and wains that money is the root of all evil. American leaders and states men denounce am! flay the Germans, the Communists, the Nazis, amt the fascists . . and can't see the beam in their own eves, allegorically speaking, hut can see the mote in others’ eyes—which is in the form of Undemocratic hypocrisy instead of democratic sincerity lor the exeteise and utilization of Uir t hristian principles ex jnessed in the Hill ot Rights, Ihe !>ec!aratio» of Independ ence. amt the U. S. Conslitu {ion find, m His due tune, will pun ish all the materialists, the pagans, the infidels the rave-haters , ttiji those who .-.t.ilid fur racial set; regatmn and discrimination ar*B other Unchristian deviltries. £•0111 se God disapproves of •mmag —and endorses right truth and right shall triumph amt prevail eternally. But «» the lla> of Beckoning thrre (Continued on page 4i Jlppp * V -‘T • ifev— MOURNED Lament shroud ed the nation as Mrs. Irma Henry, wife of the prominent Dr. John It. Henry, Winston- Saiein, C-, passed May 2 af ter an illness of a single week, funeral services were held in first Baptist Church, with the 3tev. David ft. Hedgety officiat ing- Mrs. Henry was a graduate of Winston-Salem Teachers €oi- Sr.ge and a teacher at that in stitution as well as in High Feint, N. C.—(See story page 3) ~'ll'. 1: ; • ■ ‘ . ' . * !! AI .K It; il. NORTH CARPI .IN A WEE K ENDIN’! i SATURDAY. MAY 12, 1.151 VOLUME XXX NUMBER 22 Nation’s Colored Populace Mourns Death Os Leader WINy TON-SALEM. N. ('. Funeral rites tor Mrs. inna Neal Henry, wile ol Dr. John R. Henry Si., wt'ie held here Friday at First Baptist Church. She had been id a week and died May 2 at a local hospital. Olliciatiiitf :.i the funeral was the Rev, David It. Ilediiey, pastor, and the Rev. Kenneth It. YVil'uwis, alderman and pas tor of vVest End Baptist. Church WIDE EXPERIENCE Mrs, Henry had held several im puitauf gusts including a job as Area Principal Welfare Officer for UNRRA in Germany. t Fur lii months sin- headed a learn of workers who took care ol 12,000 displaced persons in Ger ngn cities. While in Europe she visited many countries S!n- had travelled in nine European countries in 1937 with a study tour. She directed, several years age. a local WFA Home-Makers Train ing School and later became a State WPA consultant in Raleigh. Later she worked with the State Board of Health and the Raleigh Housin'-/ Authority. ONCE NEW YORK WORKER 22-YEAR NEWSPAPER PIONEER Lucius (Melancholy) Jones New ‘Carolinian’ Executive RALEIGH - Lucius tMelan chuh i Jones, managing editor of She Atlanta Daily WORLD, only Negri, daily in the world. H i-2 yeai> and managing editor of Tile Pittsburgh Courier (Louisiana Ed itioui. New Orleans, for nine years until March 13 1951. has just been added to the stalf of THE CARO LINIAN. effective Monday, May *7, ns editor-general manager, of The Carolinan publishing Company and member newspapers, it was re vealed. Saturday afternoon, by P R. Jei vay. Now in his twenty-third year as a newspaper pioneer, 40-year-old Lucius Jones is re garded as the No. i Negor sports authority of the country and one of the most scholarly young journalists in the Negro newspaper profession. He was an honor graduate and state wide spelling champion of Georgia in grammar amt ele mentary (raining i»i Stores School and Bell Street Junior High School in Atlanta, Ga. He was valedictorian and elass speaker at the 1928 commence ment of Booker T. Washington High School, Atlanta, and re ceived a coveted trophy from the afternoon white daily news paper, The Atlanta JOURNAL, as lies! all-round student This award went to "Melancholy” Jones because of his amazing vei xaliiity. TOP STUDENT At Booker T. Washington High, Junes had .i straight 95 average for turn years, 1924-1928, earned 3t> Scout Camporee Successful; Regarded Best in Many Years RALEIGH Thu first Bov Scouts of America staged in an urban site of Raleigh's prominence was a de cided success heiv last week-end when some 500 Negro Scouts rep saipaouoaop aqj jo sjtuti ituttuas.) • Council joined with white Council representative units for the annual event. llslnr ChavK park r-ocH'a- •> turn area as base fur activities, the Negro Scouts spent two full days in naritefatinr in all piuises of the Camporee, includ ing a presentation to the City of Raleigh by the Council and a paradfl. PARADE STAGED | The parade, stapeci Saturday morning, presented for the first time before an.v urban North Car olina citizenry a gathering of near* (Continued as pare «'» v Fur awhile she worked with the New York State Department of La bor and the New York Division of the American Red Cross. She also has been a teachcer at Winston-Salem Teachers College and at High Point. Sim was a graduate of Winston- Salem Teachers College, studied at Harvard University and received a master's degree from Columbia University. She also attended the New York School of Social Work. Other survivors are a son, Dr. John R Henry, Jr . a local physic ian. a daughter. Miss Natalie Hen ry ,a technician at Kate Bitting Reynolds Memorial Hospital; a brother, Arthur Neal; a sister, Mrs. Evna Ellington of New York: arid two grandchildren. varsity letters as a star in football, basketball, baseball and track, and also was editor of the WASHING TONIAN. official student organ, 4 years, and was high school spelling champion a baritone in the glee club, e member of the debating team, and a lead character so the school's annual operetta in the City Auditorium, Atlanta. While a freshman at Atlanta University, where he had a straight "A" scholastic average, he was freshman editor ol the campus or gan, THE SCROLL, and, after the merger which changed Atlanta University from an undergradu ate college to a post-graduate uni versity, Jones also edited the CLARK MENTOR, campus news paper at Clark College, .Atlanta, where be finished with honors At Clark. Melancholy Jones earned varsity letters in four sports, taught elementary journa lism to Ihe English classes, and wrote a duima of college romance which was staged as a play on the stage *ii the chapel of Clark Col 1. ge before a packed audience Jones earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at Clark, majoring in Eng lish, m 1932, and ihe next year, 1933, earned a Master of Arts de gree Irani Atlanta University, where he also majored in English, lie closed ou this educational ca ieer in 1933-35. when, after re ceiving a Bachelor of Science de gree m Elementary Newspaper Principles at Ivledill School of Journalism at Northwestern Uni versity. Evanston, 111., he took a it onliuued on page 8i Woman, 45, Nephew, 3, Furn T o Deal h As House Walls Cave In LA UR IN BE KG Two chil dren were burned to death and their father seriously injured s n a fire which destroyed their four-room tenant home here early Monday, Dead are the 11 and 14-yetur -o*4 mom of James McDonald, 35, who is now receiving’ treat ment for burns about the head arms, body and leys The father was rescued from the fire by a passing’ radio rind, Jacfe Carroll of Hamlet. SEPIA 'LADY OF SPAIN*— Ihe lovely trim* \ aleneia, Spain’s Am ba-ssadoress of Soup, tx eiirreiitly ’winning friemls ami influencing people' (by the thousamls) at New 4 <*rk'«, swank Hotel Maurice. During her five months in the Elided States, the versatile singer. si In expounds in Spanish, I rent'll, ami of course, English, (with <>, out a guitar) has had hardened Anieii'.ans beating a psthwaj I &( *Sf. * NEW EXECUTIVE Lucius L Jones, 23-year newspaper vete ran, is new editor general mana ger ot The CAROLINIAN, whose publisher is Paul It. Jervay. Mr, is rated as the No. 1 Negro sports uuihoiiU of the. country and is with the Raleigh weekly news paper after 14 years with the At lanta Daily W«rid, only colored daily newspaper in the world, and The Pittsburgh Courier (Louisiana Edition! nine years, with both as managing i-Uitoj and national sports columnist. MOM, BABE DIE IN FIRE CHARLOTTE -- A 45-year-old motile i and her three-year-old nephew were burned to death Monday afternun in a flash fire : that gutted the one-room shack in which the two lived with the moth er’s son. eit'ht-year-old Roosevelt | Potts. The woman was named Mrs. Rosa Mae Potts and her nephew j was named James McKnighl Potts The pair was burned fatally ! when the file started and she walls and the roof of the house caved in. Both were sleeping when the ca tastrophe occurred. Two Killed, 1 Hurt OXFORD. N. C iSPECIAL! Two colored persons were killed ■md a third was wounded in a week-end gun battle near this town. Dying in Cheatham Hospital here after the Sunday morning affray on the Stem highway about three miles west of Oxford were Ezra Green. 38-year-old woman, and Willie Cozart. 27. Two Doctors Win Council Seats In Fayetteville and Greensboro RALEIGHVoters in two North 'Tirolinn cities on Tuesday elected : Neemes i . their chief governing boards Voters in eleven • other : Morih Carolina cities in which Ne groes made bids for offices failed - 'hi so. In Greensboro and Fayetteville, j '-bn' *- Negro candidates triumph* : ed in campaigning for city council ’ posts. their races were considered • »:«. iti.mi brilliant in the field FAYETTEVILLE At Fayetteville, Dr. W. P. De r*oie > who was elected to tin- cit v ding board in a sensational lIWP Jttempt. was on Tuesday re-elected ♦ > that position by receiving the inchest number of votes cast among *‘u> ii»u Jive of ten men seeknis! '•lection, thereby being the ■•high man" in the balloting. r.KKEXSHUItO At Greensboro, a nothin physic •»<i, l.;i William M. Hampton, b<‘- iint Ihe Negro councilman netting a total ot 5.219. the sec -1(1 highest number received by -even successful aspirants from a ! • i--'d of 13. wftVßOli. MADISON, ROCKY MOUNT Civic leader A H. Bryant, seek •••E the sixth ward nomination for ■>*e Rocky Mount municipal board i'hs defeated in last week's pri mary balloting, as were Negro city lost aspirants in Monroe and Mad .£[lll CHARLOTTE F.ven though he took an early lend in the race for a city council neat in Tuesday's final voting, Kel •y Alexander, State NAACP presi d»*u .showed lessening strength as •irecinct reports continued coming 'n early Wednesday. He finished m (Hh place out of the running. Dr, James F Wert, seking elec mift to the Charlotte School Board “Iso showed a great strength at ! the polls according to early tabu | talons but was losing ground as \ later reports were being tabulated, j He was defeated. ! GRANDPA CHARGED I WITH ASSAULT ! "WINSTON -SALEM— A 42-yeai i odd grandfather will face court here : ihts week in a preliminary hearing j on charges that he committed criin : final assault upon his 8-year-old ! grga.4-daughter. ! Young Lawyer Who Tallied 1,771 Votes In Primary Threatened Until Final Precinct Ballots The “underdog;” candidate in the April MO primary and the May K runoff for se\en positions m tile City Council of Kale igh finished “out of the money”. .but v\as one of tlie most impressive and most o olorl'ul aspirants for public ol'lice Ketereif e is to Herman 1.. Taylor, progressive and sciiolarly young Kaleigh a<vyei. who tallied 1,771 votes ip the primary on almost exclusive \e»To votin'*- support and scored 2,210 votes in the Tuesday balloting to challenge for a seat in tne ( itv (. ountnl through returns from 19 pihurts. TAYLOR'S t AMi*Al(irr?.\r, PRAISED Then* is unanimous agreement ;>i political circles of the city that Taylor conducted a wise and ethi cal campaign against his eleven opponents for the sevi n seats in City Council. There is strong support and sen timent for Tavior running again when the next primary is docket ed. He probably wili then make a stronger bid as he is gaming in popularity with white as well a. colored voters —as was evident over his extreme popularity in the vot ing campaign just ended. BRIGGS, MAYORALTY James E Briggs, the hardware magnate of Raleigh, which is aiike !y candidate for tin* mayoralty, was the most meteoric figure in tlu Tuesday votinr He took an early lead and was never headed, piling up the impressive total of 4.385 votes Briggs was unchallenged but the voting was close between the sec ond and seventh running candi dates in the cumulative balloting. Fred B. Wheeler. John K. Daniel son, W. D. Martin nod B. B. Rot. son kept up a hot pursuit of iho leader. Briggs, but were nearly a thousand behind in the case of Wln-eier and more than a thous and behind in the eases of Daniel son. -MaVtin, and Benson the four lmvhrg 3.904; 3,640: 3.427 and 3.282 respectively, while there was a heated battle among the remaining six aspirants for the remaining two HOW THE CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATES FINISHED Candidate Total Vote 1 James K fir? •e s \ sf, 2, Fred B. Wheeler ..i ~ ~ i 3. John F. Danielson 3,(104 1. \V. 1). Martin 3.127 •*>. B. B. Benson ... a ’ 3.282 6. Martin K. Green 2,949 7. Ben \Y. Haigh 2,880 8. W. W. Merriman, Jr 2,825 9. Herman L. Taylor ... 2,249 10. Walter L. Bagwell 2,238 11. W. G. Knloe 2.214 12. Mrs. Stella K. Barbee ],886 | VET BEATEN . ‘ -affß I over 2 year, in the *v’ ■' J 8 places with Marlin K. Green hu nilnre dealer, and Ben W. Haigh ouldi.'tiineing (he other c;mdidatcs with 2.949 and 2.886 votes respec tively. HAIGH NOSES IN "Out of the money" but strong in the precinel-tu-piecinct cuinula itve votiiv: were VV. \V. Merrimun. Jr. eighth with 2.825 votes: Her man 1. Task;., ninth, with 2,249 Vole-' Waiter L tenth, with 2.238 votes; W. G Inloe elev enth. with 2,214 votes and Mrs. Shelia N Barbee, the only woman candidate, with 1.18(5 votes Taylor was still in the race and had an outs de chanty- to win through ballot reports from I!) of the city’s 20 precincts At that point. I’avlor, 'who had tallied over 600 m the virtually all-Negro precinct and -.94 from another precinct in a heavy Negro section, could have won a place in the City Council had he bt'i ii able to garner at h as! 638 vote: which would have giv ,)qt .to ao fo[[!!e, ojams <■ :im; u.i winning seventh place campaign er. Ben W Haigh. whose 2,886 vct.'s were jus! 67.7 more than Tay -1 ' . 2249. POPULAR CANDIDATE Herman Taylor vVa.s popular and magnetic m defeat He s\ acted an e.-,t limited 700 oi more votes from while voters and. for the most ipa-rt, none of the candidates relied on race issues to gain their votes There were, a few who did rUk raeistie imiis abuni Taylor ‘>ul lay lor m.nlr a belter showing than In'- race-bait ine oppohents Bryant Loser In Election Si.' !. ii IiAICIt Ii X HOCKY MOUNT iSPECIAL) Ir a hutlv corit, ‘sit'd race lor ths position ol st ond alderman in the sixth v.i I. commonly known as 'he "little Raleigh" and South Reeky Mount section. Alxarider H. 1 i'uffv. Bi vuSit. prominent Negro business man and civic leadei was deb-ated by GeOi si* R. Wood, while "d dr'' ibutd” b> a vote of <n»t» ni'.: in Hie May 7 primal', which ian!ii|)ioiim in election The ac tual ie. \! week is oni ' a formality rin vole much lirhter all "ouiid iban vitieipated since near b Hit in whites and 1031 colored ■■'■eii- registered tor tie- contest i'.iei ''--el hy fn the most inlei'- esting ol three h -racial contest here in i e<-i nt years. Mr K'-.viitn entered the race after tue while candidates had filed for the mealy created post and shortly the: cotter the five "got for the thereafter the five got together' and four withdrew in favor of Wood.