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VOLUMNE 17 Nk 36
rot CAROttNA -i TtMCS SATURDAY SEFT.' 4, t#31*
FIIICE FIVE CEim
FIRE DAMAGES ODD
Secretary Of Federal
Council Of Churches
Replies To Dr. Work
EDIFICE
New York, Sept i(AiNP) Coun-
teriQg tbat he had obtained and
even distributed his material after
public lectures, before he ever saw
a «>py of Dr. Monroe N. Work’s
-address in Birmingham giveA be
fore the ^Southern Sociological
congress last April, Dr. George E.^
Ha$»es, excutive secretary of the
Federal Council -of Churehes, this
week denied Dr. Work’s charifes
of pkgiarism.|*-^ —-
The controversy began" when Dr.
W-ork, dtractor of the Oepartnjent
of Research and Records at ,Tus-
kegee institute and editor of the
Negro Year- Book, declared Dr.
Haynes appropriated tl>e context of
his address entitled, “ProWem of
Adjustment of Race and Class in
the South,” delivered April 3, and
was using it in a series of articles
written for a national weekly und
er ttve titk, “pr. Haynes Dis
sects Heart of Racial Problem in
America.” ^
Tn his reply to Dr. Work’s char
ges, Dr. Haynes aaid, “I am great
ly surprised thati with your repu
tation for research and records
and my long c^nflde^ce in you a:s
a scholar and gentleman that you
should igake such a grossly false
accusation and give it wide pub
licity Ijefore you had examined
the facts. I urgently demand that
you send me at once spociftc par-
Ucula'rf lo which yoiir complaint |
refers;
“All the concepts, ideas, and
much of the lanj^uage in my arti
cles to which you have referred
■ijwere publicly presented with mim
eographed outlines distributed by
the hundreds at my lectures given
^a^'^e ’PuWii ^|(^.uma of ,D|Be-
Moines, la., February and March,
i936; Minneapolia* Januai^ 1&37,.
ahd Dayton, O., Mtfy 1-15, l»St,
which was before 1 saw you at
the time I delivered my adJreSs
at Tuskogee op alay 30. My lec
ture material was drawn from each
authorities as Riapert Vance, Fred-
Fioiida Papar
Probe Ended
St. Petersburg, Aug. 27.—A par.
agraph editorial in the St. Peters
burg Times here comments as fol.
lows on the ‘ investigation” of the
double lynching which occurred at
Talkhassee under the shadow of
the state capitol on July 20.
“An investigation into the lynch
ing of two Negroes in Tallahassee
got nowliere, just as .everyone,
i'After my Tuskegee address familiar with Florida justice, ex-
yott spoke to me about ideas in , pected.” ~,
erick J. Turner, Joseph Schafer,
Kimball Young, and government
publication; my mimeographed
outlines listed many of them.
it similar to yoUr TEfrmTngham
address of which I told you 1 knpw
You /gave me a copy
which I glanced through on the
train and later returned to you
Your hasty judgment that I have
ai(3)bed (ita any way uiidtbical is
herefore gross error and seriously
unfair to me.”
Whiteville Leaf
Market S h o w s
Big Increase
^—.—_
Whitexiiifi-£l>??J the ipecond fall said and done—if you will hSVe
BUSINESS EXECUTIVE
Ten Thousand Look jpn
As Blaze 6s $20,000
-J-:
Damage To Atlanta Bldg.
TO COMPILE JURY LIST j Atlanta, S^pt. (ANP)—Fire of
WITHOUT RAClAl} I unknown origin, begiiming in the
DESIGNATIjON!^ 1 seveth story *l^f grarden, result
By Albert James
Charlotte, N. C.T-Sept.—ANP)
Bowing to the U. S.
court’s last Scottsboro decision,
Mecklenburg county will compile
>a coiw?4e£e Ufew Jury list v^ithout
designation of either rale or rol-
ed i 'damage estimated at $20,-
000 to the Odd Fellows building
Mohday night as" 10,OW) persons
supreme of bo*h races viewed the great
est conflagration ever to take
place in Auburn avenue, site oi
the main Negro buainees section.
Slips of paper in the jury box
The roof garden, known as the
Chib Royat, W99 deserted when tW
blaze began which is considered
now have the names of whites in fortunate. It may be reached sole-
blark ink -Ind the ranies of Ne-jly by a lone. stew-nMwring clever
f groes in re^. There are approxi-1 of linaited capacity which would
mately 10,000 whites and C25 uol- not have brought many persons to
^ j safety. There is no fire escape
In January, T. K. Harrison, a j leading from the roof garden to
well-to-do, highly respedted the ground.
fanner, served on a jury whiib|_Trafftc on Auburn avena« was
convicted a white man. Harrison ^ stopped for three blocks each way
was the first Negro to serve since approaching the building as the
Reconstruction days.
sales we^ with tobacco " prices
more than> pleasing to .^11 farw
ers, While quantities of ^ashy
or common grade have ftoojdW the
market, reducing the general ave>
rage price, it has no effect on the
better grades, which have sored to
price* jyiat even , lurprised the
growers. The only displeased far
mers are those who realize^that
the i>ric*s are ejtceptinalfy %obd
and their tfbacco is nit ready for
Btje.-Scores of farmers have not
sold ft leaf aa they have b^en too
tiigy doping and curing, getting
their offerings graded and tied.
Grading is a sloW process that re
quires good eye», Sense of touch,
and ’;ti of care. A little gre^
good tobacco, grade it well, and
-it Witt *«S1 wellv All bttjrers *re
buying heavily and there Is no in-
dieatl n that prices wiilde;line, lu'>
there is no assurance whatsoever
that prices will stay as strong as
they now are.
Information coming frtJItt the
‘eastern eblt indicated ratheFS^
l&Vge ftrop. _ Opening aalea showed
a flood of common grades selling
very tow. The average was under
of the WhiitevlUe bperlng
salei, .Naturally with an over pro
duction of aommon types on -the
border belt,^nd thus cause the
general average to be low. Farm
ers should bear_. ip inind that the
general average i» bated on every
The Tampa Tribune^ in a recent
editorial states that evidently the
declaration of the state attorney
that the coroner’s jury verdict—
death at the hands of parties un
known—^“just about ends this thing
is as far as Leon county is going
to go i the double lynching.
Following the lynching, Gover
nor Pred p. Cone isautd many bold
statements to the press declaring
jvhat he was going to do about
it, but like alf' lynching Investi
gations left to state' and local aut
horities, nothing was Sne. Flori
da’s Senator Claude Pepper was
one of the leading opponents of
the federal anti-lynching bill in
the last session of Congress main
taining that the federal govern
ment “had no business’^ invading
the states to punish lyynchers be- Berry for ANP) For the first time
cause the states “would take care ' in the history of Njw Yoik’s un-
of^the crime in their own way.” derground railwaV systtm, eleven
wbo
Geo. W. Cox, Vice-Pre»ident' irhanio and Farmer* Bank
and Agency Director of the N. i» lometime* mentioned a» the
C. Mutual Life In.urance Co. “fLittle Napolfcon* of the in.u-
and Vice President of the Me- | ranee world.
Mrs. Marion W. Alston and
littla son iBobby of lSl6 Fayette
ville Street have returned from a
two weeks visit in New YorK
City. Mrs. Alston ^as accompa
nied home by her sister and brot-
her-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. firriest
Allen and their two daughtejs
Shirley, and Particia.
Negroes May Serve As
Gonductors For Under
Ground Railway In N.Y.
New- York, So^t.—(By Toai.uiy
Avenue Lines and may serve as
engineers on regular pasenger
service'. 1.^
According to William R. Tollivor^
Str-^cboTai^face, at least
or b’uf mixed with good bright . i ^ a i
tobacco reduces, the value. Grade
well and it will sell well.
It is the opinion of warehouse
men and buyers that farmers
should sell larger piles of tobacco
in’ order to secure better prices. ... . ,
Warehouse fees would be lesaland''
your profit^woald be gTpater. An As evidence of this high record
indieatioQ.. of wH'St big baskets Whiteville is gaining new patroni
Pi' J. Hook»i sold 788’ Ibg. at
rot mean that the grade piie«8 In
all grades is high or low. The
IWhiteville market has maintained
a very high grade average through
out the pretteirt-^eason and by iom.
1^.00 per hundred. This aame
ajnoifnt aepiB^rate^ ov»t in several
would have ^old fqf less and the
charges would have be^n greatfer
Another aale, Mr. Tedder sold 8flfi
lbs. at 1^.00 per hundred. He
made mor# net profit by selling in
ppf ba^j^et. Bvery farmer all is
daily;- Seasoned farmers oan not
be fooled by erroneous informa
tion and theP^re known when
t}»«y sell in Whiteville that “they
are f)n ^he bridge that will carry
them over safely,” The sales to
date ahftw th».t the Whiteville
Market is^ landing last year sales
by neariy fwo nnlllton pounds,
NO ACTION EXPECTED
Says N. A. A. C. p.
iNew York, August 27.,—J!?*e of-
fical burying of the widely'bera'd-
ed^ investigation inta the double
\ynching jin Florida djes not. sur-
pr'sa the N.' A.7 A. C. P. asCiJrJ-
ing to a statement f.om the as
sociation today.
‘ ‘'We did not believe that Fi->
rida was gfoing • 10 do anything
afcojt the dou'jle lynching,” sad
the Istatentent. ‘ The record of tha
statls is tfto lcng*and too black
and the. whitewashings have gone
on far so many decad?s that it
would be a modern miracle if any
southern »tate actually ran dawn
lynchers and brought them' to
trial. This is one more proof, if
any were needed, that only a fed
eral anti—lynching law has any
chance of checking mob violence jn
this country.”
—statps'aF'cojKTuctors on tHe new
required before becoming .eligible
to serve as conductors. The con
ductors must then s2rve„two years
more^ before they can tc.ka the
civir service examination to be-
;ers. In a rc;.nt ex-
ered one of the finest Negro build-'
ings in the nation, wfcs erected
in 19'12 by Den Davis, s^;,^. former
Republican 'National committee,
man from Georgia andproniinent
in fraternal j(Krrt?r5, at _an estimat
ed $20,000. It was later lost to
the ill-fated National Benefit Life
Insurance Co., ind is at preaent
owned by Henry Pitts, whke, who
hold a mortgage and is said to
have bought i( for only
A. Scott, founder of the Atlanta
Daily Word, had completed neg
otiations for its pttrctaae *4^ had
mads a down payment of fl.flOO
a few hours before he was' shot .
mysterioasly and fatally injured
in February, 1934. *
The building h0'jse>s offices of
the P.lgrfm hrsuranee Co., the N.
C. Mutual Insurance Co., .\tlanta
Urban League, Guaranty Life Ins.,
Co., Americarl Missionary Society,
ir.'sident; Mrs.Clare Ls Bue, Phil
adelphia, financial secretary; Mrs.
Austine Williams, Lrttle Rock, ir.
two hours to subdue the flames, j 1 esponding secretiry; Mrs. Virgie
bringing into action the 60-foot, Waters, treasurer; Mrs.
water tow^er, last used when three ' Marjorie^, Stew4rt Joiner, Chicago,
whites were killed in the Cable | parliamentarian, and Mr. Charles
Piano Co. blaze downtown. j L. .Evans, St. Louis, >»;itional org-
, The Odd Fellows edifice, consid-J anizfer.
crowd gazed at the burning tower
which cast a reflection seen for
miles around. Firemen answered a
cit^ wide alarm and* battled for
—The- N.- A. A. C. P. indicated
that the whole stoi-y had not been
told In the Florida lynching. There
are persistent rbmoirs ^that. neither
in t^ stabbing of' a poiicemah.
of the lynched boys was involved
The N. A. A. C. P. stated that it THE
A REAL MERCHANT
fim^ation, 144 conductoj^ were
eligible. Out of this number, 82
passed for promotion. 11 were col
ored, and -71 white.
The duties to which these motor,
men are assigned before they up
regular passenger service is the
prepai’ation of trains, for regular
iu..s, taikng them inl and out of
service, and working in various
fctatio^s and yards. As the sys
tem extends throughout the Bronx
Srooklyn.rManhattan, and Queens,
including the new Flushing Wor
ld’s farf linesi there men go on
beivtte as they move^ up on the
list.
•WirKam Toiiivot-was- a|!4>aiat.-.
cJ „ssistaat dispatcher, but declin
ed the appoittbm«mt bocau^^a be
was on the motorman’s list. He
I . a. th.: only N.gio to pass the
' a 'slar.t d spate hers examination."
' Tolliver, who is enthusiastic about
I nis wot It, says the sysitem is con-
irolk.’i by one of the mast p.;riect
' safety t!;v-iees known to engineer
ing. ~A sniashup is Jiighly impro-
babiJ.' Thd trair.s'^re controUeo
excl-si/eiy by automatic time sig-
nal!|, for^ instance, if a motprmah
should die at the controls, tht.
tra n, stops atttonjaticaily the in
stant his hand leaves the thrpttle,
the train sto ,.t;
This system ij know as the “Diad
Man’s Valve,” and throws the train
nto automatic cont^l. ^
WONDEHFUL SYSTEM
THOMAiS BAILEY and Fowler and Picket streets of this 1 kind in Durham. Mr. Bailey is as-
hoped to have the full story with- Son grocery store and meat mar- ' city is one of ^the lai^est and I slated by his son Thomas Junior,
f ill a'few waelcs. 'ket located on the comer of, r beat operated ‘businesses o its I a student at N. C^.CoUefe:
The motorman is guided by «.
red light that flashes in his cabin.,
If any coach door is opened t
sixteenth of ali ineh, ihe train nm.
not start. Through the ma»e o
intricate red and ' green ^nals'
these trains pass' at the rate o'
four minutes apart throughout
^-hour service. The express tralai
with only limited stops, reach a
speed that mifbt make passenfcij
TOURING THE STATE
Lieutenant Lawrence A. Ox*
ley, federal goverSiaaent reprea-
tative who is on an ^inspection
tour of the government employ
ment agencies of the state. Mr.
Oxley viaited Rocky Mount,. Wii.
son and other eastern cities last
week. 1
jittery if they thought of going
hundred and twenty blocks !•»
fifteen minutes.
Tolliver said that w2itn'i”moiar-
nnan, for the first time, touciiM
he controls of a train in his sai.ill,
ooth, it' is a thrill that
onqe in % life time. To see traioa
racing side by aide under the gra-
is wiMt RMst^^iatorirsMsM '
feel when they’re racing through
he clouds. Then, he said further,
thesae jobs were^ first brought'Ja
the attention of the Negro thifvajjii''
■i^a ■ ,:i imir, pa(pi| —
and through the Broth*vkoa4 ^
Skepiag Car Portan^
Philip Randolph ia th«
said this waa a iR
Negroes ~ war* afVVMill*
tias tkat har^ofan itkiar