EDITION
VOLUMN 17 No. 51
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THE CAROLIHA TIMES SATURDAT-D«€. 18, l*Sf
PRICE FIVE CCIIT3
5 BURNED ALIVE IN WRECK
yeoman Judge Leads Policy Raids
One Time Racketeer
Waves And Flees As
Cop’s Raid Starts
CLEVELAND, Dec. _l!6— (AN
spec^wle ni »
municipal judge, lilUan M. Weirt-
rope, leadini* a series of polic/
raids; of Benny Mason, Cleve
land’s bieereat policy baron, wav
ing to the raiding party as it ap
proached his place and then fl«|^
Jnc jo his car, and oi ciUs^t' in
actions expressed in daily |>apers,
kept tiite agog U»t week.
Judge Westropp w«nt along
with raiding police as ws “offi
cial obierver” to c#t an insif^t
into "conditiona 1 thought never
existed in Clereiand," she said,
C>ff1^«»r8 arrested two ’WoisuaL.and
two men for_ inveiltigatidh on
ganvbling charges and diaperaed
over 600 polfa?y players ait seven
places.
Mason, rciported to have made
$1,000,0^ from policy opera
tions several years ago and since
then to have retired on a pig
farm, was in his sedan when the
raiders drove up to the i^tot
which was previously known as
hi# headquarters. Mason «aw
them coming, and as the squad
car scrMch^ to a ato^ the ba
ron wa^^ Mwilingiy and a-
way. He lefttbehind a small crowd
which had held sl^ with the
name of his old >w^ed^ the ffil
and M.
raids
Iraeeived lat-
id op«r*>
After d
jiihjbed, ImdI dpilin
tom eoanilSiied
p«at bacaoi relief Aedcs tet
not ^en dMributed» a34«ir
^ other werds, huadud*
li«f sMoplo who had esft*a jnonejr
wwe forced to fpeed
inst«ad of policy^ anrf suggested
th%t i*y ont unworthy
people receiving: the dole.
—AjiatlWi who—sign fid—hin>ae»f
“Tax Payer," aaid, “There are
thousands of policy writers and
players and they at«, too proud
to fo Hi relief, i^eniy of fam
ilies wait until fome^e in the
house writM enough policy nnd
takes the percentage and brings
home food so the babies can eat.
If the policy game is broken up,
yoq may rest assured plenty of
CONVALESCING
LOST RELATIVES
Mrs. JHlattia Evaias op Wat-
••B. L#«t tin* k*ard from th«
msl*^ WM WatoMt hmwiu§ uuur-
riod a aaa Baasad Sam Wat-
■e« waa liTiag in. Dnrbaoi.
It U taaportaal tkat kar daagk-
tar, \m^j gat !n touek witk
kar iais**diataly. Any parson
or pavnsaa knewiag tko whara.
aboota of tkis parson will
|daaa aatify Carolina' Timai by
FKai«, J-TSTI ^ or Box S&
D.nrkaM, N. C. or call at affica
117 Paabodj St., thi* city.
Mrs. Franklin
Boosevell To.
Speak Sat.
Ice Ccated Highway Snuffs
Out Lives Of. Minister And
Party On Way To Funeral
AT DINNER GIVEN BY NAT*L
COUNCIL OF NEGRO WOMEN
NEW YORK, I>ec. 16—(ANP)
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE J-v-Afrs. Franklin Delano Roose-
JUNIOR ROAWD OF LINCOLN Vejt, wiffr^i£ the president,^ is to
HOSPITAL . ^ 1 he-the guest spacer at a dinner
^ ^ ^ I jfiven at the Phillis Wh-atloy’s
As the Chrislmas season neirs, YWOA, i-44 W. IdSUt Strtsit,
our heaiis are filled wit^ the SaKaflay evenihg, Dec. 18. Mrs.
%irit of Chrif^mas, not the (civ- Mary McLeod (S«thwie is presi'
ing of gifts to oar friends, but dent of the National Council and
the giving of oy
financial and parsonal }b the 9I- are Mfft. Clara Bu^rrill Bruce,
levii^s «f bamtfn tufUrmg, and . Mr«r LilBa» Alexandei
to he't> ^e len fortunclte feel the iblu Eunlca. Huaton Carter,^ Mr^.^
Spirit of Christmas, which we Sari price Patton, Mrs. Carita
have always felt.
Th« afue Spirit .of ClawBtina*^
Ministers Q i r d
For Home Plate
In Contest
—■ pO* '
The Minister’s Popularity Con- Rev. W. M. Puller also held
test now (being conducted by the his own last week and diowed
Carolina Times closed thi^ wet^k’s * signs again of ft>eing a possible
balloting with the closest count darkhorfje winner. Ttie grr«*test
Dau Cha*. S. Boyar, promi-
•eat aducator of St. Auiuttina
Collage. Dean Boyer wa* recently
hoBored with the title Daan Em-
aritiu of St. Auguitina in racog-
Bition of hi* long years of er*
▼ice as a member of the faculty
of tkat initltuUoB. Sinca retiring
froMi active Mlryice Daaa Boyar'*
kaalth is very much iiqproTed. .
V. Roane, Mra Cec^ia Cabanis
Saunders, Mrs. Habel Keaton
iitaupers and ttrn
IN KENTUCKY
W
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(Special to The Carolina Timcii) Rcberta of
BURLINGTON^ Dec. ta, D«;ath 1 Siancy Crmg
look a heavy toll *f liver; on the
highway near hear yestetday
when /ivet-persons were killed al
most inatant!y afler the car in
which they wero Mding plunge i
^ fff" a truck iteuE 5
mllei west of this city. Tho
wreck occurred on highway num
ber 10 which was‘cated with
ice due to freezing weather. Im-
! mediately aftCT the collision tho
ffosoHne tank on the tr5?lr'««*-,
ploded, throwing deadly fiamei
Sh^Tby and Miaa
WiR»t«B-SaI«»,
wfaich-qflkkbi _ .tmek that became
became -a blazing inferno and
burned its^ human cargo
j most beyond reco^ition.
•il-
both of whom received * jeVer*?
fractures, hums and ajMl
Mrs. Mary Sherad of Winstort-
Salem who received nevefe bum%
and fractures.
_ AerordinK to an eye. witn‘i£s.
of the wreck, Kim Mickens, who
wss aJao driidn* a truck from
Charlotte, he was drving ‘ im
mediately behind the Pontia--
car when it skidded and.plough
ed into the truck. He stated tiiat
as fioOn as the .the ear and ih«
Three Other occuDant&.jnmaca-
Williamson.
that has been regif;tered since
the opening of the battle on Nov.
17. Although Rev. T. A. Grady
■ pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist
■Chufieh clung to the lead whicn
he established la.1t week, ;t was
spurt of any candidate in last
week’s ballotim
Riv. _W. P. Co:
dak Grovs Freewill
church who jun^d^lEom the I4th
position which he held last week
neither he nor Rev. J. H. ^K>nt-
as of the Mt. Vernon iBaptist
church can boast of being with
in reach of the fl(M) worth of
prizes being offered 'by the mer-
cants.
Wftib this i^d nextweek only
l«ft to go lisfora the final count
is made the management fove-
jsees a bre^ung of all voting ve-
! cords of the contest ^ever&i
l^ousand extra papers have been
The balloting last week was printed for Durham, and the en-
unusually heavy, not only by'tire force of Times hac* bei>n
Rev. Grady and Rev. Thomas', working ardnoudy) all WMk to
supporters, but many supporters' prevent another sellout u occu-
of the oth^r minist«{B fihdwod I red la'|t Wjeek, when the offiee’.
much activi^ by ^rip^nff. send- was imatn^ with calls, for
ing or mai^ng the largest num- more papers.
feer of baliots to the Times office I ^Thifl week’s standing of iMMi-
since the contest started. ^ti^nts is as follows:
■Rev. T. A- Grady, Ebaaosor Bapitiat — -
-Ravt J. H. Thomas, Ml. Varnoa Bafftist — —
Rav. W. M. FuUar, Good Hopo BapMH —. —
Rav. A. S.' Croom, Union Baptist — — — —*
Rav. R. O. Langfoirii,! St. Matthtw CME —
Itevr'
Rav. W. F. Cosi^ Oak Grow Fraawfll Bra|rti«t
Rar. S. P. Parry, St. Mal-k AME Zion :
Rav. J. A . Valmlhia, Si. JoMpk AME —
Bishop H. L. Ftakav, Holy Taboraado » —
Rav. C. E, MeLestar, jSacead'Sevtiak
Rev. Thomas Moore, CoBCMgaltonal CShristlaa
6,260.066
— 6,SS5,000
— S,8B0;0M
4,680.000
»i«40.000
MOB.OO0
^ ^ 4.12^000
3.9QKk000
~ 3,M«^00ft
^ S,328,00«
2,810.000
Rev. W. Geo. Avant, Pia* Street FVillif leilaii -*• —ZtlltitlOO
Rav. O. D. Staalay, St. Tltii| EpIwa^lU#— —. — -^1^108,000
WlalMtkx. Mt. OM levtiat _
Rav. N. E. Hilijs, Wki«a l^«k Cla^aiiaa. — —4 ~ ^ t,iM,000
Rav. T. C. GMiam, West Dnrkaia Bmpikt —, — _ _ 1,100,000
Rav. F. W. Sow^i Ckarek of God — -—4 —• S3O,0O®
R^. Edward Lasiitor, Uaioa Grows Baptist — 7O8.0Q0
crime will occur."
“ Stai another wrote, “Ae> long
as there is a world there will be
gambling of some sort. The po
licy people are only taking what
is gfiven them. Policy is some
thing like a sick and accident in-
sunmce. You get x^ck if you
don’t hit, and it’s an accident if
you do. But if we are willing to
take the chance, what of it?"
proinpted the or^aipisation of the
Junior Board of Lincoln Hospital
and that JSpirit is th^ urge cf
our activities.
Since its organization' in July,
1934, the Junior Board has had
as its project, the Children’s
Ward of Lincoln Hospital. Each
I Christatas a Chrifjtmas tree is
put in the ward and on Christ
mas day each child in the ward^
is given a toy or present and' a
s;tockiBg of fruits, l^ys are also
donated to the ward as the prop
erty of the ward for the children
who enter to have some mean*
of amusements.
We are striving to ibe w»rthy , ^, „i„igter of music
of the commendation 6f the mas- j gion church
ter, “In as much as you did it , returning there after an absenre
unto the least of these—you
have done it unto Me”. I - — —
|Iously escaped death with Fe-
'rwis inJjjJles, asd -wwre ruah’d
j to a local hospital. The driver cf
Dr. M. Spaulding, formertruk, a , white i|jan, John
k«ard oX the Agricaltural De-1 Maddox, age M iescaped with mi-
Mrtment of A. and T. Colleje! i^uiies and a few ibnritt on
who is now an fnstructor of the
Acricu!ture Dcipajrtment of the
Kanludcy State CoUeKe. Dr.
HOWARD GLEE CLUB SCORES Spaulding i. considered onT\of.
" 1 the most outstanding men in hii
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 15 particul:r field.
enveloped, in flames. How any
the oceupan»^s of the wiall ca»
es-^ped without death, was a
miracle, he said,
^ ^— ■ ^
'Florence KT
Xhos; in.the cJT-werg en tiwir
way to attend the funeral of a
relative of Mrs. Shearard whiuk
was beinjT held at Chocowinity,
... . J N. C. Rev. Kelly and Rev. Rob-
( ierts w.re to hav. fa
^ the funeral ceremonie*
£oth the-truck and the lighter Immediately after the accld-nt
—(ANP)—The Howard Univer- ^——
sity Glee Club, directed by Prof. SUSPEND GUARD AFTER 3
Roy W. Tri'bbs was feature of the ..
evening service at the PiwkiCoTJ- CONVICTS ESCAPE
gregational (white) church‘Sun- >
day evening last The gu0^ or- * ^IHRMINiGHAM, Dec. 15—^I’ol-
ganist was Juilius Carrol, also of lowing the-escape lart Friday of
Howard, and Roibert Nolan sep- thrw colored conyiejs Guard J.
ved as accompanist for the Glee A. Swanton at Convict Camp' NoJ
Club. 12, was given a ten-day swpen*
Dr. w7scott Mayo, widely (1";
known musician was • installed
The Officers are as follows: Mrs. C. C. Spaulding, Jr. Treaau-
Mrii. p. W. Harris, President; * r^r; Mrs. J.'W. DavldsoTJ, Re-
Mrs. S. H. Cleland, Secretary; porter.
Ipha Phi Alpha Donates
Total Awards 0ft$5,250
To Aid Education
The Alpha''Phi Alpha Frater
nity has awarded for the school
year 19S7-193i8 a fellowship and
scholarship tunounting exactly
flil'SS.OO according to a repon:
f^pm the office of Dr. Rayford
W.. Logan of Atlanta University,
the .Fraternity’s director of edu-
catlon.~.
Prince A. K. Nyabongo, a grs-.
duate of Howard and Yale,
B. from Oxford, received fiw
hundred dollars to aid in the
completion at Oxford of his doc
toral dissertation, “The Religious
Beliefs, Ideals and P^ctices of'^
ha Ancient Religion of Uganda.'
One hundred dollar eci
were awarded to Vamell
Jr., Wilberforce University; and
I NAACP StiifiTightiaij For Con-
ded by-the county commissioners
for “neglect of duty.”
MiiielT^ts
Race
car, a Pontiac ^dan, wero to
tally destroyed from the catas
trophe. •
Those who met death in the
r-ar were Rev. and Mrs. W. H.
a larje crowd quickly gathered at
the i£‘cene of the tragedy wher**
".everal other minor accidents oc
curred, among whii.h was the
overtumincr of a beer t-uck. The
Kelly, William McKinney'of WK- j driver of the be r truck escapeil
ston-Salem, Mrs. Jane Hoag and j without injuries. Othtr cars skid-'
Mrf. R. H. Reid of .Greensbo'o. ded into ditches and fi*lds at at
Those injured are Rev. Jo^lnear the scene of the tragedy.
JOHN P. DAVIS LAUDS
RUSSIA IN. MOSCOW
RADIO SPEECH.
-oOe-
Miss.-
Willi.im
Lockwood. Mor^n College, Rol
, lins Winslow, Fisk University:
Benjamin Collier, Shaw Univer-j^j®*°*' Placet^ent.a^d
John S. Selden, Talladega Cal-
l^.*"
These awards make a total of
13,400 durinir the past two ye^rs
and $i5,2i50 during the past four
year#. Dr. Logan annouliced. Of.
this amount the sum of 8550 was 1 _ ^
awarded to Donald Murray., thJ ^P given up its el^i^
colored law student in the Uni- ^ justice n the
Clark Mitchell, 54-year-old white
man sentenced to be hvmg fof
the slaying of two Negroe?\
faces life imprisonment as..ra re
sult 0/ Governor Hugh White's
viction Of l^oliee For ! action last week.
• , Mnrdar Of'Negro Yoatk j Governor White commurited
CHAiRLOTTE.—in spit^'^f the , Mitchell’s sea^tence ta life im-
fact that a gnmd jiiry last week prisonment aftej'- -3 physicians
failed to retiirn an indictment reported him in nn^
Speak* To Million* Of Li»ten«fAi lealizeJthat the Soviet Union
stands today th? greatest force
for social good, for' democracy
and peace and progress that the
world has ever known* j,
Hie military might of the H*-d
Army‘ protects and serves not
o'ftly *fhe "Soviei peoples and the
Sociahrt country^
Concerning His lmpre**ioa* Of
SociaIi*t Society; Broadcett*
Greeting* Of Ne>jro People
To Soviet Peoples
_^MOSCOW, Dec. 15—(By Chat-
woofd Hall for ANP).^In the
American Negro, Johir P. Davis,
secretary of the National Ne^io
Congress, in a great broadcast
'from Radio Center, greeted the
I peoples of the Soviet Union in
connection with \the 20th anni
versary of the Great Socialist
Revolution in Ruci^.
against police officer L. W. Eow-
lin for killing a , Negri youth
Irere’em Novjember l^gfe tha MA
colored law student tlie Uni
verfity 'of Maryland. Five hund.-
rcd dolUlrs was granted to Dr.
W. Warrick Cardozo of Chicago
andJKTashington .to aid ^ his in
vestigation the prevlilence of
sickle cell ^nemia among ,Ne-
jproei
Two of the recipients, Dr. G.
L. Franklin, economist in the Di-
Unen-
sity; N«al A. Simeoh,
Institute, Chicago; and Le« Mc>-
Qee, Wiley College.
Twenty-five dollar scholarships
ArinowTP^®y*^^^- '"York
Department ^f t^bor^ and'
Or. John Lockett, Vi^g^la State
College, received tk« d*gree rf
doctor of pbUosophjr, from Co^
case. L9cal lea^ifSfisii®f jkji* N^^AC
P have advised 'by their at
torneys th®t-the case can be pre
sented to ^a new grand jury
meeting in January. ,
The killing of William Connor
• wkio-gpreod- indigrnatira amoi^
tiie: Negro citizens of Charlotte
and the campaign lauij^ed t»y
the NAACP for the prbsecution
This action follows v«V^o |i-
ly that of the Supreme Court of
Mississjpoi on Dcc.- S in afeain
overruling Mitchell’s appeal 'or
a review. Two weeks previoa.sly
the-.CQurt ruled against Mitchell.
The governor had previously de
clined to interfere with the -'en-
tence.
Mitchell was scheduled to be
h^ng on Friday, 1!)ecember 17,
l it. is , an ai my
which safej.^a ds the’ peace of
the world, he added. Mi^cms of
toi’ers throughout the world wha
wish to live in peace, free from
the threats of warmongering in-'
^ ternational fascism, take h*‘arv
I in the,power ^f the Workers and
Mr. Davis is spending several ' Army of the Soviet
as secre- j ^
Cdneet-nlng—arr^
weeks i|i Soviet jtussia
tary of the American
work«ra I me new SovTeT
delegation to the Soviet holidays C'onst'tution. which he has stud-
in hcnor of two decade of work- J* ^ seen in ^ ^action,
er rule^ in former ‘lyrist Rum1».- declared radio
West Virginia State Colleg0; Ga
brie! Alexander, Morehouse Col
lege; George H. Hamilton, Xa*
Dr. Franks's dissertetion. The
Negro Laltdr Unions of New
York wair publiiAed l^y the Co-
vivT Univenjty; Walter McLean, tambia Ushfetsity Press in 198«.
of Bowlin has resulted in a coro
ner’s_, jury returning a verdict of
“uitijust4fial%B h&inicide,” The
NAACP has received the aup-
wmiupu wiiiua~ miwi—
and this organisation is deter
mined to exhaust ewy legal
possibility to bring »bout jifft
punishment for
Bryant, aged farmer and his !|on
Coot
In his defense, Mitche^ has
uf-
Mitchey
claimed consistently that he
fered memory Jap;23 and that he
was not crazy although he had
been asked to plead inanity.
Following the decision of the
Supreme Court last week, Dis-
.stjytionsjif Red Square m^de on
him on Nev. 7. He said:
He is* accompanied by .»his,
^afrgaret Davis.
Prefacing jhis radio speech
with words of, “Greetings to the
Soviet peoples from the mas»A#
of Negro people of America,"
Mr. Davis ^then spoke of the im-
^tmon-
audiencer
have ^'een while I-4tave been
here the concrete proof that' yeur
constitution^ the Constitution
J firamedr by StaBin and otker lead
ers of the Soviet Union, is a
constitution that expresses not
thinjrs as you hope them to be,
jiat. tkii'Aii'iw aft-'-.-'feey--AC'tiaal^y- • ■
‘-‘As I stood on yoo*; great Red
Square in Moscow a few days
ago, ^andmg for hours as hnn-
dreds of thousand* of happy
men, women and chUdren rejoi^
ed on the 2Hh anniversary of
TP. Ithw fh!at Oetober aeflntdutio^i^ of f
"“Sf?. I kpe# tializ
ceived anonymous letters threat
ening him if Mitchell were hung.
Sheriff C. B. Buaby of Yalobu-
* (CoBtinued on page S)
f^ avenr citizen in fpst
countiy. I am an American Ne
gro. Unfortunately, itome of mf
white fellow country men N*rouM
d«iy us th« pnipltpges ^ ulijlWr
ship given under our Atamrliaft
and under your ConstitB^ea
but in your great eesM. £ y
son, no person who is honest and
who dedres.peMse aad.pMsvwrity
for the world eotid toil to
of the Soviat Coo
declares; ^