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VOLUMNE «8 no. 3
DURHAM. N. C. SATURDAY JAN. 15, M38
micc FIVE cuns
Fight On Antt-Lynching Bill Stilt Raging Jh Senate
Local Business Man Is
Freed By Lower Court
Of Vanhook Slayinfl
Shortly Before Tommie Heard The News
JUDGE W. H.“ Murdock pro-
Bidinff 6ver the Recotders Conrt
here Wednesday exonomted. T.
D. Pftrh^m, jjrominent business
man of Durham of a manslaugh
ter charge for the slayini; of
'home earlier in the day and had
told her that he was goinc to
kill her hiuftiand. *
Parham took stand in his
own, defense and told how Van-
hook had slpaped him a year agro
James ft. Vanhook here on Tues- and had ts^qcized him and his
family sine* that tfane. He testi
fied that he was afraid of Van-
hook as a wild animal. The de
fendant also teatified %|^.to
Mr. Vanihook had- "^beaten his
young son Ward on the day' of
the shoting.
MEMPHIANS RILED' OVER
SLAYING OT NEGRO
POSTMAN
day evenJn? Janurry 'i-.
The bearing which consumed
most of the morning session,
and a grcater^ai-t of the after^
noon was attended by a packcd
courtroom with Attomey Victor
S. Bryant and Attorn^ M ..H,
Thompson roygaseot^ng - the--Ae>
•fen»> and S. C. t&rawl«y, jp»*!Cr
cutinJv attorney of tbs Tl .^xiers
Court assisted l^y AttoyiJjr"'R. 0.
Everett, representing the state.
Numerous prominent persons
According to tsstlmohy of
PtriM^flcyAihook. giv
ing him eonsiderable traubl«
I over a printing Job' which hs had
! failed to satisffictorily get out
for him during the Christmas,
of the city were bn hand to testi-1 . , , ..
' and had threatened to sue hnn
and his entire family. He tcsti-
, had been mispelled in getting
fy to the good character of the
4f^^4*^nt, including Sheriff E
G. Belvin, City Manager, H. A. '
Yancey, Dr. James E. Shepard, I . *irs i.i.„
prealdLt of North Carolina
College; C. C. Spaulding, pve- “«e™pted - - -- -
sident of the North, J^arolina If
Mutual Life Insmance Company;
J. Franklin Barfield, fi\actioneer^;
MEMPHIS, Jan. J5—(ANP) —
Many cititens this Week were
outspoken in criticism of the po
lice .dfspartment for what th«?y
term the wanton, cold blooded* *
slaying -ef George W. . BrpokSj J
a colored, mail carrier, shot
four times ind killed by Dt. Sgt.
A. O. Clark, as he sat in his cnr
at Iowa and ..Main Itreets. ..
Clark SAki that iBooks shot
at him first, the buUet gtirg
■bstween liis legs. He was exone
rated by Chief Lee., The car-
i ricrV Blsying^ Allowed a te«p
set for him by Clark, another po
lice official named Fox and R. H.
fied that the wrS ^'ieautician—- Tomlin^n,- poUftrffice .inspector.
A young white woman who
claimed she had been annoyed
over a period of weeks by a co
lored postman, was told to meet
the man at Iowa and Third st^.
Police say JB ooks drove up to
FIGHT INSULTS OF WHITE
THEATER CORPORATIOH
More than 1,000 students of
.lor- ctt and A. and T. Colleges
f w II—iiold a mass meeting in
Tommie Walls. Htile Mejkleiftur^ Xetra rwfiri Bt atwppetf- .After brinit asswe^ pieture
«aa te bave died for first degi-ee^nrKltu-l^ Friday, not be used in detective mai;a7;inis. Walls conwnted.
is SBcn as hs was Interviewed In Wsrd?n H.' K |‘'I’m innocent, bet I'm not* afraid„.to die.” b? t(.ld
Wilson's •ffloe Wednesday. Three hours after this j TIIMTEH Reporter DoWitt Caiv.:ll (riglitt as the t»;ioto-_
ptaotogrsph was taken, word came tliat Governor : xrc')!! was taken. Wa-i'en K, K. W>' an ii senl-fT
Hoey had commuted his sentence to »ife ininr.'-o-i- ' .•*t his tlesk to the rifht cl Walls.—Siaff r.iolo liv
ment. Walls at first would not allaw his picUve to - JTchn Lonrcy. , ■s ■/ . ^
— Z ;J»Koto- Courteiy Raleigh Times)
Green sib oro Fiiday evening at
a o’clock for t’-'.e purose of fur- j
thering- a boycott of the , locnl j
whit-e theaters es a ptotR'rt i'
against the resolutions passed at '
the meetir.g of the Southern
Theatres Incorpowted which t p-
posed Negro and white actor.^
a^pea- ing in mction pictures on
an equal social basis.
The students wbQ h»ve alrc-idr
-boycotted the theatves are c»ilm
I upon other citizeus of Greeiis-
j boro t» aid thenCin t'leir effort.
I and the -ma.ss meeting is expected
to-be attended by a large nijm-
i ber Ne^ro theatres goers out-
SUCC . Mr S ’N TREN!TO«
NEW JFRSFY
avail to
Van-
'hook by telling him that since
he did not get the job until
Dr. S. L. Warren, "prominent i corner, that the young V3-
^)hysician; J. C. ScarWrough, deliver it to overlook j^^n entered his csjV-Jfeiilt as the
prominent undertaker; Rev. M. . . | police 'ran forward she sprang
Fisher and many others who did , liow out the opposite door. Dt Sgt.
not actually testify ■ a^ to the Vanhook entered his esta- ^ clark said that as he got into the
good character of Mr. Parham, j Wishment on the night of the fa- ^ front seat to place Brooks under
but "were present for that pur-
SiJ^uthern Senate Leaders
T h r e a t e n Dem ocr a tic
Split Oyer Lynching Bill
side the two schools.
pose.
Judge Murddck stated that het
did not feel that there was a jury
anywhere that would convict Mr|
Parham under t!ie evidence nre-f
sented by the defense.
Mrs. Edith Parham, wife
the defendant tostiJied
Mr. Vanhook had called hei’
tal shooting with tiis left l^d m-rest and take him to the station
in his pocket as though he had a . r i ooks fired,
gun. Believing that Vanhook in-1 ’ gut friends of the slain man
tended to carry out th^ threat ^.here want to khow why the post-
office inspector, Tbmlinson, ^d
not prevent the murder, and, if
rUe of
1 t,hai
to kill him he saw him standing
outside the door he opened it
in the manner afore described
and started shooting at his legs.
When Vanhook kept advaciiig he
stated he shot him in the head.
Centinned es pag* eight
iTames Bailey, Jr. Passes
Afler Slioit HIness
-oO»-
sentdtive of the Royal Knights of
King David.
James Hart Bailey, well kniwn
son of Mr. and Mrs. James II.
Bailey of 1.213 Dawkins sttHiet I „ „
died at the home of his paren'ts Baileji’s work in the field
here Tuesday morning January I ^
10, from a paralytic stroke and Relief Admifu^i^-
other contributory causes.
his annoyance of the white wo
man was known, why wasn't he
srpested4-before^ Broeks’ fri3U.U
insist there is great uneasiness
among the Negro personnel at
the post office. Fewer Negroes
than r sveT, it la ^ported, are be
ing separated frM^'the service
ing sepera^ed from th seervice
on the slightest pretext
OPENS NEW TYPE OF COM-
MERCIAL SCHOOL IN
CHICAGO
CHICAGO, Jan. Ii5—The. Chi-
cago f^oard of 'Education at the
Although " Mr. Jailey had been
slij^tly ill for several weeks it
was not considered of a grave
nature, and those of his imme
diate family did not become
alann^ w)tete.^h^efi4»|>lain«d of
. not feejing welLSwhea he made
his usual week-end trip from
,^ens|^ro he^e fast i^turda}'.
The deceased was bom in Dur
ham and attended iha {ititblic
schools here. He was a graduate
of Kilherforce Universiity in the
class of IftliS, and also attended father
the. Atlanta S^chool of Social two sister
Service in liSSfr-8'6. , '
“ Mr. Bailey’s first employment
after finishing Wilberforce was
with the Fcaternal Bank
Relief*- AamtfuBtFa-
tion. He was later empli>yed ^
an interviewer of the Nortji Ca-
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. —
Senator Josiah W. Bailey, erst
while leader of the Baptist
church ran amuck in the senate
here today in ^ tirade . against
Negroes in his speech opposing
the anti-lynching bill now before
the uipper^ hous^ ^
Charging that' northern “So-^
ciatists had captured powerful
positions in the Democratic party
and that they were trying to
force the anti-lynching bill on
the south the forffier smhassactor
of the Christian religion faix'ly
foamed at the mouth as he wprn-
ed the supporters of the bill,
it passagt wo.uld possibly mean
a split of the Democratic party.
was the same old jackass bray
ing about “a white man’s gover
nment” that use ot be heard in
the senate in the 'bygone days of
tAilaibama’s T^m Heflin, and
South Carolina’s Cole Blease. It
was the best monkey show seen in
the- senate in many years.
Senator Bailey could not have
had a more disti‘essing nightmare
r.ug^estion ef Superintendent W.
H. Johnson, has established a
nfw lypef of cH«mercial school
for the befiefit young men
end womicn jyho arc desirous of if he had filled his'^elly with OA-
rolina Employment Service, and fittir. jr themwlves, iii* a thorough rolina fatback. Yesterday he.
manner, to pnter the field of pWtured the 13,000,000 Nlegroes
business at [the completion of 'J' .■Vmerica seizing' the United
their high Mhool courses. j'States from the more than 115,-
'The sciiool is sftuated in the '000,000 whites and* controlling
615 _Plyniouth *^he Democratic party, the federal
was transfsrrsd several weeks
ago from here to Greensboro to
continue his work in that parti
cular field.
UpL iwtil t|be time of his depsi'^^ loop dialrict at
about (he Negioes in Penn.'^yl
vania and the other states,” he
declared, “but when you oonie
down to North Carolina arfd try
to impose your will on us—-in
that hour, so help me God, you'll
learn a lesso^ you’ll never for-
get.’»
The senator said northern De
mocrats eliminated _the w, o-
t-'.irds rule for nomination of a
presidential candidate “in the
twinkling of an eye” at the last
Democratic convention;-
Cetering To Negro Vote
“Now a party is being mad" to
cater'to the Negro vote,he
shouted. ‘I give you warning thdt
no national administration can
survive sudh a step.
‘'TEut you say the people of
the south won’t be aroused. You
I
FOUR SOUTHERNERS .HELD
IN FATAL SHOOTING OF
CONSTABLE
Mrs. R. E. WL'liu-.i.;. diud Ia«t
week in Tienton, N. Ji at tlM
home of her daughter and and
son in law. Dr. & Mrs. H. SB'andT.
The funeral was held at° the
Mt. Bright laptiat Churdi, BKti^
boro. N. C. of which iba had
been ^ member a gre^ aMBy_
vf.'ir*’.* The pastor Rev. A. &
Johnson preached* 'the ftmeraL
The burial was held at the famSy
plot of the Oak Wood Cemetery,
Hillsboro, Scartjorougb Under-
rtMkbia in thafgei. —
I Thofe out ol town attendn^
the funeral were;. Dr. aed * Mrs.
Howard il-undy, Trenton, N. J.j
Marvin ,€. Williams Washington,
D. C., ,.sen; B. C. Howard, Wms^
ington, D. C.; grandson; MrK
L. Thompson and ms.ster Howard
Taylor, Wilson ; grand daackter
great grandson; Mrs. Mabel El
liot, Durham. Mrs. Lillian Jaeh-
boycott of all white, theatres son. New York City; B, "fit. Berry,
catering-jta Negro patrons,, whb W bitted, ^artto
are members of the Southern ^ ineertt. Graves Vincent, K. Ki'
Theatres Incorporated. J lone, Mebane; Mias S. V. Cald-
*Protesta from the North Ca- well,'Chapel lliil, Geo. Elliot. L.
rolina Inter-Racial _ Comm^tae Parham, Durham,
and several other or^ranizations, ■ _
■ li. B.' Austin, editor of the
Carolina Times and other speak
ers have been invited to appear
on the program Friday night. ~
Asit now appears ^ othe-
schoolS throughout the state will
join the move started by th?
students of the two Greensboro
sghools, and in a few weeks the
I leaders hope-to have a state-wide
ESTIL, S . C.j, Jan. 15—(AN
i P)—Deputy H. C. Mixon said
I last Tiiesday that Cleveland Far
mer, 22, had. been reipove4, mov
ed, to the Staie penitentaiary
hospital after he had confessed
he had sjiot and killed Constable
_ Kenneth Co’wgan and seriously
j wounded Ma^slrate N. A. Pat
terson here on Monday night,
1 Deputy Mixon said that thre;
others two 'of them 'named Far
mer, the othef RoSch, had been
arrested in connection wi^^the
shootings and taken to unnamo'd
jai’s. Magistrate Patterson an 1
Constable Cohagan Vere driving
both white and colored, have ul-
ready been for.varded to the the
atre organization,
learn
it has been
sliiuie Suecumbs
Lying in state beneath s
ket of roses in the. Alice •
blan-
Free-
where she graduated. She was a
cultured apd refined person, cou-
and
man Palmer Building, the body! scientious f in aiii of hep | ap-
f Miss Ola Glover, nurse at Pal- proach to life and a s^dendid «x-
I mer Memorial Institute for 18 ample of womanhood. She held
fe&ts, was paid final tribute by a position cf trust in Va. b«-
t'hi “students and teachers an 1 fore coming to Palmer Memorial
need not woi^y la;bout that. They two prisoners when they stopped
will respond
responded.
Among lother
tors who sp(
were
Tenn.)
as they'have always
a truck to question the drivpi-
about reckless dri'ting atrd^ driv-
t
southern sena-
ke against the bill
Senator McKellar (D.
who read statistics to
■ing without proper lights. -
Th^'Cfficers said? offupants tf
. , , Henderson Institute at Hender
friends from the state and other
states. “Tiiis occasion is for me,"
said Dr.- Gotton, president of
eommSttedj^^, ii
that I onlv oi
ture for his new relief work in ^ court, easily accessible to puiii’s, goverhment ¥na""whafno?s
Greensboro. Mr. Bailey was Sup-' from'all, sijctions , of t}»
erinteniient of the Sunday School ^Th*q central loCfition will
city, j Refute* To Yeild
^ also “Well not yeild”, he sai'a,;
of St Jose(ph AME Chur3i, and, add »ently to the efficiency of .“W,e’ll not let anybody take the
a staunch worker in other de-.the Placement Bureau which will Democratic party away from us.
partments of the church. it>e maintaitied at ,this school for Tt is an. institution down there. ...
In addition to his mother and Jhe punii^o of assisting, graduat-. lAind no matter what happens, wo t’.e foi-m of telegrams and lett-:r!5
r Mr. (Bailey is survived by , es, Wh 'hoyp and girls, to obtai.n will still be there in the same old_ wore pouring in frgm white and
Mrs. Thelma Xanier position^! , . I Democratic pavt^” nVs
and Miss Addie L: Bailey of“IHi3; Tte'lcflilorwTlT^ —!‘Whon
show tfiat of the 380 murders
in Illinois last year
one person had been
ptfnished, and Senator Russell
(D. Ga),
Sen.itor McKel'af s accusation
wa? i^alTen^d'by Senator Die^
trich ni^.) who said the
who preached the fu
neral sermon, “one of j ^dni-3s
and one 6f joy; fad because it
takes fronw>ur midst this noble
•./omnn and joyous because ‘ of
! the. influence of her life and the
Institute where for eighteen yrn.
she has been; the school nurse and
nurse companion ’ of th> pre->_
drat of the school. She sei%^ ta
various capacities at the iastito*
tion and was often cottsidwed a
sort of hub on which
ttttn^d. She was faithful aii4
understandingr aAd she beUevad
wholeheactedly in sll that fcer
scuthern' senaterrs were afraid of
losing their- constitutional right
to lynch Negroes.
In the meftn tii9i^ pressure in
the trucks, all Negro^, j 'started • ^
firing immediately. Cohagan was ^
killed instantly and Magistrata
Patterson, wounded in the left
shoulder and lung,) was rushed to
Savannah, Ga*., hospital. With the
escape of the -men iw the truck,! ^ . • i. i. ui
, ~ . , . I contnbutioin which she was ablg, presadent stood for. '«
a posse of 100 was formgd, and . , ^ rv
•i.1. ui ju J j” II I to make to this institution. Dr. >
with 'biooahounds. nrpwed an nil- , _ . ci..*
Johtt -fcyico, ehaplw at-jPidaser
13 yearj who was associated with
Miss Glover, reviewed her lifp
and told of the high standards of
womtinhood for which she- stood.
Dr. R. T. Weathe.byv pastor of
tj'ie St. Matthesrs M. E. Church
Jidth blooLdhounds. prea^ed an all
night search for ^e fugitives,
Cleveland Farmer and the tliree
others were caught the next day.
HILLSIDE . TO OBSERVE
pouring in white
ack, citizens of the soi^th and
the victory north- d»mandi^t^-th«t a yotfe-bo.
NATIONAL NEGRO
HISTORY WEEK
beloved by the
students: many w%o parsed l&fn
lihe’ sclioot dnrfn^ these rm^
turn often to expma
for ber loving care of thaws. S|m
was highly appreeiatM ky l»#r
fellow feitchers and lored t>jr tia
in. Greensboro reitd the serigrture.} ®
Telegrramsi were read by Rev.' children she served m tte «isy
Ksn^eth, R WUliams of the Pal- \ ^
city; two brothers Mack galley enrorm«rt«: on .Tanuafy^ ai, , 1&32,’ Bailey said, “Wjs won taken oh the bill and that ther' National Nagro History' Wet k fjjcuUy. Among the t4Bk-. Q'^ite tmassumiag, ktrt
\K "W * J V-t.-. nr- ' j» ^11 \ A... __ . «. . _ .. m A . x ' pm ' . ... . ^ ^ Arytn rt ^ —- - *
*”dof Durham..
Trust Company of this eity. He^ The funeral will ha held from
was cslled from that posltio/f St Joseph AME chuixh, Tl>«r«-
td Cashier of the Commercial day afternoon st 8:80. The Rov.
Ttenk of Wilson, N. C. After ^J. A. Valentina, pastor of* the
leaving there he accepted a do- church will bo in charge of the
sitlon with- the Century Life In- eefemoni«. Scarborough iPune-
sarance Company o f Ltttlo ral Hrms will be in. charge of
Rock, Arkansas. He later'worked the remains. IntermeHt will ba at
for fiva years as travellinif repr*-1 the Old City Cemetery.
of Newark, N. J., and John W. for students have completed ** * Democratic par-ty. Then a-, circus led by such men a£' Bailey ^ officially ^beginning February bth was one from Dr. Mary 1 strong will, she vailed a abV*
the 9'*^ "rd 10th grades in the 1 Soiialists swooped down be ended. ! but due to t’.ie fact that the McLeod Bethune^-for whom o» ida&aettt
on'TRe party ahd~lKey“'~ha-v^ noVj lIoRt~ orTRe opposition' on- T
senior high .■^rbools. and who de-1 party ahd~lKey“'~ha-v^ noVj Most onRe opposition' on- Sund^—the •Glover" furmeily—wwr»fd,'
»;ro to enter the field of r .a. i ' bers of t'.ie senate admit that ®*^ools begin to observe the : ing the‘life which ■ihe naU left
ne.'is iipo-V graduation. Etevmth
»>tid twelfCT grade work will be
offered, aiw will consist of in
“You can do what yo|j please they do not have enough votei celebration on^Btonday,
-- - O der to meet the demands for
tensive training in shorthand, ^ Ttnachii^e operattor^
hookeepli.g, typ!nig, and ■ellln? courses tn the operation of boote
and morc’-.andising, and clerieal .liieping, billing and calsulating
practice. In addlHon to this, in' mchines will be fkvailahle.
— ea!t the bllL but they hope
to talk tintij other senators andJ ^^3® Fafk HFeK S^ool, uhder
their cohstituents would become
tired of the talking and force tha
anti-lyndhmg bill off the ca’en-
7th. The History Club of HilV
p.uptrvia^on cf Mrs. P. W. Ju^C-^
dan is p;e paring two plays too
in eoBtact She fwHld !■
hearta of eveyytedy I
both white and colorwi. •
August 12,
spent her early
Hist Glover
theie- ‘ She
presented during Negro History studied/^ IMi^ {'^oaptal eon-
Contmued’, an page’ eigM . | nected with
lustiuac
person m-the
Mmaulal