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DURHAM, N. C. WEEK ENDING SATURDAY JUNE U, 19S8
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FLA. TEACHERS SUE FOR EQUAL PAY
Kilter Policeman 7o have Preliminary hearing Friday
CHARGE OF MURDER TO
BE BR0U6HT AGAINST
OfFIGER T. 0. WILIKE
NAACP Aides High Jay Walkei
School Head In
Salary Sait
Sues Wile
For Divorce
TITUSVILLE. Florida. JuneS. ’ qraDUATES WITH HON»;
—John ..Gilbert, t«»eber Mvd |
principal in fh« Cocoa Junior
bifti Mhool (colored) of Brevard
cannty, haa filed a petition with
the circuit court of the county,
teeking a writ of mandamua to
compel the Board of Public In
struction to eitabliah equal aalary
■chedulee for white and colored
teachers. |
Tha patition waa filed May 24 '
by Uie law firm of McGill and
McGill «f Jackionville. S. D. Mc
Gill of the firm is receiving ad- ,
vice and asaiatance from the le
gal itaff of the National Associ
ation for Advancement of
ColorW'feopU In New York.
I The patition of Principal Gil
bert states further that he holds
a second grade certificate from
the stata department of educa
tion and is in his eleventh j’aar
of teaching. Bis s^ry i» »l j^hn H. GaCtiM,,son of. Mr. and
month for a nina-montha ttrm. j ^
Mr. Gilbert also receives an ad-'
ditional $298 per year as princi
pal of the school, making a total
of |73i8. White teachers with ^e
same grade certificate and the
same teaching experience receive
$100 a month or 1^00 pei: yafr.
.^hita taachk^ principals are
paid an ad^wbal amount abova
tbe^SO^,
Pointing out that the satatry
differential fo rtaaehing is 100
per cen^ tha petition issarts that
tha said dMTareatial is based sola*
ely an vMa and eolor of^tba tear
char atktf "denliBs to patitiojMr
and othaia •! his raea tha equal
protection tBa . lavs guanys-
teed by tha f|{h amendment to
the Constitution «f the United
Statas.”. “
At first Ae petition was fUed
in the supreme aourt of Florida
which haa concurrent Jurisdiction
with the circuit courts in man
damus actions. The supreme
court, liowever, can refuse -1«
take original jurisdiction and in
(CeiitiaMadh M ImA VM*)
successfully completed a four
I year course in the liberal arts
deparmtent o f Moms Brown
College^ Atlanta, Georgia. Mr.
GatUs leaves hi sAlma Mater with
high recommendations, having
^aerved for two years as an m-
sistant in iSie college library and
for two years as a student pre-
fessor in the d^artMent of En-
!b wnicV his major field of
consentration was. Having main-
t«,^Bed batter than an average of
B ior the four years Mr. Gattis
ia graduated with honors. He
plana to do work on his master’s
lllgree at Cornell Univmity,
i&ica. Hew York.
There ia no 'further hope for
the realisation of the desire that
friends Have’^elB for the possi
ble raconcilation between William
Jay Walker" and Mrs. Georji*
L Walker, uue to the fact that
last week, Mr. Walker, who is
assistant secretary of the South
ern Fidelity' Mutual Insurance
Company, fiTea suit for absolute
divotce from Mrs. Walker, tea
cher in the City School system,
on the ground of two years se
paration.
The couple was married Aug
ust 28, 19J.& in Cooke County,
Illinois,’' ir#i lived together for
about three years, having separa
ted June JlMfi. At the time of
their separation Mr. and Mrs.
Walker lived in their cozy apart
ment 1(204 Fayetteville St
Hr. Walker’s attorney in the
case is If. Thompson.
COLORED BUSINESS MAN
SLAIN BY NEGRO COP
X.,GROUP OF N. C. COLLEGE GRADS
A group of graduates at the
j N. C. College finals held here
Tuesday morning! The 193i8 gia-
^AUHT MATILDA’S BIRTHDAY
PAlTrV’’ AT HILLSIDE
SCHOM.
tihe Seventh Day Adventist
School wiH present a play at
Hillside Paric High School, Mon
day night June 13th at 8:15. P.
M. Admission will be )0c.
1,600 Vote For
Race Candidate
In the' lecal primary hald Sat-
firday June 4, M. Hu|:h Thomp
son, Durham Attorney who
fought a seat on the lHirh«m
pounty Board of commisaianara,
polled I'S'IS votes which was nat
sufficient number to merit his
nomination for tha>^ position.
MISSISS^PI SUPllEME C(HiRfT
HITS USURIOUS PLANTERS
JACKSON, Miss. June 8.—(A
NP)—'Missikslpprs state supreme
court, which has recently depart
ed from the concept of those in
Whiltt Thoa^aoa was not| sl«ter states rendering deci^
number of votes which he poUed' another step in this direction
^oes show that thara was f 4>y eondenHJlng tlie ays-
pf solidarity in the Negro voting, of boolteeping whereby plan-
although there could have been ^t*on owners charge' exorbitant
^ great deal more. A more solid ] Interest rales to charecroppars
front might have been preaanted »nd tenant firmersjand forfeited
by the tTegro voters if there had * colored tenant the entire
man -graatar argmnisation and *** ba3 paid his landlord in
greater familiarity with the man-" ^ lntea-?at, amount-
^4Mr of proeadure In the support
pf a condidate. .1 court, in a decision, writ-
'L. E. Auatin, candidate for the*ten by Justice Ammon,
County Board of Education, be-
TKNOX'v'^ILLE, Tenn., June 8.
—^tAKP By Dr. 0. B. Taylor)—
Clarence Kennifdy, a wejl known
resident here, who has been in
th restaurant afft billiard parlor
business pn Vine street for more
than'20 years, was shot to d^ath
-last Sattlrday morning during a
pistol'duel with Policeman Guy
Vance. Both men are colored.
Ektrlier Saturday night, accor
ding to rf|orts, Vance, with se
veral other police, raided Ken
nedy’s place, alleging that liquo:
was sold th^re. Kennedy was ar-
resteld, but later released on
bond. Vance is then said to have
gone bacl( to Kennedy’s, place of
business a^d^ arrested a waiter,
Md Kennedy, angered, is said tfi
have threalaiied to thrash the
policeman. - ' ■ -
A short time later, the men
met near Che entrance~to a haA
where a dance was in progress.
Vance^'claims Kennedy threaten
ed ■’him and buJth men began fir
ing. Kennedy fell dead instantly,
a' bullet tlfrough his heart," four
others in his body. Vance was hit
by one bullet, which*^ bored thru
his side near the spine, partially
paralysing him. He ^is at City
hospital in a serious condition.'
An unidentified young woman
was skot iri Ihe bead by a stray ^
missive. Kennedy had a hoxt of
I friends here, many, of whom are
outspoken ' in criticism of the
I policeman’s action, whicfi" they
term uiUustiHd?.
, , . . . , . \ -) Sockman, fnihister’ iof Christ
duating I,ad a total of &6 meW ^ity delivered
bers from all departments of
{he local college. Dr. Ralph W.
1
■the commencemenF a'ddress.
’OPhoto Sy Carolina Tfimes)
N.C. College Graduates
Dr Sockman’s Address
Tops Closing Program
“Youth mttst unite and chart frontiers ” is the second new hori-
some peace-making course o^jcon-
duct in Sftcing the new"" horizons
which face us in everyday life”
was theme of Dr. Ralph W. Sock
man, pastor of Christ Church,
New York, who delivered the
commencement address to the fi
fty-six : candidates for gradua-
tiorf at^ the North Carolina Col-
1^6‘ on Tuesday, June 7.
I Dr. Sockman, who was making
his second visit, to the .c^pus,
was jrery emphatic in expressing
'■ ^ the graduating class and the
A n
5000 iifti&rtibers «f the audience
(as well as listeners, on the air)
the importance of ilegarding
“where and when we are” in
-charting a course of conduct.
"Where and when we are;” he said
“make a certain difference in
what is the right course to take
and how to apply even an* etern
al principle.
Cont^nvjing his pl'ofound ad
dress of inspiration and timely
advice Dr. Sockman pointed out
four of the important new hori
zons which confront us in ever-
day life.
The first horizon which the
speaker pointy out was the
horizon^'wTiere libe.rty meets au-
zpn called to the attention of the
graduates. Virtues and old fron
tiers conflict because “TJhe sub
tlety of our temptations are great
er than the sensibility of our
conscious.” however, . . educ
ation shoufd sensitize o'ur imagi
nations.”
It was Dr. Sockman’s opinion
that among the transient people
that we are, our outlooks have
enlarged and’JKavp loosened our
local loyalties, iiievitably crea
ting the horizon “where large
outlooks meets loc^l loyalties.”
He .emphatically warned against
refusing to reenter community
life at home, instead, he said,
“get the world view and trans
form it for local use.”
The horizon “where the power
over meets the power for” has
been created by the tendency to
exert the* spirit of domination.
The power gained by domination
is short-lived,” he. said, “but the
spirit of service lives on
Dr. Sockman’s address was
preceded by music from the, or
chestra and choral society. The
choir under the direction of Mrs.
C. Ruth Edwards, was especially
outstanding Jn its renditions of
Mendelsohn’s “I Waited for the
wme autonutically nominated
|ind his appftntmant will more
likely be confirmed by tba
kgialatHro if tha propaf praaKire
II brouf^t to bear by thoae wbo
i^e interesteil-in the progress of
^0 race in this section. 'The im
portance of a Negro on tha board
rever
sed a Washington County Chan
cery decision and rendered a
judgment in favor of Less Tay
lor against J. W. Copeland, white
landlord, l^e |&,279^91 judg
ment represented the entire
omount -Taylor had "paid Cope
land for "Advances” and intereM
during 19>36.~ The court saU
education muat be undereati-1 Copeland chai^ej more than ^
^ated because tiia numerous per cent intirest per year. This
purely racial issues which are to j ^s usury and entitled IVylor
Opma before the board in 4he »»>t on^ to recover the interel?
jynry near fwfare 'BMtka tha pra.
H^nee of a mambar 9I tha i«ea
tha boArd an Impwriant factor
pr f|ll H«iro«t.
In next priautry bald for
wna officft, tiiar* will b«
but tha landlord’s right
to ^a yrlneipal.
not two Nagro candldataa In the
fight but saveral with the back>
Ing of evarjr Nagro ▼>*•>?,
y. ^igSTAUKAtiT OPEijS
’*H£ADQUArrERS FOR jcf
LOUIS FANS” 6TH TIME
NEW YORK—(C) — An ofT-
.ginal bocS!^f of Joe Louis from
the time he first came to Harlem
to fight Primo Canera, John D.
Thomas, owner of Gray Shop
No. ,2i, 24*8 Seventh avenue. Is
decorathiV bis place and calling
H “Chicago Headquarters of Joe
Louis Fans*’ for ithe sixth time,
to welcome Toe’s friends froni
the Wegt ind throughout the
country to' {tie Louis-S'chmeling
figh^ Jurie gff. ■ ’«■ .
Mr. 'ffiofnM recently celebrat
ed tiie elevei^tfi anniversary of
thority. “We live in a complex.
civilization where liberty has its 1 Loidj”. with Miss Willard Tyler
limits” he said, is pot safe {the soloist, imd “’Toreador” from
to live in this age on principles , Bizet^7"*^af™®n” in V^hich, M6l-
of a past individualistic age.
We must have organization with
vin Sikes took tha solo. Miss M.
L. DeMond, who accompanied
individual liberty sufficient for j the choir on the organ and tlie
•4piaim» directed the little symp-
personal^ties.”
“Where virtues / meet the old * hony orchestra.
Prisei Awarded
Outfftanding / students were
presented with prizes by Dr. C.
C. Spaulding, President of the
North Carolina Mutual Life In
surance Company. Miss Maybello
Cotton won the W. G. Pearson
prize for excellency in Mathe
matics above the freshman year.
The Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity
prize for the freshman young
man maintaining the best scho
larship record for the year went
to Robert IBond; Bond also won
the Omega Psi Phi fraternity
prize for having held the hiphest
general average among- Fresh
men young men in Tnilialive per-
serverance, and general deport
ments; Juanita Olive Yeates re
ceived the C. C. Spaulding prize
for excellency in the Commercial
Department for four years; The
Volkemenia Club prize for ex
cellency in English. |or four
years went to Miss Elizabeth
Poindexter, and Miss Mattie Laws
received the Volkemenia CJub
prize offered to the young wo
man in Freshman class making
the highest general average in
scholarship, initiative, perser-
verance and deportment.
Dr. N. C. Newbold, Director
of Negro. Education in North
Carolina presented to Miss Cyn
thia Pearson, the most outstan
ding student of the German- De
partment, the'Carl Scurz Memo
rial fq^indation award. ' *
Graduates^with distinction were
Maybelle Cottorr,"*%umma Cum
f*‘V-
‘BlLLBOARu” JACKSON GETS
LL. D. DEGREE
ROCK \IILL, S. C.—(C) —It
is no longer “Bilboard*' Jackson,
but it is’ So'w Dr. jamea Albert
Jackson, for the honorary de
gree o* Doctor of Laws was con
ferred upon Mr. Jaekson Tuesday
evening, May 91, by the presi
dent and trustees of friendship
No^al ani Indui^^l College,
a 47 year o!a 'Baptist institution
with 360 students and a gradua
ting class this year of 46. Mr.
Jackson waa the commencement
speaker, and at the concliuion ol
his addresa to an audience of
770 persons m was presented hisi
own “sheepakin”, beautifully
bound and duly signed by L K.
Barbee, D. D., Chairman of the
Board of Truatfes, and President
Jame^. Goudlock.
Native of Beliefonte. Pa., Mr.
Jackson has had the old Real
Estate Loan and Trust company
in Chicago, back in 1903, but
is better ^own for b» revra
years witb the Billboard, nation
al theatrical piiblication in NeW
York, 5 1-2 years With the U. S.
Department of Comm*irce as
business specialist, and the last
four years with the Standard
Oil Company of New Jersey,
with offices at 26 Broadway, N.
Y., covering 18 states promoting,
gas and oiK sales itmong Negroes.
Before coming on the national
scene, 'Mr. Jackson ‘ was for two
years in the U. S. Military Intel
ligence Service. - -»- ■
The trial of .■\BC officer T.
D. Wilkie tfiT the brutitl murder
of James McI^eTl ha-i bl*en set
for Friday, June 10. This crime,
the most brutal in the hatory
of Durham, took place at Mc
Neil’s home at iclfiS Pettigrew
Street when WtTitiV and his fel-
low-ofiicera, R. B. loobbitt and
T. ^ Baileyit went there in search
of whiskey which they never
looked for nor found, according
to eye-witnesses. j
The lawyers who will repre
sent the state at this trial before
Judge' W. H. Murdock are Con
rad O- Peaison, C. J. Gates an^
E. Avant. 'I'hese attorneys have
done a great oeal of har" work
in securing evidence in the please
.although their wi»rk has been
greatly hampered because of the
lack of funds.
Every Negro wno tfesires to
make this case the stopping point"
for the ■ uncalled-for brutalities
'toward Negroes en the part of
police olTieers should do every
thing possi'ble In aiding these
lawyeis who a&t ^nly fight
ing for tja'mes, .McNeil, his wife-
and four helpless children but in
the interest of the race as -a
whole.
Mr. Jackson has also had a
vraied newspaper' career. He
started as police reporter on the
Pittsburgh Press, later wrote the
atricals* on the Detroit Today,
(now the Detroit Times), and
waa a reporter on the old New
York Globe. Upon leaving the
Departmeijf lof Commerce .
Armstrong fiivBl $27,000
For Beating Bainey Ross
Bilbo lirade Against^
Negroes Falls
WA^HINK^N, D. C., Jun^ ® ' respondenis so that Bilbo did not
The four-hour speech by Sen- r _ J publicity he
ator Theodore G. Bilbo of Mis
sissippi against Negroes, urging
deportation of 12,060,tt50 colo
red people to Africa in order, to
solve the unemployment prob
lem, fell flatter thaiT a pancake.
The Bilbo' tirade' .was so nau
seating and so silly, by turns,
that. th« Mississippi race-h&ter
. . . _ „ did not have even a half-dozen
hm opening The Gray Shop, and ^
received congratulations from
many friends'Sn^ some customers
wHb have ibeen regular patrons
since the opening of tha busi
ness.
Mr. Thomas will welcome Joe’s
^enda personally wHiii they
come to .Harlem, and they are
invited to receive mail in care
of th# shop, and to make appoint
ments for meeting friends there.
as he got into
left the floor.
his speech
soon
they.
Mlbo admitted after his talk
that he really did not wish to
make an r#ier.drnent to the re-
TTef bill as he stated in order to
get the floor, but solely to make
a speech agaiqst Negroes. This
admission disituated the senators
and even the veteran news- cor-
get one-tenth the
expected, even in the southern
press. One of the so-called wise
cracks of the speech waa the,
(juotalion: “God created the
whites. I know pot'who created
the blacks. Surely a' devil creat
ed the mongrels.”
Bilbo has served a term in
jail for contempt of court, once
admitted a charge of bribery,
an.d was one? indicted for cor
ruption. In spite of this he ser
ved three years irt .the Mississi
ppi state legisla|ure and was
twice elected a s' governor. H e
-was—elected—to—tfaa—sanate—four
years ago.
Miss Janette William* of thS
cify has joined fhe staff' of the
Carolina Times.'
NEW YORK, June 8.—(ANP)
—His pocket filled with f27,203-
12, the biggeist purse ever re
ceived during his spectacular
ring career, Double Champion
HomtC|da Henry Armstrong look
ed th& week to a visit with re
latives In St. Louis, his boyhood
home, a trip to California, and a
return here for the Louis-Schme-
IfKg fight and his own battle
July 2i6.with Lou Ambers for the
lightweight' crown. '
“Armstrong, as the whole world
knows, proved he is the greatest
4i^ter in tha world today, pouiul
for pound, if not the greatest in
hiftonrf bijf soundly toottyiai^
Barney Ross last Tuesday uigbt
to ^n lihe welterweight crown.
So litila Henry at 1^ poun^ ia
now champion of the feather
weight ,and weltM- divialona and
is the first in history to wear
both crowns simultaneously. Only
Antbers, h^tweight king, stands
BISHOP WRIGHT'S DAUtHTER*^in the way. of Armstrong’s bid
(Contfnu^^ bn lMct~ page)
TO WEQ
__PHILADELPHIA — (C)' Bis
hop aWTrfrs. R. R. Wright, Jr.,
B320 Vine street* announce the
engagement of- their daughter,
Grace Lydia, to the Rev. Dwigbt
Vincent Kyles of Boston. The ^
marriage will be solemnized dur- ^..cbanjje of a&y
ing the summe". Mi^ Wright and , Boas waa* i*t*3 tbe beat
the Revi Kyle met as students at
'Wilbferforce uniyersnty, where
Miss
Wright ’
gnree in ’37, and the Rev. Kyle
the A. B'. and B. D. The prospec
tive* groom has wbn the A. Si.,
-Sr"T. B. and, T. M. dograws at
Boston university, ’’and has also
compIete4‘' residence work for
the Ph D. Ihere. He is a mem^
of th New Englan'! conference
of th* A. M. £. church.
for three'titles at once, and that
little matter - iHH’ b e taken
care of in due course. . _
Few paople ate_,j;arj«tly en-
•vious of tbia sam^^Mr. Xinbers.
He ia much in the position of a
condemned man who knows the
hour when he will walk, that last
mile to. the hot seat and: aM
exaentian.
„ of . the
little men Vnd one of the finest
at his weight in history, jet^
the B. S. de-! went the way S! all fla^ against
Homicide Sank.'
Armstrong completely ignored
the lightweigh class in' Joiaping
froia hia own to Ramey*s . 147 1
pound diviuon. Seemingly be said
to Lou, **I*va got a little extra
work to do right now, Sonny, but
don’t go ’way! FU taka care of
yoQ tatwr."
Of course Ambers was impres
sed by Armstrong’s legraliied
butchering of the white boy from
Chicago. Here was Ross, eight
pounds heavier than Henr>, a
master boxer, super ring general
splendid puncher, and possessing
speed to burn—yet des||ite all
these great' assets, he left the
ring looking as if he had had a
violent argument with a Meat
chopper w'nile Referee Agtbur
Donovan Snoop«4^ around to see
what kind of* invisible prop had
held him up. So if Ambers haa^
nervous breakdown between now
and July 26, or hjSSr-*8o aradl~
weight* through worry tlMt be
-has tg 4t9-
pound class-, nobody should be
b« surprised. - ji. -
If anybody Had their doubta
pteviously, the “execution” of
Ross was enough to convinca all
that Armstrong Is just about the
hottest thing ever tou,lase on the
leather mitts. Keferee Donovan,
who has bean looking, at ’em all
for many a yea|-. said Henry i*
“one of tbe g«:eat fighters of all.
times.” • * -
While some die-hards eritieiaed
Armstrong for not being abl* to
kayo the helpless Ross, Donovan
revealed that In the concluding
frames little Hank did not try
too lyurd. " . '
“It seemed that Henry m»dm
gesti|re in the 14th and -IHk
rounds in not trying too hard for
a knockout,” Donovan said.
knew he had the' match voiir>M|4
while he displayed;
from start to be
content that the om
—
ii
on his feet.”
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