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VOLUMNC 20 No. 24
DURHAM, N. C. WEEK ENDING SATURDAY JULY t, 193«
FRICE FIVE CSNTS
BODY EXHUMED
D. C. N. A.
HOLD ELECTION SUNDAY
17-Year-Old Lad Being
Held For Shooting Father
To Proteel Mother^
Meet To Be
Held Al Local
(By St*ff Cerratpondani)
RALEI-GH, N. C:, July 7—
Willimn Dozier, 17, from near
Millbrook is being held in Wake
County jail by Coroner L. M.
Waring for •killing his father,
Comer Dozier, on Monday July
4. Dozier stated that he sbot
his father in the stomach with a
shotgun in defense of himself
•nd for the protection of his
mother.
Comer Dozier, a lumber mill
employs, came home about 4:26
A. M. said youngDozier, and
demanded that his wife prepare
his breakfast at once” and when
she refused he flew into a rage
and Aased ISW'Into a com field
where he kicked and beat her
unti' her face bled. When
Williaih and his brother protest-
ted the fattier threatened to kiU
them'both and Jhe two raced to
the hous* and William was the
first to .tdh t)>e shotgun which
hang ini^^e on the wall. He did
not f9>o*Qi, fbowever, until 1
father chased him around the
pigpen and almost caught him
William idM>t his father in the
stomach, chest and arms at;^ a
distancie of about 16 feet.
OTie boy will be released with
out trial if the homicide is
I found to have been justifiable.
Officer Arrests
Wrong Man
(Ay Staff Corraspondeat)
In Darkam tkinft reach
ed tKe Rointt where a law-'
abiding citises^ rannot go fofr
mn autom^olbile ride on the
-public highways without beihg«.
molested ataff Insulted bjr
Ui^deriBK officer*.
Lonnie McLauifn, 29 years old
i*e*ident fat ^806 Hydo^
Arm. went ^or a ride in hi*
aatomolnViB Monday, JiHy 4,
and wa* chased down by
ABC officer T. L. Bailey who
mi*to4c him for a (rumrur.n-
er. The moiorUt was surpris
ed by the shrill sound of the
siren on the officer’* car and
pulled to the iurb when he
•eased trouTffeT Xhft.:;officer
realised at ense that he had
stffpp«d the wrong^ man b»t }ft-
sisted that McLaui^n ahow his
driver’s Ilcens.e Since Bailey was
arrested on chafes of failure
to show a driver’s license and
resisting an officer. ^
In recorder’s Court JudJS®
Murdock found the defendants
not guilty to the charges and
pointed out that officer Bailey
was not in uniform and there
are tto statutes which require a
motorist io display his license to
a man who show no signs of be
ing an officer,.^
Herndon Sees
Scottsboro Boys
—Angelo Hei»»den>^ -4emoetacy and for
Once again another aiutmeful must now rally to the defense of
verdict has been handed down in the Scottsboro bo^.
the infamous Scottsboro Case.
And once again the Ameficah
people will rally as they have for
a4»ven years to smash' Alabama
Supreme C»urys| lyneh- order of
death for Clarence Norris. This
decision came as a ^eat sITOiik
to me. But just as the American
people snpttched me from a living
death on a Georgia chain gang,
so will they tree the five remain
ing Scottsboro boys. ‘ ; , .
“ For seven years these boys
have suffered Indejicribable tor
tures and mistreatment' at the
hands of the Alabama prison au
thorities. The shooting of Ozzie
Powell, beatings, constant threats insured my. own freedom, to re-
of lynching, have haunted them double their efforts in the fight
daily. Kow Alabama is prepared unconditional' freedom
to revenge its defeat suffered I Scottsboro boys.
Vhen forced by mass preaaur* toj ,
free tout of the Voys, As National Vice-President of
Today, perhaps. I would be in
a worse predicament \ ^^han
Scottsboi-o boys, were Jt not for
the great sacrifice and mass pro
test of thousands of workers and
loyal Aj(nericans. By their united
efforts 1 was saved from certain
death on a Georgia chain gang.
To them I am indebted for my
freedom which I now feel called
upon to employ in the fight fot
freedom of the Scottsboro bo]|ik
My conscience shall never be at
ease until every single one of the
boys is free. I pledge to bend
ev^^ effort In the fight and
c^l u^n those /ho so valiantly
The five Scottsboro bo^ Musi;'
Not Die I The'protests of minionB ecA^ratlon of tKs en-
of pr«gre«sive . nlinded people
tJiroughou* the world forced
Alabama to free fouj of the boy*,
thus admittlnit'^h* Innocence of
tiie other flu. Once again tbe
volea of every, progteftlre Ameri-
titk Young Commuhist League, I
tire memberahip of my organisa
tion. We have instructed our
m e m b e V s hip to Immediately
launch a iftasa campaign of pro
test telegrams,' resolutions, etc.
We other yoiuth eiganiaa.
can who bel^ & ow Meal oftioni to taica •imilw actions.
T!he ComTntrFee on Negro
Affairs in Durffam will hold the
annual election of the executive
committee on punday, Jufy 10,
at the Hillside Park High school.
The hour is 8 AO P. M.
C. C. SpaulSin*:, chairman^of
the committee Is urging ^that peo
ple from ail sections of the city
attend this meetrnR- so that the
results oT ^ the ielectioH will be
influenced by tHe opinions of
the entire Negro citizenry of
Durham. , \
At this meet’^ the coftimittee
wiil make its report on ite acti-
vitiea and metfers of interest
•vary Negro m purliam will be'
discussed. TKose are
prone to question and CTlticive
the activities of the committee
should malce jit a point to be
present at the meeting.
SPOTTSBORO CASE -
CLOSED
MONTGOMERY, Ala., July 7
(Special) The widely publiciz
ed! rape case involvng several
young colored men came to a
close July' 6 when Governor
81tf6 Grsves 8dmmute9 the death
sentence of Clarence Norris to
Mfe imprisonment. The commu
tation came wfthin a feW minu
tes after thi Alabama board of
pardons recommended it.
Norris was tha only one
the four '‘Scottaboro Boys" oCon-
victed in tlje mass rape case to
be sentenced to death in t If e
re-trials last year. Four of the
boys were freed last year as
results of numerous protest
i
of both iraces.
CHARMING SECRETARY
Judge Orders Autopsy
On Body Of Neqro Slain
By Officer if. D. Wilkie
By WilUam A. Tu* |c
(Staff Correi(^n4*n fc)
In compliance Wfth an order
•igned in the July 1 teision of
(upcrior court by* Judge C. E.
Thompson, the body of James
McNeil, who Wat killed by
ABC ojvcer T. D. Wilkie in a
rai^ on hii home May 27, wa*
distinterred for ah autopsy in
order to a*/ ent«|n whether
he wa* shot once or sereral
times and to determine the '
real cause Of his death. The
body was exhumed July 2 by
Cljrde Kelly, wh'ite unrfer-
;al‘e''i nnd was taken to
Watts Hospital where the
autopsy wa* ' f^rformed by
A. S. Campbell, Coroner for
Durham County; Dr. Foy Ro-
ber, local physrfan and *ur^
geon, and Dr. T. H. Byrnes.
The autopsy was ordered up-
v« the mptiuM . uf Soiiicitur
BODY EXHUMED
San’uel McCoy, 8 year old
son jt Mrs. Lucretia McCov °f
JAMES
Mi^s Dazzarine Taylor, grad- the position of Secretary to tHe
Uta of the NortH Carolina College | Superinten^eiit of the Oxford
(Class of ’36), who now holds | Orphanage.
39 Doctors Take
9
Post-Graduate
In La.
NEW ORLiEANS, July 2— (A
NP) —^ Thirty-nine physicians
from Louisiana, Mississippi, Ala
bama, ^^-T-exas, '^Arkansas and
IPlorida began the -third annual
postgrauate' course at FHnt-Good-
rige hospital last Sunday night
with a dinner at which the prin
cipal speaker was Dr. Edward L.
Turner the newly elected presi
dent of of Meharry Medical col-
lege. The cQUTBe^ will win fo'' 9.
weeks endfng Saturday, July 2.
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NEW YORK, June 29 ^ Five
Negrroes were included amonjg
those who won special prizes and
honorable mention in the annual
Intellectual CQympics’ conducted
by the New History Society, it
was announced here today.
This national prize competition
for these on harmonizing cultur
al values of the racial minorities
in the United States received en
tries this year from 42 states
OTd - tire-"PM1iphrcsr' They^Te;
sented 4S nationalities and racial
origins.
The Negroes who won'special
priees In competition with writ
ers from professional and many
other ranks were: Isaac Fisher
of Himpto^ Institute, H»mp^ton,
Va.; Cornelius Golightly, a stu
dent at Talladega College, .Tal
ladega, Ala. ; Ml'S. L.jit Chappie
of 938‘Speed St., Memphis^ Tenn.
Winners of honorable mention
were Mrs. Johanna Saulter, 325,
S. Wth ,St., Birmingham, Ala;
and Andre R, Tweed, 1,089 Union
Ave., (Bronx, New York'City.
A distinguishea group of pro
fessors' and authors served as
included: Dr. F. J. [ seog^^jns; Hew. Iberia..
BroWn ot New York Umveraity;
Dr. Ernest Grueninjg, Director, of
the Division Territories and Is-
The instruction is in the form of
lectures, operations, demonstra
tions and clinics beginning at
8:30 each naming and ending at
8:30 each evening. ,
Two visiting instructors and
30 New Orleans physicians and
surgeons, most of whom are tea
chers in the Tulane university
and Louisiana State University
Medical scKools, form the facul-
Walter H. Maddux of the United
State Children’s bureau w h o
will assist in the instruction of
pediatrics and Dr. Howard M.
Payne , of the TToward University
School of Medicine, who will as
sist' in the l'l»T56rculosis instruc
tion. ' ~
The following persons are re
gistered T'or the course: La., Drs.
Thelma Y. Coffey,'N. R. Disvfd.’
son, B. 5'. ESSfet, R. L. Figgins,
0. C. Hayd*^' Henry Jenkins Jr.,
Edward P. j4mson,, F. T. Jones,
T. H. Mims, J. H. Murray, P. T.
Robinson, Frederick Rhodes, J.
0. Sheffield, J. R. Spears, ThaU
d»»a-Taylor, H. P. Wheeler and
J. A. Sherrod, New Orleans; D^s.
R. M. iBaranco, H. Horne Hug
gins and Leo S, Butler, *Bpton
Rouge; Dr. Orris V. Cooper, Bas
trop; Drs. N. L. Lacy arfd'F. F.
Bttrown, FrankiTn; Dr. A. C. Ter
rence, Opelousas; and Dr. H. C.
Mississippi, Drs. M. F. Atwood,
C. B. Christian and A. M. Hall,
, Jacitson; Dr. M. S. Love, Gulf-
land Possessions, Department of po^t; and Dr. Charles W Smith,
the Interior; James Weldon!Hattiesburg. Texas, Dr. I* S.‘A.
Johnson of New York Univer-' BrehSam; Dr. P. G.
sity ; Dr. Herbert A. Miller of BeaUmonl, Dr=v B. J. Cov-
(Pl^SB TURN TO PACE ington, ^Houston, Dr. U. G. Gib-
Carr who pointed out to the
court the great possibility of
confll I in evidence with
respect to the real cause of
M^cWei|’%, dea^. The DisHiam
County Grand Jury^^ after an
l"Wstigat4('n of mor^ than
two days, inji^ted Wilkie on
a charge r>i. Manslaughter in
connection with the ^ath,
and Judgo Thompson si|jned
an orde^r sertting the trial for
July 19 in *uperfar coui-t.
Tha Complete Order
For Autopsy
The grand jury having re
turned a bill of indictment in
this case, charging the defend-
dant with manslaughter, ai^
the .solicitor, for the state
having stafed To the court that
there is possibility of some con
flict in the evidence with res
pect to the Irue cause of the
death of the deceased, James
McNeil, and for that reason Ke
deems , it necessary that the
body of the said James McNeil
oe exhumed^^ and aii auiopsy
performed on said body, and he
having moved "irtv* court that an
order be enter0ar**in this case
directing that said body be
autopsy
performed thereon*
"tt i*, fh l^refore, ordered
by the court that the body
o|_^ .the^'aa.id-j-^-Jame* McNeil .
be oxhiimed and that an
autop*y bo performed upOn
•aid body, and it i* further
Angered ijhat Kelly,
an undertaker in the coun-
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PHOTO
i* that of Jame*
McNeil who*e body wa*
exhumed for autopsy in
compliam'e with an order
i**ued is the July 1 *e*s-
ion of anperfoi court.
by
anperfoi
.lO*
wa* levied
DI Wilkie
ao *-
W..J raid on
McNeil
ABC officer
May 27 in i
the home of the de^ea*ed.
ty of Durham, be, and i*
hereby auth«^-ized and dire.^
ted to exnume the body
immediatfly and take the
same to ^Vatts Hospital in
the City of Durham and
t|h,ere t^eliver it to Dr.
Thomas H. Byrnes, and the
said Dr. Thp!HM, H. Byrnoe
i* hereby authorised t> per
formed an autop*y on the
, s^d body !n f^e nreaenco^
of Dr. A. S. Campbell,
coroner of Di|rham County,
and Dr. Foy 'Roberson, a
physiitan and surgeon in
burham County. When
the autopsy i* completed,
the said Clyde Kally i* dir-
« ted to 'tiifce «aid body and
reinteor the tanie.** “It i*
al*o ordered tL*t. Dr, Thom>^
a* H. Byrne*LDn^F^ Ro
berson- aridTJr. S. C amp- *
IWQ bo and are hereby
constituted office^ of the
co'.^'t and tere ^raclied t^
repOrt. their findings of facp
with regard to the cause of .
deal^ of the deceas^ I*--'
the solicitor of the district.*'
"It is also ordered that the
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"iiy Str^t vSra* killed Fri
day . ,!y, when he struck by
'an ailt'imo'bue "3rlv.en by G. T.
berlain, local white man.
I Hhe aetident occured .at Elixir
^ th street near Geer when 'the
child was attempting to cr^a*
* the street.
I The boy was carried to Lin
coln Hospital where he died a
few minutes after being admitt-
' ed.
h
CARBOHO MAU„,5HGOTS
S W E E T H E A « T' S,
• D A U G H T’E R
'^hen BeaTfTce Hargrovea^j 19
tried to keep James Bradshaw
from courfing her mother,
fradshaw became angry and
peppered Hec/ with - scatter-shot
from a sbotgiin;^
Tlie 26 year qld man is being
held in Carboro jail and the
young woman received treat
ment at the office of a local,
doctor and is expected to recov-.
er.
OilereilAt
N. G. College
Veterans Meet
GREENSBORO, %Nf. C. July &,
The two day meeting of tha
United Spanish War Veterans’
department of the Potomac
which took place at Bennett
College concTdfffed its 28th an
nual encampment Monday July
'giio aoGci"K was attaad^ l
by more than 250 veterans and
members of the woman’s auxili
ary representihji nine states and
the Distsict jjf.. Columbia. *
William A. Roberts of Rich
mond was eleeted aommaffder of
this ^oi^i^^aation, suocjHieding
Batson ’ Law of Greensboro,
Other departmental officials ele- ^
cted were Harvey Underwood of thus further proving her
Savannah, Ga., senior vice com-; competency in library work.
maade?; ■ -Wv—
For the first -time in CKe
history of the North Carolina
College f»r Negroes, courses in
library science are offered dur.
ing the first six weeks of thf
summer sessions.. The courses
are |unde^ direction of Miss
Eloise Ward, Dean of the HigB
Point Senior "School
former head librarian there.
Miais Wfti^' is considereil on.e o£
the outitarjling sctool IRfcrw-
ians of the State as she has
done outstanding Work in Cur
rituck County, and is at pre-
sen^ secretary of the School
Library - Section of the South
ern Library Association coift-
p^i^sed of eleven states ' S h •
has held several other import
ant positions such as v 1 c e-
chairman of the Sclwol Library
Section v*f -ihe Northwesterti
.District of tl\,e Nor®» Carolina
Educatiton A^ciation, a I» tl
was one time a nieihber of. the
executive board of the L. W.
Andjpews Menio^al ll|ibrary,
further proving
TTbrajff
Since the
courses are planned chiefly
training of the teacher lifcprtr*
in cl
charge of
sonj Port Arthur, and Dr. S. J.
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ton, Washington, D. C. ad
jutant; Edward A. Ridgerly, of
Waahingtoa, Di Crcjarte,^ «n,-or persons
ter, Md Johii libraries who Sot S • » •
folk chapWn. Tl» ? ! library certificates*. tk«
encmpmeBt will b« Wd at ^
Portsmwith. I jpleaSE TU»I TO