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DURHAM. N'. C. week ENDING SATURDAY •,
18-Year-Old Girl Arrested
For iTheft Hangs Self in
Orange County Jail
Mrs. Tullie
Nefsome
Sacsumlis
AGAINST SUN DAY FUlNERALft
Y9 • 1 • l>
CHAPEL HILL, Aug. Srd—
A 1 M o a t •!! of the tomi of
Chapel Hill WM Mtir with the
•xeitenent surronnding the
desth of Mrs. Thelma MeCaaley
wha committed suicide Mondy^y
morniiiff at 11,}6|0 in the Carboro
J«ll. The young' wotmn, who
was JiMt 18 yean old 'hang her-
^If with a ^ece of blanket tom
from the hed' in the eell and
waa ^eund dead> hanging from
the i»oa latticed cell top about
am hour after ahe had been ar-
rested on • charge of larceny.
Mi#. McCauley who ia aaid to
haM attempted euicide several
times daring tiie past two years,
was the ooly inmate in the
llttle_Jail when she hanged her-
s^. '>
Shortly after the discoTery of
the body, an exsminat^ was
■iad by.Doctors John S. Hook-
;««, WilUaMi AbenMMdnr, B.
-ihoni and Qe«^ - t»wac»
. po^er li:
WaHcer and"'
Neville,, of HUIslMnro, made and
iBveetteaiUbn and the jury which
they called retunief a verdict
of saicide.
RBn>SVILLE FAMILY KILLED
ON WAY TO CHURCH
U I C I
RBIDSVGLLEI August ,2nd—
(Speeial) As Roy Wilson, his
wjtts and dau#^er m^e |>n
their way to a linioa^ aaeeiing
at Shalis Baptist chnrcfa they
were killeil, instantly when a
train struclc their,. cur. *t the
cro^iing Just in front of the
church. The car wtta comple
tely demolished and the bodies
badly mangled.
HIGH FOrNT POLICEMAN
SHOOTS NEGRO
(Stef C^
HIOH POIOT, August 3rd
V^Blie Weaver ia now in a High
Point hospital being toeated for
a iMiUet wound which he re
ceived when shot by a police
man when he allegedly resisted
amwt and attempt to attack the
oflcer.
~ The officer was a^^tempting to
on charges of lar
ceny amC^-resisting arrest last
week. After being chased for
stettt three ‘ blocks^ Weav*er is
said to have turned on the officer
and started the al^ck wtth
roeks wad bricks.
Mrs. Tlielma M«Gaul«$^, 18-
year old young woman of Chapel
Hill, who hanged herself in. the
Carboro Jail Monday August 1%
Mrs. McCauley, who is si^d to
have atteffi{>ted ^ici^e seveml
times before in the past two
years waa being held on charge
of larceny md waa the onlj^.
inmate of the jail.
TRAIN VICTIMS BURIED
NEAR REIDSVILLE
MONDAY
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(By T«ek)
REIDSVILLE, August 3rd—
Funeral services for the three
persons killed when their auto-
mobile wifs struck by a south
bound train on the Shiloh
Baptist Church C^oasing Near
Sadler were held iSiesday morn
ing at Chapel Hill Papt. Church
a few miles nortih of Reidsville.
The feraons killed were Roy
Miller, 6(1 the ..driver who died
at the hospital five hours later;
Mrs. Ella Miller, 49 his wtfej
and* Miss Pearl* Miller their sis-
ter-in law. The two women
were killed instantly.
tM. Wells And Rev.
Mrs. Td^lie Newsome of 1108
Cole St. disparted ;;this life July
27th. Durf;ng the* many jVars
that she has' been et. resident' of
Durham Mrs. J^e\^ttvne has wtn
many friends. ^ *he was a di^"-
vote wife and mother
who demonstrateJ*. ti»e Christian
spirit in all of he^- dealings. A
faitefttl *cliurch worfiifr'^he ser
ved as a member of t^ mothers
board for about nine yefiiini dur-
|rbich time she was ‘^iJways
^i% of 4^ty.; _
/^at the ^aV " ^ovfe ■
Will Baptist Church of which
=she was -• faithful member.'. Rev.
W. F. Cox, pastor of the Church
in chante. i h
J Mra. Newsome, waa also a
member «>f w*e Fireside ^Mutual
Burial Assoeiation.
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HAS B I It T H D A Y ^
Attorneys Gather H e r&
For Fourteenth Annual
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Assoc iation_
jiinioii Trial
Oft
C. C- SPA'mniN’G, .president;,
of the North’ ^arqljoa Mutual
Life Insurance Company
passed his sixty-fourth birthday
Monday August 1st Mr. Spauld
ing is being congiiatiulated o«.
having r^ched another mile-'
stone in his ve^ frugal life.
Editor'^arolins Times
Your eiifitorial .and ReV, Miles
Mark Fisberi^r articje ©li Sunday
Pt^erals mak^\me a"ealize more
fully that I desire to\^tate my
personal views.
The matter of SuwSay .^fun-
«rals was made\the order
d*y^ ia the ministerial Alliaiia^
I d^ing 'the time I' was president
1 he AUiaace ^ unanimously
ilaced tlieir ^sappi“oval of
luaday. J^unexa^s-.ufider ,,certBfln
c'ond1ti^s. \ ^
I thioiar in justice to\ Bev.
Fi.sher, this statement is proper
lest sosaeone may think he
standsr alone in his views. There,
is no) disposition on the part of
the nuiaiaters to in any way
cause -J!n eai'bairransing situation
to any;, of the catizerts of- Dur-
.^ham only ' that tte minivers, have
discovered from experience' that
there is a disposition on the
part of some families -to keep
their decesaed out of the ,i?round
until: Sunday in ; order |t» de
monstrate the apifti^nf, epi>sjt
0 parade celebration, w h i ^
greatly i^medes the igrogram of
of service for
LAN(SroIH3cr
ranged progiiam
the church. .
If we look beyond personal
views and accept Biblical views
as the first cause i for 4o0d
ane ; admodis^d tp
'^slx^days for labor itw ob
serve the seventh as the Sab
bath, avoiding all unnecessary
^bor such as grave digging and
fil*^^, V .
Thei;*- are howewer instances
where in4jy)duals pass the last
of the week ftDd whose body is
taken from the city >or for
some other plausable X^it'use can
itifj: be held over. I am certain
no “qiinister of tte Christian
Religion would in any way take
exception to a Sunday Funeral
in such a lease realising .there
are times. ' rulaa mttet be
cha««id fer the best good of all
concerned.
The Fourteenth Annual An
nual Convention of the Nation-
B&r Association will be held in
Durham, stairting Thursday,
August 4.
The National Bar Association
ta composed of the Megro lawyers
of the United States and was
oganized in 1'926. It now repre-
seiits the twelve h«n^^
attorneys in this Coi(intry. {
The Convention will be open
ed on Thursday‘ Jtt^kming by the
Resident, Hon. , ^lliam _L.
Houston jof Wa^Iiigton, D C.
'Special Assistant to the Att’;^
General of the United States.
Ttie Convention will be wel
comed iby the Hon. W. F. Carr,
Mayor of . Durham, • Mr. C. C.
Spaulding, President, N o r t h
Carolina Mutual Life Insurance
Company ajid _ President James
|L Shepard of the North Carolina
College for Negnroes.
Among tl^e subjects to be
d^ussed fl>ursday wipl be
*Meti^(le^^ Protecting Negro
!^u#ren*«?*^ojr JaiMs N, NabHt^^
Teif AflsifltoBt Professor |»f Law
at Howard University; ^‘T h e
Use of the Boycott and Picket
to Increase Employment of Ne
groes” by p. V. Lawson, Jr.,
of the District of Columbia Bar,,
“ThB^LaWyer and the Adminis
tration of, Jrisflce” 4»y H. T.
Van Hecke, Dean University of
North 'Carolina. The key note
address will be made by President
William L. Houston on the sub
ject "The Old Order Changeth.’
The public mass meeting will
be held at the B. N. Duke
It is probable that Abtoii,
who has been ifraateil « # • 1[_
trial by the Si^kreme Co^i^it
cdaniectioii witu Kls slayi^
103 Vear old Mrs. Janie Wilkar'
son, twill be gi^en a ^ond Jktar-'
ing at' a special' term of ei*mt
in October«>^ —
Eiecaose of the heavy doeket
which awaits aetion in the Sept.
term 'of superior coart aad b«-
cause of the length of tiak: tta
Alston trial ia expected to taka
it will probably be coatiBMd
W. L. HOUSTCjpj, president ^
ef the Natiotial Bar Ahs’n alSiJ''***** spccial term
prejninent >lawyer of Waahinc- 0«*®her 3.
ton, D. C. who is presiding over , ^feton was coavieted of Tirst
the aesaions of fc. annual meet. murder laat
ing of the organization being ,^6 had been sentence ta 4eatk
held here tUa week. ^ chaaiber. He ia ckarg-
^ with killing tli« winaaa
M 0 rt« Carolhia sl^iHS^ k^ere Chrlateas «f
Coflega- for Negroes at »il61 ’.T,, —
lIPiKiradi^ night. A^omey M. | ^ .
CECI|pil -1 BOHI|KJO> QSr
)Vice President of the Aaafn I
will preside. Hob, Harry aaeet^iiip. ^
McMullan, Attorney GenWi^ of ***
North Carolioi will Ipeak on The regular meetiags . wifi fta^
the sublect ‘‘Centralizing Law Thursday and Friday mor*-
Bn£orcemen%» Hon. James starting at »:©0 p. na. ka
S. Watson, Judge. Municipal Auditorium on t h a
Court New York City will speak "***«" North Caroliaa
on the aubjeet “Hie" Beaponsi-1 Negroes. The genl
bilities of the Negro Lawyer to P'*^ ^ attend tfiSi®
I meetings.
general pttbUe 'ili. iaaKatf-
Musical' eWter-
the progressive church. X,. )
We have^ also found and con- tnetQ,
tacted families who iissume—tlie
initiative in\ arranging- the hour
In this matter, I am personally
opposed to funerals on the
Sabbath Day and !a 'Iw^e ma
jority of my members have agre
ed to cooperate with their paa-
tor and the alliance in trying to
Hour as is humanly yoeaiWe t»
WoAds Noses Out
BobbyPalmer In ^ap Box
Derby Here Sonday
^As ai r&ce group I hope the
day may soon come when we
for the funeral wthout ■ o n e | may be less willing to^ceAsure
consid3.tl’bn • of the pastor re- jthe view9' ®f th^ ministry and-
gafdless of hb previously\ar- ' the church and more willing to
accept and face the truth eveif
though they.^raay be against our
personal vie\^int.
" "May we more fully lemembcr
that we live in a land> of liberty,
of speech when ■' "traditional
practices must not dectate tjmlf
procedure of a progressive peo
ple such as we find in our city
Of Durham.
SCENES AT SOAP BOX DERI^Y HELD HERE
'■ ' ' ■ .V
SUMPAY EVENING
REtDSVILLB, August 2nd,
(Spm^lal)—^The ^IdlfrBle minl-
ilara* F«pai^i/lty |tontei|t eon-
dacted here for the past eight
^eeka by tfia- Carolina Times
ctoaed a ittoat suecenful cw-
ppign Tueaday with the biggeat
avalancha of ballota of > the en-
c«ttip*d|^’ So'great waa
tha bariottef J^t the Timea
oflhse forca apent Nearly two
4aya counUnlt, -|UWl recording
the rUttlta.
The final eoirat^showed Rev. Invited to tfes
Mmob •• winner the a^
tka fint a roundtrip
t« AHMtic City with Ho^ e*-
. J.C'
penfies paid, and Rev, *W, L.
P. I. Wells as the winner of
cond priae, a free round trip
to Atlantic City.
The prises wiil be awarded
Friday evening by L. E. Austin
editor of the Carolina Times,
and W. A. Tuck, managing
editor »nd circulation manager,
according to i^nounc^mMt, .nude
here this week hf Brown
loeal repreaentKtivs of the
Tinea. ; The f«Uic I* eordially
lenta-
iBon program willed b
held at'the First fiipiiaf ClKvrch
iViday •▼•afng at 8;M.
t
formed into a race track Sun
day rto witness Durham's first
^nn^ai 'soap i>ox’ derby in
y^hicjii about 29' oais •-.^jiitered.
litere were only three 'colored
boys who took part in the derby
but out 0^ this number there
came very near being a‘^ ^lored
city champion. Bobby Palmer
who came in a few inches be
hind >Bobby Woodq, white,
winner in ,tiie floal race
announced runner ^p for
citj;. cha:p,pion8hip and v
awarded a gold medal an!
of skates.
f.
The above are soeviea in. tWe piresentationj^’ceremorries ' at" the ■ered^o^ Durham's first annual ‘aoapboiP defby'in which Bo4>by Woods
won first honors an3 Bobby.Pa\mer was a close second. Ae.p^^ture at the left showS the two boya with their parents.
■I^t'-to rig;ht C. R. ,Woods, Qityi recreationidirector and fattier of (The . winner; BJ>by W«wda; The 'w^ner.;^Mrs. C* B- Woods, C. M.
Palnrer, father of fjobby Pk^o«r^ and B*h» PalfWi,.aeftted ^ Wa.‘car. ^ Hhe center photo ^wa the boya being greeted by the radio
anaouncew Just a& the race was over. At the.riiht the bdys^ and;their\parents are pr^^ng.lo pHljf «»r the Photogn^theca acaiiu
" ' ■ (Picturee by THE CAROU^A'flMES; more pietnres Ml insert B.)
"Ilao
ousandfe of people lined that division. Bqbby Woods, "
bott sides of the quartar-mile the winner was in class ‘A’ Tha
of University Drive waa trans- classes were based on age. .
_ The derby waa run «»tf in haats
three cars at_,ja time; first en
trants in class ‘B’' the* aauUer
boya, then those in claaa
‘A*.
The contest sponsored by the
Herald-Sun papers andi .the ra-
preaentative of the Charrrolat
Motor Co., waa actively direct->
the ed by Jack' Wagner, Staff aaeaa-
was I her of tiie recrealeloa /depart
ment who* wfil aeeoiapaay
s, Woods to Akron ..Qhio for tlM
t h
w a _
a pair natiunal derlqr> 7%a preaentaE^
t tion and awards irere aaa^te by
Palmer, won first place in.the M. P.
‘B’ class and is city champ in Sun papers.
Muraagh ef the- HeraM-—
MANY tNTER TIMES
$5,000 CMXMliM
Approximately 75 contestaata
from all over N«urth Carolina
have already aent ia a>1py
hlailf» fwr the Canritaa TStim
f6,M0 auheeripAlon
and eMh awil a^oara
iacreaae oatriaa aad laAeiea^
ia the c^taat . wUah wtQ, litiiv
awaattat a \tma4 imm 'lW
^iakk m4m «id a 1brafi9' m«
Plya^tli aadaii, a a 4
luaadred of dollars'& k '
priiea and eoaimiaUfOK
Tl» cwata^ ia A
Cw^oa Tinea !■
when biaMi
aedaa was ■ awal^ 'ChiA
^gvsB H tUa
iaaw Wliiipat
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