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AHSTRONt WmS^ TITLE Home EDITION I 10 CENTS ELSEWHEk^ 'bURHAM, N. 9. WEEK ENDING SATURDAY AUGUST 20, 1938 PRICE S‘CENTS IN N. C. i-»“ SCOnSBORO BOYS DENIED PARDON PL USHERS TO CONVENE IN GOLDSBORO B^ll Saves Ambers From Being Knocked Out In Fifth RomidOUFiglil . ■Do es l\E C I A L) MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, New Yorif, (WeHnesday nigh'flj AuguBi 17,’ (Sp*ci*l)—^In fifteen rounds of the mast furious fight ing ever witnessed in a light weight contest, 25 year old Henry Armstrong knocked the lightweight crown from the head of Lou Ambers and became the first man in the history of po- gilism to hold three titles a| one anj the same time,. He is now champion of the featliefweight, lightweight; and wwlterweigjit divistons. he wanted them l»nd h# contin ually crowded and cloute4 the titleholdep. He con*r|d Lou repeatedly and flailed him un mercifully. Ambers want down for the count twice during tha battle. His first foip to the canvfts came in tfte fifth frame when Arm strong landed one of his dyna mite-loaded jySita to the jaw. He was saved'^ bjrthF ^11. Am bers was brought down for the count «f eight in the sixth. An other time Lou was knocked across the ting and would have This fight was a thjriller from' be«n flattemtd 11 thirj time -if ;jthe first bell to the end of the the ropei had not acted as a . fifteenth roun^ an^ the cIom backstop. . .^AnMstrong Initia- of the fight ‘‘Homicide Henry" .ted aU of *£« knockdowns with said this was the toughest fight rights to the jaw followed by in his career, _,Both fighters' left hooks to the body, seemed to put . everything they had their fighting and they proved to the 18,opfl spectators ^at.t]]ey could take it as well Aa. diah it out, • Many times during the fight Armstrong had things going »s . By going tha full fifteen rounds with Armstrong, Am bers .became the fourth man to go the limit d»^i”K H«nry’s 39 consecutive victories.- ’Hie"^5ight cRpped the climax of the m' R I P L E CHAMP Meet To Be -Afnbers Wed4ie3(lay nig^ht. He is the fii’st man in history t® hold Etta Moten Thrills N. C.C. Audience By WilUam A. 0 Tuck With » .pfogram varying from | l^he sang “Marching Through th» works Of Ponchielli Brahms,' Jorijan” » 9plritui»l taken froifl Handel, and gchubert to hits ■ r># » AO- JkCi&AAlte/V vMw vjwy qU'CII Ccf3 mfwvwwixr Please and such sonjcs ’ from screen successes a* the' *jftrioc>»’ and My Forgotten Man’ Mias Etta Moten, singer ejttraordin- aira stac «f r»dio, screen and concert gave her audience at the North CarolifTa College thrill after thrill in her first concert in the state for this season, Monday eVeniiy£> August IBth, This recital was another in the series of summer lyceum con certs" at the College.' Miss Moten's program heitrd by an enthusiastic audience cf N. Carolina's Hljfh School Tea^ers . who nearly filled B. N. Duke Auditorium was very '^rmly accepted and requests for •spiri- . tuals An^ popular songf-^re ao niimerous that she was for^d to alter her program greatly and omit most of the heavier num- '' bers Utrhich she had planned to use. The part -of Miss Moten’s‘pro. gram which the audience seem ed to like most was the section devoted to si^irituals and popu lar songs. Miss Moten told her listeners in her own ebam.- ing way that she had 'left the sprituals oflf ^er program pur posely in order that fhey might be requested and while comply ing ndth the requesla^she would also include those which were h«r tvroi^l^ „ (fessye. ^Ws apirftual ip not as weU known as some, others but is quite a« ^utHentic »nd quite 8A riovely as those which originated in ,.ttie South, Qth«r spiritwajs werei “I’ve Be»n -Iwk’ ed’ *City Culled HeiivejJ and Tulk About A Chile llhat Do Lova JesDs, In the final group was' member my forgotten Man’ which was sung by Miss Moten in the screen success, Ggld- ditsers oi 1M8; Music MaesW Please and 'Carioca' from ano ther picture which starred Miss Moten, Plying Down to Eio. Btta M'Oten has consider ably fineri . training than the average singer who appears be fore the audiences of the Unit ed States and this was easily noticed in the manner in ‘ which she conducted her prograin Mon day evening. It was only na tural that her | concert" should have been att^t^d and highly appx«eiatad by j5wham's (a n 'd‘ North Carolinajs) Intelligentia. Accompanying the artitt at the piAno was LeRoy Gentry, a young man of twenty who is le- ally a prodigy at th»‘ piano. He is a student at the University of Chicago. While in JT 6 r f h CaToHna..J||ls8^^]^«ten will be heard in coneerif^ all of the ColleMs in tha Stata. (TW TIMEf Telia it Flfal} (Special to tha Carolina Times) GOLDSBORO, Aug. 17, The 14th annual session of the North Carolina Inter—DenominationaS Ushers Association will open here Fri. morning. 26 at 10 6’clock sharp according to , an announcement made here this week by J. Wiley Thompson^ member of the committee on ar rangements. ■ \ "V -More than 300 ^legates and visitors to the convention arc expected to be here next week and plans have been completed to entertain them in the highest manner. All sessions of the meeting will be heJa at ihe Mount'Oai-' vaty Baptist church on Den mark'street^ I'ne convention will be presided over by i-. K. Austin, president oi the associa tion. Mr. Austin is aiso editor Of the Halolina Times. The North Carolina luter-ae- aomiuationai AasuctAtiA.u is composed of members of ush- three titles at once and the same ' er boards from churches of all time. I denominations, and is one of the " ■ ■■ ' I fastest growing organizations in amazing champioiahip winning the state. Its membership now streak in history, giving Arta-' numbers more thftn 2,0(MJ. History making “Homicidjs Henry” Armstrong who register ed his 39th consecutive victory and annexed the lightweight crbvm to his, -collection in t h e fifteen round br.ttle with Lou Tenn. iior Diiven Fnm ALABAMA REFUSES TO FREE POWELL AND PATTERSON ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED FLASH! FLASH/ KICTRELL, N. C., Aug. 17th —'Hell threatened to break loose here today at the Religious Con vocation being held on the cam pus of Kittrell College when an attack on Ira T. Bryant led by Rev. T. H. Scott, pastor of the St. Paul AME Church of Raleigh threatened to develop int«r^^ fieg tvf ail physical combat. Mr. Bryant was ordered and fair ly driven- from the campus by Key. Scott and a small mob. | The attack on Mr. B'ryaht was * saidvto have started when it was learned that the YOUNG AL- LENlTE, the AME Sunday School Union publication, edited by Mr. Biyant, was found being ! circulated on the campus of the ' college. 'Khe issue being cir culated carried a front page edi torial disclosing alleged crooked activities of several AME Church j officers, including Bishop M. H. ( 15avis, and was thought to have MISS CARRIE ISIABELL YEAR- raised the ire of Rev. Scott and GIN, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. other Davis supporters to such J. W. Yeargin of Raleigh, N. C. an extent that they could not wffo marriage to Earnest Preston stand the presence ©f the Young'of Raleigh has been announced Allenite editpr,for September. Rev. Scott who ulftil a few ^ ' years ago was ff minister in the Rev. ^Scott threatened to called CME Church, accosted Mr, Bry- the Sheriff for the purpose of ant and ordered him not to dis- arresting iB^yant if the literti- tribute any more of the' YouW|^ t>^e 'tas even found being dis- Allienlte on the school campus, near the college cam- ‘‘¥ott^ know mei” R«v. Scott is us, ‘ ISSlirr alleged to have said. ‘Yes I lehow r The attack ^on Mr,. laaan.t to- I — C«*nim« Timc»> the fight for complete freedom MONTGOMERY, Ala. August 18,—Applications 4op the fiiee- for the remairiing~TtV¥' cording ^ an announcement made by officials of ''the National Labor Defense, the organisation that has led the fight to save the lives of the boys since their ar rest in 1931. Four of the original nine b«ys were freed more than a year ago. The. TIMES Tells II First) This Strong his third title in less ' year’s convention is expected to than ten months.-" I be the largest attended and best The perpetual motion mach- in the i^tor^ of the association.- in« of tha. i-tBg won the feather-1 The public meeting of the con- weight title by knocking out | ventWn'!j»rop«r’witt--be Patey-Sarron last October and j-day night at eight o’clock - at •come will be delivered by Ex--church,” said Mr. ffryant. Words cond which has been led by Rev. Mayor of Goldsboro, Edgar H. * including the lie, passed between * Scott on the Nashville publisher. Bain, Roland Pearaoll; Mrs.'the two ^en until Rev. Scotty The first took place at a re|ent Emma W. Sesser, Rev. B. F. called tfe^spetial white police meeting of the Bishoi^e Council Johnson; Dr. Jackson and Mrs. J officer hitTO to keep order at of the AME church led irt Mon- Misr Ethel Wise Itas -reeentiy -gilpWa- Hatcher. Responsefr-to-4ha—eon vocation^ ta pevent- Mr4^tgamery> ^ ^ been appointed member of the ' the addresses will be delivered Bryant from remaining on the ' Soon after the attack Rev. Scott music faculty of Lincoln IJ* 1 ^y the fcresident of the ass’n ‘ campus and to prevent the Young left immediately ftir Duijiam. (Th« TIMES Tells It First) j (PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 8) ' Allenite from_, being distributed. Th« TtMES Tell* It First) - captured the welt^pweight ci’own which time addresses of wel- when you first came into the day is said to have been the se- in points from Barney Ross last May 31. (Tk« TIMES Telis It First) F L A S HI dom of the remaining fivf Scotts boro .boys now being held in prison here for an alleged rape of two young white women on a freight train in 1931 were deni ed today by the Alabama board of pardons. The board flatly refused the application of Ouie Pow^;Ii and Heywood Patterson, the vote for the refusal being unanimous. Reason given for denying the pleas of Charlie Weems, Andy Wright and Clarence Norris was that the pleas had been present ed prematurely. ^ The pa.’doning- board’s meet ing was attended by Governor Gibb Graves who may or may not allow the board’s recom- mendatfons. f ; ' b^ll team. Also surviving are Patterson ip serving 75 years Miss Katherine Lee, daughter,' for the alleged rape and Powell and two sons^ Oscar and Hubert is serving 20 years for an as- ^ Lee, and a host of relative* sault charge with attempt to fiends, a'ii burham was shook- murder growing out of an ef- _-ed to hear of Mrs. Lee’s death fort to escape when he waa be- Ifor she was a woman' of fine ing transported by officers. I character with a personality The refusal of the Alabama which endeared her to all who board of pardons will not end knew her. MRSi NANNIE LEE PASSES « Mrs. Nannie L«ie, ibrmer resident of the East Durham Community,, died at her home Umsteinl Srteet Saturday morn ing, Au^st 13. Mis. Lee was the wife of Henderson Lee, I janitor at the W. G. Pi»- * elementary school and coach af ;fih€ Lucky Strike E'ulls Ba««- Rev. Mathew N. Nujnn Preaches Own Fu ueral No, this is not the telieve-it- EVIDENCE SAID TO LINK CHURCHMAN-^-S C H O O L TEACHER TO SHOOTING’; LITTLE ROCK, Ark. August IS, (ANP)—Police officers and church leaders here are hopeful of announcing shortly the solu tion of the startling shooting and robbery of Presiding Elder O., Sherman on June q. The prominent pastor was robbed of |2,2a0 ibelonging to Shorter ^>ollege, AME] institmtion here, and then shot by the robbers as he was eonVeying- the money from the school to his home at 8&2 Hickory street. Three men are under arrest, oh«, Prof. W, M. 'Burns^ descri bed as the brains of tbe plot, and two others, men^ named Qllison and Duckworth, who ftvii wid to be his aiceomvUcu. May Soon ^ Sotved The lW?ter two men are in jail, buttBui:ns is at liberty under a $6,600 bond. All three are resi dent of Pordyce, Ark a town near lattle RockV 'There is • mystical quality to the hold-up and attempted a.s- aaa^nation, with ramifications into ahurch circles which have kept the* case upon the tongues of nearly everyone here and throughout the state. 1 T h i; money was part tional .fund whi3ch had been rais e d du«ng the paresiding elder’s council held at Bethel church in North Little Roclu The funds were turned over to Rev. Sherman who is chairman of the finance committee of the •chool for transportation to his home for safe keeping at the close of the evening meeting, »nd «rer« to 1uit« been b«Dk«d on the followng day. Km *Rev. Sherman ,d^ve into £he driveway of his home, one of two men f^ho had b .e e n ei following ear took the grip af;ter their eacape. ' Prof. Burns, is a principal in a rural school near Fordyce and has been, a prominent lay man in the AME church. fie , . was a lay delegate to the AME. containing the money from him conference heldi in New^ at lie pioint of a grun and then fired point blank at his head. The bullet entered one side of his neck, emerging on the other side, but thfe plucky minister though weak from loss of blood ^ of an- eduA-| frobbers in a *ig • ° York in 1936, where he had served as a member of the im portant Eptacopal Committee of the hody. He had., for some years been a profes'^ed friend zag. chase about Little R^o c‘k sheets until he tost them. V Tiffee weeks later a clue «de- Vtloped wrhich led to the arrest ef B^h;{b, Ollison and Duck- worA The latter two confess ed tfat they had plotted with Bums to commit the robbery, and testified tiiat the money . crime, promising had been turned ove^ to him,of the |kz^oc€e^ Sherman, and was a former student at the - school. These Connections are alleged to haye givah him an insight into the methods of handling the school's money. Hs is alleged to have hired Ollison, an expert -chauffeur, and Duck worth, a casual laborer, - - to I carry out the details of the them a share or not column; itj^acti^ally hap pened. Rev. Mathew Nunn, a well known resident of Dur ham County officiated at his own funeral at the Hillside Park tXisL SniHiHy "Kfiyii'jiojon, August" 14. All arrangements for the funeral were made by Rev. Nunn; he had his casket, plenty of flowers, Pallbearers and everything that goe^ with.^a real funeraL In the beginning of the fun eral, the casket was rolled down the aisle by the undertaker and Rev. Nunn was walking in front of it. The casket was followed- by the line of pallbearers and flowerbearers. After the form al iparch, very U^tle was said pertaining to a funeral. Rev. Nui^n stated that the Ldrd had told him to. estaiblish a Holy, Missionary Bapt. church and in order to dO this he had to get away from his old self; h* had to move oat and devote the rest of big life to God. He has bought a tract. Of .land out in the Coun ty where he intends to establish his church. The first grav# to be dug ©n the part of the tract set aside for the church cemetery was Rev. Nona’s own grave fc* dug between two stones jrhlch he M»d ^pd h«d intended for his toB^stMm V ■ ■ ■' ' I GOVERNOR STARK ATTEWD3 LINCOLN U SUMMER COMMENCEMENT ' JEEFERSOK CtTY, Iff Arfg. 18 (ANP) (Jo^venior'^anff~^ Mr. Uo^d^ C. Stark were among the distinguished guets in at- ' tendance at the'" i>mp)eniement exercises of the Summer gr». - ds%ting class last Thhnday «t Lincoln university. Governor Stark was introduced hy Prof. C. C. Hubbard, princip«I Lin* coin High school, Sedalia, Ha. and member of the board «f curators of Lincoln university. The Governor spoke infonuo 1 ally on “Service” calling atten tion of graduates te‘‘^ ^«hie cf a life dev0t9| to uebeBtfl^ service, and citing the oppor- tuniti^ for servio*.. by an institutiffB like *Linco!n. NURSERY SCHOOL P1CI11C HOLDS RALEIGH. Jkug. 18, f On August 4th the tMcf and children of th« fli^ gregrational Nursery Shotl 1 to he John ChaMS picnic. Mra. Lffcy was in charg* d sisted by Mrs. Ibm* Jl. la. Md Mitt Mill
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