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Readies Tk Mass M Ikato VOLUME 1« NO.iO Mailing ratlTlON SATUHDAY, DEC. 17th, 1»M nUC£ FIVE CEMIS f MISSOURI LOSES LAW SCHOOL SUIT Vatvhmys May Present New Lynch Bill To Congress EVIDENCE AQA1N3T~ CHAPEL HILLNEQRO Fast losing ground On of two Neyroes held in jail here on a charge of rape wsc released her* this week, a..J nj indictment aganiat thw second has yet .been issued. Rumors from reliable sources are bc'jfin^ ing to leak out that accusations ef a 16 year old white girl that «be wa« raped by one of t e Negroes, is apparently untur«... Although the young Madeline Clark, has identif ed the man who raped her as being Frank BlackweU, 23 yeaP“ oid Negro of Carboro, Sheriff J, T, Latta has yet to bring foVmal charges against the Negro. The young girl stated that tElackwell attacked her at the point of a gun on Steel Bridge about a tnile from {he'city of Chajwl HilL Blacknell’s brother, Edward was also arrested but was releas v-d after the girl positively point ed out .Frank as thd man wbn attacked her. The sheriff st«t?l that Ffank wxtuld b« held untiL certain phases of the case xyerc investigated. Reports Chapel H'.ll, seat of the_ liberaT University of North Carolina, state that, unless more evldg^nc^ can be obtained the Sheriff is ^a^iiUnt; to accept the girls testimonj m a basis for prosecution. S li i. returned to school Tuesday, is also- the report coming from Chapel Hill. AIthoug\h there are many students and f^dulty members (PLEASE TURN* TO PAGE 8) EMANCIPATION SPEAKER Accuse Couple Of Trying To Stai^e Negro Farmers Sapreme Court Rules Hold Confab WARREN, Dec. 1 6, (SpecUl) —Wise, North Carolina Negro farmers bold one day conference at the Warren County 'I'rainnut School, Saturday, December 10, for the purpose of making plans for the 1&39 farm program There were about 100 /armerij and teachers of vocational agri jtnjlture present fct the meetiu|^ K.fip. Plttman^f Halifax Coun ty presided ovar the 'me^tmfc;. C. C. Booker, Superintendent of Credit Union Division gave *n struction as to how Credit Un ions are set up. Farpiers from Halifax, Edgecomb, and The- meeting was. ^ conducted at this school in order that othwr farmers might IcaVn first hirvd about thier progi*am. Bat't in 19*^ these leaders realisetl the local farm program had to be changed’. At that time, less tnan 3 pet cent of the irrmcs were productlng wheat. IhJ than Missouri IVlust Admit Negro To Law SctiodI NYA SPEAKER IbtaT yield” was less than 300 bushels per year. More than 9J pefcent of the farmei's are pro ducing wheat with a total yiiit! of aioupd 6000 bushels p ej t, season. Modern Farm Mactiin ery has been purchased by tho Warren I scnooi otticials to aid the fuim- l!¥1)^] •lieved^P aOGK, Dec. 16,— 'B«lieved"^ iiave been actaai’y trying their aged auttt ta d««th ao they^-might oJtain her property, Mr, and Mrs, h, Haa, 28, ware arrested Frietaiy and will face charges of malicious mischief. There is no state 9t*t«t« cevering tha crima of whic^ they are actually accused. TIm Heads were arrested' on complaint of Mrs. Carl Lati«> white, director of the North Little Rock Women’s Protective bureau, who reported she found the aunt, Mrs, Harriet Hani«, lock^ in a room without beat or food. “She owns some property in North Little R .o c k,” Detiuty Prosecuting Atty. Byroa Bo- gard said after the arrest, “Xh.2 Heads probably would be her liein ia «vent of liar dca^h, They I rav3 tier no«d»f to eat. It was [MARRIAGE plain that was being mftd* to stnm im to death, fhors vaa ml»o ^&o fuel in^ the room. I un^fibind tha£~^ e^en tha whidowt wtn nailed down. REV. MILES MARK FISHER, pastor of the White Rock B«pi. church who will deliver the Eman* cipatiori address here, Sunday January 2, ^t the Union Baptist church. she was as a result ihay can be er. It is a pec we have no law to fit it. There are, hu man laws that provide punish ment for persons who are cruel to animals. b«t none p«xti^ug to such treatment of human be ing.” , , Bogard said Mrs, Lan« guve the aged aunt food and fuel and “the starving woman ate dry bread as thougli it were ca^e.’ ANNOUNCEMENT Rev, and Mrs, Chantpney, an nounces the marriage of their daughter Katherine Anne to Wal- tr Carter Thow^s on Saturday, Deceipber the tenth, nineteen hundred and thirty eigrht, Dur ham, N, C, At home 811 ^ayC- teville Street. Counties gave reports on the wreit Unions in their County, ihe farmers set a goal to gt^t ;,hirty more Negro Credit Un'ti organized during the coniir.j? year. U Persons attending these rae«!t ings are members of yie Betto;; Adult Farmers Evening Schoola which' are conducted by the Ne- gro teachers of Vocational Agri cultore throughout the state. This program Is sponsored by the Agricultural Developfflfent; of EducatioB. , Last year there were 78 adult farmers schools conducted in the State witn ir total enrollment of ISftS farn- ers. The goal set for this is lOO schools and an enrollmeni of 2600 farmers. «. Professoir J. L. Bolden with the able assistance of his Prin cipal, G. Cheek, has had one of the best schools in the State. ers with this better balam-ed program. The men ai’e giving .special attention to improvi.;;; tfte livestock and the women are developing year around gard'ins and home beautificiUion. At the close of the program the gruop visited the home of Chas. G. Evans, on® ^of the best farmers in cooamunity. iieze the^obat'rved his methods of proaucing and storing^ farm *piw duce The entire ac^age w»s sworn (o' «ov«r sraps. He nwintains a geod pacture, fine orchard, and excellent tarm '1 shop. Instead of depehdliig on one cash crop, this farmer told t&e group he gets his cash from %several crops, and iive stock products he is also a Direc tor of the Warren County Cro-, dit Union. j Far too many sorrows can be to p««t pleMuro*. J, P, BONt), State Supor/i5i''r of N^fro Activities vf the gro Youth Administration who was one o£ the main .iqieakcr at a special prwgt«» -ik^ 'in Rati^igh Sunday b«fore jnere than 4,000 people. Ib addition tio beinc in- stmctiv« the addrMB of Mr, 6>m»4 was inspiring, IN AUTO WAECK WASilUNGTON', D. 15, (Special)—In one ^ mo*t momentous decisions, so ~1 far as Ne^oes are eonceraeo, U>e Umte4 St«t« Suprem#^ Coutl 'I yesterday ruled that Lloyd Gain- I es a Negro should be odmiti>'! to the law school of the Uni-er- sity of Missouri. The iiiHnjf .of the nation’.'s hijrhcst tribunal affcets 16 ern states that have denied N’»- groes ^vantas s of profewional training b y prohibiting tben. fron* attending .".chools provided f»ir white students. The Snpretwt Court also held that the p»yms; £ tuition of Negro stud'ent’i in graduate schools outside t h ^ states was not adequate, and did “not constitute eoTttpKaite with the law of eiiialhy to ali citissehs. The^omnion was written C, I>ec. coin University, N'eirro state sb? of tfte") ported school of Misaouri, t S «f court held that mere iriten*. .3 purp*»e stiU ^ not ejaaugf. Georgia Burns Six Negroes Thousands Attend Musical Festival in silence, brooding in his cell, wihile the six doomed Negroes made the prison ring with their singing. REiDSVILLE, Ga., Dec, 15, to die ^th o^ers —Six Negroes, convicted of mur der, went to their deaths sing ing “The Lord Is Coming” and reciting tfae Lord’s Prayer ;Bst week in the biggest maas execu tion in Georgia’s history, wiile a white man, also convicted of murder, was granted a last min- tfte reprieve. seventh man scheduJ^ to die in the electric "^hair was Tom Dickerson, a farmer who killed a baby bom as a result of incestuoHs relations with hi* daughter. > Meanwhile the state claimed- the Uvea of Jim ■ Williameion, Charles Rucker, Raymond Caitcr, Arthur Perry, Arthur Hack and Willie Russell. When the second man, Aut>ur Mack,' entered the death cham ber he turned to the prison war den and asked; “Can I prav7 ’ The warden nodded and the nukn knelt before the squara ' backed chair and pn;^^- aioQd for two minutes. Afttf fbikl “Amen” he arose, and sat fn th'^ chair ^•4, repeated tiie Lord’Ai "^elt of cif ;i(^ckerton, who hil RALEIGH, Dec. Ig,—One of the most representntlVe meet ings «f its kind took place here Sunday, December 11, when five thousand persons turne(|^ - oQt to hear Mrs. Mary McLeod *Be^y+t>f thune. Director. Division of Ne gro Affairs of the National Youth Administration, explaui I the work of NYA. Th^ program I was sponsored by the Collego Women’s Club of this city and was designed to BCquaint - citizens of the community with until otirly today when Governor Rivers granted the stay, spent the ni»te4.% program of the recantiy fiv8 Murdeis HIGHLAND. PABK, MichigDn, pec, 16^“I paid my voodoo doc tor $15 for a bottle of medlOin" he said would keep me safe from poliee, but I giiess it di^j’i work,” lamented E. Harris, color ed cult worship^per last Friday to CItptain Charles Cook of the local police department. Harris, 36, was brought from ^Chatham, Ont^ where he had been plueeo Capt, Cook- said ^d confess^ thfe slaj - ‘W Ilia sweetheart, M i s -# Eastn»ond, on Oct. 17, |U«Bd Park, and admittedjcle.”, gtaflty of., f our other la Miiaoaci. appoiiited State Supervisor jf Negro Activities, J. P. blond, Jr. Mrs. Bethune was introduced by Honorable. C. C. Spauld ng. President of the North Carolma Mutual Life Insurance Company of Durham, who praised the Na tional Director for splend- l work she has done ip helping Negro youths, and in dramatra- ing NYA work throughout the nation. The speaker began by commending the people of tnis Statt. * the -wonderful co opernu- tion i^y4Jia..^HBtate oiffcialB. She pointed out the fact that the NYA program is designed to help life and build the youths of the nation for well roundid citizenship. • “North Carolina,” ' said Mis. Bethune, “has opened wide its doors towai^-the development of ttie'eolored people, and the citizens here ought "*^o^«j^po«d and gr^eful for the , t«yier^hip of thi« state, whifch has bi^n linstrumental in paving the way for real progress amongt.;^r po^ The program opened with in-' vocation,, by the Rev. L. L, ,Bovd Principal of the Morrison Train in4 School, followed — by intro ductory remarks by Mrs. Saraa Gason, President of the Colle^io Women's Club, who on behalf h 0 r organisation, thanked the people of this State for the large numb«r i n attendance. After this, musical numbim were rendered by the Fayette ville State Noral Chorus, t h’ e Washington High School Glee Cdnafe Group. The WPA Malo Choral Group, under the diiec- tion of Mrs. Nell Hunter, fhen thrilled the audience with two selections, “Mother 0’ Mine” and “The Last Rose of Summer."’ The ^ix*d~. group from Sti^fg, Normal School, Eli?abeth^ ,ity and the A and T Colldge Society rendered excellent sol ections. The second part of the pro gram incluBeH the presentation of Mayor George laeley of Ra leigh by John A. Lang, Directoir of NYA of North CaroHpa rand after two musical selections by. the Sedalia singers, J. p. Bold, Jr, State Supervisor of Negro Activities of the National Youth Administration delivered_a— terful aadreas on “The Negro Youth ■’Program and The NYA” The speaker'outUned the program of Negro activitieir and pointtd out that a great nee{l,j^ .boen recognized ^ux>.American life for some specific work concerning ^e d#velo^fiffent of the Negro in ^ pMgram of NYA. He said further, that thoiuands of doll- «ra per were expended fo help fiiejy yout*» to contiDU* and to giOii cational experience and thereby benefit the communities Vnwi which they come. j Conliniiing," he said, “W* have been waking up for many- we are not quite as fast now as we were many yeani •fiOJ w© have been gradually «S|>ari menting and developing no taat w6‘ are a little better prapatad to have white North _ Carolina work wl then we were yesterday.” After the meeting, about lorty ieai«Ts, -iSm atiQ women, X99X«~ senting many groups through'ut th» 3tate attended a dumer at the Arcade Hotel given by J. P, d, Jr, in honor of Mrs Ba- une. John A Lang, State ctor, spoke at lengrth" on the necessity for Negioes to cooper ata wkh r. Bond, if he i& to do a constructive piece of work. He stated further, that if we are to correct the mistakes by races, we must begin by paying at»^ii tion to the youth of the nation. IriBpited by the wonderful rceeptlon given her, Mrs. Be thune aro.se one© more to ad- dress the group,. She drove hom« the point that If tfie^ one million dollars appropiated for wprk among Negroes in the St'ite is not used fully, it, will be be cause leaders in this section ha\fe failed to suggest projects wherg this money can be utilte- ed. She suggested that tto lead ers present form a comm'tta* to study tile needa the NegTn> ^ of the State and to brinif them to, til* mttentton of th>«e who ad^iaktar tSGTmoQey. GREENSBORO, Dec. i6,— Members of the North Carolina Ushers’ Ass’n will be sorry to know that J, W, Doak, state treas, of the aaaociation, atnl president of the Greesaboro Uohers Uni^i. was struck by an automobile injured Monday morning, Dee, 5. Mr, Doak was taken to the haspital where Ke renMined for aavoral days. H« is now reeuperat ing from the injuries which ho sustained, and la at home 14S Beech Street. T« Prmt to LvKk Bill WASHINGTON, D*e, 15- Senator Van Nuys, Democrat from Indiana, declared here day that he wonkl again attemft to pMs another anti lynching bill at the next se«sion of con- which convenea in Jaiiu^fy" 19S9^ A- filibuatef' engage^:.ip. southern senators prevented' Ih^ passage of a aiioilar bill at the last session of Cbngress after the bill bad safely passed the lower 'hottae. Senator Robert Wagner of New York waa-«0€Witb0r of the other bill, and Senator V i n Nuys said that he would -eonfer with 'the New York senator in a few daya at tout bringing tne new bill before the next session >>f. the Senate. Mr, Van Nuys stated tdtaA there" would ,b» little er no changes in the new bill. | Accordin^r to information re ceived fr«m Bwvefml vtouthe^'n senators another filibuster will The fS.’Nj of Guinea wa.s iou«ai through the lower courta, sx'«i 5ofpre the United States -Sup reme Court by Attorney Clui!-s Hu»ton, noteu w5^t?^on . ter. Mr, Huston wa.4 assistel ;>y a;toiUv>s o£ t.ie Natiori&i tion for the .\dvaneemjnt. ' Colored f*eo-p!e'. j , Said Mr. Hughes*; “We ar« of the opinion tn*t-v.iu t . er was enxitled to. be ad.iiitted to the l-aw School oi ta,c =ta«e university in t h ^ a^»enea a£ other aM fr«per pror^Ums for his legal traioiiifr within tM state.” Wtef JjMtlcc liagha* st^^ Chief Justice Charles Evtni . further that the state was bovJB^ lluarhes. Mumbr-ra of the conrtjto furnish Gaines within its b .r- who dissented were Justices Me- | ders facilities for leicai educal. iH R-^ynolds and iLnttler. | %uT»stantIaIIy equal to those f.»r- The Missouri Supreme Cv.r.-t . nished persons of tfc« whit» had prwieusly b«H tliat fay- mcnt of tuition outside the tte was mifficient. .Although the, state had g+ven its intentions of opening a law s^ho^ at Lin- Gaines is now employed by the W’PA ii\- l^asU-;g, MichigaR. He decRnrd say whether, he would enti.-r the law .■vhool of the Uwivtfrsit^ of Missouri, _ United Christian Front Must BUfTf^^LO,- Dec, 18—1 n a call for a “new unity of t !i e Christian church” made Tkartaiay at the diennial Meeting a n ci 30th anniversary of the J^eral Council of the CliarelMS of Christ in America, leaders in attendance gave voice to the conviction that interracial jmrt ice^and goodwill ar« essentials’ if a world torn up hatred is to find its way back to God, In ekided in the features of the fo1nr~«iay. .sessions wer^ spec’aT W'?rracitt' promoted by ' its De^iirtiaent of Raia Relationa of wHicfa Docto'’ Qeorge £, Haynes ib executive secretary and Miss Katherine Gardner associate, . ^ f’’ Untlt>r the themes, Religiocs Education and Social Action in Race liflations, and Hindrancee and Helps 'lA Interracial Coopai^ ation in Local Churehm, the seetiunal discafsioas carried th> leadership of experts from"com munit|es where local interracial wQi^„is progress. Dr, F, Brnest John.oon, ctirector of research m the federal «eonncil and a pm fefior .nt Teachers collate, €®l upibia university, in epeninc tite discuffision on .,^^ligioiiis Kdoa tion and Social Ai^on; ift Baaa doctrinca of the chui-eh a.ipH- able in the life and practice of the church,” he stiti. Doctor James W, Eichclber^ er, religious .education diriiCiJf of th« AM£ Zior church, co lead er of this discttsaten, led t b ev thinking along the Une of jv^as race prejudice is doing to wh>Ui overprivileged ^(Toupa as well •» to Negroes and Indiana, “I)i2 souls ‘of white chorchmea are marred,” and Dr, Channisfr U. Tobias of the €M£ charch, *'I>y the %ihire- theee matters of race,’* ‘..In presenting the 17th aaaaal report of the Department ^ Race Relations, Doctor Bajii^ gave concrete examples of tka ecectiveneae of the church vhea it actually practices Christiari^. in community situation racial minorities, “Thrai^git. a slow process of edueatlMk through action, reaUitng the /^htsreh repreaenls (PLEASE TURN TO PAGS WKsPrwir”^ *4! be restored to prevent..i, the tm RclattSTi?; expraaatd t|^ from becoming biw. It is believ ed however that enough sena tors will agree to a cloture to fOrce a vote on the biU. ~ Although the aeitthem aeaatora argued'tha* thare wme lio aaed of the bill because lyneUnj[^ were dylny oat ia the south (have has b««& seviik this year. One agener keeps a r«»>ril of nob vtoleBca ib the aantii rec(»d8 nine for the year. that action Uiironch th* dimh or auy other organ^ad fat«« MA be considered effaetiv* tT F ft J when a aodal- nlltH* b hroaght about;’that dademjtteee can naan aoaatiiii^ enly vtken they arc Implcisev^d fay apeetfic acUoh for A)a^|^'^‘*rtie Oxford alofM, '1st the choreli be chaxelt itt me relatioiis «o«ld a b^cI^HI^ iBdW aeeaa 'wt %. y it. fouad profrwaivehr to iMke dia 8UFOLK. Va..— Ka«:ly. native of at t‘^e. last w*fk, CWitM; 4oyn#» decleri^ came'as the im||{ kia h«Ml -«^ i co aiul - beea m 'iimm
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