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ileaiics Tlie Mass I)! Headers VOLUME IS NO. sa Mailing EDITION NORTH CAiOUNA SATURDAY, DEC. Hx, l*M nilCE S CENTS CHAPELHILL NECRfli REMAINS IN JAH Orange County Sheriff Refuses To Release Or Indict Man For Rape Aceording to ^iaformation t«le- pboned to thk Carolina TiuiM« from Sheriff I. T. UkUm^ ot Or Cou^fy, no l^^ctment hin ]r»t b««n is^td licainsl Frai^k Biackw«ll, 8S yaHU^td Carbor* man wbo waa flan«d by Hae Clark, a IS J^ar-old whiti firl a* Mic «ian w1^ raped her* three week ago. The man nas JM«a held in Durham duriiii; tnia time “for safe keeping” with absolutely no charge agftinxt ^hi» deipite the fact that they'd is a law which prohibits ithe faafd ing uf a person for more than 48 h o u r fe without a charge. There is no way of knowing ju 't how long this man will bu held. It is quite poasilile probabV.: that he will continue to be until storiSr wliich are ‘^»‘*Jf‘»JrfeL'ucien Br'own' enough can be cookad up. . llo might become one of the for gotten men who will rot in pri son without ever having tr.y ^harge Mm. ■ is plainly another caw of a white woman’s word being ise*l instead of simple reasoning and trough \inVe5tigaCTon& on t.Ke part of thoae- wW h e strini^ «£4a«r and Jsatice aroami their fifcgera. ~ The girl has stated that Bla:k- weM attacked her at the poiut of a gun, on a ftteel bridge about, a mile from Chapel Hill. Almost everyone wbo will talk about this care in Durham or APPEAR at NOTABLES TO URBAN LEAGUE ANNUAL MEETING JANUARY U ; i NEW YORK, Dec. 30—The New York Urtan League through its executive director, Jarae H. Hubert has announced its annual dinner meeting o n Wednesday evening, January ll, at the Roger Smith. Speakers inc;!ude Dr. Henry Noble Mac- Cracken, presidenl ' of Vasiwr ^oUege, and Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson, president of Honird university. The dinner* com mittee, contpoted of Chauncey Stillman, Mrs. Bessye Bearden, Mrs. Offwald B. _ lcird| Doctor and Moore has invited Mist^ Anderson to be the guest. Although the annual of league members and contribr tors, it is understood t h I friends of the organization are permitted to attend. The acting chaimaan of the league, Seym our Cjomwe, Jr. will preside. DIRECTOR Maurice Mirie.n honored meeWnj;' Chapel HiU seems cohvinced that Blaokwc!! ij isnocent of the girl’s accusations but this in no way altera toe factf that he is still being held in the Durham County Jail,^ after three weeks without a charge. Negro \ledies Under Great Handicaps^ ^ Attorney General To Ask L^gfislature to Enact Law Against Mob Violence Baliaf in Current that Whole Problam of "Soeiallsed Medi> ciae’* Will be “Smoked Out In- M tke Op«n’' Whan Case U Call ed ,l^r Trial. . .fndGfgent Nevro PaaarUicf, Greatett Sufferers Fron Improper Medical^ Service, Bovitd to Profit. . .Broad Q«es- tie» Affect* Medics of B «iO t h Rac^ Sy AIJllERT G. BARNETT (For ANP) j,. CHICAGO, Qep. 28,—T » e cen£ indictment by a U. S. Grand Jury in Waajiinprton, D. C., of the /imerican Medieal Asi/ocia- tion 21 medical leader*— fiv6 'of them Ohicajroans—on ¥ • charges of violating the sher- •nan 'anti-trust law prompts the query; "How doe? all thia_Affo't thg Nejfro doctor and that vast army of Negro indigcnts, long suflferiniir from a lack of medical services? among aom« CORNELIUS KING director of agriculture at South ern university, Scotlandville, La. who last weel^ wa« appointed assistant |t& the governor of the] While ofia*on Farm Credit administration, fill physiciann'^(ti9{ecetl as to tha iin ing the place made vacant by ; mediate result of "Hike Fe^erai the recent death of Dr. Henry J imi«iry, notably current wan tshn Hunt,,of Fort Valley, *"€18. Mr. l^g',, ^alectfrd froAr' among an^pant^^ t^kca otfice Januirj He vHI! draw an annual ,a»lary. of.j|5,000. '1 Noted New York ■ i :r. Surgeon Passes NEW YORiK, Dec. 29th— Funeral services were held Hiunday from Mother AMEZ church for Dr. li. Cdiirad Vin cent, 48, first Negro to servo as an interne at Bellevue hospital, who died Sunday, December 17t at hla home. Although sulferini' since June from a liver ailment, he had cpntinued at Hir work until the i^lght before his d^ath. Dr. Vincent waa bOm in fta- leigh, N. C., aon of Prof. And rew Vincent of Shaw university, and in 1917 received his medicrl decree from the University *iaf Pennsylvania. After serving 6ti inetmeship at Beltevae, he pmc- ticed in New York from 1321 and was on the sur7ical staff of the Harlem hospital for some year*, until his resignation in IdSffi. He was a member of the American Medical association. Surviving him are his widow, Mrs. Naomi Tulance Vincent, whose father, the late V. 11. Tulance of Montgomery, AU., was a folder trustee of Tuclit'- gee; a son, U. Cdnrad Vincent By ^ CHICAGO,, IiIm Dec: 29 (UNP) ■i^Barly Thursday morning Dr, i Landry was taken to Provident hospital where it was disclo-^eJ he wa5 s^^ifering from a stall wound inflicted near the hcai’t by a Miss Hazel Battle. convlcti that the forthcoming trift'I bn fKe • white m?dlcril' ers would smoke tke.'entire qties tion *f socialized medicine ‘out -Into the open’ and that colored indigentf would, .'profit greatly by any compromise arrangement between orthodox meHical orae- tlce and ^e new, “greatest good for ihe greatest number” medi cal poJjcy no^ .^jeWk enunciated by the Government. THE “FLY IN THE OINTMENT’' The. premise upon which the opportunity to serve them in white medical association is be- many instances, and lose the Ing attacked^ by^- Governmentat opport«ntty for «tuthr*=-'W h i c h force.9 lies in the failure of the white physicians in tax-?uppi-rt- medical profession 'fo' bring its ed institutions gain througn -4 serviees wthiw -reach ol'millionf: ’^M-actlea upon_^Ne|TD _ indigents, of the poor. On the dthe-, iPLEASE TURN TO PAlG®’’6r band it is charged that the association controlled the dia«j«ii sing, of medical servlcea through its ability to arbitrarily dictato fEafnoriTy “iOfA' pKysicTini' jto'atd" hold various governmental and local po-^ltions in Federal, State. county and city health" i!lnita. AMA influence went 6vi:n further. Only accredited members of AMA can prac^ce [in general hopitals, sanitariams and clinics operatMl by cities, countio.a and states as well as In many privatf inal7lution^. This (;ut of the great majo''it.- of Ncpro practitioners, a i n c e only in a flw isolated case? aie. .Negroes able to join the Amei'i- can Medical Aaseciation. Why" the pay off.. One of the re(ii»irenv;jit>i f "■ member.'hip in AMA is member ship in local city and co'irity medical asao^iationiL In th* tn tire South and many localities in tho North, colored pbysic»*n.s are not aco^ted in there ImmI !;oci,etics, ttlUB ban-ing t h ^ m frcjiB tjie-iiirj^j: phases cf profession »n4 y^oni that grow th and eS^arlwice wfcfWf « from practicing in tax-supported institutions. WttAT IS THE POSITION OF N0QRO DOCTOR What position will Negro medicine, as repreaented by the Nat ional Medical Aa«oelati>n. take in the controversy T li well known that Negroe* repre sent one of' the largest groups which need medical care, yet colored medics are denied an TO APPEAR CAW “WINQ9 OVER JORDAN" PROGRAM • ijl n^ini m.mm„ m RA^C-H, N. (L Dm. SOtb.— It l» probable that attorney General Harry McMallan will recommend in tha t,l aesaion tbe sUt* ternrt*t«r* Mfcr-en- Ucjinent of a strict* anti lyncti- Ijiig bill as well a? a thorough ovvRhunling of the North Caro- 1*na*s f-vlr i^ial atatatea. ^ T.-e ".itfil meMore ■v»lH maki-. l^ nch»rit a v^pital offense and yiiM proviiu ‘Tuit' ", •>mb« ■ of » l^nch mob be thargec' '. •ith tnurdar. The law will ali«n pro ▼K!a compt^Bsation for vf ^raona lyndwd. There will another augcres- tiwn from tb« attorney General providing for the repeal ^ of a mandatory death .*entence parsons found guilty and i-on- victad of rape. The firat a%ib- stitute would provide that tlia jury be allowed t3 decide wnn*- “thar rape be- p»nial>pbtrt by death or by lif# impri*^a- m*nt; the 8®cond_Ja that t n e crime ahauld be puniiihable by -Hfe tmprijBiiwient ^ aowu iMrec "wntence. Another in tki.s group of '>osed measure? would prtvrMM !lfe im^riMnment for olit i^ea- 'far*. Others would give por- .'Uing ofBcera* in of a .rrtfwfinil permiasibn , cr*w'* ■»a te lii^. T .‘•re Ul I. oih>r mexfcrea intro'tfc, .. McMuUan a « d they wi^ y be largely of a for * tcchnicai\^» nire. $ i^AMES E. GAYLE, promineiit iajfman, business man and eivie lewder bt New ' Orleans will be be the fj>eaker on the “WING& 0 V K R JORDAN’l.Broiu|ka|«t January 28, " - * I Mr, Gavie wa* the cc-autn^r . Of resolutfbns adopte District anptist conference sut- eral week' ago, petitioning tiic local Columbia chain «tation to broadcast the program for thi section.'’ . KijrtilieMai) Siiccumbs Undertaker IristaU Radio System In La. NEW ORLEANS, 20ih. (ANP)—Air conditioned jiar- lor^ and an elaborate broadcast ing system are among the new fe^turaii Addas' tO' the Jooepii des, “i« not only to lervs ;atron with a kindly^ ku.iMAe and sympathetic service bat also to demonstrate jpodern eQiipa>ent and sapikc P. Geddes-^'Funeral Service, Inc., j of Negrro Busines.o enterpr^c- located have. With the aid uf the broadcaating syrtem and its modem devices, asuaie appropri ate to the occasion may be transmitted to either one /t the three parolrs where funeral tervicea ai)a Conducted. Passes In Ne Y. Jr., three daughters, Sylvin, ^acgueliqe and Eiarbara Vincont four sistex^ and a 'brother. For Murder Of \^hlf'e Woman Miss Battle, who lives nt f7,43 Vincennes avenue, whoie the doctor was (tabbed, broke lpto>4iy8terics whan questioned by’-ij^lice when she revealoa that'*she and the physician had been living together as man and wifa for the past six months. Sh* further states that the doctor came home .about i ■qjplock Thursday' niornng aod b^att abtmng Md^beating H“.‘ She exhibited aomerour brunos about her' head and face to prove her statement^ of hi? Mabuse of her. "I became flesperate,” she told Pqlicej. I d^on’t k n o u where the knife came from. I RLEASE TURN TO PAiGE 6) An ardent and consistent stip porter of the National Negrd Businaaa league and the Funeral Directm a««oeiatlon, ^ir. G«d- des parchases hia cak^a Nagx'o LAID TO REST Mrs; Annie E. Fiaher, wife of iis^hop H. L. Fisher of the United Holy Church of Amer ica and National Su pervisor of Women of the United Hjlv Church who succumb ed in New York Satur day, Dee. •24 after an illnem of about a month. Her body ^s "^riSiigpfil “W Durlaiiii^ for funeral^ service* which were TjeM at the Gosepel Tabern- able Tuesday, Dec. 27. av O. S. TAtLOR KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 23 U. S. d*rk, for iMarly^ a-Julf century ab outstanding civic and religloua leader here, died sud- embalaiiag samdia* from denly . last Sunday afternoon factortaa. wl^le ^viBiting the ibedside of a ' "Our purpose,” said Mr sick oaighbor. j .- - — Clark came to Knoxville mjBy years ago from- Ohio where he was born and for a time edited a weekly newspaper Here, b^i^ later was employed in thei wj«n- gin'eering department of the city water works where he mcv- ed contenuously for a period of forty six year*, and was co.i- sidered a very valuable man by his superiors in that department up uhtil his death. He was (he only Negro to held wich a plane Ge'>. from Rogers Memorial churc^.^ Rev. L-^]A. Alexander, paii ur who officiated, aaaisted by ot^r ministarf. that an instituton of this khid can reflect credit upon c b a race.” TIMES EDITOR TO DELIVER EMANCIPATION DAY ADDKESS The Emancipation day addre.s» at Wendel^N. _C. will be deliver ed l^saiy. Jinmary' t iby^ Austin, editor of The Carolia% Times and president of the North Caroliiik Inter-denomina tional yshers Association. Th*t E^manci^tion day celebration will be held in the Wendell Col ored School and is scheduled to begin at twelve o’clock no«n. here. Clark was charman of tho deacon board, trustee-board and S.upt. .of the Sunday school at Rogers Memoral church; also a member W many civic organlru- tions In Knoxyille.. Fun*?r!l service» were held Wednesvlav I4TTLE ROCK, Dec. '29.-- SiacauM a white woman ^ | * kiUftd Ui a fight between two brothers an oveneac, ou a plantation, Rome Bone w a J given the death penalty and his brother, Mose, was sentenced to ^erve 21 years in pi-iaon by a lily white jury Tuesday. ' Sen tence will be appleale.d. The dead woamn was Mrs. John A. Deaver. On Sept. 7 h»^r husband, manager of a planta tion near Rose City, instructed her to dock the brothers tnree pouiidr. of cotton per sack for pispng “dirty” cotton. An argument developed, aceording to Rome, and the white man drew a gun with which ho threatened to shoot the 'two workers and harm th4ir' small E^aatina. Mose i>truggled WitH Deavcf in an attei^t to take the pisroi anJ in ' the’ scuffle the "ig n went off, killing Mrs. Deavei*, Rome said. Hia testimony wn.' corroborated by Mose. The overseer, hoover, told the court that MoSAs ,jupped bff a truck after hearii/g the' docking order and knofeed him down. He then took “deHberat^l aim” with a gun and fhot his wife. His story was aubstantia- ted by two small white boy«f Wbo claimed they raw the inci dent. The jury deliberntt'd only Ii6' minutes before reach ing a cerdict. The brotlrirs were represent ed by Sci|>io Jones,, prominent lawyer, and ' P. W. Eirmann, white, who said thay would ap peal. Negro Children 7p Get Aid From^araJysis'Prograrn WASHINGTON, * D. C. Dec. 29—Nation wide support this year h being sr»ven the President Roosevelt Annual Ball by Ne groes, due to the fact that the Infantile Paralysis Association,- beneficiary of this annual event had decided to turn lt.«. atten tion to making the benefits available to epWred children. Each year thtw dancing par*' ties are promotM if various clt Jai and eomnlfntitru tbrcfughouf the nation, proceeds, of whi:h go to rupiport the work of the Warm Springs fouadation, pet philanthropy o f preside ^ t RoosreVeh. Part of I Che money thus raised is used to defray ex- lunFes at i:he sanitarium but 'the major pfirt is st, aside for re search and experimental work in cembatins; the dread TTseaje. ' Th^ Jijfantile Paralysif. Asi n ' Chicago, but the promise for has promised to establsh a unit | tjig future is particularly bright- at Tuikegee Institute, where ail 1 Crtppled cWSren from all oter of the rojeareh made poaslUie Alabama and nearby ^tes^»nitf at Warm Springs, will be made now being, treated and 'it is hop available for th^ training of ed the Wrm Springs Fo‘’n*l«- Negro orthopedic surgeons nnd tjon will make possible th^ m treatment of crippled colored akallation of therapeutic babies and chfldren. ! at Tuskegea. » Already the TuSkegee healt.i | Balls ar going ahead with xt- scrvice ’ is doing great work **n- newed vigor on account of tnc der Dr. John Chenault, trained aid to Negro invalid; proaf'^ed au'pices of Provident Hospital, by the Foujtd^tion. Prominent N. €• Man To Wed Pa. (Special to tk« Carolina Tiaicel SANFORD. N. C. Dec. 29lb— Tihe outatanuing event of the holiday season in Sanford was the betrothal ceremony of Al fred T. Tuckt^ a native of San ford who now reaideik in Phda- delfthia. Pa., and Miss Hulet> Motley, of PhiOadelpliia, on the evening of Tuesday December S7. The cereaaony took plac.> at tl^ home of Mr. Tuck’a par ents, S«T. aad Mrr. A. T. Tucl(, and waa attended by about forty of Sanford’s most iJor.dn- ent cltiaens as well a» friead? and relativea § r o m Durhaim, Raleigh, and Booldya, N. Y. ^Colored peojple who hjpioto- contrttmtlRf to tba Presidant'a came from Durham for the. cer^j-, mony; Mrs. Callie Tuck, t k. e mother >of the groom to be,, came next with her sifter, Mrs. Sar.*ji. Dennis of Brooklyn, N. T.; tht« came Mr. Tuck and Miaa Hat ley. • Rev. A. T. Tuck. proniacnt Sanford minister and father if the future groom pre.^euted Um beautiful diamond ring to Mw and he in tom placed it on tka finger of his ftnanc* aaa a tokoa of their wedd^ eagageMeat. Hm lellowliit aaial^rtnia aaatf- ted in the occasion: KavaaaaAi: Jj^ ■. McMUlan. E. E„ ATT~lfcNei) aad A. S. Qaliik forea have t>aan reluctant' about'W. Taek, After the guests gathei- Fallowing briaf worda ftJM ed Mis» Sarah Tuck, the pros- several of those pnaaat, iaclWkr pective groom's sister, IxigaA the betrothed jrwMs aeltly playiag a 'faaantil^ narett j >»*"> hoatw sarwai t 1|l • which was the -fvlt t h « g«eat»^ ia %offet' atyK which tamea ami a J«M r-here featact^|Aia The ]r«iac turn to DMaMkar Vtar Mm ia begituting of the betr^ial march ptpewstaw entered the l^aantifally dccorated living by W. A. Tucit and of tlM I pr«aqpMtiva groow
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