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I It. Readies Tlie Mass 01 Headers / M beCari I ) tm^3 Mailing EDITION VOLUME It NUMBER t DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY. JAN. t4th, l»3B FOURDEDI Meet Death When Flames Gnt Apartment On Muiphy Street ^AA CP Officers i^ew ^oard \ \ BY E. P. ELLIS Pour people prerlphed and two others were severly inj\#r)ed early Mojiday morning at 402 Murphy Street when the lv6usd in which they lived was baiUv damage by fire. The de^d ,are: , Mr*. Eula ItyaU, 38, mother.- Miii* Vera Ryals, 21, daughter. _ ^i8»“Verna Ryals, 18, da«itn- Llttle Mi»a Ella Mae Haye, 2, a i^and-daug’htef- Mrs. nephew, Will Avery Williams, received traat- ment at Lincoln hospital for aprains of tihe back and anktt* which he sustained when he jumpe^ from a Second stoiy window. f Fleming Ryals, husband and father of the deceased also es caped enjury when he was pu'«- ed from the roof of the front porch by a roomer of the «i- ioining apartment when he rtt- refuFed to come down after finding that his family were T9tiH- in the house. had been kept lighted nig;hts so that the family could gi”e attention to little Ella Mae who had been taking treatniehts at the Duke hospital. Chief Bermett of the fire department stfited that wnen the fir^en ajtiMud tit the sfine at 5:40 A. Mtw inside of Ih*: Also injured was John Barrett., duplex.,dwelling was ablaze and a roortier who suffered' an ankle flames were gushing from three sprain when he jumped fror-i of the windows. thj roof of the porch He wa* dismissed from Lh)coIn hospi tal after treatment. Two funeral coaches wote employed in transferring the bodies to Dtmn, North C«r«ltna Officials of tihe Durnam f’re home of the decesaed. fire department have advanced ^ The casket arrangement bein^ the theory that the fire started two t(i a coac'n in double*deck when a cat upset the kerosene formation interment was made lamp which had been kej>t ligh- ^ Wednesday afternoon at H :00 ted in the kitchen. Thi« lamp P. M. 0/ Directors Gov, Urges Lav^, Pharmacy And Medicine at NCC BY WILLIAM A. TUCK I -V NEW YORK, Jan. 13—New York’s Lieutenant Governor ele ct, CharT^..Fol^ttK a n d Col. Theodore Roosevelt, son of the famous Thedtdi^re Roosevel*, were elected o the board of director? of the National l As- sociation for the Advancem'snl of Colored People, at the As sociation’s thirtieth annual busi ness meeting at 69tli Fff n Avenue here today. Other perjions elected to the board included; Louis Slov.nt, of Detroit, president of the Great Lakes Mutual Insur.-inj* Company; Alfred Baker Lewis, of Boston, State Secretary of the Socialist Party of Mass.; E. of the Atlanta 'Life Insurance Company, Atlanta, Ga.; and Dr. W.U. Tfansome, pastor of the First Bar-t Church, Richmi’n;!, Va. .... ‘Iwdge Ira Jayne, of Detrc’t, loiig a dhectw of the A.osocia- tion, was ^lecteu a vice P*"® *i* dent to fill the place left vacant M. Martin, secretary treasurer by the late James W. John^n. Adult Education Councfi Ta Meet In Raleigh LED REVOLT RALEIGH, N. C., Jan. 12th According *td a release issued pfroni the office of Dr. James E ^ Shepard, President of tihe Ne gro Adult Education Council, the organization ^1 Hold a meetly in this city Wedne«day, Janu^ry'^8 afTShaw Univer^ltv for he purpose of mapping out plans for fhe year’s work. The four imortant committee's of thi*. Council wilT submit their retomendafions. Doctor J. W Seabrook is the chairman of the Legislative Committee; H. L. Trigg, chairman of the ExftiiU^ tive and Planning Coniufflttees, - Mrs. Irma Neal Henry, man of the PuBlic Relation# Cohimittee. a n Rev. W. C Somerville i* chairman -^of the Community Cooperation C ini- ittee. »- The Council was set up for the purpose of advising wiln the officials of the WPA Ad ih Education Progi^m with" a v;ew of reducing illiteracy in our several communitie'. The membership was selected by In vitation of. his Excellency, the Governor of North Carolina. The personnel of the Council repre»ent* a cross section oi the most prominent leadership of Negroes of the State. T te memfeers of the Councl are; Dr. James E. Shepard,, Dar ham. Doctor F. L. Atkins, Win ston-Salem, Doctor Bias, Eliza beth City, L. G. Blackus, Ra leigh.' ■ - Dean Corart, Concord, Docioi Robert Daniel, Raleigh, Doc';or David Jones, Greensboro, Mr.^,. Lowe, Greensboro, Professor, .1^ b. McRae, ISfenton, Mrs. L^ila Michael, Asheville, John W Mitchell, Greensboro, J. W. Seabropk, Fayetteville, C. (•. Spaulding, Durham, H. I* Trigg Raleigh, Rev. Williams, Rale gh Mrs. Yancey, Henderson, Rev. Wendell Sommerville, Raleigi, Miss Loiifse Cooper, Raleigh, J. P. Bond, Raleigh, T. B'. Jonei, Greensboro, Dr. Nelson Harris, Raleigh, Mrs. Irma Neal HfeViy Raleigh, Wm. Jotinpoii Raleigh Mrs. Rose D. Aggrey, Salisbury, Doctor filuford, Greensboro. Halts Lynching TtOTo 1 vN, van. (UNP) Two stale troopers and two sheriffs resorted to a ’Cfe Tiere last Wernes,day to foil 9 W oVer four hundred whi^h thTcalemed' th^ life of a prisonei who waa suSp^ted of shooting a white wonlSIT The prisoner, Charlie Haip^V 17, wa.s cjaptured By the sheriffs of Franklin anl Madison coun- ' ties with the aid of a large popse of citizens. When the ar rest was learned a mob estima ted between 300 and 5Q0 gat-ier ed quickly quid shouts of ‘lynch the nigger’ jjrew lounder aid lounder. Peiiring moT>* ^action, ■ih* alw** iff.s and two Hate trpopers who came from • nearby town slip^ ed the prisoner away ffom t mob by announcing that IVV had to take him "to thA Mispitat to sea if the victim can Identify sp tWf> red youth in the sheriff’s cai an(^ iipeed out of town. “Fif teen jor twenty cars filled with men armed with shot guns and rifles followed them,” the theriflfa .'Driving at top^F.peed t h e sheriff’s car ouwstanced the pusuers and afsj^r torning iirtto •as., side road, tHe prisoner w a ? transferred to one of th® stn'e tr#QpeW* cara and was brooght by a cli'cultoOF route to .^tiaV.- ta, Ga. for safety. R. B'. Bleazer, educatl'inal director of the Commission o n tsterractal Cooperation, hailed the action of the officers and credited them wirt saving t>.» pHaoner from death at t h f hands of the mob. Harper 1.' ehargcd with shooting a white woman after he Attenvpted^ *o attack her. Carolina limes To Sponsor Popularity Contest.For .Ladies V r X By BDOffE P. 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Success of this contest will , •„ v , , Winners of the finals will be not only be a great apset in tn- . ,, , . . . wft M p^llclly to the oltte well as the contestants parti"ipH equa y as ima la . ting,> but through increased cir- To the victoi"s of the prc'i- culation, we will be able to rea- minaries, an opportunity to oart lize our dreams. iclpate in the finals. However runner-u4)s. We propo.se to pl*6cure p irt:- ciants for the contests througn the s^ionsorship of business or ganizations, clubs and various- grronps. Th^ will be no obliga tion to the sponsors. They vnll only be required to name one gi^C"wly gjrl, as a contestant. For further information write, Popnlarrty Contest in care of ithj-“ pappr- Tn~ tJie meantime, watch the CAHOTHNA TIMES for further details. ROBERT L. VANN Pittsburgh political leader whose . bolt from the Democra tic* party in Pennsylvania was succesFfuI, and he may n c v» diptate patronage . in the Re- piiblican camp. Mr. Vann claims the Democrats did not live up to their htromise of ten percenn of state ■ jobp for Negroes, so he Vpursed” them, 3inglehand'd throwing Jit .office- David Lawrence, Democratic S t a.,t e chairman, Vann’s arch enemy. revival TO BEGAIN ATp OAK GROVE BAFT, CHURCH Dr. Clayton Powe^lljJr, Delivers Series Of — Addresses At NCC In a series of four enlighten ing and challenging lecturer at North Carolina College on Mon day and Tuesday, January 9th and 10th, Doctor Clayton Po We'll, Jr. pastor of New York’s Abys.'inian t'aptist.Church, made an examination and evaluation of our-t "present day living in a 4lay -wliich pees Rash changes brought about by machinery, the Oak Grove Free Will B'aot. Church on Simmons Street, Mon day night, January 16. The pastor, Rev. W. F Cox will do the preacihng a'hd will use the following subjects; On God’s Line of Battle, Cure Worry or It Gets You, the other Side o'} Life, Mountain Movers, On Parole one Year More^ The Prodigal Son’s Fa ther, The Good Thngi of LAfe, Advertising Jesus. SEEK CONSTITUTIONAL TEST OF WAGE-HOUR LAW WAS-ttmGipN, Jan. nth', (CNA)—Wage .'■'Houp' Adimn’s trator Elmer F. Andrews an nounced thia week he would seek a constitutional test uf employer violation of the wage- hour law, y ... BY WIIXIAM A.' TUCK which hai^ become man’!> master rather tfean his slave. He offe - ecF as three ways of prevent'njr the total collapse of prtsentiday aociety: (1) A Restoration of Individualism, C^) A stream lining of our racial^ philosoph/, an^ (3) A return to the basljC virtues. ‘Dr. Powell’s fiii>t taJk on Mm. day morning was a statement oft his challenge and a detaile.. defining of tlie types of changt's instrumental In ,bringing society to the verge of collapse. “The changes in political inf>titutions’ he said, “have allowed ‘ism's’ to became philosopl^ies,” education al institutions have expanded borders; soct&l institutions have caused competition between races, vexes, anj classes, spread of crime, low cost housing, and inereased leiaure; Trade uninn- isnf^^Ms developed from econo mic institutions; the outlook 'of religion has became dark wii'i its growing adherance to :churth taiiity’ rather' than Christian ty. The- noachine CwMch hag ba- come man’s master rather tha'. his skive) was~Torcefully pointed o\^v as the cause of the threaten ing collapse of culture a n d development t^i'oi'Bh the para dox-of the development of* un- limited powers and a decrease APPOINTED TO STAFF r OF, TVA in emotional aBTniy and human - kappinesa.” », “We must come together,” he said, "and integrate and tn'ak and act in common terms and channel?.' ' FACISM HAS ,DESTROYEP INDIVIDUALISM Monday evening -Dr. Powell showed that Fascism has bee i the spreauoea3 of action to de stroy individualism. It ha? snp- pressed religfous freedom, pre I of all teachew*;. be.^ raided. Tiuti-a I was a further * reromniendtil tH: in the matter, at the addition of 12th grade to the fubiic ■cho--'. WOMAN APPLIES FOR EN- T|i;Ae|:£ .at unc , ^ — Oh Ihe same day of tne exeeutive’j recommendati o n a Mi«s Pauli Murray of N«;w Yo fc filed application for , admbii‘>n to the graduate school of th*- University of North Caroiui*. President Graham wa^i out of town at the time the apil'caj- tion came to his office but in formation received puint.-*, to t'fie fact that this application wiil be treated in the .-^ame way aa other applications from m?m- ber» of the race. Student at the University are bitterly apijosed to the admi-ij- ion of a Negro to any part of the school and have conducted ge' board;^^ i several polls t° get student aeati > It was stated that a demand J ment Some have come out with fpr these coprses would have I the opinion that they would tar be ma^e hy ten or more per- and feather any “NlGG£E"_that s and if there are le»s than tried to enter clas-e!* with thew. teij applications the trustess of 'One prank.«ter at tlie institv thfli institutions may pay up t»j jion went ^o far as to“2iy that In his biennial mes.sage to *h. North Carolina generaf as.«emb'y last week, U^emor Clyde H Hnay rt»»nnam«iniipM and UX'IU: 1 that provision be made for gra duate work at North Carol n't College in Durham and at the A and T College in Greensboro. The bill offered by R b w a n County's representative, Murphy provides for courses in law. medicine and pharpiacy^at !■«. C. College an^S additional Ai;i - cultural courses at A and T. I The bill authorizes the board of trustees of North Carol'na College to ejtabli.oh grailitH.j courses in the field of liberal laris and professional cowje’. Specialized agriciilturt'al a^'n d echnical courses’ could be es- aallFhed by the A and T Coll- annually as tuition f.>f applicants who certify that hav^ entered recognized si^hoo.s elsewhere to get the course'. Governor Hoey alsg reci'ni-. men(led that salaries paid wnitc and tolored teachers be evotitu- he' was going to file apj^tt^atio’' at the A and T College for ad mission in the spring quartet “as a protest to the gros* in justice to which a Xegr* wo man from 'N’ew York was sib jected when she applied for ally ^ualized and that the pay j acinii.sion uiMversity.” S^ek Attacker Of 13^Ycar Old Girl DECATUR, Ala'., Jah- ISt.i, ■ sid ethem and asked Ella Jon- (UNP)—Police are seeking the capture o^ an unidentified man who attacked \^a 13-year-old colo red girl, Ada ^Pearl Owen, it was disclosed t’nursaay. The girl who is In a serious coadi- tJon told Police—Chief Willian. Moore .that a white man criniiii ally attacked her. The girl and her aunt, E"a Jenkins, were walking toget'.tor on Lee street just after dark last Wednesday when a white man in a car drove up al-ing- kins if the young girl with her wanted a job. SJie said she d-d and^the girl got into the aut'^m.i- bile. ' .;■ The young girl told p.'l-ea that the man drove her to a pot near the City Cemetery forcibly attacked and wards- drove her back to tuw.t and let her out a short dist ance from her home. Pt^sicirans who examined the victim -de clared that she had been en- ^ ou.«ly injured. Slayer Of Five J. HERMAN DAVES Knoxville College profe’jor ev'ented education, tfe^atTed cul t who was recently appointed to t / ture, threatened world peace, enslaved labor, deibaaed won'.an hood, disfranchised minorities, and created a “brown” intern-a- tionabla. ‘ “fildividualism is go^,” he said, “and we a're living ah'der a system that is u In order to restore individua- (PLBASE TURN TO PAGE 8) U the staff of the TVA as senior supervisor of Negro training. This is the highest post held by a Negro in the TVA. A NEW ARRIVAL A DETRO-IT, Mich., Jan. 12th (UNP)— Earl Harris, 36 vocdoo worshippTl- {.leaded guilty ti first decree murder in the 'lay Mig oi !rtiss mnnd, p ominent social wor'cer | the Eight MUe Road on Octo’ier 1938 and was^ -entencei^ tq life imprisonnr.ent Fiyne la t jVid^y.^'V , (s- ^ Finger prints of Harris also revealed that he served an eight year term in a Mis.^ouri pri;-on for the V illing of a St Lo-us kvonian. He is also alleged to have slai.'i four other woman-. Harris was. arrested last mont'i* in Chat! am, Ontario where he Lad fled fo^owing the murder f,f Mss "Eastmond. Harris tried to explain to the ^wiurt abtiut ffie voodoo spell that Mi.‘ i Hasljmond had put on An eight pound baLy boj? ^as Boln to KTr. aRd^ Mrs. William A. Lyoni on January 3, 1939 at f.-.. Duke HoipiUl. last hrfortiiafe*»ft reveals that motker and son aie doing fine. him by mi.'ti'? up some myst-*t ious love p».lon which she puf ■ in his *fo6d^' Tri alteiifptiRg to overcome the spell. Harris --aiti nt to a vooHoo doctor o;’ where IS? bought several bottles of v»>*»*l«'o elixir whiclf was called^^ The Conqueror.’’ v , "nie potioil cost a bottt^ Harris «aid, and the “stuff'’ is supposed to make ^people do ■^hy thing you want them to do and to protect yon Trona the pol*t»*.'’ When tlie voo.ifoo failed to- make Miss Eastmi ad ifkor^- favorably di;po ed to his atti ntlon^| Har ris declared that he went ?raiy and grabbed a knife and eut her to death. AlthoucK the TO«doo shTpper 'iii'- iupted tn acCions in d.Jcnaiiac 1»; l|(fareHt[y IwtUtereat to -Ir pMdly ^ Ab to f« to IDsewHL’*
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