ROGERS GOES ON TRIAL HERE
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EDITION
VOLUME 19 NUMBER •
DURHAM, RORTH OAROLiNA SATURDAY, FEA. ttttkj. ittS
niiCE FIVE GENTS
T
N. E. HARGETT’S ACQUIHAL PENDING
Court Exoffferates Mebane
Formerly Indicted "
For Murder
Over ruling « motion to drop
the bill of Indictment Oii t h e
grounds of a legal technicality,
RoKers goes to trial Friday for
the murder of 17-year-oId Ho
ward Moore, white* Herald carri
cr boy. The technicality which
thr'ntencd to quash the charce.i
was the fact that the ind'ntment
named two per-sons as I uctnal
murderers of the boy while only
one was belnp brought to trial,
In iii'der to avoid such a pro*
ecdne, Solicitor William II, Mur
dock nol i»‘ nxsed the charge
against l! imy Vlfbar.r*, formerly
accused
by
f'.'. !Otl
whii-i
, i t-tij'f -uf iUii,
Howard Univ,
Called Not
So ‘Lax’
Iirno 'I '
BY DANIEJ. CHASK
WAS.14INGT0N, F.*b. 24th.
(ANP)—iFollowinn' tho pu'-'hli»h«‘d
i'tsigiiutl"n .of Judge Nathnu -(.May
t"n. white, a anember of the
r... iilty of th** kiw depni'tmcMl
■ >l' III) v:u(! iiiiiveBsity, comes
■i) I n Ill iviie,! i>pen
■hi.
"‘■"At' tTif* rf-qnest ffit
council, Rojrers was examritu
Dr, R, S, Crispell, / Duke Univef
sity, psychiatrist, nowever the
attempt at an insanity plea was
thrown out.
Judge Q, K, Nlmocks will pre:-
p.ide at the trial which promises
to be somewhat on the sensa-
(gional aide,
' Rogers' court appointet at
torneys are Sigmund Meyci and
c: w, Han,
During the entire coyrt pre--
liminaries, Rogers showci no
sign of emotion. Even the selec
tlon of the jury failed to arouse
his interest in the procedures,
However, on l^aving the court
room he did tell the sheriff that
be didn’t want to go to the gas
cbambei'. He further exvressed
the fact that sexual \erverslon
was the sole cause for his act,
' *x*ty
'r . ’ -.1
M !>*! "k, (.'■ :lf • I f
liif p;iit lime' I"'' : ■ .r . f
!H d-'- . '’
four mu.^e-i-'of tht; la", 'lisiulty
putting their .siKi*:nuri> t'l n >
denial, Prof, Bernarrt i?, ■' f'.'er-
son, W, Robert Ming, Jr, J, M,
Mabritt and Prof, Leon Ransom,
HovxaM, according to the .re
port, if enjoying the beat era in
it.s history. There is reported a
34 percent increase in enroll
ment in »'its_ graduate school,
and announcmeent has e^ ^ n
made that , within a short tiine
a^ I)rogram «f inftruction wij!
]«• .eon«dereT which , will make
possLbli* th ebeginniirg of work
leading to the doctorate,
present development of gradoate
j ..tudy l» ■ Negro tducation is
,-imlted to _ work for the ma,iter
of arts an(r master of science
, degree.
[ The number of students ha.s
increased in the graduate school
from 4.^ in 1926-2'7 to 320 in
193i7-»8.
Sorority Plans
Revision Of
Security Law
BULLETIN
,.FIi«( SuggeatloBs wit'a Houie
Waits aad -M • a n i 'Xom-
init«e{ R«a«l*ra Aaked to
Urge ReviaiOni Doigned to
Hall DUcrimlnatien ....
RECEIVES APPOINTMENT
Coroner’s Jury Votes
FiarHis Release; Judge
Has To Sign Verdict
24 th
WASHING TON, Feb,
(AN5*)—Declaring tliat in it’
present form it discriminates
against a large percentage
Negro workers and is net at all
sati.-'faotory to worker.s in fr^ner-
al, the Non-Partisan I>obhy for
Economic and Dfem"crata Ris’ht.s,
sponsored by the Alpha Kajiipa
Alpha sorority, layt week filpd
with the Ways and Means co^ip-
mittee of the house a briefde
tailing proposed revisions iy the
Socjal Security act.
At the f^ame ti
Wiiliu
Wojnan Held In
Shooting Of II!.
U. Student
ifealiGO
Slii)wn
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24lh,
(l/NPP)—.Appointed by the Preai
d''nt to a.s.i."t in formulation of
a policy on education, the ad
visory commTtte> • on■ ’ education
rtrported today that a majority
of the atateg aie4ndir» need of
foderal funds If adequate school
facilities are to be prov’/{ej for,
TEACHES THRIF1
That appropriation per child in
the United" States varies from
$1'2.00 in_ some states to. $74.00
in states having larger tax it-
and that proportionately
speaking the poorer states are
paying a larger portion of thetr
incojtej^ar education than are
those richer,'the committee re
vealed that with » unit expendi
lure of 174.67 California head-
ej the m. f •ll.iw. d by N e w
York with a $74.24.
Tlie least amount; on each
school per year amounHng to
$12.16 ip spent by Arkarsas.
Alabama run 3econ4 in^.tue W
spending* bracket with $14.55
foU(iwel 1 by Mississippi with
$1'5.48; South Carolina with
$1'5.71; Georgia with $15.82,
Gmpbasia wa? laid by the com
mittee that Federal aid , i» a
neo«»lty « t h ■tRndard of
« ~w
W. A.,qUlI>L^N
Supervisor“iof t^^lft club aciivi
tie.” of the North Carolina Mu
tual .Life Insuramrfc company,
which ai-e ’modeled~aftei- cliild-
ren’s hour and birthday party
radio broadcasts, being e.speci-
pially designed for children bet
ween the a^es of 1 to 1.5. Mr,
Quillian, former Scoutmaster o"
the . City of Atlanta, also d i d
.■tpecial work in training children
for the AME church in the Gate
City, "
WISE SAYING
The worlil is all rigiit; only
the people in it need charg
ing,
(■ducation is to be raised in many
>f the Southern ptat«>s, particu
larly and also upon the fact that
irre^ator efforts at raising their
^n^rds are being made by
these poorer states*' tha.» by
Fome of the more wealthy. •
t TTinCAno, Feb. 2f, rUNP)
- -William SpurrK^-, 20 year "'old'
:■’> Itomore student, white, in
rnprineering college of the Un
iversity of Illinois, lay near death
in lEurnliani City hospital after
havinfi: been through the lower
T>art of his,body, the bullet pierc
n" tils liver...‘ z
Spurrier, it is alleged, w a ,«
shot a« he, aloUg with: five com-
1 panions," all white, and also
1 from the University of Illinois,
were attempting to fore* their
way into the Pullman Hotel
about 1 ;30 a, m, after an even
ing; of beer drinking.
Mrs, Mai'garrt Sti'other, colo
red owner of the hotel, now
facing a possible murder charge
if Spurrier dies, stated that the
group arrived at,the hotel at a>’
proximately the time mentioned
and whVh they demandej ad
mittance she told them ' that
they were too late. Angered by
the refueattr J«wk Ptaw of
troit, Michigan a member of
the group *s alleged by Mrs,.
Strother? to, have tossed a beer
bottle through tJie windew 'of
the hotd, after which Mrs,
Strothers being showerSi.I by
the glass. aeiied a .32 caliber
pistol and fired four or five
shoty out iof the window. One
vfthese sHots strujpk Sp'UJ'rier,
W«» Apart From Group
It is allegej by Spuirier’8
conipanion,« that at the time
that he was struck he was
standing apart from the group
and in the. street, already, pre
vious to the d*'eent upon tJie
hotel, having ex.pres-'-ed a desire
to go home.
Will File Murder Charge
-Three young Negro^ women,
••esidents of the Tiofel, were ar-
reatCf} but Ut«r released. If
Hot Principals
Race Seen
According to the first week’ji f I HVA, TIMES is offering jr«ae
caoutations, a very heated race' eijjlit princtpifls of Durham for
is in siipht with regards to the
Principalr Popularity XJontest.
There’s only thing wrong; a« of
date, we hav% received m | j
votes from out of lowiT than
from our readers right here in
Durham,
tireat are the spoils which will
go to the winner, so y m had" -p, of, Pr*ijt iB«rn«r of the-
‘Robinscm, obby
called upon every Negfi* to I
write letterii to th« Ways a»4'
Means committee a.'iking that
these revi.®ions be made. Ft was
pointed out that enough com-
munciatlons of tliis nature will
be bound to' have an «ffi'ct and
may result in the passage f
legislation benefiting th.iupands
of workers now excluded under
provisions of the act.
According to the brief,
present law discriminates against
young and women workers, .qince
benefits are ba*sed «n eai tiing* I forth,
and these classes are generally ..f, „,„vide« no safeguards to
MATTHEW F. £IAND
A gr.^duate of the Depaithient
o f lUi.siiieKj-- Administration,
Hampton Institule, who bus re
cently bifen added to the staff
in tiie business office, Bennett
Co?iege. Mr. 'E^and wa^ for
three years asslstait manager of
'fr h 4 Commissary at Hampon
Institute.
paid lower wages. It makey no
provision for additional c(.mpen
sation for each dependent. It
does not provide compfnstition
f ft r loss of Income »ufferedj
does not guarantee an inrome
equal to a minimum standard of
living, does not. provide I' o r
changes in the co«t of living,
and does not provide tlmt the
present benefits are to b> made
ivailable immediately.
"It doe*i not inclcde •’ai.mers.
*>wee*lei e s^lf enitiloyed,
casual workers, employes of
charitable, religious anti ednra-
t.ional organizntions; . doe^ net
n^ure those »t present unem-
•tloved or who stlffer ofTiev
disi|bi1)ty, but ^y s"7i^m' e of
'V>os« who mav he“ome unem-
"loved or suffer disability in
Sipurries dies, As.‘>istant Slate’s
At4;ornoy Charles Swick says
that he will file a charge again
st Mr«, Strothers who was ar
rested and place’l in the county
jail at Urbana,
preevent administrations again
st worker?’ interests is not na
tionwide in scope, and its costs
are paced directly on payroll
taxes and indirectly by Fales
' • xes up/*n workers and conaum
ers, tiierefot-e tending to under
mine the standard of living Of
the - workers which ti ereby
makes it coi>T,rary to the very
interests which social "ecurity
Intended to protect,”
of 22 slate" matle by the Ameri
•ail Assoeiaitiou-' for So"ial Se-
'luity and the finding that un
employment insurance pai.l le«>'
II thiin “the totally inade
quffcte h“m*' relief.” At present
benefits are being paid ir. 2^'
state* an,i a’l but Virginia have
either unemployment in^uiance,
')ld age assistance and aid to
the blin,| .'ind ' dependent chltd
r«n.
T h e ii'/by rt'oonmiendf
^pecifioally;
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LY
SPEAKING
THE PRCMPER COUR SE TO PURSUE
- Unle.ss necessity demands fh^s is-.tf-'e last editorial we expect, to
write on^tfie matter of providing^ graduate^^ursea for Negroes hi
^'“•■‘’lina. We feel that our 'utteran’ces' on the queatioa for
the past several weeks are sufficient ^ ifiwe^the members of th«
North (Carolina general a.s.«.embly, and ;oth^; interesljed citizen*,
the opinion of a majority of the Negroes in this ptatt. Our final
word ahall be more of a farewell than an atjtempt to inform or en-
lig>ht)en.
Pran'kly we have watched with a degree* of chagrin the de
velopments with- regards to tlie establishment of graduate cour?«s
for Negroes in North Carolina. The chagrin now changes into
Sympathy a? we bave conie to reaiiae more fully than t^v before
that^a majority of N*rth Carolina white folks^ regardless of th*ir
claim to superiority, are miserable and weak.
No race^of human beings can forever atultify its conscience, can
forever He,' can forever perpetrate ,«uch dastardly deeda ai that
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possible. But when it corner to
going free, weil that'* ne#' of
the old “rAan bltcir dog’ variety?
Liot that’s just what the CARO-
vinding up first aiwt aeconj re-
peetively in our popularity con-
teft. r
Help your favorite win by
eHpping out the cou(»on on uage
■even and ;»nd or ttring it to
our office.
Hib week's) t»buluti'ort .hows
better get busy in favor of youf
choice,
All of us are planning to go
to tii« Fair of tht
world's largest city. All of u*
tm g«- el««aply wjB *>ut ii^ » pop^ularit^
^t Durban S^liool In th* lead.
Although Prol, has a
iraall school he will have th*'
oon,.,irt of a JEine and loyal
of who kiv^ what it tli
contest, tf *Vrn be rem*uib*re«l
that Rev. T. G. Grtiy. pastor
of Ebeneser Baptirt olutreh in
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NegroOirl Heads
New York State
Communists
NEW YORK, Feb, 24 Lb
(CNA)—Claudia Jones, lov- ly
23 year old Negro .and youth
leader^ wa? elected by acclanu-
tion chairman of the New York
State Young Communist Lea
gue at the second Empire State
convention of the organization,
Her nomination for the oilfice
was greeted with a spontaneous
aftaortatratiiaB of 4M -eheeriair
Negro and white delegate?, and
white, delegate.*, and thi* elec
tion by acclamation followed,
Misa Jonea is an. active mem
ber. of the Coordinating Com
mittee for Youth Action in
Harlem, She is also active in the
Federated Youth Clubs, A mem
her of tile Young Communist
League for the past three years,
she was recently placed in
pharge of the Harlem regional
organization of the League,
'The state cpnyentipn w a a
held at the Odd FelloWs Hall,
lOO Ea.’t 106th Street this city,
during the' past week end, and
had aa its central theme the
rallying of all youth for the
defeqse of peace anj th-* pre
servation and. extension of demo^
racy. This theme was emp'iusiied
by apiecial fcle»oratAona >f the
mammoth backdrop in the Odd
Fellows Auditorium. In the c^n
ter of this backdrop, stood a
huge .paper mache of a young
girl holding aloft a sign reading
“Build the Ybi/;*' To the righi
of thiF figure, a painting, dated
'T8«3, depicted a slave bieakinr
the chaina that held him, with a
scroll of the Emancipation Pro
clamation iiT the-background, ir
the top foreground ot the paint
ing, the face of Abrham I.lncoli
looked forth.
There were paneW on enem-
ployment, work among tha Na-
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WINS AWARD
Da, L. A, HOWELL
01 Tamt«, Ha, 0P« ot
country’s best known dental
practi tionera, merohwr^ ol l
National Dental Aacociatiou’a
executive board, who waa pre-
aented with the Tampa Negro
Chamber of Commef^ annual
award for outAtandi«g ci^aan-
ahip.
‘Hade Toid’
Booli CcDsord
BERLIN. Feb, 20th tCNA)
—.“Uficle Tom'a CubiB” is not a
Niitable book for German ihild-
ren to read, in tfie opiitiou of
Naii educators.
Education Counaelkir H a r a
Ifeinaliaaaeii, aiirMirfiig a HU-
Wr Youth gathering, taU
Ttom CahiR a
b«ok» bMuaa tt miu aiMitf
to oiu racial Maaia.
(Special to Carolina Times)
GREEN'afc-ORO, Fe*. 2 Uh,—
A coroner's jury acquitte.j N.
E. Hargett early UMiuy i'or the
elaying of Willie Headt-n here
laet Thursday. After a brief
deliberation oa' the matt(,.>', tha
jurists labelled fhe case a-t b'ing
one of juAtifiable homonde.
Tile only thing now .standing
iD the' way of Mr, Hivrgett’a
cocB|>leC4 exoneration ii signa
ture of the verdict by the pr*-jid
ing judge.
Headea waa killed lu-^t «,«ek
when ha attempted to asaault
Mr. Hargett with a hammer
after the latter had diicharged
Haaden for diahone^ity. . Haw-
er and pTi^r to hta ' naploy-
ment by the undertaker, there
were several intitances on re-
eard of miscori^ct oh HearfaV'e
on* case, he h^d imivmiL
tlirca yeara tor ahootitig aa
of te law,
' h aVifag te*h “ in "
ing buain«s. for a , - ass;.-’ .r"
yeara, Mr. Hargett is -niieiir
all av«r tiia atate.
Final hasring in th« caiw will
be rendered at a later date.
M Bf
Abmte 0!
Rae« Jiirisis
AUSTIN, Texas. Feb. :'4th.
(UNP)—-Juatice J, W, Hawkiits.
spoke for the court here recentfy
when he said that the case f
i, n, Jahn&on, colored,. 17 wa^
within the rule of the United
States Supreme Court which
provides that consistent failure
to have Negroes cn juries con-
a “^ima fa*?ie ca-e of
the iS'lTal of pqiiaf p'ratectJan
which the - Constitution y:uran-
anteea.”
John had beeiT eRT»viet**d «>f
assault on a white woiwart, but
death penalty aw'smettr
,was reversed 5y the C' urt of-.
Criminal Appeals laat Wedae(|ito2r'
and John.«an’s indictment « a s
dlsmiose I through the iuteiveB-
tion of Justice’ Hawkin:>.
biuWlo
PUT KKK OH
SPOT
ATIANTA, Ga., Feb. *4th.
1NA)—Rep, J, B. Davia, of
Newman, is leading a fight to
ao{tprea.« the terroristic Ku Klux
Elan la Qaorgia headed by lina-
^rial Wieard Hiram Cvaaai
Davia u author of a bill awk-
ing it a BiiadMBcanor to wear a
mask, hood or ot&c? ragal’a
«ur{TO»e «»f cooceallag ideatifty,
maasiura «aa bafora t h •
Georgia Houaa^ oa thr Siatf
•f the RepaUic laat w*^
*^ia bOI ia aimM
at tlw Ku Has
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