GO. HOLDS ANNUAL MEETING
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VOLOmE 19 NUMBER 9
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EDITION
DURHAM. NORTH OAROUNA SATURDAY. MARCH 4. t»3«
PRICE FIVE CEWT5-
MRS.
RENOUNCES D AR
A. C. College 1 o have Graduate
Cited As Cause
Mutual Holds
Own After
Fortieth Year
This company celebrated its
4'»rtieth Birthday on October
M. Going, Assii'tanf S*c’y
I G. W. Cox.Vice President,
'20, 1938 at, which time the tvent Director of Agrenta
ful ywij's of its* hiptory weife re- i D- C. Deansj Asst, director of
cotittted in graffhie stories which Airents
appoared in many of the Negro
weekly i niiwspapers, Diat^azineg,
anj particularly in the Foitieth
AiiMtvt^rsary pdifttm ot ttw com
pany’s house oi.^an. The WHET-
STOfNEr*
•
The months of January and
P' br'iary each yea»- wo set -»sid»'
by the coinpany a? periods for
the ann'inl meet’rifrs of the
pulicyhoWli'iv. lw»ari[ of^di.'cctoi^
and district aRPncie.s. On Janu
ary 9, the poUcyholdoJs of the
company held their annuah meet
injr at the home office ' in Dur
ham and raceived with enthus
iasm the sixteenth annual leport
of the President. C, €, Spauld
ing, Thi was the Fortieth an^
nual policyholders meeting and
a very important occasion in th^
life of President Spaulding, as
it commemorated his Fortieth
/tiuiverfinry with the company,
Tlie annral meeting ot the
board of directors wac also held
on Jannary 9,' There were* no
c’’^ngcf! in thf personnel of ei
ther, the (HrectoriT^or jfficcrs of
tlie company, The official staff
for the ensuing year h as
foHowJ-; —’ ^
„ Officers
t
O, (p. Spaulding, President
W, J. Kennedy, Jr, Vice Presi
dent and Sectvlary ^
E, Ri. Merrick, Treasurer,
Vice-President
R. L. MfDougald, Vice-Prey,
iCIydc Donnf'll, M. D. Vice-
President, Medical Director
W, D, Hill, Assistant S'ecrcatary
‘’«mptroller
J. L. Wheeler, A«at, Director
of Agents —
A. T. Spaulding, Af>*t, Sec’y
Actuary'
Btessie A. J. "Whitted, Cashier
J. S. Ilughson, Asst, to Treas,
Director? ^
(\ C. Spaulding ^
W, J, Kennedy, Jr,
B. R. Merriclt •
U. L. Md>«HgaM ,
Clyde Donnell, M. D.
J. L. Wheeler
G, W, Cox -
A. J. Clement
W. D, Hill
D. C. Deans
M. A. G^ins '
A- T. Spaulding
On Friday, February 10, the
annual mee^g of the eonipany’s
district af^ncies in the States
of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Va. |
North Carolina, South Carolina.
Georgia, Alabama, Tennecj^e and
the District of Columbia was
Held at 1*2 o’cloclr noon on that
dny the aigenta of each district
a^i|wered"'tl»e riSll catt, reported
tli^ amount of new Insurance they
had written for the occasloi and
received the c«mpanyV program
for the year 1939.
T/te Onward March Of
Lifa Iniurane*
In hia message to the j olicy-
holders. President SiVaulding
commented on the onward march
of life insurance both in; the
United State? and tiironghottt
world. He ataited that the total
total amount of life insurance
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COMPOSER
brvant faction
gains strength
HARRY T. BURLEIGH
Composer.* of hundred «f
original songs, men!»ber of the
American Society of Composers,
Authors and Publijhers, vybose
best known works are apirit^jals
and. folk , song?; r
Brs. Roosovfll
iiii
VNV ClubHolds
9th Anniversary
At Hillside High
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., March
2—Irritated over th« numerous
criticisma> she had received for
jazzing oldtime tu^es, Maxine
Sullivan, popular sowing artist,
wrote to Mrs. EleAnor Roose
velt f55questing her" dpuii n on
the matter.
Today she received the follow
ing reply from Mrs. Roosevelt
on White House stationery:
L„
“1 can’t imagine what the
songs you rtierition would be like
put to swing tihie, but there is
«M)4hing wrong in yoTlr doing
it. If people like it and yo i
will soon be doing >lher things.
You cannot plea?® everyone ail
the time,"’
Miss Sullivian is all elated over
the encouragement she ~li a g
received from the wife of the
Pi'esid«Tit. ..
ASSUMES OWNERSHIP
Th" VNV Club of Hillsico are
ob.'^erying thefr "^th anniversary
throughout tbe week beginning
Sunday February 26. The club
was organized February 2 4,
1939 with Miss R. B. Pratt a?
the first president and Mis*t
WUiio Plintal who recognized
as her maje.oty. Queen Guine-
yei-e.
Ttie school now hns a complete
roiiinltjilil;' bccuu'i’u' th^ boyg of
the Autherean Cl»b were called
Knights and Lords while the
girl? of the VNV club are known
as Indies. The policy of the club
is to serve and serve wilUngly.
Each yesir this, club send out
hito the worlj a' well taught
attd well mannered group of
yoiinjj Worn n who nev»r ■'orget
and always pay tribute to their
orf«nix«r And. spon«o)r, MIm B.
H, Pratt.
The officers—of 19^8-39 are:
Her Majesty Queen Guinevere
Nettie Daniels; Vice Pre.»ident,
Ncible Lady Elavie; Annie Dun
lap; 1st Lieutenant, Noble. Lady
Clara James; Sgt. at Arms, D.
Toole; Chaplain, Mary Burch;
Reporter,- t’pggy Spaulding; and
Sargeants Eleanor, Banks, and
Mary Harrig.
Other 'memberp are*. .Noble
Ladies Olga Belle, Montec Be-
thea> Allice obb, Vivian Wooten,
Ooria Williams, Ha«el Chavia,
Mayibelle Evans, Doris Stroud,
Lou Davis Suitt, Ella Walttr,
Mildred Peten, Christine Caine,
Juanita Page, and Margaret
Roja.
Miss Genva Syth« is in t h •
city fr«m Ne^t Y°rk ▼kiting her
moliMr on Wtrgo 8tr«at. •,
BY DAVID NORRfS
DALLAS, March 3rd—Ap
pointment of E* i s h o p W, A,
Fountain of Atlanta a.® ch-iirman
of the Religious Etlucation
board, Philadelphia, to succeed
the late Bishop R, A, Grant and
approval of a pWn submitted by
President W, A, Fountain jr. of
Mor ris Brown college to stand
ardize, AME ^^;hools with a view
‘ of securing an endownreni con-
j stituted some of the important
j business taken up at the 70th
' se'sion of the _ Bish^ops’ council
I Weld in Sainf'TTames cTjurcb last
, week, ^
j Bishop J. S. Flipper, eTevateiL
to the episcopacy 30 years ago,
presided. Prelate? in attendance
included Bisliops Sims, Davis,
Ransom,, Gr»gg, Fo«ntain, Ver*
non, Greene, Young, Tookcs and
Howard. Se.'sions were amended
by as many as 3,000' persona,
representing church leader:* in
every department. Eishop R. R.
Wright now in South Africa,
wa.® the only prelafe absent.
Appointment of Bishop Foun
tain to the Religious Education
board, created in 19'36, is ex-
pectC(j to put new life into that
group as the controlling power
over the Sunday School," Allen
Christian Endeavor league and
entire youth program of t h e
denomination. ^
According to the genei-nl note
of the meeting, the fued
weell Ira T. Bryant and
General Church over the Publish
ing House i? siflln^ Tn Mr. (Bty-
nnt’.s favor. Since the last Gen’l
Conference the cburch has opera
ted two concertis with Bryant
at one and Selby at the other.
FUNERAL
DIRECTOR
AW AND
PHARMACY
I06EA0DE0
For Action
RALEIGH, March 3rd—T h e i
North Carolina General Assembly [
has passed the bill wtiicH will '
WASHINGTON, March 3rd
(AN,'’)—'Following the doting of
Constitution^flall by the Daugh
ters of the .American Rev lu-
tion to" Marian Andersfen, wo.ia
famou.* singer, Mrs.
D. Roosevelt tendered
aignation to that body today.
When asked the cause jj®r
action, Mrs. Roo^e 'e!t “f
feel that a member of nn or-
provide ^or ‘trtiinii'i? in i
T _ J r»i fhotilfj work wil.tin
Law and Piiarmacy at the North * t- •• • .
/-o- ^ Jtonn ,t to end^ poii.-ies with whirk
WILLIAM A. AMEY
Cliristian gentleman and bu«i
Carolina College in Durham,
•^ii.bill wasvpiBSn^ Jate Tues
day afternoon anJ now has only
to be ratifie,l_by tHe legislature
before becoming effective.
Although the bill has been
sympath-
ness tiian has added the Carolina j Passed, no appropriation has yet
Funeral Home to hia other en- . been made _an(j 'it^s probable
lefp'rtses. Mr. Amey I.-; a native ; that the eommittee on ftppropria the organi^afjon’s
of Durham and has operated
■thp'-^^way Service : tati >n foj
a fiHmber of years.
Taking over February 2S, h«
has had four funerals to date
which THfan? that hts old friends
have )'eniaine(] faithful through
lit ti',e years The ^mey CAKO-
LINA. F'IJNEJ{.AL HOME likewise
assures the public of the same
■type of courteous service which
tlie home ha.s always beetr noted
for. * •
Old friends and supporters
are proud to se*^ him in hi!> new
estate and an invitation is ex
tended to all to ij^spect the or
ganization.
' The Carolina Florist S hop
which is operated by Mrs. E««ie
Amey, wife of Mr. Aiiiey, has
. also moved tn the new establish
ment located at 401 Pine St.
t h
IMPROVED
j. W. Scurloek i» out again
after being confined in on ac
count of illnegg.
White Virginia
St ud e n ts Honor
Fred’k
tion will release a figure in the
.'^ry near fut«re,
Iflie ^8s«g». of this bill means
that the graduate training'“ that
Negroes will receive in the State
of North Carolina will be receiv
ed at a race institution cancell
ing the probaibility of both races
attending one state supported
graduate sciiool,
When Doctor James E, She
pard, President of the North
Carolina Collejg'S; was asked if
in his opinion the graduate
courses at the Durham School
would be Up to the standard, his
reply was: “I am not saying
anything can happen here,’’
Since the beginning of t h _e
movement for the establiihment
6f graduate shoools for Negro
es In North Carolina Doctor
Shepard’s opinion has been that
the race should h^ve its own
schools for profe.^sional training
and that the North Caroli.iiw Col
lege was the ibest place for the
establishment of such an in.stitu
tion. Although some bring ouc
the fact that the school lu»i not
' reached the point where it is
I ready for Graduate work, the
president has maintained that
now is the time to begin if the
school is to be had.
GUEST SPEAKER ....
tie mciTtSer does not
I ize. or should resign.”
I It was taken for granted that
the noHi-y wtt4j
not svmpatr ize’ is the recent
barring «f_aMiss Anderso-i from
Constitution hall bv tlie DAR.
In further prote-t a.irainHt
action, Mrs.
Roosevelt sent a telegram to a
mass meeting held Tuesday
renouncing th« DAR and the'
b««rd of education for -iTacing
the ban on f*ie 'renowne^j 'in^r,
WILL SING IN ‘K)PEN AIR”
In a telephone conversation
from his-Kbme at *91 Central
Park West, K’lfok told the -Na
tional Association . for tho Ad-
"incement of Colored PeopU'
that Miss Anderson will keep
her April 9 engagement in Wash
ington, whea .sbe ,will sing "out
in the open air in the park im
mediately in front of f' nsiitn
I tio« Hall.”
“Mis.s_ Anderson wi!l , sing
for ffie pe*>^e'~of‘ Wa^hlnjf- .
ton, and there will he no
charge,” he went on, “be
cause the concert will be
held out in the 'open. Our
oriTy stage d^carat'iun ai'!
be two * .American' flu.'s.”
Pit>tests again-t the ;u »' .n
taken by the^vf».Ali m ‘ huiais
the artist from •their auilii slf n/
Fr.in!;*in 1 her rac», and t-'ii .«nb
her te- banning ,f hv L t?ie
j District of Coluni -iia s~nu»>l biiard
from Central high scr.w-.l (whit*)
has assumed national oropor-
tions. Famous arti.»ts, writers,
liberal organizations, and per-
sons prominent in tht* ciiie life
of Washington have yrnifister'^d
vigorou.* in3ignation ' in tele
grams, letters and resolutioQ.^,^
which have been betb. to
the 1>AR and to the Wathington
board of education.
NEW YORK COLUMNIST
COMPARES DAR TO BUND
^Comteenting on Jhe nrobaWe
American Nazi attitude' To^'gtfit”
the DAR'» banning Maj-ian An
derson from ConsTitutioo . Hall
in Wastiington, Franklin .\dams
writes in the New York Post in
his column, the Conning Tower,
as follows: ,
“It mu.'t cheer the ‘ntlt*-
man who cowveneil at the
Bundgart^n Madison Square
Garden, whera t'l le Bund
held a meeting, FeLru;»ry
20 to know that the - DausfhW
ter of the .American Rev lu-
tion have refused to let ti e
superb singer, Marian .“An
derson, sing in Con.stituion
Hall, Wa*Wngton. But
be the DA® don’t^cbncedg —^
tbe existence of Lincoln,
wh/o''wasn’t even bom rill
1809.”
Missionary €1 irb'
Meets With Miss
Lillian Burton
RiIClIMOND, March 3rd—Stu
ent^of wniiani and.. Mary Col
lege (white), observed Negro
History Week with. a Chapel
program sponsored by the Ajneri
can Student Union Cliapter witK
James E. Jackson, a leader of
the Southern Negro Youth Con
gress, as a principal speaker,
“Frederick Douglass stands in
relation to Abraham Lincoln, as
Thomas Panio to George Wash
ington,” Jackson said. “T h e
period «f aur ,.iU«toi’y jugt prior
to the CIvif "War, the peiod in
'.vhlfh Douglas.'' ma/Fe his great
est contribution, affV'Mls a-fe-
markabl 'parallel to our own
titjte.
The hospitating, vatillating
attitude of the Noi’tViem states
tfiwurd the expanding slav'e pow
er of the SoutRfrn I'tates, have
their modern counTerpart in
the bewildering conJiict oi the
■nocratic powers in not yet
taking positive concerted action
to stop the aggression ^>f • fas-
cfsm.
DAVEY day, ARMSTRONG
SIGN FOR CHAMPION
MRS. MIT DIXON
Widley known business wo
man has recently added to her] NEW YORK, March 3—DaveV
varied enterpri'seS the fashy Day, Chicago challenger, a n d
Durtam Black So*. In a .state- Champion Henry Arm.-troug will
ment given out Thursday, Mrs. j fight 15 rounds for the title in
Dixon expi-esses belief that , Madison Square garden March
the team is in fTp-top ghape andj^l.. it was announced
go throufh thlg season without ». by the ioth Century
' I club. •
HILLSIDE CHURCH
COMMUNITY CLUB
The Hillside Cburcli Commun-' Court, who will be
Ity Club met at the Hillside speaker at the P i
A,TTY. JAM.es R. PATTON.Jr.
Ex-judge of the Recorder’.^
Ifie guest
e Street
Tu«mtfy
Sporting
Baptist Church Monday night, Prtsbyten'an church on Sunday,
February 27. The meeting open 4/00 P. M. under tfle auspecie*
ed witli a pongv v’Wripture, .then of the E’rotherhood r j of th*.
another song. The meeting then ch\)rch. The them* th* meet-
opened for- business. The mtfft- ing will be CitizeDihlp and t'^e
lHf wag carried out In a gpUn- Attorney will speak on “Negro
di4 w»y. ,Frjinchi?*m»nt."
Mis.s F. B. Rosser was host
to the MTsiwonary Circle of
Saint JosepF .VME Church
last week at her home, .’V04
Dupree Street.
'Miss Lilian 'b'urtun wat host
to the Mis.^ionary Circle Number
t? of Siint Joseph AME church
hist week entertainmg ■ at the
‘ ime of IV|is3 Roaaer.
' L'ecaU'ie of the absence of it
ivesider.f, Mrs M. H. Dawson,*
Mrs. C, D. Mickle presid-‘.l open
■ ■ " till'' meelfng' with a prayer
f nowe( by a sonjf. • -
The 5'ieeting was' then open
' '• ho 'le«s during the cours-
of whic’, Miss Kosser presente l
" ■' club w*th a donation. Need-
’ to » y^it was appreciated and
~hrod—*h»PT wentfr»r Mt^
laser ii asknowietn^ment of
her act.
‘'t'oUOwing- the busiae-its side of
+‘•8 mee'ing, th« members were
served h delightful repast. All
expressed gratitude to the two
* .sterses. Miss Rosser and Bur-
t’n, for their unstinted h'»spita-
Other members prsaent being;
Mesdames Cora Barbee, Alice
MUrhell. Tr«miHa 'Smith, ^ Lucy
*^igg3, Fanni* Hall, Marinda Nor
man. Ruth Mickle. Csrria Alston.
Louis* Whit*. ' ^
CONVENTION
GENERAL CHAIRMAN
GEOIUJE
BKA.VBRR
Vice President and director
of agenciVn the Colden Stat*
Mutual Lifi> Insurance Company
with home r.ffi«es in Los Ai^jf*-
les, Calif, uia been selected as
pen'l chairman of arranjt*m»nt«
fur ti»s Natioasl Nege^
. SBce Association
wMch meets In
July It