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RTlRfNG PRE^IDNT PRESIDN6 6-8 QOhD a BOBO, N. C. In what is expected to (be the greatest of all its former As* remblies, tiie North Carolina Ncffro Teachers Aasociations gets underway Thursday, April 6 in Dillard High School Auditorium, Goldi&oro, culminating Satur day, April. 8. Doctor James E. Shepard, retiring president of th« AMociatioii, having served the maximum tinue of office which is two yearr-, will convene. L>aiel' on'^n the evening the "TBhHir ceremonies offfiiilrty launching the Association begin consirting for th’^most part, of felicitations and the reception. | Prof,^ A. 'Heningiberf, assistant to President Shepard of North Carolina college, will speak to the high school principals Friday morning ten o’clock. Mai(i fea ture of the night session bein^ addreraes by Doctor A. L. Suh- head of the department of education. New York University Mr. W. E. B. DnBoia, head of the department of sociology, Aitlanta university; i^nd Presi dent John Davis of Wert Virgin ia State College. Immediately following this session is the annual teachers, dance formally closing the As sociation however there will be several committee meeting Sat urday. No intimation as to whom the successor of Doctor Shepard will be has a» yet been ascer tained. Doctor Shepard whose unswerving zeal has lead ^hat body for the past two years mu«t now retire in according to the laws «'f the Associations. ■_Prof. H. V. Brow^n, principal of'T)illafa'’'Hljdt School, la host o the conventian. VOLUME 19 NUMBER T DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY. APRIL Sth l*3« PRICE FIVE CENTS WHITE AHACKER FREED Alien U* Strikers Resume Classes (giveij place in iba-i‘caui»es” KSd been inflicted. The trustee board elected Mr Dent fcusIneaa JnSaiTager of gtaF w6un3s unix^ersity. The board^^xecutive committee .heard grie vances from the*^|»udentV council, la ter arranj^ an agreement satis " factory to iboth facul^ and students. At, MondayV chapel /lervices. Acting Pre^Sent . 0’ Daniel announced the decision -~o£. the executive board which was greeted with deafening cheers. Thereafter, the school’s —activitlea opwatgd -on schedule. Mr. O’Daniel is a graduate of Lincoln university. University of Pennsylvania and University of ChicagoT'DartT^—Profi—IfoGIDU. administration, he s^rvrd as aean of the rohool »nHa popaliT with the student body. FLASH The Principal Popularitjr'^n- Jest, the coupon of which being pn the last page, will extend another week thereby closing April 22. At present Prof. Frank Blurnett i* leading with 4&5.000 rotes while Prof. BMwarda ii j “Workmair,” the hor.«e whictt won running a dole Mcond witb (h* big ract and deposited $141, HOST TO PRESIDENT Ala. Teacher.^ Launch Salary. Fight At Meet MONTGOMERY, Ala. Flash— legal counsel for the Associa- Backing up approval with contribu^ paign war che their unanimous an initial cash $000 to a Cam- tbe Alabama P/JTTEfZSO^/ H«ad of Tuskegee Institute who played host to i'resident Roose velt on his recent visit to that famous pchool. , Ga. Landlord Died Year After Supposed Crime State Teachers’' Association in session here Saturday, March 25, voted full support for a fight to equalise the salaries of Ne gro and white teacher* in th* state, "^he fi|(ht whicBi will be con ducted by a committee of pro minent citizens, togeHier with the National Association for th^ Advancement of Colored Peo ple, represents the third state in which the NAAiCP has fully launched its drive to ai>olish the liisciipiinatory i^alary schedule byJNegro teacKers in states wTiere s>egregated schffoTs ob- I tiun. Preparations the unJer way for conducting similar c ^ >n- j paigns in Tennesee, Florida, Loui^i&na. Thargood Marshall, Hisi^anti tion, addressed t^e teachera on the technique of coi^ucting the drive. Mr. _^rsnall will develop the lepil phafe of the campaign. The teachers’ meeting voted unanimous approval of a report Submitted Iby its commi^ision on education. The Rev. Joeph W. Nicsolson, a member of the NA ■AiCP’.» natiUnat board o# direc tors, is chairman of the c'‘mm' /ssion. —* Setting forth the Jl^paffty between the salaries paid Negro and wliite teachers in Alabama, the report said in part: “A white person with a Bach elor’s degree has salary rang* with a five dollar yearly increase from one to nine years of |90 to A N egro with idesiieal^ training and experience enjoy a salary range with^a two and a haW dollar yearly increase from one to nine years of $64 to $100 JThis w as of .September, IBIY EUGENE GORDON- Crusader News Agency NEW YORK—Ulysses L. Elisey, the white Georgia land owner whom John jRyals, fugi tive sharecropper,, for whose alleged killing the State of Georgia i» trying to have Ryals returned for "trfal,” died one whole year after the ^o called CO«LUMBIA, S. C. (ANP) After a three hour Fession last Sunday, the executive committee of trustees of Allen university brought to an end. the 17 day strike by the student body by electing Dean Therman IBL O’Daniel acting preyident for , and accepted the resignation of Rev. Dent, whose appointment as acting 1»ead of the school x-eport edly: cauped the strike. Dent had been named as act ing head on the AME cl>urch supported school by Bishop J. S. Flipper of Atlanta and the pcetid,ing elders’ council o n March five days before the death of Professional E. H. Mc Gill, nationally known educator who succumlbed at John IJopkin? hosipital in Baltimore, following an operation. er. Not only did the "murdered” man not die for V2 months after the “murderous as«ault” had been made upon hiiUT but the cause of death was not even the: - supposed stablbing j^at the man received at the hands of Ryals. The primary causes of landlord’? death were, firs “coronary thrombosis” and, se condly, "angina diafcetis." A third cau.*e was “stab wounds of back and sides.” Death oc curred, however, one year after June 28, 1938. The indictment says that the “a.«sault” was committeed on June 19, 193t8, one year after the date «f the killing. The case of John^ _Ryals came up thi? week before t'he United States Commissionerk I f a a c Platt in the U. S. District Court, at F.oley Square, thjp ci^y. The State of Georgfi is at tempting to extradite RyaU for ^^inaT” "for ■mirdeiiing EUiey^ Ryals’ cot^n?el. Hie Harlem law firm of Delaney, Lewis and Williams, supported by hundreds of New Yorkers, iboth whites and Negroe®, are taking every legal means to prevent the sharecrop per’s being sent back South. They insist that ii„jyi|l not be a trial which Ryals will #ace but tia lynch mob. Tnskcgee Host ' F. D. Roosevelt HARLEM TO LOSE FAIR This we«k'fl’ hearing was a continuance of one held March 9, when the sheriff from Ef fingham County, Ga. accompan ied by 'Ellzey’s window, came- up tBM To ^denlTfy” Tlysils as ’t h e killer and take him to stand trial. These facts were taken Irom a true copy of the certificate of death issued by the Georgia Department of Pulblic Health and Bureau of Vit^l Steti=tics of Clyo, Effingham County, Ga. The otertificate gives the in- ' 'formation, also that Ellzey died After t-vj government this week, througJ)L_Aaaistant United States Attorney Powelson,’^ had presented its prima facie ca!>e, the defense made a motion-to dismiss the proceedings. Com missioner P^att reserved aecis- sion. Sweepstake WiiuiersMust ^-farBetiel Debt PHI‘LiAa>BLPH.IAH (ANP)— Several months ago^ when I h* e ticket salesman visited her home, Mrs. Pearl Mason, on relief for the past six years, took $2.50 from her modest relief check and bouglit a ticket in the 'Grand National Sweepstakesf drawing TUSKBOEE INSTITUTE, (ANP) Frankliii' Delano Rrose- velt, president of the United States, rode into Tuskegee in stitute, the world’s most famous Negro institution, Thursday morning and flashing his fami liar smile, told the student body, the faculty and the thousands of visitor? massed to grr^et him I that “I have always wanted to come to Tuskegee. Thirty years ago I promised Booker T. Wash ington that pome day I was comingi to visit ^his institution. Then in laters years, I promFsed Dr. Moton“ frequently that I would be here and more recent ly I have given the same pledge to President Patterson. “There are those,” the presi dent continued, "who charge ipe with being both persistent and though I have been a" long time coming, here I am. "I wish that almost evefV Ajmerican could come to Tuske gee and see what is being* done here. I don’t know whether in a^ individual institution, UKiT faculty and the students realize how much they are being watch ed by the outside world. The things ,that they are doing in their institutions count but more than that, the thing which their graduates are doing, not only among their immediate neighbors but also throughout the states and the nation, count. Negfro Woman Victirn For the second ^ time thi-> yaar a white man accused o^ at- tackint..«HTegfo woman was ,/®t frea l^re today in the Record ers Court presfi^ed over by Judge, A. H. Borland. The case thi* week which involved the Rev. N. A. Catlett, pastor of the Olive iBrach and Cedar Fork Baptist churches attracted city- wide interest among the Negro population throughoiit the city, and during the entire trial the cdiirt room was filled to capacity According to Mr*. Louise Lynn, 29 year old Negro wo man of 811 Gerrard treet Rev. Catlett came to her home on-the afternoon qf March 17 and pre-1 tended that he wanted her to do j anme iroxung.^ and insisted Uiat ‘ he wanted her to do pome | she go with him to his home for that purpose. Instead o^ going to hit home the^ntinister HEAD OF STATE TEACHERS Doctor Jame» EJward Shepard Who retiring as prcanlcnt of the Noflh C*r|>Uni T'-ai'hers AsFociatlf>n after laving nobly at-i'Ved the two year l.m.t as head of that august body. TV A Unfair To Negro W(-riors (Speeiel te TIMES) - + WASHINGTON, It. imination against Ncv:rops j Discrimination in connection with the empl"y- drove- ment of trained persorirtel at the ander to attend the tails. legal d«| The firft deduction fron» her 1141.00 takedown will be the failarpi tax, said to-"^amod^nr^tcr nrarj^r-^f wnsational artiglca .Mason. Mrt. Mafon lives with h 'usband, Beniamin, former gar- j age attendant, who has been out j of work for aeven year?, and, ... , , their two children. Because her family has been 'dn- relief, Mrs. Ma°on faces certain difficulties before being abla to fully en joy her winnings and ahe h a ■ 460,00(K OfOO in tht Uip of JubUiyit. Mrs. ^ engaged Atty, Baymond Alex- $57,599. She klso faces t li e pogjibility 0 hiving to repay to local Relief officil^s the $4,000 her family lias recuved M *id during the part six years. In ad. dition, she may havb to pay the cot e treatmenl received last year at Philadelphia General coun- .°el fees. However, after all de- duclions have been inja4e, fh'e happjr >iroman, can Iqok * rward to enjoying a naat bankroll, probhbly in szcmi of $7S,000. NEW- YORK, (CNA>—JA whi.apering campaign was under way throughout the country this wefk to deprive Harlem of financial and outer advantages it stood to gain with the opening of the New York.*Wprl4’^ Fair. The Crusader News Agency has learned that white trade and commerce associations were quietly passing along a warning to prospective white visitors to the Fair to stay out of Harlem 'If they value their liveF. The warning is said to he backet) up with quotations from rtories published in the Amsterdam Newr^ocal paper, aHeginr « crime" wave* in Harlem. The Ptories depicted practically every Hulfp resident and school child as the possessor of a deadly switch blade knife. - The paper last week took congn^izance of the anti harlem whiifpering campaign but at tempted to attribute Jt to “ a well laid plan mapped out long oefore the proposed World's Pair was announced.’ Meantime respon.«ibe Harlem cititens deniied that there has been an increase in crime in community. They denounced the in tlto Amsterdam Newa n • c« culation stunt that has given Harlem a black ey?. Aobert W. Jutice, former As semblyman from the AD told tha CHA he feels that sucli Holly wood dramatijsatlon can have ISM^rf^ef'ir aecladed spot and proceed ed to make imporper propo.«als to Mrs. Lynn, at the same time offering her money if she would grant hip resquests. Mrs. Lynn stated that she was frightened almost out of her wits, .but had presence of mind enough to pre tend that the spot at which the minister had rtopped his car was near that of the relatives of her huhJband, whereupon Rev. Lynn dtove away to another place and continued his advan ces. Mrs. Lynn stated after she begged him to let her go with the promised that she .wQuld meet him on the following night that he drove her back to her home. As soon as Mrs. Lynn got honve she informed her husband, who reported the matter to the police, wereupon Rev. Calett way arrested the following night at the spot agreed upon. AJthough Mrs^ Lynn's story could not be shaken by attor neys for the defense, plus the testimony of one of the police officers who made the arrest. Judge Borland found the defen dant “not guilty” of the charge of assault and released him. Rev. Catlett, as is usually the case, produced witnesses w ^ o swore that hed could not have been at the ppot designated by Mrs. Lynn. Much disgust was expressed by a large numdi>er of cel red cttizens' immediatei] close* of the trial, and it was the consensus of opinion that had the characters in the cape been racially reversed that Rev. Catlett would at least’ been- ^ound o#er to suj^^rior courl. Many others expressed the be lief that he probably would have been lynched. The first case in which a white man was freed" with ease in Judge Btorland’? court was that of an insurance salesman by the name of WeaVe* who lured a Negro woman to . h i s home with the pretense of giv ing her employment. Although = — Tiatfirwi—tft haveiL Tennessee Aullu>rrty Dams was charged in a report made to Congress this week by Che Reiittblican minority- the Joint Committee to Invo-ti^atc the TVA. The - report v. .n ' Senator James J. 'Dhvls of I’mn., and Representative Thomii-- .A. fenkins of Ohio and C'aa’iPs A., Wolverton of >few .Tersey. Republican. Their charges wen •onfirmed by the n\aj'>riiy of the investigating couimittec. The CommiUec repoitfd it. had found that contentions made lefore the committee somo mon ths ago by dharles Houston, •ounsel for the National A."-.'ocia tion for the Advancement of the Colored People had l)e?n fupp^.rt treatmen uf Nggcofis Ai TY'A, Doctor Leonard White, loriuer Republican member of the Civil Service Committee ami now as sociate profe.'-sor of political science at the IJnrver^ity of Chicago, made a report to the Committee ■'nn 'this subject. “The .»tate«i policy "f no dis crimination against the employ ment of Negroes,” a.sseited. Dr. "lVh;te, “should reniain unchang- il’; further effort /aould be .iiade bv the Personnel Depart ment to secure the appointment of Negroes !n skilled ?abv>r posi tions and whenever possible ^ on annual appoihmenta; and the present policy of pr.ivitliiiu: simi lar or equivalent h>u?int? and recreational fa|?ilities on-^onstru ction jobs should be carefuUy followed out.” , Tl.e text-of the part of Republican Mi»o[ity.-™R e p dealing with the h e r t at adequately by et^.crtcc. j pv'A in full foiUiw^i In addition to the findings “The National .Association for )f the .Republican Minority o n 1 the Advancement of Colored the Committee in rej;ard to ' Please turn to page eight tWeek^^End Crash Fatal To Woman ROXBORO WOMAN KILLED IN CRASH WITH TRUCK AMBULANCE WRECK^EN ROUTE TO SCENE ■ > Mrs. Hannah Haysfl of Koxbor" lost her, life arounj lliSO on Saturday night, April 1, when the autumobiie in whieh she wa-* riding crashed into a Horton transfer truck at the intersection of after the Elizafceh and Geer Street.--. The accident occurej less than five minutes afUr Mrs. Haysel, accompa"nied'by Colonel Haysel, had left the home of friend? wn D6wd Street. fTh'e car, driyew by Colonel been questionaibla the man was get free, the same as the one thk week. Judge Borland who was re- racently elected to the position of qjttdge of Recorder? cotfft. no other, effect than to prejudice j received at the time at large the community In the eya* of vote from the colored people of the outside , world. James W! Ford, secreUry of car, Haysel, was going north ,>n Kliza beth Street whjle the truck \va,H preceding west on Geer Street and was. driven by H. N. Cole man. The care was Jamm$;d und- ei'the huge truck and it is no wonder that Mrs. '•Haysel died before reaching -the ho'-'pital. A report from the investigation by coroner_JL..-.S. Campbell and Sheriff Belvin, was not available ;it press time^ AMBULANCE WRECKS. 9n an*bulan(?e' wa'^ callej to the scene of . the- xraah but was plate was ripped from his car AMBULANCE WRECKS PATROL W^GON _ .... delayed in answering by art accident of it. own. Ac cording to information received, the Scarborough ambulan«.'e which was traveling north on RoxbOBo Street struck a car driven on Holloway Street by Odell Mansfield of Mangum St. A few minutes after the first two iccidei),ts. the Viaod- ard ambulance, driven east on Main Street by Gordon Fuller, crashed into and overturn«d th« police ‘patrol. Officer Ralph Ferrel, who was driving * h « patrol, states that he was head ed up Church street from I’olice headquarters and was 'tract just as he reached the M a i a the caTf int«veptte». pa6**i into •Ua this city. It was the expressed ' Coleman steted that the li.^cense opinion of many Negroe* here f the Harlem dixjsion of the Com- thia week however that so "far should he again run for the munlpt Party, denounced * h alaa they were concerned his poli- office that he would have a. Amttardaiti . New* crime eeriei j Ucal caraw waa at an end. Se- l#a|t ninetjt. percw»t of t^e ?}•«• tarn to '«i|^ > Ifml t> row. eelora^. taW Miaiait hkn. int«veptte». was turned over on near the corner occupied by the L and M Drug Store attd ■ haa been out of cenmi*n«t l>«eaalie of the crash. No oa* ama ia- jured. Gwr{o« Wtl&Kr, dHvar v£ Ambulance baa with driving without ■ a wreckleia drMsf* t* propnrty. alt* Ml to the «i^lc at yiitiiijiiMiiiiititoSi
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