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vTrr • ■ ,v w VX f'«*'" !?■ MARIAN ANDEKON THRILLS 75 000 i> an jpil^u tHUbigmSi^ a Cum VN.UME 10 .... NUMBER • MmHAM. MOUTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, AfRIL 18. 193» Victim Given . D op e Before Being Attaelied Untonscious frem rhacK and exposure, Hester Mack, 20, of 205 CobJ) Street wai found around twelve o’clock Wednes day midnight eight or ten miles out on the Cole Mill road lylnf between two haystacks after having been assaulted t>y an un known arsailant. Ap^arantljr In A Stapoi Medical examiners at Duke hospital describe her condition as fair! but also add that she had 'b«fn given some furm of dope~prior»‘to leaving home caua jng her to Ibe in a temporary state of amneria. Impetus ta given this belief because the victim has no knowledge of the incidents leading up to the at tack. There Were alro stratchea and bruiees ftMind about her body. r' Leaves Nete l,„ Miss Mack a raemt graduate of HilMde eliM of 198S, was last Been at her ^one about eleven o’clock Wednesday morn ing 9liere ah* previously left a note stating: *'l an going on a long, loBg walk." Gamerai Atana ' ^ She waa fooad 4>y poHee of- ticen after a general jdarm had b^en sent out with regard* to her diaappearanee. Poliee are work ing OB aeveral oIbm but ae yet, they have found ^pthing •peci- fic. The victim hertelf being un ttble to lend any aid to the in vestigation. INSTRUCTOR Fire Destroys tittle RiveF IHIgli Scliool L(ii)tiiflg An eariy Moming blaze of un known origin dei>troyed the Little Biver School i^out 12 Miles froflar the eity on Roxfeoro roid about four A. M. Monday, Alpril 10. The only theory that has been advanced an to" the way in which the start ed has been that it w^W^started by prowlers. The persons who first arrived at the rcene have stated that when they first discovered ithe fire about four o’clock the roof was falling in and .oaving the buildiqg was put of the question. The origin of the fire takes on added mystery when it is realized that the buildinjj had been closed yince Thursday afternoon for the Easter holi- 9 days and is not suppo>>od to have tbeen opened before Tues day morning, jjo that it i«, pos sible and highly probable that I In order tlMt tha 4fi9 p4pil« I might co»pl«t« tha remaiaing threa waaka of tha school term the elasMs ware re«iuaed an Thursday. Tbm Jiigh school elans es hava.,baan meeting In the three roan homa econonies and agridoltnra bailding which was not dsmaged by the flame». Four ur«m4 rooms of the Mill Grove •School hava also been pressed ioto sarriee and sever al of the County elementary schools will accomodate ^ome of the Litte River pupils. Hew Skraetare .... The destroyed bnilding was comparatively new, having been contructed in li^4 at a cost of 136,208. According to Superin dent Luthor Barbour the insur ance which tha county cairies amounta to |2^,000 which «will go Ar in the irabaUding ef the school considering the fact that the cost of garding and the se- MRS. AiNNIE C. ALSTON pro minent Civic Leader and instruc tor in the Hillside Park Si^hool under whoe guidance the Knitt ing and Looping Departdment have shown remarkable improve ment. Mrs. Alston yhM recent'y vranted a lift time certificate for her constructive work. Gorflxlteti To-Aciln W^H?piGTON, D. C.— Governor P. Cone, of Florida was urged to show “vigorous ac tion” in 'bringing to Ju«tice the persons eresponsible for t h 4 lynching of Miles W. Brown, a white man, in Panama City, Pla. Saturday, April 1, the third vie tim of lynching moib this year. The Florida governor was called upon to bring the lynchers to justice in a telegram sent him April by the Washington branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People." .Signed by Dr. HeH>«ri Marshall, president of the branch, the wire read as follows “Senators Peppers 'and Andrews gave , assurance during the anti lynching filibuster (in January and February, t938) that Flori da could well take care of the problem of lynching. Millions of tAmericans await the fire was nof at alTac^aen-1 diHX»>l^syi«SM ^lsh »ads|—year vigoroas aetiow^4o ja. ta*. School Resumed Thursday up 18,000 of the original cost of tha building, M eliminat ed. 7 6 Congres.smen Anti Pelition ^ 'T——— NEW YORK—Seventy f 1‘ x Congressmen have signed the Gavagan dischare petition to bring the New York representa tive’s anti lynching bill (H. B. S07) to the floor of the House for a vote, ofifcials of the Na tional ^Apsociation for the Ad- «s«i'vancement of Colored People announced here today, . Eepreaentative Joseph Gava^ gan author of the bill who led the fight in the House in the spring o^ 1937 when his. anti- • lynching bill was finally passed said he feli confident that the full quota of 2il8 * signatures, necessary ^tar^rlng tha bill to. the f)oor^ would be forthcoming U>ountry. within a vory short period. Urge Senate Cloture Vote The NAAiCP urged individual*^ and onranltations to send talari grams and cards-to. theirs urginv them to vete for limitation of dtbata (elotara) vltsii tht W«f ner Van Nuys Capyar ibill S-146 compaaioa measure to the Gava gan bill, comiss up for a vote for clotura will help to prevent a ■ fil)buster, which southern senators, have, vowed they will l^ng to bear again In order ^ kill the bill in the Senate (by preventing its cooping .to a vote on the floor. 19.000 PatitiOiM Oat lAjt the same time the Associa tion announced tiiat more than 19.000 petitions calling for sup port ef a federal anti lynching bill, have been sent out and are being distributed by Individuals and organisations all urer tha cure apprehension, convic' tion and punishment of the lynche^ra of (Brown." Brown was taken from his jail cell by a band of mea early on the morning of April 1st, dragged to the edge of town, and there shot in the back ef the head-. CELEBRATES S I R T H D lA Y Bishops C o u n c i I To Meet nfTune PHILADELPHIA, (Special)— Thousands of African Methodist young people are preparing to eome to Philadelphia, the birth place of Aifriean Methodism in June to attend the 8th connec- tional Young People’s Congress and Levtersbip training . Instit> ute which will meet in conjunc tion with the Bishop’s Council of the AHE CKurch. This report was recently made to Bishop D. H. Sims, presidinV bishop of the First Episcopal Dhtrict and Bphcopal host to the congress. The Bishop was pleased with the report and pro mised a^ perfect setting for the a r*m y of Christian . workers, church leaders, general pfiicers and -bishops who will assemible fn the Qnker City the weeklj^it- inuing June I8th. Among the many special fea tares for the Congress, tt>t most spectacular will be bi|to* iijflwla a con4u#ni^p«liw3^ of million Christian youth. Other features include a five Imndred voice chorus; solemn commit ment service at the tomb of Richard Allen; a post Sesqui centennial Horns of Hatfia de votional service each n3onday. Courses in Leadership IVaining will be offered by leaders who are spceialists in their fields. The program for the Richard Allen Youth Council will in clude an analyi^is of the 'pro blem touching Law and Order, Home and Family Life, Race Adjustment, , the Liquor Pro- Uem, International Peace, Econ omic and , Industrial Relation*, the Personal Religious Living. A clinic will besset up foi ministers and adult leaders who desire an opportunity for fact Plea«« turn to page eight .PRICE SEVEN CENTS T H RILLS ‘>8 .000 Lincoln Memorial Site 01 Easier Coiffiort lnfrodiite,J Stcr.* *ry Of i»^ior (S.iec'a!)—-Witit j the pali^"tt^ ftatuie ot‘ tiie immortai Lin- co*n forming a protective bajkground, Mar ian Anderson thrilled Tj.iyoo persons Eas ter Sunday morning in an .outdoor enncerc htld at twilight. MM A stiff wind wa> blowing during the en tire presentation but the crowd w-juld not d^mur, ^.maining throughout to applaud' the singer enthusiastically. Accomjanying Mi’s Andarsoh waa' h« mother ^nd also htr pian it. She waa in-. trodiiced by Secretary * of t;.e Iht-.-rior, Harold L. Ickes. Other federal officials on the platform 'was included Supreme Court Justice Hugo B>ack and Secretary Margen- thau. Mis* Anderson was orig-'na’ly '.•hsjlule 1 to sing at the tax-exempt Con?tituti >n Hall —adiich .is the property of , , t, h « . Daugthers of the .\merican Re- Denied the use of tax exempt ^ song early Easter morning, in a i Testihg her voice at the foot of , volution. Nation wicTe* consterna- Constitution Hall, property of jfree recital. TOP Miss^Andersoti | Lincoln memorial prior to her tion was the results of her being the DAR Marian Anderson l»fas she appeared before t h e} concert. With Miss Andersen shown as shs lifted her. voice in myraid of microphones. Bottom | are-her mother and accompanist. Scotfsboro Case Years Old Alraady returns on thsaa petitions are baing rapeiv ed st tfaa national offiea of the oi^isniiatioa, FiM Avenue, Naw Tork. Offleiak said they want to havs 1,000,OOp^^uaBies signad^to thm ify May Iff PRCfP-Uri G. PBARSON- Principal'of HillsMe Park School was' ^ years of age on April 11. As, a token preciation for his ssrvics ' ireni deTed over the years, the stu dents and' faculty, a f t s r a splendid prc^ram, prstented him •ifhtaan doUan. NIW YORK CITY—On the occasion of the eighth anniver sary of the world famou« Scotts boro case, Morris Bbapiro, se cretary of the Scottaboro De fense Committee, H'2 East 19th Street NYC issued a statemant reaiffirming the committee’s be lief in the complete' innocene of all of the Negro'^efendantsv and thfs de^srmin^ion of all hi^m- ber. organisations composing the committee to, continua^^ tMe work of winning the freedom of the five remaining SCOTTO- EORO BOYS. The statement fallows in part: _ ‘SApril 6 to 9 will mark the eighth year of what has now become known as the SCOTTSBORO casej, On. those three days tit ' im' nine Negro boys, slngley and in grouiMj^Zwre tried in the country/ oouH house at' SCOTTSBORO, Tftalbama, in an atmosphere which the Supreme Court of the Unit ed States later char^cte^s ed as'Marked by threat# of mob violence. In those ori ginal trials eight of the boys were sentenced to death in the electric chair on th«.. jharg* Ot raping two , white women. In tha case of the nine boys ftoy Wrisbt who mu than *18 raan okl the juror urged MERCY Mhd recommended life impri*on ment. A mistrial was declar in his ease.” “In 1>933 when the caset were tried for the second time one of the white women whom they were accused - o f assaulting, Ruby lEtftes, took the witne«s •tand for the defense and de nounced her original tetfimony cs Address Marian rson Fans BULLETIN ' WASHINGTON, D. C.,— Remarks of Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes in introducing Marian An derson at the Lincoln Me morial concert held at 5 T*rir.”fBST), Sunday, April t99»: _ WiASiHINGTO-N—in this great as a life. In Jun*t^ that same year, James E. Hoftori or l)eca^ tur, Alabama, who had sentenc ed Haywood^ Patterson to death for the second time, reversed auditorium under the sky all of his own decision and rendered us are free. When God gave us an opinion which stated that this wopderful outdoors and T eviiTenee “preponderated the sun, the moon and the stars, greatly in favor of the defen He ^ade no distinction of race dants.” .... creed or color. ' And 130 ^ ^ . ~ V years ago He sent to us one of The present status of tha i • j » u Scott-boro ca« in ttartr^ur ^ migrht restore freetjom "'to tho?e tha nine^^origmal defendants ara disregard- free. The charge of r a p a against five of the “boys-—Osia Powell, Roy fully taken it. In carrying out this task, Albraham Linc3ln laid wii- his life, and so it is a« _J ° ersoa an appropriate as it is fortunate ore^ Montgomery were dropped we-.tand reverent’y « ■ o ^except for Oxie Powell, these boy* wera „ - ■ i * .u „ ^ s ^ memorial to the great emanetpa unconditionally frl^d when tha state of Alabama officallv ad mitted that the evidence against them was doubtful. It has recently issued new pardon petitions addraasad to Got. Dlxop of Alabama wbiish of jiMtlca are urged all friends of Justice are urged to sign. Patitions msy be ob tained at 112 East 19th Street, Naw York City, * tor while glorietfi tribute is ren dered to his memory fay a daught ter of the lace from which he struck the chains s>t slaxary^ Facing us diown the Hall be yond the Washington Monument which we have erected a a symbol of the towering stature and fame of him who |ounded this Republic, thei-e is rising a memorial to that other great democrat in our short history, Thomas Jefferson, who pro of opportunity which Abrham Lincoln believed in so implicit ly and took so seriously. In our own time, too, many pay m^ra lip- aerriee to thesa -twin planets in our democratic heaven. There are those, even in th> g^eat Capital of our democra tic Republic, who are either to.- timid or too Indifferent to lift up the light thaf Jefferstn ani’ Lincoln carried aloft. Genius, like jflstice, is Windr J'or genius has touched,^w|th the tip of h#r wmg. this woman who. if it had not been for the ^reat mind,, of Jefferson, if it had not been for the great heart of lincoln, would not ba able t« Plaa«a- turn to pac« aight ied the building because of er race. Mrs. Franklin D. Roose elt later resigned ‘from that body because of t)ie same nairow act. Use-v,g| the white higb school auditorium was alio re jected. "“Yotr don't krmw what youiv* done for me,” was .Mi«s And erson’s method of expressing her gratitude to the throng jfoj; go~ ing with her “all the way." Wearing a mink coat to keep out the bitter cold. Miss .-vnder son' astounded the multitude with her skilled ij>f^5?eIations of the classical arias as well as the Negro spirituals. world will not soon for get this gesture of democracy. on the part of the great contra 'to. A democratic spirit > h a could not find in the capital her own country. Nce Ajiimi To Feie Pies. Jas.Sliei)l)aril ARDENT SEIIVK:E TO THE INSTITUTKWI cause Tha Alumni Aasoeiation td North Carrirna Collaga i«. hKM^ ing its praaidant and fmwdir with a tastinonial ^anqaat Ihri* day niicbt, April *1, M tiM dinini , in tha Aaioekitlea I* tNfnr M Ut pat*
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