VOLUME 1»
NUMBER U
DORHAM, KORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY JUNE 24ri> }»39
PRICE SEVEN CENTS
BOARD FIRES TEACHER
IN VA. SALARY FLGHT
Picketing And
Mass Meeting
Plans Made
10,000 Pay
Respect to }\orld*s
looted Drummer
Ella Sings ‘My
Buddy’; Band
Halted By Sobs
GET3 D. D.
Get Suspended
’ Sentence
GCXLD3filOTlO, N. C.—In a was taking in|6*^ consideration
trial that lasted 20 minutes the^ brutal flogging that the
Kinby Baldwi'n and Ployd Ejd- ' men had received,
ward* who"were laken from the ! On Tuesday afternoon June
Wayne County jail and flogged ^ 20 the flogging victims were
by an “Unknown” mob last bfought face to face with the
February after being Jailed on entire Goldabojo police force
a charge of assault on Mayor and were directed to identify
J. H. Hill and Kirby Wells, | any officers who were mem-
were placed under suspended bers of tlie Hand of unmasked
judgemtfirt *for a two year per- white men w'hb whipped them^^
iod wtthin the discretion of After looking carefully at
the court. No fines or costs the officers' the men are qaot^ ***r> seventh^ grade
were a«»essed a» ,Judge Paul as saying: “There aJe.^.o: any
B. EdinunBaon stated that he oj^TElie men here."
WILL GET MASTERS
Laadiaa Band* R«preiMiit«4 At
F«incral Am Swing Yi«Ms
Swmf To Dirga
ATTEMPT TO KILL OFF
FIGHT FOR EQUAL SALARIES
AROUSES CITIZEN'
NORPOLK, Va:—Miss
Black, « local high school teach
er whose court case is the
spearhead of the legal battle
now, going on in this stale to
I qualiie tfa« salaries of Negro
land white teachers'is out a Jc^
to compel the school board to
pay her and all other Negro
Aline ^eacbers in Norfolk the same
salary as white teacherj with
similar qualifications and do
ing the same work.
I sad ore Oglesby
Masters -
^ .
In Business
Isadiore iBoyd Oglesby former for training )^gro students in
inM;ructo|r in th« public schools the pr0blcms of the small busi-
of Qnt'ham, /Cceived the Mas- nessman.
During his stay «t Iowa he
worked out a syllabus for
training collegiate.-youth in the
field of retai.ling and a guid
ance course for the semi-high
school which Serves to' prtlertt
the life proiblems of each course
offered in the ' school through
an integrated ten-unit plan.
?.|r. Ogleaiby’s theme on the
ter of Art#' Begree from the
' State University of Iowa at the
June Gonvocati(te in the IieU
of Personnel and Business Psy
chology. . .
• Mr. Ogledi>y, f foriKier mem
ber of the Hampton ""choir and
glee club, holding a Bachelor of
Science degree in Buiness
A.dministration from that in
stitution h»d the distinction of ' survey of commercial ireining
^eing the only Negro, member ! for Negroes in Durham wa
■ of k selected white • chorus of declared to be one of the few
forty voices at the University, outstanding gtulies made on
In 1938 Mr. Oglesby’n Article commerci^L.^ trainfrig among
“Are the Secondary and Colle- Negroes in - the County. At the
giate Schools Forgetting t h e present time he is_ beginliihg a
Man on the Corner” was an study and classification as a
attempt to bring to the attention guide to the training of Negt\o
of secondary schools and col- officc" etericat workers and re-
leges of ‘business the' necessity tail salesmen.
Local NAAGP
To Hold M ee t
BENJAMIN F. PAGE, an |
I Miss Black was notified
at Hillside Park High School, through her principal June li'
who will flo work toward'the that the school board had^ ^ re-
Master of Arts Degree m His- . ^used to issue her a contract
tory at the University ^ of Michi- ^ another year. It was alpo
gan this summer. Mr. Page is , revealed that Miss Black had
a graduate of North par^lina deduetad from her
College (Class of ’34) and a
memiber of Omega Psi Phi
Fr»tcrnl*y»,' jsr laft Ihirhatn
.Wednesday afteanSon, ’ *iuae
21, and will panada, De
troit Chicago ¥nd Ne^ Yoilt
befoi’e returning to Durham in
the fall. ,
June pay check for her appear
ance in court June 1.
InwBedl>tttl3^TiwtE800d
fdr tit# Ali^cliitibn. came to
SPECIALIZES IN
BUSINESS
NorfoV, from New York to
Judge Hanckel denied Miss
Black’, petition, which .ought • johns'an c7 Smith‘ U
RdBV. JOHN L^E WHITE,
Principal oi The Hicks^Y^n ele
mentary School in Durhaia and
pastor of church in Mebane and
Graham, who was honor»tJ with
the degree of Doctor of Divinity
at the Seventy-S^irst commence-
Marshall and his associates
Dr. Leon A. Ransom, and J.
Thomas E w i n, immediately
noted an appeal. It was while
^is appeal' was pending that
the school board indirectly no
tified the tea^er t}ia1^_ ' h *
would riot b^- reappointed.
CjUzens ef Norfolk are de
termined to»'ligh*t the cise to a
finish. A TOass meeting will be
held here June 25, and plans
for picketing the offie# ^ tk«
fcav# beigtt m»m
ftiedbers of tb« *Vi*^4nia
State ,. Teacher*' Aijiociali Jn,
versity June 14.
Traill kills
High Poliil lUiiii
eonfcr with ctty attorney Al-|^whfch':is financing the legal
fred Ander^n. Anderson *nd , fight.
his assistant, action which was | it was also^^ announced that
aryued before Judge Allan ^the Wacher^^ committee would
Hanckel in the circuit court of see ^' ’'ity: that Miss Black’s
Norfolk June 1. sala^if*^next year is paid.
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ReceiveSiDt^ D.
Fro in Smi
OHARLbTTE, (Spe;ial to th« ing ,in’^19
TIME3S)—During the impressive, of the
outdoor commencement exerci- '!Jjur;
ses at the Johnson C. ^ith
University Wednesday afternoon
June 14, Rev. John Lee Whi|
principal of the Hicktown
mentary school in Durham andf
pastor of the Fir«t Predbyterian
_ ChurclL in Mebane and the Scott
iSADORE BOYi> OGi.ESBY E„for%emortal ^Wch v^l n
of Durham, who was awarded Graham, was among those Wirard
the Master of Arts degree in ed the de^ee of Doctor of Divin
Personnel, and B'usineas Psy- , ity, .Honoria Cai
chClogy'aT the June convftca'
for abo
HIGH POINT,—On Tuisdaj
June 20, around 9:30 p. m.
Thomas Carferj,a resiJ. iit a!
Walnut Street was' l^iUeil by a
soutHboand Southern Fregiht
Te^in near tlie city ^ fi’terinj;
plant off Kivett Drive.
It was reported by members
if the train crew- that t^aiter
jTM tracks
before the train struck him
Oht it.iivas too late to ninp the
tram. •
Coroner 'Wallace “freeman
held an inquest at 8:00 o’clock
Wednesday morning.
BALTIMORE, Md.—M o r t
than 1,200 friends, members of
great swing bands artist-! h«
had helped' along and even
gome people to whom he had
sold newspapers so he couy
buy his fir*t pair of trum-
stlek* sweltered inside Waters
African M.th&.tist Epiico^l
Church to participate in the
final rites for William Henry
"hick” Webib Tuesday after
noon, June 20. The Rfrld’s
greatest drummer a t Johns
Hopkins Hospital Friday night
jf last week following an opera
tion for a kidney ailment' with
^ was s^trjcken late ii the
week.
There were thousands of
Chick’s admirers who were un-
aible to • get inside the chureh
but they jammed out^.de i« a
mass that overwhelmed police
regulation. There was a surg
ing sea of faces which defied
jkowers and hot sun to get’a
last look at t'le IhTIi' mH'it4ir'»of
the drums. Vehicular traffic at
es wM intponlble as tkt
crowd packed solidly m t h e-
block in front of the chirrch.
"'There must h^ve been frem
8,000 to ten thoownd th«rt
it on* tiai* or Mother,
poshing,
out of windows^. , straddl
ing ridgfrpoles of briek
houMS »croM the rtrcvC
The fancri^ tcrvic* wkieli
lasted two bows
drew tk« targnt tarnoat
in recent Bfiitory.
laiide' while two anpuiiatt
took twrns ptaymg old MetA*-
dist hynns, the ytlls mad
pereama, the whlati** imd shoati
of the tfirong outaide b« heard
swelling above tb« ^aoaaa H
the mounters and the rob* ai
the family.
Ilia Baad CowMa't Play
The fourteen oiemt»era of
Chick’s orchestra, who were on
a toar of G^or^ at the tin*
of the ifaeatro's deaifa, had
planned to play a Han»beE for
their leader who had taaght
thei^ to plar the hottest nuak
this side of Bach; bat the lioya
couldn’t p!ay. It h*d all eoaaa
to quickly, and the tears which
!itreamed down their faces
made it impolsibtc for them to
play the music aa it w a a
written. TItey were going to
play a medT^y of his owa
songs—in ''iolSitn tempo.
Please tom to pag«^«li^t
IMPROVING
- on al^he 'Chlversity of Iowa.
>
XU memibers and Jrienda-ef^ ginia June 2t—July 2.
the National Association for ! Two very important
the Advancement of Colored will be considered at
GOLOSBOmt CHILD
matters KILLED BY TRUCK
this*
People are requested t« aXtend \ meeting. It is, therefore, the' GOlD®BORO, N. C.—Haz«r
a meeting of fhe Durham Branch^ earnest desire of the Executive Futrelle, four jrear o4d:>daugh-
of the Aeaociation to be held at Committee o? the D u*' r h a m ter of Roibert Futrelle . of Golds
the Algonquin Club House, 1400 BrancK that every member of boro, died in the Gofdafeoro
Fayetteville Street at 4 p. m. "“the Association be present. The Hospital June 2fl ,at
t} all around 7:30 p. m. as result of
to be crushed skull w,hich she sus-
Branch of the Association prior ' present in ordfer to elect oflicers tained when she was struck by I
to the meeting of the National of the Branch £or the ensuing -a truck driven by Jesse Peeden I unavoidafcle.
Association at> Richmond, Yir-{ ' Please turn to page eight . . | driver for the Wayne Agricul-* •
Sunday, _Junfe 25. This will ho | fiivitation is extended
the last meeting ot iHe Durham ' old and new menibers
istM in Durham(^ j»oint of ser
vice, having Coma here mQre
than twenty yeara ag» and hat
beeti always activ«a|^ minis
ter, teacher, -^vic * a^o fraternal
leader. years, beginn-
tural wefks^
^he -ns^rkrent
occuried ’n
West F-lm -Street and witnesses
testified that^ o n returning
home from across the street
the child ran in the path of
the truck and that the ifccident
city
'yed as pastor
^res-byteriaji
n Dur-
twenty
; had -chafg^. |ij|^
for four jears.
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Despite l?eing busy with Ms
%!lciou3 adjvities^i in”^ DurhaA
RW. White has^j^ found time m
conduct evang^rstic servi«€8 «at
various churches outside ^^e ^
city. He has frequeirtij^^ K
meetings In AJae'rdeen, a n
Rev. White is blde^ min«'^Xau^fM)urg and' has been res-
pon^V^e or aibo^ ^ ^ pe^aons
being brought'''mto ythe kii^-
dbm of' God kg welK as to the
Chtifca'A So successful were
the . me^0^s at Laurinburg
that he was* called to serve as
pastor there for three yeara.
Old Nort h S tate
Mediciil Society
Convenes
CHjAHLOTTE, (Special to Commerce,
the TIAlEiS)—Johnson C. j W.ei^iesday evening’s *e-5^c|i,
Smith University in Chai^tle , was held at the Joha.*ton C.
g the^^cgirg~xrf"thg fifty^oag^ Smith tJttiversity'-
DR. I. E. ' i iJBNER, president
of the Durham Medical As'ocia
tion, h#s bpen ill for s“veral
weeks and' for, the past eight
^ haa-;been confined to a
privSte ^ard at Lincoln Hospi-
t/il. However, the doctor ii mak^_
ing. rapid strides toward re
covery at this writing.
I?_L—A—S—
The next- appearance of the
BIATHING BIlAUTIES will be
Rev. White was commiwioner ' at the Hillside Swimming Pool,
-to the general asenrbly of the Filday June 23. Come out and
PresiEyterian Church in 1916 ; see this spectacle,
when it convened in Atlantic
City, and in 1916 in Cincinatti
OMS.
He received' hia education at
,B;id^||e Univers^y (now John
son C. Smith) graduating from —
Hu u
the College department in 1906 o,„.Krfester, executive secretary
cond annual convention of the
old North State Medical, Dental
and Pharmaceutical Society,
the oldest Negro MeUical Society
in the world, which convened
June 20 through 22. The society^
was the gue&v- cf the Charlotte
Medical Society and their pro
gram was based on the ideals
of the. asisoclation lii|king thej
latest scientific developments
with practical application.
Registration got unde.- way
at 3:30 P- m. June 20, and the
executive board met at 5 J>.
ro. The firtt, business ses
sion began at eight o'cloct
and /eatured the annual ad
dress from President L. T. De-
lany.
Prom 7:30 to 9:30 Wednes-
morning there were surgi
cal clinics at the Good Sataari-
tan Hospila^ and^ the regular
morning started at
ltT:00. During this sMsion there
was a symposium on Cardio-
K^al DiseaSfe; papers were
read “by Drs. Luther W. Kelly,
T. Preston White, and W. Z.
E'radford. Discussions followed
each of these paperjj and an
eime from Clarence
and from the Theological
partment in 1909.
de-
of the Charlotte Chamber of
Dr. Sterling F. Hogans, Presi
dent of the CharTofle Medial
Society, presiding. We’soaae
addresses on behalf of the City,
Schools, Business 'and Profeaa-
iqna and tha Ladies' Auxiliary
came from Ben Douglas Mayor
of Charlotte; Henry L. Me-
Crorey, President of JohsaoB
C. Smith University; Rev. J.
S. N. Tross, and Bixa. J. Eagaaa
Alexander. A re9p->nsa %»
these addresses waa given by
Doctor E. E- Toney of Oxford,
There were addresses by Dr.
W. L. T. Jliller of Greea#-
,-ioro and Dff”"®;'J. Buraetta
of Rocky Mount, wkoae retpee-
tive s^Jecta "weFe: 'TPIw
ing and ' Conservation ot omt
cmidren’s Teeth’* and “Firat
jWd.’* Mumc was iuriSli&ed hTf
th’e Sw»8ee Harmony Singera.
ef Charlotte. A smoker foUow-
ed this meeting. •>
Thursday morning froM T:09
a. m. to 9;30 tha doctors 8«ais
attended the ^igieal' elink^ at
the Good Samaritan
and at ten they retwrBed ta tke
gynna^UB ot J. C. SMVk
the morning session with’ PWSi-
dent Delaney PreaidiBC. fH*
meeting featured papers.
were followed by ^ diaeosaioaa.
Please tarn to page eight
SUNNY SIDE SOCIAL CLJUB .CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY AT ALGONQUIN CLUB HOUSE FRIDAY, JUNE 16TH