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HOME EDITION Cari ya~HEiBUtHliNBRI^ER^ WUOfn* J. CALVNf, BTftML f»' NEW YOftK, M, Y.—Fiofd 7. C»)v^ edWev N«»t Seme*, ana wtffciy kw»wB vnttar Md «uhtniBttt, Fri4»y W^rrtmg Scft. l st 4N ll»die«i CmatMT aad. Mcuml^kaJ taistltot*. ' Dmib 'wm e»mM*d bj m krain.um^r cl*t BBd edm^icsU@nk Mr. Caf^ iMd m tm Mv«n w**ks. «p«ntfhif tli« Isit Uwee m tli« lMf|p^ ^ “ Ssrvivinc, Mr. CsMa ar* Iim wt4tim, Kn. Lw C*J»in; two dtu^hUrM, B«niic« a«i{ Dol^m. and Ilia fatfacr Jo»»pk CmMk. ypL. so NO. 2« DURHAM, N. C. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 9tJi. i»39 race snoof cmmrs FIVE-YEAR OLD CHILD BURNS TO DEATH — .1..— .- ■ ' i' ■ ■ ’ •' ^ ^ ~ i— f Little Margaret Wiggins Victim Of Fire; .4 Escape Marutref WigginiV T year i>Td fir] WM btirneu t^'ieatk about 11:40 o>'clock Wedneaday nigbtt Ausuat 6th when fire destioycd her borne at '214 Popular Strecc. Mr*. Aline Wigjfins, the" child’s nether, three othsr children ard lartha Paricer other occupant'' of the house, escaped but all efforts'to rescue the child- Her "Body’ was f^ und In a“re*r room of the house. The al»m was received bv tttlephone at police headquartc‘vr at 11:40 o’clock, the caller ai'k'' ins' that the messafe be relay ed since a call to the fira stat ion could not be put through. B'lames had spreaded greatly when firemen reached the scene. Beauticians . i!_—» .r ii-.. Succumbs Tp - Short Illness Mrs. Loasie re^olutiotml Funeral serviecs were held Sunday afternoont Sept. 3 for Mias Charlotte R. Roberts, popu lair young beautician of this city who auccumbed to an illnes% e4 just -three daya^^at Duke‘s Hospital Wednesdi^ nitrht Auff.' 30. Tha Storvieea which were | impressively touching, bo^u at 3:30 p. m. at the Uni°n Baptist: ^ , aurch with Rev. A. S. Croom- “ graduate paat>*, officiating. Interment" was Hillside Park High Sch^ made at the Beechwood cemetery dame J. 0eShazor; {C^emt^lp, .brOu^t from the .BuU City Barber Shop where Miss Roberts worked. Resoivtions from the l^jj^on Baptist Church were read by Mrs. Maude SoweU, and Miss Stattie Hill read veas^u^ipna from the Sunday' School. ' immedlatfily after, the. luueijti. and was * termer student «€ North Carclina College.. She received her training in t)w art»"iiroKuer ON LfAvr OF absence Ky. . -mMM -■ Home Of Negro Miss Cee VeC“Ha’ris well V^ovr instructor bf . the ’ Commercial spartmea? ]^f 'the North Caro- _ na College has secured a leave j Ohio State of absence for 'otie year to do tfurAfjer study ing fti«d worit at Universliy. ^COVINGTON, Ky.—A crowd of dipgmntled whites, totaling y,000 during the evening, last 1‘uesday nighr milled in front of The ~ acqntred he«*e Andisew McIntosh in tEe~Byr3' Btrcut “white ’ district” and did coii.sidtrablu‘ damage to the house before being disper.:eii by Pvlice. ^ A fusiuade of roclA * “War thrown .Oft the house, mostly by youlhs, it wus said, but t h fnmily hud left before the ston ing started at 8 o’clock. Mc Intosh, h>s wile and 11 children had moved in last .Monday, which immediately angered his white neighbors. A formal pro test was made on Wednesday to Mayor' Henry A. Knollmann, by n committee representing the tteighbu.rhood. • Police Chief Schild said that the Covington Housing commiss ion had recently purchased se-| vei-al houses at a site set aside for. a low cost Negro housing who The iild the projectV 'Ijiit had failed the property. vioe hpmes for Negroe* had vacated their home*. Mclntc^sh family, it was has moved from one ot project site, " ’ ’ - The crv,wds also ataged loud demonstration in front ttS nome of- Roger Goe white who sold the property to Mcln- Yehling ’liiid jeering, the crowd slu^uted at Gore come out, and, finally following his re?usal sohie ^threw a stone thru,ugh a front window. Gore immediately appeared on the Iront porch with shotgun in anti tho crowd disappeared like migic. The commiftee visiting Mayer Knollmann said they had offered to repay Mclntosli for his mov ing expenses and the |25 dewn p&yment he had made on t h e house. Mclntojsh they said, told ■the committee he would move, but his price was $3,000 or |500 more than he had agreed to pay Urban League Closes 28th - Annual Meet 'Wf; of (Spacial uc th« TIMESj L. ,UoUingsworth Wo»oi, «.-f J^ACKiiOf'i, Mhm»>— iiiialing Ye*k, ciuutmsn. ijl Ukt Na* PASSES Deltas Meet In New Yoirk of beauty culture at the Apex iResoltttions of respect from the North Carolina Beauticians AMocwtioa were read by Ma-' ■■■»■ ■— ^ — N uW- .YORK, ANP)—JSm- the colored people, the sprors pua.ii!^iiig .thfeu' convention •Tlujme »were enlightened on various Oecupaticfial llomous' measure anu' were instrnctea in. the World of send wires to the congressional representatives of._their rt'spec- tive states. White Rock Has New Organist Itussen F. Houston roceutly lin and unqueationally one of app«iir*»d organist at White 1 the Country’s finest performers i;*ick Baptist Chur^h arrived in land teachers, the city on last Saturday and Following Ks .graduation Mr. inedi? itis initial appearance at Htoustun stu^i^ privately in the Sunday morni^ serfvice. Boston under Prof. Hai^is S; Mr. Houston comcs to the church Shaw. Then followed a year a* and to' Durham well qualified organist at the historic First for such a responsibility as the new organ entail. He is a graduate of the Uri- v«^ of TtSTclJands, Redlandjj, class of 1'933 with the do- eree of Mus. B, in Organ. He received his training under Prof. - Arthue W. Poistar M M A A G 0 And Yloiin o«*w Profeaaor ot Oigan at 01»eg baptist Churdh, Norfolk Virginia pastorcd by Dr. R. H. Bowling. was followed by two years at St. Augustine’s College, Raieigh aa org^ist and muaic director. Mr. «ouston plans to conduct classes in Organ, Piano Cost. Fletcher Lovett Gets Ten Years Fletcher Lovett, Durham N; • gro' was sent to the roads yes terday for 10 years by Judge W. H. S. Burgwyn for assaulting and- roi)bing two Blue Bird taxi-i cab drivers. , - '4- 7^, W, Uuonicutt and D»..Jqi- dan, taxi drivfera IdeAtifled Lovett as the man who clubb ed them with a blackjack and ,j:obbed them of their money, defendant, however attempted to prove to tho police that they had arrested the wrong man. ' Hunnicutt testified that a N*. gTo passenger knocked him on the head on Pine St. noad near the under pass and rofatoed him of |10u66. Hunnicutt told the court that he remained, in Watts Hospital with a fractured skuH for IS days. Jordon also testified that Lovett was the man lhat struck at him ^th black Jack th«n polled a pistol on him and took |».00. elder MICHAUX SHOOTS AT DlVlliE BY RIENZI B. LEMUS^ WASHINGTON,—E 1 d e- i X(iiglttfoDt Solo^ii ■JEamed “Happy Am I” radio '^^ngelist, opened his anrkual o.utdoor revival in Griffeth stad ium last Sunday night preacli- ing from the subject, “W h * ^ Does God Look Like?” V ^^kiqng ^his text from Exodus, the elder backstepped to Gene sis and in the course of an hour’s discourse, went ^hro.ugh to Paiql’s epistle to the H{ubrewa, to answer his own question. Concluded he, "God doesii't -loak likft Father Divine.” Elder Michaux aaitpunced that his nejt Sunday’s subject will be: MG:eorge Bak^, alias Father Di^iie, alias the dvril— tto'^naa who'saya he i» Q«4.” for K outh iom;„n'ow,'’ jjelta Sigma Theta foruricy in its annual meeiing gave Cv.nsiderabi.e thought to ine promulgation of tlieue ideas and ideals. Tan convention was iield at St. James Presbytt-rimu churcti, Aug.’M-31'With, Uie ua- t.jip8l president, Mrs.' Vivian Osborne Marsh, in charge.* One sf the pet projects of Delta, fintncing .a travotiug li-' brary, was taken up id thu meet Ing and funOs voted o.uf to pur chase a “bookmobile’^^ni b'oojcs f«y it. Annie Duncan, chairman of the national project coiiw mittee, presented plans for Uiu traveling library to, the . deleg ates. Designdd to operate In the southern states, where colured people have but little chaiice to come intj contact with good books or have adequate library facilities, the pri_vJect will bo supported in its entirity by uelta another important rc-port re- the Borors was ttiat of A n n u receiving the ertdorsemant Johnson JuiUn, chajrinun «f the vigiiince committee. Dealing with legislation brought up in congress yi(;hich directly atl'ects Walter White o£^ the NAACP congratulate^ the sorora ou this Cc.mmittee and also gave (hem than^ fpr their -vi^nole hearted support ' of the association proi'ram. ’ ‘ . The Deltas had their day at. tlie fair with Miss Elsie Austin of Washington as guest speak er. Miss Austin' was formerly deputy assistant attorney for Ohio^land is no.w the assistant io the recorder of deeds in the cajpitol Otihers on^TaTr daTy“prbgram include Florence Cole McCleane Ethc.l Harris, Muriel Ilhon Cam- pbull and Jean Coston. Yhe formal banquet on Wed nesday • nij^ht brought forth more than 350 beauti/ully gown ed Delta women. This banquel not only honored visiting gue*t.s and'"delegates, but honored' the Sofors who founded Delta Sigm;' IVieta s.fority. "The founder present W?Ffe Ettiet' ’ CiHidiff, Jimmie Bugg Middleton,' Fred- ricka Chase Dodd, Naomi ^well Richardson, Flor»D;« Toms and tfUiza. Shippea. Ediior-Speaks loLOVD J. CALVIN, New-:'Papernian of New York Wiio *dfeii at Medical Center Fri. af er a short illness attrib\ited to a brain tumor, ne was 36 and lived ut HitiLii Eignth Avenue. ^BrT'C^nr’^tTiidTicteU a Ha^,ofiy ated cutumHr, was once associated editor of a magazine now dis- coAtJhU'ed, and former head of lh6 New Ytrk office of a week- 1^. CBARLOTT®—L. E. Austin, ediJor of the'Carolina . Times of Durham was the guest speaker { aT tlie, regalor ^-anday-aftemoen meeting at the YMCA (.Joiored Branch last Sunday. ’ A near eapjicity audiem\3 was prcsenti to heai'^ the editor who: is also president of the State Inttrde- nominational Ushers Associaticm. ■ Mr, Austin took as his sub- Jwet, “Thre*^"l'ragedies of the Negro,” and gave ‘^a masterly discourse. 'J^ne thr‘66''tragedies, as he related them were: “The Tragedy of Religion,” “The Tra gedy • of Education,” and ‘‘The Tragedy of Pr^iperty Qwuer- IkVlN GbTS GOP NOU PpiLADiXi nfA, (A i-i r;)-— lineup. There will alfip weikj of unifica.vor J a Negro-elected as magiatzate aayiuiiage, .as, Jt.be KepubUcans have endors (.councilman James If. Jirvih vc- tenan unaertaker ana man ,■'/ affairs last week won the 0. K. of the City ^ Uepublicau c »m- mittee and wi.i luit to suvcOtt^Grinnage. nimself as councilman from tha 44th ward. Until now the iltp.iblicaas haa refused to slate irvin, and Irvin’s secretary. James Danne- k«r and R. i-i-auke»iielu, whitu, btith were trying to get the .emlorsement. The fact lb Irvln had deflected from the organization in the past jear. Now, however everyihiu^f id hunky d(^y. Whatever *way the votas .‘d -the igcumient. Elk nfflionaJ rtiasuicr Pudward W. Ht-nry« while the:l Demcicrats have en tered dentist and WPA WiUard LAUNCH DRIV|E- PHILADEILPHIA, (ANP)— A finaneial drive to raise $26, 000 wra h’.unched last week te save the Nazarene Old Folks home. Long established the home ha4»>over 100 acres on the onit- skirlS cif the city. It is owilftd by the Naaarene Baptist church, but has fallen on uncertain days. Dr. Charles A. Lewis presi FLAShkS ... **lden4 the Philadelphia s«tian~wft'^'as elected nex ov I, ere wi e a Negto National Nfegro congreu, is (“Morris Brown recaivin* i -H couacU Mcordtof to\ the oi 100 vote* cast. SICKENS PICKS IHE ^LLIES TO WIN ~ By William Pick^hs Bad as they all are, Gocl and the devil knc.w that France and Englanu are better civilizations -hair present Germany, Russia and present Italy. KIAi^SiAS CITY MAWUVES, TO RIPE OLD ACE OF 110 SALINA, Kas. Rulben'Johnson 110, who found freedom by fleeing to Kansas through the historical John Brown’s Tunnel to Topeka, died here Tuesday. NURSES MAY LOSE JOBS SiPARTANBURG, S. C.-^e- pnrta» are current here that the olore^ nurses the staff )? the County Hospital will be dis charged around Oct. 1 and re placed by white ..student nurses of the training school of the General Hospital. NEW ALLEN PREXY IS HOWARD U. GRAPUATE COLUMBIA, S. C.—Dr. Sam uel H. Higgins, Charleston S. C. is the newly elected president of Allen University. He succeeds the late E. H. McGill who died in a Baltitnore hospital last March. * t. ' At the ,'July meeting of t n e board of trustees Dr. Higgins over Dr. Hul of out that the dramatic action or^TRe great democracies >of Eurose going to war in support ot tbeii commitments to small nations iiiight weH st?tnulate the An.eri- can pe$pie to a review o£ their' oibligativjis to their own lAinor- ity groups, the National Urban League and -ihhliated local lea gues in forty four cities tli^ogh out the United States coceludeu today their twenty eighth annual convention. The Urban League movement, founded in 1910, constitutes an interracial approach tot the pro blems of Negroes who have con centrated in industrial centers. More than 200 executives and staff members have been holding u three day conference at the Green Pastures Camp of tl.'' Detroit Urban League, neat here. Aubrey Williams direetof of the National Youth Ad:s:a-' istrator; and B. J, Hovde, Ad ministrator of the__|Iousing Au thority of PiHSburg, were antung the guest speakers. ^ tiSSal~body, yomted twi* tlM>t ike tieclaratii.li »f- war by Great Britian and Franc* g»v« new significance to til* spirit-.el Urban League and niglit »eC bring i^ew emphasis to its pro gram. -•- • NYA Administrator Aubrey Williams advise* delegates t't the convention to consider ways by whi^'the present tdm of WvHd affairs might be used -to advance the economic and aactal position of tJSe'Jfegro rae«. “It was during the lait war” he said, “that Negroes got a chance to proT« lor th« first time that a black hand is just as strong and ' ust as skillful and Just as capable of being trained as a white o.ne. On the other land, Negroes as well ^ all oth#r 'mtnority groapa laaat. b« earefoi iest in state c£ •» a r ^ destroy th«*righlb and ^vtteges ;Jiat they have fought f®if sj long." Whb^Owns Your Business? Music was furnished by the ; 4£4ags ™ J uhile e Quartette of .Ferbuff N. C. Re marks were made by L. G Green chairman of the Executive Com niitte% of the local ranch and announcements were made by Arthur Anderson, executive se cretary, Attorney Bowser presid ed over the meeting and the speaker of the day was intro duced ,by V W. P, Alexander, Managing Biditor,, "of, the Char- Ifflitinn |,he TIMLS. Miss Ruth Ezell of; East 7th Street left the city T{iurs3ay to visit relatives ^ and friends in Asheville N. C. RACE LAW PROFESSOR OKLAJIOMA city—One of the most interesting secticnis of the program held during the National Negro' Business league iii'Ceting here week was the panel discussioffof the problems of small business effte'rprises. William M. Cooper, director of extension service at Hanspton institute, was the leader in this unique preseni^on. U. G. Falls of Saint Louis, wholesale and retail fish dealer; L. M. Bryant, accoiintant' df Chicago; Alfred E. Smith, WPA Washington, R. O’llara Lanier, NYA ,Washing- toTi and J, B, EHkyton, Citixens Trust Company took part ia tliis program. . The' groUp gathered abcat. a table on the platform in inform al fashion much as radio round table discussants (}o, Mr. Cooper lUtlined the difficulties which face the average' bu^ltiess man who is either Just starting an enterprise or has been engaged for some time without an effec- Vive 3iart qT "ETS ,o]pc: J. B, Blayton, who is a cert' fiej public accountant, outlined the minimum accounting methods which even the most* huoible enterprise had to poasesH. It was important, he poMted cut for the business aian to kao*^ who owned his bBBiafi^aiL'.ISaiita, Lanier, Bryant and Falls disc«^ sed methods of determinin.i when a profit liad lieen u»adt; the keeping of records; whether reiietf was hintjeting «.r business; bow the small bo»in*:!>M man might get money to eu- largu his business, and -co^ata- tive methods. U. G. Falls followed with a description o^ the methods which he u^d and each participant in turn brought out some phase the diMdYtni;»g.e» and ^ p>«>- bl^ms which occur in the tai-iir grocery, meat market, c«nfe«' tionery' or restaurant, witlc remedies; . - The audience, among wh«.p were a number of propdietots of small enterprises leaa«i hack as the ptfnel started, t h e u .raightened up, finally Biovea to the edge of the seats mad bm-- gan participating in quastiima ungwpi^ *irom tha Hoar. Many men regarded as auceee*- (ul left the seuion sayiag it had brought them practice kiiojwledge which they hai seeking. '' ’ Seidi To Aid i.., , NegrOaVolers BY liEON LEWIS “ NEW ORLEANSi ^A N B). Tlte^ tjitigena Volantary comiait-. 4ha. nam^ea Miii$ctcd Attorney Scovtl\ • Richardson, of Chicago, was' naiaed last week as associate p.ofessir the new law school of Line fn university which will b* opened .for . the first time this month witjb .Dr. William E. Tayl.jr u dean. The law s^col resulted from thi wetf' 'known G«ih««^ cmS. ' ■ m tec and the Peoples league, two while organizations that have ni.'tde much gains in “cleaning out ” jury venires and vote re- v>;tration practcies-, are institut ing a permanent program that will Ulftmately^aid thi citizenry of ^is city and state ' :n tl:eir fight for iinhampered vote.,^pegistration and Jury ser vice. ^ , The Peoples league is proteat ing 34 or 75 veniremen selected for grand jury service wera raked over tTte coals by Plait \vheu he said, “I caar^N* ! you that if I let tMj. this (rand lury you Mjr, en3^ up with abou^ thraa ea on it.” The le^a grounds that they w«ra relatives cf state some connectioBB with fices. • Out of the 10r grana >ury serviM- caly JMt Tha 1——a Ihis small 'paree«iir“- enough to.^tiafy tiUr reme court rttttaif'.' pally want to eW# had picked Ik racket caaa,” and ia ttal*
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