THE CAftOUm Tftfti ^^WK>AY. MAXCH UA 1M«
Dave Canty, Ala.
Torture Victim
Saved Again
WAS-HINGTON, D. C. —With
o)it heaa-ing oral arguments, the
Unitea StatM Supreme Court, on
Monday, March 11, reversed an
Alabama Supreme Court decision
had affirmed, the conviction and
drath sentence of Dave Canty,
26-year-old Negro youth accus
ed of murdering a white nurse
in Montgomery, Alat^ona, March
IS, 1»S8.
Basing its order on the noiw
famous Lincoln Day decision
handed down last February 12 in
the ^k>rida t(0'ture c^e, the
high court for the second time
within a month, specifically deni
ed the validity of confessions
obtained through torture. The
Court thus again reaffirmed the
fourteenth Amendment to t h e
Conatitutlon, which gi^ranteei
to every citizen accused of a
crime, the right of a fair trial.
iCanty was lentenced to die
July 15, 1938, but the sentence
was st^\yed pending an appeal.
One June 22, 1939, the Supreme
Court of Alabama affirmed the
conviction and death sentence,
later denying fli rehearing of the
case.
The murder charge against
Canty grew out of the attack
upon Eunice />id Lillian Ward,
two white nurses in Montgomery
during March, 1937. As,^a result
of the attack Lillian Ward died.
The Governor of Al«bara! offer
ed a thousand-dollar reward for
the killer. Officers went through
the Negro section of Montgom
ery announcing the rewf^rd off
er, and arrested many Negro
citizens. ■ • • •
A Negro fortune teller “re
membered” on being told her
that "he was in trouble” and
fled the city to Mobile, A^l,
sent police officers after the
youth. After administering a
severe beating the officers
brought Canty back' to Mont
gomery, continued to torture
him, and placed him in the un
derground dungeon of Kirl>y pri
son. "r ,... __ .. „.
Here the prisoner remained
for a week without having any
charge preferred againtt him.
Despite the torture, Canty refus
ed to admit a.ny connection with
the crime. A confussion was
finally forced from him when he
was taken from Kilby prison to
the basement of the Montgomery
police headqi^arters, ,sind there
"strung up” until he agreed to
make a statement admitting
guilty ‘‘voluntarily ^(id of his
own free wifi.”
Thurgood Marshall, special
counsel for the National Associa
tion for the Advancement of
Colored People, represented C^ln-
ty, together with Leon A. Ran
som, of the NAACP national
legal committee and Alex C.
Birch, of Montgomery, Ala. The
case marked the fourteenth vic
tory for the NAAOP, out of fif
teen c^i^es carried before the
United States Supreme Court.
•Attoriney General Thoimas SJ.
Lawson, of Alabama, conferred
w’th his associates shortly after
the decision was made known,
in an effort to decide whether to
ask the high court for a reKear-
ing. Alabtiiiha officials said that
if a rehearing is not asked on
lol ^granted g new circuit court
trial will proibably be held.
Hospitals Filled
With Menial
Patients
BY JAMES WATSON, M. D.
Divuion of Mental Hygian*
Stata Wel{|a)e Departmant
KALElGfH — Last week I gfWe
the estimate ot comfetent au
thorities about the expectancy
of mental illness for the schooj
age population. They tell us th,'.U
over a million children now in
school will become inmates of
niontal institutions if the present
trends continue. In this para
graph the note of preevention
will be persistently sounded.
Something will Ibe ^4id later
about causes, treatment, care,
cists, heredity and a few words
will be spent on more delicate
themes such as the reI^tions of
education, religion and sex to
n.ental breakdowns.
This week let us remind our
selves that the subject of mental
health is the greatest health
pioblem before the nation. To-
df.y there are more patients in
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i.ig as a weekly feature of the
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;rtl#.ting to mental hygiene pro
blems may be alldressed to Dr.
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Fatalities Among
Children Show
No Decline
BY RONALD HOCUTT
HALEIQH — North Carolina
apparently is making little or no
progress in the matter of educat
ing scho()I-,K/;e children to walk,
p'ay, skate, and ride, bicycles
safely. Judging from a survey
jtsl completed by tihe Highway
Safety Divisioh.
A study of pedestriJn fatali
ties in the State from 1936
through 1958 shows that the
percentage of school-age children
killed on the streets and high
ways showed no decline during
the five year period.
The to-t^^ number of pede
strians killed from 1936 through
1939 was 1,18Q, of which 481,
or 27 per cent, were under 1^5
years of age. Of the 3'3^1>^edes-
trian fatalities in North Cilolina
la.st year, 93, or 28 per cent,
were under 15 years of age.
“This cl^trly points to the
need the teaching of safety
in the schools,” says Ronald
Hocutt, Director of the Highway
Safety Division. “The »chooU
play fk very large part in the
foiTning ehildrens’ habits, and
the schools are the proper place
to teach safe lyl’iits of walking
and playing. And this—^the teach
ing of safety in the schools—
ultimately will he the most effec
tive mej'lns of reducing ac-
ciaents, injuries, aiTd fatalities
on our streets and highways. A
few school in the State are
teaching safety, but what is
noeded is the inclusion of safety
education in the curricuJum of
all State-support'\d schools.”
Mrs. Lots McGill, formerly of
Charlotte, now making her home
in Sew York City, was in the
city last week for her brother’s
funeral, John Ed. Derrick.
TO CONDUCT REVIVAL AT ST, JOSEPH A M E CHURCH
Won’t Support
NLRBBut Fight
Discrim ination
DR. AND MRS. N. H. JELTZ
Lumberton To
Dedicate New
Auditorium
/LUMBEillTON, —r- LumJbertOin
is preparing to handle upwards
of ten thousand visitors upon
the occasion of the dedication
Of the new armory ^■♦aditorium.
This gala evuul Ls scheduled for
Thursday, March '21st. Beginn
ing at 11 a. m. with the staging
of gigantic parade featuring
several companies of the North
Carolina National Guard. Master
of ceremonies "for the christening
of the niiJi'nificent new armory-
auditui'ium is the Honorable H.
E Stacy, prominent Lumberton
aUorney who has taken a lead
ing PiKt in l“ie armory move
ment since its ipception. An
array of dignlTaries seldom seen
together in 17orth Carolina will
have a part in the dedic^tUon
ceremonies. fTSnorable C. C.
Hprrington, head of the nation’s
WPA will make his first trip in
to the south?^. sltftes to take ^
part in in the dedication. Other
prominent visitors participating
will be the Honoiable Clyde R.
Hoey, governor of North Caro
lina, C., C. Mclnnis, WPA chiefs
of North Carolina AdJusttant
General Vani R. Metts, Congress |
nij.n J. Byar■T^ Clark, General ’
Bi:yden, commanding officer o*
Fort Bijrgfg and Colonel R. S.
McClelland commander of W. L.
T., Wilmington. Invitation has
a1.'o been sent to Senator Robert |
R. Reynolds and Senator Josi^lfi ^
W. Baily. AcC?5tanc^ of the
jaiinory-auditorium by Mayor E.
ivf. Johnson on behalf of the City
of Lumiberton ,dlad the County’ of
Rcibeson. Captain Eli Wishart,
commanding officer of Beattery
B, 252nd Coast" Artillary, will be
in charge of mlli^lry maneuvers^
Governor Hoey’s address will be
concluded at 1:3ff, immediately
after which all military units
will gather for A barbeque.
In the afternoon an elaborate
air show will be staged. Chair-
Horace Barnes of the air
show committee announces that
he has secured several famous
flyers. Nationally known stunt
f'yer, Beverly Howard of Chjr-
leston, S. C. who featured the
national aiir races at Cleveland,
the aill-American races at
Miami, Florida and the Cuban
show at Havana. Howjaird flies
the same plane he used at the
big races .ti.id will iihow the same
act. Mr. Barnes is also attempt
ing to oibtain Jack Huber for a
ten thousfjnd fo'ot parachute
jump. Several visiting pl|at>eft and
pilots will attend and passeng
ers will be hopped when the show
is not in progress.
During the evening the armory
dance to be sponsored by the
B/^.'helors Club will have Dean
Hudson and his Florida Clubmen
furnishing music.
I ixas'o^x .of
' ik wuicu-i i
A great Revival fo'r the city of
Durl|’.lLU at Saint Joseph AME
Church, Fayetteville St. Beginn-
ii>g Wednesday night March 27
to April 7th I>r. N. H. Jeltz will
preach every week, night, except
Snturday ,aind on the two Sun
days, mornings, afternoons, and
night. Dr. Jeltz will deliver his
ffimous-lecture “tove M^l^riage
and Divorce” Sunday March 31,
at 3 p. m. he will deliver his
gieat brotherhood and interracial
sermoni, “Am I My Brother’s
.Keeper”?
Dr. and Mrs. N. H. Jeltz, of
Philadelphia are educational and
interracial evangelist of the
AME Church. They have trave
led in every state in the Union,
coniiUcted 400 revivjjils and won
23,0'0'0 Converts in 20 years.
More than a half million white
ai’d colored persons have heard
the ^ji.nous Brotherhood sermon:
“Am I My Brother’s Keeper”? A
sermon which he has delivered in
the largest white churches and
city auditoriums in America and
Can#.l,la. All these services will
He held in St, JosepTi AME
church. Dr. J. A. Valentine, Pas
tor. A Gospel Choir composed of
members of St. Joseph Church
led by the Evangelist and his
wife will furnish Music for the
occasion. Everybody is welcome!
NEW YORK — Complete >>p-
p>isition to the emMCul»iJng
amendments to the National La
bor were the key p ints em
phasized by the National As
soc Yi.idn for the Advancement
of Colored People in ststements
fi'ed with the Huuse and Senate
labor committee today.
The statement, was sent to the
House Labor Committee he^'suled
by Represenative Mary T. Nor
ton; and to the Senate Com-
mitteeon Education and Lab,or,
hP|".ded by Senator Elbert D.
1 homas.
Officials of the organization
explained that the statement
wtlj sent out in order to make
It clear that the association was
entirely opposed to those op-
rnsitiofilit grtups whose aim is
to destroy the Act and hurt
/•s a whole. At the same time
the Association wanted to give
concrete expression to its un-
Cjaulified opposition to t h e do-
pothing tactics emplyed by some
unions who have continued to
dircriminate ag^llnst Negro work
ers.
'
The NAACP statement in
part, follows:
“The National Association for
the Advrhcement of Colored
People asks that by means f
this communication its be per
mitted to express it unqualified
opposition to emasculation of
tile N|aif:ional Labor Relations
Act now propr.(ed in H. R. 881.1,
the so-called Smith Amendments,
and strongly ^ urges that these
proposed amendments be reject
ed ” ....
“The National Labor Rekfions
■ Act is designed tu aid labor in
orjranizing freely and b,.-gaining
collectively. The proposed amend
n;ents can have no other effect
than to hamper Vi’jor organiza-
tiiin and to give employers addi
tional legalistic excuses for re-
fi:.»ing to bargp'n fairly and
fully. ....
“The amendmerr* ,i! . :
kboliih the pre!'j;!t b' uni a ;ii
substitute Ks* effective ui i. Mn-
ery. In view it the succ of t.,
present boyki-d in ni ,
than 90 per cent of itr  > *
without any foF»Ti«l and
it! phenomar^.l record -f nly
two rever.'als ip 24 ca; in thv
United Stal- ; Su; ^ me G-urt,
there is no Justificaiion fir ti.
present effort tv abo! is the
Board or to destroy it , effective
ness.”
“We .•■e forced to believe that
much of the support f. r th»
amendments proposed in H. R.
8813 grows out of difiatLsfac-
tlcn with the success ./f the
B arff in taetrttattnjr tahrrr " nr-
g,(iization and not out of any
sincere belief lhat it ha failed
to promote industrial peace
through fair and effective b, >-
gaining.
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