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DURHAM. N. C., SAT17RDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1940
VOLUME 21—NUMBER^ — ~ — -—
Arrest 8 Negroes In EJizabeth City Rioting
CRMOTTrYWTH MURDERED
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MR3, BUTH En>WASJ>S SPUBLOClK of Durham was in the
city l«»t week-end to visit her husband and parents aa Awell as to
attend the funerail of Mrs. Minnie Pearson. Mrs. Spurlock is at
ipresent Supervifor of National Youth Administration projects in
Henderson.
No Arrests Made As
Yet In Nation's
Latest Lynching -
tAi«e«;,
voman, was irivcB^ aa tiie fiimsy
muiott why a jblood-thirstsr armed
mob of ai^ry Geoi^ans took 16
•year-old Austin Callaway from
the .city Jail early * last Sunday
'and lynched hdm. Aocording to a
statement fro- mChief of Polioe
J. E. Matthews, the mob of mask
ed men took the Negro boy from
the jail by forcing the jailer at
gunpoint to open the cell d«or.
A “searching’ parly” iTund the
•boy^s body on the Liberty Hill
Rojd e%ht miles from town, with
bullet'wounds in his head and
arm /and took him to a hospital,.
.where l^e died within a very
short while. ‘ . a “
The boy was takeiv.^ froqi the
iaH where S. J. Willis 4 was in
charge while 'tk fire was In pro-,
rressi ^t nearby paqkin^ plant.
Tht*- jailer iS quoted^fs saying
.— ,Th« tttoal that tb^ men
Firing Negro
Manager
Starts Riot
EUtafceth City— A shower of
rocks and bottles was the answer
that « grouip of Neigro citizens
of Eliiabeth City gave to po-
licti and f fare men who sought life
prevent them from gatliering in
protest to the reptocing of a Ne
gro theatre manager by a white
man Monday night.
Wh>en the crowd resisted the
attempts that were being made
to disperse it, reinforcement
«ame, as if out of t^ sky, from
the Coast Oard air baae and from
the State Hi«rfiw*y Pata^L Aoctor
4ing to reports, the gatlMuring at
PEAIbSON FAMILY LEAVING CHUROH AFTER FUNERAL
taat tne men upon joing x;o repon*^ jmb
'ordered 1*
to tuTO .round. H, th.t hT*”**
was sswid what c«ll -Callaway
was in and then forced to hand
over the keys He felt a gun
pressed in his iback while he was
marched back to the cell which
he opened.
Callawtvy was then placed in
an. automobile and when he was
found* later there were three
bullet holes in his bead and sev. disturbance. The others were
eiml in his htmds and arms.
True to the form that aocom-
oat anyone bein^r except
«ne Coast Gnardsih«n who was
struck whe^n he attempted to
questSon the occupants of a car.
He WM apparently hit on the
head iftth a blunt instrument.
As « result" of the demonstra-
tioi^ eSght members of the crowd
wert arrested and six of them
chained with csre^ng a
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panics such incidents, the Jailer
stated that he was unable to re
cognize any of the men who re
moved the Negro. The result is
that no arrests have been made
in the case. A further excuse for
no arrests comes from Troup
County Sheriff E. V. Hillyer
who states that there were almost
Qo clues to aid in working on
the case.
charged with aiding and abettinig
conspiracy. Six were releasd
under fl.&OO bond*. Police re
mained on duty to keep a close
watch of the situation while the
theatre reooened with the white
manager still in ;harge.
The trial was slated for Wed-
ne^y but at press time no to-
formation was avadlable &« to the
outcome.
369th Completes First Week Of
Reorganization With Praise
Ij
PE'BKSKILL, N. Y.—C— The try as an i^iti-aircraft unit. Col.
6d9th Coast Artillery (a])ti-«ir-; Benjamin. O. Davis is commander
craft) Beigiment of the New York
Nationa4 Guard, ^ formerly the
369th Infantry, completed ha
first week of reorg«mEation41
training last week, with ' high
praise for morale and efficiency
from Begular Army officers for
F^edeal recoipiiiion of the Infan-
Immdiately after the last rites for Mrs, Minnie Sumner Pearson
held in historic St, Joseph AMB Aurch last Saturday afternoon,
the family left the cihureh for Beechwood eemetbry where the re-
of the beloved woman were interred. The photo above shows
the femiiy deeending the steps of the church. Prom left
to right they arei Jirs. Portia Whitted Jordan, Mrj. Georgia Joy
ner, Ajtiorney C, O. Pearaon, Prof. W. G. Pearson and Mrs. L. M.
Whitted. ^
BUFFALO NAACP (^'FICIAlII^Iaii HIcacI
DFPaauES CONSCRIPTION bill ' "
BUPFAliO, — Stsron* o.pposi-
tion te passage of the Burke-
Wadswopth conscription, bill was
VOTced here last week by Miss
Oddl Porter, who represented the
local branch of the National As
sociation for the Advanceanent oif
Colored People at an Anti-War
mass meeting held here at the
Hotel Filmore.
Beaten In
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Politics
Booker Holmes
Shot To Death
In Fracas
WELL KNOWN YOUTH SLAIN
IN ARGUMENT
CHAJRLOTTE — Booker T.
Holmes well known youth of
lo?? Luther street was fatally
wounded in fracas with James
Lee of 513 Wallace street. Lee
has not yet been arrested and
witnesses to the affafir have not
yei given versioiis, however, on
Interviewing the city polite it
was found out lhat they were
havimg considerable difficulty in
getting full det^ls on the case
but from~wbat little information
gained from witnesses it was
learned that there |iad beei\ a
wavcf of ill feeling and tro^W
Ijetwe^ ^olmes an (f " Lee.
Holmes was shot with a shot
gun which preoepitated his death
about the time he was taken to
the hospital.
ENGAGED
Funeral Held For
Mrs, Minnie Sumner
Pearson Saturday
of the reghnant.
Following this report was the
formal mobiU:3ation call issued!
by President Booseveit placing
60,500 officer an dmm of the
NationajI Guard into acMve' ser
vice for one year, beginning bn
Continued on paige Six
AtJanta Negroes Defeat SixMiHion
DoUar Bond Issue
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ATLANTA, Ga. — Becelbw the
City Council of Atlanta aougiit
to raise millions of dorian ta
improve the local fire department
pubiic sohool and 1* capita facili
ties, while cutting benefits to Ne
gro citizens down to onereigh-
te^th of the (total, mor« than S,-
000 r-fgistsrect Negro voters, un
der the • ft^dership. of the. loc^l
branch of t&e National AMaeia-
tion for the Advaocemeat of
Colored People, .defeated the $6,
000,000 bond issue at tha polls
here September 4>
The 11,800,1315^ sehool bond, of
which 1100,000 was to be alloca
ted to Negro schools, all of wh^
ara being run in dauble ses«i(Aia,
defeated approximately 896
vote*: The $2;t)00,00c for hospi
talization acd* $2,000,000 for the
fire depjir^efir, .were djefeated
by approiiiaitelj^ ‘ 300 and 500
votes respectively."
Aeco#iltig to T^ Jtf. Alexander,
president of the local NAACP
branch, Negro citizens ju'esented
*o the Gity office a ck£fi picture
of the needs of tlieir people in
sfdhools, lH>Bpttals, end /the fire
department, and y^t out of tha
|l',s00,000 allocated for schools,
whieh wa* to be matched by the
Governmant 8 to 1, a paltry
BY WILLIAM A. TUCK
DURHAM — “Minnie Summer
Pearson, « woman —worthy of
praise.”—That was the RUbjedt
of Re\. J, A. Valentine’s discourse
at the funeral of thiis public
spirited missionary who died here
last Thursday ^ter a long iliness
which only recently made it im
possible for hef to ,go about the
affairs in which she was inter
ested. The funeral servfices were
held at the St. Joseph AJ®E
Qhurch Saturday sf ter noon and
weIs attended by outstanding men
and women from all sections of
this and other states as weM as
by innumerable local admirers of
Mrs. Pearson.
Rev. Valentine was highly im
pressive in extoling the virtues
that while we on this shore are
bidding Mjs. Pearson “farewell,"
those on the heaenly shore have
already taken up the glad shout,
s4f/ing "giood morning.”
“I was standing at the waters
edge as the ships 'were leaving
Norfolk for points north,” he
aid, “a . ship at my side steamed
out in the morMng' breeze. It was
an object of beauty 4nd strength
and I stood and watched it until
at length it was only a ribbon of
white cloud jiwt where the sea
and sky come to mingle with each
other. There someone at my side
said, ‘There, she is gone.”
"Gone where? pone from my
sight, thjft is all. And lust at the
moment when someone at my side
says: ‘there she is gone,' there
COUJMBIA, S. C. — Ben E.
Adams, grand dragon of the Ku
Klux Klan and candidate for
state senator from Richls^id
-jcounity, ran-third in a four mam
■ race last week in the Democratic
primary.
Previous to the Kian Bund al-
liancie held in New Jersey some
weeks ago, Adl^ms was generally
conceded to ihe leadinig candidate
for the. office of state senator.
A former candidate for the gov-
ernship. Dragon Adams had built
up a strong following not only
in the county but also through-
out the stMte.
It is irenerally believed here
that Adams followers deserted
him in the primary due to his
leadership of the Ku Klux Klan.
Membersbip in the klan is fast
becoming a stigma in the state
since the Jersey Klan Bund
meeting.
Claude Blount
Stuart Passes;
Funeral Frida/
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DURHAM — Claude Blount
StaSrt, age 74, died at Lincoln
hospital here, Tuesday laorning,
September 10 at three o’clock
after an illness lasting over
several months. Mr. Stuart was
the father of Mrs. Q. W. Cox, of
li304 Tayetteville Street.
Mr. Stuart was native of
Natchez, Mississippi, but ]^d lived
in Rodney, Mississippi for a long
number of years where he was a
merchant. Several years ago, on
aiccount of declining health he
came to Durham to live with his
daughter, where h*e was residing
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of the yet simjjle yet beautiful are other voices to take up the
life that this unassuming' chris- glad shout; 'There she comes.—
taam woman livad In this state. He
stated in the outset that the
reasons for holding funerals for
Christiana were: to warn the
careless, to enafort the feereavedi
arid to impress the living. These
services served well all of these
pvrposea, NeJir the conclusion of
Not ‘farwell* but ‘good morninfi”
EDUCATIONAL AND CIVIC
LEADER
Mrs. KQnnie Pearson, a leader
$100,000 was set aMde for Ne- hii sermon tM iiastor consoled the
gro schools. 'fanfily with tha beautiful thought
Mr. and Mrs. Edwdrd Gist of
Charlotte announce the engage
ment of their daughter WiOie
Mae to Rev. Samuel Julius Mc
Lean of Douglas, Georgia and
Charlotte, N C. son of the Ixle
Prof. and Mrs. MeLeaa of Dou
glas, Georgia. Tb-j wedding will
take place in the late fall.
NAACP Secretary Praises
Lillian Wald, One Of
Associations Founders
MANAGER
Oscar B. Womack
Laid To Rest
DURiHAM — Oscar Bjrent Wo
mack age 72, well known citizen
fli Durham died at his home here
617 Grant street, Monday, Sept.
9 at 1:50 p. m. Mr. Womack’s
death came as a climax to an ill
ness that extended over a pei4od
of more thstn two years.
The deceased was born in
Obatham county but had lived
in* IjurTiam for the most of his
NEW YORK — Praising the so
cial understanding of liUian D.
Wald, founder of the farmous
Henry Street Settlement here, the
Henry Street V»iting Nurses Ser
vice, and also one of the founders
of the National Association for
the Advaticement of Coored
People, Walter White, executive
NAACP secretary termed her
death “a i?reat loss not only to
Negro citizens if this eountry,
for whose rights sbe was an un
compromising fighter, but also to
all our citizens who haw come to
benefit from the b%fe standards
of soci^ and nursing service
which she developed durinir near
ly iialf a century of work in
these fields.”
muciii, any Amerieaaa of ««r
time, to the relief of Boffefins »-
moncr the poor and dis»itvaati|g>>
ed, beciltise she understood A*
forces that operate to make mom»
rich while allowiBg otiien to m-
main vaor. She was oae of
setters of tke eaU isatted to or
ganise the NAACP back in
and sered on the asMeiatioii>»
board up until whan iUneaa Cmk
ced her to rettre frof wortt
in many fields. Mer loss to ttw
Neg-ro and to the coonty afc .»■
whole is a very real one,” '*‘7!!
Mr. White and Boy WHkiany
aesistant secretary ot the NiO;
CP, attended funeral aerricea
Uim Wald held Sept«Hb«rft'iti
the PlayhooK «f Hanry Stz««4t
‘Miss Wald contributed aa iSe'ttletaent, 46®_ Grand St.
CHILDREN CHIEF VICT1IIS,CAT FAIiLS FR»i WlIOQKi»
OF BAD ECONOMIC ! BMIKCiS SCARE TO
W. G. RHODES, well knpvni
young business man of Durham
who has recently aceepted a po
sition as manager of the Neigb-
borhood Grocery Store located on
FayetteviMe street. Mr. Rhodes
in edncation and civic life in life. His wife Mrs., Minerva Wo-{will assume has new duties Mob-
Durham and in North Cisfrollna, jmack died a little over two years
was born in Charlotte, N, C., ago.
June 6, 1869. Her eiirly education
was at Livingstone College In
Continued on page Six
.day morning. Mr. Rhodes waa n.
cently oonneetett with a local dry
For a lonif number of years cleaning establishment and gained
Mr, Womr^k worked as a dray- an ewi^ijble record as one of its
CMitinued on page Six outstanding en^loyea.
CONDITK»iS
NEW YORK — High birtt-
rstea among poorer famiHes and
in some sections of the country
mean thiAt a dhi|iroportion*te
share of American ehtidren &ce
eriotu soeial and eeonomie Itandi
caps.
Nearly two-ttilrds of our city
cbildnn are la faraiUea wliose
income is below a **walntananei
standard of Hviiiff.’* Tbeaa an
some of the ^ta brot«lA eat by
Maxwall S. ia «‘Ani^M‘a
''hildran,” 4m fwrty aTaaai la
a s«H«a of faatml tMMsat
IMosphleta pi»blWiad taddjr lytka
foMe AINiM Cui—tfaa. 8ft
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HARLEMTTES .
NEW YOKK — Callsd 4^^
Wnt 133rd atraat hone
the tBonung, police and a«
bnlaBce crew aearchad
of a child who
to liave fallen from
floor wiadcv. *
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houae cmt fell tte
landed m its taat ^
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