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Judge Quits American MAILING EDITION ' a VOLUME xxm - NUMBER 16 DURHAM, North Carolina, SATURDAY, APRIL 17TH, 1943 BUY WAR BONDS.% Promises Early Ruling On Florida Teachers Salary Case ic if ★ ★ ir ^ ‘ ★ .★ ★ ★ ★ ★ •' KGRO ARDES1ED UD BEATEN Durham NegroesLaunching Big War Bond Selling Drive Thomas Allen Arrested And Brutally Beaten In Courthouse By Police What many believe to be retaliation for the recent rioting in the Negro section of ^Durham on Saturday evening of April 3’ be- * ^^een ^iviliai^ police and apldiers of Camp Butner, occut^red here tKis week when Thomas “Skeet” Allen, well known Xegio of this city was taken HASTIE AGAIN ATTACKS BIAS Tiictur’i from his home here last Satu>- day night by four polii'einen il Inutallv beaten on the olevator of the Durham County courc- houBP. The following is n sworn a*- emint of the iwcident given t>) a jepresentative of the CARO LINA TIMI-’.S hero this wt^ek— hy. Allen himself. P, THOMAS C. ALLKN, do hereby sweni* to the following true facts concerning my arrest and Imprisonment on Snturduy nfffht, April 10, to-wit: On Saturday night, April 10, 1rt43, 1 had gone tombed and n l)6ut eleven thirty: or'fjuarter of twelve, four polieeTOen ennie in to my l)ed room. They knocked on the outer door and my mo- (Continued on Two) TOTS MILLION COLORED WOMEN ON THE FARMS WASHINGTON, (Special t. the TIMES) — A letter has been received by a, government agency in Washington from a white man in Mississippi ur«T- ing that a million Negro women be forced to wouk on farms. The writer says, “Some of the best farm labor Ave havo in the South is Negro women. 1 believe that if there eoulil oc found some formula for gettinc Ihese idle l^egro women out nf the cities and towns and putt ing them to work on the farm’* they would be healthier, hoppicv iiTid would grow some lui^hty good food crops. They are equal to almost anything but plowing ditching and felling tvees-”^ The writer couiplains that at present th^e ‘ women “will not” work and states that he does not think they are lazy b»a are examples of the Negro 3 “naturftrdiBincliMaRon to do anything.” It was pointed "out here that this suggestion is a sample of what would happen to Negroefc if the Austin - Wadsworth forc ed labor were passed bv Cougroas.. ON VACATION FLYING SCHOOL EDITOR’S NOTK: T h 2 4 One of the busiest college heads in the Carolinas is Mme. J. DeShazor sho.wn in pietui’e above. Mme DeShazbr, Presid ent of the DeShazor Beauty College in Durham presidlld at the recent Spring commence ment e.xerciscs at which time more than one hundred and five young women were gradua- ated. Largest number of gra duates in the history of the in stitution, the hard working ex ecutive left shor^ily after for an extended visit to Chicago, Kan sas City and other sections of the middle west for a mu:h needed rest. Buy WAR BONDS.. folJowiii}^ is a further state ment of AVillifim 11. Hustie, former Civilian Aide to the Secretary of War, occasion ed by an answer recently made by the War Depart ment to charges of racial discrimination in the Air Corps. The Associated Federal ion .il Churches has released to th? press recent corresj)omlence Ijetween its Civic Affairs Coni- juittee ajQd . thei. War Deparc- ment conccrning issues which caused my resignation as Civi lian Aide to the Secretary of War. I regret that portions of the War DepartnSfnt’a state ments are mislending and iiia.- curatc. I am astouncTed that the War Department in substance deni.ca the eviforced segregation o£ Ne- (Continued on Page Two) white^m" PASTOR RETURNS TO PULPIT AFTER LONG 3LLNESS After an aoseuce of thre*; mouths from the pulpit of th.' White Rock Baptist Church, Kev. Miles Mark Fisher preach es Sunday. Decision Day will be observed by church school, Dv. J. M. Hubbard, superintendent at If' M. The pastor will sj>eali to the boys and girls about their decision to follow Christ. His subject will be “God Loves Boys and G^rls.” At 11 A. M. Rev. Mr. Fisher will preach from the subjeci “Jesus Loves People.” The senior choir -will sing. At the night worship service, 7:30, the sermon subject of the pastor will be “Don’t Forget to Pray.” The gospel •cTTorua will sin^. Rev. Fisher wishes the Cavo-. lina Times to express his thanks to all those who thought of and prayed for him during his re cent iHneas, Judge Blasts Organization For Barring Negro Last Saturday night at .th' Pearson Klementary Sch(M»l th“ School Masters’ (’lub was hoMt to Prof. W. (!. Peairaon gnuil ol man of education in Diirhiih. The occasion , was in celeljration of his 8,')th birthday. The abovr photo xbows menik)er3 of the club gathered around the birtn- day cake (luring the Celebration. Those in the ' picture readiuj; left to right are: ' principals Frank G. Burnett, J. M. School er, Mrs. Cora T. Russell, G. A Kdwards, J. I* White, N. A CheeJi and F. D. Marshall. Seal ed' at' the table is Prof. Pearson t - - >*4^ - Mutual Buys $200,000 Of War Bbnds To Boost Local Campaign FIGHT The above ohotos are those !•* of Judge Jonah J. Goldstein (right) of New York who has teadered his resignaiton in the American Bar Association after 29 years membership. Judge ' Goldstein declared that he could not remain a member of an organization that refused a lawyer membership lA it becauS'^ of his race. At the left is At torney Francis C. Rivera, Negro ■attorney, whose application a*? a member of the ABA was tui i- ed down because he was a Ne gro. With the purchase of $200,- 000 worth of war bonds here this week, the North Carolin i Mutual Life Insurance Company, boosted efforts of Durham groes to aid in the purehase of Durham’s quota of the 13 Billioa Dollar 2nd war bond drive now going on throughout the nation. Only one local concern, that vf the B. C. Remedy company, ex ceeded the amount bought by the North Carolina Mutual with a purchase of .f250.000 worth. The Home Security Life Insur ance Company equaled the r.- mount of the Negro company by buying .'F200.000 worth. Mr. Spaulding and R. L. Mi*- Dougald, the lattw the chairman of the Negro Division, were hard at work this week urg ing Negroes in Durham an! everywhere to purchase bonds until .it hurt. It is believed here that when the campaign is ovrr local Negroes purchase of the bonds will equal that of any city the size of Dahram. Other meml^rs of the cam paign committee of the Ne^rt> division are R. N'. Harris, O. C. Harris, Wm. J. Walker, J. S. Stewart, J. J. Henderson, Geo. W. Logan, E. B. Merrick and J. T. Taylor. Dr. A. S. Hunter leaves Iht- city tor Cleveland, Ohio to .it tend the Wintei^Spring meet ol the National I>ental Associatia'i Executive Board, of which he is a member April 17-1^ prime object of this meeting will be to receive the repo.*t from the ODT Headquarters -el- iitive to approval of th« Annual Meeting scheduled to be-held in Cleveland, Augvst 9-13th. Bf. LLSWELLTN RAHSOM Another m^tjor battle on tlie home front, another flank ai- tack OH the eitiukis of ne=? and b’sjotry, roiaporable ta Mr^. F. Iju. S.’g walkout on tii« wa« bcgtin Ust when Jud^e Juhn^'^ J. Oold^tei'lt «>f \ew York’s ’»nrt of General Sessions lenil'red his resigna* tion after 2t> y*»ars. with thi* American Bar Assoi'iation. b«-- cause of its failure lo ai*ce;?t Francis E. Rivers, Negro l;ivry- er- ^ “I am not going to eontribnts annually to support bieotry. The American Bar AssMi&tion should drop the word Anu>riean if they are going to bar Negro es.” shouted the judge in s press interview in his chaml>er^ On the Ifhh flo^r of the great New York Criminal Conrt Bailtl- ing. In offering his resignation ia protest to the two years delt in accepting Mr. Hirers, Jadje« Goldstein wrote: “On t|ie sut'* face it would appear that t h American Bar Assoeiation.. would welcome for adniissinn into its ranks a person of Mr. Rivers professional standi reputation and attainraents* This (Continued on Page Two> NAACP Awaits Judges Ruling In Salary Case TA3^PA, Fla. — Federal Judge Barker announced at the closi- of a three day trial this week that he would make a ruling it> ■ the teachers' salary suit here “in a few days.” During th«* trial Judge Barker repeatedly overruled the objection of Thnv- good Marshall, NAACP spec'al eoonsel to the calling of the plaintiff. Miss Hilda Turner, by her first name. School officials here had ad mitted earlier in the week thut under the rating system whieh determines teacher pay scales in Hillsborough County, th* nujority of white teachers rated in the/highest group and the majority of Negro teachers are in the lowest. Out of ITS Negro teachws all 20 wer* in the lowest bracket. Ot 'all the white tjaebers all bat 100 were in the highest gro* and only six of these were the lowej^t group. But the cials deny diseriniinatioB. Thurgood Marshall, NAAf special counsel who is ■renting Miss Turner, rer- that dariiig the filing of i! tions earlier in the weeE, Negro teachers who har« ed highest ratings and nt salaries were (|wsti: the school offietals. teaehrrs were asked wtM^^tisfied with fhsir' salarStst^aad It they *■ gested that the her lawyers dro» t! group Said they with their oi Pause other ] that Tl (Contbsmir
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