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BUK TO CELEBRATE 35%
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EDITORIALS WD IT!
The drculatlon of the Cfirolina Times
in Durham and Winaton Salem al€Mie last
week w^s more than 8,000 copies. These
two cities alone consumed more copies of
the CaVolina Times than the combined
circulation of AIX* the other Negro pa
pers published in North Carolina.
HE^FBUTH liNBRIDliED
VOL., XXIII—NO. 30
DURHAM. NORTH CAROUNA SATLJKDAY, AVC. 7,
CIO WNERJE RJR ELECTION
Vice - President
President
NEGROES GIVEN $400 FOR BEING PUT OFF BVS
Founders Ot Negro
Bank Be Honored
In Radio Program
On Monday, August 9 the M?-
chai^ics wid Farmer Bank will] fj i ij| n« AITIU'T
celpbrate its 35th anniversaiy of
continuous and uninterrupted
service. Beginning at five o’
clock the bank will be opened
to vjisitors and friends are
b«il^r invited to inspect tfip up-
to-dite banking room which has
ju*t been remodelled with the
most modern type of banking
fixture and equipment.
The anniversary celebration^
this year will do honor to the
founders of the institution who
35 jteans ago started the bank
with limited resources and no
AFTER BLOODY
STREET mWlS
SIX DEAD,
MANY HURT
R. L. McDougald, executive
vice-persident of the Mechanics
& Farmers Bank who has served
with the institution since 1920.
Harlem, New York City—A
total of six persons are dead
following rioting which broke
experience in the operation of a Sunday night as the
bank.
Of the nine men listsd ns or
ganizers of the bank only two.
Dr. J. E. Shepherd and Prof.
W. G. Pearson are stjjl living,
the others consisting of John
Merrick, R. B. Fitzgerald, J.
A. Dodson, S. L. Warren, A.
M, Moore, John R. Hawkins
and Geo. W* Stephens have all: Marjorie Polite, the alleged |
passed into the groat beyond, j disorderiy^person, was app4’o-i
On February 25, 1907, the ached by the military police, j
General Assembly of North Car- apparently with the intention |
olina granted, the authority up- of preventing the girl’s arrest.;
on the above named men to op- i Words followed fast and furi-
i
result of an altercation bet
ween a military polijce, Robert i
Bandy and Patrolman James I
Collins. Collins it was learned j
had been asked by the manager I
of the Hotel Braddock tp make *
an arrest of a disorderly per
son. Collins was on duty in the
hotel and while questioning ,
Negro Girls Solve
Staff Problon
Associated Negro Press
LOUISVIIiijE — Owners of tho
Fuston Fish market here have
foiiiul a soliitioti for the e\-
trptne shortage of pnTirprtent
help. Tweiity-five Negro, p:irls, -ii
coinpletft staff, have been em
ployed as cashiers, clerks and
stenographers, settinp: apreoed-
ent in this city. The market is
loc.-ited in a c6in|)lptely white
noighl)OrhoO(l and is one of the
htr^st in the eitv.
Workers in RJR Factory
Select €10 Organization
For Bargaining Agency
ORGANIZER
C. C. ‘Spaulding, president, wh»»
has been iff an official capacity
with the bank since its begin
ning.
See Paee Six For
Important Flash
J. H. WHKKLER, Cashier
Who is completing his Uth
year of .service with the bank
New Salary Case
Started In U.S. Court
By Atlanta Teacher
Atlanta, Ga.—Samuel h. Du-
‘vis, a tcachcr in tJu' Bookor T.
Washington high school in this
city, has hrought action ag;i!inst
the IJoard of Education of the
City of Atlanta and the Super
intendent of Schools in the U.
, S. District Court to equalize
the saljiries of Negro teacher.^
an princij)als with the salaries
receive by wTiTFe “ fe^achCTS trf
Please Turn To Pjifje Five
Miss Stone Leads
In Final Week Of
Popularity Contest
,'V flood of votes dt'.soondc(l uii-
lon th(? office of the Carolin;-
L'l'iiHi^. thi.s woek whc^’lhe liean-
I'tft'ian’s Popuinrity Coiitrst oclii>-
! simI by far any provious wc'fk of
; the eontt*st. The of Uui
! week was the" advanco inade liy
Frcoland from thf.
! forth to tho third plncr' vhlch
has heon iiehl for lht> past sev-
t ral weeks by .Mr.'s. Margaret
Minor and tho taking- of first
placo position by Mi.ss Kiizahcth
Stone.
All in all the votiny last week
was a nij) and tuck affair, anil
a.s it now stands no one is abl '’
to pr:’dict tho winncn- of any oi
the thi'eo prizes, eo close is tho
vaoc. Even those traiiins^ wwkei^J^nston
?i>ilem were largely responsible
Mr. Deberry,
whoes untiring
CIO organizer
efforts among
hiad the three top ranking cctf-
te.stants stand con.stantly in
dang’er of Iwing overtaken b%
those holding placsa Inflow of
first, second and third i>o.-ution.
Tlie contest Ls axj>octed to eml
Please Turn To Patje Five
en and operate ft. bonk in Dur-^
ham. It wa.il not until 18 months |
later however that teh institu
tion, incorporated undsr the
name of the Mechanics and Far
mer Bank of Durham, North I
Carolina, opened its door? for j
operation. ,
(Please Turn on Page Five)
ous between the t\TO officers,
during the which, Bandy grab
bed Collins’s nightstick and be
gan beating hjm over the head.
According to police Bandy fin
ally turned and fled, as he did
the patrolman fired a shot
which struck him in the back
(Please Turn,on Page Five)
RE¥NOlM4mACCaXOMPANY LABOR ORGANIZATION
for the great victory wonjn the
R?ynoIds Tobacco Company.
Wirwton Salem. — The
(noklf! Tobacco Com|>any worker
1 vote in the August S and 4 elec-
it ion h?hl here to determine «
j Itargainiug agency, disclosed
I C. I. O. to be winner by
overwhelming majority. Ti
final tabulation of Unit No.
which the prefabricatioB i
partment, showed the C. 1. O
to have ^1598 votes; fifo ;Un‘
2;iB: and the A. F. 4$
20. There were
out of a total of 4099
I'nit No. 2, the manufactui
department. No Untt?n, 2856; j
F of L. only 11>. Theer we
eligible td vote, of
number .5800 cast ballot'^.
(^ther observers saw in the O'^
er%vhelming victory a C. L
sentiment for the entire' tot
manufacturing area of Ni
Carolina with Durham
Reidtsville iK>ssibly the next j
es of a prospectis'p C. I. O. os
ganization.
In addition to this the C. I.
contemplates the organizatic
of workers in all of the
pendent leaf tobacco industry. .
Ihua the final result^ sh
the C. I. O. to have won an
erwhelming victory with 92
Please turn to Page FiveX;
TIMES PUBLIC RELATIONS MAN,
C. A. IRVIN, TO SPEAK AT
GREENSBORO SONG FESTIVAL
GREENSBORO — Answtering
the popular demand LeRoy R.
Russell is presenting six ot the
top-notch radio quartetts of
North Carolina and Virginia in a
Big Broadcast of 194:5 in Song,
Sundaj'' August 15 at 3 P. M. in
thp Dudley High School Audi
torium.
Each group of the artists wiP
be presented in fifteen minutes
of song just us they are h^ard
rogalnrly over radio stations of
the two states.
The program. includes th»*
popular Sehih .TubHee Singers
of New York, heard daily over
station WPTF, Raleigh; the
famous Shelley Quartet of Dan-
vill», V«., heard om WBIM;
the Friendly Four, female
Quartett of Durham, N. C.; the
Burlington Jubilee Singers of
WBBB; the Golden Star Quartett
and the Variety Singers of
QreHnsboro.
Other features of the pro
gram include poetic readings oy
Peof. Charles G. Green of A and
T (’oliege, heard weekly in
“Poetic Interludes” over WBIG,
Greensboro; Mrs. Vivian F.
Haye.s, messo-sopranO; Henry
Alston, tenor, former soloist of
the Sedalia Singers; amV John
I Massey, basso of A and T Coll
ege. Dean J, C. McLaughlin of
A and T College and C. A. Irvin
of Winston-Salem will also ap
pear on the program.
Tennessee Transit Cwipny
Draws $400 Fine For Ousting
ifegfo-Passcngcrs Froni-J.-CLBiiS-
BY 0 B. TAYLOR^
the driver told theni upon
ing the bus at Union Ats
KXO.W HjLK, Tenn. — ( ir- near tho Arnestein bui!di
(nt i olirt .Iiirlixe John Kedy to- When they failed to tz
day iruve ; tOO jmigement again-t with the driver’s eoainiand
thi' Kno.^ville Tran^iit Lines to mediately, it was brought oat
tour Xfgro dofense workers, court, that he agaia stopped
The \e2rr0es, Roy Means. Clem bus and ordered them front
Rogers. John II. Sherrod and car. They were oeeapiBg
I'.lsie T;rylor, testified thev rear seats usually resenr«d
were put ('f!' a Lyoir^ View“»‘oli)red passengers,
carrying employees to the Fni- The Transit Lines attc
ton pliint. ’ I want your seats made no defense against
for white p;i.-^sen'*ers‘’ they saUl charges.
I* VOTECOUPON
I CAROLINA TIMES BEAUT
Pictured above is a small group of a workers committee rep-1
resenting: the employees of the Reynolds Tobacco Company in
a pre-clection campaign which ended this week in a successful
victory for the 0. I. O. Rieadinv from left to right. Mrs. Dinah
POPULARITY CONTEST
Name
Mae Blanding, Robert Black. Mrs. TJieodasia Simpson, Eddie
Cirilamore, John Thomlin, J. G arfield Wilson and William F.
Malone. ' •
3 Address
ffl
fl'Good For
I 5,000 Votes