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factor in protecting
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VOL. XXII—NO. 39
Durham, North Carolina, Saturday, October, !(> 194-3
HAITIAN PRESIDENT GUEST FDR
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Nation Shocked When.
Georgia Jury Finds Cops
Guilty Lynching Negro
Negro Repubiic Chief
Arrives At White House
For Four Days Visit
BY ERNEST E. JOHNSON DELEGATE
Assi>'iiit'»l Nogro Press
WASlilNOTON — yiie state
«1( p rl'iioiit I'ormnfly niuioiinc-
I'it liist TIi(urs«lay tj»»t
(Ictil Klic Liscot of tlio Hp*
‘|Mi)ilic of TIniti will hi' here na
I lie official guest of tlio X'nit-J
(’(I States "nvi'riiinont upon tho i
(impl''tion n£ -a siiiiilnr visit to:
tin* flnmiiiion of Tannda. fie ^
will jirrivp in tlio ciipitol on
Thiii'Hiriiy, Oct. 14, heiii;r
ci'ivcd nt the Whiti' TIiisp. I
Tho nnjioiinconrf'.nt follows |
by throe weeks the oxcluHivoj
V('pi>i't of tho Assooiated JjTp^ro'
I’rc.^s that the ITaitinn chief
of stnte would iirnke official;
visils to both Caiiadn and the'
I'niled States. The full text of.
flie state de])artment announce'
iiieiit reads: 1 Whin the annunl session of
, . the \Vet;tern North Carolina
‘ Utif e.’ccellencv, Ehe Leseot,
president of th^ Bi>puhlie of ‘ onferonee of -he AMK Chnrcn
Haiti, will visit the L’nitel
upo 1 the invitatii' of
President Roosevelt during the
month of Ortohcr.
Pr.cs'idfnt Ijescot lis expeet-
fd to arrive in Washin^jton om
October 147^and to feniSin fit
tlie rflpitol for a period of fout
or five days ns a gnest of the
fjovernment.
At press time the Losflot
itinerary for the United Stales
jias still in preparation by re-
presentntivfi of the Haitian
onibassy and state department
officials of the division Of
protocol. Unofficially, the
pro;irani r/orked out is some-
tliiiii,' nr. follows:
Arrival a! the White Ilouae
on Oelober'14 at about fon**
o’cJoek in tho afternoon,
Pre.siilont Lespot himself stay-
ins; overnight. A dinner in all
Iircbaliility will be piven by
President Roosevelt that even-
inf?.
A eominitteft at TTowartl nni-
vwrsity, headed by Dr. Rayford
TiOpan, who has -visited the i.s-
l.'ind ropiiblie on Sfovornment
jnissions, Avill have a reception
for the visitin" dignitaries,
Hie form of reception not yet
havinc: been finally d«cided.
At fy o’cloek Friday thpl’^
will be a reception at Plair
house where the visitin'? party
will meet members of tho
>V.'ishinurt>on iliplo.mintic 'corps.
The Pan American union i?v
aiTnnpinpf to welcome the
Tl.'iil’/in (visitors Saturday. A
spccial meeting of the i^Qvern-
inn board will be held that day,
to he followrd by a luncheon.
Please turn to Page Two
meets in Durham Noveinl'ei'
10-14, St. Jfji^eph Church will
be represented for the fir.st
lime in its history by a. womiia
deh'gate, Mrs. Mary L. Shipp-
aril above, is an outHtanilin'j;
Wywnitinn of the T>iirhann Dis
trict of the church.
Rev. V. T. Williams
Of Raleigh Honored
At Farewell Affair
RAIiEIQH — Ln r city-wide
farewell program ?frul recep
tion .iointly htld in honor of
the lleverend V. T. Williams,
newly elected pastor of tho
Ti'irst Baptist Church, Balti
more, Md., recently, a host
of friends of varied rank, gave
testimony of his outstanding
Kcrvicc us pastor of Martin
Street Baptist for the past
years.
The entertainment was spon
sored by the Raleigh Mission
ary Union, and ’vaa presided
over by Dr. A. B. .lohnson, pas
tor of First Baptist Church,
fielma.
Harriet Smith, president of
the union; Rev. J. L. Tilley,
dean of the School of Religion
at Shaw University; Mrs.
Marthn J. Brown, field worker
for the Woman’s Home and
.Foreign Mission Convention;
Rev. O. E. Oriffin executive
,‘ii‘Cretnry of the General Bap-
Plcase turn to Page Two^
T. K. Gibson Elected
President Supreme
Liberty Life Ins. Co.
CHICAGO -- Tho board of
directors of the Snprome-Lib-
erty Life Insurance company
nt their somi-antiual meeting
hi.'M in the i cme offices he-e
Tuesday elected Truman K.
(li!)Son Sr., as preiiideut of Ih-j
company to succeed the late
Harry H. Pace. The office of
chairamn of the board which
Mr. Gibson had held previous
ly was combined witli that of
president, the duties parform-
cd by the cha I'iMiiii In'in.L'’ le-
iillocated to various nieiibi'r?
of tho board of directors. The
only changes in the ^official.i
of the company were the ele-
Please turn to Pr-ire Two
CIO 6nne^ Uimn
Halts “White Only” ways And Means
Ad In Newspaper *
BY CLirr MACILAT
Committee In D. C.
The above photo w;s take'i, i oiiimitteo.
last Sunday afternoon ilurin,; j ture riMdin
the annual session of the Dur
ham Committee on Negro Af
fairs meeting held at the Pear
son 1‘Jlementary school, and
shows the newly elected mem
bers and the ’hairn»an of th3
TIio.se in the j>ic-
froiu h'fi to rignt
sire: Prank (!. ^ Burnett, li. \.
Harris, Chairmnii^ Stewart
and Miss Dntie Mae Briil>;i‘
forth, see ret II ry of the com-
mitt«-e.
— Phofo I»y A. H. Tlunte;'
Tobacco Companies in
Twin-Citv Sign Better
I'llII.ADF.LPHlA — “T h
policy of our Union and the en
tire CTO is that there shall bo
no discrimination against any
ivorki n gardlcS'.- of r,i-e.
Color dr crced,” wrote Interna-
I ional Representative f’armi'n
Parente, of the United Cann
ery, Agricultural,J Packing and
Allied Workers ' of Anr-ric.i
CIO in a letter to the Lnnunis
I’canut Company, which i.s iin-
(Ifr co'ntract with UCAPAWA
: I .oral ISO.
[ The letter was sent in pi‘«-iconsrwtiilat
I test against an adverti.sement '
I placed 1)y the peanut eorapany j ^^jllis A. Robert.son,
in the Phihulelphia Kvemn-'
' I)resentative Harold Knutson,
I Minnesoita R«pnbl^an and
, ranking minority men(b*r tjf
BY CHAS, A. RAY
Dr. .l.-iiiies K. Shepard, pre>;i-
dent of Vorth Tarolina ('«d! >g'
for Negroes received congratula-
tioii^ front f>ernocrats and Re-
piitdican last Tuesday in Wa.sh-
ington when he apj)e.ired 'i»>-
fore the I'ditejl Stuto' House
of Ri'pre.seTltative’s Ways and
Means ('ouimittei* to make a
-itatonieni in favor of a 10 prr
cent federal sales ta.v to pro
vide additional funds to fin
ance the war. Among those who
I him were Chaii-
Doughton, Reprp-
Diilletin of Sept. 2.'!, callintr
for “white girls” to apply for
jobs at the plant.
Worlcing ConditioiisPa^
This ad no longer dis;j;race.;
tho Columns of the lUilletin.
On (October 4, a few days af-
f(>r he had written to the
,J Company, Parento received a
reply. “We will discontinue in-
flic.'ll fir color in our
nd in the future.” the Coiu-
ip.'iny ’s letter assurtd.
Back The Attack...
WINSTON SALEM — Tb-
baeco workers here have madft
this a red-letter month with!
the signing of the first thres
CIO contracts, making for ^eub-
stantial improvement in work
ing conditions and pay. These
Contracts are the result of the
Tobacco TJ^orkers’ Organizing
UCAPAWA drive which in
volves a total of some 13,000
tohncco workers in the city.
The contracts, signed by tho
Export, Winston and Pied
mont leaf companies, all ask
for a 55c minimum with pro
portionate increases in other
job classifications, Avhich will
be decided by the War Labo’’
Board. At Export Leaf, the con
tract provides for a Union shop
and check-off; the other tw^o
plants won maintance of mem
bership and dues cheek off.
Other clauses in the three
contracts arp substantially the
same:
Paid vacation.s, time and a-
half overtime after 8 hours
except in peak season, senior
ity provisions, military sever
ance pay and standard griev
ance procedure are only a- few
of the gains never before ei-
joypd by thesp steiiimery
. Please turn to Pago Eight
S 1> E A
Retiring FEPC Head | Chicago Introdiices'
Pleads for Negro j Negro History In
At AFL Convention Elementary Schools
Associated Negro Press
A.ssociated Negro Press
BOSTON — Addressing tliej . CHICAGO — The story of
6.‘!r1 annual convention of tho ^ how Chicago introduced th-i
AFIj, Msgr. Francis .T. Haas, study of Negro history in
resigning head of the FEPC,
pleaded w.ith delegates to grant
Nei?roos full, union status n-
long with other minority
groups. The Catholie priesV'J!,
who wn.s recently niamed bl-
elementary schools is told in
the October issue of NKOHO
DIOFST.
Pi’imary responsibility for
the pre'paration and introiluc-
The Honorable Joseph Clavk
Crew, former ambassador to
Japan, delivered an off the re
cord address, Thursday, to a
largo audience, in the Richard
B. Harrison Auditorium, A and^^f®
T College, Greensboro.
lion of the Chicaco plan for
shop of the archdiocese at, the study of'Chicago’s largest
Michigan, issued this : minority group is given to
iMra. Madeline Morgan, a Chi
cago teacher for 11 years. Mrs.
Northwestern university, sjient
anti-labor employers and anti-: Morgan, who is a graduate of And although some
labor workers, so there exists more thiin a year and a half ; appear Bkeptical that
Ttapids,
warning:
“•lii.st as there once ‘xistel
nnhenlthy agreement botween
the committee.
The distinguished North
Carolina edu'ator told^hi* com
mittee he appeared before It
‘•;is one who has studied th.‘
(.jiintice and fairness of .taxe.s
lipmr~pe7)|Tte~TrP-4im444u^ “
H*onsiileral>|,‘ , SRiflificanre
warf attachi^ to thr rrfncator**
appearance before tl;i' coin-
mitte in view of the m.’^i'nilud •
of the issue iHscusscd. Inter-
I ested in raising an additional
111 1-2 billion dollar war fund,
th;* .\diuiiu-itration ha'^ ;;ive'i
its support to a program of
levying additional taxes on
individual and corporate in
comes.* An alternative program
has been submitted by Repre-
sent;itj\e Robertson of Vir
ginia who proposed tho 10
per-cent federal sales t.nx. .The
issue has not yet narrowetl
down to party su|ijxirting pro
portions, but Washingti'ii olt-
servers believe that the feder
al sale.s tax proj»osal will have
to be rtH-koned with before an
acceptable 1!>44 tax program is
,-j|n ^
n danger that some labor or-! tjathering’ facts about the N--' **'*''!' lecislation c*»*'ld be enact-
paiiizationS and some employ-jtjro before she compiled the cd without Administration sup-
’ino frt roF^’’''’t thr''" booklets on Ne^'ro his-’port, there a|»p«'ars to be a
in tho school [growing feeling that the
, eral sales tax movement
mnv (’OTn'niie
the li; ' .t? (>t minor.cy groi’p ti ry now used
members. Pnt joursolf in thr! system.
fed-
nuiv
Mr. Crew’, having lived ^n'p^nce of such a member of a
Japan for a number of yeara, j minority group. Be he Negro or
ably presented a vivid account
of the conditions and pro
blems existing in the Fftr
East. " *
Mexican, Jew or ereedist, he
wants his full stature as an
American working noon, and if
Please turn to Page Two .
Inquires about the Chicago
plan for the study of the Ne
gro have comp from all over
the nation from many jwints
in Soutth America. The whole
Please turu to Page Two
be able to enlist such support.
“SCRAP IRON WIIJ.
SCRAP THE JAPS"
Back The Aitack...
ALPAN'V, (Ja. — An ll-ma.i
all white jui-y last Thurwlay
returned vpHHtcts of guilty .i-
tfainst >'*hfTrLi‘f i laude il,
I ,Si*rews of Itiker county,
} Frank Etlw.ird .lones, formsf
m»‘inber of the N*wton, Oa..
’ polii-e force and .lim Bob Kelly
spM-ial d« puty, in the January
I aTxTuctriin and lynchtnsr of 2^
! year old Robert H.tll.
I The verilict. which held tht‘
I three white defendanr-^ guilty
I on two se()arate counts,- was
■ reached after a deliberation of
1 five hours and -"jO minutes,
j The first count charged
I thi'di with acting to depriv'
j Hall of his life without du'^
I pro ess of law and carries a
j sentence of one y**ar and a
Sentence of two years and no
fine. Both counts are viola
tions of federal civil liberties
laws.
A dramatic highlight in the
four-day trial held before U.
S. Distrii-t .Tudge Bascom We»«-
yer came Thursday when Jam-
‘ 09T P. Wiltincrham, white a
i former ^ resident of Newton
I where the slayin? oeeurred.
I was brought into the t'onrt-
room on a stretcher. Willing-*
hjmT'disvtiTC’nl—he hn«-
reeently been released from
4h^tHWfHtwl and waSL appearing
iigainst hfs doctor's orders.
Lyin;r H it on his back, the
, witness desi-rilied in detail j
cotiversation he had had with
the d-.'fendant. Frank .Tones,
the mornincr followine the fatal
noi tnrnal U'atint: of young
Hall.
WillinirhaTii stated that he
had askeil .Tones what happen
ed that night, and .Jones toH
him that “Hall had a mighty
"ood pistol and we took it *-
way from him. He cot smart
and went to the gran«l jarv
and hired a lawyer, so we ar
rested him on a warrasit
night.”
' Jones was further quoii>(l hv
Willi'.rham as saying. “We pat
handcuffs on him ami when h.>
started to t»ikilig nhoiit the
hail we whip|>ed him. We
brought him back to the w*U
! and whipped him 8onie Berv.”
j Willingham said Jonw toM
, him that Hall had attempt
to shoot the officers. Tite
ness said he asked Jones how
was it that Hall ipt*i tfr
j shoot a crntt if h« w«c«
^ «iiffed. Jones raplie^.
I ing to the witiwM, “lA Ai ft
job.’*
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