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Negroes Give Money To Help Textile Strike THE PAPER WITH A HEART AND SOUL VSoi '7. No 37 "e3AKL0TTE,;N. C-". SATCE.DAY, SEPTp»BKR 22, 1934 Pticf 5 cents in Ne»ro Wiirliers NortJ* Ciffolina, Ala bama, Give Money to Textile Strike Greensboro, N. C.—(CNA) Although Jim-crowed by the leaders of the United Textile Workers here, Negro tobacco workers have voted to con-, tribute $1 of their miserable weekly wages to aid the tex-t tile strike. Huntington, Ala. — Negro share croppers around Hunt ington are collecting money for the support of the strik ing textile workers. Blacks and Whites in America Will Merge, Says British Lord. Aberdeen, Scotland. — Be fore many centuries have elapsed there will not be a single person in A^merica without a certain portion of Negro blood,” said Lord Raglan, chairman of the Anthropological Society, be fore the British Association for the Advancement of Sci ence which is in meeting here Lord Raglan said that the black and white races of Agieriea will merge into one. He added that many persons who believe themselves to be White would find what they didn’t expect to find if they visited their ancestral homes in Georgia. ‘I, - NEGRO ARRESTESD ON CH ARGE OF MURDER Howard Henderson, Negro,, wanted in connection with the slaying of Helen Ashford here more than a year ago, was arrested by the city po lice in a house in one of the Negro sections yesterday morning. He was placed in jail' without,bond and charged with murder. Henderson wsis arrested by Officers Blackmon, Hughes, Miller and Yandle. Minister Arrested for Holding Policy Slips Negro Lawyer to De fend White Woman in Georgia New York.—(CNS) ^ The. Rev. Raymond C. Cone, Pas tor of St. . Paul A. M. B. church, the Bronx, 'vas held for special sessious on a charge of possessing policy slips, by Magistrate Katz, laet week. Petective Anl^hony Bairro testified that he went to a store and saw the Rev. Mr. Cone there. Barro declared that the minister had a slip ofpaper which he let flutter to he floor wken he saw the detective. The slip was exhibited in court and Magistrate Katz asked the pastor to copy numbers therefrom that thje magistrate might com pare the handwriting. The Rev. Cone complied and on the strength of this evidence he was held, but later re leased On his own cognizance. Mr. Gone is a graduate of Wilberforce University. Pj of, L, H. Ha'l, who is the General Presiuent of the Liv ingstone Alumni Association. Prof. Hall is the Piincipai of Price High School, Salisbury, N. G. ‘HOT SPOTS’ tN HARLEM NOT TYP ICAL OF NEGRO LIFE, SAYS LA GUARDTA New York.—(ANP) — The Harlem “hot spots” visited by tourists and other enter tainment hunters are no more typical Of life among New York J^egroes than are the resorts to which gullible vis itors to Paris are escorted typical of the life of France, Mayor Kordla La Guar told a group of French vis- Atlanta, Ga.—(CNA) For the first time in the history of the South, a-.,Negro laj^ep will appear', in defense Of a white woman when John H. Geer, Atlanta attomety, de-1 fends Mns. Leah Young and Annie Mae Leathers, twfo' white workers arrested for their part in the textile strike. The women, who are sis ters, have been employed by the Piedmont mill in Egan, Ga. They were arrested Sep_ tember 6 while distributing^ literature to other workersi, They are held in $5,000 bail. Assistant Solictor John H. Hudson, who prosecuted the case of Angelo Herndon, is himself preparing the indict, ment against Mrs. Young and Miss Leathers. Geer was one of the de_ fense attorneys in the Hem. don case. With him in his defense of the white women will be Louip Tath^, local white attorney. ' IhousAnds Line Streets To Sec Bishop Grace And His Followers Parade itors Friday. One of the visitors had ex pressed a desire to see a typ ical Negro resort in, Harlem or a dive. The mayor told him he could not recommend a place, but asked tj^at he be notified if one, .be found open after 4 A.. M. “It is all staged for you as an exhibitipn,^’ he said. “It i§ not the, life of the Normal- New York Negro.” Bishop C. M Grace was in CharloUe last week to hold his Annua! Convention. Hundreds of delegates fnom North and South Carolina attended this meeting, and naore than five thousand people jammed (he Hou.se of Prayer every night to see and hear the Bishop. Last Saturday, the members and visitors were given a picnic on a large farm 6 miles from Charlotte, which the Bishop has bought and will convert in to a park for the pleasure and benefit of his followers. The farm was dedicated Friday, and will be made a place for picnic with swimming pools, grounds for gamesi and'eamp sites fur boys and girls. OVER 500 BAPTISED Sunday imorBing at 11 o’clock the Bishop held the Baptismal service, over 500 were baptized while 10,000 people looked on. The parade formed at the Temple on South Long street, and moved on to Third street, tbcnce to Myers, south on Myers to Second, from Second to Brevard; thence to Liberty; rom Liberty, to Caldwell thence to First street through Davidson to Boundary, thence to Plum street, north on Plum to Stonewall, thence to McDow ell, and finally back to the House of Proyer on Long St, Continued on page 2
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