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THE HARRIS HERALD
Only Negro New»paper in
Rutherford County.
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RUTHERFORD COUNTY*
Population 45,577.
Agricultural Manufacturing
Center.
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VOLUME 2 — NO. 5
HARRIS, NORTH CAROLINA, JUNE 1947
SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 PER YEAR
PUBLISHED MONTHLY
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The Herald Joins Negro Newspaper Publishers Association
INCLUDES ALL
LEADING NEGRO
PAPERS IN U. I
Number of Special Features
Will Be Made Possible
Through Association
It is with great pleasure that
We announce to our host of read
ers subscribers and friends that
the Harris Herald has joined the
negro newspaper publishers associ
ation. The above named associa
tion is composed of all the lead
ing negro newspapers in the Unit
ed States, and the Herald is for
tunate indeed in being able to join
this group.
We will bring to our readers
many news items from Washing
ton, D. C,, Philadelphia, Pa., New
■^'ork, N. Y. and many other
places. Louis Lautier, special writ
er for the NNPA News Service
will write a column “Capitol Spot
light” other well known writers
and columnists will make their
contributions also.
Useless Quibbling
Dr. H. T. Medford
Nearly all meetings held by
members of the Negro group;
whether, religious secular, bus
iness or what not are attended
too much “petty quibbling”. Such
meetings are over loaded with
“unreadinesses amendments” to
the motion; “amendments to the
Amendments”, and'substitutes for
“(he whole”, etc. Most "of thj'
participants are so “tliin skinned”
that upon the slightest unfavor
able reference to tliem tliey get
floor on a question of “personal
privilege and waste a lot of time
making a needle.ss petty defence.
1 attended an Inter-denomina
tional meeting of Church leaders
recently; several of whom under
went the expense and travel of
from fifty to one thousand miles;
but for the needless show off
.speeches, cross firing, filibuster
ing, and rising to “points of ord
er”. What took from 10:30 A. M.
to 7:00 P. M. to do, could have
been clone in one hour. One man
v/as referred to as the “Bilbo of
the Race”. I wondered, if the so
called lay intelligentsia of the
race comprising the professionals
ol one type and another, did such
ciuibbling and wasting of time in
their meetings. I asked a member
of a Greek Letter .Society, if they
did that sort of .stunts in their
annual and other meetings, and
he said, yes very much the same
thing.
A so called National Organiza
tion of Secular nature; made up
of attorneys, school men, physic-
ans, business leaders held their
meetings back in 1924-25 at the
Church I was pastoring in Wash
ington; being somewhat new in the
City I accepted membership. I
found so much of the same old
wrangling and self-seeking in that
group that ! decided, a busy past
or had no riglit to so waste his
time, and 'ceased attending. Of
course, such\organization cannot
live, and so That one has long
been dead and almost forgotten.
W’e one time wigre a joiner and
attended several 'secret orders of
Our people most of them went
oil the rocks or nearly so; wrang
ling about who was to have and
hold “honored position” of King-
fish”.
As we retrospect our exper
iences in these things, we have
concluded, loud speeches, quibbl
ing about little nothings and
w’langling and cross firing; and
otherwise, wasting time in our
meetings is one of the unfortunate
maladies of the race. Other people
may be somewhat so afflicted, but
they certainly can transact bus
iness, get through, adjourn and
go home.
Howard University Students Organize
SI
THE MONTH
By M. B. ROBINSON
Jipi
HOWARD UNIVHRSITY STUDENTS ORGANIZE the Inter-State Young Repiililican Cliih in readiness
for the 1948 eampaign. Their goal is to provide speakers or debaters for any issue, to have members
frpiii every Stale, Seated; .Tuan Wasliiligtoii of Atlaiitie City, temporary eliairmaii; National CoinmiUee-
inaii Perry W. Howard, and Miss Francho Fauntleroy of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Standing, Harry W. Coeh-
raiie of Beacon, New York; William Gaines of CoUimhia, South Carolina, Delores Morton of Baltimore,
and Elizabeth Jean McLord of St. Petersburg, Florida. (NNPA).
.Arrest Seven Men
In Connection With
Attempted Lyncliing
DEMOCRACY MUST
BE MADE LIVING
Mrs. Trissie Earle, Greenville,
S. C., mother of Willie Earle re
cently lynched, has filed suit
against the 28 lynchers for $250,-
000. She is also planning. to sue
Pickens county for a quarter of
a million dollars on the grounds
tliat the county neglected to safe
guard her son from the lynchers
v/hile he was in jail.
Mrs. J. H. Jones, Knoxville,
Tenn. visited her brother and sist
er-in-law Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Jones near Harris recently.
Have you had any cleaning done
at Thompson’s dry cleaning shop
in Grahamtown? He is doing satis
factory work and should be given
our full support.
This writer predicts tliat the
Would-be-lynchers and kidnapping
of Buddy Bush at Rich Square, N.
C. last week are not going to es
cape punishment like the Green
ville, S. C. lynchers did, because
North Carolina’s system of justice
and 'fairness is on a much higher
plane than that of South Carolina.
Rev. J. A. Dulla, pastor Wells
Spring Methodist church. Forest
City, and his congregation wor
shiped at Brooks Chapel church,
Hollis, la.st Sunday. Rev. Dulla de
livered a fine sermon. Rev. C. E.
Strickland was host-pastor.
By all means support the new
Rutherford county negro fair that
\vill be held at the fair grounds
in Spindalc this year.
CAPITAL
SPOTUGHT
By LOUIS LAUTIER
(For the NNPA News Service)
Mai'shall Shepard, Ihe Recorder
of Deeds of the District of Colum
bia and central figure in the con
troversy surrounding that office,
has appeared before the House
District of Columbia appropria
tions subcommittee in behalf of
funds ^ for his agency.
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Some Army officers don’t savvy
wliy Marcus Ray, civilian aide to
the Secretary of War, would want
to leave the Secretary’s level, the
highest in the War Department, to
become an adviser to a general,
whicli is a step down. Besides, the
pay and allowances of a colonel
are less than the salary of the
civilian aide.
H; sH
Orchids to Associate Justice
Henry W. Edgerton of the United
States Court of A'ppeals for the
JJistrict of Columbia for his dis
senting opinion in the racial re
strictive covenant cases, debunking
previous decisions of that tribunal
over a period of twenty-five years.
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Only two State Department em
ployees volunteered to testify as
cliaracter witnesses for Carl Mar-
'zani, former State Department em
ployee who was recently convicted
by a jury of nine colored persons
and three white on charges of
making false statements about
—Turn to Page Four
Outstanding
Negro Farmer Will
Be Recognized
A prize of $100 will be given to
the outstanding negro farmer in
North Carolina. The prize Will be
given by the twelve Southern
states.
Dr. B. F. Hurbert, of Georgia
State College is the originator
of this great undertaking.
The Full Story of The Buddy
Bush Attempted Lynch
ing In Northampton
RALEIGH, N. C„ — (NNPA). —
The seven men arrested May 27 on
charges of kidnapping and con
spiracy growing out of their at
tempt to lynch Godwin (Buddy)
Bush, 24-year old suspect in an
attempted rape ease, will be pnt
on trial August 4 in the North
ampton County Supei'ior Court,
officials announced last Wednes
day.
The ■ defendants, from whom
Push escaped after he had been
taken from the jail at Jackson,
North Carolina, were identified as:
Robert Vann, a pickle factory
worker; Russell Bryant, filling sta
tion operator; Glenn Collier, a
barber; Joe Cunningham, assistant
manager of the Rich Square The
ater; Linwood and Gilbert Bryan,
brothers, both carpenters, and W.
C. Cope, operator of a Rich Square
hot dog stand.
Talking with reporters for the
first time since he had surrender
ed to agents of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation and local authorit
ies, Bush said emphatically that
he did not want to go back to
Rich Square, the village in North
ampton County, wlicre he was
.arrested on a charge of attempted
rape of Mrs. Margaret Allen Bry
ant. ^
Bush also denied that he was
guilty of the crime of which he is
accused. He said he was waiting
for his sweetheart on a sidewalk
in Rich Square when the woman
became frightened and screamed
Police Chief Frank Outland of
Rich Square arrested liim short-
—Turn to Page Four
.1 o s. Albright I s Speak
er Before Philadelphia
Service Group
PHILADELPIITA, _ (NNPA).
—Tliis country’s heroic war dead
can be.st be honored by making
(he Conslihition of the United
States “a living, breatliing basis
of human relationships,” .Toseph
F. Albright, special assistant to
General Omar N. Bradley, Admin
istrator of Veterans Affairs, de
clared here last Sunday.
In a memorial address on the
site of Pennsylvania’s monument
to colored sailors in Fairmount
Park, Albright, a World War II
veteran, urged his audience to
cease talking “out of both sides”
of their mouths about democracy
and practice it twenty-four hours
a clay.
If this country is to fulfill her
role as a world leader in seeking
to outlaw war, Albright said, “She
must first le.arn Lo walk in tiie
ways of peace herself,” adding
that “judgment will be made np-
011 us by the creed under which
we shall choose to live, and not
by what we say.”
He. said the people of this coun
try might delude themselves “with
glib false pretenses of brotherhood,
but never let our delusion descend
to the point where we become
foolish enough to believe that the
hyprocrisy will do other than dis
The May 28, issue of the Biblical
Records, (Journal of the Baptist
convention of North Carolina) car
ried a report of the Southern
Baptist convention held 'at St.
Louis, Mo. May 7-11 written by L.
L. Carpenter, official reporter. In
the second paragraph one finds
the following words: “Perhaps the
best speecli of the entire conven
tion, strange as it may seem to
some, was made by a very able
i.egro educator. Dr. George D.
Kelsey, dean of the school of Re
ligion of Moorehouse College, At
lanta, Georgia. His subject was
“Christians Love and Race Rela
tions” this speech was well pre
pared, delivered with deep serious
ness, and very gripping to all who
heard it. In fact the convention
immediately asked the Sunday
school board to publish this .speech
ill tract form for wide-spread dis
tribution,”
Negro Girl Scout
Troop Formed In
New Hope Section
SENATORS MORSE
AND WAGNER ARE
INTRODUCERS
Imposes Fine and Prison
Sentence For Convicted
Lynchers
New Contest
Mrs. MARION RANDELL
LOOK FOI.KS! As we strive
to improve the Harris Herald
each moiilli so as to send you
some news of interest, we want
you to co-operate with us. Do
you want a free subscription to
the Harris Herald? Ti so, here
is all that you have to do. (1)
Get five persons to subscribe
to the Herald for one year in
Rutlierford county $1.25 and
elsevvhei>e $1.50. (2) A free one
year subscription will be given
any person that gets five per
sons to have their pictures
placed in the Herald. The price
for pictures is $1.75 for a single
column and $3.50 for a double
column. Also be sure to send the
correct name and address of
each subscriber along with the
correct amount of money for
each one. Address all commun-
ication about this fine plan to
Mrs. Marion Randell, R.F.l). 1.
Box 67, Ellenboro, N. C.
Rutherfordton Troop Is First
• To Be Organized Among
Negroes In County
The Girl Scout troop of New
Hope Community had their first
meeting at New Hope school,
Rutherfordton recently.
A program was held at New
Hope school April 24, to stimulate
interest among the girls and par
ents. A program was presented
by the white Girls Scout troop ol
Forest City, Mrs. B. T. Jones and
Mrs. Elliott, scout leaders.
Due to the successful program
presented by the scout troop from
Forest City, much interest was
aiousecl in the community and as
■a result two Girl Scout troops
were organized last week.
Both troops held their meeting
Friday and a program was worked
out according to their needs, in
cluding arts, crafts, homemaking,
niusic, dancing, nature and games.
PERSONAL ITEMS
FROM BOSTIC
Robert Durr, writer for . the
NNPA states that 20,000,000
Americans should write Washing
ton today urging that Federal anti
lynching laws be passed at this
session of Congress. Will you be
one of those writing? If not, you
should be.
honor these legions of our lierninA—’ .
dead.” T/ie council in Raleigh. As time
Two recent municipal elections
in North Carolina saw negroes
making some worthwhile gains. In
Winston-Salem, Rev. Kenneth
Williams was elected a member of
the city council, and attorney
Fred J. Carnage was elected to
If the people of this country al
low themselves “to become victims
of this' self-deception,” he said,
“the price whicli the future will
exact from us is too dismal to
contemplate.”
The memorial service, an annual
event held under the auspices of
the Geol-ge T. Cornish Post 292 of
the American Legion, drew a huge
crowd. Participants on the pro
gram came from three states.
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Returns Home
Mr. Jessie L. Miller, circula
tion manager of the Harris Her
ald who has spent the Spring in
Montreal vdll return home near
Rutherfordton in a few days. We
are' glad to have him return home.
passes more negroes will seek and
win political offices in North Caro
lina and the South.
Many people said that Jackie
Robinson couldn’t make it playing
in the major league. At the pre-
.sent time he is one among the
leading players in the national
league. More negroes will certain
ly follow his example.
Unanimous Verdict
The police say: “Alcohol and
gasoline make for accidents!”
The murderer says: “I don’t
know what I did: I was drunk,”
The judge says: “Alcohol makes
for crime but doesn’t excuse it.”
The psychologist says: “Alcohol
robs a human of reason.”
The doctor says: “Alcohol weak
ens resistance and shortens life.”
The moralist says: “Alcohol and
morals never kept company.”
The lady says: “The breath of
alcohol is repulsive.”
The mother says: “Alcohol robs
the,home of its peace!”
The children say: “When father
is sober, we run to meet him;
when he is drunk, we run to hide
from him.”
The wife says: “Alcohol makes
for divorce.”
The undertaker says: “Alcohol
speeds up business.”
The Bible says: “A drunkard
sliall not inherit the kingdom of
God.”
What do YOU say?—Exchange.
Mrs. Earline Whiteside
(Staff Correspondent)
Crops are looking fine in this
section after a good rain.
The Glee Club rendered a fine
program at New Vernon church
recently.
Mr. and Mrs. Wade Hill have
had to postpone their Golden Wed
ding arpiiversary, because Mr. Hill
had a stroke and is in serious con
dition.
The public is invited to attend
our pi’eaching services at New
Vernon each first and third Sun
day at 11:00 and 7:30.
Mrs. Sue Be Whiteside has re
turned to her work at Lake Lure
Camp for girls.
Mrs. Lottie Hill, Mrs. Earline
Whiteside and Mr. Raleigh Mc-
Entiro had a fine fishing trip near
South Carolina, May 21.
Mr. Weldon Lattimore has
pneumonia. And we wish for all the
shut-ins a speedy recovery.
Miss Oddessa Landrum was
married May 24, to Mr. Norman
Logan. The bride is the daughter
of Mr. Will Landrum, and the
groom is the son of Mr. Will Log
an. They are fine young people
and we wish much happiness for
them.
WASHINGTON, D. C,, — Senat-,
or.s Robert F. Wagner, Democrat,
of New York, and Wayne Morse,
Republican, of Oregon, last Tues
day introduced in the Senate an-
antilynching bill providing heaiiy
penalties for persons convicted of
mob violence or aiding or abetting
such violence.
The Wagner-Mor.se bill is al
most identical with a measure off
ered recently in the House by
Representative Clifford I’. Case,
Republican, of New Jer.sey.
The measure provides for pay
ments to victims of mob violence
or their families by the State or
political sulidivisions in which the
crime occurred.
Under tlie bill maximum pen
alties of $10,000 fine and twenty
years in prison could be imposed
on persons who in any way incite,
aid or Join in an act of mob
violence.
PERSONAL ITEMS
FROM HOLLIS
Mrs. Marion Randell
vStaff lloriYspoudem;
Mr. William Oates is doing flue |
at this time.
Our sympathy to Mrs. Lattie L.
Danials on the death of her moth
er.
The usher board will present a
program on the third Sunday night
in June at 8:00 P. M. The junior
choir from White Oak will also
attend. We invite the public. Place
Brooks Chapel church.
The Watkins-Roberts chorus will
render a program here June 12,
at night.
Mr. Ned Gidney, of near Shelby
has been sick, but is better now.
Misses Mildred and Millard,
twins of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Brooks, celebrated their 21 birth
day May G, at their home here.
A fine time was had by all.
The Union Singing convention
will meet at Brook.s Chapel church
the second Sunday in June. Public
invited.
Newark Defeats
Baltimore 3-2
Mr. Mose Dunham, Forest City,
attended the funeral of his sister,
Mrs. Lear Massey near Lancaster,
S. C. last week. Mrs. Massey was
84 yoars of age and his only
sister.
Breaks Hip
Rev. Aden Alexander, of Dog-
gett Grove community who frac
tured his hip in a fall a few days
ago has returned home froiT^he
Rutherford hospital, and is doing
fine at this writing.
Twenty Fifth
Wedding Anniversary
Many friends of Mr. and Mrs.
Eddie Douglass attended their
25th wedding anniversary in
Ruth, N. C.
His Honor the Mayor W. P.
Dorsey and wife were present as
well as many others. A great time
was had by all and many gifts
were received by the happy
couple.
PHILADEPHIA, — (NNPA). —
Newark’s Negro National League
entrant, the Eagles, made it five
in a row and the fourth straight
from the Baltimore Elite Giants,
winning 3-2, at Shibe Park last
Monday night.
Again it was Larry Doby, Eagles’
second sacker, who won the game.
He came up in the eighth inning
with two aboard and the Elites
holding a 2-0 margin, Doby clout
ed the second pitched ball for one
of the longest homers ever hit
over the right field fence to score
Jimmy Wilkes and Pat Patterson
ahead of him.
Newark .... 000 000 030— 3 8 1
Baltimore .. 000 002 000— 2 8 0
Batteries — Newark Eagles —■
Manning and Parks; Baltimore—
Byrd and Robinson.
Trial Of Disbarred
Lawyer Delayed
WASHINGTON, D. C.,—The ar-
raingment of Daniel Williams,
disbarred Mississippi lawyer ^ho
ran amuck here on May 16, killing
two men“ and wounding two oth
ers, last Thursday was continued
for two weeks by United States
Commissioner Needham C. Turn-
age.
Williams, 48, is accused of the
first degree murder of Policeman
Hubert Esters and Ray Devendorf,
65-year old clerk, in the office of
the District Bar Association’s ad
missions and grievances commit
tee, Municipal Court building,
Sixth and E streets northwest.
George W. Dalzell, secretary of
the committee, and Cecil Claig, a
building guard, were also shot by
Williams, who fled to the offices
of Cobb, Howard and Hayes, at
torneys, where he asked for Perry
W. Howard, Republican national
committeeman for Mississippi.
Finding out that Mr. Howard
was engaged in the May-Garsson
bribery trial, Williams hurried out
of the office and at Sixth and F
streets northwest ran into Police
man Estes and' Claig. In an ex
change of shots, he shot and killed
Estes and wounded Claig and was
himself in turn wounded by Estes.
Williams had been in Gallinger
Hospital recuperating from his
wounds since the shooting. He was
brought to Turnage’s office last
Thursday in a patrol wagon, his
hands cuffed behind him.
Turnage continued the case to
allow Williams an opportunity to
obtain counsel.
RUTHERFORDTON
PERSONAL ITEMS >
Mrs. Janette Logan
(Staff Correspondent)
Sunday May 18 was the Memor
ial Day at Gold Hill church and
we listened to a fine sermon by
our pastor, Rev. II. E. Ferguson.
In the afternoon we all went to
tile cemetery whore we sang
Hymns and prayed. We all were
greatly blessed during the day.
Matthew Long was hit by a hit-
and-run driver and had his leg
broken and at this writing he is’
in the Rutherfordton hospital, and
is doing fine.
Mrs. Everlener Carpenter is still
very sick, but we wish for her
a speedy recovery. ^
Mr. Will Landrum was married
recently to Mrs. Myrtle McFalls.
We wish for them a happy mar
ried life.
New Hope school has closed for
this term and all of the teachers
did a fine job. The children were
carried to Lake Lure the last day
of school. There were 13 gradu
ates. Mr. V. C. Ramseur, Jr. is
principal.
NEGRO FAIR IS
REORGANIZED
The Rutherford Coupty negro
fair committee met at New Hope
school, Rutherfordton recently and
reorganized, with Mr. S. M. Goode,
president and a complete list of
officers, large plans are being
worked out for the growth of the
fair.