SEC’Y. OF WAR GETS NNPA REPORT
1 BODY FOUND ON
HIGHWAY
Morehead City Officers
Monday were investigating the
cause of death of Kelly Jones,
local sawmill employee, whose
body was found on Highway 70
a short distance from the More
bead City airport last Saturday
night.
Coroner A. H. James said Kelly
had apparently been hi t by a
blunt instrument which inflict
ed a serious head injury an d
that a coroner’s jury has been im
panelled to view the body.
FBI MAKES CHARGE
it is it it it t.l if |
Barber Board Closes Negro Schools
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State Board Gets
Injunction Order
Charlotte Owner Threatens To Use
FBI To Aid in Solving Problems
RALEIGH—A restrainer injunc
tion against the Stair Barber Rom 4
was secured Monday by the De-
Shazor Barber O. liege of Durham,
flopping the Barber Board from
closing r.lie barber college, as had
been ordered by the board effec
tive September 30. The injunction
was secured by Attorney R. O
Everett, white, former legislator,
and was served on the Board in j
Raleigh.
fn their restraint* action the |
stat" . fficisdr were ordered to re • ■
frair* from interfering With the op
r.aii.xi of the Durham college un
■ii after a hearing in couH, set for
some- time within the next ten or
fifteen days. This hearing w*li be
held in Durham. The Durham col
leg operators claim lhat she bar
ber board officials had not acted in
accordance with the laws in order
ing them to close without first giv
ing ihem tilt required 30 day no
tice. and that t< tain other infrac
tions have also been noted or; the
part of the barbel board Officials
of the OeShastor College, including
L. E. Austin, dean of the sch . 01.
and Mrs. Eva Bishop, dean of wo
men arid cashier came to Raleigh.
They stated that they plan to taka
War Dept. To Act j
On Listed Issues
i
WASHINGTON, D C. (NNPA)
Secretary of War Robert P. Pat
terson officially ucanowsedged last
week receipt of the Negro News
paper Publishers Association’* Euro
pean commission re opr t, made in
July on "Troops and Conditions in
Europe."
In a letter to Frank L. Stanley,
NNPA president and head of the
I,old i ]oast Warriors
Welcome Home
WINEBA. Gold Coast, West Afri
ca (ANP; Soldiers from the
Gold Cudii who fought for Engmrio
in the recent war are being return
ed home from South East Asia and
North. Africa where they saw ser
vice. They have beer, welcomed In
the time honored native custom,
with each receiving gifts of sheep,
fowls, yams, onions, pepper fire
wood, clothes and hair brushes from
his wife and family.
The soldier knows he is to re
ceive gifts and awaits them with
(Continued on back page)
Truman Considers New j
Body On Ly nch Cases j
i
WASHINGTON (ANP, A
new White House commission, to
siudv and make a complete re
view of iynchings, is under con
sideration by President Truman,
it was announced in authoritative
sources sere last week. The idea
of the proposed commission grew
out of a recent conference be
tween the President, Walter
White. executive secretary of the
NAACP and James 8. Carey of
the CIO
The two men reminded the
President several atrocities a
fainst Kegioes have occurred re
THE CAROLINIAN I
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mUMEXXVX NO. 11 - UJTIGH~ NORTH CAROLINA WEEK ENDING SATURDAY.' OCTOBIi 5, 1346 PRICE 74 *
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. then complaints ", Govern- * Che
i rv.
Mean while. T. W Anderson, i
J Chai iott-. own-.-i ol :h- De-Lux >•
! Berbc-r C liege, also appeared in
! Raleigh for conferences ><•! ■' • • •
I hi- ..p.-nir.v of bis nVHf-iip -irnl told
-'Continued ori i.,s--k p, cr«- •
WOMAN BEATEN
SOLDSEP.. JAILED
Atlanta -ANP; After bein'.;
brutally attacked by u - ur. -
white soldier aboard a bus at lie
. Atlanta Bus depot last week. Mi ■-
Bertha Rowe, of Chicago, was .n -
rested on a charge of disordeily
conduct and fighting and forced
spend a night in the Atlanta p
lice station.
Miss Rowe had beer, visiting lic-r
brother in Birmingham and was
: enroute to New York City to con
tinue her training in the field ol
; music. After two hours .she was
i able to get a bus fu points east
The young woman took a sea
in the rear of the bus along with
three-man commission hut recently
xpem -hirty days in Central Europe ;
as envoys of the Wav Department, j
Secretary Patterson said:
“Youv report. which I find very i
; constructive and beneficial, has j
; been distributed to all interested j
! agencies of the War Department for!
I appropriate action
1 j The Gilltm Report, was published |
I in a War Department Circular en-1
titled "Utilization of Negro Man
i power in the Postwar Army Policy”
land was given’ Army-wide dLtribu
| tion. Measures have been undertak
i on to insure the indoctrination ■ i
: Army ranks throughout the service
I as to the necessity for an unreserv
-1 ed acceptance of the policy.
"The ultimate -t al, postwar .
• | activities is the maximum efficient I
i utilization of the nation's manpow
■' er, without regard to race, in the
: I event of a national emergency. Wat !
,; Department policy provides for pro- |
! gressive experiments with mixed'!
• i composite units now in operation
i , with a view to eventual assignmen*
on the basis of ability alone
“I greatly appreciate your inter
i est as indicated by your construe- ;
live report."
cently, one of which centered a
| round Isaac Woodard. ex-GI who
1 lost his eyes as a result of police
! brutality in South Carolina last
I February.
“I am familiar with some of
! ‘‘nut didn’t realize this brutality
! these cases,” Mr. Truman said,
was so widespread. I am shocked
and horrified by your report.”
The reason behind the federal j
'government’s inability to deal
adequately with the lynch preb- j
lem is because it is hampered by !
state legal barriers, he said.
The President proposed the
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NEGRO REPUBLICAN CAN- ,
BUSINESS MEN Negro Republicans j
right: Illinois Industrial Corn
nrrt' ft ? = TT* f* fl missioner King; Grant Reynolds 1 $, ■«
otfcK be 11 tH sssrs Gather In Capitol
f_.OS Ai&I&Im. **■
j PROTEAN Priest s Recordings To ba ai< iihPSr r i^Si K SmS-ioSb
RALEIGH--A mass meeting of lo- \\i\ NcgfO Hospital ChPrmaP Carroll 'rW mid 5 it' - nd . unr ~f Nation’s outstmid- ; t
: ,-M business m-.ti nc,i A m--c u» sc- Hollvwood (CP) - Proceeds three Negro candidates fur Con- i’m ? iwPvd< fPebrw'
|(,r,v iHitter protection lor busmen. from th( , , ;a j e of "Prayer Time”, grtss in a historic Washington. , --inirle.hnndedlv won ’
j n’-d ih< populati n m general wai an alburn of four 12-inch phono- DD. C. conference which brought , ’ ~ -,Hirni-v"'-tetor" ,',L.V
--j held ut 7:00 at the Tupoer Memoiial graph records containing eight tin three together from the ends “ . 7,7’ b,: 1 ’ - anH '„.’u j
church here Tuesday night. sermons by Monsignor Fulton J. oi the Nation. ‘ " L--nAw>!' Noe-o .'ouF- U Ho--** ■ i
Stressing the ned for protection Sheen will go to the Martin de The three were: From Los An- ’ P-i,7.,f. ‘‘Vnin-ji
of ail kiiH’i.. the meeting laid par- Forres hospital, a maternity hor- ; gles, Frederick M. Roberts, voter- ; ; t ipri I
I titular emphasis nr: the need for oilr? 1 for Negro women in Mo- an of manv terms of the State j‘ u ( -vA Rie- -tl
j police p-oteeeLon and slop hgl- by Ala it was announced her Legislature and distinguished Ne- Bepublican ITaciquartem to dis- i
-Conmm-u n back oaire) in week. ' leader, itom Chicago, Com ...... their campaigns. They werel'J
„ aP assured of the National Coin- ] V
ITexas N egroes Lose F irst Plea For Rights 8S \«
agreed that Democrat \ otes sini- j V
j ~ 1 1 # *1 v | • • - **' a • pi 3' mean that Democi.at leaders iin
'ln Establishing University In Austin
the committees of Congress will j
AUSTIN, Tex (ANP.) —The Su- my, Kenneth Uamkin, had filed l niversity of Texas Luaw school, remain in their positions of pow- j o
prtme Court, in a special vacation a motion to mandamus the board ja statutory institution depen- C **.- Anv tk. moe - at to of I 8
period sitting recently, refused to of regents of the University nf j upon legislative a PP ro P liU : lice from any part of"the country |
take jurisdiction in an original Texas to locate a Negro univer- tions. or a “constitutional” insti- I simply assures these so-called | (
mandamus proceedings -brought 1 S lly in Aust in, comparable to ! ration which is independent and j leaders that they wdl! continue to I
by Dr. Everett H. Greens. Austin tnat of the University of Texas, ' which draws its appropriations run the legislative program, to I
: dentist, to force the establish- or the contention that tin Texas from the permanent fund, of the i file-and -forget the FEPC bill, the'#
! nient ol a Negro university m . constitution requilres that a Ne- . University ■si- Texas. | anti-lynch bill, the anti-poll tax I |
Austin, according to constitution- gre branch university be located According to Ally. Lamkins, | bill,” said Reece.
.al provision and popular vote of in Austin, pursuant to a vote of th« suit will probably be refiled “Rep. Sparkman, the head of !
• j the people m 1882. liu- people in 1882. in a snort time in the district; the Democrat speakers’ bureau, j f
The supreme court did rot, The contention seems to be court and, if need be, taken to the ihi oadeasi on the radio that he, I
•‘l pass on the merits of Dr. Givens’ however-, whether the state oi United States Supreme court, personally is against all of these! *
j contention but it . directed that Texas will establish before Dec. Texas Negroes have recently set! measures.”
such a proceeding would have to , 17. the deadline set by the courts a goal of $50,000 to be used in the Reece pointed out that Demo- b
originate in the lower courts of' for the establishment of an ae- fight for equal educational oppor- i crats elected to Congress are ob
the state. credited Negro university or the tunities in public schools and ligated to keep the Southern mem- C ;
Dr. Givens, through his at lor- admittance of a Negro to the state supported institutions. ft's in key positions because the j w
, 7 Emit he: tiers have been in fieri- e
bakim; industry Famous Scientist In J?sEsru s Sf i
iff IWL’W AiH)nt>'!'l \i ITV All Kenneth McKeilar of Tennessee
I * UrrUlllUilll I and the Speaker of the House is n
px* negroes Accord With Truman lis-TSs! 31
i _ of Washington, D. C.-- simply be- d .
' exoaSm U nf OP'UrZJ! 1 * r f? id l ST. LOUIS (NNPA) - AmerrnL unless' we demonstrate our will and cause there arc more Democrats c
i : *23«>m baking cannot take leadership among na- out- ability to uphold urn- own than Republicans m the Senate. h
Hidusiiy is heralded as an oppor-: tions until her own minority prob- ideals of human rights in our own t>‘ 1 0 4 ’ t,rno rnannnr, Souihejn
tumtv f r Negro,-, Peking employ ; km- ,oi ve ,i. Pres,dent Truman country. Democrats conaoi nearly ail me
men:, by Miss Edith Gordon, of the | and Alber' Einstein, w- rM-famous "It ns an oblipatio.." Mr Truman of , ess and can ts
industry analysis? section of the of- J scientist, pointed out in messages; said, ‘to see that civil rights of c any eg^s.au..ui.
nee us domestic commerce, in an |to the National Urban League's every citizen are fully and equal- a a . /•, !pi
.article which appears in the Sep- 1940 Annual Conference which open- !ly protected. If the civil rights of! AICXtUMICr Ull I OlllllierCC | in
temoer issue of the Commerce mag- ed last Wednesday at the Kiel Man-(even one citizen are abused, gov- . _ ai
az “'. e ' j iripal Auditorium on ‘he 157th An-; ernment has failed to discharge one rrO?rBRI lUIICI 'd<
" rie baking industry ranks first | niversary of the introduction of the jof its primary responsibilities. We, w |• t
j among the iod industries in annual I Bill of Rights. as a people, must not, and J say to j Atlanta ( ANP; TM. Alexan-j ar
, payroll, second in the value of j “This country must maintain a I you we shall not,, remain indiffer- j der. Atlanta insurance broker and jct
| products, and since the Civil war | position of leadership in conveying ert in the face of acts of intimitis-! businessman, was recently honored Ito
! bas erspjred steady growth and i the ideals of numan rights to the tion and violence in our American i with an invitation from the U. S! w
j public confidence. At present, thrjpt .ple of the wnole world," Presi- t communities. We must, however, j Department of commerce to parti-j as
j industry employs over 250,01)0 per- ] dent Tnimtin stated. “Wc - cannot jgo beyond the mere checking ofjcipate in the department Oct. 17-18-j
iCcntinued on page eight) 1 successfully exert that leadership l (Continued on back page) 1 19 Small Business conference.
Angry Mob Stones White
Veteran’s Home In Chicago
Police Called In To Disperse
Raging Gangs On Vet f s Home
CHICAGO (ANP) An irate,
all-white mob stoned the home of,
a white veteran here last week;
for having his Negro army buddy I
as his house guest.
Upon learning that Lt Everett i
Batcher wax a guest t n the Ait -;
FBI FILES CHARGE
AGAINST POLICE
FOR ASSAULT
Columbia. S C. ANP- Chm
;-,es of having tortured and beaten
: Negro war veteran with the ic--
■■ bit that the victim lost his sight
were brought against Police Chief
Lynwood L. Shull of Batfsburg in
federal district court here Thursday
by the federal department of justice.
The action, similar u effect to a
rand jury indict men*, opens an
' ther chapter in the ease of the vic
tim, Isaac VVudaxd, Jr., ot the
Bronx. New y< rk City who on Feb.
! '.i wag enroutc home by bus after
' e y. discharged Iron the army
■ .a - lier that day at Atlanta, Gu
Woodard was said to have created
•fixturbance on the bus and when
i -rrivt-d at Batesburg. 32 miles
: run* here, the driver called the po
lice for lii.Jp The vet was taken oft]
the vus. beaU-ii and then carried
? 1 .at; in Chief Shull :- car.
KhuiVs le«tifnony last Thursday
w-ii o tile effect that the ex-GI i
'• " .qiparcntly been drinking and !
iL -. 1 n/'l; i■* i/«L ii -u .■ itx,. ,-J .* * ig* , I
... w k i„- to fiuvuM- !
him wh< n h*- became unruly. ”1 hit j
hr --cross tin. front of the head j
I Ft - i he attempted to take away j
'■■■ • i.nK lack Siiu-ii oeciared. "i;
m obbed it away from him and j
< -ack-c him across the head."
H • conceded that th- blow might I
h -ve landed on W odsrd’g eyes, be- j
cuu-e ... remembers tney were i
sv.-01l n the next day when be
brought the prisoner before May
or H E Quarles in recorder's court
■ t much and eyes, and that he was
to pay a SSO litre. He said the Ne
gri? vet bad <on plained about bis
cye« and stomach and that b< wag
nauseated. A doctor suggest,#) thro'
h- be taken to a hospital and the
a live vhiei took Ftim to the vet-j
'a as' hospital here.
‘1 w no harsher tiian necessary!
to ■.•"niplcte the acres t,” he added, •
Tlu in ident was repc-r‘ed to The i
'I’.T according to Shull, because;
the ve! was; still in uniform, but!
"atlu- they investigated they told!
nv to keep quiet about it."
Specifically, the police chief is j
being charred with violation of the]
Federal civil rights statute which j
pvolTibits policemen and other pub- j
lie officials from depriving a per j
son.-, of right* ‘‘secured by the con- j
Dilution and the laws." It is the de-;
pariment of justice’s contention that j
ht violated Woodard’.- “right to be
Micurc in his person and immune
from illegal assault and battery,”
and the "right and privilege not to
be beaten or tortured by persons
exercising the authority to arm!."'
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Largest Negro Bank First
To Get CIO Picket Tactics
WASHINGTON. D. C. (NNPA)
The United Os lie* and Professional
Workers of America (CIO) last
Wednesday threw a picket line
around tile Industrial Bank of
Washington following a breakdown
in negotiations for higher wages
between bunk employees and off i- i
rials.
The union emphasized that it in
ter ;U- to strike only as a last resort
and said the work stoppage Tues*
COMMITTEE
PRAISES km
CHASTISES CITY
:> th praised and blamed the City j
RALEIGH — A strong resolution |
tailing for enforcement of the law j
which provides for "separate but I
■quo! acc modations" was passed ;
lore Tuesday night when the Ru- j
ieig'h Negro Citizens Committee j
criticized the Public Works Depart-j
neiif for failure to provide light i
ir'.d seats in Chavis Park.
The Rev. M. W. Williams, presi- ;
lent of the Committee, said Thurs !
lay that because of protests of the
Committee, the City of Raleigh had j
la tiled poles to the park for the j
nirpose nf installing lights, but be- '
fond that point no action has been !
3 ken
He said one accident has been re
sorted as a result of the poles hav- j
ng been piled in the ploying field, i
ind that there is no real cause for J
ielay in putting up the lights, since
ther towns near-by have secured !
md instaHed park lights during re-1
rent months. A local youth is said j
O have sustained severe irdmiesl
vhen he ran into one of the poles j
is he attempted to catch a ball.
The nine-point resolution which j
'-Continued on back page)
, burn park home of Ll. and Mrs,
Kice Can others, the landlady
i ousted a sign that read, “Nigger
• move on/' Further anti-Negro
j agitation is said to have been pro
jmoted by the Auburn park Im
j pivvemerh association, a ghost
| organization of restrictive coven
lr.nl advocates, through letters
j that urged the community to take
J action against the Carrutherses.
j Lit. Cat a utliers ii-ei Lt. Latcner
! while the two were engaged in
| fighting fascism on the battle-
I fields. He invited his Negro
i friend to his home while viijt
jing he;e. Lt. Batcher left the city
Sunday, but trouble for Lt. and
| Mrs. Carruthers did not end.
A mob, composed of Jow-sal
; aried white-collar workers, gath
jered in front tof the Carruthers*
i home Wednesday evening to yell
.; threats of "let's lynch the rigger
i lover and hurl bricks through
: windows of the Carruthers' resi-
I deuce
Police responded immediately
. jfo a call from the veteran and the
nob was dispersed. Acting Lt.
. j Joseph O’Malley of Gresham po
.l <Kc station said no violence had
, been committed, no peace dis
; but bed, but that police cordon
noon thrown around Lt. Car
rot hi-is’ home.
AMEZ CHURCH
ENOS 150fEAfi
CELEBRATION
j Ntw y vrk 'ANPj .An address
j “O' Br James Clair Taylor, editor
ivi Uir cju.jj'ierij review and pastor
| of the First Church, Patterson. N
}J . brought the AME Zion sequi-
I centennial celebration to a close
j here last week following adoption
1 Jrpuits Lfiul ftitOVvtu iiiOic Uidii
$250,000 was raised as sesqutcenien
oiji contributions toward mortgagee
end debuts of the denomination's
churches.
"Our pulpit orators oi tomorrow
will have to cut the oratory to fit
Uie truth, rather than the truth to
|-h Bio -u d.!>iy,' Or. Taylor said
j ‘A mental ana moral revolution
i has swept over the world and the
| minds of the people end our iead
j ership has not shown it. is capable
• ‘ f facing facts with clear intellec
I tual determination.
; "Any program of reorganization
!of our structure must revolve
i around the essentials of Method
| ism. conversion, -acuification, child
: hood religion, the witness of the
j spirit, the intellectual statement el
Christianity social regeneration, rc
| ligious education and missions." he
j declared.
| Other speakers lor the final ses
i si"UR were Bishop Lewis O, Hail
i man, Boston, Bishop Fdgar B. Wat*
son and Bishop William J, Walls,
who served as chief of the sesqui
c ntenmal promotional staff. Also
credit'd for contributing to the
success of the celebration are Dr
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, day and the picket lint* Wednesday
were intended to direct, public at
tention to the bank’s refusal to ar
bitrate the wage dispute.
As near as could be learned the
union’s work stoppage and picket
lines were the first ever to be held
in an American bank. The indus
trial Bank of Washington is reputed
to be the largest colored bank in
the world.
The picket line consisted of elev
en white and twelve colored pickets
who marched in front of the bank
during the noon iunch hour. They
boro signs stating the banks failure
, to negotiate with them and. calling
aittention to the bank’s salary scale.
The union is seeking a salary
schedule ranging from a minimum
; of $155 a month for a night watch -
; man to $247 a month for the bank’s
i teller. Not* tellers and other jobs
I would be classified in their relations
ito range from $195 to $315 pet
j month.
Present salary scales at the bank
j range from s96c a year to the night
! watchman to $1,700 for head teller
V
| First Negro Admitted
| To Jesuit Novitiate
St. Louis, Mo. (CP) Carl
j Shelton, 19, graduate of Summer
high school, and honor student
at St. John’s University, is the
t first Negro to be admitted to the
I novitiate of the Jesuites of the
| Missouri province, it has been
announced.
j“KAN MUST GO”
Isays arnall
New York (CP) “America
; roust get rid of the Ku Klux
| Klan before the Klan gets rid
of America,” Governor Ellis
Arnall of Georgia said in his
latest article, “My Battle Against
!the Klan ’ in the October istUft
•of •‘Coronet”.