SMITH ALUMNI SEEK HIGHER POST FOR McCROREY
CTHOIJC BOOKS
PRESENTED PUBLIC
LIBRARIES ;
I.;- 1
NAZARETH <Special) Negro 1
and while public Jibrarie: in North
Carolina fcavt been presented more
than 1,700 Catholic books by the
North Carolina Catholic Laymen's
Association, in a step toward tb.
elimination of religious bigotry ;n
the state, it has been announced
here.
PTA Conqiess Holds 3rd Session!
i 1 v. n, it to -it it if & it it 'k ★ it it,
2 Found Dead In Woods
Couple Dies In
Auto From
Monoxide Gas
Greenville Redmond Moore,
£ 7, and Mrs. Fannie Howard, 33,
were found dead of monoxide
gst poisoning in Moore’s car,
parked in some woods near the
old Stanionsburg road, four miles
from Greensville about 9:30 u.
ni. Monday.
Pitt County Coroner Griffin H
Rouse said the emmb* hurt fv’r.v
dead some time. He said it. war
3 case of accidental poisoning
and that there will he nn in
quest.
Bilbo Hearing
Opens In Miss .
Jackson, Miss, <NNPA) The
: amt: fear ot violence which kept
colored people from the polls in
(he July 2 Mississippi primary still
gripped it" majority of them lav
Monday as the Senate campaign in
vestigating committee began hear
ings into charges that Senator
The dor*- G <ltie Man) Bilbo in
timidated colored voters.
Despite u '‘Slop running, stand
up and light ’ slogan adopted by
colored leaders here indications
were that many key colored wit
nesses, for reason.- of personal safe
ty, will not testify against Bilbo
unless subpoenaed by the commit
tee.
Fully aware of this, Republican :
members of the e mmitt.ee lost
Sunday promised to throw then
support behind u petition that the
committee's power us subpoena |
witnesses be used if they fail to
••:ppcnr volantsrilv.
Senator Style Bridges, Republi
can. of New Hampshire, told re
porter. he would press for use of 1
subpoenas. He said he did not be- j
how s-lect.iOß officials involved in ;
the charges would come forward;
voluntarily. Senator Alien J. El- :
lender Democrat, of Louisiana, j
committee chairman, also stated j
that the committee rmiv have to j
subpoena witnesses who fail to ap- j
pear.
J. D. Collins of Greenwood, Mis- ,
sissipl. has already notified the j
Mississippi State Progressive Vot
SjCHOLA&SIUF win neb
Miss Willie Worthy Foster, ■
Griffin, Ga„ who was awarded
first pirne in the third division of |
a contest sponswed by the N'». ,
uuHal TubtiCilMt a&sucbtiiou.
This portion of the contest was
open to high school students,
essay was written, was awarded a
scholarship to Fort Valley State
College f<-r her essay on “How
My School Can Help in the Fight
Against Tuberculosis." Vocation
al High Scfcol In Griffin, where
site was u senior at the time her
essay was wrfteai, was awarded a
silver plague- tAh'P;
THE CAROLINIAN
VOLUME XXVI, NO". 23 \ LEIGH. NORTH CAEOLINA WEEK KNtiING SATURDAY, I SCEMBEE 7. 194* Pi,Tel.. 7c
Moore's wife. Mrs. T, u 1.1 r a
Moore, and James Howard, Mrs.
! Fannie Howard's husband, live in
Greenville.
Moore and the woman had
; been missing from their homes
’since Saturday night. When thev
}failed to return this morning,
; their families requested police m
i q v/vl~> fn>‘ t G.. w-vt V» CXw
.dumped in the back seat and tn
roman on her knees on :1k
floor, leaning against him.
(Continued on back page)
imii tii .. . _. iini \
ers Longue that he will tc.-iify only
■f >ubpi enaed. Mr. Collin would
be a key witness in the trial since
he is on. of the w lored men ‘in
vited by white political icudei’s
•of Greenwood to session at which
h< wa- loict that calmed ...eoplc must
no> go the polls. At the meeting
he was sent to carry the word to
nil potential colored voters in
Green wood.
Senator Ellendei arrived here
Sunday and immediately took the
! position that if there were individ
ual violations of Mississippi's elec
; tun. law:-, the remedy Say in the
; State courts.
THIRD ANNUA L CONGRESS
OF NEGRO PARENTS AND
TEACHERS GREai SUCCESS
Despite the delay and unpleas
j outness at the beginning of the
j session, due to two gatherings try-
I ing to occupy the same place at
! the strut* time, we finally got off
ito a good start in the library of
i the school, instead of the auditon
| um, to which we were invited
The President, Mrs. Hattie Royal.
! opened the .morning session with
| “America," the entire body stand -
I ing.
! "Invocation” try Rev. O. H
Sherrill, pastor of the Shiloh Bap
tist Church. Wilmingoon. N. C
Professor F. J. Rogers, principal
of che Williston Industrial High
1 S'“hov! brought greetings and e
| welcome to us. Mrs M. L. Turner-
Supervisor of Duplin County
i Schools being delayed by tram-1
' professor J. W. Brondhurst prin
cipal of the Georgetown I'.
Sch- 01. Jacksonville in Onslow
i c ounty to respnd, which he did
j in well c-hosen words. After which
jhi introduced and presented M>:.
Thelma H. Morris, Health Co-o>-
| dinator of th<- state department,
Raleigh, N.C. our guest speaker.
: Her theme ‘Building a New.
World Through Health education ”
jln simpte language that the .hum
j blest parent could understand, she;
l compared the body to a well or
gan] red factory “The intellegev.t
owner sees that every minute paH
of his wonderful mechanism
functions properly. If some trouble
arises he sees the most skilled
workman for that particular part
affected and corrects the fault.
Wc, too should guard our bodies
iust as carefully. Ever so often
we should cheek up as fully. If
there is an ailment troubling us,
set- « skilled physician raunsr than
s vadoo of patented medicine.
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lb a.ri Schwartz, sister of A<-ires»
I,on Swum. *s> elected at the
November Cnvention of the
Missouri State association of
Negro Teachers in Kansas City,
Mu., to serve- tSI Executive Sic
rotary. Miss. Schwartz had .iust
completed & most successful term
as President. During her regim
there was established Equaliza
tion ot Teachers Salaries tliru
ont Missouri, and several other
We cannot hope to be able to
' keep fit, unless we take care of
our bodies. She stressed this as
,n inivitiual. duty to make a bet
ter world. Each doing his or her
Federal Grand Jury
Gets Ga. Lynch Case
Athens. Ga MNP A > - The
; lynching o- two m. n and their
i wiv :• iic..r Monroe. Georgia, July
i 2ij. n.-i cited federal grand jury
here hist Monday for possibly in
; cR.-.mems after mre than tout
months of investigation by e-gents
of the Federal Bureau ot Investiga
j tion.
Unless the FBI agents uncover
ed evidence to fasten guilt on the
; ms-inbcrs of the mob, a white men
island: out as the key witness. He
j if J. Loy Harrison, well-to-do far
mer t Walton County, Georgia.
‘ from whose automobile the mob
• look tint iwo men and their wives
and riddled their bodies with but
l lets.
The FBI agents vviF give th|fj
evidence mj the convening grand. ,
jury. Likewise, more than 100 wit
i nesses art-scheduled to appear oc
| tore the grand jury.
\
United States District Attorney
John P C-wart anti John Koltry.
ar, attorney from the criminal di
! vision of the Department of Jir
| tree, Washington, D. C\, are in
i charge <>l the presentation of the
i case tp the jury.
;,i i-ss.vc inUigs M’iiuartz
It, i iititiuir.j, to recive messages
of Praise for the many aecom
plfstonenis and '■> not lettlr
ap hui lending full support to th
no', ij elected President, Earl
Thomas of K. < . She is u teacher
at thi Washington Technical High
School In Si i.-.iui:. Ha., ant! her
gem-mi office for Mb ANT will
be at her home. j”'!i Dora in lh
same my.
best individually w : tld make tr-e
whole world a better place :n
which to live.
Mrs. Morris with her quiet, dig*
,C mfins: >ri >u pane eight-
KICKED OUT Bishop
Georgs E. Curry of the 14ih
District, who was one cl the
tv/o bishops expelled by the
AME church lasi week for ir
regularities. His districts in
cluded Okie, Ark., and La. H*
. was fciwtfed in 1940,
NMA TO MEET IN
LOS ANGELES
ST. I..OUJS iNNPM The boe;\l
of trustees of the Nat! nal Medical
Association, which met here last
Sunday resolved the controversy
over the next meeting place by vot
hi _ 7 to 2 to hold the U*47 convcr.-
ion !!.’ Lor, Angeles
2 CHARGE 'BEATINGS
4 *S BUBO PROBE
CONTINUES
Jackson. Miss. Two raw; Tues
oe;. swore that they were beaten
because they sought to vote last
Jjrjy ;>i ;, Demncratic nr'fnarv "lec
tion in which Senator Theodore G.
Bilbo of Mississippi was nominate;.!
for a third term
The witnesses testified at the
hearing which is eom'ucied by the
Senate Investigating Committee
that Bilbo campaign tactics kept
them from exercising their consti
tutional rights as voters.
Vernado R. Collier of Gulfport
testified that on July 2 when he
end his wife, entered the city hail
?;.tc 'ote. one of 4i group f white m- ■.
Ip :. ;• rridor stuck out his arm
and stopped him.
“You people don't vote here to
day.' Ik- .quoted the white man as
having said, ‘•Come hack tom-<'
i OH'"
He -aid 10 or 15 white men then
swarmed him and beat him
until he lost conscious and threw
him ut of the city ball porch. IBs
wife who protested was also Hog
ged.
Richard E Daniel testified Shat
he was not allowed to vote at Gulf
v.... ■n '.' .k by two e hite men
■v ordered him to ‘’Lake Unit t>;..
•J off then taker! to a jail and be-at
... ...pyrtsibir bv a nolle- ■"•fficer
named 'Williams".
H displayed to the committee
ciothii'. • -pi. shad with brown stains
lie raid was blood from injuries m
the beating.
" FIERY CROSS
APPEARS IN
ATLANTIC CITY
BY MIKE HENLEY
ATLANTIC CITY 'AND A
stir was created araon? residents ot
Atlantic City's north side when :
ihc trade mark oi the Ku Kin.-:
Klan. a fiery cross five fee; high. ,
was found iashed to a teleph tv/
"os': tests than 10 blocks from the
ity halt here last Monday night.
The? cross, pieced togethei with
two by fours and well tarred i >
last, a lone time, was situated in th->
500 block on North Ohio Avenue
Whether it was the joke of some
| prankster - r the real thing was un
known ot the time, but the belief
, expressed by some observers is
I • tha' the emblem is s warning of •
the terrorist invasion, not by the
| klan. but the Columbians, In:., 1
I newest thing in hate groups, re
; ; eently organized in Georgia.
Immediate investigation into tli.
i incident was undertaken by a. J
Jones, local chairman of the Equal
| Rights league, who said that what
i over evidence uncovered would be
! turned ovei to police
Typical ot comment made by res- i
i idents was that of the Rev. C. T.
> M uyo. pastor of Shiloh Baptist
Church in Ocean City, wh i said
vVfcr heard and read about such m
! cidents in the south and if some*
1 thing like this is starting here in
j Atlantic City, the police should do
t something now to stop it,”
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OR. H. k. McfKOßM’i |
Dr. Hardy Liston
Deems As Next
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Smith Prexy
Representing thousands of alumni of .Johnson C.
Smith University, a special meet tag of the General Alumni
Association at Greensboro lasi Thursday decided u'pon
a seten-point program, with the eievation of Or. Henry
1 .awrence AleCrorey, 83-year old president, to the post
of ‘‘President Emeritus” of the institution, and the choice
oi : i linger and more energetic man to take his place '
n- active head, wit It Dr Hardy Liston, present executive,
'.ice-president being deemed unacceptable to the alumni
group, for the presidency, as the most outstanding point
in tin* program. However, closely following this, in im
portance, and seemingly hinged upon the principle point.,
was the decision to asi for alumni control of the athletics
■of tie un\ersity. This latter fact was imparted to the
it!embers of the Smith football squad in the dressing-room ;
between the halves of the Smith-A. &T. game, and the
players cheered to the rafters, went back upon the field.
■ and twice surged down to the Aggie one-fool Sine, even :
| though they lost the ball on fumbles, lt was understood;
also that the alumni would back Coach Byrd Crudup, new
loot ball mentor, ami give hint such backing as needed
in the corning years.
. . , Special Meeting , , .
Acting under the authority
granted him by Section Two,
| Article Seven of the Constitution
jof the General Alumni Associa
; Uon, Attorney Thomas H. Wyehe, j
ot Charlotte, President of Gen- '
i era) Association, called the meet
ing, wtih time set for Thanks
j giving afternoon prior to the
: annual Turkey-Day clash, and
representatives from numerous \
j chapters were heard from, eith
er in person, by proxy or by
te;egrams and letters. The trend •
l of all the communications was
in lull accordance with thf de- ,
isi res of the body to execute a ■
'program designed to bring a
greater measure of co-operation;
'between the school and its alum- :
: ni.
There wa s no castigation oi
iDi. McCrorey at the meeting, nor
were any reflections cast upon ]
him. However, it was the ursan ;
; :mcus opinion of the group that
there .should be a change in the
active presidency of the instxtu*
i I ion, and that such could be more
ieasily effected if Dr. McCrorey
v. e i e to become ‘President
. Emeritus'’. A motion that such j
a suggstion be made in the form '
'of a recommendation, and given
to the President and the Board
oi Trustees was made and pass
ed.
A number of complaints were !
made as to the performance oi !
j Dr. H Lardy Liston, now Exe* j
i cutive Vice-President of the uni- 1
versity, and the body expressed
its feeling that Di. Liston war
iiuoi its choice for the position,
1 should Dr. McCrorey elect to re-1
j tree.
!. . , Alumni Want Athletic
Control . . .
Expressing dissatisfaction with ;
: the failure to exploit the school s '
opportunities in athletics, the}
g -oup voted to request that the I
c: rdroi of athletics at th«* uni •
versity be turned over complete.
| (.Continued on hack page)
(i
.. :',b,
htttf H. I.rwi". recently elect
ed president «l tin National Xr
grti fiMiiam’i' association, last
week announced rie of the most
tui founders' week e.ele
b,aliom in Hie history of Negro
insurance firm hi- Vfro-Ameri
can IHe office m .!j.'Usiuiiiviliv. j
i'U. The affair honored Or. C. C.
spaulding. Ourham, N. €.. first
president of the. National Negro
Insurance association. iAKP)
Studies Revised
FE.PC Ordinance
j CINCINNATI i.A.NP) Hearing,
on tiu revised fair > v..p’ ymerit:
• i.'.cii. - ordinance, dc-s-i-med to,
ombrt the see rogatory employ- •
rnent pattern throughout the city i
wherein Negroes arc ‘orced uj ac- !
■ ■■. menial jobs of a low wage j
• • K, beg oh here Monday by J
,he city council '- lav, committee, j
I’he iiili authored and sponsored!
1 rhe local NAACP branch, was]
■ 1 i nduced to the council early last |
Couitcilmun James G. Stewart.. ]
j foi consideration and ; udy, |
j Ai the time of it:- submission
j . .voi James C. Stewart chairman j
j : the law c mrnitfee. announced
S ' he would not set the usual
| '.it toi fie- hearing of the propes- !
*» OG,Fu L lii.Ji vt' «.. uu»ic (
whh'i it v. oulc. ,c :hf only
in in; the cinnmitltf-'s calendar.
VOTE AGAINST
INVEST CATION
OT Gl TRIALS
Washington. D. C. — (NNPAI—
j The Senate war investigating com-;
iTiitb/r last Tuesday voted S to 4.
' against 'ending a subcommittee •'
• ov! mu.- to investigate the opera- !
lions of the American Military
;G vernment n. Germany Mil i
; Austria.
Involved in the demand for the i
I inquiry /ere charges of rniscon
' due!, by colored troops m the
‘American occupation /one in Ger
; many.
STUDIES CASE Os
YOUNG KILLERS
Raleigh Barring interven
tion by Governor Cherry, two
| young Sampson County men will
‘ :li< for murder in the State’s gas
chamber on December 13.
The two- Herman Matthews,
19, and Calvin Coolidge Williams,
19—were previously scheduled to
| die on November 15, but were
! granted reprieves by Governor
| Cherry to permit further study
'of their case. With the ending j
of the reprieve period several
days ago, the excutions were au
tomatically sot for December 13
Matthews was 18 and Williams
il7 when they allegedly lured
I John Addison, also a race man,
jin ip the woods on the pretext
lof selling him whiskey and then
I shot and robbed him. The two,
{were convicted last May in
: Sampson Superior Court. The j
- State Supreme Court reviewed'
tin.- yase in late October, and re- j
I jetted an appeal for a new trial.'
CATHOLIC SISTER*
HOODS ACCEPT
NEGRO CANDIDATES
:■ . V .ST. .1 GUIS. Miss •Special*
Negro girls wh fed called to
Hi; i-cliHiou.' life -t? Catholic Sh>
tins will be welcomed into the
ton muiiitv of Ur ivli joiuoo Sis
ters. Servants r.f th Holy Ghost,
it if announced in St. Augustine's
Messenger here.
f'Tihb is v pfen.lly good news
for :i\" .-tales the publican of St.
Augustine',s Seminary. A S- c.t-ty
of the Divine word institution los
training Negro candidates for the
Catholic priesthood, “since 'he
S. -vants of the Holy Ghost, or Blue
Sisters as we cull them because
' f the colored of then' habit, were
founded by our own beloved loun-
I'fr and have been riosely assoei*
i uted with us m much of our mis
r .; v. oik They staff eight of
our Negr > schools in the South.”
Announcement was also made
recently t h ■ the Sisters of St.
Mary of th.* Third Order of St.
Francis, whose headquarter* is in
St Louis, have admitted three Col
s t»;*rci to thC'jj C^ITITTIUtI
-* Th?:- community o f 525 profess
•d member* and novices conduct
• Id hospitals and 4 nurses's training
: school; in the U. S.
Among th; other Catholic Sis*
ter hoods which are interracial ore:
Tin Parish Visitors of Mary Im
. maculate New Y 'rk; .be Sisters
, of Social Service, Lor Angeles; the
Dominican Sister- of Perpetual
Ad ration, Marbitry. Ala; i-uui the
Carmelite Nuns of Boston. Gratae
• R-tpids and Indianapolis.
CORONER INVES.
TICATES DEATH OF
j LOCAL MAN
I
RALEIGH Coroner Irving M.
Cheek Tuesday was investigating
death oi Wilbur Boyd of 512 Mon
tague Lane who died of undeter
mined cause at St. Agnes Hospital
• ab ut litoo Tuesday afternoon.
Officers said he had no bruises
or laciratjqjaK on his body and that
he aparently died of “natural
- uliM : i C. U'F' -v J'j '.’i jilt? ivcu*
Police Department, said after a p.re
liminarj investigation that investi
e.ii.ii.;: indicated Boyd went home
drunk Saturday afternoon and that
lie was admitted to St. Agnes Hos*
pita] about 11:00 Saturday night in
an unconscious condition,
BOOKER f.'''WASHING
TON com
COfe M SALE
Rocky Mount, Va.—S. J. Phil
lips, President of the Booker T.
Washington Birthplace Memorial,
announces that the Booker T.
Washington 50-cents pieces are
being coined at thet Denver,
Philadelphia and San Francisco
Mints, and will be ready tor dis
tribution on December 14th,
This coin will be one of the
most interesting in American
history in that it is the first coir,
ever to be minted in honor of
> Negro and the firs' ever to be
designed by a sculptor of the
: same race. The coin was design
ed h;, Isaac Hathaway of Lex.
ington, Kentucky.
Coin may be secured through
the Booker T. Washington Birth
, place Memorial, Rocky Mount,
Virginia, at a cost of SI.OO each
plus 10-cents for postage and
mailing for those coined at the
Philadelphia and Sa n Francisco
Mints, and $1.50 each plus 10-
! cents postage for those coined at
the Denver Mint. These coins
will make valuable kicpsak.es, in
. centives, prizes and gifts, and
will be cherished for historical
and educational purpose as well
as serving as a tribute to Book
;e. T. Washington, who gave «
fuli measure of service to ali
mankind.
FIVE APPLY FOR
REGULAR ARMY
Five applicants were accepted for
the Regular Army last week, Lt.
' Jewell M. Pate, Raleigh Recruit
ing Sub-Station Commander, has
.nnuu need.
Applicants accepted were James
j W Woodruff la, Route 1, Selma,
i for 18 months unassigned. He serv
■ i d 22 months with the Navy during
the war, discharged Nov. 1, 184(1
j os First Ist Class. Roy G. Jenkins
117. 121 N. Wilmington St., Raleigh,
i for 18 months unassigned, Clarence
|M. Kirk 21 Knigbtdale, for 18
| months unassigned. He has 1 1-4
! years at State College. James M.
: Faiveloth 18, Route 2, Southfield,
| tor 18 months unassSgned, Charles
11,. Godfrey 19. Route 5 Sanford,
tor 18 months unassigned.
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