I MORE THAN 60 NEGROES NOW TEACHING IN WHITE COLLEGES
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V OU'JJK XXVI,~NO* Ml RALEIGH. NORTH CAROLINA WEEK ENDING SATHtDAY FEBiU : AH Vl. if»? PRirK 7c
Cops Who Raped Mother Set Sentence
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Man Cased, Beaten In Jail
7o;o Policemen
Found Guilty
By White Jury
Richmond, Va. (ANP) Two
wnile Richmond policemen were
found guilty of the -ape of a 32-
year-old Negro mother by an. ail
white jury here last week and
the ir punishment fixed at seven
years in the state penitentiary.
The incident was alleged to have
recurred in the officer’s patrol
ear when they offered to carry
the victim home.
Patrolman Carl R. Burleson
and Auxiliary Policeman Leon,
arc! E Davis, the two convicted
men, are free on a bond of -ST
OCK) each subject to a hearing
Feb. 21 on a motion to set aside
the verdict.
Both officers were charged
with the rape case by the com
plainant, who has two children,
after she reported that they had
placed her in their automobile,
driven to the dead e n d of a
street and attacked her in the
early morning of Oct. 20.
The defendants denied the
charges when they took the wit.
rn;s stand. They claimed that
th< accuser asked them to take
her home.
Be? are rendering then deci
sion, the jury deliberated more
tier, an hour. Adjusting Ire
w- rditig oi the verdict delayed
the decision a few minutes.
While making he: testimony
against the. officers on the wit
ness stand, the complainant de
clared that the two officers
• Continued oh page 8)
LOCAL MAN HELD ■
IN DEATH PROBE
RALEIGH Quick work bv lo
cal detectives Friday resulted in
Harold Tillman, whit*:-, of 306 West
Jones Street being bound under
$560 bond for trial tr next session
of Wake County Superior Court on
a charge of manslaughter less than
two hours after police received a
report on the death of William
Johnson of 716 Man ley Street.
Coroner Irving M. Cheek said
Johnson died at St. Agnes hospital
about 2:05 a. m. Friday morning
apparently from a brain concus
sion, and that Tillman waived
hearing on the manslaughter charge
brought against him a result of
Johnson’s death.
W. G. Mactrey and H. 1,. Peebles,
detective sergeant who investigated
the case said that Tillman admit
ted having a fight with Johnson
Tuesday afternoon about 5:30 at the
Superweld Service Garage, I2i W.
I-HA Employs
Few Negroes
NEGRO COMBAT
TEAM TO TAKE
OVER 3 JAP BBT.
GIFU, Japan (NNPAi A col
ored regimental combat team will
take over three of ihe choicest
Japanese districts soon when the
24th Infantry Regiment joins the
occupation forces.
Already the fni*d battalion of the
Twenty-fourth. l,ioO men, is train
ing at a camp lon miles from Gifu
and 250 miles west of Tokyo The
regiment will he near its full
(Continued on page
TEXTBOOKS OMIT
CONTRIBUTIONS
OF NEGROES
NEW YORK (ANP) _ A two
year study of 413 textbooks used
in elementary and secondary
schools and in introductory college
courses throughout the country re
veal that they ignore the contri
butions of Negroes to America's
progress.
That revelation wa; made here
last week by Dr. Howard E. Wil
son, assistant director of the Car
negie Endowment for Internation
al Pence, and deputy director of
the United Nations Education::!.
Scientific and Cultural organiza
tion. who reported to a group of
educators and publishers on the
findings of a iO-inan committee :o
study and analyze textbooks, dur
ing a dimmer ut the Commoder-.-
hotel.
Negro achievement, progress and
contribution to American life 1m
played down by omission in most
of the textbooks, Dr. Wilson’s com
ntittce studied. The typical text ana
teaching guide tend:: to ignore N* -
. roes and their contribution to con
temporary society, he said.
Davie Street where both were em
ployed.
Tiilman asked Johnson to was!'
a cylinder head, but Johnson want
ed James Harris. 833 East Bragg
Street, another employee, to do tin;
job. according to officers reports
so Tiilman pushed Johnson out of
. the way and picked up the cylin
| dor head.
Johnson said that Tillman “had
| better not push him again," and
had started to say something else
when Tillman, hit him on the jaw,
\ knocking him across the bumper of
an automobile.
Tillman said he did not know
whether Johnson's head hit the
floor of the garage, but that he
went out. washed the- cylinder head
■:nd returned to the garage. When
Tillman returned Johnson said he
i would “get even with” Tillman and
Continued on back page
WASHINGTON, D C. iNNPA) —
Neither in the Washington head
quarters nor in ihe field are col- ,
--red administrative personnel toe
i ing employed on an equitable basis
;to curry on! the program of the j
recently created Farmers Home:
I Administration, if was learned last.
: Saturday.
; The Farmers' Home Administra- j
j lion, created by the act of August j
; !4, 1040, is charged with the con
tinuation of the rehabilitation and ]
1 farm tenancy programs previously f
carried out by the Farm Security |
Administration, which was abolish- j
; ed by the act, and the operation of j
the crop and feed loan program.
Estimates for 3948 call for 147
employees in the Washington head- :
quarters of the Farmers’ Home Ad
ministration, ranging in title from
! custodial workers to administrator.
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GAS HOI S! Above is the
Weldon ian where Osbuin Long
lost his *•-, csight a-, a result of
beating and gaging: sustained in
the jail when he «« arrested on
a disorderly conduct charge :>n
January 4. Following the beat
WHS Gets Vocational Building *
RALEIGH A temporary build
c » with an area of 3.000 feet fer
housing a vocational training pro
gram for veterans at Washington
High School has been made avail
able, it was reported here Tuesday
An application for equipment to
be used in the building for provid •
iag inst-rur-tion in the building an
an automobile trade.- hue been ap
proved in full, but no estimate
N. 0, STATE
HEALTH SCHOOL
GETS $8,090
DURHAM -AN Pi - North Caru
•h: Safe College for Negros, Dr.
E. Shepard, president, has
received Sigaoo from the National
Foundation foi Infantile paralysis.
Tn. rum will be used in aiding ihe
college to develop its school of
p oh: health St i the only Negro
i; titution with a program of this
type.
The awar« brings the amount re
ceived by Negro institution - dure,;
Uie current year up to sHiß,o!i<j. it
announced, in addition Negro
si. Jr* i- havi receiv'd more than
$71,000 during the currant school
y. a: for fellowship; and -chola; -
ship.- for training in health educa
'!«n. orthepi-dic nursing, physical
herapy anti advanced training of
shyvicians. The funds were made
• • vuilablc by the March of Dimes
:ampaign.
NEGROES ON WHITE COLLEGE FACULTIES
AS FAR SOUTH AS BLACK MOUNTAIN, N. C
BY ALBERT ANDERSON
(Tilt.’AGO <ANP) - The steady
growth in the number of Negroes
who have been placed upon facul
ties of white college--. throughout
north, and even as far south
~s Black Mountain College in Non r
Carolina has come about with a
wiftriess which nas caught many
J us unaware.
The lisi which does not consci
ously include those below the rank
of instructor, omitting teaching fel
lows of whom there may be a great
r.iany, is, as follows:
Walter Anderson, Antioch Col
lege, Yellow Springs, Ohio; Charles;
A. H. Benjamin and Lestine Grant,
Sampson College. Geneva. N. V.:
Dr. Mary Huff Diggs. Alfred £>.
Martin and Warren Brown, Hunter
College, New York; Tannery F.
Dockery. University of Sou-hern
California, Los. Angeles; Joseph T.
i Gear. University of California.
Berkeley: Eugene Clay Holmes.
College of City of New York: Ed
ward Nelson Palmer. Wade Ellir.
Robert Hayden, and Martin Strtler,
•M. D. surgery. University of Michi
gan; Sarah M. Pereira, Clifford L.
GrjY«fc and jvjrs. Samaiie fgs
injr -and gasing by the officers
tvho arrested him, he was kept
in jail without medical attention
until the following day when hr
called a man passing' the jail and
asked hint to get an officer to
take him to a doctor.
- th. value of the equipment :avail-
Federal authorities (ejected Sup
i ' el' .:endfri;: Jessie O. Sanderson s
npnlieaction for a building which
would provide €.OOO feet of floor
- -u - but Atlanta official? have
indicated that the remaining 3.000
i feet of building will be provided
- when Congress grants the Federal
f '.Yorks. Agency additional funds.
North Carolina
Mutual Has 117
Million In Force
Durham (A.N-P) North Caro
lina Mutual Life Insurance Com
-5 now has insurance tn force
to the amount of $117,000,001),
'(’resident C. C Spaulding an
nounced at the 48th annual po
licyholders meetin.; h-’ld here
lasi i, Seven seemed to be
charmed number in the report
v/hieh Mr. Spaulding referred.
“Preliminary calculations in
dicate./’ he said, “assets in ex
cess of 517.000,000 insurance tn
force over $117,000,000 and bent
lit* paid in policy claims and
matured endowments of more
than $27,000,000."
The policyholders meeting of
North Carolina Mutual is also
Jr-, Fcnn College. Cleveland; Uni
ver:-.ty of lowa. Howard Thurman:
William Chase Rutgers; Dr. Alain
Locke. Mrs Maggie B. Daniels, Mrs.
T'ruJirr R Cngys and Mary Hinfc
!-ori University <:t Wisconsin.
Mr:. Sybil Jones;, George Wil
liams CdHfsge. Chicago; Dr. Na-
SCAD RULING ENDS
RR SEGREGATION
New York Segregation of Ne
gro employees of the Pennsylvania
; Railroad in locker rooms -with tn
-1 ferior faciliiie« has been discontin
; usd through the action of the Nev,
York Slate Commission Against
| D>m riminatton, upon investigation J
1 of a complaint filed with ii bv the
N AACP.
Following the investigation of a i
complaint filed by the NAACP for
Tttam?s J. Byrd, a Pennsylvania I
Rr.tlroad employee, or July 24, (946, ;
, charging that he had been discrim
inated against, in the conditions of !
i r 'r»£ i, '£ r U£«s Lc ih& 2k
Blinded, Kept
In Jail Without
Medical Aid
DIFFERENTIAL
SCHOLARSHIPS
FO 2,500 PUPILS
ATLANTA ANPi - More than
2.50 C •‘different ipl scholarships
ft- v e been granted by southern
slate.--, with the exception of Missis
sippi. to Negroes sea-king to con
tinue thti l ' education through grad
uate study leading to a degree, n
v\::i disclosed here recently.
Ti c 'plan ot offering scholarship?
is the 'outgrowth of the ?j. S. S’-
pi-eme court decision nine yea.-:
wo holding it to be illegal for a
suite to provide educational oppor
'.unities on a certain level for on:
racial group and refuse anotlwi
group >h< same opportunities.
MissiHppi I: the only stc te which
bus not undertaken the costly sys
tem of "differential scholarships*
o monetary grant which make:
n.. tht difference- it would cost a
(Continued or: ouge 8?
the stockholder* meeting in-as
much as: there i-.s no stock, it be
ing a mutual company, the only
really big Negro company sc
constituted. Mr. Spaulding an
nounced that dividend payments
.to policy holders would be con
. tinued as in previous years. A
pension plan for company em
ployes was approved.
Office of N. C. Mutual were ail
reelected. They are; C. C.
Spaulding, president; W. J. Ken
nedy. Jr., vice-president, secre
tary: E. R. Merrick, vice-presi
dent, treasurer; Di Clyde Don
nell, vice-president, medical di
rector; M A. Goins, assistant
(Continued on page 83
I harm; I Calloway, University of
i Minor.-:. iirsdieai school; Mark Ash
land Fax. Jacob Lawrence. Roland
Hayes Carol Brice and Percy H.
R,i kr - Biack Mountain College, N
C.. Mrs. Henrietta Herod McMil
lan. Chicago Teachers College; Al
lison Davis, Mark Hanna Watkins,
lockers on the basis: of race anu '
color in violation of the Lffi
Against Discrimination, Elmer A.
Carter, Commissioner or SCAD,
notified Mr. Byrd that future lock
er assignments would be made on
; the basis of seniority. In h letter i
to Mr. Byrd, Mr. Carter reported i'
that the complaint had been ad- j:
! justed as follows. ; 1
■‘Following the notification of <
| the Pennsylvania Railroad of the 1
finding of prrobsble cause for ere
citing (he allegations in the com- j!
j plaint, a conference was held with !
gjj, fegsk j
MAN HELD IN
SHOOTIN6
DUNN Le in McLean of Li! '
lington Thursday was bound over ’•
iu Superior Court under fl.-jOO
bond sot slaying ot Henry Hodges, |
LiHinaton white man, it has been i
reported.
Hodges died en route t<- Harnett
County Hospital shortly after he :
whs shot by McLean with a ,22 i
lisle. and the defendant w:is held i
fur trial following a hearing in
win h Judge Floyd H. Taylor ' .on -
noble cause ' for trial
v\ KI .DON Osborn Lon a 3 1-
le;., -aid local men. has Jo:- 1 ht~- eye
sight at '• .isi temporarily, as a re
sult of heating .md gating sustain- •
ed ’."hen he was arrested on &
disorderly voDduet charge on Janu
ary 4. if has just been revealed.
Officers arrested Long and charg
ed him with being drunk and dis
orderly end assault, handcuffed
:-in. and took him 10 jail, according
u reliable report.-., and after he
was confined to the jail he was
ust-atilted by the officei -..h0 made
the arrest
Following the attach . nij gusing
hi paid he was kept in jail without
r n.<!;cal attention, but thru on the
morning of Sunday. January A tie
called a man passing '.he l.nl ~o
hir.. ~ i.. . *. . # *
hint to the doctor He lifts beer* con
fined to the hospital since January
and since that time ha. been
totally blind.
INSTITUTE MAPS PLAN'S TO
K. O. HA Cl AI. PREJUDICE
BALTIMORE (AMP; Plans to
knock out racial prejudice hrr
were outlined in a recent four-day
meeting of -the first Area Institute
of R.*ce relations, sponsored by tne
; act. relations division of the Airier
lean Missionary association of Fisk
CREDIT ONIONS
NOW TOTAL 75 IN
NORTH CAROLINA j
I
BRICKS Seventy five credit j
unions have been organized by Nt-; I
crocs in the State with assets over i
$500,000, handled entirety by Ne-. I
ci oe*. it was revealed here this j
week. j.
Headed bv the Rev. R. E. Check
of Shaw University. continued j ■
growth of credit unions among Nr- j
•-trees in the State is manifested in J
establishment, of the N. C. Council |
of Credit Unions and Associations.}
Credit unions have helped their j
members by making loans for pur- I
base of farms, homes, furniture.)
fertilizer, farm equipment, seed, j
feed and automobiles and aided j
number.*- in educating their ehfl- !
cirt-n and themselves, making re- ;
pair: on their homes and in the j
payment of medical expenses.
Dr. Abram L. Harris, University of 1
Chicago; Marie Jacobs and Sarah 1
M. Liston. University of Connects - j
cut. Olive Streatw. Fold ham Uni- !
ver.-ity. Dr William A Hinton, j
Harvard Medical School and Sim- j
mens College; Forresi Q Wiggins |
university of Minnesota; E. Frank- j
!in Fruitier. Nevr York School of j
Soria! work and Sarah Lawrence j
College; Alphonse Hcningburg ana i
Estelle Massey Riddle, New York i
University j
Kenneth B. dark. Queens Col- \
logo; Edward Chandler Alyse Gra- !
ham. -'Lorenzo Turner, Mrs Robert i
C. Weaver. Sinclair Drake and j
Charlemae Rollins, Roosevelt. Col- J
leg.'. Chicago; Catherine C. Golight- I
!y and Cornelius L. Golightly, 1
.Jlivel College, Michigan, Raymond j
Brown, University of Akron- Ken- i
nth B. Clark and Lawrence D. Red
dick, Eugene C. Holmes, College of :
the City of New York; Adelaide j
Cromweli Hill, Smith College: !
Grace E. Barr, Teachers College;
Constance Reslip, City of Toledo ;
U.; Sterling A. Brown, Vassar; ■
Charles W. Buggs, Betilr.h Whitby, •
Wa.vne University. Detroit; Made-
K-yill;liQril p&aii ;
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LIBR ARI \N IIM i AI OK
VISITS SHAW
When Pro! Hay'd Brevier
Thomas of the Lott Can-.i Mis
sion m Brewervillc, Liberia, vis
ited Shaw Loiversity. two Liber
ian students at Shaw were espec
ially happy to greet him The stu
dents. Misses Angie Brooks and
Virgin Islands
Prosper Under
Race Governor
WASHINGTON. I). C, iJSNPA)---
Til fiscal year ended June SO, last,
was a protracted period oj transi
• ion between two administrations
:n the- Vrigin Islands, with an Ac
: ing Governor fa actioning wilho .
"I f*
; going executive or any assui ence
to the plans or program of the
' new administration. according .to
Ihe smiiu-I report of Governor Wil
j Rani H Hasp. fa the Secretary of
: ■ hi:* Inl-cTiOl .
The report t&tad that the tran
sitional administration of nocesm
ly 'focused it.- attention upon the
limited through important objec
tives of maintaining essential pub
lic services and admiaistratpe fonts-
Otis." adding:
•■I; is to the great credit of the
Acting Governor uni those who
,er on during this period that
orderly machinery -C government
functioning in normal fashion was
turned over to the iticominy Gov
mo'r at the end of the .••ear."
•'Continued on Pack earel
I CONVERTS NAZI. MESS
j INTO PLAY CENTER . '
M |L| | M n.,.,11,11 ,
BY DORA JANE HAMBLIN
American Rid Cross Correspondent
MUNICH. Germany in the
ornate-. Bavarian-style building that
used to bouse an officers' mess for
.he Nazis who trained Germany’s
SS troopers in anti-aircraft techni
que--. Gls of the 514th Quartermas
ter Group now have one of the
most complete American Red Cross
recreational areas in Germany.
"Flak Kaserne.” the German
name for the uck-ack training
school was one of Hitler’s pet pro
jects, elaborately built to train only
- form trooper corporals. Most of
its barracks are unchanged; many
■till bear faded pictures of Allied
Tanks and planes, painted there to
acquaint students with enemy wea
pons. But along the roads which
criss-cross the Kaseme are new
names Massachusetts Avenue.
Colorado Street, Georgia Avenue —
Warrant Denied
In Shooting Case
| BIRMINGHAM. Ala - Called
j - >_,qhcr by the Southern Negro
i south Congress, u group of Negro
j; nd white- citizens met last week at
he !6th Street Baptist Church to
discuss action to bring- to justice
the murderer of Willie Daniel,
Otuliriing the case, Arthur G.
Price, staff member of the South
ern Negro Youth Congress-, said.
“Or; December 21, Willie Daniel,
21 year oib veteran was shot
through the side arm killed while
Christmas shopping with his wife.
To date no action has been taken
bv the city of Bessemer to indict
John Vnncterfnrd, TCI guard who
kilied this man without, provoca
tion.''
The father of the deceased with
A D -Shores, local attorney visited
ih-.. Bessemer deputy solicitor ant
ing Ihct v warrant be issued ioi
jjTjrWj.uuuvd gttch
M:< Mr t scans arc both fresh
men (b,;. are shown above with
Mi Thomas and his mother, Mrs,
t oi a Pair Thomas, a graduate of
Shan University, class of ‘95.
Prom left to right are, Miss
Brooks. Mrs. Thomas Mr. Thom
as and .Miss Tagem.
3 CHILIM DIE
IX.RU7F
LUMBERTON Two children
Mr. and Mrs. Junioi Lilly, ten
,. s on the farm of Alexander
Giliis nc-ai Harkton were burned
to death Tuesday afternoon in
flames which destroyed their home,
Coroner D W. Biggs reported
Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Lilly were away
from home at the lime of the blaze,
bu! while other' children in the
uou-*t which war occupied by two
fan.;hen eiti-irr .•-raped or were
- ; -ued. 'hf* I HI 1 • tots who were
;>i>ad three and four, could not be
•vncNii by adults who discovered
ihe lire aftei it hod spreaded all
over the house
S.iict- thv fire is considered of ac
rt;il no inquest will be held.
mm in The officers" mess, the
Kaseme - roost attractive building,
things hav been upset completely.
One yeai okLtL Flak Kaseme
Club v. as opened in two rooms of
(he damaged building by Mrs Ed
• Continued on back page)
taxicalTbaby
Henderson —-An eight pound
baby girl was born to the wife of
Theodore Taylor in a taxicab as
they were hurrying to Jubilee
Hospital at. 8:30 Friday morning.
Taylor assisted Mrs. Taylor at
the birth of this, their niaeth
child, and when the infant had
arrived, turned to tire driver and
said: “Everything is all right now
Drive us back home" Mother and
daughter were later reported
doing nicely.
OFFENSIVE
NURSERY RHYME
DROPPED
i Nov York The in elusion of a
! peculiar anti-Negro version of an
! old nursery rhyme in a recent ten
! cent edition of ‘-Mother Goose”,
I published by the Samuel Love
! Company of Kenosha, Wisconsin,
! was decried by Madison S. Jones
| f r„ NAACP administrative assist
nt. m a letter to the publisher
which resulted in his promise to
j delete the offensive rhyme from
any repritiis.
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