I MORE THAN 60 NEGROES NOW TEACHING IN WHITE COLLEGES \ ... - _ _ _ _ J \ + ’ vv'y.j • ; W* 'v'.v,; *- v .V **.'•'•«,' . < - '• ..:*. •' • - •' ; . •. ' >■•*. ■ ' ■ *• - "■*•* v ■ -'•* ■' •* • Tur C' A PHI TMT A Xf' 1 JlxJd rV KvJ 11\ 1A i\ V OU'JJK XXVI,~NO* Ml RALEIGH. NORTH CAROLINA WEEK ENDING SATHtDAY FEBiU : AH Vl. if»? PRirK 7c Cops Who Raped Mother Set Sentence ************** ******* **★ * * ★ 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. I jSqgUMI §a gajje VismjL _ ' v • •• .; ‘ • -■ w/; -,>>>'ffoyoy v-.** xXvtyxr.-JxSßfc 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. 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._,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. Ik-OUWiVvit-'U Oil pt>gv 21