North Carolina Newspapers

2 CHARGED WITH SLAVERY - ’ . VOLUME XXVI, NO. 36 HUGE SUGAR RACKET EXPOSED ******* *** ****** * ★ ★ * ** ***** Urges Killing Os Negroes WOL HAILS QUICK ACTION AGAINST S. C. LYNCHERS ASFVILLE <WDL> Sheriff R H. Beardon of Greenville, S. L., >c ceived a congratulatory letter .from Joe Fclmet. southern field secre tary of the Workers Defense Lea gue tor his prompt action in ound ing up the lynchers of Waite Earle. u Negro. 1 A local WDL investigation found the usual situation of nobody will ing to talk. All but one of the 30 arrested are cab drivers, but as an Easley cab driver expressed it: | ''The taxi drivers sue afraid to talk" It was as a suspect in the fat al stabbing: slid robbery of a Greenville orb driver that Earle was arrested. The men who hang around court houses, bus stations and bars ap per-ed glad the lynching happened They expressed the view tha Earle got what he deserved and were convinced of his guilt, even though he had not come to trial. One mar; told the WDL investi gator that several police officers ! were involved in an unsolved lynching several years ago COP CHARGED WITH RAPE SKIPS BOND Richmond. Va. —(NNPA> —Police Carl JR. Burleson, white, 27, who was on bond pending court action on a motion for a new trial in a ease involving the rape of a col ored woman, skipped his bone and was a fugitive from justice when the motion came up ‘•fo" argument last. Friday. The Richmond Police Department M*t out a general alarm for his . r rtst but up until last Monday he had not. been apprehended. Captain ; O. D. Garton, head of the Detective Bureau, has received a reply to a telegram sen* police >n Forest City. N. C.. that Burleson had been lo cated there but that he would be arrested if the police found him. Burleson gave the name of a Forest City policeman as a refer ence when he joined the local po lice force. Burleson, a traffic policeman, and Leonard E, Davis, aa auxiliary policeman, were convicted by a jury in Hustings Court January 18 of raping a colored woman as Maid Held In .' _ 1 Bondage For Nearly 30 Years j TEXANS AGAINST SEGREGATION IN SCHOOLS ! HCfftSTON. Texas Condemn-| ing separate schools and calling for j the end of segregation in Texes : public acvhools. the Houston N A j A C. P. branch's '‘kick-off' meet- 1 tog tor its 1947 membership cam- . paign *ot off to a rousing start, on 1 February 23rd. The resolution, \,re~ i sensed, to a packed house-, was greeted by enthusiastic cheers The ] group also adopted resolutions call ing jßor an anti-lynebng Mil and > opposing both slate and federal an ti debar lagjsration. m\ back oa@e> J RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA WEEK ENDING SATURDAY. MARCH 8. 1917 Negro Sleuths Blast Lid Off Black Market CHICAGO < ANP) Two Negro sleuths brought hern from New York by the federal government ; blew the lid off a huge nation-wide ' sugar racket which is reported to have diverted from 8,000.000 i pounds of sugar from regular dis* : i.riibution channels and made mii ; lilons of dollars in the processs. 1 Headquarters ioi die gang of black market dealers and counterfeiters. I consisting of both white and Ne groes. was located in the heart, ot Chicago's southside. according to j toe federal agents. The operators sold the stamps at . prices ranging from three cents to 30 cents, depending upon the nnm ber ot middlemen involved and whether the stamps were coulter : feit or legitimate Louis Pierce was : charged with stealing 8,000 No 4 1 ration books from an OPA ware house (Continued on back page) ' ter they had arrested her and her ! companion on a disorderly conduct charge. They sent her male com panion home while they kept her in a police car and drove her to a lonely spot. At the time of their conviction tiieii lawyers made a motion for a new trial and Judge John L. In ; gram set. last Friday as the date ' for hearing arguments on the mo tion to set aside the verdict. Burleson was free under a $3,- 000 bond and failed to appear. A warrant was issued for his arrest Davis was brought into court from the city jail. Hr had been free on ; owl for a short time after his con viction, but his father, who had j signed the bona, turned him ov :-i to the court. Judge Ingram postponed argu ments on the motion for a new trial until March 18 C. B. Harmon i signed Burleson’s bond and March I 4 has been set as the date when ; he must show cause why the bond j should not be forfeited. SAN DIEGO, Cal. (ANPj Cal- i iforma got. its first recorded case of ; slavery since Civil war days when I 181 agents accused a former j ! Massachusetts white couple of ! ■ holding a maid in a condition of : involuntary servitude for nearly I 30 years, it. was revealed here last! ! week. ! Principals in the case are Alfred 1 J Wesley Ingalls. 64; his wife, Mira! ; Elizabeth, 62; and Dora L. Jones, j ; 57-year old maid. Specifically. In- ■ j galls, a former member of the i ! Massachusetts legislature and now | {n retired attorney is charged, with j 1 his wife., with violation of the 18th | amendment of the constitution by forcing Miss Jones into servitude i jon threats of exposure of an al-, ; leged rrimir'il act. j William TUtzi. assistant t.V S. at- ! t&rney of Los Angeles, said a? the | i ehanng where the couple was »r~ j {Gantipuefi on back jn>fe> I S, 0, RUSHES LAW SCHOOL COLUMBIA, S C. (AMP) i Prodded by « 5,15,000 damage suit, filed against the University of ' South Carolina Law school by vet eran John H W righten when it , rejected his application, the S. O.; legislature this week was rushing ,'hro-iyh a mock 1« .-hoo* at Stale. College in Orangeburg, it was re . vtaled this week Disclosure of the fact was made | in Jeters to Wrighten fron: presi- ! ; clcnt M. F. Whittaker of the j : Orangeburg institution Replying to an inquiry, Mr Whittaker wrote Mr Wrighien | ; February 12 that there was no law j school hi State College. Ten days; 1 later. February 22, the college i prexy wrote again saying that since i 1 ins first letter he had been been told the house of representative had authorized a law school and ; appropriated money for it. 3 mwm:im LIFE IS CANCER TOEE IN IL S. NEW YORK. N. Y. -■ if you ; trunk you are free from the chances >f dying of cancer, listen to this: One American. colored and : white, dies of cancer every three ; minutes Os the 135.000.000 \meri i ns now living. 17.000,000 even tually will die of it Tins means one of every eight Americans liv ing now will die of cancer. About 179 000 Americans will die this year unless the people do something about it. C APITAL GETS RADIO ANNOUNCER WASHINGTON (ANP) Reu t ien Brown has recently joined the • tuff of WQQW. He is the first Ne \ re radio announcer in this city. It. Brown was born in Kansas • tty. Mo., and a graduate of the I University of Kansas. He studied rpcch while in school and has done ' •'<*me dramatic work in the Little theatre in Kansas City. He was a j lieutenant in the army air forces. Brothers VIRGINIA TERMED KtLIWLNG. END OF DEMOCRACY | RICHMOND Va. -- Virginia is i • b *th the cradle and the grave- ; | yard of democracy, Jonathan | Daniels, executive editor of the j Raleigh. N. C., News and Observes , ; lild the Virginia Retail Hardware (Dealers Association at- then an j Stual public meeting hers Tuesday. He said the poll tax in Virginia Its just as ugly as it is in Mississip |pi and both slates, because ot • their poll tax laws, disfranchise i more southern white men than ! southern Negroes. i Gov. William M. Tuck predicted ; ter "the false brand of democracy” | which is supported by Daniels "a : quiet funeral in all southern states, jand that it will be buried without i enough mourners to sing a re (spitern" NAACP SCORES BIAS ARMY ENLISTMENT WASHINGTON. J. C Di - : . HTiiiiatory requb fr. -'u'.' for tht. ••i.tistmcnt of Negroes in the U. S. iA I my were scored on February 24th by Jesse O. Dedincn. secretary v>- tc-rans’ affairs, NAACP. in ■> ! letter at protest to Assistant Secre i,.i v of Wai Howard Peterson Such a policy, which would require Negro enlistees in the Regular l Ai my to make & score of 39 per c m or. higher c-o the Army Gener-' | al Classification Tests. Mi. Dedrnon • as undemocratic. In his let- ’ ‘ tc: of protest. Mr. Dedmon stated: “It has come to the attention of . '.he NAACP that enlistment in the I Regular Army for Negro applicants iof the Army of ti .United States reqish.s it',:' they have a ceejrdec: ■ , A .GCT standard score of 39 or high- J otherwise eligible and quali fied for enlistment, without regard |to Military Occupational Specialty "Some time ago. our organization ? v\, oie to the War Department pro testing the use of any restricted b.irl' for enlistment. hi the A Ttny cf | any per-onr:<:} based on race or j color, II the present policy of the : War Department restricts Negro j enlistments in the Regular Army to j those who have an AGCT score of y-i or higher because of the fact wist they are Negroes, who believe such a policy to be discriminatory ai-d undemocratic. We request that such a policy based on race . ; be discontinued.” Ethiopia Training Pilots NAACP ASKS UN CONSIDER NEGRO S PLIGHT NEW YORK. N. Y. Resting its! case on the purpose stated in the United Nations Charter that there; shall be respect “for human rights :;:<d for fundamental freedoms for ih, without distinction as to race, sex. language or religion" the NAACP. on. February 21st present ed to the Human Rights Cornmis-: sum of the United Nations a state ment on the denial of human rights to minorities in the case of citizens of Negro decent m the U. S and appealed to the United Nations 1 fe - redress Dr Vi. E B. Dtrßois. in ‘he in (Continued on back page; Freed In Flogging Case MONROE. Gn. lANpi James , : Vcrner. 36-year-old white man, j hs; acquitted last week Os charges. . th.il lie and his brother. Tom. com-. j n.iteri assault and battery on Gol- \ , den Lamar Howard 18-year-old • v.imess in the Athens federal dis- i t’. set grand jury probe. Verner was acquitted despite the j ; fact that he openly admitted he beat Howard until his fists were j | bloody. The question finally re sol v- ; i cd itself into the defense attorney’s i summary of pitting “this nigger's; vot'd against that of these two fine' , v.-hite gentlemen.” The case appeared open-shut CHILD KILLED BY AXE BLOW KINSTON Coroner Raymond Pollock of New Bern Thursday was investigating the accidental death of a six-year-old daughter of • George King of Kinston Route 1, vho died of an accidental axe. wound inflicted by her father at their home abevt 6:30 Wednesday Newspaper Says Federal Court Upsetting South TEACHERS FORM ORGANIZATION Memphis. Tenn.—Meeting foi tht first time in what in expected tc he* one of the most significant \ f : canimations in 'he entire South i;>nd. officers of .state teachers .nid education officials of elev en states assembled bore the pa.-t ovk-Ci. i - * . ft 1 .1 U.ge. The organization which this g.oup formed is called toe Con ftrenc*- of Stab- Teachers and Education Association Officials These persons represent the many thousands of teachers in tnc country having separate schools for colored children. The Confer-: nee declared that Legro education organizations snQuid demand and work for 1' . practice in America of the idea is of democracy as well as abroad. The group strongly r-n pod esrmvoeemßDLU Sawtceks dorsed movements for equal iza non of educational opportunities tCor.tinued on page five l ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia (ANP* Ethiopia has rcceivu.; from j Sweden six civilian planet- of the Saub-Safir'' type. Thr planes, v.hich :-rc three scaurs, were ii. wn fron Sweden to Addis- Aba ba, a distance of 6,000 miles, with out a mishap and arrived ahead ot schedule. They attracted much attention a very landing point ii' Europe and Africa. Five young Ethiopian ;r cadets j.rv familiarizing themselves with tiie Hying qudiiu -of the Safir ut rhi Saab plant Swedish instruc tor-- to the number of 20 are acting as insti uctors at the Ethiopian Air Forces base at Bishoftu. near Ad di., Ababa The Safil is a low wing ed monoplane ‘.vith a 130 HP De HLviland Gipsy Major engine equipped with a tricycle under car ring-::. it has ,i erasing speed ■>£ 130 tv.:lo: and ;- maximum speed of 145 miles riii hour. Wing span is 34 feet 8 inches. (Continued on oack page) j i.gainst James Venter from the opening statemur:’ Every witness ! admitted James Vcrncr had struck . and assaulted Howard and oniopk jcis were convinced there was no ! i other verdict other than guilty to j come from the jury room. But. 1 somehow, after almost two hours | deliberation the 12 white men filed into the jury box. to render aver- j diet of not guilty. Defendant Vomer toid the jury: j“1 hit him eight or ten times pret ; ty hard; knocked him down twice.’ j Ton: Venter, the defendant’s ; ' brother, admitted he stood and (Continued on page two* night ! King as cutting wood, and the | . \ child came too close to pick up j some and got in the path *> the' ; nxe. according to reports, and, died i ' before sir could be nubed to a ! 'doctor Ko arrest hr.? teen nuic. GEORGIA STATE , TREXY RESIGNS SAVANNAH, Ga (ANPj--Rcs -1 i gnu Don of Di. Benjaniiii F Hu j tort as president of Georgia State College, was announced from the 1 off ; -ee of the state board of to -1 gents in Atlanta last Meek. Dr. Hubert’s resignation was co-incident to the annual election by the board of heads of thiu 18 , units comprising the Georgia Un iversity system. PRICE 7c GEORGETOWN, S. C ANP; j '!; you have trouble with ■< Negro lull him if you v.-ant to get a fair ; ■lull. ' This, the Georgetown Times, j 149 year old white weekly, said is : h- white south’s attitude because o/ fairness of federal courts. ’.Vriling unc" r “Auger Down South." th-.- editorial sDd, “anger j ; s “.-eng here in the south, but the: Yankees go on slicking their noses | in the south's business.” Leading up to its drastic state- - mem toe nev. so «per accused -.icr*- ”:-.«i-'y iu'hj I tin* south to rectify its and of woo-j iog Negro voter.- Then, it lashed: -ml at federal courts .which it said.; . hod upsri southern tradition of do- j mg wha-.evei was wanted with a ' Negro in court, referring without I so raying to tbe recent government : ~ ■. cn poItC'L - Shull: of BaiEsburg who v/a? tried last November for blinding Isaac j Woodard Because of federal courts, it is j “Under this malicious inter-j j .elation, (.referring to criminal; ififwmaton charges against Shull).; ». man. a peace officer ot private; citizen, may be hailed into court j km Dealing a rsegru. 'Continued on page 8> U HOSPITAL ADMITS FEW RACE PATIENTS BY JAMES L HICKS NX’FA Staff Writer WASHINGTON. D. C Ai : ihough colored veteran:-, constitute 1 more than 3 per cent of the na tion's total veteran population, they ?k iYu. d less th»n 1 1-2 pci cent of • the total number of veterans ad mitted to Veterans Administration ' hospitals and installations during the fiscal year ended June 30, last, according to the annual report of the Veterans Administration, which General Omai N. B-adley, veter ans administrator, submitted to f ung r«ss recently. iContinued oil back page) WHITES «KSt:K.MMiO FROM NEGROES. SAYS PROFESSOR Washington. D. C. - NNPAi Ti.jLie are adequate grounds for believing that the white races of: Europe and Asia descended from j the older Negro and Negroid type races of those two continents W : Leo Hansberry, professor of his tory at Howard University declar ed here in a radio address last' Sunday night. Without naming the anthropoid- j I gists, Mr. Hansbeixy said then j writings have shown that, the de velopments were brought about ■'through morphological rnod if tea- | \ tion induced, in part at least, by ! environmental influences operat- : i ing in accordance with well es- ' ! iafcjisbed principles of riatu.ra.i ; : tovr, _ . i SENTENCE OF DEATH UPHELD BY COURT RALEIGH - Otis Ragland, con . v icted of raping Mr... Floyd Moore Mi.ilia County White -ivoin...:, lasi full lost his appeal to the Supremo Court and must die in tile gat chamber at Central Prison here March H. the Slate Supreme Court s od in a digest of opinions releas ed here Wednesday Evidence in the case showed that November, a few days aftci Ragland had escaped from a Mar (Contmued on back pay ANNIVERSARY FOR GIRL SCOUTS TO RE OBSERVED NEW YORK. N. Y. The thir ty-fifth Anniversary ot Girl Scout ing in the United States will be celebrated on March 12th through out the country, with more than a million girls of all races, creeds, pnd colors aprticipating in the cele bration, it was announced this week by the National Headquarters of Giri Scouts. The theme of the itiebraiion is ‘Girl Scouts Bet ter Citizens Build A Better World' Washington High School To Get Bus Service RALEIGH The Carolina Pow- , and Light Company has agreed to | give adequate- bus service to Wash ington High School students from ! East Raleigh, according to an sn j nouncement made by a special ; ir&nspt.vrtaiioji committee of the ; East Raleigh Civic Forum at its ; regular monthly meeting Sunday A Determined crowd at Maple ; Temple Chrictim-. Church, heard j .the report .of the tentative agree : merit reached between their ccsn tnittce and the bus officials in a j onfcrcnce Smurday. In a previous ; meeting Wednesday the committee ; reported ;o »us off'.ci.ais that the i-ople would have be tie bus ser ■ i-' .e for fht-b' school i-hi’iren even iif they had to provide thc-ir own i i: aiispoi tafion. For this tentative arrangements G ..-:. aheoiiy begun with person - and i>lends owning puvate coaclies and thousands of handbills had ■ ljreii circoiateci tliroughout the city ; coiling out the people tor tneir (Continued on back pagei I CHANGES NEEDED IN CITY GOVERNMENT RALEIGH —Raleigh, a rapidly i developing city, needs many j changes, but according to many j local residents its gieatest need | is a more scientifically adminis : to-ied city government, a sam iij mg of public- opinion or, the 1 proposed city manager plan for 1 the City of Raleigh revealed here ; this week. Advocates of the city manage* plan contend that it minimizes "petty politics' ‘and provides more democratic representation of the interests of the city.” South Park residents point oul that five city blocks, from Smith- ■ field Street to the city lot have. ,no bridges over or under the Southern Railroad, and that in. ; the same area four streets run- 1 mug North toward the down town section are cut off because: there is no crossing over or un , dei the Southern Railroad. Two city block South of Bragg Street were included as part of ! the city several years ago on con dition that the section would be Southern Beauty Congress Maps Plans For Meet Birmingham, A to. Tito official Congressional Tea, scheduled few > for 2:00 o’clock. April 18th at Ma-; sonic Temple in Birmingham. Al abama, will signal the opening of l the 1947 tour-day trade show of ; the giant Southern Beauty Con ! grass. Outstanding features for (-that day wili be the presentation | ;of the country’s leading Negro j manufacturers of beauty products , and the Craftsmanship Contest nr.- j i der the direction of Mrs T. B. • 1 Boyd of Nashville. Tennesswee, and Mrs. Lillian D. Robinson of Cat hutooga. Tennessee. The keynote address opening the educational : ! activities of the Congress, will be ' delivered at 7:80 P. M.. at the Sixth i Avenue Baptist Church, with Mr !i r cions Harper. Executive Editor : of the Chicago Defender, featured ’ speaker. Arrangements for this , :pa fticuiar session will be- under 1 j (Continued on back page) } * . ) ATOMIt Stir MiS'l —Jasper t'». Jeffries of the Faculty tom* mitlec on Atomic Energy at A. and T. College. Greensboro, N„ < . Is curreiitlj delivering a .se ries of addresses on ‘The Social and Political Implications of \tornie Energy." a t various schools and colleger along the Atlantic Seaboard. Professor Jeffries, uho heads the physics department at A. and T. College, was actively engaged a> a research physicist on the A lomic Energy Project at the University of Chicago from 1313 to me. HOWARD UNIV. CAMPUS QUIET Washington, D, C -- • MNPA'- Things were quiet on the Howard University campus' last week after the two demonstrations students staged demanding the dismissal of Professors Puggles Gates and Tate Eilinger becatse of tfceit teach ings of racial inferiority. Patricia Shaw, director of the Student Assembly which was in suunienhd in the staging ..f Ihe demonstrations. said students were u>o busy • boning * for coming ex nmiraations. but the fight had not. been dropped Dr. Gates war back :.t (he uni \ ersit.v last week after two days’ absence during the demonstrations “v-ith a severe cold. Or tiimger, v as still absent from the campus. :n.proved. Today the streets are still muddy, sewerage disposal s, items have not been installed and the streets improved so that postal authorities could extend mail service to the section. The Carolina Power and Light Company was granted a trans portation franchise on the condi tion 'hat it would provide service foi all sections of Hz leigh. Today there are not enough coaches on the South Street line ; nd because the busts? arc so far apart it takes as long as m hour to travel from South Park to New Bern Avenue. South Park residents have to walk half way t: town before reaching the bus line. All of the coaches in the ■ J. ost Raleiga and South Park sec tions are crowded because there ate too few of them and they run too far apart. It is contended that these con cut ions would not exist if the City ■ f Raleigh had a sound, efficient ; government and that the city : manager plan offers the best o|>- ! portun it-y to improve conditions^ URGES DEWEY TO SUPPORT AUSTIN -MAHONEY BILL | New York. —The Bored of Direct | ors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Isi its regular Feburnry meeting voted to support the Austin—Mr i.om.y bill now in the New York ; Mate legislature. in announcing its support of the bill the NAACP board issued the following evolu tion- " All doubt has been dispelled by the reports of the fact finding :-«m --i milled about tne extent of Miscrias {CiwUjutiHi or. back page)