North Carolina Newspapers

MAR. 16 MARKS 120th ANNIVERSARY OF NEGRO PRESS I'.y V' i* 77t Hi : :-■ , v iv. - thf Car gun ja KT A. X X i-/ X XXV w X_> lit X x X,,:X " * - V • ' *-■ . " S . - W ■ . ' VOLUME XXVI, NO. 37 RALEIGH. NORTH CAROLINA WEEK ENDING SATURDAY. MARCH 13. 1047 PRICE 7c President Snubs Powell is'k'k'kkit’k'kieig 'kk'kie ★ ★ k ★ ★ A k k k ★ ★ W Negro Barred From Press Galleries Powell Ignored In Invitations To Reception New York i ANP/ President ; Truman was blasted here last week for ins iiins every member of the 80th co; grew to h White House re ception except Rep. Adam Clay ton. who r -rc'r 'iy called Mrs Tru i\isii the La si Lady o 1 trie land" when she and the Preview a !■ nrh-d DAR reception Benjamin j. Davis Communist member oi Nev. York’s City coun cil calied Truman’s snub of Pow ell ‘an insult not only to Powell himself, but also to the "Negro peo- i pie of Hanoiii win. .itwit.-u liim lo , represent them. Truman’s action | shows further how he, the Presi- 1 dent of the United States serves as’ a lacky for the GOP reactionaries I and the Democratic poll-taxers who have done everything possible j to scuttle gU measures affecting, the j v.-eifarfe of the Negro people, such ! as FEPC. anti-lynching bills and * infj-poll tax bills," Davis s«id. "Congressman Powell has con sistently refused to kow-tow t.. me Rankin-Bilbo poll tax wing of the ! Democratic party," Davis ox- : plained. "Truman's vindicatiw ar £ t iwit in snubbing Powell from i:-< White House cadis for increased puolir -‘upport to the Harlem con g essroan's fight in congress for Negro . ight.? anti-poll take meas ■ tres. :-u: FEPC bill. "Perhaps some Negro •deeded of ficial;-: can be bought off by so cial invitations from the President. ; Continued on back page) TRIGGER MAN IN 5. C. L YNCHING DENIES A CT A, ..t ' *..5L. '** *»«*.,) ”4* ..... ,n£ * .***.. ! BUND SCHOOL TO TRAIN ISAAC . WOODARD, VET ! NEW YORK -- Isaac Woodard, j blinded Negro veteran, whose as sailant. Police Chiej Lynwood , Shull of Batesbutg. S. C.. was • a: quitted by an all-white jury ini twenty-eight minutes recently, left New York City Thursday for the Avon School for the Blind where 1 R is hoped, he will be sufficiently ' rehabilitated to enable him to ad just to a normal life. He was ac companied by Franklin H. Wil-! Hums of the NAACP legal staff. At the Avon School for the; Blind, in New Haven, Conn . where Woodard was sent through efforts j of the NAACP and the Veterans' ! Administration. Mr. Woodard will be taught to read Braille, to write, ■ use the typewriter, walk alone and prepare himself far » trade or pro fession. Maid Tells Os 30 Yr MTBdUCUt NURSERY j r OPENS IN ID. G, I WASHINGTON, D C.-(#IPA) j —What started out «s nr< expert-1 mental Saturday morning inter- ; 9 racial play center expanded into a i full five-day interracial nursery j school here last Saturday when the! Rev. Wohr-M w Brook* pastor of the 'Lincoln Temple Congregation al Church, opened the doors of the church’s recreation rooms to a j (Co&Uutrad os pagej 1 DIES AT ! Oi JONESBORO •••■ Funeral services lor Mir Anna Peoples. 100 were : conducted J.rom the Metropolitan Church here Sunday and were foi ■ lowed by interment, in :h( chuich | cemetery. Mr-, peoples who died at the j home of her dawgtber, Mrs. Maggie McDuukxM. inst week was burn | during slavery and' 1 was one of the j few persons in this area whs could ! recall the day ttf surrender j -> oSOIN atvetdTCH Si fft sh f?iß> e\-slYvf-~ " 99, PASSES CHICAGO ANP) A tenner North Carolina slave .fieri in his I in me on tie south side here Tmn’s : 'lay at the agf of 9ft j The man .Y] tit on Gcvpei. w.. . : bent in slavery on a North Carolina ■ oluntaUon in 184 k Givcfi his frer ‘ com at tile close oi the Civil War. 'Gasper remained on tin. plantation laitil 1905. when he (time r-i.rtn to Chicago. He is survival by his ■ itc*. Mat y . aiid a -.ill 1 . Jv tin. who : tv .. .ism: r of the bidding where j ii.c i.-ids ; G-.yjC-r died. "“SAW, "Si uqUuuiß GREENVILLE. S. C. (AMP; K. ! 1 Curios Herd, Sr., 35 year old dip- j puW-.hei for the Bluebird Taxi com- ! pony, was named trigger man who ! | blasted away the rigid face of j ' Willie Earle at a three and one • hour coroner's inquest here Tues- j ! day. However. Herd demec the at- i j cusa lions, made by 26 of the 31 sus- . i pec's jailed for the lynching. Finding that Earle died from in j juries inflicted by the lynchers, the j : jury, however, failed to name a angle suspect in its verdict and ' i when requested to do so by Coroner | T C Turner, the foreman replied 1 the jury was unable to agree on irs ; elusion of names. However, the fact, I does not. affect in any way pro-sec u | lion of the case. Solicitor Robert T. Ashmore advised. H. T. Fleming 31 year old Blue -1 bird driver, testified that he tool: , pert in the slaying and that Herd ; rounded up the mob by telephone I calls, led the way into the jail and i administered the coupe de grace • with a shotgun, asking for more shells after he had blown away j pan. of the head. Testimony from otner suspects corrborated Fleming's statement. (Continued on back page) LOS ANGELES < ANP i - inside j , happenings in California’;, first i reported slavery case since recon- | Hiruction days were told before « | ! federal grand jury here last Wed ; nesday when Dora Jones. 57-year | old maid, testified how she had : i been in slavery for nearly 30 years . ! •”’> Mr. and Mis Alfred W Ingalls. | white formerly of Lynn, Mass., now . i residing in San Diego ■ The Ingalls, now at liberty on ; bonds of $2,500 each, were arrested j i last week on a U. S. commissioner’s I i warrant charging them with viola-! i tion of the 13th amendment to the I constitution. She was quoted as saying that ’ :he woman had become angered j j With her about some incident i i .iContmued oa back page) j Mmasiajeay..:- a.-w.- jjsggaifc WHO'S WHO At BENNETT — i t'bostn on the basis of leader ship ability, service to the «dMH)I. scholarship and general pariici j iiuiion in ...c.<<• < ifiic «.i!il extra ! ciirikJar activitivx. the above -Hidents friyrn Jimiatt College Bishop Davis Den ies Cnarges TEEN EE LADS APPEAL TO PRES. I WASHINGTON D. C- <NNPAi - Two teen-age lads under aenifWice t>s dcuiii in Mississippi !o the United State;, Supreme Court lies!, Friday to <avt them from the j electric chair. j They ask the high tribunal to re j view their conviction and death i ■- nk nec for the murdei of a white j • an and reverse the judgment oi i Me issippi courts or neri-r ; w. \v ‘Continued on back p.ge> I SKITTISii "FORGER WRITES CHECK M>R S3,mS3 HOUSTON •AN Pi - A skittish . orger. attempting to an easy 33.33. learned last week (hat he nude a mistake in his check writ 's He found hi had pushed the •mouni up to $3,300.33. The unidentified forget, said to -*e 23- years old. stole a company ■heck and. using a chock-write:.: eede it appear legal enough to cash j . for $33.33. Detective T. B. Mor-: ns. who handles had check cases.; hough) at first it was only routine; -mints until he discoverer! that . had been titled out for $3.30033. Funny part of it was that no) sen the bank or the forge; him -■jf noted the larger amount s. Slavery BfcTHl VfcMIOOkHA?) GETS $3,000 GIFT DAYTONA BEACH Fla iANPi—I , The United Beauty Setofil Own- I ny and Teachers Association pre i sen ted Be thti ne-C ookrmm College ’■ v ; th 53,090 for the school's build- S h)f; fund, it was disclosed here last , | V- ednesday. The beauticians' group ! "‘as meeting, together with Greek-. ; letter affiliates, Alpha Phi Omega j sorority and fraternity, in its first national annual convention at ,Be | thunn-Uoniimar between February j 27 and March 2. j v.-ere rrrenlh eie«ted to appear <i: the 1946-47 edition of" Who's Who Alnong Students in Vmeri is.n Universities and Colleges." Übey are, ft-si i= < sight. ’V5i--r - Hetty Powers. Harffor. •’nnn.; Ivery OM4terg!'j£ic.e <«re**nviile. RICHMOND, Va NNPAi - l’..shop Monroe-.- H, ~, -,, Bait.i more, suspended pre rding bisiwty •>' the Second F.p- -• pal Diunc: <>: the African Me-tn-,0:.->i Episcopal ’ Church, categorically denier * iiai g! -us \ iolatiiig the canon oi lus church just before his two-duy ’•'ini ended lasi Friday. The trial was held in tic Third rdreel Bcihel AME Church fc-.ie before Bisop Revertjjjf! C. Esioamc and a council of five clergym-n sitting as a jury in the ecclestasti cai trial. Th'- trial, was featured by a clash “• 'litmoet; i valving around Ha-' prop ? -a - v . ..r-uce and qua - renpotaadcu by the nv, y-.-rs on both sides. Bishop Davis was 'accused of inis- i . pheat! an of church i'lnd-:. ?Tial ■ minis:ration of ins office, intirni :'iatjofi oi pastors uhis district nd U vying oppressive assessitievit.s i . -on bis churches. Taking the stand ns the last wa ll the bishop, who presides ovti the disiriF emprising Maryiand Virginia, the District of Columbia nq North and South Carolina, en tered a general denial of the four 1 changes and then will-, methodical precision proceeded to deny in de j tail the numerous a negations r»re ; sc-nt-.d by !h; praseention to sup P'.rt the complaint against him. : v uch <:f tiic c-ompJahn had to do ; ith the .idiTiinisfiaiiori of Kif -1 t"t’l.l Collcgo, near Ht*fider-->'i. ; . N. C. I'Coniinuwi oi back paae-i I CONTINUE TRIAL OF ! i JUNE ECKSTINE Norr is-.own. Pa ANP The | i ' l l - - couni drug traffic-sodomy { i i sal of Mrs.- Juno Payne Eckstine. ! ” ite of singer-band leader Billy ! i-k.-tine, -scheduled! to open in j ; Montgomery County court here j riy last tve-ek. was continued un- ■ id the April court term, because | :he principal witness for the prose- j union failed in pui in an aopear- 1 I unrr Aecuiding to the prosecution’s ! 1 r < tinsel. Miss Florence Johnson, the j lii-ycar-old plaintiff, is cun-entiy a j : patient in the Philadelphia Psyrhi i citric hospital and unable ).o make i ; f .‘o,appearances against the de- i ; h-ndar, t. Mrs. Kcfcsiinc was arrested on , charges of sodomy, administering, i - |>os;f-ssing and delivSTy of drugs. : j erri distribution and trafficking in j ‘ uaj'cpticß. She i? beiog held uwiife-r i «v.yce l-.dic ■;* Lynchburg. Va : and Uiitior Bishop. Christianshurg. \ Net pictiiv is Mis-, (sweti diii i n % cexattii !’i-ii.<•!<■ ii.-tita. ! a., wh. iwaduati-d in .Uinuary SEEK FUNDS FOE EXPOSITION WASHINGTON, p. C.- - State; j-i-paitment officials arc seeking ; ;,n . pproprial!ii.n ol UtoO.OOO to ti notice a United States exhibit at ’;,i ic«r; f’enfemnid Exposi- : :.ur which wili open at Monro. v-s July 26. 1040, it was learners last Tuesday. While no State Department ot-1 fieial would comment on the! ’or'l.ei until thf s :-quest for funds has been submitted to Congress, At ass learned that Liberian Centcnnuu Committee has been •.•toted, \ U \\ OFFERS ' s .l.tN?o SUMM.tKSHIP WASHINGTON The National | " '.a iue ni (.Dili... Women is I offering fellowship of si,ooo u> a] puajhied ’.ro'xan g: iduale sutfdeni j ; *•••. tin- 55)47-48 school term j u ‘ “:.n} qualified university tu i “■ e coni mental LiruGu Spites or j foroao. ii ha be, ;, an 'ou.ueed. >p, .11 '<J b: iel .resied in further - Ury ip, adnit education.: err ;;-ni ion r>i• h leading i economic j-nd social op' | r*Oi tunnies for vomor . be be-1 • ■. ;bt .iues of in and 45 s■■ £2,000 bai Warrant tot her ar- I jr e t v. is sworn ■•ot by George: jJ< l.nson. brolhei ol the plaintiff. | At the first magistrate’s trial. ! j Mils Johnson accused Mrs. Eck | - uni of persuading her to smoke j -evcrstl reefers in 24 hour during jbn Christmas holidays and fore ! >'•!- her to mdulgc in acts ot per- I verts m. The singorV wife denied ■a■ I (:hi»a|es and hints passed that ; there were other reasons why the i | charges were pressd by the girl. I 'All acts wre said to have taken ■ Place at the Eckstine home m Ard- | I more. a : ■ Or, the day scheduled for the ! trial’s opening before Judge Geo. ■ ft. Comm District Aity. Fred j ! Smillm told the court that a letter I had been received from the b.ospi- j I tal saying that Mb .TnUmscn ws« ! *__ yCoiitinu-d ha yuc* page; VETS ADMITTED TO TENANT II.OESE | NEW YORK .Rimes Jackson, j v.-feran who had boen trying to j rent an apartment here in Now I York, since September, filially got | in when a poll of the 18 tenants i revealed they had no objection to I Negro neighbors Johnson’s rent had been refused by the landlord ai d he was facing an eviction uu j lit the United Negro and Allied Veterans of America an interrac ial group, came to his rescue. LAUTIER’S PRESS APPLICATION REJEOTEG NEW YORK ■ NNPA t -- Butts tht New Voi-k Herald Tribune and PM commented editorially last T id...;- on the rejection of the ap plication :■■{ Louis Luthier, White House correspondent for the Atlan ■ i Doily World and the Negro Newspaper Publishers Association. In Us editorial, under the cap* von "Negroes in the Press Gal -1 icry, the Herald Tribune said " The Prcs.-s Correspondents Cum uli; tee m Washington has barred a voir of -{ to 1 the application e, Louts R. Lauticr. a Negro re* U'.ur, ioi admission to the Con gressional press galleries on the t;ej has beer, barred front the Con >, S£sSiOr'ud press gaiicinSc OT'; t.hC ground that his application failed ii meet the rules. The facts are somewhat involved, but Mr. Lau iContinued on page 8) HAITI SEEKS FREEDOM PORT AU PRINCE (NCPA; Haiti's struggles in becoming *ht firs! free Latin American re public were reviewed here last i week by Mme. -Dumarsais Estirne, '■■'de of the Haitian president, as she outlined the history of her (•.■■entry to American women ; leaders and organizations enr* iCTUiy cooperating in a drive | >■ ith her io raise $25,000 to con ‘ stt uct a home for needy Haitian i ( itiiii eri, LIBERIA EYES CENTENARY »Y JACOB BROWNf. MONROVIA 'ANP> .... July 26 of ; .is year marks the beginning of : our centenary celebration. As we j cil lui'.w. tliere will not be much M" sec this year or even next, be* •oust- preparations for the c-entea .-tartett late, and wju condi* t-'utir made it impossible to get !.■ "lit-d materials The Centennial Victory exposition which will cii x the entire celebrations should •i- in full swing in 1948. ; We understand foreign govern* 1 n.ents have been invited to par ; liupate in this great event, and • e very glad: this would give ; them an opportunity to picture I g.i-aphiciffly the ups and downs ot j the infant republic during its first | c it tiny of progress. Africans and Negro;- all over the ' -or Id should find some interest in ' these celebrations, for they hold a hope for Negroes wherever dispers oh the fur':- of the globe. We j v.-i.re particularly glad to learn I from unofficial sources that Atri ■t.ns in the British and French West ' African coasts would also be mvit ] ec : to attend, and thal invitation j would be extended them through ;i no British and French govern- I merits. Jobs Are KITTREIX COLLEGE HAS BUSY CALENDAR KITTRELL. N C. (ANP.—Feb- ' • nary brought u busy calendar to iCittriTl college. Bishop John H 7 lay bom. chairman of the trustee board, pledged to build a bigger ord belter school during hit ad- j chess, then authorised the use of' $2,000 contributed for the occasion : to renovate Kittrells auditorium. ! Nearly $12,000 was raised Ivy a ; ‘■Queen contest” after Founder’s ! day. Religious Emphasis week war observed from Feb. 23 through Feb. ; SW. Dr. S. S Morris., secretary of the department of religious education 1 of the A l '- r E church, was the guest: speakot, . i Freedom Journal ■ Was First Known Race Publication By GEORGE WOODS. Jr. • j New York City (ANP) Since ' the time of the publication of the : lii.-t four Negro newspapers on j American soil, which were located | in the state of New York. Negroes j have expanded their journalistic I < adeavoi into every state of the un j ion except Connecticut, Montana. | N< w Hampshire. Nev Mexico, N. I Dakota, Rhode Island, South Da- I kola, Utah, Vermont and Wyoming, ] when the Negro press observes the ! 120th anniversary of Negro jour i .elism in the United States on I March 16. It was on Friday, March 16. J 827, ' John Brown RnsswurinV FREE- • | DOM JOURNAL, first Negro news paper published in the United i Slates, commenced publication at | No. ft Varick Street. New York i City Negroes and white abolilion- I i-ts combined were too few to sup (Continued on. back page.; [asksfor hearings I ON ANTI-JC TRAVEL L WASHINGTON tANPi The • Washington Bureau NAACP .ailed ') Congressman Charles A. Wol jv(i■. oi i <R.. N J.? chairman of the; house ;i*Uvislate and foreign com ! .nerce committee to hold early i . public hearings on the Powell An j t;-Jim Cro.. Travel bill. HR-280. Congre.-isiona] action to end seg regation as b applies to passengers 'in interstate travel was urged be ; cv.se of developments since the U S. Supreme Court decided the Irene Mcrcan vase last June. Th<* decision declared unconstitutional xti.tc laws which require ran.-! < .*.regatioi n bu- and trains car FORESEES NORTHERN MIGRATION AS THE SOUTH MECHANIZES - to the criticaS situation which will t-'ce tenants and sharecroppers of inr SuUlu wills lit: . apruly dp • pi caching mechanization of cotton ; growing, Claude A. Bcrnett, spec- . , iai asst si a lit in the U S Secretary ; or agriculture in aft n.Lress before the Olivet Baptist Church forum • here Sunday night, declared that ■ the next few years might see a i miff ration of Nc-croe- I ; the north r hich would dwarf all such wave* • : m>. nU of the past, Foi years nivi'hah'ial coil u. • , ' pickers and other mechanical de- ' vice.-: have been threat in the -null: but net) they are an actual- - U. S. FINDS 4 SEPARA TE SUGAR STAMP GANGS • CHICAGO i AN Pi - Federal . auiontiei- have traced the flow of i j stolen and counterfeit sugar stamps .'to four separate gangs, with two of . i them operating from headquarters . . , here- The other gangs are in New . ■ York, and Georgia. Difference between the firs! and j econo local gangs is that the first specialized in counterfeit stamps while the second peddled stolen . | stamps, federal agents revealed. • Four persons were arrested last ! . week and charged with being . members of the second gang. ; Edward Stevens and Moses. , White former OPA warehouse em- ! ' pioyes. were nabbed along with j . Cnarles Kohs and Willard Miner, both white, in operations against-; ,; the second gang. Bonds for Kohs . and Miner, who pleaded guilty of iliega] possession of stamps goon for >500.000 pounds ot sugar, were . set at SIB,OOO each, with hearing continued until March H The two white men were appre hended on federal warrants from . Fort Worth, Texas, where they arc alleged to have taken the stamps , (Continued on back page) Growing Scarcer NEW YORK (AMP) With job | opportunities becoming more and J I more scarce, experts are Bt a loss to say whether this is a seasonal ] lei! or the forerunner of “hard | times." Not only in New York City, but : in snariy parts of the. nation, there j has been a lull in hiring and un- I employment roils are on the rise, | Etnpolyers again arc demanding ; references from parsons seeking : ; work and men over 45 and women j ! over 35 are being turned away in j favor of younger applicants. i Racial identity also plays an im • pf.rtnt role in work with discrimm- ‘ | r-Hor. rampant nyuinst Negroes Jews and in some instances. Ttal \ spn,: despite the sanguine reports ioi the State Committee Against j I (Coatimted on back page) i Vi OMAN SIES CITY •• FOR SI,OOO AFTER •• PARK (MIRA RALEIGH Miss H-.1. Hall of 1106 Manley Street Thursday filed , a damage suit against the City of Raleigh tot permanent injuries sustained at Chavis Park on last August. 22. The plaintiff charges that she permanently injured about ‘he hip and hands v.-hen she fell - into an open drain basin approxi mately three feel spur re and three four feet deep about 8:00 p. m., because the drain was concealed by weeds about two feet high and she fell -Vhen the stopped off the road because of automobile traf fic- .-. i;passengers- between the state H<- .• '.(ii did not prohibit the . bus companies and railroads from : tbtroselves adopting regulations requiring jun crow seating ar rangements. Accordingly, most of these carriers now enforce their i:v.-n rule;; against Negroes and «-hite* sitting together. ■ J;m crow travel pracikez have caused endless inconvenience, hu . miliation and hardship to hundreds of thousands of Negro citizens tr. velliiiu bet'.veer; the slates. "In spite of the fact thal color ed passengers pay the same sere (Continued an bade pagei principal agircultural equipment manufacturers are all entering mass production on cotton pickers, sugar (■arc cm tors, rice harvesting com bines and mechanical bean and pea pickers, and the south is ab sorbing them as rapidly as they can ■ ■ produced. “Dr P. D. Patterson, who selves special assistant to the secretary of agriculture also, and i have pi®- P'-sed that in In tensive but orderly a temp! he- made to integrate ex perienced Negro farmers into ag ricultural sections of the north, v, si and west, where previously i Continued on back page) BISHOP DAVIS ACQUITTED IN MEAT CASE BALTIMORE. Md. iANP» Bishop Monroe H. Davis won an. ! acquittal at a one-hour trial in ' criminal court here last Thursday where he was being tried on charges of illegally ’ slaughtering and. selling uninspected meat ■ brought from his farm and stored I in his cellar. The verdict handed down by lodge J. Abnei Sayler held that there is no law against a gentle ;. all fanner’s siauglhering his own i in-gs and bringing them to the. city for preparation. The prelate had testified that the three 450-pound hogs found in the cellar of his bouse by city health inspectors '•■ere for his own consumption ••••long with that of fans help end it ends. DISABLED VETS ASSIGNED TO DITCHING SSISG By James L- Hicks NNPA Staff Writer \ WASHINGTON. D. C.—Disabled colored veterans at the Veterans Administration domiciliary hospi tal in Hiccough tan. Virginia, we being forced to dig a ditch vritts ! ;>’*ck and Hwvel to lay ». steam ■ pipe line on that reservation, a , (Cootj»u«3 m back paftp.