GREENVILLE LYNCH TRIAL GETS UNDERWAY NEGRO PRIEST ORDAINED j MOBILE, Ala. The Church ot U't Most Pure Heart of Mary here | v r.\ last week the scan ol the! ft rtf Solemn Mags of iht first na th*e Negro of Alabama to be or* dainod to the Catholic priesthood He is Father ,1 ohn M: ocellus Faus tina of tiie Society .f Si Edmund. He is also the first member of his race lo beeomt a prie:,' of that So ciety. it it * ******* ** ******** ** *** * rrt I rr* w-% larboro lo Be Host To Annual Session May 21 M. W. Akins, for nearly two decades principal oi the Wash xngton School, was not listed among the faculty of the school roster for the new school year. Checking with Superinten dent Jesse O, Sanderson The CAROLINIAN was informed Wednesday by the above of ficial that Mr. Akins would not be reappointed principal of the Washington School for the new year, No successor had been named, according to Mr. San dor son. S4OO PRIZES AWARDED HI TRADE MEET GREENSBORO The scc--.no annual State High School Trades : contests, sponsoredby the A ant T College of North Carolina a! Greensboro. Inst week drew appro- , ximatoly 400 students, teachers and ' parents from practically every part i of the eta. to sessions on t.h< A and T. College campus and at Bud ! icy High School here. There were 101 participants com petit: g for S4OO in scholarship and cash awards, with 30 high schools; from 35 North Carolina counties j taking part. Top prize. r< tuition scholarship; to A. and T. College, was won by j Geraldine Harris, Dudley High j School, Greensboro, for marked l excellence in dressmaking. Other first prize winners were- i Electricity, Keith Haith, Greens- • boro; Woodturning. P. Wimberly. ■ Rocky Mount Woodworking, George- ; Jones, Wilmington; Typing. Geval- ; (Continued on back page': SUSPENDED' PALMER I SENIORS RETURN | SEDALIA (ANP) -- The 18 j male seniors of Palmer Memorialj institute who were suspended from 1 school activities for the use of pro fane language in their dormitory have been readmitted to the school, according to an announcement made here lasl week by Dr. Char lotte Hawkins Brown, president. The students won their release from suspension on written pro mises to refrain from the. use of • profanity themselves and give younger students coming into the institution a “fine example of the ideals of character and conduct fm which the school stands" In readmitting tin- students. Dr. Brown raid. “The school knowing ly rakes no delinquents. It is the wthrfc of 4f> years oi effort to de ■- ■ ' . v■- - M■ - . . _ S& The Carolinian VOL XXVI NO. IF. K Al.i-MOi. NOirHi OAROUN A VVEKK ! NOiNO SATURDAY, MAY 3? 1!>I7 PRK L7 ? TARBORO - Tr..- Stale Elk, i Convention will take place in Tat ■ bo o u was announced by L. P ’ Harris, secretary of the group Mr. i : Harris stated that over fifty ont : difftcri.nl lodges of the state are . now members oi the orttaidzation The Convention is now twenty ■■ i- ■■■•,! years old and is still grow j in*- Mr. Harris became .secretary ol ' the State Elks four years ago arid jt y contacting and reviving sc-vr-ral | lof the lodges has seen an inert 1 j : or sixteen when he took ever tc- the ! present number of fifty one which is over seventy-five percent ot the ; present number Finance in the! ; State Association has grove from ‘ two hundred fifty dgilar.-: to an m ; crease to over two thousand doit;;.", ip-irr yca«. The rf-quhviuen? tor an; podge to attend the National Con- I vent ion is hold membership In the ; State body. Mr. Harris who has ! been active in Elk circles since 2930 has since his appointment of Dis itiiet Deputy oi the Charlotte area | has revived., reinstated and set up ; over fifteen lodges during this time. Office; r in the Association othet j than Mr Harris, secretary arc L i K. Reynolds of Greensboro, presi \ dent; G A Moore of New Bern, Ist wo pres;del. 1; M. E. Alvis of Scot i land Neck, 2nd vice president; K. : P Battle of Rocky Mount. 3rd vice • ! president. J. 8. Dili on of Gretna- f on back page) mt ASKED TO COMMUTE SENTENCE ! ; NEW YORK—Protesting the ex- j ! ecution of two Negroes who Friday ' vc-re fourteen and fifteen whop they committed the crimes for i which they were convicted, the N AACF. Friday called or. the Gov ! error of Mississippi to commute | their sentt nees. In a telegram to Gov. Fielding | L. Wright, the NAACP said: -The Supreme Court of the United : States has denied a petition to re i view the conviction of James Lewis j i and Charles Trudell who arc ur.d-! jer : ontence oi electrocuton from ! jibe Wilkinson County Court. At I the time of the commission of the | ; ffemes for which they were con victed, James Lewis was fourteen : ! ecu Charles Trudell was fifteen. •The record shows that these une ! ducated children had no under •j standing of the nature of the ad j til i ’■ were committing and of thi ’seriousness of its consequences.; ! vc.lop in teen-age youth the finer; | things of life where parents will: ' foci that sill the safeguards against ; evil tendencies of bad examples are thrown around them To make them i stand up in conduct and speech in colleges where there is less re straining and supervision. “One hundred per cent of Palmer graduates enter college of both groups in America, and 90 per con: ; of (hern are holding some of the i i highest and most trustworthy post-; thins In American life regardless of ; race. Pull 90 percent of the. par- | ente have made no complaint. They : have been glad that something was ! done to shock ihese boys whose j homes stend for the .same fine-1 tilings that Palmer Memorial Insti ] tutc does.” _ j r ' - ----- I'' ' • MISS LEVROOT VISITS 1 t SKI- CEI Katln-rune I,enroot, chief chil drens bureau. S. Department of labor, recently vtsaieti the in ftat-lc paralysis center ut Toskc Francis Dies In 2nd Trip To Chair LIBERIA PREPS FOR CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION BY JACOB BROWN’F i MONROVIA (ANP,- - A fer | vish rnaod scenes to have infected i the capital of Liberia at last min c'u- preparation for the centennial cckbraUorus in July of lb marl: dig the country’s firs' cen ; tary of existence. nr. being rush ed to completion. One of the chin things of inter i?' which will be displayed during; | the cuitenniai wiii oi- a mode it. ! port and harbor, which is being v sfied to completion by the Ray and Concrete Pile Company of ; . merica. under the supervision of ! ’. iv 17. S. Navy. Destined to be the j i . st on the western const of Afri ! the port is being built undei i l nd-lease agreement between Li -1 ! ria amt the United States. It is : .uitieipated that the harbor facih- I ; cs will be completed by July 26. when the South Atlantic squadron of the U S. Navy i.- scheduled tr officially open the port when ii v sighs anchor Foreign governments including representative Africans residing in the British and French West African • 'Titories. have been invited to a’- i luiri the exposition. ! CAROLINA "MEDICS ATTEND SURGICAL SOCIETY MEETING DURHAM i ANP - S ; xty ' e on: from North and South Cure > Una attended a meeting here last! week of the John H. Hale Surgical j Society Guest of the meeting was Dr. J. V. V. Gordin. Lectures were siv on by Dr. Roy S. Wynn, ophtha j mologist of Charlotte, and Dr. Wil l Pans S. Quinlan d, professor of path -, i oiogy at Mebarry Medical College. | j Officers of the society, which era ; braces both North and South Cor- i | Glina, are Dr. I. W. Long, president; | Dr. J. w. V. Cordict . vice president: ! Dr, F. E. Davis, treasurer and' Dr.; JJ B iist.ee Davis, chairman of the publicity cogpr.htsc. , i get- Institute Shown. !«‘tt 1 1> right: j Mrs Louise It Trigs medical st>- ; ia! worker, John \ Andrew hos pital. Miss 5 enroot an,! Pre-ideot ’ !. T). Patterson AM S'; . Vi -iKTiNVii.U- 1 ■ NNPA) V. :.-;:. F.-• . 13 f.-,und dratn ! wming the end e-i his second trip to Louisiana portable eleis , ':ic chair here last Friday. The . ume chair which spared hit ’ lift a vt ar ago through a mechani cs) defect or the drunkenness ot ; hi., executor, or both, snuffed it out . auk-kly this time WO-lie w:i:- strapped in the chan 12:05 p m. Central Stand art. Time. The switch was thrown at .12:Of! p rn., arid four minutes late, :iO : :n - ;. ar. Tht youth, declined Hit last- . r.on. it offer of Be-r‘.' - i«nd Dc Blanc hit lawyer, to make; one final ap c :;i io your iana courts u> stay this death scntc'ico and review thi c-hs the light of newly discovered evidence. He. told hi.- lawyc he was . t. : r.y to die. Willie's last word:- were '‘every liiing is nil rjghl. ' He walked tu the chair unfaltering from a small veil a! the rear cf the jail. When his cell door ope .eri to the hall way hr had only a hah dozen step? i'i walk. Harold L. Trigg NantedPrexy Os St Augustine's Dr. Harold L. Trigg of Atlanta has been named president of St. Augustine’s College. He was elect ed by the board of trustees of the < lilegc and is to assume- his du ties September 10th. At the pres ent time Dr. Trigg is associate 1 executive director of the South ern Regional Ctfunoil. He received his A B. degree ; at Morgan College, Baltimore, : Mn. and his Master’s degree from Syracuse University. From 1913 ito IS)lb Dr, Trigg was a teach er at Bennett College. Greens bom, >, C.; 1919-21 at New Or- I leant- College. New Orleans; 1926- 1 28 State Teachers College. Win ston-Salem. N. C. He served cs . supervisor of the Negro high 1 schools of North Carolina under ; the State Department of Public j il’WVruetion. This .position he gave Plant Refuses To Go Beyond 5 l~2c w v f i / r% • Hour Wage Raise wi N ST< >\-S AI. F.M lANP) - Ten . i: -..;sa;id white and Negro workers, ■ ••d'-ers of the Food. Tobacco. Ag- 1 : •:«ttituraJ and Allied Workers tin- . j • CIO ■ r. in the second week of i then strike agnins: tilt R J. Roy | n.Jds Tvoacco company of Wins ! ton-Snlem. N. CL. makets of Came') j Vigercttcs. Tlte strike began v/nen the r-vm i.-:,ny ret used to go beyond a 5 !-2 : nt an hour wage raise and when 1 . demanded a cut in overtime eam i -,£s for seas..-nai workers. The orkers asked r, 15-eent wage rats* Jim with tht national pattern set • n other CIO oi'Vai.-izi.Hi industries an:: certain union security nte«- i ui.All union security measure:.! j etv refused, though the union ha* ' » >.it-h clauses, including* t; t j • -Rockoff in its contract for the j 1 : s' fivt yet*it. | A hour pickotline covers the plant's 73 gates in Winston ■ j Salem. The line is. oompU-tciy or i u-rly. with white and Negro work picla ting together Tito union • n hj»c* dsp* Twic!- hi. wiped the palms oi WL« ■ h.-.nda agdinf-i th< leg:-: nf fits dark; ; in-spriped trousers. As the log straps were being art i isicd he Junked at his lap. he clos-! ■ his i-yes. then opotted th--rr.. and, sinihd at one oi the witnesses- D<- lane had visited Willie, K.ss than two hours before the time | s, t for the execution. Mr. Do Blanc had visited Willie : , still thought he could stay thi . a-cufi i, but Willie told him: -No. Leave it alone. Thank you . ! but leave if alone. I’m ready. I’m suny 1 did what I did. but now I’m ready'." Dr Blanc then said good-bye Willie had for his last meal cat- ; fish caught in the bayous of the , Tech; County which Henry W ! Longfellow made famous m he, i ;.-n ;.h( N-gr. baby ward and the first u.-eisicTi of hospital oifietals was to .-fuse to bring the baby into -.he Continued on page eight SAVANNAH SETS NEGRO POLICE: NINE !NDUC T EO SAVANNAH ANP, - For the first time in the history of Geor gia, Savannah last Sunday induct - !cd nine Negro police officers in a ; rblic ceremony held at the new :! t creation center. The police ofii !ms and .six Negro municipal work ' cihad been sworn into office of j f I-Hally the day before by Mayor John G. Kennedy. Mayoi Kennedy fulfilled u cam ! paign pledge made to me leaders of the 20,000 Negro registrants. The beginning of the effort for Negro police was some 18 months • .'go. A local grocer, John W Me. ; Gloeton. and two ministers, the ! Revs. S A Baker and R. M Gil j hurt, organized a local unit of the I Georgia Association of Citizens' ! Democratic clubs to enlighten Sa varmahans of their newly empow ered franchise • the Georgia bal lot This organization spearheaded 'an intensive registration drive i which increased Negro cotes frOtt; ItiOC to 20.000. Some 12.000 voted iu 1 Uie first primary election 4. AND 1; LISTS ! SPEAKERS FOR GRADUATION GREENSBORO Dr. Joseph F ! Drake, president of the Alabama | Agricultural and Mechanical Col i !cgf. Normal. Ala., and Dr. Frank i'n S. Hickman, dean of the chapel.; ; Duke University, Durham, will be*! j ihr- principal speakers during the th A and T. College fonsmence | merit. Week exercises held at ! Greensboro, from May 23 through i June 2, according to an announce- ; |mcnt last week by Dr. F. D. Bit;- ; ! ford, president of the college. The graduating class of 170 stu j dents will include 65 candidates : from the School of Education and ; | Sciences, 42 from the School of Ag j riculturr- and 63 from the School o i i Mechanic Arts. S • -■r*vr» ~.ry, '■ : v** - *" - ■’ ;: ’•■■■* •' :, x : v' g££g;- # '*iw£jawsß& ■--*■■ ”'"' 1 " "WEIGHED IN THE BALANCE’ VXD NOT FOI \D WANTING Babies in Lagos, Nigeria, Brit ish West Africa, are attending the Infant Welfare department’s n«-« clinic, opened in 1914, in ever Increasing numbers. From the registration of the birth onwards mothers learn all about diets, cleanliness, feeding, weaning and 31 WHITE MEN FACE LYNCHING CHARGE GREENVILLE. S C. - Nine of \ ihe 12 jurors who will decide the j verdict :n the trial of 31 white men; 1 who arc charged with lynching Willi.: Earl near here last February j \ ere selected in the steaming 1 t.iec-nville County courthouse here ! : Monday. Os the 2t> men examined for jury ' • duty, five were dismissed at. the j I j jic'iii -i! vp.i-.-t ,-j\ by deiense coun 'j-- i and six bv the presiding judge j Ail o' ’be nine selected v.x-r-. white ; ■ if; imers .mci mill 1 orkcr.s Iron, i e irimunilie.-: around Greenville, j Ever simv the round-up of sus j fjcrts began last Febtuary a tie ifuise fund, built up from voluntary I contributions in rusty tin cans plac- 1 'ri-d in the business section of Grec-n- I I vft'Jt has been acetutmlafiisg to do-; iContir ued on back p:-tge> UNITED WAR MOTHERS ,1 HOLD STA TE CONFAB ! RAT.KJGH - TT.e United War j Mothers of North Carolina held j i L eir s-oeor.d annual Slate Convert ij i ion on May 9. and 10, at the Ek . j ruenttiry Scohoi of Mebane as the j ] guests of Chapter 4 j The oonventoin opened on Fri : y evening. The purpose of the or . .nutation was given by Mrs til-.el G Yount of Raleigh. The ; wain address was given by Prof. J ; f Tayßij. president of the North j 'Carolina Teachers Association, who i-o.'ce on Unity A/ncus All Nations To Prevent Future Wars. Prof Taylor was >t,troduced by •-M s. Blonnie P. Slade of Raleigh, i ■ Music was furnished by Mr. Wii jliiim Mebane the- Harmoniing Five ' i of Burlington, ana local veterans of 1 i World Who H. 30# COLLECES STI DY NEGROES | WASHINGTON -ANP) A to- i j i■ J of 308 research studies on sub | -rets pertaining to the Negro were ' i c'-mpleted in American colleges : i and Universities dui.ng the caier, ■ j dar year of 3 946. according to si i study recently completed by Ellis' ! C. Knox, professor of education at | Upward University. The total studies composed oi 1 271 masters' theses, and 37 doctors’ j dissertations were Written at 35 i American Universities in partial • fulifilment of requirements for ths nn.sters’ and doctors' decrees. ;i n c:b-! ft fc* A I UUltl-'l ?> -A KSCUOS. VO-SWVO. !' SOUTHERNJIM CROW KEEPS SOUTH POOR I NEW YORK tANPj —■ "The eco-; .! nomic cost of segregation is of | j enum* preposterous and staggering. : lli is a cardinal reason why the i ‘south is so poor. In effect, it means j i flia| two sets of everything front ! i schools io insane asylums to pen- . j itr.ntiaries to playgrounds have to j ! be maintained." This is th.- observation made by I Author John Garth er in chapter 41 , of bis book ''lnside USA. The boon i is to be published on May 28 by ! I Harper and Brothers for its June, i Book-of-the-Moth club selection, j !The chapter Is entitled 'Negro in; | The Woodpile." "Os course, too. whiter make use of segregation as a pretext for eco ; nomic discrimination and exclusion; i tv< caste system Is applied to jobs ! A white employer will s?}’. ‘WhjH gen> ral baby rare. Pre-natal ad vice is also given. Baby food, soap, garments, as well as medi cine are available in the clinic’s dispensary. Picture shows a clinic heavy weight taking his periodic weight check with the calm ot a veter an. lANPj OETEGTiVE KILLS MAN RALEIGH Herbc-i t L. Peebles, : Raleigh police detective sergeant, > .'■! and killed James White, Alien I • cue- and Welding Company ern* • sdoy.'Cf-. v. hi- nhiy entered the shop where Peebles hus b.-cn assigned to .-peeiai tcau-h dtnv here Saturday i night. White, who lived at a 1.-ee i.nne. died in St. Agnes Hospital shortly jb* fore ft .30 Saturday night. According to a sworn statement ;uy Miss Ophelia Bart our of 21S W. "Continued on back page) rtic baiuiday wiurning sessions : c'-u.-istod of the registration of del egates; devotions by Mrs. EtneJ Young greetings by the State pres ; Went Mrs. L. W. Logan; the ore : seidiiHun of five new chapters by Mr*. Julia Chance of Parmelee, and >'< adlng of the minutes of the last , bi-;.rd meeting by Mrs. Lucy Sand The* following incumbent offic es were reelected; Mrs. L, W. Lo- Raleigh, president; Mrs. B. P • Slade. Raleigh. Ist vice president, • I Mrs. Julia Chance, Parmelee, 2nd I vice president: Mrs, Lillian James,- j Hamlet, 3rd vice president; Mrs. J !M. Ferguson, Fayetteville, 4th vice: i president; Mrs Annie Walker, Fu quay Springs, custodian; Mrs. F. P Mask .Hamiet, historian; Mrs. S E. (Continued on back page) SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY ORGANIZED if BENNETT GREENSBORO The inaugura ’ tion of Alpha Zeta Chapter of the Beta Kappa Chi Scientific Honor' , Society and the induction of six student chapter members highlight , ed chapel services at Bennett Col : lege recently. The main address was delivered ; by James Pende-rgrast of the .De partment if Chemistry of A. and T. ■College, who spoke on the subject, "A Sense of Values.” ; yes I’d like to employ good nig w:-rs, but how could I have them : in the lunchroom?' Similar eonsid cultural matters. The white will , uffirm. ‘Sure I believe in educa-' if'on for Negro kids, but! . , ." The i ‘tout’ in the unfinished sentence ex* ■ rr-tssc-s the social (which becomes ; ; u educational) taboo.” He said that while the U, S. has : some 55.000 Negro college gradu>i lairs, many southern whites have never seen one. All this tends to .'rive Negroes into self-segruga- I lion" as a means of preserving ! what is left of their self-respect He cites i. .stances which bring I h me the at ;urdfty of the double ■-stem of operating ir» the south | where learned Negro educators.] i such as Dr. Ira de Augustine Rekil (.Cor Tinned oa page 6> J