HENRY A. WALLACE TO SPEAK IN RALEIGH
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VOLUME XXVI, NO. 17 RAf.BKiH, NORTH CAROLINA WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MAY -M \'.U\ PRUT, 7<
Reynolds Strike Enters 4th Week
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39 Win Rosenwald Awards
Workers Demand
15 Cents Hour
Wage Increase
OFFICER SHOOTS,
KILLS IAN
MOUNT OLIVE Roosevelt
Garner lived only five minutes
Sunday afternoon at his home here
after he was shot by Charlie Bar
wiek. Mount Olive Policeman, for
allegedly resisting arrest.
Berwick and Daniel Bowden, an -
other officer had gone to the Gard
ner home to arrest Gardner on a
warrant sworn out by his wife,
who told officers she had had trou
ble. You will have to kill me be
fore you take me In,” Barwick
quoted Gardner as having said.
The officers told Deputy Sheriff
Rov Precise that Gardner refused
to get. into the police car after they
had read the warrant, and, the
when they attempted to get bin.
Into the automobile, he took Bow
d« nV blackjack and “made a break"
for Barwick Barwick shot Gardner
twice through the nock and oner,
in the stomach.
Q. A Seymour, Wayne County
coroner, exonerated Barwick at at;
inquest, held shortly after the
shooting. A Comoro?, s jury rulen
that Barwick shot Gardner in self
defense."
6REYHOUNO
WAPS LINES ON!
COURT RULING
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CHICAGO i WDT.,I --- In answer to
a Workers Defense League letter,
J L Williams, general traffic man
ager for the Greyhound Corps . not- i
'tied the corporation's affiliates it
the upper south of the U. S. Su
preme Court decision outlawing
jimermv in interstate travel.
While 1 am certain that all the |
bus drivers and supervisory em - j
ployes of the Greyhound Lines have ;
been fully informed with respect \
to the law and court decisions ren- j
dored in connection with the mat- •
ter. J am today calling it to the
attention of the Atlantic Grey
hound Corps. Richmond Grey
hound Lines and Southeastern
Greyhound Lines.” Williams wrote
on May 6. “1 am sure that these
companies will take whatever ac
tion is required to see that the laws
are fully complied with in the ter
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[ANTI-LYNCHING BILL
| INTRODUCED IN HOUSE;
WASHINGTON. D. C. • The
long-awaited new and strengthen
ed a % hir,g bill Friday was
inti in the House by Con
gressman Clifford P Case. New
Jersey Republican.
The measure has been referred to j
the House Judiciary Committee of
which Congressman Case is a mem- !
bet.
In a statement, issued today. Mt.i
Cr.se declared that ‘it is vital that
ill-: federal government should de
finitely define and use full auth* j
ority to protect fundamental bu- i
man rights. j
The Case bill, it was pointed out. j
would provide heavy criminal pen- !
allies for any member of a lynch i
n.ob or any other person willfully ;
involved in a lynching. It would ;
also punish any state or local offi- !
cinJ who shall have failed in the-;
performance of his duty to proveni
a lynching or to apprehend and >
W I NSTO N - S A LEM Nc-u n g
their fourth week of strik* against
tin Camel cigarette manufacturer,
ft. .1 Reynolds Tobacco Co , xoino
10,000 CIO workers at a mass m-eet
irg Sunday heard William Billings
ley. Assistant CTO Director for
North Carolina, report on stall and
notional support for the* strike, and
declare that the company -might
a- well forget about breaking i!
up, and sit. down and talk business.’
Shouts and cheers arose with a
unanimous show of hands when
Crawford Shelton, vice president
or t'rv striking Local 22. FTA-CIO
railed for a demonstration of the
workers' determination to keep
their picket lines solid however
long it takes to win their demands,
for 8 15-cent an hout increase and
a good union contract. The union
was forced "id on strike when
R< ynolds. one of the most highly
profitable companies in the United
States, refused to offer more than
5 1-2 cents increase.
Community support, voiced by
merchants, ministers and students,
'/as highlighted by grocer H. C.
C«nley who declared that "my
heart comes up and chokes me
sometimes when I wrap up a little
piece of meat for a working man.
and know (hat he cannot afford to
pay so rt.hc food his children need
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CONDUCTS INSTITUTE --The
Rev. m. W. Williams, above, has
just returned from Philadelphia.
Pa., where he. directed a two
week. institute for ministers and
deacon* which was sponsored by
the Council of Baptists and Bap
tist Organizations, under the aus
pices of Shaw University.
l 1 trig to justice anyone guilty of j
i hat crime. Os equal, ii not greater .
i’ '.portanee. it would make the lo
cal community whose neglect;
makes possible a lynching, or an
j abduction which leads to » lynch
• ing. liable for civil damages to the
| lynching victim or to his family if
! he is killed.
The Congressman called atten
t.on to the fact that lo4fi showed a j
marked Increase in th>. number of j
admitted lynchings. He pointed to j
i the fact that there has been no con- I
' viction of the lynchers who drag-]
’ ged Roger Malcolm, George D&r- '■
i soy, a veteran, and their wives, j
! Willie Mae and Dorothy, from a i
| car and shot them to death in Mon
; roe, Georgia, last July. He said, that!
S those who lynched Leon McTatie,)
• the 53-year-old lather of ten chil- ;
j dren ir« Lexington, Mississippi, have I
j r'v--. paid the penalty for tht-ir!
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GOOD SAMARITAN STAFF—
Pictured above are members of
tile staff of the Good Samaritan
Hospital at Charlotte. They are,
(first row : Charlie Templeton,
Templeton, assistant administra
tor, China Grove Mrs Rosa' At
Goodiey, director of nurse train
ing, Spartanburg. S and G
W S.aveoek, administrator, Char
lotte.
Second row: Miss Estelle Moss,
Anethntist. Charlotte; Miss M
WHITE VICTIM Os
MURDER PLGT
RECOVERIES
1 .TIMBERTON fr.vki tfillei.
27-year-‘' : ld R-sv.-’Ljr,''. white num.
v.TMinded Ir. a murder at tempi av
1 red Wiggins, hired by Mrs Mary
F.lb n Currh. HP IP r m kill ; ■: hit
band ;>nd "inake it look like sui
cide,' was obi to sjt up ill :,pri for
the fir ••: •ie.i it. I'.i kei
h< ec Sunday
Mrs. Milb- has: - |-r: released
from It.ili .on C-utni'. j.rl midei
$15.(100 bund, but Wiggins is still
bring hi Id lu default of a similar
bond
Mrs. Miller confessed to officers
oil-twing the murder on Thurs
a.y. May 15. that sin- was in iuvt
•if.la another man . and that the
•civ way nut was in "do away"
ith her husband.
Wiggins admitted she had paid
tin $25 f oi the murder with Hit.
nromise that "J would never hav
t< worry about anything as long as
I lived if I would kill her husband
and mask it look like h suicide.”
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j ORGANIZED BUSINESS
Pictured above Is a body of the
! delegates from 15 North Carolina
cities who convened in Durham
Thursday, May s, ie organise .
Raynor, Goldsboro; Miss W VI.
Lar is of Charlotte: Miss Florence
McDuffie. Assistant Dietitian.
Spartanburg, S, C , Mss Esther
Rich. stenographer. Greenville;
Dr, H D. Rynoe, Boston. Mass.;
Mrs. .1 ulia Crosby, supervisor;
Dillon. S. C ; Mrs. H Blahrney,
assistant director of nurse train
ing. Pittsburgh, Kansas: and Miss
Lucy Pugh, supervisor, Aydeti
Third row; Mrs. Gertrude Black
man, terhniean, Charlotte; Miss
j Hoodooism Angers Judge
GREEN VILLE ALP) - Hexing
•octics used by h reputed •■faith
1: : ’ t. hood;/ Super;,,) Cour;
Tudgf- Luther Hamilton of More
-on City into awarding a deci •
non in lis favor, backfired he;- re
Happy new Khmer new year.
HONOR STUDENTS Tin
two students pictured above have
been named first and second hon
or students of the Senior Class of
Shaw University. They will speak
at Class Night exercises Friday
night. May Li, at ts o'clock in
Greetileaf Chapei. Baccalaureate
State units of tin National Ne
gro Business League in Ashe
ville, Charlotte. Clinton, Concord, 1
Fayetteville. Greenville, Golds
boro, High Point, Kteßtob, 'New j
1„ Chippey. technician. Raleigh,
Mrs. Ida Zanders, dietitian. Tuc
son. Aria.; Miss B. Jenkins, ire
••tractor, Bclhaven, :V1 iss Ruth
llouscr. Admission clerk. Char
lotte; Miss E. M. Nixon. Emis
sion supervisor, /demon. Dr,
'Catherine M-Cottrv. • 'hariotte.
Miss Mart Dye supervisor. Chat
lotto; Miss V Roberts, supervisor.
Ston; vilie; Mrs. Vnnir Ellington,
( hariotte; and Mrs. Amanda Ea
von, supervisor, Charlotte.
• i.'iv The judge •••’rented Ihc
'on ofthe “con inn deeior” (ina
• ultd dgaiesi l:i;n (•• tb-. turn- of
C 400.00.
The rnnjui ”; vns .L-ss*- Edwards.
Cnrhinui d <>i; b ;ek page)
services will be Sendai. May 25.
a clock aud commencenrient Ex
(reives Monday afternoon at 3:30.
They are, at left, Miss Hilda
Black oi Thomasv'lle. valedic
torian; at right. Miss L, Gertrude
Faulkner, Macon salutatorian.
Bmb, Raleigh Rocky Mount,
Wilmington, Winston-Salem and
Wilson. Officers elected are: .1- J.
i Bender '>n. Tim; : "reside ;
; 'I, £4glitn«r, Raleigh, vice presi
MTTKELL FINALS
BEGUN MONDAY
BV Fours W. THOMPSON, IR
KITTRELL i'ANP) - - Kif troll
ColtegnV commencement exorcise?,
will be held on May 28, with the
Rev W. Ft. Wilkies of Af.iaut;,
principal speaker
Leading up to the main event
will be the baccalaureate sermon
by Dr. A. B. Cooper. Eastville, Vs
on Sunday. May 25. followed by
an alumni address on Tuesday at
the annual meeting of ‘he r.lumn,
association,
23 COLORED AND
SIXTEEN WHITE
RIVEN AWARDS
CHICAGO AN Pi Award
39 Julius Rosenwald Fund fell' v
ships for 1947 which, together v. :?h
icapi'iointmi'nls of former follows
total $90,000. was announced this
y. •( k hy Edw in R Embrec. presi
■ n ,j ibe fund Twenty-throe Nc
. rn■>« nrt ii> white southerner;'
tie gsv-i.i: :wards averaging 52.-
« -n in ercior to carry out projects
i angmg from the writing of poetry
; the- ••valuation of political prac-
X. cro awnrd wjpocts include:
William ElliswoiTh Artis, Cor
■•!••. Long island. N Y.. to work
C fi.-ttivc Aa-jb.ama clays in the
css aiion of sculpture *nd ceramics.
. Tuskegoe institute
Walter c Baiter. Indianapolis' for
sirtdu itt work n. sociology. at the
University of Chicago.
\rthur C. Tanks .) ■ department
<>: history and political science,
Morehouse College. Atlanta; to
n ••ike a study of ten. problems of
rrrd,! nations and ♦.heir convriba
ip-r.s to internatinml law and
v.erld -rgantzatlons. -d Johns Hop
kins University.
ee Warner Brice, Rock H»i•
S C for a study of the develop
; , :i; arid present status of : hf' Ne
.ro junior college ,u the Univer
i.;- of Pennsylvania
Ti Louise Burg, voice instructor,
Howard University for graduate
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NCC ALUMNI TO
EMPLOY FOIL
TIME SECRETARY
DURHAM The main business
to come before the North Carolina
College Alumni Association at its
annual business session here Satur
day M.;y 31. will bt the erentlon
of the position of full rime field
secretsry.
Alumni Da;, activities are slated
t>. g; t under way at 10;3t) A. M
with ,i meet.tug of ttic executive
committee. Following this the en
f;:e membership will ittend a bus
iness meeting B N Duke Audi
torium at 11:00. At 5:00 P M. the
jfrbtip will witness in the Senior
Boviiiv; Class Day • xerctees sea
• Pining the memi>er> of the class
■ r 1947.
The public meeting tykes place at
LOO P. M.. and a reception in the
' iusic Assembly Room at 9 3<i will
< !:max the day.
Speakers at the eight, o'clock ses
sion w;ll be the Rev Deedom Als
ton, Rector of the St. James Prot
•■y-iant Episcopal Church in Ports
mouth, Va. He was a member of
•hr. class of 1935.
dent; Mrs. .1. lieShaao Jackson,
Durham. secretary; Miss Jessie €
i Henderson, Durham, secretary to i
the )»r«si-’rßi; s»-t Dr E. A.I 5
J Daves, New Bern, treasurer.
**eirt***r» aaiwiww>w»inw —r —rr Ti~-r—---.juj
“The Road To
Peace ?> To Be
Topic Os Speech
RALEIGH Henry A \Y dim.,
will speak here at the Municipal
Auditorium, at 8 o'clock, Thursday.
June 5. under the auspices of the
Committee for North Carolina,
Southern Conference for human
Welfare.
Mr. W iiloccs address will be on
tin subject The Read to Peace'
The forme; Vice President ■•£
th • United States, Room.veil cab
;nof member, and publisher of one
of the largest form papers m Am er
ic 1 will make his only appearance j
in this section of the country whet)
he come.- to Rnirigh r-n June For
the past few months Mr. Wallace
’•as been making in fusion,- >;pealc
ing tour in leading cities of thc-
Utnited Slates and Europe, ex
po undina his point of view that the
current American foreign policy
will loan to another world war.
Tickets for admission to the meet
ing went ,-.<n sale this week in Ra
leigh and surrounding cities. Gen
-1 Continued on nack page)
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Brutal Army Officer
Faces Court Martial
NEW YORK First Lieutenant
Morn's. for mor stockade officer of
Csmp Kilmer, N J.. who.«e bi vital
ity toward n Negro soldier was dis
closed by the NAACP will be
brought to trial, the U. S Adju
tant General‘s Office raid Friday
The NAACP submitted a repori
to the Adjutant General's Office
in which an Investigator, sent to
Camp Kilmer, declared that Private
Townsend Horton of Chattanoog;.
Term, was cruelly treated for al
legedly having written a letter to
the NAACP requesting aid. On
February 27, Horton was orderec
to dig a deep hole in the frozen,
-new-covered ground v Ith a tablc
sj oon, and then beaten with a
heavy broomstick
The next clay. Morris had Hor
ton brought to his office where in
the presence of several other white
officers and enlisted men. Norris
cursed and threatened Horton,
charging him with - -writing to i;hc
NAACP When Horton denied this,
; sergeant is alleged to have struck
him in the mouth
Horton’s upper arid lower lips
were split optiri by the vicious
How He was beaten arid choked
by the other men m the room and
forced to sign a stater-n nl saying
*a;3t he had not beer, beaten with
a broom Horton was then alleged
ly ordered to run by aoniher offi
cer who was m the act of removing
h-s gui: from its holster. Unable to
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SPEAKER The Hev. .1 Jas
per Freeman, above, pastor of
First Baptist Church, Norfolk,
Va„ will deliver the annual Bac
calaureate sermon at services to
he held Sunday afternoon a( 3
clock in Grecnh-af Chapel of
Shaw University. Hr. Freeman,
who is President of the General
Alumni Association of Shaw Ftii
versitv, holds the A, B. and B f)
degrees from the Institution.
[SHEPPARD GIVES
| COMMITTEE VIEW
The following letter was receiv
ed yesterday by the editor of The •
K- ws and Observer from the Rev.
I .et C. Sheppard of Raleigh, presi- j
1 dr-ni of the N C. Committee. South- j
|«n Conference tor Kumar. Wo!-
l'avc:
Regarding your editorial on 'Dig
ging Up Snakes' in which you la
; n.ent the bringing up of the issue
l of race segregation on the occasion
; :,f Mr, Wallace’s coming to Raleigh,
tune 5. under the sponsorship of
the N C. Committee of the South
ern Conference- for 'Human Welfare. :
to speak on 'The Road to Peace;’
;we also lament the bringing up of
this issue because it. would seem to
have bc-en unnecessary
“The Commltee for North Cw.ro
hr.a is made up of representatives
I of ail our citizens without regard to!
' race, national origin, or creed. On;
out board ox iepresealaUjsS_&ere ‘
HENRY A. VI VFI,ACE
FEPG BILL
PASSES HOUSES
HARTFORD Conn • NNPA 1 -The
House of Representatives of the
Connecticut Legislative lasi Taes
day approved by a vote of 121 to
i.i a siw- f.-.-ir employment prac
tice biii.
The measure has a 1 ready passed
the Senate, and Governor .lames L
MeConaugntv is virtually certain
to approve it.
The- measure ban- race or reli
gious discrimination in employ
i-:ent. Under its provisions, the
S t a i i- Interracial Commission,
created several ..tars ago, would
bi authorised to issue “cctise-and
desist” orders against any employ
employment agency oj iabo’
union guilty of such discTfrnsnation.
A last minute effort to amend the
bn! to moke it aplieablc only to
. p'lp’oyers having ten or more era
pioyees was defeated 102 to SB Em
ployers with five or more workers
are subject t-o its provisions as the
bill finally passed.
The hi!! provides no penalties for
violation of the ;«Ttt-discrimin»-
ton j revisions. but. the Interracial
Commssion is authorized to apply
to the court.:- for injunctions if its
ordf re ere not obeyed.
MORE POLICE
ASKED FOR
CHARLOTTE
TWENTY FIVE ADDITIONAL
REQUESTED BY CHIEF
CHARLOTTE - ’>■< « statement
accompanying the New budget re
quest Im- the Police Department
Chief Frank T "- : Littlejohn asked
that twenty five additional police
men be provided for in the new
fiscal year. Os this number it was
I; a:nee an equitable percentage of
these would be Negro which would
be needed to patrol the ,-ver in
creasing Negro Communities. How
ever. this desire of the latter state
ment lacks verification, and is un
official.
The EAGLE as it went to pres?
was unable to contact Chief Little
, john for a statement. However the
duet from a statement printed in
me EAGLE a few days ago direct
ep to the N C. Interracial Com
mission stated that the employment
of Negro policemen in Charlotte
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-e six Negroes out of a total of 22.
We have never met or promoted
any meeting on the basis of any
'sort of segregation of the citizens
! attending. Seeking to promote the.
welfare of all our citizens, we could
! not do otherwise
“In making the arrangements for
Mr. Wallace's appearance in Ra
leigh. wo simply requested the use
»f ihe auditorium and asked if we
could have the responsibility In the
matter of seating arrangements
The question of segregation
! raised not by us but by the city
| commissioners who finally voted tu
; leave the matter of seating in our
hands. Ii should be noted that titers
have been ether meetings in the
auditorium where seating was un
segregated; and al3o that last year
when our organisation had occa
; slot! to request use of the hall we
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