S. C. ACQUFITAL STIRS ENTIRE COUNTRY j) S, G. MOB DEFENDANTS ACQUITTED GREENVILLE, S. C, (NNPA > All twenty-eight, defendants were acquitted on all courts by a Greenville County jury her ? last; Wednesday of charges of lynch-j ine Willie Earle on last February j inn. In ninety-eight separate vor-j diets the defendants were freed! of charges of murder, conspiracy ! to commit murder and of being j accessories before the fact. The jury, composed of eight, tex - j tile workers, two salesmen, a j shipping clerk, and a farmer, in j freeing the first. lynch mob ever j to be prosecuted in a southern j court, rejected altogether the al leged confessions of the accused j men. None of the defendants re- j putiiated in court the confessions i attributed to them. Judge J. Rob \ ■srf Martin, Jr„ wh c 'presided ever the trial, had instructed the • iurv that they could consider j each statement as evidence j against its maker. Eight of the statements named j Roosevelt Carlos Hurd as the trig- j ger man in the mob. but under the judge's ruling these state ments could not be considered as | evidence against, him. In his own \ statement Hurd satd he did not ■ know who fired the fatal shot- < gun blasts. Twenty-one of the defendants j were charged with murder, antes- , sorv before and after the fact of murder, and conspiracy. Judge Martin had reduced the charges against the other seven defend -1 ants from murder and accessory; after the fact to conspiracy. Judge Martin, in his charge, in ■; Mi ucted the jury to disregard ; ' any so-called racial issue.” (Continued on oaek page) LYNCH TRIAL LEAVES MIXED FEELINGS GREENVILLE. S. C. (ANF) Acquittal of the 28 defendants by an all white male jury for the lynching of Willie Earle has left mixed feelings in its wake. Satis faction was greatest among ihe defendants, their families, friends and -sympathizers.-. fey* quest.-<«. . marks lingered in me minds 'of ethers about southern justice. Some local leaders saw "prog tegs" in the mere fact that, the :~ | James A Cobb, former judge of the Distric-i of Columbia Municipal Court and teacher of the eonsiitu* ' tional law in the Howard Univer- ! sity Law School, lag* Monday ask- j «i Municipal Court Judge Nathan Margnld to reverse the decision oi j the United States Supreme Court, i holding the civil rights act oi ! MS7S inapplicable to the District of i Columbia. Judge Margold said he wants the i whale summer to pass on the ques-' t.ion and asked Mr. Cobh to sum mit him some cases in point, The request was marie during argument on a motion to dismiss the complaint ol Edwin R. Hender ' son., director of physical education in the colored pubic schools of the j District of fpiumbis and a sport.; j columnist for the NNPA News Set- . vee, who is suing the National j Theatre for damages as SSW> for i r«t'jeir*g him adroi'ttanob to the | only legitimate playhouse here I ■ ' _ ' • ■ i - — _ i - ——— ■— | VOLUME XXVI, NO. 17 RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MAY :> 1, 1917 PRICE 7if Mob Action Flares Up In N. C. ★ ★ ★ *********'***** ****-*** | Statutes Upheld In Chapel Hill MAN ESCAPES LYNCH MRS I RALEIGH Goodwin Bush, vic jhm of a lynch nwb winch storm jed the little ted brek jail at Tack | son about 200 Friday morning | surrendered to Solicitor E. R. Tyler I of Roxbel at an undisclosed point j Sunday and is confined to Central | Prison here, it was reported Sun i day nigh?.. Bush, who was seized by four j r. r loads of hoodlums after he had , teen arrested and confined to jail on an alleged attempted criminal attack on Mrs. Margaret A. Bryant, white, last Thursday night, said he 1 had been hiding since Friday morn ing when he broke away from the n tob. ; Tyler said Bush surrendered to him about 4:00 Sunday morning j after a Negro preacher -who had j arranged for his rescue informed Tyler that the prisoner would sur ; render if Tyler, and agent of the FBI, would guarantee his safety. Tyler refused to disclose where | the surrender took place, but an : nuunced calmly that it was in the : general vicinity of the place where j Bush escaped from the mob. i . Mm*- jlmm Howard who lives i t o house across the street from the iaii provided the first concrete evi dence that the mob victim might still be alive when she told offic : eu- she had seen someone ran front the mob and had seen and heard a i gun shot.. Later in the morning ; when the bullet was discovered in i the rafter of a stria]! meathouse, investigating officers proceeded on 1 theory that Bush was still alive. Three masked men had gone into : the jail and taken Bush outside i \ here three cars of hoodlums I were waiting. A few moments »f --j Uirwards, sound of a gunshot was i heard and the mob's cars drove | away. CORRESPONDENTS VOTE TO CHANGE PRESS GALLERY RULES WASHINGTON (NNPA) The Standing Committee of Correspondents of the Con gressional Press Galleries an nounced las! Monday that gallery members had voted approval, 123 So JL of ihe proposed change in gallery rules. The committee said it will submit the proposal at the earliest possible time to the Speaker of the Senate Rules Committee. Undr the proposed change, represenatives of news asso ciations servicing weekly newspapers would be admit ted to the galleries. | Mr. Cobb contended that unde; j tin civil rights act. of ]R7f>, it is illegal to bar anyone from public places, common carriers, or places ! amusement on grounds of race, | color or previous condition of ser i vilude. The United States Supreme .Court i held in the civil rights cases de- I (rifl'd in 1 883 that the provision;, of i the civil rights act of 1875, with i rosped to the equal enjoyment of ; the privileges of inns, public con i veyanees and places of amuse ment were invalid because the Fnurteenvh Amendment to the United States Constitution applied only to state action In 19ill. in Butte v. Merchants Transportation Company, the court decided that the same act could be i sustained in its operation outside I the states as the provisions of the act with respect to vo sets, the Dis~ I triet of Columbia and the tetri* | lories could not be severed from 1 those (elating to the states withou* ! v oiytiXig its ©J Csn^ras®, GMP NAACP Political Action Insti tute Above are ihe persons uho attended the recent Politi cal Action Institute which was Rep. Dawson Makes Academy * Appointment WASHINGTON. D. C NNPA. - Lester Banks, a junior at Howard University, was appointed to the Ui ited States Naval Academy last Wednesday by Representative Wil liam L. Dawson. Democrat, of 111. If Ranks passes the physical ex amination on .Tune 10 and entei the academy he will join one other colored youth there. Wesley Brown, who is now in ms third year. Bipwn was appointed by Represen Rev. Holder Delivers Challenging Sermon RALEIGH - What can you do to make this a hotter world?" This wm- the challenge offered the gral nuting class of gt. Augustine's Col lege by the Rev Oscar E Holder n h;s sermon at the baccalaureate service Sunday afternoon. Taking H' Iris rex; the admoni tion of Paul to the young Timo thy, "Study to show thyself ap proved of God,' the preacher stat i that it is easy to win approve 1. NAACP Calls For New Anti-Lynch Laws NEW YORK - Officials ,)f uu Nitionnl Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People, stun ned by the South Carolna acquit : tin l of the 28 defen da tits in the i ! ironing trial Friday issued the Rowing statement: "The verdict in the South Caro lina lynching trial only adds to the proof ’hat state action cannot b- expected to punish the crime of l> netting. Notice has been served c , Negroes in South Carolina and | U. oughout the South that they are nrw at the mercy of mobs, and that : the law is powerless to defend them or to punish their murderers I In brief, the laws are for the white j people; if tine is white, one is right, oven though a lyncher. '•'The names of the South Caro lina lynchers are known. The re cord of their action was spread ! upon ciurt records so plainly that Ino one doubts then guilt, despite the. verdict "Unless we can secure federal legislation, it is entirely possible ; that some Negroes, abandoned to | mobs by the law, may be forced in their desperation, to devise some sponsored bv the Charlotte Chap ter NAACP. The institute taught the various members how to reg ister and vote and was directed l atve Adam C. Powell. Democrat, a New York. No colored youth has yet rvri remained at the Naval Academy long enough to graduate. Though Brown's appointment were James Johnsin and George Tnvers, both hiring and physical or menial de ficiencies. either real or imaginary, they have v x>n forced to resign, tilt last two appointed prior to of whom withdrew in their first year. but that the approval of some is fat from desirable The approval f thi world may !>-■ trupßitory. hul "os: who e tor iii. approval of Got. however humble tbeii work or lowly their station, will hi* remembered for their works oi mercy. love and sacrifice "The most certain contribution you can make to a better world is to be a better person,” the speak er concluded (Continued on buck, p»sr means of protecting themselves. Tibs would be a lawless and fu tile gesture, but logical and under standible in the circumstances. “Followng the infamous quad ruple lynching of two men and heir wives near Mon'Tie. Ga., last year, the United Slates Attorney Use Statistics To Justify JC D. C. School Washington (ANP» School officials here are seeking to justify the continuation of the jim crow school system and a i racial quota policy by the use of | . figures showing the percentages of money spent on educe turn tor : colored and for whites. In reply to a petition to the j i board of educational submitted ,3 , month ago by the father of 13-1 1 yeai’-oW Msrsfusritc Daisy C«.-r j ! asking that his daughter be giv- ; bv tV. E. Bluford, instructor in Social Studies at Johnson C. Smith University. MISS. SENATOR ON ANTI-LYNCHING COMMITTEE * 1 WASHINGTON IBNPAI Senator Homer Ferguson, Re publican, of Michigan, who won fame as a racket buster in Dertoit, has been appointed chairman oi a Senate judic iary subcommittee to consid er anti-lynching legislation. Other members of the sub committee will probably hold hearings on an anti-lynching bill introduced in the Senate Albert Hawkes, Republican, ■ of New* Jersey, January 6, last No dale has yet been set for the hearings, SEVEN ARRESTED IN NORTHAMPTON MOB CASE Released f nrier $2,500 Bond Each ! 1 RICH SQUARE Seven North i amptnn County white men : charged with kidnapping and breaking into the county jail at i Jackson in an attempt, to lynch . Godwin Bush, who was charged • with attempted assault on a white woman were arrested here Tues- Cont.inueri r.n back page) G 'neraTs office, through Assistant ' Attorney General Theron L Cau-1 lie. called for federal legislation to 1 punish those guilty of lynching. A new anti lynching bill iH. R. 3488) was introduced in the House. May bV by Rep. Clifford P Case *R., N J.i and the Congress should act upon i; promptly.” I j on education opportunities equal i to those enjoyed by white chil-! i riren, Dr. Hobart M Corning re- l i ported to the board last week j that 44.27 per cent of the district ; ; money goes to Negroes although ! ! they constitute only 34.1 per cent, j Jof the population. The Carr pc i tit ton protest overcrowding and i ■part time instruction tn Negro; j £Civ )L. ' tCnjitinuea on back pa*e.> .. 1 TEST CASE TRAVELERS SENTENCED CHAPEL HI.LL—fANP) A white man and 3 Negro were 1\ und guilty of trying to buck North Carolina", jim crow stat utes requiring segregation of ."vie and Negro passengers in public transportation vehicles in Judge Henry A Whitfield's court he-* last week. The two men were Bayard Rus t. Westchester, Pa., and Igol Bouden ko. white New Yorker. Roedenko drew a 30-day road sen tence. and Rustin was ordered to pay court costs. Their i onviction was based on the judge's interpretation of in terstate travel. The two men had been part, of a party of ’wo Ne groes and two whites, who were i.n a "journey for reconciliation” from Durham to Knoxville, Term., las’ month. Their trio was sponsored by the Fellowship of Reconciliation, a northern group i rganized for the purpose of fur thering interracial relations. The arrest of the group hap i,tired here when the two Negro members of the party refused to nit in the rear of a Carolina Coach company bus and the white mem bers refused to similiarly obe;. t!v’ segregation laws and »n«true • tions of the bus driver, Ned H. Leonard of Lincolnton. Defense Attys. C. J. Gates and E R. Avant, both of Durham, and Hci man L. Taylor of Raleigh, ar gued that since Rustin and Roo henko held through state tickets, they were not subject to the seg ; egation provisions of the state law. They cited the Morgan vs. "rate of Virginia (-esc in which "it supreme court held that local lavs of segregation cannot apply to passengers of bus lines operat ing between different states or passengers using tickets from a point, in one state to a destination in another, (Continued on back page) HARLEM WOMAN LETS YWCA POST NEW YORK (ANP) —The national board of the YWCA has announced the election oi Mrs, Edward S. Lewis oi New York as a member of the ex ecutive committee. Mrs. Lewis, who is the wife of Edward Lewis, executive secretary of the Urban League of Greater New York, is well known in the eastern area as a leader in civic and social welfare work and has long been connected with th» YWCA School Issue Sparks I)„ (]. Women WASHINGTON (ANP)—Near dlam broke loose at the annual open meeting of the white Vota jpss District League of Women voters here last week, when the subject of "Should the league work toward elimination of rar iai discrimination in services of the government, and intergroup education in public schools? - ’ was hi ought up. The league was meeting in Pierce hall. All Souls’ Unitarian church. The furore was created i over tiie portion of the subject which related to ‘intergroup edu cation in public schools,’’ The is sue of non-discrimination in gov ernment services received a mo- t joilty "aye” vote with little dis sent. The hue and cry over the <-m --tr"group education” part was: brought about with toe interpre tation by most members that such | E proposal WOUld mean nnncosr- ' rogation «jf Ne,,. and wh B t»c m district schools, 4 iHe Escaped N. C, Lynch Mob 1 f "*' - Goodwin "Buddy ' Bush is arnpton County. Bush came to shown above wish Warden H. *he home of a Necpro farmer h wn«™ *»u i« r s ntra) Pri« ihr*e IRl}e *' south of Jackson H. W .aon, safe m Centra! Pru a f tftr spending two davs in fha i or, after making an escape from woods without food and in ter an armed mob which took him -.or far hie life to make his *uf fvnm tkn Tanlycnn s»iil in Kfnyft*. t An^ar trom the Jackson jaxi m Nortn* lender. Governor Cherry Makes Statement On Jackson Case North Carolina will not tolerate lynchings and mob violence Immediately upon "earin.; of the unfortunate happening ai Jackson, I ordered the State Bureau of In investigation, seeking to fix any the scene a.id make in exhaustive investigation .seeking to fix any guilt and to locate those responsi ble. Such persons will be prose cuted to the full extent of the lav. M.V instructions are that every of ficer attached to the State Bureau ol Investigation is to be assigned there if it is necessary. 1 have also asked the Nor t h Carolina State Highway Patrol to send representation to Northamp ton County •<> be of -i§y possible assistance lo law enforcement of ficers ui searching out the guilty parties I have asked Sheriff J. C. Ste phenson to nf ke Ino a report in v riting of his findings in this in stance. North Carolina has not had a lynching since July 30. 1935, and have set a precedent :n this; State for the punishment of white men who form mobs and mistreat Negroes. No such incident has passed in this State for many year? \. ithout persons responsible being - punished. EQUAL SALARY SUIT RESULTS IN DISMISSAL Birminghom (ANP) The wholesale firing of Negro teach ers who attempts to secure equal ization of pay with white teach ers through court action, was dis closed here last, week by the na tional teachers division of th c United Public Workers of Amer ica. I Leader of the teacher group j s seeking pay parity is Mrs. Ruby ' Jackson Gainer, who was charged , with insubordination and neglect of duty. A hearing on her case was held last Wednesday. the de , vision on which will be rendered j June 3. The dismissals were the out growth of court action instituted ; by Mrs. Gainer, who is president j of the Jefferson County Teach t’s union, against County Supt. J E. Bryan for his refusal to: comply with a two-year-old court! decision ordering salary equaii- > zation for Negro teacheres. This j case was heard in the Binning -1 ham federal court on April 1. , Attv. Crampton Harris, formerly of ‘the lav office of Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black, and Arthur D Shores represented the] teachers. In a reprisal action the Jeffer son County Board of education served dismissal notices to all teacher leaders participating in th- fight for equalized salaries. 1 Specific charges against other leaders were not revealed. According to Miss Sara T. Walsh, director of UPW’s national teachers division, the board's ac-' tion amounts to a ‘flagrant case j of intimidation of teachers and an attempt at unoiiubusting. If has been, precerdod by a series of efforts by the school supermten -1 dent sin h as attempting to g-?t teachers t.o sign statements that they do not want pay equal to that of white teachers. (Continued on oage H) Spingam Medal To Dr. Percy L. Julian NEW YORK lt was announc* \ ! ed Friday by the National Associa- I ; tion for the Advancement of Coio-- ed People that the Spingam Medai ; for distinguished achcvemer b; . ar. American Negro has beet' ] awarded to Dr Percy L. Julian l Chicago chemist * Tic NAAC*. tffcg {£ * 1 rail attention to one of the I,'ist such incidents, when in 1942 a mob of white men meti to gain entrance to the Person County Jail Roxboro to get a Negro who vos being held there a rape charge The Sheriff and Highway Patrol stood the mob off and lat er arrested several mob partici pants. Five white men served pri son sentences following conviction on charges of unlawful assembly. \i Cherryville on April 13, 1941, Negm was killed in a fight be \v. rt-r. • > group of white men and Negroes. In some places that has been referred to as a lynching Our states officials regarded it as a iieht between groups of different I races. But at any rate three white 1 men were convicted and drew pri- I sir sentences from that occasion. > I cite these instances as an in- j dVcation of our determination here I in North Carolina not to allow j this sort. of thing in our State. We I have set and are setting this pie- j c< dent. For 12 years North Carolina had seen no such shamefui thing as has msi. hesppened at. Jackson. This is a .-ivilived State Lynching will not be tolerated within our bord e rs. STATE ELKS NAME OFFICERS K. P. BATTLE OF ROCKY MOUNT PRESIDENT; L. I* HARRIS RE-ELECTED SECT. TARBORO With one hundred delegates in attendance and with ver three thousand visitors and fi f inds present the State EJks As seciation adjourned last Thursday •with the out come very satisfactory U> ail who braved the heat of Tar bem • On hand were J. Finley Wil son, Grand Exalted Ruler of th" Eiks and Judge W. C. Houston. Grand Commissioner of Education The next Association meeting was set for Kinston. The following officers were elect ed for the new year: President. K. P Battle. Rocky Mount; Ist vice president. M. F, Alvin. Scotland Neck; 2nd vice president, George Alien. Wilming ton; 3rd vice president, B S. Rivers. New Bern; State Secretary, L P. Harris., Charlotte; state treas urer. J T Hawkins. Durham; Esquire. J. W. Rogers. Williamston: inner guard. Joe fthinl FnrmvlUe: Tyler, Grant Bell. Greensville, Commissioner of Education, R. J Johnson, Rocky Mount; Commis siner of Civil Liberties. J. A. Joy ner Commissioner of Junior Herds t. S. Potts, Charlotte; Commission er of Athletics. J. N. White, Green ville; State Chaplain. Rev ,T. 8 Brown, Washington; Assistant State. Chaplain. Rev. P. F. Davis, Char lotte. Trustees C. E. Evans, New Bern; It. F Lee. Wilmington; Rev. J. A. Mi-bane. Tarboro. i Award selected Dr. Julian from ! among e d istinguisSietl group of prospective recipients lor hi* bril liant contributions in the field of chemical research vouch of Which ' tuis received wide notice as a rw~ :SU)( of Paul de Krutfs artielfx; In , The Reader’s Dlgeht. am p«ge eight