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WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, Jl I.Y 5, 1917 Russians Laugh, Cry At U. S. Race Hate MOSCOW t ANP) Russian audiences displayed mingled tmo* tioHs or pity and joy here last week ai the antics of Leonid Ulye.wV director of th? Stau Jazz band of the Russian Federated republic, oft Iht plight of the American Negro at the hands of Negro-hating Amu* ieans. His. two and. tone-hall hour '.how jreluded songs, dances and jokes, which included a skit about a bragging American trying to ex plain why the U S. chess teams lost the international chess matches to the Russians: "Our chess players couldn’t train properly ’ the American said, "be- Si MISTAKING AMONG ARMORED SCHOOL GRADS Fort Knox, Ky (ANP) -- Pv : John Delano Caldwell, of head quarters company, 753th Tank battalion, was easily the most • outstanding among graduates from the Armored school here last week. Caldwell, a native of Neelies, Tex., finished the radio repairman course with a ratine of "superior.” A graduate of Prairie View col lege, he entered the service in June, 1945. In September of the same year, he was selected to take a year’s course in electrical engineering at the University of Utah under the army specialized , training program Upon comple tion of this training, he war sent to Fort Lewis, Wash., thence to ' Port Knox, for assignment with the 758th. Soon after his arrival, he entered the 18 3-2 week radio repairman course. Along with oher classmates, he worked out problems in the manv huge workshops of the school learned to repair and maintain army radio ruts, and gained knowledge vitally needed to keep :n operation the communication system controlling movements of ' tank and other armored vehicles groups in the -field. AMVETSHONOR RACE VETS 2 Negress On National Planning Committee By PAULINE R. COGGS Milwaukee (ANP) Two N. pro veterans Were <>lec*ted to the national governing body of the American Veterans committee at the national convention June 33- 21. May Ulysses Lee of Washing toft and Theodore Coggs of Math son, Wis., were candidates or. the Independent • Progressive Dam that won the election tn an over whelming majority. Other win net's: of the Independent Progres- Sivfe caucus were Chat Patterson, j national chairman, succeeding Charles Bolte, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., who was reelected j to the national planning corn ; niittee. Franklin Williams, staff mem bers of the NAACP, a former member of the national planning i committee, was defeated in his candidacy for vice chairman of the organization. The platform accepted by the convention included strong on position to segregation in the «rmed forces, jim crow laws, the; practice of discrimination in the j expenditure of federal funds and ! restrictive racial nousing coven ! ants. The platform called for i fair employment legislation, a j ft deral civil rights act, repeal of I Hie poll tax and the outlawing of white primaries. A! the Bengasi the ether even ing. Ben Butcher, Love joy school j principal, came in ell dressed up | Lot soloing to hear Savannah j Churchill. Billy Eckstein and a trio are currently at the Bengasi C ?adualn.m is im a<lneverr>ent. Do shew tfca t!M •/ cause in America we can’t have black and white nun on the saint | square.’ ’ Tears flowed freely when Edith, 1 Utyesov's daughter, sang a ballad portraying the lynching of Negroes • in the southern section of the Unit ed States. Donning black-face makeup, she sang a lullaby to her ■ baby not to cry becauts her dc.ddy j and his buddy "are hanging from ■ hat strange tree 1 "He fought m the war. because then he was not a nigger " the bal ■ L‘d say. “But then he came home; and tried to stand up for his rights ’ ar-d now he is hanging from that : ■s’range tree.” City COUNCIL MEETS i.Y J. E. HICKS At the reevnt public budget hear : ins heid in the city court. b> the I City Council elect a feeling of re* yiet because ol the absence of the ..unsuccessful Negro candidate stole ; over me. After having listened to ; the hearing a few days. ! discover ■ed that the public of Raleigh was ’ just as apathetic about seeing the ! new system work aa we had been :n net electing our .candidate The ; public was eonfepidious by its at ■ sene*. Thus it seem:-- that or.ee a group is eh vied, public interest | wanes until something unusual •ciuses i'. However, there i: one tiling 1 v Inch may be said of the council los we observed it tit work. It is composed of a high type of intelli gent individuals bent on seeing that ■he new government work;; The ; presentation of each group r< c.-lv :to a courteous, attentive recep- i ; non. At the conclusion of each, iri ; formative Questions wen asked by the cimncltoen. Miss Ruth Wilson, and Messrs. Hobson Gailis and j f red Flecther asked good ques- j | t’en- This was perhaps due to the i I fact that they are members of rhe I budget committee. All sc; med very j I interested. Negroes appearing before the : ! body acquitted themselves well, j Mrs. MoHie Lee, librai ian of Rk-h --| urd B. Harrison Library-, Dr. O S i Bullock, and 1., E. McCauley ap • ’.eared first. Wednesday, June 18 | at 4 o’clock. Before making her i presentation Mrs fee pursed to : each, councilman a copy of her | budget and dflier pictorial material | necessary for convincing them of ■ ! her needs. In addition sh,. distrib j uted as she talked pictures taken j | oft bookmobile trips, and a city map showing the distribution of the li l Lrary borrowers. Then she began i > history of the founding of the library and traced its growth, and describes it- services. Councilman i Danielson asked her to si’ while I concluding the r, port. She Was fol ! lowed by Dr. Bullock, chairman iof the library board, who told about the purbaso of the new ‘me located on Blount. Street. Questir.tied thoroughly by Flecther | | regarding the authority for the pur- I I base and the financial arrange ment. Dr Bullock gave a good ac | count of the matter. Councilmen ! suggested means for financing the purchase. Dr. L. E. McCauley sub- j sinntiated briefly the plea of Dr Bullock and Mr-. Lee Mr Thomas While of Method ap- j ' feared with the committe repre : nting Si. Agnes Hospital, al c-ont’h Mr. Webb stated the budget and the heeds which he described blountily. and forcefully. Spokes | man from Rex urged the council ] to heed his plea Judge Fountain In presenting ! the budget for the Juvenile Court belled on Mr. Lewyn Hayes, an j interested spectator, to describe j i some of the cases and estimate the j monthly case load. Mr Fletcher ; was very interested ir. this report, i Incidentally we wish to commend ! Mr. Fletcher for his accurate re h urting on the radio of council as- | I fairs. He is- an intelligent man. It always takes a person of superioi intelligence, any way. to be n come- j ! dian. MAN CONVICTED ON BURGLARY CHARGE JACKSON - June-: "Dick" 'Boone was convicted o! first de jtr e burglary charge of en* t« ring the home of Mr.. J G Tin t rani, middhi-aged white woman : at Rich Square on the night of April 25 and sentenced to L'- im prisonment in the Norththampton Superior Court here Friday. He maintained ids innocence throughout the trial, but on his way 1 , Central Prison at Raleigh confessed to Patrolman W. V. • C Daniel that he went to the Tar r«i!H heme whh Willi Cherry wtio . convicted of burglary in con : net lion v ith iht sain .' case am! ; renteftred to di-.jih Wednesday, and . I held open the screen window while : Cherry entered iht* house twice. -{ held up the screen for him.” : he said, “but I didn’t help him ihiough the window,'' He said he didn't know Mrs. Tar- • ii.nt very well, but that after he .•nci Cherry drank some beer and whiskey he consented to "go arouftd there to rob Mrs. Tarrant 'He asked me to come and go a round there to rob Mrs. Tarrant,' , Boone said, "and I went.” Cherry said Thursday that "’Boone put it in my hi-ad to rob ; that woman. I didn't even know , she had any money.’' He raid Boone persuaded him to i unfei the Tarrant borne to rob her and stood guard outside while , Cherry allegedly asauTfed and rob bed Mrs, Tarrant After Hie close of the evidence Bullard S. Gay., defense attorney for the defendant, sought a non suit in the second indictment and pointed cut that there had been no testimony that Boone planned the attack with Cherry, but alter delib eration. Judge W. H S. Burgwyi. agreed with the contention of So licitor E. R. Tyler that a person aidine in breaking into a home would lie equally responsible foi any crime committed by a partner j while inside. Eight white women who admit ted they had fixed opinions in the : ! rape and three Negroes were ex cluded from jury service. RARE U. S. NICKEL TURNS UP IN LIBERIA Monrovia, Liberia (AND)* Rave U. S. coins have away of bob lung up in many foreign coun tries. Recently one turned up here i . the possession ol Jacob i- ;v,vne. local ANP corn-spun - dint. The coin is a silver f>re-coot piece, on one side ol which is the American coat of arms arid the date 1836. The reveise side bear:-, the head of an Indian with 13 Mr. Browne says he will be glad to dispose of the coin to any j person or persons interested. He may be contacted at P. O. Box 20, Carev Street, Monrovia. W. AFRICA NEXT Accra, Gold Coast, British West (Africa (ANP’ According to the Ashanti Pioneer, a dailv i ewspapev published in Kuntasi, Gold Coast, West Africa will soon ' l.c the next hopping ground for. white domination and colonial ; exploitation after the Indians have wrested freedom from the British. The Pioneer’s article lias creat jcd quite a sensation in African educated circles. It says: "The hones of such pioneers as David i Livingstone, Mungo Park, etc., • must -be turning in their graves . for the abuse by then successors |cl the sacrifices and the more] : basis on which they,founded the British Commonwealth of Na ; lions! i “Freedom is in the blood. N- j race of people could, be ruled by ( aliens forever. The day of reck i (fling inevitably breaks. The ; master flees and the servant i comes into his own. This is the i verdict of history. 6 TIMESMAXIM!’M IS i SENTENCE IN JIM CROW CASE Chapel Hill (WDL) What a southern court thinks of a south ern white man who does not be lieve in the prevailing prejudices was shown here when Judg. ; Henry Whitfield tried to give Joe ft'met, southern field secretary ol the Workers Defense League, so: times the maximum sentence f'-'i sitting with a N*gru on an interstate bus. "Six months on the road," the judge said.. Prosecutor T. J. Phipps then pointed out that the maximum fox such an offense under the state’s jimerow law is thirty days “I can’t keep all these things in mv little head," Judge W hit field remarked whimsically, a*; he changed the sentence to i thirty days. j At the same time he reduced | the sentence of Andrew Johnson,! a Negro convicted along with i Fftlmr-t from SSO and costs to $25 | isxd costs. After sentencing a j white* and a Negro a month ago I oft the same charge. Judge Whit-! field told their attorney of the j record that be has much more' I Getting Ready For Show I.urah llii.-ks of Oiias Cora- Biunitj Tallapoosa County Ala is readying her Rhorthom calf White Husband Can’t Get Wife’s Property JACKSON. Miss. (ANP) - A MisMSsippi law which holds th:■ ’ i marriages between whites and : other persons having one-eighth Negro or Mongolian blood art null and void, was used by Char, cell or V. J Strieker here Is. si week 1 in prtvcnbni- Al**x D. Miller, white, j frt.m inheriting prnonty owned by ns colored wife. The couple mar- , red Ch.caco in T 939. Miller brought sui* for the por sessiou of properly valued at ap proximately $25,000, including a . business building, two residences ■ od several smaller riruciurer. A3- COOPERATIVE WORK SHOP TO OPEN HERE RALEIGH A Workshop on > Cooperative Living will be held til ■ Shaw University for one week, July ; 14-18, undei the joint sponsorship |of Hit institution and the Norl.li : l urohtui Council of Credit Unions and Associates. A program, which L open to ; ministers, principals learner* :-u u.- 'j agent.',. ansi others, wll offer :e(turc-f b> specialists m the field : Arnoiiv Itadfrs scheduled to speak • re. Dr. belz Mayo, professor o! Rural Sociology. N. C. State Col lege, the Rev. W H. Stallings. Ed enton; the Rev. G. K. Cheek. Ra ’■ 4’ih. President ;.f the N C. Coun cil of Credit Unions arid Associates D. R. Graham. Raleigh. Credit Union Division. State Department ■'! Agriculture, S P. Dean. Tyrrell County, and S. A. Rosen burg. Chap* let Hill, full iirnc- representative f S Lite N. C, Council, j A Ist* slated to speak tire, N A I Stole 5-I..are: »:S0 5-30 Wed. 9:30 1-00 SPECIAL! 51 Gauge Nylons I sloo j Slightly Irregular if Perfect Would Sell For $1 59 ! > I i I ! i :: JL | I .. '' i While quantity lasts ... A. real value in lovely Nylon hosiery. “She " " beauty m pen feet shades for colorful summer dresses anil white shoes. Basement Store ij - «• *msmw&mte % $ TILE CAROLINIAN hr the 1948 fat stock 'how atld sail 1 at Montgomery. Hero she is •hov.o gfoomihg the calf for its Ihough Mrs. Miller did not leave a will, he souglil the property on the ground, that he was her lawful huo band. Judge Strieker ruled that the property which belonged to Mrs. Miller before her death should so t > her relatives here as her legal heirs. In a a off-the-record comment, the judge commented that “a mar riage outside the' state is not de fense.' against the claim of the wom an'.'' relatives who lives in this, 'tate where the property is locat ed." Record Attendance Expected At Business Seattle Alerting BIRMINGHAM <ANP> A re cord-breaking crowd is expected to g '.her dt Tampa Fls., for ths an nual convention of the National Negro Business league, according to Dr. A. G. Gaston, NNBL presi dent. here last week The league will hold a thre< -day session be c r.riinc July 29. According t • Dr. Gaston, re ports from member leagues thru eut the country show that large he’egationy can be expected. Dur ing the pari few 'months. Dr. Gas ■on has ben touring fhi country hi effort to pr .mote increased In terest m the annual meeting. McLean. Director of the Bricks Rural Life Schoo, and W. N. Nes bitt, Secretary-Treasurer, Victory Crrflii Union. Winston-Salem. Sub jects for discussion will include •‘Cooperatives in North Carolina, their Organizations. Type and Lo cation;" and "The Church and Co operative units to be studied are, consumer stores, credit unions, marketing and buying organiza tions, and heath, housing, and rec rc-atii aal projects. Library Memorial To I Honor Rev. Cheek I WARREN TON - As fitlit:; memorial to the late Rev N. A. o Cheek of Elbe:ton. hit tamiiy is c presenting to the O ntr, unity Cm-- U* Library at Waiiutltn, a col lection of S2OO worth of books to setvc as an itispjration t.> those left i j, behind. ' r Thirty dollars of this amount has v ;be eh spent for book:?, on Parent ; hood and Family Life, and war. giv- ALERT SHERIFF FOILS LYNCH HOB CA R ROLL TON. O n*-:.nny ' Sheriff Russel! Lambert Tuesday : pleaded ;-.t the top of his voi brandished a long gun nuun.-i a t mob dr 300 white men. and saved Eddie Btown, who was accused oi j .killing a. white man. fvotp toting lynched. t Help tonally came from all rides i < ; and Lambert was abo to report ?* the 22-year-eld youth saved from j the mob. < It was the third tim-- within. •. six weeks that a man had escaped j lynch law in the South. 'Godwin j “Buddy ' Bush of Rich Square. N. . C., bt eke loose and escaped from 3 nr ib that had already notched h m from Hit jail and at Hurts boio, Alabama, a lynch party bad a rope around the peck of a nun suspected oi rape of a white wom an. but the Mayor “talked the mobsters 6i.it of it.” For almost three ton?n r a m r. storm.-d the Ci.rroll C<-un y jasl ! here. 50 miles wc-t t of Atlanta, where- Russell, although mauled and threatened, “stood his ground." i in another room an as Ist; nt I'ran ; it cully telephoned every -police de railment, sheriff's office and stair? highway patrol station in the vici nity for remfo'-eemonts. Shortly filter midnight, strong reinforce ments came arid Brown was slip ped out of the rear entrance to the if.ii under lonwiykuna arid rushed to Atlanta where he if bt mg ht id ,rs the Fulton Ci uhty Tower Lambert said he spotted the . lvneh mob about nine a ciock Mon -'iay night from a window of hr rcticß-nci on the Villa Rica-? i. ' roliU'o road where he said he counted "2 auUtmotoilefi ant' a ; school bus, and that he dashed to i the telephone to sound a warning. Local anger had beer, mounting • .-since Brown was art esied for the alleged slaving of Andrew Boyd, ; ,-y: ar old Villa Rica -white farm- j ■ r. whose bod? was found late Sat urday night on the banks of toe . ! Talapoosa Rivet- V> Save Your l ; aste Fat! _ ;!| YOUR FAVORITE MILK WILL COME IN THIS ll the blggpsl milk news in town tlghl », '"^jS, cn your own ucorsttp ihis morning when ycrr | | Fmith Dairy sales-nan delivers creamy-rich milk !f" in the new, trp-to-the-mmule square settles ■ • • /| v fit® that r?vc' important refrigerator space . , - ar>. /'V vjf ® | easier to handle end pour from . . . are iich: i. *•* weight, ctmpact . . . and goad locking too. «$• !; 'M/ T " * S! < { ' or r f !rt J ni ; se 1* W hand . s ' bet ! e! I conlro] , io) i| Raleigh N. C. «§ | ashes % ■ ? Space saving just one of the 1 ,*** ** ... many outstanding advan |. **.^t**** ool ' *Sajprw tages of the neu bottle. You’ll i. V**" > ir%| iH&®*7 and other things, too. Some re | .fc hone p L ?natars sis r uch j | GROCERY STORe' ij *" .. _ ' j fV Askrty;-- -■«> aft v*ihiwsrtru’* Haiti tviMJirm'a&to'ii&mik'vsvx L&.riU2J&v«iv^v»!a?mtt wara .*iva»uvxawt'a3r,.t-^ j i ui t.y his sister. Mrs Mollie Brctdie of Freehold, New Jersey, and her j children. One-hundred seventy dollars giv -j, on by his widow, six tons and 5 j daughters was su n? on .•« fine col- j 1(n lien of bool"-: on N"i>r-,.- Life and j Kistcry, to Lie placed in the library \ with suitable memorial plaques. ] The laic Rev. Chmk served as i r ■;io" ana -uL fj r ku a !nU-i o' j i 150 years, divided aiming seven j ■ mches Dur.nj; this past urate be j i taptissed over 2.000 persons, ami j : van m.nnimema! in promoting and | .-iganulng seven churches: Snow- 1 ' lull. Serept a LI wards Grove and i • Si .Paul- of Wat run County; Phipps j Chapel, Sandy Grove of Vance • F-.uiity; and While Rock, in Halt- j • fax County, 11 s- rved a.-i Moderator of the j Original Shdoh for 3! years, served I is secretary of the Minister.-: C-.-n- | li tenet- of Warren and adjacent j ■i . unties for 4‘A yea? . ivas inernbfrr j of the Beard of Directors Colored j Orphanage. Oxford ; or TO yours: • and served as vice presitu-nl of the Baptist State (' inv: ation. and w i on its executive committee for 35 • years. Hr- was know;, as r-n apostle o1 i -ciustry, of thrih and home own ership. Shoes That Are Whiners Arc Shoes That Stay Sinned. No Matter what kind of Shoo it is if you wear it we can shine it. We Dve shoes color DELIGHT ! SHOE SHINE SI ANE S'~-7S r: ' r -'T’>-n ' ; 106 E. HARG TT ST Easy T erms Auto Tires - Batteries - Radios Bicycles - Home Radios - Appliances SMALL DOWN PAYMENTS Terms As Low As $1.25 Per Week HSX2E2ESM3S 322 S. Sa.isfeury St. Phone 3-3831 Behind The Court? uuse PAGE THREE Justice Jackson thinks the world is drifting towards the Reds But ilic world is not going red. It is i'u rely I‘oifg liumai a name wc sometimes cal) radical over here, j PtyotiaJly, I urn more concerned i about what this country is going to !do whtit ii is realty s xilt-u Si.y tn-.- I In,men thinking and practices c-f | the rest of the v.-orkr: II Hunlei‘s Worn! Yard ! WHOLESALE - .RETAIL Call lesse Hunter WIIV WOKttV i IJWTe are only tv,-o Ihlrg?; 1o | worry about, eiyou . " well. ! or you arc sick. Ts you are well, b then there is nothing to worry : about. Bui if yon are ; ,h-k. 'here i nc two things to worry about. | Either you will get wsU, ct you j will die. If you yi-t sol! there is i nothin a to wort y at- at It you j die there are only two ihsnt-s to rj worry about, • ; t.h»,r you wtll go f to heaven or icl! H you go to He avf i . there is ~: ■: .;.y to wor ry about, but if you go to hell, you will bro, vy .hr-kilt.a, 1 have lime to worry. 708 V. MARTIN ST II S .
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