"SLAVERY CASE SENTENCE COMES UP JULY 29
APPEAL WILL BE
TAKEN DEFENSE
COUNSEL STATED
San Diego, Cal. (Special)- De
scribed as the first out and out.
slavery cast: under the 13th
Amendment. 62-year old Mrs. Al
fred Wesley Ingalls, Boston-born
matron, is being held here, a
Federal prisoner, awaiting sen
teuco, after having been convict
eo of slavery Sentenced is sche
duled to be pronounced Tuesday,
July 29.
Mrs. Ingalls, a descendant of
Massachusetts Colonial Governor
Bradford, was charged and con
v cted of enslaving her colored
maid, Dora Jones, now 58. for
about 40 years, during which
time the maid was paid for only
cm year’s work since 1907.
The maid had testified that site
was threatened with j a i 1 "and
Hell” for nearly 40 years because
of an affair with Mis. Ingali’s
first husband in Washington, D.
C„ which resulted in pregnancy.
Mrs. Ingall’s second husban i
Allred W. Ingalls, 64. was at lib
' c'iy on bail of $2,500 aftei the
juiy was unable to agree on con -
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TURKE SOLDIERS
HI'RT lIN ACCIDENT
Tokyo i'ANP) Three unlisted
men of the 542nd Engineer Fin
Fighting Platoon, reported critic
ally injured when their fire truck
speeding to a blare turned ovto
at Ginza Street and B Avenue
ipoently, are roriwpi-ing .-it t h
Forty-ninth General Hospital
Os the trio, Sergt, Lee Scho
field, Homsar, Florida, and Tech
fician Fifth Grade Ruben Jack
‘ son. Houston, Texas, were report
rd in preliminary statements to
be in serious condition. The third,
Sergt. Cecil Skelton, Anderson,
South Carolina, was given a fair
cm-.nee of recovery.
NEGRO HOUSING
IN WASHINGTON
REPORTED BUD
Washington, D. C. (NNPA)
Colored people occupy 68,052, oi
twenty per cent of the 350,96 b
oxowary dwCHirw v. ' , •
ington, the Commerce Depart
ment reported recently.
Os that number 18,444 of the
houses are occupied by the fam
ilies which own them with 49,608
being tenant occupied, the. -eporl
"hewed The report also showed
that 81 per cent of the homes oc
cupied by colored people are in
good condition, needing only in>
nor repairs, while 19 per cent a t
in need of major repairs.
Seventy-one per cent of l li«.
homes -occupied -by colored people
have private baths with a flush
toi;et as compared with 96 pe;
among white persons. Other com
parisons show that whereas
whites have only one pm cen*
of their 275,388 dwelling units
\ iihout. running watei, 11 pe:
cent of the colored dwellings are
lacking in this facility.
A further comparison shows
that 8 per cent of the dwellings
occupied by colored, people are
without installed cooking fac-ili
ties while only 2 pe* cent of whit'-
dwellings lack such a service.
The widest discrepancies in
standard facilities, however, were
found in the use of centrai bent
ing plants, 30 per cent of the col
o ed homes being without such a
I lent, as compared with 11 pc;
cent of white.
Hampton Trustee Dies
During Tennis Match
Hampton Institute. Va. —Hamp-
ton Institute last week mourned
tbr sudden passing of Capt. Dan
id W. Armstrong, a 'trustee since
1930 and the son of Gen. Samuel
Chapman Armstrong, Hampton's,
founder. Mr. Armstrong, an of
ficer and director of the Eastern
States Petroleum Company, in
Nw York City, collapsed and
cued as he prepared to serve in
the thir dset of a gruelling tennis
match on Wednesday. July 36.
Funeral services were held Fri
day, July 18. at the chape! of the
Central Presbyterian Church, at
Park Avenue and 64th Street.
Mr. Armstrong, a't the time of
1 s death a resident of New York
City, is survived by his mother,
M’s S. C. Armstrong, who was
at her summer home in Rocky
•void, Ashland, 'New Hampshire:
two sisters Mrs. Arthur Howe
of South Orange, N. J.. wile of
former President Howe of Hnirvp
ten Institute, and Mrs. William H.
Scpviile, widow of the late sec
rotary of the college and twe
daughters.
Bom in Summerville. S. C.,fon
March 12, 1893 on 1 v two
months before his father’s death
the founder's son by a strange
coincidence died a! the same age
his father had, 54 years. A gradu
ate of the ft S Naval Academy
at Annapolis, Md.. the iate Insti
lute trustee served in both world
Tttf r* A D/AT T\TT A AT
% M ■ I I j m / % I- I
l nr, v/Ziivi/ii> .
m . 0
WtuV XXVII NO :j RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1947 PRICE Vc j
ANTI. POLL TAX BILL IS
SENT TO HOUSE FLOOR
\v\s President
1 tsfliSu l gvSy/ f C '
Dr. Charles S. Johnson, dis
guishsd educator and scholar,
! will be Inaugurated as the sixth
president of Fisk University,
Nashville, Term., Friday. No
vember 7, There will be. on the
inaugural program, seminars
and conferences of scholars and
scientists from November 6 to
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MINIMUM WAGE
ACT IS URGED
BYN.AJ.GiP.
Washington. f>. U (NNPA)
■ Enactment of mmii; .m, v \age leg
islation to raise the floor of earn
ings to 65 and ultimately and
75 rents an Pnn ; urped by
. the National 'Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
last Tuesday in a statement sub
mitted to a House Education arte
Labor subconvnrlte winch is
holding hearings on minimum
; wage legislation.
The NAACPs Labor Depart
ment printed out thru the thirty
i ighth Annual Conference had
passed a resolution June 28 urg
ing the Congress to taise th L
minimum wage level to meet re
quirements of increased living
ro-ts.
The statement which was sub
milted by Clarence Mitchell. La
hor Secretary, declared that Thi-
C-oritinued on page eigh'
! \ r, College Figures
In lAA Allotments
Washington (ANP) Ap
plications of three southern
colleges for surplus gevern
meni -owned biisldiiags to meet
the increased enrollment of
ex-servicemen under the G!
Bill of Rights this fall, were
approved here last week by
Maj. Gen. Philip B. Fleming,
Fsder&i Works administrator.
The three schools are Flor
ida Norms! and Industrial col
lege. St. Augustine, Fla,: North
Cari*ina college, Durham, N,
C.,- and Morris college. Sum
lei, S. C,
‘ i
v ars and in World War II played
an influential part in developing
; : nd was Commander ir, Charge
of the Negro Recruit )Training
i Program at the U. S. Naval
•• Training Center, Great Lakes. 11l
He later served in the Pacific, In
• both periods oi service, say
■ Hampton Institute sources, he
• • worked uncea.-ingly to provide
• | opjvtounrties for Negroes ir. the
'JSfaw “cnniensu’-atf- with their ca
l'- - vi "
j Warden And Guards Freed
In Slaying By Grand Jurors
t*'
Brunswick. Ga (NNPA)—Wa-
Jen H. G. Worthy and five
guards, who were accused of the
massacre of eight prisoners on a
Georgia road gang while he war
allegedly intoxicated, were exon
rated bv a Stipe: ior Court Grand
Jury here last Friday.
The mass killings- occurred July
; j:, at a prison camp near here.
The 23-mc'inboi grand jury re
turned a special report which said
J evidence
gut.rdf. r e-; e justified undo: the
< roumstances.
One version that the warden
and guards opened fire with shot
j tins v, hen twenty-seven pris
oners. who had refused to -vork
on a load project, attempted to
t scape from the stockade. Five
; prisoners were killed instantly
j end three died later in a hospi
! t.J F:vc others were wounded.
Version Denied
This- version was lenied in Hu
prisoners themselves. They said
tmy had not engaged in a sit
ed wn strike but had refused to
go into ; attic-snake infested
; swamps without boots. Berov
| the prisoners were returned to the
'stockade, onlj two guards were
l over them and it would have been
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Eisler Advocated Negro
Republic, Witnesses Say
Washington While being on
'■ ai iov alleged passport fraud,
' Gerhart Eisler, German - born
Communist leader, was identified
the mar: who told a world
Communist meeting irr Moscow
i '.vat Negroes should set up a So
■ \ let republic in the United States
- li.e identification was made by
Cnatles H. White of Brooklyn
- and William O. Nowell of De
troit. They are former Negro
- Commumsts and were present at
1 the Moscow meeting which was
held in 1931.
Eisler was identified as the
apostle of ‘‘self-determination’’
i i >r Negroes of the United States.
During testimony, it was stated
that Eisier’s sister, Mrs. Ruth
1 1. eher told the jury that he:
i b. othei is a member of the GPU.
a worldwide Russian secret • •
lice She further said that sh •.
was not influenced to make her
ti-limcmy because of any ill;
feeling towards her brothei.
I FIVE DIE IN HEAD
ON CRASH NEAR
FAYETTEVILLE !
Fayetteville Cumberland j
County witnessed its most tragic '
i ighway accident during the year ;
an done of the most serious that I
has ever occurred in this section !
Five citizens of Baltimore are |
ad as a result of a terrible i
: , t'd-an auto-truck collision, that !
te.ok place on a storm beaten
ct- rve late Monday night on high- |
| w«-.y 301 between Fayetteville and
j I ; nr,, N. €., July 21 between an
automobile and a heavy-laden :
rich truck. Reportedly, the struck
i ear was knocked backwards ap- 1
s P*oxim&te.ly 1 50 feet and into a
- small swamp, where the tractor |
> as the truck was hurled upon it,
1 Most Tragic Accident
Nearly two and one-half hours j
! were used in excavating all the
, oodies. This accident brought into
:■ | record one of the most tragic ar
»'jcMeitfs to happen m this county, i
?! The dead are: Leon Reaves, '
-about 29, Baltimore taxi 'operate:-. .
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UN Forced To Permit
Discrimination In Project
NEW YORK - Shari Poller. .
Vice President J the Amerca'i r
J< wish Congress, today charged
A-ietr -p ■);. an ... i Tiisurunc*
G i',v any with ha\ eoereed the
United Nation: vi-il«>*.e Ls own
i ai under the agreement signed
yesterday < Monday > v inch torero
UN to permit the practice of racial 1
.kemminaiion ;n housing projects 1
for ITNl T N employee.-, u U. 1 :'t Cooper
vt .■ project Imunced by the
Metrgp. lit; n Lib hw;: .vice U (
par.\ j
The staiemeni .-"vs Ur intei- i
rational significance of the suit
brought by the American Jewish
C»n f m-s and the NAACP. which
challenges the right of the- Metro
politan Lift Jusurar.ef Company to
film 'ice discrirvsiuatio;. in its Stuy
vesanj Town project by declaring
that the case now has ‘‘become s
fundamental test of America’s wtll-
Ingj-ess U> restore Its moral statute
in the eyes of she world and of its
"My antagonism is against
(Josef) Stalin, in whose sendee
kb. Eisler stands, and not with
Mi. E:sler,' she said. ". . . 1 at.",
very sorry he >s with the GPU
. >uf i have to write against tnem.
even though they are in mv fam
ily—the GPU is the greatest ene
rnv of nature.”
White and Nowell testified that
E-sler was one of the shining
I lights at the 1931 session of th~
Lonin Institute in Moscow. They
: said they were sent to the insti
: tute by the United States C-om
; mrnist Party to study revolution
ary tactics.
White, a B ' lokiyn street cat
operator, said that Easier advo
co ed a Negro republic in areas
of the United States where they
constituted « majority of the ,
population. Eisler, White said,
(earned the Negroes “had a right
t separate from the United
' States.”
TRUMAN ASKED
TO ADDRESS
BAPTIST MEET
Washington. D. C. (NNPA)
Representative William L. Daw
; sen. Democrat, of Illinois, aecom
i ranied a delegation representing
! die National Baptist Convention
j of America, Inc., to the White
i house lost Wednesday to extend
j an invitation to President Tru
; turn to address the sixty-sever;tn
1 annual session to be held in Kan
j -.-es City in September.
In the delegation were Dr. DR|
| V. Jemtson, of Selma. Alabomu,
' president of the National Baptisi
! Cuuvetibn. Inc.; the Rev. Mar
. -linli Shepard, pastor of Mt. Ok
| vet Tabernacle Baptist Church
j Philadelphia, and Recorder oi
j Deeds of the District of Colum
| Ha; the Rev. L. Harrison, pastel
' <T Shiloh Baptist Church. Wash
ington; the Rev. Sandy Ray. pa.-
'1 oi of Cornerstone Baptist
J Church, Brooklyn.
Also the Rev. Thomas Hasten. !
!n! Brooklyn: The Rev, T. J.
: Good all. pastor of Bethany Bap- j
iist Church, Brooklyn, Miss Nan
nie H. Burroughs, president of
tin- National Trade and Profes
sional School tel Women an d
Girls and Secretary of the Worn -
on's Auxiliary of the National •
Convention Washingotn, and Mrs.
!vl M. Arter, president of the,
Women's Auxiliary of the Gen- 1
',-a) Baptist Convention of the
District of Co iUluDict tiiid i\ iricrui j i
Her of the executive board of the
Women's National Convention. *“
ability to curb the private govern-!
r*>nts in its midst so that the Unit*
i Nations, in ; :s own headquarters
: live up to ;t,e high aspirations
ideals .if its chorrer."
f'OMPI-ETE STATEMENT
J OI LOWS;
“ \mer:eans today wifi m- covered
with shame and disgrace- when they
,n that ,m American corporation
ujominued on bac? osge*
j mis SU)!)EM V 1> NUL |
f ' |
I ' \ -F fj
| mW*'-- * h&t
e mseMmstimt: -
Mrs. Ella Brief, prominent f»i*jn
(mtal oi the 33rd Eieetion District
I-'! Sen York City, jiid the moili
n' Os Caro! Brice, noted central
t" dic'd suddenly in a Xch York
hosital, one week after her ad
mittance. Her death came as a
shock to her wide circle of friends.
She had wide church, civic, fra
!
Great Shades Os Harvey
Jones! More Auto Mess
»
Louisville. Ky.. July CNNPAT Shortly before the nation
wide storm of protest arose over the action of the Ahoskie (North
Carolina • K. wan is Club in refusing to deliver a $3,200 Cadillac
automobile to the winner of a lottery because he was colored,
the Joca 1 chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority quietly
awarded a new Plymouth to a white man • who held the lucky
number in a contest under its auspices to raise money for a mem
bership fund.
Mrs. Carolyn S. Blanton, member of the committee in charge
of the drawing, said members of he; sorority knew by the add res.-,
that thi winner. Charles H. Wabanit*. was a white man as soon
as a blindfolded little girl hod pulled out the winning ticket
“Everyone at the drawing was terribly disappointed." Mrs.
Blanton said, “bo! they saw that the drawing had been fair—
a blindfolded little girl pulled out the winning ticket and they
all went away quietly."
■•Mr. Wabanitz had the winning ticket end that was all there
was to it.” she added.
She said the next day when -papers carried reports of the
North Carolina case where Harvey Jones, a veteran was denied
a car he had similarly won because he is colored, she was be
sieged by requests to declare the while man ineligible but said
she told everyone she would ‘stick by it.”
Wabanitz. the winner, showed his heart was in the right
place by giving his old car tc Lop Roy Smith, a janitor who had I
sold him the winning ticket. j
TEXANS WILL NOT
IE m OVER—
REP, ED GOSSETT
By ALICE PUNNIGAN
Washington (ANP) The anti
j.vi: tax ..-ill was reported nut of'
thr* election sul-'rommitiee fues
\ afternoon arid sent to the
' adminr-tiution coirmittee
vhi re it was reported out Wed.
in. ming ;nd -erii to the floor,
'ini.-, ueticn was taken in spite |
Rep Fid Gossett's statement
7i. tsday morning that "Texans
don't want dam yankees running
t"eir busini'ss. Testifying in op
;.i ; itiot! te the bill, the Texas
miigressman said that petiple of
. \as ar>- not going to be run I
’ < .or and take it lying d<» vn. He •
■ Continued o • back page)
!
t<’rnal and political connections.
S!u was a member of Eureka
- i tnph' oi Daughter Elks and the
Eastern Star Mrs. Brice was also
a member o! the Knoxville Col
li ge Alumni Club of New York,
and the Win-One Bible Class, of
St. .lames Churrh
j FIGURES IN MINNESOTA DROMNINGsJ
■* ;
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Charles
ten. above of Sr. Paul, Minn.,
were two of the four persons
recently drowned, while boat
rising on a St. Paul’s river. Mrs.
Charleston was a former resi-
Enlistment Os Negroes In
Regular Army Reopened
flrtleigh The enlistment /
• Negroes in the Regular Army hes
I yen reopened. Lt. Jewel M. Pats.
C< vnmanding Officer of trie Ra
leigh. Sub-Station, said last week
Tm reopening enlistments oc
curred when the percentage of
Negro personnel felt below that
i.tboriztd.
The Lieutenant states that ap
piieaats will have their choice of
enlisting in. the Army Air Force-;
t.mvs.vNfiW; or ir the Tlcgui
A -mv uruissigned. Thoi-*-. wivi
Leaves Wife In Jail, Man
Gets 90-Day Sentence
RALEIGH - - Befort leaving his
*. he to languish in jail while he
, goes out free after she failed to
testify against him in an assault
case last week. Alvin Burt Dunn.
706 Eass Jones Street, will probably
lake v second thought maybe sever
,ii second thoughs the next lime.
For letting his wife languish ir.
jail for two nights and days, be
cause she was unable to pay costs
; for frivilous and malicious prosecu
■ ?;on, Dunn was charged with abus
ing the woman, and was sentenced
in Circuit Court to 90 days on the
i roads.
Being unable to pay her way
jut. Mrs. Dunn was back before the
| bar last Thursday for disposition of
: the case. Her explanation was that
she couldn’t pay tile cost and Alvin
| failed to pay it for her. At this time
she said she was willing to testify
! irainst her husband.
A new warrant was ordered for
Alvin Dunn by Judge Paul F
• Smith. In court Mrs. Dunn testified
that she and Alvin had engaged in
an argument on. East Davie Street
Race Will Also Benefit
Under New Red Cross
Blood Bank Program
WASHINGTON. .0. C. -- Vice j
Admiral Ross T Mclntire, wartime j
Surgeon General of the U. S. j
Navy, and formerly White House j
physician, has beer, named direc
tor of the New National Blood Pro- ,
gram of the American Red Cross. 1
The appointment was announced
today by Bu.vil O’Connor, the organ- !
j ization s president.
Recently approved a. a Red
'Cross activity by Its Board of Gov- ]
"rnors, the long-range program con j
Templates the provision of blood i
and its derivatives, without charge ■
for the products, to the entire na- ;
i ion.
Dr. Mclntire will have super :
vision of the most tar-reaching
health program in the peacetime
history of the Red Cress. Mr. Q’Con
not said. It is being undertaken, he j
: pointed out, in direct response to j
i the urgent needs of the medical pro- j
f ess ion for blood in saving of life j
as well as in treatment and pro- i
vent ion of disease.
At the program's peak an esti- j
rested 3.700.000 blood donations
will be required annually Mr.
C Connor said this would necessi
tate establishment of strategically J
| •»*»£( centers* whore prorur€ , YT’*?r»t : j
.oi blood can be carried on under j j
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dent of Fayetteville, IN, C, and
vfssthe daughter of Mr. an d
Mrs. Cornelius Clarke cf Elliott
Street, College Heights. Fay
etteville.
successfully meet the same more
m 3 standards a white applicants,
can enlist tor periods of two,
three, four, or five years.
The equivalent of a grammar
school education is considered ne
cessary to pass the mental tests
Those possession, such education
and are intei eseted in enlisting
if. the Regular Army, should cor
tact an army recruiting sergeant,
t-t apply at the Local Army Re
.. railing Sub-Station located »•
’ HI W Mm tin St.. Raleigh, Phone
1:2637
on the night of July 3. She said he*
husband threw he; to the ground
during the altercation, and “bruis
ed my finger a little bit. Dunn de
nied this He also denied that he
"ever laid a hand on her." bu tthe
court wouldn't believe this. To sub
stantiate the court's belief, Dunn ad
mitted, under cross-examination,
that his wife had charged him with
assaulting her about a year ago. He
. was fined that lime, court record’s
| show.
After sentencing the defendant to
j the roads. Judge Smith struck out
Wednesday's judgment requiring
■ Mrs. Dunn to pay court costs.
The judge commented that. “It's
Use first time I ever hoard of a hus
- band not. getting his wife out of jail
• after she refused to testify against
| him."
After all was said and done, Mrs.
I Dunn turned and walked out of the
i courtroom without making the
i Highest backward look at her erring
i i spouse who was in the prisoner’s
; dock at this time,
Houston Clinic Caller
Best In Sou Hi west
By JOHN H, THOMPSON
Houston (AJNPj One of
3he finest medical and surgical
climes in the country and by
far ihc finest xn .the south- |
west is the Beal Brothers Medi
cal and Surgical clinic located
here ir. the heart of the fifth
ward with its teeming 20,000
Negroes.
Built and equipped at 8 cost
of 5100.000, it has been called
a "miniature Mayo Brothers
clinic" by doctors and physi
cians who have seen the place.
Incorporating ..some features
end medical machinery which
doctors in these parts sokiotn
if ever use, health, authorities
m Houston call it the best
equipped clinic in the city.
Containing 22, rooms, includ
ing a reception rhom built ot
glass bricks, it is ?8 x 1 if! feet,
3 1-2 stories high and has a
| strong foundation upon which
j additional stories ma y be
| erected if needed.