Cherry Orders Trial Os Mob Members
CAROLINES IN HAMPTON DRA!VI\ I
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' f3l S r*
HAMPTON INST, Va Two
of the three North Carolinians
who played the three leading
roles in the east of seven sum
mer session students who suc
res* fully staged "l adies in Rc
tirement in tin recent Arts of
the Theatre frsinal at Hampton
Institute, aie caught in informal
rehearsal. The* arc James House,
Winston - Salem left portraving
Albert Feather and Miss Willie
Chaplain Preaches Own
Funeral By Recording
Chicago (ANP) - Members of
Bereart Baptist c-hyrch here Sat
urday heard the voice 01 t3v i
deceased pastel deliver his own
eulogy during his own funer. I
service-..
The Rev. William S. Braddan.
pastor of the church so; 43 years
died al his honor last Wednesday
after a long illness, but recorded
int- own funeral eulogy in I£W3
when he celebrated fhi 43rd an
niversary as Bc-rem ’. pastor
Since that time. Rep. Brad den has
been forced into virtual ret:it?
rr.cnt because of ill health.
The 75-ycar-old prelate, b<v o
in a t . S. irii.y camp at Ft M
Cnvvitt, Tex., followed the army
life of his father, who enlisted
n the Union army ;n 18(H and
fought throughout the Civil w.v,
then sserved as bandmaster in th<
eld 24*h Infantry until IRR4 Re-
Braddan sptr.t. his boyhood in
fiifUy camps in the soulnwe-i
where Negro troops wei <• sta
♦icred during si * Indian wars and
Early Negro Newspapers
Are Being Microfilmed
Atlanta (A.NP) Jmi roalisrr
Quarterly, published at Emn: ,
university here, earned an arti
cle in its current issue, written
by Armistead Scott Pride, direr
tot of the Lincoln University
School i>t Journalism, Jefferson
City, Mo., in which Pride d*‘
scribes the project he has been
working on during -he pas’ yerr.
tin microfilming of early Ncc.ro
newspaper s.
Pride writes that his ftrust task
was that, of determining the ex
tent of microfilming a hich hac i
'already boon done. Me learned
that a few of the early news
papers had already been micro
filmed. Thus, included Freedom's
Journal (New York 1827-1392 '■
The Weekly Advocate apti its
successor, the Colored America:;
(New York, 1837-1842), The North j
Star and its successor, Frederick
Douglass' Papoi (1847-1860 Ro- i
Chester, N. Y.); Nov,- National En„
(Washington. D C. 1870-1875).
and the Petersburg, V<*„ Lancet
(1882-18041.
|T'l OSES IN HONOR
| NEGRO FWfIOYFF
Little Rock (ANP) A Socr.)
while concern declared a one
day holiday her* last week la
.mourn the death of a veteran
Negro eanploys*.
Ob K ; nc Cob, a high -etas*
case, paid the unusual honor
to Mrs, Pinkie J. Barber, who
has been employed by the firm
for the last 18 years. Mrs.
Sarleer died after a brief ill
ness in a local hospital.
Funeral services were held
here at Union AME church.
Burial was in the Haven of
Rest cemetery She is survives
j by her father, tw. sisters and j
three brothers.
i __ J
Fountaine. Iteidsviile, in She role
of Leonora f iske who is telling
Feather of her erstwhile choru
girl talents. The gay lady shortly
tain met a violent death, and ii
was Feather who avenged her hy
unmasking her murderess Ellen
f 'reed, who also was portrayed hy
a Norii> Carolinian, Miss Allic
Latimer, Concord mot pictured!
Photo hy W R. Frown Jr.
served in the 3 oth Calvary front
2caa until 1891.
Educated in CohArsdo
He was educated in the mini- j
i stiy at Cutler academy in Colo- j
redo Springs, Co., and at Newti*n ,
institute, Cambridge. Mass. Be- !
foie accepting the pastorate r -
IN roan Baptist church here in!
'.901, he pastured churches ir.
Ann Arbor, Mich., Minneapo 1 i
end Detroit.
Re\ Bradden joined the old;
K'ehth regiment in 1902 as a pri- ,
v.rti end rose to be c.ommis
s.ont'd captasn and < haplain tn
If-12. He served with the- regimen 1
. ..■ cue,:- the Mexican campaign
r 391fi. and m France during
World War i He was retired with
the rank of colonel in 1935.
He is survived fc> five daugh
ters, one son and two grardchil
crori.
Background music for his fun ‘
( cel recording was furnished bv •
tile celebrated Beivan c!:>v, sine - i
in o Till W’c Meet Again.’
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Setting nut to discover who:. j
'he papers might be found. Prich’ •
• .tent a questionnaire to more thri’
! 20(- libraries and historical soc ;
ctu-s, searched for titles and list j
in;.; among community, state-atm
national newspaper histories and
bibliographies. He visited most
oi the communities in which N
gro newspapers have been pub
I lathed.
Complete or partial files i, :
!roost- oi the well-known Negro
| newspaper, of the past cemury i
: v.'il) be in the microfilming to the
-. xu.-nt of some 140,000 pages the
: investigator stated.
The microfilming was done uu
i fk-.r the auspices of the Committee
! in Negro studies oi the American
| Council of Learned societies
j Among the- members of this corn
■ m’ttee arc Sterling Brown oi
| Howard university, Lawrence D.
Red dirk. New York Public libra
jry: Lorenzo D. Turner, RooscveT
I college, Chicago, but formerly o.
! Fisk, and Donald Young of the
Social Science Research council
! The grant making it possible wa?
j made b> the General Educati.r
i board of N»,7 York City dir in,-
jibe regime of the late Jackson'
j Davis, then president.
DRIVER ACQITITED
IN ROBESON DEATHS
FAYk'TTEYILLE Thomas D.
| Nelson. Braxlcy, Ga„ white man.
was cleared of all ‘-•iaine for the
death of five men who were kill
er’ in an automobile-truck accident j
eotlisitfri in Robeson County on j
Monday nigh! July J], by a coion-!
! ers jury here Wednesday.
Neison said the car in front of j
i him got its wheels partly off the j
[ ! pnvc.uent and when he applied ;
*>e tnit-!- tj-iddod
i NYU To Be Intergroup Study Clinic
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THE CAROLINIAN
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! VOI UMEXXV! INO 5 j{Al .KK 111, NORTH CAROLINA W.ICKK ENDING SATURDAY, AUG! ST 9, 10-17 RRICE’Ve
NEIGHBORS PROTECT
VICTIM OF ATTACK
!
MOTHER OF TWO
CHILDREN GIVEN
GUN PROTECTION
“You f olks Oiighj To
know Better,* Savs
Jihlrc to Tensed
c
COLUMBIA. S. C • ANP > A
- nr,other is brnof, protected
here by neighbors against intimi
dation of friends of the white man
who assaulted her on May 25.
Mrs. LweruSis Cle- elai - !hr 33-
vear-oja ivvitho: of r.vo ciCHircn, .
was awakened that morning around
4:30 by a white y-urth. who had
gained entrance to her .home by :
cutting her window screen- Threat
ening to kill her, he jumped on
! her as she lay in bed with one of
! her criildre?) and boa her about lire .
i head until he was frightened away
|by ho screams and the children's
j loud cries.
He tied ov the ome route he
l used t : enter, she -aid. Neighbors
* heal'd her cries and came to Inve.s
--; ligate Her huxbrnrl, at: employe i
1 the Columbia dairies, was :m
--! mediately told about the incident
| iie.r! he ivported the at lack, to local
M\N \PPRKHI N»F1)
Officers from Tnc sncriif's ■office
soon apprehended - man. who gave
his name as Charlie Stanley, about
one-half mil? from the Cleveland!
residence He admitted the crime 1
• t onlirsued on back page)
1 .Os al Man (om it ted
On Hi- Own Testimom
RALEIGH 1 -- Ole was |
•i.'-rged with cany re a concealed
w s upon on Hu basis of his men
tesimv-nv City Cwuil Thursday
morning and sentenced to 90 da vs
on ihe road, suspended upon pav- -
m. tit of cost* .i’ld on ’ondilion that
he remain on good behavior for one
> c-av
Pm:ecu'ii>u witnesses testified ,
Which v’;. ordered dclfmyed The'
road sentence w the result
of pii.'.iwus case on the same
?!i Tour Europe
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v- -
Sam l*,trk'. S3-yea i -old Chica
go Packinghouse labor leader will
rail for Europe rn> October t! to
study the post-war conditions of
European workers, especially
those oi England and 1 ranee. A
visit to tli*- grave* of Aaaetican
•oldiers as well as a survey of
the status of Negroes and other
minority group* in Europe is also
j scheduled. Parks and hfs wife
] Johnnie Mae, will make the trip
; as winners of a subscription coo
j test lor illi Chicago star a week
ly progressive-labor newspaper,
j He Is president of Wilson Local
Z%, United Packing-honse workers
; ('* America (C*Oi <'ANP)
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TOP HONORS for Georgia in the
3947 model car design competition
of the Fisher Body’ Craftsman’s
Guild were won by William G
Walker, Jr., of Columbus, who took
the first place state senior division
award of $309 for his Heck looking
model car. Young V aiker won a
second place slate award in the
j 1940 cornpebuon. An educational
organization sponsored hy Genera)
Motors, the Craftsman's Guild en
courages the development of cr. a
, tivc ability, handiwork and craf’s
inanship anviig teen-age boys
1 iberia s Pori Project
I irne l> Extended
'••V A S'HINGTC) X \' Np A i Se n -
j ator H Alexander 6-ruth, of Isow
Jersey ana Representative Frances
P Bcsiton. of Ohio, both Republi
cans .Isst Saturday introdiiced coil:-
pernor- bills in the Senate and
j House t- ■ extend the fine for eon
! * ** ' * • XiC'iitiCS
; ;,, *r access i' r.cis at Monrovia. Li-
ROSENDWALD FUND SEEKS
PERSONS FOR AWARDS
WASHINGTON, D. C,, July 'NNPAI The Julius Hosen
wald Fund last week intensified iis search for qualified nersons
eligible for awards in the- lasi group of Fellowships to be awarded
by the Fund before it closes its wdrfc next June.
Edwin R. Embree, director of the Fund, pointed out in a
letter that the Fund is interested not only in scholars but also
in persons who may exert leadership in various phases cii Amer
ican life, such as labor, religion, wriitng and public service, and
whose talents may ennen the nation.
The Ftllcwship, which approximate $2,000 are open to all
colored persons and any white persons in the South who wish
to work on some problem distinctive to the South and who ex
poets lc make their careers in the South.
Mr. Embree said applicants for the Feikrwships are not re
stricted to any special subject or activity and that. in addition
to scholars end scientists, persons in creative writing, journaUsn.,
education, agriculture, and business fields are invited to apply
MUST BE UNDER 24
Applicants for the Fellowships must not be under 24 vears
vld nor past the age of 35 and should have completed a general
college course or 'give evidence of maturity and preparation
■which may be regarded at the equivalent of a general education
of at least collegiate standard."
Terms oi the Fellowships are one year, end applications sot
them, must be received not later than January 1, next at the
office A Mrs. Hild* Reitser, for ib* Commission on Fellowships
at 4801 Ellis Street, Chicago.
The Woken w aid Fund, set up by Julius Jtasersawld is in the
thirtieth year of its work. Founded in 19J7 with an endowment i
of $20,>100,000, the Found as of List, year had spent 520.125.3fc2 |
and still has 31,772,324 to be spent.
Mr Rosen weld, who died January 6, 1837, specified that the
entire sum should be spent within twenty-live years of his
death,
M, S, JOHNSON IS
FIRST FIELD SEC,
OF N, &COLLEGE
' DURHAM —• In a brief ceremony
. *l, North Carolina College here
last Friday. NLnier, S. Johnson.
. , e- ; :■■■; . oi: vo. became the
s>? fie id secretary “f the N C. C.
Alumni Association. This position
tl.c Hijuus! nioet'ng
oi die assoc.aiion at the college in
; Jane, when .- c\.- - s dee was nmu
■ tp se-lec! a Dt rso’i jo> the- $3.0150
The new field sccrc tv. wh-.ixe of
oi ,-,, tho i-.Viu'Si- i-ammiy
. Yv ill oi go: ii/o and supervise chap
' ters of the alumni association
: :b'l'ughlout the state and nation
• . - ■: will be in charge ->f the pub
lication of on alumni bulletin, Lat
icr Johnson plans the organization
j of a plneemeni btueau for North
i Carolia College graduates.
Mr. Johnson, a native of Hamlet,
w gradauted from North Carolina
College in 3931 and ; aught for sou's
■•• ear- i’: Brunswick apd Rorktng
ii.-.m Counties. L.ater he was .super
i \ :s.;r of schools in Rockingham
: County. He entered the work of
•hr- i'-oV Sc .' of America in )94£
'a* field scout executive i.i New
port N'tws. Y.-niima. in 3943 he was
■ t-:nsf(-.- : -ed m ihe Cos'tal Carolina
-n.-i-.cii in Cnarltston. Scmih Caro
lina, where he made an crr.pressive
-e< -ivd. During his three years ten
ure the number of scouts and scout
'Con tin'ltd on back tnge*
i RESCUES FISHERMEN j
Word has just reached Raleigh
that Sirwarmd’s Mate Lawrence
t. I.eveston. son of Mr. and Mrs.
Lcvestor. of 339 W South Street
altove, wax a member »l the crew
which rescued 11 fishermen who
were marooned on Af'ongank
Island, Alaska. Steward’s Mate
Levcston is a member of the
crew of the Fleet Tug ISS
l“olawatomi which has participat
ed In six rescues during the past
year.
j SM.KKT.Vm j
'' E^Hr
.J Her,r\ fArmtr assis
tant to the president of Tuskegee
<f v * : nstitnte .ui-.i .lireeS.fr of the T S
Navy Reeruitine office for Ne
groes in Alabama, has returned to
Tuskegee as executive sec retars
of the George Washignton < ar
ver foundation and assistant to
the director. Or. Russell IV
Brown. Irt making the announce
ment. President l l>. Patterson
stated that it:, smith's dunes will
include business management and
public relations for the founda
tion. \ VP i
ORDER IS SIGNED
IN COLLEGE ROW
Lourt Ac tion Hah-* Loan
DURHAM Judge W. C. Harris
o: Raleigh Thursday signed a tem
porary restraining ordei prohibit
inf Kittrell College and ail of its
trustees “as i rustees." front ne
gotiating or securing a loan or
mortgage of $150,000 on Kittrell
College
He directed “that the said par
i ft. show cause before Judge Leo
Carr in Burlington at noon on
August 19. why this order should
not be mode permanent.“
The actum came as a result ot
a suit initiated by Dr. J. X. Mills,
George W. Cox and E. R Mitchell
again si the school and its trustees
to prevent mortgaging of the Col
lege and to permenant.!y restrain
the Rev. M. H Davis, bishop of the
Sfond Episcopal District of the
AME Church comprising of Mary
land. Virginia and North Carolina,
from exercising the powers and au
thority of a bishop over the trustee
board of the school.
Members of the AME church in
North Carolina met here Sunday
to form a statewide Laymen's asso
ci&tiou for the purpose of removing
Bishop Dcvis from control of ihe
church in this state.
PITTMAN PAROLED
ON ASS A l IT CHARGE
FALLS NEI CHARGES
GREENVILLE liitwood May
farm youth of the Fountain Com
munity who had been paroled for
attempted rape w..s arrested Sun
day night Bud turned over to pri
n auttocrinse of Central prison at
Raleigh or. charges of violating
his parole, police reported here
Thursday.
He was charged w>!h assault with
a deadly weapon will; intent n; kill
at the home of Mrs. Martha Ami
May and of assault with a deadly
weapon upon A C. Gay and Hcr
i mai, Davis, a white man, when they
. attempted to contact pel tee.
Oscar Bryani, Fountain chief of
police, said May went to Mrs. May
i.C ">n r T page’s
I FIRST OF KINS IN
FIELD OF JOINT I
CO-OP STUDY
To Be Tenter Os Human
delations Studies:
(]o-Sj)onsorina Project
New York A university eon- \
*i ; to ‘rain graduate students for ,
1 ; an leadi'iship and to act as:
.; clinic for the study of inter .
ir< up social problems is t<y be
u-’uran'd this fall at New York
Univtrsits- School, of TSducation
Known as the Center for Hu
man Relations Studies first of
it kind in the Feld of American
(.•.ducation it is jointly spon ;
1 cored by the /School of Education
n 1 NYU and the Bureau for In
tercultura! Education, a N e w
York agency which for the past j
-,1 years has worked on the do- 1
t vroopment of educational teeh
•lioite- *o promote better intercut
tu.’al relations.
Establishment of the Center is :
tri’de possible by a §44.000 grant
■- tn the Bureau.
In a press conference here Dean
Ernest O Mel by of she School >f
Education and tr. William H. KB
Patrick, chairman of the Bureaus
board of directors, outlined a
; four-phase program which the
1 Center will undertake beginning
in September. The program in
cludes
I—leadership training for two
(Continued un page eight)
Dexton Haywood Missing
Since '46, Sought By Aunt
RALEIGH Mrs. Annie Wil
liams if 411 North West Street. Ra
leigh. sum of Dexton Haywood,
is very anxious to learn the
•.•hereabouts of her newhep, who
has been missing since September.
1946 when he was committed to the
State Asylum for observation per
taining to some neurotic disorder.
The missing Haywood was the
•~n ~i the late William and Lillie
Haywood, who resided on South
Person Street, this city
According '• Mrs Williams' story
as told to THE CAROLINIAN last
Thursday. Dexton Haywood was
committed to the asylum lor a pur-.
ported period of 15 days Shortly
aflei his release-, he was picked up
and sent to a Prison Camp in Wil
i son. X. C Haywood received a re
lease from the Wilson camp, only
to be m the "toils of the law again. ;
This was The last time Mrs. Wil-j
hams heard anything else concern
ing her nophewy
Stic said she hav vainly sought
the aid of City. County and State
law enforcement officers. Results, i
Status quo. Mrs. Williams states
she doesn’t know whether Dexton
is dead oi living. However, site :
wants information about him one
wav or the other. She further slal
. ••) that each tune he was released. •
j; was without her knowledge. She
also emphasised the fact that Hay- i
wood was released from the asylum ;
without her consent.
The missing' man is described as j
hr' g of bn wnsitin complexion: I
greyish eyes better :n 35 and 40 ;
yars of age: weighing between 130
and 135 pnnnrir rvrd being about
five fee! 5 1-2 inches in height. She
i said he usually w >re a cap.
Any information leading to the;
whereabout? of Dcxtc-n Haywood,
whether dead or alive, may be di
rected to Mrs. Annie Williams. 451
N-uth West Strep; Rnleigh. N C.
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AND row
New Zealand's place in the
world economic setup is supported
the sheep jpjtJ
DISAPPOINTED
AT ACTION OF
GRAND JURY
RALEIGH - Governor R Gregg
| Cherry Thursday look vigorous
steps Li provide a trial for seven
white men accused of seizing God
-1 win 'Buddy! Bush from the,
! Northampton County iail at Jack
; son in an attempt to lynch him as
-1 lei an 18-man grand jury return-’
i i’d findings of ’not a true bill"
| {wains! the defendants and Busty
: who was accused of attempted as•
suult in the August session of the
. Northhampton County Criminal
court, at Jackson Tuesday morning.
I Acting under a 54-year-old sta
■ mie. the Governor Instructed Su
j perior Court Judge Paul Frizzells
; - i .Sr.ow Hill who is presiding over
j i!u criminal term of the North
j r.mpton County Superior Court to
; . onvene a court, site as committing
j magistrate, and after hearing the
evidence and thoroughly investigat-
I ing the case, commit those charged
: t.;i trial in an adjoining county.
He said it would probably be the
last of this month before the judge
could hear the witnesses in the
tContinued on page eight)
RADIO STATION
BEGINS FIGHT ON
DISCRIMINATION
i Minneapolis (A.NP) “Neither
• Free Nor Equal’’ was the title of
I a series of radio programs on
' \\ CCO, the Columbia Broadcast •
.mg system outlet in the twin cv
j lies here which devoted 5 broad
: casts to a two fisted attack
• against discrimination and preju
dice here in the northwest. The
:; vies closed last Wednesday with
Fit* sixth program which present
t. c ,i dramatic examination of the
progress which had already been
made in the cementing of inter
.group harmony.
Each program has thrown the*
spotlight on one aspect, of tirob
lems of prejudice and injustice
)• irst in the series dealt with s >-
i ial discrimination; subsequent
broadcasts probed discrimination
;ir employment and in housing,
1 the problem of the Indian in
Minnesota and organized racism
and the “hate merchants.’’ What
i made it doubly significant is tha ;
Minneapolis had been sa’d to
have the worst anti-Jewish atti
tude of any city in the United
1 States.
Agencies cooperating with VC
C C.O. have -been the Minneapo
lis and St. Paul Urban leagues
National Conference of Christians
anci Jews, Minnesota Jewish
council Governor’s Interracial
commission, Minneapolis Corn
inunity self-survey and C owned
<>!, Human relations and St Paul’s
council on Human relations
.Negro I nemployment.
Rate Higher By 2 to 4
WASHINGTON. <NNPAs
Unemployment rates among col
ored people were from two to
four times higher than uwm
plovrnnt rates among white peo
pie in five key metropolitan la
bor markets studied by the fen
sus Bureau in April. Bureau re
ports shoned last Wednesday.
The studies, made on the em
ployment status oi persons 14
years and over in St lonia.
Memphis, Detroit, and the Nor
folk - Newport X ewe-Portsmouth.
Virginia labor markets, showed
that only 3 per cent of white
persons in that age group in St
Louis were unemployed while 10
per cent of the same age ;;ro«p
among colored people were out
of work.
WINSTON ‘NEIGHBOR’
STEALS AND PAW NS
CORPSE’S CLOTHES
WINSTON-SALEM Local po-
I lice Friday charged Williford with
: theft or $44 worth of clothing :>|i
j the corpse at a wak;- and wearing
them out of the horns.
Wdiicrd 18, pawned a drear e**ai
rend two pains of troupers after
leaving the home of James Tinsley
Nelson, officers ssiri. and warned
buy are still looking for a gray
shit which ?* missing from the
dead man's home.
Nelson, a 23-year-'4d World WsV
17 veteran, died of Toniach oleers
Friday and Williford at tended a
wake at the Netetw* home, where he
allegedly stole She clothing and tut
;cr pawned ih«n at the Winston
1 .Jcwcry and L n «» Company for ■§?.,