300 Whites Converge On Interracial Group
DAVIS IN PROMOTION LINE
Muriel Rahn Abused By So. Ry
SOLDIERS PLAY
PART IN EGGING
ON DISPUTES
Greensboro, N. C. fANP)
Southern Railway system doesn't
give a hoot about slate and fed
eral laws banning discrimination
against, first class inter-state pas
M-i*>ers, according to F. E, New
man, white dining car steward of
the company's crack Piedmont
Limited.
Newman made this statement
to Dick Campbell and his con•
tort singer wife, Miss Muriel
Hahn, here last week when the
couple boarded the train after
** ss Rahn’s concert appearance
&* the New Farmers,of America
convention.
The Campbells entered the din
er and proceeded to the “reserved
section" behind the curtain,
where two tables were supposed
*o be set aside for Negro passen
gers. There they found one table
occupied by three colored pa;
sengers, and the other, across the
s.sle. held by two white soldiers
Thinking the soldiers were defy
ins the jim-crow law- -more than
20 seats won available in the
hit-- section--the couple sat
down beside the soldiers and
celled for a menu.
Newman, answering their call
. (Continued on pack page-
Kansas Senator Ijrges
Repeal Os Poll Tax
WASHINGTON Senator Ar
thur Capper. Republican of Kan
sss. urged abolition of the poll
fe>. and enfranchisement of the
People of the District of Columbia
in his weekly radio program,
"Americans Ail", which is sponsor-;
ed by the Institute of Race Rela
tion?. lasi Sunday right
He said that all citizens must be
given the opportunity to vote and
that he favors adequate education,
recreation, and housing, equal op
portunity. federal anti-lynching leg
islation. and a lav,- to ban racial
and religious discrimination In cm
ployment.
FREEDOM TRAIN
ASKED TO CARRY
FEPC ORDERBBO2
NEW YORK - Wi*h final oPns
being launched for the visit of the
Freedom Train to 300 communities
beginning Septmber 17. it was an
nounced here that a request was
sent July 18 te the American Heri
tage Foundation, sponsors of the
train, to include among the histori-.
cal American docuirients on exhibi
tion Presidential Executive Order
8802. issued June 25, 1941. creating
the wartime FKPC
The request was. unde by WaUer i
White NAACP secretary. who
wrote Winlhrop AW rich, chairman ‘
of the Heritage Foundation board
of trustees.
"No document, issued during re
cent year? has so aroused the in
terest and enthusiasm to; the dem
ocratic process among minorities.''
The NAACP said it has been as
sured Informally that there would
be nb segregation on account of'
race in the viewing of the docu
ments on Freedom Train
Atty, F. J. Carnage Heads
Local Advisory Set-Up;
Mrs. Lockhart Named Sec,
RALEIGH J ‘We have faith
?nd confidence in your judge
ment and there will be times
when you can render valuable
assistance to the City,” was part
of the message Mayor F D Snipes
delivered to the newly created
Advisory Committee at is meeting
held last Wednesday.
The committee, composed of lo
cai Negro citizens, is headed by
Atty. F. . Carnage, who i? active
in Raleigh’s civic and interracial
welfare. Other members of the
committee are, Mrs. Nora S. Loch
hr.rt. secretary; C. D. Haliburton.
Laura Edwards, O. S. Bullock. M.
W Williams. S T. Daley. L. E.
McCauley and E. C. Hamlin.
The purpose of the Advisory
Committee is to promote and es
tablish a closer contact between
the city government and the Ne
gro citizenry of th< city This
committee was made possible
roLi»'ugi* it» , p-p-"/s j 1 1 m-i.r.i h-y the
City Council During Mayor
Snipe's diwnur.-e, he W«k time
.-' - > ’-'V- tA'-\ ■■■•' \ '• ;v L’- : - :v / R '> v-' "*v ‘ ' •'* . ■* AC ; ' yj'M - ' - .S* •'; V•: - V ' ' ' ?<r : v.- v - 1 F.'
■ . V, . '
The" Carolinian
\jd K _XXY 1 l._X O 7 is ALTiCfI, XORT I I CAKOIiNA K> !)iNC SATCKDAV. Ai GI ST 2-J, PIT PH It K7c
MEMBERS OF ft \EEILHS UIMSOID COMMITTEE
f* n
The Negro Advisory Commit
! ice of the Raleigh City Council
met in the office of Mayor P.
D. Snipes on Wednesday, aug
ust 13 at 3:30 in the afternoon
tor the purpose of organizing.
F. j. Carnage, local attorney
v/as named chairman and Mrs,
REV, ALEXANDER
CHAPLAIN AT
ST, AUGUSTINE'S
; RALEIGH Rev Lloyd M :
Alexander. current 1 v in charge < i
St. Phillip? Schfs-i, An vast*. 1
; Washington. has accepted the posi
tion of Ch-M.tain <! Si Augustine's
College here riccordingto informa
tion received from the local insti
j lotion las: week. Rev. Aiexaiub r.
41-year oid native Virginian. .- «-x-
; pectfd t.r. arrive at the College
j September 15 in time for the open •
: ing date, which is scheduled for
j September lit.
The newly -vketed Chaplain is n •
i graduate of Si. Augustine's and j
.Bishop Payne Divinity School. Pet -
! ersburg, Vu. He received his M.r
--i tor's Degree in Religious Education '
’ from Columbia University, Now ;
■ York, in 1047. During rhe sumo j
i year be became Chaplain at Fort i
Valley School. Ga., serving until I
i 1940. When Fori Valley became a .
| state school. Rev. Alexander went ;
to Braeey, Va. In 3943 he enlisted!
'in th< U. S Army Chaplain Cosp, ‘
serving m New Zealand and several i
: Pacific Theatre holding the rank |
of captain
Aside from his duties as Ctap.p
--i lam Rr\. Alexander will do :• nv
j tend ling just what subjeei r <r sub- .
jeets. are unannmmwd. He is well .
qualified in Religious Education
| Bbilosophv and kindred subjects
i He is married, having one child and
i will reside on the; campus.
i out to express his appreciation to \
. the City Fathers for their act.
City Manage! Roy E. Braden .
‘old the committee that it ha« j
; “wonderful opportunity to make ,
; the citv a better place for your i
race and for everyone.” He said
that the committee could bring ■
j about a better understanding be
tween the city government” and
local Negroes, and the group’s re
j . ummendations about matters
1 would be of great help to the
| council.
JERSEY GEAR!) TO
BAS? SEGREGATION
TRENTON. N. ,1. <NNPA> An
’ amendment, tentatively adopted by .
, the New Je-sev Constitutional |
j Convention fe n- last Wednesday. \
1 woulci bar race seereeotion and 1
i discrimination in the New Jersey 1
h oil ird
W. S Lockhart, Jr. was select
ed as secretary. Pictured are
those present at this meeting,
left to right they are:
City Manager Roy Braden,
Mayor P. D. Snipes, F. J. Car
nage, Mrs, W. S. Lockhart, Jr..
Miss Laura Edvards. V. C.
U. S. Negro Preside Over
Last World Youth Session
liV GEORG! i i!MI NO HAYNES
OSLO, Norway ■ ANPi An
American Negro youth tendei pre
sided over the final r--?-:,of 'Sic
cermd Wel le Conference for Chris- •
tian youth here- last vi <*«»E in which!
young people from 70 nation*; of ’:
all five continents and races par- ■
i'icpah-cl
■Miss Rene Weller;- .-vs.-ion uiopi-j
d no resolutions, but did receive!
ro-iorts from the steering commit
. Georgia Convict Camp Abolished
After New Probings In Killings
Gascn Jones" Fireman
Remembers lord
Os Frstwhile Boss
JACKSON. Trim. (ANPi
Sint T. H'fbfc. who fired No, 382
when Casey Jones pushed it to
its fast fateful ride 17 years ago.
recalled the famed engineer's
last words last week when a
monument was unveiled on
Jones previously unmarked
grave.
The famous Casey of song and
star;, v, as extolled by the
, spec rhmakers while the small
1 crowd stirred uneasily in the
boiling Min in the quiet of near
b% Calvary cemetery. Many
nice things were said about
< asey.
But Webb, who was with
Jones just before the crash,
stole the show as he recalled
fhr engineer's last words:
“Oh. Nim‘ The old girl's got
her high-heeled slippers on to
night.'' -Casey was trying to
make p the 30 minutes they
were running late out of Durant,
Miss., trying to take the south
bound mai! from Memphis to
( anion. i\liss,|
% ledif Gets D.izian
Foundation Gram
NEW YORK iANP; Or. David .
W. 'Jones was awarded v. grant by
the Dazitfh Foundation for Medi
cal research to ‘'assist hi his clin- ,
ical medication." ii was announced
, here Inst week.
! The research foundation was
i established by the will of the late
.Henry Dfczicn, white with SJ. 690,009 •
< for the sludv of diseases f.r which
,I:ere ir nr -wn rurr
Hamlin, C. D. Halliburton, Rev.
S. F. Daly and Rev. M. W
Williams. Members of the com
mittee not appearing on 1h e
picture are: Dr. L. E. McCauley
and Rev. O. S. Bullock.
tec on th<- maiiv rtis-’t .-cion groups
ini- which ’.he delegates had been
divided loi Btbie sTudy, for ques
lions and considerations of many
vital suspects such a.- the attitude
of Christian youth toward govern
ments and how the •'•hurch can face
out disordered world
More than a score nj rhe young
people from different national and
racial groups g-.vt hi icf frank
(Continued on back page!
At!A> 1 u (NTP/,} The State convict camp system
v. a- aboiished in Georgia las l Monday in an order dis
closing a new investigation into the massacre July 31 o!’
eight prisoner:- on a road gang by prison guards at a camp
at Anguilla, in Cuynn County, near Brunswick.
The Georgia State Board of Corrections decided to
close the two remaining camps at a hearing at which Sam
Levine, a member o:S the Glynn County Board ol ( oiu
missioners, branded the slayings as "murder.
Georgia chain gangs were abol
ished. under the State Penal Re
form Act of 1943. The book and
motion picture, “1 Am A Fugitive
From A Chain Gang. ' brought
nation-wick criticism u o o «
Georgia. Governor Ed River 1
abolished the use of shackles in
r~ “ ' “
| Gov. Orders Rearrest Os
Seven Men In Mob Case
Jackson —Seven Rich Square white men were under
arrest again here Saturday night on charges growing out
of the attempted lynching of Godwin "Ruddy” Bush oi
Rich Square who was charged with attempted rape of Mr- -
Margaret Alien Bryant. Rich Square white woman, at
Rich Square on May 28.
Bench warrants issued bv Su
perior Court oidgc J. Paul Friz
v.i IF; of Snow Hi! charging the
men with conspiracy to break and
enter a jail with intent to injure
prisoner -were served or. the de
fendants at 2 p.m. Saturday by
i-rn riff J. C. Stephenson of North -
' Hampton county, and the arrest®
'-ere made in the office of Buck
Weaver of Rich Square, one of
tore- local attorneys who n, de
fending the defendants.
Men R ©arrested
The men—Robert Van. Russell
Bryant Linwod Bryant.. Gilbert ;
• Brvant. Glen Collier Joe Cun
ningham and W. C. Cooper—tU
' jnKrnitt.-'-H to arrest, and were re- 1
: '.cased under $250 bond each, the !
-.line amount set after the first
BRIG, GENERAL
RANK SEEN AS
NEXT STEP OP
WASHINGTON, D. C. <NNIV\ •
Kocog!!:’ oil of the Army Air
?o- cs. which iin.'.r ihc National
x-i ur.tv Act of i 947 becomes ;Ue
•1 St U j Air F< "Co may affect
a sweeping change at I i.ekbourno
- Air Base. Columbus, Ohio,
v/t-.-i j the 332nd Fight r Group.
<■ ' mandt ■'! by Colonel Benjamin
(i. Davis. Jr , is based, it was Scam
<••• lasi Wednesday.
Under present plan- ihc ba,s-: and
its permanent duty units will be
.tuvaitu as a "wing base,’' and the
332nd tighter Group will be reoe
sign.ik-a -- the '.'i32d Tactical
Wing." composed cf a combat
' group an airdrome group, a main
tenance and supply group, and a
hospital group
Tables of organization call for a
general officer to command the
vri ng, and Colonel Davir. who also
commands the Lockbourne Army
Air Base, fe in tine for promotion to
brigadier general. Under him tvsll
four- evdoneia. •
Comprising the 3.12 d Fighter
Group are the 99th, the SOflth and
the 301st Fighter Squadrons. The
99th is commanded by Major Wil
liam Campbell of Tusk ogee. Ala.;
the 100th by Major Andrew J. Tur
ner of Washington, and the 301st by
Captain Charles I. Williams of
Lama, Ohio.
WOULD BE SECOND GENERAL
If and when he is promoted. Col
v.ncj Davis will be- the second col
ored brigadier general in the his
tory of the United States Army.
The other one is ins fathci, Briga
dier General Benjamin O Davis
who was promoted to his present
(Continued on back page*
3938. Governor Ellis Aroall con
. tinned the reforms by eliminating
many of the medieval tortures
like the “sweat box."
Mrs. Bis lock Made Motion
Mrs. J. C Blalock member at
'Continued on bock page)
' a.rt est.
Less than two weeks ago they
walked out of the Northhampton
county court room here as free
men after the grand jury, fol-
I i'>wjng a day and a half o # de
liberation failed to indict then
noi Bush who was changed with ,
j attempted rape
Following the action of the th'
i grand jury. Governor R. Gregg
Cherry ar.ounced that Judge Friz*
i<‘Ue had been assigned to con
duct the hearing following the
, nsw indictment here on
; bei- 2. the- date on which the war- j
i rants served on the mob mem-1
• hers are returnable, and said bt
! i('nr ’: ' r, ' fwv*»
Vfins Decision
% c -
f}'
.1 Leonard Lewis. General Coun
sel and executive vice president,
Afro-American Life insurance
Co., Jacksonville, Fla., who won
a sweeping decision some time
ago from the Floiida Supreme
court affirming th: purchase <>l
the Industrial Insurance Co,
i AM*;
COUPLE t.IIAIJTALES
LAI IF. MAKTIAI IA\S
SAN FRANCISCO <AN V< -A;
challenge was flung at the old i
i state law here last week banning;
the marriage of whites and Ne- \
;
; f?rijf»V 1
The Cnliforniii S**preme Court;
was petitioned for writ of man
date by Sylvester S. Davis, Jr., and
Mis- Andrea D. Perez to direct J. j
F. Morony. Los Angeles County:
clerk b is-eie -hem -- marriage '
license. Davis was ; dcntificd as a j
Ni.ro M;s : . Per::;: ea white won:-I
!
— j
Hand (Continues To
Fight I-or Extra Ha,
Primary Session
ATLANTA (ANT; Al
though House Speaker Fred
Hand, a Talmadge stalwart,
i ontinueti efforts to secure the ;
call for an extra legislative ses
sion to bar Negro voters, the
move was appearing to bog
down last week.
Hands has sent, out queries to
legislators on the extra session, j
in an attempt to ec-t a new set
of rules designed to keep “i!lH
erate" Negroes from voting in I
the primary.
The Georgia press anti radio
particularly have been vocal
against the extra session idea.
A leader of the state's anti- 1
Taimadge faction has challeng
ed Hand to show why legisla
tion is needed In prevent two 1
primaries next year and has
declared “there will be but one >
Democratic primary."
Gov. Thompson has refused
to call the legislature ‘or the
voter ban session.
|
outh Drowns In
Wilmington Lake
Wtt/MTNGTON Bobby Gene'
R-'binson, 12. of 101-D Worth !
Drive. Muffin Village Wednesday I
I lost his life when he, drowned in
Greenfield Lfcke, policfc reported I
Thursday.
The youth and a group of others
I were swimming near the swim
ming pier when, the accident hap
* pened, officers reported, and his
j body wjjis recovered 45 minutes 1
i later after a puilmotor was rushed
U> ihe sisevut- bj J. Liiulv CroOlV.. ,
-. ' ,Tt-u fii-p rhi-T,
Mixed Student Project
in Tyreii County Forced
T o Abandon Summer Camp
Students Take To Field I 'pun Arrival Os Crowd
To Serve 24-Hour l Itimalum; Sheriff Says
Members orderl> And 1 nartued
Columbia, X. C. Following closely on the heels
| ol several interracial experiments from various sections oT
the country, comes a new one from this little town of sev
eral thousand. This one just about resembles, the rest It is
a matter of white and colored living in the same house.
In this case, it was a matter of .via white students liv*
j ing in the home of a Negro. And among this group of
. whites, one was the wife of one of the white students. AH
1 had been living there since June.
MOVES TO AVERT
POSSIBLE BADE
TROUBLE IN CHI
BY LUTHER V TOWVSLEY j
CHICAGO (ANP> City offi
: ciali and civic leaders rnovrd fast j
! last week to avert the possibility of j
! a race ; lot hc-rc before the sum- j
I mer ends.
Following- close on the heels of j
rep* its that whJte-Negro tempers;
are on edge in borderline cornmun- |
it.: Aid. Archibald J. Carey con- |
terrod Monday with police Com- j
mission'.'!' John C. Prcndergast |
about a telephone rati from an un-;
identified woman who predicted aj
.rural flat-.:up within the- nevt two]
- • . .ks
!
Already rumors had been clrcu- -
about whites beating* three
Cegro youth- in the Jackson park i
.tea. '-'.here members of both races]
iho city's recreational facili- j
ties. City officials hod been warned]
1 Latimer executive secretary
of the Chicago Liberties committee,
about *he possibility of a riot dur
ing tin torrid summer days. Lati
t liter advocated a specially trained j
orps -of policemen to form a race 1
relations detail.
Blamed for the racial feuds If |
Chicago's acute housing shortage,]
! especially the intense overcrowd- ]
Negro ghetto where more than j
■'i>S)o _ . -:.iju S ace •• ,-*• packed ’’do ,
j,m area originally planned to ac I
j commodate less than 100.000. As Ne- i
; crocs dare to break into the so- :
! railed all-white vicinities in search
, f homes, whites meet the invasion ;
• by force, either bombing the homes]
; of !hc Negro newcomers or resort*
i ing to other forms of organized vio- j
\ ience.
NAACP To Defend Vet
Shot By ‘Quick Triggered’
; Rookie Cop Os 25 Minutes
; NEW YORK The National As
sociation for the Advancement of
] Colored People demanded the im- ;
mediate suspension rookie pat- j
rolman Francis LeMaire, who shot !
’ and critically wounded Lloyd Cur- j
is Jones, 29-year-old disabled vet i
! eran. in New York’s busy Columbus !
Circle a week ago.
At the same time it was learned ;
that NAACP attorney Amos C. j
; Bowman of the Harlem branch bad
! been retained to represent the
voung voice student who is being
j held under arrest at Roosevelt Hos- i
S pitiil's prison ward where he is J
! still on the critical list.
DEMAND REMOVAL
i A statement by the NAACP de- 1
mended the immediate removal of
‘■quick triggered troopers who ask .
questions later," was issued by
Walter White, secretary.
‘Officials and members of the
j NAACP are shocked and horrified
I over the cold-blood shooting of a
| defenseless, peaceful citizen by a
j man who was sworn to protect the
Lott Carey Convention’s
Golden Jubilee Sessions
In Roanoke, Va. Sept. 2-5
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Accord
i ing to a statement issued by Dr.
: Wendell C. Somerville, Executive
i Secretary, the Lott Carey Baptist
1 Foreign Mission Convention will
■ hold its (Fiftieth) Golden Jubilee
! Session at Roanoke Va.. Septam
! her 2-5, 1947.
The Golden Jubilee Session
| Program will be highlighted by
j addresses given by Misses Doro
thy Moses and Partmal Das of
Calcutta, India. Other foreign
i speakers will be Miss Eugenia
! Holmes, Liberia. West Africa, Mr.
I Anosike Nwokeufeu. Nigeria, and
i Mi. S. B Sankoh, Sierra Leone.
; Trie Rev- D. A. Timpson, Nicara
gua, Central America, will also
speak.
Dr. Bullock Speaker
Dr. George Oliver Bullock, Pas
for 'Third Baptist Church, Wash ;
' ingtor., T> C. will deliver the J,u
--: Diiee Sermon. Di. EfccitEy j
Secretary 'Foreign V ' ns Con
According to Sheriff Ray Cal
loon, on Monday of last week a
gang of from 200 to 300 whits
nen order the six white students
including the wife of one, to leave
the 'home of the Negro resident.
There was a 24-hour ultimatum
and the students complied with
i this.
11 is said that the Sheriff under
stood that the white students in
l solved were from Harvard, Yale
'and the University of North Caro
i lina.
The Sheriff stated that the stu
dents came here last June to as
sist S. P. Dean, former principal
ui Columbia High School (coi
| oifcd) in the work of Tyrell, a
| Credit Union Columbia happens
|to be in this County of Tyre!!,
j S3S.DOO Raised
According to statements, the
j Credit Union had raised approx
j imately $35,000 from Negro citi
-1 rns in the area, most of which
I v. as used to purchase lands of
[some 300,000 acres. This land was
(Continued on page eightl
| -
j Samaritans Endorse
; Scholarship Fund
NEW YORK Speaking. an
the motion of Rev. J. n. Brown
for the establishment of a scho
larship to aid pre-medical stu
| dents and nurses, |>y T. f*. Pat
terson, National Grand Sire of
the Independent Order of Good
Samaritans and Daughters ai
Samaria, endorsed the campaign
to raise one hundred thousand
dollar* to establish * scholar ship
fund by the '(Wntis he'
available to qualified pre-ntetM
eal students and for training of
nurses for much needed services
for sirsderpriviicged people. Fur
ther announcement will be made
from the National Grand Secre
tary's Office.
lives and safety of all our citizens,'
he said.
“From all the evidence thus far
I presented there was absolutely no
provocation for Patrolman LeMaire
, even to have beaten Lloyd Jones
j with his nightstick. When he drew
his revolver and pumped bullets
- into the dazed veteran he became
a madden menace to every single
; person in our city.
“We are Immediately demand
ing that this man be suspended
from out police department and
: that he -be prosecuted. Quick trig
gered troopers who ask questions
j later can no more be tolerated tn
- New York City than they can in
Batesburg, South Carolina.
VICTIM MUSIC STUDENT
Jones, a music student who had
j hopes of securing a Guggenheim
; Fellowship, was shot down by the
patrolman at the Columbus Circle
entrance to Central Park, where
discussion groups and park bench
(Continued on back page)
ferenee of North America will
give the Feature Address. Fridsj
! September the sth.
Secretary Somerville states
that the Lott Carey Baptist Fore
ign Mission Convention is cur.-
rt titly supporting ninty-three mis
j nonaries in the Belgian Congo.
Bermuda, China. India, Haiti
Fcrtugeuse Island and West Afri
ca He further states that the Lott
Carey Convention is the only dis
tinctly foreign mission Conven
tion among Negroes in the world.
Delegates from nineteen states
will attend the Session fn Roart
| oke. Virginia. The Convention
: therm, for this Session is “Fifty
Years of Ceaseless Service -to
Others."
Dr. N L. Scarborough, Pastor
| of Trinity Baptist Church, Colwn
; ons, Ohio is president of toe Con
; i option. Dr. W T... Ransorne, Rich--,
j jfior.d, Virginia- ir, chairrr.au of the'
' Executive Board.