North Carolina Newspapers

WHIES ASK NEGRO TO MOVE CAROLINA MEN ! ATIENO SCOOT MEET IN INDIANA! BLOOMINGTON Ind, Out cl the more than 2.000 Boy Scout Ex ecutives gahered here on the cam- : pus of Indiana University for the Eighth National Training Confer ence here this week. North and South Carolina are ably represent ed by twelve Negro delegates. The eight representing North Carolina art, D. W. King. Wilming ton: G F. Newell, Raleigh; G. V. Simpson. Fayetteville; James A. Adams, Gastonia; R P. Smith, Winston-Salem. J. E. Roger. Con cord; B. F Mitchell, Reidsville and C E Hughes. Greensboro. The four rt-piiventing South Carolina ;ue, E. M l.uckit. Sumter; W. E. Solomon. Columbia, J. T Amey. Florence and W. E. Cross. Charleston. T1 is vast cr rt wd 1 f Seoul Execu tives. tl profc-ss»on.il leaders of the Boy Scouts have gathered at Indiana University and they come from all over the United States, Canada. Mexico, tire island o' Guam, tin Philiippine.v Hawaii, and other U. S. possessions. FIRST MEET SINCE 1936 Many of these scout executives are meeting for the first, time in eight years This is the first na tional conference of Scout Execu tive.; since September 1939, when the full-time career leaders of the organization met at Bretton Woods. N. H. The campus at Indiana Univer sity has been turned into one Big scout camp, with exhibits, camp sites and other Boy Scout mate- Conttnued on page eight Man Walks into Train, Is 'Seriously Injured HENDERSON Walking true a moving train which he thought had passed, Elam Dowling, 70-year old Vance resident, suffered severe head and back injuries and several broken ribs iasl Wednesday, ac cording to police reports Dowling stated that he was on his way to Work at a bagging mill, and when he attempted ti> cross over the tracks at the North Gar nett and North Williams Sweets crossing to catch a bus. he walked into the Seaboard Air Line south bound train No. 9. which he thought had already passed. Re ports say the train was hi ought u> ait immediate stop', '-/hereupon the conductor and engineer made an investigation and had the injured man taken to Jubilee Hospital for .treatment The train continued on its journey. PUBLIC WELFARE CONFERENCE AT SHAW SEPT, 25 RALEIGH The North Carolina | State Board of Welfare, through •its Unit of Work Among Negroes, is planning a one day conference on Public Welfare at Shaw Univer sity Thursday. September 25, at ' which time alt interested parties ale cordially invited to attend. Numerous changes in the public welfare program have taken place during the past, several years. Be cause ot this the local body would like to discuss the general philoro- Contivued <*n page eight. A, E. Weatherford, Raleigh Recreation Supervisor, Penn State Graduate Asst. Raleigh Allen Erieson Weatherford, (on leave of absence) Supervisor of City Recreation for Negroes in Raleigh. North Carolina, has been appointed Graduate As , tiitaat in the the School of Physical Education and Athletics at the The Pennsylvania State College where he is a can didate for the Ph. L). degree in Health, Physical Education, and Recreation Mr. Weatherford is the first Negro to be appointed to this position at the College. Left Sept. 15. For two years, he was princi pal -of a high school and elemen • tarv school in North Carolina. Di rector of Health and Physical Education at Bishop College, j Marshall, Texas for one year. Di - rector of Health and Physical ' Education at St. Augustine's Col lege for eight years, and Super visor of City Recreation for No »c*oes in Raleigh since June 194 L Served At Bishop. Si, Aug. At Bishop College and St. Augustine’s College, Mr. Weath e"ford started the Professional \Vork in Health and Physical Education, In the early fall o< 1846. the State Department o 1 'Pfiblic Instruction approved Che • vis Heights Recreation Center as -i> laboratory for student-teaching i*y health and physical education •working in cooperation with the City elementary and secondary •schools. Students from Si. August ineV CblWe. f*hn*,y TTjuverc-hv The (Continued on back pace) THE CAROLINIAN \O.I’"~\IF XXVII NO 10 It ALEIGII, NORTH CAROLINA WEEK ENDING SATI RDAY, SEPTEMBER 13. 19-17 PRICE 7c | ANTI-NEGRO SCHOOL STRIKE BRINGS 1300 EXPULSIONS *. ******* * * ******* * * * * FBI Charged With Union Busting SAYS BUREAU IS USING FORM OF INTIMIDATION Washington (ANP) Che gins that the Federal Bureau •'! In : vestigation was conduct!’-.-, a . | -union busting drive under th-. ; . guise of a loyalty invest’.gat ion | Abram Flaxer. international pie.-> : i.ient of the United Public Work- - trr of America, appealed to all members of trade unions to pro tect the FBl’s current atten.pt to | compile membership lists of 1 trade unions :n the federal stv v.ce. Mr Flaxen s statement, sent ’ > : the officers of many labor union ' throughout the country, follows: "Under the guise of conduct j :r.g a loyaJtv investis atiofc unde j Executive Order 9835, the FBI ;« , j row engaged m a form of intirni '. daiton and union busting whic . 1 lias been outlawed in private m- I dustry since the days of the ex posure of the labor spy. Compiles Membership List •The FBI is compiling trade , ur-on membership list of all cir ' ; pjoyes m the fedeial service. Thu I BI is asking -.-very federal cm ployee to disclose his trade un -1 i,)u affiliation on so-called loyal :ty data forms :l has dist! iduGu 1 ti all government agencies ■ The United Pubic Workers and : the National CIO have protested Itnis inquiry into union affiliation : pointing out that the only pur 11.use of such lists is to build black : lists, to intimidate and to haras: ’ j those employes who wish to join legitimate trade unions. Is FBI Matter "The civil service com mission j the attorney general’s office and ; the President's administrative si eretary on personnel ail insist that this inquiry us an FBI mat ■ter and that a question on trade union membership is “just an other- question for identiiicatior ; purposes only. Although the civil servict com j n ission is given primary respon- I i s-ibility for the loyalty investiga tion was brought to the utter. I tion of Civil Sendee Commission ’ei Frances Perkins, she claimed j she never saw the questionnaire I was not consulted and that •theW entire problem was an FBI mat Ki. Three assistant attorney.- I 'Continued on page 8) ( all issued For Colored Workers Raleigh The Colored Office of State Employment has an nounced the opening for work ers hi skilled anti unskilled la bor, chiefly centered on con struction jobs. Along with the announcement, a call is being made for 10ft colored workers. All jobs under this call and classification will be strictly lo cal. Hourly v age pay ranges from G 5 cents to 99 cent- per hour with the opportunity of making | up to 16 hours per day. For in formation, contact Employment Office, 113 E. Davie Street where applicants trill be inier -1 viewed for job classification. Goes To Penn State j ■SpflHi iSMI 1 |5, ; ■■■... I A E. Weatherford. Raleigh's Su par visor of N?gro Recreation ,'on leave of absence I has been aop.inted Assistant Graduate Manager of Physical Education «j Pc hr Slate College. He is the first Negro to be named tn this post. He leaves Raleigh Septem ber 15 for ihe Pennsylvania College where he will pursue courses leading to his Ph. D degree in D hysical Education, Health and allied subjects 'Complete story will be found an this page) VA, TEACHERS IN BOTH BIRTHDAY ! OCTOBERIB -IB | Richmond. Va. Marking 60 j (tars i.,f effective service to Vi - i ,mia teachers and the gent-mi • well being ul' the Commonwealth, 1 ; ,<• Virginia Association for Edu• j i cation will observe this imp. ’•ta’i' •onniversarv October 16, 17 an 1 j IS. 1947 at M-rri ms to be held a- j \ Tginia Union Univc. ilv ,-1 j Rich mond. Foi many years the annual con \\ t ntions of Virginia tf-irher i were held at Thanksgiving, bu J ! t.-..pular requests of educators \ brought about the change. Ail meetings -general, business : mid departmental—will be held the university's Belgian Build ing. Os modernistic architecture j this buiding is spacious enough j ; I :.d has facilities to accommodate j •he entire gathering. Meet In Belgian Building <Continued on back page) TRY WHITE OOPS FOR BLACKJACK ASSAULT ON MAN Southfield (ANP) - Trial of wo white policemen, W. T. Ea* • ■.-. an and T. H. Parrish, for as saulting George Washington Dcdd, Jr., of Grevtown, with t , blackjack about a month ago, opened in recorder’s court hare last Wednesday. At the same time, the victim of the attack faced trial for resisting arrest, speeding and failure to heed 0 Siren signal to stop. According to Dodd, the officers had pursued him without cause i as he drove out of town and that alter he had stopped, they an rounced he was under arrest.. It addition to refusing to tell hi ■:> v. hat offense he had committed Dodd claimed the two poJicemo 1 struck him several times with r ..’nckjack and that one <f th. i Mows cut a gash over his right t-yc-. causing profuse bleeding anc • requiring three stitches to close. ] Say They Were Threatened ] Chief of Police J V. Peterson ; declared that investigation ‘J (Continued on back page; NEGRO POLICE MOVE IS STILL BEING PUSHED RALEIGH R-dcigh’s Negro Citizens Committee i- still pushing its efforts towards the appointment of uniformed Negro policemen. The initial move was made several weeks ago, with suggestions and petitions being made to City Coun- j cii. At prv-ent nothing has been de finitely done or assured by the Council, mayor city manager. How-1 ever, in n discussion with City Manag r Braden this week, the Rev U. W. Williams, chairman of the j Citizens Committee, expressed him self as being somewhat satisfied i with .he Cs‘; Manager's statements 1 meat this pi-ouvsitjoj'. Fr---.fi; tl, sP ! discussion, he said he was favor -■ hi:mp: . ...1 ’.vith tl:;* stated tit iitude of Mr. Braden, in favor of such a move Rev. Williams said wa-n't given any definite as surance on time, or date of action . concerning uniformed Negro po lice') will be taker un pro or con. The Committee -tail pointing, to the facts of the necessity of hav uniformed Negro policemen to ; patrol the Negro areas. especially ■ where crime hazards may be most mmintnt G.--IV rally i: is felt that there is a -rying need for Negro uniformed j 1 ob.cemcn in this city, according ito Committee spokesmen Those i Commit ii . men cite the fact that, i such appointments would go a long 1 way in aiding to assuage crime • potentialities in the most populous - | Negro distiicts in the city of Ra ! Ifigh. The Citizens •'Committee is ask- • • m;* the Raleigh citizenry for an all 1 out effort in the support of its pro | giam for the selection and appoint ; nm-nt f qualified Negro policemen I here 1 i Congresswoman Attack" i?cpubiican Leaders Los Angeles - Congresswoman Helen Gahagen Douglas accused the Republican party- oi mis leading the working class an 1 inority -groups and attack' d the ree-point, Republican program >r prosperity at a Democratic j luncheon in Biltmore hotel here - \ lost week. Urban League Report Says 13 Cities Taking Steps To Stop inequalities EAST BROOKFIELD, Mass j INNPAI The morning session oi j the annual conference of the Na-j t'ionnl Urban League, held at Camp I Atwater, was told la>t Tuesday that thirteen American cities, acting on j recommendations from a team oi j colored consultants, had taken 1 steps to eliminate racial inequalities j in community facilities to lessen! racial tensions. The session, at which the report j was made, had as its topic; “Les-j .ns from the Community Keia-! ! (ions Project.” The report covered a three-year; survey conducted by the league on j a grant of $310,000 from the Gen- j oral Education Board of New York i ‘for the purpose of showing ‘.hr.! j most communities would willingly) Ido more for their Negro constitu- ! ! tents :t they had a blueprint with ! ; which to work.” WINSTON-SALEM IN LINE The cities surveyed were St. Pet ersburg, Fla.; Charleston, S C.: j . Winston-Salem, N. C.; Chattanooga,; j Term., 1 title Rock, Ark., Oklahoma; City and Tulsa, Okla.; Houston, Tex.; Gary. Inch; Dayton, Ohio; t! , . ■ ■ <>*--- Dr. Harold L, Trigg, outstand ing educator, will become St. * Augustine s College. RVietgh N, C-, first Negro president curing ihe history oi this siauf Episcopal institution at ihe opening of ihe 1947 school term September 16. See story on inside page.) CHURCH OKAYS POWELL'S STAY IN CONGRESS New V rk (ANP) Nevvsp.:- pc; repeals that the- R* • . A. Clay tor Powell, Jr., pastor of this : city’s largest church and more : -entatice of the 22nci congre s -,ion • t:l district, had been given an ul- 1 i timatum to retire as a politician 1 or give up his pastorate were do tv-Hied 100 pet cent last week Harrison S. Jackson, lawyer for ( ingressman Pa well, issued the following statement and empha sized that the story referred to ’Tirt been or.nted by a Baltimore' paper: ”1 have been authorized to say 1 ‘hat George E. Voting, chairman o‘ the board of Ab\ ssinian Bap t'st church, announces that the cnurch has never and will not deliver an.» ultimatum to its pas i.<r A. Clayton Po-wcll. Jr. 'There has not been any meet .i t of the church body or its of fk-ial board since Dr. Powell was taken ill on July 13 The church ieels that Dr. Powell has rendered Continued on back page) j New London, Conn.; Kansas City, ! M .. and Chester. Pa. ; It. was reported that Chattanooga, Kansas City and St. Petersburg ! ire f idler reorganizing old hos ! nitals or launching new ones as a j direct result of tin committee's findings. Gary increased its health j budget, and St Pe+efsburg hired 1 coh red policemen. KMP I,OmENT INCHEASES Oner cities initiated projects in i recreation and housing to improve ! living conditions among colored ijKople. In nearly every city the ] survey resulted in increased env ! ployment of colored workers, i Dr Warren M Banner, director ,of research for the league, who ■ was in charge of the project, said ) the survey "showed that the sub | stantial citizens of these cities, even 1 ’-hose of the South, are increasing ly aware that the welfare of theit j communities depends on the maxi mum contribution of every individ j uni. They realize that every citi j zen must be given a chance to live a helpful life, 10 earn an honest ; 'iyiflg and to be t-uccu; ygesi to 1 Shat he belongs” ALL SCHEDULED SAKS DROPPED; SUPT, LUTI FIRM Gary. Ind. t ANP) •- A thuc uuv parent-inspired aernonst::. 1 ii,ui by white studentr- of the i i-.iv.t-rson Elementary and High ; school against he enrollment of :. : i. Negro' children brought about the suspension of over 1.30" st i lic-nts. cancellation of sports, diu • n.atic and other school activities • ,->v Charles D. Lutz, super inter.- dent of Gary schools, here Thur-- cc.;y. This action followed ;■ ovoteat iby parents of white student”, -.-•gainst a Gary rezonirg ordt ranee which placed 38 Negroes i >n Emerson school. At the open- * i u,e of school last Tuesday 20:1 pupils remained away from clas- | ;ci. Wednesday the number had : gr oW n to ?<K> and went no ar id her 500 the next day. Football Players Balk Supt. Lutz, together with Prin cipal E. A. Spaulding held > • meeting with members of the footbal team m a room ol the school building Thursday while : i - iking student hudv mille.l . murid outside. The athletes wo • , sked !■' set :.n example i:t r. • turn to classes. However they spurned the request and walked ; ,ut of the conference Lu t 2 immediateh ordered j Spaulding to cancel all scheduled 1 Continued on back page) N, C. FARM YOUTH TAKING PARTIN MASS. CONTEST Amherst, Mass. (Spec aL --• Yeuflg vegetable growers <r m 14 counties in North Carolina have ;relied in the seventh annua' j National Junior Vegetable Grow- ) | : s Association production-mar jketing contest. Professor Grant B ■ Synder, of Massachusetts State : I College. Association adult advisor, . announced today. These young gardeners are competing with other young growers from 43 states for a j Isr are of the $6,000 scholarship ; fund provided annually for the dissociation by A and P Fooci j ; Si-ores. The awards include a $5Ol. 1 national championship, four S2OO I regional awards, thirty-three set: : ttonal awards ol SIOO each and four awards of $lO each in each state. The contest seeks to demon (Continued or: back page) WORKER LEAGUE JOIN HICKMAN DEFENSE MOVE CHICAGO, i WDLi \» the sug- : gestion of Myra S Bordelon of the : Chicago CTO Council, the Work ! ers Defense League has joined in the defense of James Hickman, Ne gro steel worker charged with mur dering David Coleman, landlord j of a tenament where four of Hick-) ’ man's children were burned to | death on January 16 That the fire may have been set 1 j deliberately was indicated by i i testimony that on unidentified man j was in the buiidint* the night of ! January te; and warned tenants to j leave because the building was on ! file According to the Hickman Dc , fensc- Committee, which the WDL has joined “The real criminals in this case are the real estate interests , I who promote restrictive covenants j > which drive Negro tenant? into j 'fire traps wiierz they are at the : j mercy of ruthless landlords.” Columbia, N. C. Residents Still Irked By S. P. Dean’s Housing Student Group Ordered To Leave Town Because He Violated Ante-Bellum Southern Racial Tradition; Bodily Harm Threats Alleged Coliuvbia, N. ('. (ANP) Negro-hating whites here were reported last week to have requested a prominent local Negro citizen to leave town because he violated-the ante-bellum southern racial tradition of housing a group of white and Negro students. (farbagemen Find $3,800 Diamond Ring MIAMI (ANP) A Negro anil a while man, both employed a-, garbagemen on a city owned truck here, found in the rubbish j they were collecting a diamond ring the value of which, experts say is S3,SOU, The ring was turned over to the police department to await an owner. If no one claims it, it will be sold and the cash di vided equally between the find ers. ; ‘ ' ; Ethiopian Empress Now Reigns Without Crown 1 ! Addis Ababa. Ethiopia The ! :.; 1 d ct uwn of Emoress ftegua • Memett, wile of Emperor Haile Seiasaie. was it-it in Jerusalem , ■ r sacred keeping during he; ; c'-ile and now reposes among oth- 1 ■ r sacred objects above the holv ; sepulchre, it has just been re - | vt,.,led. Empress Mernen prayed an j Bethlehem in 1936. made the tol - j lowing vow and left her crown: "Saint Virgin, if through your intervention 1 am spared and ; permitted 10 return to my coun try . mv crown shall be yours”. Now the Empress reigns with ,,ut a crown. Proposal To Redistrict Detroit Turned Down Detroit A proposal to divide the, city into 12 districts and elec t councilman from each district ; ejected by the election com , ,ission hero recently, largely be ; use 7,000 of the 50,000 petition -1 :-- were not registered voters. Finder the proposal the one .predominantly Negro district -■-• ould have been able to elect a Negro councilman. “Dadch Grace Parade L Held In Charlotte I Charlotte Followers of Bi shop “Daddy” Grace -concluded the t wen ty-first annual religion.' convocation week here Sunda v i with a stearmer-decked parade ! before an estimated 25,000 per : sons. j Bishop Grace who came to the United States from Portugal a I a youfh road in an amphibious icep painted in red. white anc - bjue and sat on a throne of sheets ' a.,d pillows. Placards proclaimed followers from Wilmington, Rocky Mount, ; Statesville. Dallas. Durham. Lan , cv.ster, S. C„ and other places ir< ! ihe Carolinas More Than Half Os Booker T Memorial Coins Still In Treasury Department WASHINGTON (NNI’X> - Less; than half of the 1,700.000 Booker T. i I Washington Memorial half dollars 1 ; minted by the Treasury last De- ; : comber, have been sold, it was j learned last week, i The Treasury Department said ; I that thus far the Booker T. Wash- 1 j button Memorial Foundation, which j j rm charge of the sale of the coins, i ! has only drawn 107,000 of the coins ! ; struck tit the Denver mint, which ! seli for SL.SO and 665.500 of the I Liberian President Honored By Pope Pius MONROVIA (ANP) —■ The Most Rev. John Collins, charge de affairs of the Holly See, an- j nonneed here this week that ! Pope Pius XII had conferred j upon President Tubman of Li- j hcr«s the honor of Knight of the j Grand Cross of the Order 0/ Pope Pius IX. This order is ecu- | ferred or, heads of siatqs. Knight j Grand Cross is the highest grade of ihe order. The Po{n: also con ferred the grand eros-s of the Ord*r of St, Gregory on Secetory Stsite 0?T?»Hi 4 I 1.-. BO'UMMKWWWWrmiIPmi—«■«•»»•• himwi owqiwiswiiwm l S. P. Dean, former principal cf the local Negro high school, agri culturist and director of th* Light of Tyreil Credit union, s tne object*of local whites' wrath. , with threats against his personal safety. Composed ot Southerners The student group, composed of southerners, came here in June , to work on a project of budding a cooperative store for Negroes Ail are Christians and are op 1 posed to racial segregation. They 1 believe in "living as Christ would live,” said a spokesman for tht j Chapel Hill office of the Fellowr j ship of Southern churchmen. Sheriff Makes Statement "I don't know of any law pre l venting white folks living with Negroes," commented Sheriff Rav 1 Cohoon of Tyrrell county “but 1 l know people here don't think, 'much of it." Dean, credited with trying to improve relations here, permitted the students to live in his home i while working on their project ! He has made no comment on the | request of local whites to got out jot town. i 120,000 Babies Are Born In Six Months Los Angeles One hundred, ■ twenty thousand babies were* burn here during the first six months of this year as compared ; with 87,000 in the first six months jot 1946, and according to Dr. WP lon Haverson, public health di !r< cior who disclosed the figures i she stork most tee working dou | bie time out here. 1 The number sf births in Negro j b milies ranked high, the report ' shows, and brought on a record j umber of babies, caused, Dr. Hs | \ erson believes, most probably II v returning war veterans. “LIVE CORPSE" MYSTERY ENOS IN REAL THINS ' WASHINGTON -NNPAI ** The mystery of the live corpse ! cleared here recently. The 82-vear old woman, Mrs i Fanny F. Johnson of 3iS Fifteenth .Street northeast, actually-was dead - when taken to Freedman’s Hospital for certification death by a physi ■ clan, Deputy Coroner Christopher !J. Murphy said last Tuesday. An autopsy disclosed she died about 9 Ip. m last Sunday of a congenital i heart condition, he added. A hospital physician, Dr. William !H. Conyers, who wa? called upon to certify her death, said shf. vfgs alive when brought *o the -hospital in a hearse and that she lived for 25 minutes. WOMAN FOUND UNCONSCIOUS iContinued on back Paget : half dollars struck at. the Phtl«- i delphia and San Francisco mints. I which retaii for SI 00 ■ Treasury Department officials disclosed thaf the original act auth orizing the coin to oe struck, gives : authority for five millions of the i coins to be minted. | Under this authority, officials said, one million of the coins were i struck last December at the PhS- I adelphia mini, 500.000 were struck l at the San Francisco mint, and 200,000 were struck at the Denver mint. ] . ONLY 778.500 DRAWN Os this total number of coin# struck, the Foundation has only ! called for 772,500 coins, the Depart. - j merit said. Department officials «s --| sumed that all of the coins called ; for have not yet been sold Inasmuch las the Foundation has not jnjjKl* 'application for additional coins. ;i ’‘ ! i The Treasury said the coins ii’eH i sold outright to the Foundation for | fifty cents each for resale, to the I public for and $1.50. According to i the Department’s compulations, | the Foundation will have mr.de a | profit of $439,750 if all the coins drawn thus far have been sold. 5107,000 from the sale ot the Di»~ i ver coins and $332,750 from the sale ol the cuius mimed 31 San b ?*ft (Continued on buck page-t « *