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SHAW INSTRUCTOR SEEKS TO ENTER UNC
Attempts To Oust Bishop
And Tie Up Church Funds
CHARLOTTE (ANT, A suit
filed here last week by the Rev.
J R. Funderberg f South ni
Pines, again -t Bishop W. W. Mud*
hews of the African IVie.hodiwt Epis
copal Zion Church, asking for >! >.-
000 damages, threatens to have wick
repercussions.
The suit seeks ! o make Bishop
f , -. .W • +*s- » a aw-.-
vie - ' ; ,V
SEEKING ADMISSION to
the University of North Carolina
Mtfliul School, is .lames E.
Thomas, Shaw University ciiem
is try instructor and former en
sign in the C. S. Navy. Mr.
Thomas, a native of Wilmington.
Begin Drive For
Federal Housing
WASHINGTON < ANT” - Veter
an,.• and others- who hav been lo .us
ing in vain for housing since lo
wa,- were given new hope thi*
week when a drive war launched in
both houses of congress to get Gw
Tafi-Ellender-Wagner housing bn:
enacted.
H?p. Helen Gahs.-vn Dough
who is leading the tight rot th
biit in the house, -and Wodm-suay
that she believes proponents of
housing would b> . ucresf.-ul in oh
taming he necesary 218 signature s
to get, the house bank ng and cm
rency committee when- it is oof,
pigeonholed. A Ire ad 3 134 signa
tures have been obi,urn d.
On the senate side of the capital.
Sen. Ralph Flanders says he i*
reasonably sure that the senate Re
publican leadership wilt call so a
ti. n on the housing Til soon
An encouraging step was the ac
lion taken by the senate ban King
and currency committee WeuiK-s
day when it approved a series o.
Final Rites Held
For Dr. L. Bruce
k DURHAM Funre ,1 services
were held Saturday at the Whir’
Rock Baptist Church lor Dr. Leo
G» renleaf Bruce. 4u-yc:ir-old Du;
ham physician, who dies Wednes
day at his Mine at 2r>o2 Faycttevui ■
Street, following an illness of -e; -
eiai months.
Interment with Masonic rites fol
lowed at Maplewood Cemetery
Prior to his illness Dr. Bruce was
one of the community's most at
tive and civic-minced physician* |
me Rev. Dr. Miles M. Fisher. p,.a- j
tor of White Rock Church, deliv
ered the eulogy in winch he lauded i
the deceased for Iris contributions!
to the community life of his na
► five Durham j
BORN IN DURHAM
Dr. Bruce was born in Durham., 1
November 5. 1898, the son of the i
late W. B. Bruce and Mrs, Daisy j
David Bruce. His survivors, in au- j
I dition to his wife, the forme')
Laura Reynolds of Springfield j
Ohio, include his mother, Mrs. Daisyu
D Bruce: there sisters. Mesdamud
Blonnie Fortes and Norma Kceucj
of Cleveland. Ohio and Mrs. Anna
b 'lie Belton of New York City, one '
brother EU'A’ood Bry.o of Clcye • i
; . w,- ns tin d no.riiri.-ition pu\
the if-, of sa..<ry suffered by
It R-v Funderberg. during the
two years he has been, removed
V o': a post which he held ns piv
iainr cldc; over .he n 'ayettev<He
district. The ministc, has been
fighting the bishop for some tinr-.
'Continued on back pagei
maintained an ‘A” average
through high school st- mi no
the dean's list at .Stuio, and fin
ished in the upper ‘isirri of his
class during his training for a
commission at Corn;!!.
( a roll man I’iioto m Shephard
(amendments to incorporate rerom
! mendafions of the joint congres
-1 siotial nousini- cointn'-Hi'i" into the
ibid
Ben Davis Raps Randolph
“Draft Strike” Proposal
NEW YORK- (ANPi Objec
tion to the 'civil dr.obedience”
proposals made by A. Philip Ran
dolph before the senate armed
services committee last week was
voiced by City Councilman Ben
jamin J. Davis Jr. over the week
end,
"The civil disobedience idea.”
Davis said, “like most of Mr
Randolph’s .so called remedies,
doesn’t create •.mils against, jim
crow. It only • reales division,
promotes contusion and spreads
i
. •x-y?'
I>B. L. (*. BROCK
I land; and two nephews James Bci- j
j ion and Walter Keen** and 011.3 i
niece. Joan Fortes.
The deceased was educated in the I
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THE CAROLINIAN
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VOLUME XXII, NO. II RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA WEEK END I NO. SATURDAY, APRIL 1.7. 10-18 PRICE 7c j
A&T Hears Ex-Reichstag Member
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PASS 300, MILLION AID BILL
EX-SEP MITCHELL
IS ALSO SPEAKER
i!N PROGRAM
GREENSBORO Gerhart U
.scgcr former nienilic,- of the Gc.
man Reichstag, and A. thur W
XT '•■hell former 0- .1 >">• otic cm
cc>:-;nan from Illinois. w»-ro r.-.-id
in Addresses during the pas' weei-.
-t A and T OoUecy here
Mitch .I! appeared or a proyran.
'sponsored iiy me cam)ills' chaplei
>1 phi Be'-. Siam fraternity
while Seger vas i ought t th.
college as a presentation of tile A
uir! T Lyceum C-mt due
Offering advice -m ; mv to Keep
he p if thf German speskc.
wno became- a n- tti. i ! w -■•> Amer
ii-an citizen in !<H2 taged pal'cncc
with Ru.-m in his A and T. ad
,Hi •■ ss.
A i A-1 >-f..
He held that it will ie only will:
p.ritnce imdcrstan'.un.v anti faith
the United Nation- that the Unit
ed States can live peacefully -vi > n
!;.: -is in one world
ft err. who had to Gcnri.uy
i 5M3.1 becau-e ol his anti-Nazi
inclinauons as a democratic mem
ber of the Reichstag asked for a
k > ener and i stanc .ng i f the deep
ted distrust of Russia toward'
:- c Western World.
He said that this 'listnisi date 1
back to the intervention of the Ai
des an the side of the ant. Bolshe
vik forces in the JO 17 Revolution
and r- minded the audience tha l
(he same- criminals wc bad on trio’
'Continued on- back pagei
defeatism and disillusionment”
Davis accusei the labor leader
of supporting "Wall street’s Mar
shall plan and rcri-h;; iting wa
tt rive.” Accortng to the ..■nurt
cilman, Randolph was more, of a
headline- grabber than a leader o f
Negroes.
Unity within themselves and
support t.i Henry Wallace were,
the only hopes for Negroes l
achieve success in his struggle
for equality, Davis said.
"The only way to fight jirn
crew is to oppose UMT and
the draft both of which are be
ing pushed bv the Republican
and Democratic leaders who are
tiie very ones responsible for
jtm crow in toe army and else
where." he sc’d.
Randolph to id the congrcssion
al committee oudytnp universal
military training that the Negro
did not want, a jimerow UMT
program. If such a program is
approved, he said, colored men
:.il over the nation w-oulcl start
a civil disobedience program and
refuse to take arms.
Mrs. Faulkner Produces
“Eve’s” Letters To Mate
In Suit Against Champ j
CHICAGO 'AMP 1 The Joe
Uouis-Rcv. and Mn. Matthew C
Faulkner "love thDU triangle be
came i four-sided afi.-ir here ki
week when Mrs, Cut die Drone
Faulkner produced a number of
passionate love letter; written In
tier husband by a mysterious ‘ Ev.
Faulkner was named “Adam" in
the letters.
According to Mr.- Fatrikr.v,
formerly Miss Malic- Drake, .-.ne
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* "TT ? ’bA- . M ” 0 ■ >
-JR L-%
A 'N: /" 7 > O. ''V J .*"w . v/.T
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S n !iTH MUST BE
FREE, DECLARES
BENEDICT HEAD
1 COLUMBIA. S C. 1 vNP) "Tb
i. -'outh should be ns dcmo'-ratic •’>'>
jas free as the rest of the Unin d
. States," declared Dr. J A Bacoats
president of Ben diet college. in ■
■c- : ' is-ii ->f the Sou*h Carolina
: Week.
Dr. Rncnais wi p.«-sen ting < ne
Negro's view of tin "Civil Rich"
, Program.” to a repor‘ er-inicrview
jer of the while n»nc<i/.ine, which .n
;,n editor's note- prcctoiiig Dr IJ'i-
Loafs statement, said:
"The ,Sou!h Gsmliu - weekly '■
• j not in agreement with Pre-rich m'
Continued on par' I'lgiil
( hiircli Uomrti Back
C ivil Rights Plan
i
. ' WASHINGTON .-i.'-'i’. R<
; i ports that the south :s» up in arms
, ! gainst the civil sign. - program
1 proposed by President Truman u
j tcl-c. Mt.--. M K Tlll> |>! Gc< • ...
I member of •• nr pre-.m- -fit, s ( o(-1
1 miftee on Cit'll regm . told <T 5
- | gates ai the eighth annual meeting
j ; [if F> nai BYiih W'cr: n s - -nan i
| last week,
| A - a recent meeting of the Metii*
j odist Women of the Southca -u-x 1,
■ j stales Mrs Tilley said, ressitut.inn
| were passed called upon Method -J
. 1 women to seek b-»Ui -late and tod
-1 i - nil legislation to gi.-iratih-e civl’
. j rights to all people of America.
- j She also pointed cut that -las
. ■ week the smite chio-T-' in of in
k j Georgia National D< :r.u-.-ratii- re.m
- 1 mittce m, lit n s'aicrmnt adv i .
I | in/.-, [he vote for Nc-gr.i -s and eiptai
(Continued or, nack paj;
1 ; found the Utter? in her husband c •
: belongings. She <aid tonw nw
■ I husband war tlu- “Ac! ••p.” '..ml -he;
i i didst knew who Eve” was.
' i ' I sure wish I ecu:la 3c-;v. catu i;l
r ‘ them in the Garden o: Eden.' :-r
t i s;iid.
1 Two letters bore Lie dale
1 j July i. 1942. th'-e* days after the
1 Faulkner s first child was born !
-I This child. a son, died. There was ;
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IN A.'\l i A I'AIMDK—Aho\«»
is the beautifully tin orated float
which was placed in Wilmington's
first annual Azalea Festival by
Negro citizens of 'VUming ion.
• ’he float carried several small
children -vho road u*» the coui
of the queen who sits higher than
th olhers. George Vilen local
funeral director. i< shown ui the
u he I.
PHOTO By \ v\Oi RJ , T
GOVERNOR LAUDS
NFA FOB JOB ON
NATION'S FARMS
KAI EIGH 'A N P - A deii-gaum
i of Amtr'ra nbser-.-cd the 9am',
; inniversary of the bi.‘. of Fiook*
r T, Wntlfington by hoKang a .qiec
i i.'il radio broadcast in >he office of
i Gov. R. Gregg Cherry hm last
; week.
i Members of Hie eelesation ;n-
Vlufiod James Rivanl, student at
Ri ,-kV Tri-County School. Enfield.
! who sieves as -late and nation.s
;:. i suit n; of the i.avii't. .i.
113. Simmons, state supervisor of
’■ eeationai agriculture in Neg» o
school.-:; Oleophu.- \\ i Ilium*. s«m •
N FA vice president, Catawba Cm.o
| ty: Alfred Bullock, Henderson lu
>u title NFA < ha[>t.er Wader Brow..
Trwd! County Tfair.ayi School.
CoiViuut'd on p-.ge eight
To R«*\it-Case
Os Kii|H- C!iars>. Victim
Washington The i nu
ra Stli • Suprei",e i ourt will
! hear arguin' Irts faring the
week of April :jfi in the case of
SamueJ Taylor, ‘to, convicted
of rape by an Vlahatna Jury
and condemned to death,
A . evifw of the judgment of
>tti \lafcama .Soperme 4 >urt,
which confirmed the death sen
j fence, was granted l>; the I S.
Supreme Court April ;> in re
sponse to i petition filed by
attorneys for the National As
sociation for the Vl* anceinenl
of Colored People,
The NAACP petition ehurg
ed shat Taylor s conviction was
obtained .hroush the osf of a
eon; essioi, extorted by force,
violence and fear, in violation
«f the Fourteenth Amendment.
Arrested with three other
youths iri the small town of
Prichard, Alabama, Taylor was
charged with the rape of a 14
year-old white git I. and eon
ended by the Circuit Court of
Mobile County nearly' two
years ago.
SURGEON SEN. T 9
BACK NATIONAL
HOSPITAL Mi
WASHINGTON lANl’i - Dr
i Leonard A. Scheeie. successor to:
i_)l p.i 1-;;; iiV: ! s! as !J. S.
, ' S'irgron -'.;('cs sal. tu. i press -on-1
' left nee at outh-of-offiee ecrerrum
; n*s '•.ere last week 'hat he expect?!
!to !ollov> the po; y f Fe-riei I S- -
| curity Ad»r.i nisi rah >■' Oscar fl
i Ev. in;: on the- Murray Health ijili.,
tConti! 'd on tiaye fouri
Anti-Lynch Bill Would
Mah e Officials Liable
WAS His GTON--( ANP; - The
Wggner-Morse An t , Lynching
hill, currently scheduled iur early
.senate const d' ; ation, has been
broaden- J to ir.aite federal oifi
ciaisj ci' illj liable foi Ivn*: ;un,..t
in the. tm ri'ory. according to
Sen. Ferguson iK., Mien), chair
man of a senate judiciary sub
committee here last week.
In addition, the coverage oi thr
bill had been extended to in
clude not only lynchings but any •
act where twe or more persons
discriminate against a person or
his p-'opeity
However, the subcommittee
drtfppf :*i th.-* anti -discrimination
as being impossible of en
force "ent. The bill was original
ly oduccd by Sens WagtWr
(I).. Y.)' and Morse (R., Ore-.)
Cl Lyman Ferguson said the in
elusi . of any act of discrimina
tion crpett ated by two or more
persons, would extend the bill to
include practically any gang light
that may occur.
shais, district attorneys; slate.
Aiopt Civil Rights Bill _ i
Or Face Prestige Loss
Declares Lillian Smith
i WASHINGTON -- (ANP) -
Miss Lillian Smith, author of the
best seller. “Strange Fruit," told
an audience at a banquet of the
I Washington Interchurch fellow
I ship in the YWCA here last week
| that either the United States “a
--i riopts the civil rights program at
I home or face Joss of prestige a
j broad."
1 The diminutive authoress SU£- 1
EQUALITY BIOER
BEATEN »NAACP
TO 00 TO COURTS
WASHINGTON -AUPi Pa.--
j -i.,. of x- fen era! oili nr .
I 'll :o r 'U.i liy t-. tla- -.-s io ncj :.u -
i ire education wu’n sa’ -guards lot
-i .. . r.iif.! schools - the south
'vr.ivc more urgenc.- ai- i -arnif;- -.no
ito t.lii.- NAACI’’ ; ft gin ni the -nii.e
fi equal school iaciii'ios for Ni -
''V s
in Virginia whoe '<-m- county
1 00 l co IS rue jjriie.ng ill the
J i ,ind w.-c; <■ the 1 tury Coun
-1 I • -chuoi ease vims won at Ricn
-1 mono M.u'ch 30. the public schools
»r. last -‘it's eslimate would ge>
''fi.o7fi.iioo next ye a r a result of
i tfif biib
tCornuiued on back page:
Phi iiy Appoints
S-Member PE PC
.Vgroes. W hi ley Eat
together \t ‘Cancer"
O
!>ai beciie In Georgia
LA GRANGE. Ga.
Thankful for their miracu
lous escape from death, 50
i. white persons sai down to
eat with 11 Negroes in Geor
gia recently in one of the
strangest feats on record.
The affair was a barbecue
on the grounds of the City-
County Hospital Cancel 1
iContinued on 'bav.< page)
It provides that federal mar
'• county and federal officers be
j held liable to Lues up to slo,ouo
I if lynchings on ur in their set
i dons.
Baptists Laud
Rights Program
I
• WICHITA FALLS. L-xas tAT<P) ;
’■ At its recent mtnv ' ..\n meeting |
;a solution comntf.idu.g Psesid--- [
| f ruman f*.»r his star, i on evil « j
was appioved by Vcxto B&pt;.-' |
!c..fivr-ntion hid I: at St i".'.-• j
i Caurch.
i The resolution adcuv to the [
Ihisident said in part;
Be it r. solved tha. Hie To: at I
Baptist convention composed of II j
i district associations and churenes ‘
with a memb.eship of 200,000 com i
gested that “coffins be sent sou- j
- them demagogues opposing civil
eights so they might contemplate
the final segregation that comes
to the human race in death."
• Each of us •-’ill be segregab •!
in death, tucked into our own I
j little box and buried awa> The i
racial segregation we practice j
Ine w is in a sense the death cf i
1 the; finest in us." 1
EX-NAVY ENSISN
WOULD ENROLL IN
MEQIGAL SCHOOL
! RALEIGH James K. Thomas.
Shaw University chemistry insH'UC
j ior. last week became the fourth
Xi ,u> to apply for admission to
the University of North Carolina
i; with in recent weeks.
I Mr. Thomas, who tiled his ap
! plication blanks for the UNC iVlvd
! scai School on Friday, is 25 y*-o'
i old and served as ar ensign wi-fi
| the United States Navy cturiiv,
i World War II
J A native of Wilmington, he er.tn
i a straight "A" average through
| out his high school and remained
; on the dean's list during his tour
| years of undergT.iduu'e work at
I Shaw University.
ATTr. N DEI) COK N E LI,
Aftei entering the Navy as s
j seaman. third-class <n 1941. h -
| {.ompleted his ha.su: ironing and
was sent, to Cornell Ui iversity for
| training leading to a commission.
(Continued on "acr page)
SI KS TO TIE I P
1 11! IHII FLMiS
BULLETIN
SOUTHERN PINES The
; genera! fund of Use V.VD, Zion
Church has been tied up by
court order following institution
oi a suit in Moore County Su
perior Court by Rev. J. R
Funderburk
Defendants Bishop IV IV.
Matthews, of Washington, St.
< . Rev. (J. F. Hail of Charlotte,
financial secretary of the
church, and W. S. Daeons, pre
siding elder of the Fayetteville
distirct, have been cited to a
show cause hearing before
Judge F Don Phillips in his
chamber at Rockigriham, N. 1
April 17.
PHILADELPHIA <ANP) May
or Bernard Samuel and the tit/
i council appointed a five man REIN
i commission Tuesday which inciud
cci Dr Tanner G. Duckrey. aasistarr.
ito the board of superintendents of
tne public school system. Dr. Li.u k
'civ is a graduate of Temple Uni
: vcrsit.v and the University of Penn
sylvania. He has been m the sen -ol
s/.-fem for 30 years,
j The commission will oe required
;to conduct an educational cam
: paign against employment discrim
j ination and arrange hearings fol
i towing complaints,
i Other members o! she commis
jsion arc Louis B. Raycioft. form l ’.
Jly of the war manpower eomrnis
i sion and selective service system:
, Norman Blumberg. vice president
iof the Centra! Labor union and
I secretary of the Painters Districi
! council of Philadelphia. AEL;
Judge Gerald F. Flood, and i*lts.
i Curtis Boh. wife of the president
nub re of the common p.eas couf
it:end President K.n rv B Trim so
for having recommended to con*
igrc-,s tht passage of legislation
guaranteeing the protection of Hun
j or.ty groups.
I 'We further commend our Prc;;l-
Idenl for having rung the door bc.il
jof democracy and . the Texas
Baptist conventoin wuh its entire,
j membership of 200.0fi0 pledge them
selves to determined and death*
|les> opposition to forces and iniiu
jences which too long have the citart*
i ne) of intema inl good will and
blocked the path to national unity.'
The resolution was written by a
commitee selected by President ft.
IT Alexander; U. S. Keeling. Sr..
I chairman; L. L Stanmore, J. VV,
Whitley. N C. Chappell and IVL j,
i Stewart.
I Mississippi Fights
Equal Teacher Pay
JACKSON, Miss. The uiw
of XtiS.Oyf) which would help
| (qualizr some of the salaries.
•it Negro teachers tu kliTOissippl
I tia..s been appropriated by th"
Mississippi Jiouse of Represen
tatives to fight equal salary
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