OKAY WALLACE SPEECH SITE
New Jersey Governor
Releases Fugitive j
NEWARK N. J. Released from prison by order of Gov. j
Alfred D. Driscoll John Coiier, 28 year-old; fugitive from *
South Carolina chain gang, was this week looking forward to j
a life of useful employment. Coiier was freed by the Governor
tm August 6. following intervention of the New Jersey State
Conference of NAACP branch**! the Newark Ministers Confer- i
once and the American Civil Liberties Union.
Although the courts had rejected the pleas of J. Mercer
Burrell and Abram A. Golden, Collier's attorneys, and former |
Gov. Walter E. Edge had signed/ extradition papers permitting j
the fugitive's removal to South Carolina Gov, Priscfcll released
him after a public, hearing,
Coiier escaped from the chain gang after serving 10 months |
of a SS-monihs sentence. He had been convicted and sentenced
in 5337 for the theft of « few packages of chewing gum anil j
cigarets in Greenwood, S. C. In announcing his aedsfcn to re- j
Jesse the young man. Gov, Driscoll said:
"1 have followed the principle which l have publicly laid
down at the hearing held before me —a careful weighing of j
the demands of justice against the demand of the principle of
comity between ?.iaies.
"On this basis, it has become evident to me that Oilier has
by this lime amply paid his debt to society, to such en extent j
that no further sound, purpose could be served by hi* extra
diiimt."
Durham Council Votes 3rd j
Party Use Os Armory j
FA. MOB TAKES !
PRISONERS FROM
5 POLICEMEN !
PHILADELPHIA <ANP>—Flash
-1
ing knives, brass knuckles, a cops
broken nose, and a wounded ring
leader climaxed a free-for-all at
15th and South streets Sunday
when a mob of 4(X( tried to take
prisoners from Patrolmen John!
King and Henry Jordon.
The patrolmen had arrested two
seamen who were disorderly anaj
using abusive language. Other sec- j
men protested and •m < a*?;the crowd |
to free their bud diet..
Patrolman Elbert Bannister, an j
off duty plainclothesmau, grabbed :
a knife about «o be plunged intc •
the back of one of ine arresting j
officers. As be wrested the knife i
from the wield or. Bannister went;
down under a crushing blow from j
a pair of brass knuckles which ;
broke his nose. As John Smith,!
39. the alleged attacker, fled Ban- j
(Continued on page 8. Ist Section) j
Coroner Terms Death
Os Chavis ‘Accidental’
-
A mixture of turpentine and cas j
tor oil caused the accidental pots- j
oning of Ennis Chavis, middle-aged
man of 727 East Davie Street, wim
died here early on the morning c.i
Tuesday, August 10, I M. Cheek,
Wake County Coroner. reported ]
here Wednesday.
Chavis drank a half glass of the ;
horritje mixture apparently to |
help cure a chest cold. Coroner j
Cheek said, and after suffering i
several convulsions was taken to j
St. Agnes Hospital in a critical;
condition and died there at 2:35 i
Tuesday morning
Million For Truman
Fund Started With
sl*ooo and $5 Gifts
NEW YORK Slandrag vat among the mtmy conSribuSff.'m
to the Million Dollar Re-elect Truman Fund were two received
last week at the SiUmor* Holt-1 hadquarterc.
One was. $ LOGO-—from Sherman Hibbiit of 2395 Eighth Ave
nue, the unofficial mayor of New York's Harlem.
The other was S^—from Mrs. Emmt B, Johnson, a 33-yesr
old Chicago woman facing evktion from her tiny room at 33 39
Calumet Ava. In si*#., ft -wm like a thousand mare.
Habfcill delivered his contribution in person So John H. Seng
ataeke. treasurer ai the Na&taal Ctij*em Committee For the
Re-election of President Truman, in She presence of Congressman
William L. Dawson. CemmiiSe Chairman,
% President Truman
Mrs, Johnson mailed hers to Congressman William L, Daw
son, in care of President Harry S. Truman at the White House, j
Her letter toldj of a change in landlords, an eviction notice,
and a fruitless searoh for some place fa go. "You are hare and
President Roosevelt has passed, and you are still a Truman man
ter the help of the people. Please don'* forget me," she wrote.
SHADOW OF FREEDOM
Hibbitl, at the Other end of.the economic ladder said to
Sengs tack*:
"The Democratic Parlor, came through the most far-reaching
omiabus plank on eihril rights ever written, and the Negro today,
ter the first time since the emancipation stand* in the shadow ;
of that ecotunlc and social freedom which he has continually ;
sought.
"To k&taia this freedom, we have sous to elect m president, ■
Marry Truman—the father of the civil rights program. Today
this costs MMHkfy. I am proud to foe among those millions of He-
I aims, who Kto willing to pay the price."
| e/e Preeide** Tsvmwt
| DURHAM The Durham City j
! Council this week announced its j
I approval of the request of the j
| Progressive Party of North Caro- ;
; lina for the use of the City Ar
| mory for the party’s state con- |
i vention at which Candidate Hen- ;
i ry Wallace is scheduled to be the j
• principal speaker
The convention, slated for Aug- |
\ ust 29, will provide one of the ;
, stops which the Third Party's
Presidential candidate will make j
:in North Carolina. The ot.hei
stops include Greensboro, High
Point, Thomasville and Lexing
ton.
Both Mr. Wallace and other j
| party spokesmen have been ero 1
; phatic in their declarations that
.they will speak only in such
■ (Continued on page 8, Ist Section) j
DR. B. E. MAYS !
OFF TO HOLLAND
ATLANTA Dr. Benjamin j
E. Mays, president of More- i
bouse College, sailed on the
, Queen Mary on August 14 for
1 Amsterdam, Holland, to attend
the First World Assembly of
I Churches, to be held Angus! 22
] to September 5. He plans to be
back at his p-ost the middle of
Sep' ember.
Iteprejefitatives of more than
50# churches will be in atten
dance at the Assembly in an
attempt to bring about unity
and cooperation among (he
non-Roman Christian Churches
of the world. The Assembly
has adopted as its themes the
Hollowing: “The Universal
Church in Gods Design",
“Gods Design and Man's Wit
ness", “The Church and the '
Disorder of Society”, and “The
j Church and International As-
I fairs.”
The Assembly will formally
inaugurate the World Council
of Churches.
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THE CAROLINIAN
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PHYSICIAN OSES
35 STITCHES IN
SUTURING OUTS
! ROCKINGHAM Sheriff Cad
Holland of the East Rockingham j
I section this week ordered an in- j
i tensive police search for the fa- i
j ther of a one-year old child who :
1 was alleged to have slashed the !
face of tr.e child so badly that
physicians required thirty-five
i stitches to close the gaping!
i w winds,
I Ttiv ie.-m who is the object of
! a resident of the East Rocking
' the search is James Thomas Wait
! ham section, who was alleged to
i have slashed the child early
Sunday morning while in j
1 drunken rage.
j The child’s wounds wore not
i discovered for several hours after
j the cutting despite its mother's
; efforts to quiet it after the father
• had left the house.
! The mother said that she had
not noticed the slash because the
j house was in darkness at the time.
■ The little girl, one-year-old Bon
i nie K. Wall was rushed to a hos
; pital at Hamlet as soon as the
mother d ; covered the wound.
According to Mrs. Wall, her
husband .Time into the house in
a drunken rage shortly after mid
night and began throwing around
[ dishes and furniture. He evident
ly slashed the child just before
leaving the house, she said.
Dr. W. D. James, who treated
the tot at the Haml-t, Hospital de
| 'Continued on page 8. Ist Section)
| I
Southern Catholic Paper
Denounces Dixie Rebels
COVINGTON, Ky - The re
volt against the Civil Rights
plank adopted at the Philadel
■j pbia convention comes at a
! time when “the democratic
system of government and the
American way of life” is being
i challenged by “godless totali
i tarUnism," the Covington dio
cese newspaper of the Catholic
Church >a«d in a recent edi
i torial.
“The position of (he Chrls-
I tian Is simply this,” the rfli
torial reads: “there are neither
Negro rights nor white rights—
nor rights of any other color,
shade or hue, but there are hu- F
man rights, and these are es
i sent! a i to all men regardless 7
of race creed or color.
"Human right* flow from the
very nature of man a3 man. ja
‘lhev can neither be conferred
| or taken away by edit of gov- |c
i eminent. They admit of no un
j Just or harmful restrie lons by j l
reason of climate, custom or !
georgraphic location. To deny J
j this truth is to assail the very r
! basis of democracy and to I j
apostatize from » Christian rr- I
ligion."
i
I JAMAICANS PLAN TO ESTABLISH OWN BANK; ",
| ■ FOREIGN BANKS POLICY BLASTED BY PRESS !
| KINGSTON, Jamaica (ANP»
- Four foreign commercial banks
i jingling a cankerous insult, in the
; f; >rf of the Negro Jamaican, got
i their first real-boycott blow on
I theit cheek this week when Evori
| Blake, editor and publisher of
j “Spotlight,* Carifobean-eovered and
| English-speaking world travelling
(news magaaine, declared! that Net
■fTo* s were roiit-.mj.-.lruteg os tab- i
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA WUSK ENDING, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1948
Kit
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Mr. Sherman Hibbitt, Harlem’s unofficial Mayor, is pTC-senting the first
SIOOO.OO contribution to the National Citizens Committee for the Re-election
of President Hsrry S. Truman. Mr. John H. Sengstacke, Treasurer of the
Committee (left.) is receiving the check from Mr. Hibbitt, while Congress
man William I~ Dawson, Chairman of the Committee, looks on with ■ <
enthusiasm. The presentation was made at tto Coc.'-triitee’* Headquarter*
01 tb* SUtiDore Hotel in New York Gt& mm : *
YMCA Drive """[
Over The Top In j
1948 Campaign ;
A total of 1006 members were
enrolled and $3520 50 of which
$2058.95 iri cash wi secured in
the third annual membership cam
paign of ihr Bloodworth Street
YMCA which began on July 15.
The drive exceeded all quotas and
was officially closed with a vic
tory dinner i-elelaratiuii c{ the i
with Joe Stredwick. campaign di-.
rector, presiding. The final report:
of the sponsoring committee was
fiveri by Cecil Coble, associate di
rector and awards to winning
teams were conferred by L. H.
Roberts, associate chairman Sum- 1
mary reports of the entirf- cam
paign were marie by E. L. Raiford
YMCA executive.
Fhtal reports show that division
- Ushment of their own bank here
' Blake's leader-article attacked j
t the banks for drawing a rank col- \
lor-line against employing Negroes -
tin their business. Rather, Chinese ;
i tellers are used while Negroes can j
I only ii 1 1 porter jobs and run or
I rands. The banks in the meanwhile
! obtain one-third their patronage
-from the* colored -population of the
island..
“A” with Zack Ellis, manager, rain- j
or? $1450.50 and earned DDBO points:
to lead Division “B" with Prince!
: f
A. Simmons, manager with $937.00!
iid fi f Mss points The executive;
s-ponso’ ing committee with J. VV !
; Eaton, chairman reported $1133.00. !
A complete team report listing
the ccplains; amount reported and
pomts earned is as follows: Team |
)>. F. r Payne, $347.60, 3015 points: i
Team 1, C H. McLendon, $255.50,
2510 points; Team 2. W R. Edmond
i-ofi. $239.75. 2305 points; Team 9.'
I. C I Jndsey-C.Dunn, co-captains, |
' $165.50, 1755 points; Team 11, Terry j
Hough, $150.00, 1435 points; Team:
3. Moses Lord, $J05.00, 1110 points; j
Team 4. Douglas Dunston, $78.00,;
•• (Continued on page 8, Ist. Section) I (
j Since the publication of the arti- •
clc. Negroes everywhere are tali
| fng cognizance of the banks* fra- j
i pertlenoe doing business in a ;
Nesro country yet refusing to em- j
ploy them Proof of Negroes’ ob
jection to the discrimination is con i
1 tained in the writings on some new ■
currency notes jursi released by the J
i local treasury.
j In ink p eop’e have scribbled '
ASSAULT STORY '
LEADS TO LOCAL
IAN'S ARREST !;
HENDERSON —Willis E. Roy
..ter, 28-y- ar-old Raleigh mar*
was arrest' d by sheriffs deputies ■ ‘
and highway patrolmen and tak- ; 1
cn to Henderson for questioning .)
and identification in a alleged j
criminal “assault” upon a white -
woman circus acrobat.
Royster, who was arrested in
the real of the iOO Block of Ca
barrus Street, on Monday night
by two Vance County highway
patrolmen and thief deputy sher
iffs, was taken immediately to j
Henderson for questioning and :
identification by the alleged vie -
tim ot the attack.
The victim of the attack, Mrs. ;
Anna Johnson Stevenson, a 43- j
year-old Swedish citcus acrobat.,
had left Henderson for her home :
in Orlando, Fla., before the of
ficers reached Henderson with j
their prisoner.
Photographs of Royster will b" 1
forwarded to the woman at Or
lando Sheriff Robert Pleasant:
declared.
According to Mrs. Stevenson’s
account of the attack, she had
picked her assailant up in Ra :
leigh after she had bad trouble
with hei car and that he had
agreed to repair it for her in ex
change for a ride to Louisburg
She told officers, however, thjt
she had been dragged from the
car near Henderson, and dragged
(Continued on page 8. J ,t Section)
\ AACP~Aides Spiil |
Over Draft Strike
NEW YORK (ANP) Na
tional NAACP officers do
not see eye to eye with of
ficials of the New York i
branch on the matter of draft
defiance and have so ex
pressed themselves. In *
statement last week, the exe
cutive secretary said the asso
ciation had opposed defying
authority or flaunting the
banners ol revolution.
The Harlem branch of ih
association in a published
staicment had asked for a 1
mass demonstration against j
first of the draft aridbSHRDU f
a “jim - crow army” on the
first day of the draft and an
other in September in Colum
bus circle (59ih street and
Bioadway the "uptown
Union Square/'}
The spokesman for the
Harlem branch said The time
has come to organise a really
powerful campaign of direct
action against the official po
licy of the federal, govern
ment that is responsible for
Jim crow in the armed forc
. |
While he deplored the de
claration fcf the Harlem
(Continued on page 8, Ist Section 1 p
j ■
; "‘let's break color-bar in cotnmer
| cial banks," '"boycott commercial
j banks that refuse Negress.” Series
i c-217091. C-217052. c-217093 are these
Jon which 1 saw the writing, r*..-
| thermorc, it has been said ihal
i more accounts have since changed j
! to the non-discriminating Govern- 1
i rner.t Savings} ti-ink.. i
NUMBER 7
— j 1
UN Refuses To Take
Control Os S. C. Africa
•; t
LAKE SUCCESS. N. Y (AND j
-- Although me United Nations -
Trusteeship council looked with t
disfavor upon the admlni-tration ;
of Souß'-west Africa by the Un.or, *
of South Africa, it refused to agree \
on a Soviet Union proposal that
the UN take over control of the 1
mandated territory here last week, (
The council’s report stated that ‘
the Union of South Africa had |
failed to rctorc the traditional land
rights taken away frum Africans.'
during the German regime, that;
- e»U- 5-0 percent of (he country's.«
i budget was being used for the wei • j
' fare of the native population, and i
! I hat restriction of Africans to spec- j
■ ific areas was not "conducive to j
i their general advancement.” ’ ‘
-New Suit Filed
In Try To Break
Okla. School Ban
OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug 13 A
special three-judge Federal Cou; t
sitting in this city will, nr> Aug
ust 23. hoar NAACP lawyers ask
for a decision invalidating the
state's segregation laws insofar as
they prohibit qualified Negro. -
from entering the Ur: verity of
Oklahoma graduate school
The complain). filed in behalf
of G. W. MeLaurin, former Lang
ston. Unb’ersitv teacher, -eeks a
preliminary injunction against the
university’s continued rejection of
qualified Negro applicant-.
IS QI’Al.-TEIED
Mr. MeLaurin. it points out, is
admittedly qualified m all respects
and is denied admission solely be
cause of race arid color in con
fortuity with the laws of Okla
homa and the rules r >( the Uni
versity' Board of Regents
The complaint further alleges
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RETURN FROM HAITI
Dr- W. A., Sommervilla. exec«"
live secretary of the Lrdtt Ca
rey Foreign missions Society,
is shown above with Mias An
nie E. Bowers of WUksboro
and Miss Catherine Sh&w of
Wake Forest, who visited Ra
leigh briefly last week white
on a furlough from their teach
jjy? positions, in. Haiti where
SUMMER BRADS
WARNED OF NEED
FOR LEADERSHIP
Raleigh - The Summer Ses
sion Commencement for the 83rd
academic year was held at Shaw
University Tuesday morning at
J1 o'clock in Green leaf Auditori
um.
Sixty-one members of the sum
mer session graduating class
heard an address delivered by Dr.
Wdliatn A, Fountain, President of
Morris Brown College, Atlanta,
Ga.; and were awarded degrees
by President Robert P. Daniel of
Shaw.
Dr Fountain, who stroke on
"Attainment of First Class Citi
zenship” declared, “We are and
has • been dissatisfied with the
third class citizenship to which
most Neeroes in all Darts of the
Untied States have been relegat
ed.’’
Lists Fundamentals
He listed as fundamentals of
full participation in American
life: "equality of opportunity,
equal pay for equal work, equal
protection of the laws, equality
of suffrage, equal recognition of
the dignity of the human being,
and abolition of public segrega
tion .”
He observed that “Negroes ev
erywhere enthusiastically wel
come .he civil rights proper Is and
hope that civil rights legislation
will be enacted by the eighty
first Congress,” but he expressed
doubt “that the mpre passage of
laws will usher in the mil lonium
so ,fai as first cflass citizenship
for Negroes or other minorities
is concerned.”
Value of Laws
While the putting of such laws
on tiw- .rt,4u/-» book would have
gi i.e thought, the At
tainment of full citizenship ’‘re
poses largely upon our shoulders."
“It is important to know that
(Continued on page 8. Ist Section)
!ha* enforcement. of there statutes
,:,nd rules have denied the appli
cant his rights guaranteed unde:
the Constitution and laws of the
United States.
In New York City. Thvrrpood
Marshall, NAACP special counsel,
and Ann. T Hall, associate eoun
scl. -.aid today thaV "this is be
lieved to be the first time this
type of relief has been sought by
means of a special three-judge Fed
eral Court.
Under this procedure, if declar
ed applicable. Hie long delays m
.similar suits will be circumvented.
The statute pacifically provides
that such cases shall be given
precedence- and shall be in every
way expedited and be assigned, for
a hearing at the earliest, practica
ble date.’ This care will be watch
ed with interest by lawyers as
well as by the general public."
*•
; they have been since 1345,
Both teachers art- graduates
| of Shaw University and arc
I now connected, with the nine
! member faculty of the modern
| school at Si. Msec Haiti which
i has been sot up toy the Lots
! Carey Foreign Missions S«ft
j eiy.
Carolinian Photo by Shephasrt?