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SECOND SECTION WAKE FOREST HONORS ITS OLDEST CITIZEN ■ ■tX fo*-*-.vv ’ % . ..■ ■ ' .... ■iutJfjiiS'. . C. .... YOUTH FOR SERVICE Above are shown members of the Wake Forest Beys Club \ which is actively engaged in a pregram of building belter citircnshic through service to the community. One of the projects "in which ■■■ •:' '’<ffiy. 'i-jf PUB SHER WITH WAL LACE - • Louis Alston, publish er of he Carolina Times is shown w ; th Henry A. Wallace, Thirst Party Presidential candi date shortly after the latter's arriv in Durham Sunday to racial slurs form WEAPONS IN HARLEM ELECTION BATTLE NEW YORK iANPI - If ere- - den re may be placed in the latest • rumors gaining circulation in Hai ien politic;)! circles. Harlem poli tic s are guilty of stirring racial, rel .ous and nationality prejudices os ver before < j ording to certain Hones go ing he founds, a candidate for ora of the minor elective offices cir culated h stirring post card among,' the Catholic voters of the district ; tm* msi/mg his opponent's stand on divorce bill 1 is reported that over (100 post card - were mailed out prior to the; elc ion. and these were sufficient to turn the fide against tin can -• didate's opponent. OM INSTANCE This is merely one instance of the dirt frequently hidden in the Harlem area campaigns. Time after i time, appeals have been made on I the basis bf national origin, pitting West Indians .against Americans. I This was a favorite practice; among political aspirants who sought to divide she solid West Indian vote, although the practice 1 fostered an evil already well work- j ed on. A few years back, a candidate • for district leader found Ins par-! the boys have engaged has been the cleaning up and main tenance ts the colored ceme tery in Wake Forest in which they are standing as well as numerous ether ventures for the improvement ana beautifi cation of the community. epeek ai the conventtin of the N. C. Progressive Party in the city Armory. Mr, Alston introduced Mr. Wallace at the everting meeting at which he was lire principal speaker. outage assailed, with his opponents i .circulating vicious stone;- sayingi thiit the colored man's; father was j an Italian! LACK FINESSE The present day crop of politi-j tisns lack the iinesse and training ] their predecessors had. All of the! former were men with background I fitting them for th-ar posts, most | 4 )l the present day politicians are i of it different ilk although for the : most part they ao or Democrat,c persuasion. Republicans still stand accused in this city and the most unpopular candidate among N't,roc; is the! governor oj New York. Mention of; his name in most gatherings is sui- i ficiem to start art argument. His j FF.PC stand prior to the enactment j of the statr law and his stand on i ‘he New York State university are j bit>crly assailed and recalled Op-! ponents say his propositi for a state j ; university was similar to that of the ; Dixie Democrats' urgenee of o ! ; regional university It has beer j pointed out that liberal Democrats, headed by Owtn D. Young, insist-, c-ri on the adoption of the final I i program. But regardless of how the News' ; Continued on page 8. Second Sec. THE CAROLINIAN THESE WERE PRESENT - At* vb are shown part of the citizens of Wake Forest who turned out Saturday in honor of Mr:-:. Then J-awis, 99-year oid former slave and nurse who served the Wake jroresi com ARKANSAS GOVERNOR IRKED ABOUT ENTRY OF STUDENT AT U. of A. LITTLE ROCK (ANP) ln a frank statement Gov. Ben Laney of Arkansas denounced the decision cf the t-ard of trus tees of the University ot Arkansas made last week to admit a Negro student. Miss Edith May Irby, 20. to the school cl medeeme. He was very angry because the board did not consult him on the idpic and bec&ue the school refused so many '‘while boys" yet lock in a Negro. Miss Irby ranked 28th cut of a group of 230 applicants in a professional aptitude lest, the board revealed. Because of her high score, the board increased ils planned freshman class from 30 to 9 ; iiuaents so that if epuid include Mis- Irby. She is trom Hot Springs. ov ’ Laney said that ne could ee no grounds for allowing any Negro" to enter the school, "at this lime." On a "good will ' tauiLf the west coast, he said. Hundreds of while beys who tried to get into the medical school before, were told they couldn't get in because lney iacked room. If we had a medical schd.l big enough to accommodate everybody, then the board s action w' . -i ;He point is, they pushed white bo/s aside for this Negro. We have a subsidy for Negroes who want to go to a school of this Kind, but we do not provide a subs.dy for while boys and girls. I don t thsnu this Negro is arty better than the white boys who were left out this year ' | ARKANSAS TRUSTEES TOOK “REALIST” VIEW IN ADMITTING NEGRO LITTLE ROCK (ANP) - The | board of trustees of the Univcr jsity of Arkansas adopted a “rca unabie and realbtic policy" .vh.n it decided to accept the first Sv gro student in the medical colt -„,e | l his fall, according to an opinion expressed in the editorial columns oi ihe Arkansas Gazette, local j while daily, here last week The editorial looked upon the action iif marking 'tan epoch in ; race annals in the United State;, jlt will inevitably arouse mixed I emotions among southerners. "Some, certainly, will be oui | raged at what they regard a.- a ! break with tradition, but :bc ma ! iority, we believe, wiilj accept it i calmly and philosophically, mea suring it against the available al | ternatives," the editorial read. .. The write-up pointed out that the | state* was faced with grave prob j terns in meeting its obligations to provide adequate educational fac ilities for Negroes. It turned down the Texas solution of providing separate and equal institutions, be cause of an inability to accomplish !what it wishes with .its existing .schools. Another contributing point ; was that trustees had no guaran | tee the separate policy would stand jup very long under current court i Interpretations. The editorial, however, pointed ; out that separate facilities for Ne . -*ro training would not MKOttcr ily be dropped. Only when facili ; ties for a certain type of training lr loot available Will Negroes he ad mitted to the state institutions , without prejudice. "As a practical matter, this I strict* Negro attendance at tradi tionally white institutions to the ; Continued on page is, 2nd Section munity for nearly seventy years. The community appreciation day, as i* was called, was or ganized with the intention of giving Mrs. Lewis "same flow ers while she can smell them 3 DIF. 13 HURT AS; TRUCK SMASHES SIX CARS IN MD. BALTIMORE ‘ANP) Three! , persons were kilted and 13 injured j when h lumber truck smashed into l six automobiles near here Monday I'm Philadelphia road about five .;miles northeast of Baltimore, i The lumber truck sideswiped six : automobiles and overturned Heav- I ily loaded with six-inch flooring; which was scattered among the . wrecked cars, it overturned and j • trapped John Henry Scarborough, .- 32, a Baltimore Negro, in the cab. | . i Scarborough said he met the dnv , icr in Baltimore. Hour;, after the fatal accident, 1 i! Robert Payne, 28. of Tapelutnilock, j ; Va. walked into Central Ponce .station here and identified him- ! I I self as the driver of the death • ; truck. He was taken to City Ho.;- ! • pitnl for treatment of two fractui- ! ed rib-: and cub, and bruises WAS UNCONSCIOUS . j Payne is reported to have told « the police that he crawled into a I j Held after the accident and lapsed ■ into unconsciousness. Several hours - later, he said, he came "to, and hitched-hiked here. He said he ate supper at the j j r.ome of a relative before going to j ; (he police station. Baltimore County | polio* had obtained a warrant j - j charging him with manslaughter ■ :earlier in the day. - ; The truck was operated by the! II Continued on page 8, Second Sec ; MRS. E. LEWIS 53-TEAR OLD EX NIIRSE, HONORED j - By JOE SHEPHARD Ninety-nine years is a long ' time, and ,a particularly Ion" j time whenever one L bunking m : | ierms of the lifetime of a single ! i Human being j However, there is a little lady i i nut in Wake Forest who makes i ■ that period of a year less than a ! j century seem as though it were i j normal and to be expected work i mg period for any yuman being, i That little lady is Airs. Ellen j Lewis, or ‘Aunt Ellen” as she is | better known to the young and I old, white and colored, residents ‘ i of her town. | You see. Aunt Ellen is now ninety-nine years old, and next January mxtn she will reach the century msrk. While living to be iJTat close i-f | ten decades is quite a feat in: itself, Mrs Lewis has done cor, siderably more than "just living.'’ Former Steve Born in slavery, she rejoiced in i her freedom primarily because it : helped h- v to be of greater ser -1 vice to people. Someone with more fc'mal education might! j have said, "to humanity, bur ; Aunt Ellen said, “to people”, and i m so saving made it clear that . all people are her people. She chose to become a nurse, not of the wnite-clad, laboratory . trained, impersonal guardians of the sterilizer and haemostats who contribute so much to present day surgery, but one of those ■ earlier types who labored with ; heart as well as hand to alleviate, a bit of suffering here, or to ease . a painful journey there. h in so doing it was necessary to scrub a floor, to prepare a meal, run a household or do any of the multitudinous chores no- 1 cess Rated by life in a rural and semi-rural community, it didn’t matter to Aunt Ellen, for that i • was what she did ft r a period | as long as the allots life span ’ 1 of mankind. Honored by Community Early inis summer the resi- 1 dents of Wage core.-.t, unaer the j Jeautrsmp or Miss Bcrtna Ferry, j a social worker m the commun- j ity, decided that somethin;’ snoulri oe dong along the linn of “giving Aunt Elien some flow - ers while- she can smell them*'. The flowers came last week in tlie form of a community appre ciation day for "Wake Forest':: oldest citizen”. Scores -if the residents of the town and of the nearby Wake Forest College had joined in the preparatic ns, and Saturday found . the "ntire community aware oi and participating in "Aunt Ellen's ' Lay”. Her house had been cleaned until it shone. Women of the ! community joined in the cooking. ' the baking m the serving. Boys ! ui the neighborhood spoiled one j another in the turning of the crank on the huge ico cream : freezer which had oeen pressed j into service for the occasion. Others took their cars and went j to nearby and more distant points ; to pick up Die “more elderly pec- i pie who were closer to Aunt { i Ellen’” More Than a Score Present I More than a score of t .11 em I • showed up. Some were white, : some were colored. Some carried ; ; their years well, others needed i the help of canes on a supporting f arm, but all were out to do honor i to the woman who for so many /years had done so much in the interest of her community. One oi those present was Dr W. B. CuHum, a retired member :of th. elm ?y who had served for ! many yea’s as professor of Bibic at Wake Forest College. . White - haired and requiring j the aid of a reading glass to read j his manuscript, Dr. Cullurn told j i how Mrs. Lewis had come to his ; home first in 18i48 to assist at j the birth of his Hrst son. “After that". Dr. Cullurn said. ; "we decid' d by Quaker vote that if wo had 100 children Mrs. Lew- i : is would be our nurse ” In later vears four more chil- ; j dren were born into the family of the Wake Forest professor j Each time. Aunt Ellen was there. ! Aided All The Cu'lums, however, i were | far from the only families who j were aided by Mrs. Lewis during j their periods of stress. During i her almost seventy years of nurs ing she resisted at the birth o< \ than a thousand youngsters i lof bo 4 h rices. ; Mansion' as well as hovels j knew her presence. There were times thro “I didn’t know how ; they were going to treat me, but ! ; I went wherever 1 thought > ! I could heln.” The sirtv-nine years of her j nursing career were liberally sprinkled with “long walks down j j dark, roadn, where 1 knew that j i 1 wouldn't get more than a ‘thank ] : you if that, but I went along • tind 1 did the best iob that 1 j ; Continued on page 6, Snd Section I l OLDEST CITIZEN HONOR ED Mrs. Ellen Lewis, cen ser, is shewn as sh»r talked with members of the Wake Fores! Community during a com muni ily appreciation day wnich was held in. her honor on Saturday. Present Vr the affair which was conducted at her home in Wake Forest were iruny of the town's oldest residents. Shown above from left lo right are Dr. W, R. Cuilum, re tired professor of Bible at Wake Forest College; Mrs. Lewis, Mrs Mary Clark and Mrs. Car rie Alston WHITE SEES END ifSsllls NEW YORK Prophesying that the end ol - negation u> graduate j schools in the- South is now in j ! view. Wader While, secretary of the National Association ten U’.e ■ I Advancement of Colored People. ; hailed the fact that the University jof Arkansas fi u admitieJ it first Negro as a medical student on an j unsegregaied basis. 1 “This a Hon." he said, aids more I impetus to th** fur< L- which arc* ! pushing segregation in education : 1 into the limbo of undemocratic practices " The student to be admitted is M i s.i Edith May Irby of Hot 1 Springs, a graduate of Knoxville j College-. She was 28th in. an apti- j ; tude test given to determine the i DO students who would make up the j freshman class. Dr. H. Clay Chen aim, vice presi- , dent us the university, said ;,hc ! ; would enter the school next month i and "will be a part of her class. : ; just like any other member, w.:;i --j out segregation.” i j Mr. White pointed out that as : ter the NAACP wort its first victmy i against the University os Oklaho . rr.a he! whiter in the Su; /cine . j Court. tile State of Dclavvare open j f*cl the, doors of its graduate school ,t 0 Negro rodents will; out scgr<’- ■ gation. Marviand has i-een .icimit- I ting Negro law students to its uni - j vers'ly since the NAACP wi ,i a j-,‘ourt case there in 1935. Mr. White prophesied that the ■ i NAACP’s legal campaign would : j soon follow these cases trp witn ' other victories in other states citing, ) j the present suits against the Urn- ; I versify of Oklahoma and Oklahoma: authorities for admission of Negroes; jto the Uiw and graduate schools. ’ : and also to declare the segrega tion laws invalid. There is also a j lose from Texas on it-, way up X , the Supreme Court which will pro- ! n-nt the issue of whethei segt■-•ga- ; tion is valid. 3RD PARTY NAMES I CHICAGO WOMAN TO RUN FOR POST | CHICAGO (ANP) Mrs. Pau ! line Kigh Heed Wednesday was j : named by the Progressive party at; > it? candidate for the office of see j i rotary of state of Illinois, it was; j announced by William Miller, stati ! director of the party Mrs, Reed s nomination followed I, Um the heels of Mrs. Rebecca Stiles! j Taylor's unexplained withdrawal from the race. In issuing his an- ■ ! nouncement of Mr.-. Reed’s no:« i ination. Miller said: The Progressive party is proud i : ito name as its candidate for see I retary of state a person ui Mrs Reed’s calibre. 1 PLACED ON BALLOT "Mrs. Reed's name is being plac |ed on the ballot in accordance with J : Article 30, Sections 31 and 12, of the i ' Election Low, which states spew- i : i 'icallv that a political party may j I fill any vacancy that exists on its it ! ticket." ! Mrs. Reeci has been an octroi : leader in the South Side Chicago I ; campaign for Wallace over since i 1 the foundation of the progressive > i Party, Born in Birmingham, Mrs. Reen j • j received her B. S. degree at Wii j Continued on page 8, 2nd Section j • Bi - fwj£ ~ j p, ||| s| Ml MJLd M wTI JL» v/i j SIX CITIES | | PERRY t. THOMPSON Up ’til now I sorta figured that nothbig i. . than a fcargel <: i Bermuda onions or fresh grated herse-rad’sh would have to bt thrown in with a spiel of love from a brother of the majoiit;, it mder to jerk tear? from this reckless soul of min- But the othet day just about took the cake. It was all on account of Henry Wallace toe J was enroute to one of nay ".six cities’’ when i was drawn into a stale the Union' - discussion bv a r!ea:..nnt and apoarer. :v well meaning white chap who passed me his new.-paper to read an eaitonal and at her news items v. hich concerned j., Wallaces cancellation of the Duke Hotel Suit* in Durham during hi s visit there this week. Aith iugn I nad read the account? once, I gave the items an otner look, just to he srore I didn’t miss something. As 1 handed ir.c paper hack to him, the amiable young man introduced himself as a vcL-ran f the last war who served in tne Navy He seemed more dt hgmed when I informed him that 1 too had an honorable discharge from the Navy. Speaking of strong onions and horse-radish making tears. Brother, when he started talking about practical Cnristian demo cracy, he was a tear jerker from way back “Yes sir,” he declared, it- sa shame the way some people arc- treated but I don’t think i Henry Wallace should do a trick like that to yo’ali," “What trick? I queried. “Comm; down here trying to stir up trouble for the good colored people by v.’hs? he calls practicing ; democracy.” Figuring that my conversationalist might have* had some inside | dope like Mr. Wallace was a spy or something, I bent my ear for mere. I , he kinda got to the core of my h.-art when he indicated 11 at ne knew there were some good people among us who -know ! tee true value of first class citizenship Then was" when mv ever began to grow dim and glassy and ho painted a picture of Mr Wal ; lace effecting the end of this beautiful world. Th-wi ty he raised m.-. ego a bit. I think I’m a pretty good guy. All American and -nil in the prime of life. I got to thinking, gosh, this is no time for more trouble than we’re already having. At the very thought of more nasty racial mesa, great beads of salty water now crept out of my eves making an inside outside ’■urve down each side of my nose, mooting at the tip, whence they dripped on the creases of my pants Then, bless my soul, bingo, they disappeared as quickly as they ■; open red, cause my friend dried pp in*-' tears and deflated my : ego by showing me some "good colored pi ople ’. “Look’a there” he remarked as he- pointed out of -he. bu? win ; daw "Those folks don't mean anybody harm The mind their own husmessand stay put Oh they may rake hell among themselves, but they don’t bother other people’s business." Stay put, don’t bother other peonle’s business. They are not !- !• o- are they? I a ked “Listen Mack ' said he, saluting me with the C. I. term for Jones, Brown, Butler or any other name, "thos:; an- the people who have to suffer for all that darned foolishness I them dura ole’ y&nkees try to pul] off down here.” The bus was ripping along a mile a tick and in a few minutes i we were in another little towrf with about the same setting ss j the* lost. A dozen or more of the "good people” he felt so deeply i about holding up telephone posts, blocking pool room doors while ' the mere energetic looking ones tried them skill at how far they i could throw stones across a corn field, . _ ; owe were the good folk he loved best. Those who either haven't heard of civil rights or have and found it pretty healthy not to mention it ’round town He continued, “It’s all right to try to get along, but it’s plain silly to plaster that stuff all over the papers. It just makes people Jus as 1 reached rriy destination, Mai ’», asked me, “Now how in hell would you feel visiting at the Duke Hotel?’ I deft the i > ung Dixieerat for the perpetuation of ignorance and disunity wondering, how I’d feel. Fray tell me, are ail “good people ’ underprivileged and cursed with idle minds and hands 1 ' Mack thinks .so. One doesn’t need onions or horse-radish to shed tears fur this vc ung slave to prejudice. Powell Candidate fs Nominated in Harlem NEW YORK OiNP) An early j indication us Adorn Powell’s j strength was shown in the primar les last week when Elijah Crump ! ail unknown political club worker i was nominated over veteran Wil ] ham T Andrews for the assembly from the t2th district. Crump, who has held various , jobs in the gift of the powers thth . be, has been a Powell adherent foi a number of years and his running i with Powll’s blessing and endorse- j merit was his reward. Although the regular Democratic nominee, Andrews, was defeated,; the Democratic party says it will j not contest Crump’s nomination | and will accept him as its candi-1 date. It is expected that Andrews will run independently in the fall in spite of the recent set-back in th< ! primaries. This is not the first time . the party has deserted Andrew*,; only so have Andrews come througfl j •st elections and win office xgaivi, I HELP BETTER RACE RELATIONS - MAKE DEMOCRACY WORK RANKIN FLECTF!) TO CONGRESS FOR FIFTEENTH TIME JACKSON, Miss. (ANP) Un like Negroes hi other southern Dams, lor example North Carolina, Mississippi Negroes in Rankin's district failed to vote as race bait ing Reu. John E. Rankin was elect ed to his 15$h term in the house. Rank n won an easy victory irom hi? opponents, receiving 12.- 634 votes in 170 of 224 precincts to 3.990 for Judge Raymond Jarvis of Boonesville and 4.M2 for Claude E Clsg ion of Tupelo. His opponents Tvve conceded defeat. A rulixif* destroying the white primary in South Carolina given by Judge J. Waties Waring per mitted 33,000 Negroes to go to me polls early this month Neverthe less in Mississippi Rankin’s district not one colored voter was reported .•4 the polls in the state primaries They do not dare vote m ias area.
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