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Urges Rights Day Observance
Georgia Nurse
Fears Failure-
Leaps To Death
ATLANTA. Ga. Miss Lucrena
Wilson. IS. of 4616 Nineth Avenue,
North Birmingham, Ala, believed ;
to have been despond-‘in ovet lit- j
ability to master her studies as, J
the Grady Fe .cot cl Nursinr leap
pri from she root of the iv.• A !>
Home at the Giady Hospital he: -
early Saturday morning.
Miss Wil:- n 'V- iu -d to thv’
Colored Clime, sru! wa . iun; \- :C
ed dead by atrending ph.v.-ic-ians on
arrival.
R W. Bovct and R H Scott, ~..-•
rolmen. read two notes let! i.y th<'
student nurse - one addressed ic
Miss Wilson s ro. m mate and the
athet to Mis- Ethel Hilliard, her .in
structor in anatomy and listed
the death as a suicide
COWAIUVS HAY OFT
••1 can not receive my cap," Miss
Wilson v. rote in the nun to ho
instructor, "so 1 will take- the cow
aid’s way out." Hie capping cere
monies were scheduled for Friday
night, September 3, but an official
ot Nursmg Service informed hi i
Friday that she had Jailed in he*
st u dies
The note to Miss Hillaipd, an
(Continued on page 8, Ist Section)
SR. £NURSES ON
FOLIO OBTY IN
WINSTON SALEM
WASHINGTON—tANBi— There :
are five nurses from Pittsbu: rh.
Jamaica New York, JjVju-hincton
and Winston-Salem, one under
graduate and aaide and i maid or
duty to attend the 12 polio patients
at Kate Bitting Reynolds Memo
rial hospital, Winston-Sa j-m,
C it was announced by the
American Red Cross
Mrs. Gladys Johnson, R. N . of
Fort Worth, Tex., formerly an iti-:
iterant nurse teaching home nun* j
mg for the national Red Cross was
recruited *r supervisory polio
duty there by the American Red
Cross.
In a letter to Miss Lena Trott,!
MCtcvui stem Area Nursing Ser |
vice director, Mrs. Johnson said,
“Day Ly day 1 find my Red Crcm '
tram mg helping to solve problems.!
(Continued on back page)
LAST RITES HELD
FOR YA. EDUCATOR
• '■ - v ", -
i , L . r t , ,
HAMPTON, Va. (ANP)—The re
main* of Mrs. Janie Porter Bar
rett. distinguished Virginia educa
tional lec.de, who died August 2i
in Dixie hospital after a ;-S»ort ill
ness were inter red in FJmerton
cemetery here last week, fol
lowing* funeral services in Bethel
AME church
Mrs Barrett was superintendent
and co-founder c»f fcbe Virginia In
dustrial School ior girl;., at Peake,
Va., from li15 : -if)4b, She was prom
inent nationally n women Y club
wta*k. She wor; s Harmon founda
tion award in 1R46 for ' inspir*-
44oii and. aehieemenl in educatiort 1
She and her bus-bund vm.e fctdfe
g'<*dv*i*B of HwsSploc institute
Uongressman Powell
“Hasn't. Decided \ri
srg YORK tANPi Con j
gressut&n Adam t taytsti Pew- j
til last week denied a pub
lished repori that he has brok
en relations with Congressman
Vito Marciintouio and decided
t« supper. President Truman.
In a public statement the
fiery Harlem minister and po
Uticai figure made U clear that
he and Marcantonio "are as
l, lendly today as nr have ever
been” and that "i have not de
cided as yet whether i.i sup
port Truman. Wallace or I)e
--w e>
08, ELDER LISTS
26 ORANGES ON
FACULTY OF NOG
DURHAM - Two major appoint-1
!,rents, those of business lnanage'
and dean of women, have- re-spec
--vt’v gen- to William Jones, form
. ; tu.-ines- manager at Fayetteville
State Teach is’ College, who will
report October 1, and to t-aiS-S!
Louise M. Latham of Raleigh. N.
C former a-sistant dean ot wont
i-tt at Howard University, Mi-.-
; Latham began duties September j.
Four leaves of absences have i
r-rei granted to .Moo lia J. Blue
-.f the Department of English, t- ~
! Raleigh Morgan, French to Leroy'
Walker, physical education; and t* ,
Miss Erma Stripling, assistant li- ,
: (Continued on page 8, Ist Section)
PATTERSON DENIES '
KEGEE STUDENTS
PICKETED WALLACE
ATLANTA— (ANP> —ln an cm- |
j phatic telegram to the Atlanta
Constitution, local daily, which)
I had carried a statement Thursday ,
; that Tuskegee students had pick- j
I eted the Henry Wallace meeting
! m Birmingham, President F D.
Patterson, toid ihe newspaper that |
ihe doubted tlie accuracy of the 1
| Pattersor* said t' \ not only did!
lie doubt that in.j ruskegee tud-;
|ants had gone to Birmingham mote;
| than 100 miles to picket a Wallace:
i ..’ottering but shat even it it weft
| true, such an act was from the j
! point of view* of the adminsuauon i
1 j .it Tuskegee institute deely regret-1
I labife.
"We share with those who hold I
the opinion that the Progressive
• 1 party candidate h entitled to a j
; ciMftebus hearing as is true of j
•'• candidates of every other party;
•, jvnd shade of opinion." Dr. Pat- j
,; tetrswr sa>d. “It should ot noted.;
however, that the story m the At i
lanta Cpnstitu*Kin varies from that I
■ which stated that the placard re- l
• 1 appearing ih Birmingham papersi
' i sefcmid to merely stated the size j
s! of Tuskegor- institute evidently as J
(# tign Qi progress hi the tooth ” •
NEW TEACHERS
I
MRS. GLADYS A. TURNER
Mrs. Gladys A. Turner of Ra
leigh i% a recent graduate of
siiaw l nivetaify with a batch*-
lar of Arts degree in elementary
education. She taught the first
grade at Spring Hope last year,
she will teach one section of the
lirst grade in the i uciilt tluntei
School this term.
Bruce !!. I tenting of Richmond.
Va.. is a 1942 graduate of Virgina
State College with a batchelor
of science in industrial education
and holds a Masters Degree in
industrial Arts from New York
L'niversi.).
He taught industrial arts at the
Walker Grant school in Freder
icksburg, Va.. for & short time be
REP. DAWSON URGES
NATION'S CHURCHES
TO MARK RIGHTS DAY
NEW YORK Congressman
William L. Dawson, Chairman of
!hv National Citizens Committee
for the Reelectlon of President
Truman, this week called upon
churchgoers throughout the Nation
to reded irate themselves to the
;achievement of true democracy for
, all Americans.
The Congressman appealed tc
; ministers of all faiths to set aside
I one Sunday durng the period Sep
tember 12-26 as National Truman
I Civil Rights Day.
! He urged them to impress upon
| meir congregations, the individual
: responsibility of every person tor
i supporting the President’s Civil
I Rights Program which he termed
j "the essence of democracy and the
key to world peace.
FREEDOM NEAR
“Freedom, peace and security are
! within our reach at this time,"
jCorrgresman Dawson said. He re
| minded, however, that historically,
| freedom has been bought with sac
| rifiees often with blood, swea*
; and tears.
He urged church congregations to
j rally financially behind the Na
i tional <Ti rn? Committee in then
j effort to ve -elect Mr. Truman
| whom he said has demonstrated
I the highest degree of statesmanship
: in pro stung for a new birth of free
dom in America.
j 'Truman has won the support of
jail Americans who are true believ*
jers in the brotherhood of man,”
j Daw.-.,n sold. "In his determined
istand for civil rights, he has shown
'a courage and deep conviction un
• matched by any of tns predecessors
! in the White House, He must match
Jhis deal with our dollars. We
j must re-elect this true disciple of
s American democracy,”
BlUf t I FLEMING
fore being called into the Army.
He served for 41 months as a non
commissioned and comissioned
officer. He will teach industrial
art- at the Lucille llun.er School.
Also appointed but not shown
is Evon L. Reid of Winston-Sai ■
cm, a graduate of Winston-Salem
Teachers College with a BS de
gree in Elementary Education.
He holds a special music teach
er certificate and has had >r trie
experience teaching in this
2 ate. He also conducted a 90
voice male chorus in the army
where he was commissioned sec
ond lieutenant. He will teach pub
lie music in the upper grades and
direct the school glee club.
Report- coming into the Nation
;.,i Citizens Committee headquarters:
at the ESfTmore Hotel indicate that :
numerous communities are moving;
.full speed ahead on their Truman
Civil Rights Day plans,
i j "These encouraging reports are
an indication that American citi
zens have stopped murmuring;
about civil rights and are pitching
in financial!; 1 ., politically, and spir
itually to jmake it a vital reality in
our national life and throughout
; the world,” Congressman Dawson
; ! -said.
Thomas Committee
!
■ To Question Hunton
In Communist Probe
11
. I NEW YORK. vANP) Alpheus j
Hunton, former educational direc
. | tor of the Council on African at
> i fairs, has been subpoenaed to ap
j pear before Thomas’ House Corn- ;
i. inf tie e on Un-American activities.
. i Dr. Hunton has been ordered to
produce any document; the Corn
s' rnittee wishes to inspect. The Hun
-1 ton questioning is expected to
j | touch off a new phase in the cur
- j rent investigation of Communist,
1 movements.
{i The disposed educational direc-;
- j tor of the Council • n African as-;
' i fairs, has been a difficulty with:
lihis former associate D». Max Yer- j
i gan since last December, when the j
- j Department of Justice, listed their,
s •rgar.isation as subversive. A left-j
s | wing faction m the council, was t
I said to have been led by Hunton i
f : :o oust Y erg an who it was claim-!
led was anti-Communist.
CAMPAIGN DUE
TO BEGIN FRIDAY
AT MEETING
A campaign to secure 1,000 new
members and to raise $15,000 in
cash will be launched Friday nigh* '
by the Wake Consumers Mutual j
Association with a mas; meeting
attended by approximately 100 out- i
standing Raleigh citizens who have i
been named as campaign workers,
The mass meeting, which will be '
held in the new Cooper Building at
Cabarrus arid Bloodworth Streets, i
will be marked by the briefing of |
the campaign workers who will be ;
instructed to cover the entire city ;
u, raise the funds and membership I
Which will be used toward the!
• stocking of the association's new '
tood supermarket.
James A. Shepard has been cam- j
r'd director. Other officers of the .
campaign include: E. L Raiford, |
; chairman; Dr O S Bullock, C :
1 L Law, Mrs. Mary Lyon, W. H ;
Thomas, Monroe James, Clifton |
j Sills, J. W, Eaton. C. A Haywood, I
‘V. C Parrish, Mrs. Rosa H j
' Birdsall, Z.ack Ellis, Lawrence ]
: Ltghtner
Also, the Rev G. E. Cheek, the I
' Rev p. H. Johnson, the Rev
William Smith, S M McCullers, |
the Rev. D L. Thomas, J. T. |
Locke Alfred Jones, Leonidas Fra
j zier, Moses Lord, Joseph Stredwick, i
' A tty F. J Carnage and Mr: j
Nora Lockhart.
VIOLENT DEATHS
FOB IS IN GITY OF!
BROTHERLY LOVE
PHILA.—(ANP)— JDeath was ;
it well-fed victor in Philadelphia
i ever last weekend as marital dis
; cord, possible foul play, youthful;
■ eanp fighting, mystery, accidents,
drowning-, and a record-breaking j
; heat wave all paid the grim reapci ;
: Wis fare, and his fare was a life— ;
id lives all told.
Nine persons died from the heal, j
two young wives were allegedly j
slain by their husbands, a 17-year- :
old ooy died front stabs, kicks and !
i punches inflicted by 10 other j
i youngsters in a fatal battle started j
by a "sweater girl," two box cars !
came together and snuffed out the >
life of a worker,
j According to police, 27-year-old!
Ralph Stroud and his wife, Barba-!
• ra, differed as to who should be j
i the beneficiary on his insurance,
policy. He said his mother, she
j said as- his wife she should be In j
; a tense and determined battle, j
YA. TO OFFER NEW !
EDUCATIONAL PLAN !
RICHMOND, Va. (ANP) —Sup!.
Willett of the local public school
system told the annual pre-school |
convocation of Negro teachers in i
Baker school here last week that;
a plan is to be inaugurated this j
, year to train qualified teachers for j
1 administiative, supervisory or git- j
; dance posts The purpose of the!
program is to give teachers an op- j
• port unity of "advancing to post - j
|lions Os tvlQre responsibility," where;
! openings are available and iridiv
i iduals show they have the ability
to handle the posts,
Willett had anqMMjl this plan
i earlier So white d - -#i meeting
in the John school
! auditorium. ‘
FORRESTAL SETS i
SUGGESTIONS OF
CITIZENS GROUP
WASHINGTON A seven
i point plan for the ending oi seg
regation and jimerow in the
armed services was made__public
this week by Secretary of De
tense Jarnos For rest eh
The report, prepared by a
group of sixteen Negro leaders
was the outgrowth ot a national
defense conference on Negroes
and the Armed Services which
was started by the Secretary of
i Defense last April
It was slated for presentation
to the President’s Committee on
Equality of Treatment and Op
portunity in the Armed Services
which wc.,: created bv President
Truman on July 26 by Executive
Order, but which has not yet been
I set into operation. j
| Insistent
| Insistent upon their demands j
! that “all types” of discrimina- '
ed, the committee admitted the j
; tion in the armed services be end- 1
j impossibility of effecting the en I
tire desired change '‘overnight”, ,
1 but. press o l determinedly for the
; immediate activiation of pro •
grams which would lead eventu
j ally to the desired end of ful"
I equality ot' opportunity and e’uni
! ination of segregation.
| The seven points which 1h v
| committee suggested tow a r
’ starting *he process of bringini
(Continued on back page)
WHITE CONFERS
WITH PRESIDENT
ST WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON (ANPi In a
; conference with Walter White on
i Tuesday President Tiuman ex
pressd his disapproval of the anti
Wallace demonstration which was
canted out in North Carolina
• the Progressive Presidential car
! didate attempted to speak in sev-;
eral of the southern towns
Just prior to this discussion with
| the secretary of the NAACP. F
| secretary Charles O. F - hud j
quoted the President as saying he]
■ thought that the throwing of eggs !
; and othr missiles were "certain-!
jiy highly un-American business
and violated the American concept j
. of fair play.'
The Wallace discussion between
President Truman and Mr. White
i was apparently incidental as th.
! NAACP secretary claims to have.
(Continued on bac-K pagt-i
EX-HAMPTON
HEW TO NEW !
JOB IN DETROIT j
HAMFI ON, Va. Ralph P j
Bridgman, for the past four !
; years president of Hampton In- j
stitute during the coming year j
: will serve as chairman of the De- !
partment of Family Life at Mer- I
] nil- Pa!rne° School in Detroit
In *his professional position in j
; his specialized field of study and ;
i service, ho will be engaged in j
! education for inter- personal and J
; inter-group relationships, with |
I special emphasis on on rent-child ]
relationshuis and family life.
Mr. Bridgman, whose resigns- j
; tion h orn the Hampton presiden- j
1 cy became effective August 31 j
has been on leave from admini
: stration s.nce February 20.
Mr. Bridgman came to Hamp j
: ton Institute in February, 1&44, 1
! after serving four years as Dear. ;
nf Students at Brooklyn Collet
Previous to that, he had spent 13
1 years in the field 01 education
! parenthood, A cum laude gradu
for marriage, family life, and
lof Harvard and a magna cum |
; laude graduate of Union Theo
i logical S,. mi nary, he holds the j
! M. A. degree from the Teacher*
; College of Columbia University
MIAMI NUMBERS MEN
FAIL TO PAY OFF
i MIAMI fANP)— More than 800 j
j Negroes, whose winnings amount
.to several thousand dollars, were
1 the victims of welching bolita a
{gents here last week when the la*
- ter refused to pay off on the win
,mng number, single two (2) rnak-
Img its appearance tor the first
; time in two years.
:j Single 2, said to have been hot
ter than a cowboy’s six-shooter,
was a difficult number to pur
chase. Most books were loaded on
the hard played digit, and writers
| were warned by their respective
j houses to discourage plays on the
; numeral.
Persons playing with the Green
House, however, sgem to have ex
perienced most of the trouble. Two
armed men sought a writer who
failed to pay oil, but on entering
his home, was told hy his wife!
that the agent had gone to wort.
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IN YWCA WEDDING Above
ire shown \\. T. Jones of Dur
ham and .Mrs Harriet Smith of
Kaleigh who were united in mar
riage September 2, in a. double
nng ceremony at the Sojourner
1 ruth Branch YWCA, Raleigh.
The ceremony was performed
by Dr Robert P. Daniel, presi
dent of Shaw University'. The
bride's only attendant was Mrs.
And Without Eggs
BELIEVES WALLACE
CAN BEAT THURMOND
IN SOUTHERN STATES
NEW YORK (ANP) jertnmqs Petry. leader of the Na
lions! Committee io Abolish the Poll Tax am! former southern
t edlatt, has declared that Henry A. Wallace, presidential candl
in the south than Strom Thurmond, Dixtccrai candidate.
; date cn the Progressive parly ticket will get more popuular votes
Writing in the New York Star, formerly known as PM,
Mr. Perry expresses belief thai iho violent reception given Wal
lace on his southern tour is ibt an accurate pictur of Lie overage
southerners' attitude.
He bases his conclusion on the belief tnsi the New Deal is
still popular and that Wallace's identification with it has made
a deep impression. Mr. Perry dotuuot say that the Progressive
| party will beat ih& traditional Democratic vote but he firmly
believes that t he "slate lighters" efiLrl' to revive the Civil
war have failed. To sum it up the white columnists declars:
"Most of the people d. 1 ! the south cannot vote. But the little
j people, who really believe in democracy, who look upon Thur
mend as a curiosity, who have seen how Truman's promises fare
at the hands of Truman's party, will come out from under the
rocks in surprising numbers to support the man whose concern
; for civil rights (Wallace) is most above suspicion of expediency.'
| DIXIECRATS FEAR
REV. BOONE MAKES
PLEA TO PORT CITY
| HOSPITAL BOARD
LAST RITES HELD
FOR BISHOP DARST
j j
1 Sol-mn end simple funeral rites ;
: were conducted Friday afternoon, j
3 o’clock from St James P E. '
Church for- the Rt Rev. f'homa . •
! Campbell Darst, D D„ retired}
Bishop of the Diocese of Las*-.
, Carolina.
j A cap ’City crowd, including;
! two dozen Negroes, attended, aa
did six Bishops of the Episcopal;
I church art fifty clergvmcn from |
] the Diocere ot East Carolina. Five }
i Negro priest;-; were ,- -en in the •
■ procession ;
The Rt. Rev. Thomas H. Wright, !
,D. 0.. jv ho succeeded Bishop!
j Darst as spiritual head of the !
: Diocese of East Carolina upon, the j
(Continued on back r-ge >
TOLI MRIA S. C. |
DR AFT BOARDS
REGISTER 400
!
j COLUMEIA, SC- (AND—The .
first day of draft registration saw
i local boards swamped with men i
] 18-25 years of age signing up.
At local board 40, in Columbia }
township auditorium, alone, there
; were 307 white and 193 Negroes }
. registered.
The processing was done with- j
I on; Incident, according it* W. K.
: Turbevftie. chief of Richland
; eouttty weJeetive service system, j
! He said there was no “civil dl<s- !
obedience” and that “all was
| <yri*t." i
?<lma Bailey of Wake Forest,
and Mr. Kenneth Williams of
: Raleigh, N, was best man.
The bride wore a lovely dress
j of navy blue crepe. Her acces
sories were navy blue and white;
l she carried a bridal bouquet of
white roses.
i A reception followed the eere
( nx.ny ami was attended by many
j Raleigh and out of town guests.
Rev. R. Irving Boone, local
i Baptist, minister and president of
; the Negvj Citizens Council, de
i iivered the mam appeal to the
; board of directors of Community
I hospital. Wednesday afternoon,
again 1 changing the racial status
j of the superintendent of the ihsti
i tion.
Among other speakers were the
| Rev. G D Carnes, presiding el
i der of the Wilmington district
!of the AME Church; Dr, F. W
■ Ay ant. dean of Negr o physicians
here; Dr S., J. Gray, prominent
i physician and business amn.
The press was barred from the
| session. It was tne WIIMINC
; TON JOURN/.L which published
| the story which told oft, h e
; plan to place a white supmn
| tendon t at the helm of the Negro
: institution.
The ftcy. Mr. Boone’s address
: it, printed below;
j Mr. Chairman and
i Members of the Board
; Community Hospital
! Gentlemen;
I mn deeply grateful to you for
| the. courtesy of this opportunity.
As president of tne Negro Citi
| yens’ Council of Wilmington, ar.
i amalgamation of some thirty
! Three ei\ w professional, fruter
! rial and religious organizations,
- a nd as president of me lntarde
! no m inn tier a! Ministerial Alliance
lof Wilmington reoresenting ail
I of the Negro Protestant congre
; gallons of nut city, and as sp-ikfts
i man for n.v own Christian con
i science, I desire, respectfuliY, to
i register motest against anv mm*e
j ment de.--ifli.ed to change th A
of the sunerintendent of
| the Community Hospital from
l Continued o» page seven.