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W.J. Kennedy Sets U S's Major Negro Business Position j NEGRO G.I IS HERO AS 29 DIE IN BUS WRECK H, SESfe* ■fe Jr* :%OkM Wm H 9anJK i- M/m* jJßßpsß| * * * ■PPw>* '* rljllpf J MTTf'AI. HEAP AND F \MI LY W. .1. Kennedy, Jr.. left, t>en named sncec-.sor of t ollvu ft; pictured here with members s£ his family shortly after it was announced that he had hern named sncpessor to I>r C. f ?>pa aiding as president of the North Carolina Mutual Life lo dUranre Company, the worlds Presidency of NC Mutual Goes to Former Secretary, - h-.-.;:.,. . ;. rn was once a clerk J, W. 100 into Secretary’s Post DURHAM . w ,T Kennedy L , "he like the man he succeed? as head of the v-wld's biggest I!. N. DELEGATE RALEIGH GROUP BY J. A. SREPARn RALEIGH Word ha .- jo : rsach'ed that Mrs. Edith Sams, son internationally known N'c.yro won'an lawyer, a delegate to the United Nations, wilt -peak in Ra i'-igh on August 26 at Me Oosov Garfield School Auditorium Mrs. Sampson is being brought to Raleigh by the United War MRS SAMPSON’ Mothers a group of patriotic N— gro women, •-•ho hope bv present mg this great woman here to b<- able to realize a generous sum for its mv in helping to remodel th» building given to this group bv the slate of North Carolina The W»* Mothers want this building to b«*. f monument to the ,r a!lar.t Nr. gro men and women living am’ dead, who have given th-Jr best to help keep America free. More details of the appearance here of Mrs, Sampson will rapoed hn next weeks issue of the CARO LINIAN which will also include a biography of her useful life, largest Negro business firm. Mr. .Kennedy, who has been affiliat ed with the company since 101 S Is pictured here with Mrs. Ken ned* and danghters, Afrs. Char lotte Moan of Philadelphia and and .Mrs. Margaret Goodwin’ of ■flurhatn, and son, W, J Ken ned*. HT (Staff Photo By Shirley i ,‘i a grocery store, and is th; i -v provident of the North Caro line Mutual Life Insurance Com i'aitv Flection of the tj” ■> ear-old A meric us, native to the top post of Ihe company was announ'.ed Saturday night. At !)v ;sme -me. it vas an n •■■ ,<--•■ I that .1, W. Goosioe of Dur j- m had been elected to succeec “M••. K r, n<'d,y in tne post of sec vc I ary -,f the company WAS GROCERY CLERK Born in the Georgia town t: M.. Ivc-nu'-riy attended pub lic schools there and worked ; clerk in his father’s grocer j store h v.-j-s during his tenuta a -•-.•eery clerk that the nev N C Mutual pesident became in terested in the insurance business After graduating from Americu h> itot. in hd2, M u Ktnnedj vt oi kr-d for a year in a local tail c.iit. ct-ncern and then in 191; b< rein. ,<n agent for the Guaranty Life Insurance Company of Ra v: nnaii. Ga,. with assignment it Attn os Gn. MEETS THE ‘'TRIANGLE” Luring lit:- three years of servici with the Georgia insurance firrr Mr. Kennedy earned rapid promo dons, and in 1916 was granted at uudienci with the ’Big Three' o Negro insurance: C. C Spaulding Dr A. A. Moore and John Mer rick, co-founders of the North Oa retina Mutual firm NAMED MANAGER On September !. 1916, Mr. Ken eeav era.- named manager of the Savannah District -if the North Ca . roiinn Mutual, and retain that po : fit ion - til October Id. 1919. whet h. s'>s mustt red into the U f fContinued on page 5) Sidelights Os Spaulding Finals lIY r C. IERVAY DURHAM - The Mayor of thii thriving tobacco town, declare! Monday a day ->f mourning ti hunoc of th r - late Dr. <: C Spaulding, whose funeral was heir f.ora historic Whit Rook Baptis church Monday, as LfitXl person ; crowded the edifice and filled cv cry inch of space on famous Fay- IK villi' street BAS NAMES in American lo.sln<‘>; were in evidence, t’fwn inert', among the honor ary pallbearers were Truman K. Gibson, president of sit preme Liberty lute In.mranc* Company. lilj and Mr, Horace SarHith, pre|*b-oi (Continued on page ft) UNiBEMTSnED G, I. RESCUES AT LEAST TWO So!di«* r I? i •wk s life In Kurnimj Inferno tSpecial To Carolinian) S WACO. Tev An unidr-ntffu yournr Me; to --nldl«-r proved him self mode of hero material - . C inc hi> life to sav - those •,•( imo 1 of til ' t■ \v • .rv.. o. -of t ! M' tia !:■ tion's win l '.'in. vi 'iyh nea v hero h Monday in which at L’aM ?.n peo ple wcr.- killer: Efforts are -««H being made here to learn the Identity of the Negro O. 1. descihed as ''young and t all' who, time and time again, otaved the raging inferno created when (Continued on page fit SPURNED LOVEP, SLATS MATE AT JINXED SHACK 2-Room Shack Has Bloody Background WAK RENTON 'Special) \ makeshift house whit'-* has been : "nothing but the Jir.x” here for 1 the past few years, was last Sat ite -day night the sit-- of a murder !in which the alleged murderer liv'd up to his claim that he would r-.ther see his common-law wife . at-a*i than be without her. Tyson Hodwetl. a 42-year-old pt.inter and former employee of k the City of Warventon. is being ' held in jail, hose on ehageg of >- j fatally shooting Miss Oddissa Green Simms, about 45. through {Continued on page 8) ■ •*■• •* MbßßßubSa mhbe * tßshhH* " &gM@J|r * I™|. _ %*£,.(’■> • jt* V^^; * ‘^&jS^ sjßsPr *'Y"/* >.* vi 7*^< iPfe^.T^ ;^**rmV'V ‘.v m^rnij4ff ijl js~ A PIONEER IS Ft VERALI/ro Above arc scenes marking fi \ nal rites held at Durham Mot), div for Dr C, C. Spaulding:, pioneer businessman and prrss dent founder of the North Caro lina Mutual Life Insurance Com pany. 'flic extent of the flora! picture one tv. r k| nm;i»v, .fit, * rrr_ Dr. Spaulding Mourned Impressive Final Rites Held Monday For Nation’s Fop Race Business Tycoon i O',her Photos, Stores, I*. L, Sort. 2) UV 1. i IE it' ’.Y >'|ir ill Writer. Carolinian Network and Editor. Wilmington Journal DURJL.AI Monday ’moon, Charh..', Clinton Spaulding was laid to :-! among mounds of beautiful and expensive flota) tri bute;, in mstoiic B’i ■ i . JPF** ■*™*ssamm . I ; :VT 1 >cJMg ’ *' f w % DR. sr.UI.OING tributes viUests the esteem in which Dr. Spaulding was held not only in his home eitv but throughout the nation. Discerni ble among the mourners are many of the state’s and the n» tton’s top business and denea iiitnai Hrurs-r,. fu photo at but tom, st sorrowing family >nd Another Kilted At jinxed House ' r " ; B ' IOC ~f tif&eJe&f ]"7 100 VOUIMN XI RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA WEEK EX HI NO SAT! iIDAY A l si « ST 0. |{R>2 N EMBER 38 Wry wow other Durhamites of inirr. ': i.'dity !.iy. following impres sive last s held in famous Whin Hoik Church whero the gr.-at. utT-r.i'ci'i'. the average, the lowly .nuiicitd to pay final respects *o one whom all in*. grii .i d as ''friend. ’ jiinre Sunday. thousands fil ed (n the huge metallic cas ket .is the body lay in state in the church which lie helped sei he widely-known the na tion over. North Carolina >lu- Unl Life Insurance < ompany employees faithful to their be loved leader unto death, were honor guards, 1 lie front and sides of the edifice were- cov ered wfi h floral offerings of every description, some of which were quite expensive. Orchids were seen in several ft! the designs. As fei'iy as ton ■'eh,ck Monday r.'Oi Rin;-:, the crowd began to ga :het And until five o'clock in the afternoon, when the funeral cor tege moved Ti vit rei Beech wood Cemetery , Fayetteville street. l.)ur tirm's train artery sot Negro husi tu es s. was tin ,-eene <>f sSe.'k limousines and a mass of sorrow ing humanity Promptly at three o'clock, the . v Ltd chair of White Rocif filed Into the church, ftdimved by near sty three db'ern floral bearers, one hundred honorary and active pall bearers, and finally members of the Spaulding family, many of whom, including W J. Kennedy, Jr. newly-elected Mutual head, make up some of the big names in American fioawe ,nd medi cine. John M. Gattis rendered the or es n meditation .after which the elicit sang 'Lend, Kindly Light" The I-iev D. A Johnson, pastor of St. Joseph AME church, read : the .-cripture, and the Rev. T. C. iContinued on page 5) corps oi workers who knew and loved the reknowned public ser vant. watch the mortal remains of the m» nwho gained the name “Mr. Cooperation” deposit ed In a final earthly resting place. STAFFOTOS BY' SHIR* I JET. BRUTAL COPS IN WAKE CO. CAUSE NEAR RACE RIOT jH P K <v »,f. r jg POl.l VF. RRETAUTY V!C- I IMS The three persons pic tured above kru»« ibout police brutality in Wake Forest, North Carolina. They know about it because they experienced the wrath of two Wake forest po tter men some two weeks ago NEGROES LIVE IN CONSTANT FEAR Gun-toting, Billie-swinging Cops Terrorize Wake Forest BV STAiF CORK KSf *ONt»E XT WAKE FOREST lt is hard U> believe that here just sixteen mites from the State Capital. Negro citi zens arc living in abject fear 'f the police of theii even town. This state of fear is due to a reign of terror, brought on by acts of "unprovoked violence in- wS^p^BRIEF Lye-Tossing 1 Woman Draws Term GREENVTRLE Mrs. Bessie Williams Woolard, el derly housewife, was found guilty of assaulting her hus i band, David with a can of lye in Recorder’s ( ourt here Friday. Judge Charles H. \\ hedbee gave the woman six months i in jail, sentence suspended on two years’ Rood behavior. ! The court also ordered that the woman pay fill medical j bills for her husband and court costs. It. was brought out a! the hearing that she put. lye on his body while he was "sleeping off a drunk, and then poured vinegar on the fiery chemical to dissolve it.. \\ ooi ard was in a serious condition and was at the local hos pital here about a week for treatment. Farm Hand Find Town Life Tough OXFORD Edmonia Hart, a young farm hand who came to town during the week end found life a little “fast”, for two nights before he -mried up in a local hos pital. Oxford police have charged Cleveland Bobbitt, with at tacking Hart with a knife Saturday night,. Sunday night 1 the same officers, N. E. White and W E Pendleton, arrest., led James Hicks, and charged him with assault, with a i deadly weapon with intent to kill Hart. Hicks is being held without privilege of-bonds. . , Hart- was taken to Cheatham Hospital Sunday night , with a pistol bullet wound in Ms right side. His con dition was reported critical. when the officers literalls "ran wild" raining fist and Mack link blows upon their and 'threatening their very lives. The woman pic tured at center was s'lrurk so viciously about the head by Wake Forest’s Officer Ball that her ear drum burst neces-.it 31 Dieted upon the Negroes this small community located in northern V;.k. County. Wake Forest, a community of perhaps "OOC souls and the present home of Wake Forest College, has a Negro popu lation of titHe over 100 ft "the Sown has attracted much st- ing medical treatment The v'v er w oman pictured was subieci ed to > brutal beating and tne n>n shown narrowly escaped with his life. Another Wake r ß* rest resident was in « Raleis'h hospital when 'the photo wadi taken suffering gunshot iv minds. ten I lon during recent years ’ cause of several murders and some of them have never been solved About a year and i half age Un town acquired the services of one Charlie Ball as a member ~f its Pi dice Department Not very in-.i.eh can he learned about Pus gentleman. but fr->m reports pick ri h.n- ■■mb the- ' it appear* that hi h r H long record of ft#* savory dealing? with Nearcms as a pofivemar n diffuetilt towns. Ther> is n report, unverified, that this same Ball murdered a Negro while he was a member of the polic.- force in CteedmOttr, N. C -jnd that he subsequently be crmii' so violent and brutal ther® that he h d u> be dismissed. All of ih: above may or may not b'k true, but it i> very true that nine* cumin.: to Wake Forest, officer Ball has cone out of his way to antagonize the Negro cit teens T? that town. WOULDN'T SAY SIR it ij.peu" s that th< se acts of po lio vi ilence against the Negro* of Wake Forest began some time r, o when a young Negro man was brute''! into unconsciousness while waiting for a bus at the .local bus st.'.tior. simply because he failed to rjy "Ye} Sir" to Mr Bali. Smcv that time Ball and another policeman, Knuckles, have deemi'- cri open warfare on all Negroes :n the town. TER ROW T*. < ITT ZEN ft Every m.ht md particularly on weekends, the two officers. Beil and Knuckles ride around the Ne : r-' o section of the town on a mis sion of Intimidation and violence NT, roe.- arc knocked down in the streets, are kicked, cursed and threatened apparently tor m <*•«*- son at a!! except that they are Ne groes. These gallant gentlemen do tut confine their brutal activities to Negro men, but attack Negro girls and women with equal force. These acts of police brutal ity and violence reached a, cH~ max about 2 weeks ago when (Continued on page ‘h
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