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EDIHHiMli SCHOOL Seack? le Mass Oi [leaders EDITION ll^RUTHlIfclBRlDfiED^J VOLUMN It N*. t3 WEEK. ENDING SATURDAY MAY 22. 1937 raiCE fc JIM CROW WAR BEGINS > , J ' ■ ^ ^ ■ ■ - African Chiefs Get Big Welcome At Coronation Survey Bares Dangerous Condition Existing In . Local Education Syi^enk (B|r J, H«r»M Malloy) A turvejr of tiM colored school locattd in the SMrt: Durlwun sec- tloii of city revealed thl» woek that the IbuUdingr which houses the more than aOO d-ildren '4urin* sdKxd hours is an aimo- **a menace to the healthi and, UTta of Its occupants, as well as i beinc Inadequate in size. i A visit to tliA £ast Dtirham school will disetOBe faObs that are ^ardly believable by the aver^c^' person acquainted with ft* Wp«' of ])aUdii% sMd i^r schtwiS^'' poses in cities much - Dorham. £ven tie locatton of the tmttdtng sci/iin! out pf harmony with tie effbrta of mAst boards ef education ter place school stniu- tures where tl"!ey will be' easily accesible to a majority of tKe children whiom they serve, fn fadT'fes East Bttrtaiw sehoel iiHty- be daU>ed the step-child of the Durham educational system. Th« sA^nol as Its name will in dicate is located in the eastern sectk>n of the city. The streets leading: to it are unpaved, and apparertny no effort has ever bee^ made on the part of the ci^ to build even good dirt side walks leading to it. On entering one is greeted by dirty walls and floors, that are -made so, not because the tea- aeV«rs and students are not inter- , ested in trying ip keep the build- , ing clean, but because it is fovdj- lapidated and out of date '^that their efforts are useless. One drinking fountain located near the fro^t entrance, on the inside of thie hall serves the en tire student'body of nearly SM students. I found a line of child- reji^fiO or, more feet long waiting tMr term to get a sip of water. There is no cafeteria, and toilets which serve both thie students , . and teachers are small and dirty with only two stools in the one * used for tl^e 1^6 girls and only two stools in Uie one used for ^the HEADS COMMITTEE DR. CLYDE D0NNBLL, »6>di- cal Director of Jkhe North Caro lina Mutual Lif« Insurance Com pany who is heading tlie local en tertainment committtee for the 50th annual meeting of the old North State Medical Association whicKi opens here June 2nd. 125 boys. A glimpse of the class rooms will disclose in most instances two children setting in a seat that wt.,i mMe for one. The fasHon big iron stove graces each class room and in the winter, woe be tide the boy or girl whose seat htppens to be in its immediate neigtl>orhood. If such a child does not come away with his skin cooked almost black, it is bo- cause nature has already en dowed him^ skin whose coLir is already black. The i^uditorium is no larger ti-ian the average class |ro«m in a modern fcchool build ing. , I '-Coathiuad cigkt AUGUSTA PREPS FOR NATIONAL MEET MAY 26 AUGUSTA,May *0— (A NF)—The date ’ for OrM seven teenth annual conventioo ol the National Kegro Insuraoee Asso- 'Ciation rapidly appraaehea, and preparationr by the entertain- and loeid ppognwn «ommit> are proceeding apart to the natost, autataniii'g convention of the year. Besides the matter of insur ranee routine aild the like, the en tertainment committee is provid ing sudt amuseniisnt featoVra as - will guarantee a satisfied time tfo all who may come to tl|e ^on- ventite. Ample provision ing mAdij. ftfr takii^r care of the ladies too. A ladies auxHijjugr en tertainment committee has been formed to work out the details for the entertainment of the “femmes." TJte public meeting Wednes day evening. May 26, promises Ho ’ord one of the most important occasions of ^e year for at that tim,^ the Honorable Harry H. Pace, president of tSie Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Companyi of Cl^ago, will deliver ttle^.prin- cipal addi^ss. Mr. Pace, aside from his insurance connections, is a nationally known lawyer and civic leader. What he has to say will without doubt be of natioha! importance. On tlia same iwogram Dr. C. G. Spaulding, President of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insu rance^ eompany will respond to NATIONAL CHAIRMAN Negro Congressman To F igh t Discriminatioh^ With Court Battle GEO. W. COX, Vice-Presidesit Agency Director of the North Ciirolina Mutual Life Insurance Co. whose release last week on Negro Insurance Companies and what t?ey are doing to serve Ne groes is drawing much favorable ciomment. Mr. Cox believes in jmaking every week national Ne gro insurance week. all the addresses of welcome. 1^. Spaulding recently elected irus- tee of the North Carolina College for Negroes, a State supported school. It is til'll |irst time^hat a Negio has been elected to serve in such capacity in N. C. The Pilgrim Hiealth and Life Insurance company, of the this city is host eompany to the con vention, which will continue througi?, the ^th of May. Walter S. S. Hornsby, General Manager of the Pilgrim Health and^ Life Insurai^ce Company, is President of the National Negro Insurance Association, and it is expected, in the light of several nation-wide pronoun^ments made by Wm re^ fceptly, that his report to the con ve^ntion will prove to„be among the most progressive ever uttered before the body! JOE LOUIS WEALTH AT $250,000 ON 23RD BIRTWAY KtNOSHA. Wia., May 20 —, (ANP)—Joe laottte, who *av- 3d an estimated f260,f^ from his,, ring eamings of appro^ityto. ly 1758,000, took time out ft*om his trainisf for hia^amftionship bout with James J.^Braddoek to W»d- nesday at wUcfci k» of : and a eake with 23 candles made by his ch^, rfill BottK>ms. t ' — Othferwis*, the Brown Bomber did not^cfelebrate and Mntinued to concentrate on ways and means to lift Rraddnffk’a eptynm in- cidetly increase his total eamirgs to nearly a million dollars. Louis, who four years ago was a day laborer in a Detroit anto- mobil plant, is living in a |9d,- OOO, 10 foom summer home loca ted on 'Lake Michigan i^ive miles Kenosha. It is tba property of Fred P. Fischer, white Chica^an who rented it to the " challengeir for #l,DOp. The fighter received his fii-st professional purse of |50 on July PRINC WAL - PROF. J. A- MeRAE^^rincitMl of the Keids^le High School and well known educator of North Carolina. Under ti'e leadership of Professor McRae, .tlie hi^ school in Reidsville has been made* one of the best in tl:e state. a f200,OOQ annuity. Outside* of purchasing six or eight automo biles and '60 ar nwre j suits of clothes with the necessary acces sories, his money has hot btsen wasted. i tnai J . L Louis wiU train in the municipal 4, 1934. At the end of 193« he Jowntown I^enos^. He will do his road work on a I had receiveid t711f92^. Since then he has received |37,814 for his bout wit^.i Bob Pator and S3. 826 for • knocking out Natie Brown in Kansas City, in addition to other sums for exhibitibns. ' HU has built a hou^ l«r his motl:!er in Detroit and owns a 6- Iflat apartment building on Mich- ligan boulevard in Chkago wher;} he also resides. He ip paying for [White Methodists Vote For Church Union And Negro Segregation RACE ISSUE LOSEES AT A. M. E. MEET BROPRLYN-^(C)— The 89th session of» tfcia New York East conference of the A. M. church, at central M. E. church. Hanson place and St. Felix street, votied l^turday, 41?! to 67 a- n the laymen tfaiv*oring the merger plan of three M. E- deno minations. A two-hour debate on dieted' with Hm were fr&ed In Fe- church! did not alter the vote, one white minisber declaring chat the segration of Negroes would enable them to '^'run tiieir own drurch and elect their own bis hops." After the approval vote, a resoltition was adopted which aselkd tha general, conflerence to make "etanffefl and modications to the satisfaction of our Negro )[>r«thr«n.’ WASHINGTON MAN MADE TRAVELINGtGHEF by SEA BOARD AIR LINE DRESSED WARRIORS FROM DARK WASHINGTON — May 20— (By Hienzi B. Lemus for ANP)-- The appointn^ent of George S. Statesman *of this city to be a traveling-chef of the Dining Car Service, effective ^ay 12’, was announced this week by the man agement of Che Seaboard Air Line. Chef Statesman's appoint ment brings the number of colo red travding-chefs in th lElast to five—tte otiiers being Chefs Press, of the Baltimore and Ohio P'ottor and Williams of the New York Central and Doffin of the Coast Line. the edges, is made of* colored braided silk. It beach this summer if California, Five great rocks adorn, the A- lake’s third, and fourth'fingers of Ms left hand, and the tiyk’d and small lingers of the , i^ht. He walked right into E'ngland with his own jeweled Sword of State and clasped it firmly all the while h« was being beseiged by press and cameramefi at the sta tion. LONDON, May 2ia-i(By M. JacMson f^ ANP) — When Haile Selassie took hte umbiella, and went into exile, it by no means stamped out t^^ quaint, and ^ictu^es(|ue custom |of dai-k rulers to appear in Europe, with gay ^and gaudy bumber-sh^ots ad ding to the impressiveness of the|r kipgly 'bearing,-^ -- On May^ 4, . days, behind schedule, (3ie Alake of ^beok^ta. Chief Paramount KingLof the Yoi^as, the largest tribe in Ni- gieria attracted throngs of spec> tatorq at Eusion statioii when ho arrived from Us nativ* land. Wearing no feathers but got* geous robes,^ot unlike those the white King donned for tfce great o|4 chap„ and'ii^ll |>‘e d|elighted event Wednesday, Alake posed to^ifd a message to the people for photographers, smiled broadly in America through tiie Associa- without showing his tMlii, and~^d Negro Press as ^oon as he and his entourage are located, Yeta 111 At the same time thi^ Alake '^woufd o^^‘®®*ting a gray trilby hat at a _ , J J- , i .It ! jaunty angle, Yeta looked like make a grand display at the l ■' . . i. T 1. J -1. ■ ' any other Englishman m a brown I had it m I, ^ x. u j lounge suit, brown shoes, ana Alake million re«eiVes“’ oi»r a year as Chief. b^ue overcoat. He does not si^ak a word of English, so he brought along an interpreter, Francis Suu, and he keeps him pretty busy. Ironically waving an ivory- handled garget, I thought at first might have been a feather duster Yeta explained that it was a fly switch!. It is a special switch of Yeta’s own but he did not bring it to London expecting to have to use Two of it.' Everybody carries a fly-switch half a firily thatched, which is really my own native palace. . . . and r Wear European clothes as 1 am wearing now. I have a car which (1 can dri^ myself, but I^^ieanoot drive far because we have l^dly any roads. I kave a royal Vargi. with 4^ paddlera. It'^is covmd^ with a canopy called* a lutanka, and in that barge; I ^nd my ad visers travelled SOO miles (down the Zamfttesi river for lO days be fore joining the liner. ^ , “I am looking forward to the fbppprtunity of meeting Khig [Geoins* VI and of paying hom age to him. assuring him of thjs loyalty of myself imd all my sub- quarter mile cinder track and h;> boxing and oti:!er exercises ic a ring* in the middle of the staditiu whic^ seats ’il.Ol&O persons. He will not do any public boxing un til May 22, a month before the date of the fight. I MAN SAVED BY TWO FAR MERS DOOMED TO DIE IN QUICK TIME •m Imtmr lute CawW» !»■ CHICAGO—i- May ~In^in* his suit for 950,0^)0 i»magea in Cook County’s Clr-l Cait Court last week against the PuUman Company, the IBinoia Omtral Kailroad and the trutiUxst of the Rock Island lines,* Con- rressman Arthnr W. Mitchell first strategic move in a well-laid plan to oury the **^*tea' rights’* Jin« Crow car role ^ Southern^ states ta tWa WiBa Svpc«ne- Cmmrt, Associated Negro Presa waa told this week by Congrea^ man'a able, fighting connaeL At> tomey tJRichard E. Westbrooks. Attorney Weatiirooks, nation ally Icnown as a criming uid ®*^^il~lSiwyer ind^ tl^e fonner ei^i- sul of the Rei^blic of Uberia ht Chicago, exidained tirat the pur pose of the present suit waa to detisnnine a “canae of action,’* based on the refusal of the rail- roada to extend Fiiat-Oaaa ac- o^ptAdaticms to a paif njrr who had purchased a FirA-class tic- keti ^ This refu^ by the Railroads to honor the Congresaaan’s First class ticket is in violation of the Federal law regulating Inter state travel, said IWcatbrookai, and ^t violated Mitcirell’s right as a passenger beeanaa. it made hini accept thtt^-clasa^ of Jim accomodationswiken his w. ticket called for a Firat-claas passage. Ftnt-Ctaea l^esai Bat Oa« Tiiag —r . TVa Btet Attorney Westbrooks said hia* contention in the MttclMtt caae is one that w«mld apply to mxiy parehaser a. Ftet-clasa «aaaw»- WAYNESBORO, Ga., May 20 —(ANP)s-Will Hq|i9cind, yr: old feeble-nSinded tarm ^rker recently saved from lynching only because ^f the intervention of two white farmers, was cta- victod of criminal attack in a 45^ minuH triW Monday and sMten-; eed to deaA. - dtty, whether the parchaaer were white'oi; l>likek. ar whether tl^ article’tMiceha^ wga a railiftiji ticket or an antomoSBe^ If * nuin paid fIjOOO for « B«w First-clasa automoMlp, and ^tlfs dealer sold , him a new-appearing, se^ad sand car at. a ncw-%ar price; ^ would have a valid cause of act ion.^ ^SmJUariy, a man irayinc Ftrirt^^SSias railroad ticket is en- , ' * ' Cmmtimtm4 mm Ktg* DIVINE AGAIII ESCAPES TOILS In LAW WHEN IDENTIFICATION FAILS his sons studied in London un til recently. He is a quiet, plea- very much like Bill 'Btojang^es Robinson in a aeriotu mood. Be hind him stood the umi>rella4>ear> er, a smallish black gaijbed in whito robes and dimunitive em broidered skull cap. The huge jiarMoI, h«a«i)jr tfrinf«d lurwtnd jblew into Eluston, Yeta III, Rkra- moung Chief of Barotseland, Alfiica,' arrived. Smilinir radiant ly, hiff bl»ck fkin an^ white hair in Barotselafcd because there are 'Jecta. « so many flies. The horsehate svrttoh is far more effective than our Flit, he wagered. Speaking through fcia intorpra- ter to the Englirii pressmen gat hered al>out, Yeta made the f»l- lowing statement: “1 hope you people don’t think that we in Barotseland are a lot of savages. I havfe two fine houses built in the Europew st^le, and a nativi house baauti- C0|» JUUAN ON WJZ NEW YORK -.(C)—k»l. Hu hart Jttliaa told of hia adventar- •a in tha ElfciopiaiL war on Rip- lay’a **Baliava It or Not’*^ pr^ram over WJZ Sunday night 'Rie Colonel he had flown all kiA#i fiiplaiMa attd. iMd« overtfeUowahipi TIm will 800 paraehaiv 'tltr«« «oni^« t«urinf th« JAMAICAN OFFICIALS IN- SFECTS HARLEiMl RIVEJI HOUSES NEW Y9EK—Claude Bell, w- perintendent vt public works M Poiit Maria, Jamaica, B. W. I, is visiting herc witt his wife, i^tapectad Hm Harlem River Housea Satopday. The Bells were entertained by'Zora NIeale Hur»- ton at Graham court apart ment. Misa Hurston was the goeat of the Bells !t| Jaaaka do- inc Tsaaareh en a >uaeidiriH|i -m N«W YOBX~^tC>~ Alitt «B the «peetaeitlar of. hat Divfiie rwa^ laB'Hta ea a fehmlow alMMlI IN^ wise awl hie tlwea drawing «ka eater Um fei tony conrt ftiiey MeGhfi|,.M Banv».€MH^ M WM al^M fea DIMl^ .haavea daatify any af ^ fwir« parawi wHa had li • '
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