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VOLUMN 17 No. 28
WEEK ENDING SATURDAY JUNE 5, 1937
PRICE
In Hlayli
Liquor Store
BAKRED
SOME OF THE OFFICERS OE THE OLD NOhTH NORTH STATE MEDICAL SOCIE-1Y
RETIRING PRESIDENT
SECRET ARY-TREASURER
NEW PRESIDENT
RECORDING SECRETARY
Local Citizen^ To
Protest Ruling
Of Cutlar Moore
The efforts of local N^rofts to
have the liquor stor? fp lt>e located
’n the Negro section of the city
jK,e(] by Ne^'j'pes was gicen a
set %ack here this wevk when
ruling issued by Cutler Moore,
state chairman of the liquor can-
trol board Wetineaday. said that
onl}^ members of the white race
would be employed In all liquor
storefl throughout the state.
'Members of the Committee on
Negro Affairs headed by C. 0.
Spauidirig appeared before the
county board of control and re
quested that-a Ifegro personnel be
envffloyed in the local stojre afliicb
will be locate on Fayetteville
street. ^
Members of the committee and
other interested colored people
feel that since the store will* have
almost a hundred p^r-cent Negro
patron’age, and wTli-fe« located
not wanted as employe* in the
Hayti store set in motion machin
ery w'hich will result In » confer
ence with Mr. Moor* next week.
The exact date of the conferenoe
had not been settled upon late
Wednesday.
In his letter to the local chair
man, Johi^ H. Harris, high‘tri
bute wiis paid local Negroes for
their' achievement in businass and
other fields. This however did not
serve to appease the wrath vaua-
ed by the statement issued By the
state chairm«^. • •
Many Negroes expressed them-
4tsgu#bd a
system which woald prevent tham
9rfci««-4a-A- jjUce. which
caters entirely to colored people.
One man was> heard to state that
Durham may be called the friend
ly city, 6ut it is getting in a ter
rible condition when Negroes
a strictly Negro section o{ the
city that it should be manned by
Negroes. A long distance ' tele
phone call to the office of Mr.
Moore in Raleigh this week by
a representative of the Carolina
Times in an attempt', to ascertain
the exact reason why Negroes are
BUSINESS MANAGER
not even obtain employment in a
store operated by the county in a
strictly Negro oommunity. An
other man wanttad to make a . con
stitutional fight out of the affair
and take legal action against any
of thp stores operating in Durham
county. /
Scotlsliolo Defense
DenieSr Compromise;
Trial July 8tii
NEW YORK, June 3.—CNA)—
flimultaneoualy with the announce-
'^^ment ifiom Dccatur, Ala., that
new trials in the six-year-old
Scottsboro case have been set for
July 8, the Scottsboro Defen^
Committee issued a statement in
this city repudiating pr^^ss; t«^rts
that ^ leorapfoniilise had been ef
fected under which the State of
Alabama would; be permitted to
‘‘saVe face” by having the defen-
“dants plead “guilty” to “rape” and
.and receive -short prison - sentences
as a “reward.”
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iNogotiations have buen under
way for a settlement of the case,
but not on the basis of *fhe press
reports. Dr.- Allaii Knight Chalm
ers, chairman of- the Scottsboro
Defense CommitteCt told , report
ers.
'■ ^‘The story, reported in the New
York papers that all nine de
fendants are to plead guilty to as
sault on the two women and in re-
tarn are to receive prison sen
tences of ‘less th*4i 5 years’," Dr.
Chalmers said. “On the other
hand, a story printed May 22 in
the Birmingham Post states that
the settlenient upon which both
sides arij'rying to agree includes'
a of guilty td feloiuous as
sault, but not eriminaV ^^ult,
with short p^son sentenced ”l[etrd-
active to 1931.”
ment, imposed after his fourth
conviction in January. IftSff.
The nine youths, whose convic
tions twice have been revei^d by
the United States Supreme Oourt^
are charged with Httackincr two
white women aboard a moving
freight train. Ruby Bates, one of
the women, has repudiated her
original testimony and has accus
ed Alabama officials of coercing
Virginia* Prjce ani herself to tes
tify against the boys.
t
Wm. Rich, Business Manager
of Lincoln Hospital. Mr. Rich
las been connected with the lo^
cal hospital for only a little mcjM
than two years, but in that short
period he "has been able to- force
Lincoln Hospital’s busfness^ _de.-
partment fo fte forefront until
it to«iay-ffmlfs oniong best
in the state.
SEEK TO CARE FOR
COLUMBIA STUDENTS
' INEW YORK, June 37—(A-NP>
—Columbia University is seeking
to solve the troublesome problem
of adequate accommodations for
those students who do not live in
its dormitories. WhJJe a tremen
do us number of matriculants in
this, the worlds largest university,
are not lioused at the school, cer
tain definite pi-oblems have arisen
in connection with its considerable
colored population. As a result
Mrj|. F. K. Williamson, well known
in Nc^ York, has been selected to
hefid a project whi^h vv^l Jopk aft
er placements and social activities
of those persoJis not housed in the
dormitories. Dr. Mabel Carney,
director of rural education and
Prof. Harriett Hayes, director of
student relations chose Mrs. WiU
liamson. Mrs. William/.on has had
extensive expxerience in the so-
cial field.—She 4ws been a teacner
at Fessenden Junior college in
j Florida, worked in the office of
Dr. Carter G. Woodson and served
in the Community Center Depart
ment of the Washington School
system before coming to New
York,
I The 50th anniversary meeting of
I the Old North State Medical, Den
tal and Pharmaceutical Society
opened its meeting here Tuesday
afternoon with a business session
whfeh Has held in the administra-
tioh building o/ the North Caro-
jine College at 8 P. M. with ■ Dr.
John W. Black, presMent of the
organization delivering his an
nual address.
An a-Jditional fiature of the
Tuesday afternoon meeting was
the election of officers. Dr. Max
C. King of Franklinton was chos
en as the president. Other offi
cers elected were Dr. L. T. De-
Laney, Raleigh, president-elect;
Dr. W. H. Bryant, Goldsboro, 1st
Vice-iPresident; Dr. J. C. Hines,
Edenton, 2nd Vice - President.
Members of the'; Executive, Board
ac Dr. William Jenkins, Greens
boro; Dr. H. p. Malloy, Winston-
Salem ; Dr. ,B. G. Burnett, Rocky
Mount. Dr. Clyde Donnell of Dur
ham was re-elected Secretary-
Treasurer for the, 18th consecutive
year. Dr. J .B. Davis, Louisburg,
Recoi'ding Secretary and repoxter.
Wednesday morning’s program
with a clinic which lasted until
84S a. M. The remainder
morning session was consi^ed
with a symposiijim on pediatrics.
Dav
idson, Proffessor of Pediatrics and
Dean of Duke University school of
mec'iicine. Several papers were al
so read at the Wednesday morn
ing meeting. Dr. Black, president
of the organization presided over
the meeting. Wednesday evening
at the White Rock Baptist church
a public meetfng was held at which
time addresses of welcome Were
delivered by C. C. Spaulding, Dr.
J. E. Shepard and Dr. A. S. Hunt
er. The response to the addresses
was made by Dr. P. W. Burnett
of Rocky Mount. Featured on the
Wednesday evening program was
a solo by M^s. Nell Hunter. .Sev
eral papers' were also read at the
Wednesday evening meeting. At
the conclusion of th(| meeting tko
visiting doctors attended a smok-
at the North Carolina Mutual
Life Insurance building^ The visit
ing ladies attended a card party
at the Algomjuin Tonnis Club
House.
Thursday, June 3rd, several
clinics for the benefit of the doc
tors will be conducted and several
papers on various diseases and
their treatment will be read.
'i’he annual ball -wili be held
KING,
J. W. BLACK, D. D. S„ Rocky
Mount. The administration of
Dr. IMack has been one of pro
gress for the Old North State
Medical, Dental and Pharmaceu
tical Society. He is the old'^st
practicing dentist of Rocky Mt.
CLYDE DONNELL,
^D„ of
Fianklinton who was *electedj
Durram who was reelected to the i -j i ^ •
„ , „ pres«dent of the orgam?atiQn,at
ecre ary- reasuier annual election of officers’
office of
for IKf* 18th consecutive year In
also Medical Director of the N.
C. Mutual and on? of the , out-
held Tuesday evening. Dr. JKing
is one of the most outstandin,^
... . , - ,, physicians in the eastern part of
standing physrtians m the south. Carolina.
J. Buster Davis, M. D.^ Loui.s-
urg. Dr. Davis one of the
few members of the orgahizatioa'
who holds two offices. In addi
tion to being recording secretary
he also reporter for th® medicn.l
society. Dr, Davi* is highly es
teemed in his section of the stat%
DEAN OF KNOXVILLE COL
LEGE awarded DOCTOR’S
DEGREES _
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POLICEMAH - CQMViam A N IT
SUSPENDED FOR ATTACKING
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YOUNG NEGRO; APPEALS CASE
HARDV ustop^
When Professor Hardy Liston,
Dean of Knoxville College, at
tended tl% sixty-ninth annual
commencement exercises at J. C-
Smith university. Tuesday, May
26^ ha was awarded the honorary
deg^’ee of Doctor of PedagOigy by
this institution.
Thorsday evening In the gymnas
ium Of the college, concluding the
1937 session of the oldest Negro
medical organization in the wc^rld,
Women’s laternatlional Leaguqi
For Gavacan Bill
WASHINGTON, D. C.— At its
recent annual meeting her« ,the
Women’s International League
for Peace and Freedom endorsed
the Gavagan anti4yncl.lng bill.
3,400 To Appear I* Blrmincliain
Sengfeat
Re^rts from pegatur, Ala.,
scene of the lalt SeottsHero Imls,
said that Judge W, W. (Speed)
Callahan, who presided at those
trials, has refused to countenance
a Hiompromiae in the case and has
set liiy-4 ior flew trial* of eight
of the defendants. The rilndi, Hey-
wood Patterson, is i^p^er. sentence
of seventy-five years’ iqiprison-
BIRMINGHAM, — (ANP. ^
Sponsored by the Girls' league^ a
festival of songs participated in
by a' mass chorus of 3,400 stu
dents ^rom industrial l^gh scblsol
j/ill; be heard at
itadiani Sunday.
ATTENDS MEDICAL MEET
MISS AMAiNDA i;. PEELE,
Assistant p?at€»*6r of Bloligy of. J®; cpn#idefet*of victor^
Hampton Institute, ia in ^e ^ity
attending the ^Medical, Dental
and Hiarinweutical Meeting.
Miss ?eele,. doing outstanding
work in Plant PatHology and l»s
her M. A. from Cornell Univer
sity and will w^n 'wieyei her
doctors from tlw In«ttt«tion.
Ford
S a y s Many
Iti Spanish War
■NEW YORK, June 3. — (Ben
Davis, Jr., for CNA)—^^ack fiom
Spain, James W. Ford, Negro
Communist leader, this week vfv-
idly described his tour of the Loy^
alist strongholds atCMadpId, Bar
celona and Valerejta. .
In the first interview since he
arrived on the S. S. Queen Mar|^,
give^, ‘at his office, SZ East 12th
^feetj-Eord^ said;'
“Alter^ nine mohths of wrf, the
Spanish people have forged’a gen-
enal poi^lar arfhy — 'disSlplined,
trained, and full of fight,
“For^.j^is reason, I am absoiute-
The Negro leader travelled in
Spain as special toriespondent of
the Baltimore Afro-American, out
standing' weekly, and the-Grussd«
.NeWs Agency. With Robert Minor,
well-known white Am^rican^Com-
munist, he spent several hours in
th$ trenches on the Madrid front
where he talked at lepgth with Ne
gro and white members of the
heroic Abraham Lincoln Battalion.
Ford- explained that the recruits
for the Lincoln 3attaHon-.„TEiere jHit
through a “thorough drilling in
miiitary tactics and strategy .?ft-
er they arrived in Spain,” men
tioning that Several Negro mem
bers of the Battalion \,ij^d
“special mention for their,
tionally heroic deeds." ' T
'FoM declared that the new Ne-
grin Government is “now in a po-
si|ion to prosecute the war to a
successful conclusion over the fas
cist invaders.” The direction of
the war is now under .a unified
^ommand, with unity in the polit
ical and economic life of the
NegW Commander
“A Negro, Oliver Iaw,’ is com
mander of the Tom Mooney ma-
ej^lne gun company in the yncplh
Battalion,'*' Fo.,d said, ^“One ot
the volunteers from Lower Harlem
has distinguished, himself in the
machine-gun battalion as a hand-
grenade thrower.' He gai»ed-ej6-
perience as 4 bsisefbill player in
’America, and his accurate and
daring hu;-Ung of hand-grenades
l^as brought him; ‘high mention’.”
“Truly tlje * Altaraham Lincoln
composed of men from
alL .p^fts 0? the United States, is
continuing the ti'aditions of the
American people for" democracy,"
Ford went oru-™-,-^—'
The Government has effectively
J. H, Whitfield, local police
man was found guilty of assault
and battery in Recorders Court
here this week. The charges were
brought by Vernon Farrin^on
well known young Negro man
who is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Narvey Farrington of 410
Thomas street. Immediately after
announcing the verdict Judge
W. H. Murdock placed a fino of
and the cost on policeman who
took an appeal.
In accrdance with the law
which states that a policeman
conviced of a such an offense
should not be allowed to con
tinue as an officer of the law.
City Manager Henry* A. Yancey
suspended The officer Tor four
. ■ ..oOo — .
days without pay.
The attack on Mr. Farrington
occured when he entered a Fay
etteville street ita the downtown
section of the city and finding
all seats occupied t»ofe-a-8eat be
sides that of the officer of the
law. The policeman without
warning struck Mr. Farrington
in the face. ^
Witnesses testified that
i' words passed between the two
men, but that the officer sruck
j young Farrington almost before
he could take his seat. '
I Prosecution of the case was
tcondueted by Attorneys C. J.
jcatas and C. O. Pearson.
I The only witness produced by
I the defense was E. iFrank typn
who testified that the pfficer t
stated to young Farrington after ^
he had '®aken his seat that he 1
could not sit beside a white man
before he struck him. The of
ficer also stated in testifying that
he told young Farrington that
he could not sit beside a- white
The case attracted. much in
terest in Durham' and the court
room was Crawded to cajmcity
Saturday morning. Busy profe^ .
sional and Business men of the
race were in attendance at the
opening of court and remained
throughout the long session that
took up many other cases of
various kinds.
Warner Brothers New
Talkie Promoting Bfetter
quelled the“TrotskyiSts-led upris
ing which aiiied the fascists by at
tacking the People’s Army in the
rear. Ford sa.id.
~ iteeeirt dispatches from Spain
report that Ford was given a tre
mendous ovation by membera of
the Lincoln Battalion at the time
of lus visit to their trenches.
HOLLYWOOD, June 3—(ANP)
—^^Penrod and Sam,” "the new
Warner Brothers Talkie, remale
from the old silent film based on
Booth Tarkington’s imra o r t a 1
story, is receiving acclaim wher
ever shown. The yx^uthful .actors
who carry the dramatic parts cap
ably include Billy Mauch, one of
the famous Mauch twins as well
as tv^ colored boys, one o.^whQm,
Philip* Hurlic, practically share
honors witl^ the Mavreh lad
-■ "ii.r-''' ■ ■
Philip ,Hu;!ic as Verrafan, a
mertvber of a school. boy gang
which seeks to* emulate the gov
ernment’s “G” ment is the fi«^»of
Penr&d who is his Sponso^^ Jihd
^otector. A group of gangsters
having robbed the local bank, open
fire on onlookers in an effort to
escape, killing Verman’s mother.
Aftei^ a eeries of breafch^tadtingf
episodes during which the gang*
ster^ Wke refuge Jp *t^ Nurh
which tl^ boy detectives'^ use as
thebt heai^ttarters, the la^ Aid
in their capture,'^ Vennan being
the 4>ne to announce ^ir captur*
and leading the sheriff’s ■‘posse t«
the sceiifti.
Warner Brothers, who produced
the picture, are to be cohg^i=^^StuBtt-
ed upon their treatment \.0f the
racial angles. Nothing could be
more tender thai], the solicitude of
Pehrod for Verman’s welfare.
When his mother speaks of Ver-
man’s mother who was her wash
erwoman, it is as “Mrs. Diggs.“
At Penrod’s .^ insistence, Verman is
“adopted’’ iirto his family.^ Delia,
a^colored, main, played capably by
Bernice Pilot, becomes his foster
mother.
' It is, however, the fine relation
ship of ithe boys, a charaicterlsa-
tkJn which should be. truly Amer
ican, thst pervade# the play and
attracts favorable cbmment^ The
picture has a wide appeal .and
grownups enjoy it folly as ihuch
as their juniors. ’
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FOUR ON TRIAL FOR PEON
AGE IN >LORlDi^ -^
CAMP
Lawyer la Jailed
TRENTON, N. J. G-jorge W.
Gregory., a local lawyer, ^as sen
tenced to serve 9 montliu^ in ja^
following convictiort on a diattce
o^. embe^ing insaraac# Funds
frtMn his clfent, Frank Wilson, {prpeeeitfhMa
aged 9^. ^ ^
-JAOKSONVILLIE, Fla., Jun»
3— (CNA) — Four turpentinj
operators were on'trial here tWa
week on. .charges .of holding N“-
gro workers in a state of peonagt;
in MacClenny County work
camj»$, Ulia charge* include
ing, arresting and retumkw
persons t) a condition of peoB-
age."
Two Negro employes of .Wm,
Knabb, head of a' torpeiBtine
camp near MacClenfiy,; ’
principal government
. “There are too nfany Nacran
leaving mjiiliiBp and I’oi tc
put. a stop to it," Ar^nr
,Mie ...ai; ,thg—
Knabb as saying. -
So daataiBg ^
already^ intredacad
Ju4g» Robert T.
^feiiB»t A.
vMdkt of