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VOLUME 17 H* 32
WESK ENDING SATURDAY. JULY 91. 1»97
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4o-5^
Philadelphia To
Be Seene Of Meet
October 16-18
WASHINGTON, D, C.,
—CNAI-^eelaitinK "th*
coldnbtooded brutality and anti-
Negro bias evidence in the trial
and conviction of Clarence Norris
plus the growing viifilante terror-
isnt, gives added meaning and im-*
port to call for the Second Na-
^pnal Negro Congrega,” John P.
Xta7i% youthful Congreaa Secre-
July30 tinued. "Mar^ wfc o
thought the CongrtM was • ‘dual’
organization who«e purpose was to
duplicate the work of e*iatteg
organizations have been clarified
and art now convinced by th* ac
tivities and principlesof the Oon-
grees movement, tlflat there is •
definite need for a United People’?
Mov| ment embracing organiaa-
tary t^is we^ annciiHoad iJutt the tions as sucl^*'
Second Congress will be held in
Philadelphia October 16, 17, 1», f
The dfficSrCa
, , , , , gress» now in preparation by _
1&87. Shocked a»d angered at thel ^ ^
Davis stated: Among those signing thfe Call
Co^es^ “.Will Ma* Yiregan, head f the
the. maas] Amferlean ConiiaiOtae Afri»«
Scottsbero declalon, Davis stated:
**The Philadelphia Qongres^ in
October should reco:
anger of the Negro peopl« jnd I
their sympathizers at the ^*I)*vi-
liaed ba2i>arity of 11^8 verdict, and
organiae dete^itflwod will fw
the full freedom of all Scottsboro
defend^ts.
‘‘The Second Congtesa should
also,” continutd Davis, “push the
organized fight ftor civil and
democratic rights now Uireatened
by vigilante terrorism, legal din-
franctiisemeiit and mob rule.”
‘ Scheduled to be held in M&y,
19S7, the Sesood Congresa was,
postponed to; all&w organizing. «f^
fort among Southern N^mt youth
and Naipro eteel workers.
Following the Southism Negro.
Youth Conference, h^ la^ Feb.
in Richmond, Va., there has re
sulted a militant Southern youth
ni&vfi'ient which in turn has
trade union organisatiori
ni' i aproved living and working
(■( ii ion* for thousands of South
er Morker^-
t1> > Congress also helped in
TTVv^.i.iig the Negro Committee to
bapport Organization of Steel
Workers, « group which has been
active in wery Negro community
and embraces a majorit||^f com
munity leaders. Commenting on
the wort; of this group, Davjs do-
dlaxed that the Congress . could
feel justly proud of its part in
helping to drgapize the conamitWe
and in throwing ‘Congress forces
behind the Steel Workers Organi
zing Committee;
Cites Concrete Gaiiis
“Fifteen mont1b9~ of activity
have won many ■frirads"and affil
iates to the CongWss,” he con-
AfjKairs; A. PhiBip Baadslph,
president of the Cong;reaa| and
Marion Cuthbert, member of the
National C>uncil of YWCA |
James W* Ford, prominent Neg^o
l|a?ltical Jeader and 1936 vice-
presidential nominee on the Com
munist ticket; Arthur H. Fauset,
.writer and educator ahd vice-
president of the Congreas; Thyra
Edwards^ briliiant Negro woman
Cocial Worker, traveller Mid -la&r
tgger; Ekifard E2. Strong, ,out
standing ch]]r«h^*nd yonth leadtr
and chairman of the Yovrth Sec
tion of the Congre^
C. 1. O. UNION DEMANDS
END OT JOB BIAS
63 YEARi YOUNG
Alabama Youths
Set Free After
Six Years
Sg^ldlng, prominent
business execu » I t ■ r-i4. i.
|(f tbe t i ,
Life Insurance t^on pnny =??Tro“wt'
celebrate his 6 'ri, bi ' .
gWit 1.‘ Mr,.%t»Jl(H:; ^
and hearty is i - " #,7 4nt-|
lations from hia i ‘ T ad-
mirers from many cuons oi ->
DECATUR, Ala., Jaly 30.—-C ating as it is, calls for a check-up
The saga of “the nine Scolts-. on the cases, which reveals;
boro bo5m”’i» ended. The finale j 1. That a State of th® Deep
kame with dram^ic suddenness South repudiated the word of a
Saturday mojning as the SUte of white woman apinst colored men
Alabama, through its prosecuting i on a sex (juesrtion.
attorneys, headed by Thomas F.) 2.That world o.pinion still can
Lawson, assistant State Attorney ■ be aroused in the cause of amplo
General, calmly moved that the justice, and Constituted authority
indirtments against Clin Mon5-|ly® compelled to change its course,
gomery, Willie Roberaon, Eugene 8. That ibasic reform is only
Williams and Hoy Wright be nol possible through a Wtter end
pressed (strSiCcen from -the re- iiKht, where the South and the
, . ^ (I;, : u\t,{- wa. “con-1 Negro are concerned, and where
- i'?. Vf- ^ 41.-e not and the dia^ti-
ty of ffatte "womwuHTO coitternsd-
4T. That the I. L. D. supersedes
\JuW of ^
bars, hi
chau, in?
i.h,
people.
and sMiijii.- 'i t‘-
ir\}^ b! n h
U. S. ^juprt‘m.!“^>ui 'W'cru besid
t’ t aiselvcs with joy, »hu
" behiifd the NAACJP as the aggressive
jlectiic pleader of fighting for justice for
dvictetf NegfO«r
but hav-j 5. That while the term,
by the, lynching’, was coined in the
Bc^ottsbbr^ caw, lyiiching'»
Lad
For Two Year
Gill Crime
ing and . was stopped in these cas^
screaming as Hfcy^usiiea irom the j ' 6. That justice eomes firtft with
courtroom under guard, to be es the American people, regardless
corted to the state line, oit their of the type of crime iavolred
THEY'LL HEAR THE WEDDim; BCLU SOCHf
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MISS M. WAiLTON
Popular daughter of Americnn
Minister to Liberm anJ Mrs. Let
ter A. Walton, whose betbrothal
to Mr. Percy Maxwell Rochester
was announced last week toy her
pafentsV Mtss Walton, since leav
ing sdboo}^ haa specialized "in
Kindergarten work. Her fianc?, MISS GI-ADYS ODILE WALTON
ormerly of Birmingham, Ala., - is
Connected with one of Harlem’s
well-known commercial CBtetpri-
Miss Walton’s sister, Gladys
also bethroiftsd,- - *ill- -marry- -^o—diariea
Charles W. L.
August. (ANP)
John^n, Jr., in
Charming daughter of Aaieii-
an AfSn^er to Liberia and Mr*.
Lerteir Walton, who is W b«
married in the month of iAugnst
Both girls are granddassghtem of
Mr. and Mrs. Fr^ B. Moore.
NEW TORK, July 80.—CNA
-—The Department Store Em^
ployed’ Union, CIO, thk week de
manded that tiie Weinstein Con-
cesdonfc at Kantor’s Department
^tore on West 126th Street sign | trial, Justice
^nt^acTural agreemenik whU^ District Supreme ^\irt has order-
epecificially embody ^-^Slause call-^ed Albert Taylor brought to trial.
WASHINGTON, July 38.—(&P
D. W. Chase for ANP)—^Follow-
m a challenge statement mad?
sometime ago that the court docu
ment is -crowded with cases, many
df which will niever be brought to
O'Donogue of the
way to New York with Samuel S
Leibowitz, their lawyer.
\»
The fate of the. other five bo^ys
is - still hanging in the !bal8tc«.
Ozie Powell, ■ freed of the' rape
charge, was sentenced to 2ft years
for assault' with intent to kill
after he pleaded guilty to slash
ing a deputy in a prison van last
year on'Che way from Decatur to | revealed as standing shamelessly
the Birmingham jail. Heywood. for a miscarriage of justice, and
Patterson is under 75 y.eajr jail j stubbornly persisted in its course
7. That the tfyiftematfc exclu
sion of Negroes from juries in the
S-'uth was halted as a byproduct
of these cases.,
8. That because a Negro is con
victed and sentenced to deaths in
the South, it does not necessarily
follow that he will die.
9. That a Southern State was
sentence, Andy Wright is under
199 year sentence, Charlie W^ma,
WrMg Man Died tn
^hair Say Executed
HUNTSVILLE, Tex., July 30
—(Elaine Ellis for CNA)—^L;ga1
lynching of Ernest McCarty, 20
^ar-old Tarrant county youth,
was carried out in the death cham
ber of the State penitentiary here
when offlcers stivpped the helpleA
victim in thie electric chair and
until its own peo^e called a halt.
10. That it took death') in the^
is under 75 year sentence, and ranks of the prraecution to bring'turned on the current Although
Clarenoa*Norris is urtder death a change of heart, ^ I every evidence pointed to Mc-
sentence (which is likely to bej 11. That a white lawyer (Leibo-^ Carthy’s innocence of the charge
t^mmuted by) Qovertior fe.ibb witz) went to the front for the^e of raping a white woman, the pro-
’Graves). t {boys, bravin^threats and person-*judiced board of pardons and pa-
bbie, even in “ft*" cwirt rd52S^j^rol«»-«£uaed
ing for non-di9orimination be
tween Negp^-aSid white workers.
The union hasbeen conducting
a strike at Kantor’s since July IS.
A. atroQg pldret line has been
maintained continously in fr^t -f ,.„d^j,en questioned by an Int„-
the store,under the direction of.„^ Bureau afent, leaped
Tayler is charged wjfth having
caused the death ton July 3, 1935 *
of Mrs. Annie E. Briscoe, sixty
years old. Young Taylor, accord^
ing to statements of police offi
cers, was driving a licquor truck
Janfeff Waster, fj. Negro organiz
er of the union.
Mrs. Alexander Link, Misa
gie Mae Thomas, Mr.. . Cruse and
London h. Studwkk nv>tored to
Rocky Mount en Sunday.
Attorney Leibowitz announc^~BtTdtttie, even in^the^
that he will continue to fight for j 12'. That Ithe Noi^em ^il9^
the liberation of all of the Jwys, press was finally aroused to the
for it is the consensus of opinion shame of the charges, and openly
his plea for clemen-
that the boys are innocent of the
charge of atftacking Victoria Price.
Check-up on Ca«at
This denouement, jas exasper-
from the truck, allowing it to run
nacontrolled. The truck ran Mrs.
Briscoe down, causing ihjuries
from which the woma‘il "died.
The Justice claims that when he
granted continuances in this
casted doubt on the character of
the white woman, Vivlwria Price,
the complaining witness.
13. That the Supreme Court of
the United States ag^in proved
it is the bulwark bf the Negro's
was charged with murder, that bell*l?®rty, but shftwed that the Ne- _ _
.was indicted in 1935 and j*® caref^ to supportWalter Sc7tt,^ap-
jttere had been three or four con-! l^eral^mded men fw t^^^ th.t they
case he did not know that
cy.
The youth was doomed form the
first because of his color. He re
ceived one 30-day reprieve. Chair
man Bruce Bryant of the board of
pardons apd paroles declaring that
he was convinced of McCarthy'a
There are so many discrepancies
in the testimony that we beHav;
a griexous wrong has been done.
We do not wish to impeach the
jury’s verdict. We simply want
justice done.”
Attoj^ney D*iy declared that
wftAesses Who, could have estab
lished the youth’s whereabouts at
the time of the alflWed attack
were intimidated,^ and that he had
a/Bdavits to that effect
.J.,; _ r-
I Third-degree methods were used
^0 obtain a ‘‘confession”. Scott de-
dared. He pointed out that dia-
crepancies "Upd occurred in the
testimany the woman, and that
tier description of the alleged at
tacker did not fit McCarthy. This
was further corroborated by thu
woman*^ mother, who tie^ificd
guilt, but ^hat "justice” could not' da“ghter was so “excic
be thwarted .by tha short reprieve.
At that time, McCarthy’s lawyers.
Continued »n Fikge 8
Massachusetts
Refuses To Surfelider
When Goveraer fi. D. Rivers,!^
Gaotrgia a^ed the state of &tas-
BAchusetts to -aunfended James
Cunliingha^, ' 37-year-oia""' NegW,
who^ wag charged with escaping
from-a prison camp in JS24, he
was flatly refused By >Ch«jeB P.
Hurley, governor of the state of
ICaasachuaetts. Governor, Hurley,
in refusing to surrender Mr Cunn-
ini^m, Btirt^d thA he had found
“jBUch evidence of bru^it^ in
connection i^th the pijMshmenf
imposed” in Georgia.
Mr. Cunningh^ is wanted by
tha stats of Geoi^ for escaping
pi^aon whll«L_Jsrving sentene«i
aggregating frojja 54 to 7ff yea^
for bqrgl^ry and receiving stolen
goods. He wa»-arrested in Jun*! on
a lottery feharge and identified
through flngwprints.-
Governor liurley also pointed
ouit that Mr. Cunningham “haa
been living in thia commonwealth
for th6 past 18 years ai a citizen
of Maasaohusotta, haa married
an^ has borne an excellent Te-
pi^tlon during all thIa ^rlod.’*
It is alleged that this is the
firM time a Maauchuaettii govaiV
nor" has refused to attrrender a
Vtti^tive to anjOiSi^r at«t« ainft
FORD COMPANY.AND EIGHT
MEN ORDERED' held
FOR TRIAL
DETROIT, July 30—CNA—
The ■ Pofd Motor Company and
eight thugs it allegedly hired to
tlei^ up union organizjers have
been prdered held for Sepetmber
triaj on changes of assault and
battery. Bail of $500 each was
fixed for the defepdanta.
tmuances.
"IT CAN BE DONE”
and QumMTous citizens were coB*
vinced that the courts had prose
cuted the wrong man.
“This Negro didn't get a square
deal,” Scott stated, "in the hys-
able” that sbe doubted her sbility
to make positive identification.
'Wie youth declared to in
nocence to the last. Into th^m^dst
RelieiRiii
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NEW YORKjBly 30,-^NCi3^
Destitute Harlemites who havtf’**
been dropped oif the WPA roHs m’"
the recent mass firings are npf
finding it easy to get on relicff^
ft was disclosed this week by Cliasi?'
Taylor, vice-president of the MfP-'
town Divisisn of the City Pro)«*ta"
Council.
Delegations v^ing the Emer
gency Relief (Bureau precincts in
of the officers who gathered about ^1“** glaring evid«c« .£
to watch hlni die, he walked, a
bit scared, but with a half-smile
on his face as he told them, “i
am not guilty of "the crime I am
teria which surrounded the trial, being punished for.”
Depdrtation Of
Indian Biarred
Governor S»mPi!%K;W. McCall re
fused a sifnila:^requ^ from West
Virginia in Jdl7.
Dr. George Washington Carvor,
famous Tuskegee acientiat, as he
appeared last Tuesdag^ in
the widely broadci^ted ^'It Cab Be
I Done” radio prof^m ^OBsored
ffom Chicago, by the lfcua%old
Finance Crporation. €%own with
Lim are £dgar A, Gueat, the BOteS
NEW Y(^, J«ly »1.—CNA—
j The American Committee for Pio-
teetion of Foreitn Bora took up
the cudgels thia week in behalf of
[Albert St. Clair, WPA
' worker, who is being held on Ellis
Island for depoitath>n to Trinidad,
fBSHtish Wast Indies. The Gom-
Lmitta* retained frs GollobiD, white
|attom«y of t West 45th" Street,
«pi)«r of the people” and «dio>» St. Qlair and urg^
wmmentator, w«.o
Dr.-Carver, and Mb» Stta Kot«. deportation o^er
who stayed tha role atUa mothcrf ^ Ckir wiu yrta^ la«t_ May
in -the dramati«tion of to
the Gharri tirmn * wMtaaad to two montha w B»k-
j^led ^ He was wderad
sang.- I-'-™-*
His wife, who was ' bom in,
(Brooklyn, and their’- tti» Auieri-
can-ibom children, 4 and 6 years uf
age, haye been forced/^; apply
for relief. •
SLAIN IN
ROW OVJEH DICE
- -t
discrimination practices wh«a tlw;
rate of Ne^ro applicants re^viac
relief is compared with appUeaKtSt
in otber pat^ of the city, accard- ,
ing t^ "^Sylor.
“The WPA has eut Negro par-
sonnel 50 . par cent in ino«t
stances, which k ranch
than in other parts af tise c||qr,
“Taylor asserted. “And now tkey.
are making NagWj; iypBra'nta wait
'til the starratiav poiat
granfting thaaa asaiataBca."
H£YWO» PATTE*SOM
(WEJIATSD ON IN PRISOII ^
HOinTAI. , -
Dl^ATOm, Ala., Jiilf tf.—
CNA^I^yvMd Pattaraon. «t
the Bii|B SaaSskM* 'm. Ikliit.
^loaptyi oi XSIqf
foBaving an eearfaeey
on his teea.
y
KdEW YORK, Joly C|iA
Floyd WindBar, of S'Kast
ia&A Straet, iriia atraietd t^ia^
weak with t^e ftfff siab- i
Oliver* Patta»aoii, iiK
ttkwbf 449 4La®oi At^bW yew prk»n aaiityw ^
IHdle« aeewa^ Ktlni^ at '^
iia^ OIMiy KI ata argHNia* o«*ir nA'ii ^ If;
a dfe» g«Bia; Wtockla* ^
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