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VOLUMNE 17 No. ’T
THE CAROklMA TIMES SATUItOAY SEPT. 11, 1937
PRICE five CEMTS
2nd NEGRO CONGRESS MOVES FORWARD
National Characters. T o
Participate In Gathering
To Be Held In Phila.
Chicago—Septl. HI—(Recalling
the vastness of the First National
Negro Congress held in the Eigh
th Regiment Armory at Chicago
February 1>936. the Second Nat
ional Negro Congress, schudqjed
for October 416,. 16, 17 in Phila
delpHia, already shows signs of
eclipsing that remarkaible event.
National Characters Participatinf
(Speaking |fror^t the spacioute
Convention Hcadi^uarters in the
O. V . Catto Elks Lodge, whlc ,ii
acting as host to the *Cogre«s
J-ohn P. Davis, National Secretary
of the National Negro Congress
stated, "This Congress will bj
tha,^„^eatest gathering of thj .
forces of latbor in histoi-p for tli3 "j
• puVpo^ olf c|>nB(oUdating gain&
on the economic front that Ne
groes have won as a result of
•uditoriaMr. and an ofitdoor a«l«*
bration at Independence Hall. At
the demonstration, Rev: Marthall
L; Shepard, en^inent legislator,
whose presence on the platform
will invoke the hissing, and also
will deliver a. Stirring address on
the role of Negro Church in the
struggle for Negro liberation t
Church groups, fratexnal orders
trade unons, and various other
significant Negro organizations
will cut big figures in this Coh>
greiis: President Jabayu of tho
All-Aifrican Congress, which mtt
last Jupt'at £8omfonte.in, Sou"i
Africa, who, now is in America,
is ‘sfcheduled to come to Phila-
aa a fraternal delegate
to the National Negro Congress,
repaying the visit of Mar Yer^n.
who was the fraternal dalcgatd
. (I, u- • * j from the National Nfcgro Con-'
their mass mem*bershro « trade . . Z,
union.. At least two thousand del-
agates ar« expected to att!nd> I
making their mavch on Phila-1
delphia from aril comers of
America and from albroad. Liatterl *
among the ^eakers will be rvV
presentatives |rom outstanding
DOUBLE FUNERAL
FOR MAN AND
AT ROGERS
HELD
WIFE
GROVE
Plans 2nd Confess
(Jovcmor Tli^mafhKennedy and A.
labor unions, such as. Lieutenant-
Fhilip Randolph, President of-the
National Negro Congress, yout'a,
too, will have its day, for Edwari
Strong, dynamic youth Jeader and
National Negro Congress delegate
to the World Youth pC.onyrr ss
held recently in Geneva, Switzer,
land, has issued a call for ^ne
thousand,^ young* people to m-iku
a historic ptlgi-image to Philadel
phia at the time of the Seco-nl
National Negro Congress. ’
Linked With Constitution
I Celebration
Tile Second National
Word haa arrived also that 1-le-
g«tion4 •(« be4ng jfrepwred ia
Haiti. Cuba, and othar
erica countriea.
9upp«r.tinff N: Ai A| Ci ft A»M-
Lynching Driv*
The funeral services for Mosetr ^ Greenville County and had lived
Blackwell and his wife Mr^ in Durham for * long nam>ber^
Janie ^^BSackwell were held W?d- years. They resided at 1504 Hyde'
nesday. September 8 at 2:30 pm Park Avenue where both suciiimb-
from the Roger’s Grove Baptist ed. jBbth deaths were the re»ul*
Church; Mrs :Rogers died Sunday of dro^iical he^r|.
September 5th at 8 o’clock and j The funeral services were on-
her husband died Tuesday Sep: ducted by the Rev. John Norwood,
tember 7 at >8:30 pm Mr Rogers and interment was at the Rogers
was 70 years of age at the rime Srove cemetary; McLaurin Fun-
of his death and his wife was 68; | eml home took charge /of the
Both the deceased were bor.i in ^:^mainr|
.rtfiMr A
;? *
Formei?'^ Durham Citizen
Great Success
In Ministerial Wortd
SUCCEEDING
AKTBCK HCrF FACSET,
CoUfTM
- ■ ■>- ■ 1 ^ ^ I Rev, W. L. Maaon, prominent
^ ^iMilrtyy minwtof of Reidaville
bond of only |500 wM raqulrad aieV Durham
E4«eat«^s Confer At C. Hill
Arthur Huff Fauaet, National
Vice-President rMiding in plilla- „v.
delphia, states, “Everything point. 1 C»AJm HlLLr—The 4th of a
to the Aost remarkable conclave I “«”«* of international confor-
of Negros in our history. Phila- .“‘he prabkms
delphia |ii^ wjekoming thia Con
gress with outstretched arms, and
from far and near the message
are pouring in, ‘We are coming’:
Considering the eycellent hUtory
of the former Congresa and ita
achievements during the pat year
and a half, a local committee of
d|a(tinguihed {Philadelphia cftizen
already at work, the excellei^t and
^of education of the American
I Negroes and of the native Afri
[cana’ opened here t^ week.
Shot With Gun
While Piaying
Says Victim
years was known to most of t^e
Hayti residents of Durham as a
landscape gardnex an3~ pardman
waB ffttaly shot Monday night
conveniently located facilities of
Negro ' this great city, and the pfabai’jiHty
Congren will center it* activities of excellent Fall weather, every
about the celebration of the Con- | ^ign )ia for A Convtention that
stitution and commemorations 6f
the illustrious achievmeents of
of Richard' Allen-and Jphn Brown.
Mayor S: Davis Wilson of Phila.
make history;
I E^en Bostic, age 4‘6, died at his
• ^ home, 4fti5 Smith Street on August;
delpaia president, which i% col- 3iOth. Funeral service was htld on
laborating with the National N«-j Septem/ber 1st at Grove Hill: Mr;
gro Congress in a huge demonstr. , Bostic is survived by his wife, and
afion to be held at onje of tbe city ' one chUd, also his father:
Final Tribute
DOUBLY HONORED
by Miss Elizabetii hoyton. 24 ypsr
old young woiban of 1)516 South
Street while playing With a 22
rifle.
Known to most of. the Hayti re-
sidentiU as “iShortyf, he was a
familiar figure iit and arotind
Durham, having worked at vari
ous times on the yards of mosc of
the .per^ns living in the Hayti
section. ^
Lyons stated prior to his death
that the shooting was accideii^tal.
By Ruth Rojrvter
In 1919 a young minister who
had been gr^en fsoma private
training? by late Jats. Rev Spill-:
jand the late Rev Brawley loft
; Durham to embark upon a min-
^istral career that was destined to
play an important part in his life
'and in the lives of thousands of
,*he new church was destroyed by
fire, leaving not even a hymn
100k as a reminder of what wa»
once a ptece o^worahip:^ Und“r
the leadership of Rev; Mason the
church was reliuilt on a bigger
and bttter scale with a new pipe
org^an. modem oak pews, a nine
room parsonage with both the
I
influence of his forceful prsach- all modern cnveniences.
I T^ie finest church bufit by the
j Rev W. L. Mason sometimes former Durham minister wca in'
I referred to as the. “unknown South Carolina where Jhe preached
preacher’ has possibly done more only one Sunday a moith. This
work in the ihort time'-e4-18 yr*. waa done in 1931r hut after ai*
he has been in the ministry I.,an cepting a. call to the Ebef*«*»er
the average minister ijf the gospel Baptist church in Winaton-Salcm
does ^in 35 years. His work the work was given up. At Win?-
been both of a spiritual and nat- ton-Salem Rsv. Maaon cleared
erial nature.. Paying off debts of that church of all indehtness knd
chu'rches he has pastored, building increased the membership aroanj
new churches and' parsonages an fteventy-five.
well as holding successful revival I
has been some of tl,e achieve-1 In 1934 «ev. Mason aee^|Ud a_
I all to pastor in Reidsrille: Uere
and for-
^ resident who has
the young woman. A hearing will ^ extraordinary suc-
be had Friday, Iwd Miw Horton j ^ ministry since Jcav-
will be charged wjth assauft and Durham. Rev: Mason
tvtlui-y nr»h ■
*ras a
fpw rlayji and
ments of this hard working min
ister of the gospel.* ’
When JB«v Mason left Durham
in 191? with IKtJe exSerieAcr as
a minister to go to Concord tut
pastor of the First Baptist church
of that city, he came in cor.i.'xct
The ballet that ended “Shorty’s'
life struck him in the abdom'^n,
and be wai^ ru^ed to Lincoln
hospital wh^re he succumbed
Wednesday morning at 3:05
o’clock: Efforts to c'ontact his re.
latives were fruitless here up to
Wednesday morning at eleven
o’clock p: m: Due' to this fact
funeral arrangements have been
delayed:
was interviewed to represorjta-
ives of the Carolina Tinies.
HEADS POST-GRADUATE
ASSOCIATION
he tfound a small congregation, a
frame fcoilding, no modem heat
ing ]>lMt and not enonsii roooi t«
crowds that came tp bear kim
preach. • A new brick church at
Reidsville hai* been built v
Lucien Moore
-oGo-
ATTpiRNEfY WM. HOUSTON,
jwell deserved honors descended
jjUpo'n him. He was elected, pi'esi-
^dent of the National Bar Asso
ciation in Ph'iladeljphia and ere
thee acclaim had died dovvni was
appointed a Special As:(istant to
the United States Attorney Gen
eral. »
THomas Lucien' Moore, wdl ^ . . . . ....
known citizen of Durham died at; entertain the visitmg
Lincoln hospital Sept«Blier Mr. Houston tt h member of
after an illnes», exten« pWf in vrhKh waa held was the firm of Houston an^ Houston
siveral ifiOTJthHr Mr Moot^ -hi* aon being Charles H. Houston
been only confined to his bed j ^f.cer to the organfaation whoTSriHei- memKer of WashinVoff
came from distant cities in the Board of Education and aeting
state to pay the last respect tc Dean of toward Law School
a man whom they considered of Mr. Houston is pre«ident of
high cha^a^ter and) nofcle pu^oie, the Washington Bar Arsociation
little more than a week at the
time ■ of his death' resulting "roni
la complication of di,^eases.
TEACHERS AROUSED , ■
^^—
week at Madison, Wisconsin a group of white and colored
arose in protest against the southern manager of a white hot^
grill because the manager waa furious when a Negro teacher, at-
ien-cV:ng»the meeting of ^e American Federation of Teachers, entered
the griill in the company of three white companions. The teachers
have learned*"-threw a picket line around the hotel and let it be
publicly known that they were not going to tolerate any racial
discrimination of their group, a MANUEL.
^outrtfur|- physician to whom
Contrary to the bdief of 'many all if the white teachers protest-^ many honors have come yecently. 1
ing the action of the hotel manager were not northerners. The account ^ Last month eleetfed presi- j
says tihat many soufiheirn whifle teactera joined their ^rthem dent of the Provident Hospital
with most of tha usual problems j Sunday School rooms on the tid?.
which confront a voun!? Hiiiiiatpr ■ pipn nrprnn and a mod-
taking up a new work, fle found |em heating ptant and tKe men-
the church in Concord had been .bership has growff more than 200
jin debt for more than 25 yaars. lin the small to^ of Reidsville.
[Also a nsw parionage had be« At the Reidsville church more
constructed and that had to :be ^more than |17,COO has be^n raiv
paid for; Within eighteen months ed for the three years and .five
'both the church and pai-sonagc |months iRev. Mason haa b«en
had been cleared of all fhd ib*;-, pastoring the church, and th't -
new under the careful rtanage-1 hurch has an indebtness of only
mfipt and . leadership of Rev; ] 2,0^0 which the memlberrhip
Mason. In addition the church had could eaaly pay within one yoar.
raised $650 to purchase a lot on j All of Rev. Mason’s work has
which a new church how stands, not been in building, and payirg
In 1921 Rev. Mason accepted off debts of churches. During hi*
a call to a Baptist church in Hifrh ministry he has spent 133 week.%
Point where he found a church in all, holding revivals. More t:~a'r^
with 46 members, and an ind.bt ,6,000 souls have .been brought to
netf of $260)0: The indebtn^.o.ti Christ through these revivals,
was Quickly paid off, and in ’923 I Here is really a harj* working
a new church was built, a two . minister of the gospel, one that
manuel pipe organ installed tc- ) deserves the commendation of
gether with a new Emerson piano, who reajly appreciate doers and
and a new heating plant. In 1925 not talkers.
The deceased wag 50- years of
age at the time of his death. He
was born in
son of Mr; and Mrs; John'Moore;
For a long number of years
»Mr: Moore had been identified
with the church life of Dui’ham,
ha«ng been a member 0 the-2nd
Baptist church 0^ thia city as well
as deacQin: ‘p'or four years he
had served as a mennber of the
Ebard of Directors' of the North
At the time of his deirth Mr: * “ember of the National Law-
^ ^ , Moore was « deacon of the Sac- and.numeroua frater
Orange County the. nal organization.
fi Mra! *Tnnn Mr»rkr^ • * . . t . ... v* --
on all matters pertaining to the^
church was listened to with re
spect by his fellow officers: j
The deceased is survived by hb
wife, two daughters, his mother
and three brotHers:
UNITED afTATES MINISTER
TO LIBERIA HINES WITH
GERMAN CONSUL
The funeral was held Monday
MONiEtOVIA, Oberijf- (ANP
—The Honorable Le&ter A. Wat-
^ American Minister to Libe-
C A r ol 1 n a Inter-dneominational Sfecdhd Baptist. cKurch: In the ab^
Ushers Association and at the be. *sence of
„ _ _ ria, wa« host at a diplomatic din-
a ipastor the Rbv: T: G; given in the American. Eik-
ginning of this year waa elected Graham preached the sermon at- iJ’„„
president of the Durham Usheva’ x. ..... t^e ne^y ap
Unon an organization of all the
Qshers of Durham churches:
Tfhe' recent annual meeting of
the N: C:i Interdenominational
Ushers ^[qciation in thi city
^ound him active in doing what. eral arrangements;
ter resolutioss from the various ^on^l General,
auxiliaries of the. «hureh were p jj^s. Eitekor
read; I n-t e r m e n t was. atthe
B(^echwd(od cemetary on Pftyet Among the,^ geusts were the
teville Road; Scarlborough • Har- Hon.'%cretarf of iState and Mrs
gett were in charge of the fun Slntpson and the British Charge
.d‘Affairs and Mrs. Long.
companions in letting it be known that they were not i accord with
the action of the hotel manager, and asisisted in the picket line
thrown around the place. „ ^ '
* * ** t_
Several norahem newspapers commenting on the action of. the
soirthtm teachers have evidenced surprise that southerners would
join such a*^ protest fii behalf of a Negro.The Carolina Timea fells
that there is ng need 'for any great amount of surprise on the part
if tkjs.a who. live above the Mason and Dixon line. There are thius-
-a*ds--of--ft»tiw southern whites who are aware, of the fact that
Negiocs do not alwaS'S get a*^fair deal when it comes to public eliting
plac;3 as well as educational and other opportunities. Thep resent
ssgic^at'on and all other kinds of racial discrimination, but because
they :.re overwhelmingly outnumbered 'in their stand against .these
injustioes .they do not laways come out in the 6pen with it. Miaaison,
Wisconsin gpve these liberal minded teachers, an opportunity fo-
self expression wiiich they have, long,wanted. It was possibly the
first t'.me in their lives that many gf them have had an opportunity
to act human.
All Negries of the South know thousands of whites who rebel
secretly against the discrimination of the Negro. They do not always
have the moral courage to withstand the stigma of becoming^ social
outcast from members of their own group to become a champion bf'
justice for the Negro. However these friendly aoutherners seise-what
ever opportunitp that' avails i^lf to defend the , riglj|b8 of^ the
•^egro. The consequences are the afellth' is slowly but surely changing j.
its attitude towards the Negro, and we are not afraid to predict j
that not many years h^nce the sotithem white man will truly become
the Negro’s best friend.,
Negro teachens living and working in the aouth, victims of
salary discrimination, ahoald sto^ well tht action of those fellow
teachers who attended the annual meeting of the American JE*edera-
tion of Teachers. They should think of their own plight here in the
south, and take courage enouglt to strike surely and certainly
Ceatiaved'oa page •ight
Post Graduate Association dur
ing the meeting in Chicago.
Wendell Tobacco
Market Reports
e
last
tran
week’,'tiJ'fer com-
ever Among th«
PRESSpSERVICE PRESIDENT Wendell, N. C. ^ptember 11*. ■ Early
“ 1937-—With an average of c^er j petition
?2S.(K) per hundred pounds, the buyers was quite evident and thia
Wendell tobacco market s^joffed,
Mondcy the second full week’s
y
sale or^ the pr**sent season with
one of the very highest a-ve'agea
achieved so far bp any mark*t in
any belt in the State this year:
In exact figures Monday’^ 'aL's
of 133,860 pounds sold- for an
average price of 525 ;3S per au-i-'
dred pounds: This price represt-ot
an increase of abo^t' $2 .00 per
hundred for all grades over-’'th"
prevailing price one week ago
this 'Same State. ^
Probably more farmers from
a wider area than over before are
C9ming to the 'Wendell market to
give it a trila, and most if not all
of them are going away favoi,ab-
JOHN A. FOUCH'BE, for.tier cilitiM and market prices 'he#*:
memS>er of th^fteff of tb« Caro, jly impresaed with the markM fa-
I na Tiaie*B^nd writer of the Not only have many farmern
from Wake and adjourning coun.
column CQh "'Jfie Stroll’, which
Bilipeared for many years*^ in thi.s
{Miblkation. Mi, -.Fouc-hae -ucat
reUdes over the work of the
Pouchee Preas Service located on
Fayetteville St.
has increased this week, especial
ly for higher grades; So far '
the quality of the weed offete^
M concerned tHe average Wa ^
fair from the beginning bet dur
ing' the past few days ther« has
been considerable imiprovem^Bt:
However, the prices for all Trade-t
according to government grading
authorities stationed here who_
keep day by tabulations, has
cr??ased several dollars per hun '
dred during the pa«t ten days:
GOLDIE GARLAND PASSES
ON MONDAY
Goldie L. Garland aga SO, JDMl
August 90th at the Cocaty |i^
firmary at 4 p. A. Puneeal m
conducted at the Catholic Churt^k
ties been coming here but farmrs *by 'Father 0*Briant Intene^t
fmm- iVitginja—and > throuyhont |jgjd in Red Mowtahi C»aarfK>y
most of Carolina have also made on S^^tember Srd. Miaa GaflMti
one or more trips to tha Wendell is survived by her
market this season; ) ather. i