FINAL
SATURDAY NOV. 27, 1937
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nticE FIVE cEirrs
COMMUNITY CHEST GREAT SUCCESS
More
Community
DiV i sion Ra i se s
an $1500 For
Chest Drive
PHYSICIANS
R. K. Harrfa, Chairman of the
Division of the Commu
nity Ch«*t Fund in an intervievv
h»re tody Mprtt'ad ihis thanks
for the ytry tfte* cooperation jx-
bibited by the workers who took
part in the Community Chest
drive, recently eompleted in ihis
city.
Mr. &irria ^te^' that not
only was the campaign a success*
ixit amount of money raiaed
exceeded the expectations of all
ky at least ~t5ol3I ^
was raised during the
.campnUrn, which is an annual af
fair 1^ Ehirham.
Bir.'fiwiK' is owe of th^ laad-
ing yoong business men of the
city. He is considered very pub
lic spirited,' and in addition to
his heavy duties as Secretary-
Manager of the Banker;! Fire In
surance Company, is membei-
of the Committee on Negi > Af
fairs and various other organi-
zatioBS.
He atated that special praise
was due the employe:! of Lincoln,
Watta and Duke Hoaintals. »•>
•• Hb letter to each worket' in
the csmpaiKn is as follows:
Durham, N. C.
Noyemlber 17, 1937
Fi4al Report of Chairman, Ne^o
Division To WorRcrs in 1937
Durham Community Fund Cam-
paiftn
Ladies and Gentlemen:
It ia with the aincerest gia .t*
tude that I acknowledge the co
operation of Special Committees,
District Leaders and Workers in
what I jbelieve may be called a
rjccesirful campaign >among Ne
groes for contribution^^ to the
1937 Durham Community Fund.
I recognize .that the gifts “ of
fj. A, ROGERS GUEST SPEAK-
many Negro eontribtttora truly ER. AT WHTE ROCK CHURCH
represents the “widows mite,*’ J SUNDAY NIGHT
for in many of our sections oav
workers found conditions which | J. A. Ro?ers, historian, loctur-
warr&nted direct charity rathur , er, newspaper correspondent and
than requests for gift*. 1 wish to world traveler will he tho gusat
especiaUy tJ^nk tliose worksjra '.spaker at the white Rock Hapti 4
and contributors who fuve be- church Sunday night at 7:30.
cause they felt that the t>ime was ‘ M\ Ragejs was in Ethiopia
worthy in spite of the fact ’ tlrnt, during the Italio-Ethiopjan eon-
they could ill afford the expcndi-' fiict and « in position to give
ture. I f*el that all otf as have' his hearerS first hand inforrna-
givcn as we hive been prosporefl tion of just what v'^ent on in that
Locals Grab M^estern
Championship From
high
Mt, Vernon Pastor Takes
First Place In This Weeks
Battle Of Ballots
Dr, Miriam N. MuUrow (Left) | |i^e» ®f prMAaitimly
a.n«l Dr. W. D. Easl«)r, Negro j twins Mveral vf««kk ago.
andJ|[aBk^t^e warkora convey couiitry 'between the Jwo natl^K j W9m»n?phy«iyiaw« of Whitevilla I youn^ women oporoH-
to ev«»T contrt|!uior, I'eiardle^l “fcrtiay->ww»o«l — It ^Unonaored by The Caiolina | tjons are recorded, provided their ion* sided affair the Gieensb^ro
of how £.mall the eontribtition
may have' beeri, the thanks of the
Negro Division, and we Me cer-
tain that you have the Ufanks of
'^he* Community Fund Directors.
We are happy to report that
:K) per cent of the embloyees
)f most of the Durham commei'^
ial . inst{tutions contributed.
Ivery teacher in Durham’s eight
fihools Cor Negroes contributed
ind wo are informed that no ies*
han four thousand Negro child-
en brought some evidence of
heir desire to play a part in the
.•■rfqrt. Too, lOO percent of the
faculty of the North Carolina
College for Negroes contribut
ed. Not including the school chil
dren, a count of listed contribu
tors fhows that —Negroes parti
cipated in the Community Fund
Drive. „
The aggregate amount now in
hand and previously reported to
the campaign committee by o«i
division amounts to $1501.12,
and for the part thel you have
played we again wisht to tliank
you.
Sincorely Yours,
B. N. Hawis, Chairman
Negro Division
at White Rock on next Sunday
night is possibly the most noted
authority on Negro history in
A*«eri«a toflay,—and his know-
ledsge of Negro history wi'.l be a
revelation to those who have not
had an opportunity to hear him.
He if| a most inspiring lecturer
and Durham is fortunate in hav
ing an opportunity to hear him.
In addition to 4»eing a scholar
of note Mr. Rogers has written
several phamplets which carry an
abundance.of histovieal infcrnia
tion
LOSES
HOUSEWIFE LOSES $43 IN before he .could "draw down
N£l#SWlNULk KACKtl
I the money. ?43i had to be paid
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 2W(ANP>
—A well'dressed stranger last
Tuesday bilked Mrs. Roy Kortuni
of$43 by moans of a clov»;r eon-
ifidence game which police say
the first of its kind to feeJteough;
to their attentios. Shortlyj afl^r
on the Negro, both ancient her husiband left for work the
and modem. lie is also author of man appear«tl, told Mis. Kor»
the book entitled "From Super turn her husband had won $660
Man To Man. ' {on a policy game ticket, but that
for a ireceipt which woold entitle
Mm .to collect his wii^nings-
Mrs. Kortum paid tbe affaJ>le
^‘:ianger the $43, met her hus-
iband with smiles that night as he
retiwued from work and congrat
ulated him on his good fortune
Her smile vanished, however, as
’i lillusionment came and her
1m f and told her he had no tic
ket, had made no policy bet,
that she had been “taken" for
hpir hard-earaed f43.
Sonthern Senators tai
Determined Fight On
Anti-Lynching Bill
Gtiarlotte Negroes Fight
Police Double Slaying
ng-AfRLOTTE. Nov. 16.— The
Negto people -of Charl'otte have
lauiiehed a campaign of proteat
agatoat the killing of -WMiiam
Connot by a policeman last Sat
urday. Connor/ a young unem
ployed Negro waq arrested In
downtown Charlotte and accused
of »t6aling * suit of clothes. Ac
cording to the poHce Connor
caped as the police car arrived
at hwdquarters by taking a’
knif» ^t of his hat and tflashin^
at th« police. As he was pursued
By a polteeman iiamed W. T.
Campbel! fell as he was drawing
his gun und accidently kWed
Connor. ^
■E^ewitnes'us of tbe shooting
said Conor was shot while J-
hi» hands were in the air and
the prisoner was “stumbeled ,
sausing the officer to shoot him
in the head! This killing was
comj^tetely whitewaahod by thn
civil bo*rd.
A conuni^e has been formed
;o rai^'6. money for legal aid In
bringing i^oi^a thorough inves-
t^tion of the killia^' and In the
prosecution of the policeman in
volved. Over hundred dollars
has already been nised and very
leading Negro 'x:hurch has pledg
ed support.
TSie State, Conimittee of the
Communist Party baa issued a
statement demanding the femtf-
_val from the police force of Cam-
'ibeH and a grand jury investi-
-^tion.r lEhe atatiement aska tha&^
’otters o'f protast be (lent to
Jtfayor~STO^tonjiBr tif ClteflO'
*ible. Doctor® who exanained the
body faid that .the shot was fir&l
at the level of .Connor's ho»d and
. didnbt enter at an aH^e.
Thia is the second killing of a
Nei^^o prisoner by the.. Charlottgi
polic« in the last few weeks. Re-'
cently a Negro was killed and
in'^1«»#of the cop falling it was
Mrs. Bva Gow« was Hosteati tf
•;he Wisteria .Biii,-o Club Mon
day nigbt. The honn« was a scene
9f autumn—•fill fldwers were
*ised in. profusion. Fi^e tables
were arnuj«ed. for guMts
•’njoyed the evening to the high
est. Salad course, ices, cake,
Tho Speeche* Of Senatork Con-
nally Of Texas And Bailey Qf
North Carolina Only Serve To
Emphaaize Overwhelming Sup-
Support For Meaturo And
And Indicate Certain Pat-
iaire, Aft^r Farm Bill
WASI^IIJGTOK.' Nov. 23 —
Golore4 - h- --sttp-
porting the Gavagan - Wagaei-
Van Nuya anti f ynchini>: bill
need not be alarmed over th'.-
longwinded speeches being mlide
in the Senate this week’ '^gainst
it, for these speeches have sirv-
ed chiefly to revealtha -OUief,.
'•olid strentrth behind the bill and dsbatod
to point more than ever to the
certainty of its passaige.
This does_jri,Qt mean thai ssena-
tors should «)ot be remind h1 c?n-
stantiy of their dut^ to be rn
their gua d and eventually vote
for the bill; hut it does mean
*hat there i&‘no"!occa.'iion for mis-
:^vings.
Stratoljy Smart
The anti-lynching bill w num
ber 2l^n the calendar after the
farm bill, but sdnce a far.-n biH
was not ready for the Senate,
the supports of the anti-lynch
ing 'bill moved to take it up
while waiting for the farm bill.
It was this motion that was d.'bat
ed this week. The strategy of
moving to consiBer tRe anti lyn
ching bill was a smart one be-
3au. e it had not ' ibeen move'!.
Senate. Bynes of South CaroUnt
woi^d probably have got consent
forj his govetnm^^nt;—veor^aniza-
tion'bUl: This bill is a controver
sial measure and might have
for weeks. The)!
tbe farm bill wotild have he^!ll
broujjlit in and debated at length
with the rf;^:t tJiSTThe Tmtf^
lynchhig bill might have goi^e
'vev until Iho middle of tho win
ter. ' ■ i
The senators from tha Deep
South are fighting a losin^f liaitle
and they know it, but they are
determined to talk'^for tbe bcne-
Senajbc^ l)om ConnaHy of
Texas led off the speeches de-
"•igndd to delay consideration of
‘hetibil!. If - - mfe-f %e remembered fAAate,
tliat the speeches this week vwe
not against a motion td consider
"h« bill in advance of the farm
wa.
As it is- noil
'iiir \ViIl come
the anti-lynchi'nif
up immediately
th*e frtrm bill and the cciii-
-nittee d aftin« farm- yU
nromi to bring it out Monday,
November 2i2.
Whsn the fajjm biB is ciittposed
wfllT mi ^
WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL'S
HOillCOMING
there wa-i a ■vmty large crowd
.nany ibeing wiltent seats. Al
though Washincton High cheered
ery heartily, they lost. •
A large number of Shaw’s Co-
,d.s were on top of one of the
/iildings "ehfeeritijg Hi *liis -rain
i^ith all their might for Hillside,
aIs proved've. y «mn ing to the
-.lookers, and helped Hillsidi's
_.irit very niuch because ttey
_rne out victorious 9-0. I*er»i»n-
■lly I\am sorry Wathington Hish
.«t because I hate to a«e a twua
at their h(^e«oHuaK, b«l,
ilways, may the better te^ win.
The Hillside Hi|^ School Hor-
neta blasted their way to a 27 to
0 victory over the strong Dud
ley High School team here Tue
sday to takr the Western Divi
sion championship. The .’ict*»ry^j^-
puts tha local team withm «»ne
step of *he state champioiiia^.-
whicht-will be played off between
iHtgh School and the Horne tj
The first week’s voting in the will see to it that miniiters they Friday afternoon on ‘h-i N
MI,NISTES’S POPtTLAEITY &^are interested in will be noaiir.a College gridiron.
CHRISTMAS GIFT — ‘ - - ' — > * '
sponsored by The
CONTEST j ted before next week’s tabula- Although th^ score indi.-^te >
^is week with Hev. J. H. 'Hiom- ^ tered the contest.
M, pastor of the Mt. Vernon | The voting was unosoaJly
BapHgt- church taking , the lead j heavy all day Wednesday, and if
and holding it ^ a slim margin ’ it get i any hnvier next week
the management will
until the time of goina to press
^'•v. Hiomai’ lead wa t, threat
ened oy 'Bishop H. I* Fisher cf
the Holy T^emacle church and
Rev. A. S. Croom of the Union
Saptist church who were tied for
second place. Many votes were
brought tp the office after tur
tafoulatton Tuesday afternoon
and will havt to be included in
next week's count.
The race so far i« much rloser
tfian the mana|pement had anti-
sipated and shows signs’'(j|E being
intcreirting' and closer throughout
the four weelcs it..-3rill bt; con
ducted.
Sevetttsen minister.'^ had been
nominated up to Tuesday of this
week, and it is expected that
meraibers ar persons intei*estcd
Tbe"
to put oh extra help to
tract of the ballots.
, keep
On the back page of this
week’s issue of the Carolina
Times is the relative standing df
eaqh conte itant entered up until
Tuesday afternoon 6 o'clock. The
•elative standing will be publi.sh-
ed in each week’s issue^f the
Carolina Times until the close of
':he conte when ^ the actual
standing will be pu4>lislied and
the winner declared by a special
ommittee to ibe chosen the night
he prizes are awarded.
‘ WaAington High’s Homeco
ning Proved Veiy Intereisting
^ete. although their team -iid
boat.”
WQMEN PHYSICIANS RUN
DR. DaFOE CLOSE SECOND
NOTED
MUSiCai— GIVE
CHICA€M> MCITAL
the motion to consider the rinll-
.’,«nching bill. The ‘ anti-lynching
ibiB will be in its poww place \n
the calendar and there can oe j.o
It must b* taken ap on
its merits and voted ]^on. There
Is every indication tihat ^ «pti-
lypehing bill will be passed be-
fore Chriritmas,
CHlCAiDO, Iter. 23. —(ANP)
..rrChkago’s paptc. lovers treked
.0 the Abmbam Lincoln Centre
last Sunday ttfteJTOOtm to att-snd
# >s«i>el, one..-of TThe Artists’!.
Seriss,” manned by John Green
and featuring Eileen Jack>«^
pianist and itamon Gafl>ri«l, idae.
niStM T0i." tiiirence
White, wife of the famed violin
ist, was the accompanist Select-
ons from Beetboven,, Lisbt, Schu
««i't, Dett,-Paiganini, Bach and
Olarence Cameron White w«r«
ncluded in the artistcf off»tnf-.
vhich won the .‘plaudits of a larg^
and retponeive adnience.
publi-1 ^
y wiio I
^The New I Reporter, whit»
newspaper of Whiteville, Nonii
Caralina in a recent issue publi
shed .im.. account. a£ two worn
Negro do^ctors of that civ
have performed almost an g cat
a miracte in saving tha iivo oi
a f9t of prematurely boi'n -twins
«r that performed toy Dr. Hoy
Allen DaFoe of -Canada.
Dt. Miram N. Muldro^v and
Jr. 'Wilia/V, £asley are tha two
^omen phj'sicians who^-have bat
tied successfully to save the
-ives of two colored infar tf born
Jbont four months~ago to M«.
Lucille Hall of Ilallsboro, neirr
v^hiteville., ^Already the mothet-
of sevtQ children Mrs. Hail call
ed at the clinic operated by Dr.
Wuldrow and Dri ^^y in Whrtt*-
ville several weeks ago, , lor
treatment of a_ .^fractured r]b
which The received In a"falf
Hall
step .)f the
way and furnfA^ iufficien^
position to the It^als to give ’he
fans plenty for their nionev.
The Honcts coached 'by Fr* »k _
Hei'iuan—Ritfehcte,
■star athlete of tbe North Caro
lina’ Eagl3& showed great fjc.n
and in making a bid fo>' tlM
state high school championship.
Their line as well as their baek-
field functioned according to
order and on several occasion j
the Cans were brought to . thetr
feet by spectacular plays.
The locals have lost only one
'ame this year, and ■havw b«-*n
Toing str«ng. The one encounter
vhich they dropped was ta the
3rpnge County T aining Sch«»ol
ff Chapel Hill. ,
The gam^ against Dudley high
f hocJ was the homecoming
■a me for ths locals, and wat pre-
'eded by a parade that outclass
'd that 0£ ths North Carolina
'’ollege ia, prlamour and splendor.
NORTH CAROLINA COMMEN.
DED AS “PIONEER STATE”
IN MATTER OF HEALTH
AMONG NEGROES
While at tho clinic
eam« in Uhor and gaXfi.
XMtu&Ou imm Itwis ‘ oinw
Uuree and oile fourth pounds and
the other four, potinds. Tlia babies
according to the doctors arrived
:wo months earlies than they
vere Eapposed to, placin^t thr
. tupendoos twUi on tbe. ^physici
ns '«f battUne asaiiat ' heavy
VtHids to save them.
The doctors found it nece.>
sai’y.to work with the smaller oi
{the two girls for more than ii
minutes before it could be ’ma“^
tB'tfriPSith. In STlditTOff first
)f the infants had a norma,
•irlh, but the second cams feei
i St, which caoi^d it to be par-
acularly siontic or what is knov.n
•ft.s .ft “Blue b^y.”.
■Without an availaibie incubator
.he women physicians set aboUk
o rig up one as the best thoy
ouid out of what they had at
nand. The temperature of the in-
•ant t had to be kept at 99 de-lfe
'rees, or "body te'mperetuve, ainl;
henc? were wrapped^ in coiton
form head to toe witi only thtir
faccs .sihowing. , ‘
^ The physicians used ho.' water
bottles to keep them wa.'U'. and-
^^tem with an eve dropper for a
week- which they aaed; a
regular bottle with a sp • t aHy^
prepared millc,
-atJthxfit jKSfiki lL'
RaLeIGH, — .Vott:* Carolina
is commcnded . ss a “pionce’’
state” in the matter of hc.iltn
work among XeJ oes, by Edwin-
R. EJmbre*?, President of the
Julius Rosenwald Fund, in a l«t- »
ter to Dr. Carl V. Reynold',
which the State Health Of'ic^r
h.T.3 made ptjblic here.
Dr. Heyiaoldi recehffy wrolo
Mr. Embree. telling of the ac
complishments of Dr. Walt?c J.
Hughes first Neg^o physiciau sU*
••ached to any State (Eoard «.f
Health, whose appointment 'v:.^
made pos^te through a gmst
'rom the fiosenwald Fond. ■
“You will be pleased to
nhut since ^e appointeseiit el
Hughes” Mr. £mbree isforas-
Dr. R&y nulds, .“^e states of
Texas and iLoaisiaiia bar- s ided
similar Negi%“ assistants, while
Illinois now has two eHored ; hy-
akuana on ita state staff.
/‘The Children’s Bttreau and
the UnHM Sitttes PuMic Heahh
Service have done the same
The_, citiea of JUmlavlBa
and Ne^w Yokk have Neftroe# :«
charge bf heAlth centers. If* ad-
Tunmrs* lyrgmtt* c
showed signs of baiag able t«
eceive the same luiftd e# ti*»»t
nent ^iven any biAf of nora'J
irth. They wete ke^t at '.c
-Hnic ifor s^oat wmths t n»
'er the care of Um woasea phy-
iclans before beinit t«utied over Ge«r^.' gentaefcy.
to their mother. and Tej^*' am
irenRilpT to maka nim^^ni mtn—
vThi‘ State of North Cai^aa**,
Mr. Kn.brce roncluded. *‘Wa» a
pi.iiieor m uplng Nefro t fliya^
cians In tu%ertttloeis wo^f.iirW^
t»iues in the State