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VOLUMN 18 N«. t
DURHAM, N. C. SATURDAY FEB. 19. 1938
ntics pimcsnT»
ED. ALSTON FOUND GUILTY
Man Who Murdered
103-Year-Old Wbman
WUI Die Friday May 6th
Negro MitheM^May
SbI Up few Cliutcli
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In a courtroom packed to ita
atmoflt capacity a Jury whkh had
been obtained ft*om a special ve
nire returned a verdict of guilty
of murder in first degree against
Ed Alston here today after deli
berating for more than 116 hours.
The trial.jtfhich at^iHlid early
Thursday morning did not end
* until ^i^nd/&y night aronnd
with « stick of wood until both
were unconscious. According to n
confession which he is supposad
to hav« made to polled aft«r thB
'Time the defendant took |18
from the person of Mrs. Wilkor-
son and made hi* escape from the
house. He wa« apprehended a few
days "afterwards by local police.
Mrs. Willrerson died at Duke
Hospital the same ; evening.
Counsel for tiie defense at
tempted to show that if Alston
Committed the cfimrf' he wa^
4nink at the time and was nof
conscious of what he was doing,
and thereby was only i^iilty of
Ijnarder in the second degree.
after eleven o clock ^ —s- *
Jmmediately after the verj.ct
Judge (EHirgwin sentenced the de
fendant to die in the gas cham>)er
at the state penitentiary in Ral
eigh pn '6th day of May.
eight ^’cloick. At the conclusion
of the charge ..to the jury by
Judge W: H. Burgwin presiding
over tha pr^nt trem of Durham
County superior court, the case
was turned over to the jury. The
first several, jkallota taken ^ow
ed a six to tix deadlock which
lasted until
Thursday night. After beinfr un
able to reach a venUct the court
decided that the jury would be
locked up for the night and an
attempt to reach a verdict Friday
morning. After several hours d»
liberations a fintt degree verdict
uraa finally reached.
Jleprasenting Hbm defeftdaal
were Attorney Sij^nnd Meyer
an4 Atto»«y Cl^ W. HalL The
state waa represented by Solid'
tor Leo Carr, »
Alston had :been charged viti.
murder of Mrs. Jannie 'Vi^
kerson, 103 year old residant oi
Bntafpriae stree^xai the iftmoon
of Deeenilber 24. According U
tritnesMS the idlFendant went to
the home of the elderly lady
where he had J>eeiL redding as ■
roomer and l>eat her and her
granddaughter over the head
Alston received the sentence
of death with the same lack of
nerviousness which has characte
rised %\m thronghout the entire ■
triali If he is executed by g&8 he
irili l>e the third from Durham
County to die by the gas>rout;)
since the institution of the g;as
chamber.
M. .—I , ■ I—
HOUSTON —(C)— Editor C
F. Richardson of the Houston De
fender, spoke over KXTZ Satur
day evening on the “Negro Good
will Program.” Mr. Richarson is
president of the local KAACF.
«id director of I3ie Negro Cham
ber of Commerce.
SENTENCED TO DIE
Yotttfif Congress
Leader Speaks
In Durham
ED. ALSTON, who w«» tried
•ad cooTicted here thi« weak for
l9ia Murder of Mr*. Janie Wiikar-
•on, 103 year old recideni of En-
tMprU* •troet. «Th* dal* mi Ai
des'* death wa* let for Majr 6th.
AMERICAN TEACHERS ASS’N
ENDORSES CAMPAIGN FOR
EQUAL SALARIES FORT"
WHITE AND BLACK
Speaking before the faculty
and, student body at the Chapel
exercises of North. Carolina Col
lege here, Mr. Louis E. K*umham,
Field Secretary for t3ie ^outBorn
Youth Congress, sounded a call
for the participation of youth in
CHICAGO EPISCOPAL c6N-
VENTION ELECTS NEGROES
TO ilim)RTANT POSTS
CHICAGO, Feb. 16—(AiNF) —
At the 101st Annual Convention
the Second Southern Nejfro j of EJ>i*copal Chiurch of fee
Youth Conference. The Confer- j Diocese of Chicago, meetins in
* ence this year will .be held in ; the Church of the Epiphany,
Chattanooga, Tenn. on April 1st, 1-Ashland Boulevard and Adams
2nd and Srd.^ * week, upon the nomination
Referring to the celebration of ^ oi the the Rev. Fr. Samuel b.
the anniversaries of the birth of Martin, priests in charge of St.
Abraham Lincoln and" Douglass, i Edmund’s Church, Harry H.
Mr. Buniham proclaimed that Face was re-elected to a seat on
"Our taa ktoday is to" meet and the Diocesan Council. Mr. Fac®
defeat the same forces which ’ has served afretdr thr^ years in
these two great liberators defeat- [this {K>sition. being the first N*-
ed in their day. For this, task we gro ever to be elected in the Di.v
firs!?' need three thThgS’: the cese to such ah office,
vision whSch Eioug-lajis and Lin-L Fr. Martin in asking the ©on-
•?&TlS exemplified; a kiio^^ge of'vention for the reejectioii of Mr.
'CHICAGO—Negro leaders of
the Methodist Episcopal Church
met in the St. Mark’s Methodidt
Episcopal Chui-ch, Chicago, tlii.«
month, to consider problems aris
ing from the prospect of White
Methodist Unification, should the
Gercral Conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, South np-
prow the Plan by a two thirds
irrajotity when it meets in Bir-
minghftm, Alabama^ tlifls May.
These 250 leaders. Ministerial
and Laymen, came from every
section of the Church and repr^
sented all of the Colored Confer
ences as lar west as Denver
Colorado and as far ■south a»
Florida.
IE4shop Ro.{)ert E. Jones of Co
lumbus, Ohio issued the call for
the meeting which carried «ho
’V. Clair Drs. W. A. Hughes
the signature of Bishop Matthew
Matthew S. Davage, R. N.
Brooks, A. R. Howard and J. W.
tJowen, Jr. One of the major
points of discussion related to th3
chairmanship of the meeti.ig.
When one of the delegates of
his* area suggested that a .nan
from floor be ma^e chair
man, Bishop Jones strongly ob
jected, saying that he ‘‘would not
pej-mit himself to be put out of
the chair in that way”. He held
the chair thl*ouglK>ut the session.
A second point of contention
related to fc’ie failure of the
Committee to_^ invite the New
York' pastors to the parley. The
Bishop-' disclaimed any intention
al alight of these men, even
though at least five preliminary
conferences had been held in New
Orleans, Atanta, St. Louis, Pl\i!a-
delphia and New York through
out tha twelve month period^etEtf-” "trsl Jurisdiction,
WASHINGTON, D C.. Feb.
16 — XANP) — The American
Teachers Association will co-op
erate with the NIAACP and local
state teachers groups in an ef
fort to ibring about equality in
salaries’’l)aid whit6“ and Negro
teachers. This action- was taken
by the Executive Committee of
the organization at its meeting
held in Washington. Saturday.
Thurgood Marshall, representing
the NAACP told of the fight for
the equalization of teachers sa
laries. \
The ‘BTxecutive Committee -JUt-
lined a prog^ram for the Tu^ke-
gee meeting which will be'hel(J
July 2i6 - 2®. The program will
center around the theme: ‘"The
IJegta- Ijooks ^ St tjccupa- ^sts should now seek union with
tions in America." The making the Colored Methodist Churcn.
up of the program was left to [ OEtishop Jones seemed to favor
President A. Heningburg and Ex- J this last proposal while Bishop
evutive Secretary Wm. W. San-j Glair was favorable to the prjpo-
ing up to this meeting, witlvo-ut
inviting Drs. L. H. King, F. A
Cullen, and L- Jordan to either
meeting.
The main "discussion of the
group was with reference to pa
ragraph No. 7 of the previouly
prepared agenda. Sentiment wag
divided as to whether this group
should recommend to the colored
conferences to withdraw from^ the
Methodist Episcopal Church and
set up a distinctive Negfb Church
or whether these, Jfegra... Metho—
•al for a distinctive Church.
After an all day session con
cluding with a mass meeting at
night, addressed by Bishop A. P.
'’Shew of New Orleans, the body
appointed an Adinterim commit-
tee^ composed n{ the IBSshops and
a representative. Lay and Cleri
cal, from each of the annual con
ferences to carry out further
procedure in regard to the Plan.
Following is the complete agenda
considered by tWe group:
1. Th\t Bishop M. W. Clair shall
read all thpse sections of the
Plan of Union which relktes to
the Central Jurisdiction.
2. Thaiu we urge a careful
study of the plan, (a) By Minis
terial unions, (fo) Institutes and
Conferences.
3. That we consider the advisa-
bility of conducting, through the
Southwertem duristian Advo
cate. a campaign of ed^ation on
the plan. That we riiould select a
dozen men who would agree to
contribute on article each, OVsr
the period of one year, or one
article per mont^.
4. 'niai; we should order an
Inteiim £|«mm|ttee composed o|
The Negro IBdshops. Six persons
at large and an additional Ni:ie;
that this ComhiiUee should take
under advisement questions that
may be raised in the period be
tween the larger sessions, and
may be charged with a sufficient
authority to act on such, ques-
fti6>is for the’l^oup.
5. Whether we shall have a Juris
dictional headquarters or expect
to share houses with ,the White
Group in our board relationships.
6. That we shall_ unitedly request
four Episcopial are\s for the Cen-
SELLS NEW IDEA
vision to our work in Liberia.,-
7. That we state, through Dr. J.
Bowen, our present« attitude to
ward, (a) a distinctive Negro
Church (b) Union with other
Colored Methodists.
Faithfully subip.itted by your
sub-committee on Agenda, and
unanimously adopted by the
Committee on Agenda, February
I, 1«3«.
Bjshop R. E. Jones, General
HChairman, -W. Ar. "er^"HttgEeSr
Chairman, Sub Committee; Rob
ert N. Brooks, Secretary; Bishop
M. W. Clair, President Pro-tem-
pore Committee on Agenda.
O-
rev; &EORCE W. HARVEY,
pattor of Naw Hope Baptikt
church, 332 Hawkins aTonue,
firaddoek. Pa., who ha* giTeD to
Ao-Jlaeo H* fi>»t hittorical
•ndar, being m compilaition of
kistorical facta, one for each da;^
in the year. Re^. Harrey complet
ed on thi* Ull, every door
ed the work after two yeair* of
r««aarch, and ha* tuBplied three
large in*arano« compaaie* with
calendar* for thi* -year. He ha*
a few of fhe^ «al«ndsrs 1*1* for
^Mrlbatioa to ahurche* aad to-
cial club*, end inTitei eo|k-re*pon-
dence. A natiT« of Pewellton. W.
Va., ReT. Harrey wa* educated
at WjMt Virginia Staite, Oherlin-
and Virginia Theological *emi-
aary. (CS)
USES WHITE REST ROOM '.N
TEXAS COURTHOUSE; JAILED
AND FINED
WOODVILLE, Tex., Feb.. 18
(By James P. Boseman for A
NP)—®ecause he used the white
ANTI-LYNCHING MEA-SURE
SHELVING PREDICTED
IN THE SENATE
WASHINGTON. Fefc. 16—The
Senate today defeated a secon'l
attempt to break the anti-ljmch-
ing bWt ^tttbuster by limSSRon
of debate.'The vole w«s 42 for
cloture and 46 against.
Majority Leader Alben »W. I
Barkley, D., Ky., said that the |
long battle over th® meaaur* |
might be expected to end—pre- _
sumably in shelving tBe legis’.a- fcrn^de
tion—early next week.
The first cloture attempt, trad*
in January, lost when only 37 facial prejudice
votes' were cast for cloture and ' _
51 against It. A two-third vote *
is required to invoke the rule. |
'tbrkleyr confronted wiUi a ’ M. Landon.‘ formar R*-
iogjam of appropriation bills, ^ publican candidate for pr«aid«at
said he expected a final decision ' "f the United States and a
on the anti-lynching bill - about tinguished .memiber of the laity
Monday, with sidetracking the ' attending the Council ir—isi~,
only likely outcome. j won tumultous applause when iM
It is my idea,” Barkley ^id, * addressed his fellow cfaorclDBea.
"that the bill will be disposed of t Declaring the United States araat
when the $260,000,000 deficiency .have a moral rTffiTtrT tofnra aS:
,ri^|f'meaaiire:.*js r^4y> prsfcslOj . eci«wfiHc comeback » poaaiMe,
on'MfHday.’' [the poj!jIar Eaosaa man aaid;
NATIONAL METHODIST
COUNCIL WANTS RACE
PREJUDICE ASC»JSK£0
CHIpAGO, Feb. i6—(ANP)-^ ^
With more than 4,0)00 delefata*
in attendance at last Saturday's
final session here of the Unitad
Methodist Council, a five
was unanimously adapted
urging Methodists to cooperate oi
abolishing the liquor traffic, gas*
and dit*
crimination, war an d economie
injustice.
At that time, a vote pro.bably
will be taken on calling up the
“When I say ‘moral recovery* J
mean the recovery’ of all ttiaar
.... , essentials of character, aadi a*
deiicie.ncy bill, which would lay i,j « .
-J ^ 1 honesty, decency, sQuare dealfac,
aside the anti-lynchm-? measure ' ^h^^ty, ^aith Si our«lVea. in .or
after six weeks of fi.ibustenng ; f^jQ^.men and God."
debate. General opinion m the | ' «■
Senate was that the vote would I Referring to racp- prejudice aat
I'avor taking up the relief legis- ^discrimination, the Council’* pr«-
lation. ‘ ^ j nouncement stated: “Naitfc« ut
Barkley defended the cloture these is Christian. Our profw-
proposal as “reasonable.” He tur
ned to thff record to show ih,'it
several Senators ■wno were op
posing cloture had voted to gag
mcn’o rent room at th^ Wff' themselves in the pas;^ and then
Milwaukee, Wis., business man,
was arrested and fined.
Martin, when arrested, was
asked by the sheriff why he took
sue h) lihei-iies, The Northerner,
who was motoring through at the
time, said the only sipi he saw
displayed was marked “Gentle
men.”
To which the sheriff replied,
“Gentlemen’ sure don’t mean
‘WggefsT'"'
“•Tha victim’s fine was $14.75,
the minimum for this oflense.
Dillard U. has received $30,000
from "the N. Y. Education board.
lack of .attention' to the debate
When debate ha* been recum-
sions of brotherhood mu^ becoma
more tlian words.*^
ed on tUa bill, every deer haa
swung open to penah Seiiaters
lo get out,**^ he *aid. 'Evea tlie
de*k* would haTe left if tkey
weren’t screwed to tbe fleor.’
Bishop Wriglil Slops In
London To See Piiysiciii
Hodge Gets Hitler’s Assurance
Of‘No Prejudice’ OnGermairTaur
-l^EW YOKE—(O— Bishop R.^
R. Wright, Jr., of the AME
church, on his way home from
Cape Town, South Africa, stopp
ed in London last w'eek for -me
dical treatmentjN^ according to a
special statepiei^ received a few
days before he ‘landed in New
York. Writing at sea, the Bishop
said:
-OQO-
^i^w to make thi s vision a pi'acti-
cal reality; the will to pay the
price for putting 6ur con^ctipns
into motion.” Tha speaker des-
ticQ>e4 the,.Sonthem Nagro Youth
Congress as the outaS^ding or
ganization among young colored
people which aims to fulfill these
three rital neeessities of the
titnes. ,
During hir atay in Durham,
Mr. Burnham Has also addressed
many otherjn'OUDa. includinf tjie
upper grade stndenta at Hiilsidf
High school; the Ministerial Alli
ance and tre con.*Tegatlon t t
White' Rock Bteptiat Church.
Mk Burnham ia on a tiiree-
■ a-- 'x ■ 4
-(.OUT ux ujmww
Nor^ imL^outh Carolina, and
plaws to cover the eitiaa of Ral
elgh, Flayettaville, Charleston,
Orangeiburg, G^lott«i Salisbury
and WUiiton Satem.
Pace said, “It is .high time that
w'hite people practiced their
Christianity rather than talk so
mw;)i about it You have show-i
ytmr good spirit‘tfeee years ago
te^’the election of a Negro to the
Diocean Council. I am asking you
to take a further atep and to
eleet a Negro del«K*ta to tha
Provincial Synod of. this Church.’
Mr. Dawson of St. Thonu^ Bpaar
copal Church was 'nominate^ and
elacted., T%is places two I^gr J
i^rehmen in impottant positions
in the Diocese of Chicago. Tho
Convention wma preaided over by
the Bishop of the DiocMe,'^tiia Bt.
R«t. Gaorge ^Graig Stewart.
Cnarles W. Greene, aasil^ant
aganey director of Atlaaia Life
Inauranca company, is chai^a of
five states, haa shown a li2^ per
cent increase in the last 6 years
NEW YORK — (C) ~ Assu
rance from Adolf H|tler, Leader
of the German Reich,- 'of no-^co*
Judice and no embarrassment on
his proposed tenth annual tour of
Europe next summer, when h'6 will
visit Grermany for the eighth timft,
came to Adolph Hodge, 1040 74
street, Brooklyn, N. Y., Friday;
from 'American representative
of Chancellor Hitler in New Aork,
M5 Pifilh sfvenue. Mr. Ho^ge had
b)i Decdin^er 19 addressed a letter
l£b Chancellor Hitler, personally,
pointing out ^that from ' press re
ports he was much concerned'a-
bout the treatment colored people
would receive on a visit to Ger
many, but adding tha£ on several
previous visits, he and his parties
had received the utmost courtesy
everywhere and that their trip had
-beep most anjoyable. Mr. !Hodge
told Hp.-'Hitlep^ that ■ he wantad
personal assurance that his j^arty
wouljl be shown the same courtesy
and respect as on previous tours.
In reply Mr. Hodge received the
Berlin at the time, writes* about
following letter from E. Schmitsi,
Representative of the U. S. A..
German Milroads, Information
Office, 665 Fifth Avenue, New
York: ' “ » ''■
Text of Letter
“The chancellory of, the Gar-
fn&n Fue’irer has forwarded to us
ryour letter of December 19 ad-
^ 'dressed to Mr. Adolf Hitler and
erpressing concern about your
welcome in Germany and vvhat
the official attitude in regard to
your reception, would be.
"We beg to advise Vou .^at
whoever comes to Germany as a
■guesl? or
many the hospitality extened to
any and all guesl^.
^“This spirit ihas always pro-
railed in Germany, Allow ra« to
anota an editorial oi tk€
sports writer. Bill Hehry, .which
wai'publishad hi the Los Ansreles
Times very recently; or to be
correct, on January 7, 1938. Mr.
Hjenry, who was an observer in
Jesse Owens:
Owen* ‘Mo*t Popular* "
“Owens became the outstcnd-
ing Olympic hero of modem
times by winning four gold me
dals at (Berlin. He was not only
tha^ outstanding athlete of the
Games Jbut the most popular with
tha crawdst He was swamped by
autograph and. camera fiends out
side the stadium, cheered and ap
plauded inside, and Invited
on post.^. season trips to^ll paJ"t£
0^ Germany-r«iTh«v a Him on
his arrival (in the United States)
about the snubbing an^l il/ treat
ment in Germany and Qwin.'
quite frankly told” ®^worid that
he not only had not been snubt>-
ed Jsut that he*d^ ner^r been
treated better in his life.’ The
writer then points ©at ttiaf Jesse
iitj was a victini Gf Am^ricaH
propagandists.
"We appreciate the opportu
nity you have given us to explain
this matter to you, and if you re
quire any further i^ormation in
3isp0'al.'
“We land tomorrow (Jan. 28>
in Southampton, proceed at once
to Ldpdon where I am to speak
before^ "the' Li^gue of Colored
People on ‘The Melting Pot of*
1 • i il.,. ,» .South Africa*—at least that is
plauining your 1938 tour, the fa- , , , ^ ^ „
•1..L- they ve asked me to talk
cilities of this, office are at your i...! ,, . ..
1 about through, I confess, I have
e ... . I I .not seen South Africa as much
Sailinx in July— I . ... i . . ;
I of a meltmg pot; but my main
Upon receipt of the letter Mr. , object ‘ for stopping in London is
Hodge was elated, for he said his to get medical treatment. I am
tour of Europe this year, on ^ very much improved though I
which h'e will sail in July, will '*tiil do not have the free
touch Englandr Franca, . - hitnda^, cannot write not-cat up_
(jermany, Austria, Hungary, Bel-,» beefsteak. i-
gjum^. Swit^erjfesa, YB|j6slavla, | • £Our voyage-^ so«.far has bean
and Czechoslovakfa, and will pro-1 very pleasant. We're on the ftn-
January we were M aiid-sama*
I eating peaches, watBrmalM*
grapes and all sorts of sumraar
fruits. The- young people war*
bathing on tha beaches whi!« Um
old people were seeldng railaf
from the heat, and now wa ai%
approaching snow clad Sngland*'
in the middle of winter. Foartaai
days ago we saw the sun ria« in
Cape Town at 6:47 A. M.
set at 8 P. M. an^ wa war* *»-
joying the long sammar rskya.
Now the sun risese at aboat fiit
A. M. and set around 6:30 P. M.
^r a short winter day.
“I ,ag bringing soma tkfalM ...
^StTlLfri for axMUt wt -
^^merlea.”
THYRA EDWARDS TO SPEAK
AT NORTH CARMLINA
COLLEGE
known social worker,*' lactone 'fe
and world traveler will irtaV at
the North Caroina Coll|«a T^aa-
ina v.;zecnosiovaKja, »nu wm ^ru-| ttciv um wt; aiu'* i wortli UarOlM %JoJi)l^ 1
LCed, with greatey; confidence of | ^st boat^of Uie Union Ca.9tle Line jjctay evening at T o’clock II
a -1iappy vacation Its oh each of the Athaone Castle. The air-con-, be announced.
is nine previous tours. Mr. Hod-
je added* th*t_l^ has received
letters from all notels where his
party will stopr'Snd liSs been ^s^
sured of a courteous reception at
iW points. On former ^ips, 'Mr.
Hodge said, none of Ws patrons
drtioning is such that we - ^ept
under blankets as we crossed tha
equator. We have had absolutely j has onducted
at-ho
H •
inconvenience from the Itei
passing through the Torrid
ntr
in
Zone. In facr Ts^Tf^lSning to
feel cold now as I enter winter
felt, at any time, tiie sHgjhtest j for the first time in'^two years.
diifes=enee in treatment, based on ‘ Just ■ tnffteea days ago when we
color, in any hotel, cafe, night left Cape Town on the 14tii of
club or anyplace visited. On pre-| ' ———.
vious trips to Germany, the last ae, Heidleberg, Maim, Numberg,
which was made in 193i6, Mr. ^ Bonn, Munich, Leipzig ‘and Uam-
Hodge has visited fi^rlin, Colog- bei;^.
In addition * to aervtag
teacher in> Chicago Mrs.
educational tiMiMl
S Euro^, and receSHy'nftoinFjal'
from Spain where aha mnim •
apecil etody of eoBditiona,
men and children in tluit ceaalcy.
Mrs. Edwards is being pweefc-
ed to ,the general poiblle by '&*
North Carolina Collagf* far
groes and the Dnrha
oii Negro Affairs. Th*
.will be held in
Duke Auditoriuak