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DURHAM. N. C. WEEK ENDING SATURDAY JtJLT 24rd. 1*3S
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WILKIE TRIAL NEARS END
CNA Staff Writer Says
Fight For Scottsbaro
Boys Will Continue
Br SASHA SMALL
(FaaturM S|«S, CNA)
V
Nor-
Two -weeks ago, Clarence
Norri* . in a steel-barred
cell in the Kilby Prfiion death
kouae, onljc a short distance
from the electric chair in which
u Alabama justice decreed he
SKiit burn on Aug. 19. *niis was
the second time.in his young
li/e that the Keg^G^ £oy*^ ha^
l>«en within its grim shadow
•nd the fourth time he had
Iward himself sentenced to die
in ihe nightmare of lynch frame
tip which the world knows as
tlM Scottsboro Case.
The first time Clarence
ria and the> re^t of the Scotts
boro boys were snatched from
the hands of executioner back
in 1932-it was by the action of
the Supreme Court of the Unit
ed States. Since then, ste» by
step, the murder plans were de
feated. This time, Clarence
Norria-the only one of the nine
innocent boys to be sentenced
to death in the 11th Scottsboro
#^ial, was sawd by Hie a«t’«m.
of ^v. Bibb Craves wtio on
July 8 communted his sentence
to life imprisonment.
Perhape the man who is GoV'*
Mmor of Alabama thotight he
.•nded the Scottiboro case by
B 0 y Drowns
TREASURER
N e g ro Farmers
Hold Big MeQt
In WarrentoH
GREENSBORO, N. C. July
20, (£(taff Cornes(pondenit)'—i )
The first person to lose his life
at one of the cit’s recreation
centers was James Love, 13,
who was drowned i>» the Wind
sor center swimming pool a >t
Nocho Park, Tuesday, July 19.
The boy lived on MeConnel
•Road near the city limits.
James’ younger brother,
RooaeveU, accompanied him to
park and neither of the m
conid swim, according to ‘life
guards who found the ^ody on
the boittom of the pool in the
deep section. The hody katl
been in the water jabout fifteerf
minutes before it wos discover
ed. The gfuards who were
conducting a cRtss at the shal
low end of the pool at tfie time
of the drowning stated that
they had chased .both of the boys
water a short
tbia partial step towards Just-
Im. Perhaps he thought his ]
•eti«n would at least still tme befote the drowning oc
mar of pro'test that is rolling curredi » Efforts at
acrps tke ewuntr]^" rtarted when j tiph wer uenavailing.
State
resuscita-
tte Alabama State Supreme
Court last month^set Axigust 19
M the date of which young
Clarence ,^orris was to be le-
•iJly murdc^red.
All Innxltmt
Bbt he was wrong. Life im
prisonment for^ Clarence Norris
la as crhninaU as shameful as
outrageous an injustice as a
■MUtence of death. He is innocent
Innocent, Iboys cannot be locked
•way in ithe graves of living
men becfiuse reaction, hatred,
bigotry hopej to trample on the
rights of the Negro people and
kck them away into prison cells
with the Scottsboro boys.
Now more than ever before
must the drive to free the Scotts
boro Boys be intensified. Ac
cording to Alabama jusitice-on
th« hasis of the same- miserable
(PLEASE “turn to PAGE 8)
JAMES JSTRICKLAND, employee
tile Noi^!?r'^•ro^iuk Mutual
Life Insurance Company who
w«« elected treasurer of the
Carolina Funeral Home, Inc., at
a recent meeting of the Board
of Diie#te'* last wenfc-
The CaroKna fune'fal' Home
wit tccently iacoryMrate^l ub.-
der Ae laws of N. C.
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ttex Mti(der
iiqu8st Held
SLAYER BOUND OVER
Times Big $5,000
Campaign To
Start|Mon.
Hjive you sent in your «ntry
Mank for the CAROLINA. TIMSS
big 1^,000.00' prize campaign,
did you read about it iir last
week’s paper? If not you still
bave time to get in at the start,
(turn to page 5) and see what
it’s all abou-. We ha/e reprint-
•d the page announcement of
the big campaign and in it you
wUrfind the entry —}»lank aH
veady 4or ^pon ta clip out of the
l^per And ^nd ii^ in to the mana-
gwr giving your! name and ad
dress so he can send you instruc
tions and the supplies‘you need.
Don't wait, do it at once, the
campaign officially oi^ns H09-
daj;^^ly 25th. }«t in at the
■tart aH3~15e a winner at: the
finish Saturday, October ‘ l|th,
19S8. - f ,
Oppqrtunilar is c^lpg oM Ij^^d
for you accept it, donit Mfu
it by and later oi\ wish th^ ybu
kad grasped. it There ai^ Wo
beautiful automobiles to be
given away and you caii w|n 'one
of them if you make up , your
aifnd and try to quit dreaming
•nd wishing for a new car, enter
ib« big campaign and get- one.
• Several entries have already
^CHICAGO WOMAN SLAIN IN
FIHGT WITH MAN OVER GUN
CHICAiGO, July 22,, (ANP)
—A corner’s this week contin-
ed until July 26 the investiga
tion into the death of Mrs. Eva
Mae Hogg, shot to death early
l|uesday mcridng. Mrs. Lucille
Mercer, only; witness to the
shooting was released- on her
own recognizance when s h e
promised t4 appear at the July
26 hearing.
According to reports Mrs.
Hogg had an altercation with
Charles Loate, 31 a former
roomer at her home. Loute, it
is said, had returned to visit
Mrs. HJercer, and according to
th© lat^r, Mre. Hogg*ordertd
him from the' house.. In K^ie
quarrel that followed Mjs.
Hogg is said to have fired twfce
Loute,. who then began stri^g-
gling for possession of ihe giln.
Duriint thi melee the, woMan
fell dead, a bullet having peAe-
tated her heart. ;|
CONCORD, N. •C.,' Jntjir 20
(By Charlie Spears tor ANP)—
Displaying none of the timidity
which marked all the white
witness, “Aunt Jennie” Morriai,
a small CO year old woman who
has a reputation as a “witch
4octof” and has for years been
telling fortunes to people around
Harrisburg, denied having given
any roots to Baxter _ Parnell,
white confessed ice-pick slayer,
of Martha Jane Fink, his 19
year ©Id si ter in law, Sunday
right.,
Parnell named “Aunt Jennie”
as the woman who gave h i m
some roots “To chew on before
1 entered anybody's house. He
said that after chewing the
roots they made him loose hia
mind and stab the girl. Bjfore
the inquest was held the cqron-
er, N. J. Mitchell, alon^ with
Ray Hooper county %flrriff and
^ S. iBall deputy sheriff had
gone ?o the little woman's home
and without indentifying them-
solvcs asked her tq tell their
fortunes. “
WARRENTON, N. C. July 21,
(By W.- A. Tuck)—What is be
lieved to be the largest attended
Farmers Conference held in
North Carolina for Negroes in
' the past 25 years convened in
' Warrenton last week, July 14-15.
The conference was knowns as
the Farm and Home Institute
i Over seven hundred men and
women registered Thursday morn
ing, besides visiting friends th»t
carried the attendance up to ap'
proximately one thousand for
the two-day session.
The citizenry of Warrenton,
both white and colored, extended
a cordial welcome to all in at
tendance. The main street in
Warrenton was decorated with
banneVs ‘ of welcome, and the
mayor gave the address of wel
come. The program was of the
highest type and got underway
at the courthouse at ten o’clock
Thursday morning with tlM- First
Vice President, Mr. Simpson
Hart of’^ Edgecombe county,
presiding in the absence of Mr.
S. T. Shaw of Wilsott county.
Who was elected Provident of
the organization last year. Mr.
lit tol dthe object of the meet
ing. Participants on the morn
ing program were: Messrs H. M.
Ettis, Agricultural Engineer and
J. F. Criswell, Farm Management
Specialist, both of the State Ex
tension Service, Raleigh, K. C.
Mr. Ellis gave the origin, deple
tion and restoration of the soil.
Mrs. Criswell told the group that
they should strive to provide a
higher standard of . living for
themselves and their children.
However, farming is a long pro
cess, but like anything else, the
principles are the same he said
Round-table discussions were a
part of the morning program.
Thursday afternoon Mr. A. C.
to take better all-robnd care of
the dairy coW and they would
never regret it.
Getting Better Cows In Hert
ford County, was discusMd by
W. C. Davenport, Negro county
agent of Hertford county. How
to have more and better farm
poultry was pointed out by
Mr. T. T. Brown, Extension Poul
try Specialist and Miss IL L.
Mears, Negro home demonstra
tion agent of Craven county,
told of the Garden Campaign in
her county.
The principal speaker on Thurs
day night’s program was ‘Dean
J. C. McLaughlin, of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, A. and T.
College, Greensboro »N C. who
spoke on Rural Negro Life in
Nort^'"'Carolina. Dean McLahgh-
liri mentioned in Jiis talk a few
the many phases of agriculture
that rural boys and girls rould
prepare themselves for bringing
out,jt.he Jfaet that there was •
need for well trained dairyman,
foestry in8ti*uctor8, and th« like
among our race.
Verdict In Case 01 ABC
Officer To Be Reached
Friday Afternoon
ENTERTAINMENT
CHAIRMAN
Father Oi T.
D. Parliain
Passes
Fbneral services for John T.
Parham, father
ham, - prominent Durham buai-
man were held at "the Ebeneser
Baptist church in Petersburg,
Va. Wednesday July 20, at 3
The legal battle in ‘th« ‘
slaughter eiiargea againat T. Ik
Wilkie local police oiBcer wha
shot to death James McMail,
Durham Negro in a raid on tba
latteiC home here on May 3fl
ed its 3rd day Thursday witb B.
P. Reads, chief counaei for tba
defense asking for a eoB|»i«ta
acquittal for the defendant. Tba
trial will doutless end Fri4mT
after the closing aJguaseat witt
be made before tlM jary hf
Solicitor Le- Carr who it la ex
pected will aak that tile
i>f T. D. Par- ’ ant be found guilty. Att’y C. O.
Pearson' is chief counsel far tba
defense.* ,
Attorney V. S. Bryant, well
known Durham barrister Bsada
p. m. The services were conduc* ^ ^ .
ted by the Rev. l^omas W. ' . , .1
Crowder.
A7TORNEY W. H. TOMPSON,
prominent l|C)dai attorney) who
will bead) the entertaiament
itommittee of the local Negro
lawyers acting as h>st to |he
National Bar Association which
coBTenes here Aug. 6th.
H%hl^hting ttia two dii^ pro
gram were addresses by Con-1 ^
gressman John H. Kerr. Second f NOVELLA MEARS
District and Commissioner _ o>^ ^ PASSES
Agriculture, W. Kerr Scott Con- Mrs. Novella Spaulding Mears,
gressman Kerr spoke at the morn * 30, p assed at the home of her
ing session on the “Farm Legis
lative Problem,” and Commiss
ioner Scott’s afternoon address
was on “The Negro jFSirmers’
Part in Farm Progress. The Home
Problem was the subject of the
message Mrs. Hazel Wheeler,
home demonstration agent of
Halifax county, brought to the
group of men and women. Mrs.
Wheeler summed up the.essen-
tial points of the home ia five
things. They are; 1. An attrac
tive home; 2. A Unitarian home;
3. A Useful home; 4. A religious
Kimery, dairy specialist of the ' home_and 5. A cultural home.
Extension Service, State College ' Separate meeting were held for
Raleighj .. discussed th e dairy the men and women. In the
cow. He instructed the group ' (PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 8>
4i-
She told that the cards
showed that “Ball is the mean
est man around here and that
Coroner Mitchell ia a good little
man.
In bis confession ^arnell in
dicated that ho held Aunt
Jennie responsible for the mur
der because' she had given him
the roots which made his mind
come and go. But although the
three officers, ■ individually, made
every iattempt to
roots from her and
sum of mons;y 1)0 ‘‘voodoo” other
men, she flatly refused in each
case.
After hearing the principal.
wi^i^^,§^spa Ole jury returned a
verdict tnat Parnell be held
I for the grand
in quest Par-
Seek Colored
Officers For 4
Army Units
BOSTON, July 21, (ANP)—-
Reofficering of the U. S. army’s
four regular Negro units with
a Negro personnel in five
years will be asked by the Na
tional Colored War Veterans of
Amerioa, ^temporary jorg^niza^ |
tion, it was disclosed Thursday.
E^ASSY EMPLOYE
SWINDLED OF 5240 IN
OLD BAOGER game
r' The -organization hopes to
obtain a membership of lOO,
000 by Oct. 1. Monroe Msson,
temporary organizer, says the
mother, Mrs. Janie Spaulding
at 509 Fayette vile St. aboftt
11 p., m. Wednesday July 20.
Mrs. Mears, wife t)f Alxin
Mears of I^w York, had been
ill for nearly six months. She
leaves two , sisters, Mrs. Mar
garet Dooms and Mrs. Otelia
Stewart, and a- brother Lemuel
Spaulding.
The funeral conducted by Rev.
Miles Mark Fisher, will be
held at the White Rock E'aptist
church at 3:30 Friday after
noon. She was buried at Beech-
wood cemetery.
« HONORED
jury, and was also emphatic ia
demanding an acquittal for
the defendant
TLcougtiout the entira
truii the D a r ^ a la Ca»-
ty eourtKouae kaa
been packed to capacity witk
members af feoU^ nicea »a
hand to lisUn ia on tte >yi4enra
AMong the first witaeM «a
testify ia tiiis «»*a wera t k •
tlirae doctors wik\ parforaied
the autopey on McNetl’s body
after it liad been exhuzaarf aa
ordered in a previous seaaion
superior court. Dra. "nibniaa
Byrnea, A. S. Campbell, aad
Foy Roberson stated to t k a
jcourt that their exaiainatioa
Saturday, July 23, marks ^e
was caused by a punctured kiad-
der. It was reveali^ that tte
I ballet from Wilkie’s gun graaaA
' th« skin on McNeil’s thigh fav
about two inches and enterad
the lower abdomen. TraveUiav
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Mr. Parham, who died about
1 -.30 Saturday, has lived in
Durham with his son for the
past ten years and made many
friends while a resident of this
city.
He is survived ly two bro
thers, Rev. W. A. Parbanj of
Fraehald, New Jersey; and
R. P. Parham of Cranford, N.
J.; ais well as his son, T. D.
Parham and a dughter, Mrs.
Amy P. Anderson who lives in
Norfolk, Va.
BIKE CONTEST CLOSeI^
end of the bicycle contest for
the CAROLINA TIMES asw8-
boyX " T^is contest which has
been going on for eight weeks
was enthusiastically participated
in by aboiit fifty Durtiam boys,
and each of them seems deter-
minded to take one of the
prizes. The first prise is a
beautiful green chromium fen-
dered bicycle.
The presentation Will be made
at the CAROLINA TIMES plant
on Tuesday July 2«. In the lead
to date is Francis Allman witk
Charles Tapp running a very
close second. If Aliman isn^
in a special program to'fce’held'+Tery -careful Tapp may juoav
ahead at the last moment.
been received so don’t hesi^te, ^elT^S^^^rently unmoved by
send yours in now and get in*on the story ' of the murder to
tile ground floor. , | wWfh he confessed.
WASHINGTON, July 22nd,
(ANP) The old ’slibp' worn
handerchief trick claimed ^ho-
* Witr victim ere last, yeek when
Gilbert iDrown, 32 colored em
ploye of the Italian Embassy
was taken for ^240' by three
reofficering plan would provide colored men he met in .the st.
that young reserve officers who 1 As they approac ® y * ®
have advanced satisfcto^ily' dujr- Brown had oun a
ing their scheduled corre&pen-. ! money^ s owe
dence courses prepared by the handerchief
war department be given first^ ^ roH of-«bill» ■ -»nd ^
prefernece. They would en- would hold it for t em.
roll for two years _ infiensive. obliging Brown was more
buy some ^ study jn the 'Army War college, than willing to do, hut t e
offered her , followed by a three year proba- strangers told him he must put
tionary period in line with *'*P show his good faith
troops until transfer of white Q^’^wn diW-
officers was complete.
Two major problems are alsQ
being studies.- One is unemploy
ment of an estimaCed 1,000,000
Negro war veterans and their
dependents, con^ered temploy-
able, and the other, is reported
denial of total disability cpm-
pensation to an
containing
aak«d him
Several hours
j later he opened the handker*
' chief. The roll of bi}ls turned
out t° empty cigaret
paclrage wrapped
L paper.
in brown
000 totally disabled Negro ve-
terns because of jire-war labo
estimate^ ! 20, * ■statusT" *
DR. J. A. BACOATS ,
Dr. Bacoats, for nine years
piesident of Leland coHege,
Baker, La., near Baton
Rouge ^«a honored with D.
D. degree at conmeneement
of Virgillia ~Umo« Uaiver .
Mly, Ri^hmo.i^ jtl^s year.
A graduate of More High
school in 1912, Wa |o, Tex.
_ and _^ishoi> college in 1916
the President received the
B. degree from Uaion
19!9,'a«d A. M. f^ OW
erlin in 1929. -He did far
ther study at the Univer
sity oi Chicago «nd„Colum
hia univer^ty, and ia ‘34
toured Europe, Egypt, and
Palestine. After ten years
as minister and ^ucator
Virginia, he want to Louis-
siana, and LtJa^J c4l«ce>
under his guidance has’
grown to high rank i(^ its
.41^.
Natlonaf Dental
Meeting To Be
HeldlB Cbicago
CHICAGO. July ' 2i. (ANP)
—Tiui ^tional Dental associa
tion, with a membersliip of
more than 600 -dentista scatter
ed throughout the country, will
move into Chicago on Ausust
9 to 12 with a monster conven
tion that promises to establish
a new high mark in convention
attendance and scientific pro-'
grams presented.
Preparations for the Chicago
conclave that will attract dele
gates and members from many
»Ues of the nation are beiqg
developed by the Lincola Den
tal society the local dental grouf
Headed by Mayor Edward J.
Kelley, pi-ominent citisehs and
various organisations are
prepai-ing a niammoth welcome
in the spirit of the Chic^o “I
WILL” for the international
clinicians and visHing menbfBr-
sfiip. ' -'
The Meharry Dental eollege
and the Howard ' Ui^mraity
College of Dentistry ara.tead'
ing large delegations witk a
variety of exhibits and clinics,
'eepecialljr - prepared for 'tke
Cktoago canyantioa. Beadquav'
tera will be 4«tabUab«d tit tk
Do Sable H«h achool, aod a
Addition to the splendid faeilitiaa
already aboundant,
er system, special jnssaaagar
tejefdione afrnee, aten«grapll>
ers, iocai guides and otka*
countless conveniences will ^
made available.
IVanaportiiltion and h'nsit
arrai^ments togetker with
numarous entertainment featur
es have been completed for tka
convention guests. Hm piiWia
will find an instroetiva aiwl iiH
teresting ‘ exhibit occupying aa
entire wing of the ki^
building, tkni^it31ca«v-Df tk*
rare^ coDectioa will ba eawte*
ously described by coi^ateat '
persona to ckar|«. —• —
A public meeting will offer
'Iw . members aa4,.
▼iaitora to hnur aoaae «f t k a
■cientific aenioaa wil| be hM,
ia coatribatiag a large share
e«aperatiag witt tke coaaMtttm:-
af arrangementa, as are
other profesaional. alH cMk
bodies. ■ _
dentists ia • aaili^ efart
make this, tke , l^ilver
aary, the aMst saeeeeefel
*iag ia |ke 1
tioa'a IMrtory.
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