“ tMf flMfii SATURDAY, SEPT. U 1»M
fA6i mn-
Negro Press-
(Contini4>d #rom p«|« fowr)
in terms of hit* against- black i Reaction will make bids to
and vice versa, it was becausc' groes. In some cases it will act
upon the surface
■esmed te fa
the struggle
uiie uf llitr
whllf
again* black. The CathoUc
press and the preas of the Jew
ish people bas made similar mis
takes.
But there can be no logicnl
excuse for continuing thus to
place the question. Fascism and
reaction have claiified the is
sues. £very eenmy b 1 > c k
American ever had has lined U|)
to deatroy the first President,
since Lincoln, to attempt t>
smash barbarism in the South.
The Negro press, or rather,
that aectton of the American
press controlled by Negroes, has
a momentous job before it. Some
of it already, advanced fearlessly
to the struggle.
Fascism would detroy the laat
vestige of democracy enjoyed Ly
black men. The Negro people
must align itself with the forces
of progr»aB ■daatc-i ai»Y- ^ ' Tffie Kegro press apeak out.
as Smith of South Carolina and
G«Arf5—of-TJiorgnr for the
greater part thia will only be in
the South, howevar. Not all
leaders of reaction ara so crassly
stupid and so vicious as t h •
Southern lynchera. It ia whei'a
they are aubtle hatt they a r •
most dangerous.
The Negro press must expose
reaction everywhere. It speaka
for and to the man furthesY'dow.i
in American life. ' Ttiis ia at
once a great advantage *nd %
grave responsibility;
The democracy of Lincoln re
turns in the program of a
Roosevfel.t Th« New Deal iin
a
cultural ■merement.- -Sot tt8 "fu:
ture rests with the people. It
belong to no one man or g.oup
of men.
Unity must be forged and
uniy must be fouj;ht.„lflC^ ..J-et
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Pigskin Revue-
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B«li Bask At Mina.
The sure shot toe of Horace fisrures tojwind ilp his football
®ell will again be at the call of career in a blaze of glory. Coup
Coach Bierman at Minnesota. 5«d with Pollard in the Sioux
In the Gophers 1937 climb to the
Big Ten championship. Bell
pulled gut of his guard position
on ten occasions tp boot the
extra point over the cross bar.
Out in North Dakota, they call and Woodrow Strode, 2W0 pounds
Fritz Pollard, Jr. VThe Black playcfr they faced last year.
Thunderbolt.” The Olympic high Washington is now a junior and
hurdler has certainly earned the plenty seasoned lay touch i com-
name just as his father did at petition.
Brown twenty years ago. For
two years, Pollard’s kicking,
passing and running, -‘have hel.i
e dNorth Dakota hang on to the.
chmpionship of the North Cen
tral Conference. Last year he
was chosen All-Conference half-
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NEW YORK. Sept. 22nd-
From Tallahassee, Fla. has come
confirmiatiun of the lynctting in
Perry Fla. on August 9, 1938,
of Otis Price, 22. The story
confirmed also by a letter to 'the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
here from a citizen of Macon,
Georgia, who viewed the body
,, , , .of lh! lynched .nnn. ■ Prii-c
great economic, j^hi^g. bxima-tho-total-
year thus far to five.
According ti> the account of
the lynching sent to the N. A.
A. C. p., Price and his wife liv
ed i^ar a_ '
tTnj* both got water from the
f>nme well. Price was o'i his way
to I’le ell to gel a bucket of wa
ter and the white 'fftrhiccN wife
was taking a bath in the door
way or window of he'r horns as
Price passed. She screamcd th.it
she ■ had been raped arfn Price
fled home In terror. Althi^ugh
urtfed by his wife to t.ke their
little money and leave tho vic
inity, Price refused to leave say-
inqr hd was not guilty of any
cr*i*ie.
Sheriff Wilabn of Tayloi coun
ty arrested Price and was tak
ing him to jail when a mob of
undetermined sized took the
prisoner from the custody of
the officer and killed him. Price’s
throat was cut and his body
riddled with bullets.
No mention of the lynching
appeared in the papers of that
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body was viewed by
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end, were potent factors in that
display of endurance.
Metropolitan
L i f e Not Seek i n g
N e g ro Business
Anti-Jim Crow Law Cited by
Company as Reaion for It*
Failure to Permit Agent* to
Solicit New Policiea; J*rO«-
pectt Mu«t Apply at Com
pany Owcet
(Special to the Carolina Time*))
NEW YORK, Sept. 21st—T h e
MetfbpolitarT X i f e Insurance
•company, which has written
millions upon? millions of dollar^
of insuranc¥’ iTpon Negroes in
New York state.
Charles G. Taylor, Ji. second
vice president of the company,
has written the National Asa’n
for ' Advancement of Colored
People;
“We do not solicit applica
tions for insurance frnia-f^jl'MHid
pera'ns in the State of New
York, but, such person may ap
ply at any one of our district
offices where they will receive
fair .and courteous treatment
when they so apply. ,Th i practice
has' been made necessary in
New York because of a. l.-iw p^ss
ed at the, instance of As.sem'iiy-
man Stephens. This Itvv *was
calculated to, and^ ^id in fact,
rnake it impracticable for us to
conduct our business as formerly
in the State of New York. This
situation pertains only to this
state.”
In a previous letter, later
clarified, Mr. Taylor had written
the NAACP stating its chavige
of policy was ‘due to a law
passed at the instance of one of
your^own race.”i
The law to which the Metro
politan refers is one passed in
1935 making it unlawful for any
insurance company to dis'cri-
minate again.st colored jieople in
the typ'e^f policy offered fov
sale, or in the rates or premiuni»
charged therefor. A second sec
tion of the law forbids a life
insurance corporation rejecting
“any aipplication for a policy of
life insurance issued or sold by
it."
The inquiry of the NAAC?
was prompted by complaint from
a colored man in Bro.iklyn who
wrote that his Metropolitan col
lector had told him he would
have to apply to a district ofl^ct
if he wanted new infXirance,
The NAACP so far has had
no complaints about treatment
of colored people who apply to
district offices. It is >not known
whether they are having %ny
extra difficulty securing the
siShie types of 'Polin'as-
israed to jvhites^ a. . .
It has been known for yoni'ii
—8S—»re" 'snlfi
that spme insurance companies
have refused to sell certain types
of policies to'Negroes, no mat
ter how qualqified Negroes might
be to purchase the sam«.
KILLINGS BY ‘'POSSES’* TAKE
PLACE OF LYNCHINGS
Iff SOUTH
NEW YORK, 8ej>t.
(Special ,.to the CsroUna Times)
—'Progressive leaders in the
South are becoming; “pertur
bed" over the method now being
used by southern mobs in the
lynching of Negroes, according
to a recent article appearins in
The Indiana Catholic and Re-
cdrd, a Catholic newspaper pvib-
Hshed tn inWanapoliS, Ind.
This device permits mobs to
snatch their v'ctimi before they
are*taken int> custody, set them
selve up as a lynch theii^
prey and then declare that the
victim was ' killed while resist
ing arrest. ’ The complete text
of the a^Ucie which carried a
Greenwood, ft'iss. dato line,
fcllowfi ■
“Anti-ly.ichiug lear-ars in tht
South are fcrturbed over the
delrelopniH-.-.t of the k illed wh'le
resisting ai'res^ technique wh;?h
they declare, is now being used
a-* 8 mea>is ov avoiding Uic »t»
gma of lynching.
“According to this technique,
the mob claims its victims befoie
he has been taken into ^^l
custody by officers. "The mob,
with or without the approval ot
local officers, declares itself a
possa and the victim is officially
listed ad having been killed while
resisting arrest.
Two sjich deaths within a month
have been recorded in Miss., tho
first, on July 6, taking place at
Rolling Fork, and^the second, on
July 21, at Canton, where
]laude Banks, a Negro was ffrbd
upon by a mob of 50 men seek
ing the assailant of a white man
named O. D. MCAdams who was
' V. -
stabbed and robbed.
“A third killed while resist
ing arrest death took place dur
ing the winter in Coahoma Coun
ty. Miss. It is believed that se
veral additional similar deaths
have occurred within recent
months which were not revealed
to the public.
“While this technique is an
old 0*^6 it is considered new in
that in recent montlis \t has for
the first time been adoBte4-**-*-
stitute" for mob murder which
would come under the ban of
the vario;as anti lynch bills. At
several^
persons in addition to the under
taker. Rev. Mr. Burke, pastor of
the church at Hufford, where
Price was a deacon, also knew
of the lynching. I
The NAACP, in commenting
on the lynchings of 193S, point
ed out that two of them have
been heralded in the prea.s. The
prolonged debate over the,-fed
eral anti-lynching bill Hst*. Jan.
and Feb. has driven lynching
underground and much mere
diligence is required to search
out lynchings than was needed
before. The Perry, Fla lynch:
}» a caye th'poTnt. SHU ano
ther lynchin? is a»pposeJ to
Tiave taken p’ece in Perry, but
no facts hav2 be;n brought to
light as yet.
SAY IT WITH VOTES
Expect Report S*on on
Miiii»*ippt 'Lynching'
A report" is expected soon by ±be
NAACP from a white investiga
tor who went to Rolling Fork,
Miss, to probe the lynching
there on July 6 of Tom Greene.
At the time.,4he daily newspaper
reported that Negroes jjjned
whites in helping to 1 y n a h
Greene. Stating ,th«t it did
not believe this to be true, the
6JAAGP announced"!? wne send
ing an investigator to make a
special report. The Greene
lynching was supposed to have
been the first of the year, b\it
last week the NAACP received
a letter from a white citizen of
Columbus, Miss, giving details
of the lynching on June 10 of
Wash Adams for failure to, pay
a balance of ten dollar,? due on
a funeral bill. AdaiAs "was bea
ten to death with an iron instrur
most. „ _
"LILY-WHITE POLITICS” IN
SOUnrH NUMBERED, SAYS
NEWS MAGAZINE
(Special to the Carolina Times)
NEW YORK, ..Sept. 2il—Plac
ing the brighter, polilicq! future
of southern Negroes,‘.snjJfH'®ly' i”
the lap of economics TI.ME
magazine, in its issue of Sept,
19, states: “WhSn their econo
mic and social position is fur-
’V'er bulwarked by the Wage-
Hour law and CIO’s bi-colo*-
unionization, the days of I'ly-
white politics’ in the South may
he numbered.’’
Fu"ther development of a
broader front in the fight for
passage of an anti lynching bill
during the next session of Con
gress under the leadership of
the Natioiml Association for the
Adi^anci'^.u'nt of CoL't'^ed People
will outline more sharply the
changa in lobbying technique a."
opwsed t(* tl’e ‘old style NegiO
lobbyist content to work behind
the scenes,” magazine states.
the time o'f the killing in Coa
homa . County, a prominent M*ss.
editor, Hodding Carter of the
Delta Weekly, (^eeiwilley pUblii
er-edttofial^Eniggesting that
■cd-
the type of killing thus nssd
would become common if the
•ntl lynching "bill is passed.’’
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