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wmm Mailuig EDITION VOLUME IS NUMBER 3 DUXHAM, NORTH CAK(H.1NA, SATURDAY, JAN. II. |»3» MIICE • CEPTS WOMAN APPLICANT TO UNIVERSITY OF N. C. TELLS HER SIDE ENTERTAINS hiegro Garbed Sheik Crashes *400* ^ Swnnk Affair NiEW YORK CITY, January .20, (UNP>—1» tb« J»«l« R4»4».m of the WaldorfnAstoMa, rece lUv Sheik Ahmad Mukhta Al-Sylii I wt in mysterious obsecurity. He j and 2^0 other persons promm- I ent In ^11 walk,® of life and frt»ni ! all corners of iVe world were the dinner party (juest* of Mr. and Mrs. Lowll Thomas-Low-“d Thomas is a nationally fatn-'il newf commentator. '' S h # i K Ahmad Mukhta AJ-Sulh, wi': > head adorned in Jndian thrban, was Introduced as ono of th*? hon'ir Kuests of the affair. CLOAKED IN AIR OF MYSTERY Pollowinpr his introduction tho Shei^ sat down and rertiaii>wi rilenij- throuKhoiil the dinner. Persons from around tli»« world be^aix to wonder who the noy- •ts>»4oM‘' Sheik w«» that he cho^e to remain an enlgrma amW the fayety of their party. Some f the»e wonderinjf persons were: Mme Wellington Koo, wife of Mrs. C. C, Spaulding:, wife c f. Durham, who was hosteps to the , t h g Chinese Ambassador t ■ th- pr«wid«nt of North Carolina White Rock Bterjtist Choir at j France; Sir Ronald and Ln'v lutu;.! Uil- iTini. Compsny I her home last Tuesday evim- Storrs (Sir Ronalds- formoriy and iiromiiii ' .wml leader of intt, i006 Payettevilte Street was. British Governor in Phc- } Captfttn Cheries KnijfM. English trainer of eajfle* »/ ei falcons: Commander and Ali«. Donald MacMillan The C o n.- mander was with Peary on the expedition to the North Pol-M ,and. Jacques Charmoz. pkl ex pert. —f STORY OF NORTH POLE DISCOVERY During: the delightful parr s Commander Masll,illan began to tell of the disrovery of the North Pole. Bear Adniiiral Ro bert Peary headed the hist >ric expedition of four Eskimos aiuJ one youne Americun who fina'if reached the top of the world on April 7, 1909,- These men weiN the discoverers of »rr*®«nt»oued Commander Mac Milian, has never re(*fived the !honor d« him. I take this Releases Written T President Frank Graham He rurned to Sheik MtfkWa A!-S**Ih, wh« rmavej hii turban and quietly bow'd low. He wa.s" revealed as an ei.i erly Negro. ‘ This, said Mr. Thomas, is llw- younK American who accom panied Peary to the Pole. He i Matthew Henson. All the guests surged toward, Mr. Henson applauding hiw. He still remained as un^H>cak'ng as ever. Afterward he I couldn’t m^^ve for half an houi they jammed ' around me So* On that great day when our expedition found the North Pole, we gave three cheers lo- Old Glory! NOW A RESIDENT OF EDITOR’S ?0TE:—Below i.* a I copy of a letter addres.^ed to Ahmad . Doctor Frank P. Gi-anim the— "T pTpSur«-nr of—IfSe^TrnvefsIt^ oT North Carolina, by Miss PauH Murray who h«s re-ently appli ed t« the in.>-titution for entranct. Because of the sound logic prj valent in Miss Murray** letcct* we are of the of.inion that it will be of unusual interest to cur readerf! anj are publishing it> contents in full. Mias Murray is a graduate ff Hillside High School^ and a na tive of Durham, as well ^s a former employe* of the CARO LINA TIMES. She is ako a graduate of Hunter College New York.” Doctor Prank P. Graham, Pvej’. University of North Carolini criapet Httt, N. e. Dear Sir; I ■ ' ;! Matthew Henson retired from! . youf^ »au^Sit. th^ r. have YolTowfa" with .Int^es ago and lives with his wife a t jhe various activities and st^*:i‘- U. N. C. APPLICANT MISS PAULI MURRAY 2.46 West 160 street. A fi-‘W years ago the story of Mr. Hen cation to point it out and now son as a member of Commander ii*..K.GnS Asks Mooney’s Aid In Ss^otcsboro Case NEW . YORK, January ^ 30th, : tANP)—In a l«tt«r aept iiii week tu Tom Mooney, reco.itly pardoned California- labor ' war •bom -Piuk^ _«ors flthfla^ygttrs-THE aCQTIS^ en* jof the NAACP asked hii' aid In securing Justice for t ’> ^ Scott*tboro boys. In his communication Pickei>«s say*: This will be one of t h millions of letters you will get from those of u? who have work^out however long it ed and plead for years, not tbut J^uftice should be don^ to you, but that th« great injustice that w»i being done to jrou and oo false aecusstion tha tstood again at yfftl tpr 22„jreai£* — Your attention is now called to another case, even more BOJRO CASE. Let us all hdjju and work to the end of getfn;; the other five iJf th^se in nocent victim." of prejudTc'e,' hoping that it will not take 22 years but working to get th:r“m may take. I cannot think of any bette.' use that could be made of -• >u.e of your time now thafi you could make by appealing ajiJ CHICAGO, Jan. 20, (ANP)- His ^fi.OOO Casket covered with tea roses and with a crowd of 7,6bo jamming the Charles Johnson Funeral home and the street outside, Walter Koitv, CWcsfo and Gary potley isnron who was slain in gangland fr&h. 40JU was laid .to ^rest - W*dn«»- ^day; * all humanity should cea?e. Now, pleading In a series j^of .grout you are not only out of prison, I meetings In behalf Fof ^ese Nty but also ^«it from under t h o j gro boys,' Murder Of Br other-In Law I want to introduce him. REMAINS SILENT AMID APPLAUSE I Peary’s expedition was publisii- I ed in an American weekly nev’> paper of national repute. view wlach I warr*n_^ -,son»# eofWMk'ratiofi?* - Ft^, let me lay that despite the legul implications of this etnntr«ve»"r7, w.~ch as you say, rest in tho hands of the State and its courts, I have no desire to #tir ments which have grown out u£ the is^ue «f admitting Negioes to the University of No.'th Carolina. Now that the air has cleared a bit, may I fre?ent a point of J antagopism on the campus. Tha*. I up racial conflict or student 5,000 Attend Policy King’s Rites; Inquest Continued ■■ "■'** Killer Claims He would b« unwis« on the part of any | rrtspecfive student. Secondly, as you mu^t know from the date of iwy applicatio*^, I knew 'n'(*thing oi the Ll'>r 1 Gaines case at the tifpe I ta >• ed. I did know, however uf Thomas Hocatt’s attempt t't «“n- ter your school of Phar:iiac/ some three or more years aaru. Frotn my cfinversaaions wt'h him. I }Ti»'.uel fh*? impre»-'i m that he vva-« "3}‘cted on t ?! e grounds timt h s pilucatSmaF” qualification? made him inel!i?i- ble to enter thi* university. «iiJ- cvMt received his undergraduatif training ia a N.-gro coUe?» »f North Carolina, Thi? very f.iet »’'-^nfr>r^ the ax.sertiuft that N*irro •ichuol.'i ‘ in North d’arolina have not seen «given those facilities whieh will place them on a par w*»>i w’tte stfhooW -Furtfwrmore, ar-5r4»»‘i i'our , pftjmiae *1**^ f**' s-rr^afffin in t "tl P grjcrfrrj- schools is a "wise lung raivg^ solution/* what tow ■ the Kepro student* of No.trt Carolina that their gradaite facilitieo wilt be any higher in quality than their undergraduate (PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 8> or:ghidiey ■ I DENIES REPORT I CR^^SBORO, January 21»d, —Benjamin Guy 17, WBi. indie! “d for murder in the con nection with the death of his brother-ln-lnw, Thaddeus Mi;i- efff 3rd, 27, who was slain at hii homs last week as a result* of ad argument revolving •roand attending the wake of Mr/Mitchell's grandfathcr-i n law, — STOREBRiiAKINC • DURHlAM, January , 20th— Harvey Willinma, Floyd™ Cole man, aiid Lonnie Ashford, two of whom are while the latter is 1.3r arc being held by local Juvenilis authorities charged witn. breriting Into Charles Jourdan".^ store as^ taking a large quan- Mr. Mitchell, a former A and tity of brooms, ,T ^/llcRe Btnitent and THREE HELD FOR a member of a very proffifeaat family, at the time af h& dmth lived at l,j« WaW'SS^ tfnd preparing to enter at^ i^bslniing school. Survlvin* ant- Jt i a father, Jahn ^Sliptrhi fkr>'i | Stmt. Agent with' oftlce at A and T, his mother, and his wife arid |iife 'Bisters and brothers. The. funeral was held Ftiday at the home of his parents, 1308 Lin- Meanwhile, police are nltl hunting for the kHlers who trailed him to a small h »tei near 3ist and Michigan late Sunday afternoon and blew half of his face away with f.'ur blast from a shotgup. An in quest, started Tuesday, was continued to Jan. 24. Many of Chicago’s most pro minent Southslder.s either at tended) the funeral rites or sent flowers, but most of tJief'|W)licy kings wer« conspicuous by their abs4Rca. L«ad«rs in Uw racket - have —rest«4 eatily Kelly died. Tlhe Rev. C, Austin, noied pastor of Pilgrim Baptist, church conducke^ the aervic^f. .-...j Ho spoke eloquently^ on iovc iui-' charity” a'nd gave fiigh V ; ! to the deceased’s laigc aiinaal i J philanthropies. A id ^!.\ur:l i CoopeJp, star of “Tn*'.^li^iaf.o sang; ‘Going Home’ Th ary’ and ‘The End u Day.' Former C«ng> car DeiPriest led tht of 200 or less mo the chapel, and airtt er» war a large wr sth nent Joe Louis along with Juuiu Black anrf '*|foTfft iroxSornu.^h, as well as flowers from# aimn* nf the area’s biggest 'jinhiicinnii. Outside on the sti«!?t. thous ands from b»th Chicairo a «i d Gary mourned his pa-sinp. Th. , spoke nialnly of the wrty he Tlnd given to charity, tolo a c n j_ Thonja^ W s11 h other how fine a man h? was, ’ P«y h: flm.- of $-r, and- said it was a shame iK'iiit' Hrutik I'hi- he had to go like thni. No condemned him ?or the \km (PllASB TUSJI TO FACE nii.- u. (i. Spjiu -111 .(Hna lltni,.--, •.viitv line of ?h' K' ti. ."^pjiulUiMi’'. iHiuiUKcr 4a I'd 'j t’aiLiUiiu T'nu' ,liia ..-.i; thn' hi« know n^“thillg uf tiip ju'r.it'i; l» nr, rumi»r'~4har' tne inHU'ruih'itj.- t.■stab^i^•ilmenl vtijcf: 'i'.' - Ju'tt i w(,iil(l chiUi^,- hums-. - . . ' HAS IS DAY.S TO RAtSE FINf: FOR DRUNK NESS c"xteiu*i by luegitay ill ■JMSiiua. Jud tfi- ' I,' d.l.S,;'- t'l .and for iiMiifiii.y \ Ji. Bi'riuiid th^ vegii i-- STILL UNDER FIRE TO SPEAK Monday, Jiinuary 22. has f«-n set as the date for the beginn ing .ijf annual s*!r:es of .-»d- drei'es at Nortli Car*iUiia .Call- ege by Doetor Ho^rd Chilote of Boston, MasH. Thest* addres. es, to which student.* and citi zens of Durham look forwor. every year, will begin at ly;0 A. M. ,,Manday ^morning witi the secondt o b« .heard at eivji*. the same.—evening. TuestJav morning at~41iOO tl-i're will be the third u q the jeei.M will be cC-ncliided Tuesday evijii* *ng The tdministration of t College exteadti a cordial in,r ti&n to all wh® 4g»ir» ta- heat" “»f Dr. commg IS efficient in vita* on for the nuuieroas -friends a»»d admirers l.e has made in t ,1 * *0 thft ;-:ison UKMin ViLI-^AlVl UDRt.HAkT M N M l I DCN Eninxrjv. ,nu ll i-f >nl rhroTiit I'll 11 inoi j K.nteii'i;' but ptolhiciii xid**!' Vir: finw !■ iti.ai. Ml Recalling to mind the fame, is Cooper and He.»se case here in Durham a few years back, is the parallel case in >Brunswick, Ga., which Is coming to trial 5 next week. George Cleyborn, Henry Cofer and W. T. Cofer, t H e latter two belHg wnite. were indicted by a Glynn Cour ty Grind Jury last week for the murder -©f Doctor CbH-rlt^p- H, Lee, w}|i4»e Episcopal rec^^or,- last February ^ —George ■ Glaylm'tVi IW Negro in the case and nanio I as actual slayer of the Rectoi-, claims he was hired by the Cofer«, f*tther ?»''l •■nn, 1 HiB
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