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SING FOR KING AND QUEEN nvilalion cmnes From TliePresiileni MARIAN ANDERSON ALSO , ON SAME PROGRAM FESTIVITIES SET FOR THURSDAY. JUNE 8 When the king and queoH are formally entertained at the White Houae dinner in Wash- ingrton Thursday June S, por tion of the Nell Hunter chorut embracing the unit# from Dur^ tmtiT and Winston-Salem will be amoBf tboee to be presented ^n the program. , Thirteen from each chorus twenty six in all, will nuilce.the trip leaving Durham miaWgijt of June 7 by chartered bu*. ao as to be in Washington in time for the event. At the conclusion of the program, jthey will remain in the capital a day returning Friday night. For their performance at the dinner, the cho^s will offer the Negro spirituals of which they have been to successful in the past. MARIAN ANDERSON TO SING Marian Anderson, who was highly publicized sev^eral weeks back because of the DAR’.’ re fusal to permit her to sing in the tax-exempt Constitution Hall in Washing^ton, has also received an invitation from Mrsr El^jrhor Roa^evelt to sing. Miss Anderson, world ftnnous —cantralto,_-ffiilL _rend^ several selections including her beloved spirituals. i The two choruses, both ’ of whom are outstanding, hiive""ap proximately thirty-five m e m- bers each. They have pros^nted many local performances and also Jjwo Joint concerts. The first of these appearances tak- ing'^placa,|when President' Roose velt visted Chapel Hill Decemb er 6, and Music Week in Ral eigh was the occasion for the latter on May Winston Salem's unit h « • been organized ^wo years and has the distinction of being the first choral grbup in the south to ibe accompanied ,by a white symphony, orchestra. This unique performance took place In Win ston Salem and the North Caro lina Symphony Orchestra, com posed of gixty-five pieces, ac companied them to the utmost delight of the audience. The Durham "group came into being three and half years ago when a group of young men known as the “Master Singers’ VOLUME 1» NUMBER 14 DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, MAY 27tlh l»3» PRICE SEVEN CEHTS RECOMMEND CHANGES TOmMd FOR KING MRS. ATA.&T Board Committee Investigate Strike Child Prodigy To Appear In Recital -OQO- NBLL aUNTER Whose trained chorous wTIT leave Durham Wednesday Jujie 7, in order to appear at- the White House dinner for. the Kihg iand Queen of England 'flie' folldwihg, days "tn Washlng- ton. later became a mixed chorus under the direction of Mft* Nell Hunter, director of WPA music project in the state. Since that time they have had many broadcast over.jitation WDNC, Durham; and Station WPTPj Raleigh; although they have ap peared at Duke and the Uwiver- sity of North Carolina, their most outstanding performance canie with the presentation «f a pagent entitled, “NEGRO BRINGS MUSIC” last, f»ll at North Carolina College. President Roosevelt was so well plea led with their perfor mance. in Chapel Hill last Dec ember that thfey were extended ^^is invitation to sing for King Oeorge and Queen Elizabeth of England. Due to lack of space in the East Room of White House only the very limited number twenty-six* can make the history making trip. GREf)Ni^E(ORO. (Special to the TI8®E3S)—T h p peisonel committee of the board of direc tors at the Agriculture and Tfcichnical college, Greensboro, met Saturday to -probe the re cent disturtssifces at the institu tion and grave changes mayt be a result of the meeting. Harry B. Caldwell who is chairman of the committee y;hish Y7 Fight To Kill Grows In South BY BOB F. HALL last December, called for the BURMlNiGiHAM, Ala. (CN.^> atooiition of the tax. The South- —-The, tide against tht p'Jll tax ern editors of Scripps-Howard is definitely rising throughout ^papers, meeting Tn T9emptiis "IttBtr the address by _ Dr. Alphonse the South. In Tenn., Texas, Vi gin la and Alabama, the Ameri can Federation of Labor h a s gone on record for its repeal. The Congress for Industrial Organization in every Southern .'state and in i^s national, cmven '"tion has instructed its alTifiates to engage actively in the fight for the abolition of the poll tax. In Tenn., the • A. F, uf L., the CIO and the fSllroad bro- therhoo.|3., coHaboiteting in the state Conference for Progreesive legislation, ipitiated a drive for fall to discuss Southern problems oh ^he basis of the National •Emergency Council’s report oti economic conditions of the South reached a similar conclu- SlOfl* ....In Alabama. GoSrenior Dixon was elected on *a platform call ing for poll tax reform, but abandoned the fight under pre ssure from Black Belt, land- lotds. •••• I A great deal of the poll tax ‘ discussion involves the matters . of its franchise for Negro citi zens. It is a historical fact that •ilso' includes MaJor F! Mc- Lendon and tChkrles lA. Hines, met to draw up its recommenda tion to the full board which met Thursday. — The trouble began on May 1‘1 when the student body, in protest to the discharging o* Inman 'Breaux, athletic director Staged a strike followed by a demonstration. A simular ~ dec monstration was held Monday, May 1:5, at which time an estim« ted $350 pr'operty destruction took place."*' Although a detailed account of the committee’s actioi’s was not revealed ’it was learned that they, are planning- recotnmenda- tions to the board which ni a y result in drastic changes, at the college. Certain members of the offical staff may be released as a results. .... The committee did . announce, however, that they found i.oth- ing irregular in the way in Osaeh ^re-aux was disj- Friday evening, June 23, at 7:30 fKe Junior lActivitiea’Com- mittee of .the Algonquin Tennis Cluib, is bringing quite' a treat to the children and jcitizens of Durham by presenting Phililjpa' Schuyler, seveij year old pianist and composer, in a recital at the E'. N. Duke Auditorium, | North Carolina College for Ne gr«es. Marcantonio Asks U. S. To Probe Fla. Lynching charged. They^! also that the student'is latter upnsing came as a results of misunder standing on their- part as-.,ta' the exact date of the personal committee's meeting. Tuesday morning, May 2.S, was the origijjal date ^et for the committee to convene how ever the feriouaness of the af fair caused them to change to the earlier date." If their recom- mendirtittJis, Jite adopted by the full board, there-will be ,v com plete reorg^tnization in the pre sent opel^ion of the institution. Philippa is the daughter of Mr.| and Mrs. George S. Schuy ler, of. New York City. She has received highest Honors three times from the ' National Piuno Teachers’ Guild. The New York Philharmonic Sym- concludeX h®® awarded—twiee^ for her musical achievements. Jiist this she was among S'S children who receivje^ jnedals Wd ribbons at Carnegie Hall, which were presented by Lily Pons, coloratura soprano of the Metropolitan (^pers. East Durliam School Will Graduate 23 Duri^ the past musical son she has griven jcdnferts in Newark, Orange, and Summit New * Jersey; in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Warren, Ohio; Bos ton M*at. New York City n ^ White Plains,. New York. She has also been invi't^d to Fisk University for a recital next fall. This little artist frequent ly played over NEC’s Children’* ! Hour, Coast to Coast on « "8118, Milton Cross, announcer. This will be Philippa's first southern tour. MENINGBURg TO SPEAK the end of his first year as principal of the Easfc Durham Sc1m)o1 F. G. Burnette is .^resent ing in connection with the re gular commencement exercises a gr*dtrartlDTr "progTHH tor t h,a twenty-thre^ ^oys *‘*"1 who jvitl bid goodbye to IW East ijurham scljdol to enter Hillside Park High School in tlie fall. The giaduation -wiil take place in the school auditorium Rt eight p. m. Tuesday, May 30, and the feature of the pro^am will Dawson, Ella Dewer, Mary Dew er LeRoy Goldston Irene Harris Marvin Haskins Dorothy, Heck, Thomas Jeffers, Dorothy l.iister EKimice Mann, Duncan Mclver, Hattie Mdver Lillie Mclver Bernice Richardson, Geraldine Mitchell, Alice "Williams, Doris Wiliams and Thomas Williams. PHILIPPA SCHUYLER _ Sh* has been writing and coift posing muMc ever since she was thc^e years old. It is the kope of the Junior Activities Committee, of which W. D. Hill is president, and Mrs. B. A. J. Whitted is chair man, to .bring to the children Durham outstaefling Junioi artists. Special seats will i>e reserved for children. Prices of admission will be as follows: Children 26c General ^ Admission 3Sc; Patrons 50c. Tickets are now on sale, and may be secured frdm Mrs. Whitted. " WASHINGTON, (C N \f— Vito Marcantonio, N»w \«rk Congr»sman from Lower Har lem and Pi’esident of the lotar- natiupal Labor Defense, ‘this week demanded that the t»d*r al government investigate the lynching of Lee Snell, N^ro taxi driver, at Daytona, Fla.. »n Aitftt'W; and prosecute ins slay ers. Snell had been 4rrest^d after an automobile accident in wUch a 12 year old whi|e bov^. w a k kiileji. He was seized fiom a police officer who was. reinvving him -fro;m Daytona to DeLand, Fla., fpr safekeeping. ^ETerett and Earl Blackwelder, brothers of the' b.oy, shot the taxi driver to death wKile the officer look ed on making no attempt to 'pre vent th«. The two brc^hera were arrested apd charged with murder followisig a campaign by the ILD to force local authoritiM to act. Follow ing their arrest the Daytona Ku Klux Klan began a systematic threfitening of prospective jurors to influence the trial. | In a letter to Attorney Gen- ] eral Frank Murphy requesting | that the government interveite, ' Marcantonio said that the delay IB arraMinc tlM teotlian a«4 other incidents CMiMetwl witk the case might eaattf he eiMMtrs -«d aa indicattec eetiuaneue ta*- foliee imi tiM ipmehtgM im' tbe naurder itaatf, sad part ef ■ eoaapinej U» JusUee in prevauiac a fau trial ei i k • murderers. The Attorney Geaeral waa aiau infons«4 by jarira froaa Nr~ Jardine Oeboroe, field rei^eMa' tative of the iLD, bow In Day tona, that all aaefsbers i>f tka panel from which the Jury wtfl b* eelacted are being approackad by Klansmen deiisaodiag that a not guilty verdict be brought is for the Blackwelder TIm $LD repneaentatiTe arged Mar- phy that he eonaUar tke vrgaat need of aasigninc a federal t»- veatigator to Daytoaa wltkoat 3flay~1o Tnqulr* tutu datioQ of qurort and «e%k possibility of traaafwing tke case to a federal court. White and Negro citizena of Daytona outraged by the moni- er, have formed ^of^misatieB for protest. A Join t coasniittae of all Negro orgaaizationa ta the city has been set up to make plaas #M a city snd» figat far Negro civil rights. Students ftibt At Hickory High SchooT^ FIRING OP COACH REASON FOR ACT RY. N. ,C.—In m !-itua- ti^^ paralleiffng the one at A nd T, the students a* the Ridgsview school here,^ upon learing of the dismissal orJT^T.' Wiistin as science teacher and coach, staged- a rally in front of the building last Thursday in. protest. The scene bec%me so tense until A. W. Btoker, prin cipal of the school,*>'w'as compel led to t;all the police to dll erae the crowd. ^ Professor Booker atat;s that upon seeing the student* coa- gregating, he left , tha nearby teacherage where he resides and went to the school. After speak- ing to* them, the younger mcBi- hers of the crowd withdrew bat the older ‘ ones failed to take eed. Upon -returning to the teach- I erage he was followed By tka remaining crowd wha began to throw atones oa ka r«o£-of .tk* teacherage. It tka» tkat tke principal find two Aota ia tke air ia a futile eCvt W fri^ ten the kajra away. Wka^i tkia failad, Prafetaor Bo«k«r called the police. The atadaata dcasaadad to ^kaow tka rcaam f«r tha cacak'a release bat tka ai^ tkat kia reaiaaaa caald aot ba Budc pukllc. Mr. WilMn kad keaa coack aag' ttiaace toaekar at lidge- vi«v for ten yean, aad ia iatng replaced ky H. Faggat* of Uacolntoa. Hr. Fkggatt ia a fortear itudaat oi ▲ aad T cat- laga aad a graduate «2‘ Haaap- toa. Re will move ia tha taack- irage tkia weak miataiiBg there ovar tke aanuaar. Worker^ Diet Inadequate STARS IN PLAY a millipn signatures calling wp.-, on President and the Congress the poll tax system was estabhsh to anact a federal uniform r^is stration law abolishing thp poll BW Bttd athitr r»»«ti-i«^tiona o^. ed in the South at" the beginning of the century on the pretext that it would disfranchise the the right to vote. ‘ ^ Negroes and leave the The Southern Conference ^or vote intact in the hands of the Human Welfare meeting - i « whites Many poor ^hjtes, v.c- Birmingham last November en- tims of the violent d of the period, were taken in by dorsed the petition drive » n * as its own the program put forward by the Tennessee body. The Southern Policy Com- mWnn of leadiry educators, writers and ^ome re- p;reacntjl^'e# p T tiosiSifpi this dangerous demagogv . und acsuiesced. But the tax was in fact directed also against the poor whites, especially against [the, whiW Populists, and the pio [ ti'flTOOIl" 5 Iv^y—daellitad. Heningiburg, assistant to the president of Nopth Carolina College. A song by the graduating class , will begin the program , and a poem will be read by Mclver? afterwhich the poem will be ready ^ Dawson. Ellt^ Dewer and Harris will render a voc^ duet just before Bernice Mann tells a few class jokes. Another song by the tflass and an oratto^p #by JE^izabeth Cros will immediately precede Dr. Heningburg’s ad dress there -will btS another song an** the final event of the night anTl for the elementary ^.s^h^ol careers of these youngsters, wfll; tnffi Hit ^‘ose expecting to graduate are: Julia BSanrett, Violrfna Belton, Chaftes Bridges, Teselie Colicff E1iza"bet)> Cross Louisa Today, the poot lize how they were whites rca- refrauded and are fighting shoulder by shoulder with tlie Negro people far WASHINGTON, charming n NEW YOfflK, (CNA)—Unity", concepts of race or national su- of Negro and white youth in mili periority.” HONORED AT BANQUET' ROSfiPUD who lends 4ter and George tant defense of democracy and of the rights of minorities and behind a program* for ecinlmiiC secuyity for the nation’s youth, white and Negro, (keynoted the Ninth National Convention of the Young Commumsf Leagiie held in this city during the past week end, with a colorful opei^ ing in huge Madison Square Gar den and regular sessions at the Hotel Center, 108 "W5est 43rd St. Negfro youth from many cities and rural communities through out the country )|vtre amonij the •6B0 regular and .3i50 fratenral delegates to the cojnvention. They played a leading r^le m all phases of its work, intludittg a special panel on Negro problems. Prablems affecting ^legro youth were also discussed in all «th«i' other panels—on student iKork, rurfrt youth, national groapi etc in. line with the policy of the of educat^»g-^4-^-^ white youth on the Negro ques tion and on the commoa in- and personality to “Life Death of an^ .American,” ^lar*s new play which t. ^-^fiUteraitta of the two grottPS. WPA Federal project is prerent- ing at Maxine Elliott’s Theatre. CHICAGO, (CNA)—N e w evidence that insanity is n o t ffljeritable was annoucecd this chiattic Association. The convention adopted a new preaim.b!e to the YCL Constitut ion pledging the organization td the defense of civil ftberties. r#- ligious freedom and equal rigBts for all nationalities and peoplea and the .^ondemnatlon of aR It gave a tremendous ovation to Angelo Herndon, outsta:iding Negro youth leader, and^ elected Henry Winston, as Administra tive Secretary of the YCL and 13 other Negro youths to e National Council of the org«fiiza tion. Winston was also re-elect ed to the C 'uncil whicTi eousists of 65 members. The other-Ne groes elected to the’Council are: d^fliu^ia Jones, Harlem YCL leader; John Gray, Chicago. Paul ’ KirJc,.^ Michigan; Ltzetta Hester. Chicago, Edith Oliver Akron O. Newell Johnson, Cali fornia; Curtis ^ Davis, Michigaav Harold Malone, Wisconsin; Ho ward Johnson, New York; El- wood Dean New Jersey; Philip i^rondelL N'ew Vork; Eugene Criaddock,^ llGnois; ^a n d 6cott ,Watson, Wisconsin. Hit* Race Concepts Professor Alexander Lasky of tb« i» at Columbfa University, told the panel ,on.. Negro problems that acience "Vejecta race concepts as a measure of irit^^ligcftce,. He pointed out that pigmentation playt no role in the functional a^ecte of an individual and ,de clared that this theiory haa 1>een 94itmod«d by modern ' wientifij; flaaM tsra to pag* eivkt ‘Boctor j. w. seabrook I PreSdent of FayetteviTl* 3tate Teachers coSege, w %. s lionored with a banquet Wednes day niglit Fy 'the Alamiii sociation 'in the dinia( hall. eluding amo{^f'~Uia aotablM at tending this affair ver« Doctor 'TrifSri K Jbapard^ Or. F. D. Bloford aa# Dr. Bwlmt 'MS.' mSHINGTON. iC if A)— About half of white woritara’ families is industrial ceotara and over* tO par ccnt af Negro families in southern cltie^ did not have adequate diet, ia tiia period, 1939->3‘7,. according to a survey made by tke fiVtreaa oi Home Economics of tka U. S. De^{tsrtment of Agrieultare. ^ The report poiata oot tkat the study did not iachtda fami lies on relief, thoaa rapl9ed leaa than SO weeka ia tka year, or those receiviog yearly taeons- es under $S00, tad ^ia meaas'4kat tha ^oap stadic^ represents a higker acoBtaak level than charaetarisaa eity* wage earners aa a wkola. iil^ela wera tnaaCleiaat usaia- I9 kacaaaa famil;)^ iacup«i ware iaaufficiaBt. Ifort faasUtaa .^aiU bafcwaM M aad 40 pw ai thair iBcoma for foo4. going ^or food ro«a aa iaeoBa tnerf aiad. ■. «- Nearly two'tkirda at i’M N*^ cro fl^iliaa^iM ipaadinn than |S00 a yaw for all g««4a ami aarvice*. wMi.mi avaraff* of $207. Bat oaly akoat li e9^t of the whh« faaihts wtea at tUi low aeeaoMit ')av^ Soatkara ^nfllaa ««■» •■Ij an «a«rt* « iridi •
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