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VOLUME .19 NUMBER 2b DOKHAM. HCHtTM CAKOLINA. SATURDAY, JULY atli. 1938 PRICE SEVEN . CEKTS MllM JULIA G0EN8, cne of the official hosteu«> to t )| • Americ&n T«»ehers Aaaoeiktion which meeti in Atlantic City July 25th. Miss Goens ii » mwrnber and former aupretne baiileus of Pni Delta Kappa, the "teacher’a aorority.’* Tobacco Union Reports PFOgress ENGLISH ADDRESSES R^bENT MEETING InteraatioiMt Union Number 194 rcporta that every meetinir tielit ah&m greater aign* of progreaa aod unity among t h « mcmbera. most recent ingji were held Monday* Bight i Friday night, Jane 30 at .White Rock Baptist Qhurch with President T. J. Atwater in cha^e. An unusaally lanre num bet attended. A’inong the many outstanding visltora present waa Rev. New ton, President of the American Local who oflFered prayer. Mr. Lentile, 2nd rice pired- dent of the International Union •pokOi br4efly of the good of the onion, the possible benefita o| tt« future activities, and t ^ | advankd^d of aMabmr 'of the union. t / j Mr. Previcej repfesfitting the Uni«n Advocate iwinted out its b«n«its to the meiftbera. Lawyer Eaglislu'nada t b e feature ^address jbf the evening and he was very impressive in his plea for people of America to wake 'up to the many good things offeredt>y the democratic government. He ntatUiofi the conditions i n China and Japan as well aa in Germany where dictatorship is on the loose. He said: “I repra- sent the Xtaerican Le'gio'. for peace and democracy. ^ 1-—j:-"rL AQUATIC SCHOOL IN FULL SWING AT Rites Held For East End Resident Sun. FLASH FLiAfilHI—^The first of three final appearances of the CAftO- LIINA TIMES promoted Bath ing Beauties will be made at the swimming pool Friday even ing July 7 at eight p m. An aquatic showt» will also precede the isvent with George Logan, Jr., an5 brothers Johnson Albert and Irvin featuring. This conteat Closes Friday evening, August 4 »t the Hill side auditorium. BLACK FOLK-THEN AND NOW Hu^^ed fef friends «nd ra- lativea from over North CaMo- lina gathered at the Union Baptist Churqh, Sr|iday After noon, June 25, to pmy finiU 4ri- t o George Washington Thompson who passed at his Gray Stre«t home Thursday, June SB.’^lIr. Thompaon, wh# WMs 64 years of age, had been il! for more than a vear at-, different intervals but hit death came sr Tcriult of m sudden at tack and was a shock to every one. % Hr,. ,1^(^i|non was' horn in Waka Cottflty |int) cmme t.-) Quf- ham to Itve in 1907. Ppr ai* years hs had been e aploved aa fireman at Liggett and Myera Tobacco Company. He waa m member of {Tie ddaeo'i b6ard Union BIftptist Chur^ and had formerly. been a member'of the choir and usher board. ^iend| from ^ over t.h • 4ity as well ^orth Carolina Cities fitted Onion Bapjtist Church and the wir- ro^nding grounds to pay thei# last respects at •'^he funeral, d«j?iine^which short talks ware mad« A. L. Tuck-> and J. U. | Ltiwt, Sr. who had ®een nai-' ghiion of the deceased around twenty yeara. They' paid tribute to him as a good neighbor who weilded a great ihfluenice over all who came in contact with him. Among the netg^ovly aets which hs likeit to carrj' on was his yearly rosfttds*' of tke neigh borhood to be* the firsti to with tfveryoije a ‘htfppy new, year’ it waa pointed out. 'Riere were Mtm and fsaolutions of re»- jpoet from the various organixa tions of Uniol Bapttst Church as well as Mt: Gilead Baptist Church. Mrs. Lucille Fuller sang "WheD^ ,^h# Gates Swing Oiian Wid«’% and Henry An- ■derson a a n g Carrie Jacobs Bond'a' ieimortajl “I have . fej;n.(B My Work”. / , At the end of ic all, thia strong character whose ahsenee haa,'already been, felt in the communitjr> - was b^rlie frbm the church t^ ^rt * away to .his -rniUng pMee in B*Hh; wood Cettetery. {flMr*- ^ a ude green, with !theBtory of mother nature, in the path' of the setting sun, he was givien back to the dust ftrom which he waa first conceived ''M years ag'o.^ ' DIES SUDDENLY Boating, Diving And First Aid IVl^in Features Of Week’sS^sslon GEORGE W. THOMPSON, 64 of Si22 Gray Street who di«tf'"j¥fday June 22 after hav ing been brought home ill from Liggeti and Myers Factory where he waa a fireman for six years. Mr. Thompson, who had lived in Ehirham more than thirty years had been in pbor health for about a year. His wife, Mrs. Laura Thompson a son; mother; "five brothera and- three sisters survive him. GETS JOB A. W. Kennedy 5ses Away At Philly Hospiixal Alfred William Kennedy, who is known - to the people of Dur ham u the husband of the former Miss Minnie S. Scott, passed away'Ht a Philadelphia, Pa. ho^ital on Monday, June 26. Although he had been ill since February his death came as a complete surprise to his many friends throughout the nation. | ^ Mr. Kennedy, a young man of unusual qualifications, receiv ed his Bachelor of Arts, as well as Masters Degree^ from . Lincoln University and waa awarded the degree of Bachelor of Sacred Theology at the Ju^e convoca tion. He was a good member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity. Mr. Kennedy spent the-Thanks giving and Christmas holidays in Purham .with his . \?lfe and endeared himself to * numerous friends while here. ^ It was in the summer r,f 1986 that Mr. Kennedy was ntk^rried to the former Misa Scott vhp survives him, as does his Mo ther, Mrs. M. M. Kennc^dy ai Oklahomji City, five brothers, three sisters and a host of friends. “ ’ Funeral services ' were held both in Philadelphia and fn Okla homa.' Interment was made at the family pemetery in b'kla- homa Saturday. ^ It is tragic that such *s brilli ant young man shovild paM just when he was reaching the peak of his career at ' Just '28 years of age, but "even sucR is time, which takes in trust our youth, our joys, our all w6 have;- and pays us but with mrth and dn>t. too STl/i^ENTS COME FROM STATES ' The Rot Cross National Aqu atic School which began Sun day, July *2 with headquarters a* thtf Norfh Carolina College, 'and offering a ten. ilSy course on Water safety is being at tended by a full quota of 100 enthusiastic life saving and first aid students who have Come from 14 states and the District of Columbia. During t) |i^ir stay they are ujhder" the direction of Ram one Eaton, of the American Red Cross staff. He has been assigned a corps of 15 life saving and first aiS experts who aaaist in instruction work. The . 100 enroUeea inc)ude representative# of colleges and universities in Florida, Georgia, Carolina, South Cai^ ti^ Tennessee; In- dfaiil'; fiWmeylvania, I o w a, Virginia, Maryland; New jersy. New York; Ohio, West Virginia, Mississippi and the Di»tric^/^f Columbia. .— qualified te teach water safety and first aid, the Red Crosr has made the conrsa available^ to Negroes of “fair swimming ability’’ on payment of a very small fee which—according to director Eaton, covera all ex penses, board; lodging; registra tion, textbooks and insignia earned. — MM Registration and assignment of living quarters was under way Sinday. Monday courses began-'in first aid, life ssving; and water safety; advanced swimming small craft operation and aquatic pageantry. These courses were held daily at 10 a. m. at the college and actual swimming and life saving in structions have been given at the Hillside Park Pool. Boating and canoeing lessons were held Tuesday and Wednesday at the boat dock dm the El)o River. A fe«ee of lecture^- «miaa^ are held daily dcalii^ with tW Red Cross accident^, prevention program- Insignia and aquatic school eertificAfe wHT be award As 5,000 looked on at t^e limax' meeting of the 30th NAiACP -conference at Richmond, y«fini« -Smnday July 2, Mrs. Prankling D. Roosevelt present ed the Spingam achievement medal to Misa Marian Anderson. The first lady paid high tribute to the world-famous ei^h^alto aa poaseseing “rare courage, great dignity and fine modesty,*' ,^d those succewtfttlly cojapleting Aeeording to director Eaton^ j the suttiecta offerid. the'i^ff'^-'instructors Includ-1 A water pageant will toe atag- es D? L. A. Thompson, Docto* ed at the pool Saturday night John Mulljerin; Harry A. KennNi,as one of the many feature# of ing, ChartjBs A. J^x; Ben Gam-fthe 10 day jKitowk. Harry mage, Grant McCubbin; ^Robert . Kenning will b«*in charge the pageant. The Red proM has been able to sponsor the course at such a ioy? cos^ to , enroUefs through* the cooperation of the college and the Duiham ' Recrefc^lon Commission. Ae the first course e It Mrs. Roosev rgeaBull ig^hts For Race MI9S HVBIiYN SMITH, Har- , leiB Beautician and Hair Tinter, "who is the first of her race to be appointedi as a hair dye ds- „ monstrators for the 60 year old Guilpjard Company, Inc., f Paris, France and New York. ) Miss Smith will travel over the country demonstrating to b«v*h t white and colored. She Vas j selected in a test competitkui ' with more than thirty vhite I jfirls, winning with frying color*. Zdbroad; EUis Fysal, Dan Sharpe and Tommy ^ Costello, all field representativ*es rf ths national £ed ^Jr'oss chapter,. The »ewly opened course, the first of its type to be es tablished by the Red Cross is an ove^lo opeaRat Dedication Of W*. W. E. B. DaCOW, whose most? recent book, “Black Folk Then and Now” ' Just b#en y»btishe4 by Henry——e»4- po. It it an account of the culture of the Negro from the daye ofancient history down tttrough the present. (ANP) ^PLMINGTON, N. C.— Governor Clyde R. Hoey of the State of North ^Carolina will deliver the main address at the tfBdluHtlon BAuiulses ,uf WllminB ton’s new Community Hospital, Sunay afternoon, July 9, at 4:80 o’clock, 'State Senator E. Bellamy announced this week. The hospiiai, costing rp^roxi mately $100,000 including a beautification program of the grounda, i« on* modern in North Carolina for Negroes. Recently the corner stone for the new building was placed' with appro]^riate cere- -monies sons of EasteMi North Carolina. A new Nurses Home has been granted Negroes of Wil- '^Mington. Wark- oB.^ thi , hailding. which will co^t 986,000 inplud- Ing ground beautification will b^n soon. This will bring the THIS YEAR TUSKGEa^A report from President F. D'.'''^ P&tterson of Tuskegee institute »..luised on the records compiled J” the Department of Hecords and Reasearch reveals that during thf first six months of 1«39 there have been four lynchings in the United States. extension of the organization’a of it type to be estahlished by system of 17 aquatic schools the Red Crois, ths Nortn Caro- conducted' each year throughout lina School will serve as a the country. In its program to pattern for other Race aquatic increase the number of persons echools planned for the future. Carver Displays Discoveries N. Y- Fair three more th«in fir«»t |he jsix the same first s»y jpoit total «moust tjq^ded This numlber (if* for the months of 1938 and number (4) for the months ot 1937^ The States In which lynchings occurred and the nuniiber in each state are as follows: Floiida, 2; Georgia 1; and Misa. 1. hospital and nurses home facili tiet"for Negroes in this gro#; In# Eastern North Carolina 4ity to |1SB»000. «»• NEiW YORK CiTY—A small display case holding oeanut, potato and clay producta dis covered and devali^ed in his Tuskegee Institute latooratpryjby George Washington, Carver is perhaps the most interesting and the most significant of all^ the exhtt)its In the Negro In- 4ustrial Pair, on the top floor k 132 W. 125th St. ed in 1'9S6," according to t h e Fair’a ^ublieity depa tmcnt, to “promota an# assist in the de velopment of industries in Har lem." — Mr. Ralph O. Cothard, »reai- d^t and executive director of the Consumers’ and ^raftsmen’a Guild of Harlem, attr&utes the slow re^oaae on the part of Harlem tnanufacturera to laf|k of money andf to lack of inter est. I trust that he will aot ob ject to uy saying that it may correctly be attributed also to bn the ■nils exhilbit, although scanty when conipared with the hund reds of items which Dr. Carver ham been i^ble to “evolve from Insufficient preparation peanuts, clay; sweet potatoes part of the Guild, and other homely southern products, is n^Qvejrtheless one of the most important ever dis played by the'Negro people of Harlem Carver exhibit occupies oni of- th» liOO'Wooden systematically arranged over &D, 000 sqare feet of floor apace in Center department tore buildiag. The Negro Industrial J^ir, iiTl^ohsoi^ ^y the Consuili ers ’’and Crafttmen’a ‘ Guna of of ^arlem. Inc. “A non profit mewbars^ el»»jrtw- ¥iewin|^ the scores of empty booths which could essily be filled and .viewing the objects already occupied, one is impress ed with the fact that the creat ive geniua of Harlem haa hardly a VTMtar to the exhibition hut will think of one «w more persons whoaa talents ought to be repreaetited the1^e. 5f that were aone, then not only would Ae 100 , booths •>« , filled hut fiBed wfth thiag* of | ftewM tani to pNC* ^bt ICHMOiND, Va.,-j-M ore 5.000 people jammed the ive Moaque iAuditorium in mond Sunday, while ‘an- 5.000 surged outside lis tening to a loudspeaker exten sion as Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt presented the Spin gam Medal to Miss Mafian Aor derson at the climax meeting of the 30th annual conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The throngs i^ve th« first lady and the world f-ftntnia. contralto an unprecedented ova tion. The Spingarn Medal ^ given annually by the NAACP to an American Negro of the most outstanditfg ''Achievement. In presenting the medal, Mrs.*^ Roosevelt turned to Miss Anderson ind ^aid: “YoUr- achieveihe^t^^.f a r * transcends race and color. I am glad to have been • chosen to present this med al to you.” She then placed black and gold Hrai M>BS . Anderso^ held aloft'** - medal. TKe famous Am erica-I hands amidst plause and the 'wepsssat popp ing of flishlight fcuLb^.. t "1116 tall and stately M>s An derson said in brief re^pons**’ “I feel it an especial hon»r ' , to receive thi= tned.Hl nt the iiands of fii at lady» For she is oar First !»dy of the land ;iot «nSj in honor hut !f ■■'ried.’’ ■ ■ The princip.il speaker* be- sMe’Mrs. Roc7«"velta MIm Anderson wern 3o^er> J******* H- Price--Of Virii«ia an.i White, national spcreUr; lo tl|e NAACP. around ',on>kuy n' *(» shook ^a for “full edticational trp^- portunities for all Americans ' a». a necessity for demoeraey.'* ‘ Sljw asserted that adequate hikilli facilities and a d^ent enviramgpt were n^ftsary to make 'hneful citizens.’' FEOEftAL AID URGED **Olur y«aag people have a diiFicnlt time to come to matu- rity? Bat oar youth of today bave more health, more toler ance, more willingness to look at problems as a whole, instead of . dividing them into little se parate youth groupa,” Mrs. Roosevelt ~cohtinned. " “My generation must help young people—regardless *b f' their race, color, or creed. There lies oar future, the way America will go.” Commending the race for achievements in the face of tre mendous odds, - she , said: . “Un doubtedly, Mr. Spingam in giv ing this -medal wants to em phasize achievements of people who have more than Ordinary difficulties to surmount.” .He#- tm . to p. eieht SCHOOL LCADCR Cheers stopped nor’s address v ^,ej ■Roosvftr^ the he VIid. d. -A'VT — tas. ■^rs. ed herself - u> constructive - lees of race distinguished led the way life abundan k^mericaa peop " lira. BoomVoH made a Umm SUNDAY ..■rvice 1-*^ • -Sht; atid r Uus^tiahd hav:' Tn , pr- for . u' “ Sch ai' ■ Sehr
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