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EDITS WOMAN’S PAGE /w-« \ VOLUME 20 ITUMBER 22 DORHAM. NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, JULY 22nd 1»39 PRICE SEVEN CENTS TWO MURDERS MAR CHARLOTTE WEEK END MAmiACE ANIIOIIIICIP * -I f '■S' % H Miss Queen £. Lyons, w}io iakes time out from her cleri cal duties in the Main' office of the CAJROLINA IHMES to gather society notes and to edit the woman’s ;^page. She is aided imlwuik reporters all over the city. Miss Lyons is a student at the North Carolina College and is adding to her poputii Ily with t^h e weekly publication of her .col umn entitled NEW^ AROUND 'BQWiN. See "* Soulbern Porter Sued - WJNSTONtSALBM, n. c.— Claiming th»tr she satlewd seri- »us injuries when alighting from a train at Durham last Octoiber 3 Miss Hattie Woodruff of Winston Salem filed suit for $26,000 for personal injuries against the Southern Railway Company, and Fred Newberry, well known porter. The action, alleges that the place where t^e woman stepped down to the ground was rough and uneven, that the porter made no attempt to help her and that she auilered a badly sprained ankle. Trllmle To C. G.{’Kelly The summer school students of North Carolina College paid exiellent tribilT? to D o c t o r C. G. O’Kelly in a short memor ial program in B. N. Duke- Audi torium TJuesday, July 18. For many'yeiars' Dr. O’Kelly was, a professor at tfte college and instructed extension groups throughout the state. This pro-“ gram was a fitting tribute to this sterling character. The large enrollment o^ his summer classes showed how ' greatly, he iwas admiredi Iby student and teachers all over North Carolina. This is the first summer in se- verar yea'rs thait he has not heW classes here. Credit’'*for originatingr this idea goes tp Mrs. E. Lancaster' Adams. Assisting hei^ were ijbomas. MoPerson, Jr. Dean J. T. Taylor and Mrs. J. M. Hu(b- bard. Included ©n the program were "His Song” by Mts. Adams; Lord's Prayer, by Mr. Ogle ^y* a tribute from the exteA- sion' department by James W. Wall. Miss Reba Mayo sang “Talk About a Child.” Dean 'James T. Taylor made brief but touching remarks “as an associ-. ate” and TMomas McPhcrson followed with remarks 'as an, ahininu.” Mlaa Johnia • ended the program with a vocal golo: “If Wishes were tl»e real ttiing.’* Business Inslitnte Opens Monday At Hillside ' Registration for Durham's .citisens who are intere ted in DIES OF SPINAL INJURY isegro Buaineai ln»t: egin ai me Hillside Park High School at 7:30 p. m.. July .4. The instituta will continue through Friday, July 28 up^)F the direction of Isador . Boyd Oglei^y ‘and sponsored by the Durham Business and Profess ional Chain for tha tbeoafit-'^^ small business men and retail merchants. The theme underlying t h • beginning of thia institute is that “the true test of the strength business in Du^am will be letermined through the of our am«U aster- prisea.” Every time you can attract a Negro to spend with the Negro in Business, trades, profesaions, lalbor, " that citizen will make a place for Ncgroea to work. ^ m. The genera) purpose of this ifistitnte,. is ^ imd dm- velop the general welfara of iiegro business men and women of Durham civically and econo- ically; to ftudy methods per^ taining to competition, require ments and other conditions t^t exist which make, it imperative that merchants kjnows what is going on; to give merchants an opportunity ,JLj) compare experi ences and problems. NO CHARGES The courses offered at this institute will be free of charge and will be op^n^ to all Negro growth of Negro business* For the tbenefia of employees in the businesses of the city« b .jecial eoor* Im mUIm “ otiMr nattsra tromi -**** Ployee angTe will . be conducted from 8 a. m. to 11 a; m. on July it# 26. This pac^ieuiar Goarae is designed for delivfry ^en, Mileanen a^d atore assist- V 14- Year-Old Boy Kills Man; Axe Victim Succumbs anta. OBOiRlGE WKITTEI) of Gur- I ley Street who died Tuesday For employers and managers night at' Ae Lincoln Hospital there will be courses in keep- as jresult of a spinal injury ing record of operations, selec tion of workers and type pf services that pay^ store manage lient and advertising, Mlling aida jgmd purcTiasing an?' mark ing gooda. ^ . . Although discussions itill not 1 coafined to my oae type Beaineas but will only apply (•neriil; to all twainaaa. Coa- ferenea periods, far afteial prdblems may be arranged through instructors. * I insiitue Don A. INSTRUCTORS , .Instructors in"’ tAis are: W. Jay Walker, Davis, Jr. Doctor (A. Hei.ing- burg, Isador B. Oglesby, C. T. Willis, R. C. Foreman, Aaron Day, Jr. and J. W. HarrlA Those desiring further in formation are^^equested to call or write IsAilor'^ B. OglesbiT at 612 Masseyv Avenue. His te'fe- phone nuiriber is L-1043. Impressive Rites; For C. J. CHARLOTTS, N. 'C.-lT h e [“Frjpnrily City.’-', was friendiy in at least two instan ces last week, the police blotter ■ showing two murdors which j liappened over the week end, I all the principals Jn each mur- I der being Colored. Richard I Cathey, 14 years old latyL th« ■ youngest prisoner to be charg ed with ^o seriuus a crime here in recently months, is charged with murd«r for killing Van Foste^ Jr. on West Hill Street shortly after midnight Sunday. I According to the story of the ' ® investigating officers the >oung his.home, ms funeral hag -been ' the..man in the left ide of the head,, and one Willie house, ’and threatened wilh a ftuteliBf kfltTg was shot. Ambulance ants who picked up v i*' body stated; that a 'fai^ the boy alter he attend- Fc-ster s tutch- arranged for Sunday af+ernoon at Raeford. He has been em ployed with the Alexander Tire Division sinca 1930. Taleoied irlisl Id NCC Uccilal Short, simple yet impressive funeral rites were held at the White Rock ‘Baptist Church Monday afternoon July 17, fibr Charles J. Ingram manager of the Dunbar Realty and Insur ance Co. who succumAxed at the Duke Hospital early Saturday morning. Rev. M. “M. Fi'her officiated. As the cvowd. of friends ga thered at the church to pay tSelr laat respects to this noBle, gentleman t^iere he, lay v^eep-j ing on his couch Ce!icath a baautiful covering of lovely boquets while the piano chords softly whispered': “Jesus Lover of My Soul.” ' Mr. Ingram • was the ii.in ‘of Mr. and Mra. Charles J. Ingram Sr., who at the time of his birth lived in Hamlet. He camtf to Durham while he was st'U in his youth and entered school at what, is now known as North Carolina College. He graduated in 1926. He w|| a membei of the Board of Junior Trustees at White Rock Baptist and was also a men»ber of * a Moore Bilble Class. • For several years he worked as a barber in the city and la ter became the able managet of the Dunbar Realty and In surance Company. He leavesy^to mourn, his wife, three children, one sister an uncle and any numfber of rela tives. "Nobody knon* how •'^many times ke died in liia heart be fore hia It wiESnhls policy to keep his troublea even unto death. * North Carolina College gave its summer stu(^Qts a rare treat when it presented Miss Carol Brice in recital Moiiday July 17. ' . -I ^ Mite- Brice, eminent young singer who comes to us from Talledega College, possesses a priceless voice and a dynamic personality. It can be said and truthfully, tK'at in Miss Brice's voice we recognize something akin to that of Miss Anderson. Miss Partia Thomas also of Talladega accompanied Miss "!^ice the piano: "Tire recital included such numbers as: Pur Cliceste, Come to the Fair Come to the Fair; Mon Coeur S' ouvere A tu' Viox, Life and Death; Dry Bones, iand O Stay My love. MO^TlCIAtl White who iflso lives i»r Hill Street was shot in the back ef the left-hand at the same time. Mrs. Mable Campbell, mother of Bichard told police that after an argument Van Foster became ^x^emely avgry a d threat^ed to d>low up the right hand when him up. ... .... In the other murder that occurred, George Green a 4g year old man 'was kilted with an axe by Haywood Mitchell in the backyard of a house off Willow Street at 12:30 p. m. while most of .the ‘ churen were winding up their morning ser vices. Green's body was taken to^^the Good Samaritan Hospital by a Grier and Thompson am bulance where he was pro nounced dead up«» arrtvai by Dr. Blackman. Haywood was aneated by police and * warr ant is also out for one Edgar, Long McCoy alfeged companion of Mitchell's, charging h i m ifeo with, murder. - Ifce former Miss Grace Hel^n i teacher in the Drfrham city Lanier whose mariage to At- j school system. Attorney Thomp torney M. Hugh" Thomp*.on on j,Son is welj Jtnown in profession March il, 1939 was-^imnmc«d | al and bu'sinen circles throng unfMJn they picked this week. Mrs. I oat North Carolina. President Of 6chooi IMPRESSIVE RITES HELD gran^ons two sons in law and WEDNESDAY Special to tnu TUIflES KLIZABJiTH QITY N. C.— SaTurday evening, July 16, with memibers of Ti i s immediate three uaughters m law. EARLY LIFE ‘ President Bias was born June 11, 1879 at Palmyra, Missouri and received his educational tOL Deputy Dies ■}i — „ James 34 yeav— oid and waa tbresteDing the lives. at Duke University employes who' memibera of hia family and i>aa»- lived in the Pearsontowu sec- ers by with his shotgun. SaiC. ciun, w>s 3hot to aeatb 1b bia'^ia said to have been hiding be- tracks..'with five butiets ^^oiB ^ hind^ a jhedge when the off^icers tile pfstol of“iTblic oiiicer R. H. dro^e up ■ and fired his gun Sutton after lie Smith aad shot just as Hall stepped out a dia- down Deputy i)nus Hall when the two officers came to his home of Fayetteville road to quiet a “distunbance.’' Ajmost all of the load from Sncith'a .shotgun caught hall in th» left side and arm just as he stepped out of the car. Hall , died at V^att,, fiospital Monday. The two officers went to Smith’s home on First Street tance- of approximately feet* ;~ twelve family at his (beside at Johns j training in the puiblic schools ri Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore Mtfron County, Missourf . n d l^esident John Henry Bias of ' Lincoln Institute, now Lincoln ue Elizabeth City State Teach-' University, Jefferson City Mo. era College, -succumbed to an where he recieved the B. S. D. illness of a Vfe^ry few months. ' and the A. B. degrees in 190L Death brought to an end Presi- j Uent Bias’ ten year administra- followed by gradu- tion of a school he had seen training at the State Coll grow to a full fledged college University of Chicai^o and wit-h a million , dollar plant. Columbia University. Upon com- FlNAL RITES AT COLLEGE of his Mijork at the Uni- Impressiye final rites were of Chicago, ^Mr.ji Bias held in Moore Hall, the college called back> to hia alma Miapel, Wedftesday afternoon hiater where he served for some time as profeaeor of mathe Balliiiig Iteaiilles To Xalif Final FreolppearaiKe JULY 2S D4TE . OF FInXl shows staged annulJly PREHM'Rtsnfrr appearance I Ian tic City BEFORE CONTEST CLOSES AT HILLSIDfi: «t At- T h e final frea exhibition will take place ft the swimming pooL Thursday evening, July 2f at eight o’clock. Brothers Johnsons Albert and Trvin; and Before a near capacity house at the Regal theatre, Ti^iday ►night, July 1®, . Bathing' ISeorgiT LogaiT have planned an Beauties put in an appearance aquatic show^for' tEfli entertain-, that rivalled in apa^kling alen- ment of those present, dor / tboie ‘'Miss A»trie»" FAB TUCKEffS SWING BAND Zac Alexander, Jr. pro«^|ent young business man of"^Char- lotte and ciyic leader. Mr. Alexander together with his father operates on of Char- lo-tte's leading undertaking establishments. GETS CALlWr FINALS Many features--, aye planned for the closing dance including a Fashion Show by Mi’Lady’s Dress Shoj) a swing addicts’ Jamboree. S’or thia affair. Fab Tucker • the old Capital—City Aces at 2:30 with dean jS. D. Wil liams presiding, an^ Dr. G. H. Spaulding delivering the aer- mTn. After the processional, the college choir sang “I would Not Live AlwSys.” ^ The'*~T3!ietai services were simple and impressive, charac teristic of hia life. Taking part in the funeral" were: The Revs. R. S. STcRatf, C. H. Cartwr ght. Miss Ru'by Jones, ProT^ James A. Clark representing the facu- ty; James B, Fleming alumni representatt^; Miss Carrie Mae Fuller, 'student rejiresentative, as well as representatives uf the State Board of Trustees and the State departmen|f- of Public Instruction. - The sweetly blended voicaa of the college College Choral Club ^larmonized impressively as ,£Hey sang Dr. Bias' favorite spiritual “Swing Low Sweet Chariot.*’ The services were closed with benediction by the Rev." C. M. Griffin. Closely followed by hund reds of students, friends admirers, the funeral ..procession salemnl^made its way so t h e 'Oak Grove cemtery where the Please turn to page eight hia wife, Mrs. Francea L # n « will swing out for the benefit of the dancers, at Hillside Auditorium, Friday night, Aug. Bias, three sons, three ■4. ' - t*r, • larotiiw; APPOINTED vAccortttng- 'to Mrs. Gertruda Smifh, wife of the alain man, he had been conducting him self quite normally all evening and had talked ©ver week end business matters with h^r; but suddenly it seemed that some thing snapped in him, she said, and he began acting «s if. ha around 9 o’clock Saturday night was wild. Mrs. Smith t^^k the in answer to a complaint that two children and left home he had been acting strangely Please turn to page eight Inmate Gives Impression Of f« Mr Prison Life WARNS FRIENDS TO TAKE rtUVAirrAGE OF FREEDOM J, EDfTOIi’3 NOTE:—The au- thor of this article was very pi'pular in Durham and 's now eiviiig time at uie l>urham Cou.ity Prison Camp, ti-lcntej cartooriist. da is a ful tfees are putting out with joy uf suua!!?..J '.a tneir varioui hues that are all too evident from the window which is my only view of 'today's world. This house of sick soul* ia near a wooded section. that lends a 'pIcuiTTsque scene en* DEAR KDITOR; Would I be asking too much of you t" pltase run iHis '.;i ' ur paper? I don't have any- 1 tiiuig 10 With. As you I kiiuvv I’m a prisoner. If y»u | 'would like to write me liere’s the HtlrtT'gs.-:. Houte 5. Box 118 Durham' Nojth Carolina 1 want I the public to read, this; niay4>e it will h^lp aomubody to geti,olI the wrong track of life, that's why I wrote. Yours truly. Signed: James Barbee BURIED ALIVE By James Barbee What I mean when I say “BUR IED UNLIVED” is that when one has violated the laws of st ciety V that do warrant punishment, but Either hanced by the chirping of God's birds, it is with genuine >pe that every man ud wo man who is confined ..wili rea lize ju:4t how much of mo^er nature’s program they are miaa 1 hope for all the ttnfortun ..—myself included tluit thia shall, be a lesson not to take dame nature se slightly the Trext'tinie, if thera. is^ » neirt time. Heartaches an3 priaiuL Jtua are a'ltHter doae but I am. icrate ful to know that everytliiac happens lor tne best. 1 thiak now oF" fiiy Homeward trenl— of our mothers, wives, fatbeik sweethearts: brothers ters who are also waHi«c for the retnm ot a cured aoitL Someone who has been “Burie# ci>pital [AhW-—waitini,; wiahiag, aai to be hoping for tit* •fauce'^ «■». DB. BMMnr toon Who was recently agipointed put ’’away in some prison in lieu ‘ th»r a h>ved of his debt to said society; 1 and affection. OB* witli tclaaaa 1 eu giro- fiwt body was interred ^ ^Surviving Fresideril aias__are aTso will i^rre Assistant Publicity lSir^Sbr in happen to be Just 'Svfch a ptrson haiid eviileBce ot tke charge of Republican putolicity «nd I, find myself living in ^tiott w« ahpaM all lu»« a in the NegrO jaresa. Dr. &roCt nternoriea thait resembfe a free «wld, to wliiek ay ey«i as one of the SdVisors toi Coairman J o Here I see so many tilings were ^ce *lind. 1 might ha\w enjoyed were J. daugh-1 Hamilton ,on^„B.roblems relating committeed to the HOUSE and pay reject to -— fc w «I to^colorecl cltura*. OF SICK SOULS. The beauU-1 fhtm lui ta fipt ■ I
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