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DURHAM, N. C. SATUR^Y. SEPTEI^BER I6ik 193^
8 FILE APPLICATIONS
SOUTHERN I/NIVERSITIES
Durham Committee hiegro Affairs Meets
Officers Electioii
i
Expected to Swell
Attendance Sun.^^
DUIiRAJIl—Th« 19'38 arnnaal
meeting uf the Uurhan^ Com
mittee on Negro Atfaira will be
hu.d at the Uillside auditorium.
Sunday September 17 at three
o’clock m was announced tSi»
week by R, N. Harris, secretary
bi' the lj,cal branch. Several
vacancies the |£xocutive
Committee ar« t» be filled this
jrear this p»rtjealar part ol
^uuda> ‘s program is ekpectcd to
dra>^ a large number p Boni
from all walks ol life to the
ii^::eting. Membership on
Executive Committee is limited
to three two one year which
means that three post are to
be filled. j
^ Because of tMc importsMV -«z
^ ^^the^_ExecuUve Committe# sele^-
tion to its mcmber^ip ulwHys
calia^ for ah unusual amount of
ijjjterest. While there ^ has been
lire eoncer^4''9>^'%lie only ie|uir0
ment for membership is that
be indentified as a Negro. Every
Negro in Durham is invited to
Sunday’s meeting and officers
of the organization hope to fill
the high sSho 1 auditorium
capacity wit^-citUans from
secfions\o^ the^ity. ■ ,
PROGRAM PLANNED '
In addititm to Uw «>Mtioa
thfse plare on ^ the .* Exerotive
Committe, _ intec^tlug^ pro-
the planned. Sewral
speakers will ftppear on th«
program and several quartets
have been iviCed to render muaic
for the oc^ion. Other Equally
interesting numbers ar« expect
ed to'b»
1
'The pur^btle ofthe flnrhara
Committee cn Negro Affair:, is
to look «ut for the civic, politi-
' lio iiftTicStteH that «nV--of thos» ~eaL-acflnomic welfare of all tbo
who come up for reelection this
year will not perjjpit their names
tn I^e used as a candidate, sever*
al persofts have been mention as
being in the race, and a Leatetf
contest is expected to take
place ^n next Sunday afternoon.
LVERYBODY INVITED
The Durham Committee o*
Negro alfain is a wide open
organization so far as Negroes
race in Durham. A report of
its actiVltl^l for the year will
be read by the secretary.
The cffjnmittee ia now com-
pcsed of €. C. Spaulding, chair
man; Dr. James £. Shepard,
vice chairman; W. D. Hill, R. N.
flarris secretary; James T. Tay
lor, Mrs. Nell Hunter C. 0.
£fiarson^ Mrs. 'I. H. RuMt’ll and
R. L. McDougald.
HEADS Fi%MILY
MRS. BMMA DAVIOSON, 88
year ^d resident of the Hoskina
section who was the oId«a4^ jr»p-
resentativf at the EXavidson
family reunion at Sunset Park
in Charlotte, recently. Thp re
union was the tenth confAcutive
annual one t)^ family hat en-
and-,WM,th«
Jtiil So his^j. The Amify num
bers among its members a large
number of miniMters and some oi
the liioi^ influential persons in
life.
HOLY CONVaCirTIDN TO
HOLfl 45IH ANNUAL
SESSION IN DORNAM
DU(RHAM--Tlie ^Sth Aunual
Convacation o the United Holy
Cliur^ of America, Inc. iSouth
ern District) will be held at the
(.uspol Tabernairte Church ou
Piedmiyit'Avenue for one week,
bcginiiing Sunday September 17
and continuing through Sunday
Sept. ‘’‘24th. The church“"^iU be
evening ser
in the Audi-
Hillside Park
the sccMie of Sn -
meiitiiigs but all
vice will be held
toriurp of the
llifth School.
The convocation ^ill (fct off
to a start at 4 -a. m. Sunday
morning with a sunriae service
which \\ill continue' until 7 and
at 9;:u) the Bible Church School
will take place with Supt. F. W.
Bowden conducting. ■This will
followed by 4.B minutes of pray
er and conseisration and at noon
11ie Hpccinl opening will taka
place, during which time there
wiTl be fellowship greetings.
The niessage to the convocation
ir. scbedulcd foi; 12^:80.
The afternoon will be ocoup-
od with a 3:00 o’clock special
l)latfo|m service, Intjercession
for dinner and devotional ser-
^ces with testimonies. Another
gospel message Wll be heard »t
V p. m. . -
Monday is the day of conse
cration and the devotionals and
prayer service will ‘begin 10
ft. m. anif will continue until
11 when' the Tlrat busnesi sess
ion will open. Th'^'^lBTe Study
period begins at 2:00 *>•
Hj.ere it »notl»et boiinMji »*Mk>n
iof thcr dailjr -Char^esi The- MteiatarilLjiJlk^ iuLve supper.
nt 3:00; dinner is served at
r>. and at 7:30 there will b«
devotional anu priis* service as
a prelude to the formal a>pen-
iiig oi the convocation. During
Uie formal opening progiam
Uiere will *'e words of welcome
and greeting from represcnta-
livcs of- th^ C^ty of Durham,
unce. Colored Business and the
Press.
The high points of Tufsday’s
program will be the President’s
annual report dt 1 ;30 p. m. and
the evangelistic ntessfge at nine.
Of course the regular busii^sa
session will be held at 11 4! m.
and 2:30 p. m. ^ ,
' Wednesday will be kno^ ai
Missionary day and all devo
tional services will be led by
missionary woi^cers. The piogram
of the win consist of ipecia*
prayeis for Missionaries in
Hcaten Lands, an exhibition of
fancy needle work special misa-
ionary Song Services and offer
ings, gnd a ^limaxing me&sage
at '9 p.' m. on Missions at home
and Abroad.
.,^Tlie main address on Thurs
day will come at 1;S0 and will
be on tb» subjisct of Christian
Education. A special gospel
rfiessage will come at 9 p. m.
Friday is Young People’s day
and special devotional Mrvices
and Bible Study periods will be
conducted' by various (Sactive
young men alKl women. ']^e
oyitstanding features of this day
Caatlnnad ait 'pac* aigiil
$,INIIIUre«t
FattierDid'oi;
NAACP Launches Fight
For Qraduate \Tofk In
t
Three Border States u
NEW YORK—With eight per
sons filing application for en-
'Urance Uo yr.rad)jaite schools in
three states for the fall term
the National Association for
tiie Advancement of Colored
Peoplqi’ announced today that it
will i^ush its drive at j^ce *to
open colleges iu southjernj' and
border states to Nejgiroes in
Missouri, Tennesses and Mary
land.
All the persons Have souijJit
the ai4 oi the NIAACP in press
ing their cases.
Accurding to the Association
a>pplicaitiuns are listed in the
foUovring eategcHriea: Law 3;
biology 1; socioloi'y 1; educa
tion 1; chemistry 1; Joumalism
-fV A-
'The names ei, the students,
and the universities to which
they seek admission follow;
Uni^rsity 'lToime»»ee, ■
Smitli,
' ^CpIvmbiB: Mi*t Lucilla Blu-
fortf, Kaniaa City jMns^Ntri
journalism.
Univc^riity of Maryland,
Baltimoru; William Mur
phy, Baltjniuir* Lm'ff.
RANSOM TO HANDLE
TENNLSSE^ CASES
The NiAtfACP announcement
siad thatr-L. A. Ransom ..|»rt.fess-
or of law at Huward University
aila""fi IBgBibcr of the-Afcseeia-
tion’s .naticnal legal committee,
will handle the l}niver.*iity oi
. Knoxvilt*: *1*^ -L.
Joseph Michael law; Clin
ton IVyirsh sociology; Hom-
•r L. Saunders education;
Ezra Totten chemistry all
Resident cf ^noxitille; flnd,
W^llev 5. K: Hardy, Char
lotte N. C. chemistry.
University o Missouri,
He will be
FSN Menior
s
Times)
Teunnessee coaco. ^
assisted by the. law firm of
Cowan and Looby of Nashville.
Hansota is scheiuled to go to
Nashville gtpteralxpr 19 to pre-
paire the. ground ©r conr^Sttion.
GA.INE5 CASE TO BE ““
fclils^les tf. ITotiston. special
counsel of Se NAACP will
handle the .ease of Miss BIu-
ford at the Utiiveraity of Miss-
Wi4-.- lie is oxpccted' tcr^ -eave
shortly for Columbia Mo.
It was also stated 'that plans “* '*'^”"•.1”
I Aw .1- i. 'Fayetteville
to .seek fw;tiier court action in
the 'Lloyd Uuines ease. The
IT. . S. SupieiL; Court handed I Armstrong wer.t to State Nor-
down a decisiA^i December l2th ' mal several ^ears. ago from Shaw
li)38 ordering
' Continued
Wire To Carolina
FAYBTTEVILtE, N. C.—-
Rumors that “Arm|y” Armstrong
Fayetteville State Normal men
tor had resigned his position as
coach at the schsol was denied
this "waek in a special wire ;wnt
to the Coroltn Times by Coaeh
Armstrong himself. ^
It has been going the rounds
for several iteeka that Arm
strong had* rcsigto«i. hia^ position
as head of athletics at the'
Scliocl to study
medicine. * •
PsHILADEILPHIA, —A crowd
of 8,000 of his local followers
greeted Father Divine at the
Broad Street Station on hia ar
rival here to lead a three day
series of “peace” meetings. The •
cult leader arrived by train from
one of hia New York “king
dom**’ and was accompanied by
640 of his “angels.” •
He later addressed •& meeting
gi 6,00 person at the Phillies’
baseball park.
When Father Divine seated on
the back pf a large touring car
with the top down arrived at
tlie. ball park at 3:30 jie found
some 1,60$ persons in'^iJe $mtj
an equal number without. He
announced to his discipl?! that
he was going back downtown to
. “I’ll be back' at o’clodc with
a message,’* he told them. “I’ll
be here in the spirit and I’ll be
here when I get back.”
Asked ikbout tl:e war situa-.
tion. Father Divine told Inter
viewers that h^Jcould net com
ment until it gpme,“voluntarily”
PENNSYLVAiNIA WON’T DAH.
“CONE WITH THE WIND”-
piTTSbUUGli, C N A) —
The Grand Army of the Uapublte
^lerans heading homeward thU
week from their annual encamp
ment head fTial their protest
against the s!tS>ving of the movie
“et»ne WHh—WiAd’! old
be in vain KSJR^lican domirated
Pennsylvania.
A resolution charged t h ^
film based on Margaret Mitc-
hellli anti Negro novel depicted
a Union iloldT8!r as a “hideous
marauder atdtl^ing women.’* It
urged that memibeni absent
from aay .'theater showini^ ttia
“defamatory film.'*
Mrs. Edna "9. Carrol jf Phil
adelphia chairman q£ thu State
Board of IfSTTon Picture Cep-
Pleai^ turn to pag« eight
0 Unj^ersity ori^niversity. Since taking up^ liis
pag« eight w,prk head coach the Fayette
vi’fe'’ Sttte Normal Athletic de
partment, has taken on new life.
He lias turned oat some of the
best teams in football and basket
ball the school has ever had.
Last year the Fayetteville
team- iftet some pf the strongest
teams in and TOt of the CIAA
and on very few occasions did
they shew sigli5 (5T not being well
ti;ainedf This year’s schedule
is equally as hard if «ot a hard
er one than last ,j_
Above is^show a recent crowd
before' Baptising conducted
annually during the . month ~of
September by the House of
Prayer in Charlotte. Standing
in the black robe is Bishop C.
M. Grace, "Daddy” - Grace to
his followers in Charlotte" and
many Sthi>r places.
jV view 0/ the Bishop Grass
parade at Charlotte last Sunday
showing several fnember^ of the
C«-l. Charles Young Post of the
-American LegTon's Drum and
Bugle Cf.rps, which was a verj
pppular feature of the paiade.
A vie% of "tire B.ishcp Grace
membera cf one of the Grace
•Auxiliaries, e^ffr^ing as moat
of the paradeTs, large anJ smaU
aanners showing “Daddy” Grace
Holding the world up in one
hand, “^is year marks the firal
time the banners hsr» h«efi
ed.
— (Another picture on page 8>
^en^iiiisters
Baptize^iSd As
CHARLOTTE, N. C.—Last
&u>day might will be termed
“Daddy” Grace Day here as it
marked th^ culmination of a
week’s convocation at the House
of Prayer, featured by a mam
moth mass baptizing with .four
hundred and eighty nine men,
women; boys and girls sand babfes
being immersed by seven preach
ers connected with; the House of
Prayer beforea crowd ,>f .ap
proximately four thousand thai
packed #very inch of avuilable
space around the pool behind
the Hutise or Grayer and parade
many bl cks Tongs before streets
crowded with people to \v:iness
the' spectable.
Grace fownjer
I
Oil iHi'sro
Prayer, atart^j ^|y&^^hds of people tried to~'gJrt~
cations in Sectnd Ward to see tlie par-
Bishop C. M.
of the House of
a.seri.es of Conv
fork City on August 6 and
conclude the series on Oetobei| ^ay ib paasetl
1 at Columbia South Carolina.
In each t*wn he visited there
was a week’s convocation prc-
MRS. MARTHA JOHNSON,
who fqr thirteen years has been ^ taTi Store
einployed by the Duke Powiy:
Company in fts Charlotte Retail
Store. In addition to seriring
maid on the sales flooi;i,.keepih{
all appliar.ccs in perfect order,
Mrt>. Johnson also sells appli
ances of all fflnds from electric
light bulbs to ranges and water
heaters. Mrii. Johnson .s an
active member of Seventh Street
Presfcyter.an church, and has
one son Robert, She is one of
most popular persons an the
entire «taff of the Charlotio R«-
NEW YORK—A~ n«w biblio-
grapfi Tistfn^ «i4 tke. latest lefer-
ence. books containing any ma
terial about Negroes, has just
been published b" the National
Urt)an League’s Department of
Research. —
This .bibliography which is
expected to be particularly valu
^■ole to students of Negfo life
and hi.story is o‘ reyiaieii #f. one
issued in 1937^^^^ contains all
of the books list^^n the first
edition and #»e Supplement and
in addition woi*k published in
1938 and the first half of 1939.
It is thoroughly anngjated and
eediag hU coming. He goes to
Savannah and AilguST'^ ^7««rgi4.
before terminating the meetings
jlumbiaT*'
Strvice began at the House of
i’rayer uaily Sunday mjrning
and the Ibapflzdng was sc%edu-
u L» bogin at eleven A. M. but
it was twelve thirty before
“Daddy”. Grace came to the p*>ol
.oiiov^od by b‘s p) eache^^-and.
the four huiKli't'd pers.ns who
>'cre to be baptized. Bishop
Grace made a sh*>rt addrtgs to
the assenvbled thousands and
then the baptiiiug_«ot undtxway
with seven preittthers doing the
actual baptizing under the difec
ion of “Daddy” Gracesi. Many
tf the J>aptizings were impromp-
,u nuniUeiP-!S*r persons dre'-sed
iu regular street attire “feeling
t^e spirit” and Pushing into the
poi)l. These along with those
dressed beforehand for tlie
ocraFi( n, brought the total to
489."
hand to hand to the other end
where they wee led up the hilt
and to their dr«.ssin4 quarters.-
Mure than once it was neceas.ary
for the prcachers in .the water
to take one or two adults, and
bodily life them and carry them
to the sides uf the pool.
^At the C' nrtesion of the bap
tising the cr^wd dispersed and
planii were begun for the mam-
..itoth parade. The parada left
House of Prayer about four
o’clork in the afternoon ami
followed a rotlte that took i-
over the principaL^lreets of tiij
Second V. or.d sM^ion of town.
Long be‘. .t«'it’beg^in busses and
^axical|s *iri al! f.arts of to.*.i wti
tax53Er^(?V*irtl^ tkcii capacity aa
The baptizing lasted about
'^(ie. W’hen i- flni^lfy liO^t”^ uutfef”
liicrirty
jgiPDwded with people “n both
^l^s and on the t '"S of cars
2C^ind' st li ^ —. C-.e
rooife of houses and tree'i that
linedfVthe way.
The%parade brought most of
the membersulp ■ of the house
I. f prayer, divided into neatly
uniformed -groups, in the variouit
auxiliaries ^^nifleeted with it.
Many of^Jp women We¥e go^,-
geoiis evening dressed others
vari colored uniforms and tha
men were atSr uniformed. Bis
hop Grace himself^'rode alone
in. the-back seat of his car
driven by a smartly tmiformed
chaufflur, differing from his
former custom vt having 'one -
or more “angels” to fan him i.n
the way. Several musical groap^
werg in the parade and -the
Drum and Bugle Corpa oi th«
Colonel Charles Toung Poak of
the American Legion was featur
ed as were several boy ..
scout outfits.
T h e convocation coBclade4
Sunday night at the Houaa
Prayer with financial repact*,
and a pating mesai^ ' fPWk
Bishop t3race.
' especially designed to assist per-
in addition to interested in the selective
ner work in tjie reading of* hooka 'by and aobut
sales wonlc inside and outside, Negro.X Among the subjects
he found time to assist in 36 covered are: 'General refeience two and,one half hours and went
cooking schools during 1938. ^wofks, biogra:p?i sociaj ->a n d forwrrd with admirable dispatch
According to a statement frar" ' tCqnOT"'!!. literature—r. «*cept when some ‘ spirit filled
R. H. Watkins, sales manager of I drama arr~iflgsig^--eiHcatipjLjic convert would rush into the pool]
the Retail Store “her sales have tion and history. llTSnr^ity direction and break up
been mbst satisfactory aftd in ffifpool.l
Icpen judire of bibliograph is mimtograph ^he petsons to be baptiped weraj
f her cua- ^ through i„ ti.e pool from on.'
credit standing of nef ® Department of Research of Lj^- „nd passed frtw hatd to Assoclatatf Aetow
tomers..^thcre has been on y one Ur4>an League H3S '^d t.^thr^lddla PoS ««» *>*•
I cants per copy gr |1.50 P«r tu*! inunowing and then from
(doira eopics. I itaMV.
u
the
[ACTORS MNION WINS
[COURT FIGHT
jurisdiction ^van^
during all the years
ed with Uf."