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VOL. 20
NUMBER 40
DURHAM, N. C„ SATURDAY, Oct. 14th, t«3«
DURHAM HOST
StatC'Wide Convention^
Will Convene At Whitie^ ~
Rock Church October 31
HOST
REV. MILES MARK F1SH£R».
Paster ot White Rock Baptist
Churelt who will be host to the
Convention.
rRESlDENT
DU. J. T. HAIRSTON
President of the G;neral
IBapt!»t ConveriHon of North
Carolina, meetini; in Durham,
Octoiber 3fT, Nov. 2..
GEN’L SECRETARY
DURHiAM—The General Baptist State Convention of North
Carolina will meet at White Rock Bapiit Church in Durham, fue*-
day Oct. 31—Thursday Novemfee^ 5tnd. Thfi marks the s«venty-
fourth (.74) annual session this chdvch 'body, '^Wch is the oldest
state wide Colored Baptist Conver®jn in America. It reprc>ents
over a quarter of a million Baptist members in North Carolina. A
large delegation is expected to attend.
The three day session will be heM in the fitltoric White Rock
Baptist Church, Rev. Miles Mark Fisher pastor. All of the Baptist
church of Durham are cooperating in the entertainment of this
great state wide gathering. **
The major objective of this
Convention is Tto unify the work
of the Auxiliary Conventions,
the fifty or more associations,
and the great mass of Baptist
churches whicn claim a mem
bership of around 300,000 peo
ple in this StSte.
An interesting program has
been arranged featuring ad-
dcesses by icading Baptists of
t^e country. Among tKem are
Mrs. Max Yeargia wlia will
spentC 'on the- s\jftjecl: "Africa
I Saw It.’- Dr. J. H. Randolph
of Washington, U. C, will pre-
seirt the "Cause of Missions”
Dr. II. P. Daniel President f
Shaw Univers“y; M. A. Huggins
Secretary of the White Baptist
Convention oi North Caroli,n»,
Kev. B. 1>. Mdodona, Native
y '
'Afl'icftn; Uev, Thofnas Kilgore,
and llov. W. C. . S,m€fvilie,
Uenerai Secretary of tEe Con-
A panel discussion will e
presented Weunssday Nov. 1st
and will be given by Drs. V. S.
Bullock, J. \v. Hairston, fRev.
J. MeNewkirk, Rev. B. K. Ma
son, and Itev. J E Tillet.
President T. D. Btaefo^ of
A and T College, Greensboro,
will -preside at the Layman’s
Hour, u forum featuring ad
dresses by Attorney Curtis
Todd of Italeigh, P?W. R. W.
Brdv^n of lTOistf>h Sifiilern and
X. H. Cheek, of Weldon.
The first meeting ©f I**® C®**'
eral' Convention will begin
promptly at ten o’clock Tuesday
morning Oct 3l with the follow-
in|; officers plyticip^itig; ^
Departments af;
Publications, Dr. O. S. Lollock
'Education,^Trof R. W. Brown
Baptist - Training, Rev. ^amM
. WHERE BAPTISTS WILL CONVENE
H
m
WHITE ROCK BAPTIST General fiaptist Convencion of
CHURCH, Du'rnam North Caro- *iNorth CaroITna, Oct. 3J to
lina, which entertain thff fJfirvpnlBer 2.
tiun, wlio will give the plans
for the 1940 Baptist Conclave;
these with many others will
make tMs an' outstanding* Con-
vential program.
wertz. z
tE'evangeli.'iin, R^v.
Todd ^
Benevolence, Rev.
Cheek ■ ' ' ' ,7^
Missions, Cf. J, T. Uicstoh.
G. W.
J.l
N. A.
DPS Co. Guest
Ot N. G, Mutual
Weejkly Forum
DURHAM— 1 Dr. Charles Clinton Spauld-
On Saturday* morning during ' ing, in responding to the ad-
‘ dress, mentioned . tire fact that
the weekly Forum hour of the
North Carolina Mutual Life
Insurance Company, The Dur
ham Puiblic Service Company
was presented in a spi'^ndid
and mutually profitable prot
Jack Payton, Xylophone Artist
S. C.Tiovernor
Protests Action
Of Kiansmen
GREENSVILLE, S. C. (ANP)
—'A wave of protest baa ioUow
ed the recent invasion ol two
Suth CBrolma towns by a mask
ed band of 75 armed men.
These bushwacker ijr^ups ad-
witted—to—be—members—of—the"
u grave menace|^ in Soulu Caio-
lii.a the dj^tnt white pco-
•lif realize it. an4 are 'deinand-
ing that the authrities conduct
a vigorous investigation.
Tn date tig afr^tata hav^ b'.mi.
Ku Klux Klan by the
,, , ni:Ue: the unvtifior ilas oraci-
vrl'2illu*4-
Dragon of South Carolina per-]*-'**. thul the constaOu-
petrated « dastarddly ’„ime *“‘vestigation,
against present day American
civilieatioa. Sweeping down on claimed to be an or-
the little communities of FoUn- Uapti=.t luuuster) s okes
tain Inn and Simpsonvilfs the
man for tiie Ivlau, has given a
statement to the Press. Adinitt
together in the city of Durham
for the past forty odd years,
and th«t he had found him an
able business man. He also stat
ed that, th^, world needed more
business meh Vtth the experi-
of the “Melody Kitchen Hour,” ence ind ability of Mr. Hedges,
began the program with the and took the opportunity to
rendition of two selections, inyite hiin to visit the plant at
after (which R. L. Lindsay, Vice- any time.
President and General Manager | Othe|; visitors** to the Forum
ofoJI^he Durhanv Public Service were B. W. Stiles, Secretary tg
Company, was presented by W. Mrs. Mary Duke Biddle of New
J. Kennedy, Vice President and York and Durham Public Ser-
Secretary of the No'rth Carolina vice Company,
Mutual Life Insu^'ance Company
editorials condemning the ac-
, ^. . , . , J I tions of these Kiansmen. Minis
he and Mr. Lmdsey had worked throughout t the
REV.^ W. C. SOMEBY.IX,LE
Oeneral Secretary of tl.ilj
Bitptist Srtate ^Convention, .who’
wiy direct the 1940 Baptist
Conclavs. , . ,
't
CHARLOTTE WOWffiN
ORGANIZES STATE
MEDICAL AUXILIARY
^ Dr. and*Mrs. J. Eugene Alex
ander and Mrs, Anna Phianey,
mother of Mrs. Alexander mo
tored to Greesboro and edalia,
N. C. Sunday. Mrs. Alexander, ^
President 1)T the State Medical
Aupxiliary, organised a medical
auxiliary to the Winston, Reids-
ville. High Point, anf Burling
ton MediceAr*>The meeting took
place iiP'Greensboro, at the
home af Dr. and Mrs. Evans.
Di*. and Mrs. Blackman gave
a fish fry and children sopper
for their church Monday night
-at their home on Oaklawn Ave-
nu«.
In presenting " Mr. Lindsey,
Mr. Kennedy gave a brief sketch
bf l^is life in relation to the
work in which he is nowpartici-
pating. Mr. Kennedy stated
that the Durham Public Service
Company tofought
community through its broad
cast; “Melody Kitchen,” and
also performed a utility funic-
tioTi as well,_thu8 Jbringing “not
r. -ry life, but light.”
After congratulating the. Mu
tual on its progress &nd service
to humanity, Mr. Lindsey intro
duced Earl W.. Hodges, Director
of Pwblic Relations for Electric
dvlsMsj Inc., New -4Po^ City,
the Speaker of the hottK^
Mr. Hodges*' message was one
Ilf goodwill and fellowship. He
stressed the ideas of being a
good citizen, ■ and giving seivice
where service is needed with
the elements of team work and
cooperation as vital facers. He
said; “An institution gruws be
cause of the TS^pe of leader and
his associates who work in clcse
harmony with tlie^.|}09ic facts t
the said inititution,”
FILM STAR VISITS
HUSBAND IN
CHARLOTTE
BY BJQ3SIE HARDY
CHARLOTTE, N. C.—
Mrs. S. F. Pyl« flf » New
City spent the week end visit
ing her'hustoand Dr. S. F. Pyle.
Many friends were .called*at a
late moment by .- .^e Ladies
Auxiliary of the Charlotte Medi
cal Society to greet Mrs. Pyle,
the occasion was a gala affair
given at the Private club house.
Guests inc^ded the auxiliary
hostesses Mesdames' J. Etigene
Alexander, E. E. Blackman
Thcs. Watkins, Rudolph
H. H. Creft, H. Culmer of Mon-‘
reo. Dr. jyid Mrs. S Cj Pyle,
Doctors Alexander, Blackman,
Watkins, R. M. *Wyche, H. Cref..
and Culmer, Messrs W. f. Alex
ander, C. P. Atkins, F. Hanley,
E. Brown, and I. Hardy, Misses
C Booton, F. Beatty, E. Morris,.
Dr. H. E. Wilson, efficfent
ij^d popular pastor of the Little
C. Evansi H. Alexander, Mes-' ’Sock AME Zion, chilrch in
Charlotte. Dr. WiUon will be
host pastor when his church
dames E. Hercules and M. Crsw
ford; Mr. and Mrs. S. Adams
im4-Attorney Bwosw^ Dr. Pylal^ntertains -the annpal confer-.
Please tjim to page eight enc# ot the chnrch Nov. 8-U.
Kiansmen searched robbed and
then beat all Negroes who were K.laa was itspon
on the streets.
A reliable white ifye witness attention to_ the fact that no
stated that women and children Negroes were killed and on the
were pulled from cars lapped exaggeraleU
Wcked. Colored mpn were, | ^he a«air. The kian has lece v-
knocked unconscious. -One aged ! reports Irom
Negro in Simpsonville is still ! coniplimentiug
sutfering from the effects of>h®ni on the good accomplished!
the beating he received. • (Merchants in i-'ouniain report
a Igss of several thousand dol-
The entire white press of the ' lars last Saturday as a result
state have carried almost daily of the Klan invasion a week
previous.)
Kecalling the ” mad rushf of
state have adopted’ "resolutions Kiansmen in 11^33, when George
demanding vigorous action by Green, an aged Negro wis ki
the constituted law enforcement ® hooUt-d band, to turn
bodies of the state, “of this state’s evidence to save their
hooded violence anj terrorism.” »wn hides. Citizens iiave no
Some papers in the state have doubt ShAt when a f*^w of. the
noted the “Nazi technique” f perpiertrators in the present
these hooded raiders. The type crisis are arrested tjiey will
of sdwed off shot guns carried name their accomplices,
by the Kiansmen can be found ' ■
nr where except in police bar- CHARLOTTE YWCA
racks and were undou'i^edly HOLDS PROGRAM AT
purchased for some other pur- CAMP LATTA
pose than to scare Negres who
“hog the sidewalks.” Tliere is , Staff Correspondence
CHARLOTTE, N C.—
Commitee set /up. Camp Lrttta,
Oct. 7th, Theme “Building a
fellowship.”
President, Mrsi F. D. Alexju^
er, chairman of program com
mitted. - - — '——
12:00 p. m. Leave YWCA
12:4,5 Reading in Union.
12:50 Reptt of girl reserve
conference- held in Sedalia, by
Mrs. Dema Johnson and Rosa
Gooffvin.
l:itl Address, “The 'econo
mic Qut look of the Negro,” by
Dr. M. E. Thompson, fohnson
C. Smith- UoivQj;sity
1:4'5 Lunch
2:4i5 Report of Seminar for
girls reserve Advisors, held in
New YoJk City by Mrs, Dorothy
F, gtte'eU.
a:00, -«*h« YWCA ^
row.” by Mrs. Norman Kimball,
Mrs. U- S ^Brooks.
3!:15( ,Group discussion.
3:45, Echoes from the branch
by Mrs. Xai^ A. Norris, branth
secretary,-
4;Q0 davAtion.
POPULAR PASTOR
Secoiid Waril
PTAHjUds
Meet
BY MR3.^ BESSIE HARDY
CHARLOTTE, N. C.—
An enthusiastic crowd attend
ed the ope'ning meeting »f Se
cond Ward High School Parent-
Teacher Associatioji. One of
th« must important actions of
the meeting was the election of
the President, Mrs. Lucy Low
ery. The Personnel of the follow
ing standing coflami|tees were
also selected: ^rograng^^ com
mittee, Membership cortlJhittee,
and Social Committee. In keep-
-with the poiiTnrf the as
sociation, the major objectives
for the year were set forth by
the chairman of the Home Rela
tions committee of the chool,
M-Jhfi are
the establishment of Vocation“al
Education classes for Adults,
pjrchase of curtains for the
newly pefinished audHoriun^,
puic^ase of a piano for the
Mifsic deiartment, and ffilia-
tiuu with tae State and Nation
al Parent Teacher congrsas.
Committee wero appointeu to
jiTang tn—realty.—the ah»
tlTAW
ST. PAUL
BLinmBOi
VA. STATC — —
LIKCOLN
N. C. COUJDGE
A. A JT AgCIiS _
FLORIDA
BAPTISTS
Race Soldiers
Servants To
Others... Pierce
BULLETIN!
Writes Open Letter to Secretary Woodring; Only Two Ne
gro Line Officers, Two Chaplains Among 14,000; Black
Soldiers are Servants of Whitw; Negro Officers
Would Change This '
CHIOAGO, (ANP)—Sensational charges of official armv dis
crimination against Negro soldiers equaled only by the Nart atti
tude toward J.^ws in Germany are contained In an open ieti.tr
sent this week to Secretary of War ttar^y H. Wo- dring at
Washington by Levi Pierce, veteran of 10 years service wilu th.«
Ninth cavalry at Fort Riley, Kan., i^o recently obtained »a feo*oi-
aible discharge and returned t^ Chicago. At the same time he says
Nf!gro commissidned officers would remedy most of these ills.
Mr. Pierce pointed out that “
army officials always deny any oJBcera, it was declared. »jl*_
charges of unfairness and ob- f»'ced to support offic^dom i.^
tain statements from Negro non they intend to get an; coDi*ii«r-
commissioned officers saying ation in the future from tkos*
that “all is we?l.” These colored higher ip. ••
jectives. The aasociatio.i also
di,natc.d Twenty do.lars toward
-ttbf equipment "f the football
team ©i the school. J. S. Bow
ser, foimer Prts'dent of the
PI|A was appoin.ed to ask the
School Boa.d for l.cin in the
equipment of t' e team. Both
the Principal of the school, J*
E. Crigs,by and the chairman of
the meetii.g expxe=seJ apprecia
tion for the support of the par
ents in the schools -program and
slicited their continued support.
-tMm-CllMG*?- - "
Specifically, Mr. Pierce charges: “ ■ I
1. .Soldiers of the-Tenth cavalry are forced to worit ceves .
■ days we^kl^ as orderlies for wTate *t***®nrT»aicera an.j ta- tak» ^
care of horses used jiii women's and cl^iluren's iidiftg claaaea t
under penalty cf coumiMrtiai. - > |
“THE CHRISTIAN HCM«E”|,^
DURHAM, N. C.—T h e
Presbyterian Churches through
out the U. S° will dbserve Sun
day October 15, as The Chris
tian Home Sunday. The Bro
therhood of the ■ pine
Presbyterian will have a
guest speaker Hon. ’Osca
Barker, at its Vesper Ser
4 >30 p. m. He will be pres3
by Dean James T. Taylor^3
C. College for Negroes.
4
*2. Ninth cavalry soldiers get so little training tk ^ ve-^
terans of 20 years service cannot drill ili simple mSTitary
formations. What dli'l* they get W« after ^oui* when they
have worked all day as seiva.'*s,.gr»PiVis agti stable b-yg
3 Negro reserve officers are not given" the opportunity ta
^qualify for c^mmisisons in the regular army.
4 Colored soldiers gr« kept from attending nsany awrrice
schools even though passing' all esa-ninations for enr>'!Iment.'
6 At Fort Riley. Kan., Ninth cavalrymen axe jimcrowed
in the post exchange restaurant at three tables although thife ‘
post exchange is supp rtfd b/ all s3ldlcrs. Nej^i>«s are «a»-
ployed only as meniala in the post exchai|['e t)oth there and
at Fort.^Leavenworth. ....J
6 Altl^ough scout cars have been assigned to aolotcd
cavalry pt»sts, they are placed in cha.ge oi a privata first
class. Cars for white units have technical sergeants in ekarge
whose pay is far greater for i^e same respsnaibility.
7 iMost of t’;e few Negro noneoBamiss!oned»in resp-^ni^le
positions are unqualified. White o'fficers would figiti lor
the rights of colored soldiers are intentionally kept from Ne j
gro regiments. Those white,officers willing to help “keep the j
Negro in. his place” are the ones assigned to Negro units. |
LIVINGSTONE COLLEGE !
STUDENTS INDUCTED
'
SALISBURY, N. C.—Geofge
M. Curley of ttiis city has re
cently been installed president
of the Livingstone College^ Stu
dent Council.
GUEST SP5A|5^R1
While these are the main
charges which Secretary Wood
ing is called upon to answer,
there are others of^rital i.tpor-
tance to colored solwers.
TWO LINE OFFIC
TWO CHAPLAINS
Mr. Pierce, a young.
keen intelligence, poin
that there tire ^nly two Colo
red line officers ifid'-twoAap-
lains in regular arnay out
of 8! toti^vf 14,000. The cffic-
eiy:ar« tiol. B. O. Davis, cswalry
who has not served with calvalry
regiment other than the Ninth
many years ago, and Lieut. B.
O. Davis, Jr. .infantry, who has
been assigned to Tuskegee in
stitute in “another of
hide and see.k” The chal^ains
are Col.^ Carter .and. First Licttt.
DeVeaux. i
In 1866 four Negro re^?iments
officer into or off t%e 9a'it r
ride along as ordeilies for wha.:
student oliicers.”
PROPER TRAINING?
^ Declaring that Secrt^tary
Wo.-dring has stated Negroes'
get propermilitary trainiiug a^. .
Port Riley and . Laa^enwortu,
Pierce asserts:
‘lAftQr’"serving under what -.
you call proper -traiBing aii4
also having served with ti.«
Tenth prior fu the tim« it wia
merged literally into ^b.r
..detachment tnroughont ;j.*t"k ‘e
arious - posts alid achMb, ’
have found that none of^ t k -4^
new men enlisted sjnee
cc4ild tell what a racomsuia'!-
ance patrol ia or how it worts
They luiTe no knowl*d*a t
eoinlMt training and I Mno4-
aUy know that in tli* Ni. i
until lieat. CoL J. M. Tuil.^
came to Fort RIfcy man wi
J
were created by_ congri-ssional as 20 awnrtea we**-,.
action and no additi^ unable.to driH in siaiDle
been made s1fCS^.y|poit,9 the formations.”
Mrs. wax. yeargin
Dean of, Wdnxen at Sfcayv ^Um
versity, who will ad4ir^%i. the
General -Mptist Cunyenticn on
the subject, “Africa A* J Saw
It.” ''
introduction of iffflBrn^ and
the forniatioft of^ftnv new
white regiments. On^li^ basis
of population ratios, thetiaSahould
have *beeir 10 percent or ap-
pc^ximateliy 20,000 Negro sold-
before President Roosevelt
recent expansTon moves instead
of the less than 4,000 ,' there
ctually are. ^
Pierce says he kxows voUten
who were courtmartialed for
nol reporting o» Snnday, m iw «ka i%Ml
of rest for enlisted IL MH
to take care «f fcarsea ussd ft ' ikMM i»
riding classes. ’TtnM w1»»es iMt
ceived riding training
Negro' soldiers ‘Vera 4e»i** ^ ^*3*^
use 0^ horses for tnUaig 0m-
than to Mwort
It'is an “unwritten ta
keep Nagro officers oat «f the
regular army. Pierce eontuids. ■
Aa for attending servk* aelMoli.
the '•seus^^is made tkat there
is ^.^oa«y available foc..tzaBa
ptrrtation, yet '‘wkitii addiara
ar« aeat frow tk* -mm* moat tj
tli« aape atryl^ schooL”
VW weM MtaA wr^’
■aMlan »a—iU>J tak» c#
jmnni
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