6ET3 HiraiBft AWAltD
EDITION
NUMBER 2
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY. iAN. IStk, IMO
FRiCE'seven cents
h PASSES HOUSE
ing house In Receivership
When the Board of Directowi
of North C«rolina Mutual de
cided to awa#4 aerviee emblems
#«r !tB employes of 10, 29j 3*0
and 40 years of service they
diictiv-ered they had only dBe
person in the entire oryanlst*-
tion cwho could qualify for the
40>year endblem and that was ^
president who has — served th«
company 41 years. Mr. Sytauld-
ing is seen having the emblem
ii;to which a ulamind stone ia
embedded piniied on him sy Mrs.
S. V. Norfleet, second oldest *r»-
ploye fn point of service. Mrs.
Norfleet has seen 33 years of
8er\'ice.—More pictures on.. pac«
seven. - ^ . j
—Pho>t4 by Reuben-‘Rudolp4^
NCM And Other
Pirms Report ‘
Banner Year:
At the annua] meeting:’of the
policyholdera of Noorth CaJoHnw
Mutual Life Insurance Company
held in ite home uffice Monday^
January 8, lfl40 at 12 o'clock
noon, It was revealed that more
proiH’oae was outde durliig the
p«at year than any previous year
in the company’s history. This is
in keej>ing with ‘the general trend
o(f life insurance companies
thivjughout the country.
President Spauldin^i’s ren^rt
reveals that at the close of J.939
the life underwriters of the,
Country placed on the books
the companies flearly fl3,000,
000,000 of new insurance an In-:
crease of about f600,000,000
avfer 19^^38. The total insurance ^
in force rose to approximately ^
$114,000,000,000, a ^ gain of |
nearly 13,000,000,000 Amounts
paid to policyholders amount oj
12,660,000,000. ,
The North Carolina Mutual
Lift Insurance Company was
founded by John Merrick in ^s-
8oci«tioa with Dr. h,' M. Moort
on October. 20, 1898, ,The com
pany has made slow b||t material
progress daring the paet forty
one yeaas. Ait the end of the
first year’s operation 1899,
North Caw)lina Mutual had ad
mitted ssets of $360.00 and in
surance in force" of JJ247.92,
President Spaulding stated that
although the reports for the
year 1&39 ar* not yet complete,
the repprts indicate that the
tssets will be aprproximately $6,
000,00 and. insuranpe in force
approximately $48,000.00. Jt js
inteiestini^ to note that the com
pany has paid $402,816 in ma
tured enloiwmenta to Its living
poUcyholdeija; $170,294 of which
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Gaines
Case
Closed
COLUMBIA, Mo.,. (ANP)i—
Finis was written 'To “ftt?^fforts
of Llyod Gaines to enter the
University of Missouri as a law
student, when the case when
ease was dismissed last Monday
in Boone County Circuit court
by Judge W. M?' Dinwiddie.
Gaines has been missing for
ten months and his attorneys,
unable to. plead a case for a
client they can’t find, requested
dismissal of the suit. The case
has been in the courts for two
years, the Boone County Circuit
court and the State Supreme
court both handing do^i^ dei^
ions denying Gaines admittMaca
to the University of Missouri
On Dec. 8, 1999, the U. S.
Supreme court ruled that
U. of Missouri must either ad>
Gaines or the state mu^t pro
vide “equal educational facilities
within the state.*' When Lin
coln diversity, wjth state funds
opened a law school in St. Lou&
in the old Poro buildin|^ Gaines’
lawyers filed another suit, con
tending that Lincoln school still
failed to provide him with
“equal educational,, facllitiesi."
It was this suit which last we«](
was dismissed.
BANK OFFICLA4S MAKE REPORT
The above photo , shows E. L.iport to the stackl»alder» laatl right C. C. Spaulding, presi-
McDouitald, vice president-caiAi- Tuesday evening. Seated at Mr. den* of the bank,
iers of the Mechanics and Farm- I McDoogald’a left is J. H. Wheel- Photo by ReuI>en-RudolpJb, Times
era Bank, readinf bU annual r«- «r, assistant cashier and at hia I Official Photographers.
Empty Stocking
Committee Makes
I
Xmas Report ;
The Christmas Empty Stock
ing Committee of the Weaver
McLean Ptst , No. 175 of the
American Legion submits the
following;
Through the efforts of fthe
committee representing t h p
Weaver McLean Post, thp W®1'-
fare Department and eitfzeQa of
Durham, sujflficient funds were
raised to give bags of food to
28(B needy Negro families and
toys to approximately 600 needy
Negro children of th^ pjty p|
Durham thi# past Christmai.
The bags of food given each
family consisted of 1 pork roatt,
6 lb sMk of flour, t lb of sugar,
1 can of milk, 1 can of string
bean#, 1 can of P^rk »nd beans,
1 t>ag of candy, 1 of mmad
n»ti, 1 bag of raisins, orangM,
afiples and cakes. Some of the
bags contained ,L_ ean of toma
toes also. A toy was given to
each child under 14 years «
ag# }n each fami)y.
The l»til coit of this project
in cash was $349.98, in addition
to M»h txpesded, wir^
quite a number ot toys donated
by the Durham Sun Toy Fund,
the United Dollar Store, W. C.
Lyon Hdw. Co. and Miss Mabel
Bowling, Welfare Case Woifcr
er. Fruits and candy were also
giveii by the Well**’® Depart
ment and business estafclish*
fnents. Awipng thos^., 4pnatipg
was the Early W. Beck Whole
sale Grocery Co. who gave swer-
aP pack^es of cakes aand some
can^y.
Keiiiif To Star
. liiMe
HOiLLYWOOD, (A N P)r-
Marking the fii^t time a colored
football ace has ever been sigh-j
ed to star in pictures becaiise of I
his fame, Kenny Washington a as
placed under Contract last Sat- (
urday by Million Dollar produc- •
tion, I
Harry M- Ptpkins executive
producer scooped another all
colored cast company that was
angling for the great all-Ameri
can. Kenny was repr€sen.ted %y
his uncle. Detective Lieutenant
Roscoe Washington^
Gladys Snyder “Misa Oxnard”
¥ated as California’s most beau-
ful girl, was also signed «•
Kenny’s leading }ady. |^o C.
|»op^i^ will ^Irept them, in •
specially written story now l»»-
ing prppiire4 fop e»rly predoe-
lion*!
Southern Senators
Filibuster
Law
anng
On Lyr^ing
apeclal to the TIMGS
WAiSHINGTON, D. C. %. The
Gavagan anti lynching l>ill pass
ed the Hbuse here Wednesday by
a decisive vote of S'S-! to ISS.
In aplte of bitter opposition
front southern representatives
ir the form of condemnatory
speeches, and attempts to tajs
the bill with amendimeifts the
margin was saie enough en
courage its supporters to fight
for its passage in the Seni(l«
Voting for the bill w«re 140
Republicans *nd 109 Oen»Qcrats,
two progressives and on • La-
128 Demodrats and eight Re
publicans!'
bers did
Twenty
not vote.
three mem-
Although it is believed the
bill has about th« same* propor
tionate amount of support in J;\ie
Senate as the House ihere is
much doubt that it will be aible
to run the gaumut of snags that
will be placed in its path' by
Senatgrs opiposed to it passage.
tAlready southern senators have
served notice that they wlH ’•er
sort to a filibuster before hey
permit a same me
thod was used to defeat the
bill several years ago when
Senator Jcsiah W. Qailey led a
filibustW that last lung enough
to bring about its downfall.
Several Southern opponents 'f
the bill threatened that there
would
jnff in their community if it
were passed. ' »
“Yp« pass this bill and the
therilf in my town will be some.t
where else when a crowd gathers
to lynch a Negro,” Rep. W.
Poage of Texas declared.
Rep. William M. Colmer of
Missieaippi attacked Gavsgan
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WORK PRAISED
Tot«l Cash Donations
Durham County
Welfare De-pi. — — $200.00
Organisations, Churches
and Individuals — — $171.68
; 1
Total ^t|h rtcfi¥«d $871,013
Total Expenditures — $S49.8S
Cash Balance in Bank $ 2i2.20
ReapectfullT
W. W. HARDY,
Chairman Empty Stocl({nf
Committee of tha Weaver l|c-
Lean Post No. 17^ Ain«rie«n
Hiss Zora Neal Honton, ai«-
thor of a book a year and wutfiar
of two Gu^genhaiM feltarwiAips,
ia bj^init hfile^Jn Ut«xst]r
lor her most raecat snceeaa,
‘Moses, Man Of Tb« lioynt*Mt.V
Miss is d|irac,treas
of the little '^eatrc Oroup, oi
North Garoliaa' Cpllece
NcfTou. She is the |
flTf feoelWt - i
Judge Denies
Judgemeni
NASHVILLE, Tenn. —
Friday, December 29, the ene
mies of the AME S«Miday School
Union took what they thought
wa.i a triumiphant march ««p the
l ilt, only'to find temselves c^ib-
pelled to take a march righ
back down the hill with dts-
’ointment written upon” their
countenances, for they had
come to Nashville with the full
exjpectation of having the fed
eral court grant them summary
judgment, turning the propefty
cf the Sunday School Union over
to E. A- Selby, and for that
ixirpose it is rumored that they
had already prerpared bon^s in
his behalf to the amount of se
veral thousand dollars.
Their counsea hlad ^ur|^
charges to the riglrt and to ^e
left agartntt the managemeiU of
the Sunday School Unioa, in an
cifurt to establish the fact that
the affairs of the concern were
so mingled with the, personal
atfairs of Secreitary Bryant that
a suspicion of wrongdoing w *
pronttoneedly apparent. There
9 as a large concourse of minis
ters afwenmbled here, coming
from various sections of the
Church, as far away as Detroit,
Philadelphia and other eastern
plaices, to witness as they
thought, the turning over of the
concern to the force in the
church that Mr. Bryant has all
these years op4>osed with might
end main. The gloom of despon
dency upon their flices after the
verdict w»s declared, • was a*«-
parent to all.
The Secretary of the Sunday
School Union admitted himself
upon the witness stand, that
with 'a big building program in
front of him, with governaient
-the——NfiA
and others confronting him on
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REPRESENTED AT BENNET
SOUTH CAROLINA WELL
R. N. Harris, aecretary-man»-
ger of Banlsers Fire Insurance
Company who was elected to
the Board of Directors of the
Hechamcs and Farmers Bank at
the annual meeting of the atitck-
nolders held Tuesday' evemng."'
Mr. Harris ia. well known in
business circles, being'the execu
tive .officer of America*! only
Negro fire insurance conrf^any.
wBrAnf
McDoupId
Elevated
Taking an active |t|rt in life Winnie Shelton,/’ Sp«r^aaburg^
©f Bnftiett ^oV«g« Is tha group!Portia Taylor, Flcrfence.
of sevsnkesn charminir voungl Second irow; Fannie Stewart,
ladies from the fair »tat« «f I Greenville; Esthfer Knight, Ches-
South Carolina. Reading fromIt«r; Third row: Laura AJston,
left to right,^ ww, they ara
Rut^ IJvfMtie, Cohimbiai Evelyn
U»a, Uihxioni McClw%
eMsdaoj WMm 1Mi
Parlington; Mlsiiie Beitbv Dar
lington; Lynabel Torrence, Ghf»-
6rt«Kfrc«4. •
PlUinche DeLesIine, Charlea-
ton; Mary E- Simms, Union;
Ruth McCottry, Charleston;
Alice Brevard, Camden; 'Snd
Margaret Weaver, Aiken, we:|^
not present when the picture
w« taken.
Kapias Urge
Bies We
1)1 Elan
DURHAM — Members of the
undergraduate chapter of K»pp»
.‘Mpha I^i Frattrnity at North
Carolina College For Negroes
aroused over renewed activity
of the Klu Klux Klan, wired Rep.
Martin Dies of the Committee
On Un-American Activities tfiis
week to investigate the organ-
ixation.
Fn a telegram to chairman
Dies under date of January 5,
1940, the group cited the flogg
ing of l,4inier Rruitt on the night
of December 2?#^.. and recalleii
that Fred V. Johnson, Klan chief
of staff, according to newspaper
reports, is being held pending
the dutcome of the floniBC
probe. -
“It appears that Pruitt was
forcibly r««soved from his hosse
by a group of masked raiders,'
telegiSBi . reaad. “This i*
v«i;y un-Aaaarican and ia of vital
importance ^ the American pao*
pie. It has caused a bit of -p-
prehension ibnong studenta
North Carolina CoUeg* "for He-
groes who vary mach oa
cerned iiifetiii asUatcwKM* of
th«
DURHAM — At a meeting of
the Board of Directors *>f the
Mechanics and- . Farmers Bank
held here Thursday afternoon
R. L. McDougald was el^cteil
'HxeCu^ive Vice President of tht
Iiistitution and J. H. Wheeler,
was elected cashier. Prior be the
meeting Mr. McDougald held ,he
position of vice president and
cashier and Mr. Wheeler held
the position of assistant cash
ier. The elevetation of both these
two men to jjigher positions in
the local bank is considered a
tribute to the fine manner in
whic6 they have conducted the
affairs of thq nations large.it
Negro bank. Mr. McDougald has
devoted 20 years cf service to
thie institution during which time
he has seen it grow from an in- .
stitution with aMets of lesa than
$100,000 to one with a^ts if
more tbi^n, a million and a quar
ter. ^kDetailed Story in Next
Week’s issuie of the Carolina
Times. *
Slepn Kills
Father
KALEIGH, N. C., (ANP> -
A ten year old boy last Wednes
day had to resort o extrenx*
measurer as he rushed to the
defene «>f hia mother whan «he
was being whipped by her bus
band. Silvan brodie. The boy.
Willie Du^l, fired a slkoxtgun
load into his stepfather's side
killing him instantly.
The boy* and ^is mother s^id
Brodie had been drinking haavily'
when he arrived home and ’*eie»r
abusing ||is wife. Ceroaer R y
M. Banki, who took eharye at
the ae^ae of fha tragady, said
Willie told him that Britdit'
frequently beat his gaother and
forced her to give him h»
asoaay sh* eww** 4mm*
work in ^ivatc faiiHaa
^Buth the boy *ad his ■lothe''
told sse that Brodie was whipe
ing her with a Ml, osiaf thf
>ttekle  en^** saM the conHr
^bey wont Me tk* tedll-
oofi the keoM. get him
ti^er^ tw aad akot Ite.
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