DR. STANFORD L WARREN
MaHiiig
EDITION
BRIDJSEQ
VCMLUME 21 NUMBER S
DURHAM. N. .C„ SATURDAY, FEB. 3rd, 1940
PRICE SEVEN CENTS
NYA CONFERENCE HOLDS
SESSION IN FAYETTEVILLE
ferj WiMe
AdvaiKeigent
M III IC.
MRS. MARY
MCLEOD BETHUNE
TO BE GUEST
SPEAKER
SpMi«l to Ik* TIMES
FAYjmHVILiiE, N. C. —
The Nortb C«rolliui Conferanc*
of the National Youtii Adminja-
tmtion will be beM tiiw week t
FayetteviUa Ta«cher Colleir^,
from Thursday Fe>braary l«t,
through Sunday, Fa>bruary 4,
whh j. P. Bond Jr. State S«per-
vkK>r of Negro Afltein NYA f
North Carolina as chairman.
Dr. j. W. SMbrook, prwidant
of Fayettevillt Teacher* College
wUl deliTfr the welcome addreea,
with greetings coning from Or.
James £. Shepard, president f
North Carolina Coll^ fog Ne-
groea and ^airman oi NY3C*Xt-^
viaory Board of the IMvision of
Nsgro Affairs of North Carolina.
The NYA has made a very
credible a«ivancemeni in North
Caroling in that they have put
many centen where by youth
been tmined in various
Dr. A. Haningburg assictant
to the presideiit of Nortii Caro
lina Collage is acting as toast
master at thr banquei given
Saturday evening in the college
dining hall. ,.i . i
Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune,
Director, Division of Nsgfro
Affairs, of the National Youth
Administration will be guest
speaker at the banquet.
T
Rdta Ms
Honorar;
CLINyoN, N. Y.' (ANP) — In
i>tt itnpr^Mive' ceremony held in
tne dhapel t>f Hamilton colejge
here Sunday, Paul Robeson,
brilliant actor* and concert singer
M'HS presented with the honorary
degree. Doctor of Huniane Let-
’lers. The degree, conferred by
Dr. W, H. Cowley, president of
(he school, honors Mr. Robeson as
a stttdsnt, athlete, lawyer, actor,
singer and a great American,
In reading the aecjompanying
citation, Dr. Cowley said; "In
honoring you today, we do not
express our enthuswim for your
hisU-ionic and musical adiievs-
msnts alone. We honor you
chiafly as « man—a nan, pi
tremendous stature, energy and
physical dexterity; a man brilli-
nat mind, a matt sensitive spirit
makes possible your penetrating
interpretations; and a naan who,
ibove all else, travels across the
world as ^n excm|ilar of the
humanity and greatness of
our demoeratic hsritage."
In accepting the degree, Mr.
RobMoi^ spoka of his interast in
Hamilton oolelge inspired by a
long frivndahip with Alexander
Woollcoti, an alumnus of the
school and a member of ^s
boani' oi truateas. The ex«|viscs
eoncludsd witli -Uie sinirfng of
"Wtttw Boy" Mi 'Old Man
Rlrw* ^ Mr. Mmn,
they attended CHARLOTTE N. C. MUTUAL MEETMG
ABOVE IS SHOWN those in attendance at
the annual meeting of the Charoltte Agency
Force of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insur
ance Company which was held on last Friday
and ^turday. Shown in the picture are; seat
ed, Mrs. E. L. T. Haynes, cashier, Charlotte
Office, Miss L. L. Ingram, Thrift club supervi
sor, Rockingham; Mrs. M. E. McKisaick, cashier^
Asheville Office and Mrs. M. L. Moore, assistant
cashier. Charlotte Office; Standing, first row
Messrs, W. W. Twitty, T. E. GilUard, Assistant
Manager, W. J. Shuford, N. H. Mann, N. E.
Adams, D. W. Kobinson, C. R. Brewington, D^
C. Deans Jr., assistant agency director, Rich
mond, Virginia, J. W. Harris, chief clerk, Dur
ham, A. E. Spears, Sr. District Manager, I. M.
Martin, W. F. Hammond, C. T. Snipes, -I. M.
Meyers, E. T. Loveless, C. H. Watson, W. H,
Hammtnd, Top row, P. L. Hardin, P. L. D.
Smith, J. W. Brogden, A. El. Spears Jr., R. C,
Robinson, C. A. Bowling, Q. T» Nash, Jr., W.
A. McCallum, W. P. Malone, and C. H. Haro-
mand.
N. C. Mutual Charlotte
Office Holds Session
CHAJRLOTTE, N. C. (Special) Office in Durham. A. E. Spears i and the annual reception ,was
—The OharioTle District of the is District Manager of the Char-
North Carolina Mutual Life In- lotte District. Also in attendance
jurance Company, third largest the first day was N. L. Gregg,
in the company’s system, held n.anager of the Greensboro Dis-
lU annual meeting on January trict of North Carolina Mtual,
a6-27 at the local office on S. who delivered a strong message
Brievard St. All representatives to the group. ^
of the District were present.] The two days were "pent n
The Chariotitee District covers a reviewing the recores of the dis-
large parf of Southeastern trict in 1939 and planning f«r
the work in 1940. The district
showed remarkable progress in
all phases of its work, including
a ten per cent increase in pre
mium income and a comparative
ly large increase in business in
force.
The group was served Its an-
cliief clerk, from the Home "“al dinner Friday afternoon.
North Carolina, including the
cities Charlotte, Asheville, Salis
bury, Gastonia and many
smaller towns.
The Home Office was repre
sented by D. C. Deans, 'Jr., f
Riic(hmond, Virginia, assistant
agency director, and J. W. Har
ris,
Frti^y night at the West Char
lotte High School, attended by
agents and their wives.
In addressing the group duj'-
ing its business session and at
the reception, Mr. Dmns paid
tribute to the manager, who is
to celebrate his 2|Sth anniver
sary of service to the company
this spring, and congratulated
the district. for its fine record
during the past year. Service
buttons were awarded M ta
Spears and VV. H. Hammond
for exceeding 20 years of ser
vice arid to Mrs. E. L. T. Hay
nes, C. H. Watson, H. C. Grier
and C. R. Brewington for ten
years of services.
WELCOMES NYA
W. SEABROOK
Fayetteville
Branch NAACP
Receives Charlie
Hold Datice
Alief Klan
Warning
PASSES
OREENVlLLfi, S. C. (ANP)
The first dance to be held
here, sii>ce Erskine Hawkins was
refuse^ permission to fill a sche
duled date here due to a Klan
warning issued to the promoters
was the annual ladies night of
the Colored Professional and
Business Men’s Club, last Friday
night.
The roster of guests included
tinactically i^e m e d i "c o s,
dentists, and business men of
the npper part the state. Delega
tions came from Greenwood,
Anderson, Spartanburg, Rock
Hill, Union, Easley and other
upper SouUi Carolina towns,
Sect-etary Henry Porical, trea
surer, E. G. Murray, and presi
dent H. H. Gibbs spoke for the
host organisation. For the visi
tors the following spoke; B. T.
‘Sock HW; Dr. R.^.
Frederick, Greenwood; Dr. L.
Lung, Union, Machon GarrisoQ,
Anderson and others. S. A. Smith
was chairman of the committee
of arrangements.
Pioneer Doctor
Dies After Long
Period of Illness
PROBES S.C.
KLAN MOVE
dr. S. L. WARREN
Prominent physician and buisi-
r.ess man of Durham who died
at his home Wednesday evening,
January 31. Although Doctor
Warren’s death had been expect
ed for several days his passing
cast a gloom over the entire
city , Funenal services "Viil be
conducted Friday afternoon at
St. Joseplv AME church.
DLKIIAM — Dr. S. L. Warren,
»f‘ 77, prominent physician and
bu:!ii.i i Ilian uf Durharr di«d
at hi: home here, 404 Brant
strtret, Wedni iday evening after
an illnevt which extend.e'* over a
period Iff- several %ior.*hs, Al-
th iigh Dr. Warren h*, ' »-en
confini-d l» his bed . >re
than three or four weeks prior
to his death, he had been in. .;e-
clrning lualth for nearly two
years.
Typical of the life he lived,
the end came peacefully at 8:45
p. m. The wife M r §.
Julia Warren, anti his ^tughter
Mrs. Selena Warren Wheeler
Wife Ilf J. II. Wheeler, cashier f'
the Mechanics and Farirfl^i
Bank were at the bedside when
the di;tinguished physician pass
ed. Close friends «f the family
were also present.
How the one time clerk in the
Bull Durham tobacco factory,
«h;.pping room rcse from an
humble position in life to one
,of Durham and North Carolina’s
most di^itiSttished citizens reads
111 re like a story book than rea
lity, During the hard years as
Worker in the t. bacco factory
>r. Warren saved enough money
out of his . small earnings to
en^er the Leonard medicals
Scho, 1 of Shaw unviersity from
/which he graduated four years
I later. Soon after graduation Dr.
Warren upened hia office '’in
Durham where he began the
practice of medicine. For more
than 40 years he continued as a
Mileacliers
To 6bI Equal
Salaries
PrMidant of Fayat,t«vUl« State
Taachets Collaga who dalivarad
tha waleoin* addrNa to tha NYA
Confarenca in session thia waek.
Proni advan«ad indicationa the
maating wiill ba ona of tiia beat
%tiandad ainca the work was or
ganised in thia atata.
Chairman, Arthur Jonaa; Pete
•ti'i'phy and Wiliia fiammond.
Geralds, Joe Camaron, CharlM
The organisation agreed to
meet once a mi,nth.
R. H. Nicks, Jr., budget officer
f Fayttevilla Taachers College
invited tha group to hold its
next meeting at the college, the
invitation was accepted.
Henry Wilson appointed Ass’t
secretary.
REP4MITS CAPTURE OF
FIVE SENEGALESE
BERUN, (CNA) —In report
ing ona of the rare engagamanta
on the Waatarn Front, the
Nati High Command this week
elaimad that fifas Sanaglaasa had
baen capturad ^ hand graanda
battla wit^ the French forces.
The. priaonars re taken in
clash eaat of O^bai^Mierg, bet*
«rean the Moaelle RiVar and the
Palanata Feraat, tha atatanent
said. Four Sanagalete wara kill
ed in another ang«g*nant, pra-
cediRf thli. tht ftftttiiianfe itiided.
Benediction
Smith.
by Rev. J. V.
1 A lie'll ^ 'i'iit:
X'uyutievitlfti biaiicti' gf the
rcceivea Us charter this
weeK, in an inspired meeting
nviv u lilt oi. cjpiscopai
cnuit'ii Tuesday night, tne pieni-
utut presented the fmmed chav-
iDi' to the group.
The president then made re-,
marks concerning the aim of the
organisation being for
“THE UPLIFTING AND
E(4UAL1TV” of our group as a
whqle, called attention to the
tact' that the local organiziation
was composed of members from
hll walks of life, "all for one and
one for all.” He concluded his
remarks by reading THE B¥-
i^AWS of the organisation.
Remarks by^ W. W. Strud-
wick, newly added to the E. E.
Smith High School faculty and
Special Correspondent of the
CAROLINA T1M£S, who spoke
briefly on the merits of the or
ganisation,—its accomplishments ,
and possiibilfties. Rev. T. H.
Dwelle of the First Baptist church
stressed tha necessity of firmly
stioking together in tha face of
all fire and criticism; gave in- of the aalaa campaign an-
atances in which the organiza- nouncad today
tion had been sadly needed by -th, tkt the aeUing of
m,my m the city, yaricw com- j,
»me. ware appotoed: Financa ^g^^ously in thoi. states where
Committee Mr. McKay, Press lyncliinga
Pablisltjr CowaUtttf Luther Lavy
NEW YORK — With two man
damus suits still pending in stato
Courts of Maryland, the Boaul
of Education of Prince George's
I County, Md., advised the*. Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People
today that the salaries of color
ed teachers in this county will
be made equal to those of white
teachei-s beginning Sept. 1, 1910.
.Advice on the board’s decis
ion was contained in - a letter
sent to the NAACP by Adrian
Fisher, attorney for the board.
The letter asked for dismissal
of the two pciiiiing mandamas
suits, growing out of the action
of Miss Elsie Cook, county
teacher, against the board and
County superintendent, Nicholas
Orem, ■filed Mareh 1938.
Earlier this month, Thurg«od
Mai-shall, NAACP special cuun-
sel, sent each memb&r of the
board a copy of Federal Judge
Calvin Chestnut’s decisiofn on
upholding the »right of equal
salaries for ’colored and white
G.REiEJS(VILLE, S. C. (ANP)
—Despite the fact that Gover
nor Burnet R. Maybank h a s
denied that a Negro * federal In
vestigator h^^ been sent here to
investigate activities of the Ku
Kiux Klan in various .South
Carolina towns, the rumor per
sists and credence is given it by
many well informed persons.
jvernor Maybank described the
report as ^ deliberate attempt to
hamper the investigatii;n of Xian
night riding activities which he
ordered in Anderson, S. C.,
following the flogging of Lanier
Pruitt, on the night of Dec. 27.
White residents of Anderson
^ay that if a Negro investigator J t^ji^jiers in Anne Arundel Coun-
bas come to the city he had not board’s action
iT>ade his identity or his businesstejpijo^ed. Prince' George is tiie
rri(Sp*ct«ti and fhy.:Lian
u many of Duftiam’s (lumbie
I and prominent Kegio famil:)' .
During his lifetime the de
ceased fvured m every forward
movement of the cummuntiy and
was elusety identified wiUi tne
-tonomic, businc-ss and edtK*-
tivi>al life of the city. Up antii
the time uf his death Ur. Warren
was rbairBMn of the Board of
Lincoln huspital. Chairman of
The Mechanics and Farmers
Bank, (^winnan wf the Board
of the colored library the name
.f which waa recently changed
that «f tlia L. Warren-
Memorul Library in memury oi
the faithful service rendered it
by its namesake.
Dr. Warren waa- born in Ca*
well county in 1863. In 1902 he
was married to Miss Julia Mc
Cauley cf Washingtn, D. C.
Besides hia daughter there are no
other children. The deceased is
also survived by .,ne granddaugh-
te., Julia Margaret Wheeler, and
three neices.
The funeral will be held Fri
day afternoon from St. Joseph
AME Church of. which Dr.
Warren was a member for more
than 50 years. Dr. J. A. Valen
tine, pastor of the church will be
in charge of the ceremonies.
Interment will b« at the Beech-
frood cemetery -on Fayetteville
street V
Funeral arianagements by
Scarborough and Hargett, under
takers.
Which Will It
Be, Virginia
Or Virginny?
(A N P)
The difference between ‘Virginia’
and “Virginny” is all that stands
in the way of official adoption
of Biiand’is famous song as the
state song of the Old [dominion.
Arg-uments in the state legisla
ture recently narrowed the de
cision down to this open point.
“Carry Me Back to 01’ Vir-
ts believed to be a re-
flecticn on the state by some
of the^ legislators, while others
fee! that no matter how much
legislation is passed making the
titled read, “Carry Me Back to
Old. Virginia” folks for many
years to come, will till sing It
as crgirtally written, "Carry Me
Back to or Virginny.”
Historians Seek
Recognition
For Douglass
there. | eleventh county in’ the
Greenville colored ^^ich the NAACP has
Anti-Lynch
Buttons Go
On Sale
NEW YORK —The sale of
NAiAiCP anti lynching buttons
is now actively under way in
thirty-ifive states, ioclndiog all
of the southern statM, with
lO9,0OO buttons in circulation,
Mrs. Daiay £. Lampkin, direc*
have
noveUy,
been by no
•hows that our
However, a
resident said this week he had
interviewed white lai>or officials
in both Sparanburg and Green-
dlle and that the labor
leader had said: “The colored
man came to my house in a
Cadillac about as long as my
house and he showed me creden-
tala that were undoubtedly au
thentic? He was a very intelli
gent fellow, but did appear a
little nervous. There is no doubt
1 wM a and there is i.u
doubt he was a government in-
v^sti^tor.**
In Anderson Special Magistr
ate haa issued warranta for
seven alleged l^an members, in
cluding Fred V. Jobnaon, Greeo-
vUle Klan leader. The seven de-
fen^anta l*ve been released
pending trial, on bcnda of $6,
000 each.
•tate in
secured
equal salaries.
people want to do everything in
their power to help rala* fund*
to get l*ia anti lyncMog bitt
pftMtd,” liUntkin a»id.
S. S. Union
Wins Again
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Special
to the TIMES)—United States
District Judge Elmer D, Davies
today made short wOrk *>f _ th«
petition field by the plaintiffs in
the case of Harvey £. Walden
and others against -the Sunday
School Union of the AME cTiurch
in wlich plaintiffs sought to
have Ira T. Bryant held guilty
of contempt of court.
The plaintiffs in the case filed
a petition asking that Ira T. Bry
ant b« cited and punished for
contempt of court because of
the publication of 'an articfe ap
pearing in the Nashville Defeji^
PUwe ttum to page eight
NEW VORK (CNA) — De-j
elating III,, slight rp-.o^iition
accord Frederick Duuglass by
white hist, lian, the Frederick
Douftlass Histoiical and Cultural
League started a movement this
week designed^to place the name
of the slave boy whose rose t»
iiHlii nai pruniiiience in its pro
per place in American hiiitory.
As an initial step »f the great
abolitionist to the Hall of Fame
ic Columbia Unlveisity.
The campaign to elevate Dou-
?Ia.ss al ngside' oth'er national
historical personages was launch-
ed at a meeting held atJbg .Har
lem Art Center, 42&^J|Mtreet
and Lenox A.vehue, attiroed by
* about fifty pei'Sons including a
I number of students of Negro
History, Jacques Romaiii, brilli
ant Haitian scholar and writer,
lead an interesting paper laud
ing Douglass’ achievement, and
praising hi$, assistance to Haiti
»r. her struggle for independence.
“The renowned figure of Fre-
uerick Douglass and other out
standing leade^rs of the Negro
people,” Remain said, “give the
lie to those chauvinists wh.o as
sert that X white skin is a pre
requisite tor brain and intellect.
Wr«(deHcik Douglass' aehieve-
ments jlre incontrovertible evid *
fcuces of the talents inherent it
people tf color.”
In announcing the drive a
spokesman for the League aaia
itiac plans will be undertaken tu
promote the publication and wid«
distrtoution of “The Life and
Times tf Frederick DougUtss,'
as to encourage the study of tnis
riclj,,;.jMstvMcal cultural hertiaj;*
f^the Negro people.
..^m^ng those who head th*
organization are Dr. Ala.)
Locke, Dr. Max Yergan, Dvaii
William Pickens, Gwendot^u
Bennett,' Richard B. Moore. J.
Romain, Angelo Herndon, 4tt'j
Raymond Pace Alexander, Di.
William Ll^yed Imet and Dt.
L. D. Reddck, '*■ curator, Na^fru
Diviaion. 135th Street PuUk
Library.
Predicts U. S. Will
Deport Negroes
NEW YORK, (ANP> —Elmer,
V Carter, editor--of Opportunity
.nagazine and * member of the
.liew York State Unemployment |
insurance Appeal Board, in a
warning” to Negroes, spoken to ,
>er 100 Negroes, whites, at the
Catholic Laymen's Union me«t-
ing at the Harlem YMGA, Sub- {
day said that the Negro of.
America faced the dai^r of,
deportation to A^tca if tbejr
becoBse permanent relitf rvcvi* '
ents.”
Harlem leaders aad eitiaeBs
are exceedingly i«r»tb at Mr.
Carter for his ^eeeh ia «ki«h
he pointed oat that tiiar* was
nothing surprising or «aH9«etad
in the poMnhilitj Hi* “a—■
plantation’* ef tha
Africa Jmtlifyhsg danillta
by saylag HKm **■%
000 penoa*. wndi ka
phwed 6m raM
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