MISS OLIVIA GLEMMONS 6R0WNED MAY QUEEN
'it
Sarpauing all the
tht remainder of the
y ••• >Jfc-IWKr:■■:'■■
splendoi^ of I proi^r^im in the Nerro achooU of tap d her attendanU. Seated onlmont. May Queen. Around the j courtiers who sit vrSth regal! of the beautiful proj-ram that is j schools. ' In the pi .^ure at the ■. .> ch war the climax of
e May Day Durham was the rei«:nin]r queen | the throne is Mis# Olivia Clem-[throne are her attendants ^ajid | dignity watching the unfolding | an annual ilTaii- of Durham city 1 rivrht is the ■wimlirtsr of May pole ' evenu
MMGIIS GARVEY IS NOT DEAD
Edition
1
H^FbytH iJN?RIDIiE d"|/
7
c Pay
No More
VOi.Uli£ 11 - NUMB&R 21
DURHAM, N. C.. SATURDAY, MAY 25th, 1940
COURT HALTS BISHOP DAVIS AGAIN
Aa C. hegro Voters Rally For Democratic Primary Sat.
Judge Carr Holds Up
Payment Of Davis And
Hawkins Until Audit
WARJliBNnX)Ni — Judge Leo
Cerr (susteined the pl^ntiffii
in a reh^ing of the Kittrell
College case here Wednesday
afternoon, May 22, by signing
order to allow the urgent debte
a.^ainst Kittrell College such as
Pood and Fuel to be paid from
tha wfle of the stock, and held
up tije >14,136.77 due Bi^op
M. H. Davis and |12,071 due the
lata Dr. John R. Hawfcins. In
making its motion for the re
hearing the plaintiffs asked that *
tha itenaa safd to |je due Bishop
Dhvia aind the Dr. John R. I
Hawkins be denied unless a I
)l*roper accounting or audit be'
inada of these enormons amounts
vf indebtedness. The order sij^n-
ed by Judge Carr makes it
mandatory ti^t Bishop Davis
ai;4 the late Dr. John R. Haw-
kina show an itemised statemeat
of theae indebtedness, and date
of hearing was set for the June
term of V|pnce County Superior
Court. .. ,.
Thera are many laymen, as
wall as interested friende, who
Iwiva been anxious to know the
items which really make up the
fl4,l'S6.77 due Bishop Davis;
and according to the decision by
the court, the Bishop will, after
ail, have to present such a state-
B'.ent b^ore the trustees or
treasurer of Kittrell College
will lywa the authority to pay
iiia anything whatsoever. Inter-
astad and' loyal laymen of the
cliKrch tried to get the Bishop
ti give this accounting to a
committee representing himself
IN UNION REVIVAL
DURHAM MEN ARE STILL INTERESTED IN SUNDAY «CHOOL
REV. T. A. GRADY, pjfebor of
the Bbene«cr Baptist church who
will conduct a union revival at
Oak Grove Bajktist church . June
3-7. Rev. W. F. Cox is pastor of
the Oak Grove church. Tlie
following week will continue
revival at the Oak Grove church.
The visiting pastor will do the
preaching each week.
and their group, but thus far he
has appairently sought the way
of the court without being will
ing to give the information to
the laymen and members of the j xi. ^
church on whose shoulders have endo^cnt provid-
helping to take care of the
enormous debts made by the
manEtgement.
It is interesting to note that
in the order signed by Judge
Carr, attorneys for the Bishop
would not admit the |14,136.77
and 112,071 as the exact a-
mounts due Bishop Davis and
the laite Dr. John R. Hawkins,
respectively, although they were
taken from the report made to
Kittrell College from August 16,
15»39, to February 1, 1940.
It is the opinion, however, of
a large nun«ber of the laymen of
the S«cond Episcopal District
who are interested in this matter
that the stock cajinot be legiti
mately sold and used for the
purpose of liquidating any of
the indeibtedness against Kittrell
College, in that on October 6,
1034, the District Court of the
United States for the lastern
District of -North CiSirolina hand
ed down a decision earmarking
this particular stock aa an EiN-
DOWfflJBNT FUND and this was
done upon the testimony of the
late Dr. John R. Hawkins, who^
produced letters and telegram^
at the trial from the lae Ben
jamin Duke, the donor, and Mr.
Sands, his secretary, confirming
tho gift tl3 an endowment. The
thought still prevails that other
arrangements should be made
for the liquidation of /Slny proven
accounts against Kittrell Colle,ge
pHHI
Rock Bapti.st I 2^ St. Joseph Sunday mominpr. It
Siinday school assetnd>Ied in front
cn)>yble was it that other visits ^
hi^ve already been planned. The i of the church. The Berean claaa
Do Durham m«*i go to Sunday 1 Claasi of White
School? wib answered htfr^ this church and the Berean Bible I was the first time in history of
week when more than 12ff men I Class of St. Joseph AME church ! Durhfim that such event has beerr above Huoto shows the two class-1 will return the visit to the Moora
representing the Mooife Bible 1 attended Sunday School together | attempted and so successful and ^ just alter the close of the ^ Bible class in June.
White Philadelphia Daily Urg;es Negro
Players For BigTJeague Baseball Team
rested the responsibility of sup
porting Kittrell College and
ed by the late Mr. Duke, in
whatever form it may exist,
should be kept intact.
75,000 Negroes Expected
To Go To Polls Saturday
Approximately 7fi,000 Negro
votan will go to the polls Satui>
day to ca«t their votes for vari-
ooB candidaes in the Democratic
jHrimary #i«cordiDg to I. E.. Aus
tin, chairman of the Political
Di^ion of the North Carolina
Committee on Negro Affairs, and
Editor of the CAiROLINA
;nifi8. ^
Sfwb •laction find* tha Nagro
more and more interested in ax-
erciaing his political fi^chiae,
and it is the belief of many thait
by the election • in November
n'ore than 100,000 Nef'roea will
be registered aa voters. In cities
like Raleigh, Durham, Greens
boro; Chartotte, Winston-Salem,
Kccky Mount, and Boxboro
ttiera hA been an unuaual a*
moont of political activity.
Other cities and smaller towns
throughout the atate have fallen
in line and have also t>egun
working toward registering m
larger number of the race.
fiecause of the influence of
the N, C. Q, N. A., special effort
is being made to' prevent crook
ed politica from entering the
piotvra. In Durham tlM local
PiaMHi tom to Pag0 Sight
! PHILADELPHIA, (GNA) —
In a sensaional article entitled
(“STAI^ F^OR .,A’a, PEP FOR
IpHILS-IN’ negro RANKS,"
the Philad*elphia Record, l^lrgest
morning paper in this city, feu-
tutcd the fast growing campaign
to. end Jim Crow ban In baseball
altd suggested that Philadelphiu
break the ice immediately.
The article quoted ibig league
'managers and players from a
recent article in “Frid-iy” maga-
:cinc which had summed up their
high, opinion of the Negro ball-
stars. I ' .......
1 1 > «
With the two i most chronic
losing teams in the maJors,
PhiU^lphia has gr^tOr pro-
pomSpn of disaatisfwd fans stay-
-iifg away from the iball p^rk than
any other major league city.
Last summer Phil Manager D.
C. Prothro said he could solve
si! the team’s trouhle&i if given
permission to utse Negrp stars.
“Experiencedi players ^ are
available who could strengthen
the A’s shaky :pltching st^lT, give
tho Phils the batting punch
'they need. These players could
make potenitiar champions out i
of any of the other also-rans in {
either major league,’
strticle states.
the Record
“But they are Negroes, and
orjranized baseball says they
can’t come in,” the article con
tinues.
“In all baseball hUw there is
net a single line barring colored
players from the game. Several
major league managers have
srid they would jump at the
cliance to sign the (best of them.
Some owners have declared they
would vote to admit them.
“But no vote ever is taken on
^vt. No man^Uer or own
er dares defy the Jim Crow
t.'fcdition which in the past has
been the most inflexJbile un
written law in the game.”
“No one seems to have con-
tinu9s after quoting the high
praise of white ball players and
nianagera for 'Negro stars. ‘There
is an even chance and a whole
lot more that a lew thousand
P^oted
Alive
Mass Leader
In London
GARVEY NOT DEAD
SAYS LATEST REPORT
EDITOR’S NOTE; Contrary to
latest reports the story printed
atid appearing in Negro news
papers this and last week, stat
ing th{# Marcus Garvey was
dead was in error. According to
his physicians the famous leader i
of the Universal Negro Improve
ment As.sociation, and advocate
of the “Back to Africa” move-'
roent, is seriansljf ill in a London
hospital from a paralytic stroke
and much hope is held for his
recovery. j
A copy of the story reelased
by the Crusader News Service
to Negro newBpaper throughout
fans who have been staying tl»e country was ^ follows;
away from the A’s and the i
Phils might turn out to see what I LOMDON, (CNA) — Discredi-
Paige and Gii>9on ^a^nd a few I tej and deserted by his follow^
more like them, might do in the | erfc, Marcua Garvey once leader
maJor leagues. » hightiest mass movement
of Negra people in modern times 1 With money aiid meml>«rs
si’-ccunibed here to an attuW.k of pouring in, Garvey launched Mtw-
asthnia, from* which he had long eral business ventures, includiae
sulFered.^- lie died in the head-1 the Black Star Line. His busi*
quarter^ of the pitiful remnant ness ventures, however, w«r*
of the once po)verfuI Universal ^ marked by questioni^e maniou-
huion of fuitls and Irreaponaibi-
iity and soon drew the fire of
of the milit^lits, includiiif' Briggs
then editor of the Amstexdaai
News and the Crusader Maga
zine, W. A. Domingo, editor oi
tae Emancipator, Richard B.
Moore, noted orator, and
Negro Improvemt?nt Association.
Garveyr- a* native of Jamaica,
B. W^. I., went o Amcrica during
t'.ie first W^orld War. His arrival
ir New York coincided with the
gi’owing disillusionment of black
America with the fale democra-
t!'- promises of President 'i' ilson j
and the Allies, and Gprvey was j As a result of the
able to capitalize upon the resul- by the militants, C^vey’a is9l^
tant unrest, fanned by Negro erxre legan to wane even bcfor*
.militants such as the late Hubert I vjg arrest and imprisoMUDt' o&
Harrison, Cyril Briggs, tfc P'’®* L).arge9 of
sent editor of the Crusader Nows
Agency, and others, to build up
Negro nationalist movement i ing his deporUtion to Jawka.
under the slogan “Africa for | Please turn to Pag*
Africans At Home and Abroad.” ti e other split into a n«
nsing tha
States mails to defraud. Ftilwr-
xfte^BE SURE TO