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OLUME tl NUMBER 21
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DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, JUNE 1st, l»40
CROW CASE
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HILLSIDE HOLDS 44th COMMENCEMENT
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KILLING OF BOY STIRS DALLAS
Dr. Mil Is Gets Nearly
3,000 Votes In Race For
County Commissioner
I Fflil Scliooi
Closes Year
INVITE MOTHER OT JO E LOUIS TO EXPOSITION
DURHAM — A totnl of 2,807
vctiM wero cast in lust 8atur-
dfc;’8 priiniu-y for Dr. J. N. Mill#,
Negro candidate for Coun^
commissioner. AHhough tha
numbiir of votes c»st were not
^fficienit to clect« th® popular
Durham pLyiician, it was a deeid
l»iK factor in nhowingr the aolid-
•lity of the Negro vole.
It is estim|)lt(^d that the new
'eglst.rnil«n ckt.sed with not more
W)«n 2,500 Ne^ro immes 'on the
books, and from the count it ap-
pe«« that severni hundred Wlidte
persona voted for Dr. Mills.
Aitorncy Edward Avant, C|i>n-
»ai»n manager for Dr. Mills, had
tl'f following to aay today in tHe
■^ay of than'ks to those who vot-
•d for Dr. Mills ,
“To the 2,807 voters who nufc'k
•d their BalTot for Dr. J. N. Mills
we the undersigned wish to em
ploy this means to publically
thank you..
We recognize tluit it was
through yoor vote and influence
tliat Dr. Mills was enaibled to
mnlce the good run for County
(Dommissioner that he dT3.
The vote cast served in a mea-
■VI e to indicate that while de
mocracies are crumbling all a-
round us; tlus one of the United
RtJites continues to recognize
that all citizens may have the
opportunity tir'STiare in the opera
iion of democratic government.
To tha4; end your v^te not only
POLLS 2,S07 VOTES
0R. J. N. MILLS
represented a vote of confid
ence in Dr. Mills hut also ex
pressed fit desire to perptueate
our democratic form of govern
ment,
We wish again to thank all for
the interest manifested.
J. N. MIliLS, M. D.
E. R. AVANT, Manager
Elsewhere in this issue of the
CAROLINA TIMES is a paid
advertisement. Dr. Bills has ex
pressed his personal thanks to
those who supported him in his
campaign for County Commiss
ioner. •. • • —
BY'W. L. BRADSHER
On Wednesilnj% Man 2d, the
EMt liJDd sel^ool held ita closing
L‘Xersi««*s in llie school ^>idil'ji -
ium. A brief talk was given by
the principal, F, D, Mar-
uliall. He coraineiuJcd the entir*'
strdent body for the hi'h type of
scjiolarship and deportment that
maintained during the school
year, and expressed appreciation
10 the parents for their fine
H'irit of cooper«tiion land inter
est. He adnionislied their stud
ious h.^jits in order that their
future school records will com
pare wi'jh those maintained at
Kast End. — • •
Perfect attendance certificates
were ;1;varded to thirty six mem
bers of the student body, and
twelve pupib were presented
scholarship certificates. Students
of the sixth grades who won
individual awards were; The B.
B. Rogers awJrd for highest
scholarship average, Robert Mc-
Kinnis. The Dr. Plummer award
for excellency in spelling, Alice
Lloyd, The S. B. Walker aw4^d
for efficiency in Arithmetic, N»-
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Congressman Pleads
Own Case In Fight
Against Jim Crowism
JS3 Students Receive
Diplomas Thursday
BY WILLIAM'A. TUCK
DURilIAM — The forl.y-ifour-
th class to be graduated from
the Hillside Park High school
numbered L6S nnd w&C the larg-
•St in the history of the school.
These 1'6S boys und girls receiv
ed their diplomas from the hands
of Dr. William 11. Wannamaker,
chairman of the Durian board
of education, as a climax to the
commencement program held at
the City Armory Thursday night,
May SO.
The commencement progi)aln
WA* proceded by a thiry-minute
Nchalby the Hillside band
under the direction of W. H.
Cole. The mixed chorus of the
school directed by Miss T. E.
Claggvtt sang during the pro
ftita, “All Creatures oi Our
Lord and King,” ‘Deep River,’
•‘The t Sea H^th its Pearls” and
the ‘Halle^ah Chorus”. Student
speakars on the program were
Leo Tbwnsand, who delivered the
welcome; Miss Daisy Walton,
Uia main speaker whose subject ^
was “Youth abid the Working
World” and Miss Lillie Dicker
son, who gave » touching fara-
irsll address. I .
PRINCIPAL PEARSON
LAST COMMENCEMENT FOR School. He receivecT his b^aichc-
jlor's degree from Shaw Univer-
I lity and his masters from
'Columbia in New York. He has
* also served as principal of the
'hig^ school in Wake Forest.
A special invitation was re-
csitly extended in Detroit to
Mrs. Lillie Brooks, mother of
Joe Louis, world’s champion'
heavyweight fighter, to attend
the American Negro Exposition
at the Chicago Coliseum from
July 4 through Sept. 2, The
photogi^ l^h, taken at Mrs.
Brooks’ residence, shows, left to
right, Elmmett S. Cunningham,
member of the Detroit Commiss
ion for the Chicago Exposition;
James W. Washinglton pf Chic
ago, founder and president of
the Exposition Authority, and
Mrs. Brooks.
Throughout tfie commence-
ntent program there wrfiU a tinge
oi sadness tliat naturally ac
companies the fact that this
fopty-rfourth commencement for
.Hillside M a high school was the
last at which Prof. W. G. Pear
son will preside as principal.
Durhamites have known no other
high school principal here, as
Prof. Pearson hffci been serving
■ft teacher and principal since
the beginning gf the Durham
School system more than fifty
years ago. In his remarks he
expressed -siAcere nfppreciation
for the fine cooperation and
confidence of the friends of the
city and state during his years
of service here.
Superintendent W. Frank
Warren of the Durham City
Schools praised highly the ser
vices of Prof. • Peal'son and an
nounced that he would be given
“other duties” in the school sys
tem beginning next year. He
also introduced the newly ap
pointed Hillside principal. Prof.
William McElrath who comes to
Durham from Kinston where he
mu principal ot the Adkin High
m
I Supt. Warren lalsQ announced
t^e appointment of Prof. J. M.
Schooler as principal of Lyon
Park School as successor to
Prof. N. A. Cheek who ^ill taku
charge of the W. G. Pearson
Elementary schiol.
aWARus
The following dwards were
made to the members of the
(senior class; medal for 'beat all
round gii'l, and activities mcdnl,
I Miss Josephine Shearin; medal
•for best all-round boy, Walter
i Barnes; first scholarship honors
land scholarship to Dillard Uni-
vdrsifcy, Warren Strudwick; se
cond place scholarship honors
and scho^rship to Bennett Colf-
*ege. Miss Minnie Taylor; third
place scholarship honors and
scholarship to Stilman Institute,
Miss Daisy Walton. Miss LiUie
EHckerson and Albert Johnson
received school-ships to A and
T College and Ward Parham has
a scholarship from Knoxville
College. ....
Death of Youth
Discovered By
Texas NAACP
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DALLAS, Texas — Because Calling for an autopsy to de-
the local briUiich of the Natioiiai tcrminc the correctness of this
Association for the Advancement report the NAACI’ received the
c.f Colored People was not satis- report which blasted the whole
fied with explanations given lie of McDay’s having syphlia,
out by otficials of the state train- mil showed that he had been
ing school for boys, in connec- bialen to death,
tion with the d^h of 15-year-^ According to Dr. J. L. Goforth
old Erneslj McDay on Wednes- conYiectcd with Saint
brutal police crimes against ^ autopsy, Ihere were numer-
gro youth m the history of Texas anu^ abrasions
has been uncovered. ^he heart
Young McDfty, Theodia M-uL- waS in perfect condition, provi-
I drow, 18; lind Albert Wesley, injr definitely that there was no
Jr., had been charged with taint of syphilis and a t»tal
fatliliy attacking a 61-year-old iibjenco ot evidence ©f coronary
white woman on April 23 Mui- thrombosis or any other heart
‘ drow was sentenced to death by trouble. All the boy’s vital or-
aii all-white jury that handed in jji'.ns were in such a hoplthy con-
its verdict within 20 minutes, dition that it indicated positively
Wesley’s trial comes up May 27, that the youth died from unna-
McDay was sentenced to serve t’lral causes, — ••
not less than four y^ts in the' . rnnrro V
a, i i ■ ■ 1 , , . I According to Dr, Oeorge J*
bUue training school for boys,'
CHICAGO, (ANP) — Apear-
iiif: befo^ three federal Judges,
' Sitting enbane in the'^'United
States Circuit Court here Mon-
' day. Congressman Arthur W.
M::;hell n;u4je an effectnve plea
for the abatement of the “Jim
Crow” car evil on American rail
roads as he argued for the up-
seitting of the adverse Interittle
Coiiinier'e decision hiiided down
in March, 1939. The case origin
ated on^ a comjJlaintlJijy Mr. Mit-
.'chell when a conductor of the
Rock Island R. R, Co., forced
him from a Pullman car in'to u
■‘Jim Crow” eoach a trip between
Memphis, Tenn., and Hot Spriii'gH
Ark. Backed by his 'counsel,
Atty, Richard Westbrooks of
Chicago, who supplemented tho
Congressman’s opening sUJ.,e-
inent, Mr. Mitchell told Judgi!
E!van A. Evans, Mfcliael Igoe and
Charles Woodward, all three of
whom were , hearing the case,
ti't-L he had not made his com->
plaint because he was interested
in riding with white people, but
because he was an American
citizen and entitled to equal ac-
commodaitions under the law.
The court took the case under
thus escaping the death penalty
bi'cause of his youth.
According to local newspaper
roptirts McDay, who h^itl app^r-
ed before Criminal District
Judge Henry King on Tuesday,
wa.5 delivered to the training
school the following morning at
9:2C by B. O. Snelen and E. E.
Porter, secretary of the local
NAACP bri«(iich, Negro citizens
v'f Dallas are aroused as they
h:;ve never been before ovei this
bri.tnl crime. It is the senti-
DM'nt of Citizens, he said, that
law enforcemettt officials, cheat
od out of the electric chair death
Oi McDay, because of his youth.
ENDS FIFTY YEARS’ SERVICE
HONORED
PROF. W. G. PEARSON, 81-
year-old principal of Hillside
Park high school who was honor
ed with |u luncheon by the 34
teachers who serve under him
Wednesday at noon. He has serv
ed the Durhi\m city school sys
tem more than fifty years and
will be succeeded in the fall by
William McElrath who come to
Durham from Kinaton. Prof.
Pearson will be given “other
diuties” in the city system ac
cording to Supt. W. F. Wtlrren,
advisement and ordered the at
torneys to file briefs.
*‘I have sat in the Cangreas t
the United States for six ysmn"
Mr. Mitchell said. **I have wJLek-
ed and helpeif ia Umc formatioa
of l«ws which govern the ec»>
micA and social Kehaviors of tk*'
eiiiMns an4 corpor»ti«Ms mt tins
cobntry.” be i^tinued. *'1 k»o«
t):^ whe» a Vlliek man ettasM %m
Cf>nrt, be must face tb* latea*
p>ejudic^-s wiTirh raiit ia Tmty
whiic man a««t thaTlM aaa
strt1ie.t upon him before he eaa^fa
to bat. In these tsoubolons daiya,
w!ien democracy is being thre*-
tined throughtout the worid, 1
tin ashamed for the great
governiuent which I represent,
81 I see an aa^btant attorney
gtrneral of the United States,
rise in this eoiHt to help fasten
the chain-s of inequality tbd sa-
gvegation around a fellow citi
zen, a member of a race whieb
has been loyal to this country,
which ly.ii performed, its labor
anl shed its blood for its pre-
si‘rvation,” Mitchell said.
Argument before the court by
t';e battery of eight lawyers ra-
presenting the Rock lalanj anid
tl:e other defendants, the Illinois
Ceiktral I^llroad, the Puflaaaa
Co., and the United Stata at
torneys represenin^ the Inter
state Commerce ConamiaaloB^
showed that Mr. MHehell, aa
April 20, 193^,' had purenaae^l a
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Wallace, assistalit county Juven- have seen to it that death over
ile officers. Wednesday evening took him anyway
lit 6:30 p. m.- a report was given
to Eni'l R. Parker, county Juven
ile officer by officials of the in
stitution st)-i:ing that McDay
had just died ofj coronary
ti rombosis, and a blood clot in
the heart, that developed from
the affect* of syphilis.
Dr, Porter ssiid the associa
tion will take steps to bring the
guilty officials to justice, and
will leave no stone unturned to
carry the case through the
courts. ••
W. B. fiRUCE
Bull City Lodge No. 317,
IBPOE of the world, has honor
ed W. B. Bruce with a life
membership in recognition of
^is long, :^€thiful, and service
able career in Elkdom.
Mr. Bruce attended the Or
der’s first Grand Lodge session
held at Norfolk, Va. in 1901
H'hen the total membership was
orly abeut 500. Today, under the
ler.'iership and guidance of Mr,
Bruce and some of his brother
Eiks of the old school, the order
has a membership of over 700,
000.
He is a Past Exalted Ruler of
the local lodge and h^ti served
the order for several years as
Diputy of the Western North
Carolina territory. He is as hon
ored member of the State As*
Socitlion and the Grand Lodge
Convention,
The local lodge conferred this
honor upon Mr. Bruce upon the
instructors and approval of Hon.
J. Finley Wilson, Grand Exalted
Ruler, IBPOj; of th* World.
Teachers Honor
Retiring School
Head, Assistant
IHJUIIAM - At the end of
the uvvurd di.i exercises Wed-
ntsduy morning. May 29, tho
t'acliers of the Hillside Park
high school honored retiring
principal W. G. Pearson alkd his
' school cafeteria. Hermitli H.
aifsistant, J. M, Schooler with a
. testimonial luncheon in the
. RidVlick was tlie witty ntaster of
ccremonies for the occasion and
words of tribute to the services
of these men came from the
heads of the vJ.ious departmeota
of the school.
The Luncheon was sponsored
by the school finance com
mittee which is headed by Mrs.
G. A. Winslow, Hillside's most
exei'ienced teachers. «
Prof. Pearson will assuma
other duties in the city school
system, next fall ,llfter havinc
served here as teacher and prin
cipal sin^e the orfipnization of
the Durham city system mors
than fifty years ago. Mr. School
er has been appointed principal
of the Lyon PJrk Elementary
school in the western part o the
city after serving for 11 years
as science instructor and fivt
years as ^^istakit principal at
Hillside.
DttrincT the luncheon, Uta
following deparhnents wera ra-
presented with« expresaioBs: Ma
thematics, Mrs. R L. Holaaaa;
English, Miss D. V. Crooaa;
civics and history, J. E. Faala;
science, A. B. Massay; Ubnfty,
Mrs. L. ESder, commarca, Miaa
M. E. Toidiins; nusie, Waa T.
K Claggett; foreign laataa«a»
Miss J. E. Bass; ant. Mka J. M.
Dw; taduatrial arts, N. B.
(^(aea; hone eeonomies, Mn. L
F.. Colemap.
Near the close of tha laacbaoa.
Miss M. L. Fisher preaeated hand
seme and useful gifts to
honorees. Prof. Pearson reeai^ad
a trawlinc baik vklla Mr. BAoal
ot wait presented a combiaatiaa
bill-fold menMranduBB bo^
NEW ICE CIIEAM SALON
OPENS SATURDAY
Br H*rUei| TtMiwy
DURHAM — Saturday aaril
the oneninir of the neiT
wviijf’s ica cream and
sh4>. laeated at itluMi
Street in the heart af
buainess section. Tha Bai|
ercan salon whan
PiMaa t«ni to Hit