Edition
To B« August Brid«
VOLUMt XI miMSER 2«
DURHAM, N. C..SATURDAY, JUNE 1^ IMO
PRICE FIVE CENTS
NOTABLES PRESENT AT GOP
NATIONAL CONVENTION
NAACP Leader*s Body Found In River
Convention To
Open Snnday
In Greensboro
GREENSBORO — Ptans are
•boat complct« for the first
Negro Democratic Con
vtnltoa which is to bring tog«-
tfc»r more than 500 Democrats
Itom alj accUons of this and
other atf£«i here for a two day
June 30-July 1, it was
•l^isatoned by the NpltT Oolo-
ncl K. Watkins who hM been
cominiased by tlie National Colo-
rtd Democratic association j8b
oatioiMl Deroocratic citrti organ t-
Mr for North Carolina.
Thi^ will be the fi^ time that
■ suek a body has bcm called to-
gttbar and Mr. Watkins has re-
that all southern states
Md eTery in (North
tend repreaente-
■%«•> irm. ucia^ and politicul
•Wfca. A program ot good cftlten
ahip will be atressed and politi
cal iapuea diacuased, Delegeites
from tbia convention will be sent
to tha National Democri^ic con-
vantioai in CMcago July 14-li5.
NattaaaMy Kaown Spaakar*
OttdManding spet.|s;ers on the
twa-day program will be Dr.
WUliam J. Thompkins recorder
•i daads in Washington and pr^i
dani ot National Colored Demo-
tratle ^kMooj^i'ion; Judge Ar-
tDObd W. Seott of Washington;
dent of the association, and Dr.
Miles Mark Fisher, D«rhtro,
SftjUte Chaplain. „
Dr. J. W. V. Cordice of Dur-
Jiam will welcome the physicians
to the convention; Dr. C. C.
Spaulding, president of the
North Carolina Mutual Life In
surance Company, will w-elcome
the businessmen; and L. E. Aoa-
tin, editor of 1*6 CAEOUNA
TIMESi will sp^i4c >n State Wide
Teachers salaries, SeiMRoT- Bofc’t
S. Reynolds win also ibe a key
note speaker.
Sbat«wide committees for
rang«fflent have been named
as follows: Greenrft»oro, R. C.
Sharpe, E- K. Hightower, and G.
,C. Sims; Winston Salem, Leand-
er Hill, C. H. Jon«s, W. S. Scales
and A. R. JSobinBon; Rejdsvili*
Dr. G. A. Gatling, A. H. Ctutik,
and Dr. Ora M. Fisher; Dtirham
G. P. Holloway, L. E. Austin, J.
H Strickland, Edward Saunders,
and G, Spslulding; Rocky Mount
Dr. J. E. Pittman, and J. H.
Swann; Tarboro, W. H. Parker,
N. N. Gray, and G. M Matthew-
son; New B^rn Mrs. R. I. John
son, I. H. Smitfv, ^d Dr Martin;
Washington Dr. J. N. Dowdy, J.
S. Price and Dr. Uoydi, Green-
ville7“ W. W. Norcott, Dr. J. W
IS MISS BRONZE AMERICA HERE?
AMWi
w
Believe Negro
Was Victim Of
White Mobbists
BROWiNSVlLLE, Tenn. —The
boy of Elbert Williams, one of
the leaders in the local NAAOP
sponsored ciJmpaign to get Ne
gro citizens here to vota was
fished up from a nearby river
Sunday, June '23, officials an
nounced.
'niis waa the first death of a
Negro |reg;ard«d l»y eitiaaaa as
ar. off the record lynching) at
the hands of whites hera since
white mobbists faefpm terroris
ing Negroes when the vote cam-
IMugn startad her* several
manthf ago.
LED VOTE FIGHT ....
The ^.l.ional office of the
NAACP announced ttwt the R«v.
Buster Walker, president of tha
'branch of the association,
who has been active in the lesld-
-«rahip of the voting campaign,
scheduled to bai^ a coafar-
Ga^tltes Arthur W. Mitchell of ^ Battle, and Miss Belle Attison;
if^ibgton; Mrs. Bessie J. Bear! Wilson Dr. J. W. Butterfield, Dr.
New York City, vice presi-js. H Vick, and J. H. Davis.
Express
Workers
iPeted
DUfeHAM — At the regular
monthly meeting of the local
•mirioyeea of the Railway Eac-
prbia Agency Moi^y night at
thair office, Ciiief G. W. Proctor
|;ave a apecial compliment to a
njmAwr of white and colored
nten who were presented attrac-
iiva i^da autographed by h. O.
HtaU, president of the company,
for having driven trucks for five
contawitive years without an ac
cident. Proctor commended the
tt'uck drivers on the careful
maneuvering of their vehicles in
the city.
Those who rceeived the cards
wen: R. S. Johnson, R. L. Aber-
nafthy^ W. E. Whitaker, Jr., L. D
Wao^’ E. H. Maliigum, W. P.
Spanqe, and L. A. Ray, A. L.
Tuck,- W. E. Carlton and S A.
Jtffert. The latter three are Ne-
groaa.' .....
Louis* Share
LOUIS COLLECTS |iSS,9M
FOR GH>OY BOUT
NEW YOItE. (ANP) —Joe Lo«is
noUected for kk eigbt
idond knockout victory over
Artoro Godoy of C4iile aft tha
X>akea Stadium Thursday nigbt.
ik>doy received $23,920. AI-
i^gether, 21,1^6 spectator* paid
9149,S0S to see LAuia make the
UMi defense of his title. Net
nraeipU were |126,680, the
federal tax «lS,eS€ and the
■ttl.'e’a ihnra $8,994.
Sings Here
LUTHER KING IN RECITAL
On Tuesday June 2©th Luther
King, tenor, appeared in song
recital before &■ large and ap
preciative audience in the B. N.
Duk^e auditorium. As usual, Mr.
King sang with ease and control
and his singing of tha .Negro
spiriti^ls was well received.
Miss Jean Huston (Miss King)
the— accompanist, demonstrated
her ability to play some of the
most difficult rolest with unusual
technique.
When finals of the Miss Bronze
America^' contest conduct^ by
the American Negro Exposition
are held at the Chicago Coliseum
on ^;turday ni^ht, August 17,
one of the two young beauties
pictured here may win the cove
ted title which carries with a cash
award of $300. The lovelies.
Misses Helen Lewis, left, and
Muriel Fleming, are Chicago
girls who are competing for the
honor against others in the
Windy City and other se^ion of
tlie nation.
Ethiops Plan
Revol vtion
with AssiatMit United States
Attorney Gaaeral John O. Rogge
relative to a Juatiee Departmeal
investigation of the BrownsvUlc
situation. »
The Rev. Hr. Walker wa* a0-
comp5oied by Dean William X.
Hastie, chairman of the NAACP
legal committee, and Leon R.
Raniom, also of the legal com
mittee.
led a group of NAACP memlbers
to the court house in Browns
j^ille to qualify to vote tn the
coming election. This action so
incensed local whites tl^ they
forced the three men to leave
own. Since that time more than
seven other Negroes have been
forced to flee.
IjlTtMIOATED NECSOES
B^ausa Negroea comprise
three fourth of the 19,000
population of Brownsville, the
county seat of Haywood County,
Tenn., whites l^Mre tried to dia-
courage them from voting.
They have discharged Negroes
from jobs refused credit in local-
banka to all known Negro
NAACP members, threatened to
diwontinue Negro teachers in
their Joibs and htivt bean report
ed to have opened mail sent from
tha National Asaociation for the
ference in Waahington, June ^ C«^r^ People
11 officials of the local branch.
After a stirring plea before
the 31st annual 'NAAOP, confer
ence at Tindley Temple in Phil
adelphia, June 21, the Rev. Mr.
Walker waa given a~ spontane-
oue collection of $liS)6.47 from
the delegates present at the |
morning discussion meeting to
start a defenae fund. He told *
delegates to the conference that i
MK. AND MRS. A. LIONEL WBAYER, af Wiatoi^ N. CL. aa
tlM Migageaicnt of their daughter, Theora Marilya, above, M
eaiael Eagene Graves, Jr., ef Norfolk. The wedding will be perfans-
jld at the iMaie of the bride’s parents m Satnrday, Aagaat 31.
' Mias Weaver ia a gradaate ef Shaw Universttv aad feiu taagU
pt tha Waters Traiaiag School, Wiaton, and at t^ state Deaf, Daailil
M BUad laatttate, Bakigh. f
Mr. Grave*, aoa of Mr. aad Mm. L. E. Graves mt New Tort Qtj,
a gradnate of St. AagaatlBc’s College, aad ia a aiaasber ef M.
mt the Jauraal aad Gaide. NorfoHt. aervtog aa mmwm edtter. j
Dr. Shepard On
Rostrmn At GOP
National Meet
Williams, ^ong with the Itev. ‘ he intended to go back to con-
Mr. Walker, and Felaha D(i>vis, tinue the fight “for my people.”
ORGANIZER
LONDON, (ANP) —- Authori
tative source on Ethiopia this
week decried that the country
ii seeting in an attitude of Re
volt Italy which may lead to an
uprising by 200,000 well fotlU-
fied warriors. It was further in
timated Britain might supply
Ethiopian soldiers with arms and
ammunition through Kenya and
the Sudan.
Emperor Haile Sel^l^sie of
Ethiopia came to-London from
his villa at Bath immediately
after Italy decl,al-ed war, and is
in conference here with his ad
visers.
“It is safe to assume that the
resistance of tribesmen against
the It.!ian8 will increase con
siderably, and that if they have
the oppot4^un^y of gettincr arms
and ammunition from outside it
would be effective to a very high
degree,” 4 British official aaid.
“The hope is,” he continued,
*that the Ethiopians will not be
over eager and launch a cam
paign precipitously without pro
per orgjEfcization.”
Child Welfare
Conference At
N.C. College
y
••KING’’ FRBDERliCK K. WAJ-
KJiJS, president of the North
Carolina Negro Democratic con
vention which meets in Greens
boro Sttnday and Monday June
30th *nd July 1. «JCin«” Watkins
was appointed Democratic CJub
or^nizer for North Carolina
by the Nation*l Democratic com-
m’tteo. ,
‘Wingfs Radio
Time Changes
CLEVELAND — “Wings Over
Jordan" Columbia network pro
gram origin,.'4ted by the Rev.
Glenn T. Settle of Cleveland to
promote better understanding
between the races, maxes to a
new broadcast period Sundays,
beginning JunI 30. (WABC-
CBS, 10j30 to 11.00 a. m. BDST
Formerly hedrd 9:30 to 10 a. m.
DDsST).
Heard on CBS since January
9, 1938, the program feature
short talks by outstanding’ Ne
groes and a $6-voice choir con
ducted by Worth Ki^hner and
recruited 7rom ten representa
tive Negro churthes of Cleve
land,
DURHAM _ Held at the North
. Carolina College in conjunctiob
Thirty tribal chieftains, under ^ regular summer session,
the leadership of Abebe Aragin.'The Conference on Child Wel-
former chief of Police, Addis fare and HeaHh Education, fin-
Abalba, Ethiopian capit^, were anced by -he General Education
6«id to be actively organizing for Board and the Rockefeller Fomi
I dation, ia the first conference
Four y^s of Italian occupa- of jQ kind every held in this
tion of the country, it is said,' country. ‘
has nottkcui*^ the anti-Italian j , "
feeling, alia ‘ informed source* conference is an outgrow-
report that unceasing guerrill^K work done by the coordina
warfare has been carried on. School Health Service»with
. ..— - _ teachers in five counties in
five'counties in North Carolina
during the scholastic year 193d-
40. It has for its purpose the
study of child and community
health problema among Negroes.
Students -taking thia- course will
bo given advanced credit by the
college which is designated by
the legislature of North Caro
lina to do graduate work in the
various fields of ^e social" scien
cies. A similar course is being:
conducted at tha University of
North Carolina for white teach-
Prof. James N. Freeman,
director of agriculture, Lincoln
University, Jefferson City, Mo.,
is guest speaker June 30. His
talk is devoted to the National
FederJltion of Colored Farmers,
Incorporated.
Miss Hattie McDaniel, whose
motion picture characterization
“(Jone With The Wind" was
widely acclaimed, July 7 /Ad
dresses the radio audience from
studios of WiGiAR, Cleveland,
program origination point.
VISITS PARENTS
Miss Alpha Jenkins spent last
week end with her parenta on the
Raleigh Bighwsjr in Diirhaini
County. , •
and three well balanced meals
daily. . ..
The staff is compoaed«pf Dr.
Walter E. Hughes, in charge f
this division; Dr. W. B. Perry of
the United States Health service;
Mias Franch boyd of the School
Health Coordinating Service; as
nutritionist, Mrs. Olive Brown,
director of physical education;
Dr. Walter E. Wilkins, coordina
tor; Mrs. Irma Neal Henry,
health education; Mrs. Marjorie
Sills, secretary; Miss Margie
Stark, assistant to the nutrition
ist; Mrs. A. M. Peal-son; assist
ant to the i^ysical heaHh educa
tion director; Miss Mildred
Powell, assistant stenographer
and librarUln.
PHILADELPHIA — This city
put on its best manners for the
KepubHcan Nalionial convention
which opened here officially
Monday morning. Negro deleg
ate's and visitors are welcome
everywhere aJid many are guests
at the Quaker City’s leading
hotels. 'Ke!ii*urant&, theatres
policemen are exercising the
utmost courtesy.
However, Philadelpni^ is prov
mg to be a poor Convention site
because of the luck of sufficient
hotel accomodations and taxi
cabs for the huge throngs pre
sent. The convention is not
large enough to hold the multi
tude and a poor public address
system added to difficulties ex
perienced by delegates and the
press Monday. |
The clergy was well repre
sented, with no fewer thtli nine
bishops sitting upon the plat
form at various times through
arrangements made by Perry
Howard and Dr. Bmmeft J.
Scott. Bishops Sims, Gregg and
Green of the AME church; Me
Bishops Jones, Sh;%w and King;
and Bishops Kyle, Wallace and
Brown of the AME Ziona wera
those preaent.
The Republican committ' e
tty all means every city it,
experienced some difficulty in
finding Bishop Gtmgg. Fraatie
wires had been sent to six citiaa
in an effort to locate the pre-
liilte. One went to Shorter collega
at Little Rock where hia brothe
who was president, lay dead. TUa
telegraph company reparta^
back:
*it*agp
hop Gregg deceased.”
However, the matter waa
happily ~ cleared up and the dia-
tinguis^hed churchman located
in time to be present.
In addition to the biahopa,
others qH the platform were C5oL
U. O. Ua.vis, highest ranking Ne
gro army officer, and Presidelrt
James E. ^Shepard of Nortito
Carolina college, Durham.
Clyde Barrie, famous nulio
and concert singer whose pro
grams over CBS have attracted
wide attention, waa the fir«t
colored America on the coaves
tion pri^ram. He sabg ‘America*
immediately after ChaimuHn
Hamilton called the meeting to
order, ..^.id was heartily a^
plauded. " J
A spirit, cooperative and hope
ful pervaded the colored deleg^
ate.s; nearly everyone seeaMrf
satisfied with the consideratiaik
being given and the ^ttentios
showered upon them. l>ren tha
Continued on Eight
McKinney Goes To
Prairie View
Negro Halls
Lynchers
The object of thia inetruction j —
is to give these teachers a gen- j •LI’PCHPIELD, III. (AJK*> —
eral idea of the health problems Of the 66 members of “Jehovah’s
of Negroes in the atate dbd in Witnesses,” who arrived here
their respective counties and last Sundair to spread their teach
solutions fo? remedying these ings, «t lea«t on# waa prevented
problems. .. . I from bein|f lynched, when in-
In cocnevtion with the school furiaited townspeople attacked
a health center for children ia'them, » Ne«ro, resident of
being conducted for demonatra- Litchfield, wiio pietkied for them
tional purposes for the teacher. {w4th marcy. Thi* was revealed
These children will have a by Frank Colombos, « St. Louis'
therotigh mtdleal ex^biation) Contlnaed on Pagm Eiifet
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texa*— A-
mong the new additions to the
Graduate School faculty here art
Prairie View State College is
Deafl T. E. McKinney oi Johnson
C. Smith University who ifjjk
ronduct a graduate Seminar in
Educational Administration aud
Supervision.
He brings to Prairie “*View
State College unusual experience,
having served a number of yean
as Dean of Johnson Cl Smith
University Chairman of the
Commission ^n Higher Institu
tions of the Association of Coll
eges aad Secondary Schools for
Negroes, Presi3ent of the North
Carolina Negro College Confer
ence .and Managing Editor of
the Quarterly Review of Higher
Education Among Negroes.
In addition to graduate work
for several summers at tha Uni
versity of Mfchigan, DcaA Mc
Kinney studied tiwre tlw full
year 1935-37 toward his Doctor^
ate, his Deanship at Johnson C.
Smith University has added
•inch to tha standsrdisatioB of
DEAN T. E.
that iostHutioa |p|l
View SUte CoU«g« I^Hf
to be graatly beaaftod
work here thia •«!