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Rings’ Chorus
To Be In Charlotte
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iCHABLOTTE _ Wingi Over
Jordan will soon be flying over
this city.
The famous choir
•nd concert stage, of which the
R«v. Mr. Glen.1 i’. Settle and
Vt%)i. Worth Kramer are direc-
4ora, will aippenr in recital on
M «dnesday evening, July 24, be
ginning at 8:30 o’clock in the
l\uge auditorium will be opened
at 7 o’clock, the apon»oring
GOijiunitit^e’f chairman, U. W.
Hunter, stated this week.
The presentation is under the
ipontorship of the Chxiarlotte
Citixena ^Committee, a group
that has long worked for the
largest and finest type commun
ity programs. It is expected that
4her« yrill be a record crowd on
bJnd to hear thia outstanding
■ia^nx group tha* has gained
f«m« and added pre»tige to the
race by it’s weekly Sunday CtBS
broJ|:|casting programs through
out the world. i
Tickets are priced low that
all who desire to hear t^e reci-
""^h^may do so at no large s[^ri-
fic to them. Student tickets at
reduced rates may also be had.
An interesting meeting of the
Charlotte’* Citiien’a- Committee
' was held Monday night in the Y
of radio I ^ l^rgre numl>er of the leStd
ing citizens present. Chief among
the discussions ^ fthe evening
was concerned wTth protests in
the form of resolutions to be
pr^enled to the City Council
relative to the closing of the
colored swimming pool, a matter
lht.L is much discussed this week,
ehfhisoly paccse d-illel
FAYETTEVUXE
At the National Tennis Touma
ment held- at FTC were Mrs.
Mildred Pettis of Richmond, Va.
accompanied by her son, Willis,
Dr. R. M. Wyche, Charlotte; J.
E (Jock) Watkins, Pittsburg,
Pa. where he is connected with
the Pittslburg Courier.
Cracker In
NAACP Refutes
Tuskegee^s 1940
Lynch Report
DISCUSSING G. 0. P. CANDIDATES
NEW YORK — The following
telegram refuting Tuskege* In-
ttitute’a statement, no lynchinga
occured during the first six mon
ths of 19M was sent to Dr. F. D.
Patterson, Prasident Tuske-
gee, by tht National Associa
tion for the Advancement of
Colored People July S.
“W« are inexpressibly shocked
by Tuskeges’e statement that no
lynchinga occurred during first)
six month* of Nineteen F)^rty.'
On M4irch 2 Sarah Rawls and
Benton Ford were flogged to
dei^th 'by a mob at Atlanta,
Georgia. Five days later Ike
G^.i«n was beaten to death by
mob in same city. On June 22,
Elbert William, Negro was lynch
ed at Brownsville, Tenn. for
attempting to exercise hia con
stitutional right to register
order to vote in 1940 Presiden
tial election. Such inaceunAe
statement# by '^uskegee Institute
do irreparable l^arm by casunfg
public vigilance |tgainst ^mob
,piurder tt> relax and by giving
enemies of anti lynching ammuni
tion for sabotage of such legisla
tion.”
W,J(lter White, Secretary.
RHILADELMIA — An uniden
tified white man Sunday selected
Isaac Mitchell, a shine boy who
lives at 503 North Seventh street
and dropped a UJrge fire cracker
in his face.
Isaac had knelt to shine the
mAn’s shoes, and as he went
about his work the brutal custom
er dropped a large cannon that
exploded in the bootblack’s face.
The force of the cAnnon knock
ed the Fad to the ground where
for several minutes he lay help
less. As he writhed in pain,
the man walked leisurely down
the street and made his esci^pe.
It was the first casualty of the
Fourth of July season and hospi
tal physicidlns said the boy might
lose any eye.*
I Jackson Plumbing & |
I Heating Go. |
IMtte
J. Frank Hanley, dynamic and
tnarenergetic manager of the
l\iirview Homes here, the Low
Coat Federal Housing colony, in
k«-pt busy these days at the pro
ject, Bupervisfng, ^1-cepting and
assisting in passing upon ap
plications, as workmen daily
work towards completion of the
ba^tiful and expensive homes
for Charlottee residenta.
In tie city this week on busi-
ncM relative to the new setup
in the local OAROUNA TIMES
office was Herbert R. Tillery,
Buainess Manager, with offices in
tha headqu/Lrters at Durham.
Mr. Tillery is a capable young
man and i» making if definite
and m«iih felt contribution bo
this sUte in the capacity in
which he is well trjalied.
■pent a dtey in the city.
He
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Indiana
Elks In
Session
I-NOIANAPOUS, (A N P) —
Witb hundred* of visitors tind
delegates present, the Indiana
State IBPOE of W and Hoosier
Council No. 44 met here as
guests of Fort ' Harrison lodge
kind Mount Cain Temple. Fea
tured speakers were Mayor Re
ginald Sullivan of Indianapolic
and J. Finley Wilson gratid ex
alted ruler of the Elks. Fojirt
Wayne was selected for the
1941 convention.
Among the major officers
elected were the following; Guy
Blaine, president, Robert Rudd,
John King and GUAcoe Knox,
first, . second and third vice
presidents, respectivey; James
A. Higgins, secretary and 'Monte
Curry, treasurer.
CHURCH WORKERS
TO MEET IN K. C.
KANtSAS CITY, (CP) — Thtf
Seventh Triennial Meeting of
Church Workers Among Colored
People will convene in Saint
Augustine’s Church here Sun
day, October 6 to Tuesday Oct.
8, it has just been (announced.
The Rev. Bernard C. Whittock
is priest in charge.
i,r mm k
Mrs.
He described his assailant as
flashy dressed, five feet, ten
inches tall weighing 4bout 160
pounds. He (tppeared to be about
30 years of age. Police of the
district took the boy for a cruise
over the city in a bAndict chaser
in an attempt to locate the man.
Drowns
In River
DETROIT, (ANP) — Elijah
Smith, 30 yeArs old, was drowned
in the Detroit River last Sunday
when th6 outbord motor boat in
which he and two companion
were riding, suddenly capsized
about 500 feet from shore. The
boUL was owned by Thomas
Jones and was being handled by
Smith’' when the craft suddenly
hit a swell and overturned.
Jones and the other occuptlit,
Clarice Howard, were rescued,
were saved by two men—John
Reehn and Louis Palmer, Mem-!
bers of the Harbormaster’s crew
dragged the river bottom for
Smith’s body, but withuot result.
Sarah S. Washingtoi^ busineaa woman, of Atlantic dity, Alternate Delegate froai
^ew Jersey, with Dr. H. H. V/alker, Delegate, left, and R. C. Grant Alteraate-at-Large, botb
pf Naahville, Tennessee, at the Republican National Convention.
WPA Coiifere nee Has
Record Registration
Attendance at the first state
wide WPA adult and pre school
educationai conference at A and
T college last week went well
beyond the anticipated figure to
a total of 172 students in at
tendance. The conference con
tinued through July,
Represented in t^ attendanse
(*'ere tethers from four division
management,
conductcd hy
of educational projects; literacy, Elizabeth Morris, state super-
safety adult education ^nd home!visor of educational proj(.ctii for
Courses are being! the WPA. She stressed tie a4-
speciiilists in all v.I.itage of the workshop ma-
these fii'lds from the state WPAjthod of teaching and expr^jcd
office, the local college faculties. r.nd hope that all c'asees thro«gli
and the Washington WPA office. jo>it the state will use this method
. [during the coming year. She
The conference officially open- ^nnonuced th,: the
ed Tuesday morning of last week' activities to be st'res^ed
with Koneral plans f,nd objec-
tivcs „f tho WPA educational inclid?*^intenajve
progr.im being: outlined hy Mrs. training in
self and home in(>
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