T
ATYtRNETS OF NATION TO MEET IN OHIO
Airs.Wynelta
V. Peddy Dies
At hospital
OUBHAM — Mrs. Wyastla
Virgtnift Peddf, wif« of W. A.
Fsddy, ab4 hmmd th« Hon*
Ceattonieft dcpartnaat of BQl-
■id* hisb Mhool, di«d at Lf»e«iji
hospHal,, 1:80 Wodneaday moni*
iuf u »f rMult of childbirth.
Rrantle efforts on JIm of
yhjraieiana to mvo tha mother
and child were of mo «tsU, both
ivceunlng at tha uma tima.
Mn. Poddy h4d « eiom-
h«r of the local high achool
faealty for 10 jreart, during
which tiiaa she had gained att
ooTiaMe tvputation as an instm^
tor in her i^tfrtienlar field.
The deceased was bom ki
Union Spring, Alabama, Aog.
21, i»oe.
Her family later moved to Can*
ton, (Aio where she continued
her edocation, later entering
Wilberforce University at Wll-
borforee, Ohio. ^
In addition to her husband
Mrs. Peddy is survived by her
aw>th«r fo«r brothers and two
risten.
Fanerai services ««ro kold at
White Bock Baptist church hare
■hiarsday afternoon. Tb« Bev.
Miles Haik Fisher, pMtor of the
church was in charf* of tbo c«re-
nony. The bodies «f tb« nso^er
and child were taken to Canton.
Tbarsday immediately aftwwasd
where the Itirt rit*s will bf com
pleted aftd intefiaeiit witt bf. The
bodies were aeeoii^HkBiad to Can-
ton by Mr. Peddy.
STABT FILMINC OF
“U4>Y L4ICK”
HOLLYWOOD, ^A N F> —
Fellowtng the aueeesa of thair
last movie, “Ifa*. Wariilngton
Gom to Town,” a t^ce off on
the Jimmy Stewart elanic,
"Mr. Smith Qoe* to Washing
ton,” tiM Dixie National Pic-
tnres Company last Friday
started filming Lack”
another aU colored production
C^tinued pn7age Eight
Congregational
Sunday School
Confab Held
fl^E FUBeST, (Specfaa to
ibe 'i’UieS> — The Seventy-
iirst nnnual session otHkt North
Carolina Congregational Chria-
iian Sunday School CtHtvention
wdb held wiA Wake Forest
ChrbttiM; , B^v. Xi.
i'rcmt, paator July 17-19 with
the pawident Bev. 3. P. MMt
gum pn«iding. Thie convention
opened on Wedneschiy evenii^
Hilh varioua welcome addresses:
Welcome on behalf of chareh
by Bev. Lr C. Cross, pastor
Welcome on behalf of Sunday
School by John Dsl^i^ Supt.
Wekom* qO, Itehalf of Mission
Circle by Mr, Julia Hinton and
Ms. A. P. Johnson.
Welcome on behalf of schools
by Prof.'^Uan Toung.
Welcome on behalf of City
cborches by Rev. J. W. Powell.
Welcome on bebtff of City by
Mayor Hanwy Holden.
Besponse by the Rev. B. D.
lluOoek, Jr.
J>uriag the Thursday mom*
iog seasion of thm enrollment of
Superintendents, Ministers and
DelegtiUs with collection of fees
was under way. A discussion on
'‘Can Chfldren be Trained to be*
come Christians?" was led by
the Bev. J. W. Meadows of Cary.
He referred to the Catholics,
saying tbW if a child was placed
in 4he hands of a Catholic to be
cared for until he was ten years
of age he or she would never be
anything but » Catholic. He also
aaid^ “There are too many fami
Hea who dde»n*t have family pray
ar with their chfldren, not even
on Sunday morning.”
.On Thursday
the raessembly
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VOLUME 21
NO.
DURHAM, N. €., SATURDAY, JULY S7tli IMf
nucE s cam
RICHARD WRIGHT TO SPEAK
AT WHITE ROCK SUNDAY
ELK LEADERSHIP
and in what respect H waa weak,
also the greatest need of thair
Sunday school. ^ |
Four o^lock was time for the
Nation’s Lawyers
Discuss Federal
Legislation
COLUMBUS, Ohio. — The
Sixteenth Annual Convention of
the National Bar Associa.ion
will convene at ColtHnbus, Ohio
August 1-^ it was announced by
George W. Bvans, Secretary. The
program will be quite interest
ing, and sknoBg its many speak
ers will be Judge Herman Moort
Judge of the United Stetes Dis
trict Court for the Virgin Is
lands. Judge Moore has lost com
pleted a year's service a* Judge,
having s)»oceadad Judge WiHiam
Hifctii preaeM Dean ef Howard
Univanitiy Lair .Sclwcd.
election of officers^or the fw.
Thsf. were Pretfdeiql, Bev. j.' T.f
Mangriiria; Vice P^fddeaA; Bev.* Lethia C. Fleming, Cl%ve* t^ird ^y'a iKsyion will include
B. D.. Bullock, . Jr.i aeesetaiy, land, Ohio» promhieiit membw of Conetitntl»nal Asaendesents, at
Mia Btiiel HjAria; A—The Grand Temple of £lks, and [the first session; discussion of
Secretory Miss B«th Watkiaa; o« of the most wiI«!y Jtnown I American Jurisjtrudene at the
Treasurer C. T. Wilson; Sapt. women in the country, ie said itojsnd session; Public meeting
Western District, Bev. C. P. be the le*iKing candidate for with addreasei. by the Governor
Meadom; Sopt. Eastern District Grand Daugrhter Ruler of-^ejof the Staie ©f Ohio, and City
Elks. The Grand Temple meete
in St. Louis next month. (AN!P)
Officials of Columbus. The pro
ceedings of subsequent sessions
will include report of the Presi
dent, Sidney R. Redmond^ Secre*
ttfey, George W. Evans and
Treasurer, G> Edwards Diekar-
son, Regional Officers; discuss
ion of mattara of interest to the
group as a whole; enterteinments
far guests and their friends:
Election of officers will take
place on SJturday morning sess
ion. Delegates from the forty-
e^rht States, District of Coluoi-
bia and Jnsular P^sMssions will
The ift attenUnce. At least SH
delegaes t(;e expected from the
District of ColumbiA* representiBg
the 19th region, at leiut fifieen
from the Fourth Region com
prising, Bftaryland, Delaware «nd
Virginia. '
Bev. James Hargrovsa; Soloist,
Mrs. Finch; Pianist, Miaa Ruby
Mangmfea.
The guest speaker for tha
convention was Bev. Summer
ville of Shaw University, Gener
al Secretary uf the North Caro
lina Baptist Convention and
director of tha State Bmitist
Conclave who delivered a> very
inspiraftional address at eleven
o'clock Friday morning o»
“Christian SducfM^on.” Friday
afternoon, the young people
sponsored pMcram witli a num
ber of delegates participating.
The FrankUnton Christian Sun
day School gave # drama entitled
“Our Father’s Garden.”
Snnday Schools who represent
ed and their various delegates
are as foBowa:
Burchett’s Chapel, Biummet
Hargrove.
Cedar Grove, Misses Wyvette
Holloway ind Alease Jenkins.
Chriatian Antioch, By Letter.
Christian Cha|>el, Misses Mabel
Harris and Margaret Richardson.
Corinth Chslt>el, Min Annie
Bichardaoa,
Cary Christian, lliaddeas Hop
afternoon after' son,
Mch delegate ! Franklinton Church, Miss
reported on his or her Sunday Carrie Person and Baymond
School telling in what respect Cannady. ■
tiieir Sunday School was sto-ongi Continued on Eiigfaly
Murder Craitinnes
Rampage In
Cliarlotte
CnABbOTTB—
niia dty, ranked as one of
Ibe “molt murderOBf” tai tiis
country, took a long ^est from
killings, but picked v where it
left off with two killings n
Mtnrday night and early Sss-
dai.
Unto that time there had not
■.bMS a*tin^ beaieUe .recorded
at Iwadtwatteii, \fii many .z«at
*4a»ta «f the city were
to feel hopeful that tUa OHiath
w«9ld elt taaai go ea rafbtJ aa a
■e. B«i twa nan. hm
catered aad j^olhar whii^
a knifr and the
ice pick, aai^ no
fomar with
latter with an
an4 it was n;.
An indenrtified Negro is alleg
ed to have dashed to death an
other Neffo ipd with an ice
Louis A. Ba«ot kUIed Paul Lee
Miller gfis* a •bntwl. He was re
leased ffltiirtay « coroners in
quest iMit
Several •o^eela are held in
t^ murder of N^cro^resid-
.ent but no dala for the FreUBsin.
*T tecrtev ha* a«l baen eat as
Marian
Sings To
35,000
BY WILLIAM A. TUCK
LEWISOHN STADIUM, New
York City—^‘Art knows no color
line” became a great deal nH>re
than mere words Saturday night
July 20, when more than 23,
000 lovers of musi^ at its best
jtAnmed the Lewisohn Stadium
fP'ounds to give Miss Marian
Anderson one of the greatest
onttions of her remarkalbly
brilliant career. The crowd,
which broke all previous records
of Stadium Attendance, repre
sented almost every strata of
life, from the most humible Har
lem resident to Hapsburg’s arch
duke otto^and included music’s
“Public Friend Number One,”
Mayor LaGuiirdia., Hundreds
were unable to obtain admission
although heavy prophesied of
the few drops of rain that» fell
like holy water” db Miss Ander
son delivered the concluiBnf
evenly iwbw tii Shubert’s
Ave Maria,” her final number.
Beaming with happines befou
each number. Miss Anderson
sang Hummel’s “AIleTuia, Dpni-
zetti’s O Mio ferndkido from La
Favorite, and a group of spiri
tuals with orchestral accompani
ment.
In the words of Louis Bian-
colli. New'York music critic:
“She was in top vocal ^d
interprteive form. Her
tones rang out with stunn
ing impact in dramatic
passages, and some of her
phrasing could only be
described ab heavenly.”
“She was hcfr matchles* self in
Deep River, Sometime I feel
like a mothorless child, and
Heav'n, Heav’n. Profound feel
ing and an amAing varietJT of
tone color ■ combined wdth on*
cano. raaonuiea in her f^i^ing
acemuit Urn*
Fairview Homes
Project Opens
much enthusiasm has been creat
ed here over the new setup.
Active in the new project in
addition to the executive direc
tor and dhe mand^er and other
officials of Housing Author
ity, are members of a Colored
Women’s Council. This group
has been presenting each Friday
various education^ programs
via the radio in an effort to
educate members qI the aco as
to the Worth and benefits of the
able community, which when J colony. The group has appeared
complete will house nearly 600 *** ^ series of radio plays,
colored families of this city. written and directed by Mrs.
The Executive Director, H. J. Alexander, and others of the
Dillehay,. »nd the Manager of the group. Friday last the council
project, Jay Frank Hanley, an- presented an excellent pl^V
nounced earlier this week that which has drawn much favorable
the units were nearing complet-1 comment. Friends are asted to
ion, and ifa fast as they are tune in Friday of this woek at
finished families that have ap- the usual time.
plied and were passed upon wiU Announcem'ent as to the
mitted to move in.
CHAJUXWrat—
This “Queen City” of North
Carolina threw open wide her
doors Monday of this week to
the new Negro Low Cost Hous
ing projeoiv Tha Fairview Homes
on Oaklawn Avenue, one 'Of the
most beautiful colonies in the
nation.
During this week, beginning
Monday, more th*n 60 families
of the low income group, started
life a new in this new, fashion-
Indies Hold
Mass Meet
l«W YORK (AW) —Re
cognizing the danger of control
or the Cd:ribbean peoples by
r.on American powers,., the West
Indies National Emei^cncy Com
mittee sponsored a mass meet
ing here Monday, at which some
4,000 persons present unanimx
ously pladged a fight for self
government and lAyalty to the
United States.
'Kie recent world shaking mili
tary evente ip Europe and the
renlting critical situation for
the West Indian Iritve heighten
ed their insistent demand for
self determilttltioi and self
guvernmant. d«);l«nd Hppe R.
Stevens, chairman of the com-
mittca.
A Declaration of Rights, sn-
animouely adopted by the com
mittee, includes the group’s sub
ecrtption to every sincere ef
fort for the “extirpation of aJl
foreas hostile to democratic in
stitutions,”
collalwrata
mm tba
The
Announcement
,. augaration program will be made
project is under the sponsorship
of the city of Charlotte, and
John P. Adams
Succumbs —
CHARiLOTTB—
This city lost one of the best
known itnd most respected resid
ents last Thursday in the death
of John P. Adams, plasterer and
cententer here for many years.
Ue died in his home, 2417 Boak-
worshipped. The Simpson Memor
ial Methodist church, and officiat
ing at the rites and saying the
eulogy Wf*} the pastor, the Rev.
G. E. Souge. The rites were im
pressively conducted and tbe
. „ large nmu'bers of persons who
er street, following a stroke of
ptJI'alysis.
Funeral aervices for Mr Adams
were heW Sunday, b^inning at
was held.
8 o’clock tn the church where t^e
Survivors are the widow, Mrs
Hattie W Ad^^ms, a step daugh
ter and several sisters and bro
thers. The flor^ tributes were
beautiful and ■ Interment was
made in the local cemetery by
Charlotte funar^ coaecm. .
bute of respect to a worthy
citisen attested to the esteem in
iDfrem Knsto, for whom this
recital marked tha return to the
stdlon podii)n, inaintittnfd k
fine balance in all the orchestral
aiccompuime'ttts. He ahowed a
kaan stsM of dynanie and
formerPasior
Vislls Cbuicli
REV. W. C. WILLIAMSON
PREACHES AT HIT. VERNON
The three-day services held utt
the Mt. Vernon Baptist Charch,
July 17-19 with Rev. W. C.
Williamson of Philadelphia, Pa.
closed aji a financial aJtid apiri
tual success. The church was
filled to capacity each evening
tnd tiie climdk waa reached Fri
day evening when the Young
People’s Choir presented Rev.
Williamson in a recital. More
(ban $200.00 was realized. The
services were planned by Charlie
Jalckson, a Deacon of the Mt."
Vernon Baptist Church, and in-
tell%ently carried out by his aa-
sistanta. ' ^ ;
Bev. Willamson expressed his
appreciation for the lovely flow
ers that R. L. McDougald sent
down to his opening service.
Hiey shawed the very fine spirit
of the BAiker.
J. H. THOMAS, Pastor
‘NaUve Son*
Autnor Speaks
Sunday Night
DURiHAM — BichA^d Wright prompted tha writings o#
the famous Negro writer, toyevsky and Tolstoi. Natiira
speak at the White Bock Baptist Soa, which portrays the iajaatiea
Church on Fayetteville Stnat aad hardship iasplicit tar tha
in Durham this Sanday night, environmeat in wWch the Msgto
July 28, at g p. OS. Wright will tn Amaria fiads hiiaeelf, ha*
speak about his current beat beea ree««aA as one of the fiaert
selling novel, NdJve Son in aa eaAaplaa smIM!*
informal addreea antitied aasaq^ fsaaa Him. Aaairtii^^
Bigger Waa Bom.** . Wtfgrn aasM.
Thomas is the hero of tka MMl, Mr. WriglK ia Cazo*
who charactcriaataan ia a aMviag Baa to collaiwrate wliB
Portrayal of the
effects on the Ilt||a
social and H’oniwi^i:
confrontii^ hi# *aee.
Rigger’s dramatic and tsagie.
development represeoM hJis «nat . .
ed . of
in the IheruT wwW. V . * . , ^
■ *1. ^11 • —1 tiaaa ^ froaa woik fo» wBway
night the author wfU give ha own ..ywrina at tlw
interpretation of «»* aigniftc-
» D- •rm, ition of the Durham Negra Ya«m
ance of B^^er Thomas. • t. , r,. v-
CoaBcii, m whoea tetmty ha ia
Richard Wright'^ Krst bacsiae greatiy faitercated.
known to the literary aorld with
his short stories, sonM of which
were colleeted in tha volume en
titled Uncle Tom’s Children.
Tbe young author has been hail
ed as a writer who bends all his
energies to depicitiiig the N^ro
in his native American setting,
not merely )ls a colorful people
with interesting folk ways, but
as a people challenging society
and the nation with tha nsagat-
tude of their problesss. Wright’s
honest attempts to poitzay the
plight of the N^rro, hia ^orta
to probe the cause* nnderlyinc
the situAion of the'^ American
Negro, have been likened in
their scope to their aco^a ta
those social problems wlrieh
Native Smi.
Wright a native of
but has spent many years ia.,
Chicago and Napr York and hia
books della eaaentially wi»k tha ^
problaHs of tW urban Negra.-
Wright has alao travelled ateo##;.
■mi haa reeantiy rctsniad^^
from a atii/ in Mexico.
young noveUat saya that he
his vint in Mexico shoit becaaaa^
he could not bear to b«. ^
touch with home at a »kan
history waa being made to ^t^
, to be written..
The Durham Negra
Council cordially invitaa
piddic, both N^ro and tq.
, attend Sunday nighfa Matiiw
at tiia ch
IMA To Hold
II
— La “I congratolate extenaion laid
InterdenomiiMi- ^ of North CaroBail'* aald Mr.
Alliance will Merrick, Hat tha eiteetzva wark
iVlerrick
To Extension
Workets
STATBSViLL£ — Nagra l«ad-
ership in agriculture and axtWK
sion work was praised Ima la«t
week by £. B. Iferrick, viea-
president. North Carolina Matual
Life Insurance Company, Dar-
ham, in addressing Negro asitwim
sion workers and rural paopie
who were attending the Asnnat
field day exarciaaa tha Pied
mont Experiment Station,
vine.
The Durham
tional Ministerial
hold an appreciation service Sun- being done in traiiy^
day. July 2S^' 3:30 p. m. at the ' women of the Na^o nca to
Mt. 2Uon Bffc|itiiA Church on sume places ^f
Fayetteville street. The Rev. N. education, agricultura liH
H. Humphreys will preach the dustry, and I faztlw iStA
sermon. 1% cehoir from the St. are fortunate to ka
laaimUp in
rom
oi
I*
Matthew Church and the Junior state where yaur while fidaaia
choir of the Second Baptist
church will render the music for
tha occasion. Tlie Bev. S. P.
Peny, the newl elected president
will pxeaide. fivery Minister in
our city is reqneated to be pre
sent at this service. The eongre-
gation« of tha various chudiaa
^ invited to ahara in tills gi^t
jmikm. rmgim," all ^
are proud when
sfesuma pkcaa
amoig y««r
Races Mast
To liasit sack
the opinion Ifr.
tend to
and
that ^ two races maat
togathcr if our i^eat Soutidud
la^ pro»at” The si^ato.w^
intradaeed by T. A.
County Agent. DuzIwib. ‘ . . ■_*'
. Hm oMaaion reprswtl#/*
attendance e# ana iit «w laigaet
recorded at a>y af 'Uia pta«»»n
GM daya and.
mm aactiea «tf wssiays. ani
At NwtiL C#al%L*,
p^alation.
DxMag af sMw gtn»^gy
•a Mva Oan two
iporting new clot%^ -eigfck,
tabaeea and, whaA
laxad 1^ «*»qr
fa«gT«ga»a at tha
irana with tsOawMp^BM
li -coipara- marifcat iprtiM.;
Vteaa-hoya, .4NHI f»Mi
id eora fleMs
haat
giatar ti«ma
, riiHiii III iiftii—
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