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DURHAI^ N. SATURDAY. AUG. 3rd, 1940
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GOP BLASTS POSTMASTERS FOR BIAS
1700 N. Carolina
Churches To-Be
Represented
KALEIGH — Mora than 10,
000,000 Baptkta of tha United
States will ba represented at
Raleigh during th« week of
August 5-9 at the Baptist Con-
elava which will hold sesaions
three times daily in the Ruleigh
Memorial auditorium. North
Carolina Baptists reprssenting
1700 churches with combined
memt>erskip q1 175,000 are ex
pected to b« represented by
■^legates.
All of the Baptist of the na
tion will be represented in Ad
dresses delivered by all four
presidents of the nfttlonal Bapt.
conventions; Dt- L. X. Williams
of the National Baptist Conven
tion, Inc.; Dr. Q.‘ L. Price of the
uni ncorporated convention,
Ju(%e £. J. Millington • the
Northern Baptist Convention
and W. W. Hamilton of the
Southern Baptist Convention,
the latter two white.
Other prominent Baptist lead
era ^hd wiU take part 'are Dr.
A. L. James’ of Roanoke, presid
ent of the Lott-Carey Foreign
Missionilry convention; Dr. G.
C. Bullock of Washington, and
Dr. 0. J. Allen of Norfolk.
The Baptist Conclave is a
connbination of the General
Baf^tist State Convention of
North Carolina, The Woman’s
Home and Foreign Misaionary
Convention, the State Sunday
School Convention, and the
State BHU Convention. Chair
man of the local conclitve com
mittee is Dr. O. S. Bullock; Bev.
J. H. Clanton is secretary and
Rev. W. C. Summerville m trea
surer as well as general direc
tor of the meet. Housing^ irill be
in charge of Rev. V- T. ^illislma
Rev. C. C. Jones u chairman i
the hospitality committee, while
J. W. Yeai^in handles the ar
rangement of the program and
publicity.
OiMivBding S»«g L«a«Ur*
The leadini; ministers of the
country with vocal talent have
been selected to take charge m
conclave song leaders. They are
Reverends B. J. Adgera, O. J.
Allen, P. B Bynum, W. L. Mat
son, J. -D. McCray, J. R. McRay
and W. C. Williamson.
Conclave pianists are Misses
Doris Da^s, £ddye B. Hicki^
and Mary Mclnt^F|.
PUBUSHER
EDWARD GRUBBS
editor and Publisher of the
0ilhouette Pictorial Magaaine,
fiSC N. Broadway, ^s Angelcsi,
*‘tlte aristocrat of pulblication.”
Mf. Grubix, only Negro proprie
tor of all engraving plant in the
West Coast, was born in San
Fri^ncisco 41 yean '^o, and has
lived in Sacramento and Santa
€rtis.
Sinifli Baty
Wins Contesl
DURHAM — Winner of the
baby popularity contest sponsor
ed by the Sunday school of Mt.
Gilead Baptist church wsto little
Shirley O. Smith, daughter of
Mrs, Kathedra Smith of Hazel
Avenue. Levi Wallace Mitchell,
Jr. took second place, while
Eapdall Rogers was fha third-
place winner.
The popularity of these babies
waa bksed on the amount of
neney they were aible to report
at the and gf the lour weeks of
the contest which began on the
first Sundsly in July. A total of
*»« .93 was reported by all of
the contestaiiU and this amount
bM be^n Contributed to the
xharch breaeury toward the pur
chase of the site for « new
!;ftmctura.
i. Th» other . contastttots were
laeqaaline Tueker, McKinley
Cates, Jr., Benjaaiin BuUoefc,
|*latTica Adn Walter Car*
rioftcn and Mfnets S«Ily.
POSSE
SLAYS
HERMIT
BOISE, Idaho — The r^uial
of Pearl Royal Hendrickson to
give up his hermit life and move
out of his humble mounttlin
cabin resulted in his death after
he slew two Federal offi^grs who
made a futile effort to dislodge
him. Around twenty five anger
ed possemen poured hundreds of
pounds of ammunition from
machine guns, sawed off shot
guns £tod riot guns into the tim
ber surrounded for several hours
and the hermit stood them off
with his 30-30 rifle until he
was fatally wounded.
U. S.- Marshall George A. Mef-
fan and John Glenn, deputy, met
death first When they littempted
to forced Hendrickson to give
up his hut to the government.
Cijenn met death first, with
George Haskin, a Boise patrol
man, he drove to the cabin li2
miles to serve a warrant chtfsg-
ing Hendrickson with contempt
for refuaing to move from
Government property.
Glenn’s knock brought a fatal
burst from the Hermit’s rifle.
Haskin raced back to Boise
where he summoned Meffan dnd
other officers. As they arrived
Hendrickson fired again. The
charge struck Meffan in the
head.
The office^ Boise policemen
State Prison guards and Fsder>-
al agents, ringed the cabin.
Incendiary bullets set the
shack a flame,~but for four hours
Hendrickson withstood a contlna
oos bomftMrdment. Dynamite
rocked the building.
About noon there seemed to
be a slackaJng of answering gun
fire, dnd the posse rushed the
place. They found the Negro bad
ly wounded. Ha died in an am
bulance.
OHARiUJTTlS—
The Holiness Sunday School
convention was held Woodruff
S. C., July 20-*21 and among
those attending were Misiionuy
S. L. Gill, sttbter of Mt. Zion
Holineaa ch«ieh hare; Mias
Henrietta ^ u>d 'Mr. and
Mu, Cowia of this eitj.
WRIGHT ATTACKS LEADERS
Pronise To
Incile Race
V«t«n III West
WASHINGTON- (A N P) —In
a Ifitter for pulbiication, concern
ing the refusal of Postmaiter
Paul R. Younts, of Charlotte, N.
C. president of the Ndltional
Association of Postmasters, to
appoint John T. Richmond, Ne
gro, as a letter carrier on his
force, -despite high praise for the
Negro, Dr. Emmett J. Scott, head
of the public r^ti-ionadepartmeat
of the RepuMicabi National com
mittee for. the Negro division,
lashed out at Mr. Younts, and
declared that “Surely this object
iesson of hypocrisy o*' injustice
will be brought to the attention
of colored people in^^the North
who vote, and have their votes
counted. They wyi, resent every
such display gf official arrogance
and would be despotism as, the
postmaster evidences.”
Perry W. Howard, QO®* nation
al committeemaa fr4tm Miss.,
talking about the eatie, said that
“the Republiom party has plana
for the Negro postal workers
which will be most ^ective de
monstration of our group’s inten
tion to see that Negroes receive
fair trei«tment in every instance.
Dr. Scott's letter, sent to a
group of citizens of the Tar Heel
city says “1 have read with amaze
meat the lengths to which your
postmas.'cr has gone tv evade his
public and moral responsibility
in the case of John T. Richmond,
who has met every requireatent
for appointment to a letter
carrier’s post at Charlotte. It is
dishetA.'tening and discouraging
to note the lengths to which men
'n this enlightened day and time
go to do violence to their consci
ences and oath of off>co, waen
this question of race comes to
the front, especially any ques
tion affecting the colored people.
To deny representation after due
qai.|u|^cation and certification to
this well qualified man, is to
contradict all gf the protestations
of those who most^ loudly pralK
of dei^cratic processes, and
justice and fair pl4y; I congra
tulate the citizens of Charlotte
^hat they resent the brasen and
contemptuous spirit which
flounta the fundamental princi-
jplea of fair plaly, and a aquare
deal; you have a colored popula
tion of 3|5,000 there, and every
instinct of justice warrants the
effort you are making to sea
that this young man shall not be
denied the recogniUon he has
won on merit, and by merit;
there has been much talk lately
of the South being the best
-friend ^f the colored people,
and in the North they are being
welcomed in the councils of
both political parties. Surely this
object lesson of hypocrisy and
injustice will be brought to the i
n^tention of colored people in
tha North, who vote and have
their votes counted. They will
resent every such display of
official nrrojpmce and would be
desiMtism as your Postmaster
.evidences.” ,
WILL SING AT BAPTIST CONCUAVE
One of the mi£n features of
the Baptist Conclave for 19^40
to be held in the Raleigh Memor
ial Auditorium August 5-9 will
the appearance of the Wings other days of the conclave music
Over Jordan Choir shown above will be furnished by choirs from
in recital on the evening of 1 almost every Baptist church in
I'hursd'Jy, August 8. On the j the state..
Youth Council Opposes
- Compuisory Training
‘Only Help Keep
Groaning Pals
In Line’
BY WILLIAM A TUCK
DURHAM — During his speech
at the White Rock Baptist
Church Sunday night when he
explained “How Bigger Thomas
Was Born,” Richard Wright,
, jfelebrated author of ‘‘Native
Son,” struck J sound blow at
the type of spineless leadership
which is characteristic of those
who put themselves in the posi
tion of RACE LEADERS. It was
hia opinion that no act of rebell
ion against the white man’s
attituda towdfd Neroes ever com
es from any Negro £ave the
Bigger Thoma? Type.
the powerful, whites andl help
to keep their groaning brolbaia
in line, far that is the safest
course of action. Thoae who da
ihis call themselves leaders.”
“To give you an idea of how
completely thise le.^lera work,"
te said, “I can tell you thtt I
ed the first 17 years of
lue in the south without s« mack
as hearing of or seeing one act
of rebillion from any Negro sava
the Bigger Thomaaes.” , t
Mr. Wrignt espLtned ti< 1»
felt it a duty to write this oavel
but was greatly delayad becauw
FIRE DEATH
TOIL RISES
DUNN. (ANP) The third of a
trio of children died Saturday
when Lois Stokes, succumbed to
the effects of burns recevied
July 1 when the pallet on which
she was sleeping with her two
brothers becttafte ignited by a
falling lamp. Mrs. Frances Stok
es, mother of the childten, is
still in a prftical condition in a
Fayetteville hospital. She was
burned trying ta the.
blaze.
O’Dell McNeill, friend of the
mother, is in the county J&tl
awaiting trial at the Sept. term
of Superior Court in connection
with the fire. The State contends
the fire might have been caused
to collect $100 insurance policies
on the children, which went into
effect ® f«w days before the
fire.
Dies In Cell
iiUiflBiIBTO0«, (ANiP} -^Tha
first death in Robeaon County
Jail in 20 years waa thut of John
Robaion, 36, a near aaven-foot-
er, who Mcewnbed to uremic
ppiaoning whila awaiting trans
fer to tha Stata Hospital in
Goldsboro. Rol>aaon, 8 faat 11
t-2 inchea tadl, waa iirought to
Jail after he became violent from
mvnM aCaela ef tii* diMM*.
Continue
Flogging
Probe
SPARTANBUBG, (A N P) —
Sheriff Sam M. Henry is atill
probing the flogging of four Ne
groes by tl hooded band of 20
men a week ago. There have
been no arrests but the authori
ties are continuing the check of
the license nunrfbera of the cars
that carried the colored men to
a deep thicket, where they were
lUshed jieverely.
The victims, four brothers,
Ernest, L. P. James and Benny
Bomar, aaid th^jUth^were carri
ed from their home^^hdf beaten
by tha hooded band after they
fsliled to divulge the where-
abojits of a fif|h brother, the
object of the Man search. This
fifth brother had been fined a
short time ■previous for '‘sasa-
ing" a white woman.
Tha governor haa sl» yet issued
&e statament deaouncing tiii*
Oootinuai on page Sii^t
_The youth leader, who recent
ly returned to the office of the
Congress after a tour of the East
and Mid West, challenged the
President to “use democratic
methods in the defense of demo
cracy.” He asked Mr. Rdosevelt
to establish a precedent which
all our people would welcome”
by speaking out for passage of
the Anti Lynching Bill, and also
requested support of the Geyer
Bill,'^ passage ■ of
the American Youth Act and
repeal of the Smith Anti Alien
Law.
The letter in full follows:
Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt
WASHINGTON ^ Iiv a letter Anti Poll Tax
t(, President Roosevelt, m&tle
public today, Louis E. Burnham,
Secretary of the Youth Council
of the National Negro Congress
placed that organization on re
cord in oppositictn to the pro
posed bill for compulsory uni- rhe White House
versal militdry service. Stating Washington, D. C.
that Negro youth “Join with the
entire young generation in pledg
ing their energies, talents, and
if need be their lives” for the de
fense of their country, Mr. Burn
ham nevertheless claimed that
the measured approved by the
SentI.e Military Affairs Com
mittee “is inconsistent with the
need of a genuine defense pro
gram.”
Dear Mr. President:
“This letter comes to you as
an expression of the concern of
the National Negro Youth Coun
cil of National Negro Con
gress for the state of j,ur demo
cracy. Our oganization, repre
senting *200,006 young Negroes
throughout the United States
stands distressed at the report of
Taking time out from the of wondering what the leadia^
strenuous work that he has been memiMjrs of both i»cea would
doing since July 9 in collabora- say tUout the book th»t felt
tion with Paul Green tU the obligated to write. Howevar,
University of North in Chapel finally put aside all the kia^.
Hill in producing a damatic ver- of,fear that controls racial ral*-.
sion of “Native Son”, Mr. tions Sid wrote » novel that
Wright told the spellbound, so hard in truth that the Jca«^_
uacially, mixed audience that ers can’t even gat tha coitaftilt.
itnonjg the Negroes who foHoW tiolt of tears. The cbaraetem^XB
various behavioristic patterns of Bigger Thomas, Ae leadiaf;
in seeking outlets from'the feur- chiLacter of the novel, ara %
dens of livings “there ate those combination qI five different
who strive for an education, and
v.’hen they get it, enJoy the fin
ancial fruits of it in the style of
their bourgeois oppressors. Usu
ally they go hand in hand with
“Biggers” that the author knaw
while he lived in Miss. All of
them violated the laws of tha
south ^nd most of them died vio-
Continued on Page Eight
Condemns Jim
CrowInFHA
NEW YORK The NAACP in
U letter to Stewart McDonald,
the action of the Senate Military I Administrator of the Federal
Affairs Committee in reporting i Housing Administration, con-
favorably a bill tor the forced demned the policy of the Feder-
military conscription of Ameri
can citizens.
“No loyal American can ob
ject to any item of a democratic
program for the defense of the
country and its institutions.
And Negro youth, Mr. president.
Join with the entire young gen
eration in pledging their ener-
Continued on Page Eyht
al Housing Administration in
Dover, Mass., in demanding that
so called “protective covenants”
be plUjed on recorff^ iiT a real
estate development scheme. The
ccnvenant proposed by the PHA
13 that:‘
“No person of any race
other than the Negro shall
se or occupy any building
or Miy lot, except that thia
coven&ut shall not praeveat
occupancy by domestic ser
vants of a different race .
domiciled with »n owner or -
tenant,”
“This type of racial di»-
crimination and segreg&ition” t&a
NAACP letter sUted, “ia i»t
only unreasonable and unj^t
but is also unlawful. The uaa
of federal funds ^r the aa-
tablishment of segregu^ion in
vialation of the spirit of tha
Continued on Page Eight-.
A * T COLLEGE PRESENTSPROGiRAM ON COAST TOrCOAST HOOK.,UP
J
The aibove picture mi-tde on
the stage ^f A and T College’s
Richard B. Harris Auditorium
stage, shows the college vocal
and dramatic groups eto hey pre
sented an unusual program on
the National Broadcasting Con^
pttay’s National Farm and Hope
hour Wednesday morning, July
24. • part of
the land" grant college series,
took the form of an historical
pageant depicting the growth
and progreaa of the college.
Forty five .minutes were used «for
the program; Script writer web
A A T College’s youthful direc
tor of dramatics, Charles G.
Gracik
TaUag pa^ in th« ppgaast
were president F. D. Bluford
who delivered two apaeches,
Charles G. Green, Harry J.
Green, Alexander Corbett, Miw
Margaret Tynes, Mias Carry
Hill, Miss Ruth Simpkins, Dr.
W. L. Kennedy. B. N. Bobnim,
William Gilmore, Harold Eayaa,
Miss WQbt M. JadMB. aad J.
Arfbi* jFte IMIW*
' of the radio sarvica- baraaa at
tha U- S. Daft, of
IS in charf* of yiihirrti»i
ABBonaear was Dvitea BIInI
Gaorsa of WaAiaglpe.
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>tir«Mpurta ai« «it tta
tha a MpaOi ifeifer It