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Price 5 Gents cite Can VOLUME tl NUMBER ilt 2L TBITutoMI^®^ DURHAM, N. C. / tltDfcfBRf® E Home Edition DURHAM, N. C.SATURDAY, AUQ. 17tk, 1940 pmicE s CEirfs ALEIGH PREPS FOR USHERS CONFAB ;★★★★★★ ★ ★★★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★, ★ ★★★ Edgar Brown 7o Oppose Fintey \^ilson As Elks head Commanding Officer Of Famous New Yoric 369th Regiment Promoted WASHINGTON, (A N P) — Eit^bliahinir a precedent in the depiJ^tmenit, information from sources close to the offic* of the chicf of s>taff, Gen. Marshall, d*clartd ithat the name of Co!. B. O. Davis, now commanding} officer of New York’s famous S69th regriment, htis been accept ed to act om ^ jieneral staff immediately nnder Gen, Marahall to handle affairs pertaining to the welfare 4nd good of Negro- ee in the army and in ithe future dirafts. Following, the lead of the United Government £mploy«s and itheir president, Edgar G. Brown, who sometime back sug^ fcsted the name of Lieut. B. O. Davis, Ir., tU a man fitted to t-ake over such a post in the new defense' program, the chief of •iaff took undef affvisemeftt leveral aames, it is reliably re ported. When he came to the bio* grtl«>hy and rfccord of Cbl. i Davii; and discussed the same wvth his associates, the General concensus of opinion was that no man in the service had a finer record and accordingly. Col. Davis’ name was given the final approval. It |s further reported thsK «ithin a few days, Col. Davis will be relieved of his duties as commanding officer of the 369th and ordered do report to Washington, where he will im mediately assume his new duties' under the direc* supervision of General Marshall. The selection of Col. Davis haa the wholehearted endorsement cf ithe organization which first sug^sted his son’s appointment and Mr. Brown expresses himself as feeling that no better equipp ed railn could he found for the poattM^ ^ Attorney Carter Escapes Infaries In Auto Wreck James Young Carter, newly appointed member of the North Carolina CoUeg« faculty who was returning to Winston Salem from Raleigh around S a. m. triday, August 9, miraculously escaped serious injury when his Sutomobile crashed ithrough the walls of a house in the Lowe’s Grove section of Durhaln Coun ty. The sleeping occupants of the house, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Edwards and Molly Dixon, 1$; and Clara FleliAier, 16, were itso uninjured. The force of the tfrai^ forced the small frame kouse off its foundation and the ^r came within three feet of the bed where the young girla were sleeping. Carter, who had just become the only Negro to pass the NorWi Carolinat State bar examinations, was charged with careless and wreckless driving and injury to property. Almost every item of furniture in the home of the- white couple was wrecked as were the walls and floors iik overy room. C. C. Edwards, DurhLln, real estate man who is the brother of~ Paul Edwards, estimated the damage at around f2,000. The care was terribly twisted and battered «ftjer having sup- ported the almost entire weight of the wrecked house. Lynch Bill Will Not Come Up; Reason, Defense NEW YORK, (Special) —For the fourth ti||^ in as many months. Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley told tb« National Association for the Advance ment of Colored People that he does not intend to do anything to bring up the federal anti lynching bill for a vote on the ^or of the Senate. The Senator made his declara- iion to the NAACP in response to • recent letter from the as sociation which qndted a Aory appearing, in th« New York Amsterdam News of Jn|| 20 saying that Barkley had told the jQolored National Democratic rwciation at a mass meeting Chieago Just prior to the D«~ mooratic National Convention ^at “the Anti lynching bill .^ffU be voted upon before Con- adjourned.” The NAACP luktd the Majority Leader tp UB« th« approxiaut« date when the would be called up. Pointing out that he told his audience that he still “entertain ed the hope that the bill might be voted on during the present Congress,” despite the difficul ties of long debate even if clo ture were voted, he “made no promise that it would be voted’ he “made no promise tWt it would be voted on and I made r.o promise that it would be taken up. The program of de- fensne legislation,”;^, he said, “which include necessary and urgent measures” did not make him “feel at liberty *o prophecy when the Anti lynching bill can be taken up.” Refusing 4o accept the plea of a defense program as an excuse lor not bringing up the bill, Thurgood Marshall, special coun sel for the .NAACP, told »Sena- tor Barkley in a latter dated {poatiBTied on Pa^ Eighi Payne teigos As Bank Teller DCfRIfAM —• Information from usually well informed sources is to the effect that John PJlyne, Teller for many years at the Mechanics and Farmers Bank here has resigned from hi» position. The resignation i;ii to become effective ^ept. 1. Mis probable successor has not been named yet tAd it is not not known what other work he has planned. Mr. Payne has earned for him self an enviable reputation dur ing tke years he spent with the the Nation’s largest race bank fveryone has been high'in ^ p^tse 'as a capable CHURCH LEADERS ADDRESS CONVENTION HERE BAPTIST LEADERS—Hold ing al round table discussion hcw» last week „ in Memorial Auditorium before 5,000 dele gates to the second general North Carolina Negro Baptiat Convention were (left to rijfht) I>r. L. K. Williams, pi’esident of the National Baptist Conven tion, Inc.; Dr. A. L. jTrnes, president of the Lott^arey P'oreign Mission Society; M. A. Kugrgins, generat secretary of the Baptist State Convention; Ur. RT P. Daniel, president of Shaw University; and Judge E. J, Millington, president of the Northern Baptist 'Convention. 1,000 Expected At Usiiers Annual Session McLefidon May Quit GETS ATTRA,CTIVE OFFER FROM LINCOLN Coach John B. McLendon, Jr. of North Carolina College is strongly considering the accept ance of a coaching position at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri. However, Presin dent J:imes E. Shepard of the college states that the coach has not resigned yet nor has ^e given up his work. The Lincoln offer includes an increase of $80 over McLendon’s present salary for 10 months witji an option of teaching in summer school t a similar salary for the other two months. Mr. McLendon has served for two years as assistant direc tor of athletics, assistant basket ball and football coach and head boxing coach at North Carolina College. He has re!en'Iy been appointed head basketball co^lch and director of swimming for the coming year. If he decides to leave the institution (and he * must decide by Monday^ there j can be no doubt that -his ilbseifce will be.sorely felt and seen by all who in any way interest themselves in athletics at the local college. * i EXALTED RULER WILL HAVE TO FIGHT FOR JOB WAlSHINGTON, (A N P) — Edgar G. Brown, president of the United Government Em ployes and advisor for the CCC on Negro affairs, announced this week that he was definitely in the running for the position of grand, exalted ruler'of the Elks, opposing J. Finley Wilson v/ho has had this Job for a num ber of years. Mr. Brown declares that his platform will be: “A New Deal for Forgotten Bills” and has been promised, he says, the sup-* port of westerners, who express hemselves as not being willing to have Wilson, Howard and Hueston consign the lodge to the Republican party as these men committed *hemselves in hiladeiphiaL Prominent Democrats in the Midwest have pledged their sup- tliey had chosen a man who Continued on Page Eight TO ADDRESS USHERS ANNUAL SESSION Mother at 13 By WillUm W.Stmdwick i Down in Lucama, North Gtlx)- lina a young 13 year old child- wife Irene Richardson who just- celebrated fter'birthday a month ago gave tirth to tl six pound girl, was reported getting along nicely at her home. • “The child is perfectly formed and normal in every way,” said Dr. Ben H. Hackney of Luckney who deliversd the child. “Ernest Richardson, Irene’s sighteen ye^r old husband, and Irene ar« ' both unconcerned about the whole thing,” Doctor Hackney said, “and I left her with a doll one side of her on the bed end the baby on the otker."- , wr m Ushers DURHAM USHERS UNION TO CONVENE SUNDAY AT HICKS CHAPEL The Durham Ushers Union will meet Sunday Aug. 18, at 3:30 at Hicks Chapel Baptist .Church Street, Walftown. The meeting is looked forwat'd to with great interest by all. The j Union has always given programs I of worth and merit and added I greatly to the interest of the interest of the youth in church affairs. The public is cordially invited. The program is as follows: Song by all | Prayer , Jf^^ome address by Mrs. Helen Hinnant i Solo, Miss Less|e Poole Paper Miss Mozelle Felon , j .Selection from 'the (Paf^riotic, Quartette ( Paper, Miss Gert^gina Woods. )Solo, Mrs. Mamie Farley j Speaking, Miss Alice Jackson * Organization of Usher Board by Wm. Alston Talk, What women should wear, Mrs. N. J. Curry Duties of Ushers by S U m Continued on Page Eight RALEIGH, — (Speci.«l) — i Approximately 1,000 delegates and visitors are expected to at tend the 1940 annual session of North Carolina Interdenomina- al Ushers Association which meets here August 23-’26. The local branch of the association sparing no effort in preparing for the delegates and visitors who will bt'gin arriving here Thursday evening, August 22nd when the officers of the associa tion meet for A pre convention session at eight o’clock. The conveation proper will 'open promptly at 10 o’clock Friday morning and President L. E. Austin is urging all dele- gaj^s to be on hand in time for the opening session so there will bd' no delay in -the conventioa’s program. This year’s meeting of the ushers will reach its clinuk Sun day morning when _ Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown, -president of Palmer Memorial Institute "will deliver the annual address. Dk Brown is one of the outsftanding women of the race iind a large number of visitors are expected to be on hand to hear her. All sessions of the convention will be held in the Manley St. Christian church of which Rev. T. C. Hammons is pastor. Friday morning of the conven tion will be taken up for the most part with registraition of delegates and appointmoht ot committees. The Friday evening session will be a public gatker- ing, at which time addresses of welcome will be delivered by prominent business and profes sional m*n of the city. Ms^oT Graham H. Andrews of ,th: city of, will ConthNic the addresses' ok welcome by ing greetines to the d^.. ^ cn behalf of the city. The North Carolina Interd^ nominational Ushers Associatioti wtli organized 16 yesrs ago by a group of interested laymen representing several religioaa denominations who felt there was a crying need f^ soiae movement that would 1«" ‘hs denominational animosity ing between cb’orches of r nomf dt^nominations. Since its bee ru ing from a small bani organization has grow »=■ it numbers more than 4, bers representing chuMSksa oi all denomftratioRs wikhia the state. The organization has givea freely to the Efland Home for delinquent Negro girLk Up to the time of its ^losing a few years ago it w;i» planning even a bigger program to help kee^ the institution going. It also di.^seminates health informatioB and maintains al program of usher and first aid training for Continued on ,Page Eight Business Chain Launches Fall Drive Dr. Charlotite Hawkins Brown, president of Palmer Memorial Institute, ■ who will deliver the annual address at the 16th an- nueJl session of the North Caro lina Interdenominational Ushers Association which convenes, in Raleigh, Apgust 23-25. Doctor Pvown will speak Sunday morn ing August 35 at eleven o’clock to climax what is predicted will be the largest session in the history of organization. SICK MRS. MINNIE PEARSON ILL AT LINCOLN HOSPITAL Mr*. Minnie Pearson wife of Prof. W. G. Pearl^on and pro-i minent laywoie|'%n of tii* AME church who waa recontly takea to Lincoln hospital to untlergo Kn operation waa reported as net feeling sa well late Tkiurs- by hospital officials who would give no further inforoMi- tion as to her aetml conditioa. Mrs. Pe4rson had not andergone the operation at the time and it w|.ts stated that physicians of the hospital staff kava held several eonsaltations ob tke matter, but kad not yet reacked a decision as to wketker aa ^^ei|atiea will ka givea. ■■l|ll”M-HI"lll|H-Mlilill'i DURHAM — Under the presi dency of James J. Henderson- and the direct chairmalnship of James T. Hawkins, the com mittee ou business promotion of the Bull City Businetss and Professional Chain is making prepurations for a fall drive to buast and improve Negro Busi ness in Durham. The theme of this prog^ram is “Negroes Patronize Negro Bus^ nesses”. To emphasize itbis theme ihe committee is boosting dur ing each week of the year, one specific type Negro business, and concerted efforts will be devoted to bring concentrated public attention to the business or profession chosen for boost ing during a given week. n It is the hope of the Durham Business and Professional Chain that the various Negro business establishments and professional groups will heartily endorse and cooper:i.e with this project which has as its purpose the in creased awareness annong mem bers of the race of the enormous and purchasing power of the race by concentrating funds tnd purchases on the boosted busi ness each week. At one time or another during the year every phase of Negro busisess will be publicized. Throughout the sumnser. months ^he chain has been hold ing regular meetings in prepanfl- tion of this program and the plans should be finished and rtedy for launchim; the first week in September. The follow ing ia • dir«et meaaage from Mm committee: “This program is something new in the city of DarhAn a- niong the Negro businesses and professions. The committee feels that it u hTgh time that we aa a race shobid stop preaching ‘cooperation’ and begin acting ‘cooperation’ dnd this is their contribution in (that directioA. It should be tlie duty of every self respecting^fNegro citizen of Durham to Join in with the pro gram and carry out the plana to the fullest extent and then rote the results. “£• when any member of tba committee "calls upon you to make your contribution by suih porting the v.t.'ious projects from time to time; it is hoped that this will be adhered to read iiy by the public at huye. The committee is so ai^canixad 'tiut every Negro business and profession will be Juatly dealt with and will be boosted at one time or ilnother during the year’s program. The *comm:lHee also plans to appear in peraoa before every public gatherinc with its program ia ikmi tne public will be tboroogUy and properly informed.” The committee is composed of the following: Mrs. J. DeSlMM^r Jsirkson, Miss D. M. J. M. Schooler. C. T. mOaii Arthur Stanley. R. C. Fwra—i, Rudolph Stanbaek, P. B. John Shopman, J. W. L. E. Austia. WUiWi - JoliB PayM> lanv U. Ifi (Md Hmi T. IpraMVk.
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