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VOLUMB 21 NUMBER 32
DURHAM. N. C., SATURDAY. AUG. 31, IMO
PRICE FIVE CENTV
USHERS CLOSE SUCCESSFUL MEETINC
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Durham Colored Schools Get Eleven ^ew Instructors
Hillside To Have
Five Additional
FacultyiMemg^s
The 1940 achool year which
begins September 4 in itke city
will find 11 new teachers in
charge of positions at the vari-
oua colored schools. (Five of
thes« additions were to the
Hillside Pafk High School
faculty; End school gets
two new teachers; Lyon Park
one; tWQ have been added
at Burton, and there will be one
addition at the Walltown school.
At Hillside Prof. William Mc-
KlKaih is succeeding Prof. W.
G. Pearson as principal. He
comes to Durham from a posi
tion at the Atkins High school
in Kinston where he has served
lor many years. He has also had
charge of a school in Wake
Forest. HiJi^ing done his under
graduate work at «Shaw Umver-
sity, Prof. McElrath received his
Master of Arts degree from
Columbia University. Pear
son was given “other duties” in
•he city aftei^ toiora than B#
years of service. He is 81 years
- 1
JoMph Christmas, a, recent
graduate of tiie North Carolina
College, will teach typii«.
General Business and Basiness
Law at Hillside; C. F. Mabry
will be added to the Indiutrial
Arts faculty and his wife, .Mirs.
Mable Mabry who finished N. C-
College in June, wiU replace
Mrs. W. W. Peddy (depeased)
as home economics instructor.
Thomas Parker, who taugbb at
Kinston last year, will have
charge of the . book room smd
win teach science. Miss Naomi
McLean, from LillinjGrton, gradu
ate of N. C. College is the new
office clerk.
NEW DEPARTMEN T
The Journalism department
wiH be reopened this year and
wUl be headed by WUliam A.
Tuck.
At East End school Willie
Blue will teach the first, grade
and Miss Eddye Leathers, 1930
graduate of Fayetteville Teach
ers College, will have charge of
the third grade. Miss Mary E.
Cotton, a June graduate of
Bennett College is to teateh the
third grade at Lyon Park School.
Joseph Ancrum will teach the
fourth grade at Burton, while
Miss Loris Shaw, Talladage
graduate, will teach th» firtit
grade there. ^
Miss GeorgisK Green is teach
ing the first grade at Walltown.
j^Hve of these new teachers
are themaelves former students
of ithe Hillside Park school and
are natives of Duritam.
Some of the Negro schools
lutv* receive a bit. of long
needed attention during the
summer months four rooms weire
added to 'Uie £sftt End school
and Walltown has two rooms
added to tlie old frame building.
The buUdii^ bas been painted
and II new heating plant and
new toilets have been ^^ded.
New lockers have been in
stalled for the athletic teams at
Hillside although there are bUU
no provisions there for the
wraps of the other students dur
ing the day. New equipment is
being placed in the chemistry
and biology labors |^ories also.
The W. G. Pearson and Lyon
Paric will *118ve cafeterias,- mak
ing a total of Just three in the
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Recommends
Christ To Shaw
University Grads
RALEIGH, (Special) — Speak
ing at the third annual Shaw
University Summer School com
mencement exercises held Fri
day, Aujgust 03, in the Shaw
University Greenleaf Memorial
Hall, Dr. Clyde A. Erwin urged
the thirty nine degree cindldates
to build their lives on the prin
ciples of Christ and to use their
lives “In helping to preserve
the democracy in this land of
freedom in whkh we live.”
Dr. Erwin was introduced by
President Robert P. Daniel of
Shaw who declared that much
of the piTopress of education ii>
North Carolina is due “to this
man’s unusual ability, remark
able foresight and unbiased in
terest in education for all of
tibe people in North Carolina.”
Dr. Daniel stated also that the
grafjuation exercises concluded
tlie Tvork of the 1940 summer
acssloiis which have* been amosjg
the most successf-ul in the his
tory of the local achool. “Phe
fall session will begin Bept 17.
In the principle address be
fore an audjjsnce of approxim-
iy five hundred persons, Ihr.
expressed admiration for
forces which are fi^iting to
d«inE|^cy lnri»(
“•ittst “wa too jrepaw
te defend tihie yn,y of
“Not only must there be mili
tary preparation,” he continued,
!“but Iwhik prepaiiing we tnusto
must not overtook the spiritual
and cultui^l 4)ualities necessary
for this defense for educalion
has become more the balance
wheel of civilization.”
I>i»cussing the close relation
ship between religion and the
school, the eminent education
said that “the church and the
school nnast go hand in hand in
working together to save de-
mocre^cy.” ^ ' j
The SKerciaes in^ded open
ing and closing prayera by Dean
John L. TiUey of Shaw Univer
sity Sichool of Religion. Music
was furnished by the Hale|gh
First Baptist Church Choir under
the direction of Professor Rus
sell Houston, director of musio
at the Shaw Univeraity Somme*
Scfaool.
President Daniel conferred de
grees upon the following as pre
sented by Dr. Netaon H. Harris,
director of-the Shaw University
Summer Schotd.
BAehelor of' Arts— Vli»inia
Morgan Blomiil Baleigh; Oeor-
gia Anna Bry«at, Ralegh; Bes
sie M. Cox, fUnston; Floreiss
Albritton Dunston, Raleigh; Min
nie GreeHfb^ Dudley; Otis
Lemuel Greensboro;
Maggie Lon^ brrls, Beaderson
yhriftn Toney Baleifh,
ACE ELECTRICIAN
Walter M. Dawson, only Ne-
gr^ member of the International
Brotherhood of EUectricf.| Work
ers of the World and an em
ployee of the Sargent Eingineer
ing company, who will become
maintenance electrician for the
Bedford Dwellings and Terraco
Village in Pittsburg when his
present contract expires. The
husband of Mary C^-dwell
Dawson, president of the Nation
al Musicians’ Association, ( Mr.
Dawson recMttly accompanied
his wife to to atMnd th»
aasocisition convention.
To Dedicate IVew
West Durham
Church Building
Maltaril}
The Bureadi of Old-A^e and
Survivors Tflsurance has r com
peted the posting of all wa|ges
reported during 19‘39. State
ments showing the status of any
account at the close of that
year may now )>e obtained. Any
one who has a| social security
account number can obtain, at
any field office of the Social Se
curity Board, a post-card form
for use in requesting a state
ment.
The proper crediting to a
worker’s account of aUl, wages'
rt-ceived is of greater importance
now than it was before the So
cial Security Act was amended
in 198*9.
Rev. T. C. Graham, pastor of the
West Durham Baptist Church
on Thsxton Avenue, is'announc
ing that h'e and his congrega
tion will hold special Service at
three o*clock Sunday afternoon
for the dedication of i^ new Sun
day School building. This pro
gram will consist of speeches
from repHesentatives of every
phase of life in this city, and
music will be furnished by the
Male Chorus of the Mt. Gilead
Baptist Church. Dr. James E-
Shepard, president of the North
Carolina College will deliver
the dedicatori4l address.
Dr. J. M. Hubbard, Superin
tendent of the White Rock Bapt
! Church Sunday School. will
a|teak about “Dreamers and
Doers”; E. R. Mertick, Vice
president and ;treasnrer of the
North Carolina Mutual Life
Insurance Company, will discuss
“The Church and Business”;
Principal N. A. Cheek of the
W.* G. Pearson School will use
“The Public School Teacher’s
Relation to the Sunday School”
ns a subject, and Rev. S. P.
Perry’s subject will be “The
Pastor’s Relation to the Church
School.” He will represent the
Afinisterial Alliance. The sub
ject of Dr. Sheptfrd’s address
will be “The Place of the Sun
day School in. the (Social World.
The superintendents and
teachers of all the Sunday
schools of the city are especially
urged to attend these sedrvicea
for mutual and reciprocal in
spiration. A spste on ithe pro-
(Trtfca has been provided for the
introduction of Sunday School,
superintendents.
SEEKS AIRPORT
Claude Baker Jr.
Wins Bicycle In
Times Contest
Claude Baker, Jr., of Pied
mont Avenue, was the winner
of the CAROLINA TIMEs an
nual newsboys bicycle contest
and was awarded a bright red
bicycle Tuesday aftternoon dur
ing t^n impressive program. Se
cond place winner was Charles
Tapp who was given a radio,
and Harold Jackson and Ben
jamin Purefoy were awarded
skates as winners of third and
fourth place respectively. These
boys sold more papers than any
one else for e^ht weeks.
All of the more than fifty
CAROLINA TIMES newsboys
gathered at the plant around
five o’clock Tuesday ai^i^moon
and after preliminary rem«frks
from Circulation Manager Will
iam Tuck, the prizes were pre^
sented to the winners by D. Y.
Stewart who is visiting in the
city from Conne*tticut. He was
quite forceful in the encourage
ment which he gave each ^f the
winners as well as to everyone
presertt. A response wa® made
by Claude Baker, Sr., father f
the first place winner.
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SALES EXPERT VISITS BUS! NESS EXHIBIT AT, EXPOSIT ION
American interested visiltors
to the exhibit of the National
Negro Busineas League at the
American Negro Slxposition in
Chicago waa Hennaa T. Smith,
Meowl irom tptciml r»-
pre«!ntative f0® i&he Pepsi-Col* e«ted in the progress and coopern
comp&^iy. Mr. Smith, who is in
charge of the planniz^ and direct
ing of spej^ial sales campaigns
for that firm throughout thtf
nation, was fiurtkulsrls’ inttr*
tion of' Negro business. He is
beiiig shown the ejdiibit by
Ruble Aakey, master of cei|B-
ponies in the Girl Ranch and
9tree1» ot Ptrto ‘ '
■General Spencer C. Dickerson
of Chicago, chairman of the
Citizens Committee seeking to
sc cure an airport for Tuskegee
Lnstitute, where youthful Ne
groes from all over the nation
may receive ajdvanced trainii^.
General Dickerson, former com-
nMinder of the 8th Illinois Na
tional Guard who was retired
with the rank of Brigaier Gen
eral, points out that unless
citizens help with funds in this
campaign to obtain adequate
facilities for training Negro
.youth ^n isdvanced flying^ our
group may be left sadly in the
rear. ANP.
Wilson
Remains
Ruler
ST. LOUIS, (By Wire) —
With rebel Elks nott putting in
any appearance and with the
supporters of Edgar G. Br^wn
unable to get the name of their
candidate before the convention
Finley Wilson was untliimously
eleotied grand Exalted Ruler for
another term of two years at
the convention here Tuesday
morning.
It is to be remembered that
E(|gar Brown was expected to
carry a large block of votes
from the west and to get the
support of bI few dissatisfied
members in the east. From the
trend of the vote it was evident
that this support switched before
the onslaught of the Wilson
forces or waS never gamred for
the former tennis champion and
present labor sympathizer, 'v
Brown campaigned on the cry
that he represented the Demo-
crblUi who refused to be sold to
the Republican party thru Wil
son. He had hoped to find
enough Democrats among the
delegates to give Elkdom a taste
of the new deal as he had been
able to gather from his chief.
If tue strength shown by him ia
tu serve as 4 barometer it ia
evident that Elkdom is well in
the Willkie camp.
Succeeds
Marcus fiarvy
UNIAA ELECTS NEW
OFFICERS
New York, — C)— At ah
emexgeocy meet held here Aug.
21, th« UNIAA elected Hon. J.
P. Stewart of Cleveland, Ohio
to fill the nnexpired term of the
lat« Maictu Garvy as A«tinc^
Goatinii«d
1,000 Delegates
Take Capitol
City of Raleigh
RALEIGH, — More thsji 1,000
ushers -and visitors to the 16th
annual .meeting of the North
Carolina Inter denommational
Ushers Association were in at
tendance here last week to the
greatest session in the history of
the oi^ganiztVtion held in the his
torical Manley Street Christian
thurch. The convention reached
its climax Sunday afternoon at
th^ee o'clock when the annual
address was delivered by Dr,
Charlotte H&|wkins Brown.
The convention opened Thurs
day evening with a meetingj of
the officers at which time the
President L. E. Austin, outlined
the program of the conjrention
and discussed the future of the
rfxgania&tion. The Thutsda^
evening meeting was presided
over by O. G. Donnel, chairman
of the board of directors.
Promptly at 10 o’clock Fridtt^
niomii^ the convention proper
■opened with devotions led by
Mrs. Rtith M«|^an and C. A.
Langston after Which the meet
ing was called to order by the
president. Most of the remainder
of the morning session was
taken up® with registration of
delegates and appointment of
committees. At 11:30 the min
utes of the 19fi« session and the
1940 Mid-Year session were
read by Mrs. L. B. Perkins, secre
tary *of rthe association.. The
presentation of new delegates
to the convention followed with
each one being introduced to
the convention.
After devotions at two o’clock
Friday afternoon reports of field
agents were beg^un with an in
crease in membership tiad in
terest in the various anioss
throughout the state being
noted. J. H: JT. Qtetre*, mem
ber of the Board of Directors
discussed the expansion progrmni
of the association and called
attention to the great work tbs
org^htiza-tion liad (tone in sap^
4»i^ing the Efland Home for
dtlinquent Negro girls prior to
its closing.
’ Possibly one of the most inter
esting discussions was that of
C. C. Craig who delivered ita
address on "Budgeting
Our Association. Mr.' Craig’s
discussion was followed by a
report from the Junior depart
ment headed by Mrs. L. A. Fos
ter. A meeting of tte Bo«#d of
Direc,tors followed. The ftridax
afternoon session was pre»de^
over by Vice Presideei-Burcfc
Coley. - '
The Friday evening wssion
which begun at eight o’clock
with addresses of welcome from
Rev. T. C. Hammsns, .pastor of
the church. Dr. -R. E. Wimberly,
C A. Langston, president of ths
Raleigh Ushers Union, Prof. H.
T. Johnson, Dr. O. S, .Byilock,
pastor of the FirstBaptist
church of Raleigh sfwi |iayor
William Andrews. Pw^er was
offered by Rev. J. W. Jonesr
pastor of the Fayetteville Street
Baptut church. Mrs. Janie Mack
and Miss Jessie Mebane sang
solos. Special musio was fnmist
ed by the choir of the church.
Response to the a/BdreiMes of
welcome was by President Aus
tin.
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Business Chain
Turns Interest
To Women
The designers and arrangers
of the new fall program of the
Durham Negro Business and
profession'&t chain .have not
failed to consider a very vital
element that is essential for the
success of any modern prqgram.
This vital element is the female
population. There ia a special
part of the Chain’s progrAm
which includes many features of
special interests to w«men, and
it is designed to . accomodate
every woman, regardless of her
stage or walk of life. Special
emphasis will be pd^ed on
beauty as designed by ihe
beauty schools and shops of
Durham.
There are more than twenty
beauty sobools and shops in
Durham, operated by nien and
women of high calibre who £^e
well trained in th« ~ techniques
of all phases of beauty. AH of
these shops a iv e modem
equipment and fsicilities which
are sanctioned and approved
by the state sanitiL'y department
Their personsel is lic'ensied by
state revenue department and
approved by the state board of
he^th.
It is tite object of the DurtiMM
Business Chain’s proi^m to m-
trodiice these facilltwa and well
trtKned personnels to the Negro ^
women of Durham, and te
monstiate -how it is.,^o^ble iqr'
liis very sfflekot «f!
yottaf BMS mi4. ^ |
cure and maintain the beauty
so much desired by eve^ wo
man and forever admired by
every man. This beauty is new
)ossibie through the' itcientifie
knowledge of all of ‘ Oblrhtla’s
licensed beauticians. ' It ia
easily and readily obtained by
every woman ri^rardleas of tbs
previous condition of heif'liair
or skin if she wiU follow tto
instructions of these comi^tent
beauticians.
spjwtTANBtnec; is:'d
Five whits mss
under $2i»500 Mch.lMrit
week to await . ,
ingB on chargej^ltiuM
ed masks and
13 and floggwd fow
ant farmers on thft
farm near her*. ’ *
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The five, J.
46, S|ri JNstaVr-
27. and Anfav^r
«ere armted aA«r
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