RACE EXCLUDED FROM POLLS IN S.
Gets Business Award
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THE CAROUNA TIMES; SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. IMO.
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Smith Opens 73rd Year
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the Detroit; contention (outatandinj: contribution to the
of the National Business Leair*>« Negro businesn world during the
,W. J. fidwmrds, suooeasful junk
dekler of Oklaboma City, vras
presented with the Sp«ulding:
award, giyfn for the first time to
th* m*n who ihaia nude the most
year. From left to m^rht, Dr. J.
E. Walker, President of the
League; Harry H. Pace, President
of the Supreme Liberty Life In-
8uranc« Company of Chica^ who
presented the award; Mr. Ed>
wjirds and C. C Spaulding:,
dono;r of the award. Judges in
the contest were M-. Pace, Elmer
Carter, editor of Opportunity,
and Merle Thorpe, editor of the
Nation’a Business.
Doors Closed In Face Of Negroes
Who Tried To Register In Gaffney
JAPf\NEY, S. C.~ A namber
of tolorad peopk of this city
headed by Mr«. Lottie P, Gafl'ney
wera turned doAVn fJ«tJy wjien
tlu!*' aeu^t to register in order
to rot* for Prcf-ideat of the U.
,n«3tt N«T*mbw' 5.
Tha t#giitrHtion board told Mrs
Caffnay and those with her:
^‘Daxkies aln’l nev';r voted in S.
C. a|ui especially Cherokee coun
ty. I, will not register you.’’
T^if happened on Au'xu.st 6 a-
bout three o’clock in the after
noon. A statemenr of what took
pluce' was made by ona of the
party as follows:
“Wji went ummediaae'jy to the
County Att'0rn6y. He rt£.d the
law^aqd rcoujd see .no reaaon why
we should'hnve tioablvj. He
caUed them on the phone and
told them to read their law and
be f'ovemed by it. He told them
what section to read. They asekd
him to come over to the Cjurt
House. Ha went and told them to
ask hrm any questions concern
ing the colored people before
them. They were very discourt
eous slamming windows, bookf.
etc. The lawyer told them that
we were as ellgiVj to vote, as
much A he or they They still re
fused to register us.
“On August 7th at 2;1'5 P. >«■
we went again to the placc tlo-
signated for registration. As we
approached the door one merabe:*
of the board slammed the door
Continued" on page eight
Virpia Citizens Win School Fight
StANVILDE, Va. Until work
on the pitoposed new high School
for N««t*o ohildren in Pittsyl-
wnia County has been completed
to relieve overcrowded condi-
ns, ithese children will attend
the local high school this year
at the expense of the county, it
was announced here today by
Martin A. Martin, following a
conference with the county aupti.
of schools here last week.
Martin, who, as the legal re
presentative of a number of Ne
gro organizations, including the
local NAAOP branch, has waged
a year long fight to get couivty
Ichool officiela to build eflditional
high schools for Negro students,
said the superintendent had in
formed him that work on a new
high school would be begun im
mediately.
iPittaylvania County, one of the
largest counties in Virginia wl'feh
a population of T5,000 persona
one-fourth of whom are Negro,
a'5 seventeen high schools for
white children and one for colo
red. The high school for Negro
students is located at Gretna,
Virginia, about thirty miles from
the southern part of the coun
ty. No buses or other facilities
arc provided for the children in
this section of the country to
attend the highi school.
Shaw Opens
Friday
BALBIGH More than three
hundred new studmty' ex
pected to register for courses at
Shaw University Tuesday, Sept.
17, to make the Idrgest Bhaw
fresh man class since jud«:ing
by the applications received by
the registrar’s office.
The unusually laige numJber of
applications and the normal re
turn of former students lead
Slmw officials to plan for one of
the largest enrollments dn the
history of the institution.
Formal openings exercasea were
scheduled for Friday, Sept BO,
with the Rev. Wendell C. Somer-
vSle, Executive Secretary of th«
Shaw Alumni AssocUition deliver-
i^ the principal address.'
EX-LEGISLATOR HELD
UNDER $10,000 BOND
Dallas
Whites
Bomli
Home
DALLAS, Texa^-What obser-
Vera hiAve reyar^d as nothin,-
less than a week-long state of
siege in which soma lOO whites,
most of them housewives have
fought to keep two Negro fami
lies from occiupyinir homes they
purchased in a former “white”
neighborhood, came to a climax
here Thursday , Steptembar
when an 4U»mpt was tawde "to
bomb the home of Mr. and Mrs.
C. L. Walker, 3®16 Howell St.
Terrorizing of ^e families, who
moved into the Howell st. section
on September 2 began shortly
after moving v&ns had drawn up
to aSlQ and 3'61'®, Howell St.
Backed up by tiie V>eal brt^uj^
of the NAACP; under the leader
ship of Dr. George P. Porter,
the Negro residents faaye refus
ed to move.
Rejoice At
King*s
Defeat
J, C Smith University Observes 73rd
Session; Many Changes Made
Ga. Lyaching
Sixth
Baptists
Show
Great
Gain
Lyncbing In LaGrang* Georgia BIRMINGHAM, —^AWP— Ac-
!• Sixth For ’40 (Say* NAACP [cording to sbatifltics iesued by
NEW YORK—The lynching of .the Rev. Roland Smith,* staticti-
Over the Hill to Canada
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16-year^ld Austin Callaway in
LaGrange, Georgia, September 8
by a mob of six masked men who
forced the local jailer to release
the boy from a cell, and then
took him eight miles from town
where he was shot to death, y)n
stitutes the sixth authenticated
lynching of 1^4'0, the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People announced
here today.
Young' Callaway was accused
of an attempted attack on a white
woman. Che complete liat> of
1940 lynchings, together with
the dates, places and manner of
lynching, follows: Sarah Rawls,
March 2; Benton Ford, March '2,
Ike Gaston, March 7, all white,
all beaten to death at Atlantia,
Georgia;* Elbert Williams, June
20, drowned, Brownsville, Tenn,;
Jesse Thornton, June 22, sJiot to
death, Luverne, Alabama; Austin
Callaway, Ssptemeber 8, shot to
death, LaGrange, Ga.
cian of the National Baptist con-
vention, USA, for the year ’4O,
Negro Baptists, dtow a net gain
in membership of 60,029, giving
a total church membershin of
4,046,840.
iNegro Baptists have 24,575
churches; >21,24,2 ^preachers; the
value of church property Includ
ing parsonages, |110yll6,566;
the average value of church pro
perty per chnmdx, ^,96249, the
average number of memibers oer
church, 168, and the avemge
number of membars perpreacher,
147.
WASHINGTON — The defjat September 03.
of Senator WilHam Kin* of Utrih
for reelection meets with general
approval among colored Washing
tonians. Long a foe of suffrn^e
for the district of Columbia, it
4» alleged that hi* antagonism to
ithe pro>posal was d^W to his “fear
•ft Negro domination” of the di.i-
tridt. For 24 years. Sen. Kin«:
hcW served in the U. S. Senate
and a long: tenure of office as the
chairman of the district com
mittee which handles affairs for
the District of Columbia.
His failure of reelection leaves
his post open for the next sen
ator in point seniority, who
halppens to be Garter Glass itf
Virginia. Since Glass is chair
man of the powerful appropria
tions committee, it is hardly be
lievable that he will accept the
district committee chairmanshtp.
Following hin^ is pen«(tor
Millard Tydings of Maryland
John H. Bankfieiad of Alabama;)
Pat MbCarran of Nev«|la; Robert
R. Reynold of North Oa^rolina;
Theodore G. Bilbo, Miss.; John
H. Overton, Louisiana; James H'.
Hughes of Deleware; D. Worth
Claric of Idaho and James M.
Slattery of Illinois. RepubHcans
on the Committee, Arthur Cap
per, Kansas; Warren R. Austin,
Vermont;.
CHARLOTTE — Expecting the
largest enrollment in die institu
tion’s history, Johnson C. Smith
University is feverishly rushing
preparations for the opening of
its 73rd session on Monday,
On this dity all fresihmen and
new students are expected to re
port; but the formal opening
will not get underway until
Thursday, Sept. 26, with a ho&t
of activities scheduled to marl'
tiie beginning of the school year.
The principal address of the lijty
will be delivered by A. C. Cavi-
nesa, Principal of the Brunswick
County Training School, South
port, N. C. Mr. Caviness will
speak from the subject, “The
WIFE or PBBZY
PRESIDENT
In
General George C. Marshall, U. 8. Army chief, has revealed that the
Army is releasing several hundred old World War tanks to Canada foi
training purposes. Her^ a huge old baby leads a lot of little ones in
Bianeuvers. By ae^ of Confrcsa, the U. S. Army is now forbidden to
repair or pat gawlina is these because of their advanced age.
GERMANY WILL ACCEPT
ONLY 'WHITE' PRISONERS
FROM FRANCE
VICHY, France, —ANIP—
ordef to insure Germany proper
against being defiled by “non-
oaryans”, only “white French”
war prisoners are 'being removed
across the Rhine, thus leaving in
war prisons in occupied France
an estimated 400,0010 Senegalese
Algerians, other colonials and
J«ws, it was learned Ib9^ week
The growth of Iteptiatis for a
period of 1*2 yearf, 1926-1&38,
reveals an increase of 600,022
or 1€.8 percent for an
of g0,000 gain per year.
These statistios ^are remarkably
interesting in view of the recent
release of statiatics of the United
States Census of S^ligion for the
year 19®6, Aowin* 85,807,866.
Colored denominaiioni had a
DR. H. L. McCROBEY
RETURN
Messrs Otis Conyer , HaUod
Wiliams, James Johnson and Mrs
Elizabeth Johnson, Miss Beatrice
Walston idl of Durham have re
turned after being away for the
summer.
True Southern
Story Tops Fiction
AIKEN, S. C., —ANP—Evory
southern town has at legist one
Negro story teller wiho has a
fund of tales to illustrate tlie
coloi^ phobia of his white folk.
These tales usually start with
fver«?e one about the "ole msJor”
who insisted that the colored
folks on his place doff their hats
to all his stock if the horse or
cow happen to be white in color.
WWhen his hearers express dis-
b^ief at his tale he will usually
end with one about the *ole miss'
who reprHSi^inded him severly for
bringing' brown to the
Artist Hirsch was a little free
with his colors and the late Fe
deral Judge Frank K. Meyers re-
sented the mural since as he said
the central figure, "Justice” wa?
a mulatto woman.
The late Judge refused te open
court until the mural wae cover
ed referring to it ls a “monstro
sity not in keeping with the sur
roundings." This temporary cov
ering has been in place for seve
ral years.
membership of C,1TQ,720 in W26 ^
This does not Include some 640,-jbig house.
000 colored memibere which be- A mural, finished some years
long to Catholic, Methodist, and ago, painted by Stephen Hirsch,
Preebyterian ehurchoa under of Bennington,
white control.
In rMpons* to requests for
service from nen-eoUtge pers
ons, the Mavritf* and Family
Council at Chapel Hill, N. C. haa
enlarged its staff ahd become
incorporated under N> C. laws.
Vermont, is lo
cated ' directly behind the iudges
who preside at federal court hane.
The picture depicts Justice, the
Protector and Avenger. Pametd
li bright colors, it ja a splendid
work pf «rt *»d is purely alls
gorical and the figures represent
no particular racial in^oup. But
Dynamos That Motivate Great
Institution.”
Second oldest institution fOr
Negroes in the state and rich Hi
tradition, heHlage, and illustri
ous alumni, Johnson C. Smith
University has recently uader-
gcne Riatoy changes to keep pace
with the ever increasing neeUs af
che students and community.l
James B. Duke Memoriai Hall,
a spacious dormitory for yaunc
women that is one of the most
luxurious and beautiful of toe
south, was recently completed
and dedicated.
Under the supervision of Prof.
!B. F. Woodrug, the entire Biddle
Auditorium has been renovated
and the stage equipped and en
larged for dramatic, musicsd.
religious, educational, and other
programs that are on this 3rear*s
schedule of events.
One of the first institutions ht
Amerifji to receive an “A” rat
ing from the Southern Asao-ia-
tion of Colleges and Secondary
Schools and the American Medi*
cal Association, the unhreraity hM
strengthened its eurrieuhim tl^
term with ifahe 1 addition of many
new courses. These include IB-
terprett.|live Reading, Phiy Pre-
duction. Journalism, and Ad
vanced Studies in French Con
versation.
Due to its rapid developm*>nt
in recent years, the Must* D-*-
partment has r^eived separate
housing. Another boilding has
been remodeled and equippe«i for
a Home Economics Department.
None the^ less \stressini
scholastic achievement, JohnwjB
C Smith doee not neglect the
social and recresjtive side of the
student’s existence and traininf.
Debt^ing, dramaties, choral
music, socials, athletics, a n il
other campus mrganuatiooa aD
provide wholesome extra-currica-
lar develc4>ment.
ing. I Furthermore, one of the cott
Brigerman, 38, was held under,ages formerly uaed ^ a faculty
bail following testimony of four > residence ha* be«s r«BO»a^ad and
girls who were employed in va-| equipped to serve as a Stwdent
rious stores of the Ruaaell lee [Union house. It will eottkain a
Cream company of which the ac-flonginff room, a readiag T->om.
MRS H. L. H^OREY
Brigerman
Held On
4 Moral
Charges
PHILADBLPHLA, — ANP —
John H. Brigerman, former mem
ber of the Pennsylvania State
legislature and prominent north
Philadelphia politician, w i hul!
under $10,000 bail for court on
four different charges of inde
cent assault and soliciting for
immoral purposes by Magistniti
Joseph Rafney on Tuesday n’ jrn
cused was a district managuf.
According to the testimony
given by the girls, Brigermam
had molested them continunlly
while they were employed in the
stores and had on several oeca
sipns suggested that they go out
Last week the authorities in, with him and his white super Ur,
Washinton bowed again to south
ern intolerance.
EdwArd B. Roman, assistant
chief of the fine art division of
the United States Treasury de
partment, has had the procure
ment division imrtall • beautital
velvet curtain over the objection-
al p«|ntinc.
Thme story of the white cows
and the brown eggs is no doubt
pure fiction. Truth is still stran
ger than fiction.
a Mr. Kenworthy, for whom a
warr&kt has also been iasaed on
similar charges.
Brigerman’s attorney, Oacwr
Bregman, attempted to bring into
testimony tha faet that the girls
had msHe these chargta af*¥st
hin client beeauae «f emidoyment
difficulties. It was widarstnod
that two of tha firla b»d been
laid off at the end of Augnsk
when they had been led t» b^
lieve that they would be eaaffo;-
ed throughout tha wiatar.
dinii« hall, and will provide
only a social center but t meet
ing place for the various atndant
organixaltionak
Ranking with the beat,
son a Smith Ui^wity** fnenlty
is composed of some «f Ameri
ca’s leading Negro edneators and
its mefbera have received ett»*
tion for ouftata3*ding eaatrftwtkw
not only t« tiie iaatitBtioa itaal^
but to the nation at large.
Its Dean. T. F,. MdLiaamt. to
known tioiMwikoat eeJtac*
for hi* inAwat and »
taring raei eduewHw-
(ta preddattt, ftP. la Ip*"
Crorey ia w
fkientia) af
•qna% as mliliiMit to.
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