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• » / MAILING EDinON VH.UME 21 NUMBEIt 3S ^ M1 M-4-4 in i 11 1 PRICE lOc ■■11M t-t 111 I > > ♦ f » »'H’» SATURDAY, SEPT. 2S.tk 1940 uHARLOTTE, N, O. QUIETLY MARRIED BOMBER NON COMM IHAL ON PRESIDENTIA CANDIDATES Champion Denies Rumor He Will Vote For F. I). R. The * foamer Mus LUietld A, Dillon, who w*Jb quit«ly;, murried to Rusadl Brooks, Tuesday after* noofiH September lOth in St. H- tUi’ Epi*cop»l Church, North Carolina, with tii« Rev. D. F. Stanley, prieat-in-ehariTe, %.t~ ficiating. Mrs. Broks is the daugh ter of Thbiaas DiUiofl. of Vlcks- l>uiv, Mississippi, atnd is employ ed In the Hisftory Department f Bai:4)er>€cotia Junior College, Coneord, • N. C. Mr. Brooks, who is professor of English at A. and T. College, Crreensboro, North Carolina, Jiaa recently (^mpleted a year's study at the University ■of from which he re turned shortly cifter ifte oatbreak of the European War. While in Durham, tiie bride was the guest of Mr. and Mrs ' J. W- Jones of 207 Neteon St. S. €• Sheriff Saves Negro From Lynching CRSSTIiR, S. C.'“~ Special—— The capture of Willie Hood, alias Willie Dixon, 20 years oldi slayer of Walter W. Latham, local land lord amd farmer of Blaekstock, (Sunday near Rock Hill, S. 0. wrote finis to a manhunt un equalled in this section for many years, and also tharwted the plans of al bl'ood thirsty mob bent ostensibly on staging, another carnival of vengeful Southern persons who justice, and plea for the Wagner Bill; lynching. Old Agers Not To Pay For Help OHICAX) A waminpf to cipients of old i^e assistance in niinois) againA^ paying inoney to solicit funds with the promise of* securing larger awefrds for the recipients, was Bood, it is asserted, shot the dflgaed last week by Fletcher C white landlord, through the heart Kettle, supiti. of the state divisi->n . ah he l*eft a field, where he had !>f old age asaistancte. f recently paid cotton picker*. Ac-j person how, for a ca»h cox*dlng to witnesses, there nr>ust consideration', promises Jncreasw have been a prior argument be-|a8sist£hce is attempting to obtnin tween the two, for Hood approa- jnoney under false pretenses and ching the iflain man from behind, is liadi}le to persecution under the opened fire wHen Latham rencTi ed for his btick pocket as if to draw > weapon. The accused seeking to escape after the shooting, succeeded in reaching the outskirts of Rock Hill, neariy town, where he of fering no resistance, was appre- Continued on pag^ seven er readily admitted his guilt, but patations. gave €his statement of fact ns possiMe motive, “I thought Hil Latham was reaching for his gun so I fired first.” After hi^ ilpprehension, Hood hended by officers of the llccklwas quickly rushed to the Statejtion. Doefton tell me that most Hill poMce force. Aceordlftg to|penitentiary a^ Columbia to a-[of the defc^ are pMinly the Chief Porter, Koclc BiU» tii* tli^ void pr^abl« vaoh violenct. result oS mattMtion.’' By M9^km VrASfiUfSTONT ». —#ulia|i Blacli; —Co-mi^i^lilier of ^e Loois, 5^vyw«ight CHampion of the Wod^, from Chicago to day auifhorized Republican Na^’l Committee Headquarters to deny the statements eentainad in a re lease sent out by this Colored Diviaion of. the Demoeratic Na tional " Comtnittee to the effect that the Champion has an engsge ment to call at the White^HJOse, and further, subtly stating that the Champion will"«ast his first vote this "vear for the Deratoeratvo Third Term Candidate. The Champion, he saao, !siii not com mitted himwlf lo TOte for ahjr Presidential CandidSfte, (Further, Mr.: Black stated that it is wholly unfair to Joe Louis to cirCAilate sudi stories withoat authorfzbtion of the Champion, or the Joe Louis management, John Roxborough and Julian Black, Co-managers, have uni formly kept the Champion out f political discussions and activities the Republican National Com mattee was advised. N. G. Wirrtciil Coiifereiice To Meet fbtober 14 MilZABiBTH CITY — T h fourth iu * aeries' of regional eonferenoe baingf heW‘ througb- out the st>te*by the North Cwo- lina OammiBsion . on Interracial Cooperation will be held in this city Monday, October According t» presemfc plans there will be an address session at 2:30 aiid an eVening session at 7.S0, Ttfpica to he diKuss>>d are (1) National Defense, (2) Economlic AdJuat, S, Housing and 4 Eklucation. Among those who wilT Bjpeafc are president Frank Graham the Greater University of North Carolina. President H. L. Tvigg of the State College, and Paul Ireen, dramatist and plafirwright. Others incited iwblnde Mi® Harriett Elliott of the National Defense Commission, lieut. L. A. Oxiey of Washington and President J. W. Seatorook of Fayetteville and Bishop Thomas C. Dtfe»t of Wilimingr^ftif. A detail ed program will be annoanfed later. ’ ‘ J. R. Little i« chairman and J. R. Fleming, secretary of the locaif committee. Over One-Hundred Attend C.I.A.A. Meet At N.C.C. % I* * w m>^' ■* w f" ^ "■ . k ' . SEVEN KILUD IN AUTO WRECK NEAR KANNAPOUS CHANGE RAPS CHARGE TO ASSAULT AND BATTERY JOE LOUIS CHARLESTON, W. Va. -^The QuMeaton Gasette, local white piaiper, this week quoted Capra'n Ott, in chaise of U. S. Army Re cruiting here, as blaming wide spread malnutrition as a factor in holdini^ up U. S. defense pre We want volunteers," 'paper quoted Capt. Ott. you ean get anoug!)| of them aome way can be' Jound to erase •ome of the efTects of xnabutri. the ‘a n if NAACP Continues Fight Against Job Discrimination Dinwiddie, Va.—Charged with criminal assault in connection with an alleged attack upon Coia Hill K»t year JAck Johnson waa fined |100 and oosta and senten ced to six months in Jail in the Circuit Court of Dinwiddie Coun ty last week. The charge was amended to is- BBolt and battery at the hesoring whkh waa -hettt on Friday before Judge Jefferson. Johnson was represented by Attorneys Valentine and Cooley of Petersburg who alternated in the cross examinalion. T^e caae waa prosecuted hf Common- wealth’# Attorney W. P. Stew. HAt^ ta axpeeted to harvest a i,000,OOO.kao«T*m cotton wop this’ywr. Reads The CaMUaa! Time* Evm^ Week NEW YORK—Contining a vi- gorios fight against Job discrimi nation suffered by Negroes who have been refused employment in manufacturing plans receiving bUUons o f. dollars in Govern ment contrdzta under the nation al defense program, the National AAssociation for the Advanot- mcnt of Colored People yesterdwy sent to ita branches throupfhout the country a second list o^ firms whose Army and Navy contracu haVe been cleare dby the produc tion division of the National De' fense Advisory Commission. The list includes ijie names )f sixty-seven firms in nineteen states whose contracts were okayed by the adv^ry ciOmBiits- sion be^itreen July 18 and 27. ^e first list sent to branches of the organization August 18 wUcn the job campaign wil? lann'ihed contained fhe names of 163 firms whose contcaets with the Cover nment were cleafeT" Between June 6 and If. Last Rites HeM For Dr. Wtddy . . Guide For Action In a letter containing a guide for acUon, which was fent out with the list, W.jBter White, exe cutive secretary of the assic a- tion said: Congress has appropriated to date approxiniately fwenty-billion dollars for Nationsil Defense. We, as Negroes, should have our full proportionate share of the iobs which will be created in ful filling these contracts, the cost of whoc}}. we will pay. We have been shocked at tiie extent of discrimination i^raiast Negroes in the past. Only persistent, sQrtatn- ed action by us ean reduce and wipe out this discrimination.” The campaign g^ide calls for setting up branch steering ou* mittees whose job it will ba to organise delegatioas te visit plant managers la their area te »x« the empVoyment of Negroes in skilled as well as nnsliined teb^, launch a loeal edueafNonal lAnon# woikars to tiiesa to Greensboro— Sept. 21 —» Di. James C. Wafltfy, native citizen, and well-kno^ praetleinf phy sician in this city for thirty yectni succumbed «t his home on Ashe dt. here Ssfturdsy morning at 7 o’clock. Dr. Waddy waa a graduate nf Bennett College, an^ Meharry medieal schoQl, wJh^ prominent memiber o5f Hl^ews chnr?ft, m«miber of the choir and the Greensboro Men’s Glee CSah. He had been in dedinin: health for several months, but recently had been able to att>^n4 to his practice, and his dsaEh came, a« a shocks to his m«ny friends. The deceased ia survivedQiHani by his wife, Mrs^ Annie 3. Waddy KAl®IAPOUS. N. e— rive members of a High Point family and two frrends of tfie family were intstantly lulled when a ear in which the seven people were driving enroute to a esinp :neet- ing, at Chukavitle. near Monro*, was completely demolished San- day in a coUision with a Iar«« transport truek near here. JSvery 4|peapai«t of I3te «af^ died before aaibubuieesi coald ar rive on the seese, lyo oeenpavta of the tntek wer» sBghtly ini«r- ed. Only two people tenain of 4mm seven members of the Do#sr fuafly of High * The dead, all of H%h P&t. N. C^ art; Mamie Doater, KO; Mzs. Ines Swing-, VSl. ;Doster. !•, dsiver' Clareaee ten S2; Herbei« Dostar, Itt; Jsknes W. Martin, Iff; mad W. l^gene,. Claranet and B«||Nt and daughter. Mrs. GM ’W’ssddyiDOTte* aad.Ihs* Yokley of High Funeral c^Aiiioif Maaia Doater. . ritee will he held at Mat^ewgt,^ su^-lved by Uieir fatter clhurch Tuesday ^ftameen at broker. P. M. with intermeat in Mapie-i Sidney W. Baaas^, tewent. wood eetaetery. apply for jobs, and sacoara atfl> davits ftwai wnkam wlia l»av% been refused employnMBt. The assaelatloa has alaa aaal a«t * qnestloaaaire to ft* btaniifcsar' use in interviewiair pUat aM«a- gera to seeai* ^ fasto f^farl- CoBtfamei on page ammm drinr, and T«n 9to*i^. ,^;ivar i«sn M.- Jt^.XtoBMsaat.' atoto hiBfwair
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