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MISSISSIPPI DEAN HELD ON FORGING CHARGE
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. MUTUAL AGENT KLLED
PHONEY. CERTIFICATES
END WHEN COPS
NAB UNIVERSITY DEAN
WOMEN’S ATJXEWAEY PLANN INO FOR THE 28th ANNUAL 0 MEGA CONCLAVE IN TENN
Aisociated Negro Freu
Jackson, Miss., — If teachers’
certifioatpB didn’t have to be re
newed every four years, J. Frank li'enewed. Forged certificates began
Smith, dean at the Uatioa Indus
trial and Normal school, might
not be in the hand^ of the law
today. The holder of three dejrrees
and second lieutenant in the U. S.
Army reserves, Smith has been
ago, the end of the four year
period when all teachers were re
quired to have their certificatee
flowing into the offices of Negi’O
schools, Southern university, ,Le-
land college, Xavier university,
and Tuskegee institute.
Soon complaints brought about
a deseriotion akin toSmith^s and
charged with forging Negro teachjhe wae arrested Wednesday.'Late-
ing certificates and selling them
ly he hu been teaching at Pike
county ^icultural school, Magne
lia, Miss., and has been dean at
for thousands bf dollars to teach
ers in Louisiana and MiBtissippi.
Xhe police MTflsUi — Smith Miaa. Ia?titute and
Wednesday when he came to
to have some dental work
and turned Jiim over to Louisiana
Rtate police whp came for him.
State police superintendent
Steve Alford of 'Louisiana said
that Smith had been selling de
grees to teachers in the two
states for years, and that officials
recently found out about the
scheme when un®uspe?ting* teach
ers began sending their certific
ates in to Baton -Rouge and to “fantastic and nconvincing” the
Negro colleges for the required i story of Mrs. J; K. Strubing of
four year renewal. f fashionable Greenwich, Conn., that
Alford related that while em-jshe was kidnaj^ and raped four
ployed from 1934 to 1939, as' times in'one night by her colored
professor^ iri charge of extension, butler, chauffeur, Joseph Spell,
Miss. I^^titute a n
Norvu)}
N.A A.C.P.
INVESTIGATES
RAPE STORY
New York — Branding
“fantastic and nconvincing”
tColored Mother Has
Twins; One An
Albino, Up-state
Hookorton, N. C.—In this little
backwood town, was just revealed
one of the strang^t of freaks; a
colored father and mother with
twins—one a dariT" sfirilined prirl
and the other an albino boy.
ThrQiigh born on Sej>tember 5,
not c^' of the 300 towns people
knew of it, because of the feax as
to how people would take it.
“Me and Livvy are tickled to
have twins,” reported papa Her-
Tiert ’Strong, 30 year old WPA
worker, “and the white one dr>n”t
make no difference. We love ’’t
just like the black one. Bn% folks
is bound to talk.”
JOHN O’DANIEL DIES
WHEN CAR SMASHES
IN'»’0 TREE ON HIWAY
Standing Reading from left to
right front row: Mesdames, Q^.
W. CUrite, Robert W. , Harris,
Joseph' W, King, . William rQUin-
land, S. P, Harris,, Terrel Stanley,
Jeronie I; Wrightj Williiim Howse
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work at Southern university near
Baton Rouge, Smith (collected fees
for teaching but kept the money,
then issued credit for the
his his pupils and other,
finally, for
extra, would
between $5 to $JOj ^rs.
issue teaching cer-'a^e'^gfcj
the National Association • for the
Advancement of Colored People
sent its special counsel Thurgood
wqrk j Mtarshall, to Greenwich on Dec.
n djl2 to investigate the whole case.
Strubing, who gave her
32, was found wundering
tificates with forged signatures^
complete with a replica of offi
cial sales.
The seals gave the degrees an
authentic appearance and mo^t
such testimonials got by.
The hitch developed a month
Eilie Matthews. IFranees Franklin. Sitting: Mad-
Baek tow: Madme's, Robert Lil- ames Foorest Strange, Stanley B.
lard, Matthew Walker, L.‘ D. jHemphill, N. W. Butler, Hjnder-
Scott, Z. Ale;tander, Lobby, John son A. Johnson, chairman, J. B.
W. Maxwell, John W. Work, Isingleton, Leslie W. Beaslc? and
Dennis D. Nelson, and Mrs. MaryiMrs. Oscar R. Jackson.
GOy. HOEY SNATCHES
CONDEMNED MAN
FROM GAS CHAMBER
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Charlie Pugh,‘Negro’ farmer of
Accoirding to Dr. William L.
Dawson, who helped to keep ^he
birth a secret, this is how it all
happened. “Mrs. Strong came to}
the State Matumity Hospi'tal for|;
a visit during the summer. T was
pretty sure she was going to have i
twins, though I couldn’t be cer
tain, since we have no exray
facilities.”
She gave him no oother concern
until the night of Sept. 5, when
her husband rushed into the office
to come quick. First came the
SENTENCE
CHABli&S' PUGH
citizen whose
gas chamber
Whiteville ■ wl^o
die in the gas
was scheduled to
chamber Friday \
had his sentence commuted to>
Whiteville. He confessed to the
crime under a threat of death,
but denied cominitting the crime
at the trial. He stated that he was
on to automobile highway at Ar
monk, l;j^ew York, near the Ken-
sico reservoir early on the morn-/*"" horse through the
ing of December 11. life imprisonment this week .by
, ,, . , , T . Iri J T> TT woods when the woman suddenly
She told passing truck drivers Goemor Clyde R. Hoey. j
that she bad been kidnaped, as- Pugh was charged with raping ^stepped m front of the horse and
70 year old white woman near;was knocked down. He stated he
First Negroes Leave for Army
thanks for what the chief execu
tive had don^ in snatching him
from the gas chamer. He was also
loud in his praise for what
Messrs Spaulding and Walker
had done to save him.
Hamlet — John W. 0 "Daniel,
age 30, agent of the North Caro
lina Mutual Life Insu»«n.e Com
pany was fatally injuretj in an
automobile accident near hear
last Monday momin? when the
car he was driving ran off the
highway and smashed into a tree
after he apparently lost control
of the vehicle. There wete no
eye-witnesses to the accident.
Mr. OT>aniel was retnming to
(Raleigh from Wadesboro where
he had gone to take his votfe who
is a teacher in the schoof system
of that ity, Mrs. ODanirf ia the
former Miss Hortense Qalloway
jof Greensboro. She had siien» the
weekend with her husband in
Paleieh where be is stationed a«
a representative of the ompany
for which he works. Tl» eoapie
was married last April.
When found by a highwav
patrolman Mr. O’Daniel was still
con^ienee, and gave informatioat
as to hi name ansd vhwtf rela
tive? and friends misht b# r*aei>'
He was rushed to the hospital
in Rockirisrham. four miles from,
Hamlet where it was discovered
that he has sustained a broken
jawboqe and serious internal in-
was He died about two hoars
U I later after every coneeiTsble ef
fort on the part of doctors failed.
In addition to his wife Mr.
'O’Daniel is survived bv his mo
ther, Mrs. Ernestine O’Daniel of
sent
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got off the horse and picked her
up and asked her if she •was hurt.
She said she was not and Pugh
said he got on his horse and went
I on to his farm and went to work. Detroit, — Ever since Police
jLate that afternoon the womani^omissioner Frank Eamans made
swore out a warrant charging him the bold assertion that he “didn’t
with rap»e whereupon he was ar- understand why Negroes object to
rested and jailed on the charge, being called “n” when they are
The governor'* action was called that in boo-ks and on th«
prompted by efforts of L. J.'stage,” a whis{>ering campaign,
Spaulding and Wm. J. Walker, I(.a.ni,paign, emanating from several
business men of Durham who be- sources, is going the rounds a-
came interested in Pugh after in- gainst Mayor Edward J. Jeffries,
vestigating the charges, and the^ jt ig recalled that the heud of
evidence as presented at the the local police department made
trial. White and Colored citizens this statement in the presence of
n and near Whiteville testified | colored leaders at a conference
as to Pugh’s good character and with the mayor while protesting
stated they did not believe he was against police brutality on the
guilty of the_ crime. However no- 'part of some members of the
thing was being done to save the police force.
life until Messrs Spaulding! The reason for the whispering
f frt f\m fV»i *
VV IMP
ence to the
6 lb girl, now named Lucy May at commuted by Governor Clyde
8:55 p. m. At 9:06 came a i lb Hoey la«st week after a successful
boy, white skinned, white haired,' effort on the part of L. J. Spuuld-
pink toed, and pink eyes, arrived. i„g and' Wm. J; Walker* Durham
[business men who spent consider
able time and money in diggingtwo brothier. Prof. T.
up the facts in the case. Pugh,|^- 0'Daniel of Ft. Valley, Ga.,
who is a well known farmer at Robert O’Daniel, government
Whiteville was chai^d with Washington. D. C.x
rape. Messrs. Spaulding and father was the late John
Walker stated that in as much, Durham,
n- • rn. ef , as thev believe the man o e Mr- O’Daniel was a graduate of
Birnnngham, Ala. ^ innocent thev-would continue the Hampton Institute and a member
f'" ‘o released trom fratemitv.
natural Ric Roberts,, Scott News J The fnneral was held at the
paper Syndicate sports editor,' :c;t_ Matthew M. E. Church
told the Steel Bowl CommitteeT
here Wednesday. n 4. x IT 1
Predicting that more than 2,000 rrOlGSt ¥606211613
fans Avill come from Atlanta to
see the classic, Roberts admita
that Atlanta would, like to hav
had the classic.
“Steel Bowl” Game
Called Natural
in
Greensboro, Thursday afternoon
at three o’clock. Interment was at
the new Coloreil cenieterv.
“The Steel Bowl game,” he
said, “has turned out to be a
I
natural. Wilberforce of Xenia,
j ^
(rthio and Morris Brown of At-
;Bar Against
Negro Sailors
ters of vessels arriving in Vene
'ziuelan ports throuarh its immigra-
ition boarding officers at port of
arrival that following members of
of the vessels’ crew are not per-
Xew York — Secretary of State ashore at Venezuelan
. 11 1 „ 4! iu *• 1 Hull was asked this week by the
jlanta will play for the nati^al 1) Any member of the crew belong
f of Colo«mi People 1„ >" Wlieer.nl ..tion,
has. 100,000 Negro citizen [.‘pprsuade the Venezdlean Qovera- person of the \ecro raee.
iment to discontinue” a policv of person of the Yellow race
Theio. »0v:n n:«UV ty{ilfyi:if tile t
of th'I ■ re-' 1; bvildhi* a new H' ly.
first Ni .( t) "i vMn;itcBrs ffora th's
Tliey left for iort Bragg a| P. I
iruy
Front row, left to right, Parnell Blakely, Eddie
Tillman and DuPre* Woodson; back row. left t«
rigrht, Preston Cammon, Lewis Freeman, ThomM
ud Freetiim Olorer.
and Walker went to work on the^campaign against the Inayor, as
I stated by a member of the pro-
Both Mr. Spaulding and Mr.^testing committee, "is because
Walker say they -will continue to^^he commissioner is appointed by
work on the case until Pugh is the mayor and the only way to
set free. They stated this weelv get rid of a bad police commiss-
that if he is guilty- he should *e ioner, who upholds brutality and
sent to the gas chamber, but if he has the effrontery to flaunt his
is innocent he should be released, racial antipathy in the face of
When told of the action of Negro leaders, calling them boys.
Governor Hoey, Pugh expressed is to get rid of the mayor.”
citizen
most of them wiil be idle New;
‘ place, the bare*NegTO(
flnn tha ic a nriiJiTn—j» 1 « ® .. i.* i v »
and Chinese members of the erew mentioned persons by order
on American ships from enjoying Venezulear Government.
. . , , .shore leave at any port eontrolled disobeying the above
Atlanta and Birmingham has government of this South i«stmetions does so at h» own
and the occasion is a dream—a
dream come true.”
For years the rivalry between
acute, the one always
what the other one has. This
time, according to Roberts, Bir
mingham has something^ that At
lanta would like to have.’i
He was in Birmingham gather
ing details on the Steel Bowl
wanting Republic. What the pnnishn>ent ia fe»
[disobeying these instraetiona, I
In a letter to Mr. Hull, a copy^don’t know, but wihat«ver it ia,.
of • notice posted on the Ameri-i persona disobayiaf theaa -aMSt te
can vessel, “U. S. Quilfhaiw,” was:ready to accept the eoiiaap|MM
outlined. The notice, dated Nov. for their actions so
11, which was sent to the As- 'shall be no misandi
classic, national championship sociation by a member of the or-'bont these inatjruetiopw
football game, which will be play-'ganization living in PhiladeljAia.'eall at the Ve
ed between Morris Brown of
Atlanta and Wilberforce Univer
sity at Legion Field on Jan 1.
read as follows: » t for verification
“The Venezuelan Governmentll'nion agent at Ate
has issued instrnotions to all ma*>'F Chariton,