5 LYNCHED H1M0 SAYS WUP MAILING EDITION PRICE 5c Volume XXII —- Number Two Durham, North Carolina, Saturday, January 11th', 1941 Fights Service In Jim Crow Army ir ir ir ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ * ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ VENEZULA COLORED BAR UNDER PROBE 13-Year-Old GjiLRaped School Teacher ▲fording to Xhirham police to zune o*cl^k Wedaeidigr dfeninff—on wabimt liAd ba»n iMued for William Stradwick acifaied of rapping Hk IS-jrear-old girl at his Iwme here last Sat* nrdaj afternoon. Coach H. R. Jeff^son’s Wife Passes lo Petersburg Peter»ta.*, V*. - Pmier.) Pnit(mil1ll9tP rieea for Mrs. Esther McNeill rUOl lUdLglallUdlC REB CAP OFFICIU OPPfSB SERVICE IN m ARMY Carolina Being Held Columbia, S, C. The first Strudwick, who 5a a scion ASSPfflhlV fOF well known Durham familyTjPert Jefferson, Head Coach 6Jt AMCmUlj iUI llCglU and son of the late Dr. William |Vingiflia State College, w4»o died PfivCIPIOfIC III Li Strudwick of this city, is ® TViday afiter a brief illness,OUULll teacher in the public school sys-, „ tr j *■ ‘ ‘ ' ' tem in Fayetteville. It is re-'^‘ll at 3 p. m. Monday at ported that he had been drink-^the St. Jose^ Episcopal Church ing at the time he committed in Fayet'teville, N’orth Carolina, the crime, and that as soon as Jeffereon, the former Mise graduate seminar for Negro he was discovered that he left' ^ vt mi i. physiciana in South Carlina will the city for Fayetteville or parts L held at State A and M College, unknown. It could not ^ learn-m Fayetteville May 10, 1914, the q 'g^urg, January 28, 29 and ^ at a late hour here Wedne^ dangHter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mrs. Andrew W. day whether he h^ resumed his 0. li^eUl. In 1935, she Simkina, d^eetor of the Negro .* Sedated from the Secretarial tuberculoeis aaaoeiation. Similajp It nr alleged that Strudwick ^ 3fn*„ r'niiao'« Cbioago — Ernest Calloway, eduoatioD'al director of the JJnit- ed Transport Elmpioym of Amer- Petersbnrg Teachers Seek Equal Pay Color Ban At Gub, Union Changes Site Of Xmas Party Patersborg, Va. — Th« Nefn^o Tea^eis’ Cooperative association asked itiM ehy council Friday to take tinder advisement the qnO- tion of bringing about parity in the pay of white and Negio teaek- '' fan io tiw «ty sehool system, ba- CSiicago — Diseriinuaitiob waa; , , , avd upon qimific«tiom» and ser- . pond. ™ b, „ „ited U, ti«. I^iternjatioDaJ Fa* Md Laokarf tmtemt Jw iwiiii Workers union, Loaii Mo. 4S, re- gt«te* Snpre»ne cently when tha Elraiui Far Coen- ed by the two young women for pany, the largest retail furrier n the middle west^ BponflDrod p to oonscriptioii because “'the pre sent United l^tates army' i« the mosi aioti democratic institution in American governmental life” he told his local draft board on re cepiA of his qoeetionaire a few days before Ohristmaa. He asked to be exempted |mtil “trne cit^en ship” is conferrrf upon him, 1 Bj c eu i/umi. v7biuuwt\;B. official’s oompkle ViTgima State College, meetings conducted under the UtMtement in which he proteste home iindec the Dretehae of graduation, the deceased Buipervieion of C. Si. C. Quild, M. being drafted foUowa: , to D. of ^ Ne*ro forhim. The child at the time Negro BeprseOta- of itihe Niationial Tubeipoutosis Ab- was in the company of another ^i^e on the National Labor Bo^, sociation. New York City, have girl about her own age, and ii^ Washington, D. C. In 1937 Mrs been held, annually in Jacksonville, left her little friend on the out- Jefferson matriculaited at North- New Orleans, Jjoa Angelea, Saint side while she entered the House wratei^ TTnivefrsity on a sch^^ar- Louis, Pittsburgh and other cities, to receive instructions concern- ship. On September 3, 1938 she Cooperating' spcg^pors for the meert; ing where she was supposed to was married to Harry Bnpert ing are the Ifnited States Public go. Instead of sending her on Jefferson and made her home on Health Service, the National Tu- the errand Strudwick is alleged the Vii^ginia State College campMB beroulosie Association, the South to have committed the crime, -wihere Mr. Jefferson has coached Carolina Board pf Health, the Pai- after\^rds craming the fright- athletic teams for sefveral years.'meitto Medical Association, Staite Dr. Willa Easley, prominent physician of Whitteville who is' diseases of all kinds. The in- . V 0. . , .V a sensation in the east- ^ life-saving-. teo. and who had one of the fipat ern part of the state in a climc . , . . . ^ . . . , - - - numbers call^ in the selective[wh’ich she operates together ®^ ^ ® ^ exclnaive Colony rhib *®d bai already received sooie lottery in Washington, is opposed of tlM United eooTt in«oiving the Norfolk system, in whica th« plaistiif von a decision. Speaking for the eoimeU, Major nv • i M- It 1 Aleiaiiex Hamilton, Jr. said that ChmtoM pirtT (to if «nplo,«i ened and helpless girl in a dog |j)ur{ng the past two years Mr". |a. and M College and the South house at the rear of the home jeffer^n acted as secreitiary to the Carolina tuberculosis whera she was later discovered ^f the College. However,' parents. . 'die was on leave of absence for When questioned concerning ^ sehool-yeaar. the crime, it IS reported Strud- g^^^vivlng are husband, Harir wick denied the accusations of _ _ „ * , *v, » the ybung girl and immediately left the city. Ehzaibeth M«Neill. her man is Mtb. son of aasociation A special invitation is extended to physicians in the neighboring states of Georgia and North Caro lina. There will ao registration fee. ** Aa a NeigTo, 1 have ,ac(^pt)ed many ot ho responsibilHieB of my Kmited citizenship withont benefit of a number of its blessings. To me, the present United >Statc® army 'is the most ant democratic institution in American govern mental life. Its eallous disregard for the elementary principles of fair play with Negro citizens, reeka of 18th century ’mercen arism’ instead of *n army, by, for and of the peofde." , “The constant refusel of this military* branch of our govern ment to pursue a non disiprimina- tory policy in its attiture towards €ill the citizens is far put of por tion with the large measure of social, economic and politioal pro- with Dr. M.N. Muldrow (left). i cinity where lack of medical aid the Cdriny elub refused U> permit conaiderstion fi«n the During the course of a year has often meant a high death attendaoee thousands of patients are treat-' rate NEGRO TEST OF DEMOCRACY CLAIMS NAACP New York — During 1940, the American Negro proved to be the surest standard for tesfting, in terms of concrete action, our Government’s oft repeated asser tion that Amerioan democracy gives full justice to all the citizens of the United States, according to a report made by Walter White at the annual meeting of the Na tional Association for the Ad vancement of . Colored People, held here Monday, January 6 On the credit side of the NA ACP secretary pointed to four decisdons won before the United States Supren^ court, affecting ^he rights of Negro citizens. The first of these decisions, read by Among clinicians and lecturers The accused man is well months, Harry McNeill'for the meeting are P. Martir gress thait has been made during known throughout North Caro-***■ stepson, JcAn R.| Santos, M. D. of Chieago, RoU. the past few years in America. Kna in social, insurance and Jefferson, three asters, Missea E. Seibels, M. D. of Columbia, poj. ^ number of decades, the U. educational circles. For the past Helen and Mallie McNeill and and R. W. Ball, M. D. director of g. army has withstood democrati- two or three years he 1»8 Vfrrit- Mrs. Ruth McNeill Cook of Wash- the Division of Maiemal ead nation especially in its relations to ten a column in various news-ington,- D. C. and four bryytheTB Child Hygfierip, South Carolina Negroes, and there is no visible |Justice Hu^ L. Blacki last Febru- papers of the state under the Thurman McNeill^ of Fayetteville, Board of Heffldth, obstetrics; Wm. of immeditiAe change ary 12, denied the right of Florida, caption “As Time Marches On." Clareaoe and Dr. Howard Me- B. Perry, M; D., Special Consult- in this vicious racial status quo Neill of Waa^iingiton, D. C. and ant, U. S. Public Health Service,'jegpite the fact that American Th'omas McNeil of New York and Sedg^wick Simons, M. D. (democracy is preparing for its dity. , direiotor of the Division of Vener-'gj^test struggle against the al Disease Oooftrol, South Caro-forces of ignorance, prejudice and lina Board of Health, syphilis; |d,ic^torflhip.” Nolan A. Owens, M. D. of Wash- “The practiee of relegating ingiton, William Weston, Jr., M. special types of service to Negno- D. of Columbia, and Ri W. Bail, ^3 refusing their services In 8ehod Negro that fmihw story board, and that further study , j would be giveo it by council and tie board. He pointed out, how- evCT, tiiat no provision for in salary had been pro- badget to be ot two workers employed in th» f^ory. Strong rafientmem was mani- feetod by the members of the unioo in tlie Efaos shop. When ™ . ihe nnu») fwem'eaMd apon to ® tmo Hegm i^tken to S^a»t»rily ^ I'cfusM to eom« in order to faaililt- ° onee. ate the anfangejnwits, Abe Feia- giaes, maaager of Local No. 40, rtftffied to aeqoaese and daeliarad that tbs for fhsiciry irill not tend soeh an affair, and furtfaeea- more, would call opon its membera^ and the National Negro songress to picket ‘Ole Ooloay elob. National Urban Leape Names New Assistant Norfolk, Va. school board to pay lower aal&ri^ to Negro teachers | ^ , . _ , - New York — *nie Nartional Ur- The workerarf Evans, w^a «ni»o»nead VM^ at a aihop meetmg for the prwnotion of Miss Ann Tan- Victory added $129,000 to the.vohmterred for piekei dnty. This Tn/tn«»ri«.l Bel*tions, salaries of Negro teachers in’ineBulted in tbs aompany eaneell-Lj Norfolk. ling its. arrangemants with thel Pointing out that 1940 markedand tn«.Hn0 the ,party io* ths most crucial country’s history, the NAACP attended, executive secretary said it waa neverthless true that the Admin istration muffed a great BASNEST woapns MEET -WITH ALBZ^JlQSftB The Earnest Worker’s dub of St. JoBepb AME Church taet at the home of Mr. and Mra. Alex Moore Tuesday evening ait 8 o’clock. STAHPOBD LIBBABT EXTEND BOUBB. Aeeording to aanouncementa made thie> week the Stanford L. Warren Library will remain open Barnwell, C. — A midwife revealed today that on Christmas day aho delivered quadruplets, one of which died aoon after biarth. Tha quads were boya. The three iving were reported doing nicely. The mother is Ada W*y» of Red Oak district. B018. SOUTHEBLAKD HOSTESS TO MOXAHAItA on eaeh Monday, Wednesday and GLASS THUBSDAT Friday evening until nine o’clock. The Moxahala Class met at the On Tuesdays, Thursdaya and home of Mrs. Eva Southerland SaturdfjB the libinury wSl remain on Olenn street Tuesday evening ^ open fropi 10 m m. to aarsn p. m.*at eight o’olodc. to the post in Charge of Qoid- anee and Personnel in the De- . , partraeDt. ^ yeara Mias Taaney * i|hill has rendered an important The two Hyro wx>i^ in planning and.direetiag Vocational Opportunity Cam- . I, j OPP®*" jMrs. Anna ^11, both ng ■ ' paigns of the National Urban Lea- tumty to prove how de^racy^^ng and a^ive memben of the ^ give* her re.- can wor ib ° 'ponsibility not oidy for planniai; prese^e ^villi^rties for 14 000,j .ppraAng tk. •Kuation, ^ , 000 A^noan Ne^ who Ijva jPeinglaaa d«darad, “The tr^« b«t .bo for c«rying on th, v«r suffered more than any othCT,nnion moTsment aannot only give guidance and plae«^ ^up in our country from the^Up s^rriae to qaalit, but muat be Dfepartmao*. Sk» denial of even basic citiaensship to figbt for thaA eqaalSty Mttwr of the ** •“ eassntial te its very Yooth TinM courts'to obtain confessions from hapi»nin^^Ufe to the aeeeasary mnifieation four NeCTO youth, throuerh or-l ^ l»bor. Na^kmal Urban LeaRuo duriKr tiba tu«, ..I temed inricZ *» ■,V««*k»id 1 ilynchine law at a time when the such aotion, unconatitutional. Thejj^^.^;;^ of Dave Canty, Aioi ” of American citizens in n K W.V. * • fp H'h® South as well as the North Bob. White m Texas, were also' , v ij v ... ’ j m. believe suoh a law should be paas- reversed on similar grounds. The vhieh was issued by tka r Of^portanity CUi> M. D. pediatrics. fourth decision denied the right of persons to bar Negroes Irom obher branches of the anned fore- bujnng or living on property in ed. He declared thi^ demonatratad t^at there are men in our Con gress who are willing for Hitlar to show ns all that he has leam- Notes and C(»iunents A graduate of Simmona Colht* ed' from thia American crime, be- A reception and danee honor- Qether oondxieiTe to effective 'property in areas of a city retriot ing seminar registrants and their ^ obeying the aiwt and'ed by agreement among property guests will be given on the even- lettet; of the eooatitiitidn of the o»wners. tKuww ing of Janiuary 29. Members of United States. When tha U. S-| The AseociaAion also won a '*o-L ° ® Cowrressional historv ijjia the dental and pharmaeeutwal «.nny denies me or any other Ne- table caw in its six year fight “whan ' Con-^ span* ta altme# awr aoa- sections of ’ the state medioal gpo the right and oppotunity to eqijtalize the salaries, of Negro'®” . lead rs with the tacit aflSDciation are being invite*!. make an equal eontribution to the and white teachers in southern ^ House 1 — [welfare and defense of my ooun-'and border stetes,, when the U. ^ w * of bHn^nr the^ Tbera is a» raal aao^MlttiiMi Not satisfied with the worries ry, it viollates a baaic right goar- S. Supreme Court refused to ^ -j^jbt^eM tha ra^oa aad piniri^ on this world, seme scientists arej "Th«rafore, to inaiat upon inyjview a Circuit Court of Appeal, both U trymg to solve tha proUams of' (Contiimad on threa). Idecision denying the right qf the* (Conti&UQd on thvee). la paafiia. ^ ^ in postoi^ Miaa Taanajidll ® ed the degree of MaaCar aC ’ibte We rarely think thaaa parafra-tin Voestioiia! Guidaiiae wmd fm- phers are smart oar witty nav^ {aonnal Aitmtniatraiioii tram theleaa, ws ba«a to writa *am vbe- jTaaekan Cc^ega, Cofaafcii, thear joa read ’em or not. jasrai^ is ISM. (Rpeaieae to aominf tka Ad^rtWera who ara weU kwiwa Uagaa ift likat owe their popmlaarity (o tha mon-i«aa a laanbar of the it^ «( Daidbar Tka .Italian naivx, H ^ rnmU t* teMrt mm m W; Uy liiil Hi ¥* jb awe*