Washed-Up Body Identi
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UtHCJNBRiSED,
.VOLUME 22-NUMBER 36
DURHAM, North Carolina Saturday Septembera 6* 1941
Negro Soldiers In Arkansas
To Be Mo ved EIjse where
Water Gives Up
Remains Of
iViissing Farmer
Edenton, Sept. 1.—The body
of a man found floating at the
dock in Edenton pay August 18
has been identified here as that
of Octavius C. Twine, Chowan
county farm laborer, by W. H.
Rol>erts, the farmer for whom
Twine was working.
Twine was last seen the Sat
urday night before, George
Skinner told officer!, and at
the time was apparently drmk«
ing, but he was not reported
missing until Thursday night,
when his four children who had
gathered with neighbors at the
Wild Cat Fork church about
two miles from town began to
inquire as to the whereabouts
of their father.
Each child had thought the
man had been staying with the
other child, and it was not un
til they met that the discovered
he was missing. At, the time
he was first seen in the water
and for several days later no
one in the community had re
ported him missing.’
G. A. Holmes, chief of police,
intimated no foul play was sus
pected. The lungs of the dead
man floated after removal of
his body from the water, thus
.proving death was not from
drowning.
Man Loses Legs
Under Train Sunday
Wilmington, Sept. 1. — Wil
liam Cherry, 1106 N. "Second
street, was in a critical condi
tion in the James Walker Me
morial hospital following, the
amputation of both legs after
he fell or jumped from a Sea
board Airline railway train Sun
day afternon.
Negro Physician
Answers Charges
Dr. J. B. Davis, Fuquay Negr-
ro physician, in a^ answer filled
with the clerk of court Tuesday,
denied charges that an opera
tion performed by him AtiKimt
9 cau«ef^ tte death of Wilbert
Burnette, 2 jear-old Negro child.
The mother of the boy in an
earier complaint accused the
physician of spllting the boy’s
tonprue in two places, improper
ly administering anesthetic, and
beinpr doped while the operation
was in process. The complainant
further contendedi that the ,slits
bulged the tonciue to such an ex
tent that the child died of stang-
ulation.
In denying the charges,^ Dr.,
Davis said he was in a normnj
frame of mind and discharged
his duties in “customary man
ner" of physicans, with a train-
ednurse in the room at the time
of operation.
After the operation was under
way. he atlded. the child start
ed having fits and convulsions,
thu.9 necesisitating immediate at
tention by him. When the boy
became strangled from tin* fits,
he said, forceps with rubber tips
were used to relieve the contrac
tion.
He said a physcial examina
tion was given the child before
the operation and that he knew
nothing of the boy’s health ex
cept that related by the parent.
Dr. Davis added that he was not
informed previously of the
child's epileptic tendencies.
Dr. Davis added that death
was the I’uslt of epileptic fits
After an emergency appeal ^ quick effort was made
for volunteers to give blood for
a transfusion in an effort to
.save his ife, nearly a dozen
persons offered as.sistance. Wil-
l..What you .don’t .owe won’t
MINISTEH
Du;:ha(iHtes Injured
In Auto Wreck
iThree ,residents of Durban;
were iniured . last Wednesday
aftern(K)n when their automobil
collided with a large truck one
mile west of Oxford on higlnva,
15. Tlie truck turned over on
the car. *'
The injure^ were Mrs. liaura
G randy who has been confined
to Lincoln Hospital with a com
pound fracture of the arm; Misj
J)orothy Dawson, treated at Lin
coln for an eye injury and Mrs
Mamie Dawson who suffered j
knee injury and other lacera
tions. ' ,
Rev, M. W. Morgan, pastor
of tfajC Hillside Baptist church
of Durham, and well known
young minister who for the
past several months ha's been
supplying as pastor of the first
Baptist church of Goldsboro.
Rev. Morgan is held in high es
teem in his home city and many
of his friends have expressed
the hope that he will not be
called to Goldsboro; but will re
main in Durham. Although he
is a Baptist minister l^v. Mor
gan is most always called upon
to fill the pulpit of St. Joseph
A.M. E. church in the absence
Cleveland Baptists
Not Committed On
Convention Head
Assantt Case
Goes Direct To
High Court
Roxboro. — Efforts will soon
be made to dispense with pre
liminary hearing of Cy Win
stead, charged with criminal
assault of "a white woman Aug.
5, thus allowing the case to
go direct to Person County Su
perior court room at the Octo
ber term of the court.
Shortly after arrest of Win
stead a near lynching occurred
in Roxboro with the result that
State Highway Patrolman, and
A.B.C. iwlice of Durham and
elseWhere had to be called to
preser‘ve order.
Person county officials reveal
ed their plan to cusrsader Press
and explained that it was not
; Cleveland.—Members of the that they did not want Win-
Baptist Minister’s Conference'^f stead to have all his rights, but
Greater Cleveland and vicinity , they felt “the better procedure'
issued a st^ement this week would be to waive preliminary
denying that they had endorsed hearing and allow the case', to
any definite candidte for the i go direct to the higher court,
presidency of the National Bap- j Winstead s arre^ shortly af-
tist convention when that body. ter the alleged criminal assault
meets here in September. In- of the woman in the late af-
formation that, Cleveland and | ternoon was followed by the
Ohio Baptists had endorsed the gathering of a mob of 700
candidacy of the Rev, J’. C. 1 whites and tear gas had to be
iiam Grissin was accepted _and|
transfusion administered. 0th-1 ""T”,. , . .
er volunteers were placed on-| The best way to save daj light is-
call. * to «se it.
Segregate Stenographers In War
Dept., Officials Condone Run - Around
Washington, — Hidden away
on the second floor in the sixth
wing of the huge munitions
building of the war department
is a little coterie of five Negro
stenographers—part of the fa
mous “pool" of Negro girls hir-
ed.
According to information, a
pool is merely a receiving sec
tion, where girls await calls to
other appointment in the de
partment. They work here un
til a vacancy occurs and then
offices
they are assigned to
needing their services.
The usual length of service in
pool is from four to five weeks,
but these girls have spent as
Austin of Chicago, was said to
be in error.
Rev. Marion F. Washington,
pi'esident, ana the Kev. E. N.
Williams, secretary, issued a
statement saying that the or
ganization had not extended an
used several times to prevent a
mob from entering the jail.
M. J’. Clayton, Pjer^on county
sheriff, and highway patrolmen
Aspirant Baptists For Presidency
Soldier Of 94th
Engineers Tells
Of ill Treatment
New ^ork—Ihe latfst s^^ri*^ ;the men b«*trirpi to b** uvned am-
of flarp-nps agiin.st i-nk»rj«i w»l- muiiitmn bnt were refusal m
diers in a small town nour Catup bi'fort* . asked to be .-.ent
Arkansas, startwi ha*-k t; Mirhi'^an. bnt iIm' raaijor
I Robinson
I when a member of th,* 04th Kii-
ginppr.v divisloii. in Little
[for tlio e%’enin}T, brushed airainst
I a white policeman on the ;,tr('et
a(‘c;nliiig to a member of the di-
j vision,
I TIhp letter .fnnH a mt*mb«‘r of
jthe :»4th to a etone r‘f*tiv(* o.a-i
I relvased by-the XA.\('t* this
week and picturos more vividly
than any other report the ter
rorism rife around the Arkaitsiis
cantonment from which a num
ber of solir^ers have gone A WO!,
Tthe soldier’s name and name
of his relative who brought
the letter to the X.\A’l’ cHiiaot
lor, ol)iv( us rea 'ons, be nial('
public.
are in a very
‘yrii-is time
baij sitntiini.” tlie letter stat^-l.
“\Ve are in Arkansas, dn'p in
enmiwwndini' the hatsiHoii ;aid
he di'In i have ‘he aothorjty
to do that>
'outinnintr. the soldier yrrate
‘He (the major) said that by
ci»mi>ri.sin*r the maneuTer area
last ni«rht 14* th^ ir**
wi TthI be tinder martral law,
the eity and tate rop« against
thej' seem ty be working with
us in every way.
“Last night there was epeii
talk oi ,^-vfry man ui tfie biittal-
ion walking out and g«)iBg bae4c
to P'ort ('uster. I,.aHt night
of our serjreants went AWOL
and are frying to through to
Fort (’lister hoboing a freight.
We were ready to leave At the
firvt ign of tnniblt. W(* dept
with our; t‘loth«>s on arnd with
fla.sh|i*rht^ and niatch*'*. which
Dr. , J. .. C.- Ayi|tin,  militant
minister^ of'i,Ghicagb's- Pilgrim
Baptist clvurcti, v^ is, one , of the
foremost*' canditlates for the.
presidency of the NationaL Bap-1 from leaders thrbughout
tist C-onvention at*its , annual country.
\ V ^ ^ , • *
Dr. Leach Did Not Win Exoneration By
National MediM Association; Case Was
Referred For Later Action
tin*. S(«ith; We luive Kub-' ki>Aes. War iis.
j -ieeted .ttv stwne very had treat-;
merit. leave, S4i this inornins a.s f write
I “In Litt4e R.^-k- Ark., all rhe-^*‘>'^- ^if»«tion stamU as it did
j trouble started. ■( >iu? of the men i nitrht.
meeting in.Cleveland, S^pt. 10-P' ^'iirlcompanT wonf to town * : —
15. Ho has be^n . enifcy^ by!^''‘‘, I AA lI-_ f|f|
city and state . denominational, «"«>'ist a cop j ^ HUJll wll 10
organizations ami.'has .support ^'*‘‘'*^*‘'’tall' th^‘r^* was ;i y»ing .
' ■ ,the lady with him. The officer im-'KfOtftf
’ mediately made a scene and i ^ Vlvl
jslapi>ed our man, whereupon; Djkl^o rjirQrotflK:
I the man from our company beat, l/lUlvOy v/l^ul
I the officer up. j
I “Nothing more was said until j Winston-Shlem. — One •
i\\e reavhed our camp i\ear t»ur-|jjjpgj men, all Negroes, lariiesfe
I don. Ark., about 1-Jt) miles from | contingent yet tu go out from
I Little Rock. The fellows went
ito town and were imnieiliatelv
Camp Davis Men
Chicago,—Officials of the Na
tional Medical Association call
ed attention this week to an er-, ^ ^
ror in reports of the recent con- Arp Fflfprf jlfflAn
vention which were released re-l^*^ liULtl lllllldi
cently. Dr. J. L. Leach of i
F4int, Mich., former president .
Wilmington, Sept,
; insulted and one of our guards
the next night was lieaten up.
jThe guaril wa.s on duty, guard-
j ing our camp area when a state
jcop drove up and beat him up.'
“This causetl quite an uproar
land all the feUows were in fav-
1.—More or of going to town and tearing
invitation to Dr. Austin on the j special officer of i;he Southern
occasion of his recent visit to Raijroad went to Roxbord
Conference of Cleveland would help keep order
Cleveland and that the. Baptist
support the present administra-
Mobile, Ala., for reelection.
held off the pob a g n^^exone^' 5,000 soldiers from Camp it to pieces, rnfortunately, we
ated as renorted i Davis were entertained here
The mauer never came to aiSund^V the first of a_series
vote of the general assembly Programs sponsor^ jointly
*®inorof the newly formed trustee it>y the churches and cmc or-
shortly after midnight 55 Dur
ham county ABC police and a
P. D. Custodian
Retires At 65
Ti,™"wta,t;kd was taken to'
State Prison in kaleigh where ■ for reinstatement was
he is held awaiting trial.
Sept. 1. (CP)—Peter T. Slade,
private 65, who since 1922 was custo-
many months in this
pool with no changes.
Each of the young women office, has been retired,
has her name on her desk, Bryan Booe, postmaster,
printed in huge letters on a nounced Saturday.
Ray Robiqson Wins
Technical K. 0.
referred to the committee on
judiciary and will anot come
son, Jv.
Thee onvoy of men b^gan. ar-
New York.
Ray Robinson,
lightweight.
before the body until the next riving from the camp at - the
meeting at Cleveland. Dr. j recreation center about'9:00 in
Leach, sanguine that his case morning and were still ar-
would he heard favorably, was
a bit premature in his hopes.
To rid cabin, tent, or trailer
of wasps, horent-s spidersj llics,
nio.squitoes, niid frnats, dissolve
W. won an easy technical knockout tcaspoonfnl of menthol cry-
an-'over Carl Guggmo of Hartford, htals and one half ounce of cedar
in 2:47 of round three in a|Oil oiip ounoc of alcohol. Put a
card, and each one has a type- Mr. Slade lives at-1220 High-' scheduled eight sound bout at, in ” P'®
writer. land avenue and having reached the Queensboro Arena Wednes- on the stove. This dope has a
Majority of the work is mak- retirement age will receive the day night. f\>ur thousand fansjplonsant odor and chases all bugs
Idian for the Winston-Salem post up and coming „—, , . j. ,
' won an easy technical knockout tcaspoontnl
ing stencils.
' customary government pension. * saw the scrap^j
pronto.
riving an hour later. As they
registered they were assigned to
churches and private' families'
who joined in the entertain
ment.
£^h church took about 50
men, one group taking charge
of 120, and they were taken to
the churches where they took
part in the regular morning ser
vice and afterwards served pic
nic dinners by the congresca-
tions.
did not have any ammunition
and it wt>uld be alnumt suicide
to try without anunimition. The
eaptain talketl the men out of
doing anything at that^ time.
“Meanwhile, the situation was
getting worse. An ultimatum was
given to the major of our bat
talion to move all ‘niggers’ out
of that part of the wihkIs by a
certain time or else sometjiing
drastic would happen.”
The letter goes on to retiount
the stopping of the troops on the
road by state highway jwtrolmen! ^
the Forsyth county draft boards
left the city hall Tuesday at 9:00
a. m. for Fort Bragg.
. The entire group ass«nbled at
city hall Monday afternoon.
final instructions with Jack At
kins, Negro member of board
there, presiding. The Ifc'V*
Thomas Kilgo made a brief ad>
dress.
Before the men left they were
given Bibles from the minis' -
association and cigarfrtte^'
KKK Asks For The
S^IF^atioa Of .
Negro Activities J
Laurens, SL C.—TIm w—> j
ployed eztMCMion director pf
Ku Kha Ktauu Fred V.
son, aanottneed racmliy
the impertinent demand that the
officer “get those ‘niggers’ off
the highway”, the slapping of
Curry, by one of the patrolmen
the white lientehiint, Donald
who called the army man a “ni
gger-loving Yankee.”
ithe eity eofUkctl hcrt> to
dinanoes prohibitiiic
from eoBgwgafciaK on
of the toira.aml raqwxliqr
to be off imneiiMl
p. m. Tb^ aiio
Kokto aetMtiw b«
The writer also reveals thataegregated dialiieti.