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Number 49
Durham,
North Carolina, Saturday, December 6, 1941
Volume 22
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Organize Aid For Youth Who Slew In Self DefenM
Alabama Teachers Fight Salary Issue
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Durham and Greensboro Ushers Asspciationj^ld Huge Gatherings Sum
Teachers Ass'n,
Alabama Ask To
Confer On Pay
Honored At Durham Ushers Anniversary
C Eiiwrjf
for AHP)—-Th* edttctfttttn
commission of the Alabama State
Teachers aaeooiation Monday had
mailed a petition to the ^effCiraon
County Board of Edue&tion, ae.
cording to Dr. E. W. Taggart,
chairman, asking for a conference
at their next meeting with view to
working out plans for equalisation
of the salaries of Negro Jefferson
connty teachers to those of the
white teaohers.
Details .of t)(^»^tition weua not
made known. However, it was the
general opinion mat the commis
sion is seeking a volution to the
differential salary problem throujfh
conference rather than cour*; ac
tion* It was speculated that tfie
commission was on a doiible ma-
nuever, one to adjust details of
equalization of salaries without re
sort to the ourts and the other to
clear the way for legal actioii if
such becomes necessary.
Everywhere court ^ action has
jeen taken for salary parity the
procedure has been to file a poti-
tion with the board as A prelimi
nary step. Cities like Knoxville,
Chattanooga, and more recently
New Orleans, have worked out sal
ary parity programs in conference.
For five years the ASTA has
been preparii^ for “action on
equalization” of Negro teachers'
salaries to those of white teachers
and is understood' td have raised
enough initial money to finance
that purpose.
(Continued on Page 8)
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Passes After
Long lUness
John Shipman, age 44, died at
his home here on B Street, Moa-
day evening at 11 o’clock after an
illness of nearly two 'years. ’Al
though Mr. Shipman had been in
declining health for. a long time he
Was not fully confined to his bed
until several’weeks ago.
The deceased Was born in Dur
ham August 12, 1897,' the' son of
Mr. and Mrs. John Shipman, and
had lived here all of his life. He
attended the public schools of Dur
ham, and for more than 25 years
operated a barber shop on Fayette
ville street.
Mr. Shipman was well known
here and. during his life made a
large number of friends.
In 1913 the deceased was marr
ried to Misg Amanda Carver af
Fayetteville. * In addition to h)s
wife he is survived by one son
Chas. Shipman of Jamacia, Long
Island, New York, one daughter,
Mrs. Carrie Ellerbe of the ^ame
city,, and one grandson, Zack *E1-
lerbe. Three sisters and two bro
thers also survived. The sisters are
Mrs. Daisy Smith, Miss Lelia Ship
man and Mrs. Lena Gregory. The
b^^others are Luther Shipman of
New York and' Henry Strayhorn
of Durham.
Dean Tilley And
Editor Aus^tin Speak
For Ushers Meetings
Durham. — St. Joseph A. M. E.
Church was the scene last Sunday
of the celebration of the 16th an
niversary of the Durham Ushers
Union. In addition to honoring ifs
founder and former president C. C.
Cobb the anniveraary celebration
also honored Mrs. Pearl Felder,
beloved usher of St. Mark A. M. E-
Zion Church and former president
of the First Aid Department of
the State Association and Fred
Hines also a member of St. Mark
A. M. E. Zion usher board, for his
conscientious efforts toward build
ing the local and state aasocii^tilMis.
Mr. Hines is also Sergeant At-
Arms of the state assoeiation.
Promptly at 2:16 P. M. the ^^h-
ers from the various ehurebtis bf
the eity Began assembljribg at the
(CoDtinaed on Page 8)
Greensboro. — A program by
the Greensboro Ushers Union and
the Gate City Beauticians was ren
dered at the Institutional Baptist
church here Sunday afternoon at
three o’clock for the purpose of
assisting in the drive to raise
funds for the erection of a Day
Nursery in the city.
Approximately persons at
tended the meeting which resuUed
in more than $75 being raised.
Music for the occJasion was furnr
ished by the Men’s Glee Club, the
Gospel Choir of the church. A e lo
was sung by Mrs. R^b^cca Leggett,
Mrs. BeaMte^¥ithers, Miss Vcr-
tia Mae ^ffi^nay and Mrs. E).
Kermitt Hightower.
A short talk on the object of the
meeting was made by Arthur
Crump, president of the union. L-
(Continued on Page 8)
Ml
.The three perisons above have done much to advance the program of the Durham Ushers
Union. All three were honored in last week’s seventeenth annual celebration of the organixa-
tion held at St» Joseph A, M. E. Church. From left to right they are C. C. Cobb, founder,
and former president of the State Ushers Association; Mrs. Pearl Felder, former president of
the First'Aid departmeni^ of the local and State Association iahd Fred Hine^, chairman of the
local look-out conamittee and Sergeant-at-arms of the state organization.
Charlotte To Hold Mass
Meeting Sunday for Youth
With Killing
Police Baffled AtFindinI;
Missing Professor’s
Body In California City
JOE LOUIS IS SU£D
FOR $10,000 By
FORMER ATTORNEY
t A. ntVIN IS
UNANIMOIISLY ■
NAMED It) POST
C. A. Irvin, unanimously choscn
to serve in’ the capacity of Execu
tive Secretary of The Charlotte
Neg^o Chaimber of X)ommerce t
the meeting of the Board of Dii'ec-
tors held Tuesday night, Novem
ber 25th bars already begun to ex-
crcise the responsibilities of his
office.
He was born in Charlotte forty
years ago; attended the Myers
Street School at the time Prof.
Samuel Pride was principal.' 'A-
mong some of his early teachers
were Miss Z^lla'Austin, Miss Han
nah Stewart, Miss Miiinie Me-
Knight and Miss Nanniig L.iary.
His High School work and furth.jr
training were done at Virginia
lUnion Universjity, In Richmond,
Virginia and The School of Com
merce,' Accounts and Finance of
New York University. He has had
extensive experience in newspaper
work, at the present time being
Publi Ifelations "Director of the
Carolina Tiines.
»Mr. Imn has Ead experience in
going into a number of industrial
(Continued on Pag* 8) .
Order To Cease
Discrimination On
R.R. Only First Step
Chicago.,—(ANP)-^ “The order
of the Interstate Commerce com
mission, directing the Rock Island
Railroad and the Pullman Co, to
Qease discriminating between white
and Negro passengers betu’pxn
Memphis and ISot Springs, Ark.,
and which last week was declared
effective as of Dec. 24, 1941, is
just the first step in the battle of
Negroes for fair and equitable
reatment in the matter of rail-
ad accommodations”, said Con
gressman Arthur Mitchell here this
.week.
“There have been'many who
have tried to pick flaws in this de
cision but those who do so are
ignorant if they expect one decis
ion to tear doTi^n all the. bopds of
segreagation which have been binlt
U{/ through the years. We must
wage ,ft never ending fight. We
have the basis on which to fight
in this supreme court deci'tion
which is just now at this late date
being actually laid down by tho In
terstate Commerce commission as
an actual order.
(Continued on Page 8)
£
Charlotte. — The Mecklenburg
County Grand Jury, Monday after
noon indfcted Walter Lee Wallace
19 year old youth, charging jhim
with the slaying two weeks a|:>l> at
Minf Hill, of Marvin Smith Free-
sland, white man of Union County.
Wallace according to court at
taches will be tried *at the current
term of Meteklenburg’s Criminal
Superior court.
An arroused sympathetic public
opinion is moulded in the defense
of Wallace who since the death of
his father has played an important
part in the support of his aged
widowed mother.
Becaxise of the death of his fath
er Wallace had to leave school be
fore going very far.
Attorneys for the indicted
youth, say that both white and
colored witne^es to the affair will
testif^ that Wallace was aggra
vated mTlria situation by the, curs
ing and thi^'ts and assualts uf
Freesland, the'6«4d man, and that
he, Wallace, did only what any
other person would have, done un
der the circumstances in the de
fense of his owp life. .
Wallace will be represented by
A .A. Tarlton, white, and by J. S.
Bowser of .he legal staff of the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People.
He will be prosecuted by SoUei-
(Continued fa Page 8)
Chicago. —(ANP)— A suit to
collect .fl0,500 in fees and expenses
from the recent divorce action be
tween Joe Louis Barrow and his
wife, Marva Trotter Barrow, v.as
filed last Monday at Atty. Bindley
C. Cyrus against Joe Louis. The
divorce' bill was dismissed when
the couple became reconciled la.-t
iiug. 19. The attorney represent 'd
Marva in the divorce proceedings.
The bill sets forth that
Cyrus was hired by the couple on
Oct. 9, 1!)40, in connection with the
suit and a property settlement.
Mrs. Barrow’s "suit was filedH;ist
July 3, and th© couple reiuiited
during the hearing of her motion
for temporary alimony. The peti
tion asks $10,000 for fees and $500
for expenses incurred and advanc
ed by the attorney during the
handling of the case. A »jury re
feree was requested by the attmn-
ev to decide the case.
Fift^n Thousand
Baptists Expected
At Raleigh Meeting
Plans are now underway to com-
ineniorate seventy-five years of
noteworthy services and contribu
tions of the Baptist of North Car
olina. The celeWation, which will
be the greatest in thg history of
the convention, is| scheduled to
take place the first week next
August in Raleigh, and will bring
to the capital city an estimated
crowd of fifteen thousand Bap-
tists.
The executive secretary of tne
General Baptist Convention, the
Reverend C. E. (Jriffin, has been
elected general director of the Ju
bilee, and has, along with an all
Baptist Diamond Jubilee Board of
Directors, begun shiping plans for
the celebration.
All four staf^’BaTptist Conven
tions are abandoning plans for
separate sessions during the com
ing yes4^ and will come together
to commemorate seventy-five years
of prc^ess, and to plan for a
greater Baptist Ceoperative Pro
gram in North Carolina. Heading
the four eonventions are: the Rev
erend P. A. Bishop, Rich Square,
preeident of the General ConTen-
[tion; Ite. iViola Utliniiin. far-
Exec. Committee
Assoc. Teachers Of
Languages Meets
The Kxecutive Committee of the
Association of Teachers of Lany;-
uage in Negro Colleges held it? an
nual meeting at Johnson C. Smi'h
University Saturday afternoon and
evening, November 29, with Prc-
fessor B. L. Woodruff, President
of the Association and ehairnian
of the Smith University English
Department, Presiding.
Plans for the sixth annual meet
ing to be held at Hampton Insti
tute from March 26th to 2Sth,
1942, were outlined and the pro
gram, organized around the them?:
“The Language Teacher as a Mas
ter Builder on the Rampart> of
Culture,” ‘was approv^. The
spt»akers, to be announced later,
will be drawn from leading col
leges in the country. An extensive
membership campaign, to be laun
ched early in 1942, was discussed
among other matters of impoit-
ance to the Association.
Attending the Committee meet
ing were Dr. John Lovell, Howard
University, Chairman, program
Committee; Mrs. Marion Starling,
Spehnan College, Program Co«i-
mittee; Joseph H. Jenkins, Sp ,1-
man College, Treasurer; A. K.
Brooks, A. and T. College, Rseorl-
ing Secretary; Hugh M. Qloster,
Morehouse College, Member at-
large Executive Committee; and
H. R. Jerkins, Tuskegee Institute,
Corresponding Secretary.
boro, president of the Woman's
Home and Foreign Mission Con
vention; Professor E. M. Botler,
Wilmington, president of the Sun
day School Convention; and the
Reverend J. P. Wert*, Maxton,
president oflhe Baptist Union.
One of the highl^ht^ of the Ju
bilee will be the formal openrag
of the State Bapirst Headctuarters.
An all Baptist eampaifpi for Bap
tist Head quarters, is now being
Irunched to raise $13,000, to
renovate th« Leonard Bnildiaq im
the campus of Shaw Fniversity to
provide offiees fHr the foop er^-
ventlons and the **17iiion Refoin*'
er,** state Baptist litoSil iiaqtttk
and wiU ead July* \ i
Los Angeles, — fANP) — The
body of Robert Coleman, 36-year-
old pro.ssessor of a Hi.D. degTf e
and proiessor of mathematics And
physics at Wilberforce universJtT,
was finally found in a YMCA room
here last Monday, a victim if
poisoning. Discovery of the body
culniinataed a seven-week '»eareh
that began on f>rt. 7. when he wss
reported missing from his Winx*r-
force classes.
At the lo*al YMCA, Coleman
had registered under an assum^
nanip of Donald Ellis of New Yi>’”k
City. Hi-i disap[>earance from Wil-
berforce was baffled police r.fl’ic-
ials throughout Ohio and an inten
sive search had been carried on fcy
the police all over the middl« west
to ascertain his whereaboat^ Al
though his vanishing act from the
Wilberforce campns created a
ETeat mysterv, discovery of hik
body on the PacifTc coast some 2»-
00) miles away from the spot
where le was last seen leads to
even greater speculation.
Ljist Monday, information wa*
given out by the Los Angeles n'W-
arne thaT a bo«ly anjrwering the «le«-
cription of Robert Coleman wa»'*
being hel«» there. Coleman’s p.»r-
ents. Mr. and Mrs. Coleman, Sr.,
in Cleveland had given the CkTe-
land Detective bureau several pie-
tures of their son, which were to
be sent to Los Angeles poliee de
partment for identification.
Disclosure was made of how ft*
unidentified body of a fatal heart
attack victim was traced acroes the
nation to the Coleman home iai
Cleveland. It seems that a mao Iia4
r«^isterel at the YMCA here bmk
week and the following mmrulm,
after his r^istr«tion, he tMft
found lying dead in his room,
on examination of eonteotsir H||k
pockets, a letter was fooB^ ai^
dresses to a white lad in
who had been one of Colenatt^
school ehoms at Western Ift lafitf
university. Contaet with tlii» ||ld
lead to farther eoataet with
pareete of C^Iemav tn~Ckv#Mir~
Before doeovery of tka
was made, the olderly CokMi
hired a special
eomb the state' in an
eate the deeeased.
were smut oat . to ^
describing the misaiaf bfef.
Dr. Coltmma wn
have left
dissatsfaetioii ot«r
oM ^liir Mate