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m ■f -■•v "^nsfwfk N MMMilft SHMmAli It AGED COUPLE TNROATSj;ilT MAILING EDITION n"S aCtnt^ ygH^RUTH DMBRI [)gE Volume XXIII - Number 26 BUY WAR BONDS TODAY Durham, North Carolina. Saturday. June 27, 1942 “KEEP’EM FLYINC* •EK SKIRV P.lOE SEVEN’ FEPC Compels - Companies To Stop TEXAN INDICTED FOR PEONAGE Federal Court to Try Man For Holding Woman In - Slavery For $30 Debt —V Washington, — (Special to the T I M E S) — Attorney Oeneral Francis Biddle annonnc^ that a Federal Graiif] Jury sitting in the Eastern District of Texas, at Tyler, tAday returned an indict ment on four couifia . charging Wallace Adams, of Weldon, Texas, with violation of the Federal anti-peonage statute. Adams is charged with “un lawfully, wilfully .^and felonious ly” arresting, causing ioHbe ar rested, and returning td and hold ing in a condition of peonage, a Negro woman, Ijonnie 5IeQuee», pending payment of a $30.00 debt. Penalties under this statute (Title 18, Section 444, U. S. Code) are imprisonment for not more than five years, or a fine of npt more than .f-j.QOO, or both, on each count. Accoi’ding to a complaint filed by'^i^iimie McQueen, she wor^d •1 l-liNqj^ths during 194^ on iNdnnis’ farthvmdeavoring pay off a $30.00 no^made to a local bank and purchased by Adams. On June 18, 1941, the complaint said, she left the farm but was apprehended by the authorities and turned over to Adams, who returned her to the farm. Again on June 26, 1941, she left the Adnms’ farm and was subsequent ly charged by him with a theft of less than Jfri.OO. Adams failed to appear at the trial, however, and the case was dropped. The complaint alleged that during the period Iter employ ment on the Adams’ farm she waa to be paid .$3.00 per we^k for* housework plus .50c per day for working in the garden, these 6ums to be used in amortizing the note. After 5 1-2 months, however, she still had not “worked off’' the $30.00 debt. The ct^se was handled for the Department of Justice' by Steve M. King, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas. The Grand Jary investigation was I’equestod by Assistant At torney General Wendell Berge. Mrs. Fannie Thompson Spaud- ing, wife the L, J. Hpaulding who succumbed to an heart'attack at her home here Friday morni Funeral services were held at White Rock Baptist Church Mon day afternoon. -• President Emeritus NAACP Ui^es No Ottota For Negroes bi Public Housing JUNIOR OHpBUS IS OEOANIZ- BD BY OEAKGE OfiOVE BAPT. OHUROH TUESDAY NITE The Orange Grove Jubilee Chorus was organized last night at n meeting of boys and girls at Orange Grove ^ Baptist, Rev. Dr. V. E. Brown, minis'ter of the ^hurch announced. The chorus is made up of boys and girl from 10 to 16 years of ."gp and rehearsals already have begun. Marie Ferrell Is the fund- begun. Miss Marie Ferrell is the founder of the group which plans to,"^^ro.‘5eht special musical pro grams at the church from tjme to time. Rehearsals will be held every lither Tuesday night. Ir—V BUY WAR BONDS! New York — A quota system limiting t'he^ number of granting occupancy on the basis of need and qualification, the NAACP declared in telegrams sent June 17 to John B, Blandford, Jr., ad ministrator of the National Housing Agency, and Herbert Emmerich, commissioner of the Federal Public Housing Author ity. The NAACP said Negroes are entitled to the same access to publicly financed housing pro- .jects as other citizens on the basis of their needs and qualifi cations. A hearing in the Michigan Circuit Court was held June 20 at which representatives of the government agencies were called to state their policy with regard to Negroes and other minorities in public housing projects. The pro ject involved is the Colonel Ham- tramck Homes, Hamtramek, Mich, a suburb of .Detroit, where white tenants passed a resolution to re strict occupancy solely to whites, after it had been biracial. The hearing was the result of a temporary injunction granted by Lebron Simmons in behalf of the Citizens Committee, active in the Sojourner Truth fight. Judge Miller granted a temporary in junction . ruling that the Ham- track Housing Authority eojald grant no more than 93 per cent in the project to whites. Negroes i make up seven per cent of the Mrs. L. J. Spauldmg Succumbs To Heart Attack Friday « - Mrfl. Fannie Thompson Spauld ing, 62 succumbed here Friday, Jane 19 at 5:40 a. m. Her death was attritoted to a utteck. Mrs_ Spaulding was the daugh^ of the late John and Am^(^ -Thompson. Sb« catne to DurKani in 1907 and married to h- J. Spaulding of this city. Mrs. Spaulding was ff'graduate of Scotia Seminary in 1895. Since that time she taught at Montioello Seminary, Monticello Arkansas, in the public school of Concord and under the supervision of Professor W. G. Pearson of this city for several years. At the time of hw death, the [ deceased was a member of the I ite Rock Baptist Church and I active in the following organiza- i tioi» which included; Volkamenia Club, Utopia Club, secretary of district seven, White Rock Church si^e its organization and secre tary of the Needlework Guild since 1934. The final rites were held at 3:30 o’clock Monday at the White Rock Baptist Church with Rev. M. M. Fisher, pa.stor of the church, officiating. Interment was in Beeehwood Cemetery. Active pallbearers were T. p. Patterson, J. W. Goodloe, J. W. Harris, Henry Davis, J. B. Bloses and Fairley Jordan. Honorary pollbearprs wei-e F. L. McCoy, T. Rivers, W. Z. Mit chell, J. H. Wheeler, C. E. Arm strong, W. J, Kennedy, Jr., and C. C. Spaulding Jr. Floral bearers were Me?diimcs Bertha Davis, Bessie Gilmer, Effie Cotton, Laura Simmons, J. S. Thompson, W, Z. Mitchell, J. H. Thomas, Dora Green, Sarah John son,. N. J., Cooper and Lena Richardson. Misscg Hattie Jen kins and Chat Rivera. Mrs. Lula Kelsey of Salisbury and Amey’s Funeral Home was in charge of the body. Family Quarrel Sends Man, Wife To Hospital Serious Razor Wounds Dn John Gandy, President of Virginia State College, who has been made President Emeritus of the institution which he has headed for 28 years. Dr. Grandy will relinguish the presideny of Va. State July 1st, Widow Of Dr.E. E. Smith Passes In FayetteviDe Favetteville, (Special to the TIMES) — Mrs. N. L. Smith, wife o:^ the late Dr. E. E. Smith, passe# Friday morning, June 2fl^t home of n^r nep hew, J. E. Coppage. Dr. Smith was for fiffy ’years 'p’TsuTt^ oT ffie Fayetteville State Teachers Col lege. Mrs, Smith had been in declin ing health for the last three months. Up until the middle of March, she had carried on faith fully her dutie^j as Business Man ager of the College. MrS; 'Smith was niafried to Dr. E. E. Smith in 1907. Ju.st one year after this marriage, the old Fayettevilie Normal School was moved from its location in town to its present site. Mrs. Smith worked gide by side with Dr. Smith in building up the State Normal School. ««^he saw the school grow from the, one building on the site where it was moved Please Turn To Page Three Will Recover Mrs. Sadie Vf -Tt Sanders Roberts, as Roberts who illrecover from wiTe physicians say serious razor .slashes in the throat received in an altercation with her husband Thursday morning. Mr. Roberts is also in the hospi tal with Similar wounds. Wife Goes On Shooting Spree Wlien Husband Admits Love For Anotlier -CONSPICUOUS WASTE, once the symbol of personal wealth and prosperity, is now the mark of an unpatriotic wanton. Gasoline bootleggers are warn ed by the OPA of prosecution. population there. The hearing may freeze the seven per cent quota, by means of a permanent injunc tion. Because the Negro population changes, eSpeiiilly in abnormal times like these, the NAACP pointed out, a permanent injunc tion restricting Negro tenants to seven per cent would not be Bonnd. —W— The presence of , mind of a nurse, Miss Beatrice Meadows of Lincoln hospital, possibly saved the life of Sherman Slater here Saturday afternoon, while he was being treated for gun shot wounds in his legs inflictcd by his wife Mrs. Euria Lee Slater a few mo ments before at their home, 1613 Fayetteville' street. According to information ob tained by a representative of the CAROLINA TIMES Mr. and Mrs. Slater had quarreled a fewjno- mcntg before, and the wife had requested that her husband not leave the home to visit another iaQ|j_When he,insisted on do- ing so^rs. Slater started shoot ing at her husband who wag then walkii^ North on Fayetteville street. Two of the bullets took effect in his legs and another struck a passerby Lewis Ander son in the left shoulder. Both men were taken to Lin coin hosfwtal where they were ing treats when the irate wife in pursuit of her husband arrived .on the scene in search of her J Ill'll' spouse, who was then being; given emei’gency treatment. Upon dis covering hig whereabouts, .vliich was in the basement of the hos pital Mrs. Slater went there, but Miss Meadows who wag treating the wounds of the man quickly sensed- the danger and shoved him into a nearby men’s toilet and locked the door. Before help could arrive Mrs, Slater started blasting at the door'5f the men’s toilet, and apparently did not cease firing until she had em ptied the entire contents of her weapon’* which ^ according to in formation obtain^ by the repre sentative of the TIMES was a Springfield rifle,. Mr. Slater refused further treatment at the hospitalT and left hurriedly as soon as he dis covered that his wife had been arrested by local police. His wounds are not believed to have been serious, Mr. Anderson was dischai^ed from the ” hospital after receiving treatment. Mrs. Silater was realeaaed the early part of the week under $500 bond and will be given a hearing in Reaorders Court here ■ morninir. . Negro Musicians Hit By Restrictions In Bus TraveOiog Washington, D. C. — Because restrictiong on bus accommoda tions have hit Negro musicians hard, the NAACP wired Joseph B_ Eastman, head of the Office of Defense Transportation, June 18, asking him to withold application of the rstrietive order to busseS used by Negro orchestras until a conference ^ould be held to dis cuss the situation. The NAACP pointed out to Mr. Eastman that discrimination a- gainst that discriiflination again st Negroes in the South and other parts of the country makes it impossible for Nefpro bands to get pullman, eating, housing and other accotaimodations. War Department Employee To Ask $5,000 For bjimes special From NAACP Washington Bureau Washington, D. C. — Damages of $5,000 and costs are asked in the suit filed Monday, June 22, in the U. S. district court of Vir ginia on behalf of Janies Harold. War Department employe who was struck over the head by Theodore Lee, guard at the War Department’s building in Arling ton, V*, May 18, the NAACP WashinKOn Bureau announced this welk. Defeqjilants are Lee and John McShain, Inc., eoristmetion com pany which hired Lee. NAACP attorney Leon A. Ransom and Jameg A. Washington, Jr., are counsel for Harold. When Harold, along with other employes of the War Department, attempted to enter the eafeteria in the Arlington b«iUii^ May 18, Lee barred their way and struck Harold over Ae hTti with a club, Harold was so jured that he had to b« IA»b to a hospital and have stitektv taken in his head. Thomas ‘ L. Roberte and his I wife Mr«. Sadie Roberts, j couple of 421 Piedmont Avenae are both in Lincoln hospital here with ghastly razor slashes in their throats as the aftermath of what appearwl to have b«fen a tamily (juarrel between them a- round 1ft oVlock Thursday morn ing. Neigh^r* wgjre a^trae|c^ the scene when a pnswrfey saw Mr. Boberts standii^ on the home with—Mood —■ streaming from his throat and calling for help, rpon^ inve&tiSfa- tion it wa.-s discovered that Mrs. Roberts was lyin^ uaeonseioas in a bed near the back of the hoQM with even a more gha.«;tlv wound in her thro.at and bleeilii^ pro fusely. A representative of the CARO LINA TIMES who reached the scene a few se’ond after the a- larrfr wa« sounded handed the «wor by Mr. Robfrts with the explanation that his wife had ent his throat with it and her own. The razor was turned over to the police by the TIMES representa tive upon their arrival. So one but the man and his wife was in the home at the time of the ciitt* ing. Hospital attaches stated ITim*- day afternoon that both Mr. and Mrs. Roberts will recover fmm their wounds if no unfavorable developments set in. The aged eoople are well known here and are highly respected ia the community. Mr. Roberts for a long number of .vears was aa employee of the Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company, bn; was recently retired becanse of his age. His wife, prior to her marri age was MtSs Sadie Sanders. Sh« is one of the leading members of the Gospel Tabernacle HoliBess Y Register Jul3rl» ICKr 3 If You Want war 1,000,000 stores will aid bond sale on July 1. Japanese used five carriers in April raid on Ceylon. Harold, who lost a week or more of work ag a ranlt, ed the NAACP inBriEbgtoa Bureau to take his «aac.' Tkrooglk tile quick action of Bit tan- immediately ^ alter tke tfiaelu restrictions on serviM to NeggeiB, tiwfr at the eafeteria wwa jtmoni. • Raleigh, — If yon foxget to register on Jhfy 1, 2. or % yo* will have to wait nnti! after Mtjr 15 for a gasoline rationioie iMdk. A So decreed the Offiee of PkM* Administration in an anno«M#- ment by G. L. Bateman. MP:4' gsftoline rattoniog * Bptcialill^ The r^ri»tratioa for “A" for non-e«jMttia1 motovlifai ‘fl>” ear^ for be h«Id in aafcoot man said ktet sehool dents an Bo* teer reffktasiai tnM fi»: taacherst iH* and othm.' mm ^atioater pfneaa
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