Aim-POLL TAX Bli HI SENATE
MAILING
EDITION
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\6L 23 No. 44
DURHAM, N. a.
SATURDAY, OCT- 24th, 1942
TEXAS SENATOR MAY
LEAD riGHT AGAINST
POLL TAX BILL
New York — Now that the
Oey«r anti-poll tax bill has piss
ed by the House liy tn ovefwBlelni-
inff vote of 262 to 84, the next
battle will be o& the floor of the
Senate when the eorapasion Sonute
bill comes to a vote. Supporters
ol the bill anticipate a filibustei'
led by Senator Uom Connally of
Texa« who led the . fight against
the anti-lynching bill.
Urging that every effort #e
made to expedite the passage of
the anti-poll tax bill in the Senate
before Con?re88 adjoorns thin
aeasion the NAAfP sent this
week lettert to every United Stat-?^
«• Senator. The lettefs demthded;
“ We ^Ik yon to ^ «(verythim
you can to ^t action
as ^heueatw Coatfw*"***"**'
adjourtnent the greater the lilieli'
hood of suces« of • filib»l*t«ir
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OPA NAMES
ARNOLD m
TO STAFF
EDRM MSm
TODEUYER'
FOUR ktmms
Editor L. E. Austin of the
Carolina Times is scheduled to
deliver f6ur addresses in the
next two weeke. The first will
be delivered Sunday October
25 at the Rockhill Baptist
Church of Chapel Hill in conn
ection with a program to be
held there by the local Ushers
Union, a unit ,of the I»terd*no-
minational Ushers Association
of North Carolina. Editor
Austin is president of the state
organization.
The second and third will be
delivered at Fayetteville on
Sunday afternoon November
the first, for the Fayetteville
Ushers Union, and at Wendell
Sunday n|ght for the Wendell
Ushers 'Union.
The last two addresses will be
delivered in Durham at the
Ebenezer Baptist Church at
three o’clock, Sunday afternobn
Noveinber 1st,, in connection
with the anniversary program
of the church at which time the
mortgage against the church
will be burned. The last add'
ress will be delivered at the 4-
H Club program to be held at
Mill Grove School in Durham
County. »
Washington, (ANP) — Aeting
to bring lie nation’s 13 inUlit^J
Negro eon^nmers into a„(5lo«er
working arrangement wiA th
price control and rationing pro-
Srams of n^r-time ^merics, the
ffiee of Price AdmintStration
last week snnouneed ‘appoint-
t of T... Arnold Bill, well-
known l^cgM leiider ind former
division 4 N«|3d a^irs.
Mr. Hill will act sp special as
sistant to the senior deptity ed-
ministrstor, John E. Bamtn. While
be will be coasemed with t}ie en-
ITfe uPA” p^^m,' Mr.
immediate assignment is the pro
blem of rent control and its rela
tion to theNe gro tenant, who for
many years has been' the clj»s.ie
victim of the combination of»poor
hottai^ and high rents. The im-
pat fe> war industries and mili
tary establishments on cities al
ready faced with housing short
ages and’the attendant scramble
for all available housing was
enrraously increased the Nejjro
shelter problem.
Head Of Sleeping Car
Union Says Federation
Speeches Are Baloney
’Soldievs from ^e Midwest and,
Spatli are on the ^ roster o£ the
^my Air Forces training detaeh-
nient studying the ;«eiGnce of th:>
wfesther here on the. University h£
Ohicago'campus. Amoiiig the-train
ees are CMst Paiil#ȣjrnlr
8af €ity, Me.; /M «« wp.»tber
King, Athens, T»nn.r,CadS9t-|n*t?*.
les E. Anderson, St. l>9itis,
aj^d Cadet Benjamki
Atlanta, Ga. Upon graduation (hey.
-will be eonuDission£|^ :iti
'V)ffiieeriS irilh «etBl)a( - outfits on
tbe World’4 tar-flttng Wttle fields.
They^ msy ser^^e ' in it gtound :ittt-
tibns, or as : meberologiSts in the
.criBws ol'FlyiHg Pprtresseg, ; •
Mr. Hill was born in Richmond,
Vs., snd ^adoated from Virginia
Uniin university which made him
an honorary doctor of laws in
1939. He has been on the staff of
both the national and Chic^^go
Urban leagues. Prom 1938 to 1910
he was consultant with the W”A
in Washington. He*has be;n a
member of the White House C.n-
ference on Child Ifealth and Pro
tection and the President’s Emer
gency Committee on Employinont.
He is now a member of the board
of directors of the Council of
Inter-state Migration and !inoe
1938 has been a member of the
New York State Board of Roeiai
Welfare.
A frequent contributor to th.*
Negro press, Mr. Hill is author oJ*
“The Negro and Economic Re«un-
struction,” and co-author of “Oc
eupational Opportunities for Nc
groes.”
DURHAM MORTICIAN
GETS CAMP BUTNER
funeral CONTRACT
-o-
Durham — The Ellis D. Jones
Company, Durham nndertakera,
have been awarded the contract
for all funerals of Negro soldiei's
of Camp Butner who die whil* in
the service of the government, ac
cording to an announeement made
here this, week by Mr. Jono't,
president of the Company.
The Ellis D. Jonfls and Com
pany has been established here
since 1936, during which time it
has gained in prestige and the
confidence'of the people until it
is now considered one of the lead
ing of the city. Ellis D. Jonee,
Sr., Is president and manager »f
the company and his son Ellis D.
Jones, Jr., is secretary and assist
ant manager.
Other members of the staff are
Jesse Lee Oreen, assistant funeral
director and Joseph Burch, assist
ant funeral director. The firm is
open day and night and furnisher
a 34 hour ambulance service. The
establishment is located at 502
Dowd street. '
RSississippi Governor
Force Investigation Qf
Recent Lynchings
lENH. TEACBERS
Cn SAlAKf^*
nCREASE CHEXXS
Chattanooga, Tenn. — 'First
step toward the ec^aliiMltion of.
Negro and whitf .teacher, sa’arics
was made when Negro teachers
here received bit Oetober l.sl
checks with increases in salary;
The aggregate sum of |Bone7. re-’’
ceived wfer* their ta^t v%ary sal
ary suit was* fought by the Ha-
tionai Asfeciatton v ’:^-
vancemrtit of ColoredI^ople m
1941- , o ? , : . ' , .
V
The schoor board has'inStitnteit
salary, increa’ses for thoSe who it
preset are lowest on. scale ^rhcn
traimng and service are taken iit-
to account. By , this airafijg^niTnt*
teachers having, equqil,/ training
and service ' records "ViS tvehiu-
4iry rgeeiye-gqual
Portrait
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Jackson, Miss., (ANP) — Gov.
Paul B. J9hnson has branded the
lynchers of 14 year old Charles
Lang and Ernest Green ‘ 'murder.? ’
and has appointed a special in
vestigator to make a “thorough
probe of this outragfeous ineidcnt.
‘I am in full sympathy with
prosecutions of the men who are
responsible for the murders co
that justice will be done,” he
stated. “I have instraeted by
special investigator to stay there
until he has been able to find out
about this crime, and to e.\ert
every effort in seeking identity of
the guilty parties.”
The bodies of the youths were
found hanged Sunday on a bridge
spanning a highway between Shu-
buta and Quitman. They had been
arrested earlier for allegedly at
tempting to rape a 13 year ol.-l
white girl. Th*e charge had ^c'rr
been proved.
Lynching of the teen age boys
masked the seventh time in rei>out
years that this kind of atrocity
has occurred in this locality. F •;»
other reported lynchings have oc-
currcd ’ this year including the
burning of Cleo Wright , last Jan
uary at Sikeston, Mo-, and the
sheoting of Willie Vinson in July
at Texarkana, Ark.
00 V. Johnson said he had
questioned the sheriff, Lloyd Me-
Neal, who claimed to have been
overpowered” by the lync.hei’s
iniup Jtidnaped the prisoa^rs from
the Quitman jail, as to why the
youths had not been moved fo’’
safe keeping.
“The sheriff said he saw no
evidence of any probable lynch
ing,” declared the g#r.rncr.
“Bnt,’^ he added, “I told him it
was his duty to notify the gover- ]
nor so the prisoners eonld be pro-
^tected as has been done before.”
Johnson said he had recotved
numerous protests from norther
ners who demanded an investig-i-
tion and convictions. He said,"
“They are no more-incensed over
this outrageous incident thnn I
ann’’ and . pointed .out th^ this
was the first time during his ad
ministration that a lynching had
taken place.
if
“It is the first lynching of iny
administration of three years, ’ ’
he said. *^‘1 have prevented namer-'
iiitv iviitJiings by the use of m>l:
troop- «OQld have prevented
this one had 1 learned of the
danger a !:,nching.”
Johnson wired Congressm in
Vito Marcantonio, president of
the International I>abor Defeij®,
one of the protesters, that he
would do everything possible' to
see'that “the lynchers are pro
secuted and punished for this
ageous act. I am opposed to mob
violence just as much as you are
I agree with yon that such con
duct does not help our situation
in a crisis like we are , goin?
through now.”
Negro leaders from all over
the country are incensed over .
the latest Missippi display^ of
I violence, and have lo^d their
complaints with Gov. Johnson,
the President and the Federal
Bureau of Investigation.
EQUAL PAY FOB WOMEN
•
The War Labor Board has set
aside the contention that women
industrial workers are less compe
tent than m«n becAnse of physiciH
inferiority and therefore are en>
titled to less pay. It recently rul
ed that management must pev ei)-
nal wages to women who, in *'cotn
parible jobs, produced work of
Gontfact
Gets Butner
,Rev. W. C. SomeiVille who ire
ceived the portrait of Dr. C. S.
Bt^wn, famous Baptist leader.
The picture will be hung on the
walls of the headquarters of the
Lotty Carey Convention.
' Washington, D C., (Spet-iai to
the TIMES) — A portrait of the
late Dr. C. S. Brown, one of th»>
founders of the Lott .Carey Bap
tist Foreign Mission Convention,
was presented to be hung in his
memory, .at a spefiaK. ceremony
which took place Tuesday after
noon, at a meeting of tfce'Execu
tive Committee, at convent ior
headquarters, 1501 -Hth Stre^,
Northwest.
Toronto, (ANP) — The Ami^rH
*aa —
annual coBvention buried, as in
previous yearn, the issue of
diseriminatinn and jiai rrov praa»
lieew by mo^t »f its afTiliated
ions.
A Pbiltp Rawdnlph, pref’Jent
of the Brotherhood ol '
II ar Porters, who Wedn»«-Ii*.. fn>-
posed a committee to 3it»-
Xegro MtkodM i« the
was. voted down hr f»>’' -
ates. 0«|t diKnentiog •■.'iaK' “a:
shonted by Mihoa P. Wehater,
the other Negro deli^te froat tbe
porter’s osi4>n.
AFU leadrte^ and tte mo*»
/ IMHrtant «niw» were Wsailed fnrtT
the floor for minutes by Rao.
dolfrii for dodging the {nropc«ai.
He charged speeches of o.he?
delegates about democracy mere
“balony.”
An attempt was made to nroid
the issue the eoiivenfTon a5T“
John P Fr^, Secretary, rea.l s
statemmt adopted by the reMlj.
tions coannittee deelanog the JUm
firmly opposed to diserimiaatioai
and statii^ that the conventioB
proposed to do nothing about it.
While Frey spoke the tall, di^
fied Randolph walked slovlv aad
stoicly toward the platform. Wtl*
liam Green, AFL president who
was reelected for bis 19th coD^mnH
tive term, squirmed in hia ehi^,
apparently wished he was the aam
whow asn't there- Members
ent sent a pall of silence thma^;it.
out that hall in expeetaney of
what they knew was to come,
oa ^ignition by Green, Randa^^
sSid: . ■ •
“We have heard many grami
and splendid speeches at this eon-
! Three children of the organizer vention, and if a man from Max*
Ellis D. Jones, Sr., president of'
the Ellis IX, Jones i^neral Diree-.,
tors who announced this WMk
that his finn had been awaeded
the emitraet for all funerals tO' be
held for Colored'soldiers at Camp
'Butner. 'Mr. Jones estaMislliaent
was organized in 199S, «M since
that, time has enjoyed renaarkahM
grovth.
Mrs. Marie Frazier of the capital;
Mrs. Flora Collins of Winston-
Salem, and Mrs. Eunice Robbins
of Hopewell, Va., were {ffesent as
the Rev. J. 'L. S. HtSiloman, pas
tor of the Secon Baptist Church,
presented the portrait to the Rev.
Wendell C. Somerville, executive
secretary of the convention.
One in a series of special pro
grams preceding the burning of
the mortgage on the headquarters,
the date for which has not yet
been set, tbepr esentation wa.s a
feature of the committee se.siiioi>.
at which the semi-annual report
of the executive aeeretary w.-«.s
also heard.
While the Rev. W. L. Ransornc
of Richmond, presided, the Rev.
Somerville reported that more
than •'p3,000 over last year’s fiyrure
was raised by the> Lott Carev
group durii^ Aagusi and Septem
ber, 1942, or a total of ♦11,860.23
in two months.
A total of $^495.15 was rais
ed during the fiscal year, whi«.h
ended July 31, the eseeative .^ec^
tary reported, thfe suga represeni-
ing an increase of $18,090 over
the previous 12 meatlM, aady|9.:
000 more than had heea eolWted
in the past 25 yeaxs, wi^ a total
of 79 per eeot d the hMOiae etl-
leeted being spent for «issioD4.
The Lott Carey Coaveeilion *ap-
ports 59 mlssknriaa oa the
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had come here he would haT#
thought most of the speeehmaE-
ers believe^ in deraocraey. Wlie€
he learned that many of the sand
men denied the right to jota
anions he would ^aeh the eoaclM
’ons that have “colored elaoaes,**
loney.*** —
The American Federatioa SC
Labor cannot say It is demoeratts
unless it cleans its house a&A
savs thiit^ regardless of naa^
color, and creed any worlcer aaii
join any AFL uni(Bj • and that ak9
union which does not have tldS
spirit of democracy will he
pelled fnNB the federation.** '
Radolph cited foar types of
crimination inside the Aff»l
ions that have “eolorel a«Mt»^
those that ohserre **aiiariHiJ
laws,” others that ereate
democratic jiaiiliaries” a n
those that insist upon a aev'
ber being **reconmended hy
^nt mesfibars.’*
Citing the nrgeney of
,lng saaBpower ia tlM
geney. Randolnh blasted tlw
nit'nnsl Machiaiats
the Botlnvaker* muot*. tf
of httoc gaiHr of **e«lMr
He eaatigatcd ttefiaetriMl
eru Flnihtva. ami
and other* like tk«Ml
ing new swahef^le **
ed by fsriHRt Mtlkl
ftnm iMaah«ffa«M
(fC^lnved m Viit m