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mAM SAYS TUSKEGEE NOT FOR MAILING EDITION I aCttn^d VOL. XXIII - NO. 17 ['arH?FRUtHllbipRi]^EQ^ DURHAM, North Carolina, SATURDAY, MAY 1st, 1943 BUY WAR BONDS . • Fayetteville Host To Ushers Mid Year Session Sunday ★ ★ ★ ★ ★★ ★★ LONE NEGRO SOLOe HALTS MOB . if. -¥■-¥- ¥ Mississippi Lynchers Face Conviction In Federal Court Patterson Denies State Trying To Get Control' Of Tusltegee Institute New Dormitories Built for D. C. War Workers TUSKKGEEj Ala — There hnv* be^n 'c6i^ifting nnd mis leading statefenti in the daily nnd Negro newspaper* of th« country regarding Tuskegee In stitute and a propo.s^'d rflation- ahip lo the State of Alabama. This statement is offered in flarifimtt'on in order that our friends and well wishers may h:ive the facts. There is not now nor has the^a ever been considered plana- whereby the State of Alabama wonld exercise administrative control over Tuskegee Institute The 8i>eech of Governor Sparks at Tuskegee Institute on Foun der’s Day, April 4, made refer ence to a matter that has been urtder consideration for several years. It is related to a south- wide study of education avail able to both white and Negro youth and is part of a plan tu dt^elop regional institutions aa a means of meeting the educa tional needs of the South and nation on a sound and practical basis. There is no truth in thee published reports that,the Qov- ernor has iuitated a prosposal “to swap a $100,000 annual ap propriation for six trustees. The Governor has’ responded to a proposed quarter of a million dollar program of graduate and professional education by Stat in},' that he was willing to Tt- comuiend to the Alaba’iua Legis lature that it take the first step by appropriating $100,000 to ward the amount needed and that six trustees (three more more than the Tuskegee Institul Charter now provides for) should be set up as an instru ment through which the stale funds could be transferred. He, the Governor, stated specificaily ' that he did not wish to inter fere with the control of Tuske gee Iiistitute and requested th» Attorn«^v General and his Leg.Tl Adviser to prepare a bill th.ii would leave the control of Tu.skegee Institute completely in the hands of its Trustees with nirfeteen of the twenty-rivo self- perpetuating. By staggering tlie terms of the sis Trustees here with propoi^d from three to five years no Governor will ha-^'e the i>t vcr lo change niOTe than threr’of the .si\ in a given (Co;itiiiUo on I’age Kight) Ambrose Evans, president of the Fayetteville Usher.s Union, under whose leadership the Fayetteville ushers will act as host to the ll>th annual mid-year session Sunday. May.2. Mr. Evaua has tfTformed the state president that everything is ready ,to en- tain the many delegates and visitors who will -attend the meeting. ' TEXAS PR®™ ' CARGOES BEFORE SUPREME COURT WASHINGTON, D. C. — On April 21, for the fourth time, the question of the “ white, pri mary” in the South Avas taken before the United States Supre- reme Court bv legal counsel of the NAACP. The decision of this case will determine ■ the fate of the “white primary’* not only in Texas but in the other states of the deep South ^here the “white primary” is now exclud ing all Negro voters. The present case arose' when Lonne K. Smith of Houston, Texas was denied to vote in the IWO primaries. Suit was filed against the election judges of held that the plaintiff had been Harris county. The complaint (Please Turn Tp Pape. TwoK Unidentified Soldier Holds Angry Crowd At Bay Until Police Arrive One of the 600 skilled workers tmployed in the construction of esforl,( pleted by Samuel Plato, Ne^ contractor. Wake and Hi workers in Waah: ,y Halls, new'domiltqries for 1,000 Negro wranen war' ington, D.XJ. The mijlio&-donBr job was ii«cently com- i iFTato,," TO ATTEND MEET DETROIT, NEW YORK, N. Y. — A call to attend the NAACP emer gency war conference in De troit, Michigan, June 3 throu*„'h 6 has been sent to the more than 600 branches and youth councils t)f the National As sociation for -the Advancement of Colored People throughout the United States. The confer ence will focus attention on the solution of problems confront ing the Negro in wartime .\merica. “Because of the seriousness of the BituAtion," the NAACP said, “we call an emergency conference on “The Status of the Negro in the War For Free dom. We invite not only our branches, youth conncils and college chapters but Americans of every race who reeogniae the serionsness of race prejudice as a menace not only to our n-i- tional welfare bat to general At Ushers’ Mid Year Meet In Fayetteville Sunday DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE INDICTS SHERIFFS FOR ACTS OF BRUTALITY - TOWARD NEGRO, WHITE PRISONERS. j secority as, well. ’’ i (Pleaf (Please Turn To Page Two) The Department of Justice announced Friday (April 23, that a Federal Grand Jury at Montgomery, Ala., had returned threte indictm'cntp cMarginidj Sheriff Edwin Eugene Evans and .Deputy Sheriff Henry Franklin Faucett of Macon County, Ala, with acts of brutality toward prisoners over a period of three years. The case was developed as a result of an FBI investiga tion requested by Assistant At tiirney General Wendell Bergc. The three indictments charge on fifteen counts, that the sheriff and his d^eputy whippAl, beat itnd abused. prisoners to extort confessions from them, in violation of the Federal Civil Rights Statute, Section 52, Title 18, U. S. Code. The maximum penalty under this statute is imprisonment for one year and a fine of $1,000, on each, count- ’ According to the indictments, the brutality of the defendants extended to both white prison ers, including Walter Gunn, n N^o, who was shot and killed by Sheriff Evans while attempt ing to arrest him. The indict ments allege that the beatings were administered with a walk ing stick, a blackjack, a rubber hose, and other weapons. Among prisoners ' thus mis- (Please Turn To Page Two) FAYETTEVILLE^ (Special to the TIMES) — Advanced infor mation from the office of the president of the North Carolina Intrdenominational Ushers ^s- ociation indicates that more than 500 ushers, visitors will be on hand here next Sunday, May 2 to attend the 19th annual mid-year session of the or ganization which is scheduled to open promptly at 1:30 P. M. The scene of the meeting will bt the Evans Metropolitan AME Zion Church, located at .101 Cool Spring street. Accord ing to Ambrose Evans, president of the Fayetteville Ushers Un ion, nothing has been left un done on the part of the loca’ organization to make the meet ing a success. One of the main feature of the meeting this year will be .n report on the first annual drive for the Oxford Orphanage, (Continued on Phge Three) iiist Rit^M) At White Rock Tuesday For James R. Evans Last rites for James Rufus Javans, FT, ;resipected ycitiaen who died at his home here, 812 Glenn street, ,2 :.30 P. M. l^iuday, April 25, were held at White Rock Baptist church, Tuesd.iy afternoon at four o’clock. Rev. Miles Mark Fisher, pastor of the church delivered the eulogy. Interment was at the Beecli- wood cemetery on Fayetteville Road. • Mr. Evans was born in Or ange county, but came to I>nr-: ham around 60 years ago. He attended school at Markham's Chapel and Shaw University. During his eai’ly life he taught school and later engaged in thf barber business here, being one of the first..^to establish a bar ber shop in this city. In 190l he was married to Miss >^Effie R. Sellers of Chapel Hill, . The deceased was one of the oioneer business men of . this city, and figured much-in the growth and development of many of the Negro business in stitutions of Durham. For a lone number of years he served as o director of the Mechanics and Farmers Bank, and at one time was one of its vice presidents Several years ago he helped tr organize the Community Damp Wash Laundry, and as its presi dent devoted his personal atten tion its to management. For a long number of year? Mr. Evans was a deacon of the White Rock Baptist church and a member of Its pulpit com mmittee. His sound advice and judgement in both these posi tions made him an important factor in the growth and develop ment of the church. Mr. Evans is survived by his wife, and five daughters wh» are: Mrs. Elsie Green. Wash ington, D. C.; Mrs. Knby Mc Neill, Wilson;' Mrs. .Tulia^ D Freeman, Durham; Miss Mary Evans. Durham and Mrs. T.rnes tine Young, Durham. Two gr.nnd- ehildren also survive. James R. Evans, respect>?J Durham citizen who died at his hom^ here, bunday afternoon. May 25. Funeral services w^r3 held at the White Rock Baptist cnurcn, ruesday altemoon at four o’clock. BUY WAR TONDS !! GREEN'TtLU?, (Sp«bl to ih** TIi'fiR) - - Jku un>d«>Btifie(i Xegro soldier (defied a mob gf several biuidreil Ne^oes at i Saturday Misht and prevented serious trouble when the mob attempted to storm the jail and prevent police* of ficer from placing a Negro wo man, Mrs. Rosa Lee Picott, m jail on a charge of )>eing dis orderly, and creating a difltarb- ance. According to Mayor Ivan Bissette the Xegro* soldier sta-' tioned himself at the do«r of the jail and warned th« moh not to approach the jail, whivh is located in an isolated part of the town. The soldier held the mob back until the -arrival of •hlgihway patrolmen who ,took the woman, her hnsband, John Picott, William and Bookrr T. Peytpn, brothers of the womuk. to the eoanty jail in QreenTille, to await trial ^ According to information ob« , tained from rarioos persons ia Orifton the trouble was the oat- Pleasa Turn To Page Two) Sheriff Gives True Testimony In Lynching Case BUY WAR BONDS! QA^TTIESBURG, Miss., (AN P) — With two men freed Weil- nesday by the government, the trial of three others charged with violation of federal civil rights statutes in the lynching last year of Howard Wash con- tined to create one of the biggest sensations ever witnessed in south. This is the first time since 1903 that the federal government Kas sanght to com- vert mobbists. The two men set free on directed verdicts by C. R ‘Dis trict Judge Sidney Mize on mo- |ion by the goveimucnt that it had failed to produce any eri'J- enee connecting them with tlif crime were William Oscar sohV farmer, and Nathaniel Shotts, clerk. The remaining three whit** mea who faced penalities of 10 I years' impriSonmeBt each ani' $5,000 fines if eonvieted inch ed Lnther Holder, depaty and jailer in Jones eomitgr wl the lynehing oeeanred; Jones, factory worker, Allen Pi’yor, also a factory er, whose signed eoafiessiaa to his part in the atrotiij admitted as evideaee over ' protests of defense Pryor is a relative of th* dairy farmer for , wha— death Wash was eonrictttL Immediately after and Shotts were freed, lawyers nored for Tcrdkts of Mjjlittil others on tllA Qtwi ciency of The Motion proseeatiAB ba4 ease» defease The
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