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8 DEAD FROM tANNED MiliililllWWWlW MAILING EDITION HE^U TH JDnBR iMe d" VOL. XXIII —NO. 50 Durham, North Carolitia, Saturday, Pecember 11, 1943 New Attack On I Victims And Scene Of 'Canned Heat Party Hasten The Peace — Buy War Bonds Launched Rides Wake “Canned .5^ I et oiien, Takes Three Lives Men The above photos show the eight victims of the “Canned Heat” party held at 16 Cora Alley last Monday night. The arrow points to tne rooin in which the revelers drank the deadly fluid as a substitute for liquor, and the place in which the victimss spent their last evening tbgether. In the upper left-hand comer of the picture is Miss Aiinie Beasley, in the righ hand corner is Georgia Moss. At the bottom readiilg from left to right are: Roosevelt Stancil, Mrs. Mattie Hill. (Orphan) Annie Dowd, alias Smith, Mrs. Flora Johnsn, Robert Robinson and Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards. Smith Committee Opposes Program Oi Fi»R And FEPC ■V-iSi -intP(l Negro I’rcss WASni\(JT()X — A new at tack iip;iii Pre.siilfTit 'V I exocntivc order I)MnninK r:ic }i,scrji(iin.'iti(n ami t!n> effect veFitfi# of UiV* ^ Of! Monday hy Smith ram- niittop on th(* hount* in a ’•epwt vnhieh statrd thnt all anti-di.' crimination cl«ns«*s in pahli- • cnntracis should bt*- prohiiiitc'd , by law. The ri’port, which mentionrd neither the FEP(" nor the execu tivc order l)y name, ]eclar('d thnt any such contrncfnral pro visions must pome only aite>' laws to that effect had be'n President vvm. Kicn. superintendent of Lincoln Hospital, who was recently elected to the presi- Seventh Liberty Ship Named Prominent S. s. James Weldon Johnson To Be Launched 'Ey California Shipbuilding Company Some Time In December GETS CALL Thp seventh Liberty Ship in bo nafned for (»n outstnnding Ne"ro American, the SS JAME.a WKLDON JOHNSON, will be launehed at the Wilmington yards of the California Ship- Itnildinp; Corporation in Decem ber, the Maritime CoiuiiiiHsioii announced this week. The vessel will piny tribute ti. the noted poet, essnyist, Inwy er and diplomat who w;m killeil in an antomobile-trnin eollisiop near his summer home nt Dark Hnrbor, Me., on June 20, 1938. Mr. Johnson, who also nchiev cd note as a song-writcr and a profei?sor of literature at Fisk and New York nniversities. was born in JacksonviHe, Fin., on June 17, 1871. Completine pubh'c school study in his n.i- tive city, hn later received B, A. nnd M. A. decrees from At lanta University and did gradu ato study at Columbia Univer- .sritv in New York City. nis career began na a teach* er in the Jacksonville publi? school, which was elevated'to high school, grade during his tenure as principal. During this period he studied law at nighc. nnd, in 1897, was admitted to the Florida Bar, the first of his race to achieve this honor since the Civil Wav. .i Ifk. In IflOl he w’ont to New York City nnd with his brother, J. llosamund Johnson, and Bob Cole, collaborated in the success ful writing of popular songs nnd light operas. Later he was appointed |J. S. Consul, first to Venezuelas and later to Ni caragua. Returning to Nev York in 1910, he married Grace Nail and two years later his first book, the fictional “Au tobiography of an Ex-Colored Man,” appeared anonymously Its authorship was not asknow- Icdg by ^r. Johnson until 1927. He edited a book of American Negro poetry and two of Negro spirituals*, and also wrote th-) Finglish libretto for the opera “Goyescas,” which was produr- ed by the Metroiwlitan Opera Please turn to Page Four United Council Of Church Women Tq Sponsor World Day Of Prayer enacted hy congress, and that i dency of the National Confer ence of Hospital Administra tors, at a meeting of the or ganization in Norfolk. Va. Un- Rev. P. E. Green, Durham minister who has recently been called to the pastorate of the First Baptist church of Ridgeway, N.C., has a mem bership of 300. Rev. Green is well prepared to take care of his new charge which has been pastored by some of the leading ministers of the Bap tist ihurch, among them be ing Dr. J. H. Moore of Char lotte and the late Rev. M. R. Shaw. group were Germans, a French Bricker out Ohio Ctov- erndrship race, rests all on the Presidency.. Associated Negro Press NEW YORK — In an at tempt to bind together every continent of the war torn worM in a fellowship of intercession, the United Council of Church women will sponsor a world day of prayer on February 25, 1944, the first Friday of Lent. The national committee chair man is Miss Margaret T. Apple garth. The theme of the program is “And the Lord Wondered That There Was No Interces sor," and suggests the use of the wise men’s gifts as sym bols of intercession; myrrh, symbol of intercession for the sorrows of the world; frankin cense, symbol of intercession for all members of the church family in every nation and gold, symbol of intercession for the refining spirit of all man kind. The program was planned and prepared when a large group of nationals gathered as a cross section of those meeting in all parts of the earth on the World Day of Prayer. Included in th3 adian, some Japanese, a kuln woman, a Greek, a Hollander, and missionaries from f'hina, Burma, Rinm, Malaya, India. Egypt, Algerinj Africa an 1 Alaska. Others unable to be present, mailed petition.^? from their hom.e lands, so that the concerns of Peruvians, Tiuli vians, Bolivians, roIoml)i;ins, Puerto Ricans nnd Spatiinrd; were also included. From 'last year’s o)iservan‘e, a prayer from Belgian Cimgo stated, “We do not want to back, God, to oiir days of witcii craft and darkness. No, we di not want to go back! Help us, God, to live for Thee. “Ano ther from the same place en treated the “Savior, owner ftf the broom of grace,” to com" to “sweep our hearts, prepnr ing them for the entranre of Thy word.” woman, a Scotchman, a The number of murders committed at the bridge ta bles is less than -.2 per cent of those that ought to have Ibeen committed.—San Diego Cau* Union. no government agency had any authority on its own to insert such clauses. Head of the committee i.s Howard Smith, Virginia Demo crat. Other members are Reps Hugh Petterson, Georgia; John J. Delaney, New York, and Jerry Veorhis, California, De mocrats, and Reps. Clare Hoff man, Michigan; John Jenn- ing, Tenn., and Fred Hartley. Now Jersey, Republicans. Several federal agencies werf attacked in the report and the Federal, Surplus Commoditie-; Corp. was specifically condeltin ed for insisting that dairy com panies which .sell to Unelc' Sam include anti-discrimination clauses in their contraits. Thl.' is the same committee which also took potshot at the OPA for .seeking to enforce price ceilings on meat. Said the committee report after citing the regulation anti discrimination clause in surplus CoTiimodities contract?*: “Conijjreas has never enacted' such a law and, however laud able its puri>oses may be, no government agency has been authorized by legislation to im pose such a condition. “The subsidy program, the lend lease, as well as the needs of our armed forfies, were never intended by congress to be us ed ns a subterfnge to impose legislation upon the country which congress had failed or refused to enact. “Any effort to use subsidi es, lend lease funds or other ’i-iations for any such purpose should be prohibited br Itnv. ’’ Althoush the Roosevelt ex ecutive order was not mention ed by name, the report con demned “unauthorized execn- Please turn to Page Four BY W. a. RHODES Death rode high and highty here this week, in the wake of “canned heat” drinking i party, and took the lives of eight persons. Others who are believed to have been at f the fatal fiesta may be some where within the confines of the city in a serious, maybe 1 a dvinfr condition; too fearful of the law, and not afraid death, to whisper th^fi-uth about being present and partnkin? of the deat?t- dealing concoction that ha» already cost the lives of eight of their friends. As thit> story is being pen ned there runs throught the mind of the writer a pano ramic review of slums. darK and dingy hovels, a muddy street, forlorn women, under- nourni.shed children, hapless men who stare at you out of sunken eyes that register de feat at the hands of a world in which there is little or no pity for the weak and unlet- der Mr. Rich s membership : jg ^ street of the Lincoln has progressed until j ^janined and the doomed, a it is now one of the leading race institutions. street where rent collectors swarm over on Saturdays and the rest of the week like birds of prey to wring from the poc kets of their helpless victims blood money for shacks that are too miserable to be inhab ited by human beings. This is Cora Alley, named possible for some bundle of feminine beauty of bygone days. Be she dead or living, saint or sin ner, God rest her wear>* bones. Eight dead" and others pos sibly dying. Those who are known to have paid the final debt to this city’s refusal t j clean up its slums, that breed crime, ignorance, filth, pover ty, disease, heartless men and evil women are: Mrs. Flora Johnson. :^5, married and the inhabitant of Apartment 16, and reported hostess of thi fatal party, who died at Lin coln Hospital 5:30 A.M. Tues day. Miss (Orphan) Annie Smith, 22, who died at Lincoln Hospital at 10:30 Tuesday prepared by Atwood and Week.* i who died at Linioln Hos- Inc., architects, of Durham. cal!lP‘t«l. Tuesday at 2:30; Rob- |ert Robinson. 43, who died at puke Hospital 11:00 A. M., 1 Tuesday: Elizabeth Edwards. 124, died at Lincoln Hospital Tuesday at 10:45 P. M.; Miss Bids For Addition To Lincoln Nurses Home To Be Opened RICHMOND, Ya. - The re gional office of the Federal Works Agency has been inform ed by C. C. Spaiilding, president of the Bo.'ird of Trustees of Lincoln Hospital at Durham, that bids for the contract t > remodel a building on the hos pital grounds hnd construct a one-story addition to the hos pital, to provide facilities lor Negro student nurSes enrolled in the T’. S. Cadet Xnr-e Corp.' training program, ^nll be open ed at the office of W. M. Ricn. superintendent of the hospital, on December Ifi at S p. M. FWA Regional Director Ken neth Mark well said that plan for alterations and repairs to a two-story frame dwelling to ac commodate 21 stndcnt nurse.* and construction of a brick and frame addition to the hospital building to provide space for the heating plant and ice mak ing machinery, in order to ex pand the hospital’s kitchen and dining room facilities. The present nurses’ home a!; Lincoln Hospital has accom modationS for 59 nurses. The proposed additions to the hos pital’s facilities will provide quarters for a total of 80 nnrs- es. Please tarn to Page Pour Mattie Hill, 25. died at Lin coln Hospital at 8:30 A. M., after telling i^lice that she was at the party and that emn-^ ned heat was served but she did not drink any of it. Sh« became ill in j*il Wednesdvjr morning around seven o*elo^ and was rushed to Hospital where she succ«hmI>> ed. The seventh victim of tiM. deadly fluid was Mias Please tom Page
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