Shaw Holds Bible Training
“SuminM ^hools in Bible Study were held for the put aeyeral weeks at Shaw Univeraity. In
the picture above, some of the actirities which included Bible Study, literary improvement, and
handicraft, are shown. In the upper photos at left, ministers are studying under instruction of
the Rev. Mosm N. Delaney, Director of Shaw’s Department of the Rural Church, At right, the
ministerial group is enjo^ng a cUas in leather crafts taught by Miss Alice Miller, Instructor in
In the lower photos, at left, Missionary women who attended a two weeks study course at Shaw
are pictured with two of their instructors Mias Ann W. Ferebee and the Rev. Moses N. Delaney.
At right. Ministers who completed the six weeks Summer School are shown virith two of their
professors, the Rev. Samuel F. Daly and the Rev. Moses N. Delaney, both of Shaw's Department
of the Rural Church. The Rev. W. K. Jordra of Maxton holds a metal plague which he made and
which bears the motto, “Prayer changn things.”
33 - Family Homecoming
Hundreds At Reunion Of
Spauldings And Relatives
By FRANKLIN BROWER
WHITEVILLE, N. C.
Nearly a thousand native sons
and daughters of Columbus and
Bladen Counties from 33 fami
lies including the lostly Spauld
ings, and coming from all over
the nation held their annual
Homecoming Reunion here at
the First Sunday September
with Sunday School and Church
services at the Rehobeth A. M.
E. Zion Church and a gigantic
picnic and community program
at the Farmers Union School.
Ten years ago this annual
event ,was originally re
union of Spauldings, whose
Original name was “Spraw
ling,” noble descendents of
Ben Sprawling so Earned by
his father and slavemaster
Sam Swindell.
Because of au altercation be
tween two two, the Sprawliiigfi,
later Spauldings, were freed Ih*-
fore the end of slavery. From
fighting, hard%v'orking IJen
Spaulding, ail the Spauldings of
this Community came, and t >
keep in touch, they began an an
nual reunion which is now en
joyed by natives of 33 families
both Bladen and Columbus
counties.
This cottimunity, about forty
miles west of Wilmington cov
ering 65,000 acres valued at
$900,000’s, all owned by these
colored people. The property has
passed from ancestors to heirs
who have had the wisdom to hold
their estates till now. This com
munity is composed of Spauld
ings, relatives of Dr. C. C.
Spaulding, one of the founder’s
of the North Carolina Mutual
Life Insurance Company;
Moores (Dr. A. Moore being an
other founder), Campbells,
Blanks, Webbs, Mitchells, Ja-
c o b s, BurneyB, Freemans,
Whites, Peacocks, Phifers, Len-
noiMii, Baldwins, Newells, Ship
mans, Ijaeewells, McDongalds,
Stephens, McCoys, Patricks,
Shaws, Jones, Chavis, Wolistons,
Georges, Armstrongs, Cromor-
ties, Williams, McWilliams, Dt>-
vnnes, Simmons, and Cla'tons,
all calling me another “Cous-
No friction or ill w’ill between
these tribes has ever been re
ported, and they married and
intermarried to produce out
standing leaders in all profes
sions, including Ex-('ougresti
man George H. White who rose
to the Legislature of North Car
olina and the Congress of the
United States and Earnewt
Perkins of Maryland.
With Dr, C. C. Spaulding
from Durham came Mr. and Mrs.
E. R. Merrick, Booker B.
Spaulding, Mr. and Mrs. W. J.
Kennedy and Marsha Goodwin,
Mrs. Isador S. Brenson, Mr. and
Asa T. Spaulding and children,
Asa Spaulding, Jr., Patricia
Ann, Aaron Lawery, and Ken
neth Bridgeport.
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Jackson,
D. F. Spaulding and family,
Mrs. Janie Spaulding, Mr. and
Mrs. W. L. Dooms, and Wauna
L. Jr., Mrs. Ethel Marie Stew
art; Sgt. Alex Shearin, Rev. J.
Lee White, Mrs. Ora Reynolds,
Johnny Perkins.
C. C. Spaulding, Jr., Mr.
and Mrs. L K. Spaulding, C. M.
McDougald, Clinton Shearin,
G. Wendell White, Mrs. B. S.
White, M;s. Margaret Shearin,
D. F. Spaulding.
D. C., Baltimore And Philly
And Eastern Seaboard
From Baltimore and Mux-y-(
land state came A tty. and Mrs.
Ernest L. Perkin.s, Dan Spauld-
,ing. Dr. and Mrs. George II.
Spaulding, Mr. and Mrs. Theo
dore Freeman and daughter, Mr.
and Mrs. Ijewis Freeman, Mx’s.
liaymond MeCalLjBd squ, Jjiv
iftgion L(*nnon,* Mrs. Lenora
White, Atty. Theodore Spauld
ing, Mrs. Lucille Price.
Mrs. Koxie Merrick and fam
ily, Bruce and -Joseph Phifer,
lit'v. Kuasell Moore, Mr. arid
Mrs. Aaron Freeman, all of
Pliiiadelphia. *
From Washington, D. C. were
Mrs. Helena Sammons, Griffin
"and Roberta Shaw.
SECOND ROBESON
COJCERT RIOTED
24 Barely Escape Death
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FOR 25 YEARS THE OUTSTANDING NEGRO WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS
VOLUME 27—NUMBER 36
DURHAM, N. €., SATURDAY, SEPT. 10th, 1949
PRICE: TEN CENTS
Veterans March On
Rally And Concert Again
New Prexy
Local Delegation To Business
Confab Reports Successful Meet;
Hcinderson Named’To Liaison Group
Eleven delegates frojoi the
Durham Business and Prof
essional Chain and the House>
wives League returned to the
city recently from the Na
tional Negro Business which
convened at Detroit reported
that the convention was one
of the most successful in the
history of its organization.
Mrs. Callie Daye, president
of the local Housewives Lea
gue, and Mrs. J. DeShazor
Jackson accepted the charter
for the local organization.
Mrs. Jackson is president-
emeritus of the League and
first vice president of the na
tional organization which was
founded in Durham in 1933.
(The Durham delegation
sponsored an exhibition at the
convention which won the ac
claim of several other del
egates and officials of the con
vention. Mrs. Daye and Mrs.
DeShazor also participated
with main roles in a pageant
presented at the convention.
J. J. Henderson, energetic
chairman of the Board of Di
rectors of the local Business
and Professional Chain, was
elected chairman of the nation
al committee to act in liaison
capacity for the Chain and
the Housewives League.
Attending the meet from
Durham besides Mrs. Daye
and Mrs. DeShazor and Hen
derson were Theodore Speight,
president of the local chain;
Freeman Smith, Charlie Jack-
.son, W. G. Rhodes, G. W. Cox,
C. C. Spaulding, J. S. Stewart
and Mrs. Magnolia Leake.
The national organization
will convene next year at
Tuskegee, Alabama.
The Durham delegation, a-
Ipng with the rest of the con
vention heard the annual ad
dress by Horace Sudduth,
president of the national or-
ganiz'htion and wound up
things with a banquet at the
Tuller Hotel.
J. S. Stewarlj, secretary-
treasurer of the Mutual Build
ing and Loan Association of
this city, was elected presi
dent of the American Savings
and Loan League at the meet
ing of the organization in De-
troft, recently.
NAACP Begins
Vote Drive In
Tennessee
JACKSON
“A legislative and political
action committee to conduct
a registration drive for 200,-
000 voters in the State of
Tennessee and to sponsor a
get out the vote campaign in
state and federal elections
w'as established at the third
annual state conference of the
Tennesse branches of the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People,
held here last week.
Part of the committee’s re
sponsibility, according to the
NAACP Director of Branches.
Gloster B. Current, will be to
inform members of the branch
es of the voting records of
mebers of Congress and the
state legislature on measures
supported or opposed by the
NAACP.
PEEKSKILL, N. Y.
Dozens of persons were in
jured in an aftermath to the
Paul Robeson concert held here
f?undaj". This marked the sec
ond time in eight days that vio
lence has attended 9 gathering
in which the noted singer and
actor was the principal figure.
A week before, veterans had
marched on a Robeson concert
and disrupted it as violence
flared when the veterans and
Robeson followers met.
As the half-hour concert cnd-
eil stones and various other mis
sies hurtled through the air us
the concert-goers left the out
door grounds near here. Busses,
us«‘d to transport part of the
10,000 people to the concert,
were damaged by the rocks and
stontT* hurled by the erow’d that
formed around outside the
grounds in protest against the
concert.
30 persons, at least, were ad
mitted to the Peetekill hos
pital for treatment of iiijuries
stistained in the -melee and-
five were detained -for further
treatment.
The outbreak of the violence
came a few hours after thou
sands of veterans staged a noisy
protest parade outside the a-
bandoned golf conrsef where the
concert was held.
A crowd, estimated to be at
least 10,000, attended the
concert while 4/)00 others,
sympathetic to the veterans
anti-Robeson demonstration,
milled around outside the
grounds. Few reports of vio
lence were made during the
concert.
Several busses arrived in Man
hattan with banged-up bodies
Shd smashed windows. About
150 of the concert goers were
still on the scene of the concert
at 8 p. m. w’aiting for bus trans
portation to New York.
Irving Potash, manager of
CIO Furriers Joint Council,
was known to be struck in the
eye with a stone hurled
through the open window of a
car.
New York f)ity police said
that the two buses not connect
ed with the riot had been stoned
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NAACP Asks Probe
Of Peekskill Rioting
NEW YORK
An investigation by the New
York State Attorney General or
by au independent citizens’ com
mittee of the incident of mob
violence whidh broke up a sched
uled concert by Paul Robeson
near Peekskill last Saturday
was lu’ged of Governor Thomas
E. Dew’ey this week by the Na
tional Assoc-iation for the Ad
vancement of Colored People.
“It is our opinion that the
the county and local officers
. . . cannot conduct an impar
tial investigation to deter
mine all the facts,” stat«d
Roy Wilkins, acting secretary
of the NAACP, in a telegram
to the New York governor.
Mr. .Wilkins asserted that re
ports reaching the NAACP
offices indicated that respon
sibility for the demonstration
“may involve the inflam
matory editorial policy of the
Peekskill STAR, issuance of
permit by Cortland authori
ties for mass demonstration
in the-immediate concert area,
and failure of county and lo
cal law enforcement officers to
give adeqiiate protection to
those desiring to attend the
concert.”
A member of the Peekskill
branch of the NAACP reported
that after he sent a letter to the
Peekskill STAR protesting their
inflamed editorials preceding
the Robeson concert, he received
numerous threats through i
onymons telephone calls.
After the NAACP and scores
of othe^rganizations and in
dividuals issued protests a-
gainst the rioting. Governor
Dewey earlier this week or
dered Westchester County au
thorities to submit a complete
report on the incident.
The Association had sent tele
grams to the governor and to
George M. Fanelli, district at
torney of Westchester County,
and had also wired Westchester
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Riot Victims
To File Suits
Says CRC
The Civil Rights Congress
announced this week that it is
proceeding with civil and
criminal actions against lead
ers of the outrage, on behalf
of u number of victims of the
asault in Peekakill.
In addition to suits for
property damage, bodily in
jury^ and invasion of civil
rights, court action is con
templated against Peekskill
and state officials who were
remiss in providing protection
for those who attended the
meeting.
“The terrorises who so brut
ally attacked those who came
to hear Robeson sing,” de
clared William L. Patterson,
executive secretary of CRC,
‘ ‘ must be arrested and punish
ed. However, already there are
indications that Governor
Dewey intends to whitewash
the shameful affair. He has
asked for ‘reports’ from Dis
trict Attorney George M.
Fanelli aiid Sheriff Fred W.
Ruscoe — two of the officials
responsible for the failure to
provide adequate police pro
tection. • This farce of the
guilty investigating themselves
must be stopped.
The Civil Rights Congress
is demanding a real investiga
tion and the immediate appre
hension and punishment of
those responsible for the fas
cist outbreak.
Meanwhile we have asked
our lawyers to take depositions
and affadavits from victims
who suffered personal injury
and property damage at the
hands of the Peekskill storm
troopers. We have instructed
our attorneys to proceed im
mediately with actions.”
♦irim l -fh, nding Lh h.gh-
way^ a:./, frequent.,. >n holi-
ilays Tl;ui at any ofh r tim .
mui*t ha . ihortl#*l /I, full>
when a truck i-arryinK 24
pieknii.kers collided with an
automobi!** l>eath wa» cheat-
k1, however, oy a hair’s
bread lh from claiming 24
lives bur finally settled for
two in a bit of fine sport.
24 picknickers, residents of
the Shalotte area, were re
turning home from a Labor
Day picknick when th« truck
in which they were riding col-
lied with an automobile carry
ing four Marines.
Ail 24 were thrown from the
truck on the impact but Lady
Luck smiled on the hrSpIesS^
picknickers as they escaped
with their lives. Nine were in
jured but only two seriotisly
enough to be hospitalized.
Fate was not sjp kind to the
occupa^ls of the automobile
as the shadow x>f the grim
spectre fell on the driver and
another occupant. Two of tka
Marines, A. L. Love and G. J.
Grenault were killed in * t^
crash. The other two were ta-
jured and taken to a South
port Hospital froin which they
were later removed to the,
Camp Lejuene hospital. They
are B. J. Ford and J. G.
Headley.
Only a sheer miracle saved
the 24 picknickers from meet
ing death as they were hurtled
from the truck when the ear,
travelling north at a terrific
speed, sideswiped the truck
and bounced into the bride
spanning the Shalotte river.
Patrolman C. M. Cummings,
investigating the accident,
said, “it was only a miracle
that all 24 of them were not
killed. He said that the tire
marks indicated that the track
was completely on its side of
the road when the crash oc-
cured, shortly after midnight
The Marines were from
Camp Lejeuene. Oreuaidt was
of the Tenth Marines while
Love was of the Second Marine
division. •
Man Found
Dead In His
Room Here
Johnny “Shorty’’ Fields, 40
■spars old resident of 432 Pied
mont \venue, was found dead
Friday morning about 11
o’clock by a neighbor, Noah
McClamb. on the floor of his
bed rooiu.
McCla nb told TIMES re
porters that he called Fields
about 8:30 Friday morning
to ascertain whether of not
Fields was going to work. Mc
Clamb said that Fields did
not answer and when he look
ed in the bedroom. Fields was
in bed apparently ^_juleep.
About 11 a. m., when Fields
still had not come out of his
room, McClamb went again to
arouse him. It was then that
McClamb found Field’s body
on the floor, still clad in night
clothes.
There was no evidence of foul
play and the death was ruled
“natural causes” by the cor-
oneri
According to n«ghbors.
Fields had been employed at
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I Will Sing In Peelislciir’ - Robeson
The lynchers were out on,
August 27th in Peekskill, New
York.
In the South they hide be
hind bed sheets. Up here they
hide behind American Legion
caps, VFW buttons, and A-
merican flags.
But their dirty work was the
same. They burned Klan crosses,
they beat up women and men,
they destroyed property and
they shotted “Kill the n—I Kill
the Jews! Kill th§ wopsi”
But the Peekskill shame was
something more than Klan
terror and hoodlum violence.
It was a preview of American
storm troopers in action.
Behind them were the big
boys who give the orders. The
money crowd down in Wall St.
The war-drum boys. The clerieal
fascists.
They snap their fingers,
these mdney boys, and the lit
tle legioniiaires who know not
what they do, put on their
caps, wave their flags in one
hand and clubs in the other.
Out they go, urged on by of
ficials, to smash a peaceful
concert, only to run like co
wards when you fight back.
It’s clear now who uses force
and violence. Let it be equally
clear who advocates its use.
The money crowd pulls the
strings right up to the White
House. President Trunian
talks a good game of ciTil
rights, bit tha^s just talk. He
gives the lynchers the green
light. More than a hundred
Negroes have been lynched
since he fell into FDR’s shoes.
For doing nothing about that,
his Attorney General was
promoted to the Supreme
Court.
Truman sets the style for the
whole government, high and
low. The governors, mayors, the
jiidges an magistrates the police-
chiefs and tornor cops all follow
suit. From top to bottom they
all oppress my people. Frame
them, the way they djd in Tren
ton. Beat them in the police
stations. Murder them in cold
blood in the streets. It’s jimcrow
and segregation backed by ter
ror. It’s the criminal policy of
government.
That’s how it happened in
Peekskill. The Mayor, his Dis
tinct Attorney, the police
boss^ and the ordinary cops
gave the so-called patriots a
free hand on August 27. They
. knew trouble was brewing.
They were in on it from tbs
start. .Where wu their law
and order? WHere were the
local cops, the state troopers?
where were their warrants
and subpoenas when the hood
lums let loose? Not one arrest
has yet been made.
This was more than an attack
on me. More than an attack on
those who came to the picnic
grounds. This was an attack on
the whole Negro people. This
was an attack on the workers
who haven’t stopped fighting
Taft-Hartley and for higher
wages. This was supposed to
scare the progressives who want
peace.
They weren’t jfible to scare
us in the past with sneak-
violemys, with kit-an^^un
terror. They won’t scare us
with this new government-ap
proved storm-troop business.
Everybody can now see how
right progressives were the
past few years when they said
that Trus^ was taki^ us
down the road to fascism,
There are landmarks on that
road familiar to everybody who
saw Germany black cat under
Hitler. The fame-up of the 12
Communist leaders, the frame-
up of tht? Trenton Six. The
Mundt Bill, the Taft-Hartley
Law. Firings, witchhunts,
secution, deportations. A
marks on the road to fascism.
But the American peepi*
aren’t going dowa that real.
They’re going to free the
framed, repeal the bad laws,
and the watchhunts and fir
ings, light up the Statue of
Liberty again.
And we’re goinf to ive that
concert, really ive it. You e*n
tell it up arid down the country
I’m going to sing in Peekskill.