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The Washington times., 1938-01-05
EIGHTH RACE-Purss. 500
AT TROPICAL PARK
WEATHER, CLEAR; TRAC

BEST BET-sUN POWER.
Twin-City herald., 1938-07-16
CLIO. UNION HITS FIRING
OF NEGRO

Chicago, July, (CNA)-An appeal
by the CIO Affiliated Social Employ
'es Union was issued this week urging
all trade unions to send resolutions OF
protest to Frank Loomis, head of the
Community Fund of Chicago, demand
ing the reinstatement of Negro So
cial worker, Lawson Ford.
Ford, the union states, was dismissed
by Ruth Burbridge of the Joint Ser
vice Bureau because of his union mem
bership. Demands upon Miss Bur-
bridge and other minor officials hav-
ing failed, the social workers now call
for a concerted drive by all unions to
force Loomis to intervene in the case
Loomis, as head of the agency thai
supplies the Joint Service Bureau with
funds, is in a position to request the
rehiring of Ford, union officials say.
Twin-City herald., 1938-07-16
CANADIAN NEGROES ARE
ALARMED AT GROWTH
OF FASCISM

Toronto, July, (CNA)-Negro Ca
nadians are watching with grave con-
Germ the growth of the fascist move
ment in the province of Ontario. Ca
madam fascists this week held mass
meeting in this city, following their
secret convention in Kingston. On
both occasions, fascist leaders melted
to race hatred, with particularly vicious
attacks on the Jewish people.
Many Negroes joined in counter
demonstration here of anti-fascists who
angrily milled around the hall in which
the fascist mass meeting was being
held. Police several times charged the
anti-fascist demonstrators and arrested
several persons, all white. Three pro.
test meetings were held by anti-fascist
organizations.
Twin-City herald., 1938-07-16
MAN FOUND DEAD UNDER
MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANcE cES

The body of Frank Batrum, we'll
known employee of the Telephone
Company, was found dead in patch
of weeds near the Great Northern
Railroad tracks near Plymouth avenue
North. Apparently dead for several
hours, Batrum was believed to have
fallen from train by authorities.
This, however, is secuted by the
many friends of the victim.
His head was Dashed both in the
back, and on one side, an eye was
Knocked out, his back was broken in
three places, both arms and legs were
broken. The fact that no limbs were
severed or any other evidence of his
having been run over by train, have
caused considerable speculation.
His car was found Monday, deserted
in Gleenwood Park, far from the re-
mains. This, too, adds to the belief
that he was probably robbed, murder
ed, and the body disposed of; after
which his assailants used his car as
long as they cared.
Mrs. Halle Batrum, widow, from
whom he had been separated for con-
siderable time, could shed no light on
his actions of Saturday, stating she
had not seen him for two weeks.
Funeral services were held Wednes.
day at 2 p. m, at Crystal Lake Gene
terry, Reverend T. B. Stovall officiating
! Mr.. Batrum was member of Johnny
Baker Post, American Legion, Pales'
tine Lodge, F. & A. NJ.
Dowdy Funeral Service i'll charge.
Twin-City herald., 1938-07-16
COULDN'T LEAVE HIM IN
JAPAN

KOBE, July, (CNA)-Joseph Tay-
lor, Negro member of the crew OF the
American liner President Cleveland, re-
joined his ship here this week after
gallant but unsuccessful attempt to
overtake it under his own power.
Taylor was ashore in Yokohama en-
tertaining a girl friend when he heard
the final whistle of the liner. He dash
ed to the dock and jumping into the
water, tried to overtake it. A customs
launch rescued him when he became
exhausted. He was sent to Kobe sc
that he would be waiting here when
the President Cleveland arrived.
Twin-City herald., 1938-07-16
DIXIE MOB SHOOTS AND
BURNS MAN

ROLLING FORK, Miss, July
Especial to CNA)-A mob of white
planters and business men shot to
death Tom Green, 48-yearold black
smith, following a fifteen minute gun
battle in which Green gave heroic
account of himself The lynching, the
first reported for the year, took place
two days after the nation had celebra-
ted the signing of the Declaration OF
independence, with its recognition Of
human equality and the right to life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness"
The mob stormed Green's cabin fol-
lowing a fight between Green and K.
Purdy Flanagan, a white planter, on
whose Mayfair plantation, fifteen miles
north of here, Green worked. Green
was shot by the planter when the
blacksmith refused to work overtime
as demanded by the planter. Green
drew a pistol and fired in self-defense,
pumping three shots into the body OF
Flanagan who died Immediately. Green
then ran to his cabin, a quarter mile
away, and barricaded himself.
The lynchers surrounded the cabin
within half an hour and opened fire on
Green. Green returned the fire, using
a shotgun, pistol and rifle.
After fifteen minutes, L. H. Harris
white Sharkey County planter, man
aged to sneak up to an open window
under cover of general fusilade
Harris pushed the muzzle of riot CUR
through the window and blew of
Green's head.
! Members of the mob then rushed the
,, now undefended cabin, pulled the bod,
out and tied it to the back of an auto
mobile and unceremoniously dragged
it to the scene of the fight between
Green and Flanagan.
There Green's body after being
kicked and subjected to other forms
of degradation was doused with gas
| oline and set afire.
| Not satisfied with this exhibition o
savagery, the lynchers later dragged
the body into this small town, th'
county seat and set it afire, in an at
tempt to terrorize the local Negr'
population.
Sheriff M. c. Ewing has issued tn
usual statement that Green "came t.
his death at the hands of parties un
known" The sheriff denied that h
had advance knowledge of the lynch
ing, or that he knows the names
any of the mobsmen. Members of tn
mob volunteered the information tina
the sheriff ARRIVED later" The sherii
Immediately forgot who gave the in
formation.
II A new note in lynchings was tn
presence in the mob of several Negr
stooges of local white planters, and tn
playing up OF this angle by the whit
news agencies, with the implicatio
that both Negroes and whites had joir
. ed to mete out lynch Justice" to
bad nigger." Local leaders saw
this development an attempt to hea'
I off national indignation over the Grim
, with resultant increased support for Il
4 campaign for Federal aati-lyncllir
legislation.
Twin-City herald., 1938-07-16
NEGRO CONGRESS PROTESTS
LYNCHING

NEW YORK, July-(CNA)-Pro-
tests against the lynching of Tom
Green in Mississippi were sent to Pres
ident Roosevelt and the Governor oi
Mississippi by the Manhattan Council
of the National Negro Congress, the
International Labor Defense, the
Workers Alliance, and scores of other
organizations.
"The fragrant recurrence of lynching
mobs shows the need of federal anti.
lynch law" the Negro Congress pro-
test said.
The Congress council affirmed it:
support to the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored Peo
pie in its campaign for passage of anti
lynching legislation.
Twin-City herald., 1938-07-16
A STORY IN SONG OF
scoTTsBoRo VICTORY
BY Carl Carter
Feature Staff, CNA)

People, come on strow the news,
People, come on strow the news,
Seven po' chillun moan death house
blues,
Seven po' chillun moan death house
blues,
Seven nappy heads with big shinin'
eyes,
All bound in Jail and 'fraid to die"
The Scottsboro Song broke forth
from the Lewisohm Stadium, New
York City, Tuesday night. and ham
mered its echo upon the crumbling
tenements of Harlem.
Down in Alabama, Clarence Norris
paced back and forth in the death
house. Down in Alabama the State
was making ready to do away with the
life of an innocent Negro.
&C.. with big shinin' eye,
All bound in Jail and 'fraid to die"
With deep heavy rumble the Ne
gro Song of Protest came to an end.
The Hall Johnson Choir had added its
full, rich voice to the protests OF all
progressive Americans.
Then another song was heard
throughout America song OF VIC
tory. Not a complete victory, but a
| great victory. nevertheless.
"Scottsboro boy saved from death.
Governor Graves commutes sentence
to life" "....
The Hall Johnson Choir went on to
sing Lord ! Amt No Ways Tired
Twin-City herald., 1938-07-16
FORMER NORTHSIDE
MAYOR RETURNS

Ben Wilson, man of many expert
ences, most of them exciting, has re-
turned to Minneapolis.
Mr.. Wilson, who had left town it is
understood by suggestion, has returned
to bring back the old prosperity and
color, that gave him his famous cham
die.
Gracing the daily paper often, ever
ready with an explanation, Mr.. Wilson
was much loved by some, cussed by
others, during his previous sojourn.
Twin-City herald., 1938-07-16
Man Held In
Cutting Scrap

Sometime ago, Theodore McElrey
was sent to the workhouse for fifteen
days after he had brawled with, and
cut Gus Beck.
He was again hailed in court on the
charge of assault as elimination oi
the affair, and charged with assault
Beck severely cut in the vicinity o
the abdomen.
McElrey was held in $1,000 bail.
Twin-City herald., 1938-07-16
GENIAL ELK RETURNS

Mr.. V. Powell, we'll known Elk, has
returned from his vacation, part of
which was spent with a sister in Kan
sas City.
Mr.. Powell has resumed his duties
as manager of the Elk's rest.
Twin-City herald., 1938-07-16
FROM EVERY MOUNTAINSIDE"

mo Jews allowed in this hotel;
They're noisy, clannish, and they smell"
Don't play with Michael Murphy, child;
Those Catholics are bad and Wild
eff Negroes vote in Alabama
They'll violate your wife and mama
"This country, proud Americans,
We wrested from the Indians
For iberty's sake we fought and spoke
To free us from the British yoke"
Remember that this glorious nation
Is built on the rock of federation"
Unjust, tyrranical, unfair
Is Hitlerisrn over there"
Were met tonight in freedoms cause,
America for ALL" (Applause.)
Franklin P. Adams-New Republic.
Twin-City herald., 1938-07-16
CHICAGOANS TO MOVE TO
CITY

Mr.. Henry Barnett, of Chicago, has
taken up his abode in Minneapolis. He
will be joined by his wife, Mrs.
Barnett, at an early date. Mr. Barnett
is we'll known in the windy city as one
of its outstanding war heroes.
Twin-City herald., 1938-07-16

Boston girl, and Howard graduate,
who studied a year in India on Juli-
cite Derricotte scholarship raised by
DR.. and Mrs. Howard Thurman OF
Howard, and Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Carroll of Morgan college, who will
speak throughout the country on her
Twin-City herald., 1938-07-16
ENTERTAINS IOWANS

Mrs. Daisy Guy, Des Moines, Iowa,
accompanied by her two sons, Joseph,
ID, Edward, II, have arrived for short
visit with sister and aunt, Miss Lillian
Anderson, SIS Lyndale Place.
Twin-City herald., 1938-07-16

Thomas Gray was charged with pet
ty larceny from Haskells Liquor Store.
He was charged with stealing fifth
of whiskey.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-27
HIGH CACERS PLAY
FIRST GAME JAN. G
Coaches Must Work Teams
Hard With Resumption
Of School Monday

With the resumption of school next
Monday, Coaches Bob Harrison and
Harl Blose will have to push their
basketball charges to the limit to get
them into condition, after a two
weeks layoff for the Christmas sea-
son. The teams meet Franklinton Fri
day night in the gym here.
Prior to the holidays, a practice
game for both teams was run off with
Townsville, with the local lassies roll
ing up easy scores against the. visitors
but the boys were unimpressive a.
gainst the lads from the county school
the contest ending in dogfall.
L. L. Miller, director, of athletics
at the school, is supervising the drills
and is also tutoring a junior varsity,
which expects to card games during
the season with similar teams at
other schools.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-27

Broadway girl show. She did not
talk much, which was a relief, and
she tipped me fifty cents when she
left.
At four o'clock Miss Henrietta
Willoughston, Mrs. Witherspoon's
maiden sister, came in for mani
cure. She so closely resembled the
caricature Of an old-fashioned lady
being an old-fashioned lady that it
was all could do to keep my face
straight. She was little and skinny
and wore a long black dress that
Rugged her neck above and swept
the ground below. She must have
been year or two younger than
her sister, but she had the same
beady, black eyes and restless air.
Right away she started to talk
a blue streak. From the things She
said I gathered she was not all,
there in the upper story. She would
start a sentence and never finish
it. After awhile she got off on re-
ligion, so just let her rave while
I trimmed and filed. Poor soul.
maybe she did not often have an
audience!
'"This house is cursed!" she
croaked, "cursed!" She leaned far
across the table, and her eyes
looked so wild I began to get
scared. 1.-THE Lord will strike! He
will be avenged!"
Natural polish 2" I quavered,
10 fo L l.,
BILE.
'They shall all perish from the
earth" She ignored my query. Her
voice died to a hoarse whisper.
"Doomedw she said. Doomed!
"Of course" I decided to humor
her. "Now let's have the left hand
my sister is a sinner! Sne
jerked her hand from mine ana
waved a bony forefnger beneatn
my nose. 'eI1er face is white ana
her heart is black! She is doomed!
Wait-wait, and you shall see:
Well, just as I was beginning 70
feel the hair on my arms stanoins
on end, the old girl jumped TO ner
feet and made for the door.
Vanity. vanity" Size s1r1ekeu.
Death and destruction! They are
doomedw .ru.
sat rooted to my chair. Mlss
Henrietta, with partially MAN. ns,
cured hands out-thrust, dasileS
madly into the lobby and OUT lio
front door. ..a.,
Precipitation bathed my nou .G
and GREAT beads Of sweat dropPe
from my forehead and spiasi;r1
mon the table. It was some nli
utes before / found the strens'"
to move. -
(To Be Continuedy
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-27

capable Of speech at the moment.
will return later"
Incapable Of speech! What did
he mean?
II can easily raise the hood"
persisted, anxious to please. The
little man was, Of course, Mr.. Hor-
ace Witherspoon, he of the woman
ish mouth and the receding chin.
He had not changed much since I
had last seen him, unless, perhaps,
he was q bit more shrunken and
insignificant looking.
ut isn't necessary" he repeat.
ed, and I got the impression that
he really did not see me at all, his
expression was so blank and his
eyes so ifeless and far away. For
some reason or other he reminded
me of little boy who had always
had everything he wanted, except
the one thing he wanted. felt ter
ribly sorry for him without know
ing why.
"Good evening"" he said and
went away quietly as he had come.
I returned to the business at
hand. The place where my scis-
sors had slipped was slashed deep
err than had thought. I dabbed
the finger literally with iodine and
completed the manicure.
I had no more than finished
when the phone in the lobby rang
and went out to answer it. A
masculine voice bawled my name
it was Phil calling! My knees
began to shake so that I had to sit
down, and it was all could do to
keep my vocal cords under control.
| I'm down in the kitchen, he
shouted as if he were at the North
Pole. Come on down"
ct can't" walled, mentally
cursing the Manor and every one
in it. II have an appointment"
Appointments, my girl, are
made to be broken"
"Well"-I did a bit of rapid add
ing and subtracting: Mrs. Wither-
spoon would be cooped under the
drier for another ten minutes at
the least, and she would never miss
me-"all right, I'll come"
"Swell!"
Smarty, thought, and hung up.
But 1 really did not mean it. I
liked Phil plenty still do!
| I smoothed my hair and pow
dered my nose and took a peek at
my old lady. She had not moved or
changed expression, so l tiptoed
into the corridor and ran like
lightning to the back stairs. Phil
was waiting for me below. I pilot
ed him into the large pantry and
what we did there is nobody's
business but our own. Needless to
say, however, with my head on
Phils shoulder, 1 forgot to be in
any great hurry, and before I real
lied the time, I heard the kitchen
clock strike ten.
| ITO Be Continued)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-27
Hill, Duke Center, Named
To Liberty An-American

erty by Norman i. Sper, sports writ
er. Sper took ballot of all players
after each major game and the grid
men rated their opponents on the
fundamentals of play.
"IIill lacked only three votes for
a perfect voting average" Sper re-
veals and adds that "his great de-
fensive record" placed him on top.
Gold footballs will be presented to
each player who made the winning
eleven, the magazine announced.
A further rating of outstanding
PLAYERS is made in second, third and
sectional teams. Upton of Duke is
nominated for halfback on the third
team. Named on the All7South At
lantic team are: Coins, Clemson, end;
Golf, Florida, tackle, Trunzo, Wake
Forest, guard; Hill, Duke, Center;
Maronic, North Carolina, guard;
Pennington, Clemson, tackle; Craig,
South Carolina, end; Davis, David
son, quarterback; Upton, Duke, half
back; Shu, v. M. l., halfback, OMara
Duke, fullback.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-27

CURLY. Hurry. please, we have a
lot to do"
A lot to do! 1 almost laughed in
her face. Where did she get that
1--WE" stuff, anyway?
"Well!" she said, and I shook
myself mentally and tied the rub
Der apron about her skinny neck
About a gallon of dirty henna dye
ran down the drain as soaked her
head and rubbed it hardly.
I set the wave and wrapped a
towel about her forehead while I
plastered on the mask. The stuff
was surely mean to work with!
The odor, which I finally recog-
nized as bitter almond, tickled my
nose and made my eyes water. It
was all I could do to keep from
sneezing.
Ready for the drier?" asked
at last, and heaved sigh of relief.
The worst part Of the job was
completed.
'Lift me out Of herew she said,
and I picked her up in my arms
she weighed about as much as a
peck Of feathers and set her be-
meath the foremost drier.
I threw the switch.
"Why!" I exclaimed, annoyed
Something's wrong! There's no
air coming through"
"Try the next onew she advised
GROSSLY. 1--WE have four, you
know"
I repeated the operation on the
second drier. Instantly it hummed
and blew it's blast of hot air full in
my face. Z
call right" I said and lifted her
into the second chair and lowered
the hood to cover her face. When
I had tied her securely into the
helmet, I went for the manicure
kit and returned to sit on stool
at her feet.
AS I recall, looking back, I was
trimming the cuticle of the third
finger of the left hand when the
outer door opened and closed with
a bang. The noise startled me so
that I ierked the scissors held be-
tween my thumb and foref1nger
and accidentally gouged a neat
square of flesh from the old lady's
finger. Fearfully I glanced to the
helmets window, but Mrs. Wither-
spoons gaze was fixed blankly
upon the wall beyond and she
seemed not to have noticed my
painful error.
"Who is there, please?" I said,
and poked my head through the
crack in the curtain. A little man
in evening dress was crossing the
lobby. t
"Good evening"" He bowed. els
Mrs. Witherspoon, ST., in the
salon 2"
I nodded. "She is under the drier
at present. Shall I raise the hood 2"
He smiled vaguely. 1T, isn't nee
essary. merely wished, to, ask my
mother a question Since she, is in
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-27
Kenly Youth Has
Great Record On
Corn Production

College Station, Raleigh, Dec. 81
If every acre of crop land in North
Carolina produced "a profit of $5253
from corn a year this would be a
prosperous state. One acre of land,
planted to corn in the Kenly section
of Johnston county by Claude Bass, q
All Club boy did return $52.53 above
the cost of production, including rent
of land, labor, fertilizer and soda, am
the cost of seed.
S. c. Winchester, county farm agent
of the State College Extension Service
reports this outstanding All achieve
ment. Young Bass has been in club
work for two years and recently he
WAS elected vice-president of the
Kenly Club for 1938-39 He is the
son of S. A. Bass of Kenly, Route 1.
In 1887 he produced 70 bushels and
three pecks of corn on his club acre.
this year he decided to grow corn
again, and ended with 108 bushels
per acre.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-27

son why old Mrs. Witherspoon
wished to look so grand. And that
was why-but surely the CONVEX
sation I had overheard between
Daphne and her mother had moth
ing to do with her engagement!
UnlesS-unless-and it Gid not bear
thinking about-unless Daphne did
not want to marry her count!
"Is he tall, tanned man with
gray eyes ?" I demanded.
Gracious me, no. That's Jeff
Todington. The count is just about
the most romantic looking man I
ever did see! Oakland, well, lust
too romanticn
All during luncheon, which I ate
from a tray in my room, could
not get that engagement business
off my mind. I was so preoccupied
trying to figure the whole thing
out that when I left my room to
return to the salon. went the
long way to stretch my legs-I
bumped smack into someone pass
ing in the opposite direction.
$50 sorry" I gasped and looked
into the face of man who had
"a monocle dangling from one eve.
Il was thinking of something
else" stammered and LAUGHED
nervously. The man was ogling me
In a manner that particularly dis
like.
"But eet ees who am sorrym
His lips parted in a flashing smile.
He was the sort Of man I detest.
smooth and oily and ever willing
to f1irt with pretty girl. IT hurt
your head, no ?" He raised his fin
gers to my forehead and I wrig-
gled uncomfortably.
"You didn't hurt me at ALL" I
said rudely and side-stepped
around him.
mo need to hurry away, my
leetle one" He caught my arm and
pulled me toward him. Ct"
But I did not wait to hear the
rest Of his Aowery speech. I
wrenched my arm from his grasp
and fed on down the corridor. IF
that were Daphne's count, and 1
very much feared it was, did not
blame her for being desperate.
The afternoon passed quickly. At
two-thirty 1 gave Miss Tericia
CToots) Lemoine a shampoo and a
golden-glint rinse and a rose-leaf
facial. She was a hard-eyed baby,
with knowing look in her pale
blue eyes, and her yellow hair was
the color of plated gold. could not
place her as a member Of the
Manor house party She looked as
II she would be more at home in
a night club or the front row Of a