The Carolina Times [Durham, N.C.: January 22, 1938]

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N. C. N. A. OPPOSES BAILEY'S SPEECH
Ch.aiirman Negro Affairs
Committee Protests
Attack On Race
!rh« North Carolina Commit-to
on Negro Affairs, through its
chairman, Hosca V. P,lce, of
Winston Salem, last week ad-dressed
a strong proteest to Sen-ator
Josiah W. Bailey regarding
utterances the senator made
while opposing the Wa/ner-Von
Nuys antilynching bill.
Senator Bailey, while filibust-ering
Wednesday, painted a \ivid
picture of tha party eonsequci-of
the bill into law and in doing
so used language which pro*
characterized as "fanning the
flame* of intr-racial hatred."
Price, a Win ton Salem law-yer,
active in fraternal work,
discussing the protest iast week
said the North Carolina Commit-tee
on Negro Affairs had no in-tention
of entiling the merit.* or
demerits of the anti-lynching
bill.
Protests Language, Tatici
Its action, he said, was rnthev
a protest against the language
and tactics the senior North Ca-rolina
senator, used.
"We don't intend our letter to
Senator Bailey to be a bitter at-tack,"
he said. "However,'we do
feel that it i»« tail thing to have
anyone with the prestige of Se-nator
Bailey, to say some of the
things he said in his recent ad-dress.-
"There are many Negro citi-zens
working earnestly in North
Carolina to effect a permanent
wholesome relationship between
the two races and 'likewise a
great many sincer wehite citizens
who are using their influence to
attain that end. None of either
group wants to see the fruite of
{Heir efforts destroyed by rash
talk. . ."
Plica's Lettar
Pi-ice's letter, last week was as
follows:
The Honorable Josiah Bailey:
United States Senate, "
Washington, D. C.
The full text o fyour speech
before Congress on January 12
with regard to the anti-lynching
bill has been carefully studied
and an effort made to ana.yxe
the same. Your expressed concern
in keeping the solid South white
is uncalled for.
The Negro represents a very
small part of the population of
the South. The machinery of
r« which might follow enactment g^n^x ,nd .dmm|rtr4tton
of law and justice are exclusively
in the hands of the white people.
Furthermore, in spite of the
many handicaps under which the
Negro has labored, there is pro-ably
no other group of people
under similar conditions that
have given to their government
and to the section of the country
in which they have lieed such un-stinted
loyalty and devotion as
the group which you seek to bar
from full citizenship rights and
protection.
You pride yourself upon the
fact that you believe in constitu-tional
government and Christian
ethics. It is difficult for us to re-concile
your professed belief in
democratic institutions and i r-derly
processes of government
with your statement in the Se-nate
last Wednesday.
Our conception of the function
of a United States senator is
that he will at all times represent
the best interest of all of his con-stituency
rrsirdless of sacs, co-lor
or creed. When we find a
member of the United States
Congress who makes his appeal
to class hatred and race preju-dice,
we are facing a condition
which bids fair to undermine and
ultimately to destroy democratic
government in the nation.
North Carolina Committee on
Negro Affairs.
Sty Hosea V. Price, Chm.
Ye I low Cab Co. Hires Negro
Drivers In California
LOS ANGELES, Jan.. 19—(A
NF—Local citizens were surpris-ed
and elated a week ago when
a fleet of seven taxicabs with
Negro drivers were put in ser-vice
by the Yellow Cab company.
The cabs (ire of the same kind
as those now in service with the
concern but / ill be painted black
and white. Drivers, will be sta-tioned
in this community but will-not
be restricted in passenger
carrying. This important mov»S
was brought. about principally
through the Intercession of Leon
Washintgon, militant "editor of
the L. A, Sentinel.
t Following were , tile ''require-ments
for drjyers \fho passed ex-amination
:'
1. Must be married or have a
family to support.
Have former recommenda-tions.
3. Ex-chauffer preferred.
4. Fourteen were t boe senc to
a!v_£oms>any. office to selsct
seven
Washington's picas were
sd through the cooperation of the
assistant general manager of the
Yellow Cab
This mark* the- firjtt I
12 years that taxi's of any dea-on
have been driven by Ne-gro
drivers although previously
taxi lines had^iheni,
HOWARD LAW SCHOOL DEAN
TO ADDRESS ANTI-NAZI
MEETING
NEW YORK, Jan. _(ANP)—
William E,-Taylor, dean of the
Howard Law School, is among
the notables who will address
large protest meeting
gie hall,- New York, on Sunday
jevenin, Jan. 80, to be held under
(auspices ....of the Non-Sectarian
Anti-Nazi league of which Sam-uel
Untermyer is president, in
condemnation of the fifth anni-versary
of the Nazi regime in
Germany.
Featured in the demonstration
will be a presentation by mem-bers
of the Labor Stage of some
sketches from their current hit,
"Pins and Needles."
' Other notables who have al-ready
consented to address the
conclave are Hamilton Fish, Jr.;
Oswald Garrison Villard; George-
Gordon Battle; Vito Marcanto-
•ie; Professor Franz Boas; "Hans_
ISepmahn; and Ernest Meyer,"
newspaper columnist.
MAN DIEj'lH SUICIDE
PLUNGE
NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCI-ATION
ASKS LA GUARDIA TO
ADJUST DR GOJ.DWATER
MATTTER
LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Jan.
19—(ANP)— Mayor Fiorella La
Guardia of New York has been
ssl:ed to take action on the pro-tects'made
agrinst Dr. Sigismund
Goldwate *. commissioner of hos-pitals,
in a tetter bent the Goth-am
executive last week by the
National M;iEcal Association.
Inc., through Dr. William McKin-ley
Thomas, of this city, chair-man
of the association's execu-tive
board.
Dr. Goldwater aroused the ire
of Harlem nurses and physicians
recently when he testified that
nine tenths of Negro doctors wero
inferior and said it required
twice as many eolored nurses to
perfor mthe work done by whito
nurses.
After pointing out the NM\
represents. N«#»o physicians, den-tists
and phnrnmcists throng i out
the nation, the lettersaid.
"The nation has visualized your
administration of the affairs of
the city of New York ss being
characterized by your failure to
tolerate discrimination of the
citizens of the great city of New
York by any official either direct-ly
or indirectly Responsible to
you.
"Your action in the 'Goldwat-er'Affair'
presents an opportunity
to give to the Negro physician of
New York reasons to believe that
you will not permit either active
or anticipated discrimination by
your eommissioner of hospitals,
Dr. Goldwater.
"The National Medical associ-ation
hopes you will adjust this
matter to the full satisfaction ef
members of the Central Harlem
Medical society and the Manhat-tan
Medical society of the city of
New York.
"If the National Association
can be of any service in adjust-ing
this matter, please feel free
to call upon us."
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STATE BOARD OF CHARITT99
AND PUBLIC WELFARE RE-
' CEIVES lzO.000 POUNDS
OF RICE
RALEIGH, Jan. 17^-Tfc.e N.
C- State Board of Public Welfare
announced for distribution to
persons on relief rolls.
According to A. E- Langston,
Director of Commodity Distribu-tion,
North Carolina State Board
of Charities and Public Welfars,
this rice was donated to his or-at~
Ca*»re- khnization by the' Federal Sur-plus
Commodities Corporation,
and results from' .their surplus
removal operations. The Corpo-ration
is now engaged in buying
surplus stocks of riqe in Louisi-ana,
Texas and Arkansas. To date
aCsOO.OOO pounds have been
purchased, at.a cost of approori-
'maTely $6S4,0O0.
This purchase is being conduct-ed
through open-- offers <to buy
fiom 'all Sealers in the rice-pro-ducing
area. Offers are still be-ing
received by the Corporation.
FORMER OXFORD CITIZEN
MAKING GOOD A3 DENTIST
IN OKLAHOMA
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19—<AN
P)—Carrying out a threat he is
said to have made several times. ' that he was going to kill hrmeelf.
Leonard Malian, whose age was
given ss 29, jumped from Taft
bridge. Two motorists discovered
the body of the unfortunate man
as1 they passed through Rock
Creek park, ami police from the
Eighth Precinct were summoned.
Mattan died of a fractured skull.
His body was identified by his
two brothers . The coroner was
informed that the young man
had intimated when he left work
FLOYD G. SNELSON CIVES
THEATRICAL MATERIAL
.N. Y. LIBRARY
TO
DR. H. W. WILL1AMSTON,
who U making aa unusual record
at Id.b.l, Okie., where he h*t
bwBt ap a large imterracial d-n-tal
practice among whites, Indi-a
»a and Negroes, who come from
all ever his ewa state, and from
Western Arkansas and Nrtheait
TCIM. The majority of the pa-tient,
are while, and the doctor's
office has three full time employ-es.
X-ray, and othar raodnrn
equipment. Dr. Williamiton it a
native ef Oxford, N. C, ana was
edusated at Mary Potter "tjchool
there, bat took hie professional
NEW YORK—(C)— Announ-cement
ia made by Miss Cather-ine
A. Latimer, reference libra-rian,
Division of Negro Litera-ture
and History, of the New
York Public Library, Harlem
Branch, 103 West 135th street,
thst Floyd <"">. Snelson, 400 Man-hattan
avenue, haa given the li-orary
his entire collection of the-atrical
and journalistic material.
In the collection are rare the-atrical
photographs, programs ol
ftioadway shows since 1934), and
copies of theatrical publications
long out of print. Mr. 'Snelson,
now a member of the Federal
Writers Project, was formorly
active in national Negro journal-ism.
BILL ROBINSON GETS
BROADWAY MEDAL
NEW YORK—(C)—IBdll Rob-inson,
star dancer at the Cotton
Club, Broadway and 48th street,
was given the Dailey Mirror-Ted
Friend Gold Medal for '37.
sady night, by a committee of
eminent show-world personalities
at a meeting in the Hotel St. Mo-ritz.
Robinson, now 69, was cited
for "distinguisher artistry", and
wasrated on ability, personality
and public appeal. On the cora-
Thuis. night, by a committee of
at tha University of W. mittee of 8 was one colored. W.
Tennesso, Memphis. His wife is judge. The committee voted In
the former Misa Birdie V. Alston sccret on 102 artists, and on the
ef hie home town. Now 44 yean fifth ballot the list coma down to
eU last January 2, Dr. William- eight, and among them were
• ton I. Regional Director of the Rudy Vallee, Cab Calloway and
NAACP. Tommy Dortey.
Wil.iam H. GooUrum, Senior at
Livingstone College, who we.
•Indent representative at the Na-tional
Assembly of Student Chris-tian
Associations, which met at
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio,
December 27, to January 1, '38.
KEMPER HARRELD AT MORE-HOUSE
26 YEARS
1. Gordon Beaten
And Robbed By
Unknown Attacker
oOo I—
Israel Gordon, well known Jew- Bate occurrence.
ish merchant of the Hayti section f Immeduuely after the rebwerj
of Durham was slugged over the Mr. Gordon was taken to Watts
head and robbed early. Thursday hospital where an ersssnisthn, ef
morning by an unknow assailant his injuries eras made. Although
just as he was attempting to un- unconscious when first adsutted
lock the front door of his stroe the injur.es are not thought Sa-to
begin the day's worn. I he of a very serious nature, a*.
ATLANTA— (C) — Kemper
Harreld -is now in his 28th year
as director of music at Morehouse
college, it was announced in tho
Morehouse Alumnus iBulletin on
January 15. Mr. Harreld was e-leetee)
president of the National
Association of Negro Musicians
last summer.
DR. McCROREY'S WIFR
IMPROVING
CHARLOTTE, N. C— (G)—
Mrs. H. L. McCrorey, wife of
the president of Johnson C.
The slugging and robbery was
witnessed by a passerby who was
on his way to work. According to
the description given, Mr, Gor-don's
atecker is believed to he
the same man who has committed
several robberies of taxi drivers
here for the past three or four
according to hospital
Mr. Gordon will recover provieV
ing no further complications art
in. He has gained consciousness
according to the latest
from the hospital.
According to the lene
to the slugging and robery that
weeks. One taxi driver who was m»n "'iPP'd »P behind Mr. GSr-sbot
through tha lung by the cul- °"on "d *"><»: him •*"- *-»
prit is still in a critical condition ,h"d- *-« blow <u"«1 "* »**•
and anrther who was skvst «»>»»" »nd h« feU w ft« ground.
through the hand have both des- The Toi>**r tlen rif,ed »
cribed the man as weighing about ■*■
160 pounds and being of dark
complexion.
Mr. Gordon has operated a
store on Pettigrew Street in J;he
Hayti section, for a long number
of years and is highly respecteJ
and much liked by citizens of
that vrciaity. Many have expres-sed
their regrets of the unfortu-
Aecording to Mr.
Gordon he had something own*
$15 on his person erhen attacked1.
DR. DOGAN VISITS SOUTH
TEXAS FOR WILEY
Smith University, is reported im-proving
at the Good—Samaritan
hospital, where she ia- confined
by illness.
HOUSTON, Tex. —(C) —On.
Is. W.-Dogan, president of uTauuy
coHege, accompanied by Prof. M.
J. Mason of the -newsat, vaxsuea
here last week, conferring with
rhc local r'flnnnt'T
special drive
college.
for pfi.04* far tha
Southern Senator Objects
To Negro Participation
In Farm Program
• Oo-
WAfiHINGTON Jan. [19—(A the experience gained in previous
NP:r)\—Trmhe.r.-e. lL-a_s».been a. good%d.e.a..l
of frothing at the mouth upon
capital hill ever since news of
the recent conference held by
Negro editors with officials of the
agricultural department beca.-ie
generally known. Some thirty
editors of prominent colored pa-pers
throughout the country
ware invited to Washington after
their names had *een submitted
by state agricultural and exten-sion
agents as being in position
to aid in disseminating informa-tion
to Negro farmers. Their
fares to Washington were paid
by the government. There is no-thing
unusual- in this; plenty of
similar conferences have been
held by other govermental ile.
partmenta, it is said.
flSut then* were Negroes. The
Republican newspapers s yly
made capital of the expenditure
•neV Senator Carter Glass, the
aged solon from Virginia, noted
for his bad temper and ugly atti-tude
toward Negroes, fairl
ploded. It only coat $1.0X10 to"pay
the fares of the group of editort,
who attended the conference.
All of them agreed it was one of
th most ^beneficial gatherings
they had ever attended. Carter
Glass, however, whose state gets
millions from the government in
agricultural benefits, almost had
an epileptic fit when he learn-d
that the advice of Negroes -vsa
being sought and followed. In
newspaper interview
attacked the author!
agricultural department to make
such expenditures.
Other senators have also been
Interested. Senator Buckley of
Ohio made an inquiry, and the
department's reply, which ha had
inserted In the Congressional
Record, said In part:
"Tha meeting developed out of
respect among Negro farmers,
regarding AAA farm programs
and other farm programs. These
programs depend for their effect-iveness
on the degree to which
farmers understand them; and
there is a special problem in this
respect among Negr ofarraers,
since their sources of information
are often very limited.
w'How important it is to the en-tire
-Nation, as well aa to the Ne-groes
themselves, te, have the
slopes, and texture Ibf the soil
rate effectively among Negro
farmeis can be instantly appre-ciated
from two essential facts:
First, a substantial part" of the
agricultural land of the United
States, particularly in the South,
is farmed . by Negroes; and, se-cond,
the heavy rainfall, steep
slopes, and textur of the soil
have, combined to cause the
greatest destruction of soil in
the southeast part of the country
where so much of the farming
by Negroes is done.
There are in the United States
more than 8&5.0O0 Negro farm
families, of whom about 211,000
are landowners and 644,000 ren-and
sharecroppers. These fami-lies
cultivate, approximately 18-
0t)JK)0 acres of land.
/'Soil destruction is probably
more acute in the South than in
any other area. Tae absence of
snow, the lack of perennial grass
cover, anil the persistent row cul-tivation
of cotton, corn, and to-hacco,
along with the heavy rain-fall,
have led to" terrific loaaes
from- erosion. Much of the land
IH the Southeast ia riddled by
gullies and dotted with abandon-ed
"farms. In ihe Piedmont Pla-teau
seversl million acrea havo
been stripped of their productive
topaoil. The high cost of tilling
unproductive land has bankrup-ted
many farmers. Impoverish-ment
of the people has gone hand
in hand with impovcrishmen; of
the soil. In three Southeastern
States alone during the d.'cade
frmo 1920 to 1930, 60,000 farms
retired from cultivation.
"The editors were invited to
discuss, and did discuss with De-partment
officials, virtually eyry
phase of the agricultural prob-lems
affecting the Negro farmer.
There was no restriction what-ever
upon their inquiries or the
discusssion -which ensued. The
pending farm legislation waa not
on the agenda for the conference
and was not discussed on the ini-tiative
of administrative officials.
Such questions as were asked
about it were answered in a fact-ual
way. Secretary Wallace was
invited to address the group in-formally,
which he did. |
"It is our opinion that this con-ference
will result in substantial
Improvement of administration
of the national soil-conservation
program and that the. expendi-ture
required was a sound and
economical use of public funds.
The entire work that I have been
describing has been gaining m
public esteem in the South."
In the meantime, the editors
who attended the conference
are said to be approaching their
own senators, explaining the
great benefit which the.
ejBce was to them and the aid
which may result to the govern
ment farm program. What Sena-tor
Glass and his cohorts really
resent ia that a democratic, r.d-ministration
would invite colored
people to Washington for the
purpose of asking their advice in. ^ g^ m
a conference where all conferees
wera equal.
DUNBAR BANK PASSES
$4,000,000 MARK
NEW YORK—(C)—There are
new indication s that the finan-cial
status o* Harlem today ia im-proved
over what it was a few
years back. The change has come
through si new "experiment that
worked"—ta new financial insti-tution
set "out frankly on the pri-nciple
of fair play' with the
community in which it operated,
and the motto of being friendly',
and out of the program have
ceme cooperation on economic
problems, stability, pride in com-mercial
relationships, and increa-sing
prosperity in depression
years.
In all of the social ferment
that has seethed in Harlem dur-ing
the past ten years, the Din-bar
National Bank, which has
just passed the $4,000,000 mark
in assets, as of December 31,
kept the goodwill of the commu-nity.
The growth and expansion
of the bank, from its beginning
on September 19, 1928, at 2S24
Eighth avenue and lGOth street.
in the Dunbar Apartments, ta its
present main office at 2298 7th
avenue and 13oth street, with the
Eighth avenue branch, is the
best indication that the institu-
'ion struck the right chord in the
heart of the community.
Established by Mr. John O.
Rockefeller, Jr., as an evidence
of his belief ia the Interracial
principle, in business, the bank
has kept on its board of directors
Dx. R. R. Moton, president eme-ritus
of .luakegee Institute, and
on its staff, Robert P. Braddic^,
who was promoted, after a year
and a half as 'new business man'
to assistant vice president, and
tree year later made manager
An indication of tha bank's
growth may be noted hslwessi
statements issued as of June It,
1935. add December SI, mat. !■
'35 the assets were $3,2J4,»».To;
and now the are $4,0O0,230.»S.
The Dunbar Bank haa moved
forward under two pren'Jeata,
both of whom have adhtad
closely to Mr. Rockefeller's ori-ginal
conception of "integrating"'
colored people into the stroctaure.
The first president! was the bans
Mr. Joseph D. Hig'gins, who set
the original pace; and the saraad
is Mr. Charles C. Hnitt. whose
modesty, since, ity, earnestness
and courtesy have impressed all
who have entered the portals ef
the bank. The other osTicnra re-flect
the president's pobcy—A. H.
Thien, vice president, Albert W.
Eichenberger. vice president and
cashier; and Franklin C Ran,
assistant cashier. ,
Many people from outside N.
Y. come into the bank to see the
interracial principle in business
at work. At the main office nre
highly efficient clerks who are
now given additional opportunity
for study by attending bankistg
classes in the financial diatsict
under the supervision of use A-merican
Institute of itaakin*.
At the Sighth Avenue Branch,
where the complete personnel la
colored—manager, assistant man- .
ager, and five other employes—-
the reactions of the public are
quite normal; grocers, taUozk
bus d'tvera, policemen, elevated
train motoiuton and others xfcaan
of the only branch of the bank.
In 193* came the first promotion
for Mr. Braddicks, and in 19SS
-erne the second. A year ago. G.
W. Waller, whs has been with the
Sank since Ha founding, was pi
moted to assistant manager of
the various walks of life; i
transact their business, and «e
on their way, sstnrfieA Mr, nwwaV
reports that the breach haa •*•
perienced an snpgnwJshss) hssreenur
in business, due to CRy and Fe-deral
projects in the neighbor-hood,
and particularly tha M,
;Iem River Hoendag project. ,
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