EDITION

VOLUMN 17 No. 51

te Miss 0! Headers

THE CAROLIHA TIMES SATURDAT-D«€. 18, l*Sf PRICE FIVE CCIIT3

5 BURNED ALIVE IN WRECKyeoman Judge Leads Policy RaidsOne Time Racketeer

Waves And Flees As Cop’s Raid Starts

CLEVELAND, Dec. _l!6— (AN spec^wle ni »

municipal judge, lilUan M. Weirt- rope, leadini* a series o f polic/ raids; of Benny Mason, Cleve­land’s bieereat policy baron, wav­ing to the raiding party as it ap­proached his place and then fl«|^ Jn c jo his car, and o i c iU s^ t ' in­actions expressed in daily |>apers, kept tiite agog U»t week.

Judge Westropp w«nt along with raiding police as ws “offi­cial obierver” to c# t an insif^t into "conditiona 1 thought never existed in Clereiand," she said, C>ff1 «»r8 arrested two ’WoisuaL.and two men for_ inveiltigatidh on ganvbling charges and diaperaed over 600 polfa?y players ait sevenplaces.

Mason, rciported to have made $1 ,000 ,0^ from policy opera­tions several years ago and since then to have retired on a pig farm, was in his sedan when the raiders drove up to the i^tot which was previously known as hi# headquarters. Mason «aw them coming, and as the squad

car scrM ch^ to a ato^ the ba­ron w a ^ ^ Mwilingiy and a- way. He lefttbehind a small crowd which had held s l ^ with the name of his old >w^ed^ the ffil and M.

raids Iraeeived lat-

id op«r*>

After <djiihjbed, ImdI dpilin

tom eoanilSiied p«at b a ca o i relief A edcs te<t not ^ e n dMributed» a34«ir ^ other werds, huadud* li«f sMoplo who had esft*a jnonejr wwe forced to fpeed inst«ad of policy^ anrf suggested th%t <i*y ont unworthypeople receiving: the dole.— AjiatlWi who—sign fid— hin>ae»f“Tax Payer," aaid, “There are thousands of policy writers and players and they at«, too proud to fo <Hi relief, i^eniy of fam­ilies wait until fom e^e in the house writM enough policy nnd takes the percentage and brings home food so the babies can eat. If the policy game is broken up, yoq may rest assured plenty of

CONVALESCING

LOST RELATIVES

Mrs. JHlattia Evaias op Wat- ••B. L#«t tin* k*ard from th« m sl*^ WM W atoM t hmwiu§ uuur-

riod a a a a Baasad Sam Wat- ■e« waa liTiag in. Dnrbaoi. It U taaportaal tkat kar daagk- tar, \m^j gat !n touek witk kar iais**diataly. Any parson or pavnsaa knewiag tko whara. aboota of tkis parson will |daaa aatify Carolina' Timai by FKai«, J-TSTI ^ or Box S& D.nrkaM, N. C. or call a t affica 117 Paabodj St., thi* city.

M rs. Franklin B o o s e v e l l To.

S p eak S a t .

Ice Ccated Highway Snuffs Out Lives Of. Minister And Party On Way To Funeral

AT DINNER GIVEN BY NAT*L COUNCIL OF NEGRO WOMEN

N E W Y O R K , I>ec. 1 6 — ( A N P ) ANNUAL REPORT OF THE J-v-Afrs. F r a n k l i n D e l a n o R o o s e - JUNIOR ROAWD OF LINCOLN Vejt, w i f f r ^ i £ t h e pr esident,^ is to

HOSPITAL . 1 h e - t h e g u e s t s p a c e r a t a d i n n e r I jfiven a t t h e Phillis W h - a t l o y ’s

A s t h e C h r i s l m a s s e a s o n n e i r s , Y W O A , i-44 W . I d S U t Strtsit, o u r h e a i i s a r e filled w i t ^ t h e S a K a f l a y e v e n i h g , D e c . 18. M r s . % i r i t o f C h r i f ^ m a s , n o t t h e (civ- M a r y M c L e o d ( S « t h w i e is pr es i' i n g o f gifts t o o a r fr ie nd s, b u t d e n t o f t h e N a t i o n a l C o u n c i l a n d t h e g i v i n g o f o yf i n a n c i a l a n d p a r s o n a l } b t h e 9I- a r e Mfft. C l a r a Bu^rrill B r u c e , l e v i i ^ s « f b a m t f n t u f U r m g , a n d . M r « r L ilB a » A l e x a n d e it o he't> ^ e l e n fo r t u n c l t e feel t h e i b l u E u n l c a . H u a t o n Carter,^ Mr^.^ S p ir it o f C h r i s t m a s , w h i c h w e S a r i p r i c e P a t t o n , M r s . C a r i t ahave always felt.

Th« <afue Spirit .of ClawBtina *

Ministers Q i r d For Home Plate

In Contest— ■ pO* '

The Minister’s Popularity Con- Rev. W. M. Puller also held test now (being conducted by the his own last week and diowed Carolina Times closed thi^ wet^k’s * signs again of ft>eing a possible balloting with the closest count darkhorfje winner. Ttie grr«*test

D a u Cha*. S. Boyar, promi- •e a t aducator of St. A uiuttina Collage. Dean Boyer wa* recently hoBored with the title Daan Em- aritiu of St. Auguitina in racog- Bition of hi* long years of <er* ▼ice as a member of the faculty of tkat initltuUoB. Sinca retiring froMi active Mlryice Daaa Boyar'* kaalth is very much iiqproTed. .

V. Roane, Mra Cec^ia Cabanis Saunders, Mrs. Habel Keaton iitaupers and ttrn

IN KENTUCKY

W

-oOo* ___(Special to The Carolina Timcii) Rcberta ofB U R L I N G T O N ^ D e c . ta, D « ; a t h 1 S i a n c y C r m g

look a heavy toll *f liver; on the highway near hear yestetday when /ivet-persons were killed al­most inatant!y a fler the car in which they wero Mding plunge i

fff" a truck iteuE 5mllei west of this city. Tho wreck occurred on highway num­ber 10 which w as‘c<ated with ice due to freezing weather. Im-

! mediately aftCT the collision tho ffosoHne tank on the tr5?lr'««*-, ploded, throwing deadly fiam ei

Sh^Tby and Miaa WiR»t«B-SaI«»,

wfaich-qflkkbi _ .tmek that becamebecame -a blazing inferno andburned its^ human cargo

j most beyond reco^ition .• i l -

both of whom received * jeVer*? fractures, hums and ajMlMrs. Mary Sherad of Winstort- Salem who received nevefe bum% and fractures.

_ AerordinK to an ey e . witn‘i£s. of the wreck, Kim Mickens, who wss aJao driidn* a truck from Charlotte, he was drving ‘ im­mediately behind the Pontia-- car when it skidded and.plough­ed into the truck. He stated tiiat as fioOn as the .the ear and ih«

Three Other occuDant&.jnmaca-

Williamson.

that has been regif;tered since the opening of the battle on Nov. 17. Although Rev. T. A. Grady

■ pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist ■Chufieh clung to the lead whicn he established la.1t week, ;t was

spurt of any candidate in last week’s ballotim Riv. _W. P. Co: d a k Grovs Freewill church who jun^d^lE om the I4th position which he held last week

neither he nor Rev. J . H. ^K>nt- as of the Mt. Vernon iBaptist church can boast of being with­in reach of the fl(M) worth of prizes being offered 'by the mer- cants.

Wftib this i^ d nextweek only l«ft to go lisfora the final count is made the management fove-

jsees a bre^ung of all voting ve- ! cords o f the contest ^ever&i l^ousand extra papers have been

The balloting last week was printed for Durham, and the en- unusually heavy, not only b y 'tire force of Times hac* bei>n Rev. Grady and Rev. Thomas', working ardnoudy) all WMk to supporters, but many supporters' prevent another sellout u occu- of the oth^r minist«{B fihdwod I red la '|t Wjeek, when the offiee’. much activ i^ by ^rip^nff. send- was im a tn ^ with calls, foring or mai^ng the largest num- more papers. ......feer of baliots to the Times office I ^Thifl week’s standing of iMMi- since the contest started. ^ t i ^ n t s is as follows:

■Rev. T. A- Grady, Ebaaosor Bapitiat — --Ravt J. H. Thomas, Ml. Varnoa Bafftist — — Rav. W. M. FuUar, Good Hopo BapMH —. —Rav. A. S.' Croom, Union Baptist — — — —* Rav. R. O. Langfoirii,! St. Matthtw CME —Itevr'Rav. W. F. Cosi^ Oak G ro w Fraawfll Bra|rti«t <Rar. S. P. Parry, St. Mal-k AME Z io n --------:Rav. J. A . Valm lhia, Si. JoMpk AME —Bishop H. L. Ftakav, Holy Taboraado » —R av. C . E , M eL estar, jS a cead 'S e v tia k R ev. Thom as M oore, CoB CM galtonal CShristlaa

6,260.066— 6,SS5,000— S,8 B0 ;0M

4,680.000 »i«40.000

MOB.OO0 ^ ^ 4.12^000 3.9QKk000

~ 3,M«^00ft ^ S,328,00« 2,810.000

Rev. W. Geo. Avant, Pia* Street FVillif leilaii -*• — ZtlltitlOO Rav. O. D. Staalay, St. T ltii | EpIwa^lU#— —. — -^1^108,000

W lalM tkx. Mt. O M le v tia t ---- _

Rav. N. E. Hilijs, Wki«a l^ « k Cla^aiiaa. — — 4 ~ ^ t,iM ,000Rav. T. C. GMiam, West Dnrkaia Bmpikt —, — _ _ 1,100,000Rav. F. W. Sow ^i Ckarek of God — -—4 —• S3O,0O®R ^ . Edward Lasiitor, Uaioa Grows B ap tis t-------------— 7O8.0Q0

crime will occur."“ Stai another wrote, “Ae> long as there is a world there will be gambling of some sort. The po­licy people are only taking what is gfiven them. Policy is some­thing like a sick and accident in- sunmce. You get x^ck if you don’t hit, and it’s an accident if you do. But if we are willing to take the chance, what of it?"

proinpted the or^aipisation of the Junior Board of Lincoln Hospital and that JSpirit is th^ urge cf our activities.

Since its organization' in July,1934, the Junior Board has had as its project, the Children’s W ard of Lincoln Hospital. Each

I Christatas a Chrifjtmas tree is put in the ward and on Christ­mas day each child in the ward^ is given a toy or present and ' a s;tockiBg of fruits, l^ y s are also donated to the ward as the prop­erty of the ward for the children who enter to have some mean* of amusements.

We are striving to ibe w»rthy , ^ , „i„ig ter of musicof the commendation 6f the mas- j gion churchter, “In as much as you did it , returning there a fter an absenre unto the least of these—youhave done it unto Me”. I - — —

|Iously escaped death with Fe- 'rw is inJjjJles, asd -wwre ruah’d j to a local hospital. The driver c f

D r. M. S p a u ld in g , f o r m e r tru<k, a , white i|jan, Johnk«ard oX th e A g r ic a l tu r a l D e - 1 Maddox, age M iescaped with mi-M r t m e n t o f A. and T. C o l l e j e ! i^ u iie s and a few ibnritt on w ho is now an f n s t r u c to r o f th e A c r ic u ! tu re D cipajrtm ent o f th eK a n lu d c y S ta t e CoUeKe. D r.

HOWARD GLEE CLUB SCORES Spaulding i. considered on<T\of." 1 the most outstanding men in hii

WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 15 particul:<r field.

enveloped, in flames. How any the oceupan»^s of the wiall ca» es-^ped without death, was a miracle, he said, — ■ -------------

'Florence KT

Xhos; in .the cJT-werg en tiwirway to attend the funeral of a relative of Mrs. Shearard whiuk was beinjT held at Chocowinity,

. . . . J N. C. Rev. Kelly and Rev. Rob-( ierts w .re to hav. fa

^ the funeral ceremonie*£oth the-truck and the lighter Immediately after the accld-nt

— (ANP)— The Howard Univer- ----------- ---------------------------- ——sity Glee Club, directed by Prof. SUSPEND GUARD AFTER 3 Roy W. Tri'bbs was feature of the ..evening service at the PiwkiCoTJ- CONVICTS ESCAPEgregational (white) church‘Sun- >---------day evening last The gu0^ or- * ^IHRMINiGHAM, Dec. 15— I’ol- ganist was Juilius Carrol, also of lowing the-escape lart Friday of Howard, and Roibert Nolan sep- thrw colored conyiejs Guard J. ved as accompanist for the Glee A. Swanton at Convict Camp' NoJ Club. 12, was given a ten-day swpen*

Dr. w 7 sc o tt Mayo, widely (1 " ; known musician was • installed

The Officers are as follows: Mrs. C. C. Spaulding, Jr. Treaau- Mrii. p. W. Harris, President; * r^r; Mrs. J .'W . DavldsoTJ, Re-

Mrs. S. H. Cleland, Secretary; porter.

Ipha Phi Alpha Donates Total Awards 0ft$5,250

To Aid EducationThe Alpha''Phi Alpha Frater­

nity has awarded for the school year 19S7-193i8 a fellowship and scholarship tunounting exactly flil'SS.OO according to a repon: f^pm the office of Dr. Rayford W.. Logan of Atlanta University, the .Fraternity’s director of edu- catlon.~.

Prince A. K. Nyabongo, a grs-. duate of Howard and Yale,B. from Oxford, received fiw hundred dollars to aid in the completion at Oxford of his doc­toral dissertation, “The Religious Beliefs, Ideals and P^ctices of' ha Ancient Religion of Uganda.'

One hundred dollar eciwere awarded to Vamell

J r ., Wilberforce University; andI NAACP StiifiTightiaij For Con-

ded by-the county commissioners for “neglect of duty.”

M i i i e l T ^ t s R a ce

car, a Pontiac ^ d a n , wero to­tally destroyed from the catas­trophe. •

Those who met death in the r-ar were Rev. and Mrs. W. H.

a larje crowd quickly gathered at the i£‘cene of the tragedy wher** ".everal other minor accidents oc­curred, among whii.h was the overtumincr of a beer t-uck. The

Kelly, William McKinney'of WK- j driver of the be r truck escapeil ston-Salem, Mrs. Jane Hoag and j without injuries. O thtr cars skid-' Mrf. R. H. Reid of .Greensbo'o. ded into ditches and fi<*lds a t a t Those injured are Rev. J o ^ l n e a r the scene of the tragedy.

JO H N P . D A V IS LAUDS RUSSIA IN. MOSCOW

RADIO S P E E C H .-oOe-

Miss.- Willi.im

Lockwood. M or^n College, Rol , lins Winslow, Fisk University:

Benjamin Collier, Shaw Univer-j^j®*°*' Placet^ent.a^d

John S. Selden, Talladega Cal- l^ .* "

These awards make a total of 13,400 durinir the past two ye^rs and $i5,2i50 during the past four year#. Dr. Logan annouliced. O f.this amount the sum of 8550 was 1 _ ^awarded to Donald M u r r a y . , t h J ^ P given up i t s e l ^ i ^colored law student in the Uni- justice n the

Clark Mitchell, 54-year-old white man sentenced to be hvmg fof the slaying of two Negroe?\ faces life imprisonment as..ra re­sult 0/ Governor Hugh White's

viction Of l^oliee F o r ! action last week.• , Mnrdar O f'N egro Yoatk j Governor White commurited

CHAiRLOTTE.—in spit^ '^f the , Mitchell’s sea^tence ta life im- fact that a gnmd jiiry last week prisonment aftej'- -3 physicians failed to retiirn an indictment reported him in n n ^

Speak* To Million* Of Li»ten«fAi lealizeJthat the Soviet Unionstands today th? greatest force for social good, fo r' democracy and peace and progress that the world has ever known* j,

H ie military might of the H*-d Army‘ protects and serves not o'ftly *fhe "Soviei peoples and the Sociahrt country^

Concerning His lmpre**ioa* Of SociaIi*t Society; Broadcett*

Greeting* Of Ne>jro People To Soviet Peoples

_^MOSCOW, Dec. 15— (By Chat- woofd Hall for A N P).^In the American Negr o, Johir P . Davis,secretary of the National Ne^io Congress, in a great broadcast

' from Radio Center, greeted the I peoples of the Soviet Union in connection with \the 20th anni­versary of the Great Socialist Revolution in R uci^.

against police officer L. W. Eow- lin for killing a , N egri youth Ire re ’em Novjember l^gfe tha MA

colored law student tlie Uni verfity 'o f Maryland. Five hund.- rcd dolUlrs was granted to Dr. W. Warrick Cardozo of Chicago andJKTashington .to aid ^ his in­vestigation the prevlilence of sickle cell ^nemia among ,Ne- jproei

Two of the recipients, Dr. G. L. Franklin, economist in the Di-

Unen-

sity; N«al A. Simeoh,Institute, Chicago; and Le« Mc>- Qee, Wiley College.

Twenty-five dollar scholarships

ArinowTP^®y*^^^- '"York <Department < f t^bor^ and '

Or. John Lockett, V i^g^la State College, received tk« d*gree r f doctor of pbUosophjr, from Co^

case. L9cal lea ifSfisii®f jkji* N^^AC P have advised 'by their a t­torneys th®t-the case can be pre­sented to ^a new grand jury meeting in January. ,

The killing of William Connor

• wkio-gpreod- indigrnatira am oi^ tiie: Negro citizens of Charlotte and the campaign lau ij^ed t»y the NAACP for the prbsecution

This action follows v « V ^ o |i- ly that of the Supreme Court of Mississjpoi on Dcc.- S in afeainoverruling Mitchell’s appeal 'o r a review. Two weeks previoa.sly the-.CQurt ruled against Mitchell. The governor had previously de­clined to interfere with the -'en- tence.

Mitchell was scheduled to be h^ng on Friday, 1!)ecember 17,

l it. is , an ai my which safej.^a ds the’ peace of the world, he added. Mi^cms of toi’ers throughout the world wha wish to live in peace, free from the threats of warmongering in - '

ternational fascism, take h*‘arv I in the,power < f the Workers and

Mr. Davis is spending several ' Army of the Sovietas secre- j ^

Cdneet-nlng— arr^weeks i|i Soviet jtussia tary of the American work«ra I me new SovTeTdelegation to the Soviet holidays C'onst'tution. which he has stud- in hcnor of two decade of work- J* ^ seen in ^action,er rule^ in former ‘l y r i s t Rum1».- declared radio

West Virginia State Colleg0; Ga brie! Alexander, Morehouse Col­lege; George H. Hamilton, Xa*

Dr. F ra n k s 's dissertetion. The Negro Laltdr U n io n s of New York wair publiiAed l^y the Co-

vivT Univenjty; Walter McLean, tambia Ushfetsity Press in 198«.

of Bowlin has resulted in a coro­ner’s_, jury returning a verdict of “uitijust4fial%B h&inicide,” TheNAACP has received the aup-

wmiupu wiiiua~ m iwi—and this organisation is deter­mined to exhaust e w y legal possibility to bring »bout jifft punishment for

Bryant, aged farmer and his !|on Coot

In his defense, Mitche^ has uf-

Mitcheyclaimed consistently tha t he fered memory Jap;<23 and that he was not crazy although he had been asked to plead inan ity .

Following the decision of the Supreme Court last week, Dis-

.stjy tionsjif Red Square m^de on him on Nev. 7. He said:

He is* accompanied by .»his, ^afrgaret Davis.

Prefacing jhis radio speech with words of, “Greetings to the Soviet peoples from the mas»A# of Negro people of America," Mr. Davis ^then spoke of the im-

^tmon-

audiencerhave 'een while I-4tave been

here the concrete proof that' yeur constitution^ the Constitution

J firamedr by StaBin and otker lead­ers o f the Soviet Union, is a constitution that expresses not thinjrs as you hope them to be, j i a t . tkii'Aii'iw aft-'-.-'feey--AC'tiaal y- • ■

‘-‘As I stood on yoo*; great Red Square in Moscow a few days ago, ^andm g for hours as hnn- dreds of thousand* of happy men, women and chUdren re jo i^

ed on the 2<Hh anniversary ofTP. I th w fh<!a t O etobe r a e flntdutio^i o f f

"“ S f? . I kpe# tializceived anonymous letters threat­ening him if Mitchell were hung.

Sheriff C. B. Buaby of Yalobu- * (CoBtinued on page S)

f ^ avenr citizen in fp s t countiy. I am an American Ne­gro. Unfortunately, itome of m f white fellow country men N*rouM d«iy us th« pnipltpges ^ ulijlWr ship given under our Atamrliaft and under your ConstitB^ea b u t in your great eesM. £ y

son, no person who is honest and who dedres.peMse aad.pMsvwrity for the world eotid toil to

of the Soviat Coo declares; ^