Hot Springs echo., February 01, 1936, Image 1

About Hot Springs echo. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1???-19??

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HOT SPRINGS ECHO
VOLUME S 6
Twenty Ne
groes Die In
DeatHrap.
the vicinity around
Scottsboro, Alabama is a
veritable hell on earth, was
further attested .on’ Friday
when 1 wenty (20)
N egr< es imprisoned in a cage on
' heels, were allowed to bus nto
death by a white prison guard
,i d driver who were escorting
t ese helpless human beings to
a prison rockpile. The whites
claimed as they were traveling
in zero weather aU became cold
and that ane of the Negroes
struct a match to a piece U
paper to warm his hands when
a drum of gasoline was ignited
and the Negroes could not or
were too, panic-stricken to] get
out of the flaming death trap.
Said Editor P, W. Campbell
of the Jackson County Sentinel:
We eould see the black
column of smoke boiling above
the doomed convidts before we
reached the scene,* he said
A* we drew close we could
rmclltbe burning flesh. The truck
blocked the road, and automo.
Liles lined up on each side*
I eople came close Jand lined up
a on e db»r side,
mosr as white as the snow
"Firemen arnvieg started a
chemical pump, and as it struck
the blazing gasoline, it hissed
horribly and added to the often*
»ive odor’
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State Troopers
Enforce Jim Crow
New York, Jan. 24 —How two
VuyirJa state troopers were
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Has Made lasi Voyage.
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Hie above picture represents the late Dr.
JH. Henderson on board ship, returning from
Baptist World, Church Conference, Stockholm,
Sweden.
7 MANY pay“ IKmVTC
It wax a great funeral held for
Dr, J. H* Henderson at Roanoke
(the church bui’t under his
pastorate) Tuesday afternoon.
Worthy tributes were paid to
this man and minister associa*
ted with Hot Springs affairs
for 25 years.
Dr. Henderson came to Hot
Spi'jigs in the days of Old
koanokv and led in the building
of the present beautiful euiticel
FEkUARY 1, 1936
He supervised the building o*
the enureb and served as pas
tor until 1917 when he was
called t<> Knoxville, Tenn re
turning here a-* pastor of the
Od Mt- Canaan Baptist church
(changed to Union) in 1925. He
was a colorful feeder and i
strong preacheri Highlights of
hwearenr as followai Born 1879
graduated from Leland an 1
taught 1898^99: graduated troa
Virginia Union Theological
NUMBER 5
School, 1902; taught at Coleman
college and pastored Trinity
Baptist Shreveport 1906-1908,
built and paid ch ircb out of
debt in N Inden, La, canoe to
Roanoke 1912-1917 served Mt,
Zion. Knoxville, Tenn, til church
was pain out of dob*. cr-cted
Urge apartment bouse 'or
church rsvenue; e o c u*d pres',
dent Tennessee State Baptist
Convention, 1916. after serving
as President to Sute Baptist
88, ।’« n' nt- » , Pastor of
Union Rapt* (Hot Spring-) 1925.
In 191 b • e was a member of the
delevat on from the Federal
OfC'nrrhe to Ntock’
bol n, s con n . v nonv tn e
speakers ,t tha WfirQ .
Resolution, D r. R j j ohn , on
St. Marys Episcopal coo-cd
Miss Arlitra L<>ve, Union Hapt*
Dr, J. Watson, Ark. State; Dr
A. J. Jackson, Moderator 8. W
Dist- <'on., Dr* Coleman, repre
senting the Naciinal Baptist
The local Ministerial Alliance
paid special tribute the florals
were com v and profuse and the
sermon of the Rev. Dr, Woods
was a masterpiece of brother,
hood and admiration. J. H.
neadarwon ha* gone, we loved,
admfr n n differed many
times with him, We both bad
the courage of our eonviotions
We hop.- wnere be Lads, we will
follow —sooner or later to reward
for work which we hope has
been wen done. The Echo bon
ors his memory particularly as'a
journalist- He was preacher,
teacher, citizen and one of our
own cult We mourn with bis
beloved wife, condone with his
* ortby sons and ]bopes to meet
him Over There 44
Join N, A. A C. P.
For 7 Years.
New York, Jan. 17-Dr.and
Mrs. John D Earle of Brooklyn,
N. T. have taken out a joint
membership in the National
Association for the Advance
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