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End Medical Bias--NMA
WaMhiugtoii The Americau
Medical iVsaocmtiou, whicii
holds iUi auiuiul uouveutiuu
in ISaa Friuicisco Monday
through Friilay, wus request
ed last week to isKUi! a state-
meut oi policy aguiiii>t dih-
crimiuatory practices iu the
field of h^iJth.
The .request was made by
Dr. W. Montague Cobb, pro
fessor of anatomy at Howard
University, on behalf of the
Council of Medical Education
and Hospitals of the National
Medical Association, and of
the National Medical Com
mittee of the NAACP.
Dr. Peter Murray, physician
of New York CJity, became the
first Negro to be seated in the
House of Delegates o£ the
AJVIA last week. Observers
see this as a move by the
am A to gttiu support of the
NMA, tlie correspondiiig Ne
gro medical orgauizatiou, iti
the fight a^faiust the Truman
Health Insurance plan.
Dr. Elmer L. Henderson, re
cently elected as president of
the AMA, lashed out in his
inauguration speech last week
at San Francisco at the Tru
man administration and its
National Health Insurance
Plan. He called on the associa
tion to continue to wage a
fight against the plan.
The AMA, according to re
cent reports, spent the second
highest sum of any lobby
group in the nation last year
in the figh't apainst the Trn-
man Health Plan.
Dr. C. Herbert Marshall,
president of the NMA and
Walter White, erecutive sec
retary of the NAACP, have
forwarded letters to the AMA
endorsing the request of Dr.
Cobb for the AMA to speak
out against discrimination in
health.
Part of Dr. Marshall’s letter
is as follows:
Local Scouts
Arrive In Pa.
For Jamboree
Nine Negro Scouts of this
city were among the 2o(i
Scouts of tlie Occoneeehee
Council arriving at Hetswood
^tatif)u at> «ig-ht) T\iesday 
morning. 'I'he scouts were
joined at Wasiiington, D. C.
by scouts from Macou aiul Sav
annah, (ieorgia.
Upon arrival at liu* Jam
boree file eontiiigfiit was met
by the Regional staff, and
walked one and one half
miles to tlie eam]^ sit*'. VV. Y.
Compton, Scout executive of
the Oc(y^eecliee Council met
the" scotTlS^ camp site,
and. started them on their
work of setting? up camp. The
scouts were busy all day Tues
day setting up camp.
Negro scouts and scout lead
ers from Durham who made
the trip are A. Caldwell,
Chapel Hill, assistant Jam
boree scoutmaster; J. W. Car
rington, Jamboree scoutmas
ter; Charles Alston, Stpehen
Starks, James Schooler, Jr.,
Clarke Egerton, James At
water Clmpel Hill, Erwin
Pratt, Ernest Peole, William
Baton, and James Norris.
These Scouts will put on a
skit at the Jamboree on July
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*'The value of a mere state
ment against discrimination
on the part of your great or
ganization is self-evident and
cannot be overestimated. Cer
tainly your executive officers,
. . . Board of Trustess ....
House oi Del^ates cannot
fail to sense the opportunity
for professional statesmanship
the issuance of such a state
ment as this represents.*’
Project Flops;Su
AFTER GRAHAM DEFEAT
“Hopes For N.C. Dim”-Wall8
Poughkeepsie, New York—“My hopes for North Caro
lina grew dimnn'r when 1 was toUl that Senator Frank
(irahttui had bt;en defeated to represent my native state,”
said Bishop W. J. Walls, presiding prelate of the second
episcopal disti'ict of the A. M, E, Zion Church, here last
Sunday.
The bishop continued his statement by saying that he
had hoped that North Carolina would throw off the yoke
of bondage that attends the southern states and take its
place among those states which have lined up in the march
to freedom and justice.
Bishop Wails is considered one of the foremost church
leaders of America. He is a member of the Central Com
mittee of the World Council of Churches.
He was joined in this blast by Bishop H. T. Medford,
who is associated with him in the holding of the 129th
session of the New York Conference, which has been meet
ing here since Tuesday. Both of the prelates are native
born North Carolinians.
3ishop Medford closed the interview by saying tliat
North Carolina, nor any other state, can not afford to lose
the services of so noble a man as P’rjmk Graham and ex
pect to keep pace with the modern trend of liberalism.
NEA Official Plugs
Aid To Education
KANSAS CITY, MO.
The National Congress of C-ol-
ored Parents and Teachers meet
ing here in its rMth annual con
vention lieard Moss H. Kenrix,
NEA representative issue a
challenge for all-out support
for federal aid to education.
The NEA spokesman pointed
out Jiiuny seliooj situations
%vhi(‘.li he felt were striving to
^rive every eliild an equal op
portunity iu seliooliiig. lie com
mended Missouri for its c()ualiz-
ed spending for hoys and girls
of all races.
His commendation of Missou
ri was, he .said, less*>ned, how
ever, tlue to the fact that in
Kansas (lity boys and girls this
year were denied nine months
of t‘due,iiiliou and given onl>i|
eight betanse of a lack of hinds.
llefurning to his discu.ssion of
federal aid to education, the
NEA representativ(! pointed out
that such a curtailment of the
school year in Kansas City
w'ould in all probalility have
been avoided if the nation luul
a federal aid law .
Kenrix’s challenge to th'e
PTA Congress to continue its
fight for fed(‘ral aid to educa
tion was .stres.sed earlier by Mrs.
J. S. Morgan, Cartersville, Ga.,
w ho is national president of the
PTA organization.
In her annual message, Mrs.
Morgan reaffirmed the Congress
report for an adecpuite federal
aid law for assistance to public
elementary and secondary
schools.
3ifC«n
Botered u Second Oaw U«tt«r the Poat Office at Darhua, North C^oUba, oader Act of March 3, 1879.
FOR 25 YEARS THE OUTSTANDING NEX;R0 WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS
VOLUME 28—NUMBER
HE
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, JULY 1st, 1950
PRICE: TEN CENTS
Red Purge^ Political Action
Theme Of NAACP Conference
White Says
MOSS
KENDRIX
KY. COLLEGE IS
HOST TO Y-TEEN
SUMMER CONFAB
Frankfort, Ky. — Kentucky
State C'ollege, served as host to
more than 100 delegates attend
ing the Summer Conference of
the Kentucky-Tennessee Y-Teen
June 10-lG. The conference
theme: “A Better World Be
gins With Me,” was emphasized
throughout the meet.
The conference Avas character
ized by inspiring addressed by
conferenee leaders. Mrs. Minnie
Hitch, Principal, Rosenwald
Training School, Frankfort,
Kentucky gave the baniuet ad
dress; while Mr. Arnold W.
Wriglit, Associate Professor of
Economics and Sociology, and
Miss Kuth A. Mosley, Dormitory
Director, both of Kentucky
State College, .spoke on “Voca
tions” and “Leadership Train-
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Power Of
Polls Cited
By Many
BOSTON
The need for intensified po
litical action to offset congress
ional inaction on civil rights
was the recurrent theme of the
six-day 41st annual convention
of the NAACP which closed
here last week.
Speaker after speaker remind-
el the 500 delegates from 38
states of their responsibility to
exjiand the Negro’s voting
strength.
Reporting on political action
in the South Kelley Alexander
president of the North Carolina
Conference of NAACP branches
noted the increase in the Negro
vote and eallcHl for effective or
ganization of that vote.
“It is not enough just to get
people registered,” Alexander
said. “The voters must be or
ganized. We must do more work
on the precinct and ward level.
NAACP leaders should be Con
cerned about developing leader
ship on the ward and precinct
level, for it is from that level
that the jxiwer to elect officials
stems.”
The political impact upon soc
ial an«l ec'onomic phases of the
struggle for equality was also
revealed in discussion on hbus-
iiig, employment and social
security.
Participating in the discuss
ion on “The Negro and the
Present Economiilc i^ituation”
were Clarence Mitchell, Jr.,
NAACP labor secretary; H. L.
Mitchell, president of the Nat
ional Farm Ijabor Union, AFL;
and Dr. Seymour E. Harris
Harvard economics professor.
Taking j)art in a session on
mobilization for community ac
tion on behalf of NAACP pro
gram were Emory (). .laekson
executive .secretary of the Bir
mingham, Ala., branch; Daniel
E. Byrd, NAACP assistant
field .secretary; aiul Rev. Al
bert C. Keith of Grand Rapids
Mich.
Much-Heralded Project Falls
Flat; Union Denies Connection
Special to the TIMES
Members of the much public
ized “Round The W’orhl Study
Tour,” which I’tiion Ifnivei'sity
officials allowed that institution’s
name to bt? connected with iin-
til laat Saturday, got no farther
around tht* world than Rich
mond, Va. point of (‘mbarkation
for the “globe circling tour.”
The humiliating and dis
appointing flop of the widely
heralded and acclaimed pro
ject came as a climax to a
series of persnickety and con
fusing incidents, involving the
venerable institution at Rich
mond.
Some of the .50 college stu
dents and teachers, participants
in the project, disgruntled and
obviously disappointed over the
failure of the tour, indicated
that they planned to institute
suits against the irnivenjity for
damages incurred in preparing
for the short-lived “voyage.”
(They got as far a.s Byrd air
port at Richmond.)
Although an inkling of the
failure of project had been
received by several members
of the entourage before Un
ion University’s President F.
J. Ellison disclaimed responsi
bility for the institution on
the eve of the “departure,”
his statement disclaiming re
sponsibility for the Universi
ty, stunned participating
members of the tour.
Members of the tonr, although
tliey had learni’d of the .shortage
of funds for the project, and of
the F^'.siident Ellison’s state
ment, gathered at the Byrd air
port on schedule Sunday morn
ing aiul waited four hours on the
^ Ralph Bundle, ” recently
christfMied plane which was to
take them on the journey.
The “Itiilph Bunche” never
showed.
Highly unsusal incidents sur
rounding the affair were
brought out this week in an
interview with Dr. Harry E.
Groves, professor of Law at
North Carolina College, and
one of the members of the ill-
fated tour.
Dr. Groves said that one Pro-
fes.sor Clemmon King directed,
the project. Tt was learned fur
ther that, although Prof. King’s
employmnet with the institu-
t'on was alleged to have ended
at the end of the past academic
year, he was list»tl in the sum
mer school bulletin, issued in
March, as directing the tour,
whicli, according to the bulletin,
offered semester credit of nine
to 12 hours.
Dr, Grovjes' said^ th^t the
funds collected for the tour
amounted to about $5,000.
Prof. Clemmon was quoted as
saying, one week before the
students and teachers assem
bled at Union, that the fund
was $30,000 short of the $75,-
000 goal.
Attorneys for the institution
told representatives of the par
ticipants that T^nion was not
liable for the outcome of the
tour. The University, however,
offered to restore funds to the
participating members, provided
they drop claims against it.
Wilkins Yet
Has Hope
For FEPC
ROY WILKINS
BOSTON
Intensified and unrelenting
pre.ssure on .senators can .still
succeed in forcing the FEPC
bill to the floor of the Senate in
this (wssion of Congress, declar
ed Roy Wilkins, 5lAACP ad
ministrator, in his keynote ail-
dre.ss at the opening mass meet
ing at the 41st annual conven
tion of tlie NAACP last Tues
day evening.
Speaking before more than
1,(KM) delegates and observers
hi the jam-packed Union Meth
odist Church, Wilkins sounded
a challenge to all friends of
civil rights not to relax in their
fight to secure cloture on the
motion to take up the FEPC
bill when this motion once again
comes to the Senate floor on
July 12th.
“The ‘smoothies’ in both par
ties who are juggling human
rights for political advantage
will find that their tricks are
fooling no one,” Wilkins said.
He told the assemblage that
Congress “can be converted”
at the ballot box, and warned
that meml)ers of either party
who fail to fulfill their cam
paign pledges, on civil rights
will be routed from their seats
in Congress next November.
The civil rights issue became
the “hottest potato” in the
second session of the 81st Con-
gre.ss, Wilkins asserted, because
of the pressure put on senators
and representatives by the more
Ithan 4,000 delegates to the Na
tional Emergency Civil Rights
mobilization in Wa.shingtoii last
January.
Under thte direction of the
NAACP, and with the cooper
ation of more than 100 national
and local organizjitions, the
Mobilization brought to the na
tion’s capital the largest group
ever to assemble there on behalf
of any piece of le{?islation.
The s^veeping anti-segrega
tion decisions handed down re
cently by the United States
Supreme Court in the Uni^'er-
sity of Texas and Univet^sity of
Oklahoma cases were jfiailed by
(the NAACP arlministrator as
“sweet successes” setting the
pace of the great strides for
ward made through the courts
during the past year.
As.serting that the decision in
the Sweatt case “ripped apart
the ‘separate but equal’ m>4h.”
Wilkins told the convention that
the way is now open for the
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Oust Biased
Congress
BOSTON
A concerted drive to un.seat
members of Congress who fail
to support civil rights legislat
ion was urged today by NAACP
Ex«v!utive Secretary Walter
^\^'!te^ speaking here at th(^
closing session of the 41st an-
annual convenion of the
NAACP.
In making his plea for a non
partisan campaign against de
linquent and hostile senators
representatives, White announc
ed a decision of the NAACP
Board of Directors to call a con
ference of liberal organizations
“to plan united action against
those politicians in Congress
who sold us out on civil rights”.
The NAACP official served
notiei* “that no political party
will be permitted'either to par
ticipate in or to influence the
decisions or actions of this con
ferenee. We shall meet on a
completely non-partisan basis as
A)menean citizens and voters
who are determined to express
disjipproval, irre,s])ective of po
litical affiliation, of those who
failed to keep their party pledge
to support civil rights.”
it is your responsibility,
White told the delegates, “to go
back home wherever you live
and .step up registration and
voting , . . Today the Negro
vote is respected and feared be-
cau.st» of its political indepen
dence. But it knot feared
enough ... It ifftior^t respect
ed enough to stiffen tlie back
bones of Republican and Dem
ocratic Senate leaders sufficient
ly to overcome tht opposition of
Dixiecrats.”
Denouncing attempts of Com
munists and other political
groups to “infiltrate and domi
nate brandies of the NAACP
Mr. White declared “ we must
be utterly ruthless in routing
any and all attempts by any po
litical, economic, or other selfish
group to take over our NAA
CP.”
CROOM
Last Rites
Held Here For
Mrs. Groom
La.st rites for Mrs. Pearl B.
CriMjin, ()1 year-old well-
known resident of this city,
were liekl at the rnim Bap
tist Church'. WVdiiestlay aft
ernoon.
Dr. J. K. Ramsey, Windsor,
former pastor of 5lrs. Croom,
delivered the eulogj’. Mem
bers of the Durham Minister
ial Allianre, including Revs,
M. ^1. Fisher, S. P. Perry, R.
C. Sharpe. William H. Fuller
and Harold Roland, assisted
in the servi(*es.
Mrs. Croom died of a heart
attack at her home at 802
Elizabetli Street, Saturday at
10:00 a. m. A resident of the
city since 1927, she was born
at W’^hitakers, daughter of the
late George and Martha Bul
lock. Slie received her early
training at Bricks School,
Bricks, N. C.
She was married in 1906 to
Rev. A. S. Croom, by whom
she is survived. Rev. Croom is
pastor of the T'uion Baptist
Church.
Also surviving Mrs. Croom
are two daughters, Mrs.
Dorcas V. Reaves and Mrs.
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bruught by a group n
par**iit;. ill bi'h.tlf of f)i ir ''tiiU
dreii Monday.
The unprecedented and long-
awaited court action which
seeks to enjoin ioc«l and state
educational authorities from
discriminating against Negro
school children now and for
ever reached sensational pro
portions early in the week
when counsel for the plaintiffs
showed evidence of gross in
equalities over a 48-year-old
period.
Citing a s^ttion -f u 1 pu;;-.
documented sur\-y (jf ■ hite and
Negro schw)l facilities- iindt-r the
topic. “School Propert;. Mv^-r-
view Conipansuns ll*>4-i>4
through 194h. fq/- plaintiffs
testified that the differ‘‘n-ial in
educational fa.-ilities b**r^en
the races has increaseil aloni a
steady pattern ''ith the widest
differential oci'iirrin!.' -i^ini^
the 19+8-49 school term.
Dr. J. Rupert Picojt, Ex-
tive Secretary of the \^ginia
State Teachers Associktion,
and chairman of the School
Survey report, testified that
in 1904-05 the differential be
tween Negro and white school
children was $39.01 while in
1948-49 the difference favor
ing the white child had mount
ed to the staggering figure of
$441.47.
The case whieh was p4jsrpou»^d
three times and was in May
in the Middle District Federal
Court, is being heard by Judge
Johnson J. Hayes. The PlaintitTs
e represented by Attorneys
•John H. \Mieeler and M Hugh
Thompson of Durham and ifar-
tin A. Martin. Oliver \V Hdl
and Spotw(Kxls W. Rnbinson of
Richmond, Vn. The Durhanp
defendants are repres.'Utetl by
the law firm of Fuller. R^ade,
Umstead and Fuller Attorney
General Harry McMullen and
Assistant Attorn*\v tjeneral
Ralph Moo«.ly an- ilei^nding the
State Board of EdiHMtion.
Corroborated testimony of a
parade of expert witnesses
told the court that flagrant
examples of rank discrimina
tion existed in all areas of the
entire Durham school sjrstem.
Dr. Ellis O. Knox, professor
of Education, Howard Uni
versity and Dr. Stephen J.
Wright, dean of the faculty
at Hampton Institute were
among those corroborating
the testimony of inequalities
made by Dr. Picott.
In a sumniarj- of the findmgs of
Drs. Picott, Knox and Wright,
it was coneluded that iu the
major elements involved in the
operation of the Ehirham City
school system, “the schools pro
vided for Negro children are
unequal to those pnjvided for
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Fight To Save Man
From Chair In Miss.
New York—The Civil Rights
Congress pressed its efforts
for a national campaign to
save the life of Willie McGee,
Mi.ssissippi Negro, sentenced
to die in the electric chair on
a count of rape on a middle-
aged white woman.
Three organizations and one
outstanding personality join
ed the organization’s nation
wide appeal this week asking
for executive clemency for
McGee.
At the same time, the CRC
announced that it had insti
tuted a na^naf campaign to
save the escaped “Scottsboro
Boy” from extradition to Ala
bama.
Th® Chicago Union Labor
Post No. 745 of the American
L^on, The League for De
mocratic Rights of Canada
and Rockwell Kent, famous
American artist, all joined the
CRC this week in asking for
clemency for McGee.
The CRC has charged that
McGee is a victim of IjTieh
justice. The organization not
ed that his conviction w^as re-
versetl twice after it interven
ed, but that the third convic
tion was upheld by the Miss-
i.ssippi Supreme Court.
The Congress also chargel
that a lynch mob surroundel
the court house at each one of
the trials.
The Chicago I.egion Ijabor
Post forwarded a resolution to
Atty. Gen. Howanl McGrath
and the two senators from
Illinois stating that “this vet
eran (Willie ilcGee) has been
framed, tortured and sen
tenced to death by the per
fectly typical Ku Klux Klan
hTich-law methods currently
obtain itijj; in the undemocratic
and un-American state of
Mississippi.
The notetl artist Rockwell
Kent wrote MisNissippi's (.tov.
Fielding W'right:
“Willie McGee has been
sentenced to death by the
courts of Mississippi on evi
dence and under circum
stances that, in the judgement
of that larger jury, the Amer
ican people, are so far from
just as to place his execution
in the shameful category of
legal l3mching.”
In the campaign to save
Haywood Patterson, one of
the “Scottsboro Boys,” fnun
extradition to Alabama, the
CRC has asked that an “im
mediate barrage of telegrams”
be sent to Governor Mennen
of Michigan, asking him to
refuse extralition.
Patterson was captured by
the PBI recently in Detroit.