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In Oxford Blast
Jury Frees White
Slayer Of Negro
University Of Tenn. Opens Door To Race
o. c.
•( MbImI iBTiaci tmA hmm fomerlj fihe Mntnml BaUdinc
m Hkmf lH*0et year ead r«ptrt» of tte iiutttBtion with Bev.
aBgnlnttM’s 31st ■■■■al Aarebolden’ meetiBK here last
k aaater, aad J. 8. Stewart, seeretary-treamirer, Is left.
I* im tte iastttvtini tetav 19S1. Shar^ldera nnanimowly
vatod to ahaace tk» aame «f tke instltntion from Mntnal
■■taal iMlBgB aad Laaa AaaoeiatiMi. See atory, this |M(e.
Durliam Sayings Firm
Reports Year’s Growth
ne Slat MBiMl aC
IMual BwtMim «nd Lan
teria ot the NorHi Carolina Mb-
tual LUt Inawraaee Cotnpany
here last Tiwaday evening. le-
iwlail tliai INI wm one of flie
moat pfoaperous yean in the
history of the AsMxdation. which
vow htf j&H-
Uca.
In Ilia report to the aliaidial-
dera, J. S. Stewart, aecretaiy-
treasuner, diarloaed that not only
had the Aaaodatioii moved into
ita tpmdam new oOiees at IIS
Parriifa Street, but that the
moat modern aeeonatinc system,
a new Burroufta Sensimatlc
window poatint machine, bad
idnd to be delivered to tUa see>
tlon of ttia cuunliy. In addition
be added, “we have taMtalled
tiie dnpHcate chqt system and
the flat filing system for all
mortgase Inana.**
Said Stewart farther, “Oar
Aaaodation experieeeed a gain
oi $S2S4S4.M to Maefs diirfnc
the year or MJ per cent over
tiiat of laat year. Savlnsi ae-
counts gained S3044M.4* or 21.
M per cent $44S,a81.72 to moct-
gage loans were made dnring toe
(Plwaa tmm to Ptwe Bght)
cirPlH
Otowte
PAYnRflON, M. J. — The
anmial Brodieriiood MoaOi wffl
he ohaaraad to Fhttonan Arani
fWwary U to Msrrh is.
ne purpeae is to ■»*—ni«t«
fwgiama and prajecli to eda-
cate tor evial and fUl ofvor-
trinities and mpeet fpr aU re-
gerdleaa e tteir raee, fcHgloa
or national origia.
Over 4B Pattiiw otgMil-
mSOM MM anMQT mttaCtBtttt
*ihiAf 4Hlra to be npnMotod cd
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PGA PKMnS EX-CHAMPION TO
PlAV IN NEST COAST TOUIiNEY
SAN DIEGO, — A sUidbit
to the walls of
fite Fr^leitfanal OktOers Amto-
datkn Jim crow policy here this
we^ aa its officiala relented and
deddad to permit former heavy
weight champion Joe Louis play
to the PGA-apooaored San Diego
Open TtMimament, scheduled to
open here nmrsday.
Louis will be the first Negro
to participate to a FGA-spoosor-
ed event.
Although Louis was permitted
to play hecaoae at hia status as
an amateur, two other Loa Ange-
lea Negroea were denied the
right to play to the tournament
soldy becauae of the fact that
they were Negroea.
At first, the ex-Brown Bom
ber was barred himaelf by the
PGA rules wiiich state that non-
Caucaaiana are not eligible to
belong to ttie PGA or peHic^te
to PGA-^Mmaored tournaments.
He bad been invited to parti
cipate in the tournament by the
local San Diego vooaming com-
However, Tuesday the preai-
dent of the PGA, Horton Smith,
came op with a solution for
Loais when he declared that
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Mrs. Nell Hunter, noted
aepnuM af Dariumi, who will
be freaeatsd to a song reeital
at St. JaMph A. M. B. Choreh,
Saaday aveaing, ^aaoary St
lU 7:M afeloek by toe Ladiea
Aid Seeiety of toe Chareh. The
raeital, for whleh there will be
mm admiaslen, Saaday eve-
alag will be Mrs. Hunter^
first appearance stoce she re-
eeived her M. A. to Mnsie
tnm Chicago VniTeraity.
Agrees To Admit
Negroes To
Grad Schools
WASHINGTON, ~ The Nat
ional As^iation for the Ad
vancement of Colored Peopl
moved another step nearer i'
goal of the complete breakdown'
of segregation in publicly-sup
ported higher education, as the
University of Tennessee last
week capitulated before the
United States Supreme Court
and agreed to admit within the
month the four applicants to the
law and graduate schools on
whose behalf NAACP attorneys
appealed to the high court. The
victory was the 30th for the
NAACP out of 33 cases carried,
to the Supreme Court.
The case was clo^d last
Thursday after John J. Hooker,
representing the trustees of the
University of Tennessee, rose in
the Supreme Court following
argument by NAACP Assistant
Special Counsel Robert L. Car
ter, to say that university trus
tees had agreed to admit Gene
Mitchell Gary and Jack Alex
ander to the graduate school,
and Lincoln A. Blakeney and
Joseph H. Patterson to the law
school, this month.
Later, Hooker and Dodson,
who also represented the uni
versity, told reporters that this
meant that all qualified Negroes
will be adiyitted to “similar
bursas.” t
Thurgood Marshall, NAACP
special counsel, said^ that the
applicants will present them
selves for admission and that the
Association will take further
action immediately If they are
not admitted.
Marshall also stated that fur
ther action will be taken if other
qualified applicants are subse
quently not admitted. He said
the NAACP legal staff feels that
this case sets sufficient prece
dent to open the law and grad
uate schools permanently to
Negro students. ^
NAACP attorneys participa
ting in the appeal, in addition
to Marshall and Carter, were
Avon Williams of Knoxville,
and Carl A. Cowan and Z. Alex
ander Looby of Nashville.
FOR THIRTY YEARS THE OUSTANDING WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS
Entered aa Secmad Clasa Matter at the Feat Offiee at Oarhaoa, Nwth Caroliaa, aader Act ef Mareh S, mt.
Sigmund Meyer
Bench Hopeful
Sigmund Meyer, Durham at
torney, announced his candi
dacy for Judge of Recorders
Court here last week.
An active figure in local poli
tics, Meyer served for five years
as chairman of the Durham
County Board of elections, is a
former assistant Recorder’s
Judge and is currently presi
dent of the local Voung Demo-
(Uiatic Club.
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DUBHAM, NOBTH CABOUNA, SATVBDAT, JAN. IMh, 1»52 PBICB flDt CBMTS
examiaiag a copy of
These three stoilrat editors at North Caroltoa College, are
“Pnlvda,” official Russian government newspaper, with John Scott, one of TIME magastoe’s foreign
editors last week. —
Scott, expelled from Russia tor allegedly violating Soviet censorship regulations, spoke at
North Carolina College on the responsibility of readers to safeguard the freedom of American news
papers.
Pictured above are left to right. Miss Margaret E. Morgan, editor of the Campus ECHO, North
Carolina College undergraduate newspaper; Mr. Scott; Lorraine James, ECHO Business Manager;
and M. D. Thorpe, ECHO Managiifg Editdir. Miss Morgan is from Boston, Mass., Thorpe, Durham; and
Mi««
UNC Heads Frown On
Proposed Mixed Dance
CHAPEL HILL — University
of North Carolina officials rear
ed up this week to strike one
more blow at' democratic prac
tices at the Institution when they
ruled that the Univeristy Law
Association could not hold a
planned 'unsegregated . Spring
dance. ^
The Association had earlier
decided,, by special referendum,
to make their annual dance open
to. the five Negro law students
now in attendance at the school.
With 14S of the 216 law students
Owner Of Bombed Home Received
Threats; Damage Is Very Slight
OXFORD—Sheriff E. P. Dav--
is informed the CAROLINA |
TIMES Wednesday afternoon
that his office has been unsuc
cessful in its search for the per
son or persons responsible for
the dynamiting of a newly com-
participating in the special re- Pleted house owned by a Negro
ferehdum, 82 voted for an un
segregated dance while 63 votes
were counted against it.
This action came on last Tues
day. On Wednesday, however,' bout 300 feet away, told the
farmer near here on the night
of Wednesday, January 9-
Sanford Holding, 55-year-old
owner of the house, who lives a-
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Attv. General Promises All-Out
itty.
E^i
Efrort To Catch Moore Bombers
WASHINGTCW —
tkm oi the hunt for toe mw or
killers of Mr. and Mrs. Harry T.
Moore of lOms, Florida, has
by attomey-Gene-
ral J. Howard McGrath.
Hie nation’s chief law enfor
cement oOlcer gave this assur
ance to delegatinn ot reprsatAt-
ativas of IS —MmmI orgmi-
totlsBa lAldi conanlted wlto him
hate on January t and dewian--
ded “that toe investigation now
laidgway—be expedited and to-
that ttiere will be
appMienaion and
of toe gnUty parttes.”
Moor, Vlatida state coordi-
nater of NAACP brandies, and
lbs. Mooce died aa the result of
a bomb wfaich Uastad their
home in Mims on Christmas
ni^t. Mr, Moore had cam-
paigned for enlargement of the
Negro vote, for civil rights and
for the prosecution of Sheriff
Willis McCall for his cold-blood
ed slaying of Samuel Shepard
and shooting of Walter Lee
Irvin, prisoners in his custody.
Hie conference with attorney
Gmeral M^rath was in re-
qxmse to request by Walter
White, executive searetary of
the National Association for the
Advancemnt of Colored People,
foUowtog tlie Christmas night
murders.
I^;)eaking tor the delegation,
White cited toe “reign of terror”
to Plorida during 1061, toclud^
ing not only the murder of the
Moores but also the bombings
and attempted bombings of Jew
ish welfare centers and synago
gues, a Catholic church and a
Negro housing project in Miami.
Ini>addition to asking for in-
^nsiflcation of the FBI inves
tigation, the NAACP leader ur
ged McGrath to call immediately
federal grand jury to investi
gate these crilnes.' . *
He further called upon him,
for a decision to present to the
United States Supreme Court
for it^ determination the ques
tion as to whether Sheriff Mc
Call acted In contempt of that
court when he killed Shepard
an4 shot Irvin.
A request for such action oq
the part of the Attorney Gen*
eral was made by NAACP Spe
cial Counsel Thurgood Marshall
on November 15, on the ground
that the victims were under pro
tection of the Supreme Court,
inasmuch as that court had or
dered a new. trial for them
through the Florida Supreme
Court.
In response to the delegation’s
demand,- the Attorney-General
revealed instructions he had giv
en to J. Edgar Hoover, director
of thfe Federal Bureau.of Inves
tigation.
“You have complete and un
limited authority to make full
Investigation of the Incidrats
that have, and any further In
cidents that may occtir to the
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TIMES representetive tliat he
had just completed the house
and had been,staying in it each
night imtil Wednesday when the
weather was so inclement he
decided to spend the night at
home with his family. He said
he had been warned through
riunors that he might have trou
ble and had been keeping watch
each night.
Apparently the dynamite was
set by an inexperienced person
or persons as the blast failed to
damage the building to any great
extent other than sliattering
windows and blowing out two
or the cinder blocks of which
the foundation is made.
Holding, the father of eleven
children, who owns over 300
acres of farm land to the vicinity,
appears not to be frightened to
the least. He told the TIMKS
representetive that it was lucky
for the dynamiters that he was
at home the night of toe bomb
ing and was not to the house or
th^ person or persons resiwnsi-
ble for it would have been found
dead at the scene the next mom-
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'Dixie Defense'
Frees Hanes
NEW BERN — An all white,
male Craven County jury took
only six hours and IS minutes
here last Thursday to free a
wealtoy, “gentleman farmer” on
charges of murder of his Negro
tenant.
Newton Hitnes, relative of the
executives of the Wachovia Na
tional Bank and Trust Company
and the mammoth Hanes textile
mills at Winston-Salem^'won an
acquittal, with the help of the
jury, of the fatal shooting, wUch
he admitted, of forty year-
old Ishunael Simmons on the
strength of a defense which ol>-
servers have labelled a “dixie
defense.”
Veteran court observers steted
that tlie defense which Hahes
used is a “well kno\ra trick a-
mong aoathoTi whittei, who use
it when tliey want to clear toem-
selves of any legal embarrass
ments they may suffer m a
situation involving them and a
Negro.”
Hanes’ defense consisted of a
story he told the court of the
rape of tiis wife by toe slain
man and of shooting him in self
defense when toe dead man
tlireatened him during an argu
ment over wages. He claimed,
and the jury apparently be-
lieved, tiiat he shot Simmons be^
cause the latter had raped his
wife and threatened him wito
a knife during an argument.
The action of the jury in free
ing Hanes came as a distinct
shock to many whites who had
watched developments of the
trial with interest. Sentiment a-
mong Negroes was essentially
that It was to be expected. They
point to similar actions of Norto
Carolina courts in cases, of tois
nature.
i Hanes’ defense consisted of his
r story of the rape and of toe
argimient between him and
Sinunons. His story was not cor
roborated by any otoer wit
nesses. His wife, who was pres
ent throughout toe hearing, was
not called to toe stand to tell the
story of toe rape.
On the other hand, Simmons
wife wd daughter boto testified
that toe victim was working to
toe fields all day wito than on
the day of the alleged rape.
Hanes told toe court that his
wife told him on October 26 she
was raped by Simmons. Hanes
then said that he talked wito a
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I. O. Fnnderbnrg has been
named assistant cashier of toe
Mechanics and Farmers Bank
here. A member of toe bank’s
staff stoce 1948, Funderborg
was born in Monticello, Geor
gia and attended Morehouse
College and toe Cniversity of
Michigan. Active to eivie af
fairs, toe yeuag World War
n vettfan has served to the
Community Chest, Heart fnad,
TWCA baildiag eaaspaigns,
and ter toe past three years
was ^airman of toe Chrtst-
vas CheM Glab aettdtatleae
Committee. He ia. carresUly
commander of toe Weaver Mc
Lean Poet, Namber 115 •! toe
American Legiea aad a BMas-
bw ot toe Alpha Phi Alpha
flrateraity. He hi alae a aism
at St. Jfeeeph A. M. K.
Chardi.
By Inch
Of Candle
By BOSS BITTLBB BBOWNz'
EDITOB’S NOTB: The '
to l^ad to aaaeanee thto
week its new calamalst, Dc.
Base BaUer Brewae, ttosat
Daehaaa rherrhireaMin aad
educater. Be sare to read Dr.
Browae’s eelaan, inch
of Caadle,” eaeh week ter
peaetratiag saalysee ef tMt~
Recent Supreme Court decis
ions, making mandatory the ad
mittance of qualified Negro stu
dents to tlie graduate sdioQls ot
certato Stete Universities, have
^ven a new cause for ^tprefacn-
sion to those who are addkted
to “viewing wito alarm.**
One ot the bases tor the pre
sent dteqtoetude ia the feer that
qualified Negro studenta who
are admitted to some of toe to-
■titotions of higher leaning
(naaae turn to Paae ngM)
A