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VOLCMB S»—NUMBBB 41
DCBHAM. N. O.. SATUBDAT, DEO. Z$, 1952
rSiCK TEN CBNTS
Segregation Question
Embroils Bond Issue
Shown 4n this piettire are
members of the Biastem Inter
collegiate Athletic Conference
during their annual meeting at
Livingctong College, Salisbury.
They are left to right, front i«wi
Jackson, Elizabeth City Teachers
College; Schofield, Bowie State;
Scott, Fayetteville Teachers Col
lege; Vaughan, Elizabeth City
Teachers College; Brown, Blue*
field State; Knight, Virginia
Seminary, and Perkins, Norfolk
Division Va. State.
.Second row, left to right. Presi
dent W. J. Trent, Livingstone;
Mitchell, Livingstone; Ferrell,
Norfolk Division; Gaines, Fay
etteville Teachers College; Har
graves, Fayetteville Teachers
College; Mitchell, Livingstone;
McCrary, Livingstone; White,
Elizabeth City Teachers; Smith,
Norfolk Division; and Hopkins,
Hivingstone. S. L. Hopkins of
Livingstone was elected presi
dent of the conference.
Charlotte Team May
Get Two Race Players
CHARLOTTE
The Charlotte Hometa of the
Class B Tri-State Baseball Lea
gue may sport two Negro play
ers on its roster for next season,
but there are still a great many
"ifs” to be overcome between
now and next April.
The Hornet’s general manager,
Phil Howser, disclosed this week
that the Negro players will be
given a chance to make the team.
One was listed as Douglas Mc-
Bean, who last season played
with the Drummondsville, Que
bec team of the Class C Provin-
ical League of Canada. The oth
er player, whose name was with
held, is a pitcher from the Ha
vana team of the Florida-Inter
national League.
The first hurdle to be cleared,
providing the players make good
in Spring training, is the senti
ment of some of the clubs of the
Tri-State League against using
Negro players. There have been
some indications of pressure
from som^ of the League’s front
offtces against such a move as a
result of Rock Hill’s experiment
with a Negro last summer. The
South Carolina club used a Ne
gro for one game and it caused
such a flurry that he was not
used again during the seasoiT.
l^en there is the matter of
ordinances which some member
teams’ cities have against using
Negroes. Also the players will
not be able to train with the
Hornets in Florida because of
‘local complications.” But, bar
ring all of these obstacles, How
ser apparently intends to go
through with his plan.
Howser affirmed that he was
not using the players tor “jmb-
llcity purposes.” "The boys are
good baseball players and if they
are good enough to play for our
team, I believe they should be
given the chance,” he explained.
He said he bad the sutq>ort of
Clark Qrtffith, owner of the
Washington Senators, parent
club of the Hom^
Prcaent plans call for tiM two
players to spend the early part
of the Spring trainiitf season
with the Havana club while the
Hornets drill at Winter Garden,
Florida. The Hornets will break
camp atK>ut April 10, a week be
fore the league opens. The Ne
gro players are scehduled to
join the Hornets en route to
Charlotte. There the yet to be
appointed manager of the Hor
nets will consult with Howser on
the chances of the two making
the grade with the club.
Abortions As Numerous As Births,
Consultant Reveals To Social Group
REIDSVILLE WOMAN
Wim ESSAY CONTEST
Mrs. Eugene E. Ellington, re
sident of 008 Ware Street, hit
the jackp)^ here this week to the
tune of $000 in prize money.
The young housewife pulled
down the blue chips for her sec
ond place in a national essay
contest on shoe wearing com
fort.
When Mrs. Ellington was jire-
sented the check here this week
by Ed Lewis, manager of a lo
cal shoe store, she could hardly
believe the good news. She had
filled out an application blank
and sent in her 20 word essay
so many months ago she had
forgotten about it.**
“And, besides," she said, "I
]ust never was any good at be
ing luckyl”
INDLVNAPOLIS
When Margaret Sanger, found
er of the birth control move
ment, began her work more than
thirty years ago, it was because
she saw the disintegration of
whole families and its effect on
their health and general welfare,
Miss Naomi J. Thomas of New
York, Negro field consultant for
the Planned Parenthood Federa
tion of America, told the Indiana
State Conference of Social Work,
held at the Claypool Hotel, last
Thursday.
Abortions were almost as
numerous as births, and wera
crudely and dangerously per
formed, she continued, and this
condition was the deciding influ
ence in Miss Sanger’s determina
tion to set up an organization to
give birth control information to
women.
Miss Thomas told of an in
cident related by Miss Sanger,
in which the mother of three
children whose husband was un
employed was desperately ill fol
lowing a criminal abortion upon
her. This mother had asked her
doctor for help in preventing
another pregnancy and his ad
vice to her was “to tell Jake to
sleep on the roof.”
"Trjlnt to improve the e«o-
aomie and social status of
famlliea la a complex and eoa-
fused society is very denand-
inff emotionally and latcUeet-
oally,” declared the family
consnltant; "therefor* many
parenta become emotioBally
nnstablo and do not poaaeas
qualities and ablUty to rae-
cessfally roar famlliaa. Thas
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Arena Plans For
Greensl)oro In
Rough Sledding
Negro Council
Member Supports
Memorial Group
GREENSBORO
The question of segregation
has embroiled a proposed bond
issue for the erection of a War
Memorial Auditorium here.
The issue was brought up by
the Greensboro Men’s Club it
was disclosed this week by War
Memorial Fund Commission. The
Men’s Club submitted a petition
asking whether seating at the
proposed new audltorium-are^
wbuld be restricted at pubUc
meetings.
The petition, dated November
19 but apparently withheld un
til this week, touched off a series
of verbal manuevers and side
stepping from Commission and
City officials.
It was described by one un
named opponent of the bond is
sue as a “political bombshell.”
Dr. William Hampton, Negro
member of the City CouncU, was
quoted as saying that ‘It is re
grettable that the petition was
composed at this time. Dr.
Hamp;on, president of the Men’s
Club which presented the peti
tion, stated, "I am in favor and
endorse all the things in the
petition, but I feel that it did
no have to be introduced at this
time.
He was further quoted as say
ing that he would support the
bond issue.
Mayor Robert Frazier and
Mayor Pro Tem Boyd Morris de
clined comment on the petition.
Former Mayor Ben Cone and
Councilman J. V. Lindley side
stepped the segregation issue.
They commented on the pro
posed $1,500,000 issue to supple
ment the auditorium arena funds.
Cone favoring and Lindley op
posing.
Cone did state that he hoped
that the petition would not “ruin
the auditorium bond issue.” He
went on to say further that in
terracial relations in Greensboro
are years ahead of that in other
cities in North Carolina. He felt
that the matter could be settled
“happily and satisfactory.”
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eommnnity eampaifni.
Funeral Rites Conducted For
A. And T. Tailoring Instructor
GREENSBORO
Funeral services for Robert S.
Poole, instructor of tailoring at
A. and T. College for the past 26
years, were conducted from the
St. James Presbyterian Church
on Forbis Street last Tuesday at
12:30. Rev. J. T. Douglas, pastor
of the church, officiated.
Mr. Poole died at the L. Rich
ardson Memorial Hospital early
Sunday morning, December 7th,
after a brief illness. A graduate
of Hampton Institute in 1909,
and later from the School of
Designing in New York City, he
joined the A. and T. College
faculty in 1926, after operating
a shop of his own in Henderson,
N. C., for a number of years.
He is survived by two chil
dren, Doris Elizabenth and Rob
ert Suinacr; two grand children,
Robert Sumner, HI and Orlando
Poole.
FIRE IS FATAL
TO FARMER
OF HALIFAX
ROANOKE RAPIDS
J. A. Spaulding, 33-year-old
farmer, died in a blaze which
destroyed his home near Tillery
here last Saturday night.
Halifax County Coroner Rufus
Brittion who investigated the
fire, reported that Spaulding’s
body was found on the ruins of
his bed.
Spaulding’s wife and two chil
dren were in Scotland Neck
shopping at the time of the fire.
High Point Residents Seek To Keep
Negroes Out Of Lily-White Section
Kentucky State
Prexy Attends^
School Confab
Law Against
Restrictive
Convenant
Considered
HIGH POINT
Some 100 white iraUents here
have submitted a i>etition to the
city council asking that i>ermia-
sion be denied for the building
of a housing project for Negroes
in the Southeast sector of High
Point.
The project was presented to
the council by the prospective
builder, Rol^ert Guarina, a local
engineer, as a step toward al
leviating the acute shortage of
Negro housing here.
Fifteen of the petitioners ap
peared with their attorney, J. A.
Austin, before the council here
this week to protest the proposed
erection of the housing project
in the all-white neighborhood.
Guarina, the prospective build
er, also appeared at the council’s
hearing on the proposed con
struction.
It was not brought out in last
week’s hearing whether Guarina
and his associates intended to re
mind the council and the white
residents who are opposing the
project that the Supreme Court
has outlawed restrmicev coven
: ants. This action by the nation’s
highest court wotUd leave the
I cotmcil no alternative but to
'approve the project and would
' leave the protesting white re
sidents without any legal basis
FRANKFORT. KY. «>eir protest.
President R. B. Atwood of Austin, representing the white
Kentucky State College, attend- residents, claimed at the hearing
ed the annual meeting of the As-1 however, that the project would
sociatlon of Colleges and Sec- decrease the value of their prop-
ondary Schools which recently erty and that the influence of
convened in Mpmph>. Tenn. Negro apartments would reduce
President Atwood was appoint-, his clients’ desire to keep up thehr
ed a member of the Committee i homes and premises.
On Graduate Study and Chair
man of the Committee on Pub
licity for the Association. While
in Memphis, he appeared on
Radio StaUon WAIA In an in
terview on the work of the As-
Outdoor Christmas
Decoration Contest
The Outdoor Christmas Dec
oration Contest sponsored by
the Durham Business and
Professional Chain and th^
Durham Council of Garden
Clubs is now open.
All persons desiring to enter
the contest contact D. F. Reed,
118 Masondale Avenue, Tele
phone 9-4167 or Mrs. Boxle
Davis, 2005 Otis Street, Tele
phone 3-6742.
Entries will be received un
til midnight, Monday, De
cember 22, and will be Judged
December 24.
Prizes ‘will be presented at a
special program which will be
announced at a later date.
High Tribunal
To Decide Fate
Attorneys Say Constitution Being
Violated By Dixie Education
Pattern As Hearings End
WASHINGTON—The fate of segregated {wblic schools
in four states and in the District of Columbia is now in the
hands of the nine black-robed justices of the United States
Supreme Court who for three days thi.i week listened atten
tively to the arguments for and against abolition of the Jim
Crow pattern of education which is required ia 17 states,
prevails in the District of Columbia, and is pennisaive in four
other states.
For. a total of five hours the Court was urged to declare
state-imposed segregation of the races in public schools a
violation of the constitutional rights of Negro school chil
dren, whose learning opportunities and capacities are im
pair^, their attorneys pointed out, by legislative restiictim
upon their freedom to attend school with childrm of other
races. Another five hours were devoted to the arguments of
states’ attorneys who upheld the right to classify rhilAyti
according to race for the purpose of admission to public
schools.
Arrayed against the longstan
ding practice of segregation
were the top lawyers of the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People,
headed by Thurgood Marshall,
the Association’s brilliant spe
cial council Spottswood W. Rob
inson, III, southeast regional
counsel; and Louis L. Redding of
Wilmington, Del. Also George
2. C. Hayes and James M. Na-
brit, Jr., Washington attorneys
retained by the Consolidated
Parents League of the District
of Columbia.
Opposing this battery of legal
talent were the spokesmen for
segregation, the representatives
of the states of South Carolina,
Virginia, Kansas and Delaware,
and of the District of Columbia.
Chief among these was 79-year
old John W. Davis, the eminent
constitutional lawyer and one
time Democratic candidate for
President of the United States,
retained by the State of South
Carolina to argue for the con
tinuance of segregation in that
state’s public schools.
Termed “an epic struggle of
our times” by a Wasliington
newspaper, the trial presented
a dramatic contest between
youth and age, with the young
met) of the NAACP battling for
a new order in wliich racial dis
tinctions are banned, and the
older inen of the opposltti
fending the southern “way of
life” with its racial taboos. Sit
ting in judgment in this “battle
of legal giants” were the justices
of the supreme Court, whose
frequent and penetrating ques
tions indicated the careful at
tention with which they follow
ed the arguments.
Carter Opens Attack
The NAACP’s attack upon
Jim Crow in education was
opened Tuesday afternoon
(December 9) when Mr. Carter
rose to ask the court to reverse
the lower court's decision uphol
ding segregation in the public
elementary schools of Topeka,
Kansas. The NAACP attorney
conceded the physical equality
between the Negro and white
schools of that city but argued
that segregation repressed the
aspirations of Negro children,
instilled feelings of inferiority,
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Gl's In Carthage
Rape Trial Free
After 11 Months
RALEIGH
Three yoimg white soldiers
who were given mild sentences
for a mass assault on the young
wife of a Korean war veteran
were freed this week a little less
than eleven months after their
sentencing last January.
The State Paroles Commission
which announced that their sen
tences had been conunuted be
cause of their good tiehavior,
listed the three as Harold Hill,
21, Waverly, Mo.; Alex Felder,
Jr., Charlotte, Mich.; and Louis
Wilson, Jr., 20, Marietta, Ga.
They received smtences of 18-
24 months from Judge Zeb. T.
Nettles who beard the case last
January in Moore County Super
ior Court.
The trio was originally
brought to trial on a charge at
rape against Mrs. Lula Mae
Artes. During the trial testi-
was DToduceti to thg
that the yoimg wife was attacked
in July 1951 on a dark country
road by a gang of about ei^t
soldiers who were partidpatinc
in the Army’s “Exercise South
ern Pines” manuevers. Mrs.
Artes, 19-years-old at the ttmi
of the assault, stated that she
was on her way home from
church services when the att>^
occurred, on highway 501 near
Carthage.
The Paroles Cninmiindmi, in
its report on the release of the
trie, revealed that the men could
have gotten out last June. The
conunission stated that they were
considered for parole at that
time if they would return to their
Army units. But they had al
ready beoi discharged by that
time.
The three were part of a para
troopers unit from Fort Camp
bell, Ky. which took part in the
Army manuevers.
N. C COLLEGE TO AQ AS
HOST TO CIAA TOURNEY
He also declared that the prop
erty owners feared that the
housing projects would re-open
a proposal to rezone the section
to approve the erection of retail
stores In the neighborhood, point
sociatlon. President Atwood was! ing out that such an approval
an official delegate from Ken-1 was turned down previously l>y
Hicky State Cbllege.
■ the zoning board.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
The Annual CIAA Basketball
Tournament will be held in the
new North Carolina College
gymnasium March 5th, 6th and
7th, it was announced here at
the two day winter meeting of
the 16 team conference last
week.
The decision to hold the drib
ble derby in Durham came as
no surprise to sports figures here
who had learned unofilcially
that the conference tournament
coihmittee and the school offi
cials had reached agreement af
ter a series of meetings hereDec.
7.
College Wanted $1,000 Rent
In a meeting between the offi
cials of the CIAA tournament
committee and members of the
North Carolina College Athle
tic Association^ William M.
Jones, business manager for the
college, startled the group with
a demand of $1,000 for rental of I was held in the new Morgan
art gymnasium. The two groups College gymtnasium. It was re-
met in separate sessions then
held another joint meeting. At
this conference college officials
agreed to reduce their demands
to $600 providing the Tourna
ment committee would agree to
pay police and adjust any pro
perty damage.
When I. G. Newton, director
of attUetics, was reached for
comment on the meeting, he
told reporters that the discus
sions were not for publication
and further, “I have told mem
bers of the joint meeting not to
give out any information to the
press.”
Tournament committee mem
bers told reporters that the tour
nament was not a money nuking
scheme and that conference
members should be willing to
make contributions to its suc
cess. Last year the tournament
ported that Morgan officials
asked for $400 but was voted an
additional (100 by the com
mittee.
A spokesman for the tourna
ment committee said, “the North
Carolina college officials have
not considered the many advan
tages that wiU ultimately accrue
to the college as a result of hav
ing such an event on the cam
pus.”
When the tournament com
mittee recommended to the con
ference that the games be hsM
at the Durham School, the dslo-
gates applauded the rtfftsinii
One of the moat difficult prob
lems facing the baskctbaH tour
nament group since its twsin-
nlng in 1947 was high coat
of transporting and‘ maintaining
the Carolina clubs WaA^pit-
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