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Was Penknife or Screwdriver Used To / »««\ KU HOT 1EIPERED LOVER? Isaac Smith, Well-Known Easterner, Dies NEW BERN iHiac H. Smith, Jr., S3, son o£ a former memtoer of the North Carolina House of Represrata- tives from Craven County, died at the Good Shepherd Hospital here Sunday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock. He had been in declin ing health for the past five years. Funeral services wi^ be held from the St. Cypriafi Episcopal Church of New Bern at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, July 29. Interment wUl follow in the lo cal cemetery. The yoanfer Smiths whose father was a BepnbUeaa mem ber of the 1899 lefiiiatare. Was also the son-ia-law of the late Dr. James B. Shepard, al so prominent In BepabUean politics of the 1899’s and founder and first preaideot of the North Carolina College at Dnrham. Smith was born in New Bern on May 3, 1899, the son of Isaac H. and Carrie Phone Smith. His family has been engaged in the real estate and insurance busi ness in New Bern for the past 30 years. Survivors include his wife, the former Annie Day Shep ard, two daughters, Mrs. Ea- gene Donaldson and Miss Carolyn Smith of New Bern; his mother, Mrs. I. H. Smith, New Bern; one sister, Mrs. Henrietta Hagans of Neptune, New Jersey; three anats, Mias Charlotte Fhone, Mrs. Btta Jones, and Mrs. Amey Bbone, all of New Bern; and ttre nephews, Wilfred Keaay, Dur ham; and Edward, Isaac, Hen ry, and Eli Hagans of Nep- tu»e. New Jersey. Smith graduate from North Carolina College and later stud ied law at Howard University in Washington, D. C. He was treasurer and a mem- (Please turn to'Page Eight) ISAAC SMITH Talmadge In Elks Atlanta Celebration ^ PHILADELPHIA One of the most unusual pre cedents in American history will set in Atlanta, Georgia, when the IBPO Elks of the World, headed by Grand Exalted Ruler Robert H. Joim- son, invade that city for the Fifty-fourth annual Grand Lodge of the Elks. Heralded and besmirched in all parts of America as a “Ne- gro-hater," Georgia’s' Gover nor Herman Talmadge will ride in the lead car of the Elks’ biggest public demon- .stration—their Grand Par ade—^will ride with Grand Ex alted Ruler Jotmson, who from every know vantage point is a Negrol - This will, however, be but an anti-climax for the colorful George State Chief executive who has been one of the most controversial figures in Amer ican ‘history: last May Gover nor Talmadge sent Mr. John son a $10 bill as a birthday present recently. * EDITORIAL JIM CKOW UMIIYIIIHERE if the correspondent does not think his letter import- Last vreek, we received an anonymous letter asking us whether the fact that a training program for Ne gro nurses will not be s«t up at North Carolina Col lege would alter our op position to the idea.-It is this newspaper’s custom to consign, immediately upon receipt, all unsigned letters to “file 13,” the wastebas ket, on Ohe assumption that )rrespor ' his letl ant enough to warrant his signature, we certainly don’t think it important enough to waste our time with it. But, since this par ticular peice of furtive cor respondence contained a rather damaging indict ment, we have set aside the custom in this instance. To answer the direct ques tion which the letter ask ed, emphatically NO. Oiu:. opposition to the jim crow nurse training program is steadfast. We will take up the in dictment of this newspa per later. Schools for training Negro nurses have been author ized at the Agricultural and Technical College at Greensboro and at Win ston-Salem Teachers Col lege. This is, of course, a backward step and will re sult in an abominable waste of the taxpayers’ money. There are those (and sur prisingly enough, they are to be found in presumed enlightened circles) who, calling thetnselves “r^- ists,” say there is a definite need for these jim crow schools and actually defend their establishment on this point. They say that if these schools are not set up, many young Negro disinclined to go to co^ and lacking sufficient bac! ground training to enable them to enter mixed nurse training schools, would not have an opportunity to get girls, iyete nurse training. We agree. There are manv Ne^o girls, just out of inferior high schools, disinclined to go to college, anil who, be cause of the inferior Negro .high schools, lack the back ground training that would enable them to make the gradie in bona fide nursing schools. But, to continue the system of inferior train ing, to complete it at the top by adding to the al ready unsteady structure a superstructure of inferior training, as exemplified in the soon-to-be-established nurse training programs at A. and T. and Winston-Sa lem, will not solve one thing. It only “worsifies” a sorry situation. It is like the man who made a wrong turn in the road and, who, upon finding, himself miles out of the way of his de stination, continued down the wrong road in the vain hope of somehow reaching his destination. These so-called “realists,” who claim they are trying to face the situation as it is, are actually the fuzzy thinkers, hopelessly lost in the swift current of events. They are the weak and the faint-hearted, afraid to see someone else, even, take a bold step in the right direc tion on an unchartered way, much less take a step of their own. They are content to traverse the same old, outworn, circular paths which their great grand parents .blazed almost a century ago. They are un able to cope with the great truth that the time of seg regated things, things “for Negroes,” and thines “for whites” is out of joint with the time of things for humanity. These same people, incon sistent as they are, will give their tacit approval of separate, infeiior training for Negroes, and at the same time make a noise about how Negroes ar^ be ing excluded the eco- (Please turn to Page light) ^lodleal Ottpt Utthi Oxlr Ubreay m FOR THIRTY YEARS THE OVTSTANDtm WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Durham, North Carolina, under Act of March 3,1879. VOLUME 30—NUMBER 28 DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1953 PRICE 10 CENTS Telephone Firm To Show Plan For Future Service Group Again Objects To New Franchise DURHAM Continued objections to grant ing an extension of a franchise for 30 years to the Durham Tele phone Company was expressed by a committee of Negro citizens here Icikt Friday when its mem bers appeared before a special committee of the City Council. The present franchise of the Company expires Apr^ 18,19S4. Members of the Negro eom^ mittee opposing the granting of the franchise were Gm. W. Cox, J. J. Henderson, D. B. Martin, J. S. Stewart, M. H. Thompson, and L. E. Austin. Following the registering of objections by the Negro com mittee authorized by the Dur ham Committee on, Negro Af fairs, and questioning by City Manager R. W. Flack as to the type of service the company would be able to give during the new 30-year period, Ralph Van Trine, executive vice-presi dent of the telephone company said he would inform the Coun cil committee later wtiat his company could do. The City Manager told Van Trine that the main considera tion to be considered by the Couneil In granting the fran chise is, “how well can yon (Please turn to Page Eight) ' Rejection Of Biased Housing Plan Is Urged WASHINGTON The federal government has been urged to withhold approval of and deny funds to a multi-million dollar slum clearance proposal for Bir mingham on the groimd that it would displace some 600 Ne gro families for the development of hospital facilities and dwell ing units for whites only. In a meeting on July 21 witb J. W. FoUIn, new head of the government’s , redevelopment program, Clarence Mitchell, director of the NAACP Wash ington Bureau, strongly pro tested against this proposal. The Association, Mitchell told the federal official, heartily supports slum clearance but vigorously opposes any pro gram, such as that proposed for Birmingham, which would move all Negroes out of the area to provide new housing for white families. Following the protest of the NAACP and those of local Bir mingham citizens, Col. Harold Harper, executive director of the Birmingham Housing Au thority, advised that no new housing would be developed in the area. Mr. Mitchell charged that this new move was simply a device to secure federal sup port of a program to herd col ored people into special areas. Settlement of this Ime, Fol- Iln Informed the NAACP representative, requlrea eon- slderatlon by top administra tion officials. Meanwhile, ho- said, no final approval hat been given to the Birmingham propoHl. Sidney J. Phillips. President of the George Washington Carver National Monument Foundation and Collaborator for the United States Depart ment of the Interior, nnveUed and prosented to the United States of America a plaque which will serve as a perman ent marker tor the Birthplace of Dr. George Washington Carver which was recently dedicated as a National Monu ment. Howard Baker, Director of the National Park Service, Region 2, is standing on the speakers’ platform to accept the plaque in behalf of the Department of Interior, inie wording on the placard as shown in the pictnre is the same as that which appears seated in a stone on the ground. Pictured in the background is Mrs. Lilia Washington Lee, a neioe of Booker T. Washing ton, and her husband Robert Lee. New Trial For Man Chorged With Slaying White Woman COLUMBIA, S.C. A new trial was granted this week a Negro charged with, slaying a wMte woman in 1951. The accused man is Arthur Waitus, 35, years-old, who was convicted twice in Macion and Georgetown counties By all white juries of strangling Mrs.. L. H. Coker to death in April, 1951. The South Carolina Supreme Court set aside the verdict of the Marion jury and ordered a new trial on the ground of “tm- constitutional discrimination” against Waitus. The Court based this ruling on the fact that all white juries were drawn both in the Georgetown county trial and in the later one at Marioni county. The second trial was held in Marion county in August, 1951 6n a ciiange of venue. The body of the slain woman,i wife of a paper employee, waa found bruised and bloody in the basement of a church paristi, house. Waitus, arrested 10 days later in Fairmont, N. C., pleaded inw nocent at the trial. He testified, tiiat a confession, introducte^ against him, was forced fronn liini. Ilie defense contended that the excluaon of Nagroei from, the trial Juries denied Waitus ot the equal protection of tha lawa under the 14th amendment. Ruling of the State Supreme Court, setting aside the Marion county verdict, held tliat wiiile the laws of South Carolina did not deny Waitus equal protec tion, “they were so administered by the jiury commissioners of (Georgetown and Marion Coun-i ties so as to result in systematic exclusion of Negroes from the juries.” While in both counties, a “substantial proportion of those eligible for jury duties are Ne« groes,” the court ruling further pointed out, few or no Negroes (Please turn to Page Eight) Asheville Woman Held By Police In Fatal Stabbing Of Boyfriend ASHEVILLE A woman about 4# years old is being held in the City Jail on a cliarge of murder follow ing an investigation by City Po lice Detectives of the death ot an unemployed World War II Veteran in tills city’s East End section. About 9:30 P.M. Monday nght the police received a tele phone call from an unidentified woman who told tlie Deak Lieu tenant that “we tiiink we’ve got a dead man down liere.” On investigation Officers foimd the body of 39-year old T. J. (Hot Shot) Miller in hia downstairs bedroom at 82 Pine Street laying partly on the bed and partly on the floor, dead ap parently from a stab wound in the ciiest. | Shortly afterwards, Addi« Harris of the same addresa waa placed under arrest on a cliarge of murder. Time of Miller’s death was established at around 6;30 P.M. Dr. P. H. Terry, Buncombe County Coroner, said that Mil ler had been stabbed in the chest with a small sharp instrument. He said that the instrument, too large to have been an icepick, had penetrated the heart an4 that Miller died of an interna} hemorrhage. Early Tuesday, morning, officers found a small screwdriver which looked to be blood-stained and could possibly have been the death-dealing weapon. A pen knife was also believed to have been used but no such weapon was uncovered by a search. Detective Henry C- Caldwell stated that the Harris Woman, who lived across the hallway from Miller at the rooming house, has refused to tell just what happened. Caldwell said that he believed that the two had been fighting. Several persons near the sc^ie of the alleged mvirder were questioned by the police, but all stated that they were too far away to see or hear just what iiapi>ened. It is known that the murder suspect was Miller’s girlfriend. The TIMES in its investiga- Pair Charged With Rape In Asheville ASHEVILLE i Rape and attempted rape charges have been filed against two young Asheville men as a, result of a warrant sworn out by two nurses who are in train ing at one of the hospitals in this area. James Baten, 20 of 23 Living ston Street and Herbert Logan, 22, of 165 South Grove Street were arrested last Friday by Buncombe County Deputy Sher iffs. Baten is charged with rape and Logan with attempted rape. According to the arresting of ficers, the alleged assaults took place Tuesday night in an autO' mobile being ridden in by the four persons and operated by Logan. The exact location of the alleged crimes has not been de termined as the victims were unable to say t>eing strangers to this area. According to information (Please turn to Page Eight) tion found tliat the dead man lived in the same bedroom and slept in the same bed with the brother of Addle Harris. On talking with the brother and one other person nearbr, the TIMES was told that Idl er had been chasing a doc to the backyard of the roominc house and that he had fallen atx a long wooden plank which bad several rusty naila tn it, and that wliile the brother oi AdiBe Harris was lying on one side of the bed. Miller came in and lay (Please turn to Page Eight) WALTER WHITE “ ... Shocked ...” Naming Of S.C/sBymesTo UN Attacked (See Editorial, “Byrnes’ Appointment Aa AffrMt_” Page Two). WASHINGTON The appointment of James Byrnes, governor of South Caro lina, as a member of the United Nations deelgation to the eighth session of the UN General As sembly waa-proteated-tMe week by the NAACP, tiirough its secretary, Walter White. In a message to the White House, White said that the NA ACP was “shociced and dismay ed” at Byrnes’ appointment. Byrnes was among nominees for the U.S.’s UN delegation sub mitted by President Eisenhower to the Senate for confirmation. Others were Ambassador Hen ry Cabot Lodge,,Reps. Frances Bolton«> (R-O) and James Rich ards, (D-SC). Secretary of State John Foster Dulles will be the fifth member ot tile delegation, but his appointment does not re quire Senate confirmation. White’s message of protest to the president called Byrnes an “open advocate of and spokes man for racism.” He added that the NAACP was “dismayed and shocked” to leam of his nomina tion. Byrnes, leader of the States Rights Democrats, is a fbrmei) Justice of the Supreme Court and served as secretary ol State at one time under Presi dent Truman. Since returning to his native South Carolina, where he serves as Governor, he has assumed the leadership of the State Rights Democrat who tried un- (Pl^ase turn to Page Eight) Some 120 beauticians from aJU over the State met in Dur ham Monday for a one day convention. Shown above are a group of the beauticians fol lowing a dinner at which R. N. Harris, seated center, Dur ham’s lint Negro olty coim- cilman, waa guest.. The Beauticians toured the city, were feted to a social by the Durham Shriners »««! lis tened to business and eWIc leaders of the city during their one day meeting. Mrs. JoMphine Perry and Mrs. Pauline Love, presidents of the Durham chapters, ser ved aa offleial hesteasee for the meeting. Officers of the State ei«ant- sation are Mrs. WUUe FMrd Henneaae, Asheville, preaMent; .Mrs. Viviaa Maasey, Wtaurtea- Salem, and Mn. Willie garet BUner, Dnrtaaa. tariee; and’Mra. Iionfce Ka»- wlek. StetaavUla.