No Heads Rolled As Elks Hear Plea
To Join Crusade Against Segregation
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Amidat the faietjr and festival air of tbe Elks Convration In
Atlanta, a solemn, reliKlona note was sounded when the Bev. K. H.
CoUlna Lee, above, vrand ehaplaln- of the IBPOE of W. and pastor
of Chieago’s Martin Temple A. M. E. Zion Chnreh, delivered the
eulogj for more than 890 members of the Order who died dnrlnc
the year. Kev. Lee upon the more than 5,000 Bills and
daufhter Elks to “take np the torch” and ma\(e not only the Elk
Order better by tiie remembrance of the deceased members, but
to make the race, nation and even the world better by extolUnf
the principle* by which these Elks died as emblems of the Great
Order. ' ,
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GALESBURG, ILLINOIS, NAACP SEEKS
RETAIL STORE JOBS
GALESBURG, 111.—Inquiries on hiring policies with a
view to sacuring employment for Negroes as sales clerks have
been made by Rv^pert J. Tarver, Jr., secretary ol the Gales
burg Branch of the NAACP, of five national merchandising
finns with local stores here. They are The Great Atlantic
and Pacific Tea Company (A&P), F. W. Woolworth, J. C.
Penny, Sears and Roebuck, and Montgomery Ward.
HUNDREDS HOI^ MRS. BETHUNE AT
ELKS’ BREAKFAST ^
ATLANTA, Ga.—Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, 78-year-
old founder of Bethune-Cookman College at Daytona Beach,
NAACP HEAD
ENLISTS AID
OF GROUP
ATLANTA, Qa.
A call for a clean-up light on
all forms ol racial discrimina
tion and segregation was made
here, Friday, belore the Elks
convention by Walter Wtiite,
secretary ol the National Associ
ation lor ttie Advancement of
Colored People.
Paying tribute to the civil li
berties campaign of the Elks
over the years and to the pro
gress of the Order under the ad
ministration ol Grand Exalted
Ruler Robert J.o.hnson, White
said:
“All ol us now should join
in one great effort to clean up
all remaining discriniination
and segregation based upon
race and color. The NAACP lias
announced a ten-year campaign,
1953-1963, to wipe out second-
class citizenship so that the
100th anniversary of the Eman
cipation Proclamation will find
no citizens who do not enjoy
equality in our democracy. We
have launched a ‘Fighting Fund
'for Freedom' to help carry on
the campaign and every person
and every organization is invited
to make a contribution.”
Wliite assailed Gov. Herman
Talmadge for the statement that
“blood would flow in rivers” If
the Supreme Court ruled public
school segregation unconstitu
tional. The NAACP secretary
said the public school cases to be
argued in Washington December
7 are ol the "greatest impor
tance” in the whole plan against
inequality, and that “not one
drop ol blood,'even from a fist
fight, iias flowed” as a result ol
Itegroes attending state univer-
sues with whites in tbe South,
of integration ol public
ahools in certain states like
soi^em New Jersey, southern
Illinois, Indiana and Arizona.
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FOR THIRTY YEARS THE OVTSTAISDim WEEKLY OF THE CAROLIIS.iS
Entered as Second Class Matter at the Pott Office at Durham, North Carolina, under Act of March 3,1879.
VOLUME 30—NUMBER 33
DURHAM, N. C,.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 5, 1953
PRICE 10 CENTS
Navy’s Anti-Jim Crow
Action Said Overdue
Florida, was guest of honor at the impressive Civil Liberties
■ !in Atlanta during the 54th
annual Elks’ Grand Lodge.
brfsiUast held at the YMCA here i
Mrs. Bffthuna was introduced amid thunderous applause
from the more than 400 guests present at the breakfast. Ap
pearing in defiance of her doctors’ orders, she rose weakly,
assisted by the Elks’ Grand Exalted Ruler, Robert H. John
son of Philadelphia, and addressed the guests in a warm,
clear voice,
Mrs. Bethune is the first woman—and the sMond Ne
gro—^to receive the medal which was named for Elijah Love-
joy a white abolitionist whose newspaper press and plwt wm
destroyed by a mob and himself Ulled at Alton, Illinois in
1837 because of his anti-slavery views.
ELKS GIVE THE GRAND’ NEW CADILLAC
ATLANTA, Ga.—The 54th annual Elks’ Grand Lodge
last week signally honored Grand Exalted Ruler Robert H.
Johnson of Philadelphia by voting to give him a new Cadillac
automobile in recognition of what was termed “very out
standing services to the lodge and the nation as a whole”
during his first year in office as ixiler of over 500,000 Elks
in the United States and several foreign countries.
Becomes
Assistant To
Shaw Presideiit
RALEIGH
Shaw University’s president.
Dr. William R. Strassner,,bas
announced the appointment of
D. H. Keck ol Raleigh as his
Administrative Assistant. Keck,
a native ol Greensboro, is a
Shaw University graduate with
the B. S. degree and received
the M. A. degree at the Univer
sity ol Michigan. He has teach
ing experience as Instructor in
the Nash County Training
School, Nashville; Wake Forest
High School, Wake Forest; and
served lor tluee years as prin
cipal ol the Jacksonville Ele
mentary School, Greensboro. He
was also instructor ol economics
at the Fayetteville State Teach
ers College during the 1937
summer session. He was teller,
and later appointed as Assis
tant Cashier ol the Mechanics
and Farmers Bank in Raleigh
where he served lor 15 years.
He is Secretary-Treasurer ol
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outh was much In evidence at the last annual convention of the North Carolina
The aoeent on
. Left *m richt are Mlsa Jtthalene Bolden of F ayettevllle.^ presiaent; Jonnw oi vreea-
, vlee-preMeat; Miss Norma MeCoy of Dnrham, seeretary; and Miss Juaalta Muehiaon of
gh, aswitowt aeeretary.
WASHINGTON, 6.C.
■The Navy order ending segre
gation in yards and other shore
establishments, and directing
comnuinders to report on pro
gress toward elimination at
sixty-day intervals was termed
“long overdue" by Clarence
Mitchell, director of the Wash
ington Bureati of the NAACP.
"We iiope ttiat at tbe end of
the sixty-day interval the com
manders will report that all
Jim Crow facilities have been
eliminated,” Said Mr. Mitchell,
"because even isixty days is too
long to keep segregation any
where—but especially on U. S.
property.”
Someone in the Navy Depart
ment anonymously released a
story about proposed gradual
changes intending segregation on
August 10. However, tbe ottlcial
Navy announc«nent was made
on Augtist 20 by Secretary An
derson who said:
“In further pursuit of its ob-,
iective ol Jtba elimination at
regated lacilites, the Department
0 the Navy has completed a sur
vey ol 43 shore stations Irom
Virginia through Texas. The
study shows that segregated
facilities lor wliite and colored
citizens are non-existent in ap
proximately one-hall ol the acti-
vittes; iq the remainder, segre
gation practices range Irom
minor in most instances to sub
stantial in a lew cases.
“Commanding oHicers have
been requested to proceed
steadily and expeditiously to
ward the complete elimination
01 all barriers to the free use
of facilities on govemmemt
owned shore stations and to re
port their progress in this re
gard to the Secretary of the
Navy at sixty day intervals.”
The major NAACP ellort
against Jim Crow policies ol tbe
Navy Began in 1951 whtn Jerry
O. GlUiam, President ol the
South Carolina, branch, asked
Clarence Mitchell, Director lor
the Washington Bureau, to
work to end separate drinking
lountains, Jim Crow washrooms,
and other segregated facilities in
Navy Yards of their cities.
The Navy resisted the NAA-
CP’s efforts, and, as one of his
final acts while serving as act
ing Secretary of the Navy two
days after the Eisenhower Ad
ministration took over. Under
secretary Francis P. Whltehair
of Florida affirmed the policy of
segregation in a written order.
When Whltehair was replaced
by Navy Secretary Robert B.
Anderson, a Texan, the NAACP
placed the question before him.
I When he failed to act, the NAA-
I CP took the matter to Assistant
Secretary of Defense, John Han
nah. Sfr. Haimah promised to
end segregation. At the same
time, he stated the Navy would
study the extent of sejpregation
in its shore establishments.
The NAACP and Congressman
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., also
took the problem directly to the
President.
Realtors to Hear
Housing Chief
CHICAGO
H. M. Michaux, secretary-
treasurer of the Union Insur
ance and Realty Company, of
Durhom, N. C. will be among
the hundreds of delegates
from twenty states attending
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A group of officers of the North Carolina Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, which held its
ooaventlMi in Charlotte this year, are shown here. Left to right are Bev. C. B. White, presiding
^•Ider, Durham District; Rev. J. L. Pickens, presiding elder, Winston-Salem District; Bisbap W. T.
Bell, Presiding Bishop for the Fenrth Episcopal District; Rev. A. P. Porter, pastor of th# Calvary C.
M. E. Chnreh of Jersey City, New Jersey, and Or. O. H. Carter, of the C. M. E. Pabll^iiiig Board.
I Back row are, left to right. Rev. J. H. Lightsey, director of Christian Education f^r the North
Carolina Conference, and Rev. J. C. Clark, host pastor to the conference. See story of Wppointment
'1>l •ffieer* and assignments of ministers in the two North Carolina Districts on Page S^en.
Shock, Disbelief Oyer
Rape, Beating Charges
Bills, Dau|^
Capture Fancy
Of Atlantans
By Trenvaat W. Anders—
ATLANTA, Ga.
“Bob” Johnaon, the
six-foot, four chieftain of the
Improved Benevolent and Pro
tective Order of Klks of tbe
World, brought his antlered
herd—some 30,000 of them—in
to the heart at tbe Deep Sooth,
Atlanta, and captured the heart
ol everyone, both white and
colored. Atlanta loved them and
everything they did. They had
never se«i anything like it be
fore.
Traina, planaa, buses and au
tos roared into Atlanta from all
parts of the natlosi, bringlnc the
Elks here to find the aneww to
the big question; "What will
happ» when Negro Elks In
vade Atlanta, Ga. in full focce”?
Hie nation has the anawcr:
everything was “lust fine” all
the way roimd. There wasn’t
one single “incident” during the
entire Grand Lodge of a racial
nature.
The EUu showed themselves
off, they had their fun, they
transacted heavy business and
then they went on their way,
leaving behind them tbe accla
mation of all Atlantans, from
Governor Herman Talmadge
down to the iowliest citizen.
As a matter of fact. Governor
Talmadge set a precedent lor
himsell on Thursday when he in
vited Grand Exalted Huler
Jotmson to tbe State Capitol and
for the first time—permitted
himself to be photographed
with a Negro! He was pictured
shaking hands with "The
Grand.”
After six days of fun making
and serious business the Grand
Lodge was adjourned to meet
next year in Chicago, UL All
officers were reelected. No
“heads rolled,” and there was
no friction in the most harmoni
ous sessions seen in the last
quarter century.
The Elks took hefty swings at
race prejudice in their resolu
tions. They announced a “regis-
ter-and-vote’’ campaign; they
.'oted to give 91,000 in a sehnlar-
ihip to Horace Ward, when and
if the NAACP wins the covt
fight to force his admittance—as
the first Negro student—to tiie
University of Georgia; they
New Minister
Named For
Durham Church
DURHAM
Reverend James W. Smith,
Jr., native of Knoxville, Ten
nessee, has been named to fill
the vacant post of minister to
the Covenant Presbyterian
Church here.
Announcement of Reverend
Smith’s selection came this
week from C. E. Boulware,
REVEREND JAMES W. SMITH
official of the church, who
stated that Rev. Smith is ex
pected to assume his new dut
ies at the church on Sunday,
September 6.
Appointment of Rev. Smith
as minister to the Covenant
Church herie fills a vacancy
created by the resignation of
Reverend James A. Cannon,
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DURHAM
Annoimcements from the offi
ce of Durham County Sheriff
E. G. Belvin that four young
Negroes have been charged with
the rape of a white woman and
the brutal beating of her youth
ful companion came as an “in
credible” shock to residents of
Durham and its surrounding
territories this week.
John D. Brooks, Claudius Par
rish, Otho Roberts and Willie
Shaw, all residents of Orange
county, have been indicted for
rape and criminal assault on
Mrs. Hope Lloyd. According to
reports from the Sheriffs office,
the alleged attack occured on the
Fayetteville Road about three
miles South of Durham early
Sunday morning.
Elton Burgess of Route 3, Dur
ham, who was driving Mrs.
Lloyd home from a movie Satur
day night, said that the four
men dragged him from the car
and beat him severely.
According to reports, the in
cident occured about one a.m.
Sunday morning. Burgess was
reportedly driving Mrs. Lloyd
to her home in Chapel Hill af
ter attending a movie here Sat.
night when his car was forced
off the Fayetteville road near
the Silver Dollar (a nightclub)
by a car occupied by four Ne
groes.
Burgess was quoted as saying
that two of the Negroes pulled
him from the car and started to
beat him Up \vhile the other
two dragged Mrs, Lloyd from
the car into the nearby woods.
Burgess was repirftedly beat
en by his two assailants who left
him tliinking that he was un
conscious. He said that after the
two men left him, he leaped up,
ran to his car and drove away
for help. He awakened a store
keeper, E. K. Bowling, who
armed liimsell with a gun and
drove Burgess back to the scene,
spotted the Negroes’ car and
gave chase. When the Negroes’
car was run into a ditch, they
escaped into the woods, and
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Two N.C. Mutual
Officers Receive
Industry Awards
“^ DURHAM
Another official of the North
Carolina Mutual Life Insurance
company was designated to re
ceive a national insiuance a-
ward.
He is Maceo Sloan, executive
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W. A. CLEMENT
MAOBO SLOAN
took care” of ttieir "lavatfi*
sons, strengthened their order
and then they went on their
various ways back to their
homes.
They had voted to support the
NAACP in its effort before the
U. S. Supreme Court against
school segregation, and bad
heard Walter White, NAACP
executive secretary, in a stir
ring speech asking fer a united
front among Negro groups in
this fl){ht.
Former Durham
Man Returned
For Funeral
DURHAM
Funeral services for a former
Durham citizen who died in
New York Sunday were held
Wednesday at the Morehead
Avenue Baptist Church.
Nick Ba^ey, a native of Dur
ham who has made his home in
New York since 1041, died at
the Cambridge Hospital in New
York last Sunday evening. He
had been confined to the ho^
pitai for approximately one year.
Death was attributed to a
brain tumor. He was 38-years-
old.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Pete Bag-
ley of Lincoln Heights in Dur
ham, Bagley migrated to New
York shortly before the out
break of World War II. He saw
overseas service diuring the war
with the Army in the Phillipines.
He attained the rank of sergeant
before his discharge in 1945.
Before his admittance to the
hospital, he was employed at a
Florist in the city.
Bagley was married to Uie
former Miss Geraldine Bryant
and the couple had five children.
ISargo, 11, Nick, Jr.. 10. Steve. •.
Pedro, S, and Sammy 3.
Among his other survivors are
eight sisters and six brotken.
His sisters and six brother*. His
His sisters are Mr*. Cva Umatoai.
Mrs. Gertrude McCall, Mn.
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