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Mississippi Lynchers Go On Trial September 19
The Carolina Times h The Oldest
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VOLUME 31 — NUMBER 38
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1955
PRICE: 10 CENTS
No $20,000 Takers
WHITES HOVE INTO HOME
S. C Leaders Call For Boycott Afdj In Economic Squeexe
Coble Dairy And
Coca-Cola Cut
Off Deliveries
Miss Isabelle Estelle Gates,
daughter of C. J. Gates, M7
Pekoe St., Durham, received
the LIi.B. degree at Boston
University’s recent summer
commencement.
She was one ot 28 recipients
«f the law degree at com
mencement ceremonies that
saw a total of 804 degrees
awarded.
Miss Gates attended Hillside
High School in Durham. She
graduated from Boston Latin
School with honors. Later
she received the B.A. degree at
Boston University, specializing
in Practical letters and arts In
the Secretarial program.
Shortly after receiving her
degree. Miss Gates went to
Atlanta, Ga., where she will
work temporarily on the dean
of women’s staff at Spellman
College.
According to Miss Gates’
father, a veteran Durham at
torney, she will return to Dur
ham "later” to join in his
practice.
ORANGEBURG, S. C.
The economic squeeze exer
ted upon Negroes in and
around Qrangeburg and Ello-
ree (S. C.) by the Citizens
Councils, now very active
against Negroes, particularly
petitioners for full school ad
vantages for their children,
has caused Negroes in those
areas to fight back, rather
quietly for the time, agalfUt
several firms. There is, how
ever, the increasing threat of
boycott (refusA^to buy or use)
certain products sold, manu
factured, or controlled by
those leading the “squeeze”.
An on the spot check-up on
September 7 revealed that the
Orangeburg Cola Bottz,
ling Company, which also
serves the Elloree area, re
fused to service Negro busi
nesses. Robert Jeimings, Jr.
president of the firm, boasted
in the Orangeburg TIMES
AND DEMOCRAT of Sept, 7,
that he had told a Columbian,
identifying herself as an offi*
cial of the NAACP, and who
was making a check on the de
livery refusals, “go ahead and
crack your whip and then
take it up with our company's
attorney.” In Columbia, Jen
nings is reported to have said
by telephone, “Yes, we’re do
ing it all around. Go on and
crack your whip.”
In Orangeburg, Coca Cola
delivery service has been con
sistently refused the Esso Ser
vice Station belonging to
James Sulton of the third
generation of the noted lum
ber firm of Sulton and Sulton.
In front of the Sulton sta-
~tion is an expensive automa
tic Coca Cola dispenser owned
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SIAYERS OF M-YEAR-OLO CHILD
TO BE TRIED IN CIRCUIT COURT
SUMNER, MISS.
Roy Bryant and his half
brother, J. W. Milam, will go
on trial for thjeir lives for the
murder of a 14-year-old Chi
cago Negro boy on Monday,
September 19.
^e two men now held in
jail at nearby Charleston
without bond were indicted
by a Tallahatchie County
grand jury on both murder
and kidnapping charges.
Circuit Judge Curtis M.
Swango stated that he would
draw a special jury panel of
25 names for selection of a
jury to try the two men who
allegedly killed as well as
kidnapped Emmett Till.
Denying that they murdered
young Till, the two white men
claimed that they had let him
go unharmed because they dis
covered he was not “the one"
who whistled at Bryant’s pretty
young wife at the Bryant’s Store.
The men had taken the lad at
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MOTHER OF
ELEANOI^RUSH
GETS aooo.oo
RALEIGH
On August 20, 19S4, Eleanor
Rush, an 18-year-old Negro girl,
died in an isolation cell at Wo
men’s Prison after she had been
gagged and bound ^ the then
superintendent of the institution
and four guards.
Last week, the State Indus
trial Commission ruled that the
girl died as a result of negligence
on the part of the state prison
empl^ees.
As a result of the ruling, the
State Highway Commission, the
agency under which the prison's
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FRASIER
JOH,\ L. BRAJiDON
■LBkOY F^SliBR
UNC Ordered To Process
Applicotioiis Of Three
Durham Negro Students
GREENSBORO
Admission papers of three
Durham Negroes were order
ed processed “without regard
to race or color.”
The special three-judge
Federal Court decided only
one issue: whether the univer
sity illegally refused the appli
cations last April of Leroy B.
Frasier, Ralph K. Frasier and
John L. Brandon, graduates of
Hillside High School in Dur
ham.
Atty. Gen. William B. Rod
man whp argued the case I6st
out in his thought of dissolving
the three-judge court. He held
that the Negroes’ constitution
al rights were not violated be
cause of their having equal
educational facilities at other
state supported schools. He
also felt “that the court’s de
cision raised a serious question
of policy as to what the state
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JUSTICE DEPARTMENT PROBING
REIGN OF TERROR AGAINST RACE
IN THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
WASHINGTON, D. C.
The reign of terror against
Negro citizens in Mississippi is
under investigation by the De
partment of Justice for a de
termination of “what action
can be taken on the basis of
the evidence and the law,” As
sistant Attorney General War
ren Olney III has assured an
NAACP delegation headed by
Roy Wilkins, executive secre
tary.
I
In a conference with Mr.
Olney and other officials of
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Assistant Pastor Of
White Church
OPEN HOUSE FOR PROGRAM
OF UNITED FUND BEING HELD
TO INFORM DURHAM CITIZENS
The United Fund ^ Better
Health Foundation open house
program this week ' attempts to
inform the people of Durham
about its three pronged pro
grams in the attack on
all diseases thru Research,
Healtjb Education and Direct
Service.
This program is being yvat-
ched by the nation in under
taking something never before
done by a community fund or
ganization.
The ^officers and board of
directors are representatives
of Lincoln, Duke, Watts and
McPhersons hospitals, Durham
City and County Schools, Dur
ham Health Department, busi
ness, industry, labor and the
pubUc at-large. Present offi
cers are: Mrs. E. I. Bugg, Jr.,
President;-John B. Wilson, Dr.
Geo. B. Ferguson, Dr. ■ J. La
mar Calloway, Elisha M. Hern
don, Dr. L. R. Swift, Vice-
Presidents,; Mrs. R. W. Ro
berts, Secretary: H. A. Rhine-
hart, Treasurer.
The United Fund Better
Health Foundation is a mem
ber agency of Durham’s Unit
ed Fund. Its 3 way program
provides a Better Health pro
gram as follows;
Heaitt Education
This phase of the program is
being administered by the
Durham Social Planning
Council. Joseph A. Beebe,
III, Health Educator, has been
on the Council I^Mf since
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REV. J. A. CANNON
DETROIT
The Rev. J. A. Cannon, the
pastor of the John Wither
spoon Memorial Presbyterian
Church, Detroit, Michigan has
been elected as assistant pas
tor of the Presbyterian Chur
ch or the Covenant (white),
located at 740 East Grand
Boulevard.
Rev. Cannon, a graduate of
Johnson C. Smith University,
Charlotte, North Carolina, for
merly served as minister of
the Covenant Presbyterian
Church, Durham, North Caro
lina. He resigned the pas
torate of that church in 1952,
and in August of the same
year began his pastoral duties
at the John Witherspoon Me-
morial Cl^urch.
Couple
Warns
Rejects $13,000;
House Will
Be Closely Guarded
Undergraduate
School At UNC
Admits Japanese
CHAPEL HILL
The announcement last
week that a Japanese high
school student from Tokyo
will arrive here next Mom
to enroll in the undergraduate
school at the University of
North Carolina caused consi
derable discussion among Ne
gro leaders over the state this
week. The general feeling i%
that it is a fine thing for UNC
to admit a Japanese student
but a most disgraceful state of
affairs when Negro students
whose parents are taxpayers,
must at the same time fight all
the way to the U. S. Supreme
Court to get admitted to the
University.
Said J. S. Stewart, chairman of
the Durham Committee on Ne
gro Affairs: “I congratulate
the young Japanese student
that he is coming to America
to study and that he has chos
en the University of North
Carolina for that purpose. I
am fully reminded, however,
that three young Negro high
school students right here in
our own city, whose fathers
are taxpayers have been de
nied admission to the Univer-
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REV. W. B. JOHNSON
Last Rites For
Rev. Johnson
Held Sept. 13
OXFORD
Last rites for the Rev. W.
Randolph Johnson, former
consultant on Negro Work in
the North Carolina State
Board of Public Welfare, was
held at the First Baptist Chur
ch here, Tuesday, September
13. The Rev. Thomas E. Par
ker, pastor, officiated.
Although Rev. Johnson had
been in declining health for
several months, he was not
considered seriously ill until
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SOUTHERN PINES
Mr. and Mrs. Martin L.
White, retired tkome owners in
the much disputed Kenwood
Deveiopement, repeated their
intentions of moving in il the
option of $20,000 for the pur
chase of the house is not clear-
l%ar^imy, Sc ^tember
?ftth.
Henry L. Graves, Kenwoou
Subdivider, offered to
them $12,000 for th^ir nresc.'it
home, or build them anoti. r
identical to it on one of the
lots th« Whites own on the
outskirts of the Negro commu
nity, and to give them $1,000
additional.
Mrs. White said, “We are
not interested in building. If
we should decide later, we
have our builder and own
house plans. We're interested
only in moving into the home
we now own, unless those who
object so much will pay the
price to keep us out.”
Mrs. White further men
tioned that the time which
could have t>een used in
friendly compromise was spent
with abuse and threats over
the telephone, and her re
gret if others were hurt bc'-
cause of a few cranks. We
are not children to be frighten
ed into nmning away,” she
stated.
An unidentified woman cal
ler told her, “If you move into
that house, you will never
come out.” Mrs. White said,
“We plan to protect our home,
as anyone will find out if he
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Three Negro Students Enrolled At
Immaculata High School Here
EDITORIALLY SPEAKING
THE DECADENT OLD SOUTH
As might have been ex
pected North Carolina will
appeal the decision handed
down by a three-judge court
in the action brought by three
Durham youths seeking ad-
missicHi to the University of
North Carolina. In spite of the
attempt of certain segments
of the press to misinterpret
the decision, in which the
court ordered the University
to process the applications of
the Negroes, it was a com
plete victory for the plaintiffs
who got everything they
asked for in their complaint.
University officials know
they don’t have a leg to stand
on and therefore they are de
liberately stalling for time
and endeavoring to put the
Negro youths to all the trou
ble and expense possible be
fore having to admit them.
This kind of attitude does not |
create a more harmonious
feeling between the races in
this state and only serves to
make Negroes more deter
mined to seek relief in the
federal courts.
Anyone who witnessed the
pietous tragedy in Greens
boro last Saturday when the
case was heard can under^
stand how the old decadent
South is gasping tor breath
in its dying hours. Heading
the attorneys for the defen
dants was tottering Attorney
General W. B. Rodman in his
senility, struggling to hold
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The Immaculata High School
of the Catholic Church of this
city has enrolled three Negro
students for the first time it was
learned here this week. Al
though officials of the school
and the parents refused to di
vulge the names of the students
a Carolina Times representative
learned from other sources their
names and those of their par
ents.
Enrolled in the school are
James A. Stevens, Jr., son
Coach James A. Stevens
North Carolina College, Jerome
C. Johnson, Jr., and Lolite John
son, son and daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Jerome C. Johnson of
700 Drew Street. Mr. Johnson
is a prominent contractor of
ham AU of the Negro students
are Catholics.
Because of the abaolutc re
fusal of the parents to give out
any information as to the atten
dance of their children at the
school, the Carolina Times repre-
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