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DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, lt55
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Congress Can Stop Racial Violence, Mitchell Says
DEMONSTRATION TAKES PLACE
WHEN HIGHWAY PATROLMDI
AHACK NIGHT CLUB OM
By Alexander Baraes
RALEIGH
Law enforcement agencies,
representing practically every
branch found in Wake County,
brought consternation to Wake
County here Saturday night
when they made a raid on
Riverside Inn, located about
6 miles from Wendell and
owned by Arthur Dove, popu
lar local “juke” box dealer,
and ended up by beating one
until he was given but one
slight chance to live, arresting
43 persons and padlocking the
place.
It all happened when ABC
Officer W. B. Keith took De
puty Sheriffs W. P. Pearce, W.
E. Watldns and Constable Bar
ber to the tavern and searched
the place, on warrant, alleged
ly to have been given for the
search of the place for whis
key which they are said to be
lieve to have been there for the
purpose of sale. The ABC offi
cer told newsmen that he had
gotten numerous complaints
that whiskey was being sold
there and proceeded to do
something about It.
The officer further stated
that he went to the place and
in company with other offi
cers, made the search and ar
rested one man whom he un-
dentood worked at the place.
He failed to identify the man
but said that he had reason to
believe that the whiskey was
there for sale. Officer Keith
told inquiring reporters that
when he left to lock the first
man up, he told Patrolman W.
D. Williams to keep a watch on
the place for he had been told
that when he made similar
visits to the place that as soon
as the search was made that the
whiskey would then appear.
Williams, one of a new de
tachment brought into the area
to do something about th«
growing fatality rate that
Wake County highways is wit
nessing is said to have told
him that he would keep a close
eye on the place. Keith further
stated that he told Williams to
arrest anyone he saw with a
package. Williams is said to
have come back to the place
and reported to his superior,
Li Hunt, that he saw a man
stagger across the toad and
that he immediately placed
him under arrest.
Williams further stated that
he had received complaints
from citizens of the communi
ty that much speeding was
done as the result of persons
who visited the place. It de
veloped that the man who
Williams Is supposed to have
arrested was Henry Goodson,
an employee of the place.
Goodson said that when WlUl-
ams came up he was parking
cars and had a bundle under
his arms: Williams Is supposed
to have told Goodson t^t he
was under arrest and that he
was arresting him for having
whlakey for the purpose of
sale. Goodson admitted that he
had two pints of whiskey and
that when the patrol got out
of his car that he turned and
fell, breaking one of the bot
tles. When Williams got out of
his car, according to Goodson,
he had his gun drawn. Good
son says that he stumbled _and
fell and that Williams ran over
him, thinking he had decided
to depart the scene.
It was then that Williams
placed the handcuffs on Good-
SM», and told him to get into
ihe car. Goodson says he got
Jn the car and about that time
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As we go to press, we- are
pleased to aimoiuic« that L. E.
Austin, Pnblisher of The Caro
lina Times, Is reeoverlng from
an attack of nervooBnew whleh
he suffered Snndayi
Mr. Austin tanglit die Berean
Bible Claw as nsaal «b Snnday
morning and at the 11 o’clock
aerviees at Saint Jos^h AMB
Cfcnreh IntroOacod Jodge Ite-
bert Delanoy, wko dellvetM
the Men’s Day message.
The eondttira of the well>
imown newspapennan did not
l>eeome apparent until tlia
close of the service. He was
ruihed home wlien he ti re-
eovering nnder the care of a
physician. It is not known Jut
' when he will be able to r«>
some Ids duties.
Univ. of Alabama
Must Open Doors
To Negroes
WASHINGTON, D. C.
The doors of the University of
Alabama long closed to Negroes
were forced ajar last Monday by
the force of a Supreme Court de
cree issued by the nine top Jur
ists of the land. The court in so
doing acted consistently with its
decision of May 1954 and 1955,
which outlawed segregation in
the public schools of the coun
try.
The decision, the first opinion
of the new term, makes it pos
sible for two Negroes who had
tried to get into the University
in 1952, to gain admission.
As of now, no word has come
from officials of the University
with regard to the Court’s ac
tion.
Racial Violence And Discrimination
Could End In Six Months With Action
Three of the delegation protesting segregated rest rooms
at the New Raleigli-Durham AirMrt survey with critical
eyes, the sign on the door indicatutg racial bias. They are,
left to right J. S. Stewart, Secretaiy-Treasurer, Mutual Sav
ings and Loan of Durham, Rev. Gaorge Fisher, Rector of the
St. Ambrose Episcopal Chureh, Rdleigh, and L. E. Austin,
Publisher of The Carolina Times.
Michigan Solon To Ask Probe Of
Bias At Raleigh-Durham Airport
Last Rita Held
For G. W. Hill
InWinston-SalenK
WINSTON-SALEM
Funeral services for G. W.
Hill, president-emeritus of the
Winston-Mutual Insurance Com
pany, who died at Kate Bitting
Reynolds Memorial Hospital
Tuesday momii^, Oct. 4, were
held at the First Baptist Church,
Friday mornihg, Oct. 7, at 11
o’clock, with the pastor, the Rev.
D. R. Hedgley, officiating.
Mr. HIU, 78, had been in fall
ing health for several years and
retired from the company as ac
tive president in 1954, but re
mained as chairman of the board
of directors.
According to his son, the late
Mr. Hill was a firm believer in
thrift, and adopted as his philo
sophy, “Save, regardless of what
you make. Save a part of what
ever you have.”
Bom at Germanton, N. C., In
1876, the late Mr. HiU received
his early education in the For
sythe county schools and in Win-
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Church Of Cod
CouncU Meets
The General Council' of the
Church of God in Christ Je
sus, Inc. will convene at the
Church of God at 500 Queen
Street, October 14-23. Bishop C.
L. Faison, pastor of the ehurch,
will be the host minister. '
Outstanding ministers and
laymen in the church from va
rious parts of the country will
be on the program to deliver
sermons and addresses.
Details of the session will be
released to the press next
week.
To the session of the Coun
cil, the public is invited.
DETROIT, MICH.
Congressman Charles C.
Diggs, Jr., fD-Miei!) -protestad
the ]im-crow toilets in the
newly opened $450,000 Ra
leigh Durham Airport and de
clared that he planned imme
diate action.
The air terminal was offici
ally dedicated Oct. 1 by repre
sentatives of national, state
and local governments. Gover
nor Luther B. Hodgfes com
mended Raleigh and Durham
for their “neighborly coopera
tion and vision” ‘ in providing
the two cities with the new fa
cility.
Negro representatives of Ra
leigh and Durham appeared
before the airport authority
prior to its dedication and ask-
opened with th* toil-
A amtnssBwnt,. Atty JMIkml A.
ed that the terminal not be
tc
ktty jMIiml
Patton of Durham, chairman
of the airport authority, told
the Negro delegation that their
request would be taken under
advisement.
L. E. Austin, editor of the
Times and chairman of“ the
Negro group, urged the mem
bers of the airport atuohrity to
open the new facility without
designating separate toilets for
the Negro and white races. He
pointed out that the airport
which was being abandoned
had operated for years without
incident.
The old airport did not
designate toilets for white and
Negro passengers, but they
attempt to achieve a separa
tion by subtly marking toilets
iat iemales “ladies” and “wo
men”; and for males, “men'”
and "gentlemen.” The confu
sion that resulted was tragi-
The first six months of this
cally comic.
year an estimated 50,000 uas-
s^ngers used the Raleigh-Dt»r-
ham Airport and Atty. Patton
said that “it looks they will
meet their goal of 100,000 for
the entire year.”
Action of the Durham and
Raleigh committees on Negro
affairs is being temporarily
withheld an Interstate Com
merce ruling on the whole
question of segregation in rail,
bus and air depots.
Annual N. C. NAACP Meet Set For Durham Oct. 21-23
Dr. James M. Hinton, mili
tant President of the South
Carolina State Conference of
NAACP Branches, will be the
Keynote Speaker at the 12th
Annual Convention of the N.
C. Chapter of the National As
sociation for the Advancement
of Colored People convening
in Durham, N. C., October 21,
22, and 23. Dr. Hinton will ad
dress the Opening Mass Meet
ing Friday evening, October
21, 8.00 P.M., at the St. Joseph
A.M.E. Church, 806 Fayette
ville Street. The aggressive
James M. Hinton has led the
fight for first class citizenship,
its rights and privileges for 12
years in the state of South
Carolina. He is a member of
the national board of NAACP.
The Rev. William H. Fuller,
President of the Durham
Branch NAACP, wjll preside.
Mrs. Ruby Hurley, Southeast
Regional Secretary NAACP,
will share the platform with
Dr. Hinton. Mrs. Hurley is re
puted to be the bravest and
most militant wonuin in the
South because of her courage
ous work in the southeast re
gion. Mrs. Hurley will relate
her many experiences in the
deep south and report on Mis
sissippi and the famous Em
mett 7111 c«se.\
The Sunday October 23rd,
Civil Rights Mass Meeting at
the White Rock Baptist Church
will feature one of Ameri
ca’s outstanding women, Mrs.
Daisy Lampkin of Pittsbur|[h,
Pennsylvania. Mrs. Lampkin is
a national board member of
NAACP and a member of the
board of the Legal and Educa-
REV. WM. H. FULLER
tional Fund, Inc. of NAACP.
She is a former Field Secre
tary of NAACP from 1930 to
1947. During this period she
organized jjundreds of branch
es and increased the member
ship to more than one-half
million. She is President of
the Pittsburgh Council of Ne
gro Women and is an honorary
member of Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority. The Simday Mass
Meeting will be presided over
by Mrs. Beatrice G. Burnett,
Assistant Secretary, State
NAACP of Tarboro, N. C.
The Theme of the Conven
tion is “Implementing the Su
preme Court Decision on pub
lic education in North Caro
lina”-Where Do We Go From
Here? The Convention Head
quarters will be in the Mt.
Zion Baptist Church, 2223
Fayetteville Street. The busi
ness seMions will be presided
over by Kelly M. Alexander,
Dixie Defiance
Drive Branded
W On U. S.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.
Delegates attending the 20th
annual convention of the Vir
ginia State Conference of
NAACP Blanches here this
week-end heard national lead
ers of the Association brand
southern defiance o^ the U. S.
Supreme Court ruling against
public school segregation as a
war” against the United
States Government.
Speaking at the opening ses
sion Roy Wilkins, NAACP
executive secretary, charged
in an address prepared for de
livery Friday night (Oct. 7),
“that a war has been declared
and is being fought against the
United States of America."
Similarly, Thurgood Mar
shall, the Association's special
counsel, said in his speech,
Miwduled. for delivei^y Sunday
afternoon, (Oct.9) that ‘"defi
ance of the Supreme Court of
the United States in~ regard to
school desegregation is noi de
fiance of Negroes or the
NAACP. It is defiance of our
Government; and our Govern
ment is either strong enough to
deal with this defiance or is
weak enough to be unable to
survive as a world power.”
Wilkins compared the re
action to the Court’s decision
in Olclahoma to that in Miss.,
and Virginia. In Oklahoma, he
pointed out, 100 communities
had gone ahead with desegre
gation. “What our white
friends are fond of calling the
^peaceful relations between
the races’ have not been up
set,” he said. “Apparently no
one is worried to death about
his bloodstream. Oklahoma
just decided to remain a part
■of the United States and to let
God and good sense help it in
solving a problem in the A-
merican way.
“The contrast between Miss,
on the one hand, and Okla. on
Judge Hubert Delaney, deliv
ered the Men’s Day addresses
on Sunday, October 9, at Saint
Joseph A. M. E. Church at the^
morning and evening services
to large crowds.
The eminent Jurist, a native
of Raleigh, now residing in
New York, is an outspoken
Civil Right champion and an
authority on Juvenile Delin
quency.
HARTFOBD, COWN.
If the two major political par
ties faced their ^esponssibili-
ties,” racial violence, such as the
Till murcer, and ^Uscrimination
could be eodetf “wifliin six
months,” an NAACP ofBcial as
serted here.
Addressing a CIO-sponsored
civil rights conference, on Oct.
5, Clarence Mitchell, NAACP
Washington bureau director, told
his audience that a “march on
the local politicians and mem-
Ijers of Congress in your own
home district and your own
.home state who are strangling
efforts to get basic civil rights
bills enacted into law” would be
more effective than a march on
Mississippi to protest the lynch
ing of 14-year-old Emmett Louis
TUI.
“If Congress had paaed dvil
rights bills,” he maintained, “ttw
murderers of 14-y«ar-old Kn-
mett Till would have been triei
in a real court instfd ot a cir-
cus-tent, as was the caae in Sam-
ner. Miss. The evidence against
them would have baen assembled
by the capable and scientific law
enforcement officers of the FBI
rather than an over-stuffed d>cr-
iff and his bungling assistants.
There would be the le^^ pos-
sibilHy of hitttns *'>ie S*s4Pcrf
Mississippi where it hurts moat
—namely, the pocketbooks, by
bringing suit against the county
in which the outrage occurred.”
“The Democrats have refused
to push foi^clvtt rtghta lestd*-
tion in Congress in order to pre-
rve what they call par^ har-
ony,” fi(r. Mitchcll recalled.
He said “civilized people re
coil at the kind of harmoogr tiMk
links honest men and wtaoaen
elected to Congress by the bal
lots of tree people with individa-
als from Mississippi and Geor
gia, who hold office aolely be-
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Shiloh baptist
Homecoming
Sunday, October 16, the Shi-
Baf>tist Church of Morris-
ville. North Carolina will ol»-
serve Home Coming Day.
There be morning and af
ternoon services. Dinner will
be served. The afternoon ser
vices will consist of a program
of talks ai^d songs, concluding
with a financial report from
the “T'Arelve Tribes” rally.
The public is cordially in
vited to join in this celebration I cause potential voters are kept
of Homecoming Day. J. H. Jfrom the ballot box with shot-
Jones, pastor of Shiloh will guns, economic pressure and
have the services in charge. ; Nazi-like election regulations.-
D6&P TRADE WEEK PLANS TO
COVER THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY
and tial to starting off a si;cci.. s-
start ful Trade Week.
On Sunday, October 30 , '
Mount Vernon Baptist Chu-ch
will lie the scene of a na' ’1
discussion on “Integration:
i Report to the People”. Pre-
DR. JABfES HINTON
President, North Carolina
NAACP Chapter and other
state conference officers. The
Convention will officially
open on Friday morning, Oct.
^ 10:3p A.M., with a memo
rial service for those NAACP
leaders that have passed into
the great beyond. Convention
Organization will begin im
mediately after the memorial
service. A part of the Friday
morning session will feature
reports from the executive
staff. Friday afternoon begin
ning at 2:00 P.M. until 5:00
-P.M., will be two very impor
tant workshops. Rev. J. R.
Funderburk, Southern Pines,
N. C., Presiding Elder, AMEZ
Church and Chairman, Life
Membership Committee North
Ca^lina NAACP will preside
over the workshop on “The
Role of the Church in Desegre
gating the Community.” Rev.
Eugene B. Turner, Lumberton,
The Durham Business
Professional Chain will
its annual Trade Week this
tire other, is important because ' year on October 29,. Home-
it points up what is actually coming Day at North Carolina
underway in a number of i College. A full program of ac-
states in the South today. The tivities designed to cover a
unpleasant but plainly dis- ■ wide cross section of conimu-1 liminary plans list discussants
cernible fact is that a war has ^ nity life will extend through as Attorney M. Hugh Thomo-
been declared and is being November 7. son, R. N. Harris, City Council
fought • against the United j L. B. Frasier, and John D.
States of America. Lennon, committee co-chair-
I men in charge of overall plan-
j ning for Trade Week, said this
I week, “The chain is pleased to
j cooperate with North Carolina
College again this year in the
I promotion of the annual
I Homecoming Parade. We call
, upon chain members and other
i interested citizens to join us
WSRC Holds First
Anniversary
Durham’s only interracial
radio station will celebrate its
first anniversary here in the
form of a birthday party to be
held at the Durham City Armory, i
Saturday night it was announced
by tOT*litaff at WSRC this week
to the TIMES.
The event that is scheduled to
take place at eight o’clock at
which time the well-known re
cording star (Gater Tail) Jack
son and his orchestra will play.
Other personalities from the
station will 'be* featured. The
highlight of the affair will be the
crowning of Miss WSRC in a
beauty contest at which time a
fifty dollar war bond will be
given to the crowned queen.
Other valuable prizes will al
so be presented during the eve
ning of celebration to holders of
lucky tickets, and slices of birth
day cake will lie given to all
who attend the affair during the
evening.
in our efforts to stimulate in
creased cooperation among our
citizens and our business, pro
fessional, and related institu
tions. Ours is an interdepen
dent community and we can
best realize our goal of a
sound, democratic community
with church, school, and the
home all working for the im
provement of our community”.
At North Carolina College,
Student Government Presi
dent W. Sherman Perry named.
Miss Clara Wertz of Charlotte |
and two Durhamites, Alfred
Fisher and Reginald Spauld
ing, to serve as Homecoming
marshals. Their Job is to work
with community and other
participating organizations to
make a successful Homecom
ing which is considered esstn-
man; Rev. Wm. H. Fuller,
president of the Durhaiii
Branch NAACP; J. S. Ste-vart,
executive secretary of tho Dur
ham Committee on Negro Af
fairs; Rev. C. E. McLester,
president of Interdenomina
tional Ministerial AlHancc,
John H. Wheeler, president of
the Mechanics and Farmers
Bank, and L. E. Austin, pub
lisher of the “Carolina Times”.
The program starts at 3:30
p.m. on October 30.
The annual Talent Night
program is scheduled tor the
W. D.. Hill Recreation Center
at 8 p.m. on Thursday. Nov. 3.
- All local teachers who are
beginning their first year in
the public schools and at
North Carolina College will be
invited to be guests of the
Chain at the annual banquet.
I Plans call for the banquet to
I be held at the Hillside H(^
School cafeteria on November T.
Nathaniel B. White. Chain pre
sident. will be tbt main speak*
er. Dr R. K. Barksdale wlU
serve as Toastmaster.
The Houaewivss League, ua-
der the leadership of Mrs.
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