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\ DEFENDANT MAY GET A portion of the crowd which attended the anntud stockholders’ meeting of the Mechanics and Farm/' ers Bank ai the firm’s principal ojS^e in Durham Monday is^pictured here. R. N, Harris (standing, bank to camera) is reading report of Bank examintion to assembled group. Defense Offers iWotion As True Bill Is Returned WINSTON-SAL£M — The possibility that a mental estminatioii will be condoctcd of a*inan charged with raping a white woman loomed here tt:^'week a* defense attorneys im- mi^iately asked for a mental examination after a Grand Jury returned a true bill A rape ijgainst 27 year old Charles Moore. Attorneys Hosea V. Price and Harold Kennedy, court ^pointed defense coUns^ for Moore, petitioned Judge Allen E. Gwyn of Reidsville to ort^ ft mental examination for the a|N:used service station operator and pro»eded to introduce evid«nfle to show that he is nlkentally irresponsible, including ti»timony from his girl Mend. .iThere had been no onnounce- liient of the Judge’s ruling on the lletition early Wedneiday. I Moore is specifically charged] with committing rape at knile point on Mrs. A1 DePorter, wife at assistant basketball c6ach at ^ake Forest College on Dec. 13. His attomejrs presented evi- ince at Monday’s hearing at- mptlng to bolster their plea for ij! determination by medical au- Aorities of Moore's mental con dition. An affidavit from tiis girt Iriend, Miss Sarah Hairiton of 1409 Oak Street, was introduced, stating that Moore had not acted normally with her. The girl’s statement said that Ae had known Moore as a fre-j ^uent vistor to her home for oyer i S year and held her observation d his conduct on many occasions' 4cd her to believe that he suffer-' d from some type of mental ill-; ess. On several occasions, she said (Please turn to page Kight) VOLUIIS 34—HUMBSSl 2 DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, lftB8 PRICE: TIN CENTS AntUJackson Baptists In Action if if if ★ ★ ★ ¥ ¥ ¥ ★ ★ YEGGS CRACK JUKE BOXES f nthused Group tiears Report Of Bank Gains Three Durham Police departeeat detectives pwted aa IntaAsive saareh tl^ week to round uy? a thief or thieves wlto looted juke box^w at three Dwrtuan establishments in the last three days> The luke box crasher struck in the spacetof two (teys the Col lege Inn tce Cream JBar on ray- ettevllle Street, the ■•AMVSITS Club on Matthew Street and the Slks Lodge on Fayetteville St. The intruder got away with a total of $87 for his work The College Inn and the Elks Lodge were hit on the same date, early Monday,jnomi^, Jan. 6, while the AMVSTS club was bit early Tuesday morning, Jan. 7. No arrests-had bem made by Wednesday. Detective Lt. K. O. Atkins said that several suspecta had been questioned but all liad been released. Atkins said the Juke box “milking” was apparently “done by the same individual or grout» of individuals.*’ College Inn operator Williaro (BiU) Jones told the TQIXS that he discovered a tn41 of change Monday morning leading from his esUblisbment to Ltnwood (PISHe turn to page Sitflit) RACnSIOtY WATUNC Tfive lectures remain in the cunent series of lecture* on "Hm Story fo the Negro,” spon sored bjr tba Woman’s Interna tional L«4iue for Peaoe and Vrttdom and being held at the Vniverat^ of Notfli Carolina li brary nrpiititr room. Dr. ld||Br Thompson, Duln Unlverstlgr Sociology profeaor, delivered the tirst lecture WednsadbQr, Ja^ 8, on “What the Bole of aa Slave rad Vreednua'au Meant in'the Cul ture of tiie'iBalted States.” Dates and sveakera. for the other lectures arrf fs follows; Wb. IS, *^The Iiwect of Ur* ban Life on liM Negro’s Bmer- genoe from Airiculture and Do- Labor to occupa- Dr. Ouy Joiasim, Uni- ^Ksity of Feb .In PoU tics," “lliel Ite. lina Col! JACKSON Union Shake-Up Confirmed By Run-Off Vote • In a run-off held here Tues' day, January 7, Walter O. Daye defeated Richmond S. Stei^rt for the presidency of Local 308 of the Ta^o Workers Intemation al Union and Alphonzo Haskins defeated William H. Bullock for the office of financial sacretary- treasurer. Daye polled a total of 171 votes while Stewart secured on ly 68. In the voting for financial secretary-treesurer, Haskins poll ed a total of iM votes against on ly 79 for Bullock. Both Daye and Haskins . wiU serve in their re spective offices for a tern of 12 months. The defeat of BuUock ousted from office the last of the "Old Guard" of Local 208 and ended 15 years of service wliich be had rendered the Union as its finan cial secretary. Bullock previous ly served in the office fnm Jan uary, 1942 until January, 1083 (Continued on Page Eii^t) Dr. Johnson At Bennett Sunday GREENSBORO Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson, president of Howard University, Washington, D. C., will deliver the address when the second an- Dr. David D. JmM will be held at Bennett College, Sunday,'Jah. 113, in Ffeiffsr Chapel. I Dr. Jones, served as president the eoUege from 1038 to 1BS6 as president-emeritus dromi wtaUs daatii In 18M. LYONS Ministers File Writs Declaring Baptist Proxy's Tenure Ipvaiki ATLANTA, Qa. In a move widely interpreted as the mounting of a concerted: drive to oust Dr. J. H. Jackson aa president of the National Baptist) Convention,*' several Baptist ministers filed affidavits attack ing the convention wliich elected Jackson.and dficlacing his tenure, as President to be invalid. A controversy has been brew ing in Baptist circles since the re-election at a stormy session in lK>uisville last summer of the Citicago minister. A few weeks ago, a group of Washington, D. C. ministers formed an or ganization supporting the con vention and its choice of Jack son as president. This week’s action °by another group of anti-Jackson ministers came in the form of individual notarized affidavits filed with Rev. E. C. Smith of ^jTashington iad protesting Jackson’s incum bency. Among the list of ministers filing affidavits was the Rev. W. Franklin Stokes of Winston-Sa lem, N. C., pastor of Friendship Baptist Church. Rev. Smith is secretary of the Committee for a Constitutional Convention, a group of 10 minis ters who, in December, filed a “Quo Warranto” petition in the U. S. District Court of Washing ton, demanding that Rev. Jack-1 Harvard University tills semes- son show cai^ when 'he should ter, informed his family in Dur- (Please turn to page Bight) | ham this week that he has ac- Bryant Selected 'Man Of The Year' By Durham Housewives' League R. Kelly Bryant, Jr., secretary to the Durliam Business and Professional Chain since 1043, was named last week as “Man of the Year,” by the Housewives’ League, the Chain Auxiliary, at its annual New Year’s meeting. Bryant was presented a trophy by J. J. Henderson, last year’s selection for the honor, and Miss Sarah T. Dotson, president at the award-sponsoring House wives’ League. ’The HouMwives’ League do nates the avirard annually to the individual who “contrihutes most to the city in the .area of leadership, business and overall civic Bryant, mana^ of the 6rdl nary departmentnat the North Carolina Mutual life imurance company home office, was cited as “one of the Chain’s most ‘ar dent workers.” (Please turn to page 11^) What is believed to have been the most enthusiastic annual meetings of the stockholders in, the fifty years history of the Me chanics and Farme^ Bank waa ^%eld in the lobby of the bank, 116 E. Parrish Street, Monday, January 6, at 7:30 P.M. Accord- >|ng tb J. H. Wheeler, president, who conducted the meeting, the largest number of stockhold^s ever to attend an annual sessioq^ was present. The me^tag a»emed.M{ith the^rd’s l^yA led by W. J. Kenedy, Jr., president of the N.^. Mutual Life Insurance Company. in his opening remarks Presi dent Wheeler called attrition of the stockholders to the fine re cord the bank had made since its founding in 1908. He also paid a glowing tribute to A,_B. Fitzgerald, founder;—to Dr. Geofge Adams, who was one of the early cashiers of the bank, and to other early o£Ucials who had laid the foundation and made possible the present suc cess of ti>e bank. J^utes of the previous an nual session and a special meet ing of the stockholders lield on November 29 were read by I. p. Funderburg, cashier. R. N. Har ris, gave the report of tiie ex amining committee which stated (Please turn to i«ge Eight) Durhamite Who Won Grad Grant As Soph Accepts Teaching PositkHi Word has been received in cepted a job in the Department Durham that a Hillside graduate who won a scholarship in bis sophomore year at MorehouM College which would pay hia study expenses through the Ph.D. degree in Economics at Six Counties In Race For Prize GREENSBORO Six North Carolina counties were this week named as fmal- ists in the contest for the “Coim- ty of the Year” Award, with special reference to Negroes, by the North Carolina Committee on Rural Progress. The finalists include; Anson, Harnett, Duplin, Richmond, Ro beson and Rockingham Coun- liss^ fo*^*». .SPi^sta-e"eln petition for the $800 caA award l^aTMs y%ar w-Dr: •Th«sb^ At Morgan, a native of Vance County, retired board-chapman of the Sperry Gyroacope Cor poratton and chafrmaa of the ‘"(PlaaBs'tum to pawTBSt)" of Economics at Northeastern University in Boston, Mass He is the son of Mrs. Mozella Lyons of 1009 Drew Street. Lyons gradtwted from Hillside high school with honors in 1949 and went to Morehouse College on a scholarship. In his sopho more year, the Danforth founda tion awarded him a scholarship which would pay the cost of his training at any School he elected through work on the Doctor’s degree. He subsequently finished Morehouse in 19SS with honors and enrolled at Harvard where he completed requirements for (Please turn to page Eight) Frank W. Murrell, vice-chairman of the Forsyth County March of Dimes campaign, kneels here with two sperial guests who were present at the “kick-oS” dinner for the drive last Thursday at Baptbt Hospkal Cafeteria in Winston-Sa lem. Standing at Murrell’s left is two year-old George Bates, Jr., and right u 11-year-old Carolyn Alexander. ^me 100 persons attended the opening event of the month-long drive which will feature a Mother’s March on Policy, headed by Mrs. J. B. Bander and '"Teens Against Polio,” headed by Miss Ann Nevrton. Grady R. Pulliam is overall campaign chair man. * FersyA’s Mwdi ei Dimes drive hji&t one of thousaads being conducted ail over the coon try thn inonA in support of the National Infantile Paralysis Foundation work against polio. In Durham, Mrs. Frank G. Barnette, vice-chairman of the County drive, said the response to Jack and Jill coUec- tions on Blue Crutch day last Saturday was “encouraging.” Coins boxes will be passed by Jack and Jill members at the North Carolina College basketball game Monday night. MOORE 16 Tarheels On Jobs Fair Play Planning Unit WASqNGTOTT, D. C. Mote than 325 leaders of baai- ness, civic, fraternal and social orgwaizations from 37 stateasaod the District of Colimibia wiU meet here January 15 to plan the mobilization of community re sources in the National Equal ' Job Opportunity Program, thtf President’s Committee on Go vernment Contracts announced this week. Speakers at the one-day meet ing will include leaders of buai- ness, labor, education and Go vernment! The conference will be held at the Willard Hotel. (Please turn to page Ei^t) State Baptists Launch Quarter Million Fund Drive For Shaw U. RALEIGH In an enthusiastic executive meeting of the planning com mittee of the General Baptist State Convwition of N. C., Inc., held at the denomination’s head quarters building Raleigh, Thursday, January w, there was mapi^ out a ct^prehensive program for the ewly laimching of an intensive fund-raising cam paign for Shaw University. With a goal of $250,000,000, this effort is designed, specifi cally, for Christian education, and therefore, represents an amount over and above the General Convention’s regular budget for other objectives. The over-all plan of this drive provides for full participation on part of all of the organized de nominational units in the state, including district associations, auxiliary conventions, and local congregations, as well as alumni and friends of Shaw throughout the nation. . Members of the campaign steering committee include, Pre-| sident P^ A.- Bishop of the Gene-1 ral Convention; president W. ..R. j Strassner of Shaw; Dr. L. E. Mc Cauley, chairman of Shaw’s board of trustees; the Reverends O. L. Sherrill, D. E. Hedgley, R. Irving Boone, J. W. White, R. M. Pitts; H. L. Mitchell, Mrs. 911en Alston, Mrs. M. A. Home. | The organizational set-up also provides for a Committee of One Hundred, comprised of the heads of the various auxiliary and dis trict conventions, moderato'rs of all associations, regional and di- j visional chairmen, and local sponsors. - Elected as general manager of I the c^paign was the Rev. J. W. White of Asheville; while the I Reverend R. Irving Boone of I Wilmington was elected director (Please turn to page Eight) ■KV. JONES Dr. Charles Jona. At NCC Sunday Rev. Charles Jones, pastor of the Community Baptist Church. of Chapel Hill, will deliver the sermon for North Carolina College’s vesper ser vice Sunday afternoon. The service begins at 3:15 p. m; Rev. Jones is a Presbyter ian who was ousted from pas torate of the Chapel Hill Presby terian Church in 1952 in an ac tion which received widespread attention. He was charged with depart-, ing to far from Church doctrine however, some observers believe that his views in general were too liberal for the Chapel Hill Presbytery. • The subject for • his sermon Sunday is of Being Irreligious.” Rev. Jones is a native (rf Ten nessee and attended Maryville College in Tennessee, Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary at Riciunond, Va. On Jan. 19, the college vespers audience will be addressed by Rabbi Harry Caplan of ItaWtlgK Inportont Change May Be Made In DCON^ Meeting A new constitution calling (tion. for broader participation of, D. E. Moore is chairman of the tthe community in the Dur- committee working on the new ham Committee on Negro document which wiU be present- Affairs is scheduled to be pr&- ed at Sunday’s meeting. sented for final adoption at the conunittee’s annual meet ing at St. Mark A. M. E. Zion Church on Pine Street Sunday afternoon at four. Opinions expressed early this week from members of the com- mlteee indicate that the adoption of a new constitution Is an im portant step for the organizaticm which has been taken to task in the past for some of its opera Sources dose to the-commit- tee drafting the constttutidiir said that the new instrument will provide for the "long loui^t broader communis partlcipa- tlon” In the work of the orpani- In addition to the adoption of the constitution, election dC of ficers to the executive committee will be held and rqwrts wlU be heard from the sub-committees on Education, Political Action, Economics and Civii Affairs. J. H. Wheeler, chairman of the DCONA, will preside over the meeting and pT^nt a summary statement wttlng forth the gen eral work and aims of the com- W. A. Clement, chadman ot the Education tnih rrHnmlttae. will deliver group’s reports. Be- ports from the Political Acttoa. Economic and Civic Affairs sub committees will be reodarad fagr Attorney C. O. Pearsi», Att«^ ney F. B. McKissick and L. B. Frasier, reqpectiv^. Special music for the occasion will be proviAad by the Mt Vm- • non Baptist Cburdi ebc^ and the Hillside Hi^ School C. E. Bouiva tor the ( ing, told churches formatieAr he wtB - -ateess the uig«st Q]|d tar' tuluw^ partt» cii^tidnnlR 'n^iriD oki ^ puti of all citizooa of the cocununity in the aocompUabmeot of the ganisatioB'a goals. groupe to at •ft
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