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2 Million To Sell Jim Crow North-WiHciii SACRAMENTO, Calif. Backed by a fund, reportedly in exceiis of $2,000,000, certain aouthem state gov^mente in ^|ance with Wiine Citizens Councils have launched a vast propaganda campaign to woo nor^ernerg to segi^ation, Roy Wj^ins, NAACP exegcutive sec- re^ry, charged here Friday in an address prepared for delivery at a dinner meeting of the Asso ciation’s Sacramento branch. ■pie NAACP leader cited a^ an example of this kind of propa ganda a fuH-page advertisement published recently in a New York City dally and paid for by the Louisiana Joint Legislative Committee for the Preservation of Segregation. The advertise ment sets forth what it calls “the position of the South on race relations.” "This statement, Wilkins pointed out, “is basically an ap peal to the North to Join the South in defying the Supreme Court ruling which outlawed ra- cial segrega^tion in the public Propaganda Drive Aimed At North Said Backed By Dixie States, Council schools.” Further, he asserted, “in ita declaration that if such segrega^ tion is pracrticed in thc( North, it will help that fegiofi adjust to a greatly increased Negro popu lation by 1980^ the advertisement is an open invitation to the North to defy the nation’s high est court.” Stat^ Senator W. M. Rainach, chairman of the Joint Legislative Committee, Is also chairman of the Associated White Citizens Councils of Louisiana. Likewise, Representative John S. Gossett, a member of the committee, is a member of the White Citizens Council state board. “The clear picture is,” the NAACP spokesman declared, “that the White Citizens Coun cils, who arei dedicated to the (Please turn to t>age Eight) VOLUME 34 — NUMBER 9 DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1958 PRICE TEN CENTS Wright-Nichols Spat In U. S. Court ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ C-R Unft’s Reply To little Rode Query Wins Dixie Senators On hand for fbe opening of i important national fignres. liCfti on, chainnan of the Committee; the West Coast regional office of to right are Secretary of labor and Leland L. Wilder, West the President’s Committee onl James P. Mitchell, vice chair- Coast Regional Director for the Government Contracts In Losj man of the President’s Commit- Committee. Angeles recently were the above! tee; Vice-President Richard Nix-| Monrae Refievad As KKk RoHy GM Off MONROE The Ku Klux Klan failed to show up for a scheduled meeting in this area Sunday, and many obser-vers beii«v« 4hai it- was cancelled. The meeting was originally announced by James Cole, self- styled Baptist preacher and lea der of the) Ku Klux Klan in North and_ South Carolina. Cole makes his home at Marion, S. C. Interest Mouf^ In Durham Event To Hear Top Eisenhower Official Interest in the forthcoming ap pearance here of J. Ernest Wil kins, Assistant Secretary of La bor for International Affairs, is gaining “unusual and unexpect ed momeintum,” planners of the engagement reported this week. Wilkins, highest ranking Ne gro in the Eisenbqwer Adminis tration, will be the featured speaker at a banquet to be given on March 20 in the North Caro lina College Cafeteria. Wilkins will appear under the sponsorship of thci Civic Com mittee of the Durtiam Commit tee on Negro Affairs. A number of other organizations are co operating in sponsoring the event. L. B. Frasier, program chair man, told the Times this we^k that inquiries are being made and a large number of reserva tions hB'Ve already been receivc)d. “Since the announcement went out last week, we have had such encouraging response that we feel the North Carolina Col lege Cafeteria will be closed out long before the banquet date,” he said. The Cafeteria has a capacity of 300 persons, according to Frasier. In addition to his distinction in the Eisenhower Administra tion, Wilkins is' also the higtiest ranking layman in the Metho dist Church, which he serves as presid^t of the Judiciary Coun cil. He is a member of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity. Residents of the area were generally relieved that the me|Bt ing did not come off. Monroe and Union County have been the scene of considerable racial un- r^t in IHe past few monfRs. Last summer, the Klan was charged with firing upon Negro houses during a mortorcade through the Negro section. Ro bert Williams, president of the Monroe NAACP, urged Presi- dent Eisenhower to conduct anj investigation of Monroe police, who according to Williams,, es corted the Klan motorcade. Cole, who describes himself as a Free Will Baptist minister, had billed the meeting as “evangelis tic.” He conducted a meeting in Graham last Friday, which he advertised in advance would be evangelistic, He is awaiting trial in Lum- berton next month on charge^ of inciting a riot. The charges grew out of an aborted Klan rally at Maxton on January 18. The rally was designed to warn Indians of the area against mixing with whites, but the Indians broke up the rally before it started. Williams, one of the outspoken Negro leaders in Monroe, had warned that “mass violence” (continued from page 1) Cl A A,Tournament Starts Thursday Durham Ready For Fans DurhamiteiB braced themselves early this week for the expected influx of basketball |ans this week-end for the annual Cen tral Intercollegiate Athlqftic As sociation conference basketball tournament to be staged at North Carolina College’s gym nasium. Tournament officials issued an early prediction of some 10,000 people anticipated in Durham during one of the three days of the affair. First round play in the tourna ment opens Thursday afternoon at the college’s, gymnasium. Play continues on Friday night and the finals are scheduled for Sat urday night. This year marks the fifth year that the tournament will be held in the city, and Durhamitea have had the fact impressed upon them that the visiting fans often do not spend all of their ener gies on watching the eight games sch^uled for the tourney. Although few social events have beeh'pKThhed for this year’s tournament, many impromptu and informal affairs are epcpect- ed to take place. Among those already announced are a public dance at the local armory, Fri day night and an informal dance sponsored by the Winston- Salem Teachers College Alumni Friday night at the W. D. Hill Recreation Center. Youth Killed In Auto Crash LOUISBURG An 18 year-old youth, John L. Perry, and a state ABC officer d^ed in an automobile wreck Sunday night near here. Perry died at Franklin Coim- ty Memorial hospital about 1:40 a.m. Monday morning. E. M. Lamm, an inspector in Franklin, Nash «nd Halifax (continued on page 8) AME Prelate Restored By Council To Duty NEW ORLEANS, La. • Th4 Judicial Council of the A.M.E. Church last Wednesday sustained the ruling of the Bis hops Council that Bishop D. Ward Nichols is the rightful pre late of the 16th Episcopal Dis trict. The action of the Council confirms the assignment of Bis hop Nichols and Kts aside the suSp^sion of Bishop Nichols which was, ordered on December 5 at St. Louis without approval of the Bishop’s Council. Reinstatement of Bishop Nic hols, if accepted by him, will perfect a. compromise between Bishop Wright and Bishop Nich ols. Along with his leinstatement the payment of Nichols’ salary is to be tetroactive as of Dec: 8, t067..'ij>or his reinstateme|it Is to n^quich present Council and hls;right to serve a^ president of th^ Bishops’ Coun cU, iMginolng in May when his seniority statua automatically elevates him to that office. He' also must agree to withdraw the ciiarges against Wright if Wright would sign the order to dismiss. _ JBiahop. Wright’s part of the proposed compromise are as fol lows: 1. Wright must agree to ac cept the ruling of the Judicial (Please turn to page Eight) KELLY ALEXANDER Greensboro Waits Southeast NAACP By 3. B. Harren GREENSBORO Plans are rapidly moving for ward for the entertainment of an expected 500 delegates to the sixth annual South Eastern NAACP Regional Conference when it convenes here March 6-9 at the YMCA on East Market Street. Virginian SelectedToHead DriveTo Register Three MillionRace Voters NEW YORK intment of John M. of Richmond, Va., Registration director, ced here. by^ Wilkilris, th« A^ociation’s executive wcretary. In making the announcement^ Wilkins sai4 that Brooiis would head the Association’s Southwide drive to reach a goal of 3,000,000 registered Negro voters in the region by 1950. He will be assis ted by existing NAACP person nel in the region and such addi tional 95 . may be needed. Brooks comes to his new post from the Virginia State Confer ence of NAACP branches whefre he was employed as political ac tion director and as an assistant to the executive secretary of the conference,’'W. Lester Banks. Previously he had been execu- ' tive secretary of the prusade'*ior Voters of Richmond, a non-par tisan organization set up to in crease the Negro vote. A veteran of World WSt II, Brooks was trained at Virginia Union University in Richmond and West Virginia State College in Charleston. Following his honorable discharge as a first lieutenant after tt»ree yeiM«> in cluding 18 months of combat ser vice, he became manager of Troy’s Department Store in, (continued on page 8) EAST END COMMUNITY SETS Hondrfor Civic Leader Tribute Planned For Ellis Jones J. L. HOLLOWAY ELLIS D. JONES Dr. W. H. Jernigan, Long-Time Baptist Leader-, Succumbs At 88 By James E. Gayle t MIAMI BEACH, FLA. Dr. W. H. Jernagin of Wash ington, D. C., President of the National Baptist Sunday School and Baptist Training Union Con gress, and Pastor of the Mt. Car mel Baptist Church, died at Mi ami Beach, Tuesday Morning, February 18. Dr. Jernagin was 88 yeprs of age and had served as Pres^ent of the Congress for 32 ye^urs. Through his leadership the Con gress has grown to one of the lar gest youth organizations in the nation. Dr. Jemigan had just return ed from abroad for the ninth time in the interest of the deno minational work. He was a lead ing figure in the Baptist World’s Alliance and the National Coun cil of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. He was a Board Member oi the above organizations and he was also a leading figure in the World Council of Churches. (Please turn to page Eight) Residents of. the East End com munity in Durham are''schedul ed to honor Ellis D. Jones, well- known civic and business leader, at an “Appreciation Day” pro gram bunday artemoon. The program is slated for four o’clock at the E. D. Mickle Com munity’Center on North Alston avenue. Much ^tf^he credit for its establishmenr is generally conceded to t>e due to the work of Jones in the neighborhood. Jones, who has operated a fun eral home* business in Durham for the past 25 years, is being honored for his work as founder and for 15 years president of the East End Betterment League. He will step down as head of the League and turn the office over to its newly elected presi dent John L. Holloway. “I want to thank the peo]^ of East End for supporting the league and me during the past 15 years, and I sincerely hope they will furnish even greater support to the new president,” Jones said this week. Som^ of the leading citizens of the E^st End community have been given participating roles in the program Sunday. Main ad dress for the occasion will be de livered by J. S. Stewart, council man from the Third Ward. The Betterment League, or- (continued on page 8) Hands Off, Say Members; Ervin Says Healthy WASHINGTON, D. C. The chairman and a member of the Civil Rights Commission came up with an answer pleas ing to Southern members of a Senate committee during a hear ing this weeK and promptly won the favor of many of the Sena tors from the South. Dr. John A. Hannah, chairman of the commission, told the Sen ate Judiciary Committee the or ganization had no thought of taking a hand in the Litle Rock integration situation. His answer apparently sooth ed troubled southerners on the committee, all of wliom opposed the law passed by Congress last summ^ creating the group. Senator Sam Ervin (D-N.C.), one of the chief antagonists last summer of the civil rights pco- posals which containeci inrovte* ion for the coOKnisskm, said fol lowing the hearing tiiat the com- Aiiarion memben are “noi fa- nactics.” All of the commision mem- b^ were questioned in a gentle manner by the Judiciary Com mittee, chairmaned by Senator James O. Eastland, (D-Miss.) . ■ . . Dr. Hannah, president of Mich and: now getting under way over the South In an effort to add three (continued on page 8) Local and state NAAC!P offi cials are striving to make this one of the most outstanding of recent regional conferences which the Southeastern area has promoted. Among the key per sons bheind the program include N. C. NAACP president Kelly M. Alexander of Charlotte; Charles A. McLean, field secre tary for Tarheelia; Dr. E. R. Ed monds, president of Greensboro NAACP chapter; Atty. M. S. High, in charge of housing; N. L. Gregg, state conference treasur er; and Dr. Margarette Adams, Raleigh, youth council advisor. National officers scheduled to participate^ are Mrs. Ruby Hur ley, Southeast regional secretary working out of Atlanta; the Rev. E. J. Odom, Jr., NAACP Church Secretary; Miss Lois Baldwin, Youth Secretary; Kxee^ithre Sec retary Roy Wilkins and sev«^f Southern States leaders. (The Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi and Tennessee com prise the region.) The ReV. Odom will hold a special conference March 6th with an anticipated 200 minis ters on the role of the CHiurch in the NAACP and the registration DR. EDWIN EDMONDS College Fund Goal Raised NEW YORK A $2,250,000 goal has been set for the 1958 United Negro Col lege Fund Campaign, it was an nounced here Friday by Stanley C. Hope, national campaign chairman. Mr. Hope is president of Esso Standard Oil Company. “Mounting costs of education and the re!ent addition of two colleges to Fund membership have made it necessary to in crease the goal by a quarter-of- a million dollars this year^’ Hope said. ‘The two newly admitted col leges, Barber-Scotia, (Uncord, N. C., and St. Paul’s Lawrc^ce- ville, Va., bring the current membership to 33.’* The 1958 campaign, scheduled between April 1 and June 15, marks the College Fund’s 15th (Please turn to page Eight) ed by the Rev. Theodore M. He|^ burg in his feeling that the Little Rock situation was out of the commission’s province. (continued on page 8) Minnie Jean Granted Study At N. Y. School ' NEW YORK Minnie Jean Brown, 16 years old, who was expelled front Little Rock (Ark.) Central High School on Feb. 17 for retaliating to repeat^ harassmmts by white pupils, was expected to en ter the New Lincoln School here on February 24. Miss Brown was scheduled to arrive in New York on Feb. 22, accompanied by her mother, IMrs. W. B. Brown. On the day after her expulsion from the Little Rock school, Misd Brown accepted a $1,050 scho larship to the New Lincoln School offered her by tha school’s founding director, De. John J. Brooks, In offering the scholarship. Dr. Brooks declared: “Our kind ol school just can’t sit by and not make some sort of gesture in a case like this.” New Lin«^>ln, a private school, was established in 1948 by fa culty and alumni of the Horae* Mann-Lincoln School. It main^ tains two buildings in Manhat tan. “CoontlcflB CriMi Previeetiees* A statement issued on VMh. 17 by Clarence Laws, NAACP field secretary now in Littto Rock, charged that Miss Brown** expulsion i&r retaliating to “countless cruel provocatiOMf* at Uttle Kock Cental Hi#l School was “a dear ahandci (Please turn to paoStfht) -
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