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ONmsifY REPUBLICANS "SiUg” ON RACE ISSUE Tha efforts of a ccrtain «Ie- ■Mnt of the Republican par^ to thwart I th^ election of Alex ander Barnei, county chairman feaa really complicated matters lar l>oth factions. The trouble began Saturday •flernoon when the members o|' the party gathered at the court house to elect a chairman and Megates to tl^e district and atat« tneetings, which will be held at Apheboro and Winst6n-Sal«q Friday and Saturday r«|ipective> ly. R. N. Barringer, local lumber dealer, made what many termed •n unfavorable decision ytrhen ha ruled that the meting would ad-> Journ uittil May 15th. The deci sion was the result of a state ment made by A. N. Hutchins, which charged that there was m possibility that all persons I present trtr* not registered Re^ publleans. Hutchins did not make any protest of tho meeting until af ter a. B. Phifer, white buslness- raui, and Alexander Bames had bemi nominated tot the chair- iiMnsblp. Barrington closed the nomina- tloi) for the pojrt ahd had niWd that the procedure of eloetion to iiretMurv the ballots. Hutching was Joined by two o^ thre«l othor w^hite members. Ij. E. Austin, publisher of tiie Carolina Times, not oply ditfOT- ^ with Hutchins about the I- dentity of the members prepent, but told hbn that he and tMkem who favored the protest were in- Jecttiig the race issue. Austin told the conventiqn that the .so-called leaders would like to liave the more than 6,000 votes that might be coming td the party should it get a new type of Iwdership. He ended by saying, "You people want the Negro vote, but you do not want a Negro to be the chairman.” “You arej not fooling us. Your trouble is that there are more brown faces here than whit^ ones.’* Rev. E. T. Browne Joined Austin in denouncing the rul ing as unfair and out of line with what had ben done in previous years. “I do not want to believe that you men would invite me, a minister of the gospe) to wiiat you know and lielieve is an illegal meeting. If yoit have, then you Itave Insulted my ministerial dignities,” said the pastor of Mt. Vernon Bap tist Church. Rev. J. A. Stewart charged that the ruling not only vio lated all the rules of a demo cratic meeting, but .ahowed that they had no resiNtct for the rights of others. S'. F. Pompey, local shoe re^ palrman, and the person who nominated Bames, asked whj( the Mdden change in procedure n^en it had been the practice all the time to have the entire the entire body elect officers fnd delegates. He was told that |f the meeting was protested then the whole thing would be done ove^. Pompey then asked Ivhat reason do you have that it will be protested, except toif the fact that a Negro has been fiomjinated. - ) Rev. F. L. Tyson joined in the; argument and tried to show what harm would be done to the Republican party should th« convention accept the ruling of Barringer. The chairman did not make • motion to be made but said that he was taking McDonald’s sug gestion and adjourning the meet ing to reconvene on March 19. Howe't^r, af^r.j cohsultalon with state^ Jpailersf including Ray chairman, they fou-, ^Vjpyey had mili tate agatiijX' Ibeir own faction, in Ihat no delegates had been selMtfd to reptlr^nt Durham County at th« two meetings to be held Friday and Saturday. It was then that Barringer called for precinct meetmgs for Wed nesday night and the convention to reconvene Thursday night. Bwnes stacked this move and said that according to the plan of organization, such a meeting would not be recognized by the Republican Executive Commit tee. Bames based this prediction on tha law which reads as fol lows: “The unit of party action shall be the election precinct. In every ineclnc* la Cwirr- al Ekctlon year, the Coonly Chairman shall eaU pceciaei meetings at sudi tlaw ae slwfl be designated by the Cheir- man o the State BcpubUcaa Execxitive Cc»niaittce after ghr-* ing ten (10) days written no tice to a»cb Preetact ClMir man and after ten (19) notice of such meeting in a newspn per of general etwilation within the county.” Baraea further based Uf con^ tehtion on the fact that bti went to McDonald’s office and asked (Continued on Pag* eight) Beauticians’ Vote This Week! TOLUME 34 — NUMBjERlO' ISyii/UWl MC;, ' I ’‘I r PBICE TEN CENTS Man ifiil Term WINSTON-SALEM A young High Poifit man ontd convicted and sentenced foi^ Intended rape on a white woman-, was given a life senteilpe in Su perior Court here this yeek" oi^ charges of raping the wif^ oi^M assistant Waite Foreest Clollef# l^sketball team coach.. .. ■'‘‘ 'i A plea of gtUlll^y entered 27 year-old Chariiis 4^ rthictantly accepted iiy. t^ iltate. His plea cut to • trial which had picked the County Courthouse. After the plea, no evidence was sulnnit^ and Judge Frank Armstrong passed sentencei. Moore, who tiad aaid h(s waa thte illegitimate son of a taxi-cab driver, was aooused of rap/b^ Mrs. A1 DePorter, 2S yefir-otd wife of Wake Forest Cdilege's assistant basketlMiil coach list t>6cember 13. • Attorney Hosea V. Price, jipi pointed along with Atjbrn^ Harold Kennedy by the cdurt ,to de|(end Moore, told the couH that the plea of guilty Was en tered because "we fee^ that' a plea will be in the best Interett of Justicd." Solicitor Harvey Lupton told •;> ^ ',V judge^'Atttii^tt^.^at- the/jtator relOc^t}^ liseept t»^ pltoa' tin NfrUhes' of Mrifc'of ed.:bjjpii^.iniHnhi -rflvv'. VHIlt IMt laa^' ;ei «5BiXt t9l^ Wing #**s. ‘ here to: ■utiar:,t|iei •limUlation f a,ton," lip-iddded: ;. iojMC the. eourt the mirt been j^ieiMi'ed witi^ iiea of ^IrUil iliv mlind but a- OTwetf tfwt itial^'WeiiM. Wdai' rlmentl^' ti Mm. D$Po'i^r.^ Qiti^, ionher $tataa Ajtt^ifcy fbr iHcf East^ tiortii ti|^- ^cMi^^ .'■■■ww ret||ltfid't>y iHrs^|;w(M^’s'>fil^- , E. m Mitchell of'¥oung»V11te. 'riie ij^Jl^'upoh Moi^-whiivh^fifd a^ Wat MmI from We c^v^ed court room by Sheriff Ernie G. Shore and two di4>uttw. (Please turn to page Eight) MOORE Three Actions On Legal Front Noted In Week Contest Field Now Numbers 55 Entries TIMES Beautician Popularity' Contest were girding them- aelves for the first week of bal loting here late Tuesday. Many beauticians have already sent in orders for extra papers for their customers and friends and the balloting is expected to t>e un usually heavy for the first week. At six o’clock Tuesday a total of 5S contestants had i>een nom inated and the. number is expect ed to reach 60 by Friday noon. E. R. York, the contest manager, announced this week that votes are not transferrable. This was in response to one contestant who requested that her votes be transferred to a friend. York also urtd contestants to note that the number on the ballot will be changed each week, following the date they appear in the paper,. Each ballot will count for 19,000 points. Beginning each week the rela tive standing will be published in the CAROLINA TIMES until thfe close of the contest on April 13 '^e actual standing and the win ner of the free round trip air' plane trip to the National Beau- tlclas Convention in Miami, Flor da,, with one week’s hotel ex pnnscs paid, will be announced the following week in the CAR- OLINA TIMES, Issue of April 20. flntarad >ip tn six o'clock Tuesday are as fol lows : Mrs. J'. H. Love, Durham. Mrs. Earlie Orandy, Duriuun. NEW YORK Three legal actions involving the constitutional rights of Ne groes were taken this week by attorneys for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. One was in the Little Rock High School case and two were Miss Minnie Johnson, Roxboro. I continuing efforts to gain the admission of Virgil Hawkins toi the University of. Florida Law School. LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL In the Little Rock case a brief was filed on February 26 witii the U. S. Court of Appeals^ Eighth Circuit in St. Louis by. NAACP Legal Defense and Edu-' catlonal Fund attorneys. They; urged the court to affirm a of a district court! Mrfe. Ethelene Pray Ice, Ciiap- el HiU. , Mrs. Dilsie Chahdler, Burling ton. MisS Sarah Dotson, Durham. Mrs. Mafins Dickens, Roiboro. Mias Mary Foust, Chapel Hill. Mrs. S. DeShazor Jackson, Durham. Mrs! Estelle Freeland, Dur ham." • Mrl. Calll« Daye, Durham.^ Mry. C. t>. Ashford, Durhahm. Mfi. Daisy Je^ies, Burling ton. .' Misil Daisy Hawley, Orford. Mr*. Irene Jackron, Chapel am. Mrs. Alveta Monroe, purham. Mr*. Eula St^le .Durham. Mm. EUtabfeth Brown, Dur- hatn. MisS Hazel McCoy, Chapel Hill. Mrs. Laney Williams, Durham. Miss Lillie Wells, Durham. Mrs. Aflnie B. Tillle, Burling ton. Mrs. Rosie Harris, Roxboro. Mrs.' Josephlhe Day, Durham. Mrs. Bf^ce Moss, Durham. Mrs. 'Wfeiie L^ak, Durham. Mrs. S. W. Weaver, Chapel Hill. Miss Daisy Carmon, Durham. Miss Rosetta Harris, Roxboro. Miss Montet Bates, Durham. Mim JaAie Courin, Durham. Mri. Jerolihe BalTd, Roxboro. (Please turn to page Eight) Judg|ment which prohibited interference' with the Little Rock’s court ai>- proved plan to integrate its higH schools. , On August 20, 1957 a state court order was obtained by a Mrs. Clyde Thomason, a whlto parent and taxpayer, which re strained tl\e f^ool board from proceedings«With its plans to in tegrate and, in 'Effect, overrode the judgeiments and decrecs of federal courts approving the plan. On the some day the Little Rock school board petitioned the U. S. District Court to en join Mrs. Thfhas^ from using the sti»^ courtf/order. This in junction was granted and thei Little Rock high school proceed ed to desegregate. Attorneys for the Negro stu dents are Wiley A. Branton of Pine Bluff, Ark., and Thurgood Marst)«ll, director. .cpunsfl oJ the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund staff in New York. (Please turn to page Eight) Powell Will Tah At NUCP Some of Durham's leading business, religious and labor^ fig ures will take part in a program Monday night which wpi offi cially launch: the membersUp ci^paign of the Durham ^AA' CP. ’ k Congressman Adam C|ayton’ Powell (D.- N. X,) will be the featured speek«' for the went. The program is scheduled for St. Mark A. M. E. Zion Church on Pine and Pickett Streets at eight o’clock. Powell will t>e introduced by the Rev. R. L. Speaks, pastor of St. Mark A. M. E. Zion Church, Rev. William F. Fuller, presi dent of Durham NAACP, is scheduled to describe the aims and objectives' of the organi zation precedihg the Congress man’s address. Others to take part are the Reverends E. T. Browne, pastor of the Oak Grove Free Will Bap tist Church, L. E. .Austin, pub Usher of the TIMES, Roy Trice, labor union official, J. J. Hen derson, Insurance executive and W. J. Kennedy, Jr., president of North Carolina Mutual Life In surance Company, . Congressman Powell, pastor of Abyssinian Baptist, reputed to be the largest protestant Negro church in America, has been in the House of Representatives since 1041. He is currently a member of the Education and Labor and In^ terlor and Insular Affairs Com mittees of the Hbuse. He has been active In support of minority causes as a member of the Conress. In 1056, he pub licly bolted the Democratic Par ty because he was dissatisfied with the party’s civil rights plat form. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ For Dr. Hughes, Suicide Victim, Sloted 'tipcently elected to serve as. chairman of Financfe; Or. F. E.i Vice Chairman; W. H. Headen, officers 9t the Committee of j Davis, Associate Chairman of | Assistant Sceicetary, (Net shown) |fn«gcnliMt of H|y»-^yladFi^eei fjnttj BiFown,.Cha^ ^tl^w. Le^. Gb^etary and 1^-M. C. A. of GrAfcnsboro i^eTj man of thtf iC^pun|tiee of Man-j W, Ig. ttungrteii, 1st Vlae duQr- left to'tight, Dr. B. W. Bartes,| agement; J. C:, McLa^hlln,^nd| man. 1,000 Expetfed At Tarheel' Vote Cpmpai^ Conference GREENSBORO More than 1000 persons are expected to attend the South Eastern Regional meeting of the NAACP hera March 6-9. Roy Wilkins, National Execu tive Secretary of the organiza tion, will speak at the mass meeting, which will conclude the conference on Sunday, March 7, at Shiloh Baptist Church. At this meting, Kelly Alexander, of Charlotte, State ^’resident of the organization, will preside, and the 60-voice Youth Council Choir of Laurel, Miss., will sing. This meeting w^Ul kick off an intensive voter rogistratlon drive in the region.. Ai>out 200 ministers will mejet at'11 a. m., Thursday, March 6, at Union Memorial Methodist Union Memorial Methodist Church. Dr. Ekiwin R. Esmonds, president of the Greensboro chapter. wUl speak on “The Church and Social Action.” The meeting will continue tlirough 5 p. m. Delegates will register at 9 a. m. March at Hayes-Taylor Yj MCA and the first general ses sion will t>e held at 10 a. m. witti Gloster Current of N^ York, national branch secretary, pre siding. At 8 o’clock that night att the Y Mrs. Ruby Hurley, south eastern regional secretary from Atlanta, will speak at a publid meeting. On Saturday, March 8, from 0 a. m. to noon and from 2 to> 5 p. m. there will be worlohops on registration and voting at the Y. The annual banquet will be held at the Y with Dr. Edward Odum, national NAACP church secretary from New York, speaking. Awards for meritor ious service will also be given at that time. There will be a special meet ing for lawyers from 4 to 6 p. m. Saturday at the Y. Simultaneous meetings of the Youth Council will i>e iield Fri day and Saturday with Lois Baldwin of Atlanta, regional youth secretaar. In charge. The state organization has a goal of 250,000 more Negro vot ers in North Carolina by 1960 (Please tum to page Eight) GREENSBORO Funeral services for Dr. Wal ter Hughes, well-known North Carolina physician who commit ted suicide at his home here Sun day night, were scheduled to be held Thursday at the BCatthews Methodist Church. - Guilford County coroner Dr. Allen B. Coggesiiall said the 62 year-old doctor slashed hia tiiroat. His body was discovered in ttie bathrbom of th^ two story residence by Ted Smith, wbo lived at the 734 PUrson street home which Or. Hu^ea used as his home and of He was psonotmcM dead up on arrival at L. Ricusi)«^J^^ morial hospital, wiiere iw wag taken after he was found. Dr.'Hti^ies* wiCe told investi gating police that he had threat- ened to taka his llCe on tw* previous occasions. It was r^ably reported that the general practitioner was suf fering from a serious illness. A native of Greepsboro, Hughes was the aon of a doctor. His two sons, the couple's only children, are also doctorK Hi graduated from Meharry Medical College in 1918 after completing his studies in tha public school system here. He worked for five years during the 1920’s for the U. S. Publlo Health Service and had been with the North Carolina Pubtie Hgalth Service from 1933 t0 1947. In 1947, he returned to Grens- tx>ro as a physician at Bennefi College, a post he held until 1961 when he returned to privnta practice. him at a testimonial dinner la State health workers honored Raleigh in 1956. Dr. Hughes is survived by Ud wife and their two sons, Waltec> of Kansas City, Mo., and De»> wuard of Philadelphia. Massive Resistance Brought Chaos To Virginia-Wilkins AOAM CLAyrON POWELL RICHMOND, VA Virginia’s program of “masive resistance” to school desegrega tion “has brought the state to the verge of chaos,” Roy WU- klnoi-executive secretary of tii® National Association for the Ad* vancement of Colored Pepple, declared here Friday in an ad dress at an NAACP meeting im the Mosque. The meeting was scheduled for the Mosque after the Virgin ia State General Assembly re fused to permit an NAACP ing of the House of Delegates— speaker to address an open mee(t- a privilege which previously had been extmndcd to a spokes man for the White Citizens Councils who made a bitter at tack upon the NAACP and upon Neg^roes genarally. Dissecting the yirginia plan Wlfl^ins declar^ that the com monwealth’s legislative defense o{ segregation as well as its legal actibils to that rad were doomed to failure. Already, he pointed out, a federal court has ruled three of five anti-NAACP stat utes unconstitutional and declar ed that the other two were “too vague in language to warrant a ruling at this time.” Moreover, he stated, in the a- rea of litigation the “massive re sistors” have faced defeat. “In Virginia, they haven’t won a single case in the federal courts. They have got exactly nowhere. The pupil placement law has been struck down. The opposi tion to law suits which sought desegregation orders from the courts has been of no avail.” Now that the courts have de>- mollshed the hastily erected leg- isaltive barriers to desegregation, the state, Wilkins warned, must either admit the failure of its “massive resistance” program and proceed with desegregation, 'or *‘lt must go forward to the de struction of' the public school system.” The interposition doctrine, ressurected by a Virginia editor, lias proved equally futile,. the NAACP leader asserted. This doctrine was laid to rest at Litt le Rock, he declared. “The Ijest testimony to the final death of interposition,” Wilkins continued, “is to be found in the laws now being en acted in several statee to close schools when and if fcxleral troops can be sent.” The legislative and Judicial at tacks upon the NAACP in Vir ginia and elsewtiere in the; South, the NAACP spokesman said, “are based on he erroneous as sumption that only the NAACP wants constitutional rights and that other Negro citizens are not interested. ’Therefore, the ar gument goes, if we can strike down the NAACP the movement win die. This will probably |o down in history as the greatest mistake in this whole controver sy. We are now almoai tour years past the time of the S«m preme Court decision of IW4.. In that time no important ment of the Negro populaUoa has said it was not intereirted and did not want thev deciidog| enforced.” Citing the South’s atempt t« discredit Integration because o4 JuvenUe delinquency in soma northern schools, Wilkins saldt “We do not excuse the behavior of some mlsguldad ami ill-prepared Negro citizens a«A teen-agers. We do not exeMm crime in anyone, white or hlacfci But, crime exists, whether it tan mbezzlement by a trusted aol lovable employee of a ScMciak. institution, as you had rao^Mt^ in Virginia, or the ^ 1# persons in cold blod hgr in Nebraska, or an asaaoil ky ^ New^York school boy. attack crime, not faM k>calities. We sbouU causec of eriuM. not i tte crintinaL
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