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IE OUTSTANDING NEGRO WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS
VOLUME 29—NUMBER 8
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, FEB. 24th, 1951
PRICE: 10 CENTS
Governor Scott Denies
UNC STALLING ON ADMITTING NEGROES
Bias Found In
Trials For
Negro Troops
New York — Special Counsel
Thurgood Marshall of the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People
was scheduled to return to
Tokyo this week after spending
eight days in Korea, conferring
with servicemen and officials of
the Far East Command in Tae
gu, Suwan, Pusan, Kumhae,
and the rear and forward head
quarters of the 24th Infantry
Regiment.
In a communication received
today at the NAACP national
office, Mr. Marshall reported
that he left Haneeda Air Base in
Tokyo for Korea on Sunday
morning, February 4, with a
party composed of the Deputy
Inspector General of the Far
East Command, Colonel D. D.
Martin, another full colonel and
two lieutenant colonels, the
Deputy Judge Advocate Gen
eral, and two male stenograph
ers. On arriving in Taegu, the
party was met by the inspector
general of the Eighth Army and
taken to headquarters for a spe
cial briefing on tactical battle
positions as that day, and for
conferences with the staff of the
inspector general and the chief
of staff for the Eighth Army.
Mr. Marshall, Col. Martin and
another officer went on to the
headquarters of the 25th Divis
ion, leaving the remainder of
the party in Taegu to take state
ments from all of the enlisted
men and officers in cases being
handled by the NAACP. Mr.
Marshall conferred with Gen
eral Bradley, Major General
Milburn, and staff officers at
Division Headquarters.
From Suwan, the NAACP
counsel proceeded to rear head
quarters of the 24th Infantry,
and to the forward headquar
ters, directly behind the front
lines, where he saw the regi
ment’s cojnraanding officer,
Colonel Colby. At the rear head
quarters he checked records of
and conferred with defense
counsel for all the court-martial
cases with which the NAACP is
concerned. Later he proceeded
by jeep to Kumhae, where he
checked other court-marital
records.
“Only two white GIs convict
ed of mis-behavior before the
enemy and given five and thrpe
years sentences whereas 23 Ne
groes convicted with one death
and 15 life sentences.
Investigations in Korea and
Japan indicate Negro soldiers
were convicted in atmosphere
making justice impossible.
Their counsel had not time to
prepare defense of men who
were rushed from foxholes to
courts marital.
Four men sentenced to life
had trials of less than 50 min
utes each. Despite courts martial
and unsympathetic white of
ficers. Twenty-fourth Infantry is
once again doing great job on
the front line.
Findings and recommenda
tions submitted to MacArthur
Saturday.”
In his memorandum, Mr.
Marshall expressed his intention
“to go all the way up and talk
to the men on the line” before
uled to return to this country
returning to Tokyo. He is sched
about February 22, landing at
San Francisco. En route to New
York, he will address a series of
mass meetings arranged by lo
cal branches of the NAACP.
Dr. J. S. Wright1
To Speak At
Library Forum
Dr. Stephen J. Wright dean of
faculty at Hampton Institute,
will be the speaker at the San
ford L. Warren Library’s Book
Review Forum, Monday night,
February 26, at 8 o’clock.
The topic announced for Dr.
Wright is “How Democratic Are
Our Schools?” Mrs. R. N. Moore,
librarian, will preside at the
forum.
Dr. Wright, who is one of the
nation’s outstanding younger
educators, is a former member
of the faculty at North Carolina
College. A large crowd is ex
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N. C. College Prexy
Wants 7 Million To Halt
Dr. Alfonso Elder, president
of North Carolina College at
Durham, who told the 1951 Gen
eral Assembly last week that he
could equalize educational op
portunities for Negroes in all
“areas in which the North Caro
lina College at Durham is char
tered for 7 million. The College
is “authorized and empowered
to establish — graduate courses
in the Liberal Arts field” and
professional courses in any field
for which there is a demand.
First Area Meet
Of Alumni To Be
Held March 2-3
The first annual meeting of
the Fourth Area Alumni Asso
ciation, which is comprised of
colleges of North and South
Carolina, will be held at North
Carolina College on March 2nd
and 3rd, according to an an
nouncement by J. D. Marshall,
president. It is expected that all
Alumni Associations in the area
will send representatives.
The theme of the meeting will
be, “What Can We Do To In
crease Membership in the Area
and National Alumni Associa
tion?” Participating on the pro
gram will be Doctor A. Elder,
president of North Carolina Col
lege, who will deliver the prin
ciple address Friday, March 2,
at 8:00 p. m. Doctor Elder will
be introduced by Asa T. Spauld
ing, president of the North Car
olina College Alumni Associa
tion. Greetings will be extended
by Doctor J. M. Hubbard, mem
ber of the Board of Trustees,
and a response given by Mrs.
L. M. Turner, president of Eliz
abeth City State Teachers Col
lege Alumni Association. Fol
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Dr. C. C. Spaulding’s Guidepost Article
Fourth Among Winners Of Freedom
Foundation Award For 1950
By FRANK BROWER
Dr. C. C. Spaulding, president
of North Carolina Mutual Life
Insurance Company, a fourth
place winner in the Magazine
Article category among the
$100,000 Award winners for
1950, it was announced this
week by Gen. Omar N. Bradley
and the Freedom’s Foundation.
This award was given for Dr.
Spaulding’s Guideposts Maz
azine article of March 1950 tell
ing of opportunities in America
entitled “The Land of the Free.”
Freedom’s Foundation at
Valley Forge, 45 minutes by
taxi from Philadelphia, is dedi
cated to the fundamental prin
cipal that freedom belongs to all
the people, and that only by the
thoughts and acts of their every
day lives can the American peo
ple preserve and extend their
freedom to “speak up for free
dom” and to reward them for so
doing.
Not being boastful but mere
ly showing opportunities in our
nation, Dr. Spaulding wrote, in
his winning article, of a boy
who was born one of 13 chil
dren of a slave father on a small
cotton farm some 76 years ago
to become a man in the South
lands with faith to help him in 1
relationships with people, and!
the Bible to help in working out -
tough problems i*nd last but?
not least, how an idea and'“hus
tle” added. *n those made this
same boy nd van president of
a life iu. ” m e company that
has about $±‘i0 million worth of
insurance in force, a bank with
$5 million in resources, director
of a bonding company, a build
ing loan association, a fire in
surance company, invitee to
White House conferences, trus
tee of several universities, and
chairman of the board of a large
hospital, all with an 8th grade
education secured after his ma
turity in America.
True Story Impossible
In Russia
Dr. Spaulding wrote that
“these statistics were only to
show what can happen to a sup
posedly underprivileged Negro,
not in Russia, but right here in
America in the heart of the
Southland where members of
my race allegedly have the least
chance to become sucessful,”
A first place winner, in the
General Awards category, the
National Committee For A Free
Europe, with headquarters in
New York, won its award for its
“Crusade For Freedom” pro
gram, a fervent national cam
paign of truth to blast false Rus
sian propaganda, to demonstrate
true aims of freedom for all peo
ple, and to defy Communism be
hind the iron curtain.
Dr. Spaulding not only won
a fourth place berth outright, he
participated as guest speaker in
a first place winner, The Boy
Scouts of America’s Interna
tional Jamboree at Valley Forge
(where these awards will be
given this month and next) last
July with the theme “Strengt
ening the Arm of Liberty.”
Distinguished Awards Jury
The award recipients were
chosen by a distinguished a
wards jury composed of State
Supreme Court Jurists and ex
ecutive officers of national
patriotic and service organi
zations. The jury composed of
19 members, spent two weeks at
the Foundation headquarters in
January selecting the award
winners, under the chairman
ship of Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower
President of Pennsylvania State
College.
The jury’s selections were
made from nominations submit
ted by the general public. More
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Honored
Dr. C. C. Spaulding, president
of North Carolina Mutual Life
Insurance Company, who has
been awarded fourth place in
the Magazine Article category,
by the Freedoms Foundation
for 1950, for his article entitled
“The Land of the Free.”
Government Ends
Negro Health
Week Plan
^Federal Security Administra
tor Oscar R. Ewing announced
today the termination of the
National Negro Health Week
Movement, an educational pro
gram which has been conducted
specifically for the Negro popu
lation in the United States.
Since 1932, the program has
been sponsored and directed by
the Public Health Service. Co
sponsors have been Tuskegee
Institute, Howard University,
the National Medical Associa
tion, and the National Negro
Insurance Association.
Mr. Ewing said that the term
ination of a special program for
Negro health is “in keeping
with the trend toward integra
tion of all programs for the ad
vancement of the people in the
fundamentals of health, educa
tion, and welfare.”
Dr. Roscoe C. Brown and
other personnel of the Division
of Public Health Education,
Public Health Service, wdl con
tinue to give consultative ser
vice to Negro groups in their
communities, Surgeon General
Leonard A. Scheele of the Pub
lic Health Service explained.
The Special Programs Branch,
formerly the Office of Negro
Health Work, will continue to
serve as a clearing house of in
formation on State and com
munity health programs, health
education materials, and pro
grams available for Negro
groups, Dr. Scheele said. Any
Agency or group of citizens de
siring such services should
write to the Division of Public
Health Education, Special pro
grams Branch, Public Health
Service, Washington 25, D. C.
In 1930, the Annual Health
Week Conference passed a reso
lution establishing the program
on a year-round basis and
changing the name to the Nat
ional Negro Health Movement.
Health Week, however, continu
ed to be observed. An executive
committee, composed of a rep
resentative from each of the
sponsoring agancies, was form
ed to plan the program and ac
tivities. From 1932 to 1950, the
Public Health Service support
ed the National Negro Health
Movement, supplying staff, fa
cilities, and materials for Na
tion-wide activities recommend
ed by the executive committee.
Raleigh—Dr. Alfonso Elder,
president of North Carolina Col
lege at Durham, promised the
North Carolina General Assem
ly last week that equal educa
tional facilities for Negroes
could be furnished in all areas
which the college is chartered to
operate for $7 million.
The charter of North Carolina
College gives the school the
right to set up any graduate
or professional course for which
there is a demand.
Dr. Elder did not explain how
he would be able to establish at
North Carolina College schools
of medicine, dentistry and
pharmacy on an equal basis with
that at the University of North
Carolina with only $7 million.
The 1947-49 legislature ap
propriated over $19 million for
permanent improvements at
Chapel Hill the largest outlay of
which went for erection of a
teaching hospital, school of den
tistry, school of nursing and re
sidence halls for staff physicians
and nurses, alone, at UNC.
Dr. Elder also asked the Joint
Appropriations Committee for
some $1,690,102 to run the
school for the next two years.
The Durham educator made
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Trustees Fail To Act On
Application Of Four Negroes
For Entrance To Med. School
Director
E. W. Green, assistant District
Manager of the North Carolina
Mutual Life Insurance Comp
any, who will head the Negro
Division of the 1951 Red Cross
Campaign in Durham. Working
with Mr. Green as co-chairman
is F. Howard Alston, Dean of
Boys at Hillside High School.
Local Bank Gets
Certificate For
$10,000 Coverage
C. C. Spaulding, president of
the Mechanics and Farmers
Bank, today announced receipt
from the Federal Deposit Insur
ance Corporation, Washington,
D. C. of a new certificate of
membership giving effect to the
recent increase in insurance cov
erage to $10,000. The mechanics
and Farmers Bank has been a
member of FDIC since 1934.
Spaulding pointed out that
this insurance does not cost de
positors of the bank a single
penny. The surplus of Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation
which now exceeds $1,300,000,
000, in addition to all deposit
insurance losses and operating
expenses of the Corporation has
been paid in by the 1?;,650 in
sured banks of the Nation in the
form of annual assessments bas
ed on their total deposits.
“‘Under the leadership of its
Chairman, Maple T. Harl, and
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Sanford Woman Charges
Conditions Deplorable In
Schools Under Prof. Wicker
EDITOR’S NOTE: Publish
ed below is a statement ad
dressed to the citizens of Lee
County by Miss Willie B.
Newton, Sanford businesswo
man, in reply to a letter pub
lished in the Sanford Herald
of February 19 by the Rev.
C. V. Flack, in which the lat
ter charged that accusations
brought against Prof. W. B.
Wicker, principal of Lee
County Training School, in a
letter addressed to J. J.
Lentz, Superintendent of
School were unwarranted. A
copy of the letter to Mr.
Lentz was also published in
the February 17 issue of the
Carolina Times. This week’s
letter and its predecessor
have been published in these
columns in keeping with our
policy of freedom of speech,
and does not mean that the
Carolina Times agrees or dis
agrees with the contents of
either or both. The opinion of
this newspaper on this very
pertinent question of Negro
schools in Lee County is ex
pressed on the editorial page
in this week’s issue of this
newspaper.
To The Citizens of Lee County
In reply to the letter address
ed to the editor of the SAN
FORD. HEARLD of February
19, 1951, endorsing and defend
ing Prof. W. B. Wicker, I would
like to make the following re
ply:
What has Prof. Wicker done
specifically to improve the con
ditions of Negroes in Lee Coun
ty during his 28 years of ser
vice? The Lee County School is
one of the most overcrowded in
the State and has been for a
number of years. The classrooms
are so overcrowded, that stu
dents don’t even have places to
sit comfortably.
The auditorium in the school
is so small that it will barely
seat one-third of the students at
tending school there. The gym
nasium is an eyesore to the
whole campus. The parents and
students have even been forced
to raise money for showers in
the gymnasium when they
should have been furnished out
of county or state school funds.
At the Elementary School
there is also an overcrowded
condition with no playground
equipment on the campus at all.
Compare this with playgrounds
at white elementary schools and
note the great difference.
Out of the pockets of under
paid and underpriviledged Ne
groes over $2,000 was recently
raised for a lunch room, when
the same should have been fur
nished from public funds. At the
time we were advised by this
great leader, Prof. Wicker, that
it was the only way of obtaining
a lunch room for our children.
In Lee County some children
have to walk from one to three
miles to catch a school bus,
while others are forced to go to
neighboring counties because
they have too far to walk to get
a bus for Lee County School.
When one parent requested that
the school bus be routed near
her home she was told that she
would have to get a load of at
least 100 pupils. The parent is
now sending her child to a
neighboring county school.
During the month it has been
reported that some of the teach
ers of the Veterans Administra
tion have consistently worked
an a new brick house near the
Lee County School building.
Has the Federal Government got
to the place that it hires teachers
to erect buildings for private
citizens?
Under Prof. Wicker’s admin
istration as principal the parents
of the children have been forced
to raise money to aid in the pur
chase of buses for the school.
Does being a good community
leader mean that a man has to
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White Soldier Says
Non-Bias In
Army Successful
Fort Jackson, S. C. — In an
article appearing in the Sanford
Herald, Monday, February 19,
Private Mann, white soldier
stationed at Fort Jackson gives
the following interesting ac
count of the new non-segrega
tion policy of the United States
Army now being enforced:
“Another feature of the new
army which is at least a surprise
to the southern draftee is the
complete abolishing of segrega
tion. To many boys from the
deep south the lack of segrega
tion of races in training units
comes as a shock at first.
“The army in its training and
combat units has flow complete
ly disregarded the so-called
color line. White and colored
troops share the same barracks,
mess halls and all other facili
ties of the army post. Both white
and Negro officers are used in
training companies as are non
commissioned officers of both
races.
Most of us from Lee County
who were inducted and sent to
Fort Meade for processing
thought that things would con
tinue to go on just as they had
in the past. At the processing
center the old segregation rule
was followed and Negro troops
were placed in separate com
panies.
When I arrived at Fort Jack
son however I found a new or
der of things. In the company to
which I am now attached there
are two Negro platoon leaders
who are commissioned officers
and two who are white men.
The company’s first sergeant is
an Apache Indian and his assist
ant is a Negro. There are also
several other Negro non-com
missioned officers in the com
pany.
One of the platoon sergeants
who happened to be a white
man from Georgia says that he
believes the training of Negro
and white troops together is a
good idea. This man who has
had 20 years service in the army
says he believes that both Ne
gro and white men learn faster
under the present set up.
It was also pointed out to me
by another non-commissioned
officer that the new system of
mixing white and colored troops
does away with the possibility
of riots between units of differ
ent races. This man said that in
the past it has not been uncom
mon for a company of white
troops and a company of colored
troops to engage in a mass fight.
The new set-up will put a stop
to such disorder he believes.
One of the most unusual dis
coveries I made in asking a few
questions concerning this new
set-up in the army was that very
few southern white soldiers ac
tually object to being quartered
with Negro soldiers. I have ask
ed several men about this and
almost all of them said that they
did not object in the slightest.
The nearest I have heard a
southerner come to complaining
about the new system is when
one says, “I’m not crazy about
it but I certainly am not going
to kick about it and I’m going to
try to get along with everybody
in the barracks, white or col
ored.”
Father Of Eight
Slays Wife
Fayetteville — A 36-year-old
farmer, Atlas Gay of Bladen
County, is being held in jail in
Elizabethtown following the
slaying of his pregnant wife,
Mrs. Cora Lee Gay, mother of
eight children. According to
Cumberland County authorities,
the slaying occured Sunday aft
ernoon about 5:30 o’clock near
the county line, when Gay, his
wife and children had returned
home from a ride.
George Edward, 10-year-old
Gay son, said that when they got
home, his father jumped out of
the car, ran into the house, re
turned with his shotgun and:
shot his wife as she sat in the ►
front seat of the vehicle. f
When officers reached the
scene of the slaying, they found
Mrs. Gay with the side of her
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RALEIGH
Trustees of t he University
are “stalling for time” in the
cases of Negroes seeking admis
sion to graduate and profession
al schools of various units of
the Greater University.
This statement was made here
this week by a member of the
trustee board. This trustee, who
fs a member of the Legislature,
is described by intimates as
“extremely close to the situa
tion at Chapel Hill.” In a state
ment at a news conference here
Tuesday, Governor Scott denied
that officials of the University
were evading a decision on the
question.
No action was reported after
a trustee meeting here Monday
when the case of four Negro ap
plicants for the University Med
ical School was expected to re
ceive action.
The Times’ informant said
^‘considerable apprehension”
exists among board members re
garding the appeal of four Neg
ro students at North Carolina
College Law School. The Negro
students were denied their pet
ltion to enter the UNC Law
School, last Summer by Federal
Judge Johnson J. Hayes. The
judge ruled that N. C. C.’s faci
lities are in some respects “su
perior” to those at UNC.
The Law School appeal will
be heard before a three-judge
court in Richmond, Va., on
March 17.
Since the Law School appeal
other Negro students have ap
plied to the UNC Medical School
University officials have ad
mitted “processing” the applica
tions of these Negro students.
Only one of the four Negro
students applying to the medi
cal school has been positively
identified. He is Albert Whita
ker of Raleigh, a science teach
er at Washington High School.
The Times has learned, how
ever, that Negro applicants
from Raleigh, Henderson, and
possibly Wake Forest, have sub
mitted applications to Chapel
Hill.
It was learned in Chapel Hill
last week that “several Ne
groes”” had been interviewed
by the Admissions Committee of
the UNC Medical School.
A Chapel Hill source close to
the UNC Medical school recent
ly “Three of the four Negro stu
dents, have already been turned
down.” This report has not been
verified.
/ In Raleigh, newsmen who
talked with UNC students who
had expected to be “raked over
the coals for their pro-Negro
and anti-segregation attitudes”,
said they were “convinced Ne
groes could be admitted to the
university without incidents.”
The attitude of students in
Chapel Hill has been, generally,
favorable to the admission of
Negroes to graduate and pro
fessional schools.
Whether Negroes figure into
the considerations or not, the
trustees recently proposed to
hike tuition in the schools of
medicine, dentistry, public
health, pharmacy, and nursing.
In the medical school, the tui
tion raised for in-state student a
was figured at $210.50; dentist
ry, $216.55; public health, $200;
pharmacy, $75; school of nurs
ing, $233. Such increases would
greatly advance the university’s
standing among the nation’s
(state-supported institutions.
One of the trustees scoffed at
the idea that the raises were
“purely deterrents to keep Ne
groes out.” “We recognize,” this
trustee said, “that a few Negroes
here and there could enter.” He
added, however, that “The real
reason for the increase in tui
tion is the economy bloc in the
Legislature who put material,
considerations above the wel
fare of the people of our State.”
L. E. Austin of Durham, pub
lisher of the Carolina Times and
president of the State Interde
nominational Ushers’ Union,
promptly issued a statement
when he learned of the propos
ed in the university’s services.”
As badly informed as some of
our good white people are, I am
sure they are raising fees more
out of the ignorance of the
state’s needs and the difference
of the State’s welfare than they
are out of the hope of keeping
Negroes out of the university. In
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Asks 7 Million