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€k Can H'TheTruth UnbrioEe5|] fciiitered as Hecond Class Matter at the Post Office at Durham, North Carolina, under Act of March 3, 1879. FOR 28 YEARS THE OUTSTANDING NEGRO WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINA i VOLUME 29—NUMBER 14 DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, APRIL 7th, 1951 PRICE: TEN CENTS Jo Baker Sheds Tears At Trenton Six Trial ★ ★★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★ ★ ★ Hampton Institute Coed Drowns In School Pool BODY OF HAMPTON STUDENT FOUND IN POOL AFTER CLASS Hampton, Va. — The body of a 19-year-old Hampton Institute sophomore, Miss Maria Falden, was found in the school’s swim ming pool last Tuesday morning , about 11:45 following her ad vanced swimming class, by her instructor Mrs. Iona Reynolds. Attempts were made by the Hampton Fire Department to revive Miss Falden with pul motor, but without results. Mrs. Reynolds reportedly noticed that the girl’s clothing , was still in her locker after oth er students had left, and she re turned to the pool to look for her. Her body was discovered ' in the deep end of the pool which is over nine feet deep. When notified of their daugh ter’s untimely death, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Falden of Richmond, were overcome with grief. Mrs. Falden suffered severe shock and required the care of a phy sieian. Her parents told of how Miss Falden had come home the pre vious week-end at the request of her mother just because her mother “wanted to see her.” They also told of how she had written letters, one of which was received the morning of the death, telling them of the pro gress she was making in her swimming class and how proud she was of being in the advanced class. Dr. Alonzo Moron, Hampton’s president, stated that “the whole campus is saddened by her death.” Final rites were held on Sun day afternoon from Fifth Street Baptist Church in Richmond. Six male members of the Hamp ton student body were pallbear ers. Twenty-two students accom panied the body from Hampton to Richmond. INTERNATIONAL DANCER HALTS TRIAL TO TALK WITH "SIX" Trenton, N. J. — The famed international show-woman, Miss Josephine Baker, paid a surprise visit to the trial of the “Trenton Six” here this week. Miss Baker’s appearance in the courtroom caused quite a stir of confusion among specta tors and newsmen. The fabulous dancer asked for and received permission to talk with the six Negroes who are being tried for the alleged murder of a storekeeper. Miss Baker talked with the men In private, during the ten minute recess granted them upon her request. Only she and the “Six” know everything that was said. She is reported to have told them to keep “hoping and praying” for relief of their burdens. She is said to have shaken hands with each of them. When the famed “Jo” made her exit from the room, there were tears streaming from her eyes. Again Josephine Baker per formed another deed; which more and more endear her in the hearts of her people. C. C. Spaulding Declines "First" On City Board Of Education Dr. C. C. Spaulding, president of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company here, this week declined nomination to the City Board of Education. Dr. Spaulding’s name was pre sented to the City Council by George Watts Carr, Jr. The Durham Committee on Negro Affairs had presented the name of J. H. Wheeler to serve on the Board, but the Council voted against him, 7-6, giving as their reason, his participation in the recent suit, which Negroes won against the Board of Edu cation for equal schools in Dur ham. In his declining letter, Dr. Spaulding wrote: “As much as I would like to serve my City in this capacity at this time, I deep ly regret to advise that I must decline this honor upon the ad vice of my physician. “It Is my opinion that I could not render to the people of Dur ham the kind of efficient ser vice which membership on the Board of Education would neces sitate at this time. In the fifty two years that I have lived in Durham and participated in the business, civic, educational, and religious life of the city, I have tried to select and train several young persons who are qualified to serve in almost any capacity. “It was my fondest hope that Mr. J. H. Wheeler would have been appointed to this position. I say this because I know of his qualifications, his ability to get along with people and to get them along with him. “I am sure you can also appre ciate the stage I am approaching in life and at the end of six years, I would be nearing my eighty-third anniversary, and I feel that what energy-1 have left should be spent in a more lei surely manner.” PTA School Meets In Greensboro ureensooro — me program has been completed for the first annual Parent-Teacher Associa tion Leadership School to be held at The Agricultural and Technical College on April 7th. P.-T. A. officers and advisers from all associations in Guilford and the surrounding counties have been invited to attend. Mrs. Bessie Rosa, Associate Professor of Home Economics at Woman’s College, will serve as consultant for the workshop and help with program planning. The parent-teacher movement will be represented by Miss Genevieve Burton, Field Secre tary of the N. C. Congress of Parents and Teachers; Mrs. D. M. Jarnigan, Executive Secre tary of the N. C. Colored Con gress of Parents and Teachers, and Mrs. C. E. Dean, President of the Seventh District. Representatives of schools and other educational programs will include Dr. F. D. Bluford, Presi dent of A. and T. College, Dr. S. E. Duncan, State Supervisor of Negro High Schools, Mrs. M. L. Woodson, State Supervisor of (Please turn to Page Eight) Former Shaw Prof. Succumbs In Va. Hospital Raleigh — former professor of education at Shaw University here, Brooks Dickens, succumb ed at Veterans Hospital in Hamp ton, Va., Tuesday, following a long illness. Prof. Dickens was a veteran of World War I and prior to his death was active in Legion acti vities. He is credited with hav ing set up a Post in Elizabeth City. During his lifetime, he taught at Shaw, Bennett College in Greensboro, and Elizabeth City Teachers’ College, and served as president of Miles Memorial Col lege in Birmingham, Ala. Final rites will be held Sun day afternoon from the Saint Lebanon Methodist Church in Elizabeth City at 2 o’clock. Seek To Bar Confessions From Trial Trenton — Efforts of defense counsel to exclude confessions made by five of the six men be ing tried here for the murder of an aged storekeeper continued this week as the prosecution sought |o disprove the defense contention that the confessions were extorted and accordingly inadmissible. Cross-examination today of Detective Captain Andrew F. Delate by defense counsel estab lished the fact that the defend ants had been held unduly long before arraignment. One who had been arrested on February 6, 1948, ten days after the murder, was not arraigned until February 11, along with four others who were arrested on February 7. The sixth man was arrested on February 11 and held for 36 hours of continuous questioning before arraignment. John McKenzie and Horace Wilson, two of the prisoners, are being defended by counsel re tained by the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Colored People. Raymond Pace Alexander of Philadelphia is chief counsel for the NAACP in this case. Associated with him are J. Mercer Burrell of Newark and Clifford B. Moore of Tren ton. The other four prisoners, Col lis English, Ralph Cooper, James Thorpe and McKinely Forrest, are being defended by other counsel. All save Wilson signed confessions which were used in the first trial to convict all of them. On appeal to the New Jer sey Supreme Court, the lower court decision was reversed and a new trial ordered. In the present trial defense counsel is trying desperately to elminate the confessions which, the defense contends, were ob tained under duress, psychologi cal and physical. Convictions based on such confessions have (Please turn to Page Eight) CHAIN MEETING The Durham Business and Professional Chain will meet Sunday at 5 p. m., at the Algonquin Clubhouse. Declined Refused Dr. C. C. Spaulding, president of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company who was this week nominated to the City Board of Education by un animous vote of the City Coun cil. Mr. Spaulding declined the nomination upon the advice of his physician. J. H. Wheeler, vice-president and cashier of the Mechanics and Farmers Bank here, whose name was submitted to the City Council as the Negro to be ap pointed to the City Board of Education. He was refused by a 7-6 vote of the Council on the grounds that he participated in the recent school suit filed by Negroes against the City Board for equal schools. Survey Shows Segregation In Housing Worse Above Mason Dixon Line Than In The South An on-the-spot check in ten l widely separated cities shows that racial and national minori ties are still generally segregated in northern as well as in south ern cities, despite the United States Supreme Court decision of 1948 holding that restrictive covenants are unenforceable. The findings of the survey are given in a new pamphlet “In These Ten Cities,” prepared by Alexander L. Crosby for the New York State Committee on Discrimination in Housing, and the Public Affairs Committee, 22 East 38th Street, New York City. The 30cent pamphlet, which is 32 pages long, is illustrated with photographs by Marion Palfi. “Segregation is too often identified with the south,” the foreword says. “Many northern cities enforce segregation more rigorously than the south does. The. nation’s largest ghettos, for example, are not in New Or leans or Atlanta, but in Chicago and New York. In New York City, where the housing authority is credited with good interracial policy, the pamphlet reports progress. In contrast Chicago and Detroit are characterized as “powder kegs,” where city administrations are keeping most Negroes and other minorities in the segregated areas, rather than opening up vacant land sities in outlying white areas. As a result, the pamphlet says, racial tensions are growing as housing conges tion becomes greater. In Chicago, “Negro housing is concentrated far more rigidly than in southern cities. In the past decade the Negro popula tion has soared past 400,000, an increase of close to 45 per cent as against 6 per cent for whites. The new arrivals have been wedged into the old slums.” In Detroit, where the race question has been an acknowl edged political issue since the (Please turn to Page Eight) DOING GOOD DEEDS Pictured above are members of the Chapel Hill Brownie troop who distributed Easter Baskets among several dozen aged per sons in the community. Their mmmmsmmm » .wiiMiMfcrjw) Den Mother is pictured at the left; center is the Reverend J. R. Manley, whose church sponsors the troop, and top left, Mrs. Lu i «* ’ cille Caldwell, director of the Community Center, who organ ized the troop last Fall. — News Service Photo. NCC Host To Adult Education Conference The ninth annual conference on Adult Education and the Ne gro will meet at North Carolina College here April 18-21. Sessions open in Duke Audi torium Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock with a public meeting. Dr. Alain Locke, professor of phiosophy, Howard University, Washington, D. C., will deliver the keynote speech on the theme, “Challenging Adult Education.” Dr. Locke, who was the nation’s first Negro Rhodes scholar, is a member of the editorial board of “The American Scholar,” of ficial organ of Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary scholarship organization. Following Wednesday eve ning’s opening meeting, sessions will be held in Duke Auditorium throughout the day on Thursday and Friday. Dr. Edward Brice, president of the conference and director of extension at South Carolina State College, Orangeburg, will preside at the opening of the conference. Formal registration starts in the lobby in Duke Auditorium Thursday morning at 9 a. m. Highlighting Thursday’s ses sions will be a panel on the sub ject, “The Challenge of Adult Education.” E. F. Purvis, Gramb ling College, will preside. Participants include: Dr. S. E. Duncan, state supervisor of sec ondary schools, Raleigh; Miss Diana S. Dent, chairman, home economics department, NCC; R. D. Russell, counsellor, NCC; and Mrs. Minnie Ruth Woodson, state supervisor, elementary educa tion, Raleigh. John Mitchell, field agent of the State Extension Service, heads a symposium at two o’clock Thursday afternoon on the topic, “How the States are meeting the challenges of Adult Education.” Discussants are: S. W. Warren, assistant veteran’s supervisor, A. and T. College, Greensboro; E. F. Purvis, di rector of extension, Grambling College, La.; Dr. Edward Brice, director extension, State College, Orangeburg, S. C.; Albert Har ris, director of extension, State College, Ettrick, Va.; William Rawlings, City School Board Of fice, Maryland; W. V. Harper, A. and I. College, Nashville, Tenn.; and Annie L. McPheeters, Car negie Library, Atlanta, Ga. Raleigh Doctor Named To Post Raleigh — Dr. L. E. Mc Cauley, well-known physician of long standing here, was nam ed to the State Selective Service System’s Volunteer Medical Ad visory Committee this week by Dr. George W. Paschal, Jr., chairman of the committee. The State group, with sub committees in the counties, work in an advisory capacity with the various reserve corps and assists State and local draft boards in procuring dentists, doctors, veterinarians and other medical personnel. The Volunteer Medical Ad visory Committee was establish ed last Fall under Public Law 779 of the 82nd Congress. Dr. McCauley becomes the first Negro appointed to this group, Irustees Vote to Admit Negroes At Greater University; Appeal Case To U. S. Supreme Court ms Raleigh — Trustees of the University of North Carolina voted on Wednesday afternoon, 61-15, to admit “qualified” Ne groes to the graduate and pro fessional schools of the Universi , ty, provided separate facilities are not provided for them by State-supported Negro schools. ^ The action of the Trustees fol lows the decision handed down by Federal Circuit Court of Ap peals judges in Richmond, Vir ginia, last month that the law school provided for Negroes at the North Carolina College at Durham was clearly inferior to that provided by white students at the Greater University in Chapel Hill. The decision rev ersed the one handed down by Judge Johnson J. Hayes of the District Court. The group, urged by President Gordon Gray of the University, also voted to appeal the Circuit Court’s decision to the United States Supreme Court, “even though it may seem absurd and foolish,” said Robert Parker. Former speaker of the House of Representatives, John Kerr, con tended that the people of North Carolina are not ready for un segregated education, and would not understand the action of the Trustees, without their making a “last ditch battle.” The State has a period of ninety days from the time of the Circuit Court’s ruling, to file its appeal to the Supreme Court. Should the nation’s highest court, refuse to hear the case, tile decision of the Circuit Court becomes final. Officials of the Consolidated University contend that ap plications of Negroes would be processed “without regard to race or color.” They said that those persons making applica tion would have to meet “the approved rules and standards” of the school to which he is ap plying. NAACP Sees In UNC Victory End Of Jim Crow Lew Schools New York—The United States Court of Appeals ruling ordering the admission of qualified Negro applicants to the law school of the University of North Caro lina was interpreted this week by attorneys for the National As sociation for the Advancement of Colored People as the virtual' end of segregated law schools in this country. Robert L. Carter, NAACP as sistant special counsel who par ticipated in the argument of the case on March 15, noted that the North Carolina College for Ne groes, which the Appeals Court called “clearly inferior” to the University of North Carolina has one of the oldest segregated state law schools in the country. “If this long-established law school could not meet the stand ards of equality guaranteed un der the Fourteenth Amend ment,” Mr. Carter said, “it is impossible to see how any new ly-devised law school for Ne groes could meet those stand ards. Accordingly, should the U. S. Supreme Court sustain the Appellate Court if the decision is appealed, we have definitely seen the end of segregated law schools.” In their decision ordering the admission of Floyd B. McKis sick, Solomon Revis, J. Kenneth Lee, and other qualified Negro students to the 157-year-old Uni versity, Circuit Judges Morris A. Soper and Armistead Dobie and District Judge Harry E. Watkins declared: “Our examin ation of the undisputed facts of the case convinces us that the Negro school is clearly inferior to the white, and the judgment must, therefore, be reversed in accordance with the decision in Sweatt vs. Painter. . .which was rendered prior to the trial of the pending case in the District Court.” NAACP attorneys who parti cipated in the case along with Mr. Carter are Conrad O. Pear son of Durham and Special Counsel Thurgood Marshall of New York. LENA HORNE MAY RE CALLED "COMMIE" BY UNAMERICAN ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE Succumbs ■■.wX'-w',.v.v.5v.'.vav.;. ■xviVlv.vyii.ywJoflBOOOWBaBMBBHBwBwBBBBBBraHHB The funeral of Mrs. Jessie Davis was held, Sunday at 1:30 p. m., at Saint Mark A. M. E. Zion Church. The Reverend S. P. Perry, pastor officiated. Mrs. Davis died at her home here, 413 Cozart Street, Wednesday, March 28, following an illness of six months. Mrs. Davis was born in Tim monsville, S. C., the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Russell. About 25 years ago she moved to Durham. For about 20 years she was employed at the Model Laundry here. Surviving are two sisters and two brothers. The sisters are, Mrs. Charlotte Bland, New York; Miss Nora Russell of Eos Angeles (CNS) — When Larry Parks, movie star, con fessed to the Senate Committee on Un-American Activities that he was a Communist until 1943, he was so closely questioned that been subpoenaed to appear be fore the Committee to testify. One of the stars, not yet sub poenated, was Lena Horne. Parks insists he left the party in 1943. Yet Senator Jack Ten ney’s Committee insists that in 1948 at a Beverly Hills dinner for the “Hollywood Ten” Parks was a prominent figure. The “Hollywood Ten” was a film group which refused to say whether or not they were Com munists and were convicted of contempt and sent to prison af ter a long and costly legal bat tle. Parks also is accused of speak ing at a Los Angeles rally spon sored by the Progressive Citizens Committee in honor of the “Holly Ten.” Others, listed as sponsors on the handbill were actors John Garfield, Edward G. Robinson, Richard Conte, Paul Henried and actresses Betty Garrett (Park’s wife), Ann Revere and Lena Horne. A number of these sponsors have been called to testify since. Durham. The brothers are, Jo seph Russell, Durham and Wil lie Russell also of Durham. Interment was at Beechwood Cemetery.
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