Cbe Car«
University of N C
Library
PTheTrutm Unbridle p"
RS THE OUTSTANDING WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS
Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Durham, North Carolina, under Act of March 3, 1879.
VOLUME 29—NUMBER 25
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, JUNE 23rd, 1951
PRICE: TEN CENTS
Anti NAACP Yam Backfires
NO DISCORD IN STATE RANKS NAACP
State NAACP Group At Spring Hope
Delegation attending Eighth
Annual North Carolina Confer
ence of NAACP Branches, at
Spring Hope, June 7-8.
Some of the officials shown in
the picture are: Front row kneel
ing from left to right—Kelly M.
Alexander, President, North
Carolina NAACP; W. R. Saxon,
Asheville, Assistant Recording
Secretary; Charles McLean,
Winston-Salem; Reverend T. H.
Wooten, member of Executive
Board, Lumberton; T, V. Man
gum, President, Statesville
Branch; N. L. Gregg, Treasurer,
North Carolina NAACP, Greens
boro.
Second Row—Standing, W. C.
Chance, Parmeiee, member of
Executive Board; Mrs. Margaret
Bennett, Youth Director, Can
dor; J. H. R. Gleaves, Winston
Salem; Mrs. Sarah Chestnut,
President, Cumberland County
Branch, Fayetteville.
Mrs. Bernice Norwood Nap
per, Field Secretary, NAACP,
New York City; Rev. J. J. John
son, Secretary, North Carolina
NAACP, Laurinburg; Rev. A. D.
Owens, Vice-President, Reids
ville; Mrs. L. B. Michael, Ashe
ville, members of the Board;
Miss Arcelvia Spivey, Spring
Hope; J. B. Harren, Rocky
Mount, member of Executive
Board.
Distinguished Service Cross
Awarded To Lieutenant
Ellison Wynn For Heroism
HEADQUARTERS
EIGHTH UNITED STATES
ARMY KOREA (EUSAK)
OFFICE OF THE
COMMANDING
GENERAL
APO 301
19 April 1951
Section
I (of four sections)
GENERAL ORDERS
NUMBER 221
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
CROSS * * * * AWARD
. I. AWARD OF THE DISTING
■* UISHED SERVICE CROSS—By
direction of the President under
the provisions of the Act of Con
gress approved 9 July 1918 (WD
Bil 43, 1918) and persuant to
authority contained in AR 600
45, the Distinguished Service
Cross, for extraordinary hero
ism in action, is awarded in the
name of the Commander-in
Chief, Far East, to the following
named officer:
First Lieutenant Ellison C.
Wynn, 01303423, Infantry, Unit
ed States Army Lt. Wynn, Com
pany B, 9th Infantry Regiment,
2nd Infantry Division, disting
uished himself by extraordinary
heroism in action against the en
emy near Kunu-ri, Korea, on 25
November 1950, Company B was
attacking a hill consisting of
three knolls occupied by the en
emy. As each knoll fell under
the company’s relentless attack,
the enemy withdrew until they
were in considerable force when
the attack on the last knoll was
made.
During the attack on this knoll
the company commander was
wounded and Lt. Wynn assum
ing command, led his troops in
the final assault and routed the
enemy. While preparing to per
sue the retreating forces, an esti
mate two companies of enemy
counter-attacked from an ad
jacent hill. During this fierce
counter-attack, the machine gun
section with Lt. Wynn was
knocked out and the gunner and
his assistant was killed. Remain
ing alone on the hill, Lt. Wynn
held off the enemy by throwing
hand grenades until his men
joined him in defending the po
sition.
Although bleeding profusely
from wounds he had received,
he staunchly directed the de
fense of his position until the
battalion commander ordered a
withdrawal. The resolute lead
ership, ingenuity and extrordin
ary courage displayed by Lt.
Wynn reflect great credit on
himself and are in keeping with
the highest traditions of the mili
tary service. Entered the fed
(Please turn to Page Eight)
V
IMPORTANT
The Durham Chapter of
the NCC Alumni Ass’n.
will meet at the Algon
quin Tennis Club, Tues
day at 8 p. m. URGENT
BUSINESS.
Representation On
Chapel Hill Educ.
Board Sought
Chapel Hill — The names of
three prominent Chapel Hill men
have been submitted to Mayor
Edwin S. Lanier requesting ap
pointment of a Negro to the
Chapel Hill School Board by the
Negro Civic Club.
The Civic Club listed the
names of Kenneth Jones, Dr.
Charles W. Thompson and Rev.
J. R. Manley as possible ap
pointees to the Board which will
elect two members at its meet-,
ing here Monday night, to sue-'
ceed two retiring members.
The letter, signed by Civic
Club president, James T. Snipes
and its secretary, Howard Fitts,
stated that the group feels ....
“that this is an opportunity to
apply the principles of demo
cracy for which our country is
now mobilizing. That is, that all
groups and segments of a com
munity should have representa
tion on bodies that plan for and
set policies affecting the com
munity. We feel that such de
mocratic representation can
mean a great deal to the pro
gress of our community as well
as to prevent misunderstandings
and strife.”
Kenneth Jones is a local busi
nessman; Dr. Thompson is a
physician and vice-president of
the Council on Negro Affairs;
and Rev. Manley is president of
the Council of Negro Affairs. All
three have agreed to serve if
elected to the Board.
Aldermen and members of the
School Board all received copies
of the letter.
Refused By UNC
Miss Gwendolyn L. Harrison
of Kinston, who was refused per
mission to register at the Uni
versity of North Carolina, re
reads the letter from Dean
Katherine Carmichael assigning
her a dormitory room.
TRUSTEES OPPOSE
PHD COURSES AT NCC
Dr. Elder Bans
UNC Move At
Local College
President Alfonso Elder and
the trustees of the North Caro
lina College at Durham turned
thumbs down on a proposal to
expand the College’s graduate
school to offer Ph. D. work at
a meeting here last week.
Adoption of the proposal
would have stymied the efforts
of Negro graduate students to
enter the 162 year old Universi
ty of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill.
President Elder explained the
(Please turn to Page Eight)
Masonic Lodges To
Observe St. John’s
Day Here Suntlay
Masonic Lodges 28 and 460
will participate with Mt. Sinai
Chapter, order of' the Eastern
Star, in the observance of Saint
John’s Day on Sunday, June 24,
at 3 p. m., at White Rock Bap
tist Church.
Dr. George D. Carnes of Char
lotte, Grand Master of North
Carolina, will serve as guest
speaker. He will be introduced
by Brother W. A. Clement, Wor
shipful Master of Lodge 28. Bro
ther J. P. Morgan, Worshipful
Master of Lodge 460, will give a
brief history of Masonry.
Music for the occasion wlil be
furnished by the Mount Calvary
Male Chorus of Durham.
The proceeds from the pro
gram will go toward the support
of the Oxford Colored Orphan
age.
Dr. C. C. Spaulding Gets 1951 Page
One Award; Cong. Dawson To Speak
Announcement was made this
week by the Durham Press Club
that Dr. C. C. Spaulding has
been chosen as the winner of its
1951 “Page One Award.” *
The award is given annually
to the person in North Carolina
who, in the judgement of a spe
cial committee of the Club, has
made the greatest contribution
for the year toward the advance
ment of the race in the State
along all lines. The club gives
a gold press card award to the
person outside of the State who
has made a similar contribution
nationally.
The presentation program
this year will be held in the
auditorium of the Hillside High
School on Friday evening, July
27 at which time Congressman
W. L. Dawson of the First Con
gressional District of Illinois,
will deliver the presentation ad
dress.
The “Gold Press Card Award”
will also be presented Congress
man Dawson in recognition of
his distinct service in the U. S.
House of Representatives.
Last year the “Page One
Award” was won jointly by At
torneys J. H. Wheeler and M. H.
Thompson.
Judge William H. Hastie of
New York, judge of the U. S.
Circuit Court of Appeals, was
the recipient of the “Gold Press
Card Award” which was given
to him in Durham in 1948.
In addition to the address of
Congressman Dawson, an ela
borate program for the occasion
is being planned with music be
ing furnished by the North Caro
lina College Summer School
Chorus under the direction of
Samuel W. Hill.
CIO President Say
Civil Rights Aid;
Pittsburgh, Pa. — Failure to
adopt a civil rights program for
America will earn the United
States “the moral condemna
tion” of people in other parts of
the world and may also “bring
us economic troubles of the most
serious nature,” CIO President
Philip Murray declared today.
Speaking at a testimonial ban
quet in his honor, under the aus
pices of the Allegheny County
(Pa.) Citizens Committee and
attended by Negro and white
civic leaders from western
Pennsylvania, Mr. Murray said:
“Passage by the Congress of a
Fair Employment Practices law
would bring tremendous bene
fits to every American citizen
here at home. It would also be
worth two or three army divis
Omegas Meet At Fayetteville Teachers’ College
Delta Gamma Chapter ot
Omega Psi Phi fraternity induct
ed ten members here recently to
establish the first Greek letter
organization on the campus of
the Fayetteville State Teachers’
College.
Pictured here front row, left
to right, the Omega men are:
Wilbert King, Overhills; Ed
ward Johnson, Lexington, Ky;
H. Carl Moultrie, Washington,
1). C., Natio>ial Executive Secre
tary of the fraternity; W. O.
Yarborough, Raleigh, Sixth Dis
trict Representative; George
Fitzpatrick, Fayetteville; Wil
liam Mack, Lexington, Ky.;
Ervin Biggs, Pittsburgh, Pa.;
James Faison, Fayetteville; and
Emm McKinnon, Fayetteville.
Six faculty members of the
fraternity are: third row, left to
right: Andrew Scott, Geogra
phy instructor; H. M. Eldridge,
Mathematics and faculty ad
visor to the chapter; Allen H.
Brown, Chemistry and chair
man of the committee on fra
ternities and sororities at the
colleg'e; and Harold L. Scott, as
sistant coach.
Fourth row: left to right are:
William A. Gaines, coach; and
John W. Parker, English in
structor.
Joe Baker Cancels Atlanta
Date Account Of JC Hotels
New York — Denied first
class hotel accommodations in
Atlanta, Josephine Baker, world
famous entertainer, has cancell
ed her proposed appearance in
that city at the 42nd annual con
vention of the National Associa
tion for the Advancement of
Colored People, Walter White,
NAACP executive secretary, an
nounced recently.
Miss Baker last month accept
ed the invitation of the Atlanta
branch to give a benefit per
formance in that city, on June
30, on condition that she and
her party be housed in a first
class hotel, that there be no seg
regation in the- audience, and
that a mixed orchestra partici
pate in the entertainment. Ar
rangements were made for a
mixed band. There is never audi
ence segregation at any NAACP
meeting.
On May 25, Mr. White wired
the three leading hotels in At
lanta — the Henry Grady, the
Baltimore and the Georgian
Terrace—asking for reservations
June 30 to July 2, for Miss Bak
(Please turn to Page Eight)
3 Opposition To
3 Communists
ions, or a year’s appropriation
for the Voice of America in our
world-wide struggle against
Communism. . . .
“Each betrayal of American
democratic principles whether it
is in the field of civil rights or
in any other phase of our daily
life, plyas directly into the
hands of the Kremlin.
“The massive propaganda
machine of the Kremlin is ready
to seize upon, distort and broad
cast our failures, in a hundred
tongues. We cannot control the
Kremlin propaganda machine—
but we can, as a nation, regulate
our conduct to win friends ra
ther than to rebuff our natural
allies.”
The CIO President described
(Please turn to Page Eight)
Retires
Dr. Clyde Donnell, secretary
and treasurer of the Old North
State Medical Society for the
past 31 years, retired from this
position in Greensboro last!
week.
Dr. Donnell, a 1915 graduate
of the Harvard Medical School,'
is medical director of the North
Carolina Mutual Life Insurance
Company. He had been in charge
of the Old North State Medical
Society program committee since
1920.
Under Dr. Donnell’s leader
ship Old North State Medical So
ciety, oldest organization of Ne
gro medical men in the world,
developed one of the most pro
gressive professional programs
in medical association history in
this area. |
Dr. Donnell is married to the
former Miss Martha Merrick.
They live at 506 Fayetteville:
Street, Durham.
g ■—ni —
Negro Student
t LSU While
Suit Pends
New Orleans — Louisiana
State University was ordered
this week to admit Lutrill
Amos Payne, a Negro, of
Natchtioches, La., to the sum
mer sessions at its graduate
school beginning today.
In New Orleans, a federal
judge issued a temporary in
junction ordering Mr. Payne’s
immediate admission to the
university, pending decision
on a suit brought by the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People,
seeking a permanent injunc
tion. He will continue to at
tend classes while the suit is
pending.
The case was handled by A.
P. Tureaud, NAACP attorney
in New Orleans.
Raleigh Man
Drops Dead
In Street
Raleigh—A 57-year-old man
suffered a heart attack and
died here Tuesday afternoon
in the 2700 block of Hillsboro
Street.
He was Hezekiah Leavister
of West South Street. It was
reported that the victim had
suffered a heart ailment for
quite some time.
T4
SPECIAL NOTICE!!
Due to circumstances beyond the control of the
Weaver McLean Post American Legion, the Lt.
Wynn Parade and Ceremony for the awarding of
the DSC has been temporarily postponed.
False Report
Uncovered By
Carolina Times
A time-worn device to devide
Negroes appeared to be back
firing in Raleigh near the end
of the week as the Governor’s
office and the NEWS AND
OBSERVER failed to make a
case for “J. E. Plummer.”
The NEWS AND OBSERVER
for Wednesday identified Plum
mer as “a Warrenton Negro
farmer who has worked closely
with the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People” and who was alleged
to feel “the NAACP is moving
too rapidty.”
The CAROLINA TIMES tried
throughout the day Wednesday
to identify Plummer through
Warren County sources. Late
Wednesday afternoon the TIMES
contacted Jay Jenkins, the N
and O’s State Editor. Jenkins
said the editor of a Warrenton
paper had been unable to find
Plummer. Jenkins referred the
TIMES to Jim Chaney, one of
N and O’s ace reporters.
Chaney told the TIMES this
story: A man who identified
himself as J. E. Plummer came
to the N and O office last Tues
day looking for Jonathan Dan
iels to intercede for an inter
view with Gov. Scott. Chaney
interviewed Plummer and in the
course of the interview, Plum
mer set forth a long-range pro
gram for whites and Negroes
which would be in opposition to
the program favored by NAACP
representatives.”
Meanwhile, the TIMES con
tacted the State NAACP office
in Charlotte to be informed that
a denial of the Plummer charges
had been sent to the N and O,
and to the Associated Press and
the United Press. Chaney told
the TIMES he had not checked
with the State NAACP office
to inquire of Plummer’s alleged
affiliation with the NAACP.
From other sources the TIMES
has learned that there is a J. E.
Plummer who resides in War
ren County perhaps between
Groves Hill and Inez about four
or five miles from Warrenton.
This Plummer answers to the
description of the Plummer who
has on his own initiative visited
the office of Gov. W. Kerr Scott
in Raleigh. Plummer seems to
have talked only with John
Marshall, the governor’s secre
tary.
One source in Raleigh that
could hardly be regarded as
friendly to Gov. Scott claims
that Gov. Scott’s recent pro
nouncements on Negroes’ op
position to school equality suits
were based on information sup
plied him from Marshall who
had talked to a “J. E. Plummer”
who was described in the age
less phrase '“respected Negro
leader.” This source emphatical
ly denied that the governor had
received any advice on this is
sue from Dr. Harold L. Trigg,
Negro representative on the
State Board of Education.
Reports from the Charlotte
office of the NAACP said a '“J.
E. Plummer” was known to the
organization, but he did not at
tend the State meeting in Spring
Hope, and he has not been
identified, so far as is known,
with any forces that oppose the
program of the NAACP.
In Warrenton unsually in
formed sources advanced the
idea that Plummer, who, accord
ing to these sources is not a man
‘‘with much regard for the
truth” and who, it is said, has
had a hard time keeping jobs,
‘‘was working for pay in the em
ploy of a notorious Warren
County political boss. The
TIMES was unable to confirm
these reports.
Among Plummer’s charges in
Chaney’s unsigned story in the
N and O was one alleged that
school, equality suits are being
heavily financed by Communist
funds. Friends of the organi
zation say NAACP is anti-com
mumst irom "top to bottom.
After a thorough investiga
tion of the circumstances lead
ing to the publication of the
Plummer charges which were
widely publicized by the daily
press association, the CARO
LINA TIMES reached these con
clusions: (1) Plummer, willfully
or otherwise, is a tool who is
being used by anti-Negro ele
ments to quash the wave of
school equality suits now sweep
ing the State; (2) Both the News
and Observer and the Governor’s
office jumped at the opportunity
I to publicize this opposition to
the NAACP’s program; (3) Jim
Chaney, one of the best report
ers in the State, was duped into
| believing a series of yarns from
I (Please turn to Page Eight)