FOR 28 YEARS THE OUTSTANDING WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS
Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Durham, North Carolina, under Act of March 3, 1819.
VOLUME 29—NUMBER 29
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, JULY 21st, 1951
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Its Mixed Baseball Game
BY CALVIN JOHNSON
WHITEVILLE—The heavens appeared to weep here
Sunday morning after officials and citizens of this so
called Christian community had bowed to the will of
the Ku Klux Klan and prevented a ball game between
a white and Negro team from being played.
It was during the morning worship hour, about 11:30,
while so-called Whiteville churches were at full blast
about the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of
man and other Christian tenets that the heavens began
weeping as if they were saddened at the mockery of wor
shippers that talked about, “As ye would that men do
to you, do ye even so to them,” but were too despicable
in their hearts and souls to allow the national sport to
be played between Americans of a different color.
You have got to visit this hate ridden and Ku Klux
infested community to understand why Whiteville bow
ed to the will of the Ku Klux Klan. You should come
here and see for yourself the spiritually anemic white
ministers who appear to be afraid of their shadows, to
know why they did not have the guts to climb up into
their pulpits and thunder against the hellish condition
of Whiteville.
You have got to observe as I did, incognito of course,
the stupid egotism and cocksureness of what are suppos
ed to be police officers and town officials. You have got
to visit the very poor and unequal Negro schools, poor
ly lighted and the unpaved streets in the Negro section
of the town to know that Whiteville is just one door
from hell when it comes to morals and citizenship.
Although many cities and towns in North Carolina
have witnessed ball games between the races, White
ville just couldn’t stand it. Why? You ask me why.
Ask me why Whiteville will permit the Ku Klux Klan
to dictate to the churches, the law enforcement agencies
and other agencies for law and order and I will tell you
why.
Many of the players on both teams, they tell me, had
fought together on foreign soil in World War II to save
democracy. Many of them have relatives who are still
fighting in Korea for their country, but Whiteville could
not stand to see them play a baseball game together on
their own native soil.
As if by choice the Klan chose Friday the 13th to start
circulating their race hate ridden circulars, bearing the
letters KKK. They had their effect. So-called Chris
tians and American citizens answered the call of the
Klan and started bombarding town officials to halt the'
playing of the game.
The town officials being weak, scared and probably
members or sympathizers of the Klan, rose in their
mighty weakness and did what they were told
Well, white supremacy has been upheld, but the
pf™uacy ofu God and His only son, the Babe of
Bethlehem, who walked this earth and declared “A
new commandment I give unto, love ye one another ”
has been spit upon and trampled in the dirt,
tv/ If Whiteville Tuesday, and I trust I have shaken
the dust of this filthy town off my feet. I pray that if
atomic bombs ever start falling in my country, that God
wi,11 have mercy and not let it be more horrible for
Whiteville in that day than it was for Sodom and
Gomorrah.
Pictured above are kiddies of
the Mount Vernon Baptist
Church enjoying a moving pic
ture show in the tent auditor
ium of the church that is used
by the congregation during
the Summer months. During
the week the tent is used for
the Bible School and other
programs of Mount Vernon.
Pastor of the church is the
Reverend E. T. Browne.
Chicago Congressman
To Speak In Durham
Hon. W. L. Dawson "Page One
Award" Speaker July 27th
The Durham Press Club will
present Congressman William L.
Dawson of Illinois as guest
speaker during the club’s third
annual “Page One Awards”
program to be held here Friday
night, July 27, at Hillside High
School Auditorium.
Three awards will be given
this year. They will go to Dr. C.
C. Spaulding, president of the
Mechanics and Farmers’ Bank
and the North Carolina
Mutual Life Insurance Comp
any; Conrad O. Pearson, chair
man, North Carolina Legal Re
dress Committee of the NAACP;
and Lt. Ellison Wynn, winner of
the Distinguished Service Cross
for conspicuous bravery in the
Korean war zone.
The star-studded program of
the three year old Press Club
that gave its first award to
Judge William H. Hastie will
present this year a series of na
tionally known figures, includ
ing Judge Hastie and Assistant
Secretary of the Defense, Dan
K. Edwards. Secretary Edwards
is a former mayor of Durham.
He has been invited to present
Lt. Wynn’s citation from the
Durham Press Club.
Lt. Wynn, a native of Greens
boro and long time resident of
Durham, commanded a mix unit
of whites and Negroes during
some of the bitterest Korean
fighting. His exploits were of
ficially recorded by Army his
torians as “among the bravest
on record.”
Pearson has been for twenty
years in the forefront of the legal
battle to get equal graduate and
professional opporunities for
Negroes.
Dr. Spaulding, an internation
ally known religious, civic, and
business leader will be honored
in his home city for the first
time on a large scale.
The Durham Press Club is
composed of newspapermen
working in the Old North State.
Durham Speaker
Congressman W. L. Dawson
of the First Illinois District
who will speak here Friday,
July 27 in the third annual
“Page One Award” of the
Durham Press Club. The pro
gram will be held in the Hill
side High School Auditorium.
Moffitt Named
To Head Ag.
Teachers'Ass n.
Greensboro — At the close of
its annual Conference at A. and
T. College here last week, J. L.
Moffitt of Durham, was reelect
ed president of the North Caro
lina Agriculture Teachers Asso
ciation.
The other officers re-elected
were: J. D. Lennon of Durham,
vice-president; J. B. Baird, Fay
etteville, secretary - treasurer;
M. L. Campbell, Kings Moun
tain, chaplain; and Lawrence
Zollicoffer, Belhaven, parliamen
tarian.
In his address to the group, A.
W. Solomon of Greensboro,
representative of the North Car
olina Farm Bureau Federation,
urged the necessity of a well
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Durham Man
Cut To Death
In Rocky Mount
Rocky Mount — Archie Allen,
resident of this city and former
resident of Durham was killed
in South Rocky Mount Saturday
night as the result of stab
wounds administered to him by
a companion.
Allen, who resided at the
corner of Cedar and South
Street here, was well-known in
Rocky Mount, Durham and Tar
boro where he had resided, in
termittently, for a long number
of years.
Two men, Meg Jenkins and
Harry Battle, are being held for
investigation, following a state
ment given police by Battle that
he and Jenkins had been in a
fight earlier. Battle said that
Allen tried to part them and was
accidentally stabbed.
The fight started in the 100
block of Cedar Street and ac
cording to witnesses Allen was
stabbed in the groin and stag
gered down the street for about
30 feet bleeding profusely and
fell into a garbage disposal re
ceptable. He was finally picked
up by by-standers and rushed to
Park View hospital where he
was pronounced dead upon ar
rival.
Battle told police that Jen
kins stabbed Allen, but Jenkins
denied it.
According to Howard McNair
of 223 Cedar Street, Allen told
him before he died that “Meg
stabbed me.”
Funeral services were held at
the Scarborough and Hargett
Funeral Home in Durham at
three o’clock Wednesday, July
18. The Reverend S. P. Perry,
pastor of Saint Mark A. M. E.
Zion Church, officiated
Interment was at Beechwood
Cemetery.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Annie Laura Allen of Rocky
Mount, his mother, Mrs. Daisy
C. Allen and a sister, Miss Iola
C. Allen of Durham.
Dr. McCrorey
Noted Educator
Funeralized
Dr. Henry Lawrence Mc
Crorey, who served with dis
tinction as president of Johnson
C. Smith University for forty
years is dead. He died at the age
of 88 following several weeks of
illness.
Funeral arrangements for the
noted educator and theological
scholar were held Monday, July
16 at 11:00 o’clock. Rites were
held at the University Church
with interment in Pinewood
Cemetery, Charlotte.
As a result of Dr. McCrorey’s
influence Mrs. Johnson C. Smith
gave $400,000 to improve the
physical facilities, and $302,500
for endowment of the university.
In appreciation of these benefac
tors the name of the school was
changed from Biddle to Johnson
C. Smith University.
Believing in the influence and
integrity of Dr. McCrorey, the
late James B. Duke, North Caro
lina utilities and tobacco mag
nate contributed $1,360,000 to
university.
Under the leadership of Dr.
McCrorey, Johnson C. Smith
University developed into an
educational institution of na
tional reputation with more than
4,000 graduates and former stu
dents. Attaining membership in
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Loft Carey Meet In Durham
August 28-31 Expected To Draw
Over 2,500 Delegates, Visitors
Passes
Archie Allen, former Dur
ham citizen who was slain in
Rocky Mount last Saturday
night when he attempted to
separate two companions who
were in a knife duel. Last
rites for Allen were held at
Scarborough and Hargett Fu
neral Home in Durham Wed
nesday.
Miss R. Butler To
Give Concert At
Mount Vernon
The Senior Choir Number
One of Mount Vernon Baptist
Church is presenting Miss
Ruth Butler of Fayetteville, a
recent honor graduate of
Hampton Institute in the De
partment of Music, in a re
cital, at 7:30 p. m., Sunday.
The 54th annual session of
the Lott Carey Baptist Fore
ign Mission Convention will
meet in Durham at the Mount
Vernon Baptist Church, Aug.
28-31, according to an an
nouncement made by Rev. E.
T. Browne, pastor. Theme of
this year’s session of the con
vention is, “The Call Of
Africa.”
Approximately 2,500 del
egates, representing every
state in the nation and several
foreign countries, will be in
attendance, and every effort
is being made to see to it those
attending the convention will
have detailed accommoda
tions.
Among the many celebrities
scheduled to visit the conven
tion during the week will be
Bishop K. C. Pillai of Bom
bay, India and Ambassador
King of Liberia. Dr. J. M.
Ellison, president of Union
University; and Honorable T.
C. Walker of Gloucester Coun
ty, Virginia and Miss Angie
Brooks of Africa.
President of the Convention
is Dr. O. S. Bullock of Ra
leigh, who will preside over
most of the sessions. Presi
dent of the women’s auxiliary
is Mrs. J. H. Randolph of
■ Washington, D. C.
Mayor E. J. Evans and other
outstanding personalities of
education and business in
Durham are scheduled to
make short welcoming talks
on the opening night.
EDITORIALLY SPEAKING
A Declaration Of Policy Needed
We think it is time for Negro citizens of North Carolina
to demand a declaration of policy from State officials as
to who is running North Carolina College at Durham. For
the past several weeks the University of North Carolina
trustees have held more meetings on N. C. College than it
has ever held on the University in the same length of time.
When the president and trustees of one educational in
stitution can meet and map plans for courses to be taught
in another, we think they are stretching their authority a
little too far. If they are not then the duly elected or ap
pointed president and trustees of the college that are the ob
ject of such treatment ought to assert their authority or
resign.
We have watched with a degree of deep concern the
antics of the trustees of UNC, who are apparently deter
mined to make N. C. College the goat in their attempt to
defy the U. S. Supreme Court ruling relative to equal edu
cational opportunities for Negroes. We have also watched
with a degree of disgust the spineless attitude and dilly dally
ing tactics on the part of N. C. College president and trustees
in not declaring themselves opposed to such action.
The time has come when a definite declaration of policy
from the trustee boards of N. C. College and the University
of North Carolina is mandatory. We think the taxpayers
of this State have a right to know who is running N. C. Col
lege, its own trustee board or that of the University.
We think they have a right to know who is president of
N. C. College, Gordon Gray or Alfonso Elder. We think they
ilso have a right to know if Elder is a puppet president with
Gordon Gray and the UNC trustees pulling the strings. We
think they have a right to know if the trustees of N. C. Col
lege intend to allow the trustees of UNC to ram makeshift
Ph. D. courses down their throats.
We think the taxpayers of this State have a right to
know when, what for and how their money is going to be
spent at these two educational institutions. The apparent
idea in the minds of the trustees of both instiutions that they
are sufficient unto themselves, that they have a right
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Walter White
Flies To Scene
Of Illinois Riot
Cicero, 111. — Rioting broke
out in this Chicago suburb last
Wednesday night after a Negro
business moved his furniture
into an apartment in a formally
all-white neighborhood, in pre
paration for taking his family
there to live.
Mobsters broke into the apart
ment, knocked out the window
casings and dumped the furni
ture three flights to ground, and
destroyed it by fire in a flam
ing heap.
According to a statement by
Walter White, executive Secre
tary of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People, who flew to Chicago
Friday night, “. . . it is clear
that the Cicero rioting has been
planned for a long time and
there is evidence of expert
agitation in the leadership of the
riot.”
He said that “Governor
Stevenson informs me that the
cooiest-headed group in the
Negro community. But if hood
lums continue to attack inno
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By a vote of seven to two the
trustee board of North Carolina
College at Durham bowed to the
demands of the Trustee Board
of the University of North Caro
lina here Wednesday and ac
cepted an appropriation of $114,
000 for the present fiscal year
and $157,000 for the next fiscal
year to strengthen its under
graduate and graduate work,
which the N. C. College trustees
claim will provide funds for
library resources and instruc
tional service needed to inau
gurate the doctoral program in
education.
The seven to two decision
came after a stormy session in
which the two Negro members
of the Board fought to the bitter
end the efforts of the N. C. Col
lege trustees to take a step which
may have labelled as the most
stupid ever taken by a college
of such caliber. Voting against
the measure were Dr. J. M.
Hubbard of Durham, the Board’s
secretary and Dr. Robert M.
Hendrick of Asheville, the only
two Negroes present, except Dr.
A. Elder, president of the col
lege, who has no vote. Dr. C. C.
Spaulding, the other Negro
member of the Board was not
present.
Those present and voting to
capitulate to the demands of
the UNC trustees were: Bascom
Baynes, and Robert Gantt, Dur
ham; Mrs. Lillian B. Dean,
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WIFE CHOKED TO DEATH BY
LOVE SICK HUSBAND JULY 14
Emmett Louis Hargraves, 34
year-old resident of 1014 Third
Street, who confessed to police
that he strangled his wife to
death here around two o’clock
last Saturday morning when she
came home drunk, will be ar
raigned before the Grand Jury,
according to police.
Hargraves said he choked his
wife to death with his hands
and a pillow following an argu
ment which was begun when he
attempted to upbraid her about
drinking too much.
The body of the 22-year-old
woman, Iritha Hargraves, was
discovered in an alley just back
of Third Street early Saturday
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The photos above are those
of Emmett Hargraves and his
wife, Mrs. Irithea Hargraves.
Mrs. Hargraves was choked
to death by her husband early
last Saturday morning about
2:00 a. m. Hargraves is re
ported to have become anger
ed when his wife came home
in a drunken condition.
Revenue Men Walk In, Sister
Iharpe And Group Walk Out
Wilson — After playing an
afternoon engagement in Ra
leigh, Rosetta Tharpe, well
known artist of radio and stage,
came on to Wilson Sunday night
and almost precipitated a riot at
the box office when she, and the
several other performers in her
group, deliberately did a fade
away without putting on a sched
uled performance.
Already possessing a shady
record in North Carolina, where
on several occasions she has
been scheduled for performances
without showing up at all, Miss
Tharpe’s vanishing stunt here
Sunday night will probably
make it hard for her to get fur
ther engagements in the State
without posting bond or a
similar guarantee.
Miss Tharpe, at present, is
performing under the manage
ment of the Vasti Booking
Agency of Richmond, Virginia.
The Agency, instead of showing
any inclination to make amends
for their performer’s misdeeds,
told a representative of the
CAROLINA TIMES in a long
distance telephone conversation,
that the reason Miss Tharpe re
fused to put on the performance
was that the Community Center
in Wilson would not hold
enough paid customers and that
the attendance was slim. The
Agency stated further that it
stood to sustain a financial loss
if the performance had been put
on.
As soon as the approximately
300 customers, who were al
ready in the audience discover
ed that Miss Tharpe and her
group had vanished out the back
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