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 31
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1951
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Hertford County Grand Jury Aids Rapist Of Young Negro Girl
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TE FAR EAST INTEGRATION
Illinois Congressman Felicitates “Page One” Awardees
Pictured above are principals in the Durham Press Club annual “Page One Award” program
held in the Hillside High School Auditorium last Friday evening. From left to right they are Con
gressman William L. Dawson, of the First Congressional District of Illinois, who delivered the prin
cipal address; Dr. C. C. Spaulding, nationally known businessman; C. O. Pearson, prominent Dur
ham attorney and Lt. Ellison C. Wynn, Korean War hero. The last three named are the 1951
awardees and are shown holding the trophies they have just received.
CHARGE OF RAPE BY FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL
CHANGED TO SAVE MAN FROM GAS CHAMBER
AnosKie — me urana Jury
of Hertford County followed the
usual pattern of North Carolina
courts and refused here this
week to indict a 45-year-old
white man for rape of a 15-year
old Negro girl.
The crime, described by many
as one of the most wanton ever
committed in Hertford County
was apparently whitewashed
and reduced to “carnal knowl
edge” of a female under sixteen
years of age” to save the white
man from having to face trial
for rape, the penalty of which
is death in this State.
Frank Newsome, formerly of
Aulander but now of New York,
had been held in jail on the
charges filed by the girl, Hattie
Hoggard. He did not offer testi
mony at the preliminary hear
ing and was bound over without
bond.
Newsome is expected to go on
trial at the present term of Hert
ford County Court over which
Judge Henry A. Grady is pre
siding.
At the preliminary hearing the
young girl testified that New
some came to her home in
Powellsville on June 30 and
asked her to go with him to his
home and stay with his three
children while he and his wife
went to the theatre. He had one
of the children with him.
The girl testified that she got
in Newsome’s car and that he
drove to Ahoskie where he ask
ed her to wait while he went
after his wife and other chil
dren. Instead he came back a
lone.
He drove her to a lonely road
between Murfreesboro and Win
ton where she testified he raped
her after choking her and threat
ening to kill her if she did not
submit. The girl testified that
Newsome raped her five times
between 2 and 7 p. m.
Investigation at the Clerk of
Court’s office by a representa
tive of the CAROLINA TIMES
disclosed that no white man has
ever been convicted in Hertford
County for raping a Negro wo
man.
Several prominent Negro citi
izens here stated that if New
some is convicted he will prob
ably be let off with a fine.
NCC Students
Win Scholarship
Honors In Law
Two North Carolina College
law students recently received
national recognition for their
high scholarship in law school
study.
The students are Robert D.
Glass, graduate, and Eugene H.
Gadsden, freshman.
Glass, Montgomery, Ala., 1951
graduate of NCC’s Law School,
received a special citation from
the Bureau of National affairs
and one year’s subscription to
the “United States Law Week,”
outstanding legal periodical.
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Shaw University Secretary
Appointed To New Post
Raleigh — Walker H. Quar
les, Jr., secretary of Shaw Uni
versity for the past fifteen years
has been recently appointed as
Personnel Director and Admin
Walker H. Quarles, Jr.
istrative Assistant to the Presi
dent at Virginia State College,
Petersburg, Virginia.
Mr. Quarles came to Shaw
University in 1936 following a
period of fifteen years of ser
vice with the Independent Or
der of Saint Luke of Richmond,
Virginia, where he filled the
positions of messenger, cashier
clerk, and secretary to the secre
tary-treasurer, the late Mrs.
Maggie L. Walker.
During his career at Shaw, he
has been most active in com
munity welfare and church or
ganizations. Each year he has
served as campus chairman of
the Community Chest, March of
Dimes, American Red Cross, and
Tuberculosis Seal campaigns;
and he has been cited for out
standing service as a member of
the Emblem Club of the Blood
worth Street Branch of the Y.
M. C. A.
His church activities include
positions as president of the
Usher Board of the First Baptist
Church, Raleigh; President of
the Ushers Union of Raleigh and
Vicinity; chairman of Program
Committee and member of Edu
cational Committee of the Inter
denominational Ushers Associa
tion of North Carolina; presi
dent of the Baptist Laymen’s
League of the General Baptist
State Convention of North Caro
lina; and chairman of the fi
nance committee of the General
Baptist State Convention of
North Carolina for several years.
A member of the Alpha Phi
Alpha Fraternity, serving as
president, secretary, chairman of
executive committee, chairman
of Program Committee, and
auditor of Phi Lambda Chapter.
His services to his local chapter
merited national attention so
that for two years he served as
the recording secretary of the
General Convention.
Devoted Scouter for eighteen
years, serving variouslyd
Scoutmaster, advance
ment chairman, organiza
and extension chairman, cam
poree committee" chairman, sec
retary and chairman of Wake
Divisional Committee, chairman
of Explorer Post No. 52, and
vice chairman of the General
Divisional Committee of the
Occoneechee Council, Boy Scouts
of America. A recipient of the
Silver Beaver Award of the Na
tional Council of Boy Scouts of
America.
OXFORD PASTOR NAMED
ORPHANAGE SUPERINTENDENT
Oxford—In its meeting here
Thursday afternoon the Board of
Trustees of the Oxford Orphan
age named the Reverend T. H.
Brooks, pastor of the First Bap
tist Church here, superintendent
of the Oxford Colored Orphan
age.
Reveernd Brooks succeeds the
late T. A. Hamme who held the
position up to the time of his
sudden death from a heart at
tack last March.
Rev. Brook is believed to be
well qualified for the position
and after careful considerations
of the many names chosen by
the nominating committee, his
selection was recommended.
The new superintendent is a
graduate of Shaw University
and since taking over the pas
torate of the First Baptist
Church here four years ago has
had a phenomenal success.
Exactly 125 members have been
added arid more than $25,000
has been raised.
Rev. Brooks is married to the
Reverend T. H. Brooks
former .Miss Blondena Nichols of
Philadelphia. His wife at pre
sent is a teacher in the school
system of Henderson at the new
Eaton-Johnson School.
Another School
Suit Brewing
PAMLICO CITIZENS SAY
SCHOOL CHILDREN ARE
VICTIMS OF DISCRIMINATION
ORIENTAL—Attorney General Harry McMullan was inform
ed last week by Attorney M. Hugh Thompson of Durham, that
school officials of Pamlico County are discriminating against Ne
gro children.
Thompson told McMullan in his telegram that, “A group of
colored citizens of Oriental, Pamlico County, are contending that
their children are being denied their rights to equal protection of
the law under the 14th amendment of the Constitution of the
United States and the Constitution of North Carolina as to educa
tional facilities offered children of the white race of that county.
“I am advised you have approved State funds for repairs and
PRESIDENT
Mrs. C. B. Coarington, wife of
Dr. C. B. Cordington of Dunn
who was recently elected presi
dent of the Women’s Auxiliary
of the Old North State Medical
and Pharmaceutical Society at
its meeting in Greensboro. (See
story, page 7).
Dr. Frank Davis
Appointed To
Post In Liberia
The U. S. Department of Agri
culture announced today the ap
pointment of Dr. Frank G. Dav
is, economist, to serve as eco
nomic adviser to the Government
of Liberia. Dr. Davis will be
come a member of the U. S.
Government’s economic mission
for developing the agriculture of
the West African republic.
The appointment is made at
the request of the Government
of Liberia aftd in cooperation
with the Technical Cooperation
Administration, Department of
State, as a part of this Nation’s
Point Four program of sharing
teachnical abilities with other
countries. Dr. Davis is the third
Office of Foreign Agricultural
Relations specialists to go to
Liberia under the Point Four
program.
Dr. Davis is a native of Cal
houn Falls, S. C. He received his
B. A. Degree from Howard Uni
versity in 1933, his M. A. from
Ohio State University in 1935,
and his doctor’s degree in eco
nomics from the University of
Iowa in 1939.
Before joining the Depart
ment of Agriculture, Dr. Davis
was a professor of business eco
nomics at the University of
Maryland (Princess Ann Divis
ion). Earlier teaching experi
ence including three years at
Prairie View A. and M. College,
Prairie View, Texas. From 1944
to 1950 he was an economist
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Dunaings. i nave written tne
County Board of Education of
Pamlico County, whoch promises
a reply after August 1, 1951. We
advise that funds be withheld
until such time as an amicable
adjustment of these differentials
. . . may be made.”
It has been reported that Fred
Horton, white, of Oriental, a
former member of the County
Board, has pledged his aid fi
nancially and other wise, to as
sist Negro children in obtaining
access to the new Central High
School which will be opened in
Oriental in September.
Mr. Horton expressed his be
lief that Negroes of Pamlico
County are not being treated
fairly, even though the the Board
of Education awarded $100,000
last Friday in contracts for ex
pansion and improvement at the
Pamlico County Training School
near Bayboro.
Horton contends that the a
amount of available State funds
for building new schools was
not divided fairly or on the
basis of Negro and white popula
tion.
Memorial Fund
For Journal And
Guide Editor
New York — A national com
mittee of 15 well-known Negro
newspaper people this week an
nounced the formation of the
Albert L. Hinton Memorial Fund
in memory of the late associate
editor of the Journal and Guide
of Norfolk, and war correspond
ent of the NNPA News Service.
Mr. Hinton was one of four
American, British and French
journalists whose plane crashed
into the Japan Sea on July 26,
1950, while enroute to the fight
ing in Korea. He was the first
Negro war correspondent ever
to lose his life in the course of
an assignment.
The Fund, according to its an
nouncement, has three aims:
“To perpetuate the memory
of a good reporter, a good edi
tor and a good fellow who
enjoyed the respect and high
regard of those in the craft
who knew him.
“To create a symbol through
which all members of the
craft might recognize, that in
the performance of their re
spective duties in getting out
a paper, they share a common
interest and serve a common
cause.
“To provide the working
press in particular, of which
A1 Hinton was so much a part,
with a vehicle in which they
may take personal pride by
being the backbone for this
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BABY CONTEST WINNER
uirs. j. c. scaroorougn, sr., Holds Marylynn E. Sharpe, daugh
ter of Reverend and Mrs. R. C. Sharpe, who won first place in the
Tiny Tots Contest sponsored by the Women’s Society of Christian
Service of the Cosmopolitan Methodist Church. Mrs. Scarborough
announced the honor of the first place, naming of the future nur
sery school at the church, “Marlynn E. Sharpe Nursery School.”
(See picture, page 5.)
Separate Units
To Be Abolished
In Six Months
Washington — In line with
the announced plans of the De
partment of the Army a spokes
man for General Matthew B.
Ridgeway, supreme commander
of UN Forces in the Far East an
nounced this week that the les
son learned in the Korean war
is that you can’t make a first
class soldier out of a second
class citizen.
A release from the Depart
ment of Defense in Washington
last week stated emphatically
that plans for carrying to com
pletion the integration of Negro
personnel, which is already in
progress, in all combat units of
the Far East Command.
This integration will be
phased over a period of approxi
mately six months. A similar
integration program will be ap
plied to service type units.
In order to achieve more ef
ficient utilization of manpower,
the 24th Infantry Regiment,
whose enlisted personnel are
now entirely Negro, will be in
activated. The 24th Infantry
Regiment is part of the 25th In
fantry Division. An integrated
regiment will be substituted for
the 24th Infantry Regiment in
the 25th Infantry Division.
It has been demonstrated, the
Army said, that in combat in
Korea Negro soldiers serve
more effectively in integrated
units.
Funeral Rites
Held Wednesday
For L. B. Jenkins
Funeral services for Lisbon
B. Jenkins, age 56, of 818 Kent
Street, were held Wednesday aft
ernoon at 3 o’clock from the
Emanuel Methodist Church with
the Reverend J. A. Hunter, of
ficiating. Assisting Reverend
Hunter were Reverend H. H.
Hart and Reverend T. C. Gra
ham. Interment was in Beech
wood Cemetery.
Mr. Jenkins died Friday aft
noon at a local hospital.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Katie Jenkins, two sisters, Mrs.
Annis Kirby and Mrs. Eva Fitz
egrald and one nephew, Sgt.
Lindsay Nelson Jenkins of the
U. S. Army.
"Stop Getting Mad And Get Smart" Cong.
Dawson Tells "Page One" Award Audience
U. S. Representative William
L. Dawson (D.-II.), one of two
Negro Democrats in Congress
told some 650 persons attending
the Durham Press Club’s Third
Annual “Page One Awards” pro
gram here Friday night that Ne
groes will “never be satisfied
with status short of that of any
other citizen.”
The Illinois congressman
spoke in the new Hillside High
School Auditorium in an ob
servance that honored Dr. C. C.
Spaulding, noted business and
religious leader; C. O. Pearson,
chairman of the State Legal Re
dress Committee for the NAA
CP; and Lt. Ellison Wynn, Dur
ham’s Korean war hero who is
holder of the Distinguished Ser
vice Cross.
Mayor E. J. Evans of Durham
welcomed the Illinois legislator
to the City and introduced him
to the state-wide gathering of
Tar Heel citizens.
Two Durham radio stations,
WDNC and WSSB, transcribed
the speech for release later in
the evening. Negro announcers
handled the broadcasts for eacji
station, Norfley Whitted for
WDNC, and Charles Grimes for
WSSB.
Participants on Friday night’s
program included Charles A.
Ray, vice-president, who pre
sided, and the following: the
Reverend J. A. Cannon, who
said invocation; the Reverend E.
T. Browne, who ponounced
benediction; and the North Caro
lina College Chorus under the
direction of Samuel W. Hill.
Press Club President L. E.
Austin presented two special
citations to Samuel K. Battle,
member of the New York
paroles commission, and to Con
gressman Dawson.
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Forma! Opening Of Building And
Loan New Quarters August 3rd
The Mutual Building and
Loan Association will hold the
formal opening of its new of
fices at 112 W. Parrish Street
this Friday, August 3rd to cele
brate its 30th anniversary.
At the formal opening visitors
will receive souvenirs from 9 A.
M. until 9 P. M., according to
J. S. Stewart, Secretary-Treas
urer.
The Board of Directors, Of
ficers, Staff and Shareholders,
have been looking forward to
the opening of this new modern
ly equipped, air-conditioned
home of “Durham’s Headquar
ters for Savings and Loans,” for
many years.
The June 30, 1951 statement of
this institution showed $1,694,
000, an increase of $94,000 over
the December 30, 1950 state
ment, showing a phenomenal j
growth in a short period of six
months.
The late R. L. McDougald or
ganized the Mutual Building!
and Loan Association and on
January 25th, 1921 it opened
for business with the late F. L.
McCoy being the first Secretary.
Dr. C. C. Spaulding has served
as President of the institution
since its organization.
Has Never Missed A Dividend
According to officials, the as
sociation has not missed a divid
end since its beginning, and all
accounts are insured up to $10,
000.
“As the Mutual Bulding and
| Loan Association celebrates its
thirtieth anniversary, we have
experienced the realization that
home ownership, made possible
through our association, is God’s
answer to a renter’s prayer,” the
President said.
He further declared “Amer
ica’s strength is in the American
family and the core of our coun
try’s civilization lies in the A
merican home. There is no great
er influence for eternal solidarity
than home ownership. Review
ing the past years, we realize
that the progress we have made
is due directly to the confidence
and cooperation of our many
shareholders and friends and we
want you to know that your part
has been sincerely appreciated.”
The officers are: C. C. Spauld
ing, President; E. R. Merrick,
Vice-President; Clyde Donnell,
Vice-President; W. J. Kennedy,
Jr., Vice-President; G. W. Log
an, Vice-President and J. S.
Stewart, Secretary-Treasurer.
The Directors and Staff in
clude: R. L. Cotton, G. W. Cox,
Clyde Donnell, A. Elder, J. W.
Goodloe, R. N. Harris, W. J. Ken
nedy, Jr., G. W. Logan, D. B.
Martin, E. R. Merrick H. M.
Michaux, T. D. Parham, A. T.
Spaulding, C. C. Spaulding, J.
S. Stewart, J. H. Wheeler, J. L.
White, Miss Ida Bass and S. C.
McAllister.
The shareholders, officers,
board, and staff join in cordial
ly inviting you to visit the new
offices.