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Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Durham, North Carolina, under Act of March 3, 1819.
VOLUME 29—NUMBER 35
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, SEPT. 1st, 1951 PRICE TEN CENTS
LIBERIAN AMBASSADOR TALKS AT LOTT UREY
Winning Smile
Pretty Lucille McAllister, right, flashes a winner’s smile
as she receives a prize winning trophy from Mrs. Hornell Hart,
one of the judges for the Bull City Sporting Club’s first annual
beauty contest held here last week at the Durham Athletic Park.
Lucille, who combines her duties as an efficient secretary
with a yen for stage dancing, was awarded first place prizes for all
around beauty and for poise at the beauty contest. She was spon
sored by DeShazor’s Beauty College and she lives at 412 Dupree
Street.
Other winners in the beauty contest were Billie Long, who
took first place honors for the best figure and Annette Lawson who
was awarded a Lady Elgin watch for selling the most tickets to
the affair. Billie was sponsored by Burlington’s Worth Street
Pharmacy and Annette by Sharpe Funeral Home of Roxboro.
Wilmington Editor Ordered To
Stoo Writina. Get Out Of Town
Wilmington — The Ku Klux
Klan made what appeared a
half-hearted attempt to intimi
date criticism of their unchris
tian and idiotic antics here last
Saturday at it sent messages to
Wilmington Journal publisher
editor Thomas C. Jervay to stop
writing editorials about the Klan
and ordered him out of town.
Brother to Carolinian editor
publisher, Paul, Jervay, retorted
that the “Klan threats are not
going to keep me from writing
editorials about that un-Ameri
can bunch.”
Jervay stated that he received
two warnings last Saturday not
to write any more editorials on
the Klan and to get out of town.
A third message came to him in
the form of a Wilmington Negro
cab driver who told Jervay that
he had been hired by the Klan
to take him to them.
Jervay’s defiant statement in
answer to the Klan’s threats was
representative of the general
reaction of the state to the Klan
activities.
Early this week Gov. Scott is
sued a statement against the
KKK, declaring that North
Carolina “is not going to take
any foolishness off the Ku Klux
Klan.”
Attracting much attention al
so was an anti-Klan resolution
issued last week by the State
Junior Chamber of Commerce
from a two-day session at Rocky
Mount. The resolution strongly
urged legal action against the
KKK.
A large section of the state’s
white press carried editorial
denunciations of Klan activities.
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Last Rites
Funeral services for Clarence
Robert Russell, age 54, who died
early Thursday morning, Aug.
16, at his home, 1310 Elliott
Street in Fayetteville, of a heart
attack which lasted only twenty
four hours, were held Sunday,
August 19 at 3:30 p. m. from the
Salem Baptist Church here, with
the Reverend H. W. Long, of
ficiating. Burial was in the
family cemetery.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Ida McNeil Russell, mother, Mrs.
Eugenie Kelly of Darlington,
S. C., step father, George Kelly,
one daughter, Mrs. Doris Mor
rison of Washington, D. C.,
three brothers, Eusau and James
Kelly of Darlington, S. C. and
G. P. Kelly, Jr., of Marion, S.
C., five sisters, Mrs. Dalee Jones
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Ban Jim Crow At A-Bomb Plants
Man Confesses To Murder
Committed 25 Years Ago
Fayetteville — Wilbert Mit
chell, former Durham resident,
confessed to police last week
that in 1926 he murdered his
common-law wife, Lillie Mae
Jones, in Durham but denied re
sponsibility for the death of his
legal wife, Arnette Mitchell, in
Baltimore in 1946.
The man was arrested in
Lillington but is now being held
at the Fayetteville County Jail
for illegal flight to evade pro
secution.
According to Mitchell’s story,
he shot his common-law wife,
Lillie, at their home at 108 Cobb
Street during a scuffle following
a quarrel. He had accused her of
infidelity.
Mitchell related that he then
fled to Apex where he stayed for
a while and went on to Balti
more and married. On the death
of his legal wife, he returned to
Apex.
Although he did not admit
guilt in the shooting of Mrs.
Arnette Mitchell, his legal wife,
he is being held for Baltimore
authorities.
Police Chief King of Durham
has announced his intention to
seek prosecution of Mitchell in
event that the wife-slayer is not
found guilty by a Maryland
Court.
Contempt Action
Begins Against
Cicero Officials
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Chicago, 111., — Contempt pro
ceedings against officials of
Cicero, Illinois, whose defiance
of a federal court ruling order
ing them to provide protection
for the family of Harvey E.
Clark, Jr., led to a vicious out
break of rioting and destruction,
were instituted this week on the
Clarks’ behalf by attorneys for
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People.
A battery of six NAACP law
yers filed a motion on August
22 before Federal Judge Wil
liam J. Campbell, seeking a rule
to show cause why Cicero of
ficials should not be held in
contempt of the court for “fail
ing and refusing” to provide pro
tection for the Clark family
when they moved into their
Cicero apartment on July 10.
On June 26, U. S. District
Judge John P. Barnes had issued
an order enjoining Police Chief
Ervin Konovsky, President Hen
ry J. Sandusky, and other
Cicero officials “from depriving
or attempting to deprive the
plaintiffs of their rights as citi
zens of the United States as
guaranteed by the 14th Amend
ment.”
The order was requested by
NAACP attorneys following the
June 8 incident in which Chief
Konovsky led his officers in an
attack on the family when they
first sought to occupy the apart
ment.
In issuing the order, Judge
Barnes warned: “You will use
the same diligence in protecting
this family’s right to move into
that apartment as you did in
I keeping them out.”
54TH LOTT CAREY SESSION
CONVENTION PRINCIPALS
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DR. O. S. BULLOCK
REV. W. C. SOMERVILLE
REV. P. A. BISHOP
Principals for the 54th annual i
session of the National Lott!
Carey Foreign Mission, conven
ing for the first time here this
week, are shown above. The
convention was launched on
Monday night with a concert by
the 250 voice convention choir
directed by Professor W. E. Pat
terson of Norfolk, Virginia.
Dr. O. S. Bullock, top left,
Pastor of Raleigh’s First Baptist
Church and president of the con
vention, delivered the annual
presidential address Wednesday
morning to a capacity audience
at the Mount Vernon Baptist
Church, host to the convention.
Highlights of the convention,
which attracted more than 3,000
delegates and visitors for its
sessions which ended Friday
evening, included an address
Wednesday evening by the Hon.
REV. E. T. BROWNE
REV. O. L. SHERRILL
C. B. D. King, Liberia Ambas
sador for this country and an
address on Friday evening by
former Congressman Arthur W.
Mitchell.
Welcomes were extended to
the convention by Mayor E. J.
Evans, Rev. W. B.| Carr, presi
dent of the local interracial
Baptist Ministers Association,
Mrs. A. L. Filmore, president of
the local Missions; C. C. Spauld
ing, president of the North
Carolina Mutual Life Insurance
Company; Reverend R. L. Up
shaw, vice-president of the Dur
ham Ministerial Alliance and
Reverend E. T. Browne, shown
top right, pastor of host Mount
Baptist Church.
Shown on bottom row of pic- [
tures above are left to right
Reverend W. C. Somerville, ex-1
ecutive secretary of the conven- j
tion; Reverend P. A. Bishop,
president of the General Baptist
State Convention and Reverend
O. L. Sherill, executive secre
tary of the State Baptist Conven
tion.
ENVOY TELLS REPORTER OF LIBERIA'S ADVANCE
Liberian Ambassador to Wash
ington, C. D. B. King, former
President of Liberia and des
cendant of a well-known tribal
family in Africa, took time out
from his governmental duties in
Washington to attend the Lott
Carey Convention here this
week.
Ambassador King declares
that the Point Four Program of
our government giving assistance
to undeveloped countries and
helping them to develop their
potential, is one of the best
things that has happened to his
country, Liberia. He said
negotiations with the American
government included measures
for developing industry, the
military, education, and the
building of good highways in his
country. Military instructors
are already on their way to his
country.
After being welcomed to Dur
ham in the office of Mayor E. J.
Evans, the Ambassador, had
more to say about Liberia, the
country “American Negroes
don’t know enough about.” In
fact, he says there is no closer
tie between these two peoples
because they don’t have contact
with one another and don’t
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Girl, 11, Shoots White Lover
BEAUFORT — A several-year-old alleged romance be
tween Ruby Lee Boyd, teen-age Negro girl of Greenville, and
Bert Clark, 36-year-old white school teacher of Beaufort,
almost reached a tragic climax last Monday, when the girl
shot her beau in the arm with a .22 caliber rifle.
Miss Boyd, 16 or 17 years-old, was jailed on the shoot
ing charge last Thursday and was tried in Cateret Recorder’s
Court at Beaufort on Tuesday, August 28. Clark was tem
porarily held as a material witness but was released under
$800 bond.
The shooting took place at Clark’s cottage, where the
girl claimed she had been visiting Clark on week-ends. Miss
Boyd who had been in love with Clark since she was 13,
stated that she shot the white man in self defense only after
he had threatened her upon her unexpected visit last Monday,
last Monday.
S. C.r Kentucky Plants To Be
Segregation-Free, Says Official
vvasmngion— mere win De no
segregation of facilities for
workers at the Atomic Energy
Installations in Paducah, Ken
tucky, and Aiken, S. C., the
Washington Bureau of the
NAACP was advised this week.
Assurance on this point was
given by Fletcher Waller, direc
tor of organization and per
sonnel, who informed the NAA
CP:
“All contractors have been
informed that segregated
cafeterias, eating facilities,
washrooms, lavatories, etc.
will not be established.”
This non-segregation policy
was established by the AEC fol
lowing numerous meetings with
representatives of the NAACP
and other interested persons.
In making the AEC’s policy
public, the NAACP Washington
Bureau pointed out that it was
advising branches of the Asso
ciation in the areas concerned to
watch local operations carefully
to see that the policy is carried
out. Stating that there is a dan
ger that segregation could be
achieved by continuing existing
discriminatory hiring practices
in the areas, Clarence Mitchell,
director of the NAACP Wash
ington Bureau, announced that
he would meet with AEC of
ficials on this problem in South
Carolina on September 17.
Local and national officials of
the NAACP have been working
on problems in the AEC plants
areas since the Government an
nounced that the H-Bomb would
be undertaken as a project. Mit
chell has represented the NAA
CP naitonal office at AEC meet
ings in Paducah, Aiken and
Washington.
Group Plans
Action Against
Railway Line
New York — Legal action is
being planned against the Miss
ouri Pacific Railroad following
the disclosure that eight Mich
igan delegates to the National
Beauty Culturists League Con
vention in Houston two weeks
ago, were forced into jim crow
coaches enroute to Texas on the
line’s crack streamliner, “The
Eagle.”
The victims, all from Detroit,
were Miss Daxmear Fields, Miss
Dozzelle Smith, Mrs. Josephine
Mitchell, Mrs. Thelma Parker,
Mrs. Joanna Mason, Mrs. Juanita
Kersey, Mrs. Mary Myler and
Mrs. Lula Potter.
When the matter was brought
to the attention of the Conven
tion, Mrs. Cordelia Green John
son, National President, said:
“We must never give up the
fight for equal rights. This is
not only an insult to these wo
men, but to our great National
organization. We shall urge
vigorously that the Supreme
Court decisions against segrega
tion in interstate travel shall be
upheld. We shall work with the
NAACP to secure justice in this
case.”
National Legal Adviser. J.
Mercer Burrell of Newark, N. J.
and Attorney U. Simpson Tate
have begun the investigation.
Dr. Charlotte H. Brown To Step
Down; Names Her Successor
Sedalia—After 50 long years of
service as president and found
er of Palmer Memorial Institute
here, Dr. Charlotte Hawkins
Brown decided to step down at
the end of the coming school
term.
Dr. Brown named Miss Wil
helmenia M. Crosson of Boston,
Mass, as her successor simul
taneously with the announce
ment of her intentions to resign
her post here last week. The
noted educator, lecturer, author
and musician will continue to
offer her services to the insti
tution which she built as a mem
ber of the board of trustees and
presidential advisor, however.
The president-elect will func
tion as understudy to Dr. Brown
during the school year 1951-52.
According to Dr. Brown, Miss
Crosson comes to Palmer Mem
orial with high recommenda
tions “as an outstanding educa
tor.” A graduate of Boston
Teachers’ College, the in
coming president has studied
at Harvard University, Col
umbia University, the Uni
versity of Mexico and Boston
University, from which she ex
pects to receive the master’s de
gree.
As in the case of Dr. Brown,
Miss Crosson’s many activities
have extended into the civic and
religious domains. As a teacher
in a predominately Catholic
school, as a Baptist Sunday
school teacher, as a director of
a Methodist summer camp, Miss
Crosson has experienced work
ing closely with various racial
and religious groups.
Palmer Memorial Institute has
a present enrollment of 200 stu
dents from 34 states and six
foreign countries and a teaching
staff of 24. The value of the phy
sical plant has reached over $2
million through continual addi
tions since the school was found
ed by Dr. Brown in 1901.
Shriners Loaded
New York — Dr. Raymond E.
Jackson of Buffalo, Imperial
Potentate, Ancient Egyptian
Arabic Order of Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine (Shriners) took a
leaf from the book of Gr" nd Ex
alted Ruler of the Elks, J. Fin
ley Wilson last Tuesday evening
to effect his re-election at the
Order’s Convention in session
here last week.
It had been thought that the
election would be held Wednes
day, following a suspension of
the rules. Dr. Jackson was re
elected by acclamation a day
earlier.
Shriners were here from all
parts of the country, most of
them with plenty of money to
spend. One Noble from a middle
western city showed up carrying
a bankroll that included thir
teen (13) one-thousand dollar
bills and a large assortment of
$100’s, 50’s, 20’s, and 10’s, with
fives and ones in the pack ob
iously to make change.