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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, 1879.
VOLUME 29—NUMBER 40 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, OCT. 6th, 1951 PRICE TEN CENTS
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Carolina Students
Blast UNC Jim Crow
CANT MAKE IT
World heavyweight champion
Jersey Joe Walcott will not ap
pear at Hillside high school’s
Homecoming game as was ori
ginally scheduled, according to
an announcement here late this
week from W. M. Grandy.
Grandy, serving as Athletic
Business Manager for the high
sdhool, stated that the champion
wired him “regrets,” but stated
that he had prior committments.
students Term Officials Acfion
An 'Affront'; Ask Changed Policy
«/ Chapel Hill — Rising in pro
test to the outmoded pattern of
segregation which their school
officials are attempting to foist
on five Negro students enrolled
here, University of North Caro
lina students are asking the ad
ministration to reverse its in
tended policy of separating the
Negro students from the rest of
the student body at football
games.
^Nearly 14 student organi
zations at the University were
expected to present a strongly
worded resolution to Chancellor
R. B. House here last this week
asking removal of all this week
crimination among University
students.
UNC students were aroused to
action when the five Negro law
students, admitted to the Uni
sity by a Federal Court order,
were issued tickets to the UNC
N. C. State football game at
Kenan Stadium Saturday, Sept.
29, which called for seats in sec
tion K, located behind the goal
posts in the east end of the
stadium and traditionaly re
B. W. Kennedy, Claims Super
visor for the North Carolina Mu
tual Life Insurance Company,
was named this week to direct
the Community Chest fund rais
ing campaign for Business
Division E. A trustee of White
Rock Baptist Church, Kennedy
will direct 80 majors and two
associates in soliciting funds
from nearly 150 businesses
which employ less than ten peo
ple.
served for “colored.”
James R. Walker, one of the
Negro law students, refused to
accept the tickets and returned
them to Chancellor House, re
questing a regular student pass
book. His request was sub
sequently refused by House who
explained the administration
policy as “extremely conserva
tive” in dealing with the Negro
students.
Attorney C. O. Pearson, one of
the counsels who led the suc
cessful court fight to get Ne
groes admitted to the Law
school, said that the NAACP will
in all likelihood bring contempt
proceedings against University
officials for the action.
None of the five Negro stu
dents, all of whom were issued
tickets to section K for the foot
ball game, attended the contest.
Apparently realizing better
than their officials the world
wide significance of the attempt
to segregate the Negro students,
UNC students stated in their re
solution that “the University has
been singled out for special lead
ership ... in the preservation of
democratic ideals. Our President
Gordon Gray, even now heads
the Psychological Warfare Div
ision . . . whose chief task is
that of convincing all races of
the world of the integrity of our
democratic institutions and way
of life.”
Their president, Gray, out-of
town for two weeks at present,
several times declined to com
ment on the issue earlier this
week.
^The resolution has been en
dorsed by the Student Legisla
ture, the Baptist Student Union,
Wesley Foundation, Interfaith
Council, YWCA and YMCA. The
Presbyterian Student Associa
tion, Monogram Club, Independ
ent Co-eds Association and the
Centerbury Club has also con
demned the administration pol
icy.
In passing the resolution, the
legislature termed the admin
istration policy of segregation
“an affront to every student in
the University.” It called on the
administration “to respect the
rights of every student with
equal privileges and responsibili
ties for all.”
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Rising Author
Speaks At Meet
Arthur Kahn, former in
telligence officer of the Ameri
can Military Government in
Germany and author of Be
trayal and Bonus for Murder,
delivered the main address at
an interracial public meeting in
tribute to Dr. W. E. B. DuBois
held at the White Rock Baptist
Church here in Durham last
Sunday.
Over $100.00 was raised for
the DuBois defense, the DuBois
Committee announced. Other
sponsors of the meeting were the
recently organized People’s
Peace and Goodwill Council and
the Society for Truth in History.
State farm officials, parti
cipants in the sixth annual dis
trict livestock show here last
Thursday and Friday and their
parents were guests at a ban
quet given by the North Caro
lina Mutual Life Insurance
Company last Thursday night at
the firm’s home office dining
hall here.
Shown in the above photo is
part of the group which listened
to R. E. Jones, (third from right,
reading counterclockwise), State
agent for the State College Ex
, tension Service, deliver the
principal talk.
Winners in the livestock show,
held at the Durham Coun
ty home, were Ellis Harris, vet
eran of Oxford, who owned
prize winning calf; Mary Lee
Dunegan, Route 6, Wake Coun
ty; and A1 vernon Hayes, Morris
ville, grand junior champion
and accorded honor for owning
animal possessing best show
manship.
In the above ynotu read
ing clockwise, are Mrs. E. T.
Nixon, &ome Demonstration
Agent far Durham County; C. B.
Nixon; L. E. Glenn, Rougemont,
who owned most registered pure
bred animals in the State; Mu
tual officials W. J. Kennedy, Jr.,
vice-president and secretary,
and W. L. Cooke, Durham Dis
trict manager; K. L. Wynn,
Dairy Specialist for the State
College Extension Service at
Greensboro; C. C. Spaulding,
president for the Mutual; Jones,
G. W. Cox, vice-president and
av<ik.cy director of the Mutual;
W. Jeffries, Western District
Farm Agent; and J. C. Hubbard,
Durham Farm Agent.
Celebration of White Rock
Baptist Church’s 85th anniver
sary began here last Sunday with
two special services at the local
church. Reverend R. L. Ran
some, former pastor of the
church (fourth from left, seat
ed) delivered the main address
at the regular morning service.
A testimonial service was held
Sunday night at 7:30 honoring
one of the city’s and the church’s
oldest members, Deacon Lindsey
Faucette (fifth from left, seat
ed).
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Other members of the church
deacon board and the pastor are
shown immediately after the
Sunday morning service. They
are, seated, left to right, W. P.
Flintall, J. H. Bell, Reverend
Ransome, Faucette, Reverend M.
M. Fisher, R. L. Eaton, J. H.
Hawkins and D. J. Thompson.
Standing left to right are
Louis Jones, C. C. Malone, Roy
Trice, J. C. Mason, J. W. Far
rington, William Weaver and
Narvey Farrington.
White Rock Anniversary Fete
Continues; White To Speak
Celebration of the 85th an
niversary of White Rock Baptist
Church continues here Sunday
with a sermon on the “Old Time
Religion, IVs’ and a special eve
ning service to be held at 7:30.
The anniversary celebration
was launched last Sunday with
a sermon delivered by former
White Rock pastor, Reverend
W. L. Ransome and a tetsimonial
in honor of Deacon Lindsey Fau
cette, one of the church’s and
the city’s oldest citizens. Rev.
Ransome is now pastor of the
First Baptist Church at Rich
mond, Va.
White Rock’s pastor, Reverend
Miles Mark Fisher, will deliver
Sunday’s sermon on the “Old
Time Religion.” The morning
service will be dedicated to the
late Dr. James E. Shepard,
founder and first president of
North Carolina College.
N. B. White, Scoutmaster of
White Rock’s troop 55, will be
the featured speaker at the 7:30
N. B. WHITE, SR.
service. White will talk on the
program of the young people in
the church.
To Preside At NNBL Meet
Washington, D. C. — Among
the distinguished speakers to ad
dress the 51st annual conven
tion of the National Negro Busi
ness League to be held here in
in the nation’s capital October
10, 11 and 12 is Raymond Pace
Alexander, outstanding Phil
adelphia attorney and civic
worker.
C. C. Spaulding, president of
the North Carolina Mutual Life
Insurance Company, will preside
over a meeting Wednesday eve
ning at which League president
Horace Sudduth will deliver the
annual presidential address.
Whiteville — A crowd of a
bout TOO persons had nothing
more to do Saturday night than
sjtawd around and listen while
two Klu Klux Klan “big wigs”
verbally flailed New York col
umnist Walter Winchell and the
Wilmington Star.
North Carolina Junior Cham
ber of Commerce president Har
ry Stewart of Raleigh also came
in for an attack by the Klan
chieftans.
Two Grand Dragons of the
hooded order of night riders —
Thomas Hamilton, Leesville, S.
C., head of the Carolinas Klan
and Bill Hendrix, Tallahassee,
Fla., head of the Florida organi
zation—delivered the verbal at
tacks.
The two dragons claimed
that the Wilmington Star, morn
ing daily, it “run by Jews” and
that it would not print news.
They branded one of the news
paper’s reporters as “stpuid.”
Stewart, head of the State
Jaycees, was charged with not
having enough “guts to appear
for a public debeate.” Stewart
had earlier refused to accept a
Klan challenge to a debate at
the courthouse here, terming
idea “silly.”
Pfc. Thomas G. Tabor (third
from left) Tar Heel lad station
ed with the 62nd Trans. Truck
Company with the U. S. Army in
Germany, is a member of the
popular “Harmony Notes,” sold
ier quintet which made its debut
recently at the Clover Club in
Karlsruhe, located in the U. S.
Zone in Germany. Pfc. Tabor is
a native of Salisbury. The group
is heard each Sunday morning
over the American Forces net
work, singing spirituals and
popular tunes.
Singing soldiers in the above
photo are, left to right, Private
Ollie V. Harrison, Trinity, Tex.,
62nd Trans. Truck Company;
Pfc. Herbert H. Terrell, Guin,
Ala., Eighth Medical Ambulance
Company, Tabor; Pfc. Odis
Banks, Gloster, Miss., 62nd
Trans. Truck Company; and Pfc.
Frank McCrainey, Greenwood,
Miss., Eigth Medical Ambulance
Company.
The accompanist is Miss Ann
Eitel, Santa Barbara, Calif., of
the Karlsruhe Military Sub Post
Special Service.
Man, Wife On Critical List;
Sheriff Too Sick To Investigate
Above is Reverend C. E. Mc
Eester, pastor of the Morehead
Avenue Baptist Church which
will move into its new structure
on Morehead Avenue here Sun
day. Dedication services for the
new building1, which will begin
Sunday and continue through
next Sunday with services each
night except Saturday, will fea
ture addresses by leading pas
tors and laymen of the area.
On the program schedule arej
Reverend W. H. Fuller, S. P.
Perry, and W. F. Cox. Also are
C. C. Spaulding, Dr. W. R.
Strassner, Shaw University
president; and NCC president
Dr. Alfonso Elder.
Dublin, Ga. — A Negro farm
er and his wife were badly beat
en up in Johnson County Wed
nesday night by a band of white
robed men.
Both victims of the attack, Lee
Brinson and his wife, Alberta
were reported at Claxton hos
pital here to be in critical con
dition. In the same hospital was
Sheriff Dewey Hall, suffering
rum a long illness, who stated
that he there is unable to make
an investigation.
The FBI, informed of the
beating by Joe Anderson, on
whose farm the couple was
sharecropping, stated it would
make an investigation of the at
tack. Anderson stated he knew
the identity of the men who beat
his tenants. He stated they were
were members of a Wrightville
gang, and that he had once been
asked to join.
The Ku Klux Klan is known
to have several local organi
zations in this vicinity.
The man and his wife stated
they were beaten with an ax
handle and strap. The wife said
they were ordered to stay at the
scene of the beating for an hour
and then to leave Johnson Coun
ty before night.
According to a physician Brin
son and his wife sustained sev
eral cuts and bruises about the
body. Neither could tell why
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Uncle Sam
Cicero Rio
New York — The NAACP to
day expressed gratification that
the Justice Department has or
dered an investigation into the
Cicero riots.
“We commend Attorney-Gen
eral J. Howard McGrath for his
forthright action in ordering a
probe into the Cicero case,” NA
ACP Secretary Walter White
said.
“We hope that proper action
will be taken to correct the ter
rible wrong done by the indict
ment of NAACP Attorney
George Leighton and the ex
oneration of the culprits respon
sible for the riots and destruc
tion.”
The NAACP has been urging
federal intervention into the
case since the Cook County
grand jury investigating the dis
turbance failed to indict any of
the rioters, and instead indicted
the NAACP attorney represent
ing the displaced Harvey E.
Clark family. On September 21.
White, Special Counsel Thur
good Marshall, and Attorneys
W. Robert Ming and Frank
Reeves presented the facts in the
case to Justice Department of
ficials and requested an in
vestigation.
Leighton’s indictment on a
charge of conspiracy to incite
riot and two other counts was
vehemently hit by NAACP of-!
ficials and others interested in
the case. They charged that it
resulted from his success in get
ting a federal court injunction
to restrain Cicero police from
preventing the Clarks from mov
ing into their Cicero apartment,
and also his legal moves for a
contempt citation against the
police for violation of this in
junction. Leighton also repre
sents the Clarks in a $200,000
damage suit against the Town
ship of Cicero.
Highway Accidents Take Lives
Of Three; Six Others Hurt Bad!
Death, ever stalking the na
tion’s highways, claimed three
persons in traffic accidents last
week.
Six others were seriously in
jured.
Last rites for Mrs. Rosa At
water, 37 year old' resident of
Carboro, killed in an automo
bile accident Sunday near Chap
el Hill were held at Chapel Hill’s
Rock Hill Baptist Church Tues
day.
Dead in an accident near Gaf
fney, S. C. which hospitalized
six others with serious injuries,
were Mr. and Mrs. Matthew
Richardson of Winston-Salem.
Richardson died shortly after he
was taken to the hospital, but
his wife, Idella, was proun
ounced dead on arrival.
Injuried in the wreck which
took the life of Mrs. Atwater
was Mrs. Ovella Williams, 40
year old Chapel Hill resident
whose condition was described
as “good” by Duke hospital
authorities late Monday night.
Willey Salley, 27 year old
driver of the ill-fated automo
bile, was being held in Hillsboro
early this week on charges of
manslaughter, driving after his
license was revoked and reckless
driving.
Salley, a marine, is also want
ed by Camp Lejuene officials
who say he has been AWOL for
over a month.
The accident occured about
2:45 Sunday.
Surviving Mrs. Atwater are
her husband, Emerson; one son,
Sampie; a daughter, Sedonia;
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