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VOLUME 29—NUMBER 46
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, DEC. 1st, 1951
PRICE TEN CENTS
Dr. Dubois Is Freed Drake U. Quits Loop
‘Equals _lities In Local
Schools Are Non-Existent
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I Taft Shows Colors {
| In Half-Hour Talk j
Senator Robert A. Taft of
Ohio is against racial segrega
tion as an individual, he says,
but he does not think it would
be wise for the federal gov
ernment to pass a law
abolishing segregation all at
once.
That was the essence of the
senator’s position as it was
brought out in a series of an
swers to questions following
a speech at North Carolina
College here Wednesday aft
ernoon.
The Republican presidential
candidate said early in his re
marks that college students ask
“more intelligent and embarras
sing questions than most audi
ences.” NCC’s students, Floyd
McKissick, Calvin Norman, and
Cecil Powell, didn’t let the sen
ator down.
The students’ questions fol
lowed the usual Taft blast at the
“stupidity, misjudgment” and
ineptitude of the past two Demo
cratic administrations. These
administrations, the senator
said, without ever referring to
the late President F. D. Roose
velt or President Harry S. Tru
man, set up the play for the
Russians to take the initiative
in world affairs.
Taft’s thesis, basically, was
that notwithstanding the pre
sent seriousness of many
domestic issues ,the impending
threat of world communism is
a greater threat to the liberty
and peace of the American
people.
In reply to a question about
his specific solution to the inter
national situation. Taft referred
his inquisitor to his recently
published book, “A Foreign
Policy For Americans.”
Taft was asked his position on
“State’s rights.” He said he was
a “firm believer” in States’
rights. He added that there are
some areas in which the state
and federal governments can
operate effectively at a separate
level and in others they can co
operate efficiently together. He
said he thought an instance of
the federal government’s effec
tiveness could be cited in gen
eral labor laws and in guar
anteeing rights under the 14th
amendment of the U. S. Con
stitution.
Professor C. A. Jones of the
NCC Department of History
directed the flow of questions to
Taft who was presented to the
audience by President Alfonso
Elder of NCC. Jones is advisor
to the NCC Social Science Club,
sponsor of the senator’s speech.
Chester Gregory is club presi
dent.
The NCC student questioners
plied the presidential aspirant
with queries about federal fair
employment legislation, equal
rights, equal schools, and “in
tegration.”
Taft said flatly he was op
posed to compulsory fair em
ployment practices legislation.
He said he had tried to in
troduce a fair employment bill
of his own, but the Democrats
wouldn’t permit it. Taft also
took occasion to charge the
Democrats with “awkward
handling” of the FEPC bill
which they purportedly were
sponsoring. According to the
Ohio Republican, the De
mocrats held the bill up un
til the last minute and then
brought it out when there was
“more pressing legislation.”
This, he said, was a most un
favorable time for the con
sideration of such a bill.
The senator emphasized
throughout his speech, however,
that, in his opinion, FEPC and
civil rights and numerous other
domestic issues are all second
ary to the battle which Ameri
cans must wage against Russian
aggression.
Citing his own Ohio back
ground chiefly as guide, Taft
said he thought there was more
discrimination against Negroes
in industry in the North than
there is in the South. He said he
thought that Negroes were the
primary objects of discrii'nina
tion and that to enact a national
law that would affect other
racial and religious groups who
are not similarly affected would
be unfair to hosts of employers.
It was the inclusiveness of the
compulsory FEPC laws that he
opposed, not the principle, Taft
averred.
Taft’s bill would set up com
missions to go into each city
where discrimination was
charged. After a study, the
committee would recommend
a course of action. The com
mission then would try to get
the discriminating employers
to change their tactics, Taft
stated. His position on fair
employment practices satisfied
neither the NAACP nor some
of his white friends in the
WASHINGTON—The 12-day
old trial of Dr. Edward B.
DuBois, noted scholar and au
thor, ended suddenly here last
week when Judge Matthek F.
McGuire broke up the hearing
by directing a verdict of ac
quital.
The internationally known
leader and four associates of
the now dissolved Peace In
formation Center of New
York, were indicted last Feb
ruary for violation of the
Foreign Agents Registration
Act. Since that time a sen
tence of five years in jail had
been hanging over the head
of the 83-year-old Dr. DuBois.
When the directed verdict of
acquittal was announced, Dr.
DuBois with tears in his eyes
kept saying over and over “I
am indeed happy” — “I am in
deed happy.”
, Upon motion for a judgment
of acquittal Judge McGuire
ruled that to allow the case to
proceed further would force
“the jury to conjecture in the
field of conjecture.”
Freed along with Dr. DuBois
were his associates, Kyrle
Elkin, Elizabeth Moos and
Abbott Simon. Sylvia Soloff,
secretary of the Center, was
freed Tuesday morning when
it was disclosed that she was
a hired employee and not an
official of the Center.
DR. W. E. B. DuBOIS
In directing his verdict of ac
quittal Judge McGuire stated
that Attorneys for the Govern
ment had failed to establish any
connection between the Peace
Information Center and the
Comittee of the World Congress
of the Defenders of Peace and
its successor, the World Peace
Council.
Said Judge McGuire further:
“I don’t know whether or not
these individuals are sincere in
their activities or whether or
not they are intending to sub
vert the liberties under which
they and we live.”
“But it is an old aphorism,
recently more or less chan
neled by the Supreme Court
in the Dennis case, to the ef
fect that, ‘I may hate the very
things you say, but I respect
your right to say it.’
“As AmepieSns, we have con
fidence in both our material
strength and in the spiritual
validity of those institutions that
strength that is the stability and
are ours.
“Less than 100 years ago in
this very city, when the unity
of the country was shattered,
it was hard to determine who
was for the Union and who
was again it.
“Yet, the courts functioned,
never once shunted their duty,
and continued in the just and
impartial administration of the
law.”
Representing Dr. DuBois and
his associates were Attorneys
Vito Marcantonio, chief coun
sel; Geo. E. C. Hayes, Geo.
Parker, James A. Cobb, former
Municipal Court jurist; Barring
ton D. Parker, Bernard Jafee
and Stanley Faulkner.
ADOPTS BLUE CROSS
Orangeburg, S. C.—The en
rollment of the faculty and col
lege employees in the South
Carolina Hospital Service Plan
and South Carolina Medical Ser
vice Plan was announced this
week by Dr. B. C. Turner, pres
ident of State A and M College
here.
South, Senator Taft indicated.
The senator does not favor
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LIEUT. J. B. SAMUEL
DETECTIVE C. L. COX
DETECTIVE FRANK McCREA
Kinston Students
Return To School
KINSTON — Most of Adkin
High School’s 720 students re
turned to classes here on Mon
day after striking last week in
protest against inadequate facili
ties.
The striking students plan to
appear before a Lenoir County
Board of Commissioners next
Monday to voice their com
plaints. They have charged that
proper classroom space, voca
tional shop space and equip
ment, and gymnasium facilities
are not provided for their use.
Principal C. B. Stewart and
County School Superintendent
Jean B. Booth sai dthey believed
the students had adopted a wise
course in returning to school.
Special to the TIMES
DES MOINES, Iowa — In a
move unprecedented in this
country, Drake University this
week withdrew from the Miss
ouri Valley Conference.
Formerly a member of the
MVC for 43 years, Drake
simultaneously suspended all
athletic relations with Okla
homa A. and M. College, whose
tackle, Wilbanks Smith, de
liberately broke the jaw of star
halfback Johnny Bright during
a contest between the two
schools at Stillwater, Oklahoma,
on October 20.
The action came, according
to Drake’s Athletic Council,
because of the conference’s
“refusal to investigate the as
sault . . . Failure of the con
ference to investigate the to
tal situation surrounding the
game . . . And refusal of the
conference to take action in
any way.”
Circumstances involving the
Smith-Bright incident were
widely publicized in the nation’s
-leading papers and magazines.
Pictures of the game revealed
that Bright was slugged illegally
by Smith even after the Drake
speedster had removed himself
completely from a play in which
his assignment was away from
his team’s offensive action.
A leading weekly news-pic
ture magazine, LIFE, reported
that it was common knowl
edge at Oklahoma A. and M.
that the Aggies would be gun
ning for Bright in their home
coming contest. Batteries of
Some members of the del
egation to the Conference re
cently concluded at the Free
Will Baptist Church here are
shown above. Officials parti
cipating in the sessions were:
N. W. Lockamy, Moderator;
the Rev. J. D. Ray, Vice
Moderator; the Rev. W. H.
R. McLean, Treasurer; and
A. R. McLean, Treasurer; and
the Rev. R. T. Fowler, Chair
man of the Board.
Three Negro Policemen Get
Lieutenant, Detective Posts
The promotion of three Negro
officers of Durham’s Police
Force was announced by Chief
of Police H. E. King here on
Wednesday.
J. B. Samuel, a veteran of
seven years’ service with the
Police Department, received a
lieutenancy, while C. L. Cox,
also a member of the force for
seven years, and Frank McCrea,
were upped to the rank of
detective.
Cox and McCrea will serve in
the plain clothes division under
Detective Captain E. R. Leary.
Samuel will coordinate the work
of Negro patrolmen.
In commenting on the pro
motions, Chief King said: “they
are well-deserved proomtions.”
The seniority and “fine job” of
the men involved were import
ant factors in elevating them to
their new positions, he explain
ed.
Applications from white and
Negro men for current openings
in the Department are now be
ing processed according to Chief
King. The force lost one Negro
officer when patrolman Joseph
Barnes died recently, while an
other Negro officer was incap
acitated following wounds re
ceived several months ago while
on duty.
The promotions are effective
on December 1.
Fourteen Negroes Lose Lives In
Head-On Crash Of Streamliners
WOODSTOCK, Ala. (Special
to the TIMES) — The penalty of
death for riding in a reserved
seat, half-baggage coach, half
passenger coach was meted to
14 Negroes who met instant
death here last Sunday when
streamliners of the Southern and
Louisville and Nashville Rail
ways collided head-on approxi
mately 30 miles from Birming
ham.
The L and N’s Crescent Limit
ed, a southbound New York-to
New Orleans streamliner plowed
into the northbound New Or
leaiis-to-New York Southerner
after an engineer on the South
erner apparently ignored a
warning signal that the Cres
cent Limited, re-routed over
Southern tracks because of
damage to regular L and N
tracks, was approaching a sid
ing near which the trains col
lided.
Most of the dead were Negro
passengers riding in the second
coach of the New York-bound
Southerner. Although scores of
passengers were injured and re
ceived treatment at hospitals in
Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, and
Bessemer, only two of the six
teen victims were white.
Two Negroes standing near
the tracks at the time of the
collision were killed, according
to an eyewitness report. Some
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Orange Bowl
Score Available
TIMES readers may learn
“who’s doing what” in the
15th Annual Orange Blos
som Classic pitting North
Carolina College against
Florida A. and M. by phon
ing 5-6071 between 9:15
and 11 p. m., Saturday, Dec.
1. Reports on the tilt will
be afforded by TIMES
Managing Editor Clathan
Ross, whose complete story
coverage of the game will
be carried in next week’s
TIMES.
“Felt Like Shooting”
Drunken Negro Turns Shotgun On Friend's Wife,
Daughter After Finding Weapon In Landlord's Home
WARRENTON — A man who
“felt like shooting something”
turned a shotgun on a friend
and her daughter with serious
consequences to both in Fort
Township near here last week.
Twenty-six-year-old Robert
Jones, a sixfoot, 170-pound Ne
gro, was still at large late this
week after critically wounding
15-year-old Mary Williams and
her mother after a drinking bout
led him to blast his friends with
whom he frequently spent the
night.
According to Deputy Sheriff
Rooker, Jones had been drinking
before coming to the home of
George Williams to shout
and arouse the family which
had retired for the night. Mrs.
Williams and her daughter went
to the top of the steps to speak
to Jones when he fired once and
injured Mrs. Williams and Mary.
Williams had retreated to the
bedroom after discovering that
Jones had found the shotgun
which the Williamses kept in
the house.
Several years ago Jones was
tried for arson and ordered to
stay out of Warren County for
five years according to Rooker.
The victim’s were treated at
Warren General Hospital, where
the daughter’s condition was de
clared critical by attending phy
sicians.
Another Negro, Hansom
Griggs-, is currently being held
in a Warren County jail on
charges of assault after he al
ledgedly shot his wife’s foot off
in what was described as a
jelously shooting.
Klan Grand Dragon Says Tar Heel
Membership Is Steadily Growing
WILMINGTON — The Grand
Dragon of the Association of the
Carolina Klans, speaking from
the back of a truck near the
town of Bolivia last week, de
clared that North Carolina’s
membership in the Ku Klux
Klan was growing from “Boone
to the coast.” .
Thomas L. Hamilton, leader
of the Tar Heel and Palmetto
Klansmen, brought in the usual
organizations for attack while
addressing an orderly gathering
of 1,500. He attacked B’Nai
B’rith and the National Urban
League along with other racial
and religious groups.
Thirty-five robed Klan mem
bers, one of them a woman,
heard Hamilton say that those
who opposed the Klan “should
be watched.” He expressed the
opinion that the Klan stood for
what was “good and just.”
Several Marines from Cherry
Point and Camp Lejeune were
noticed by the 20-odd State
Highway patrolmen who were
on hand to prevent any distur
bance at the site of the meeting.
License numbers of cars which
entered the field in which the j
gathering assembled were noted
by Patrolmen. Earlier, Attorney
General Harry McMullan had
announced that license plates be
longing to those persons who at
tended the meeting would be
recorded for publication.
Hamilton said that he had re
ceived letters from friends in
“Raleigh, Durham, and other
cities,” urging him to appear for
talks.
The Grand Dragon was the
only speaker at the meeting.
cameras trained at Bright
bore testimony to the success
ful attempt to “get” the half
back who last year led the na
tion’s gridsters in total of
fenseive yardage.
Smith apologized for “over
charging” Bright after learning
that Bright had sustained a
broken jaw which doctors wired
for several weeks while placing
Drake’s star on a liquid diet.
Drake did not indicate an
intenion to discontinue inter
collegiate athletic competi
tion, however. A Council
spokesman said that Drake
would “honor all present con
tracts for games with confer
ence members except those
with Oklahoma A. and M. Col
lege.
Athletic Director Henry Iba
of Oklahoma A. and M. had
“absolutely no comment,” while
Aggie Coach J. B. Whitworth
was unavailable for questioning.
73rd Annual
AMEZ Confab
In Fayetteville
FAYETTEVILLE — The 73rd
Annual Central North Carolina
Conference of the African
Methodist Episcopal Zion
Church ended here Sunday with
appointments to the various dis
tricts.
The conference got underway
here last Thursday.
The following is a list of min
isters and churches to which
they were appointed.
DURHAM
Durham district, W. W. Long,
presiding elder;'
S. P. Perry, StJ
Mark; J. Z. Sil
er, Mt. Olive; S.i
P. Cooke, Kyles;
Temple; G. W.j
Horton, M i t
chell Chapel; G.
W. Harrell, Gees
Grove; W. D.
Drake, St. Paul
Circuit; L. R.
Williams, Cor
inth and Con
tennial.
Also J. A.
Jones, Cameron
O’Briant, Evans and Terrell; N.
D. McLain, Holland and Eben
ezer; W. T. Fairley, Chestnut
and Chapel Hill; Eva Satter
white, Rose Hill Circuit; Efford
Alston, Thompson Chapel Cir
cuit; M. F. Ward, O’Briant Cir
cuit; J. Alston, White Oak; and
C. V. Horton, Belmont.
RALEIGH
Raleigh district, G. F. Mad
kins, presiding elder; J. C.
Flowers, Rush Memorial; S. L.
Brown, Kesler Temple; Mable
Philpot, Grace Chapel; L. H.
King, Norrington; J. W. Penning
ton, Union Chapel; E. H. Beebee,
Lillington Circuit; A. P. Murphy,
Kyles Temple and Avery Grove;
J. S. Fletcher, Mt. Moriah;
Jacob Lovel, Cook’s Chapel.
And W. T. Jeffries, Barnes
Chapel; C. T. Tharrington, St.
Joseph and Big Zion; S. E.
Tyson, Holly Spring Circuit; J.
C. Curtis, Sellars Chapel; S. C.
Pouncey, St. Marys and Tay
lor’s Chapel; E. L. Mayaek,
Creedmoor and Carey; Winston
Blackmon, St. Paul; Zollie
Dunn, Rose Hill; Archie Mc
Dougald, Kennebeck; W. M.
Brydsol, Harris Grove; and
George Bullock, Louisburg.
FAYETTEVILLE
Fayetteville district, J. A.
Brown, presiding elder; C. R.
Coleman, Evans Metropolitan;
J. S. Maynor, Beaver Creek; W.
S. Henderson, Trinity Chapel;
F. A. Lusan, Mattocks Memor
ial; H. C. McLain, New Bethel;
A. M. Spaulding, St. John; L. B.
Russell, Oak Grove Circuit; J.
A. Ashley, Flea Hill; F. L. Tyson,
Tar Hill; S. J. Wall, Mount
Hebrew; T. H. Spruill, Hood
Temple; R. H. Stedman, Eliza
beth; W. O. Carson, Ervin
Memorial.
SANFORD
Sanford district, J. W. Marsh,
presiding elder; D. W. Mclnnis,
Fair Promise; G. F. Martin,
Trinity; G. F. Dowdy, Bethel;
W. H. McCrae, Pinehurst; C. I.
Fort, Carthage Circuit; G. D.
Glover, Jonesboro Circuit; G. D.
Glover, Aberdeen Circuit; L. L.
McLaughlin, New Hope Circuit;
G. M. Hooker, Robinson Chap
el; David Sawyer, Johnsonville;
H. P. Marsh, Jordan Spring; J.
C. McNair, Green Grove Mis
sion; C. W. Wicker, Manley Cir
cuit; and E. A. Armstrong, Fair
Promise Mission.
LAURINBURG
Laurinburg district, T. J.
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