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FOR 29 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 52
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, DEC. 29th, 1951 PRICE TEN CENTS
Mount Gilead Baptist Church of Durham and regular
editorial columnist for the TIMES, has prepared the fol
lowing special message for TIMES readers at this Christ
mastiae. Reverend Roland’s column, “SPIRITUAL IN
SIGHT/’ appears regularly on page two.
“ . . . Emanuel. . . God With Us . .Matt. 1-23
Merry Christmas! The sublime joyousness ot
Christmas is that God breaks in upon the scene ot
human history through the mysterious and magnifi
cant grandeur of the INCARNATION: THE MEET
ING OF GOD AND MAN IN CHRIST. Christmas,
tiwpfnrp. is the meeting- of Heaven and earth—-God
and man—in the humble simplicity of
Bethlehem’s Manger. One word con
veys all of the moral and spiritual
beauty of Christmas: EMANUEL—
GOD WITH US! Men had waited,
longed and prayed for this great hour.
Prophets had said that God would hum
ble himself to be embodied. Christmas
is God leaving his place of exalted and
Rev. Roland internal glory to identity himselt with
man—the Word becoming flesh to dwell among men
.. .Emanuel... God with us.
CHRISTMAS ... LIGHT AND LIFE
Christmas is God drawing near to man with
LIGHT and LIFE. Individuals, races and nations had
prayed for God to draw near to man. They had wait
ed for the coming of . . . “Emanuel. . . God with us.”
Christmas with its joy, peace and sacrificial com
passion is embodied in this word: “EMANUEL . . .
GOD WITH US.” What a word! What a message!
Christmas, a proclamation of God coming to dwell
among us. There is but one reason for the JOY AND
PEACE OF CHRISTMAS: GOD IS WITH US! <
Christmas, Merry Christmas! What is Christ
mas?- It is God with us. It is God with us as LIGHT
in a dark world. Christmas is God with us as peace
in a world of war. Christmas is the outreach of God
to man in his deepest need. Christmas with us as
sacrifical passion in the midst of man’s misery and
and poverty. Thus every human heart should sing
anew Joy to the world for EMANUEL has come—
God is with us as healing and salvation in a world of
sickness and sin. Christmas is joy ... peace ... hope
. .. healing .. . salvation. “EMANUEL—GOD WITH
US.”
ADVENT MADE AMONG THE LOWLY
Christmas! Emanuel with us! Amid the hushed
silence of that night of nights . . . Man’s great hour
came ... Heaven is alerted ... God by-oassed the high
and the mighty. God made his advent among us amid
the humble simplicity of the lowly manger. Hush . . .
the first Christmas dawns: An Angel ... a Heavenly
host... shepherds ... a song .... darkness .. .’A Man
ger: Christ, the God-man, the Incarnate Son, the only
Begotten of the Father: EMANUEL—GOD WITH
US!
Then let every mortal soul cry out to high
Heavens with unutterable joy and peace: Emanuel—
God with us. The world has never been the same. And
what’s more the world can never be the same again.
Why ? Because God has now come to dwell among us!
TIME Magazine Editor To Speak
At N. C. College January 7th
John Scott, author, foreign
correspondent and former chief
for five years of several foreign
news bureaus for TIME, Inc.,
will speak in Duke Auditorium
here at North Carolina College
at 12:20 p. m. on January 7.
Scott will inauguraate N. C.
College’s 1952 Forum Series
with a discussion of “The Dy
namics of Modern Journalism.”
He has a rich background as a
correspondent in the world’s
news capitals.
Scott filed his first dispatches
as a correspondent for TIME,
the weekly news-magazine from
Japan in 1941. A year later, he
became a contributing editor for
TIME in New York. In 1943,
Scott went to Washington to
cover the State Department for
Time and later that year was
sent to London and then to
Stockholm where he was chief
of the TIME and LIFE news
bureau until March, 1945.
From June, 1945 until June,
1948, he was chief of TIME’S
central European bureau in Ber
lin, then returned to the New
York office. Since January of
this year, he has been an editor
for TIME, Inc. in a secret air
force project being produced by
the MARCH OF TIME, the
screen and television division
of TIMES, Inc.
Leaving the University of
Wisconsin early in the depress
ion years, Scott decided to travel
and work abroad where job op
portunities might be better and
after a few months intensive
study at a General Electric train
ing school in Schenectady where
,ie earned a metal worker’s cer
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Durhamites Among POW’s
Brown, Davis Families Elated
Two Durham Negroes were
listed among the 11,559 Ameri
can soldiers reported held as
prisoners of war by the Com
munist forces in Korea.
They are Cpl. James J. Brown,
Jr., and Cpl. Prestee Davis.
News of their dentention by
the Communists was reported
to the happy families this week.
Cpl. Davis has been reported
missing for a year and Corporal
Brown had been missing since
January.
Both families received the
news of the two men with un
restrained elation here this
week. Mrs. Tempie Brown of
213 Corporation Street was
quoted by the Durham Morning
Herald as declaring: “It’s the
best Christmas present I could
ever received . .
Cpl. Brown’s wife, Mrs. Prud
ence Brown, was also overjoyed
at receiving the news of her hus
band.
Julius Davis, father of Cpl.
Davis, said upon receiving the
news of his son that he felt bet
ter than he had in over a year.
Davis also has another son,
Julius, Jr., who was sent from
Korea to Japan after his brother
had been reported missing.
Brown’s mother said she al
ready knew her son was a prison
er because she had received a
letter from him last July stating
that he was being held. She said
that she hadn’t heard anything
since of her son.
Davis said that the War De
partment notified him a year ago
that his son was missing and that
was the last he had heard of him.
Cpl. Brown, a member of the
503 Field Artillery Battalion,
had been in Korea since the first
of July, 1950. This is Cpl. Davis’
second hike in the Army.
Another Durham man, Pvt.
Fred Lane, was also reported on
the Prisoner of war list released
by the Communists.
The White House issued warn
ings advising that an attitude of
“skepticism” be adopted until
the lists can be authenticated.
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Family’s House, Everything Reduced To Ashes
Fifth Child
Hurt; Mother
Tries Rescue
Elizabeth City — A thirty
minute blaze left its legacy of
deep sorrow and irreparable
grief in the hearts of the Thorn
ton family and their neighbors
of the Shiloh community in
Camden County, near here last
Tuesday.
When firemen finally extin
guished the raging fire, the
Thornton family was bereft of
four of its six children, its hum
ble dwelling and all of its fur
nishings.
Funeral services for the four
children—Hilton, one; Clarine,
two; McNeal, three; and Teresa,
four—were held last Thursday
at the Philadelphia Baptist
church at two o’clock in the af
ternoon. Ashes (all that was
left of the small victims) were
placed in one casket and interr
ed in the church cemetery.
The flames also left their
mark on the living members of
the family. A fifth child, one
month old infant Terry, was in
critical condition in the Albe
marle hospital as a result of
burns suffered in the fire and
his mother, Mrs. Evelyn Thorn
ton, was burned on both hands,
arms and in the face when she
tried to save her four children.
Only members of the family
physically untouched by the
damaging fire were the father,
Moses, who was at work in Pas
quotank at the time of the blaze
and an unidentified two year
old boy who was rescued.
Although the house and every
thing in it were reduced to ashes
and rubble, an old barn very
close to the house did not catch
fire at all.
According to reports, Mrs.
Thornton went in to see about
the children, she found the
whole room ablaze and the roof
of the house caving in. She man
aged to grab up the one month
old infant, Terry, and the two
year-old boy, but couldn’t see or
hear any of the others.
Remnants of the bodies of the
four others were found huddled
at the front door as if they died
trying to open it.
How the fire got started is not
known, but it is thought that the
stove pipe, which was said to
have been shaky, could have
fallen, as the children were
playing, into a box of paper
nearby.
Camden County coroner Car
roll Godfrey was called at 4:30
and went with Recorder’s Court
judge R. L. Whaley to the scene
of the fire.
Moses Thornton and his wife
are now staying with a neigbor,
Mark Gregory.
Bus Company Faces
Jim Crow Travel Suit
Driver Ejects
Frail, Elderly
Negro Woman
RALEIGH — The Atlantic
Greyhound bus corporation is
scheduled to face a suit for forc
ing an elderly and frail woman
to give up her seat in the back
of a bus to white passengers.
This is what Mrs. Hattie How
ard of New York City has
charged the company with in an
action to recover damages. At
torney Herman L. Taylor of this
city and William C. Raines will
handle Mrs. Howard’s suit
against the company.
In her complaint, Mrs. Howard
stated that after boarding an ex
press bus in New York for Sav
annah, Ga., and riding all the
way on the back seat to Raleigh,
she was given a choice by a sub
stituting driver in Raleigh on last
Friday of standing in the aisle to
make room for boarding white
passengers or getting off.
Mrs. Howard who is 63 years
old and quite frail, protested the
driver’s demand, and stated that
she got off after she feared he
would do her physical violence.
The following story was told
by Mrs. Howard through her at
torneys, of the incident:
Mrs. Howard said that on Dec
ember 13, she purchased a ticket
at the Greyhound bus station for
transportation via an express bus
from New York City to Sav
annah, Ga., took a seat in the
back of the bus and traveled
without incident until she reach
ed the Union bus station in Ra
leigh.
When the bus arrived. at the
station in Raleigh, a new driver
was assigned to continue the
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DURHAM GETS “FIRST”—Durham’s Chief of Police H. E.
King affixes the badge of Lieutenant on Policeman J. B. Samuels,
thus making the city the first in the State, and probably in the
South also, to list a Negro police lieutenant. Two other Negro
policemen were promoted along with Samuels. They are Frank
McCrae and C. L. Cox who were promoted to the Detective De
partment. Samuels and Cox have served seven years on the force,
longest of any of the Negro policemen.
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Sepia Insurance Firm In Gotham
Stopped From Writing Policies
NEW YOR K— United Mutual
Life Insurance, the only Negro
owned insurance company sell
ing insurance in the state of New
York, was prohibited by New
York State Insurance Depart
ment^ along with three other
companies, from selling certain
weekly and monthly premiums.
The department viewed the
step as reducing the cost of life
insurance to low-income work
ers for from 3 to 30 per cent is
estimated will be saved yearly.
Those who already hold such
policies, moreover, will get back
dividends on their policies.
The other three companies
that were banned from selling
the weekly and monthly policies
—Columbian Protective Associa
tion, The Golden Eagle Life In
surance Company, and Unity
Life and Accident Insurance As
sociation—all had tremendous
Negro clients. They had de
vised the weekly system espe
cially for Harlem customers, who
get paid weekly.
Total insurance of this type,
written by these companies in
cluding United Mutual, during
1950 alone amounted to $17,
300,000. The premium incomeg
for the companies amounted to
more than $850,000.
Four Named
To College
Fund Board
New York — The election of
four new members of the Board
of Directors of the United Negro
College Fund was anounced by
W. J. Trent, Jr., Executive Di
rector of the Fund.
Named to the Board were
Mary McLeod Bethune, founder
and president emeritus of Be
thune-Cookman College, Day
tona Beach, Fla., one of the 32
private, accredited colleges aid
ed by the Fund; John H. John
son, Chicago, publisher of Ebony
Negro Digest and Jet magazines:
Chauncey L. Waddell, New York
president of the investment firm
of Waddell & Reed and Charles
I. Denechaud Jr., New Orleans
attorney.
Thomas A. Morgan, president
of Sperry Corporation will again
serve as chairman of the Fund’s
Board, Trent said, and other
members who were re-elected
this year include C. Arthur
Bruce, gxecutive Vice President
E. L. Bruce Co., Memphis, Ten
nessee; George H. Burchum,
Comptroller, Chase National
Bank, New York City; William
E. Cotter, Counsel, Union Car
bide & Carbon Corporation, New
York ity; Walter D. Fuller, Pres
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Laura Ann Penn, North Car
olina College junior coed of
1344 N. Woodland Avenue, Win
ston . Salem, will represent
N.C.C.’s Alpha Chi chapter of
Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority at
the annual boule in Baltimore
on December 26.
Miss Penn is a health educa
tion major at North Carolina Col
lege where she is active in the
affairs of the College’s Pan-Hel
lenic Council.
Last Rites Held
For Mrs. Quarles,
Bennett College
Greensboro — Mrs. Vera
Quarles, 42, 501 Bennett Street,
Greensboro, instructor in the
English Department at Bennett
College, died suddenly late las'
Wednesday afternoon at L. Rich
ardson Memorial Hospital after
being taken there just before
noon.
Mrs. Quarles, a native of this
city, joined the staff of Bennett
in September. She did her un
dergraduate work at Howard U
niversity, Washington, D. C., and
received additional degrees at
the University, Washington, D.
C., and received additional de
grees at University of Wiconsin
where she majored in Journa
lism and minored in English.
Survivors: her husband, Dr.
Benjamin A. Quarles, Greens
boro; one daughter, Roberta; one
sister, Miss Dorothy L. Hamilton,
Califonia; on brother, Dr. Rob
ert Bullock, California.
Funeral services were held
Friday, December 21, at 11:00
A. M. at St. Matthews Church,
Greensboro, with Rev. J. E.
Brower conducting the services.
Interment will follow in Maple
wood Cemetery.
Washington — A Beaufort |
Superior Court jury refused to
award a man the $25,000 in
damages which he sought a
gainst his white employer who
admitted kicking him in the
groin and causing him to be
hospitalized.
The unsuccessful plaintiff in
the action was Lee Wynn who
brought suit against a local
lumber mill man. Thomp Litch
field, part owner of the Moss
Planing mill here, is the defen
dant in the action.
Wynn, who worked as a watch
man at the plant, told the court
that Litchfield kicked him in
the groin last Jan. 13 in an ar
ument over a wage claim. The
injury caused him to be hospital
ized for five days and he said
he has been receiving treatments
since May.
In addition, Wynn stated that
he had been unable to work
since suffering the injury. He
sought $15,000 for personal dam
ages and $10,000 punitive dam
ages.
Wynn told the court that
Litchfield had a gun in his pock
et and threatened him if he did
not sign a wage release.
Litchfield admitted kicking
his employee but claimed seif
defense. Te said he kicked Wynn
after the latter had picked up a
shovel in a threatening manner.
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Bennett Gets
$4,000 Toward
$17,000 Goal
Greensboro —over S4,500 was
turned over to Bennett College
today by representatives attend
ing the anual Bennett College
rally of the North Carolina an
nual Methodist Conference.
Gifts to the college exceeded
those of last year by more than
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