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VOLUME XXVI, NO. I! liA 1 .HIGH, NORTH CAROLINA WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APRIL 12. 1947 PRILL U
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Rev. .James R Holloway tie«
Director oi Religious KcSucaftioti
4>l trip list Chunhe- of Charlotte
and Mecklenburg (ouat' an
noawes th* stifißii! Institute ~-•
Simdsi Schools BTI V Iluioiti
MissioriJr-. Cnion >.nd 'll - l-lfrs.
The Institute \>. i!i convent is? '
weeks. Aitril ■';( -lH'ty ?;. «! Keren*
, hip Baptist Church.
EMPLOY EE G! T\
LIBERIA POST
wA SI -l IN CI TO N tNN l•• A.-
Samuel Wimberly, a forme! . ■
f !oyt«- of the Office of Pric-e Ad
ministration has been appoint a
U> o cleiical job with U:e united
St.- tot; Economic Mission to Li
Lit■ Vio ancl ,v: j. soon h-uvi ’
I'njtcd State. 5 - Ice. tho; rountry.
the Stale Department said it::";
?'• idy> ;
Reports SCHW
Not Communist
lAR OFFICIALS
PRAISE A. AMI T.
GREENSBORO After an in
formal inspection tour of the A
and T College ROTO program
here recency. Major Genera! Ed
v, ,:rd 8 Bres. executive tor reserve
and ROTC affairs oJ the War Do
jaulmc-nt Special Staff, expressed
himself as qu>U. tin pressed with
i!'-> progffim ir, effect at the col
lege
The A. and T. unit Is under the
three (ion of Major Edward John- '
son. former 368th Infantry office:
fiorn Chicago. He is assisted h.y .
staff of three officers and five non
c• ‘tnmissioned o fficert.
INIEIACIA!
GROUP TO
TOUR SOUTH
NEW YORK On April 9th an
interracial deputation representing j
the Fellowship of Reconeilliatior !
end the Congress of fiscal Equality •
v. ill begin a two week tour of the ,
upper South, touching at points in
Virginia. Kentucky. North Caro- •
Ina .and Ttennesee, to apeak before j
y church, civic, and student, groups i
u; discuss the question ni segrega- ■
lion in travel
The decision of the Supreme
in the case of Irene Morgan, an- i
flounced last .Tunue 3rd, declared;
unconstitutional state laws de- i
mending segregation of inter
state passengers. One purpose of]
this tiepuntion is to acquaint neo- !
pi who will be reached with the;
legal fact; about s r "rogation of 1
pi'SKCnr-:rr in travel, and practical j
met ~d. for implementing the Mot - !
ghu decision of the Supreme Court,!
HAVE A BUST r
3-DAY SESSION |
IN RALEIGH
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,t \ vii.s t t a i.oa 4
e.lk< t f a uhf.sibfm
RALEIGH Negro Teachers 8
c.unc- to T-;.i.:- :.i) on April ?,. 4. anrl I
r > for iho Sixty-sixth Annual Con- I
vent ion o f :he 'North Carolina 8
Teachem Convention. They all end- ' 8
ori two generai sessions many sec- 1
;Km til and departmental meetings. I
Tru most important business of tht a
Cf.r.vtmbi.n tv s !h e Ctri-v; c.i if- |
The meeting or.-encu Thursday w I
S". .v U: 'vert;!;, with wi Seem.' ~■■:!■ |
d is.-c by u-.e Mayor of Raleigh ■
and :ti - Nan I- J-Tazltn Teacher
s; Lociilt- Hunt-ei Scfe»»ol That h
right Dr David J Rose, noted
Surgeon and Ediit-t-itn.-r.cl leadc
acdviLy.scci ire it-ac’hers on then
importance of remain mg in H>e
S'-OtC ’ll'.’-* Spt'i -*.-r said. !,l t- op
favrtunity for tht.- Negroes Im in
•Centn-uea on riack pagc-l
NEGRO'OTV RAISES
Ft MIS FOR 1 IRE
FIGHTING OITFIT
OXFORD. Ala. -ANPi The
Civic league. poofv'-.isional, bttsiuess
r <i:'.. and ymitig merits ciabs of
Hopson City - ii- city within .-
r.i.t has taimched a. fund rais- i
i-;,mp;npt for s4Bn by June 30
vith which u. puichai-t fire-fight- 1
ir-fe equipment.
The ail-Negro -(immunity h '
r.-niec witbir. and is completely sur* '
rniinded by Oxford, oorii oi which
arc- incorporated cities
BY ! Oris hACTIEK
WASHINGTON. If. C. f NNP A) - -
A study -.>f the hearings on the
nomination oI David E. LiJienthhi
to be a member of tiie Atomic En
ergy Commission, held before th
Si iiar 1 Committee on Atomic £n
■'.gv fail-- XQ support the charyi
that :h«. Southern Ottnfcre.nc* foi
lit. 'man Welfare- is u Communis!-
front organization.
Mr. Lili'iitha) himself described
die Southern Conference as an or
ganization interested in th< promo
tion of social and individual web
faro n the South. He sad that
“there 'wore a good many people
of miseellaenous views- and b■, ok -
ground, who fall that activity in
the promotion of human welfare
m the South was- a worth-while
ui idert.-iktrig."
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O’DWYER, DEWEY
SEEK NEGRO VOTE
• NEW YORK i NNP A) - Cover
| not Thomas E. Dewey, a strong Re
i publican Presidential possibility.
! and Mayor William O’Dwyer arc
: vying for the favor of colored vot
j or.- colored commuinities of Nov
i York State, according to reliable
; political sources.
Mayor O’Dwyer, trying to match
| Governor Dewey’s outstanding re
; cord in the appointment of colored
! persons to office, early this yea;
! ur-mad J Raymond Jones to the
i post of Deputy Commissioner oi
i Housing and Buildings,
i To bolster his position with ool
! ored voters, these sources said
• Mayor O’Dwyei let if be known
! that he favored n colored man for
I fhi- vacancy or »he federal bench
iin the sou then N'v 'fork district
j Magistrate V-yrnon V. Riddick or
: G Dwyer appointee, wns promin
• emiy mentioned for the gogt,
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hll.LKf; OF PASSENGER
('. A. James, condiu-tcr -n AC t
railroiul train the "Savannah
-in i.-; i " svtui shot and killed
f lcu-hcr H. .Melvin. April S.
The vi. urn v,s<, enreule t«
Bunn, to spend tt« Easier holi
days -with his family and friends.
«vh«-» he met with a mo-! tragic
tieitth.
F L A s in
n<BSi Lisin Si
KE! SEY PUSSES
SALISBURY Mis, l din s
Kelsh. of Salisbury, who was
president emeritus of the V
(' Federation oS Woman's
Clubs a state-wide civic and
welfare organize lion died at
her home on Wednesday foliov ■
irig a lengthy illness.
Mrs. Kelsey gave tinsuntingh
ot her efforts she Wom
an's Club which Mas labored
for the pu.-i 25 years u> im
prove the status of Negroes of
North Carolina. Under her dy
namic leadership, this orgasi
i/ttioi! was responefhle for the
rstablishment of the N. C Train
ing School lor Negro Girls as
Hot ky Mount
Slut- was a graduate of Bar
her-Seotia Junior College, a
member of the AMEZ Church
and one of the most outstand
ing civic aiui social welfare
Naders in N. <:.. also. she. was
the first woman embalmer.
while or eolored. 4» the stale.
-.nri at the time of her death
was the diret-ior of the Kelsey--
Noble Funeral Borne m Salis
bury-.
Funeral arrang-emeniN were
not available at this writiiu.
Meanwhile-, there is; talk, .about
thi probable appointment by Gov
i nor Dewey of u colored rnort li
on; of the two $12,000-a-ye»r place;-
oi the New York State P.-->-ole
Co nimssTon. The term of a com
missioner is six years,
Former Governor Herbert Leh
.m; r. was urged to appoint a col
osod person, and when Dewey br
; came governor he was promptly !
asked to pui a colored person on
! the commission.
This year Goveronor Dewey ask
j<d that the .egisjattin pnss » bill
; increasing the number of members- 1
or tin commission from three to
i five, and it was hinted in some j
quarters that Dew.-'- would giv ■
one of the new positions to a col
ored person The Governor signed ,
I s&e legislation everal weeks ago
j but so far an appointments tew J
j un back gagej »
Happy new Khmer new year.
Relativse and friends of Fletch
er FI Melvin who was killed Sat
urday. April 5. by C \ James,
conductor on the ACL Savannah
-tK-fia! between Rocky Mount
Violation Os interstate
Commerce Ruling Charged
v';i Ah iv) Ii r - i j' .form J»i.u i
Bt nudk-i CUyivintn*. S. C..
I- -.lay charvur. iKv G.tvv Hound Bui,
Company and its driver, name not
ciiii havn«K ' iuct.ec ra.
wuc: vo-snt. d;-’.tg'!hor ar.c him*.*L
from a Winston-Salem bound bin,
. : ci.mef 3 p. m. on April 3.
D- Smith .-datwl >bi-; ho w:tt si«-
Tiiit with to- vciic and daugiitvi on
>-c of the d»ob!e seen-/ in front of
tin long cent ir the rear He turU'>-
c: ‘-inted that the rear sea! where
the drives ditman-ri-c h<- nicvc. wns
nlready fined tivf- passon
Credit Union Movement
c* i nr ‘T v » .f’N *,,
■Spreads lo limn Lay
VVINSTOK-SALEM Under iin
.•bit- sod i ajiabir direction of W
M e-by u xu v. a'wi chat tent:inn
day Do ii. ;p cooperative think
a. aaa action in tin Oreo it Union
Iduvemont and Cooperative Entc*
oriset in VVi;isHui-Si.k'm and car
- nudna cosvmtmjt.ies
Through his e.Nrris and with flit
!e!p oi other ii lr-csrei: lepder.-i o!
the cownnitsiity lt> A folio wing co
«. pet alive enterprr-os have been or
}..-:maad durm« the part fifteen
r-ihmh- CU ntury. Iredc-li and Vic
tory Credit Union.-: ~nrt the People's
Louisiana State
Students Favor
Colored Colleges
BATON ROUGH. Ln. -NNPAI--
Ah Lough the Student Council of
Louisiana Statu ‘ University voted
7-J test w eck to - xcluac colored c-oi
-1. s'. .- from participation ir; the
c.vr.fc-renc. ot Southern and South
western School to be Vu. !d on the
I.SU campus April 57-19. an opin
ion pal) conducters i-y the school
newspaper showed the the student
body favored colored college par
ticipation by almost 2 to 1 it was
learned. .
The Reveille. LSU campus news
n.uv-r. conduct'd the poll among
’ STJ students after Xavier College
i“ Nev Orleans wrote Lloyd Love,
student body nrcside Jit. requesting
U'.tails c.-UM-r.uiir to- proposed
; ud Sn.ithfirld.
standmg left to right-. Mrs.
Tea riic Gilmore, passenger on
train at time of Melvins death:
Mrs. Ruth Council, sister of Sfel-
■)■■•■ :■'. Th(- SC.!: c.-ip;;: ;|\ w hen he
; ■.'used to nnsvr Hs family Dr
S-;ii‘.'h .'onfirn;. d ts:• driver threat
.sin for,-.; unless hc
• i.licr took liH; rear seat or get off
■ a pus D;. smith said he chose u-
Since- Di Smith came from Co
li /Tib-.a. S C . f/i Charlotte, t-n
luui-. to Winriori-S.'iioiri. he elaim
\ ioirtU*. . ,-»f the rccfiiiJ Supreme
C"Uri D redo:, tjr Inter.rt-dc- travel
wti.i-h ’'provides that passt-nyers
it..veii-iy irt'.in one State to another
re not subject K> soatirig rules re
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Laundry incorporuUm: iA.ii.ti trdat
■ -if io n- i nr, «i:>0.000.«»
Through Ma N. C Council of'
Creel;! Uniore i-r.-n A .i--;ocuUei Ner- ;
i . i-i»co;veci scholarship to attend 1
J-'chdah. Institute, near Chicago,'
i.rmy the summer of 1946 and
spent c-igat vv( ek.- in comprehensive.
•uiCij in cooperative-!. where hi
c '.nficlepri and d-.-iermiOTtiou in i
bus group mov; mem was sirenyth !
i-»:c-d. A'o.ie wuh ev students o: 1
tin Inriitiju he visited Uu- famtrti..- :
Aid Curdi ii: Consumers Store
'CnrUinneo r.n back nag,
ci inference.
Love presented the matter to the
Student Council and informed that |
body that he did no* think it wise j
tc have an inter-racial conference j
' or: the campus- at this time
The Student Council failed to ac*
but the next day Reveille publish
'd n story by Aubrey Williams, ~t
j ISU ituderu in which Williams
i urged that colored schools be invit
j ed to attend.
Following publication of Wil
liams' article, so many letters were j
written both for arid against color- 1
: C'i participation in the conference :
that Love submitted the matter to ‘
an opinion vote of the student j
tConUiiUgjjjl ox:
MW ESCAPES EROM
HI RM\G iIOISE
G’RKEN'VII.I.E: Sam Chatman,
t!5-y, ar-old Clkuhimi Cross Road'S
! cm or had a narrow escape from
. death Wt-dicday at 200 p m when
his ho rse caught fire while he win
- i!i ir, bed
The house and furnishings wert
■ i total loss, but his wife and chil
dren <mci a grandchild escaped
, without injury.
u,. L. C. Melvin, grandfather..
Mrs. Alice Melvin, pratKirrwith
er and Robe-rt Gilmore, passenger
«n train Hi time of Melvin's
<i rath.
FARM GROUP
MEETS AT
FUQUAY SPRINGS
FUQUAY SPRINGS "The
Ni y- and Home Manage
c nt Pros':-..in is going to he the
• <• erf many chansc* made in
the Fuquuy Sp:lnt;' Community"
s<-> :• E. E, Evans end A B. Alston
; .-ftei- returning from a community
me tint; held at r be Futpiav
SpiHigh Scrovi April 2. -with
82 farm wen: ; and men present
A eyeei deal ot discussion as to tic.
cd ot f.uivi and norm improve
ments throughout the community
c..ine as ti result of the aurvey and
movie. Farm i'lconvcriiencss:.
rbnivn by -Vl..' T. A Morris- of the
VV,ik<- Conti!;- St -itb Department.
The group decided to work on
:'--t following projects; pit privies,
replacing window panes, getting
mort- and better screens, repairing
of furni buildings, improving gar
dens and pastures, -and securing
:;y siivinc cquipmt"- foi th<‘ com
.-'•sunn; . The entire community is
now working on ;■ Rat Eradication
Campaign
Officers v- r; elected by the
pro (if,- and arc as follows M:. L
S.-nit. chairman; M. William Bur
toi;. Mrs, O r-.: Nona Mr Manu.-d
s and -Airs Mary Mc.Kennv.
\>:v. eooK on
RACE PROBLEM
NEW YORK ;C"NS>—John Hcw
leltV newest novel “Wiid Gt ape."
deal with rb'- race nr ‘blare in the
Se-dh Publishei if. Vtittlescy
House
OVERSEAS DEAD TO
BE BROUGHT HOME
Raleigh The Wake County
chapter of the Red Cross was
i alerted last week to assist next
, of kin of service men and wom
en buried overseas in the Quar
: tevmasler Corps’ gigantic pro
j gram to return such bodies to
j America for burial -where that
! if desired by the survivors.
The procedure set by the Ouar
• t. master Corps involves:
1, Mailing of a letter to the
next of kin of the deceased, rnak
me inqury as to whether it is
desused that the fallen hero shall
remain in a permanent Ameri
| can Military Cemetery overseas
|or be retuned to the United
• States for burial m either a ira ■
| tional or private cemetery, or
shall be returned to a foreign,
country the birth place of
’ asm. lad 2l s ss ssasMsa tbs
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Man En route To
Spend Easter
Home, Is Slain
Dunn - Fletcher Hut Melvin. 24.
ordeiiy in Provid-.-M Hospital.
Dalti'no.'-e, Nld , v. ~s instantly kin
-4 a o:, the cr:.(-k Savannah speci.;.-’!
ot tilt- Atlantic Co:.'i Line rail
l.-ad Suturday. April 5. by a pistol
bullet which entered his i-,»?an. It
a alleyt-j the man w;,k shot by the
white cunductoi. C A James cl
I'ock-v Mount, ofter a general or
der he had given for .J! colored
pissongers to move up front to a
' im imv." car
Melvin according t. Mr. rind
Mrs. Robert Gilmore passengers on
iLu- (rnrr- fr 'if:, was asie*?]* v 5 icrr lire
co3"VtdiK.’lor ofocuco .*i3] uoYoicci pri?-
v '.s;.- ■ fr.'im rhi 'mixed coach ,u -
ilci not hear the order. It was later
Hat In The Ring . . .
! red ,t < -iaiaf;r Sor-aS <t£or
(!<-> who hf. announced hi- ean
drdary for ihi- K.dfigh City ( nun
cil. \*;v Carnage is a graduate
<>S Morgmn College and the Law
a-cJiool .-I' Howard University,
having engaged ir. a flourishing
lav. practice at. Raleigh during
the pas 4. 14 years.
A number of Hie faculty at St
Aug'u-tme's College, one of the
dt rectors of the IMoodivortft
Street YM( A and the Tuiltfc
Community (enter, and r ider and
superintendent of the Sunday
School of the Davie Street Pres
byterian Church, an F!k and a
Mason Attorney Carnage has
l eer, active in local civic and so
cial affairs and has endorsement
oi Raleigh Citizen Committee
rid the t ;/si Raletf'b Civic For
um
17 Awarded Race
Relation Scrolls
Washington, D. C. iNNFAt- -Tne
Institute On Race Relations last
Monday awarded honoraiy scrolls
to seventeen persons for fostering
fat:Her ; ace relations during 1948.
Among those receiving the
awards a- the organization's annual
;iinner at the Statier Hotel were
Percy Green, editor of the Jack
•on (Mississippi Advocate, Sena
!■>: William Laager. Republican, of
North Dakota. Shirley Graham,
winner of the Julian Messner 1946
award mid Mrs. Helen D Long
::t;-cet widow of the Confederate
General James I.ongstreet
Dr. fJl ordecyj w Johnson, pre.-a
rent of Howard University, mas
la of ceremonies, refer-cd to race
relationships us “the greatest bu
rn-n problem in America today.'
He said the problem is a “struc
tural disease in the anatomy of
democracy.”
<f!nniinu«d on back passi
j next of kin.
2. A formal application blank
j petting up the wishes of the nest
of kin will be inclosed with the
letter a.s will be two folders list
ing military and national ceme
teries and giving other pertinent
data.
The Red Cross has born desig
! rated to advise with and assist
j next of kin in instructing the
| Quartermaster Corp as to what
: permanent disposition shall be
! made of the body Case workers
ta re being given special training
jin preparation for giving this
| r'i-vice.
The Quartermaster Corps L at-
I so returning to this country, who;
i dirod by the next of kin. the
, bodies of American civilian war
: dead and the same procedure is
as the train was nearing Smith •
field that the passengers who had
moved 5 o trst » roiv* ooaoh io-i;}';-ci
that Melvivn had been shot
Melvin s body was removed from
the tram .-•; Smilhfjetd and turned
O'a : i<- 'hi- authorities in ■ >' . Coro
ner J. O. Creech of Smithfield re
!• used the body to the Woodard
f> iier.il home in SmithfieM and
1 ti. - -■■ • for 11 a. m. Monday.
Api i; 7. Sim.- 1 that time Melvin’s
tody has been transferred to the
O S Pa;- ion funeral home at. Dunn
At Dnnn Melvin's vrand father,
F H. Melvin, stated that the
f miiy nan net received any official
ntifii at;<>f> of their relative’s
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RtIEIRH MAN
iS PROMOTED
HAMPTON INSTITUTE Va,
Numa S. Moose. 351 East Lenoir
: Street. Raleigh. N. C.. a student ai
I Hampton Institute his been, ap
pointed Cadet T. Sgt. of Battery
uncording to the list of permaii
: ent appointments recently released
j ty (. nlonel R. 11. Grinder. Professor
ot Militois Sciences and Tactics
A member of Ham;.ton Institute
ROTC Unit Cadet Sgt. Moore's sc
: lection wa? bo -eo on his outstand
in; record in Military end Academ
j i..- work Hi is enrolled in the D; •
l v;.-.ion of General Studies He is the
i s.-ii of Lewi# E Moore, above ad
' dress.
DURHAM HOST TO
MARRIAGE
CONFERENCE
DURHAM The North Caro
bua College nere will be the scene
■ the Sixth Annual Conference on
j Conservation of Marriage- and ih«
| F; mily, April 10,
The one-dgy session will be held
|in affiliation with the tenth an
! r.ual Conference on Conservation
1 of Marriage and the Family which
i i- held three days nt the Univer
sity ot North Carolina ai Chape)
; Km.
The motning session begins at
9:00 with president J-irno Shepard
,of North Carolina College discus
-inp “The "Responsibility of <i Ceil*
! ‘ Ke in Education for Marriage and
F.itnfiy Life." Following this. Miss
Mildred J. Mttrgan, Family £,Lfe
Coordinator of A-rhevillt-. will
speak on thi- subject “Teaching
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