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| NORTH CAROLINA’S LEADING WEEKLY |
VOLUME XXIX KALEKJII. NOR i'll CAHOI.IN \ WEEK KNDINIi, SATI RDAY APRIL *, 1950 NO. TWENTY-SEVEN
TRIGG SLATE FAILS
Mystery
Surrounds
Assaults
RALEIGH T ».i/ster«m at ■
tacks on 21 yo*im,7 nuni .«:.x .« ooy
in the Fourth War;! »vi re fitii; be
ing in V> ■i, p ate 1 1 tv puivu on Wed
nesday, although n.. . U:.-. : ,n;
• yet ueei'f discovered a to the id* il
lity Cl £ius.-aiLlid •- r ;■ .. J! 1:oi!:■
The first Viet in. was Solomon
Dozie: Jr., of 719 S. McDowell St.,
who was shot m hi- arm, early
Sunday morning. Dozier was un
able to advance any rco»< n for the
shooting or to i-;ve any clues as
to tilt identity :>t L:is assailant.
I’he second victim was 13 vo.d
old Ed war:; Sit ven.-m, of 17 Hun
ter fit who a Meier went a btutal
beaUae : onit* time ate vhvu’:-..,
>ii a? or early T'n ; - ta', mornit!*
The beating \v;i: :s, sever. that
anthoritie:. at St Agile: Ho ■ a
tai, in .. ti„- hoy i til l coiiiiaed.
predicted that hi; left eye may ne
ve; be normal ana.m
His mother Mrs Herbert Ste
venson, said that when the boy
who is a student at the Washing
jCeiUinued on page H, this section)
Poisoned
Liquor Causes
Man’s Death
WILMINGTON The death !,
or;e nian and the hospitalization of
another in a serious condition at the
James Walker Memorial HGs.tdal.
has been traced by authorities io
the drinking or poLom.i whiskey.
Ttie dead man is Willie I a ".vis,
1005 Queen Street, H> ; , companion,
who hospital attendants raid war,
somewhat improved late Wednes
day afternoon, has been idemilied
as Fo.-.ii • Burnett 7Cbi-rmd fit
Thomas Cl. O'Neal, director ut
public safety reported that police
{Continued on page 8, lids section)
First Negro Candidate
Files in Winston-Salem
•WINSTON-SALEM Marking
the first attempt of a Negro to L*‘
elected to the Board of Countv
Commissioners, of Forsyth County,
Dr \V H. Bruce, local phy-ieum j
last week announced hi:; candidacy
for the Board.
Dr Bruce, who is 67 year:; old
has been practicing medicine in
Winston-Salem and Forsyth C'oun- i
ty lor the past 44 yean;
Dr. Bruce said that tie was run
White Lyncher Freed I
PITTSBOKO, Miss. A white man charged with
participating in the cold blooded murdci' of a Nopvo
farmer who took up too much room on a country
road with his mule wagon, was freed here yesterday j
by an all-white jury.
The white man James Moo-v, :.:o years old, was |.
acquitted of ad charges in the bumper-jack murder
of Malcom Wright, a tenant farmer, near Houston,
Miss., last July 2.
Wright was killed with a bumper jack when he
allegedly “hogged” the road, and refused to let a I,
ear containing Moore, and two other white nun,
Eunice Gore, 22, and James Kellum, 22, pass him,
The murder of Wright was officially listed . a a. i
lynching by Tuskegeo Institute in its annual repwtf j
on mob violence.
A iThe verdict of the all white jury was termed by-
District Attorney Albert T. Patterson, as “disappoint-1 |
jug’’ although the state had not directly asked for] j
the death sentence. I
There was no demonstration from the 200 per-|
,soits present when the verdict was returned in Cuv|
& cuit Judge Taylor McElroy’s courtroom.
When Court Clerk H. C, Davis read the decision,l *,
Moore relaxed and smiled while his mother and h rid#| r (
* of three months joyously embraced him. -••1 A
The trial of the other two men involved in th&.f y
lynching is set for the Fall term of the court.
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I. no i< .«f-Ist rs who tloukcd to ?Li
high ovt-r tht* wt't'kem! for iliu
■ILIHLiI 4*oll V OI ttu Ntlfth
< Xtl oliHu Tt'ufhei s .\ A,oci:tin*U'
Siiaw Faces Difficult
In Finding Ne w President
i
RAt.LICII Si:.r.*, itv
ii’ii: U-t-s are haVllig ;J Paid time
finding .j Mir. 1 '.ui to forint:: Piv.m
--! itojit Roi-i it )’ Daniel who is now
p: i oii nl ol Vn 'idia suite College
'1 wo it-.■•-fit meeting:, of the t xe
e*il iv I- I • i: :: -! wv ami !!"■ full 1t Us
te<- iHMiti have* highlighted the
n u.it'f. o.iffk-ulty.
Their problem, however, is sim
pk: It is, How can they attract
IS. George Kelsey, executive sec
’ reta).s of the Federal Council of
| Chui ehe.. aiui a pari time profes
' soi of 1 lii’ij]o: ,y at Hu* Dtvw i’ic'o
logieal seminary Dr Kelsey, who
at !.hi: time has trie inside track
; (or tin- , put. will not be available,'
bile: i ui pivvioij-, eununitlint uts
i 1 Ha- next one ot possibly two
y, -,j I
■ ning fte the office because 37 per
rent ol the population of Forsyth
i County is composed of Negroes, and
"we should nave representation on
| the boa id."
"1 bt hove our community wants j
: every ruu;a represented for the i
(a- : mu-iesi ,-f us all.” lit- raid. i
His '-iateriient follows;
4 know tij.it I am a good oiti/'On. S
1! i ; i »■ keen instrumental in the de- j
(l'iiiitiiiui,i on page 8, this section) |
.;'-\ the ioilavvitn; oiieeiv iiistall
ed on Siiiurday.
t est It* right Si \ L’/ouji, it -
t‘ )•• * aip ni. Vie. \\ lihc Vi
->‘‘,,•l i, voiding sccri-t'.ii \\
L ii life! io pcnaiade him to
acvpt the Silas/ presidency, the 1
ti.n.te.-; have already invited In
K-'iscy to deliver the eomn'ience
nd !;t ,ntji“-.-i tiin June. Till.: occa
sion v ;ii ■:<■ used a- an oppoitunity
for L): Kelsey arid the trurttc:-
tu ‘c'laie to knew i-ach other be!-
Convention Draws
Record Attendance
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SAM JETHROE
WILL APPEAR
AT DEVEBAUX
I'AI.KIGiI For the lint time
in the lnstoiy of the city, a Negro •
athlete will perfoun at, Dcveraux
Meadow, when Sain Jethros, walks
to Ins i i-iilt i field post as lli,- Bos
ton Biaves tangle with the Cun-in ■
nail Ih-ds, -ii an exhibition baseball
game on Friday at 2 p. ne
hi the past ill attempts to break
(Continued on page 8, this section)
COURT ACCEPTS RACIAL SUITS
i WASHINGTON Negro plain
(tiffs ui lacked the hulf-centuiy old
J doctrine of "separate-but-equai ’
facilities fu; the Negroes and 1
whites, on Tuesday
The chailen: r was, made before!
the highest court of the land, the
United States Supreme Court,
pWhieh accepted for decision three i
■tees in which Individual Negroes
jpte attempting to overthrow Hie
teseing doctrine
of the plaintiffs u- ked the
fgjiiit to forfeit the 1896 decision
Hfcing that segregation does not
il. B >*/•:. executive committee;
< J. i.inkf, vice-president, A. H
\u..i ■isiiii, picsideut; N, if liar
i-. trtasufci; V». 1 Wilson c
ciiSive coiumitte,-', ait J Vt ir
I ilvi. n ini tiisiailed the officers
‘here art* many seekers for the'
Shaw jni, u pays $6,000, furnishes
vi home, provides two students to
; t with* upkeep of the place,
: ‘“id tin nishe,- nearly everything
ex’L'ept h'Hid. All told the job!
HJoiuinued on page 4, Hus section)
fIALILGH -A record attendance
of iron than JSUO was reported :
here on Saturday at the conclusion
iif Uii- three-day Sixty-Ninth An-!
nuul Convention of the North C'a
roima Teachers Association.
Despite widespread predictions |
:f an open revolt among the teach- i
ers against the administration for-;
ei s. the convention was conducted j
under a general air of cooperation |
and F‘*od evil 1, with only a few j
! minor .-.kirmishes and the usual]'
bin.sunt n( backroom politics to en-i
I liven the convention.
One of the minor skirmishes that,
! might have developed into a major,
s-in- came on Saturday, when it I
v-'. ..s pi '-nosed that the constitution I
]ui tin- A.s.-icciat.ion be amended, so I"
; (tut the executive secretary would]
jbe elected by a vote of the en~ ;<
Tire organization instead of by the j<
i executive council.
j rile move was seen as an at-I:
; tempt to throw the office of the!
| executive secretary open to poli-q
! "--al manipulation, but it proved h
.of no avail as the convention vot- !>
'■tl to table the measure until the p
next convention. The proposal was!]
; mn-te by the forces of W R. Col- j,
dm . who was prominent in pre. j,
j uOi; vt'rition man envois jj
One major change that was ap-|
| prov ,-d at the coveniion, will per
mil the teachers to vote fur state!;
"Hi 1 or, a their local unit;, instead • x
i of at the convention. q
i 'lHier the new regulations, the b
iiuanbeiof the Association will re- i
i-' .-i c bailot.-i by mail through their j
i Gcal unit secretary, these ballots't
A'd! be completed by the teachers 1
. i"i -cut back to the central office
to [.)<:* iri hula ted.
(Continued on page j. this section) (
violate the ]4th Amendment to trie
i oiutinition so lone as equal fa-;
| eilities are provided both races. I
Two day-, of arguments wore !
! concluded when Attorney General!
!Pi ice Daniel of Texas told the'
eouif that segregation is necessary I
because "some people have feelings!
ithot .make for conflict when the j
nv - races asociuto too closely.”
1 >..nie! said. -This is a fact that '
; has to be faced. White men don't!
f"U it u tut stronger than Noc.ro I
nil'!., ' he continued.
D..IHL-i speaking ill Oppo;;i- ;
T eachers
Repudiate |
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BY JAMI S D. WILLIAMS
RALEIGH -- Complete repud i
■at ion of the ••leadership” of Dr.
! Harold L Trigg, former State In
specie t of Negro High Schools who
is now the lone Negro represents-
I Live on the State Board of Educa
jtion was set'ii here Saturday in the
i dei'eia of Dr. F. 1... Atkins for pm.i
--i dency oi the State Teachers' As--
| sociaUon.
,! As soon as word circulated
among the teachers that Di At
ikins. geneimlly restarted president
jof the State Teachers' College at
YV::.tor s.utcni was being backed
b v c;. '•si of vc h i c h Dr
Crieg was the altered 'brains ’ a
is'i-ePrtf'fi anti - Atkins movement
.... >•■'),,: ed
Onnsirrmation was oxprersed in
a any q,::*rten that the Winston •
Salem educator permitted himself
hi becon’M what Trigg's opponents |
-died ‘ rifigg’:: tool.”
t Exporter! fin works developed
*. ior to (ihe roretini’-, when V,a R
i Collins of Rmithfit-id and .tames T
jTavi a of Durham exchanged ver- :
|hnl blast;'; through the newspapers
;ovet th ••traditional succession of (
• • • presidents to- the presidency ;
jof the ■ s'-sr,riation.
The Ti-iog-ColHns backed eandi- j
daev of Dr. Atkins failed in the
tare or -\ powerful cmalitlon which
i- Hi*..; 10 the support of A H An
drs'«',e nriwip.-il W W ember ly
;p'ii k es.'mejitai ■ urn! of Wm
strin-Salem. A considerable amount
e.f th f vote for Andersen is undar
j stood to have been a "protest vot"”
; over Dr. Trig K’s “aud«aclty in ivteV
idling m the 1 affairs of the St;A.e :
■ Teachers' Association.”
! All told, the sessions emphasized ;
janew that St Ate Negroes want iw
| part •of a 'ieittdershiu, witirh one |
(veteran principal described as “be- |
]hind the times and bunt on ap- |
' (.easement through misn-presenta |
lion nna wi;;hfuJ thinking.'' Rightly |
: fir wrongly, this principal said. "Dr. i
(Trigg has permitted hinuielf to be |
irepresented as rinsing his* eyes to j
I the real needs o£ Negro education j
in this State."
(Continued on page 4, this section) j
WASHINGTON ‘ i
AIDED THE SOUTH
LANIER SAYS I
TITSKEGEE - Dr. R. O'TTarsr j
jLamer ieminc’ied the political states I
'righter;. Sunday titat a major sac- 1
tor in the puiUticul re-integration |
of the South after the Civil War }
was the "visipn and statesmanship" j
of Booker 'l'.. Washington.
Speaking at Tuskegee's sixty |
ninth annua,) Founder's Day eele- j
bration, the. Texas State Univer- '
sity president told the audience of
approximately li.OOO persons that!
Dr Washington tiad surmounted j
regional hatreds and had establish
ed “important friendships in both!
North and South."
The foi.'tiper United States Mini- j
ster to Lilxeria pointed out that it I
may be •' 5 rateful ly said that the |
re-intepratiion of the south into the |
polities of t he nation was enhanced!!
more by t) ie activities of Dr. Wash- j 1
ington th; in of any other single j
persons." fie went to say that }t
thete were times when “he could M
have used, his power to strike back j
as some {>; the very people who;
were doi| ig everything in tlaeii \
(( ontimn < 1 on page 4, this sectlion 1
lion u» fit. M. Sweatt, a Houston j
! Negro wiv) brought suit to forcv j
! the aU -white University of Texas
I law school to admit him. »
Swvatt's attorney, Thurgood Mar- i
!shall,, brought out the idea that "if'
joiu- Negro student is admitted to
I the. university the whole state of
| Texas will end up in bloodshed.”
Challenging Daniel's argument
| that neither Negroes nor whites
wish to mix socially, the attori ley j
N.U’clnred that "it doesn't matter if |
ijevcr.y Negro in the United States j
/'Wants separate schools.” He oe-i
śfda
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KALI.KiII Hina the Eighth
i Annual State t ou licit Meeting of
| Negro II o rn e Demonstration
| Clubs was held beer last week
j at the Memorial Auditorium tuv
|Dr. Ford Tells Os Crash
Which killed Surgeon
j iUTU.INGTON Speaking from
! a hospital Bed in a bas< ment room
: in the Alatnanee General Husp; .u.
Dr. John Ford, resident physician
in chest surgery at F > eeihaait' ;
Hospital in \\ ashington, D. r told
a representative of this paper 00
Saturday, of the automobile acci
dent on a narrow highway a i'c-.v
miles from In-re. that brought a
sudden anil tragic end to the bril
liant career of Dr Chares Drew,
early Saturday morning.
Or. Drew one of the world's
i leading authorities ou blood plas
DR, JOHNSON
MOURNS DEATH
Os OR. SEW
DURHAM (.Special- The loss'
of Dr. Chiu ies Dre ,v, noted ohy- j
isician who ; ... among tee Ameri-;
• cam* • ■' -; ( jiy 1 • k used j
I extensively during and since the'
; W'oi id War Jl, “is staggering to *
j Howard Dun.- ity and to the'';
: Freedman s Hospital,” declared Dr. i
j Mercies ij \v, Johnson, Howard |
I University ( .r'’;-'ideiU. v. ho was the!
speaker -jt North Carolina Colleges!
vesper si rvicc Sunday afternoon in j
; Duke Auditor sum.
In a statement following his J
.speech. Dr Johnson said Dr Drew
"was a creative 1 personality of the i
; first rank Net only had he carried J
j forward his own personal develop
ment to the highest, but he had!
■ paved ihe way in training over a 1
(dozen young Negro surgeons to j
| (Continued or, pagt 1 this section)
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r*£ « y - 4 r „ 1 •
ATTV HERMAN ) TAYLOR
SUPREME COURT! :
ADMITS TAYLOR
TO PRACTICE |
RALEIGH A local attorney,
Herman 1 . Taylor, has been admit
ted to the Bar of the United States
Supr.'iru Court, to mark the first
time a Negro attorney in North
Carolina lei;, been admitted to
practice before the highest court of
the iand. it was revealed here this j
week. _ !
(Continued on page K. this section) ,
I
j clartd that "under the 14th Amend- j
iiueiit, il Sv.-eaU wants to exercise I
| his right i,: enter the University!
lof Texas, la- can't be conditioned
[on tie.' wishes of other citizens.' I
i G. W. McLaurin, Negro graduate [
student at the University of Okla-1
homa. was opposed by Oklahoma's!
Assistant Attorney General Fred |
Hansen. Hansen told the court that ;
his State must continue to segre- j
~; tc r .-gro and white students to |
| nrevCisi race riots. McLaurin is at-1
1 >wfei to attend the white school j
j tUoniiviued on page », tins section)
of the platform guests were Gov
ernor it. Kerr Scott, anti J W
Jeffries, both pictured above.
Governor Scott delivered the
: principal address of the session.
an, and chief surgeon a! Freed
man's died here Kautdray at 10
a.tn.. in the Alamance Hospital, as
the result of an automobile ;u’ct
(len* on Highway 50, two :ui’e.
south of Haw River.
The forty-five year obi surgeon,
was on his way to Tuskegee to at
tend 11 medical convent ion along
with three other doctors from
Freedman's, when hi.- is-in Rawk
overturned .causing his death amt
injuries to Dr. Ford.
The car was completely demo
lished.
DRAW'S PROTEST*
HIGH POINT - - Charges of
"gross discrimination" in the.
ib -.tribution of city school funds
in High Point wer- outlined
here by a group of Negro citi
zens at a mass meeting last
Sunday night,
About rii'it persons '‘tended
the meeting, called after the
citizens group expressed ,- k. rn
• rib,appointment" over the school
hoard's stand on its request for
Impm i meiiis at William Penn
High School, Only two white
persons were present
Attorney John Langford has
been retained to investigate pos
sible court, action. Langford
said he plans to contact law
yers who brought the “racial
discrimination" suits against
the Durham Hoard of Education.
Rev. W. F, Elliott, chairman of
the committee, reiterated the
committee's intention of ex
ploring court action against the
school hoard.
Dr. C. Woodson Dies
Os Heart Attack
WASHINGTON Dr. Carter
Godwin Woodson, the founder and
drector of the Association for
Study '.£ Negro Life and History,
died here at his home on Monday
afternoon of a heart attack.
The 7f v, ap old editor, author,
and pioneer in Negro History had
been in failing health and under
Brown Dismisses Charges
X— 1 Collins As Untrue I
GOLDSBORO - With the flec
tions of the North Carolina Teach
era Association ’now officially < J r,l r.
Mr H. V. Brown, totinnp, presi
dent of the organization, made his
first oublie statement on Tuesday
concerning the bitUT-pre-eiection
controversy tint raged between W.
R. Collins and James J. Taylor.
Man Loses Appeal
AI’GLSTA, (la. The contention that a Negro
can not obtain a fair trial in Greenville. S. ( .. was
brushed aside here on Tuesday by Governor Fred
prick G. Payne, who refused to recall an extraditior
warrant he signed March I. to return Burley Adair, £
Negro, to South Carolina, for trial.
Adair was indicted in Greenville on charges o
assault with attempt to kill and assault and highwaj
robbery on two white victims.
Lawyers for Adair, asked the Governor in a hear
ing to recall the warrant. They said that Adair coulc
not obtain a fair trial in Greenville, and cited the lIMA
lynching of Willie Earle as evidence that Adair migh
be subjected to mob violence.
One of Adair's lawyers, Robert Wiuton, saic
Adair could not get a fair trial in Greenville beeaus
“The law goes out of the window because of mol
violence."
In his negative decision Governor Payne sat
“I am not convinced that there are circumstance!
now existing in Greenville County, South Carolina, a;
a result oi which the said Burley Adair cannot or wil
not receive a fair trial for the cranes for which hi
is charged. *
»m .ii .. M .^ rP |. TIT ritr--<ffirnTrtißMwwMffij|n
Mr. Jefferies, a District Fat
Agent and an Assistant Sta
Agent, is rumored to be one
of the unofficial advisors to t
Govctinor on Negro affairs.
Dr. Ford was admitted to
hospital for treatment of leg
juries and a fractured arm.
Samuel Builoek another parjea
bt the ear was treated for eti.s
the hand, while the forth pass
... r Dr. Walter Johnson, was 1
injured.
Roth Dr. Bullock an i Dr Jol
son returned to Waslngton, folk
tng the accident, while Dr. FV
remained tu the hospital tor s
oral days.
The body of Dr Drew >,y : <; tal
(Continued on page 8. th:.-: soCti
HASH REQUEST ■-
AR*IS CUT
TO KEEP Pm
WASHINGTON A plea fc.
■ cut in aim;• ntfii" e , m , wnv
(stop tne plot,inp a ~d counter p
jtitir. in the Caribbean area, 1
' ■a.b : ; it'--e this week by the Rep'
(lie of Haiti.
Target of the Con " s Hai
, . I'. U Reput
ah it.s already been charged
five nation invest.ration comn
t« •• v. ith aid tng art! abetting c
ripiracies to overt ".1 the Halt
•i; OVC I' UIT3 0n t.
The pica was presented in
form of 3 resolution to the 21
■ion Council of the Organization
Anw'ricsn States, by Haitian F
ign Minister Vilfort Beauvoir.
medics;! , are for the past two ye
lie was unmarried.
Dr Woodson spent the gre;
p, .ik: of his lift m research
the Negro Both of his parents w
slaves.
Ko worke dm the c!sal mines
Huntington, W. Va, after mov
(Continued on page 4, this sect!
The e'ivt'on " deed with 5
:• r,' up -. ms •; * ’ill am
, t uhc s was i. Id here
vv,. k t the Teachers Annual C
i venhon with A. H *nderson,
fasting Dr. Frank Atkins of Vi
i -son-Salem.
In the controversy, Mr. Cot
(Continued on page 4. this sect!