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ATTORNEYS AND PLAINTIFFS
Above are some of the plaintiffs and two of
the attorneys appearing in the suit being brought
agaiiist the City and State Boards of Education,
charging discrimination in educational facilities
against Negro students. Sitting an8 reading
from left to right are: — Oliver Harris, T.-L.
Rotrland, Cleland Harris; Attorney M. H.
Thompson, Milas Thompson, and Joseph Riley.
Standing Rev. E. T. Browne, pastor of Mount
Vernon Baptist Church and Attorney J. H.
Wheeler,^—Staff Photo.
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Elitered &■ Mecond Class Matter at the Poit Oflie« it I^rhani, North Ui^oUiift, Aet of Ifareit 3,
FOR 25 YEARS THE OUTSTANDING NEGRO WEEKLY OF THft CARQLINAS
VOLUME 27—NUMBER 31
DURHAM, N. C., SAtURpAY, AUG. 6th, 1949
N, C.
From
Mutual Gets Citation
National Magazine
Man, Asleep With
Open Mouth, Gets ,
Lye Diet From Wife
Sle?^(np: ^ith tlie"^oklo t-avity (that’s the month, son)
open lias its ilet'inite dis^vantiiijeH. Beside the fact that au
occasional curious housefly may decide to i^ivestif^ate that
gaping :lj(>lo in space or that particles of dust are prone to
waft riphf oji thron|?lni'nd down the t>ld esophagus, a new
menace has been found to exist for sleepers whose jaws hanjr
loose. This partieularly applies to the male sleepei^of the
the married variety.
In Tarboro, last Sunday morning one such married male
sleeper foiuid that every once in a while the wife decides
that she can’t resist the sight of a inlan sieepuig with his
“gabber ’’open. 8o .she promptly pmi^d a box of lye into
the husband’s open mioutli while he ‘'fAi(w/,ed,” peacefully,
inflicting extremely painful burns. For her trouble she got,
a year’s jail sentence. .v.
Sarah Carmichael, the guilty partj’, stated that she
mixed some water with the lye for her husband.
As th^ co)iicoction oozed over the husband’s tonsils,, he
awoke immediately, screaming with pain and suffering from
severe Jjurns from the lye examinations showed.
The husband, however, is apparently a man with a
“sense of humor” and one who is very “understauding” as
he showed tof the pranks of his wife and pleaded this
weiek at the trial in Recordtf’s Court fpr his wife’^ «e.qujt-_
tal. He said that “all” was “tciiigiren.’^'''"
that bhe poured the lye into his mouth
B^ause they had been fussing and fighting before he went
off to sleep. When he dropped off to sleep she mixed the
water with the lye aiuf claiirted she threw it at }iim. Qi^ly
|iia mouth was burned.
Since all stories have a moral, our advioe to the males,
p| the marriel variety-of course, is: never sleep with your
moutiiai open, espet'iall^- alter au ar|?umei\t with the wife.
Mosons Conclude Annual Meet
In Alaboma; Two Thousand Attend
siyi
-^li€
DOTHAN, AliA.
Th> V!)fli Annual Unuid (Joiii-
JiiiuiicHtion (»f tlu‘ Ancient Kn‘c
arid Acceptcd Ma.sons of* Alii-,
bama. I’riuce Hall Affiliation,
closoil its three daj’^ sH'ssion here
Saturiiay. Nearly 2,())() Masons
and I lembers of ^-the Jila.stcrn
Star, from tliriMifrlM)iit Alabama-
attendee] th.i+H*vs(^iui. Tlti^
s(y^rtT'd the largi'st attendanrv
-^he lod}re lm» had over llie
I yeai’s..
^♦R^ports rrHii the olYicerH re-
the Orand liodge’s
incfSs^ for the past year was
whereas the death
clalm9.itepratirg e.'cpenses and
works ^^||erity cost of-tojal of
$19 t,725.'’^’i of'cverA' one hun
dred dollars eoiv'cted during ht>‘
Ihc past year, fifty three dol
lars was carried over to surjjlus,
I lie rc|)orts showed, and that in-
exceeded (‘xjienditure by'
The income from* the
r. S. (lovernment Bonds which
the 1/odge -owns was some $2i,'
0(H).
Upon the riH*ommendati>n
Grand Majslei’ C'liarles V. Il(>
Icy, the Grand Fjodge appi;
tiie purcha.se of another
()00 worth of U. 9. Qoyernment.
Bonds. This purchase will bring
the holdings of Government
Boiuls to a total of $1,254,000.
Grand Master Hendle>'’s re
port revealed that the Ix)dge has
no pending litigation of any kind
and no outstanding indebtedness
• (Please turn to Page Eight)
Sundoy School
Meet Convenes
In Hillsboro
TTie
Financial VVorld, 46-year-old investment and*business week
ly of Mpw York, adviised Dr. 0. 0. Spaiihlin^, i»resident of the
North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company last week that
N. C. Mutual is one of the 21 insurj^ice'conipauies in' the eutiw
country to peceive the anuuftl “Merit A^vard” citation in the
ninth anjiual sun’ey of annual reports of corporations,
According to the letter rooeiv-
ed by the hxial insurance comp-
«ay there were approximately
4,500 annual reports of corpora
tions submitted this year, but
only H2(i of the entries received
the Merit Award Citation. Out
of the 21 insurance companies
cited oiriy one other in the en
tire South, the Kepublic Nation
al Life Insurance Company of
Dalla.s, Texas, qualified.
The letter received by Presi
dent Spaulding was as follows;
Dear Mr. Spaulding:
Congratulations! It is my
pleasure to advise you that of
the almost 4,500 annual re
ports subihitted this year,
your corporation has one of
the 1126 entries achieving a
“Merit Award” citation in
the Ninth Annual Survey of
Annual Reports, which is an-
ounced in the enclosed issue
of FINANCIAL WORLD (see
pages 30-34).
Please accept this certificate
as a small taken of recogni
tion and appreciation for the 
excellence of your ctmpany’s
3?«pQrt, as^dged froca_L'i'
the ‘ standpoliil
and statistical centtnt, lomiat
and typography, ^
As your 'annual r'nMrt has
received a “Modern Mting*''
it has%qualified for tj» final
consideration by th| Inde
pendent Board of Jmges in
the coming selacAon of a
“Best Of Industry’’ award
(see pages 8, 9, «r 10 for in
dustrial classifiation) — the
results of the fis^ judging for
“Oscar of Industrj” trophies
will be announced in early
October. ^
Will y^irbe so kind as to re
turn tie enclosed question
naire for use of the judges in
deterttining the identity of
who had a part ^ the
paration and production
your 1948 annual rep*rt,
well as its readership and
distribution.
Cordially yours^
WESTON SMITH .
The other jn.sunmc^ comi)an-
ies named beside the North Caro
lina Mutual were:-the Bankers
Tilfp, r>es Moines; Conrteeticut
General Life, Connectictit Mu
tual, Fidelity Mutual, General
American., Guardian. John Han
cock Mutual, Maiisachusctts Mu
tual, Metropolitan, the National
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Education Board In
*
Plea For [Ksmissal
In School Bias Suit
Attorney Harry McMullen, attorney general of North Caro
lina tohi Judge Johnson. J. Hayes iif a upecial s»*ssion of federal
court here Monlay that bi>th the Stat»* and N«rth ('arolinu and
the State Board of EducaHon art* oppos**d to prejudice (,r dls
joy against any race or i>eopU* atid that “if thert^.is any
(liHcrimination, it is jn favor of the Negio. ’
The remarks of the attonu'j* gem^ral, were made during the
preliminary hearing of the State Board of Education’s motion
for dismissal as defendants in the civil.suit brought by a group
of Negro citizens, repre«euting the Diirhain Comrnittee on Xegn')
Affairs, charging that ftwilities in the N(>gro schools of Durham
an? luiequaLto those providel for white children. The action is
being brotight both against the Cily jwI State. Boanls of Edu-a-
tion.
ed th# plaintiffs to prepare their
briefs.
Attoiiu't's for 'the plaintiffs
requested the court to require
local school authorities to* per
mit pictures to be taken of local
.schools. Former Senator William
B. I'mstead, representing the”
city board of education, staited
that written consent had been
given toi' j)ictures.
The lcfendants a.sked for dis-
dismifiKai in the action against
the Sta^c Boanl on the gi’ounds
the s»*4iool sys'tein doesn’t have
to be ttie same in all counties
and that the matter of providing
bnildt%igs, books, i)hysieal educa
tion, vocation traimng and other
facilities is controlled by local
school officials,
Counsel for the ])laintiffs re
quested ii pretrial hearing of the
ea.se in order to conserve ti'me.
Judtre TIayes took the request
und( r considrtration and w^ll
jrrobahly set the pretrial hear
ing dni’ing the wek prior to the
actual hearing.
Two otjutr lawyers beside At
torney (icneral McMullen ap
peared t'ur the State, They wen'
Ralph Aloody, assistant attorney
gejU'fal urul Paul A. Keid, con-
the Boai'djOf Kluc^a
tia.i. The plaintitfs wert?'
sented hy Hugh Thompsim,
and .f. H. ^Vheeler of Durham
and Oliver \V. Hill ajul Martin
A, Martin Ixith of T?iehni(md,
Va,
Actual trial oMhe ca.se was
set for the SeptemlxT 26 term
of Fetleral Court hen-, by Judge
Hayes.
Five days were granted the
State Board- of Education to file
its bri^f in the ca.sc‘, with an
additional five days being grant-
■lHto0
PRICF TEN CENTS
Attorney For Defense
HllJiSBOHO
thirty-n#nth ses.sion of
the Dur|‘,am distri-t of the Noj-t.ii
jarolina "Confen-uc'e Sunday
School Convention convened at
the Dixon Chapel A. M. K.
Church, here, July 27-.S1.
The five-day sewdolT' was at
tended by thirty-five delegates
from the thirty-five churches
represented.
The affair wa,s highlighted bv
the prestMice of Bishop Hem-
mingway of the Western North
Carolina District. Elder 0. F’.
Macon of the I>aurinbnrgh Jis
trict, Dr. C. C. Scott, of Greeiis-
horo, Hev. Cox of Baltinu)r,e.
Md., and llev. Mill(*r of Wash
ington, D. (^., were other speak
ers at the convention.
M(‘th(Mls of Teachin”- Siui-
day IjSchooP’ was tht( t(J|)ic for
discussion during the district
meet,ftlrs. J. R. Bridges, of Fay
etteville State Teachers ('ollege,
Miss Maude Brandon of .Xortli
(^arolina College,* .Mrs. Avery
\''anstory i»f A, 4ind T. College,
and Rev. t). .V. Johnston, pastor
of the Saint J(wt>]>h A. M. K.
Church of Durham, wen* dis-'
cu.sfiion leaders. '
Ri'V. A. J. Holman, paKtor of
Dixon Chapel, and the entire
congregation welcomed the mass
to'-their church and community
with an atmospliere charafteris-
tic of the Hillsboro, conuuunity.
STATE
TRAVEL
ODDITIES
ONLY ONES SOUTH
When you ride over the 6,000
fx)t peaks iji North Carolina’s
.'Smokies ami Blue Ridges, you’ll
often pa.ss through forest of
Canadian fir and balsam. Take
gowl look, and a g(XKl whiff
of their clean smell, because
you’ll have to go^all the way
to Canada before encountering
them iigain, , -
IT’S COOL NOW’
^ Awed to’vistas gazing at huge
Fontana ’Jam in North Caro
lina woo'd'-he even more astonish
ed if tl-.-ir gaze could pierce the
mass tf concrete. For imbedded
dam is a system of piping
I'rtilj's long, laid in when the
t-emeut. \\ as pourwl. The system
of coils were conliected with the
lake water at the face of the
dam, and for three yeai’s cool
wafer circulated freely through
out it.
iteason was simple —without
the cooling system, it would have
taken the concrete 50 years to
cool, anil control of temix'rature
is imj)ortant to prevent excessive
cracking i^s the concrete cools.
After the cooling, fre.sh cement
was puiup‘d into (he pi|)es
which will .stay in the strnctmv
as a part of it.
LOST TRIBE
Going along I'S 74 and ar-
ri\'ing at Pembroke, N. (’., ilon’t
ask the obviously Indin.ii |wp-
ulation to what trilx* they be
long. There are 25,000 Indians
in the area, but they do not
know, nor can anyone det-er-
mint‘, how' they got then* nor
whence they came, thi’ough they
havt‘ at various times been call-:
ed Croatan, Cherokee and Sioux.
Tn desperation, they finally peti
tioned for the official name of
“Indians of Robeson County.”
They have their own achools and
churches and generally'are pros
perous* farmers. No remnants of
their tribal culture nor speech
.survive.
William B. Umstead, former U. S. Senator, is one of the
attorneys for the defense in the suit filed recently by a group
of citizens charging that discriminatory practices exist in
the city school system against the Negroes. The first step
made so far in the case, a motion" for dismissal filed by the
defense, was heard last Monday at the local court.
Negro Grid Star
Signs With White
Richmond Team
• . mCHMOND !
In a move unpretiedented by
any other professional teani in
the, Soutli, the Richmond Pro
fessiivnal Grid liebcls signcnl a
former .\II-CIA A biwk here this
week.
The player is Fretl (Cannon
ball) Cooper wh.o starivtl with
Virginia Union in the'backfield,
Tlie move of the IMm>Is . in
>tgning young Coojier is w.ithoiU
precedent hy any other southern
profes.sional team it was siated
here» at the signing hy a.team
official. However, other teams
of the American Football l>ear
gue, of which Riclnuond is a
member, 4iave used N(*gro play
ers against the Relxds on several
oeeasions in games j)layt'd at the
stalium here.
'C*o(iper, who is now 'IS years
old, weighs about 1!(8 pounds,
.stands five feet, seven and one
half inches ajul is an excellent
punter.
Mrs. Smith, Aged
Citizen, Passes
After Illness
Drama Of Negro
In America Is
Presented Here
A • niUMieo-dramatlc produc
tion, “Shall W> Inherit” his
torically depicting Ne*>rn> 'iic. j*
Aiiigyijjll^1tiT pres*nted at the
C'arolina’s College’s B.
N. Duke Auditorium last Wetl-
nesday night. Planned and pro
duced by faculty members aiul
students of the college’s summer
school, the regular lyceum ser
ies program interpreted Negro
life during four conflicts: the
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Mrs. Nancy Ellen .Smith, asre
!)3, died at her home here. 714
Prowler Avenue. Tueslay. .luly,,|^^.
26. She was confined to her l>ed I
for about six weeks.
Jlrs. Smith wa.s burn in Per-
ikfiMty, but had livetl in
Durham for abifut 7-i years.
About 71 years ago she joineI
White Rock Baptist Church
where she remaineil a .staunch
member up to the uf
death.
Through hard work ami thrift
Mrs. Smith was ablf to accuni
ulate two valuable pieces of
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Gov. Speaks
To Baptists
In Raleigh
Scott Tells Of
Value Of The
Rural Church
U\r.KIG!f
 )V*T (iim !ml «. jwr-
■»li;ia Baptists li-anl ti*.*'. rfu>r
i»f the .late, Ki-i r ■''.iff, in an
addr.=H .Mi>n«lHy night at tlw*
M-morial Audi';.'>riont at the
q>^ning of  t'ivv d*jr
AlUBaprist a.^wmbly b#*in|f held
Shaw I’nivKrsity thiH weirti.
Th»* trf»vpnior toll the andi-
enee that .Vorth Carolini* neetiit
“.rebirth of the rurnl church
activity ^ - with pmpha-ii»* on the
de«*p spiritual training”
nighlight-, of the in-
chnle a speech »n Wedne«iay
ni^ht by Dr. .Mar>* McLetxJ
thune and an atldresw on Thurs
day uight by Dr. Mordecai J*^n
son of H(/w:anl I'nivennty.•
Some ' 2,000 representative*
from five state eonventi1na and
1,70» North Carolina Bwtiat
churches were expecteil to attend
the asscmhly during
S|H‘akiiig of th** cHintry aa
the bretnling irnjunti of the hu
man race, the State executive
said that pnq>er training in the
;v>untry makes for better
citTzetl^ *»;»>■ fffun^ as
the mi**t pow-Tjiii i^rganization
in the state and v his opin
ion to (ht^effect that the bi|rg»*si*
job in North Carolina totla^' 16
the pitjtrram of the choreh.
The irovprrior s^iti “a« eivil*
ization irets mi;re conif>iK*atel,
its far Tuori' iin[«>rtaut-£t>r \>eo-
ple to learn to work ti»g*>ther.
"The chnruhes ne->.l to train th'
p»H>ple to learn man's relation to
man. If we Can’t aiontr with
')urs«*lves. how- an .re get aloiH?
intcriuitiotuilly ’,
He ins.‘rted the idmonition
that “nnles.s the diiin-h people
get down t(» t'uudaiitentalii in
teachin:r riirht fnim a nmg, it 11
have a very tellin;r ei’tn-r within
the next 2-') years. He statel that
the .Wirroi's of the state played
a very iuiportant part in the^
success of the r\iral bond elec
tion la.st .lune. which, he addett
will enable many rural chun-hea
and Sunday S« hooib to stay
open.
“We’ve had too many coun-
try churches l'o into hiberna
tion in the winter, ■’ he adde«l
with em-f>lia.'»is.
.Scott stressi^il the imfH)rt*nee
of havin;.' a full-tune preacher
at rural chnnhes anil reeom-
mended that ^uch churches b«^
•'ill a hns service.«hi Suiulaj** to
bring the yoiintr pex{>le to Sun-
hun*h. He r*-
somemie miuit be
in thos** chun*hes to train the
young people after they get
there.
He noted th.- fact that Trhilf^
tlie State ha' inade progretM in
other ^ays, nioKt rur^ ehitreheA
have made no charge exeept to
palrtt ehunli and eteaii off
the grdVi'yarvls oil honteeCKh-ingr
day.
“ Revolutmnze North Can>lina
aiul gi't on fire, with the Spirit.”'
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To Accept Bids For Erection
Of Two N.C. College Buildings
NEA Official
Moss H. Kendrix, public rela
tions official for the National
Education Association is sched
uled to discuss the program of
the NEA and the Association’s
I Construction bitls for faculty
apartments and a classriMMii
building— latest proposetl .struc
tures ill North Carolina Colh'ge’s
.$4,(XM),()0() building program —
will be accepted at 2 p. m.,'Fri
day, August 2ti, in the i>ffiee
of President Alfoiis4> Elder.
A two-story, partial ba.s«*meut
structure,', the faculty apai-t-
meut building will be fireproof
and will contain six apartments,
each on the maiu and second
fUHirs, in addition to s*oragt‘
rocjm.s, a rei'ivation room, and
a lauiulry.
The exterior design of this
buihling is Colonial to corres
pond with the architecture of
the rest of the building wi|ih
stone trhn. The itM>f is of slate,
and the fl(H>rs of all nxnus on
main and second floors are fin-
islied ,with asphalt tile.
The main central entrauiv
faces north and leails from a
circular pavetl terraee to a res
ceptlon room which has access
At Lincoln
c^paign for passage of federal | to all corridors and apartments,
aid-to-education to several or- j Each apartment has ample
ganizations next month. , I (Please turn to Page Eight)
Cluirles L. Katx, 'Rmmtth XlH
gineer for the FraakHx Iiatt-
tute of Philadelphia, was
pointed hbrarian for th* V^1
Memorial Library at Useata
UniTersity. Katx will i
Dr. Armstead Gntbb wh* wfU
devote his tim* to Laaf«a(«K.