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OiBcers of the Interdenominatioiuil Ushers Association of
North Carolina pose for the photographer after the close of
the 1949 annual session in Wilmin£;ton last week, reported
to have been the most successful in the history of the organ
ization.—STANBACK Photo.
Robeson Forces
Blame Police
Special to the TIMES
NEW YORK
full Si'tile invef§tigMtiuu of
riot at Pwkskill lant Sfttunlay
which broke up a coneert by
Paul Robeson and which result
ed in 13 persons being i>tabt)ed
and several others beHten has
been asked for by RolK*Hon and
the Civil HiKhts ConjrreRS.
In addition Rep. Vito Mar-
cantonio, New York State
Labor Party Im chimed in
and asked for action on the
part of ofRcials to bring. the
perpetrators of the riot to
justice.
The (Mvil Hight.s (’ougress
was branded “subversive” by
former Att^iey General Tom
'liirk Hlonfi with s«‘veral other
orsraiii/ation^-
Robeson demanded this week
that New York’s Governor
Thomas E, Dewey order an ‘
investigation of the three hour
riot and William Patterson,
Executive Secretary of the
Civil Rights Congress, called
for arrests of the instigators
of the melee.
Meanwhile the
county 4li,sfrict attorui'V sud in
effect that the riot was startl'd
by pro-ltob^'soii forces instead
of the Peekhkill Veteran's Conn
il which took part in tiie fijrht
Saturday. District Attorney
(Jeorgc Fanelli dec hi red : the
facts in tuy poss«’ssion would
indicate that the demonstration
by the veterans was peaceftd
and orderly, after they disband-
(“il the pro-TJobesonites provoked
■ h.lll;-.n ~
r. . = If ■: ’K.-ir in»t»er
He s^id he would present
the case to a grand jury is the
j facts warrant it.
F’tiI R/>hts..ii at n pi -
f. r.-ni- lern .-har^.' t
th.i' )i\it , lii ItM-.ii tiMttiiritif-•
i-iiii'-.l the not. tiiiich* I ••I'f b\
inari hii.k' vefcran^,' jtToiijj ■ inei;
had annfMin. d |inns U> tn- nr
the singer
The Civil Rights Coni^reu
charged that the Peeksvill p^
lice and state troopers deliber- I
atety allowed Ktansmen and ‘
hoodlums to attack a sched- I
uled open-air concert. Patter
son, head of the group, said |
“this shocking anti-demo- '
critic, anti-Negro viojence was :
planned and carried out by
Ktansmen and a mob of fas
cist hoodlums hiding behind’
a so-called ‘veterans front.’
The Peekskill police and state
troopers in the area were well
aware of the fact that mob
action was being planned to
back up the concert of Paul
Robeson. The so-caUed Joint
Veterans Council' of West
chester County had brazenly i
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To Air From India
Waiter White, on leeve from
his secretaryship of the N. A.
A. C. P., who will be one of
a panel of four speakers iieard
on “America’s Town Meeting
of the Air,” to be broadcast
through transcription from
Karachi, India on September
6 over ABC stations.
Local Shepard Foundation Begins $50,000 Drive
9th Anniversary
¥
The Reverend Mrs. H. Hard
en and the Mount Temple
Holy Church is in the midst
of a Ninth AnniTersaty Cele
bration which began August
22 and will end Septemben
11, A noted evangelist, she
travelled extensively before
coming to Durham in 1940.
High School
Classes To
Mal^eTour
The Mill Orovc School classes
in Vocational Houieinaking and
Agriculture will tour homes and
farms of its members on Mon
day. September 5th. The tour be
gins at the school at 12:30 p.
m. It will make seven stops at
homes and farms of members
who have made better than
average accomplishments during
the year. The group will return
to the school at 3:30 p. m. where
the community will engage in
a picnic of barbecue, ice cream
and punch. At 4:00 o’clock a
five innings ball game is sched
uled between the veterans who
are enrolled in Farmer Train
ing at Mill Grove and Little
River Schools. ,
The first stop of the tour will
be made at 12:30 p. m. at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace
Pollard at Bragtown. Both
parents are members of the
Vocational Evening Classes at
the Mill Grove School. At
this home canning, utilization
of space, and home beautifica
tion will be observed. The tour
will move next“to the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wil
liams, Adult lEvening Class
membeni, where the installa
tion of rural water and sewer
will be on display.
The third stop will be made
at the luune of Taylor and llo.sa
I>'fi Mason, N. F. A. and N. II.
A. members respectively. There,
a project of complete home re
novation will»be seen. The work
was done by the high school boy
and members of the~family co
operatively. The tour moves then
to Mr. and Mrs. Lndie Scoggins,
Adult Evening Claas memlx'rs,
who have made kitclien improve
ments.
At 2:15 p. m. the tour should
reach the home of Mr. and
Mr^. William Holloway in the
O. and C. Junction commun
ity. Mr. Hoiloway is a member
of the Veterans Class in Car
pentry.
The couple has built a beauti
ful rural home with their own
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Gift Division Drive
To End September 10
E!nt«red m Heeond Olua Matter At tk« Port Office «t Darham, North Oaroliu, under Aet of
FOR 25 YEARS THE OUTSTANDING NEGRO WEEKLY OF THE
March 3, r87».
CAROLINAS
VOLUME 27~NUMBER 35 DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3rd, 1949
Local Telephone Service
Becomes Increasingly Worse
Housewives League Gets Charter
The Durham Unit of the Na
tional Housewives League re
ceived its Charter last week
at the 49th Annual Conven
tion of the Business League,
and the 12th Annual Conven
tion of the Housewives League
held in Detroit, Michigan.
Mrs. Christina Fuqua, presi
dent of the National House
wives League is shqwn pre^
senting the Charter to Mrs.
Callie B. Daye, local presi
dent, and Mrs. f. DeShazor
Jackson, local president-emeri
tus and parliamentarian, while
Mrs. Fannie B. Peck, first na
tional president and Mrs.
Magnolia Leak, National Reg-
ioii^ Chainnan and local sec
tary, look on,
WEAVER-McLEAN POST
TO HOLD HARVEST FAIR
The Weaver-McLean Post
Number 175 of the American
Ijegion of Durham, will hold
its Harvest Festival and Fair
tlie week of Sept. 19 through
24, 194!).
Again this year, after a lapse
of 11 years, the local Negro
American Legion Post vdll
hold its Festival and Fair at
4he American Legion’s Fair
Grounds, located just off the
Oxford highway, at the north
ern city limits.
The Harvest Festival and
Fair will be held immediately
following that of the white
American Legion and will be
opened to the general public.
The Festival and fair was
quite a success in 1938 and at
the time it 'was thought that
the post would hold a fair an-
naully, but in 1939 another
group of local Negro cit
izens organized a fair asso-
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Beh'eve It Or
Not: Cave Man
Ate Ham, Eggs
PRETORIA, AFRICA
Ilam and eggs or pork and
eggs for a breakfast relish is
nothing new according to
Prof. C. J. Van Riet Lowe,
who directed the archeological
survey in the Cave of Hearths
in the Makapan Valley in
South Africa.
Prof. Riet Ix>we recovered
from the cave a fire-scarred
but' well-made axe. from the
ash of a fire made by niaai in
the Early Stone Age, more
than 100,000 years ago. Near
it were fojmd the mineralized
remaii^s of .pigs’ teeth and
fragments or the shell of an
ostrich egg. Wen did King
FJolomon say “There is noth
ing new under the sun.”
The apparent “public-be-
danied” attitude uf the Dur
ham Telephone Company
which furni.shes telephone
service for the city of Durham
and several nearby communi
ties became more pronounced
here this week when case af
ter case of inadequate and the
worst kind of telephone service
was uncoverd by the CA]^-
LINA TIMES. ■
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Of the many patrons of the
telephone company interview
ed here the past two weeks on
ly one, the Secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce, Frank
A. Pierson, stated that he was
not aware that the telephone
service in Durham was not up
to standard. Mr. Pierson told
a representative of the CAR
OLINA TIMES that he had
not heard of any complaints
against the service rendered
by the local phone company.
It will be recalled that Mayor
Dan K. Edwards appointed a
committee to investigate the
telephone system in Durham
and referred the matter to it
at a meeting of the City Coun
cil on July 18. The Public
Utilities Committee had taken
no action on the matter up to
Wednesday of this week. The
committee is jieaded by Coun
cilman W. K. Rand.
Some of the complaints dis
closed in the investigation
made by the CAROLINA
^TIMES over the past several
* months included: No private
phones available even for busi
nesses; no additional phones
of any kind, private or party
lines, available on many
thickly populated residential
streets; phones too frequently
out of order, sometimes run
ning as high as five times,
within a week on the same
phone; the poorest kind of
service' for out of order
phones, sometimes forcing cus
tomers to be without service
as long as five days, overload
ed party lines; a lack of in
terest on the part of the Dur
ham Telephone Company of-
ciak and employes when re
pairs are needed for phones
too long out of order and
numerous other minor in
adequacies tha^ are annoying.
The nuinager of the Booker
T. Theater tokl a representa
tive of the CAROLINA
TIMES that the phone there
had been off since Monady,
August 29 and that he had re
ported the matter repeatedly
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PRICE: TEN CENTS
Succumbs
Willie Hunter, age 41, of
110 East Piedmont Avenue,
died suddenly of a heart at
tack, here Friday, August 26,
at 902 St. John Street. For 22
years has had been employed
as a bellman at the Malbourn;
Hotel. He was a member of
the Mount Vernon Baptist
Church, where Reverend E.
T. Browne, pastor, officiated
at the final rites on Monday,
August 29.
M»h Hunter is survived by
his wife, Mrs. Thetesa Hun
ter, and two children, Mar
garet Hunter, age 22; and
William Frederick, age 5.
Interment was at the Beech-
wood Cemetery.
McRae Is Named
Dean Of Men
At Lincoln U.
LINCOLN, PA.
Professor James B. McKae
has been appointed Dean of
of Men at Lincoln University,
it was announced this Aveek
by President Horace Mann
Bond. Professor McRae, who
joined the Lincoln faculty in
1947 as Director of Public Ilti-
lations, succeeds Dr. Frank T.'.
Wilson, who resigned to be
come Dean of the School of
Religion at Howard I'Uiversi-
ty.
The new Dean, who gradu
ated ciun laude from Lincoln
in the class of 1924, received
his Master’s degree from Co-
lutiibia University. He has had
two additional years of grad
uate study there. He taught in
the Wilmington, N. C., public
schools in 1924-25, and was
principal of the high school
there during 1925 and 1926.
He also served as Supervisor
of Elementary Education
from 1926 until 1931, when he
joined the faculty of the Fay
etteville, N. C., State Teach
ers’ College. He served as
Dean of the college from 1935
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By FRANKLIN BROWER
A.ssistaiit Chairman A. T.
‘Spaulding called a meeting of
a division of the gift eoiniiiittee
of the .Janies E. Shepard M''in-
orial Fountlation at the Algim-
(piiu Chd) House here Mondaj
night for the kiekuff of the cam
paign to raise in I)ur-
liam by the .September 10th
deadline for solicitations.
The national goal for the
Foundation is $250,000, and
any gift checks can be made
out to the James E. Shepard
Memorial Foundation and
mailed to 648 at North
Carolina C*>llege, according to
campaign lirector Janies T.
Taylor, wl.ere the headquar
ters is set-up.
Proniinciil leader^ of bnsiiK'ss,
labor, education, fraternities,
eivie ;rrou|)',. and religion wore
assigned as ‘hairmen to direct
solicitation aiuoiijr their special
grou])s. Uev. K. ('. Sharpe,
jiresideiit of tln' Ministerial Al
lice, and K’evereiul .Miles Mark
Fisher are responsihle for tiie
liiinisters and various elnirehes.
BUSINESS CHAIRMEN
NAMED
F. K. Watkins and H. M.
Michaux, with W. J. Ken
nedy, Jr., J. H. Wheeler, and
R. C. Foreman advising and
assisting, will co-chairman the
camjpaign among the larger
colored corporations and Pres
ident Theodore Speight of the
Business and Professional
Chain, together with R. Kelly
Bryant, and N. B. White were
assigned to the smaller busi
nesses.
Doctors.]. X. .Mills, J. M. Hub
bard, and A. S, Hunter were
named to chairmen the profes
sional groups, being assigned to
solicit among the loeal i)hysi-
eians and dentists. Attorney M.
Hugh Thompson will heacl the
lawyer group as to .solicitations;
W. T. Willis was as.signed to the
Xorth Carolina College teach
ers, Fred Pratt’’ and Albert A,
('ain to Labor, togethi'r with
the i)r('sidents of tlu> seven lo
cals in the city: and J. M.
Schooler and H. M. Holmes to
cover the public .school teachers
and groups.
SCROLL WILL NAME
CONTRIBUTORS -
Every contributor of any a-
^(Plea.se turn to Paije Kiglit)
If
The James E, Shepard Mem
orial Foundation takes to the
airlanes via radio station
WDNC to send out a state
wide plea for contributions to
a fund to be used in effecting
a memorial to the late Dr.
James E. Shepard. Parti
cipants of the broadcast orig
inating from Durham are,
left to right: Prof. J. T. Tay-
I 'r oT .;h Carolina College,
Campaij^ti Director of the
Fcundarion; Norfleet: Whit-
ted, W'^Kc announcer; Rep.
R. M. Gantt of the North Car-
olin College trustee board; A.
T. Spaulding, Treasurer of
the Foundation; and'C. C.
Amey, Field Representative
for the Foundation.
BERRY IS FIRST RACE
COMPANY TO GET NCC
BUILDING CONTRACT
The Berry Company was.one
of several IXirham contracting
firms which last week submitted
low bills for con.structiou work
on North C^arolina College’s
proposed faculty apartments
l)uilding.
A precedent was established
in the state when the Berry
Company was awarded the
contract for the faculty apart
ment building. It marked the .
fir^ time in the history of
the state that a Negro firm
had been awarded a general .
contract for construction on a
building of an institution sup
ported by the state.
Several obs«^rvors sji^v that it
is probably the first time in the
South that a Negro firm has
been awarded a tH)ntract for
work on a state supported col
lege.
Low bids for the construction
of North Carolina College’s
proposed cla^room building
totaled $221,916, approximate
ly $90,000 less than the $312,-
000 estimate previously made.
Bids for the faculty unit to
taled $125,101; $101 more
than an earlier estimate.
Hids awartletl were:
Classroom building: general
contract, R. H. Pennix Com
pany, $189,721; plumbing,
Durham Plumbing aiid Heat
ing Company, $9,395; heat
ing, Rowe-Walsh-Jones, Inc.,
$12,500; and electrical work,
Durham Electrical Construc
tion Company, $10,300.
Faculty apartments build
ing : general contract. The
B e r r y Company. $102,606 .
plumbing, IJoyd and Copleland,
; heating. B i D Plumb-
irig and Heating Co.,
and electrical work, Durham
Electrical Construction Comp
any. #.),'230.
The buildings are part «f a
$4,000,000 construction pro
gram underway at the local
college.
Ushers Conclude Successful
A
Meet; Austin Is Re-elected
WILMINGTON
The L’r>th anilnul session of
the Interdenominational Ush
ers .Vssociat ion eaine to a close
here Sunday August 28 with
a masterful ^ernion by^ the
Kevercnd K. H. lioldin'g, pas
tor of St. Stephen A. M-. E.
Church, the scene of the con
vention.
Other highlights of this'
3rear’s annual session was an
address Thursday night by
i W. J. ■ Kennedy, Jr., vice-
president and secretary of the j
North Carolina Mutual Life
Insurance Company and a vis
it to the convention by Allan
A. C. Griffith of Washington,
D. Cx, president of the Na
tional Ushers Associat^n and
B. T. McMillon of th^ Public
, Health Department of North
Carolina College at Durham.
DONATES $1500
The North Carolina Ushers
.\s.sociation ha.s long been a
. supporter of the Oxford Col
ored Oinhanuge and in kfep
itv;: VM', that custom preae^eil
a ehi e'; tor to Su’fTT T
A. H it: ne to be ustnl in help
ing t ty for the new boys
dorn ' '■ juijl cuinpleted at
■he
Sun i'iy moriltng the annual
parade w.:s held witlS hundreds
of u6her^ participating. A*
has b«ea the custom throufh
the venrs, the parade ended at
the chttrck when those takist
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