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VOLUME 27—NUMBER 42 DURHAM, K. C., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22nd, 1949 PRICE: TEN CENTS
MRS. IRENE H GATES.
VwMral terricM for Mn.
IfWM Harris Gatei are to be
hold Friday afternoon at 3:30
o’etock at Saint Joaeph A. M.
£. Church, of which she was
A munber. Rev. D. A. John-
stMH, pastor of St. Joseph, will
officiate.
Mrs. Oates died Tuesday,
October 18, about six p. m.,
at Uie Durham County Sani*
. torium, wh*ere she had been ill
for quite some time. She is a
native of Henderson.
Seek To Hold School
Funds In Bias Case
SurfiTiag are her husband,
C. Terry Gates and daughter,
ImmU, of Durham; Mr. and
Mrs. James Harris, parents;
WlUi« and Jimmy Lm Har*
rli, brothers and Mrs. Anna
Hanks, sister, all of Hender*
s«b; and Miss Lourenia Har*
rls, sister, of Orange,’ N. J.
Intermeat will in Hen-
denon.
Hillside Honor
Society Holds
First Meet
The first meeting of the
Crown and Scepter Club, an
affiliate with the State and
National Orfanlzation, held
its first regular scMuled
meeting for the school year
M9-’50 on Septe&ber 29, 1949
at the Hillside High l^hool.
INSIDE;
EDITORIALS: Black As
The Ace Of Spades, page two.
Senator Hoey Comes To
Town, page two.
GENERAL NEWS: Rev.
Yelverton To Celebrate Sixth
Anniversary, page seven.
Appeal Asked by NAACP
in Maryland School Bias
Case, page three.
Pauli Murray, former Dur
ham Rresident, Has Strong
Backing In Brooklyn Coun
cil Race, page three.
NAACP Urges Extension
of Africa Aid, page three.
Mount Vernon Baptist
Church to Celebrate Family
Day, page five.
SPORTS: Eagles defeat
Virginia State for First Time
in 15 years.
A. and T. Qets Close Win
Over Shaw.
St. Augustine’s Swamps St.
Paul.
Union To Meet Kentucky
in Old Dominion Classic.
Attorneys in the suit pending
in U. S. Federal District Court
to have the Negro and white
schools equalizetl in the city of
Durham, dispatched a telepram
Tuesday to Clyde A. Erwin,
State Superintendent of Public
Schools, requesting that the
State Board of Education with
hold approval of further con-
si ruction of buildings for white
students “pendinp correction of
discriminatory conditions.”
The attorneys cited in the
telegram that the appraisal of
school properties in the City of
Durham in 1947 showed that
the per capita value of build
ings for each white child was
$774.01 and only $309.27 for
each Negro child. Durham
school officials contend there is
no discrimination in Negro and
white schools in the city of Dur
ham, and that the per ;apital
outlay for each white child is
$497 agaiagt. $194 for each Ne
gro child.
Attorneys in the action are
M. H. Thompson and " J. H.
Wheeler, who stated here Tues
day that they hope to have the
State withhold approval of Dur
ham’s share of the $50,000,000
State school bgnd iacue until the
suit filed last May, charging
ranlq discrimination in the
school provided for Negroes, has
been disposed of.
Durham is scheduled to re
ceive $451,147.90 as its share of
the State funds and Superin
tendent Weaver had gone to Ra
leigh Tuesday to appear before
State Schdbl Board officials to
answer questions about the pro
jects scheduled to be ei*ected
here from the bond issue money.
State officials did not act on
the request made by Superin
tendent Weaver yesterday, nor
the telegram to Superintendent
Erwin. Dr Erwin wa^ out of
the city when the message ar
rived Tuesday.
J. L. Cameron, director of the
Division of Survey, State Board
of Education, state* that the
telegram had been received by
Dr. Erwin’s office and that ac
tion on it would probably be
taken at the next meeting of the
Board on November 3.
‘The telegram to Superinten
dent Erwin is as follows:
Newspapers indicate Durham
City Board of Education will
appear before your panel to
day asking approval of con
structions projects, some of
which are for white schools.
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Hundred Grand Is
Lacked For Beach
Fund For Teachers
RALEIGH
A great sum of money to raise
in one school term for Ham
mocks Beach. One hundred
thousand dollars ($100,000) is
needed to qualify for the gift
from the donor of the property
to the teachers in Negro schools
of North Carolina and other
professional or business organ
izations.
The response has been great,
but it will be necessary to com
plete this quota as early as pos
sible because its culmination de
pends upon reporting to Dr.
Sharpe the $100,000 required to
guarantee proper development
of the estate. The development
of the project will include
dormitories, dining^ room and
kitcl^en, adequate sanitation
facilities, a causeway from the
mainland to the beach, and an
improved road leading to the
■proiect.
New teachers are being asked
to contribute whatever amount
NCC QUEEN CROWNED
Circuit Court Appointment
Triple Blow To Race; Move
Seen As Political Maneuver
NAACP Tables
White “Ouster
II
NEW YORK
The board of directors of
the National Association
for the Advancement of
Colored People voted to
table a recommendation
from the executive commit
tee of the New York branch
“to request and accept the
resignation of Mr. Walter
White and make known to
the public their action.”
This action, taken by the
board at its regular mon
thly meeting on October
10, leaves unchanged Mr.
White’s status as NAACP
secretary - on - leave. The
recommendation of the New
York brench is the only
such request received by
the board. Mr. White’s
leave terminates on May 31,
1950.
Crowning of the North Caro
lina College Homecoming
Queen was a feature of half-
time activities of the Narth
Caroline College • Virginia
State game last Saturday. In
the photo, James Elliott, sen
ior of Durham, tackle and
captain of the North Cardina
College eleven, is shovm plac
ing the crown on **Miss
Hom«coming,'* , Miss Mable
Dttpree, senior from Sumter,
S. C.
Attendants to the Queen are
Miss Doris DeLaine, center
background, and Miss Vir
ginia Allen, left.
Approximately nine thous-
'ami Homecoming fftntf saw the
North Carolina College team
defeat the Virginia State Col
lege team by a 19-14 score.
Man Jailed On Charge
Of Housebreakii^[; Sought
Way To His Relative’s Home
Call Sent
For Meet Of
Holy Faith
DETROIT. MICH.
The Rev. C. H. Folniar of De-
triot, Michigan, sent out a call
last week to all Hdliuess, Peute-
eofitai and Sautified Churches
throughout the I'. S, A., to at
tend the organizational meeting
of a Yearly FelloAvship Union
of Holiness Faith Churches. The
meeting will oouvene at the
Wendell Phillips High School
in Chicago, 111., October 27 and
continues through October 80.
In his announcement, the Rev.
Mr. P'olmar, national organizer
for the group, invited church
NCNW Head?
their associates contributed lo
cally last year. The 169 local as
sociations, of the NCTA, are be
ing urge to complete their com
munity quotas as assigned last
year. Local associations are be
ing instructed to form com
munities whose duty it will be
to contact groups named in the
Hammocks Btoch Corporation
Charter for whatever donations
they can make.
W, A. Foster of Goldsboro,
chairman of the Promotion Com
mittee, is asking all teachers,
groups, organizations, and oth
er affiliated individuals who
have not made their contribu
tion to send their remittance to
W. L. Greene, Executive Secre
tary of the NCTA in Raleigh, or
to the Treasurer of the Ham
mocks Corpo^tion, Mr. J. H.
WheeUr at Ihs Mecl^anics and
Farmers Bank in Durham. The
Promotion Committee is making
an all out effort to complete the
$100,000 drive by Dec. 1.
Mrs. Daisy Lampkin, nation
ally known club woman whose
name has been prominently
mentioned as a probable suc
cessor to Mrs. Mary McLeod
Bethune as head of the Na
tional Council of Negro Wo
men, will tour North Carolina
in a state-wide speaking en
gagement.
Mrs. I^ampkin, associated
with the NAACP for many
years. Is vice-president of the
Pittsburgh Courier.
West Durham Baptist
To Celebrate H’coi^ing
Sunday, October 23 is Home
coming Day at the West Dur-
ham^Baptist Church on Thaxton
Avenue.
The morning services will be
highlighted by a sermon by Rev.
T. M. Walker, pastor of Pirtt
Baptist Church. North Wilks*-
boro and an addre^ by J. L.
Moffltt, director of the vocation
al department of Little River
High Sehool.
From behind prison walls, Bennie L. Moore, N. C.
College graduate and head of the Negro public library
in Winston-Salem, told representatives of the CARO
LINA TIMES here Wednesday morning that he did
not enter the home of H. E. Merrit of 2011 Guess Road
in the early morning of October 16th as charged in a
warrant indicting him for burglary.
Contrary to reports first cir
culated that he gained entrance
to the home by slipping a thin
object through the front door
screen and lifting the latch.
Moore told the TIMES repre
sentative that he came to Dur
ham Saturday with his wife
wife from Winston-Salem to at
tend the homecoming celebra
tion at North Carolina College
and that he took several drinks
iu company of friends, class
mates and other old graduates
late in the evening and early
morning.
Moore further stated ^that
when he discovered he was los
ing control, he decided he had
better go to the home of his
uncle who lives at 1009 Third
Street and go to bed. His head
not being clear, he stated, he
lost his way and decided to seek
aid from someone in a nearby
house.
*‘I went to the front door of
one of the houses and knocked
with intention of asking how
I could find the way to Third
Street Before I could ask a
man came to the door and drew a
gun on me and stated I ought
to kill you for coming to my
house this time of night. With
the gun still being held on me
I sat down on the steps. A few
minutes later an oflScer who I
learned later was Captain
Oates, came and arrested me
and took me to jail.’'
Moore is well-known in Dur
ham, and at North Carolina Col
leges where he atttended sehool.
having graduated in the
of lf>40 with a B. S. dcCTee and
in 1949 with the B. R. degre« in
Library Science.
As far as TIMES representa
tives could learn, Moore has
never been in trouble before and
bears a good repxitation in Dur
ham and at North Carolina Col-
lege.
His wife, the former Miss
Flora King, accompanied her
husband to Durham and stated
in an interview Tuesday eve
ning that the only trouble she
has ever had with her husband
was that at times he drinks a
little too much.
Hearing in the case has been
set for Thursday morning:, Oct.
20 in Recorder’s Court. At
torney A. H. Borland has been
employed to represent Moore,
but could not be reached for a
statement late Wednesday aft
ernoon.
GOV. W. H. HASTIE
REV. C. H. FOLMAR
Emma Pate It H. H. S.
**Miss Senior High” ..
Miss Emma Pate, Hillside
Senior, won the coveted title
of "Miss Senior High” in a
contest conducted at the local
high school recently. She was
crowned along with the Home
coming Queen, Miss Barbara
Spaulding at the Hillside
Homecoi^g ganle. The Hill
side Hornets football eleven
defeated the Booker T. Wash
ington Hi^h School Football
team last Friday in the Home
coming game, by a 24-0 score
here.
Miss Pate, a residaiit of
602 Pickett Street, is alw
cashier at the Booker T.
Theater here.
leaders of thi- Holiness Faith to
represent their individual
churches by sendinpr a delega
tion to participate in the plan
for an annual Fellowship I’n-
ion.
The move has been endorsed
by prominent leaders of the Ho
liness Faith throughout the
country. Among clerics approv
ing the plan are Bishop Mason
Church of God in CTirist; Bis
hop W. E. Fuller, Fire Baptized
Holiness Church of God; Bis
hop D. H. Harris of Triumph
The Church and Kingdom of
God in Christ.
Other noted religions leaders
endorsing the plan include Bis
hop S. W. Hancock, Apostolic
Faith ('hurch and Bishop J. D.
Smith of the Church of God.
Ministers and delegates plan
ning to attend the sessions are
being notified to contact Na
tion^ Headquarters at 400 St.
Lawrence Avenue, Chicago, III.
Mrs. Georgia Nonuan, secretary'
to the national office, is hand
ling n'gistrations from the Chi
cago headquarters. '
National Organizei' Folmar,
who liveii in Detroit is well-
known in Mid-western church
circles. H^ is presiding .elder for
Triumph the Church and Kmg-
dom of God in Christ for the
State of Illinois, fhe Rev. Mr.
Folmar anticipetes representa
tion f)x>m the Holiness. Faith
churches throughout the F. R.
A. and foreign countries at the
Chicago meet.
I By Staff Correspondent
[ WASHINGTON — In a move seen by many ob-
servors on Capitol Hill as one desigiied to bate the
wrath of the Negro, stirred up over the failure of the
latest replica of the “do nothing*’ SlaL Congrea* to
enact any of the Civil Rights legislation, Governor
William H. Hastie was named to the Federal Bench
here this week.
Although the appointment by
President Truman of the V'ir-
;rinia Islanil Governor repre-
s»*nts a tlecided advance for the
Negro in that it is the first time
that a Negro has been appointetl
to such a position, it is viewed
with di*slain by Nejrro leaders.
llastie was appointed jiulge
of the Circuit Court of Appeals
to the Third District which is
located in Philatlelphia
The appointment is triply
obnoxious to the Negro. The ap
pointment of Ilastie to the Cir
cuit Couit removes him from
the Virgin Island scene which
deprives the race of its only
Governor. Hastie’ was appoint
ed to a Court which is not con
sidered by the majority of the
leaders as “the thing.” A Ne
gro judge of a District Court
was what Avas wanted by the
vast majority. The move is
specifically one political in na
ture in that it boosts Senator
ilej’er’s, (Dem.-Pa.) chances for
re-election and helps the Negro
to forget that Conpress did not
pass a single iota of the Civil
Rights legislation.
Viewed from an objective
angle, the loss is much greater
than the gain in the appoint
ment. The Negro press of Phila
delphia has been fighting for
more than ten yeai-s for the ap
pointment of a Negro judge to
the Federal District Court. Last
jear 27 vacancies were created,
three in Philadelphia. Two were
for the District Court and one
for the Circuit Court.
The appointment of a Negro
to a District Court was opposed
hy Democratic Party “big
wigs,” Senator Meyer and
James Finnegan. Philadelphia
Democratic Chairman. The plan
to appoint Hastie wai hatched,
however, some months ago by
the Democratic Party strategy
board in Washington as a sop
to Negroes for the failure to act
on tiu' I’ivil Rights legislation,
ileyer. eoir.ing up for re-election
next year, needs the Negro vote,
and. therefore, accepted the
plan. Democratic leaders an*
tryini? to pretend that the niove
was evidenet* of the President’s
high regard for the race.
The Circuit Court, however,
to which Hastie was appointed
will be s«'en by few since only
ases that are appealed to that
Court can come imder its juris-
liction. If the appointment was
for other than political reasons,
why was not Hastie appointed
to the Circuit Court in Wash
ington, I>. C. which had a vac-
any, it is argued. Washington
is Ilastie’s place of residence. It
is thought that ' the President
feared the Southern reaction to
such a move and considered the
Philadelphia appointment one
which would elminate two prob
lems at once.
The appointee. Gov. Hastie
is the former Dean of the How
ard L'niversity Law ischooL He
was appointed as Virgin Is
land Governor in 13(46. He first
became Negro judge of the 10-
land District in 1937; was
Ci\'ilian Aide to the Secretary
of War in 1943. He was assist
ant solicitor in the Department
of Interior from 193-^ to 1937.
No information has been re
ceived from the White House as
to who will succeed Hastie as
Governor of the Virgin Islands.
Sources from the White House
point out that this information
wtH be released p^diilg Senate
confirmation the appoint
ment. ^
Boptist Croup
Approves Gift
To Legal Fund
Special To The Carolina
G.HEEXSBORO -
The Johnston County Baptist
Association at its annual meet
ing at the Oak Grove Baprist
Church, Smithfield, last Satur
day, voted unanimously to give
$25 to the Legal Defense Fund
of the North Carolina State Con
ference of NAACP Branches,
it was revealed in a report by N.
L. Gregg, treasurt-r, releaseil
here Tuesilay.
This is the first donation to
be. teijeived from any Religious
organization since the Drive be
gan, Mr. Gregg stated. The drive
began October 2 and will close
.lanuary 1. 1!)5). It proposes to
r.(,se $15,00X The immediate
objective fs to seek to break the
admission bars at the Universi
ty of North Carolina in the Law
and Medical Colleiies.
Kelly Alexander, president of
the Conference, when informed
of the donation by the Associa
tion wrote Rev. W, Jones
Motlerator and said in part,
“The contribution from your
As.sociation, given upon the ap
peal of Dr. J", li Davis, of the
General Finance Committee,
gives to all of us" lalwring in the
Conference’s program of equali
ty and justice a new spirit and
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State Fair Denies
Bias Gtiarge Made
By State NAACP
CHARLCKITE
C'harges of discrimination a-
gainst Negro school children
at the North Carolina State
Fair were denied this week by
the exposition’s president. Dr.
J S. Dorton, in a letter to
Kelly M. Alexander, president
of the North Carolina State
Conference of the National
Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People.
Mr. Alexander had protested
the fact that "Negro sehool
children were not extended
the conrtedee that w«rt ad-
'wrtif^ for 'all sobod ohil-
dr^ of Charlotte and Meck
lenburg County’ ” and had
asked that Negro children be
allowed “to enjoy the opport-
tunities in a democratic so
ciety. ’ ’
Admitting that the “great
est problem” at the-fair “ex
ists in the fact that we do not >
have adequate dual toilets and
sanitary facilities,” Dr. Dor-
:^ton informed ‘ Mr. Alexander
that while “obviously we can
not share (Ihese) without fric
tion and dissatisfaction.” all
other facilities at the fair are
available to Ne|rroe« without
diMriminatinn. Dr. E. H. O^r-
in^r. superintendent of eity
■ehoola. said he havi been pre-
vjonalj informed hy the fair's
pt^He relations agent
"they were not prepared to
take care of Negroes.”