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n Miss T rode Week'^ DLEACE SU T file CarSto Clm^0 ft^B^UTHTteiwiSEPiTf ^ £nt«red m H«eond CUm MatUr at tita Post Offiea nt I>arh«a, North Oai’oliaa, nader Aat of March 3, '879. FOR 25 YEARS THE OUTSTANDING NEGRO WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS VOLUME 27—NUMBER 43 DURHAM, N. C., SATUfeDAY, OCTOBER 29th, J949 PRICE; TEN CENTS ABC Officers Arrested For Tieing Negro Up By Hands Mrs. Bernice Turner, sponsored by the College Inn, won the coveted title of “Miss Trade Week” in the contest sponsored by the Durham Business and Professional Chain in connection with their fifth annual Trade Week just concluded. Mrs. Turner r& ported $175 for first place. Hastie Is Principal In Inauguration Of Hampton Prexy HAMPTON, VA, Governor William H. Hastie, of the Virgin Island, newly ap pointed Federal Circuit Court Judge, will bring “Greetings from the Virgin Islands” to his fallow Virgin Islander, Alonzo G. Moron, when the latter is in- etalled as president of Hampton Institute or^ Saturday morning, Octolxfr 29. One hundred college del egates, including nearly a score of college pi^esidents, sad More than 100 other spe> cially invited persons are ex pected to be present Saturday morning, when the historic auditorium will overflow with staff, students, delegates, alumni and friends of the in stitution as it inaugurates an alumnus as president for the first time. Dr. Channing H. Tdbias, chairman of the Board of Trus tees and director of the Phelps- Stokes Fund, will invest Mr. Moron. A prnduate of Hamp ton, Brown University, the Uni versity of Pittsburgh, and the Harvard Law School, the new president has served as com missioner of public welfare for the Virgin Islands; manager and advisor for federal and city housing projects in Atlanta, Ga.; lecturer in housing and so cial work; and business man ager and acting president of Hampton Institute. Bringing greetings to the new president befpre his address in acknowledgement of his in vestiture will be the followings; Thomas T. Hamilton, Director of the State Ihvision of 8ec- onardy Education, representing Governor William C. Tuck of the Coiumouwealth of Virginia; City Manager Levin D. James, representing Mayor George C. Bentley, for the City of Hamp ton; Governor Hastie, for the Virgin Islands; Dr. Nelson Mar shall, Doan of the College of William and Mary, representing President John E. Pomfret; President John M. Ellison of Virginia Union University, in Richmond, representing the As sociation of American Colleges; Miss Gertrude L. Perry, for the (Please turn to Page Eigth) SCOTLAND NECK Two Halifax County Alcoholic Beverage Control officers re verted fFom the usual pattern set by Southern law enforce ment officers in handling Negro prisoners by hanging their prisoner by the wrists instead of by the neck. Probably the only reason Lee Hill, 25 year-old tenant farm er, was not hanged by the neck was that the officers, S. E. Ewell an W. A. Kilpatrick, wanted him to feel the beating they administered to him with a flashlight, a pistol, and a stick. For their part in the coercion, the officers have been arrested by Sheriff H. A. House and placed under bonds of $250 each. Ewell, Chief ABC Officer of this coun ty, and Kilpatrick are scheduled to be given hearings before Mag istrate William Howard on Mon day night. Both deny Hill’s charges. Hill said he was arrested at a liquor siill, waere he had gone wiih iwo companions a- OQUc b:uu i'riaay nignt:, by Ewell, {QlpaincK, an(L two oiher officers. The ABC officers reiurned to Scotland Neck a* bout 10:30 where Hill claimed Draper and Baisley, the och er two officers in the arrest, left the car and went inside a cafe. He was not taken to jail mediately because the officers a- waited the Night Policeman. When the Night Policeman, W Z. Moore arrived, Hill said, Ewell got the car key from Draper and drove off with him and Kilpatrick. Hill said the officers stopped about four miles northeast of Scotland Neck, handcuffed him to a tree, and alternately beat him with a flashlight and a pistol to make him tell the names of the two companions who had escaped in the raid of the still. (Please turn to Page Eigth) NCC Prexy Speaks To HHS Students University Sued For Admission To Its Law School Father Divine Buys Hotel With Ten Full Suitcases Of Currency The Crown and Scepter Club, Hillside High School honor society, initiated ten new members recently at formal exercises. Shown in the a- bove photo is Dr. Alfonso Elder, president of North Carolina College, delivering the principal address for the exercises. The ten members in stalled are Effie Fuller, Carl Jones, Harvey Jones, Wilfred Kenny, Helen King, Margaret Lewis, Juanetta Lyons, John Peele, Fuller Rob bins, and Clarice Thorpe. Ha, Ha, He, He, Ho. Ho! School Agrees To Teach White Supremacy l^or $50,000,000 NAACP Spurred On Failure Of Congress To Act NEW YORK Spurred by the adjournment of Congress without pa.ssage of a single civil risrhts measure.J the national office of the XAA CP moved speedily this week to rally the A.«sociation’>i membtr ship in a nationwide drive for ('nactnient of this legi.slation early in the next session. Instructions for carrying out the plans develDped last week hy the X.\A('P national enier geiicy eoinniittce on fivil rijrhth were sent today to the ItJW brandies and >tate eonfer- f'nces of the As.'«ooiation. The state confen-ui^es W'.-re ur"ed to call a nioetintr of all branch presidents within their respentive jurisdictiuns for the' purpose of formulating plans! for observance of national civil rights mobilisation period. Xoi ■ ember through January 17. Local branches were asked to s«nd delegations to call upon members -of (.'ongress while at home and upon local political leaders; te solicit the coopera tion of trade unions, churches, fraternal groups and other or ganizations ; to organize mass meetings; and to select del egates to attend a three-day eon- -ference in. Waahingtoa, Jan> narj’ 15-17. GREENSBORc A salt was rued hjr? T” by two Negro studentii in the Middle District Court, agam^t officials of the '*ni?ersir> >f North Carolina, charging viola tion of their constitutional right* when their applications for en trance to the university law vhool were tume»l down The student-,. Harold Thoma.i Epps. Asheviil#*. and Robert Davis G!a.--r of B*'Im .nt. an* now ■nrnHeil in th= .1 ‘ ' u. ! a’’ '-'!»rth ♦'arfi’'Hi» . ' at Dur ham. ,\t a rr. 'tine -f th • ri-ianl Tri|;;te’s f thf {’nivf-r^ity h \ ast Juni* 2. fiillowin? th> fii- inir of Eppx' arip'ii-a*' n in April. I'’t4^. a'lin,' wr*^! thw of James Roberr Waikf*r of 'iratfs- The Hotel Riviera of New Jersey which ten suit cases full of bills at a cost of $550,000. Father Divine and his followers purchased with NEWARK, N. J. Appro"^imately 500 follow ers of Father Divine purchas ed a million dollar hotel lo cated at Clinton Avenue and High Street here for $550,000. The followers paid for the Riviera in cash ^^th ten suit cases packed with paper cur rency — that green stuff, bro ther. It required three and ones half hours of counting in closing the transaction. The Hotel Riviera contains eight stories, 276 rooms, a large dining room, a cocktail lounge, a pent house, drug store, and other shops on tJie ground floor. According to reports the fol lowers of the Divine cult will adopt the policy of no smok ing, drinking, profanity, Hor obscenity psrmittsd. The sexes will be s«gregated by floors and cult ra^es will prevail. No discrinilnation or segregation will permitted. By CAL JOHNSON Special to CAROLINA TIMES NATCHEZ, MISS. How even an educational in stitution can prostitute its soul came to light here this week when it was discovered that a rich planter and oilman had given a grant of $50,000,000 to the little-known Jefferson Alili- tary College located here. The school bears the reputa tion of being the place where Jetferson Davis, president of 4ie UjUied Confederated Slates, studied. The joke of the whole thing is that the grant specifies that the college must teach and dis seminate through every medium possible the “true principles” of Jeffersonian Democracy and the Constitution, Christianity and the superiority of the Aji- glo-Saxon and? Latin-American races. Judge George Armstrong, donor of the grant, is a typical power-drunk land-owner of the old South. He was care ful to make acceptance of the terms in his grant certain. He demanded that the Board of Trustees be reduced from 12 to five members and that he be given the right to name three of them, and the other two by retiring trustees. Armstrong named his son, A. J. Armstrong, as one trustee and the son immediately announced acceptance of the gi’ant. It was further stipulated in the grant that the school must change its charter to exclude “Communists or persons with Communist conliections and any person of African or Asiatic origin.” The faculty and student body ’Tiust primarily be constituted •'f “persons of Anelo-Saxon or ’^/atin-American oriein and of ‘he Christian faith and ad vocates of free enterprise. ” The gift includes five-sixths of Judge Armstrong's mineral riphts on 42.000 acres in Adams. Jefferson and Wilk inson CotinHes, all sprung a- lone the Misslssinpi River and around this criMsroad city of the Old South. Some 26,000 other acres were ponveyed outrieht to the school, on exn^rtg Mtimsted that the T)TOT),»rti>« and risrbts win tually yield more than $50,000,- (Coiiitinued from Page Four) Man Bites Wife’s Nose Off SANFORD Willie Baldwin, Sanford re sident, was lodged in jail here, following an altercation with his wife Sunday night, which ended when he bit off the tip end of her nose. Warrant however was sworn pig snouts overcame him when he saw the luscious and tempting morsel of his wife’s nose could not be learned. War rent however was sworn out for the nose-biting hus band by his wife, Mrs. Doro thy Baldwin, who stopped by the police station enroute to the hospital. While Mrs. Baldwin was at the hospital, her husband vis ited her without the other part of her nose and was im mediately placed under arrest. A.s the officers were taking him to jail, Baldwin jumped (Please turn to Page Eight) “This project,” Roy Wilkins, acting NAACP secretary', said in announcing the plans, “has b##n initiated ia response to a resolution passed at the 40th an nual conference in Los Angeles. In this drive we intend to touch every member of our organiza tion, to make him aware of a personal responsibility to work actively for passage of civil rights legislation.” ATTY. C. O. PEARSON The Right Rev. Monsignor William F. O’Brien, Pastor of the Church of the Immaculate Conception of Durham will be the speaker at the Christian Endeavor League at the Saint Joseph A. M. E. Church on Sunday, November 6th at 5 P. M. Subject of Monsignor O’Brien’s address will be an nounced later. Chain Ends Successful Trade Week With Banquet; ^^Miss Trade Week” Crowned ville and James E. Thomas of Raleigh, the following resolu tion was passed: “Be it resolved by this board that it is premature for it to consider any application of a Negro for admission to any imiversiiy graduate school un til. after the iadividual qoali* cations and the compeiiuve standing of the applicant have been de ermined in the usual and customary manner.” The suit will have the back ing of both the State and Na tional offices of the National As sociation for the Advancement j of Colored People, it was learn ed here today. Representing the the plaintiffs are Attorneys C. O. Pearson. Durham : Robert L. Carter and Thurgood Marshall of New York. Defendants named in the action ar*' William Donald Carmichael, Jr.. acting presi dent of U. N C., Henry P. Brandt!!,“.+r;,-—dtnm of the law school, Lee R3y Wells Arm strong, director of admis-sions, (Please turn to Page Eight) The four runners-up to Mrs. Bernice Turner in the “Miss Trade Week” contest are shown above in the respective order in which they placed. From left to right are Miss Gladys Mit chell, Mrs. lola Goss, Mrs. D. F. Reed, and Miss Julia Morrison. By R. KELLY BRYANT, JR. The annual Trade Week ban quet of the Durham Business and Professional Chain was held Monday night j»t the Jade Room of the Do-Nut Shop with approximately 100 persons at tending. Day F. Reed, serving as master of ceremonies, led the ooQaaiou through a succeMful affair. Rev. William H. Fuller gave the invocation which was fol lowed hr welcome remarks from the president, T. R. Speight. Greetings were brought from the Housewive’s League bj' Mrs. Spaulding. L. E. Austin, J. H. Callie B. Dave, president. Rev Miles Mark Fisher, guest speak er, was introduced by Rev. R. C. Sharpe, both of whom are members of the Board of Di rectors. Rev. Fisher reminded us of our obligations to our cus tomers, and presented a chal lenge as Negroes in business to prepare ourselves to eompete in servicss and commodities. R. Kelly Bryant, Jr., secrstary of the “Chain” introdneed the guests, members and friends, and called \ipon Messrs C. C. Wheeler, and Charlie J. ,Jack son for remarks. Each person gave inspiring remarks. Mrs. J. DeShazor Jackson, executive secretary of the “Chain” spoke briefly on «the program of the Durham Business ayd Profes sional Chain. “Miss Trade Week” Crowned J. J. Henderson, serving as chairman of the contestant's n- oorts, arave the winners of the fir!«t five placM in the “Miv Trade Week” contest as fol- (Please turn to Page Eigth) Broodcast To Be. Concluding Event In Founder's Week By Staff Correspondence A nation-wide broadcast ded icated to the memory of the late Dr. James E. Shepard, found- er-president of North Carolina College, will be the concluding event in the college’s Founder’s Week Celebration, it was an- noimced here this week . The Souther nai res, world- famed musical quartet, will dedicate their broadcast of Sun day, November 6, to Dr. Shepard and the Shepanl Memorial Foundation, accordin? to James T. Taylor, director of the foun dation. The procrram will be broadcast over ABC at 10:30 a. m. The Southernaires will devote the full program to Dr. Shep ard’s life and work, interspers ing narrative commentary* with some of the late educator’s favorite selections. Althousrh final arrangements for the College’s Founder’s Day observance, which is held an nually on November 3, Dr. She pard’s birthday, have not been annonnted. Taylor said here this week that the program wonld feature a public service follow- ed by the annual trek to I>r. Sheparil’s grave. CJontributions ti> the Foun dation’s fund raising campaign are coming into the director’s of fice in “gratifring amotmto, T^lor said. Taylor said the rr- sponae from national organiza tions h|k1 been “surprisingly (Please turn to Page Eight)
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