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^ib 0 In Fla. Air Show MIAMirFLA. Cbarks R. F«zz, Htfgro twimtor from HorfoUc, V«., ■putieip«t« in th* AU-Amoriciui Air MaatuTert hero, Janiury 13>lSp mafkittg tb« flnt p«r* for«tfuice hj * N«gre In the 21- fMr history of the ev*Bt. Foxz, 31, one of top Negro airtaen in the conatry, opemtM a fUfht wrrice in Norfolk. He WM horn aad railed in West Palm Beach, Fla., and learned to fly at Tuakegee Insti tute, Ala., irtiem he was grad uated in 1940. The Norfolk airman trained hundreds of Negre fliers at the Army Fir Force training Khool at Tuskegee, where he was a check pilot during World War II. Fozx will fly a modified Boe ing A-75, powered by a 300- horsepower engine, equipped with a smoke trail device. He specializee in low level stunting. ST#TE FACf SCHOOL SU TS * . M OUm Matter at tiw Paat Ottiae at Dnrhaa, North OaroUaa, nnder Aet of Mareh S, 1.870. FOR 25 YEARS THE OUTSTANDING N BGRO WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS VOLUMB 27—NUMBER 1 DURHAM, H. C., SATURDAY JANUARY 7th, 1950 PRICE: TEN CENTS NAACP In Active Role In Trenton Six’ Retrial Wiggins indicated that IqUPfei Thurgood Mar- has deiiigaatad retrial, to be assisted by J. Mer cer Burrell of Newark “and as shall be recommended by the such other New* Jersey counael New Jersey State Conference for the purpose of giving such technical, reaearch and other as sistance as couuae^ of record may desire." “The New Jersey State Con ference,” Dr. Wiggins con tinued, “has issued no state ment approving the conduct'of either the trial judge or pro- s^lputor in the original trial. Any other statement issued by any NAACP official represented a personal opinion only and was not the official expression of the (geate turn to Page Eight) CAMDEN, N. J.—In roaponao to inqoiriea concerning the part the NAACP will play in the retrial of the liamous “Trenton Six" case, Dr. U. S. Wiggina, president of the New Jeiaoy State Conference of branches of the NAACP aad a number of the NAACP national board of dire;torB, announced today that the Association will give technical, reiMrch aad othor aaiistance to 'the counsel of record in the case. J^Our legal redr^ commit tee ha« always believed that a serioos violation of civil rights occurred in this case,” Doctor Wiggins stated, “for the reason that the confessions relied upon by the prosecution were in its opinion the products of public misconduct of tne grossest type. In addition, it waf of the opin ion that the available evideniee would not sustain a‘conviction. These were the points presented to the Supreme Court of New Jersey in ^e NAACP brief and they will be pressed at the re trial." NCCs Drs. Elder,- M«nlay To Ohio For Deans' Meet CINCINNATTl, OHIO President Alfonso Elder and Dean Albert E. Manley of North Carolina College at Durham are among the nation’s top educa tors expected here Tuesday, Janu^y 9 for the sixth annual meeting of the American Con ference of Ajeademie Deana held in eonjunetion with the .Meet ing of the Association of 4^^^* can Colleges. Meetings will be held at the chief NAACP counael at thiiyfefl’- Netherland Plaza Hotel foUowmg regiatralion^at 9 a. m. in the Hall ^ Mirrors. Topics aehaduled for^^i^- «ion during the morning sessW include: The liberal College and the £Sducation of Women, led by President George Dins- more Stoddard, the University of Illinois; and Dean Elisabeth Eckhardt May, Hood College. At the 11 o’clock discussion, the topic will be Future Plans and Programs of the Conference. Dean Frank Kille, Carleton College, and Dean Logan Wil son, Sophie Newcomb College, will be the discussants. After the 2:30 business ses sion, a panel on pre-profe^on- al education will be held. An (Please turn to Page Eight) No Substitute For FEPC Is Supporters* Cry W^AJSUlNaTON That civil rights will be the big issue ^before the Congress in the opeuiiig days ot the second session is generally conceded by political observers and com mentators. Dramatizing the is sue -will be the presence here of delegates from more than twen ty states attending the National Emergency Civil Rights Mob ilization, Janiiary_15^7 The^JIobiHiation, i^iated by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple, and sponsored by 50 nation al church, labor, civic, fraternal and minority group organiza^ tiotu^, h^ focused widespread attention on the impending fight for enactment of FEPC and other civil rights measures. EfiEorts of Senator Kenneth '3. Wheary, Ifiepublican floor leader, to sidetrack the bill for a Fair Employment Practice Commission, replacing it with an anti-lynching bill, will be opposed by the sponsors of the Mobilization, lioy Wilkins, chairman and acting NAACP secretary announced. “Tjie eollaboratng organiza tions 'have agreed upon top priority *or FEPC,” Mr. Wil kins said. AJi^Jiscrimination in employment alltects more' people and more differt^^^^oups than does lynching, the^feil tax or any other evil for which con gressional remedy is now being.. (Plaase turn to Page Eight) AMA 2 Million Fight Against Health Plan Termed A 'Boomerang’ WASHINGTON The American Medical Aaso- qiation's violent attacks on Na tional Health Insuranoo wore called a two million dollar pfo- paganda booijaerang" yeirt;erday by the Committee for the Na tion'a Health, a national gro'up of doctors and laymen support ing the President’s comprehen sive health plan. . In its fourth annual report, the Committee decland that al though the AMA has circulated 55 million leaflets violently at tacking National Health Inaur- sAce, this stream-of propaganda is making plain people every where realize that National Health Insurance offers them more medical e^^e for less money than the limit^ service plans sponsored by the AMA. The Committee for the Na tion's Health was organised in 1946 to promote comprehensive insurance legisla- tfon~; Iw'canual report was pre pared by Dr. Channing Froth- ingham, General Chairman, and Mkhael M. Davis, Churman of the Exeeutive Onnmittee. A^ong the "Vlc^-Chairmen and Board of Director of the Committee are: Gov. Chester Bowlra, Morris Llewellyn Cooke, Paul. B. Cornely, M. D., Kussell Davenport, Gen. William J. Donovan, William Green, John Gunther, Mrs. Albert D. Leaker, Philip Murray, Mrs. Fcanklin p. Roosevelt, Theodore Sanders, M. D., Ro^rt E. Sherwood, Swope. ‘ Its offi««rs pledged that the Ckfhmittee w|ill purjsue vigor ously, and as extensively as its limited funds permit, the aim of broadening popular and pro fessional understanding of the benefits and the practicability of national health insurance. National health insurance is emerginif as one of the leading domestic Issues for the 1950 elections, but, says the report, it is unlikely that this or any of the three other general healtiii bills will be passed by Congress during the session now opening. On the other hand, the Com mittee predicted the pass^e of significant special health bills during the coming months, particularly those parta of the President’s comprehensive plan which would train more phy sicians and extend public health departments which are now lack- in(f in large areas of the United States. Noted Historian Of Negro Slated To Speak At UNC CHAl'EL HILL Dr. Herbert Aptheker, in structor in history at the Jeffer son School of Social Science (New York) and prominent historian of tlie Negro people, will speak on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Wednesday, January 11, at 7:30 P. M. in Qerrard Hall, under the aus pices of the Karl Marx Study Society. Dr. Apthcker’s topic will be “Tho Koots of Negro Oppression.” Dr. Aptheker obtained his Ph. D. from (Johimbia Univer sity and was a (Juggeiiheim Fel low in history, 19^-47. He is the author of several books, in cluding American Negro Slave Eevolts, first published by Col umbia University Press, Es-says in the History of the American Negro, The Negro People in America and To Be Free. His Documentary History of the (Please turn to Page Eight) Colleges In Health Confab AtNCC « « -4 . The State’s 11 Negro colleges will hold a special health con ference at NoJ*tli Carolina Col lege here January 13-14. The main purpose of the'con ference according to Dr. Allen E. Weatherford and Alian Geor gia Barbee, co-chairmen, is to evaluate the proposed health education for teachers develop ed at Virginia State College l^st Spring. ifegistration for the confer ence which is expected to draw at least two representatives from each member college will be held Friday morning at 9 o’clock in the college Administration Building. The conference pro per will start at 10 o’clock with morning and afternoon sessions in the Administration Building. Luncheon will be available for the delegates in the college din ning hall. Di.scussions will center around the following three questions: (1) How can resources in the (Please turn to Page Eight)) To Speak Here Plymouth, Wilson To Sue I As Negro Unrest Mounts Two more equal education suits were scheduled to be filed in U. S. Diatrict Courts by Negroes this week, the CAROLINA TIMES learned here Tuesday. It was also disclosed that there is much unrest brewing in other sections of tW State where glaring inequalities exist in educational Facilities provided for white and Negro citizens. At Plymouth, Attorney P. W. Bell informed the TIMES that it was definite that he would file suit in the Eastern District Federal Court in behalf of George Smith and other parents of Negro children against the State Board of Educa tion, State Superintendent W. A. Erwin, R. F. Lowry, Superintendent of Wash ington County Schools. Attorney Bell said that in • Dr. Sidney £. Mead, associate professor of the History of American Christianity, the Uni versity of Chicago, preaches at White Rock Baptist Church Sunday, January b, at 11 a. m., and 7 :iO p. m. The occasion will be the 17th Pastoral Anniver sary of Miles MarkFisher. Dr. Mead will address the chapel assembly of North Carolina College Monday' noon. He will be the honored guest at the an nual meeting ot heads of De partments of White Rock Bap tist Church at the parsonage on Monday night. Three Return From Meetings In Profession ^ Three North Carolina (^k)llege tfaeulty members returned to Durhttm this week from profes sional meetings in New York City during the holidays. Dr. Joseph S. Himes and Dr. Alvin \V. Rose, professors in the Sociolog^ department, attended sessions of the American Soci ological Society December 26- 29 inclusive, Prof. Earl W. Phillips of the Department of Comnicrce attended sessions of the Ain*rican Economic Asso ciation and the Econometric Society at the Commodore Hotel in New York City. acklitiou tij seeking equalization of the. mJuIu ami JSegio uchouls ol \\ a.shnigton County the ac* tion would seek to prevent con solidation and removal of tlie Negro high school iu Plymouth to Itoper while still luaintaiu- ing a high school in Plymouth for wliite children. The plaintiffs iu the action also seek the reallocation of the bond issue funds alloted to Washington County by the State. The amount is $241,000. Under the present plans the Ne gro schools iu Plymouth would get nothing. There are three white and three Negro High Schools in WasUliigton County with the Negro high school in Plymouth being the second largest in en rollment. The second city in which it is definite tliat a suit will be filed is Wil.son. Attorney M. II. Thompson of Durham who will represent the plantiffs when the suit is filed told the Tl.MES this week that the Wilson County school officials iiad const'nted to a conference, and that it would probably l>e held the early i>art of next week. It is hoped that satisfactory terms may be reach ed and the action avoided. If, iiowever, an agreement cannot be reachetl action will be filed in the I'. S. Eastern District Court. At Enfield where Negro chil dren are Iji'ing forced to atteiul high schooF in Battlehoro. ap proximately 10 miles away, a new white high school is now (Please turn to Page Eight) (Please turn to Page Eight) Speskcr Woman, Children And Ijbsband Meet Death In' Ya. On Christmas Night PBTERJSBUHG, VA. apparent suicide which resulted in the death of a moth er, her two children and her hus band shocked the Virginia State College campujs here this week. The victim of what the Medi cal examiners termed murder and suicide are Edward l!)avid Yeatman, 35, associate professor of Spanish at Virginia State; his wife, JVIrs. Muriel, 26, Vir ginia State student; and their two children, Judith 6 and Carol 6. Dr. D. T. Maun, state medical examiner and 1. E. Bowen of the Chesterfield County police, concurred in their beliefs that the suicide was planned by Mrs. Yeatman, but that the resultant deaths of her husband and chil dren were not planned. The investigation revealed that Mrs. Yeatman, who had been ill for some time, tried to commit suicide by turning on all the gas jets in the ki^en, even that of the oven. She then opened the living room door and went upstairs to the bathroom. Doors to the rooms in which the husband and children were found were closed. Mrs. Yeatman left the door to the living room open when she went upstairs so that, the gas seepeil up the hallway and under the doors of the rooms in which the husband and children were sleeping. She was found seated in the bathroom, her husband in his bed clad in undergarements, and the children in their beds iu pajuma.s. The bodies were found Thurs day morning by Professor S. N. Catlin, band and college orches- stra dirtjctor; L. H. Schuster, Samuel Sladden, Professor Wal ter Ridley and an officer of Camp Jjee. Acconling to the medical ex aminer all persons had been dead since Christmas night. Whe'n the Yeatman family had been mis.sed since Christ- ma.s, (Jatlin and others decided to .investigate the hou.se. They found several deliveries of milk (Please turn to age Eight) Dr. M. C. Allen, president of the Virginia Thelogical Semin ary, delivered the Emancipation address to a capacity audience at the First Calvary Baptist Church here Monday. The cele bration marked the b/th year of issuance of the proclamation. II The Week's Lowest Stinker A college trained woman with a Ph.D^ degree attached to her name swearing out loud in the street like a common alley rat because the driver of an automobile failed to hold out his hand to make a left turn. God Save Our Children! Ex-Progressiye State Head Is Accident Victim Miss Mary Price, former chairman of the Progressive Party of North Carolina, was seriously injured recently by a hit-and-run driver in Washing ton, 1). C., where Miss Price is now residing. She sufferetl a brain concussion and a badly fractured skull, renuiining un- con.seious for about three weeks. Miss Pri(‘e’s physivian be lieves that she will r»*cover phy sically, but thinks it will be several months, at the besT7 be fore she will be able to return IE. Austin Well-Known Man Of High Point Dies HIGH POINT ' W. H. “Bill” Wilson died here at his home Monday after-, noon of a stroke only, a half hour after returning from Dur ham where he spent part of the dhristnias holidays with rela tives. Mr. Wilson was reported iu 'ood .spirits and feeling well upon leaving Durham about noon. He arrived here about two o'clock and died before 2:30. The deceased was well-known in Durham where he was cashier at the Mechanics and Farmers Bank from l‘J20 to 1928. For 14 years prior t») death, he was connected with the High Point Division of the State Employ ment Service. He was born in Durham some 58 years ago, son of William Henry and' MvS; Malinda Wilson. He received his education in the public .schools of Durham, Shaw ["ni- versity in Raleigh and North Carolina College at Durham. Mr. Wilson was a member of First Baptist Church of High Point and the American Legion. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Fannie Raines \ViIson, Shreveport, ; four brothers : Egb*M‘t, Youngstown. Ohio; Ilar- ultl, PhiUdelphia; Linwood, .\>w York; ami .loiiu Owen, New York; tlii^^' sistf'rs: Mrs. Die^ Nivens, Monri« ; Miss .Janie Wil son. Durham; and Mii* Aona Bell Wilson. Brooklyn; thrw daughters: Mrs Margaret Whis- enton and Mis. l>avenia Parker, Durham, aiul Miss Linnie Loia Wil.-wn, Texas. Fun* ral st-rviees will be held Saturday aft>rnoon at White Koek Bafitist Chureh in Dur ham. TIMES, Citizens Taken’ By ‘Victim Of Vicious Georgia Slave System’ By CLATHAN ROSS animal " were gone from the The TlMEb, several sym- Hunter uf Tuestlay's Court- pathetic citizens, the pastor and room. He directed pointed ques- eongregation of a local chuivh tiuns at those who preferred were taken for a proverbial ride rijurges against him with sueh by a man, claiming to be a vie- acumen that amazed his “vic tim of an overbearing, inhumane landlord on a (Jeorgia farm. Last week the TIMES carried a story across the top of the front page, headlined, “Escapee From Georgia Sharecropper System Finds Way Here.’’ The pitiful and tear-jerking tale of a Negro, living with nine chil- ilren and his w ife on the farm of a white landlord near Milledge- ville, tta., who was abused by his landlord, denietl pay for his year’s work, beaten and chased off the farm. This week the man faces a 12 month sentence on charges of soliciting under false pretenses, preferred by those who were moved to helping him by his con vincing tale. The man, who desi'ribed him self as William Hunter, 4.‘i, Was brought to the TIMES office Wednesilay morning in a dis- shevelletl condition and appar ently suffering from fatigue, hunger and mental strain from his “long. (X) mile trek from Georgia.’’ The Hunter of last 'Wednes day was meek autl dwdle, ami wove a tale which savored of such geniune simplicity, seemed so pitiful and was so convincing that it evoked the sympath of I TIMES editor and publisher. L, in addition to that to work. Miss Price was struck down in suburban Washington and knocked onto the trolly tracks, where she was discovered by a I of this writer and the TIMES front office. The Hunter at^ the trial in Recorder’s Court Tuesday was cool, calm, and seemed a veteran trolley conditctor. and rushed.at court proceedins®. All sem- Ito Emergency Hospital. blances of a ‘"meek, docile, hurt tinis. Hunter's undoing was in the beuevolcuce of those whose eon- fiileuce he gained. After Austin had bought him meals, shoes, lilothiug, gotten liim a room, paid the rent and had given him mouey to the eifent of several dollars, ntws of his case reached the citizenry. Rev. W. M. Har graves, pastor of the Pilgrim Church of the Air had his con gregation donate $37.00 to the “poor, unfortunate man.” Hunter’s landlady reported to Rev. Hargraves soon after the money was turned over to him that her tenant of a few days had been ilrunk and that she waijtfed him out of her house. When Hunter was found Mon day night, he was in a drunken stupiir, without the $37.00 and quite indiirnant at his benefac tors. •> Hunter, who claimed that he emtld write ami had the TIMES writer two letters for him to his ’‘brother and sister” in Atlanta and Athens. Ueorgift, said that he hal sent the money to hiH family in Atlanta. He ould ntft explain the l«sa of the tl'veral items of clutbiair given him by ^ympathetie eifr- ixeiis. , Jtidsre A. R. Wikun uf tb» FWonler’s Court, after chaiiM of solicting under faka> |W«t* neses had beea preferred Hunter, senteaeetl the to 12 Bwnthr '> While Hunter was Please tttm tO 9*^
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