Perl 0^1 lc«l Dept
Duke Univ Ltbrnry
Rescues Negro
White Farmer
Routs Kluxers
With 22 Rifle
EASTMAN, GA.
A young white Georgia farm
er of well-to-iio standing applied
a treatment of 16 hot bullets
from his 22 rifle to a mob of
white m'en clothed in the garb
of the Ku Klux Klan and res
cued his Negro farm hand from
a beating here last Thursday
night.
Not uutil the Federal Bureau
of Investigation was asked to
investigate a series of beatings
handed private citizens here
within the last four months did
the latest escapade of the night-
riders come to light.
The young white farmer told
the FBI that he turned the lights
of his automobile on the mob just
after they had administered one
beating to his farm hand Jesse
Lee Goodman, and was getting
ready to beat himi again. Wig
gins stated he pumped 16 quick
sliots from his rifle at the sur-
l)rised mob and the robed fig
ures took to their heels in all
directions.
Wiggins stated he went to the
scene when a young white stu
dent, Harold Barrentine saw the
tnob and notified the farmer.
Goodman stated that he was
seized at his home, Thursday
pight after being awakened
while sleeping with his wife and
children. Goodman stated he did
not know why the mobbists beat
him.
Ushers To
Hold Essay
Contest
OXFORD
Mrs. Susie V. Cooper, director
of the Speakers of the North
Uaroliinu Interdeiuomanatjional
Ushers Association, announced
this week that the annual con
test of the Associatioii will be
held this year at the Mid-Year
meeting to be held at the Oxford
Colored Orphanage, Sunday, A-
pril 16.
Instead of an oratorical con
test as in years past Mrs. Coop
er stated that this year contes
tants will compete in essay writ
ing, and that the essay will be
read at the Mid-Year meeting.
Contestants will have a choice
of three subjects as follows:
1. “Does The Church Curb
Youth Pleasures?”
2. “Is Youth Dependable
.. When Given Responsibi*
11 ties?”
3. “The Necessity of Higher
Education”
All high school or freeshmen
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From Mobbists funeral
■ For Evans
* Couple Sunday
lyThi^uTHlteiBwi
Biitered Second Clans Matter at the Poit Office at Durham, North Carolina, under Act of March 3, 1879.
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VOLUME 28—NUMBER 10
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1950
PRICE: TEN CENTS
Briefs Filed In Supreme
Court For Sweatt Case
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Aftermath Scenes Of Murder-Suicide
Drive Launched For
250,000 Negro Voters
In North Carolina
Tfelly M. AU'xamler of Char
lotte, dyuauiic president of the
Xorth Carolina branch of the
National Associatiuii for the Ad
vancement of (’olorcd People,
appealed to the large number of
representatives froiti all over
North Carolina, meeting in
Page’s Auditorium here last
Saturday to go back liome and
befjHu immediately to register
every qualified Negro in their
respective comimuiities for the
May Primary.
The NAACP president called
attention to the va,st inequalities
, existing in funds appropriated
^ the State for Negro and white
J^ucatiou. He quoted figures to
%iow that the law of “separate
but equal” expenditure of pub
lic f. ' 'or education is a farce
Fncl laslied out at Senator Clyde
js-K. Iloey for contending that Ne
groes in North C!aroIina are
treated justly.
The meeting was presided
over by Charles McLt'an of Win
ston Salem, chairman of the
State Conference of NAACP
branches. Invocation was offer
ed by the Rev. E. T. Browne
noted minister of the Mt. Ver
non Ba])ti.st Church of Durham.
Speakers on the program in
addition to Mr. Alexander and
Mr. Mel>ean were E. R. William
son, ^’epresenting the American
Federation of Labor; Howard
Parker, representing the T. W.
IT. A„ C. I. O., Dr. W. P. De-
Vane, member of the City Coun
cil of Fayetteville, and T/. E.
Austin of Durliam.
Calls For 250,000 Voters
Mr. Alxeanilei' called for a to
tal registration of 2r)0,(KK) Ne
groes in North Carolina as the
ultimate goal of the North Caro
lina ('onferenee of the NAACP.
He called attention to the fact
that in certain sc'tioiis of the
State Negroes were preventt'd
from registering and often in
timidated if they (iresented
thenis(“lves for registration. lie
promised that iinniediate fed(‘rnl
ecmrt action will be taken where
it is proved that a qualified Ne
gro registrant has been turned
down on account of his race.
Pollowijjg th(‘ »‘veral speak
ers on the program the meeting
Was opened for the election of
officers to head a state-wile
registraiton aiul vote campaign.
Elected as chairman of the
Registration and Vote Commit
tee was L. E. Austin, CARO
LINA TIMES editor; secretary,
Miss Elizabeth Malone of Rocky
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S.C. Editor
Speaker For
N.Y. Press
NEW YORK
John II. McCray, embattled
etlitor of the weekly Coluiuia,
S. C., “Lighthouse aud Inform
er,” and Federal Security Ad
ministration Oscar R. Ewing
will share the speakers’ platform
at the first annual dinner of the
Press Club of New York City on
March 18 at the Hotel Theresa,
Seventh Avenue and 125th St.,
New York City, the club an
nounced today.
The dinner will climax a day’s
ommcmoration of the founding
of “Freedom’s Journal,” the
first Negro newspaper publish-
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photo at the top shows [former marriage, when
Robert Calvin Evans and his
wife, Mrs. Lessie Evans, victims
of Durham’s first Negro mur
der an^ suicide, according to
police records. The bodies of the
couple were discovered by the
two sons of the dead man, by a
were informed that neither their
farther nor stepmother reported
for work last Friday morning.
The sons, Robert Calvin, Jr.,
and Alfred went to the trailer
home of the couple where they
discovered the lifeless bodies
Attorneys
Association
ment of Colored People tlu.',
week filed briefs in the Unit td
States Supreme Court aski ig
the court to make a clear-cut le-
eision outlawing segregation iji
public education.
The briefs wtire filed on be
half of llermau Marion Sweatt,
to whom admission to the I’ni-
versity of Texas law school has
been denied because of his race,
and (i. W, McLaurin, who l as
been attending the Uuivers ..y
of Oklahoma graduate school on
a segregated basis since federal
ourts ordered his admission to
the school. Both the Sweatt aud
McLaurin cases are set for argu
ment in the Supreme Court on
April 3.
Briefs Called Most
Extensive Ever
Thurgood ilarshall, NAAl'P
special counsel, haa indicaied
that these briefs, filed on Feb-
rnary 27, are the most exten>iivc
yet submitted on the issue of
segregation. They contain detail
ed materials including congres
sional debatt's at the time of the
adoption of Fourteenth Ajnend-
lueut, civil rights statutes, a re
view of cases involving classi-
tication under the Fourteenth
Ajiifcndnient, all cases involving
racial distinctions by govern
mental agencies, and citation
and analysis of numerous au
thoritative studies on the so
ciological and psychological ei-
fects of racial s*gregatioii.
Reverse “Separate
But Equal”
Reviewing the historical set
ting in whi(‘h the Fourtecmh
Amendment and the civil rigl s
laws were adopteil, the briefs
show tiiat racial st'grcgation by
the states is contrary to the pur-
])oscs of th(‘ Amendment anti the
liegislatiou. Critically analvzlni;
tkey shat bore mute testimony of the 7'»' ^
^ f ... - . .. I which gave judicial sanction o
the “separate but ctiual” due-
trine, eitel bv Texas and 01 a-
itffid flu- man's head at
t1i‘ ''ai-k >it' thf rijrht .'ar anil
i-ame filit on the opposite side of
tli» head, according to poi M•
^.ffieial^. .Vo eau.se was given for
J-]vatis’ ra>h act.
The butlies of the couple wer»-
liscovertHl when song of Mr.
Evans by a former marriage,
i Xft'red. 1*', and Robert Calvin.
WASHINGTON .f'-,, Iti, went to the home
for the Natioi:..! (I '^'iiir informed that their father
for the Advance- I
I stepmother had not .show-
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Robert Calvin Evans, former
employee of the Colonial Stores,
wno took the life of his wife and
then killed himself by blastiiig
a 32 bullet through his own head
'■">m a 32 Paramount pistol,
i-vaiis was .working for Week's
Me tar Company at the time of
his death where he was well lilted
by his employers.
N. C. Mutual Reports
$146,241442 Insurance
In Force For 1950
murder and suicide which police
state were committed by the hus
band. The photo at the bottom
shows a part of the crowd and
police awaiting the arrival of the
coroner.
home, the briefs show that t’lis
cast' involved “a very nar: >w
issue of infrastate franspor 'a-
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The lyaU annual statement of
!the North Carolina Mutual Life
liuurance Company, released
tlu'> week by President C. C.
SpaukUiig, discloses that the
Icompany now has 620,-459 policy-
llioltlers in the eight states aud
the District of Columbia in
which the company operates and
Mrs. A. Strudwick
Passes After
Brief Illness
Mrs. Annie Caineron Strud
wick, of 1:202 North Hyde Park
\vcnue, ilied Tuesday morning
at 10. a. ni., at Lincoln Hospital
I'olluwing a short illness.
A well-known citizen of Dur
ham, Mrs. Strudwick was born
in this city some sixty-one years
ago. She was a member of St.
Joseph A. M. E. Church and be-
h.jiged to the Pastor’s Aid Club
ui' that church. She was active
in the religious, civic and stx'ial
circles of Durham.
Survivors are D. T. Strudwick
husband; Miss Jiary Lou Strud
wick, daughter; L. W. Cameron
Clevelaml, Ohio, brotlier; and
William B. Cameron, Jr., Rich
mond, Va., brother. A large
number of neiees, nephews and
cousins also .sur\'ive.
Funeral rites will be held
fnmi St. Joseph A. M. E. Church
Sa:urday, March 11, at 2 o’clock
in other states whern ,.ther pol
icyholders reside.
Mr. Spaulding stated that
.Vorth f'arnliuM .Nliitiial now has
sl-i).2-tl.l42 ’.vorrh >.£ imiurance
ill foree fur the protection of it.s
polit'vholders and their families.
This is an inerea'^e of $tj.:)T2.90»)
for the year lf)l:». He caliM at
tention to the fuet that the eom-
pany's .■f2*!.2.')l,(W»l 24 in admit
ted as.s»‘ts. -?2.'>.H'I>,'(>] :i.') is to
seeiire tliH cidiipany \ obliga
tions tu it> polieyholders alone.
• ■ Thev a.-v-ift N.' ■ Presiilent
Spaiikliii!' -.ays. “niit only pro-
•t the {(olicyholders but are
.serving soeiety. They represent
loans til the federal irovemment,
lo state irovenuueiits and politi-
al subdivision thereof, to pol-
ieyhiilders. hoiii" itwuers. farm
ers, churelu"-., and businesses.”
Tiles** as,M tr> are well iliversitied
and distribiiTed Aci'urdinsr to
i.\lixi> s ratmir, !'2 per cent of
the t>7 iu bonds are
rated “A" ur beTter. Mr.
.Spaultliiiir pt)iiit.-» out to the pol-
icyhoUlef'. that iii this joint en-
terpri^' for their mutual bene
fit, they are fiirui.-^hiug dignitied
employment to L0^^' men and
women of our group.
President SpaidJing stated
tiiat mortgage loans iu the a-
moiuit of .t>4,71 >7,4-10.12 are made
to 1,207 borrowers. This repre
sents an increase for the year
of Ilia in nimiber and .$1,231,-
05-S.42 in amount. He comments
officiating. Interment will be
in Beechwood Cemeterv.
Equal Education Benefit Banquet
The photos above are scenes
from the .$10 per plate dinner
held in the Jade Room of the
Do-Nut Shop last Thursday
night for the benefit of the
Equal Educational suit now
pending in U, S. Middle Dis
trict Court here. The suit is be
ing brought by a group of Dur
ham Negroes in behalf of their
own children and all other Ne- Upeaking
gro school children of the city.
The photo at the left shows
Rev. R. C. Sharpe, pastor of the
Cosmopolitan Methodist Church,
group. At the |
conditions
existing in
‘separate
Logan, J. W. Goodloe, Aaron
right J. S. Stewart, secretary of Durham’s so-called “separate Daye, Rev. Sharpe, C. C. Malone,
the Durham Committee on Ne- ibut equal” schools. Rev. H. H. Hart and P. L. Hall,
gro Affairs, is shown indulging i Those in the photo at the left Those in the photo at the right
in a bid of ridicule about some 1 are, left to right, George W. lare J. J. Henderson, J. S. Stew-
\ [art and Mrs. Juanita Beatty.
\ T I * Without this reservoir ot tunds
wit.i Rev. D. A. Johnston, p istoi; I. , i a i
.•iv T.,1. i ...fii u.Jhumavds ot our people would
I not now be home owners and
I many of uur businesses would
I not have financed.” Mr. Spauld-
jiii'r reminds the policyholders
that the manaizement of the com-
I pany are .iware if the fact that
j iie comi' iny’s as.sets belong ^o
i^i e policyhoidcrs and not to the
\ niaiiagenit'at.
All amount of $21.17:1.?'05.-t8
of tiie .ivsets represent policy
[•ierKor tlie policvhohl.'rs,
; $*’0;>."72 I'l art' r,, ijruarantee the
I p«yi!!eiu >r p.)licy elaims incur
red but i;ii*li w.Te eirlitT under
, adjuNtiiieiir or vhich had not
I hei'fi [ire^-iif. il fur pa;, rnenf on
iDect-niher 11 (>(' this amoiuit
IS127.2>!>.7'' i^ for matured en-
|dowment»; most nf which is on
MapM'tl po'ieie> ti polieyholders
not l'e;,t ;| t’oti=iiiiies Mr.
I S.. Mildintr. "TMf company is
: parrieiil.irix lo hicate
jllese . ■ .t,: rs ;H uiiler that
tliei |iiii;hl i- pud !.i( ailioiiiits
' !l(e t *!• Iri
,1 1,01 ‘,r IJlrf) 'tr> of
,tlie eoliipaiiy ass«*f>s are
'serv-d for th> [>ay»ient of di
vidends to po!icyh4Mderv. Set
.Hsiile for the et)iiif)l.>tii.n -f fmid-
I iiig o'- Da.Nt siTvice Ik-nefits for
I efti pl y .'fs. (Itlder th*‘ rotnpaiiv’s
I pension plan is >211 i).V).03. As
la ri'siTve for sdrfi i-oiitiiigeneieH
a.s, the tluetiiatiou m vtihie of
as,sfts, interest .'arujuifii. mortal
ity and morbidity, an additional
amount of «1,J75.0«)0 has b*en
set aside. In addition to this as
una.ssigned fnn.l (surploa) of
’f2,325,0X) !^et aside for addition-
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