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Says Hand Of Trigg Behind Move Dr. F. L. Atkins Head Of N. C. Teachers Ass^n TH UNBRI Periodical D«pt IXxk* Unlv Library Entered a* Scconil Class Matter at the Post Office Durham, North Carolina, under Act of Miirch .'t, ]H79. FOR 25 YEARS THE OUTSTANDING NEGRO WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS VOLUME 28—NUMBER 13 DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, APRIL 1st, 1950 PRICE: TEN CENTS HFliVERS CHECK FOR NEW BUILDING AT ORPHANAGE s. B. Simmons, State Super visor of the Farm Youth group, is shown above deliver ing a check for the new voca tional building recently com pleted at the Oxford Colored Orphanage in Oxford. On Sun day, April 2 representatives of the youth group, known as the New Farmers of America will make their annual visit to the Orphanage at which time the building will be officially turn ed over to the institution. The new building will make it pos sible for the Orphanage to teach boys various trades. ONLY NEGRO CENSUS UNIT IN SOUTH IN DURHAM Alleges Atkins "Front" Man; Taylor Comments 'I'lie liuiid uL Dr. it. 1.. i rigg IS ifpoi‘lt;illy bolimU tin- caiali- dary of Dr. F. L. Attkius lor prehideiicy ot! llic Stale i'eauli- t-rs iVHSUuiatiuu. This disclosure was made by a high raukmg tttate educator who iti iiou-partisuu in the pre sent contest shaping up between Dr. Atkins and A. ll. Anderson, principal oi' tlie Wiiiston-tjalein W eml)t*rly I'ark liigli ibeliool. ■ Dr. Atkins, wlio is presidi'Ul ol' tlif 8tate 'leaehers’ (.'ollege in W in.'iton is “being dui>ed bj a cahal troiiling ior iJr. Trigg, ti.e riiUKS' lurornianl said. Aifiiibt-rs ot the eabal reporl- eill,\ hfiit Dll gaming eontroi ol' tile association to thwart the progi'uiii of the presi nt adiuiii- istration now h.‘aded by 11. V. Lirowii of (Joldsboi’o, according to the I'LMElS’ iiiforiuaiit, are O. li. I’ojif of lioeky .\lount, re tired liigh strhool principal; W. k. (’oliins, Winithiield, repre- sciufd Ijy tile TIMES' iiiforia- aii* us “a eiiroiiie soreliead" and ayamst tiic present adiiiinistra- tioiijaiid (■ II. Harris of Ijoiiis- biii-^. ’ ’ Accdidin^^ to lilt* Tl.MKS’ iii- f)rii;unt, Dr. 'I'rigg, eoiistuiith under fire for liis attitude, re- pre>«'iited in liis reeeut state- incnt tliiil Ihe State Hoard of I'Miiealion is doiii” its sliare by Xefrro eili/eiis, seeks to impose a iiioi'e “(romplaceiit .ittitiidi’ in in Xe^^ro leaeliers in tlie .State,” 'I'his iiii'orinaiit reasons that Dr, Atkins, ' a fine aiul iip- standiii^genflenian and an edu- eator of higli eliaraeter is per haps .serving as the unwitting dupe ill a sinister phui ^to dis- '•our.'tge the niovenieiit for abso lute ‘(prtiliT\' in the j)iiblie .seii(Mils of tli(; State.” Dr. Atkins and Mr. Anderson Jiave refrained from comment. Dr. Trigg makes it a practice not to speak for publication to reporters from State jiapers. Taylor Comments It('ft4t ii'.g’ ?he i .iarg'js of W. U. t’ollins tliat tiie pre.seiit admin istration of the Xortli Carolina Teachers’ As.so.-iat ion is en- gaginjr in “.st'civt maneuvers” and eonsjiiring against any eandiilate whose name appears on till! ballot in IIk; coiiiiiig elec tion, .liiiiK's T. Taylor,former As.soeiation President ami jire- .seiit member of the Kxeeutive Hoard said recently' “As a mem ber of the Ex(‘cutive Hoard of (l‘li‘iis(“ turn to Pajrt! Eight) Speakers Announced for Atlanta Conference On Discrimination in Higher Education Dr. Fraxi«r PrMidtnt Spivey Pftiid#nt Ahroo4 Pf«jid«iit Mays Df Moly»«w« fiftirea in the April 8 South*wid« Conf*r«ne« ea DiAcnminatlon »■ Hiffk*r Cd««at»om at UniTertUy ar« Dr. E. Franklin Framicr, Prof«»»or of Sociology, HowartI UiiiT*r*ity, Keynote Speaker; Pre»idl«nt Ludd M. Spivay of Florida Soulhern Collefa, Confaranca Chairwtan; President Benjamin E. Mays of Morahouaa Collaga, Chairman, Panal on **T)»a Pra*«ot 5it«alion and Recent Gains"; Prasident Rufus B. Atwood of Kentucky Stata Collega, Chairmrn, Pan*! mm “The Regional School Plan*'; and Dr. Lambart Molynaaux, Professor of Sociology aC tha Unt* ▼ersity of Virginia, Chairman of tha Panal on **Mathods and Techniques for Eliminating Dia- crimination." Others who will participate as speakers or panal membars are: Dr. Jam^s M. iMabrit, Jr.« Howard UniTcrsity; Dr. L. D, Reddick, Atlanta Unirersity; Mr. Herman Long. Fisk Unirarsity; Dr. Hollis Price, LeMoyne College; Dr. S. M. Nabrit, Atlanta UniTersity; Dr. F. D. Pattersoa, Tuskefree Institute; Dr. Luther P. Jackson, Virginia State College; Miss Irene Harris, Atlanta; and the Rev. William Holmes Borders, Atlanta. The Conference is sponsored by 225 administrators and teachers in 114 Southern colle^ea and universities. All sessions are open to the public. The Southern Conference Fducational Fund. Inc., Perdido St., New Orleans, is coordinator of the Conference. FTA Winner In Reynolds Tobacco Company RunotT runoff eetion, l'T.\ I.ociii '22 seopi'd another I \ii-tor\ ill till* runotl' election I held tnil.i.s :it the II. -I. l{eynold> Tobai co Co. in Winston-Salem, j .V. ('. 'i'iie \ ote \\as‘ held bi--| twciii FTA Loi'al J'J iind "noi lUiioii." and followed FTA's ■ ovfrwliidiiiiii^'’ defeat of CIO and .\Fh raiiling unions in an, .XLIi’l! election .March H. 'I'he score in tixlay's was: or FTA l.ucal L'2 . .■ For "no union” . ('hallfiigcil votes . Void (.'omiMenting on tli FT V Xational Administrative Director Donald Ileiidersim said ■‘•'I’he results of tlu' runoff -11(111 ;ii Vfiiistoii-S.ileni are a \ ietor\ fur the Keynohls work- esrs and for FTA [..ocal 22. De- sjiite ail uninvci'ilented hysteria of redbaiting slanders against our iinifiu promoted l)v tli(.‘ com- | paiiy in the last week of the ramiiai^j’ii, the majority of Key Holds \\'orkers chose to vote lor FTA as tiieir bargaining repre sentative. FT.\ is challenging 13-1 votes ill the ballot, the great majority {I’lease turn to I’agt; Eiglit) CANDIDATE Negroes On ' Hospital Staff In Rocky Mt. i.-.M iv\ 'XT Anuuuiiceiih ii iiu> jil.it o^.'t-n made here tl.,it '" >/ ii;cai t•ltl/elJ.'^, Di.eTufv J^. I’, aud \v. i. Arm- .^troii:.’' '■ cu :>y uie fmmilte.- .j;: A--ar :^ it the Willis Smith, anti-civil rights and anti-labor candidate for the U. S. Senate, who is op posing Senator Frank P. Gra ham as the nominee in the May Primary of the Demo cratic. Registration books for the Primary will open on April 15th. Pictured above is the all-Negro census group located in Dur ham. the members are now undergoing training under the leader ship of Dr. Alvin Rose, crew leader. Those in the picture sitting from left to right: Mrs. Truemilla Smith, Mrs. Lillian Buchanan, Miss Bettie Atwater, Mrs. Martha Brett Jones, Mrs. Julia Mc Neill, Miss Emily Horrington, Mrs. Bernice Jones, Miss Gertrude Cobb, Mrs. Theresa Hall and Mrs. Travis Holloway Free. Standing left to right are: Edward Lloyd, Walter Brown, Johnson Ray, Jr., W. F. Brower, Mrs. Hattie Scarborough, Dr. Alvin W. Rose, J. S. Stewart, Chairman, Committee On Negro Affairs, J. L. Atkins, Durham County Democratic Chairman, Mayor Dan K. Edwards, Miss Ellen S. Warren, Mrs. Odessa B. Alexander, Paul McAdams, E. B. Pratt and Dempsey Whitted. Kansas City To Be Host To CME General Conference May 3 MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE cfliurehwide interest is attach ed to the aj)proaeliing session of the General Conference of the C M. E. Church scheduled to open jin Kansas City, Mo. Wod- nestluy May 3, 19.50 and to re main in session for 2 or more weeks. Reports are that Dr. N. II. Humphreys, pastor of the ho«t Church, .Jamison Temple has lined np city wide support among all denominutions to care for the delefrates and visitors. P’or the second time in tlie ('hureh’s eighty j-^ar history Kansas (’ity will be the place of lilt! meetiii*': .lamison Temple (niiirch has secured tht' facilities of St. Stephens Haptist Chureli situated at Pasco Blvd. anl Tru man Road where the .s(‘ssif>ns are to be held. The comiiiff of the delegates from forty-two annual confer ences in all sections of the nation means that Kan.sas City will be the focal ])oint for the denomina tion. The Church claims mem bership of a half million. It has seven active bishops one retired bi8ho[> and thirteen general of ficers. NEW BISHOPS TO BE ELECTED Tt is expected that tliree or four bishops will be elected at this session of the general con ference because two have died since the l!)4:(i (piadrennial meet ing and because it is likely that some of the active bishops may retire this year. Some of the a.s- pirants for the episcopacy' are B. \V. Doyle, ijoiiisville: Hev. A. Rev. 15. ■). Smith, Chicago; Kev. W. Womack, D;iyton, Rev. II. Evans, ('hicago, Kcv. (i. H. (!ar- i ter, .liickson, Teiin.; Kev. E. 1*. ^Iiirehison, ('hicago; Kev. (3. E. (Tiapman, Kansas City; Rev. .M. T. Walker, Memphis; Rev. .T. M. Pettigrew. St. Louis; Kev. E. P. Woods. .Vorth Carolina. * U('v W. A. .lohnson, Iliim- boH, 'renii.; Rev. K. O. Ijang- ford, (IreiMiville, South (Caro lina; K’cv. S. II. Harris, At lanta; Kev. A. T. (Mark, .'Mbaiiy, (ia.; Ilev. 4. (^ Aiulerson, Mon roe, 1/a.; Kev, (i, W. Washing ton, .lacksonville, Fla.; Kev. ('. II. Washington. Shrevt'jiort; Rev. !j. (’. (llenves, Los Angeles, Rev, L. S. White, Oakland; Rev. M. 'Phompson, Phoenix; K(‘v. R. 15. Short. Atlanta; Rev. .1. (r. Collins, Kansas City; and numerous otliers. Some chaiigeR an' also likely among the general officers. Several caiididati's have (Please turn to Page Eight) N. C. College Library Receives 3,000 Books North (Jaroliiia College’s Library has recently acipiired a collection of books 3,(HK) by and about American Negroes, togeth er with mementos of Africa, dic tionaries of that country, and numerous books and pamphlets about Negroes in the ('aribbean. Miss Parepa R. Wat.soii, col lege librarian, says the collection will not be available in its en- lirety until the new .lames E. Shi'pard Memorial Library is completed sometimes next fall. Negotiations for the collection started over a year ago when Dr. W. Edward Parrison and Mrs. Farrison, of the Department of English, catalogued the collec tion in the home of its owner, Mrs, Charles D, Martin in N('W York City. The collection was assembled by the late Dr Charle.s D. I\lnr- tin, a West Indian Moravian minister. Dr. Martin died in New' York in November, 1921. He was [lastor of ISeth Tphillah, the Fourth .Moravian Church, (i3 Wt ^t 13-Hh Street at the time of his (h'atli. President Alfonso Elder, who authori/.eil jHirchasc of the col lection early this year said last night it was his liope that, “The Charles 1). Martin collection will (Please turn to Page Eight) NAACP Confab Dates Set* For June 20-25 NEW YORK I’hi' l'’orty-first Annual Con- f(«reiiee (d‘ the Niitioiial Associa tion for the Advancement of Colored Peoi)le will open in Bos ton on Tiu'sday, .Tune 20. a«d will clo.se on Sunday, Tune 2.5,, .\cting N^.\.\CI’ S(‘cretary Roy Wilkins has iiiinouneed. Six Negroes Named To Heart Association Board Natii-iial i'roaii standing I ! iitri. I'eiitfi‘iii> a.> a [loilitniellt t'^ 'l; liocicy Muuut eal iii,',nt'in'. . eelith Wa.-. 'T.i; local wliiti; i dition of the • . ed the lu-.t li. li: I -ir out- ,i; ii ill rmnal r^eir ap- '■ tii^ By FRANK BROWER CHAPEL HILL Dr. R. P. Randolph, Mrs. S. L. Dudley, L. E. Austin, Mrs. Lucille Zimmerman Williams, Dr. .1. \V. V. Cordice and J. T. Taylor were among the nearly 73 lioaril of Directors un- aiiiiiiously elected by the Dur ham-Orange County Chajiter of the North Carolina Heart Asso ciation in the .\uditorium of the Medical School of the Uni versity of North Carolina Tues day night. 'I'he teniponiiw chairman. Dr. Eugene Stead, -I r. of Duke Hos pital, [iresided at the member ship meeting for the adoption of a fi''e point working program for th(> group. At a previous meeting, last wi'ek. Dr. E. P. Hyatt was electi'd Program (Tiairina;i, Katherine Ormston, Secretiiiy, Dr. A. ■loiirnagan. Treasurer, and .loseph .lones. Publicity Director. Layman Education As was brought out at the iiH'etiiig, education of the lay man will determine the success of this battle with the leading disefise and killer of the nation that causes (me out of three' deaths. The five point program endorsed for immediate action include Heart Clinic develop ment; (w'ith a working cardiac- clini(* and lectureship — sym posium of outside aid and teach ing) ]iart of the second point of Post Cradiiate Education of Physicians; liay Education cen tering around schools; Profes sional Research; and Commun ity Service-Case Work fto dis cover the disease in time for enre) connected with Rehabilita- (Please turn to Page Eighf) St. Titus To Have Prayer For Sweatt Case Ruling A classic example of a living Christianity was manifested here this week when Rev. F. J. Hunter, Priest in Charge of St. Titus P. E. Church, an nounced that on April 3rd at 11:00 A. M. the Church will be opened for prayers that the hearts of the Supreme Court Justice might be controlled by Christian motives when the NAACP appears in behalf of equal educational facilities in the State of Texas. DeShazor's To Hold Annual Commencement NCC Prof. To Head Local Cancer Drive Earl W. PhilHps. Profev,ior of Commerce and athletic bus iness manager at North Carolina (’ollege, has been appointed to ht'ad the Negro Division of the Anieriean (' :i ii c e r Society Ajiril eampaign here, it was an- iiouueeil by C. Horton Poe. -Ir.. L^eiieral eampaigi; chairman. Phillips said toda.v that Dr 1 he Iwellth (irailuation Aii- |> |> i{;(iul(»lph will be in charge niversai’v oi DeSha/.or s Leant.' ^olieiation at Lincoln Hospi Cidlege and I'.ody Ma.siige School Acade- will he celebrate 1 at ('’ommence- mejit Wxercist's Sunday, April 2 at ]). m. at White Rock ISaptist Church, it was an nounced here this Aveek by' ilrs. .1. DeShazor-Jackson, President and Fminder of the Schools. Dr. Helen (1. Edmonds, Pro- fi'ssor of Historv at North Caro- lina College, is scheduled to de liver the commencem(>nt address. Platform gne.sts for the oc casion will be Mrs. .Tuanita Tem ple, Director of Williams Insti tute of Music, Washington, D. (Plea.s*' turn to Page Eiirlit) ical society of the .Ve>:ri cians. phy si- Pliillips is cui’tviitly euga;;ed ill a study of ••Small Business in North Carolina’’. He has bet>n at N. (’. College since 1047, cominir from Hoston rniversity He rcei'iveil his under>rra»lu ate training at Samuel HiKtoii ('ollege at Austin, Texas, and lat^r studied law for two years at Lincoln I’uiversity He then entered the armed s»>rvices w'here lit' sorved for thret* and a half years as petty officer in the F. l.Lj'd re- (i*'-.i .lit,;- by J. -I,in.'s. 1 :.e ad- •j iiv ::ht.-r» mark- tiaie t..al Ne^ro phy.>ieiaii'« ha. been uli.;,.“d ti; practice in cither of the two local hospitals. Dr. L. P. Arm-,tnjiig, thr; sen ior member of the eumbination was born iii Ko'.-ky Mount and did his inedii-al traiuiii;^' at the Leuiiard M' di-ul School which at uiic tii-ic V ..- is>i ci.-ifi d with ••Shaw I. uiv i^iiy. ing his luteriie-.iiiii :■-■ 1-. •;inifd to his Home to ’wi .lUu b> Ms prac tiue. lie i .-.a’N tiic distinction of Having bccii tiie first Negro electei.l to an uiuce in the local Couiiiiuuity C' .- uicii, an inter racial group V. liicU i.as as its objective a ut local civic Ueeds. Dr. W. T. -Vrmstroug is also a . [)rivtaictiuii Til.- li„-ai commun- it,\. He w a . _ a mc i. \ Director ■t Atiileri,-, of the Fa..-ttevilie I State Teaei v-r-,' I Fol lowing hi> i iatiuii irom 3le- iiarrv ( lulc^e and an iiit' ruciiiip ii returiiet.i to join Ihis brotiicr iii I'ra'-ttce la this city, 111 spite of the time spent in their particular worK both ha%c found time to take au active part 111 the ci\ ic and rei „'i,iiis work of this cnmmuiiity. Hi eemly the ii\ 01 lltii-i'cv Mount appointeil them as xaiuiniiig phy>ician> for all Neijro lieio hired by the C ity. Hoth arc members of the Mt. Pistrah Prcsb\tcriau Church and both are members of the (•mega P.si Phi Fraternity. Register And Vote Meeting Sunday In Chapel Hill I he ( ha pci 1 hi I ( elllh If *e» I'M IJeuisr.'rill'j^ .I'ld \' \Niil have ;i m,-tlllj- l-’nd.;' .M.ii-e! ■U :it ^ oO ;ll ! Me 1 ■,iin!ii nity (’eiit.r. L.niis K .Vu>tin. Kilitor id the ('ariiliii.t Tuci will speak nil •■ I'h" Piover nf th»‘ Ballot”. Peniuin- uf .irfieers will be el, eted ;!'d '■criuiiittees "ict uji. Ev(*r'.-He ;s iir'. il to attend this ii ■ etie.^’ fu |,,;irii wh\ it is necessar' *'.>!• i!! CliaOf! Hill resid -ll*, • . r*' ’i-^' r .ilmiii S. _\av\ In I'MT. I'.- e.t.ij.!.■(.,I in« work for a ^la'^ r’- de'_»ffc in Busin.-vs ,V !i:i!‘i\'nT'i’n from Hnstiin * II". e r-tf > Siiici* time he h;i> served i*ti the facnl ty ;it .\urth (’>r;dina College.
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