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New Farmers Donate Building To Orphanage
Photo at the top shows W.
R. House, president of the
State Branch of the New
Farmers of America, present
ing the new Carver Vocation
al Building to Superintendent
T. A. Hammp of the Oxford
Colored Orphanage on last
Sunday. The New Farmers of
the State have raised over
$52,000 during the past eight
years for the Orphanage.
The photo at the bottom
shows Supt. Hamme introduc
ing Dr. Harry V. Richardson,
president of Gammon Theo
logical Seminary of Atlanta,
Georgia, tlurd from Mr.
Hamme’s left. Other persons
on the platform include mem
bers of the Bqiar4 of TrMstees
and some of the other ^ignitai:-
ies present for the occasion.
Final Rites Held
For Miss Donnell
l-’liiul rites I'ur Miss I vii M.
|)()iin'll. ol’ l/ii\vsiiii Street,
Wd'e lielil )it W'liite l{(M-k r>)i|itist
Chiircli (HI Wednesilay, April T),
with file l{e\’. M. M. I'’isher, j)as-
tor, (inieiiiliiip:.
Mis.s Domiell (lied .Monday
inoniiii^ lit !l:4')iit Liiieoln Hos
pital iil'ter ralliiij' ill eiirouti' to
liittle Uivei- ScIkkiI on 'I'lmrsday
()!' last week.
I’orii in Diirliam, daughter oL'
the lat(‘ Walter A. Donnell and
•Mrs. Martha i'arluuu Donnell,
the deeea.sed s|)('iit all her adult,
)jfe as a teaeher in the publie
jicliools ol' North (’arolina, serv
ing for many years as teacher
a.ssist^uit prLiieipal of tho
(Imuville Elfiiieiitary and ili^di
l!ii;|if^ol Shi! also served as
Jeamies Supervisor of l‘itl
Poimty. ]’or tlu* jiast six years,
she has been a teacher at the Lit
tle stiver IUkIi School in Dur-
}>ain County.
,Mlss Donnell was eiliieatod in
the city schools of High Point,
the Hit'll Point Nornuil and In-
duHtrial School and llaniton in
stitute, Hampton, Va,
Slu* was a I'aithtul membt'r of
\Vhit* li^jck Baptist Church of
Durhnni und Sycanuye Hill
nuptist (’hiireli (»f Oreenville,
She was a member of tlie Hoard
of tli(' ilari'iett 'I'ubman Braneh
of the YWCA and a member of
the I’topia Club.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs.
Maggie Lewis of New York City
nnd Mrs. Catherine Thtmipson
of Durham; two nephews, Par
ham Shaw and Walter Shuw und
un uncle, ,). 11. I’arhani of Dur-
hmn.
MISS IVA DONNELL
Registrar
B & P Meeting
Date Changed
Regular monthly Durham
Business and Professional
meethig scheduled for Sun
day, April 9 has been post
poned until Sunday, April
16 at the Algonquin Club
House, featuring a panel dis
cussion led by C. E. Boulware.
Mrs. Bernice Ingram Wil
liamson, newly appointed
registrar for the Pearson
School precinct in Durham.
Mrs. Williamson who is own
er of the Dunbar Realty and
Insurance Comany is the first
Negro to be appointed as
Registrar in Durham. Mrs.
Williamson will assumer her
duties with the opening of the
registration books for the May
primary.
Howard Prexy
Speaks At
N. C. College
Dr. Mord»*eal \V. -Tohnson,
president of Howard Univeiuity,
the nationIftrgest. college with
a predotniniuitly Negro student
body, siiitl in a vesper address
in Dube Autlitorium at North
Carolina College Suuduy after-
u(H)n that MOid power or willing
ness to suffer for the sake of
changing the minds of those you
love ’ ’ is one of the ways to
change the evils of s»>gregation
anti race discrimination
The Washington educator re
cently returned to this country
rom India where he studeied
at first liatid the results of the
late Mahatma Gandhi’s teach
ings. As a result of his observa
tions in India, the educator §aid
t li e “peaceful revqhition
wrought in by Ga|idhi is qne q£
the great miracles ever wrought.
Th|-ough ill Gaudlii’s teaeh-
i|igs of no|i violence aud love,
Dr. Johnson said the Indian mas
ses iittd overthrown two cent
uries of BritiHh rule and
“wre«‘ked conipletely the mostl
despicable system of segregation
and diHcrimjnation that ever ex
isted,
Dr. Johnson repeatedly em-
pliasizel the value of Christian
hive for only through love as
(‘xemplified in the life of Christ,
and (iandhi can man find real
peace and freedom, he said.
After his addres.s. Dr. John
son saitl the death of Dr. Charles
Drew, the Howard profe.ssor of
surgery who i)ioneert»;l in blood
plasma re.searcli, was “a stagg
ering l(KSs to Howaril Tniversity
and to Freedman’s Hospital.”
Dr. Drew was killed when the
i-ar he was driving overturned
near Hurlington Saturday morn
ing. The Ilow'ard president)
praised Dr Drew a.s “a brilliant
surgeon, a first rate research
man, and an able teacher.”
Howard University has one of
th(> two medical schools for Neg-
rM‘s in the United States. Fh-.
Drew was a graduat^^ of the Mc
Gill University Medical School,
Montreal, Canada. At Howard,
he had sueeessfully trained
nearly a dozen yonng Negrq sur
geons for natiojial boards in sur
gery.
iV. C, Teachers Association Repudiates
Trigg; Gives $500 For Aid To Suit
4- Anderson
4- Named To
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Entered ni H«‘con(l OlasH Nfatter at tlie Pont Office at I>irhnin, \ortli Carolina, under Act of March 3, 1879,
FOR 25 YEARS THE OUTSTANDING N EGRO WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS
VOLUME 28—NUMBER 14
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, APRIL 8th, 1950
PRICE: TEN CENTS
Supreme Court Gets
Segregation Issue
The «
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minual
.‘d the !
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Search Continues
Incubator Baby
For
IJHOXX, *\. Y,
With mystery shroinliiig an
incident of a missing baby, ali
ot New Vork has made much
fuss over tlic disupearancc of a
lU day old Negro girl who isu 'ti
where she slioukl be, in an in
cubator at the Lincoln Hospital.
The baby, Clianetu iio'lden,
weighed only two pound and
11 ounces. Why anyone would
want to take the uiiclail infant
from an incul)ator and how they
escaped with her ari; the two
(questions baffliug local police.
Already they have thoroughly
checked laundry chutes, opening
sewer drains, incinerators, pipes
auijl wiiat not. Thuj,' *.uve taken,
the 500 bed iiosi'ital aiiart in a
futile search. Hut there is no
trace of Chaneta.
'{'wo hospital attendants are
bt^ll.g hehl for (piestioning. 'I'liey
are Doris Williams, a nui-se and
u Airs. Hpeneer who was on duty
in the baby’s ward. IJoth are
Negroes. Miss Willias was the
last per.son to see Chaneta (at 8
p. m. Thursday).
The baby’s mother, Mrs. Anna
Negroes. Miss Williams was the
Harlem, had been released from
City Hospital, where her daugh
ter was born, just one day b(>fore
the disappearance. However, she
went t« Lincoln Hospital to sl'c
the child but was tokl it was
feeding time. One hour later the
alarm was sent out.
“The worst .sluK-k .Mrs. Holden
related with a shudder, “was
when the police came to my home
and went through my dresser
drawers looking for Chaneta.
Do they think I'd kidnap my
own child?” The pretty wife of
a GI radio at\d telev,ision stu
dent, it is her belief that through
aji accident or perhaps
nSgHgence, Chaneta was drop
ped or injured and the attend
ant or nurse was frightened in
to hiding the child.
Police believe (!haneta is still
(Pleaiie turn to Page Kight)
New Shaw Head
May Come From
Present Faculty
UALKKlll
Hhaw Universit.v ina.r seek a
president from the ranks of
i'aeulty membiTs Mow employed.
This was the opinion of a re-
spotisible trustee of the univer
sity here 'I'uesday following a
m(*eting of tht* full trustee board.
“If we g‘t a man here, it looks
to me now tliat man will be Dr.
Harri* or Dr. Strassner,” the
llrusif‘0 .>ai(l,
Fi'irtii otiu'r sourci‘s, however,
it wa.s iiulieated that although
Dr. .Velson II. Harris, dean of
the Shaw Sumnier Sehool and
a well known educator, ami Dr.
W. H. Strassner, dean of the
Shaw Divinity Sehool, were
“g(MMl men,” they are now tlu'
current favorites of the board.
Also not on the favored list
at ttiis time is Dr. Wendell C.
Soinmerville, eu(*entiv(‘ secretary
(Pleast' turn to Page Eight)
t WASHINGTON
! Three suggestion involving seg
regation were land in the lap ot
It he I'liited States Supreme
■Court thi.>» week when Attorney
!General J. Howard McGrath re-
'qiiested tliat the Court .strike
itown the ."iO-year old doctrine
of “st'parate but equal' ac-
eoiiunotation> fui white and Ne-
"riH‘s.
The Attorney tii-neral ib-elar-
ed that segregation, as practiced
(in the I nited States, is uucon-
.stitutionai and un-Aiuerican.
Kep. Sam Hobbs. (D. i of Ala
bama eouiitered with the a.>.st-r-
tmn that •';(«! Ahiiigiit> wa.-,
Ilie aiitlior ot ^^elrl■e^'atlun. '
^MeCiatli and Howard weri'
.i!i[)earnii; Ix ture the nation -
\iii-tie.st trilmnal in a -a.se
UAI.KIGH
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,V li t .ill 11).,
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now
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•• follow'd
• rtrani-'atiou
2' vvars ->r
t If '.-ii' the
Dr. Charles Drew, noted
blood plasma export, whose
untimely death in an auto
wreck near Burlington early
Saturday morning, rocked the
nation. Dr. Drew was enroute
to a medical clinic to be held
at Tuskegee Institute in Ala
bama.
Noted Physician Fatally
Injured In Auto Wreck
Near Burlington
here last Saturday morning and
t(K>k the life ot Dr. Charles Drew
notel blood plasma expert, when
iiroiiglit liy a .Negro, Elnu'r \\\ j‘''' hi”i,. 'pr
Hellili'l'Soll . of Wifchinglon, j^''“ t terie';.
(agam^t the Suutheru Railway j''*’'!’' “
I for its policy of M'givgating Ne-1''‘" >^er ta '\
uroes 111 dining ears. | >
I'iie .liistiee D-partiueut. with I ^ iii\ersi*' i
lOiidorsemeiit of I’resideiit Tru-i''"''
'man, is suiiporting Hendei-s»n’> I
I'lainis, as well as the two other I
ea.se.s now )tending liefore the !
court.
“God .Vliiiighty was tiie first,
aiitlior of segregation," said
Hobbs, “111' made mankind tlif-
ferent in color and facial char
acteristics but siiid he loved all
alike, 1 never heard anyone
blame him for being discrimin-
atetl against.’’
Representing the Southern
Raihvav was Charles Clark. He
.stated that Congre.ss had re-
! fused, for more than 70 years,
jto cluuige segregation laws,
^ w hich reflected the wishes of
i the Aiiiei’icau people. Allen
! Crenshaw appeared for the in-
{terstate Commerce Commission,
i The ICC has left the matter of
segregation up to individual
I earriers.
I The other two ca.ses involved
(actions brought by G. W. Mc-
Laurin of (Oklahoma and Her-
linaii Marion Sweatt of Texas
Hariilil L
>. R Pop'', and .-
i vatives rc -j-r ■
a-k-^x'iat-ion. =
propnaf.' iloo
HUali/at i'iii - ■! =oi
pendin^ m f -il=-r:il
( lid tl:i.. tn-r
the reci.rd >f *i ■
ciVfP a peri-d '
more, d'clar * ■
mi.^r 'iiiei • .-s/ n tn.-t Tai'.' in the
a>,.->i>ciation "i history a.- well as
a far cry from the day , when
tlle "rnele T uli ." iud “Aunf
Dinahet.ntro'i-d the on^an-
izatii'U !i«-k, ,iud barrHl
and fhi-Mttled n.v .r^empt, at
lib'-ralism.
The di'ei^iive .ti tii.ii i.f the a.sj»-
(M'iation 'jT-w .iuf of reportN that
the [>re>irientia! i-iiudidacy of
Dr h\ L. ArkiiiN. President of
Winston-Salem Ti-ai-hers I’ol-
lece. was suppi,»rT»*l by an alleir-
etlly dis-j-rumled eotn-
posel ot Triir'.;. r-iIHu', and
Pope. The ’'itatr* s teaehi r> over-
w helminirlj' e|t*.*ted A. H. An
derson. priii-in«l of K'^di^-rly
Park IliL'h .School, ^al-
••III. as ]>rfsident
other nssricFaTion nfiii.’ers e-
ileefi“’, . M. l..,l » , I. I’.lake,
■ :'riuei,iiu, ’ ■ fiTKiriutre Hiirti
^ I nr - Mi- Wil-
iij.cr’ isor. \’urth-
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Kda■ larnii'aii, S()aw
Ihil^iirh. W. G.
l!. Han High
Bl'RLINGTON j widow .Mrs. I.enore Drew; his
Death rode the highway "eax jMi's. Nora Drew; three
daughters, Beebe !(, Charlene, 8 jagain.st universities in their re-
and Syh ia •»; and one son, Char- ispeetive states to deterinine whe-
4. Two sisters and.aither st'gregation is a violation
To Preach Here
Rev. R. D. Underwood, D. D.,
j)astor of Mount Zion Baptist
Church of Rocky Mount, who
will conduct revival services
at White Rock Baptist Church
April 10 through 21. Rev,
Underwoo4 is considered one
of the most forceful preachers
in the state.
his uuto, which he was driving,
left the roail and turned over
several times.
Hiding with Dr. Drew' at the
tinn> of his fatal crash were Drs.
.lohn R. Ford, Walter R. John
son and Samuel lUilloek. Drs.
l>ull(M-k and flohnson escaped
with minor injuries and left for
Winston-Salem after being treat
ed at Alamance (icncral Hos
pital. Dr. Ford, who was more
s«‘riously injui-ed, was confiiunl
in the hospital with a fractured
arm and .sevi'ral other injuries
about the body.
Th.(‘ three surviving phy
sicians, all of whom were as,so-
ciated with Dr. Drew at Freed
man's Hospital, Wasliington, D.
C., Avcre (Miroute to a medii-al
clinic at Tuskegtn* Institute,
Alabama.
Highwa.v patrolmen who in
vestigated the wi’cck tohl repre-
iHentatives of the (^.VROLIXA
TIMES that in their o])inion
Dr. Drew went to sleep while
driving and the car ran off the
highway .suddenly awakening
Dr. Drew. When he attenipti'd
to get the car back on the high
way, he lost control resulting
in the fatal era.sh.
Funeral seiwices for the noted
physician were hekl Wednesday
at otie o’clock at the Iflth Street
Haptist Chnr‘h in Washington.
Surviving Dr. Drt'w are his
brother also survive.
jof their Constitutional rights.
Ex.-e„:r
eluded Mrs
I niversity,
Rielia rilsoii
.'s'-hiiul, S,.iiii.(. I
ivfeat of the Triir'-' supportel
eandidai-y of Dr. Atkins was
viewtnl by many teachers a.s the
most siirnifieant .let of the mt'et-
(iov. SM»tt, iii publie aeknow-
leilireinent of the Triirir apoint-
ment to the State Board of
Education, first of its kind in
the South in recent years, admit-
te*l Friday niirhf whUe deliver-
inir an atUires-s to the iLssocia-
tion that the euntroversal Ra
leigh edueator was perhafxs not
the best choice for the spot.
Dr. TriL'ir apparently enjoye«l
however, the iliihious distinction
of serviiiir as burr of the Gover
nor’s very funny .fokes
Amoinr Dr. Triurir's activities
ilurinir the coiiv *t!tion was an at
tempt to defeat the teachers,
move to appropriate for
the school equality suits. He diii
not act ilirectly, however fi>-
stead. and in typical Trigg fasli-
ion, he prodiled W. B. Wicker,
(Plea;^* turn to Page Eight)
When Death Rode The Highway For Dr, Charles Drew
Here are the remains of the | Drew was riding when he met
car in which Dr. Charles 1 death on a highway near Bur
lington last Saturday mora*
ing. — Photo by Stanback.