Os^er 1^000 Expected At Ushers Meeting In Oxfo
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ril 16th
AWAIT NEWS: Mr. and Mr*. Clifford Holden, parento of ■ Iwfajr gW
kidnapped from a New York hoapital Inoabator, await new* tf tha
Mattonwfde •earch for the child reportedly apirited awajr by a womaa
whona police and the FBI have tracked to Vlrsliila.
Oxford To Act
As Host Ushers
Mid-Year Session
OXFORD
Over 1,00(> ushers anil visitors
will journey here Sunday, April
IGth for the 2Gth annual Mid
year session of the North Caro
lina Ititerdentnninational Ushers
As.soeiation. •
Th(* nie^'tiiiff will be held in
the auditorium of the Oxford
Colored Orphanage and accord-
iuf? to Superintendent T. A.
Hannne, everything is in readi
ness to entertain the host of
visitors that will be on hand.
The Mid-year session of the
Ushers Association is held each
year, the Sunday after Easter,
at whieh time reports of the
various Tshers Tnions for the
(Jrphana^e and the edneation of
worthy students are received.
The North Carolina Inter-
dfnominational Csliers Associa
tion was one of tlie first state
wide orjranizations to institute
an annual pro^fram of financial
support for the orphanage. This
year’s visit will give repre
sentatives of the group ample
opportunity to witness first
hand .some of tlie fruits of their
labor, including the new boy’s
dorimit4)ry for which the organ-
tion assisted in providing funds.
In addition to the regular
routine of the Mid-year meeting,
the famous McCoy «ing^, that
are heard each Sunday over
station WTIK, will be guests of
the meeting and will giug sev
eral numbers.
Averoge Mole
Lives ^.1 Years
WASHINGTON
The average Negro m^^le in
the United States now lives
to reach an age of approxi
mately 58,1 years, according
to a report made public here
last week by the public health
service. And Negro women on
the average reach an age of
62 1-2 years.
These figures are based on
1948 death rates. As com
pared with whites, the aver
age longevity of Negroes is
lower. White males, while not
as yet attaining the biblical
three score and ten, boast an
average span of 65 1-2 years.
With white women, the figure
sets at 71 years.
White Man Faces Loss
Of Property For
Eating With Negroes
jar
By VERN(
JARRETT
flOAGO
Here in the Yankee city of
Chicago, a white man who in
vited Negroefuto his new home
for a sociav eve\iing faces the
loss of his property.
The Colonial Savings and-
Loan Association, which holds a
$7,000 mortgage on the two-flat
home of Aaron Bindman, Jewish
labor leader, last week asked the
Superior Court to foreclose the
loan.
Tiast Novenibt'r Bindman in
vited several Negro members of
the International Ix)n}]phore-
men’s and Warehonsejuen’s un-
nion to his home to meet a labor
guest from Hawaii. A few hours
later thousands of hysterical
w'hites gathered in front of his
hoiiw* demand tliat he order the
Negroes out.
Bindman had just moved in
to thq predom'inantly Irish
Catholic community and it was
rumored that the Negroes seen
entering his home w-rere going to
buy the place. His life was
threatened along with those of
his wife and co-owner of the
house, William Kennett, his wife
and children. News spread
through the community that
Bindman was an avowed “Com
munist.”
Attacks on Jews and persons
believed to be “Jewish Com
munists” and “N—r lovers”
broke out. More than 37 were ar
rested during three days of
turmoil. Every single defendant
has been freed in highly critical
and “biased” court decisions.
The loan company said in its
suits that 10 insurance comp
anies in the county either had
refused insurance or had can
celled policies on the property.
The company asked that Bind
man and Sennett pay off the
$7,000 mortgage or give up
po8.st‘ssion for a receiver to sell
the property.
The only positive court action
stemming from the November
race riot is the freeing of 11
w’hite persons who w'ere attacked
by the mob. Some of the eleven
were friends of Bindman and
were enroute to his aid.
Attorneys for the defendants
won a change of judges from
Judge Joseph H. McGarry. They
felt he would not give them' a
fair trial in view' of his “lib
eral” attitude toward those
charged with launching the riot.
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Bntered aa Second ClaM Matter at the Peat Office At Durham, North Carolina, under Act of March 3, 1879.
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VOLUME 2»—NUMBER 15 DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1950 PRICE: TEN CENTS
Chicago Jurists
Give Cold Shoulder
To Testimonial
Walter White Withdraws
NAACP Resignation
Feels Heartbound
To Organizafion
NEW YOIiK
It was disclosed here this week
that Walter White has with
drawn his resignation as Secre
tary of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People. A release from the New
York office of the Association
disclosed that the letter in which
Mr. White withdrew his re
signation was tendered March
10.
“After careful deliberation I
have decided to withdraw my re
signation submitted in 1949 as
secretary of the NAACP. I take
this step for the following rea
sons.
“1 feel able to withdraw my
resignation because I have been
informed by Dr, Arthur Master
that my health has improved to
sui»h an extent that, although 1
have a coronary condition, my
present problem is more neuro
genic than coronary. He states
that if 1 will lead a “sensible
4ife ’ ’ so far -as w’ork is concern
ed I can count on a number of
years of continued active life.
“X have discovered also that I
am heartbound to the Associa
tion. Although 1 have been flat
tered ^d perhaps even tempted
by several offers of positions
more lucrative and less taxing
liian my work with the NAACP,
I find myself unable to accept
or consider another kind of life.
‘ ‘ During recent months I have
received numerous inquiries as
to whether or not 1 w’ill resume
my work witli the NAACP up
on the completion of my leave
of absence. This is my answer—
if it pleases the Board and mem
bership of the NAACP, I hope
to continue on the job for as long
as my strength and ability en
dure.
“It is my firm conviction, to
paraphrase the statement of a
greater fighter for the Negro’s
cause, “The NAACP is the ship,
all else is the sea” in the forty-
one year fight for human free
dom which countless thousands
of Americans, living and dead,
have struggled to win.”
Retires
NFA Holds Meet
At Caswell County
Training School -
YANCEYVILLE
On April 3 the New Farmers
Of America along with the Vo
cational Agricultural Instructor
and Principal of the Caswell
County Training School played
host to N. F. A. members and
Agricultural Instructors from
all eight schools in the Dudley
Federation of New Farmers of
America. This Federation is
held each year to pick winners
in the elimination contests to
represent the Federation in the
Annual State Meeting held in
Greensboro.
Over two hundred boys repre
sented the eight schools in Cas
well, Rockingham, Forsyth, Ala
mance and Guilford Counties.
These boys participated in the
activities: public speaking, quiz,
quartette singing, talent, of
ficers’ ability, darts, Chinese
chckers, spanish checkers, horse
shoe pitching and shop. N. h.
Dillard, Principal of the Caswell
County Training School gave
the welcome address whieh ev
eryone enjoyed.
Holland McBwain, Superin
tendent of Public Schools in Cas
well County attended the eve
ning session and gave the boys
a very inspiring address.
Mrs. Bessie S. Gilmer, be
loved church, business and
civic leader of Durham whose
retireifrent as interviewer in
the office of the North Caro
lina Employment Agency was
recently announced here. Mrs.
Gilmer was retired on M^rch
31 after serving with the
agency for 15 years. During
her years in Durham she has
served as superintendent of
St. Joseph A. M. E. Sunday
School and secretary of the
Trustee Board. At present she
is assistant secretary of the
Rho chapter of Iota Phi
Lambda sorority.
NAACP Joins In
Protest Against
Seretse Exile
X[EW YORK
The National Ajisociation for
the Advancement of Colored
People tins week accepted an in
vitation to jom the Seretse
Khama Fighting Committee, a
group organized iu London to
fight for reversal of the British
government’s decision to ban
Chief Seretse from Bechauana-
land, where he heads the Bam-
angwatos tribe.
Eipressing the “outraged”
feeling of the NAACP at the
ruling iu the tase. Hoy Wil
kins, acting NAACP secretary,
wrote Nii Odoi Annan, joint
secretary of the Committee, that
the Ajssociation is with the fight
ing group ‘ ‘ in spirit. ’ ’
At a recent mass meeting, the
Committee adopted resolutions
denouncing Serete’s exile as “a
flagrant *iol?itiou of civil liber
ties,” and asbcFted tl»afc ban
ning the chief from his tribe,
“tlie British Government seems
to have bowed to the racialist
doctrines of the Governments of
the Union of South Africa and
Southern llliodesia, on an issue
w’hich goes to the root of rela
tions between black and white
within the Commonwealth.”
Chief *Seret.se was exiled follow'-
Precinct Judge
Louis Jones, well-known
labor leader of Din jam who
has recently been £.ppointed
judge of the Hill id.’ Schoo^
precinct. Mr. Jones is the fir t
member of his race to receive
an appointment as precinct
judge in Durham.
iiig his niarriayfe to a white
Britisher.
The (’ommittee further ac-
cus«d the British Government of
“in effect weakening the co
hesion of the tribe, thereby
opening tlie way to incorpora
tion by the Union of South
.\frica.”
By VERNON JARRETT
(‘UK AGO
South’s Carolina \ fighting
Judge .J. Watifs Waring wa.^
treated like ix)i?%cm ivy by Chi
cago’s 101 judgt s here lii.st week.
Every judgv resiling in Cook
County was given a »pe ial in
vitation to att.;nd a Innch; un
h(inf)ring the man whi; biimitil
the all-white primary in .South
'ar»»lina. .N’ot a one
showed up. Among rlit- abv^nt
wt're tlie city's two .N'egro
municipal court jiid‘''*s.
Judge Warin'jr tojk the snub •
g(»od-nature(ll.\ “ i,t muc*h worse i
hack home.” he chuckled. “Not j
a single white neighor, includ i
ing relatives or fellow judge, j
visited niy home in Charleston j
since the all-white primarj’ was |
banned.” he mused. |
iUowever, the cold shoulder I
treatment embarra.s.sed leaders
of t^ Cook County Bar A.ssocia-
tioiy- which embraces the city’s
Negro lawyers — and the local
diapter of the National La
wyers’ guild. The two groups
sponsored the luncheoK. Judge
Waring is a prominent member
of the guild.
“We gave this luncheon to
show this great man that he
does have friends and sup
porters among members of his
profession in the North,” said
Atty. Sidney A. Jones, Jr.,
president of the Negro bar
group. Atty. Jones said a few
judges had written “nice let
ters” explaining why they
couldn’t miike the luncheon,
but he couldn’t explain for
the rest. “All I know is they
were invited, and the affair
was given in a downtow j
hotel, which should have mad
it convenient for some of the.
I to attend,” he added.
lit'gardlesN, 21.M) leading '
gro ami white lawyers went
with the luncheoii and heanl ti..?
Dixie progressive blast li.e
“gradual” appnmcli to the race
(|uestion.
Later, he addres.s‘d 1,(K)0 on
Chicago's Southside at Taber
nacle Baptist church, where he
was introduced by Urban Lea
gue Secretary Sidney William.s,
a ell
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’iollthJ.l;.!]
“I believe in force,” be
stressed. “Not necessarily the
force of bayoaets and macbiae
guns, but the force of every
court in the land, the Federal
government, the ezecutinv
power of the President of tlie
United States, the force of
law enforcement authoritia
and the collective force of ail
right thinking people.”
“In fact^ I have decided to
postpone my vacation until
after the primary election to
make sure my court order a
carried out.” he revealed.
South ( aroiuia elections face
contempt of court charges if
they do not permit Ne^froes to
register and vote in the Demo
cratic primajy next week.
As to judges who permit
racism to hand down tbeir de
cisions, the man from South
Carolina had thi to say:
“Any judge influenced by
race prejudice, religious hate
or ^racial superiority is a
traitor to the U. S. Constitu
tion, a traitor to his country,
and a traitor to human de
cency.”
That statement brought thun
derous applause from the audi
ence. Chicago judges have been
accusetl of Dixie-like prejulices
iu handi' 7 down decisions in
volving r-ill t'l;u-*ups on the
Souti ;■! ■ I'o,’ iront ovei .he
»'o.st 1'. ,r yea. J.
Bcf the jurist and his wife
tid b ’ >t see themselves
’ ni** , ■'hat they ui. ler-
f.»oi lit , that prog ress
ill tilt .So th caunnt made
w.thout some sacrifice.
McCoy Singers On Ushers Mid-Year Program
The above group is the fam-
oiis McCoy Singers heard ev
ery Sunday morning at 10:15
over station WTIK. The Mc
Coy Singers will be heard at
the Ushers Mid-Year Session
when it meets in Oxford Sun
day. The chorus is under the
direction of Mrs. Annie Mc
Coy.
Prof, Boulware
To Address
Chain Meet
The Durham Business and
Professional Chain is render
ing a panel discussion at its
regular meeting Sunday,
April 16, at the Algonquin
Club House at 5 p. m.
. The public, Chain members
and interested business peo
ple are urged to attend be
cause the Chain wants you to
enter into a discussion led by
C. E. Boulware, entitled “The
Problems of Growth in Busi
ness.”
Please feel free to attend
and help us to discuss the
topic.
Asks Governor To Probe
I
[Race Bias In Oxtord, Pa.
CIO Files Brief
With United States
Supreme Court
WASHINGTON
Acting-as a “friend of the
court,” the (’TO filed a brief
w'ith the U. S. Supreme Court
la.st Tucstlay, calling for in
validation of computory racial
segregation regulations at the
Uitiversity of Oklahom a on
grounds that they violated the
14th Amendment of the con
stitution.
The CIO brief, .signed by Gen
eral Counsel Arthur Goldberg,
was filed in the case of G. W.
McLaurin against the Okla
homa State Regents for Higher
Education and the Board of Re
gents of University of Okla
homa.
‘‘The issue ... is whether a
state may under the provisions
of the 14th Amendment, com
pel the practice of segregation
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NEW YORK
Governor James H. Duff of
Pt'nnsylvania was today urged
to institute a special grand jurj-
investigation of violation of civil
rights in Oxford, where members
of the Lincoln University chap
ter of the National Association
for the Advancement of Coloped
People have been conducting a
campaign to break down racial
barriers in the theaters, rest
aurants and other places of pub
lic accommodation.
Ill a letter to the Governor,
Mrs. Ruby Hurley, NAACP
youth secretary, charged that
the efforts of the Lincoln stu
dents “to secure equality of
treatment have been frustrated
by the restaurant and theater
owners w ith the active and open
cooperation of local police and
law enforcement authorities.”
The present student body,
Mrs. Hurley’.s letter pointed out,
is composed la^rgely of veterans
who “are determined to secure
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Two Negroes Sue American
Airlines For Cafe Color Bar
WASHINGTON
'IVo .$10,(KM) damage .suits
were filed against American Air
lines, Inc., and Sky ('hefs, Inc.,
in another court test of Dixie
transportation Jim Crow.
The plantiffs are Elmer W.
Henderson, a member of tiie
Roosevelt Fair Employment
Pi'actices Committee in 19-l‘i.
and John E Myk". Jr., a gov-
enimeiit physicist and graduate
of the University of Indic.na
Graduate School of x’tiysics
The plai’itiffs charge t'-. y
were refused service at an a’.-
port restaurant in Covington,
Ky., one the night of Octobi-r
30, 19-19. The comf'.aint charges
they were returning to Washing
ton by way of the Greater Cin
cinnati Airport at Covington on
an American Airlines return
ticket, but the flight was delay
ed. All pa.s.seiigers were given
cards entitling them to a meal
in Sky Chefs, a restaurant con
cession at the airport.
However, they were denied
service becaii.se of color, the
suit states. They said they were
not permitted iu the place. 'I’h'
complaint .said they were “sub
jected to great humiliation ..' vl
inconvenience and were gr
insulted. ”
Tht* plantiffs have ask'd i
permanent injunction rt'strain-
ing the airlines and restaur"- t
from continuing racial segrega-
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Army Continues
Fight On Race
Segregation
WASHINGTON
The third iinke in the chain
toward complete integration of
Negroes into the army was for-
jged here last Saturday when a
I teletype order from Army Sec’y
I Gordon Gray, ordering the re-
I moval of all racial quota.s. went
jinto effect. The message, signed
,by Adjutant (ieiieral Witstdl,
'was ilispatched to fhe cotiimund-
(crs of the 11 major army areas.
! Dated March 27, it read in
j part: “Effective with the
' month of April, all enlist-
I ments in the army with over-
! all recruiting quotas will be
open to qualified applicants
without regard to race or
color.” The April mule re
cruiting quota is 10,051.
As i* presentiv stani';s. the.
I
larmy ha ••len-d truining sc!hm»1s
jto all qui.hti.d ptrson'' .in
aciion take, last fall; aid n*-
ivistd its utilization {K>licy, per-
imitiin*; (nuil Hetl N’egrt* tfchnical
,i,> a.s.signed to over-
lu‘u. »h'r>‘ver va uu*ie«
!''i'ci,r. I'l.c v.tter move wasmatle
1 last Janr »ry l(i.