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Maryland Supreme Court ABOUSKS REGMUL SCNOOIS ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ Judge Hayes Postpones Durham Equalization School Suits Da^e Its rio«ond Class Matter at the Post Office at Durham, North Carolina, under Act of March 3, 1879. FOR 25 YEARS THE OUTSTANDING NEXiRO WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS VOLUME 28—NUMBER 16 DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1950 PRICE: TEN CENTS Southern School Admits Negroes Berea College Opens Doors To Undergraduates LOUlfcSVlLLB, Ky. — Jkeiitueky Ijist week took undisputed lead in the New Soutli’s ornsade to exteiul equal educational op portunities to Negr® College student!*. Kentucky’s latest action happeiiml in tli« town of Herea, where liercu C»lUg«’si tm.slecs ai'ted 1o admit “nualii'ied” Ne gro undergrmluato students. liU.st Friday’s action at ISerta (A»lli‘g‘. fouiidod in 185;') and onctt before boasting an uusegregated student body, followed within less than a month previous aotiou of the Iveutucky liCgislature which amended the state’s infamous Day l{|tw. The Day l*iw, liiiforocd liere sincc ]y04, was enacted to pro hibit Ne^i-oes uud whites iioni attending the jiaine scIh>oJ*i^^Ab amended by the State Ijegislature, the law permits mixed schools, lleroa’s trustees rt'affirm- Succumbs As ed their I'aith in the youth of the Appahichiau Mountain reg ion,” they made particular ref erence to Negro youth, saying: “We also express our iutciPest in Negro youth of this^ region to get au education ami hereby empower our ailmiurstcation to admit such Negro students from within this mountaiu region whom we find thoroughly quali fied coming completely within the provisions of the Kentucky law and whom in their judge ment it appears we should serve.” Although numerous polk tak en among faculty and students in Southern colleges during the paat several years have shown an overwhelming sentiment in favor of admitting Negro stud ents, the iJerea College’s trustees have taken the first step in ad mitting Negroes to undergrad uate colleges. Berea, however, is following the example officially set by the State of Kentucky. Unlike North Carolina, Kentucky is hamper ed by no false reputation of mid-century liberalism. Where as North Carolina and other Southern States liave st)Ught to shift their responsibilities in providing education at graduate and professonal levels for Ne groes on the Southern Ttegional Conference, Kentucky has fac ed this issue s(uarely. For over a year now, over twelve Negroes have been attend isg the various branches of the University of Kentwckv. Th (>x- (Please turn to Page Eight) Insurance Man Shoots Self In Goldsboro (iObDSBOUO — Frank W. Jlowdeu, agent for the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Couipany, took his own life in the bathroom of his home here last Friday morning around e- leven o’clock by blasting a hole through his breast with a single barrell shotgiui. Bowden used a yardstick to trip the trigger. No note, giving the reason for his rash act was left by Bowden. A statement issued by officials of the North Carolina Mutual Uife Insurance Com;i)any dis closed that he was considered efficient in his work as an in surance man and was well liked by other represtuitatives of the company. 11c had been an agent for the company since June 26, 1!)44.. Mr. Bowden was highly res- pcctcd in the community, ea- csi)cciall in his church where he (1 Mease turn to Page Eight) Nebraska Watson, 53, who died suddenly at his home, 1019 Cornell Street Saturday aftomvoiK Mr. WotMn was a prominent member of First Calvary Church and the hus band of Mrs. Lu Hattie Wat son. Funeral services were held Tuesday night, April 18 at First Calvary Church. LOCAL YOUTH WINS COLONIAL STORES PRIZE Mrs. Alma Holland Beers, of Chapel Hill, won the top $2,500 awanl for the Carolinas in the Colonial Stores $40,000 Cash Scholarship Award Contest, Scott W. Allen, president of the grocery store system, announced Thursday. Wiinier of the second prize was Bruce P. liobinson, of Jjiin- cast£r,. ,jS. C., Avho will receive $1,500. The third award of $1,000 went to Carroll G. Allen, of Columbia, S. C. Fourth place in the (!arolinas section was won by Doris King of Durham, who will i-eceivcd $750, and fifth by Mrs. Moir W. Edwards, of Lex ington, whose entry was worth of Durliam, who will receive $750, and fifth by Mrs. Moir W. Edwards, of Ijexington, whose entry was worth $500. Winners of the other two first (Plea.se turn to Page Eight) June 26 New Date For Trial The 1 >urham *ihool suits have ! lH“en postponed for the third time, this time due to the busy schedule of Federal Judge •lohn- »on J. Hayes, who has listened to the evidence presented in the ca.se to date. The new date for the hearing is June 2(i in Federal ('ourt Hovise here. Nearly a year ago now, Dur ham lawyers M. H. Thompson and John H. Wheeler filed suit in l)ehalf of 2i of the city’s Ne gro children alleging inequali ties iit school facilities for whites and Negro**s in Durham Schools. The local lawyers are assisted by Martin, Oliver Hill, and Spotswood Robinson of Rich mond, well known for their ef forts in the Virginia civil rights suits. Defense attorneys, headed by State Attorney General, Mc Mullen, include his assi.stant, Reade, Tmstead and Fuller (.’??) and Major L. P. Meli«*u- don of Greensboro. The latter attorneys are also representing th(‘ State in the case brought by •seven North Carolina College law students seeking to gain admission to the w'hite law school at Chapel Hill. Atlornc}' General McMullen has blasted completely the repu tation of North Carolina as a liberal Southern State by filing a brief in the Sweatt case be fore the Supreme Court and iii his all-out cooperation with other Southern attorney gener als in the effort to halt the trend toward the integration of Ne gro and white college students as well as students of the two races in graduate and profess ional schools throughout the South. Sou ‘ces close to Thompi nmt Whiiclar' any tiw.l hal conferred with chief (le^ fense Counsel Umstcad before tho an,noinu’ement Wednesda3’ from Attorney General McMul len of the postponment. T!i(> fw'o local lawyers, whose JOE ANSWERS CENSUS COUNT MY NOSI: Retired heavywalgbt champ 3o* Louia stopped in New York’* Hotel TbereM l«bby lut week Isng enough to get bit nose oonnted In 18S0 oensos by pretty Blythe Ford, one many Nefroe* taking oensos In Gothanu Joe Uksd ordeal which wasn’t an ordeal, that Is, talking to a yonng ladjr m Tlvacloos as Miss Ford. . , Ku Klux Klan Orders FTA Union Out Of Winston Salem Regional School Plan Gets Severe Blow At Hands Of Supreme Court Of Maryland WINSTON-SALEM From the headquarters of the FTA local 22 comes the an nouncement this week that it has been notified by the Ku Klux Klan that members of FTA are not wanted in '\Vinston-Salem nnd that the Klan has moved in see to it that the FTA moves out. A photostat copy of the al leged note sent the CAROLINA TIMES is as follows: To FTA Local 22. You are not wanted in this city and you must go and we are here to see that you go. This town can get along (Please turn to Page Eight) Last Rifes Held For Moranda Smith In Twin City PlilliADELPHlA -- The death of Moranda Smith, nation ally known w'oman trade union leader and a member of ttie In- teriiHtional Executive Board of the Food, Tobacco and Agricul tural Workers Union, was an nounced at union headquarters here today. Mrs. Smith, who had been one of the builders of the largest lo- (Please turn to Page Eight) Ushers Hold Successful Mid-Year Meet OXFORD One of the largest and most succ(‘ssful Mid-.year sessions in the history of the North Carolina Interdenominational I shers Association was held at ()xford Colored Orphan age here last Sunday, April It). Approximately 1,000 ushers, visitors and friends of the in- (Please turn to Page Eight) John Avery Boys' Club To Sponsor Yearly Contest The Fourtfi Annual Bird House Contest sponsored, by the John Avery Boys’ Club will close F,riday, April 28th at 5 p. m. The contest which is open to Girls and Boys fif teen years old and under has been in progress for two weeks. Instructions in regards to the contest may be secured from the W. D. Hill Recrea tion Center and the John Avery Boys’ Club. Prizes will be awarded to 1st, 2nd and 3rd place win ners. NEW VIRGIN ISLAND GOVERNOR TAKES OATH .-Holds* Own Without President RALEIGH — Shaw Univers ity, after three months of iuter- im administration, is on a firm operational basis and is making steady progress. That is the judgement of Dr. C. C. Spauld ing, Chairman of the Executive Conimitte of the Shaw Univer sity Board of Trustees. Dr. Spaulding issued the statement following a meeting with the five member Inter- Administrative Committee, whose work he called “gratify ing beyond expression.” The well known insurance ex- .ecutive, who heads the commit- "Kee on the nomination of a new president for Shaw I’niversity asserted that the progress of the school continues unimpaired. The Interim Committee is go ing forward with i)lans for Commeneenjent and for the 1950 Summer Session, which will fol low the customary jjattern. ^Members of the Board of Trustees, Avho hehl their ainiual meeting recently, found faculty and students working harmon iously with the program as plan | ned. Financial ct)ntrihutions to the institution, which arf com ing in according to schedule, re- the. sounilness of the faith and spirit of alumni and friends. At the recent nieetfng of the Board of Trustees, Dr. Robert Daniel declined reelection to the Board for the normal term of three years, but'was j^revail- ed upo!i to ex)iitinue as a member until the next annual meeting. Ho was also asked by the Board (Please turn to Page Eight) Gov. Morris F. de Castro, first native governor of Vir gin Islands, is sworn in by Federal Judge Herman E. Moore of Chicago in cere monies at St. Thomas Char- lotte-Amalie, V. L., recently, At extreme l«ft are the GoV' ernor and his wife. Next to new governor is Hon. C. Girard Davidson, Assistant Secretary of the Interior Ray mond de Castro, son of Mr. de Castro is shown at extreme right. BALTIMORE, Md. — Maryland last week was forced to [abandon its mistaken notion that the Southern Regional Schools plan provided an excuse for the Sstate to shift its respoiisibilities of educating Negroes within the State of ilaryland. The Court of Appeals nvalidated a previous ruling of a Balti more jurist that Miss Esther McCready could find “equal educa tional facilities” at segregated Meharry Medical College's School of Nursing. In its ruling, the Court of Appeals said, in so many words, that the attitude of the United States Supreme Court in similar suits launched against the states of Oklahoma and Missouri made it mandatory for the individual states to provide for Negro grad uates and professional students the same kinds of facilities pro vided other students. The court specifically denied that the Regional Schools plan could be used to circumvent this duty of the State. ! Miss McCready last year ap plied for admis.sion to Mary land’s School of Nursing. The j I'li'tit to prevent her from enter- ! uig w as pearh^aded by Presi- aent ByrU said he "supposedM 'ueut Byrd ot the L'niversity of Jiiaiylauil . Ci.muueutiug on the Court of Appeals’ ruling. President Byrd viid lie ‘'.supposed ” the State would Imve to make arrange ments to provide Miss McCready “equal facdities." Obsvrvtrs in Baltimore and Washingtod are comparing the Marylauil rulings to pros.pective ca.st“s soon to be hean.1 in North Caroliim. Some observers see in jthe ilarylaud court's ruling an i example for North Carolina I which has two sets of civil rights eases pt*nding tn the Midd.le and Eastern Districts of Federal Court. " In Durham, the case of Caro- Ijii Blue anti 2.') Durliam Negro chiklren >uiug for equal schools has been iKtstponeil for the thinl time to enable Federal Judgt* •Johnson d. Hayes to close a term of court he is now holding in Salisburv. Mrs. Ruth Morgan of Wen dell, who was elected at the Mid-year Session of the N. C. Interdenominational Ushers’ Association, last week in Ox ford, to represent that group at the National Ushers Asso ciation Convention which meets in Little, Rock, Ark. All Out Campaign Called For By Register- Vote Committee Of N.C. In Durham, also, it is thought an agreement has been reachetl between counsel for Harold T. Epps and Robert D. Glass, ami >^tate Attorney General Harry McMullen to po-tpone the cast* of the two NC C’ollege law stu- CHARLOTTE Kelly Alexander, president of the N«rth Carolina branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple and L. E. Austin, Chairman of the Registration-Vote Com mittee isBited a joint statement this week appealing to every Negro man and woman in North Carolina to register and vote in the May primary. Said Mr. Alexander, *‘I am calling upon the Negro people of North Carolina to register an vote as never before. I am. calling upon them to do so be cause we have so much to Iom in this election and so much to (Please turn to Page Eight) dents jH^ndiug the Supreme Sweatt ease. the decision of Court in the Maryland’s capitulation fol lows closely that of Oklahoma, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Mias> ouri. It is ifvnerally believ«>d that North Carolina, the State that started the school suits in 1933 with the Ho‘utt case, b uext on ihtf I'st.
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