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Typical of the millions of mothers throughout the world who will be celebrated Mother’s Day this Sunday are the above busy mothers of Durham and vicinity. Representing a cross section of the religious, professional, business, social and civic life of this city they are well-kno\^n in the community. Reading from left to right are: Mrs. Nannie B. Taylor, 78, who owns and personally * ^ * * * * + ^ jf if. ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ D/UKLS CQUSMS LOSE tfPDU. manages a farm in Granville County. Mrs. Maude Logan, society i Edna Lambeth' busineu woman; Mn. Julia Lucas, busine^ leader; Mrs. E. G. Hubbard, teacher; Mrs. Bernice Williamson, I man and Mrs. Christine Alston, law lAcretary. business woman; Mrs. Selena Warren Wheeler, civic leader; Mrs.) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ¥ ¥ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Periodical Dulce TlalT f ! -A*** PULITZER PRi'!E: Henry Blakely (OwendfllJNi Brooks) CSiicaco poet, get# a hearty hue from »on, Henry Jr, 9, after learning his mom had been awarded PuUtaer Priae for poetry. A South Side housewife, MUs Brooki, 82, ii the flrat Negro woman to win any Pulltier award was bom in Topeka, Kansas, but raised from infancy in Chicago Award was based on her “Annie Alien”, a ballad of Chicago Negro life Her husband operates an auto repair shop * li Southern Solons Stage Grim F^ht To Hold Line Against FEPC Legislation WASHINGTON Southern senators were gird ing their loins here this week for a determined stand ni the Senate against President Tru- inai^’s Civil H|l^lit.s Program. The first decisive vote on the issue is not expi-eted until next week, and Southern solons are confident they ean muster enough votes, witli aid from yankeecrat senators to defeat the issue. Tfie first test vote on the Sen ate’s new elotun* rule is expect ed to be taken next week and majority Ijeatler Lucas has re quested all Senate supporters of OiviJ Rights legislation to stay close at Kand so that when it is taken it will be decisive. Tlie test vote will not be on the Fair Employment Practice Coitunission proper, hut on whe ther or not the legislation shoidd be brought t« the floor. Debate on the motion has al ready begun and the firet vote on it is expected to take place about the middle of next week. A favorable vote on the issue will require 64 senators or two- thirds of the entire Senate mem bership. As a last resort to defeat passage of the move Southern senators ^re preparing for a filibuster. To stop a filibuster it will take 64 affirmative votes to make possible a vote on P. E. P. C. LAST RITES HELD FOR W. S. LOCKHART RALEIGH Dignitaries from all over the .state were among the hundreds of persons in attendance at fu neral services for W. S. Ijock- iuirt, local businessman, held at First Haptist Church last Tues day. Mr. lx)ckhart, 4(i, died sud denly last Sunday afternoon. A native of Southern Pines and a resident of lialeigh for the past 23 years, Mr. Ixickhart was a graduate of Clark Tniversity and was owner of the Third Ward S,'rvice Station at Blount and Cabarrus Streets. Funerfd services were con ducted by the Ri‘v. W. S. Brown, pastor of Wilson Temple MetK- odist Church where the deceased held membership, and by the Rev. George A. Fisher, rector of St. Ambrose Episcopal Church. Members of the Iota Iota chap ter of tlie Omega Psi Phi Fra ternity were honorary pall- bearei’s. Mr. Ix>ckhart is survived by his wife, Mrs. Nora Evans liockhart) a daughter by a pre vious marriage; father, Wilson Lockhart, Sr.; a sister, Mrs. Montez Ix)ckhart Hampell aiul a brother, Henry Tx)ckhart. Physician Attends Medical Congress ♦ lie Can Eutfred as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Durham, North Carolina, under Act of March 3, 1879. FOR 25 YEARS THE OUTSTANDING NE)GRO WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS VOLUME 28—NUMBER 19 DURHAM, N. C., SATURLAY, MAY 13thv 1950 PRICE: TEN CENTS Bids To Be Let For N. C. College Gym Dr. L. H. Swift, attending gynecologist and obstetrician at Lincoln Hospital will journey to the Interimtional and Fourth American Congress on ()b- stertics and Gvnecolog\' in New York City, May 14 to 1!) 1950. Generally lueld to he the most convprehensive meeting within the field of gynecology and ob stetrics, this Congress will at tract female specialists from all over the world. Adjustments have been made on the hospital staff to have Dr. .1. O. Willie, resident physician in gynecology and obstetrics ac- (Please turn to Page Eight) New Structure To Seat 4,000; Cost $750,000 Kids for North Carolina Col lege’s proposed $750,0000 Gym nasium will be itceived here, .lune 7, it was ann6nnct>tl here this week bv President Alfonso Elder. J. M. Peace and Company, engiJieeVs and architects *of Charlotte in cooperation with members of North Carolina Col lege’s Athletic Committee, drew plans for the gymnasium which will be tlie third striu'ture of its kind to be built on the local college campus within the past 11 years. Increased enrollments have necessitated the constant expan sion of the college’s building program. The new gymnasium will be built with a first floor facing Lawson Street, adjacent to the present Student Health S*r- vices Building wliich is nearing completion. Entrance to the second floor. The man arena, however, will be on tlU* first floor. There is no basement in the structure. The ground floor will be at what is now street level. Seating capacity is expected to approximate accommodations for 4,000.- The 1,800 bleacher •seats will be augmented by 2,4(K) inilividual n'served seats. Director of Afhlctics John B. Mcl^eiulon, who with Athletic Committee chairman W. II. Robinson represented the col lege in lonference with archi tects’ representatives during planning stages, said recently the width of the proposed gym nasium would accommo'date the college's present gymnasium with the exception of t.wo feet. The other part of the building would slide right into the new one. Its dimensions are said to be 205 feet in length with a wid- tU of 190 feet. Among the features of the lU'w building as described by Meljeiulon last night are dormi tory accommodations for 80 men, and sectioned off space for lavatories, locker rooms, shower nmms, drying rooms, couKultation rooms, and otfiiee s])ace for nuinagers, coaches, atul officials. Some delay was caused iu readying the building due to changes in heating jdans. Ar rangements call for the heating of separate units by central heating system. The first floor storage space (Please turn to Page Eight) I Times Mothers Send Mothers Day Greetings The above photos are those of the CAROLINA TIMES mothers who are happy on this Mother’s Day to felicitate Mothers, friends and readers of the CAROLINA TIMES everywhere. Reading from left to right: Mrs. Carrie Austin, mother CAS CHAMBER BECKONS FOR DOOMED BOYS The death I’han.b^r again bai koned to Lloyd Ray and lien- uit Daniels, Pitt County cousins, this vvt*ek when the United Sta ges Suprt-me Court refused to hear the apj»eal of their lawyers. Thf statement of the nation'a highest tribunal gave no details or eiplanatifjii >f its refu>tal. The two coiLsins were wn- demned to df^ath in Pitt County j.Superior (.'ourt la.st .lune for the ^ murder of William Benjamin 0 NVal. white tax driver. Rob- ; bery wa.s given a.^ the motive. Lloyd F{ay was 16 and Bennie was 17 when the crime was com mitted. The bfxly of the taxi driver waji found slasheil and badly beaten near a barn near Green ville. February t> of last year. The Daniels Cousins were de- ' nied the ba»ic right of appeal ! from the verdict »£ the Pitt County Sup«^rior Court in a , series of legal maneuvers — all apparently within the fnime- 1 work of the law. Ihe court iiisuu!j.'>>fd the Dan iels lawyer^' plea that tli^y had initil one day after the deadline because of the delay iu reeei%'ing jthe bulky j(X>-pairH trial record, with an opinion that this wajj jnot an insurmountabl*' '.bstable lor “one which the'diliL'enee de- ; manded of thf' aitornt-ys might ' not ha%e overcome.'* i But tile hiL'h court said that I it was intercNted in the arsju- nient offered by the defendants ^Vl^letl (Tu ‘'iillt-red! sy.stematlc I exclusion of the Negro race from the jury li^t ...” and the mat- ; ter of fori-ed confessions, i The tribunal then suggested a possible way of getting the ap peal preseutetl — through; the use of a writ of error coram nobis. Following this procedure the Daniels cousins could peti- of the publishers of the CAROLINA TIMES; Mrs. Eliza Jane Walker, mother-in-law and Mi^^^ion the Supreme Court for per- S. V. Austin, Mnfe of the publisher and motSw | mission to ask for a writ. If the of the City Editor. Negro Firemen Victorious In Fight Against Discrimination BIUMINGIIAM, ALA. ,A new and significant inroad in the ranks of organized labor was nuule for the Negro race last week when a Fnited States District Court Judge handed down a decision charging one of the luition’s leading railroad un ions with discrimination and ad- judgeil a leading Southern rail road guilty of the same charges. The decision,.handed do"U by I'. S. Court -hulge Clarence Mul lins of Hirmlngham last Thurs day held that the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad and the Bro- therluHul of Locomotive Fire men anti Engincmen were guil ty of disc-rimination against Ne gro railroad firemen. The de cision upheld the fight of the union to determine the seniority of the firemen involved, how- ev(‘r. .ludge .Mullins further ruled tlii’t the Brotherhood was liable for damages in amounts the |)laintiffs would have earned “if they had been as.signed to jobs they were entitled to.” Plaintiffs in the cast* were Ne gro firemen whjb contended that by having been denied member- sliip in the Brotherhoo^L they were enjoined from earning salaries commensurate with their abilities and in keeping with their seniority designa tions. The .defendants were directed (Please turn to Page Eighth Durham To Have 23 Negroes At State Democratic Confab A total of 23 Negro Delegates from Durham County and 23 alternates will be iu attendance at the North Carolina State Democratic Convention when it! meets in lialeigh. Thursday, May 11. The number is believed to be the largest ever to attend a Southern State Democratic from a single County. The 23 Negro delegates and alternates were elected at the Durham County Democratic Convention held last Saturday when over 100 Negroes were in attendance. Several othipr couu- tfies are expected to send a les ser number to the Convention. Among them is Dr. Rose Butler Browne, believed to Ix' the first woman of her race ever elected as a delegate to a Southern De mocratic Convention. All in dications are that there will be over 4,000 prsons iu attendance at the meeting with 3.100 of the number beuig authorized del egates. Negroes elected from Durham are: R. N. Harris, J. C. Scar borough, Sr., \V. J. Keiniedy, Jr., C. C. Spaulding, Sr., D. B. Martin, J. W. Goodloe, Dr. Rose Butler Browne, J. S. Stewart- J. S. Stewart. J. H. Wheeler, Ellis D. Jones, Joliti Holloway, I»nis Jones, M. H. Thompson, E. J. McCoy. Dr. A. Elder, \V. .1. Walker, Willie Jones, James Husband. E. R. Merrick, Wm. Rich. J. T. Taylor and Geo. W. Logan. The alternates are; A. T. Spaulding, B. W’. Kennedy, J. J. Henderson, AV. A. Kenney, Rev. H. H. Hart, Guy Mazyck, Fred Cuttino, Rev. W. L. Full er, W. F. Brower, Rev. E. T. Browne, G. W. Cox, Sr.. C. E. Boulware. Rev. W. F. Cox. Rev. R. C- Sharpe. Fred Pratt, Preston Etlwards, E. R. Avant, Robert Pratt, C J. Gates, M. E. Johnson. F. K Watkins, Mrs. J. M. Hubbard atid Thjos. Royster. perjui.ssion were granted, a hear ing woukl be held 4ti the Pitt County Superior Court. An ap peal could be taken from the re sults of this hearing and the ca.se could then come before the State Supreme Court. Hope was abruptly shattered. The North Carolina Sxiprvme Conrt refused to grant permis sion for the vital writ, which it had itself sugge.sted! The verdict of the I'. S. Su preme Court brings to an end one of the grimmest struggles in North Carolina criminal court history to save the lives of persons\ondemned to death. Because of tW serious doubt in the minds ot \many as to the boys' guilt, theVa.se has attract- eil interest nationally and in ternationally. As it now stands only execu tive clemency cfui siive the lives of the two youths who apparent- 1\- have never had a chance to really live before they must die. Ijloyil Kay and Bennie were both born in Put ('oiuity. The former in Pl.12 and the latter in l!31. Neither knows the tlate or month o!' his birthday. IJoyd Ray has never atteiuleil seluK)l and is one of eleven children of sharecropjH‘r parents. Bennie managetl to complete the first grade after two years in school. His parents are also share croppers. The youths were represented by Attorneys C. .1 Gates of Dur ham and Herman L. Taylor of Raleigh. Two attempts of the lawyers to get the full recortl before the State Supreme Court have faileil because the attorneys failed to ii»eet court deadlineu and to pro|>erly show caust^’. Thus two youths will pay with their lives for ;i crime there i« (Please turn to Page Eight)
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