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ST. AUG. FlULS EW M BEDUM Children of the Scarborough Nursery School wWo will participate in Commencement Exercis es on Tuesday evvnin^ >June 6, at the Pearson Elementary School. High Point And Durham Scenes Of Medical Meets Many Noted Speakers On Programs Durham and High Point will be the scenes of. the State-wide meetings of medical, pharmaceu tical, and dental sessions on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs day, 6-8. In High Point, the Old North State Medical Society, of which Durham’s Dr. Clyde Donnell, has been secretary for the past 3l years, will hold 63rd annual Mssions at Christ the King Rec tory School. Medical and surgi cal specialists from th« Duke University School of Medicine will read papers. In Durham, sessions will be held at North Carolina College of the third anual meeting of the Old North State Dental So ciety, formerly affiliated with the medical men. Duke University medical men participating at High Point in clude Drs. Keith S. Grimson, W. W. Shingleton, B. S. Hamblen, and W. L. Thiomas. Dr. T. Mitchell Bundrant, Negro instructor in oral surgery at Columbia University’s School of Dentistry, will give a demon stration on Oral Surgery and Surgical Care with Slides at 10 o’clock in Durham Wednesday, dentists will come from the dentist will come from the North Carolina Dental Society. Durham pharmacists Y. D. Garrett and J. G. Parker will be among the druggists discussing papers ip High Point. J. T. Hamlin of Raleigh will also be among thie discussants. Dr. Guy R. Willis and Dr. Beorge Kirkland of the North Carolina Dental Society will be among the opening day’s speakers at the dentist’s meet. Pr. Murray B. Davis of High Ppint is president of the Old North State Medical Society. Dr. 0. P. Norris of Durham is president of the dentists’ organ ization. Shftw Choral Society Presented In Annual Concert To Large Crowd 'The Shaw University Choral Society received a tremendous ovation as it was presented in its annual Concert Sunday af ternoon at 6 o’clock in Green- leaf Auditorium' before crowd that filled every available seat asd most of the standing room at the rear of the auditorium. Conductor Harry Gil-Symthe and the entire choir personnel received repeated applause, the enthusiasm of which attested to the audience’s approval of the well-rounded and skillfully (hji(hdled program. The group made its audience aware at every moment of the truly artis tic quality of the program and the unusal effectiveness of the blend of 70 fine voices. Announcement was made of the scheduled performance of the choir Sunday morning June 11, from 10:30 to 11 o’clock on the American Broadcasting Company’s United Negro Col lege Fund program. Roy Wilkins To Speak At State NAACP Meeting FAYETTEVILLE — The Seventh Annual Conference of the North Carolina Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will get under way here Thurs day morning, June 1 at eleven o'clock ^|in the morning. The' Conference headquarters and registration bureau will be in the JMasonic Hall building. The annual session will be presided over by Kelly Alexan der, president of the State branch. The morning session will be taken up with registra- ,tion organization of the meeting and reports from the various departments. Thursday night a mass meet ing will be held at St. Lnike A. M. E. Church of which the Rev. I. J. Miller is pastor. The prin cipal speaker at the mass meet ing will be Roy Wilkins, of New York City, acting secretary of the NAACP. Clarence Mitchell labor secretary from the Washr ington Bureau of NAACP will deliver an address on Civil (Please turn to Page Eight) Bat«red m Second OUs« Matter ftt the Poit Office at Durlmi, North OuroHBA, aBtUr Act of March 3, 1879. FOR 25 YEARS THE OUTSTANDING NEGRO WEEKLY OF THE CAROLIN VOLUME 28—NUMBER 22 DURHAM, H. C., SATURDAY, JUNE 3rd, 1950 CENTS DR. EARLY JAIL FOR MURDER Physician Shoots Nurse To Death During Scuffle OLD MAN JIM CROW SLAPPED BY SOUTH AFRICAN COURT Capetown, S. Africa, (Atlas) —r Jim Crow underwent some legal trimming last week when the Appellate Division of the Supreuit! Court ruled that the government’s Jim Crow regula tions separating Negroes from whites on trains were illegal be cause they brought about un equal treatment of the different races. The government enforces seg regation in buses and in all post offices where police are posted to make sure that non-whites and darker races enter through doors designated for their color. Natives and Indians are for bidden to enter white bars, and mixed marriages are generally forbidden. Today, a minister is on the carpet in the court for marrying persons of different color. Sixty Graduates In Scarborough Nursery Finals Tuesday Night Sixty children from the Scar borough Nursery School will participate in Commencement Exercises Tuesday Night, June 6, at 7:30 o’cIo(^ in the W. G. Pearson School. The Program will consist of songs, and dances. The Rhythm Band will play “Soldier Joy”, “Ciribiribin,” “Minuet” by Mozart, and “Country Gar den.” Thje Seniors will dramatize the fairy tale, “Rumpelstilt skin” with John Edward Tuck as King, Jacqulin Mason as Queen, Leon Creed as the Dwarf Ronald Bagley as the Miller, Joyce Ann Caldwell as the Mil ler’s wife, and Benjamin Mont gomery, James Henderson and John lierbort Belton as Court iers. Twenty-two pupils of the school, a Red Feather Agency of the Community Chest, will be graduated at the exercises and will enter public school in the Fall. Those receiving diplomas are: Ronald Bagley, John Herbert Belton, Erroll Wilson Blue, Cleo Brown, Joyce Ann Caldwell, Leon Vincent Creed, Sarah Ma rie Franklin, Doretha Hayes, James Jackson Henderson, Do ris Marie Johnston, Jacqulin Mason, Benjamin Montgomery, Henry" McKinney, Mamie Mc Neil, Fay Ellen McRae, Carolyn O’Neal, Hilda Marie Smith, Carolyn Suitt, Barbara Jean Thaxton, Luther Townsend, John Edward Tuck and Joe Douglas Williams. WILLIAMSTON — Dr, Ed ward Early, physician of this city, is being held in jail here on a charge of shooting to death his nurse. He is being held with out bond, following a hearing before Magistrate R. T. John son, held Monday night. According to police officers Dr. Early stated that his nurse Miss Odessa Keys, 25, was shot when he and the young woman were scuffling over a pistol in his office. The physician stated he did not know what caused the weapon to go off. Miss Keys was shot in the head and a physician was called to the office of the physician and made every effort to save her life but to no avail. The young woman died without gain ing conscio\isness and therefore made no statement as to why she was shot. Dr. Early is being represented by Attorneys Elbert S. Peele senior and junior who had se cured his release under bond of $5,000 until relatives of the young woman objected to the soliciator who ordered him held further without bond. Under a habeas corpus pro ceedings Dr, Early will be tak en to Nashville Saturday morn ing where a hearing before Judge Q. K. Nimocks will be held at ten o’clock to ascertain if he is to be given bond. Sheriff M. Y. Holloman of Williamston told the Carolina Times representative that Miss Shoots Nurse DR. EDWARD EARLY Keyes, who live in the Dardens community at Jamesville, had been employed in the office of Dr. Early for several months. He would give no statement as to^ whether or not he had any information that the physician and the nurse were intimate. Dr. Early was a graduate oi How'ard University and intern ed at Lincoln Hospital, Durham going from there to Tarboro. He later came to Williamston where he has since enjoyed a lucrative practice. Funeral service for Miss Keys were held Wednesday. Civil Rights Leader To Go To Jail George Marshall, National Chairman of the Civil Rights Congress, must appear in the Federal ourt in Washington on June 2, to be committeed to jail to serve a three-month sentence. Marshall was cited for contempt by the House Un-American Ac tivities committe for refusing to turn over a contributors’ list of the National Federation for Constitutional Liberties, of which he was chairman. Marsliall sparked the leader ship of the Oust-Bilbo campaign and for 12 years was active in the struggles for anti-poll tax, FEPC, and anti-lynch legisla tion. He initiated and led the fight to save the life of W^illie McGee, Negro veteran who is scheduled to die in Slissis-sippi within the next 30 days. William L. Patterson, Execu tive Secretary of the Civil Rights Congress, declared; “The impending iiHprisonmcnt of George Marshall is another ominous sign of the intensifi cation of the atacks on the or ganizations that fight for peo ple’s rights. Graduate i Miss Ora Lee Thomas, who on Tuesday May 23, was graduated from Elizabeth City State Tea chers College. She is the sister of Mrs. Luella Wallace of 908 Pickett Street. “It is a further example of the piecemeal destruction of the Bill of Rights, and the (Creeping fascism tiiat is hidden behind the cold-war hysteria. I urge all Am»'ri'»’ius whet would maintain the Bill of iiights and extend civil and human rights to the Xegro people to write to Presi dent Truman demanding that he free George Marshall.” Howard Dean Of Religion A & T Finals Speaker GREENSORO — “A human being is neither an intellectual, economic, nor political man,” Dr. Frank T. Wilson told the A and T College Seniors at the Fifty - second Commencement Exercises at the college Monday night. “He is instead a complex personality with broad interests and needs requiring the broad est possible education.” The Dean of the Howard Un iversity School of Religion spoke on “The Education of the Whole Man,” in the Richard B. Harrison auditorium. He was introduced by Dr. P. D. Blu- ford, president of the college. “A human being functions not merely as a worker, but as an enlightened citizen in a com plex world society,” he contin ued. “This requires knowledge, Hinderstanding, and attitudes which go beyond his local com munity or lus own nation. “He is a responsible social being and needs an orientation, education, and training which will equip him to carry his part of the load in the broad, cooper ative, human enterprises. How he thinks, how he acts, and what he creates at hjome will have bearing upon the welfare and destiny of man in the fartherest places of the earth.” Tha speaker further said that the full edulcation of the whole man is provided through his re sponsible experience in the com munity, his cooperative exper iences in institutions of formal education. Livingstone Baccalaureate To Be Held Sunday SALISBURY Livingstone College’s Sixty- Eighth Annual Commencement exercises will begin Sunday June 4, with the Baccalaureate Service scheduled to take place at 3:00 o’clock in the College Auditorium, it was annoimced by the college administration. Bishop Raymond L. Jones, recently elevated to-the Bishop ric of the A.M.E. Zion Church is scheduled to deliver this bac calaureate address. He resides in the 900 Block of West Horah Street this City. The regular ,Commencement exercises wUl be held on Tues day afbernoin, June 6th, atj 2:30 with Dr. F. D. Patterson president of Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama, as the com mencement speaker. Dr Patter son is outstanding in education al circle and has made note worthy achievements for the race in human relations. Deans Marlowe P. Shute and J. H. Satterwhite have announc ed that only about 47 or 52 de grees are expected to be given tliis year. From 40 to 45 of these degrees will come through the Liberal Arts School and seven are to come from Hood Theological Seminary. Of the seven coming from the theological school, two will re ceive Bachelor of Divinity ac ademic degrees, four will re ceive Doctor of Divinity honor ary degrees; and oi^« will ceive an LLD honorary degree. Other activities that will take place as a part of the commence ment program are a Senior Class Night on Thursday sight at 8:00 in the College Auditori um; Cap and Gown exercises FriJay afhrnoon, June 2tjH, at 3:00 O’clock in the College Auditorium. President Trent will give the Senior Class a re ception at 6:00 o’clock on Fri day evening and S. Conaster (Please turn to Page Eight) Bennett Grads Hear Norman Clemens At 77th Commencement GREENSBORO — “We can liave a world of peace and jus tice if we want it hard enough,” Dr. Norman E. Clemens of Wil kes-Barre, Pa., told a capacity audience attending the 77th commencement exercises in An nie Merner Pfeiffer chapel at Bermett College last week. ^ One hundred graduates ceived bachelor of arts and science degrees. Class honors went to Miss Patricia Watling- ton, Greensboro, daughter of Mrs. Sara Watlington, who was valedictorian and Miss Nola Bewley, Johnson City, Tenn., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rob ert Bewley, salutatorian. Delivering an inspiring ad dress on “Builders of Tomor row” the pastor of thfe First Methodist Church in Wilkes- Barre declared, “The present struggle between Christianity and communism will not be won by armies and navies, by ato mic weapons or hydrogen bombs but by ideas and ideals transla ted into action for the improve ment of the life of mankind re gardless of color, class or creed.” —World Needs Builders— “The world cries out for builders,” he told tiie graduates “and a better world must be gin with you. Don’t go to sleep mentally,” he implored, “main tain intelligent habit of study, concentration and observation. Think clearly, constructively and straight forwardly.” 140 Candidates Received Degrees From Shaw Univ. Eighty-fifth annual Com mencement Exercises of Shaw University were held in Raleigh Memorial Auditorium Monday afternoon at 3:80 o’clock when fiegrees were conferred upon 140 candidates in the College of Arts and Siences and the School of Religion. The annual address heard by a large audience, was delivered by Dr. George'D. Kel sey of New York City, Associate Executive Secretary ef the Fed eral Council of Ch'urches of Chirst in America. On the platform during the exercises and participating in the academic procession were the Hon. Gordon Gray, Secre tary of the Army and Perisdent elect of the Consolidated Univer sity of North Carolina, and Comptroller W. D. Carmichael Jr., Acting President of the University. Both were presented by Dr. C. C. Spaulding, Chair- i4api of tl^e Exeeutivel Com mittee of the Shaw University Board of Trustees, and both spoke briefly. Honorary degrees of Doctor of Divinity were conferred upon the Rev. Robert J. S. Davidson, Pastor of First Baptist Church Shelby, and the Rev. Hermors H. Hart, Pastor of First Calva ry Baptist Church, Durham. Dr. Davidson was cited as a “Suc cessful minister and church builder, an outstanding educator and a distinuished public ser vant.” Dr. Harts’s citation termed him an “eminent church builder and organizer, an out standing evangelist, and a courageous civic leader.” Honorary degree candidates (Please turn to Page Blight) Pres. Trigg Caught At It Agam Raleigh C Special to tiut Caro lina Times, “Yoa act liite a damned sss,” Dr. Harold L. Trigg, pruident of ^t. Autros- tine’s College, told Robert E DuBoae, proteirtuig senior here Thursday at the climax >f * me lee whi^ prevented th- com pletion of the collejff-'^ '3r>i an nual ( omm»‘ni'*‘mpnt ; — Milling :*enior?, „irround*^d President Trigg and biiihop Ei- win L. Penick when two of the i-andidate* failed to receive their diplomas as an aftermath of the famous “Frankie and .Johnnie” skit submitted at Delta Hiinaa Theta’s annual Jabbenrock in Memorial Andiforium here last February. Bishop Penick, reportedly weary ol the stormy petrel that President Trigg ha.s turned out to be in Episcopal educational circles, promised a full investi gation of the affair. A reliable but unofficial source said here Wednesday that Bishop Penick has “defi nitely promised” that DuBoae, business manager of the Falcon, the school annual, and James H. Hall, editor of the publication, would receive their diplomas won. ” President Trigg was incensed at the scene created at Taylor Hall Monday. The program was nearing completion and as diplomas were passed out. Hall and Du Bose did not receive theirs. Du Bose rose, asked to make a statement, was brusquely pushed aside by college ofiBi*ials. Peremptorily, he called for the music. Protests were dro'vned out, but the insistence of the stu dents got #iem a hearing with Bishop Penick in the presence of the college’s millionaire trus tee, New York banker and insur ance executive Langbourne Wil liams. Irate Episcopal clargymen rushed to the platform to de mand an explanation; President Trigg was flustered and ada mant in his determination not sign the diplomas “until the reaction of the press to this pi- fortunate episode has been de termined.” It is reliably reported here in Raleigh this week that alum ni and clargymen throught the Southeastern diocesean area are planning protest meetings to de man a full investigation of Pre sident’s Trigg’s administration. The melee Tuestlay climaxed a .series of events which authori tative s«)urees here lay at the dixjr of Mrs. Geraldine Trigg, the president’s wife. Last Feb ruary, 4. Mrs. Trigg objected to the so-called risque a.spectvs of “Frankie and Johnnie” which was submitted as St. Augustine College’s entry in the Jabber- wock contest. In actions described by obser vers as “ill-advised and tact less,” Mrs. Trigg demended that the “Frankie and Johnnie” judges of the entries pass over skit which Mrs. Trigg claimed did not represent St. Augus tine’s College. 'Mrs. Trigg has been refered to in some quarters as “vice pre sident” of St. Augustine’s. President Trigg, supporting his wife ’g actions, is said to have expressed displeasure when he learned a picture-f rom the skit had been inserted in the FAL- CON. Failure to issue diplomas to the editor and business mana ger were retalitory actions which Dr. Trigg used to get “e- ven” with the students. -A.S a result of his actions in cutting short the commennce- ment. a traditional part of the finals exercise was omitted. That was the lowering of the fl^, a ceremony traditional with the college’s classes. The 195t) class has been des cribed as the “most dissatisfied ever to leave St. Aug,” Seniors openly said they “would never recommend the school as long as President Trigg is here.” Some faculty members are said to feel the same way. Clc.'^e to 11 teachers are leaving beeaust' of “extreme dissatisfactiori with the present adminixtratjon.” An unimpeachable campuii source toKl the Times Wechies- day that former Dean C. D. Hal liburton. Physical Education IMrector Forrest Blount. IJbra- rian Pearl Snodgrass, Bursar Lottie Wheaton, English taachf r (Please turn to Page Elnht)
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