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FOR 25 YEARS THE OUTSTANDING NEIGRO WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS
VOLUME 28—NUMBER 23
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, JUNE 10th, 1950
PRICE: TEN CENTS
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The above photo shows a
group of delegates and visitors
to the Seventh Annual meet
ing of the North Carolina
branch of the National Asso
ciation for the Advancement
of Colored People held in
Fayetteville last week. The
photo was taken in front of
the St. Luke A. M. E. Church
where the public meetings of
the Association were held.
Bi*. Early Out On $5,000
Bond For Slaying Nurse
Williamston — Dr. Edward
Early, physician of this city,
was released from jail here
Saturday under a $5,000 bond
for the slaying of his nurse,
Miss Odessa Keys.
The physiiuin was arrested
and placed in juil {ant Mun
day night when, according to
Dr. Early, the yoinig woman
was shot while he scul’Oeii
with her in liis oi'i'iee over the
possession of a giin.
Dr. Early was taken to N’ush-
ville last Saturday under a
habeas corpus proceeding. A
hearing was liehl beloi-e Judge
Q. K. Ninioeks and liis release
granted.
Dr. Early is well known in
medical circles of Xortli duro-
lina, having practiced in Diir
ham and Tarboro before local-
4j^jJuy^several years ago. lie
isV(^«A\late of Howard ITiii-
versity.
Miss Keys, is alleged to- have
engaged in an argument with
tWe physican wlicn the fatal
scuffle ensued. Funeral ser
vices were held for her Werl-
Oesday.
202 Degrees Awarded
Jkt N. C. College Finals
NEGROES ENTER
U. OF TEXAS;
FIRST IN HISTORY
Austin, Texas — With uo
jthow of violence or eveu attract
ing much attention, Johu Saun
ders Chase aud Horace Lhicoln
lle^th became the first Negro
students to enroll in the 67 year
old University of Texas,
Chase, 25, a native of Austin,
Texas, is a veteran of World
War II, and will study toward a
master’s degree in architecture.
He hold a bachelor of science
degree from Hampton Institute,
Hampton, Va.
Heath, 50, of Waco, Texas,
will seek the degree of doctor of
philosophy in government. He
r5J?iived the bachelor of science
degree from Colby CoHegc, Wa-
terville, Maine, and a master’s
degree from the University of
Pennsylvania.
Herman Marion Sweatt, the
Ho'uston Negro postman, wl)osc
sm|, against the University of
Texas was instrunu-ntal iti break-
ing down its segregation harriers
will enroll in Sei)1cnibcr. 'Pile
Supreme (!ourt ruled Sweat i
must be admitted (o lli«‘ univer
sity because the law fucililies at
the Texas State University for
Negroes at Houston are not
equal to tlu>se at llie University
of Texas.
Sweatt attempted to enroll at
the university law seliiool four
year^ ago and was re,]ccted on
grounds that he w’as barred un-
d«r Texas laws providing for
separate public schools for Ne
groes and whites. He lost in
state courts, hut won the final
round before the U. S. Supreme
Court on Monday.
Uue hundred forty two North
Carolina students were among
the 202 recipients of undergrad
uate aud graduate degrees at
North Carolina College’s 39th
commencement exercises at 11
o’clock here in B. N. Duke Audi-
toi'ium Tuesday morning.
Sixteen States, the District of
(.'(duuibia and Puerto Kico are
reprcs*‘nted in this year’s class.
Dr. Martlia B. Lucas, retir
ing president of Sweet Briar
College, Sweet Briar, Va., and
special representative of the
United Nations Educational and
Scientific Organization was the
finals speaker.
At baccalaureate services Sun
day afternoon at 3:30 in Duke
Auditorium, Dr. Harry V. Rieh-
anlson, president, the Gammon
Theological Seminary, Athmta,
Ga., delivered the annual ser
mon.
According to Mrs. Frances M.
Eagleson, North Carolina Col-
llege registrar, Tar Heel stu
dents are candidates for the fol
lowing degrees' BA, 33; BS, 34;
BSC, 19; BS in Library Science,
11; BS in Home Economics, 5;
LL. B„ 8; MA, 16; MS,9; and
MPH, 7.
Fifty four Durham students
comprise the largest number
from a single city. They are:
Bachelor Of Arts
James Shepard Allen, Doug
las Alli.son, Rosa B. Branch,
Mable Christine Bullock, Betty
Ijouise Claiborne, Ramola Wig
gins Corbitt, Iris Tjee Jones,
Lucille Rachel Martin, Joseph
Thurman Mitchell, Vermelle
Ellen Roland, Clathan McClain
Ross, George Booth Smithj and
Lucille Ijconard Young.
Bachelor Of Science
Haywood Adjiister Allen, Wil
lie liradshaw, Avery Edgar
Clark, Owen Ward Beecher
(^)war(l, James Marioji Elliott,
Earl David Ijowery, Holman
'1' h o ni a s Pettiford, Aaron
Lorcnza Seate, liooker Taliaferro
SiiiLth, Di/.zie Rk*becca Smith,
l/iis Marie Smith, Daniel Demp-^
sey Whitted, James Elmer
Woods, and Angus Wilton
Woods.
Master Of Arts
Johnny Willie Barnes, Eliza
beth Sarah Bell, Ronald Clif
ford Foreman, Jr., Herbert
Harrell Ounn. Eddye Tjeatlier.s
Miehaux, James Morse Schooler,
T/ola Harris Soliee, and Kather
ine C. Thomas.
Bachelor Of Science In
Commerce
Jaiucs Phelbei'l Carriuglou, burg.
Oscar i.)cPric!it Cotton, «Joliu | Carolina
*\iilis liolloway, Itoxie Juanila
liolloway, Bernice Jackson,
Silas A. liagiaud, and W illie
Mae Steward.
Bachelor Of Science In
Home Economics
Willie Shelton Cardwell, and
Ruth Lucille (Jilliam.
Bachelor Of Science In
Public Health Nursing
Eugenia Albritton Cordice
aud Ola Barbee Jei'ferson.
Bachelor Of Science In
Library Science
Ethel T. Bradshaw and Viola
Juline Poe.
Master Of Science In
Public Health
William Leonard Keaton, and
Andrew Carnegie Whisenton.
Students from other states
are catididates for degrees are:
Virginia
Bachelor Of Arts
Hezekiah Morris, Jr., Martins
ville; Winton’^ Rutou Pearson,
Portsmouth; and Albert Ellman
Williams, Charlottesville.
Bachelor Of Science In
Commerce
William Russell Jenkins,
Hampton.
Bachelor Of Science
Ruell Buddy Blair, Newport
News; John Jaseper Cardwell,
Lynchburg; Wilfred Hasten
Carter, Bristol; Selma Evelyn
Ferguson, Danville; Rose Marie
Johnson, Lexington; Lee More?
Wiley, Statesboro; Jlrassell Wil
liams, Richmond; Henry Mc
Nair Woodard, South Boston.
Master Of Science In
Public Health
Albert Walter Jones, Peters-
Bachelor Of Arts
Mable iVmes Dupree, Sumter.
Bachelor Of Science
In Commerce
Solomou Dukes, Jr., Camden;
and Thomas Jefferson Neal,
Columbia.
Bachelor Of Science In
Library Science
Georgiu Eliza Cooke, Colum
bia; Mae H. Purcell, Charles-
ston; Luda Estelle Rice, Flor
ence; and Eliza Mae Williams,
Florence,
Master Of Science In
Public Health
Carolyn Veroim Trezevant.
Columbia.
Washington, D. C.
Bachelor Of Arts
Mary Louise Bettis and Ollie
Magdalene Bowser.
New York
Bachelor Of Arts
Willie Mae Anderson, New
York City.
Bachelor Of Laws
Everett William Johnson,
Bronx.
Bachelor Of Science
William Levy, III, Brooklyn.
Bachelor Of Science
Harold Melvin Polite, Bronx.
Pennsylvania
Bachelor Of Arts
Doris Alene Hayden, Philadel-
plina; Perry Bradford Gilliard,
Philadelphia; Douglas Conwell
Howell, Philadelphia; and Rub-
inp Francis Weston, Philadel
phia.
Indiana
Bachelor Of Arts
Simeon Ozias Holloway, Gary,
(Pleas(> turn to Page Eight)
Wilkins And ISuprcDie Court Decisioii
Alexander /\ n p.
Un segregation otiins
Reactionary Southerners
Address Meet
Want More Action
In RevUtration
In North Carolina
Fayettpville - Kelly Aiex-
ander of Charlotte, president of
the .North Carlina branch of the
VwtifHial A.'isociatioii for the
.Vilvnneenient of Colored People
and Hoy Wilkin.e. r>f .Vinv York,
adininistrator of the N,'\.\CP,
nr'/ed Xfgroci fn greater poli-
*ii-al action here Thursday in
the Seventh unuiial meet of the
'^tnte organization.
In Ills address I’renidcnt Alex-
au(hT referred to the effort to
iiierea.se thi' voting strength of
.\'egn>es in tin* State to 2.'>(),000.
>aid he, “I utii hu{)py to report
that according to r'ports receiv
ed from all over the state we
have increased the registration
from les« than oO.OfK) to 100,000.
1 also want to report that the
jioliticians are worried about
this increase in Negro registra
tion becwise t^Miy - d# not-want -
a large number of Negroes to
get on the books. They certain
ly don’t want Negroes in the
heart of the black belt to wake
up and show political .self-in
terest. Believe it or not. they will
do anything to endeavor to
whip Negroes back into a com
placent state. I say today they
are in for the surprise of their
lives because Negroes are not
turning hack. Negroes in North
Carolina will continue to work
with a singleness of purpose,
without fear. *without com
promise and without deviation
from the main objective.”
Wilkins said there was a com-
plai^it among southern politi
cians that Negroes vote as a
bloc aiul that this should be di.s-
couraged. “Whenever the cam
paign is pitched on a race
level,” he said, “there is noth
ing for Negroes to do but vote
as a bloc, however much they’d
like to consider other issues.”
Regarding the recent ]»rimary
r.'we i,.tween Senator Frauk
Graham and Willis Smith, the
national administrator denied
that his organization had sent
out cards urging people to vott*
for Graham. “Tt was plainly a
trick,” he said, “since the
NAACP id(K*s not circulaTT*('i
voters. ’ ’
However, AVilkins left no
doubt about his stand in the
mattt'r. “1 did not come down
here to tell you liow to vote (in
the second primary) .... But
considering the record of Gra
ham and that of Smith, if you
don’t know how to vote then
shame on you.”
He .said his organization
would continue its fight to se
cure FEPC in Congress. The
Dixieerats cannot be blamed en
tirely for the recent defeat of
FEPC cloiture vote in Congress,
lie said, since “there were seven
absentees outside the South.”
He believed that on a secoiul
cloture vote in about 10 days,
the FEPC advocates could ob
tain at least 60 votes — which is
still four short of bringing the
measure to the floor for open de
bate.
Wilkins said the recent Sen
ate primary election, although
pitched on a race level, “was an
improvement over the Florida
race.” The campaign in that
state against Pepper “was the
dirtiest T’ve ever seen,”
Alexander cited several in
stances in which his state group
had spotlighted racial controver
sies. One was the fight when two
Negroes filed suit for admission
to University of North Carolina.
“This was thte first step made
by the state NAACP to elimin
ate discrimination in the field
of higher education.”
He also cited the case of Al-
COMMISSIONER WATSON: York City Mayor William O Dwyer
fnvfiiiH ill Municipal Judge James 8. Wutson to the post of Muniripal
Ail Service Conimislcner at City Hall. Judge Watson replaces Darwin
W. Telesford, who recently resigned.
Proposes Bunche For
Ambassador To Russia
Collier's today proposetl Dr.
Bunche as the ideal man for the
job of And)assador to Russia.
The national weekly suggests
oji its editorial page ihis week
that President Triimau offer tlie
post to Dr. Bunche “at the earli
est opportunity,”-—not oidy to
confound the Kremlin but as a
squelcher to Ru.ssia’s propagan
da campaign built around raci-
}^l segregation in ^the United
States.
Dr. Buneht*, presently direc
tor of the tru.steeship divioiou of
bert Brown in Cabarrus county
wliich broke an 85-year jury ban
igainst Negroes. AJso the case
at Southern State Fairs in Char
lotte which re.sulted in Negroes
being admitted to tlxe fair.
Alexander was the principal
speaker at the afternoon session
yesterday at the Maoonic Hall,
51.5 Caslnvell St., conference
headquarters. Executive com
mittee met during the morning.
During the afternoon, Clarence
Mitchell, labor secretary of the
NAACP discussed lobbying pro
cedures and techniques. The
state’s public welfare ])rogram
was discussed by John Larkins,
consultant on Negro work with
the state department.
the U. X., deserves a chance to.
try peacemaking talents on the*
cold war in Hii.ssia, says Collier’.s
“It shonliln't be thought that,
we are advocating Dr. Bunche s|
a|)i)ointmcnt as a stunt, ‘ says, schools would even
the weekly's
it would be
Negroes Take
Verdict With
Usual Calm
W.tshiugTin — T( =- N«tt.‘inai
iatiim for Ad‘.«Ui''f-
nif-tiT if P>-ii|)!.- ■■ n a
thrt'H-pn>ng-ii victi.rv ht;r’ »i=i^
w>»-k iigainsT -—.jr'r-jat.ii,-: w;.--n
1 nit-'il '-■fafi'H 'apr ine
I'liurt in ft unanimous dt-c;si.:n
declar'd unettual sich=«)is ar:d
.j.^rr. -atfd dinitiL' -ar -^-rvicr
b** unlawful.
The decisions were a terrible
blove;to southern advocates of
supremacy and left
many momentarily stunned as
to what steps are to be taken
to stop the onward rushing
tide of truth that apparently
will not be stopped in the
South.
The first victory in the fight
agaimit segregation came when
thf; Court ordered railroads in
the South to abolish sesfregation
in dining cars. The other two
victories followed two hours
later when the ('ciurt ordere.l
the law sirhool at the University
of Texas to admit Herman Mar
ion -Sweatt and to abandon the
restrictions airainst G. W, Mr-
I..aurin at the University of
Oklahoma.
Chief Justice Fred Vinson in
referring to the Sweatt case
stated, “We cannot find sub
stantial equality in the edu
cational opportunities offer-
"ed white and Negro students
by the state. Said the Judge
further, “In terms of number
of faculty, variety of courses-
and opportunity for special-
iztion, size of the student
body, scope of the libraries,
availability of law review and
similar activities, the Univer
sity of Texas Law School is
superior.”
,'ontinuing. Judge Vinson
said “It is difficult to believe
that one who had a free choice
ditorial. “ Rather! consider the Nearrn school. Few
I logical step in I stulents ami no one who has
no one
Vmeri.a’s prugres.s toward bet-iPractiiMU law ^v.>uhl chose to
, ,. ..studv m an academic vacuum,
ter race relations. ' i ^ ^ e
; removed from the uiterplay ot
The weekly suggests that the ideals and the exchan>?e of views
President make tlu' Buiudie ap-1 « eoncern-
I)oiutnient “when Admiral Alan
J. Kirk has had enough of the
Moscow assignment.”
A Bunche appointment would >
be one way for our goverment i
to turn the tables on the So%-ietI
f,e^regatioii propaganda “and'j
show the world, bv deed rather |
ied.”
The Court then reversed the
decision of the lower courts
and ordered the University of
Texas Law School to admit
Sweatt.
McLaurin Case
•ludge Vinson also read the
McLjuirin case. In it the Court
held that the school affordetl
than byword, that the segreira-; different treatment solely
tiou picture isn't so black as it’s
painted.
on account of his race. Although
ilcl>aurin had been admitted to
“The RuS'*ian citizen could(>i^5;5j.ooms he was segreiiated.
not very xvell be denied the |“ State impos^“d restrictions
knowledge that Washington had ; which produce such, inequalities
.sent a Negro ambassador to his!^ sustained, said the
' Court. The Court then reversed
government.” the Collier’s edi
torial siiys. “He couldn't be in
sulated from the contraditction
between propaganda and actual-
itv.”
the decision
h)wer courts.
of the Oklahoma
COMING NEXT WEEK!
A cross section of opinion by prominent
Negroes on the recent rulings against seg
regation by the Supreme Court.
Order Your Copy Of THE CAROLINA
TIMES Now!
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Play School of W. D. Hill
held closing exercises, June 1st,
7:00 p. m. at the Center.
Siting left to right — Eugene
Harrington, Miltoin Grant,
Timothy Page, Ronald Reed,
Sylvia Jones, Kyle Schooler,
LaVoye Daye, Alexia James,
Lonnie Forte, Beryl Sansom,
Fern Thorpe, Jeannetta Stewart,
Sybil Ray, Jean Stnback, James
Moffitt, George White, Charles
Edward Cannon, Martin Wes
ton, Louise George, Nathaniel
Walker, Theodore Speigner.
Standing — Gloria Evans,
Julia James, Dewaynne Tillman,
Fugard Reed, William Hunter,
.Kenneth Spaulding, Valjeanne
Jones, Gumelle Parker, Sandra
Lipscomb, LeEtta Smith, Alton
Teasley, James Cannon, Clinton
Westly, Cecily Smith, William
Rogers, William Forte, Gayle
Ra:y, Milton Mayo, Anita Park
er, Elizabeth Ann Jones.
More Than Twenty-Seven
States To Be Reoresentel
At Nat’I NAACP Meet
BOSTON
Governor Alfred E. Drisfoll
of New .fersey, under whose
leadership the .V, J. State Leg
islature passed the historic
Freeman Civil Rights I^w, will
iddress the forty first annual
onveiitioii of the .Vati(»nal .\s-
sociation for the Advancement
of (.''oloretl People, to Ih.‘ held
hern .luiu*
Moiv than une luuulret.1 and
/!. ■I'y dfdcgatfs from .twenty-
'^■vt'U st.ti^s and the District of
I'oluiuhiii have iwlready ri'gis-
tered in tidvance for th» six-day
on fab, with heavy advance reg
istration from points distant
as California. Texas. Washinir
ton .Vrkansas, autl Ala
banui.
hitstanding economists and
authorities tru labor and atfri
culture are scheduled to eonduct
a session on “The Sfsjro in the
I’resent Kcononttc Situation *’on
Wednesilay afternoon, “J1
l^eading the iliscussiori and
sfH'aking on “FEPC Fed* r
al and State,” will be I’larenee
Gr«)ss, executive assistant to fb'
chairman of President’s ('ouneil
of Eeonomic Advisers,