^^qual” Education Suits Set
Husband, Wife
Attacks Within
Die
15
From Heart
Minutes
Aged Couple Just
Returned From
Wake Of Friend
Jklount Olive Death stniok
in rapid suci*os.si(iii lit ri> Hun
day at niidni^rlit wht>n an aired
couple, Mr. and Mrs, llainiltoTi
IluphPS, hail just returned to
their home from a wake Ixung
held at the home of u friend,
Mrs. Minnie Kornegay. They
retired for tlue nijfht when
Mrs. Hughes wus aroused by
gasping sounds from her hus
band. Oil discovering that hf
was seriously ill, she rushed
to the home of her sister, Mrs.
Bertha Cherry who lives next
door, for h;elp, whieh did not
arrive before lier husband
died.
When she discovered that
her husband had died, Mrs.
Hughes also suceuinbed from
a heart attack.
Mr. Hughes, age 70, was a
retired employee of a pickle
company in Mt. Olive. He
born in I.*‘esburg, Va, but
hail livetl here for HI years.
tlKu former Miss
for .‘J8
years a teaclier in tlie school
system here had
tired.
No close relatives survive Mr.
Hughes but his wit',- is survived
by three sisters.
P’uneral services w.mv held
from Payne’s Teinjdt* Meth
odist C liureli \\ etljieslaV at
3 :()0 p. m. Interiiieul was at
the Moiint Olive Cemeterv.
Entered as Second Olan Matter at the Pott Office at Durham, North Carolina, under Act of March 3, 1879.
FOR 2& YEARS THE OUTSTANDING N EGRO WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS
VOLUME 28—NUMBER 24
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, JUNE 24th,1950
PRICE: TEN CENTS
iiiso re-
Local Masons Will
Observe St. John’s Day
With Program Sunday
AU'mbt^rs of two musoiiie
lodges of this eil.v will join in
the aiujual (tbservanec of St.
John’s l>u3’ in a luvitrrain to
be held at St, Josejili A. .\i. M.
Church here Sumlay alter
noon, June 2o, at tlirie ji. ni.
Participating masonic organ
izations are the local Doric
and Dorcas lodges. Members
of the Daughters of Mount
Sinai 379 of the Eastern Star
will also participate on the
program.
The annual march by tlie
masonic grouiis, one group
starting from ScarlK)rough’s
Funeral Home on Pettigrew
Street and the other .starting
from the DeShiizor building
on Fayetteville Htreet ancl
proceedfeig to Mt. .Joseph’s,
will highlight the a-tivities of
the program. li* v. A. .1. Hol
man, |)astor of the Dickerson
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AM A Said Seeking Negro
Aid In Health Plan Fight
Tli* seating of IJr. Peter Mur
ray, .Negro physician of New
^ ork t'ity, in the House of tlel-
egatcs of ttu‘ .American Medical
Association, was seen here this
week as a move to enlist the aid
ol the National .Medic;il Associa
tion, the corolarry professi»»nal
a.s.s()ciation for .Vegroes, in the
fighi being Waged by th‘ Am(>r-
iean .Medical .Vssuciation against
the adininis! ration s pro])osed
euiiipul.sory iiealth insurance
f)lan.
Dr. Murray, elected to the
House of Delegates by the
New York state Medical So
ciety, is the first Negro to be
lepresented in a policy-forming
body of the American Medical
Association.
.\ceording to recent reports,
the American .Medical .Vssocia-
tion, which lias been wagnig a
-ontinuons tight a^^ainsl the na
tional bealtn ni.suraiii'e plan
since its inception, spent tile sec
ond higliest sum of any lobby
ing group in the nation during
the past yea.r in its fight against
the Truman health plan.
Many observers seem to feel
that the seating of Dr. Mur
ray does not imply sanction
by the National Medical As
sociation of the AMA stand
on the national health insur- |
ance plan.
'I’lie National Medical Asso
ciation’s president, Dr. Herbert
Marshall, .speaking at a recent
meeting of the Old North Stiite
^^(‘dical Hociety, held at High
Point, gave what appeared to
be his ap|>roval of the national
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ay
Lawyers Gird For Battle In
Long-Awaited School Case
Durham Boy Scouts of Troop | June 30 and end July 6.
55 who will leave the city Mon
day for the National Jamboree
encampment at Valley Forge,
Pa., are shown after they were
presented to the congregation
of the White Rock Baptist
Church, Troop sponsor.
More than 45,000 Boy Scouts
of all races are expected to con-
I verge on Valley Forge for the
encampment which will begin
Shown on the photo above,
left to right, are A. J. Caldwell,
Chapel Hill, assistant Jamboree
scoutmaster; J. W. Carrington,
Jamboree Scoutmaster; N, B.
White, Troop 55 scoutmaster;
Raymond Williams, Troop 55
assistant scoutmaster.
Second row: Scouts Charles
Alston, Stephen Starks, James
Schooler, Jr. Clarke Egerton,
James Atwater, Chapel Hill,
Earnest Peele, James Morris and
William Eaton.
Top row: J, M. Schooler,
divisional committee chairman;
Rev. Miles Mark Fisher, pastor;
R. Kelley Bryant, Jr., advance
ment chairman ;*J. C. Hubbard,
troop Committee; Y. J. Grigsby,
camping and activities chairman
Fred Pratt, troop committee
man.; H. W. Gilis Field Execu
tive.
Dollars Against Jim-Crow
New York Fifty-eight posi
tive ivsponses have aln^udy been
Action On Del. And S. C.
NAACP Suits Due Soon
Special to the TIMES
Action OH two NAAL’P-iii-
stitnted education suits wu.s ex
pected soni as ilcvelopinents in
suita in Delaw;ire anil South
Carolina moved into new jiluises
this week.
Ju«lge Collins •!. Seit/ of the
Chani'ery Court il \\ ilmiiigton,
IX'laware withheld decision in
a suit filt'tl by the N.\ACP si'ek-
ing admis-sion of a group ol un
dergraduate Negi’o students to
the I'niversity of l>ela\\;ire and
planned a piTsonal ins|)e(‘tion
trip to compare the I'niversity’s
facilities with those' ol' the Ni'-
gro institution, i)i‘laware State
College.
In South (’arolina. the' Board
of 'I'rustees of School distrii't
no. of (Marendon County tiled
an answer in the 1 . S. Disti'iet
court in repl>' ti the complaint
tiled by the N'AACP lielialf of
Negro scIkmiI children.
The IK'iaware suit of com
|)laint, tirsl tiled h\ the \A.\( P
for atlniission of N'egi'i) sindents
to aji unilergradiiale inslitiition
and first to i>e liled above the
^Mason-Dixon line, wa.s served on
ajoproxiinately foi'tx' itersons. If,
charges that tire di'fendant!-
have tlenied the plaintills I'iglit.
to obtain I'ducation at the only
eollegi' of accredited standinir
maintaiiieil by the State.
A poll taken 1)V S(»ciology stu-
dent-s at the Delaware Univer
sity showed student sentimenf
to be “overwhelmingly in fav
or” of complete inteprration of
the Negro student,'! nt the TTni-
vt^rsitv.
The Clarendon County, South
(Plen.se turn to I’age Eight')
I
J. W. Goodloe, assistant secre
tary and personnel manager of
the North Carolina Mutual Life
Insurance Company, is shown
delivering the finals address at
the Durham Business School
first commencement. Fifty-one
students received certificates at
the finals exercises, held in the
Hillside high school auditorium,'
June 5. Rev. H. H. Hart de
livered the baccalaureate sermon
at services held at the First Cal
vary Baptist Church. See page
six for more pictures of the
school’s first finals exercises.
reoeived from yer!son,s all over
the uouutry iu reply to oue
thousand telegrams seut by Wal
ter White, exdjutie secretary of
the JS'atioual Assoeiation for the
Advaucemeut of Colored Peo
ple, appealing for contributions
of $100 to a fuiid for follow-up
work iu implementing the recent
historio Supreme Court anti-
segregation decisions in the
Sweatt and McLaurin eases.
Contributors to the fund,
whieh now totals more than
$4,000, include Ernest Alex
ander of .\ew' York; Raymond
P. Alevander of Philadelphia;
Kdward h. Bernays of New
Vork; .Mrs. ilary McI>eod Be-
tliune of Washington; Mrs. Pet
er Doli'se of Detroit.
!’.ish,op Angus Dun and Ar
thur •!. (loldlkTg of Washing
ton ; -lohn Hannnond and Ar-
• Imr (iarfi>'ld Hays of .Vew
Yolk; Kivi(' Kaplan of Boston;
W'iliia ii 1']. Kent of Hollowood.
Calif.
Paul L. Kleiii of New Yotk;
Dr. and .Mi-s. Dan M. Moon^ of
0':l;di;)ina City; Dr. Cecil Mar-
(|iiez of New York; Dr. James
.t, Mc(’lendon of Detroit; John
\ (Hii's of Brookline. Mass.;
Philip .Murray of Pittsburgh;
Dr. Chirenc* Q. Pair of Mount
N’eriion, .V. Y.
.\frs. WiMard Pojie nf De
troit; Philip Randolph of
New York; John H. I?us.sell of
Oklahoma City; (1. Howland
Shaw of Washington; Arthur
I! Spingarn and Walter White
of New York; and the Mt. Hee
nion Ba])tist Chur*h of Cleve
huid.
Pledges of '!lOO have been re-
(•(‘ived at the NA.\CP national
oflice from Jackie Robinson, Jos-
epfi Klein. H. Iee Ooldby, A.
■\. Austin, Rev. George H. Sims,
Milton S. Kronheim and Thomas
M. Kilgore of New York.
Palmer Weber of Washing
ton ; Mrs. Daisy Lampkin and
Mrs. Robert Tj. Vann of Pitts
burgh : Charles Kellar of Brook
lyn ; Harry M. Englestein, A.
W. Williams, and J. C. Austin
of Chica^jo; James Dolese, Mrs.
Everett R. Watson, Dr. D. T.
Burton, John White, and Mrs.
W. A. Thompson of Detroit.
A. T. Walden of Atlanta;
John Jay Jones of Texarkana,
Texas; H. Boyd Hall of Corpus
Chi-isti; Dr J. Diggs of Okla
homa City; Kelly Alexander of
Charlotte, N. C.; M. Hugh
Thompson of Durham.
The hmg-awaited trial of twol
historic cases p«'ading in the)
United States ' .Middle District;
Court is schefluled here for .Mon -!
da when defendants and plain
tiffs in two “ei|ual education”!
.Nuits begin ariruments.
The cases to be tried are a
suit filed by a group of Dur
ham Negroes charging the
City and State boards of edu
cation with discrimination
against Negro pupils in pro
viding school facilities in the
city schools of Durham; and
a suit filed by a group of Law
students at the North Caro
lina College Law school seek
ing admission to the Law
school at the University of
North Carolina on the grounds
that facilities provided at the
Durham Law school are un
equal to those provided at the
University’s school.
The Durham city schools suit,
postponed three times is now
thirteen months old. The snit^
were filed May, 10-19 in the Mid-
d It^ D!strict~( ‘on rt a t ^TTFeT^i s-
boro. Action was hi'ld up at one
point for the del’endants ti» i>re-
pare answers to a series of iiues
tions, and another time because
of the blisv sidledule o*‘ Di.sfriet
Court Judt'e -loliHson .1 Ha>fs
AcMon on the the suit against
,*he University of Kor‘h Caro-
Htin L.iw schoo' was held, it
is thoupht, to await the out
come of the Supreme Court
rulings in the Sweatt case.
Tin' two cases. es])ecially the
suit by the Negro students seek
ing adniis-sioii to the I'liiversi
ty of North Carolina Law school
have taken on added signficanee
since the rulings made by the
Supreme Court in education
suits. Tt is thought in some quar
ters tiiat the defense for the
I’niversity of North Carolin.T
Daw' School depended to a larpre
measure on the outcome of the
ruling in tlie Sweat ease, a rnl
inur which termed the T-nw scliool
provided by the state of Texas
for Negroes was not eiju.Tl t
the one provided for white cit
i:ens.
itti inai lue iioiin wroima
uuciime ol “suusiuniiauy
tiiual” will oe pu: to me aciu
lest in the Law sciiool case.
Aitnough Attorney General
Jtlarry McMullan, one ot the
aefens# attorneys, was report
ed as saying at one time that
the Supreme Court rulings
would probably not affect tbe
cases, it was learned recently
that he had reversed this stand,
and was quoted as saying that
the defense in the Law school
case would be handicapped by
the rulings.
To many observers the latter
.stuttfinent infers that the defense
had planned to rely ou the “sub
stantially equal” doctrine, but
it discovered that this doctrine
lihd been scuttled in the Texas
liaw school case rulings by the
Supreme Court.
The trial will be held with
out jury. Judge Hayes re
fused the defendants’ request
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Attorneys for plaintiffs in the sity
North Carolina
suit against the University of of
North Carolina Law school and
he Durham City Schools suit
are shown above. Top left, C. O.
Pearson, attorney in the Univer- Schools suit.
School action; rieh*: Oliver W.
Hill; Bottom, left, J. H. Wheel
er; right, Martin A. Martin,
attorneys in the Durham City
Auto Accident Takes
Life Of Local Man
P.unietr “Snool.i.' PoH”
Watliins. .'jd. oi 1 iiie Hr ,
was fatally injured Saturday
,lf1*-riliHill Mouiul uVlo.'k
when a i-ar in v.hii'li he was
riilintr ovi-rturned on Hi)/li-
wav 751 ahiiut t^^■o nii!es out
from till* eit.\'.
Watkinji, owner of the car,
succumbed Monday morning
at Lincoln Hospital where he
was taken after the accident.
He sustained a punctured
lung, several fractured ribs
and chin lacerations.
•Miss Niioini I'.eathers, 20,
driver of the ai'*^nmobile when
the accident ot-euri-d. also
sufferetl back injuries in the
aci'ident. She wa.s taken to
Lincoln hospital where, at
])ress time, hosjiital attai-hes
reportefl her condition to be
“fair.”
Watkins is survived by his
mother, Mrs. Molly Holloway
of Pine Street, a wife, sisters
and a brother. Watkins served
in the army for four years.
Scarborough and Hargett,
Funeral Directors handling
the funeral arrangements.
said that the arrangement*
were incomplete at pre^ time.
State Highway Patrolman
Tom Moore, investigatisg the
accident, said that Misat Lea
ther lost control of the auto-
Imobile when she attempted
to pull it back on the road
after the car had left the
pavement.
Truman^ Folsom^ Driscoll Are
Russwurm Award Winners
FILM IISDISTRY, MRS. MARY BETHVNE
ROY CAMPANELLA GET CITATIONS
Houston, Texas — The names
of Prejsident Harry S. Truman,
and Governoi-s Alfred Driscoll
of New Jersey anti James Fol
som of Alabama head the list of
'eii individuals aiul organiza-
lions cited last Saturday by i)ie
Negro -Vewsiiaper Publishers
.\s.sociation to receive its annual
Russwurm Award for their con
tributions to the progi-ess of Ne
gro Americans.
The announcement came as
the Association was concluding
its eleventh annual convention
which has been in session here
since Wednesday. The citations
are named in honor of John
B, Russwurm, publisher of
the first Negro newspaper in
America. The list included
five whites and three Negroes,
the President’s Committee on
Equality of Treatment and
Opportunity in the Armed
Services, and the motion pic
ture indjistry.
The Chief Executive -was hon
ored for his “unrelenting dedica
tion to the fight to assure everj’
American tlk* right to live and
work unhampered by cohsiilcra-
tions of race, color, creed of na
tiinis of race, color, creed in' na-
oiid successive year in which he
has been designated by the pnl»
Ushers.
The film industry award is
based upou the four produc
tion which “dared to break
with tradition in story selec
tion and treatment where Ne
groes are involved.” The film;;
are “Home of the Brave,”
“Lost Boudaries,” “Pinky,”
“Lost Boundaries,” “Pinky,”
The others named were Mr'.
Mary McIa'01. ••‘ounder and re
tired president, National Coun
cil of Negro Women; Percy
Julian, Negro director of re-
S(‘arch for the Olidden Com
pany: Roy Campanella. catcher
for the Brooklyn team of the
National Baseball Tjeagiie;
Philip B. Perlman, solicitor gen
eral. Department of Justice;
and Julius Kruar. former Secre
tary of the Interior.
Sunday School
Convention Slated
Arthur Thorpe, second honor
student of Hillside high school’s
class of 1950, became the fourth
winner of the William A. Leg
gett Memorial Scholarship, giv
en to graduates of Durham City
and county schools. The scholar
ship carries a stipend of $2,000?
Young Thorpe, son of Mr. aM
Mrs. Chester Thorpe of 903
Third Street of this city, plans
to enter Howard University
t [• rdmi.'or — The General
' h. Ii;\ S h' ol Ccuiveiition of
the Kast Cedar (trove Asso
e'jifitn 'vill be held here at
I Old K( ' ' St Ho ne, .Sat
urday anil Sumlay. June 24
:illd '2~-
The twod.iy meet, to be
nurked by six sessions, will
be hichlii’hted bv a sermon to
be delivered bv Rev. J. R.
Manley, Chapel Hill, at the
clrsin'i -ession Sunday after
noon at 2:30 o’clock.
panel di«iMwion, ‘‘Th*
Pastiir's Part Tn Developing
-\nd Maintainini? .A Stand
ard Sundav SehtHd,” leii bv
Revii. E T Browne and C.
E, Ml*] .ester, will feature Sat
urday monunar’s session
Rev. H. H. Hart aad R*v.
Ollie Hester will deliver In
spirational messages at th«
evening and night sessions Sat
urday.
Soecial music for the service*
will be rendered bv the Roekr
Sorinp Choir, the Red Vena-
taia Choir, aad the Family
FIv*.