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SUODE PREFERRED TO Schools To Swap Names The name Hillside High will be given the renovated Whit- ted school building and the present Hillside High build ing will be called the James A. Whitted School, L. Stacy Weaver, city school superin tendent, stated this week. The move to exchange the names of the school buildings came as the City Board of Education approved a resolu tion Monday night which would have the names of the two school buildings ex changed. The city school superintend- dent also stated that work on all the Negro schools will be finished in time for the Fall term. Weaver said that several in quiries had been made as to whether the renovated Whit ted school building will bear the name of Hillside high gchool. The structure, when work is finished, will become the high school, and the pre sent Hillside high school plant will become the Whited ele mentary school. Dr. Alfonso Elder, president of North Carolina College, was principal speaker at the pre- Uminaries to the ‘Lost Colony’s’ annual “Negro Citizens’ Day,” held at the Waterside Theatre at Manteo Friday. “Negro Citizens’ Day” has been one of the special day observances of the “Lost Colony” since the drama’s premiere fourteen years ago. Hastie Gets Approval Of Solons At Last Washington — After the Sen ate Judiciary Committee had stalled for six mouths, action on the Hastie nomination was final ly taken this week and the first Ne^o Federal Circuit Court judge was approved by the Sen ate. Judge William H. Hastie, former Governor of the Virgin Islai^ds, was serving a recess appointment. The Circuit Court, highest judicial post to which a Negro has been named, includes Penn sylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and the Virgin Islands. After six long month's of stall ing, the Senate Judiciary C’om- mittee voted nine to one, accord ing to committee chairman Pat McCarran (Dem.-Ncv.) to re port favorably the nomination to the Senate as a whole. When the vote of the Senate as whole on the nomination came up Wednesday, Hastie was approved without any opposi tion. The Senate Judiciary Com mittee, by voting to report the nomination favorably Monday, broke a stalemate over Hastie’s recess appointment which ex isted since the nomination went to the Senate for approval in October. The appointment was scheduled to end if the Senate had not approved of it before recess. The Hastie confirmation re ceived little or no oppositioij in both the Senate Judiciary Com mittee and in the Senate whole this week. Only die-hard Dixie- erat Senator James O. Eastland of Mississippi cast the dissenting vote in the Judiciary Commit tee. Oppostion to the former Vir ginia Island’s Governor’s ap pointment had caused the six- month delay in confirmation, however. Political obsertors (Please turn to Page Eight) Lawyers In School Case ♦ Periodical Dept fe Unl,v Library Gut«red m Second C1»m Matter at the Pott Otttee at Durham, North Carolina, uuder Aet ot March 3, 1S79. FOR 2S YEARS THE OUTSTANDING NEGRO WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS VOLUME 28—NUMBER 29 DURHAM, H. C., SATURDAY, JULY 22nd, 1950 PRICE; TEN CENTS Physician Facing Murder Trial Takes Own Life Faces; . . of the TIMES Williamston — Dr. Edward Early, Jr., chose death by sleep ing pills and chloroform here last week rather than face a trial on a murder count. The prominent 34 yeftr-old physician was found in his room last Thursday night near death. He was pronounced deald by a ““ ~ coroner who arrived approxi mately 25 minutes after his mother discovered him in an un conscious state. Dr. Early, who was charged with killing his secretary. Miss Odessa Keys, May 28, was a- waiting trial at his home under a $5,(XK) bound. According to W Uli*iuistou Po lice who were called to the home of Dr. Early by his mother when she discovered him near death, Dr. Early apparently caused his death by taiung an overdose of sleeping tablets and administer ing large amounts of chloroform to himself. I’oliee Officers Verble Jones and William Madlin, who said that they went to the Early home at the request of two re sidents who were asked by Dr. Early’s mother to see if anything was wrong, found three emptiea four ounce bottles of chloroform by the bed an^d an undetermined quantity of sleeping tablets strew over the floor. Police officers stated that they found no signs of struggle in the room, blight signs of Dr. Early’s pulse were noted, they said, when they arrived, and his body was still warm. He was pronounced dead by Doctor ijcwcllyn who arrived approxi mately 25 minutes after Mrs. Early's discovery. Mrs. Early, mother of the suicide victim, said that Dr. Early had been unsually quiet for some time. On the day of his death, Mi-s. Early stated, he had refused to cat. lie had also de clined to take her for a drive that afternoon when she asked him. .Dr. Early was awaiting the September trial for murder of his secretai’y on xMay 28. He was placed under $5,U00 bond by Justice li. J. Johnson. The Superior Court later set his trial for September. Dr. Early, a native of Vir ginia, came here to set up prac tice ten years ago. He is a grad uate of Howard University and Meharry Medical College. Sur- visors include his parents, a wife from whom he has been sep- arattjil since 1941), three chil dren, two sisters and two bro thers. Attorney M. Hugh Thompson (above) and Attorney J. H. Wheeler (below) local counsels in the local school discrimina tion case, will be recipients of the first annual “Page One” award to be given by the Dur ham Press Club. TIMES editor- publisher L. E. Austin, presi dent of the Press Club, said this week that the award, to be giv en annually to local citizens for conspicuous service,” is being awarded to Attorneys Thomp son and Wheeler for “an act of profound service in bringing public notice to the disparities between the Negro and white schools of this community.” De tails for the affairs, to be held at an early date, will be an nounced later, according to a Press Club spokesman. Over ^Million Vehicles Registered In State; Mecklenburg Leads Raleigh — A total of 1,036,- 811 motor vehicles were regis tered in North Carolina dur ing the first half of 1950, the North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles reported today. The figure is 118,407 above the 918,404 registered the same period last year. Mecklenburg County with 59,092 had the largest num ber of motor vehicles register- fl(d. Guilfopd was second with 57,389; Wake, third, with 49,897; and Forsvth, fourth, with 41,173. Virginia University May Face Suit Martinsville, Va. — The Uni versity of Virginia may face a suit for admission of a Negro lawyer of Danville practicing here. Gregroy Swanson, who was denied admission to the grad uate school of Law at Virginia Urfiversity said this week that he had not yet decided wfiVrtier or not he would institute pro ceedings seeking to compel the University to admit him to its Ijaw sehool. The Stbte NAACP has al ready committed itself to aid Swanson if he does decide to sue for admission to the Univer sity. Dr. J. AI. Tinsely of Rich mond, State president of the NAACP, promised Swanson aid Low Standards For Profit Schools Taking GFs Is Announced Winston-Salem — Minimum standards for profits schools training ve+erans under the GI Bill and more liberal procedures for most veterans changing fields of GI Bill stujdy are authorized by a law signed today by the President. The new law also amends GI Bill education and training pro visions is nearly a dozen other ways. None of the changes, however, affects the July 25, 1951, cut off date for starting GI Bill training or VA’s April 1, 1950, regulation which states that vet erans actually must be in train ing by the 1951 date if they training by the 1951 date if they Avant to continue after ward*. Rites Held For Boy Who Drowns Oxford — Last rites for Har ry Royster Green, age 12, who was drowned at Camp Carver, Boy Scout encampment near Goldsboro, were held in Oxford on Friday, July 14. Harry, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Brady Green, was a lad of un usual poise and ability, a mem ber of Boy Scout Troop Num ber 59, and had just eoiripleted seventh grade work at Orange Street Graded School. Throngs of friends, stunned and saddened by the tragedy, gathered for funeral services at the Timothy Darling Presby terian Church, which Harry joined on April 24, 1949. and where he had long been very active in the church’s Youth pro gram. Dr. H. S. Davis, Pastor of the Timothy Darlnig, delivered the eulogy, liesolutions, tributes and acknowledgments were made by Miss Esther Crews, Mrs. F. P. Moss, Miss Bettye Redding, Har vey Marrable, the Rev. J. W. Hall, and Mrs. 0. H. Davis. Miss Bettie Davis sang Malotte’s “The Lord’s Prayer.” Harry’s body was escorted in and out of the church by the two scout troops of Oxford, with six of the scouts serving as active pall bearers; Monroe William son, Angles Hawley, Godfrey Maynor, J immy Satterwhite, Bobby Cooper and Charles Haw kins. ' Fourteen yonng girls dressed in white floral bearers: Misses Mary Jordan, I^f’thia Jordan, Juanita Anderson, Grace Davis, Ijois AVilson, Janie Garrett, Sara Toney, Minnie Crews, Marinna Crews, Esther Crew’s, Panthea Overby, Carolyn Johnson and Eunice Harris. Impresisve rites were conduct ed at the graveside while record ed hymns were played from the funeral coach of Shepard Fu neral Homo. One of the mem bers of the Scout Ti'oop played “Taps” on a bugle. 'Surviving Harry are his mother and father, Mr. Brady Green and Mrs. Adele Royster Green, and a younger brother, Raleigh Green. Many other rela tives mourn his sudden passing. from the Virginia branches of the NAACP if lie should decide to sue. Dr. Tinsely termed the action of the Board of visitors of the University in rejecting his ap plication “very undemocratic” and volunteered “we will back Swanson if he tries to get in.” The Board of Visitors of the historic University of Virginia apparently ignored the opinion of State Attorney General J. L. Almond, Jr., in rejecting the ap plication of Swanson. Almoud has reportedly told the Board, when requested by Virginia’s president C. W. Dar den, Jr., to give an opinion on the situation, that a decision to reject Swanson W'ould not be up held by the federal courts. Vriie, Board, however, felt bound by the State laws and the State constitution, as it released a statement after the action say ing that it was “obligated to follow the Constitution and the Ijaws of Virginia.” The Board’s statement, issued by Barron F. Black, Norfolk, and rector of the University, said in part: “The applicant is a colored ni^Bi. The Constitution and laws of Virginia provide that white and colored shall not be taught in the same schools. The Boaiild of Visitors feels that it is obligated to comply with the Constitution and the laws of the State of Virginia.” Even the State law of Vir- (Please turn to Page Eight) NANCY BROCK, brilliant young American dancer, appear ed in Duke Auditorium at North Carolina College here Wednes day night. She was assisted by Samuel W. Hill, pianist, and Robert Charles Long, tenor. The final ntunber in the Summer Lyceum series will be pre sented July 26 in Duke Auditorium at 8:15 when Samuel W. Hill’s Summer School Mixed Chorus will give a concert. All Summer School Lyceum features are open to the general public free of charge, according to Dr. Joseph H. Taylor, director of the Sum mer School. Man Hacks Wife’s Body And Confesses Louisburg —^ A 32 year old man confessed to one of the most gruesome crimes eonmrtt- ed in this state’s history this week. Sheriff R. G. Davis said that Roy Leonard confessed to murdering his wife, chopping up her body into three parts and then dumping the parts in sacks into a well. The confession by Leonard was made after discovery of the dismembered boly of his wife, Mrs. Annie BI. Tjeonard, was made. The parts of her body were found in three burlap bags in an abandoned wsll. After water was pumped from the well, the three bur lap bags — one containing the woman’s head, another her toi-so, and the third her legs —were removed from the well by volunteers lowered into it. Leonard did not admjt that he cut up his wife with an axe found near the well, the Sheriff stated. The Sheriff found at the house blood- soaked clothing, particles of flesh and signs of blood 75 feet away. Leonard was reported as confessing that he shot his Avife with a shotgun found near the house. The shotgun and ihe axe are being held as evidence. A search by police was be gun for Mrs. Leonard A^hen relatiA’es reported her missing (Please turn to Page Eight) Hk^Attack Is Fatal To Durhamite ilrs. Mary (Join :il tlliamt 72, wife of Matt; rw Williams, died at Lincoln Hi/spital hen Sunday at 11 '»0 P. M , fol lowing a heart afta-k which she suffered aroiitid )0 P M. Sunday. Although Mrs Williams h«l bwn in deelininir health fur several years, she apparently was feeling fairly well until late in the afternoon Sunday, when shi“ complaineirl of a severe headache Mrs Williams was bom in Chatham County, daughter of Mr. ,ind Mrs. John Smith. Al- thoiis’h she had lived in Dur ham for approximately 50 years, she retained her mem bership in the New Hope Bap tist Church, near her birth place. In 1S96 sht- was married to Mr. Williams, anil shortly thereafter mov“d to Durham where the wuple lived erer since. In afftdition to her husband, Mrs. Williams is survived by two sons and one daughter. The sOuS are Edgar Williams of Baltimore, Maryland; Tom mie I-ee Williams of Fhirham. The daughter is Mrs. Plassie W Harris of Durham Funeral services were held at New Hope Baptmt Church. Wednesday at 2:00 p. m. In- (Please turn to Page Eight) Error Of lOOG’s Made An error of one hundred thousand dollars was made in the July 8 edition of th« CAROLINA TIMES. In the July 8 edition, the TIMES carried an article on th£ front page headlined: “New $75,000 Church Ded icated at Charlotte.” The new church in question was the St. Paul Baptist Church of Char lotte on which construction costs amounted to $175,000 instead of $75,000 which the headline reported. Rev, James F. Wertz, pastor of St. Paul — which boasts an aggregate uembership of 2,- 338 — said recently that ded ication services at the new church will continue through the month of July. Each night a guest speaker is presented. Attorneys Thompson And Wheeler To Get First Annual Press Club Award The Durham Press Club’s first anual PAGE ONE UAvards will be given this year to John H. Wheeler and M. Hugh Thomp son, attorneys for the plantitTs in the “Durham School Suit.” Ij. E. Austin, publisher of the CAROLINA TIMES, and presi dent of the Club, said this Aveek the awards would become an nual features to be given local Negro citizens for “conspicuous community service. ’ ’ Austin made public a state ment Avhich he said he had been authorized to issue by the Dur ham Press Club. It stated; “John H. Wheeler and M. Hugh Thompson, public-spirited Dur ham citizens, haA’e rendered this community an act of profound service in bringing to public notice the disparities betwe*n the Negro and Avhite schools of this community. Moreover, in the gentleman- their responsibilities, but that they knoAV how to use demo- eratie, processes to o’ntain tlie right to realize their responsi bilities.” The Pre.ss Clnb’s action in honoring Wheeler and Thomp son comes on the Avave of. an unprecedented demonstration of community approval of the suit by white and Negro citizens. Tentative plans call for the a- w ..rds to be made during a brief testimonial dinner. At-rangements for the affair at this time are being conducted by a committee composed of Austin, A. ]\I. Rivera, Jr., Char les A. Ray, and X. B, WTiite of the Service Printing Company Detai's Avill be announced next week, according to a Presto Club spokesman who s^id ad ditional Information regarding the affair could be obtained oy calling the SerA'ite Printing Company, N-7462. Hints Lynching May Be 7 ried If Miss. Man Freed New York — The Civil Rights Congress, handling the defen.se for Willie McGee, ilississippi 'man convicted of rape on a white woman and scheduled to die in in the chair July 27, hinted this' week that a lynching might be attempted if McGee is granted ly and scholarly manner in a stay of execution by GoA'ernor which these men have accom plished this task, they have dis pelled forever the silly notion that Negroes can not institute a law suit against white people Avithont blood flowing in the streets. “The service AA'hich these men have rendered this community transcends whatever immediate reforms which the suit itself may accomplish. In the final analysis, the City of Durham will be miide aware that Negro citizens of this commimity not only know Order. Fielding Wright. The Congress has launched a nation-Avide appeal to get a re prieve for McGee and a neAv trial on the contention that Mc Gee is a “victim” of sduthern lynch justice.” The doomed man’s wife, Mrs, Rosalie iMcGee, meanwhile, was in the midst of a northern tour this week appealing to the peo ple to help save her husband. The speaking tour was arranged by *the International Workers The Congress stated this week that a letter from “a friend of Willie McGee” had been re ceived in NeAv York saing that the Sheriff in Jones County has said that he Avas afraid that if McGee is brought to Laurel, a mob might seize him. William L. Patterson, execu tive secretary of the CKC, com menting on the “letter,” said “He (the Sheriff) is giving the lynch mob the classic signal of encouragement by saying he’s afraid something may happen. Patterson went on to say that “to answer the lynchecs we must use every minute of the next ten days to send more wires and let ters to Gov. Wright in Jackscm ... to arouse the whole world to the imminent lynching of Mc Gee, symbol of oppression of the whole Negro people in the Unit ed States.” Mrs. Willie McGee, wife of the doomed man, completed a series of speeches on behalf of her hus band in three ciites last week end, and was sch4.luled to ap pear in four more during the coming week-end. Edward L. Nelson, exe;utive secretary of the 1 \VO, sponsors of the tour, said that Mrs. Mc Gee had spoken to nearly 1500 people in Chieago. Detroit and Buffalo last week-end. This week end she will be speaking at Brooklyn, New Haven, an»l Wa terburj', Conn.; Jersey City and New York. Acconling to an I WO an nouncement. Mrs. McGee was quoted as saying that she be lieves now more than ever, that her hujiband will be saTed from (Please turn to Page Eight) i
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