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. .Rufus Speaks and John Jones I are shown left to right Mayor led them to be a success. Also
are shown being sworn in by George Hunt, Speaks, and Jones witnessing the ceremonies was
Pro-Tem mayor Hunter Mobley and Mobley. Immediately after Rev. A. D. Owens, president of
as Reidsville gets its first Negro the ceremonies, Mayor Hunt the ReidsTille NAACP branch,
policeman. On the above photo | congratulated the men and urg-|
State Department Puts
Silencer On Robeson
NEW YORK — The Council
of Africans Affairs has issued a
statement severely criticizing
the action of the State Depart
ment in iuvalidatinff I’aiil Robe
son’s passport this week.
Robeson’s right to travel in
foreign countries was nullified
by the State Department’s ac
tion in refusing to grant him a
valid passport.
Veteran observers see this as
a part of the U. S. prdgram of
‘ ‘ total diplomacy ’ ’ in seeking to
present a solid front against
communism.
Robeson has apparently been
branded a communist, according
to these observors, by his out
spoken criticism of U. S. foreign
policy and his boUl stand a-
gainst racial injustice in this
country.
According to the schedule of
Robeson’s .iourney abroad is-
mied by the Council on African
Affairs of which Robeson is
chairman, he was scheduled to
have participated in the Prague
World Partisans For Peace Ral
ly, Aug. 17; World Youth Con
gress For Peace, Nice, France,
Aug. 20; World Peace Commit
tee meeting and African Peace
Rally in Paris later in August.
According to a statment is
sued by Nathan Witt, Council
to Robeson, the State Depart
ment has declined to state why
the passport was invalidated.
Witt said that he addressed
a letter to Dean Acheson for
Robeson asking why the pass
port was cancelled. Dean Aches
on has not answered the letter,
Witt stated.
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Memorial Group
Nears $30,000
UNC CUE MTE Sn
LtSrf
Eiatered M Second CUm Matter at the Post Offiee at Dnrliaa, North Carolina, nnder Aet of Mare^i^ TWf9.
FOR 28 YEARS THE OUTSTANDING NEGRO WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS
VOLUME 28—NUMBER 32
DURHAM, K. C., SATURDAY, AUG. 12th, 1950
PRICE; TEH CENTS
White Mob Attacks
Negroes At Va. Beach
The Central Committee of the
James E. Shepard Memorial
Foundation, in a progress re
port here last Tuesday, an
nounced a grand total of $27,-
891.91 in pledges and cash.
The Shepard Memorial Foun
dation memorializes the founder
and first president of North
Carolina College at Durham. It
proposes to set up scholarships
for needy students and to erect
a statue of the late Tar Heel
educator.
Prank H. Kenan, local oil
dealer,, was elected to the Cen
tral Committee to replace the
late J, P, McGuire.
James T. Taylor, Director of
the Foundation, and Asa T.
Spaulding, treasurer, indicated
that additional progress reports
would be made in the future as
the campaign to increase funds
intensifies in the coming weeks.
Dr. J. M. Hubbard, North
Carolina College trustee, is
Chairman of the Central Com
mittee. Other members of the
Committee which met here at
N. C. College were: A. T.
Spaulding, Treasurer; M. S.
Johnson, A. E. Manley, Mrs.
Virgie Davis, Secretary; J. E.
Dickson, B. T. McMillan, H. M.
Michaux, William Jones, and
Janies T. Taylor, Director.
Lincoln To
Graduate
16 Nurses
Sixteen Nurses will be grad
uated in commencement exer
cises to be held by Lincoln Hos
pital at the Covenant Presby
terian Church Monday evening,
August 14 at eight o’clock.
Baccalaureate services for the
class will be held at the Coven
ant Presbyterian Church, Sun
day at 11 o’clock. Rev. J. A.
Cannon, pastor, will deliver the
sermon.
Mrs, Louise P. East, presi
dent of the North Carolina
State Nurses Association, will
deliver the commencemnt ad
dress Monday evening. Dr. C. C.
Spaulding, chairman of the
Lincoln Hospital Trustee Board,
will preside over the ceremon
ies at the exercises.
Nine North Carolinians are
among the 16 to be graduated.
They are Misses Effie Smith,
Goldsboro; Versie Templeton,
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Final Rites
Held Here
For Mrs. Hall
Last rites for Mrs. Fannie
Taylor Hall, 52, daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. William Hen
ry Taylor, were held at St. Jo
seph A. M. E. Church, Tuesday
August 8, at 2 00 P. M. The
Rev. D. A. Johnston delivered
the eulogy.
According to Durham Coun
ty Coroner, Dr. R. A. Hart on,
Mrs. Hall died as th* results of
lockjaw precipitated by a brok
en leg which she sustained when
she fell at her home, 609 [Tm-
stead Street.
Mrs. Hall was borii in Dur
ham. She was educated in the
public schools of the city, the
National Training School, now
North Carolina College at Dur
ham, and Hampton Institute,
Hampton, Va. For many years
she taught in the Durham Ooun
ty School system and the Adult
Education department, operat
ed in the city by the Federal
Government.
In addition to her work a.s a
teacher, Mrs. Hall was a faithful
member and worker of St. Jo
seph A. M, E. Church where she
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Only One^rrest Follows Melee;
Negro Arrested Defending Self
Insults Leader
Assault
Georgia Rep^
Of CRC; Thi^atens
FourtnTl^. C. State President
Washington — A Southern
Senator last week called a Ne
gro a “black son of a b. . . .!”
During hearings held by the
House Committee on Lobbying
activities, Representative Hen
derson Lftuham, Democrat from
the State of Georgia, uttered
this at W^illiam L. Patterson, ex
ecutive secretary of the Civil
Rights Congress and threaten
ed him with bodily assault be
fore Capitol Guards restrained
him by force.
The flare-up came while Pat
terson was testifying before the
House Committee investigating
Lobbying activities. Lanham
was acting as chairman of the
group in the absence of Rep.
Frank Buchanan of Pa.
Patterson had charged that
the State of Georgia had con
doned the Ifegal lynching of Ne
groes.
lianham called the statement
a lie.
When Patterson retorted
“yours is a lie,” Lanham leap
ed from his chair, raced around
the dias where the committee
members sat, shouted “you black
son of a b. ...” at Patterson
and lunged toward him.
A few feet from Patterson,
Capitol police restrained Con
gressman Lanham. Patterson re
mained seated through it all.
The committee asked Patter
son two more questions, and the
hearing was adjourned for the
day.
Committee counsel Benedict
Is Former NCC Professor
Fitzgerald indicated that Pat
terson would be charged with
contempt of Congress for refus
ing to relate to the House com
mittee information requested
concerning contributors to the
financial support of the CRC
and for failure to produced re
cords subpoenaed by the com
mittee.
The Civil Rights Congress has
been listed as “subversive” by
the Attorney General.
Labor Party Representative
Vito Marcantonio of New York
told newsmen that Congressman
Lanliam, by his insults and at
tempted assault on Patterson,
was in contempt of Congref«.
Marcantonio also stated that
it was an insult to the Ifj.OOO,-
(XX) Negro Americans and the
two other Negro members of
Congress, Representatives Wil
liam L. Dawson and Adam C.
Powell.
^Pattf'rson has addressed a let
ter to House Speaker Sam Ray-
burn asking that the House call
for an immediate apology from
Rep. Lanham.
Marcantonio also criticized
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Orangeburg, S. C. — Benner. Harvard Law School. In addi-
Creswill Turner, Dean of the tion to his LL.B. degree he holds
Law School at South Carolina I ^ Bachelor of Arts degree in the
State A. and M. CoUege, was
elevated to the presidency of the
college at an executive meeting
of the Board of Trustees, Tues
day, August 1, 1950, in Colum
bia, South Carolina.
President Turner became the
fourth president of this 54-year-
old land grant institution . His
appointment fills the vacancy
created by the death last Nov
ember 14, of Dr. M. F. Whittak
er, who was president of the col
lege for 17 years.
Since the death of President
Whittaker, the college has been
in charge of a five-man commit
tee.
Anonuncement of President
Turner’s election was made by
Wallace C. Bethea, secretarj’ of
the Board of Trustees.
President Turner is 44-years-
old and was bom ui Columbus,
Georgia, where he received his
elementary training. He is a
graduate of Andover Academy,
Howard University and the
fields of Historj', Goveninient
and Economics.
Following graduation from
Harvard ImAV School in li)30,
President Turner began the
practice of law in Philadelphia
as a member of the Pennsylvania
Bar. After a few years at the
practice of law, he returned to
his native Columbia, Georgia,
and for a linu* entered business.
He began his teaehijig career in
Durham, N. (J., in 1943, at the
Law School of North Carolina
College.
President Turner is also a
member of the South Carolina
Bar, the National Bar Associa
tion, Alphi Phi Alpha Frater
nity, Inc., president of the Delta
Zeta chapter (Orangeburg) of
the fraternity and also served on
the staff of the National Bar
Association.
In August 1947, President
Turner came to South Carolina
State A. and M. College to es
tablish and develop the law
school.
Colonial Bi‘a^ 'Va.—A horde
of irate whUe^ came down on
little more than a dozen Ne
groes here last Saturday and
caused a near-riot when Negroes
tried to use the municipally-
operated beach.
The melee resulted in tlie in
juring of two white newsnit*n
and a minor stab woiuul on a
17-year-old white farm boy.
The sole arr»‘st made by Col
onial lieaeli authorities at pre^s
time was that of a Negro — one
of the group attempting to »le
.feod himself from the angered
mob of whites.
The near riot was caused whm
a party of 15 Negroes, accepting
Mayor Norman Brewingtoii’s
declaration that use of the beaeli
was never denied Negroes, at
tempted to use the beach Sat
urday afternoon.
Earlier, Negroes of the resort
town, led by .\ttomey Marlin
A. Martin had filed a suit in
Federal District Court asking
that the beach be opened to Ne
groes.
When the group was inform
ed that the beach had never been
denied to Negroes, a declatory
statement was asked to state that
a certain time be set aside for
Negro bathers.
Howevr, this was not granted
as Mayor Brewington pointed
out that such a statement was
not ncessary in view of the fact
that tlie use of the beach was
never denied Negroes.
A second party, planned by
the group for Sunday, was call
ed off at the rejuest of Mayor
Brewington and two officials.
Attorney Martin and lister
Banks, 'Excutive sc(^retarj’ of
the Virginia NAACP, who had
asked for police protection for
the Saturday party, decided to
cooperate with Mayor Brewinu
ton’s request.
Martin and Banks added this
week, liOAvever, that the suit a.sk-
ing that the beach be opened to
Negroes would not be dropped.
Only six of the party of 15
entered the water. Although no
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Seek Restoration Of
Rights Articles In
New Dmft G>yenant
Washington — Failing 1i»
agree upon action to have the
State Department to include
Articles 22-27 of the Univers.il
Declaration of Human Rights
in its draft covenant on human
rights, the executive committee
of the United States National
Commission for UNESCO has
appointed Charles S. Johnsm
and Milton Eisenhower to a
committee to make further
study of the question.
The proposal to take action
for inclusion of these articles
had been placed before the com
mittee by Rayford W. Logan,
NAACP consultant on interna
tional and colonial affairs. The
omitted articles set forth cer
tain social, economic and wel
fare rights to which ‘^‘everyone,
Lott Carey
Meet Set
For D. C.
Washingtou. D. C. — Aemrd
ing to the Kc'-. AVendell
Somerville, Exeentiw Secrciarv
of the Ix)tt Carey Baptist J-'ure-
ign Mission Conventi(«i, the
forthcoming .session o) the l.ott
Carey Convention will bo liehl
with the .Shiloh llaptist Cliurch,
Washington, D, .\ngnst 29-
Sept. 1.
Rev. Somervilh states that the
Loft Carey Convention, wliieh
has a constiuency in fifteen sta
tes, was organization in Shiloh
Baptist Church in 1897. thus it
is regarded a.s the ‘'Mother”
Chureh. Rev E. L. II arrison is
Pastor.
There Avill be fifteen hundred
official delegates represented at
this significant se.ssion. This
meet will also mark the Fifteith
Jubilee Celebration of the Wo
man’s Auxiliary of tlie Lott
Carey Convention.
FIRST AT O. S. U.
Earlie E. Thorpe, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Eural Thorpe of this
city, was recently appointed to
a Graduate Assistantship at the
Ohio State University for the
year 1950-51. In this capacity,
Thorpe was informed that he
becomes the first member of his
race to teach in the Department
of History at Ohio State. He re
cently completed resident re
quirements for the Ph. D. de-
The Woman’s Auxiliarj’ Avill'gree. Thorpe received both his
hold its session at the Vermont
Avenue Baptist Clnireh and the
Junior People will convene at
Metropolitan Baptist Church.
The night session will be held
at Vermont Avenue Baptist
Church.
Bachelors and Masters degrees
from North Carolina College at
Durham. Dr. Lowell J, Ragatz,
formerly of George Washington
University, is. the new_ Chair
man of the Ohio State History
Department.
Admission
Suit Hearmgs
Here Aug. 28
The history makioff tait
brought by in f' S. Court by
Harold T. Epps and Robert D.
Glam, North Carolina College
Law school studenUi, seeking ad-
mijuion to the Univeraity of
North Carolina will be heard
here by Middle District Federal
Court Judge Johnson J. Hayes
beginning Aug. 2a.
Plaintiffs m the suit are seek
ing admission to the University
of North Carolina on the
grounds that the Law scnooi at
North Carolina CoUege does not
offer facilities equal to those
provided at the Ctiapel Hill U-
niversity Law school.
The hearing of the ca:ie will
mark the first time in the his
tory of the state that a similar
suit has been instituted.
Epps and Glasa, along with
six otlrer students were accom
panied by NAAl’P coimael
Thurgood ^rlarshall to the Uni-
versit}' last Spring to file ap
plication*. ..ill welt notirtetl la
ter of their rejection on the
grounds that the state maintains
a Law school for Negroes at
North Carolina College.
Reports to the effect that
Epps would be eliminated from
the action by virtue of his pa.'w-
mg of the North Carolina Bar
examination, recently ecndml-
ed, were discounted here tin.-,
ft'cek. It was learned that Epps
was defeinitelv »till in the case.
The admii.sion.s suit took on
idded significance when the
i-ierman Swi'att-Texas Univer-
^upreme Court handed down
last June its decision in the
sity Law School case. The Court
unanimously decided that the
Law School for Negroes in Tex
as was not equal to tuat main
tained for whites at Austin.
Sweatt will enroll in the Tex
as white Law school for the Fall
term.
It has been admitted by State
Attorney General Harry T. Mc-
MuUan that the Texas ruling
will hamper the defense in th*;
UNC case.
Judge Hayes, who presided
over July term of the court
when hearings were held on the
Durham City schools discrim
ination suit, announced that the
case was held until August 28 to
permit State officials to return
from out-of-State trips.
Counsel for the plaintiffs in
the case is Attorney Conrad O.
Pearson. Defense counsels in
clude McMullan and former U
S. Senator William B. Umstead.
Awards Plans Changed
ONLY IN SOUTH
D. A. Willis, sales represen
tative of the Brewing Corpora
tion of America, makers of Car
lings Red Cap Ale and Black
Label beer. Mr. Willis is the on
ly Negro salesman for a Nation
al brewery in the entire South
Mr. Willis was in Durham this
week... His territory includes
North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and
Tennessee.
without any discrimination,” is
entitled.
The Durham Press Club this
week announced several changes
in the first annual Awards
Xight to be held here at the W.
D. Hill Recreation Center, Aug.
28, from 8-10 o'clock.
L. E, Austin, club president,
said the event had been changed
from the originally planned din
ner to an informal testimonial
“perhaps with Thurgood Mar
shall as chief speaker.”
Marshall, who will be in Dur
ham August 28 representing the
NAACP and plaintiffs’ attor
neys seeking admission to the
FNC Law School, is chief coun
sel for the NAACP.
The program will honor J.
II. WheeU-r and M. H. Thomp
son, local lawyers, who repre
sented plaintiffs ill the Durham
school equality stiits here last
month. Their awards are for
'“conspicuous community ser-
vict‘. ”
The awards night program is
expected to featuri* >Xarshall as
chief speaker with brief speeches
scheduled also from representa
tive community leaders giving
formal appreciation for the work
of the two lawyers in bringing
about increased recognition of
Durham citizens for their re
sponsibilities in maintaining
first class public schools here.
In explaining reasons for
change from the dinner idea,
Austin pointed out that large
numbers of Negro and white cit
izens who had contributed fi
nancially to the suit would be
unable to attend the dinner. The
re^■ised program will feature
several speakers and refresh
ments will be served.
G. W. Logan, prominent lo
cal civic leader and “Bronze
Mayor” of Durham, is expected
to play a prominent role in th.
festivities.
Thompson and Wheeler wia
be awarded gold plaques by the
club. The program has now been
opened, to the general public by
admission card.
Texas University Dean
Tells Sweatt To Report
For Registration
Houston, Texas — Herman
Marion Sweatt. whose admission
to the University of Texas Ii«w
School was ordered by the Unit
ed States Supreme Court in a
unanimous decision handeil
down on June 5, has been in
formed by the University that
he is to report for registration
on Sept. 18.
“On the basis of your B. A.
degree from Wiley College and
graduate work the UniTersitr
of Michigan, you are el%iMe
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