CHtfEL HILL PLANS T(> SUE
Ushers Converge On Fayettei^ille In 26th Anniml Conference
Perldical Dept
Full-Scale Probe O? uBiBSboro
Institution Hinted By NAACP
Winston-Salem — A full-
scale probe into the opera
tional practices of the State
institutions for the mentaily
incompetent was indicated
here this week by the local
NAACP branch, when its
president C. C Kellum, is-
Rev. Grady
Passes Here
Rev. Thomas Alvis Grady,
58, pastor of Ebenezer Bap
tist Church, died at Lincoln
I -ii^al here, Tuesday, Aug.
21 at ^:00 P. M., following
an operation which he under
went last Tuesday, August 14.
Reverend Grady was born in
Hillsboro, the son of the late
Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Grady.
He came to Durham at the
age of 23 and had lived here
ever since. He was a graduate
of North Carolina College,
class of 1921.
For 26 years Rev. Grady was
pastor of Ebenezer Baptist
Church here, during which
time through his energetic
leadership congregation has
grown from a membership of
100 to over 350. At the time of
his death a new church edifice
was under construction and
when completed will cost in
the neighborhood of $60,000.
For the past 18 years he was
pastor of the Terrell’s Creek
Baptist Church in Orange
County, moderator of the New
Hope Baptist Association for
years and finance clerk of the
Ministers’ and Deacons’ Un
ion.
Surviving Rev. Grady are his
wife, the former Miss Dovie
Bass of D u r h a ni, four
daughters, Mrs. Martha G.
Dalton, Statesville, Mrs. Hazel
G. Weeks, Mrs. Gladys Brown
and Mrs. Mildred Buckner all
of Durham. One son, Alvis
0. Grady of Durham and four
grandchildren also survive.
Funeral services will be held
at Ebenezer Baptist Church
Saturday afternoon, Aug. 26
at 2:30. The Rev. A. B. John
son of Raleigh W'ill deliver the
eulogy and be in charge of the
last rites. He will be assisted
by Rev. G. W. Watkins, mem
ber of the faculty of Shaw
University.
The body will lie in state at
the church from 9:00 A. M.,
until 2:00 P. M. Saturday.
Playgrounds
End Series
Of Broadcasts
The playgrounds, operated
by the City Recreation De
partment added a distinct
and unique feature to the
Summer Program, reporting
to the public the happenings
on the sevteral playgrounds
each week.
The weekly show, Play
ground Reporter, was aired
over station WTIK with each
reporting once. The last in
the series w'as aired on Sat
urday, August 12, and a spe
cial feature was given.
A sports quiz, with boys
from each playground parti-
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sued a statement charging
that racial discriminatory
practices of the State bad led
to the jailing of «everal Ne
groes and to the actual slaying
of one.
Kellum revealed in his stat«-
ment this week that the N.
A. A. 0. P. has discovered
actual cases wherein Ne
groes who, although adjudged
mentally Incompetent, are be
ing jailed He also stated that
the NAACP had secured the
release from jail of one such
prisoner.
An investigation by the In
terdenominational Ushers As
sociation of the State reveal
ed last December that the in
stitution at Goldsboro was not
housing all it should because
of the lack of physical facili
ties.
In his statement Kellum
traced the recent slaying of
Curtis Bradley, killed in
“Walker Town,” to the fact
that no room was provit^d
for him at the State hospital
at Goldsboro.
The recent arrest, and sen
tencing of Milton Jessie Gil
liam to 25 months on the roads
even after he had been de
clared insane led to a minor
investigation by the local
NAACP which revealed that
several other Negroes, ad
judged mentally incompetent,
were being held in the Forsythe
County jail.
NAACP Attorney O. T. Den-
HST Names
Lady Lawyer
To UN Post
Washington, D. C. — The ap
pointment of a Chicago Negro
woman barrister to the U. S.
delegation to the UN last week
by President Truman was seen
as a master counter-propaganda
move by this country in the cur
rent hot and cold conflict with
Russia.
Mrs. Edith Sampson, first
and only woman to earn mas
ters degree in law at Loyola
University, became the second
Negro to be named to the inter
national body when she was
named as a delegate to the UN
General Assembly.
Veterans observors on Capitol
Hill see the move as a master
stroke by the U. S. in counter
ing Russian statements to th()i
effect that this country is sup
porting the “wrong side” in a
‘ ‘ white man’s war in Korea, and
that Negroes are denied high
office in the United States.
Dr. Ralph Bunche was the
first American Negro to be nam
ed to a UN post. He represents
the U. S. as a member of the
dependent territories organiza
tion.
It is general knowledge here
on Capitol Hill that the appoint
ment had strong backing from
the State department. The De
partment advised that Mrs.
Sampson was not only quali
fied to fill the post, but that her
appointment would mean much
to the U. S. total diplomacy
program.
Mrs. Sampson has been prac
ticing law with her husband’s
law firm on Chicago’s South-
side since her graduation from
Marshall college in 1926. Forty
years old, she is the mother of
two children.
Prominent in civic affairs,
Mrs. Sampson is president of the
World Town Hall Seminar, a
radio educational group, mem
ber of Chicago’s UN Associa
tion and a member of that city’s
bar association.
ELKS CONVERGE ON CHI
FOR GRAND LODGE MEET
Chicago — Close to 40,000
Elks were estimated to be in
attendance at the grand lodge
convention of the Improved
Benevolent Protective Order
of Elks of the World which
opened here Sunday.
Rev. Marshall Shepard, Re
corder of Deeds, Washington,
D. 0., delivered a sermon Sun
day morning.
ning secured the release of
Gilliam from jail by cirtue of
a writ of habeas corpus. Gil
liam was eventually placed in
the State hospital at Golds
boro.
Attorney Denning also sta
ted this week that the legal
staff of the national NAACP
had pledged its backing in
the investigation and fight a-
gainst racial discrimination in
the State hospitals.
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FOR 28 YEARS THE OUTSTANDING NEGRO WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS
VOLUME 28—NUMBER 34
DURHAM, If. €., SATURDAY, AUG. 26th, 1950
PRICE: TEN CENTS
Court of the “Polynwian Queen” at the annual Hillside
Park pool Water Pageant held last Saturday at the local pool is
shown above. The pageant, one of the most colorful presented
by the Life Saving Corps of the pool, was witnessed by approxi
mately 1,500 spectators. Featuring diving exhibitions, unusual
swimming feats clowning and creative dancing by the group of
chorines shown on the bottom row in the above photo, the pag
eant was studded with a large cast.
Shown above are Willete Snead, center, who reigned as the
“Polynesian Queen”; her attendants standing at her sides, court
pages, seated around the throne: Thelma Kilpatrick, seated right,
creative dancer; and the chorines members of the W. D. Hill
recreation center dance group.
Althea Gibson To Play
At Famed Forest Hills
NEW YORK—Althea Gibson will become the first Ne*
jro to ever participate in the United States National Tennis
Championships at the famed Forest Hills courts.
Miss Gibson’s entry was one of 52 accepted by the Unit
ed States Lawn Tennis Association August 21 for com
petition in the women's singles, slated to begin next Monday
it Forest Hills.
A 22-year old Florida A. and M. student, she won the
Eastern Indoor Crown, was runner-up to Nincy Chafee of
Ventura, California, in the National Indoor Championships
ind participated in the Clay Court and Eastern Grass Court
tourneys.
Since her entry into mixed competition, she has won
the acclaim of several experts of the game, including Alice
Marble, former U. S. Women’s Singles champion.
Citizens Vote Unanimously For
Legal Action As Last Resort
_ Chapel Hill — Another school
suit was in the offing in the
State this week as Negroes of
this community voted unanim
ously Sunday to institute pro
ceedings against the local school
board for educational facilities
alike for both races.
When the suit is brought, it
will bring to three the number
of suits instituted by Negroes
in the State seeking to equalize
educational facilities.
It was learned by the TIMES
this week that efforts of the
Negroes to gain relief from the
situation without resort to legal
action was of no avail.
The suit was prompted when
funds for the proposed con
solidated high school were in
sufficient to conform to plans
made earlier for the school.
With about $100,000 short of
meeting construction contractors
needs, county commissioners de
cided to let contracts for the
building as far as funds would
permit, necessitating that a com
bination auditorium and sev
eral other facilities be cut out
of the original plans.
The commissioners made the
decision after a mass meeting of
white and Negro communities
on the issue and after the Coun
cil on Negro affairs had met
Church Will
Be Dedicated
Wendell —• Dedicatorial ser
vices for the Plea.sant Grove
Baptist Church will be held
here Sunday.
Two services, one beginning
in the morning at eleven and
another in the afternoon at
two, will be held in dedicating
the church.
Pleasant Grove’s pastor,
Rev. George S. Stokes, will de
deliver the sermon at the
morning service. Special music
for the service will rendered
by the Pleasant Grove, Riley
Hill, Good Hope and Lee’s
Cross Roads church choirs.
Rev. C. H. Heath will speak
at the afternoon service.
Music at the afternoon ser-
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with local and county school
boards asking that funds be ap
propriated so that the building
could be erected according to
the original plan.
Dr. Thompson indicated that
an additional meeting was held
with the State School Board,
which apparently advised that
no funds were available.
The appropriation was made
last year from the county-wide
school and road bond issue.
Ground breaking ceremonies
were held about two weeks ago
for the proposed new consoli
dated high school.
After the meeting with the
State School Board, the execi-
tive committee of the Coimcil,
composed of about 20 members
and. headed by Rev. J. R. Man
ley, passed a resolution urging
that legal action be brought a-
gainst the local school board.
A spokesman for the Coun
cil pointed out this week tli.it
the suit is not merely for eciual-
ization in the physical plant but
also for equalization of curri
culum, teaching staffs and otl^-
er pertinent educational factors.
Other legal actions brourht
by Negroes of the State seekin!,'
to equalize school facilities in
clude the Durham City Schools
Discrimination suit and action
brought by Negro citizens of
Plymouth.
Largest Attendance Seen;
Wheeler To Keynote Session
Faj^etteville — The largest
number of delegates and visitors
ever to attend an annual meet
ing of the North Carolina Inter
denominational Ushers Union
Association is expected here
during the four-day session of
the organization which opens
Thursday morning, August 24
at 10 o’clock.
The Association which is the
the largest interdenominational
church organization in the State,
will convene at the Fayetteville
State Teachers College where the
delegates and visitors will also be
housed and fed during the con
vention.
Word has been received from
L. E. Austin of Durham, presi
dent of the organization that
the vanguard of the delegation
will probably begin arriving here
Wednesday evening, followed by
a host of delegates and visitors
Thursday morning and the re
mainder of the session.
According to Walter McCain,
president of the local LTshers
Union, that is host to the State
meeting, everything is in readi
ness for entertaining the visitors
in first-class order.
The Thursday evening session
which will be open to the gen
eral public w'ill have as mistress
of ceremonies, Mrs, E. K.
Hughes of Fayetteville and will
feature a welcome adddress by
Honorable J. 0. Tally, Mayor of
Fayetteville. He will be intro
duced by Dr. W. P. DeVane.
Negro member of the Fayette
ville City Council.
ATTY. J. H. WHEELER
Highlighting the convention
will be the annual address which
will be delivered Friday eve
ning by Attorney J. H. Wheeler,
vice president and cashier of
the Mechanics and Farmers
Bank of Durham and the an
nual sermon Sunday morning
by the Rev. Marvin Ij. Williams,
pastor of the Mt. Sinai Baptist
Church of Fayetteville.
The annual oratorical contest
held each year by the Junior De
partment of the Association will
be Saturday evening at eight
o’clock, followed by a semi-
formal banquet.
Sunday morning at 10:30 the
annual parade of the convention
will be held with all of the del
egates and visiting ushers in the
line of march to the college
chapel where the annual sermon
will be preached.
The State Ushers A.s.sociatiuJi
has contributed approximately
$30,000 to the Oxford Colored
Orphanage and for the educa
tion of worthy student during
the past eight years. In addi
tion local luiits of the organ
ization contribute to local
churches and other worthwhile
efforts in their respective cities
and counties.
Some of the major officers of
the State Association are L. E.
Austin, president, Durham; C.
A. Langston, vice president,
Raleigh; Mrs. il. J. Copeland,
recording secretarj’, Greensboro;
Mrs. Esther Haywood, corres
ponding secretary, Raleigh;
Burch Coley, treajsurer, Dur
ham ; A. D. Clark, Chairman oi
Board of Directors, Chapel Hill;
J. A. Nash, Chairman of Fi
nance Committee, Winston-Sa
lem; Mrs. Jlattie Jones, presi
dent First Aid Department,
Chapel Hill and James William
son, president Junior Depart
ment, Wilmington.
Quota For Florida
College Dorms Set
Tallahassee, Fla.—The Flor
ida A. and M. College dormi
tory quota for men students
has been reached totaling 440,
while the dormitory quota f«r
women lacks 265 of its 618
capacity.
Three Man Court
To Hear Va. Case
Riclimond, Va — A three-
jinlge court will determine whe
ther the University of Virginia
is violating the con.stitutional
rights of Gregory L. Swanson in
denying him admission to the
Law School.
Swanson, prac'-icing atturney
of Martinsville. Va. was turned
down by the Board of Visitors
when he sought admission to do
graduate studv at the historic
i'niversity.
Chief .Judgt* •lolin -I. Parker
of the Fourth U. S. Circuit
Court of Appeals named Fed
eral District Judge John Paul
and Circuit Appeals Judge Mor-,
ris A. Soper to sit with him in
hearing the case.
Swanson is seeking a manda-
ibry injunction requiring of
ficials of the University to en
roll him as a graduate student
in the Law school.
The ilartinsville attorney, in
filing his petition, charged the
University with violating the
Fourteenth Amendment of tho
U. S. Constitution in denying
him admission to the university
which affords legal education
for white students.
The Board of Visitors of the
university rejected Swanson's
application on the ground that
tlie State Constitution and the
law require that colored and
white persons !>:* taught in dif
ferent schools.
Swanson urged an early rul
ing on his suit to enable him, if
successful, to enter in the'Fall
term.
Attorneys To
Be Honored
Mon. Night
Everything is in readiness
for the Durham Press Club's
First Annual “Page One
Awards” night here Monday
at eight at the W. D. Hill
Community Center.
To bo honored by the club
are local attorneys M. Hugh
Thompson and .1. II. Wheeler,
plantiffs’ counsels in the re
cent Durham City Schools
equalization suit.
Final plans for the presenta
tion of the twin plaques to the
two attorneys, who were cited
by the Press Club for con
spicuous service to the com
munity at large in bringing
attention of the Durham pub
lic to the needs of the schools,
were made this week by the
club.
L. E. Austin, Press club
president, said that previous
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Epps Case
Set Here
For Mon.
The Harold Epps-Uuiversity
of North Carolina Law School
suit is set to begin here Mon
day with Federal Judge John
son J. Hayes, presiding.
The suit, brought by Harold
Epps and Robert Glass, North
Carolina College Law School
students, seeks to require the
University Law School at
Chapel Hill to admit them on
the grounds that facilities
offered at the North Carolina
College Law school are not
equal to those at the Chapel
Hill University.
Hearings on the case, to be
gin Monday her in Middle
District Court, will mark the
the first time in the historj'
of the State that such action
has been brought.
Epps and Glass, along with
six other North Carolina Col
lege Law school students were
rejected when they applied for
admission to the University
on the grounds that the State
maintains a Law school at
North Carolina College for
Negroes.
Attorneys for defenae in the
case admit that the U. S. Su
preme Court ruling in the
Sweatt case, allowing him to
enter the Texas L'niversity at
Austin, would hamper their
defense.
Attorney C. O. Pearson i*
representing the plantiffs in
the case. He will' be aided by
NAACP counsel Thurgood
Marshall.
Boys Club WiU
Repeat Special
Program Sun.
On Sunday evening at fire
o’clock the Boys Sports Qub
of the W. D. Hill Recreation
Center will repeat their spe
cial program that was held at
St. Joseph A. M. £. Chorch
last Sanday afternoon.
This club is under the ad-
visorship of Harold Hayes.
Everyone is cordiaUy iavittd
to come out and witaMs this
outstanding program. Mrt.
Mary C. Erans is the club
sponsor.