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Joe Louis
May Fig^t
Ezz. Again
New York — Well, it looks as
though the olft’ Brown Bombt‘r
can't make up his mind.
He, this week, reversed his
dressing room statement of
September 27, following his de
feat at the hands of Elzzard
Charles, that he was all “wash
ed up” and said Monday
that “what you in the dreu-
Ing room right after a fight
can’t always hold. 1 can’t say
definitely about not fighting
again, either officially or in ex
hibitions. 1 won’t m^e any de
cision for a month.”
Joe has returned to New York
to resume his duties as boxing
director of the International
Boxing Club.
FARMER MURDERS
LANDLORD AND
THEN ESCAPES
Goldsboro A Negro farmer
who shot and killed his land
lord when the latter insisted
that he keep a dog for him was
still at large Wednesday after
escaping froiti the scene of the
slaying near here Sunday.
Police stated that their ui-
vestigation revealed that James
Hjeory Gkuuer, owner of the
farm became angry when his
tenant Aaron Artis sent the
dog back to him by his son and
a nephew, protesting that he
kept too much noise at night
and that because of it his fam
ily had been kept awake for a
week.
The dog had been kept in a
bam near the home of Artis.
When Gardner went to the bam
later and discovered the dog
was gone an agrument with the
Negro ensued. During the argu
ment Gardner is reported to
have stated that the barn was
on his land and that he would
see to it that the dog stayed in
it
Gardner left the scene but
returned a few miliutes later
with the dog and a double-
barreled shotgun. As he enter
ed the yard Artis shot him with
a 22 rible, the bullet entering
the heart. Artis then told his
son to call the sheriff and t«j
tell him that he would find him
down in the cornfield.
Sheriff Paul Garrison stated
that when he. Deputy Roy Per-
cise and Jailer L. R. Cobb ar
rived on the scene that they
found Gardner lying on the
ground across the dog chain
with the dog at his feet. The"
shotgun which had not been
fired contained two aheels.
1st ANNUAL BABY EDITION
Die Can
l eriodicel
oniv . ibrary
At the Po«t Office at Doriuua, North OKrolins, tut«r Aet of Mareh 3, 1870.
FOR 28 YEARS THE OUTSTANDING NEGRO WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS
VOLUME 28—NUMBER 40
DURHAM, W. C., SATURDAY, OCT. 7th, 1950
PRICE: TEN CENTS
Kian Chief And Four
Others Held In S. C.
Conway, S. C. — As an after
math of the August 26 ^u Klux
Klan parade and rioting in
which a robed off-duty police
man was slain, five men iu-
clnding the KKK grand dragou
of the Carolinas, wen* ord(*n*(l
held for General .sessions court
here Saturday.
Nine other men who were al
so arrested and charged at the
time (w^ii^i participating in a
conspiracy to commit mob vio
lence were released at the pre-
C. E. Sasser stated he did not
liminary hearing when Sheriff
have enough evidence to hold
them.
Slaying of the policeman, J.
D. Johnson, took place in front
of a Negro dance hall at Myrtle
Beach following two klan pa
rades. The policeman was wear
ing his uniform under the robe
at the time he was fatally shot.
Sheriff Sasser stated that
Thomas L. Hamilton confessed
to leading the parade in front
of the Negro dance hall on both
occasions. Hamilton is a Klan
leader from Leesville, S. C. He
stated he led the parade by the
dance hall the first time and
tlicii returned a second time
after beinp: warned that another
parade by the hall would cause
bloodshed.
Sasser stated that at least 300
shots were fired into a dance
hall which was almost totally
wrecked by the I’ioting Klans-
men. Chas. Fitzgerald, owner
and operator of the place, was
at first held by the officers but
when it was discovered that the
Klan had seized him and lock
ed him in a trunk of one of the
automobiles while the shooting
was going on, he was released.
Sheriff Sasser said that in
formation uncovered in the in
vestigation was to the effect
that none of the shots were fired
by Negroes.
Court Orders Neighbor
Of Negro To Lower Fence
iRaleigh—An order was served
here this week on C. C. Rich,
County Tax Collector, giving
him until October 10 to lower
his nine-foot fence which he has
erected a few inches from the
side of a Negro neighbor’s house.
The order was prepared by
City Attorney William C. Las
siter, calling for the fence to
be lowered to three feet, six
inches in accordance with a
city ordinance. The order was
served by R. G. Williams, build
ing inspector.
Accordmg to the City Attor
ney, prior to the erection of the
fence Rich was warned that it
must be built according to spe
cifications of the ordinance. In
spite of the warning it was built
nine-feet high apparently to
comply with the jim crow feel
ing of Rich.
The Negro home is occupied
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LOOK WHAT THE STORK
BROUGHT BY SPECUI-
DELIVERY FOR OUR
BABY EDITION
Mr. and Mrs. Willie Gee boy
Mr. and Mrs. William Hayes boy
Mr. and Mrs. Willie Britt boy
Mr and Mrs. Moses W. Mclver boy
Mr. and Mm. Herman Rogers girl
Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Fuller girl
Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Vaughn girl
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hopkins, Jr. . . . girl
Mr. and Mrs. George F. Neville girl
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Peace boy
Mr. and Mrs. Willie W. Perry girl
Mr. and Mrs. James Franklin girl
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Armstrong .... girl
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Agerston .... boy
Mr. and Mrs. James Robertson boy
Mr. and Mhs. Everett Johnson girl
Mr. and Mrs. James Washington .... boy
Mr. and Mrs. John Cates boy
Mr and Mrs. George Freeland boy
Mr. and Mrs. James Brooks girl
Mr. and Mrs. James Mason boy
Mr. and Mrs. John Morehead girl
Uriel Rahn, famous soprano
and graduate of Palmer Mem
orial Institute, cancelled an en
gagement in Baltimore recent
ly when she discovered that the
theatre maintains a jim crow
policy. Miss Rahn is playing in
ihe musical play “The iiar-
rier” with Lawrence Tibbett
and William Clary.
Wants AunliUment;
She's White And Not 25
Los Angeles, — Leon
Bryant filed suit in Superior
Court last Saturday for annuU-
ment of his marriage to Mrs.
Jean Ann Bryant on the grounds
that she deceived him as to her
racial identity and age, and
ialsely represented herself as a
iN'egro.
Bryant claimed that alter
their marriage in Yuma, Ariz.
last November, he discovered
that his wife was not a Negro
but a Caucasion and that she is
M years of age rather than 25,
as she claimed.
LOCAL SOLDIER OFF
TO WAR FOR
SECOND TIME
On Sunday afternoon, Oct
ober 1, the members of the Sen
ior and .Junior Uslier Boards of
the Orange Grove Baptist
Church entertained one of their
nipnilx'rs Tvlin is leavini' for the
%
Pvt. Oscar Lindsay Bridges
Army for the second time soon,
at the home of Mr?' and Mrs.
Joseph Langley, 907 Barbee St.
He is Private Oscar Lindsay
Bridges, trca.surer of the Usher
Board and husband of Mrs.
Alice Cameron Bridges of 513
Odell Street.
Those present at the enter-
ment were: Rev. and Mrs. W.
McManson, pastor of the church,
Mrs. Marie Cuttino, president
of the Board, Mrs. Toniasine
Langley, vice-president of the
Board, Mrs. Gladys Alston,
secretary and Willie Alston,
Mrs. Mary Patterson, assistant
secretary and Otis Patterson.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bridges,
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Royster,
Mrs. Mary Lee Nivens, Misses
Barbara Langley, Virginia Hub
bard and Barbara Putterson.
La. Names
First Negro
4-H Agent
Miss Gloria Bell has been ap
pointed first State 4-H club
agent for Tx)uisiana rural Ne
gro boys and girls, according to
a report received this week by
the U. S. Department of Agri
culture from the Louisiana
State Extension Service.
The report says that Miss
Bell’s duties will include pro
moting 4-H club work among
the State’s 17,000 colored club-
beij^, and assisting the colored
vish agents with the develop-
nt of plans for an expanded
b program.
Miss Bell was graduated from
Soulft^n University, Baton
Rouge, La., in 1948. Since that
time she has served as a home
demonstration agent in Web
ster Paris, La., and as a teacher
of vocational h»me economics at
the Couchatta, La., high school.
11. J. Courtne, State leader
of Negro Extension work in
Ijouisiana, points out in the re
port that there is tremendous
need for a State club agent. He
says that plans are underway
for the construction of a new
and larger Negro State 4-11
camp. Also, says that club en
rollment in Louisiana can eas
ily be doubled.
With the appointment of Jlis.s
Bell in Louisiana, all of the
Southern States now have Ne
gro 4-H agents except Florida,
Oklahoma, and Tennessee.
]\liss Bell has already assumed
her duties in the State office at
Southern University.
FINAL RITES
HELD MONDAY
FOR MRS. MOORE
Final rites for Mi-s. .Iiilia
Moore, 88, of 1101 Fayetteville
Street, were held Monday after
noon from St. Joseph A. I'.
Church, with the Hov. D.* .\.
Johnston officiatinfr.
I\Irs. Moore had been a resi
dent of Dnrhain for a long num
ber of years and was the widow
of the late Alex Moore. She is
survived by two nephews. Wil
liam and Beverly Shearin and
several distant relatives.
Mrs. Moore died Friday nirh1.
September 29, at Lincoln Hos
pital. She had been in failing
health for quite some time. She
was believed to have^ been the
oldest member of St. Joseph
Church.
Judge Rules “Special
Graduate Courses” Deny
Constitutional Rights
GOP Candidate
Makes Bid
For Votes
Goldsboro — Edwin L. Gavin,
Republican candidate for Unit
ed States Senator, made the
deepest stab of his campaign in
to traditionally Democrat Ea.st-
ern North Carolina last Monday
of both parties at a rally at the
night as he made a bid for votes
Wayne County Courthou.se here.
Gavin called ui his hearers to
vote for the man and what he
.stands for rather than vote for
a party name. He emphasized
that it is not the label but the
protluct that is important as he
urged the crowd t(j vote for him
in the general election on Xov
ember 7, when he will oppose
Willis Smith for the Seuiitc
seat now helfl by Senator Frank
P. (irahain.
The Sanford attorney charged
that the Democrat Party of to
day is not the party of a few
years ago. He pointed out to
the audien;e that the Democrat
platform of 1932 called fi>r
balancing the budget and eco
nomy, and then lie called atten
tion to the similarity of the
Soculist Party platform of
193!? and the avowed aims of
the present administration.
Gavin did not condemn all
of the New Deal and Fair Deal
policies. He said, “1 am in favor
of examining all of the legisla
tion passed under the previous
administrations, and throwing
out the bad, but retaining and
enlarging upon the good part.s
of their programs.” He cited
the Social Security program as
one of the good measures which
the New' Deal extended to all
of the people although it was a
Republican idea in force for the
benefit of government em
ployees before the New Deal. He
termed the Social Security fund
as a “sacred fund” which has
been exploited as a tax measure.
Gavin will return to the
Eastern part of the State later
in his campaign to speak in
Smithfield and Wilmington.
His native Itoseboro was as far
East as Gavin had spoken dur
ing the campaign before Mon
day night.
Bult iniore
Tucker of the
Baltimore  ir
eratluat" da-
DEaSIONS IN
SCHOOL SUITS
POSTPONED AGAIN
Grei'nsboro — .ludge Johnson
■I. Hayes of the Middle District
(’durt announced lien' Wednes-
(la\' that the decision in the
e(|ual eilueation suit brought by
three Negro students against
the Univei'sity of North Caro
lina and State officials wouUl
be handed down sometime next
week.
Judge Hayes had previonsl\
stated that he would hand down
liis decision the first week in
October.
The students, all of whom are
enrolled at the North Carolina
College law school, claim that
they are being discriminated
against in that the law school
provided for them by the State
is inferior to that provided at
TT. N. C. for white students.
Court directed the i ui .T4it..
of Maryland to admit a Sevvi^
Tu«aday. The decision haii-
«d &M the opening round in u
fight for Negroes tu gain
mission to the ('ullftre [*,irk
Campii.s ot the univ.-rsiry
I’arreii J. Mitchell. 'JT-;. ••af-
ohl Negro of Daltimnrf is - ek
ing solution throu"h th' eourt'.
after being refu.sed entrane*- b\
the nnivresity officials.
Although the university h.n
admitted them at Coliei'e Park,
school in Baltimore it ha-s iievt-r
admitted Xegroe-, to it> la-'
It has also attemptfd t. estalt-
lish graduate eoursen in '0'iol.i->
in its Baltimore schools.
Judge Tucker ruled that si^c-
ciai courses dejiied Mitehell ..f
his con-'titutioiial riirhts to e«(iial
opportunity, b«‘cansf he winiiil
Hi I.- •
V .1' A ^ .T
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j '
Said Judgt Tu‘. :i lu. ’ .i^r
Thu law u pretty -n
i in :hat re*p«er ft i.-, f t;.-
jyer ;rh*-ther th:- u;;
, pea!,.i ..r n The f'ne .
-in That matter res*: v ^ ■
hiiHrd •>*' reiren?. whit-;: wm t
iiboiif the mildl- of h >-
; Attorney i. neral H« If--i
' mond d tha» he )uld i- ’
reeomniend appeal i.-* "the la-
i i'. pretty well ^ettleif ;ri • i.it
I n-'peft
j Tli*‘ di elMun : = ’ .lildLfe Tui kr-i
ba.x-d on th*- D'eent rulini:
th'- rtuf -l "fateN .'^upr^n
t'-’iiiri in th'' .^rcl.rfinrin ea^;^‘
hri'UL't'f Hy th" .Vafional A-^*n
^•iation ■''P th: .\ihHnt-’;;‘;ent >*■
, ( iihjr' d P^ i'|; :n l>?'half 'if thf
defend;;;;? it'  ►k:ahorn;t
Claims Prejudice In
Text Books Aid To
Racial Troubles
i-opii - .f "'.tiibli^tirtl • Ameri
cans." and "aii ev-u large;
nnniher pT'-sent tli*^ "nieltii'i'
pot' id-.-a '.vl'.ieli wa.s |))pular
dnrintr eeiittirv "
It i-> llntcd
mnr-- TUiiil.'ni
The failure of our scliooU t..
come to grips with many of the
significant i.ssues of tiie day
nuiy be attributed in part to
gaps and omis-sions in our text
books and courses of study ac
cording to the current Public
\ i'l' • i> 11 . t_ I mor - TUoii.'ni re:
Allans Pamphlet. Prejudice In,
Textbook. This pamplilet sum-'^'^’’** '
marines an American (.’oumil
on Education study, made pos
sible through a grant of funds
from the National C'onfereiK-e
of Christians and .lews, and j In treating the various nun
offers a nvuuber of concrete sult- ority irroiips within the AmerL-
gestions for improving the i can populations, the textbooks
teaching of intergroup relations * are found to err chiefly in fail
at every school level. j imr n» ^trei.N the i-outributions of
Till' stmly shows that the thesi> irroups to our mKlem life
textbooks and courses of study After dealing with the Recon-
however. that the
text', .>tres> '’I'Ul-
whieli r-“e
oL'ui/.es that the itil'f-Tf-nr-s m
the haiitL'fonnrl of Stn.^'rtear.-;
i f varioU'. di 'irnt nuiy be :in
asset inst“,id of a liabilitv.
are, with very few exception^,
from intentional bias towaril
group in the American popula
tion, the pamphlet reports. It
di.scloses. however, many in
stances of ('areles.s wording
which tended to perpetiuUe an
tagonisms now current in A-
merican life.
Among the s^'rious omis-sions
found in our texts, the pamplilet
comments on "the failure t(» ■ i.'uutrihution
stress sufficiently the worth >f Induiu. tin
the individual,” and the failure
of the texts to personalize our
the I'nited Xations to formulate
basic civil liberties. It is sul'-
gested that "the atteni]>ts of
a statement of human !'iu'ht
^.truetion Period, for example,
ir.aay history books tend to
itrnore the \'-irro altosrether. De-
si-ripti(*n>, of til ‘ religious, fam
ily. M.eial, and treneral cultural
activities i,>f Negroes are either
•lot given ii[- are so general tlmt
tiiey are almost without mean
ing
siiiiil;irl\. litth is •riven about
the pre^Mit-day problems auil
of the American
t 'hinese-Anieriean,
the .IapaU''-^‘-Ameriean. o^r our
Spanish-speakinu nuni»rities.
“Mosr of the material ab^ut
•lews in the texts." the pam
phlet point" out. *‘is ab^nit the
ancient .lews . . l^ss than 1'2
that will l>t' appliacble to evi-ry j per eent of the texts even meti-
country presents an opp('rtuu-. tioned the existence of the .Jews
ity for vivid teachiivg autl wider
experimentation in the fielil."
The American (’oniieil >tiiily
also found that most textboo'o
failed to give a satisfactory pie-
ture of group oriranixations in
the I'niteil States. ■‘While th.
textbooks do not neglect irroiip^
altogether." the jVamphlet sjiy^.
“they usually present far too
simple a picture. The teudeiii-y
is to type the irroup m.'iiihe;-
rather than to empliasi/e tlie
variety of individuaK with'ii
the group."
A relatCil error creeps in in
connection with the treatmei'.r
of Americanization. '' A finv
text.s." the pamphlet declar ■>.
‘‘treat Americanization as a'careful
process by which inuniirrant,''i referen
as ;i modern religious group."
Thev ba^ii- weaknes.st.'s, the
paiuphlei i-oneludes, lie "not in
texts iilone Imt in tlie eours»'S of
•^tudy for whieh texthtoks are
[)n*pared.  >nl\' as those courses
of "tudy ileinand the inelusioii
of topii'" ::ii hiter'jToun ri'iii-
tious, some of whieh ar*' in
evitably eonfroversial, will the
textbook> be xid)stantially im
proved. .V i- luakiii^ of eurri-
enlun.s mu't precede the re
vision "f t' xtbooks. That re-
vision involv.'>, first, the writ-
inL's of pa'saires fot‘us*;d direct
ly on the description and .'x
pcusitihn of contemporary i;n-
tergroup relations, and. seci>nd.
rutiny of the indirect
now in the text
are trausformetl into carbon 1 hooks"
Participants in the recent
Baby Contest sponsored by the
Senior Usher Board of Ebenezer
Baptist Church were left to
right: Daniel Grady, Curtis
Leon Barbee, Tortia Venita Mc
Neil, Joan Faye Horton and
Dwight Mitchell. First prl2e
went to Dwight Mitchell, who
with his sponsor, Miss Hen
rietta Withrow, raised $166.74.
Second priie went to Curtis
Barbee, who with his tpasMr,
Mrs. Delia Hubbard, rated
$68.78. A grand total of $i5$.7t
was reported by tl»
asts.