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UNC LIW mu CASE IPPEAUl
Drive For
Mammoth
Vote By 1952
Anniston, Ala. — A campaign
to attain a Negro voting streng
th of 2,500,000 in the South by
1952 was announced by Walter
jWhitle, executive fcecretary of
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
in an address here today before
the fifth annual session of the
Alabama State Conference of
NAACF branches.
“As a result of the 30-year
fight by the NAACF there are
more than a million Negro vot
ers in the South today,” White
«aid. “By 1952 we are determin
ed through the efforts of the
(NAACP and other organ
izations to raise that number to
2,300,000. This powerful bloc,
joined with the balance of pow
er which the Negro vote holds
in 17 northern and border states,
is the chattel of neither political
party. It is an independent vote
which increasingly is east for
good government against cor
rupt political oligarchies. One
of the by-products of this new
political strength will be the
lessening of appeals to race pre
judice in political campaigns
and diminution of the number
of demagogues who have made
the South and American demo
cracy ridiculous,”
Mr. White denounced “the
determined, fanatical and un
scrupulous fight now being
waged by the reactionary anti-
Negro wing of the Democratic
party in the South,” as the
single aid to communism and
|the gre&test single threat to
democracy in contemporary
history.” These forces, he pre
dicted, will not succeed because
of "tbe growing number of en-
lightenM southereners, white
lightened »outhemers, white
and Negro . . . who have shown
themselves infinitely more cour-
aegouB than the Talmadges and
Rankins . . . Intelligent south-
emei's are getting sick and tired
of being made the laughing
stock by their demagogic poli
ticians. ’ ’
Other speakers on the thpee-
day program included B. H.
Councill Trenholm, president of
the Alabama State College at
Montgomery; J. L. LeFlore,
president of the Mobile NAACP
branch; Emory O. Jackson, edi
tor of the Birmingham World;
Arthur D. Shores and P. A.
Hall, Birmingham attorneys;
Mrs. Jessie P. Guzman and C.
G, Gomillion of Tuskegee Insti
tute; Aubrey W. Williams,
former National Youth Admin
istrator; the Rev. Dr. D. V.
Jewison of Salem, Prof. C. E.
Powell of Mobile; Percy Greene,
editor, Jackson, Mississippi,
Advocate; and Dr. J. A. Berry
Tuskegee.
Dr. Mary M. Bethune
Keynote Speaker At
Bennett Celebration
Greensboro — “I’d like to
have a son like you,” said Dr.
Mary McLeod Bethune reaching
up to pat Heavyweight Champ
Ezzard Charles on his broad
shoulders after her Keynote Ad
dress of the five day Quarter-
Centennial Conference and
dedication of the new half-mil
lion dollar Studet Union Build
ing on the Bennett College Cam
pus.
Appearing with many other
national notables on the dedica
tion conference program. Dr.
Bethue declared “this building
tells the story of devotion and
love for young people, the lead
ers and torch bearers of to
morrow,*’ meaning the young
women, and she further stated
that the Union exemplified “the
quality of the dreams of Presi
dent David D. Jones.” The
audience of this address in
Pfeiffer Chapel included peo
ple from all sections of the na
tion who helped to celebrate the
25th birthday of the school and
the dedication of the new build
ing, to “Education of Women
for Social Responsibility” for
their future life. It was formal
ly presented to the college by
Mrs. Harry E. James of New
York, neice of the late Mrs. Hen-
Pfeiffer, a |)hilanthropisti
who made the initial gift toward
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Bat«red m Second Clua Matter «t the Poet Office at Doriuka, North CkroUn*, under Aet of llareh S, 1879.
FOR 28 YEARS THE OUTSTANDING NEGRO WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS
Last Rites For Circuit Court To
Mrs. L Bass q( q
College Students
VOLUME 28—NUMBER 44
DURHAM, H. C., SATURDAY, NOV. 4th, 1950
PRICE: TEN CENTS
AGENCY OFFICERS
Held SuDday
Pictured above is a group of
agency officers of the Natioojil
Negro Insurance Association
in session in Durham this
week. The group is guest of
the North Carolina Mutual
Life Insurance Company and
is holding its sessions in the ad>
ministration building of the
North Carolina College. W.
W, Butler, agency director of
the Union Protective Associa
tion of Memphis, Tennessee,
is chairman of the conference.
Unloaded Gun Kills
Nine-Year-Old Child
Graham — WiHiam Everett
-McCallum, 18, of Route 2,
Graham, is being held in the
Alamance County jail under
$2500 bond chai’ged with man
slaughter in connection with
the fatal shooting of W. J.
Vincent, nine-year-old boy
also of Route 2, Graham.
McCallum is alleged to
have playfully threatened to
shoot the child, not knowing
that the gun was loaded, and
not realizmg it until he fired.
He is reported to have told
the sheriff that lie had been
squirrel hunting last Satur
day morning and had left the
the gun on a table his yard.
He says he picked up the gun
and playfully told the child,
who was standing nearby*,
that he was going to irfioi^'
him. The child ran, McCallum
took aim, and pulled the trig
ger.
The shot entered the back of
the child’s head and he died
shortly thereafter at Alamance
General Hospital.
Mordecai Johnson, Ben Mayes,
Rufus Clement And Shepard
On N. C. College Vesper Series
North Carolina College this
week announced names of ves
pers speakers at the college for
tlje next eight months.
The speakers and the dates
of their appearance in B. N.
Duke Auditorium at 3:30 Sun
day afternoons follow: The
Reverend William J. Simmons,
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
Church, Roanoke,. Virginia,
November 19; Dr. Charlotte
Hawkins Brown, Palmer Me
morial Institute, Sedalia, Dec
ember 3; The Reverend Charles
M. Jones, Pastor of the Presby
terian Church in Chapel Hill,
December 10; and on December
17, the Annual Christmas Mu
sic will be presented by the
North Carolina College Choir
under the direction of Sampel
W. Hill.
The January 14 vesper will
be under the auspices of • Reli
gious Emphasis Week, which
will be in progress at that time.
On January 28, 1951, Dr.
Marshall Shepard, Recorder of
Deeds in Washington, D. C., will
be the speaker. He will be fol
lowed by Dr. Howard Chidley
on February 11; Dr. Rufus
Clement, President of Atlanta
University, February 25; Dr.
Mordecai Johnson, President of
Howard University, March 11;
Dr. Harry V. Richardson, Presi
dent of the Gammon Theological
Seminary, March 18; Dr. Benj
amin E. Mays, President of
Morehouse College, April 8 and
Dr. Shelby Rooks, Pastor, St.
James Presbyterian Church,
New York, N. Y. on April 22.
Dr. Alfonso Elder, president
of the college, is slated to speak
on May 27, which is the last in
the regular vespers hours be
fore the Baccalaureate Services
on June 3.
Sororities, fraternities and
other campus organizations are
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Howard Dean Lashes “Separate But Equal” Doctrine
Greensboro — “As soon as
we can get a case before the Su
preme Court which puts the is
sue of segregation before the
whole rotten structure will be
struck down,” Dean Charles H.
Thompson, Howard University
Graduate School, said in a
Founders’ Day address Tues
day, October 31 at Bennett Col
lege.
^ “More and more young white
Southerners are becoming tired
of the hypocrisy and chicanery
necessary to support the so-ca li
ed ‘ separate-but-equal ’ fiction
in their area,” Dean Thompson
asserted. His address climaxed
Bennett’s five-day Quarter- Cen
tennial celebration centering
around the dedication of the
jpew Student Union Building
and the conference on the “Edu
cation of Women for Social
Responsibility” which opened
October 27.
“Negroes, being law abiding
citizens, have no other recourse
than to abide by the law until
the law is changed,” he said.
“However, if Negroes have
achieved the proper balance be
tween accomodation and ef
fective protest, they will allow
themselves to be segregated on
ly when they have to. They will
exert themselves incessantly and
to the utmost to get the law or
even the custom changed.”
There is something funda
mentally lacking in the educa
tion of any Negro, especially a
college-bred Negro, who is “will
ing to leave his self-respect In
the bottom bureau drawer at
home and go out to sit in some
roped-off area even to hear
Toscanini; or sit behind some
chicken wire to see Jackie Rob
inson and Roy Campanella; or
go up some alley to get the pea
nut gallery in a movie.”
Young colored Americans,
Dean Thompson said, must dev
elop a proper balance between
accomodation to the status quo
and effective protest against it.
He called for a “dynamic philo
sophy of race relations” which
will help persons of color live
in our present segregated so
ciety with a maximum of self-
respect.
Declaring that Negro youth
need a functional conception of
what democracy and democratic
treatment really mean, he said
most Negro colleges and uni
versities will have to radically
revise their educational philo
sophy and administrative prac
tice to meet this need.
“For you can not develop
much if any independent and
critical thinking or social re-
sposibility in an educational
dictat6rship however benevolent
or kindly disposed it may be in
its intentions,” he said.
Many Negro youth. Dean
Thompson pointed out, do not
recognize that the problem of
race relations is only a part of
the much larger problem of hu
man relations — that the task
of obtaining minority racial
rights is only one aspect of the
problem of obtaining universal
human rights.
They need to understand, he
said, “that the race problem in
America is part and parcel of
the fight against man’s inhu
manity to man everywhere;
whether it be the current heroic
effort of Asia to throw off the
age-old yoke of imperialistic
domination; or the mounting
struggle of the natives of Africa
against government by might
rather than right; or the fight
in America against the exploita
tion of the many by and in the
interest of the few.”
Averring that racial dis
crimination is “really on the
defensive for the first time since
Reconstruction,” Dean Thomp
son said;
“Any Negro who gives aid
and comfort to the enemies of
democracy by gratuituous co-
optration with the status quo,
or any Negro who does not seize
every opportunity to fight seg
regation and the caste system
with every legitimate weapon
at his command, has not only
failed to achieve a proper bal
ance between accomodation and
effective protest, but what is
even more important, he has fail
ed to performed the almost
sacred patriotic duty of helping
America to save her soul.”
MOUNT ZION
HOLDS GREAT
HOMECOMING
Chapel Hill — Homecoming
celebration at Mount Zion
Baptist Church, Chatham
County was held on October
22 and has been reported to
have been marked with great
success. Rev. T. R. Cole de
livered a dynamic sermon to
an overflow crowd of mem
ber and visitors. Rev. J. H.
Jones, pastor of Mount Zion,
reports that $886.87 was col
lected.
Rev. Jones is a well-known
church and civic leader in
Orange County and is held
in high esteem, as a minister
throughout the state.
Funeral services for Mrs.
Lillian Bass, 42, was held at
Saint Mark A. M. E. Zion
Church, Sunday, October 2U
at 1:00 P. M. The eulogy was
delivered by the Rev. S. P.
Perry, pastor.
Mrs. Bass was born in Dur
ham County and had lived in
the city of Durham the most
of her life, where she n^ided
at 509 Glenn Street.
She became ill about a week
prior her death to dad waw f
prior to her death and died
at Lincoln Hospital on Oet-
ober 26 at 4:05 A. M.
Mrs. Bii.ss was president nf
local 252 of the Venable To
bacco Company and a mem
ber of the Tsher Board of her
Church.
She is survived by her moth
er, Mrs. Lizzie Hirsbce; one
son, David T,ee Bass of Balti
more, Maryland; tliroo sisters,
Mrs. Ddllie .lohiisoii, Mrs.
Edna Harris and Mrs. Mildn-d
•Tones of Durham and two
brother-s, Robert an! Weldon
Kigsbee of J>m-hani,
Interment was at Beecliwood
Cemetery.
SUCCUMBED
Mrs. Lillian Rigsbee Bass,
whose funeral was held al
Saint Mark A. M. E. Zion
Church here Sunday. Mrs.
Bass has been a resident of
Durham for a number of years
and was an active member of
Annie Lee Tents No. 503.
N'orth ('arolina' 4tubbom
resistani (• to the rew^nt Supremf?
Court rulin'_'' which have eau.»
* led other Soutli-rn .rates to op#*«
I 'the doors r-{ their irrailuate and
: professional ^ to NVjrro
studfnti was iindt-r Htt;jirk airain
ithis a.s th'* Xational
eiation for the Advano-ment of
'Jolon-d People filed a notice of
'appeal from the lower ronrt nil-
i imr upholdin'.' the riifh» of the
! !'nivt-r?iity (.f North t’arolina
i to t'seliid.- , from its law
s-hw);
I F»‘dt‘rai Jiidire Johnson J.
Hayes of th-- Middle Di.striet of
North I'arolina nfu-sed to eoni-
I ply with the XAACP r^qnesT
i that till nniv.'rsiry ordered
ito Hilniit four X.>£rro students tn
th'- la’.v >i-hool. nilinL' that *^h.*
ifai-iliti s of N'orth (= i n,- *'ol-
leiri- fur Xi'trroev -Miiial
to tlio>.' of the I'niv'Tsity of
N'iir'ii Th'- N’AAl'P
iipp'-al will i-oiu.' hfor'' th'“ I’nit-
ed Start's ( 'in-)iit »'oiirr of Ap
peals for thi- Fourth Cireuit.
The ori'jrinal a4-tion was
bronifht hy Harold T. Epps and
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Negro Wins
Admiitonce To Dcmocrats Fcarful
ISU U.W Sh«l QJ
Baton Rouge, L«. — Louis
iana State University an
nounced Wednesday that for
the first time in history a Ne
gro will attend classes at the
institution.
Dr. Harold Stoke, jiresident
of the imiversity, stated that
LSIJ is under a direct order
from the cotn’t and will t>bey
it, although the ruling ha.s
been appealed to the United
States Supreme Court.
The Negro student is 30-year
old Roy S. Wilson, son of a
farmer and one of 16 children.
He is from Rustou, Ijb. ^^^l
son stated he would complete
registration at LSU Law
School and take up his stud
ies immediately.
Wilson is a graduate of
Grambling College, lie won
admittance to LSU when a
Federal Court ruling deelar
ed that the law school provid
ed bj' the State at Southern
University, a Negro school Avas
not equal to the law school at
l^U. The ruling disagreed
with that of the board of
supervisors of the university
which held that the facilities
were equal.
Wil.son has two children and
served one year in the Army
and later taught school.
A. And T. Officer Gels
French Citation
Ureenboro — Capt. Robert.
Lee Campbell, retired army of
ficer and first professor of mili
tary science and tactics at A.
and T. College, was decorated
with a citation from the French
government at the Annual A.
and T. College Founder’s Day
exercises, Wednesday.
The citation is the “MedailU'
de Saint Mihiel,” and is a be
lated recognition of the servie-:*
Capt. Campbell rendered in the
Mihjel sector cljuring the
first World War. when he aided
in the captun^ of 13.300 Ger
man prisoners.
The captain is a veteran of
the Spanish-American war, alsi.
and spent two years with the
Eighth Army in the Philippines
from 1899-lMl. He commanded
the first cadet training unit at
A. and T., being assigned there
as PMS&T in April, 1919.
He holds the Distinguished
Service Cross and the Purple
Heart, as well as several other
citations from the United States
Army.
Also decorated at the exercdk's
was Captain Raymond A. Mont
gomery, assi-stant PMS&T at A.
and T. College. He received a
second Oak Leaf Cluster for his
Bronze Star Medal, and a cita
tion from the Italian govern
ment for his part in the second
World War. The captain also
has the Purple Heart and sev
eral other decorations.
llaleiirh — Deinoeratii- l*art\
leaders gave evidt*nue of
nervousness heri' this week
over the outcome of the elec
tion to bt* held next Tuesday.
Although it is common be
lief that Kepubliean candi
dates stood little or no chance
to defeat any of the democrats
running for office in the
u.sual strongholds of the par
ty, there was much fear of a
split ■ vote in the office for
U. S. Senator sought by
Candidate Willis Smith.
Smith is being opposed by
Republican Candidate E. I,.
Gavin of Sanford. The demo
cratic nominee is known to be
anti-Negro and is generally
beiieveil to be anti-labor.
In spite of a recent statement
by .'setuitor Frank P. Graham
who was defeated in the
Democratic Primary’ by Smith,
a.sking for party loyalty and
requesting that his support
ers not write his name in on
the ballot it is known that a
number of voters intend doinir
so, voting for the Kepubliean
candidate or not voting at alt.
Further evidence of the
nervous tension existing a-
monir top-ranking democrats
is echoetl in an editorial which
ai>pearetl in the Raleigh News
and Observer, Wednesday.
November 1.
.Said the editorial in par^:
In the election on Text Tues
day. The News and Observer
is supporting .Mr. Smith and
is joininir .Senator tirahani in
opposinsr niisiruided. although
'.iueere, efforts of some of his
supporters to write in his
name on Imllots.
The reasons for this positieii
are elear and simple. The
choice in the primary was a
choice between individuals.
The choice in the election is a
choice between parties. The
rea.sons this newspaper pre
fers the Democratic party to
the Republican party are too
Avell known and have been
.stated too many times to n>-
quire repitition here . . .
Wholly aside from party
loyalty and party regidarity,
there is no sufficient reason
for any Democrat to support
the Republican candidate, E.
L. Gavin, in preference to
Mr. Smith. Mr. Gavin offers
nothinfr except the prospect
of a straight Republican vote
on all issues confronting the
Senate, foreign or domestic.
Mr. Smith took some positions
in liLs prinniry campaign
which ' were disiproved by
many voters. But the position
of Mr. Gavin in the present
(-ampaiirn has been even more
dlspleasiii”- to those same vot
ers. The choice is an e^' one.
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Execution Of Bertie
Man Halted Third Time
Raleigh - Federal Court
Judge Don (iilliam of Tar-
bom ordered a stay uf ex
ccution for Raleigh Speller.
4S-year-oh! resident of Bertie
County, who was scheduled to
die in the >ras chamber at the
State penitentiary. Friday for
ra;»e. The stay^f execution
will extend a habeas
corpus heariiij|fro he held
Noven;ber 17 at H) a. m.
The petition was brought by
Sptdler’s Attorney's C. -1.
(iates of Durham and Herman
li. Taylor of H^ileigh ami the
order wa.s ser\ed on Wanlen
•loseph ('rawfonl of State
prison. Monday.
Three times SpelU'r has .been
convicted for the alleged rape
of a ."iO-year-old white woman
of ■ Windsor. Mrs. Aubrey
l,>avis. The crime is supposed
to have been committed on the
night of .Inly IS, 19+7.
In 1947 the State Supreme
Court reversetl the conviction
of Speller in the Bertie Conn
ty Superior Court on the
grounds that Negroes were
was reversed on the groiuuls
that a special venire from
Warren County exeUuled Ne
groes from a petit jury select
■d to try Speller.
In Augtist, 104!> Speller was
excludeil froni the errand and
petit juries.
In ims a second eonvietion
asrain convicteil to ilie ami au
ap[>eal was made to the State
Snpremi- Court the third time
on tile grounds that Negroes
were excluded from the spe
eial venire drawn from Vance
Coiuuy. The Supreme C«>ur!
upheld the eonvietion.
l^st Ma\ an appeal to the
r. S. Supreme Court for a
writ of certiorari to have the
east* reviewel by the Court
was denietl on October !> with
out an t>pinion Ik-lnjr given
Attorneys Oates anl Taylor
then petitioned the U. S
Federal Court for the Eairf-
ern District of the State for a
writ of habeas corpus which
was granted and autorn«ticftUy
stays the execution of
er.