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Colleges Chec^^vt Of $1,400,000 In Es^ildts Fund ★ ir ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ N.C. Justice Bows In Carthage Trial Caimaa €tw^0 FOR THIRTY YEARS THE OUSTANDING WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS Entered aa Second Clav Matter at the Poat Office at Dnrham, North Carolina, uder Act of March S, 1119. VOLUME 30—NUMBER 5 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, FEB. 2nd. 19SS PRICE TEN CENTS Court Defers Ruling On JC Washington — The Supreme court declined to rule finally on an appeal by the NAACP from the lower court’s decision in the Clarendon County, South Caro lina schol case. The NAACP appeal asked for a ruling declaring segregation unconstitutional in South Caro lina’s public schools. The Court order sent back the case for further evidence and action.- The lower court had ruled 2-1 for the constitutionality of segregation. The lower court has ruled that the - Clasendon county schools are unequal, but has given the county a time period in which to report on progress toward equalization of facilities. Court Action Against Escheats Policy Looms CHAPEL HELL — Another federal siUt appeared In the nfflng here in North Carolina this week when it was revealed that since 1939 more than $1,- 400,000 in escheats funds have gone to the consolidated Univer sity of North Carolina without one penny being allocated to a single Negro school of the State. The escheato fund is primar ily Hn uccumulatlon of un claimed mone]^ In banl^, insur ance money of deceased persons, tax refunds, estates of persons who died without leaving wills, etc. Director of the fund is K. S. Cates who was loud In his praise for what it is doing in providing scholarship aid to students at the University. He stated that each imit of the Greater Univer sity would receive amounts of approximately $48,000 or in pro portion to Its enrollmtot, for the coming year. ^. PoUtleally Inspired Disclosure of what many term a very iinfatr distribution of the funds was made here this week by accident, when questionera of the Bridges report charging that all Negro colleges of the State were guilty of using state money for athletes, begun seeking in- ^ontnatioh as to the distribution of scholarship funds at the Uni- (Please turn to Page Sight) loiiB R. Larkina, Crasnltant to the State Department of Pnbllc Welfare, haa been ap pointed by Governor Kerr Scott as delegate to tte llth aimtiai observance of National Freedom Day at Philadelplila Febmary 1. J. Henderaon, Duriiam resident and aaslstant con troller at the North Carolina Mntnal Life Insnranec Com pany, was aiao appointed by the Governor, to serve as a delegate to the obMmuiM. Shown here are Mm. Mary Gilchrist and herP}oiA‘-''chlMren who were burned ont of their homes along wHh seveq^ others when fire swept throngh a slum area in Charlotte last Wednesday night. Mrs. Gilchrist’s children are Genell, five; Rosie Mae, in her'arms, 16 months; William, six; and Mary, three.—Photo Coortesy, Charlotte Obswver. RED CROSS PROCLAIMS DISASTER 12 Left Homeless In Chariotte Fire CHARLOTTE — A fire which Red Cross has officially de signated as a disaster bxirned out eight dwellings in a slum area here Wednesday night, left 12 homeless and resulted in the death of one man. Early this week, most of the twelve, including an aged blind couple, had been provided tem porary shelter in the homes of friends, sympatiilsers or by the Red Cross. The fire, which broke out in the Negro slum area off York Road, took the life of Walter James Carter. Although the dead man had been previously report ed murdered, a coroner’s exam ination last Thursday certified his death as caused by accidental burning. Bumed-out residents include Robiert Moore (no family), James and Lola Bailey; Johnny and Mildred Robinson, a blind couple; Charles and Flonnie Houston; and Mrs. Mary Gil christ and her four children; William, six; Graoll, five; Mary, three, and Rosie Mae, 16 months. Sympathizing Charlotteans volunteered Thursday to give food, clothing and shelter to the fire victims. Gene Potts of Radio Station WGIV, received numer ous calls throughout the day (Please turn to Page Eight) Bishops Named For Vacancy WASHINGTON — Bishop H. T. Medford, Chairman of the Board of Bishops, A. M. E. Zion Church, announced here this week that three bishops had been selected to supervise the six conferences in the state which havp been presided over by the late Bishop Buford F. Gordon. Bishop Medford will have charge of the Central and South Alabtuna Conferences. Bishop Raymond t,; Jones, Salisbury, N. C., will take over the West Alabama and the C^ahaba Con ferences. The Alabama and North Ala-' bama Conferences will be head ed by Bishop James CUdr Tay lor, Memphis, Tenn. This ar rangement will obtain ^until the General Conference which meets In Brooklyn, N. T. Kay TUl liiflflp I WfifiAC Wiifinfl lihAf^ afttUyv Jm ff QllvJ If Ql lliyf Lttlvtut Jurist, Announces Retirement Charleston, S. C. — Federal Judge J. Wa'ties Waring, who more than any other single per son, is responsible for the at tainment, of the right to vote for Negroes in this state, announced this we«k that he intends to re sign his judgeship and retire. Ostracized by his fi|^t to as sure Negro citizens of South Carolina equal ri^ts, the 75- year-6ld jwist will retire as of February 15. Forced to live a life of almost complete social exile with his Detroit-bom wife and constant-, ly a target of insults and near violence from resentful Charles ton whites, Judge Waring was possibly the South’s most fear less white exponent for human rights lor the Negro minority. His most important court de cision was the one opening South Carolina’s democratic pri mary to Negro voters in 1047. For these and many similar acts, the Warings were denounc ed throughout the State and (Please turn to Page Eight) Confab Would Revive Issue NEW YORK—Persistent rer ports from Washington that the civil rights issue Is already “dead” in this session of Con gress will not deter the fight for revision of the Senate rule^^ in order to halt filibusters, leaders of the Leadership Con ference on Civil Bights assert. The conference, initiated by the NAACP and co-sponsor ed by some 50 national or ganizations, will be held in Washington, February 17-18. The main objective of the as sembly will be revision of Sena^ Rule No. 22 which re- quix^ the vote of 64 senators to stop filibuster. This rule has Heen the principal roadblock to enactment of ciyfl rights legislation. ' Group Mourns Gordon's Death NEW YORK — Grief at the death of Bishop Buford Gor don, of Charlotte, N. C., head of the 7th Episcopal Disteict of the A. M. E. Zion Church, was expressed this week by Wal- ''ter White, executive Secretary of the NAACP. In a telegram to Mrs. Gor don, White called the Bishop “not only a great leader of the church, but also an eloquent and uncompromising advocate of social justice and the prac- , tice of Christianity in every- (Please turn to Page Eight) Tliree White 6. L’s Get Mild Sentence On Charge Of Rape On Negro Wife* CABTHAGE—North Carolina’s—and the South’s—double standard of justice once more stood the supreme test and emerged victorious when three white soldiers, who admitted ravishing a young Negro wife, were givoi 16 to 24 months jail terms here last Thursday. The mild sentence was handed down by Judge Zeb T. Nettles, who heard the case in Moore County’s SuperiorCourt. The Judge, who displayed a lack of interest in the entire proceedings, didn’t bother to impose the maximum penalty, which is two years for this type of crime in North C^arolina. A jury composed of 11 whites and one Negro completely ignored the signed confessions and testimony of the three defendants and returned the nearest verdict possible to complete acquittal—simple assault on a female.” Just six months ago, another North Carolina jury gave a Negro two years for “leering” at a white girL Thus was brought to a close action in what Moore County’s Sheriff had termed the most “heinous” crime committed • in the State. The action originated on a dark, lonely road near Carthage last July when half a dozen paratroopers, parti cipating in the Army’s gigantic manuevers “Exercise South em Pine,” pounced on Mrs. Lula Mae Arto, 19-year-old wife of a Korean veteran, and forced her to sumbit to their lustful desires. Defendants in the case were i^ntlfied as Pvt. Harold Hill, Cpl. Lewis Wilson, Jr., smd Pvt. Alex Felder, all of -Fort Camp bell;' Ky. According to testimony of Mrs. Artes, who is “expecting sometime this Spring,” the at tack occured on the night of August 8 around 11:30 on high way 501 near Carthage. She stated that she, accompanied by 19 year-old Paul Williams,, was returning from church services when the soldiers jumped from a 2 1-2 ton Army truck firing rifles and shooting off firecrack ers. (Ed. note; the firecrackers used to frighten Mrs. Artis are the kind the Army uses to simu late grenadte explosions during war manuevers). Mrs. Artes went on to say that the group walking ahead of her and young Williams fled but that the soldiers prevented them from escaping. She stated that the soldiers took young Williams to one side of the field and one of them forced her at gunpoint to another side where he attacked her. Three others followed, she said, and all (Please .turn to Page Eight) Durham NAACP Seeks 2,000 New Members The Durham branch of the NAACP was scheduled to launch its ftnnual SMOftbttPsbip drivs- here with a kick-off meeting at the Algonquin Club House on Fayetteville Street Thursday evening. The campaign proper will get underway February 1 along with similar campaigns being conducted by the local NAACP branches throughout the country. J. L. Holloway, chairman of the Durham chapter campaign, stated last week that Durham’s quota is 2,000 of the 300,000 new memt>ers goal set by the nation al organization. Holloway also said that the new impetus and interest given the local branch by the bomb murder of Florida NAACP lead er Harry T. Moore has given indications that the 2,000 mem- ber quota may be exceeded. “We are asking every civic- minded t)erson in Durham coun ty to lineup with this association which has done so much for humanity,” Holloway said in issuing a call for the the kick- (Please turn to Page |!ight) Principals in the trial of three white paratroopers for the rape of a yonng Negro wife in Moore Conntjr Superior Court at Carthage last week are shown here. In top photo, Defeaae Attoraey H. F. Seawell, Jr., is shown talking to defendants Louis Wilson, Jr., BUroId RUl and Alex Felder, Jr. Photo at bottom shows Attorneys E. B. Avant and C. O. Pearson, extreme left and rigM, coa- ferring with Paul Williams, center, who was with Mrs. Lula Mae Artes at the'time of the attack. Drive For FEPC Launched In N. C. WINSTON-SALEM — A cam paign to get 50,000 signatures) for FEPC was launched at a Tri-State Negro and Allied Trade Union Council executive board meeting held here recently. Quotas for getting signatures were taken by delegates to the meeting. The Winston-Salem Council pledged 10,000 signa tures; Durham, 10,000; Ashe ville, 10,000,‘ and delegates oth er areas in Tri-State pledged similar quotas. Delegates reported wholesale unemployment of Negro women at Reynolds here, Liggett and Meyers in Durham and at indus trial plants at Richmond, Vir ginia. They described plans they were carrying tlirough to get Negroes jobs in their communi ties, particularly; jobs for Negro women. The campaign wiU fight for jobs in fields now closed to Ne gro workers because of dis crimination. The executive board sent let ters of strong protest to Presi- (Please turn to Page Eight) The Morehouse College Glee Club, conducted by Kemper Harreld, will be heard in reeital at North Carolina College, Satur day February 9 hi B. N. Dnke Anditorlun at eight p. m. HanUd, renowned violinist and choral director who directs the masio de partments of Morehouse, Spellman and Atlanta Cniverrity, Is ranked with snch pioneer musicians as R. Nathaniel Dett, Clarence Cameron White and Coleridge Taylor. Tli#vnbllo is bivited and there will be no admteion.'^ STATE MEDICS SET MEETING The Old North State Medical Society will meet in its 66th annual session for tiiree days, June 3-5, on the campus of North Carolina College. This announcement was made here last Simday at the so ciety’s executive board meet ing, held at the Bitlmore Hotel. According to Dr. L. R. Swift, chairman of the annual session program, the session will be concerned with Pediatrics and Gastroenterology. Dr. W. T. Armstrong of Rocky Mount, executive cliair- man, will predde over the an nual session. ' The Curtain And Pray For Carthage — AN EDrTORIAL — Lower the curtains and let there be silence while we kneel in solemn prayer for our power drunk and soul sick white brethren in Carthage whose verdict in the wanton rape case of a 19-year-old Negro mother has snuffed out the last flickering candle of justice for Negroes in North Carolina. This saga of how four white soldiers who, to satisfy their animal lust, deliberately and at gun-point committed this vilest act and were shielded and protected, not by a bunch of thugs or hardened criminals, bi^ a constituted court of law, was unfolded in Carthage last week with all its ramifications and quirks of white supremacy, sunl(fn to its lowest depths. As our southern white folks become more and more m- tangled in the4r web of murder, rape and thievery in high places, which they have woven in th^r vile attonpt to main tain white supremacy, our sympathy goes out to them, oh (3od!, because they are our neighbors^ and are now just ning to drink to the last dre^s their bnmming cup of retribu tion. For over 30 years we have thunderesi our warnings again and again in an effort to impress upon the minds of our white brethren here in the South that they cannot perpetrate crimes and evil deeds against Negroes without destroying their own morals. Because of our warning and relentksi crusade against a philosophy that says that a white skin is a badge of superiority, we have been stoned in the market places, crucifi^ in the councils and stabbed on the highways. I We don’t know how much more of these terrible crimM I our white folks can stand; we don’t know how soon they I will become so sick in their own soiils at covering up rape, murder and thievery that they will spit on their own con sciences. We only know that America stands today where I once stood Babylon, Greece, Rome and other nations, who became so self-centered, so all powerful, so cocksure that ^ they forgot (jkxi. We only know that in the lives of i>4tions aa I in the lives of men sometimes it is later than we tM^ Help us, Oh God!, to not gloat or rejoice at thi^/debacle of our white brethren and give us strength to «idure their wealmess in these hours when they become frustrated and despise themselves. Give us the strength to b* humid*, the courage to be sympathetic and the wisd»n to unchntaad And above all help both our races to bear one anothtr’g dens so that in the end they may «i)oy U^tber tte pwc* of mind and the human dignity that come only tbrou|^ do ing unto others as we would haw them do unto u*.
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