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,Perloai»l “Sirv lie Can FOR THIRTY YEARS THE OUSTANDING WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS EBtMed M Seeond CUh Matter at the Post Office ai Dnkaai, Nertk Carettaa, Oder Act ef Marek t, %W19. VOLUME SO—NUMBER • DDBHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, MARCH lat, 1*5X PRICE TKN CSNn Memben of a qpeolal grand Jnry Impaneled fer hearincs on Kin Klox Klan aettrtttee In Col- umbns Connty are ■hewn above. | The (rand Jarj will hear ei4- deiuie In the flenrbv ebarfMl against former members of the Klan arrested by the FBl^and the SRI reoently. The FBI ronnd- ed up ten Klan members In a raid February 16, and this week the SBI annonneed the arrest of additional KKK members. In cluding six who ware arresM by the earlier FBI raid. —The men are charged with kid napping, and assaulting white and Negro residents of the area. Supreme penalty for kidnapping which iiwolves crossing state lines in death. Supreme penalty for tibe charges by the State is life imprisonment. — Photo— Courtesy News and Observer. Slayer Of N. C. Co-ed Gives Self Up To Police WASHINGTON, D. C.—Don ald N. Tyler, 22 year old How ard University student sought lor the pistol slaying of ^ classmate, 19 year-old Janet Kiiig, gave himself up to Chi cago i>olic‘ last Tues4ay. Yourk j vier was returned here k> t{^ce a hearing before U.S. u Commissioner C.S. I«wrc e. He was formally ar raigned n charges of murder, and contlAt^ance of the hearing was granted until March 7 on tba rsquMt of Tyler's attom^r, Wesley Williams. The bullet-riddled body of the victim was fouml last Monday on a Washington street. Ibliss King, former North Carolina College student and resident ol Rutherfordton, N.C., bad been shot three times. According to investigating Washington police, .she also had been choked aod raped. Tyler, who is married an4 constantly M^ears his wedding baild, gave himself up to Chi cago police Tuesday morning, after catching a bus to his fa ther's hdme there from Wasliing- ton. He was brought liuck to Wasliington by Lt. Lawrence Hardnett of the Washington de tective department Tyler admitted killing Miss King, according to Washington police, but said that it was'ac- cidentid. He also denied crimi nally assaulting her and declared he knew nothing about the bruises on her neck. According to detective Hard nett, the following is Tyler’s verdon of what happened on the night of the slaying: ' “I met Janet in the campus library last Monday and gave her an order of lipstick she had bought from me. She asked me if 1 would drive her to the li cense bureau to get a learner’s permit. ' “We went down and she got the permit. Then she drove the car around until 3 f 15 in the af ternoon. Tlien we went to ‘Doc’s’ ^lace and played recorls and watched television,” (“Poc” is Raymond W. Elliot, a phsirmacist in whose automobile the slaying is said to have oecun^). "While we were in the apart ment we had some drinks. 1 drank a beer and a couple ol shots. We had relations ^nd then left. “I was driving up on 18th or 19th street, N.E., when Janet opened the glove compartment and took out a .2B calibre auto- nun^ I told her not to play with it because it had a clip in it. “She gave it to me and I was trying to empty it.‘Somehow, it want off. She fell against me and blood got on my clothing. I felt her pulse and listened to her heart, and found she was dea4.1 looked in her pooketbodk and took out $22 and beat it to Elliot's house to change clothes. “I left a note for Elliot before I left. I drove down to Union Station to catch a train for Chi cago, because I knew my father was there and Chicago is the only ptaee 1 could think of go ing. “I found out I didn't have mough money to catch a train, so I drove around to the '^11- way bus station. I caught the 11:60 bus for Chicago." Tyler said went to his fa ther's home and then decided to give himself up at the Wabash avenue police station. Mrs. Julia B. James, mother of young Tyler,! expressed su preme confidence in her son, and was reported as saying that the press had tried ttie case of her ton and have given a one-sided version of it. Mrs. James firmly stated that she believe her son told the truth. when he stated that the shooting was an accident. “There are things that a mother inherently knows about her children. There's a kind of intuition that mothers have. Just as you can look at your child and (Please turn to Page Eight) EDITORIAL Three Fat And Greasy Florida Negroes Probably the most sordid tragedy ever un folded in the annals of court history occurred at the trial of Walter Irvin in Ocala, Florida last week when three supposedly respect able and prominent Negroes of that city went on the witness stand and testified un der oath that race relations in Marion Coun ty, in which Ocala is located, are good. On ly Negroes who have lived and worked among such infernal traitors to their race can understand that persons of such low caliber actually live on this earth. This in spite of the fact that the Ku Klux Klan had burned a cross on the lawn of one of them. You have got to be stabbed in the back, in the dark, by one of them yourself to be lieve it; you have got to learn, probably by accident, that one of these slimy creatures, who has grown fat and greasy off the toil, sweat, blood and tears of his own race, will grab a telephone or crawl up to the backdoor steps of a white office to slit another Negro’s :| •I throat, if by doing so he can ingratiate him self with his white masters or promote his own personal standing’with them. We of the CAROLINA TIMES know whereof we speak. We do not charge here that all Negroes of means in the South are traitors to their race. There^are thousands of well-to-do Ne groes in these parts who are not only willing to give of their means in the promotion of equal opportunities for their people, but will even go to the extent of presenting “their bodies as a living sacjrifice*’ in the cause of justice. There is another type,- however, who is willing to present the bodies of all other Negroes as a living sacrifice to their own elevation with the opposite group. This type of Negro exists not only in Flor ida but all over the South. T^ere are scores of them here in Durham. For a meM of pottage they will sell, not only one Negro (Please turn to Page Two) MORE KLANSMEN ARE ARRESTED Negro Candidate In Charlotte Receives Threat By KKK Cross Burning On His Lawn Dr. Harry V. Richardson, president of the Ganunon 'nieo- loglcal Seminary, Atlanta, Ga., is to give the principal and open ing addrew on Sunday at the Annie Memer Pfeiffer Chapel at Bennett College when the 2th Home Institute begins. Dr. Rich ardson will speak of the values for .pm'iynsefal living‘s theme of the week loag affair. School Suit In Va. Starts Dedicatory Service Slated For New Durham Church Dedicatory services for the new St. John Baptist Church building, located on Third street in the Walltown section of the city, will begin here Simday and continue through the foUowhig Sunday, March 8. The week-long dedicatory ser vices will feature iMstors of various lesdiiog churches of the community wold surroundini^ area as speakms. Two services have been scheduled for Sunday's pro gram. Tlie regular service will begin at 11 o’clock Sunday morning, and it will be follow ed by a special service at two o'clock in the afternoon. Reverend L. M. Gooch, pastor of the church, will be the speak er for the~regular Sunday mom- nlng service, and the afternoon service will feature outstanding laymen and ministers of the dfy. dty. The new church building was erected at a cost of approximate ly 960,000. Work was begun on the building in February, 194S, and it was completed early last month. The building contains an auditorium which will seat be tween 4S0 and BOO persons, of- fioM for th« putor and church officials, a choir room and a balcony. Modem furnishings and decoration are used throughout. In addition to St. John's pas tor, Reverend Gooch, Reverends J. C. Gray, I4. E. Daye and Paul Thorpe will participate on the Sunday morning service. C. C. Spaulding, president of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company will be the principal qieaker at the special two o’clock p. m. services. He will be introduced by J. H. Wheeler, vice-president-oashier of the Mechanics and Farmers Bank. Reverend G. W. ..Thomas, moderator of the East Cedar Grove Association, will deliver the dedicatory sermon following Spaulding’s address at the aft ernoon service. Rev. Thomas will be introduced by Rev. T. C. Graham, pastor of the West Dur ham Baptist Church. Others who will take part on the aitemoon service are Revs. S. P. Perry, pastor of St. Mark A. M. E. Zion; Reverend H. H. Harris and St. John’s Deacons J. L. Tally, William Walker, H. M. Bullock and T. Y. Moore. The dedicatory services will continue with services each night Reverend L. M. Gooch of the week, except Saturday. Speakers for the series are Rev. D. F. Brown, pastor of Hick’s Chapel, Monday; Rev. Tally Mosby, pastor of Northside, Tuesday; Rev. J. Z. Silerj paster of Mt. Olive A. M. E. Zion, Wed nesday; Rev. W. H. Fuller, pas tor of-Mount Zion, Thursday; and Rev. J. A. Brown, pastor of (Please turn to Page Eight) RICHMOND, Va.,—The tain rose on another chapter in j- County police ciuef the legal fight of the National Association for the Advance ment of Colored People against segregated public schools, as a suit involving the public schools of Prince Edward County, Va., came to trial on Monday, Feb ruary 25, before a special three- judge federal court in Rich mond. Rev. L. Francis Griffin, NAA- CP coordinator for the county, .(Continued from Page Five) WHITEVILLE — The State Bureau of Investigation, ap parently miffed because 'the FBI beat it to the punch in making arrests of Klans men involved in the floggings in Columbus Coun ty, went to work and nabbed some members of the robed and hooded legion for its own credit here this week. The SBI announced Wednes day that it had arrested 11 men in connection with floggings in Columbus County. Meanwhile, A Negro candi date was threatened at Char lotte early this week by a Klu Floyd was told by the ro’ Klux Klan-type demonstration, apparently designed to frighten him into withdrawing from the County Commissioners race. Six of the 11 arrested by the SBI Wednesday were included in th? FBI arrests last week. Shi rriff Hugh Nance and SB! direct jr James Powell, who led the arrests, said that more could be expected in the near future. All 11, charged with seizing and whipping Mrs. Esther Lee. Floyd, 23 year-old Negro, were placed under $5,000 bond each for the March 31 grand jury. At Charlotte, Lem Long, Jr., candidate for the Mecklenburg County Commission, promptly stated that he was not fright ened in the least by the burning cross discovered on his lawn Monday night. The cross was found by his brother-in-law. concerned. Although he stated that he thought it was the work of “men of Klan psychology,"’ he quickly affirmed his intention of remaining in the race and ad ded: ‘I’m hot alarmed in the least.” Sheriff Nance of Columbus County who led the round-up of the 11 arrested Klan members Wednesday, said they are being charged with taking Mrs. Floyd, young Negro woman, into the woods, whipping her and cut ting a cross in her hair. After the whipping, Mrs. Jed and hooded men to go back to White- ville and tell the “niggers the Ku Kluckers got you.” Sheriff Nance said that the men went to Mrs. Floyd’s home on Nov. 14, drew a gun on her mother, held her father and seized her. She was blindfolded and taken into the woods in a car. The Sheriff said that she saw 15 or 20 robed men when the blindfold was removed. The Sheriff said that Mrs. Floyd was whipped with a belt, ,but not too severely after she told the men she was pregnant. Officers further quoted Mrs. Floyd as saying that she was accused by the Klansmen of go ing, with a white man. She de nied this. Mrs. Floyd lives with her parents at Chadbourne. The arrests were made early Linberry chose to term the in cident a “prank,” “There has been no Klan activity in Meck lenburg County in over a year,” he declared. “People here are too intelligent to stand for the Klan,” the chief stated. Long, a young mortician, ser ved notice tiiat if the incident was calculated to frighten him into withdrawing from the de mocratic »primary set ' for May 31, it failed as far as he was Hearings Set For School Case In S. C. COLUMBIA, S.C.,—Hearings on the Clarendon County school case will be held here on March 3 before a special three-judge federal court, in compliance with an order of the United States Supreme Court which, on January 28, vacated a Judgment The high court returned the case to the original court for further proceedings in the light of the report on progress made towards equalization of school facilities in the county. This re port was required by a two to one decision of the special court upholding segregation. Judge J. (Please turn to Page Ei^t) the men were taken into custody around eight O’clock^ and three others were nabbed later Wednesday morning. In Raleigh, State attorney General Harry McMullan said “the .names,of the guilty parties and their acts have been known for weeks.” The FBI, which made ten arrests Feb. 16, did not partici pate in these arrests. SBI di- (Please turn to Page Eight) INSTALL NEW SCOUT TROOP A new Boy Scout troop will be formally ushered into the Occoneechee Council when in installation and investiture ser vices for Scout troop 53 of the Convenant Presbyterian Church are held here Sunday afternoon at the church at two o’clock. H. W. Gillis, field executive for the Occoneechee Council, will make the Installation of the morning. Bight o*itrooiLandjjreMOt_the.^bflrtetto troop 53 scoumaster Richard T. Pippen. In addition to the presentation of the charter, a program, in cluding presentation of badges to the new scouts and a social following the presentations has been planned. Parents of the new scouts will pin the tmder- foot badges on their sons, and introductions will be made by the troop conunittee, the scout- (Please turn to Page Eight) UNC Officials Seem Trying To Avoid Having Race In Its Graduation Rites D_ Ik >P11UEa pnllins' of ■ , ...... . ° By TIMES Staff Writer , rolling at the University, how- CHAPEL HQX — A situation ever, his only marks above which has all the earmarks of a “C” were received during the plot to spare the University of summer under visiting profes- North Carolina the pains of hav- sors. Ing a Negro in Its commence- Kenneth Lee, another of the ment academic procession and students who has imdergone other graduation ceremonies has similar experiences, was rated been revealed here this week. the number two student while It was disclosed that the four at North Carolina College. Lee, Negro law students, ordered to whose s'trong speech against be admWled to UNC by a Fed- segregation in the Dialetic Sen- eral cour.t,, stand a good chance ate recently aroused the ire of of falling victim to the apparent trustee member John D. Clark, plot by the University to “flunk” has fared a little better, how- i them out. ever. It is believed that he has: This disclosure became ap- fared better because he is not parent when A. M. Rivera, Jr., scheduled to finish in June. North Carolina correspondent . This situation was revealed for 'tlie Plttsbsrgh Courier, be- when John D. Clark, race-bait- gan exploring cli^ges by lead- ing member of UNC’s truitee ing student organizations that board charged that there are certain trustees and administra- some “scallawags” planted in itive officials were inthnidating Chapel HiU by the NAACP to faculty members and students push its anti-segregation cam- who entertain or voice anti- paign. Clark was answering an segregation sentiments. attack made on him by studellt Harvey Beech, who is sched- organizations after he had at- uled to graduate *at the end of tacked the Dialetic Senate for th6 regular term In June, is one passing a non-segregation re- of the students who may be vie- solution. timized by the situation. Beech,' The student daUy newspaper, who while stuping at North the Tar Heel, countered with the Carolina College's law school charge that Clark was a self-ap- where most of bis work was pointed censor of student opin- done under profeamrs from the ion and a guardian of fac- Universlty, was i^tad the top ulty minds. 'This forced the in student. He received 10 “A’s,” stitution’s millionaire president eight “B’»,” and two “C's” while Grordon Gray to issue a state- at the Durham school. Since 6n-' ment which many have termed inocuous and calculated to of. fend neither the staunch segre gation proponents nor the lib eral student leaders. During the exploration of the charges. Courier correspondent Rivera asked law school Dean Henry Brandis about the relative class standing of the Negro stu dents. Dean Brandis told Rivera that it is not the'Universlty pol icy to reveal such information unless the students are cited for honors and awards. However, a classmate of the Negro students said that there is every indication that they are victims of a scheme that will eliminate them from finishing with the June class. The spokes man admitted that it would be hard to prove this. ^ Such a scheme or situation be came apparent to aU with whom this reporter talked, though. In addition to Beech’s case, it was pointed out that in two in stances the Negro students were^ the only «nes io receive grades of “F” out of 75 or 80 students. In one case, thre« Negrofe* were flunked out t>f a class of iUve. A spokesman for the white students also told of the incon sistent application of Universi ty poUcy In dealing witk> Ne groes. He said that they were r*> qulred in some instances to sign number their papers. Several white students, i»«- sent during the interview, ex pressed the opinion that it is in credible that the Negro students, aU of whom have degrees, would., be failing in classes in which less than 60 percent of the white law students have not finished coUege. think it’s a damn shame,” one student added. Dean Brandis and Professor F. B. McCall, who testified dur ing the Federal Court hearings that North Carolina CoUege law school was superior to the one at UNC, could not explain why the former NCC tew school Ne gro students, two of whom were honor students at NCC, were falling at UNC. It was also reported that, in addition to the aK>areat in timidation of faculty and stu dents, some forcica students who ate seeking dtlaendiip, were warned against fratemlalng with ^ "Hegro students^ lest their chaaew tor obtaining rtttiaiplilp be jeopardlxed. ! The only explanation tiMt this reporter coulif devlM tram tte failure of the Nagro studnts Is that the University admlaMn- ttve offlciala wanted to be infifl the embarrewEWit o aeetag Ne- iroea take pert In the greduetlee iaatlvltiea, whl^ includ* their papers, contrary to thel{ueta, dances, raceptioot, ete. school’s policy of having students | (Fleaae turn to Page EtgM)
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