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DUBHAM, NOBTH CABOUNA, SATVBDAT, MAECH 8th. 1952
PRICE TEN CENTS
School Suh
At Kinston
City Scene Of Strike Last Fall By Students
In Protest Over Poor High School Facilities
KINSTON — Another'Northagainst and asks a court order
A recent visitor to Durham oonld hardly heileve the above
actually happened here ten days a(o. Approximately two inches
of snow, first of the winter season, blanketed Dnrham February 26
and gave city and county schools students an unexpected—but wi3-
comed—holiday. Old Sol came ont the next mominc after flio
snowfall and soon transformed the white stuff in slushy mud and
mire. The above scene was taken oa the campus at North Carolina
ooilefe here, and ahows Barbara Tkemas, Bnrilnttoik; Clarence
Payae, Hillsboro, and Eula Blue, 8 oh them Pines.
Supreme Court Will Review
Case Of Daniels Cousb
WASHINGTON, D. C. — The
Daniels Cousins of Greenville,
N. C., Bennie and Uoyd Ray,
both sentenced to die for tha
murder of a white taxi driver
in 1949, got another .chance this
week when the United States
Supreme Court decided Mon
day to review their case.
The high court had earlier
refused to review the trial in
May, 1050. But when attorneys
lor the doomed men-fatted to|'
get a writ of habeas corpus in
the lower Federal court and ap>
pealed again to the Supremo
Court, it decided to hear the
case.
The body of the dead man,
cab driver William B. O’Neal,
was found near his cab on a
lonely road near Greenville, N.
Shriners Plan
For 'Gala Day'
Zafa Temple No. 176 of the
Shriners met here Sunday aft
ernoon, March 2, for the purpose
of formulating plans for enter
tainment fqr the annual Gala
Day program for North Caro
lina Shriners to be held here
May 16-17.
Frank G. Burnett, general
chairman of the Gala Day pro
gram stated plans are shaping
up ^cely and that approximate
ly 1,000 persons are expected
here for the occasion.
Chairman of the various com
mittees who were present at the
meeting were: John W. David
son, H. C. Davis, Lee W. Smith,
Thomas Nicholas, Jethro
Thompson, Jack Mitchell, J. A.
Carter, Fred Pratt, D. Sysnette,
Bonnie Hawkins, j. M. Hubbard
Sr., and R. Kelly Bryant. Chair
men of committees who were
absent were L. B. Frazier and
J. T. Hawkins.
C. on February 6. 1949. He had
been knifed and beaten to death.
Bonnie and Lloyd Ray, then 19
and 17 respectively, were con
victed of murder in Pitt Coun
ty superior court and sentenced
to die in June, 1949.
The appeal to the North Caro
lina Supreme Court was lost on
a ^in technicality. Attorney
Herman Taylor of Raleigh, N. C.
(^Jb£.jielen8e lawyers,
stated that he went to file the
appeal on the last day given for
such action, but that the clerk
who was empowered to take
such appeals was out. He said
he was told by another clerk
that it Would be allright to file
the appeal the next day.
The State Supreme court
would not hear the case, how
ever, because the appeal was fil
ed late, and moreover. Attorney
Taylor was castigated for negli
gence to his clients.
In perfecting Ahe appeal to
the Supreme court, attorneys
for the doomed youths remind
ed the court that Negroes were
excluded from the grand jury
and the trial jury in Pitt Coun
ty. They also asserted that the
conviction was based on “alleg
ed written confessions," obtain
ed from the defendants by force.
YWCA Program
The Junior Hostess club of
the Harriet Tubman Y.W.C.A.
will present its first annual
fashion show hete Monday eve
ning, March 10, at the Recrea
tion center.
Theme of the show is “Tots
to Teens,” and it will feature
male models along with original
Resigns. Proceeds will be used
if) help purchase a stal^on
wagon for the local Y.W.C.A.
Tickets are on sale at the Y.W.
C.A. oflflce on Umstead Street.
Carolina school board faced a
Federal court suit on charges
of discriminating against Ne
groes here Monday.
Brought in the name of Ne
gro parents, the suit was filed at
parents, the suit was filed at
New Bern and lists as defen-
dai^ts the Kinston board of Ed
ucation, Schools superintendent
J. P. Booth, members o f t h e
State- Board of Edccation and
State Schools superintendent
Clyde A. Erwin.
This city was the scene of a
mass strike staged by students
of the Atkins high school here
last November ii^ protest over
“poor facilities.” Over 700 stu
dents of the Nepo high school
staged an orderly two day strike
and a parade after tiring of con
ditions at the school which have
been termed “among the most
miserable” anywhere in the
State.
The petition filed by attor
neys Herman Taylor of Raleigh,
M. E. Johnson and C. J. Gates
of Durham, asserts that Kins
ton’s Negro schools are inferior
in curriculum, plant, libraries^
and recreational facilities. It
asks a permanent injunction
halting the discrimination.
Filing of the suit at Kii^ton
adds to the numerous suits of
similar nature which have crop
ped up all over the state in the
past two years since the Dur
ham city schools suU^as de
cided in favor of the plaintiffs.
Other suits involve schools at
Pamlico, Washington, Perqui
mans, Orange, and New Hanov-
w counties. ^
The Plaintiffs’ petition further
charges that Kinston Negroes
have repeatedly, over a number
of years, petitioned the defen
dant's to cease and desist from
causing Negroes to attend in-
adeq.uate, unequal, unsanitary
and inferior schools and equip
ment.^
When the students walked out
(n protest to the Atkins high
school’s facilities last November
they listed seven points of grie
vances which had not been set
tled . after repeated requests.
Among their grievances were
listed the following:
1. A poorly heated gymnasi
um, which was constructed by
students; 2. Too few classrooms;
3. Necessity of holding classes
in lunchroom while others are
eating there; 4. Inadequate
school ground space, and no
drainage; 5. Inadequate auditor
ium which will not accommo
date the student body; 6. Inade
quate Home Economics facili
ties; 7. Lack of a vocational
building.
Superintendent Booth, who
urged the students to cut short
the strike, told them at that
time, “Kinston and Lenoir
County have prided themselves
in the past on steps they have
made toward equalizing white
and Negro schools.”
Although the suit does not
seek an end to segregation in
the Kinston schools, it requests
the court to declare that the
Negroes are being discriminated
to 'halt the discrimination. The
complaint lists grievances sim
ilar to those raised by the stu
dents in their November strike
It alleges that Negro schools
have inadequate lunchroom,
recreation, auditorium, gymna
sium and playground facilities
while all the white schools have
adequate facilities in these re
spects. It also states that voca
tional a(id commerical courses
are denied Negroes while of
fered to white students.
The complaint further de
clares that, although Negroes
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Mack Ingram
Faces New Trial
YANCEYVILLE — Retrial ol
Mack Ingram, Caswell county
farmer charged with assault
with intent to rape, is sched
uled here for March 17 in the
Caswell Superior Court.
Ingram, father of nine, was
tried for the same charge in No
vember, but the case ended in a
mistrial when a jury became
hoplessiy deadlocked.
The case attracted wide atten
tion because of the defendant’s
own admission that Ingram nev
er got closer than 75 feet to her.
J. W. Davidson, principal of
Pearsontown School, has been
niuned to secve as co-chairman
of Durham County Bed Cross
chapter fund raising drive.
Goal for the drive is $47,606.
A ' graduate of Wilberforce
Columbia lTnlvi>T«itia»,
Davidson is a Junior trustee
at St.'Joseph A. M. E. Church,
vice-polemarch of the Durham
Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity,
presldMit of Schoolnuwters’
Club, and a mMnber of Doric
Lodge, 28. He is also a mem
ber of Zafa Temple, 176.
Dr. Charles D. Watts, lead
ing young Dnrham surgeon,
has been appointed vloe-chair-
man of the American Cancer
Society campaign, to be con
ducted in April. Dr. Watts,
first Negro to be certified by
the American Board of Sur
gery, is general chairman of
Lincoln Hospital Staff and
physician at North Carolina
College. Claude Bittle is chair
man of the April campaign.
'The new Saint John Baptist Church, located on Third Street
herc^in Durham, was formally opened last Sunday with dedicatory
services at two o’clock. The new church building was erected at
an iQiprozimate cost of $60,000. Work on it started in February,
1949, and was completed early last month. In the above scene.
Dr. C. Spaulding, president of the North Carolina Mutual Life
Insurance Company, is shown (standing) delivering one of the
featured addresses at the afternoon service. '''
Seated behind him on the rostrum are. left to right, J. H.
Wheeler, vice-president of the Mechanics and Farmers Bank who
introduced Spaulding; Beverend L. M. Gooch, pastor of Saint
John’s Baptist Church; Beverend G. W. Thomas, Moderator of the
East Cedar Grove Aasociat^n. who delivered the dedicatory ser
mon following Spaulding’s speech; Beverend T. C. Graham, pastor
of the West Durham Baptist Church; Beverend J. C. Gray, assistant
pastor of Saint John’s; and Beverend E. T. Thompson, of bnrlum.
Dedicatory services for the new church continned thia week
with services each night, except Saturday. Beverend T. H. Broolta,
superintendent of the Oxford Orphanage, is schednled to deliver
the sermon at special services Sunday morning; while Dr. E. E.
Toney, prominent Oxford physician and BeveroM W. L. Wilson of
Winston-Salem are the afternoon speakers Sunday.
Ku Klux Klan-like activity
over the State stepped up this
week despite continuing arrests
of Klan members and men
charged ^with participating > in
Klan-like activities.
!econd To Enter
Ky.Med. School
FRANKFORT, KY — The
second Negro to be admitted to
L^isville University Medical
College, Is W. W. Jones, Junior,
1951 Graduate of Kentucky
State College.
Jones, son of Mr, and Mrs.
W. W. Jones of Frankfort, re
ceived notification of liis ac^
ceptance recently, and will .be
gin his medical studies in Sep
tember. At the present time, he
is studying at the University of
Kentucky Graduate School.
One of the interesting side
lights of Jones’ admittance is
that both he and Josepii Alex
ander, the first Negro to be ad
mitted to U of L Medical Col
lege were biology pupils of Dr.
Llyod Alexander, now head of
the Biology Department at KSC.
Despite More Arrests
KKK Activity
Mounts In N.C.
FuneralServices
Held For Noted
Durham Woman
Mrs. Alpha O. Pamplin, .46,
resident of 605 Linwood Avenue,
died here Tuesday, March 4 at
1:30 p. m., of a cerebral hem-
im>rhage, following an illness of
only a few hours. She became ill
suddenly Monday night and
was rushed to Lincoln Hospital
where she succumbed the fol-1 man who had been threatened
At Mount Airy, unknown ter^
rorists using KKK tactics arc
surrounding Surry County with
a ring of burning crosses and
burning houses, in Durham,
agents of the F. B. 1. are inves
tigating a KKK-like note which
threatened a Negro resident.
Meanwhile, law enforcement
officers are pressing hard to
stamp' out, or to arrest at least,
Klan members or persons par
ticipating irr Klan-like activities.
Columbus county officers and
SBI agents announced the ar
rest of three more men Monday
in connection charges of flogg
ing on a white garage mechanic.
Tlic men arrestfd Monday.
rests made so far, were ide^ili-
fied as Johney Honeycutt, Chad-
bourne produce dealer; Henry
O. Edwards, Whiteville garage
operator; and Ray Kelloy, also
Wliitcvillo garage operator.
For three straight tiights dur
ing tlie past week-end, unknown
terrorists bui-ned crosses and at
tempted to burn houses in Surry
county. One man, 41 year-old
Mebane Goard, has been arres
ted on charges of setting fire
to a cross nean a Mt. Airy radio
station Friday night, first night
of the Surry county KKK-like
activities.
On Sunday night, a cross was
burned on Dyson Hill, a Negro
residental community north of
Mt. Airy. On Saturday night, a
cross was burned in a garden at
Payne town. On Friday night, a
cross was burned 'on Misery
Hill, another Negro section, just
east of the city.
Also two attempts were made
on Friday and Saturday night to
burn the house and barn of a
The six arrested are W. H.
Mullis, 18; B. R. Mullis, 17; Ar-
vin Hargett, 18, R. L. Mullis, 20,
A. L, Mullis, 17.
In Durham, police think the
XKK note received by James
Wilson, 1019 Wilson place, was
the work of pranksters. The note
warned Wilson against mistreat
ing his wife and nonpayment of
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lowed day.
Mrs. Pamplin was bom in Dur-
halifi County, daughter of Mrs.
Mary L. Tilley and the late
Richard D. Tilley. She had made
Install Chain Officers Sunday
Installation of new officers for
the Durham Business and Pro-
fesslonal^hain will be held here
Sunday afternoon at 3:30 at Mt.
Zion Baptist church on Fayette
ville street.
A full program, featuring;
music by Miss Thelma Bumpass
and the "Royalettes,” -the Mt.
Zion church choir - and “The
Chordinears,” a men’s ensem
ble, has been planned for the
affair, according to D. F. Reed,
public relations officer for the
Chain.
A feature of the program will
be a presentation to T. R.
Speight in appreciation and re
cognition of his service as re
tiring president of the Chain. Be
is succeeded by L. E. Austin,
editor-publisher of the Carolina
Times, who will make his ac
ceptance speech during the pro
gram.
Rev. H. H. Hart, pastor of the
Mt. Calvary Baptist church, will
install! the officers. Greetings
will be extended by Rev. W. H.
Fuller, pastor of Mt. Zion, and
Mrs. Callie Daye. president of
the Housewives* League,. Chain
auxiliary, will give remarks. J.
J. Henderson will act as master
of ceremonies for the program.
Executive officers of the
Chain, in addition to president
Austin, are W.p. Rhodes, first
vice-president; Mrs. P.H. Mc
Neil, lecond vice-president; R.
Kelly Bryant, Jr., secretary; J.
J. Henderson, treasurer; D. F.
Reed, public relations director;
and Mrs. J. DeShazor Jackson,
assistant public relations direc
tor.
New members of the Board
of Trustees are T. R, Speight,
chairmam; J. C. Hubbard, I. R.
Holmes, Mrs. Callie Daye and
E. B. Bass.
her home here all of her life,
and for a long number of years
had been a member of the Cal
vary Baptist Church of Gorman
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on iprevious occassions. Allen
Bobbitt, 29 year-old epileptic,
told police that he had been
warned to go J.0 work to sup
port his wife before the at
tempting burning of his house
and barn.
James Hatchett, a Negro who
witnessed the cross burning at
Dyson Hill Sunday njght, said
that the two. men who were set
ting the cross aflame warned
him if he didn’t “get hell out of
here, we’ll burn you just like
we’re going to burn this cross.’
At Raleigh, Gov. Scott had
praise for the work of solicitor
Malcolm Seawell of the ninth
district for his work in round
ing up Klan membets. “It ought
to be stopped,” the Gov. said.
He said Seawell acted “boldly
and forthrightly.’’
At Charlotte, police announ
ced the arrest of six men char
ged with burning a cross^ob the
lawn of a Negro candidate last
week. Lem Long, Jr., candidate
for Mecklenburg County Com
mission, said he was not
“alarmed in the least” at the
incident.
Funeral services for Rev.
James A. Whitted were held
here Monday at the White
Bock Baptist Church. Bev.
Whitted, 90, died Saturday,
March 1, after a long illness,
Bev. M. M. Fisher, White
Bock pastor, delivered the
eulogy. A long time employee
of the Post Office, Bev. Whit
ted began duties as a mail car
rier in 1890 and won retire
ment in 1927. He remained an.
active member ‘of the White
^ck Baptist Church from its
early beginning, before 1890,
until the time of his death. Be
pastored the Mount Qiive Bap
tist Church in Bragtown fol
lowing retirement from the
Post Office.
He is survived by his wife;
one daughter, Mrs. M. W.
Gilmer; four sons, Harry M.,
Durham; Walter, Weldon, and
James and Benjamin, New
York; and seven grandchil
dren.
S. C. School
Case Attacking
Jim Crow Heard
COLUMBIA, S. C.—A special
three-judge Federal court has
taken under advisement agau>
the suit against South Carolina’s
segregated schools.
The court, consists of Judge
John J. Parker, senior member
of Charlotte; Armstead M. Do-
bie of Norfolk, Va., and George
B, Timmerman of Columbia.
Parker and Timmerman were
members of the three man panel
which ruled that segregation
was valid but ordered Claren
don county to equalize its white
and Negro schools last May.
Dobie replaces Justice J. Watles
Waring, who announced his re
tirement last month.
Judge Waring rendered the
sole dissenting opinion in the
court's ruling last June.
The court was ordered to hear
again the case by the Supreme
Court which vacated the lower
court’s decision Jan. 28. The
high court vacated the decision
to the lower court because no
ruling had been made to cover
a report of progress in equali
zation of facilities in the white
and Negro schools, which was
ordered by the lower court in
its decision last June. The pro
gress report was filed last
cember.
According to some reporters
covering the hearing here this
week, the court indicated that
its decision would be the same
as the June decision. *
Thurgoud Marshall, chief of
the NAACP's legal counsel,
argt^ed before the court this
week that segregation should' be
ended because each day facili
ties are not equal. Negro>pupils
are losing their rights to equal
educational opportunities. Mar
shall also expressed his scepti
cism concerning the school
board's intention of carrying
out and maintaining its equali
zation program.
Judge Parker asserted that
policing or supervision of dis
trict authorities, which Marshall
had reccommended as a safe
guard toward insuring constar^
equality, could not be done.
Qualifications For Students Seeking
Shepard Awards Are Listed
The James E. Shepard Me- ICitiz^nship. The examination
morial Foundation this week aii will be held at North Carolina
riounced rules governing com College.
petition for $3,200 in scholar
ships to be distributed durirfE!
the 1952-53 school year.
Dr. Albert E. Klanley, chair
man of the foundation's scholar
ship committee, says that 10
scholarships in the amount of
$200 each will be awarded com
petitively qualified Negro stu
dents who plan to enter North
Carolina College.
In addAion to passing a com-
FiiU details regarding eligi
bility can be ot>kained by writ
ing Dr. Manley at North Caro
lina College, Durtaam. Appli
cants will be nominated by spe
cial faculty committees in their
high schools.
However, Shepard Memorial
Foundation spokesmen poiht
that April 1, 1952. is the dead
line for rwiving applications.
The scholarshlpa are part of
petitive examination, applicants the foundation’s efforts to
will also have to qualify in the j morialixe the late Dr. JaOMS I.
following four categories: (1 > |Shepard, fsun^ and first pns-
Need; (2) Scholarship; (3) Ex - | Ident of the North CaroUa* CM-
tra-curricular promi.se; and (4> ilege at Ourham.