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'Mmis!p'L?4"'” Soliciting Unlv U-'> ^ Funds ror Defense Hoax The CAROLINA TIMES was reliably informed this week that the “Reverend” Mrs. Edna Graves, is con-, tinuing to remove money from the pockets of unsus pecting persons by claiming to represent various persons on death row at Ralei^ who are either awaiting the gas chamber or whose sentence of death has been held up for various reasons. In its issue ot December 15, the TIMES exposed Mrs. Oraves’ I racket in the Clyde Brown case in which it told of this woman’s policy of raising money lor the doomed man’s defense under false pretense. ^SOMEWHAT CUT OFF in the Clyde Brown’s case by the TIMES’ exposure of her crool^ methods the “Reverend” Mrs. Graws has now switched to the case of the Daniels cousins in which she is reported to have been successful in filching vari ous amounts from chtirches and individuals in several cities and towns of the State. The “Reverend" Mrs. Graves reportedly is now falsely spread ing the information that tha Daniels Committee, which hat spearheaded the defense of. the two men, no longer exists, and that the attorneys hired by the Committee have been dismissed. Mrs. Graves claims that she em ployed two white lawyers in the place of Attorneys Herman Tay lor of Raleigh and C. J. Gates of Durham, who have represented the Daniel^ cousins from the be ginning. In a written statement to the TIMES this week the Daniels Defense Committee had the fol lowing to say: Various citizens about the state of North Carolina have reported to the Daniels Defense Commit tee that a certain Mrs. Graves, who calls herself a minister of the Gospel, has been going a- Out-Of-Court Settlement In Wilmington Suit JCHARLOTTE Ah out-of-^ourt settlement in the case of a school segre gation suit filed against the New Hanover and State Board of Education was made here last week. FEDERAL JUDGE DON €MiibiAM signed ttie. content judgment which postpones, the suit in effect Until September of 1953. • According to tiie defen dants, faelUtlM tor Negro pupils will be nbstantUIiy improved by noxt year if a bond iasae “snfflelent to carry out this project is approved by the people of New Hanover within,80 days." THE DEFENDANTS AGREED to provide, contingent upon bond approval, a separate audl- toritmi and gymnasium for the new senior l^h school build ings, a separate auditorium and gymnasium and adequate cafe teria in the Junior high school buildings to serve the students in the junior high and senior school building; a separate cafe teria at WlUiston „ Primary School; and a separate cafeteria for Peabody Annex and Mafflt Village. bout the state recently collecting funds from churches and indi viduals in the name of the Dan iels cousins. In addition, Mrs. Graves has spread the absolute ly false information that the Daniels Defense Committee is no longer 'in operation, that our lawyers have been missed and that she has hired two white lawyers in their place'. In Justice to ttie Daniels De fense Committee, to onr at torneys and, above all, to the Daniels cousins, who have been threatened with death for over three years at Central Prison in Raleigb, we wish to Inform the citlienry of this state that solely the Daniels Defense Committee Is h»iiHHng the Daniels case and that Mrs. OrftTcs, being In no way eon- neeted with onr Committee, has submitted to us not one 'cent of any funds thSt she has collected. The Daniels Defense Commit tee has the full authorization of the Daniels family and the Dan iels cousins themselves to carry this case through the courts un til justice is won. In the course of three years of struggle to save the lives, of the Daniels (Please turn to Page Eight) “REVEREND” MRS. EDNA GRAVES News In Brief FOR THIRTY YEARS THE OUTSTANDING WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS intered as Seeond Class Matter at the Post Office at Durham, North Carolina, nnder Act of MarA I, inf. VOLUME SO — NUMBER 12 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA. SATURDAY, MARCH tt. ltS2 - PRICE TEN CENTS Detroit Housing Laws Face Test Ingram Trial Postponed Until Nov. YANCEYVILLE The second trial of Mack Ingram, charged with assaulting a white girl Ijy “leering” at hery haa been postponed until November. ^ A jury was unable to reach a verdict in Ingram’s trial here in ^ elimination November. Ingram has been ftee under bond since that timej, Man “Might Have Killed Wife” Held TABOR CITY Authorities were holding Frank Hucks on suspicion of mur der here this week, following the shotgun slaying of his wife. Hucks said that he “might” have killed her. “I yras so drunk that I don’t know exactly what happened,” he told investigating officers. Woman Shoots Mate Over Pork Chop FAYETTEVILLJE An argument over a pork chop here this week brought death to Troy Hagens, 42, who was killed by his 28-year-old wife after the couple was unable to agree on who should eat the chop. New York Tax Collector Is Fired — new YORK Internal Revenue Collector Monroe D. DawUng, head of the New York City office, was ousted this week following the dis closure that his personal income tax return revealed “irregulari ties.” Implement Plans For FEPC During NNCL Meeting WINSTON-SALEM Plans for a campaign against job discrimination and unem ployment and for FEPC were further implemented at a south ern regional meeting of the Na tional Negro Labor Council at the North Carolina Headquarters in Winston-Salem, Saturday and Sunday, March 15-16. Delegates were present from Winston-Salem, Durham, Char lotte, Birmingham and Alabama. Charleston, S. C., also sent a spokesman. ERNEST 'raOMPSON, NA- tional director of organization of the NNLC represented the na tional office. A report on the development o^ Negro-white tmity in the struggles of labor in Bessemer, Ala., was given by Asbury How ard* vice-president of the NNLC and regional director of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union. MISS VIOLA BROWN, AD- ministrative secretary of the Tri- State Negro Labor Coimcil, re ported from the general NNLC Meeting in Detroit, March 1-2. • Great emphasis was placed upon the national FEPC drive, during which the TrI-State Negro.Labor Connell wiU aim at 50,000 signatures to a petl tlon tor FEPC in North Caro lina, Virginia and South Caro lina. Similar campaigns are being conducted In various other southern states. The delegates also proposed action for the admi^ion of Ne groes to the textile and hosiery indtiatrics and egeinst the mass of Negro women particularly in the tobacco in dustry. THE> REGIONAL MEE’IINO also mapped plans for council building and an intensified mem bership drive in the South, in cluding Virginia, North Caro lina, South Carolina, Alabama and Georgia. DETROIT ' The long-delayed suit to end segregation in public hous ing in Detroit will come to trial next month. United States District Judge Arthur F. Lederle announced at the conclusion of a pre-trial conference during which attorneys for the Na tional Association for the Advancement of Colored People and for the City of Detroit presented their respective views on the issues involved in the suit. Trial may be averted, Judge Lederle indicated at th^ confer ence on February 29, provided the city officials voluntarily pro ceed with the abolition of the present policy of imposing racial restrictions on occupancy of projects operated by the Detroit Housing Commission, the local authority. ^ • Only two issues will be considered arthe trial, Judge Lederle indicated: the city’s justification for Its policy of racial segregation in public housing and the extent of in jury suffered by the complain ants and other Negroes who solely because of their race, have been denied opportunity to occupy vacancies In ‘white’ projects for which they are eligible. “UNDER OUR FOR^a OF city government,” the judge, said, “the mayor of the city has effec tive means for accomplishing his program. If he wants better law enforcement, he can get it; if he wants to end segregation In public housing, he can do it.” Van Ingalls, city counsel, had sought to disavow any responsi bility on the part of the mayor for the Jim Crow policy when the judge indicated that the mayor' should be called to justify the racial segregation po- in housing. CITING THE UNITED States Hurt In Wreck AMERICUS, GA. TEN NEGROES were among those passengers injured when a crowded TralHrays bus struck an automobile and turned over In a field near here last week. The driver of the auto was killed instantly, and five oth er vehicles rammed into oth er cars which had slowed to permit a driver to turn off the highway. White Praises Alberquerque For Strong Civil Rights Ordinance NEW YORK Felicitating the Albuquerque, N. M., City Commission on en actment of a civil rights ordi nance, Walter White, executive secretary of the National Associ ation for the Advancjement of Colored People, has written A ttumbor ot North Carolina Mntnsl Life Insurance Company employees and their families are shown above at the annual ban quet given by the Company Isst Thursday evening at the W. D. flill Recreation Center. A gala time irf fun-making, stunts, and amusements provided guests wUh enjoyable entertainment In addition to information concerning the progress of the Mutual during 19S1. Serrloe in reoognltlon ot jreaxs completed with the Company were awarded during the program. Chairman Clyde Tlngley expres sing the hope “that other cities throughout the United States will follow the Albuquerque ex ample and continue our common fight for the extension and pres ervation of our democratic way of Ufe.” The NAACP, Whfte told the Commission chairman, considers the ordinance “an excellent ex ample of how a democratic people, through their democratic government, protect the rights Of minorltes and extend and re affirm the guarantees of equgj treatment for all people.’’ NCC Students On Held Trip 11 graduate students and an Instructor of the School of Li brary Science of North Carolina College left here last week on a nine-day field trip to visit out standing libraries of the nation in Washington, Baltimore, and New York City.^ As a climax to their year’s study in librarlanshlp, the fu ture librarians were shown gen eral views of nine large libraries, two special library collections of Negroana, a publishing »house, and the national center for libararianship maintained by the Fed^^ Ooverhment. Through the courtesy of these organi zation the groups was also shown selected portions ot the "inner workings” of the institutions. Supreme Court decision in validating "judicial enforcement of racial restrictive covenants in private housing, Judge Lederle said: “I CANNOT UNDERSTAND how Mayor Cobo feels that he can do in public housing what the law in the restrive coven ant cases prevents him from doing in private housing. If a Negro wants to move next to Mayor Cobo, he cannot pre vent him from doing so, and (Please turn to Page Eight) Chronicle Cited By Press Group' NEW YORK THE HILLSIDE CHRONICLE, student publication at Hillside High School; Durham, N. C., was awarded second place honor rat ing during the annual conven tion of the Columbia Scholastic Press Association concluded here last week. 'the Hl-ROCKET, edited by students at Durham High School, received the medalist rating, highest award given to publica tions submitting papers for cri ticism. NAACP Drops Legal Action Against Town ALTON, ILL. Upon sworn aaaurance of the Alton Board of Education, that the recently-adopted policy of non-segregation in the Khools would be continued, the local branch of th« National AsK>ci- ation for the Adancement ot Colored People has withdrawn its legal action against the board. Hack I. Davis, president announced this week. ' In announcing withdrawal of tile suit, Mr. Davis said: "We are hopeful of the continued co operation of the school officials, teachers, pupils, and parents in our efforts to assure the oper ation of the Alton schools in accordance with laws of the State of Illinois.” Suit was originally filed in January, 1950, after laiiure o( efforts to negotiate abolition ot the segregated school system. There jrere cross burnings and other manifestations of resist ance on the part of certain local white persons. However, Negro parents, spearheaded by the lo cal NAACP branch, insisted upon transferring their children from distant Jim Crow schools to the schools nearest to their iresidences. Finally, th« school board agreed as of January, 1952 to make such transfers in a step toward abandonment of the sep arate school system. The babies pictured above were contestants in the recent baby contest sponsored by the WWC and PAC Clubs of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. Among the contestants were Brenda Stanley, Elaine Cates, Lauren Brown, Dedra Taylor, and Jacqueline Snipes. NAACP Studies Charges Of Staten Island Discrimination NEW YORK Intervention by Mayor Vin- Impellitteri and City Coun cil President Rudolph Hailey in the case of a destitute Sta ten Island family with ten children, denied housing on city property because they are Negroes, was asked last week by Walter White, execu tive secretary of the National Association for the (Advance ment of Colored People. Mr. White cited the refusal of city welfare authorities to allow a vacant apartment on Saint Reports Due In NAACP Drive J. L. HOLLOWAY, chairman of the membership drive of the Durham Branch of the Nation al Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People has announced that all mem bership wdrkers are expected to make a report at the West Durham , Baptist Church on Thaxton Avenne, . ^Sunday, March 23 at 4 o'clock. Membership in the NAACP is $2.00 or more and NAACP officials hope to add at least 2,000 new membenM^ year. Films Qn Negro At NCC Thursday Three documentary : films, “The Negro in Education,” “The Negro in Science,'’ and “The Negro in National Af fairs,” produced by the Lig gett and Myers Tobacco Com pany, wwe to be ihowB St B. N. Duke Andltorlum on Thursday, March 20, at 7;Sl p. m. Mary’s Avenue, Staten Island, to be rented to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Sims and their family because it is “located in a pre dominantly white district.” AT THE REQUEST of the Staten Island branch of the NAACP, which is handling the case, Mr. White asked the Mayor and City Council President to instruct the Bureau of Real Es tate Board ot Intimate, to make available to the Sims family the apartment that was denied them by Robei;t S. Molinari of the Bureau of Real Estate and Mr. Hofsteder, housing consultant for the Department of Welfare. • THE STATEN ISLAND NAACP reported to William Ellard, director of the Bureau of Real Estate, that the Sims family was given priority for the apartment until it was dis covered that they were Ne groes. Then, the branch com plained, Mr. MoUnarl indi cated that the ^use should go (Please turn'to Page EUght) More Bombings In Los Angeles LOS ANGELES The latest attempt to prevent Negroes from moving into pre dominantly white neighborhoods •Occurred here last week when two homes were damaged separate bombings. Mr. and Mrs. William Bailey and their 12-year-old 'son, Wil liam, Jr., were sleeping in rear bedrooms when a time t>omb severely damaged the living and dining rooms of their home. Across the street frcHn the Bailey home, another explosion damaged one-half of a duplex apartment now occupied by white tenants. A Negro fireman, Roger Dwcan, plans to move into the aparUnent on llay 4. Duncan told police that he had received a threatening note when he made plans to purchase the residence. Nobles Make Gala Day Plans GALA DAY PLANS were made by members of eight tem ples during a meeting here Sun day at the Two-Spot Restaurant. Temples represented were: Imran Temple No. 168, Kabala Temple No. 177, Khalif Temple No. 144, Kindah Temple No. 62, Ouda Temple No. 147, Rameses Temple No. 91, Rofelt Pasha Temple No. 175 and Sethos Tem ple No. 17(^ with Zafa Temple No. 176 as host. • Nobles present represent ing the Royal Divan were Noble Zack Alexander, Dep uty Imperial Potentate, Char lotte; Noble James T. Digga, imperial Chief of the Exalted Pass, Wlnston-Saleoa; and Noble Thomas Poag, Imperial Director of Novices and Neophytes, Winston-SalenL Noble J. A. Tarpley presided at the meeting, and Noble F. G. Burnett, Chairman of the Gala Day activities outlined plans for the observances. NCM ASSETS UP FOLR NHUON In commenting on the SSrd Annual Statement of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, President C. C. pany’s actlvitias lor the y^sr re vealed most ntisfkctory results. “Ths nlttanato gsni sf a mh tnal Ufe tnaaranee •enapany,’* (Please , turn to Pace Stgbt)
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