North Carolina Newspapers

YOUTH, 17, ON TRIAL SECOND TIME FOR SLAYING FARMER ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ May Erect Braiwh Bank In Hayti Area Proposal bf the Mechanics and Fanners Bank to establish a branch In the Hayti section of Durham met almost unanimous approval of a cross section of persons interviewed here this week. Several weeks ago, the Caro lina Times learned that the bank secured option on-two lots loca ted on the intersection of Petti grew and Fayetteville streets with the idea in mind of es tablishing a branch which will include drive-in and other banking facilities for persons living in the Hayti section. In proposing the establish ment of the Hayti branch bank officials are taking in considera tion the increasing growth of Hayti as a business and residen tial section as well as the tre mendous parking problem many of the bank’s customers have in trying to reach its main offi ce in the uptown business dis trict. It is the general opinion of many persons interviewed on the question this week, that the branch in the Hayti section will not only be a distinct advantage to businesses and individuals in this particular location, but that it will contribute considerably to the growth of the bank. The establishment of a branch in the Hayti section will be' in keeping with the larger banks of the city several of which maintain several branches in various sections of Durham. Hayti is believed to be the lar gest outlying business and resi dential section of the city that does not have branch banking faciRties of any kind. Only two persons interviewed on the question did not think it a good idea. Of the SO others questioned all fully endorsed the proposal. Statements from several in terviewed here Wednesday are us foUowi: “I tliliik tt woHld etctolaljr meat the BMd th« y»rlihig ' problem one meeti la trying to gft to our tank ■ptowB.” THEODORE SPKIOHT Manager, Speight’s Auto Service. “1 tliink the catablisliment of a braaeh of ttae Meehanloa and gataura lUnlt ia. tka Hayti Motion of Oorfeam la aa ezcelleat idea. 1 trust the pro ject will aooa nuterlaliie.*’ R. N. HARRIS Secretarjr-Manager Bankers’ Fire Ina. Co. “People doa’t go anywliere tlieae daya for one thing only. I don’t believe the eatabiiah- mant of a branch of our bank for banking purpooea only would be wiM.” BEV. E. T. BROWNE Pastor, Mount Vernon Baptist Church. “I tlilnk a branch of the Me- clianlcs and Farmera Bank in the Hayti section is sorely needed aa this aection after all, ia the iargeot and the center of Negro Ufe of Dariuun." H. R. EDWARDS Employee, Southern Fidelity Mutual _ Insurance Company. “1 highly approve of the ea- tablialimMit a branch of the Meehanica and Farmers Bank in the Hayti section of Dnr- ham.” ' ' MISS S. A. HOLLOWAY N. C. College “I tliink It la a very good idea to establish a branch of onr bank in the Hayti section." MISS F. B. ROSSER Busineaswoman. JfT' ,, ‘‘I tliink the eatablialimMit of a branch of onr bank In the Hayti aection Is a good Idea.” W. G. PEARSON, n Manager, Do-Nut Shop r “I think the idea la an ezcel- ieat one. Ihere are so many persoas of onr group la Dnr- ham who never go on ParrWi (Please turn to Page Eight) FOR THIRTY YEARS THE OUTSTANDING WEEiaY OF THE CAROLINAS Entered aa Second Class Matter at the Post OfHee at Darham, North Carolina, onder Act Of March S, 1179. VOLUME SO—NUMBER IS PVBHAM, NOBTB CABOLINA, 8ATVRDAT, APRIL 12th, 1958 PRICE TEN CENTS THE BEV. T. KILGORE Rev. Kilgore Will Speak During Revival Here The annual revival meeting of the ^ West Durham Baptist Church will begin April 14 and continue tlirough April 18. A series of evangelistic ser- Escaped Gas Chamber After First Conviction To Give Recital The North Carollaa Oallege Daasa Oronp will prcaont a coBoort at B. N. Dake Audi- torlam, Friday, April IS, at t:15 p. m. There will be no charge for admlarfoB. Miss Anderson Has Easter TV ShowAtSP.M. Marian Anderson, world-fa mous contralto, will make her postponed television appearance on Ed Sullivan’s "Toast of the Town,” Easter Sunday, April 13 (CBS-TV, 8:00-9-.00 PM, EST). Miss Anderson originally was scheduled to make her TV de but on “Toast of the Town’s” Christmas program. She will sing Schubert’s “Ave Maria” and the Spiritual “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands.” One of the great singers of our time. Miss Anderson is cur- mons will be delivered by the. rently on her sixteenth conse- Reverend Thomas Kilgore, pas- ' cutive American tour. In the tor of the Friendship Baptist years since her first American Church of New York City. concert, she lias been honored The Rev. Kilgore ranks jjy governments, universities, among the strong ministerial i PresidenU and Kings, leader, of the country He was ,^^,000 Bok one of toe lea^ng cler^enl^^„^ g among the baptist of North > . r • Carolina for a numlier of years, having served in the position bf execulTve* secretary of the General Baptist State Conven tion for three years. Before leaving the st.ate, he was pas tor of the Friendship Baptist Church of Winston-Salem. three Hcmorary Doctorates of Music, and countless other mural in. the. Departmertt of the without review a notice of ap- honors, she is represented in Interior in Washington com memorating her Easter Sunday concert in 1939 before an au- (Please turn to Page to Eight) SPECIAL NEW BERN ■ A 17-year-old Negro with a third grade education went on trial again here on Tuesday, charged with the rifle slaying of Joe McGee, a 50-year-old farmer of the Spring Hope section. Ernest Ray Simmons, who was saved from the gas cham ber last October when the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that Judge Leo Car had erred in his instruc tion to the jury during Sim mons’ June trial, heard the State again present testimony in its case for his life. ACCORDING to the wite of the slaiiji fanner, her husband was roused on the night of April 20 by someone who called her husband into the yard. Ac cording to Mrs. McGee, ner hus band was found critically wound ed in the yard and died 18 hours later after being rushed to the New Bern Hospital. A neighbor, Ray Rider, who carried McGee to the Hospital, said that he heard McGee tell Dr. Oscar Kafer that a colored man shot liim. Rider said that he heard no other identifica tion. McGee had a bullet wound in his chest; another bullet had gone tlirough his upper arm. Simmons, who had been ap prehended and jailed, was mov ed to a jail later identified as the Jones County jail. Frank Dudley, who had been with Sim mons when he was arrested, was* also jailed. the STATE’S CASE against Simmons rested on the evidence (Please turn to Page Eight) ^ SUPREME MrDISMISSES APPEAl Nona FOR HILUR RALEIGH The North Carolina Supi Court on Wednesday dismissed peal for LaFayette Miller, Beau- ford Negro convicted a'hd sen tenced to die for the slaying of a white farmer in November. By so doing, the State Court’s (Lett to right) India Edwards, Vico Oliairman of the Democra tic National Craunitteo and Di rector of the Womens Division shows the Guidebook for coun ty and precinct workers, to the four Deocratic Conriws on her staff: Venice Spraggs, Carolyn Moore, Jane Schmidat (iM^d^ Women’s Division publication, THE DEMOCRA'nC DIGEST) and Elsie Jensen. Hie four Democratle Couriers will report to women voters on the 1952 campaign Issues and help strengthen local party or- ganisationa trhoughout the coun try. DEWEY SIGNS ANTI-BIAS HU IN N. Y. NEW YORK Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York this week si^ed into law a measure expanding the powers Of the State Com mission Against Discrimination. Originally established to curb discrimination in emplojrment, the Commission now has had its scope widened to include under its jurisdiction discrimination in restaurants, hotels, theatres, resorts and simUar places of public accommodation. Although In New York, offi cials don’t refer to the anti-bias law as ai^ FEPC, it is generally regarded as such elsewhere and its function is essentially the same as is sought in FEPC legis lation. In signing the bill. Governor Dewey said the new law Is “one of the significant accom plishments of the 1952 Legisla ture.” Under the new law, entry in to hotels, restaurants, etc., may not be denied on the grounds of race, creed, color or national origin, and advertisements sta ting a discriminatory policy are forbidden. Violations may lead to a cease and desist order, pub lication of the names of offen ders, and finally, issuance of a restraining order by ttie courts. The administration of the anti bias employment law has been such as to give little cause for worry that s^easures wiU_^ required to obtain com pliant, was pointed out. ^ While it is obvious that the (Please turn to Page Xl^t) action automatically fixed April 25 as the date for Miller to die the gas chamber at Central prijton liere. _ At Miller’s trial, the attractive wife of the slain farmer, Mrs. Opal Boyd, testified that her husband was shot through a bedroom window, before Miller forced her to accompany him in a car." State highway patrolmen, Stopping the Miller car for a routine check, found Mrs. Boyd locked in the trunk, clad oi^ly in a nightgown and half-frozen. Miller startled courtroom spectators by testifying Mrs. Boyd had murdered her hus band. A jury, however, delibe rated only 10 minutes before finding the accused guilty of first degree murder. Gifts Of Books, Pamphlets Go To NCC Library North Carolina College's young but fast growing library was increased recently with the acceptance of three separate gifts consisting of 130 volumes and 168 pamphlets. The most recent was a gift of all of the numbers of the publi cation “Language" since 1927. *rhis was donated by Dr. Urban T. Holmes, Kenan professor of Romance Philology at the Uni versity of North Carolina, along with Dissertations and Mono graphs whict) are supplements of the publication. “Language” is the official publication of the Linguistic' Society of America. The School of library Sci ence was the recipient of tiae other two gifts, consisting of 107 volumes. The first was a gift of 56 volumes of books in Library Science donated by t^e Omaha Public Library of Onia- ha, Nebraska. This gift was effected by Ar thur H. Parson, director of the Omaha Library, through Miss Helen T. Geer, headquarters 11-, brarian of the American Libra (Please turn to Page Eight) The above North Carolina Col- guests of the University’s student Stephens, Fayetteville, N. C. lege students were part of a del- government association, egation of students from Negro Members of NCC’s delegation, colleges throughout the. South shown as they prepared to leave and East who were invited to Durham for Ithaca, New York, spend last week-end on the cam- are, left to right, E. N. Stray- pus of Cornell University as home, faculty member; Claude Delores Dyson, Wl—ten ■Salem, N. C.; Doris Scipto, ChadbeunM, N. C.; Helen McLaia, Seathera Pines, N. €.; Harold Jeh—sa, (acuity memlier; WilUaoi Lewie, Warsaw, N. C.; and Savannah Mitchell, Plymouth, N. C. Notional Alumni Groups To Hold Meet In Elizabeth City Assures NAACP Of Check Of Proposed Successor To Waring NEW YORK I Reports that the anti-Negro The National Association for 1 congressman from Charleston, the Advancement^ of Colored I S. C:, was being considered for People has* been assumed by the appointment to the federal dis- White House that the NAACP protest against consideration of Representative L. Mendel Rivers as a successor to Judge J. Waties Waring “will be carefully con sidered.” SC Democrats Pass 'Fair Play’ Measure COLUMBIA, S.'C. Richland County Democrats expressed their belief in fairness to all people here on April 7 by adopting a resolution upholding fair play at the suggestion of Dr. R. W. Nance. Dr. Nance, a Negro who has practised his profession here for 20 years, pointed out that Rich land democrats had previously taken a negative attitude toward trict court post vacated by the retirement of the libesal Judge Waring prompted Walter White, NAACP executive, to send a tel egram to President Turman in the hope of heading off such an appointment. “It is our sincere hope,” Mr. White saldr *That these reports are without foundation.. .Con gressman Rivers has been one of the most vindictive opponents of constitutional rights for mi norities and particularly for 15, 000,000 Negro Americans. . . We could conceive of no person less fit than he to administer even- handed justice and to uphold obedience to the federal con stitution.” civil rights issues. He said that since members of the group be lieve in fair play, the delegates should go on record to affirm their beliefs, More than 100 Negroes at tended the convention as dele gates from their precincts. NEW YORK The two-day annual meeting of the National Alumni Asso ciation will have ‘as its theme "An Alumni Program in the Malting” April 18-19, at the Elizabeth City State Teachers College, Elizat>eth City, N. C. Four workshops will be held during the sessions, according to R. W. Willard, president of the association and director of public relations of the Texas Southern University. The workshop on Alumni Organization and Records will be lead by Rev. Moses Belton, director of Public relations of Johnson C. Smith University. Charlotte, N. C. and by G. W. tary of Florida A. and M. Col lege, Tallahassee, Fla. A wor^hop on publications will be, conducted by Eimest Stewart, Jr., executive secre tary • of the American Alumni Council; Otto McClarrin, di rector of public relations of Howard University; E. F. Cor bett, director of public relations of A. and T. College, Greens boro. N. C.; and Wilton S. Scott. Savannah State College, Savan nah, Ga. The Fund Raising workhhop will be lead by Dr. D. T. Rolfe, Meharry Medical College, Nasli- alumni executive secretary of ville, Tenn.; and by M. S. John- (Please turn to Page Eight) NCC Senior, Garland Watt, Is Winner Of $t,225 General Education^ Board .Scholarship Grant Files Suit For to G's Against Bus Company CHARLOTTE Charles P. Bell filed suit against Atlantic Greyhound Cbporation for $10,000 here this week after claiming that he was fortefuily ejected from a tais on which he refused to move to a rear seat. Bell said that he was travel ing from Charlotte' to Spartan burg last July 29, and . was or dered by the bus driver to move to the rear when the bus reached Gastonia. After his refusal. Bell charges,, the driver obtained two policemen who "escorted” him from the bus. Atlantia Greyhound admits that Bell was “escorted” from the bus but says that no charge was placed against Bell, who was told that he could continue ^e trip if he would accept the Mat assigned to him by the driver. !fn Garland Watt, North Carolina College senior, was announced winner of a General Education Board scholarship last' week. The scholarship, available to students in many of the major Southern colleges. Includes tuit ion, “certain required fees,” a subsistence stipend of $1,125 and travel to and from place of study for a year. Watt is the first N. C. C. stu- QAKLAND WATT dent to win the scholarship* since the program was set up in 1950. President of the senior class, he is an honor student and active in many campus affairs. Son of Rotiert L. Watt of Reidsville, young ^Watt was re cently admitted to the Harvard University School. According to Dr. Robert W. July, assistant director of the General Education Board, many of those who by this aid are stimulated to undertake gradu ate training will eventually re turn to the South and^ make their contribution' to southern education. In any event, the program should create a larger' supply of able yoUng scholars from the South upon which southern institutions may draw in making appointments.” Watt holds men^>ersliip In several campus Mganizations, including the Soci^ Science club. Omega Psi Phi fraternity, and Alpha Kappa Vu honorary society. He is Parliamentarian for the Student Legislative As sembly which meets annually at the State capital, and boUs the same post tor the North CaroUiw College Student Government.