WEALTHY FARMER PAYS ONLY $5,100
TO avoid suit in tenants SLAYING
TO OPEN BIDS OW LOW INCOME ITOIISING PROJECT HERE, JUNE 12
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FOR THIRTY YEARS THE OUTSTANDING WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS
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VOLUME SO—NUMBER 18
DVBHAM. NOBTH OABOLINA, SATURDAY, APRIL 19th, 1S52
PRICE TEN CENTS
Over 1,000 Expected At
Ushers’ 28th Mid-Year Meet
WILMIN&TON
Over 1,000 members of the
N. C. Inter(^nomInatk)nal Ush
ers Association and visitors are
expected to attend the ann
ual Mid-Year’s session of the or
ganization when it meets here
Sunday, April 20 at 12 o’clock
noon at the Boy’s Club, corner
of Ninth and Nixon Streets.
The local entertainment com
mittee headed by E. J. Seymore
announced here Tuesday that
every detail for entertaining the
session has been attended to and
everything is ready.
The vanguard of the delega
tion is expected to begin arriv
ing here Friday afternoon and
Saturday with the main group of
delegates coming in Sunday
morning.
The Association is the largest
tion in the State and since its
beginning 28 years ago has con
tributed many thousands of doll
ars for the education of worthy
students and to aid the Colored
Orphanage at Oxford.
The meeting here Simday ia
expected to be presided over by
tha praaident, Ih B. Auattai o(
Durham and vice prudent, C.
A. Langston of Raleigh.
Furnishing music for the pro
gram here Sunday will be the
Junior Choir of Mt. Nebo Bap
tist €huf«b of Wilmington and
the famous Gospeiaires of Dur
ham, singing group of radio and
concert stage, under the direc
tion of Miss Thelma Bailey.
The welcome address will be
delivered by Rev. T. O. Mills,
pastor of the First Baptist
Church of Wilmington.
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Following the welcome ad
dress and musical numbers re
ports from various districts of
the State for the Orphanage and
Education fund will be given.
The closing number will be the
president's annual address.
Women Ask UN
To Seek Release
Of Mrs. Ingrain
Several Negro women h^ve
sent a cablegram to the United
Nations on behalf of Mrs. Rosa
Lee Ingram, Negro mother of
ten children, who has been sen
tenced to life imprisonment in a
Georgia prison for defending
her family against racial attac^.
The message, THE ytlMES
learned, was addressed to the
U. N. Commission on the Status
of Women in the World. It read;
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n above is the North
1 Symphony Orchestra,
by Dr. Benjamin Swa-,
low which will be presen
ted i* concert at Hillside Audi
torium, Hillside High School, I tween $300-500, are being soli- i
Tuesday, April 29, at 1 p. m., cited by a Ways and Means ]
under the sponsorship of the P.- Committee with F. D. Marshall,
T.A. Funds to defray the cost of Mrs. H. A. Lncas, P. Hall, H. A.
the concert, estimated at be-1 Hill, and M. Davis as members>-'
According to Dr. C. E. B««l-
ware, president of the local P.-
T.A. Council, more than 1504
children are expected to attend
the concert.
Mother, Daughters Net
$3,300 From N. Hanes
Stsle Supreme Court Agrees
To Hear Plea For J. Roman
Pictured above are principals
in the dedication exercises of
the education hniiding of St
Joseph' A.M.E. Church which
will be held next week begining
Sunday Morning April 20 and
extending throughout the week,
with many of Durham’s leading
churches participating. The clo
sing program Sunday April 27
will present the Rev. L. H. Hem-
mlngway, presiding bishop of
the Second Episcopal District,
delivering sermons both at the
morning and evening services.
From left to right are Bishop
Henuningway, Rev. J. D. Davis,
Presiding Elder of the Durham
District of the Western North
Carolina Conference, and Rev
D. A. Johnston, pastor of St.
Joseph.
RALEIGH
The State Supreme Court has
agreed to hear arguments May
6 or 7 in the appeal of John
Andrew Roman, 28-year-old
Negro sentenced to die in the
gas chamber for the murder of
a Lexington widow.
The record of the case on ap
peal was filed with the Supreme
Court this week.
Roman earlier had been sen
tenced by^uperior Coiurt Judge
f J. Will tms in Davidson Coun
ty Superior Court for slaying
Dwellings Will House More
Than Families hi Area
McDougald Terrace, Dur
ham’s first public low income
housing project for Negroes
came closer to a reality today
when L. H. Addington, execu
tive director of the Housing Au
thority of the City of Durham
announced , that construction
bids would be advertised on
May 8 and opened on June 12.
For more than a year the Au
thority has been worlcing on
plans for the project in the Col
lege View section of the city.
Work was delayed several
weeks when it became necessary
to institute condemnation pro
ceedings to obtain title to the
land. It was in the nature of a
friendly suit to remove restric
tive covenants.
McDougald Terrace will
house 247 families in the low
income brackets. The units
wlll.be of various siies con
taining from one to four bed
rooms. Each unit will be
equipped with refrigerators,
ranges, space and hot water
heaters.
There will be play areas for
included, and a^large commun-
the children with a spray pool
ity center will be available for
meetings, demonstrations, cli
nics and various other functions
of the tenants. A maintenance
and management building will
be included.
Buildings will be of brick ve
neer with asphalt tile floors on
the ground floors and oak up
stairs.
Although the Authority is
not taking formal applications
for living units, numerous let
ters have been received, and
these are being filed. The
writers will be advised when
formal applications will be ac
cepted and the prospective
tenants will be screened for
eligibility.
Construction started last
w^ek on the white project in
Edgemont, and the setting of
dates for McDougald Terrace
bidding means that both jobs
will be under construction si
multaneously and Will ’ reach
completion at a close date. Con
tracts will call for 40 units' ready
for occupancy within 200 days.
Addington said this means that
some families should be moved
into McDougald Terrace early
next year.
Burgaw Police Chief Slays
Negro In Break-in Attempt
BURGAW
Police Chief J. Porter Ward
reported this week that he had
fatally shot a Negro whom he
accosted trying to break into a
Burgaw jewelry store.
Ward said that the shooting
occurred shortly before mid
night, Tuesday night. The Ne
gro, he reported, was identified
as Frank Wright, 50, of New
York City. Wright died shortly
after being admitted to a Biu:-
gaw hospital.
According to Ward, he told
Wright to come out of the door
way of the jewelry store with
his hands up and was told in re
ply to drop his gun or be killed.
Ward said that he fired twice
when Wright reached for his hip
pocket and lunged put of the
store entrance. ) —*,
A former resident fof Burgaw,
Wright had been visiting in the
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Robinson Keeps Title With 3rd Round KG Of Graziand
CHICAGO
S p ^cTa I
Sharp-shooting Sugar Ray
Robinson, as keen as the edge on
a crusty autumn inom, blasted
challenger Rocky Graziano in
to helpless submission here
Wednesday night with a rapier
like left followed by a crunchy
sight that^caught Graziano
squarely on tKe chin.
KO’ed after 1:83 ofUhe third
round, Graziano tried ^Mpera-
tely to pull himseif from the
canvas as 20,000 fans at Chicago
stadium saw Referee Tommy
Gilmore toll the count which
ended thcT battle and Graziano’s
bid—his last one, perhaps—for
the middleweight crown.
The challenger didn’t have it,
though, and after stumbling on
wobbly legs to his feet after he
had been counted out, he ac
knowledged defeat at the hands
of a master boxer, at 81 years
of age, o/ie of the sweetest, «le-
verest boxers the fight game has
known.
Graziano had Robinson wor
ried, as the champ had earlier
admitted. A pier-six style slug
ger, The Rock had shown his
wares before in bouts with Tony
Zale, and Sugar Ray knew that
any one of the challenger’s
roundhouse rights could end the
battle before the fighting actual
ly began. i
But two rounds of punching
a Ad counter-punching ii^dicated
Robinson’s willingness to box
and slug, and several flurries
promulgated by the champion
kept Graziano ever wary, even
as the champ wa)s cooly Caut
ious, and pointed out the com
plete respect which each boxer
65-year-old Mrs. Beulah Hin-
shaw.
Roman did not take the
stand and presented no defense
witnesses. His attorneys, how
ever, attacked the findings of
several of the state’s Expert
witnesses, which included FBI
agents.
The statement of the defense
case on appeal noted numerous
exceptions to Judge Pless’s de
cisions to allow the testimony
of certain witnesses to be sub
mitted to the jury.
Judge Upholds Washington Board
In Jim Crow Playground Suit
WASHINGTON
A case in which Negroes
sought to prove the unconsti
tutionality of segregated play
grounds was settled in favor of
the defendants here last week
when Judge David A. Pine of
the District Court ruled that the
District of Columbia Recre
ational Board can maintain
separate but equal playgrounds.
The suit was brought in be
half of five Negro youths, aged
11 to 18, on the initiative of
their parents.
The sole issue in the case was
that of segregated facilities on
local playgrounds. The plaintiffs
did not contend that facilities
for Negroes were , unequal to
those provided for whites.
The question was whether
Trinidad playground and the
Wheatley School playground can
be legally segregated.
Judge Pine held that the Re
creation Board has authority
to set policy and, therefore, the
question was whether this ex
ercise of authority was consti
tutional. He quoted a federal
judge in Maryland who held
that racial segregation was con
stitutional there and who had
in turn quoted another caSe
which said: “Separation of the
races is normal treatment in this
state.”
Boy Drowns In Quarry Here;
Divers Finally Recover Body
A 12-year-old boy who repor
tedly had been swiming at the
old rock quarry hole near the
Durham County Tuberculosis
Sanitorium was drowned here
had for the other.
Graziano caught the champ
with a righthand smash to the
head in the third and sent Sugar
to the canvas, briefly and via
ropes. Although the fall was not
an official knockdown, it served
to anger Robinson, who seconds
later started a blow to Grazi
ano’s body, raw an unguarded
chin, and instinctively caught
the Rock with a short right
which tumbled hirii to the can
vas and out of the fightt
Robinson had been ahead on
two officials’ scoreboards before
the sudden knockout blow.
slipped into the water, rose once
to the surface, and then dis
appeared again.
A companion, Johnnie Thom
as, ran home and informed his
father, who notified the victim’s
aunt.
Kent’s body was not recover
ed until Saturday at which time
members of the Durham Red
Cross Lifesaving Corps w
able to recover the body from
the water.r
The water at the quarry is
reportedly over 75 feet deep at
its deepest point.
By R. C. Foreman, Jr.
NEW BERN
The life oia Negro farmer can roughly be reckoned as
worth five thousand dollars, observers here Wre concluding
this week.
Attorneys for Newton Hanes—a white Gentleman Farm
er—on Wednesday presented a check for $5,100 to Mrs.
Martha Simmons, whose husband Ishmael was shot to death
by Hanes in November.
The money was not given for free, however. Mrs. Sim
mons exchanged for the five thousand dollars her signed
statement forestalling any possible civil suit in Craven
Superior Court.
Hire Negro
Announcer In
San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO
In keeping with the National
Broadcasting Company’s fair
employment 'practices, KNBC,
the network’s San Francisco ra
dio outlet, has announced the
appointment of Wallace G. Ray
as vacation relief staff announ-
cer. KNBC is the first radio sta
tion in the San Francisco bay
area to hire a Negro in such a
capacity.
George Greaves, Program
Man^jfer at KNBC, stated that
Ray will be in charge of the
station’s all night broadcasting
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Hold Youth
In Assault
In Zehulon
ZEBULON'
Eighteen-year-old Walter T.
Jenkins, who \mbs shot in the
head with a .32 cal. revolver
last Saturday night was repor
ted resting comfortably in St.
Agnes Hospital in Raleigh this
week.
Police in the meantime! were
holding James Jenkins, 17-year
old Negro of this town on a
charge of assauH. Jenkins was
denied bond pending the out
come of the wounded youth's
condition.
The shooting, according to io-
vestigating officers,.was promp
ted by an argument over a girl.
This is where the five thou
sand is going, the TIMES learn
ed:
$1,100 to Mrs. Simmons.
$1,100 to each of two daugh
ters.
$1,700 to L. T. OraBtfcaxn, ^
New Bern Attorney who pri
vately prosecuted the case.
$100 to pay off note that
Hanes had endorsed for Sim--
mons before the shooting.
Events which led to Hanes
trial in January, which led to
a lily-white jury to hear the
case, and which led to a six
hour, fifteen-minute acquittal
were generally expected by Tar
Heels, who have come to expect
anything in a state which lias
fooled most of the country by
hiding behind the accomplish
ments of certain Negro endea
vors and raising a false flag of
progress, harmony, and self-
satisfaction.
Hanes, therefore, who claims
as relatives executives of the
Wachovia National Bank and
Trust Company and those of
Hanes Textile Mills in Wins-
ton-Salem. was freed after he
testified that his wife was ra
ped by Sirnmons, who served
11 years as a tenant farmer
in the employ of Hanes.
Hanes also testified, during
his January trial, that Simmons
had threatened him over wages
and that he shot Simmons in
self-defense and also because
his wife had told him on October
26 that Simmons had raped her.
Hanes, who was dubbed.
“Shootin’ Newton” by testifying
law officers during one stage
of the trial, shot Simmons eight
days after the alleged rape of
his wife by the 40-year-old ten
ant farmer.
Hanes told and corroborated
his own story. No other wit
nesses substantiated his claim
during the trial. His wife did
not take the witness stand ta
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JAMES KENT
last Friday.
James Kent Jr., who made his
home with an uncle, Charles
Pearsall, at 1011 Fourth Street,
I was playing on rocks in the
quarry with friends when he
Mays To Speak
Dr. Benjamin Mays, President
of Morehouse College, Atlanta,
Ga., will speak during Sunday
morning worship services at B.
N. Duke Auditorium, North
Carolina College, April 20, at
9:45 a. m. The College Chioir
wiU furnish music for the oc
casion.
NAACP Pledges Support To
Fight Against Apartheid
NEW YORK
On behalf of the National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People, Walter White, executive
secretary, last week sent a cable to Dr. ^unes Moroka,
president of the African National Congress, pledging
“unqualified support for the fight for freedom against
Pronier Malan’s apartheid oppression of non-white
peoples of South Africa.”
White’s cable recalled that “a bloody war was
fought against German nazism” and warned th*t
“liberty cannot survive if nazism is permitted to exist
in South Africa or elsewhere in the world.”
(See.J!ditorial On South Africa—Page Two).