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Durham Host To National Annual Session Oi^tas “ I ^ f MARION JACKSON B. A. J. WHITTED First National Vice-President Second National Vice-Pres. Executive Secretary, National Cashier and Assistant Treasurer, Council of Women, Washington, N. C. Mutual Life Insurance Co. WADELLE O. FARMER Recording Secretary Atlanta Daily World, Atlanta, Georgia. iJPi LOUISE W. BELL ANNA J. STEEN Treasurer Dean of Pledgees Medical Record Librarian, Pro- Teacher, Public School System, vldent Hospital, Chicago, 111. Washington, D. C, FANNIE DOWNEY National Journalist Owner newspaper, Montclair. New Jersey. JEAN S. SCOTT National President Manager Lawrencevllle Branch. I’lctured above are some of the notables who will be presented at the annual meeting of the Iota Phi Lambda Sorority that will be held here August 23-27. The Rho Chapter of^ Bureau of Employment Security, Durham is hostess to the convention, and has made elaborate plans for the entertainment of the more than 200 delegates and visitors expected to attend the annual; Plttaburgh, Pennsylvania.' MAHELA S. EVANS Director of Education Public School Ss^stem. Chicago lUinoU. MAILING EDITION m FOR THIRTY YEARS THE OVTSTANDim WEEKLY OF THE CAROUNAS Entered (u Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Durham, North Carolina, under Act of March 3,1879. 10 CENTS PAY NO MORE VOLUBIB S»—NUMBEB SI DURHAM, N. O., SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1952 FIOKIDA WOMAN ESCAPES ANGRY MOB AHER HRIN6 SIX BULinS INTO BODY OF DOCTOR NOTED CHICAGO ,MINISTER NEW HEAD OF TALLADEGA NEW YORK Dr. Arthtir D. Gray of Chicago, I minola, nationally known Con-, gregatlonal Cbriatlan church- j mmn and Chairman of the Exe-1 cuttTB CoaomlttM OanariJ.^ Council of Congregational Chrli- Han Church in America, has Just been elected to the Presidency of Talladega College, Talladega, Alabama. Dr. Gray will take over hii new office on September 1. Dr. Gray, a graduate of Tal ladega College (B. A. 1929) and Chicago Ideological Semlnl^~ (B. D. 1934); D. D. 1948), has been pastor of the Church of the Good Shepherd (Congrega tional) in Chicago since 1944. During an outstanding ministry in Chicago he haa developed aitd administered a significant com munity-wide program of soci^ welfare and service. Talladega College, to which Dr. Gray has been called, was founded in 1867 by the Ameri can Missionary Association Div ision of the Congregational Christian Board of Home Mis sions. It was the first chartered Negro College in Alabama, but Ita faculty and Board of Tnis- teei are bl-radal and it is de monstrating in its student body the principle adopted when the’ college was founded, namely, that it should be "for the edu cating and training of youth from which no one should be barred on accoimt of race or color.** Dr. Gray , has held various na tional denominational poats in the Congregational Christian fel lowship including the Chairman ship of the Executive Commit tee of the General Coimcil and the Assistant Moderatorship of the General Council in 1946^48. He la Moderator of the Chicago Congregational Association of Churches (1991-S2), a Trustee of the Illinois Congregational Con ference and a member of The Board of Home Missions of the the Congregational Christian Churches. Henderson Woman Held In Fix" Killing HENDERSON Roaetta Royster Burton, who alleges that James White, Jr., told her he was going to “fix” her for nmnlng out on him, was bound over to the next term of court here Tuesday, by Record- (Please tiim to Paga Xi^t) rr DR. ARTHUR D. GRAY, new ly elected president of Tal ladega College, Talladega, Ala bama. Dr. Gray who is at pre sent the pastor of the Good Shep herd Congregational Christian Church of Chicago, Illinois, will assume his new duties Sept. 1. FLORIDA UNIV. CASE BACK TO U. S. COURT NEW YORK The suit to gain admission of ,.U«gto students to the Universji- ty of !Floirida headed ba^ to tiie United Stktes Supreme Court this week following decision of the Supreme Court of Florida refusing to order the acceptance of colored applicants by the all- white university. tlie FloTida court dismissed the suit and held that equal edu cational facilities are afforded Negro students at the Florida Agricultiu:al and Mechanical College at Tallahassee. When the [ cases were originally filed in May, 1949, there were no grad-1 uate or professional courses of fered at Florida* A. and M. Col-1 lege. After Negro students jihad applied for such coturses, they were ordered Instituted at the Negro schooL (Please turn to Page Eight) MISS VIRGINIA P. CURRY, associate professor of Spanish and head of the Foreign Lang uage department at Florida A. and M. College, recently received a Ford Foundation Fellowship. She is a native of Kansas City, Kansas. New Rebel Army Being Probed By Government NEW YORK The so-called American Con- ybderate Armx, sponsored the Ku Klux Kian, is being in vestigated by the United States Department of Justice, Thur- good MarsliaU, special counsel of the National Association for LdvaBeeaaent-of-Colored has been informed. USHERS PRB> FOR 1WENIY- EIGHTH HEEI IN QUQN CITY (Special to the TIMB8) evening, August 22. CHARLOTTE ^ Plans will be discussed this More than 500 delegates andly«“ erection of a home visitors to the 28th annual aes- minl«ters who have become incapacitated because of age or permanent illness, according to President Austin. “Many worthy ministers of all denominations, serving small charges, are often humiliated in their age because they have never been able to earn enough money to provide themselves with funds or even a home to take care of themselves in their old age,” he said. “The Ushers of this state intend to make it possible for all ministers to spend their last days with dignity, whatever had been their lot,” Austin stated further. Sion of the Interdenominational Ushers Association of North Carolina are expected here August 21-24 when the conven tion meets at the Saint Paul Bap tist Church of which the Rev. James F. Wertz is pastor. Reports from the office of the President, L. E. Austin of Dur ham are to the effect that one of the largest delegations ever to attend an annual Aeeting of the organization will converge on Charlotte from all over the State. V The organization which is the largest interdenominational group in North Carolina, has done much to aid the Oxford Colored Orphanage at Oxford and worthy students to obtain a college education. Highlights of the convention this year will be the “Con- secreation” sermon to be deliver ed by Dr. lyiarshall Shepard, pas tor of the Mount Olivet Baptist Church of Phlladelplila and Re corder of Deeds of the City of Philadelphia. Dr. Shepard is also former Recorder of Deeds of Deeds of Washington, D. C., and the annual Oratorical Contest to be held Friday night, August 28. Dr. Shepard wiU praach, Mday Rape Suspect Gets Mistrial In Queen City charlotte The refusal of an all-white jury to agree as to the guilt or Innocence of James Foster, charged with intent to commit rape on a white woman. Judge Zeb, V. Nettles ordered a mla- (Please turn to Vaga Eight) , 5 .*■ Man Steals Bus, Collects Fares, Lands In Jail WINSTON-SALEM You have heard the story of a man having seen a rope and with no intent of stealing at all, picked up the loose end, and up on reaching home and drawing in the roi>e found a cow on the other end of it, but local officers were confronted with a new one when a bus was reported stolen here last week. The theft was bad enough, but Ervin McLendon is now having to think up an alibi for the fact that he is alleged to have taken the bus and to have picked up paying passengers and carried them along the East Winston route. The officers say witnesses told them that McLendon took the fares as if he had the re sponsibility of reporting same to the owner, the Safe Bus Com pany. The unauthorized driver decid ed to abandon the veiiiele ^yCter a while and left it at Columbia Terrace. He then caught an other bus and went into the busi ness district of Winston. The evidence tended to show that he used some of the money that he collected from the fares to pay his way on another bus. Un fortunately for McLendon, he did not ^collect enough to satisfy the court to the tune of a $300.' 00 bond and as a result he went to ]aU. Husband Of Slayer Dies Of Heart Attack Fleeing Irate Citizens On July 17, Mr. Marshall wrote to Attorney General James P. McGrannery urging him to “order a full investiga tion . . . and the necessary ap propriate action resulting from such investigation.” The only an swer to this new KKK challenge, he said, “is vigorous prosecu tion by the Federal Govem- mrat.” In reply, James M. Mclnemey, assistant attorney general, wrote to Idr. Marsluill, saying that the Department has “initiated ap propriate action to ascertain whether he (Bill Hendrix of the KKK) or this new organization may be engaging in any activi ties in violation of any federal statute.” A press release sent out by Hendrix on a week-end KKK conference held in Orlando, Fla., last motnth said; "A resolution was pnud to organise all anti-Commnnlat organisattoBS under erne lead ership and Mie program. The name picked for this organi sation is 'The American Con federate Army.’ Ten thousand Colonels Commissions were ordered printed. Hie member ship shall be limited to White Christians and all organi- stions now operating will be issued a Cliarter. If necessary this organisation will bear arms to upheld onr oonstitn- tional rights. “There were ninety-seven or- ganisationa represented at this meeting and members from thirty one states. A public speaking tour will be started in the south in the near future. If in October the United States Supreme Court out laws seg regation, all members will take this as a violation of onr Constitutional rights . . . Full er Warren and Loyal Compton were denounced, and all will aplaud January and the end of stupid goveramest in Flor ida.** Here is Mrs. Ruby McCollum, the shooting Mr. McCollum died 37-year-old wife of Samuel Mc Collum, Central Life Insurance Company executive (inset), who is being held for the fatal shoot ing of Dr. S. Leroy Adams, white physician of Live Oak, Florida last Sunday morning. Following of a heart attack, reported to have been brought on by the ex citement which foiieWed the es cape of his wife and himself from an angry aiob bent on lynching the couple. TWO HUNDRED EXPECTED HERE FOR ANNUAL IOTA SORORITY CONVENTION AUGUST 23-27 LIVE OAK, FLA. Waging tongues, angry whites and scared Negroes are in this quaint Florida town alter one of the most hectic days Uie in habitants have ever witnessed as the result of the Sunday morn ing shooting of Dr. G. Leroy Adams, wtiite, allegedly by Mrs Ruby McCollum, 37-year-old wife of a Central Life Insurance Company executive. The shooting occured in the Office of the white physician a- bout 11 A. M. Sunday. The story goes tiiat Mrs. McCollum went to the office to pay a medical bill she had with the doctor, al ter she had been tiireatened with small claims court proceedings After quarreling over the waj she is alleged to have given the doctor a $100 bill to satisfy the claim. I Over 200 business and pro fessional women will gatiier here next week, August 23- 27 for the 23rd annual session of the national convention of the Iota Phi Lambda Sorority, it was announced here this week by Mrs. Ethel Berry, president of the Rho Chapter, of Durham, that is serving as hostess to the 1952 meeting. The theme of the conven tion will be, “Iota Women! Face New Opportunity In! Current World.” Sub-topics for panel 'discussions are: New Opportunity In the Com mercial Field, Opening for Wo men in Industry and Opportun- . ity to Build a World Peace. I Prior to the schedule open- I Ing date of the convention a I meeting of the Executive Board will be held Friday, August 22 I at six o'clock P. M. in the prl- jvate dining room of the Bilt I more Hotel. Registratton d of ficers and delegates will take place the JoUowing day from 8 o’clock A. M. to 12 o’clock noon. ,(Please turn to Page Eii^t) Tills is the point where the shooting began, according to other Negro patients who were seated in the jim-crow section of the physician’s office. Upon handing tiim the bill, Mrs. Mc Collum is alleged to have rip ped out a small calibre pistol and began shooting. Sensing the situation, the doctor rushed to the woman, with two slugs in tiis body and succeeded in knock ing the weapon from her hand He fell wounded to the floor and it is alleged that the irate wo man picked up the gun and emptied the remaining chambers into his prostrate body. y While her husband and chu dren were attending church aiiU most of the citizens of the sec tion were sending up praises lu jCxod, the woman is supposed vu have hastened to her home. I When the startling news went the rounds, angry whites began I to gather, ^eriff Sim Howell I went imme^tely to the home I of the alleged slayerj and tliere I he arrested iter wiihout any tro>' Ible. By the time he reached h i M. BERRY, Prsrident gather. Quick thinking on the part the sheriff Is believed tu ha.t saved her from the vengeanct> a the mob. When asked if the wn man he had was the one chart(t.>- with the crime, he told the mo'i that the woman held by hir was one who tould name th- killer. With this decoy, he w> able to whisk Mrs. McCollum f (Pleas* turn to Page Eight) MRS. L of Rho Chapter of the Iota Phi Lambda Sorority of Durham, and Admlnlatrative Assistant Nerth Carolina Mutual Life lu- surance Company. Mra. Berry will prtaide at tha BdueatlMal Program at tha annual oasMM- tiau of the Bararity to be Md at tha Mount Calvary BapUat Church, Sunday, August S4 at 4:M P. M
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