IKE SAYS "NO” AGAIN TO
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HAIXELUJAH, HAIXBLCJAH — The Our h»ay of lAurdes tohool
ehoir fomu * oolorfiil and melodlom group they wdoomc the holi>
day ■sMon with a slnglnr of the “First Noel" at Clulatnuu tree dedl-
oatioM ceremonies at City HbU Farii io New York recently. The
interracial choir Is greatly In demand during the holiday Maaoii.
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Court Asked To Throw Out Suit
Against Person School Officials
GREENSBORO
An answer to a school dis
crimination suit brought against
Person County and State school
officials was filed Monday in
Middle District Court.
The action was brought by a
group of Negro citizens of the
county who charge that the dis
criminatory practices of the
school officials are "obvious to
the naked eye.”
The State’s answer to this
charge, filed by State Attorney
General Harry McMullan, flat
ly asks the court to dismiss the
case.
McMullan’s answer to the ori
ginal charges by the plaintiffs
list several defenses:
1.—No diversity of citizenship
exists since the plaintiffs and de
fendants are all residents of
North Carolina.
2.—Since the alleged damages
cannot be assayed, there is no
way lot -tL- declatory judgement
to be entered.
3.—The complaint fails to state
or cause action upon which re
lief can be granted.
4.—The complaint fails to
specify by what means the de
fendants as individuals injured
The original charge filed by
the Negro cititens on Nov. 5
seeiis admittance for the Negro
students to the superior white
schools on constitutional grounds
The complaint contends that
while Negroe^^ make up 42 per
cent of the county’s school popu
lation they hiad only 19 of the 60
busses, two- of the 14 brick
buildings, and 2,730 of the 10,-
125 library volumes in the ele
mentary grades.
Tudcer Named
Emancipation
Speaker Here
The Reverend C. E. Tucker,
presiding elder of the Indiana
Conference of the A. M. E. Zion
Church, will be the principal
speaker at the annual Emancipa
tion Proclamation memorial ser
vices here Thiu«day, Jan. 1.
Saint John Baptist Church, lo
cated at Third Street, will be
host this year to the service,
regularly sponsored by the local
interdenominational Ministerial
Alliance. The service will l>egin
at 11 o’clock.
Participants on tne progrun,
in addition to those who will
represent the several civic and
educational organizations of the
are Miss J. M. Wooten, who
wiU read Lincoln’s historic pro
clamation; R. W. Dalton, soloist;
and Reverends Pr Ferry, H.
A. Smith and C. S. Sessoms who
will conduct devotionals.
Music for the program will be
furnished by the St. John Church
choir.
The following persons will
represent various organizations
of the city:
T. R. Speight, Durham Busl'
ness and Professional Chain; Dr.
C. D. Watts, Negro Professions;
W. L. Bradsher, educational in
stitutions; Mrs. Callie Daye, coS'
metologists; R. G. Trice, labor;
J. S. Stewart, Durham Commit
tee on Negro Affairs: I. O. Fun-
derburg. Veterans of Foreign
Wars; Richard K. Barksdale,
Greek letter fraternities.
Rev. Perry, who is also presi
dent of the Alliance and pastor
of Saiilt Mark A. M. E. Zion
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Tragedies Spell Bveok
Yuletlde For Four Families
Two Dead, One
Hurt, 4 Homes
Left In Ashes
A bleak Christmas is in pros
pect for at least four Tar Heel
families as fires caused the
deaths of two persons, seriously
injured another and destroyed
four homes last week.
At Fayetteville last Sunday, a
two year old boy was burned to
death while his four year old
brother suffered second degree
bums in a fire which destroyed
their home. A fire last Tuesday
at Oxford left a family of eight
homeless. A faulty kerosene
stove started a blaze in Burling
ton last Simday which burned
down the six room structure of
another family. A 38 year old
farmer of Tyrell County was
burned to death in a himting
accident last Thursday.
This note of tragedy was
sounded for these four North
Carolina families as the rest of
the State was in the midst of pre
parations for the Yule season.
In the Fayetteville tragedy,
the life of Wilson Blue, two
year old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Grady Blue, was snuffed out in
the flames which left the modest
home of his family a smoulder
ing ruin. The charred remains of
his t>ody were found on a bed in
the gutted dwelling by firemen.
An older brother and sister
were carried to safety by Mr.
and Mrs. Blue, but not before
the four-year-old son, Rayfield,
had suffered second degiW
bums. In the confusion and ex
citement the elder Blues each
thought the other had rescued
their youngest son, They did not
realize, until top late, that be
was still inside ttae burning
house.
Ras^field, the older brother,
was in fair condition at a local
hospital last week. The elder
Blues suffered face bums and
their nine year-old daughter es
caped unhurt.
At (^iferd, a famUy ten-
faces Christmas without a home
as a result of a fire last Tuesday
which destroyed their home.
While the father of the family.
Young Davenport, was at the
hospital receiving treatment for
a heart disease, the disaster oc
curred. A sister of Davenport,
staying with the children while
the mother attended Davenport
at the hospital, assisted all eight
children in reaching safety from
the five room house.
Davenport was a tenant on the
J. B. Overton farm.
Flames originating from a
faulty kerosene stove which was
to be replaced the next day by
an electric stove, destroyed the
home of a family in Glen Raven,
near Ekirlington, last Sunday
morning.
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rOR THiRTY YKARS THE OVTSTANDim WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS
Entered at Second Clou Matter at the Pott Offtce at Durham, ^orth Carolina, under Act of March 3,1879.
VOLUME 30 — NDMBI$B 48
DUBHABl. N. C.. SATURDAY, DEC. 27, 1952
PRICE !• CENTS
Texas CIO Seeks
Ban On Public
Jim Crow Schools
GALVESTON, TEX.
The fight of the National Asso
ciation lor" the Advancement of
Colored People to abolish Jim
Crow education has gained the
support of the Texas CIO Indus
trial Union Council which, at its
sixteenth annual convention
here voted unanimously to go ‘on
record as supporting the Immedi
ate elimination of all forms of
segregation in the public schools
of Texas.” -
Adoption of tthe resolution by
600 delegates, on December 18,
shortly aftelr NAACP attorneys
had argued before the United
States Supreme Court against
segregated education, followed
an address to the convention by
Herbert Hill, NAACP labor re
lations assistant. Mr. Hill told
the convention that “the con
tinued existence of racial segre-
gation has become the major
political and social question
our national life.”
Citing the southward
sion of industry and its failure
to absorb Negro worken, the
NAACP official also told the del
egates that “the deliberate and
egates that “the deliberate and r If V g
systematic denial ol jnh l!!A|l|f_US I AtC
ODDortunities for Nesro workers ■ Vlil ■ Ma ■ VIi#
Die In Flames
Leaders at Sonth-wide Toutfa
Conference—to be held Dee. 28,
SO, SI at Allen Vnlvendty, Col
ombia, S. C. Top row, Left-ri|^t,
Keynote-spoaker J. W. Marshall,
President Wayland Baptist Col
lege, PlalBTiew, Texas; other
speakers:
Dr. Herman H. Long, Director
Department of Race Belatlona,
Americas
tlon, Fisk University, Nashville,
Tenn.; Dr. Albert E. Bamett,
Prof. of New Teatament, Candler
School of Theology, Emory Uni
versity, Georgia; Aubrey W. Wil
liams, Sr., PresldMit, Southern
Conference Edneational Fonda,
Inc. Montgomery, Alabama.
Bottom row: Conference
Chairman, Ben Binklejr, theo^
logical stndent, Emory Unlvar-
slty, Georgia; Commission Cbair
man; Grady H. Donald, Student,
American Baptist Theological
Seminary, Nashville, Tenn.; Carl
Sohowengerdt, Senior, Central
College, Mo.; Patriela Smathen,
Junior, Berea College, Ky.; not
riiown, Wllette Moore, Student
Assistant to the Prudent, Phil
ander Smith College, LttQe
Bock, Ark.
opportunities for Negro workers
remains the most important civil
rights problem.”
In addition to going on record
against public segregation, the
Texas labor group voted to “con
tinue to work with and extend
its assistance and cooperation to
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
in the State of Texas until all
citizens are assured equal jus
tice under law.”
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N. C. Mutual Gets
Spaulding Album
From WDNC
Following the presentation of
a Christmas pageant in the audi
torium of the North Carolina
Mutual Life Insurance Company,
Friday afternoon, December 19,
at 3 o’clock, J. F. Jarman, Man
ager of Radio Station, WDNC ac
companied by Norfley Whitted,
who is among the oldest em'
ployees of WDNC presented an
album of records containing the
funeral services of Dr. Charles
Clinton Spaulding, the late presi
dent of North Carolina Mutual
Life Insurance Company.
Appropriate remarks for the
occasion were made by Jarman,
who made the presentation, and
W. J. Kennedy, Jr., President of
the company, accepted the gift
on behalf of North Carolina Mu
tual Life Insurance Company
and the two other institutions
that the late Mr. Spaulding head
ed; the Mechanics and Farmers
Bank and the Mutual Savings
and Loan Association.
Jarman stated that because of
what Mr. Spaulding had meant
to the City of Durham, WDNC
wanted to make this contribu
tion to the company and the oth
er institutions.
Norfley Whitted, of WDNC,
received a round of applause
from the employees of N. C. Mu
tual.
[picket Formed Against
‘^arV Hiring Policy
Protest Action Starts In Cleveland,
Springs To Nation-wide Scale
While a
y
By D. E. ELLIS
PRINCESS ANNE, VA.
The lives of four children were
claimed by a fire here last Wed
nesday afternoon which also de
stroyed the home of a Virginia
Beach maid.
Mrs. Sarah Ferrebee, who
works as a maid at Virginia
Beach and lives in the landtown
section, lost three of her five
children in the fire. Another
child, belonging to a sister of
Mrs. Ferrebee, Mrs. Estelle
Plummer, was also burned to
death in the fire.
The fire broke out sometime
Wednesday morning after Mrs.
Ferrebee had gone to work at
nearby Virginia Beach. It was
not clear at press time this week
whether the children were alone
at the time of the fire or not.
The dead are Gladys, Wilford
and Warrell Ferrebee and Caro
line Plummer.
Mrs. Pliunmer is employed at
a night club near Bayside and
her husband worlcs at the Naval
Base.
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Gate City Man
Dies In Wreck
GREENSBORO
Guerney E. Nelson, former
dean of Benedict College, Colum
bia, S. C., died Sunday in £
Mooresville Hospital from injur,
ies he received in an automobile
accident several hours earlier.
Funeral services were held for
the 60-year-old educator at the
St. Matthew’s Methodist Epis
copal Church here Tuesday.
The accident occtirred on high
way 21 north of Mooresville. Nel
son’s car apparently failed to
make a curve and overtiuned
Nelson was once principal of
the Washington Street high
school here. He is survived by
his'vife, a daughter and a son.
Gen. Bseniwwer
iMakes Stand
Clear On Issue
NEW YORK
President-elect Eiaenhower has
said what amounts to "NO” to
proposed Fair Emplojmnent Prac
tices legislatimi.
This stand by the aueccatful
Republican candidate waa re
vealed last Monday at a confer
ence Eisenhower held with a
delegation of Negro clergymen
who called at the gmeral’s head
quarters here.
Dr. W. J. Jemigan, spokesnuui
for the group, said that Eiaen
hower was deeply interested in
the problem of hiring and firing
discrimination against Negroes
and other minority groupa and
said that everyone wants to eli
minate such discrimination but
that there are differences as to
the best method.
This was accepted to mean
that the general would not use
his influence to push FEPC leg
islation as did President Truman.
Whether or not he would use his
influence to oppose such if it
came up in his administration
was not made clear.
The request for Eisenhower to
back FEPC legislation was put
to him along with several other
matters by the group, composed
of members of the National Fra
ternal Council of Churches in
Washington, D. C. It represents
13 denominations with more than
seven million members.
Ike was urged to “use the au
thority and influence” of the
presidency to bring about "the
establishment of fair employ
ment legislation which will pro
hibit the “starving out” because
of color, race or creed those who
are otherwise qualified for jobs
they seek.”
Despite this stand by the
President-elect, the NAACP an
nounced this week that plans
have been made to launch a drive
to seciure enactment of FEPC
legislation. These plans were
laid at a meeting of the South
east advisory board of tho NAA
CP in Atlanta, Ga.
Eisenhower had sinc ' :o>>sing
his hat into the ring last summer
made clear his lukewaim attitudj
toward FEPC legislation. The is
sue, which lost Truman and the
Democrats some support in the
South but spport in other areas,
has continually confronted Eisen
hower since he announced his
intention to run for Republican
nomination.
Shortly after ht» sueeessfui -
nomination, a delegation of . Ne
groes who saw him at Denvef
were told that he was for the
DETROIT, MICHIGAN — The Na^ionaI Negro Labor Council
iui 1 J i i , ^ Practices but that he was not
this week announced its intention to conduct simultaneous picket
at Tokyo Army Hospital in Japan, PFC Alexander Baskerville of Oxford, N. C„
is visited by MqC^ark W. Clark, wife of the Far East Commander. Baskerville, the son of Mrs. Rosa
Baskerville, ?02 ^ivin Street, Oxford, is a member of Company L, 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th
Infantry Division, which is serving in Korea.—(U. S. ARMY PHOTO).
lines in selected areas across the country against Sears-Roebuck
in protest of the claim that no Negroes are hired in any capacity
other than menial by Sears-Roebuck.
In a letter released to the press today and addressed to Gen
eral Robert E. Wood, Chairman of the Board of Sears-Roebuck
and Company, Inc., Coleman A. Young, NNLC Executive Secretary,
described the Convention mandate in the form of a resolution deal
ing with the “Jim Crow hiring policies of Sears-Roebuck” adopted
at the Second Annual Convention of the National Negro Labor
Council, recently concluded in Cleveland, Ohio.
One of the features of this Convention was a mass picket line
of 1500 people which marched through downtown Cleveland and
circled the offices of American Airlines, also in protest of the air
lines’ “Discriminatory hiring policies.”
William R. Hood, National President of the NNLC and Record
ing Secretary of Ford Local 600, UAW-CIO, in describing the
Sears-Roebuck Jobs Campaign, had this to say:
“The National Negro Labor Council is now entering its sec
ond year of struggle for the full freedom of the Negro people of
America. In the past year, we have made great strides, and scored
significant victories, toward the fulfillment of our immediate
goal—‘100,000 jobs for Negroes workers in areas of employment
from which they are at present excluded.’
“In the year ahead we have set for ourselves four (4) na
tional objectives—^to crack Jim Crow hiring in Sears-Roebuck
and American Airlines; the fight for national and local FEPC;
and the opening up of a campaign to stop systematic elimina
tion of Negroes from employment in thi^railroad industry.”
Hood continued, “The Christmas picket lines is only the open
ing gun, not only in our Sears campaign, which we are determined
to continue until democracy wins over discrimination, but in the
National NNLC Jobs Campaign for 1953. It is significant that
this is the first time that nationally coordinated picketing has
been conducted in protest against undemocratic hiring policies.
“Unless there is an Immediate about face on the part of
those who are responsible for economic Jim Crow, I can as
sure you that the Sears picket lines will not be the last.”
certain that legislation waa the
method to use in achieving it.
At that time, he was quoted as
saying tiiat he felt that much
more could be accomplished
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Banquet To /
Honor J. C.
Scarborough
The Annual New Year's Eve
banquiet of the Housewives’ Lea
gue will beheld at the Jade
Room of thqA)nniit Shop at eight
o’cVstK Wednesday, Dec. 31.
G. W. Cox, vice-president-
agency director of the North Car
olina Mutual Life Insurance
Company, wiU be the guest
speaker. The League will honor
J. C. Scarborough at the ban
quet.
Mrs. Callie Daye, president of
the League, said that the plans
for the banquet also call for en
tertaining husbands and sweet
hearts of League members.
The Housewives’ League is an
auxiliary of the Durham Business
and Professional Chain.
Talks On Bias At Columbia, S. C. During Christmas
NEW ORLEANS [ Daytona. Florida; Dr. Herman H.
Young people from 17 South- Long, Director Race RelaUons
ern states and the District of Department, American Mission-
Columbia will assemble for a ary Association, Fisk University,
conference on “Youth and Racial Nashville, Tenn.; President J. w!
Unity Through Educational Op
portunity” at Allen University,
Columbia, S. C., December 29,
30, 31.
Featured speakers scheduled
to address the conference are:
Dr. Albert E. Bamett, Professor
of New Testament, Emory, Uni
versity, (jteorgia; Mrs. Maiy Mc
Leod ^ethune, President-Emeri-
tus, Bethune-Cookman College,
Marshall, Wayland Baptist Col
lege, Plain view, Texas; and Mr.
Aubrey Williams, Editor and
Publisher of Southern Farm and
Home, Montgomery, Alabama.
The conference is sponsored
by 425 persons, from 17 South-
versity Life, Board of Education,
Methodist Church, Nashville,
Tenn. Sponsors include students
or faculty from 162 Southern
colleges and universities.
Ben Binkley, graduate of Van
derbilt University, now a theo
logy student at Emory Universi
ty, Georgia, is conference chair
man.
Chaitmen of the four confer
ence commissions are: Miss Pa-
ern and border states and the tricia Smatherk, Studont
District of Columbia, headed by! College, Ky.; Miaa WUetta Moore,
Dr. H. D. Bollinger, Secretary, Student Assistant to th« Pmi-
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