MACK INGRAM MAY GET NEW TRIAL
Vivftcioiu Mariel Kniflit (top oenteM will reign as “Miss North Carolina Collefe Homec4lmiii(”
Durham on Febniar; 8 and 1 when NCC Mrves as host to five colleges in sports extniTafansa
in oollefe’s new rynmaxium. Attcndanta piotared left to right are Delphine Webber, Winston-Sa
lem; Elsie Weaver, Ahoakle; and Lanra Ann Penn, senior, Winston-Salem. The Misses Knight
and Penn are seniors and Misses Webber and Wearer are Juniors. The]/ will be seMi during inter
mission of bssketball games on Friday night with West Virginia State and on Saturday night
with Lineoln University. Other e*UeffC* Inelnde A'.' and T., tennis; Sliaw, wrestling; and Ten
nessee State Dnlveraity and NOO, swimming. NCC also will present a swimming show as part of
festivities on Saturday.
Murder^ Boy’s Mom
Quits Case For $2500
ROXBORO
The mother of a 13 year old
boy who was shot to death here
last October decided last week
to drop prosecution against two
white men who were charged
with firing the shots. She will
accept $2000 in damages Instead.
Tracy Vaughan Saundns, Ri
3, Lenoir, pleaded guilty to In'
voluntary manslaughter in the
case and was given a five year
suspended sentence on condition
that he pay $2,900 to the family
of the dead boy.
Vaughan in» charged With
shooting young George WllUanu
through the head with a rifle
last October as the result of
boyish prani(. Young Williams
and his foster brother, James
Lewis Moore, were reportedly
throwing stones off a 75 foot
cliff at Vaughan and Cecil Nel-
son as the latter two were snalE-
logs on a tractor.
Saunders'testified that he be
came frightened, ran home to
get a rifle, and returned and
fired at the cliff four or five
times. Then he handed the rifle
to his companion who also fired
three or four shots. The stone
throwing stopped after the shots
were fired.
Young Moore, foster brother
to Williams, said he started to
run when the hall of bullets tell
on the cliff. When he returned
later he called but could get no
reply from Williams, whereupon
he went'to notify his father.
The father, John Moore, fouid
Williams body at the edge of
the cliff with a bullet throu^
his head.
It is reported that the mother
of young Williams, who left him
in the care of Moore, ho*
brother, so that she could work
in a laundry at South Boston,
Va., refused to accept a proseco>
tion fund raised by local Negro
and wliite friends.
nie committee, composed at
Rev. G. W. Thomas, Dee Yan-
qey, Alex Chavis, Eugene Hum
phrey and McKinley Royster,
went to see her early in January
and to offer her financial assis
tance in the prosecution. The
committee had hired Attorney
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Wife Slayer Tries Suicide
Suicide Attempt
In Jail Foiled
WENTWORTH
A 27 year-old man who was
found guilty of murdering his
wife attempted to commit
suicide here last Wednesday.
Fountain Thomas, who was
convicted of second degree
murder in the death of his
wife, Mrs. Dorothy Thomas, last
September, was found hanging
from a bar over the door of his
cell Wednesday morning after
he liad been sentenced from 2B-
30 years for the crime.
Thomas used his leather belt
and had been hanging for a-
bout one minute when he was
discovered by Deputy Sheriff
W. T. Dodson, who cut the belt
before the prisoner was seri
ously injured.
He was tried for the shooting
Tuesday, but was sentenced Wed
nesday morning.
Witnesses at the trial said
Thomas shot his wife, rnothu:
of five chlldrea, while die
held a baby in her arms.
Thomas will be held here in
Jail untU he is moved to State
prison.
m OTMBP—Owii>rt»a Isadse HMm* HiMti
Wi**> •• eeyah*led Igf Ovtor WMtojr, ;ri»iihir at » Biiatbsia
jjjssjapjj, afiM Hsidt had gtvaa Om ta tk* hlstoiy «(
stHlMaBd foe a muss. HUdt^ iHio Is an attoollvd
aisBbv ta Ika bsard of NAACP, tarutd vnr 0m peooMds of tKa
Vmm. qfawnwssFba>ss.)
N. C.'s Attorney General Joins
NAACP In Asking Trial Review
NEW YORK
A sudden turn in the NAA-
CP’s appeal to the North Caro
lina State Supreme Court to
have the conviction of share
cropper Mack Ingram strickm
from the records was taken
Wednesday when the Attorney
General’s office Joined the NA
ACP in asking the state’s high
est court to review the case.
Mack Ingram was convicted
in November 1952 and given
six months for “assault by leer
ing at” a white farm girl from
a distance of 76 feet. The six
months’ sentence was suspended.
Following his conviction, at
torneys for the NAACP filed an
appeal on the grounds that the
conviction was in violatlbn of
both the state and the federal
Constitutions.
In their brief, NAACP Uw-
yers attacked the systematic ex
clusion of Negroes from the
Jury and the vagueness of the
statue under which Ingram was
convicted.
The Attorney General’s~”offi-
ce, Joining in this brief, did not
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Race Agents Help In
Bootlegging Crack-Up
ROCKY MOUNT
The flow of bootleg whis
key came to a temporary halt
here last weeit when 37 re
sidents were convicted on
charges of possession and sale
of tax-paid and non tax-paid
liMor.
record number of de
fendants on a single charge
crowded Nash County’s court
room last week as they came
up for trial. Some of the de
fendants received from one to
four charges each in connection
'^ith the bootleg traffic.
Cases against the 37 were
brought by two Negro under
cover agents of the Nash Coun
ty ABC staff. Hiey luid. been
conducting inveatlgations for
the past two months in the
area. Their identities remain
ed undisclosed to all but local
police effleers. ^
Included among defend
ants was Ernest Davis, owner of
the Club Poinciana, one of the
finest eateries in the city. Davis
was tried on fOur counts of sell
ing tax-paid whiskey, sentenced
to 12 months, suspended on pay
ment of $24.00 on two of the
counts; 12 months suspended on
payment of $124.00 on a third
and nol pros leave was taken on
a fourth charge.
Moat of the other 36 defend
ants received suspended sen
tences and fines ranging from
fS4.tS to 1124.00 on eharges of
pesaession and illegal sale of
tax paid and non tax paid
liquor.
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RR Brotherhood
Admit Hrst Race
Workers In D. C..
WASHINGTON
As the result of efforts by the
Washington Bureau di'the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People,
Local 364 of the Brotherhood of
Railway Carmen has, for the
first time in 17 years, admitted
til its membership Negro wor
kers employed at the Washing
ton Terminal here.
The Brotherhood, which has
a union shop contract with the
Terminal, established an all-Ne
gro local. No. 716, as a unit
'^ttubordinatc to thitf white local
and, in keeping with a provision
of the union’s national constitu
tion, required that all colored
employees in .the Carmen’s
jurisdiction join the jim-crow
local.
Following conferences with
the NAACP’s Washington Bu
reau and Joaepli Waddy, altor^
ney, three men filed applications
to Local 364 by registered mail.
These men, Jesse L. Taylor,
Jesse Reavis and Edward G.
Shaw, were voted into the white
local on January 26.
Formal announcement that
they were admitted was not
made until Wednesday, Jan.
28, when Waddy and Clarence
Mitchell, NAACP Washington
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FOR THiRTY YEARS THE OVTSTANDtNG WEEKLY OF THE CAROUNAS
Entered as Second Class Matter at the Poet Office at Durham, fiorth CatMma, wider Act of March 3,1S79.
VOLUME 30—NUMBER 2
DURHAII. N. C., SATURDAY, FEB. 7, ItSS
PRICE 1* CENTS
Dixie Dems Hit Ike’s
Segregation Stand
Cavalcade Of
Sports At NCC
Friday, Saturday
Enthuslam was nmning high
here this week as citizens pre
pared to turn out in unpre
cedented numbers at North
Carolina College this week end
to take part in the college’s
mammoth “Sports Extravagan-
aa.”
The big event of the week
end will bring Floyd Brown’s
sensational NCC basketball team
back on their million dollar
home court for a tumultous wel
come to celebrate their 12 wins
during the season against three
defeats.
Furnishing the opposition for
the Eagles in the Friday sports
highlight will be the West Va.,
State College championship
quint previously narrowly beat
en by NCC. On Saturday night
the Eagles clash with Lincoln In
a grudge rematch that will see
the Lions trying to score an up
set by dethroning the Eagles.
As added trimmings for the
week-end, special NCC commit
tees working in close coopera
tion with alumni, townspeople
and friends of the college
throughout the nation' are pre
senting swinmilng meets, indoor
.tiennis exhibitions, wrestling
demonstrations, and the corona
tion of a beautiful BClss NCC
Winter Home Coming.
Coach Ciiarles Stancil of the
Shaw University wreatlers, for
mer NCC graduate student in
piiyaical education, will present
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MISS LORRAINE JAMES, extreme right. Junior Busineae
Major at North Carolina College, is shown here at the Waldorf
Astoria Hotel recently With General of Army, Douglas McArthur,
seated.
Miss James was North Carolina College representative at the
S7th Annual Congress of American Industry, sponsored by the
National Association of Manufacturers.
She is business manager of CAMPUS ECHO, North Carolina
College student newspaper.
Masons Purchase
Logan Building
North Carolina’s Prince Hall ^inue^ ^ be leased for office
Masons bought the Logan Build-! space. He indicated tliat Ithe
ing here Wednesday for the lym
of $93,900, it was disclosed by
the Lodge’s Grand Master, G. D.
Carnes of Wilmington.
The Logan Building, a mo
dern, three-story, fireproof
structure, was built on Petti
grew Street in 1947 by Durham
businessman G. W. Logan at a
cost of $125,000. From its erec
tion until its sale Wednesday, it
housed the Banneker Radio In
stitute, 14 offices and the Donut
Shop restaurant.
Formal transaction of the
sale was made here at the Logan
building Wednesday. In addition
to Grand Master Carnes, the
Tar Heel Lodge of Prince Hall
Masons was represented at the
sale by Grand Secretary C. W.
Lawrence of Greensboro and
Grand Treasi^rer George A.
Moore of New Bern.
Cames announced immediate
ly after purchase of the Logan
Building that the Donut Shop
restaurant will continue its
operation under a lease and that
space on the second floor, for
merly used for offices, will con-
third floor, now occupied by
Banneker Radio Institute, will
be used for “Masonic purposes.”
It is believed that a move will
be started to have the Logan
Building Isecome the central
headquarters for the State Ma
sons. Although Carnes was non
committal on the subject Wed.,
it is thought that there will be
some effort made to have the
Mason’s central offices trans
ferred from Greensboro, where
they are now located, to the Lo
gan Building here.
The first Prince Hall Lodge
was established in North Caro
lina in 1866 at New Bern. To
day, the State membership of
Masons totals approximately
25,000. Carnes said after the
purchase Wednesday that the
organization has “never enjoyed
greater prosperity” than it does
today.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—President Elisenhower’s “honey
moon” with Congress appears to be doomed to a short life
as the Southern Democratic bloc served notice this week
that it will fight the President’s proposals for less segrega
tion.
Speaking before a joint Congressional session last Mon
day in his State of the Union address. President Eisenhower
outlined proposals for eliminating segregation in the Armed
Forces and in the nation’s capital.
Immediately, Senator Richard B. Russell, (D.-Ga.» un
successful candidate for the Democratic nomination last
summer, and leader of the southern Democrats in Congress,
challenged the authority of President Eisenhower and prom
ised a fight if he attempted to carry out this pledge.
^ Speculation here last week-end, prior to President Eisen
hower’s State of the Union mes
sage, hinted that the President
had in mind enlargening the
three man commission which
governs Washington to a five
man body, and appointing a Ne
gro to serve on the body.
President Eisenhower simply
stated in his address that he
would use “whatever au
thority exists in the office of
President” to ead scgroga-
(ion in the capital and the
aimed forces.
Observers pointed out that his
authority to end segregation in
the capital. Any change would
because present laws give Con
gress the supreme authority over
the administration of affairs in
the capital. Aiy change would
have to come through Congres
sional channels.
It was generally conceded,
however, that the President
could carry out his pledge to
eliminate segregation in the
armed forces without much
trouble. The office of Presi
dent is that of Commander-In-
Chief of the armed services,
and all that would be neces
sary to end segregation in the
services is an executive or
der.
Senator Russell, in promising
a fight over the proposals for
less segregation, said;
“I don’t know what the Presi
dent has in mind. I am of
course opposed to racial in
tegration in public schools and
in the fire department.
“I also think that it Is per
fectly clear that congression
al legislation would be re-
qulred to change from, the
dual school system.”
Besides Carnes, Lawrence and
Moore, other dfficers of the State
organization are Clark Brown, Representative James C. Dav-
Winston-Salem, Deputy Grand is, another Democrat from Geor-
Master; P. A. Bishop, Rich gia, said he always had opposed
Square, Grand Senior Warden; I efforts to end segregation in the
Solomon Keene, Grand Junior I District of Columbia” and prom-
Warden. ised he would continue to do so.
The North Carolina College at Durham recently served as host to the Interc*llegiat« CmmcU,
an interracial student group made up of repreaentatlves from NCC, Dnke University, and U»l-
versity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. ^
Shown here second from left back row is Dr. C. Elwood Boulware, noted Nwtt Car*llBa elvle
and religious leader, a professor at NCC, and advisor to the NCC Conneil.
Sessions are held at three participating colleges on a rotatlag basia. '
J.W.V.Cordkels
Renamed Head
01 Local Group
The Durham CoiMdstory, #111.
W. aod A. IL, United Suarme
CouncU A. A. S. H- P.. 32* 8o0*h-
em Jurisdiction, United States
of America, held its regular
ineeting Sunday, January 25, at
tlie Bfasonlc Temple for the pur-
x>se of electing officer* for 1963.
Dr. J. W. V|. Cordice, who baa
served the encampment so ei-
DR. J. W. V. CORDICE
III. Commander-In-Chief
ficiently as the Illustrious Com-
mander-in-Chief, was unan~
imously re-elected to that office.
Other officers elected or re
elected and appointed or re-ap
pointed as follows: Illustrious
1st Lt. Commander, W. H. Cole,
Jr.; Illustrious 2nd Lt. Com
mander, C. T. Ruffin; 111. Grand
Secretary and Keeper of Seal
and Archives, H. C. Davis; 111.
Grand Treasurer, J. R. Parham;
and A. R. Thompson, III. Grand
Minister of State and Orater.
After the electioD the follow
ing princes were appointed: J.
W. Davidson, 111. Assistant Grand
Secretary; Clarence Hudson,
Prior; U. M. GeMrte, Captain of
the Guard; Bonnie Hawkins, En
gineer and Architect; J. D. W.i-
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PAPER DRIVE
Got any old newspapwa.
card board twxaa, magaiinaa or
any other waste paper ehitterinc
up the hall doset or attic? You
can get rid of this Sunday. Tab.
8 of you will tie your waala
paper in secure bundles and
place thein in front of your
home.
The HUMda P.T.A. is «OBaor-
ing a waste paper drhra her*
Sunday and wiU co&Mt yoMT
bimdlas batwssu 1:M ud 4;M
p.m.. Suadvr*