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Methodist Students
Hit Cliurch Jim Crow
Greensboro—Some 200 young
white Methodist students who
met here in a three day session
last week strongly critized the
Methodist church for its policy
of maintaining segregated educa
tional institutions and went on
record as favoring the accept
ance of Negroes to Methodist
supported schools.'
,A resolution was drawn up by
the North Carolina Methodist
Student Conference after the
three day meeting which ended
here last Sunday attacked the
Church for its segregation policy
and urged integration in the
Methodist Collegia and Unlv«r-
sities of the State.
Colleges and junior coUeges in
North Carolina supported by
Methodists include Duke Uni
versity, High Point College, Ben
nett College, Pfeiffer Junior
College, Xiouisburg College and
Brevard Juniop College.
“The Methodist Church must
realize that it must break down
the bars of segregation,’’ said the
resolution. It was adopted with
only one dissenting vote. It will
be sent to superintendents and
presidents of Methodist aXfilislt-
ed. colleges in this state^
The core of the resolution,
read to the group by Betty Jo
Benfield of Greensboro College,
said, "We preach Christian prin
ciples and do not ujdiold them.
We urge that immediate action
be taken toward the stigma of
segregation in the church affil
iated schools."
The orginal wording of the
resolution called for the group
to “demand” immediate action,
but it was felt that the verb W4W
too strong, so that “urge’’ re
placed “demand” in the text of
the revolution.
“Why can’t Negroes take a
more active part in our churches
and everyday work,” Grady
Dixon, ^student at N. C. State
College, wanted to know.
“To make a better world any
where, you have to start where
you are now,’’ Miss Barfield said
during the discussion which was
climaxed by the resolution.
One unidentified delegate to
the conference said, “Perhaps
we can’t make any change in the
exciting situation now becatiae
we are not church or community
leaders, but in a few years we
shall be leaders and we can
practice what our elders are
preaching.”
Police Hunt In Vain For Man
Who Slew Maid Here Saturday
Local police apparently ran up
against a blank wall in their
search here early this week tor
the slayer of a yoimg maid here
last Saturday night. •
The man they are seeking is
James Glover, whose local ad;
dress is 509 Husband Street. He
was identified by the nine-year
^Id son of his victim who was
the only witness to the slaying,
first of th« ye«r for Durham.
Glover is accused of cutting
Mrs. Maggie Tennie, 26 year old
maid of 1005 Rosedale Avenue
to death at her duplex apart
ment last Saturday night. A
neighbor in the duplex apart
ment called police around nine
o’clock Saturday night to report
a disturbance, when police ar-
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1 Want To Live For God,’ Soys
Doomed Man On Death Row
Lafayette Miller
Writes Poignant
Letter To Warden
RALEIGH
A pathetic, last ditch message
was scrawled here early this
week by one of six men on
death row waiting to die in the
State’s gas chamber.
Unless an appeal can be se
cured by the United States Su
preme Court, Lafayette Miller
will be executed here Friday.
Governor WilUam B. Um-
stead announced Monday that
he does not “plan to intervene
in any way with the execution.*'
Almost simultaneous with
Gov. Umstead’s announcement
came a letter from Miller on
death row to Paroles Commis
sioner N. F. Ransdell saying
that he wants to live to work
for God.
Miller, who lost an appeal to
the State Supreme Court, was
convicted in Beaufort County
Superior Court in January,
1952, of murdering Harvey C.
Boyd, Chocowinity Farmer on
Thanksgiving Eve, 1^81.
“I am appealing to you,” part
of Miller’s message saltl, "to
please do whatever you can to
save my life...Since my short
stay here on death row I have
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VOLUME 30—NUMBER/
Pneumonia Tal(es Baby
Born InToilet Stool
Cleric Refuses
Honor From Jim
Crow School
New York—An invitation to
preach the baccalaureate sermon
at the Episcopal University of
the South at Sewanne, Tenn.,
was turned and a proferred hon
orary degree refused because the
school maintains segregation.
The Very Rev. Dr. James A.
Pike, dean of the Cathedral of
down the offer to speak at the
St. John the DivinA, turned
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WAKE FOREST
A baby born in a toilet com
mode a month ago died of pneu
monia here last week.
The baby was bom to Mrs.
Donnia Perry, 81 year old resi
dent of Route 1.
The story of the baby's birth
goes something like this:
Mrs. Perry walked into a
Wake Forest doctor’s office last
month and told him she had a
severe pain in tha stomach. Af
ter examining her, Dr. C. T.
Wilkinson informed her that
she was about to give birth to
a baby, and soon.
The doctor told her that there
wouldn’t be time for her to get
to a hospital, and that she must
get home immediately.
“Well let me go to the bath
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Minister Spruns
IC D. C. Cafes
WASHING'TON
X white minister, the Rev. A.
Powell Davies, has told his con
gregation at All Souls’ Unitarian
church, that he, will not icnow-
ingly eat in any restaurant in
the nation’s capital if it refuses
to serve Negroes.
In making this statement to
his church. Rev. Davies asked
his members to join him in his
campaign to encourage brother
hood in every day living. He also
announced a list of 65 eating
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Funeral Services
Held For Mrs.
Hill In Twin-City
WINSTON-SALEM
Last rites for Mrs. Mamie En
nis Hill, 72, wife of George
Washington Hill, president of the
Winston Mutual Life Inaufance
Company, were held at the First
Baptist Church here Tuesday,
February 17 at 3:30 P. M. The
Rev. David R. Hedgley, pastor,
officiated.
Mrs. Hill died suddenly of a
heart attack at her home Mon
day, February 16 at 3:00 A. M.
FOR THtRTY YEARS THE OVTSTANDtNG WEEKLY OF THE CAROUNAS
Entered at Second Clou Matter at the Poet Offtee at Durham, North CanMna, under Aet of March 3.1879.
DimHAM. N. 0.. SATDRDAT, FEB. Zl, 1953
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Request For Ph.D. Funds
Branded As An Insult
MRS. MAMIE E. HILL
She was a member of the First
Baptist Church for over 50 years,
during which time she had held
many responsible positions in its
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I A spokesman for the NAACP
attacked the request for funds
for a Ph. D. program at North
Carolina College and issued a
warning ttiat action will soon be
brought to have white mental
hospitals opened to Negroes.
! "The little drama before the
Legislature Tuesday was an ef
frontery to all freedom loving
peoples everywhere and should
long be remembered as “Black
Tuesday*’ ” Attorney C. O. Pear
son, counsel for tbe NAACP in
this area, asserted in a wire to
the State Budget director last
Wednesday.
On Tiuaday, PresideDt Al
fonso Elder of N. C. College and
W. D. Carmichael of the Univer
sity of North Carolina, appeared
before the General Aaaembly to
request more money for a Ph.D
program at North Carolina Col
lege, designed to relieve the Uni
versity from pnanire at law
suits demanding admiaslon of
N«groe« te the UniauMtjt
Attorney Pearson, one of the
NAACP lawyers who won ad
mission of Negioec to tbe Uni-
versitjr of North IjCW
Schori through a Ftednal Court
ruling, branded the aetian of
Tuesday as an attempt to cir
cumvent the Federal Court’s rul
ing in the caae.
A i>art of his wire, which re
ferred to future action to have
Negroes admitted to State |pp-
ported hoapitals read,
“The investment of state
noney in mental institutions and
hospitals for all of our citizens
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Parents Fined For Not Sending Cliildren
Twenty Miles To Segregated School
RICHMOND
A 30-day jail sentence and a
$50 fine was meted out last week
by the Virginia Circuit Court
of Appeals to the eight parents
who refused to send their chil
dren 20 miles outside of the
town of West Point to a Jim-
—crow high school.
* The cases came before the
Circuit Court as a result of ap
peals filed by the NAACP law
yers in ttehalf of the parents af
ter the Trial Juatice Court of
West Point found guilty and
convicted the parents of viola
ting the "oomplusory attendance
laws” of Virginia. They were
then fined $200 each.
The briefs were filed with
the Circuit Court- of Appeals on
January fi by the NAACP at
torneys on behalf of the eight
parents after they had been ar
rested and convicted of keeping
their children, all under 18, out
of school.
The action on the part of the
parents, which was called "the
West Point strike,” came about
when the school board closed
th Negro high school and or
dered the parents to send the
students to the Hamllton-Holmes
High School, located some 20
miles away from the tow of
Weat Point and completely out
of the school board's jurisdic
tion.
Instead, the parents sent their
children to the all-white West
Point High School for enroll
ment. They were bluntly refused
on the grounds that to accept
them would be violating the se
gregation laws of the State of
Virginia. Rather than send tbe
students the distance to tbe
Hamilton-Holmes High School,
the parents kept them at home.
Because of this action, the State
claimed the parents violated tbe
Virginia compulsory attendance
Uws.
Under -^cross examination at
1
the hearing of the appeal in
the Circuit Court, the lone wit
ness for the school board, W. E.
Garber, superintendent of
schools, admitted that the West
Point High School was superior
to the Negro high school and
had been for 26— years. The
school superintendent also ad
mitted that the school board was
aware of the objection of the
Negro parents to send their
children 20 miles out of toWn to
another seigregated school. The
Town of West Point made no
effort to provide an “equal but
separate” school for Negro
children, the parents charged.
Raleigh Man Charges Son
With Robbing His Store
Raleigh — An aged father
charged his own son with rob
bing his little grocery store here
in City last Thursday.
The son, James Carr, Jr., who
lives with his father, is accused
of breaking into his father'i
store at 1901 Poole road and
taking $12 in a bag from under
the counter.
He had nothing to say about
the charge that he broke the
lock off the store at noon Tues
day. Judge Albert Doub found
probable cause and bound tbe
case over to the Supe^or Court.
Carr’s bond was set |it $$00-
"1 didn’t bring him up here
to get into trouble,” the old
man said, "but to teach him a
lesson.’’
The old man himself has had
trouble with the law in the past.
“Why didn’t he ask me II
he wanted anything? I would
have given it to him. I've al
ways given him anything he
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TIMES TO GIVE TOURNAMBIT
TICKETS FOR HEART FUND
The Carolina Times announces this week that it will
give a ticket to the all the games of the CIAA touroament or
two tickets to the semi-finals and fir^als of the tourney to
to the business establishment which received Its heart con
tainer from the TIMES and which reports the highest sum
over ten dollars collected in the container.
The tournament starts at North Carolina College March
5 and continues through March 7.
Among the business establishments which received
money containers from th TIMES and which are now eligible
for the contest are the Silver Dollar, the Club Two B’s. the
Donut Shop, Service Printing Company, the Hillside Sand
wich Shop, 'Thomas Bailey Grocery, Neighborhood Grocery,
the Bull City Drug Store, the College Inn, Pratt’s Fountain
and Grill, and the Biltmore Drug Store.
If there are other firms wWch would like to enter the
contest, they may do so by contacting the TIMES, and a
heart container will be sent to them.
The heart fund drive is being conducted for Durkam
and Orange counties through the month of February. The
goal is $10,000 for the two counties.
Last Rites Held
For Durham Nan
Funeral services were held
Sunday Feb. IS, at New Hope
Baptist Church, Williams Town
ship, Chatham County, for Blat-
thew J. Williams, 1210 Fayette
ville Street. Mr. Williams, 71,
died at Lincoln Hospital Feb. 12,
following an illness which con
fined him approximately two
weelts.
Rev. J. H. Jones, pastor, offici
ated assisted by Rev. D. A.
Johnston and C. L. Lasaiter.
Bom in Chatham County, less
than one mile from the church in
which his funeral was held, Mr.
Williams was the son of tbe late
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