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V TWO Jf‘T BE M COIMCL BURHAM PRESBYTKRIAN CHURCH The above scenes fraphically depict the fast action, joy aad heartbreak which accompanied the eliinaxinK game of the eifhtii ■nniiai CIAA basketball tourna ment, reeled off for the first time at North Carolina CoUefe’s fynmasium here last Thnrsda]', Friday and Saturday. Winston- Salem Teachers Collefe defeated Saint AuKUStlne’s College of Ba- leifh, 77-75, in an overtime thriller to win their first tourna ment championship. Photo in center symbolizes the closeness of the fame between the two clnbs as opposinf play ers from the two teams fight for a rebound under Winston-Salem backboard. Player in jersey number 12 is Clarence Burks of St. Aufustine’s, and Winston-Sa lem player is Miller Harris. Other scenes, reading clock wise from bottom left are: 1— Deliriously happy Winston-Sa lem fans who rushed onto the floor mobbinc the victorious “Rams” after the game ended; 2—The official table, showing Ross Townes, left, who made the decision that the Winston-Salem field goal coming at the buiier counted, and Raymond Hopson; 3—'Pete Rawlins of the Journal and Guide making the presenta tion of the Guide’s first place trophy to the Winston-Salem captain Willis Johnson (10) as other “Rams” look on; 4—Clar ence Burks, St. Augustine’s fine center receiving the most valu able player trophy from John Burr, member of the CIAA tournament conEunittee; 5—R. D. Moore, left, coach of St. Augus tine’s “Cinderella” team reo«lT- ing the ward as the most out standing coach of the tourney from J. D. Gray of the Afro America; and 6—Heartbroken St. Augustine’s players shown af ter losing the close decision to Winston-Salem. See story, page eight. TIMES "Leader Of The Year” W. C. CHANCE ... Cnanhsouj Choice.. William C. Chance, retired principal of the William C. Chance high school of Parmalee, was unanimously elected as the “Negro Lead er of North Carolina for 1953" by the staff of the Carolina Times here Wednesday. For more than a quarter of a century, Mr. Chance iias waged a continuous fight for first-class citizenship for Negroes in North Carolina. His greatest triumph in this fight, however, came to a climax last November when the United States Supreme Court rendered a decision banning segregated coaches in interstate railway travel in a case he had brought against the Atlantic Coast Line. Although the NAACP joined Mr. Chance in the latter stages of this case, he alone and without any backing initiated the suit and pressed it through all of its stages. Mr. Chance was ejected in June, 1948 at Emporia, Virginia from an Atlantic Coast Line train because he refused to move from a white coach to a Negro coach. He was also arrested for disorderly conduct. He sued the railroad for $25,000 damages, but was award ed only $50.00 for wron^ul arrest, and the railroad’s segregation policy was upheld. However, Mr. Chance and the NAACP, who had joined the case by this time, appealed to the U. S. Circuit Court which reversed the decision and made a ruling banning segrega tion in interstate railroad travel. On this rulings the AUanlic. Coast_Jjae Railroad filed an appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court, which rejected the appeal and upheld the Circuit Court’s ruling against segrega tion. In citing Mr. Chance for the honor, L. E. Austin, publisher of the TIMES stated, “No man in our era has waged such a lone and long fight in a section of North Carolina where even the patience of Job would under go a strain to comply with the demands made on a Negro school principal. Amidst it all, this little giant of a man has never bowed to the gods of gold and silver, nor has he sought the popularity that can only be bought at a price no decent Negro would pay. “Our newspaper is honored to have the opportunity to name him as the ‘Negro leader of North Carolina for 1952.’ ” Boy, 9, Hangs Himself Trying To'! Enter His House By Window White Girt Admits Falsely Accusing Negro KANSAS CITY, Kans. A young girl, just 16 years of age, admitted this week that she lied five years ago when she accused 50 year old Edward Oscar, a Negro, of raping herj Oscar is now serving a 20 yean prison sentence. “I want to tall you that I did not tell the truth,” the girl "confessed” to Robert Deveney ^ and Police Lt. Charles Welch. “I don’t know why I did it. He was not the m4n...When I was little, I never had the opportunity to believe in God and I lied. I have learned to believe in Ood and I want to tell the truth for His sake and for the sake of my own conscience”. The girl, who remained uni dentified, was attacked at night K0* See White, Page Eight WILSON A nine year old boy broke his neck for want of a key to un lock the door to liis home here last Wednesday afternoon. Dead is Ralph Ruffin, son*oll Mr. and Mrs. James D. Ruffin. He broke his neck while trying to enter his home through a window. Here’s how it happened: Ralph went home from school Wednesday afternoon and dis covered he had l>een locked out of his home. So he went around to the side of the house, climbed on a saw behch, and started through a window he had open ed. 1 The saw liench, however* moved, and Ralph lost his bal ance, catching his head in the Window. Apparently, the weight of his dangling body snapped his neck and death was instan taneous. His body was found hanging from the window when his parents returned home. New Drug, Viomycin, Now Ready To Help Fight TB NEW YORK After four years of intensive research and careful clinical trials, a new weapon is being added to the arsenal of drugs to fight tuberculosis. It is viomycin, a new antibiotic now being made available to tuberculosis st>ecialists and physicians throughout the country. The new antibiotic is parti-' cularly important because of its effectiveness in tuberculosis cases wiiich have developed a resistance or allergy to drugs currently available. Current standard drug thera py has been ijtreptomycin or dl-i hydrostrept6mycin combined with PAS (para-aminosalicylic acid). Investigators worlting with isoniazid believe that it will replace PAS as the drug of choice to be used with strepto mycin. Tuberculosis which has de^ veloped a resistance to standard therapy can now be combatted successfully with viomycin. In recent medical reports, two separate research teams, work ing under Drs. Pitts, Temple and Payne*, have reported that viomycin is effective against both streptomycin-resistant and isoniazid-resistant strains. It is most effective in combination with other antimicrobial agents. Developed in 1949 through Pfizer's soil screening program, Viocin is being marketed as a crystalline powder for adminis tration by injection. At recom mended dosage levels, toxio manifestations are rare. Three separate tuberculosis clinical conferences have been sponsored by Pfizer to aid in the evaluation of the drug. Leading specialists in tuijercU' losis felt that Viocin was valu able and should be made avail' able generally. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Seeks Cliapel Hill’s Rev. Jones SEE STORT, PAGE THKEK FOR THIRTY YEARS THE OVTSTAND KIC WEEKLY OF THE CAROUNAS Entered as Second Clost Matter at the Poat Office at Durham, Aorth Carolina, under Act of March 3,1879. VOLUME 30—NUMRERl 1 DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1953 PRICE It CENTS GOP Seeks End Of D. C. Jim Crow Atty. General Asks High Court ^ To Reverse Segregation Ruling WASHINGTON, D. C.—The Republican Administration appeared to be trying to make good on at least one of its Campaign promises here this week as the Justice Department began making moves in an apparent effort to rid the nation’s capital of segregation. One of President Eisenhower’s campaign promises was that he would eliminate segregation in the capital. The attack made this week at segregation by the Re publican Administration came through the Justice Depart ment which urged the Supreme Court Tuesday to enforce long-unused laws against racial segregation in Washington resturants. Debut In Italian Opera House Nearly a month ago, a U. S. Court of Appeals ruled that Washington restaurants could bar Negroes in a case brought orginaliy in 1950 against Jolui R. Thompson who refused to ^'Kegpues in a Thompson restaurant here. The Court of Appeals ruledr that the laws against segregation passed in 1872 and 1873, shortly after the Civil War, were inva lid, and it ruled further that the District Assembly, which passed those laws, di^ not have the au thority to pass the laws, but that such authority resided in the U. 3. Congress. Attorney • General Hert>erti Brownell, in a brief laid before the Supreme court this week urging it to reserve the Court ol Appeals decision, contended that the throwing out of the old laws by the Appeals Court decision would forbid Congress to dele gate enough of its law-making power to permit the people of the district to run their own lo cal affairs. The Attorney General seemed to be linking the attack on se gregation with the question of home rule for the district, an other promise Which the Repub licans made dufii^g the ^am> paign, and by so doing, he ap- pears to be going after “two birds with one stone.’’ Brownell, quoting from Presi dent Eisenhower's State of the Union message to Congress which called for elimination of segregation and home rule for D. C., argued that the lower court’s ruling is clearly “errone- The Supreme Court has yeti to indicate whether it will re view the case or not. See Attorney, Page Eight J. T. TAYLOR Taylor In Again, Mazyck Being Urged To Run Two Negroes may be entered in Durham’s city council elections this Spring. Already James T. Taylor, professor of Psychology at North Carolina College, has thrown his “hat into the ring,” and Guy Mazyck, prominent labor leader, is being urged by his friends to make the race. Six council positions will be up for election this Spring. Three seats from wards, the first, third and fifth, are up for election, and three at-large-seats are up for elections. The primary will be held on car* See Taylor, Page Eight NAACP Sunday' To Be Observed Here Sunday The Durham branch of the NAACP will observe “NAACP Sunday" with a special program this Sunday afternoon, March 15, at the Ml. Zion Baptist Church on Fayetteville Street. The special program begins at three o’clock. Sunday, March 15, has bfen designated as "NAACP Sunday” nationally and branches through out the country are holding special observances of the day, according to Attorney M. E. Johnson, president of the Dur ham branch of the association. Atty. Johnson said that NAA CP Sunday was started six years ago as “a celebration of the as sociation’s many achievements toward first class citizenship for all our citizens.” He forecasts an unusually large attendance for the special program at the Mt. Zion Baptist church Sunday. Attorney Johnson also stated that the local organization's membership drive for the year will be launched with the pro gram. Features of Suivlay’s program will be music rendered by the “Royalettes,” and the Mt Zion Baptist Church Gospel Choir. Atty. M. H. Thompson will sketch the history of the organi zation, Rev. D. A. Johnston will list contributions the church can make and James M. Schooler will list contributions the schools can make to the NAACP. Rev. J(rfmston is pastor of St. Joseph A.M.E. church. Host pastor will be Rev. W. it. Fuller, who will conduct de votions. Miss Mattiwilda Dobbs, color atura soprano of Atlanta, Geor gia, became the first Negro ever to win a principle role at Italy’s famed opera house La Scala when she sang in the role of Elvira in R»sini’s “An Italian Lady in Algiers” recently. The 27-year-old opera singer, a grad uate of Spelman College of At lanta, is the daughter of J. W. Dobbs of Atlanta and the sister- in-law of W. A. Clement, North Carolina Mutual official of Dur ham. Said TIME magazine of her debat at La Scala; “The house lights dimmed on La Scala’s gilt and maroon, and the packed audience sat back t« size up an onprMedented de butante: Coloratnn S«praM Mattiwilda Dobbs . . . th* fini Negrf ever to win a prieeipel role at La Scala. “Her part had no arias, bat her bright, sure voice led sweet ly and gracefully a series of swiftly paced quartets, qnintets and sextets. When it was all over, she got a round of warm heart ed applause that was echoed next day by the press.” The scene of this pitcure was taken in the Lounge of BUtmore Hotel, here recently as Republican Leaders UurMghout tke State, met and organised the North Carolina «^t mt the Natiosal Coafer- ence of Republican leaders. Alexander Barnes, seated eeater, and public relations man for the National body is discuaslag a bine- print with Dr. J. W. V. Cordice, North Carolina Vice-Chalnaan, while Professor Lucca Hall retired Salisbury Schaalmaster and Todd Edwards. Siler City Jeweler look on. G. W. Bryaat. Selma, also retired school teacher and Walter Hoover, High Paiat Under taker are shown standing. The bltte-priat was presented to the execatlve eammittee meet ing in Charlotte last week and heartily accepted. It called for complete intergratioa lata Bepubliean eirelea thraaghaat tk« Stata with grass-root activltlet to bafta Immediately. Republican laadets are eyeiag the Nogra Tata itt tke Tajr Baai State for the 1S5C electiaaa.
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