Four Teen-Agers Drown In Boating Party
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BUS PASSENGER KILLED
Sidney Evans, 21-year-old
G. I. of Plum Strret in Dur
ham who suffered severe face
injuries when part of it was
tom away by a blast from a
.12 guage shot gun here last
April, has Host sight of both
of his eyes, according to re
ports from his family. The
sight of the right eye was lost
immediately after he received
the blast and he recently lost
sight in the other eye. Young
Evans is being trented for his
injuries at Walter Reed Hos
pital in Washington, D. C. He
was shot by a watchman at
the McDougald Terrace, hous
ing project, in Durham.
LYNCH TOWN
ELECTS NEGRO
SIKESTON, Ho.
The spotlight wai turned on
a small city in Missouri this
month when IVed Smith, a Ne
gro undertaker, was elected to
the City Cotmcil. Although
Sikeston is not the first south
ern city to break through racial
barriers in local politics, an
event which took place in this
community ol 8,000 residents a
little more than 10 years ago,
provides a dramatic case study
of the changes that are currently
taking place throughout the
south.
The last time nation-v/ide at
tention was focused on Sikeston
was in 1042 when a 30 year-old
Negro rape suspect was dragged
through tile streets with his feet
tied to an automobile, drenched
in gasoline and finaUy burned
to death on the grounds of the
Negro school. Before the lynch
mob seized the suspect, he had
been shot three times by a po
liceman who claimed he was
resisting arrest
Today Sikeston can be proud
of its citizens for again being
in the spotlight
Violence Claims Lives Of Six;
Five By Drowning, One In Wreck
WINSTON-SALEM
Two teen-aged couples were
drowned in the swift currents of
the Yadkin River here Monday,
and a 2S-year-old finishing guide
was drowned at a Lake near
WhiteviUe as son baked ^ar,
Heels took to the water in liit ef
fort to escape the broiling rays of
NAACP Meet
Set For Saint
W ^WWWlr»
Louis In June
NEW YORK
Senator Stuart Symington of
Missouri wlU address the 44th
annual convention of the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People,
Walter White, NAACP execu
tive secretary, announced today.
The senator will make the pre
sentation of the Spingam Medal
to Paul R. Williams.
The convention, which will
be held in St. Louis, June 23-28,
will be attended by 700 or 800
delegates from NAACP branch
es in all sections of the country.
The convention program calls
for extensive review and dis
cussion of ways and means of
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’ol Sol’s first concentrated heat
wave of the year.
A seven year-old girl died
when a truck in which she rode
overturned near Whitevllle,
bringing the total death in
drowning and violence to six.
The t^o couplet wh6 w«m
drowned here Monday were
James A. Hauser, 17, Harvey
Young, and sisters, Ella, 18, and
Nancy Kimbrough, 17. Hauser
and Young both lived at Route
2, Yadkinvllle, while the Kim
brough sisters lived at Lewis-
ville.
The four drowning victims
were part of a party of six who
had gone out to the Yadkin Riv
er Monday afternoon for swim
ming and boating. Two of the
party, Brady Elbert Young, bro
ther of one of the victims, and
George E. Cowans were the on
ly survivors.
Ironically enough, three of
the drowning victims were safe
ly boating along the shallows
near the Yadkn side of the Riv
er. the boat were the two
Kimbrough sisters, Brady Young
and his brother, Harvey. Sud
denly, the two other members of
the party, Hauser and Cowan,
who were out swimming into
the flow of the river, reached a
swift mid-stream and called for
help.
The boat, a home-made catioe
type affair, with it four pas-
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HrleileelDep*
CJieCan
tiMS
FOR THIRTY YEARS THE OVTSTAND WG WEEKLY OF THE CAROUNAS
Entered a* Second Clou Matter at hc Pott Office mt Durham, fiorth Carolina, under Act of March 3,1879.
DURHAM, NORTH CAIlbLINA, SATURDAY, MAY iSO, 1953 PRICE 10 CENTS
VOLUME 30—NUMBER20
^ Versions
old Of Event
Man Was Interstate Passenger;
Questions Raised As The Full
Story Remains Mystery
A North Carolina Negro Enforcement Officers Associa
tion was formed last week at a meeting in Durham of some
forty-eight Negro police officers who are shown above at
the Durham Police Cabin located on the outskirts of the city
at Lake Michie. This was the first such meeting of the lato-
men who decided that an organization would help them meet
some problems which they encounter and which are peculiar
to them. According to Lt. James B. Samu.els of the Durham
Police force, who was elected first president of the organi
zation at the meeting, the purpose of the meeting was to pro
mote better relationship between officers and discuss prob
lems pertinent to Negro officers of this sesction.
Other officers of the organization who were elected at
the meetings, in addition to Samuels, are Detective O. H.
Leake, High Point, vice-president; Special Investigator C. R.
Massey, Greensboro, Patrolman A. M. Huston, Charlotte,
secretary; Patrolman J. H. Baker, Raleigh, corresponding
secretary; Patrolman S. A. Penn, Greensboro, publicity;
Patrolvutn Bennie Walls, Winston-Salem, parliamentffian;
and PatrMnidn T. Tl Street, Bale^J^ Chopiqin. - ^
REPUCES MANLEY
Others who attended the meeting are W. R. Chase, Rocky
Mount; Doran Earl, Greensboro; Johnnie Landon, Winston-
Salem; Therman Brooks, Shelby; Herman i4rtis, Raleigh;
Albert Hinson, High Point; Samuel Clarkson, Raleigh; Rufus
Spears, Sr., Reidsville; J. L. Montgomery, Greensboro; Her
bert Tillman, Rocky Mount; H. O. Staton, High, Point; C. W.
Hickman, Greensboro; John Jones, Reidsville; G. T. Nash,
Charlotte; R. A. Steele, High Point; W. J. Costner, Charlotte;
James McClellan, Charlotte; Frank Bright, High Point; J. A.
Lyles, Charlotte; V. F. Spencer, Charlotte; J. F. Hoffman,
Charlotte.
And C. L. Cox, Durham; Hampton Moss, Oxford; Ed
ward Bass, Shelby; O. C. Johnson, Durham; Frank McCrae,
Durham; O. L. Harris, Durham; W. T. Amaker,^igh Point;
D. R. Exum, Durham; Garson McLeod, Durham; O. W.^JtLS-
tice, Durham; J. W. Price, Durham; Joe Gwynn, Winston-
Salem; C. W. Webb, Durham; H. G. Harris, Sa^t#ord; W. 1^.
Barnes, Durham; Alfred Anderson, Oxford; and Oscar Mor
rison, Winston-SfLlem.—Photo by STANBACK.
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George T. Kyle Named
New Dean At N. C. College
WSTC NAACP
CHAPTER FIRST
NEW YORK
The membership campaign of
the youth coimcils and college
chapters of the National Asso
ciation for the Advancement of
Colored People is gaining mo
mentum, with more than 784
new members reported during
the first half of the month of
May, Herbert L. Wright, NAA
CP youth secretary announced
today.
Winston-Salem Teachers Col-
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Alert political and legal activity have resulted in striking, concrete gains for Negro
citizens of Columbia, South Carolina, as evidenced by the new fire station, shown above
to be manned by Negro fireman. Located in a busy section of the city on Harden Street
near the campus of Allen University, the station will be staffed by C. B. Mitchell, Lewis
N. Williams, Abram Coles, Jr., Oscar Donaldson, Claude Stewart, Thomas L. Jones, James
D. Williams, and Benjamin J. Frazier. Two w hite officers, battalion chief L. O. Goodtoin
and Captain F. L. Anderson, and two engineers, J. W. Gage and G. L. Derrick, will com-
fdete the staff of the station for the Hrst few months while the iVcpro firemen become
amiliar with their new jobs. Scheduled to open in June, the station unll give the city three
subjstations in addition to its central fire station.
According to informed sources, Negroes have been successful, through their legal and
political activity, to obtain other benefits andserv^s that the city offers, including a new
high school, erected identically to a newly con structeO white high school and containing the
same equipment, and a recreation center, erected at the same time and identical with a
white recreation center.
Designate Served
As Grad School
Official At NCC
Dr. George T. Kyle, psy
chologist and vice chairman-
of the Graduate Council at
North Carolina College, has
been named dean of North
Carolina College’s under
graduate college of arts and
sciences effective July 1. An
nouncement of the appoint
ment was made here last
week by NCC president Al
fonso Elder after a meeting
of the college’s board of trus
tees.
Dr. Kyles, 48, has been pro
fessor of psychology and head of
the department of psychology at
N. C. College since 1940. He
was named vice chairman of the
Graduate Council last year.
He succeeds Dr. Albert E.
Manley, the retiring dean who
becomes president of Spelman
College, Atlanta, Georgia, on
July 1.
President Elder said the trus
tees had instructed a special
committee to write » letter of "ap
preciation for Dean Manley’s
service to N. C. College and t6
wish him good luck in his new
postion at Spelman College.
Dr, Kyle, the new dean- de
signate at NCC is a native of
East St. Louis, 111. He is a grad
uate of the University of Illinois
where he received the A. B! and
A. M. degrees, majoring in psy
chology and minoring in educa
tional psychology.
Professor Kyle studied clinical
psychology at the University of
Pennsylvania in 1043-1944 and
in 1944-1945 he studied psy
chology at New York Universi
ty. He received the Ph. D. de
gree at New York University in
1949.
The NCC psychologist form
erly taught at Prairie View Sttte
College in Texas and at Johnson
C. Smith University in Char
lotte. He was at Johnson C.
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COATS
A cloud of mystery and suspi
cion hang over the fatal shooting
at this little town at the cross
roads of highways 55 and 40 of
a Negro bus passenger who, it
is alleged, went berserk and
knifed two white men.
News of the incident broke
Tuesday just as the 'TIMES was
going to press, so that only the
skimpiest information of the in
cident was available this week.
Reports of the incident, by
two well known press associa
tions and by the investigating
coroner who talked to the
TIMES by telephone Tuesday,
were so conflicting that they
gave a sinister cast to the whole
affair and left unanswered seve
ral ominous questions in the
wake of the shooting as Harnett
County officials hastened to
clear the Constable who fired
the fatal shots.
This much of the incident is
undisputed fact:
Frederick Simmons, about 30
years-old and whose residence
is listed as Stamford, Connecti
cut, an interstate passenger on
a Greyhound bus, was shot by
Constable C. E. Moore last Mon
day night. Simmons was report
edly bound for Atlanta, Ga.
After these facts, the rest of
the events surrounding the inci
dent have been more or less con
fused and contradicted by vari
ous reports of it.
All of the reports say that
Simmons inflicted knife wounds
on the bus driver, R. S. Blan
ton, and another white man,
Stacy Byrd. First reports of the
incident," by one lafge press as*
sociation, said that Simmons
knifed the bus driver after an
argument during which the dri
ver ordered him to move to the
back of the bus.
A report by another national
ly known press association on
the following day quoted Blan
ton, the bus driver, as denying
that there was an argument over
where Simmons sat on the bus.
This report held that Simmons
“went Iserserk” for some unex
plained reason and began weild-
ing a knife.
The first report said also that
after Simmons knifed the driver,
he jumped from the bus and ran
and that he was shot while at
tempting to flee the scene. Later
reports say that Simmons at
tempted to knife the Constable
and that the Constable shot in
self defense
In denying that issue of seat
ing on the bus was involved in
the incident, Blanton, through
his wife, was quoted from a hos-
ptal at Erwin where he was
taken after he suffered knife
wounds, as saying that Sim
mons, “just went out of his head,
more or less.”
Mrs. Blanton, in relaying the
story from her husband to a
press association, gave an ac
count of the incident this way:
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DANIELS SAVED
WASHINGTON
The Daniels consins, Bennie
p.nd Lloyd Ray, were given a
stay of execution by the 1J. S.
Supreme Conrt.
JHMUmest last hour appeal t*
Chief Justice Fred M. VinsM
by Attorney O. John Bofge
sa\ed the two Pitt eoanty
cousins, at least for a while.
Ro^ge asked that Vinson hold
a Siiecial hearing in hia eham-
Betr"6n the ^oahffi HiaC dls-
crlmination was practiced ia
selection of the trial Jary.
The pair, scheduled to have
been execnted on Friday, May
29, were convicted in 1949 at
the murder of a white taxi
driver.
(ilHOLICS HOVE 10 GEI IN
STEP WITH INTEGUTION
DR. J. CDR'ns DIXON
DR. ARCHIBALD CAREY
»i TO GCT DEGREES AT NCC;
DIXON AND CAREY TO SPUK
Some 206 members of gradu
ating classes at North Carolina
College will receive their di
plomas this year for the first
time in the college’s new million
dollar Men’s Gymnasium at 11
a.m. on Tuesday, June 2.
Baccalaureate services will
also be held in .the gjrmnasium
on Sunday, May 31, at 3:30 p.m.
Ample seating will be available
at both services for the general
public.
Dr. Archibald J. Carey, Jr.,
Chicago alderman and minister
who was a campaign adviser to
President Dwight D. Eisenhow
er, will preach the baccalaureate
sermon. The speaker to the grad
uates on Tuesday will be Dr. J.
Curtis Dixon, vice president and
executive director of the South
ern Education Foundation, At
lanta, Qa.
The program for Sunday, May
31, opens with Dean of Women
Louise M. Latham's breakfast
for the seniors and their parents
at 9:80 «jn. in the college’s
cafeteria.
Other events on Baccalaureate
Sunday include President and
Mrs. Alfonso Elder’s reception
on the lawn of their home, for
faculty members, the graduating
classes, end the parents and
friends of the college’s graduates
and alumni. A senior recital at
8:15 in Duke Auditorium is
Sunday’s last event.
Alumni Day is being celebrat
ed this year on Monday, June
1. In addition to the annual
meeting of the national alumni
the day will also feature the
annual Alumni Banquet. Asa T.
Spaulding, vice president and
actuary of the North Carolina
Mutual Life Insurance Com-
t>any, wiU be the banquet speak
er. The banquet starts in the
cafeteria at 7 p.m.
Dr. Carey, son of the late
Bishop and Mrs, A. J. Carey,
was the top Negro Republican
advisor to President Dwight
D. EUsenhower during the 108S
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NEWTON GROVE
Although orders for com
bining congregations of a
white and Negro Catholic
Church last week here have
been met by protests from
members of the white con
gregation, the M()st Reverend
Vincent Waters, Bishop of
Raleigh, who issued ^he order,
has sto^ pat and so far, re
fused to rescind it.
Bishop Waters ordered the
merger of Holy Redeemer’s
Church (white) and Saint
Benedict’s Parish (Negro) to
take place on May 31.
And, in a letter to Father
Timothy Sullivan of Holy Re
deemer's, the Bishop directed
that after May 31 members of
the St. Benedict Parish would
attend Holy Redeemer’s with no
restrictions.
The protest to the merger
stemmed mainly from 74-year-
old John C. Monk, a nephew and
namesake of the founder of the
81-year-old church.
Many observers feel that the
Bishop s order which would in
effect abolish segregation at this
Catholic Parish is aimed at get
ting the church in North Caro
lina in line with what many ex
pect to be a ruling against seg
regation in schools from the
Supreme Court.
Although there was no specific
reference to the Catholic schools
in this parish in the Bishop’s or
der, it could be broadly inter
preted to refer to the schools al
so in the event the Supreme
Court rules out tegregation
The net result, many observers
believe, is that the Bishop wants
the Church In a position so that
it could make the change from
segregation to integration with
out seenUng to have needed
prodding from the Court if a
ruling against segregation is
made, and at the same time, the
order does not call for integra
tion of the schools, so that if a
ruling in favor of segregation is
made, the Church would not be
‘out on a limb.”
Dr. Monk, one of the white
parishoners outspoken in his dis
like of the order, denied that
there was any hatred for the
Negro Catholics, but added that
Free Will Baptist
Convention Set
For City In June
Between one thousand and
1500 delegates from twenty
states on the Eatsem sea
board are expected to con
verge on Durham on Tues
day for the annual general
conference of the United Free
Will Baptist Church.
Reverend W. F. Cox. pas
tor of the host Oak Grove
Free Will Baptist Church and
Moderator of “A” Dkdsion of
the Cape Fear Conference,
said that the Conference will
get underway at his church
on Tuesday and continued
through Wednesday of the
following week, June 10.
A highlight of the season
of the denomination will be
the election of the Kneral'
moderator for’the couerence.
According to advance reports,
th« contest for this oflie* will be
tetwecn Rev. P A. Hodfes d
Baltimore and the prsssot ia-
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