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Protests n Cbf Csn FOR THIRTY YEARS THE OUTSTANDING WEEKLY OF' THE CAROLINAS Entered as Second Cltut Matter at the Post Office at Durham, North Carolina, under Act of March 3,1879. VOUJME 30—NUMBER 21 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1953 PRICE 10 CENTS Dramatic, Last Minute Pleas Fail To Save Men One haadred tweaty-eicht North OwoUiui teeolty monben hMond Oe Mllere't iwtlrlBc deaa. Or. Albert ■. Manley, at a twttmonUl baa- qaaat at Darliam'* Alconqain Clnb Hoim laat week. Prla- cipala In the affair are shown left to rifht: Preddent Alfonso Elder, Mr*. Manley, Law Sehool Dean Albert L. Turner, ■taadlnc; Dean Manley, and Mn. Elder. Dean Manley beoomea presi dent of Spelman College, At lanta, Georria. July 1. He will be replaced at NCC by Dr. George T. Kyle, professor of psychology and vice chairman of'the Graduate Council. Nearly 700 Get Degrees At liC, A&T Gilleges Two hundred eighty-six Noirth Carolina College stu- , dents from 14 states, the Dis trict of Columbia, the Re public of Panafba, and Puerto Rico received naduate, un dergraduate and professional degrees at Norw Carolina College’s 42nd annual com- mencement exercises here on June 2 in the new men’s gym nasium. North Carolina leads the states with the largest num ber of graduates with 241. Other states represented in the graduating classes include: Vir ginia, 14; South Carolina, 8; Ala bama, 4; Florida, 9; Pennayl- vania, S; New Jersey, 8; Texas, 2; and the District of Columbia, 2. The foUowtaig states and fore ign conntrles were lepreaent- ed by one gradoate eadi: TennoMSee, MiMnari, Maas- adinsetls, MMsalppI, New York, Indiana, the Bepablie of Panama, and San Jaan, Puer to Wee. The undergraduate candidates were lis^^ for the following de grees: B. A., 72; B. S., 80; B. S. in Commerce, 49; B. S. in Home Economics, 21; B. S. in Library Science, 1; B. S. in Public Health Nursing, 1. Seven gradnatea t^NCC Law Schoel wan ezpMted t* receive the LLB lai|C/4egree. Master's candldatas Inelade: MA, S5; MS. !•; MS In Lib rary Scleaoe, II; and MS ia, Public Health Education, %. GREENSBORO More tlian 400 students re- received degrees and trade certificates at the 55th annual commencement program held at A. and T. College on Mon day of this week. Of this num ber 54 received master’s de grees, the largest number ever awarded by the college. The breakdown on the 411 graduates reveals a distribu tion in the following schools of the college: Agriculture, 64; Engineering, ' 87; Education and Soence, 170; and Grad uate, 64. Thirty-six trades certificates were awarded to students completing two and three year courses. Sixty-nine of the graduates (Please turn to Page Sight) Delegates-Named From Asheville To National NAACP Meeting ASHEVILLE Reverend M. R. Donald and Miss Frances Owens, president and secretary, respectively,' of the local NAACP liave been elected delegates to the 44th an nual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to be held in Saint Louis, Missouri, June 28- 28. The delegates were chosen by the local branch membership in a meeting held Sunday, May 24 fqllowing a program at Naza reth Baptist Church which fea tured L. E. Austin, Publisher of the CAXOLINA TIMES, from Durham as the main speaker. The program represented the closing of this branch’s annual membership campaign. Austin Ui«d u his subject, “Strength for the Weak.” Stres sing the role of the Negro loa der, Austin declared that in the exercise of their leadership, Ne groes must not give in to the temptations of offers of food, fame or money" to do the will of those who do not have the best Interests of the Negro people at heart. Instead, their (Negro) every act of leadership must reflect the “power of the splritl” f , Austin declared the Negro Church to be one of the great hopes of the Negro people in achieving the goals of first class citizenship, despite some of its weaknesses. The Nazareth Baptist Church Gospel Choir furnished special music for the program, and Rev. (Please turn to Page Eight) k RALEIGH An avalanche of appeals to Governor William B. Umstead from several groups of both races throughout the State failed to halt the scheduled^ execution of two Negroes here last week. So, funeral services for Clyde Brown, 22, and Raldgh Speller, 51, were held at Win ston-Salem and Windsor, re spectively, Sunday. Brown was convicted in 1950 of rape of a 17-year-old Winston-&- lem white girl. Speller was convicted of rape of a Bertie County white woman in 1947. Both were killed in the State’s gas chamber Friday morning. Groups frmn Durham, Wla- ■ton-Salem, Raleigh and Asbe- ville made apfeato to Qvttn- nortTmstead^^^alf of the coudMnned men Thursday. In addition, a young white min ister staged a dramatic sit- down protest on the capitol steps all day Thursday. But these efforts were unavailing. Some 2,000 persons crowded the Union Mission . Baptist Church in Winston-Salem l^un- day at 1:30 to hear final ritM for Brown. The chtirch auditorium, basements, lawn and street were crowded with people. A few whites attended the fimeral. Speller’s fnneml at Windsor at the same time was leas heavily attended. Reverend A. H. McDaniel of the Union Mission Chiurch de livered the eulogy for Brown. Both men were quoted by the last visitors to see than aUve that they were ready and maintained their innocence. Rev. Mrs. E. Graves of High ‘ Point, who has been a con stant visitOT to both men slnee Brown’s conviction, told the TIMES that Brown told her, “I didn’t do this thing they are going to kill me for." His sis ter, . Mrs. Louise Thompson, who also visited him Thurs day, said he trid her “not to worry, because I'm going to heaven.” Rev. Mrs. Graves, who also talked to Speller, said that he told her Thursday he hoped he would see her “on the other side.” integration Of Cattiolic Church Seen Permanent NEWTON GROVE The Catholic Church made a shaky but forward step to ward integration in North Carolina this week, de^ite the protests of some oi its members and much of it from persons of ttus community who are non-members. On orders from Bishop Vin cent S. Waters of Raleigh, N^ groes and whites attended ser vices at the Church of the Holy Redeemer at this rural parish Sunday. Prior to his order, Negro parishoners had attended St. Benedict’s, about 75 yards away from Holy Re deemer. Some 60 members of both churches Wved taunts from (Please turn to Page Eight) A Chapel Hillian diarges Police With Brutality. •CHAPEL HILL Police brutality of the most sordid kind broke out here Saturday morning when an officer of the Chapel Hill po lice force administered a bru tal beating to a Negro plas terer. According to .Hugh Hunter, 31, victim of the bating, of ficer Howard Pendergraph at tempted to arrest him while he was walking down Rose mary Street on his way to work around 7:45 Saturday morning. When he inquired of the officer why he was be ing placed under arrest, the officer accused him' of being drunk. Whereupon Hunter pro tested that he was not drunk and that he was on his way to work (Please turn to Page Eight) The above photos show wounds on a man’s body which were said to have been inflict ed by a Chapel Hill policeman last week. The man in the pic ture is Hbgh Hunter, a plaster er, who has sworn oat war rants against the policeman. Speller Quietly And Brown Go . As Stores Wotdi By CLATHAN ROSS RALEIGH The State of North Carolina wrote finis to the cases of Ra leigh Speller and Clyde Brown by gassing them to death in cen tral prison’s gas chamber here last Friday. Thus 'Was brought to a final end two controversial cases in which the two men, convicted of rape of white women, had their cases appealed, from local Su perior Courts all the way, through the various lesser courts channels, to the highest court In the land. Even urgent, last minute pleas to governor William B. Um stead failed to stay the inexor able worki^ of North Caro lina’s law which decreed that the two must die. Witnessing an execution was a novel, an unforgettable experi ence for this reporter. For he had never seen a htmian die— reporter, along with some 40 and he hopes he will never have other persons, including report- to see any more die in the man- I ers official witnesses and prison ner in which Brown and Speller officials, were led into a small went. About 9:30 last Friday morn ing, this reporter arrived at the gates of Central prison. Outside, a dazzling May sim and an oc casional breeze contrived to give west Raleigh’s flats a pul sating, quickening atmosphere. Once the prison trusty had clanged the heavy iron gate shut and once this reporter was inside the grim, gray walls of Central prison, the whole out door scene seemed to lose some of its brightness. The bleakness of the high, red brick walls and the stony stares from the few prisoners who were outside at work gave this reporter goose pimples even while standing in 80 degrees olus sunshine. At ten minutes to ten, this three-cornered room on the east side of the prison. The room was divided into three parts, the two observation rooms and the exe- cution chamber itself. The first vfttion rooni vyBc diroctly front of the execution chamber, separated from it by air tight, sound-proof walls and a half length glass panel. This was the room into which the 40 of us were crowded. It was built for perhaps ten persons, standing. The observation room, was situ ated at an angle to the left side of the execution chamber, sepa rated from it by a heavy, steel door, and a large, glass viewing panel. In this room, the prison warden, two physicians who checked the ebb of life in the (Please turn to Page Eight) SEVEBEND W F. COX Prineipala in the Free Will Baptist General Ccmference whiA opened in Durham last Tueaday are shown. Expected to attract delegates from the denomination from most ol the states of the eastern sea board, the conference will run until June 10. At top above is Rev. E. M. Hill of Kinston. Moderator of the Conference. Buitom is shown Reverend W. F. Cox, pastor of the Oak Church in Duriiam which serves as host to the confer- Pictured here are some of the principals at the testi monial banquet given on May 2Znd by the faculty and the alumni of the college in rec ognition of Dr. James W. Sea- brook’s twenty years of ser- tIm as Presldoit of the Fay etteville State Teachers’ Col lege, Fayetteville, N. C. Shown in the picture are Dr. Seabrook; Dr. Sidney D. WU- right) his wife, Mrs. Mae H. Seal^lbok; Dr. Sideny D. Wil liams, President of ElUabeth City State College TeadMis’ College, guest speaker; Ua wife. Mrs. S. D. WUliams; Acting Dean Rudolph Jwies. toastmaster; and BIrs. Mildred Jones, his wife. See story this issue for more details. Bishop Oxnam Nat'l. NAACP Meet Speaker NEW YORK Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam of the Methodist Church, a leading Protestant churchman, will share the platform with Walter White, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, at the closing meeting of the Association’s 44th annual con vention in St. Louis, June 23-38. A former president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. Bishop Ox nam is widely known as a spokesman for Protestantism and as an advocate of social jus tice. He is the author of several books on religion, ethics and sociology. Together with Mr. White he wUl address the final, session of the conventlcm oa Sunday afternoon, June 3S. Also scheduled to address the convention is Patrick I. Gor- (Please turn to Pafe Btgbt}
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