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MAN RUNS AMUCK WITH GUN; THREE HURT ★ ★ Cou PBTlodiC»l Dutei ttoW ixovacf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ' ★ ★ N. C.'s Gimmick Left In Air As Sclioois Decision Is Postponed Jelay Stirs Muddle The “stay of execution” granted by the Supreme Court to officials concerned with public schools in the South appeared not to have put them, to any appreciable degree, out of their old quandry. The court decided to post pone a decision on cases be- I'ore it asking for the elimina tion of segregation in public schools in several southern states. Although public school officials throughout the South were eager to seize on the post ponement as a ray of hope, pro ponents of non-se^egation term ed the postponement merely a Funeral services for S. S. Harris of Durham were held here last Saturday. A member of a pioneer Virginia family, Harris died at hla residence in Durham last Thursday. Among his survivors la his son, B. N. Harris, first Negro to be elect ' ed to the City Council of Dur ham. See story, page four. Sixty-Year-Old WomanKilledBy Run-Away Auto CLINTON A 60-year-old woman was MltetT S&turda}^ aft^nooti In an accident involving an auto mobile in Dismal township. Mrs. Hettie O. Williams was struck down by an automobile oiT of control as she walked a- long a field last Satiu-day. The driver of the car, Isaac McLamb, 19-year-old resident of Route 1, said that his automobile failed to make a curve on a dirt road near Kirby Hall’s store, swerved into a field, struck a tree and glanced off striking Mrs. Williams. She was taken to the Royal Clinic at Salemburgr but she had died enroute. The driver of the auto, Mc- Clamb, was indicted on a charge of manslaughter and placed un der bond of $2,S00 by Magistrate Carlisle Jackson of Clinton, pending a premlinary hearing. “stay of execution.” Summing up the opinion of many non-segregation propon ents in the State was Kelly M. Alexander, Charlotte, president of the North Carolina NAACP branches. Of the court’s action in post poning a decision on the cases, Alexander commented: “The recent decision of the Supreme Court to liear more arguments in the school seg regation cases on October 12 is clear evidence of the fact that segregation will be abol ished. As to whaf type of de cision the court will eventual ly hand down is problemaUcal. But, in my opinion, it will be a step in the direction of com plete equality for the Negro children of ' this nation. The delay gives the states that practice segregation time to prepare themselves for what is surely to come—first-class citizenship for all Americans.” If the postponement did noth ing for the hope or those who are seeking the abondonment of the dual school system in-, the South, it also did nothing for those who are trying to maln- (Piease turn to Page Eight) E. B. McKissick Named Officer For State Legion WILMINGTON E. B. McKissick of Asheville was elected vice-cohimander of Division Six of the American Legion at the legion’s convention concluded here at Willlston High School last Saturday. MoKISSICK A list of appointments was al so made at the convention, which opened here Friday. Ap- pohitments include Wilbur F. Carter, commander, eastern area; G. E. Wilson, commander, eastern area; J. W. Wesley, chaplain; L. C. Gantt, judge ad vocate; W. L. Baker, oratorical contest chairman; J. T. Ormond, boys state chairman; J. C. Rich mond, memorials chairman; W. W. Hardy, publicity officer; O. E. Clanton, rehabilitation chair man; E. A. Thornton, state mem bership cliairman; W. F. Cole, music director; and Prince Gil- lard, bugler. McKissick received the nod for vice commander in an elec tion which saw him gamer 38 votes to 22 for J. W. Wesley. JAMES PILGBIM MBS. ETHEL HENBT JESSE BAY J. H. THOMPSON MBS. WILLIE HENNESSEE W. C. ALLEN JOSEPH S. WILKINS Hosts To IMeeting Of N. C. Undertakers 10^0 FOR THIRTY YEARS THE OVTSTAISDING WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post 0//tcc at Durham, North Carolina, under Act of March 3,1879. VOLUME 30—NUMBER 23 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SA'TURDAY, JUNE 20, 1953 PRICE 10 CENTS Tar Heel Medic Dies On Way From Doctors’ Confab J. F. BIBCHETTE The City of Asheville “host ed” the 26th Convention of Colored Funeral Directors and Morticians’ Association of North Carolina, which con vened in this western North Carolina city June 17-18. Shown above are some of the officers of the Asheville unit of the Association which play ed host to the convention at the City Anditorium. Top row, left to right, are James Pil grim, president of the Ashe ville unit; Mrs. Ethel Henry, financial secretary; Jesse Bay, treasurer; J. H. Thompson; Mrs. Willie Ford Hennessee, corresponding secretary; and W. C. Allen. Directly below Pilgrim are Joseph S. Wilkins, and, below Wilkins, J. F. Bir- chette. Greenville M. D. Is Victim Of Heart Attack GREENVILLE Funeral services for a doc tor who died on his way home from a meeting of North Car olina physicians were held here last Sunday. Dr. James A. Battle, prom inent physician of this city, died last Thursday shprtly af ter stopping his automobile as he was on his way home from sessions of the annual Old North State Medical Associa tion meeting held at Rocky Mount. Death was attributed to a heart attack. He was 68. Bom in Wilson in 1885, Dr. Battle attended the Leonard School of Medicine at Shaw ITnlversity, where he received his degree. He began his prac tice here in Greenville in 1910, and in 1914 was mar ried to the former Mias Della N. C. Buslnessl^gue To Honor Spaulding In Greenville Session DB. JAMES L. BATTLE Mae Plnmmer of Warrenfon. Well-known and respected throughout North Carolina, Dr. Battle was active in the Saint Gabriels Catholic Church here and In many civic projects. He was a member of the staff of Saint Agnes Hospital in Raleigh and the Pitt County Memorial Hospital here in Greenville. He was also a member of the Rocky (Please turn to Page Eight) GREENVILLE The late president of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance will be honored by North Carolina Negro Business League in Its sixth meeting here next week as the league will present a C. C. Spaulding memorial citation to the business it selects as the outstanding business of the year. The League will convene here on Monday, June 29, for its sixth annual two-day meeting, ^d the memorial citation will ' come as the concluding fea ture of the meeting. According to Mrs. J. DeShazor Jaclcson of Durham, secretary of the League, a committee of five persons will select the most out standing business for the award from a list of nominations sub mitted by several Tar Heel cit ies. The basis for the selection, Mrs. Jackson stated recently, is “not necessarily the slie of I the business, but the contribu tion it has made to its com munity.” Highlights of the meeting, t?r be held at C. M. Eppes High School here, in addition to the memorial citation, included a workshop, open clinic, scholar ship award, talent program and Television raffle. Theme of this year’s meet ing is “Harnessing the Negro Market in North Carolina.” Persons who have not re ceived nomination questionnaires for the “outstanding business” award are requested to write the League’s secretary. Harold Stassen To Be Heard As NAACP Convenes ST. LOUIS, MO. Returning to the city for its its yearly conference for the first time since 193S, the Na tional Association for the Adf vancement of Colored People open its 44th annual conven tion in the Kiel Auditorium on Tuesday. Some 700 delegates from branches in all sections of the country are expected to attend and participate in dis cussions during the six-day convention which* concludes on Sunday afternoon^ June 28. ’The convention will consist of buslnew sessions, work- J shops and public mass meet- ^ ing. The evening and Sunday afternfton sessions will be mass meetings to be addressed by eminent spokesmen for human rights. The workshops will be devoted to organisational, operating and program prob lems confronting the branches. STASSEN TO SPEAK Hie keynote address at the opening public meeting Tues day night will be delivered by Dr, Channing H. Tobias, ex ecutive director of the Phelps- Stokes Fund and chairman of the NAACP board of directors. Welcoming the convention at this session will be Mayor Ray mond B. Tucker and Howard B. Woods, city editor of the St. Louis Argus. Speakers at the closing ses sion on Sunday will be Harold E. Stassen, Mutual Seeurity Administrator, and NAACP Executive Secretary Walter White. Music at this meeting will be by the Mariners, pop ular CBS quartet. LABOB LEADEBS, ARCHITECT AND LAWYERS Other speakers scheduled to address the evening mass meetings include Archibald J. Carey, lawyer, clergyman and member of the Chicago City Council; Patrick E. Gorman, secretary - treasurer. Amalga mated Meat Cutters and But cher Workmen, AFL; ’Thur- good Marshall, NAACP spec- cial counsel who argued the-. South Carolina school segre gation case before the United States Supreme Court; Senator W. Stuart Symington who will present tiTe"”38th* Spingarn Medal (awarded annually to a Negro American for disting uished achievement) to Paul R. Williams, noted Los Ange les architect. Wednesday night, youth units of the Association will present a dramatization of Margaret Walker’s poem, “For My People.” CIVIL BIGHTS TOPIC OF WOBKSHOP A series' of workshops is scheduled for the day sessions covering such topics as segre gation and discrimination in public education, recreation, transportation, housing, em ployment and public accom modations; the role of organ ised labor and employment; legislative action on civil rights; a national health pro gram; church cooperation; ipembership and fund raising; branch administration; and community relations. Experts In the various fields will conduct the workshops with experienced personnel from the branches partici pating in the panel discussions. THE CONVEN’nON OF 1935 When the convention met here in 1935 there were only 200 delegates from 38 branch es in 26 states. This year some 700 delegates representing 400 branches in 40 states are expected. At that earlier con vention, the delegates were primarily concerned with the Negro’s economic plight un der the New Deal in the midst of the depression. The del egates adopted a new plan and program for the Association, stressing the need for remedial action relative to the Negro’s economic status. Lynching was still a vital is sue, claiming 25 victims in 1935. The chief legislative is sue for the convention was the Costigan-Wagner anti- lynching bill designed to make mob murder a federal crime. GBOWTH OF THE NAACP ’The NAACP, organised in 1909, now has 1200 local units in 45 states, the District of Columbia and the Territory of Alaska, with a membership of 225,000. Always working with in the framework of the Amer ican constitutional system, the Association seeks the elimina tion of racial discrimination and segregation. In pursuit of this goal, it engages in legal action, sponsors' civil rights legislation, and works to achieve a more rec^tive cli mate of opinion for its pro gram. The Association’s member ship, board and staff are in terracial and includes many of the nation’s outstanding cham pions of human rights. Arthur B. Spingarn, New York law yer, is president. Among its board members are Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Ralph Bunche, Senator Herbert Leh- . man, Walter Reuther, Judge William H. Hastie, Mrs. Jessie M. Vann, Dean Erwin Gris wold, Judg6 Hubert Delany, Carl R. Johnson and others. Senator Wayne Morse, A. Philip Bandolph, Newbold Morrlg, Bishop W. J. Walls, Rev. John Haynes Holmes, Willard S. Townsend and Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune are a- mong vice-presidents of the organisation. Austin To Speak In Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA * On Sunday, June 21 at three o’clock, L. E. Austin, publisher of the CABOLINA TIMES wUI deliver the Annual Men’s Day Address of the White Bock Baptist Church of which Rev. W. C. Williamson, former pas tor of the Mount Vernon Bap tist Chu(ch of Durham, is pas tor. ’The ’TIMES publisher is also expected to speak to the Ministerial AUlance of Phil adelphia, Monday morning, June 22. Burlington Man Holds Police At Bay With Gun BURLINGTON A 27-year-old man held po lice at bay with a shot gun for a few moments and wounded three other persons in a crowd which had gather ed before he surrendered to officers. Gaither Richmond of 615 Montgomery Street here was being held without bond ear ly this week on three counts of assault with a deadly wea pon with intent to kill and one case of assault with a deadly weapon. When Police Lieutenant E. D. Poe and Officer J. O. Holmes went to investigate a call that Richmond was creating a disturbance last Saturday on Montgomery Street, they were stopped by Richmond with a single-barrelled shot-gun who told them as they stepped into the street from their patrol car, to stop, “or* I’ll shoot.” The oiiicers obeyed and fol lowed Richmond as he walked slowly up the Street to the in tersection of Rosmwald and Montgomery Streets. There, Richmond was advanced on by Walter Kimball of 811 Rosenwald Street. B«t. at Richmond’s command, “stop, or I’U shoot,” Kimball stepped hack a few step*. (Please turn to Page Eight) REVEREND WILEY Weldon Man Elected Head Of Shaw Alumni f RALEIGil A leading North Carolina clergyman of Weldon was elect ed recently to head the national alumni association of Shaw University here. Rev. J. W. Wiley, graduate of the school’s class af 1930. was named presideat at the na tional body at the aaraal Jne meeting of the asaoeiattoa held here following Shaw’s commencement exercises. Rev. Wiley succeeds retiring president W. R. Collins of Smith- field. The new alumni president re- received his formal training at Palmer Memorial Institute, Shaw, Howard and Columbia Universities. He served for 18 years as a high school prin cipal. He is currently prin- (Please turn to Page Eight) Durham Church Slates Program A Men’s Day Prc^ram at Mt. Vernon Baptist Church in Durham Sunday will feature an address by J. E. Briggs, professor of History at Bene dict College, Columbia, S. C., according to T. L. Rowland, president of the sponsoring Laymen's League at the church. Rowland, Who also serves the church as deacon, issued a special announcement this week for the Men’s Day cele bration. The program’s featured speaker, Professoc Briggs, i» (Please turn to Page Eight)