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Gov. PspiodiiiMii D^pt Dttlii CblT librsry es’ Racist Record Laid Bare ★ ★ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ♦ ¥ 12 HURT ON N. C. ROADS Man Escapes Arsonists' Plot On His Life SANFORD A 26 year old man was arrest ed here this week on charges of setting fire to the house of his “enemy”. Abraham Peggie was nabbed by officers of the Lee county Sheriffs department and lodged in jail on charges of arson. He is charged with setting fire to the one Amm house of James Hugg, located on Haiti Street. The house was badly burned be fore fireman could subdue the flames. Huff, asleep at the time the fire started, was awakened byi the Hhell of smoke and turned Oji the alarm. When the fire ^aa finally snuffed out, a large sec tion of the floor had been burn ed, and two holes in the side o£ the one room dwelling. Peggie was reported as say- inig that Huff "was going to get me.” B. N. HARBIS Durham's Negro Counciloian Is Ignored By Body (See Editorial, THE CITY COUNCIL SHOULD BE ABOVE SUSPICION, Page Two.) DURHAM It was 4N«vealed this week to the TIMSS that Durham’s first Negro city councU member had been by-passed as a mem ber of a special committee ap points to study the Durham Telephone Company’s req(iest for an extention of its franch ise. The telephone company fran chise committee met last Thiu^day without R. N. Har ris. Harris was appointed to the committee, along with Mrs. R. O. Everett, Floyd Fletcher, M. M. Fowler, and Watts Carr, Jr. by Mayor E. J. Evans. Harris told the TIMES this week that the reason he was not present at the meeting was because he was not informed of the meeting, even though, according to Harris, the com mittee chairman, Watts Carr, Jr., talked with him on the morning of the meeting about the details for a meeting sche duled for August 4. In a statement to the TIMES ‘ this week, Harris said, "... 1 regret to state that I had no knowledge of the two o’clock city council or conn- oU oonunittee meeting on Thursday, Jnly 30. At Thurs day morning’s meeting. Chair man Carr definitely talked with me abont the detail of the proposed August 4 meet ing but I did not hear the an nouncement that a meeting was to be held that afternoon. Certainly I wonld have at tended this meeting if I had known of it.” Carr, chairman of the special committee wiilch is studying the telephone company’s fran chise extension request, could not be contacted -Wednesday for comment. FOR THIRTY YEARS THE OVTSTANDING WEEKLY OF THE CAROLII^AS Entered aa Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Durham, North Carolina, under of March 3,1879. VOLUME 30—NUMBER 29 DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, AUGUST 8,1953 PRICE 10 CENTS So Says Sen. Hoey Jimmy Byrnes "Great American Here's Record Of 'Great American' Senator Labeb Byrnes' Critics 'Left Wingers' WASHINGTON, D.C. Senator Clyde R. Hoey, North Carolina’s long-time representa tive to the United States Senate, hailed the appointment of South Carolina Governor James F. Byrnes as a delegate to the United Nations, calling the Pal metto state chief executive a “real American.” At the same tim^, Senator Hoey attacked the groups which had opposed the appointment, blanketing them with the general label, “left wing groups.” The senior N. C. senator from! Shelby revealed early this week that he supported Gov. Byrnes’ appointment “enthusiastically.” “I supported him because of his eminent fitness lor the do- sition and my enthusiasm in-t creased by the nature and char-^ acter of liis opposition,” Sen. Hoey declared. “I am glad to iiave a real A- merican on this U. S. delegation and one who cannot be influ enced by the left wing pressure groups. Gov. Byrnes meets all the requirements for the po sition,” the senator said. Gov. Byrnes’ appointment by, President Eisenhower to the U.N. was opposed by the NAA- CP. and the ADA, among other organizations. Endorsement.of Gov. Bymesi by Senator Hoey came as na surprise in many quarters in the (Please turn to Page Eight) QUEEN aiY YOUTH ON WAY TO GOU OF mCHING BIG LEAGUE BY L. B. WATSON CHARLOTTE The Queen City’s latest pro spect for big time baseball is making good after his second year of “proving himeself.” He is 18-year-old Thomas (Blo^) Watson, who. In his second year in organised base ball is swatting the ball at .325 clip for the Montana Bill ings of the Pioneer Leagne. And, if the youngster con tinues the pace he iias set for himself during his first two years in O. B., sports authorities and scouts pr^ct that it won’t be long before young Watson dons a uniform for the Pitts burgh Pirates. Watson was signed by the Pirates last Jnly, one month after hi» gtadnatiwi fram See- ond Ward high where he star red for the Second Ward Tig ers. The youngster was spot ted by a scout of the Charlotte district for Pirates who, so im pressed by Watson’s promise, immediately sent the call for a Pirate scout to come get a look-see at Watson. i George 'Spratt, Pittsburgh Scout, came to Charlotte last July and had Watson, who is known by the nickname 'Blond,' ink his signature to a Pitts burgh Pirate contract. Soon after he had signed, “Blond” hopped aboard a plane and wound up In Can ada where he finished the sea- THREE CHILKEN BADIY HURT IN ACCIDENTS IN TAR HEHIA A dozen persons were hurt, some seriously, in automobile accidents on highway^ in the State over the past week-end. Seven of the accident victims were Negroes, and three of them were children ranging in ages from six to three. ' Four Negroes were injured in a truck-car collision in Camden, County, one in an accident in Pasquotank County and twq others in a wreck in Lee Countyj All of the accidents occured oa Saturday. Three small children, from) six to three years old, were seriously hurt when the truck in which" they were riding crashed into an automobile head- ert north on State highway 843 afound 12:10 Saturday. Raymond Riddick, driver oS truck, received lacerations o£ the iiead in the accident. Six; year old Carolyn Riddick, re-> ceived a fractured skull and lacerations; Frencio Riddick, five years old, had severe head lacerations, and James Henry Riddfck, three, suffer^ a con cussion and lacerations. Edgar Santon, Jr., driver ot the northbound automobile which collided with the truck, had several teeth knocked out and suffered severe laceration> of the lip. Frederic Eugene Jones, resii dent of Rt. 1, Colonial Heights, Va., was slightly injured on highway 170 in Pasquotank county Saturday around seven when his automobile left the road, struck a soft shoulder and overturned. Jones was headed toward Elizabeth City, about one and one half miles distant, in a heavy rain when he met another car. His automobile left the road a^d overturned after hitting thei sh(^ders of the road. He was driving alone. In Lee County, W. J. Robin son and Charles A. Gardiner, were critically injured Saturday afternoon on route 87 one mild north of Pineville when their car crashed head on into anothei* automobile. Both men are from Sanford. Patrolman R. B. Leonard, who investigated the accident said that Gardiner was driving) North on route 87 when his car* left his side of the road and ran head-on into another car driven by Boyd W. Flhk of Greensboro. Gardiner and Robinson both suffered severe Injuries and their condition was reported “critical'’ at Lee County Hospi tal early this week. Another man riding in the same car with (Please turn to Page Eight) son with a .347 average. After the ^ baseball season, Thomas returned to Charlotte and got a job in the Charlotte (Please turn to Page Eight) tSMi' 1—As representative, 1911- 25, eonaiatently spoke and voted against anti-lynching bills and appropriations for Howard University. 2—in 1917 opposed conscrlp- ttoB, fearing mixing of troope. S—la 1919 asked Attorney General to prosecute editors of CBISIS and MESSENGER be cause they demanded eqnal rights for Negroes. Further said that any Negro who “does not eare to live in this land without political and social equality can depart for any courtry he wishes” beeaose “99,000,000 white people are determined not to extend poli tical and social equality to the 10.090,000 Negroes.” 4—As Senator, 1931-43, op posed minimum wage law, participated in filibusters a- gainst aatl-lynching bills, 1935 and 1938. 5—As Secretary of State, cesiMno^ policy of ireaMettaig job opportnnitin for Negroes in State Depart ment. ' 6—As Governor of South Carolina, since 1951, mann uevered plan enabling state legislature to abolish public aehooi system in case segrega- is banned. '—Spearheaded Dixlecrat re in “W##"'Bnd‘iir*“199)fr be cause of Democratic Party’s CivU Bighto PUtform. THOMAS (BLOND) WATSON ... Pirate farmhand... Son Held In Father's Death DANVILLE A 28 year-old man ot Caswell county was being held in jail this week on charges of slaying his father-in-law. 'nieodore Mimms was arrest ed Monday in connection with) ttie death' of Richard Watkins. 65, his father-in-law. Two witnesses told Caswell county sheriff that they saw Il^imms strike Watkins with some "object” in a quarrell over (Please turn to Page Eight) Miss Iva McCarter, retiring director of the Bethlehem Cents* at Charlotte was hoaered last week by several groups and citliens for her nine years service at the Center. In the above photm, reading ^om Mft to right, are MrsT Mildred Gillard, member of the staff at Phylls Wkaatley T. W. C. A.; Miss Allegra Westbrooks, director of the Brevard Street Branch of the Pablic Llfenury; Mrs. U. S. Brooks, member of the executive committee of the NAACP; Mrs. Ethel Tnhnasa. ekair- man of the entertainment committee of the NAACP, and Miss Iva McCarter, the honeree. Signals Mixed in Charlotte Jim Crow Hits Biliie Sciiooi Bible Pupils Welcomed Then Tossed Off Park BY DORIS GLASS ' CHARLOTTE An incident of stark jim-crow- ism victimizing children in a religious training program was revealed here this week to the rtMBa. On last June 30, a group of Negro Vacation Bible students and their leader were forced off a playground because it was "for whites only,” They had earlier been granted permission to use the playground. The incident resulted from an apparent mix-up somewhere in the Park and Recreation Com mission office when an official failed to ascertain whether or not the group was Negro oi* white before he permitted the( group to use the playground. In brief, here’s the way the situation developed: Rev. James R. Holloway, din rector of Missions for the Meck lenburg Baptist Interracial Com mission, and leader of a daily vacation bible school, sought td have Tenth Street, Ijetween Caldwell and North Brevard, blocked off between 10:30 and (Please turn to Page Eight) JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ACTION SEENBYMANYASHOPEFULSIGN WASHINGTON Arguments before the United States Supreme Court in the public school segregation cases have been put off again. This time until December 7. Announcement of this latest postponement of the hearings was made early tUs week. It came at the request of Attor ney General Herbert Brow nell, who asked for more time so that the Justice Department could prepare new briefs in the hearings. Announcement ot the post ponement until December 7 was made Monday by Supreme Court Clerk Harold B. Wiley. The Supreme Court first heard arguments last Decem ber on the cases. Then on June 8 the court announced that no decision would be reached un til further argument. The court set October 12 as the dat^ for the rearguments. But, this week, at the request of Attorney General Brownell, the date for the rearguments have been set back to Dec. 7. The Attorhey General’s re quest for a derferment was made in a letter which stated that the questions which the Protests To Byrnes Nomination Mount Tlirougliout Country NEW YORK Informed that the Senatd Foreign Relations Committee) had voted blanket endorsement of the presidential nominationa of delegates to the United Na tions, Walter White, executive secretary of the National Aaio- ciatlon for the Advancement o2 Colored People, sent a tele gram last Friday to Chairman Alexander Wiley and all othei* members of the committee again urging that open hearings be held on the nomination of Gov. James F. Byrnes of South Caro^ lina. ^ White’s telegram cited re ports that “some members of the committee l>elleved the nomina tion of Crov. Byrnes umfortunate and regrettable but felt that re fusal to approve would be con strued as repudiation of the President and also that nomina tion of Rev. Archibald Carey should atone In part” for the Byrnes designation. “We deplore such evaston of most basic principle,” the NAACP official said. “Gover nor Byrnes’ lifelong career of intransigent opposition to the rights of Negroes, immigrants, labor and other minorities makes liim the worst possible spokesman for American Demo cracy in the United Nationa critics of American democracy, at this crucial period of world liistory. His record is so bad that he will become the immediate and exceedingly vulnerable tar get of Communists and other critics of American democracy.” Further, Wiiite said in his tele gram, “we deplore especially the failure of your committee to hold public on Byrnes’ nomina tion when full truth of his exe crable record could be in part examined by the Congress and the nation. Protests Mount In Nation Meanwhile, protests against the naming of Gov. Byrnes mounted throughout tiie natioit' as liberal groups made known their lack of confidence in the South Carolinan. Following the original protest to President Eisenhower on July 27 by the NAACP, other organizations ex pressed their opposition to the nomination. In a telegram to the Presi dent, Emil Rieve, president of the Textile Workers of America, CIO, and chairman of the Philip Murray Foundation, charged that Gov. Byrnes "is outstand ingly lunqualified” for the post to which he was nominated. Such a man, the labor leader said, “surely does not and can not represent our country in toa parliament of the world. Let ua never forget that the over whelming majority of the world’s people have skins of a different color than ours. Can we chose as a spokesman a man whose whole career demon strates his conviction th&t color* .is-a badge of infeHority?” Urban League Asks Withdrawal Robert W. Dowling and Le» ter B. Granger, president and executive secretary, respective ly, of the National Urban Lea gue, sent a telegram to the Presi dent asserting that Gov. Byrnes’ vulnerability “makes it impera tive that his nomination be withdrawn by the President or rejected by the Senate.” The governor’s record, the telegram asserted, “has been so flagrantly and constantly opposed to the American ideal of equal op portunity that his membership in the U.S. delegation would make him an easy and inviting target for commimist attack against the sincerity of hia country’s democratic profes sions.” The Jewish Labor Committee, in a telegram to the President signed by Adolph Held, presi dent, and Charles S. Zimmer man, chairman of the commit tee’s anti-discrimination depart-: ment, declared that (Jov. Byrnes' “blatimt identification with ,tbe| vices will be heM at a time (Please turn to Page Eight) * date to be announced latar. court wants discussed on re argument “require study of a large r: ’ toricai materials, su (Please turn to Page . Former Resident Of Durham Dies Suddenly WILMINGTON Mrs. Peggy Spaulding Frencli, former Durham resident and daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Spaulding of that city, died suddenly here Tuesday eve ning about 10:30. Mrs. French who was a re sident of Rankin, Pennsylvania was visiting relatives and friends here and at East Ar cadia near here where she had planned to attend a fam ily reunion to be held Sunday. " She was accompanied by her husband, Robert French also a resident of Bankin. On Monday she and her hus band visited friends and rela tives in Durham where they spent the evening at the home of Mrs. Maggie Ingram, 1607 Lin coln Street. She left here Tues day morning enroute to Wil mington and East Arcadia. Mon day evening while in Durham she complained to friends of feeling ill and was given treat ment at Lincoln Hospital of that city wiiere she was not consid ered to be seriously HI. While enronte to her de stination Mrs. French took ill again and was taken te a drag store in EUsabethtewn irkeie she eoilapaed. After Mag w- vived she eeatteaed ker journey on to East Arcadia and went to bed. Doriag the evening she again became ill and was being rashed te the hospital at the time ef her death. Mrs. French was bom in Wil mington but moved to Durham in early childhood where she at tended the city schools and N. C. College. For several years she was employed as a clerk at the North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company. She is sarvived fey her Iraa- baad and several dlataat rela- tivea. The body will be taken to Rankin where the funeral ser-
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