A TALE OF THE SOUTH
i.
The above picture needs no
explanation for retidenta of the
South. It shows the absurd
lengths to which the practice of
racial segregation can go. The
picture shows a water bwket
and /dipper* marked “C" foi*
colored ond "W“ for white uted
by men on a construction Job on
Nelson Street in Durham. The
construction project, which
bears the .contractors’ sign of the
“I. H. Harris Company" of Dur
ham, is of a home for a Negro
school teacher.
50 Million For Schools
Bond Issue Support
Begins To Take Shape
Fund Said For
Improvement'
Of N. C. khools
From TIMES Reports
Support for the $74,000,000
bond issue for schools and
mental institutions has t>egun
to tak^ shape, at least in the
piedmont section of the State.
The bond election haa been
set for October 3 by Governor
William B. Vmstead. Some
$50,000,000 of the money will
be spent on the aehool system.
The remainder will go for
mental hospitals.
Aiready Gov. Umstead has
selected two men to head a
campaign for the election.
Last week, it was announced
' from the office of the state’s
chief executive tliat Brandon
P. Hodges of Asheville, form-
^ er state treasurer, and John
Hardin, Burlington Mills, ex
ecutive, will head the state-
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DR. JUDGE B. DAVIS
Dr. J. B. Davb,
N. C. Physician,
Dies Suddenly
Fuquay Springs — Last ritaa
for Dr. Judge Buste Davis, 60
prominent physician of l^iquay,
will be held at the First Baptist
Church in Louiiriiiirg, Sunday
afternoon, August 18 at 8:00
o’clock.
Dr. Davis died of a heart at
tack Tuesday morning August 11
around 10:30. He had been In
declining health for several
months but had not fully dis
continued his practice up to the
time of his death.
He was bom in Montgome^,
Alabama where he attended tbe
pubUc schools. After graduat
ing he matriculated at Shaw Unl-
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news capsules
TWO DURHAM MEtf AMONG POWS FREED
IN THE “BKJ SW^yCH”
DURHAM—Two of the happiest families in the State
Sunday night were the Davises and the Browns.
Julius Davis, resident of 901 Walton Avenue, said, “if
you lived anywhere within three miles you could have h^axd
me hollering for joy,” after learning ti^t his son, Sergeant
Prestee Davis, reported dead for many, months, captured
soon after the Korean fighting began, was among a group of
Communist-held American prisoners of war freed in Sun
day’s exchange of Prisoners.
Sgt. James J. Brown of 213 Corporation Street was also
among those listed as exchanged Sunday. Sgt. Brown was
captured soon after the big Chinese offensive in 1950.
“We’re thrilled to death,” said the. Sergeant’s mother,
Mrs. Tempie Brown to friends and neighbors gathered at the
Brown home shortly after the news tiad broken. His wife,
Mrs. Prudence Brown, said, “I can hardly believe the good
$345.00 MORE CONTRIBUTED TO NAACP
FIGHTING FUND
NEW YORK—Contributions to the NAACP “Fighting
Fund for Freedom” this week include $250 from the United
Packinghouse Workers, CIO; $50 from the Richmond, Calif.,
NAACP branch; $25 from the Erie, Pa., NAACP branch; and
$10 each from Mra. L. L. Graham of Burlington, North Caro
lina, and Homer Goodwin, Los Angeles, a total of $345 for
the week. ~
School Bias Suit Filed
In Western N. C. Town
NEGRO PUPILS
TO AHEND
SCHOOL IS
MILES DISTANT
ASHEVILLE
A complaint by 26 parents on
behaU of 66 Negro school child
ren from Old Fort, N. C. was
filed here in Asheville Monday
in the Federal Court of the
Western North Carolina District
charging the Board of Education
of McDowell County with dis
crimination against the Negro
Children of the town Old Fort.
The complaint ciiarges the Board
of education with failure to pro
vide public school facilities as
have been provided wliite child
ren.
The school authorities have 20
days in which to answer the
complaint wtiich seeks to iiave
the court declare the act of dis
crimination as unconstitutional
imder the 14th amendment of
the Constitution; to issue a per-
mananent injunction against
such discriminatory practices;
and to order the Board of Ed
ucation of McDowell County to
establish in Old Fort, facilities
lor Negro ciiildren the same as
provided for the wlilte.
Old Fort Is a snudl town of
about 2000 people situated on
the edge of the Blue Ridge
Mountain range some 15 (miles
west of Marion, the county seat.
It has about 400 Negro residents.
At the close, of the 1951-52
school term the McDowell Board
of education ordered closed the
Negro elementary school and for
all Negro children in and around
Old Fort to attend the newly
erected school for Negroes in
Marion. Tius was to be a con
solidated school to serve the en
tire Negro school population of
McDowell County.
The Negro citizens of Old
Fort protested the closing of the
elementary school and the order
to send tfa«^ cMrtrea som^ US
miles one wa^ '!&y ’it>us io the
school i^a Marion. Negro high
school students from Old Fort
iiad always attended the school
in Marion.
It is reported that rather than
send their ciiildren each day
some 30 miles the citizens set
up a school for their elementary
ciiildren in one of the two local
chur^^.
In the meantime, a Citizens
Committee was organized to
seek relief fr6m the order of the
Board of education which closed
the elementary school for Negro
children in Old Fort. They re
tained the firm Qf Taylor and
Mitchell from Raleigh to act
as counsel. Attorney Herman L.
Taylor came to Asheville MoU'
day and filed the complaint.
FOR THIRTY YEARS THE OUTSTANDING WEEKVY OF THE CAROLINAS
Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Durham, North Carolina, under Act oj March 3,1879.
VOUJME 30—NUMBER 30
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, AUG. 15th, 1953 PRICE 10 CENTS
HELLO, AKRON
NO SLUM CLEARANCE FOR TAR
HEEL CITI^
RALEIGH—Ambitious slum clearance plans of at least
three North Carolina cities, and unconfirm^ reports claim
at least a half dozen others, were “dying on the vine” last
week.
And all because the last session of the state legislature
refused to amend the state’s urban redevelopment law.
As the law now stands, no property meeting health and
safety standards can be condemned for redevelopment pro
jects even though it is surrounded by substandard property.
This law prompted the Federal Housing and Home Ad
ministration to advise Redevelopment Commissions at Win
ston-Salem and Charlotte that the division had decided
against expenditure of federal funds in the State.
NAVY ORDER TO END SEGREGATION
HAS LOOPHOLES
WASHINGTON—Clarence A^tchell, director of the
Washington NAACP, said early this week that the Navy did
not go far enough when it decided to modify segregation
policies for civilian workers at Southern Navy shipya^.
The Navy, reportedly under prodding from the White
House, announced earlier this week that it is ready to move
toward elimination of segregation among civilian employees
at its bases in the South.
The old ^licy under which separate restaurants, rest
rooms, and drinking fountains were maintained, follows the
“local customs.”
Mitchell said that the new policy “could mean ending
segregation in 30 days or 30 years, hence, there will be no
cheers for the Navy until the last Jim Crow signs come
down.”
Under the new p>olicy, base commanders will be requir
ed to report periodically on progress toward integration.
ANOTHER RIOT IN CHICAGO OVER NEGRO
DWELLER
CHICAGO—^This city, whose suburb of Cicero was the
scene of a similar riot here early this week,
into an otherwise lily white apartment building, was the
scene of a smliar riot here early this week.
Some 300 policemen were needed to drive an estimated
1,000 persons from the Southside housing project which ad
mitted its first Negro te)iant, Donald Howard, a mail carrier.
Five persons were injured, windows smashed in neigh
borhood tavern which served Negroes, and autos of Negroes
stoned as the mob protested Howard’s admittance to the
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X
Jo,
ham youth who represented
Winston-Salem in the national
soap box derby race at Akron
Ohio, last Sunday is seen
irtg ■ on the earphones of
Eastern airlines pilot Captain
H. F. Genther ( left ) before
take-off from Winston-Salem
for Akron last Thursday.
Malloy was shown the ship from
"stem to stem” by Capt. Gen-
ther. Son of Mrs. John Davis,
young John was eliminated after
the second heat at Akron.—>
Photo courtesy Winston-Salem
Journal Sentinel.
Twin Gty Opens Heart
To 12 Year-Old
John Malloy,
Nurse Training
To Start In Fall
AtA&TCollege
Greensboro, — A school of
nursing will definitely open at
A. and T. College with the be
ginning of the Fall session ac
cording to an announcement re
leased early this week by Dr. F.
D. Bluford, president of the col
lege.
Full details of the official
opening were worked out in a
conference held last week in Ra
leigh which included: D. S. Col-
tran^, assistant director of the
State Budget Bureau of Ra
leigh; Warmoth T. Gibbs, dean
of the college's school of educa
tion and science and E>r. Blu
ford.
Governor William B. Umstead
had decreed just two weelu be
fore that nursing would begin
at the Greensboro institution Just
as soon as 200 or more students
had qualified to begin the first
year of training. He also instruc
ted the A. and T. administration
to proceed with the employment
of a director of the school.
The governor had acted with
[he authority given him by the
last Legislature and with tbe
unanimous recommendation ot a
committee named to help him
decide how a $200,000 biennial
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Champ
H. H. HOLLOWAY
DURHAM MAN
GETS NAT'L
KAPPA POST
Raleigh—Hillary H. Holloway
a native of Durham, and bus
iness manager of St. Augustine’s
College, here was named first
national executive secretary of
Kappa Alpha Psi' Fraternity,
following interviews last week
with Dr. W. Henry Greene, na
tional president and other rep
resentatives.
The Kappas have also decided
to set up national headquarters
in Philadelphia, the address to
be announced later.
Holloway received his educa
tion in the Durham County
School system and Is an honor
graduate of North Carolina Col-
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Durham Lad,
Gets Send-Off
Winston-Salem — This city
opened its heart to 12 year-old
John Malloy, its 1953 Soap Box
Derby champion, and gave the
Durham youth a send-off for the
national race at Akron he’ll not
soon forget.
An airplane ride, a motorcade
escort, a swimming party, a
radio broadcast, greetings from
the mayor, a hot-dog party, a
movie party and several gifts
were high spots of “John Malloy
day” here last Wednesday.
The Durham youngster, runn
ing the colors of the “College
Inn” in the derby on July 8,
became the first Negro to win
the event here. He was sponsor
ed by William (Bill) Jones,
owner of the College Inn in Dur
ham who has now sent three
representatives to Akron.
A slate of activities, planned
by the Negro Chamber of Com
merce and the Business and Pro
fessional Committee kept young
Malloy busy from the time he
stepped from fiis first airplane
ride at Smith-Reynolds airport
around 10:30 last Wednesday
until he retired for the night at
the home of Frank Murrell.
John was met at the airport
by a welcoming committee Wed
nesday morning and, with a
motorcade flying banners pro
claiming him Winston-Salem’s
1953 champion and taken on a
radio station WAAA where he
tour of the city, winding up at
was interviewed on a broadcast.
From about noon until 1:30,
he was guest at a swimming
party. At two o’clock, he was of
ficially welcomed to the' city
by mayor Marshall Kurfees and
other dignitaries, including the
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Hampton Gets Ford Foundation
Grant To Train Virgin Islanders
Hampton, Va.—^The Honorable
Morris F. de Castro, Governor
of the Virgin Islands, and Alonzo
G. Moron, President of Hamp
ton Institute, announced last
4'hursday receipt of a grant to
Hampton Institute from the Ford
Fund for the Advancement of
education to support a program
designed to improve the quality
of teaching in the Virgin Islands.
This initial grant of $77,200.00
will enable Hampton Institute to
begin a five-year program of
teacher training for promising
graduates of the Virgin Islands’
high schools who plan to teach
in the Islands.
Scheduled to direct the five-
year educational program at
Hampton is Dr. William H.
Brown, professor of Education
at North Carolina College. See
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Quakers OK
Acceptance Of
Negro Members
Greensboro—North Carolina's
Quakers gave their approval to
Negro members here this week
as a discussion group concluded
that Negroes should be accept
ed if they comply with Quaker
beliefs.
This conclusion was the out
growth of a discussion group of
the North Carolina Yearly Meet
ing of Friends here early this
week.
. Negroes who apply for mem
bership in Quaker meetings
ought to be accepted, if "they
are in harmony with Friends
beliefs”, the group decided.
While the conclusion may
seem “revolutionary", Samuel
Levering of Mt. Airy, leader of
the discussion group said, it is in
keeping with the New Testa-
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GOP Congress Forgets
‘‘Rights,” Goes Home
Washington—^The 83 rd Con
gress closed its first session here
last week without having enact
ed a single civil rights measure,
Clarence Mitchell, director of
the ISfashington Bureau of the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People
reported in a survey of con
gressional action.
“From the beginning when a
Republican and Democratic co
alition defeated an anti-fillbus-
ter rules change offered by Sen
ator Clinton Anderson (D., N.
M.), by a vote of 70 to 21, the
83rd Congress made a determin
ed and successful effort to avoid
consideration of civil rights,”
Mitchell asserted.
The Anderson -motion was de
feated when the late Senator
Robert A. Taft (R., Ohio) made
a motion to table it on January
7. Senator Taft was supported
by 41 Republicans and 29 Dem
ocrats. Voting against the Ohio
Senator were 5 Bepubllcana and
155 Democrats, and one indepen
dent.
G. O. P. RULE ENFORCED
The decision to kill the rules
change was firmly enforced as
matter of party discipline
among the Republicans, accord
ing to the NAACP’s Washington
Bureau. New Republican sena
tors who favored a rules change
fell in line with policy decision
of the leaders and voted to keep
existing rules which permit end
less talkathons.
On May 12, during the tide-
lands oil debate, the Senate
Rules Committee suddenly re
ported out Senator William E.
Jenner’s cloture resolution, the
least desirable of the anti-filibus
ter proposals. However, no move
has been made to schedule de
bate on this or any other anti-
fillibuster resolution. Workable
plans for ending filibusters were
introduced by Senators Herbert
Lehman (D., N. Y.), Wayne
Morse (Ind., Ore.), and IrWng
Ives (R., N. Y.).
HOUSE RULES RETAINED
In the House, the chief bottle
neck to con^ructive legislation
is the Rules Committee. On Jan
uary 3. by a voice vote, the
House adopted its old rules, thus
continuing the power of the
Rules Committee, headed by
Congressman Leo Allen of Illi
nois.
Congressman Herman Eber-
harter of Pennsylvania was un
successful in geting considera
tion of a resolution which would
allow committee chairmen to
force House consideration of leg
islation which their committees
approve but which the Rules
Committee does not clear within
twenty-one days after receiving
it.
Senator Ives set hearings on
civil rights bills.
NO HEARINGS SCHEDVLSD
The late Senator Charles W.
Tobey (R., N. H.) was studying
Anti-Jim Crow Travel letfala-
toln in his committee on Inter-
(Piease^tum to Pa^a Kifht)