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ANOTHER FORT BRAGG SOLDIER CHARGED WITH RAPE FOR THIRTY YEARS THE OUTSTANDING WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS Entered at Second Clou Matter at the Pott Offiea at Durham, North Carolina, under Aet oj March 3,1879. VOLUM6E 30—NUMBER 38 DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1953 PRICE TEN CENTS “Anybody Says I’m Commie Is A Liar” I Trade W e«k” Contest, feature of the Dnrham Business and , are pictured here. Left to right are Wilma Lee Fowler, oiuooj DmoiUa Wioston and Shtrley Faulkner. Trade Week geta un derway with a) paradfe Saturday morning. Bin. Callie Daye, chairman of the “Miss Trade Week” Contest, said that sereral more entrants are expected to compete for the $100 cash prise to be glyen to the winner at the Talent Night program on.November 9. Trade Week, Homecoming At NCC Offer Busy Week DURHAM The beginning of Trade Week and North Carolina College’s Homecoming are expected to keep Durhamites busy this week end. Trade Week, an annual event sponsored by the Durham Busi- oass and Profession^ Chain, gets underway here Safii^y. Homecoming at th^ college will be climaxed here Saturday with a football game in the aft ernoon at O’Kelly Field and oth er almnni sponsored activities. Trade Week and NQC*> Home coming Witt Join at at lecMt »e point. A parade, Saturday morn ing at 10:30, will be sponsored Jointly by the Chain and NCC’s Homecoming plann^nLr It will form at the Durham Athletic Park, travel south on Morris to Main, proceed east on Main to Pettigrew, east on Pettigrew to Fayetteville and south on Fay etteville to NCC’s campus. Several member firms of the Chain, in addition to the usual student imits at the college, will make up the parade. Many Chain members are pooling their efforts behind one big float, similar to the one to be sponsor ed by some seven service station operators who are Grant’s .Amaco, Pine Street^ Williams’ Garage, East End Avenue; Bull City Oarage, Fayetteville Street; Speight’s Auto service, Fay etteville and Pettigrew Streets; Johnson’s Garage, Poplar St.; Bull City Service Station, Fay etteville St.; and Bates Bulf Ser vice, Alston Avenue and Glenn Street H. W. Gillis and Attorney F. B. McKissick, co-chairman of Trade Week activities, said ear ly this week that everything was ill readiness for ihe event. Blrs. Callie Daye, in charge of the “Miss Trade Week” Contest, listed names of some seven per sons who have already entered the contest to compete for the $100 cash first prize. She listed this ^eek I?ruciUa Winston lor Ling’s Florist; Mrs. Grade Ger-- aid, Purity Store, II; Wilma Lee Fowler, Vanity Fair Beauty Salon; Theodora Speight, Speight’s Auto Service; Marlon Swann, Service Printing Comp any; Shirley Wiggins, Jackson Grocery; and Shirley Fatilkner, Biggers Beauty Supply; Mrs. Daye also stated that at least two other firms will sponsor contest ants. Perhaps the highlight of Trade Week will come'Monday night, November 2, when the Chain’s annual banquet wiU be held at HUlside high school’s 'cafeteria at 7:30. NCC’s Homecoming activities include a pep rally Friday night, coronation ball ^turday night, alumni barbecue and dance Sat urday night. Raping Woman At Gun Point FAYETTBVILLB Another Negro soldier is un der arrest here at Fort Bragg’s stockade under charges of rap ing a young married white wo man. He is Pvt. David HoUlnger, Jr., member of Company C, 329tb Airborne Infantry Regi ment. His hometown is ^ted as Youngstown, Ohio, where he has a wife. Pvt. HoUinger was the second Negro soldier on this ^rawliitf army reseveratlon to be arrest ed and charged with rape of white woman in less than a month. Two weks ago, Lt. John R. Griffin of Memphis, Tenn., was lirrested and is waiting a general court martial on charges of raping a white woman on the post on Oct. 11. Pvt. Hollidker is accused of raping an unnamed white wo man at gim point early Sunday morning. According to reports, two white women from Burlington, their names were witheld bx post authorities, had driven Sgt. Ralph Fleming of Company E., 32Sth Airboume Infantry, to the 82 Division area about l.a. m. Sunday. As they were leaving the area. Pvt. HoUinger report edly accosted them with a .4S calibre pistol and ordered the two women to drive him to Fay etteville. While still on the reservation, according to reports, HoUinger ordered the driver to turn off highway 210 to a side road where he raped one of the wo men. After the aUeged atack HoU inger is said to have driven the car to Rowan Street la Fayette ville where he got out The two women returned im- meidately to Fort Bragg and in formed Sgt Fleming, who noti- S. C.'s Fighting Bistiop Reid Issues Denial DARLINGTON, S. C. The Rt. Rev. Frank Madison Reid, Bishop of the Seventh. Episcopal District of the A. M. E. Church, presiding at the an' nual sessions of the Northeast Conference at Bethel Church here, said in open conference lait Thursday that “Anybody who calls me a communist is liar.” Bishop Reid, in speaking to the youth session about a caU he had received over the telephone from a certain hotel in Colum bia, stated that a man was giving him a tip-off declaring that some people in the hotel bad seen a magazine article wbich accused him of being a commu nist and stated that these i>eople said they were going to run him out of town. Bishop Reid said he replied thanking the man very much for what tie had told him and told the man that “I trusted God and tiiat no man could love Go4 and trust God as I do and be a Com munist.” - Bldiop Reid, in making denial further stated that, have to die for truth and right eousness, I just hav6 to go be cause as long as I Uve I am go ing to trust God ... 1 don’t know what a Communist is, for a Com munist does not foUow God.” Then he decked “Becai^ I believe in Uberty and freedom they caU me a communist WeU, am saying here and now in open conference. Anybody who calls me a communist is a liar." He then asserted that “Any Negro who dares to say that any black man should have what anybody else has, is accused of being Communist. The Roman Catholics want to dominate America, yet no one says any thing about that. “Whether I die soon or later, I am stiU going to follow Jesus”. He further said “Mr. McCarthy doesn’t know me and I don’t know him. How can he caU me a Communist? "Because I believe in freedom they caU me a communist. AU race-hating people everywhere should be caUed fascists and racists. I will $ay again that who ever iaid I am a communist is a liar." ★ ★ COURT WON’T STOP NAACP Principals in the North Carolina NAACP Convention at Rocky Mount last week-end are shown here. Mrs. L. B. Michael, official of the AshevUle NAACP, is shown cengratulating ^Iter White, NAACP executive secretary, after the Utter’s speech before the convention s cloalv session. Others are Herbert WriAt National Tenth Secretary, third from right and Kelly Alexander, Charlotte, State NAACP Prealdent, extreme left ^ Mrs. Cooper, Mrs. Baldwin Tie As 2nd Period Opens Rev. Wertz Moves Up; Early Signs Point To Dark Horse m W. A. Allison, Hillside High School of Dur ham and Morgan State Col^ lege, left New York last week for Munich Germany where he vMIl study medicine at the University of Muncih. AUlson was employed for the chemical division of the U. S. Quarter masters at Philadelphia. He made his home In Durham with his grandfather at 1000 Scout Drive. fled authorities. Lt. Griffin, charged with rape of a young married white wo man on Oct. 11, is also being held to await a general court martial on Nov. 8. Army Chief Of Staffs Tar Heel GI In Dramatic Reunion In Korea ASHEVILLE A recent story and picture which appeared in the Pacific Stars and Stripes, an Army news paper, described a surprise re union in Korea of Army Chief of Staff J. Lawton Collins and one of his former personal aides, Aaron H. Marlowe. Now Sergeant First Class, Marlowe is an Ashevillian hav ing been reared here and grad- unteered for the hens - Lee Hi^ School. He vol- untered for the |Air Force fol lowing his high school gradua tion. The I casion of the Collins-Marlowe meeting was the General’s flying visi to IX Corps Headquarters. According to the account carried by the Pacific Stars Mid Stripes, Blar- lowe was standing on the side lines as the General alighted from liis plane; on recogizing familiar face of his former aide, he; exclaimed “Marlowe!” and then broke away from his “top- brass” hosts to go over and heart- Uy grasp the sergeant’s hand. Then he turned to his hosts and others in the assemblage and said, “Gentleman, I want you to meet a real soldier,” and tbm the General proceeded to intro duce SFC Marlowe to Eighth Aray Cmunander General Blax- weU Taylor and IX Corps Com mander Lt. Gen. Reuben S. Jen kins. General CoUlns continued by telling about his former cook, who, after serving him for five years, asked to be re-assigned in order that he could get out and “see the world,” and as a result wound up as a parachutist. The army newspaper account went on to explain that Mar lowe had first met General Col lins at a girls camp here in West ern North Carolina one summer when the general’s daughters were in attendance. Marlowe wis a cook at the camp—and evi dently a good one, for soon af ter Marlowe enUsted in the Army Air Force he was trans ferred fiWi his training center in Texas to Washington where he was to serve as General Col- Uns’ personal cook and which he did for five years before he grew weary of this quiet life. SFC Marlowe, who la stUl young at 25, said that he con sidered General Collins and his wife “like a father and a mother” and that the Geenral stUl wrote him twice a month. XDOOOOfiHSSOOOOOOOO^ NNBIMEEI ATLANTA, GA. Tht National Ne«o Busi ness Lea^e will hold its Fif ty-Third Annual Convention in Atlanta, November 4, 5, 6, and 7 at the Waluhaje Apart ment Hotel. The theme of the Conven tion is; "The program of the Na- tional Negro Business League In A Changir^ Society.” Negroes Help White Church's Building Effort CHARLOTTE The congregation of a Negro church here made a contribution to building fimd of a white church recently. The Ebenezer Baptist Church ( pastored by Rev. A. J. Ryans, raised a “freewUl” offering at the close i^its services last Sun day, October 25, to go to the First Evangelical and Reform ed Church which is in the midst of a buUdlng fund drive. Rev. J. B. Hennessey, pas tor of the Evangelical and Re formed Church, expressed ap preciation for the contribution. The church is conducting a building fund drive to erect a educational building at an ap proximate cost of $103,000 at the Plaza section. The Ebenezer Baptist Church is located in the buUdlng form erly owned by the Evangelical and Reformed Church at East Trade and North Meyers Street The building was purchased last January by the Ebenezer con gregation after it was burned out of its former .edifice at Sec- vond and Davidson Street some four years ago. Rev. Ryahs told his congrega tion before the off^ing was col lected that “this is going to 1^ a free wiU offering. We Just want to show feUowship . . ^ and our appreciation t othose good p^- ple for the fine way they d^t with us.” This week’s balloting in the TIMES “Everybody Wins” Holy Land Subscription Contest disclosed that Mrs- S. V. Cqpper of Oxford and Mrs. Nell Baldwin of Wilson are tied for first place 80,000 votes each. ,• ^ A most startling development took place this week when Rev. J. F. Wertz of Charlotte forged to the seventh position. Several other candidates also showed considerable gains and there is some evidence that a dark horse may show up in the race beforathe second period is ovef. Several contest ants who had not previously showed any signs of taking part in the contest, have indicate that they will be heard from by the time the standing of contestants are tabulated next week. The relative standing this week is as follows; MRS. SUSIE COOFER^xford^..: I..... 811,000 MRS. NELL BALDWIN—Wilson - 80,000 REV. W. F. ELLIOT—High Point _50,000 REV^P. A. BISHOP—Rich Square 30,000 PROF. CHARLES STEWART—Kinston 30,000 REV. WILLIAM LAKE—Burlington 30,000 REV. J. F. WERTZ—Charlotte 25,000 PROF. A. L. STANBACK—Hillsboro 20,000 MISS MABEL POWELL—CUnton .20,000 PROF. G. L. HARPER—Roxboro 20,000 PROF. I. E. SPENCER—Henderson — 15,000 PROF. W. R. COLLINS—Smithfield 15,000 REV. J. R. MANLEY—Chapel HiU 15,000 REV. R. IRVING BOONE—Wilmington 20,000 PROF. J. C. BIAS—Scotland Neck 10,000 REV. J. A. BROWN—Durham 10,000 MRS. LENORA E. BAIRp—Asheville 5,000 PROF. E. J. JONES—AsheviUe 5,000 MRS. ROSA GAINES—Durham 5,000 MISS EDITH L. BAILEY—Asheville 5,000 MRS. ROSA GAINES—Durham 5,000 PROF. E. M. BARNES—Wilson . 5,000 REV. R. W. UNDERWOOD—Rocky Mount 5,000 REV. H. H. HAWKINS—Concord 5,000 REV. J. F. WERTZ_..—Charlotte 5,000 PROF. J. A. TARPLEY—Greensboro 5,000 REV. E. T. BROWNE—Durham 5,000 REV. JAMES R. BESS—Philadelphia 5,000 MRS. MABEL DAVIS—Wise 5,000 REV. LOWRY REID—Durham 5,000 prof; H. M. HOLMES—Durham 5,000 BIRS. C. L. WEBB—Asheville 5,000 REV. F. O. bass—High Point 5,000 JEIEV. W. L. W&.SON—Winston-Salem 5,000 REV. O. L. SHERRILL—Raleigh 5,000 REV. K. O. P. GOODWIN—Winston-Salem 5,000 REV. EDWARD GHOLSON—Winston-Salem ...5,000 PROF. C. L. BLAKE—Charlotte 5,000 PROF. ROBERT M. EARLr—Burlington 5,000 PROF. W. H. PATTILLO—Tarboro ,. 5,000 PROF. D. P. LEWIS—Roanoke Rapids 5,000 Walter White Makes Vow At N. C. Confab ROCKY MOUNT Walter White, Secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, promised that a defeat for the association in the school segre gation cases before the Supreme Court would not stop the NAA CP in its fight against racial prejudice. “I believe we are going to win these eases In the Sapreme Court,” the titular head of the NAACP asaerted. “B«t 1 as- sore yoa of oae thing: We wlU do as we have done in the past; we will g* back again and again, .and we wtU never stop going to the Sapreme Court ontU every vestige of racial prejudiee has been eliminated from edncaUon and from America as a whole,” White declared. White’s stirring address which brought frequent applause from the audience assembled at the St. James Baptist church here, capped a three day meeting of the North Carolina branch of the association. Some $4,730.49 was raised by the State organi zation at the convention. White congratuled the North Carolina branch for its success in registering 100,000 voters but asserted that it should have 300,- 000; assured competent Negro teachers tliat they would not be out of jobs when integration comes; chided the association for its tendency to relax after some victories; warned the Democratic party against paying the “ridi culous price” of courting the §outhem, dixiecratic elements at the expense of its civil rights stand and pioni' ised that segregation in housi. ; would be the next front towa ! which the association wouid a . i its big guns. If the Supreme Court outlaws segregation in public eii . i. don’t think that white and Ne- .giQiUUiils wiU be attendi^the same school at nine o'ciocK on the following morning, the NA ACP secretary asserted. Ss long as Negroes are stUl forced to live in segregated sections, the segregation pattern will con tinue in education. “We’ve got to continue to fight to smash segregation in housing, employment and ev ery other department of life in order to achieve the fullest results of the victory I believe we are going to win in the Supreme Court in the five cases now pending.” The NAACP Secretary also paid a tribute to A. H. Anderson, former president of the North Carolina Teacher Assocation. “I’m glad that North Caro lina has produced at least oae school principal who caa take an oncompromising staad,” White said in referring t* An derson. Kelly M. Alexander, dynamic head of the state organization, was re-elected president at the convention. Day Set Aside For Housewives DETROIT, MICH. Last Sunday, October 25, was set aside as a day of worship for members of the National House wives’ League all over America, by order of a proclamation from the League’s President, Mrs. Christina Fuqua. National Housewives’ League is an organization of Negro wo men allied with the National Negro Business League to pro mote the directed spending of the Negro’s wealth. A portion of the proclamation issued by Mrs. Fuqua reads as follows: “Every woman mnt b« e«B- ■cloas of hw obUgatloa aad responalbUlty «f eontrolUng tha pwchaaiiig powtr of fk« Negro. We cannot do this et •nr volition . . . We mast seek guidance of one who nnder- stands onr needs and k able to direet oar paths. Bees— of this, the National Hooaewlvea* League of America . . . adopt ed tte fonrth Sunday of Oe- tober as “NatioBal HonaewfarM’ Leagae Day,” a day of wor ship. “Tberefore, 1, Chrlstlaa Pa- qua, president, proelalm Oe- tober 25, ItSS *Natleaal Housewives’ Leagae Day.’ Let every member of eaA loeal Honsewlvea’ Leagae . . . war ship la the saaetaary et yaar choice. Let aa eaU aame ef tke L«M . .. • marey aad pralM Hlaa AMEZ's End District Meets DURHAM According to reports coming from the circles of the A. M. E. Zion Church, three of the most interesting District Conferences ever held closed last wee.k The Durham District, prresid- ed over by Dr. W. W. Long, held its 28th sesion 'bear Goldston, Union Grove Church, Rev. W. D. Drake, pastor. Prospect Church, located about three miles from Shan non, was the scene of the Lau- rint>urg Dtetrict meeting and was presided over by Rav. T. 3. Young with Rev. H. T. Moor* aa pastor. The Fayetteville District cele brated its 8Sth session at Lock* Creek Church with Rev. Jamas A. Brown heading It up and R«v. F. L. Tyron the pastor. \ niaMraeaaloBs are part of the yearly agenda and are haM make a general survey ot tha worit so aa to have all raporti ready for the Annual CeoAir- me*.