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Charlotte Minister V^s Trip To Holy Land In TIMES Contest TWO WOMEN WIN SKOND, IHIKD PlilZES Rev. J, F. Wertz Edges Mrs. NeU Baldivin In Finals Tratu World AirUnes To Take Winnera On Trip To Holy Land A last minute aurge by Rev. James F. Wenz sent the Char lotte minister to a dramatic vic tory in the Carolina Times first ‘‘Everybody Wins” subscription contest which ended Saturday. Pastor of St. Paul Baptist Church of Charlotte, the dyna mic minister came tiirough with a tremendous effort, barely beating the midnight d^dline of Saturday Nov. 21 to wrest first place from the grasp of Mrs. Nell Baldwin who seemed as sured of an easy victory. Rev. Wertz piled up a 32,000 point winning margin. Mrs. Baldwin, supervisor of Wilson county schools, had run a neck and neck race with Mrs. Susie Cooper, leader through the' first four weeks, and had a conunanding lead in the contest until Rev. Wertz’ dramatic, last minute push. — For his efforts. Rev. Wertz will receive a roimd trip, ex penses free, to the Holy L>and. Mrs. Baldwin, who won second place by an 80,000 point spread, will also get a round trip, minus expenses to the Holy Land. Mrs. Cooper will receive a round trip to Paris. All of the trip win ners will be carried on their Journeys by Trans World Air lines through a prior arrani^ ment with TUIES. ' dlrs. Edith Bailey of Ashe ville notched fourth place in the contest. I The contest ran for six weeks, beginning on Oct. 18 and ending on Nov. 21. It generated interest throughout the state, polling a total of 43..contestants. Mrs. Cooper, who fought off the^rsistent challenge of Mrs. Baldwin for the first four weeks of the contest, set a torrid pace for the leaders. She faltered in the final week, however, relin quishing her lead to Mrs. Bald win. This set the stage tor Rev. Wertz’ story-book climax. Al ways a darkhorse. Rev. Wertz wa> ItBtEd in Mth ptace In tiie first week’s standinjgs. By the end of the second week's report, he had climed to seventh and moved to third place at the end of the third week, where he was content to remain until his winning bid. The prize winning contSt- ants may take their trips any time before March 31. Within the next few days, however, they are expected to Jae in Durham for a conference with L. E. Aus tin, TIMES publisher, and repre sentatives of the charteced air lines, Trans World, who will as sist in clearance of passports and furnish travel information. “I am gratified at the enthu siasm shown by participants in the contest and wish to offer my (Please turn to Page Eight) WINNERS!! • V ^ REV. J. F. WEB'TZ ... final mrge... MRS. NELL BALDWIN ... persistent challenge... MBS. SVW GOOrEB .., early leader... S. C. Nan To Face Rape Rap CHABLOTTE Willie Jones Massey, of Union County, S. C. was bound over to the Superior Court of Mecklen burg County here this week af ter a preliminary hearing and must face charges of raping a white woman. Massey is charged with rape of Mrs. S. H. Siegal, 25 year-old wife of a Greenville, S. C. Den tist on October 20. According to the wonuin’s story, Massey attacked her af ter he had stopped his car while she was walking down highway 74, invited her in for a ride and dragged her off the highway after she refused to get in the car. The woman said that he threatened to kill her, but that (Please turn to Page Eight) ' Farthers Murder Sons As Pie In Tar Heel Slayings ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ RAIEIGH NAN KlUfD FOK KICKED DOG Bahama Son Dies For Disobeying Father’s Orders Four persons were dead in North Carolina early this week in the aftermath of a week-end of violence and blood-letting perhaps without parallel in the state’s annals of crime. Women, money, food, and a dog. These were apparently the issues which set off the unprecendented wave of mur ders. And most of the carnage was caused by family spats, ^o sons were slain by their irate fathers and one brother was killed by his older mate. In another murder, a white storekeeper killed his Negro customer in an argument over a grocery bill. At Bahama township in Dur- ham last Saturday night, Lonnie Bradsher Cousins, 47, shot and killed his 22-year-old son, Sylvester, after the son had* re portedly defied hi»elder’s stand ing order against bringkig wo men to their home, located on the Wallace Wade farm. Cousins told Sheriff E. G. Bel- vin that when he tried to get his son to take the girls he had brought to the house away, the son made as if to draw a gun on him. He said he grabbed his shot gim in self defense and fired. The load of shot struck the youngster in the thigh, and he died at Lincoln Hospital in Dur- hafn about 8:48 Saturday night. The elder Cousins Is to face a Grand Jury on November 30. At Raleigh, a 67-year-old, partially paralyzed father was slated to face a coroner’s jury this week in connection with the fatal shooting of his only son. According to Investigating officers, Ernest D. Wall, who operates a store on the Rock Quarry Road three miles from Raleigh, shot his son, DeWltt, after an argument over his kick ing the son’s dog. Wall is quoted by police as having said that his son, who had been drinking all week, ac cused him Saturday night of kicking his dog. A violent argu ment developed, and, according to Wall’s testimony, he went to bed a short time after. Soon jifter he was in bed, the son came in and threatened him. Coroner M. W. Bennett said he and two sheriff’s deputies found the elder Wall lying sob bing in his bedroom around 10:30 p. m., the body of his son lying at the foot of the bed in a pool of blood. A gaping .82 calibre (Please turn to Page Eight) ■FOR THIRTY YEARS THE OUTSTANDING WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS Entered as Second Clou Matterat the Pott Office at Durham, North Carolina, under Act of March 3,1879. VOLUME 30—NUMBER 43 DURHAM, N, C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1953 PRICE TEN CENTS integration Suit In Gaston I ^ ^ ^ 3-1 Pretty girls, gags and guffaws galore are In st ore for Diubamites on Thnrsday and Saturday, December S and S when the “Times Follies of ’53 ” will be presented at the Hillside High School Anditorlnm at eight o*elook. Shown In the abo ve are the comedy team of Applejack and Moore ogling Geneva Atwater, left, who will be featnr ed In a Sooth Sea Island scene. Mel Bennlck. di rector of the local show, lald that the list of parti clpants was lengthened by the addition this week ^ Minnie Davis, Anne Colleta Jaekson, Doroth y McNeil, Geraldine Stmdwlck and Maleolm Malone, vocalist. Ml» Davla will be teen In th e sleep walking seene from "Maobeth,” Miss Jack- ■on in the Bontli Sea Islanda aeene, and Mint MeNell and Stmdwlck In eomady ddta. In the above photograph~aire shomi representatives of thei'clpatint in the conference were Barber-Scotla, host, FayettorUle, North Carolina Colleges Conference which met in its 28th annnal I Elisabeth City, Johnson C. Smith, Livingstone, Bennett, North session at Barber-Scotia College In Concord on November 18. Dr. I Carolina College, Shaw, and Winston-Salem. The 48 delegates at- James Boyer, dean of Saint Angnstine’s College at Raleigh, was tending sessions heard addresses delivered by Dr. Leo W. Jenkins, elected president of the sonference. Tar Heel colleges parti- ' Dean, ECTC; Dr. Frank Fuller, ECTC. Constitutioii Destroys Caste, Color Says Brief Before High Court Seek To Open White School At Stanley To Race CHARLOTTE A suit seeking to open the I white schools of Stanley County I to Negro pupils was filed in the IU. S. Western District Court j here last Wednesday. ~ The action was brought by At torneys Chaj^es Bell and Peter Bell, Sr., a father-son law team, for a group of Negro parents of Gaston county. The complaint charges ttiat the schools for whites in the county are superior to those for Negroes and thht the North Carolina constitution, which de fies Negro pupils the right to attend the white schools, is a violation of the U. S. Cpnstitu- tion. A three Judge panel was re quested to hear the case. as plaintiffs are John William and Donald Fronberger, John, Jr. and Keith Wilson, Le roy and Darel Denton, WLUifai.i Gerline and Grace Friday, vin and Blervin Brown and Louis Byers and Jerry and Dor is Lynch. Defendants are the Gaston Ousted Student Prepares To Re^er LSI) BATON ROUGE, La. Alexander P. Tureaud, Jr., is preparing to return to his classes at Louisiana State University from which he was excluded on November 11. His right to re turn to the university was indi cated by the United States Su preme Court, which on Novem ber 16, granted a stay of the Cir cuit Court’s Jjudgement pending determination by the Supreme Court of the validity of the Dis trict Court Judge’s ruling order ing admission of the student. Young Tureaud, son of the well known New Orleans civil rights attorney, A. P. Tureaud, was admitted to the university as its first Negro undergraduate on order of the United States District Court. On appeal by the university, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voided the lower court decision on the ground that the suit should have been heard by a three-judge federal coiu^ rather than by a single ditrict court judge. The student’s father, together with other lawyers of the Na tional Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People, promptly sought a stay of judg ment from Justice Hugo L. Black, who in turn, referred the petition to the full Court on Nov. 9. ’Two days later, university officials without waiting for the Court’s action, notified Tureaud that his registration had been canceled. Representing the young stu dent were, in addition to his fa ther, NAACP attorneys Robert L. Carter of New York and U. Simpson Tate of Dallas. NAACP Attorneys Present Answers To Five Questions As Fateful Trial Deadline Draw Nears WASHINGTON, DC. The 14th Amendment was in tended to destroy all caste and color legislation in the United States, attorneys for the NAACP contend today in their brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in the pending public school se gregation cases to be reargued December 7th. The brief presents the NAACP answers to the five questions posed by the high court when it ordered the reargument last June 8th. The five cases—South Caro lina, Kansas, Virginia, Delaware and the District of Columbia— come up for reargumetit before the high court December 7-8. The issue Involved in all five cases is whetheV the stater^d the District of Columbia have the constitutional power to seg regate white and Negro students in separate schools in the ele mentary and secondary school levels. The District of Columbia case is being'financed by a local group of Negro citizens. NAACP attorneys, acting in behalf of the Negro children and parents in these cases, argued that segregation per se is dis crimination and a violation of the equal protection clauses of the 14th Amendment to the Con stitution of the ihiited States. Thf District of Columbia case is based on the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment. (Please turn to Page Eight) Must Right Ills NEW YORK The fact that we may lose the cold war abroad is not reason enough for us to correct our practices of segregation and ra cial discrimination at home, Dr. Herman H. Long, director of Race Relations at Fisk Univer sity, told the final session of the United Negro College Forum here last week. Our national integrity and character, which we value so highly, is at stake, said Dr. Long. If we fail to face this issue hon estly and squarely, he continued, “we will see ourselves, no longer as living up to the best of our democratic heritage, but ai hopeless pawns of our own de fections and weaknesses. Coimty School Board; the State Education Board; Superinten dent of Gaston County schools, Himter Huss; Superintendent of Public Instruction Charles Car roll; and State treasurer, Edwin GUI. In a direct challenge to the North Carolina constitution, just as an action filed by the NAACP (Please turn to Page Eight) FEP Action Is Urged CHARLOTTE "The South cannot support a dual system of education, and when the court decision is made, all citizens should accept it in good spirit and work toward the establishment of a school system which will enable aU children to enjoy the same opportuni ties.” This was a statement of Glos- ter B. Current, director of NAACP branches, in a speech here at St. Paul Baptist Church recently. Current, on a tour of NAACP branchy throughout the coun try, also called on Congress to break the filibuster by amen ding Senate rule 22 so that a Fair Employment Practice tiaw may be enacted. fore an enthusiastic audience by Dr. Roy S. Wynn, member of the executive committee of the Charlotte NAACP branch. The end of segregation in in terstate travel and protection of members of the armed forces against assault and violence at the hands of citizens were also listed by the speaker as neces sary steps which the govern ment must take. “Realization of civil rights,” said Current, “is of great im portance to the welfare of the jjnlted States. The program was sponsored by the Charlotte NAACP Branch. Rev. J. B. Humphrey, president of the local branch, conducted the program. Mn. U. S. Brooks, chainnan of the local Current was introduced be- NAACP’s education coaunittee. in brief remarks, said the big job the- NAACP is engaged in is in moving the mark of jim crow from America, Special music for the ptrogram was furnished by the St. Paul Baptist spiritual choir, directed by Mrs. L. M. Lynch. Also par ticipating on the program was Rev. James F. Wertz, pastor of St Paul, and Kelly M. Alexan der, president of the North Caro lina NAACP. Current present^ charters to the Reid-Park Wilmont Youth Council and the Metro- polita/t Youth Council. MIm Vera Torrence is president of the Reid-Park group and Mrs. Brooks serves as advisor to the Metropolitan CouncU. Piedmont AMEZ Starts Annual Meet At Dunn DUNN The 74th session of the Cen tral North Carolina AJI.E.Z. Church will get underway here Wednesday, with the Rt. Rev. J. L. Jones, presiding. The conference will bring church leaders from Piedmont North Carolina and visitors from all over the nation. More than 500 ministers and lay lead ers are expected to converge on Trinity Church, located on 301, in the heart of the town to re view the work of the year and to plan for the coming year. The theme of the conference will b* “To serve the present Age”. The Rev. W. S. Henderson is the host pastor. The conference is comprised of five districts, Durham, Sanford, Fayetteville, Raleigh and Lau- rinburg. ’They are presided over by the Revs. W. W. Long, J. W. Marsh, J. A. Brown, G. F. Mad- kins and T. J. Young, respective ly. The first session will mark the annual communion, with ths Rev. A B. Massry preaching the communion sermon at 11:00 AM. The orgsnlzatim will fal low the communion and tlM af ternoon session will ftatur* r»- ports from committees. The recent attack on church leaders will come in tor much consideration when tbs report on the s^te of the comtiv Is heard. ’IW first day seislBii will close with a sanaoa by lev. & P. Perry, Durtem.
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