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j D«^ ItelT IUirar7 Happy NCC Adherents And Coach TOF1GHT$1500 North Carolina College Baglet toon their firtt Central Inter collegiate Athletic AMociation football championthip in the 40 year history of the school Uut Thursday when the NCC elepen defeated it« traditional rival, A. and T. College of Greensboro, 15-7. At far left i« shovon the “Aggie” in^ one of it« better moods when the game was ear. ly. In photo at right, NCC coach Herman H. Riddick, i* hoisted above the crowd by deliriously happy NCC students and play ers at the end of the game. For more details, see page five. Father Freed By Jury In Death Of His Son DURHAM A Grand Jury lre«d a 47 year old man here Tuesday of all blame in the fatal ahooting of hit 22 year old ion on the morn ing of Nov. 21. Lonnie Bradsher CoWna of Bahama, Rt. 1 who fired a charge from a .12 guage shot gun into hia aon’s hip, was ab solved of guilt by the jury which refused to Indict him. His son, Sylvest«r, was ad mitted to Lincoln hospital after the shooting where he died about six hours after. The shooting occured at the Couains’ tenant home on the Bahama farm of Wallace Wade, well-known retired . football coach and commissioner of the Southern Conf««nce athletic as sociation. According to investigating of ficers, the elder Cousina told them that his son came to their home shortly after two o’clock in the morning on Nov. 21 in tlM company of “some girls.” Whw the older man reminded his son that Wade did not allow girls on- the premises, Sylvester pulled a pistol and his father shot him at close range with a shot gun. Gl Bandsman Killed By Own Gun In Row FAYETTBVILLE A GI musician, member of the 82nd Division Band at Fort Br^gg, was shot to death with ikis own pistol by a fellow mem- ber of the Division Band as ttie result of a quarrel over posses sion of the weapon. Sgt Vernon A. Thomas is be ing held under $500 bond on charges of manslaughter ia con nection with the fatal shooting of Sgt. Frederick James Brown here Monday night. The shooting occured at the Thomas home. Police found Brown dead when thaiF answfirad a call to. Thomas’ home Monday night. He had been shot twice with a .38 calibre revolver. Thomas was quoted as saying that he did the ahootins after Brown advanced on him with a whiskey bottle following an ar gument over the pistol. ’Thomas remained at the scene and wi# taken in custody. According to the investiga tion, Brown had redeexaad a pis tol from a pawn shop earlier Monday and the pistol had been taken away from him by Thom as. According to wltnaaaes, the argument which led to the fatal shooting was brought on by Brown’s (^mand that the pistol be retumtol to him. Police had been called to the Thomas home about four pjn. Monday to quell an earlier dis turbance in which ’Thomas and Brown had been involved. Thomas is scheduled to face trial before an early session of Cumberland County's Superior Court. FOR THIRTY YEARS THE OUTSTANDING WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS EnterKd as Second CloMt Matter at the Post Office at Dwrhtm, North CmrattiuL, imitr Act mf March 3, ItTf. VOLUME 30—NUMBEB 44 DURHAM, N, C., SATURDAY, DEC. 5, 1953 PRICl TIN CKNTS j Browneirs Action In School Cases Comes As No Surprise Little Change On Party Seen Revision Of Air Force Policy As it Relates To Segregation Sought washin6ton Through Clarence Mitchell, director of its Washington bu reau, the National Asaociation for the Advancement of Colored People, has appealed to Har old E. TalTMtt, Secretary of the Air Force, to stop Air Force commanders from reprimanding and susp^ding Ne^o ofScers who refuse to abide by a local segregation statutes while in in terstate traveL These statutes, Mitchell point ed out, have been invalidated by a Supreme Court ruling as ap plied to interstate passengers. Nevertheless, he charged, top officers of the Air Force are seelcing to compel Negro service men and officers to comply with these Uhconstitutional laws. The NAACP official cited the case 9f liieutenant Thomas Will iams, a pilot in training at the Craig Air Base in Alabama, who, last summer, was arrested by local police in Florida and rep rimanded by his superior officer in the Air Force because he re fused to move to the Jim Crow section of a bus while en route from Florida to Alabama. Later he was dropped from the service. Named by Mitchell aa sup porters of this Jim Crow policy were James P. Goode, deputy as sistant Air Force Sectary; Ma jor General James F. Powell of Keesler Alt Force Ba»e, Miss.; and Colonel John H. Bundy, commander at the Craig base. Colonel Bundy, he cliarged was the chief advocate of dropping Lieutenant Williams from the Air Force. lavish Talent Show Ready Everything was in ship shape for "Follies of the Times," scheduled to start in Durham on Thursday night. The show wil run for two nights at Hillside auditorium. Jt will play on Thursday and Sat urday. Curtain time for each performance is at eight o’clock. Some 75 persons will be seen in the various Kenes from the show bedecked in elaborate cos tumes. Mel Rennick and Roy Carpra- ter, well-known directors, are staging the show for the braeUt of the Carolina Times Christmas Cheer Fund. According to early indications ducats for the affair wer going at fairly brisk pace. ’Hckets sell for one dollar. WESLEY W. DOBBS . Grandmaster, Georgia ... High OfFicial To Participate In Mason's Fete DURHAM Doric Lodge No. 2s of Free and Accepted Masons will cele brate its 7Sth Anniversary on Frlilay, December 11 with a ban' quat and program at Hillside Cakiteria at 6:30 P.M. Worship ful Master Richard James, Sr. hi> announced that Qiand Mas- tor John Wesley Dobte of the Jur sdiction of Georgia will be gu» tt speaker. This affair will be a» Dpen meeting in' which the bi» hers of the various lodges, thk r wives and friends, and siaksrs of the Order of Eastern StMi.' are invited to attend. toric Lodge was chartered in mi as an affiliate of the Prince Hat I Grand Lodge and has made noticeable strides since then. Otter officers are Nathaniel Waiker, Senior Warden, Dor- sett Williams, Junior Warden, R. Kelly Bryant, Jr., Secretary, Richard S. George, ’Treasurer, and Howard McAllister, Assis tant Secretary. The lodge has approximately 300 members. Dobbs has been Grand Master of Prince Hall Masons of Ga., since 1932. He is a Thirty-’Third Degree Mason, and active mem ber of the Supreme Council Scot tish Rite Masons of the ,7&irty- Third Degree, Southern Juris- (Continued from Page Eight) NAACP May Contest Fines Levied On Gl's COLUMBIA, S. C. |1,573 is a big price to pay for sitting in a seat next to a wtiite woman. This is just what 48 Negro soldiers at nearby Fort Jackson iutd to dish out in fines levied by City Recorder here last week when one of their number took a seat next to a wiiite girl in a crowded bus headed for Fort Jackson. And the South Carolina NAA CP believes also ttiat tiiis is too big a price to pay for refusal to accept Jim Crow for it was an- noiuced tlirough the organi^- tion’s president. Rev. James M Hinton, tiiat a federal court suit- wili be brought against the city of Columbia wliich assessed the heavy fine. The incident occured Thanks giving day when a group of 47 enlisted men and one officer .bearded a bus headed for the training center. It is reported that when the soldier who took a seat next to the unidentified white woman refused to move, police officers were called who ordered the driver to proceed to the police station. Once there, 48 of the soldiers were booked on cliarges of dis orderly eoaducts and given fines ranging from $25 to $20V. Lt. AusteU Sherrard, who went to the front of the bus to talk to the driver and two police officers who were called by the driver, wu given the heaviest fine, $200. He was charged with disorderly conduct and inter fering with a police officer. S. C. NAACP president Hin ton said here early this week ttiat action would be brought against the city of Columbia on the soldiers’ behalf on the grounds that they were denied ’’due process of the law.” Only two of the entire bus load of soldiers escaped fines. To Speak DURHAM Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson, president of Howard University, will deliver a vesper sermon at North Carolina CoUege, Dur ham, on Sunday, Jan 31, 1954. Durliam AMEZ Church Gets New Pastor DUNN Durham churches, except in the case of Kyles Temple, were not affected In the changes that occurred at the cloae of the 74th session of the Central North Carolina Conference, A.M.BX. Church, at l?rinlty Church, with the reading of appointments by Bishop R. L. Jones, presiding prelate. The Rev. S. P, Cook, who has pastored Kyles Temple for the past six years, was sent to Ros ier Temple, Henderson, and the Rev. George Tharrington, was, moved from Maxton, where he has been for eight years, to Ky les Temple. The R^v. W. W. Long, veteran of 27 yean as the presiding elder of the Durham District will begin his 28th year Sunday. The Rev. S. P. Perry was reassigned to St.-Marks for his eighteenth year. The Rev. J. Z. Siler was returned to Mt. Olive. The Rev. F. L. Tyson was moved from Locke’s Creek Sta tion, near Fayetteville, to the NorriQgton Circuit, located in the Lilllngton area. The Rev. W. D. Drake, who pastored in Durham for a number of years, was assigned to -the HoUand Circuit from the Cumnock Cir cuit, where the Rev, L. A. White, formerly of the Pee Dee Con ference, (S.C^), was sent. Durhiun District, W, W. tiong, presiding elder. St Marks, Durham, S. P. Perry; St Paul-Union, Cum nock, L. A. White; Macedonia- Hebrew, to be supplied; Mit- cheU Chapel, R. V. Horton; Mt Olive, Durham, J. Z. Siler; Corinth - Centennial, Siler City, L. R. Williams; Kyles Tem ple, Durham, George Tharring ton; Cameron Grove, Jonesboro J. A. Jones; Evans-Terrell, R. S. Smitherman; Chestnut - Chapel Hill, Kf. F. War; Gee Grove cir cuit, G. W. Harrell; Holland cir cuit, W. D. Drake; New England-Mt. View-ByrJT, N. D. McClain; Hajrwood-Rose Hill-St. Matthews, ’Thompson and Glover, Efford Alston; 6’- Bryant-Russell, Theodore Evans; White Oak, Jtilius Alston; Bel mont, Roxie Small; Byrd’s Cha pel, C. F. Fairer. Raleigh District, G. E. Mad- kins, presiding elder; Rush Me morial, Raleigh, J. C. Flowers; Kesler Temple, Henderson, S. P. Cook; Grace Chapel, Raleigh, Mabel Philpot; U^on Station, Creedmoor, A. M. Spaulc^ng; Big Zion, Oxford, S. E. Tyaon; Norrlngton, Lillington, F. L. ’Tyson; Wesley, Lillington, E. H. Beebee; Holly Spring circuit, L. B. Russell; Franklinton .circuit, J. W. Redfem; Mt. Moriah, L. H. King, Selma circuit, W. T. Jeffers; Cook's Chapel, L. H. King; Ky les Chapel, A. P. Murphy; Para dise, J. A. McKinnon; Harris Grove, Winston Blackman; St. Paul, David Vereen; Apex Mission, Lonnie Dunn; Fuquay Mission, G. 'Bullock; Wake Forest Mission, ZoUie Dunn; Louisburg Mission, David I Vereen; Cary Mission, A. L. j Byrdine; Clayton Mission, E. M. I Matthews; Smith Grove, Frank Jones. I Fayetteville District, J. A. Brown, presiding elder; Evans Metropolitan, Fayetteville, C. R. Coleman; Beaver Creek, J. S. Maynor; New Bethel, H. ’T. Me 'Iiean; Mattocks Memorial, Fay etteville, S. J. Walls; ’Trinity Station, Dunn, W. S. Henderson; St. John’s Station, David Saw yer; Mt. Zion Station, A. Ash ley; J, Gardner's Chapel, M. P. Pur cell; Locke’s Greek Station, J. L Ingram; Mt. Hebrew, H. S. Gil- lipsie; Wealey Chapel, J. W. Everette;- Oak Grove, F. R. Brown; Hood-Rock Spring, Howerton McLaurin; Seabrook Road Mission, W. T. Williams. Elizabeth-Moore circuit, T. B. Stedmaix; Tar Heel circuit, W. E. ’Turner;' Sanford District; J. W. Marsh, presiding elder; Fair Promise, Sanford, D. W. Mclnnis; Bethel Station, C. F. Dowdy; Jonesboro circuit, C. C. Glover; ’Trinity, Southern Pines, T. L. Parsotfs; Carthage circuit, C. V. Flack; Aberdeen circuit, L. L. Mc Laughlin; Robinson Chapel circuit, B. P. Marsh; Pinehurst, to be supplied; Jacksonville circuit, D. W. Pen nington; Gees Grove Mission, J. C. McNair; Jordan Chapel, to be supplied; Fair Promise Mission, E. A. Armstrong; Manley cir cuit, A. W. Wicker; Laurinburg District T. J. Young, presiding elder; Franklin Chapel, Laurinburg, J. W. Hatch; St. James, Red Springs, B. W. Mercer; St. Matthews, Maxton, F. L. Logan; Freedom circuit, J. W. Eason; Parkton circuit, L. T. Taylor; Mt. Zion, F. C. Calilgan; McLaughlin Cha pel, A. G. Massey; Hunter’s Cha^ pel, W. T. Fairley; Mt. Hebrew, C. F. Tharrington; St Paul’s cir cuit, W. J. Jacobs; St. Paul’s Church (S. C.), E. F. Jones; Prospect Mission, H. J. Moore; Williams Chapel, Edgar Jones; Union Grove Minion, T. J. Bri ley; Wagram Mission, L. M. Mc Intyre; Bridges Grove, E. B. Bethea; St. Peter’s Mission, U. S. Moore. The picture shows Dr. G. M. Wilkins, Basileus of Pi Phi chapter. Omega Psi Phi Fratem- itv. presenting a citation to A. E. Spears of Charlote, former Basileus of the chapter, as the, Omega Man of the Year. This was the first citation of the kind, and, according to Wilkins, the selection was made on the basis of long years of service in lead ing the chapter from a small membership ot its present posi tion of leadership in the Ffra- temity By Observon The poaition taken by th« Jus tice Department in the school segregation cases to be argued before the Su{»eme Court on Monday, December 7, was not en tirely uxtexpected nor will it con tribute greatly to affecting the Republican party’s aspirations. This was the gist bt comment in Durham thi« week from high ly placed Danocratic aad R»- publican officiala. Attorney General Herbert Brownell and his aides filed a brief late last week which aaaert- ed that the 14tb antendment to the Constitution compels a state to grant t'te benefits of public education to all its people equal ly, without regard to differences of race or color.” Nan's Life Hangs On Whether High Court Thinks Him Insane RALEIGH The life af a 26 year-old for mer carnival worker rested tliis week on whether the North Carolina Supreme Court decides he is sane or not. Douglas Grayson, already sen tenced to death for murdering a Bladen County white woman, was convicted in Bladen Super ior Court last February and giv en the death sentence. Lawyers who perfected Gray son’s appeal to the high court said in argimients early this week that Grayson has the men tality of a six year old and asser ted he should have been commit ted to an institution long ago. Attorneys Aaron Goldberg and William Rhodes of Wilmington, arguing on the convicted man’s behalf, told the high court that Grayson had once been commit ted to a Virginia mental hospital and legally adjudged insane in Virginia. Attorney Goldberg told the court that the charges against Grayson should have been dis missed and Grayson committed to a mental hospital. Of several psydiiatrists who examined Grayaon, “there was none who said he had a mental capacity of more than six.” Goldberg asserted. Officers who question^ Gray son admitted that he was not bright and some wondered if he co^d tell the difference be tween right and wrong. ’The body of Mrs. Thay Louise White was found near her home some five miles from Elizabethtown on Sept. 13, 1052. According to testimony at the trial, she had been beaten in the face and had been raped. Durham NAACP To Elect Officers DtniHAM The Durham branch of the NAACP will hold a special mee^ting Simday, December ;6 at the Mt. Zion B^tist Church on Fayetteville ro^; according to a statement from M. E. John son, spokesman for organization. Johnson said the meeting was scheduled at four o'clock at which time protests of the an nual election of officers held in November will be heard. Charlotteans Honor Potts, Radio Figure CHARLOTTE A grateful community paused admist the aftermath of its Thanksgiving celebrations and preparations for its Christmas season to honor one of its sons. The occasion was the fifth “Genial Gene” day at the Char lotte armory auditorium. Guest of honor was Eugene "Genial Gene" Potts, announcer for a locyl radio station and general i;nan about town. "Gene is an asset to our radio station, the commimity, his race and to America. He came the hard way from near obscurity to the point where he is known In radio circles from one end of this country to another. He is a byword of good, hard radio know-how. His sponsors are loy al and many,” said Francis Fitz gerald, president of a local ra dio station in brief remrks dur ing the program at the armory. -Also on hand to congratulate the disc spinner was Mrs. Ellza- (Continued from Page Eight) NCC Staffer HHByCai DURHAM Mrs. Florabelle Hil, house keeper at North Carolina Col lege, suffered possible rib frac tures here ’Tuesday afternoon ^hen she was struck by an auto mobile driven by Godfrey Hern don, employee of the Welfare department. According to witnesses, Mrs. Hill was struck at about 5:40 on Lawson street near the college infirmary. The inqtact knocked her some 15 feet She was rushed to Lincoln hospital where superficial exam inations did not discloae serioua injury but examining physicians stated that it was possible she suffered one or more fractured riba. This was very similar to i .ents made in a brief fUe4 -le NAACP, the organizaftiaii .vhich brought the case, earlier in November. Although elation was express ed over the supportl.ig position .aii&n b> the jUsu,..; xJcpart- ment, the genersi feeling amon^ veteran observers of the natioaai -cene m Duihain was ratht:- i. .i.nioious in the opinion that the .0 ion was not a surprise nor is t calculated to affect RgpuhH- can hopes for a two party sjat«n in the Soutl^ It’s the same stand taken by the Democrats .... They’re on the spot throughout the world— we’re in an embarassing position. They just couldn’t afford to take any other position.” TUa was the opinion of J. S. Stewart, chairman of the very active Durham Commitee ou Negro Affoirs and members cu the Executive Committee of the State Democratic Conutucue. “I don’t think there’s a chuice of a two party system in liie South at the present time, Stew art said. “The South is ouLaide of either party; it’s neither Dem ocratic nor Republican. The strong vote for the Republican presidential candidates in the last election waa a vote for Eis enhower and not for the party.” D. B. Martin, chairman of the political committee of the Dur ham Committee on Negro Affairs and perhiyjs the oldest member in service on the Executive Com mittee of the County Democratic organization, said that the action by Attorney General Brownett may strengthen the chances for the evolution of a two p«rty system in Qie South. "Althou^ the Justice Depert- ment's toief may give the party a black eye among the wavering conservatives, it may serve to gain considerable suport from the fast growing liberal element in the South,” Martin asaerted. "I feel that they (the Repub licans) axe fulfilliog their prom ises to us. More could have been done if Democrats had been arMre courageous. Former Attorney Genvml dark took a position, but didn’t go quite aa far as Brownell. I still feel, however, that the party for all minorities Is the Democratic party.” Dr. Helen Edmonds, profaaeor of History at North Carolina College and who has done exten sive reseandi in the role played by Negroes in the political Uie of this section, declared: “There never waa any real basis for a two party lyatani ia the SouQi. A Suinrafne Oeitrt diet whtdh would abolieh sefressHon would do t* (Contlanad hum P»ge