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pBrio&loal Dep$ OblT JJXxesCT Demos 1.^ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4 These attractive coeds at A. and T. CoUefe naher la the new rear with smiles and with appar ent greetlnfs of the season. They are from left to right. Misses; Irma Pierce, Suffolk, Va., sopho more; Josie Williams, Ore^woed, Sonth Carolina, sophomore and Barbara Hoftlns, Dover, senior. Concord Inds In Christmas Shot Gun . CONCORD A post Christmas celebration at a three room house on Coiart Street here Saturday night erup ted into the shot-gun slaying of one of the merry-makers. Dead following the party was Robert Bictor Cook, 38 year old father of three. Cook was Idled by a ihot gun pnd died befoi* he could toe moved as tome six or seven patty$oen milled awond in M^t in the small apsrtment. Cook died of wounds sustain ed as result of a .12 guage charge which opened a gaping wound Durhamite.Gets ^.i Study Grant From RCA NEW YORK Arthur Thorpe, third year stu dent at Howard University, ii( one of 23 recipients of a Radio! Corporation of America scholar ship, it was announced recently, Young Thorpe, whose parents Mr. and Mrs. Chester Thorpe live at i*03 Third Street in Dur ham, N. C., received an award of $800. According to announcement from BCA, the scholarship^ were granted to under-greduat^ students in various fields of sci- ' ence or in brandies of engineer-i ing. Thorpe, who graduated from^ Hillside high school in ISSO, al so received a Leggett Memorial scholarship upon his entrance at Howard. If To Head Fund Appointment of Edward R.. Dudley, former United States Amba^dor to Liberia, as speci al assistant in charge of the NA- ACP Fight for Freedom was an nounced today by Walter White, executive secretary of the Na tional Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People. In assuming his new position January 1, Mr. Dudley will be returning to the NAACP which he served as first assistant speci al counsel from 1943 to 1848 when he was appointed minister Liberia by President Harry S. Truman. In 1049 he was ele vated to the rank of Ambassadoi; and became the first Negro to hold that office in the American foreign service. Dudley's duties as special as^ sistant will include coordination of the Association’s efforts to raise $1,000,000 a year to fin> ance activities deified to eem- plete emancipation by Janui^ 1, 1963, the centenniRl of Abn* ham Lincoln's proclamation. He wftrito board, staff and membership of the or^utlia-' tlon and witii whatever addlw tional personnel may be needed. In the lower right abdomen, servering an artery. He bled to death in tl.e liNDOom of the apartment where he was felled as those present, shocked and terrified, debated as to whether' to call police. Cole Young, 40 year-old na tive of Forrest City who has loved in Concord for several years, was being held late Tues day without bond following a coroner's inquest Party Slaying According to reports, the par ty began early Saturday and had been in progress most of the day, with the partygoers moving in and out of the apartment at various times during the day. It is thought that an argu ment developed between Cook and his slayer, which precipitat ed the fatal shooting. No statements from Young, the man being held in the shoot ing, were made available. Durham Financial Institutions Ready For Annual Report Meets DURHAM Two of sepia America's lag- gcOb iinBPCiiTi izijnnuuvziv ed here have announced plans for reporting their year’s opera tions to stockholders. The Mutual Savings and Loan Association and the Mechanic^ and Farmers Bank both an nounced dates for their stock holders' meetings. The Bank; will report to its stockholders on January 4 and the Savings and Loan Association annual report has been scheduled for January 11. Announcement of the yearly meeting of the Bank stockhol ders came from L O. Funder- burg, cashier and secretary of the bank. Iteira to be taken up, in addition to the usual year- ending reports, include el^rfioq of officers. Thte meeting will be held in the main banking room at seven thirty. J. S. Stewart, secretary-trea- surer of the Muttial Savings and Loan Association, issued the an nouncement of his firm’s yearly report meeting. It is set for seven thirty . Tuesday, January 11 at the auditoriimi of the North Carolina Mutual In- SUfiSihce C6mpany on Orange~Sl. This year's report of the bank’s operations may show that the institution has exceed ed the six million dollar resour ces mark. It barely missed th^ six million figure at the end of operations for 1951. as last year's annual report showed it had a total of some $5,960,165.- 25. Likewise, the Savings and Loan Association is expected to top the three million mark in ii| annual report. Last y«^s re port showed it to have some $2,341,795.76 in assets, an in? crease of 21 per cent over the previous year’s operations. Sawmill Worker At Dunn Is Found Dead SEVERAL OTHERS UNAFFECTED BY DRlNKilSG MIXTURE DUNN • Funeral arrangements were incomplete here Monday tor Jolm Wesley TUgham, 25 yeai; old sawmill worker of nearby OUve who died Sunday from drinking “canned heat” Assistant Harnett County; Coroner Edgar Black ruled that Tilgham came to his death as a result of poisoning caused by drinking canned heat, the liquid mixture which contains a high alcoholic content TUgham was found dead Sun-i day morning in a sawmill camR where he lived. Other residents of the camp said he returned late Saturday night but was too drunk' to get to his btmk and went to sleep on the floor. When an attempt was made to awaken tiim the following morn ing, he was discovered to be dead. Apparently, Tilgham’s in mates at the sawmill camp had staged a “canned heat” party, for Assistant coroner Black sai4 he found a number of empty canned heat cans about the camp. He said that a group of TUgham's inmates told him they had all been drinking the mix ture from time to time and had suffered no ill effects. Tilgham’s demise from can ned heat was just the latest in a long series of deaths caused by drinking potent alcoholic mix-, tures. Some years back, several persons in Durham died after at tending a canned heat party. About two years ago, Atlanta'^ gigantic Community hoq?ital was flooded- by a wave of alco hol, poisonings caused when bootlegger injected too much wood alcohol into the standard mixture he had been^ peddling.. CLA MS MXK FOR THIRTY YEARS THE OUTSTANDING WEEKLY OF THE GA^tC^lNAS Enttred a$ Second Clou Matter at the Pott Ofjiee at Durham, North CaroHna, under Act ej March 3,1$T9. VOLUHE 31--jnJMBER 1 DURHAM, N. C.. SATURDAY. JAN. 2»0; 1W4 rsact TEN csm sc Firm Parents Standing On School Bias Fatal Shooting Ruled Accident DUNN , David Mi^eill, 29 year old resident ol Kerns Cross Roads, was foimd tlead of rifle wound^ in home early Sunday morning by his wife. Harnett Coimty Coroner Gron ver Henderson ruled that Mc-> Neill's wounds were accidental ly inflicted and ruled out th^ possibility of foul play. Mrs. Alice McNeill, wife o^ the dead man, said she was awakened early Sunday by noise and got up to find her hus band slumped into a closet ol| their bedroom. Mrs. McNeill told authorities that several days ago, her hus band had procured the rifle afi ter someone had tossed a brick through a window of their home. Coroner Henderson expressed the opinion that McNeill had gone into the closet to load the| rifle and had dropped it to thei floor, causing it to go off acci dentally. (Please Turn To Page Eight) Children coaflned to Durham’s Lincoln Hospital for Christmas had their holiday brlKhtened somewhat as the Hospital Women’s Auxiliary presented the kids with a record player on Christ mas Eve. Some of the women of the auxiliary are shown above In the children’s ward making the presentation to hospital officials, Frank Scott, assistant director, and nurse Ruth Collier. Members of the Women’s Auxiliary shown in the plctnre, wearing dark gowns, are Mrs .Doris Holland, Mrs. Luna Justice, Mrs. Virginia W. Alston, Mrs. Veane M. Faulk, Mrs. Elizabeth Short, and Mrs. Carrie Bnrch. The anxUiary, headed by Mrs. Alston and composed of some sixty women, contribute their ~free tinxe^to hospital helping to make patients more comfortable by doing varions odd jobs. ~ Clurlatmas decorations of Cardoia MoCoUnm was adjudged first pbMe winner In the Durham Business and Professional Chaht-Housewives’ Lngue annual Christmas deeoratloB cyntest. The front ef Ikf McCollum home at S04 Gray Street Is shown In the above picture. Other whmmm In the cOBtag^ were HUlslde High School. Mrs. Lula Jae kso'JHf. and Mrs. A. M. WlUteM. Hie U|1i sekool'dUplayed a manger scene replete with shepherds atop caih^bkoa'tito soother^ end of the front lawn. Ilrs. Jackson’s decoration was idso bnilt around a religious, tiieme, ttw deeoV|ttMi ceneletiBg of a gastefroard church choir placed on the front steps of her hoqM on Mwey AveQO*. Prlaea were to be Kwwried. to the winners at the Chain and Honsewlvce’ League annuaVMew Year’s'Eng baagnet at Oie Algonqnln Clnb Honse. Past Year Was 2nd In Row Without^Lynching Report TUSKEGEE, Ala For the second straight year, no lynchlngs occured in the United States, according to the annual report made by the fa med lynching report office here at Tuskegee Institute. ' In its annual report on lynch lngs issued et the end of each year, the Tuskegee Institute de partment of Records and Re search had no lynchlngs to re port, but revealed that three would-be lynchlngs were pre vented in the coiurse of the year. At the'-same time, the Depart ment annotmced that it was a-* bandoning as a “vaUd index tq race relations” incidents of lynchlngs as they are “tradi tionally defined.” A new index of significance for present times, will be estab-. lished, the department related, and information gained during the year will be disseminated just as the lyncliing reports have) been. “Lynching as traditionally de fined and as a barometer for measuring the status 6f race re lations in the United States, par- Silarly the South, seems no ger to be a valid index to such relationships. This is due to significant changes in the status of the Negro and to the development of other extra-le gal means of control, such as ^mbings, incendiarism, threats and intimidation, ec. “We believe that a new stan dard for measuring race rela tions Is needed. This can and should be as objective and as factual as were the Ijmchlng re ports. This standard, we think, can best be established in such areas as employment and othei^ economic conditions; in political participation; In education; Ixf iw and l^lsUtion; In health and perhaps in other fields. “We propose then, in future annual releases, to issue a state ment with inlormation as signi ficant for the present times as was the Annual Lynching let ter in the past,” the department stated. The Department of Records and Research, which has be come famous for its annual re porting of lynchlngs during the past 41 years, also reveals it( this year’s report that six lyn- chings took place in the last five years, 1949-1953. Three persons were saved from certain lynchlngs durinij the past year, the department reported. On January 17, near Mobile, Alabama, Henry Lee Brown, 17 year old Negro, escaped from Sheriffs deputies while being taken to Kilby Prison at Mont gomery. Convinced that he was about to be lynched when his handcuffs were removed and the deputies stopped their cars, the prisoner jumped fK>m the car in which he rode and ran into the swamps, while shots were fired at him. He later gave him self up, was tried and acquitted of the charge of slaying a whit^ woman. In March, near WUlcox, Ariz., (Please Turn To Page Eight) Statement Shows parents Are IM Baddng COLUMBIA, a C. Reaffirming their “to hold out with hi^ spirifta and firm determination” uatfl racial segregation in putaBe schools is alxiliahed a groiqt of parents of the children in tlM Clarendon Coimty school sejpw- gation case have issued a pidtdle statement of their position. "We, the undersigned, plain tiffs in the now famous Claren^;:^ don County court case against color segregation of school chil dren,” the statement asserts, “again declare our belief that color segregation itself is not only undemocratic and un- Christian, but also unlawful when considered with relation to rights guaranteed to mericans by the Constitution of this nation. We look forward to the day when color segregation can truthfully be said to bt. un- Amerrcan.” The Clarendon County case originated in 1950 and was one of five such cases re-argued b'- Court earlier this month by at torneys of the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Colored People under directioi| of Thurgood Marshall,- the Asso ciation’s special counseL As the day of decision drawa nearer, the parents indicate in their statement th^ are not ’backing di^wn In th|r for integration of ttie pd schools in their ccMinunity. “We started out aevovl yean ago,” the statement coMtlnuea, “to make our c»Hitribntion to progressive South Carolina his tory and to strengthen the rapid ly decreasing prestige of our country in the opinion of peo ples of other nations, by secinU that color segregation shall declared illegal by the courts of this land—and that, eventually, no Americai^ child will sutler the tliiTTiaging personality defect of thinking himself inferiar at superior, as the caae may be, simply because of skin cal»'. (Please Turn To Page Eight) Little Comfort Gained By Record Of Both Parties NEW YORK The issue of civil rights is still a vital pc^tical factor, re presentatives of 21 national Ne gro church, civic, professional, fraternal and lal^r organiza tions warn in a statement made public today by Walter White, exedutive secretary of the Na tional Association for the Ad-t vancement of Colored People. The statemmt which reviews the status of civil rights during the first year of the Eisenhower administration was developed at a conference of Negro organiza tions called by the NAACP here on December 4. Approval of the draft was later confirmed by, the organizations. Executive action taken by the administration In combatting ra- (Pleaae Turn To Pafe Bi^t) SUPPORT POLIO DRIVe Left to rl^t: Dr. Albert E. BfwHey, mm WUUmmm. iSpefaMaa College; Mrs. Charles U i National Cmigrcss of Colored Pareats a»d IKawkim. PhUadelBhla, ra.. t. Leonard Lew^ JaekMSvllle. 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