Pictured above is Mrs. Mollie
Lee, libnik'Un of the Richard B.
Harrlaon Library, Raleigh, who
was named “Woman 0( Hie
Tear” by the Omrlcon Zeta
Chapter of Zeta Phi Bet» floror^
Ity recently for her outstanding | professor of library science,
achievement in the field of Adnlt North Carolina College; Mrs.
Education. Mrs. Lee has served Nora Lockbartd, principal of
at the library for 24 years. I Crosby Garfield School who pre-
Those in the picture from left I sented a plaque to Mrs. Lee.
to right are: Miss Evelyn Pope,
N. C. C. Eagles Reach
Finals In NAIA Tourney
(Exclusive to the
CAROLINA HMES)
NASHVILLE, TENN.
WEDNESDAY NOON
North Carolina College’s 19S4
CIAA visitation basketball cham
pions were scheduled to meet
Tennessee State University in
the District 29 Finals of the
NAIA playoffs here tonight.
N. C. College reached the
finals by winning from Xavier
85 to 68 on Monday and Texas
Southern dl'‘tD 80 on Tuesday.
The Eagles, were eliminated
from the CIAA tournament in
Durham last Thursday by a stun
ning upset scored by Morgan
College 87 to 66.
Sam Jones, the NCC team’s
■tar forward who averaged bet
ter than 20 points a gsune in the
regular season, was injured and
in nnrhnyy> 1X6
was boning up for quarterly
examinations at midmonth.
NCC’s big five against Xavier
in the Monday openings rounds
Thursday hit like this; Jim SUgh,
frosh guard, 16; Benny dLc, sen
ior forward replacing the Injur
ed Sam Jones, 12; Charley "Tex”
Harrison, senior center, 16 Har
vey Heartley; junior forward,
who moved into Ctoarley McCul
lough’s berth after McCullough
was drafted in mid season, 17;
and Charley Badger, replacing
the ailing Charley Barrlck, 12.
On Tuesday night Benny Dix,
who came back to NCC after a
stint in Korea ^ith the Army
in the middle of season’s play,
sank a last second foul shot In
the semi-finals on the second
round of play.
Charley “T e x” Harrlaon,
NCC’s high scoring pivot ace
found the range against the boys
from his native Houston and
showed the home boys what he
could do as he bucketed 32
points. Jim Sligh pushe dthrough
17 and Dix netted 12.
In other games played In Mon
day’s opener, Texas Southern de
feated Savannah State, 100 to
70; Tennessee turned back Un
ion, CIAA tournament cham-
polnts. Jim Sligh pushed through
Balon Rouge, La., whipped Flor
ida A. and M., 79 to 75.
The semi-finals saw the Eagles
outscore big Ed Adams’ Texans
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Wendell Scott of DanvOIe,
Virginia shown atop his racer
before he entered the 1954
NASCAR stock car races at Day
tona Beach, Florida. Scott drove
on Friday, February 19, a 1938
Ford in the 100 mile course. He
started in 55th place and assum
ed a food position with the sev
en leaders when his motor blew
up on the 19th lap, with 6 re
maining laps to go (24 miles).
Despite motor trouble Scott
finished In 33rd place out of 1ST
cars. •
Scott is the only Negro racer
in the country and competed
against America’s greatest driv
ers. He won 18 races last year
and was awarded the champion
ship of Stauton, Virginia in No
vember. He was accompanied to
Florida by Paul Oliver, well-
known businessman and sports-
C. L. Blake Named Principal Of
New Million Dollar High School
CHARLOTTE
Clinton L. Blake, who has
been principal of West Charlotte
High School for 15 years, was
appointed by the Board of Edu
cation February 19, as principal
of the new million dollar senior
high sdhool. The school will con
sist of approximately 600 stu-
idents and a staff of 30. The 10th,
11th and 12th grades from West
Charlotte will be transfered to
the Senior High School. Mr.
Blake, said the Senior High
School is a step forwtrrd for
Negroes in the field of educa
tion in the city of Charlotte. *
Some of the vocations that will
be offered are’ quantity cooking,
barbering, carpentering, beauty
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Catholic Magazine Hits
Segregation in Housing
UNION CITY, N. J.
Declaring that segregation in
housing “cannot be justified in
terms of morality, social effects,
or even economics,” The Sign,
national Catholic magazine pub
lished here says In a lead editor
ial in its March Issue that it
finds the Eisenhower housing
program “disappointing in its
approach to housing for minor
ity groups.
Quoting the President’s plea
in his housing message for fair
treatment of minority groups in
the form of “new housing . . .
on good, well-located sites,” the declares.
magazine charges:
“The assumption here seems
to be that the pattern of seg
regation will be continued, bat
in a better location.” The Sign
adds that “most students of the
problem feel that segregation
itself Is a cause of blight. So
long as there Is pressure to
keep minorities in a particular
area, regardless of the income
levels and cultural Attainments
of the families, we are going
to have overcrowding and
slam eondltlona” tb* magaiin*
The editorial points out that it
may be the Administration’s feel
ing that segregation "reflects lo
cal attitudes and is not proper
concern of Washington.” Never
theless, it stresses, "segregation
must go sooner or later. It can
not be justified in terms of mor
ality, social effects, or even eco-
npmics. It is a costly program
from any aH>cct. We feel sad
dened whenever an opportunity
to strike a blow at this outmod
ed pattern is passed up.”
AIEXANDER BAINES
Newspaperman Rocks Durham
Republicans Lincoln Day Dinner
For Thirty-Onm Hepart The OuUianding Weekty Of The Carolina*
Entered a« Second Class Matter at the Post Offlee at Dnrham, N«wth Carolina, under Act of March t, 1179.
VOLUME 31—NUMBER 5
DURHAM. N. C., SATURDAY, MARCH , 1954
PRICE 19 CENTS
JUDGE DELANEY CALLS
Byrnes And Talmadge
Enemies Of Democracy
Famous New York Jurist Makes
Scathing Attack In Savannah, Ga.
SAVANNAH, Ga.
A scathing attack on James F.
Byrnes and Herman Talmadge
as “enemies of our democratic
form of government’' was made
here today by a distinguished
judge and civil rights leader.
Judge Hubert T. Delany of
New York City scored recent
tactics of the two Southern
governors to evade a possible
Supreme Court decision elimi
nating public school segregation.
“These men have indicated
that they will defy the authori
ty of tha Supreme Court whan,,
it hands down the only decision
we can fairly expect,” Judge De
lany declared. “They are the
enemies of our democratic form
of government.”
“You do not need to be a Su-
pr^e Court jurist to know
that segregation is per se in-
eauality,” he coutinu&d. "Judge
J. Waties Waring, that distin
guished jurist from South Caro
lina, told us that in 1951 when
the Clarendon Coimty case was
originally decided.”
"Do not be afraid of the pro
paganda of Byrnes and Tal
madge and their ilk. Do not be
lieve it when you hear it said
that the public schools will
close, that Negro teachers and
principals will lose their jobs,
that blood will flow in the
streets of the South when the
decision is banded down.
“We will not provoke others
to fight, but we shall stand up
like men and women unafraid
to be free.”
Mr. Delany, judge of Domes-
tic'Relations Court in New York
City, spoke at a mass meeting
sponsored by the National As
sociation for the Advancement
of Colored People. The meeting,
held in a local church, concluded
a three-day NAACP Southeast
regional conference convened
under the general theme, "Life
begins with first-class citizen
ship.”
Byrnes and Talmadge, gover
nors of South Carolina and Geor
gia, respectively, have threaten
ed to turn ttheir states’ public
schools over to private operators
f the Supreme Court rules again'
st segregated public schools.
Other speakers at the con
vention—the second Southeast
regional conference to be spon
sored by the NAACP—Included
Clarence Mitchell, director of
the NAACP’s Washington bu
reau; NAACP Attorneys Spotts-
wood Robinson, III, of Bicti-
mond, Va., and Robert L. Car
ter of New York City; the Re^.
D. J. Odom, Jr., dean of students
and director of religious activi
ties at Morris Brown College,
Atlanta; Gloster B. Current,
NAACP director of branches;
and Herbert L. Wright, NAACP
youth secretary.
Delegates from Alabama, Fla.,
Georgia, Mississippi, North
Carolina and South Carolina at
tended the sessions. They repre
sented NAACP branches, youth
councils and college chapters.
Dr. Bina Nelson
To Speak At
friendship Bapt-
Dr. Bina Nelson, a native of
India will talk about “Christian
Missions in India” 'in a mission
institute, beginning March 8 at
7:30 p.m., at the Friendship
Baptist Church of Charlotte.
Miss Nelson will join the insti
tute Wednesday evening, Ma^.
10, and will lecture thru Friday
of this week. On Sunday after
noon March 14, at three o'clock,
she will address a mass meeting
which will also be held at
Friendship Church.
Dr. Nelson was educated in
Christian schools of India and
received her doctorate degree at
New York University. She held
a position with the United States
Department in Calcutta and la
ter served as director of the
Young Women’s Christian Asso
ciation of the same city. She is
presently guest professor at
Hampton Institute.
The institute is sponsored an
nually by the Mecklenburg Bap
tist Interracial Commission in
co-operation with the City Mls^
sionary Union, both of Char
lotte, North Carolina.
CBS To Broadcast World Day Of
Prayer With Ralph Bunche, Jr.
NEW YORK
World Day of Prayer, «■ 67-
year-old observance in the Na
tional Council of Churches of
Christ in the U. S. A., wiU be
observed by the CBS Radio Net
work Friday, March 5, 10:45 "to
11:00 P. M., EST in a special 15-
minute broadcast with CBS
Sports Counselor Red Barber,
Ralph Bunche, Jr., son of the
United Nations official, and a
group of famous names of radio,
education and sports.
The program, which will be
presented on the first Friday in
Lent, will revolve around young
Bunche’s question to Red Bar
ber, “Why do people pray?” An
swers to the question will be
given by:
tor. Andrew Cordier, Execu
tive Assistant to the U. N. Secre
tary General; Gale Storm, star
of CBS Radio’s “My Little Mar
gie”; Carl Erskine, ace Brooklyn
Dodgers pitcher; Mrs. Douglas
Horton, former President of
Wellesley College and Chairman
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Tb* wool was finally pulled
off of the Durham County Re
publicans here last JTrlday nl(ht
when Alexandtf Baimes, veteran
newspaperman and life long Re
publican walked out of a sched
uled Lincoln IXiy dinner, at
Josh Turner’s place, on tbe Cole
Mill Road, after having been
directed to sit at a table set apart
for Jiim on account of his color.
Barnes, told the CAROLINA
TIMES that he was not only a
member of the committee which
set up the meeting, but was to
have been one of the speakers.
He stated he arrived at the place
about 7:25 P. M. and found tbe
few assembled party' faithfuls
either poaing for pictinres, or
looking on as the camera cliclt-
ad.
He got his first inkling of tba
separate seating arrangement
when he asked for the repre
sentative of the American To
bacco Company who had been
invited there by him to give
away sample cigarettes. He turn
ed out to be one Roberts wIm
not only failed to recognize him,
according to his version, but dis
avowed the fact that Bames was
responsible for his being there.
Roberts is said to have been sur
prised to know that Bames had
negotiated the plans whereby
sample cigarettes were beinc
given to the group.
The drama began to unfold
when an attendant, white, at tbe
eatery instructed Bames to sit
at a special table. Bames ap
peared baffled because of the
fact that he had been told by
A. A. McDonald, county chair
man, that the dinner was being
held at Turner’s place so that
there would be no discrimina
tion. The 1953 dinner was held
at the Armory and several Ne
groes, including Bames, ate un-
segre^ted.
Bames i^ored the white em
ployee and proceeded to the
table where the other members,
all white, were seated. At this
point J. M. StancU, local GOP
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The above photo was taken
during the CIAA Basketball
Tournament held here last week
and shows American Tobacco
representatives.. giving away
cigarettes to sonAof the thou
sands of studenu and visitors
who came from all over the
eastern seaboard to witness eight
of the top ranking teams of the
circuit. ,
Those in the picture reading
from left to right are: James A.
Dixon, North Carolina repre
sentative of the company;
Albert L. Mile, Virginia repre
sentative; John Edghill, Salea
Supervisor and studenta fmi
several coUegea.
Freedom Confab May Begin New Day
NEW YORK
The one-day Freedom Fulfill
ment Conference called by the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People in
Washington, March 10, “may
well mark an historic milestone
in our long struggle to achieve
a tKuly democratic society,” Dr.
Chanriing H. Tobias, chairman
of the NAACP Board of Direc
tors, said.
indicating the importance of
this conference, the NAACP
chairman pointed to the en
thusiastic response of the NAA
CP branches and other organi
zations and individuals through
out the country to the Fight for
Freedom which will be formally
launched at this conference. The
Association’s 1300 branches have
been urged to send delegations
to the Washington conference
which will be addressed by
President Eisenhower, Senator
Herbert LLehman, and others.
’The Fight for Freedom goal is
the elimination of all racial dis
crimination and segregation by
January 1, 1963, the 100th an
niversary of Abraham Lincoln’s
Emancipation Proclamation.
’This conference, Dr. Tobias
asserted, “may be a turning
point, the beginning of the end
of the disabilities imtwsed upon
Negro citizens by law and cus
tom and the indifference of the
majority race.”
, “The President,” he said, “has
already indicated his desire to
see the eradication of these evils
and has backed up his expres
sions with positive action with
in the federal jurisdiction.. Fol
lowing the March 10 conference
we may look forward to an in
tensification by the NAACP and
others of their efforts to attain
an America In which no man
shall be favored or penalized be
cause of his race, color, reli
gion or nsitioaal origin.'’
NORTH ClIiOLINA COUEGE
CHOIR IN ANNUAL CONCERT
DURHAM
North Carolina College's 85-
voice mixed choir will be pre
sented in the musical organiza
tion's annual concert at 8:15
o’clock Tuesday, March 16, in
Duke Auditorium.
One of the highlights of ttie
concert will be three (^orusea
from the opera “Riel'' by Paul
G. Gelrud, chairman of the
North Carolina College Depart
ment of Music. The performance
will mark the first time the
opera will have been sung in the
United States. The opera has
been presented by the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation.
Soloists for the concert are:
Charles Joynar, taoor; Wilhal-
menia Davis, Contralto; Lorenso
Battle and David Reid, bari
tones; and Barbara Ray, sopra
no. Robert Cheek will be tha
narrator, and Hubert Walter*
will serve as pianist.
The complete program for tta*
concert is as follows: “Sing Wa
All Now With One Accord,” by
Praetorius; Bach’s “Crucifixvis’*
from the Mass in B-Minor; Chris
tiansen’s "Sing Unto the Lord”;
and "Angel Spirits Ever Blaaa-
ed” by Tschaikovsky.
Also Finzi’s “My Spirit Sang
All Day”: “Autumn” by Graleb-
aninoff; “Out Of ’The Siteaea”
by Cyril Jenkins; Hall Johnaoa'a
“Certainly, Lord”; Garditer's “1
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