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N.Y. SOLON BLASTS McCarthy
The crack drill team of the Drum and Bugle C orps of Danville, Virginia, Waldon France Post
No. 29 of the American Legion. The Drum and Bugle Corps took off March 15 with their Amateur
Show entitled, “The Legion Drum Corps Revue” for an extended tour.
R^VLEIGH EDITOR
Says South Will Accept
Ruling On Segregation
NEW YORK
Jonathan Daniels,'editor of
the News and Observer of
Raleigh, N. C., speaking to
participants in the fourth an
nual joint dinner of the Na
tional Urbean League and the
Urban League of Greater New
York, told his listeners here
Tuesday night that the South
will accept' the United States
Supreme Court’s anticipated
de;jsion on seCTegation with
go^ sense and goodwill.
Daniels stated, however,
that he had some apprehen-
.sion in the matter but that
“Governor Herman Talmadge
of Georgia will not get out his
militia to resist the declared law*
of the land . . . and Governor
James F. Byrnes of South Caro
lina will not end public educa
tion.”
“I am not'MUOBg thoM hop
ing that the Supreme Court
this Spring will in one decision
will wipe out segregation In
all the schools of the South.
There are dangers and distress
which may attend such a
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HENBT CLAT DAVIS
Henry C. Davis
Succumbs After
Short llliness
Henry Clay (Jake) Davis,
well-known business man of
Durham, died at the Veterans
Hospital here, Wednesday, Mar.
17, following an illness of sev
eral weeks. Mr. Davis entered
Hospital here, Wednesday, March
the hospital on Thursday, March
i to undergo an operation for
hernia, which was not consider
ed of a serious nature at the
time. Alter being admitted to
the hospital, however, his con
dition grew steadily worse and
physicians were never able to
operate. Mr. Davis was a resi
dent of 503 Dunbar St.
He was bom in Atlanta, Ga.,
June 8, 1893, the son of the late
Robert and Mrs. Dora Davis.
He attended the public schools of
Atlanta and Atlanta University
from which he graduated. For
several years he was employed
by the North Carolina Mutual
Life Insurance Compapy as a
Districtt Manager. About 19
years ago he moved to Durham
where he worked for the com
pany in its home office until
he became employed by .the
Southern Fidelity Mutual In-
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T Older Boys
Conference In
The Queen City
CHARLOTTE
The 24th Annual N. C. YMCA
Older Boys Conference wiil be
held at the West Charlotte High
School, Charlotte, Friday, Sat.,
Sunday, April 23, 24, 25 It has
been announced by E. L. Rae-
fo'rd, YMCA executive director.
Around 300 boy delegates and
adult advisors representing YM-
CA’s and schools throughout the
state are expected to attend. Re
gistration will begin at 10:00 A.
M. April 23 at the Henry T. Mc-
Croyey YMCA with aU sessions
to follow scheduled for the West
Charlott%£Ugh School.
The delegates will be offici
ally -welcomed to Charlotte by
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For Thirty-One Years The Outstanding Weekly Of The Carolinas
Entered as Second Clan Matter at the Post Office at Aurham, Nprth CuoUna, under Act of March *, 187*.
VOLUME 31—NUaiBEB 7
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAl^, MARCH 20, 1954
PRICE 10 CENTS
Delegates To NAACP
Meet Ptedge 1-2 Nlillion
EBENHOWEII, BUNCHE, TOBIAS
AMONG DOTED SPEAKERS AT
NACCP FREEDOM CONFERENCE
Marian Anderson, interna
tionally famous concert artist
will be heard in a recital at
Fayetteville State Teachers’
College, Friday trtaHmg,
March 26. Miss Anderson, now
at the heighth of her carear Is
considered one of the world’s
greatest contraltos.
Horth Carolina Mutual Reports
Gains At 55th Annual Meeting
The 55th annual meeting of
the Board of Directors of North
Carolina Mutual Life Insurance
Company was held at the home
office Wednesday, March 10, at
ten-tliirty o’clock. Those persons
present and participating in the
meeting were: W. J. Kennedy,
Jr, Presiding; A. J. Clement, Sr.,
of Charleston, South Carolina;
D. C. Deans, Jr., of Richmond,
Virginia; W. H. Harvey of Co
lumbia, South -Carolina; A. E.
Spears of Charlotte, North Caro
lina; and Clyde Donnell, MD,
G. W. Cox, J. W. Goodloe, E.
R. Merrick and A. T. Spaulding,
all of Durham, North Carolina.
Commenting briefly on the
growth and developmedt of the
company. President Kennedy
stated that during 1053 the as
sets of th^ company increased
$3,976,984.56 to a total Of
$41,671,281.40. Of this amount
$10,542,263.61 represents mort
gage loans. It is through this
channel that the homes, farms,
businesses, churches and other
holdings of many of the com
pany’s polibyholders were fin
anced and or saved. As of the
end of the year $1,586,735.57
was the accumulated amount
loaned to policyholders on their
policies as sole security to help
tide them over emergencies.
Payments under policy contracts
diuing the year amounted to $3,
483,708.17, bringing the total
payments to policyholders and
beneficiaries since organization
to $45,406,553.
Bonds totalled $25,801,508, re
presenting loans to our Federal
Government, the Canadian Go
vernment, the Canadian Govern
ment and political subdivisions
thereof; railroad, public utility
and industrial corporations, ser
ving the needs of all of the peo
ple. Insurance in force reached
the figure of $194,131,884-an
increase of $14,965,082 over the
previous year.
After increasing the policy re
serves for the protection of
policyholders and providing for
the payment of dividends to
policyholders, the payment oi
sick and death claims and other
policy obligations, the com*
pany’s surplus, contingency re
serves and unassigned funds
amounted to $4,788,048.96. The
company operates in nine states
and the District of Columbia and
gives employment to over 1,000
persons.
Oh behalf of the policyhold
ers, President Kennedy express
ed gratitude to the directors, of
ficers and employees of the com
pany for service rendered in the
past wliich had enabled North
Carolina Mutual to advance
from a small assessment associ
ation to one of the nation’s lead
ing old line legal reserve life in
surance companies. He also paid
a tribute to the women and men
who had served the company in
past years and who had been
called from labor- to reward.
Concluding his remarks, . the
President stated that the indivi
dual and collective experiences
and achievements of North
Carolina Mtrtual representatives
both on the field and in the
home office are reflected jn the
splendid progress made by the
company and they challenge
each and everyone of us to give
to our assignments the best we
have in 1954.
The following officers were
elected: W. J. Kennedy, Jr.,
President; E. R. Merrick, Vice
President-Treasurer; Clyde Don
nell, M. D., Vice President-
Medical Director: G. W. Cox,
Vice President-Agency Director;
D. C. Deans, Jr., Vice President-
Associate Agency Director; A. T.'
Spaulding, Vice Presldent-Ac-
tuary-ControUer; J. W. Goodloe,
Secretary; Aaron Day, Jr., As
sistant Secretary: N. H. Bennett,
Jr., Assistant Secretary-Associ
ate Actuary; Mrs. B. A. J.
Whitted, Assistant Treasurer-
Cashler; Mrs. V. G. Turner, As
sistant Treasurer; J. J. Hender
son, Assistant Treasurer; D. B.
Martin, Associate Agency Direc
tor; W. A. Clement, CLU, Asso
ciate Agency Director; C. C.
Spaulding, Jr., Attorney, Coun
sel.
The Board of Director! also
appointed the following pezvons
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WASHINGTON
The campaign of the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People
to win complete freedom for
Negro Americans by January
]•, 1963, the 100th anniversary
of, the Emancipation Pro
clamation, has been formally
launched with Presidentiri
approbation.
Addressing 1,300 delegates
from 36 states at the NAACP
sponsored Freedom Fulfill
ment Conference here on
Marcch 10, Pre^dent Dwight D.
Elsenhower, extended “good
wishes for the prosecution of
work.” Presented to the audi
ence by Dr. Channlng H. Tobias,
chairman of the NAACP Board
of Directors, and warmly receivi
ed' by the officers tqenjljer*
of the Association, the President
reiterated his pledge to do his
“utmost, wherever the federal
authority clearly extends, to
bring into reality the ideal of
equality among all men who as
sume the responsibility.”
In pursuit of this goal, he
said, “great progress has been
made” In. two areas—the arm
ed forces and the District of
Columbia. “With respect to
these,” he went on, “I express
ed certain convictions and de
terminations. In not all cases
hav« the full results been
achieved, but we are still try
ing.”
REAFFIRMS LINCOLN
CREED
“I believe most sincerely in
the statement of Lincoln that
this nation was ‘dedicated to
the proposition that all men
are created equal,’ ” the
President affirmed. “I believe
with the authors of the De
claration of Independence that
men are endowed by their
Creator with certain inalien
able rights; and furthermore,
1 believe that the vast major
ity, the great mass of Ameri
cans, wants to make those con
cepts a living reality in their
lives . . . They do not want to
make differentiations among
peoples based upon incon
sequential matters of nature
involving color and race.”
Joining the President in speak
ing to the conference were Dr.
Ralph J. Bunche, director, Trus
teeship of the United Nations;
Senator Herbert Lehman of New
York; and the following NAACP
officials, Arthur B. Spingarn,
president; Dr. Tobias; Kelly
Alexander, president, North
Carolina State NAACP; Walter
White, executive secretary; and
Franklin H. Williams, NAACP
West Coast regional director.
Messages from Ambassador Hen
ry Cabot Ijodge, Paul Hoffman
and the Rev. John Haynes
Holmes were read by Roy Wil
kins, NAACP administrator.
The delegates made commit
ments to raise this year in their
respective local conununities and
states a total for more than
$500,000 in the Association’s
drive to raise a Million Dollars
tmnuall for its Fight for Free
dom. Reports were made by the
delegates on local plans and pro-
{jress in the campaign to 'eli-
fniuate all racisd discrimination
and iegregt^ion before the cen
tennial of the Emancipation
Proclamation.
Cornelius McDougald, Jr., President of the General Alnmnl
Association of Lincoln University, (second from left) is shown
presenting the first Centennial Medallion of the University to
Andrew Robinson of New York City, one of Lincoln’s oldest living
graduates. Mr. Robinson received his degree from the Chester
County, Pa., institution in 1801. The Centennial Medallion is
awarded all Lincoln alumni who have contributed a minimum of
$100.00 towards the Centennial Fund. The presentation took place
at the March meeting of the New York City chapter of the Lincoln
alumni association. Others in the picture are, on left. Dr. George
Cannon, a trustM of the University and on right, Willie H. Boark,
president of the New lEirk chapter. Lincoln University, founded
i^M54 as the world’s first tnstitotion to offer collegiate decrees
t oNegroes, is now in the midst of its Centennial celebration.
Brown Praises
President's Civil
Rigltts Program
Earl L. Brown, Demoenrtlc
councilman of New Y»k CUgr's
21st Senate district, blasted tai'
ator Joseph McCarthy and prais
ed President Eisenhower's cMl
rights program in a formn
speech at North Carolina Col
lege Monday.
Brown, also an assistant edi
tor of Life magaxine, lasbcd out
at the Democratic and Repabli-
can parties for making “politi
cal capital” out of civil ri^ita^
He praised President Eisenhow
er for what he called the pccsl-
dent’s refusal to make “political
gain” out of civil rights.
In the course of his spc*ch.
Brown also said he thou^it tba
South could adjust to a U. S.
Supreme Court dedxion that
might outlaw racial segregation
in publicly supported elgman-
tary schools.
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy
was the target of Brown’s sharp
est barbs. “I suppose everything
on the Potomac is about as un
quiet as it could be. Mr. McCar
thy has succeeded along with tlie
lethargy of the Republicans in
getting the Republican party in
to an awful mess and also the
country.
"The Republican party was
gleeful that this man, McCarthy,
could succeed in knifing the
Democratic party with such
tommyrot as “Twenty Years of
Treason”, but they should have
realized and done a little soul-
searching. McCarthy is no more
after the Democrats than he is
after the Republicans. Now h«
has gotten his whole party into
more mess and more trouble
than the Democrats are in.
Everybody is now seemingly
very much concerned about'this,
because we can not afford to
have either one of the parties to
blow up because of a man like
McCarthy. We must keep a bal
ance of political partyism in this
country. A man like BfcCarthy is
a thrjat to the peace, goodwill,
and security of the nation”.
Brown's highest praise went
to the labor unions. As a politi-
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Thelms Harlee
Named Head Of
Library Clubs
Miss Thelms Harlee oif Raleigh
was elected president of the As
sociation of North Carolina High
School Library Clubs here Sat
urday at its second annual con
ference held at North Carolina
College.
Other new officers include Louise
Southerland of Wilmington, Vice
President; Mary Davis of Cleve
land, secretary: Mrs. Willie Hall
of Durham, librarian at Hillside
High School, financial secretary;
Ida Jones of Durham, a Hillside
student, treasurer; and Mary
Jordan of Oxford, parlimentar-
ian.
Mora than 200 high school U-
The Sunday School Department of Clinton First Metropolitan
A. M. E. Zion Curch, Ned Davis, Superintendent, Rev. F. R. Blakey,
pastor, sponsored the Childrens’ Crusade Rally held recently at the
church. The purpose of the activity was to raise the church edu
cational assessment for Livingstone College. Mr. Davis pledged
to raise the amount through Sunday School.
Shown in picture are the chldiern who took part in the rally
and their parents. In the closing of the effort the children report
ed $355. There were three grand prises offerd or the on repdrtfof
the highest amount of money above $19.00 The three
were John Mcllwain, first prise, $38.00; Mias C. T. Davis, sc^mmII
prize, $34.50; and third prize. Miss Shropshire, $34.00. Appn^^-
mately 36 children participated.
This is the first time in the history of Charlotte among
churches that a program of this kind has been sponsored and Ilia
result proved successful.
Prominent Health Educators Slated
For Recreation Institute At N. C.C.
brary club members and advisors
representing nearly all of the
state’s 100 counties attended the
all-day session.
The highlight of the morn
ing’s general session was an ad
dress by Mrs. Mollie H. Lee,
librarian of Richard B. Harrison
Library, Raleigh.
“Society requires a wider
range of knowledge today than
ever before and members of
the hUlh school library clubs
have a unique opportunity to
help citisens get the kind of
knowledge needed to live ef
fectively in a democratic coun
try,” Mrs. Lee said.
“Schools will have to pro
vide in Increasingly larger
amounts books and other com
munication material to help
our citizens acquire a sound
understanding and*^ihterpreta-
tlon of what education Is to
day,” sha continned.
Drs. Elder, Kyle, Barksdale Slated
To Speak During Confab Session
The names of 63 participants
in the first annual National Re
search Institute in Health, Phy
sical Education, and Recreation
which will "meet here at North
Carolina College March 22-26
were announced today by Dr. A.
E. Weatherford, H, chairman
and coordinator of the sessions.
Three North Carolina College
administrators will be among
the educators who will speak
during the conference. They are
President Alfonso Elder, Dean
George T. Kyle of the undergra
duate school and Dr. Richard K.
Barksdale, assistant to the Dean
of the Graduate School.
At the pre-institute and
Workshop lectures, the partici
pants will b« Dr. Josephine
Rathbone Karpovitch of Co
lumbia University; Dr. Peter V.
Karpovitch of Springfield fipl-
lege; and W. C. Sutherland, Field
Director of Personnel Service of
the National Recreation Associ
ation.
In addition to Dr. Weather
ford, coordinator and director of
the institute, the other staff
members are: Dr. Rose Butler
Browne, Chairman, Graduate
Department of Education. N. C.
College; Dr. JoMph A. Pittman,
Professor of Education; N. C.
College; Dr. Ray Thomiwon,
Coimselor, N. C. College; Dr. Al
vin W. Rose, Chairman, Gradu
ate Department of Sociology, N.
C. College; Dr. Carol C. Bowie,
Director of Psychological Tcat-
ing Bureau, N. C. College; Or.
Charles E. King, Professor of
Sociology, N. C. College; Dr.
Joseph S. Himes, Professor of
Sociology, N. C. College; Jamea
E. Parker, Director, Audio-Via-
ual Center, N. C. College; Dr.
Benjamin F. Smith, DirectOT,
James E. Shepard Library, H. C.
College; Dr. Ross E. Townaa.
Physical Education Department,
N. C. CoUege; Dr. William H.
Brown, Director, Bureau of Edu
cational Research, North Caro
lina College; B. T. McMillan,
Professor of Health Education,
N. C. CoUege; and WUUe Baa
Perry, Phyric^ Sducatiott ma
jor at North Carolina CoUagt.
Among ttie qpeclal fkatiuaa at
the institute are demonstratiaaa,
displays, a dance sympoaium.
dramaUcs, and aodio-viaual aMH
exhibits.