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12,000 HEAR HAILE ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ *$SE AT HOWARD ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ NAACP Secretary Mass Meeting Speaker WALTER WHITE TO ADDRESS DURHAM FREEDOM RAUV AT WHITE ROCK CHURCH JUNE 13 For Thirty-One Years The OitUtanMng Weekly Of The Carolinas Intwed w Second 01a« Blatter the Pert Otflee at Dvbaiii, North Ouellin. wider Act of MarA S, 1S7I. VOLUBIE SI—NUBIBEE SS DDBHAM. NOBTH CABOUNA, SATUROAT, JUNE S, 19S4 PRICE 1* 01KT8 BEAVnClANS’ LEAGUE BURNS MORTGAGE IN HISTORIC WASHINGTON CEREMONY—^The National Beauty Cnltnrist Leai rue, Inc., burned its headquarters’ mortgage In Washington, D. C., recently, only six years after the organization lannched its cam paign to establish national offices in the Capital. Above, Mia. QnrdeHa Greene Jobnsnn, center, officiates dnriaf the ceremonies at the beautiful, newly decoratd headquarters. Witnessing the mortgage burning are, left to right. Or. William H. Gray, pastor, Bright Hope Baptist Church, Philadelphia, Mrs. Beulah M. Ford, Albany, Mrs. Johnson, and Mrs. Bessie M. Free man, Washington, D. C. Dr. Gray shared the speaking honors with Mrs. Sara Washing ton Hayes, president of the Apex Bair and News Company, At lantic City, N, Partially hidden, Mrs. Ford's left Is Mrs. M.i^. Hurley, New York City. 3,500 Hear News Commentator At N. C College Finals Tuesday Foreign Correspondent, Willi am L. Shlrer warned tthe free world that Nazi “racist” theo ries did not die with Adolph Hitler In a speech here Tuesday at North Carolina College’s 43rd annual commencement services. “Despite two world wars and the destruction of the German state, the German people are not much changed and demo cracy is only skin deep, Shlrer said. The noted authoi: of “Berlin Diary” and “Mid-century Jour ney” stunned some of his 3,500 hearers including 305 gradu-^ ates, when he said, “And Naz ism with lU ugly evils, Includ- ing-racism, Is far from dead”. Earlier Iri his speech, Shlrer, a native of Chicago, who has spent the better part of thhe last 30 years In Europe, said to his youthful hearers, “I am pleased to speak to the young people o£ America--the young on whom America’s future will soon de pend. Coming down from the North, 1 am pleased to greet you at a time when the decision of the Supreme Court (In the school suits that declared ra cial segregation unconstitution al in the public schools) must have filled you with pride, hope and confidence In the future of this country”. The newsman urged Ameri cans to shy away from "anti- intellectuallsm”, to continue reading books after graduation, and to keep abreast of the “grim" hard news that -day af ter day goes into the fact book of history. Shirer scoffed at the view in this country that the China crisis was related entirely to “bungUng” of U. S. State de- partment officials in the Tru man administration. Branding (Ploue turn to Page Eight) DURHAM SPEAKER—Wal ter White, execntive secretary of the NAACP, wUl be the guest speaker Sunday, June 13, when an expected number of over 3,500 persons convene at White Rock Baptist Church for a Mass Meeting at which all NAACP branches of the state are to be represented. Joseph B. Fogg, Hillside Student Wins Leggett Memorial Scholarship Joseph B. Fogg of 1916 East Pettigrew Street, Durham, a 1954 graduate of Hillside High School, is the winner of the 1954 William A. Leggett Memorial Scholarship for Durham Coimty, according to a recent announce ment made by the Committee of Awards. Fogg is the' twelfth winner of this annual scholarship for Dur ham County. The scholarship is valued at $500 per year and is renewable for a four year term. Previous awards have been made to graduates from Durham, Hope Valley, lK>wes Grove, Oak Grove and Bahama High Schools in Durham County. Funds for these scholarships are given as a memorial for two brothers, George L. and (Please turn to Page Eight) . JOSEPH B. FOGG Protests Race Dismmination At Caswell Training School GREENSBORO A group of citizens of this city, composed of members of the lo cal chapter of the Parents And Friends of Mentally Retarded Children, instructed its president here last week to write a letter of protest against racial dis crimination experient^ed by its members while visiting at the Caswell Training School on Sunday, May 23. President of the group is Vestal Palmer. Hie act of discrimination came about when members of the lo cal group attended the state con vention of the organization held at Caswell. Last week's meeting was held at the First Lutheran Church and was attended by its members of t>oth races. AccQrdiNg to one of the mem bers five N^gro members of the Greensboro group were pro hibited from ^tering the din ing hall where other members of the conventtoh were Bating Mra J. S. Leary, wile of the principal of Greensboro's Washington High School, stated that she and her husband were told that they could not be served in the din ing hall but could " come around to the back door and be served.” Another one of the five Negro members refused service was Dr. G. H. Evans, chief of staff of L. Richardson Memorial Hos pital. Dr. Evans stated that one of fho attwUtoirti toia him thathe (Please turn to Page Eight) Making his first major ap pearance In the South since the Supreme Court ruled segrega tion unconstitutional In public education, Walter White, exe cutive secretary of the National Association for the Advance ment of Colored People, will be the principal speaker at Dur ham’s White Rock Baptist Church on Fayetteville Street at 4 p.m. Sunday, June 13. The occasion will mark a mass meeting and Freedom Day Rally to be held by the Fighting Fund For Freedom Committee of the North Carolina Confer ence of NAACP Branches. Mr. White will ,meet with officers of the state branches, and officers of the legal staff of the state Saturday, June 12. Purpose of this closed meeting, (Please turn to Page Eight) Methodists May Drop All-Negro Conference BALTIMORE, Md. Probably the first practical step toward elimination of the Central (all^Negro annual con ference unit) Jurisdiction of The Methodist Church was tak en at the 91st session of the Washington Annual Confer ence, meeting at Metropolitan Methodist Church last week. Mitchell Memorial Church, (Please turn to Page Eight) John H. Wheeler Gets LL.D. At Shaw Univ. Jth Commencement Ethiopian Emperor Lauds Contribution Of Negroes To America And World WASHINGTON, D.C. His Imperial Majesty Halle -Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia paid tribute to the- peoples of Africa origiQ wlwse ^ntribw- tttJfis, fie saij[,' liave had a pro found influence on the culture of the western world. The Emperor spoke to a ga thering of some 12,000 persons at Howard University where he received the honorary degree Doctor of Laws at a special convocation on Friday, May 28. The Emperor’s remarks fol lowed the presentation of the degree by ^r7 MbrSecal W. Johnson, president of Howard University. Speaking slowly and in a low voice, the 61-year old monarch said, “It is a curious fact, if we reflect upon It for a moment, that Africa has always exerted its influence and brought to bear its contribution in the West. “It is certain that the United States of America would not have reached today its present world stature,” he continued, “were it not, in part, for the enormous labours of Africans whose great desceiidants are here represented on this occa sion.” 'fhe Emperor said that the world is l}ecoming Increasingly aware of the importance of the contributions made by colored people to higher- and broader standards of social concepts. In an apparent reference to the re cent Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation in * the public schools, the Emperor said, “Events of recent days, here in the United States, have brilMaixtly confirmed before the world the contributions which you have made to the principle that all men are brothers and equal in the sight of God.” In reference to Howard Uni versity, which was conferring its 147th honorary degree since the practice was started at the institution in 1874, the Emperor said, “You have reason to be proud of"the role which you are today playing in the life of tills great nation and I count it an honour to receive from you this high academic distinction.” In his citation to the Emperor on conferring the degree. Dr. Johnson paid tribute to him as “the long-to-be remembered voice of the conscience of man kind.” Dr. Johnson told of the Em peror’s plea for cc^ectlve se curity to the League of Nations prior to the Italian invasion of his Empire in 1936. When the nations there assembled would not heed you and the ruthless aggressors iiad, at length over come the heroic resistance of your people and had driven you into exile.” ■ “The Howard-president aaid, (Please turn to Page Eight) N. Y. Doctors Elect Negro As M President NEW YORK Two “firsts” were established recently when Dr. Peter Mar shall Murray was made presi dent of the Medical Society of New York County. Dr. Murray is the first Negro to hold such a high office in any major med ical society in the nation and he is also the first Negro to gain a seat on a policy-making body of the American Medical. Aoscia- tion. Dr. Murray heads the largest county society in the United States. H0 is director of ob stetrics and gynecology at Sydenham Hospital in New York and ranks high in his field of specialization. A graduate of Harvard Uni- (Please turn to Page Eight) Winston-Salem Host To Old North State Medical Society This Week Rev. A. S. Croom To Speak At Hillside Sunday Rev. A. S. Croom, pastor of Union Baptist Church, will de liver Hillside’s 1954 Senior Ves per Sermon at 5 p. m. Sunday, June 6 in the school auditorium. The Commencement activities l^an Wednesday, June 2 with the Senior Class Night. The pro gram was entitled “Alma Mater’s Children” and was under the direction of John H. Gattis. The graduating exercises, which will be held June 7, at 8 p. m., will t>e preceded by a band concert at 7 o’clock. The theme for this year is “A Look At Our School,” and the speakers are: Anna Joyce Newkirk, Joseph Fogg, Virginia Cameron and James Morris. Over 200 students will receive' diplomas presented by H. Spur geon Boyce, Chairman of the School Board, assisted by L. Stacey Weaver, Superintendent of Durtiam City Schools. The awards will be announced by H. M. Hblmra, Principal of Hillside. Music will be furnished by the band under the direction of Phil- more Hay, and the Hillside mix- -ed chorus under the directiorrof Miss T. H. Claggett. GREENSBORO Prominent physicians and heads of national professional organizations were featured at the sixty-seventh annual meet ing of the Old North State Medical Society held here June 1_J! . and_ a. -. - According to Dr. F. E. Davis Greenslxjro, secretary-treasur er of the organization, nearly 150 physicians from through out North Carolina attended the meet. Meeting, simultaneously with the medics were some 50-odd pharmacists and more than 100 members of the So clety’s Woman’s Auxiliary. Included among the lecturers for the physicians’ section are Dr. David Cayer; Dr. R. L. Me Millan, professor of clinical medicine; Dr. R. B. Lawson, professor of pediatrics; Dr. Frank Locke, professor of ob- sterics and Dr. Ernest H. Yount, professor medicine, all of Bow man Gray School of Medicine iiv Winston-Salem; Dr. R.- L. Smith, attending physician; and Dr. E. L. Davis, chief of medi cal service; « Dr. Robert J. Nichols, assis tant radiologist and Dr. D. S. Morris, pathoiogis1|> all of Kate Bitting Reynolds Hospital, Win ston-Salem and Dr. Mattliew Walker, head, department of surgery, Meharry Medical Col lege, Nashville, Tenn., and pre sident of the National Medical Association also spoke at one of the social gatherings. Principal speakers at the (Please turn to Page Eight) RALEIGH At the 89th annual com mencement exercises of Shaw University Monday, iionorary degrees were conferred upon 107 candidates in the college of irts and sciences and the School )f Religion. Id addition to these iegrees, two honorary degrees *ere conferred. Joim Hervey (Vheeler, president of the Me- clianics and Farmers Bank, Durham, was recipient of the lonorary degree of Doctor of Laws, artd the Rev. J. E. TLUet of Edenton received the Doctor if Divinity honorary degree. Tile Distinguished Service Award from the Profearicnal Schools went to Dr. Lewn E. McCauley of Raleigh, a gradu ate of Shaw Medical Sclwol in 1905. The Distinguished Ser vice Award from the college of Arts and Sciences went to the Rev. Howard L. Mitchell of Gatesville. The commencement address was given by Dr. Albert Pincus - -Seltzer, -physician nurgcoBi ■ of Pliiladelphia, Pa. He told the graduating class that to re ceive a diploma from Shaw University is an honor, e^ed- illy appreciated by one wbo has a profound and aUding iaith in education, and paxtica- iarly in freedom at religioii, viiich is today the keynote and foundation stone to succeai In >ur American way of Ufa Referring to John RusUn, Jie English author, Dr. Seltzer pointed out the seven lamps of wisdom by which the house of life, when built, may be illumi nated. They are courtesy, toler ance, loyalty, ambition, cour age a sense of humor and imagi nation, and aiwve all, faith. Rev. Mr. Tillett gave the in vocation, and Dr. O. S. Bullock of Raleigh said the l>enediction. APEX POlia CHIEF REED APEX Sam Bagwell, Apex Chief of Police, was freed here Wed nesday afternoon, following a five hoar hearing In the Apex Recorder’s Court,, pre sided over by Judge Cunning ham. Bagwell had been charged with kidnapping on two accounts and assault on a female on two counts. ’The charges were brought by Misses Minnie Lee Smtth and Lucille Smith, sisters Mle were taken fr^ their lMB*e early Sunday eiorning. Afril *5. For a full and detailed ae- count of the hearing see mhI week% issue of tb* Timea. Mrs. Sudie Curtis Eulogized At St. Joseph's AME Final rites for Mrs. Sudie Curtis were held at St. Joseph’s A.M.E. Church Saturday, May 29, with the pastor, the Rev. D. A. Johnston .delivering the eulogy. Mrs. Curtis died Thurs day, May 27 at Lincoln Hospital following an illness of two years. She was the widow of the late William Lawrence Curtis. A native of Cliapel Hill, Mrs. Curtis -Was the daughter of the late HeHnry and Persia Jones. She attended the Wake County Public . Schools and Shaw Uni versity. At St Joseph’s Church, Mrs. Curtis was a member of the Missionaiy Society. Surviving her are: Mrs. Iva Parris, New York City; Mrs. Lo^ie Coleman, and Idiss Redia B. Curtis of Durham; John L. Curtis, Duriuint; Leonidas Cur tis of Detroit, Mich., James 1C Curtis, New York City; Hubert f, and .Uoyd Curtis of Clev*- land, Ohio. '“Other surviviers awi“ oBf to- ter. Mrs. Irene Jones twelve granjtchiMr«^ great grandc^ikiie!^ number of ni«M* anA