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VOLUME 31—NUMBER 29
DUBHAM, N. C 8ATUBDAY, JULY 17, 1954
PBICE If CENTS
BECEIVES NUBSING AWABD—Miss Mulah Tidline,
a member of the 1954 graduating class from the Lincoln
Hospital School of Nursing, is shown receiving the C. C.
Spaulding Nursing Award of $25 from C. C. Spaulding, Jr.,
left. Ther award^ made annually to the nurse who, while
in training, exhin|ted outstanding qualities of courtesy, at-
tentiveness, and sympathy to patients.
The fund from which tills award was made available
was established in memory of the late Dr. C. C. Spaulding by
L. Watts Norton, manager of the Durham District of the
Northwestern Life Insurance Co. and other citizens. Through
the contributions of local residents, the fund has grown from
its original sum of $200 to the present approximate amount
of $1,000.
Officials of Lincoln Hospital are hoping that he fund
wfll soon be at a propoi^dii wbdtfeby scholarships can be giv
en to aspiring nurses.
NASHVIUEHIYORATMEHING
HONOMNC NOe AnORNEY
NASHVILLE, TENN.
Thurgood Marshall, director
counsel of NAACP Legal De
fense and Educational Fund,
inc., was made an honorary
citizen of Nashville and pre
sented with a gold key to the
city last week.
Mayor Ben West presented
the NAACP Legal Defense head
with the Certificate of Honor
ary Citizenship and the key.
The presentation was made
following an address by Mar
shall at the 11th Annual Insti
tute of Race Relations held on
the campus of Fisk University.
Mr. Marshall bad advised the
institute that despite the ac
tions on the part of southern
politicians who are bent on
circumventing the recent Su
preme Court decision outlawing
Jim Crow in public schools, the
American people can still 'de
bate the issue.
“The race relations pattern
in the South has always been
taboo in public conversation”,
Mr. Marshall told the group.
"Many have been reluctant to
debate the validity of their po
sition because the state laws re
quire segregation.”
Mr. Marshall said that the po
liticians are now beclouding the
Issue by raising the same old
fears and trying to keep alive
the taboos of yesterday.
"The people, however, are de
bating the matter quietly in
their homes and churches. And
Very soon it will be a matter of
open discussion in church pul
pits, forums, radio and televi
sion round tables and other
mass media for exchanging
views”, Mr. Marshall said.
The citation of honorary
citizenship presented to Mr.
Marshall by Mayor West reads
in part:-
"Oreetings:
N. C. Realists In
One Day Meet
At Wilmington
A one-day meeting of the
Carolina Real Estate and Buil
ders Association will be held at
Sea-Breeze, Saturday July 17,
according to an announcement
made here this week by H. M.
Michaux, Durham realist and
president of the organization.
Michaux stated that the meet
ing will open about 2 p.m. and
that a large attendance of mem
bers from all over the state is
expected.
The association was organi
zed in 1953 and membership is
open to all members of the race
who are licensed real estate
dealers.
Host for the meeting will be
R. F. Lee, Wilmington realist
and well-known businessman of
that city. In addition to Mich
aux, other officers are E. B.
Johnson, vice president, Win
ston Salem, and C. M. Winches
ter, Greensboro secretary.
Be it hereby known to all
that the Hon. Thurgood Mar
shall on this 7th day of July of
1854 has been made an honor
ary citizen of the City of Nash
ville...The city of Schools and
Churches rich in the tradition of
the Old South and in recogni
tion thereof has been presented
with this Certificate of Citizen
ship.”
Says U.S. Withdrawal From
UN Would Be Suicidal
DR. P. A. BISHOP SPEAKER
FOR BAPTISTMISSIONARYMEET
AT ROCKY MOUNT CHURCH
ROCKY MOUNT
Dr. P. A. Bishop of Rich
Square, will be the principal
speaker Sunday, July 18, at the
Mt. Zion Baptist Church in
Rocky Mount when the church
observes its annual Home and
Foreign Mission Sunday. Dr.
Bishop will speak at the 11
o’clock service.
The president of the Lott Ca
rey Foreign Mission Convention
Dr. Bishop is a noted Baptist
minister and leader in the state.
He is also a prominent leader
in the State Baptist Convention.
Music for the occasion will be
furnished by the senior choir
of Mt. Zion Baptist Church.
Mrs. Addie Byrd is chairman of
the program for the day’s obser
vance, and M. A. Wilson is
chairman of the social comn^it-
tee.
Special emphasis is added
each year to this activity and
plans for this year’s ^rvice are
expected to be greatly im
proved over those of the past
The Rev. R. W. Underwood is
the pastor of the host chur^.
Ftwiii^ set|vvarns Russia Would
Grab Weak Countries;
Prizes For Communism
. A. BISHOP
Annual Meeting
For Wasliington
WASHINGTON, D. C.
The Washington Chapter of
Frontiers of America will be
host to the 13th annual conven
tion of the national service or
ganization which will be held in
the Nation’s Capital July 28-31
The four-day meeting is ex
pected to bring together some
2,000 delegates representing
chapters in 43 cities throughout
the country. Meetings have been
scheduled for the Twelfth St.,
YMCA and the Dunbar and Ra
leigh Hotels.
An official welcome will be
extended the group by Samuel
Spencer, president of the D. C.
Board of Commissioners. Mr.
Spencer will present keys to the
city to Dr. Bernard Harris of
Baltimore, Frontiers president,
in a ceremony at the District
Building.
Another convention highlight
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DENOUNCES COMMUNISM—^President Paul E. Magloire of Haiti is shown at the
right discussing the world situation with Cuban President Batista. A recent deunication
of communism as a “degrading doctrine” was voiced by the Haiti President before he de
parted from Havana, Cuba for Puerto Bico, the 'second phase of a five-country good will
tour.
President Magloire asserted that Haiti “has always been anti-communist, and has re
garded this degrading doctrine as a threat to human dignity.” He pointed out during his
meeting with Cuban newspapermen that as far bacit as 1946 Haiti’s Parliament enacted a
law declaring communism illegal.
The Haiti President also told newsmen that “Today, more than ever before, we ad
here to this policy.” His series of visits wiU include Nicaragua, Panama and Venezuela.
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Durham Delegates Attend Annual Adventists'
Fifth Conference Session Held In Florida
A delegation of 17 members
of the Lincoln Street Seventh
Day Adventist Church in Dur
ham has returned from Haw
thorn, Fla. where they attended
the Fifth Biennial Session of
the South Atlantic Conference
of Seventh Day Adventists. The
session was held jointly with
the Annual 10-Day Camp Meet
ing on the 65-acre camp site of
the conference a few miles east
of Hawthorne.
Rev. I. J. Johnson, pastor of
the Lincoln Street church, par
ticipated in the camp meeting
services. Some 1,500 delegates
ani members from Florida,
Georgia, North and South Caro
lina filled the 264 family tents
pitched aroimd the rim of the
two-acre lake. Each of the fami
ly tents housed six persons.
Other accon^odations for
those attending were one dor
mitory tent for men and one for
womeh, both capable of housing
100 persons.each, separate tents
for hospital purposes, one each
for teen-agers, welfare, dining
purposes, and small children; a
stationery bath and toilet fa
cilities, a book and Bible House,
and a store.
Bishop J. H. Wagner, a native
of North Carolina, was unani
mously re-elected president of
the conference during the ses-
BISHOP R.L JONES SUTED FOR
ST. MARK HOMECOMING AND
CORNESTONE UYING SERVICE
Cornerstone laying ceremo
nies for the new St. Mark A.M.
E. Zion Church on the Corner of
Pickett and Pine Streets will be
held Saturday, July 17, at noon
with the Doric Lodge No. 28,
F. A. M. serving.
The Cornerstone Dedicatoriai
services will be conducted Sun
day afternoon, July 18, at 3
o’clock with D. W. Andrews,
secretary of the A.M.E.Z.
Church Extension, as guest
sgsaker^ The laying of the stone
and the* dedictttton Will bC'tron'
ducted at the site of the new
edifice, and all other services
will be held in the temporary
location of the church at the
Booker T. Theatre Building on
Pettigrew Street.
In addition to the Corner
stone Laying ceremonies, the
church will also hold its Home
coming Day Sunday with
Bishop R. L. Jones of Salisbury,
as the guest speaker for the
Sunday morning service. Bish
op Jones is bishop of the Cen
tral N. C. Conference of the
A.M.E.Z. Church.
The final homecoming ser
vices will be held at the evening
worship Sunday when all finan
cial reports of the Homecoming
Observance will be given. The
Rev. S. P. Perry is pastor of the
church
BISHOP R. L. JONES
F. B. I. INVESTIGATING CKOSS
BURNING AT NAVY HOUSING
PROJECT IN NORTH CHARLESTON
sion held July 5. Bishop Wag
ner led the Allegheny Confer
ence for nine years before ac
cepting a position in the South
Atlantic Conference lart year.
Other officers elected or re
elected at the session are Elder
N. G. Simons, secretary-tres'
surer; M. T. Battle, Home Mis
sionary secretary; F. H. Jen
kins, educational secretary; S.
McClamb, publishing secretary;
and W. A. Darby, Bible House'
Manager. The conference head
quarters are in Atlanta, ' Ga.,
and the world headquarters are
in Washington, D. C.
The 92 churches represented
contributed $3,123.00 to ' the
mission program.
CHARLESTON, S. C
Navy Yard Police of the Sixth
Naval District in Charleston
are investigating the burning of
a three foot cross which was set
up in front of the home of Navy
Chief Steward Thelmer R.
Frye, on Monday night.
Chief Frye, his wife, and
three-year-old child are resi
dents of the Tom McMillan
Homes, a federal housing pro
ject which is adjacent to the
Charleston Navy Yard. The
Chief told Navy investigators
that the cross burned for about
two minutes.
According to a report of the
flare-up, it was discovered that
an automobile carrying several
unknown white men was seen
leaving the scene shortly after
the cross was lighted in the yard
of the Frye Apartment. The
family lives in one apartment of
a four-unit project.
A native of Vass, Chief Frye
and his family moved into the
housing unit in March, and
shortly afterwards, the other
three units, Which were occu
pied by white families, were
vacated. The Fryes have been
the only occupants of the pro
ject since.
When the Navy veteran v of
18 years was assigned to the
luiit, officials of the Sixth Naval
District said that the action
was a practice of ^the Navy’:
iMlicy to end its segregated ac-
^vities. - -
Since the incident occurred
on a Naval reservation, local
)rphanage Head
To Be Lapen's
Day Speaker
CHARLOTTE
Layman’s Day will- be obser
ved at St. Paul Baptist Church
in Charlotte Sunday, July .18,
BEV. T. H. BBOOKS
with the Rev. T. H. Brooks,
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police are not involved in the
investigation. It is being con
ducted by Naval intelligence
officers and FBI agents.
Withdrawal of the United
States from the United Nations
and a subsequent collapse o£
the international organization
would end ‘'almost the only
hope of two hundred million
people still held in colonial
bondage and of many hundreds
of millions more who have only
recently gained their indepen
dence,” a top civil rights leader
declared here today.
Walter White, executive sec
retary of the National Associ
ation for the Advancement of
iolored People, expressed this
view in an interview broadcast
Jver radio station WLIB and
j.her stations. He discussed the
implications of U. S. withdra’.-.
il from the UN with Ernest
jross, former assistant Secre
tary of State and former am
bassador to the United Nations.
■4r. Gross is president of Free-
iom Hooae i» New Yot^
Mr. White noted that there Is
1 widespread mi.rtaken notion
tSOT aSinl^on of Cfitua tD ttB
United Nations would requira
recognition of Peking by IlM
Jnited States govemmoil
Mr. Gross asserted tlutt te
the U. S. to withdraw from the
UN would leave the underjuivi-
leged nations of the world as
'prizes” for the Russians.
“I believe to leave the field
to the Russians would seem to
be committing suicide,” Mr.
.i^ross added.
£ulogy Held For
Mrs. K F. Jeffers
RIVERHEAD, N. Y.
Funeral services were held
here July 8 at Grace Episcopal
Church for Idrs. Marie L. Xltz-
gerald Jeffers, formerly ot
Durham, N. C., who pasaed
away July 5, at the age of 81.
Mrs. Jeffers, daughter of the
ate Robert G. and Cornelia
Smith Fitzgerald, an old North
Carolina family, was bom in
Orange County, February 10,
1873. She was educated at St.
.\ugustine College, Raleigh, and
Hampton Institute in Virginia,
where she learned the trade of
dressmaking and tailoring.
She taught school in Orange
and Duriiam Counties for seve
ral yeaes, but was best known
as a modiste. During World War
I, she came to New York and
worked In several Fifth Avenue
fashion shops as modiste for
such famous stylists as Lady
Duff Gordon.
She retired from her prc
fession in later years because
of failing eyesight, but con
tinued to be active in churtj
work. She kept diaries a
scrapbooks of important (
rent events. For the past
years she had resided in R:-,
head, N. Y.
She is survived by i er '■'i.
iGerald, L. Jeffries, a buiii>ui
contractor of nearby Quoqu«.
N. Y.: two sisters. Mrs. Pauline
F. Dame and Mrs. Sarah A. F.
Small, retired teachers of Dur
ham, now living in Brooklyn,
and numerous niece* and
nephews.
Father Harold Bienx otCci-
at«d at the funeral sarvicaa and
interment was made in Outcho-
gue Cemetery.