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DURHAM, N. C. SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1954
PRICBltaDfTf
R.R. Segregation Cases Set For July 27
12 Railroads Defendants In
AT NCC READING CLINICS—^More than 120 summer students from
four states attended the ninth annual Summer Reading Clinic at North
Carolina College which was under the direction of Bfrs. Lucy S. Herring.
The clinic closed last week with an exhibit held in the Open House in the
administration building.
The workshop participants came from 35 Nbrth Carolina eoanties, IS
cities, and the states of Georgia, South Carolina, and Virginia. The clinic
was held for a period of six weeks. The entire group is shown here on the
dining hall steps at the college prior to their exhibit.
i^ong the workshop members are Mrs. Clara F. Alexander, Miss
Johnett Alexander, Miss Gertude Atkinson, Mrs. Sula B. Alston, J. C.
Atwaterv Miss Frankie J. Avery, Miss Ruth E. Bailey, Mrs. Virginia R.
Barfield, Mrs. Flora Cheek Bethea, Mrs. Grace P. Bethea, Mbs Katie M.
Efoad, AOsb Lotllsa B. Boone; Mrs. Bemice.4>'. Brown, Mrs. MMrjoiie Q.
Brown, and Mrs. Ruth B. Brown.
AMEZ General Convention Set For
July 31; WaHs Keynote Speaker
LOUISVILLE, Ky.
“The 'Pea^ng Ministry of
the Church” will be discussed
at the A.M.E. Zion Church’s
general convention on Christian
education, which will draw
some 3000 delegates to Louis
ville, Ky., on July 31 lor six
days of seminars, panels, work
shops and exhibits that will
keep the entire membership ol
youth and adult of the denomi
nation alerted to the study and
evaluation of the'' educational
services of the A.M.E. Zion con
nection.
“Go...Teach,” the conference
motto, will keynote all activi
ties, including the general as
sembly of Christian education
directors and college and se
condary school presidents,
which meets concurrently.
This quadrennial convention
meeting immediately follows
the Connectional Council and
Executive Committee sessions
of the Women’s Home and For
eign Missionary Society.
All elevaa A.M.E. Zion Bish
ops and general officers of the
denomination who attend this
meetln* will stay over for the
general convention, with the ex
ception of Bishop Daniel C.
Pope, resident bishop of Africa..
Dr. James W. Eichelberger of
Chicago, secretary of Christian
Education for the denonJnation
and recognized as its most out
standing layman, will address
the delegates and Bishop Willi
am J. Walls of Chicago, a for
mer pastor and builder of
Broadway Temple, and chair
man of the A.M.E. Zion board of
Christian Education for home
and church, will deliver the
keynote address.
Bishop Cameron C. AUeyne
of Philadelphia, Pa., will preach
the general convention sermon;
Bishop James C. Taylor of
Montgomery, Ala., will present
a special adless; and Mrs. Mar
jorie S. Lyda of Chicago, repre
sentative of the National
Youth Council, of the A.M.E.
Zion Church, will speak on her
experiences as a delegate to the
Third World Conference of
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BISHOP W. J. WALLS
Five Durham
Citizens Named
For Ed. Position
Five Negroes of Durham have
been nominated along with two
white persons to fill a vacany
on the City Board of Education
which was made recently by the
resignation ol James M. Slay.
Those recommended for the
post are Asa T. Spaulding, Dr.
C. E. Boulware, G. W. Cox, J.
H. Wheeler, Dr. J. T. Taylor,
Mrs. C. R. Hauser, and C. B.
Sessoms.
Local Negro organizations
recommending the candidates
are the Hillside School PTA, the
Durham PTA Council, the Beta
Chi Chapter of'the Omega Psl
Phi Fraternity, the Beta Theta
Lambda Chapter of the Alpha
Phi Alpha Fraternity, and the
Durham Committee on Negro
Affairs.
Spurgeon Boyce, chairman of
the Board said this week that
the vacancy may be filled at the
next session which will be held
September 18.
Queen City Group Seeks Injunction
Against City Airport Restaurant;
Charge Unconstitutional Bias
CHARLO’TTE
Unless definite action is taken
immediately by the City Coun
cil of Charlotte to curb the se
gregated practices existing at
the airport terminal restaurant,
a group of Negro citizens of the
city will carry their case to the
federal courts.
This action was prompted re
cently when several ^ Negroes
were herded off into a small
room adjoining the kitchen of
the eating establishment to ob
tain meals before boarding a
plane. The injunction will de
clare that operators of the ter
minal restaurant are violating
the terms of their lease in re
fusing service to all Negroes on
the grounds of the 14th and 15th
amendments since federal funds
were us^ to erect the estab
lishment.
At a hearing before the City
Council, City Attorney Johp
Shaw cited a similar case which
arose in Washington, D. C.,
wherein it was said that all per
sons who are passengers of the
airline company must be served
indiscriminately. In Shaw’s
opinion, the operators of the
restaurant are not violating
their lease or the law in refus
ing to serve Negroes who are
not airline passengers. It is left
to the discretion of the proprie
tors in this instance to decide
if persons who are not passen
gers will be served.
Dr. R. A. Hawkins and T. H.
Wyche, Charlotte attorney, also
met with the Council. Mr.
Wjrche said that the group has
no recourse but to take the case
to the federal court since the
Council Could not make a de
cision relating to segregation
unless the City Attorney sanc-
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Eight Negroes
Breal( Prison
In Louisburg
LOUISBURG
Franklin County Prison Camp
near Louisburg was the scene
of a big prison break Tuesday
night when eight Negroes, ser
ving sentences ranging from
five years to life in prison, saw
ed through a cell block window
and escaped. Officials of the
camp stated that how the pris
oners managed to saw the bars
in half was unknown, but con
jectures were made that the ef
fort must have taken quite
some time. The break was dis
covered at approximately 9
p.m. Tuesday. Last reports fail
ed to reveal the capture of any
of the escapees.
Those escaping by scaling
fence on the east side of the
building were Eugene Thomas,
21 of Virgilina; Charlie C
Smith, 21 of Enfield; DeWitt
Carpenter, 18, of Norwood; ser
ving a life sentence for burgla
ry; Charles Harris, 24, of Ra
leigh; and Oscar C. Downey, 28
■ of Oxford.
Others are Robert Mason of
PhUadelphia; Willie McNeil, 23,
of Apex; and James Strickland
of Louisburg. All of the prison
ers were serving sentences for
burglary, larcency, or arson.
ICC Hearings Scheduled
To Start Next Week
Boulware HHS
Summer School
Finals Speaker
Dr. C. E. Boulware,' former
PTA president, will deliver the
main address when the summer
Commencement exercises of
Hillside High School are held
Friday evening, July 23, at 8
o’clock. Dr. Boulware is a pro
fessor of mathematics at North
Carolina College and a noted
civic worker.
Eighteen summer school gra
duates will receive diplomas
presented by L. Stacy Weaver,
superintendent of City Schools
at the services which will be
held outdoors in the bowl of the
school athletic field.
Invocation will be given by
the Rev. Samuel McCoy of the
Palmer Memorial Holiness
Church. Arnetta Benton, Ster
ling Gordon, and Barbara Lyon
will also be program partici-
DR. C. E. BOULWARE
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Hearings on a comprehensive
case concerned with compulsory
segregation in interstate trans
portation will be held by the In
terstate Commerce Commission
here on July 27.
The case, brought by the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement ,of Colored People,
deals with segregation of inter
state passengers by railroads,
railroad stations, and restau-
•ants in railroad stations.
The NAACP filed the com
plaint with the ICC last Dec.
14, asking that -after due hear
ing and investigation, an order
be issued commanding' the
railroad companies named in
the case "‘to cease their dis
criminatory praclices against
Negro passengers in violation of
their constitutional righls."
The railroads against which
the complaint is filed are the St.
Louis-San Francisco, Louisville
and Nashville, Southern, Saita
Te, Texas ai»i Pacific, Atiariw^
Coast Line, Missouri Pui w.
Seaboard Air Lines, i.ansa^
City Southern. Illinois !.
pants. Ushers for the evening
will be Reynolds Bates, Carolyn
Faucette, Shelton Herbin, James
Brown, Eugene Green, and Ida
Jones.
Officers of the graduating
class are John Pilgrim, presi
dent; Don Williams, vice-presi
dent; Alma Fogg, secretary; and I snd the Gulf, Mobile anl Ohio
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Warring Factions Of Sale
Bus Company Finally End
Four-Months Squabme
Grand Jury Indicts Two Men For
Murder; Old Case Revived
DR. DAVID D. JONES
Dr. David Jones
Finals Speaker
At Livingstone
SALISBURY
Dr. David D. Jones, president
of Bennett College in Greens
boro, will deliver the com
mencement address irt the 4th
the summer convocation to be
held at Livingstone College on
Friday, July 30 at 12:o’clock
noon. Nine seniors will receive
the Bachelor’s Degree. Dr. W.
J. Trent, president of Living
stone College, made the an
nouncement this week.
Dr. Jones, who is a member
of the Greensboro City School
Board, was recently awarded
the honorary degree of Doctor
of Laws by Syracuse University
at their 100th commencement.
During his 28 yestrs as President
of Bennett College, tremendous
strides have been made in the
progress of the college until to
day Bennett College Is consider
ed as one of the^ading institu
tions for womeii in America.
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L&wrence Jackson, defendant
in the fatal shooting of John W,
Penny on Fayetteville Street in
Durham last month, was indict
ed for murder this week.
The shooting occured while
Jackson was enroute to the First
Presbyterian Church with Mrs.
Penny riding in his car. A wild
chase after Jackson by Penny
covered several blocks of Dur
ham’s Hayti section prior to the
incident.
Also indicted this week on a
murder charge dating back
some 16 years, was Rudy Fau
cette who calmly gave himself
up last week after 'being
hiding since the pistol slaying
of Miss Hattie Patterson.
Police were astounded early
last week when Faucette walk
ed into the station and said,
“I’m Rudy Faucette, I kiUed a
woman here 16 years ago.” The
ancient files on the case had to
be retrieved from the unsolved
morgue before the ofl^cer
duty could believe his' ears,
Faucette’s excuse for coming
back to Durham was that he
had just gotten homesick. Fol
lowing the shooting in 1938, the
defendant left the city for_New
York via Greensboro. He held
'Jobs in several New Yprk, Ohio,
and Connecticut cities before
he met some people from Dur
ham who made his thoughts
turn toward home.
inks Donate
NAACP W
BLUEFIELD, W. Va
Climaxing the sixth annual
assembly of the Links, Inc. last
week, was the presentation of
checks totaling $26,850 to the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
representing life memberships
for the various local chapters
of the civic-minded national
women’s organization.
Presentation of the sum was
made by Mrs, Daisy Lampkins
whose proposal two years ago
to aid the NAACP through pur
chase of life memberships was
unanimously adopted by the
Links at their fourth annual
assembly in San Francisco.
On behalf of the Association
Roy Wilkins, administrator, and
Thurgood Marshall, special
counsel, accepted the generous
contribution to the NAACP
Fight for Freedom Fund.
The occasion was'•one of the
happiest of her life, Mrs. Lamp
kins said at the public meeting
attended by some 700 men and
women including 200 beautiful
ly gowned delegates from 44 of
the Link’s 58 chapters.
PROUD OF LINKS
“I am proud,” Mrs. Lamp
kins told the assembly, “that
the Links, Inc. had the vision
to appreciate the significance of
the NAACP and the courage ftS
undertake the project to sup-
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WINSTON
Mayor Marshall Kurfees of
Winston Salem figured greatly
in the settling of the Safe Bus
Company strike wiuch rendered
some 100 drivers idle for more
than four months and caused
Negroes of the city a marked
disadvantage in traveling to and
from their places of work and
ihopping.
Richard Perry, president of
the local transport union, Jolm
M. Adams, president of the Safa
Bus Company, and other offi
cials met with Mayor Kurfee*
last week and signed a contract
ending the disturbance which
stipulated that the drivers will
receive a raise in their hourly
wages and a boost will be made
in the minimum wage scale.
The Negro owned and opera
ted bus company which is re
puted to be the leading business
of its kind in the nation, serves
both white and Negro citizens of
Winston-Salem. The strike
which began March S, caused
numerous residents of the city
who relied on its services to
walk long distances, spend ex
cessive amounts of money and
time in getting to their respec
tive places of commerce.
In commenting on B(r. Kur
fees’ efforts in being the liason
between the company and its
workers, B4r. Adams said, “I
highly appreciate the hospitali
ty and cooperation shown by
Mr. Marshall Kurfees in tbeae
negotiations, along with our
own attorney, M. P. Sandridge,
who helped solve this problem-
whlch we could not solve our
selves. We are happy to restore
service to our riding public.
And we hope they will not be
deprived of this service again.”
Mr. Perry of the local CIO
Transport Workers Union
voiced his sentiments to tba
Mayor in a ' statement which
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