Scenes At 34th Annual Session National Negro Insurance Association
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Mrst photo shows H. N. Brown of the Atlanta Life Insur-1 retary; J. D. Shackleford, Louisiana Life Insurance Com- i Third photo: N. H. Bennett, North Carolina Mutual l surance Company, New OfU
ance Company, Atlanta, Georgia; vice-president of the Tech- pany. New Orleans, La., and Mrs. Hazel Covington, North actuary reading a paper to the Medical Section. Seated is Executive Section; at rightBs:
j f ® “eeting of this group at the Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company. Second photo: iDr. H. L. Lang, medical director, Atlanta Life Insurance Life Insurance Company, N«
J4th sessira of NNIA. Others in the picture, from left to D. B. Martin, North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Com- Company, vice president of the section. cutive Section
right, are Mrs. Nannie H. Morris, Supreme Liberty Life, sec- I pany, presiding over the Agency Section. ) Fourth photo: left, Rudloph Moses, Keystone Life In-1
vice president of the
n J. Johnson, Peoples
secretary of the Ex-
vSKnoizi x«F*y vnr'*viu Ddtnvrs BiucidiK wno
was crowned “Mi^s Tar Heel” of 1954 here on Aug. 26 at the
second annual Bathing Beauty Contest staged by the Bull
City Sporting Club. Miss Farrish represented Sharpe’s Fu
neral Home of Roxboro. «
W THOMAS, FUHFLAMMK~
NABBED IN PETERSBURG, VA.
DANVILLE, VA.
Havert "Babe” Thomas, na
tionally known contact man for
the notorious Dr. “Pedro,” Flim-
flammer, was caught in Peters
burg, Va. last week, while at
tempting to pull another large
haul. Reports have linked the
group with operations in Vir
ginia, North Carolina and South
Carolina recently.
Headquarters for the film
ilammers are said to have been
in Richmond where plans had
been made to converge on the
tobdcco markets in the three
states. A mysterious long dis
tance call from Richmond to a
local resident was the tip off
that the group was planning
further operations In Virginia
and North Carolina.
The lure of the opening of the
Danville Tobacco Market had
convinced the ring to try Dan
ville again. However a local
resident had warned the group
that they were still very “hot"
here. Instead Reidsville, Dur
ham, and South Boston were
their next targets. Dr. Pedro,
iaid to be the brains of the out-
iit is still at large.
Thomas is a former > gospel
singer and at one time was em
ployed as an automobile sales
man in Danville. For several
years he was a member of a
3a'nville quartet and traveled
extensively wiy» It in this and
other states. j
Thomas and the mysterious
"Dr. Pedro,” who always man
ages to slip through the fingers
of the law is said to have opera-
'ad in New Jersey, North Caro
lina and other states. “Difj
I'edro is described as being a
: lightly built man of between
■ S and 40 years of age and
: bout five feet and 10 inches
uU. His weight ranges from
i bout 135 to 140 pounds. His
iiair is blaek and he wears a
cllghtly pointed moustache. He
dresses well and drivei a Ca-
.dillac sedan of recent model.
When ‘'Dr. Pedro” comes in
to a town he parks his Cadillac
and uses another car of lesser
attraction. Thomas always
makes the contact with the
victim. His operating devices
include several bags of counter
feit money, ink, chemicals, a
metal box and sheets of onion
skin paper cut the size of paper
money. The blank paper is
placed on top of each piece of
real money, furnished by the
victim, supposedly to have the
imprint transferred from it to
the blank piece of paper.
After this part of the opera
tion is completed thCj “Doctor”
then pretends to roll up the stack
of money and place it into the
metal box. He then explodes a
flash bulb in the container. The
victim is then told to not open
the box until after three hours,
the required time for the mak
ing process. It is during this
time that the “Doctor” makes
his get-away, after which the
victim belatedly discovers that
he only has on his hand play or
counterfeit money in exchange
See Danville, Page 8
DE-SEGREGATION BEGINS IN SOUTH
VOLUME 31—NUMBER 3ft
DURHAM, N.C., SA'f'URDAY, SEPT. 4, 1954
PRICE 10 CENTS
NEARLY 500 REGISTERED
AT NNIA CONVENTION
Approximately 500 del
egates had registered here at
Wednesday noon, September
1 for the 34th annual conven
tion of the National Negro In
surance Association, accord-
jing to W.jA. Clement, Chair-
the local steitfing com
mittee.
The convention opened
Tuesday morning at 9:30 with
meetings by the Executive,
Technicians, Agency and
Medical sections. The Execu
tive Section was presided
over soctional vico^presi- •
dent, Rudolph Moses, secre
tary, Keystone Life Insur
ance Company, New Orleans,
La. The Technicians Section
by sectional vice-president,
N. H. Brown of the Atlanta
Life insurance Company, At
lanta, Ga., the Agency Sec
tion by sectional vice-presi
dent, D. B. Martin, assistant
agency director, N. C. Mutual
Life Insurance Company and
the Medical Section by sec
tional vice-president, Dr. H.
L. iiang medical director, At
lanta Life Insurance Com
pany.
On Tuesday evening in the
B. N. Duke Auditorium at N.
C. College a public meeting
was held with W. J. Kennedy,
president, North Carolina
Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany, presiding in the place
of G. W. Cox, vice-president
and agency director. North
HAVERT THOMAS ,
Four of the outstanding personalities in the 34th annual
session of the National Negro Insurance Association meeting
here this week are well-known in business circles of the na
tion and state. Top left is J. G. Ish, Jr., chairman of the
Board; Top right, C. L. Townes, Sr., president; bottom left,
W. J. Kennedy, Jr., president of North Carolina Mutual Life
Insurance Company and bottom right, E. E. Hill, president of
the Winston Mutual Life Insurance Company. The North
Carolina Mutual and the Winston Mutual are co-hosts to the
annual meeting of the Association.
Ike And Prattis Feature
Public Meet Of NNIA
The two most outstanding
messages to the 34th session
of the National Negro Insur
ance Association were those
of President Eisenhower knd
P. L. Prattis of the Pitts
burgh Courier.
Following is the message of
the President:
“I am most happy to send
my warm best wishes to all
of you who are attending
the 34th annual convention
of the National Negro In
surance Association.'’
“All Americans must con
tinue to work for a country
in which the individual Is
allowed the greatest liberty
to build for himself a full
life, relieved of insecurity
Seelke, Page 8
P. L.PRATTIS
N.C. Law School
Rated "A" By
American Bar
North Carolina College’s Law
School became the nation’s first
state-supported Law School
with a predominantly Negro
enrollment to merit accredita
tion by the American Bar As
sociation last week.
Although enjoying provision
al approval since 1950, NCC
now Is now “fully approved.”
Only Howard University’s
Law School is in NCC’s class.
All other ABA schools are pri
marily white institutions.
Congratulations were pour
ing into NCC at a steady rate
over the week-end following
announcement of the ABA
action by NCC President Al
fonso Elder and Dr. Albert L.
Turner, dean of the Law unit.
A source at NCC said 15 ap
plications had been received in
mid-August with the probabili
ty that the nvunber would rise
to around 20 or 25 by registra
tion time later this month. NCC
law graduattes are now eligible
for bar exams anjrwhere In the
See Law School, Page 8
Carolina "Mutual Life Insur
ance Company, who is con
fined at Lincoln Hospital bn
account of illness.
See NNIA Convention, Page 8
3 Negro StudentslAdmitted
To High Schoolpn Raleigh
NEW YORK
When the school bell rings
next montlis, Negro and
white children wiU be shar
ing classrooms in a number of
Southern locahties where
strict school segregation form
erly was maintained by state
law, according to a survey of
the Southern school situation
being made by the NAACP.
With waiting for the Su
preme Court to issue decrees
implementing its decision
which held public school seg
regation to be unconstitution-
tional, some Southern locali
ties simply are integrating
their public schools at the be
ginning of the fall terms, the
Association’s survey shows.
Similar action has been taken
by several Southern colleges and
universities, as well as by some
private schools in the South.
The Supreme Court decision
banning segregated school? was
the result of cases brought to the
high judicial authority by the
NAACP.
Communities and cities lo^
cated in five Southern states
have annoiuiced public school
integration for next month, ac
cording to an incomplete tabula
tion still underway in NAACP
offices. These states are Wes*
Virginia, Missouri, Arkansc
Maryland and Delaware.
At Raleigh, N. C., non-segrega
tion on the high school level
went into effect at the Cathedral
Latin Catholic High School When
three Negro children enrolled in
the ninth grade. All were girls
and they registered and were ac
cepted. There was no undue in
cident and littlskif any reactions.
The names of the three students
were not available.
. See Desegregation. Page 8
t'MM
AND EDUCATION
Mil*
Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Companies !
stone unturned this week to assure the delegates and victors attending the 34tli
session of the National Negro Insurance Association meeting here every coBvenience. ^he
top photo shows the members of the registration and reception committees. Reading fnat
left to right, they are: Mesdames Lizzie Crews, Lena Lewis, Lucille Hancock, AraeUe
Robinson, Miss Geneva Chase, Kelly Bryant, Miss Betty Spurlock, Mrs. Etta HUl,
Virginia Southerland, Mesdames Lorraines Weaver and Mrs. Louise McCrea.
The center photo is that of the Esso booth under the supervision of Wendell P. Alktoa,
(left) and J. A. “Billboard” Jackson. At the bottom is shown two of the IBM repraiMatetivw
and E. R. Merrick, treasurer of North Carolina MutnaL The young lady at tke lalt la
Miss Sylvia Jones of New York City and at r ight is Miss AdrieBBe of SeHitwfy, N. C.
Extreme right is George W. Cox, Jr.