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DURHAM, N. SATUBDAlr, JAN. 8, 19S5
Says Moral Re-Armament Bringing All Kaces^ Classes Togelhe
Spring Hope
14-Year-Old Lad
Shot When He
Refuses To Play
'k if if
WmSTON-SALEM
Westley Clowers, a 14-year-old
lad, was shot here this week by
a 16-year-old youth infuriated
when he was rebuffed as he
tried to “join” a basketball game
in wliich he did not belong.
The assailaint of young Clow
ers shot him when he refused to
throw the ball to him, according
poUpe reports, with a .82
fere revolver. The slug enter
ed CKNrei’a.^^ ^^8 about four
inche sabov th« knee and lodged
in th knee.
Clowers was taken by a teach-
er, S. L. Humphrey, to the Kate
Bitting Reynolds Memorial Hos
pital, where be is said to be in
a satisfactory condition.
the shootkig took place at 2:0O
p. m. on the Columbia Beights
school playground during a phy
sical education class, and was
done by William Reyn«dd Little
who had been expelled the
school on two occasion. At the
age of 18, (little quit icl^l al
together. /
A tew Alnutes after ^the in
cident occured. Little who had
left the scene was taken into
custody by Patrolman B. R.
Bovender at Fourth and Cleve
land Avenue, He surrendered
meekly.
Police questioned Clowers at
the hospital and he told them
tliat Little had come to the
school grounds and tried to join
in the basketball game.
“Throw me that ball,” Little
ordered. But Clowers said he re
fused whereupon the older lad
pulled a pistol from his belt and
shot him.
Questioned by the police. Lit
tle told them that he had taken
tile gun, which belonged to his
father, the B«v. Dennis Little,
out of a wardrobe at his home,
and carried it to the school
grounds.
Little ia now in jail, being
held in lieu of $500 bond, wait
ing trial on a charge of assault
with a deadly weapon.
OMEGAS HOLD
ANNUAL MEET
IN ATLANTA
ATLANTA, Ga.
The Omega Psi Phi Frater
nity, Inc. closed its 41st Grand
Conclave here Thursday by cal
ling for “full integration of edu
cation in all areas.”
In a clearly defined resolu
tion, delegates to the Conclave
voted that the Fraternity should
go on record in supporting the
position of the National Associ
ation for the Advancement of
Colored^eople, asking tor
segregation in educatfiMi.
In addition to tal^g a stand
-against segregation fn American
life, the Fraternity called on all
of its members “everywhere to
lend full support to the propos
ed program.”
It was also voted by the dele
gation that the 42nd Grand Con
clave should be held in Los An
geles, California in August of
.1955.
Deemphasizing much of its
social program, the Fraternity
went on r^ord almost at the
beginning oil the Conclave here
Wednesday by striking at "some
of the vital issues” in American
life as they affect Negroes and
other tnlnority groups..
The status of the Negro in
America and some of the impli
cations back of social change
were aired Wednesday in
workshop, presented by the Fra
ternity.
A group of panelists, com
posed some of the top leaders
in education, business and pro
fessional Ufe discussed the pro
gram of education, fair employ
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USI RITES HELD FORPtOFESSOR
C. I. WLUS M WHITE ROCK
BAPTIST CHURCH ON JANUARY i
Prof. C. T. Willis, 66, one of
the'Hation’i pioneers In business
education among Negroes, died
here December 31 after a
month's iUnesa described as a
heart condition. He was critical
ly stricken late Thursday and
died at 2:45 a. m. Friday at Lin
coln Hospital. Interment was at
BeechwOod Cemetery.
At the funeral services at
White Rock Baptist Church on
January 3, Dr. Joseph H. Taylor,
clialrman of NCC’s Social Sci
ence Department, read resoul-
tiona proposing a special “C. T.
Willis Scholarship in C^-
merce.” Another i»rt of the re
solution called for special free
tuition scholarships to Willis’
two sons, Carroll T. Willis, Js.,
17, and his younger son, Robert
Alxander WilUs, aged 15 months.
The NCC S*olarshlp Committee
is understood to have approved
both parts of the proposal.
Prior to hla and-dead
Prof. Earl W. Phillips and other
members of the college’s Com
merce facult had proposed that
NCC’s new |600,000 Commerce
Building bear Willis’ name.
The college’s 'teuitesii would
WILLIS
have to approve the proposal to
name the building for Willis.
In addition to his two sona,
Willis is survived by his wife,
the former Miss Virginia Saxon
of Kinston; two brothers, Fred
and Martini Willis of New Hav
en, Conn.; two sisteni. Miss lola
WilUs and Mrs. Zth^ Brows,
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Run Wild
White Youths ^at
Negroes With Hammer
. HctareJfCn«FMn 23^. tQ^e cAcutive officers of the bank
and Fanciers Bank In attendance at a gala Christmas part; the affair was atloifeffiliylii majinity t)f ni tkm:
given in" the Jade Room of the Do-Nut Shop here on I bank’s board of dir(Krtors.
40 Nations Represented At
MRA Meeting In Wasliington
DECEMBER
Labor and management, fa
ther and son, black and white.
Communist and capitalist
brought the World Assembly
for Moral Re-Armament to ita
feet again and again last Thurs
day morning as they told how
they had "found something
greater to fight for than their
own self-interest.”
Germany and France were
there, demonstrating what CJer-
many’s Heinrich Hellwegttr
Cabinet Minister for Upper
House Affairs, in a message of
gratitude to Dr. Frank Durham,
called “MRA’s destiny in 1955-
to make practical for the world
the idea ot real unity.
“To win the ideological strug
gle against Con^unist de
mands that we be trained in
the four absolute moral stand-
etrds,” Hellwege declared.
“Otherwise we shall ourselves
be swept away by the material
ism ot our age.”
The audience of more than
500 from 40 nations heard two
former CommUnist miners, Max
Bladeck, who was 26 years in
the German Communist Party,
and Francis Smitneman, former
Commimist youth leader in the
British coal fieldi. They told
how they had seen in MRA an
ideology above class, race and
national divisions which can
unite the woi;ld.”
Bladeck said that the {Com
munists “are strongfer bwause
to military armament they^dd
an idea.” He pointed out that
they are “out to exploit each
problem in the world to ad
vance their ideology-race, class,
religious differences, national
conflicts and labor-manage-
ment strife.”
Bladeck pointed out that as a
result of MRA the Communist
representation on the works
councltB of the Ruhr had drop
ped from 72 percent to 16 per
cent. The fiery German miner
emphasized that he fought for
Communism because “I saw no
better idea in the democracies.
W« must have an idea that can
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DR. H. S. DAVIS HEAD OF MARY
POHER HIGH SCHOOL RESIGNS
POST ON ACCOUNT OF HEALTH
Rivera To Speak
On Segregation
At NCC Monday
ALEX BIVEBA
A. M. Rivera, veteran repor
ter for the Pittsburgh Courier,
will be featured speaker for the
Adult Education Discussion
Group In its bi-weekly meeting
next Monday night at the James
E. Shepard Memorial Library
of North Carolina College.
Mr. Rivera, who has just rC'
turned from a 9,000 mile tour of
the South sampling opinion on
the public school desegregation
issue, will report his findings
and reflections in the Monday
night meeting.
The young journalist was
member of a Courier team
wliich visited twelve Southern
states and talked with over a
thousand people on the desegre-
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(Special To The Times)
OXFORD
Announcement was made
here Wednesday of the resigna
tion of Rev* H. S. Davis as Prin
cipal of Mary Potter Memorial
School of this city. Although
the well-known and popular
Presbyterian minister, arid edu
cator has been ill since October,
no advance knoiwledge of his
resignation had been circulated
and the announcement came as
a distant surprise to his many
friends and admirers.
Rev. Davis came to Mary
Potter in 1921 as the assistant
of the late Dr. G. .C. Shaw, who
was at that time the jschool’s
president. He served in that ca
pacity until 1927 when he was
called to Fayetteville as pas
tor of the Presbyterian Church
in that city. He remained there
until 1933 when Dr. Shaw suc
ceeded in getting iiim to return
to Mary Potter.
Upon the retirement of Dr.
Shaw he was chosen president
of Mary Potter, which position
he held continuously until his
resignation.
In addition to having had a
most successful career as presi
dent of Mary Potter, Rev. Davis
has done graduate ,work at
Northwestern University. In
1948 the Board of National Mis
sions of the Presbyterian
Church in the USA awarded
him .a ..certificate of service.
Just who will succeed Rev.,
Davis as head of Mary Potter,
which is now operated as a city
public school, is not known,
since the Board of Education
has not yet had time to consider
a successor.
League Honors
Mrs.CallieDaye
And T. R. Speight
Durham’s top honors for 1954
were awarded to Mrs. Callie
Daye and T. R. Speight here, this
week by the Housewives’ Lea
gue.
Speight is chairman of the
board of directors of the Dur-
(Special To Tlie
Carolina Times)
SPRING HOPE
When every other city and
community in the state was at-
temting^to celebrate Christmas
day in the spirit of Him who
taught mankind to love one an
other, terror and lawlessness, the
kind that attends mob violence
and gansterism, struck the Ne
gro citizens of this nnall east-
rn North Carolina town like a
hurricance. As a result of vicious
attacks made on several Negro
citizens, three teen-age wliite
youths have been arrested under
a charge of assault with a deadly
weapon on at least one Negro,
Wiley High, 26. They are be
lieved to have attack^ several
other Nbffaca.^ the same day.
The three youtlis EaVernUfiJseen
released under lx>nd.
According to information
furnished the Carolina Times,
High was walking down highway
581, about one mile from Spring
Hope, with two other perwns
Ciiristmas day when the tMRe,
JUkina Mumyk Kennet^ Mur
ray dind ®. B. Murray dt-ortf «p
in a car,'Vliich siddded before it
stopped, and called High over to
it from the other side of the
road.
When he arrived at the car
the driver got out brandishing a
knife aad asked what, he (HighI
had said. High replied, “noth
ing.” The driver then'said, “its
no need to get your knife out.”
The two other occupants of the
car then jumped out and cme of
tliem struck High full in the face
with a iiammer inflictiag aerious
injuries in the region of hia
mouth.
Examinations by a physician
disclosed tiiat tiie victim of the
attack had three teeth in the
upper region of iiis mouth knock
ed out with another being in
bedded in the roof. The blow so
t>adly injured the Jawbone, gums
and lips at High tiiat many
stitches were required to cl»se
the wounds. Although be
been allowed to leave ttu» lioa-
pital, he has made seven or eight
return tripa, up to yesterdiqr, to
nave tiis wounds dressed «na
otserved. A hearing in the case
nas been set for Monday,- Jan
uary 17, but since it ia a idony
it is exected tliat probable cause
will be found and it will Ise
to the next term of.
•superior
A late investig£.tion diaelosed
that one of the bogr*, K. B. Mur
ray, aliaa “Babbit” liaa a ioog
court record havMg pre-
viooaljr charged with bit and
ran. asHiult with a dmjUy wea
pon, driving on the wrong soie
of the road, wrecldess driving,
driving after license was revok
ed and displaying false license.
In addition to tiiis attaclc,
another Negro, Jesse Silver, re
sult of Spring Hope,„ npots
that he was attacked by three
white youths on the sanae day
when he protested them ttacoW-
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EM^CIPATION SPEAKER-
DR. BROWN, NOTED RICHMOND
HINISTER, SAYS OLD ORDER
IS PASSING IN THE SOUTH'
THEODOBE SPEIGHT
ham Business and Professional
Chain. Mrs. Daye is retiring
president of the Housewives’
League. Speight and Mrs. Daye
were among the honorees at the
Housewives League’s annual
New Year’s party held at the
W. D. Hill Recreation Center
here Monday night.
Mrs. Magnolia Leake present
ed Speight with the Housewives
League’s “Annual Man-of-the-
Year Achievement Trophy.” Mrs.
Clara Stroud presented Mrs.
Daye with a handsome i^ece of
Samsonite luggage for her dU-
tinguished leadership as BL
president for seven years.
D. F. Reed served as mast» of
ceremonies.
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By H. ALBERT SMITH
Overcast skies and rain did
not keep people away from the
West Durham Baptist Church
last Saturday morning when an
Emancipation Day Service cele
brating ninety-two years of
freedom for Negroes in this
country was held. In fact, every
seat in the church was taken,
and many persons had to stand.
Neither did the gloom out of
doors nor the dampness affect
the temper of the crowd; for
they were a bappy jovial assem
blage and apparently were
deeply appreciative of ^e spirit
and significance of the occasion.
It is probable that the me
mories of two previous appear
ances of the speaker. Dr. A. W.
Brown, pastor of the historic
sixth Mount Zion Church of
Richmond, Virginia constituted
the magnet that drew tlie over
flowing crowd. For those who
heard him in those Emancipa
tion Day addresses could not
help but recall him as an elo
quent orator, an inspirational
speaker who stirs his audience.
It was just this the noted
Richmond minister did at the
West Durham Baptist- Church
last Saturday as he on
the subject "The Passing of the
Old Order.” He acknowledged
his indebtedness to the Book of
Revelation for his subject- as he
quoted the words: “I saw a new
heaven and a new earth; tor the
first heaven and the fij^.earttit
were passed away; and ttaore
was no more sea.'
He reqoinded the
tion that he was not
but sim]^ talking "
: board.” e
As he told his hearers that the
old order is passing and a new
day is at hand. Dr. Brown said
that “we are living in a leader
less world.” He explained that
“we do not have a leader capa
ble of solving the problem of
the present time." He was of the
opinion that our need reqoliea
a leader with a heavcA-be-
queathed visioa and instrocifam
from God.
In discussing the inadequacy
of the present world leattorship,
the speaker said that two World
Wars in a* generation clearly
.show that, cot to mention tl»
present crisis which he reforred
to by saying; “The world is
fai^ig its greatest crisis ^ this
hour.”
Dr. Brown in referring to the
type of leadership we Med
spoke of Elijah who had not
only the knowledge as to what
his generation needed, but had
the courage to tell King Ahab
that he was the source oi tbc
trouble in Israel. We need lead
ers like that »icient ^ragkat
“who broke all tbe “aceqptad
rales of procedure in poUtlMi
statwnanship.”
“Four essentials matt be
braced to save us in this cxisla,’*
the speaker said.
(1) “We most beetmte ciaaa Mte*
dents ot current eifteta. (t) Vk
must keep our fingers on tha
pulsa d the world. (S) We wual
know world trwads, and (4),
knowing them, w« must be aMs
to ebo|> our way oat of the eaa-
toiton el the ptaaaat baur.**
'Ae qMaker tngaiadad ttet la
meet the demand ot Hm dtang*
ing social at%, Ifagn ^
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