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VOLVBIE 31 — NUMBEB 45
DUBHABI, N. SATURDAY, MMS 1, ItSS
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Howard U. To Offer Ph.D In Chemistry
Charges $21,000
Taken By Officers
Of Elkdom
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Filing plainly labeled charges
of fraud against Slka Grand
Secretary William C.-Sueston
and the late J. Finley Wilson
arising out of the purchase of
the “John Brown Farm” at Har
per’s Ferry, West Va., Treavant
W. Anderson last week asked
Elks Trial Board action against
Hueston.
tAst December, Anderson
filed a suit in U.S. District
Court here against Hu«ston and
the estate of the late Mr. WU-
lon, charging them with malring
“iecr«t profits’’ of $21^9^ io
their sale of th» prop^y to the
Elks in 1940 for $30,000.
Buerton and the late Mr^
Wilson brotight the farm in
Decemebr 1948 for $9,000, An
derson says. Hleston told the
Slks it cost $28,000 says Ander
son.
. bl asUng for action against
Hueston by the EUss them
selves, Mr. Anderson also tossed
in a new wrinkle. He demanded
4u>t Perry W. Howard, Grand
Legal Advisor of the Elks, re
present tte Grand I>odge In the
effort to recover the $21,000
allegedly gotten from the Elks
by fraud, as Anderson charges.
Pointing out that Mr. Howard
is paid $238.88 a month salary
hy the Elks and also given
$2,000 a year for expenses of
his office at 613 F St., N.W.,
h»e, Anderson reminded Grand
Exalted Ruler Robert U. John
son of the fact that |4r. Howard
had served as defense counsel
for Mr. Hueston when Ander
son’s suit was hrard last Feb,
That suit was dismissed on
grounds that Anderson had not
ehausted his resources within
the Elks.
Anderson asked that the
Qrand liOdge Join him in this
new move as a co-complaint
against Mr. Hueston, saying
that if the Grand Lodge does
not Join as co-complainant^he
reserves the right to name the
Grand Lodge as a “co-defen
dant” in any future action aris*
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Jackson And
Waynick NCC
Finals Speakers
DURHAM
Dr. Joseph H. Jackson, presi
dent of the National Baptist
Convention and the Hon. Capus
M. Waynick, former ambassa
dor to Nicaragua, are the 19B5
comnjenc^nent speakers ,«t H.
C. CoU^e.
/
Dr. Alfonso Elder, president
of NCC, annoimced last night
that Dr. Jackson, -who is also
paMor of the Olivet Baptist
Church of Chicago, will give
the annual baccalaureate ser
mon on Sunday, May 29, at
3:30 p.m. in the Men’s Gymna
sium.
fi(r. Waynick, former career
man in state governmental ser
vices before entering the diplo
matic corps, will deliver the
finals address to some 340 can
didates for undergraduate, gra
duate and professional degrees
in the gymnasium at 11 ^.m. on
'Tuesday, May 31.
As in past years, a special
Commencement Committee has
made elaborate plans to enter
tain the parents, friends, and
relatives of the graduates. The
alumni will be guests of Presi
dent and Mrs. Alfonso Elder in
the pr^dent’s home at 1902
Fayetteville Street immediately
aftCT baccalaureate service.
Graduates, their families and
friends are among the .honorees
at thia annual'affair.
Dr. Jackson is a native of
Cohoama Cotmty, Mississippi.
He received the A.B. degree at
Jackson College, Jackson, Miss.,
the B. Th., from the same insti
tution; the B.D. degree from'
Colgate Rochester Divinity
School; the M>A. degree at
Creightin University, Omaha,
Nebraska, and an honorary D.D.
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Praddsnt
wmry oolueos
DR. OA
D. JONI8
OR. railR MABSHAIX KDRltAT
Piestitait, MSdical
Soeietjr o( the Ooonty
of New Turk
NEGRO-DOCIORS ADMIIIQ) TO
IHE N. C MEDICAL SOOEIY
PDWHURST
By a vote of 104-87 the North
Carolina Medical ac
cepted the recomx^diJnons of
a ftve-man con^ttee here
Tuesday to admit Wegrtk physi
cians to scientific m^bershlp
in the orgai^tion “for the
good of himianity.” Scientific
membership does not carry
with it ttie right to hold office
and participate in the social af
fairs of the society. What the
reaction of the Negro physi
cians will be remains to be seen,
seen.
The five-man committee waa
appointed five years ao to
study the matter of admitting
glegro physicians, and ilv re-
eomm«ndation came after much
ttiought and deliberation over
tite matter.
Said Dr. James P. Rousseau
of Winston-Salem, new presi
dent of the Society, “We acted
for the good of humanity. We
faced a question that had to be
solved. We could no longer
evade it and we did not. If by
our action last ni^t, we help,
one Negro physician to serve
humanity more effectively,
then our action was well worth
while.”
'Die question of admitting
Negroes was probably the most
momentous decision the society
has bad to make in ite history.
Prior to the vote the House of
Delegates adopted a resolution
censuring the Mecklenburg
County Medical Society for ad
mitting Negroes to membership
before the parent body had
settled the matter.
87-Year-Old School
Gets First Doctorate
Degree Since Founding
DR. PATTERSON, DR. NEWMAN
FINALSSPEAKERSATSHAWUNIV.
RALEIGH
Dr. William R. Strassner,
President of Shaw University
has announced the schedule of
Commencement Events as fol
lows:
Sunday, May 22, at 6:00 p.m.
the Annual Musical Concert
featuring the University Choral
Society, will be held in Green-
leaf Auditorium.
_ BstifcftlBUKeate Mrtiow
day afi:emoon, May 29, at 3:'
will formally open the Nine
tieth Commencement Sea.son at
the University. The annual ser
mon will be delivered by Dr.
Commencement Exercises are
to take place at Raleigh Me
morial Auditorium Monday af
ternoon, May 30, at 3:30 pjn..
Principals in and scene -of 82-1 caulaureate address at 4 p.m. on I which will begin at 10:30 a.m.,
nd commencement exercises to I Swida]/, May 29 in Annie Mar-\ Monday, May 30. Dr. David ‘t>.
bi held at Bennett College,! ner Pfeiffer Chapel and Dr. Jones, president of the college,
Greensboro, N. C., May 29-30.1 Murray will make the com- will preside on both occasions.
Dr. Scott will deliver the bac- mencement address at exercises
WHkins To Address
Mass Meeting Sun.
tist Seminary, Wake Forest.
Stewart A. Newman, Professor
of Theology, Southeastern Bap-
F. D. PATTERSON
and the address will be made by
Dr. Frederick D. Patterson,
President of the United Negro
College Fund, New York, N. Y.
Other final events include
Class Night Exercises to be held
Friday, May 27, at 8:00 p.m. in
Greenleaf Auditorium: the Uni
versity Dinner, Saturday, May
28, at 7:30, University Dinning
Hall; the President’s reception,
honoring graduating classes,
relatives, alumni and friends.
President’s home. East Campus,
Sunday, May 29, at 5:00 p.m.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
The Board of TVuatees of
Howard University, in its an-
niial spring meeting held at tlie
University on Tuesday, April
26th, authorized the Departr
ment of Chemistry to offer a
program of studies leading to
the degree of Doctor of Phi
losophy, beginning with the
school year, 1955-56.
This will be the first piogtam
at the University to after Ibe
Ph.D. degree in the sdiool’s 87-
year histoi^.
itew Medical SeHoot D*mt ,
Other actioh taken by the
trustees included the appoint
ment of Dr. Robert S. Jason,
A.B., Lincoln University, M.D.,
Howard Igiiversity, l^JJ. Uni
versity of Chicago, Professor
and Head of the Department at
Pathology, Howard University,
College of Medicine, as Dean of
the College of Medicine begin
ning May 1 1955. He will suc
ceed Dr. Joseph L. Johnson,
whose term of office as Dean of
the CoUege of Medicine and ;is
Dean of the School of Medicine
was terminated effective April
30, 1955. Dr. Johnson continues
on indefinite tenure as a pro
fessor of pliysiology in tiie Col
lege of Medicine.'
CHARLOTTE
ROY WILKINS, Executive
Secretary, National Association
tor the Advancement of Colored
People will deliver the main
address at a special NAACP
Freedom Day Celdsration to be
held at 3:30 o’clock la the Me
morial Auditorium in Raleigh,
Sunday, May 8.
Another feature of the meet
ing will be a Memorial Service
for Walter White. The memorial
service message will be deliver
ed by the Reverend H. H. Little,
Professor of Practical Theology,
Hood Theological Seminary,
Llvlng^ne CoUege, Salisbury.
The Hcmorable Fred B.
Wheeler, Mayor of Raleigh, will
welcome delegates. Wilkins will
be introduced by J. K. Wheeler,
President of tiie Mecli^fmics and
Farmers Bank, Durham, and
Carl DeVane, Professor of So
ciology, Shaw University, Ra
leigh, will re^nd to the ad
dress.
Other partic^nta on the pro
gram will be the Reverend P.
H. Johnson, Pastor of Blartin
Street Baptist Church, Raleigh,
Street Baptist Church, Raleigh;
Secretary-N. C. State Confer
ence, Tarboro; The Reveraid J.
B. Funderburk, Chairman of
the State Conference Life
Membership Committee; Mrs.
Kttth H. Margux, Vice Preai-
KOY WILKINS
dent-N. C. State Conference; N.
L. Gregg-Treasurer-N. C. State
Conference; and Charles Mc
Lean, Assistant Field Secretary-
NAACP.
The Raleigh Interdenomina
tional Ministerial Alliance will
be represented by the Reverend
ym. A. Perry. Music will be
rendered by the St. James Bap
tist Church Gospel Choir of
Rocky Moimt, under the direc
tion of William T. Grimes.
The meeting will be presided
over by Kdly/ 1®. Alexander,
President of the N. C. State
Conference of NAACP Branch
Last Rites Heki
For Mrs. Lula
Goodtoe In S. C.
BEAUFORT, S. C.
Mrs. Lula Goodloe, resident
of Durham for more than seven
ty-five (75) years, died at the
home of her daughter, Mrs.
Robbie G. Wrii^t, 1015 Prince
Street, Beaufort, S. C., on Wed.
April 27. Mrs. Goodloe was a
loyal and faithful member of
White Rock Baptist Church
where she was quite active in
missionary work until illness
forced her to take up residence
with her daughter in Beaufort.
Funeral services were held at
the Tabernacle Baptist Church
in Beaufort Saturday, April 30,
at 2:00 P. M with the Rev.
Sharp officiating.
Mrs. Goodloe is survived by
one daughter, Mrs. Aobbie G.
Wright of Beaufort, two sons,
Reginald and Stephen Goodloe,
from Pennsylvania and New
York req>ectively three grand
children, and thi«e great-grand
children.
Raleigh To Be Host To
1. C. Elks Annual Meet
RALEIGH
Second Vice President JuUus
R. Haywood of the North Caro
lina Association Improved Be
nevolent Protective Order EUcj
of the World (IBPOEW), Ro
bert H. Jolmson, grand exalted
ruler, are co-operating whole
heartedly with the local Fideli
ty Elk Lodge in making exten
sive preparations to entertain
the .Bills, Daughters and visitors
during ttie week of May 15-19,
when the 35th annual conven
tion of the State Association of
IBPOEW meets here.
Battle And Smith Lead
The Reverend Kemp Mum
mer Battie, popular Baptist
minister of Rocky Mount, who
lias been president of the state
association for eight years,(,wil]
be leading his sixty-odd lodges
and temples with the able as-
sistence of Stete Daughter
President, Mrs. Letitia Smith of
Hickory, and her corps of offi
cers. Among other key officen
taking pirt will be Jack W.
Faison, first vice pr«xy, S. T.
Enloe, L. E. Reynolds, S. T.
Hooker, W. E. Davis, George
Moore, Rev. A. D. Mosely and
Rev. J. A. BSebane. Assisting Dt
Smith will be Dts. Nora E.
Bailey and Sadie Artist, vice
presidente; Loiora Baird, sec
retary, Evelyn Adams, direc
tress of public relations, Mattie
Collins, Rhoewen Brown and
Lucy Dunn.
Parade Highlight
From the standpoint of the
public interest, the chief at
traction of an Elks convention
is alwaqs Qie spectecular and
colorful parade which to usual
ly steged on Wednesday after
noon of the convention week.
This includes EUcs marching
units, drtun and bugle co^|)s and
high school bands representing
various lodges, augmented with
gayl^ decorated floats and
prancing majorettes galore.
Sunday afternoon, the Daughter
RTics will present a pageant fol
lowing the memorial services.
Various social events will high
light the week's program, not
the least of which will be the
annual ball and the oratorical
contest of high s^ool youths
vying for the clwnce to compete
for the regional Oks $1000
scholar^p given to the top
orator of the southeast. M
Marie Terry of Rocky Mount, ia
now studying at N. C. CoU^e
on such a scholarship. A na«r
popular make automobile wlU
be given to a person holding a
ludtjr ticket the last nifht of
the conventloii, tt ia ^ted.
Grand Officers Here
In addition to Grand Exal
ted Ruler, R. H. Johnson of
Philadelphiai, otlier national of
ficers expected include Grand
rtoitghtor Ruler Nettie C. Jack
son. New York; CivU Uberties
Director Hobson R. Reynolds,
Phila.; Judge W. C. Heuston,
Grand Secretafy, Dee Cee and
Dr. J. W. Jones, Elisabeth City,
N. C., assistant health director
of the southern regi«. Elks
nWfialii from neighboring
states are also expected.
Unlike 1954, no "fireworks
of note are expected since this
is not presidential election year.
There will, however, be the
usual “Mramble” among the
lesser officials for tevored po
sitions. Preeident Battle is a-
pected to revamp his rnntm
state program in (»der to |et
all departments ftinctioaing eo-
cqperativaly.
A Votelett
Ifeople It
A Hopeless
People!