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Negro Teachers Will Be Protected Says Marshall
NAACP Attorney
Pledges Fight To
The Bitter End
The abowe photo wat taken
during a testimonial program
held at the YMCA BuMing in
Charlotte on May 29, honoring
A. E. Speart upon hi» retire
ment at a N. C. Mutual Life In
surance Company District man
ager after forty yeor* of faith
ful service. In the center is Mrs.
Spears, wife of the honoree and
at th« right i« W. J. Kennedy,
Jr., president of the company.
A. E. Spears Feted
On Retirement As
N. C M. Manager
, CHARLOTTB
PrMident W. J. Kennedy, Jr.
wai the principal speaker at the
testimonial reception honoring
A. S. Spears, Sr. upon retiring
from the company after 40
years of continuous service.
Spears . entered the service of
the company as an agent in
Che^aw, South Carolina and
has served as Special Ordinary
Manager, State Agent of North
Carolina and Manager of the
Charlotte District. The latter
pcaitioQ, he held from 1027
until April 1, 1955. In 1951 he
was elected to the Board of Di
rectors of the company and con
tinues to hold that position.
President Kennedy said of
Mr. Spears that his record of
integrity, loyalty and demon
strative ability places him
among the top ranking repre
sentatives of the company. He
referred to bis successful re
cord as Manager of the Char
lotte Diitrict, in that in 1927,
the total annual premium in
come of the District was $90,
000 and at the close of the year
19S4, the total premium income
01 the District was $41S|000.
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Cpl. James E. Pringle, son of
Mrs. Maggie Pringle of 518 E.
Enterprise Street who served
with the 7th Infantry Division
during the Korean War in 1951-
52, it now home on a forty-two
day leave. CIp. Pringle was
decorated during the Korean
War and has re-enlisted for ser
vice in Korea again. He will
sail for Korea on June 20. He is
the husband of Mrs. Dorothy
Pringle. The couple has two
sons, Mickey and Ricfcej/ Prin
gle.
VOLUME 31—NUMBER 48 DURHAM, NOBTH .CAROLINA, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1955 PRICE 10 CENTS
600 At Dedication
Program In Kinston
KINSTON
Before an - audience exceed
ing 600 people, Dr. Ellen Win
ston, Commissioner, N, C. State
Board of Public Welfare, de
livered the dedicatory address'
at the State Training School
for Negro Girls, near Kinston,
Sunday, May 22. From over 50
counties in North Carolina, the
states of Ohio, Virginia, Mary
land, New Jersey, Delaware,
and New York the audience
came in connection with a pro
gram to name buildings In
honor and memory of Dr.
Charlotte Hawkins Brown,
President Emerita, Palmer Me
morial Institute, Sadalia; the
late Senator end Governor J.
Melville Broughton, Miss Mae
D. Holmes, Superintendent ot
the Training School and the
members of the N. C. Federa
tion of Negro W6m«i’s Clubs.
Dr. Winston traced the his
torical development of the
Training School from its begin
ning at Elflan^ oVer 30 years
tribute to the contrilNttlons
made by the woiiien of liie N.
C. Federation of NegiO Wo
men’s Clubs in establkihlng,
operating and supportliif the
first, institution for deliDiuent
Negro girls in the StatH.
The best job is to »event
J.C Smith Finals
Set For June 1 In
Queen City
CHAHLOTTK
Ninety-six candidates fox
graduation at Johnson C. Smith
University are scheduled to
ceive their diplomas on Ji
The outdoor commenc
exercises will be held at
a.m. Dr. Donald A. S
minister of the Second Presby
terian Church, Chattanooga,
Tenn., will deliver the com
mencement address.
The baccalaureate services
will be held in the University
Church on Sunday afternoon.
May 29, at four o’clock. Rev.
Floyd Massey, Jr., minister of
the Pilgrim Baptist Chuxeh, St,..
Paul, Minq., wUl deUvf^'
The senior class day. exercises
will be held in Biddle Memorial
Hall on May 30 at two-thirty
in the afternoon. At eight
o’clock in the evening following
the class day program, a ban
quet wiU be given in honor ol
Mrs. Famie K. Spaulding who
deflnquency. The nixTTftOoff-^ ^
is to keep the childrOb ii the
community. However, II insti
tutional care is necessttf, chil
dren should be able to secure
the type of training ottered by
this institution," she advfsed the
group. Sl^pointed out that the
emphasisC'on training ) a self-
care in mills for horn* making
and jobs and inculculating of
Christian character is a basic
philosophy of the program at
this School.
“’There is something more
challenging to think about and
more marvelous to rejoice over
than new buildings. It is the
youAg glrls-every girl who is
.given an opportunity for de
velopment here to make her
way in a constructive manner
in the world tomorrow,” stated
C. A. Dillln, Chairman, State
Board of Correction and Train
ing, in his remarks.
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Pictwre'd here *» JuUua Tim-
berlake, son of ' Mrs. Litzis
Timberlake, who was wfe»««r of
the Chrand Prize, a tsIsvWow
'set, given by Speighet Auto
Serviai d»uH»g th* rtcent open
ing of their nerh Pwe Oil Sta
tion located at the comer of
Fayetteville and* Pettigrew
Streets. Pvt. Timberbtke is now
ferviMg in th« U. S. Army ofid
tMM th« gnmd pries here while
visiting his mother on a fur
lough. Mrs. Timberlafcs i* shown
vc^th her son who if being
congratulated by Theodore
Speight,, manager of the Pure
CMl Station.
one years of service.
The Board of Trustees will
meet at ten o’clock on Tuesday
morning, May 31. Rev. W. Eu
gene Houston of New York
City, President of the General
Alumni Association, announces
that the Executive Committee
and the Board of Directors of
the Association will also meet
at ten o’clock Tuesday morning.
May 31. The annual meeting of
the General Alumni Association
will get under way ai four
o’clock in the afternoon.
President and Mrs. Liston's
reception for the graduating
classes, alumni, parents and
friends will take place at seven-
thirty o’clock on the evening of
May 31. The speaker for this oc
casion will be Mrs. Dora R.
Humphrey of DaUls, N. C., sii-
pervisor of Gaston County
schools.
Reunions are scheduled for
the classes of 1905, 1915, 1925,
1930, 1935 and 1945.
91 Honored At
Shaw Award
Day Program
RALEIGH
Annual Awards Day was
jtield Friday, May 20, at Shaw
University and recognition was
given ninety-seven students for
outstanding participation in ex
tra-curricular activities. In
structors in each department
recoHunended the . students to
President W. R. Strassner who
presented the certificates and
tokens.
Nurse Sadie Eaton, awarded
Red Cross Home Nursing Cer
tificates to Doris Austin, a juni
or of Stradford, Conn.; Evange
line Dixon, a junion of Wil
mington; Sliirley B. T. Easter
ling, a Mnior of Newark, N. J.;
Helm E. Faster, a junior of
Statenburg; Lizzie Mae Gore, a
senior of Supply; Lucille GUI, a
junior of Rtdeigh;. Mae Ella
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Rev. H. A. Smith
Memorial Day
Speaker May 29
The Weaver McLean Post No
175, American legion, has se
lected the Reverend H. Albert
Smith, pastor of the First Bap
tist Church of Apex, and Man
aging Editor of the Carolina
Times, to deliver the Annual
Memorial Address in a special
service which will be held at
the Ebenezer Baptist Church on
Glenn Street, Sunday, May 29,
at 3:00 p.m.
The service is one of two
comprising the Annual Pro-
gram of the Weaver McLean
Post. The second service, billed
as Annual Memorial Service
No 2, win be held at Beechwood
Cemetery at 5:00 p.m.
The program wUl include a
selection by the Ebenezer Male
Chorus; Advancing of Colors, J.
Fred Pratt, Post Bugler; Solo,
Miss Ella Britton, and a poetic
■selection “In Flanders Field,”
by Miss Gloria Ann Evans.
Fallowing !the service, the
Legionaries, Ladies of the Aux
iliary, Spanish War Veterans,
World War II Veterans, and the
organization will reassemble at
the Pearsontown School for a
parade to Beechwood Cemetery
‘ To f»a^g’fesT
NEW YORK
The NAACP wUl give Negro
teachers who might facc tfa«
possibility of retaliation in the
process of segregation to de
segregation every lawful pro
tection that can possibl> be
worked out to fi^t for their
rights in the courts, legislatures
and the school boards, Thur-
good Marshall, director-counsel
of the NAACP Legal Defense
and Educational Fund, said
here tonight.
It might be. that some^Ni^ro
teachers wHl becoine unem
ployed as a result of the “stink
ing” practice of penalizing Ne
gro teachers for desegre^tion
pursuant to law, he said. "We
must guarantee to every Necro
teacher tiiat we wUl fight to
ttie bitter end with every law
ful weapon on hand to protect
him from being the victim of
this dying stab at continuing
ihe un-American practice of ra
cial segregation.”
Marshall spoJie at a dinner at
the Plaza Hotel given in cele
bration of the first anniversary
of the May 17, 1954 Supreme
Court decision outlawing segre
gation in public education, it
was sponsored by a group of
outstanding Americans with
Dr_ Ralph J. Bunche, UN un-
der-secre^ry and Nobel Peaca
Prize winner, and Dr. Buell G.
Gallagher, pr^^nt of the City
College ot New Yack, u co-
chainnan.
Pictured above is Mrs. Edythe
R. Tweedy, president of the
Rocky Mount Chapter of Delta
Sigma Theta Sorority, {On the
Left) presenting a sterling sil
ver bowl and bouquet of flow
ers to Miss Mae D. Holmes,
Superintendent, State Training
School for Girls, near Kinstov.
The bowl and flowers were a
gift of the Chapter of which
Miss Holmes is an active mem
ber. The affair was witnessed
by over 600 people who had
gathered at the State Training
School for Girls to honor Miss
Holmes and others by naming
buildings of the institution in
fheir honor. Dr. Ellen Winston,
Commissioner, Stqte Depart
ment of Welfare was the princi
pal speaker.
A&T College Trustees Score Rate
Difference In Nurse Training
GREENSBORO
The A and T College Trustee
Board, last week voted to take
steps to equalize the costs of
nurse trainmg at the college
with that of the University of
North Carolina.
At th! meeting held here at
the college on last Tuesday,
May 17, Chairman Charles A.
Hines was directed to appoint
a committee to Investigate after
Dr. F. D. Bluford, president of
the college, reported that it
costs $500 more at A and T
than at the university. Judge
Hinds said the “practice is dis
criminatory.”
The differential comes about
by the fact that nursing stu
dents attending the university
are paid an annual salary of
$500 while doing clinical prac
tice and work at the state sup
ported, North Caroliifa Memo
rial Hospital at^ Chapel Hill.
A and T College nursing stu
dents get their clinical work at
two private hospitals in Greens
boro, at the L. Richardson Me
morial and the Moses H. Cone
Memorial ' hospitals and no
salary is paid them.
Chairman Hinds appointed a
special committee cn the fol
lowing day headed by physi
cian member. Dr. Murray P.
Davis of Hlgji Point, to pro
ceed with getting some relief.
Other members included: Shel'
ley B. Caviness, Dr. W. L. T.
Miller and Robert H. Frazier,
all of Greensboro and AA Mori-
sey of Winston-Salem.
In other business, Dr. W. L.
T. Miller of Greensboro sug
gested that the trustee sub
committee studying the effect
of the U. S. Supreme Court de
cision against segregation
should consider eliminating the
word “Negro” from A and T's
charter. Miller said a “moral
difference” is Involved, adding
“I don’t think we should se
gregate ourselves and make this
an institution for Negroes
only.’l —
Hines said the subcommittee
woidd meet to discuss the sug
gestion.
At the annual meeting the
board of trustees re-elected the
following officers: Dr. Bluford,
president; E. R. Hodgin, busi
ness manager and secretary-
traesurer; Charles A. Hines,
board chairman, and Shelley B.
C^aviness of Greensboro, vice-
chairman of the board.
Other committees appointed
by the chairman included: (Fa
culty and Personnell) Robert
H. Frazier, Chairman, Charles
F. Carroll, Wade H. Paschal.
Or. Murray Davis and A H.
Brett. (Finances and Legisla
tion) SheUey B. Caveness,
Chairman, Henry A. Scott, E. R.
Merrick, George T. Ashford and
E. E. WaddeU.
(Buildings and Grounds) Dr.
Murray Davis, Chalmum,
George SockweU, A. A. Morrl-
sey, Shelley B. C^veness and
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U. S. Court Gets Briet Denouncing
Separationi)f Races On Buses
RICHMOND VA. — The South Carolina cjnitit .tio;i
was attacked today in a brief iiled with the_U. S. C^urt^
Appeals by lawyers for the NAACP Legal Defense and Edu
cational Fund.
The state laws providing for the separation of the races
in city and state buses is denounced as a violation of the 14th
Amendment to the Federal Ccmstitution and a denial of the
rights to which Negroes are entitled as American citizens.
The brief was filed in behalf, ordered her out of the seat and
of a Columbia, S. C., Negro
woman who was abused and
assaulted by a white bus driver
and who brought a $25,000
damage suit against the owner
of the bus lines. The case was
dismissed by the U. S. District
Court.'
South Carolina statutes pro
vides for the segregation of the
races on motor vehicles in both
city and intrastate carriers and
empowers bus drivers or opera
tors with special police authori
ty to arrest persons who vio
late the bus segregation laws.
These statutes also impose a
fine of $5 to $25 on passengers
who violate the law, and a fine
of $50 to $250 on carriers which
fail to enforce H.
The woman, Mrs. Sarah Mae
Fleming, brought the suit
against the South Carolina
Electric and Gas Co. to recover
damages restilting from being
ejected from the bus and a blow
she received in the abdomen
when struck by the driver.
The incident took place June
22, 1954, when Mrs. Fleming
boarded a crowded bus and was
compelled to stand near the
front door and behind the dri
ver. While the majority of the
passengers were Negroes, no
white person was standing.
At the next block, a white
person got off, leaving a seat
vacant where ■ she was standing
and behind the driver. Mrs.
Flemming took the seat which
was place in front of several
white passengers.
Immediately, the bus driver
into the rear in loud, abusive
and threatening language and
tone. When he repeated the Ol
der, she became frightened and
feared further humiliation and
possibly txMlily harm. %e left
the seat.
When the bus stopped at the
next comer, she attempted tu
follow a white passenger out
of the front door. The driver
ordered her to ic?ave by the re^.-
door and strucx her in t::;;
stomach to furtlier force her lO
obey his order.
Suit Dismissed By District
Court
The $25,000 damage suit was
dismissed by the U. S. District
Court for the Eastern District of
South Carolina. Attorney tor
Mrs. Fleming in the trial court,
Philip Wittent>erg of Columbia,
argued that she was denied her
constitutional right when the
driver refused to let her ^t
where she plrased and leave
from ihe same exit as other
passengers. He based his con
tention on the May 17, 1954 de
cision in the school segregation
cases.
The Court, in dismissing the
action, said that “one’s educa
tion and personality is not de
veloped on a city bus,” and to
hold that the school segrega
tion decision “extended to the
^eld of public tramqiortation
would be an unwarranted en
largement oi the doctrine an
nounced in that decision and an
unreasonable restriction on the
police power of the state.
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THOUSANDS MOURN PASSING
OF NOTED NEGRO EDUCATOR
DAYTONA BEACH. FLA.
The last rites for Dr. Mary
McLeod Bethune were held in
the chapel of Bethune-Cook-
man College here, Monday at
3:00 PM, Priw to tttnenl
ceremony hundreds viewed th*
Nmalns of what muiy tmoii
was the greatest woaaMi ot
(PleM* Tiara 'n> tem