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Last Rites Held For Bishop D. 0. Waliier In Kansas City
Bishops Reid
And Nichols At
Missionary Meet
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Early arrlvers tor the Third
Quadrennial Convention of the
Women’s Missionary Society ol
the African Methodist Episco
pal Church began gathering in
Washington this week for their
six-day parley, which begins
Saturday, July 9.
They are the first of some
3,000 women from A.M.E.
Churches throughout the world
who will meet here next week.
Meetings are scheduled for
Metropolitan A.M.E. Church,
16th |Qd M Streets, nw, and
Turner' A.M.S. Church, Sixth
and Eye Streets, nw. Special
convention programs will
held at Uline Arena, Third and
M Streets, ne, and Griffith Sta
dium, Georgia and Florida
Avenues, nw.
Heading the group, which is
believed to be the oldest or
ganization of Negro women in
the United States, will b* Mrs.
Anne Heath, of Philadelphia,
W.M.S. president, and Bishops
D. Ward Nichols, of New York
City, and Frank M. Reid, of
Columbia, S. C. Bishops ^ Nic
hols and R^d are currently
presiding over the Second
Episcopal District which com
prises Maryland, Virginia,
North Carolna, and the Dis
trict of Columbia. The Dis
trict will serve as convration
host.
The convention program in
cludes meetings of the group
board of directors and execu
tive committee on Saturday, a
formal opening ceronony at
Uline Arena Sunday at 3:30
p.m., and business sessions
which begin Monday morning
at Metropolitan Church. Other
program features include a se
ries of eight workshops^ de
voted to the convention theme,
“Seeking Christ Amid World
Tensions,” and two pageants.
(Pleaae turn to Page Eight)
rOBT LYAPTBY. Freneh
Moroeoo (FHTNC) —- Mwrlne
CpI. James B. Htauai, » mem
ber o ftbe Marine Corps Se-
enrtty Fotee at the Naval Air
Facility bere, reeeived the
Good Coadaot Medal In April.
HI* Company Commander,
Capt Doogal B. Oanwron,
makes the presentation.
Hines Is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Jamas W. Staw of «U.
Mangam Avenae, High Point,
and hnbanA of Blrs.,Barhara
J. Hlnea of High Feint.
Before entering the serrlee
In March 19SB he attended
Trinity High School, Trinity,
N.C., and was employed hj
the Baltimore Constmetion
Company, Baltimore, Md.
me Commandant of the
Marine Corps issues the Good
Condnet Medal to only those
Marines who have demon
strated the highest achieve-
In Qonted.iflifr VMp
flefeney In rank tlironghont a
continnoos three year aetive
duty period.
ThreeNCCCoeds
In Friends'
Summer Project
Three North Carolina Col
lege coeds, the Misses Ernes
tine James, Sliirley Cannon,
and Amee Dupree, are parti
cipating in some of the Ameri
can Friends Service Commit
tee's Summer Projects in va
rious parts of the United
StatM.
Miss James, rising senior
from Camden, S. C., Is In Saint
Charles, Illinois. She is the
daughter of Mr, and Mrs. S.
W. James, 1726 N. Campbell
St., Camden.
Miss Florence Amce Dupree,
“Miss NCC of 1055" and a
magna cum laude graduate in
home economics, is in Rich
mond, Va. Her parents are the
Rev. and Mrs. H. D. Dupree,
71B North Main Street, Sum
ter, S. C.
M)ss Shirley Elayne Cannon,
dau^ter of Mr. and Mrs. John
Cannon, 43 Madison Avenue,
Asheville, N. C., is at a
Friends project in Maine.
Doris ftagland, South
Soston, Va. rising senior
president-elect of the' college's
YWCA, is currently enrolled
at NCC’s Summer Session. She
is actively planning tiie Y pro
gram for the coming school
ym.
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FOBT LYAUTBY, French
Morocco (FHTNO) — Marine
Cpl. Ervin L. Watts, a mem
ber of the Marine Corps 8e-
oority^oroe at lhe Naval Air
FaeiU^ here, receives the
Good Conduct Medal In April.
His Company Commander,
Capt Doogal H. Cameron,
makes the presentation.
Watts Is the son of Mis. Blary
S. Woods of Bovte 6, States-
vlUo.
Before entering the serviee
in April 1952 he attended
Unity High School.
The Commandant of the
Marine Corps Issues the Good
Condnet Medal to only thnw
Marines who have demon
strated the highest of achieve
ments In condnct and profi
ciency in rank tluoaghont a
contlnuons three year active
dnty period.
Marshall, Davis, Bond To Address
Annual ATA Conference in Texas
MONTGOMKRY ,ALA.
Delegates to the 62nd (1988)
annual convention of the Amer
ican Teachers Association, which
meets at Texas-Southern Unlv-
verslty In Houston on Sunday,
Sunday, Tuesday, July 24-25-20,
will hear three outstanding
speakers at the three respective
evening programs.
For the opening pnblio pro
gram at fivo o’elook on Son*
day afternoon, Joly M, Attor
ney Thnrgood Marshall of the
NAAOP Legal Defense and
Education Fond, Inc. will de
liver the keynote address on
the eeavMitien tlieme. . ."Ihe
BeKiUaat Task." From his
vantage point. Attorney Mar-
shall will interpret the im-
pUcations and dltterentlatod
tasks which dtisens and teach,
•rs new faeo as « resolt of the
second Supremo Oovt Pro-
nouneemant of May 11.
For the public program at
eight o’clock on Monday night,
July 28, Dr. John'Warren Dav
is will suggest the role of teach
ers and of professional organi
zations in the expanding scope of
education in our nation and our
worid. Or. Davis is a past presi
dent of ATA and has also served
NEA in several major capaci
ties. He had a distin jiish«id ca
reer as president of^The West
Virginia State College before
his more recent service as ad
ministrator for the U. S. Point
Four program in Uberla. Dr.
Davis is now engaged in several
areas of special consultative ser
vice which include the National
Science Foundation and The
Teacher-Security Project of ttie
NAACP Iegal Defense and Edu
cation Fund.
For the climaxing i^en pro-
gram-banqnet on Tuesday
night. Inly 26, Dr. Horace
Mann Itend, preidldent of Un-
(Plaaso turo to Pago Sight)
Federal Court Orders School Doors
Open For Race Students In Ala.
Russians Won't
Live With Race
In United States
'SCalvin’s News Serviee)
WASHINGTON
A Uving example of Just how
much Russian Communists are
fond of the American Ne
gro came to light this week
when an apartment building at
3510 13th Street, N W — for
many yeaft tenanted Iqr Russian
families was “turned over” to
Negroes. The Russians ({uickly
moved out.
Up until a month ago, owik.
era of the bnildlng Gliailcs
Baron had 13 onlte oeenpied
by Bnsslans and tho ronain-
ing five by white Amwricans.
With the rest of the aeigh>
borbood going Negro — Baron
- peMho sIgB “For
his lawn. “Baron noted tiut
right away the Bnsslan ten
ants began giving notiees of
moving. Two Negro families
moved in two weeks ago with
seven more Just coming In.
However, eleven of the Bns-
sians have been gone and the
last two are exp^ed to go in
a few days. The white Amer
ican are still In the bnUdlng.
Commented Baron: “They are
always talking about Americans.
Their propaganda is that the
American people are oppressing
the colored people. But after the
colored people began to move
in . . . .”
At the Soviet Embassy, the
press attache claimed ho did
not know anything abont the
families in the 18th Street
apartment.
Bars U. S. Funds
For Aid To J. C
National Guards'
WASHINGTON
In view of the current con
troversy over segregation and
discrimination in the Nation
al Guard, Congressman Char
les C. Diggs, Jr. (D.-Mich.)
last week asked Secretary of
the Army Robert T. Stevens
for clarification of the pro-
K>sed basic training course
'or 12,000 Guardsmen, which
is to begin July 1.
A copy of the telegram to
Secreta^ Stevens was sent to
Secretary Designate of the
Army Wilber Brucker be
cause, the Congressman said,
in the interim before the Sec
retary Designate takes office,
he felt he ou^t be apprised of
any proposals to change
poucy of his department.
The full text of Congress
man Diggs’ telegrams res^l as
follows:
“Honorable Bobert T. Stevens
Seeretary of tho Army
Department of the Anny
The Pentagon
Wadiington, D. C.
“We have noted an official
annonneement of a program
beginning Jnly 1, 195S i»o-
vidlng for IS.Itt National
Onard troops eaeh year to tako
basle training at active army
installationa. The annomee-
ment Indicates that these Na
tional Onard enlisted men win
be Integrated with other traln-
(Continued from Page One)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.
Hie University of Alabama
was ordered last week by a fed
eral court to admit two Negro
students it had refused admit
tance three years ago because
of their race.
The case is the first to reach
the federal courts since the
Supreme Court issued . its re
cent Itlay 31 implementation
decree ordering “prompt'' de
segregation in the five school
segregation cases.
Federal Judge Hobart
Grooms, in issuing the order
to restrain the University from
refusing to admit the students
because of race, declared that
'‘this case places grave re
sponsibility upon this court.”
But that the court is bound by
the U. S. Supreme Court de
cision to' issue die order.
However, the judge reserved
decision on the question of
whether the suit applied to all
Negroes in Alabama who
might seek admission to the
Diversity.
The suit was brought against
the Universitjr of Alabama by
two young Negro women, Au-
therine J. Lucy and Polly Ann
Myers, in September 1953.
They sought courses in jour
nalism and library science and
had reeeived letters of wel
come from the president of the
University. Letters of welcome
had also been sent to them by
the Dean of Women who had
assigned the two students to
rooms in the Adams-Parker
dormitory.
However, when on Septem
ber 20, 1952, they presented
themselves in person to the
office of the dean to complete
their registration, the dean
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J. H. Wheeler, chairman of
a joint committee of the Dur
ham Branch of the NAACP,
the ITurhom Committee on
Negro Affairs and the Durham
Ministerial Alliance, that will
appear before the City Board
of Education on Monday July
11 to discuss the question of in
tegration in the public schools
of Durham with other mem
bers of the Committee. Wheel
er is president of the Mechan
ics and Farmers Bank, and na-
tUmuHv kmmm business,
ligious and fraternal circles.
250,000 Negro
Voters For
North Carolina
6yl9S6
A VOTELESS PEOPLE
IS A HOPELESS
PEOPLE.
Noted Prelate To
Be Buried At
Wilberforce, Ohio
REAL ESTATE
MEET SET FOR
NCC JULY 23
The Commerce Department
at North Carolina College will
be host to the Third Annual
Meeting of the North Carolina
Real Estate and Builders As
sociation in Durham on Satur
day, July 23. Sessions will be
held in the Moot Court Room
of the NCC Law School.
Dr. Lincoln J. Harrison, re
cently named head of NCC’s
Department of Commerce,
in announcing the meeting,
also announced a special con-
^ference and said, “The central
theme ‘ will be ‘Current Prob
lems in Real Elstate Construc
tion, Management, and Home
Financing’. Dr. Harrison said
details regarding the partici
pants and their specific areas
of discussion would be announ
ced later. IPhe meeting wiU be
open to the general public.
The nfeeting will featute
addresses and panel discus
sions on mortgage financing,
the 1953 housing market, pro
blems in buying, selling, and
management of property, etc.
Some of the leading govern
mental f.pecialists in the field
of real estate, finance, and
other well-known persons in
private business will partici
pate, together with faculty
members and students at NCC.
Va. Sdiool Board Approves
P^ciple Of Integration
NORFOLK, Va.
The Norfolk Board of Edu
cation Issued a statement fol
lowing a meeting here last Fri
day, in which it stated that it
approved the principle of inte
gration as laid down by the
United States Supreme Court
with regard to the public
schools.
It was the first crack in the
solid front of state officials on
the matter of racial integration
and came as a distinct surprise
to many. Norfolk is the largest
city in the state and it is ex
pected that sooner or later
others will follow.
Said the statement: “We in
tend, without mental reserva-
%n, to uphold and abide by
the laws of the land.” The
statement said further that the
Board was powerless to make
the shift from Virginia's his
toric policy of segregation un
til present state laws are
changed.
Norfolk has a population of
approximately 300,000. About
one-third of the school popula
tion is Negro, ’nie last session
of ^hool showed 28,742 white
pupils and 11,598 Negro pupils.
The figure is expected to jump
to 34,000 ^hites and 12,679
Negroes by the school term of
1958-57.
Just last week Governor
Thomas B. Stanley announced
that Virginia would continue
an officlBl policy of "separate
but equal” on the matter of se-1 first indication that a state
gregation in the public schools, official body -might attempt in-
at least for the next session. tegration any time in the near
The statement of the Norfolk future.
Board of Education was the |
Raleigli Schooi
Board Holds To
Segregation
RALEIGH
School officials of the dty of
Raleigh stated here Tuesday
that no change was contempla
ted in the publie schools for
the 1955-56 term as a result of
the May 31 decision df the
United States Supreme Court.
The Board Issued the follow
ing statement Tuesday con
cerning the poUcy of the
Board during the coming
term: ,
“Due to the fact that the Ra
leigh public schools were well
underway in organization for
1955-56, and the employment
of staff for the same year was
so far advanced when the Su
preme Court decision was
handed down on May 31, 1955,
it will not be feasible to pro
ceed during the forthcoming
year in other than the pattern
which has been followed in the
past years.
During tho year 1995-86, the
board will study carefully IKe
Supreme Court decision for the
purpose of best determining
how the local schools are to be
affMted by the ruling of the
court, ,in the hope that some
specific action may be taken
before the beginning of the
school year for 1958-37.”
KANSAS CITY, KAN.
Final rites for Bishop D.
Ormonde Walker, presiding pre
late of the Fifth Episcopal Dis
trict of the A. M. E. Churcb
were held at the'Trinity A. M. E.
Church here tm Tuesday morn
ing, July 5, at 11 o’clock. Fol
lowing the services, the body
was ta^en to Wilberforce, Ohio
for burial.
The noted prelate, who was
elected bishop on May 5, lt4S
in Kansaa City, Kansas dar
ing the 33rd qnadromial gen
eral conference the A. B(.
E. Cbnreh, died Tuesday aft
ernoon, Jnne 28, at the Do«-
glas Hospital in the same city
where be was elevated to the
Episcopacy and appointed
snccesBor to Bishop Noah W.
Williams to preside over the
largest district geoK^phically
in the A. M. E. Denomination.
Bishop Frederick D, J^dan,
now stationed in Soutji Africa,
the son of the late D, J. Jordan,
who for many years was in
structor of tiistory and psycho
logy at North Carolina College,
was present to deliver the
eulogy. Bishop Jordafl
from South Africa for Uie
casion.
Other Bliihops partlctpattng
on the program were Bishop
Joseph A. Gomes who i^-
sided; Bishop H. Thomas
Primm, Bishop George W.
Baber and Bishop W. R. Wil
kes.
Bishop Jordan delivered the
eulogy from the pulpit of the
same church which the deceased
re-dedicated on Stmday, June
19, when he served as the prin
cipal speaker at the 50^.1 an
niversary and re-dedication ser
vice of the Trinity Church.
This was Bishop Wa'ker’s
last official act as he was fatal
ly stricken on Monday night,
Jnne 20, at the Episcopal re
sidence at 532 Washington
Bonlevard. ^
Bishop Walker^ WwtiOTn in
Layou, St. Vincent, British West
Indies on January 5, 1890, the
son of George Oswald and Mar
ian Jeffers Walker. He came to
this country at ttie age of 17.
He worked hia way through
Howard University and Boston
University wiiere he prepared
for the ministry.
Known as the “layman's
bishop,” Bishop Walker hdd
many important pastorates
and positions In the A. M. B.
denomination prior to be
coming' pmiding officer over
the Fifth Episcopal District.
He was the pastor o ftbe St.
James Church in Winston-Sa-
l«n, N. C, from 1920 to 1932,
where he purchased land for a
new parsonage and doubled the
congregation’s “dollar money.**
As pastor of the St. Paul Church,
Raleigh,. N. C., from IMS to
1925, Bishop Walker also dou
bled the “dollar money” and
Ibought land on which he built
a parwmage.
Besides pastsflwg ssvsnl sf
the ehns^aa ha tho OMatey
with dtstinetloii, Wshsf Walk
er served ss prssMwit af Wil-
berfareo Univmity tnas 19M
to IMl. As head at tthi hhi-
torie iMtitatlMi. ha
lAont Ms aawadMatlsai by tta
North Ce^nl ftsssalstfia of
Goilagas and Saaaaiaiy
In 191S, Bishop Walksr wm
quu[tled to MIh Kva HaitnlliBa
of Caidsea. ifass., ate sunripss
him. Ttaay had ona
Datm. YveuM also
Several otbar i^tivaa i
viva.