Truck Spills
Inmates-30 Hurt
GOLDSBORO
Seventy-two women patients
who were packed lllfe cattle
into a private truck owned by
a, white cotton farmer, narrow
ly escaped death near her«
Tuesday when the siding gave
way and dumped them from
the moving vehicle into the
higliw»
Legwafc Hines, owner and
driver at the one and a half ton
trucks w«s not immediately
chargadk but the incident is ex
pected to set off a series of in
vestigations into the hospitals’
25 year old practtee of “occu
pational therapy” for Negro
patients at the mental hospital.
This paper learned Wednes
day that white mental patients
are not hired out to do farm
ing. If the investigations show
that the Negro patients are the
victims of discriminatory prac
tices the Times suggests that
legal steps be taken to inte
grate the two facilities.
Dr. Ira C. Long, superinten
dent of the state hospital, told
the Times Wednesday, “we
don’t expect any fatalities,
however he said, “several of
the women were seriously
hurt.”
Dr. Long sa'id that it had i for the white cotton picking in-
been the policy of the hospital mates.
to hire out Negro mental pa
tients to near-by farms for
many ears. He said it was “oc
cupational therapy" which the
patients "liked and prefer to
confinment at the hospital.”
IFarmers using mental pa
tients pay $3 a hundred pounds
for cotton picked. The money
goes into the hospital’s general
fund. Purser was unable to
tell the Times how much
At Qoldsboro only a mini- money had been paid into this
mum of therapy is provided for fund by its happy cotton pick-
the Negro patients, while the ers during the past quarter of a
other hospitals are understood century.
to have facilities within the in
stitution to occupy patients
who are capable of benefiting
from such "occupational ther
apy.”
In Raleigh, Roy Purser,
general business manager of
the State Hospital Board of
Control, said this practice,
which amounts to near-peon
age, does not exist in any other
hospital. The Goldsboro insti
tution is the only facility in
the state for the Negro mental
ly ill.
When asked why weren’t pa
tients at the white Hospitals
farmed out to do work on pri
vate farms since the therapy
was judged so beneficial. Pur
ser said that “the other hospi
tals are not in the cotton belt
and no request had been made
State Highway patrolms(n
Earl Merritt said that the truck
which was carrying the women
was “over crowded” and its
“siding not substantial.” The
patrolman said that tiines had
only an operator's permit
which did not authorise him to
transport on a commercial ba
sis.
A spokesman for the North
Carolina Federation of Wo
men’s Clubs told the paper that
the hospital authorities had the
duty and the responsibility to
see to it that where ever pa^
tients were going, they would
be safe. The organization plans
to order an investigation of the
apparent laxity and neglect of
the officials at the Goldsboro
hospital.
NAACP Notables Here
For State Conference
The twelfth annual Conven
tion of the North Carolina
Chapter of the National Asso
ciation for the Advancement of
Colored People brings to Dur
ham this weekend, some of the
top brass of the Association.
Kelly Alexander, Charlotte,
President of the North Carolina
Chapter, has announced that
the Opening Mass Meeting
will be held on Friday evening,
October 21, 8 o’clock., at St.
Joseph AME Church. The pub-
is urged to attend.
From the National Head-
■f ■
KELLY ALEXANDER
quarters will come, Robert L.
Carter, first Assistant Counsel
of the NAACP Legal Defense
and Educational Fund, Inc.,
and Assistant Special Counsel
for the NAACP.
Carter has played a major
role in research dune and brief
written in connection with ma
jor constitutional test cases
handled by the NAACP since
1944.
Mrs. Daisy E. Lampiun of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has
served as Field Secretary of
ROBERT L. CARTER
the Association for 18 years.
During this period, she organ
ized hundreds of branches and
increased the membership to
more than one-half million.
She ii active on the local and
national levels in many oivlc
undertakings.
Clarence Mitchell, Director,
Washington Bureau of the
NAACP, joined the staff as la
bor Secretary in 1946. His first
duty with the organization be-
MRS. DAISY LAHPKIN
gan in 1933 as a board mem
ber of the Baltimore, Md.,
branch. He has been instru
mental in halting many prA'
tices which have prevented
Negroes from securing jobs.
Mitchell’s first statement pre
sented to Congress was his eye
witness account of mob vio
lence during a lynching in
Princess Ann, Md.
Miss Lucille Black, Member
ship Secretary, NAACP, has
been employed at the National
m
CLARENCE L. MITCHELL
Office for the past fifteen
years. She ,was appointed to
her post in 1945.) In this capa
city, Miss Black supervises the
handling of more than 500,000
memberships annually.
Because of her long experi
ence in the Branch Depart
ment, she Is one of the best in
formed members of the Na
tional Office sta^f on the prob
lems and personnel of branch
es throughout the country.
MISS LUCILLE BLACK
Welcome NAACP
AMEZ Bishop
Dies In Cliicago
CHICAGO, 111.
Bishop John W. Martin of
the AME Zion Church died
here early Sunday morning at
Provident Hospital. A long
time resident of that city, the
bishop was critically ill for
four days prior to his death,
which resulted from a cerebral
hemmorrhage.
Born in Lebanon, Va., in
1879, son of Nancx >nd Neal
Martin, he studied al/ Lincoln
University, Chester, Pa.
After having held pastorates
in Indianapolis, Ind., and Ma-
disonville, Ky,, serving as
president of AtkinMR. ^llege
BISHOP J. W. MARTIN
at Madisonville, an A.M.E.Z.
supported institution, and as
secretary of the Christian Edu
cation department of the AME
Zion Church, he was elevated
to the bishopric at the general
conference in Indianapolis in
1924.
Bishop Martin was an active
churchman. His interest in the
schools and colleges of the
AME Zion Church was a deep
ly personal one. He not only
served as chairman of the
board of Christian education,
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VOLUME 31—NUMBER 43 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, OCT. W, 19S5
PRICE; le CENTS
"Hatemongers” Denounced
By Att’y-Gen. Herbert Brownell
Proponents of white supre
macy and peddlers of race hat
red received a tongue lashing
last Stmday night when Attor
ney General ' Brownell, in a
rousins civil rights speech, de
nouncing racial segregation,
styled them as “hate mongers”
who apply the “whiplash of in
tolerance’' to racial groups.
In his scathing denunciation
of segregation, the Attorney
General declared, “Tliere are
bloodier punishments than se
gregation but none more de
grading.”'
The speech was one of the
strongest on civil rights made
by any member of the Eisen
hower Cabinet.
He said “the infamous fra
ternity of professional bigots”
are “just as determined and as
destructive” as Communists
and Fascists “whose foreign
counterparts have so clearly
proven that their ideology does
not include a belief in miiver-
sal civil rights.”
Declaring that a “small crust
of freedom to a few” will not
sustain the American way of
life, ^^wnell appealed to the
in 'making freedom a “living
reality” and 'create a “golden
age of civil rights.”
Cites School Ruling
Brownell, speaking at the
annual dinner of the interfaith
Movement, Inc., said the Fed
eral Government will apply
“the full force of law” when-
^er it is "p«?rmissible and
uifcful” to halt “brutal police
iwthods” against members of
minority groups.
He said the Government’s
vjew that racial barriers have
w place in public schools was
“'^ccessfully espoused” before
tie Supreme Court, and added;
'.“ConUnuing Federal interest
r^nains in the implementation
the Court’s findings.”
In what appeared to be an
indirect appeal to Southern
s^tes to move toward carrying
o0t the Court’s anti-segrega-
t^n edict, Brownell said:
“When children, in the in
nocence of mind and purity
oi heart, come to know that
free public schools and play
grounds mean exactly that, the
state has translated a"^ philo
sophic vacuum into a living
Cynstitution.”
-jBrownell cited other gains
Ott the racial front. He said
segregation has been abol-
id^ed in the Nation’s armed
■ces, and projects maintain-
segregation practices “are
ied Federal financial aid.”
S'
-- - - states also have made^
intfyWualg'■'ty foinr in- - ^rgwymg
equal protection to ‘all, and
cited anti-terrorist laws passed
in recent years by Virginia,
Alabama, Georgia, Florida and
South Carolina.
"An aroused South has
shown that it will not tolerate
hooded hoodlums bent on
splitting the Nation into mu
tually repellent fragments,"
he declared.
Discrimination Hit
Noting that many people
judge minorities by the un
favorable activities of u few,
Brownell said that “the giant
who has emerged in the fight”
against polio. Dr. Jonas E.
Salk, “is a Jew.”
“He is the same kind of per
son still barred from liviitg
anywhere he might please by
the practical effect of obnoxi
ous restrictive covenants,” the
Attorney General said.
He said “irony also attends
the work” of a Negro, Dr.
Charles R. Drew of Howard
University, “who perfected the
process of preserving blood
plasma.”
“Many soldiers owe their
very lives to this man they
would not asli into their homes
except by the back door for
fear of violating thue racial
taboos that have too long
blinded our people to individ
ual worth,” he declared.
Brownell said this ^oi^ry
cannot afford to . have grc^ps
hostile to one another lest
there b« set uii- “the. weakenij^
discord anxiously sought ^
our enerlies from without.”
“If toletance cannot' ^>e found
in the schools and churches,
in the sh^p and the market
place, it' will nowhere be
found,” hfe said. “It will not
exist.” ''
Diggs’ Protest On Airport
Segregation Gets Results
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Following an official pro
test by Congressman Charles
C. Diggs, Jr., (D-Mich.), the
Civil Aeronautics Administra
tion has launched a study to
identify public airports that
practice racial segregation in
their service facilities.
This action by the CAA came
as a result of a letter to the
secretary of Commerce in
which Diggs asked for strict
enforcement of a provision of
the Federal Airport Act which
stipulates that airports... “will
be available for public use on
fair and reasonable terms and
without unjust discrimination.
The Michigan Representa
tive had suggested tliat air
ports discriminating against
Negroes be denied funds made
available to them under the
Federal Aid Airport Program.
Diggs also received assur
ance from Louis S. Rothschild,
Acting Secretary of Commerce,
that the Congressman’s charges
against the Raleigh-Durham
(N.C.) Airport “are being con
sidered in the official study”.
OF THE USA
We Are The Most Hated
Nation In Mid East-Hopkins
BEIRUT, LEBANON
(Special to the Times)
“In the Middle East where
once America was the most
loved nation, we are now the
most hated,” wrote Garland
Evans Hopkins after a thr^
and a half month trip which in
cluded visits to Egypt, Jordan,
Israel, Syria, and Lebanon.
Hopkins, vice president of
the American Friends of the
Middle East, stated that he was
speaking as an individual and
not a representative of the
AFME.
He blamed the U.S. govem-
ment’i pig headed policy of
partiality for the very critical
situation in which the weitcrn
democracies have been manue-
vered. This situation, which he
calls the most critical of any
time in the post war period,
could have been avoided if our
government had not succuml)-
ed to persistent demands of
special interests groups.
Hopkins calted the Soviet
projected program of arms-aid
to Elgypt “tragic” but added ^ equipment equal to that which
that it is just one^case in point. | has been provided Israel. And
Hopkins said “anyone who is let me say that it is completely
familar with the facts knows | irrelevant whether Israel pur-
that this tragedy could have * chased its arms with money
been averted.” He said that “it supplied by American private.
has galled th^ Arab states, with
vast areas of territory and 45
million inhabitants', to be for
ced to stand idly while Israel,
with 1.7 million inhabitants
cro\l^ded into 8,000 square
miles, purchased arms from
both Iron Curtain countdies
and the West with money sup-
pliedofrom the United States.
It i* nothing short of hypo
critical for any one to cry out
now that no arms race must be
started In the Middle East and
that the military balance must
be maintained. The cold fact is
that an arms race has been go
ing on for seven years with one
side blocked in every attempt
to reach a balance with the
other. The only way to get a
military balance in the Middle
East is to provide the govern
ments of the Arab States with
special-interest groups or by
the U. S. government. As far as
the Arabs are concerned, Israel
has been armed by America,
and they are determined to be
as well armed, preferably with
assistance from America;—but
from other sources, even the
Soviet, if necessary. These are
the tacts and Americans ought
to face them realistically.”
This week George Sokolsky
pin pointed one of the horns of
the Israel-Arab dilemma say
ing, “The Republican adminis
tration in an election year will
undoubtedly calculate that
there are few Egyptian votes
in this country but that New
York, Pennsylvania, Illinois
and California can be lost to
the Democrats over this issue.”
He points out that there are
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REV. J. A. DeLAINE
Warrant Issued
For Militant
S. C; Preacher
LAKfe CITY, S. C.
A warrant for the arrest of
the Rev. Joseph A. DeLaine,
spearhead in the Clarcr.cion
County school integration case
was Issued last week on a
charge of “assault and battery
with a deadly weapon.”
Issuance of the warrant was
.'ollowed by a state-wide alarm
I'or the arrest of the pastor of
the Sl. James AME Church
which was dispatched by State
Law Enforcement Division ol
.he state of South Carolina,
i'lie alarm stated that the min
.iter was armed.
James Moore, filling station
operator, who signed the war
rant, said that about 11:30
.vionday night Delaine shot in
to a car in which he and two
other men were riding. Mrs.
Delaine said that her husband
Zired after several shots were
iired in the vicinity of the par
sonage.
The DeLaines have been the
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Bishop C. L. Faison, ;jastor
of the Church of God in Christ
Jesus, is the host minister to
the General Council of the
Church of God In Christ Jesus.
now in session at his church
located at 500 South Queen St.
The session which began last
Friday will end on Sunday.
Bishop Faison will preach at
11 a.m. Dinner will be served
at 3 p.m. by the Winston-Salem
Districe with Mothers L. Hull
and Sallie Mack in charge. The
farewell message will be de
livered at 8 p.m. by Elder Mc
Lain.
Judge Upholds
Distributor Of
E. T. Leaflets
BRONX, N, Y.
Bronx NAACP official Oli
ver Martin faced a littering
charge for distributing leaflets
for a rally protesting the mur
der of Emmett Till in Mii«..
when he received a summons
on September 23rd on Third
Avenue and 16)Jth St.
’This week, however’ Magis
trate Joseph Martinis dismiss
ed the charge and cited the law
which states it is !‘not intended
to prevent the lawful distribii-
*ion of anything other than
commercial or business adver
tising matter.”
South Carolina
Race Hate Victim
Reported Alive
COLUMBIA, S. C.
By Mrs. Modje^ka Simpkins
In an exclusive interview
with Mrs. Mattie Belton De
laine. wife of the missing pas
tor, it was learned that several
outbursts of gun fire in clo«'
proximity of the parsonage on
last Monday evening following
after some time by some person
or persons walking around tne
parsonage and making “scrap
ing noises against the wall.”
Mrs. DeLaine, who is under
medkal treatment and pros
trate at the residence of her
parants in Columbia, related,
white her husband was asleep
in a nearby room and she was
pret»ring a lesson plan, the
shooting started from a fast
BULLETIN
“SOMEWHERE IN TKKN-
TON, N. J.” — Letters p«r-
yortedly from tbe Rev. J. A.
DeLaine, South CaroUiia atiii-
teter mfaBing since last Tnes-
day, indicate that he la safe.
Copies of these letters have
been received by Televfsioa
Station WCSC and tlie Flor
ence Morning News and tke
Charlotte News and Obaerm.
Thoagh it has not been p«ai-
threly established that tke let
ters were written by the mlaa-
ing minister, it is reasonably
definite that DeLaine wrote
the letters. He admitted shoot
ing at the car, he said “to
mark it.’
MADiY, MANY THANKS!
At least once in every man’s life there comes a riiwo
when words seem absolutely inadequate to express the grati*
tude and humility which well up in the human breaat when
one has been the recipient of so many kin^esses at the hjmds
of so many persons. Although I fully intend writlnf a per
sonal word of gratitude-to all of you in all walks of life, both
in and out of Durham, who by words of mouth, cards, let
ters, telephone, telegrams and personal vbits expressed their
concern about my recent illness, for fear 1 might
you, I am taking this advanced method of saying many, numy
thanks to all of you dear, dear friends. Above all I give
thanks to Almighty God that he has spared me to return to
my post of duty as publisher of the Carolina Times, although
for the present m a reduced schedule. Again 1 say many,
many thanks!
moving car which she observed
closely from a window. She de
clared that the car returned
several times at intervals, ai^a
and she saw an «m protruding
frqm. tha-window ^ Um .car
and flashes of gtm fire.
Mrs. DeLaine said tliat she
iiad difficulty in awakening
her husband, who had recently
returned from his five day an
nual conference at Charleston.
The last time she saw him. she
•aid was when be was sittiDC
on the side of his bed and
warning her “get out ui tiere.
She has never heard from and
does not know his where
abouts. Asked whether she
would go back to Lake City to
work, Mrs. DeLaine said she
feels now that she would not,
for the reason that she beUeves
that anyone who would board
her would l>e in jeH>ardy in
Lake C^y.
The DeLaine car was found
in Florence with a note signed
by DeLaine requesting tliat tne
car be taken to his wife. It was
brought to Columbia on Wed.
evening by Mrs. DeLaine s
brother without interference
and with the knowledge of the
county sherriff’s office. Mrs.
DeLaine said that her wiiere-
abouts lias been a secret, and
it is weU known where she is
because she left her address
and phone numb» at Lake
City with the expressed in
structions that the informatioo
be given to officers who mi^t
desire it.
Mrs. DeLaine said that dw
was questioned at length fay
state and local officers on
Tuesday relative to the possi
ble whereabouts of her child
ren, her husband and th^^
arms ti>at her husttand
She said she told the officers
tiiat she was wUling to talk at
length and without the pre
sence of a lawyer, because she
had nothing to hide and that
she did not intend to tell any
thing but the truth. In answer
to direct questions about the
arm protruding from the car,
Mrs. DeLaine a^rted posi
tively that it was “a wtiitc
arm” and she could see it clear
ly as the car moved under a
nearby street light. The mini»-
ter’s wife said that on two oc
casions the officers asked her
if she desired that they aaad
her a phjrsician which she r«-
fuaad; tailing thvoa “AU 1 aaa
is the Lord.”
On on* occaaion, Mrs. D*
laine said, “the policeman
dropped their heads.’' Mra. De>
Laine. who has no relativaa in
Lake City was brought to Co
lumbia by a resident of a near
by town. No effort «a* made to
hold her aa a witaav. Cklef at
Police. Ifaxie Hinds toU the
Times in a telephone iaterrtew
they went to the pMtaaeg*
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