IVestern N.C. AME Conference In Most Successful An^^l Session
The above are sceiies of the 63rd annual session of the
Western North Carolina Conference of the A. M. E. Church
held in Asheville, November 16-20^ The Bt. Bev. Frank
Madison Reid, presiding prelate of the Seventh Episcopal
District and the southern section of the Second Epise^al'
District, presided. With the exception of the Sunday session
which was held in the Asheville City Auditorium, the Con
ference was held at the Saint James A. M. E. Church of which
the Bev. C. C. Scott is pastor. The photo at the left shows
youth leaders of the Conference. Betiding from left to right'
they are; Miss Bernice Harrison, Greensboro; Clarence Wil
liams, Morganton and Miss Helen A. Holt, Burlington,
ter photo, left to right tire: Rfrs. T. P. Duhart, president of
the Women’s Missionary Society of the state; Mrs. Frank
M. Beid, Jr., daughter-in-law of Bishop Beid. Bfrs. J. Law
rence, (center) vice president of the Conference Kmacfc, li
shown pinmng a corsage on Mrs. Duhart. At th* flfht it •
group of missionary women who were in attendance at
session. They are: from left to right, Mrs. A. M. J«nea, Ihnr-
lington; Mrs. W. A. Page, Morganton; Mrs. L. BL
Raleigh and Mrs. J. L. Lawrence, Asheville.
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First Brewing Company Launched
By Blind Negro In Philadelphia
OGLETHORPE
ATLANTA. Ga.
Dr. Albert N. Whiting, Dean
of Morris Brown College spoke
before a special - convocation in
the chapel at Oglethorpe Uni
versity last Wednesday morn
ing.
Dr. Whiting discussed the
elements characteristic of mo
dem middle class life which,
he feels, tend to make Ameri
cans a notably tense and emo
tionally insecure people. In the
very informative speech the
Morris Brown dean said that
such a trend is reflected In the
fcdlowing statistical facts: “Ten
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GASTONIA
Judge J. P. O. Fronebergft*
sentenced a Negro couple 4o
prison Monday to serve terms of
10-12 years after they had plead
ed guilty to a charge of arson.
The couple, Charles Lee Schen-
ck, 25, and his wife, Laura JAne,
28, were convicteJlDh tholjasis
of evidence that they had set
fire to a house In Belmont on
September 3. They started the
fire by dousing some rags with
kerosene which they ignited af
ter putting them imder the house
in which two adults and three
children were sleeping.
The crying of one of the chil
dren, a baby, awoke the adults
in the house who fled the fire.
The house was totally destroyed.
The Schencks claimed that
they could'not remember much
about the incidents as they were
drunk at the time. But it seems
that an alledged quarrel which
Schenck had with Georgia Mae
Cooper, one of the ad\4ts in the
house, might have given him mo
tive.
PHILADSLPHIA
A pioneering move In Ameri
can Business was launched here
last week at a huge banquet
when the first Negro In the his
tory of beer brewing unveiled
his product before an audience
of civic leaders, distributon, and
tavern owners.
Making his entry into the
multi-million dollar industry,
John RandoU>h Smith makes
history. Mr. Smith formerly of
Atlanta, Georgia, lost bia aight
at the age of seven. This misfor
tune did not retard his progress
but served as an iqcenitive in
his business career.
Entering the highly competi
tive brewery field with a pre
mium beei* under tlie label,
“Colony House.” Mr. Smith an
nounced that fifty metropUtan
cities in the United States had
already been selected as pro
spective distribution areas.
This will afford an opportun
ity lor'Hegroai to invest in the
wholesale beer distribution at a
local level along Bastem sea
board, Mid-west, and Southwest
sections of the coimtry.
There is no instance, hereto
fore, on record wherein a N^(ro
has attempted the brewery busi
ness at a breweiy and bottling
level. Mr. Smith’s branif Colony
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First Negro Golfer To Play At
Asheboro Quits His Porter Job
BEV. L. W. BEID
30th AmuoI Ushers
Mao! Nov. 27
Celebrating their Thirtieth
Anniversary, the Durhsm Inter
denominational Ushers Un}on
will bold a special service at the
White Rock Baptist Church next
Sunday afternoon at S o’clock.
Selected to preach the anniver
sary sermon is the Rev. L. W.
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ASHBORO I
Claiming that he believed he
was “being blamed” for bring
ing other members of his race
to Hhe Ashboro municipal golf
course, Fletcher Williams quit
his job Monday as porter and
bootblack in a lOcal barber
shop. _
The operator of ttie shop, J.
C. Davis, Md Williams failed
to show up for work Monday
morning. The latter, Davis said,
•quit of his Own free will.” He
was not asked to leave.
Friends said Williams had
told them last week that he
thought he was “being blamed”
for bringing other Negroes to
play on the previously-segre-
gated. course and that he plan
ned to find a ]ob in another
town.
At least 20 vi^ite members of
the golf club resigned last week
when the first Negroes played
on the f course, but Golf Com
mission Chairman' Edward
Cranford said today that four
of them had rejoined the club.
Cranford hid said earlier
that it apptared the club would
have to c^se because of the
presence of Negro players wha
took advantage of the anti-se-
gregation ruling of the U. S.
Supreme Court.
The club is supported by
membersiiip and green fees and
Cranford said it could not re
main in operation if there were
many more resignations.
First President
Of Shaw Praised
RALIIGH
Shaw University's Ninetieth
Anniversary was observed Nov.
19 with the annual Founder's
Day Services. Students, faculty,
staff, alumni and friends were
prMent to pay tribute to Dr.
Henry l&rtin Tupper, Founder
and first president of Shaw in
1860, 'Hie tradition wreath waii
placed upon the founder’s grave
by Miss Helyn Payne, a junior
of Raleigh, and “Miss Sluiw Uni
versity Church. Dr. Dennis
The xtrogram was field in Uni
versity Church. Dr. Dennis
Branieh, a native of Raleigh, and
physidim of Newport, Ten-
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MBS. ETHEL S. BERRY
Funeral Held
For Mrs. Ethel
Sanders Berry
Mrs. Ethel Sanders Berry, 49,
former secretary and aide to the
late business tycoon Charles
Clinton Spaulding, was funeral-
ized in Durham Monday. Dr.
Spaulding was a noted banking
and insurance executive.
Death came to the late “Dr.
CC’s” chief aide and confidante
for a quarter of rentury last
Friday in Durham’s Lincoln
Hospital from cancer of the
lung.
Dr. Miles M. Fisher, pastor of
White Rock Baptist Church, was
scheduled to officiate at last rites
with interment planned for
Beechwood Cemetery.
“I’ve got cancer of the lung,
but I’ll recover,” the plucky lit-
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URGESRACETO
tiSEGANDHt
METHODS
HAMPTON, VA.
Harrison Wofford, white Wash
ington, D. C. lawyer, urged a
Hampton' Institute Assembly
audience to adopt the methods
Mahatma Gandhi in its fight
for civil rights.
The 29-year old leader and
scholar said that the work of
Gandhi introduced two new
dimensions into successful min
ority leadership. These are: 1)
constructive Mrvice; and 2) civil
disobedience.
Wofford, a graduate of the
University of Chicago, Howard
University and the Yale Univer
sity Law School, studied in In
dia on a fellowship from the
Foundation for World Govern
ment. He, with ills wife, Clare,
traveled many miles in that
coimtry by foot and lived with
Indians in Indian villages, in
cluding Senagram, the town
Gandhi chose as lUs home.
These two dimensions, Wof
ford said, were the bases for
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Governor Orders Doors
Opened To AU Races
HEADS ASSOCIATION OF
COLLEOlES — Dr. Comelitis
V. Troap, president of the As
sociation of CoUeges and Sw-
ondary Scheob, will preside at
the opening session of the
22nd ananal convention No-*
vember it to December 1 at
the Booker T. Washington
high school in Miami. Dr.
Trenp prteident of Fort
Valley State College, Fort
Valley, beorgia.
9ALTIMORX
. An order issued last Sunday
night by (Sovemor Thoodore R.
McKeldin and sent to National
Guard Commander Milton A.
Reckord has set machinery in
motion to end immediately se
gregation in Maryland’s Nation-
j1 Guard.
The governor railing for
prompt action d«nanded that
teps be taken without iMay to
abolish segregation in ttie mili
tary service of the state.
Complying with the Gover
nor’s decree, Maj. General Rec
kord said he would ‘issue the
proper directives” Monday to
carry out the order.
McKeldin's order instructed
Reckord to "initiate without
delay all such steps as arc
necessary to bring an end to ra
cial segregstioa in the organi
zation of the Maryland National
Guard.”
The order also states that 15
Negro officers who saw mili
tary duty in tl% Korean War
sliould be considtred eligible
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Bishop Frank NL Reid Hurls
Blast At Segregationists In
AME Annual Conferences
Shown above are three of the principals of the tSrd umual seBsiaa of the Western Niotk
Carolina Conference of the A. M. E. Church held in Asheville last week. Frwa left i« right
they are: Rfev. Frank Madison Beid, Jr., Chicago pastor and son of flie Bbhop, who preadi
ed the ordination sermoii; Bev. C. C. Scott, host pastor, and Bishop Beid.
ASHEVILUE
What many agreed was the
most successful session ew
held by the Western North
Carolina Conference of the
AME Church came to a close
here, Sunday with the preach
ing of the annual sermon in the
morning and the reading of ap
pointments by Bi^op Frank
Madison Reid, presiding prelate
of the southern section of the
Second Episcopal District and
the Seventh Episcopal District.
It was the 63rd annual session
of the confer«tce.
AlUarssions of the Nortii
Carolina Conference were held
in the historic St. Stepheaa
AME Church while the Sunday
session of the Western North
Carolina Conference was
in tiie spacious City Audltoriuai
of Asheville with S.OM
persms present. FtwImmi n»
sions wwe held in St. Jamat
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