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Golf Case May Bring Atta^
On JC In Durham Theater
THE YELLOW ROSE OF
TEXAS—Pretty Dora Lee Mar
tin, 17 year-old ireshman jrom
Houston, Texas, was elected
suJteetheart of the University of
Iowa last week in an election
participated in only by the male
portion of the student body.’
The young co-ed, described by
white wire services as “light
skinned," feigned at the Uni
versity’s “Queen of Queens”
winter formal dance Saturday
nightt one of the University’s
top social functions. She was
one of seven candidates entered
in the contest by her dormitory
mates at Surrler Hall, a wo
man's dormitory of about 900
^residents, 50 of whom are Ne
groes. Her escort for the dance
was Collins Hagler, sophomore
fullback on the Iowa team.
'INtEGIiATE IN FIFIEEN YEAIiS'
fliOFILE OF AN UNCLE TOM
HALIFAX
One of the long sought foe
“prominent Ne'gro leaden” who
apparently backs Gov. Hodges'
plan for voluntary, segregatioi
was discovered* here this weeli
He is Rev. F. L. Bullock
pastor of four churches and
member of the Halifax'Count;
Board of Education advisor;
committee.
Said Rev. Bullock after a re
presentative of the Halifa:
NAACP' reqtested' thi
Board to end segregation in the
county's schools by September
1956.
"The two races in the schools
would not be integrated with
out preparation strengthened
with prayer and much consi
deration.*’
“f don’t think it (Integration)
should be done hbrriedly. I
don’t believe the Supreme
Court meant for it to be done
hurriedly. That is what I am
telling the 3,000 people who
make up the congregations o{
my churches.” i
Six Race Golfers
To Face Charge
Of Trespassing
An attack on-the segregated
policy in Durhan^'s Carolina
theater, one of th* city’s two
largest movie houses, may re
sult from a case in Greensboro
involving the leasing of public
lands to a private group to side
step the Supreme Court’s ruling
against segregation in public
property.
In Greensboro, attorneys for
six Negroes who were arrested
after playing a round of golf at
the Gillespie Park cours^ said
that the city could not maintain
segregation in' its public lands
by leasing them to segregated
private groups.
The course, forinerly owned
and operated by the city, was
leased to a "private club” for
one dollar per year purportedly
to prevent Negroes from play
ing on the course. After the ac
tion, the city announced that it
was “out of the, golf Business.”
But,' J. Kenneth Lee and Ma
jor High, attorneys for the six
who were served warrants for
trespassing, said that the city I
could not maintain segregation
indirectly • by leasing the land
to private groups.
Although the Carolina thea
ter is a business, -it is housed in
the one-time city auditorium
and the building ^s still owned
by the city. It was leased to in
dividuals sometime ago for the
purpose of operating a theater.
The city collects $10,000 per
year for the lease which hasi
quite a number of years to rvm
yet.
The management of the thea
ter has maintained segregaticm
since the start. Negroes enter
by a side entrance and must sit^
in the upper portion of the bal
cony.
T^e six charged with tres
passing in Greensboro and
leheduled ttf -fye trlhl on t)ec.
20, are Samuel Murray, Joseph
Sturdivant, Philip Cooke, Ell-i
jah Herring, Dr. G6orge Simp
kins and Leon Wolfe, all resi
dents of the city.
The case originally began as
an effort by Greensboro Ne-.
groes to use the golf facilities in
that city. Before the city leased
{he land, they were refused
permission to play.
Now, however. It could blos
som Into a test cas« to deter
mine if such methods as used
by the city of Greensboro in
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REV. F. L. BULLOCK
He went on to say that if it is
accomplished in the next 10 to
15 years, it will be time
enough.
•Notwithstanding Rev. Bul^
lock, Woodrow Harvey, chair-.
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MASONS'HMD
RAPS HODGES
INCONVBmON
The ICasona of North Caro
lina ended, their thM* ds]r
meeting in Durham tUa wedi
with a blast at Got. Luther
Hodges for his 'attack on tiie
NAACP.
The organization imU ses
sions in Durham on Mnaday,
Tuesday and Wcdneadby. at the
St. Joseph AMK church and the
Hillside High -SchuoL U was
the 85th annual meeting of tlM
organization.
I lose respect for a chief
executive who will g« OK tite
air over radio and tel—ilion
and denounce a legitimate or
ganization that is fighting for
human }iistice in full view of
the wt^ld,. teaching people the
brotherhood of man and good
citizenship, who can never see,
or at least never speak of that
white-robed hooded night rider
shot through with subversive
ness, undertaking to dethrone
law and order and destroy our
way of life.”
These were the words of G.
D. Garfaes, grandmaster of the
Masons, who delivered the
main address at a putdic meet
ing held at the Hillside high
school Tuesday nigh^
A resident of wUmington,
Cames went on to defend the
NAACP for its “constructive
works” and pledged the con
tinued support of the Masons to
the organization.
Rev. O. D. Came$, grand l the organigatitm't public meet-1 ges- for his statement against the i ment of Colored People. Shown
master of North Carollna’t Md* ing in Durham Tueiday night at NAACP and pledged support of seated in the background ate
sons, i* shotim ?iere addreming 1 Hillside high school auditorium. 1 his organization for the tfdtiim- principal officers of the organt-
the audience which attended | Rev. Carnet attacked Gov. Hod- [ oI Association for the Advance-1 zation.
Integrate South, AFL-CIO Urged
NEW ^ singer 8Uppo'rt'>(rom this new — —rj— ?
'Delegates to the AFL-CIO corv^idated amr of organize -1^ I ^^
Asa D. Herrihg, Jr., was re
cently prompted to the rank sf
Captain in the United Stater
Air Force. He it shown here
with wife and their two
sons, Alan, one, and Asa Da%%cy,
HI, three. Captain Herring is
presently assigned to the S06th
Strategic Fighter Wing at Tin^
ker~Air Force Bate, Oklahoma
City, where he has 'duties at
flight commander, pilot instruc
tor and test pilot. The young
airman flew right wing guard
for jCaptain Don Jackson in the
history making United Statet-
to-England jet flight,, longest on
record.
Captain Herring was educate’
ed in the ptiblic sehoolt of
Asheville and at Tuskegee In
stitute, where he received a
bachelor’s degree in areo me
chanics. He has alto ttudied at
th/e Lewis School of Science and
Technology and the Aeronauti
cal University .of Chicago. His
wife is the former Miss Honor
Bomar, a graduate of Hampton
Institute and former teacher in
the Asheville public schools.
The young jet pilot, son of Mr.
and Mrs. A. D. Herring of Ashe
ville, is making a coreeTi of fly
ing.
NEW .
Delegates to the AFL-CIO
conventTofi here wire told by
the nation's leading civil rights
attorney last week that one of
their biggest jobs is to organize
the newly industrialized l^outh
“on a completely integrated
basis without any compromise
in the slightest detail.”
Thurgood Marshall, NAACP
special counsel, asserted that a
refusal to compromise on racial
integration by Negroes, and or
ganized labor in the South “can
rally other good foites of the
South to the end that justice
will prevaiL” Southern Ne
groes, he noted, haVe “refused
to compromise on the question
of racial segregation.”
The NAACP spokesman de
cried an “atmosphere of law
lessness” prevailing. in sections
of the South regarding compli
ance with the Supreme Court
school decisions and protection
of Negroes’ constitutional
rights, as well as “ia similar
lack of protection for the rights
of organized labor in many
parts of the South.”
“It should be noted that this
vicious anti-Negro .program ex
tends to white citizens who dare
to speak out for justice for Ne
groes,” Marshall said. “It is
highly significant that in many
areas of the deep South orga'
nized labor is being bracketed
in the same position as the Ne
gro
He declared that the merged
labor movement’s duties in. the
South will include not only
"seeing to it that the plants in-
vblved are...organized ort
completely non-racial basis”
but “that the communities sur
rounding these plants are run
in a democratic fashion which
today means, according to the
law of the land, the absence of
racial segregaticii.”
Maintaining that “the addi-.
tldnal strength from this (la'
bor) merger wUl most certain
ly be used for the benefit of
the country in general,” Mar
shall praised “the recognition
by organized labor of the need
of extending labor’s fight from
inside th^ plant to the commu
nity in general.”
“Those of us in the fight for
justiqe for Negro Americans
can now depend upon an even
;er support Jrom this new
illdated amr of organize
labor,^’ he added.
Strong Civil Rights Resolution
FoUovrfng Marshall’s address
the convention passed a resolu
tion urging ‘‘all of our affiliated
state and local bodies to work
with other liberal forces in
their communities to facilitate
a peaceful and effective transi
tion to an linsegregated Ameri
can educational system.” Fur-
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Mbery ffofive In ieader'sMtr
NEW YORK
Reports so far received from
Texas indicate that the murder
of Herbert Johnson was un
connected with his presidency
of the Schulenberg, Texas,
NAACP branch, Roy WiVElns,
executive secretary of the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People,
said here Friday.
According to V. S. Tate, of
Dallas, Tex., NAACP counsel
for the Sovthwest region, there
appears as yet to be no-positive
indication Johnson was slain
because of his NAACP activity.
'The motive for murder, Tate
said,. seemed to be robbery as
the victim-was known to carry
sixeable sums about his person.
Duriiam NAACP
Meeting Sunday
L. B. Austin, publisher mt the
Carolina Times, will deliver'the
principal address at tfee 'Svst
ham chapter WAACP' meeting
to be tre»amiday at the Union - -
Baptist Church on Roxboro St.
The meeting begins al four
o’clock.
A trophy will be presented
to the organization, church or
business which has garnered
the most members during the
month, Atty F. B. McKissick,
president of the Du'^hain chs’j-
ter said. Louis Jones, labor un
ion official, will make the pre
sentation.
Defeat Of Virginia
Bias Schools Could
NORFOLK, Va. | course, that is, whether it will
Defeat of a proposal which go along with integrated public
would have thls^tate dump tax schools or use state money to
Plan To Keep
End Byrd Reign
money Into “private schools” in
a- frantic attempt to evade the.
Supreme Court’s ruling against
segregated schools was predict-'
ed here last week.
A highly informed source re
vealed that the prqposal, which
is actually an amendment to the
Constitution . empowering the
state to “pay the way” of-stu
dents to private schools rather
than have them attend integrat
ed ones,*has become an unpopu
lar one among Old Dominion
residents for a variety of rea
sons, and has only a 50-50
chance of surviving the state
wide referendum scheduled for
January 9. \
Last week, the state legisla
ture voted to submit to popular
vote the plan which would
eliminate from the Constitutloi)
that portion which prohibits
the state from 'I using public
funds for private schools. The
necessity for a constitutional
amendment arose after a Cir
cuit Court ruled that the state
could not under its present con
stitution use tax money for pri
vate schools. This ruling came
after the Gray Commission
which formulated the idea, at
the direction of 3ov. Thomas
Stanley, had submitted the
plan.
Each school district'will have
authority to detepnine its own
send pupils to private schools,
including transportation.
A combination of the Negro-
future. Norfolk, for instance,
has gone on record as being
ready to integrate by the Fall
of 19^6.
liberal white-Republican
plus the general unpopularity
of the proposal could seal its
doom at the polls, according to
the best informed sources last
week. At any case, the adminis
tration’s plan is in for very
rough sledding, it is generally ^
believed. |
Causes of the proposal’s un- |
popularity were listed as fol
io wing i
i. The dissatisfaction among
supporters o^ the Gray plan
These reasons, plus the al
ready known Negro opposition
vote to the proposal are thought to
be enough to muster a powerful
coalition against it at the polls
on January 9. If the state’s Re
publican leaders decide to join
a coalition of liberal white-Ne-
gro voters' the plan is thought
to have little chance of succeed
ing.
The impending referendum
has attracted much attention on
many fronts. It is b^ng watch
ed by NAACP leaders for it
mayssignal a new phase in the
over the hIgh-handed manner | long sUoi^le against segrega
i Sm* A^ii/kafrinn Tn nast
in which it has gone about for
mulation of it;
2. The uneasiness of the
state's churchmen, especially
Protestants, over the possibility
that the plan would channel
much of the money now going
for public schools to parochial
schools; and
3. The fact that integration
is not longer a problem in many
units, especially in the far wes
tern counties where the Negro
population is so sparse that it
can be and has been in some in
stances absorbed in integrated
schools; and in the northern
counties and' some large cities,
where in^gration Is proceed
ing apace or plans are being
made to integrate in the near
tion in' education. In the past,
the fight had been waged large
ly in the courts, where many
significant victories have been
won for integration. But, since
the fate of Virginia’s plan, one
of the first to be offered by
southern state for sidestepping
the Supreme Court, rests on the
ballot, it means that the fight
has been brought to the politi
cal arena where, naturally, the
victory will go to the most as
tute political strategists. And
although this may not be a true
indicati(m of the political ma
turity of Negroes in the state
because of the poll tax require-
mrat, it could scfve as an iitdl-
cation of how future iWnwMies
will develop.
National political
keeping a weather eye on flMt
referendum, for defeat for
plan could put the skids fla Ik*
democratic machine and
the eventual end of the
dynasty and the entreaetaBKBt
of the Republican party te
state. It is to be rentembcred
ttiat it is an administratton {daa
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Negro Cleric
Heads Merged
Ministers'Gr;
SOUTHERN ^
Dr. J. R. Funderburg
elected president of the
County Minister’s AssociatlHh '
an organization composadl
white and Negro mlntstwrm «i*
the county.
In additicm to Dr.
bure another $kgro ^
was named to the ottice aClMMt*
surer by the ^
T. L. Pmntm, paatar at (h* •
ity A. M. X. Zioii a
The onaniiiitiBa
in June vrtiatk tte
white miiyatar’B
m«rted. It Is «an
50 ministers,