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MCMUTUU. NEARS $SOIIUni ★ ★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ -★★★ ★★★ ★★★ it 'k if Several Congressmen Sign Gvil Rights Pledges VOLUME 32 — NUMBER 11 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1956 PRICE: TEN CENTS Durham Host To Alpha Regional Convention Many Notables Slated For Annual Meet Pictures above are photo graphs of two fire stations, lo cated in the Eust Durham and West Durham sections of the city. At the top. Fire Station No. 3 i* shown adjacent to the Y. E. Smith Elementary School, lO' cated on Driver Avenue. Bot tom photo shows Fire Station No. 2, located on Ninth Street, across from the E. K. Powe Ele~ mentary School. Professor J. T. Taylor, who has led the ojyposi' tion to the Hayti Fire Station being located on the corner of Fayetteville and Pekoe Streets, raised the objBctlrm that it was too close to North Carolina Col lege and Hillside High School both of which in the very nature of the case, are attended by no small children whose lives would be endangered, as i« the case at fire stations No. 2 and 3. Local Insurance Company Experiences GreoT Progress In keepiag with the progress of the industry, North Carolina Mutual Life Insuranc^e Cooiz, pany, Hoioe Office, Durham North Carolina, made substan tial progress during 1955. The amount of Insurance in Force increased from $205,472,687 to 1219,591,797, a gain of $14,119, 110 compared with a gain of $11,333,803 during the year 18S4. The Admitted Assets at the end of 1955 totalled $49,882, 183.1|., a gain of $4,130,914.03 over 1954. Commenting on the experi ence of the company at the An nual Policyholders Meeting held January 9, President Kennedy stated that the goals for 1U55 were $220 million Insurance in Force and $50 million in Ad mitted Assets. He expressed great admiration for the fine performance of the agency force in achieving such a high per centage of the 1965 goals. Extending his remarks, re ference was made to the fact that among the 160 life com panies participating in the Re insurance Pool covering the group insurance for employees of our Federal C(ovemment, North Carolina Mutual is In cluded on the list.'’This distinc tion, together with other achi evements, afford the company’s representatives an opportimity to defend their position as qualified underwriters, and in addition to the $2,467,000 of this life coverage' with North Carolina Mutual, there is satis faction in knowing that the company was in position to join the leaders in the field of life insurance in serving the United States Government in connec tion with its employee welfare program.' At the close of the year 1955, Total Liabilities of the company amounted to $43,460,404.90, a gain of $3,401,484.23 over last year including Reserve for Life Policies and Contracts in the sum of $40,592,971.89 or a gain of $3,282,956.17 over 1954. Of the Total Invested Assets of the company $13,889,975 or 29.9 percent consists of mortgage loans. It Is through this channel that the homes, farau, business es and other real estate holdings of many of the policyholders of the company have been finan- (Continued mi Page Eight) Guardsman Spokesman Answers Attack Of Wliite House Aid DURHAM A spokesman for the sponsor ing North Carolina Chapter of Guardsmen, Inc., this week la beled as misleading and Irre sponsible charges attributed to E. Frederick Morrow, White House Administrative Assistant, that the organization is spend ing an excessive amount of money for a cruise to Bermuda. A. M. Rivera, Jr., a member of the organization’s planning committee, said here that “Mor row apparently has been duped into irresponsible and iiilse statements inspired by malici ous detractors of the socially prominent club.” Rivera said that the North Carolina Chapter, whose mem bers boast some of the nation’s leading civil rights advocates and holders of. lifetime NAACP memberships, and not the Nor folk Chapter is sponsoring the cruise. Morrow incorrectly said the Norfolk, Va., Chapter was sponsoring the trip. Rivera, a veteran photo-re porter, said that the per capita cost for the trip would be ac tually less than that spent for a vacation within the United States by members Of the Guardsmen’s economic status. He also pointed out that the cost of the seven day vacation would be less than spent by many fraternities and sororities for their nationcl meetings. The North Carolina Guards man added tha't Morrow’s quo tation of a $10,000 figure as the cost of the trip was “news to ftie and all other Guardsmen.” The final costs have not yet been worked out he said. North Carolina Guardsmen describe themselves' as shocked that a person in Morrow’s posi tion could be maneuvered into issuing a statement on a subject that he obviously knew so little about without investigating. Rivera said that “obviously Mr. Morrow’s imfounded char ges were a bid for recognition from a man only recently re- (Continued on Page Eigli^) DR. RAY THOMPSON, couiuelor-trainer at North Carolina College, has been elected secreta^-treasnrer of the North Carolina Vocation al Guidance Association. A&s Lucille Brown of the Greensboro City Schools suc ceeded Dr. Henry Weitz of Duke University as presldrat. A native of Clem, Georgia, Dr. Thompson holds the B. S. degree from Alabama A. and M. College, the M. A. from Columbia University, and the D. Ed from Michigim State College. All of the Alpha Phi Alpha top officials, including Gcnerpj President Frank L. Stanley, will play prominent roles in the Southern Regional Convention slated to take place here March 30-31. In addition to Stanley, a Ken tucky publisher, Lewis O. Swin- gler. Southern Regional Vice President, also a newspaper publisher from Memphis, Tenn., will play a leading role. James E. Huger, General Sec retary, Chicago; William H. Hale, Director of Educational Activities; Billy Jones, General Counsel, East St. Louis, 111.; and Clarence E. Branch Jr., South ern Regional Assistant Vice Pre sident from ptMUher, Iipt ibttr deliver the keynot round out the list of executive officers scheduled to attend and take part in the Durham meet ing. A North Cartilinian, Attorney Harry Groves, City Councilman from Fayetteville, will be ban quet speaker at the affair slated for the Hillside High School Cafeteria oh Saturday evening at 6 p.m. The banquet will be open to Alpha delegates and their wives and guests. Stanley will deliver the key note address on Friday, March 30, at the public meeting to be held at Mt. Vernon Baptist (Continued on Page Eight) FRANK L. STANLEY Pictured aboDe are three of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity top brass who will be here for thf fraternity convention set for March 30-31. Reading from lefi- to right are ■ Frank L. Stan- tbha — keynote ad- drtm-^or the Convention. Stan- LEWIS O. SWINGLER ley is scheduled to speak on tri- day night, March 30, at a pub lic meeting to be held at the Mount Vernon Baptist Church, Pine Streeti at 7:30 o'chw#c. Lewis O. Swingler, Southern: -p/ the Alpha Fraternity, a newspaper pub lisher, as is Stanley, is slated to JAMES E. HUGER play a leading role at the Con vention. Swinulcr tiuils irom Memphis, Tenn. Scheduled also to oiay a lead ing role in the activities of the Convention is James JC. Huycr General Secretary, v^ho hails from CMcago, III mACP Appeals Hobgoob IMtg Governor Will Seek To Change Supreme Court t TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Determined to keep the Uni versity of Florida a seat of edu cation for whites only. Gover nor Leroy Collins will go before the Supreme Court to protect that body’s latest anti-segrega tion edict. The Court had order ed the University to admit 48- year-old Virgil Hawkins in a‘de cision handed down' last Mon day. (Continued on Page Eight) Last Rites For Dr. S. T. James Held March 10 Last rites were held for Dr. Sidney Taylor James at the White Rock . Baptist Church last Saturday, March 10,^ at 2:30 p.m., with the pastor. Rev. M. M. Fisher, officiating. Assisting him were Dr. J Neal Hughley, North Carolina College minister who read the Scripturc lesson, and the Rev. D. .A. Johnston, minister of the St. Joseph AME Church who offered the prayer. Dr. James, who owned and operated the Bull City Drug Store on Fayetteville Street for more than 40 years, died on Wednesday, March 7, at 4:45 p.m., after an illness of more than two years. Son of the late Alfred and Eliza James of Bnuiswick County, Virginia, Dr. James was born Novemoer 1, 1875. He was 80 years of age. He received his elementary education in Brunswick County Public Schools; attended St. Paul’s Polytechnic Institute, Ijawrencevllle, Virginia; Vir ginia State College, Petersburg, Va., and Leonard Medical Col lege, Shaw Univenity, Raleigh. After graduathig from Virginia State College, he taught school in Virginia for three«years', la ter matriculating at Shaw Uni versity, where he received his degree in Pharmacy. Dr. James joined the Poplar Mount Baptist Church, JBruns- (Continued on Page Eight) RALEIGH ..li^rior Court Judge Hamil- toh (5. Hobgood ruled here Mon day in favor of Attorney Gene ral W. B. Rodman and Secretary of State Thad Eure on a proce dural question in the first round of what is believed to be a long drawn out series of litigation. Judge Hobgood ruled that the state’s contentio.i that to de termine the -iability of the NAACP under state statutes pertaining to (1) foreign cor porations (2) lobbies) consti tute separate causes of action and should be severed, be sus tained. Attorney C. O. Pearson im mediately gave notice that the NAACP will appeal Hobgood’s ruling. The action grew out of a com plaint of the Patriots, a proseg regationist organization, which requested Eure to force the NAACP to comply witli the sta tutes which require out-of-state corporations doing business within the state to register and (2) that the NAACP be made to register under the law re quiring businesses seeking to in fluence public opinion. Rodman claimed that failure to comply with the law that governs out-of-state corpora tions gives rise to a civil action while failure to comply with the lobbying law could result in a jail term or fine and therefore would have to be tried separate ly. Attorney Robert Carter of the New York office of the NAACP, argued for a declaratory judge ment that the state was without power to require the NAACP to register under either of the state laws. He further told the court that if the state did have the power to force the NAACP to comply with the statues Ihen the state has exceeded its au thority. Carter said that the state cannot force compliance of these state laws without viola ting the U. S. Constitution. The case will be heard before the State Supreme Coiut late in the fall and if the judgement of the Wake County Superior court is upheld, it will, in all probability, go to the U. S. Su preme Court. The difficulty be fore the court, aside from the political considerations, is tho fact that only one case has been brought in North Caroling where the court nas made any indication at all about declara tory judgements in reference to criminal law. The action against the NAACP (Continued on Page Eight) EMIALLY SPEAKING A Gloved Hand, But An Iron Fist William Faulkner, winner of the Nobel prize and a na tive of Mississippi, has de livered a backhand slap at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple and the 15 million Negroes in America. Because Negroes of thought and achievement in this country have looked upon Mr. FauUuier as som^ what of a voice crying in the southern wilderness of race hatred and bigotry, his “go slow” advice to the NAACP and American Negroes comes at a time when a more pro gressive pronouncement on the segregation problem from his pen might have been more of calming influence on the troubled waters of the South land. While the Nobel prize win ner’s advice to the NAACP is to “go slow,” it, intentionally or unintenionally, says to the various organizations of hate and bigotry now springing up up all over the South, speed up your action against Ne groes. Defy the Constitution of the United States and the Supreme Court. Mr. Faulkner’s advice runs true to form with the reac tionary southern pattern. It places the full responsibility of going slow, compromise, arbitration, etc. on the should ers of Negroes only. It gives little or no thought to the fact that the NAACP and Negro leadership have not in one instance violated the prin ciples of democratic govern ment. or resorted to violence or ev^ a threat of violence in their struule for first-class citizenship. ®ily in the courts presided over by white men, many of whom are southern bred and born, has the Negro sought and won his victories for the implementation of De mocracy in this country. Has Mr. Faulkner forgot that for nearly 60 years the Negro patiently endured the doctrine of “separate but equal” as handed down in 1896 by the U. S. Supreme Court in the Plessy vs. Fer ^sm case? Although Negroes in this country were fully a- ware that the judgement of the court was “pernicious” unfair and unjust the U. S. Supreme Court had spoken, that was the law of the land and as loyal American cit izens it was their duty to obey that law. For approximately 60 years he went slow, he waited for the “equal” part of the “sep arate but equal” doctrine to be provided him. Even at this late hour, there is not a single southern state that can truth fully claim that it made an attempt to live up to its full responsibility under the “sep arate but equal” era, whether on railroads, in schools, or other public facilities. In stead, the Negro became a victim of “taxation without representation.” Even now his life in many places of the South is in jeoparfy if he at tempts to vote, ask for equal schools, equal job c^portuni- ties or other elementary rights to which he is entitled as an American citizen. In Mr. Faulkner’s article, there are veiled but certain (Please turn to Pa^ Two) HANYSUONS TO SUPPORT POWELl BIU WASHINGTON Pledges from a number at senators and represontative* ia Congress fa vote for pending civil rights legislation were d»- scribed here this week at a re port session closing a three-day civil rights assembly. An important part of the as sembly, attended by tome 2,000 persons representing 3t orpml- zations, was a series of pcnonal calls on congresunen to secure the lawmakers' vie#s on the passage of civil rights bills in this session of Congress. Many of the delegates’ re ports, given to the full assembly on March 5 and 8, indicated a willingness on the part of con gressmen to vote for the civil rights assembly’s eight-point legislative program. Other dele gates found legislators evasive or hostile. Mrs. Juanita Bfitchell, an NAACP attorney of Baltimore, Md., reported to the assemblage that Sen. J. Glenn Beall (R-Md) agreed to support the legislative program but “left us with a feeling that his heart was not with us.” She said her delegation asked Sen. John M. Butler (R-Md.) why the Senate “should sit back on its haunches while American citizens are being lynched and murdered.” Optimistic Report The Missouri delegation ap peared to have had a more 4K>ai- tive experience with its con gressmen. According to a report submitted uj (Conlii. LUCY CASE BACK IN AU. STAT^ COURT BIVt-.tfNGHAM .Ala. Attorneys tor Miss Autherine . Lucy filed a motion today in Birmingham ask-ng the Federal District Court to disregard the University of Alabama expul sion order and instruct Univer sity officials to readmit the Ne gro student. The motion called upon Fe deral Judge H. Hobart u 'ooms, who originnily uidered the ad- mittai^ce of Miss Lucy to the University, to amend his order of February 'iSk which instruct ed the University to tsnninate its exclusion of Miss Lucy from the campi'S by 9 00 a.m., March 5, to pro/ide fo> her reaui',. sion in ti.-ne for the fall sei-i.M- ter. The attorneys did not urge her iminetiiatc readmittance (>•- cause of the time Miss Lucy has lost as a result of the Univer sity's expulsion order. The law yers termed the expulsion order a legally ineffective interfer ence with the performance of a duty incumbent on the Boird under this Court's order.” llie suspension order waa issued on February 6. Miss Lucy was admitted to the 125-year old University February I, after almost 4 years of ceurt battles. Miss Lucy earlier stated that she hopes to be readmitted to the University of Alabama. In a statement made on Blarch 7 she said; “Despite all that has hap pened I continue to hope, wish and work that I oiay be nble to pursue my education at the State University of my own home state. up nntil the pre sent time. 1 have been thwarted in my effort to do that. Tbere- fore, I have got to follow two courses: to persist in my efforts to be admitted to the University of Alabama next tall and also to make appUcatioa to othec scboob because I am sincerely interested in getting an educa tion in the Univeraltjr ot Ala- ')ama it I can, but it not. in another school. I woald hop* ttat thar* are nnWTigated ualv«rsitiea ia the Southlnd on wbose cun- puaes I may Had wknmi aa •
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