Newspapers / The Carolina Times (Durham, … / March 31, 1956, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Carolina Times (Durham, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
Church Editor Hred In Wake Of Attack On Bishops WASHINGTON, D. C. W. J. WalU to such a degree Pressure reached a new high in AMEZ church circles here last week when- the bishops of the Church, in special session, suspended Dr. Walter Raleigh Lovell, veteran editor of the Star of Zion, for the appearance of an article In the February issue of the paper, which they termed "scurrilous.” The action wus taken after the bishops made what they termed an investigation of the article which accused the chur ch bishops of fornication, selling appointments nnd being guilty of generally bad morality. The article, when it appeared, bore the by-line of "A Parson”. It incited the wiath of Bishop that he had a special committee appointed to get at thi bottoin of the whole thing. The com mittee, composed of Bishops W. W. ^ade, Raymond L. Jones and Rev. J. W. Findley set out to determine who was responsi ble. The investigation revealed that the real writer was the Rev. F. Louis Bell, who, pastors in Farmville, N. C. The committee could not determine how edHor Lovell could permit such an ar tide to appear. His explanation was that he was not at his desk and {hat his clerk-secretary, Mrs. M. E. Leak, was responsi ble for its appearance. The committee hinted that W. R. LOVELL there was collusion between Lo- requested to appear, but he gave AprlL IVuMtd to tlw eoamittM veil and the writer. It then set out to find the writer. Upon ar riving in Farmville they were told by the writer that he did write the article and that he had two others, touching U]^n the genesal lack of Christian char acter some of the prelates that were not printed in the Star of Zion. The committee reported its findings to Bishop Walls, and he then called a meeting of the en tire Board of Bishops, to meet here March 31. The meeting was held and Dr. Lovell, along with Mrs. Leake and James Bames, plant foreman of the AM£ Zion publication house at Charlotte. Rev. Bell .was also as his reason for not appearing that he was not notified until late in the afternoon of March 20.« As a result of the meeting, the Board of Bishops voted to suspend Dr. Lovell because of the manner in which the affairs of his office were being con ducted. The suspension will stand until a meeting of the Publishing Board in Charlotte on April 12. The Bishops also suspended Mrs. Leake, a veteran offief worker for the Star for 11 yean. The Board appointed a commit tee to attend to- publication of the Star until the full meeting of the Publiishing Board in are Bishop W, W. SImI*, Revs. R. r. R. Blakdy and P L. De Berry. Persons ctoac to the situ ation feel that the stara action against LovcU, imiltm in Wa suspension, was instlcatad by _ Bishop Walls beeanse oi a long standing fued between the pre- Ute and the edttor. Tkm faeling has run to high in tbdr strained reUtions that Or. L«Mll repor tedly supped the Usliop in on* of the ante rooms of the First AME Zion Church in Brooklyn, N. Y., at the 1952 gencfal con ference of the churcb. The Rev. Bell sUted in Farm- ville Tuesday night that he not (Please ttim to Page Kiglit) Quick Test For Dr. Sidney Williams, president of Elizabeth City Teach ers’ College and president-elect of the North Carolina Teach ers’ Association, looks on as Mrs. Ida H. Duncan, president of the NCTA, lights the birthday cdke which symbolized the organization’s 75tivannl,versary. BAN ON NUCP Durham Pair Offers Home For Jailed Girl Durham Alphas A Durham couple this week offered to provide a home for a 13 year-old girl who has been jailed by her parents here be cause they couldn’t Jceep her from running away from home. The offer of the Durham couple, made by Mrs. Dorothy Holiday was revealed here Wednesday by Wayne County jailer, L. R. Cobb. It came in the form of a letter from Mrs. Holi day. Efforts to contact the Holiday famMy in Durham Wednesday proved fruitless. According to jailer Cobb, Mrs. Holiday wrote that her husband works for a tobacco company in Durham. “I am sure we can make her a happy home,” she added. Another offer also from Mrs. Nellie Mae Rogers of Creed- moor, who wrote: “I would like to take the little girl and raise her. I feel sorry for the little girl. I have a girl 11 years-ol'd.” Previously, * a Burlington couple hud written, offering to adopt the youngster, but with drew the offer when they learn ed she is a Negro. They did of fer to help in some other way, though. Despite the oifer of adoption, it appears that the child will not be available, foe adoption. Doren Duri',' %'ttyne Ctunty Walfiqm: Department wotker, said that adoption had been ruled out. Durr, along with the clerk of court and juvenile judge have been holding discussions with the child’s parents to find a solution to the problem. (Please turn to Page Eight) Tar Heel NFA Ready For Observance Of Special Week GREENSBORO Radio and television programs by various chapters of the NFA throughout the State are part of the planned observance of New Farmers of America Week, according to W. T. Johnson, executive secretary of the asso ciation. Johnson announced from his headquarters here where he al so serves as Assistant supervi sor of Vocational Agriculture Education at A&T (j^ollege that the week will be observed April 1-7. Johnson stated that the obser vance will honor Booker T. Washington, founder of Tuske- gee Institute and regarded by nnany as the father of Vocation al Education. Johnson said “the approxi mately 9,000 members of the NFA in North Carolina will join With ttie more than 400,000 other boys in sixteen other southern states to pay tribute to the things Washington stood, worked and died for-^the con servation of national resources, crop-rotation, thrift, the living- at-home program, better health, better relationship between the races, and economic advance ment of all people.” He also declared that the aim of the observance would be to acquaint local communities with what vocational training in ag riculture means to it and the ad vancement of agriculture prac tices. 'h$€m VOLUME 32—NUMBER 34 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1956 PRICE: TEN CENTS Convention To Open Thursday Activities of the Southern Re gional Convention of Alpha Phi Fraternity^get umlerwagr here Thursday morning with an executive session and ended Friday night with a formal dance at the Durham City Ar mory. Many delegates from tlie Carolines, Georgia. Florida, Ala bama, Mississippi, and Tenn., started arriving Wednesday.- They were registered at tem porary Headquarters, the Al gonquin Club House. The scene shifted Thursday morning . to North Carolina College where the two-day meeting was cen tered. The Fraternity's top executive officers were on hand for the Convention, which kicked off the celebration of Alpha Phi Alpha’s semi-centennial. Activities began Thursday morning at 9 o’clock with an executive session, followed at 12:30 by a luncheon, for all general, regional, and chapter officers at the Harriet Tubman Branch of tho Y.W.C.A. The Iota Phi Lambda Sorority spon sored the luncheon. Liinch for the general body of the convention was also served at the YWCA. The first of three panel dis cussions was scheduled for 1:30 in the Administration Building (Please turn to Page Eight) Ready To Receive In Regional Meet Hinton Says Group Will Act Soon To Bring Question Before Court Proposed Electoral Change Aimed At Race ~ NAACP NEW YORK Support of the- proposed amendment to change the pre sent method of Ptecting the Pre sident and Vice President “will be interpreted by Negro voters as antl-civil' rights,” Roy Wil kins, executive secretary of the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People, said last Thursday in a telegram to a group of sponsors of the resolution which is now being debated on the Senate floor. The present proposal, Wil kins said, is essentially the same as the Lodge-Gossett resolution of 19S0. The argimieots ad vanced by Representative Ed Gossett of Texas at that time were “nakedly racial in charac ter," the NAACP leader told the senators. At that time, the Texan ex plained that the purpose of his resolution was to curb the pow er of the Negro, labor, Jewi^ and foreign-born vote "*ln the large northern cities. He char ged that the present system of allocating the total electoral vote of each state to the candi date with the highest number of popular votes places a “pre mium on a few thousand lalx>r votes, 6r Italian votes, or Irish votes, or Negro votes, or Jewish votes, or Polish votes, or Com munist votes, or big-city ma chine votes..iocated In two or three large industrial pivotal states.” The NAACP, Wilkins said in his telegram to the senators, “hopes very jnuch that you wlO vote against any change in the electoral college system except that to elect the President by di rect popular vote. Proposal to divide electoral vote of states in proportion to popular vote or according to congressional districts will discriminate again st urban population which is al ready under-represented.” Moreover, the NAACP spokes man pointed out, the "proposal would partially disfranchise Negro voters outside the South while increasing influence of southern states where Negroes are not now permitted to vote freely.” The message was sent to the followjng; Senators Irving M. Ives, H. Alexander Smith, John W. Bricker, Charles E. Potter, Everett McKmley Dlrksen, William F. Knowland, Thontas E. Martin, Edward J. Thye, Alexander Wiley, Dennis Cha vez, James E. Murray, John J. Williams, Bourkc B. Hicken- looper and Gordon Allott. Branches of the NAACP in key cities of pivotal states have been asked to communicate with (Please turn to Page Eight) Members of the Durham fliro-1 in a formal portrait made pnorl duate chapter of the Alpha Pfii, to the regional meeting of the Alpha fratemitu, the Beta Theta fraternity in Durham this wcefc- Lambda chapter are seen here end. The Beta chapter will serve as co-host, along with North Carolina College Gamma Beta chapter, for the meeting. Ushers Mid-Year Session To Convene At Oxford Eisenhower Administration OKers Three Point Civil Rights Plan WASHINGTON, D. C. Informed sources say a three- point civil rights program has been completed by the Eisen hower administration and is ready to be recommended to the Congress. This disclosure came late Tuesday of this week as the ad ministration also battled to re tain some of its measures in the current farm legislation. - Although the program for ad ding more protection to civil rights is considered to be much weaker than one introduced by Rep. James Roosevelt (D-Calif), it is believed that the adminis tration program has a good chance of passing it it ir vigo rously pushed by the President. The three-point administra tion program for safeguarding civil rights, briefly consists of: 1. Creation of a civil rights commission with subpoena pow ers to review complaints of vio lations. 2. Establlshmei.t of a new civil rights division of the Jus tice Department under an assis tant attorney general. This would give more power and prestige to the Justice official handling civil rights matters. 3. Legislation to open federal courts to civil suits against per sons or organisations that deny or attempt to deny voting rights in any state. Most observers have not given Rep. Roosevelt’s plan 'much of a chance to succeed. How ever, they point out that in this election year, Republicans might rally around the Presi dent’s plan, which would be ex pected to get support from the northern liberDl democratic bloc. OXFORD Protestant church ushers from all over the state will gather here next week, April 1.5, for the 32nd meeting of the North Carolina Interdenominational Ushers Association mid-year meeting. Advance reports from units over the state indicate that nearly 700 persons will attend the one-day meeting, to be held at the Colored Orphanage of North Carolina at Oxford. Rev. D. S. Suber, pastor of the St. Mark AME Church of Smithfield, will deliver the ser mon for the meeting at 3:30 in the afternoon. L. E. Austin, president of the organization, said that it was peculiarly fitting that Oxford Orphanage host the meeting, for the association has been well known for its work in aiding the Orphanage and in providing scholaEships for its students. COLUMBIA, S. C. A quick test of the cob- stitutionality of South Caro lina’s new law banning mem bership in the NAACP for dU state employees was predicted here this week in the wake of the signing of the measures into law. Gov. C^rge Bell Timmer man signed the bill last week after its easy passage throu^ the State legislatiire. Rev. James Hinton, Presi dent of the State NAACP, imiwnted shortly after the bill hjid been signed that the NAACP would probably take quick steps to have it tested in the courts. “This new discriminatory law will be tested in the fed eral courts, and little time will be lost in bringing such a case,” Rev. Hinton declar ed. He charged that the law “is a violation of rights guaran teed under the United States Constitution, and is a gross discrimination against those who join the NAACP. He pre dicted that it will not stand the test before the courts of the land. In signing' the /ncastire, Gov. Timmerman assailed the NAACP as an “insidious’ or ganization trying to upset the laws, customs and traditions of the state and creating tur moil between the races. Commenting in New York on the measure, the NAACP’s executive secretary Roy Wil kins said that the NAACP’s objective of “first class cit izenship for Negro Americans according to the Constitution- and the laws of the land” ap parently are “incompatible with the South Carolina con ception of Americanism.” Opposition to the measure also came from an unexpect ed source in South Carolina this week. At Greenville, Dr. George F. K. Naylor, a visit ing Australian professor at Furman University, denounc ed the new law as embodying the “very principles of per secution which we resent as being characteristic of com munism.” “A certain organization,” he said, “whose social objec tives appear to have been s^ lected as a victim to be per secuted appears to have bean selected as a victim to be per secuted because its views dif fer from those of the ruling classes.” The measure appears to be aimed directly at Negro teach ers in the state since they represent the only large group of public employees from which NAACP member ship is recruited in the state. REVEREND D. S. SUBER Founder's Day Exercises At Fayetteville FAYETTEVILLE The Annual J-'ounders’ Day exercis^ at the Fayetteville State Teachers College, Fayette ville, North Carolina are set for Saturday, April 7, and uidica- tions point to a mammoth in gathering of former students and “old grads” from every comer of North Carolina from adjoining states. The guest speaker this year will be the Reverend Carey S. McCall, In structor in the School of Re ligion at Virginia Union Univer sity, Richmond, Virginia. He will be introduced by Ethel Lewis of the Class of ‘40. She is Chairman of the Alumni Foun ders’ Day Committee and Su pervisor of the Craven County Schools for Negroes, New B«m, North Carolina. Varied Program Music will be tumished by the College Choir directed by (Please turn to Page Kight) Dr. Helen Bdinrmr'T ’-t' • • of History at North Carolina College, denounred what she termed attempts to smeo'^ NAACP voith charges of Com- ■•tviiist in a speech be fore a meeting of the Durhterti chapter of the association her* . St Sunday. A noted writer and lecturer. Dr. Edir.unas aevlareil that the NAACP is “ins.7iri1.fl our people to walk with dijni'y Womenltear Plans To Curb Illegitimacy ' Plans now being put into operation to curtail the niimber of children bom out of wed lock by young girls of school age was among the projects of the state welfare department outlined before the executive committee meeting of the North Carolina Federation of Negro Women, held in ourhani recent ly. John R. Larkins, consultant to the State Department of Public Welfare, told the group of plans now being used by tha organization to curb the in crease in illegitimate births among Negroes i' the State. Larkins was the featured speaker at the meeting which concemed itself largely with planning for the Federation’s annual stale wide meeting, sche duled for Fayetteville State Teachers College May 18-20. Among the other matters of concern to the Welfare, depart ment, Larkins listed the need for increased day care facilities for small children, discussed the present status of the institution for feeble-minded children, out lined the progress being made in restoring self - sufficiency through public welfare services, and stressed the need for more licensed boarding homes for the aged and children. The conunitt^’s meeting wa» presided over by Mrs. Roae Ag- grey of Salisbury, president of the Federation. Numerous re ports were received by members of the committee on actlvitiet carried on by the organization. Mrs. Tbebna Henley repwrt- ed at length on the status and plans for the.state meeting set for May. A number o outstand ing figures arc expected to speek and Ued diacussions at thii meeting. All sessions of the committee meetings were eoaducted at tfe» (Pleeae turn to Pace Bght) I
The Carolina Times (Durham, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
March 31, 1956, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75