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'King’ Cole Okay After Attack, May Leave Group ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ S.C. STUDENTS STRIKE i VOLUME 32—NUMBER IS DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1956 PRICE: TEN CENTS MRS. DAISY LAMPKIN Daisy Lampkin To Speak At Women's Day Mrs. Daisy E. Lampkin, long time top echelon official of the NAACP and vice president of the Pittsburgh Courier, will be the featured speaker at a Wo man's Day program scheduled for St. Joseph’s A.M.E. church in Durham on Sunday, April 22. Mrs. Lampkin, who has also served with the United Nations, will speak at an eleven o’clock service Sunday morning and de liver a special message in the evening to women’s organiza tions of the city. In addition to her duties' as executive for the Courier news paper, she served lo^ 15 years as a field secretary for the NAACP. BIrs. B. A. J.^Whitted, chair man of the Woman’s Day pro gram, anticipates a large audi ence for each program. White House Desegregation Talks Urged NEW YORK Roy Wilkins, NAACP execu tive secretary, ' has expressed his hope that President Eisen- fidwer will call a White House Conference on desegregation. In a statement issued on Mar. 31, Wilkins urged that the pro posed conference “include re presentatives of both races from the areas where the problem! must be solved.” “A conference limited to elec ted state officials,” the civil rights leader said, "cannot pre sent fairly*the views of substan tial minorities of Negro citizens in the affected states, nor can it reflect the opinion of the mo derates among southern whites.” Such a meeting, Wilkins pre dicted, "at the very least would open the presently clogged channels of communication be tween the races in the South.” The NAACP official’s state ment was issued in response to a March 31 letter from Presi dent Eisenhower to Florida Governor LeRoy Collins. In his letter, the President said he was holding in abeyance the idea of a White House Conference on racial problems until it is clear whether Congress will act fa vorably on the Administration’s proposal for a bi-partisan com mission with subpoena powers to investigate race relations. Governor Had Requested Con ference The President’s letter was sent in reply to a telegram from Governor Collins, which the Chief Executive received on March 22. Governor Collins had requested the White House to 'hold a conference of southern governors and attorneys gene ral to discuss pressing issues in the race relations situation. President Elsenhower also told the Florida governor that if Cmgr«H...does not cooperate on his plan for a civil rights com mission, “I will have to consider Other types of conferences, in cluding the kind you suggast’* La. Soutliern Gentlefnen Suggests Nearoes Return To Africa BATON ROUGE. La. The President of the Southern Gentlemen said here last Tues day that Negroes should be educated well enough so they can be sent back to Africa to run their own government. This suggestion for a back to Africa movement, first since the Marcus Garvey in tiie early 1900’s, came from J. B. Easterly, Sr., president of the pro-segre gationist Southern Gentlemen. Easterly was i;i the process of criticizing Louisiana University officials for admitting Negroes to the school when he came up with tne suggeetioa. Easterly said that Louisiana State Board sold white citizens “down the river” by failing to halt Negro infiltration rather than endanger LSU’s athletic fu ture. “We feel that Negroes who have entered our university un- ■%er court orders are more in terested in -forcing mixing ot races than they are in academic learning,’’ the Southern Gentle men head asserted. “This time, the Southern Gentlemen fully realize the uni versity has fought, in the courts, to keep from mixing the races in LSU and we appreciate and admire the administration for this effort,” EUksterly said. He has criticized the school be fore for admitting Negro stu dents. Louisiana Battle To Oust KAACP Slated To Be Staged In State Court Easterly insisted that his group feels that “any program academic or athletic that de pends upon integration for its success is unworthy of the sup port of our great university and the people of Louisiana.” His suggestion that Negroes migrate to Africa is the first such one since Garvey’s Zionist movement in post world war I days. NEW ORLEANS, La. Attorneys jfor the National Association for the Advance ment of Colored People last Thursday prepared to petition the Louisiana, State Supreme Court to dissolve a pariA court preliminary Injurictlon restrain ing the Association from hold-, ing meetings in Louisiana until, a complete list of the names and addresses of all NAACP mem bers and officers in the state is filed wltH tlte Secntary State. The action fbliowed a hearing on April 4 before Federal Dis trict Judge J. Skelly Wright who ruled that he was power less to vacate the parish couri order. Ho'Wever, he repHmand- ed the lower court for proceed ing with its order after a peti tion had been filed to remove the case^ the Federal court. He indicated that the parish court was enjoined from such action by force of existing law. Furthermore action in the Federal court, Judge Wright said, would be postponed until after the State Supreme Court ruled on the NAACP application for a writ to dissolve the lower court’s restraining order. NAACP assistanc special coim- sel Robert L. Carter of New York City represented the As sociation in pleadings before the Federal court. The original suit was institu ted by the state under an old law aimed at the Ku Klux Klan. The purpose of the suit was to curb the effect i.veness of the NAACP in the state. The Asso ciation countered with a peti tion to remove the case tJ the Federal court. Because this petition wa? de nied, Judge Wright ordered the state to show cause why 4he NAACP request for a change of jurisdiction was not ‘ properly acted upon and why the prelimi nary injunction granted by the lower court should not be set aside. "NAT" BOND WILL LOSE JQB ^ BLUEFIELD Nathaniel Bond will lose his teaching job at Bluefield State College at the end of this year, apparently as a result of his testimony before a House Un- American Activities Committee a few weelcs ago at Charlotte. Education made the announce ment Tuesday. Bond refused 'a> answer ques tions put to him by the commit tee concerning alleged Commu nist activities and associations. At the close of the hearing, Bond denied that he was or ever had been a Communist. He said he felt that to answer the com mittee’s questions would have been to endorse “undemocratic political inquisitions.’' Former FBI agents testified that they had known him to be associated with Communists in the Durham area. Bond’s denial of Commimist affiliations were included in a letter to Dr. Stephen J. Wright, president of Bluefield State Col lege. He declared that the accu sation of the conunittee’fc wit ness was based solely upon his false assumptions and my asso ciations that were inevitable (Please turn to Page Eight) GOP Aide To Address NAACP In Durham Val J. Washington, Director of Minorities for Republican Na tional Committee, will be the featured speaker at the monthly meeting of the Durham Chapter of the NAACP at Mount Vernon Baptist Church, Sunday, April 22, at 4:00 p.m. A large turn Wt is expected to hear him. Washington was born in Co lumbus, Indiana, September 18, 1903. After fini.shing the public schools of his home town, he was graduated from the Uni versity of Indiana in 1924 with a double major in economics and journalism. He has served as a reporter, an Insurance agent and official, a free lance and ghost writer for business, cliurch and politi cal groups; and served four 2 year terms as a member of the Illinois Commerce Commission before joining the Republican National Committee as consul tan^ on Minority affairs HHr MM ChalmuTn, Herbert Browiiell, now U. S. Attorney General. He accepted full tim\e employment in his present posi tion in Washington In 1949 and has served under National Chairmen. Waitiington is a member of the Nktional Association of Rall- West Virginin nrnird Commissioners; the Kappa FFat^rHit^and the AME Church. Three Enter Contest For Offices In State WARRENTON Three men have filed as can didates for public office in this heavily Negro populated eas tern section. Thurston Brown filed Tues day as Democratic candidate for the State'Senate from the Third Senatorial District to be come the third Negro to enter races for public office. Earlier, Augustus C. Coefield of Weldon announced he is running for Democratic nomination from the foiu^h district and Dr. Salter J. Cochrane has become a candi date for the Halifax County Board of Education. James R. Walker, attorney ot Weldon, will manage the cam paigns of the three. " Brown and Coefield are both imdertakers. The Third district, from which Brown is running, if made up of Warren, Northampton and Vance counties. W. W. Taylor, Jr., of Warrenton held the seat in the 1998 session. Brown has opposition al ready In two Northampton county men, A. C. Gay of Jack son and Perry Martin of Rich Square. Hie fourlfi district, from which Coefield is seeking a seat, is comprised of Halifax and Edgecombe counties. Sen. W. Lunsford Crew of Roanoke Ra pids has already announced he will seek-re-election for the seat. Negroes outnumber whites in most counties of these two dis tricts, located in what has been commonly called the “black belt.” But efforts to register large numbers of Negroes to vote have met with resistance. Eleven Give Up Vote In Florida BRISTOL, FLA. Because of the violence in Liberty County, eleven Negroes walked into the office of the registration supervisor and ask ed to have their names removed from the voters’ list. This means only one Negro’s name is still registered and she Is a woman who Is at present in New York. Having twelve names of Ne groes on the voters’ list made history in the county last Febru ary. Only It was followed by a^ of violence ^th crosses re ported lilted and a house fired on. A mock Investigation was made by Sherrlff S. G. Revell at the request of Governor Collins but Revell, claimed he couldn’t get any information. VAL WASHINGTON Hinton Blasts, Charges Of Aiding Reds COLUMBIA, S. C. James M. Hinton, president of the South Carolina State NAACP, pointed out last week that Negroes who “fight for first class citizenship” in the South “are termed subversive” while “whites who place roadblocks" in their way “are called good Americans and worthy citizens.” The NAACP official answered in a prepared statement an ac cusation by State Attorney Qeneral T. C. Callison that the NAACP, the Congress, the courts and political parties “are all combining to bring about the conditions most hoped for by the world Communist party- one of strUe, turmoil, discon tent, tinhapplness and open vio lence.” Hinton asserted that the NAACP has had no part of strife or violence. “There should be no ill will,” he maintained, “when there is a resort to due process of law.” NAT “KING” COLE, who was the victim of a wanton attack by six white men on stage at a Birmingiiam Auditor ium wliere lie was appearing witii a “pacliage” show, is shown here in »less harried situation conferring with an un identified member of the ti^upe. Cole flew back to Chicago Wednesday morning following the attack to get a physical check-up. Singer Flies To Chicago, Raleigh Appearance Friday Still Uncertain (SpeciaUto The TIMES) CHICAGO, ILL. —- Whether Nat “King” Cole will be able to complete a southern tour with, a group of popular musicians will depend on the advise of doctors who were examining him late Wednesday. This was the word irom liis agent, Pat Lombard, who toid the TIMES WedneaAay that C^e was anxious to fiiiish thtf" toor. " ' - ? The popular singer-fianist, Charlotte altU another Friday at was injured Tuesday night while playing an engagement in Bir mingham, Alabama, when a group of six white men jumped onto the stage to attack him. Only three of them reached the stage however, vaulted over the floodlights and knocked the singer and microphone to the floor. Police came from the wings of the auditorium and grabijed the attackers. Cole returned to the stage shortly after the attack and told the audience that be had come to entertain them, which was what he thought they want ed. He s^id that because of the attack he would be unable to go on. He flew to Chicago Wednes day morning where he was to undergo a thorough examina tion. At least one angagement, at Greenville, S. C on Wednesday night was cancelled by the ar tist, and it was uncertain as to whether he would be able to make a Thursday engagement at Raleigh. Lombardo said that Cole was suffM'ing from severe shock and had been painfully injured in the back and left arm. It is thought that the young musician wrenched his back. No statement was available from his personal physician, Dr. James Scott, who was con ducting examinations late Wed. Lombardo was quick to add though that Cole Is “quite anxious to finish the southern tour.” He said that Cole “holds no anlmosky toward anyone.” But whether or not he can complete the tour depends on the doctor’s advice, Lombard as serted. In Raleigh, promoter Joe Winters said he had been flood ed with telephone calls and messages Wednesday from stu dents at the University of North Carolina, Duke .'ind N. C. State and from townspeople stating that if Cole does appear there, he would be treated much more appreciatively. Protest Probe By Solons Of C^pus NAACP ORANGEBintG, S. C. Students at South Carolina State College here wege holding a meeting late Wednesday to de termine whether or not to con tinue a three-day old walk-out which has completely emptied classes on this campus. Students returr.iKl to the cam pus Motiday from Easter holi days but failed to report to clas ses. Teachers showed up and faced a mass ot empty seats Monday, Only a £ew showed up to teach Tuesday and all were advised by the administration that there would be no need for them to report for work Wed. CoUege officials have admit ted that the strike is 100 percent effective. Although none of the ap proximately 1.500 students ap peared wiUing to say so, the walkout has been interpreted as a protest move to a resolution passed recently in the S. C. legislature calling for an uives- tigation of NAACP activities on the college campus. Dr. Benner C. Turner, presi dent of the Institution, said that he had not met with student leaders and had not received any grievances (rom them. On Monday, students from neighboring Claflin College joined in sympathy with strik ing S. C. State students by par ticipating In a picket of Dr. Tur ner’s office on tlie campus. It is b^eved that the ^.j^ents planned a vote,**-! Weu.^sda^ on ending the walk->>ot. Meanwhile, Gav. OleorEe Timmerman Jr. chai-gc.1 ui strike iisd been proci. .t^\;.! “subversive elejaents” r r- the student body. He said that he had been informed th.it cer tain subversive elements plan ned a demonstration. The campus has been under constant police surveillance since Saturday by order of the Governor. Fred Moore, Student Council president, could not be reached for coDoment, but James Robin son, junior at the institution, said everybody was out at the college “indefinitely.” ‘Nobody feels like going to class,” he said, but added “there Is no particular reason.” Wallace C. Bethea, chairman of the trustee board at the col lege, said students not in class rooms would be marked absent. Classes were scheduled to have resumed Monday, following the holiday. In addition to picketing Pre- CPI ease turn to Page Eight) r Excerpts From Ruling In Montgomery Case Editor’s Note: An excerpt from an opinion by Federal Judge Johnson J. Hayes in the Mont gomery county school case. On September 7, 1955, this court refused to constitute a three-judge court under Section 266 of the Judicial Code as amended, 28 U.S,C. 2281, for that the pleadings at that time did not show that the defen dants were state officers and un dertaking to enforce State sta tutes or orders of a State Board or Commission. An amendment to the Com plaint has been made which now alleges that the defendants maintain certain schools for White children exclusively and other schools exclusively for Negro children and that in the permanence of these acts the ^id defendants are acting pur suant to the direction and au thority contained in the State Constitutional provisions, State Statutes, State Administrative Orders and Legislative Policy and, as much, are officers of the State of North Carolina enfor cing and executing State Statu tes and Policies. By the 'amendment to the Complaint, the plaintiffs have alleged facts to show that the defendants are acting in a true sense as officers of the State in respect to public elementary and high schooU. While their area of activity is confined to Montgomery County, neverthe less they are doing in their county precisely what similar officials in each of the other !)9 counties are doing- they are ad ministering the State free public school system. A suit to restrain enforcement of the State wide school law, applicable alike in each county of the State, al though against only these offi cials in Montgomery County, is in reality a suit .against State officers. They are not enforcing the school law. ot Montgomery County, but the school law of North Carolina in Montgomery County. There can be no real doubt that they are acting as c^^icers of the State and therefore meet one of the teats for determining the requisite of the jurisdiction of a three-judge court. If, then, the State Constitu tion or Statutes or orders re quiring that separate sehotda for the races must be maintained, it follows aa the night the day that, being in conflict with the Constitution of the United . States as defined by the Su preme Court, they are to that extent, nuU and void. No three- judge court is necessary to make that declaration. There can be no doubt that the authorities cited above ren der null and void any law in this State compelling the segre gation of the races, whether in the schools for higher education or on the lower level. If the defendants are discrimi nating against the plaintiffs, it will be the duty of a one judge district court to hear and deter mine the facts. If it is ultimately determined that they are, such acts can not be defended on the ground tliat the State Constitu tion. or Statutes or orders of ttie State Board compel it, tor the obvious reason that Brown v. . Board, supra, and Frasier «. Trustees, supra, have already declared that such laws and or ders must yield to the Four teenth Amendm«*tl which as Uiey interpret it bar* mich di^ crimination.
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