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PANORAMIC SCENE ROM A. M. L CONVENTION IN MIAMI, FLORIDA
Here is a panoramic view of one of the sessions of the I in the spacious Dinner Key auditorium, reput*d t« be (me of I conference will take up is one involving the eight year plan, slons and will re^rt each week on the vital imiet tahan uf
S'th Quadrennial of the African Methodist Episcopal Church the largest in the South. Some 10,000 persons are estimated by which each Bishop of the church rotates after ei|^t years, by the conference. ^
T hich is underway in Miami, Florida. The scene was taken I to be in attendance at the conference. Among the issues the IL. E. Austin, publisher of the TIMBB, is attending the ses-
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VOLUME 32 —NUMBER 19
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1956
Carolina presents
Dudiatit of Roc
Seaie&faom the Sixth IM« . .
rtah firateaaity held in Charhme lecently arie inowil'
The meeting attracted the largest numb^ of delega;^ for
».ueh a seadon. At left, H. Carl Moultrie, (left) present plaque
to J. A. Grimes, dean of men at Johnson C. Smith Univer
sity at Charlotte for the dean’s outstanding contributions in
leaderah^ and inspiration to young men. At right. Dr.
Duncan of AshevtUe, ydnner in the sixth disiHct. Looking
on are Alvin Damon, mnston-Salem, and OliiW Thompson,
Codumbia, S^uth Carolina, third ^d second place winners,
respectively.
Battle May
Face Fight For
Elks' Top Post
By J. B. Harren
TARBORO
This fidgecombe County seat
and the neighburlng all-Negro
town of PrincevUle, just across
Tar river, will be hosts to the
36th annual Convention of the
Improved Benevolent Protective
Order of Blka of the World, May
30 through 24. Sessions of the
convention will be held at the
St. Paul and Union Baptist
churches, the St. Paul AME
Zion church and the Rivervlew
Elks home on Edgecombe ave.
Theodore Giles, exalted ruler
of the Rivervlew lodge and Mrs.
Janie Petway, representing
Daughter-EUcs, are making last
minute preparations to insure
the success of the convention
which met here eight years ago.
Other key local officials active
In the program are Nat Gray,
Grand Officer J. A. Mebane and
Addle A. Lawrence.
Much interest centers around
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Boycott Leader
To Speak In N. Y.
NEW YORK
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr., leader of the Mont
gomery protest movement, will
be one of the principal speakers
at the NAACP Legal Defense
and Educational Fund, Inc., May
17th, at a dinner at the Waldorf-
Astoria. It is the second affair
given by the Legal Defense
Fimd In observance of the Su
preme Court decjision outlawing
segregation in public education.
Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, Under
Secretary of the United Na
tions and Nobel Peace Prize
winner, is chairman of the din
ner committee. Roy Wilkins,
Xxecutive Secretary of the
NAACP 'and Thurgood Mar
shall, Director-Counsel of the
NAACP Legal Defense and Edu
cational Fund, are scheduled to
giva progreia reports.
All Bishops To Move;
Race On For Vacancies
MIAMI, Fla.
What bishop will preside over
the second episcopal district of
the AME church for the next
term could not be answered
here late Wednesday as candi
dates for the bishophric and
other elective officers began
campaigning with fevered heat
in the closing days of the
church’s 39th Qiiadrennial.
Wednesday morning saw the
presentation of a budget by the
Brotherhood, an organization
composed entirely of ministers
of the church. Conference regu
lations require that all legisla*
tion presented for adoption be
read three times before being
voted on, and delegates sat pa
tiently while this most impor
tant document was read.
Contained in it are appropria
tions for all departments of the
church and a minimum salary of
$3,000 a yedr for full time pas-i
tors. It is predicted that the
budget will be adopted follow
ing the third reading to be com
pleted Wednesday morning.
Balloting for the five vacan
cies for the bishopric is expected
to get underway Wednesday
afternoon with one of them to
be a native of Africa. Highlight
ing the conference this week
were addressed Tuesday by
Thurgood Marshal, chief legal
defense counsel for the NAACP,
and Dr. Archibald J. C^rey, no
ted minister, lawyer and United
Nations representative.
The conference voted to move
every bishop this year. It was
not determined late Wednesday
just what bishop would be
moved to the second district.
Bishops Frank M. Reid and
Frederick D. Jordan are the
first choices of delegates from
the Virginia, North Carolina
and Western North Carolina
conferences. But, an interpreta
tion of the church law to the
Thurgood To Speak
In Raleigh Sunday
effect that any bishop who has
served even one or two con
ferences within a district may
be moved. Bishop Reid is ser
ving the unexpired term of the
late bishop L. L. Hemingway of
the second episcopal district.
Approximately 100 are in tha.
field for the bishopric, witl^
hundreds of others campaign-^
ing equally as hard .for lesser
offices.
One issue creating considera
ble discussion among delegated
of the second episcopal disti
is to the effect that educations:
funds collected in .the Baltimore
and Washington conference tot
Kittrell College during the past
two years have been withheld
from the school' by bishop D.
Ward Nichols, presiding prelate
of the two conferences, with the
exception of |4,000 which bish
op Nichols told a representative
of the TIMES he turned over to
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Fighting Fund
For Freedom
Rally Slated
By J. B. Harren
RALEIGH
What is heraltled as one of
the mdft important NAACP
mass mMtings to be staged h)
Tarheelift is being looked for
ward to kith mtich anxiety by
state and focai NAACP officials
and memwrs throughout the
state as S^day, May 13th ap
proaches.
The Qccasito is the state-wide
NAACP Filing Fund For
Freedom (i-Pi rall>s wMch,
this year, win feature none
other than “Mjty,. Civil ^(Ights”
Ibinsellp^fh^ ’ Thur
good Marshall—-from “up South
in Baltimore;’’
The time ana place of the
meeting which is expected to
draw several thousand freedom-
seeking people^lrom throughout
the state, wjll be the Raleigh
Memorial Auditefium at 3 P.M.
Sunday. Music fuMMhe occasion
will be by the noted St. James
Baptist Church Gospel Choir of
■Rocky Mount. Wm. T. Grimes,
minister of music at the church,
will be directing. Accompanists
are Mesdames Roerta D. Bailey
and Ruth E. McLaurin. This
choir has twice previously ren
dered music for Raleigh NAACP
meetings and has received much
favorable comment.
State NAACP president Kelly
M. Alexander of Charlotte and
State Field Secretary Claries
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REP. ADAM C. POWELL
Bishop
Draws
H. B. Shaw’s Speech
Ire Of AMEZ Group
PITTSBURGH, Pa.
A move to repeal a law which
automatically retires bishops
and a statement by Bishop Her
bert B. Shaw of Wilmington,
N. C. which stirred the wrath
of delegates to this 39th quad
rennial session of the AMEZ
General Conference were just
two of the sparks which have
enlivened the church’s meeting
which opened here last week.
Sudden illness and death also
struck at the conference last
week, claiming the life of Rev.
L. S. Blacklcndge, presiding
elder of an Alabama district,
and hospitalizing Rev. M. P.
Sawyer, pastor of the ’Trinity
church of Greensboro.
Rev. Sawyer, stricken as he
slept last Monday, was rushed
to Montefiore hospital where
his condition improved, and late
reports indicated that he would
be released in a few days.
Delegates had hardly settled
in their seats on the opening
day of the conference, May 2,
when a well planned move to
circumvent the law of retiring
bishops was brought to the
floor.
The Rev. J. R. Funderburk of
Southern Pines, N. C. intro
duced a resolution calling for
the convention to repeal present
rules requiring automatic re
tirement and asked the body to
vote to retain Bishops W. C.
Brown and W. S. Slade for an
other four years.
The resolution threw the con
ference into an uproar which
did not subside until an effect
by presiding Bishop R. L. Jones
to get a vote on it failed. Rev.
Funderburk withdrew the reso
lution the following day, but
proponents of the move did not
relent, and succeeded in getting
bishops Brotvn and Slade re
elected for another term.
Bishop Shaw’s statements
concerning the integrity of the
Negro church and which was
picked up by the major presa
services, drew the fire of a ma
jority of the delegates who felt
that the statement could only
be used as ammunition for foes
of integration and would place
the denomination In a bad light.
Bishop Shaw had reportedly
said that the Negro church was
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Seats For Race
‘^In Grandstand,
Jim Crow Style
KINSTON
Negroes can watch any ball
game from the grandstand at
the local park liere. But the
grandstand section which they
can occupy is segregated.
In a special session, the com-
mision which controls use of
Grainger stadium, home of the
Kinston Eagles, voted to allow
Negroes to use a special section
of the grandstand next to the
bleacher section now used by
Negroes.
Previously Negroes were not
permitted to use any part of the,
grandstand. And it is believed
that no other park in the state
allows Negroes to use any part
of the grandstand.
The new policy was scheduled
to go into effect at Wednesday
night’s game. Kinston was sche
duled to play Wilson.
In Wilson las', week, a group
of Negroes seeking admittance
to a game were barred from the
grandstand. Among them was a
member of the city’s conrniis-
sioners. Dr. G. K. Butterfield.
Dr. Butterfield subsequently
toid the TIMES he expected that
a seating policy would be work
ed out soon in a meeting be
tween city and park officials.
’The action to admit Ne
groes to the grandstand in Kin-
stpn came after an appeal by
members of a city interracial
committee.
Branded Voice
Of The Past
- NEW YORK -
General Mark Clark "speaks
with the voice of the dead past,”
Roy Wilkins, executive secre
tary of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People, said in commenting on
General’s attack on Negro ser
vicemen and on integration.
In an addre.s3 in Charleston,
S. C., where he now resides as
president of The Citadel, a mili
tary school, General Clark said:
I did not feel that we should
integrate then .1950) and I do
not think so now.”
The Deftnse Department,
Wilkins pointed out, “made ex
tensive studies uf the use of Ne
gro manpower before it adopted
the integration fx)licy. On the
basis of these studies it was con
cluded that integration was best
from both military and moral
standpoints.”
“It is significant.” the NAACP
spokesman declared, “that as
soon as it became an indepen
dent service the Air Force initi
ated a non-segregation policy.
The Korean war produced evi
dence that integration is work
able, militarily effective and
morally correct.”
Adam Powell
On 'The Hook'
NEW YORK
An accountant testifying in
the government’s tax case
against Represaitative Adam
Clayton Powell’s secretary put
the dapper Nejv York minister
on “the hooks” this week when
he said that part the secre
tary’s 1946 income belonged to
Powell.
Government lawyers have
called this a “kitkback.”
Powell’s secreWy, Mrs.' Hat
tie Freeman Dodson and her
husband, Howard, ^re on trial
‘ Jle^b^al court nesa oo charges
of falsifying income tax returns
between 1948 and 1951.
Accountant Joseph E.‘ Ford,
testifying last Tuesday during
the trial, said that Mrs. Dod
son told him that her 1946 in
come belong to the Congress
man. It amounted to $3,875.
Ford testified that he helped
Mrs. Dodson prepare her 1946
tax return. He said Mrs. Dod
son wanted to list her income
as congressional secretary under
the maiden name and separate
from her joint return with her
husband.
Ford said he advised her that
he would have to prepare an
amended return, ahd he said she
told him to hold it up for a
while because jbe wanted to
talk to someone about it.
Later, Ford te.5tified. she said
had spoken to someone and that
was the way she wanted her tax
filed. Ford said she told him
she had spoken lo Congrejsnuii
Powell and then told him ii;-:
wanted her tax repoH fiiJd ij
her maiden name.
Ford said be i«araed ber Uuit
it was wrong, and then she told
him the money did not belong
to her and she didn't want to
mix it with her income. She
said she would only get the re
fund. She said the money be
longed to the Congressman.
' Ford said be ffied tivo W-
turns for Mrs. Dodaon,
.948To 1950, adSeg;
I continued to warn her it'
Dhe wrong thing to do,
ly at a time when
man was indicted for kickbacks.
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Durham Students Counselled In
Job Opportunities By Kappa Men
Approximately 500 boys and
girls of Durham and Durham
County were given specific in
formation concerning job op
portunities in various fields dur
ing the Annual Guide Right
Program of the Kappa Alpha
Psi Fraternity, which closed
Thursday, May 3. Sponsored by
Alpha Kappa and Durham
Chapters of the Kappa Alpha
Psi Fraternity, the local activi
ties were a part of the National
Guide Right Program, which is
conducted throughout the coun
try in order to assist youths in
Guide Right activities began
with a “consecration service”
on April 22, at the Mount Ver
non Baptist Church, when R.;v.
Herman L. Cnunts, a member
of the fraternity and profesjor
of theology at Johnson C. Smith
University, delivered the ser-
n^>n. Also appealing on the pro
gram was Frank Howard Al
ston, Polemarch of the Durham
Alumni Chapter, who acquaint
ed the audience with the history
and meaning of Guide Right.
The guidance feattires of the
observance began with the send-
iiig of questionnaires to students
at Merrick-Mocre, Little River,
and Hillside High Schools in
order to ascertain th^ vocal
preferences. The fraternity’s
steering committee then ar-
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CANDIDATES IK THE EAST
These three men will be seeklnc offices in
the eastern section al North Carolina the
May 26 primary. At left is Ausoatna Coe-
field, Weldon undertaker, who is numiag
for the State Senate from the fourth dis
trict. Center is Dr. Salter J. Cochrane, who
k seeking election to the Halifax County
Board of E^ncatioa. Dr. CochnuM, • ffM-
tidag physical of Weldon, ia a Koroui War
veteran. At rifht ia Da. J. A. Tlailaj. |»
ruBidnc for a seat oa tlM Coaaty Ca»>
misaioners of Halifax. Ho has praetlcod
the county for over 4t yaats.