North Carolina Newspapers

Chanotte Leaders Deny Boycott Story if i( 'k ★★★★ ★★★★' ★★★★ ★★★★ -ic 'k it if if it ★ ★★★ FLORDA MAN LYNOED? Fare Protest Starts Rumor CHARLOTTE Reports that Negroes are or ganizing a boycott of the city Imses were unanimously repu diated by several leaders ques tioned by the TIMES this week. The report of a threatened boycott stemmed from protests submitted to State Utilities Commission over a proposed rate increase for the Charlotte bus firm. One of the protests, a tele gram signed by T. W. Ander son, threatened a boycott by Negroes if the increase were granted. According to an Associated ^ release from Raleigh, An derson’s telegrams stated: “On behalf of Charlotte Ne groes—thousands—^whose econo my will not bear Increased bus fares here and have had no op portunity to present their pro test, request you delay any de cision on raising fares in Char lotte.” Several Negro leaders ques tioned by the TIMES this week Inauguration Of A&T President Set For Nov. 9 GREENSBORO Warmoth T. Gibbs will be in augurated as the fourth presi dent of A&T College, in a day long celebration to be held here on Friday, November 9. J. M. Martaena. dean of fa culties at the college and chair man of the committee on ar rangements for the inaugura tion, said more than 150-per sons, delegates from leading col leges, universities, learnt so cieties, and national educational pw\f^oQ^^npl nrganiTflf.inna are among the out-of-town guests expected to be present. Registration for the event Is scheduled for Thursday morn ing beginning at 6:00 P.M., and '"on Friday morning beginning at 8:00 o’clock, at the F. D. Blu- ford Library. (Please turn to page ID) denied that any plans for a boy cott were being formed. Kelly M. Alexander, presi dent of the State NAACP and whose offices are in Charlotte, said that the NAACP was not sanctioning any* such statements. The Charlotte bus company is seeking to increase the price of its bus tickets from four for fifty cents to seven for one dollar. Fisk President Is Eulogized On Campus NASHVILLE, Tenn. Funeral services for Dr. Char les Spurgeon Johnson, president of Fisk University, were ^e- duled here Wednesday after noon at 3:30 o’clock. Dr. Johnson was stricken sud denly last Saturday in a Louis ville, Ky train terminal as he waited for train connections to a board meeting in New York. Rev. William J. Faulkner of Chicago, formerly dean of the Fisk Chapel, conducted the ser vices in the University Chapel. He was assisted by Dr. Thomas E. Jones, a former Fisk presi dent and now president of Earl ham College, Dr. William Lloyd Imes, dean of the Fisk chapel, and Dr. Fred L. Brownlee, for mer provost of Fisk. Dr. Johnson was enroute to a meeting of the University Board of Trusteea in New Vork when he was fatally stricken last Saturday. He had disem barked from a train at LouiS' viUe and was awaiting^ connec tions to New York when he was seized. Death was attributed to a heart attack. Fisk authorities say that Dr. Johnson had no previous medi cal history of a heart Condition The 63 year-old college presi dent was elected to the presi dency at Fisk in 1946. He was formally inaugurated a year later. (Please turn to page 10) CbCari Blood Soaked Clothes Found VOLUME 32 —NUMBER 43 DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, NOV. 3, 1956 PRICE: 10 CENTS The Saint John Baptist Church burDed a mortgace on the Church property at its Homecoming celebration last Sunday. Shown here b th« mortgage bnming rites. la picture, left to right, are Dcacona William Bell, Hoyt Manignm, Admire Jones, JAiBies Ray, Chester Thorpe, Reverend L. M. Gooch, pastori Znistees, Reverend Paul Thorpe holding mortgage, nenry Cameron, Jeff Poole, Dudley Brown and Orlando Hookiw. Quick Response Noted To Gov’t Stand On Vote Denials It Assistant United States At torney (General Warren Olney, m, bluffing? n>ia was the**qnw>iBi> mMk asked this Week in the wake of the dramatic annoimcement by the Justice department official last week that the agency would prosecute in any instance in wtiich it finds denial of the right to vote. ficials in North Carolina, some of whom are already embroiled in court actiQj^lfeciiiCht by Ne- Broea elalmtii^ that they ha^ been illegally prevented from registering. State elections officials have generally claimed that no one who is qualified has been kept from registering. Already in court, however, Orney prefaced Ws pro^e of registrars to permit prosecution with the statement that there had been "wholesale purges” of Negroes from voting lists in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and North Carolina. His statement brought Imme diate response from elections of- two Northampton County resi dents to register. The suits were filed by Alex- (Please turn to page 10) Arguments On NAACP Appeal End In N. C RALEIGH ^ The State Supreme Court finished hearing arguments this week on a technicality which might be the first round of an all out assault on the NAACP by the State of North Carolina. The NAACP has before the high court an appeal from a case dismissed by a Superior Court on the grounds that the- NAACP-lnstituted action was Improper. The organization filed suit In answer to contentions of former State Attorney General William B. Rodman and Secretary of State Thad Eure that it was not complying with North Carolina laws requiring foreign .corpora tions to register M^h the sec retary of State and another re quiring organizations engaged principally in influencing public opinion or legislation to register with the Secretary of State. The NAACP suit Included both these issues. Before trial at a Wake CountV Superior Court last March, Judge Hobgood upheld a demur rer by the State which contend ed that the action was improper ly instituted, in that the two laws in question should not be Included In the same action. Oroiqi Calls For Congressianal Probe Of Dixie Vote Denial WILDWOOD, Fla. It appeared a certainty here at midweek that a Negro who bad been spirited from his Jail cell by unknown persons Saturday night has been lynched. The discovery of bloodstained iiat and shirt in a patch of sand spurs near the Jail from which 39 year-old Jesse Woods was abducted led to the belief that he had met death at the hands of his abductors. Woods was arrested Sattmlay afternoon on charges of drunk- eness and disorderly conduct af ter being accused of saying, ‘Hello there, baby” to a white school teacher. At about midnight, he was re leased on bond but was returned a few minutes later by his father for safekeeping. Sheriff H. M. Bowman said the clothing discovered was positively identified by Woods' family. The shirt, with a green and white purple design, was covered with blood stains on the sleeves and the front. The but tons were. missing, and the sheriff said It had apparently been ripped from Woods’ back. The clothing was found short ly after his disappearance from the Jail cell, but information was witheld from reporters un til Tuesday. Reporters were taken to the spot where Leonard Smith, who lives a half mile from the Jail, made the discovery. The scene is Just off heavily travelled U.S. highway 301. Florida Governor Leroy Col- Tuesday. In the meantime, the FBI, after some delay and discussion of the Jurisdiction, entered the case also Tuesday to see if any federal violations are Involved. FBI chief in Miami, C. K Weeks said that the agents would investigate to find out if there had been a kidnaping, lynching or loss of civil rights. NCC Founder's Day To Show Much Splendor When Dr. John Hope Frank lin, internationally known chair man of Brooklyn CoUejte’s his tory department, speaks at ninth Founder's Day rites at North Carolina College on November 5, he will also participate in an academic procession of unprece dented splendor. Dr. Franklin, author of the recently published scholarly book, “The Militant South”, will talk in Duke Auditorium rites starting at 11 a.m. A former professor of history at NCC during the last years of Founder President James E. Shepard, Dr. Franklin lists his Founder’s Day message as “’llie Social Responsibility of the Li beral Arts College.” Noted NCC historian Helen G. Edmonds, the woman who seconded President Eisenhower’s iins announced that the case I nomination at San Franc'.ico “C9»nht and jvfill pot be un- during tlw- GOP conventio-, is solved.” He reportedly sent a I chairman of the Founder's eb- spccial investigator to the seen a servance. NEW YO^ The American Jewish Con gress has urged the ynited States Senate to hold public axfi two suits growing out of the hearings as ^axly as posiuble gn the unconstitutional disfran chisement of United States citi zens. The AJCongress request, addressed to Senator Albert Gore, chairman of the Senate Sub-Committee on Privileges and Elections, followed the dis closure recently by Warren Ol- ney, III, Assistant Attorney General, that Negroes In Oua chita Parish, Louisiana, and elsewiiere in the South, are be ing illegally deprived of their right to vote in the Federal elec- Sotne ttoelve MilMde high school students will be tapped by tht school's chapter of the National Honor Society in a fptctol ceremony at the school next Wednesday. Pictured above are candidate* to be installed by the Honor Society. Seated, left to riffht, are SliMabeth Jones, Johnnie Bell, Annie Byrd, and Walter Smith. Standing in same order are Willie Clegg, Jr., Anna Satterwhite, DolHe Gra ham, Shirley Farrar and Bettye Weaver. Not present when pic ture too* taken are Evelyn Mar- shall and Ilaine Fairley. POCKET THE LOOT! NO ONE SHOWED UP TO CLAIM HIS LICENSE NUM BER and the-free “moola" last week, so this week, the auto mobile tag numbers are worth 18.00. Bring your registration esrd to the tMES office by noon Saturday if yours la be low and poeket the “loot.*’ AW-89 0 9 AZ-5 693 AX-S 7 34 NCTA District Meeting Opens In Twin City WINSTON-SALEM Approximately 1,500 teachers will meet Friday, November 2, as the Western District of the North Carolina Teachers Asso ciation holds it's annual meeting at Winston-Salem Teachers Col lege. President of the district is A. B. Reynolds, principal of Co- umbia Heights Elementary School. Mrs. Rosalie F. Wyatt of Charlotte Is vice president; Miss E. Holmes, secretary, Salis bury; and Miss E. Faye Cash, National Education Association coordinator. The Theme for the convention will be “An Educat ed People Moves Freedom For ward.” President of Virginia State College, and former president of Shaw University, Dr. R. P. Daniels, will be the guest speak er at the general session at 2 p.m. Dr. Daniels will speak on the theme of the convention. Beginning at 8:30 a.m., will be registration. The morning sessions will be held at Carolina Hall. Nineteen sectional meet ings and special Interest groups will be held at 9:30 a.m. At noon, lunch will be served in the school cafeteria. Mrs. Eliza beth D. Koontz is director of The Classroom Teachers Associ ation which will convene at 3; SO p.m. In a general session to be held at Fries Auditorium. r'lons. letter to Senator Gore, Shad Poller, chairman of the AJCongress’ Commission on Law and Social Action, com mended Mr. Olney for submit ting evidence of wide-scale in terference in the South with the Negro’s voting franchise. “We believe that Mr. Olney’s statement merely samples a much larger body of evidence of illegal disfranchiser-.eat that would be revealed by intensive Committee Investigation,” Mr. Poller declared. The importance of this Issue. Poller said, cannot be minimiz ed. “The election process is the foundation of our political sys tem. Wholesale, illegal exclu sion of a large part of the popu lation from the ballot vitiates the results of any election that may follow. ’ Top Republican candidates; tire campaign in recent weeks, for state offices are pictured i covering the state from Manteo here. Left is Kyle Hayes, GOP candidate for Governor, and right is Joel Johnston, running for the U.S. Senate. Hayes is a nephew of Judge Johnson J. ■Hayes. They have waged an ac- :o Murphy. Hayes opposes {«- umbent Gov. Luther Hodges, Democratic candidate, wMte lohnston is seeking the seat at :t‘nator Sam Ervin. Lead Changes Again The close of the second period of the Carolina Times Scholar ship subscription contest in Rox- boro found Alexander Brandon back in lead this week with Miss Glovenia Bass closc behind and In the second place. It Is being strongly rumored that either Frank Bradsher or Miss Lessie Pulliam will be the dark horse so strongly rumored throughout the contest. One source who would not permit his name to be used stated that neither of the four top contes tants will be the dark horse but one of the less thoughjt of at pre sent. He stated that he Is satis fied the dark horse contestant is. certain to be among the three scholarship prize winners when the contest closes midnight Nov. 14. Although Jesse Gray, man ager of the contest, believes strongly that the winners are amcng the four contestants now in the lead he would make no guess at to who the winners would be. “My experience has been that often a contestant who has shown little or no sign of activity will suddenly come to life and during the last period put on a burst of steam and walk off with one of the prizes,” he stated. In Chapel Hill the contest has settled down to a battle between Willie Pendergraft and Miss Marjorie Stone. As the final period of the con test opens all contestants who have sent in no report have been dropped fr^m the list and the battle is now confined only to those who have been active. Roxboro School ALEXANDER BRANDON . glovenia BASS FRANK BRADSHER LESSIE PULLIAM KATHERINE VINCENT CHAELOTTE NORWOOD . NATHANIEL PULLIAM .. CHARLES STREAT . EMANUEL TIMMONS — t5,000 .054,000 .431,000 -24S.000 . 190,000 - 05,000 - 05,0M _ 47.000 _ 20,000 Chapel Hm School WILLIE FENDEBGRAFT MARJORIE STONE ' WARREN JONES MARY HOOAN MART MASON JAMES HOOAN .801,500 .^111,000 - 1B,000 .. •1,500 _ 15,000 .. 20,000 Student Paper Is Top Ranked The Campus Echo student newspaper at North Carolina College at Durham, has been awarded an “all American’* Honor rating by the Associated association with headquarters at Collegiate Press, national rating the University of Minnesota. This is the highest rating a col lege paper can receive. The top intercollegiate naiws- paper organization In America, the ACP includes amoag its members newspapers from ssva- ral hundred of America's leadk ing colleges and uidveraitiaa> It sponsors a U-annual critical service which rates ceUeca newspapers “All Amertean,** “First Class,” “Second Class.** and “Third Class,’* according to prescribed standards d exeal* lence. The NCC publication was cttad for its achievetnenta during tba second quarter of the IM^-M school year when it was adltai by Shirley Temple Jaaaa. a senior from JamsavUle, N. C.