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Shriners Close Successful Gaja Day Celebration In Twin City
Pictured above are scenes at the Gala Day Celebration i Twin City. The left photo shows Imperial Potentate BookMrl Temple of Raleigh. At the right is the Sathos drill team of
held in Winston-Salem last Friday and Saturday at which T. Alexander at the microphone and other dignitaries of the I Wlluton-Salem that won the third price. The winner of the
time it wag estimated over 1,000 noblemen gathered in tfae| Shrine. The center is the championship drill team of Kabalal
second prize was Khalif Temple of Greensboro. Staff photos
by H. C. Miller.
Mammoth Crowd
Expected At ISAACP
Gathering Sunday
RALEIGH
The North Carolina NAACP
Conference, spearheaded by
Kelly Miller Alexander of
Charlotte, and its field secre
tary, Charles A. McLean of
Winston-Salem, is staging what
is expected to be the largest
mass meeting in the history of
the organization in the Memo
rial Auditorium here Sunday
afternoon. May 19th, when
Jackie Robinson, the noted for
mer Brookljm Dodger baseball
star, will go to bat for freedom.
The occasion of Robinson’s
appearance here is expected to
draw several thousand of his
eager fans and NAACP freedom
lovers to the municipal auditori
um at 3:30 P.M. for the speak
ing and financial rally which is
expected to raise thousands of
dollars for the N. C. NAACP
jfuod for Freedom
]wi£r and hi^
large part of the allocated one
million dollars of this years na
tional quota in the fight for
complete emancipation by 1963,
a goal set before the death of
the immortal Walter White, for
mer NAACP naOonal secretary.
“Hsaie Bun For treedom”
Robinson is calling on all his
professed admirers to join him
in "hitting a HOME-HUN FOR
FREEDOM, as he battles Jim
Crow around the country just
as zealously as he did baseball
'on the diamond. Robinson says
you can do this with your pres
ence and your dollars in the gi
gantic freedom rally here Sun
day afternoon.
NAACP Mothers To Be Crowned
It has been announced that
Mrs. Jackie Robinson will Join
her illiistrious husband for the
rally here and, thus, add gla
mour to the occasion which Is to
Shown above is the Kever^d
E. Deedom Alston, Rector ef the
Ctanrcb of Oar Maroifol Siiviw,
itaiday, lone t.
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2-YearOldTwins
Found Dead In
Winston-Salem
Mrs. Thelma Robinson of 628
^Linden Street, arose from a
peaceful night of sleep Wednes
day morning. May 8th, to find
two of her children dead. The
children, twin brothers, Richard
and Roland, age 22 months, had
been suffering with colds and
County coroner, Dr. V. M. Long
attributed their death to suffo
cation. Another child, two
months old, was found to be suf
fering with a cold also. Dr. Long
ordered the child to be removed
to a local hospital.
Thurman And
Alston NCC
Finals Speakers
Dr. Howard Thurman, one of
the top 12 U. S. preachers, will
be the finals speaker at North
Carolina College at 11:00 a.m.
on Tuesday, June 4. The finals
address and baccalaureate ser
mon at 3:00 p.m. Sunday, June
2, will be held in .the Men’s
Gymnasium. The Rev. E. Deed-
om Alston, Rector of the Church
of Our Merciful Savior, is the
baccalaureate speaker.
Life Magazine designated Dr.
Thurman as one of the country’s
12 outstanding preachers after a
■
fbm ftrflt memos' of his race
ever to deliver the commence
ment address at the local insti
tution. Negro ministers have
most frequently delivered the
baccalaureate sermon, but ac
cording to several of the old
graduates and citizens living in
and around Durham, tMs year
will be the first time in the his
tory of the school that a Negro
has 'delivelred the conunence-
ment address.
A native of Daytona Beach,
Florida, he received the B.A.
degree at Morehouse College
and the B.D. degree at Colgate-
Rochester Divinity School.
He has done post-graduate
work at Oberlin College and he
has been' a special student in
philosophy with Rufus Jones,
the Quaker mystic and philoso
pher.
Eight American colleges have
conferred honorary degrees on
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Sens. Ervin And Johnson In
Battle Against Gvil Rights
By Alice A. Dnnnlgan
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Senator Sam Ervin (D., N.C.)
stated last week that he would
oppose civil rights legislation
until the “last echo of Gabriel’s
horn” had died away.
The statement was made to
reporters Friday as the two
leading opponents of civil rights
presented a minority report on
the bill.' This report written by
Senator Ervin, and OUn Johns-
son. Senator of South Carolina,
referred to the civil rights mea
sure as one of the most “drastic
and indefensible” legislative
proposals ever submitted to any
legislative body in this country.
Ervin charged the civil rights
bill with being based on a
“strange thesis.” It advocates
the promotion of civil rights of
some Americans while robbing
other Ameircans of civil rights
equally as precious, he contend
ed.
Ervin was questioned by re
porters on his apparent “incon
sistent" argument for a right to
trial by jury, when he, on the
other hand, insisted upon the
prosecution of four textile wor
kers without a jury trial, while
serving as Judge in the supreme
court of his state.
attonpted to justify
this action by arguing that the
functions of a judge and that of
■ legialator are dlfletent. A
judge, he said, must carry out
the law as it is written, while a
legislator must fight for the
passage of legislation which will
be for the best interest of all
Americans of all races and all
generations.
When questioned on whether
the right to vote had been de
nied any citizen of his state,
Ervin said testimony before the
Subcommittee on Constitutional
Rights listed 29 violations out of
a population of over a million
colored people. But, he added,
in each case these violations had
been corrected.
Senator Johnson said he had
not heard of a single case in his
state where a citizen had been
deprived of bis voting rights.
Ervin refused to comment too
much on the proposed right-to-
work amendment to the civil
rights bill. He contended that
this provision is already includ
ed in the measure.
Johnson said he did not
know whether he would vote
for a right to work amendment.
But, he added, anything they
could do to kill this legislation
would be of "great service to
the people.” Ervin a^ed that
he thought the best amendment
that ceuld be-added to the bill
would be one declaring the en
tire measure “null and void.'
VOLUME 33 — NUMBBB 20
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, MAY 18,1057
PRICE: TEN CENTS
Prayer Pilgrimage To Hear
Many
Yoke
Last RHes Held
For Mrs. Mary
Notables And
doir At D. C
itfinCitv
eral aerviota tar Utw.
Mary Cooke, who died at her
home, 313 Dowd Street, Satur
day, May 11, were held at the
Mt. Gilead Baptist Church,
Tuesday, May 14, at 3:00 P.M.
The officiating minister was the
pastor, the Reverend Harold
Roland. He was assisted by the
Reverend A. S. Crpom, pastor
of the Union Baptist Church.
Seventy-five years of age at
the time of her death, which
climaxed a lingering illness,
Mrs. Cook was a Durham Coun
ty native, the daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Re-
vis. She was married on Christ
mas Day, December 2S, 1910, to
William Cook who survives.
There were no children.
Over 40 years ago, she be
came a member of the Mt.
Gilead Baptist Church and, un
til incapacitated by her final
illness, she was an active mem
ber of the Missionary Circle,
the Sunday School and other
auxiliaries of the church.
Besides her husband, Mrs.
Cook is survived by two sisters,
Mrs. Leanna Owens, Durham;
and Mrs. Mariah Houston,
Greensboro; a foster son, Carl
Cozart, Durham; and a large
number of neices and nephews.
Interment‘was in Beechwood
Cemetery.
James E. Shepard Statue
Dedicotion June 1st
James T. Taylor, Executive
Secretary of the James E. Shep
ard Memorial Foundation, to
day announced plans to dedi
cate the life size statue of Dr.
James E. Shepard, NCC founder
and first president, on June 1,
at 4:00 p.m.
The bronze statue sponsored
by the Prince Hall Lodge of
Free and Accepted Blasons, in
cooperation with the She^rd
Foundation, has been created by
William M. Zorach, noted
Brooklyn, N. Y., sculptor.
Dedication of the statue will
be one of three features of
Alumni Day on Saturday. The
annual Alumni Meeting will be
held at 10:00 a.m. and the in
stallation program at 8:00 p.m.
Preliminary arrangements were
made in Durham early this
week at a joint meeting be
tween the Shepard Foundation
and State Masonic leaders.
The late Dr. Shepard was for
many years State Grand Master
of tte Bfasona.
Representing the Masons at
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5 School-Cast
PlaiNtiffs On
NAC-TVMay19
NEW YORK
Five young pupils who-parti
cipated as plaintiffs In the his-
toirc public school segregation
cases will be featured on Chet
Huntley's NBC-TV “Outlook"
program which will be telecast
over the network from New
York City at 5:S0 p.m. (EOT),
Sunday, May IB.
Hie program will be in obser
vance of the third anniversary
of the United States Supreme
Court ruling of May 17, 1954,
which banned racial segregation
in public education. There were
five cases originating In Claren
don County, S. C.; Prince Ed-
wif9 'Vi?,'Testa, Itw
sas; Hockessin and daymont,
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City Man Given IS ToU
Years For Murder Of Girl Friend
WINSTON-SALEM
James Crawford Turner, 34,
M3 North Pa^teraon Avenue
OMiii TlBmnAj^,
9th, to serve from 15 to 30 years
in prison for the murder of his
20 year old girl friend, Florena
Cole.
Mrs. Cole was found shot at
b|er home, 944 North Highland
Avenue on Tuesday night, April
9th. Police arrested Turner
shortly sfter the shooting was
reported, a^i^d held him for
questioning. According to Tur
ner, he had been gomg with.
Mrs. Cole for some time. He was
quoted by police as saying the
shooting was an accident. The
murder weapon, a 12-gauge
shotgun, had been at Mrs. (^le’s
apartment about two months,
Turner said; the stock on the
gun was loose and needed re
pairing. Turner told police he
was examining the gun when
it fired accidentally, blasting a
hole in the front of the woman’s
head as she turned around from
where she was standing in front
of a dresser. Mrs. Cole was ad
mitted to Kate Bitting Reynolds
Memorial Hospital at 10:55 p.m.
She died there at 11:22 p.m.
UOO Nobles End
Celebration
With Big Party
WINSTON-SALEM
More than 1,700 nobles and
daughters brought to a close
here, their two-day statewide
annual Gala Day observance
last Saturday, May 11th. The
convention ended with a fabu
lous cabaret party at ttie Para
dise Club on North Patterson
Avenue.
Mrs. Moliie Poag, (Winston-
Salem) Imperial Deputy of the
Desert of North Carolina, pre
sided over the creation of new
Daughters of the Isis Saturday
afternoon, following a very
colorful parade. The daughters
also took part on the parade.
Kabala Temple of Raleigh be
came North Carolina's cham
pion drill team as the result of
contest between drill teams
from all over the state, held at
Winston-Salem Teachers Col
lege Gymnasiiun preceding the
parade. Khalif Temple of
Greensboro was second place
,4, , , . - „ , •‘Winners with Winston-Salem’s
Lincoln Memorial here^ on Fr -1 temple No. 170 being
700
Meet
WASHINGTON, D. C.
The nation's leading clergy
men will be Joined by civil
iHghts leaden, Including two
members of Congress, as speak
ers at the Prayer Pilgrimage for
Freedom which is expected to
bring 60,000 persons ftom all
ticctions of the country to the
JAMES CRAWFORD TURNER
Turner, at the time of this
shooting, was on parole from
12-lS year man-slaughter sen
tence for knife slaying in 1948
of James Milam. He was paroled
November 23, 1954.
Judge Walter E. Crissman of
High Point, ordered the present
sentence to begin at the expira
tion of the 12-15 year sentence
for the 1948 killing.
day cl^ay 17) tor spiritual gui
f'trugglr for huma.'i rights.
On call of Uie three co chair
men—A. Philip Randolph, pre
sident of the Brotherhood nf
Sleeping Car Porters; Rev. Mar
tin Luther King, .Jr., president
Southern Leaders Conference;
and Roy Wilkins, NAACP exe-
seeretary—tiie people
will assemble at high noon be
fore the Lincoln shrine to “re
new our strength, communicate
our unity, and rededicate aur
efforts, firmly but peaceably, to
the attainment of freedom.”
In addition to the co-chair
men, speakers will include
Adam Clayton Powell, the cler-
gyman-congressman from New
York City and Representative
Charles Diggs of Detroit. Ill In
the Naval Hospital, Willluni H.
Dawson of Chicago, the third
Negro congressman, will be un
able to attend. ' *
Four veterans of the Fight
for Freedom In the South will
report on conditions facing Ne
groes in that region. The Rev.
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thlr4.
Temple, Durham an(
Temple of Charlotte. ,
Forty-five new nobles were
jreateil to highlight the Gala
Day celebration. They were as
follows: Sethos of Wlnston-
saicm: Thomas M. Williams,
red, Wagner, F. A. Lealu, Jo»
K Carter, Joseph CoMr, OSmt
W. Parker, James E. Huntlajr,
Fred L. Truesdale, Dallaa
Grimes, Lee Jackson, Paul Bit
ting, James Montgomery, Jamaa
Matthews, Malcolm Watts,
Frank Shannon, John McByrd
and F. L. Atkins.
Rofelt Pashe No. 175, Rocky
Mount: John H. Battle, Ply
mouth; Wilmar H. GlUlam and
Walter E. Parker, Windsor;
William E. Honeyblue, Charlie
H. Johnson and Plum Rogers,
Jr., Wllliamston; Willie L. Daw
son, James Frazier, Leroy
Clark, Edward Greenfield,
AmazUh Howell Jr., WlUle C.
Simmons and William C. Whit
aker, Goldsboro.
Klndah Temple No. 62, Fay-
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Dr. Helen G. Edmonds, graduate professor of history at
North Carolina College is shown above during a nationwide
panel ditcusaion in Hamburg, Germany where she is now on
leave of absence. The discussion was in Woche der Bnieder-
lichkelt (celebration of brotherhood week) and the theme
was “Raum feur al|e hat die Erde,” (the earth has room for
alL) Participants on the panel were from left to right: Dr.
Gnstav Emercke, Paderhom; Chief Editor Fritz Saenger,
Hamburg; Dr. Edmonds, Durham, N. C., U. S. A.; Ruedlger
Proske, Hamburg, Chairman of the panel; Dr. H. G. van Dam,
General Secretary of the Committee of Jews in Germany,
Dusseidorf; Rev. Mr. Werner Hess, Frankfurt and Chief
Editor Gustav Staebe Hamm. The panel discussion was in
the German language and concerned the world-wide point of
view of the development of the spirit of brotherhood.
Rufus P.. Perry New President Of J. C. Smith
CHARLOTTE
Rufus Patterson Perry, ad
ministrative dean and vice-
president of Langston Univer
sity, Langston, Oklahoma, is the
new president of Johnson C.
Smith University, officials of
the Charlotte institution an
nounced last week. The 53 year
old native of Georgia is a gr^u-
sity, holds the degress of master
of seianee and doctor of
iosophy from Iowa State Uni
versity and the degree of doctor
of laws from his alma mater.
He taught chemistry and served
director of the division of
arts and sciences at Prairie
View State College In Texas be
fore accepting his present posi
tion as vice-president, adminis
trative desn, and professor of
Bimtn uiuvei'- i.cueiniscry sx r,angsvuii
sity. .
Dr. Perry is a fellow of the
American Assoclstion for the
Advancement of Science and Of
the Oklahoma Academy of Sci
ence, and is a member of the
American Chemical Society and
of the Slgnn« XI Honorary
Scientific Society. He has pub
lished research stiidles in the
Journal of the American Chemi
cal Society, the Journal pt Or-
groic-—Ciieiiiisii'y,—
the Oklahoma State Atoms for
Peace Program, the Research i
Council of the Oklahoma State /
Regents for Higher Education,
the Langston City Improvement
Board and the City Planning
Board. •
The new president of the
Presfaontesian-afflllated univer^
sity has been the recipient of re-
unierTieBrTO graai-iu“ahi—rrviu Si»
scientific organs. Hi* civic ac-1 Research Corporation and the
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