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Public Idhraiy Fayetteville St SUTEROFtSTSIUEKTFREED ★ ★★ ★★★ ★ ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★ ★★ .★★★ NCC Prexy Sees Challenge In Rating Body’s Act CbfCari VOLUME 33 — NUMBER 50 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, DEC. 14,1957 PRICE: TEN CENTS Miss. Man Gets Light Rape Rap ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Baptists Form Unit To Support Jaclcson D. C. Ministers Pledge Baciting The Rev. Mrs. Annalee Stew art, legislative secretary for the Women’s ..International League for Peace and Freedom, second from left, i« shown here with members of WILPF’s Chapet Hill-Durham chapter at N, ..C. College this week. The Rev. Mrs. Stewart spoke to NCC forum during visit to this area where she was guest of WILPF mem bers here and in Chapel Hill. Left to right front row are Mrs. Ludmilla Van Sombeek, noted Baha’i leader; Mrs. A. L. Turner; Mrs. Sadie S. Hughley, Mrs. Stewart and Mrs. Clmrlotte Ad ams, Chapel Hill. In background are the Rev. J. Neal Hughley, college minister, and the Rev. Douglax E. Moore, pastor of As- bury Methodist Church, Dur ham. Mrs. Turner is vice presi dent of WILPF and Mrs. Hugh ley is program chairman. At tha recent District IV meet- education. Left to right are H. nf V. &IWIM, lAgm High School, tmohers at North Carotfatft CTP JSateigft; J.'t. SatoUy, Hatoleff lege, four state school heads pre- School, Creedmoor; J. H. Lueas, sented a rouitd table on prob- Oxford; and W. D. Moore, Berry Jems in ^homemaking ..teachet O'Kelly High School, ..Method. Mrs. L. F. James is area super visor of the _Oto^4ct. Syiiion* were' hetd to show retattSBSPKp between preservice and inter' vice programs for teachers tmd to hear new methods. Convictions Of iWrs. Bates, Another In Ark. Appealed NOBTH UTTLE ROCK, Ark Charged with withholding memberahip and contributors list! ot the North Little Rock branch of the National Associ ation for the adwfuicement ot Colored People, W. A. Fair, vice president ot the branch, has been found guUty in Municipal Court here and lined $25. Fair’s conviction here on Dec. 5 followed by two days a simi' lar verdict in Little Rock against Mrs. L. C. Bates, president of the Arkansas Conference of NAACP branches. Both were convicted under recently enacted citx ordinances requiring the fil' ing of records of the Association Although in Little Bock other organizations were also required to file records, the announced purpose of the law was to harass the NAACP. Robert L. Carter and other NAACP attorneys representing Fair argued that the ordinance was a curtailment of freedom of speech and also in violation of a state statute wliich limited fines in such cases to $25. Judge Mil' ton McLess refused to dismiss the case but kept the fine within the statutory liaUt. In Little Rock Idn. Bates was fined $100 plus $90 court costs. NAACP attorneys filed notice (Please turn to page Eight) Suspended Tenn Meted To Rapist JACKSON, MISS. The five>year suspended sen tence given a white man found guilty of raping a teenage Negro baby sitter demonstrates “that the degree of law that is applied, when a Negro man is accused and convicted of raping a white woman does not apply when wiiite man is accused and con victed of the same crime against a Negro woman,” Medgar W. Evers, NAACP field secretary for ^e State of Mississippi, charges. The convicted man, Bernard. Gautier, was found guilty on Nov. 28 by a Jackson County Circuit Court jury wliich de- lilierated less thim two hours. A 24-year-old attorney of Pasca goula, Gautier was placed ont probation of five years in addi tion to his five-year suspended sentence. He did not take the stand in Ills own defense. The crime was committed on April 27 and was hushed up for longer than a month. Evers made an investigation and learned that (Please turn to page Ei^t) WASHINGTON, D. C. Last week a group of Baptist pastors formed a “D.C.. Commit tee Supporting the Convention" with Rev. C. H. Hamilton, pastor of Greater New Hope Baptist Church as chairman. The Committee was voluntar- ly organized by a number of ministers after alleged charges of unlawfully holding office were brought against the Na tional Baptist Convention’s pre sident, Dr. J. H. Jackson of Cbi~ tmgo . V I \ Rev. Hamilton said, "We ieel a duty to our constituency and the public to correct the misleading information about the*sitting of our 76th Annual Session in Louisville, Ky. We met in one of our most significant Sessions in the history of the Conven tion.” He continued, "Owe Gohv«»- tion took a stand for tmifying all American Baptist bodies, the Educational Board contributed more than ever before, and for the first time we had two south ern Governors to address our messengers and promised to move forward and support the U. S. Constitution in the case of civil rights.”' When asked about the dis order at the Session, the Rev. (Please turn to page_Eight) First CIAA Commissioiier Prominent Sports Figure Suaumbs WASHINGTON, D. C. i tercollegiate Athletic Associu- Funeral services were sche- tion (CIAA), died Sunday. Ho duled to be conducted here had been in semi-retirement fur Thursday, December 12 at 19th the past two yeors after suller- Street Baptist church for Benja- ing a stroke two years ago which Mrs. Violet Rehnberg of Hel sinki, Finland, USIA officer, urtll visit Durham and N. C. College here December 11-16. She is in terested in meeting Americans in the South and observing condi tions in this section. Her worh in Finland for the USIA involves interpreting Americans to the people of her country. She will be special guest Friday night at 8 p.m. at Stanford Warren LI brary. ^Groups, ..organizations, and ..individual* ..interested ..in meeting and talking tiHth Mrs. Rehnberg should address inquir ies to the News Bureau at N. C. College. min Washington, prominent fi gure in athletics on the eastern seaboard. Washington, first football cogynlssioner lor the Centra)^ All-White Jury Frees Deputy In 15 Minutes, Leaving Many Questions WILLIAMSTON i night of September 7, The latter lastern North Carolina justicel was a senior at A&T. The verdict came to this town and reared its I of 'the Jtwy exactly IS ugly head when a Martin County I minutes after the case had been all-white Jury Tuesday night ac quitted a special deputy sheriff lor slaying of an A 4 T College student who was accused of try ing to date a white waitress by telephone. Dallas Holliday, 37, was freed of a second degree murder charge for shooting to deith Jo seph J. Cross, 21, on kVlonely road near Williamston on the Dr. Elder Says School Must Keep Pace With Demands Of The Times NewFacHity For Errant BoysTo Be Dedicated In Honor Of Salisbury Woman At Hoffman Sunday, December 15 A new dormitory at the Morri son Training School at Hpffman will b« formally dedicated in excrciaef at the training school campus Sunday afternoon at two p. in. Blaine M. Madison, com missioner for the- North Caro lina Board of Correction and Training, stated here this week tbat Clifton H. Blue, state legis lator from Moore county, wUl b0 tiw main ^waker for tfa* •Kcrdse. Also Included on the program U Mn* Bom D. at Salls- IjHj, far triaom Uim unr faeUltr is named. Chairman of the advisory board to the state Bopd of Cor rection and Training, Mrs. Ag- grey is a prominent in state and national affairs. Two years ago she represented the United States on a mission to the Gold Coast, former African dependen cy which has now become the free state ot Ghana. She has been foremost in many youth movements in the state and has taken a leading role in many woman's organisa- tions. Sba Is pest president *E Om State Fedmtioii ot Wotaatt’* clubs, an organization she head ed for some nine years. The Rose D. Aggrey cottage is the newest of tl» Morrison Training school physical units. It is the sixth cottage now to use to provide housing for the schools’ students. Madison explained that the cottage will be used to orient to community life studmts wiu> have been determined ready to be released from the school. The students readiy for release will spend the last months of their rasidsnea at the training school iB theasfir cottaja ■nie President of North Caro lina College, which along with 17 other Negro schools has been voted full membership and ac creditation by the Southern As sociation of Secondary Schools and College, saw the rating body’s action as frontal clial- lenge to the school’s ability to to keep pace with the modern, world in a statement released to the ’TIMES this week. Commenting on the history- making action taken last week by the organization in its annual meeting at Riclunond, Dr. Al fonso Elder said: “Nolv that we have been ac cepted...we iiave the responsi bility of maintaining from year to year the standards of excel lence required by the Associa tion. We must understand...ttiat standards of excellence... will change with the demands upon schools to meet the educational needs of living in the modem world. What is good enough for today will not be good enough (Continued on Page Eight) turned over to it by the court. Sheriff Raymond W. Rawls testified that Cross was shot during a tussle with Holliday (Please turn to page Eight) Rev. A. B. Mosely of Kinston, one of the leading AME ZION church figures in eastern North Carolina, recently marked his 40th year of ministry in thei rendered him a partial invalid. ( Sports ligures and CIAA olli- cers throughout the area were shocked at Ute death of Wash- iiUtton, who iud been with th». 'ooiis9«nc«*irtriceflts lounSngiin 1012. Dr. G. G. Singleton, secretary- treasurer of the conference, said from his office at Petersburg, Va. Wednesday: | The Central Intercollegiute' Athletic Association feels tiiei great loss of this pioneer in the field of officiating and athletics. He was k>ved by ail of his asso ciates as an official, commission er and as a friend. GREENSBORO “It is certain that we shall not Herbert Hill, national labor see his like again. We feel that a secretary of the NAACP, will great man has passed.” speak on "Employment of I^e- Frank G. Burnette, commis- grocs in Industries Holding Go- sioner of basketball officials for vernment Contracts” when the the conference and a long time (Greensboro Branch NAACP friend of Washington, said in holds its December meeting aii Durham, N. C , this week: , Bethel A.M.E. Church Sunday. "Benny’s death is certainly a | Hill, who works with trade profound shock to me. I can't unions, fair employment practi- think of any one individual who ces commissions, industrial man- NAACP's Lator Secretary To Talk InGreeisbora has meant more to the confer ence and to athletics in general in this part of the country.” (Please turn to page Eight) agement, and other agencies, has been active for many years in the labor movement. It is his (Please turn to page Eigiit) Arthur Stanley Elected To Head Tobacco Workers Union 204 Again president of the Tobacco Work ers local 204, won his seventh term as head of the union in an . ^ . ,1 election here last week which church^He ^s served r^ny o/ ^ he leadino AME Zion Churches' in North Carolina and bejran his] Arthur J. Stanley, six times 30, and Jamison, 11. The voters also approved a referendum to change the termi of office held by officers from one to two years. The vote lor this was 20 for and 20 against. 21st year as presiding elder of the Wilson district of the Cape Fear Conference last month. The Supreme Council of the PLANATION.” All sessions will Omega Pti Phi Fraternity met in Washington, D. C. last week to make final preparations for the 44th Orand Conclave to be held in St. LotUt, Missouri, Dee, 21th through 30th. The COKncil 8i«ct«d the ^general -theme, ‘•PtRFORUANCI jrOT JOC- be held at the Kiel Auditorium. Seated left to right, Walter H. Riddick, Grand Keeper of Re- cords ..and ..Seal; Joseph ..T. Brooks, First Vice-Grand Basi- leus; Herbert E. -Tucker, Jr., Grand Batileus; Wendell P. Al ston, Director of Public R«k>- tioni. Standing left to riffht, Uly sses S. Donaldson, Grand Mar shal; Ellis F. Corbett, Editor of ORACLE; H. Carl Moultrie, ifational Executive Secretary; Carl A. Earles, Grand Counselor; Jesse B. Blayton, Grond Keeper of finance; and H. Albion Fer rell, Grand Chaplain. The incumbent, Stanley easily defeated his only rival, Roy Mears, by a more than 32 per cent plurality. According to the final tabulation by the union’s election committee, Stanley poll ed 63 votes while Mears garner ed only 32. Only 85 of the union's 800 plus members, or approximately ten percent, cast ballots in the election. Races for four other offices were fairly close, but three other officers, up for re-elec tion, had no opposition. Re-elected without opposi tion were John Howard, finan cial secretary and treasurer; Aaron Smith, recording secre tary; and Ernest Colley, chap lain. Robert Hall nosed out George Barnes lor ttie vice-presidency by a 47-42 count, Clarence Hilli ard was nudged from his post as guide by two votes, James Sims dented Jesrie Parker, 48-34, for a trustee seat, and Williams defeated Irvin Frasier Is New Chain President L. B. Frasier, for the past five years a member of the board of directors of the Durham Busin ess and Professional Chain, was electcd president of the organiza tion at its meeting in Durham Sunday. J. W. Hill was elected vice- president. Other administrative officers elected along with Frasier and Hill are as follows; Miss Sarah C. Dotson, second vice-president; R. Kelly Bryant, Jr., secretary; Mrs. L. M. Harris, assistant secretary; J. J. Hendttr- son, treasurer; Charles A. Ray, publicity director; L. J. Harri son, Bulletin editor; H. M. Mich- aux, assisUnt Bulletin editor; Joseph A. Beebe, Jr., promotion al director; and D. F. Reed, assls- Mackjtant promotional director. Trtce, New members of the bow^S ol 4S-35, for sergeant at-anns. diractors who were alectad to Clifton Smith won the open^ serve three y*ar tenas trustee seat in a Uir^ way race Mrs. Callie Daye, I. B. rfflmit. with Hilliard and Solomon Jami- E. B. Bass, J. C. -Helilwrtl ani %> son. Smith got 82 votes, Hilliard ^ (Please turn to Mi
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