Hariem Bocks
Adam Powell
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NEW YORK
Even as Adam Powell walked
free from the Federal Court
house,, after pleading Innocent
to tax evasion charges, plans
were being made here to oust
the debonaire Congressman from
renomination — and heavy sup
port given Mrs. Bessie Buchan
an, Assqtnblywoman. Mrs. Buc
hanan reeeived 4 votes in the
meeting among 13 Democratio
district leaders — with Thifr-
good Marshall, brilliant attorney
for the NAACP, receiving three
and Councilman Earl Brown and!
Senator James Watson receiving
one each. .
Tammany Leader Carmine
DeSapio stated that Powell will
definitely NOT run for re-elec
tion on the Democratic ticlcet
“because he is not a Democrat.”
On hekring their decision, Pow
ell stated “Thank God I got rid
of Tammnay Halil” The he ad
ded “I’lh going to fight them aa
a Democrat. I'm going to rua
candidates In every area where
there is a concentration of Ne
groes and Puerto Ricans in all
five boroughs."
The people of Harlem are
staunchly behind Powell and his
most trusted followers have
joined forces to bring in mors
sympathizers. They intend td
win for Powell the next electio/3
by a landslide. They also intenc*'
to stick with him “through thH
and thin” in his effort to clear
his name in the tax evasion
charge.
Jubilant over the first unall
victory — Powell’s freedom (hia
lawyer was allow^ 30 days for
filing motions) — he was also
granted permission' to travel
anywhere in the U. S., or its ter
ritories on Congressional busi-
VOLUME 34—NUMBER 20
DURHAM, N, C., SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1958
PRICE: TEN CENTS
Ike^s Patience Pled Gets
Widespread Criticism
REP. POWELL j
ness.
Powell himself, looking worn
but ready for the fight, is build
ing a whole new and exciting
campaign for re-election. With
his people behind him, he in
tends to talk his way into anoth
er victory.
He began at the Brooklyn,
Zion Baptist Church by telling
the crowd that had gathered
there to greet him on his return
from Washington, that he had
every confidence. He quoted a
statement made by Roy Wilkins
of the NAACP which boosted hia
cause and rallied tiis followers.
It was “What a mess our gov
ernment has got into with Ad
am Powell.”
The people accepted this state
ment as a sort of slogan to pass
around. They bu2^«|l with de
light as the handsome Csngress'
man told it. “And,” Pj&well add
ed, with his famotljk gestures,
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Mrs.ShaipeMoves
Up In 2nd Ballot.^
MRS. ELIZABETH SHARPE of High Point nosed out,
Mrs. Hattie Mullins of Greensboro this week for first place
in the Carolina Times BEAUTICIANS POPULARITY CON
TEST by only 5,000 points. Still clinging to third place was
MISS INEZ MOREHEAD of Greensboro.
Votes received by mail in the TIMES office by Wednes
day noon were too late to be tabulated in this week’s relative
standing published in this issue of the CAROLINA TIMES
but will be credited to their respective contestants and tab
ulated in next week’s standing.
Contestants in Greensboro may purchase extra copies
for their customers ^nd friends at the HALF MOON CAFE
on East Market Street. Contestants in High Point may pur
chase them at the WASHINGTON STREET PHARMACY on
Washington Street.
At stake in the contest is a FREE PLANE ROUND TRIP
TO THE NATIONAL BEAUTICIANS CONVENTION which
meets in Miami, Florida August 3-9. In addition to the
PLANE TRIP, HOTEL EXPENSES for the week of the con
vention will also be paid.
The relative standing of contestants this week is as
follows:
Mrs. Elizabeth Sharpe
Mrs. Hattie Mullins ...
Mrs. Willie Smith
Mrs. Ola Giles
Mrs. Willie B. Heggie
Mrs. Bea Slade
Mrs. Gladys Lytle
Mrs. Jessie Smith
Mrs. Hattie Leach
Mrs. Ethel Cunningtum
Mrs. Gussie Bethea E-
Mrs. Clara McClain
Mrs. Byrd
Mrs. Iona Clay
Mrs. Allie Holt.» L.
Mrs. Barbara Butler
Mrs. Annie K. Taylor
Mrs. Ethel Garrett
Mrs. Dai^ Jameson
Mrs. Ida Moffitt
Mrs. Willie McRae
Mrs. Lucille Anderson _
Mrs. Edith White
Mrs. Catherine Royal
Mrs. Elizabeth Coleman
Mrs. Martin Boger
Mrs. Ruth Chavis
Mrs. Florence Kimble
Mrs. Dorothy Stafford _
Mrs. Louise Pike
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Beatrice Shavers.
Oliver Boyd
Lizzie Carter
Bernice Legett _
Willie Mathews _
Mrs. Ozella Gillan
Mrs.. Annie L. Nelson
Mrs. C. M. Pettiford _
Mrs. Milisa Reeves ....
Mrs. Dorothy Robertson 1
See Mrs. Elizabeth Sharpe,
Ige Eight
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Roy Wilkins And
Marshall Cite
Displeasure
WASHINGTON
Two NAACP leaders, Roy
Wilkins, ej^ecutive secretary,
and Thurgood Marshall, special
counsel, Joined other spokesmen
for the Negro in deploring Pres
ident Eisenhower’s admonitiort
that Negroes exercise “patience
and forbearance” in their efforts
to secure desegregation and oth
er civil rights. ^
Addressing the “summit” con
ference of Negro leaders called
by the National Newspaper Pub
lishers Association here on Maj^
12, the President reiterated hid
conviction that time and edu
cation are more effective in the
olimination of racial discrmin-
aiion and segregation than “the
letter of the law” which, he said,
**wUl never solve problenos that
have their roots in the human
hmrt and the human emotion.”
I^resldem Biaenhower address
ed nearly 400 persotis attending
lt»«XFANSION-rilhlittp JHe^hsrt Shaw,
Rmawea acMoirsa tne operanf presided over the 84tK session ot the New Jersey Con
ference, A. M. E. Zion Church, held in Patterson, New Jer
sey recently, is shown as he congratulates Mrs. M. Atchison,
one of the many members of the “Golden Legionnaires” a
volunteer fund raising graups, which raised over $7600 for
Home Mission Ijl^orfc for the Conference
day.
That evening. Wllklna, digres
sing from his prepared text, said
that he could understand that
“from where the Presidents sits,
would nke toliave'tirtngs go
along smoothly and not have
Negroes or labor or any other
group kicking up a fuss for what
they want. That’s the way It
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Couldn'tjave
Planned letter
Dismay-Spivack
By ROBERT SPIVACk
WASHINGTON
I don’t suppose any man de
liberately sete out to make a
poor speech. But if President
Eisenhower had been determ
ined to let down his audience
he could not have done it bet-
ter than In the address he
delivered to the National
Assn. of Newspaper Publish
ers who met here a few days
ago.
This was an audience made
up largely of Negro newspap
er publishera, a group of men
and women who are coming
to have a bigger and bigg^s*
role in moulding U. S. public
opinion. The NNPA brought
together under one room some
350 of the most responsible
men and women in American
Negro life. They dealt with
very ticklish probl^s and
did not try to duck any, even
Including such touchy matters
as the question of the crime
rate among U. S. Negroes.
Their main interest, of
course, was civil rights. No
other issue for the American
Negro has such emotional im
pact.
When Mrs. Daisy Bates of
the Little Rock NAACP stood
Up she was givan an ovation
that seemed ai if it would
never 'wd. When A. Philip
Randolph, an old fighter for
equal rights, rose from bis
chair the chandeliers shook
from the noise of the thunder
ous applause.
• * * *
When the President march-
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Dangerous,
Says Dr. King
MIAMI BEACH, FLA.
President Eisenhower’s plea,
for patience and forebearanc^
by Negro leaders was assailed
this week as “potentially dan
gerous” by the Rev. Martin Lu
ther King, Jr., leader of the
Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott.
In an address before the Na
tional Biennial Convention of
the Amei-ican Jewish Congress
in the Carillon Hotel here, Rev.
King said the President’s ap
proach “can only encourage
those who have defied the Su
preme Court decisions and who
have created the climate of ten
sion and crisis culminating in>
violence across the South.”
The Negro leader, speaking to
more than 500 American Jewish
Congress delegates from all sec
tions of the country, plus 1,000
other white and Negro Flori
dians, said he wondered what
the President fneant in urging
that the letter of the law nol
be purs^^
“Does ttiis ntean abandoning
the deoliMon the Su|H;eme
Court, turning bAdc to the 4aya
in whWh ine^uirttty wm yrfe
ticeid in eduoaiion throui^^t'
the South?”'-he asked. Does this
mean condemning one genera
tion after another of Negro chil
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No Certification
Despite Firings
COLUMBIA. S. C. I meeting of the school year, con-
Allen University s gamble to|£]^J^ business without tak-
wln back certification of itSi yjg up a request from the AMB
teacher-trained students has me*, Church-supported institution foe
with failure so far. ; recertification.
This fact became apparent
last Thursday when the state
board of education, in its last
FERGUSON
2 CME Bishops Retired
By C. E. Chapman
DETROIT, MICH.
The retirement of two bishops
was finally settled at the meet
ing of the General Conference!
of the CME Church in session
here last week when it was vot-
(ed to retire Bishops J .A. Ham-'
lett and H. P. Porter. Bishop
Hamlet was the pnesiding head
(of the Seicond Episcopal District,
which includes five annual con
ferences in Texas.
Bishop Hamlett Asks Time
Bishop Porert, sensing thd
situation to be against further
retention in the office, “bowed
out” of the picture in- a speech
before the General Conference.
Bishop Hamlet followed with an
Sppeal to have the General Con
ference hold the matter of the
Retirement Issue in abeyance
until the Judicial Court) had op
portunity to hear and study the
case and then give their decis
ion.
The General Conference ex
pressed itself vehemently in op
position to the proposal.
Bishop Assigned For 1958-1962
The following assignment of
bishops were read by Bishop W.
Y. Bell:
First District — Bishop B.
Julian Smith, presiding. Confer
ences: Jackson-Memphis, West
Tennessee, Tennessee*, Littlo
Rock, Southwest Arkansas, and
Arkansas
Sefcond District — Bishop J.
Claude Allen, presiding. Confer
ences: Southeast Missouri and
Illinois, and Kansas-Missourj
Conferences.
TWrd District — Bishop Luth-
er Stewart, presiding. Conferen
ces: Kentucky, and Ohio.
Fourth District — Bishop Ar
thur W. Womack, presiding.
Conferences: South Mississippi,
North Mississippi, East Mississ
ippi, Mississippi,'Louisiana, and
New Orleans.
Fifth District — Bishop E. P.
Murchison, presiding. Conferen
ces: Alabama, North Alabama,
Central Alabama, East Alabama,
Alabama, and Florida.
Sixth District — Bishop Peteii
R. Shy, presiding. Conferences:
Georgia, Central Georgia, South,
Georgia and Soutiiwest Georgia.
Seventh District — Bishop W.
Y. Bell, presiding. New York-
Washington, North Carolina and
South Carolina.
Eighth District — Bishop F.
L. Lewis, presiding. Conferen
ces; Texas, Central Dexas, Dal-
las-Fort Worth, East Texas and
Northwest Texas.
Ninth District — Bishop F. L.
Lewis, presiding. Conferences:
California, Arizona-New Mexi
co, Oklahoma-Muskegee.
Kennedy To Be Given Honorary
Doctorate By Va. State College
PETERSBURG, VA.
Virginia State College will
confer degrees upon approxi
mately 200 students on Monday,
May 26, when the College holds
its Comrrfenceinent Exercises.
The Honorable J. Ernest Wil
kins, assistant secretary of labor,
U. S. Departmeik of Labor, will
give the Commqneement Ad
dress at the exercises which will
begin at 10:30 a. m. in the Col
lege auditorium.
The Honorary uegree of Doc
tor “of Laws will be conferred
upon William J. Kennedy, Jr.,
president of the North Carolina
Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Dr. Morgan E. Norris, proknin-
ent physician of Kilmarnock,
will receive tlie Certificate of
Merit.
The Baccalaureate Services
will t)e held on Sunday, May 25,
at 4:00 p. m, in the College
Chapel. The sermon will be de
livered by the Reverend Doctor
Aubrey N. Brown, Edy,or of the
Presbyterian Outlook.
Wilkins is a native of Missouri
and received his undergraduate
degree from the University ol
Chicago Law School. He is a
member of the Illinois Bar, Chi
cago Bar,'Cook County Bar as
well as the-National and Amer-
ic?in Bar. He serves as a member
ol the Board of Trustees of
Provident Hospital, Dillard Uni
versity and Wesley Theological
Seminary.
In 1953 he was appointed by
President Eisenhower as Vice-
Chairman of the President’s
Committee on Government Con
tracts and in 1054 he was ap
pointed by President Eisenhow
er as Assistant Secretary of La
bor for International Labor Af
fairs. He is also a member of the
six-member Civil Rights Com
mission.
Kennedy was elected presi
dent of the North Carolina Mu
tual Life Insurance Company In
1952. He has served with the
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AUTO CHECK
One of Durham’s automobile
safety check lanes will int(y
operation Friday and Saturday
just west of the Alston avenue
overpass on Pettigrew St., L. W.
Smith, a coordinator for the
Durham volunteer safety Inspect
.tion cpmmittee said this week.
A team of trained mechanics,
highway p^rtolmen and John
Avery Boys Cipb mensbwrs wiH
check lif^ts, ste«ing, wind
shield wipers, signal lights and
other automobile safety device^.
Twin City Man
First On Area
Paroles Body
H. B. Ferguson, 37, of 2407
North Cherry Street ha^lieen
appointed a Probation Officer
in the North Carolina Court sys
tem. Last Monday, May 12, Di
rector James Davis Beaty of the
State Probation Commission in
Raleigh confirmed that Fergu-
fon, the first Negro to hold this
position, would begin work on
June 1. Ferguson will be assign
ed to Forsyth, Gilford and pa-
vidson Superior Courts to han-
pdle Negro cases only, according
to Dire^r Beaty.
Ketjeysfip^^Ul be uader tlie(
tupei^^ioiv of T. D. St^es of
Lexih^on, area supervijfor fof'
the Probation Commission.
In an interview with a Times
reporter Ferguson said: "Of
course I was surprised and well
at th» appnintmetit and
I shaH endeavor to maintain the
same high standard that has
been set by the Proijation Com
mission in disctiarging the du
ties’of my office.”
Ferguson is a native of Mia
mi, Florida and a former For
syth County school teacher. He
attended North Carolina College
in Durham where he received
his B. S. and M. A. degrees in
1V49 and 1950 consecutively.
He is married to Maria Lewis
Ferguson, a former school teach
er in the Mebane City school
system. He has one daughter,
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The school had fired three of
its top-rated teachers in what
many observers described as a
“desperate gamble" to regain
certification withheld by the
state last September.
The teachers had been under
attack from the Governor and
a state legislative committee for
“subversive” activities.
Public reaction to the news
that Allen’s certification request
iiad not been acted upon reached
a new pitch here this wek-end.
Some openly bitter alumni com-
I mented that “Allen’s crawling
tnjstees iiaven’t yet belly-creep-
ed low enough to satisfy the
Governor.”
The state board of education,
which turned down AUen's re
quest without looking at it, re
ceived.
Allen’s request for certifica
tion was hand-carried to the
State Board of Education's meet
ing. Following receipt of the re
quest, the Board adjourned a-
bruptly.
Efforts by newspaper report
ers to obtain the governor's re
action were futile. Mr. Timmer
man refused audience to report
ers and issued no statement
ttirough office pensonoeL
Former Gov. Ransome J. Wil
liams presided at the meeting,
which was not attend^ by Gov.
Timmerman.
Prior to the meeting. Dr. Jesse
T. Anderson, superintendent of
education, told newspaper re
porters th^ Allen bad made no
request tim restoration of certi
fication for this year’s education
graduates.
InforiBid by telephone of Dr.
Anderson’s statement. Bishop I.
H. Bonnetfi^iainnan of the Allen
Board of l^j|Bt»es, said that he
that a formal
be necessary.
“Thv.j^ree fa^cfaers in ques
tion have been dismissed. The
action is final. They will be off
our CEunpus by May 24. We had
assumed that restoration of our
certification would follow our
amiuuncwnent,” Bewacr aakk
Bonner referred to a press re
lease given out by the coUegq
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Court Gets Case
On Plan To Delay
Desegregation
NEW YORK
The U. S. Supreme Court was
asked this week to review aq
appeals court approval of tha
decision of a Maryland district
court which permits the Harford
County Board of Education to
maintain segregated classrooms
under the guise of community
opposition, overcrowding, and a
delayed stair-step desegregation
procedure.
In a brief filed with the higla
Court Tuesday, May 13, on be
half of the Negro students,
NAACP Legal Defense and Ed«
ucational Fund attorney, attack
the plan advanced by the Board
of Education by which racial se
gregation in the school system t*
being maintained.
Following two court suits and
an appeal, the Harford County
Board of Education had obtaia-
H. W. GiUis, Div. execuUva permission to put into
for Boy Scouts of the Occone- provides
ctaee Coancil. will be one of the gradual desegregaUon ol Us
Instnictors at a national camp- P«bUc junior and high schoola
ing school to be held next week S™**® ^ “P •
at Broad Creek camp near beginning with the seventl«
Whitefleld, Maryland. Some 150
to *0* camp counsellors from the ^egro students will be mtmtmi
eastern shore are expected toj *
enroU In the school, conducted! ^ Elementary schools ««« m »
each year by the Volunteeri
Training Service of the National Uon begmning m 1938
B«y Scouts Council to train pro-
feaslonal aampers in the techni
ques operating camp. The iU'
coming complete in 1931
plan permits Negro hlgfc
students not eligible
structkwal staff for the school'
Is supplied by professional scout-i f ^
ers tfm various local Councils
within the naUonal Boy Scout! ^ »* *
dents intelligence
«pgaaiaation. Gillis was notifiied|
•I his selectloo to serve on the
camp school’s staff by the pro
tests and otttar
scribed by achi»l
ject’s director,. W. E. Lawrease. (Please turn to