CHURCH BODY SUPPORTS VOTE DRIVE
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LIFE INSURANCE PRESIDENT %AIN IN OFFICE
J. E. Walker h Shot To
Death By Crazed Man
MEMPHIS, TENN.
Di:. Joseph E. Walker, abo\ft
78', founder and chairman of
Universal LUe Insurance Com
pany, and President of the Tri-
State Bank of Memphis, Tenn.,
was shot to death on Monday
morning shortly after arriving
at his office.
Arrested sC short time later for
the murder of Dr. Walker was
J. Washington Hamilton, who
lived at the Travelers Hotel at
347 Vance AVenue, who Is re
ported to have been at one time
one of the top Negro business!
men in the Memphis area.
Mr. Hamilton is reported to
have lost a small fortune during
the late depression years and,
unable to recoup his losses, he
placed the blame for his misfor
tune on Dr. Walker and vowed
that someday he would have re
venge.
J. T. Chandler, director of per
sonnel at the company, said that
Miss Ida Mae Walker, who was
Dr. Walker’s secretary, discover
ed the man in the building and
as orders had been given to keep
him out, asked him to come to
the second floor and have the
man to leave.
Mr. Chandler Mid that as hei
was going up the itairs he heard
a noise ai\d on arriving at Dr.
Walker’s office, found the two
men there, and when h« law Dr.
Walker staggering rusHted over
to give him support.
He said that Dr. WaQcer told
him yiat he had been shot, and
at that time blood was gushing
from the left side of his chest
near the collar bone. As he as-
■Isted Dr. Walker into tha wait
ing room he said the man walked
past him with the weapon still
in his hand. Mr. Chijndler said
fhat he rushed 6u'l‘ in tKe kal^
and was going to capture the
-man, but when he reetlled that
he still had the gun With him
he changed his mind.
A call was put in for Dr. Ju
lian Kelso, medical director o£
the firm and son-in-law of Dr.
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DURHAM, N. C
SATX^]
DAY, AUGUST 2, 1958
PRICE* TEN CENTS
INS. ASSOCIATION IN
38th ANNUAL SESSION
J. E. WALKER
Walker, who arrived
minutes later. In spite of his at
tempt to save thfe businessman,
his efforts were futile, and Dr.
Walker was pronounced dead at
about 8:38 a.m.
Police were summoned and in
less than an hour, Lts. J. T.
Chennault and E. T. Moxley ar
rested the slayer on Tontotock
between Welington and Turley.
Captain W. W. Wilkinson, chief
of 'homicide division, said that
the murder weapon, a .38 Colt,
was found in a house on Turley
Street where the man had gone
to use a phone.
Questioned at headquarters,.
Hamilton readily admitted the
slaying and said that it was "for
revenge” because Dr. Walker
owed him money. He did not say
how much.
H. A. Gilliam, director of
Agencies for Universal Life In
surance Company, said that he
learned that the slayer had seat
ed hlmaelf o'utiide in the hall on
the second floor ai the building
near Dr. Kelso’s waiting room
and waited for Dr. Walker.
Employees of the company,
many of whom heard the fatal
shot, were grief stricken at the
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With reports of in excess of a
quarter billion dollars in assets,
few! 3nd one-half billion dollars
in insurance-in-force and a total
annual income of $80 million for
the fifty two member companies
of the National Insurance Asso
ciation, ropresentatives of the
companies will meet in Colum
bus, Ohio, at the Deshler-Hilton
Hotel, August 4, through 8, with
an interesting, informative and
inspiring convention program
built around the theme; “Orga
nizing For Growth.”
The figures tabulated by L. R.
Taylor, N.I.A. Statistician, and
Actuary for the Mammoth Life
Insurance Company, were re
leased in a telephone interview
with the 32nd president of the
association, J. W. Goodloe, Sec
retary for the N. C. Mutual Life
Insurance Company, Durham,
N. C.
Mr. Goodloe pointed out, dur
ing the course of the interview,
“Tl«; p4st ten years have wit
nessed the greatest ex^^^\qn
ai^Qng our member companies
in ihe nearly forty year history
of our association. Our com
panies’ assets have increased by
more than 25 per cent since.the
end of World War II. We have
greatly increased our services to
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Christian
Endorses
Education Group
Citizenship
Crusade With $2,000 Gift
In the conviction that “the
campaign to encourage Southern
Negroes to register ptid vote is
a crucially important cause”,
Christian Action, « national
body of lay and professional
church leaders concerned with
social problems, has given both
its endorsement and financial
support to the “Crusade for
Citizenship", the southwide
register and vote drive sponsor
ed by the Southern ChrlstUn
Leadership Conference of which
the Reverend Martin Luther
King of Montgomery, Ala., 1*
president.
A check in the amount of
$2,004.50 was recently presented
.to Dr. King at a special meeting
of Christian Action in his honor,
held at the Judson Memorial
Church, Washington Square,
New York City. Dr. John A
Hutchison, Professor of Religion
at Columbia University and
chairman of the New York
Chapter of ChriatUn Action
made the presentation. The
check represents many Indivi
dual contributions received In
response to an appeal to mem
bers and friends of the organi
zation after the executive board
had adopted the vote crusade as
Its project for 1858, following an
^pianation of its purposes by
Miss Ella J. Baker, now associ
ate director of the Leadership
Conference.
The appeal letter read in part;
“Each year CHRIS'HAN AC
TION undertakes the support
of some significant project.
This year It Is agreed that the
campaign to encourage South
ern Negroes to register and
vote Is a crucially Important
cautio.
IOTAS ANNUAL CONVENTION IN
MIAMI, FLORIDA AUGUST M3
All roads lead to Miami, for
members of Iota Phi Lambda
Sorority, according to Gamma
Alpha Chapter, hostesses for the
28th anniversary convention,
August 9 to 13, In the St. John
Baptist Church.
As the members throughout
the country await the magic
hour, announcement comes from
their National Director of Edu
cation, Miss A. Lucille Reynolds,
Los Angeles, of this year’s scho
larship winners. Miss Asenath
Bright, a June graduate of Wen
dell Phillips High School, Chi
cago, will receive the $1,000 full
four-year scholarship to further
a career in business education.
Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jethro
Bright, the young woman was
sponsored In the competition
by Alpha Beta Chapter. Sup
porting scholarships went to
MlSs Dorothy Louise Gloster,
sponsored by Pi Chapter, Pitts
burgh, Pennsylvania; Miss Ben
nie Ellanne Booker, Rho Chap
ter, Durham, North Carolina;
M4ss Wlllle Mae>- Brantley, Psi
Chapter, Dallas, Texas; and Miss
Rose Mari^ Van Zant, Beta
Kappa Chapter, Seattle, Wash
ington.
Ushers Stage
Drive To Raise
For Home
In an ail-out effort to raise
$1,000 or more for the Ushers
Home at Franklinton, the
Greensboro Ushers Union will
stage, on August 19, a mammoth
Baby Contest, Gospel Singing
Festival and games. The place of
the event will be the Mt. Zioa
Public School. The program will
begin at 5:00 p.m. and end at
10;00 p.m.
J. F. Johnson, editor and pub
lisher of the Future Outlook,
weekly publication of Greens
boro, states that he has Secured
four outstanding singing groups
to take part in the song festival
which begins at 8;00 p.m.
feoth men dnd women mem
bers- of the local Usliers Union
are making donations for the
bazaar and will have parts In
operating booths and other du-
tes of the program.
Mr. Joi:nson paid a visit to
the home in Franklinton last
“This campaign gives us a
unique opportunity for direct
aid to our friends who are,
struggling to improve condi- Sunday and was well plea^d
tions In the South. We ap-|^“h the progress that is being
made fmancially and In keepmg
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MRS. CALLIE DAYE
MRS. WILLIE SMITH
TIMES POPULARITY CONTEST
WMNBtSTOMAffiTMPINMie.
The Carolina Times popu-*
larlty Contest winners of Dur
ham, Greensboro and High Point
are scheduled to leave for Ber
muda and Miami this week and
next week It wa^ announced
hi»r«. TiiP^av hv the managC-
ment of the Times.
Leaving for Bermuda will be
Bishop Caesar of Winston-Salem.
Leaving for Xvliami will be Mrs.
Callie Day of Durham and Mrs.
Willie Smith of High Point.
Bishop Caesar will be accompa
nied by his wife. He and Mrs.
Caesar will leave the Winston-
Salem Airport Thursday, Au
gust 6, for the Raleigh Durham
Airport where they will board
a plane for Bermuda by way of
Washington and New York.
Mrs. Daye and Mrs. Smith
both of whom won free trips to
the annual meeting of the
Beauticians National Convention,
which convenes in Miami, Fla.,
have decided to travel together,
They also will have their hotel
expenses paid by the Times for
one week. Mrs. Day won the
Popularity Contest held in Dur
ham, while Mrs. Smith won the
one held in Guilfbrd County,
Greensboro and High Point.
They will leave the Raleigh
Durham Airport for Miami on
August 3.
I n September consolation
prizes will Be given Mrs. Callie
Ashford and Mrs. Eula Steele of
Durham who close runnersup in
the contest held in Durham. The
prizes will be awarded at the
first meeting of the Beauticians
local which will be held Monday
September 15.
BISHOP AND MRS. S. M. CAESAR of Winston-Salem who
will leave for Bermuda on August 7 for a ten days vacation.
Bishop Ceasar was the Bishop Caesar was the winner of the
Ministers’ Popularity Contest conducted by the CAROLINA
TIMES during March and April of ^his year.
CREDIT UNION
WORKSHOP
ENDS AT A&T
GREENSBORO
Credit union officials attend
ing a statewl4.e Credit Union
Workshop conducted last Thurs
day, (July-24) at A&T CoUega
were brought up-to-date on the
latest methods and techniques in
promotion and operations.
Workers from most of the
sixty-five credit unions operated
by Negroes throughout the State
were on hand,lor the education]
meet, sponsorM||wj)^tly by A&T
College and tm^ortb Carolina
Credit Union League.
Luther C, Hodges, Wbiston-
Salem, president of the North
Carolina Credit Union LeaflU^
who sp*1tc at the opening gene>'^
ral session, told the workers that
credit unions can help solve
many of our economic problems
and urged his audience to a big
ger and sustained campaign to
recruit new members and new
resources. He said that the pro
gram is growing in the state to
such proportions that a new
for the State organization Is to
be constructed In Greensboro, In
the very near future.
B. L. Webster, Greensboro,
managing director of the State
organization attributed much of
the success of credit union
operations in North Carolina td
its early beginnings. He said that
this State was one of the first to
enact legislation providing for
these operations. A welcome
message from the college was
delivered by Dr, G. F. Rankin,
acting dean of the School of
Agriculture at A&M.
The afternoon session was
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MISS JOSEPHINE BOYD, fin«t Negro to be graduated from
an integrated high school in Green,;boro, receives congrat-
ulations from Kelly M. Alexander, left, president of the
NAACP in hM* home state, and NAACP Executive Secretary
Roy Wilkins at the Association’s 49th annual conventioa m
Cleveland, July 8-13.
DELTAS TO HOLD m ANNUAL
CONVENTION IN WASHINGTON
SipiMrtFor
NAACP Urged
NEW YORK
Two bishops of the AMEi
Cljurch and another of the
AMEZ connection have called
for full support of the National
Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People in its
campaign for Increased member
ship. The prelates urging such
support are AME Bishops S. L,
Greene and E. C. Hatcher an4
Bishop E. Ewbank Tucker of the
AME Zion Church.
In a communication to Rev.
Edward J. Odom, Jr., NAACP
church secretary, Bifhop Greene,
senior bishop of the AME
Church, urged "our entire con
stituency as well as God-loving
people everywhere to be active
and alert in giving the ^ fullest
support to the NAACP member
ship drives now and hereafter,
and moral support in general.”
Bishop Hatcher recommended
“to aU of the ministers and mem
bers under t>y supervision that
they support wholeheartedly the
NAACP’s efforts by becoming
W. Anthony Allison, a gra
duate of Hillside High School
and a graduate of Morgan State
College In Baltimore, Md. who
has been studying medicine in
Monlch, Germany since 1953
completed the final medical
in-.Maj, 1858^ and
received the medical degree
from the University of Munich,
Germany, in June 1958.
Dr. Allison will return to the
United States in August on the
SS > Atlantic and will begin his
Internship in Philadelphia, Fa.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
When Delta Sigma Theta So
rority holds its 25th national
convention in Washington, D. C.,
Aufust 17-23, a dominant thema
of the meeting will be the im
portance of public service as the
organization’s goal, as opposed
to the mere social side of so
rority life.
High-lighting the assembly
will be this International Greek-
' tter society’s flve-pofa»t public)
rvice program which covers
the following areas: Library ser
vice, job opportimlties for youth,
fiitecnatiMial gootfwB, cemma-
nity service and mental health.
Much of the seven-day session
will b>e devoted to leadership
and project workshops. Here,
under the guidance of Delta’s
leadership core team composed
of' group process consultants,
sorors will leam the Whniquea
and procedures for_fanplemen-
tlng the organization’s five pub
lic service projects.
Brick Alumni In
Annual Session
BRICKS
’The Brick National Alumni
Association will hold ith 9th an
nual meeting at the school on
Saturday and Sunday, August
30-31. All graduates, former
students and friends are invited
to attend what is expected to be
the largest re-unlon ever held.
The agenda is centered around
our special guest, the Reverend
W. H. Holloway, Columbus,
Ohio, former Dean and Presi
dent of the school, who has Ijeen
invited to speak; also Miss Mary
V. Little, Demopclis, Ala., who
for more than 40 years was Die
titian; the Getting up of the T. S.
IntMrden Scholarship Fund, and
the final disposition of the re-,
storation of Ingraham Chapel. !
Our National president, C. A_
Haywood, and other officers:
have all machinery set lip to as- j
sure all who attend a most en-j
joyable re-imion.
WSTC PREXY
SPEAKER AT
LIVINGSTONE
ALABAMA MOB HALTS
MOVIE SHOWING
WETUMPKA, ALA,
More than 100 noisy demon
strators stopped a
“Island in the Sun'
the movie which co-.stars Harry
Belafonte; Joan Fontaine, Doro-
Dr. F. L. AtklKs Fraajdtrt U
WinstMi-Salem Teaetes Col
lege, wiU deliver Cmn-
meneement Address at tke
Snmmer Schoel Grada-
atioB Exercise t* be haU at Liv-
ingstOH College o« Frliiy, Aag.
1, at twelve o’clock ’Tke
ConToeattmi will be h«M !■ tke
College Andltoriwm. distUi-
guJshed sea of a ifli|Mj|wiii>iid
Father, tke Atkin^ aHtii kaa fw
showing of. many years beea Msa«i|Ud witk
last week, ^ the grewth In (he WjittJiilliaul
System of North CsfeltNu Dr. S.
G. AtUas was the Femtfer aad
first prestdenl of WMj»-Saleat
lia L.
Atktais Is a gnd«at« 1 Lteealk
Md
thy Dandridge and James Mason.
’The group blocked the entr*)' Veavhers College. Dr.
ance to the Dixie Drive-In thea
tre with four cars, forced some! Uaireisity la PMAylvaMla,
active members of the organiza- patrons from the enclosurs and! where k« reeeived kis
tion.” then cut the theatre’s power sup-1 of arte degree. He
In his message. Bishop Tucker ply. I master ef arts doftw at Celaat*
said: “I call upon the constitu-' The theatre had advertised:'bla Ualveesity, aad satflai M
ency of the 10th episcopal dls-' “This is the one that is banned; further atedles ait the Catvenlty
trict of the African Methodist all over the South. While wej of Chicago. Later UaaalM' Val-
Episcopal Zion Church and my dare show its, we do not endorse | versity eaaterred hte tko
friends eveiywhere to join the it. Make up your minds about! gree of DoMwr of Lava.
NAACP now.** I seeing it. I - .