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NEW SENATE LIBERALS BIG ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ -—t Second Deputy Sheriff For City Mn IphtnkuTM Ui^iBeo'^ VOLUME 35—NUMBER 1 DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 195J PRICE: 15 CENTS • LG. NEWTON Negro Bands Ffozen Out Of Ala. Inaugural MONTGOMEUY, Ala. — Negro bands wore not Invited and will not march in the inaugural parade for Alabama’s n^ governor next month was rcpoAd on Monday. Only white baAs will march in the parade. * Ed A/nr, chairman of inaugural ccrcmonics, said tiovernor elect >’Mler»i«i|Mllts4iiriccidAd niM to iitvile Ne.;;ro bands becausc of his Ii^;;al battles against the National A.ssn. for the Advancement of Col ored People. Nci^ro bunds have always been a.sked'to participate in the past. “Being the leader of the fight nsalnst Ihe NAACP, a group which apparently is the leader of the col ored people in this state, Patter- a.sk 'thfem to participate”, Azar said. “The inauguraton is a salute to the new governor, and Patter son just felt it would put the col ored people ip an embarrassing po sition. lie had no desire to elim inate anybody.” It was reported in a Tu^kegee Negro weekly, that the band from the B’amous Tuskegee Institute and musical groups from a number of state-supported schools had been dropped from the parade. Newton Elected To Head Omegas Man Charged Bizarre [obbery Case lUciiard M. Motley, 23 year old resident of 204 West Cobb street, was ordered bound over to the Grand Jury at the close of a Recorder’s Court trial is one of tlie straiiKi'st robbery eases to plague Durham police in quite awhile. The robbery took place at Motley’s owti house. Aceording to testimony pre sented during the hearing be fore liecordcr’s Judge A. R. Wilson this week, when G. H, Mulclii, collector for the L. B Merciuitile company made his usual call ut Motley’s house to collect for some merchandise, he was ushered by S^lotley through the front room and into a middle room. Mulchi .said that once he was inside the darkened middle room. Motley gave him $10 foj which he was to make a two dollar payment. As he pulled his wallet from his pocket, the col' Icctor sadi, a tall Negro walked through the front of the house and ordered, “stick 'em up.” Mulchi reported ths man had s handkerchief over his head with ayehole»*cut and a pistol in his hand. ■ He further testified that the .hold up man never spoke to Motley during the time he was See ROBBERY, page 8 Dr. I. G. Newtgn was born in Washington, D. C., and was graduated from the Dunbar High School there. He received the A. B. Degree at Lincoln University in 1939, the A.M. Degree at the Univer sity of Pennsylvania In 1947, and the Ph.D. Degree In June, 1956. He is the author of an articlc scheduled for the Summer Year book of the Journal of Negro Education on “The Expansion of Negro Suffrage in North Cata lina.” Prior to joining the North Carolina College faculty in 1948, he was employed at Lincoln University. Dr. Newton was one of the contributors to a Special Mono graph written by Colonel Camp bell C. Johnpon, Executive As sistant to the Director of Selec- tivi.' Service, which was pub lished in 1953. According to the foreword of the text, the mono- fraph "attempts to set forth the Aiultitude of problems faced by the Selective Service System in carrying out the letter and spirit of the law. Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as re gards racial pr colored minori ties.” Dr. Newton was engaged as research and editorial assistant on phases in Chapters II (Racial Groups in the United States) and II (All Americans Faced Times Nine War). He also engaged in a study that sought to determine the influence of Negro Police men on adult crime rates in cer tain North Carolina cities. Dr. Newton’s doctoral disser tation at the University of Pennsylvania is called “A Study of the Minor Judiciary in North Carolina with special emphasis on the Justices of the Peace.” In April, 1957, Dr. Newton at tended the Industrial College of the Armed Forces at Providence, Ahode Island. He is an active major in the United States Army- Reserve. He holds membership in the American Political Science As- See NEWTON, page 8 J. C. BIGGERS In “Who’s Who” It was announced this week that Asa T. Spaulding, newly elected president of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, will be listed in the 19S9 edition of the International Year Book and Statesmen’s Who’s Who. PLAN MEDICAL MEET — Thtae officers of tho Old North Sl«t« conferr^ last week in CrMnsboro on preparations for the annual meeting of the orga nization. to be held at AAT Col* lege on June 9-11. They are:. Dr. W. C. Shanks, seated, i Bur- Ington, N. C., president; Dr. W. T Armstrong, left, Rocky Mount, executive secretary jnd Or. B. L. Rann, right, Charlotte, presi- dent-elffct. Afro-Asian Blot May Elect African Next UN President Biggers Picked To Become New Peace Officer Joseph C. Biggers, 32, of 1021 Plum street was scheduled to be sworn In as Durham county’s second Negro deputy sheriff Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 31, the TIMES learned. Wednesday afternoon at 3:30, Sheriff J. M. Mangum said ^le was expecting Biggers momen tarily so that the formal oath taking ceremony could be held. Swearing in of Biggers would bring the number of NegrO; deputies working out of the county sheriff’s office to two. Garson McLeod, former Dur ham policeman, was sworn in as! the county’s first Negro deputy j three weeks ago. Biggers will be assigned to work with McLcod in handling! best wishes for the New Year to HAPPY NEW YB^|» — These A&T College coeds, typify the sprit of T959 as they send out all from the A&T College family. They are from left to right: Em ma Jo Williams, High Point, N. C.; Cynthia Manns, Yonkers, N. Y., and Catherine HinsoM, Greensboro, N. C. civil and criminal matters in tlio county, sheriff Mangum re vealed. A native of Gastonia, Biggers has been in Durham for the past 12 years, ten of which he served as credit manager and secretary of the Biggers-Turner wholesale barber and beauty supply house Prior to joining the Durham firm, he was a representative for Adolph’s beauty products in Western North Carolina. The new deputy is a veteran of World War II service with the Coast Guard. He attended public schdols in Gastonia, Lincoln Academy and Nprth Carolina College. Biggers is married to tlie for mer Miss Alice Beverly of Winston-Salem. The Thirteenth Session of the United NatiOTOi" General Assem bly, recently it(^ourned inarks a distinct period in the history of that organization. The United Nations is definitely multi colored, thus more nearly re flecting the situation in the world today. The coloring comes primarily from the Arab-Asian-African parts of the world, though a notable segment comes from the Caribbean and South American shores. The 13 th Session has been called the ‘^African Session" byj no less a personage than its President, Dr. Chas. Malik. Dr. Malik is well equipped to make the assessinent. In the first place an African, Mr. Ahmed Mahgoub of Sudan came close to defeating Dr. Malik for the presidency, an Item which Dr. Malik probably did not take into INTERNATI(|>NAL PARTY HEli) AT HOME OF MRStWn SOMBEEK account in his evaluation, but; sion was given to Africa, be the never-the-less -an indication of area of attention the economic the signs of the times. | political or social sphere. There Is more than an even chance that the next president of' the United Nations General As-' sembly will be a non-white man,* that is he will be a man whose skin pigmentation will be other than white. And unless there is a , complete turn about the United Lua«(j^a Van Son^eek Sates will support him. I another Imernatlonal Party ' at her home last Saturday. She However he will not comei entertained friends and visitors, from the African Continent but Ampng her guests were mem- wlll come from South America, bers of the faculty of N. C. Col- All these calculations may bo lege, Duke University and Uni overturned by the refusal of thej versity of North Carolina. ' Aiab-Aslan-African bloc to gO' along with this program, but hel Mrs. Van Sombeek showed may have eaough support other-' ®lid^s from her recent travel to wise to win any way. 1 Europe, Russia and Countries I behind the Iron Curtain. As one looks back at the 13th Sesfilptt It Is easy to understand 1 There were recordings ol why it was called the "African composers from those countries. Session.” By far the greatest During the social fellowship amount of attention given any. hour refreshments were made section of the world by this ses-lfrom recipes of many countries. To Slioot Him,' Assailant Says By ALEX DEVEAUX It was an accident, I did not to-' shoot Devine,' arrested on investigation of assault and battery with a dead ly weapon told police officers on Monday night. Devine, age 23 of 412 Macon street was arrested after Thomas Evans of 1213 Berkley street was admitted to Lincoln hospital with wound n his right hand, police re ported on Tuesday. Evans was not the only one in jured ip the gun-fray his wife was mjured also, yet he insisted that “It was just an accident.” The incident was reported to have taken place at 412 Macon street, where officers found the accused, after following a trail of blood. Investigating officers 11. E. Dud ley and T. A. Parker said on Tues da|y in their i*eport that on Mon day night about 11 p. m. they talked to Thomas Evans, the in jured man at 1213 Berkley Street. They reported that lEvans age 29, had a gun wound in his right hand. Evans told offcers that he hac! (been shot accidentally, but declin ed to tell who did the shooting where it happened and how it hap pcned. After the injured man was tali cn to the hospital by his father-in- law the officers stated in their re port, they then followed a trail of blood down to 412 Maj:on street. At this address the 'officers en tered the house and found Thomas Devine the arrested man. ' “There was blood in the house", the officers reported. They said that they arrested Earl Thomas De- vine after he admitted that he shot Thomas Evans his brother- in-law. \ "It was an accident”, he told the officers. Evans at the hospital after being admitted could not give a reason for the shooting. He was treated by hospital officials and admitted. It was reported that he is suf fering as the result of four of the leaders of his right hand being shot away. The officers reported further tKaf they were called back to Lincoln hospital where Emma Lu cille Devine, 21, wife of the accus ed was being treated for two shot- See ASSAILANT, page 8 POINTS TO LIBERALS ON BOTH SIDES Wilkins Sees New Chance For Civil Rights Advances ^ By ROY WILKINS, Executive Secretary Nati*nal Association t^t the A dvancement of Colored People THE ELECTION RETURNS of Nov. 4 may well prove to be the most significant dsyelopment in the afea of race relations in the United States during 1958. The number of avowed advocates df civil rights elected to both Houses of Congress enhances the oppor tunity for the enafetrtient of additional human rights legislation during the 86th Congress. A revision 4 Senate Rule 22 to make it possible to stop a filibuster' by majority vote also sefems probabfe as the result of the election. Outside of ttje South, liberals of both p arties were elected to office. The returns may be int^jJreted as Uidicating a trend away from standpat conservatism not only in civil in iffriil wflfarr Ipgi-ilntinn Even in the South, Senators Albert Gore ol ?%ennessee and Ralph Yarboroi*gh of TJexa§, bo4h moderates, were elected over opponents cbmmitted to defiance of the United States ^fflreme Court’s desegregation decrees. NEGRO CmZENS and others who believe in implementation of the Court’s rulings and in the enajfefment of civil rights mea sures were heartened by the election returns. Already plans have been formulated to secure ;lioiLJin_support of the SupreAie Court's decisions as well as of other civil rights measures. On Sept. 29, the Supreme ROY WILKINS New Solons Bid Less Danger To Freedoms-ACLU NEW YORK The new Congress was ap praised by the American Civilj Liberties Union as “promising far less danger to free speech and due process than the old, perhaps even some positivol gains.” But the civil liberties or-1 ganization offered its optimism j guardedly. ' | In its 38th annual report re-' leased Wednesday the ACLUj opined there was “a reasonable! probability” that the 86th Con-j gress would act to curb filibus*! tering, which blocks a final vote I on controversial legislation. But while the tJnion pointed out that it “can justifiably feel a bit up lifted about the temper of thei times,” it characterized the anti-1 filibuster move as only a “pre-i liminary” step in the drive for See SENATE, page 8 ‘ Court handed dqwrt a sweeping (tecision re-a£firi^i)[»g, amplify- iag and clarifying its historic ri^ng of May 17AIJKM. banning segregation in public educatioiv llie decision spell^ the doom of t|ie “massive resistance” to de- s«^egation by S6me Soi^em states. THE COURT HELD unani mously that “the constitutional rights of children not l>e dis criminated against in school ad mission on the grounds of race or color...can neither be nullified openly or directly by state legis lators or state executive or judi cial officers, nor nullified in- ^rectly by them through eva sive schemes for segregation whether attempted 'ingeniously or ingenuously.’ The court ban ned the use of public funds to support “private” schools. MEANWHILE, PURSUANT to >the policy of “massive resis tance,” some 16,000 elementary 'and secondary school pupils, the vast majority of them white boys and girls, were locked out of public schools in Little Rock and in three Virginia communis iies by actions of Governor Or- val E. Faubus of Arkansas and J. Lindsay Almond of Virginia. The makeshift private schools into which many of them have been herded do not appear to be meeting the standards required for admission to colleges. ’TOE INTRANSIGENCE of the two governors is exacting a tra gic toll of the children ol their' states. A reaction against this kind of ^crifice has already been indicated by many of the parents as well as by the child ren. DESPITE THE SCHOOL clos ings and other attempts to evade integration of public school systems in the South, tiie \pum- ber of desegregated systems con tinued to increase in 19SS and. now, according to School News, amounts ot 790 out of a total of 2,890 bi-a»ciai school districts in the border and southern states. I IN 1958 THEBE WERE mores^ than 400.000 Negro students en- ■ rolled in desegregated s«:hoal systems as compared with 350,000 in 1957. Meanwhile, another 2,500,000 colored chUd- ren continued to attend compul sory segregated schools. FOUR IMPOKTANT religious groups voiced support of the Supreme Court’s desegregation rulings during the year. THE DENIAL Or freedom of residence, the urban Negro’s most serious problem, was at tacked by the Conuniaaion on Race and Housing, a private group financed by the Fund lor the Republic. ON ’THE NEGA-nVE were the ix>mbings of churc synagogues, schools and priva homes; the defiance of the Rights Commission by Alab election officials who relu cooperate in the investigatio violations ol Negroes’ rigb vote in that state; the handed arrest ol three Negro clergymen in Bir ham on suspicion of ; urge Birmingham Negroes 1 frain from riding city long as they are segregatadi;: the sentencing ol two year-old Negro tioys to lormatory in Monroe, N. cause one of them was a little white girl THE TEAR WAS See WILKINS, Dr. King In' Ws Who," S Speedies At Yale lUiersiiT ATLANTA, Ga. gration. On the The Southern Leadership he wiU deliver a Council announced this week Divinity wheel that its. president. Dr. Martin theological a^paei Luther King, appears for the> lence in pennoat liHi:: llrst time in the recently put>- lations. lished “Whi’s Who in America.": “Who's Who "’Wst The organization also revealed) which lists Dr. that Dr. King has accepted two timv^ teeew^vv important liktur* engagements^'Alabama at Yale University. ' Washington, iiWlM On January 14, King is sche- fee InsUtutKv^^liijE^ duled to speak In lamed Wool- 'Way^ingttm sey Hall on The Future ol Intc-i '■
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