Had Charged While Man With Assault^' /
Two Year-Old Vlolatfon Is Brought Against Monroe Maid
MONROE — A hotel maM
who swore out a warrant Sat-
urcUy charging a white man
With Iticking her down a flight
of stairs was herself Sunday
faced with a chargc ot a crime
she allegedly committed two
years ago.
A few hours after Mrs. Geor
gia Davis White, 29 year o|d
mother of five, signed a war
rant accusing a white railroad
engineer of attacking her, she
was served a warrant charging
her with falsifying an unem
ployment claim in 1957. I
Her warrant against Seaboard
Airline Railway EUigineer B. F.
Shaw charges him with assault
on a female. It says that Shawj
struck her with his fist and j
kicked her down a flight of
stairs as she was changing lin
en in one of the rooms of the
Monroe hotel where she work
ed.
* * *
Mr*. Whit* Is avtctflcally
chargtd with failina t« r*-
part a $4.00 ••rning whan
■he filed a claim lar unem-
ptaymant campansatian In
Fab. IfSr.
• • *
Union County Employment
Security Commission officials
explain the delay in charging
Mrs. White as routine.
There was no clear explana
tion of why tha warrant was
served on Sunday.
• • •
Rabart F. Williams, prast-
dant af. th* Unlan Caunty
NAACF, said th* charga
against Mr*. Whita was
"part of a pattern detignad
to discredit Nagroas who
braught lagal action against
whita paopi*."
' A preliminary hearing for
Shaw has been set for Fob. 2.
Mrs. 'White’s trial is scheduled
for Feb. 5.
Shaw’s bond was set at $100.
Legal observers point out that
bond in similar cases is usually
around $1,000.
Mrs. White's bond was $50.
She has been confined to her
bed since the Saturday’s inci
dent under the care of Dr. A.
E. Perry.
* * •
Tha $4.00 Mr*. Whita has
baan charged with failing
ta report was supposed to
hava baan paid her by the
Manroa Poultry Co., Willi-
' am* *ald. But ha alto quot
ed her a* *aying *ha work
ed far tha firm during 1956
^but was "laid aff" in Janu-
uary «f 1957.
* • •
wararnt charges her with
{ceiving the money during the
ek of Feb. 13, 1957 while fil-
for an unemployment pay-
nt for the same week,
jiln explaining the delay in
larging Mrs. White. Union
punty Employment Security
Commission officials told Willi
ams, he said, that the discrep
ancy in Mrs. White’s applica
tion made in Feb. 1957 was just
discovered.
• • *
Williams quoted Flayd
Harrlll, manager of the Un
ion County Employment of
fice manager at *aying that
it takat time to check th*
recordt of unemployment
daimt.
« • •
Harrill said records were us-
nally checked dnim* the fall
when the office’s business is
normally light.
Williams said he asked why
the records check of 1957 did
not turn up the discrepancy.
“I don’t know," was his reply,
Williams said.
Constable J. Frank Guliedge
served the warrant on Mrs.
White at her home Sunday
where she bad been confinel to
bed since the alleged assault.
• • *
Police afflcialt explained
Uyod bi grtttng ta Ifca ca.*-
•taMa. WWOmmm mrntrn*.
• • •
CBMtable fMktAut told Wit-
liama at first ha was late get
ting tbc wammt. When asfcetl
when it waa drawa rtf, “I think
it was Saturday,” be answered.'
Williams said Employment
Security Commiswon officials
told Urn the office ■■ aot apea
oa Saturdays.
Sea MAID, Pa*a •
^Race Hate WicHed’ - Bishop Shaw
Officialt of John Avery Boy*
(lub war* on hand Thurzday to
wilnatt th* presentation of a
check for $200 from tha Doric
Lodge, 28, F and A Masons for
tha club. Doric Lodge'* Wor-
^ipful Matter E. C. Turner (s*c-
and fram right, I* *aan handing
check to W- 3- Kannady, Jr.,
chairman of tha Bay* Club
baard of director*. At *ittr*ma
left are Bey* Club official* J. H.
Wheeler, trea*urar, and J. S.
Stewart, chairman of the club
hou*ing committee which i* en
gineering the erection of a new
club home on Branch place. Lee
W. Smith, director of th* club,
I* seen at extreme right.
COULD SPOT UNC OR STATE SAYS GAINES
How Good Is
Tennessee TeaM?
Ever since Tennessee State A| Incidentally, two of the Tiger
5nd I’s baskctl)all team literally slaitcrs are North Carolina boys,
ook charge of things in the NAIA, James Satterwhitc, former Hillside
the question of how good the Tig- sUr, is the Tennessee ccnler.'Gene
er« are has becamc a rather per- Worts, who played for Atkins of
ssitcnt one. Winston-Salem last year, is a
With the Tigers sporting a per- starting forward,
feet 18-0 rccord as of this datc| Gaines said Barnet could “play
against a schedule which includes rings around Oscar Itobertson.” Al-
more white schols than Negro and though Walker was a bit more re-
scoring in the hundreds in each of served, he admitted to the belief
thei rgames, the question keeps that the Tennessee sharpshooter
croping up more and more. | was a good as Cincinnati’s “Big
Clarence (Bighouse) Gaines, i®’”
Winston-Salem’s coach who is usual-1 Here’s what Gaines had to say
ly close-mouthed except during a further to the Sentinel-i’ournal
game in which he thinks an offi-1 sports director:
cial has “quecnd” his team, threw | “I’ve watched Barnett pla> in
the proverbial “fat” in the fire the NAIA tournament the last two
when he said recently Tennessee | And he’s as good or better than
could spot either N. C. State (the Robertson in every department.
GAINES
Lik*i Tenne**ee
Wolfpack) or North Carolina (UN
C) ten points and still beat them.
Gaines was quoted by Win.ston-
Salem Journal-Sentincl sports di
rector Mai Maletle.
North Carolina is ranked second
in tlie country on tiio latest Asso-
better rebounder ar.J
Nominees For
Spingarn Are
^ing Accepted
NEW YORK — Nominations for
the Spingarn Medal for 1958 will
AMEZ Leader
Speaks Before j
Church Council
“Race prejudice is-a wicked, ter-
irible thing. It is a curse to anyone
who is afflicted with it,” Bishop
Herbert B. Shaw, AME Zion church
told a predominantly white asscin-
l)ly of some 300 protestant church
men here Wednesday.
The presiding bishop of tlic 12lh
AME Zion district was auressing a
morning session f the second day’s
meeting of the North Carolina
Council of Churches at Duke uni
versity.
He challenged the Council to
practice brotherhood and “there-
bv prove that they arc tiie true
representatives of the Chri.stian
religion.”
Bishop Shaw appeared before
the Council in place of the late J.
Ernsst Wilkins.
He scored the Christian church
for being negligent in giving full
weight of its unqualified witness
in the tension areas. “Christianity
cannot be a half way proposition.
It is all for Christ, or not Christ at
all”, said the i>relate;
He pictured the world as hung
ry and thirsty for Christ. He point
ed out that it could only come
through true Christian leadership
with a positive, impartial, creative,
progressive Christlike leadershp.
“This is no time for us-to fumble
the ball, we are playing in the last
quarter of the game for a free
world for Christ. As church lead
ers we must not be evasive. We
must declare the truth is God
gives us knowledge to know the
truth,” he continued.
!1if Cari
j|'7kETRUTM~UWBI>iSi:E^^
VOLUME 35 — NUMBER
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1IS9 PRICE: l'> CEO'S
Johnson Bill
Is Described
As 'Pacifier'
Member of Durham's\keta Phi dinner in
opOmeA P*l PW . fraternity j nigb».
honored the fraternity's nation
al grand batileu* Dr. I. Gregory
Newton, a member of the Beta
Phi chapter, at a testimonial^ ^ ^
CAROLINA ISRAEL1TE”eDIT0R
Durham Tues-
Omaga official*
pictured here from left'tb' right
are Dr. L. R. Swift, vice-basiieus
in charge of the affair; A. T.
Spaulding, one of the speakers
for the occation; Newton; Dr.
J. H.fTaylor, and R Ifc Harria,
both of whom also spoke during
the testimonial.
Harry Golden Coming Jo
Greensboro And
He’s
much better shooter. He’s about received until April 1, Roy Wil
equal as a ball handler, but they I,. „r
1.1... executive secretary of the
National Association for the Ad
vancement or Colored People, an-
won’t take it away from him as
much as they did Robertson in the
Dixie Classic.
“It will be waste of time for
ciated I'ress poll. State is ranked them to play in the NAIA again
sixth. jthis year. They’ll run away from
Earlier this week. Leroy T. Wal- everybody.”
ker, N. C. College athletic official,) There arc a lot of people who
vcnture(t, the opinion tiiat the Tig- share Gaines' basic opinion, though | late J. E. Spingarn then chairman
crs couUl hold liieir own against Iheym ay not be quite as ecstatic, of the Association’s Board of DJ-
any team in the country. But unless the Tigers break tiie i rectors.
Both men were high on Tennes- schedule barrier with with the ijjjjiory,
see’s liigii scoring are Dick (Skull) country’s top power?, tlieir praisrs ,„„re
Barnett, who is averaging '^8 be domed to be sung by the
faithful and few.
nounced here Thursday.
The medal is awarded annually
by the NAACP to a Negro Ameri
can for distinguished achievement
and was instituted in 1014 by the
BISHOP SHAW
pomts per game tiiis year.
Funeral Services In Raleigh For
Lightner Attracts Large Group
Funeral services for Uiwrcncr
Tliompson Lightner Raleigl. fun
eral home manager who djed in
Duke hospital Wednesriay, Jun. 21
wcrc°held at the Davie Street Pres
byterian .Church, Friday, Jan. 23.
The Rev. Robert L. Shirley, pas-
tr of the church, otficiated.
Friends and asseiates of Light-
nvr from throughout Raleigh and
tiil.s .section of the state crowded
the church to pay final respcct.s to
the well-known Raleigh business
man.
Lightner was a memoor of num
erous professional a ncivic orga
nizaions, including Omega Psi Phi
fraternity, Fidelity Lodge 277 of
tim Elks, Shriller*
ation and the North Carolina Col
lege Alumni Association.
Interment was at the Mount Hope
Cemetery.
BUNCHE HONORED
Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, Under
Secretary of the United Nations
and holder of the Nobel Peace
Prize received the second Albert
Gallatin Award Wednesday (Jan
28) at the annual diiioer of th6 Al
bert Gallatin Assolcates of New
York University in the Hotel
Pierre.
a graduate of the University or an
Tho award ia given each year to
Raleigh Safety | honorary degree recipient who has
Club, Capital Union Leagues, North made “a contribution of lasting slg-
Carollna Funeral DircKtom Associ nificance to society.'"
than one person, tiie Little Rock
nine and tiieir mentor, Mrs. Daisy
Bates. This also marked the first
lime that the medal was given to
minors. Medals were presented at
the Association’s 1958 convention
in Cleveland on July 11.
The field of achievement of
prospective Spingarn Medal win
ners may be intellectual, spiritual,
the arts, science, business, educa
tion or other. Former winners in
clude such persons as Jackic Rob
inson, pioneer major league base
ball star and Carl Murphy, pub
lisher.
Also Marian Ander^-'n, sinr'or;
Paul R. Williamc, arehltect; ‘Willi
am H. Hastie, jurist: the Rev.
Martin Luther King, clergyman; A.
Philip Randolph, labor leader; Dr.
Ralph J. Bunche, undersecretary of
the United Nations; Dr. Channing
"H. Tobias, ciiairman of the NAA
CP Board of Directors; and others.
Nominations should be sent to
the Spingarn Medal Award ^Com
mittee. NAACP, 20 V.‘ert 40th St.,
|New York 18, I'f. Y.
Shaw Expects
Large Crowd
RALEIGH — Bhaw University’s
Greenleaf Chapel is expected to be
filled with an overflow inter-racial
and inter-religioas crowd Tuesday,
February 3, at 8 p. m. to hear not
ed author Harry Golden.
Golden was Kheduled on De
cember 15, but the affair was post
poncd because of the snow storm.
Rabbi Abe Schoen of Beth Mey
cr Synagogue prior to j musical
selection featuring Paul Crump,
baritone accompanied by Harry
Gil-Smythe.
Funeral Services Held For
Mrs. Owens, Longtime Resident
Funeral services for Mrs. Lean-| Among her immediate survivors
na Greene Owens were held at Mt. arc one daughter, Mrs. Nance; ^one
Gilead Baptist Church Tuesday af- ^ son: Jessie L. Greene; one sister:
ernoon, Jan. 27, at 3:30 p. m. IMrs. Marlah Houston of Grcensbo-
The Rev. Harold Roland, Mt. Gil-1 ro; one grandson: Jessie G. Nance,
ead pastor, officiated. He was as-1 now with the U. S. Army; and sev-
sisted by the Reverends A. S.
Croom, pastor of Union Baptist,
and H. Albert Smith, pastor of
Shady Grove at Roxboro.
Mrs. Owens died at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. Martha G.
Nance at 518 Gray' street early
Sunday morning. She had been in
declining health since 1951; She
was 75.
Born in Durham County on
March 25, 1883 the daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Revis,
Mrs. Owens lived all of her life
in Durham. She was married to
cral nieces and nephew.s.
Burial rites at Beech vypod ceme
tery folowed the church service.
UF Official
In Pittsburgh
Joseph A. Beebe, United Fund
Staff Assistant and Director of
the United Fund Belter Health
Foundation’s Health Education
the late Alex Greene in 1901 and i Program left Durham Wednesday
“emarried in 1924 the late William i to attend the first National Confer-
Owens. ence on Health Foundation as a
She was ne of the oldest mem- consultant.
)ers of Mt. Gilead Baptist Church I The conference was held at the
where she was a loyal member of Penn-Sheraton Hotel in Pittsburgh,
the senior missionary circle. Pa., on Thursday and Friday.
SBC
LASSITER
Program Speaker
Business School
Founder's Day
The First Annual Founder’s Day
ot the Southeastern Business Col
lege, Friday, January 30, will be
highlighted b\- a tribute to the late
Thomas Andrew Stith, Sr., by guest
speaker Allorney J. L. Lassiter,
Educational Director for Winston
Mutual Life Insurance Company in
Winston-Salem.
The Founder’s Day Program is
scheduled for 10:00 A. M. at Dur
ham’s Covenant Presbyterian
Church.
Graveside tributes will be paid
to Slith Friday afternoon at North
eastern Cemetery in Rocky Mount,
N. C., with Dr. F. N. .Sullivan, SBC
Executive Board Chairman from
Wilson, N. C., presiding and
NEW YORK — The omission of
any provision dealing with the
school desegregation crisis in the
I civil rights proposal of Senate Ma-
ijority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson
“prompts the suspicion that it is
a sugar-coated pacifier, “Roy Wil
kins, executive secretary of the
National Association for tbe Ad
vancement of Colored People,
charged here Thursday.
The Texas senator’s four-point
program submitted to the Senate
on Jan. 20 calls for the establish
ment of a fedeMily apaiioced 1b-
dcpeMiJent conciliation aenplce to
mediate racial conflicts; extenmn
I of the life of the Civil Rights
I Commission through January, 1961;
'granting of subpoena rights to tbe
I Attorney General in voting caaes;
and federal investigation of boinb-
ings of churches and scfao«ria.
"must ba racognind first af
all aa an affart t* Mack can-
sMaratian af affactwa lagi*la
tion in this fiaM. Wa rasard it
as offering linimant ta cwra a
tumar, for it omMs entiralv
tha paramount damastk isMta
of desagragatian af tha puMic
schools."
« • «
The complete text (rf Wilkins’
statement follows;
Senator Lyndon B. Johnson's
To Addiess
UNCFHeet
NEW YORK — Harry Golden,
author of the current best-selling
book, "Only in America,” and edi
tor of The Carolina Israelite, will i civil rights propo«al must be recog-
be the Saturday evening banquet I nized first of all as an effort to
speaker at the 13lh annual United j block consideration of effeetive
Negro College Fund Alumni Con-, legislation in this field,
ference. The two-dav meetings will • • *
be held Feb. 7 and 8, at Bennelt!
College, Greensboro, Greensboro, 1
N. C. j
Golden's humorous, satirical |
cemmenls on the American sccne
have been widely read. His unique
publication, printed in Charlotte.
N. C., lists some of the nation's,
most distinguished men as sub
scribers.
UNCF graduates from many sec
tions of the country will attend the
meetings. The delegates are volun
teer workers, and alumni directors
and students from UNCF colleges,
all of whom will participate in thej
annual College Fund appeal. j
Workshop meetings will be held,
to discuss methods and means of
increasing alumni support for the
33 member colleges. Harold R.
Harding, assistant director of the
American Aiumni Council, will
serve as workshop moderator dur
ing the Greensboro sessions.
Dr. Willa B. Player, president of
the host college, Bennett will de-
aa affariag
par*.
Wa regard ^
linimant to cwra
it omits anllralv tlia
mount damastic istua af da-
sagragatian of tba public
schoota. Tba cowrts ara full af
this isswa. Stata lagtolatwras
Hava anactad huwdrada af billa
upaa it. Traopa hawa baan ma-
billiad upon ». Nawspapar*.
magaiina*. talawisian M*d ra
dio arO full af H. Political uh»-
didatas ara balng alactad and
dafaatad upan this ituia. Tlia
(Saa JOHNSOK Paga ■)
Samuels To
Resume Duly
Police lieutenant Jaows B. Sam
uels is scheduled to resume active
duty on Feb. I after a nine day
suspension from the Durtiam po-
. lice force, chief W. W. Pleasants
liver the welcommg speech. More-',^ this week,
house College President Benjamin
E. Mays, newly elected president
of the Fund, and W. J. Trent, Jr.,
its executive director, are
listed as speakers.
ON MAG STAFF
The veteran paliceaun was aua-
pended Friday. Jan. B for “aatittn
also unbecnxtins to a police offker,**
Pleasant said.
Pieasaats itarltnad to twt-
ther the natwr* al tlM> vWiiiagL
Saaiiiels wm tha Qnt Hapo p*.
— Announce-1 Ucemea appoiatad la
Bennett College i is thoucht to lha
GREENSBORO
ment that three
a [students have been named to thelpotiet oSkcr
number of other leading citizens of I college board of Madamiselle mag-! rank tha Saalik.
eastern North Carolina participat-iazine. New York fashion publica- He Joiagd the foata tm.
ing. tion, has Just been received Tiere.11M4.