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Gangs Roaming
»Hayti Robbing
And Assaulting
Police were informed here
this Week that the Hayti sec
tion of Durham is becoming
infested with {jangs of hood
lums that roam the streets at
night molestitijf, robbing and
beating uj) innocent persons
who refuse them money.
Several citizens rejxjrted
last week that they have been
attacked by a gang of hoodlums
composed of about eight or nine
young men whose ages run from
about 16 to 20 years and wearing
red shirts and Ivy League caps.
When money was requested of
one person and he replied he did
not have any. he was struck
the stomach and the face by the
leader of the gang.
Local citixcns ar* warnad to
b* cartful about watkina dark
•trtots of tha Hayti Mction at
night, etpacially womtn, and to
raport to polico immodiatoly if
thoy aro molatted or attackod
by a mcmbor or mtmbort of a
gang fitting tho abovo dotcrlp*
tion.
Police have received instruc
tions to crack down on persons
roaming the streets in the Hayti
section who are unable to account
for themselves.
The police department has also
Requested citizens to coopeiate
with the department in helping
to break op roaming hoodlum
gangs. Any person witnessing an
incident in wiiich gangs take part
is asked to telephone police head
quarters.
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Contest Ouster
of Union Men
NEW YORK—|n a mova de
signed to sustain th« alactlon
of William R. Scott and other
Negroes to tea>irsMp poklttbnk
I In Local 173 of the Brotherhood
of Railway Clarks, NAACP law
yers have filed a petition in tho
Supreme Court of the State af
New York, as a friend of tha
court.
The petition filed on July 14
by Jawn A. Sandlfer, New York
(See OUSTER, Page •)
MOUNT VERNON BAPTIST
Durham Churcli Buys $500 NAACP Membership;
Others Make Payments at Group's Regular Meet
SPIARHEADED LIFE MEM-
BCRSHIP,— The Rev. E. T.
Browne, paster of Mt. Vernon
Baptist Church of Durham,
spearheaded a drive In his
church which resulted in the
cash payment of $500 last Sun-
/•day to the Durham NAACP
branch for a life membership.
Dr. who serves as presi
dent of the Interdonominational
Ministerial Alliance, taltes a
leading role in civic and politi
cal affairs of the city.
METHODIST SEMINAR LEAD
ERS — Four of the outstanding
speakers who are taking part In
the ten-day national seminar In
Greensboro on Christian Social
Relations are pictured here. Left
to right are Dr. Zahir Abmed,
former Secretary-General of For
eign Affairs of India; Dr. Willa
Player, president of the host in
stitution, Bennett College; Dr.
Wolfgang Stolper, Austrian-ed-
OPENS ON AUGUST 11
Thousand Delegates Expected for
75th Baptist Women's Convention
RALEIGH—At least a thousand
persons will be expected at Shaw
University Tuesday through Fri
day, August 11-14, attending the
Seventy-fifth Annual Sesaion (Dia
mond Jubilee) of the Woman’s
Baptist Home and Foreign Mis
sion Convention of North Caro
lina, auxiliary to the (General Bap
tist State Convention, Inc.
The theme for the occasion will
be “CALLED—COMMISSIONED-
KEPT,” taken from the Biblical
chapter Isaiah.
The various meetings and pro
grams will be held on Shaw Uni
versity’s East Campus and the
Tupper Memorial Baptist Church.
On Tuesday evening at 8:40
p.m. Dr. A. J. Ryans, pastor,
Ebenezer Baptist Church, Char
lotte, will deliver the annual con
vention sermon.
Wednesday mornins at 10:30,
Mrs. M. A. Horne, president of
the Convention, will be featured
in an address. Wednesday after
noon at 2:30, Miss Delores Me-
Grier, president, Jijpiar-Young
‘People’s Department will address
her group during its session.
Wodno.sday evening ha.» iicen
designated as Foreign Mission
Night. A pageant: “Planks” in the
Program of Progress W.B.H. &
F. M. Convention will be present
ed in Greenleaf Auditorium of
Shaw University at 7:30 p.m., and
Dr. M. L. Shepard, pastor. Mount
Olivet Baptist Church, Philadel
phia. Pa., yvill deliver a sermon
at 8:45 p.m.
On Thursday morning at 10:10
the group will hear the Reverend
John Fleming, Director of Chris
tian Education, General Baptist
Convention of North Carolina. His
topic will be “Our Human Rela
tions Today.”
Thursday evening is Shaw
Night. The Reverend Thomas
Kilgore, pastor, Friendship' Bap
tist Church, New York City, will
deliver a sermon at 7:30 p.m.
Pr. Ellen S. Alston is executive-
secretary of the convention. Other
personalities are. Reverend R. M.
Pitts, pastor, Shiloh Baptist
Church, Winston-Salem, Kelly
Alexander, Charlotte, (board of
directors, Mzi. K.
McGee, president, Woman’s Mis
sionary Union of North , Carolina,
• (See DELEGATES, Page 8)
ucated professor of economics
at the University of Michigan;
and Dr. Dorothy Lee, teacher
and advisor at Merrill Palmer
school. The seminar is sponsored
by the Methodist Church.
International
Talks Open at
Bennett College
Greenboro,— Around 150 Meth
odist women leaders from 37
states, the District of Columbia,
and five foreign countries opened
a 10-day national Seminar on
Christian Social Relations in the
campus of Bennett Coliese, Tues
day.
Among the group were women
from the two newest states — Ala
ska and Hawaii; seven delegates
from North Carolina and six from
South Carolina and representa
tives from Malaya, Southern Rho
desia, Canada, England and India.
The .seminar, held every four
years, is sponsored by the Woman’s
Division of Christinn Scrvice of
the Methodist Board of Missions.
Theme of the current seminar is
“The Family in a World of Rapid
Social Change.”
Among the speakers scheduled
to appear are members of the
United Nations executive staff,
college professors, ministers and
church executives and President
Willa B. Player of Bennett. They
will present three aspects of
CJ]cM^‘*'>v.jsocial.«c#Ution«
fected by cultural and social
change, technology and economic
(See TALKS, Page 8)
Moup; Vernon Baptist Church
turno;l over a check for $500 for
an NAACP Life Memiiership to
officials of tiie Durham branch
ct.the NAACP in its regular meet
ing Sunday afternoon.
Winliiro Wiggins a member of
tiie ML Vernon Baptist Church,
handed a check for the institution
al life membership to attorney
William A. Marsh, Jr., vice-presi-
Tarheel Warns
of invasion by
■ ffi■ rr
Dixie Line
N'l'W YORK — Souther^
,sc;'rcf;ationisfs have launched
L:i. “new invasion of the Xorth^^,
.•^eTinS ’■“hT ihihmium t
nruti’ttlize iiorthjL'rn' opi. 'Oit
\t a ina.xinuiin to enroll the
\orth under their banner,”
Marion A. WTijjht, vice presi-
•k'nt\of the Southern Region
al (.‘uuncil. declared in an ad-
ihcs.s delivered at the XAACI’
r 150th anniver.sarv conveniion
liere la.st week.
Wright, a native southerner
and a retired lawyer now living
in South Carolina, participated
in a panel discussion of "The
NAACP and American Public
Opinion."
Sharing the platform with him
a:. tho>- session on July 16, were
Harold L. Oram, president, Har
old L. Oram Associates, New York
City, and Henry Lee Moon, NAA
CP director of public relations.
Joseph V. Baker, president of Jo
seph V. Baker Associates, Phila
delphia. presided.
“Skilled and effective advocates
of bigotry invade the North,
eschewing the term ‘white suprem
acy,’ but nevertheless seeking
northern help in maintaining a
social system of which a pre
ferred status for whites is the
core,” Wright warned.
The southerner, Wright as
serted, is not frank and open In
his approach. Rather, "he is ob
lique and indirect." He bUmet
the Supreme Court "as tha au
thor of all his misfortunes," and
seeks to convince the North
that the court must be curbed.
In their attack upon the Court,
they cite all of its civil liberies
decisions upholding individual
rghts and say “little, if anything
about the school decisions. The
impression will be subtly con
veyed,” Wright pointed out, “that
hero are nine men drunk with
power and bent upon destroying
the republic; hence, thefr author
ity must be curbed.”
dent of the Durham NAACP.
Mt. Vernon, thus became the
first Durham church to complete
payment of a life membership.
Several other churches are work- NAACP financial programs. Th(
ing on plans to purchase life mc^ Durham branch has put stress or
berships and partial payment OI^^his part of the program in recen
one was accepted also at the Suii-
day meeting.
In addition. Dr. William H. Full
er, pastor of Mt. Zion Church, pre
sented Marsh with a check for
$50 in partial payment of an in
dividual life membeship.
It was his church which made
a partial payment on a institu
tional life membership Sunday.
Sunday s monthly meeting was
held at the Mt. Vernon Baptist
Church. In addition 40 receipt of
life membership payments, Attor
ney Marsh’s report of ilie na
tional organization’s 50th anniver
sary convention highlighted the
meeting.
The life memberships are a fea
ture 01 the local and nationa'
weeks.
Fuller, president of the Durban
NAACP, told the TIMES that sev
eral other Durham churches were
expected to present paymept on
life memberships Sunday, bft ex
plained that rainy weather pre
vented some of the church repre
sentatives from attending the
meeting. '
He said that credit for Mount
Vernon’s completion of its life
membership was due largely to the
efforts of its pastor, the Rev. E. T.
Browne.
(See NAACP. Page 8)
Flash Flood Sweeps 10
Olds to Death as Theyl^dyed
Two younjj >irl.>. who w i-nt out to play early Monday aft-
e Tnoon in a playground area huiUKftd twd normally harm
less streams, were cau,tiht in a uidden flf>fl and swept to their
deaths in rain swollen \\ater>.
The IhhIIcs of Il-year-oM Diane Williams, of 1524 Ashe
Street, and 10-year-old Doris Jean*.
Head, of Akron, Ohio, were recov
’red from Mile Run Creek around
1 p.m. Monday.
They had gone wading in the
)layground area shortly after a
leavy morning rainstorm when
the swirling waters from the two
•treams surrounding the Ashe
Street playground picked them up
ind carried them down stream to
vheir deaths.
found about a half mile from
The Williams girl's body was
the spot at which she disappear
ed. Tha body of the Head girl
was discovered about a quarter
of a mile away from the play
ground.
The girls were carried by the
stream through a culvert, which
carried the stream under Ashe
Street.
B. T. Tesh, of Route 7. found
the Williams’ girl body hanging
on a strand of barbed wire on
O’Connor Street which runs into
Ashe.
The body of the Head girl was
discovered by Captain Dock Cost
ner of the rescue suad and two
other men.
Rescue squad memi>ers at-
(See DROWN, Page 8)
DIANE
Three Youths
Die in Wred;
Three Injured
^le his brothec^K car wW
iafter waS at work,;llterairy
LIFE MEMBERSHIP CHECKS—
Attorney William A. Marsh, Jr.,
vice president of the Durham
NAACP, receives payment on
NAACP, $500 life memberships
for Mt. Zion Baptist Church,
from (left to right W. J. Gibson,
and Dr. William H. fuller, for
himself. WInrthro Wiggins, at
extrema left, presents a check
for full payment of life mem
bership from Mt. Vernon Bap
tist Church. Scene took place at
Durham NAACP's regular
monthly meeting last Sunday
at Mt. Vernon Baptist Church.
Lake Calls NAACP "Our Enemy,
Asks State to Quit Schools
STANFORD — Dr. I. Beverly
Lake, former attorney general and
outspoken segregationist, describ
ed the NAACP as “our enemy,”
attacked thb limited integration
program of Gov. Hodges and called
for abandonment .of the public
school system by the State in a
speech here Tuesday.
The NAACP "is our enemy," Dr.
Lake asserted, and called upon tha
people of North Carolina to deal
with it as such.
He said the people should not
fail “in our own thinking or in
our own action to distinguish be
tween that organization and the
Negro people of North Carolina.”
“It is a must,” he declared in
a speech before the Junior Cham
ber of Commerce,, “that we at the
earliest practical moment recover
any beachhead which the NAACP
has established in oi^r schools,
whether through voluntary action
of school boards or the decree of
federal courts.”
Lake’s address was one in series
sponsored by the Jaycees on
(See LAKE, Page 8)
Civil Rights
Measure Is
Watered Down
MOCKSVILLE — A 15-year-old
outh of Route 3, M«»r here, who
hile tM
drov*
himself and two otker'ranpanioiu
•,& death Monday.
Three other yoangsters, riding
in the car, were injured.
James Roosevelt Doublin, wrap
ped his brother’s car around a
tree Monday when he lost control
of the speeding vahicle in a
curve.
Invpstieating highway patrwl-
nan K. Cowan said the 1961
model auto went off an embank
ment on a paved rural road near
here -after the driver failed to
make a curve at excessive spead.
The two other youngsters killed
in the crash were Daniel Brown,
15 of Mocksville, and Lewis Har
graves, 20, of Lexington,
i Injured seriously were Walter
I Brown, 6, and John Junior Gocriea-
I by. 11. both of Route 3. Mocki-
! ville, Wayne Brown, the fifth oe-
ciJpant of the auto, escaped with
minor injuries.
The injured were tal^en to Da
vie County hospital.
(Saa WRECK. Page •)
Harriman Hopes
Next President
Sees Moral Issue
NEW YORK —In his first pul^
lie addraas since his ratum from a
tour of Soviet Russia, former New
Charlotte Announced As Site of Annual Lott-Carey
Foreign Mission Convention; Massed Choir Event Set
CHARLOTTE — According to a with a Mammoth Pre-Convention
statement issued by the Reverend | Musical in which one hundred and
Wendell C. Somerville, Executive j fifty (150) of the leading singers
Secretary, the Lott Carey Baptist | 6f Charlotte and Vicinity will pre-
Foreign Mission Convention will i sent this Musical Extravaganza,
hold its Sixty - Second Annual Prof. W. E. Patterson, the out-
AJ -
gust 31 - September 4, 1959.
The Program will get unrter-
1 way on Monday night, August 31,
folk, Va., will direct the outstand
ing chorus.
Among the highlights of the Con
vention program will be the An
nual addresses of the Presidents
of the Convention and the Au
xiliaries, and the Annual Report
of the Executive Secretary and
the Report of the Executive Board.
WASHINGTON D. C. —The Ci
vil Rights Bill went through a;
two stage process of weakening in York Governor Averell Harriman
the House Judiciary Committee expressed the hope that “whoever
amid protest from two of the bills elected President in 1960 will
supporters. | doubly plain in his cam-
On Monday, the House Commit P®’Sn and triply plain when b«
tee voted to eliminate "Title III.”: becomes President that segrega-
the strongest portion of the mea- * moral issue as well as
sure. The provision would have heing against the law.
permitted the U. S. Attorney Gen- Speaking to delegates attendins
eral’s office to start civil action on *he 50th anniversary convention
behalf of individuals who have. of the National Association for
been denied their civil rights. j the Advancement of Colored
On Wednesday, the Committee People here last week. HarrimaB
junked a proposal to establish per- said he found in his txavels that
manent commission to work for the question of discrimination and
elimnation of discrimination in segregation "set us back” in our
jobs employment covered by gov relations with foreign countries,
ernament contracts. | "Peopia in India,** lia aaaartld.
A coalition of southern Demo-; "don't undarstand Imw it Is that
crats and Republicans defeated we ara a cauntry tka* been
the 'Title III" section of the bill, held owl ta them mar tlia years
The vote against the measure was as
18-13. country and, a cwMlry.of epMl
The same grouR also eliminated opportunity, bwt «tiH kgs d)«crk»-.
of-.NoTi.JCflnymtion a lyrmanent jobs, inatian,
Charlotte an array of foreign! discrimination agency'. The motion
guests and speakers including, to defeat this part of the measure spoke at the (sacUiai^ of
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