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NAACP CHEIFTAN GETS TAG
— Roy Wilkint, NAACP S*crt-
t«ry, rtctivet t«9 reading, "Stay
Free of th* Big Thrw," prior
to a dinner in hit honor givin
by (fudtnt* who ar« Uading a
ptclcat of thi'ea downtown Dur
ham (tOros In prolttst against se>
iragaKon. Joycalyn McKissick-
is shown pirtning tag on Wil*
kins' lapel. Others In the pic
ture /re, left to right, Caliit
Brown, Ba/bara Field and Wm.
Ward. At right or W'Ikins and
Mckissick are John Edwards,
Nathan White and Nancy Grady.
YOUNG HUSBAND HELD
Mother-to-be Shot In Stomach
Mrs, Alijerta Jones, 19 year old The woman was shot three
mother, was still in‘^'critical" con-' times late Tuesday by her
dition at Lincoln hospital early . estranged husband. At the time
Thursday following an operation she was shot, she was six months
to remove three bullets and an un- pregnant.
developed fetus. One of the bullets pierced her
right hand, a second one entered bom ehild.
her hip, and third entered the
left side of her stomach.
Hospital doctors worked
erishly Tuesday night following
her admission to remove her un- y
In the meantime, police booked
her 19 year-old husband, Alexan
der Chriatmas Jones, who admitted
the shooting, on a charge ot aa-
See MOTHER, page 6
VOLUME 36—No. 13
DURHAM, N. C, SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1960
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WAIGREEN DRUG STORE IS SCENE
Another “Sit-Down”
Staged In Durham
Durham students protesting aei;-
reSaaon at downtown stores re
newed their sit-down demonstra
tions on Tuesday and Wednesday
as' Walgreen’s drujy stores re
opened its lunch counters.
A group of approximately 12 j
students from several liital in*
s 'itutions took seats at taWles in
the lunch countwr «Ma the
drugn^re «n Tuesdiyt affer«»oit
but wera HWUtWt sti tlfa*. ~
After abiAit an hour, tipe store
closed but re-opened li)ter in the
afternoon when the studants had
gone.
Students said they planned to
sit-in at the drugstore again on
Wednesday.
Aside from this new develop
ment action on th* protest front
had boen confitied la.the picket-.,
ing of three downtown stores
which has been carried on for
the past three weeks by the stu
dent group.
The pickets remained this week
in front ot Woolworth, Kress and
Walgreen’s during the sit-in dem
onstration.
John Edwards, a spokesman for
the protest group, said the Wal-
green's lunch counter hal re-open
ed Tuesday with ropes ciosinjr off
one entrance and a waitress sta
tioned at another entrance to
screen customers.
He said they entered the store
in groups of three, watted until
the waitress left her post, then
See SIT-DOWN, pa^e 6
W. Thomas Bailey, Well-Known
Durhamite, to be ^ried Sunday
.william Thomas, Wlejf, pip-
his home at 509 Upwrn/i aven^
yesterday aftefnoon. He was 67.
Funeral s^irvices have been
scheduled for Sunday at 12.30 al
the White Rock Baptist Church.
The Rev. Miles Mark Fisher. White
Rock pastor will ofHciate. Burial
will be at Beechwood cemetery.
Bailey had been in poor health
for the past several months. How-
t^ss for the ctast 41 years nn DUr-
st»5re was loc^t^d at Pickett street
and Fowler 4^nuj.
Bailey was born in Durham, the
the son of the late Mr. and Mrs.
London Bailey. He was a member
of the White Rock Baptist Church,
where he served on the deacon
boiird, and of the Masons,
He is survived by one daughter,
Miss Thelma Bailey; one son, Wil-
ever Ite h«tt tre?n st 'Weir'k In his TIam Thomas, Jr. several nieces
store early this week. and nephews and numerous
He bad operated a grocery busi- friends.
NAACP Counsel Makes Pledge
ing 3-Day Conference
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NEW YORK — The manner in
rested and accused of viol’>ting|
which the students are being ar-
city and state laws in these pro
test demonstrations is wit,ng and
unconstitutional, Thurgood Mar
shall said Monday following a spe
cial three-day conference held at
Howard University over the week
end.
Sixty-two Neg.’-o and white civil
rights lawyers from all southern'
and border states participated.
"Every single lawyer who at
tended the conference unani
mously agreed that we are
obliged to defend those arrested
in these demonstrations who call
upon us for help," explained
M»r>:hall, whs is director-counsol
of the NAACP Legal Defense
and Educational Fund. "The con
ference was entirely su cessful,'
he said.
See PLEDGE, p'ige F
HU|ff(ie»T>TlN «URHAM UNI
Members of the White Rock
Baptist \Uiurch Usher Board are
pictured hen with officers of
the DurhamiUshers Union short
ly after receiving cup from
nioo fresidenr A. Oi ^ GT'edy
for having the highest percent
age of paid memberships in the
Durham Union. Shown above are
left to right, front row, Odell
Fi«lds, Grady, Clyde Moore, Lon-
nTe president of the
White Rock Ushers, C. B. Noel
and D. E. Watson. Second row,
iame order, are Williard Perry,
Raymond Long, Louis Jones, J,
R. Mitctiell, Lewis Ewing, Sam-
uel 'jor^an, 'fiia^Aioh^ Wifliams
and Fred Frtxier. On the tliird
row are Callis BfoWn, Clark
Edger!«n, Willie Hame, William
Allen, Leroy Harrington and R.
6. Thompson.
MARSHALL
Ike's Bi'Racial Proposal Made Six
Years Too Late, Wilkins Asserts
President Eisenhower’s sugges-; C? Secretary said in Durham last
tion that bi-racial committees be i week.
appointed throughout the South to; Wilkins made this comment on
handle racial problems came six | the President’s suggestion at a
years too late, Roy Wilkins, NAA See WILKINS, page 6
MAKES A POINT — Roy Wil
kins, NAACP Secretary, Is shewn
here making a point during a
press conference held prior to
his address last Thursday In
Durham. At right is I. O. Fun-
derburg, co-chairman of the
NAACP membership drive, for
which Wilkins spoke.
CATHOLICS WIN FRIENDS ON RACE ISSUE
New Cardinal Symbol
of Rome’s Popularity
Marshall to
Speaks April 3
In Greensboro
GHEENSBORO—Thurgoou Mar-
sail, of New York City, brilliant
director-counsel of the NAACP
Legal Defense and Educational
Fund, will deliver the opening ad
dress at the 34th annual Home-
making Institute at Bennett Col
lege on Sunday, April 3 at 4 p.
m.
Selection of the noted barrister,
who has been referred to as '“Mr.
NAACP,” for the keynote address
was based upon this year’s theme
dealing with voter registration and
voting as contributing factors to
better family living, Mrs. Louise
G. Slreat, institute chairman, point
ed out.
Marshall, wtio only recently re
turned from an extended trip
abroad where he served as consul
tant to African leaders, has ar
gued, or repared briefs with the
cooperation of NAACP lawyers in
all nAaCP cases affecting consti
tutional rights of Negroes from
1938 to the present time. He has
apeared 25 times before the U.
S. Supreme Court and has won 23
of these cases.
Among his most significant vie
tories have been the right of Ne
groes to vote in Democratic pri
maries in the South; «the right of
Negro passengers to travel freely
See MARSHALL, page 6
On. Monday, in centur|es-old
ceremonies at the Vatican, the
first Negro ever to' be elevated
to the rank of Cardinal in the
Roman Catholic church will re
ceive the red hat from Pope John
XXIU.
He is Bishop Laurian Rugamb
wa, a native African of Tangayika,
who was nominated by the Popt
for the second highest rank in
the church three weeks ago.
Although the elevation of Ru-
gambwa to the Sacred College of
Cardinals was made on the basis
Memphis Police
Arrest 64 In
Library Sit-in
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A total of
64 Negroes were arrested ip the
past four days here as they pro
tested segregation at a public li
brary and an art museum.
Among the number were five
newspapermen, four of whom vtfere
dismissed from charges. A fifth,
Lutrell F. Pajmer, of the Tri-State
Defender, was fined $51 for dis
orderly Conduct.
The arrests came on Saturday
and Tuesday as the demonstrat
ors, mostly students of Lemoye
College, staged sit-in demonstra
tions at the main public library
and one of its Isranches, reserved
in the past for whiles only, and
at the Brooks Memorial Art
See MEMPHIS, page 6
of the priest^ fine record ef ser
vice, the Church cannot escape
the tremendous psycheleglcal
impact the act will have e«
world opinion.
Already strongly committed in
this country against racial discrim
ination, the Church will have made
a doubly deep impression on the
emerging free nations of Africa,
where Rugambwa was bora and
spent most of his life.
As an indication of the response
the elevation has had on world
opinion, Negro leaders in the Unit
ed States were quick to telegraph
messages of congratulatiuis to the
Pope.
Dr. Ralph Bunche, United No
tions undersecretary viewed Mte
appointment as "an especially
striking application ef rectal
See CARDINAL, page 6
MRS. JONES
EX-WSTC OFFICUL
Terrell Goes
To Hospi!?^
lor ird time
VINSTON-SALEM — Awkvw t
bimmw
ot Vl^nstoo^lem TeacWrs Oal-
lege tkow iactng charges of eirlicsBt-
from the iBstitation,
ww- hospitalized for t)ie third
liin^ .this week since an audit of
tht schools record was under-
ta^nl
Kii.; pti^cian. Dr. E. L. Davis
satf 'hiesday Teirell will re-
Kate Bitting S«>«oU& hoe-
it least two lo pro-
t^ hta from possible exposure ta
pneiMdqia.
I. ..tKe auspeeded hiialtieii aruN^
Mftr was Kes^aliaMl Tuesday
afterooen; arawnd inHer
■ag - frem exposure. Altheegh
Htere was ne exact, ftrsMiaNd
information on wket adiMlly
happened. Dr. Daeis reported
that Terrell hod semeliew slipped
and fallen inie smm unmelted
snow in his backyard.
Davis told newsmen that the 60
year-old former school official was
due to report to his office for e
heart and blood (Hesaore check op
at noon Tuesday, but at that boor
he was called to Terrell’s ho«ae
because of the aeeideni.
Davis said wlien he eiiamined
Terrell >is hedy wee ceM. fiwe
points baleo nermaL
See TERRELL. pas« 
CHAIN TO HEAJi
URBAN RENEWAL
DEVELOPMENTS
Robinson O. Everett, Jr., chair
man of the Durham Urban Re>
newal Commission, will Meet
wi'.h members of the Durham
Business and Professional Chain
on TvMsday to discuss details
and lates developments in Hie
city's planned Urhan Renewal
program.
R. K. Bryant, Jr., secretary of
the Chain, said the meetinik to
to be tteM el Stanford Werren
Library at 7 o'clock. wiN be open
not only to Chain menilMve but
See CHAIN, page 6
Labor Delegates
Praise Action
Of Convention
Negro delegates to the stat*
AFL-CIO coRventioa hailed
group's action in taking ■ atml^
on the current wave of^utasla/
against segregation.
Waiter O’Daye, president
Tobacco Workers teral 206 said
delegates expreneA the feeteg
that the conveattsai vag oa» ef
the “finesf* kdd isr mitfiflae.
They pe«g«>* rvimto* sap-
poetina a d^ad a| Wiflre stu
dents «die ar« MafWadlaa Ibe
caMpetbB afdai# ^V*|altas.
The rc3«rfuti|ip wag d wit^
out oppositiaB;'
Priw tethe «ctiflii,tt(|dalgtitet
had heer« aWmi mmm
eladihg I liimlrtlt#jii^
ters. speak ant agltel
tion. ■
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