SUIT BROUGIfT W JM GROW
Park Official Tells of Payola
As Mass Liquor Trial Begins
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VOLUME 3ft-No. 14
DURHAM, N. C, SATURDAY, APRIL 2,
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Host To Annual Gala Day Celebration
2*fa Timple No. 176 of tht
Ancient, Egyptian, Arabic Ordar
Nobla« Mystic Shrina, will b«
host to tha Annual Gala Day
4t«l*bratien for tha Daiart of
North Carolina May 13 and 14.
In a recent meeting of the plan*
ning committee for the Dewrt
of North Carolina, Durham was
chosen the city for the annual
ceremonies. Following this, a
meeting of Zafa Temple. Ulus*
trious Potentate, J, W. Davidson
collaborating with Prank G.
Burnett, lni|>erial Deputy of the
StaVe of North Carolina, set the
whMis in motion for the cere
monies.
The Steering Committee chair
men shown above are, reading
from left to right, seated; W, M,
Marsh, Jr. Imperial Divian, B. H.
Th«rnton, Publicity; W. M. Gran-
dy. Parade; ^ H. C. McAllister,
Entertainment; J. W. Davidson,
Registration; Thomas Taylor, In
itiation; J, P. Pratt, Souvenir
Dentisfs Into White Associations
CHARLOiTE—The lirgt lawsuit
filed in the South against profes
sional organizations and societies
which bar Negroes from member
ship reached the federal court
here today. The action is against
the North Carolina Dental Society
and' 'the Second District Dental
Society of North Carolina.
The two associations are charg-
residing in this State .of their
cd wllh depriving Negro dentists
residing in this State, of their
rights to practice in local, state
and federal clinics and hospitals.
The suit was filed this morning
in the U. S. District Court on be
half of Dr. Reginald A. Hawkins,
a prominent Negro dentist In this
ADVERTISERS OF
THE WEEK
The firms listed below are
your friends and they appreciate
your trade:
Alexander Ford
Kroger Grocery Co.
AAP Markets
Colonial Stores
Coca-Cola Bottling Company
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co.
Mutual Savings A Loan Ass'n
North Carolina Mutual Life ins.
Company
Mechanics A Farmers Bank
Mebane Lumber Company
Boling Sound Service
B. F. Hosiery Store
WInn-DUie Stores
Tri-Angle Super Market
Allenton Realty and Insurance
Hudson Weil Co.
Rigsbee Tire Sales
Montgomery-Aldridge Appliance
Co., Inc.
Hour Martiniiing
Kenan Oil Co.
Southern Fidelity Mutual Ins. Co.
Union Insurance > Realty Co.
Biltmore Hotel A Grill
Service Grill
New AAethod Laundry *
McGhee Coal Co.
Union Electric Co,
Hunt Linoleum A Tile Co.
Speight's Auto Service
Durham Builders Supply Co.
Merry Window Cleaning Co.
Wee Shop
Julie's
Durham Wholesale Grocery^ Co.
Robert* Construction Co,
Boone Drug Co.
Seven-Up Bottling Co.
Rose's S'10-2Sc Store ^
Liberty Market *
Miller-Hurst
Tire and Appliance Center
Carpenter's Inc.
city, by attorneys for the NAACP
Legal Defense and Educational
Fund. It seeks an injunction re
straining, ihe tMOL-dental, soicietiea
from continuing the practice of
excluding qualified Negroes from
membership.
The North Carolina Dental As
sociation is the dominant profes
sional dental organization in the
state and is an affiliate of the
American Dental Association, the
single general professional asso
ciation of dentists in the United
States.
The Second District Rental So
ciety is one of five state regional
chapters in the NCDS and operates
under the charter of the state as
sociation. No one can become a
member of either the state or the
national body unless he is first >a
member of the local association.
The by-laws of the Second Dis
trict Dental Society require the
endorsement of two active mem
bers before an applicant can be
considered for membership. The
See SUIT, page 6
HUDSON
Charged $2.50 For
For Cup of Coffee
HOUSTON, Tex.—Four Negroes
who refused to pay $2.50 per cup
of coffee served them at a tradi
tionally “white only” were charg
ed with disturbing the pcace 'Mon
day night.
Some of thn-items on tue special
menu read: “Coffee, $2.50; Steaks,
$1!5, ham and eggs, $6.50 and
grilled cheese sandwich, $3.
Program; W. H. Cole, Ceremoni
al Ball; Standing - F. G. Burnett,
Chairman of Steering Commit
tee; David Perry, High Priest
and Prophet; Bonnie Hawkins,
Street Decoration; A. R. Thomp
son Patrol Exhibition; G. W.
Carrington, Treasurer; L. B,
Frasier, Public Meeting.
Last Rites Are
Held in Durham
For C. Hudson^
Clarence Hudson,, a^'residenj^ otj
.PDrhan^or the past 36 years, ^a^
buried'Tuesdj^, MtircH 29, •followtj
ing funeral services at St. Mark
A. M. E. Zion Church.
The Rev, R. L. Speaks, St. Mark
pastor, officiated at the services
held at the ohurch at two o’clock.
He was assisted by the Rev, E. T.
Browne, pastor of Mt. Vernon Bap
tist Church. Interment was at
Beechwootl cemetery.
Hudson died at Lincoln hospital
on Saturday, Mar. 26 after a short
illness. He was 69.
The deceased was born on Feb.
29, 1891 in York County, S. C. He
was married >n ldl2 to the late
Miss Bertha Alexander and they
had five children.
He moved his family to Durham
in 1924, and two years later, in
1926, went to work at Austin-Hea-
ton company where he was em
See HUDSON, page 6
$101000 Fine,
5 Years in Jail
Face Seven
A Reedy Greek Park official told
of receiving “hush” money from
men who were charged with run
ning a 784 gallon whiskey still on
the park premises as trial of seven
men charged with liquor conspira
cy opened in federal court in Dur
ham Wednesday.
Raeford F. McKinley, 40 year
old Raleigji man and superinten
dent of the Ne^ro state park, testi
fied that he was paid by ,Wayland
Henry Horton and James Franklin
Ellis to ignore activities around
the still.
Altogether seven men are on
trial in charges of conspiring to
operate a liquor still on Reedy
Creek Park grounds, located be
tween adjoining Umstead Park
(for whites) and Morrisvllle.
Included are Ellis, superintend
ent of Umstead State Park, and
Horton, former superintendent of
Reedy Creek.
Others are James A. Nunn, of
Durham, Lenwood J. Jackson, of
Wake County, Otis D. Wadford,
of Wake Forest, Lonless Fields, of
Durham, his 'brother^ William
Fields. hTe latter three men are
white.
An eightir man, Nathaniel Me
See L-tQUOR, page 4
Swanh CTfdittp
Second District
Backs Robinson
For Bishop _
i KITTRELL — Tli e delefatiow'
from the second Episcopal District
of the'^ A. M. E. church voted to
endorse tlie Rev. George Dewey
Robinson as its candidate for the
bishopric at the church general
conference in Ix>s Angeles in May.
This action came at a meeting
of the 44 member delegation here
last Thursday.
"This marks the first time in
ip history that a district will
present a solid front to work
wholeheartedly for the election
of an endorsed candidate, the
Rev. Melvin ChesMr Swann said
in explaining the group's action.
Swann, pastor of St. Joseph's
A. M. E. Church of Durham,
was elected chairman of the del
egation.
The Church is three short of its
customary number of .bishops. If
the vacancies are fiU^ ,three new
bishops will be elected.
Also duria« the meeting, dele*
gates elected to the Episcopal
Comi]ilttee for the Second Dis
trict W. L. Hildebrand, of Mor-
forlk, Va., W. F. Mitchell, of
Baltimore, Mrs. Gladys Grant, of
BalHmore, and M. C. Ashe, of
Rich Square.
Bishop Frank M. Reid, presiding
prelate of the dncesdosient... 6-
prelate of the second district, con
ducted the meeting.
THEY STARTED IT
These i has since shifted to points in the i etifiweeHm physics anl Frank-
four students at A A T College
in Greensboro, N. .Cj.4.^on Febru
ary 1 took seats at a- local F. W.
Woolworth Store Mgregated
lunch counter which touched
off a south-wide movement. It
East and Midwest, involving
other variety stores which oper
ate in the South.
The youth, all freshmen are,
from left to right: seated -
Oayid Richmond, Greensboro,
lin McCain, Washtngton, D.
pre medical and on tf>e bock are:
Joseph McNeill, Wilminfrfon,
engineering physics and Exail
Blair, Jr., pre-taw.
IN DURHAM-RALEIGH
43 Fined, Two Freed
On Trespass Charges
Forty-three students were con
victed and fined for trespassing
and two were acquitted this week
in ^ trials connected with the cur
rent sit-down demonstrations in
thie ar«a.
:A(I convictions came in Ral-
ei^ «l^ere 43 Shaw University
and Sf.. Augustine's College stu-
seiytiral we«ks ago at downtown
mri^ stores/and at a shopping
center.
Two of the 43 received fines of
$25 each and cost of court, while
the remaining 41 were levied with
fines ol $10 each and court costs.
In Durham, two students were
acquitted of trespassing when
they refqsed .*f»P eating In a
See TRESPASS, pag> 6
Wake Forest Says
‘No’, Duke Says ‘Yes’
The white groups split this
week oyer the issue of integra
tion in two seperate actions.
At Winston-Salem op Mon
day, Wake Forest sf^de^s yoted
742-604 against inte^fatjrig the
BaptisNsupporte4 institution.
In Durham, a, group of 485
Duke University faculty mem
bers, wives and employees sent
a petition to the Durham Mer
chants Association stating that
they did not object to integra
tion at lunch counters in down
town stores.
ON THK
Sit-DoHii
FIRE HOSE TURNED ON ]
J»ISHOI> COLkEGC STUDENTS^
MARSHALL, Tex. — Fire hMes
were turned on some several hun
dred Bishop College students here
Wednesday when they jammed the
courthouse to protest the arrest
of 230 of their classmates who had
been taken into custody following
a sit-down demonstration.
The students, .massed in Irsnt
of t^e courthouse, were singing
the National Anthem inj other
suiigs when they wet* slicked Df.
the lire hoses, causing tii«m to di^
perse,
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MUST UNDERSTAND I
STUDENTS—GIBBS j
GREENSBORO — “StudenU feel
deeply and sincerely that they
have important basic interest at
stake 'in the (sit-down) situation.
Consequently, this feeling must
be understood in dealing with them
in order to maintain their cooper
ation,” Dr. Warmoth T. Gibbs,
-\&T College president said this
week.
He wu making the remark» in
his annual tu tbe schuol’t
[;i|«aird of
It was t^that ichout that the
natioa-wide lunch counter protests
were triggered when four fresh
men sought service at a Wool-
vurth store on Feb. 2.
EPISCOPAL NATIONAL
COUNCIL SUPPORTS STUOEMTS
New Y O R K —“Tiie Natioiul
Council of tbe Episcopal Church
urged its three million ckurch
member^ to support sit-in move
ments against segregation in a
document released here Wednes
day.
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SOUTHERN STUDENTS
EXPELLED BY DEAN
BATON ROUGE, La.—Eighteen
Southern University students who
took part in a parade tu the Loui«|
iana capitol were expelled or sus
pended this week by the school’s
dean Martin L. Harvey.
Harvey explained the action as
taken for unsubordination and UJt-
becoming conduct.
THE CHAMPS — When the
Bookier Washington High School,
Rocky Mount last weekaind won
the 3-A State High School Basket
ball championship In the tour
ney played at AAT College in
Greensboro, James Albritton,
CO - captain, Lawrence Payne,
coach and Jantes Johnson, co-
captain, stepped up to receive
the trophy presented by J. H.
Twitty, Cherryvilie ,one of the
tourney officials.
Campbell President
To Open Hply Week
As a climax to its Pre-Easter
program, St. Joseph’s A. M. E.
Church will observe Holy Week,
April 11-15, with Dr. Robert Stev
ens, President of J. P. Campbell
College of Jackson, Mississippi, as
guest speaker. He will speak for
evenings. On Friday, April 15, the
Choir of Allen University, Colum
bia, South Carolina, will render
“The Seven Last Words of Christ,"
as sacred cantata by Theodore Du
bois.
Dr. Stevens is a native of Flo-
See HOLY WEEK, page 6
Roy Wilkins In
Chapel Hill Sun.
CHAPEL HILL — Roy Wilkins,
executive secretary of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People in New York,
will be the fifth and final speak
er Sunday night in the “Alterna
tives to Violence” lecture series
sponsored jointly by the Chapel
Hill Community Church and the
local chapter of the Women’s In
ternational League for "Peace and
Freedom. The public is invited to
the lecture which begins at 8
o’clock in the Community Church.
Wilkins’ object will be “Alter
natives to Violence in Racial In
tegration.” Previous speakers in
the series were from the fields of
labor-managements relations, U.S.-
U.S.S.R. co-existence, U. S. foreign
policy, and the. United Nations
and its role in keeping the peace.
Joining the staff of the NAACP
in 1931 as assistant executive sec
retary and as editor of The Crisis,
the organization’s monthly maga-
See WILKINS, page 6
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