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Rev,Edwci^^ Clings To Top In Carolina Times Holy Land Race
STATE RESTS IN TRIAL OF BISHOP NICHOLS
>5) ' ,
AME Church Prelate Accused of
Embezzling $280,000 in Funds
PHILADELPHIA — The em
brazlemcnt case against Bishop'
D, Ward Nichrfs, former Bi
shop of the First District of the
AME Church, which includes
Now B^gland, New York. New
Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania!
and Bermuda, ended for the pro •j
secution on quite^ daniiatici
noted here Monday. Attorney
William H. Brown, III rushed
into the courtroom at the last |
minute with evidence which he
bad gathered in New York.
* It consisted of documentary
proof that Nichols, who is ac-
Ctiscd of embczzi'ilng $280,000
(IfOm the AME Church, w a ?
h^anaging a coriimunity center
(}» New York that was not of
ficially connected with the
Church, but which was rcceiv-
in* contributions from the First
District of which Nichols^vasi
Bishop at the time. '
The prosecutityi.'llt^ chargc'*
that Nichols operated an esta
blishmeot known as the “AME ■
Book Nook,’ which likewi.se i
r^^ived funds from th^ district i
wl^lch he presided over in the
early 1950’s.
. Tile defense, although persi-j
stent in its attempts to do so,
wBs uiiabltT To' ,ihaKe llic Icsli-
nfony of prosecuting witness,,
Bdshop John D. Bright, w ii o'
gave incriminating tcstimot.'’
against the defendant. i
' . The trial, which has been of
 tense nature since its begin-
tting,. was tempered with hiimor |
dn Thur.sday when prosecuting
witness, Russell Brown, referred
to Judge Shoyer, who is hearing
the case, twiec as ‘Bishop’.
^ Tlic veil of secrecy surrounrt- j
ing the purchase of the Richard I
All6n building, former nation-'
■I headquarters of thp AME
denomination, was lifted herci
Thursday during questioning of:
prosecuting witness, Russell
Brown, Secretary of the General '
Conference.
I The court contend.s that Nichols *
paid $S4.000 for the buildins at a ^
shf'riff’.s .sale and attempted ti>
re-.^el| it to the Church for $68,
000.
Accordina to the testimonv of
Brown, at a “Presitlinc Elders
Council Meeting” in Bo.stnn fol
lowing Nichol’s purchase, it was
agreed that the Church would pur
chase the buildin" from Nichols
for the sum of $68,000. The Allen
Duildjng Fund Committee was
set up immediately. However, at
a later meeting, the General Con
ference rejected the idea, contend
ing that the cost of repairs for
the renovation of the property I
would exceed the purchase price. |
Sec PRELATE,,6-A j
Regrets AMA's i
Faihire to Insert
Anti-Bias Clause
WASHINGTON, I). C.—"The Na-
tiotiAl Medical A.ssociation recrets
that the American Medical A.ssoc
iation failed to request that the
anti-bias clau.se be re-inserted in
the Ilarris-nill Bill, HR. 10041,
88th Congress,” Dr. Kenneth v»
Clement, NMA Pre.sident stated
from Cleveland this week. He said
“The amendment whirh the Ameri
can 'Ttledical Association did rc
, quest, namely; ‘Nor shall the
acceptance of funds by a privalv.
facility under this title be con
striied as making this facility a
public I institution', threatens to I
tuts
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jyTHeTRUTM UNBRIQCE^
VOLUME 41 — No. 14
DURHAM, N. C., 27702, SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1964
PRICE: 15 Cent*
NCC Inauguration Program To
Be Held Thur.-Sat., April 23-25
THIBODEAUX
La. Evangelist in
City-wide Revival
At White Rock
City-Wide Revival, which be-
j gun on March 30, at White Rock
: Biipti.st Church. Is Jji lls second
U. s. Supreme Court Agrees tor^"
liear Alabama Discrimination Case
I
WASHINGTON — The U. S. scly bet'ausr of “procedural mis |
Supreme Court this week The NAACP lins ticvc"
peared to be prepared to cut been able to get a final dclci j
through the legal enlangleiin'iils ininatioii on thp merits of tlic i
surrounding tiie eight year nr, 19,^6 injunction from the Ala
Alabama state ban on NAACP bania court.'; on wliPlher it Is Ic ’
operations in the slate and to Hally (Militled lo resume opera .
, determine finally whether the tions there. j
mitti'c, eon.sistiiig
week of a soul stirring cam
paign. The revival, sponsored by
the Interd'cnomilnational Minl.s-
terial Alliatlcc of Durham and
Vicinity, begins each night ai
7:30 p. m. and is scheduled to
end on April 10.
Dr. G. H. J. Thibodeau, of
Shreveport, Louisiana, noted
evangelist of internntional re
cognition. Is the featured speak
er during the revival services.
Dr. Tlilbodeaux is the Gener
al Secretary of the Department
Sep EVANGELIST 6-^A
Association may resume its ae Gordon Alad'i.son, Assi,''lanl At-
! tivitles in Alabama. toiney General of Alabama, eon
I In a surprise move fnllnwiii); 1-tended that if tlie SiipreiiKv
! oral arguments by both sicfes on Cmirl found that procedui al ;
March 24, Chief Justice F.ai* grn\nds were iraudulent the'
! Warren .stated that “the Court; ca.sc .'ihould return oiue more to
■is dispo.sed to consider tlie iiiei- the Alubama courts for a rul-|
! its.” Such a ruling was wlial ing ■'' Hie merils before the
i NAACP General Counsel Un the peace or ill will, or economic
bert L. Carter and his associates retaliation within the community'
were seeking. ® "reason for wanting to truns j
j Alabama attorneys had eon ; fei" |
! tended that the casp shouUI mil \ • "achievement in relaiion t.i
■ now be before the court as Alii j the norm for the school to which |
I bama courts have ruled adver I See AGREES, 6-A '
Three days of activities will
mark tlie celebration of the in- ;
ausiiratlon of Dr. Samuel P. i
Massie.as third president of,
North Carolina College. ^ ALL-CIAA TACKLE TURNSI prior to his return to Durham
1 hp colleges Inaugural Com- ppo — Robert McAdams, Dur- for further study at NCC in
Board of ham nativg and former NCC. Physical Education. McAdams, a
M
m
I
Mrs. DeJarmon
Named to ADA
Membership
Mrs. Elva P. Dejarmon, As
sistant Professor of Food's and
Nutrition at NCC was recently
admitted into thj, American Die
tetic Association.
Mrs. DeJarmon, a native of
Ohio, received the B. S. frf>in man, dl.stinguished' professor of
Wllberforce tJnivcrsity and the selenee, Iowa State University;
M. S. froin Western Re.scrve Uni aiid Dr. Massie.
verslty. She has d'one further ]ir. llarrl.son will deliver an
work towards a Doclortile ,Tl ,nl(fr(
New York University. She is the
Trustees members John H. Lar
kins and M. Hugh Thompson
aiuf Dr. Helen G. Hdnionds.
cliainnan of the Department of
History and Social Science, has
iiniuninced that Thui-sday, Fri
fFiiy, and .Saturday, April 2H-25,
will be devtrt-ed to observaiu'e
of thp occasion. Dr. Edmonds is
of InairffnTTT—f
activities. i
Included in the full «ichedule j
of events are an Inaugural .stu-,
dent hiiff.el and a drama dance i
program on Thursday, a facul
t.v-staff Inaugural banquet and i
a concert ijy the college choif
on Friday and a band concertj
and an Inaugui'al luncheon on
Saturda.v. The Inaugural P r o-
liram. scheduled for It p. m.. Sat
urday will bp followed by the
I’resident's Reception.
Principal speaker for Ihe var
inns occasions are Dr. G. Lamar
Harrison, former president of
I.angston University, now pro
fessor of education and director
of information .service, Chicago
Te.iclu'rs College: Dr. James M
Nahiit, Jr., president of How
ard University; Dr. flenrv Oil
ALL-CIAA Tackle and Captain I first stringer, is the fastest do*
of e 1962 Eagle squad, is fensive tackle on th^ Jet squad,
shown above taking a "break"! He is to report for camp )|n
during training exercises at the early June,
camp of the Pro New York Jets,
Dr.
fn 40th Annual Mid-Year Session
DAVB
Dr. (Jrady Davis, dean, of tin
Dr. Davis who is one of the
natjon’s outstanding ministers is
scheduled to preach at 1:00 p.
m. Music for the occasion will
be furnished by the Ushers
Choir of Durham.
Following thp sermon, dinner
will bp served IrT the dining
room of the home after wjiich
reports and other important maf-
ters from officers and various
conuuitteei-' W'ill be heard.
Highlightuig this yeai'*: an
nual Mid year session will be an.
announcement of Ihe exact open
Ing dale for the Ushers Home
£pr unwed mothers. Extensive re
novation and now under way on
two of the cottages at the home
onp of wliich will be used’ TT?
the directOf or' superintendent.
According lo President L. K.
Roxie Small of Pit-
Shown above is Mri. Ossie
Ware Mitchell, National Presi
dent of Iota Phi Lambda Sor
ority, as the spoke to the South
ern Regional Conference of the
sorority, whil^ It was in session
at Saint Joseph's AME Church
here racenlly. Others sharing the Chairman at North Carolina Col-
wife of LeMarqul.s DoJarn\on,
local attorney and the mother
of o n e daughter, Michelle
Renee.
Professional affiliations in
elude membership in the Ameri
can Home Economics Associ.i I
lion. The American Association
See MRS. DEJARMON. G-A
ing the month of June.
Austlh', Mrs
at the Faculty Staff Divinity School of Shaw Urn- t.sboro has been named as the
Hanqu.t, and Dr. Nabrit will versity and pastor of the Union director of the home, which is
speak at the Inaugural Lunch Bapti.st^ Church, will dt;llver the pxpected to begin operation dur
eMi. Ur. (Jihnan will speak at annual «ermon at the 40th an
the Inaugural Program, and nual Midyear se&slon of the
President Massie wUI deliv'cr In-terdenomlnational Ushers As
the Inaugural Address. .soc>lation of North Caroliii!)
In addition to board members Sunday April ,i. The ses.sli)n will
and other dignitaries who will be held at thp Ushers Honu'.
participate in various events, located on Highway One iieui
See INAUGURATION. 6-A LFrankllnton.
platform with Mrs. Mitchell are,
from left to right: Mrs. Eula
W. Harris; Mrs. Bessie Jackson.
Regional Director; Dr. Helen G.
Edmonds, History Department
Rev.J.H.Costen Is 2nd
Among Contestants
lege, and Mrs, Doris Moore, Re
gional Secretary. Persons in the
choir stand are members of the Lc\. C. K. Edwards of Fayette- Chapel Hill.
Yeung Adult Choir of Mount holding fast to the lof
Vernon Baptist Church..
WHAT’S “deliberate: speed?”
Supreme Court Hears
Tokenism Argument
I spot, though by a narrow mar'!i.’.
in the Carolina Tinu's third an
j nual Holy Land contest this week
I When the tabulation was coniolet
I cd at noon Wednesday it reveal-
I ed that Rev. J. H. Costcn of Hocky
Mount had come even closer to
ticlng for the top place than the
previous week. Accoidinf.' to th"
count Itev. Costen was onlv 4.00C
points from the top.
Johnson Asks
Southern Bapts.
To Back C-R
A new comer (o the contest this
week Is Rev. H. W. Perry of Ox
ford. Although liev. Perry has
.just entered the race there arj
rumors being circulated that he
is the dark horse contestant that
has been talked about since the
second week of the conte.st. Kev
Perry Is known to be a ha>'d
worker and his friends In Sanford,' WASHINGTO’N — President
Oxford and othivr sections of the; Johnson told a leadership se
state say that he will be heard minar of the Southern Baptlsi
from before the curtain Is rung Convention last Wednesday that
“no group of Christians has a
Another coniestnnl '.v’lo did
Aoll for the week w.s Uev. llciv j down on the contcs April 21.
1 dcrson Aitiey ot Diirhair who tool* i | greater responsibility In civil coming hearing In federal court,
lover the third place held las'I relative standings o( con-1 than Southern Baptists.’’! U. S. Judge Sidney Mize has
Faces 10 Years
For Exposing
Police Brutality
JACKSON, Miss. — Lois
Chaffee, formerly a teacher at
Tougaloo Christian College and
presently a CORE Task Force
worker, faces up to ten years in
jail if a Mississippi court finds
her guilty of “perjury”
[ The “perjury” indictment
j stems from- her testimony about
police brutality during a peace-
I ful protest march here last Jung
Ki. two days after the murder
of Merigar Evers. The testimony
was given at her own trial fol
lowing her arre.st tor “disturb
ing the peace.”
Newspaper and television re
porters covering the June 13 de
monstration also observed and
reported the police using billy
clubs against the demonstrators.
Ten of thesg reporters'are being
sought to testify at her forth-
WASHI.NGTON, D. C.—The bcr of 1961.
undermine the Court’.s decision in question of ho A' fast is “deliberate • Negro parents, acting through
the Moses H. Cone and Wesley .speed”—an issue that has con 1 Legal Defense Fund attorne.vs. su. j
Long Hospitals suit outlawing di.« stantly been before the nation’s I to end the city's dual school sv,-
crlmlnatlon in hospitals receiving ' courts since 1954, gained its first i tcm In January of ig.'SS in the U.S.
c- iai ' school system.
The Atlanta plan, which starts
Hi the 12th grade and works d(>wn-
•vatd. Integrated 10 Negroes l;i
iniil; 40 In 1962 and 119 In 1903
week by Rev.
.\lanlcy j1 . tcstants this week is as
I Kev. C. K. Edwards, {•'ayettcvillc 1,572.000
I Kev. J. H. Costen, Uocky Mount . • ■ l.StiS.OOO
; Kev. Henderson Amey, Durham 889,000
Hill-Burton support. The Amen | U. S. Supreme Court hearing Mon-j District Court of the Northern 1 (inc hundred twenty nine Ni*i;ro ' Rev. J. R. Manley, Chapel Hill 862.(K)0
can Medical Association's oppo : day, March 30th, | District of Georgi j. j student.s applied for transfer be j Kev. U. G. Moyc, Kinston 8B1,000
sltion to Federal control ov.’rl The NAACP Legal Defense and; The parents had been askln" tween .May 1st and I5tl\, 1961. the Kev. G. G. Badgett, Keldsvllle ■ 704,000
hospitals is m-jch better l^nown ' Educational Fund is specifically officials for integration of schools | dates open for application undi i i Kev. Geo. W Dudley, Rocky Mount 556,(KKI
an.d established than its interest j challenging the grade-a-year schoo'j since 1956. • i the Atlanta plan. I Rev. C. K„ Moseley, Greenville 402,(XK)
in. rcmovins discrimination based i integration plan of the Atlanta Ga. | “Atlanta’s public Si.hools, a de | The school board used 17 cri Rev, W. T. Bigelo'#, Durham 401,000
on race from admission and staff 1 Negro children there. " i cade (1964) after the fi.-st Brown ] tcria to judge Negro students. Rev. R. W. Perry, Sanford 398,000
The President said that the j sot April 13 for the hearing ana
elimination of racial dlscrimlna- ^ bus agreed to a stipulation
tion was the "mo.st critical chal | sought by CORE attorneys that
lenge that Wg face today.” Over ! the Mississippi courts will not
150 Baptist leaders heard thp. nu)ve in the •‘perjury” case un-
President In the Rose Garden of til two weeks after he issues his
the White House. The President decision.
asked the m|inlsters for their j Miss Chaffee’s attorneys, Carl
ing policies in hospit. Is. i The case is slated to be argued {decision (1954) have 145 out ot
“We, therefore, oppose the re jby Constance Baker Motley, asso ia total of 56,000 JRirro student
cojmncnded amendment above on ciate counsel of the Fund, I attending public schools with
Atlanta initiated its "integrnt-' 58,000 white students,
ion’’ plan in response to cour* | "In short,” the Le,*;a1 Defensp
order 'ivhen 10 Negro high school; Fund attorneys maintain, "token
seniors were admitted to oreviously j ism has now been superimno.sed
all-white high .schools in Septem 1 upon a so-called separate but
the grounds that it is redundan'
ia the proposed legislation and its
impHcations are ietrimental *.o
the best interest of the American
CMUjDunity.'’ w
Among them were:
• “Psychological
Rev,
qualification , Kev.
A. T. Smith, Durham
Kermit Degraffenreidt,
help. He said:
“Help us to pass this eivH
rights bill and establish a
foundation upon whicti we can
build a house of freedom where
Rockvlllo, Md 272,000
3j4,000 gj] nien can dwell,'
of the pupil for the tvpe of teach
ing and assoclationr. Invloved”
• "morals, conduct, health and
personal standards of the m'pil”
• 'possiblllfy of breaches of
See TOKENISM, 6-A
Rev. E. T. Thompson, Durham 208,000
Kev. B. B. Feldor, Dunn 188,(H)0
Kev, R. L. Speaks, Durham 182,000
Rev. A. D. Moseley, Durham 151,000
Rev, H. G. McGhee, Panvillc, Va 77,000
See CONTKST, 6.^
A partial text of the Presi
dent’s address follows:
Lincoln proclaimed
Rachlin, CORE chief counsel and
Paul O’Dwyer, member of the
New York City Council, will
S.eclT to, halt the "perjury” pro
secution permanently on the
grounds that the case is Inteod-
ed solely for the purpose o{ un
constitutionally intimidating a(iI
punishing her fur her civil rigMS
tional faith that riglit makes | activity. It was on thes,, groundu
might. Surely this is so, and , that p special three-judge tedtff*
surely if we arp to complete the j al court,, on November 1, ortt^
‘Cc BAPTlS’l, 6-i, jvQ TlkACHEHv