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FOIt THIRTY YEARS THE OVTSTANDiNG WEEKLY OF THE CAROUISAS
Entered a$ Second Clast M atter at the Pott Office at Durhamjf North Carolina, under Act of March 3,1879. ^______VOLUME 30—NUMBER 3 DUBHABI. N. 0.. SATURDAY, FEB. 14, 1953 PRICE 10 CENTS NCC Asks Funds Again At Joint Meet Of Soions
WILL YOU BE MY VALENTINE? Mias Marian Louise Dwui. Dr. Elder Asks a senior majoring in biological sciences at A. and T. College, poses in a motif of the season of hearts just as a reminder that Valem- tine’s Day comes on Saturday. Money For . One of the popular coeds on tbe A. and T. campos. she is a native of Durham, having graduated from the Hillside High School here. The daughter of Mrs. Marie Dunn of 119 West Hillside Ave nue, Miss Dunn is an associate member of the American Chemical Grad Schools Society and expects to follow a career as medical technician. She RALEIGH was “Miss Co-Ed” in her freshman year. President Alfonso Elder of North Carolina College asked the Joint. Appropriations Com mittee of the State Legislature last Tuesday for nearly four High Court Turns Down millioh dollars to bolster the college's graduate school. "The appropriation was deem Appeal Of N. C Men ed necessary by President Elder HALEIGH—^Little hope was held out here tthis week to prevent the State from mak I for four men, one of whom has spent five years on death ing a “backward step”. row here, as the Supreme Court turned down their appeals Most of the money would be I for a new trial Mondav. used to finance the Ph.D. pro I The four are Raleigh Speller, Bennie and Lloyd Ray gram, already established in .Daniels and Clyde Brown. name at N. C. College. The Ph.D. The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 majority decision Monday, program was set up oa a pro- ! rejected the claim of the doomed quartet that unwlawful posaLby * Joint a m tjaM fa a t th e I racial dispriimnation was used in seleting the juries which University of Norm' Carolina ' condemned them to death. and North Carolina College I Justice Reed authored the majority opinion which up-' trustee boards to eliminate the ! held North Carolina’s method of selecting jury pt^pels from demands by Negroes for admis the lists of property owners and poll tax payers. sion to the University. The only hope for the m en’s lives r e s t^ in the possibility Formation of this joint com I of intervention on the part of Governor William B. Umstead. Unless Gov. Umstead issues a ■ tice Reed wrote: mittee and its actions were made stay of execution, the men are “Our dnty . . . does not mean after the full trustee board of scheduled to die either on Feb. 27 we must or should Impose oa U.N.C. had on April, 1951, voted or March 6. the state our conception of to accept any “qualified” Negro The exact date of the execu- the proper source of jury lists. students of the state. lion depends on the speed with so long as the soarce reassp- The actual amount of Presi which the Supreme Court’s de ably reflects a cross-seetlaa « t dent Elder’s request Tuesday cision is certified back to the the popnlatlon, suitable in from the legislature was for the i State Supreme Court. Under character and IntelHgeaee for $3,783,172 for the next two state law, executions are set on Jury dnty. years. The college had orglnally the third Friday after a final de “Short of an actual censns or r - v j a s k ^ for $1,730,500 for 1953- cision in a case. If the U. S. Su requited population reglstra- 54, but the advisory budget com preme Court decision is received ticn, these tax lists offer the- mission had recommended that before Friday, the date will be most comprehensible source of it receive $1,610,355. For 1954- set for Feb. 27. If later, the date available names . . .” 55, the college sought $1,741,200 will be March 6. A dissenting opinion, written and the budget commission re In the majority opinion, Jus- (Please turn to Page Eight) The picture story of the transfer of Seaman James Umstead commended $1,629,805. from the minesweeper U. S. S. Herald to the attack transport Cam HBADDTO b o m b —Dwisg l a—aiy. OM lO n aiT 8m TUf s n i tsHim Sferrtoe, AOmU* bria Is depicted In the above panels. PANELl—^Ttae minesweeper Included in President Ellder’s Ama, lu sib t hooH • total «C SUM •tsops mmt t o s s J f t o from Bvof*) Hm MMItcrnuiaaii and Oarft- « • a M «C IM m «i lfeistnM»«t) kamr mU t M O b eomlag U. S. S. Herald coming alongside the Atlantic Fleet Amphibious requests Tuesday were five, County Clerk Whips Innocent Force attack transport U. S. S. Cambria to transfer Jtlmes R. Um- buildings, items for an under ■tead, seaman apprentice, stricken with appendicUs. PANEL 2— ground electric system, and PMsonnel on board the Cambria shoot a line to the Herald in pre othn: improvements as well as paration for the transfer of the ill sailor. PANELS—^Rear view funds to purchase new land for Youth With Big Leather Strap of the U. S. S. Herald Illustrates the roufh seas over which Seaman the the institution’s expansion. WADESBORO here, it was disclosed that five - Umstead had to travel by means of the high line. PANEL 4—James Dr. Elder asked specifically A 16 year old former training from the white high school and B. Umstead (see arrow), seaman apprentice, starts his journey in NCCs Dean Manley Named for three buildings previously school youth found a perverse all the suspects turned out to be the bucket seat across the high line from tthe U. S. S. Hwald to the sought a t the 1951 legislation, to fate hounding him here recently Negroes. Grier Kendricks, who U. S. S. Cambria for emergency appendectomy. PANEL 5—^Navy house the departments of edu as he was beaten by local law is a former inmate of the Mor doctors performing- emerfMicy operation on board the attsM>k cation ($691,804); commerce officers for a crime he did not rison Training school, related transport U. S, S. Cambria. PANEL 6—Lt. John Peyser and Lt. ($674,257); and biology ($639, President Of, Spelman conunit, was released, brought that he was playing basketball (Jr) H. S. Rosenthal, doctors who performed the emergency opera- 944). ATLANTA, GA. action against his captors but w ith a group of other l>oys w hen ttlon to remove Umstead’s appendix stand beside his bed in the In addition, the President re Dr. Albert E. Manley, Dean of was brought to trial again him a police officer and another uni sick bay of the U. S. S. Cambria two days after the operation.—All quested a dormitory for senior self, and was once more finally dentified white man came to the photos, courtesy U. S. Navy. the College of Arts and Sciences and graduate women ($1,(U6, of North Carolina College, Dur Presbytertian Men To Meet Released. gymnasium and told him be was 363); a student union building ham,. North Carolina, has been As the story was unfolded l>eing charged w ith robbery. (521,268); underground elec elected president of Spelman hundred dollars had lieen stolen (Please turn to Page Eight) tric system (183,100); ground College to suc- Dangerous Sea Transfer improvements (21,400); and the ;eed Dr. Flor Sunday In Synodical C(Hincil The third annual meeting of purchase of land, ($35,000). ence M. Read Dr. Elder revealed to the the Cawtawba Synodical Council Former AME Prelate For Second legislators that the Ph.D. pro vho w ill retire of Presbyterian Men will con Saves Life Of Local Man gram had been set up at North ; the end of the vene at the Grace Presbyterian Bishop Holds A perilous high-line transfer the "cable crossing” and was CaroUna College to relieve the iresent collegfe Church at Winston-Salem Sun In raging mid-Atlantic seas may rushed to the operating room of pressure on the University of ear, Trevor Ar- day, according to an announce Episcopal District Succumbs have meant the difference be the Cambria. North Carolina of law suits by ett, chairman ment made here this week by Own After Attack BALTIMORE . tween life and death to a Dur Two hours later the operation Negroes demanding admlssioa the Spelman Dr. C. E. Boulware, President ■ef The Rt. Rev. Monroe H. Da ham seaman. had been successfully perforQied to the Cliapel Hill school. !ollege Board of the Council. (By Special Wire To The vis, former presiding bishop of He is James R. Umstead, sea by Lieutenant Junior Grade H. Recognizing the fact that the [Trustees, The day’s meeting will be Carolina Times) the Second and Eighth Episco divided into two halves, with the man apprentice, USN, son of Mr. S. Rosenthal, USNR, medical problem which led to the es Dean Manley innounbed today JACKSONVILLE pal Districts of the AME Church, officer of a Marine unit embark '.rom his winter residence in morning half being devoted to died in his sleep at John Hop Albert Umstead, Route 3, Dur tablishment of the Ph. D. pro Bishop J. A. Gregg, 76, Pre ham, If. C. and Mrs. Frances ed in the Cambria. He was as gram at N. C. C. originated at Claremont, California. registration of delegates and the kins Hospital here Saturday, morning message at eleven siding Bishop of the Eleventh B ryant, 110-3S New York Blvd., sisted by Lieutenant Joseph the University, Dr. Elder assert Dean Manley has a broad edu February 7. o’clock. Rev. A. H. Prince, di District of the A. M. E. Church, Jamaica, Long Island, N. Y. Um Peyser, the attack transport’! ed: cational background. He was Last rites were held from Be- medical officer, and two enlisted graduated from Johnson C. Smith rector of Evangelism of the Caw- comprising the state of Flor chel AME Church in Baltim ore stead was stricken with an at “The opportimity to cooper tawba Synod, will be the speak men. , University, cum laude, in 1930. Wednesday at 11:00 A. M. The tack of acute appendicitis while ate with the Unive^ty of North er for the morning message. ida, is reported to be holding His fields of concentration in Rt. Rev. D. Ward Nichols, of the standing a lookout watch on After recuperating in the Carolina was welcomed by the During the afternoon half of bis own at Brewster Hospital the bridge of the minesweeper Cambria Umstead returned to College. It was felt that the two college were Physics and Math First Episcopal District deliver ematics. He holds the Master’s the meeting, a luncheon will: be where he has been a patient USS Herald. He was swiftly duty on board the Herald when institutions have certain com held at the Church, a period of for tbe past four weeks. ed the eulogy. transferred to the Atlantic Fleet both ships arrived at Oran, Al mon problems and that the dis degree from Teachers College, At the last General Con .Columbia University, and a doc hymn singing, conducted by C. Bishop Gregg suffered a Amphibious Force attack trans giers. Umstead attended the position to work together vol A. Powell of the Mary Pottw heart attack at Key West, ference of the AME Church held port USS Cambria for an emer Hillside high school in Durham. untarily in developing desirable tor’s degree In Zklucation confer red by Stanford University in School^of Oxford, and a panel Florida prior to entering the in Chicago, Illinois, Bishop Da gency appendectomy. The Cambria and Herald are solutions was something that hospital. vis was given a leave of absence '1946. discussion will be held. The tricky lift was sUccesi- among ten ships that make up should be encouraged Dr. Frank C. Shirley, field His daughter, Mrs. Naomi t)ecause of continued illness fuUy negotiated despite huge Task Group 44, now (q>entliiC It was pointed out after the Dr. Manley, who is 45 years representative of the Synod, will Cherot, a teacher of Kansas with the hope that he would be old, has been engaged in educa waves which pushed the small in the Mediterranean as the am session by some newsmen that chairman the discussion. Parti City, Missouri is at the bed able to regain his health. Prior tional work for the past 21 years, minesweeper away from tbs phibious element of the Sixth this Instance of cooperation be- cipants include Dr. J. W. Sea- side of her father during his to that time, he had been presl- transport. Umstead finally matf* Fleet. (Pleaae turn to Page Eight) (Please turn to Page Eight) (Please turn to Page Eight) illness. (Please turn to Page Bight) BISHOP DAVn 7