V TWO J f‘ T BE M COIMCL★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ BURHAM PRESBYTKRIAN CHURCH Seeks Cliapel Hill’s Rev. Jones SEE STORT, PAGE THKEK FOR THIRTY YEARS THE OVTSTAND KIC WEEKLY OF THE CAROUNAS Entered as Second Clost Matter at the Poat Office at Durham, Aorth Carolina, under Act of March 3,1879. VOLUME 30—NUMRERl1_____ DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1953 PRICE It CENTS GOP Seeks End Of D. C. Jim Crow Atty. General Asks High Court ^ To Reverse Segregation Ruling WASHINGTON, D. C.—The Republican Administration Debut In Italian Opera House appeared to be trying to make good on at least one of its Campaign promises here this week as the Justice Department began making moves in an apparent effort to rid the nation’s capital of segregation. center receiving the most valu­ The above scenes fraphically Photo in center symbolizes the “Rams” after the game ended; One of President Eisenhower’s campaign promises was depict the fast action, joy aad closeness of the fame between 2—The official table, showing able player trophy from John heartbreak which accompanied the two clnbs as opposinf play­ Ross Townes, left, who made the Burr, member of the CIAA that he would eliminate segregation in the capital. the eliinaxinK game of the eifhtii ers from the two teams fight for decision that the Winston-Salem tournam ent conEunittee; 5—R. D. The attack made this week at segregation by the Re­ ■nniiai CIAA basketball tourna­ a rebound under Winston-Salem field goal coming at the buiier Moore, left, coach of St. Augus­ ment, reeled off for the first backboard. Player in jersey counted, and Raymond Hopson; tine’s “Cinderella” team reo«lT- publican Administration came through the Justice Depart­ time at North Carolina CoUefe’s number 12 is Clarence Burks of 3—'Pete Rawlins of the Journal ing the ward as the most out­ ment which urged the Supreme Court Tuesday to enforce fynmasium here last Thnrsda]', St. Aufustine’s, and Winston-Sa­ and Guide making the presenta­ standing coach of the tourney long-unused laws against racial segregation in Washington Friday and Saturday. Winston- lem player is Miller Harris. tion of the Guide’s first place from J. D. Gray of the Afro Salem Teachers Collefe defeated Other scenes, reading clock­ trophy to the Winston-Salem America; and 6—Heartbroken resturants. St. Augustine’s players shown af­ Saint AuKUStlne’s College of Ba- wise from bottom left are: 1— captain Willis Johnson (10) as Nearly a month ago, a U. S. cal affairs. other “Rams” look on; 4—Clar­ ter losing the close decision to leifh, 77-75, in an overtime Deliriously happy Winston-Sa­ Court of Appeals ruled that The Attorney General seemed lem fans who rushed onto the ence Burks, St. Augustine’s fine Winston-Salem. See story, page thriller to win their first tourna­ Washington restaurants could to be linking the attack on se­ floor mobbinc the victorious eight. ment championship. bar Negroes in a case brought gregation with the question of orginaliy in 1950 against Jolui home rule for the district, an­ R. Thompson who refused to other promise Which the Repub­ ^'Kegpues in a Thompson licans made dufii^g the ^am> restaurant here. paign, and by so doing, he ap- The Court of Appeals ruledr pears to be going after “two that the laws against segregation birds with one stone.’’ TIMES "Leader Of The Year” passed in 1872 and 1873, shortly Brownell, quoting from Presi­ William C. Chance, retired principal of the railroad’s segregation policy was upheld. after the Civil War, were inva­ William C. Chance high school of Parmalee, However, Mr. Chance and the NAACP, who dent Eisenhower's State of the lid, and it ruled further that the Union message to Congress was unanimously elected as the “Negro Lead­ had joined the case by this time, appealed to District Assembly, which passed er of North Carolina for 1953" by the staff the U. S. Circuit Court which reversed the which called for elimination of those laws, di^ not have the au­ segregation and home rule for of the Carolina Times here Wednesday. decision and made a ruling banning segrega­ thority to pass the laws, but that For more than a quarter of a century, Mr. tion in interstate railroad travel. D. C., argued that the lower such authority resided in the U. court’s ruling is clearly “errone- Chance iias waged a continuous fight for On this rulings the AUanlic. Coast_Jjae 3. Congress.----------------------------- first-class citizenship for Negroes in North Railroad filed an appeal to the U. S. Supreme Attorney • General Hert>erti The Supreme Court has yeti Carolina. His greatest triumph in this fight, Court, which rejected the appeal and upheld Brownell, in a brief laid before however, came to a climax last November the Circuit Court’s ruling against segrega­ to indicate whether it will re­ the Supreme court this week view the case or not. when the United States Supreme Court tion. urging it to reserve the Court ol rendered a decision banning segregated In citing Mr. Chance for the honor, L. E. Appeals decision, contended that See Attorney, Page Eight coaches in interstate railway travel in a case Austin, publisher of the TIMES stated, the throwing out of the old laws “No man in our era has waged such a lone he had brought against the Atlantic Coast by the Appeals Court decision Line. and long fight in a section of North Carolina Although the NAACP joined Mr. Chance where even the patience of Job would under­ would forbid Congress to dele­ in the latter stages of this case, he alone and go a strain to comply with the demands gate enough of its law-making NAACP Sunday' made on a Negro school principal. Amidst power to permit the people of without any backing initiated the suit and Miss Mattiwilda Dobbs, color­ “The house lights dimmed on it all, this little giant of a man has never the district to run their own lo­ pressed it through all of its stages. atura soprano of Atlanta, Geor­ La Scala’s gilt and maroon, and bowed to the gods of gold and silver, nor To Be Observed Mr. Chance was ejected in June, 1948 at gia, became the first Negro ever the packed audience sat back t« has he sought the popularity that can only Emporia, Virginia from an Atlantic Coast to win a principle role at Italy’s size up an onprMedented de­ be bought at a price no decent Negro would Line train because he refused to move from famed opera house La Scala butante: Coloratnn S«praM pay. a white coach to a Negro coach. He was also Here Sunday when she sang in the role of M attiwilda Dobbs . th* fini “Our newspaper is honored to have the arrested for disorderly conduct. He sued the Elvira in R<»sini’s “An Italian Negrf ever to win a prieeipel W. C. CHANCE opportunity to name him as the ‘Negro leader The Durham branch of the railroad for $25,000 damages, but was award­ Lady in Algiers” recently. The role at La Scala. of North Carolina for 1952.’ ” NAACP will observe “NAACP ... Cnanhsouj Choice.. ed only $50.00 for w ron^ul arrest, and the Sunday" with a special program 27-year-old opera singer, a grad­ “Her pa rt had no arias, bat this Sunday afternoon, March uate of Spelman College of At­ her bright, sure voice led sweet­ 15, at the Ml. Zion Baptist lanta, is the daughter of J. W. ly and gracefully a series of Church on Fayetteville Street. Dobbs of Atlanta and the sister- swiftly paced quartets, qnintets The special program begins at in-law of W. A. Clement, North and sextets. When it was all over, Boy, 9, Hangs Himself Trying three o’clock. Carolina Mutual official of Dur­ she got a round of warm heart­ Sunday, March 15, has bfen ham. ed applause that was echoed designated as "NAACP Sunday” Said TIME magazine of her next day by the press.” nationally and branches through­ debat at La Scala; To'! Enter His House By Window out the country are holding special observances of the day, WILSON according to Attorney M. E. A nine year old boy broke his Johnson, president of the Dur­ neck for want of a key to un­ New Drug, Viomycin, Now ham branch of the association. White Girt lock the door to liis home here Atty. Johnson said that NAA­ CP Sunday was started six years last Wednesday afternoon. ago as “a celebration of the as­ Admits Falsely Dead is Ralph Ruffin, son*oll Ready To Help Fight TB J. T. TAYLOR sociation’s many achievements Mr. and Mrs. James D. Ruffin. NEW YORK veloped a resistance to standard toward first class citizenship After four years of intensive therapy can now be combatted for all our citizens.” He broke his neck while trying research and careful clinical successfully with viomycin. In He forecasts an unusually Accusing Negro to enter his home through a trials, a new weapon is being recent medical reports, two Taylor In Again, large attendance for the special KANSAS CITY, Kans. window. added to the arsenal of drugs to separate research teams, work program at the Mt. Zion Baptist fight tuberculosis. It is viomycin, ing under Drs. Pitts, Temple and church Sunday. A young girl, just 16 years of Here’s how it happened: age, admitted this week that she a new antibiotic now being Payne*, have reported that Mazyck Being Attorney Johnson also stated lied five years ago when she Ralph went home from school made available to tuberculosis viomycin is effective against that the local organization's accused 50 year old Edward Wednesday afternoon and dis­ st>ecialists a n d physicians both streptomycin-resistant and membership drive for the year Oscar, a Negro, of raping herj covered he had l>een locked out throughout the country.