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TUIiNKK la the above photo
|ri Cpi Ira r tstoli, Fianklm
C ounty s first iiativv to return
iron: a ( omimifiiM prisoner ol
war camp in Korea. Veteran
Service Offi< ri‘. jack Kous>e i->
tiiow it hesitle Ahtufj tinrfn& a
Young Pamilco Man
is First State Priest
WASHiNG'ION. N. C. The Rev
erend father Vance Z. Thorne. S
V.D., ordained t-.; tie- priesthood
on June 24. a! Saint Augustinc-'s
Seminai y. Bay St. Louis. Mrs.,
will celebrate his i'iisi Solemn
ibrh U ' -zi S.U'Uiti... F. U* ;!l bei*
i : "i, i!i IVieUu'i’ of Mr i'c> Cimreh,
hi H • will ... :c ■'bled by the
Rev John Jo- jbi Emile: C. 1.,
pa 1 -tor. I.:- .-crime) will be lie-
Bulb Co. To
Drop Race
Issue Listing
BOSTON— in reriionse to n Pro
test by the New Fnaland Confer
ence of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored!
People. the Holland Bulb (Hardens
company has agreed to delete
from its future catalogue a listing ,
of a crocus bulb as “Nigeerboy” j
A letter from the company
whose headquarters are located In I
I.immen, Holland, also assured i
George F. Davis president of the
New Fneiand NAACP that “we .
will gladly fake this matter up •
with the official ornamiuitionr h.
the b iib industry and see that
the name is changed to another
as soon as possible *•
Tne rampsnv --irplainert ih.it “no i
(Coiitlmi-d on i'.i.r gj
“Wise Calmness”ln W. Va.
As School Decision Awaited
CHARLESTON’, W Vie, -- West
Virginians await the United States
Supreme Court decisions in the
pending school .segregation cases
with "a wise calmness' according
Kinston Musicians In
VSC Orientation Period
PETERSBURG, v'a. Final e
vents in the orientation of 400
freshmen at Virginia Slate Col
lege were held during the past
weekend. With the completion of
c full week's introduction to life
on Ure College campus, the large
class of newcomers began its work
for the Year ]953-54. Classes be
gan Tuesday morning at 8 o’clock
Freshmen began the near-final
stage of preparation Saturday
when registration was held during
the morning an dafternourt. Sun
day was a lull day for the enter
ing students; beginning with Morn
ing Worship services at II o'clock.
At i o’clock in the afternoon a
Faculty Tea in honor of the new
stud .us was held. The annual in
duction Service, an impressive
C’andie-lighfing exercise was held
at 7:13 o'clock in the College Au
ditorium.
Tile Induction message was de
livered by Ur, R. P. Daniel, presi
dent of the College. Following the
talk by {’resident Daniel, the can
dleaghting exercise was held with
the President of the College, Dean
welcome home affair staged by
tlit- entire town oi LoUisburg in
hi -honor. Aimuif the gifts
showered on tin- it year old
l„ii a- a complete olitlil oi
clothing and a munber of items
frutn Louishurg merchants, Al
ston wears litres- service stars
... ~ in i.oicc.i sct\ let Uihi.oa,
■ hverfed by the Rev. Edward T.
Gilbert of Goldsboro.
In tiie annals of the Catholit
Chiu cu in North Carolina. Father
'Thome's lift' and firs' Mars is
b, a. i .. veil I he associat
ed with a number of ‘first’.
Thirty-tr- i years arc Father
Thorne was born in Bath, the first
: organized town in the State. Soon
aftti his parents moved to Wash
ington, North Carolina, the first
|to an to be named in honor of
! George Washington, and the site
. •••! die first Catholic Church erect
lid in isat).
The priest w, • enrolled in Mo
ther of Mercy School, the first
j.-..-hoo) for Non roes to be built dur
• itie the administration of the first
; bishop i/t the D-.-vsc of Raleigh
'Twelve y» ar- later he graduated
from Molhei of Mercy High
School, the first Catholic High
school to be accredited by the N.
iC. State Department of instruc
tion. The school, conducted by the
I Sisters oi the Immaculate Heart
oi Mary of Scranton, Pa., made
; remarkable progress during the
pastorate of the late Rev Mark
Moeslein, C. P., and under its
, first superior. Sister M. de Chantal
i f H. M.. whose administrative
efforts brought the accreditation
j Assisting the principal were the
‘ fn'-t nuns to be assigned to the
school, Sisters Cyprian, Gertrude
, Mari-- and Joseph Gabriel. Father
oi the missionary endeavor of
Thorne repr.'iw-nt: th< fust fruits
i these Sisters.
; Following graduation in lEM), the
Prir—t beg.-'i studies at Saint Au- j
“U'.iiiie'y Seminary in Bay St. i
l-uuis. f.a in June 1853, he was
(Cciitfiiueu u!j Pare g)
(o Charles A. Williamson presi
dent of the state board of educa
bun, as reported by staff writer
Marry W. Ernsf in The Charleston
Gore tie.
1 4- 11 Johnston, and the Directors
|ot Schools and Divisions partici
-1 paling.
The final exercise of the Orien
tation program was the Talent
j Night Program held Monday in
the College auditorium. The tru
; ciilioiKi! crowning of the king and
j uueen of the freshmen was per
formed by Leo Austin Brooks of
1 Alexandria, President of the Stu
• Cent Government Association
j Chosen as "King Whiff was Da
j vtd Brown of Chirstenburg. Miss
I Carol Monroe of Charlottesville
| was selected as the freshman
| Queen Whiffetic.
The talent contest, with nurn
; bers ranging from vocal and in
j strnmcntal numbers to baton
‘ twriling and interpretative danc-
I *h® Misses Barbara Tynes, Ay bet t
| fore a highly enthusiastic audi
i ence.
Top honors in the contest were
jr. hared by Melvin Joyner of Smith
'field and the Harmonaires, jnclud
|mg Misses Bar bar Tynes, Aybett
(Continued oa Page H)
Planned To
Surrender
HIGH POINT (Special) Two
pci sons were killed, one critically
injured, Jatid seven -others su
stained minor injuries in a three
car crash here last week.
Leroy Haywood. 27, who, ac
cording to police, shot Lee Maskv,
45, fatally, was on of the persons
killed. A six year old boy, Bobby
Goodwin, was prcnonced dead
(Continued oil Fage S)
THE CAROLINAIN
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HR .ST RACE PRIEST The
Rev. Father Vance V. Thorne,
S V.D., who was educated in the
grammar and high school de
partments of Mother of Mercy
School, Washington, N. and
was recently ordained, returned
t« the parish of his childhood
on Sunday, September 27, and of
fieiated at his first Solemn Mass.
Having been ordained In June of
this year by the most Reverend
Joseph O. Bowers, D.R., Rev.
Thorne became the first race
member to be appointed priest In
North Carolina, the first to re
eeive holy orders from Bishop
Bowers, ami the first Negro bis
tsop ot ttir society of thr Oivinr
VVord.
| Other leaders in the state,
‘ both Negro and white, are re
] ported as unworried by the pos
| sibllity of a change in the pre*
| sent pattern of segregated edu
; cation. One unnamed educator
! expressed the opinion that "race
relations are too good in this
state for public officials to echo
southern chants of bloodshed, or
to sidestep a** adverse court de
cision by switching from public
to private schools”
Meanwhile the possibility of
school segregation suits in West
Virginia was indicated by Willard
L. Brown, president of the Char
leston branch of the N.AACP and
state legal advisor. Efforts to ne
, gotiotr integration have been ini
tiated by the Blue.ficid branch of
the NAACP
James W. Robinson, state super
visor of Negro schools, is quoted
as having .said: "The Constitution
has to be upheld and segregated
schools infringe upon it."
W. W, Trent, state superinten
dent of free schools, is quoted as
having said that he did not anti
cipate "any great disturbance" in
ihe event of abolition of segre
gation "ii tiie transfer of pupils
•s made gradually as building eon
i dition.-. permit."
State institutions of higher
learning. West Virginia Univer
sity and Marshall College, have
voluntarily admitted Negro gra
date and professional students.
Two private colleges, West Bir
ginia Wesleyan and Bethany Col-
I iege, have likewise opened their
j doors to Negroes
jkilliam Hits First
Home Run In Series
James “Junior” Gilliam, the
oDssy second saeJter who moved
Jackie Robinson off seoond
base this season, banged net a
homer and a single in the first
games of the World Series last
Wednesday. Campanella hit a
single, and Jackie Robinson
went hilles-s in four times at
bat. The Yanks won, 9-5. This
is Gilliam's first series, but St
is old stuff for Robinson and
Cainpaneiia. Gilliam, the sen
sational Baltimore rookie, came
up to Brooklyn front Montre
al earlier In the .season.
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RALEIGH, N. C.
Girl Raped;
2 Men Held
In Hertford
HERTFORD. N. C. Horace
Reed and Roosevelt Shread, both
of Hertford, were bound over t
Superior Court after Record*.
Judge Charles E. Johnson return
ed a verdict of probable cause a
gainst them
Both Reed and Slirrud are t'iar-
Kfc’d »vith raping Alease Smith, 27,
of Elizabclh City as she sail in a
parked ear at Perquimans Beach
on the night of August 23
Before hearing the case, Judge
Johnson cleared the court of spec
tators. 'Lais action followed a mo
tion by W. li. Oakley, attorney lor
Shread.
According to testimony given
during the hearing by the prose
cuting -witness, the two men seized
ia r as she sat in a parked car on
the Perquimans Beach where she
was residing at the time.
She reported that the men cara-
J led her into the woods nearby
and both took turns in assaulting
her. After the men bad completed
the acts, they tied the. Smith wo
man to a tree and left her there
Aft'-r freeing -herself, she wan
dered around in the woods, which
were unfamiliar to her, until day
light. She reported that tne woods
were so dense that it was not until
daylight that she was able to find
her way out.
T'-he Siiiiiii woman stated the
u'K ii blindfolded her but she re
cognized their voices and report
ed them to Sheriff Melvin G. O
wnes.
Aside from the rape charge, the
men are also charged with taking
: watch and ¥5 belonging to the
woman. Both defendants denied I
•he charges but no defense was i
presented during the preliminary;
hearing.
NORTH CAROLINA
NEWS IN BRIEF
Wri.TTAMSTCN, N C a train
! crash claimed the lives of a young
brother and sister at a crossing
near here last Friday nig* it.
Dead after their speeding auto
crashed into an Atlantic Const
Line Train were William Rogers,
ii), and his sister, Miss Mane Ro
gers. 22.
Investigating officers said Miss
Rogers was decapitated and
thrown from the car. Her brother’s
body was finally taken from the
machine after more than an hour's
work.
in addition to being badly man
gird, the youth also sustained j
crushed chert.
Frank Williams, 9, believed t.o
be the only witness, was quoted
|as saying the car was traveling
! too fast and there wasn't time to
j stop the train.
The death of the two young peo-
J pie raised to five the total number
;of casualties in Martin County
; during the year.
| Bob Crocker of Rocky Mount
; was identified as the engineer of
i the train. The engineer’s name was
I given as E. B. Simmons,
Report Due j
By Nov. First
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WASHINGTON. DC. (Sped- I
I ell—Ttu U. S. Navy inched anot- 1
j her notch toward an unsegregated \
I service last, week.
Apparently continuing the poli
cies of the late Secretary James!
B. Forreslal, Robert B. Anderson, |
I the present secretary, starte4 mac
i liinery to remove the jimerow
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WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1953
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met Carrington Marr, wlto was
last week appointed to the Uni
ted Nutious staff as an area ail
College Foot ha SI
October ll
st. Augustine • Slisw (Baleigh)
Ncc - Hampton, Durham
A and T' - Union. Greensboro
Fayetteville • Winston Salem
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J, c. Smith - St. Paul. Charlotte
West Va. - Howard, Institute
W. Va.
Rluefield ■ Virginia State, Blue-
Held
Delaware • Norfolk Div, VSC.
Dover
Md. State - Morris Brown,
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j The train into tlv |
i\Ggci s Celt and it .Sv vera! |
i hundred yards beiorc it could be j
; brought to’ a stop.
Bennett Observance
GREENSBORO. N. C. Bishop j
Edgar A. Love of Baltimore will
|be the principal speaker at Ben-
I nett College's 81st Founder’s Day
• observance here on October 9.
An academic procession, Leaded
| by President, David D, Jones, will
begin the two day celebration.
In addition to Bishop love, ot
her participants in the Founder’s!
Day exercises are: Dr. P. A Tay- i
lor, New Orleans, La.: Dr. Earl j
Tolley, Binghamton, N. Y.; Dr. j
Henry Hitt Crane, Detroit; and:
Mrs. J. NT. Rodeheavcr.
Mrs. Rodeheaver is chairman of |
(he Woman's Division of Christian j
i Service of the Methodist Church j
• Raleigii ~PTA Meets i
j RALEIGH, N. C The C Devi in 1
; School Parent Teachers A.ssoda- j
: tion lias scheduled a meeting for
| Thursday October !. in the school j
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ROUND TABLE CHAT: Ptc.
Bernarau ft. Hoiunger, i'SMC, j
Fifth Regiment, Ist Marine Di
si t> next to marine Major Gene- !
ral Randolph Pate (third front
right), commanding geural of
Ist Marine Division in Korea,
at round-table discussion soon j
NUMBER 12
visor to the L T . S. Delegation is
shown with her new boss. Am
| bassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
Mrs. Vlarr, prominent Brooklyn
I attorney, is the first Negro to
! serve on the S uited States Chief
! Delegate's staff in the V. N., and
j she will participate iri important
> administrative work.
Western District To Hold
Resource - Use Conference
I CONCORD The Western Dis- (
j trie t 'Resource-Use Education Con- 1
j sere nee was organized last TuCs- i
! day, September 22, at ShankJe-1
I (own School, Concord, North Car
! ohna. Representatives from many
jor lie 1 western counties in North
Carolina were }> resent for this!
j organizational meeting. These i
! leading educators discussed the j
! Resource-Use Education program I
; thoroughly. They concluded that
i the resource-use education pro- ■
| cram would have a tremendous es
! feet upon the instructional pro
| gram in this area.
JOINT SPONSOR
| The Resource-Use Education pro- ■*
j Siam . is being sponsored jointly!
j by North Carolina College at Dur- j
I ham and tile Nin th Carolina Re- j
I source-Use Education Commission j
! Fifty counties in the State have I
Ike’s Aide To
Be At VSC
PETERSBURG Dr. Archibald
J. Carey, Jr. of Chicago, Illinois, 1
recently appointed by President j
Eisenhower as First Alternate I
Delegate to the United Nations j
General Assembly, will speak at 1
Formal Opening Exercises of Vir- j
ginia State College Friday night, i
October 2, at 9 o’clock.
Dr Carey, is pastor of the Quinn
Chapei AME Church, Chicago.
Since 194", he has served as Aider
man tor the Third Ward in the
Illinois city.
A prominent figure in Republi- j
can Party councils, he was a can-1
cidate for a Congressional seat j
in 1950. Dr. Carey was a speaker j
from the First District of Illinois j
at the Republican National Con- j
venricn in Chicago in 1902.
(CouUntied on Page b >
after his repatriation. Hollingtr
was captured on Vegas Hill,
March 26 this year, while ser
ving as lire team leader with
Korean Vet Shoots Self
| FAYETTEVILLE (Special)
| Joseph Davis, 2-t year old recently
| disc-urged Korean veteran shot
! himself u» dpoth on Saturday,
> September 26. at his home, 721
; Gillespie Street here.
According to al! reports, Davis
had been despondent since his
: release from the armed forces
i early last spring. A relative living
in Raleigh said that he lived with
• ler for about two months and his
actions were extremely unpredic
table. She cited one morning in
particular when Davis shut him
self up in a closet for about four
hours. The woman said that she
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IN CRASH
Martin Co.
Death List
NowTotalss
i BURLINGTON Donald IsleyJ
; who died last Sunday night fob
• lowing a shooting fracas, received •
I additional injury when the am- |
1 bulance in which -he was being j
j earned to the hospital collided!
! with another vehicle.
i
When the ambulance collided ;
: James S. Gat’rjson, Routt? 2, Hur- |
: with a vehicle being driven by j
j lington, Isley's head was shoved
i through the window of the ambu
lance. The collision occut’ed about
1:18 Sunday morning.
According to Burlington police 1
| officers, Johnnye Dupree and Ber- ;
j r.ard Everett, the head injury re- ;
quired six stitches. John F. Walk- j
u, a passenger in the ambulance,!
! received a bruised right hip,
i - ’
Garrison told police officers that ,
; he was heading north on Apple;
! Street and never saw the ambit- !
I lance approaching from Richmond |
j Avenue. He said he Knew nothing 1
from the time that he returned!
!on Apple Street until he awaken-!
ltd in the hospital where he was;
treated for a severe laceration pi !
the forehead
been organized to foster the re- j
source-use emphasis program thus ■
fur
Dr. Theodore R. Speigner, Di
rector of the Division of Resource-
Use Education at North Carolina !
College, Durham, North Carolina,]
was the guest speaker. He pointed
out the values that would be de -!
rived from she cooperative efforts i
of counties working together in '■
a resource-use education program. 1
Military Last Rites
For Dr. Max C. King
I RALEIGH Dr. Mux ■Coualuttil ,
I King, 67, was buried on Tuesday, !
September 29, at the National Cm- i
no tary here. 'Funeral services I
were held on Sunday at Frank
linton, North Carolina. Reverend
GUlis E. Cluck of Shaw Univer
sity, Dr. King's Alma Mater, de
livered a eulogy on behalf of
military rites were conducted at
> Shaw Alumni and fatuity. The
i 1:30 p. m. with a very large i
j number ot people present.
Dr. King, a gre.dauate of Shaw, j
j was selected to receive the fourth]’
■ annual Alumni Award for Distin- i
j guished Service in 1952. The
j choice of Dr. King to receive this
award was made after a “careful
consideration of his career’’
After graduating from Shaw U
niversity in 1911, with the A. B.
degree. Dr. King completed his
j professional training at Meharry
] Medical College, from which he
j graduated with the M. D. degree
j in 1915.
] For over 45 years lie followed his
j profession with outstanding suc
j cess as civilian and soldier. Dr. !
I King served as a first Lieutenant i
tin the JMectical Corps of the U 3 i
vision. He is from 1124 Brandy
wine. Lebanon. Pa. Here tie lis
tens to question posed by re
porter tout of pieturci. (ANI"
■ was uptown shopping and return,
jtd to find young Davis unvote--i
! evp in her closet.
■ On the day of the suicide, only
j Davis and -his sister Mrs. Cather-
I ji:.- Johnson Were at home. Mi.:
; Johnson decided to take a nap
and Davis said that tie was gontg
| to do likewise. When tie bad been
; in his room only a short while,
■ the woman -heard a report femu a
shot run. (Jt.Hiil rtttCl'li’.S til- I'ouUl
she Sound him dead
Davis who was •■ to: nun student
iat North Carolina College. U
; toiv l icing inducted into iuiih.it>
I l i.otilim d 111! Pag* 81
NAMED TO ADVISORY
COMMIITEE - Jbiul ft. Wil
liams, prominent architect, of
Los Angeles, ( aliiiu nia, uaaiied
by President Eisenhower to the
Advisory Committee of? Ouvern
incni Housing Policies and Pro
grams, attended the first meet
ing of this coimuitee W -20 hous
ing experts representing all ele
ments of the housifjih industry
from every .section us the Voun
try, on September MO, 1953, in
Washington, I> ('.
The Advisory Committee on
Government Housing Policies
and Programs will advise the
President what role the Federal
Goveramnent should take in
meeting the nation's housing
needs.
OFFICERS ELECTED
The following officers were e
lvcted for the ensuing year aca
demic term: Louis .1. Hughes, Con
cord, General Chairman: Mrs, Ro
sa!!.-' F. Wyatt, Charlotte, Mrs.
Georgia Robinson, Advance, and
Ivir. Louis Jones, Salisbury, co
chairmen; Mrs. M. B Wilson. Con
cord, secretary; F, D. Duncan,
principal of Shankletown school,
treasurer.
Army in Huy. am. as a Captain
n ill** Meuicul Corps while over
sea' from 1918 to !iiJ9, He held
membership in the A so,nation of
Military surgeons at the time of
it is death
During hi.s busy career, Dr. King
vod as President of the Old
North Stall Medical, Dental and
Rhaimeutieal Society of North
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DR. MAX C. KING