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STILL THE SPOKESMAN Former President Harry S. Truman (right) who Is currently slugging
St out with the House I n-American Activities commission, expounds his views on the threat to civil
rights in America, to a distinguished group of guests shortly after he was given the Stephen Wise award
In New York last week. Listening intently left to right are: Dr. Israel Goldstein, president of the Amer
ican Jewish Congress; Dr. Ralph Honcho, director of the I'N Trusteeship Council, and Lloyd Garrison,
former head of the National Labor Relations Board. (Newspress Photo.)
Progress Noted. In Fight
For Full Civil Rights
RALEIGH - I i.'i.v :• •; <>; id
ling barrier.- in tie.- in!.! of civil
!i; tit- and s<-jn y.-ited •.•ln.n; > v. •.■; ('
seen on several fronts t ..- week as
stale arid federal speke.-.m :i
waited tin decision oi. i. V S.
Supreme Coen m the ii.u • rated
or segregated <le ..rii;..n svi.ools
. 5. C. Last To Bow
To Ike’s Order
CH'> MF. .STON - The 'in::! bas
tion o: .rye. C.rv •■•;, MiV.,. iil
siallatiot in the .until, the 5... wl
tU)i Nava’ Shi; yard at* Chat l-.sum,
S. C. ,v ;M ‘ , fully iliteurali d with
in 1*1:0 ill two mouth; . Pre-ident
El. " i hower .■• i'.i in .-i press
corn •. • All vestige if -i -
eaiion vill be ahim Jvd "in la’e
Dwi’roUr or e.i.iy Januiuw <;c-
Agents Fvleet
Blift KS J. W. Mitchell,
mitional Negro extension bail
or. was xtheiluled to discuss
■'Federal-Stale Extension Re
lations” at a state-wide meet
ing' of extension workers h re
on Wednesday.
Mitchell's address was ex
pected to be the highlight of
a training session that start
ed Tuesday.
It. F. Jones, Stale agent,
plaruru-d a program centering
around panels on production,
consumption, and care of milk,
a discussion of milk market
ing laws, and a talk on per
sonality Improvement.
Other topics listed included
talks on low income and part
time farmers, the housing sit
uation in North Carolina, weed
contn 1 :,nd the marketing of
small vegetables.
Whitehead Addresses N. C*
Teachers In Rocky Mount
ROCKY MOUNT - Dr. Matthew
J. Whitehead. Rocky Mount na
tive, who is president of Minor's
Teachers College, Washington, D.
C. was the principal speaker at
the annual session of the North
eastern District of the North Ca
rolina Teachers Association here
last. week.
The sessions were held, at the
Booker T. Washington High School,
where Prof. R. D. Armstrong is
principal.
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JO BURN MORTGAGE
J.UMELRTON Members of the
Sandv Grove Baptist Church will
burn the church mortgage in speci
al services Sunday. A dedicatory
address Will be deliv*- red b.v the
flev. W. J. Kennedy of Durham
celebrating hie end of the church’s
indebtedness. The building pro
gram of the church began in 1949.
MAYFLOWER SOCIETY TO MEET
ASHEVILLE Tile annual meet
ing of the General Society of May
flower Descendants will meet No
vember 21 at the Biltmure Coun
.l• ‘i. The' hearing is :■■ beduled
early it, IN comber.
Aftc-i :i brief Hurry of resisUnet;
fioiu s'.andpat segrcgationalists in'
th • aa.a of Char', .inn S. C. Navy
Yard, o;fieials announced a firm
poh.y c i inte . ration. Phis will
..'.an c:mpk-tely in Jar.ua;;. 19f,4.
eordin 1 to the president, m line
with his own directives.
In a formal statement last
week. President Eisenhower re
leased the latest report on pro
gress in carrc eng out his order
against segregation on navv
bases. !!. noted that 5k of the
UP uav U bases in the south
ban* eliminated separate rest
rooms, cafeterias and drinking
fountains for white and Negro
workers. Only the C harleston
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Goldsboro W
School For Fe
RALEIGH The Greensboro ar
chitectural firm of Me'iVlinn. Nor
fleet and Wicker will do the plan
ning for the proposed $4 1-2 million
training school for feebleminded
Negro children at Goldsboro.
H. Raymond Weeks of Durham
will plan a similar structure for j
feebleminded while children at i
Camp Butnei*.
Announcement of the architects j
for the new $22 million dollar hos- !
pita! expansion project was made I
in J'alc-igh last week by the Statu
Hospital.:- Board of Control.
Ho, Purser, business man
ag; r for the hoard, said ar-
!\ V. hilcht "d who adch'e.-.si d
more tr.nn 1 i.OC iva-d-er; from
th;ou.!'out the r< ion, spoki' on
the :iu tn me, 'Lay Par
t.cif afion in iknhi CrourV’
"Mon- tnim the parti ; pat ion of
; ev't and lax pay r:-; ora; needed
for (!■■ ■ ■ • . f'd upe. at ion of our
chon .. i-r. W>!i'.J'i d said.
•’Tc-ac.iei'.s and administrators
have ti-entenduus staler in the.
devcloomr nt of good plants and
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; try Club here. They will be ad- •
dressed by Col. Walter M Pratt
of Boston, Mass., Governor Gene-i
rid of the Society.
J. Saunders Redding was the re-J
I dpient ut one of the society's
; honors several years ago.
OFFICERS ELECTED
CHARI..OTTE -- Mrs. Dorothea !
! E Williamson of Un!ishury war j
| elected president of the western
| district of tiie North Carolina
: Teachers Association here reemt
! *y-
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Piocress i. already reported.
l;i Washington. the Department of !
Ju-dice t;.;.:>.;■'!t Attorney General .’
Herbert Brownell. Jr. pres;-urea j
the Southern rLtilreat.l to aboUsvi 1
jitncrow fiiiiirtg oars
In Washinytor... Senator Hubert j
H Humphne- 'D. l-tmi. t and Ir- ;
v'in R. Ives ,R. N. Y j spoke out j
a’.,-\:d h\ fstvui' of c» permanent I
; F E.PC.
in Raleigh, Gov, W. 11. I'm
' tead of North Carolina, a
former lawyer who was beat
en in court by NAAFI* at
torneys m the Durham School
Equalisation s«iit, said Re was
"‘not assuming that the Supreme
Court wilt destroy segregation
because if it does it will have
to reverse decisions of the Su
preme Court for tl»e past 75
years.”
Hie shrewd Torhcel' governor
..l.so added, 'Noi an\ I yoitig to
encom'ai'e them (Supreme Court
! justices) to do it by assuming that
they will." The governor, who is
close to members of the Public
Relation committe of the South
ern governors, apparently was try- j
my to follow a line different from j
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Til Be Site Os
•eble-Minded
chitects on the two tig pro
jects will he called in for con
ferences and exchange of ideas
to “insure equality of the fa
cilities for white and colored".
Purser’s precaution is under
stood to follow plans of the
NAACT to stage a thorough in
vestigation of the way the.
j money is spent for the two
| races.
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HILLIS WILSON A ;
Igist week’.; editorial or. North
Carolina reminded me o fa visitor
j to Wilmington —a place where
. mosquito-;- indulg, in higb-iife.
j | night-life and lov-liC The visitor
• j w-nt lo the beach and sat down
prepared to enjoy the sound of
5 the waves and the sight of the
. moonlight on the water, but the
j mosquitoes spoiled -his pleasure. In
| desperation he hunted up the boot
! 10-per and bought a quart, of what
j natives londly call stump-hole
or "heacl-buste! " whiskey. I hen he
,v-nt ba ;k to the boav-i, drank a
i ~,K.d KV. ~ of tile Stump-hole and
1 rubbed lots of ii on his arms, Wi'^
' ami ley:. , , ~
i id this dCmny mu' "par-heel <■ >ve
bombers? Not on your life! They
s id wires to brethren in More
brq:d City and fjeaufoi t urging
;, , n , to ci'Die on down and enjoy
-orne fine pickled meat with head- j
t; ,.tun sauce. Since stumphole is
re,iably reported to be next to the
atomic bomb in death-dealing pro
-1 perti'es, i; is easy to see why using
I- '.it on bur pests is as futile at
. smacking Rocky Marciano with a
; marshmallow.
One former Raleigh cilweii
i who would rather not be in the
, Is Dr. David If. Reid. The ]
RAlttP I
share- the-wealth fanatic walk
ed oft with Dr. Reid’s 300-
pound safe, containing- over $3.-
i 200 in cash plus savings bonds.
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The Carolinian
VOLUME 12 RALEIGH, N. C. '\VL%k NOVEMBEfi 21’"i953 "™ " "sbTw
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RALEIGH The eigthy-eightb i
anniversary of Shaw University!
will be observed Friday, November
20, when Founder’s Day exercises’
will be held. Dr. John P. Turn©’
of Philadelphia will be the speak
er for the occasion. Graveside ser
j vices wi;] begin at 10:30 A.M., when
! the faculty, alumni and friends of
| the University will pay tribute to
i the memory of Dr. Henry Martin,
| Tapper, founder and first president
of Shaw.
Can a dean Harrison, a junior
of Gastonia, and "Mi:.;, Shaw" foi
1953-54 will place the traditional
wreath on the grave of the found
er. The annual exercises are set
for 11:00 A. M. in UndVc-rsity
Church.
For those who find if incon
venient to attend, Radio Station
W.I’.T.F. will broadcast the ser
vice by transcription at 0:35 P.M,
Friday.
Miss. Jean Harrison, jfinior, will
place rhe traditional wreiath on the
grave of Shavv.s foundk-r, Henry
Martin Tapper, at services to be
held at ais grave on sin: campus.
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CHARM C3LUB MEETING Lo- |
ea) young ladies who will make ;
their how into society on Fri- j
day night, November 27 are pic- !
tused here as they attended a [
Police Still
; Baffled By
Local Death
BY STAFF WRITER
j K i.LE.iGH -- Mis,. Virginia Ashe. :
| oi 15 W. Johnson Street, was
| found dead las! Sunday morning
i aru-eiid 2 a. m. near th; V/arlmig
i ton School.
: Accorning to coronei M, \V. Ben-:
j nett the woman was subject to
; :avinjj fix and local police are!
! i-affb.-d as to wle-lher she died i
jm a fu or -’as tne victim of foul,
i r*h v H"r knew showed signs!
|of iiavin.-f been brui ed, but no'
1 oi foul pln.v* wore found 1
j near the v ictim.
The V-he woman is reported
to have returned to her home
on Johnson Street early Satur
day night intoxicated She j
si pt until 11.30 and when site j
wcki up ape pared lo be in a
sober xnidition. Shortly there
after, she lcU the house and
wax. not seen alive again.
Coroner Bcrm -u reported that |
j the woman was seen with two men ;
I during me com ■ ot the: night, j
jAt least i ..vo " ."'ns iiavfi been j
! tailed . connection with the death j
w %'ere Ime r ■■ av .{ because i
■ of insufficient ; vidt-nce.
Scvvi'al residents 'of hto Man- ’
! ly St re-"! reef ion reported hearinrr I
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E Man Insists
He’s Guilty
| BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Just in j
. j case you're interested, John Byers’i
I address tor the time hem,, ui least j
• | i, "llie Birmingham Jail". Bui un-
I Jess he can lurnish more evidence j
j of his crime, he'll just have to;
j be moving on soon.
Rentini.xccnt of j Burlington
Negro who recently turned him
self in for murder but v.as
released \\ hen police couldn't
find th.. body of his victim,
Byers, ?2, "gave up" to Bir
mingham, Alabama, police last
week and reported that he was
I ! w anted in Greensboro on a fel
ony charge. / j
Ho was quite sure it was a felo
: ny, but he didn't know exactly;
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i CXiiii*l* ciUb at (.lit? YWCA i
| lasi Thursday evening. Fifty-one |
| girls am expected to take part in
• the annual affair sponsored by !
i the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorori- |
l ty. Ficutrcd from left to right, j
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•MiSs VIRG.INL* A SHF
. . found di.iii
Interracial *
Meet Her e
I: U.E'iGH At. intc: racial ddc-!
gaimn ot some 21)0 rcu. i ■■ ;t.itiVij
from the 25 of the States i■. ioges j
art s::hc.'i:i:od to begin r*:< ( in 1
Raleigh X ursd'y, Novc-mKer Hi to;
••pen 17th anmiai sessions at the |
S'at.i Students Legislative \,sun- j
blj.
Representatives from \ii tiial
!>. .11 of the slate s -euro col
leges have attended p.ist ses
sions on a h:ois of equality
with other delegates.
In the past, the ussemb y. monel- |
r d upon Ute North C.a r i leg is- 1
lhtive system, a ho id lively Ja-!
bates oin major prditleal issues I
Among the topics likely to
he <iis< ossed at this weeks ses
sion are proposals for reform
of file state govern:': -sit civil
rights measures, and problen*.
relating to schools, p ..ms.
hospitals, roads and other »- ■
not rotated exclusivity to do
mestic problems.
A strong international atmos- j
I die re j< likely to prevail stmc ;
of this year's sessions as debates!
extend into contn>•. ev.-ia! pm'olems ■
of war and peart and international i
law. I
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•meeting are: -Yiarlan raise, /mie
Mitchell. Delores C'tiey and Betty
Cooper: second row, Shirley Al
ston, Louise Bailey, Lillian
Goode, Carlene Pulley and 'Alar- j
jorie Freeman; third row, She-1- j
SENTENCE GI
Ft. Bra eg Pvt. David Bollinger, 22 year old
\ oungst i\vn. (>. paratrooper, was sentenced to 15 years
hard lab- > by general court martial here last week on
i- rape eiuum involving Mrs. Belly Sykes, Burlington
white woman.
Mrs. ■> and .1 eomp.-uven, Mis. Virginia White,
said Hoiiin, r eomiuendeerecl their car on the night of
Oct. :_5 and made both women kiss h.m. Afterwards,
the; aid. liallingci assaulted Airs. Sykes an the front
i Sc-eit.
The women, employees • ‘ a Burlington industrial
Arm, had been visiting muienttfied acr.ice personnel
j at it. Bragg.
Higk way Deaths.
Murder , Claim 6
KM.EiGU V;.) 1 nf deaths cam.-.
T ,v !... . ■■>.■., am a d in EJ on
to: • anti i- .. ikiinion
In hawidi iica: y !,"e Wilson
I, d ! cd ;i a weird truck chasing,
Trstgedy invaded the Franklin- j
.; r
Thun . ■ Er. m'. Route 1 *.v r. • n
ac;r ye:. -old n J 0:,.. Ed-■
u a; d. I ,1 ; - :* * .;.! blov. n oi*
a s,hoigurt bit, t.
wry.;, rcpovled:
F.ls -ivlu re ovv Iho state the
week, those incidents us violence
In Hei’dci ..r«n, J.n c.s A Pearce j
\v-; I'dl". J when hi . ear ovor
' •).'!. -d .cot ... ■ liy limits ami
ran off the rbitd.
Whits Officer Dismissed
lo Fort Bragg Rape Case
BY ALEXANDER BARNES
FT, BRAGG • Too last chapter
in the n neh talked about r ft. Brtigv
rape c:i o. ...u far as Hus cantonment
is concviTiOd. was written here
r.n-Mt.y V'livn Lt. John C. Sloan,
i the \v 1 ::*■ • olfioer who is alleged to
have 1 : -e<J ;ut w li.le Mrs
i .cl- !,;• a F -chiivter. ?a year old
| German Lorn war bride, was being
rap.-d by l.t John B. Grift,n, in
the bark scat of the crime car,
v. as dishonorably discharged from
the .•■•••rvice of the United States
Army.
Slimij threw himself on the
mercy ot the court and chose
io stand mute with reservation
of the court on charges of
drunkenness, disorderly con
tin; t and failure to abide by
customs of the service. He was
convicted by a 10-incm'ber
i cum iuciseiu, /time .». rrreiuan, ;
i Dp lores Dunn. Gloria Haywood, j
| Aldclaide Seales. Joy re McNeil, j
! Anna Coble. Milder d Stephenson,
| Anne Delores Freeman, Mary
j TredvveJl, Juatxita Murchison, j
To Pi! ‘ vo iff ry Oscar Bow
r 5. i.’i-ji of '<<•■,! ”rov<>, was
0 o.i ■ accident His ma
re rsu >..i the road and over
' 1 lire ii,
I i Oxford, Aivis I.yon and
U iliic Edward Harris had their
<m. on murder charges dock
eted for the November term of
•verier Court that opened
Monday,
Cyan charg'd with the death
|ui Sambo Royster and Harris is
vvi: oii of niiii-derin? a relative.
Bum" a I scivices wore held in
Way tie County last week for Cur
ti.- Harris. ->5. 0 f Rose Hill, who
died in" \v<-,-k of wbon monox -
id" fiunc* while he and a white
drink s «g corn, 'anion identified as
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court, with throe rare mem
bers.. His ease. like that of
It. Griffin, will be reviewed
In Maj. Gen. Joseph F. Cle
land.
Mrs Schuster told substantially
the same story to the court as she
did in the Griffin trial. She told
“f Sloan Being awakened by her
about one minute after the last
rape act and how he was able
to drive back to Ihe place from
which tiii y departed, ‘'straight and
fast”.
Sloan';, conviction and dismissal
means that two lieutenants have
been dismissed from the service
of the army, with one being sen
tenced to 30 years of hard labor,
as the aftermath of a "brawling
night” by a mixed party, whose
women participants were German
1 orn white women.
; .>«nr<ry ■n.-.it »e«vs, and Docenia
\ Hammond. Debutantes not pres
i cut were Zenobia Browning,
j Mary Merritt. Eloise Walker,
Mi I Irene KHis. Jean D, Leach,
• and Dorothy Walton.