“HUD” SLAYER SETS 30 YEARS
LUCKY AUTO OWNER
Tfe» lucky car lust week was
! »ke one bearing the tag tm.m
--j her "\R~2S72. If the owner of j
| that ear took it to Dunns Esso j
Service, corner Cabarrus and j
j Blood worth Streets in Raleigh!
Ihe received a free grease job. j
This will happen every week. I
! « atch for your far number. If j
i it follows the asterisk, you will i
i ret the grease job. The num- j
| her will be taken from any car j
j hearing * N. ('. license.
1 The numbers this week ere: ;
j Y.y-427?; WW-125; “CY-3518; j
XX-2864; WP-342 A- CK-4295. j
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Boycott Puts Bus Co. Out Os Business
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JOINS THE WAF—Miss Mar
garet Jones. 0-3 Washington
Terrace, has recently joined the
Women's Air For- * and is now
rlationed in ‘la - " /'-.to. Trias
Miss Jones, a 1956 graduate of
AAT College, Greensboro, holds
a E. S. degree in biological
science and chemistry. While a
student at AAT she was affiliat
ed with the following organiza
tions: Delta Sigma Theta Sorori
ty. Beta Kappa Chi Sorority,
American Chemistry Society, Y.
W. C. A., Women’s Tutorial Staff
ami Who’s Who in American
Colleges and Universities,
i State News
—IN—
Brief
FACING GUN CHARGES
OXFORD Farrabow Harris,
41, race factory worker, is in jail
here on a charge of assault with
a deadly weapon with intent to
kill as a result of the shooting
of Henry Satterwhite, 30, a resi
dent of Easy Street here, who
walks with a peg leg. Easy Street
is located in a reported bootleg
area. Harris reported that the
shooting was precipated by an ar
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'STAMP 1 OF APPROVAL ~ Th* Hosorab!* X. O. Mbadw®.
Minister ©1 Communi cation* and Aviation of tha Fadarotlon
©f Nigeria, is shown receiving an album of American postage
stamps from postmaster general Arthur £. Summerfield, during
e recent visit to the Post Office department In Washmg’on.
Shown, left to right ere E, E. Wool-Lewie, Dr, Mbadwe's per
nsaneni serretery? Mr. Sumtoerfield, Dr. Mbadwe, and deputy
poetenasteff general Maurice Si Signs. (NEWBPS®S PHOTO).
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Either Cali
Cab Or Walk
In Florida
TALLAHASSEE. Fla.—As a re- j
suit, of the month-long boycott j
of Its buses, the City Transit Co.
suspended operations here Sun
day.
It was either call a cab or walk
for the city's 26,000 white resi
dents who depend upon public
transit facilities. Negroes normal
ly supplied about 70 per cent of
the bus company’s revenue
Stetson Coleman president of
the company, arpioonced *,s».« days
ago bus service would end July
3 unless some solution was found
to get the city’s 14,000 Negroes
back on the buses.
Hopes Fade
The last hope for a compromise
ended Friday night when the Ne
gro Inter-Civic Council refused to
retreat on its demands for an end
to segregated seating on the buses
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Mechanic’s
Neck Broken
j LUMBERTON James W.
| Smith, 23,-local auto mechanic,!
was killed about noon on Thurr- |
day when an automobile on which !
he was w-orking slipped off the j
jack and pinned him by the j
throat.
Coroner D. W. Biggs ruled the
death accidental, but Deputy
Sheriff Charles Morget said that
: it had not been determined whe
ther Smith died of a broken neck
or whether he was choked to
i death.
According to Morget, Smith's
employer had sent him to a sal
vage lot in West Lumberton to
get a brake cable from a wreck
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RALEIGH, N. C WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1956
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OFFICERS FOR N. C. FARM
ER-HOMEMAKER GROUP
Reelected officers for the State
Conference of Negro Farmers
and Homemakers which held its
,>4th annual meeting at A&T Col
Garbage Men Claim Work !
Conditions Are Still Bad
RALEIGH The. CAROLINIAN
received an unsigned, typewritten
letter Saturday morning in w'hich
charges were hurled at. the City
Sanitary Department by local gar
bage collectors.
The charges are believed to
he ‘progress reports’ following
the ’strike’ last year by 55 of
the city’s employes, crippling
garbage collection in this city
for several weeks. The walk
out was halted when the city
! promised to re-hire al! but
the leaders of the Incident and
i said that efforts would be,
made to Improve the condi
tions under which the men had
to work.
Specific charges made at the
time of the 'strike’ were that the
NAACP Maps All-Out Campaign
Against Jim Crow, Communism
A.M.E. Zion Church
Expands In North
ures released at the New York
Conference, AME Zion Church
here this week, more than 1,238
new members were added to the
denomination, in this area last
year.
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IT MATTERS NOT HOW
SMALL THE AD, JUST
KEEP YOUR NAME BE
FORE THE PUBLIC.
CALL...
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lege last week, Included, front
left to right; J. W. Mitchener,
Smithfieid, president; 1. A.
Spaulding. Greensboro, treas
urer; Mrs. Vera M. Slade, Abos-
eollectors were forced to work in
bad weather without protective
clothing and that they did not re
ceive proper compensation when
they were off for holidays or other
occasions. The matter of vacations
was also brought up during the
dispute.
Walter McLeod, leader of the
1955 walk-out, called the CA
ROLINIAN last week and told
a reporter that another strike
was in the offing. McLeod, who
was not re-hired, would not
I elaborate on this statement,
however.
The letter received Saturday fol
! lows;
i TO THE PUBLIC AND CITY
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SAN FRANCISCO (ANP) - Ne
gro leaders at. the 47th annual con
vention of the NAACP have rec
ommended a many-sided offensive
against racial segregation and com
munism.
Broad outlines of the drive were
made in speeches before the con
vention by Thurgood Marshall, the
association’s special counsel; A,
Philip Randolph, a vice president
of the. AFL-CIO; the Rev. Dr. Mar
tin Luther King, a leader of the
Montgomery (Ala.) bus boycott,
and Roy Wilkins. NAACP’s execu-
WHAT’S HAPPENING ON THE
Desegregation Front
PRESBYTERIAN*? OKEY
PROPOSAL FOR MERGER
ASHEVILLE A recommen
dation that the Mid - South
(white) and the Blue Ridge (Ne
gro' synods of the Presbyterian
j Church, USA (Northern) be
' merged was made here Saturday
by -a joint study committee.
The .Rev. C. A. Edingtoß of
Asheville. a member of the com
mittee. said that member* from
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kie, vice president and Mr*. Es
telle A. Smith, Palmyra, second
vice president, R. E. Jones, a
State, agent, in charge of the A
& T College Extension Service
is secretary to the organization.
Prisoner who 1
AIDED DEPUTY
I WINS FREEDOM
FAYETTEVILLE— For render
ing aid to a sheriff’s deputy in
jured in a traffic accident last
week, a prisoner received his re
ward of freedom in Cumberland
Recorder’s Court, Thursday.
James Burton, 31, had a false
pretense charge against him dis
missed by D. P. Russ, acting coun
ty judge. Burton was being re
turned to the county Wednesday
night from Winston-Salem by
Deputy Claude A. Dees, when the
car driven by Dees went out of
control and crashed on Highway
15-A in Hoke County.
Highway patrolmen say that
Burton, who was handcuffed, re
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( ti ve secretary,
Marshall, in the keynote speech
at the annual session, called for:
1. Federal legislative and execu
tive action to attain desegrega
tion.
2. Court suits in school and bus
cases in eight, states Alabama,
Georgia, Florida, Louisiana. Missi
ssippi, North Carolina, South Caro
lina and Virginia.
3. Community education and ne
gotiation elsewhere, including are
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each synod met earlier this year
in Chattanooga, Term., with of
ficiate of the Presbyterian Church.
USA, from Atlanta, approved the
merger and recommended it to the
two synods.
“We are now on the verge of
the final merger with the full, j
approval of the synods expected i
| to put the union into effect by j
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NUMBER 4!
Police Arrest
Youths After
Bloody Fight
RALEIGH (Special!—A group
of approximately 10 teenagers,
who call themselves the VIPS
(Very Important Persons' engag-!
ed in a free-for-all battle at
i Chavis Park last Wednesday
j night.
Knives, guns, blackjacks and
i «ther deadly weapons were
i allegedly brandished during
the altercation, sending a»
least three of the youths to
j Saint Agnes Hospital, where
I two were given emergency j
treatment and a third, who is j
ij alleged to have received seri- i
|j ous knife wounds in the area j
of the hand and wrist, still
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I Man Who Killed Mom
Gets Suspended Term
FAYETTEVILLE ----- Joe Melvin, |
21-year-old Route 5 youth, was
i given a four-to-six-year suspend
! ed sentence and placed on pro- -
: bation after he had pleaded guii-;
, fcy to involuntary manslaughter;
in connection with the rifle kill-1
ing of his 55-year-old widowed -
mother on June 10
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Althea Loses In England
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WIMBLEDON, England—Althea Gibson, New York tennis
player, was defeated by Shirley Fry Tuesday on the center court
In the local quarterfinals bringing an end to a 14-tournament
tennis victory string which has reached halfway across the world.
A resident of St. Petersburg, Fla., Miss Fry outfought and out- j
played Miss Gibson to win 4-6, 6-4 and 6-3. In the final set Miss j
Gibson’s backhand caved in just as had been predicted by experts.
As Miss Fry kept punching away. Althea's big service diminished.
Miss Gibson, commenting on her defeat, said, ‘I knew I was
beaten when I found I could not get up to my volleys quick enough,' j
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b*®d<s*Kffit®!ca building in Nnw York, a plague urns urneikd in memory of Mrs, Abby Aldridh
Rodrafaltar ar» John D. Roekofeller. JH holding William Henry Baldwin, UL age S, great grand*
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- YORE COUNCIL OFFICER —• New York attorney. Mrs.
Jsyc« Phillips Austin, has been appointed Executive Secretary
of the powerful 29-member Woman's council, appointed by
Governor Harrimcm in Merck, The council's ranks include
women prominent in the fields of industry, labor, education,
the professions and women's organisations
(NEWNESS PHOTO).
Farm Agent Gets
30 Yrs . In Murder
GREENVILLE ■ Aflrr entering
a plea of ' no contest.” to second
; degree murder.. Talmadsc Mit
chell. former Pitt. County a
j tant farm agent, way sentenced i
; to 25 to 3ft years in prison for the 1
i pistol slaying on March f> of Mol
• ton R. Zachary of Greensboro, his !
| supervisor.
The trial ended abruptly on
Friday in Fill Superior Court
Zachary, northeastern district
farm agent supervisor, was
shot to derJh in, tb.f P.H-t ;
I County tar'i sge.ii'S office j
j here shortly after the county j
j commissioners had accepted !
i a report from him that Mit
j chell he fired
According to police, Mitchell, j
! after shooting Zachary, went Into j
'an adjoining room and turned
] Melvin was in tears as he wait
\ ed for Superior Court Judge Claw- i;
! son L. Williams of Sanford to
| sentence him. He. said that he was
| very sorry and broken-hearted,
i Mrs. Frances Melvin was killed
! when she looked out of a bedroom!
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the death weapon on himself, in
flicting a serious chert wound for
v.'hich hr was hospitalized for
...overal week...
Defendant ill
i A short, time after court con
vened. Mitchell became, ill and
i was taken to the. ~iail where a
! doctor examined him. A fra
; minutes later, he was brought
| back into the. courtroom and a
> conference of a Horne; - and Jud?e
; Malcolm Paul was held. The plea
iof nolo contendere (no contest!
' foi* or <?<£.
! Mitchell testified on Thursday
| that he did not remember any. of
' the events of the shooting.
Dr. N. B Kyi?';, assistant
superintendent of the State
Hospital at Goldsboro, tes
tified for the defense that on
the date of the shooting, Mit
chell was “suffering from a
s'*ate of chronic severe anxie
ty." In reply to a question,
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ODDS-ENDS
By ROBERT G. SIIEPARD
| An element of discontent over
j the lack of action and the quality
|of leadership of the NAACP in
j this state is likely to break out in
ito the open at an early data,
j Several criticisms have been voic
| ed and several charges have been
I levelled against the way the state
I conference has muffled oppor
! tunities to secure implementation
lof the U. S. Supreme Court's
i desegregation orders. There are
i ,:ome who say that nothing has
i been done by state leaders but a
: lot of empty talk and that it is
| not likely that, anything will be
done by the present officers.
Some go so far as to say that
! if suits the alms and purposes of
j these officials to do nothing be
i
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