NAACP FIGHTING SIOOG FINE I ALABAMA
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(tractions from her mother. Mr*.
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perint Fine* for a week'* stay.
Three Meet Death
In Auto Crashes
Man Appeals
2-Year Term
For Assault
RALEIGH A 23-year-old Ms- '
- y veteran "'as sentenced to two :
vears on the roads Monday for i
hi? part in beating op a local white
man.
City Court Judge Albert j
Doub, after hearing testimo
ny from a long parade of wit
nesses, meted out the term to
Howard Peebles, a resident of
Oberlin Road. Peebles appall
ed in the Wake Superior Court
and bond was set at SI,OOO.
Also sentenced was Robert '
Lewis, who allegedly took part in \
the affray. He was handed a 12-
month r'oad term, suspended on ;
payment of sJof* and court costs. ;
W F. Hagwood of 3151 Stanhope ;
Avenue pressed charges against !
three men. one of whom is still j
at large, and accused them of as- j
saulting him with a deadly weap- !
on. Hagwood suffered nose. eye. !
head and arm injuries.
The altercation, which took '
place on Friday. July 20. in the 1
600 block of Oberlin Road, was the
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ODDS-ENDS I
Br ROBERT G SHEPARD
The most, useless show held in ’
North Carolina in many e-day.;
m my opinion, has come and gone.]
Billed as. an extra session of the |
North Carolina General Assembly!
to “consider" school legislation, it;
turned cut to be what, most in - j
telhgent people had predicted it]
to be, a rubber stamp, for the of-!
ficials and politicians. It was a, j
foregone conclusion that the!
Pearsall proposals would be a- 1
dopted. Some weeks before this i
phoney session was due to con- j
vene, the Governor had whipped j
the members of the legislature i
into line by all the ways and i
means available to the Governor j
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WHAT’S HAPPENING ON THE
Desegregation Front
fi. C. jrt.AN HITS IKE
SOLICITS MEMBERS
HARTSVTLLE, S. C Speak
tag from a flat bed truck In the
middle of a field, a Ku Klux Klan
speaker denounced Pi'esident Ei
senhower as & "low-down scoun
drel” for ordering integration of j
the armed forces, while a crowd !
of some 2.000 whites listened, j
Saturday night.
The unmasked speaker, who!
identified himself only as ai
“country preacher from down the!
road,” also charged that the Ford!
Motor Co. had given sls millions
to the NAACP, Amottgg the ofcb- j
er speakers was a six-year-old boy i
in full Klan regalia
At Camden, the same night it
was reported that. 800 klan mem-!
berships at S 3 each were taken at!
a rally at, the Old Wire Road race |
brack- i
Phis i* another activity spon-
Mirrrl by the Y-Teeo Department
of <hr YWCA. A part of Catn
!vn * ramp fee was paid by the
Ligon FT A This is the speond
tim<= tb» Licon PTA ba* *pon
sorrrf a girl at Y J>rn Tamp.
RALEIGH Death rode the
highways over thp weekend riur- ]
: ins which three person? died a,?
a result- of auto mishaps.
Mrs. Annie Lee Marley. 36
' died Saturday in a Graham hos
• pital of injuries suffered Friday
! night when she was struck by a
. car said to have been driven by
Calvin Clay, 23, of Route 2 Bur
. llngton
Injured in the same accident
was Joe Sellars, 42. who was
' walking along the side of r.he road
! with Mrs, Marley. He received
compound fractures of toe left
arm and was reported in "rat-is
■ factory” condition in a Burling
ton hospital on Saturday
Highway patrolmen investi
gating the accident said that
the couple was walking facing
traffic when the oncoming
car skidded 61 J'erf before Hit
ting: Mrs. Marley, knocking
her 65 feet.
A 14-year-old boy. Julius Caes-;
■; ar Rogers of Route 1. Fountain, I
] was found lying alongside High-!
; way 222 near Fountain around P
]p.m. on Sunday, apparently the
j victim of a passing car.
| Reports are that the youth was
j lying partially or, the pavement
| when he was struck by %. car oper
! a ted by Harvey S, Diida of Green- j
! villa. Diida said that, when he
! saw the boy on the road, he appii
!ed his brakes but was unable to
avoid hitting him.
j David Jones, 21. of Whi’e Plains.-
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PAIR WON'T ‘TALK’
IN LOTTERY CASE |
WINSTON-SALEM Two In
! cal men. arrested on lottery i
| charges, spurned a judge's offer ]
I to trade a light judgement in ex-;
; change for some information a.-;
; bout the racket,
] John Coleman. 54. and Eugene!
; Davenport. 59, pleaded no con- ]
i test to two cases of lottery and !
i possession of lottery parapher
! nalia. Both declined to take the
! witness stand and tell their lot
! tery connections,
j Judge Frank Armstrong of Troy.
| sitting in Forsyth Superior Court
! on Monday sentenced each man to
] two years, suspended for five
j years on condition he pay a $1,500
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i FLORIDA WILL DEFT
;U. S. SUPREME COURT
TALLAHASSEE. Fla. Defi
ance of the 0, S. .Supreme Court's
school desegregation ruling, even
if public officials; went to jail, was
predicted here Monday as the
Florida Senate completed legis
! lative action on a. program to pre- j
I serve segregation in this state,
i Sumter L, Lowry, runner-up to
j Gov. Leßoy Collins in the May
I Democratic primary, told a House
i committee that all Florida has to
I do to prevent integration In pub- j
j lie schools is “to say to the Su- j
preme Court 'We openly and of- i
f totally defy you.’ ”
Two of the bills give the gov- j
iernor the right to make regula-I
; tions. governing the use of public!
! facilities and limiting to five gears'
j his extraordinary police powers.,
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State Still Thinks $3,000 Too Much To Pay For Eleanor Rush Death
RALEIGH—The State of North,
Carolina still thinks that $3,000 Is]
too much to pay for the death of ;
Eleanor Rush almost two years j
ago, j
The Carolinian
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VOLUME 15 RALEIGH, N. C WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1956 NUMBER 45
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Ala. NAACP !
Fights Fine
OH OOG’s
i MONTGOMERY, Ala.—Deter- :
! mined to protect its members
from certain persecution, the
! National Association for the Ad- :
I vancemcnt of Colored People is :
; risking a SIOO,OOO fine, rather
! than turn over a list, of its 14.500;
' Alabama membeis to state au
. thorities.
NAACP attorneys have an
: nounr.ed that, they will appeal
the penalty to the TT S. Supreme j
Court.
tn original fine of SIO,OOO, ,
levied hv Circuit Judge 'Val
ter TV fnnes on July 2-5. wm
raised to the SIOO,OOO figure
Monday when the organiza
tion failed to produce the list
within th? alloied 5-day limit.
Also on Monday, Lhe Alabama
Supreme Court refused to grant, a
stay of the fine, which was effec
tive at midnight. Chief Justice J
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Church Integration Not New
Burned Edenton St, Church
Once Had Colored Members I
RALEIGH Historic Edenton ,
St Methodist Church, whose main
building was destroyed by a half
million-uollar fire Saturday night,
once had a racially mixed congre
gation.
In 1332, Negro members out
numbered whites 44 to 32
Not until the 37th year nf its
existence did the membership
breome all white when, in 1848,
the Negro worshippers moved
out to form their own congre
gation. now St. Paul AME
Church.
Throughout the period of its j
mixed membership. Edenton St. j
Church occupied the same site as j
did the structure which burned j
Saturday when lightning struck its j
200-ft. spire,
The original building, erected in j
1811 also was destroyed by fire in j
1833
The congregation which eventu- !
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'CQOV MA % X»ONE' FAS? Among fist® eniertaieuwr® ctl fee Sock ’». Idß shew afcftgp&d
recently in Toronto's Maple Leos Garden# was vocalist “Littls Bk&ftrd,* who proved to be
Romewnert of a giant The diminutive -shouter completely captivated some 13,50 C fata, who 1 1
shrieked. shimmied mod stomped, Sams., like fee girl at right rfmpJy went into a swoon, ffltd !
never quite recovered. (NEWSPBES3 PHOT® j i
It asked the State Supreme i
; Court last week to reverse an In- j
! dustrial Commission ruling that j
I Mrs Geneva Gould, admintstra- ]
| trix of the Albermarle, girl's estate.!
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of Panama’ are (form left); Haiti'* Prarndml* Paul Maglairtc Pkasident E-sonhowor. and
Chile’s Presidonf Carlos Ibanes Dal Compo* T'tft new dedarotion pledged a ' united strong
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ally became St, Paul AME was of
course, made up of slaves, and for 1
their last two years at Edenton
St. they had worshipped in the
church basement because the com- ]
binod membership had grown too
large for the auditorium.
Their first building was
bought from Christ Episcopal
Church and rolled by hand
from its original location at.
New Bern Ave. and Wilming
ton St. to the present site of
St. Paul at W Edenton and ]
Harrington Sts.
It was then affiliated with the j
Methodist Episcopal Church South :
and its first pastor was white, as !
were the four members of its trus- ;
tee board.
Its first Negro pastor assigned j
by AME Bishop Daniel Payne aft- j
er Emancipation, was the Rev, i
George Broadie, transferred here!
from New York.
j is entitled to recover $3.00(1.
j Miss Rush died of a broken;
j neck in an isolation cell at Wo
! men’s Prison on the night of Aug
! ust 20, 1954. The court, record
!
i A new edifice was built in 1855.
i It was gutted by fire on July S, j
| lfkws when a firecracker lodged on j
| its shingle roof: but the walls ■
| stood. and the reconstructed !
i church is still in ms today.
I Uses Buckshot Spray
On Car Os Antagonist
j GOLDSBORO William Ear!
I Wooten, angered by an argument
j he haa with Rudolph Walker of
• Arlington, Vs., last week when
the latter s auto brushed against !
■ him on his bicycle, decided on a i
j novel revenge
j According to police, he went j
j home for his shotgun, and when he
j again saw Walker's car pass,
i ' sprayed' a rear fender with pel-
I lets, causing about $75 worth of
I damage.
j shows that she was gagged and;
; bound by prison employees in an ]
effort tp quiet her.
A suit for SB,OOO was filed a-!
gainst the State and Deputy Com-j
] State News
j! Brief
POSTS BOND IN RAPE
HIGH POINT— Lawrence. M
| Smith, Jr , 26. has posted a SI,OOO 1
; bond on a charge of assault with
i intent, to commit rape on a 24-
S year-old race woman. Police |
| charged the man Sunday with;
i breaking into Mis Bertha Moore’s j
bedroom and at mpting to mo- :
lest her. Smith allegedly admitted j
to officers that, ’ was in the wo-!
man’s room eai.. in the morning]
Sunday. Astra w ha t found in j.
the room was liter identified by
Smith as one belonging to him
The alleged victim, Miss Moore
j told officers that she was av.ak
! ened by the tc r hos a man's hand
jon her body. She said that she:
icried out ro’Aing her water who]
was sleeping In. another room and ]
that, the intrduder fled, hearing;
for Smith has been tentatively!
•set for next Monday ir. Municipal :
Court here.
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THREE FACE LIQUOR RAPS ;
BURLINGTON—Three AD -
mance County men are lan
guishing *n the county jail
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Kills Stepdaughter , Injures
Son In Scuffle With Wife
KINSTOi—A single blast from!
Jasper Center’s 12-guage shot,- \
gun tore r i the left hand of his j
4-year-old son and killed a 6-!
year-old stepdaughter at their
Hookertovn Route 1 home Sat
urday.
Carter, a 32-year-old laborer.
Is being held without bond on a 1
murder charge as a result of the
tragedy, which occurred, accord
ing to reports, when he grabbed
the weapon during a scuffle with
Mrs. Inez Carter, mother of both
children.
The Carters are said to have
been arguing about tobacco
money, and the scuffle was be
lieved to have been aggravate i
«d by the fact that Carter had
been drinking,
The children were looking on:
throughout the dispute, and there j
were indications that the shot
gun may have been discharged ac- [
i mission er Hugh M. Currin held!
; that the estate should recover ]
’ $3,000 The full commission, by a ]
! 2-1 decision upheld Currin>
| findings that, the girl's death was
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1 BELOROSS, N C - An argu
; men! over 25 cents in a crap game
: here Sunday morning brought I
; death to Henry Johnson 40 and •
: the arrest on a murder charge of
i John R. Carter. 32.
j Johnson, a native of Hastings.
Florida, was stabbed under the left;
shoulder with a 10-inch-blade
knife, allegedly wielded by Carter,
a native of South Carolina. Car
ter i? bema held in Pasquotank
County Jail
The slaying took place at t.hr
Ferebce labor camp here about. ’
10 a.m. Sunday Camden County:
Sheriff M D Stephens reported 1
that, be was called to the camp j
at 10:30. He said that he found;
Johnson dead and other migrant
workers holding Carter.
Jailed as material witnesses ‘
were Herbert- Prince of Hastings i
and Gable Roney of Wallace,
j members of the labor camp. Sun- :
! day's killing was the second a-,
| rnonsr migrant worktT.s in Cam-,
j den since the season began
Rev. Gillespie Leaves
Davie St. Presbyterian
| RALEIGH The Rev William
: G. Gillespie, who succeeded the
Re” C Andre Kearns as pastor of
j the Davie Street Presbyterian
| ChUTh rune months ago. resigned
] his position and left the. city Fri
; dav for a new post in Saint Louis, ■
] Mo.
Arrording to Fred J Carn
ace, chairman of the church’*
board of trustees, the youthful
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: REV. WILLIAM G GILLESPIE !
i More than a hundred pelletts
i struck the girl. Lucy Mae Worth
j ington. In the upper part of her
| body She was dead upon arrival
|at the Lenoir County hospital.
She was the daughter of Mrs.
: Carter by a previous marriage
The boy. Pete Mark Carter, was
reported in satisfactory condi
tion at the same hospital despite
the loss of his hand,
IT MATTERS NOT HOW
SMALL THE AD, JUST
KEEP YOUR NAME BE
FORE THE PUBLIC.
CALL...
TE-4-5558
FOR FOUR CLASSIFIED!
due to negligence cf the prison
employees.
Last March Superior Court
•Judge Raymond Mallard upheld
the commission’s findings.
LUCKY AUTO OWNES ~ j
Th*- htcky last week was
♦•he one bearing the tag nurn-;
her f the owner cf j
that car took !t to Dunaa Esso
' Service, corner Cabarrus and i
Blood worth Streets in Raleigh i
!he received a free grease job. j
! This will happen every week, j
Watch for your tag number. If !
j it. follows the asterisk, you will
get the grease job. The nuts-1
: her will be taken from any car 1
bearing a N. C. license.
The numbers this week are:
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ZT 4222-, S-38T2; WW-12S. |
COP CLEARED
IN WILSON 00.
YOUTH’S DEATH
WILSON Cons able Wile;
Webb, who shot ls-year-old Clin
ton Yelvcrton. .Jr to death in
i Stantonsburg the night of July
21, will go scot free
: This beaome clear Sunday,
when Sheriff T w Thompson
j said hir- department would not m
‘ state any action against Webb,
since investigation convinced him
that, the officer’s action was not
in violation of the law
He concluded that- Webb was
“enforcing the law." and acted
’ in defense of his life ’
The sheriff thereby overrode
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minister left bis Raleigh east
f «'r 9 better paying position.
Carnage, s local attorney, said
♦ hat no action had been takes
on finding a new pastor. He re
lated that other ministers Is
the area will be called upon
to conduct servics until a suc
cessor is found
| The Fete Gillespie is a graduate
iof Johnson C Smith University,
: Charlotte, where he received his
! B. Th. degree. Hs is married and
I is the father of a young daughter.
Elde r C. F.llwood Boulware. Dur
j ham, executive secretary of the
j Council of Presbyterian Men will
I deliver the morning message Sun
day at the church.
! CROSSES BURN IN
NORTHERN CITY
BY CON*?,AD CLARK
BOSTON. Mass. CANP) Rtc
j ial bigotry reared its head here
i last week in the form of a fiery
cross which burned near the home
: of a Negro family in nearby West
brook a suburban city with about
I 8000 persons
Teenage vandals wars Mamed
! for the display by police and
j townspeople, including the neigh
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i 1 Carter was arrested at .the hot
. pttal, where he and' Mrs. Cart*!
. took both children after the
! shooting.
WOMAN’S ATTACK
CHARGES DENIED
SHELBY A 34-year-old man
i arrested here Friday night for al
legedly attacking a local white wo-
I man told police that he actually
was trying to snatch her purse.
Ebb Degree, arrested at. 11:40 p.
' in. was lodged in Cleveland County
.tail on a charge of attempted rob
i bevy and secret assault. The alleged
offense took place on East Buttle
Street where a, culvert carries a
stream across the street, The wo
man was returning home from a
case where she. is employed a
; waitress,
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