2 KID j RESCUED FROM WELL
:- s >1 ' W' 1
I ■ ,
I "
*
I®.. - $gM
**■ jjgglpr i- M
W-’v.: >^7v'7 ;
'" ' • • •^.-»-*^fe i : -% :'-f&\ MMf/M
HR,ST HOT MEAL Hun
facian refugees line up in fronl
of a field Kitchen of the Aus
trian Army at Kisenstadt, Aus
tria. tn receive their iirsi hut
7> i r,l since their escape from
their Soviet-dominated home
land, united TRESS tele*
A PHOTO.
State News
| Brief
SHOOTS HOLDUP VICTIM i
i- A U i'TTEVILLE A shotgun- :
"•'elding bandit, held up a serving j
*aiion attendant and escaped after
running gun battle early Sun
•da»- morning on Highway 331. >
south oi Fayetteville, according to j
Cumberland County police Body j;
Burlison. night attendant at the j i
Dixie Vim Service Station, sus- i ;
tamed ahotgun-pellet wounds of •
the rigid hand during the robbery, j
i
a PACES MURDER CHARGE j
SALISBURY—-A 38-year-old j •
iitmian of near Cleveland was j
• hot to death early Sunday, j
|l .tiro* ding to Sheriff Arthur f
Shuping Slain as she stood
in her home was Miss Annie ! :
Heii Phifer, Mho lived in Phil' j
erfown, on U. S. Highway 70,
between Cleveland and the
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 21
Say Morganton Man
Raped 3-Year-Old
AFSC Moves]
On School
Integration
v GREENSBORO Tb* Ameri-
Jtan Friends Service Committee
, has taken the first step in a
’‘'broad program to bring about,
‘constructive compliance.” with
he tJ S. Supreme Court decision
barring school segregation.
The AFSC appointed a bt-ra
h ontim i n on r.u.i; ?t
White Woman’s Accomplice
Jailed But She Goes Free
ROCK HILL. S. C. (ANP> De-!
spite the fact that a white wo- j
man drew a gun on him and fore- i
ed him to help her commit a rob- j
bery, a 23-year-old Negro was
still erring out a 7 to 10 year
sentence for armed robbery last
week while the white woman was i
released from a mental hospital
I LUCKY AUTO OWNER
I the lucky car lasi week was ;
j the on bearing the tag num- |
i i ber 'XR-421. If the owner of I j
1 that car look U to Uuiin s Esso j :
Service, corner Cabarrus and i
Woodworth Streets in Raleigh \
h* received a free grease job.
This wilt nappen every week. |
Watch for’your lag number If j
it follows the asterisk, you will
get the grease job. The num
ber will be taken from any car
hearing a N. C. license.
! The numbers this week are -
I OX-6712: X-193; 357; OX-823;
| XX - 125; and W-323.
'Raceless' Felon In Negro Camp
m
11
I ■
Judge Rules
Red Wright
Not White
II
SALISBURY lra Leroy
(Red) Wright was ordered re
turned to the Davie. County Pri
son Camp for Negroes last week
after Superior Court, Judge E
Richardson Preyer ruled that.
I there was no evidence to sub-tan
j (continued on nc,r ?>
I 4 4* 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 -}
Mcr.y Shifts
isde Among
Zion Pastors
FA YET TE VILLE—C h a ngex af
fecting every district of the Cen
tral North Carolina Conference.
A.M.E. Zion Church, were made
by presiding prelate Raymond L
Jones, when he read the appoint
ments at. the close of in--- 77th
session, held at, Evans Chape!
Church, Nov. 21-35.
There had been much specula
tion as to who would be named to
preside over the Durham and
Sanford districts, due to the death
of Revs W. W. Long and J. W
Marsh, but many were surprised
when there were pastoral shifts.
The Rev. J. W. Hatch, who has
pastored Franklin Chapel Church.
Laurinburg, for more than four
years, was named presiding elder
and appointed to the Fayetteville
District. The Rev J. A. Brown
who has headed the, Fayetteville
District for a number of years was
appointed to the Durham District.
The Rev. T. J. Young returned
to the Raleigh District after an
i.bsence of three years. The Rev.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 2)
MORGANTON A furniture
| worker is being held here without
bond on a charge of raping the
! three-year-old daughter of a
| former girl friend.
Police said Charles Saunders.
37, was charged in a warrant
sworn out- by the mother shortly
after the alleged attack. Saturday.
Officers said Saunders was under
suspended sentence on assault
j charges involving two older
i daughters <8 end fi> of the wo
j man.
! Police said the mother reported
1 that she came home from work in
: a local restaurant to find Sauna
i ers in the bedroom with her
youngest daughter The girl is de
i scribed in fair condition in a. hos-
I pitfll.
and returned home.
The woman Mrs. Dora Jane
Ya/.el admitted that she forced
Tommy Miller at gunpoint, to aid
her in robbing a service station
near Pineville, S C , earlier this
year, but the young Negro was
imprisoned anyway for armed
robbery.
Meanwhile, Mrs Yaael was re
leased from the Stale Mental
Hospital at Columbia last week
and returned to her home
She's "Menially ID''
She was committed to the in
stitution Sept. 6 by a psychiatrist
who said she was "mentally 111”
after she admittedly confessed to
robbing the filling station and
forcing Miller to help her.
Miller was convicted and sen
tenced Sept 12 to serve from 7
to 10 years in prison for being
forced to commit robbery.
He told officers at that time
that Mrs Yazel picked him up in
her car on the pretense of want
(CONTINUT-D ON PAGE 3)
The Carolimian
10c \ — c**'+£Zu4Jf 10c
VOLUME m RALEIGH, N. C. WEEK "ENDING SATURDAY, DECEMBERT,’ NUMBER 10 '
AME Zion Pastors Shifted
A i ..... -... . -f ....
y . . fcY-v*
.4 ( :. ••- '■ ' ' tSrV* •'
j -
tow ESCAPE Children of Mr. and Mrs. James Terry of near Candor gather after three
of them rescued a fourth, Carry, from a well. In the back row, left to right, are Carol. 14, William Ar
thur. 10, and James Roger, 11. who made the rescue. Larry is seated on the well. In front of Carol is
Phillip, 3. (GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS PHOTO).
MENTAL PATIENT
KILLED IN FALL
GOLDSBORO A woman pa
tient at- the State Hospital for
Negroes here unlocked a third:
floor window guard with a stolen j
key and plunged to her death ear-: 1
, lv Tuesday, hospital officials re- 1 :
■ ported. ;
She was identified as Mrs '
Monticellar Johnson. 10. of Win-; I
: ston-Salem. She had been a pa-1 1
; j Went since 1945. and was in the j 1
model patient building
Dr. M M. Vitols. superinten- i i
dent of thp hospital, said be did • !
I ’
IfON TINTED ON PAGE D : .
FEELING NO PAIN Fmmad crooner Billy Eckstme wets optimistic whom h« fflpptwtn&d l in a i
Los Anc-'ics court lor o preliminary hearing in a paternity suit. However, ex-model Corolla Drake,
36, got the lead laugh when the court awarded her $750 n month temporary Support lor the two
t children lathered by Eck»*in«- (NEWSPRESS PHOTOi
\ 1 " .1
2 Children Miss j
Drowning In Well
CANDOR There was much
to give thanks for on Thanksgiv
ing Day in the household of Mr.
and Mrs. James Terry after two
of their seven children were saved
from death by drowning in a well
on their tenant farm about three
miles south of here.
While t.he parents were at work
in the Helds. Carol. 14. and James
Roger, 11. and William Arthur
were playing in the yard They.
discovered that. Larry. 6. was’
( missing and upon investigating.
: they heard muffled cries that
j seemed to come from under
| iground
. | "He's Drowning”
.( Carol dashed to the family well
: i about 50 yards away and cried:!
j "Larry's fallen in the well! He's
| drowning!”
.I The well, lined with terracotta |
pipe, Is some 30 feet deep, with
ICONTINUED ON PAGE D
5
Shot In
Direction
Os Noise
BY C'HARLES I BI.AEOCK
Staff Writer
An attempt to break into (.he,
home of James Howard Oakley, 46. j
at 403 Dover Place, ended in ,
death for James Edward Cooley, j
29. of 804 Dover Street. Cooley |
was trying to enter the kitchen |
window of Oakley’s home.
Oakley, who is blind, states that i
around 10:45 P.M Saturday he j
heard a noise at his kitchen win- I
dow and that he also heard the
accompanying barks of his dog in
the back yard. Upon Investigating!
he found that someone was trying!
to gam entrance to his home;
through the window
He also stated that he oh- j
tained his .22 calibre pistol
from under the pillow on his
bed and that he fired several
shots in the direction of (lie
window. Cooley was struck bv
one of the shots, which enter
ed his body at the bottom of
the rib case and glanced up
ward into his heart.
Cooley, whose residence was;
! listed at 804 Dover Street, around I
| the corner, managed to make his!
i way back to his front yard where
; lie collapsed and was found there |
!by another tenant of the same j
1 address, Miss Mattie Pear! John
‘ son.
Mis# Johnson staled that
she found Cooley sprawled
out in the driveway near (he
porch. She railed an ambu
fCONTINUED ON PAGE 21
Nab N. C. Fi
For N. Orle<
NEW ORLEANS An escaped,
i killer was questioned bv police j
i Friday in connection with thr |
I unsolved murder of a Chinese,
laundryman and his 19-vear-old j
stepdaughter here last May.
Police, described 42-year-old
George Graham as a "hot,” sus
pect and said ht lived a block 1
from the laundry shop where;
laundryman Tom Horn Juer. andj
his stepdaughter. Eula Mae Smith, j
were stabbed and beaten to death I
The man walked into a poller
station and related how he gain* i
ed freedom from a North Carolina |
prison work gang in 1953. AI the!
time of his escape, he was see-
Ku Klux Klan Rallies Prove
Flops in 2Southern Cities
ATLANTA - White-robed Kui;
Klujc Klamanen held a big rally I
before television cameras In
Montgomery, Ala. Friday night.'
but police cracked down on an-1
other KKKt.eros.',-burning in Col- j
umbus. Ga.
More than all estimated 1.00!
persons attended the rally near, |
Montgomery after Klansmen.j
dressed in robes but without! i
hoods, strolled down tire sidewalks; 1
of the race-conscious Alabama i •
Capital City during the afternoon. I j
There was rio trouble either in! i
town or at the rally where robed j (
■speakers lashed out at the U. M.M
Supreme Court and promised to e
ROOKIE BACK TO SCHOOI Frankie Robinson. '.MI -vim*
Cincinnati Rcdlcg outfielder voted earlier “Rookie of I lie Ye n
shown back its school at Xavier I'nivi-rsily in the Ohio cit; un'J
spring training begins. Robinson, foreground, is auditing a psycholo; •
course and several physical echo (ion classes Denny Davis Xavier
football tackle, is at far left. CM 1 ED PRESS VI Li PHOTO
Dreamed Os Killing,
He Finally Does It
MORGANTON- - A faille i of 10
; children, who “clten’ dreamed of,
i killing people, shot bis son-in-Ur>
i to death Saturday, police said.
| E. C. Connelly. 68. was held
i without bond on a murder charge
!in the fatal shoot ins; of June
i Hamrick, 21. Harm ick and Cor,-:
j nelly’s daughter, Ophelia, were!
: married last Friday and moved in
; to live at Connelly's house. Con
! nelley told arresting officers that
; "I should have killed (hem all.”
Com.city’s family said that the
1 man recently complained of
’ dreams in which he dreamed he
killed people He also had com
! plained that someone was al
' tempting to poison him
| Connelley was arrested at the.
; home of another daughter who j
. aid she first thought her father j
| was reporting another dream Bui
; she said Connelley told her “This
;is no dream. I've done it this!
: time ”
BURNED TO DEATH
WADES BORO A 75-year-old:
; farmer, Robert Boyd, was burned'
! to death near here Friday night |
! when his home was destroyed by j
i fire.
Boyd’s body was found Satur- •
, day lying neat' a stove as if he had '
| suffered an accident while start-i
i ins the fire.
ugitive i
|
ans Crime ;
.ring a. long-time sentence fnr'
j manslaughter
j tie surrendered, he said. V
| cause ' f need hospitalisation and !
they'd know who 1 whs" H> saidj
he came to New Orleans aftei lie
escaped from the work gang
Homicide chief Capt. William;
J. Dowie said teams were .sent to;
| check the story of Graham's |
j movements, and thtsi queries were!
sent to authorities in North Caro- i
lina to check the escape from the
work gang.
Graham said he E d killed a
man in Raleigh N c because he
was having relation with ho,;
wife.
go to Washington and “camp
there in front of the capitol.” j
Three hi* crosses were ;
burned and television klcis
lights added to the glare as
representatives of the press,
radio and television attend- |
ed the meeting without re- j
strietion.
However, at Columbus, a sched
uled rally fizzled out when po
lice broke up two attempts to
start the rally within the city.
Finally a small group of Klans
men. shivering in near-freezing
temperatures, managed to set fire
to a cross in a small isolated field
outside the city limits >
ODDS ENOS
By ROBERT G MJtP UU»
New t ily Hall: On Dee 11, 11.
lcigh tax payers will decide at (lie
ballot box whether or not to tax
themselves an additional $1,625.-
000 for a new city hall. We believe
that even the most parsimonious
of the economy-minded electorate
will agree that the present make
shift building on FayctH viile :v
i:a. long out-lived its iisriuinc.,;
as a city hall for a grow ins city
such as Raleigh,
Tin; city needs a modern u»-
t,o-dat.e structure that will ade
quately house all the activities*
and functions pertaining to the
government of this city. For rea
sons of economy and efficiency,
all of these activities should be
housed under one roof.
The question for the voters
to decide on Dec 1! i. no*
whether or not a new eily hall
is needed here but how much
should they pay for one The
bonded indebtedness of Ra
leigh is already near the siat
uatory limit and within a few
weeks, voters here will he ask
(C’ONTINT ED ON PAGE ’)
Raleigh Motive
Gets High Pest
in Hew Jersey
ATLANTIC ■ ITT, Nf. J—A cat*
i. » of Raleigh, N C, Donald J.
Ha,- 1004 N Ohio Avenue t
oomi.-iTior fm handicapped work*
ns h( ibe New Jersey Employtnsr*
Service here the only Negej
amonc t o new members named
in ihe R. -rri of Education he-f
■ v M-, Joseph Altman last
uiv ,'hr other member is Dr.
V I r>u v h oUmtonm, a local phy
sician
-l OM’D'i'Kli ON PAGE J)
Handful nf Spectator*
Only a handful of spectators,
about a dozen policemen, report
ers and photographers were pre
sent when the cross was finally
burned. Most of the out-of-town
Klansmen had apparently left.
The Columbus meeting was i
comedy of errors. The Klan had
announced a four-state meetinsr
at the ball park. But, ball pari
officials denied them use of tht
stadium and some 50 police me;
ran the K.KK members off.
The group tried to meet a
gain <r> a suburban residen
fCONTlVlTin ON PAGE l)