"We'll Shame White Terrorists" - Boycott Leaders
HUNGARIANS' HELPMATE "Operation M«e«" bring** re
n«sw«d faith to Hungarian refugees. Gu*tcn?e. 7, and Eva, 9, ~>:i
they prepare to leave the Army Reception Center at Omp
Ktimer. N. J.. lor their new American home. With them >s Rod
Cross Motor corps volunteer, Mrs. Crioila Smith of Newark, who
sued them to their destination. (Newspross Photo).
Janitor Gets 10 Years
in Lye-Throwing Case
ARLINGTON. Va. Fortner
*tp rtmeht house janitor Lemuel
H" ■■: ,d Kelly. 45 a Negro, was
0.0. Dentist
GciyTo Admit
ri:ct Hegroes
WASHINGTON <ANP •- The
Dk-t riot of Columbia Dental So
ciety hits voted to admit Negro
dentists to its membership.
The vote to change its former
policy for all-white members was!
• rakeri by a secret mall ballot. But
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E. J. Herring
Freed Os Rape
in City Court
Ernest James <E. J.) Herring,
local taxicab driver was freed of
rape charges in City Court last;;
Thursday morning, ! ;
Herring, 45. of 81(5 S. Boundary •
Street, was charged with raping; ’
Miss MaHilda Mitchell. 18 oi 14
Dare Terrace, on the morning of j
January l and had been confined!
to county jail since January 4.
"when a warrant was issued for his*
a rresf
The decision of (he courl
came after lhr prosecuting
witness admitted that she had
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® ARS For delating state segregation laws five ministers were briefly
It n;J?r A A r* m 8“ J h “ r ’“ ,ay * ‘ Shown m as thev awaited hooking are, left to right, (hr Hrvs. !
Serf whn^J r l nk u n HS . hCr ' R - P Shor ‘ s a,,d Hov Not seen ,s sh- Rev W.lliam Holmes Bor- I
K’IWTODwS B TFS|pioTO. OVr Wh4 ’" <h,Sr " ,rn r ‘ ,H4 ' 1,1,5 " S m **•••«* ’- l wednev
•; given a maximum 10-year prison
I i sentence Monday for hurling lye
in the face of an Arlington hm.pre
i wife because “she messed up my
j newly polished floor,-.'
Kelly pleaded guilty before cir
j cuit Judge Walter T. MeCu; thy to
■ throwing ive in the face oi Mrs
I Ralph C Boyd, 33, on Nov, 2. 185 b
Mrs. Boyd, seriously injured
by the lyc, has been out oi the
hospital for only two brief
periods since the incident.
Doctors said she will require
additional surgery to correct
damage to her throat.
Kelly told police he hurled the
'! caustic solution at the woman al
ter she walked across a floor he
I I had just polished at the apart -
i ment project where she lived.
Mechanics & Farmers Bank
Assets Reach /\ JSi ew Hiph
DURHAM At the annual
meeting of stockholde' x of the
Mechanics and Farmers Bunk
held in Durham last w- .
reported that the bank's assets
reached an all-time high oi
605.000 at the close of busine
December 31, and that deposits
increased 4090,000 during the
year.
Stockholders were given a pre
view of the building being con
st! ucted for the Raleigh Branch
at 13 East Hargett Street, and it
was stated that the building
will be re; • for occupancy on v
about June 1. ifi’iMS
Directors elected to serve
for 1957 were as follows: Clyde
Donnell. It. X. Harris, C. A.
Maywood. \V. .1. Kennedy. Jr.,
I F. McCauley. It. Merrick.
T D. Parham, J. C Scarbo
rough. Sr.. A. T Spaulding, C.
C, Spaulding. Jr.. .1. S. Stew
art, J. Strickland, and J. H
Wheeler.
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Asks Court To Drop Caswell Case
_____ _ __ _
LUCKY ALTO OWNER
Thr lucky car last week was
, Ihe nn hearing the tap num- j
i her CX-357. If (hr owner of |
that ear look !l to Hum s Esso i
Service corner Cabarrus and
| Rtnndworth Streets in Raleigh,
i ihe received a trre grease job. i
Tilts will happen every week, '
i | Watch for your tag number. If;
1 it follows Use asterisk, you will,
j j i.rt She grease job. 'The num- 1
! i her will he taken from any car ]
bearing a N. C. license:
i The numbers (his week are
•V. US: ( X-823; XX-125; C.V
| 6712; XB-421; and V.l-20.
i
i Mystery Still Shrouds Discovery Os Body:
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Att’y Sen.
Wants Suit
a |
RALEIGH fatale Atty. Ger>.'
Ggprgc u. Futton. Jr., asked the'
Federal ccurL; Monday to throw
mil a C.i ' 'ii County school s6g-1
m •• ion challenging North
1 Co.'nlaia’s new '(..-adopted Pearsall
; Plan.
.ft »n an -'cr to be filed in Mid-
C f ■ creji i si Greensboro
helv;l£ oj the Stale Board of;
Lduc-uoi! and Stale Superintend
riem ol Public Instruction. Pat
mn contended that the plaintiffs |
■ i’T not exhausted administra-!
eve remvdii prescribed by the
•< lt’Jh Pupil Assignment Act
i: i "clear, concise and reason*
• o!f' prccedures prescribed by tire
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’ Al the first meeting of the:
F’ .uo oi Directors, following the!
■ stockholders' Meeting, the fol- j
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St Aug. ;
; 2s# Ends j
Boyeott j
i
i More than half of the .-tuHent ■
i body at Saint Augustine's College,!
i which allegedly went on a strike!
! last Friday and joined in a boy- :
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THECAROLINIAN
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j i-n.c. /, .Sr" ' ==z msd { Either.
i
I VOLUME 16 RALEIGH, N. C WEEK ENDING
BABY FOUND IN l.k .. ~l El. own above is the body of a new-born female child, found in a
branch in (he 500 block of E. Cabarrus Street Thursday. The body was wrapped in brown paper .ml
Placed in a pillow case, submerged in water when discovered hy children playing in the area. (STAFF
PHOTO BY CHAS. R. JONES).
State News
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Briaf
I
MAN GETS 34 MONTHS
FUQUAY SPRINGS George j
| Dunn Faulk, 21, of 708 E. Jones J
I Street, Raleigh was handed a 34-
i month prison term here Friday as- i
j ter being convicted oi numerous!
! charges. He received two years for i
| larceny of a car, six months for j
drunkn driving, two months for:
! careless and reckless driving, and
| two months for driving without a j
license. The sentences were or-[
dried to run consecutively.
TO CONTINUE HONOR
RALEIGH—The Rev. George
A, Fisher, rector of St. Am
brose Episcopal Church and
leader of a group of Ualrigh
ministers who honored Dr, O.
$. Bullock at a testimonial in
! December for 35 years of ser- j
vice to the church and the
city, fold The CAROLINIAN
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High Point \
Cab Driver i
! Faces Trial
HIGH POINT A Negro taxi
| driver heir faces Superior Court!
trial on charges of stealing a cab;
and emberaliiv: money belonging!
so his employee.
Conway Johnson. 26, was bound
over to Superior court Monday by
Judge Byron Haworth. The de
fendant’s employer testified l)ie
cabbie left Saturday night to pick
up a fare and was not heard from
again until he was picked up by
city police.
Johnson told the court his
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Doomed Man Gets New Trial
SELMA, Ala.. Circuit Solid-, i
tor Blanchard McCleod said Ne-1
gin William Earl Fikefs. facing!
I electrocution for fust-degj ee bur-'
Florida's Governor Asks
Understanding Os Races
TALLAHASSEE, Fla (ANP> ;
j Florida’s Gov. Leroy Collins, in
| his inaugural address here last |
j week, appealed to all residents of j
: the state for “mutual understand
j ing on racial problems.”
| The 47-year-old gubernatorial>
Virginia’s Pupil Placement Board
To Operate Despite Court Ruling
RICHMOND. Va Virginia’s
j Pupil Placement, Board announc
-1 cd its intention Monday to stay in
| business “unless ana until law
fully prevented,” despite a Fed
era! court opinion that the law
under which the board was crcat
ird in "unconstitutional on Its
face
The board met behind cfos
ed doors at the State capital
here Monday morning to de
cide what to do about an
opinion handed down Friday
by Federal Dial. .Ridge Wat*
j ter E. lloffrnan at Norfolk,
Hold Farmer
Who Beat Up
Elderly Pair
RICHMOND, Va. -- Police here
! were holding a 25-yrar-olti Negro
as the masked burglar who beatj
an elderly Westmoreland County,!
Va. farm couple and stole $7,000
in savings from a safe at Gfar
Modeethome Saturday night.
The suspect. Richard Elmer
Clayton, was arrested Monday by
City Detectives and later charged
with burglary by Westmoreland
police.
Clayton is accused of break
ing into the farm house or Mr.
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clary, will be tried again “as soon !
as possible." j
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> head, beginning a new four-year
i
i term in office, said, however that!
j “it is folly for anyone to expect'
j judicial dictation to compel social
; adjustment.”
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Va. so that opinion. Judge j
Hoffman said "The Pupil
1 Placement Program enacted
1 ’ " ’ 'WAGED HOME The Rev. Ralph Abernathy of Montgomery, All,, oIM
of (he leaders in the bus boycott which resulted in (hr legal end of bus segregation in that city, stands
with hi* assistant Hie Rev. W. J. Hudson, right, on (hr porrh of the Abernathy*' heavily damaged
Home after a dynamite bomb exploded there early last Thursday morning. Rev Abernathy pastor* the
First Baptist Church, Montgomery. UNITED PRESS TELEPHOTO. J
Identity Os
Bafiy Still
Uknown
BY « II ARLES K. JONES
The mother of a fully develop
ed baby, whose body was found in
a shallow stream at, the Corner of
S Cabarrus and S East Street'.
Thursday afternoon, is being
sought by Raleigh detective:
Several children playing in a
branch, along the 500 block of b.
Cabarrus St., behind a grocery
store, came upon a pillow case
submerged in the water. Their
suspicions were aroused, adults
were summoned and detectives
were dispatched to the scene
It is alleged that the body of
the female child was wrapped in
brown paper before it was placed
in the branch and from appear
ances it had been in the water for
several days.
Ali hough (he skin of the
child was fair. Detective Cap
tain Robert Goodwin told The
CAROLINIAN Wednesday that
there was not much doubt
that (lie body was that of a
Negro infant.
The body was taken to Rex Hos
pital for a pathological examina
tion. Following the examination,
information was released to this
writer Wednesday afternoon that
there was no doubt the the child
was born alive. It’s race had not
definitely been determined at
press time.
No bruises were found on the
body to indicate violence. Coroner
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I by Virginia is direetlv in <b*
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lew Astson
iPlanned !n
Montgomery
MONTOOOMERY Ala Ne-
I kro leaders of the deep South's
bus integration movement Mon
day night declared a policy of
non-violence that they expect to
"shame" white terrorists who dy
namited churches and homes here.
Tim Rev. Martin Luther
King, leader «f fin- movement
in Montgomery, said the seg
regation extremists would have
to dynamite Ml,(lOO homes—
not .jus! two—to distiade thrro
from their cause
I'he homes of fwn loader* snr?
| iour churches that had been used
’ for Negro Rallies during the pv
tegrnt’OTi movement were badly
damaged by dynamite bombs last
Thursday.
Bum's a* Me,p( joinery ft.
warned idle Monday as a re
suit of she incident, but i«
Tallahassee. Fla . buses roll
*‘d without incident under *
new law giving the operators
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Wake White
Man Cleared
| Os Assault
A 33-yar-old Cary whit* man,
j ■ fames Smith, was acquitted m
I Wake Superior Court here Thur?
1 day of charges that he tried to
rape a Negro girl, age 17, whom
he had allegedly hired a, * baby
sitter.
The man produced ;> number of
relatives and other persons who
.swore that they saw him in Cary
on or about the time that the
! alleged assault was to have taken
! place.
Miss Louise Judd, the pro
secuting witness, told the all
male jury that Smith visited
her home near l upuay Springs
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j ODDS-ENDS
.
j By ROBERT G. SHEPARD
; 1 _____
THE 3 RS: The newly-eppoint
' rd U S. Corn mis inner of Educa
- ti-on Lawrence G. Derthick, will
, probably stir up a 'hornet’s next"
-of disapproval from the advocates
. of progressive education by bis
. statement, “1 believe' in the old-
I fashioned throe it's, taught by the
best methods, old and new." Cun
| tinuing. Mr. Derthick said. "Our
| youth must be well -grounded tan
l in the essentials of histoiy. sci
! one:' rod literature. "But. ' aid
I the commissioner, ’these things by
I themselves are not enough.
"Our youth nun! be taught how
.to think." Mr Derthick'* -statement
,i would indicate that he is pledging
the weight, of his high office \t
.support of the rising clamor so
i a halt in our schools of (he dnf
..away from the fundamentals Man;
,! educators are saying today tha
1 progressive education may be al
• right for progressive students bu
• this, group feels that this trend to
ward acceleration and progression
ism in the classroom should no
be at the expense of > educing tlv
time formerly given to the stud;
!of basic subjects
There is usually a fair mid
dle ground in al! controversies
a rourse of action (bat doe'
n<-t violate the principle ad
vorated hr either ride. Be
cause of this fact (heir ix rex
son to bflieve (hat this contro
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