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Local Man May Sue Writer
Board Sets
August Date
For Decision
Jo.-'-ph Hiram Holt. Jr . son
cf Mr and Mrs J. B Holt, Sr . of .
o?'v‘.r. Road, will know August, 6,
v retner he will be the first Ne-!
history In attend a pre- \
i-iously all-white public high!
school in this city.
The nrjieigh School Board,
at- s. meeting Tuesday, post- ,
poised action on young Holt’s
request for a transfer from
? ' ron Junior-Senior High
School, located in Easf Ra
leigh, <o Needham R. Brough
ton High School, just a few
block's from the youth’s Obrr-
In residence-
The Board agreed that some die- i
potation on the Holt request must ;
be reached soon and will definite- \
l’j ir.,-iie a ruling on Tuesday Au
gust 6.
The only Negro member of the
Board Attorney Fred J. Carnage,
moved that the matter he ached
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New Charge j
Awaits Man
Now In Jail
CHARLOTTE Curtis Wilson ,
Sibby. an inmate in the federal 1
p nikentiary at. Atlanta, will be i j
released on July 20 after serving
approximately two years fori
transporting a stolen car across
the state line?
But freedom will he short
lived for the portly man who 1
v,is flrs< arrested in Balti
more on Ocf, 21, 1053. Two
days earlier, the car was found
. ■»< recked in Baltimore and The
Rev. M G. Lyerly Identified
Sibhy from photographs.
The car Wtin the. property of ;
Tie' Lyerly, who was reportedly j
beaten and robbed after giving a
man believed to be Slbby a ride
June 25. 1952.
thief Joe Whitley of the
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State News
Briaf
HELD ON ARSON CHARGE
( LINTON Mrs. Luphenia
Fennell 50. 1;, being held in the
Eapinson County Jail awaiting ;
ndinisvion to the State Mental
Hospital J Goldsboro. Mrs. Fen
i'' ii was taken into custody after
having set fire to a home owned
by herself and her husband. W:l- |
ham Fennell, and located two!
’miles west of Barrels on NC 41.
Jhe afternoon of the fire she re
por! dly sprinkled kerosene over j
the house saying. "Well, as I can't
steeo m this house 1 might as wall
burn it, up. ' The house and all of ,
Us: contents were a total loss. Mrs.
Farrell did, however, hide some
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RALEIGH. N C
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f J FORM OF A CHAMPION A symphony
M of motion is depicted bv tennis star Althea
” Gibson as she led l . S. net aces into the semi
t final round at Wimbledon, England Saturday
r r and emerged as the first Negro to a win a
championship there. Althea won the coveted
women’s singles after many years of unsuc
, « oessfu! attempts, fNEWSPRESS PHOTO).
Althea Cries As Queen
Presents T ennis IVonhv
WIMBLEDON, England Con
gratulations from Queen Elizabeth
herself was the climax to the il
lustrious career of Althea Gibson,
who learned thp rules of playing
tennis on the teeming sidewalks of
New York and who became the
1 wo Shootings Lead List Os Crimes
In Charlotte For July 4th Weekend
CHARLOTTE Store-brer.k
tng, shooting and drunk driving
wore in the spot'ught. here over :
the weekend as violence kept, lo
cal police busy drains the long
holiday weekend
A mar. and a woman figured in
tire shooting. Cm one Mingo o!
304 Cherry St., was arrested !
shortly alter she reportedly shot
James Crawford 709 s. Plum El.
Investigating officers said they |
found Crawford lying on a porch ;
at 505 S Long SI about. 4:3ft :i.j
m. Saturday with a bullet wound •'
Three Drotvnings In Same \
Day Reported In The State i
young boy.s drowned Sunday while
swimming in a cock quarry pjf
near this Rowan hamlet.
The victims were Johnny
Glased. 14. and Freddy <’.
May, lfi.
Glnsco '>:(•. the son of Mr ,V
Mrs. Johnny Glaser,. Sr., *>f
Salisbury and May «;»• re
potted to he a resident of
Georgia visiting in Ko«an
County.
The vouths drowned in the
WEEK ENDING SATWDA •’ jOl Y it, *G • 7
i first Ncg’-n ever to win a clvim
\ pionship st Wimbledon Miss Gtn
! son was declared winner of the
I Women's Singles Tennis Champion
i snip which she had sought for ,-e
--(Continued on page 21
,in his Jell id;-. He was reported
in fair condition Monday at a, in- j
: cal hospital
Clettts Horton or UO9 Druid |
j circle, a former North Carolina j
Colic-ae football star, figured in
. the sc-con H shooting
Witnesses told police Horton■
! tried to -hoot an unidentified man •
but, the billies -truck Charles j
Price of 233 Orange St. Reason 1 .
| for the shootme was not known.;
; police reported.
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' ( Carolina Pink Quarry on Stokes
| Ferry Hoad shortly before 5 p.m, i
| Sunday. The Row a n County j
j Rescue Sound found their bodies:
! within n few minutes but. 45 min-;
1 hies of irtificin) respiration fail- ;
; ed to revive them.
; SCOTLAND NECK -- Hay wood I
i Ale vender, 23-year-old man from
| Baltimore. Md., drowned Sunday ,
I while he amd two companions
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NUMBER 41
Arthur Dove May Seek preacher Wh ° Assisted [n Church
c „ AMt i. ‘ Dedication Pined; Cress Burned
money from we, raper *. .. „
BY CHARLES R. JONES
Arthur Dove, prominent local businessman told The CARO
LINIAN Tuesday that he wsr in a state of mind to institute n
suit against a Virginia weekly newspaper and all parties concern
ed for a story that Was published last week in the paper stating
that the purchase of the Kansas City Monarch? Tuesday May.
14. was a "publicity stunt.'
Three lawyers have already been contacted. Mr Dove said,
and he indicated that the suit would seek SIOO,OOO or more for
alleged libel, claiming that the story was not based on fact.
The reporter who wrote the i -
firsi story on the sale two
months ago contacted Dove
after the publication of (he
information that the sale was
a gimmick for publicity
Elks Spend Holiday At
I" arm; Deny Rift Story
RV J B. BARREN
JOHN BROWN'S FARM Md -
About, one thousand members and
friends of the Improved. Benevo
lent and Protective Order of Elks
of the World 'IBPOE of Wi ga
i thered here on July 4th for the
! annual Elks celebration in mem
ory ot John Brown, the ardent
, and fanatical abohuonLst, who
struck a single-handed blow for
lho emancipation of the Negro
slaves seven years before Abe Lin
coln finally whipped the South
! into surrendering.
Led by Grand Exalted Ruler
Robert H. Johnson, the many
merry-making Elks took time
out from their picnic lunches
to listen reverently to a ser
mon by Rev. h I*. Battle,
while sathereri under the
shade of the pear orchid where
John Brown minced fruit, as
he pianned his ‘rebellion' one
hundred years ago. This re
ligious service was said to
have been the brain-child of
the Rev. >|r. Battle, president
of the N. ( Elks Association
GOODWILL AMBASSADORS Using his favorite mouthpiece, Louts Armstrong,
lieff) demonstrates to Vice President Richard H Nixon the techniques he uses to ‘"make the horn cry/’
(luring » rc'ent visit to the Capitol. "I mlghl change horns,” said Satohmn, “but my mouthpiece.”
Armstrong leaves shortly on a goodwill tour of South America, Russia, and Africa, UNITED Pit FAR
PHOTO).
/ Bbhjis
k£ Mofpy
He was told by Mr. Dove
that the entire report in the
weekly lakt week was “a
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and grand lecturer of she na
Honsti IBPOF of M
Charles P. McCiane. pubhc re
, lations director and head of the
John Brown Shrine announced
, that a scries of revival services
would start at the farm .soon
, featuring Rev. Battle and several
1 of his choirs from Tarheclia.
M>'s. Bertha .McKanlass of De
j troit. Mich., directress of the
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Wife Killed ,
Mate Jailed
MONROE'—A 28—year-old m-m
Vas held Monday after his wife
died of injuries allegedly suffered
when he hit her with a chair
Saturday night.
Murder charges were expected
to be filed against Sylvester Hou.v-
j ton Police said witnesses told
j them he hit his wife, Mabel, on
I the head with a chair druing an
1 argument.
She died at 3:15 a.m. Sunday in
Good Samaritan Hospital in
Charlotte.
Police said they did not have
full details of the incident and
: were investigating.
CROSS IN < lII’RCH V\Rlj The cross shown in photo above was found- ra»iv Tuesday morning
on the lawn ol the New Mount Zion Holiness Church m Centerville, near t.nufsburg in franklin fount*
. 11 is believed that the cross was the result of a white Virginia minister taking nail in the dedication
! lav of the all-Negro church.
mg has finally found if? way 10
' churchyards in North Carolina
The. remains of a burned
cross stood jp ir-■>r>< of the
New Mount Turn Holiness
Church. Franklin Counts, ear
It Tuesday mirning.
Made of slabs the cross had
’.con wrapped in rags and snakeo
in oil before being sot afire ar
cording £<? evidence found in she
church yard.
The. incident is believed In
have sprung from the tied icy
tinn of (he church Sunday
when a white, minister wa
assisting the all-Negro con
gregation and was arrested for
obstructing traffic.
Sheriff C. Willie. Pe-ry w
Franklin County said Tuerday
1 that his office would inve.-u igate
I the burning of Hip cm:-.
The white minister v> >■ tmed
'521.75 .Sunday sot obstruct a
I traffic while participaLn: ir, ih--
'2 Men, Lady
Rob Station
:|ln Alamance
GRAHAM i’wo men ’M >
woman robbed R. E. Edward.- 1
! gun point in his service -t; ; :
! near here Sunday night, taking
! about SIOO in cash.
! Edwards sr, id the trio drove
1 up in a black car arid parked
j cross the street, from the. «•!atlon
! When they entered the station
;one of them grubbed him. ripped
i his shirt from his back and threw
him on the floor while a «econd
: held the gun on him
After taking Ihr mone' from
the cash drawer they barked
out of the building, flipping
I the light switch on 4heir wav
out. H her if Us Deputies said
they believed the 3 were famil
! ar with the station because
they knew where flic light
switch was and knew that if
1 turned off both inside and
1 outside lights,
Edwards said he had never
ij seen the Negroes before Sunday
1 ! night. He was atone at the time
of the robbery. His wife, woh was
; ■ in their apartment at the rear of
: she station said she did not In n
any noi.se during the incident
, Church near here.
The Rev Harry E. Koig nf
14 tiHe Plains. 1. «:■ m
rested bv Franklin I'minh-
Say Raleigh Man Stabbed
Bis Wife 3 limes July 4
; A 80-year-old man is being held
in the Wake County Jail in lieu of
! SSOO bond after he reportedly
: tabbed his wife three times with
a knife durmc an argument on
re morning of July 4.
Julius McKinley Austin ii
b-ged’v stabbed his wife on
IV Johnson Strop! around f 59
a ni . an officer reported.
•I w. Bowler, the officer who
mvestic.!t.pd. said Austin and hi*
Bonus Money
Program Into
Third Week
The second week of Bonus Mon
ey participation begins-. Thursday
of this week and will end atmid
nifjhi, Wednesday, July 17.
Have you already entered th*
promotion? If not start saving
your receipts or purchase slips to
day. You could very easily be a
winner in this month':) competi
; lion.
The ruler are hated below:
BON I S MONEY RULES
Purchase slips or receipts must
come from merchants advertising
; in The CAROLINIAN the week
the advertisement appears
Any person or family at the ;
, same address i.x eligible to use she ;
total purchases made from the j
, homes. Only one name should be i
1 used in submitting entry.
No purchase of over S3OO from
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This Week’s Advertisers
The mcrch&nt.s listed below are CAROLINIAN Bonn*
i Monev Stores.
j PACK ?.
I Tip Top food Store*
j PAGE i
ilf l"! h I'nto i >I Hon.o
Mr food A Wilson (nmpanv
Electric Wholesalers, tin
'Town A- Country Furnitor*
Si M TOURS H ardwat" To
j Mr. Elvis Rand
I Famous Bakery
; Burls Garage
C. Karl l.ticliman
PAGE 5
MuU*on-Bclk i nmp.anr
Vogue
Hmil General Tire compans
Williams Garage
Gore's Esso Service
Restful Pines Mole!
Carolina Typewriter
PAGE fi
The Hood System Industrial Bank
Southern Furniture Comp.inv
John Askew Painter K Decora,->r
Twin Inn Oil Servire
i.ewis Radio A TV Clinic
National Art Shop
Acme Realty Compan*
PAGE I
A* P Super Marker*
Kramer's Jfwelers
i Ortn Watch Shop
• Wamble, lrc
1 rite Hand S -stem Irt'liis'.rlal Bank
1 Tire Distributor", Inc
' i Pine state freomeri Company
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Blood worth til Tourltt Burns
Pester W( II Company
Cavenesa insurance Agency
a ho-.vear-ald man u» being held
in iii!- Wake County Jail in lieu jf
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wife. Mrs Clara. Austin 45. had
been drtnkihs and in argument
ensued.
Austin aHcgfdh grabbed *
scout knife and stabbed Mrs.
Austin f hvec times—oner » ■
hove the shoulder blade, one*
in (be right leg and once in
the upper left ehes<
The woman was rushed to St
< fi\jj\i in o\ PAT? 2)
Br ROBERT G SHEPARD
The following poem by Norma
Par her indicates the degree m
which the pupil is a reflection of
; the teacher.
In view of the fact that the V
S. Post Office Department is thi*
month placing on sale in all our
Post. Offices a Commemorative
postage stump captioned ‘Honor
ing the Teachers of America'’.
This poem is most significant and
highly appropriate
What. M i
Teachers Said
They taught me what I dumbly
■ knew: i Might me to tell
j with a strong pulse so you
might hear me like the knell
of your own throat.
They sard
j Listen to whirring grass
in your heart's meadow, by your
; red Inward ri very ness.
They said, Listen, a name
j lies like a crown on every speckle
' and fleck. Herr it, proclaim
and allude to it bedeck
|
H'ONTfNT'En ON PAGE ?i
Iliim*'* Os Scis’iif
Carolina Builder* Corp
Watson seafood i. Poult.- r. for.
I'mstearl Transfer Co A P«->d Slot*
Dillon Motor Finance Compan”
R'dßewav's Opticians
Pepst-Col* BotUUif Co. of lUieiflt
Mechanics A Farmers H,?nk
Warner Memorials
O 'luxe Hold
PAGE 1C
N Products
u E Quinn Furniture Company
i Ambassador The.itte
i irulin.l Power A tlrht Company
tivclla Beauty College
Edward's Shoe Store
PAGE 1J
Hurelii Siai Cover (enter
Goodman's f-idus shop
Raleigh Seafood Compan”
PAGE Hi
Tom Ashworth's Tire Sen ice
Santi s Tourist Hume
Itudsnn-Bclk Company
Twin City Radio A Appliance (:«
Western .Auto As*oc‘a>e Store
Stephens Supply Company
Vatina Wholesale. Builders Supply
PAGE ,8
Wal'd i • Mirante Agency
Prheaid's J’har.mr.ev
1 < euso: Motor C >.
I Chevrolet Service Company
1 nick Fiver Shoe Service
Hellov ■ H'i ( ash Feed Store
i PAGE
Hchby Supply Store
i Piyton Time Ml
i •■.irst-Citiren* Rank A- Trust Company