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TELLS OF ACTOR’S DEATH FIGHT Former welterwcighi
bmtr Tommy Bell is shown as he leaves New York police station
tariy Dec. 2"tli after being questioned by police about the Christmas
2ve street brawl, in which he and his companion. Canadian actoi
>rrad Sarracini, were involved. Sarracini died Dec. 26th of injuries
•eceived in the brawl. Police arrested 26-year-old construction work'-r
Honror Gibson and rhaiged him with homicide. < I‘NITI D FRESS
PHOTO t.
Person Man Kills Wife,
Her Mother Over Santa
ROXBOJSO - Mrs. Judy Wil- i
'•■sm r . 3? died at Outer Hospital at |
P p rr . Monday, the., .gccoiid victim
of her estranged husband s'shotgun.
Mrs Williams died from a
barrage of shnfs which killed
her mother. .Mrs, Mary S. Tal
ley, 68, at their home Sunday
night.
Olive Hill tobacco farmer T. C,
Williams, husband of thp slain i
woman ha.*- confessed !o the slay- i
Deaf Mute’s Case Goes
To State Supreme Court
A rteaf-mu'e, convicted of first- 1
legree murder rn Na.-h County and
jentericed to death, appealed bis
rase to the State Supreme Court
this week
Johnny D. Knight Jr., on. was
convicted hv « jury in the Aug. 20
term of Nash Superior Court. He
had pleaded inherent ~o the rhar
r,rs in the death of Mrs Mvra !
Church Bonus Money Month
Ends; Winners To Be Listed
The current Bonus Money month j
aided at midnight January 1, 1958. !
All participating churches are ark- j
id to submit their purchase slips
k> Th° CAROLINIAN no later than
>ocn Monday, January 6. Winning
ih.urches will be announced in the
kext edition of this paper.
The next Bonus Money Mon-
.
ANOTHER *KRST—Mias Coral Tctylor of New York City
became the nations tint Negro airline stewardess last week,
when she was hired by the Mohawk Airlines. Employment oi
the atucTetive Registered Nurse is the culmination of negot>crticni
which liuVn Ikw underway beiww»a the State vxjmmiss'on
Aaainst Discrimination orad the major airlines operating in New
York. (Newsprees Photo).
ings, according to Person Couni’
Shei iff, C. C. Hoigjnaij
Williams, in his signer) confess
ion said the shooting of his wifi
and mother-in-law came after »■
argument ove,- Santa Chau.
Held without bond under
charges of ihp double murder.
Williams lold officers he had
been separated from he. wife
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f Brow n Manning vho « ,a> kilted
| March 5
Judge Williatn J Bundy
sepirnred him to die in the gys
chamber Ort. It but th*’ e\eeu
tion was delayed pending the
appeal
The jury ha.? drtlbeiated a
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th for churches \vl!S riart
Thursdav, January it. it util
ronstst of five weeks and mrm
hers of churches which arc not
now taking part are urged to
contact their minister., so that
their churches may try for a
wards in the Bonus Money pro
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VOLUME 17 RALEIGH. N. C. WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JANUARY 4. I%R NUUMBER Hi
$lO9, Suit And Topcoat Offered As
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Popularity Contest Opens Jan. 16
+ + + + + + 4* + + +
Husband Confesses:
HIS BRIDE OF 3 MONTHS
3 Big Prizes
| Await Clerics
In Tarheelia
i
! A ne', .mate Ministers Popular
! ity Coni t •• it Thursday,
’ 1,- i’U ;•*• .'■ ■ ' r ‘ tv;^u
offers 111 t I ip ;u i/.er. to (he iruu
! is tors who puli the fry is! popularity
■ volts.
Thr contest nil! consist of
eight weeks, closing March 16
at noon.
, I irst prize i s MO" A Botany
I soil v, ill be given as second
prize, anil a Glesieagleg top
ee it will be the third prize.
Winniis vii! be announced in the
, i sue of March l.'i. and the winners
have (he opportunity of selecting
the style, p 'item and color of the
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Hold Two in
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| Robberies At
Fayetteville
!
; FAYETTEVILLE A man d:>
' honorably discharged from the
I army a few days ago, has confes
sed a scries of taxicab driver
holdups with a toy cap pistol here,
police said
Another man. an AWOI, soldier
I from Ft. Bragg, also was impU-
I rated in the robberies. The sus
pects were ordered held under
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“SIOO-Bill Man” Robbed
Os $789 In Greensboro
GREENSBORO - An elderly
| man known as the TOO-Dollar
! Bill Man” told police he was rob-
I bed Sunday night of $789 -- in
' eluding six of hts SIOO bills.
Luther i«c Williams told au
; thorlties two men pulled the hold
. up. He said one held a pistol in
I his ribs and the other a pistol at
Tuskegee’s Race Relations
Report Delayed By Stories
TUSK EG EE. Ala. The 44th an-
I nual Tuskegec Institute race re
: lations report will be delayed due
j In “Significant year-end occurrcn
j ccs,” Dr. h. H. Foster, pi'g-ident ot
i the famed Negro college said (his
I week.
| ‘Turbulent cross - currents
marked the pattern of ram re
lations during 1957," Foster
j Brothers Os Slain Man
| Attempt To Free Killer
PETERSBURG. Va. Twoj
; men charged with attempting to
1 force the release of a Negro ac-
I nitc/sd 0L.».l ~~ tt-«(•• t- ..
w* Mpv*ft wtMtutu 11 it; 1
expected to he tried Thursday m
municipal court here.
Trial for the Imo, John |
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TRUCK-BIKE CRASH FATAL FOR ONE—Milton Goddard Joslin. white, 214 Lafayette Street
| died in Rr\ Hospital here Tuesday of Injuries suffered when his motorbike was in collision with
! iruclt driven by William Henry Fletcher. 66, Negro of Route 4, Raleigh. Thp incident took place at now
|at the comer of Martin and East Streets, and Joslin succumbed shortly before midnight. He suffere,
! lacerations a brain concussion, and a. broken left leg. His motorbike ran be seen in photo under truck
j No charges had been placed against Fletcher at press time. (STAFF PHOTO BV (J)AS. R. JONES).
S. G. Governor Cracks Down On
;
Alien U.: Wants Teachers Fired
COLUMBIA <ANP> Report*
1 circulating about South Carolina
arc 10 the effect that Governor
Bell Timmerman Jr., has called
j Bishop 1. H. Bonner, AME prelate
lor South Carolina, bcfon him
and demanded the dismissal of
, the back of his head He said one
j remarked “Dead men tell no
' I talcs.”
Williams told police he had met
| the two men in a grill, and that
i later they got in Williams’ car
■ with the victim on the pretext of
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'aid. and “rapidly moving and
significant year-end occurren
ces require advancing Ihc rc
.-asp date. . .10 Jan. 15, 1958.”
Preliminary information from
the race relations reporl shows
“that not since the 1954 Supreme
Court ruling have more significant
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Spain, 77, of Jacksonville,
Fla., and his brother, Robert,
29. of Petersburg, was nnst-H
ironed because of a crowded
court docket.
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throe professors of Allen Univers
ity, the denomination's college |
here.
According to these reports. Gov. i
Timmerman' told Bishop Bonner
that the restoring of state ac
creditation to Allen University so
that its graduates would be recog
nized to teach in South Carolina
would only be implemented If the
three teachers, two of whom are
white and one colored were fired
by Jan. 10.
Bishop Bonner la said to
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LAoun FAINS - Tim linn •-member ih-pai imeni Siurr Workers uocai went on striKr in Mrm
! phis. Tenn., against a store run by the huge .1.000-member United Rubber Workers I,oral, and ronfu- j
| tiion resulted. To top things oft. the president of (lie Rubber Workers (tied his hand at strike breaking
j by crossing the picket lines and hiring new workers. I UNlTJfcli* KH&&S PHOTO),
have agreed to the governor's
pressure threats and notified
the. three teachers wh,, are
Or. Edwin l>. Hoffman. Ur.
.tohn G. Rideout and Or l-or
est Oran Wiggins, that they
could resign by fan. id and
receive pay up until that date
or he would fire them immedi -
ately after that day without
further pay.
It is said no charges have her:
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£ Borns I
Skeleton Os
i
Woman Found
in The Woods
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j SNOW HILL ... A young man
( u.'l-r> eA-,-|fr*Ker? hiy ••■ifg hi
bushes la t August wis ordered
held without bond this week for a
Greene County Superior Court
Grand Jury on murder charges.
The defendant, Freddie Hugh
Strong. 23, waived preliminary
bearing before Justice of the Peace
F. C. Carroway and was he'd with
out bond for the Feb. 26 term of
Superior Court
The SRt and Sheriff's of
ficers obtained a confession
from Strong after members of
tbe family identified clothing
| on a skeleton as that of
J stinut's wife, Aunahelle. She
disappeared last Aug. 12.
j The skeleton was found in a
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Founders’ Day
Flans Made At
St. Augustine’s
On January 11th arid 12, special
programs will be held to commen
orato the founding of St. Augus
tine's College.
No one individual was the found
er of the college, but Bishop Tho
j mas Atkinson and Dr. Smith were
1 Ihe outstanding individuals Prin
cipals and presidents of the col
lege were: Dr .1, Brin ton Smith
who died in 1R72 On October IS.
1872, the ilrv John K-ter Conk
i Smedcs took office as “temporary
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10 Klansmen
Seen As Man
Worships
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GREENSBORO The appear
| ance of a Nigerian Minister at a
white Baptist, Church in Greens
boro Sunday night resulted in a
gathering of some 10 robed mem
| bens of the Ku Klux Klan near
j ihe church, police reported Mon
i day.
However, authorities said the
gathering was orderly, and that
ihp Klansmen dispersed when po
| hce arrived on the scene. Thera
wera no incidnts as the African,
were no incidents as the Afrioan,
°d from town after the visit to th« !
church.
Police said they had been told
the Nigerian was brought to the
church by the church’s Mission
ary to Africa.
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EXALTED RULER TAKES
OFFICE Judson T. Phillip?
of Garner, above, was sworn in
January S as the new Exalted
Ruicr of the Elks Lodge here.
The ceremony was performed by
.liiliiis B. Haywood, District
Deputy. Phillips, who has beep
a. member of the local lodge for
23 years, has been Loyal Knight
for Ibe past six years, Succeed
ing Alphonso Vance as Exalted
i Ruler, Phillips will serve for ops
year He t« married to Ihe form*
j er Miss Flossie Faison and th*y
| have no children.
Wife Leaves,
Mate Vows To
Kill Himself
CHATTANOOGA. Tenn - Al
i fred King 33. held a cocked, loaded
i nistol under hts chin for three
: hours Monday before * minister
| rndod the uinde threat by grab
i bing the weapon.
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State News
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Brief
LIBRARY BOOK REVIEWS
RALEIGH The first in a Mi
nes of book reviews will be held
at the Richard B, Harrison Public
Library Sunday. January 5, at. 4:
: p in. The book, "Neither Black Nor
While," by Wilma Dykeman and
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ODDS-ENDS
By ROBERT G. SHEPARD
THE NEW YEAR: It is doubt
less a good thing that the Chris
tian World hjis established the
date for the beginning of the
New Year a few days after the
celebration of Christmas. At
Christmastime we rejoica over
the Advent of Christ, the birth
Os A New Wone hrineimr with It
the promise of a better and fuller
a rebirth for us. Beginning th*
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