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■ WEEK ENDING SATURDAY. JANUARY 11, ly.v; Businesswoman Is Slain;Police Holding “Jilted Suitor” Woman, 31 Killed By Ex-Lover DETROIT (ANP) —A 31-year-old prominent westside business wom an was slain Christmas evening in a basement beauty shop operated by her aunt, reportedly by a 21- year-old jilted suitor. She is ivlrs. Louise Nickerson. Rushed to Receiving Hospital she was dead on admittance of a gun shot wound in the head. Held for investigation of murder is Nelson Edwards, who denied the slaying. According to Detective Ken nety Perry of the homicide bu reau, the slaying ended a year’s stormy romance between Mrs. Nickerson and Edwards. The 4f o.'ictr said Edwards had been living with Mrs Nickerson for about a v/tek befoc the fatal shooting. They had a heated argument Christmas,” explained Detective Perry, "at which time Mrs. Nicker son evicted Edwards from her home.” Edwards returned to the shop where Mrs. Nickerson was seated and the argument resumed when she refused to admit him to the beauty shop. Mrs. Nickerson’s brother, James Smith, 33. told police he was in another room in the basement of the building, where his sister op erates a tailor shop. jl heard my sister scream, ’Nelson keep away from here. I put yon out once, don’t come back.’” Smith slid as his sis ter walked to the rear of the shop and prepared to use the phone he heard a shot. Detective Perry said the bul let which was fired frem a ri fle, tore off paid of the victim’s head. “We found the woman sprawled on the floor of the beauty parlor in a pool of blood,” explained Perry. After police arrived and were Y Investigating the shooting they said Edwards rushed ini'-, the 1 ci ty shop and threw himself on Mrs. Nickerson’s bloody body. He wept and began screaming and ca’.kne. the dead woman by name. De tectives were unable to locale the pun used in the slaying. Mrs. Nickerson is the niece of Mrs. Vivian Nash Smith, owner and operator of Bee Daw Laboa tories and Beauty School. tMlfflgony- Green Weuntoin £ * COM-OUNC CiOASfcTT** v * NKLGPOY Would you call this fair play? Referee gives “Visitors” a boost— • “Home” team has to score on its own. What kind of game is that? Ridiculous—yet you and most people face that same kind of un fairness all the time with some of your taxes. These are the taxes you pay in your electric bills. About 23 cents out of every dol lar you pay for electricity goes for taxes. But a strange twist in federal CAROLINA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY i £j& «a sck.-v* 'Wk;PSK7 4r :SW£ ■ iii>rl -17 M/«sBRJ*A *5 aWLC^.tp Sf apt. 4JWt %\wOiw Nf>- 2 r JTSffir' p* 'i,|&» I ‘V \ V-dor %.# jlkA * ■ " ■>, t;|t j| <« _ &$' ' J's/ j ' ■ mwviiSSM* fe 'ft s, H -ji ■<: • " : i# • • ; ' “ic --j. SHOWN ABOVE is a scene from Calypso Carousel, which will he presented at the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium February 8, spon sored by Alpha Zeta Si.;m,i Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. Delta Jabiierwock Features Calypso Carousel At Auditorium February 8 Raleigh Deltas will sponsor a \ Calypso Carousel In Memorial Au- j ditorium February 8 as their 1953 jabberwock presentation. The program will feature the 1 Massie Patterson Calypso Com- j pany which includes singers, | dancers, drummers, and other j musicians. Calypso Carousel has been wide ly acclaimed ior lLa authenticity in West Indian Costumes and its ; fast-moving tempo. Their Raleigh I ~~ IEGP.O TIDE FLOWS NORTH ' l NEW YORK CITY (ANP) I Three million Negroes have mi grated North since 1940.” accord ing to Newsweek magazine which describes the northern migration of the Negro as one of the great est population shifts in history— a shift as historic as the great trek West, “in 1900, only 10 per cent of i the Negro population lived outside J Ihe South: today, 40 per cent do (and) an average of 1,400 more are law exempts several million families and businesses from paying all the taxes in their electric bills that you pay in yours. These are people whose electricity comes from fed eral government electric systems. You have to help make up the taxes these people don’t pay. Most Americans feel that every one should pay his fair share of taxes. Don’t you agree? ! appearance ls the only one ir this j, | immediate vicinity for the Pat- j l | terson Company and promises to j j I be a real audience pleaser. The Jabberwock presentation is j : | the annual money raising effort of i ' ! Alpha Zeta Sigma Chapter of Del- j 2 ,ta Sterna Theta. Proceeds from j 1 this effort are used to give schol- 1 arship aid to deserving students in the Raleigh arcs. < Several young ladies will com- i 1 pete for the title of Queen of the , • j arriving monthly in New York. ■ | 2,000 in Chicago, 1,700 in Los An ■ gales. And no major slowdown in i I the migration is yet in sight, Tim story charts the race balance shift in the big northern cities and • says, “This vast movement is cre . cling equally vast changes in the social, cultural, economic, and pol ■ | it; cal complexion of the nation . .. i | creating tensions and problems : ! that never existed before ... As Va. Seminary Is Seeking Contributions LYNCHBURG, Va. (ANPl—Sup porters of Virginia Theological Seminary and College located here plan to push the drive for monthly contributors to the school, it wa. disclosed last week. The monthly support plan was proposed several years ago by Dr. M, C. Allen, presi dent of the school Graduates and former students of the school in various parts of the United States are urged to put on the monthly plan drive >n their communities during January and February with the hope of secur ing from 60 to lUO people in the community to subscribe to the plan by March 1. MBNJFYURE “Grandparents arc those people you take the baby to for an over-mauling V* ; j Jabberwock and the winner will ■ ■ be crowned on the night of the > | program. Those competing for the I title are: Sherby Jean Rodgers, i I Marie Robertson, Barbara Hicks, f I Mary Burke, Edna Lyles. Vera -1 Harris, Carolyn Mack, Matyre l! Latta, Patricia Andrews find Doris • | Hodge. ; Dr. Catherine Middleton Is Chairman of the Sponsoring Corn - mittee. Tickets may be secured i from any Raleigh Delta. j Negro leaders themselves are the | first to point out, the cities in which j the migrants find haven are ! quickly beset by problems deeply’ I i noted in the relatively low ecc j Romie and social standards of their i people. The influx lowers scho lastic standards in the schools , . , Undeniably, too, far more Negroes than whites are public charges. Rut the migrant leaves his firmest imprint on the hous ing problem because It is the one that is already ihe most a cute In every city by the time he gets there . If white fami lies were not moving to the suburbs In unprecedented numbers, the racial tensions created by the housing bottle neck alone would be f;-.r worse than they are Newsweek says, “A serious recession eculd destroy the uneasy peace over night. “Some are driven North by rae- ; la! friction. The drive for status j motivates others. By far the big gest forc-e, however, is economic. Nationally, average family incomes of Negroes still run only little more than half that of whites Negroes I have not yet gone far in U. S. poli tics, but the migration northward is strengthening their hand. Although 10 per cent of the na tion’s population is colored, only three out of 435 congressmen are. j More Negro congressmen from : Philadelphia, Baltimore, 4 Cleveland j and S*. Louis-—perhaps‘a total of ! ten within ten years—are acer- > to inly. The Negro influence will gain steadily,” the magazine pre dicts. Miss Wi.iisms, Usings Gilson Married Si S. 0, j Miss Williams, Thomas Gilson Married Si S. C. Miss Edna E. Williams, fcnaffr* ly of this city, and Mr. Thomas Colson of Brooklyn. New York, were married in Conway. S. C. recently. The couple spent a brlei honeymoon at Myrtle Beach, S, C. Mrs. Sally McDonald of Raleigh accompanied the couple and was the only bridal attendant. Mrs. Golson formerly resided at 323 8. Haywood .Street, Raleigh, but is now making her home In New York. She relumed to the “Empire State” this week and the groom remained at Myrtle Beach, where he is employed. MRS. EULA BARBEE MORRIS VILLE Mrs. Eula Barbee of Rt. 1, Morrisviile, en tertained about 35 guests at her home Thursday, Dec. 28, hororing her house guest, Mrs. Maggie Johnson, of Washington, D. C. The Christmas dinner consist ed of turkey with all of the trim mings and was served buffet style. Out of town guests enjoying the gala “Fete” were Mrs. Maggie Johnson, Mrs. Eula, Williams, Washington, D. C.; Miss Ethel Greene, Mrs. Mary F. McC'?!", Brooklyn, N. Y.; Mr. and Mrs. Zack Ellis, Mrs, Pearl Bell. Ra leigh: and Mr. William Cooke. Durham. Everyone enjoyed the affair and left with the Christmas spirit. THE CAROLINIAN r? ; V . CT;a —, ' . f,j4^jJs' HOME ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT BAS NEW READING ROOM Pictured ia Miss Ella Mae Herring of Fayetteville, who Is a freshman at Shaw University and » home economics major. She is reading the Journal of Home Economics to the new reading room of the department. 231 clearance of uitis^ regular $39.98 sale, price $*.4.00 regular $45.00 sale price - $30,00 regular $55.00 sale price $34.00 regular $65.00 sale price $44.00 clearance of Sc g Spsi regular $17.98 January sate price - $ B*oo <£f HA regular $24.98 January sale price regular $29.98 January {, Je price $16.00 tegular $34.98 January 3ale price $19.00 regular $39.98 January sale price $22.00 mi; no regular $45.00 January sale pnee - u holiday co-ordinates regular $8.98 to $17.98 values sale price $4 to $7 —Velveteens and a wide variety of holiday fabrics. Priced for quick clearance. Efird's January m and sales ready-to-wear: second floor At Harrison Library: W. H. Delaney Reviews Book, ‘Black Nor White’ “Here Is a book stocked full of black and white thinking on the desegregation issue, based upon interviews with adults in several soutliern states.” said W. H. De laney, protestor of English and guidance director, St. Augustine's College, when he reviewed Neither Black Nor White, by Wilma Dy keman and James Stokely, last Sunday afternoon at the Richard B. Harrison Public Library at 4 P. M. When auked wli-ther lie re commended scanning, Pro fessor Delaney remarked, “To scan this book, a reader misses the interesting details regard ing the South’s thinking on integration—the rrmat of the paragraph* therein.” YOUR CREDIT IS GOOD AT QUINN’S Iy&MOjilk til A ! i :~-y1 ! Itfl M ( fefi Jjjj Freshen Up Your Home For Spring From Distinctive Furniture R. E. Quinn Furniture Co, 108 E. Martin St. clearance of $5 *8 sl 4 clearance of regular price $24.98 sale price SIB.OO <504 OA regular price $39.98 sale price regular price $-15.00 sale price - $.>0.00 regular price $55.00 sale price $34.00 drastically reduced for a quick clearance! Efird’s of Raleigh Following the review, book lov ers assembled, ■ asked question* and expressed opinions. Upon the suggestion of Mrs. Mollie Lee. 11- barian, the group formed itself in to an organization with the fol lowing officers: Mrs. George Newell, president: Mrs. Marguerite Cooke, secretary. The Book Selection Committee I includes: Mrs. Mollie Lee. Mrs. Nora Lockhart. Mr. W. H. De laney. Dr, S. Freund, Rev. C. L. Gidriey and Dr. M. H. Boulware, Mrs. Newell was chairman of the meeting and introduced Pro fessor Delaney. Farmers :n 34 Mountain and Piedmont counties will market aromatic tobacco this year. Vour Capita! City Tel. TE 2-4471 PAGE THREE
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