SFESFS
HOLD INFORMAL ('OMK.L
FNCE—Dr. Virgil Blossom, !ffi
sqporintcndonl of schools in Lif
tie Rock, Ark., holds an informal
conference with Thurgond Mar
ina if. chief counsel for the
nAM P in the f,iwyers' lounge
during a brief recess of the So
orriiir Court's special session
sec-s PliU!-.day on ihe Litfle Rock
’•'heel ojterraiion issue. ITI
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Slate News
Brief
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FOI RFEEN APPEAL AT
< H ARLO I 5 F
CHARLOTTS—Fourteen of the
Z\ r" 2'q j-tuderits denied assign
nrent. m oLite schools here hove
asked for 3 I tea ring on the matter.
I h« Chariot Ip School Board
r -rfcif the ?,3 transfer ap-
L" s'tens Puesda.v. but state
!• . t-.-iaiifs -in appeal to the
I ;i‘j and a further appeal to
; *■- court ” ■
* > n-r p\ for the H chilcii'i,
Thoms,-. H */ ’The, Died the ap
rf.i-it. btef FiiOa,vt.
School* opened. hers Wednesda'
cf this »•<•<?!?. It was not, imme
diately determined ohm the
•school board would meet to con
sider the appeals.
HOl- SEEKE AKER GE LS TWO
YEARS
GRAHAM —An Elon Colics e
man has been sentenced ,to two
“ears ,in the roads for the charge
of brewing and entering the
apartment of Carolina Powell on
July 21
S 3. mile! Lawrence Johnson.
?i. vs a tried for “non-burgla
-1<• ; breaking and entering’
In i;!o?ins art ion ol the. Ala
mance County Superior Court.
He. iu: arm ted last month
nhen Mi*-*. Powell and her
neighbor kept him to convert
eatJ«n until police could ar
• c in 1 ,k: him min rusted...
Aecordme to Elon College Po
lice Chief H P. Hilliard. Mi.-s
Powell awoke to find Johnson in
her apartment, on the corner ni
Williamsc-fl and Haggard Avenues
3> 3:00 a.m.
CHILD STRUCK BY GUN
lit, AST
DUNN—Struck in the head by
3 high-powered load of buckshot
intended for someone else, fom -
\e*u old Karen McKeithen, Duni,.
lingered between life and death
Monday et a Chap! Hill hospital.
Sylvester Thompson, surprised
;n r patch of woods by Dunn po
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CAL! OV PEJEa^IDENT—Of fir * ?»' of thr Imorotrd Hffievn*1 f*r<md Daughter Secretary. Norfolk* ys»., oninn s,. fjryrd. AfcMstant
|e-»*f «nd. Pfotf.ctiv* ! Order of Elk? of ihf IV of Id* in Washington laui! Tfea&ufcr. Washington. Mr*- N<*fji* CaH*! .-larkgoii feta mil Daughter I
” r 'l‘ f n r <h* National C'«nv*tjtl<in, cslled on pr«sltf«nt Ewnhmr*? | Ruler. Rtatei* f Mattel, N1 : The President. Dr Robert H John-.on, i
Little Rock Board Delays
Opening Os Central High
LITTLE ROOK. Ark—Guvoniot
Orvai Faubus was empowered Ja;.t
week to close the public schools
of the state should there be en
forced integration in Arkansas.
The Arkansas Legislature passed
the measure by a vole of 81- 1 in
the House, and 33-0 in the senate.
School Siijit. \ irgil I • Rl'h
'•uni aid Tuesday Little Rork
Scho«l Board b>d decided t«
postpone school opening until
.September 15, rather than <b<*
September $ dote that was an
ticipated recently. Governoi
t'aubus was reportedly ‘’upset”
over (hr Board s derision.
If was said that the Board took
this action so that; it would .star.-l
m good favor with the 13. s. Ru
nretne Court, scheduled to ha mi
down 3 decision in the Lite!? Roci:
segregation cab* before Rep?cm
her IT).
Previou&ty If v.*».x suggested that
i hr school open without Negro nu
deni-s ano bar them., fiom enter-
Ins should me supreme Court rule
in favr>" of the Negroes
Fuquay Springs Man Shot
In Neck After Argument
FUQUAY SPRINGS— Bernard
Estes of North West Street here i
was hospitalized from a gunshot \
wound in the neck Monday night |
as the result of an argument with i
the owner o I a, tavern owner in j
this Wake County tobacco town, i
Bernard was admitted to Saint
Agnes Hospital at 11 :Qfl p m Mon -1
day a ste le of shock. He had re- j
portedly been shot in the neck by |
a, .23 caliber pistol.
Fuquay Springs Police Chief
Leon Smith said tie arrested j
James Rogers also of Fuquay,
and charged him with assault
N. C, Medic's Abortion Trial To
Be Moved From Union County
MONROE Judge Hubert E.
Olive of the Superior Court, Wed
nesday granted a motion to mov
the retrial of NAACP leader. P;
A. E. Perry, on abortion charges,
out of Union County.
The jurist approved the motion
and sent the rase to Stanly Coun
ty for trial in the October 13 term
Commenting on the over, l
nig vote m favor of keeps,,
schools segregated ot closet;.
| Faubus said in a news confern...
/'There have been those who
have said my actions and
view: represented a minorib
of the people of (hr slate, i
think the vote 01 the l.eeisla
I nee reflects the thinking of
| Use people.”
The bills were passed 111 oppo
sition to renewed integration of
j Negro pupils at. Little Rock's Gen
i fra! High School. A year ago riot -
I tug the school forced President
i Eisenhower to dispatch Federal
Iroop.v. to 111 e scene.
! Apparently Hie 135 - mcmhci
State I .eg ml autre hurried up tl-•-
school-dosing bills into law tc
get ahead of any decision the U.R
Supreme Court might make.
Ray R. Smith, ,h.. n red-haired
represent at ive with horn-rimmed
glassed, cast the jp-.-.e vote aza>nsi
closing u*e public m-bools- Smith.
32 r 3 resident ot Hot Springs,
ArkansriSy-.-
with a deadly weapon with in
tent in kill Flic chief reported
that Rogers stayed in jail
Monday nigh!, but was set
free Tuesday morning after a
j 5500 bond was posted.
I The incident, occurred following
j a .scene at Rogers' Soda Shop in
I which Estes was allegedly cursing
I Mrs. Rogers, the chief said. Sire
j is reported to have requested Estes
j to leave the busme?; and as be
| was departing he kicked class pan
! els out of the shop's front, door.
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us court at. Albemarle.
The case was rvpee.teri tu
begin with a hearing on dr
fcnsi* contentions that Ne
groes had been ••xcludcd from
th>- grand jury which indicted
Dr. I'crry on charges of in-r
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JOE HOLT DENIED; LAWYERS TO APPEAL
Judge Agrees !
With School !
Board’s Rule
Although a Federal Judge ruled j
Monday against 15-year-old Jo- i
soph Holt who went to court seek- j
mg an older compelling hts ad- 1
mission to all-white Needham 1
Broqghfon High School, tire par
j cuts of ihc hoy plan to appeal ths
rase whenever they are officially ;
notified of judge's decision.
Holt's attorney, Samuel S Mit '
rhell. raid Tuesday that hir. law j
I firm will appeal the ruling to the ;
j U. R Fourth Coui t. of Appeals.
When asked “what is your
next slop"" the youth's father.
Joseph Hiram br . told a < AR
| OMNI AN reporter:
“After the Judge makes hte
i official ruling, we are going
j to appeal i! “
Federal District Judge Edwin!
j M. Stanley has ruled that Joseph :
| H Holt. Jr., did not exhaust ad-1
I minis!,l ative remedies under the |
I North Carolina Pupil Assignment j
Act beiovo instituting his law suit, j
The parents' failure, the judge |
said, came when they sent a law-!
ver to represent them and did j
• not appear personally at. a bearing j
j held by the Raleigh School Board
; on the boys' reassignment request, |
on August 23. 105 V.
At such a hearing. Judge Stan- j
ley said lha!. “certainly the board j
s entitled to interrogate the an- ;
-ticante tor reassignments in re-!
u'd to these and other relevant!
fetors.
Judge -St nnicy also said A
ii'dgnien* wifi be entered in
conformity with this opinion
tunlc.-s the plaintiffs file a
written motion within ten day
reouestins lhai the case be re
tained on the docket for the i
purpose of giving them an op- j
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1 Bound |
Over la 1
■ Court found "probable "cause here i
! Thursdav night, against seven j
; youths charged with assaulting j
i vouns white Goldsboro woman!
, .Sunday night of last, week.
Tom R Robinson, Mayor Pro-1
l Lem ordered the seven held wiT -1
out bond for the November term 1
of Superior Court.
Mrs. Leslie Gerald Strick
land. ?1. lestified that she was
attacked hv ! hi> defendants
near the Negro Community
Center, three blocks from her
Stonm of a Negro family where
sh<» Oc*.Hod prtllpr
The woman staled hat; she had j
left, home to get someone to stay!
with her while her husband was]
away, being afraid to remain in!
the house alone with her two small i
children.
At first she lold police she had
been dragged into a car by the i
youths near her home after going!
out to investigate the sound of a
car which she thought, was her!
husband’s.
She later changed her story,
police said, to agree with that
of the defendants who said she
was accosted near ihe Com- !
niunity Center. Her reason for
giving the earlier version, she
told officers, was that she was
afraid her husband might bp |
mad about her leaving the
house.
Police said ail but one of the!
defendants have admited raping!.
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VOL 17, NO 49
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4* 'I 5 4 I + 4* 4* 4»
Tar Heels Die In
LABOR DDT FIGHTS
18 Crosses !
Burn; Seek
Clues In Ala.
BIRMINGHAM. Ala. - Sheriff's!
j deputies were seeking clues to the!
identify of persons who burned!
j crosses .Sunday night at 18 all-1
j white schools in the Birmingham j
i arc;).
'We dent* have a thing on it,'
-rid a spokesman fer the sheriff's|
j office, ''except we know the crosses ;
• were bttrnrd '
Officers said the cross-burning;
apparent ly was a well-organized |
. operation All 18 crosses were set i
afire at about the same time. 8'
| P m.
i Chtldi’en returned to school |
Tuesda:-’ after the summer vara - j
r j ‘son Although a school Integra- ;
| tioh suit is now pending before (
!• '•« U. 8, Supreme Court there i
; have hem no official reports of I
I planned attempts to enroll Negro'
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Wreck Kills |
Woman, 22, I
lln Johnston
CLAYTON Miss Edna Rose!
; Dublin, 22. became the third traf- j
| tic fatality for the weekend mi
i Johnson County when she was in - j
! slant,ly killed three miles east, of
here on Highway 42 Monday es- j
; ternoon. She was a, native ol'
i Smithfield.
Driving the 1956 Buick in which |
Miss Dublin was riding was Willie i
j Dempsey Newsome, 24. of Clayton. ]
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Both Races Heckle John Kasper
During Appearance In Charlotte
CHARLOTTE— John Kasper's
rambling segregation speech on
Hip ships of the Mecklenburg
Counts Courthouse here Monday
met laughter and heckling
Kasper's invitation for recruits
for his Citizens Council went beg
ging
\ IS-yo-ir-oW he see bn-, fol
lowed (he £B-year-old run
agitator and his police escort
from <b» courthouse with (he
comment;
"I want vow to know that
f don't like you either.”
The appearance was almost a
lota! failure for the lanky young
Yankee, who has just completed
a. federal prison .lentenc* for vio
lating a. court Injunction against
his segregation activities In Clin
ton, Tenn . and is awaiting the
outcome of an appeal connected j,
wth inciting a riot in the same
Ca,sf , i
Reception Same An Last y ear s •
Handy’s Trumpet Played For
Last Time During Tribute
MEMPHIS. Tenn.—'W C. Han
dy's golden trumpet was played:
Young White
Woman Changes
Attack Story
NORFOLK. v a—A young wom
an woo told police she was hound,
ragged and beaten bv two Negroes;
has admitted sha fabricated the
story
The Miwifcificd only
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North Carolina's Leading Weekly
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER ft. 19.5 T
i ' ,s< ''
AS THE COURT LISTENED—AIIan Bradford. « and his m-Jc.
; ratriciE, 5, ot Washington, ?F C., sai in front of the t . s supreme
[Court last Thursday while inside, the Hish Tribunal v.is be.no:
| arguments in the historic Little Rock school integration rn a* 'i l‘i
TELEPHOTO).
Kasper's reception in this stab
was similar to the greet,ijig he ;<■ ;
ceiviad this time last year on hi; i
whirlwind lour of North Caro-!
Una. trying to block token inte
gration of schools at Winston -tea -j
lera. Charlotte and Greensboro j
Later Mondav afternoon, at
nearby Monroe, F. as per .began j
falking about 3:00 pi« from ;
the Union Uounly Court luhix'
slops to a crowd <»f shorn' 30
Negroes ind <3 nr more white*,, j
including newsmen and police i
officers-
A few minutes; after h r had be |
gun. a white man—apparently a» ]
employe of the county-started cut >
ting at a free stump on the court-j
house lawn with a power saw The !
racket made it impossible for Ka«- j
per 1.0 make himself heard an;,
distance, and he stepped down and j
began to talk far" to face with ;
members of his audience
The power saw .-till was running
again here Monday, perhaps for
the last time,
Luther Steinberg turned out j
music from Handy's horn only j
blocks from Beale Street where |
Handy lived and wrote his class;; j
Kiiies numbers.
Handy's widow brought (he
I rum pet here for the show. La -
ter. she will carry it to Flor
ence, Ale., Handy’s birthplace,
to be placed in a museum.
Handy died in New York earl
ier this year.
Hardy lived her# many y, ip,
before moving t« New York
to operate His out* music pub
lishing company,
■Some of the nations leading ]
i
icoNTrwtmt* on page t) i
RALEIGH, N. C.
; when Kn.-.p.-r left about a hah
I hour later
j A crowd of about 130 braid;
I Kasper in charlotte, '1 here wc r \
| about 50 policemen and reporter-, i
| about 25 Negroes. >ome 15 whtt-r I
| Irena,;',cis, and other curiosity
| seekers among lit'- moup.
I A sense of connudr'hip -enmed
I to take hold of Kasper'.*. hr-vUt-v-. i
| Negro arid white The need j
! ling caused him to depart often j
from his topic
CAROLINIAN
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PAGE .5
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Soutluiia Urtl Telrphnne r>>
Western Auto Asm»< utx Stotr
O K Clothing ( nmpan-
PAGE 3
R ■■•*.* w-fintitn shoe
Mothci A tij'/xhtrr Stores
Mr. John W Winters
S H Kiers Company
Poole’s Pie Shop
Central Dime More
Washington Tenare Apr
Raleigh Indus! rla. L"in
Hsbet Wholesale, Itv
PAGE S
Hudson Hell! Company
PAGE S
Colonial Mores
S M Vouns Hardware t o
lavlot Radio A TV < ump.tn
J!' C, Wan Lnhlma ■
David r. Allen, Contt.
N.C Plod ucts
Gem Watch Shop
( Ivetta Beauty Cotlege
Raleiall Kuner.il Home
PAGE 7
Town A Country tire Company
Plrst-rttUens Hank a. iru»l Co.
Shite Finance Company
•ohoson-tamhe. Company
PAGE *
IPoodwortb Ft tourist Rom#
Mechanics dr Farmers Batik
Belter Well Company
Cueen?s9 Insurnnse At eiv *
FepM-toU Bottling Co n{ Raitigb
Carofbu Rtiildati Cmp.
PRICE 17t IN N. C; ELSEWHERE 15c
I i u unfit a*, ie-st three
I! lives in North CnroLna over the
I j Labor Da.v \v®ek. ■ r '»d
I j One of the three shoofcin*.~. vas
I accidental Anotbei was a slaying
II in a quarrel which police said b»-
| i can over 25 ccnlr- lost m poker
|! RHiiie Th i third v ac- listed as n
1 ! suicide.
a i Mr>: t*iU£3hftVi Cilj.ii l ck. 60 o;
:r. wounded f. 3 ■ -Hliy
SUndav ]■)}>• }?t by 3. &hok frnisi -
11 .23 caliber rifle which d
11 accidentally. The Hcuin's. daugh
■ ter. Miv- fscl'.v Jo-m Weight. 23.
I handling the riff® and the
I U ."'V I"> -,V • <’ ri ■•C'JVS.'ii’ t• i i ' ■;; g ft
| i similar n*apo 1 - a (Jhrn^-maß
I j present- for Mi?.. {'Vutitdr-' grand'
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I " : '
'Sanson New
! Manager Os
Raleigh Bank
H Wheeler. president Me
i'l’-jntc: cv te-. ?<---? -• B-rmk. Durr.-un.
| .TifßOUip d Tut sda*' that J. J Ssn
[son. Winston Salem, had been a?»
j pointed marsßer and v;-.e-pre;:i.
j dent of the Rnieigb. blanch "i the
bank.
It i:, “sperted *li3 l h e v ill a-;-
Kunte bt;» duttes on, or about..
Sept. 13. it was also announced
that .( r. M> irk land. >• ho has
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j ike Favc n
I Going Slow
Oa ‘Mixing’
j W FJ |ftri'] k> JN - lii 'a pi* jva 18
; oo»ver:<aiion ”1 might have s.aH
j something about going Mower with
i the p; •*I; i ■ tart, of mixing the
| rarcy iri ill the nehon'.v public
| school’- " ■ aid Prf ident Eisetfhow"
in t*i ht£ lie <,. conference a week
; «;:o
Beca'jyp tbp v- ue of v.*-*■ i
; Hr •••-scrr.a.trop u <l! soon fettld
befi-ie l tni t : hiijnsme
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Wilson's Sesfnnrt a pouitry Co., lac.
I -mie-itf rraii.vH-r Co & otfir*
*>' c lon Worm Flii,Jnre> Company
i.ißil a E. »i’e
<#€way's Ovtiouns
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PAGE .T
loy« • & Balls-y Eutnlt'itA C mj.-.»t\
H.ilion Motor Co.
I'Ve&UMis Stores
S 6 W { o?'] Car a
‘’VNcal Motors. Ln r
S'Ufieu. Motor Cnmpan
iititin s Cash fifore
capital Loan Co ini'.
■■* H a!t \ 1 ompan
i • in, tviHso?» y. tiejitsri
h* Hoo f btfim ItHu-triai Bmit
C L Quinn Funiilut* Company
Liocoin Cate
P »!f iHi * tjiffifnissier. Ho’Jtv !n*
( £ijpf ty jf > t s f ompftjVY
j EltM hiral Wholesal#ra, Inc,
. pa-Tv c r\
A. &. P. Super Marketa
r\iT?baßJMtr2ot Thoat'ft*
Fliv-J s «f H.afetgb
VMh^A
rehouse
Wendeji TctlWi'o Market
skf-et» C-i.oUung Comfumv
£to ? i Warehouse"
I ’nothing’& Shoe, rv
t H*r%
1 Ctnldleal Warehouse
1 Car a I titfe FumiUUs Czst&s2ly