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COPS GUARD DR. KING AFTER BOMB THREA TS
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LNDEEf!f.iI! IT > MEM .41 TESTS Shown ir> <hf custody ot
pcii'-r is ii»i. \*, ire furry of New Yorb f tty who war- arroh *
'■ • pteuiher '!<). shortly of tor witnesses tn .-* H irlem department y»oi <=
m« her •’•■>b integration leader. Ot Martin Luther King;, Jr, njih ?
Ictff'.'-opeijvr. !|< )*, i><>» undergoing mental test? <t Bellevue Ho - -
!: i .4 i hi the «->»>. r>i King's condition is now listed as “not serious, '*
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Surround Hospital After
feiiymous Bomb Threats
f-'F. v v ORt-I—T > o berftfe tores
” ' :: n fr-hours cd each other j
•7-; r ic >j I r> i irihimc n f r*ohce ■
. lor F" v Martin Lutheri
.' ■ ; '■ integration 'eiider a r |
ts H»: «m HcM'.Ml
*■ i*s n>( determined
*• - h- ib f- b'Hnb tUff.9 -ti
'• “i * in an' "'a* 3«'-«ria»ed
h th* «-ki«us attempt upon
t' Ling’-. life a< 3 depart -
: :«<*<e Nevertheless, 'the
r- - : * p department r.arrenij' is
o=' ling 'he main entrance.
iingier Man Kills Wife’s
Mother And Her Hubby
FAKKTON - An A&gjer resi
dent •h":e u* children were;
bunted to death in a fire at their j
iv'ifer jfcfntly vcharged Mon-’
d.?• with the murder of hir wife’*!
mother and stepfather.
Poire id Archie Robinson. j
"d had admitted -hooting ePt?:
snd Mi Mary Alice Wilkinson j
i harlottesville
Parents Open j
Private Schools
CHARLOTTESVILLE. Va. —I
Frigate classes began last week |
for «i» ,140 whiie. elementary I
•M-.nnol student tn the South’;- !
fiiM a* tempi Jo cu-cmnvent. the'
Conns of public schools a? a!
block to racial integration.
Teachers and parent % meaii-j
while, htvp irached agreement on;
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VAN Elken SCHOOL Rlv ADMITS NEGRO* -—White student.* peer into (he office of fh# rtrln
slat* of 'no Bucrn S»t* ’Ptas Jfifh School lost week during tire rr-admisaiel* «< eljW of f Negroes wh«
eitiidre"' «n itepfe miser .trd I* l ihf fa.ee of * u hid bo.vcoi* 7hr Negroes in oiuolo Ernestine Nor
wood, Nathaniel Norwood, Elmer Rogers and Thomas Banks. (LP! TLLEFHOTO).
sh« ambulance entrance, and
autfeide Dr King •, room
• , Police have fosei
! wil! f ,.?hf minister ever since tlj- '
! aU»Rrp on his life
The find bomb scare call "'a?;
mi?do to Harlem HnSplLa: « >;<v»■.
Mjv> Eht'AbeUi Bowman ih
i switchboard opm atm. tool? th°
j call at ?30 orn
According to Miss Bowman a
man ,=. voice repeated Dr King's;
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; both aenut 43 .during an arsu
i men* Monday a!, the Wilkinson!
! ’romp here. Deputy Sheriff Ray - j
mono Clew is said Wilkinson anti i
: his wife were killed by .32 caliber',
pistol bullets in the back (
l lewis «aid Rnhinsnn told
eficcrs that he fired two • holt
it Wilkinson when the older i
man grabbed a shotgun during
the argument. Robinson sold ,
<ha* Mr* Wilkinson was -hot
*>hen she stepped between the
two men.
Clewis said, however, that the
investigation shoved that the <
shots were fired from behind n 1
• car in the yard Wipie t.he Wilkin- ,
! sons .‘■trod on the back porch oi : ;
! their home. ’ j,
i Robinson’* three children and j
j three stu'chslchcn were burned to’,
death feu. months nee in the fin j
|at their farm hotr.f. He and hi;-’,
' wife who were working in pear -I ,
!by fields, were unable to ream .
, the house In time to rescue the
children.
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North Carolina's Leading Weekly
VOL 18, NO 1 SATURDAY. OCTOBER L ?QSB RALEIGH, N. C. PRICE 12c IN N. C.: ELSEWHERE 15c
National Figures To Keynote 15th
NAACP Meet At Raleigh Oct. 9-12
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Irate Fayetteville Man
Chops Telegraph Pole
Failed To
Ask Right
k\ t r i.riy Yomt
1 A VETTE'V ILL" Robert
Wimble a resident of. Fayetteville,
••’-a'- '■■•: ' angry r hen he railed the
'heriff ■••-'•entl.v in protest of the
telv.i'-il'i po*e lea! nfrj being
’MI ■. property '■•■ilhniif
even ■hr ■ lightest rorsnderation of
Womb'- A fie. making several calls
ji- sheriff without, results.
V'.-'in! M derided that -'ouki
mp id n;. l -! down .15 fast vs tht
crew- p.!i them up
i-l ; ir. t chop the note do-' r>
suffteien’ly for -< to have to be re
pi?'.-d wi T Wnmble posed for
pi, ::, - h;e t > crewmen hard at
«vyT. << er» transferring the
■ - or! fixtuios at the lop from
the b * pri Pole The telegraph
p»-te ir eipr.i no! the only pro
per!:- bite difficulty that Wombte
V *;- Rrrrntiv he fiird a civil
11 'he A'libsssador
time! ihi-nugh hi? attorney.
Arthur Lane.
Ii , ah geri 'I. the aet'on ihat
Inr 6' '••nclant. (hr motel, had con
sirueipd a building 'iron the pro*
irn\7r\! i n ov evr.r,
State NAACP
Sets 3 - Day
Confab Here
B1 !. B HARKEN
The Mail.in .Street Baptist
Church, 1001 East, Martin Street,
this city will he the scene of the
loth Annual convention of th •
North Caroima Conference of the
National Association for the. Ad
vancement of Colored People and
its Cot'cae Chapters and Youth
Councils October ft-12. according
to Sta.' Pie idem. Kelly M. Alex
**«ler of Charlotte and Field Sec
retary Charles A McLean of Win
ston-Salem.
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CHOPPED TELEGRAPH POI-E Robert Womble of Fayette
ville holds »h« axe that be used recently to chop telegraph poles,
which he claimed were put up on his property without his consent.
One of she poles had to he replaced. (PHOTO BV YORK).
Girl Dies Crying To Go
Home With Her Mother
RUTHEKDFORDTON • Mi ? i
Patric ; a Ann Dtiffoy, a 14-year- i
old leukemia victim, died in » 1
hospital her? Tuesday pleading,!
"fra going to die anyway mother 1
please take me hon.r.
Physicians who said «h»
migbl live longer If 'he stay
ed in the hospital finally agreed
(o let the girl so home. In fart,
she was scheduled to so home
after a blood transfusion Tues
day, hut ssim lapsed into a
roma and died before she
eoulri receive (he blond, i
’! Apparently the doctors did not!;
; j rcaliz° that hei death was so i
> i near and neither dis Miss Duffey |
'• i Minute., before she became un-;
: j conscious Miss Duffe.v looked up i
•i to her mother at. he: bedside and
Plans For Re-Activating j
Business League Are Made
Although the guest- speaker did
j not arr.ve, a small group of per
i sons assembled at the Bloodworth
Street ¥MCA on Friday it 7.3 d
p.m. to make plans for re-act;-
| vating the local chapter of the
National Negro Business League.
Presiding was C- C. Smith.
Jfr., Ratfish branch niauagei
of the N. C, Mutual Lite iti
■ursHtt Company, >thn an-
State News
■-IN—
Brief
GOLDEN TO SPEAK IN CITT
RALEKJH - According to Dr.
John Ft Lerkins, welfare consulant
Harry Golden of Charlotte will
I speak in this city on December tfi
| to an interracial audience- Golden.
J editor of the Carolina Israelite in
• of local citizens. Further details of
Chariot-*., will be sponsored by a
i group of local citizens Further de
; tails of (he affair "'ill be snnounc- j
| »d at s later date
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asked again to b« taken home to
die. but then st was too late.
The j'i.ri had insisted all along
on goin.t home, even after she was
informed that she was dying
Two months asfo her dls
rase was diagnosed as leuke
mia. Loral organizations im
mediately ai ranged for her
to be flown t,« thr Institute of
Health at Befhrsds for treat
ment.
She was allowed to come home .
on visit to her parents recently i
and begged them not to return 1
her to the hospital. She remained
at home unti: Sunday when n
serious nosebleed forced her par
ents t.o teke hpr to the Ruther
ford Hospital.
nouncpd that Mr. Job" H
Wlckliffe, field director of 'he
National Negro Buxines*
League, was scheduled to be
present at the meeting to talk
to a group of interested cits
ecus.
i Mr Smith called attention to
the purposes o* the National N* |
are Business League and the {
group expressed its approval of i
i calling a meeting in October for
' the purpose ol reuraanhung
i A E. Brown briefly described
the former activities of the Ra~
(cofmNt'ro on page ?)
' ; ,
Top Bonus Money Goes To
Congregational Church
First prize Church Bonus Mon
ey this month wtU be awarded to
the First Congregational Chris
tian Church which reported a
total of $2,899.33 in purchase slip*
First prise money is $50.00.
The Davie Street Presbyterian
i Church reporting purchase slips
ito the amount of $1,145.98 fin -
| isbed m second place Priz>- for
! second-place w inner is $25.00.
The third prize .will be award
ed to the Fayetteville Street Bap-
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Norfolk s
Croups In
Conferences
NORFOLK. v a .— Norfolk's City
Council School Board and State
I General Assembly deelgatlon met
behind closed doors lo discus'-
! the city's public school crisis
Monday. The executive session
| took no concrete action but do
! ferred t,h» situation to the City
! Council
Stair s)et Belnmeter Darla
said thf City Council "prom
tnttl In lake action very short
■ ly" to try (o alleviate (he di
lemma resiilfiwg from fit®
shut flown of this port city's
six white high md Junior high
schools to avoid integration.
Those attending the meeting
pledged not to reveal the pro
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I fist Church which reported
8437.23 in sale?, receipt,
The new Church Bonus .Money
Month begins Thursda-v. o*vto
ber 2 and ends November 12 The
month win be comprised of s‘>:
weeks, thereby giving more
churches a chance o enter and
! try lor fop Bonus Money
Conitwst rules are found on page
2 of each edition. Read the rules
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ALABAMA GOVERNOR SPARED JDS LIFE An office! k
shnwn leading liminv Wilson In a. dramatic meeting with Alabama s
] Governor .fames L. Folsom las* week in Montgomery. Ala Thf. 55-
j year-old handyman's life w <•; spared hv (he governor. He had bees
i under sentence, of death for (he nighttime robbery of a» elderly
j widow. The robbery alleged netted Wilson >1 AS Hit sentence v&p
; commuted 1.0 life imprisonment > l.Tt TELEPHOTO).
Life Os Jimmy Wilson
MON 1 GOMEL'■ Al? - -Lmm?
| Wilson, 3 condemned robber, will;
i not di: In t.h« "lectnc chair for!
i the $1 alt robbery of a widow
i Wilson's de ip sentence was
! commuted Mond;." by Go’-evnoL
•lames E. < Kissin' Jim' Folsom.
Ito life imprtsor-menL Wilson will i
he eligible for parole after serving
; a iS-yrar term
"Thank you. sir." « >*, (h»
only enmment made by (he
55-rear old illiterate hind'-
man when informed hy tirp
ut.v Warden Curtis Simpson
that the governor had com
muted bis death sentence (o
life imprisonment.
He showed no visible sun of
j emotion, It appeared almost
! Wilstjti expected no othei action
j from the governor
! Wilson’s conviction by an all
i white jury for robbing an 82-year-
I old white woman of $1.95 and thr?
I resulting deai.ii sentence stirred
l up a. .storm of protests from
throughout the wrold
A telegram wa- even sent b.
“Private Schools Illegal, ”
Supreme Court fells Ark.
W ASHING! GN—The t-up; cm?
Court "aid Monday that, the con
stitutions.; rights of Negro pupils
' cannot be "sacrificed or yielded
t -
j the violence nnd disordei which 1
have occurred in Arkansas
The tribunal's views «erp
set forth in a formal opinion
following op ts Sept I i deri
sion unanimously rejecting a
plea by the Lltfl? Rock School
Hoard to delay further school
inrgration.
Chief lusfiee Lari V arteti ,
read the court’s formal opin
ion fn a sparsely filled court
- room
i The session ended the special
• j August term ot court to consider
i whether the Lit! ,® Bock School
5 1 Board could delay integration a'
.■Central High School for 2 1-2 j
.! yean
; -CAROLINIAN
ADVERTISERS
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FAGS 3
; Winn-Dixie store*
Southern Beii Telephone < 3
Raleigh Saving* a torn A-srrUtlriD
! Slits finance Company
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E!«'fntal Wholesalers, to'
I Surety ExtO.nHrwHlsg Cori’.i).--•
Carolina Power A Eight Ccimpam
S'mhrpH -j inr
! Ambassador Theatre
I , Mr. John Winter*
Hudson-D«lk Corn par
| Capital toad Campas'
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I Blood we MJk Si Tourpt Hon
' | Mechanics F Partners Pint
i ! Heater Well Company
CaveDess Itittn tw • Agstt r\
! Pepsl-CoS* Keftllng Co. of ftaicish
l Carolina Builders I «'n
I j Watson's Seafood & Poultrv < » i» r
I Umsfrari Transfer Co. & Food store
Dillon Motor Etnam® Company
I Doan's Esso Service
Rtdsetts.i's Oprkiacr,
■ Wtfßfr
- Deluxe Hotel" " 'll
Secretary of State *«ejb*s
; Dulles to Ftslfcom suggesting tfest
th' case "if, tautmg; some xe
cetn as to the U. 5. * gdatlaac
‘ wTStI stftrr na^on?.
Thousands at telogr sma tettte*,
and telephone calls appealing: to
fit® governor to use his execute «•
powers to save Wilson s life flea#*
j rd Folsom's office.
sirs. Estelle Barker, (he rob*
bn y victim, received a num
ber of letters urging that sh*
intercede with (he governor to
help ‘save Wilson.
She testified <hat A'ikon
choked her and •attempted. *■*
rape her during tbe robber l '.
She has been in il! health for
some time,
h Alabama robbery a capita!
J offense in defined a: the taking
of money or goods of value from
j another person by fear of violence
|or force, ‘nth or without a
| weapon
! Tire amount taken is not con
sidered
One ma y «cell sympathise nth
the position of tne board ip the
face of the frustrating conditions
which have, confronted it." th?
opinion aid. But. regardless of
(he boards good faith !h® ar
iion/. of the o.nri state, agencies
responsible foi those condition*.
compel us to ir.ject the board s
legal position "
The court referred specifically
to the actions, of Gov. orval B.
Faubus and the state legislature.
"The controlling ies»! princi
ple;. are plain, the opinion said.
■ The command of th® 14th emend -
menl s that no state shall deny
lo any person within its Jur ladle
i son the equal protection of th*
laws."
"A .tjle a<-l\ hr it*
iive, Us executive or its judi
tcokrtiMtnsti on page si
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Mis*-C>tiiea» Sink * trust Company
-aiders Motor tiimp.;.U"
tjmoui Bakery
•lo.vi'* 4 Eillr’ Piiraiturt Co.
Green f leaner.-
Plilett Motor t ompisv
FAGE 3
GotnnUl Stare*
Family Sine Store
Sir I Karl tiehtniArt
Taylor Radio A. TV Ber-lte
Vr<ir Reilly Comean)
•v->v« r-mance Cirmpas'
n f. Products
M fount Hrrrlwsre C -
',rre tVatfh Shop
( n ells Beauty Cotieie
tGlfigi! Puneral Home
i-AiSf. 9
v -5. P Sutler Market*
The Hoed System lnau* 4 m‘ Patrit
Q. k Clo'hteg Compen.v
BalelB;ti Indutfrla! lUP,'n
n K Rubber Welder'.
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Ke.leigh Comailsclos Some in;
h-rton'r Cash Stoic
r!g*T' Wltfiy Stores
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