Nude Woman's Killer Sentenced
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FBI TO CLINTON, TENN
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North Carolina’s Leading Weekly
VQL 15. NO 7
“Catfish" Cole Quits
v . tt i^k ' UK
‘ viA' 1 4 i
NO 11!, IVHL TOWARDS WOMAN Dr. Martin Luther King Ir.. mv-*"’ with his mother, left, and ■
hr. »itr at Marleni Hospital. New l ock City. September 30 during-his first news conference since being ■
: i rbbed h> ills, fiola Ware Curry on September 30. Or. King '•aid be had felt no ill will ‘owards Mrs.
< urr' ll* added that he knows thoughtful people will do ail in their power to see (has she gets the
Help ihr apparently needs if she is in become a free and constructive membe? of society tl.’Pl PHfITOI.
Le, Bishop W. J. Walls To Speak
At S2O Million Dedication Sunday
NEW YORK CITV The F'
Rc’ w. j Walls, senior prelate. .
AME ®on Church "ill be one of
the principals when 7.500 religious
and civ;: leaders, led by President
Eisenhower, will take part in cor -
. .
INTEGRATION VI NORFOLK With six schools closed by (lie
governor of Virginia. Norfolk Catholic High School is going into its
fourth rear of integration, White and colored students are shown to*
tether after school last week. (DPI TELEPHOTO).
f" GIVE THE
j UNITED WAY
I _ j!
SATURDAY OCTOBER f I S9SS
nersto'ie laying activities, Sunday
afternoon. Oc% 12. for the first!
national headquarters building of t
Protpatanf and Orthodox church* j
es m i,he United States.
The 20 million dollar Inter-!
RALEIGH. N. C
church Center i& being built on
' River--Id* Drive, between 119th
; and 12011 streets and is schedul
ed to be completed Dec 1, 1959.
It, will house many denomination*
! al and mterdenominetional agen
cies, including the National Coun
cil of Churches, and the IT. 8.
Office of the World Council of
Churches.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE ?l
Woman, 54,
Killed In
Wake Crash
|
1 Mr? Bonnie Baugh Cope
land. .->4 who was employed «» »
cock at the borne of Commissioner
of Agriculture ? V. f&iagi Bal
tentinc. was killed Tuesday when
bee cat crashed into a tree near
Fuquay Springs,
Mrs, Copeland, who had worked
for Bail: ntine some 20 years, was
fatally injured in the accident
which took place near the Ballon
line homt about i:SO n m She died
at St Arnos Hospital one hour
later,
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Assign Two
More Pupils
At Charlotte
CHARLOTTE- -Nathaniel Abra
ham, 11. stilted school as the
only Negro pupil at otherwise
white Shamrock Gardens Elemen
tary School Tuesday,
The l>oy was one of two Negro
pupils added to Cimilotte’s school
integration program last week,
making four Negroes assigned to
formerly white school? here.
The other pupil war, Fannie
Waterman. 15, assigned to the
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PRICE 12c IN N. CL; ELSEWHERE »'•
Leaves Klan
To Run For
SC Governor
MARION S. c. - The Rev. i
James W. 'Catfish.* Cole of Man- >
on announced Monday he has re-!
signed as Grand Wizard of the !
Knights of the Ku KIUJi Klan to i
devote full time to % write-in :
campaign for governor of South
Carol ir.a.
fine told newsmen he turn
rd in his resignation during
a Hireling rtf the Grand Coun
ri! of flie Knights nf the Ku
K!u* Klan held here. !?« dr
clincd (o say who serves on
the Grand Council hut did say
tiie Council is eomprised ol
13 members.
Cole, who raws he is running as
a write-in candidate against dem
ocratic nominee Erne l F. Rollings
for governor m the November
general e’ecLon. said be would
make three campaign veches
th is " ■ ek *
"1 will speak Thursday night in
Greenville. Friday night at Spar
tanburg and Saturday night in
Sumter." Cole -aid.
He sa’d he would talk in front
: of the county court house in each
! city and each speaking would be
| gin a 8 P.M
"I want to devote my lull time
to my campaign and of course it
was too much for me to do both
• lobs.” Cole said in explaining his
I resignation as Klan boss,
‘‘My resignation doe« net
change my views «« segrega
tion and Integration, hu* be
cause of my campaign for
governor 1 feel it best to hand
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White Youth
i
Threatened
In Norfolk
~
i NORFOLK. Va—Slxteen-year
old Hugh McClure, who said hi?
life was threatened because he is
trying to transfer from a white
tto a. Negro school, set out, for
' Richmond Monday to see Go'
.-f Lindsay Almond.
The vouth, one of 10.000 Norfolk
; white students whose schools ha v e
| been dosed because of Integration,
j said In 5 would talk with the Gov
i ernor about the transfer to Book
er T. Washington High School,
j which has not been affected by
■ integration. Ts he transferred to
the Negro school, however, it also
would close under state law
shutting down integrated schools
McClure and his mother
\ Sold police they received five
threatening calls Sunday and
J
(CONTENTED ON PAGE Z)
CAROLINIAN
ADVERTISERS
BUY FROM THEM
PAGE 2
Creative Semes Corp.
Mr Chester Prldgeon
Pee-Hew Ferko Cleaner*
PAGE 5
Rhodes Furniture tampan'
the Band System Industrial Bank
rh* ( 5 pit a 1 Coca-Cola Bottling Co
I Electrical Wholesalers. Inc,
PAGE X
Hudscn-Belk Company
S. B Kress A- Company
Mr John Winters
Raleigh Commission House. Inc
Martin Street Self-Service Laundry
PAGE e
Colonial Stores
Family Shoe Store
Mr c. Karl LJchtman
Capital Loan Company
Acme Realty Company
Make Finance Company
N. C. Products
Civella Beauty College
Gem Wa>ch Shop
Raleigh Funeral Home
S. M. Young Hardware t o.
PAGE 1
I A. A I*. Super Markets
' Raleigh Savings 4- Loan Association
O. K. Rubhe ' Welders
1 Efird's of Rclelgh
Wright Gets
25-30 Years
For Murder
BV STAFF WRITF. R.
Circumstantial evidence hip
ped 8. 29-year-t?id ex -convict, last
Thursday and he war convicted
cvf second-degree murder In Wake
Superior Court whore he receiv
ed a sentence ranging from 25 txr
30 .years.
The man. Rufus Wright, whose
former address »;«« 1130 Coleman
Street, wps on trial for his Jiff
for the slaying of Mrs Bernice
Curley Johnson on January 18.
Wright was tried on a first
degree, murder charge during
*he previous term of Wake
County Superior Court. A mis
trial was declared after the
lury hung eight to four for
acquittal
Building the second case on
circumstantial evidence, the State
attempted to show' that Wright,
in comprny with the John&on wo
man. parked his car in the 300
block of Cannon Street, beat, dis
robed. and stabbed the woman
with broken branches for some
800 yards pushing her through a
wooded section of the area
At the trial, evidence showed
that the woman left a blood-stain
ed trail through the woods.
Through cross-examination, i<
wan alleged thal Wright es
caped from the woods in (he
fifth block of S. Boundary St.
From there, he called a r-a b
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Bombing Os
School Is
Federal Rap
WASHINGTON - Legal expert;,
said this week FBI is armed with
ample authority to investigate the
bombing of the desegregated Clin
ton. Tenn- High school
The FBI power to move into
the ca.e is based on two federal
court rulings. The first was an
order issued on -Jan i. 9156. by
Federal Judge Robert, Love Tay
lor, directing the integration of
Clinton High Schools.
A followup legal a slat was
provided G-Men in (he broad
injunction issued by Taylor
in September. 195*, against
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Dr. Mays
New UNOF
!
President
| NEW YORK Dr. Benjamin E
j Mays, president of Morehouse Cot
i lege, Attama. was elected presi
! dent of tne United Negro College
| Fund at Ihe organization's annua!
j meeting held here Tuesday. He
succeeds Dr. F. D. Patterson.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE El
| DR. BENJAMIN V. MATS
CAGE 8
Sloodwortk St Touriift Hon'.."
. Methanlrt 4 firmrrs Bank
Heater Well Company
Carenesa Insurance Aten*
i Pepst-Col* Bottling sent Raleigh
Carolina Builders Corn
Ratios » Seafood 4 Poultry C»‘ to-
Umstead Transfer Co i Fo"d Store
DIUSn Motor Flnanie Company
Dunn's Esso Service
Ridgeway's Opticians
Warner Memorials
Deluxe Hotel
PAGE 3
Sure-Fit Seal Cover Center
OK. Clothing Company
Joyce & Bailey Furniture Co
I O'Neal Motors
! Dillon Motor c ompany
I City Motor Company
I Hunt Genera! Tire Company
PAGE 12
l Conn-Gower Pontiac Company
I Horton's Cash Store
! New Lincoln Case
| Plggly Wiggly Stores
1 R E. Quinn Furniture Ompanv
i Taylor Radi • A TV Service
j PAGE K,
McLeod 4 Wits"*)
i Vir*t-Ci£itens Bank 4 Trust ["ejts'
I Famous Baitery
J Ambassador Theatre
NAACP CONVENT ION I f APERS -- Roy lVilltins. rind from left) NAACT national seevwtooey,
beams with delight as lie discusses ihc purpose of T.irhreMa's school inlcjca lion program* VVijUns will
be principal speaker Sunday at 3:30 H.M., Oetobei 13, at the closing mav. meeting of the !,Mb Ynmntj
convention of (he North Carolina Conference of NA \CP meeting in Raleigh’s Memorial auditorium Or,
R. R. Edmonds. ' left I Greensboro educator <ml civic leader, headed (he NA ACT chapter which pro
duced and outstanding student, .losophine Bo.vd, who graduated ia--t June from ihc Integrated Greens
boro High School. Mrs. Rubv Hurley (3rd from left). southeastern regional secretary for NAACP win
deliver the keynote address of (he convention October lOth KelH M. Mesamtrr" Highs), president,
N C. NAACP Conference and a, national board member will direef the conference deliberations’, t>*T a..
13, at Martin Sired Baptist Church I.C B. HARBI N KOTO),
Wilkins, Mitchell And Hurley Are Among
Keynoters Os NAACP Convention Hero
| The North Carolina State Con
ference of Branches. National
Association for ibo Advancement
of Colored People, seeking to knock
1 down ihc last racial barriers left
>n North Carolina, will open its
15th Annual Convention in Raleigh.
I Thursday. October 9. with a Minis!
I ers meeting, which will focus
| attention on • Effective Utilization
I of the Moral Resit rces of the Cow
| munity in Support of (be Full
! Fight, for Freedom.".
Hr Edward 1. Odom .lr..
Bass’ Appeal
Declared One
Hour Late
i Herman L Tayloi. attorney fm
i Matthew Phillip Bass, condemned
1 rapist, ci eated a legal hassle. Tues
j dav when be filed an appeal in the
: case on-' hour past the deadline
j Baiss, a former janitor at an in.
; xurawp. building here, was yrr-
I fenced to die for the rape of s
\ white woman on Juno 12
Taylor's lateness technically
i gave th* State grounds to move
for a dir,missal of the appeal “Us
j too grave 3 matter to seek advant
■ age of one hour r delay on fbeft
! part • ;:,-,ie) Attorney General Mai
j com Sea well
Bass wa? handed the death
| aenfencc in ihc Wake Superior
Court In the rape-slashing of
Mm Sa»ah Reels Mahler TN.
mothet of tbtor children,
The woman nay cut with a
hawk-hilled knife during the
j assault ay sh» worked late In
the building.
Attorney Taylor contend? ip the
' appeal that numerous ‘’prejudicial
(COMWved ov rxr.r rum
State News
Brief
K ASH’S R DENIED BOMB
GREENSBORO John Kaaper
eelf-sf bid high pne«t of segrega •
Hon, denied herr Sunday that he
was In any way connected with
the bombing of the Clinton. Ten
newsee High Hrhoo! Ksspei blam
ed the bombing on the NA.ACP and
the U. 8. Supreme Court, At the
same time, however, he aid it
was "a great victoiy lor the white
people of Tennessee "
Asked if h«» would advocate
bombing Inlegratcd schools
Here, Kasper said, “Well, yes
if push comes to shore and
there Isn't any other wav,'’
| Kasper, who railed a news*
| paper Sunday to ask about the
bombing, said hr spent the
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Bonus Money
Month Enters
Second Week
The Church Bonus Money Pro
gram moved into its second week
of operation on Thursday. Octo
ber 3. and will end on Novem
ber 13.
The month will be composed
| of six weeks, thereby giving more
j churches a chance to enter and
! try for top Bonus Money.
Churches receiving prizes last
work for participation in the pre
vious Bonus Money month were:
First Congregational Christian
Church, first, prize, SSO; Da.vie
Street. Presbyterian Church, sec
ond prize. $25 and Fayetteville
Street- Baptist Church, third prize
sl.
I nfiiext mile* are foimr! on
(CONTINUED ON PAGE ti
National NAACT ( hurch ‘Her
rrfary. will give an analysis
of the NAACP Church fr«
gram Rev. John w Fleming
of Shaw University Raleigh.
W ill deliver the Mlttjsten Key
note Address and Hr. Roberl
Shirley, pastor Davie Street
Presbylcrian Church, Kileigh
"ill he (he Ministers' Banquet
Speaker Thursday evening. Hr.
Attorney For Jimmy Wilson
Maps Appeal From Life Term
MONTGOMERY. Ala < ANF) -
rite caae -if Jimmy Wilm«i may
no! be c>-ded. his attorney hint
ed following the announcement,
from Gov. Folsom that the 55-
yrar-old Negro's death sentence
had been commuted to life im
prison ment.
Fred Gray. Wilson',, attorney 1
•-■aid he felt that, ufc imprison
ment- is “extreme and harsli pun- J
ishment tor what Wilson did.
Wilson war sentenced to death for
robbing a white woman of $t 95.
“ t intond to do whatever l
ran to see that justin' is nt-
“Billy Graham Wouldn’t Preach
Mere,” Cleric Tells Biased Group
The Rev fjeiald Prinun, s Ra- ■
trigh parlor scolded his emigre- j
gatfen Sunday morning after j
■ lure Negro university student 1
were denied admission to the tor
vices.
At.l of the youths aie student
at Shaw University, ■> Baptist m~!
sUtution. and had agreed to "sit ;
in trie balcony" if they were a!- j
lowed to attend the Calvary Bap- t
net Church, located near the. uni- i
varsity
Jesus belongs <«> Negroes as
well as white*,." Ihe Rev. j
l*rlmm told his congregation
Ur admonished (Hern Ibal “Ihe j
judgment o( God" is upon
ARRESTING HIS BROTHER Policeman Marvin Jones, left,
slips a pair of handcuffs on his brother, l ari N. Jones, at Hartford,
Conn., last week. An unidentified officer looks on at right. Police
Earl Jones was found inside a. delicatessen while the two officer*
were investigating a robbery-in-progress report. (UP! TELEPHOTO).
SUPPOR T THE
UNITED FUND
- -•' - v
1, - | (i‘. Have; fW-'P of (,h«
School of Religion, fshaw- f'nl
veisit\ i. Chairman of the
Church 1 nipirtHn of ib, vo.r b
Carolina VAACF.
RUBV HURIT V TO HRUIVES.
kfvno’if: address
'•t • Hub,- Huri°y, ’southcss?-
irn Regional Secretary of Atlanta,
U ON J LM; ED ON PA.GE it
fiirtoij.v Hope t aifl rill!
sludving the ,rg ,J nr.: in.
voiced,’’ Gray said A< pews
nnfprrticr following hfv vytioTt
itl ’he case, Folsom said jjf had
authority to reduce Wilson’*
sentence nnlv to life impris
on nn-n! "f have given him
ciemeficy and if will h, up i«
(he pardon• parole board to
see how long hr. has to serve,"
Folsom viid.
Wilson would I',-!- f i-o >«?»•?, 15
; years in prison before he would
l hr elig.blc for parole from a life
1 sentence.
utin rlu ,*"3 e shlireW
; door to th* s people
Tlv: mmlit*) called upon tnoJS
vho denied Li* student* admis
■ic*n to pray for Gods forgl"?-
nefcfc, ’
Bill' Graham ® “ , uldn t
preach is this church Rev,
Primus said Hr *ef* to
preach wh«f Negroes are net
admitted."
AI thou gh a few of the church
i members walked out during the
1 service;-, man” of them went for
j ward after the services and told
1 she pastor that they supported his
I stand m demanding toe church
lews he open to all