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MAN TAKES LIFE AFTER 4th TRY
Was Auused
Of Embezzling
Kenneth Jones Buried According
To Plans He Had Already Made
CHAPEL HILL — A 53-year-old l^less diabetic, after
two year* and three niuuccMsfuI attempts at suicide, finally
made good In his efforts to end his life. Kenneth Jones drove
an ice-pick into his heart here Friday and died shortly after
ward.
Ailing and under considerable 'Strain because of an in
vestigation into his financial affairs, Jones had only days be
fore been released fn»n Lincoln Hospital where he had been
treated for injuries sustained when he slashed^his wrists in
his third futite suicide attempt.
A well-known businessman of Carboro, nearby commun-
ili^, Jones had planned his funeral program in detail prior to
taking his life Friday. The progi^, as he had planned it,
was held Monday at the Saint Paul A. M. E. Church.
Jones began the first attempts
WILLIAM WEAVER
Final Rites
Conducted For
DurjMHnNan
Funeraf ibr WUllfen'
Weav^ long tlma resident of
Duritai9,' were held Wednesday
aftem(K>n at the White Rock
Baptist church.
Mr. Weaver died Monday,
Dec. 17 after a.l&igerlBg illness.
Rev. IHIm M. Fi^«rr pastor
."ia White Roc):, '^officiated.
Graveside lites fsUowed the
church ^«r^ces at Beechwood
' cemetery.
Weaver had been a member
of Rook for a number of
years was serving on its board
of Deacons at the time of his
death.
He was bom in March, 1891
in Elm City, son of the late
Ephraim and Annie Weaver.
His Immediate survivors in
clude his wife, Mrs. Mamie
Weaver; one daughter: Miss
Vlrgle^eavec; five sons: Willi
am Wesley, Robert Lee, Her
bert, David, and Edward Troy
Weavw; three brothers: Lonnie
Johnnie and Jesse Weaver of
Elm City; three sisters; Mrs.
Minnie Lee Randolph of Rocky
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at suicide shortly after his legs
were amputated above the
knees because of the threat a
diabetic condition posed to his
health.
His action Friday, however,
'mis the climax to a series of
legal actions concerning his exe
cution of at least two estates.
On Dec. 6., the day before he
had been, cited to court to give
an accounting of one of the es
tates he served as executor,
Jones slashed his wrist. He was
scheduled to appear again In
court for an Inquiry at eleven
o’clock on the morning he com
mitted suicide.
Representatives of the Es-
tella Oldham estate charged
that Jones had as the unbonded
executor of the estate, under
terms of her will, embezzled
from 17,000 to |8,000. Less than
$30 was la the estate bank ac
count at the time of his death.
It was also charged by per
sons representing the estate of
the late Silas Pettlford that
Jones, as executive of the es
tate valued at |S,000, had failed
to file his annual account due
June and paid off o^i|y part
of the crei^rs, while money
Jitil^ed remaining in the es
tate could not be found.
Jones’ body was found
shoi^y before 11 a.m. Friday at
the wheel of his auto at the back
door of his home on main street.
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HEADS FWB
Rev. H. R, Reaves of Ayden
was elected new general mode
rator of the United Free Will
Baptist General Conference at
its 20th triennial session In
Waycross, Ga. Dec. 4-0.
The new moderator Is a na
tive of Mt. Olive and received
his formal training at North
Carolina College, Shaw Univer
sity and A and T College. He
served for 12 years as financial
secretary of the conference.
The denomination is com
posed of some 700 churches and
has some 150,000 members
along the Atlantic seaboard
from Mass. to Tex. It was form
ed In 1868.
Mayor E. J. Evans presents key ta the city to Lee Cal
houn as he and Joel Shai^e, foregroond, were given a ‘Vd-
come home” by Durham last Monday. The above scene was
taken at the City Hall where part of the reception rites w«t«
staged.
Olympic Stars
Given City Key
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Second In Two Weeks^
iUHEZ Bishop In
Mordi To Altar
SALISBURY
The Rt. Rev. Raymond L.
Jones, presiding Bishop of the
fourth district of the AMEZ
church was married in a &sh-
ionable yet simple ceremony to
Miss Loiraine Miller here last
Friday evening.
He thus became the second
Bishop of the AME Zion church
to make the trip down the altar
to say “I do” in the space o
two weeks. The church’s senior
palate, 71-year-old bishop W.
J. Walls, who officiated at this
ceremony, was married a week
earlier in Chicago to his 26 year
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Bishop Raymond E. Jones and Us young bride, tlie inaa>
er Miss Mable Miller, are caught here by phott^raplicr fri>
lowing their wedding ceremony.
Lee Camoun ana roel Shan
kle, two of Uncle Sam’s medal
winners at the Olympic games,
came to their adopted home for
a well-deserved reception Mon
day.
They were paraded fronMhB
Raleig^Durham airport down
main Street to the city hall
where Mayor E. J. Evans prais
ed the I wo athletes for their
feats and presented them with
keys to the city.
The planned welcome had
been delayed a week because of
the sudden death of Calhoun’s
grandmother. Lee was sche
duled to arrive a week ago but
was detained by the funeral.
Shankle, his Olympic team
mate and training partner, en
tered Durham quietly a week
ahead and joined a motorcade
of Duke, North Carolina Col
lege, Durham Business and Pro
fessional Chain and Chamber ot
Commerce officials who greeted
Calhoun when he arrived at the
airport Monday afternoon.
Both were entered in the 110
meter hurdles in the Games at
Melbourne. Calhoun won first
place and Shankle finished
third. Calhoun is a North Caro
lina College junior, and Shan
kle is a graduate student at
Duke
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It is this newspaper’s hope that the holiday season will renew in o«r hearts
a determination to redouble our efforts in seeking ameng men of all races
the peace and goodwill which Is the great promise of Christmas.
TO ALL OUB READEBS, A MEBBT
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MERRY CHRISTMAS
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THE CAROLINA
STAFF
heard after the city’s receptiim,
most observers feel tliat Mayor
Evans’ brief speech in tribute to
the two Olympic stars came
closer to expressing the feeling
of mort Durhamites who had
foUowed the progress of 'Hiei
'two athletes
Said the Mayo# before pre
senting the keys to the city:
"This is an important occS'
Sion in the life of Durham. As
we stand here to honor these
two outstanding and luusual
young men^ Lee Calhoun and
Joel Shankle, I doubt in the his
tory of athletics that any com
munity has ever had the oppor
tunity to welcome back to its
heart two boys whO' have won
medals in Olympic competition.
"The Interesting fact about
these boys is that they werei able'
to teach the maximum of ath
letic achievement by actually
helping one another. They have
competed against one another at
Duke and on the athletic fields
of North Carolina College. Both
are of such high calibre that
they were able to assist one
another—and each knew in
competition against each other
that the slightest slip meant the
difference between victory and
defeat.
"I think the opportunity of
these boys to work side by side
here in oiu: community had a
great deal to do with their vic
tories in Australia.'
Car Carrying
Ten Crashes; 2
Killed, 7 Hurt
ROBBINS
A automobile crowded with
ten persons crashed into a trac-
tor-trailer Saturday, killing two
persons and injuring sev«i in
Moore County’s worst wreck in
sev^al mon^.
Tile Impact from the collision
resulted in three demolished
cars, spilled all ten persons in
car onto the highway and top
pled the truck, with Its load of
frozen Christmas turkeys, into
the yard of a store-service sta
tion. ,
John Henry Smith, 58, and
four year old Margatet Smith
were instantly killed.
Hospitalized with varying in-
juries were six other members
of the Smith &mlly, all of Eagle
Springs. They are Annie Belle
Smith, 56, lifottda, 19, Richard,
IS, violet, 4, Marjorie, 4, and
Llitda, 1.
Cecil and Smith, the
other occupant ^il^lleath car,
escat>ed unhurt. )
William C. Hildreth, driver
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VOLUME 32 — NUMBER 51
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, DEC. 22,1956
PRICE: fEN CENTS
HIGH COURT
DEAFTOtlEA
BY ALABAMA
WASHINGTON, D. C.
The United States Supreme
Court Monday brused aside the
final legal barriers which stood
in the way oTputting into eilecT
its recent ruling outlawing se
gregation on local buses.
The high court rejected a for-
mal plea from Alabama and
city of Mcmtgomery for it to re
consider its decision of Nov. 13.
This action disposed of the
last legal preliminary to sending
out ofUclal notice of the de
cision, which will technically
put the ruling into effect.
It is expected that the notice
will be mailed in two or three
days to a special three judge
court in Montgomery which
originally decided that segre
gated seating on local buses was
in violation of the U.S. Consti
tution.
It was this court’s decision
which the Supreme Court con-
finned in its -Nov. 13 ruling.
Meanwhile, it appears as if
Montgomery and Alabama offi
cials intend to do everything
possible to retain segregation on
the buses. There has been talk
that new orders, which do not
specifically refer to race, have
been or are being prepared
which will effect continued se
gregation on the buses.
Jack Owen, head of Alaba
ma’s Public Service Commis
sion, reportedly declared that
be Is prepared to issue an order
designed to “preserve peace and
harmony” on the buses—and
segregation.
Austin To Speak
SAVANNAH, GA.
L. E. Austin, publisher of the
Carolina Times of Durtiam,
North Carolina, will deliver the
principal address at the Eman
cipation Proclamation celetoa-
tion to be held here January 1,
1957, it was announced here
this week by the Reverend J. C.
McMillan, presidmt of the
Eman^patlon Proclamation As
sociation.
The program is scheduled to
begin promptly at liOO P. M.
and will be held In the Munici
pal Auditorium.
John H. Wheeler, Durham attorney, and
president of Mechanics and Farmers Bank,
speaking at the annual United Negro Col
lege Fund symposium held in New York
City last week. Wheeler was one of four.
Negro leaders from the South who took part
in the discussion.
Pictured with him are: Dr. Afortin Luther
King, Jr. of Alabama, leader of the Mont
gomery bus boycott, August Heckscher, di
rector, Twentieth Century Fund, and
Quincy Howe, ABC commentator. Heck
scher and Howe were panel interrogators.
The symposium, “The Negro Soathemer
Speaks” was part of the Fund’s public eAs-
cation program.
Other panel members were Dr. Bofas B.
Clement, president, Atlanta Univnsl^,
. and Dr. William J. L. Wallace, of West Vir
ginia, president of West Virginia State Col
lege. Carl Rowan, staff writer for tke
Minneapolis TRIBUNE and author of IkmAs
about the South, was the tliird panel inter
viewer. The Honorable Chester Bowlaa,
former U. S. Ambassador to India, was tke
main speaker.
Georgia Wins First
Round Witli NAACP
ATLANTA, Ga.
'nie sovereign state, of Georgia
won a quick first round victory
in its battle with the NAACP
last week with a show of mas-'
sive, cruaiilng strength.
The state gained access to re
cords of the Atlanta NAACP
Friday after a Fulton County
Superior Court judge bore down
with a heavy hand on NAACP
Judge Durwood Pye sentea-'
ced J. H. Calhoun, president of
the Atlanta NAACP, to a 12
months jail sentence when he
refused to turn over records to
the court and levied a $25,000
fine against the organisatian.
Calhoun was released after
four hours Imprisonment when
the NAACP finally permitted
state revenue agents to go over
Its records. ^
Judge Pye’s action came at
the concliision of a six day trial
in Atlanta. The NAACP was
facing trial on charges that it
had faUed to pay state income
tax.
Tried along with Calhoun
were BSrs. Ruby Hurley, NAACP
regional senretary; L. D. Milton,
Mrs. Eunice Cooper, V. W. Hod
ges and D. L. HoUowell, all offi
cers of the Atlanta branch.
Mrs. Cooper and Bodges were
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SPAULDING TEL15 OF MEETING
WITH DURHAMITE IN INDIA
'Asa T. Spaulding and his wife
returned to Durham last Friday
from a one month stay in India
where Spaulding represented
this country as a member of its
delegation to the world meeting
of the United NatiMis Scientific,
Educational, and cultural Or
ganization at New Delhi
Spaulding told TIMES repre-
ssntatives upon his return of his
informal talks with Indian
prime ministtf Ndiru and other
high ranking government offi
cials of that country during his
stay.
He'alao revealed a meeting in
India with a- Durhamite work
ing in India as representative of
two well known American phi
lanthropic organizatiims.
The Durham native. Dr. Allie
C. Felder, is a reprewntative ot
the Ford and Rockefeller Foun
dations and Indian Cooperative
Union.
Spaulding and his wife were
guests of honor at a reoeptioa in
New Delhi given by Dr. and
Mrs. Felder on Sunday. Dec. S.
Many high ranklnn
government officials, and laess
represratatives as well as re-
ipresentatives from several
world organizatiooi^ fttreigB go-
-vemments and uewsincu wet*
present at the reeeptton, (gui
ding related.
Among the guests from for
eign coontries Spauldtng UsM
the following:
Dr. and Mrs. lUasminaer. dt«
rector of the Ford Vwmdatign
for India; Dr. and lbs. Battoor,
director ot the TTnrlratiHsg;
Foundatioa for Endia: Mqik 1S>f
bet. acting dbrectoc ai
Mr. aad Mrs. G. rarass tt
Ford Foundation; Mr. apA IftK
Rosenthal, New Vllp
Correspoodent;
Guyer, United aii4,
Mrs. Ke^n. O
AIA; Mt. aoft Hm. »o
British
Mr. and Mn,
Credit AMm
and Mrs.
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