r Northamgton Voting Case?
Raleigh Lawyei Arguing Before US Supreme Court
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Hundreds See A Negro Catholic
- Priest Ordained In Local Rites
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VOL IS. NO ’I SATURDAY MAY 23, 1559 RALEIGH. N. C. PRICE 12c IN N. C.; ELSEWHERE 15c
Arrest Loomed In Miss.
Wilkins Barely “Escapes!"
HAAGPSee’y
Leaves Miss.!
Before Arrest
JA ' SON Miss NAACP ;
leader Bov Wilkins vs? apparent- j
unaw-sre that, b* escaped arrest i
h«:*e Sunctev quite barely for ad
vocating overthrow- of the state's
iriregalion la ! a.
Deputies of t'au Binds Coan-
I- area. bad variants to arrest
'■ ,’lkm?. the executive secre
tary of the National v.... -, >.
(•o"i for ihr \d\anccntcnt of
Cclcred People and ftledgai
f i state ift
» rally ib observance ot the j
s<h anhrvtff-sry of she Bupretpe
i s ruling ©utLwtng seg
regation in the nation s pubhr
echo of s.
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Ligon Elects
Miss Slevens |
Council Head
Miss Butty Stevens, rising scru-j
ar honor student was elected presi- i
dent of the J. W. Ligon Student!
Council for coming school year.
M:;n Slevens, modest student, is
s v -IM’:;lanced individual.
Lh': r,cures highly, riot only in
j l .-. t, roam. but as a leader in
"‘•■‘l aetn m.-s also. Her ability
s o adjust to prevailing situations
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Victim Os
Leprosy Is
A Vete ran
GREENSBORO ~ Guilford
County bealln authorities said!
Saturday they have been notified !
Laai, a 35-year-old navy veteran
<«un Greensboro has leprosy.
Ja men B Scott, a Negro, is
a patient at the U. S. Public
Health Service Leprosarium
at CarviH*. La. Dr. E. H. El
liwwood Guilford County
Health Officer, said the case is
the first in North Carolina
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North Carolina’s Leading Weekly
j
Mob Action Halted, Graves
Rushed To Central Prison
As s measure of protection a
gam:! possible mob action, Jesre
ji Graves was turned over to prison
j! author;Her at Raleigh Monday
!i afternoon after being charged with
I raping a white woman in Burimg
! ton.
After havtne been rur> to
earth by bloodhounds. Graves
was put in the county jail in
DEA TH’S PRICE WAS CHEAP
GASTONlA—’■eierai weeks ago a man was slain here in so
j a*guin*til o’et 50 < enf>-.
? Sunilsy. sh* 3 pne* was n a quarter
Police &aifi lohrmv Johnson- 23, Mabbr-d fe death s
hunting knife wedded by his 21-year-old brother, Bobby. Bobby |
wsft held without bend pending a hearing on a murder charge. ;
Officers said an argument between the '«« had stemmed from '
Johnny's refusal io pay the 25-crnt rental fee he aliprefliy owed !
rut the knife that proved to be the death weapon.
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50TH ANNIVERSARY PLANNING COMMITTEE Seated, left
I« rigfci, Mrs Edna Taylor. PtaehtirsS; Mrs. Susie Jones. Bennett
College Mrv C. i Sincl'-ton. Elizabeth Cit.v; Mrs. V 1' Ne.w*ot»r.
Rich Square, chairman: Mrs. M V. Leitan. Kinston: Mrs. Alice Col
lim, Smith-field. Standing, left to right. Mr*. Thelma Uenlev. Fas
Graham Law enforcement of
ficers had to . hold hack angry
crowds from attacking the
prisoner Threats came from
th<- crowd "Let us have him j
and we will save the taxpayers
some money.’' was heard com- j
ing from the crowd
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Attorney Samuel Mitchell
Facing Highest Tribunal
! '
WASHINGTON A colored
j lawyer told the Supreme Court
Monday that. North Carolina
literacy test for voters places ' A
lmaviei burden upon Negroe;
than upon white persons.
The ritorney, Samuel s.
Mitchell of Taylor and Mitchell
law firm in Raleigh conceded
| that the test, prescribed by a
1957 law. applies to all voters.
BuS he contended that if was
written so losely and vaguely
that it is unconstitutional.
The law was defended by At
torney I. Beverly Lake of Raleigh,
as "valid, nondiscrimmatory and
reasonable.' Lake, attorney for
the Northampton County Boaj'd
of Elections, said the literacy test
has been give to all applicants ir.
every county that has re-register
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! Labor Secretary Blasts
Jim Crow In NCC Talk
DURHAM U. S. Secretary of j
Labor James P. Mitchell told a ;
group of North Carolina College |
students Friday that the "United |
States cannot continue its intol
erable racial descrimination in job
! opportunities.
Mitchell spoke at the school's
annua! Awards Day program
in which 280 students receiv
ed awards prior to their grad
| nation.
He claimed there was "into!
erable" discrimination against
Negroes in the north and south
but faded io cite examples of
the discrimination.
"We mart overcome disci imina
; Lon not only for moral reasons,"
: he said, ‘ but to sustain our pre-|
sent standard of living We must
| us? all our young people regard
j less of color, nationality or re
i iigion "
He said minority groups
stand "by the wayside watch
ing the parade of America is
' progress go by."
etlerffle: Mr*. Jennie Enloe Shelby, !>* John H. Larkins. Raleigh;
Mrs. Leola Alien. Asheville; Mrs, Fannie Kilpatrick, Asheville Nat
sbowjp is Mrs A. L Murphy ms Asheville. These jvtMPr composed
the planning committee tor the 50th anniversary of the N c. Fed- i
erstioe of Women's Clubs, meeting in Wilson last week. j
Mj
My
Jr " VCi'W V u
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ATTORNEY MITCHELL
"It used to be the .lev,' and
Irish immigrants who faced dis
crimination. hut now r it's the Ne
gro in the North and south and
the oriental of the west coast." hr
said.
Women’s Globs
Conclude 50th
■
NC Convention
BY RUTH ROt LWARE
A ILSON The North Carolina
Fede; a lion of Negro
( lubs- opened its fiftieth annu er- 1
sarjr Thursday with a banquet at j
which time Mrs. Vivian C Mason, i
former director of public health 1
m New York City, delivered, the
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Father Joseph Howze Ist
For The Raleigh Diocese
The first Negro Roman Catholic pnest for the Raleish D;
ocese was ordained on. Ascension recently.
Joseph L. Howgf was elevated to the sacred priesthood by
Bishop Vincent S Waters. Bishop of Raleigh m g ceremony
! which drew hundred- to the. Sacred Heart Cathedral.
Fr ilo\‘7P offered his fin*- So! -1
' emn Masji on Snnday. May 10. at
' Mo-U pijre Heart of Ma-rv Chuich
'in Mobile Alabama
\ native nf Alabama-. Ff
Hmt/c was * bifrh ki hoti) Irj
rhrr nhrn }n? was ift I rodtl<*e f f
in the Rnn*it! f a<holir Faith
hv otjp nf hi* MuHt-nU. m B«
rtingV M“ attrr\fJSrcj / hrist The
Kinc Seminary at stf. Hon#
ventiire’s l.nivemb ?n \’r-w
| York,
j The Low Md'.'s pf
j began th r ordinal Jon servicer.!
Chance! lof G carer v, lynch, act
ong in name of Mother'
Raleigh Woman Shoots
Hubby, His Girl Friend
Hue! Wiggica, 40. of Beauiv Av*
Joe Lows Park shot by hn wife
*0 a lover ? lan' 2 rendervous Mon
day nipht is s - T to be ip
condition at St. Agnes Hospital
heie
Off ir Mi the hops! 1a 1 r**
rsor je'c) l-Vigwu/is is e> parted Jt?
f erovrr despite gvosbet
wound** <n the groin, rhrst. leg,
and h^nd
ATaEfp 4a. ba*
Hern Titled rbar2ry n f ■* %
AAith ?» deadly weapon
with intent to 1**1!
Being treated also at the hospital
for a gun-hot "wound r, f left
lec r*nd a laceration of the head is
Miss Bessie Larken. 26. of 1413
Colen*an Street
Detectives reported that Wiggins
and Miss Larkeri were shot about
8 p jt as they were In Wiggins
autcMnobile m Joe Louis Park.
3 Workers Die As Car
Loses Race With Train
1
HUNTERSVILLE —1 hr?? main
tenance worker*, w- re killed Thurs
j o v, apparently instantly, when
j them county-owned muck war.
! smashed by a train at a grade
jeror-mg here.
7 !?- Afert jenhurc f BUS*' Pfl
tier Oeparlmenl iclexlifirr! (be
Ihir? .irfirn'- an f-loid Ben-
Inn, of Ri .1 Mstihews,
!?0 Henjeisrin. 35. of Rl 1.
Hunter s ille . 3n ij Hannver
ShrM ill. 20. nf Kl 1. Hupf-
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H udson-Belk < omjpauv
Mr. John W. Winters
Lifhtner *u' ■ ■> l Home
’the Capital Coca-Cota Battling to.
fcetetsh Seafood Cornpan
: unt c, rnera! Tire Compar
'Deeds Wash. Inc.
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.(esse Jones Sausage Co
itmf Realty Compam
Diodes, Ins
»Mai» Gna i Company
Jeffrey’s Food Market
Burr i. Esso Sendee
Gas Wussi’ 1 . Hatters & Clean':
Milrbell Printing Co
C. C. Smith. .Jt
Raleigh Office Supply Co
Watson's Seafood & Poultry Co
Nash-Steele- Warren. Inc,
B.vnnm Printing Company
Meehan its &■■ Tar mors Bank
Billon Motor Finance Co
By rum Lumber Company
Capita! Ire and Coal Co
Wake Tire < ompany
WbolCMie Motors
Mar's Esso Servfcenfer
Harris Wholesale. Inr
Southard Dairies
O’Neals Motors. Itir
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Carolina Power * Light ' oßipajiy
conselidatef Cird'i 'c'prp
Raleigh Commission House, Ittc.
Kelly'a ti Orlvr V
cxaieigh Furniture Company
Cooper's Bn-B B
Church, assured Bishop Waters
Hint the candidate was well pre
pared for the priesthood-
The reremoiiv rcuuired lhe
Ttev, ItV . Il(i\i /r in iir pro
itafc ip anticipation of Holy
Orders There inipo.i.
tint! of ihe hands nf the for
ty seven priests m . 11rnit .1 nrp
over Dearnn How7e a.s he
kneil as the lowest altar step
Monsignor Gladstone Wilson,
Chancellor of the Diocese of Ja
maica, West, Indies, del voted a
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• ! Mr? Wiggms ga' c has foilo-eing
account of the incident
Sop was told by her children
that their father was ur in lh
w-oods in his car with another wo
. mar '*
Sirs Wiggins said she went
In the rjr inunediaff iy and
found her husband and Mi-.v
Larken in the art of mfei
eourse
Tlie -life reached inside the car
| and took a pistol She -.id she
1 ined to .shoo- the woman m the
• Jep Her husband got np and
! seized her arm aftemp' ng in
| wrest the pun aw as
: Mr: Wiggin? said she started
11 pulling the trigger to empty the
j pi-to!, and in so doing shot her
i bn-band three limes
After calling the ambulance sn r .
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ersviHe,
The truck, s IJ-ton vehicle
owned by the Mecklenburg Coun*
1 5 tv Board of Education, was re
| ported en route to a school con
! strurtion Job at the time of the
i crash.
Countv Officer Paul Re°<i aid
| witnessed toid him the truck
| driven by Benton, u-as traveling
| about 15-20 miles per hour when
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Colonial Store*
ir. C Karl Utctunafl
Kaieigb Radio & TV Ser-ft*
taleigb Pami & Wallpaper Coarpam
'a*, ior Radio & tv Seitlce
iuandard Ciudrr Blink Company
•s m Young Hardware
Modern Finance company
8. E Quinn Furniture Core pan
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UP Super Market*
< oertotie Stores
i ipcfrira! Wholesaler*, inr
i-ir WaGji Shop
'nU’itaai Bank ,4 Tr>, t < <•
■ >jile Coin Gi»-l• •
embassador Theatre
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•rlujir Hotel
"pst-Col Bottling C-
Warner Meraoriah
Bloodworth 8s Tourist V"<
> avenes* Insurance Agers.
Juno K Esso Service
Ridgeway's Opticians
Carolina Builders Corp.
Watson'. Seafood Co.
iJiilcn Motor Finance Co
Fayetteville bi Baptist * ituf h
PA'EB U
Hoi. I’s Cash Store
■Jr. Joe Winters
Famous Bakery
i Town & Country Tire iny d
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iN. C. Products
j Odom Cut Rat'- Slorc
j Wise Hones Inc
j Ca»tieberty-Sod£e fiard« arc
j The Hooe System Industrial Bi'd
j Raleigh Funeral Horn*
! Acme Realty. Company >
-"OMH-.s ..
\ FRIEST ORDAINED HERE—
i l-at her losepb Hou-je UneeH he
; fore the altar as Bishop Vlt,,-ewi
I s. Wafers rails down upon sh»
| candidates for the priesthood
I fb® rich e races of *he Holy Sptr
| if.. At ihe ahar, Jeff tr, right, Ih?
[ ministers faemg the b!?hop are
| Msgr Herbert Harkins, Cafb.*
I dral Reefnr. and Father Albert
Todd, iwiMnii. Father Hosne
I herarne the first Negro priest to
I hr ordained hv Bi?iiop Waters
j for Ihr Diocri-.c. of Raleigh.
1 i. Vl"i s Qi t tN —1 os ety
It- . \ )l> v tl i I IT. nt ; h
Fiend. In.l . hpcißlf the Ifr.f \■-
ern e? n l.t rr rn 4\ -t’>s In
dona I nt'ersilv" when -hr was
eroaned la - l Fhursd : <> a< Ihe
Blonini'igton. Indiana srhool
in TELEPHOTO l ■
ind. Queen
‘Prayed Alt
Last Week’
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BLOOMINGTON, lnd NLss
Nancy Streets, 19-year-old sopho
‘ Mj; e from South Bend. Ind.
named ‘Miss Indiana Uiifi’ersiiy
: 1 v-t Fj idav and e>:« Uj- o It
.ij j !?a# e- been because God want"
ed it to happen
She Vf:d 1 e Hv IHt ffpei
i gJcit p rj pr fiLDD <« m a bf-stiff
rrotrit it Indiana 1 ■‘jiiv+f%it v *
fl1f) FVL SUfr-gitx. fil rnwpeff. frt*
fhf "Miss Indiana* 4 Mtu part
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MISS BROWN
MINS BROWN WINS THREE
TROPHIES
RALEIGH ~ Miss Addwws
Broun, who is attending Tallade
ga Coltege. Talladega, Alabama,
participated in the. District Elks'
Beauty Contest recently and won
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