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Woman , 118, Buried In NC
Hampton Without President
THE COROLINIAN
VOL IS NO *0
All- White Jury Dooms Defendant
White Man Will Die For Rape?
Jury Didn't
Recommend
Mercy In SC
BEAUFOBT, S C A win;
white marine with “overpowering
-ex urges' faces a sentence of
death in the electric chair for the
rape of » 4?-year-old Negro wo
man.
An all-white rury took only an
hour to convict Fred .1. Davis. 22,
Atlanta, without, a recommenda
*ion of mercy The jury’s veradict
made the death sentence mandato
ry under South Carolina law. and
Circuit Judge ,T Henry Johnson
pronounced the death sentence
Earlier in the same rourt s
Negro. Israel Sharpe, It* was
sentenced to death by a jury of
six .white men and six Negroes
tor breaking into the home of
* young white mother and at
tempting to rape her.
Should Davis be sent to the e
lectric chair, it. would be the first,
recorded case in the nation of a
white man being executed for the
rape of a Negro.
"The verdict should establish be
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City Plans
‘Mixing ’ In
September
LITTLE BOCK. Ark The
'our dosed public schools here
‘•ill he opened on an integrated
basis this September
The little Kork School
Board announced officially on
Thursday of last week Its In
♦«t>*ion to work out a program
of integrated rebooting in Lit
He Bock However, the me
ebanirs of the program have
not yet been announced
A statement issued by the board
said registration would be con
ducted under Arkansas pupil as
signment act
No indications were given a - to
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“GOOD LUCK” seems to he what Secretary of State Christian A. Hosier, right,, is saying to Dr. John
Howard Morrow as he congratulates him. This scene took place last week after Morrow was sworn in at
Washington as the first 1). S. Ambassador to the new state of Guinea. Dr. Morrow is a former professor
at North Carolina College, Durham. 'CPI TELEPHOTO:.
Holt School Case ToFinallv
Reach High Court In Fall
WASHINGTON The United
Slates Supreme Cout will hear the
appeal of Joseph Hiram HoM. Jr..
IS. of Raleigh who is seeking trans
fer to a white school when it con
vene?, in the fall
Assault Suspect Moved
To Prison For Safety
MONTGOMERY. A La. A Neg
i ro rape suspect was removed from
1 (he county .jail lo Kilby Prison
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! publh Sevvice Co. of N < . inr
i Valet Tailoring Co
Capital Loan Company
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Tour. A Country Tire Service
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Peps l Cola Bottling Co.
Warner Memorials '
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Caveness Insurance Age.r
Bunn s Rss" Sort ice
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Carolina Builders Carp.
Watson’s seafood to.
Diilvi. Mobil Finn'.tct to
t'ay«<tevil!e S . Baptist Uni: '.
! AGE 13
Simmeu's Grocery
Associated Finance to
The £•»©« Mar!
City Finance Company
PAGE Ifi
The Hood svsteir Industrial Bank
Tayl-' Radio & TV Service
Siantfaid Ctr.de' Block Company
S M T'oun;. Hardware
ft (Julm. Furniture Company
Falefsh Commission House Bit
Opi.a' Paint -i W sllpsptr Coinpan
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I Raleigh Fttnerai Hume
| Am.; Itcaltj Company
I Carav igh Furniture Company
i Carolina Power S Light Company
i The high court will not have
| time to consider the appeal dur
| ing its summer session
The essence of the Holt ap.
peal is that the lower federal
courts, are “lending their judi-
. near here to prevent a second
Toplarviile" lynching, incident
The jailor at the: county prison
| said that he received a call in
I which an unidentified person ask
ed tor tlie prisoner's cel! location.
The accused man. Drewey Aaron
of Burkville, Alabama, confessed
he raped a 31-year-c!d socially
prominent white woman on Satur
day last.
Aaron *»id he slipped Into
the woman's home on the out
skirts of Montgomery while
she was watering the lawn.
When she went to a bedroom
closet for a dress for her
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Attorney General
IVa ms School 3d .
DURHAM The State Attorney
General lias warned the local
: school board to keen accurate
| record-- of pupil reassignment
: hearings.
The Assistant State Attorney
General Ross Moody in reading a
speech prepared by State A*'oi
ney Genera! Malcolm Seawell for
delivery to the Duke University
Amnia! School Lev- Conference
sa i d:
"Members of local school boards
should bear in mind that -rasas will
! reach the federal court through
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PRICE !2c IN N. C.; ELSEWHERE 15c
ciaJ facilities and weight in
aid of retardation of desegre
gation of public schools and
In aid of continued segrega
tion of pupils."
The Holt family was absent from
hearings of the school board to
which they were invited for
questioning The school board is
said to have yvanteci to question
the family about, “irrelevant and
impertinent matters,"
A federal district court in Ra
leigh ruled that the Holts haci
failed io exhaust the administra
tive procedures provided by, state
law for such cases.
CHARGED WITH RAPE ~ Edward Jacob*. 17. enters Ridgewood
Felony Court, New Turk City last week to answer charges that he and
three other teenage fMends criminally assaulted ss. ! 4-year-eld white
'girl. They allegedly have admitted raping the girl, whaet name is tw
in* withheld (UP! PHOTO*.
Newark Baseball Team In
Middle Os Dispute Here
“I Have Never Owned The
Indians,” Arthur Dove Says
BY CHARLES ft. JONES
Who owns the Newark Indians?
Arthur Dove, owner of the Raleigh Tiger-- and Charles
i Drummond, manager of the Newark Indians baseball team, dis
agree over this matter
The Indians are stranded in Raleigh at this time depending
j on the charitable services of the Family Service Society and the
j Salvation Army for food and lodging.
They have been here since com •
j plerir.g a long tour ui Eastern
i North Carolina with the Tigers.
Air, Dove. in an exclusive in
terview Wednesday morning,
«aid; "I have never owned the
Newark Indians ”
Drummond Haims Pvt sign
<H a contract for the team ?od
i «aid “We’re going to sue him
on It ”
Hundreds At
Funeral Os
Centenarian
FAYETTEVILLE An in terra
cia.i cortege followed the remains
of one of Cumberland Counts >
oldest and most loved citizens to
her resting place in Lewis Chapel
Baptist Church Cemetery.
Mrs. Martha Watson Graham, a
IIS-year-old mother, who lived to
see her sixth generation of rela
tives, died on Wednesday morning.
June 24 at her home Funeral serv
ices were conducted on Sunder
June 28 Afterwards burial took
place in the church cemetery.
Mrs. Graham, a daughter of
the late Hector and Betsy Bay
Watson was born April 15.
1841 in the southwestern »er
linn of Cumberland County.
She spent most of her life in
Cumberland and Hoke coun
ties.
She married the late Henry Gra
ham, The union issued forth fif
teen children, eight of whom pre-
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Eight Raleigh
Lawyers At
Va, Talks
DANVILLE, Va - The South
eastern Lawyers Association met
at the P. S Broadnax Branch Y
M C. A, here for their annual
meeting June 2? through 28th
Major S. High of Greenshr.ro
was elected president of the.
association for the new year
Other newly-elected officers
include Lisbom G Berry of
Durham, executive secretary,
and W. Frank Brower of Ra
leigh publicity director Other
offices are the saute as last
year.
The two-day program included
■ aruness sessions symposiums, and
:■ banquet.
25 members from North
Carolina. South Carolina.
Georgia and Virginia sttenri
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Dove admitted negotiating with
the husband of Mrs, Bernadine
Johnson. Newark N. J. alleged
owner of the Indians "We even
had the team members sign nohv
rac-i contracts Bui i was later
i told that Mi s -loh.nson's husband
1 could not. -ell the team because
!
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H „n,, .1: no,m.
Resignation
Os Moron Is
Accepted
HAMPTON, Va —Board of trus
tees chairman of Hampton Insti
tute. Arthur Howe. Jr . announced
Thu •■-day night that. Dr. Alonzo
G. Moron, eighth president of the
91-year-old Virginia college, has
been relieved of his duties “at his
own insistence," effective June 30.
Howe, who is director of ad
missions at Yale University, ex
plained that the decision was
reached “following the board’s re
fusal to accept the president's
resignation tendered March 31.’
Howe, said that Dr. William
H Marlin, dean of faculty at
Hampton, “has been appointed
acting president, effective July
!. and “steps" arc being taken
to establish n committee for
the naming of a permanent
replacement for Dr. Moron."
“In regretfully acceding to the
President’s request,“ Howe stated
“file board obtained his consent
to administer Hampton's Virgin
Islands program this summer and
to prepare, during the coming
year, a report for the trustees on
the institute’s structure and fu
ture development."
The five-year-old Virgin Is
lands program, devoted to un
pi ovine, the, professional abilities
of public school teachers in the
island was underwritten during
its first three, years by a Ford
Foundation grant and has been
underwritten since by the Virgin
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State News
—IN—
Brief
DR. LARKINS VIRGINIA
SPEAKER
CHARLOTTESVILLE. Va
Mrs Juanita T. Peyton, president,
Virginia Federation of Colored
Women's Clubs, has announced
that, D'- J. R Larkins Consultant.
N C. State Department of Public
Welfare. Raleigh, will deliver the
Keynote speech at the 52nd Annual
Convention of this organization.
Dr. Lark is Willfhddress the open
ing session at 8 p. m. June 30,
Jefferson High School, Charlottes
villa, Va. He will speak on “Vir
ginia Women Meet the Challenge
of Soria! Change,"
PROBE LOCAL RAPE STORY
RALEIGH Police are continu
ing an investigation in the case ot
a woman who claimed she was
brutally beaten and thrown from
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COOLIN’ OFF A boy, bis dog. Plus iff cream equals a cwl treat
minus sweat from soaring beat Robin McGowan, of Greenville § C-.
.pend'* last dime to share with his companion “Ginger" Who needs
air-conditioning as long as there is ice cream? il Fl TELEPHOTO 1 -
Fattier Hadiien To Give
First High Mass Here
Father Thomas P
| Hadden, first American Negro to
ibe ordained at North American
i College m Rome last December
I 20. and the. first Negro ordained
for the Raleigh Diocese, will often
his First Solemn High Mass ai
'us home parish of St Monica
here on July !? ai !0 a m
Most Reverend Bishop Vincent
S Waters will be present, in the
! Sanctuary for the Mass. Preaching
j for the occasion will be Father Je
-1 tome Tierney, O P . former pastm
lot St. Monica’s. First Negro pnc-i
[ ordained Ascension Day by Bi
! shop Waters at Raleigh. Falhei
j Joseph Howze. will act as Deacon
I at the Mass, Sub Deacon w>ll be
If Ala. Wants Kennedy I or
President, We Don’t: Powell
! w
I
WASHINGTON Rep Adam;
j Ciayton Powell <D-N.Y » urged all;
| Negroes and delegates to the 1960 j
I Democratic National Convention j
j to “repudiate’ Sen. John F. Ken- J
! nedy’s efforts to win the nomina- j
lion.
Powell based his stand on the
fact that “Negro-hating” Gov
John Patterson ol Alabama and
Sam Englehardt, chairman of the ;
Alabama. State Executive Com- j
miit.ee, have “plegded their sup-1
port” to the Massachusetts con-;
6th Grader Asks Compliance
As Wsnstest-Salem Admits 4
CHAPEL HILL A Negro six
tn-erader has asked the Chapel
Hii! School Board to assign him
to an all-white sdiool. The request
came as the Winston-Salem
Board raised the total of Negroes
in iu while classrooms to seven
The Chapel Hill Board will
take up the request of Stan
ley Vickers at its July f> meet
ing. The request was the sec -
ond from the, tickers youth
who attends the Nortbsidc
Elementary School, shout »
utile from his home- He asked
to be assigned to the Carrboro
Elementary School.
He had asked last, vea.r to be
sent, to the Carr boro School and
was turned down.
The boy's parent* sard they
wanted their son transferred be-
Greensboro Pool Corp.
Sued In Jim Crow Case
GREENSBORO A group of
i Negroes here filed, charges against
the City and the Greensboro Poo!
Corporation who allegedly are
in coiluri m to prevent integration.
Local Attorney J. Kenneth Lee
acting for the. group, has filed
charges of collusion in the federal
court.
The suii sponsored by the NAA
CP alleged that city officials acted
in collusion with the corporation
to sell a poo! for purposes of pre
venting integrated use of the
facility.
The pool was sold last sum
mer for around £86,000 wUh
the understanding that the
"purchase price would be re
funded should the sale he ruled
void te the eanrte.”
The group claims that there was
a deer-cut. understanding by of.fi
, M r WilhatYt Pharr F- 5 -
| ther Edward Clancy pastor of St
I Monica's v’i’l a-rt • Master *>!
j Cereamomos
■Recent ion for Fath r *r H adder
! will be held in St Monica s Auch
i’lum from 4 until 6. Sunday
Thomas Hadden jtf en H p&~
•'ochial v'boni 3 4 *•
m Mhrre b«= efite rr d
»hr Catholic f h iftei
pftffiyifp.tifit! v>i* eigb’h z* 2 d e
He iy tbs aot! of FT*? las«
rhwwittA c f Hadder* and th*
Man***** /♦(
Kaleiftb 4 brother * batlOi
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tendei
He said their support mean'
•'the Negro, other minorities and
right-thinking whites cannot" sup
port, Kennedy "under any circum
stances.''
Powell else culled on Demo
cratic National Commit toe mem
ber;. and Democratic leaders to gn
on record “as to whether they will
support the Negro-hatmg Ala
bama domination of the candidacy
of the senator from Massachu
setts "
I cause “there if. a stig ma attach
:od to segregated education based
jon race which adversely affec-a
,! the learning of the child "
The Winston-Salem board
approved the reassignment
Monday of rout Negroes to de
segregated but predommeßth
white schools Included in the
] group were Ronald and Sharon
Corley whose sister was one of
the first three Negroes assign
eo last year to then-segregat- (
e« Easton Bleraectarv School-
The other school involved is
| ft. J. Reynolds High-
Limited integration hag also be
! gun at Charlotte, Greensboro and
| Goldsboro Integration at Golds •
i boro is confined to a. .school for
| dependents of airmen at. Seymour
i Johnson air force base
wait, to deprive Negroes of the us®
| of the pool
The city and the Greensboro
! Pool Corp were to have filed briefs
| outline then position this week
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