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RALEIGH VOTERS NOMINATE 14 CANDIDATES . . ... .... ... ..... - _ .. ---.mi—•-■■mir ■iwm-ifii n r irr •r'ls7 TlWMfiW»e , J^€NMWfi<e(!*lsm,'W‘-eil't&ZiOir.lwnaQ(s®JlHfil*fis£#ltMl,Ul l *" THE CAROLINIAN VOLUME XXV'I, NO 43 KALEIOU. NUKTU UA.HoL.INA WEEK ENiHNi; SATLRD.W, MAY :», ID} "7 LLU L7? Report On “Test Bus Cases” * ★ * * * * * ★ * * *********** * * * * 1P * Army Oppose To Segregafion Measure Bus Companies Attempt To Change Decision NEW YORK Some of the bus companies are attempting to cir cumvent a Supreme Court decision outlawing enforced racial segrega tion in inter-state travel, an inter racial group, reporting on a two week “test, case ‘rip" to the South reported here Sunday. The trip, through Virginia Norlf Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky, was sponsored by the Congress of Baris! Equality and Hie Fellowship of Reconciliation and the party was composed of an eight Negro and eight white anti segregation group They made 1.6 test cases. George M Houser, executive secretary, who made the report, said, with Negroes sitting in the front, and whites in the rear ot busses. There wore 12 arrests, including (Continued on oacK page) F. J, Carnage Among Nominees In City Election RALEIGH Or Monday. 8,008 of Raleigh’s citizens went te the polls to select fourteen candidates to run in the general election or. May 6 Os the 8,008 voters, over 1,000 were Negroes. It is said that this is the largest number of vot ers that have gone to the polls in a city election for many years. The heaviest voting was in pre cinct one, where 1.161 persons vot ed Precinct three had 1,017 and four 79© The voting in the predom inately Negro precincts v,as as fol lows. ten. 194; fifteen. 262; sixteen, JOS. One reason why the voting was j so heavy was due to the number of candidates in the field: a total of fifty These candidates repre sented citizens from all walks of Isle and the major racial groups its ' Raleigh, namely, white, Negro and Jewish. The candidates who were suc cessful in the primary election were; P. D. Snipes, merchant Miss Ruth Wilson a businesswo man Fred B. Wheeler, engineering professor (Continued on back pasr* N, C, USHERS TO AID OXFOR3 ORPHANAGE OXFORD On Sunday. May 4. the North Carolina Interdenomina tional Ushers Association under the presidency of L. E. Austin, Editor of the Carolina Times, will present its fifth annual contribution to the Colored Orphanage of North Caro lina, Oxford. This program wii! begin at 3:30 p ns. and will feature an address by L. E Austin, President, with special music rendered by the Or phanage Glee Club. In making this announcement Supt. T. A. Kajnme states that since 1943 this organization has contributed $11570.74 to the Or phanage. In addition to its pro gram of supporting the orphanage, the Association through it" scholar ship fund aids worthy students whe arc attending college. It is expect ed that members of the Association from all parts of North Carolina will uttend this meeting. mm isbi kc, (;iri TO PRESIDE OVER Yi\Y FESTIVAL RALEIGH Miss Lottie Weigh' sii'.io! of Louisbinr;. will preside uw-r the May Festival to he held ■ n Ihe campus of Shaw (Jnvnsity Satin day afternoon beginning a* .1 o'clock Chosen las! week by vote of thr students. Miss Wright ?:so bears the tiU< of prettiest senior" Her ittendants will be Misses Rosa L Price of Burlington; Mable Fulton Walnut Cove; Doreaths Daniel ReioVville; Milt,a Davis, Beaufort; Mary Hicks and Gwendolyn Ligon Raleigh. NEGRO VETERAN FORGOTTEN SAYS VETERANS HEAD NEW YORK [ Global.i Charles ; G. Bolt.c. chairtman ol the Ameri can Veterans Committee collabor ating with Louis Harris in a Public a liars pamphlet called ‘Our Negro ' Veterans" finds that reaction has .-everely curtailed the Negro's eco nomic and political gains made in wartime, and discrimination has ; intensified their difficulties in ob • Taming employment, education ana 1 housing. They also found that Negro vet erans have been excluded as fully participating members from the American Legion, the Veterans ol Foreign Wars and the Disabled American Veterans. Participation they said have been in segregated Negro posts TEACHER ATT A CKEP CONCORD Mrs. Catherine Hargrove, wife of. Bruce Har crove a member of the Rober son County Training School was attacked by an unknown assailant in the Concord mural section as she went, to her school last Tuesday roomies Mrs. Hargrove had just open ed the limn and entered the bidding when she was attack ed. Francis Must Take Second Trip To Electric Chair NEW ORLEANS (NNT’Ai -- The Louisiana Pardon Board virtually i closed all hope for Willie Francis, ; 13-yepr old youth from St. Martin j vilie. when it last Tuesday denied : .< pica to save him from a second : trip to the electric choir Both the Louisiana and the Unit ed States Supreme Courts have re | fused to intervene and save him from a second trip to the electric : chair. By a R-10-4 decision the United States Supreme Court on j fan. 12. last, held that Louisiana may carry out the death penalty. ; although Francis ojsee was strap* & jflßfe;. •. - §'>-■ ?■:■■]. JLsl \ I ««. ' ‘ 4 A? Ir' $ , jS^***^., 3|ißr. 9i _ f»s&| '» - .w-/ -.. ,' ■ .»■'■:■ > ■: : On .Monday, April "kth. Atter tun I J. C irssaiie. Negro for City Council, received 401 votes from precinct number 10. Above is shown a group of, voters and of Family of six DIE IK FLAMES NOBUNA • A family of ex father, mother ann four children were burned to death when fire de strojod thtir home five miles from ■ here early Monday morning The flames were ocyond control v, hen neighbors reached the scene sometimes between midnight and i t;r n ‘'Click" Collins first to teach the fire, said the roof was falling i in when iji- got there, and that lit > heard no screams from the occu- I pants, indicating that they had al : ready suffocated, Five of the bodies were found on the white-hot bed springs, aftet the fire had gone out The bode '( : x small girl was off the bed. in dicating that she had been arnus •■6 be the flames, and had attempt.- . ed to escape Exact cause of the fire had p-. : '..'■•■(T, determined but ob.-er\ •> • pros d the belief that the- blaze originated in the roof of the home. AGED WOMAN KILLED IN WRECK HENDERSON Mrs. Sadie Wat k.ns, aged woman of Townsville, i v. is fatally injured when she sus- I Ucr.ed a broken arm. a possible j f: irture of the skull and two brok j sn logs when she was struck be iat automobile white walking on the Townsville Road Thursday ! night. Mrs. Watkins was walking in the center of the road beside a wagon ; n mile and a half north of Bonder• M>n, j| was reported, and evidently l ailed to sec an automobile driven Harold Connally. Warrenton white man, as it came over a hill. -She died tn Jubilee Hospital here Thursday night. - P«i in the State’s portable dearie ' choir at St, Martinsville and re- j , { ceived through his body a currents •j of electricity Untended to cause i I death, I j The Governor issued si warrant | set execution of Francis by dec Locution May 3. last. Francis was 1 prepared for death The top of his i head, his wrists and legs were i shaved in order that the connect - | ir.g parts of the electric chair might 1 b~: firmly fastened to fits body to ' : cause the proper entry of the eioc . * trie current i (Continued on back p<sgt» * licials el this precinct. Rending now tew to right Rufus K. f'r. wards Is receiving a ballot from hilas W Webb. Seated at the table are Miss M •) Bugg and r- X.** Dr. Shepard In WPTF Broadcast Tuesday Evening Ry wiM.tAM v rrcK RALEIGH In his annual r-idio •• if Less hero Tuesday evening nvci c. . .. ~ n-rtr i v- c-i i • ' • I uiil M 1 4 I . JL-Z 1 •> . I ' U. president ana founder of the North Cai olina College at Durham, point ;ri to the need for "some fair and equitable arrangement" by which Negroes wilt be giver: an oppor- Umity to ((-quirt medical training, and urged a bettei distribution of !•.i,<ii- spent for public health I; eferring io North Carolina’s g."pit need for greater hospital lai • titties, as well as doctors anti den ‘’st- hr N- y-r-si •ro .-.mi "Uv. Negroes have not had P c tools with which to work, the tools with which to improve •• -< ■ i living conditions, the cools •-vith which to improve the .■••ay of li‘e. I am a firm believer in the I This Week s Editorial \ VOTE AND ELECT F, J.. CARNAGE Two Negro candidates were among the 50 who sought nomination sn the primary held Monday (<• -elect fourteen nom inees to the city council. Both mode excellent showings, each receiving gratifying support in the predominantly Negro pre cincts, each drawing votes in • -very ptecinct in the city. Mr. Carnage, however, proved the more popular of title two candirafes, nad was among the fourteen to be nominated His name will appear, with those ol thirteen others, on the bal lot next Tuesday, when seven will hr chosen as the city council t.n take office July .1 Now is the time for ail Negro voters to unite and throw their support solidly behind the one colored candidate The voters of Raleigh, white as well as Negro, have indicated that Carriage is their preference He polled nearly 2.000 votes in the primary. A large number of white voters will mark their ballot foi Mr. Carnage in the finals; but if he is to be elected he must have the vote of every Negro in Raleigh who is registered and qualified to express his choice. Many who are registered did not vote last Monday. They cannot afford to make the same er ror Tuesday. Those who supported Mr. Mitchell exclusively will accept the mandate of the majority and line up behind the one Negro nominee. If the colored citizens qualified to vote will march to the polis next Tuesday and vote for Carnage he will be among the highest seven. There are enough Negro voters, plus the support from others, to make him the leading candidate in the final balloting. Let every colored voter go to the polls Tuesday, and let every one mark his ballot for Carnage, regardless of how he chooses among the other thirteen. If this is done, the wish of every Negro citizen and of a large number of white citizens will be accomplished Raleigh’*- new city council of seven will include as it. should, a representative of the large Negro i minority. _ '■ ~ >. r» Roberta I>. Mitchell; in booths ire Mrs Cal-ic Derrs and I-■ v J I> tlili. .1. S Strickland su'd 1 D. Halliburton were elec tion judges. 1 1 •( tr :11 tha. if you give god tv.ms itig good roads, good schools, good leach; ; ::r.d rh.mce to work at .( living wage, v,..,. give the- Negro ■ hi- tools with which he can lift himself'" Coticos rstt.g the minimum wage it.w thi sp- nicer - aid: "We cannot st; nigh the- wr,’-king people. wheth er they be black or white by paying, Ihern wages which ore starvation wpyfg v*/Viicb ivv *horn no t \ tt» c toi leisure, no Time lot wholesome rec reation. no time for improvement. p.:ot living conditions, and expect u make good ctizens hi refitting the claims that then arc Negro communists be told his radio audience, “the only way you c 'or, mafct Negroes cwminmisis would be for the two great par (Continued on Page Two; 143 PAPERS TO SUMMARIZE WORK \% SCIENCE WASHINGTON. D. C Forty th.-ee papers summarizing the re- , soils of creative scientific research in Negro institutions throughout the country will be delivered at the Fourth Annual Conference of the National Institute of Science to be held at Howard University * n • O 3 . o v « *oi . NAVY, COAST GUARD APPROVE POWELL BILL WASHINGTON • ANP * House bill 27fl introduced tn Ri-jhi-, il lative Adam C.layn-n Powell .!". "iv prohibit, race segregation in the arnifd forces >1 the United Suites after the termination of bos i’ities m the present war and the b ginnitt of demoE-ih/.ation." ha heetn given the green tight by the navy arid treasury departments it• a letter to Walter G. Andrews, chairman of the committee or. arm -0 services. O. S. Collough. reat aomintl and judge advocate ceri , aj ~| -o. n«vv wi.itc the navy department interposes no objec tion to the enactment of the bit! H R. 279 ‘ A similar letter was sett! to Andrews by E. H Foley, Tr. acting scei-etary of the- treas iti making this announcement la.- i week. Powell said, "it corne as great source of pkasure. u-e for pi i-imai reasons but on be half (if Ihe Negro people, to re !-asc this correspondence which ir: riicHte- that the United States navy oriu ermat guard are prepared m abolish race segregation. I am also Foppy ’<> -av that trie bureau •' (Continued on back page) HELD ON CHARGE OF ATTEMPT ASSAULT RICH SQUARE - WtUtt- Cherry being held here Mo: day with , uni oi.n .i chitugt-.- c.-f ; tmr* attempted rapt ot Mrs. T. G. ' Tarrant, while, wife of T G. Tar ; rant prominent nil dealer, here !' -iday mghi Officers quoted Mrs Tarrant as ! hi ving said that when she heard a ;• use downstairs ir. bet home : shortly after midnight Friday upon investigation she found that Cber /•V had entered the house. She said he grabbed her. forced her back m stairs and threatened her. forc ing her to give him all the money ■ she had, assaulted her and fled. Radio Dept Os |J. C. Smith Gains \ Recognition $15,000 Hi CAMP PLANNED FOE S, G. YOUTH WASHINGTON Plans arr un ’ dertvay for the construction of a $75,000 4-H camp for colored farm youths of South Carolina, E. N Williams and Mrs. Marian B. Paul, supervisors of Negro Extension v ork In that State, have reported. Camp plan;- call for the estab lishment of a small model farm, yi.ti the seeding of 10.000 pines for naval stores and timber, and 200 pecan trees. The agents expect, to collect enough from the sale of na val stores, timber, pulpwood. pe cans. and other farm products to i take care of a large part of the operating expenses of the camp. With the construction of Camp Harry Daniels, which is expected to get under way next year, there will be a total of four state camps and SOS county camps for colored 4-H’ers. The other State camps are 1 <ll listed in West Virginia, Georgia, auri Louisiana. -lIPPP> ENGAGED - Above >s Miss Itcrniie Fiaine Hunter, daiißhter i : Mr. and Mrs. Jessie ,J Hunter of Rahitrh whose engagement to Jessie 1,. Turner, Jr,, son of Mrs. Jusie 1 Turner and the late Jessie State Colored Welfare Head Visits Charlotte CHARLOTTE John R Lar kins. t ‘onsultaft at; Negro Welfare Work .s'ate Depaitment Public W elfare spent the week iri Char making --ihservations in the lo ■.vjl department with Wallace H. Nuruii ami Judge Marion S Redd. ’.Vi. !,,h kin.- stopp(;d m Charlotte Tier i.uvin: atendc-.d the Western (-nog of th- Interracial Com i -jssiun •id the N. C. Conference 0-, Social Service. Mr Larkins who is a graduate of H':«w 1-nivei-stty arid the New Y ik School of social work is the only .-.I t. N-'gro official doing the work in state circles. N. C , tin- state ha vim. such a post. Already no made several ou!- sfandmg s;tidies Prominent among there ■-•:* 1 Tier* 'lu-s'( -* for Negroe? N. C "Negro Social Workers in Southern States." and "Negro Pop ulation of N. C." Upon being interviewed today ir. thi Editorial Offices ol the EAGI.E today Mr Larkins stated that there is h steady increase of Negro per soi.-nel in the various counties in the Social Work field He also said that N< arnes generally are sharing in the gains of public welfare. Asked for m explanation of the Welfare Work Mr. Larkins .Mated t: .it. The f’ljblic welfare program (Continued on back o?eei CHARLOTTE The Johnson C. j Smith University Radio Depart- j meet has gained wide recognition j ■ and praise for its two radio pro- [ prams >ver two local stations, “One j Tenth of a Nation ' and “Rhapso- i dv In Brown” “One Tenth of a Nation" is in! it* fifth year of production ovei j Su.non WSOC in Charlotte A sis j hen minute weekly, the program j is dedicated to the people of Amer- j sea and gives its vast listening audi- j * elice a cross section of work car-j tied on at Johnson C. Smith Uni* vvsity. Each week a different de partment,. organization class, fra ; ternlty or sorority informs she | public of their program and acti- i 1 vities. "Rhapsody in Brown,' which, re- j cently celebrated its first anniver- j sary on the air is broadcast month- j ly over Station WAYS direct by j telephone wire from the University j Church. This half hour program j hes -been designed first for the en* tertainment of the public and sec-1 ondly as a medium of expression i for Brown Americans whose tab ! ents seek to soar above the narrow ! confines of 'jump nr.' jive” and tra ditional music too frequently ex pected and demanded of them when they take to the microphone. .(Continued so back page; _ L Turner, Sr., of Durham, has hren announced by her proiK Thr wedding ceremonies will he performed at thr White Rot k Baptist Church, Durham, in lons, in N. C if admin is’en-d or * need basis. Every effort is made io meet as nearly as possible 'the to tal i.t-rus ,i luC individuals. ••“ find themselves in the need *»l public welfare services The philo sophy behind the program has changed so that more comprehen sive treatment may he given to all segments of the pni-ulaiio; Public welfare is not a Jaw enforccmenl agency; but it attempts .to estab lish, expand and develop programs which will remove the causes to individuals in developing anti-so cal behavior. The Untt of work among Negroes is attempting to im prove at all times the status of the. group. Studies on all phases of Ne gro life havi been planned for the future." Mr Larkins, who is one of the state's, youngest officials, mfcceedc W. R. Johnson who 1 c&tgned some five years ago. He is married and i, the father of a three yea-i old daugther. H» mei«t'>’n.« Skies ki Raleigh. JOHN R. LARKINS RANKIN SEEKS TO KEEP ENGLISH BABIES OUT U. S, WASHINGTON, D. C. < NN'PA) — Representative John Rankin, Dem ocrat, of Mississippi, said last Tues day he will take every step to pre vent the illegitimate children of | colored soldiers stationed in Eng i land during the war and British [ mothers from entering the United i States. Responding to a plea made by IDr George L. Long brother of the j late Senator Huey P. Long of i Louisiana, Rankin, ieadei of the | white trash bloc in the House i said: | “I"agree with Dr. Long that these l illegitimate Negro children should not be brought into the United States. They are the illegitimate offspring of a criminal relation ship between immoral members of different races and probably in herit the vice of both races the virtues of neither.’* . _ u n.wliiMk
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