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JAIL DEATH VICTI EXHUMED ft ***** A ****** *★ ****** * * * * ft * * **_ * * ft * Fleming Death Probe Hinges On Autopsy Report FAYETTEVIt I.K n m offot. to remove the mystery who. shrouded his death in ' ■ VuyrVc ville Jail nearly two week.- 'hi body of Mien Flenthij was exi.cir etl Mono ay morning . nrt seat ' • Duke University HospPai .YL-nda morning Under th* car in! super vision i.t city amt ;->uue Bureau Inves' ination oi i U-iuls. ft •»» «»: hAJOttwatasagiy - •>.<». 'jjtD-ijfcoM • 'v,. i| Ilf HI S| • ff fmfrj ~ 11*?* ' " /,,rr ® < ****^^^ t, ' ' iMHr ,_v>- -^wsvvy'--vy m *1 AS STI DEM I.ECfSLATORS MKT The above -o nes took place as 'North Carolina's College anti university students .oolt over the Capitol Frida? and Saturday ior their annual Student's legE latit re. At the top Governor Gregg 11 Cherry is shown addressing the jumor legislators and weicom mg them (o the < . htol. Also shown are House Spiaker Charln Long of I'NT. Pe.e i i rr.es, |'V, . parliamentarian; Siiii ley I'oa ell Meredith College, reading clerk, and Milton Bussell, Campbell College, sergeant-a 1- Arms. Below is shown line of the many caticansex on proposed leg islation which preceded the act ual sessions, in the group are. Thomas Williams, North i arolina College, Miss Shirley Toweii. and lilsie C'obett, Meredith: Joint Turner, Miss A ley le Turner, Miss Mabel YVhiliuad, Miss Gwendo lyn Brownley anti W t, Johnson, all of North Carolina College. Carolinian Photos Negro Minister Joins Rocky Mt . Aldermanic Rice ROCKY MOUNT - Rev K •tap Plummer Battle, who ms*- idled tiidacy recently f. <-m ‘hi Second Ward, is the firsi N't 'o to >•« • notice fdr u .position on the Rocky "Mount Boanl ut AkNrrnen siKbc 1897. ..The Rev Mi Baftk is a na.’v*. son of Rarity Mount and Edge combe County. lb attended llie pubiu schools o! Roekv Mount -ut< has done furiher study through the Baptist Training Exter. >on work ui SUuw University ,-pnnsovd by the Netise Rivet Mist,K'.nar Baptist As sfteiaiien at Brick. K. C. and Sum-! mer School a! Shaw V) ■ I vert'd!)’, Ra Hugh, N. C. < Hi completed bis units of work! required /or u certificate from ibt Department of Religion? Protnolioi; : pi Shaw University J rt ne 14. 1946 ! Releieh. N. C.. and was elected • president of this dcpa’Nhient. Hu is a son of tin St .fames > (Continued on back page) 1 The exhumation and soc«»nd mi lousy on -re- b cly wo: carried ou Cl i ' 4 lh OjV:t' !:• tit . .00ird bhv.r ribbon ear on-: V jury A/Uoyvuw )ur4i‘.nr inquest Knday nigi.' re von led sharp! % c'vnHict'rij •ro • , s\’., .:: .:- ed «.'<■'s evidpra t 0: rt :m which was < .-’nducted iv. Contimirti on nag* eigut Murray Debunks Equality Myth In Rights Fight BY GLADYS P. GRAHAM j NEW YORK i ANf i Philip j Murray president of re CTO and lone o' 15 winiKi'.- <>i ' > Thom a j Jefferson prize;- .in t:r Auvanci - ; mini <.■; Democrat.y ..i 1947.' con | sot ieci a> a dint:, r the W.dcinvl I Astoria by the Council Ao. la j toll ranee in America, laid a huge ; audience here Sunday nifht i,n..u | discrimination and ..wal ..quahr. j were entirely diffo.t.-.l and the t.a --j for. had absolutely hotting i ver to do with toe former. KEY., BATTEL -w...,.. : '.i; - l| h v ,'^! l L,j .1, j^n.ii,.,li mmrnmmmmmi m, m ~ «i" c, jj., ; ..«v... v j_j ~v,, v , The Carolinian < 1 VOLUME XXI l. No. t 2 HA LEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA WEEK ENDING, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, DMB PRICE 7c ★ ★ ★ ★ ik ★ ★ ★ * ★ ★ ★ 'k ★ ★★★★★★★★★ U. S. Court Kills S. C. Primary TEAR OHS USED TO BUELL RIOT AMONG PATES GOLDSBORO Goldsboro and S: it, Hi gt'.w;,y pi.i.ce '.vert '."■ '. 'lt;.! to .t:■> tear Tuesday in her *o quell r, t\v< hour riot mens iwna : -. ;•• o1 liu North Cavo hn.-: Hospital for Ct iored losan* two patient? at th, uotitution. The fifth’.. accoidtng to Hosp.t .1 Superi»itendent D; 1 a C. Long, began in the recreation room short l.v alter the dinner period. When the two inmates bejv.n fighting, authorities said. 23 other patient - barricaded tit* 1 aonrs and turned u m : a freo-ioi - When the hospital otbeiah- were t lev called Goldsbc ■> ood State , olici' for atd After ; a arnvai c:i .ents in vs lived let! the recreation VO WEAPONS •*'<• orro; with razor olacies, wise t;'..gers . nd nlircr in,;;-, nvuseo weci poo- w ere cmirciv v ‘.uout fout> • lov, ;!■„. the incident .-*isclosed tv v> ty.lt: several oi the patients .t'- ■Crjiimuea on bao. paeei ‘Tht contusion of ‘hr nvo Vrm> is what has caused us troubled said j ; tne union lender. "St'inl equality' lis an individual mao.' w.vic... x d. 'r.'!mine ::cr-onall?' . r oum K vs. i Whom we will associate with and who come., in our ! homes re among ; con■ iot i'ution uncici the heading of 1 > ; equality D: -criminatin'': ' r ones f.-otn fear of competition ana 1 i Dei. c.< understanding. among other j hires "ur Murray declared also thru ! he wits proud of the work that :.u> ! : gruitration's Manana! Committee; Acoiish discrimination had done j : to further the cause o) democracy 1 1 . herhond. i Going on the air also over 1 i V/MC'A at the council •; dinne: to! : honor the a wardee: w.is Ford ! president of the National 1 Bast-bail league, who along v, n.h ; Branch Rickey and Jackie Robin - i .-o.’! had w ven tlie- color barrio. ,r; ! j Ann «ieati bn-ebnil. Mr. Frick s„i<l. I 1 accept this award humbly on : behalf of baseball wnich is truly ! • representative ui A meric;).; lii'v '• ana American living Men arid j .vomcn (.■! good-wili have fiiuro ! I against tutoU'; .utci down through ; To live in peace and i.». j ; i* l dignity i., u. process which v.'e ! mu:t k-:cp ain't . Emotionalism; .nti.l make vay fdi .‘unking ~nd i i I'Rsrt'iifig ui a calibre .na; is sound. : » bciievn in a demon of u uid i - !!d ‘ ph’it and « world of peace ior ; •- mid i wan no ..art oi cotn | .vomise.” j DiooT.li?' Horner of th-. Harlcrr ii- ' i ora O accepted the Thomas J offer-1 ' '; n *'t>vard fo> titc Rev. Herbert 1 King, who alung with the <v..v. | Hrdvos B .tiarian from Quince, i Mass., were honored ior bfir;g-.ng I Negro and white ccildm-i of ibeir j ; mngveyalions info mu- anothei \ ’ , ''.'fines enabling them. H, experme o ' on thi spot relationships with eac.i i o her in the largest Negro com ! rriurnfy, | George Houser and Bayard h-,t ' '< Oxiiinuoci m ' uci. Spaulding Urges UNC Admission Os Negro Students m'KHA.M Declaring- tltat th ■ (iovernor« regional school plan Mill not «-mk. < . ('. >pauklir.g, presiden* <>l the North Carolina Mutual Life lit so. mi • t o . this w, ek ttrged ;ui mission ot N'egvoe to the i ni versit-,' 01 North * trolinu as (in students. Mr. Spaulding s s.atement fol lowed the recent .uylication of n-ur Negro staoents for atinns ■ io:t to the thiic t-!"'it’ of North t'arolian Lav and Medic!' Si hoO fs. vv tilt the ouMticss leader em;ilutim| hi-, interest in ad ntivsio red Negrnc f« t’VC as day students or»i» ne w.ts ho less t ie.ii in his statement tha he ,Jj(i not 1 1 11 rs is Plat the reg ionai plan would vvo'-k. "i don’t helicvc ti is possi ble to operate s, hoots under an; Hieh plan." he declared. State Civil Rights Body Organized In Missouri :l-;i I riKSON . >ll Mil 'ANBi A kiht mmntf resolu tion introduced by Uep. .losiah ''bunas of St. Louis in the Missouri house of representa tives was passed last iveek and established a stale civil rights committee. This group will be known as the "Missouri Fuiial Rights committee" formed to “inves tigate and determine how to implement provisions of the 1945 constitution to make the Dixie Must Really Provide Equal Schools, White La. Daily Warns In Editorial BATON ROUGE. L„. (ANPj - ■ Young souhern whiles unlike their (elders., are rapfdlv awakening to ; ihe realization that true democracy I ; can onl\ come wh r; all penpte:. n i matter what their race, creed or ; color, arc accepted and afforded ! equal status in the soe.al ana eco-: nomic structure in tl is country. An example of this mount: fig : ■ id< of liberalism was displayed in, ; a recent editorial by the Daily t Reveille. official organ of Ue (white l.ouiMaria State Uriiversitj i here. It spoke of the recommendations j of a joint committee of six deans : Urge Senate Defeat Os Regional School Plan NEW YORK, N. Y - Condi.u mg the fiphi against congressional • ..pprovai of segregated regional ed- i uctational institutions Walter White.j NAACP secret try. it week urged 75 rrv.mhere of (••• Sc .me “to op pose thi,'-: iricasurc if and when 1*; reaches tb; flooi f. t v 't> Senate." ( Action of the S> .tit Judiciary' -lib-committee last n'-k favoring :he Jim Crow pj.in was condemn | rd by tin- NAACP •> urd o' direc tors ns "co.mjilicit? In the plot .)i 'he southern gover-mrs to circue ' it. th. Supreme Cw it decr-tioi. • j a; the Gaines and Sspu I eases” 'Hit committee approved the pUuj, REFUSES TO HEAP S.C.APPFM OF > VOTE BAN mw WASHINGTON Th Tony, fiJ-i i i.-uarantue thr badet to i Southeri?. slates w-itnout statu «>■ ; cal Interference nr ved a step;! •-earer to full realuz; non Monday I w I '’ I■’ :he l T S. Sup» emu. Corn ou;. • Ift wed efforts of SoiLm Canal in a fsemota ats -o bar K• c oo- fi om . j:.:amarie-- by ope-rating as }>r«\ a', Th t. Sup' '-me Court action \Va> ; a mwarive ov<o in to laar ,1!) ;.ipp a I f: i <i u\ iviebiano t\n .la. * S C ofiic.ais Iron; .> , .0 we 1 co ur t \uli na. ; Tne i uUng vva>' hann d down :>> Kfiu :;, al Circuit Ceu?*t ot Ap la •!.•• i\i TTich. V'-ft »;> the z-.r-a .A. T" ; -’ v Tv' v z TA'T, ciltc v the Negr:• hao. been dt-med i | right to a■ t bob'-*! in the 1.^46 i ins ek < onn .11 2 inp 'Con.titmed on r.«ek raget practice of democracy consistent w'ith its pronouncement of ■ quality." Tive members of this com mittee will be vfected by Speaker Murray ! Thompson, ibis yroup will be authorized to bold hearings and use ser vices of the legislative'research tonimit.ee on the tijrnis and status of minorities in Missouri. Si will report its finding's to the house laier for legflntive ac lion. from the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma A. and M to the •state regents for higher educate* that bonds, of segregation be relax ed to permit Negroes to enroll in the prodaate- schools, outlined *!.-• state's refusal to poi'mi' Negro at tendance :>! these schools and st.t setting up of an enYrely made quale" law school in too Oklahoma capital as a branch of Langston University The editorial said. “The develop ments in Oklahoma a'd in other states throughout the south portend growing chance in out social and (Continued on back p v. by ;; t> to 2 vote. Votir.p for were Senators E. H. Moore Okie.; Pa. McCanan. Ncv.: J. William Fui brighi. Ark., Forrest C. Donnell, .vh... James O Eash • land, Mm-. and Alexander Wiliy Wise. Sena tors Hornet .i. rgu.-on. Mich , and William L'.ngn, N. D. vn*cd again. 1 approval. Senator J. Howard Me Grab. R i., abstained from voting In his letter whicn went to ,n’ Senators except those from the drop South. Mr Whi ! o expressed "shock' that the committee ha.-: approved the plan “in the face if the unanimous opposition to the (Continued on bacx page; < ENSORLI) ; . IHE Pinl Ri; 'II*AT ISN ! THERT What w ould have been tin pie urc does not appear be cause < Kroner .foe Pinkston of Fayetteville if i t that his and is dostd reasons sot censorship wen Dedication Os New YW Branch RALEIGH - City Manager Rot S Braden will be The principal • speaker at dedication --xorcise- £<>■ : (he new Sojourner Truth Brant i YWCA which will be held Sunday • at 4:30 at the branch's new home i at 310 East Davie Ni rtet. A social hour and open hour ' ; will follow the program, which v ;11 ! consist of remarks on the YWC A and the Community by Miss Ruth ; Wilson. Mrs. G P. H Mi: Ki-'ic j Suit. C. A. Haywood and Mrs. J A i Boyer. Music for the affair will bo mo sen ted by the Y-Teer Ensemble ■* ■ i the Washington High School F;e- j ! social ion of the bu.-lcmg will be; • made by A. L Purriuuton. Com , miinity Chest preside©: Acceptaoc' J will be made on behali of ttv Corn- - j I man. Mrs. H. C Pern"; Presentation of membership cair<- ; p.ii.cn awards will also be made »y ,Vlrs T-'t-rrin. The t0c.,1 hour v.;il J~ - i Segregation Banned In ( hi Id's Conference MOlilU; Ala. (ANTi Th. international Council ot Reli gious education held a Chil dren's Regional conference here TtHirvriay and Today of las! week, at Government Street Methodist Church when 103 persons enrolled from six states, with .-!(> colored persons from clot ida, Mabamn. Mississippi and Louisiana. There was no segregation and as Mrs. R. M. R*ourt, secretary oi the Mobile Regional Ohil (Iren’s conference, expressed it, b : “ here was grand Chiistlan iel lowship. Mrs. Bloiici is also - secretary of the Mobile (Hun- ; 1 t'll o( Churches. Mr-. A. L. I > Coleman, wife of the pastor of the State Street /P*tfZ Church in Mobile, is a member ot the executive committee. The printed program an i; nouncing the meeting proclaim- j .-: | ett, “This meeting Has been * i planned from the beginning on an interracial basis. There' will he no segregation.'- oj more importance than tb" pisi,its rest or the right oi a newspaper to pubiisn news and pfHH.igraptts of mterckt to the community. Caro! in; an Photo. C ensorship, Lornorcr .toe i’tnsioi' follow the bored id ion and will b conducted by tin* \Vor..tods AcUvvyj Committee, Mrs \V Js Lockhart,' M: -. Perrin and Mrs. W. B tabor-> non secretary. BULLETIN 1 j \ Legislation to draft men of Pi through 25 was introduced in the House Tuesday by Rep j rcseniaive Andrews, chairman of the Armed Services Committer All men between X fc aril 30 would be rekj wired to register for training arid service in the event of a national emer gency. Former St Paul Pastor Is YMCA Guest Speaker mmk - « ♦iiP- m ' Y f--> ••* Yu • raßßife jfK w •ommmßm&Mt i* is®®'^ DR. STL WART [ will m civil DISOBEDIENCE IN JIM crow FIGHT WASHINGTON IT.- sharp dif ference.' ~! opinion between fop Nctrro leadership on effoi Is to brook d"\vn military segregation through iefusnl to so ••v» > in jisn (•row re. d force- ■nnlinued to bold the national spc (tight this week. Waites Whitt’ ( xeeutive sects tary of the National A.- social inn for hie Advancement of ,'olored Peo ple disavowed ' < ivi * disobed'oi'.ec :i.-. an effective technique for solv ing the race proofem Grant Reynolds, ev-U S. Army di.ipfain and former Republican ; amiiiiaU: for the It. S House of RepiesentaUves. told a House Ann •d Services sub-Co’.vui'ifti-e of hn: uruanizai of n r».»t».>n-\vido cam paign of civil disobedience again;.* jini com draft i universal military training law W HITE’S STATEMENT White’s .statement was contained i;, a teller to Senatoi Wayne M'or c. a member of the Serrate Armed Forces Committee and a member (Continued on back page) Women Sue I’m ha Ime r For ‘Mislaying* Body CHICAGO lAN'PI Because ihc wrong body was placed in ■ the right coffin and buried in the right plot. R. V Cole, oper ator of the Metropolitan Funeral parlor here, face* > S’KUroo damage um in circuit court. The body that should have been in the eoffm was that of Mis Jessie Booker, lb-year-old daughter oi Mrs. I’nsrUla ii< veiasul and sister <>! Mrs. Irene Shelton. 38. The two women b-ought suit through their attorney, Powers Vlitiuire, charging they suffer •■red mental angjish and cm barrasMnent last Feb; a. try when the rfindertaker “lost or mislaid the body of their r> *ali\o and snhstitu cd another body. < ole had been paid Sf>Bs i< r the funeral on I rbn.arv (i and burial was three days later. On the day of the burial. <. ole Informed the surviving relatives that “a terrible mistake bad been made.” later the body of Mrs. Katie Pierce had to be r< moved from Mrs, Bookers grave and correct burial cum. (dried on February Vi The .wo women were said to have protested at the wake that the bods in the coffin was not that of their relatives, but that ttu undertaker allegedly ex plained he used a new embalm ing process which had changed .hi deceased’s appearance. Funeral Riles Slated For Mrs. Geneva M. Williams Friday At 2 RALEIGH Mrs Geneva Mer rick Williams, widow of the late Dr. Pear H William: of this city died early Wednesday morning her home at 233 E. Lenoir Street. A native «f Durnarn N C. and daughter of the i:<te John Merrick o; that city. Mrs. williams was 66 at the lime of hd death and ban iived it- Raleigh for more than 30 years Funeral services w ill be held Friday at the Saint Paul AMI? Church. She is survived by a son. Peter K, Williams, .Sr., and a daugh ter. Mrs. Martha Williams Wheeler. Dr Charles E. Stewart, pastor of Bethel AME Church Nev York City, addressed the Annual : Meeting of the Blood worth Street YMCA in the First Baptist Church Wednsday night. “A new age is being born de spite the effort of many people to hold it hack Dr. Stewart told : 500 members of the “Y”. “The YMCA is needed now more than ever before and it must help draw the blue print for this age so that it wiU be without race hate and war and other "vils that now threaten the existence of mankind.'' Negroes were advised to forget j about race <-.nd present them j selves as felly nuallfied, intelli "c • .American citizens and thus , integrate themselves into Aweri | can life. i The speaker whs ©resented by !Dr M. L. Watts of the Board of i Continued or. page eltffes
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