Colored Nor h Carolinians Rally Behind Gov. Scott
By UN HOLLOWAY
Colored North Carolinians arc- rallying hf.diCrl
their new Coventor, VV. ICerr Scott, it has been uofod
and that the faith that colored citizen.-, at <■ jHhowiur.
in the new chief executive vt ill not g< dtirewa; (led ;s
'POISONING' OF TWO TOTS
IS SHROUDED IN MYSTERY
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THE CAROLINIAN
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16 Pages
VOLUME xxvm
ST. AUG HEAD INSTALLED
Cause Os illness
Unkown In Case
Os 7-Year-Olds
Compteie r. iv ri.r'-’ ic'i
shroud Hie U-'pM'.nT. iih.r. -'he
0 v, eok of two sevci R :
Cigt, be. ■w ho were ; . Si
Agnes H'> I’i'a! S:>t !;ts r
after appa; • ntly i-yvmg '
soned.'
The two _• t> it, vr-. A; >•/ •’
* her < f 21..' : H u.'Ri ; •
Bobby Hilliard of 612 Son!.' i\iv-
Dfnvel] St re*'* hrs*. > •■•weci
of flint .* ■ T ursdfe. < vening
ter they -is»d --pent the ■■ ■.. -■ •»
out play in.* together
Relatives r, f both ye-. .?;■ rs re
ported that the boys , .-id -etur > -i
to tbeit rf.-preth■- •■■ <• A
cc-mpta i r» r 1 ■■■< jvi '■ • -'ad
and stomach aches
Shortly .-.ftcr-' ard\ • b'd ! eg-i;
vomiting and were p- *•> :■■•-! The
following day bco. <•. u •
prove, but later wore •• trick on v-i''»
recurrence <>f it ww-Ph •.•pen
at nterw.d. On •f.gbou? e- ...v
Mr.-. Lome H.m. grandv-ioit i f
the Hilliard ebiici, said tl.-ai •) ■■ i
given her grandson warm n.dk -•
other emitics in an effort to
his stomach
. Mrs. Hall sail th. ; rr.< boc..i;.
Bank Retains Entire Board Panel
MEANEST MAN
GREENVILLE - T ■ ■: •: ■ .■?- '
roan in Pitt Coumy hn. been
caught and jailed
He is "Willie Jenkins, v bo was
3i-rested on charges of breaking,
entering end larceny after pi-.--,
party belonging to Sycamore Bap
tist Negro Church was discovered
in his possession.
Jenkins allegedly r. ke into Ihe
church last summer and took a
Bible and .:. dock
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BAKK GROUP MEETS' President C. C.
Spaulding of the Mechanics and Farmers Bank is
shown as he addressed the recent animal meeting
of directors and stockholders of the Bank which
h»s branch officer in Rnteigh and Durham, During
NORTH CAROLINA’S LEADING WEEKL Y
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA WEEK ENDING
: jday Bobby became ru<t>)t* ?.o !fi<tc •
•’ !no .'Viciv fT yOliP.Dor u'U'i ;
■ Ci-r taken St. Ay ; r.c . H >-;>•! g1 .
: for »i oatnn?n t.
Mrs. Hail sold ih-A •-hr vepo c ted !
' !.» hospUat LW.ihoniics Uc-d the b\v * j
end s.-id 1it..,! t : . -y - t >d boon yvci :
;“a piece of candy** by a ni n at a :
■filling . ttd i*n in the n- r «m hood !
i and that they had eaten nothinc 1
• else together.
* • The hov : crane morn r Lid y]>o !
i ; t. t ;at a ,m -H dog ov ued by the j
i young; -er -dvl lapped up vorr.*’' of j
the matter which the noy had ex-i
i ere ted and had died a soon whuc ;
? 1 The dog’s b jdv. he ad* had ]
ri r,, 'p. I -ikon fore va’Ditid'top
Clmiei S Templupn. Agnr 1
! H’ ,| !*=,’ Hdm m;' -<■!. ~ >ld
: CAROLINIAN in
i familiar ’ wi:h the dc; ( ;f >}-,••• j
■ case since hr had had tr- oppi-i
; 'unity i., df.-'c;;-, i! with Dr. Jane
Cordmr.ori ->n page S. This Scctmn
: Durham At the annual meet
ing of stockholders of Mechanics:
;'and Farmc.- Be.uk the tntire i
i board of director:; consisting of
; fifteen. me inters ■ ; reelected to
(servo fo> the year. 1849 Those re
el evt <::.i v. nr:
C. C Spaulding, Clyde Donpoit. .
C. A. Haywood, L. E. McCauley K
R. Merrick J. C Scarborough.' Sr.. '
J. S Stewart, G. VI Cox. R. N. -
iHarris, W J. Kennedy. .Tv. F. L.
McCoy, T, D. Parham. A. T. Spaul- ;
:d;r.g. J. E Strickland, and J. H
Wheeler.
the historic meeting, the fortieth in the history c£
the Bank, much progress was noted and the en
tire panel of incumbent officers and direc3?rs was
re-elected. (See story this page)
'he ( mn- < <,r ui truvtih'f’s from Raleigh’s (Capital Square.
Gn '.••erne.. Sriift, jji his since his roc nit
V'i■ ■. }.vu, • 1 1; <; s;, has roiferate<l his rampaiun promises to
A>oh aft it a. n»I jriv" opportunity to the minority ran-.
:V" ;* k:i; ; at a. Proakfasi meuting of the North
PCITHER
i'll < XT K» I —l'nnrra! services
were r onduclfd Friday from the
Raleigh funeral home (nr Mis*
Cherry Poole, who Hied w e«j«*•••-
day at Ihe age of sti‘! .;f Si Agnes
Hospital.
Bern on Align l ! J., (Kit n»
Wake < opntv "Vlis;, Toole had
At tmeeting of the beard ,
of di.eee tot::- b*?ld on Thursday a*- ;
temocn. J: n 13. .•-«i! nvyambsn* ol- j
peers were elected for artwther ;
Kim as follc.-vs
(" f .Spaukiirn. n', rideM. < \
H Whe<‘ter. vice president aridl
nnkior V R Mcrr: k, v;cc prim- :
dent, Clyde Donne?! vice presi-i
dent; G \V ( "ox, vie l ' president;!
L. E, McCauley, vice president- 1
Raleigh Branch; J. E. Strickland, \
vice pee;#|cni nod manager-Rs |
leiith Branch; p. VV. Hoiiy. Jr., 1
(.Col ill. 1 : (It'd on iiuck Js-t KCCliOtjl
\Ti "RDAV, JANUARY 22. 10-19
been employed b> ibc .1 tl M <r
tins at fl2l East f ane Street.
The funeral services were eon
ducted by the Rev. P. 11. Johnson,
partcj of the Martin Street Bap
tist Church which she attended
until shortly before her death.
TKWKLING M \ N
D Snogg. : r a’.! . tinowis
into ja;i and out In 1942 Swings,
then war. : c i;t r :■ oocf to 17-22
vc-irs in prison on a murder marge.
In February. 1944- he ertv.poE from
the Dupli.t Prison Camp; a year
later, he was in the Army
In 3946 before !ho Army was
•able to trace him so that he could
be returned to N nh Carolina, it
war, found that Snug;s had bee.;
sentenced to » term of from 3
to 1 years in mi!,tar*, prison
; Arthur Godfrey Gives
! Bank Unexpected ‘Plug’
DURHAM The Mechanics and Farmers Bank of this city
ft: t ars unexpected plug when Arthur Godfrey, nationally-known
radio hurrivrist. made glowing observations about the bank and
its activities in his featured address before the Durham Mer
chants’ Association meet last week,
Godfrey sad in part;
•.At the Mechanics and Farmers Bank here I have seen
today service a? efficient as that I have seen in banks in
New York. The Lnly difference is in the color of the skins of
the personnel."
He said, ’T any going to tell about it. on my national pro
grams, too - '
Council OK’s Action I o
t
Improve School Site
The efforts of .R. 'c.gh.'s Nep'o dUnzesis 'to secure a new high.
I achvol cfewer to the c.-n M-t of the city's colored, residential area
| moved anc titer step nearer 1o realization tlds week the City
j Council voted approval of plans for the- widening 'and closing y f
1 streets' .adjacent to and dividing the nropbsed site.
Following similar action hy its
planning and zon n<{ commit iff >.
■ the council approved plans which
!had been submitted by representa-''
i lives of the School Board several
I meetings ago.
‘ The r ecommendations called for
Carolina Daily Product Associalion u. Wi'r-'onA
last week, Governor Scott sail) in part;
“1 am firmly convinced that we’ve got to r i .‘hr;: I
end meet the i.-sno of Ihe minority ryev The; won.
brouylit Imre against tiicii' will brought, in < ii.eo ,
I SINGLE
copy 10c
ST, AUG, HEAD
IS INSTALLED IN
COLORFUL RITES
v,\ 4<>! siiErnum
j -Vi 11: dignitaries and educators
; from -lit part- of the nation U’nb
|tng color to the occasion- historic
iSt. Augustitie's College trunked the
i 81st anniversary of its founding
| and the installation its first lay
j and Negro president in a dual cere
| metiv conducted Fildv-y
1 Di. Harold L. Trigs the new
! prt'sicni of tic institution. „
;’■ -fed with the symbols- of office
!by too lit. Rev. fin s >( A. Pennick,
*r%ighop of North Co.-olina *-md
i chairman of the S'. Augustine's
! board of trustees-.
In . n inaugural address whies
: took full cognizance of threaten
i i , ’-g or:.-.: acute economic end •
i litical "unbalance" on th< regions;.
! national and international cent*. Dr.
| Trigg declared that the nation
islands today on tire threshold of
!Vi Tit? W <?jp3.
j “The principles of harmonious
: ; >uj-■ ir. h v et c ’
j the centuries since Jesus Christ’’,
he declared "but man's reactions
to man holds tenaciously to an out
-1 moded past
Declaring that tlje reactions of
-’he past had found their birth in
j aii economy of scarcity and m
i competition between men. race.;
! and nations for the limited com
modifies and comforts 'available,
ihe charged that man s progress in
j the supplying of such commodities
Continued, on page 1, 2nd Sec,
REV. KEARNS TO
SPEAK AT YMCA
VESPER SERVICE
The Bloodworth Street YMCA
will conduct it.s regular mono hi*/
ve<pcr service on Sunday, at 4:00
pin. featuring on address by the
Rev C A. Kearn.-, past--r. Davie
,St reet Presbyterian Church
| the widening to a minimum of
160 feet for the following streets:
j Boundary, aorn Smith to Davie
i Lane, Smith, from Boundary to
| Project Drive; Project Drive, from
! Continued on page 8. This Section
PICTHER
NO, 29
INSTALLED - Dr HkoH L. Tn-;;■ v/h'.
was installed Ihc sixth pro; Ident of S'
Augustine's College at earnbined inauguration
and 81st anniversary services at ihc institution.
Negroes On Jury Hearing
Warren False Pretense Case
COUNTY’S FIRST
FOLIO CASE IN ’49
REPORTED HERE
Woke County's -.’Mu- c:< ••
for 1948 was admitted to St. AgrW
Hospital on Tuesday. according ;
Dr. H. C. Bulla, Woke County
health officer.
The u ihenf : ■ ’ ■ .-. r ■hi
Barbara Jean Barm v. the daugh
ter of Mr; Mary K Barney :
1115 S. State Stive! He; dim
was disposed by Dr L. Carl Lyle,
as infant! a pa?;L
. red child, William Hood, a ten
year-old resident of Guilford Coun
ty, who was taken to a Greens
boro Hospital, then trarn-icrrcd t.
the Central Carolina C'Mivalci.-
cent Hospital polio center follow
ing diagnosis of his ailment.
Last year’s polio epidemic w:n
the worst in the history of in
state. and Raleigh Marc?' of D;r
worker: not waiting until *nc
disease strikes tn epidimic pro
portions *o strengthen local .*o i
national poll-’ bind t- i
provide funds for combating the
In connection w i?r> the ink
March of Dimes drive, ;umor mem
bers of the illood v.’O'lh Street
YMCA, .supervised V-v \V. O Kvi
ness areas on Saturday afternoon
Contin: cd on page 8, This Section
DAVIS, WINSTON.
OTHER ‘BEOS’ SAY
THEY WILL WIN
Nov York City <' •’.) nr.hn.m '
; Benjamin .3 Davis and Hairy Win
| stem, national organizer of the com
: irunist party. alone, wi*h i ( > > f r \
‘top Reds In the United Si ate; ’.vrre
confident that they would "!>■ . ■
the rap" as their trial ope mid
here this week.
; Davis and Wins ten, the two Nr
j gro member-: of the Li-rnur, group i
! that makes up the o.v-vuf vr com,- j
j cii of the cornmurnst party here.
• appeared unperturbed v. hen the;.
I strode jauntily through a group ot:
j more than 400 policemen and fed- |
! eral agents on guard at the court j
| house where the trials ere goir.j, '
; on.
! Davis, a native of Atlanta, Go..
i who was elected to the New York |
|City Council on an American La- !
! bor ticket joined with the battery .
of defense law.ve'-s representing I
the alleged communist leaders in
pointing out tne met that the 1
| courthouse took on the appear- i
J ance of an auxiliary police station
j Objection
! Continued on . page 8, This Section I
One ot !be Ton f omncDidnionje viv..; ihat thd
t -itiivt t!•>* (plTutr.: .-hall bo visited np?»n then oup even
to l.ln ': s• ri up fourth poru rutiop
I iii ooi ' (-'H't.P.in l)i.H *'■i •i! til;, ro.v.i't! 1 h ,! tcklilo
f' 'ddinui d -ni |>,i- i<>i;f thl section l
SIAM CORRtSPOXDI ‘-.'T,
|ty T#erlor Cowl ;i;> -1>
5 two Nf gro met; are on
Tuesday heard J Edward Alien, ;
’ , 1.1)00 io.
Ox iucliet -nent, nr*ve sjeeti rciuri *ccj
ioouiily s ( hoo! :,uj,erm><: r'dev.f >e • ;
1 jcently because ..■£ "ill henltl-'', vis.
t gro teachers in the county who,
'wished to vote- i the recent tur
i Pjj,. office is s.iisi to l,;;vc di • !;••• '
Charms Oi Music Little
Good At ‘Collection S ime’
Gnn-'NSBORO - Music may the \v that r-rwLu,
the ravage heat, but if had little soothing powers here lasi
f'.vrmay night when the paster of , ’-teal church decided that
it war, time for finaaeiel me Met- be of greaie-.i import.^
A fight that ended :« court begm at the church when C-- ves-
Hear, a mudun told, the Rev N . : i»e Henry S - yeat ole paid*
of the church that he had four in on minu.lcs i/f horn-playing
time before the service was to officially end.
Rev Mi Henry It? k offense at Heards, pror.larr abort feel
ing that !t was time to take up collerticn. end a light ensued
with Hoard, (no relation to Xi .'inbcnist -L L Heard! c:11;)tg
a thorough tramping by membci . of 'bo fh-rk led by the pasf-.>r.
The truth and. the light oune into the situation when
Mr Henry war. »ccitr>sed one half *.'f court costs Tuesday ano
Heard -wa* accessed cK-d- in munieipt^ county court, __
South African Rioting Is
Abating; Soldiers Patrol
D-URBAN. South Air.',-;* After more than a week of bloody
lie-ting, a setrfc-lfiincti of peace bias covne to Soutlr Afuivs and ihu-.
wodk it was announced that the raiia'i strife was -abating in. -this c.,v.
But the disturt -mces- which grew i
on I of :be injury of a naf.ve boy e j s attached
by r.n Indiati march tint in ~ fight ! Police officiate have esllirr.ated
were not quelled by arbitration. ;h;o ,:fcout 100 peoplr were killed
Some 1,400 regular troops are now j. n the rating, most of them InUi
patroling the streets with bayou- Continued or. page 8. This Section
Is r.hov.n with Mrs. Trigg in their home shortly
foltf ‘wing Iho Inaugural rites {Story or, this
page •- other pictures on Page I second section.)
CAROLINIAN Photo By S! aphard
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PAPER BLASTS
KLAN'S TACTICS
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,r!)g i.iLsia to dio from
■ 1949 at the Central Care
:■ . tv vent H'v;pit.al her
TP;.fad. William HooA. died flv
!:■ v.'-tC,'. 1 on Mondav. IT - had bee)
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it s’ ; vs j ddied lJ'om enc<