Board Retains Principal Over Vigorous Protests
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FIRST DRILLS j
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r.ALEIGH The Little Blue* !
of Washington High School here
launch 3 nine-game season to de
fend their North Carolina Negro!
High School Athletic Association!
championship on September 14. 1
Coach P H. «Pete' Williams an-:
nounced this week. j
The Little Blues, who won
the coveted high school title
in a play-off last season, began j
drills for the aproachins grid
iron battles early this week
with nearly S(1 men reporting
Os that nuniher. Coach W»l- '
liimt relates, more than half
arc seeking f.itlte Blues berths
for *be first time.
TOUGH SCHEDULE
The schedule the Blues face this,
season in view of their iepleted :
ranks, is considered ‘tough" Coach
Williams revealed. The schedule is
js follows; * j
September 14. at Clinton; '
SeWetnber 31. Kinston at Ra
leigh; September W, Wilson at
Raleigh; October . WiHlston at
Wilmington; October 13, Oil
lard at Goldsboro; October 19,
Sw.fcer j. at Rocky Mount;
C'-obcr 3S, TJ’iiside at f*Or- I
♦ am: Nkfembw 3. F*y*«i«- ]
vi!!*> at Raleigh, and Novem
ber 19, Chapel Hill at Ra
leigh
FEW l FT? R MEN
Lettermen returning to the
souad are;
Guards Otha Cox. William Mer
ritt. and Janies Greene. Jr.. Ends
James Covial. William Jones. Ro
bert McNeil, and Contain Isaac
Winfield; Centers Julian Roberta
and Charles Jones, and Backs Wil
lis Bames. Maurice Blalock, Chas !
Hall. Cpl. McNeil. Wm. Nichols.
Charlie Simmons, and Louis Spen
cer. There are no returning letter
men 4 ackles
John Baker. Maxine Johnson, 1
James Williams, and Theodore '
Ex ar.s are to report also
Church Convention 1
Delegates Begin
Durham Invasion
DURHAM As earlv as Mon- {
day this week, delegates to th« ; ,
54th annual session of the I,o*-“ 1
Carey Baptist Foreign Mission j 1
Convention began invading the]
ei+v for the events which will sot j
underway at Mount Vernon Bau*- j
tist Church on Tuesday August TX \
and continue through August 31
An estimated 3.00 ft official
delegate* are to be on bam*
for the sessions, executive sec
retary Wendell Somerville h*»
r | ealed. These delegates ar»
from 1R states.and the District
■f Columbia
Scheduled to keynote session
here are several international not
ables Liberian Ambassador W »
King is to be among those present
i + has been rev-paled
FACE FACTS. END
BIAS. OR. BIGG
ADVISES GRADS
Bv JAMES 11. BOYKIN
RALEIGH - Outside interfer
ence is not nearly so dangerous i
to our total welfare as the exis
fence of inside injustice. Dr. Har-;
old L Trigg, (president of St. Aug- |
ustine's College. told the gradu- 1
sirs, alumni and friends of Sb fc ■ j
University in the principal address ;
»t the commencement exercises:
closing the summer session here
ia=t Thursday morning.
The courts will perform their |
function, he said, but we must |
inak* adjustments in the coinmun- j
jt.v after the court has passed j
judgment In the interim there are j
som-* things the people can do :
themselves. Dr. Trigg explained,;
and added:
ELIMINATE DISCRIMIN ATTON I
(Continued on page S) i
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THE KLIM MOVES IN
Hale-Mongers Start Drive
To Take Over State During
Columbus County Meeting
BY A STAFF WRITER
WHITE'VILLE - What, can be
termed the beginning of a con
entrated effort to promote racial
and religious intolerance in North
Carolina was staged in a farm
field neat here last Saturday night
is 97 robed and hooded members
.if the Ku Kiux Klan held a cross
ruining. speech-making session be
ne an audience of about 5.000
ue a pie
NEGROES STAY AWAY
Os the estimated 5,000 people on
hand including the 97 Klansmen.
and nearly ,0’ peace officers, only
an estimated 20 were Negroes
Tn Whiteville and Tabor City
f iily Saturday Negro citizens had
b-mn told that they would be ' wel
come” to attend the session, aim
ed at recruiting new Klansmen.
Tie. > declined the hooded
order's courtesy, however.
SPEAKERS RANT AND RAVE
Speaking from a makeshift
platform which In reality was j
the tied of a truck, Thomas L.
Hamilton, grand dragon of th- I
Klan of (he Carolina* and Wil
liam (Bill) Hendrix, grand
dragon of the Southern Klan
and candidate for the gover
norship of Florida, ranted and
raved, taking verba! pot-shots !
at matters ranging from Chris
tianltv t® bureaucracy.
HITS NEGRO VOTING
Specifically, Hendrix, utilizing 3
“Southern draw!”, attacked bloc j
voting He referred to the Smith- i
Graham Senatorial race of 1950,
noting that defeated candidate .
Frank Graham recevied a bulk of j
Negro votes during t#e e %ipoign, :
He observed:
'lf they (Negroes) can’t do i
mere than mark a name some- j -
body tells there to mark ar I
punch a number of a voting j
machine they shouldn't have j 1
the right to vote,"
SAYS KLAN POWERFUL ,
Hendrix further inferred that ’
one Klansman is more powerful! j
than 7.000 ‘persons, even though!
those peon! ebe white He said:
"1 understand 7,000 noople gang- I
•d hd and ran one little n r out; <
if Cicero” . .
T bet I could have put on a!
vhite robe and 50 of them would j ;
iave left there .
His reference was to a recent | .
Incident in Cicero. Tllinoi. in which j
1 Negro veteran’s home was at
tacked when he sought to move
ntn h lilv-white community.
SEEK MEMBERS
Both Hamilton and Hendrix
made clear the fact that the Klan j
weds additional members in t
North Carolina Th«* group is seek- i
ng both male and f-male mem-!
bers. it was stated. The Klan chiefs J
aid that there is already a well- j
established Klavern in Columbus
County and *hat efforts are being j
nade to set up units throughout j
'he state.
MEMBERS CONFUSED
That even the members ®f ]
the Klan, replete with robes j
and hoods were not altogether [
aware e.f what they were do- j
ing was indicated by the lack i
of precision in the ceremonials
which were performed as a
part of the meeting.
In forming the tradition
(Continued on page %)
Series On Taylor
To Be Continued
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RALEIGH - The CAROLIN- \
TAN'S series of stories concerning I
charges of unethical conduct tow- j
•ii d a client being ‘preferred j
igainst Raleigh Attorney Herman j
L, Taylor will be continued next j,
week. |
Attorney Tayloi is to be givnn ! .
hearing on the charges here on 1
Scutemher ft.
’rt l T' f ‘
WWfVW4IUHMUIIIIU-
MINISTER SUES
FIRM ON FALSE
ARREST CHARGE
DURHAM Rev V F.. Brown. ‘
35-year-old local preacher filed,
suit for SIO,OOO against the opera
tors of a beer distributing “>">
here for alleged wrongful arrest. I
The action was instituted against
.1. E. Durham and Tuggle Webster, , •
trading as Wehster Distributing,
Company this week.
The complain' say: -hat on Jan ,
2. Rev R'.oivn. as nasror of Orange
Grove Baptist Church, asked a.!
member of ihe firm for a dona ;
non for the church
Rev, Brown .-ays that he w»«
told •<■' ?o to the main ofice of >h*- l
' ; ’ m at a certain hour.
Following these instructions, he!
claims he >.as given a cheek for ,
si(t signed hv the comaanv and
made p i;, able to the chU'*:b
He -- vs that he Wi arivsfod bv ;
[police oifio.-'-s charged >.v<th faG” |
pretense, taken to Pji ■,•» Head-'
>martens an:: ke-ut in rnl ift ho w* j
because he could, not then nuke
l bond of 5.5?0
He f uiti‘ r charges ihe del**-*
dants with planning to have fun
arrested at a fixed hour at. them
establishment, and had two police
[men in :i back office waitina for
j him
Rev. Brown charge- that he was
'arrested without wararit and that]
the check for slo was confiscated ‘
by the officers j
The action further contends that
a warrant was: not issued until
Feb. l, after Brown was arrested j
and imprisoned and was never!
seryed on birr:
On June HR Rev. Brown went j
on trial in Durham County Suner-:
ior Court and the conn directed
a verdict of "not guiltY."
(Continued on jwg-e $} [
FIRST OF MANY Thomas
L, Hamilton, grand dragon of
the Ku Klux Klan of the Caro
lina* shown addressing a meet
ing of the hooded order near
Whiteville last Saturday night
N. C. Philadelphia Grads
Addressed By President
Os Georgia Institution
PHILADELPHIA Dr C. V-
Troup, youthful president of Fort
Valley Slate College. Fort Val
ley. Ga., said that America’s edu
cational and social institutions
must woi k toward man's total
freedom from social frustration
and economic deprativity.
He spoke before 1.10 gradu
ates of the iOih commencement
of Pioneer Easiness and Indus
trial Institute on the spacious
lawn of historic Ridgeway Li
brary here last week. He was
presented by E. R. ('lemons,
president and founder of the
school.
In talents from North Carolina;
finishing course; were-
WINSTON - SALEM: Edward;
Austin. Tailoring. Grady Banner, j
Business: Thomas Banner, Busi
ness.
WINDSOR: John Radgemore,
Tailoring.
HALIFAX: Jimmie Johnson,
i Ta iloring.
LOWELL: Ralph Walker. Busi
ness-
WARRFNTON- Fm-'rson Alston, j
Tailoring; Crawford Can-nil Tail
- n ine.
‘ ■ —-TT....1 a ....
i
-di* that last week’s meeting.
1» the ‘first of many" to be stag- j
ed in North Carolina as the ,
Klan seeks 1« renew' its reign
of intoleranre through the state.
NC PRESS ASSN.
URGES FACTUAL i
COLOREJ NEWS [
WRIGHTSVILLE B E A C H—j
North Carolina newsmen must;
; ’rtk.e a sober, factual appa-oach to!
i :lews about Negroes and thus “help
i to solve with least friction a mat-;
'ter that must be solved, race re-1
! lations". Henry Be Ik of Goldsboro!
i old the summer meeting of tho
! North Carolina Press Association!
; hero Fririav |
’ I think snort of us ne*-d to re- j
cogmzi- the news value of what
! our Negro subscribers are doing”. [
he said ■‘aiid give adequate cov
erage m type and pictures to this
news. We. in justice to a great.
; segment of population must give
more space to reports on their
news. Indeed, .if a paper. is pub-!
iished in a section that has a large;
per cem of Negro population, it!
is not serving advertisers ad*, j
ouately unless this larger per cent!
is represented m the news col-!
amns.
By slow degrees we can
change our attitudes and our no-!
iicies. We will, in so doing, make :
our papers better sales mediums’
(Cmiinntd m> page R)
YOUTH FITCHES j
PERFECT GAME;
LOOP WANTS HIM:
Hurler Striker Out
27 Men In Shut-out
Allowing \o Walks j
Special to The CAROLINIAN
ARARAT. Va. - The old say- j
ing if you can build a better ,
mouse-trap, etc, . . the world j
v ill beat a path to your door " j
is being paraphrased here this 1
week to contend . if you can ’
pitch a perfect baseball game, the j
Carolina League will beat a path J
to your door” as scouts for teams j
in the North Carolina-Virginia I
circuit attempt to ‘talk business" j
with a local Negro pitcher, who i
holds the distinction of having j
niched a truly perfect" game re-1
centlv
It has been teamed here 1
that, representatives of “at !
least three" Carolina League ;
teams are attempting to sign
Sant Carter of the local Cross
Roads semi-pro baseball team
to a CL contract.
STRUCK OUT EVERYBODY
Carter’s stellar pitching ability
was brought to light Inst weekend
when he faced and struck out—in
sequence—27 batters of the Mount
Airy team. The feat was observed
bv a Mount Airy radio announcer
who passed the news on and set
Carolina League scouts in action
In the gam--- m-ainst S/fount Airy,
wnic Carter's team won by a 9
to 0 count, the lanky righthander
dr.i not allow an oppose- to reach!
first base His pitching was error
less as he allowed no walks and
i' tired all men on strikeouts, not
even allowing in and outfield ac
tivity, That the game was a shut
out indicates the perfection if his
hurling task,
MAY SIGN SOON
I Carter, well known through the
‘ area, is said to be “.surprised" at,
! the attention being shown his
playing. He modestly reveals “Oh. ;
• that wasn't anyhtmg. I guess I've:
done the same thing m other
: games ”
He says he «h willing h>
.Continued do page H)
|
| SEEN IN “EXERCISE SOtJTH
! ERN FINES” The largest dte
! play of United Sdntes Armed
: Force# might As now hetrig stag
b> Exercise Southern Pines with
1»0,0W> soldiers and airmen tak-
I ing part in the mass maneuver. 1
* The importance of tne re-is Tie
inif ployed hj 7 Nejrro- soldiers In
I ~ ''Lc.Si 'wKkIV '-'ll->;rt
fall mri § : f m/m
MISS RALEIGH TITLE WIN -
J NERs Misses Dorothy Sham
j Me and Frances Butcher were
t winner and runner .up, reaper-
I lively, in i recent Miss Ra
leigh" contest s'agcd as a fe.v
--i lure nt the first annlversarv
I eeiebraiion of rnr THF» V
| DEUCE?* miistcal organisation
I dicker Retaiined
As School Head
Despite Protests
Lee Parents May-
Boycott School
PLASH!
sANfORD The CAKO
LI.NT AN learned here tVednfi.-
day that parents of children,
wiio are i«t return to classes
at Lee County Training School
, on August 29 may keep their
children it home in boycot
ting the remit decision of the
Lee Fount} School Board re
taining Prof. w. B. Wicker as
principal ot the -i hind, Hie
»ole Negro hi,;h school i'ai'ii
(‘oiiUlii.ed on page Hi
Ihe exercise has hern termed s»~
culculable. Tn photo bottom
right, above, members of the
3*17 th Engineer Battalion of
Camp Campbell, Ky.. purify wa~ ;
ter for “Aggressor” forces. !»
the foreground is Use. W*lJie
Madox. Jacksonville, X. C. In !
te.o inners ’".rf itfc.i vb ■
cf>-f!ed title from 2 field of
•lot< n entries- Beth winner:, s'-
tend Raleigh Washington Kvp
School. Local Radio Annouaicer
J f> Levis was master of cer 1 -
mooifs fer she event. The Three
n, oft? and orchestra ettterfa'.>
ed —(Staff photo by D. Hintv”’>
HANFORD Lee Count;- Tram
iny School? embattled cnnciv-ul.
Prof W. B Wicker ha: been
j . <ite of confidence by the coc.n
--1 's school bo i d and will s tv. as
principal of the schoni next <-
son despite concerted sifcr's .>>
oust him
That prof Wicker, whe has s>r-r
--vd the Lee County school tor
years as principal will be retail"--’
in th" position was made known
hoc this week when a group ■u
vocatinp Wicker’s ouster ts in
formed that no change will be
mad" in the school’s admiaisv,:*-.
lion
This group, the Lee County
t'o ordinating Committee, h“b
prior to the closing of ib.«
195tt-5t school year, petitioned
the county school board h> re
place \V'<’k.cr.
Tiic committee outlined 10 gc*ev
(Continued on page ; i
top photo, right, Pvt, Georgy T
Swift. of Goldsboro and :he
Third Armored Calvary Regi
meat, Port Mead*, Md., takes a
much neded rest. In photo- %*
left, cpl- WilHe Wansiey teach
es field sanitation to me saber#
of the Path Ambulance uti
pany.