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HOLIDAY. DEATH TOLL MOUNTS Fiery Cross Blazes In State wxT;> JSk :ftß^fiflßi^fflfw'fiK'j^‘<foy V'SfW ■(■""- . tSjeSw^v® '*■*«. #w *f gßjfet|y)',, It i' 5 FIRST IN LlNE—Elissa Greenidge, 17-year-osd music and arts student, is first registered competitor in contest for "Miss Press Photographer of 1951" in New York. The winner wil! be selected fronAfinalists at Sixth Annual Ball of Photogs at Renaissance j Ballroom in Harlem on Nov. 14, Miss Greenidge hopes that she shapes up properly tor the crown. Delegates From 16 States Hear Os Church Gains j DURHAM ■— Accordiii,' to Dr. Wendell C Somerville, executive secretary of the Lou Carey For eign Mission Convention, a' total of $102,-452 19 was collected from a.’l sources for the mission pro gram during the past year. The information was incorporated in the annual report made during the 54th annual session of the Con vention held at Mount Vernon Baptist 'Lurch here August 28-21. As a follow up to work ow car ried on by the organization in Li beria, Dr. Summerville revealed that a pilgrifuage will embark for Liberia in November. More than 1.500 delegates repre sentin' 16 states. Africa. India, China, Russia, Haiti, and South Amerit a attending the session* Lore h ird tile honorable C B. D. King. Liberian Ambassador to the Ur ited States, blame a weakening sense of spiritual and moral val ues " r the “present chaotic world situation,” and say that the time has come for the church to be the '•moving factor’’ in restoring world peace. Speaking at an evening- ses <i«is of the convention, at Hill side High School the Ambassa dor said: “Too much emphasis is placed on tangible things. Overlooked are goodness, truth, love. Fatherhood of God, brotherhood of man . * OTHER SPEAKERS President J. M. Ellison of Vir-’ Major League Scouts Will Note Perfect Game Hurler During Twin City Tilt WINSTON-SALEM Sev eral Major League scouts will be on hand here Saturday night when North Carolina’s “perfect game pitcher’’ of rurent fame, is scheduled to toe the mound for a semi-pro Negro team. Sam Carter, who recently was featured in a CAROLIN IAN network story following his striking oift of 27 rival batters in what has been term the “perfectly pitched ball game” is scheduled to hurl for th~ Dewey Nite Owls when that team, meets the Rerners vilSe semi-pro team in South side Park come Saturday, ginia Union University in a stir- j ring message to the eonventon, de- j ■ dared that the Western World is! on trial. He said: “Today, the people of 1 the Orient are finding it difficult j 1 to recognize Jesus in western re- j . ligion. of Jesus.” Presdenet W. R. Strassner of Shaw University appealed to the j convention to accept the world: evils as a challenge to the mis- : sionary movement. "Christianity is | the onlv answer,” he suggested. ! V. G WILSON NEW PRESIDENT! Dr IJ. G. Wilson, pastor of Zion: Baptist Church, Portsmouth Vir-1 ginia. was elected president of the j convention upon the reitrement of j ’, Rev. Dr. O. S. Bullock of Ralei/.i. j Other officers elected were: the Rev. P. A- Bishop, Rich | Square, N. first vice presi dent; Dr. J. Vance Mclver, New Jersey, second vice prest ■ dent; Rev. J. K Moore. Wil mington, N. €., recording secretary; Dr- J. J. Freeman, ! Norfolk, Va„ asistant record ing- seccretary; Dr. A. W. Brown, Richmond. Va„ treasu ! rer; Dr. H. T. Gaskin, Wash ington, D. C., auditor; and J. B Henderson. Norfolk, Vir ginia, statistician. | State vice-presidents are: Dr. G | O. Bullock, District of Columbia, ! j Dr. J. T Hairston. North Carolina; (Continued on page 8) In pitching his much-publi cized perfect game, Carter not not only struck out 27 men, but also failed to allow on© I batter to reach first base. He gave vp no walks and then had a “good” day at bat I as his team, from Mount Airy, j won the encounter by a3to 0 i count. During the current sea i son, records show, Carter has pitched two no-hitters and & < | two hitter. He has been deluged with i offers from Carotin* League i teams, hut as yet has made no ! comment concerning Jbl» pro- j 1 Jectftd future* NC Educator Denies Rumor j DR. CHARLOTTE H. BROWN STIFLES RUMORS ON RETIREMENT MEDAMA Despite an nouncements to the contrary appearing in the North Caro lina press last week. Or, Char lotte Hawkins Brown, founder and president of palmer Me morial Institute here, will not retire from her post as head of the noted institution. Hr. Brown, who has headed Baptists Rep ort $102,000 During Lott Carey Session THE CAROLINIAN 10c Per Copy NORTH CAROLINA’S LEADING WEEKL Y j Worth More I * l— - , -___ _ _ I VOLUME IX WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 8, 1951 RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA NO. U 2 MINISTERS KILLED .■* . t 4’, '. ■ •Afr’jjßEßaaaM i. - W&RI . Jt" ,vy' .Elia & : ’.■■vA^EaV' *■: : ,„ Wp • ... n | LOTT CAR E Y OFFICIAL FAMILY The "inner circle” of the world’s largest Negro foreign missionary convention is pictured. The men shown compose the official family of MINISTERS ABE ! VICTIMS OF HIT i ANO RUN DRIVER j, Men Are Returning From Funeral When I Accident Occurs FAIRMONT Two ministers, 1 who had some tew minutes ago completed their eulogies at the funeral services for ’a departed brethren” Saturday were summon ed to their “final resting place” by Gabriel’s trumpet in the hands of a man who, according to re- j ports, refused to sound it. Dead anti victims of an i alleged hU-*nd-mn driver are the Revs, W. Johnson Gad- j dy, 78, and Mayo Woodberry, "«• The ministers, who had .just j completed funeral exercises for a Fairmont resident at a site near where they met their death, were reportedly walking along the high- ■ way when they were hit by an i autmobile. which officers say raa ; off the left side of the road —j / 4~* <•* n a lip-* «■» -r» Jt .*»» »nn ira ft | ‘ H wvu um v * the school since its inception, , told the Associated Negro i Press, of which the CARO- j I.INIAN is a member that the plans did not call for her re- ] tirement and neither did they call for her replacement by Miss Wilhelm)nia, her asois- i tant. I Dr„ Brown told the Asosci ated Negro Press: “I regret that the impres- the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Missionary Convention wbi c h closed its 64th annua! meeting at Durham last week. Left to right are the Rev. .1, H. Kan i dotph, Washington, D. €'. district; Roads Claim Majority Os N. C. Citizens On Holiday RALEIGH -- A total of fifteen deaths by violence are to be listed through the state as the result of the long Labor Day weekend, a CAROLINIAN network survey re vealed early this week, when fi gures recorded before Monday af ternoon and night's mayhem were being tabulated. ROADS CLAIM MOST Leading categorically in claim ing the most lives were the state’s roads. On Monday afternoon, at least eight deaths were already re corded in the category, with the remainder of the day and night be ing expected to claim their toll j A single homicide was re- i corded as of Monday after noon, feut CAROLINIAN sm. | vestimators in many sectors of the state reported as Sate as Wednesday afternoon the oe- j enrrenee of situation® in which personal violence was respon sible for deaths. EARLY HOMICIDE The single homicide listed in early reports reported death with the alleged shooting of a Charlotte, man by his girl, friend, Andrew Brice is dead and a 1 women. Miss Emma Hovd, is being sion has gone out that I am retiring this year. My under study, Mtes Wilhelmina M. Crosson of Boston, w f ho for 25 years or more was an instruc tor and supervisor in the Bos ton school system, is here teaching and supervising un der my observation. “I have known her from early childhood. She is a cuS -1 am sure she will carry on president; the Kev. Wendell! C. Somerville, executive secretary; Dr. L- C. Ransome, Richmond, | Va., chairman of the executive : board; the Rev, Dr. O. S. Bul ‘ lock, Raleigh, retiring president. charged with his gunshot murder, j Brice reportedly was shot on the! porch of the woman's’ home. Interracial Romance Tiff Nets Girl Suspended Term ; BEAUFORT The case of the white lover who was shot by his teen-aged Negro girl-friend recently, has been heard in court here, with sentence being met ed to the colored girl and with the man destined to face jury trial. | Bert Clark, 36-year-old white school-teacher, who | has been having relations with 16-year-old Miss Ruby I Lee Boyd since she was 13, is to stand trial in Carteret i County Superior Court during its October term ” on I charges of carnal knowledge. He is free under SIOOO ! bond. Miss Boyd, who pleaded guilty of cohabitating and assaulting Clark with a rifle when she found him in the arms of another “woman”, received a suspended prison term of two years on condition that she remain on goodi , behavior for five years. I Both cases were heard in Recorder's court here this ' vaek. the highest principles for which Palmer Memorial Insti tute has stood from its very beginning 50 years ago. "As vice chairman of the Board of Trustees for life I shall help with its program of culture, scholarship and inter racial understanding. I expect to live and die at Palmer and hereby he buried.” tured Christian young woman- and the Rev. I?. G. Wilson, Portsmouth, Va„ newly elected president. The photo was made during a session of the annual I meeting- heldat Durham's Mount j Vernon Bassist Church- I A later homicide report also concerns Charlotte residents. (Continued on page 8) T&k' "•iifflr t 'Mot..: . Fiery Cross Is * •" * y* " r If . 1 - »' Nash Residence By J. B HARKEN ROCKY MOUNT, N C. Re ports from Nashville, county seat of Nash County, 9 miles west of here, state that police officers were summoned to the scene of a ‘cross burning” in the section of ‘he county known as Sandy Cross early last week. Details of the cross burning were meager, but it 's said to have been a ten by 6 "o:>‘ cross fully wrapped and was ound still standing though bur.i --d out when officers arrived on School Jimcrow Again Under Fire By NAA CP Head (See Earlier Story. Page 1, Section 2) By .1. B. HARKEN ROBERSONVILLE, N, C. (SPE CIAL) —Approximately 400 Mar tin County citizens gathered in the First Baiptist. Church here Monday night heard Kelly M. Alexander of Charlotte, state NAACP presi dent blast segregation in ai! its ‘orras and denounce ‘'Uncle Tores and pseudo leaders who are", he said, “selling the people snort on ! this matter of first class citizen j ship." ! NAACP MEMBERSHIP DRIVE AND BANQUET The occasion was a member j ship drive and banquet by the J local NAACP unit which was 1 | organized in April and has al ready made itself feft In the ; county by filing a petition ask ing for the elimination of seg regation In education on the elementary level in Martin ! County schools. As a result of this petition. I several Negro ‘‘leaders'’ have been pressed into “service" by the county and city officials of WHliamstoxt (county seat 1 j and placed the radio in an effort to stem the rising tide against segregation In Martin ; County. j Mo disunity was shown by the .! hundreds at this meeting Twenty- I four joined the NAACP at (he ; meeting and lifted a creditable of fering besides. (Continued on page 8) CAN HE REPEAT? Tb<‘ question at issue throughout the sports world is whether Ran dolph Adolphus (Handy) Turpin, above, who recently won the wor 1 d middleweight boxing championship from Ray (Sugar) Robinson in London, will be able to again defeat Robinson when the two meet tor the title at New Yorks Polo Grounds on Wednesday sight, September 12. (For facts pertinent to the fistic carers of both Robinson and Turpin and other data relative to the see stories page 7, section 2, this Isue.) the scene to investigate A pc: son was r> ported seen t in an auto, it is said f The burning was said to have oc utred in the vicinity of one Ed, i lizi-lle’s home on the land of J, f W. Bone, prominent merchant of t i e Sandy Cross community. Both iorsons are white Whether or not t he affair was the result pranksters i i of Ku Klux Kian origin has ■■ V: h «*n ascertained. The conrun -1 i ■ is reported quiet about the i LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN The Rev. G. E. Cheek, newly ! elected executive secretary of | the Shaw University Alumni j Association, from his offices on ; the Shaw campus at Raleigh, has recently launched the alumni ! {roup’s ambitious campaign which includes the reactivation of Shaw Clubs; bringing the group’s files up to date, arid *e i curing the funds with which t» i realize the association’s current 117,500 budget.
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