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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
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VOLUME IX WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 8, 1951 RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA NO. U
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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
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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,
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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
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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.
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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
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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.