Cong. Powell Irks High Point Audience Failing To Fill Talk Engagement Congressman's Substitute Has 1 o Plea I o Be Heard HIGH POINT The iailuu of On,,-'i t. an Aiiarn Clayton Pow *■ll. .1. , tJ.Ji-ni.-Nx > to in! a .-.cm t uii il ..j akji!„ engagement hero 1;*! Sunday ni;;ht left a fbcal fiti/i-ns a; "wet" aa tiu proverbial "Wot lien" even though a sub.st.i tntt jijji alter lilh-d the' podium m the. place of the v toran legislator and did an excellent jot) of speak* liMl Horn tin soojevJ which had hifi cliti.ru uv t.u- congressman n Powell had been • to the Ministers’ Wive: .•ihla.iCf here to appear at the ( ONCRIS-MAN pom i.l. . . his art irked Tired Os Threats, Man Kills Brother-In-Law NORTH WH.XESBORO - A lo ot mail who said he ■ ojoi good 1 : t! tir’d ui lus brother-in-law; threatening to boat hun up. is in’ jaialhvre the- week bein'.’ hold: u itin:tit t end on a first - degree i murder marge growing out of hia having .<hot i.itd killed mis would be assailant Wilkes Counts' Sheriff Claude., Billinps revealed that ho i: hold hig Turney Gwynn of the Honda ' < oiriiriunitv on the above charge following GwyrnVs Sunday pistol* ■ hot murder of Floyd Eilcr, the brothei -in-law. Driver Gets “Chummy" -Woman Leaps From Car OLRhAM A local woman. !’iat. she would not go home with a male companion, luaut good her promise here Tues day by leaping from the car in 'vhicli the man sought to take her away. She suffered injuries in her h ..p for v such hospitalization has pi oven m.ce .carv GIRL WINS TOP HONORS IN L, U. ESSAVEVENT _ jkfvfuson city, mo ~ a high school junior from St, Pauls. N. led seven cash prize win ners from a.v many different states in the annual National Scholastic Essay Cunt—t which tin Lincoln University School of Journalism has conduct* • ! tthre< years Miss Anna Louise Hsv of St Pauls high school, earned tot her self 5100 i cash for her 1.000- worct essay on "1 Am Going to Be c* rne A R* sponsible Citizen Bo cause . " Other ; riz* 1 in the contest went to: Em nr a Lie Fincher, junior. Elk horn < \V. V.i > hi. h school, second thO: Perry While, senior. Attuok* high school. Indianapolis, Ind. third. 53a; James Gamble. Doits las Anderson high school. South Jacksonville, Fla.. fourth. $25. Oa> zola T«> vnsend, junior, Confess huh school Louisville, Ky, fifth S2O, Alonzo Pottus. junior Dunbar ilish i. Little Rock, Ark. «!>•'’■ •" M 'to-i Lee Simon Junior, Mather Academy Beaufort 8, C-, seventh, $5, * . 0.l he presented Ut Mu 1! . i 1 iri biJt'lfUcf <t Lin coln Usov, ssity April 23, when the firs! da*■•* Winner is due to read her essay. Woman \ltonuvy To Speak at Shaw llniv. RALLlCH —Attorney L, Marian Po**. Newport News. Vo., first Ne gro woman to be admitted to the bar in che South, will bo guest tpcok.T id Shaw University Ves pers in the University Church, Sunday at «l3<) pro. Her subject wili ho "A Challenge to Youth.’ The program will be* under the ausjpjo s of the Sigma Gamnra Bho Eorbrity. The public, is invited. vji.u .>) Penn Svhoo! in thf rtmpV - fliort to iai <* fund* so: • wachiiea table in lh< city schools • Dr. David 1 icorish, Congressman j a) Jlailem s ,’iainnioKi Abbysimai: ; Powell's assistant in the paste,uu i *-’■ t.' t.si Chei eh, played the role of j . su.isiitute. but spoke only to ai it mdful of persons who mnainec ■ -Iter the basic crowd, estimated ; I !>OO. left in a huff because of Pow :i l.uluie to a -pear. PLEADS TO lib HEAR J>r ijeorish. a forceful i.Kitin in hi* own right. had to plead to in- Heard by the tirotip. He admonished his lis teners. stating, "ft >ou walk away from here, you arc walk •ng away from what we have i ".mi striving for the past ten years, emancipation and free dom.” Dr Licorlsh noted that the con- | gressman was forced to be abserr i i-c cause of fatigue from having; , participated in a conference at the j i Umvif-dty ..£ Vermont on the; p: I '. •«». ding day. SPEAKS FREE Dr I .icot tsh, having been told by j ' •if , 'u'ud:i of the alliance chat he j -could not be inverted as speaker.! ■ said that he would return t)u-j cud which hud been paid to I i Pow 'll and deliver the addm s ! : without * barge. H. Jheu delivered a forceful ad- ; di'e.s-, l rum the subject Dirtio -1 guLshed Ciiaractnristit s ot Chris- i him Disct-pleshlp.” Dr. Eicunsh holds the distmc- 1 turn of being the assistant to the! ostor of the largest Protestant church in the nation. /m cordin' io report' received : ,y -“he sheriffs ofice. EJJer came to' <j\v viij: ,10 10 0 early Sunday | fnornins- shewing the effect.- <"( having been drinking. Ho, accord reports, kept repenting r:is ■orc-at to "beat up" Gwynn, unon the tatter wont into the house, returned with .•» 4! »:a!ib it- i :oi and On-da single -■ho! thro -oh Eller s chest. The man 'was killed instantly. Mis' Mamie Sales, who was a witness to the affair, is being hole a materia! witm s- rending pre liminary tu.-ai tog According to police reports, Miss l.i’;, \\ a- sit’i, 32, who lives in , Fvlut;ial Court Apartments here, i riding a lona with Odell 1 '-ouch. 27, of 310 South Street ! near the intersection ot Alston i .‘.venue and Glenn Street when jCoadi (old her that she was 40- I *'.sa home with me or else '. ! The woman announced that she •wasn't going anywhere", and uddenly jumped from the moving J vhicle. In her leap, she suffered frac • nres of the arm and shoulder. Her | om. anii d has been jailed for "jn -1 vev’tigaOon* i t „, , „ ~ ' ■" " -- - [ The STATE In BRIEF ] j —— I Shaw Baseballers fop Teacher Nine ILvLFIGW - Winston - Salem I jumped into a seven run lead m * | ,u* first three innings, only to be; I iveraken by Shaw in a Baseball j j tame; at Chavis Field lier«' Salur- : | day. The Rams came up with two . ! unearned uins in the first inning! j atid reached Shaw’s pitcher Jim j I ’.’unnmghom for five runs on six hi- in third. A1 Page slammed a! hrec run triple in the third for ; he blow of the inning. Shaw cased back steadily with j r ree runs in the fourth, two in j In- fifth, and four in the sixth to like the lead. An extra tally was idded by the Bears in the eighth ] i For Shaw it was their second l • .‘otifevenc;* win against one loss. j Business Week Event Slated At Raleigh RALEIGH, N. C. The Eta Sigma Chapter, Phi Beta f Sigma .Fraternity, composed of bu- i •'incss and professional men of, Raleigh and vicinity is sponsoring; i “Bigger and Better Business | Week’’ Observance April 26—May | j W. J. Kennedy. Jr. of Durham, I president of the N. C. Mutual Life I Insurance Gomp a n y has been ! named keynote speaker for the] opening public meeting to be held j RIDS RELEASE NO 01 Compete For Memorial Scholarships MBS' a — m Four of the -10 competitors for Id Janus E. Shepard Memorial Foundation S: hnlurships are shown here In Durham last JILTED BY LOVER, GIRL, 19, DRINKS ‘CLOROX’; SURVIVES DURHAM GIRL ;DRINKSB!i*CH Sold i<*r Oversea Says Ilf s Through: Girl Takes Dose of Acid • DURHAM Chile him; a bum in wiiiC'.i her lioluiur ooy-fi ieno i ‘announced that he was ’through • [ with lie; in -I’m hand, and a half -emptied bottle of 'Ctorox' ! .’a' acning solution in the other, a • : di-yi ar-old local gni was; found at her home here Sunday suiter mg tioin tin elleets of tin poison- . ius solution and an apparent i would-be suicide. I 3li» Margaret Clack of 1103 Glenn Street was announced to be in fair condition at Lin coln hospital here early this week following her Sunday suicide attempt. When lound, suffering front the effects of the solution, the young jgul told officers that she itae • received the Idler from her bur. ,ii- nd who is now stationed with S niiitury forces in Germany. The 1 letter, she said indicated that the j 101 no longer cared for her. “I wanted to end it ali,” she cried. 'Che young lady was rushed to : ' dual ’hospital where it was found ; that she had drunk more than at* j ounce of the cleaning, bleaching 1 1 solution. She remained in a "fair ! condition" at CAROLINIAN press- ; ■ time on Sunday evening, April 20‘. 8:00 j P.M. at the Manly Street Christian j c-huren. \ ’ Bigger and Bettor Business’’ ! Clinic will be con dueled at the; Bloodworm Street YMCA Tuesday.! ! April 23, 7-30 P.M. Speakers fori (his occasion are Mrs. W S Lock hart. principal of the Crosby-Gar i Public School; William A | Oailku d, manager of the Wake i I (.onsumers Mutual Association ,<*u- j | pe.r-market and A. J Turner, j Owner oi Turner’s Florist. E. L. \ ; Raifovd, YMCA executive anc I * chairman of the committee will: j preside. During the entire week business; men and citizens will observe | “Trade Week" under the slogan! j ' Visit and Tri d *• With Your | : Neighborhood Business Man.’* i : NEC. Si mien! Given Wilson Fellowship : .DURHAM— James L. Atwater. | : president of the Student Go ern- j iicri Association at North Caro- J I bra College, has been elected to * : Woe rlrow Wilson Fellowship for ! the academic year 1953-54 AI water. a senior from Chapel j Hill, plans to use the (cilowaSiip j to study at the University of Penn- j sylvnnia. The Woodrow Wilson Follow- I ship Program was established by j Princeton University in 1915. It b : sponsored bv the Association of (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8j t week with North Cirotina Col b'ee Alfonso Elder, extreme left, and Mr. Rath G. Rush, second from chair THE CAROLINIAN / I I, !!SJ ~ * Ji VOL. Xil llALEjr.fi, NORTH CAROLINA YVERK ENDING SATI ■ RDAV, APRIL 25, 19-Ti NO. 22* One 'ln’, Two‘Out ’As Cities Vote In Primaries R. N. Harris Into General Election In Durham; In High Point, Greenwood Out ATOMicjBLASTS CAMP DESERT ROCK. Nev.— ' Marine St rgcant George Mason, of Wilmington. North Carolina, is one >: uv ; UO Marines now at the Atomic Energy Commission Prov ng Grounds J'ot the latest .series h ntorni*.- 1 sts. While i ere he ' ill witness an domic < xplostion and then join in a mock ground-air assault on ! to objective near Use center of the muaet area. S* rat Mason is a member of rattaliou of Marinos from Camp Lejeuntr. N. C, which along with J another battalion from Camp Pon •1 let on. Calif., was flown to this Insert .sit. to participate in the tomm attack problems, S t Meson enlisted in the Ma- ; in;:- C aps following the conv ’o- : •-.or, of high school His w ife. | Mrs. Hiiia Mason, lives in Wil- j ■ j ,n SGT. MASON ' ' | man ot the Shepard Scholarship ("osnii'.ilcfe. Scholarship eonineti tors are second from left: Lula Glenn, Kannapolis, N. Gla «1 STAFF REPORTER RALEIGH One Negro is “in’ and anoth; ! is "out" oi general election voting in two ol the : ;r,:in major cities as the result ■ s>f Tuesday's Primary returns. At Durham, businessman R. N. Hair;., wen the tight to seek election to the city's thin* ward ■>.eal on the City Council by be *.ng first man in a 3-man race tor nomination and at High Point, Pharmacist Augustus Greenwood i was put out of the general elec tion picture By being third man m the cun st tor nomination from nis ward, victory for race group At Durham Wednesday morning, Harris’ .successful qmst of the ; nomination was being considered , a victory fen the Durham Commit tee on Negro Affairs, which is : considered a power political or* j ganijation in the city Harris had received the buck ing oi the committee shortly after ■ he announced his intention to »%ek .election to the council from Dur jftam’s predominately Negro- popu lated Third Ward, in backing liar j< is bid, the committee ignored trie 1 bid for the same post being made |by Prof James T. Taylor oi' North ! Carolina College. In Tuesday’s voting at Durham, i Harris, led (in field, polling 1620 I otes. A white merchant seeking '•he Third Ward seat, Marshall I Mungum received the right to ! have his naitie placed on the gen -■‘•a! election ballot by being run -1 tor-rip with 155,3 ballots being east in hi.u behalf. Taylor was put out of the genera! election pic ture bv polling 1238. WAS ONLY RAGE The race for the Third Ward nomination was the only one in volved in the Dunham primary. The third is the only ward in which a 3-way contest presented itself prior to the general elec tion. Ta.vlor. in ’bucking’’ the Committee on Negro Affairs, said that he remained in the race to find out whether Durham voters would sanction the committee’s “■hand-picking’’ of candidates. The committee, as a polilctal factor, is •aid without peer in the city. (CONTINUED ON FACE 8) dys Chavis, Ahoskie, third from left; and Hugh A. House, (iolds- Uoro .third front right. ..... ■ : wt; : • J®#****. 1 11 -**+■ . mm . fl|| WmWm 1 ifcucfrrr .VSwr r Or. ;\I. L. IVrry, veteran Fay -1 ettevllle physician, has entered I ! the race in his home town fore- | Raleigh Citizens Group “Hands Off” In Politics; Want Fire men; Rue Bias By i AROUNIAN Staff Writer , I RALEIGH The Raleigh Citizens; 'Association, at its regular monthly; | meeting last week, found itself j ‘facing many problems, several of j j which wore carried over for sub- . j sequent action. ! The meeting, presided over by | the Rev. Mr G. A. Fisher, Associa- j Uon president, decided that since! neither of the two Negroes seek i ling City Council seats had seen • , fit to seek tile Association’s back- j [ trig, the group would not give its! I oiiici.'d endorsement to either can,- j Soldier Released By Red Forces Said To Be Neerc FREEDOM VILLAGE, Korea —At least one of the first JO Americans released from com munist Prisoner of War eaingis as 'lhe Big Switch got un derway hero last week was a North Carolina .Negro, Tentatively identified as a Negro soldier w\.s James L. Pinkston, w hose hometown was listed as Jackson. X. C. Because of "security” ar rangements involved in the processing of the returned war prisoners, it was impossible : for Pinkston, whose rank was not listed to be interviewed by the press. It was equally impossible for him to be seen, in an effort to determine the rare. The tentative Ulentiifea tiori. however, lists him as a Negro, Pinkston was among' the first 16 soldiers of the first 30 re leased by the communists and i lection to the City Council. Dr. j Perry seeks the seat on the city ! ruling body now occupied by Ne- I sro Physician Dr. W. I*. DcVane. didate. Individual members were j j.rged to support cither or both! the Negro aspirants, as they saw fit, The Association indicated it! would give its wholehearted sup j pert to the candidate fortunate! enough to survive the April pri mary. The Association discussed (he •hospital situation prevailing here in Raleigh at great length and was j quite concerned about the apathy i <>l Raleigh s Negro citizens on thisj issue Many suggestions were off- J .red us means of alerting the No- j brought to Freedom Village. He lias since left Korea, bound for Tokyo where transporta tion has been arranged tor his passage "state-side”. According to security offi cers, I’inks toil was one of the Gl’s who indicated tiiat ef forts had been made by the communists to Indoctrin ate their prisoners with com munist dicta. i Gets Honor Professor Hugh V. Brown of Goldsboro uas honored rece ni ls by being named Iho “Out ; standing Hainptonian of ilia Year" in the slate of North Caro lina. (See Story, pictures page j 1.. section 2| RALEIGH ELKS TO BE HOST TO j DISTRICT MEET RALEIGH Raleigh's Fidelity Lodge No. 277, IBI‘O Elks will play host to the annual district meeting of the order on Sunday, j May 3rd with the local Elks’ homo erviiig as headquarters for Kim events. In addition, the local Cros ' bv-Garfield School will be this 1 site of the district oratorical con ies' during the day-long session Another feature of the day will be a parade which will precede he oratorical contest The parade, which will feature I marching units and musical groups, I will leave the Elks home on East : Davie Street at 2:30 to go to the ! school where the contest will be | held. Among the lodges scheduled to lake part are those front i Durham, Sanford. Chapel Hill, Henderson and Warrenton it* i addition to the local group. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8) FORMER RALEIGH BOY RATES HIGH IN OHIO SPORTS (Special to Carolinian) CLEVELAND, Ohio - A former j Raleigh, NC resident is proving himself a formidible competitor in sports at East Tech High School here. c-m-or | .assiter, son of the Rev. i and Mrs Lassiter who until four years ago lived in Hyde Terrace. I Chavis Heights Apartments, Ra ] leigh, last year was selected by ; the Cleveland News the All-Scho astic out fielder, this season u j.novinj over to the short-stop slot | with the East Tech High Scarabs and has already shown ability to j fill that spot, IS OF PRO CALIBRE ■ East Tech High Coach George 1 Bouhasin told reporters 'here last j week that he was switching young Lassiter front the outfield to the j infield post because "I feel it 1# ! tor George's own good. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8* I - s , r o public to the great danger con* ! fronting all of our people unless j steps are taken to prevent the County Commissioners from sad j Uling a huge bond issue upon us jlo pay for a now hospital to be -'iven to the trustees of St. Agues, a private board with no duty or obligation to the public. The Association finally decided |to ask Its president, the Rev. Mr, ! Fisher to meet with as many or* jganized groups as possible for the ■ purpose of enlisting their aid lit j (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8) .

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