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.
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dys Chavis, Ahoskie, third from
left; and Hugh A. House, (iolds-
Uoro .third front right.
..... ■ : wt; : •
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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) .