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HE DIDN'T FORGET Leon J»J*<«i lleftb who was treated to
his first turkey dinner when he arrived as a penniless displaced person
from Germany sis year* ago, said “thank you" in h>s own way last
week for the opportunities in the V. S. which ha* established him as
the president of a 25 million dollar sewing: machine company. He
passed* out turkeys (and all the trimmings) to his New York em
ployees, among them Miss Lucille I). Hayes, show n receiving the bird.
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Boy, 5, Rescues 6 Month
Old Brother From Fire
DUNN A five year old bo.v
risked hu life here over the week
end in a vain effort to save the
iife of nis two year old sister
The little hero, is C. M. Clause,
S. son of Mr. and Mrs. Luther
Gau.se of Dunn.
A raging fire swept, through the
Cause’s home Saturday, burned the
house completely and destroyed
the family's furnishings.
The Cause’s 2 year old
daughter. Magdalene, vsas un
able to get out of the house
before It was consumed in
flames and was fatally burn
ed.
C M. dashed into the burning
house ’•'kkod up his six months
oid brother, Elgit, and dashed to
sifety.
Although he tried hard and came
near meeting death himself, “C
7u." was unable to drag two year
old Magdalene to safety before
she was fatally burned.
According to Cause's account
of the tragedy, his wife, who
lived in the family's wooden
home near Falcon, left the
Pome Saturday to get some
groceries.
Dr. N. B. Johnson, Prominent
Raleigh Minister, Succumbs
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Whites Needßac e Profs.
RALEIGH lf white children
in North Carolina are forced to
study under Negro teachers as a
resuit of an anti-segregation rul
ing by the Supreme Court, they
will probaby get better training
than they now get under white
No Racial Segregation
At New VA Hospital
SALISBURY (Special) —Special
interest is being shown here tn
me dedicatory rites of the new
J2O million Veterans Hospital siat
••il for Sunday, December 8 at 2
p. m.
In keeping with VA policy, this
facility that will open with 377
of its 973 beds available immedi
ately, will operate along integrat
es. ratiier than segregated lines.
According to Dr. Louis F Ver
de 1, hospital manager, 208 beds
were expected to be made ready
tor imtepts lest Monday.
Harvey k. ■His’ey of Washington,
Veterans Administrator, will be the
cruel speaker at the formal dedi
catory program for the new 19
buiidtng ncoropsychialric center
In Washington recently. Ad-
Jiiinisimor Bigler upheld the
VA‘* policy of racial integra
tion tri th»- ease of the VA ho»-
pitai at Oteen, Representative*
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Mrs. Gau.se was unable to ex
■ ; plain the fire's origin,
e; Funeral services for the child
j was exp cted to be held early
,ji i the week. j
:G. I. Stages |
Holdup At
Fort Bragg
j j FORT BRAGG -- A tan GI ban- j
;, dit with a creme colored conver- I s
! tible robbed a barracks company j
E j of SSOO here Tuesday.
’ ; Military and civilian police were j
r : searching at midweek for the gun
pi man who staged » daring daylight
! robbery of the XVIII Airborne
! Corps' barracks in C company,
I 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment,
i Tile outfit is integrated with white
and Negro Gl’s.
The bold gunman held five
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RALEIGH The Rev. A. B.j
Johnson, 66. prominent minister
of Raleigh died at the Lincoln
Hospital, Durham, Monday follow
ing a week's illness. Funeral ser
vices will be conducted from the
First Baptist Church here Thurs
day at 3:00 p. m.
Rev. Johnson was pastor of the
First Baptist Church of Selma at
the time of his death. He also
held a pastorate at the Mt. Bright
Baptist Church in Hillsboro. He
served foi several years as editor
of the Baptist State Publication.
He was educated in the public
schools of Person County, Mary
Potter Memorial School, Oxford,
and A and T. College, from which
ic received the bachelor of arts
legree in 1910. Rev. Johnson was
■.warded the Bachelor of Theology
degree from Shaw University in
1921. In 1952 Shaw also conferred
he honorary degree of Doctor of
Divinity upon him.
He was employed for a number
of years in the state school system,
. serving at the Industrial Union In
, stitute, Southern Pines; Clayton,
I and Berry O’Kelly Training School
n i teachers.
o This conclusion is based open
a i a statement made last week by
-I Dr. G. 11. Ferguson, director
>'! of the North Carolina Division
gj of Negro Education. Dr, Fer
e i guson pointed out that the
1 ■ of a *o called Patients Coun
i j ell, a Jllly-white organisation,
•! protested the changeover to
policies of non-segregation.
! | Patients have been at the hos
j cital since last October 15 when j
5 1 75 persons were transferred from |
! the VA Hospital at Augusta, Ga. j
• Another 25 GFs were slated to be ;
■ moved last Tuesday.
Eight patients have already been, i
• discharged from the center after
s receiving "maximum hospital hen
i efits.”
Three hundred employee* are!
, now or. duty at the afcility.
i The completion of the new Sal- '
- Isbury pant that sprawls over j
3 (Hi acres of the facility's 430 acre i
! tract assures Negro and other GIL j
| with psychiatric problems nearby ;
j cars of the highest quality
! Numerous national, state, and lo
cal dignitaries and religious lead
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Attorney General's Anti - Segregation
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Attorney General's Anti - Segregation-
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Gl's Fined SISOO In Bus Case
NAACP Will j
Sue City In
Gl’s Arrest
COLUMBIA, S. C, Forty-seven!
army enlisted men and one Negro |
officer had to pay fines totaling
$1,573 here last Saturday night be
cause one of the men sat next
to a white waitress on a bus and
the others supported him in (s
action.
The irate South Carolina offici- j
als exacted the largest amount:
($200) frorn a Negro officer, Lt. j
Anstell Sherard, 24, who wan i
charged with causing "most of the!
trouble". Sherard’s “crime", it
seems, consisted of taking the i
names and badge numbers of bus !
drivers and policemen and arguing j
against the policeman’s attempt to
arrest the soldier.
J. M. Hinton, State president
of the NAACP, announced yes
terday that the NAACP plans j
immediate action in the ease.
He said a federal suit would
be brought against the eity of
Columbia on grounds that the
soldiers were denied “due pro
cess of law.”
The waitress, Miss June Mattox,
•said she boarded the Ft. Jackson
bound bus and sat do*n. Two Ne
groes got on the bus after her
and took a parallel seat next to
her Although one soldier moved
when she got up, the other refused
to move. Policemen were called
when the soldier refused the wo
man's request that, he move from
the seat beside her.
According to arresting officers
D. A. Neely and J. D Worthy,
they intended to arrest only the
soldier sitting next to the waitress,
but. when they attempted to do so,
the .other Negro enlisted men
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ar Method, N. C. Dr. Johnson also
served as principal of the State
School for the Blind at Raleigh for
12 years."
Several years ago, he was chosen
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HONOR PRESIDENTS
GREENSBORO Two Greens
boro college presidents are the
honorees at a fraternity program
! set here for Sunday. President F.
D. Bluford of A. and T. and Presi
dent David D. Jones of Bennett
College, will be feted at the pro
gram to be held at A. and T. The j
main speaker for the event is Dr. I
James A Colston, president of
Knoxville College, and a former
A. and T. faculty member, Colston
is frequently mentioned as possible
successor to Dr Bluford.
MISS SCALES WEDS
WINSTON-SALEM Miss Mar
guerite Scales, daughter of Mr. end
Mrs. W. D. Scales of Madison, be
came the bride of Richard Lyde
of Philadelphia in a Thanksgiving
Day ceremony held at the home
of Mrs, Dorothy Mae Ryan, 1313
East Second Street,
Average Negro taeaefcer k*o A
higher education*! rating tb*a
hi* white counterpart. And be
cause of this higher education
al rating, the salary scale for
Negro teacher* in North Caro
lina is slightly higher titan that
for whites.
Dr. Ferguson made hJs comment
in a statement expressing hope
that the Supreme Court will take
a '‘practical course’’ in the anti
segregation suits now before it.
’Our problems have evolved to a
solution, one by one, over s period
of tremendous educational change
jn the South during the last 30
years,” he said
The veteran educator, who suc
ceeded Dr. N. C. Newbold in hi*
present office, praised the “con
trolling dement of the South’’ for
its progress in equalizing Negro
! and white schools. In some dis
! Diets, he said, the recently erect
i ed Negro schools are far superior
; to the white schools. This has giv
|en white student* ample ground *
I for complaint.
j Dr Ferguson also said that
| thoroughout North Carolina, Negro
■ pi.ipii® Cvjusi
; Fchooi terms and
! books Tfi* certification rfwuir*-
; merits are identical. This has
i brought about en increase of 13,000
i Negro students attending elemen-
I wry schools since 1921.
Enrollmcn of Negroes in state
colleges has shown an even more j
remarkable increase of 8,202 in j
>952 as compared with only 295 1
ia 1921. i
THE CAROLINIAN
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VOLUME 12 WEEK ENDING, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1953 NUMBER 51 I
YOUTH KILLS SISTER
Smithfield
Youth Kills
Sis-lib Law
SMITHFIELD A 16 year old
youth who claimed he and his
sister-in-law were “Just messing ;
around" was nevertheless lodged;
in a Johnston County jail las* j
week on charges of murdering his j
brother's wife.
The victim was Mrs. Thelma Hot !
ey who husband Is now serving
with the armed forces in Korea
She has been living for a Urns*
with her in-law* at Benson.
The accused slayer is Willis j
Otha Holey who admitted shoot- j
Ing his sister-in-law with a 22 i
calibre rifle. Holey said the shoot- j
was accidental, police reported i
.According- to police, despite
conflict mg testimony by H' Ay *
and other wltneaael, there was
ample proof that the youth and
his sister-in-law had quarreled.
But. Holey insisted that they
were only “messing around”
when he fired the gun at her.
He said she held an axe over
his head with one hand while
she held down the barrel of
the gun with the other. The gun
went off, he, said, when Mrs.
Holey fell backwards.
She war taken to Dunn hos
pital and pronounced dead on ar
rival, the result of a bullet, having j
pierced her main artery just above !
the heart.
The 16 year old youth was ar-:
tested by Constable Brad McLarnb
and charged with the killing.
HAND CLINIC
GREENSBORO Frank Sta
■ chow, professor of woodwind and j
j theory at the Lebanon Valley Con- ;
! | servatory of Music, Annville. Fa., i
;! will he In charge of a special one
" day band clinic meeting at A. and j
i T. College here Friday.
1 2,006 TEACHERS
DURHAM Some 2,000 teachers j
in the Piedmont District of the N.
C. Teachers Association are ex- j
; pected at North Carolina College;
1 on Friday for the 17th regional;
’ meeting of the state organization. :
1 NCC President Alfonso Elder is
■ scheduled to welcome the teach- j
1 erg.
I _
Rev. Hamans
Honored By
Church Here
RALEIGH Tne Manly Street!
Congregational Christian Church j
here celebrated its twentieth year
of progress under the leadership of
Rev. T. C. Hamans last week.
On Sunday, November 22, Rev. j
Hamans delivered his twentieth ser
mon to a ne?»r capacity audienc , I
At the evening service, the offi-1
cere and a program committee
rendered programs highlighting the |
progress made in the increase of
membership of the church, Sunday
School and other departments.
The following improvements have
been achieved under Rev. Ham-1
ans leadethip; members have in
creased from 200 to 900; additional
property has been purchased; a
Holier organ and three pianos I
have been purchased, including 8
baby grand.
Other additions are a basement.
! a gallery, redesigning of- the
■ church front, baptismal and am-.
plifying systems, a full time
twenty room annex.
The approximate costs of these
church dark and janitor, and aj
- additions and remodeling was |
} $75,000.
To climax Rev. Hamans’ anni-!
ij vcrs&ry, a banquet was held Wed-;
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Darhamite On N. C. Board
W.-Salem |
Leads la
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| WINSTON-SALEM North Ca
t rolina has more cities employing i
| Negro policemen than any other
j state and Winston-Salem lops all
! Tar Heel cities m the number of j
i Negro p,\ Bremen, on the force.
These facts were made known;
i earlier tor-- wed: by the Southern
| Regional Counci!, the organization;
| sponsoring a survey to determine |
i the extent to which Negro police-'
j men are being used in southern j
cities.
North Carolina has 23 cities
which employ Negro police-
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VERSARY AT LOCAL CHURCH
Members of the Manly Street
Christian Church gathered last
Wednesday night, to pay resepet
to their paster. Rev, T. C. Ham-
CHAPEL HILL 'Special) W. M.
Rich, dinctor of Lincoln Hospital,
Durham, was the lone Negro mem
ber of a commission that this week
recommended,, the best medical
<;are at the lowest possible cost lor
all North Carolinians.
Rich, who recently directed
completion of almost one mil
lion dollar Improvements at
Lincoln Hospital, was appoint
< d to the North Carolina Hos
pital Study Committee two
years ago by Gordon Gray,
president of the Consolidated j
University of North Carolina.
He is regarded as one of the j
most successful hospital ad
ministrators in the United i
States. Former Governor W. j
Kerr Scott served as honorary
chaiman of the committee.
Major L. P. McLendon of Greens
boro is chairman of the committee. ,
Thirty-five of the state’s most dis
tinguished citizens served with th» j
group.
The group studied ways of in»-1
proving hospital operations, ex-!
panding prepayment plans, and fi
nancing care for low income, non-
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, .-., , .# ..a,. .. it i ".illy
- years :i« Manly Street’s pastor, j
The Rev. Walker ijiank-y, j
Superintendent of Congregation
al Chnstiaia Churches In the
Southeastern district, delivered
the setaiu address, ftrv
Fire Leaves
Mom, Sons
Homeless
I
DURHAM Fires ciaimod two
|of ho us- and furnishings over the
j lives and burned one family cut
j state last week.
In Charlotte, two men. identi
■ fled as Haywood Johnson and
Charles Neely, whose ages are
, estimated to have been around
35. perishei in an apartment house.
I A defective oil stove is bolived
i to have started the blaze,
i A rural family living near the
! Ena River on the Miiton Road had
all their possessions and their home
destroyed when fire razed their
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u nay nice gifts In .
commemoration of Ms long van- j
are as pastor of the church. In- j
elude among the gifts w*s a- ;
hat box, seen in the photo, con
taining money donated by the
y. Left ’ c right Ik the I
Court Should
Outlaw Bias;
Brownell
WASHINGTON (Special) «W
Eiser.hov.er administration *ss®«
-.egrogatin’i brief filed before tfc*
Supreme Court last week by At*
iorney General Herbert Browtuß.
J:. hit the south like * thunder*
boil and drew violent reaction*
and suifurious epithets from die
hard Dixie statesmen".
Senator Clyde R. Hoey we#
most outspoken among North
Carolina lawmaker*. He charg
ed the president and the at
torney with exceeding their Ml*
thoriiy 'in attempting to in
fluence the Supreme Cowrt m
segregation." Pointing owl that
the emigres* has i.*t*n»lsle»tilg
refused to p:*»s *Kit-segregatt««
legislation, he said, the S’*-
prenve Court has no right to
“encroach upon ihs preroga
tive of the of the Segistattv#
branch of government,"
Browned's long awaited brief
followed closely in time and sub
stance a brief filed the previous
week by the NAACP. And 4!-
ihoush «e did not mention th*
’.'AACP’s contention that separate
facilities are necessarily unequal,
his position on segregation tarried
virtually the same effect.
POINTS OF BRIEF
In essence, the Brownell bri«f
strongly opposed separation of pub
lic school children on grounds of
race. He called such septette*
'•unconstitutional” and, in direct
anwef to the high court 1 * glKftiM
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ira.Ug WILSON
At this writing I am sadly pus*
zlod as to how Negroes ever m*a»
«K« to teach Uv.ir children *by
respect for the law, I refer 4# ttm
arrest atid fining of the *olor«*
soldiers who forgot their Second
class citizenship in South Caroline
last week. Law i* given lip *gt>
vice as s protection for all th*
voked to bulwark the privilege#
people, but again it haa been in
latio.u. Can anybody urtfenctaad
of a bigoted portion of the pops
why an ex-Nazi, Fascist or Com
munist spy can enjoy all the right*
and privileges of first-class citi
zens, while, Negroes can’t? it do*#
not rest, entirely on color, im
Chinese, Mexican ,and even Aby#»
sinians can and do escape th# evil*
of segregation.
The white girt who otijeetett
to a Negro soldier’s sitting be
side her would bus among tfes
first to expect him to give Bp
his life to save her*. No on#
can seriously doubt what
would have happened had *
white soldier gone to the badl
of the bus and sat beside a
j colored girl. Had she asked
j him to move, she would have
been arrested for disturbtntf
the peace
It is an awesome thing t»
see the many people who eriti
’ eiie God for making men dif
ferent colors.
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From my own experience abroad,
j 1 know that such an Item was
i featured in the European papas*.
| It makes excellent propaganda for
: pro-Communist group*, end w#
I provide them, with a plethora at
| material,
While in Italy I frequently
I Continued on Page $
photo are Sirs, i’esri Me©®a*M
and Mrs. Alexander Wa4kta%
gifts to the vaster, Rev. Hfcmr
memberc who presented tis#
2Jos ana Mrs. Haitian* BY A F »
JFOTO ns vBAS. K. JOKSB.