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Mrs. Gertrude Hljjfis. 219 E.
Lenoir Street, above, was the
first recipient of a 525 bonus offer
which was awarded by the CA
ROLINIAN to the first shopper
who presents a CAROLINIAN
SHOPPERS GLIDE to one of the
many businesses advertising in
the C AROLINIAN and the CA
ROLINIAN SHOPPERS GLIDE.
You may be as fortunate as Mrs,
Higgs this week. Shop Carolinian
merchants and be sure to carry
your Shoppers Guide. If you are
the first purchase in the store
where the $25 is let'*, you will,
like Mrs. Higgs, be presented the
$25.00.
STITE NAAGP
SEEKS 10.000
NEW MEMBERS
CHARLOTTE Some forty-odd
local and state officials of the;
North Carolina Conference of the,
National Association for the Ad- 1
vancement of Colored People (N-!
AACP) meeting here in the Alex- j
ancier Hotel, Saturday, reviewed
with delight the achievement: of
tiie past year and endorsed a
more aggressive “program of ac-!
lion” in the field of civil rights
for the new year, following an
extensive outline of State NAACP
objectives by Kelly Id Alexander,
Charlotte, who is serving his sixth
year as president of the conference,
PkFINSS PROGRAM
In stating the objectives of NA
ACP, Mr Au xandor said, "The
goal of NAACP is to completely
eliminate nil forms of discrimina
tory and segregative practices im
posed upon Negro-Americans anc
members of other ethnic or reli
gious or minority groups.'’ Alexan
der, who was recently re-elected
to a second two-year term as u
rationd NAACP board member,
raid that alth "many of our lead
ers in North Carobnna seem to
diifer as to the choice of weapons
that should be used to reach our
goal", all wore silently pleased
with the results obtained and rea
lized that NAACP techniques had
proven io be most effective. While
awaiting whatever decision the U. i
£. Supreme Court may render in
the internationally famous School
Segregation Cases. NAACP is gird
ing itself for an attack upon segre
gation in railroad and bus trans
portation .dt.ru: with the waiting j
room accomodations of each; resi- !
dential segregation and use of j
public recreational areas. Also j
more qualified Negroes will be •
encouraged to enter state univer-1
si ties and colleges already open to I
them
CHURCH COMMITTEE
The Church Work Committee
under the Rev. 1,. W. Wertz of
Hamlet, is seeking to enlighten
more ministers as to the insepara- j
bieness of Christianity and the NA-j
ACP’s program. Progress along that!
line is denoted by the fact that!
more than a score of ministers'
took active part :n the 10th an-;
mat State Conference in Rocky j
Mount Inst October.
Greensboro outlined the goats set.
State treasurer N. L Gregg of j
f.OT 10,000 fnt aprl a I
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Flood Waters Give Up
Retired Doctor’s Body
GREENVILLE The raging)
waters of Tar River, made more j
violent, by the recent snow and'
rain, gave up the body of Dr.;
James C Foust, here Saturday.
It is apparent that the doctor,
committing; suicide and from ail i
chose drowning as a means of
indications made ample arrange
ment for same. He is reported to
have pulled off his over coat and
left it upon the banks of the
river. He also left other personal
belongings with the coat.
The doctor is believed' to have
attempted .uicide many times and
his absence caused a search for
him. The finding of the overcoat,
and the report of his brother that
he had been, missing since 2:30
Friday, sped the search. The search
Farmer In Mystery Death
ROBERT ON VILLE - This Mar
tin County town was all agog
last week with rumors flying thick
and fast, regarding the death of
a well-to-do farmer and part-time
wood-dealer whose remains were
found January 23rd in the ashes
of a 14-rv.om half-century old
frame dwelling \\ hi ah he had
i u’chased about a month pre
vious at a reported price of $20.-
000,
WENT TO FIRE;
NEVER RETURNED
Harvey Perkins, age 43 years,
WILSON FIRE CLAIMS FIVE
WILSON The most disastrous
I, re tha level happened in this
the world's largest bright leaf
otiaceo market eccared here Tues
day morning when five small chil
jren wore trapped ! n the flames
/ a frame house and died without
he slightest chance ot being res- ■
Ued.
Four of the children were at
mine, while the fifth child was
The Carolinian
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VOLUME THIRTEEN
Defendant In Szco nd Trial
FREE OF RAPE
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White Student At Shaw U.
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JACK AND JILL CLUB M iKLS
FOLIO DONATION Litile Di
anne Newell .daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. G. F. Newell, presents
a check for 5250 lo Air. Otis
Robertson, chairman of the Wake
Wake Forest Grad Takes
Shaw U. Education Course
The quest for education jumped
racial barriers here Wednesday
j ing party, led by j ire men Ray
| Smith and Pal Nethercutl, did not
; search long before they found
j his body in the water. The fact
, that his watch, which he had on
j was found, stopped at 2:30, lent
credence to the story told by tin
: brother.
The doctor came here from
j Kingsport, Tenn., where he prac
j ticed, several months ago and was
j living with his brother, Herman
1 Foust He is belieyed to have giv
jen up his practice, due to ill
; health. The incident was v. ritten
j into the record us suicide and
i there was no inquest.
I His wife preceded him in death,
; a number of years ago, There were
> no children.
• | reputedly a very industrious man
; and well-liked by Iris neighbors,
: I was aroused by his wife, Mrs.
’; Louisiana Purvis Perkins, age 44,
! | about 4 a. m., Friday, January
; | 22nd, when she discovered their
; j newly acquired farm home about
! a half mile away was on fire.
I Mrs. Perkins had arisen "to feed
• j the baby", she said. Mr. Perkins
• 1 threw on some clothes and hurried
i to the scene of the fire and was
' never seen alive again by his
I family. In fact, his ashes and what
, I remained of his skull were not.
:, spending the night elsewhere. Bet- 1
,’ ty .lane Harris, 6; Mae Margaret!
. II..: iL,, 4: Charles Harris, Jr., 3; j
and Maxine Harris, 2, all children !
of Mr and Mrs. Charlie Harris,!
po-j-.hed in the flames. The trage-i
dy happened on the birthday of!
Betty Jane.
Shirley Gray- Knight, the fifth j
victim, was spending the night, with ;
lb- family. She was the daughter!
ul Mr. and Mrs. Edward Knight. |
WEEK ENDING SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 6, 1954
( aunty Foiio Drive. Tne Jack
and Jill Ciub of America, Sne.,
presented it's First Annual Tal
ent Program at the Manly Street
i. hrsstian Church last Sunday
afternoon, featuring children of
when William McKinley Everhart
j graduate ot Wake Forest Col-!
j logo and a graduate student of j
] State College attended bis first!
j class, for a course in education, I
j at Shaw University .
| The student was so desirous of j
| getting the course that he even!
Stalled Car, Bad Weather
BY HENRY C. MITCHELL
GOLDSBORO Ervin Brown of
| the Atkinson section of New Hope
, Township, was found dead beside
. his auto on a dirt road off the
, main road to Seven Springs by a
i 1 passerby January 22. Coroner Har
. ry Shumate ruled Brown died
11 from exposure,
>! Brown, according to Sheriff Roy
1 Precise, who was assisted in the
, investigation by Shummate, said
. | he was told by residents in the
! j urea in which the body was found
I that the exposure victim had had
i j found until Saturday afternoon by
, | searchers, among whom were his
brother-in-law, Gentry Purvis of
, Rocky Mount. Meanwhile, there
'; had been no general alarm or
■; concern shown over Perkins' delay
: | in returning to his home since
. i ho tv*..-, accustomed to being "gone
1 , all day and until late at night’
< i according to Mrs. Perkins and her
i, 24-year-old daughter, Mrs. Isolene
: 1 Perkins Price ,vvho said she was
• | asleep when her father left the
; | house. However, the family became
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The house contained only
four rooms and there win
three adults asleep in SSte
house when the fire started.
The parents arid the two*young
er children were sleepily- in
one of the back rooms. The
parents escaped by jumping
out of the window and Kittle
a horrible story of how they
had to jump to safety, leaving
their two offsprings to die ia
:uie club’s members. In tne p..«vO,
from left to right are Mrs. S. V.
Perry, chairman of the polio
committee, Dianne Newell. Rob
ertson, and Mrs. Myrtle Crockett,
president of the cIub.—ST.VF
FOTO BY (HAS. R. JONES.
t,schedule at any other college,
i Everhart comes highly recom
! mended and is reported to have
1 outstanding ability. He lives at
! 1108 Parker Street.
| This is the first time a white
| students has been enrolled at the
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 81
.some trouble with his auto and
had gotten someone to push it
off to get it started. The car failed
to start, he said.
Precise said the man was found
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N. C. tews In Brief
APPEALS SENTENCE
DUNN A youth who received
a prison sentence the second time
he had a tatal automobile acci
dent at almost the same spot in
Harnett County, appeared his con
viction to the State Supreme Court
Tuesday.
Julian David Hart’s conviction
resulted from the death of John
M. Lockainy, 18 year old Negro
youth, who was killed on the night
of last .March 28, when Hart's cur
struck his mowing machine.
CAR FOUND BURNED
RALEIGH A dark green 1950
Mercury convertible, reported stol
en here about 6:15 o’clock Monday
night, was found scarcely more
than an hour later on the Rock
Quarry Road, where it had been
j the biaxe. When they awoke
the roof was falling in and
they had no time to save any*
j one or anything.
A brother. Ed Harris, was sleep
| mg in one of the front rooms,
I and he too escaped.
! The two older children cat the
: household arid the Knight child
j were sleeping in the other back
| room and from all indication# nev
! or had a chance to escape. From
Raleigh, N. C
JIT FREES
MAN IN SECOND
RAPE TRIAL
BY ALEXANDER BARNES
CHARLOTTE lt appears a»
i! were a dream, when Willie
.'.L>«y stood in Superior Court
)M. Saturday, with raised right
and, before Judge- Howard H.
.übbard, and heard the foreman
:C the jury intone the words, “We
ind the defendant not guilty ’,
This verdict came after the man
had been twice tried for the rape
<>f a chic white woman, Mrs.
Helen Siegal, wife of a Green
. .iile, S. C. dentist.
The trial kept Charlotte in a
! dither for a long time, due to the
act that the first trial, held in
December, ended in a mistrial.
The alleged attack is sup.
posed to have happenci Octo
ber 31, last. Mrs. Siegal to!d
of having come to Matthews,
;» small village near here, to
visit her mother, on a bus the
night of the alleged attack. She
toid of having- alighted from
the bus and having started
j walking, in the darkness of the
j night, for her home.
Her story got stranger and stran
; uf.T as she told of a Negro driving
tip lo her and offering her a ride.
This supposed generous offer was
not accepted and it was then, she
related, that this gracious benefac
tor, got out of his car, dragged
her into the woods and bruised
both her body and conscience, by
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Frantic Woman foms Oar
Into Truck; Kills Self
SANFORD Local officers were
parlance of a matter which Mrs.
at a loss to determine the im
with such intent. Saturday, that
Mildred McNeil had on her mind
she rammed into the back of a
truck and killed herself.
It all happened in a few minutes
on the streets of Sanford. It ap
pears that the woman drove up
to Wilson McCormick and told him
she wanted to talk with him Mc-
Cormick is said to have told her
he had to go to work, but would
try to see her later in the after
noon. He got into his truck and
drove off.
He is believed to have stopped
, burned.
The City Detective Division war
j advised of the theft by the owner's
j of the car, Otis and Jessie Mae
i Wright, of 619 South Blount Street.
| After the police placed the report
I on the air, the car was located
by the State High way Patrol.
STRUCK WRONG NOTE
WILMINGTON— The tune “Ma
i m;i Don't Allow Guitar Playing In
Here” had a real life counterpart
here last Saturday when Albert
Robinson, Negro sat on the edge
of a bed in the home of Richard
Hayes and announced “ 1 am going
t.o play you some real sweet
music.”
When Robinson struck tue first
cord, on the guitar, Hayes struck
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number’s
the conditions of their charred
remains it was evident that they
were trapped when they awoke
and suffocated even before they
burned. The body of Charles was
found under a bed with the springs
over him,
Fire Chief Tyros Bissette was not
able to determine the cause of
t'ne fire. The house had r.o elec
tricity and there were only two
sources of fire, a wood stove and
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I.awni J, Becote of 1406 Oak
wood Avenue, is shown receiving
the Shriner of the Year award
from the Illustrious Potentate.
Fred J .Carnage, at the annual
banquet held last Friday night
Nation’s Boy Scouts In
Anniversary Observance
The nation’s 3,300,000 Cub Scouts, :
Boy Scouts, Explorers and theit
adult leaders tv ill observe the 44th
birthday of the organization during
Boy Scout Week, February 7 to
13.
The theme of the observance is
"Forward on Liberty’;; Team", the
current major embpasis of the
movement .which seeks to produce;
a greater functioning manpower
and provide a higher quality pro
gram for us ever-increasing boy
membership.
The anniversary is to be ob-
Name Race Member To
Foreign Service Staff
WASHINGTON, D. C. The:
Foreign Operations Administration
has announced the appointment of
Dorsey Edvard Lane, as assistant
to General Counsel Morris Wolf,
litis marks the first time that a
Negro has been appointed as an
assistant general counsel in this
organization.
Mr. Lane is an honor graduate
from the Howard University School
of Law, having received an LL B.
degree, magna cum lands, in 1D49.
at the next street intersection erfS
while stopped, he heard a crash
ing noise and then his truck
swung around. Half frightened and
much disturbed, he got out to in
vestigate. He found that the Mc-
Neil woman had driven her car
under his truck and that the car
had swerved into a ditch. He said
that he did not know that she was
following him.
Investigating officers were at a
loss to determine why the woman
rammed into the back of the truck
and how she came to her death.
It was officially determined that
she came to her deaht by her own
negligence ,to wit—crashing into
a truck.
F.umors are rife and tongues are
wagging as to just what she want
ed to talk with McCormick about,
speed and force that she was not
able to avoid the collison made
The fact that she drove with such
local citizens think that it was of
grave importance. McCormick was
rioncommital about the desired
conversation.
LAST KITES HELD
DURHAM Mrs. Ethel Grizelle
Hubbard, 59. supervisor of music
in the Durham City Schools for
many years, was bmied here Wed
nesday afternoon following fune
ral services at the White Rock
Baptist Church at 4 p. m. She
died Sunday morning at Lincoln
Hospital.
The veteran educatoi was tie
wife of Dr .1 M. Hubbard, Sr,
Durham deni Ist, and secretary of
the trustee board of the North
Carolina College at, Durham.
TOTS
a kerosene lamp.
Graveside services for all the
children were held Wednesday
morning at 11 o’clock in Rest Ha
ven Cemetery. The Harris children
are survived by their parents,
grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Ellis
of Wilson; their grandfather. John
Harris of Norfolk, Va.
The Knight child is survived by
her par out ..:*'h one broth; •■
at um .... va ... .<> i to. T.
Blind and Deaf. Becote was cho
sen as Shriner of the Year lie
cause of tiis individual • fl’ort in
forming a, patrol team hew. The
team which const: is of 31 ;-»• .-••
hrrs. is captained by Mr. llrrote,
served by 89.000 Units in all p»‘’ts
, of the nation, its possession! .ml
also in other -p. ;u of the .v* Ta
where Ames lean families re Tde,
A principal activity of Bay Scout
1 Week will be paying tribute to
; the volunteer adult leaders oft! ~
09.000 Units for the contrite.-.ion
I they are making to the boyhood
! of the nation.
"The Boy Scouts of America is
I one of the largest volunteer yd it
| education or training groups of
: the nation," said D> - . Arthur A.
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■H e entire lilt* has been mark -d
11 by outstanding scholastic achieve
-1 nreiit.
! He was burn in Wn.-h-ngton. D
C.. graduated f rom Dun oar H ,h
School, and roceiv>d has B S. <..
| gree in social studies from Ham;.:-
. ton Institute in Ji>;;3. He la in r
I studied at Harvard University in
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ft s. RKAMES ‘RED CAXU’BT' Tin- State Di:.;tartm»inf. is fever-
Isbtv preparing the 4 "re:i *'nrjt*■ t*" for the Sirs? visrf of f' tlnop i iIS
Emperor I fail o'Selassie to the CM in May The royal visitor, shown
here right with »n aide, will be ilie* personal jru-st of i’r . hfiit Eisen
hower at tile White House. African N:'t's;.c' : < ; , country an*
mapping out extensive social events for the Emperor' . visit. (News
press Photo.!
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HILMS WILSON
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UNKNOTTINt THE CALEKDA*
When Ji . Cue ar brought the
calendar hack .■ ’o .•••;emnent with
the sun, ia .;! to keep it
s , by all 'win,; February thirty
days ot;.v ia four yea.... However,
his surcoso: Ai* .ictus Caesar,
named tin m.v h August after
luir.M.'lf and. b c h. did not
ut J.l :r nil; to be longer
IhR. WILSON
i han Viifr, ho took
a day from Feb
.lary ana added
.t to August. So
’ebruar y v....,
to twenty et;ht
days regular,y,
and twenty 11;BS
rn 1 xa ‘) Y sir.
While , n the :
C 't 1 C’ i'l d Ms * ’ -
| ■-«V >»'-> - v ,t .-
’•■ ' railed the first
<’ h " nth its Kalends
' n■’ After tire
;i •"-/ ;> so many
■ ion), then
‘ !ae ides (fun
mm <-• to the
■■ pro: it, Julius
l ire.;.. : • Ui the diffi
! i ; lunar and
di' t:> y. u t it.;', ordered
■ P ( no the moon and
•••. la ’ it’.-O twelve
: ’ !, h- ,; ■' • •’. Roman*
" i'ha and Kalends. The
a a a A ■ 'ver.th of March,
’ a ij'j before
a -Ja! C : Tr, on the
< ' - : the Ides
: sn •: ;ii f March, M.Ty,
a y and October and on the thir-
A'l feel like
... small bay v,’■ . 'aimed*
The ’ - ' on..n the wall
Why b a . . i:i at all?
PUBLIC » fßf : s
Tne ri.; .h . i s nos ‘-nublic”
general; ce ;•-.■■■ i i :.il ![. n. peo
ple . It that N ,ro
u'ded
i ■; ' f.-.r the NA
ts for
,• • 1 ~ . 0 .,j. | ( . U i .
r, e~: ..! (even if
u es: One of out
lawyer, e. t <’ > a Title research
to see if : Uto law In
cxistG-H ■’ •v!ji!'h cxi'i-' 4 'xsiv iO&biuS
by
,i; . ; -s, ;..;r tr.inisteK,
pi*;,. ■ or just
unai’r:).: i 'is- ■* could dare
aUrnmi to t ■ -ui i libraries
in the same is.,. .er as other
peili (h ; -. ..•«• sdmitted
without q-Ji .’n could
ft?'low. ii i . a r. quested
to leave, then i ;, ( the fight be
fiin.
suin' i «h i . >.-yei find no sta
t -.e farhiihi Mi eye s to nee pub
■ Li-;- ; .i, • t against the
i;y e ■ ■ i such a
, chei: .••-> ' ' .tuiionallty.
Then \ || fee l.h NAACC. Every
;• jiv making
Sb '.e i.. , u. Tie NAACP.
1 it ianaard
i e.ni-'i : e l ' c lie ft ar a
b .1. i i 1 :■ - • qualifica
' ' j. 0 would
V ... :t.. 1.1 ; .gated li-
CVUe'TK OF ’ '* i :
p - .ii !,l:!h; Iv
• i l .. .... . . oi home
; ecki;,e T : th”< however,
1 found ; ■' i . has secured
a r : .. T. •■. h A'Qur
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