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KYTDH Churchmen throughout Chris tendom will how in deference to the picture above beginning; Friday and continue ihsx.tuzii State Republicans Against ike's Visit IlyloTpr ; DURHAM The Carolina Times, local weekly. wd! =.ay m *n edMortal this week, that should. President. Eisenhower at • v>t t,v invitation oX the ,= n m ■;..■/ v'ent committee of lhe National .Negro I Insurance Association to -i ak ; at, the annual session, in August, that it will be a miracle. This information is the- result ' of a letter sent Vai J. Wash- i jngton. assistant to ti-.e chairman j of the Republican National Com mittee, by Alexander Barnes, pub- ; licitv man for the State Republi can group, headed by Dr. J. W V Cord ice . The letter set forth that state Republicans and many Democrats , felt that the committee irbssed the i ball in going to Washington. The i>-.. of the Republicans was raised i when it was discovered that there was not a working Repub lican or the .. -up that extended Urn invitation Thus is heiievuM ; Continued on rage 8 FDGFDG TOCNO T” .T'TCTS TAKE P r 't v: ' c'v I’u Uc r r l la . ' , i •••" •:.% F " *'.'** \ ' ' r'i •< • . . ■ . i •; r'e- ' • ’ recently three kus.ty ..Tie brother —trip lets appeared for their : ’v • ideal examination —a reqttlre- fix G©ft» Louisville i* Ky* Sunday, Hymns oi' adoration and prayers of atonement will be offered as many renew their covenant to follow the presents of the Risen Savionx As you h■ % *- -M'- fck ■' ” ' V:- • r TV HBP MISS LATHAM NCC DEAN OF WOMEN VI SITS MRS. EISENHOWER Miss Louise M. Latham, Dean of Women »t North Carolina College was among a select group of deans of women who visited Mrs. Dwight l). Eisen hower at the White House in Washington. D C. on Tuesday Continued on Page 8 j ntent lor- entering school next 1 O t-hcr. T* r l'i'.’e so’.diers-ta-le ] ‘i’gc's". T. c t“iv!eis are ilie j sons of Mr. and M.s. Arthur Bowles, 110 Union Street, and j they enroll at Annie W. Hol land Elementary School next i go to tlic church of sour choice remember that Christ died to save the world and that the humblest of citizens can seek refuge in the Cross. NAACP ASKS END TQ AMOS AND ANDY SKIT : 1 NEW YORK The British Broadcasting Corporation lias been , "earne-tly and vigorously" urged ■ to reconsider ns purchase of the ‘Amos 'n‘ Andy' program for tet ; eras! to the people of England. The corporation is scheduled to ; start, showing the film on April | I In s letter to the BBC dated i ! April 7, Walter White, executive | secretary of the National Assoct | | ation for the Advancement of Colored People, branded the pro i gram ‘ a gross caricature of the ! Negro which has done much barm j here in the United States and, i we fear, may do even more in i England where there is not as | much opportunity as in the U | niter! States for non-Negroes to i know the truth about the Negro." I Antt-Nesro forces in the United | States, the NAACP executive ! pointed out. seek to perpetuate i Continued on Page 8 I a't'umn, PHOTO' Dr. Walker is s’-c t examining' J eer Bowles j v i e t ,- c other l'.vo-tiib - . s «>f i"r t ; tests—Leon and Leonard —So. k on as they await their turns for a, thumping, —Ktlle hreu' Photo, Courtesy Rocky i Mount Telegram. ! Citizens Association Calls Mass Meeting TO DISCUSS ST. AGUES NEEDS ★ ★★★★★★ ★ ★★★★★★★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ilr k ~k k k Goldsboro Blast Kills 1, Injurys 2 THE CAROLINIAN A CrW.*A«>VVSWCX'>WA*,xr» w*vv”,.gA,t »Trw^.\gi. vwm hv. Ww» / rv, vau*-ir«vwv* rry'-". v 10c J—7lo - VOLUME THIRTEEN RALEIGIi N. C. WEEK "ENDING'SATURDAY .APRIL TV, ISS-T NUMBER ■ 7 | Raleigh Officials Charged In JOB DENIAL ! CITY MANAGER TARGET OF ■ CITIZENS ASSN, PV STAFF WRITER Several young Negro women v no recently successfully passed the local Civil Serv.ce examina tion for police women and radio operators have been reportedly told by the Raleigh Chief of Po lice, Torn Davis, that it is not the policy of this city to employ Ne groes for such positions. Die rather peculiar angle of tT'. i 5 situation is tlir t!'u* these young women were given i these particular examin'd ons j wsth the understanding that they i would be assigned work in tire categories covered by the exafio l/iations They v ere alleged:' in formed b. Mr. D-.vi., h jf'y, that they would no! be allots ed positions for which they had qaiil ifird but !i« would consider them for jobs as school patrolwornen. ; Incidentally school patrol job;- are i only open during the school terry Being part time work the pay is relatively small. A committee from the Raleigh Citizens Association headed by the Rev. Mr George A. Fisher interviewed Mr Carper. City Manager and was informed by Mr. Carper according to Rev. Fish i ci that lie iMf. Catper) felt the 1 Negroes of Raleigh were getting | | row. far mere from the city gov- ] i ernment than they were putting ' j in. and hr. Mr. Carper, did not j j feel that Negroes were justified j | ir> their demands, j According to the committee's ! ' report, Mr. Carper is alleged to < Continued on Page 8 i WESTINCHOtISf. iJOBS OPEN BY STAFF WRITER | Qualified and competent Negro i stenographers and typist are urg i od to apply for positions with j the Wcstinghouae Electric and j j Manufacturing Company, at it.- I ■ new plant here. It has bcri; leant- ! Continued or\ Page 8 Elks In Hot Fight \ BY J. B. HARREN ROCY MOUNT All the poli tics in the state are not. confined solely to the big issue of whether or not it will be W. Kerr Scott or Alton Lennon in the U. S, Sen ate for the next six years. Cer tainly not the main issue where 18,000 Tar He*! members nf Im proved Benevolent Protective Or der of Elks of the World (1. B. P. O. E. W.) are concerned. These Elks ‘Bills and Daughters) are trying to make up their minds regarding whether to vote for incumberant Reverend Kemp P. Battle of Rocky Mount, who has served seven years as president of the Antlered Herd in Tarheel ia, and is also Esteemed Grand Lecturing Knight of the national body of Elkdorn; or to choose A. Martel Scott, former bead of Goldsboro's Pride of the East Eiks and a successful business man in his own right. “CHIPS ARE, DOWN” N. C. News In Brief r 11——.1,1.11. .11 ii ii M—... ■■ « MISS GERALDE THOMPSON SAILS FOR EUROPE | BURLINGTON- Sailing for Eu i rope on April 10. 1354 on the beau j ii'ul S. S. United State... was Miss Gcraide Thompson, formerly cf Burlington, N. C- and now resid ing in New York. Miss Thompson, who is employed by the Internal . Revenue Department in New York | v2&£v s Shown her® is a scene from 1 the recent fire ,*t Edwards and i Association Feels Negro Should j Have Say In Health Affairs j By STAFF WRITER. A mammoth mass meeting. | , sponsored by iiie Raleigh Citi- j zens Association, will be held in i the auditorium of the Crosby-Gar- j field school, Monday evening, Ap- i ril 26th, to discuss the hospital situation, as it relates to the Ne gro population of Raleigh and | Wake County. ; The proposed plan that, s new ! hospital be built on the rite of j I St. Agnes is not being taken too 1 I. As this is written it appears » to be a 'battle of east” with - i Challenger Scott having canvass* j ? ad a large part of the state with j j reports of support coming from ■ ? localities which have not been al- . | together satisfied with the per- j formance of the present adminis- j tration. The: Battle regime has , been charged, in some quarters. J with autocracy and being long on I promises but short on fullfilment. 1 On the credit side Battle can I point to many outstanding gains 1 made during Ins administration, i I not the least of which great; in- | I crease in membership and the J building of the state body to a ; g place of porminence —compara- j 1 bio with the best™in the Grand : I Lodge of Elks. On the other hand, ; I Scott charges inefficiency and ex* j I travagance in handling the State j | Association's assets, to build the j I Order in the state. Campaign li- j terature on behalf of Scott, pur- i § Continued on Page 8 V City, is a graduate of North Car- j olina College, class of 1942. She ! i-; the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. j M. B. Thompson of 1523 Maple Avenue, Burlington. Her mother, brother and sister were on hand ! in New York to see her off nn ! What she has described as a won- i defu! vacation, which will last j Continued on Page 8 | Jernigan Furniture Store after i the b-iast thut distro> <1 the ! well by many of the citizens of j Raleigh, both white and Negro, j The known objection sterns from i the fact that the plan calls for the building of th< hospital cm j of public funds. The affairs of the institution are slated to be administered by a private group ol i listen..,. Then are many i zens who fee). Ih;i a p wait group of imstee.s would r" 1 w- k m • the best interest ol >ii e-mc'-med Negro hospital needs have been ' ' : f; ' \ :;■ :l ' I Vv ■ >: ' •:.*• * > {,4. V^^®#otb^P^hWw s 1 ' - ••• • : -fps.S.' v£? y?M^lNm?s': k 'ML ItT t*, * & <^«Wl.ws SCOTT BATTLES BATTLE FOB ELKS PBESIDENCy -- Two years ago, when the N. C. Elks Association met at Golds boro A. Martel 1 Scott, success ful local businessman rat ed his head toward the presidency of Tar Heel Elks, t ut it w. s “cut off’ hv the strong machine of Rev. K. P. Battle, Rocky Mount minister who has headed the N. C. Elks for seven years. This year Scott is again ehal- store ami killed 5 persons, oni a Negro, who way in the store j to look over some furniture. ' acute in this area for many years, j It is taken for granted that. St. ' Agnes doer the best job it is ca- ; ruble of doing but that job has proven far less than adequate in as much as it is the duty and ! the re'-ponsjbui l ' oi the County : Commissioners t.. -c-o to it in.-it arieniuiU; and proper facilities are | provided for the citizens of th-' ioupiy u> need of hospital • ■ die citizens of th-- county should Continued or ra«r 8 , lengJng Battle’s right to the state “throne” of Elkdoin and is I campaigning over the state with ! promises of a lively, ‘knock down and drag out affair” at Gastonia May 16-20 at the state meeting. Shown are Scott and Battle at the mortgage-burning ceremonies cf the Goldsboro Pride cf the East Lodge A’o. 261 during the winter, when a 311,000 mortgage was burned. ! “Friendly enemies” then, they I MBS, C. B. JUDGE DIES IN BLAST BY HENRY r. MITCH! * L GOLDSBORO When work men brought out the body of , its. Cavite E*'be Judge, State spital employ . of the Ldwecds Jerthgar. build ; which was the scene of art i ndetermined explosion here Mon day. it brought the cumber of race persons killed oz injured in the rnvstet ions blast to three. .Mrs Judge’s body was found in the basement of the budd ing' late Tuesday afternoon. Searchers could not account for Mrs. Judge being in the basement, utiles* she fell through one oi the gaping holes made ! > the explosion. Another race woman, who was : thought to have lost her life in I the mishap, Mis.-. Acne? Graham, was iocaivd ui.-o on Tiicsdrj and found to be unbanned. She Is believed to have been in the store to do . on;e buying when the accident happened. Thomas fvieKinzie, 70S Oliver txipr, is ’ tor of the store, was M > n from the b Uling us he st ■ ;ed in the biiil , :i!>: He is in Wayne Manorial I! snital suff ering with lacerations of the head and arms and also suffering shock Questioned a>. r> the posed ble number of pen/sc in the Continued on Page 8 N, CTfEICHERS CLOSE 73RD CONVENTION The 73rd annual se-sion ot the North Carolina Teach-, s Associ ation closed here Saturday with the adoption of Sft7.uoo.oo as the budget for the N-55 physical year. The three day meet, which ; brought moi. than 3000 persons to Rale-, h, ended cite of the most crowded activity schedules, ir. its history Foi instance, on ■ Friday, every available ix-eting facility at Sit-in . Washington and ; Ligon High war. -xxed to •_ ipacity to take care of ihc many panels, discussion group; and addresses dc.iiviued in the interest of bet ter education. Perhaps the most enthused group was the Future Teachers of America w io listened o Dr. Ma. jaret Lindsey, Columbia U niv-'rsit.v TT-ie group wa« getting J.- initial baptism in the prob lems thv face a teacher from art (k.: t. in tiu- field, i Tin mod. alkcd about speech i w‘S the one that Congressman j Adam Clayton Powell delivered ! to thr ru in ipaiz H> Soft r-o doubt { in heir minds, that he (Powell) | knew that integration was here j and admonished them to get. ! dy for it. He expressed some con j r-'zri over some people being i ready to receive it and urged I principals to prepare themselves j to meet the onrush of a democra- I tic move. Lester Grainger, Urban League head, told of the need of better preparation for an integrated sit uation. He felt that the Negro fear her would be able to meet the situation and would be an asset to a changing ideology The Hammock Beach project, fin Association responsibility, lo rded in Oil Arcs County, got a grant of $7,006. from the budget Continued on Page 8 are now at each other’s politi cal throats in Ihc fight for the presidency of 18,000 Tar Heel Elks. Left to right (around table) Roland Best, Pride of East, treasurer; A. Martel! Scott, PAR; Alonzo 3 Pur, exalted inter and State president K. F. Battle, holding the mortgage with Scott as Rur lights the match. Battle is Grand Lectur er of the Grand Lodge ot Elks, —j. E. Barren Photo.
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