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BY ALEXANDER BARF <
FAYfcITTEVJLI E ■ ■ A> the F -
trer Henry Evans floa.l. passed
t ile "OLD MARKET HOUr-Iv hi --
Tuesday afu-rr- op. in was
termed the greatest parade this ;
Scotch Highland town has ever
had, and many g.irvd upon the j
iloat and upon the ancient old
scene, there were quite a few j
of the hu ;e crowd, \v ho apparent- i
i y looked upon it with eyes of j
■ ■ andeu r but there were many
. " h,-, had how. d heads and sad
< ; y
It 'is true that Father Evans
planted a ray of hope ft tee
town when he started Evans ;
i ' ■wo
is that his ray of hope has never .
of the policy mar.-.ns people, of j
the town, to tear down the OLD j
MARKET HOUSE".
Older race citizens are known |
to have looked upon the parade j
• as a kind of hypocritic move to j
make the World feci tear Fayette- 1
viile is the symbol of peaces and
harmony, and that all men arc
brothers here. T •• ■were those
who, according to their impres- |
; sions and sincere facts could have j
been saying "LORD HAVE MER
CY LORD HAVE MERCY".
When * c ■u:c if organ,cation !
came around and it wa?. decided :
that there would be such a dam- j
onstratJon, curious persons. "an 1
asking, "what part’ will the Negro
piay". There were rumors that
the arrangement commuter wont
ed to re-enact some of the ties
of slave in vs. Th-.-re v. ■’ e thou
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PARENTS IN
• CBNTRO'/ERSf
OVER SERMON
Lora! parents, in a belated erf- 1
fort succeeded v: havhig Dr.
VV. H Watson i. »on H :;h School
principal, conduct a new elite- j
t.ion on wh :ther Roipigb will have ;
s city wide annual hi.th ••chro! j
sermon or net, «>s the re ;;h «.-t ■
a protest mas: met’in. h d at
Tuttle Community Center, Toes- 1
day night
The meeting was called r.v a !
group of parents wh-: w not j
in. accord with the iw.v idea to •
have children, who will graduate i
/rom the school, listen to a ser- ;
rnon, delivered by the pastor of |
the church they have been a ! - ;
tending throughout iyears.
The parents did not like the j
’dca that there would no! be the j
4 usual serf.on to all .!h< chil
dren, with the pomp and splendor i
that accompanies such an affair. !
They argued that the children ■
should have the common fellow
. ship in ' r t" *t v"
* have had ! hr, m. bout *h<- r . •-•••.•M
life and that should they eo their j
individual ways to hear their he- !
spective pastors toll them of the j
spiritual aspects that attend grad- [
nation, they would not have such j
a fellowship.
The parents related to Dr. Wat- [
son that the y did not like it be- |
cause their children complained j
to them. Dr. Watson told the par- j
ents that the election hart been j
held In a democratic way and j
that, it was the vote of the rria
jority of the seniors that it. would j
be held in the manner so desig- i
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Federal Judge.
Against Self S
WASHINGTON, D. C'. Fcuc. ,
r»l Judge William H. Hsstie pre
dicted a rathep extensive inte
gration of one s<-gmont of the
i Negro population into community
, life in an address at Howard
University Mm id ay night (April
12t, but at the same time, the
noted jurist, warned this group n-
gainst any complacency which
would car so it to iose concern
for other Negi’oc l and Americans I
generally.
Judge Mastic, a member of the
U. S. Court of Appeals tor the i
Third Circuit, Philadelphia, Ha., j
was the principal speaker at cere- I
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Elk Prexy Fight Gets Hotter
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“JUST KMOJtK THF BATTLE
Bit OTHERS White everybody
appeared to be happy last win
ter when the above photo, was
taken following the mortgage
burning ceremonies of (iolds
boro's ' Pricie of ! ast Elk l odge
it is evident from later (level- j
cpment.H that at least the two
men seated center, front row— ■
State President K. P, Battle,
Rooky Mount, and A. Martel
Scott, PVR of Pride of Mist — ;
had but a single thought despite |
the. -miles; the thought being
GOLDSBORO ELKS
BACK NATIVE SON
I
j GOLDSBORO A. M. Scott
j supporters became enraged over
| a story which appeared in the
i CAROLINIAN last week and rose
' to his defense in his effort to un
! scat. Kemp P. Battle, incumbent
j State President. I. B. P. O. E.-of
; W , when the annual convention
j meets in Gastonia, May 16-20
I To offset any idea that the lo
i cal lodge is not with Scott, the
I following resolution was given
’ Wm. Hastie
Satisfaction
. monies honoring 16 new members
of the Howard Chapter of Phi
Beta Kappa, national honorary
scholastic society.
Declaring that it is a "com
i moil disease of the democratic
spirit ’ to accept American so
ciety as a self-winding mecha
nism or a self-perpetuating
scheme, Judge Hastie said,
'•The high susceptibility ot
per-ons relatively cornfortible
| and secure in their family .
lives association points up a
very sjecir-t danger of -, r
times which seems bouti** to
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to retain tile presidency on (
Battle v part and to obtain the j
presidency on Srott s part. Just
now both are in an aIT-out
fight for the coveted position
of leadership over 18,000 Tar
Heel Bills and Daughter-Elks
j with the story to be told 3t the
j annual meeting in Gastonia
May 16-20th. Photograph shows,
! second front left seated, Alonzo
Hue, Exalted Ruler. Pride of
| East; Grand Lecturing Knight
| (tattle, State head for seven
years: Scott, xvho is making his
to a, CAROLINIAN representa
tive-:
TO:
ALL BROTHERS IN THE
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
actively concerned in the progress
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Masons, Sldners In Bitter Court Figlil
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CHICAGO, Illinois Dr. T.
Curtis Rogan and the Most Wor
shipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge
Free and Accepted. Masons of the
State of Illinois replied to a suit
for an injunction brought against
them by Raymond E. Jackson and,
Paul E. X Brown of the Shrine
ir; an Answer filed with the TJ.
S. District Court in Chicago to
day.
The answer was filed by the
lawyers for Dr. Rogan of Decatur,
Illinois, Grand Master of the Illi
nois Prince Hall Masons, and the
Most Worshipful Prince Hall
Giand Lodge Free and Accepted
Masons of Illinois. The lawyers
are Amos T. Hall of Tuisa, Okla
homa, Thurgood Marshall of New
! Yc.uk and Benjamin Clanton of
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second attempt to gain asrni
dary to the stile post; Roland
Best, Pride of East treasurer j
and an unidentified lodge offi- j
dal. ! B, Barren Photo.
N. C. News In Brief
NAACP TO LAUNCH
CAMPAIGN
The Raleigh Chapter of the
NAACP will meet Thursday,
April 29, at S p. m. at the Blood
worth Street YMCA to open its
1954 Membership Campaign. There
wi] be a short program held and
the president of the local group.
Mr. Charles Jones will review the
School Segregation Case now
pending in the U. S. Supreme
Court Hie public is invited and
urged to attend,
WHITEVILLE STICKUP PROBED
WHITEVILLE Local officers
Monday were looking for an un-
V—-'
MASONB DEDICATE TEM
PLE The Rev. G. I). Carnes
of Wilmington, Grand Master
of Prince Hal! Masons of North
con mr
! ARTISTS GET
! SI,OBO IN FLAM 1
BY n VV. HKADHV
; GOLDSTON —• Just last The ■• -
j c’a;> iiiorr.inc Mrs. Johncie Mac
Watson of East GMdsH.in k ,
| SI,OOO 00 as the result of the old !
I "flhn-fiam" game.
M:r.. Watson, the wife of Rote-rt
Watson a local trucker and me
42-year old daughter of Mr and .
Mrs. Bob Johnson of (’,■ ’ a - »:
i tells the following story about
; her $1,000:
She said a colored man and
in-man she had never seen
before stopped her as she left
the }><j-{ office in Sanford a
beiit noon Thursday and
ihroxi;!) high presure talk mid
trickery, had her take
from ft>e Chatham R -it n*
Goldston and give to th< in.
A Mr.-. Watson left, the hu-ld
! ir.g the middle-aged colored wo- j
| man was standing on the steps ;
(Continued on page six'
******** ...n,
I identified man who is alleged to j
have entered the office of Ellis j
Meares Hardware Company here j
Sunday morning al 10:30 a. m., 1
help up a bookkeeper and fled !
with more than $l6O in cash. :
Gordon Carmichael, the firm's
bookkeeper, had gone to the
firm's offices, located in the rear
of the Meares Furniture Outlet,
to check on the Saturday receipts
of the company. Shortly thereaf
ter, he was threatened by a man
i whom he identified as a N.-rro ;
who demanded the money Car- ;
michae! was counting. The man |
reportedly escaped through an |
(Continued on page six)
Carolina, (shown at mike’ con- j
ducts dedicatory services at the j
$125.0(10 Masonic Temple in j
Ilurbarn. The order has shown i
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I A YETI EVII.LE BICE NLE N -
NIAL CELEBRATION -- Shown
above, are scenes from the pa
rade held Tuesday marking the
lormr.l opening of ♦be celchr"*
lion of Fayetteville's 200th
birthday. The a-fafir. which at
j traded over 100,000 spectators
j had some seven or eisrht ran
flea's participating, Shown on
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TOB BAM AND EGG RALSKKS
/ T ANNUAL SLOW ln the
above photo arc undoubtedly
j the four happiest persons in
! ail of Johnston County as the,;
were the principals in the An
nual Ham and Rag Show that
sia.grd a threr-d-’ •, stand at
SmUbfiChVs Forkin's Rivet trie
Warehouse. April 11-16 Many
veteran Ham and E-g Show
patrons proclaimed this the
most efficiently handled unf>
best attended afieir ; er. From
left to right are 1. It Johnson,
Johnston County Negro Agent
and originator of the. anr.ua!
occasion: Mrs. l.enora Barnes
of Selma. Route 1. first place
winner in the egg division; Mrs.
Lucy O. Toole, Johnston Negro
Home Agent; and Leonard
Wiggs, Kcniy. Route 1. firs!
place winner in the. ham divi
sion. YViggs also won first piece
at last year’s sh’ow. CAROLIN
IAN STAFF PHOTO BY c HAS
R. JONES.
■
| NAMED TO SOLICITOR'S
OFFICE— Miss Rutll Wash
i ington was appointed an at
) torney in the Solicitors office,
United States Department of
Labor, in Washington recently.
! Miss Washington is a graduate
of Hunter College and New
York University Law School.
! In tier new post, Miss Washing
ton will be concerned with the
; legal work of the Solicitor's
office, which involves intfrpre
j ration and enforcement of vari
ous labor statutes administered
| by the department-
phenomenal growth and pro
gress under the present admin
istration which Dr. Carnes
heads.
thc left is a float from the
Fayetteville State Teachers Col
lege, indicating the college's
mutinous growth since 1877;
center, a Kangaroo Patrol,
which was manned by some race
members. This patrol was a
unit of the Kangaroo court
'.inch “senter"ed” several per-
flam, Bozen Es?s Bring
$370.25 At H & E Show
BY CHARI ES R. JONES
,Vi; £Y« IFI ELD - • J winston Cou.i •
Vs Annual Ham ami jgee Show,
held ‘-'yearly in Smithfield proved
• ids year to be more of a success
than a!! oft ! ” previous ones. It
was held April 14-10 at Perkirfs
Riverside Warehouse. Approxi
mately 2.000 persons attended.
The show, which was originated
by L. R. Johnson, Negro County
Agent, se-i ccs as a means of stim
ulating fanner in wrest, in better
sv inc and poultry. Mr. John.so'n
estimated that 500 to 700 persons
visited the show and sale Thurs
day, which was the first day of
the affair.
Twice winner in the ham divi
sion, Leonard W as in K**ni.v,
Route 2. presetted a haru cni ry
Ih is year that weighed 12 1-2
pounds. His entry last year was
present'd to the While House.
W.aes was perhaps the proudest
and most surprised man in the
county when he was named Grand
WRIGHT BROS,
DIE IN ACCIDENT
ELIZABETH CITY - Three
brothers, Wright. Exum and Wil
liam, whose last name is Brulb
ors, were not as fortunate :h the I
Wright Brothers of K; ty Havrir
WAYNE MAN
! HELD FOB
I SHOOTING WIFE
BY HENRY C. MITCHELL
GOLDSBORO (MIB) I didn't
want to kill her, just wanted to
sprinkle her with phots—is what
a Wayne murderer is quoted as
telling authorities when arrested i
lor kilting his wile here last
week.
Raytha Ellis, 33 year-old Negro
man of near Grady's Crossroads,
is in Wayne County jail without
privilege of bond as a result of
the fata) shooting of his estranged
wife Wednesday, April 14'h.
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Pres. Urged To Consider
Negroes For Federal Bench
NEW YORK—President. Dw/.h? ,
D. Eisenhower has been urged to j
give "careful and sympathetic i
consideration” to qualified Ne- !
groes in making future appoint- j
merits to the federal courts.
Acting on instructions of the j
Board of Directors of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, Dr. Charming
! H, Tobias, chairman, and Walter
! White, executive secretary, wrote
to the President on April 13 ex
pressing the NAACP’s "keen re
gret that none of several emi
nently qualified Negro attorneys \
were included in the nominations I
sons who were out of “tircqgf
for the bicentennial. On tiSfe
right Is seen l ather Henry E*»
sns, pastor of Evan's Metropoli
tan AMKZ Church, Fayetteville,
riding in the front of the float.
Other persons in the Evarrfi
Host are members of his church.
The “efc Ion; celebration wilt
< ■(! on .Saturday.
jCa :i a,on Ham Raiser for the
I second consecutive year.
S A record-breaking total of 221
| Hams and 107 dozen eggs were
| entered by residents from
i throughout Johnston County. Each
: of the ham.' placed in the red
j .and blue ribbon classes,
Mrs. Lenora Barnes of Selma,
| Route 1, won the first-place a
i ward for her egg entries. Placing
! second was Mrs. Mary Sanders of
| Smithfield Rome 1, and Mrs.
| Lena Kin;: of Z-Lulon, Route 1,
j was the winner ~f third pr.zc in
j the egg division.
Before the annual auction,
Johnson pave a demonstration on
how to keep skippers out
pork. W. T Emm art, president
of :he Chamber of Commerce,
whoA donate.! premium awards,
j.spoke briefly.
(»t: T - :ay u: .ht, April 15,
a br.ro . was held for exhibitors
buy: i.i ; ■.dio and press
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fume and win ■, ti ■ ■ < • nedifiort
war over, Wriglit eras dead. Ex-
Ifri! Was ,tiii s i!j ■ }r],..[ p- .'an
f,, -’cn. • i'll ai:u a broki a collar*
l>''is■: , winie Wu i.na. carne out
tv ;h ,i uru'.-cti eyelid and abrai
ons about tlie- body, as the re
uit of a wrt-i k which occurred
oeie. Saturday morning about
11:50.
The three Brothers who lived
in Nevv York, are believed io
have been on their way to vi.*t
their mother, Mrs, Exum Broth
ers. Route 5, when the ear they
were driving, came suddenly upon
a line of traffic, the brakes being
applied, control lost, by the not
yet determined driver, and land
ed hi front, of a 1953 Packard,
driven by David Cohen, white.
Tile impact of the two cars is
believed to "nve been so great
that both cars were damaged be
yond repair. Wright was throvTn
ir.lo the side of the heavy c.* -
and was believed to have died
almost instantly. Exum was
thrown out on Ihe highway and
this is believed In account for
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i vacancies on th ■ federal l—i n."
The letter, addressed joint
ly to the President and Attnr
j ney General Herbert Brownell,
; reiterated the NAACP policy
against "asking for political
or other appointments for in
dividuals.” Nevertheless, the
Association spokesmen told
President Eisenhower and the
Attorney General, the NAAC P
has Consistently maintained
that rare should not lie '“a
deterrent to the nomination
of qualified persons to ira-
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