SCOTT ELECTED DESPITE RACE ISSUE
| I HoNoREti
RECEIVES DECREE John
O. Wheeler, Durham Bank pre
sident and militant lawyer is
shown .»s he receives the LLd
*?.-rgee from Shaw Ualvetsity,
r • icr.ds of s!iaw University and
rdmL.rfws o! Mr, Wheeler feet
The South Prepares
To Face Integration
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Bi. -A \/j
W KERR SCOTT whn Mtl
cUsta&ced 6 opponents ha the
race to ra«p! Paul r. West, In
the November election, for the
seat marie vacant by the death
• , Wiljfe Smith.
Segregated Degrees At Ligon
Among T eachers Criticized
The 'Rev, Paul Pi. Johnson, par- ,
tor, Martin Street Baptist Church !
seemingly feels that the recent
Litton Junior-Senior coromence
rn >nt exercises lost some of its
cl . nity and tradition when he re
r ■ Is on what he calls segregation
of teachers because of degrees,
it; low is a statement given the I
*“1 \HOLIN': i.X by him
The Commencement 'Exercises |
KING OF KING HERE
i that it was one of the most de
serving awards made during the
current commencement season.
It is to be remembered that
Wheeler successt'nily prosecuted
’ one of the school cases that
t Governor Umstead s flection o
I cat) a conference with education
! si leaders ••are Thur -da v to fee
gin studying isovt North Carolina,
can meet the- Supreme corn ~
i>an on segregation in the schools
of the land is believed tey :r> my
to be the starting point, in. assur
ing every child equal education
! in the statu, .
[ GttCessboi.) lea the way hi tnr
\mm «m. in : t dock d Tv. u
| •would act ttjg pact* for proper m
| tegration in ire vast .school sys
i tem '«> finding out hi * easily and
I quiekiy it could be dons.
| One Killed; One Hurt
i
i ln Lumberton Gun Battle
LUMBERTON— Furman Free
man, 30-ycar-old resident of Saint
Pauls. Route l. died about 3 p.rrv,
Sunday in Highsmstb Ho.spit'd.
Fayetteville, from a wound re
t'eived sn a gun battle, earlier in
■ the afternoon, on the T/ir Town-
I send /arm, about four miles e.-.-t
j of St. Patus.
! Freeman was shot in the left
for the Ligon Junior Senior High ,
School would nave been much [
more impressive if the members ]
of the faculty had not segregated i
themselves into two distinct I
g-roups.
Only the member/ of the facul- {
ty whp hold master degrees were j
allowed to march with the seniors, j
or only those with master de- !
grees desired to march with the j
have coroe up in this state and
the fact that the award was
made so close to the supreme
court's decision makes it move
significant. Dr. W. R, Strassner,
Shaw proxy makes the award a*
Bean Foster P Payne looks on.
The slate board of Virginia
! Mary land have decided
that they would start the J9S4-
SS year under the segregation
practice, but left the door open
to change, as soon as they bad
;. broader intorpreation from
the high tribunal-
South Carolina's Governor
•fe’vf p, Byrnes sat s that, he will
Jtof lake the responsibility to call
a special session of ft*e legislature
>rt discuss the issue. He wants the
board to decide what they want
done,
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and apparently bled >o
death, accorttreg to invesHga^ng
officers.
OirceW Oliver, 48. of Hope
Mills. Route 1 is vn Robeson
County Memorial Hospital with a
bullet wound in the chest and j*
m "'fair" condition according to
hospital reports.
(Continued on Page 8)
si-tdors. Those who didn’t march
| were seated about in the audt
j torium while others gave out pro
i grams at the door. These people
i who have not as yet obtained tire
j hr;her degree had to sit shame-
I fully by, as their fellow faculty
i members paraded, their caps,
j gowns and hoods, down, the aisle.
Isn't, it true that (hose people
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THE CAROLINIAN
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VOLUME THIRTEEN RALEIGH,' ts. "cT VEEkTnDING SATURDAY, JUNE V 1954 " * NUMBER XXIV
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CHIEF RAtiWELL
IsUfFOtSTION
iCAUSED GAS
I VICTIM'S DEATH
| Coroner Marshall W. Bennett ;
! ruled Thursday night that the '
J death of -55-year-old James Pri- '
| vette, Sr., who died last Tuesday i
m Wake County Ja'.l was caused j
by suffocation.
Bennett said that the autopsy
report showed that the primary j
i cause of death was asphyxia
through "complete tilling of the
trachea and bronchi! mixed
. with mucus secreations."
Privette died after a three- I
' hour long gun battle in which
he was finally subdued by tear j
gas. Police and sheriffs depa- i
ties fired several tear gas
bombs into Privette s home at j
806 East Davie Street.
The man reportedly freed sev- \
eral times at officers with a irfic. :
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ENGRAVING DEFT!
| BREAKS DOWN
Due to mechanical difficulties
in the Engraving Department
j THE CAROTIN?AN is unable to .
j p'ini pictures that were sent in
| or otherwise obtained for pub-
j lieation in this issue. We re
| jrrei this incident and ask our
| readers to watefc -or nc.vt
| issue for pictures that were not
• printed this week
CORRECTION
THE CASOLINIAN iniomci
ly printed a headline in last i
week's edition which read, j
'Rocky Ms. Negro Principal
•Not Ready* To Integrate.” The
head should have read, ’Edge
combe Negro Principal ’Not j
Steady* To Integrate.” The
CAROLINIAN regrets the error
very much.
State News j
Briefs
YOUTH JAILER
JiKCTOKSTON Police Chief V
£ iSr&B said two 18-year-old
Thomasvijle residents were being
held in the Davidson County Jail
cn assault charges growing out. of
what he said was an attempt, to i
pick up three white girls here
Saturday night. The chief identi
fied tJyj! yjouthe as Hall is Pickeft i
wfbn<*n«jed on Page 81
CHURCH MEET
tins AiAS
vi'iifW yidO
AT MONTREAT
By Alexander Barnes
MONTREAT -- The ha»U.» that
; Eev, Charles Jon os erstwhile
stormy pastor of a Chapel Hill
Presbyterian church .started seems
to have been partly won fay the
liberals or the denomination
mee*ing in General Assembly of
t'Ji'fii Southern Pr^tsbvteriftn C'-Uirch
' re iSriiU'Ca&v it was
i'v 1136' to 183 to adopt the follow
i. t? resolutiors:,-
'.. Open the doors of all Its in*
ziViiUpns of higher education to
f?il ."aces,
i; ■■'":• :: ; - r '!• • :ci- ••' *e.J
' ‘' i-’.; to synods and presby
t ,
1 on local cnarches r s ex
'•■mine their overt life, and practice
’in di-crimir ition witlifth its fel
iowshij) or outreach.
This fiction had been expected,
but not without a tight. The sur
prise was the fact th ;i f. only ?>oe
commissioner inu the floor
» sA<iins?t tii€ jxiotion.
John R Wallace, Memphis,
! Term., .speaking as a foe to the
j move said* ‘‘the segregation ban
i would disrupt our church.”
"When Negroes enter pur church
| doors people will go out the
| mher door.
: If wio'O churches are to he
| opened to our Negro brethren,
; wat'll m cio with the million
j do I fail's,?'' ne asked ,
j The Tenner..ei churchman was
; rei.it j.- : g to tl:r fact that the A.--
| sembly had appropriated 2 mil
i lion dollars for the expansion of
j Stillman College and the general
I church work, for Negro churches
j in the south- The gasping elder
j had the feeling that the money
i could not be used for special
| work, but was not anle to c-on-
I vince enough delegates that the
j Presbyterian Church was in dan
i ge t.
; Or Donald Miller, a professor
| at Union Theological Seminary at
i Richmond Va., was first to speak
! tor the motion.
j He spoke of the "unity of men"
! and the "oneness of mankind.”
'Let us not be misled by a dis
i guised tradition over the Holy
j Bible," he began,
j "The debate is whether to take
I our faith seriously the only di
! vision the soripiuvos know is saint
i and sinner believer and ttnbe
! liever.
"There is hut one basis on
which it may decide.
Dr. Tvfiller spoke with conviction
and calm The huge assembly hall
was silent except for his voice,
(Continued on Page 81
NAACP Pushes Housing I
Discrimination In South
NEW YORK-—ln its continued
! fight to eliminate racial dis
! crimination and segregation in
) all phases of American life, N-
I AACP Legal Defense and Educa
tional Fund filed two suits on
I May 2) involving discrimination
j in housing projects in the South,
i One involves a federally-aided
j public housing project in Savon,-
i nah. C;<, ‘and the other n FHA
! mortgage insured housing project
! in Shreveport, La.
In the Savannah suit the Pub
lic Housing Administration, the
federal agency which administers
the federal government's low
rent housing program, is made a
defendant along with the local
housing authority
It was filed in the Federal Dis
trict Court in Savannah and
brought in behalf of 18 Negro
j families who -ought admission in
! the Fred Weasels Homes, a. pro*
; joe l , built, mi the '‘Old Fort." a
I traditionally Negro residential
j area.
‘ Everybody living in the ares
PRAISED BY LOYALTY BOARD
QUIZm) ON LOYALTY United Nations Trusteeship director.
Ur. Ralph Bunche, winner of the Nobel prise aiul many notable j
awards, spent 12 hours with the. International Organisation board
during a review ul alleged Communist atiilialions, held in New York
last week. Dr, Bunche, who later journeyed to Washington to attend
a dinner party given for Kmperor Haile Selassie, by President Risen • j
j hewer, would not reveal what lino of questioning had been taken by
the. investigating committee, (Newspress Photo)
|/Vsm; Security Law
\ To Assist Negroes
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The passage, of the expanded
Social Security law by the United
. State* TTnilse of Represontutiv,.. i
■ on, Tuesday, wa- hailed by North |
Carolina Negroes ns a "god send” ;
to Negroes, especially to the aged j
f had to vacate to make way for
I the project. According to public j
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Walter Whits Is Speak In Durham
By I H HARKEN
I ROCKY MOUNT Attorney
. 'Floyd McKissack, Durham attor
- j ney, who is chairman of the NC
■ ! NAACP Conference’s lighting
5 Fund .for freedom t4-F> drive,
- I announced last week, that plans
* i were complete for the appearance
1 in Du -ham of Walter White, riot
ed NAACP executive secretary,
whose militant speech in Atlanta
i several, days ago was flayed by
’ many Southern editors not in ac
i cord with the onward march to
ward “complete freedom", being !
i wedged by NAACP; with the re- i
1 train being sung by many f rater- J
i nal and religious groups, as well j
i 1 as, civic governing bodies over the j
The law rails .for the increasing
of the old-age benefits by as
much as SIO.OO per mo run. It is to
he remembered that many of the
persons now receiving aid were
too old to build up a stock pile in
social security payments and
have had to live off a meager
sum. Should the bill become law,
it will be highly helpful to many
who now are receiving aid.
The new grants that will corn c
to domestic meet with approval
to those who work in the homes
of North Carolina. This group of
workers were left out of the pic
ture and it was just recently that
they won* given the assurance,
by the passage of legislation,
that they would be given some
1 /lot ion-
AT WHITE ROC K BAPTIST
CHURCH
Kelly M. Alexander, State N.' A.
A. C. P head, said in Charlotte,
whoa queried; (he meeting waul'd
he held in Durham’s famed White
Rock Baptist Church or. Fayette
ville Street at 4 P M. Sunday,
June 13th. All NAACP branches i
over the state are asked to bring ;
in their assigned assessments or I
as much as possible in order to i
.make this an outstanding event ’
1 prior to the national NAACP con- j
vootion in Dallas. Texas. June “9
, to July 4. A large audience is
j expected to greet Mr. White on
(Continued on Page 8)
LENNON FORCES
mo
WI»W J ItiWlliV
VOTE TO SCOTT
Bv ALEXANDER BYRNES
Even though Senator Alton Len
i i;on ckl not concede that tormer
Governor W Kerr Scott had top
| pled him from his Umstcad-given
■ senate seat in the Democratic pri
! mary on Saturday until Wedacs
! cay. the> <> was no doubt in the
| minds oi anyone that the Negro
vote definitely went, to the
"Squire from Haw River” and it.
, is the concensus that even the
Negroes who claimed i:■ have
known the obscure Wilmington
lawyer, left his camp after hi?
1 ; rate on the race and the effort
r‘ his supporters to enrage * • •<-
j p -rn white votes by rats ng tn.a
• Contlfmec! on Pare
LAWYERS SAT
CIVIL ACTION
TO 5£ FILED
tor CHARLES R JONFs
•M'SX - In , ■ -0
the Apex Krrorde-.- Court
j nesdsy. Solicitor Ard-y-or :c
--; to I, Auyuey C. J.
j Gates’ su.gj,.s*ion fthy > -.-t
j move thy tr;M ri Apex's C Ir.ef oi:
f’oliee Sam L. Bauweb to on
i Wake Superior Courl thu-. Vt
; mg to pas... the much ■
Kiitci of *;ie chief h r ing k;-ir y
petl and atlcnu. ,*?.;• in r, . r
oss/ul! two tt'en-a/f. ■r~f y i
Apex. ,V;.yy: t.- Anvil . V J ' cr
18-yt'cr-nH sister. L'.rille S’ntob.
Apex Ki’rordrt . 1 ourt
j r»n.'ter<.<| \. rftl ?s
i #1 no probable cause acir'*
i Cliief Bagwell ,• .< a charge of
ki«!e-H?v ng and h >-crdifA »f not
guilty against the chief on a
charge of assault on .t female.
Attorneys ior tiv " r. is
who have accused the police eh es
! i f these charges. C. J Gates and
i M. W. Johnson, bar* made sh.dc-
I ments t. o the effect that the.'- will
' bring about civil ’ action aga.rst
I Chief Bagwell
Testimony in the case was heard
j for approximately four hw
I prior to the verdict,
j Witnesses called to the st-'t d
i the state gave evidence that v
robated reports made earlier tr:
tne two young girls.
Chief. Bagwell was charged w/h
j k'dttapping the two Smith
j from their homes under the pre •
I tense of questioning them roc
i cermng a ‘cutting scrape" that had
| reportedly occurred at the Laddie
; Smite residence on the night < f
j April 24, 1954
| The girls alleged trial Bagwell
i not only kidnapped them but ala
j made attempts to fondle them
j Further reports stated that, the
chief was m a “drunken rondt
! lion at. th, time of the supposed
incident.
lakiog the stand in hj.- own be
t Continued on Page ft)
I consideration when they were t.:.0
able to work. The passage of the
iaw brought much from south*; n
house wives and there have been
many court cases to prove the
validity of the law The most re
cent case reported wae alleged !.;.*
be one from Mrs. Eugene Tal
madke, wife of the fiery Georgia
governor. She is reported to have
lost in her fight to not pay social
security.
The farmers have also been in
cluded in the bid and Negro
farmers are believed to become
the greatest beneficiaries of the
-aw, due to the fact that so m
of them are the victims of
nefarious share-crop system, I,
(Continued on Page Si
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