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Man 6a, Slave ★★★★*★★★★*★ ************ Tragedy Mars Church Service Near Wilmington WILMINGTON—"Tragedy maned church services Sun day ai the County Farm when a Marine tram Camp Lejeune shot his wife and them killed himself. * .V-o F;tc Set,;:. trie Marine, is - ('■ jd, and Clementine Scot l, his • is in sericns condition at Waiter Memorial Hospital. ( According to Sheriffs Deputies. "iSfatt called his wife from chyr- Rk rii service;; Sunday afternoon. . : I ;it her with a r-’-to! o'i'side the charged door an ! then shot him self throu v h the heart. The woman had been sen tenced on Hie farm for being f CONTINUED ON PAGE 8; t ' : : m n wmm | jpn m mmajj *1 t-—■tts —rfr-n-nr —-rmifri immi-nuriTfiviwriitti «• CROSSES BURNED | GASTONIA Members of j the Sheriff's Department here j f are investigating- a report that, j cros.- had been burned in ! the yard of a white man in ; South Carolina, according to information received irora sheriff Hoyle Elird. The -heriff said that white fami lies reported receiving tele- j Phone calls threatening them j and that, one taller threaten- i e<i u> hum a dwelling. The cross was reported by James j It, U’inebercer to have been | burned in his yard o«e night ! i.ist week. Dwellings ha'.’t j been built along the street in I (CONTIN LED ON PAGE 8) i Bi-Racial Confab To St adyß uli n g " ATLANTA (ANP) —A South-, v. ;~e conference to speed eompli- i a nee with the Supreme court de- | c/non outlawing school segrega- l tion was proposed here last week- j .« <•! i ; ghteen distinguished southern j 1.--orals announced this proejct at j a meeting oi the board of the j Drowning Brings Action For Poo! At Sanford i SANFORD - The Sanford . Recreation and Parks Commis- | sion has named a three-man com- j n litre to request the Sanford } Board of Aldermen to make ar- ! mngements for a swimming pool ; for the Negro populace of the town The committee, which consists I nf Alderman Reece Lemmond, i i;,Arman; Max Cotton and Dr. B. C Swayze, was appointed by j ** ' mmifeior. chairman O. T. Sloan following a discussion of swim- | ming facilities led by Dr. J. S i ■ Nude Escapade Brings Fine & Jail WENDELL, (Special) The shocking case of a white man and • nude Negro woman apprehend ed i (ding the same car about . three miles cast of Raleigh last * gi 1 SCOUTS VISIT NEW MEX- , ICO—The three boys pictured j above are now attending a Boy j Scout tamp at. New Mexico. The j h'io left Raleigh lasi Saturday "jnii will return to Raleigh this i ■ ' ■:>.•?£/V V •/■■■>; ' VOLUME THIRTEEN RALEIGH. N C WEEK ENDING SATURDAY. IULY 3. 1954 Veteran Shaw Officer : Gets V irginia Offer North Carolina circles were shocked Monday when it was learned ttvat G. E. fortes, 54 year old business manager of Shaw University, tendered his resignation to President ) Strassner. Mr. Jones has been In charge ©l the business affairs of | the local Baptist college since the dark days of the depres ! sion, 1932, having taken over the duties wrtett Shaw got its I first Negro President, W, Stuart Nelson, it is to be remem bered that when Jones same to Raleigh Shaw was witness | mg one of its user.! serious milestones in trying to serve as an, educational institution. Wr--- » Southern Conference Educational j Fund, Inc- Alibicy Williams, Montgom ery, Ala., publisher who heads the fund, presided at the gath ering which included Mrs, Mary McLeod Beihune: .Tobn Wesley Dobbs. Republican na (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8) I ! Simmons, one of three commis- ) I sion members whose term of of i Rce expired Wednesday. The I meeting was held Tuesday night Dr. Simmons, a Negro, pre faced bis'remarks by saying •‘Sometime, ago an unneces sary disturbance was started concerning what (hr Negro citizens were going to do to disrupt the white swimming poo! program." He stated that the worry at \ i tha time was unfounded, but vA. j (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8) : week, was tried in Wendell's Re ; corder’s Court Friday, j Donald Wallace Hancock, 30- 1 year-old draftsman, who was with j j the State Highway arid Public ! : weekend. Shown in the center is Irving Shepard, » student at Oberlin school: At right is Her- j mail Taylor, J r „ Raleigh. The delegate on the left is from a scout troop in Fayetteville. i Man Claims 6-Month Enslavement j FAYETTEVILLE-- The strange ■-■t,ivy how Halbert Patterson was forced to work on a Georgia ; project against bis will, witl ■ money and ho v he attempted escape from this viristal "hell ; hole" brought sympathy from i City Recorder Coy E. Brewer in Shaw vas in the worst state S of its long career when the pro fessional school;- were aboksned i as the result of the strike of 1814. | It was at that time that the white I Baptist sponsors withdraw their | support thus causing the close of | the professional schools. Jones ! faced a similar situation as me i result of tin.- naming ot a Negro ; to head ihe institution. The. same influence that had been responsible for the open ing of the school j.- alleged to ! have decided th.it if the Negroes j had become intelligent enough to | head the school then the gradu i ales, friends and No-To BxpiL t* | should co .able to finance > Since ' lining to Shaw Jones has | 'ten the physical plant greatly j ini proved, with the expenditure j of more than a million dollars, while the curriculum and t~e faculty have improved consider- I ably, Mr. Jones told the CARO LIMAN that he was reluctant to | leave Shaw and that he would | always feel himself a part of ! Shaw - He was high in big praise ! foe Dr. Sfrassner and the other members of ihe administration. He was resolute in ids statement , that ue was leaving only for the I sake of his health and ihe de -urc to cas,> up on his work. II.: leaves Raleigh to assume (he exccui ve duties of the same o:;k\- at Virginia State College, lie v/a.s assistant to the business manager of the Virginia college | before coming here. He will find himself again :n the admlnistra (CONTlNUED ON PAGE 8) Works Commission, entered a I plea of guilty to a drunken dnv i ln " charge. His address was list ! ed as 417 Parnell Drive, atid he was represented by Attorney Clyde A- Douglas, 11. The defendant, who did not choose to testify in his own be half, was sentenced to SO days, ■ Ihe lerrn being suspended upon , payment ot. SIOO fine and cost of ! court. He paid Ihe fine and was. I released. The woman, Alberta Dock hart. 30, of Raleigh, charged wish public drunkenness and : indecent exposure, who ap peared in court in an orange colored dress, trimmed in while abuol the neck and shoulders, was sentenced to 39 days in jail. Judge Earle .R. Purser, who tried the case, said that he “felt (bat it was the man’s fault". How ever, since the woman was not represented by an attorney, she was forced to serve her time at j Wake County Jail at Raleigh. j According to testimony by I Highway Patrolman John T. I Howe, the arresting officer, ■ he j stopped the ear driven by Han- i entk about three miles east of | Raleigh on Monday, June 21, at J about 2,30.p.in, a Per noticing the ■ irregular manner in which it was I (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8) local city court he;- Thurs day and sent trie FBI on to in vestigate the charges brought by ‘ Patterson, Patterson, who was beitir* tried an a complaint lodged by iris , wife for non-support, told a grip- j ping story of how he left home 1 Fascist Apologizes ■* w - j» . l|§(«Sra V || ||||| » StmNm it la.sc.ist Apologizes fthio < TMT APLOLGIZES Ethio pia’s delegate to the Asian Con ference at faux. Switzerland, His Excellency /. G. tluyv.ot (right', accepts the hand of a farmer Italian Fascist, Paulo Marehetts, who said: ' When l Ike & Adlai Send Wires To NAACP; Cite Decision As Sign Os Progress BY J. B. BARREN N C. NAACP Publicity Director DALLAS. Tex, (Special To The CAROLINIAN > The 45th an nual convention of the NAACP got underway Wednesday. June ; .“J at .he historic St. John’s Bup i list Church here. Man Held In Break-ins At Lucama & Middlesex j WILSON - The arrest this ; week of a resident of Connoticul j in connection with three of the j most startling eases of breaking j | and entering in the history of I j Lucama and vicinity, two of ! . nights, climaxed an extensive 1 j which occurred on successive j ! manhunt in this area- Complete | | investigations are now being con- ; i ducted by Sheriff J. W. Thomp- i i £on j Arrested was James Bradford, | 35, of Stanford, Conn, suspected of being the man who broke in i to the Lucama Grocery and Mar- j j kc-t on Main Street in Lucama | last Saturday night. i ~ : I N. C. News In Brief I ; DROWNING IN ALAMANCE BURLINGTON -- A i2-y.-ar old boy was drowned Friday while swimming m a private Pond off Lakeside Avenue Ex tension. Sam Edward Wood, w-f drowned about 11:BO a. rn while ; swimming with three younger j children, Sheriff C. H- Moore j j raid. The rescue squad of the j i Burlington Fire Department, re- 1 j covered the body about an hour j | after the incident and administer- I jed resuseitator treatment, but j j could not revive him. The death ; was ruled an accidental drown- I | mg by Coroner J. E. Walker, Jr. j Sheriff Moore quoted the other 1 one morning to gc to the store to get some food for his wife and | lour children and did. not return, j Upon taking the stand he was j forthright in his defense when he i : U the judge that he was guilty j or deserting his family, but it was j (CONTINUED ON PAGE S) NUMBER XXVia I hoard where you YVtre from, my heart missed a heal, t have long wanted this chance to say hovt sorry I am for the ruin anti misery fascism brought to Ethiopia. 1 am deep l. v ashamed.” (Newspress Pho to) | l North Carolina is represen td i by an extremely large delegation neaded by state conference proxy, Kei’y M. Alexander. Highlighting the opening ses sion of the six day convention i were special messages sent by | Dwight D. Eisenhower, president Thompson said Tuesday that I another break-in occurred Sfltur- j day night a* the home of Miss I | S.iiiy Haynes of Route 1, Middle- | | sex Following a search of Bradford, 1 officials found s2l in cash, a j sport shirt and a pair of work i gloves in a handbag. Deputy Sheriffs W. R- Pridgen j and W. E. Williams, who invert!- j i gated the other Saturday night | break-in reported that Miss Hay- | - nos' house was entered by forcing the front door open where a thief I or theives entered and stole 75 ! cents, a 16 gauge shotgun, three (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8) I youngsters as saying that. Wood j | went under while swimming in ! j the Howard Glenn pond. They j wore frightened by his struggles • and ran for help. The victim was : 'he son of Mr. and Mrs Sam I Wood of Durham Street Exten | sion, BIKE-GAR COLLISION INJURY WINSTON-SALEM -- A 10- | year-old boy received minor in- : i . uries about 12:30 p. in. Tuesday | | when his bicycle collided with a 1 | car at Ninth and North Cherry i Street-. Lathed Rice, Negro, of 1 3P3 Pittsburg Avenue was given ■ first aid at Kate Billing Reynolds j (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8) i k 4 ' T OK - *' tapiSl .$' -• jf Jr^^itt^nSBSfIHHHHHHSI OR. BARNHILL ELECTED TO TOP DENTAL POST An attendance record was set. j and members of the Old North State Dental Society shared the spotlight with clinician* when the organization met here in an active two-day session at Shaw University last, Tuesday and Wed nesday. So oe i)g Tarheel dephsts, rep resenting the largest turn-out in the history of the ONSDS, heard a young Charlotte dentist. Dr. R- A. Hawkins, urge them to start work immediately to gain posi tions on all policy-making agen cies for dental health in the State. “Although the ONSDS repre sents one-third of the population nt the State," he said, "it's mem bers do not but shouid have some tiling to s ay about the de termination of dental policies m the State.” Through his suggestion, a (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8) j of the United States and Adlai Stevenson, leader of the demo cratic party and unsuccessful pre sidential candidate in 1952. Following is Mr, Eisenhower’s : greeting: “Thank you for an opportunity to send greetings to everyone at tending the 45th convention of the NAACP. Wo have parsed, in j 1954, a milestone of social grow Hi i in the United States. The social j and political maturity of our na- i lion evidenced by the recent re- i ception given the Supreme Court 1 f1%% - : %£W *./ • ~y -. t, ; ‘ "llfell" ■' %,: k\ \ jB/SS/^mw " 1 ms& feiii» »\ *•: wraf -" - SP^i • fo® -v h ‘■':' AL «**% fiJlfr# •* S"3 w M ¥ sfeJSli m to W iu«L !s*&'<-■ «K V SL* , !kiir'. -' WifiJ 'kv^i l v• ■ <% s“. jfisSr ? aSi* )|>r «*<.■*■'*& *3^igC&t<i'>ffia^s)«K ,! frs.r '* ' ‘s* j ■iT-W V^ *s?, fßfcfnte* iV. sffik * ; Vi:.'%if •&,..* ?-• -■•.-■»&>■•■ Til' • ;'•«}* 'W3W| \ ife' T-; • "•''*&&**&'• H!tl 'H' : - • SaLtf- WBBBk m*aPvL- :MmLf'3iHV* .v S*£ ■ SHAW GRAD TOURS LON DON - Picture shows four of the young “Grass Route Ani- I assailors" from the IIS sight seeing with Buckingham I'ai- *0? -hilHcjfe %mk jgSr r^AwS i ' '-'Wm » Mk. • IIALBERT PATTERSON. Fay etteville family man, is shown with one of his four children Highest Average} TOP HAMPTON SENIOR Miss Geraldine S. Harris os' Ua- Irish, a 1054 graduate of Hamp ton Institute, was awarded the Irene E. Codrington prize for having the highest average is .he senior class. Miss Harris re ceived her 15. 8. degree in ele mentary education and has been appointed to a posh ion in the Raleigh Public .-< iioois for the ensuing school year. i decision is of great significance , (o our nation and to the cause of freedom in our world. The time-' call for continued demonstration of that maturity. We must have patience without disregard for difiorences of o pinion which actually exists. We hi us t have continued social progress, calmly, hut persistently made so that vie may prove without doubt to all the world that our na ; lion and our people are truly (CONTIN UED ON PAGE 8) ! I ace, home of the Queen of fin- j Stand, in the background. Left to right, ere; Bertram Rerg, 24, of Maddoek, North Dakota; ■■ I Julia Maxine young, 21, of ; after having been released from the toils of the law for desert ing bis family on a February morn. Patterson pleat! his own cast and made t good impres sion upon Recorder Coy Brew er when he exhibited a mutilat ed hand that he said he receiv ed as the result of trying to escape from human bondage, on. a Georgia slave camp PHONY CHECK ARTIST HELD AT TARBOBO TARSORO Accord:: a recent report, by Chief of Pt,f« o Otiey Leary, Tarboro police have captured Hem vp.c :• •-;- t «K. 21. escapee from Prison ■ .1 at WUHaeiston. Ca*’r:o ton - ;u be re?, ■ o;'o. ■ - cd as the man who cashed num erous wto thless checks in East ern Norm Carolina and l’ide i water, Va recently. I He gave his hr.trv a dress au I Greenv;de. r'urui;; 100 time, that i lie was serving ato '-yoai sen ! tence. Gjrr.ngmn yv,!,; >t ■: 11 in W:l --, liamston lorn Lenoir County, where he had been sentenced while iti the armed forces. Leary reported that C -.••. i /,• ton pa.-sed checks tit Dsrboro <>:r Monday to the Edgecombe Motor Compirny for $406 and B&M. 1 Chevrolet Company for sß : .ri Police here that he had left seine of ho ciothi s for | cleaning 1:. fore leave,; . town, j They leapt the area under stu-veji j lance. Thursday about 11:45 a- m. o j taxi from Murfreesboro stopped ! at the cleaning establishment and ; Officers C. P. Wainwright and : Glenn Walden made the ariosi' immediately. Carrington had on his person dozens of receipt;:. from Eastern North Carolina and Tidewater, Va. Leary reported that he would he held while the investigation was being completed. 8r- ■*©»• <!#»■ -<#► 4 ATTEND THE CHUHCH OT YOUR CHOICE EVERY SUNDAY ' .«► .*► i'uj** a ., sv . .. mi ■■ ■■ . i .offll.'ibavg'. North Carolina; Jewel (Judy) Ballard, 22, of Brentwood, California; and ] Robert Armstrong, 22, of Au j gnsia, New Jersey.
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