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TEXAS Speaking * ■ a capacity audience of over • - no r eoy.je v-kth many being ac- j tom.'dated by loud-speakers plae- j f’i c-ii!;.: the Good Street Bap ti.n ch :n;h, Thvrgood Marshall, j c oof coimsel, for the National | Arhociatioh for the Advancement of Coh>n;c: People, said that now that every one has had a chance ] :o expr -s s himself regarding the I )■ ciu U. S. Supreme Court de cision ouitawing segregation in i I draiou; it is time to get j down to the business of irnple- ] ’ the program of desegre- | 'on. which in any event should ! i c nli iiActed by the beginning of the September 1955 term. Marshal) reviewed briefly ths t lest eases that the Vi AC!’ had won over ihc ! ” .wars and said that each time , there had been those who said “it will not happen”, Re- i Farmers Lose Heavily In Storm BY ALEXANDER BARNES ; ; II could not be determined how j much of the estimated several mil- s .lion dclinrs ioss that the hail storm J did in; farmers of Wake, Per- ; sou, Gr;. will© and Johnston coun- ' on Monday would be suffered j by Ncgi ocs. but i t stands to rea son that the'r losses will be great. The / noth that cut across the three counties is known to ] , have strip .ed many fields that I were either owned, rented or j . cultivated on a sharecropper's basis, by Negroes. It is believ j?, ed that those owned by Ne- I 'j grw-s might he partially cover l' t ■ many fields where the fields i time, is believed to have been I swept over by the strong winds | what visited the area Monday, in the bottom, photo is shown the ear which was burled un der the structure. Re? story this issue. STAFFOTOS BY ( HAS. R. JONES. ! ferritic to the many alleged ‘•petitions” purporting to car ry the, signatures of thous | Tobias Is Keynoter ! At NAACP Confab ! BY’ J. B. BARREN Public Relations Chairman, ( NAACP CONFERENCE DALLAS, Tex.—An audience of ■ i over two thousand people cram- ; i mod every available space of the j historic Good Street Methodist Church here Tuesday night—de spite the sweltering 100 degree temperature—to hear Dr. Chan ! ning H. Tobias, venerable and ! world-renowned NAACP board | j chairman, declare that “We must | J save ourselves" if we would be j i free from the stigma of "second- ! j were left bare except for stalks, i j Leaving Person County the ene [ my of crops swooped down at I Hester, in Granville, but broaden- I rN. C. News In Brief! i SHOTGUN KILLING PROBED I i LE AKSVILLK Leaks- | j ville police are continuing their j ! search tonight for the unknown ! j assailant who killed Lindsay Al- ! i len, 32-year-old resident Monday | j night while he was Sitting in a j car in front of the home of Frau- j ces Hairston on West Washington j | Street. Police reported that the I j shotgun blast was fired through j : a window of he car and struck j ; Allen in the right side of his j ! chest. He got out of the car, | J walked around to the rear and | ! then collapsed. Allen had been ! ' an employee of the Town of i Leaksville until last April, found unconscious, dies ROCKINGHAM Lonnie Cov ington, 21. died Tuesday mo ujt.g 1 in a hospital after he was found j [ unconscious about 1! a. m. on the SWjTOBiwWiBBKy ■r- ■ j Wake Forest Residents Narrowly Escape Death I WAKE FOREST—The 1 i3.it storm , that occurred in Wake and sur : rounding counties Monday after i noon almost took its toll in human ( lift as it did m the destruction I of many crops. The Masonic Hall, located on Lewis Street here, collapsed on ; top of a parked car during the heigh? of the storm. The seven oc cupants of the car escaped unin- | ■ ured. The lodge left its location, j blew several feet into Lewis St. : and landed on the car. Occupants of the car were Mr. | ami Mrs. Eugene Lucas. June Wil lis ms. James Robert Smith, car : owner, William Herbert Lucas. ! F‘-»crr Wiggins, and Pvt. Charles • Jfvr.es, | The top of the vehicle was mashed in considerably. The in- • detent happened at approximate’? j 4:SO p. m. i antis of Negroes in Southern states endorsing segregation, ; Marshall said little conti- . Cass” citizenship; that we must i not spend our time in rejoicing | over our victories, but instead, | plan to meet aggressively the : !■.■■■ that would prevent our enjoying the gains thus far at . Lined by the orderly democratic processes guaranteed to all Ame nt an s, ■ - * jjjgf REACTIONARIES WARNED After declaring the recent | IT. S. Supreme Court decision outlawin'; segregation in pub ! iic schools on the basis of race “not coldly technical n r (Continued on page 8) I |ed its scope to about a five mile j j width and a 10-mile stretch. In i this vicinity, there were many l (Continued on page 8) j Prison Camp Highway about four j i miles northwest of here- Officers j ! say (hat the man might have j i been struck by a hit and run ; driver who left his mangled body I beside (he road. They were | checking on a report that Cov ! ington's throat had been cut and i that he was placed beside the ! road to make it appear as if he I had been struck by a motor ve- I hide. If it was a traffic case, j then it was Richmond County’s ! first in many weeks. | COUPLE SLASHED IN FIGHT LEAKSVILLE Lawyer Gravely and his wife, Mrs. Zollie Gravely, are in Tri-City Memo rial Hospital receiving treatment for serious knife woulds inflicted Monday night in a fight in the Blue Creek section. Police said (Continued, on page 8) The lodge, which was erected in 1907, was only used oroasional i Jy. as ttie local Masons were hous ied in another building. The two story building was com ; pletely demolished, causing the ; street to be closed to traffic. Occupants of the car hod park ed on Lewis Street Monday after- ! noon, to shield themselves from : i the storm prior to attending a ; baseball game. The crash came, so i i suddenly that no one had time to run. From the position of the car j under the building it was appnr • ent that if anyone had attempted ; to escape during the time of the j incident, it would have been fatal. Reports from Wake For-st and : : other neighboring commuiniies: showed considerable damage to i ; property. As far as could be de- j ternuned, however, thi ■ incident ! was the only one in which a build- j !*ng was damaged to any extent. { tie nee could bp placed in j them bemuse generally they ithe petitions) had been ob tained because of the “lom; periods of Intimidation and inferior training” to w hirh colored people have been sub jected for generations. Marshall added, “If anyone wants to know whether or not the Negroes in the South are op posed to segregation, they should examine the number who have not agreed to fight segregation., | but who have put, their money I in the fight..’ Thousands of teach- | ers have boldly enlisted in tins j group, the speaker stated, along ; with the hundreds of thousands i denominations and “you will get i of Baptists, Methodists, and other i a more accurate figure of fee i number of Negroes wan* gotion wiped out.” Much applause greeted this sim -i (Continued on page 8) !p i - X -ju. tfwjjsrT- , iftsf .MgSPb >r" j jy i l,i w V L-;~- 8U r'' ■ i' '• ■ WSmMimit:: a m. . - \ “ ' I*** . L-, - „ 8H wM IWiyfS isiSfcSiis jt J Mipfe, * ■ Thurgood Marshall Says “DE-SEGREGATION BY ’55” The Carilinian ' 'n 1 MU VW Ml MM M ■■■■!* ■ > ■ * . 11 « > » M < H MM V« M « M MM mm* 1 M'WM.MHMHM'MfWIWM MMW.MH ■ ■ WVWKMMYyVWJI* «y I HWW I WIM»¥HW*Jmi WWMiWiH WVWAMMWI Vt.WHMMrrafIAM rfH I ,„, ______ ,_ _____ VOLUME THIRTEEN WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 10. 1954 > ail ilSlllßl, ill alii II !i | I fll ;iS#l RUUf-inp %#'!' mWWmm 1 ms-m* Irks Parent BY HENRY C. MITCHELL WILSON ;MEB)— A spokesman ; for (he Wilson Recreation Com. i mission last week said three col ored youth who were seen play ing basketball at Recreation Pa>-k and Raleigh Road had entered the white playground to return a wal- • i let which they found. The fact that they remained on the playground about JO minutes and joined white youths in their game be add er, was because of the absence j of the supervisor who was in- j jured the night before. A parent in the park neighbor- i hood saw the colored youths at | ; the park and telephoned city hall. | ! inquiring when colored youths were admitted to the playground, j An investigation into the inci j dent a spokesman said, revealed j j that the youths did not enter the j | park for any motive other than j | to return the wallet. Officials said the colored boys | I left of their own accord and that j j no one questioned them, j Burt Gillette, director of recrea- j i lion and parks, said there has; 1 been no change in the policy of j I the Recreation Commission w'th i i regard to segregation at parks and ; ‘ playgrounds in Wilson. ! Gillette further stated, “Until a • now policy is passed on to me.” | segregation will be maintained.” i Frequent editorials by the local. j press ori the finer points of segre- j gation can be ajudged the reason | for local citizens getting excited | over anything that looks like in tegration. i Former St. Aug. Prexy Dies | WAYNESVILLE. N. C.— Funeral, ; services were held here Wednes- : j day for the Rev. Edgar Hunt j I | Gould, 70, former president of St. j ! Augustine’s College, Raleigh, who j | died here Sunday, i A native of Albany, N. Y„ the ! i Rev. Mr. Gould was educated at \ the Albany Academy, Amhurst; College, Columbia University and : the Genera Seminary in New York, j Sic was the last white presi- | ■ y*, • ■ - • v . w.,- • - ... . NO -TOHF-. SON— Ccmiedlajn Danny Kaye gets firti-Imnd story of recent , action against the Man Mau from ■M, Ilaoge Ohenge, » leader of the tight K} against Hie South Africans. Kaye. visited «. Home Guard fort in Nat | roln, Kenya, while making a doeu- xfitftflßbl&SfciMi T. men tary movie tor a United Nations * Hr agency. (Newspress Photo). rttamteL.. iWamtJ-p- -C.f * I * iii» - y mm / V Hragp .fgsgwßjk \ wXpHsr * .% ~ / ■ i* , YRR ... aBEKSom >W 'tS. f; ■ Sf? mbd / ■ ’ 1 Fi > •- M ■iWSeSSB^S^sBKtLI .' -y Offers Solution g&PjjjF ,••>>. mi/ " OR. E. McNEIL POTEAT ! CITY COUNCIL MEEETiNS TO CONSIDER PLAN RY CHARGES R. JONES ; Dr. Edwin McNeil Poteat, while. [ pastor of the Pullen Memorial | Baptist Church here and vice i chairman of Shaw University’s I trustee board, presented to Mayor j Pied B. Wheeler last Wednesday 1 q possible solution to the current J controversy over the Supreme | Court’s decision outlawing segre- I gation m the nation’s public 1 schools. j Fallowing a meeting of the Fel* j lowhip of Southern Churchmen, | which is an interracial and inter | denominational group, it was unan | imously resolved that a represen- I tative present a proposal that citi i teas representing business and pro* (C ONTJNUET) ON PAGE 8) dent at the local college and ! served in that capacity for 35 years. For the past five years he had served as rector of the Grace Episcopal Church in i Waynesville. ! Surviving the Rev Mr. Gould I are his wife, Mrs Katherine Gould; ‘ a son, Edgar H Gould, Jr., of Mrs- , fiouri and two daughters, Mrs. ; , Katherine Killian of Tallahassee, ; Fa., ami Mrs. Margaret G. Williams i of Wilmington. RALEIGH, N. C NewAppoiiiteel I BEV. R H. JOHNSON LOCAL PASTOR NAMED TO CITY ADVISORY CROUP The Rev Paul H. Johnson, pas tor of Martin Street Baptist Church j here has been appointed by the i city council to the Advisory Com- I mission on. City Recreation and j Parks. Rev. Johnson succeeds Dr. N H. j Harris on the. commission, j The work of this group entails j making recommendations to the j city council regarding ways and (CONTINUED ON PAGE *) Another Negro Woman, White Man Charged Here Police arrested a partly nude white man and Negro woman also ! partly naked, early Wednesday i | morning, when they were dlscov- j j ered in a parked car outside a lo- I | cal supper club. Vance Rayborn, Jr., 31. of Zebu- I | lon, will face disorderly conduct j ; charges in City Court next July 14, The case was set for Wednes day but was continued at the re quest of defense attorney, Will X. \ Yarborough, Jr and R. B. Tern j pie ton. Shaw University Gets $37,000 From UNCF Shaw University has recieved $37,046.34 from the United Negro College Fund, It was announced this week by President W. R. Stnissner The grant includes funds for both operating anti capital improvement purposes, the announcement stated. President Strassner explained that $7,476.34 of this amount v.as alloted by the Fund for annual operating expenses, bringing the ! Man Held In Double Killing WILMINGTON Charles Sykes , ! of 918 Meares Street is in jail here i I charged with the- murder of his ! ! wife and another woman after I they were slain with shotgun j blasts Sunday night. Investigating officers were told j by Sykes that his wife, Dorothy j Sykes, and Doris Murray of 707 | Wooster Street were having un-! natural relations and that he had i warned his wife to “leave that wo- i man alone.” Sykes said that the affair had j been in progress since 1948 and he 1 NUMBER XXIX Saturday | Brawl Ends In Murder GOLDSBORO Buddy For; being sought by Wayne Qount;- ' officers in connection with th • rifle slaying of Robert Lee Mc- Intyre, 24, at Eureka last Satur day night. The shooting oceured at T.Ji P- m. Chief Deputy Roy Perth. said that Mclntyre was found dead of a .22 caliber bullet wound under tne right arm after he had crawled under the house 0 t James Hose, white, following the shooting. Two unidentified Negro m;-; who witnessed the shooting, toil Percise that Fort had complained to them a few minutes beiore the incident about Mclntyre Uk.- 1 ing his wife away from him. The men said that Fort., v. .to had a rifle on, him. said he v, as on his way to find Mclntyre ai d intended killing him when he found him. The witnesses said that mom ents later Fort met Mclntyre on i the street, had a few words with | him and started shooting. Mclntyre thers reportedly i ran across the road and »- ronnd the side of the Fore house. Rose told Percise that he came out after hearing the shooting and found Mclntyre tying dead under his kitchen. According to Fort’s mother, he had been having trouble with (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3) , The Negro woman, Cora Lei* 'Graham, 21, of 1111 S. Wilmington j St, wa* sentenced to six months !on the roads Wednesday in City j Court or charges of disorder.y i (conduct and indecent exposure, i She gav* notice of appeal and was | bound over to Wake Superior Court under s3o® bond. Officers Joe Bachelor and W, If. Glover reported they found tee pair in a IMS green Bulek, parked *t the rear en (CONTINtmWt OK FAG® *) . total received for this purpos* | since January 1, 1954 to 4i4,787 33. j The sum includes a final alloca tion of Shaw University's share of the 1533 campaign results, and the first disbursement of money raised lo date in the 1954 appeal, of the United Negro College Fund. The remaining $30,478 !s tee fifth grant made tn Shaw (Continued on page 8! j end his wife separated Friday | night following a disagreement. Sunday night Sykes found his wife on the porch of a house occupied by Richard Hayes of 708 South Eighth St. It was then that Sykes shot | her with a shotgun. The Mur ray woman was ht the house according to police, but ran when Sykea shot his wife. I Sykes then left and walked a j Khor? distance down Russell’s A!* ! ley where he found the woman (Continued oti page 8h