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* Police Officer Cleared Here In Automebile Accident j^3MSsßaHH^S4^KgßSKßg«siagiißa!aK^MS^ißalMß».^l3ffiEiaHpilßEaMpg^-'.-. %-w a t v . *^(k9k |MW i T lßim*- JjHMflßte; «|Mg 1 f k %' ?w seSIS - •<- »/ />jW •’ 3ffiggK - *s& M%p V* fffif TEACHERS GIVE “MR. CIVIL RIGHTS” $1,809*90 FOR NAACP Thurgood Marshall Heft) accepts tor the NAACP $1,809.90 from the Amreican Teachers Association during its 51st annual convention which closed last ’•-'ek at Young Fayetteville Woman Expecting Ba by En ds It A ll FaYETEVILLE— A mixture of tincture of iodine and spirits of camphor caused the death of Miss; Joyce Wynne. 21, here Monday, nriht and it also caused an un named married man much trouble and embarrassment both at home and with the police. FOLSCEMAN 1 PEST IP BY i : BROTHERS | OOLDSBOO Three brothers | f >•:•.! Wii-’on County have been i charged here with assault, resist- j ms arrest, and interfering with j arrest, following an attack upon j Police Chief W. B. Rich and ; S rests Superintendent W. R [ Bunn of Fremont Thursday. rile men are Sylvester, Lester \ and Theodore Richardson, of the | Black Creek section of Wilson 1 County. The trio was released under I it SSOO bond each following a : hearing before Fremont Mayor ; Russell Kirby Thursday night, j and will be tried in Wayne Coun- i ty Court. They were arrested at i approximately 3:15 p. m. Thurs- j day by Sheriff Paul Garrison and j Highway Patrolman J. O, Carter, j being picked up several miles north of Nahunta. (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) ATA PONDERS COURT ROLIMG AT CONFAB NASHVILLE, Tenri, ~- It was a cool, calculating American Teachers Association that met, here July 25th to 27th. pondered aspects of the Supreme Court’s decision, celebrated the 50th an niversary of its founding in Nashville, and gave $1809.90 to the NAACP. The meeting held at Ten nessee State University, drew the largest attendance of any ATA meeting in almost two decades. More than 500 dele gates and teachers represent ing 19 states considered ap proaches and reactions and proposals as to what should be the teache-’s attitude to the Supreme Court’s decision am! suggested plans and pro- F■'>.-"’ . Gerard A. Anderson <’: Scu'h Carolina, president, P esidat! over the sessions. Tiia £-p.p 'ic, pentrable Dr E’en- Jcr in E. Mays, led the oain — o' tb-» -giit on the conven- ON PAGE EIGHT) i h resident Eisenhower Breaks Ban U .V..-..-GTON (ANP) ln 3 future Ke;,:'t' 4-11 club boys o-.-.d "iris will be able to come to Wasnmgton for their annual i ••lcanvme.-tt and round-up just Ike the white 4-H clubers throughout the country do. The first such encampment is expected to take place in August of next year, It. will replace the regional tamp to which colored youth have been confined and which has met at various places in the South, usually at one of ihe Negro Land Grant colleges. It tcok the White House to bring the change- about. Negro boys and girls will not Tennessee State University. In a little more than a decade, ATA has given $20,000 to the NA AC P’s 1 Educational and Defense Fund. ATA trustee C. L. Harper (right), making the presentation, is exec ; utive secretary of the Georgia Teachers Assoeia ! tion. The 21-year-old woman is known to have left a note stating that, the man was the father of her unborn child and that because she was going to give' birth she decided to end it all. She was dead upon the arrival of the po j lice. She is alleged to have had an extended stay in the bath room of the home of her sister, 1 Mrs. Eunice Elliott, 1213 Elliott 'Circle. When she emerged from the bath room she is alleged to have told her sister that she had taken the death po- | Wayne Cops Make | 284-Pint Booze Haul KrNANSYTLLE T« o , Goldsboro men were free un der bonds of $750 each la: t Thursday after 284 pints of liquor, purchased from the Pink Hill ABC Store was found in crates on their chicken truck. Ira Blount and William Henry I Blount, np relation, were arrested | ; by Constable W. M. Williamson : alter he had stopped the truck following which the Lower Halifax NAACP unit officially received" Sgi fMmSBMEaWHHHBIIH NAA(T Conference. Seated (front rowi are officers of branch. Set. a mid from right to left is .ferry C. Johnson, overall chairman of pro ,. . ™ gram. Thud from right is G.L. Smith, secretary, and Troy Lat.sf.ster. %s§JSpy|BP’ ' rV^t l ■• next to him. Standing h.v window Deft, front 1 are Rev. K. .1. John be able to attend the national round-up which is held in Wash ' ington each year and participated in by white 4-H club boys and girls from every sta'e, Alaska and Hawaii. The colored round ! up v/ill be separate but the boys ! and girls will have the oppor | tumty of visiting the many his i torical pices in. Washington. They will be taken to the great ex perimental farms at Bel'ville, Tvid. Tl ey will go through much of the same citizenship training ex perience which white boys and girls have enjoyed for years. I Last year Negro newspapers ! pringting an ANP story, revealed tion. The sister put in an emergency call !o the police and it was then that the cause for the unexpected death was known. The note was brought to sight and the contents revealed that the man had not only been inti mate with her, but that he was accused of beating the young woman. The note is alleged to have described the alleged intimacy and the supposed beating. The sister is said, to have call ! (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) i on a tip that they might be. taaul i mg liquor. "What’s on that track?" Con j stable V/ilhamson is reported to | have asked. | "Chickens Doss", said Ira Blount. "Mind if I take a look?" asked Constable Williamson. “Might as well te.ll you, boss I’m lying. We’ve got a load of (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) that every since the round-ups j in Washington began, southern i state ex'ension directors had re ! fused to agree to colored girls j and boys attending or even galh ; ering in Washington at any time i under state and federal auspices. A startled reader saw the story and wrote Congresswo man Frances P. Bolton of Ohio, inquiring if it could possibly be true that in a free < oK'iitry such as Ihe U. S„ th-re were deferences made between youthful citizens on the basts of race. Ren. Bolton did not know but ! (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) THE CAROLINIAN i _ j ; VOLUME THIRTEEN WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, AUGUST 7. 1954 RALEIGH, N. C.” NUMBER XXXIII j State Segregation Group jj - - - Meets Mere Thursday !■★★★★** ****** ****** || Eight White Men Arrested As \ !K& H |||f WM f$S-| ' ; sss gUl adjaifew. « m B BBnS B I tv - t pPB ißi|§ IMI; m m WUm 1 hg ':r;J H §lg 1 ’ BBHKV §Epj*ll afisHns I 'ttS&’So KSSSgML®®* jKgMajpM| ShKI jSgftgSjg :SmM& *• r vVW */ 1 map£»&E SsgSgTfe [jiiil fiK rtf*; *.* * U Western County Whites j Force Negroes To Flee I GRAHAM COUNTY—The right for all men to make a living by . the sweat of their brow was chal lenged in this extreme western and border county here recently when’ the lives of four Negroes ; were threatened and law enforce i mens officers came to their res : cue, The trouble started when a ; grouj* of white nic-n visited the scene of some road work CHURCH MEET KILLER HELD AT ROXBORO j ROXBORO Before the a ie- I gates and members of the Low i Bound Negro Association of the | Primitive Baptist Church could I get underway for its two day | session, death marred the spir- I itual atmosphere of the Pine Sill J Church here about m » g u Tri • day and left one dead and anoth ! er’s head battered with a base : ball bat. The calm was distributed when 1 Joseph Lee Curry was shot to ; death with a .32 calibre pistol al legedly in the hands of Thomas j Earl Terrell. Cedar Grove resi j dent of Orange County. | The trouble makers arrived at the church as those who had come ! to enjoy the solemness of the | 'CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) I N. C. News In Brief 1 She “Longs For A Hamburger” LOUISBURQ —Word has been received here that Miss Julia Maxine Young, 1954 graduate of Shaw University, Raleigh, who is I now visiting Europe under the International Farm Exchange Pro | gram, is having a wonderful time, but she has an unquenchable long ! ing for a "plain old American hamburger.” Having seen ail of the | British agricultural implements of the Royal Show at Windsor, Miss I Young found that whereas the farms in this country have one large 1 machine for many uses, Europe has one machine for one purpose., j She said that the agriculutre of European countries is very different I | from that, in the United States. Miss Young is a native of Franklin j County where her parents now operate a 200 acre farm Man Stabs Woman. FAYETTEVILLE —Arthur Maynard 17-year-old resident of Nine-! I I (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) that was being done here and held a rifle on Leon Filyan, white, night watchman on the job and made threats to him about Negroes working on the job. The men did not j do further harm to Filyan on their first visit, but returned the next morning and accost ed Jack Morris, also white. They drew the rifle on him and made more threats. The group t.old the white men that four skilled Negroes on the. job "had to go". Upon being told of what had happened the Ne- j ernes left the job on July 23. The : project Superintendent-, W. T. McConnell, in what is reported l as an attempt to keep down trou- 1 bie and for the safety of the Ne- i gro ,s, t .’ought it best that they, leave. The Negroes returned on; the 26 and aided in completing; the work on Saturday. There j were two laborers on the job and j they aiso helped to finish the t project. As the result of the threats and! intimidations. Col. James Smith,; highway patrol commander, re- j ported in Raleigh, Monday, that; eight white men had been arrest ed and placed under S4OO bonds for their appearance in Superior Court at Rofoinsville. Sept, 6.J When the incidents were first re- i ported there was the belief that! no charges would be preferred, j even though the names of the; men were known. Enforcement! officers proved this erroneous. The men who were arrested are (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) • Ml?* ' fw , rtHra' 1 !>«■ l iClvJtt CLAKkSUN Clarkson Beats *Rap’ In City Traffic Mishap | Sam Clarkson, 26-year-old local policeman, was cleared of ! all blame in City Court here Tusday morning when he was tried i on charges of careless and reckless driving. The case was tried as the result of an accident in which the j ! police officer was said to have run through a red light and bump- j de into a car being driven by Alonzo Parrish, white, theatre ; ! operator of Benson, at the intersection of South and Wilmington; Streets. The trial developed the fact that Clarkson was speeding to an swer a cal lin which several mern- Mrs. Mary Church Terrell Mourned WASHINGTON. D. C.—(ANP> The fruitful life of the late Mr.i. Mary Church Terrell, one of the founders of the National Association of Colored Women 58 year® ago, was praised last week by many persons throngh out the nation who knew her and her achievements. Chief among those who paid glowing tribute to the famous I woman was Mrs. Irene McCoy '■ Gaines, president of the NACW. j The well known fighter for b.u --; man rights who died recently, ; w:v described by Mrs. Gaines j an especially courageous In her j undertakings, and she also served Committee Meets Here To Ponder Court Edict Tbe Siae Board of Educations special subcommittee on prob -1 iems created by the ariti-segrega j tion decision, will hold its first meeting Thursday afternoon. Whether this meeting will be I open to the public has not been determined. The affair is expect ed to take place in Raleigh. Meanwhile, another special stu dy committee is expected to be turned by Governor Umsxeab. This probably w ill ba larger and more inclusive* of the various thoughts on the historic mandate. The two groups arc designed to coordinate their efforts as much | as possible and stated Monday by Dr. Charles Carroll, state superintendent of public instruc tion, they probably will arrange * a joint meeting as their studies bers of his family were involved. He is alleged to have been investi gating an assault ca.se at St. j Agnes Hospital when a call came j in that there was shooting at 1209 ! I-lolman Street. It appears that ' local police had not been called i | when the call came in to the hos-! pital. Clarkson testified that he | picked his brother ‘ Boobie” up at; Oakwood Avenue, near the emer- j gency entrance of St. Agnes. It was not ascertained how j "Bobbie” got to that point. It ‘ was also brought out that "800- j bie” was one of the persons that; was shot by his brother, Willie ; | Clarkson at the Holman Street j ; address. Officer Clarkson is re-! | ported to have raced thru Martin | | with his sireen blaring away. The Street at a rapid rate of speed (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) Winston-Salem Resident Kills Lover In Apartment WINSTON-SALEM—A 41-year old man was charged here Mon day with the fatal stabbing of his girt Mend, who he is alleged to have found in another man’s apartment Sunday afternoon. According to local police, Louis Webber, 41, of 1755 Old Town Road has admitted that he was the person who stabbed Miss Otha Jackson, 38, 1327 Clark Avenue dur-ing & quarrel In the kitchen of her neighbor’s home. Webber has been charged with murder and is now being held in Jail without the privilege of j bond. Police officer* quoted Web- I b«r a* saying that he be- i as an inspiration, which will en j able the NACW to camy on Mb i outstanding work. Honors of every coneeiv j.Wc kind had been bestowed upon Mrs. TcrreH by the as sociation before her death, and In addition It give her its full support in her ragged and victorious fight to have the District of Columbia’* an ti-discrimination law* enforc ed. There are many who feci that Mrs. Terrell should have received the Spingara Medal. Mrs. Terrell’s last public ap pearance was made on May 2 I of this year when she was gueet NOT PROPERLY INTERPRETED In the July 31 issue of fchi CAROLINIAN there appeared i story which dealt with what wa. ' reported to be a seeming wires j between principals, teachers, stu dents and parents. There ha; been many inquiries and com ments on the story. The star; was published from informatior thought to be authentic and true Upon investigation tire foliowtaj has been received. | There has been no person, in eluding Superintendent Sander-' son and School Board member F. J. Carnage and Mrs. Harriet! Pressley, found who has an; ! knowledge of the matter teem. ! formally placed before the Boar d ! Attorney Carnage told the CAR ! OLJNIAN that no Negro commit | tee had appeared before the com- Continued <>m Page 14 progress. The board’s subcommittee will delve, into the formal problems in the educational structure as a result of the opinion. The Gorernor's com j jnitee, however, will purus# many other aspects of the situation, including the social. Us special purpose will be t? ; recommend to the Qevernoi ; what steps should be taken by tne 1955 legislature. Before the board’s subcommit,- : tee goes into its session, the full I board will discuss the budget tc I be presented next month befort | the advisory budget commission j The school budget for the '355- 57 biennium will be about $951 million, according to present es inmates. m iJURiES FATAL FOF mm NORTH W 11. KESBORO - : Charlie Martin, 81 -year-old re sident of tne K ing River com- I munity, was !:. . 1 Sunday nj'.oi ; when he was struck by a cal | three miles east of here on High i way 296. The aged roan is said to have | been attempting to walk across the road when he was hit by e car being driven by Woodrow Wilson Pardue of North Wilkes boro, Route 2, according to the investigating officer, State High way Patrolman Clyde R. Shook. | Pardue reportedly told the m : vestigating officers that it Was ! raining st the time and he did ; not see the pedestrian crossing, Mr. Martin was thrown up on j (he front of the car and carried a few feet before he fell to the pavement. Patrolmen Shook said there i was no evidence of speeding or i negligence on the part of the | driver. No charges have been filed, but j Mr. Pardue has been placed un | dcr bond pending completion of ! the investigation. I (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT! came angry when the wom an, whom he had been going with for several years, told him that she was going to live with another man.” He told police that he attack,. : ed the woman with a folding typ* hunting knife bwt only meant fcs cut her a little. The stabbing occurred In th« apartment of Willie McFadden, 45, of 1325 Clark Avenue, adjoin* ins the Jackson apartment. McFadden was arrested and held for questioning on Monday evening after Web ber admitted the slaying. The woman waj pronounced (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) sity. She was slos previously turned "Womaji of the Year” by tjpe fffeHitjr (Stab of New York City. 'The noted woman, served as th>» Hurt president of the NACW which ws« founded, in the 10th Street Baptist Church in Wash ington in 1806. She limited her term of office to four years, a pattern which is still followed. Amgjjg those who witnessed Mrs. induction in office as NACW’s first president art remained hyr close friends the years are D \ diSf Nilyer, Mrs. Anri jooMnmi) ow p!a«e eigk j
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