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DUNN—-Robe, t Caddy, 45-year
old Dunn railroad employee, was.
being held in tat Dunn jail this .
v. eek in connection with the slay
ing of liis wife, Mrs. Annie Gaddy, ‘
about. 40
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a highly respected citi/ -n in this
free xur’-enoered to Dunn police
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TEACHER FEAR ANNOUNCED
I! ••' C ‘ \Y MR. C tJJLOWAV
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uzl go Mim in 1954
GOLDSBORO The strong
herd of the law reached out and
■f d C sides Dixon Spence.2l
- white youth, here Mcn
o'' y morn tie p when he was given
a hearing for the death of Wei ton
Calloway, 33. who died at Prr
rott Memorial Hospital. Sunday.
aj;.-r h« v-im been the victim oi s
tv. o-car collision at the corner of
Adkin and Bright Streets about
12:30 A M., the seme day.
Spence was first held under a
SSOO bond for reckless driving, but
when the case was called for trial,
bond was set at $2,000 and the de
fendant was taken to jail, in de
fault of bond.
The investigation officers L. W.
Pate and Coroner Raymond Jar
man testified that CaUowav died
as the result of multiple injuries
wniefa be received as a passenger
in a car that was being driven by
his wife. Mrs. Alice Murphy Cal
loway, lf>
The car in which the Calloways'
Prominent School Teacher Funeralized
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were riding is said to have been
heading south on Adkin Street,
when it was struck by the car.
driven by Spence, at the intersec
tion, near the right front window.
The impact of the two cars is said
to have thrown Calloway out of
the car, breaking both arms,
crushing: his head and causing,
serious internal injuries.
The Spence car is said to have
continued or. after the mishap
and uprooted an Oak tree. Spence
told the officers that both drivers
were going about 25 miles per.
hour, but the evidence tended to
disprove this fact, due to the
damage done.
Mrs. Calloway is known to have •
suffered severe injures and when
seen by a Carolinian representa
tive. at her home. 1108 Oak Street,
on Tuesday, was unable to give
a vivid account of the accident
due to her condition.
Calloway was a native of Ideal.
1 Continued on Page 8/
WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1954
MORE RACE
TEACHERS!N
NEW PLAN
Jh ALK E A. bI'VSICAV
WiSHINGTON • ANP • At a
'time vi .'it Negro teachers, espec
ially th'-rs employ'--d In the South.
83 e unr. ui of losing heir jobs due
to the newly proposed integration
pro worn, s r,y. cf educators an
r.our.s' --d :• i . ■•! to prepare more
secr-i" re for the profession.
TV..- ]-;&v- plan, which the com
m ‘ : >' as "a unique ap
proach to relieving the pressing
i t-eachei thonage in the nation's
; public schools was announced at
: ' department of labor last week
by Mrs. Alice K. Leopold, director,
women's bureau qnd Dr. S. M.
• Brownell, U. S, commissioner of i
education.
The -Ti-oposed program, geared:
to individual community needs.'
would help insure steady flow of
; quo lifted people into the teaching
nrf fessior. on a long-term basis,
according to Mrs. Leopold.
The plan was developed over a
period of months by a committee
composed of representatives of 23 I
national organizations, including
the National Council of Negro.
v, omen, and was co-chaired by
Mi s. Leopold and Dr. Brownell.
It proposed to recruit, train and
deliver to the nation’s school
: corns, qualified women, holding
bachelor’s degrees, but without
previous professional preparation
or experience in teaching.
Also eligible, under the recom
mendations, would be people hold
ing temporary teaching certifi
cates and wishing to qualify for
full certification, as well as men
wishing to enter the teaching pro
fession for the first time.
Dr. Brownell claimed that ther*
is a shortage of 70.000 elementw,
teachers in this country, and this
new teacher-training program is
proposed to prepare teachers to
fill this shortage.
When asked if there was a
shortage of Negro teachers, the
iCONTINUED ON PAGE 8)
i TAUGHT 38 YRS.;
| RETIRED J MAY
Funeral servicer for Mrs. Nan
Perry Frazier, 307 E. Cabarrus
: street, were conducted from the
St. Paul AMT: Church here. Sun
day afternoon at 1:00 P.M. The
pastor, Rev. L. S. Penn officiated
: and burial followed in Mount
| Hope Cemetery.
Mrs. Fraizer, who taught in the
! Raleigh Public School system for
: 38 years, succumbed after a brief
Illness, lasting less than 48 hours,
Born in Raleigh, Mrs. Frazer
i was the daughter of the late
| Charles and Nnn Manly Perry.!
| She was educated in the Raleigh
j Public Schools and Shaw Univer
; sity, from which institution she!
| received the degree of Bachelor of
; Arts. She attended summer school
| sessions at several North Carolina |
colleges and attended summer
(Continued on Page 81
j,
HiO. News In Brief
jl A. AND T. COACH CHARGED
|| GREENSBORO A warrant'
I charging Mathew Brown of the A.
| and T. College coaching staff with
| larceny of school property was is- i
I sued recently according to the!
| sheriff’s office here. The war
| rant, unserved, due to the fact
| Brown, whose Greensboro address
j is 1106 Salem Street, is out of the
*, city with indefinite plans about j
returning charged him with lar- i
RALEIGH, N C. NUMBER XXXV
’NEW FARMERS’ MEET IKE President Eisenhower seems to
be enjoying himself as he receives Francis N. Thompson, of Groom,
Md, national president- of the New Farmers of America. Officials of
the. organisation visited the Chief Executive «t the White House test
week- iNewspreas Photo)
Clinton Police Officer
Held On Booze Charge
CLINTON —■ Apparently s po
liceman’s salary was not sufficient
for a 27-year-oid recently ap
pointed race cop, who ts now in
serious trouble.
According to Police Chief
I„ Crummie. one of ho- tU
partmenCs Negro officers
James Faison, was arrested at
Hlghtown, N, J.. v itb ten
case* of non-tax-paid Siijuor
in his 1950 Chevrolet as it was
headed towards New York
City on the New Jersey Turn*
! pike last w eek,
i New, Jersey police reportedly;
1 tcletyped Chief Crummie about
j 12:30 Friday morning, informing
him of the arrest of Faison.
Identification was confirmed by
the Clinton police badge that was
found in Faison's pocket.
It, has been learned that the po
liceman was on a vacation, and
had taken his wife to her home ai
Goldsboro.
He allegedly got the 6C gallons
of whiskey in half-gallon fruit;
jars at Princeton in Wayne Coun
ty.
The officer had come to the
j Clinton force with many favorable
recommendations as to his char
acter and was apparently making
, an impressive record here.
He was appointed on July I.
1954.
It is alleged that he and anoth
er recently installed cop in Clin
ton had occupied the same house
! and that the second officer wan
1 moving out and Faison needed ad
ditional money to buy furniture
for the house.
The case is said to be still under
investigation. Chief Crummie stat
ed that Faison was definitely re-
cent- of state property according
to the officer. The property, ath
letic equipment and several pieces
of furniture, was reportedly found
in an attic at the Salem Street ad
dress after Magistrate J. C.
Strickland sent s deputy to re
move the furniture from the house
in eviction proceedings. The case
will be turned over to th: r me
and SBI investigators have been
notified.
(Continued on Page 8)
Iseved of his position.
A Clinton attorney, Jake
Turlington, former member of
the FBI, stated that when he
and his party were going to
the I.inn’s convention in New
York some weeks ago, his car
was stopped by the New Jer
sey police and looked over for
f Continued on Page 8)
NMA Prexy Praises Ruling
By ALICE A. DUNNIGAN
WASHINGTON fANP)—In his |
, final adress to the House of Dele
gates of the National Medical As- 1
- social,ion, last week, Dr, A. Porter;
, Davis, the outgoing president. !
praised the Supreme Court, for its
TWO BOYS DIE
IN SAND PIT !
ELIZABETH CITY The bod
ies of two 12-year-old boys were
recovered tram the waters, of a
sand pit in Pasquotank County
Tuesday night at 9:45 by Coast
, Guard personnel, ending a long
search for the youngsters who had
not. been seen since they left home
around 2:00 p. m. Tuesday after
noon.
The youngsters, Norma,n Biff
ups, youngest son of Mr. Harrison
Biff ups, and Tyronne Jackson,
Bis I ups’ grandson and the son of
Mr. Benjamin Jackson, had
drowned when they apparently -
stepped in water over their heads
and couldn’t get out. They could
not swim.
When found, the hoys’ bod
ies were about 30 feet from
the water’s edge, some six feet
apart in water from four to
ten feet deep. i
The sand pit reportedly was the t
largest of several in a group neai ]
Pitt’s Chapel, about two miles off 1
VZeeksville Road and five miles ,
from Elizabeth City. j l
When the youths had not re- i
turned home between 7 and 8 p.
m. Tuesday, and members of their
families could not locate them,
the Highway Patrol and the Coast ,
Guard were called on for assis
tance.
(Continued on Pare 8) 1
'UNITED WE STAND' — » Dr. Frivols Btichmao Hid* fureweE to Mr*. Mary Method Stethune, ttsmAer
mnd first president of the National Council of Negro Women of America, at the close of the Work! As
sembly Cor Moral Rc-Armament, Held at Oux, Switzerland Speaking as the representative of 18 million
Negroes in America, Dr. Bethune declared “Caux is providing os the way to unite the nations of the
! world May we stand united until this idea reaches mankind everywhere." With her stands Mrs, Minnie
Rogers, and at right. Prof, Richard Brown, of Blue field, West Vs. (Newspress Photo!
WEAVER NAMED
|TO SHAW UNS¥.
President William R Strainer
i announced the appointment <>f Mr,
D. W. Weave: as Business Manager
of Shaw University to replace Mr.
G. E. Jones whose resignation be
comes effective September 1. 1554.
; Weaver received his elementary
! and secondary education at hi - r.u-
I five home Wlnlon, N. C„ at the
; Waters Training School and the
! C. S. Brown High School respect
! ively. He is a graduate of Hamp
j ton Institute wlie-e he received
: the Bachelor of Science Degree in
: Business Administration, and has
.done further *or It aJ Cornell
! University.
j Mr. Weaver is a membe; of the
, Executive Committee of the
I American Association of College
i Business Officers, the National
! Education Association and served
!on the Building Commission for
1 Tennessee State University.
I iCONTINUED ON PAGE 8!
! __ _ _ ....
Principals And Supervisors Support
i
Court Decision In Durham Confab
|
i .
HENSON HIGH
!H NORFOLK
| OVER HOUSING
1 NORFOLK, Va. (ANP) —White
! families have beer, on the run to
Norfolk and nearby places for ai
! most 100 years, to keep their
; neighborhoods white, but they are
i getting tired.
The last drama of this phase of
race relations is being played in a
new neighborhood here called
Caronado. Tension between the.
races has mounted to such an ex
tent during the past 10 days that
a. race riot might be touched off
any day.
The glaring headlines in the
newspapers tell the story of Cor
onade. a newly development in
I Norfolk, county near Norfolk
which was formerly inhabited by
| only white families. One headline
(Continued on Page 8>
recent decision on segregation in
the public schools.
‘This,*’ he said, “its an example
of what there is possible to do,
when there is consecration, bank-;
ed up by abilities and money.”
He also praised the National !
Association "for the Advancement!
of Colored People for spearhead
ing this fight, and spoke of the
physicians’ participation in this;
ores nidation.
He urged The approximately 2,-!
000 delegatee in attendance to
strive to make the medical field
so attractive that more youngj
men and women will be encour- 1
aged to enter this profession.
It, was a bit hard when those
young people had to be trained
in segregated schools, he said
which set up s double standard
and gife them an inferiority coin -!
plex.
There is a "dissipation of
menial effort,” he continued,
"when we must, start from so
low in order io attain heights
that are so necessary for a
physician’s career.
He advised members of NMA
(Continued on Page 8)
Fight Far National Baptist Head Looms
SAN ANTONIO, Tex.. (ANP)--
Fnr the first tune in the 21 years 1
of his presidency, the Rev. Green
L. Prince, president of the Na
tional Baptist Convention of
America will face a contest when
he runs for reflection at the an
nual meeting Sept. 7-12 in Jack
sonville. Fla.
The contender will be Dr. P. S.
Wilkinson. 49 year old president
of the American Baptist Conven
i tion of Texas, a state wide organi-
I station reputedly possessing 90,-
1 000 members.
1). W WEAVER
NCTA Executive
Praises Stand
DURHAM N. C„ iANP)—One'
hundred and twenty of the state’s
Negro principals ar.d supervisors'
have unanimously approved a re-
I solution favoring “wholehearted
support of the Supreme Court d< - •
cis io n outlawing segregated
schools."
The resolution was approved
without a dissenting vote at the
closing session of the fifth annual
Principal-Supervisors conference
held here a:. North Carolina Col
lege last week.
Irr. W I Greene, executive
secretary of the North Caro
lina Teachers Association, pa
rent organization of the prin
cipals-supervisors group, said
he thought the resolution was
“good index of the feelings of
the membership of the North
Carolina Teachers Associa
tion."
In the resolution, the principals
and supervisors said, “ . . . We
; pledge ourselves to wholehearted!
! support of the decision and standi
I ready to work cooperatively and:
! faithfully for its implemenation.”
i The group voted to send copies
of the resolution to the Governor’s
Advisory Commission on segrega
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 8)
BISHOP ORDERS
MIXED SCHOOLS
LITTLE ROCK. Ark. 'AWT
Bishrop Albert L. Fletcher, head
of he Roman Catholic diocese of
j Little Rock, last week declared
i that Negro students will be ati
-1 mined to white parochial schools
, m areas where the church has nor,
provided separate schools for Ne
groes.
The new policy was revealed In.
a pastoral letter read in churches
of the diocese, winch covers all
I of Arkansas.
Calling on his parishoners to be
cairn in accepting the policy, the
prelate letter read in part:
“There is nothing to get excited;
! about. I am merely outlining what
has been the constant teaching of
the Church.”
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 8)
The Baptist Minister’s Union of j
Sa. n Antonio comprising 49 j
churches in that city was the first, j
organization to toss Dr. Wilkin- j
son’s hat in the ring. In a special;;
i meeting last Monday held at the
First Baptist Church, Dr. C. Wil- j
liam Black, pastor, the Baptist:
Minister’s Union, of which the':
. Rev. E. J. Wilson is president, >
i, went on record as. feeling need for j
-a change in leadership.
- j Rev. Wilson in a statement ex-1
■ pressing the sentiment of the |
1 reroup said: j
HABBIS CHEER
COURT EDICT
LITTLE SWITERLAND - - Rab
bis from North Carolina and Vir
ginia concluded the third annual
Jewish Leadership Institute Sun
day with a resolution endorsing
the Supreme Court decision out
lawing segregation of races in the
nation’s public schools.
Governor William R Ira
stead of North Carolina was
informed by a resolution that
the North Carolina. Associa
tion of Rabbis fully approves
the ruling.
Umstead was also urged by the
group to put the ruling into ef
fect in North Carolina immediate
ly.
The North Carolina Associa
tion of Rabbis sponsors the in
stitute an an educational and re
, ligjeus retreat for the rabbis and
teachers of Sunday School in
North Carolina and adjacent
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ROXBORO HEATH
INVOLVES GIRL
MARRIED MAN
ROXBORO A 20-year-old
woman, Miss Roberta Woods, has
admitted that she was the person
who fired a 22 calibre bullet into
the head of her boy friend, Coy
Lee Oakley, 24-year-old married
farm hand of the Five Oaks Com
munity Sunday morning. She is
being held on a charge of murder.
The confession was reportedly
made to Sheriff C C. Holem&n
after he placed evidence befor*
her to convince her that Oakley
could not have beer, killed whila
they were scuffling for possession
of the weapon at a tobacco barn
shelter as she had previously re
ported. The incident took place at
approximately 12:30 a. m.
Through an examination of the
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THIRD NEGRO
MAY GO TO DC
DETROIT (ANP) With two
Negroes already serving on Capi
tol Hill, it looks like there might
be a third.
State Sen. CSmrlee J. Diggs, Jr.,
recently became the first Negro
: to over win a congressional nom
ination i« the history of Michi
; g»n.
if be should be sleeted tn No
vember over Gordon Knight. Re
publican nominees and only a
switch in the traditionally Demo
cratic district could keep burs
; from winning he will join Wil
liam L. Dawson of Chicago and
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., of New
York, as one of three Negroes serv
ing in Congress
Diggs swamped George O'Brien,
veteran of more than 15 years in
the United States Congress.
While Diggs was piling up his
record victory, 19 other Negro
candidates in state- and local con
tests won nominations.
It was the largest field of sue
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“In considering the needs of the
National Baptist Convention, our
Union is joining with others in
feeling that the convention needs
a wider representation In national,
international and world move
ments as well as a more effec
tive buildup its many of the
states throughout the nation.”
“Knowing the local, national
and even international demands
which are being made upon Dr.
P. S. WilVissvU, his undertaking
of the whole Cfoietfcau movement,
iqMrmfri&m is* tics id