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* |()lM>f.li ' DAY M’EAKEU
SuniJna Cum I.autU:
it! Shaw University hi the -lay
of 1935, wiii deliver the keynote
address at Shaw Uext Friday
morning in observance of Foun
der's Da,'. Dr. Quarles': has heir!
several positions in colleges and
universities throughout the na
tion,
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ADDS A DEGREE The Rev
Fii*t>s Walter Underwood, tor
ttway years pastor of the Mt.
Zion Baptist Church here, has
recently been notified that he
Ives passed satisfactorily all re
quirements necessary for his
diploma in a course which en
title* him to j doctorate in. the
tir’d of psychology. Already a
recipient of a doctorate from
Shaw University Dr. Under
u aod is now a Doctor of Phy
rtoiogy (Ps. I>.) from the Col
lege of Divine .Metaphysics at
Indianapolis, lot)
Mayor Os All-Negro Town Dies
TARBORO North Carolina’s
last remaining all-colored town—
Pj inceville. just across Tar River
here has lost, thru death, its
Mayor tv ho had been undergoing
A- treatmur in a Durham hospital
i or several weeks.
Dentil came Sia. unday to G’en
vrnie Melvin Matthewson. Sr., ace
46 years, and mayor of his native
town of teriwceviUe lor 25 years,
during which he worked hard to
bring many modern facilities to
the colored incorporated town of
approximately 700 residents A
Postal Alliance Joins !
Fight For Postman ;
WASHINGTON. D C. P esi
; dent Jprr.ef B. Cobb . f the Nat-
A.-'vn.'e of Postal Bjiiploy- 1
, >j< s - thrown the v;right of tivs i
NAPK ueftir.ii me fiarr, to pro- -
tect Bokcoc- Cooper, 3 Negro Ict
le” earner accused ol disorderly
conduct by B-y Bowles, pve- I
. siov.-r. ••? flic NAAWP.
Br vie vs* ■ v'lr.i lasi week
f.ir aPe-’k-rtg' C'c.u'rer "-hen ?h»
s';,,hi 138 p-.-i! d postman kept
Bevies’ man w-}«mate from the
ether fiw.■! .he * :>iifueled at ttif?
fet«>/td.r*g tv h’cH Jftou&ps* - * • *s'
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Advancement . f White Peopk/’ j
Founder's Day Group At |
Show To Hear Alumnus !
President William R Strassner,
..nnounced ih.it Shaw
fiylity-ninth Founder’? Day Sor-.
vn.-s will be beki F)N v»-.n
ber 3D. a* IPdO a. m. :n Uviaer
• v Church. The add-'..-, w.ii be
made by Dr, Ruth Brett Quarles
of Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Quarl
[es- a native of \Vniton. N. C. is
a Shaw University aduatc Sum
rna Cum La.iKit- in the class of
1235. She received the M.A. degree
[at Hanford StAnint-ry Found,;Lion,
[Hartford, Connecticut, and the
Doctor of Education at Columbia'
University.
At present, z homemaker and
mother of an eight-months-old
daughter, she has held positions
as follows: Summer School In
structor at Shaw University: As
sistant to the Dean. Spellman Col
lege; Dean of Women. Dillard
t aiversitj’, Associate Personnel
Director, Tusks-gee Institute. I)i
--• rt. cor of the Student Center
University of Munich, Germany.
Race Relations Expert
Buried At Chapel Hill
i CHAPEL HILL—-The man who
focused more attention on the
Plight of North. Carolina than any
other person in the state. Dr.'
Howard W. Odum, was buried with
graveside rites here Wednesday
: morning.
Dr. Odum died as the result of
! cancer, at the ago of 70 An a
. local hospital here Monday night.
He was considered the pioneer'
in race relations clue to the job
of research he did for books, he
published, on the subject. He was
an outstanding sociologist, and
was the professor of same, at the
| University of North Carolina- un-1
til a few months ago.
His most classic production was
1 “Southern Regions of the United
States’’, published in 1936. He
: told of the handicaps of the south ■’
veteran of World War 11. “Glen
nie”, as everyone called the pop
ular mayor and merchant, built
with the cooperation of his bro
thers and sisters, the outstanding
race business of either PrinceviUe
or Taritoro. This enterprise found-|
ed in 1928, consisted of a service
station, grocery, taxi service and
a cement block and lawn me
morials manufacturing plant.
A few years ago the Matthew -;
sons erected a commodious two
story building to house their buss-,
Washington police charged
Bov. leg with 3 ss&cu t. and Bowles,
in tern, placed a charge of chs
eraviy conduct against Cooper,
a' AUiuri'C me niber, '-barging
Cooper v;i*h inerfc profanitey m
; * *• e of Bowles’ wife.
T r •• ’i's was postponed
■ ui-fji January 15 1955 Cooper was .
vivi d 1 r t: .' last week, How-
Picsir!e>,( Cobb of the NA- j
i'E *:>-j D.strict Two President
.sarg Coward and D C. Blanch ,
ih iiTi! Rnhei t White Instruc- \
ted Atioi'.ne.v Juhus W. Robert- I
sun. NAPE branch counsel, to !
rov.de legal protection for I
1 Cooper in both cases.
ftOMINUtD ON PAGE 13)
Dean of Students. Usk Dniver- ■
• ity, Dean of Students, Bennett
College.
Her travels include visits to!
Spain. Italy France England, I
Scotland. Ireland. Hollana Bel- :
am, Finland. Norway Sweden :
Denmark, Western Geimany and;
Bcriia. Mexico. Canada and most
of the 48 states. She is active in [
numerous civic, religious and ed
: a;fairs. She was elected
Fellow of the National Council on
Religion ;n Higher Education in
.1954; and is the only Negro mem-:
her of she. Commission on Educa- [
tion of Women. She is the wife ol 1
Dr Benjamin A Quarles, also a
graduate of Shaw.
Shaw students, faculty, alumni
and friends v ill gather around the [
grave of Dr. Henry Martin Tup- 1
per. founder" and first presidenti
and pay tribute to his memory,
vh.s;- Mar caret £. Rascoe, a junior
of Windsor, arid "Miss Shaw” of
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and also pointed out what the
south could do to take its right- i
ful place in the world. His book
focused attention on the treat- j
rnent of the Negro and is believed !
to be the springboard by which
•bet ter race relations have devel-j
oped.
He also brought North Carolina.'
to its economic sense in that he.
told of the many wasted resourc
es and the one crop system that I
had hamstrung this section of the
country.
His approach to the unequal
school facilities of the south has
' been told and retold by propon
j ents of better education for all i
children for equal education. It j
has been reviewed time and lime
again in the desegregation pro
-1 Mem that it; now facing the south.
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news. Associated with Matthewson j
at various times have been his two
brothers and two sisters: James A :
and W. Ray Matthewson; Mrs.!
Mary M. Davis and Mrs. Martha !
M, Baker. Also his wife, Mrs. Mary
Ward Matthewson. Other sum-1
vors include his five children:
Glennie, Jr. Janice, Fern, Mary!
Sue and Amy Arnetee.
Funeral riles were held at 2j
P. M., Tuesday, at St. Paul Baptist!
church with the Rev. W. H. Owens j
, in charge.
New Governor Takes 6k
THE CAROLINIAN
VOLUME THIRTEEN
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WOMAN, THREE
MEN MURDERED
OVER WEEKEND
* Weekend murders srr - - pea
; North Carolina almost from ,M • 1 -•
phy to Manteo and as a result,
[one woman and three men wry
! reported killed.
i At Ashe boro Roy Cheek- 25. v
[being held In jail for the >••••.!
I brutal murder” 1000 l offict-r.;
i reported to have ever seen. C!
[is said to have lured James c.r
Goldstein from a dance on Satur
day night, after they had i*u a; -
: gument, to a lonely ,>ot wuf-re he
middled his body with bullets from
| a .22 caliber rifle.
Check fc reported to have t> •
stripped the bodj of »H clnthit’
and to have dragged it about A’:*,
yards to a. pine thiekH where
wae found. Cbeek admitted the
brutal slaying and also told offi
cers that he took $4.75 from <br
pocket of the slain man. Art in
Ttaotna# is said to ha ve at-cost- •
panted Cheek and is being held
an accessory before and r -i-r
’ lari.
, Gainor Edwards is allered to
[ have droven a case knife hv.o the
j chest of William Ar'.Tur Ivt Nvv
(Friday night, near Williarrston. at.
[the home of Lonnie Roger:,
j Edwards told arresting officers’
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N. C. EDUCATOR
DEDICATES DORM
HT FISK UNIV.
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| NASHVILLE. TENN Dr Ch .
; lot-te Hawkins Brown, foundy
President Emerita of P-hae; M
! modal Institute (Sedaliv. N c.)
delivered the principal add." ,:
[a Fisk Unversity Dedication cv
, remony of Scribner Hall, new and
ultra-modern dormitory for so;;”-
[ omore and semoi women la-si
week.
In her usual dynamic way. Dr.
Brown said: "It is an unusual
privilege that I should be invued
to pay tribute to Mm Dora Anna
i Scribner, a woman who trained
;so efficiently hundreds of study
[over a period of years, not only
: in the use of the English language
[but developed their ability to :r~
! terpret the grammar and the
[rhetoric so necessary for its pro
[ per use.”
| "The Negro race,” >he continu
[ed, “is. in a large measure, so in
debted to these fine souls like Miss
Scribner who helped to lay the
foundation for scholarship ami
character so often demonstrated
in the lives of Negro alumni She
i® remembered today because she.
was intolerant of slotfefuiness
self-excuses for indolence and low
! ambition. She aimed for goals
that required hard work, intel
lectual honesty and ». sense of
high purpose in life. For thcs<
things, she is honored by having
[ this building bear her name."
i Other participants m the pro
■' gram included Mrs. 'Edith Me-
Fall Work, who gave “Reminis
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IF N. C. News in Brief
j COULDN’T COLLECT THE RENT j
Aubrey Evans, local landlord,
decided that he would colteri
his back rent from James Per
nington by giving him a Sash
ing. and according to Penning
ton, he proceeded to do .uir-.t
that. According to Pennington,
Evans took him out on Pools
Road, east of the city, last
week and gave him a seven
trouncing. Evans was not sat
isfied at just beating Penning
ton but stripped bun of his
CHAPLAiN SPEAKS AT SHAW
The Rev. Samuel l). Rudder,
chaplain at St. Augustine's Col
lege spoke this week to the
students and faculty of Shav;
University in observance of
“Achievement Week”, sponsor-
baikich, r; (.; wef 1 . 'i.nd.in'g- Saturday, November n. 1954
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ON GOODWILL TOWS—-Mm. EHa PhiUlps Stewart, of Toledo.
Obt - past president of the National Association of Colored Women,
waves os she boerds a Pan Am clipper in New Fork for London and
on cr.teo'?ve study t-ouc of ; ■ mhldie ■ ■ ">f the orient. Mr*,
NttWuri, v,,s sponsor, d by the - 'ii-'partment, will sjieiul
s irtonth m tls« i-. »as « • dviegate to the fan Pacific Wom
en’* conference, thewspres* Photo!
Herlco Attempt To Save
Sen Fatal To Mother. 24
WINSOK - S ALFM —A mo the r’s
love for her child was domonMrat
ed Monday when a 24-yc*ar-oid
woman suffered injuries which
were to cause her death the next
day in art attempt to save her 7-
I year-old son. who was eledj-ocut
President Tubman’s Tour j
Moves Into Final Week
!! ENROUTE WITH PRESIDENT
•. TUBMAN fANP,' Swinging back
; into the mid-west. President Wil
liam V. S. Tubman moved into his
' final week of visiting in the Unit
ed States ttiis week.
During his firs! week fee visited
most of the major Eastern and
Northern cities and lasi week
moved into the Smith where he
received honorary degrees from
many of the Negro schools.
clothing and left, him caked.
Pennington, embarrassed and
weakened from the beating,
found his way to a car parked
in a nett -by yard. The occu
pants of the house called the
Sheriff's office and deputies
took him to St. Agnes Hospi
tal. where he was treated Evans
was lodged in jail and bond
was set at $500.00. Evans ad
mitted administering the beat
ing.
ed by the Oiutja IVi Phi Fra- ’
tern lay. His n ddme was ba. ■
t'tl on th* - subject “Prejue Ice
and What •• ;a!i W? D,i AG >st
It?” The solution of thr i> ! ib- j
MBomisbEi) on page; is>
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ed Monday as he threw a w ire
across a power line.
Mrs. Oracle Elliott had been in
critical condition at Kate Bitting
Reynolds Hospital her* where
'dm was token following the ac
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’! This week he in due to visit
Oklahoma City. Okla The gover
nor of the state will meet Tubman
[ and hold an official reception for
him. The presdient of the only
i Negro' Republic will then visit
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in Ike Va'.lcd States, is show* t* he addressed a pJenary ttesaies of tins VhINI Kai '-'ns General As?fin*
B>}y recently. Seated »* hac’i of Mr. Tnlmw. left to si£ht, cr?r t/H !i~c i-efery Gs/«err»l osf Hew r
•?:: •.<*; E. W. V; r. KU'jKe.us, president of iia«s asaepiluiy., and A.. Corfier. assistant secrcUrj j; ”•■•.. ji
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the bii’.idin;' of ” fa r £.:■ N< -
:groes and e'.hvr minor;;:!.« 'voted
la jj; i-.’ ed :>a • i-j
:jieople in N<-r.h (>■ ■. u.n
The f.u ! that ■-<! m,' i:> N'-gim-'
live in delapid.'fed In ■■ winch
havr nenv of Die facilitr" ''.'"S
go lor i.:i ml 4 1 <it \
surrotiiuiings, its this staU- bos
long t)o>on one o! ri»*' major proi*-
letns. The' ■(’ n<j! oi j> fire h
aids. V*ut incsiy of t‘* >n Jiorder - ii
sharks, most of v.;• u ran <
!»' trrm-’-ci stums.
ft could nut >tr v.<, of
to how nag)' >:)' »»•,••• •••' •
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W*il here. »•, in other jj:>Hs «.*j
tiie roitritr.'-.
j It was poititod out that ri."
1 south would Lend more rhati '
minimum !0 for ” Negro ;v r
. UlaUop, due t" tlv- ! thnt I':V
'■ hw:nc cordn ; on. jm Ng - ’ ;■
more acute, than u, othi-:- .-.-r
--: t-ioiir of the count ry. Some of t :'f
.larger cities like Chutlof.u W■ =: •
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CHAM PAPER
INFERS LEGAL
RACE LYNCHING
According to Charles A. M,
Lean, North Carolina Held E
resentative, A A ( I*, in stery
shrouds a killing ol an itinerant
Negro- its Siler City. October 3D;t
; Mcdbean informed the C-VROLIN
-lAN that very little had been done
about the kijllng.
He pointed out the fact that
She Chatham News published ’
weekly, in Siler City, carried an
[ editorial on the killing. Below i>
a eo;<y of the editorial which is
believed to be a reprint from the
Chatlsam News •
IN SF'I.F DEFENSE:
Thursday morning near Boniv"-
a atari was shot and killed by a
Chatham County deputy sheriff.
Within a few hours a coroner’s
jury had been Impaneled and
. taken to the scene of the shooting,
• and had heard an account of the
I incident, from the deputy He was
S cleared, apparently on the spot
|on the Rrouftds that he acted in
: self defense. He had told the jury
that the man threatened him with
'a rock and "said he'd kill me ’
The deputy, accompanied by two
other officers, one an off-duty:
highway patrolman, had found
the man walking along a railroad
track a few" hours alter receiving
a complaint that- there \v;,s "a
tramp” in the area. Apparently -he
meant to arrest the man. .So far
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