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FIRST IX ‘FAMILY’— Governor-elect Avcrell Htfrimai (left)
■ eongratulM** attorney Herbert K Evan*. on the latter’* appointment
».- < kmfklential Uw G»is<ani in tile office of the Craml te the Gov
erf !<■?. Evan* i« the first Negro appointed to the Governor’s executive
.staff. (Newsprea* Photo)
Seeks Family W ith Gun
l'( is apparent that the next
time James Wtll.i.ms goc-s home
and finds his farrnly rjcne he will
not resort to fcis shotgun and jto
iooktr.af for his father-in-law. like
i» did a few cays a;;o and wound
up in the toils of the law.
Williams, who is employed
b? a h cai meat company. ' em
hiync and his family was not
there. He could think of no
person who would have been
responsible lor their observe
other ;han William Me Dou
g-all, bis wife's father He im
mediately took h«s shotgun in
ha.>4 and s ' out for h:s resi
dence. Upon his arrival he. ns-
Held In ‘Joint’ Killing
After an extensive investigation
b: Sheriff's Department all night
January 1 and a.; day Sunday. Ira
C vonon. 58 who is alleged to he
tin- proprietor of a “Piccolo Joint”,
located on the Six Porks Road,
t.ci'Ut of Rale.:;.:h :s now being- held
»! tire Wake County sail awaiting
the action of the grand jury for
ii ■> killing of Horace Kimball. New
Year’s night.
The sheriff's office told the
CAROLINIAN that it was
very difficult t* ascertain
just what the circumstance*
v ere that caused the shooting
and even eye witnesses, were
prune to shield t annon. who
Fight Stops Funeral
STUART Vr< a 1-pmily n-ud
almost stopped the minister from
completing: the lust sad rites at a
funeral which was held in the
Stella community Tuesday, when
xiicn'ibfTrj of tlio family could not
ward off the impulse to :■isfy
an old gvudte.
When the confusion was over,
Richard J. Reynold;: v.,i on his
wt.y to Martinsville, in the hearse
that had conveyed the corpse to
the cemetery, in search of treat- j
went for wounds which he had re
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295 Grand In 1354 Was
Largest NAACP Income
NEW YORK—An all-time high income of 9592,544 in genera!
and special funds was reported for 1954, Monday bv the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Administrator Koy Wilkins told the annual meeting of the As
sociation that the general 'operating) fund of the .NAACP received
$466,974, and special funds- an additional $125,469.
The genera) fund total includes $252,817,24 in memberships
reveived through branches and $63,355,25 in contributions to the
national work by branches in all parts of the country. Also includ
ed are 536.611.90 in general contributions, 842.231,32 in receipts
from the sale of holiday seals, and $52,461 in subscriptions to THE
CRISIS magazine.
Mr. Wilkins said expenditures from the general fund for ope
rating expenses during 1954 amounted to $454,639.15, leaving an
excess of income over expenditures of $12,335 16
The special funds total of $125,469 includes $67,159 in partial
and fully paid life memberships, as well as $43,121 in bequests.
The life membership total represnts an increase of $55,000 over
1953. These special tunds are in reserve bank accounts and are
not apart of the general fund, it was reported,
Mr, Wilkins estimated that, of the $466,974 general fund in
come at least 9380.000 was received in one form or another from
come at elast 5380,000 was received in one form or another from
branches of the NAACP.
He said that in the same period in 1953 the genera! fund in
come was $391,341 so that 1954 in his department showed art in
crease of $75,632.34.
For 1953 the genera! and special funds totalled $464,807, mak
ing the 1954 increase $127,737.
~~— ”300-YE A R -OLD A M ERICA N S
Court Decision One Os Great Events
AS SEEN IN NAACP’S ANNUAL REPORT
NEW YORK Easily the
most significant event on the
civil rights front irs 1851 was
the United States Supreme
Court decision of May 17 ban
ning' segregation in public
ndocatie , Walter White, ex
ecutive . rcretary of the Na
tional ssotiatitn for the
Advancement of Colored Peo
ple, said ir, his year-end re
port of the Association s ac
tivities.
The NAACP executive in his
report released today, rated the
ruling as one of eight epochal
events in the more than 300-year
history of the Negro in the New
World, The decision, he said, ‘ put
erf the fir farm to try lo pn
from McDtougail the where
abouts of his family.
MtiDougal’ hailed him before
Magistiaie H. A, Bland. The peace
officer wanted to know what :t
■>a.s oVi about. McDugall told him
that Williaaw did not attempt to
shoot him. or at least did r.ot f.re
the weapon, hut merely used it in
a threatening manner.
Magistrate Bland decided that
this was a bad way to try to find
the missing Jamily and proceeded
to hold Williams for the next term
of Gam :r’s Recorder's Court.
which will try the case Tuesday
morning.
is a cripple.
It was first reported thin Kim
buii, 22, who is ■.■'id to have be- n
.from New Jersey, visited Cannon s
place and was causing a distur
bance Cannon is reported to have
attempted to restrain Kimball ana
when Kimball became unruly n«-
was killed.
Further investigation, according
■to the sheriff -: office tended to
: disprove the above .information,
j Persons who talked with the of
ficers finally told them that Kim
bt-dl was not causing any undue
• trouble and that he could have
; been valeted far sort of death.
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reived. The report- shows that
He:;Hus.-.wood hit Reynolds over
the head with a milk bottle- while
the rest ci the family was paying
tiu last respect, to the dead. Rey
nolds was reported to bo in not
too bad a condition, upon arriving
in Mar tinsville.
Harwood was cut on the hand
dure.-, oeaii lery-fight- but lie
is now facing a charge of felonious
assault upon Reynolds.
The report of Sheriff Richard
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the lnw of the land unequivocally j
on the side of the guarantees of
human rights which are written
inuv every document which has j
made the United States the great-;
est democracy in history It
marked America's turning of the
corner from partial liberty to full'
freedom for all its citizens.”
The Supreme Court, Mr.
White declared, deserves "un- |
qualified praise for its vuaiu- j
mow and unequivocal decis- j
ion on this basic moral issue.
No, too, do we owe a debt of
gratitude to President Eisen- I
hewer for hh firm stand a- j
gainst racial segregation in |
Washington and the Armed i
High Point Medic Pkys in City's Mils
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| VOLUME H
School Issue Plagues Legislators
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On Segregation - Wifi to Uvzre* /T . "O
t,
STATE SGLONS
GRAPPLE WITH
TOUGH ISSUES
By ALEXANDER BARNES
When the 1955 session of the
North Carohi.a General Assembly
-.ft under we,’ here Wednesday
there were Democrats, fewer Re
public?! ns and no Negroes among
the number of solons that will
find themselves faced with what
to do about, desegregation, taxes,
v r skev and the much-discussed
j “secrecy law’'.
Practically everyone was unwill-
Ime to discuss segregation, taxes
, and whiskey until they had. been
given a lead, which they expected
would come from the govrnor’s
State of the State message, which
will be delivered on Thursday. ,
Lawmakers Are Mum
The Supreme C ourt edict,
which outlawed school segre
gation in. th" 17 states where 1
it was being practiced, Is cer- .
tain to get much cortddera
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COMMISSIONERS
TO CONSIDER
HOSPITALIZATION
According to a statement Wed
nesday by John 1- Swain, Sr.
chairman of the Wake County
Board of Commissioners, a meet
ing of trie board on January 18
will decide whether the advice of
a Hi. .--pital authority given recent
ly concerning Saint Agnes and
Rex Hospitals will be followed.
The authority whose name j
rould not be ascertained, was ;
obtained from South Carolina, I
His opinion, as stated by j
Swain, was “For better ho*- j
pita, aid to W'ake County, a
new general hospital is very
necessary.”
In the December 25 issue of the;
; CAROLINIAN it was revealed for
: the first time that conditions at
j local hospitals, both white and
!colored, had been termed “deplor-i
; able”,
’ This county war, compared with'
| other counties within a 50-mile 1
radius and found to be very de- j
ficient in its hospital facilities.
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White Man Denies
Holiday Slaving
Sheriff J, F Pleasant told the'
CAROLINIAN that his office is I
just as baffled now as it was,
Christmas morning when Edgar
Maynard, white, notified Deputy
Holmes o' Ap**x. that he had
blood or, his clothes and could ru'd,
account for it, and as a result
Maynard is being held in the
Wake County jail for the slaying
;of Martin Petty,
j The whole matter reads like ar.
unintended confession. Deputy
Holmes relates that after May
- nard came to him. he accompan
ied him to a spot where he was
(.old that the two men had been
working on a car on the Apex-
Macedonia Road. The deputy said
that when he reached the spot
he noticed a trail of blood and
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Services However, the N. A,
A. C. P. secretary pointed out.
“that praise extends to very
few in his party. YVe hope
that both he and the. Republi
can party will recognize the,
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Body Floating In Creek Identified
WASHINGTON, N. C. The ,
body of a 64 vear-old employee of I
the Topping Sausage Company of j
Pantego for the past 15 years, who j
had been missing from his home j
here for two weeks, was found i
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, RKIEtSCARSING FOE MET Wurtct famed contralto, Marian Anderson, Is shown with: stags* director
Herbert (Jmf »t New Fork’s Metropolitan Opera House as she reheanwMt /or her historic M*» debut on
I». 7. Miss Anderson will sing the role of Ulrica in rite Verdi opera “U» Bulls in staneti.-ra' (The
Masked fUMi. (kewspreu Photd
Flim Rammers Rob Forsythe Woman
LOYALTY TO V. S.
FS PRAISED
WASHINGTON (ANPl—The
House Committee on In-Amer
ican Activities last week prais
ed the loyalty and integrity of
the 15.000,000 Negro citizen* in
the United States.
The comment was matte in
a spevsai report released by the
committee Wednesday, and was
baaed upon the failure of com
munists to attract a large num
bers of Negroes to their party.
The report stated that the
Reds had infiltrated this mi
nority group with the ultimate
aim of controlling it, but had
had “little success” in its high
priority goal of subverting the
Negroes to its own. ends.
In pointing out that commu
nists have been the. “greatest
deterrent’’ to the cause of the
colored people, the committee
praised Negro loyally.
State News In Brief
HUNTED WITHOUT LICENSE .
Charlie Mack Milton, 28-year
old tenant farmer of the Swift
Creek Township, said recently
that he thought he was on the
property of his landlord, Charles
C. Todd, wh n a game warden
from Wake County arrested him
for hunting without a license.
Magistrate F A. Bland convicted
the man of tne charge here Tues
day and he was ordered to pay
$lO fine an court costs.
a * * •
REV. Cl NT ON NOT ILL
Rev. I 1. Clanton, of Ra -
leigh. wh- resigned from the j
sandy Grove Baptist Church,
Lumberlotx, recently, is not ill
as way incorrectly reported in
the Deter. >er 18th issue of
the CAROLINIAN. Hr resign
ed because the church had
become stationed (required
his services every Sunday).
Due to the fact that the Bap
tist minister has other pas
torates, he found it necessary j
to resign at Lumberton. Rev. i
Clanton is also a Shaw Uni- !
versify Extension teacher for
floating in the Pantego Creek last
Sundav morning at 8:30
Joe Cordon, the dead man.
had caused much concern
among local law authorities
as to hi* possible whrrw-
RALEIGH, nF C. WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JANUARY S. 1955
, WINSTON -SALEM — M rs, Ruth
' * liber White, 521 Woodland Ave
nue, fell prey fa the ancient poc
-1 ket-book game here Monday when
‘ two unknown women fleeced : ; :
. out of S2OO which she withdrew
from her savings account.
The victim related to officers
■that she met an unknown woman
: m the office of the savings and
Scan association about 10:30 m
die morning and was told that
idle could be the beneficiary of a
■j large sum. of money if sue would
gvie her S2OO and $7.75 so they
couid make change.
Mrs. Suber is said to have pon
dered the matter in her mind for
ja few minutes and found that
she couid not resist the promised
I temptation to get son > ! hing for
I nothing and withdrew the money
from the account She then ac
j oompazued the woman down the
I street to a drugstore and thence
into Fourth Street. It was there
that the second woman entered
I the picture and told them that she
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ministers, At 3 p.m. Sunday,
January 16, Sandy Grove
Church will hold recognition
services for Rev. Clanton.
MAN DIES ON LOCAL JOB
A man died, apparently of a
• heart attack., as he worked on a
larm in the vicinity of Raleigh
Monday John CMllis. 62, of John
ston County, was seized by the at
tack as he was working on the
"old Lynn .Johnson farm,” near
Willow Springs. Routt: 2, accord
ling to Wake County Coroner Mar
shall W. Bennett
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PALMER RECEIVES FUNDS
j SEDA LI A-- The annual Rod
j Call Day, which was held here
| Tuesday, proved to be highly ben
eficial to Palmer Memorial lnsti
i lute, when more than $2,000 was
. reportedly raised by students, fac
ially and alumni for the support
•of the school.
The ’ affair is held every
year, at which time cash and
pledges are taken for the pri
vate institution which nas
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about*.
A 22-year-old resident of Pan
| tfigo. Norman Jarvis, found the j
I body and is alleged to have bn
| mediately reported it to police of
-1 ficers.
WHITE AGENCY
GIVES TO RACE
CHICAGO—-Figures recently
released by the Field Fouuda
tion revealed that the organi
zation gave $57,235 to agencies,
hospitals and universities en
gaged in program* to aid Ne
groes.
The fusfndation, headed by
Marshall Field r. , gave 53,~
liflO to the Hyde Fark-Kenwood
Communftfr Confer t* nc e, a
South Sloe organization and
iChabilitaUon project which
Las a program for Improving
raw relations in the area.
The r>‘|mrl shewed that the
money had been distributed
without retard to the section of
the country and was designed
primarily to be used to aid in
furthering the advancement of
the Negro race.
Had No Trouble
NEW ORLEANS—A 20-year- :
old tradition wa* done away
with without a clatter in New )
Orleans when Negroes and |
whites sat together to watch i
the Sugar Bowl game here last
Saturday. The whole opera
tion is reported to have been j
carried out “perfectly.”
A Sugar Bowl official te re
ported to have said that only
Negroes were seated in the sec
tion reserved for Negroes.
Earlier It had been rumor- S
ed that crow seating prac
tices vMMild prevail at the game.
“UI-RACIAL GROUP “
To Hold A Religious Meeting
IN ROCKY MOUNT COURT HOUSE
By J, 18, HARKEN |
ROOKY MOUNT The Baha'i |
House of Worship, represented ;
locally by Dr W. M. Tucker, an !
optometrist, has scheduled an ad
dress in the City Recorders Court. I
, , cion was last seen alive on '•
Sunday, December 19. He is said
j to have Deer: depressed several
days prior to his disappearance.
The man’s body has been sent
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Congress Asked To Keep
Funds From Rebel States
NEW YORK -In bis first p .b
--iic appearance &mce hfc hosph ali
siation last October, Walter 'White,
executive secretary of t v «• Nation
al Association for the Advance
ment of Colored Pc p; ■ i! v v.- ; ~
predicted a vi’tiholding of federal
educational funds from states de
ft ina the iviiii'Bii' Com i rubor
of May 17, 1955 bamnni? racial
segregation in public educaUon.
Mr. White expressed this
conviction at the Association •
annual meeting which brought
state and local NAAUP lead
ers her* from all sections «rf‘
Hie country to hear reports
on tie- varhuts activities of
the Association d.;r : i!£ I ? 1 " 4 -
the results of the balloting for
16 members <1 ii?e ie ard. and
plans for the new >,\,r.
5220 Million In I cdoai Aid
Citir.g a ret*f>vt of the D- i
of Health, Education arid Wet
fare, the NAACP executive said
U»e 17 states requiring segregation
’!-. schooi> received $220,000,000 of
federal aid so: various educational
purposes in 1952-;>3. The NAACP.
he asserted will be on tire alert
to prevent the jLioc.it.op of fed
eral funds for education! “to any
state which violates the law - in
terpreted by (!••■ Supreme C-'-urf."
’school Bond Difficulty
Not only do these, states
face the possibility of being
denied federal funds for the
perpetuation of segregated
education, Mr. White warned,
but also they may encounter
difficult', disposing of their
school bonds. The banking
commissioner of Ohio, he
pointed out, ha* recently re-
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ATTEND ZI TA BOULE ~
Mrs. Doris L. McAdams- Basil
eus of he local chapter of Zeta
Phi Beta Sorority, and Miss
Biverous Pretty, Grammaleus,
are shown above enjoying Open
House, held in the Women's
Budding of the University of
Louisville. Louisville, Kentucky
Room for the night of Friday, i
January 1.4 th, at 8:00 o’clock
Speaker for the occasion will ■
be William DeForge. Harrington i
Park, N. J. Mr. DeForge is Baha'i j
World Faith representative to the >
United Nations.
Baha’i Embraces AH Races
And Religions
“The basic belief of the ;
Baha’i Faith,” says Dr Tuck- j
er is the "Oneness of Man- ;
kind” and that 'God has
reached mankind through a
series of prophets, such as
Abraham, Moses, Buddha. j
Zoroaster Christ arid Muham
mad as ‘Manifestations’ of Uis j
iGod’t) will.” Baha'is, who |
DOCTOR KROT
. HIGH POINT—Race citU- fee)
! that they have hurdled an.:,'her
■ j harrier in their Quest for full pir
j tktpatio in the recreational life
this furniture cttv hue as;- Mi.
,H, H. Cleft, with two other Ne
groes, played irotf on tin* cuv
“v lied Blair Pa -k «.>if ecu; -»st
week.
(OON7iNt;r.j> on pack s>
NO. 15
jeeterf Georgia’s (school res
one eerttric'.-itf >s
btc investment” foj <L
banks.
; 'Hr -vgrl, it,,, XV ,t A j it -
v?’ ■- .x v iU.- ijl Lf.l, INn fiv. I- .
deck)red. '•.•.hnnici b< c
vigilant to sec that, tlieir oat, :
authorltif-, do >;•>> permit l: ;•
of ;■,«ur,t!o:' wh;;::, a o i.-.o
■ j)oiS(?& in direct, violet loin ; •> ,v
'; law. We must v- -i r-. 0-. ■•
ft ONTLNTED ON PAt E ?
WONROVIti!
OFFICIAL TO
SPEAK AT SHAT
Mi' . Auric * L A
, Attorney O- n*: , ;>•; y, ■ ■ , v .r
lx;ria. w,l! sn t -ak n c, ■
■i Auditoviom of S!- jrf -.v V
■! Ftidav mo,-nins, 7
" o'clock
Vs rnrv V.-
Sha4' Onivtshtltv b--
. flic A hi. v; .. :| ,
i sequent iy the IX3 :m<i »ne
I Sc. in Political g< ,-ncc dc- •
j the University of Wiscon.-in . "
A native *»f Liberia, sh*- vr
admitted a* First lately < tu,
sellor-At-Law to the Supren
< niiri of Liberia in Oc*ot«
j 1953,
Mis* Brooks tr -■ r,*.p,
* live delegate so the t’tiit*
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last week. This affair one of
the many courtesies extended to
the delegation to the 30th Na
tional Bottle of the Zets, Soror
ity held December 21-30. Both
Mrs, McAdams and Miss Pretty
are instructors in the Raleigh
Public Schools,
live in 235 countries of the
world, are a rapidity growing
Faith who believe that the in
creasing world tension calls
for the unify of all mankind
without regard to material
station or position in life re
ligion or nationality,
This, they contend. Is no ary
for the survival of a free world.
They maintain that this ‘unity'
must start with the ‘individual
man and woman” and such per
sons must be void of prejudice or
notions of superiority over their
fellow man in order to attain this
world-brotherh uod.
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