AUTO MECHANIC CONFESSES TWO MURDERS
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MOVED TO FORSYTH—Richard Sralws, Or.-. esUir© garage
worker, who police say has confessed the knife asar.U r«. of Mrs.
Bertha Cook seal her 7-yr.ar-o*d daughter, Betty Made, i- : h i.vn
being placed in police ear before being whisk **« aw- to i? F *rsv!h
County jail at Winston-Salem for safekeeping. f ilviCr? r.. rr >a
last Thursday. At extreme left- his head inside t:i- r •• » I.- ....•;hv •
Ga*-ton. accused by Scales as being an aeeemp;.. - • ’ ». -
bier freed when polite were convinced of hi'-: r - t
Ballinger, deputy sheriff, is at left and Thurman J*-i cV-f
nai imestimation deputy in the sheriffs' department -. rk' v.
(Greensbcro Gaily News Photo)
Morals Charges Trip
Mother, 3 Daught 2rs
• riOLDSBOPO -- Mrs. Ma r v
Suij; merlin op- rat - ••<■ - f the Jit*
terlfsv X;::: at M. Olive, and her
thro* a- name ,
tCt.4 '■ - iiv .'■■ ;V Os
c ■■ nciud'i!
if- ol of v i . a'D.d riHi&in&
a
| aarc.es again* 1 the women
grtor out oi the arrest last
November of Mr >, Janie Bell
Works, 35-year-osd white wo
mar, who was charged with
and adultery after
admitting having II-
Ucii (fiction* with three Ne
gro jßtcn in the Mi. Olive
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Blame Grudge For
Farm Arson Attempt
SMTTHFIELT- - A white man
who police say tried to burn down
the fc.»u*e of a Negro tenant i» fin
er who testified against him in a
one last November:, is being held
without bond on charges of first
degree arson.
He tat Bruce Lassiter, 41, of
W item* Mills. Sheriff B. V.
Henry reported that Lassiter
attempted to born the home
of Albert Stand) who lives on
the farm of Norman Johnson
in Wilson’* Mills tovariiip.
According to police, '‘hard feel-
NAACP And Newscaster
Debate Segregation Issue
A series cf radio interviews dis
emsim. the program and objec
tives of the NAACP and school
desegregation began here recently
in the form of a. question and
answer debate on "Debnam Views
the Neva " on Station WPTF.
w. £ Deonam, the newscaster
who believes segregation is best
for the races, said he is staging
the discussion Decause he believes
both sides should state their views
for the benefit of the public
W. E. Debnam, Ibe news-
.
OOU> COAST TUIW" SWt# BnMu, if St IfnkA Cmmm.
A mihiinti-Maivipeitc, ifientsfies her name in thr register during the res
vocation ceremony. The first nun to be admitted into the Gold Const
University college, she is to qualify a* an associate member oS tfce
Institute of Education. fNewspress Photo)
Sire apepnled a Coon C- ;
sentence and lie? cast
a.-erd ir> Wayne Ci-aurs a,' ... a.
C-.’Urt next v. eek. Shortly after b
In Count? Court this v a, *■
Judge Charles P. Gaylor, scu
■teuced Mrs Summerlin to -lx
months for running a disor
derly house. Her dau: ?.
Mrs. Helen Hobbs and Sirs.
Delores Bryant each received
a six-month sentence for haw
ing whiskey for sale. Another
daughter. Mrs. Lin arc? J
vr.t received >.h: ir.erPhi ■ ■
aiding and abetthig proshiu-
AH filed appeals.
ST
: :vf-n La site." and Johnson. . :i
--cil was a state witness when Las
siter was convicted in Recorder's
Court on charger of viola ting the
stock laws.
The arson attempt failed '.'hen
one of the Stanch children, a boy.
15, discovered a trash can tilled
with kerosene-soaked burlap bans
on fire under the house and alert
ed other members of the family
who managed to remove- the can
from beneath the house before it
caught fire.
caster who believes segrega
tion is best for the race- said
be is staging the discu-sic.n
because he believes both >1 -s
should state their views for
the benefit- of the pubis: In
his 15-minute program from
12:45-1 p.m. each day. he asks
the questions embodying the
segregationist point of view
and Koj Wilkins- NAACP ad
ministrator, answers with the
NAACP program and its views
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THE CAROLINIAN
RALEIGH. N C. WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 195*
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The i>.ecuUve ComißiUee of
,iji &.):i. j 12'ustf-cs of St Au
‘ c..-.-;iinc’s College cleared up some
>; it n.v-.c-n--'. that have sr.r
•. uunded the actions at the local
MW since January 6. but
• to te’.! the clrcuinr-tsmces
'ij:; <• v.-hlcli Dr Harold L Trigg
j tarefersd htx m-ignatte®, and why,
■j •:,-■■ ; i.fnmHtee fiia-Je of
ficial th it R had accepted the
.-nation and that the prexy
: .•!• r-'iiiif;iti-sbi his duties on
;• •.'■•< bi'V. The committee
fn.*t.bcr stated that a commit -
tee, headed fcy Dean James A
E-i vsr. <> ..uid have charge of
- :r- -si Hie , nn
tU 4 sac-ctsvor could be ap
■ioiw d. <".her members ©f
the administrative committee
ere Reginald r.r.nch, I» C - Vlr-
K. Samuel Rudder and
IT. Balt.
'1 ■' s;.: ;>oi.nß.nent of R-gv P. d
<*; ,-• to i.,: adioiiiisU’Btive com
wDw- 'j-taeti c-’.J.. the rurrsoi and
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ToLils To Speak For
Greensboro “Y”
CItEENSBORO--Dr Chantu. -
X xobias oi New b r>rx will be
the principal speaker at the 16th
.. a ra." of the M,.' -S
--. 7 ■ >: YMCA to be held Satur
. cßw a;. 7 p.m. in the Student l)n
--s ion Building at Bennett College
o a feature of the meeting v. ill
be a import of the nominating
J. t-r - heac-d by J. W S' .: •:
L*f G H. Evans is ebainnan of
j the i-nnv * meeting committee.
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By ALICE A. DUN NIG AN <1
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G :\SHIJvGTON ' ANP;—-Presi- ,
■c ni Ei-.it,novice i a::: iv f, eK issued ?
lan executive order establishing a t
■ Committee on Government ,
Employment Policy, and at the <
same time, abolishing the Civil j
Service Comnu: ion’s Pair Em- <
ploymer.t Board appointed by .
former President Truman back in
j 194:8.
Tiji- New Executive order speci
fies the / dministration’s policy ■
a: nlnst any discrimination in ci
vilian Federal employment be
cause of race, color, creed or na
tional origin.
In explaining the difference be-|
tween the new Committee and the
PROGRESS AWARD |
f 0 SAMPSON CO.
GREENSBORO Sampson
County hut. been named as win
ner of the Clarence Poe “County
of the Year" award for rural
progress in the state during 1954.
Dr. W. E. Reed, dean of the school
of ayrituli urc at A&T College, an
nounced inis week.
Tin- ;j£»(Kl award is given an
nua.ll' t» the county in which
the Negro rural population
has made the most impressive
contributions to the overall
development of the county, it j
was established in 1952 by the j
publisher of a. farm journal
at Raleigh. Previous winners
arc Hertford and Orange
counties.
It wUi be presented by Dr. Poe
a!, a program to be hold in the
1 county later this month or early
in February.
The winning county, the largest
in the state by land area, with
a. Negro population of .18,000, in
the unanimous opinion of the
committee, 'had demonstrated
the most impressive gains in agri
jculture production and marketing.,
improved homemaking and family |
living, community improvement
and development providing, op
pre (.unities for rural youth, coop
eration of all agencies, organiza
tions and institutions, ail on the
. highest plane of interracial coop
i oration and understanding,” i
Raleigh Committee Hans |
Fight On Hospital Action
The Rev. Gf-orpj A. i ; : inr. for the Raleigh Crtixcns*
Association, said here Tuesday the., the rnethod used by the
nominating committee for the Wake Count y Hospital Authority,
did not meet the approval of many of the citizrns and be pre
dicted that the committee would he bombarded with protests.
Itp ffit that the several or
ganised botlio of the • ■ •
should have had an ©pposUj
nity to t'—< i-.> • tb - mailer,
or at least should have her >t
consulted before the notnma-
Umi was made. He was ;>T *u»
opinion that the cs-imyu-r
ignored the Negro eithcery of
the city and appointed J K.
-trickiand not kn •> >■- •s .-
whether lie was the cl?•>;<.• < f
the people who have ted she
fight for better hospital fa
cilities..
He nos not Too critical of Mr.
Strickland, out am y he
had not br-en active with any
civic group and therefore could
not be as well infoi'ined on the
issues involved a. ; some o?pei
siiiis in and around Raleigh.
His chief complaint centere—
LUMBIdRTON VF+ *\ T r * ATF BUM.) :
WOMAN AND HER SON
LTJMBERTOK—-A t "o-room cortemnotary style cottage, paid I
| for by nearly 1001 loci’.; v .’;:'m..:. was t nned over to Mrs. Banner ;
i Lumber ton firemen built the house during the past two weeks j
after lire Chief E. J. Glover initiated a drive for funds tor j
j the totally blind and deaf v. om-an, her partially blind son, who
have been living in a "fireirap" shark on a $42-a-manth pens- j
j ion check.
The Robesonian. local ntw-spapt: ..d radio station WAGE |
i publicised the phfcht of the paii ax.d gcn-.r.ous responded j
i with enough money and mm mas to ;ale tig; Snaths with their i
| first real home
The tow-n.-peopk al-o took care of Mrs Smith's cow. "Daisy ” |
j by providing a new sltrid slocked with hay and oats on the half
{ acre plot on which the new cottage sits.
former Fair Employment Prac
tices Board, a White House
spokesman pointed out that the
newly appointed committee es
tablished at Presidential level and
will have increased stature over
the former board which v as ap
pointed by and was a part of, the
Civil Service Commission’s organi
zation.
The committee is composed of
five • members, one representing
the Civil Service Commission one,
the Department of Labor one, the
authority to make inquires and
two public members appointed by
the President, and two alternate
; public members.
D
1 NTEBJtA CIAL COMMITTEE
Members of the Diter-Kneiai
Committee of the C nroberland
County Ministerial Association
and the Ministerial Alliance,
who me), at the ITSO-SA on
Kay Avenue this week. From
around the ancient belief of He
grows that any man a’ected, by
a white group, to represent Ne
groes. was always between "the
devil and the deep blue sea." He
pointed out that the very fact that
he was selected’ by a white group
made hhn subservient to that
group. He hoped, however, that
He was quick to catch upon
tbr idea that Negroes consti
tuted almost one third of the
population of Wake fountv
a,'id due to the fact that the
survey pointed out that there
should be 11 members of the
board, ii seemed right and
proper that there should be
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2 Negroes Named
Two Negro representatives, ap
pointed to serve on the committee
ere Archibald J Carey, Jr, of
Chicago, a public member: and J.
Ernest Wilkins, representative el
the Department of Labor. The
other public member appointed by
the President was Maxwell Afo
bell of Chicago: toe two alter
nates are Philip Marfuggi of
South Orange. ST. J. and Mrs.
Jane Warneek, of Eagle Butte
S. D.
The other two Government
members are W. Arthur McCoy,
representative of the Office of De
fense Mobilization.
left to right seated: Rev. C. L.
Stephens, Presiding Elder of
the WUmhigton District of A.
M.E. Churches. Rev. L. J. Ship-
MMi. Chairman. Fr end ship Bap
tist Church, Fayetteville and
i Rev. S. Howie, Highland I*ses-
School Issue
Seen Back Os
Latest Move
By Staff Writer
T iie highly explosive desegre
gation issue, seasoned politic 1 a i
observers here say, is the real
reason behind the intensive ef
forts to repeal the so-called "se
crecy law" in the state legislature,
although no mention has Den
made of it in floor debates.
What is feared most by
leaders in the General As
sembly is that the new;.papers
and radio, if permitted to
cm -r the hearings might
‘Tia.v up - ’ the information so
obtained or describe the ac
tions of some so lons in such
a manner as to be embarrass
ing to them.
Bocal option” bills already in
troduced in the House and the
Senate would give local school
boards complete authority over
the assignment of pupils to the
public schools. This would relievo
the State Board of Education of
any liability in any suite that maj
, ." ■* . . , , •■':'■■■ ■ f'.,.
plaintiffs seeking reUrr to Hie'suit
against whatever local unit of
the publk school system had vio
lated the law.
Publk Ip Dark
If the proponents of secrecy
p evaii, it will mean that all 'hot'
discussions and debates in com
mittee sessions will not find their
way to the public which is most
concerned with what is going on
and with what their elected rep
resentatives aie doing.
Some legislators take the
view that North Carolina
should u ait until the l. S.
Supreme Court implements its
ruling of last May 17 before
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The committee was given the
authority to make inquires and
investigations and to advise the
President concerning the con
, irmit-y of department and agen
cy personnel practices with the
;on-discrimination policy of the
order.
It was also given the respon
sibility for advising the -heads of
departments and agencies on reg
ulations to effect the policy of tin
order in their organizations, ren
tier ;ng advisory opinions to the
heads of departments and agen
cies on cases referred to them,
under the provisions of the ordei.
i CONTINUED ON PAGE 81
byterian Church, Fayetteville.
Standing: Rev Louis S. Gotnvs,
First Baptist Church. Fayette
ville. Rev. C. R. Coleman, Sec
retary. Evans Metropolitan A.
TIT.E 7Arm Church. Fayetteville ;
anil James G, Cheyne, Asst.
Chairman. USO-SA.
Struggle Ahead
Despite the Sapr em <
Court Decision outlawing
segregation in the public
schools, the hig job still
lies ahead. Read C. D. Hal
liburton's keen anal v-is in
“Second Thoughts on the
editorial page.
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Jf. *: STRICKLAND
Robeson Sues
Dulles For
Passport
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WASHINGTON <ANP < ~ Paul !
Robeson has filed a .suit, asking
the Federal District court In the <
District of Columbia to fores the '
State department and - head, ,
John F«: Duiits. to grant him !
a passport for travel in Korops. i
While th* - brief vas but ;.
by Robtinon?.' attori <•>», the ringer
announced that I*? has received an
invitation to appear :n concert at
the National Opera Home in •
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Tlte Prague National Opera is
one of the most famous and his
toric in the world. Mozart and
many other great composers in
troduced their works there.
Robeson named Secretary
of State Dulles as defendant
in the sail and claims that
Dulles’ actions in denying him
the privilege of travel abroad
arc “arbitrary capricious ami
without warrant or authority
in the law- of the United
States, including the Passport
Act of 193 G and are contrary
to the Universal Declaration
of Human Highly of the Usui
ed Nations.”
Stating that the denial of a :
passport has “in terf erred with the
practice oi his profession and with
his earning a livelihood," Robe- .
son said that Dulles' action lias !
inlerferred with "freedom of be
lief. speech and association, thus '
causing him irreparable injury”
through violating his rights under
the First and Fifth amendment
Robeson said that he held and
used a passport continuously since
1922. when the State department
announced in August, 1950, that, i
had cancelled his passport and
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SAMMY DAVIS
WINS $75 000 SUIT
LOS ANGSXJCS—Sammy Davis
; Jr., popular night club entertain
er, who lost, an eye as a result of
the collision of his car with that
.of Mrs. Be ; u- Ro.h 70. of Akron
Ohio, last Nov. 19 was cleared of
blarue for the accident by a fed
eral court- jury hem Saturday.
Mrs, Roth, who was also in
jured. had brought suit for $75,000
: damages. Davu ’ suit against her
for SIOO,OOO damages is >•••». to be
heard.
| State Jains Mi
I Ga. In Anti-Sc
| ATLANTA—Legislatures in four
, southern states—-Tennessee, North
I Caroline. Georgia and Mississippi
i—-are considering legislation that
Swill permit them to circumvent
| the U. S. Supreme Court decision
! outlawing segregation in the ns- i
j tion’s schools. \
In South Carolina, the Gressette t
! Committee has issued an interim y
! report recommending no major f
i legislative action until after the t
: Supreme Court issues a decree to 1
1 implement, its May 17 decision.
Arkansas is another state which is
waiting to see what the high court
does before taking positive action.
Both branches of the Geor
gia legislature have approved
! bills which seek to amend the i
Greensboro
n»i
ruiibsricc
2nd Suspect
GREKNSJBORO- • The finding of
a butcher knife with a six-inch
blade in :ru* backy -.rd of tR- home
; of liiC.hr i d 8v ide:-;, 2u year-old ex
■ convict Si'ca'C! <j- 1 j-. ppw
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/. s * » «. li 1 '•> "• ; s
Cook ana ncr seven-vspr-oldi
daughter. Betty Marin last Wed
nesday.
Scales, who had previousl? at
tempted to implicate hi-, fitend,
i i'6-year-eUI Lawrence Gaston as
| his accomplice in tn,« murders,
admitted shortly before noon fn
, day that ho had Bed when he
claimed that Gn*ton hud killed
I the little girl. Gaston, who had
i :it.eadr.ist!.y maintained mne
icence, was released bv police.
f Feeling Lr; High
Both he and had
i been held in the Forsyth
County jail for safekeeping
when It was reported that
feeling was running high hero
shortly after the men had
been taken into custody Their
arrests came less that
hour:, after the gashed bodies
of the woman and her daugh
ter were found by neighbors
«n the kitchen of the took
home on rural New Garden
Red, sis miles north of this
city.
Arrest Gaston First
Gasu-n was arrested in his East
Sycamore Street, home early
Thumby morning, * told pi s-ce
that Scales would be found >.: k<r
’Gaston's) virl friends ■ • e or.
G;u.<: Svrt: ; Shornv e.i'n; n,on.
police surrounded the house and
ordered Scuies to conic out. The
man was unarmed and :-4!Teori,
ed quietly. He V ter i t::,n
he had u loaded C. :-.,,
,32 C(vjii.*rc automatic :- ■ nouse
but decided not to use it,
Deputies checking on Gaston’s
whereabouts at tin time oi the
killim-s. found snffu inn.. <■-■-, knee
<o subsiantonc his coiorj >,/ inno
cence. It w.i> then. -hales
oroim down, police say cue nrf
uutted responsibility for both
killings,
AwMiiicc is policy K<v.(ej|
tc.i-.0. ih*t hr discos dc-4
Use murder weapon in the
ztres tir&r ih** ( ook htnn** bvil
<CX)Vrf\TfcO t-v-v iM
State flews I
-iN-
Biin |
FAT HI: H DILLON U AWING
NT. MONU.'V.S
The Re-. John Dillon, who has
served alternately as pastor and
„ sustain at Ht. Monica’s Catholic
School and c lurch here for the
past 12 years has been a signed to
a parish in New York. In com
meriting on his transfer, Father
Dillon said that he had “spent
many happy years at St. Monica’s
and van in. the amiable people
with whom I came into contact
while here.” A native of New York
City, Father Dillon aiuuded the
Catholic schools there and did his
college work at Providence College,
Providence. R. I. and the Do
minican Houses Os Stud;., River
Forest 111, The minister stud that
tie would probably leave St. Mon
tea's February 1 to assume the
assistant pastorship of St. Co Ute
rine Os Siena, 411 £,. 68th Street,
New York.. N. Y.
MAX’S SKELETON
DISCOVERED
GH EE N VII,LL—The sk.-le
of a gS-year-old man. mhe- ing
irom bis; home s,n er J'vbruary
9, 1952, r.a, discovered here
laht weekend. 'The bones of
Ernest Hardy of Greenville
waa found »y a hunter in the
Indian Well swamp near the
S» O. Wor, ; ting-ton farm in
Swift C’re •)•- Township. The
man had burn missing from
the home of a daughter, who
Jived nearby since February
9, 1952. Me had been visiting
and had left the residence and
was never seen again. Sirs.
Nora Hardy, the dead mail's
wife, made a positive identifi
cation, baited on hi» teeth, a
weatherbeaten pair of shoe
and scraps, of clothing found
at the Kite, along with the
hones.
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ississippi,
?hool.
federal constitution to give
She states complete control
over their schcess. with power
to regulate, administer and
operate them as they wish.
In Tennessee, a bill lias been
introduced in the Senate which
would authorise all city and coun
ty school boards to assign all pu
pils in their jurisdiction to speci
fic schools Similar legislation is
before the North Carolina legis
lature.
The Mississippi House has
revived the Legal Education
Advisory Omit tee and given
it added power. The action
must be approved by tin? Ser
iate, however, before it can
become effective.