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•>.' ii>, and Tommy (>*;* noid. 3.
■■■ d away from their parents
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<id landed in a police station.
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iii/ut the weighty problem of
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EASIER PARADES* INJURED
■■' v. r ,:’h ivvo local pedt.stria 1i-
V-i f' ■rd At apffTf X; iliatC**y
430 Sunday afteraooK. Thomas
a'id Ix ! a Perry, iocc-.I ■- iso nis,
<•* V. Davie cmd Swu r/ Sut-A.s.
a'’if.:., a car driven by unc of the
‘Evar- boy*" of E. Davie Street
■ crved into them m orc-vr to
avoid a collision with another
ooto bended east est Davie Street.
The two victims were rushed to
Saint A sines Hospital where they
a cri released after ’. r;
A OLUNTEERS SOUGHT
The Raleigh i hapier of the
Needlework Guild of America
is observing the first anniver
sary of its Shoe Sale here by
seeking to engage 30 women
volunteers to work in an ef
fort to buy new shoes for
needy children in this area.
Interested persons are asked
to contact Mrs. \ P. lie Vane,
secretary, at 3-5186 or Mrs M.
F Bums, president at 2-0331.
HANGS SELF IN BARN
ME BANE Roney Puller,
Riute 4 Mebane. was found
dead Monday morning in a
barn on his farm where he
hanged himself around it
o'clock. Fuller, 60 lived on
the Dickie Mill Road. Route
4. The death was ruled as a
suicide by the County Coron
er. Fuller was found by his
son, Thomas, 13, in the loft
of a Dedham on the farm
which he owned. Members of
>< ONTINI EI) ON PAGE lb,
National Elk President Fo
Ralefoh For 35th Confab
Members of Fidelity 277 and
Capital City 319 Lodge:, arc cbm*
! leung plat’s for host r;-g the 35th
Annual Meeting of K. C. Elks
which will be held here for the
first, time since the early thirties.
The date of the convention is May
35-2*.
Grand Exalted Euler Rob
ert H. .fohnson of Fhiladel- |
phi* will attend the confab.
This will be hi- first trip to j
Riicgib as grand exalted rul
r I>u.ughter Net-tie Carter
Jacks, on, grand daughter rul
er wilt be here also. Approxi
mately 5-7.000 persons are ex
pected from litis state and
other states,
desegregation now before the
t s .Supreme t ours th' v are
supremely happy just to be
members of the human rare,
free from prejudice and b*:«J»
-aiice. Why rnt keep Uv.-m that
way? Newspress Photo
LUMBERTON--The old defense
of "accidental shoot in) vas
to officers by Mrs. Essie McMillan
for the Raster Sunday morning
B. 13’g v : va v:n thoir'hc.nv- NN'
She told officers that they
argarmg over the shot
gun when it went off and hit i
her husband in the temple.
Officers isatd that Mrs. Mc-
Millan called them shout 1 in
>hc morning und told them
that he had been -hr,-.. The of
ficers related how they found
she dead man lying on the
floor with both hands in bis
pocket and the gun beside
him.
The report- did not give any
. cause for the argument between
the husband r;d lie wo
man will av.an an inquest.
Coroner D. W. Biggs chose a
mry but has not set the date for
an inquest. Members of the jury
arc J C Duncan. T. S. Hall. Stan
ley Sugar. W. E. Parker, Charlie
Johnson and Eari Britt, all of St
Pauls.
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Nil ACP HEAD—Roy '.Vila ins,
N'AACP Administrator, who this
week was elevated to the po
sition of Executive Secretary,
Mr. IV ilk ins succeeds the late
Walter White whose passing the
country mourned last, month.
Activities during the 5-day con
fab will include a dome at Me
morial Auditorium (Elks Bail:, .
for delc'-an-t visitors and olhew,
a baseball game; a parade, which
will feature approximately 13
bands. The parade will chart its
course at the Ola Soldiers Home
and proceed down Fayetteville :
| Street and end in the vicinity of
: the Elks Home.
1 The Civil Libc.vtie 1 Dept, of the
State Association, will stage a pro- .
gram, also the education depart- ■
I rnesit. Nationally-known speakers I
! will take part in each affair,
Officers of the convention
committee are A. A. Value,
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VOLUME M RALEIGH, H. C. WEEK ENDING SATURDAY. APRIL 16, ivv-, NUMBER 29
States Stalling On School Mixing
•A A ★ ★ ★ A A- * A; ★ ir A- * * 4r •# ik k k k k * k k
A Human Torch:
! B HKB ?■': x '4 :g -
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irate Lover |
Kills Woman;
Shcjts Self
By \f..rrXANl>EB BARN'S.S
Dt’R-HAM Beiieved to be in-!
’ sanejy je !ou> and vowing def
iiiitf-iy hfj would not pctinii,
woman ho loved to quit him,:
Leroy P:tts t-tarUed the west; end
<.r- :on ihis when he emp
tied a lii iii load into the tern
eh s;f "; .. Hfien McCiv>m. report- -
t-d to Iv. his eorronon-law wife,
hurciay night, snd then blew his
'••:•• out at 1117 1-2 Jackson St.'
i'it!' is said to have come i
between the bouye in which he
slid the woman lived ami
another house with the gun
in has arms. Persons sitting
"■n the porch of the other
house told officers that they ;
•a* him with the gun but did
not see Mrs. McClain until
the shot was fired.
Site ;.• reported as having been;
; a tint; on the porch and that Mc-
Clain gave no warning but shot'
her as soon as site came into his ’,
view He then ;s said to have re
. liict .H iii u in to vi it." i•'..'.t c side ol uis
When officers arrived they
are said to have found the
woman sittin;: in the chair
i? ad and Pitts' body was 'iyirt;.-
on the ground with his feet
on tile porch. Officers opined
that Mis McClain never knew
vs ho not her, due to the fact
MvOiiri shot so quick!*-. Her
two sons, asleep in a room in
th? house, did not know that
their mo?tier had lx cn slain
until awakened by interested
persons.
The double killing was related
to :>e the most gruesome that Dur
ham has witnessed in a lour: time.
Persons who visited the scene said ;
that brains were spattered ail over
: the place.
The two people are said to have
lived ;n the iOu.se as man and :
ICON i IMPD ON PAGE 361 i
State’s Beauticians To Convene Here
CARNATION BABY
CONTEST OFF TO
HOOD START HERE
With entry blanks pouring into
Inis newspaper from ai! over our
city and suburbs, Carnation’s
second Annual Healthy Baby Con- :
test if off to another successful I
start in its very first week. A !
Contest advertisement with a
free entry blank appear else- j
. where in this paper. Extra entry ;
blanks are available at our edi- j
: tonal offices.
A!1 babies in this area,
three i ears of age or younger,
are eligible They will be
judged on healthy appear
since, as well as eute, appeal
ing personality. The Healthy
Baby Contest is limited to
readers of this newspaper
who live m this city and its
suburbs. The Carnation Coin
pan v stresses that ‘‘this is a
local Contest, not a nation
wi d e one.” Twenty healthy
babies and their parents in
this area MUST win the
twenty cash prizes.
In answer to the many tel
phone inquiries to this paper ask
ing if babies who were entered in
Carnation's Healthy Baby Con
test last November are eligible
to be enlerd again in this cur
, rent Contest the answer is '
YES... .provided they are still
within the age limit and did not
win a cash prize last. year.
Local doctors and hospital*
join us in hailing this unusual
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KILLS COMMON-LAW WIFE SELF—I.t-roy Pitts, above
is pictured with Mrs Hck-n McClain, both of Durham, is
happier days. The man is alleged to have blown the woman’s
brains out Sunday night after declaring tiiat he would not let
her Quit him. Pitts is charged with shooting the woman without
provocation as she sat on the porch at 1117 1-2 Jackson Street
where the couple lived as man and wife. Officers are alleged to
have found Mrs. McClain sitting on the porch dead. Pitt's
body was found on the ground with his feet on the porch
(Photo Courtesy Carolina Time;-)
Integration Timetable
Louisiana. Mississippi, Georgia.
South Carolina, North Carolina
and Virginia say that they intend
to keep public school segregation
no matter what she U. 3 Supreme
Court says.
Beautician? from every nook
and corner of the state v -i con
verge on .Raleigh April 24-27 to
attend the annual convention o f
*he N C Cosmetologist* and
Beauticians' Association, inc.
The confab will be launch
ed with a public program,
slated for the Baini Matthews
AME Church, 806 E Davie
■Jji, jj?
TWINS EVTEK CARNATION
HART CONTEST Mr,. Lina
Mae Sanders of J-15 Washing
ton Terrace, is pictured above
shortly after she entered her
twin*. Marilyn and Myron San
der* in the Second Annual C»r
Min»v>uri, West Virginia
Delaware and Kansas. ah
border states, have begun or
completed desegregation in 89
of their 129 counties.
(CONTINUE!) ON PAGE HP.
Street, at 3 p. in Sunday as
lernoon. Mayor Frrd R
Wheeler of Raleigh will, wel
come the delegate* to ibr
city.
Raleigh Attorney Herman L.
T; vinr will deliver the keynote
ada res* to the Sunday session He
will be introduced by Mr;- Nora
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 16
nation Healthy Baby Contest,
which was launched here tost
week, The healthy looking
Sanders twins are regular users
or Carnation Evaporated Milk
STAFFOTO B V C1? AS. R
JONES.
KSFMWI
Assistant Atto Genera?
of North Carolina. 1 Bevt fly
Lake, toM the l.h'H .i St;it< >,
Supreme Court T>u -Hu, timt
the continm d exists;:.’-. of the
North Carolina punl-' soi
system and harmonious rare
relations in the state welt ' tray
depend upon the decrees about
to be issued.”
“1 speak m the interest of a
State which is conscious <•>{ no
wrongdoing u id which sr- proud
of her record in Negro rdtica
tion,” he continued,
Thurgood Sian,had. general
counsel for tfco NAA>' M w.««
the first speak"; >1»- MarM!;-*-'
brought the suit* decided Sa.-
Ml*, v.
Mar shrill said that he h,:*<
"no Gun hi. »bat -*■' cr Hi
South < ;si“h«a and Mirth
Carolina will comply once tin
law is made char. lie •- <
that North Carolina has d
eentralised so ih.- »..* -r 1 -
which w ant to d s;r;-;atp
may do so
The attorr. asked tli*- court to
order inter; ratio:: u■ ■.. t r,y „ *.
• 1 with the “outside lu.iT of
; September 1. 1956.
Efforts of North Cot. :.■ uih
Carolina, Virginia nro.: irt-.T.i
: stall on de: erro-ra' on t >;> .
schools in line with the U S -
.prone Court's decr-K-n m-i
: lance of NAACP coup, el <J<
' segregation become effective < c >•■.■■
■ where by next September tea;
early hearings before the coup ;
Washington this we-'-k
I The unprece,’'fil J he-' in’s
on She “meeiiaiuiof sc lion!
integregmtion began «>» M«:i
day and are expected to con
tinue ail week. The four stat
es, through written briefs and
oral arguments, all followed
the saint pattern.
Attorney General . J, Lindsay
' Almond Jr. of VirpiMa, warned the
ICON’TINI'EI) ON PAGE JUT
2ND mn FILES
' FOR GREENSBORO
1 CITY COUNCIL
GREENSBORO Following the
; announcement by Dr. William H.
Hampton, this city’s first Nce.vo
councilman, that he would no! be
I a candidate for re-election, Cla
jrence M. Winchester, local but int as
I man. filed as a candidate las'.
\ week.
Mr. Winchester president of
| the Greensboro Citizen! ‘ Asm.-
j ciation which is backin': his can
j didac.v, say i Hat he has no at.”
!to grind but. is "here to serve all
I the people, if the people so de
; sire."
i He is the second candidate to
file the Rev, Julius 'I Dougia.
! having filed on March 28.
WOMANIIII
GETS 5 YEARS
IN AUTO DEATH
I GREENSBORO— \ sentence of
j three to five years in Central
: Prison was meted out here Wed
nesday to Mrs. Marian L.vie Smith
32. who was returned here from
Ohio to ft.ee manslaughter charg
es growing out of the death of
Lynell Bowman —ho was killed in
March 1954
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. , . burns himself
JEFFREY’S GROVE
JWIK&LEDSY
PASSENSFR TRAIN
By Ti J-V \NJTLi: r. I EWES
Erne.-.t Hailey related to tb<
CAHOI.INIAN one of tho .s *
drama-stacked mt-vie stories us t<
bow hr- * scaped death when at
on-rushuh? c- ck Atlantic Com
l I.,he- fiam V, >d J-um-.s Leather,
on a tiv lie which spans tfci
1 Neu ~ H y r, ihr.=e miles south o’
timid. La. Friday mommy.
Hailey said that both he
and I. Tiers »<*• meni'ier.s
ol a ri;:ht-awav crew thai
was clearing underbrush ah-ns
the track. They had finished
■us the mirthsidt of the river
s»d were start-ins U> the
•out liside. The entire crew
had settled on crossing the
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JAMES LEATHERS
Raleigh Again To Name
“Family Os The Year ”
A contest to select Raleigh s
'Family Os the Year" among Ne
gro citizens has been announced
by the Family Service Society. A
similar contest last year resulted
m the family ei Mi and Mrs
Frank Hinton, 814 Cotton Street,
being chosen for this honor.
In announcing plans for the
second annual contest. Samuel R
leaser, local attorney and 1955
president of the Family Service
Society’, said entry blanks may be
obtained by visiting, writing or
' telephoning the Family Service
office 110 S. Dawson Street, P.O.
1 Box 9273, phone 416264.
Churches, P.T.A.'s and civ
ic clubs have hern sent re
<iucs's for nominations, but
Air. Leaser said equal consid
eration fee given u> nomi
nations submitted on the of
ficial entry blanks by interest
ed individuals. The selection
I.PCHY AUTO OWNER
The lucky car last week was
t the i>nc bearing the. tag iiuni
j be,?. Rtf-«05. If lhe owner of
: that car took. It to Dunn's Esso
! .v. rvice, corner Cabarrus and
j Btnodwortb Streets, here in Ha-
I icsftit, l»c received a free, grease
I job
; This wh! happen every week,
j Watch for your tag number. If
! it follows the asterisk, you v>H
j get the grease job. The >C’n- j
j her wot hr. taken from any car
bearing: a N. V, license
The numbers this week are.
3811-892; X;»81486: fiC-lfit; *lO- ■
<18:24-408 and £59-164
R- t.TI ARLES R. JON Fs
The dim baht aSihcuted the fig
ure of a man a bi-; Rh:.n---i>r«si
biy fi 1-2 f«ei fall, swathed in
' bandagey from hi:; rt»•(••;< down, the
vie* Im of some unexp’.aittable ;,r!f
--' fi'- T ruction plot* thwarted by the
’. tju;ck thinking of an associate
ft w.iR late Tuesday night
when a reporter entered the
men’s ward <»f Saint Agues
Jlfi-p.'-ii a inter v-ew Fred
Tiheu, T!. of IT! D#r« Si.,
who is alleged !<> hate {enixij
kerosene a!) over himself and
then struck a. match and set
himself afire.
The rero.o- asked WU.-.on if
his: mind. He acl ..need no other
it '- ivo l-: : -■ ; : , h-PWiwer.
A d'lnkir,; and. smi'itpr party
~ .lie Wilf ui home tviost of Hmurdai
nuernot-Ji Detective R L. Ennis
■ !.!< i -. and J imr.y Parker were
uppusedly "kaiin a scod time”
very i.’i-spondent. It could not be
ascii-tairied as to whether whis
key or song prompted the actions
which were to follow.
Picking up a can of kero
sene. Wilson is alleged to have
..iid that he bus going to do
,i - :y with the woman and
Ji n * If, He turned the ei S n of
fire-provoking fluid on the
woniiiu, soaked her in it, then
proceeded to give himself the
i - ime treatment.
. | Jr '.iki.r .-aid that W-lvou then
armed himself with some
stick matches, struck one and
in -,d-d for Miss Sanders. The wo
man is said to have rapidly vu
chrd the .'-.erne before the fire lit
her v.oaring apparel.
v niMrtuill.v unruifled in his
attempt at stlf-dcd ruction.
VTHson is said to have placed
a burning match to his clothes
and !o have gone up in a
blaze.
t’arker credited himself
with stripping the shirt from
the human inferno. Following
this act of mercy. Wilson ran
to the bed and started rolling
in an effort to extinguish the
j flames.
; Succeeding in nutting himself
oth, the mattress caught fire and
| Wilson ran from his home into
the street. An ambulance was then
j i summoned by an unidentified par
i J ty.
Wilson was taken to Saint Ag
: j ner, Hospital where he is being
treated for second and third de-
I gree bums.
The man informed a reporter
j that he was having difficulty get-
Iting bis breath. He appeared to
be in great pain.
will be based upon the in
humation furnished on the
entry biank about the family's
church, civic, school, business
and home activities.
A ‘-family” is defined for pui>
, poKCB of the contest as a fa the*
mother and one os' more chiidm
not over college age who live ii
the same house in Raleigh.
The contest closes April 29
arid winners will be announc
ed as a highlight of National
Family Week, May 1-8. A pa -
nel of outstanding citizens
will serve as judges. An out
standing white family also will
be selected. Last years’ win
ners were the family of Mr.
and Mrs. Milton Joslsn, 114
i’c.lk Street.
Mr Leafier raid the contest car
ries out one of the prime purpose,
of the Family Service Society, t
l (CONTINUED ON PAGE 161