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FGFGFDG j / ■ f|| . --an**, .-saMfe MISS ROBERTA DAVI>' Local Woman Relate Why She Seeks 50 G’s By \J EX A SDEK BARM S ! Roberta Daviy recited to * CAROLINIAN vthy he thinks ■ hat Vance Rayborn, eastern Wake County white fa;mci-mcr-. | State News! ! Brief j | j 80-HOI* JO.Nf s TO RALEIGH '! !'• i ■ RRaymond L Jones • ■ :■■ h■. Prt cidir.g B;shop of t{(•■• Centro! North Carolina Con frti nee and the Seventh Epiaeb- 1 t>a.‘ area, will preach at the Rush Memorial AME ZJon Church Sun day rooming- June 26. at 11 a.m. p J ones i:> one of the leading Bi chops in this area, and is con ‘tid rcd a -.treat minister. He will also piv ,ce over the “Check-Up” meeting and the convocation at 'he r> iv>\ «? church June 27-28. Mrs. •Jones will also be present and will direct the Missionary Con v ."•<•:• • \un The general public has beer; invited to attend these ses ■ p.-: v the Rev. William D. Car ton. minister. WOMAN ABANDONS HER CHII.D MYETTEVILLF Mn Sally Ann Knox. ‘29, of Bea ver Darn, widowed tor nearly six years, has confessed to county police that she aban doned her few hours old in fant in a tobacco barn shelter across the highway from the old E. I. VV. Jessup home in Cedar Creek late Sunday night. The mother was ap prehended Monday afternoon at the home of relatives in the Turnbull section of Beaver Dam Township after an ali day investigation hy Ernest fCONTINCED ON I’AGE ID MURPHY TO GET SUING ARN MEDAL NEW YORK Carl Murphy of Baltimore, .Met. editor and pub lisher of the weekly Afro-Ameri can newspapers, will be awarded the 40th Spingarn medal by the NAACP this week, it was an nounced here by Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the Associ- Th* Spingarn medal, award ed annually to a Negro .Ame rican tor 'distinguished ser- ICONTIM ED ON PAGE 11! Race Woman Fights For (sin Left By White Aunt •TACKSON The relatives of a white woman, wh n according to testimony, gave Mrs. Amanda Peaie Home, the widow of a Wel don dentist, and reputed to be !he mice of the Sate Mrs. L. M. Hawks, the bulk of nc-r estate, are trying to break the will. The fate of the care is believed '•> he tied up in the testimony divert by Charles Williamson, Henderson attorney, in whose of fice the will was made and in whose keeping it was left by Mrs Hawks. \\ iliianMOn’s testimony showed that. Mrs. Hawks come to his office and told him that she was related to the Negro woman and was the daughter of he r brotb*?i. She is p-lkged to have cbftnt. •tll'-gf ■ i selfd bcviiii. v, irh s p. cui. ■: ye:-.: for N‘ .in wmid u '■)y -ul f i r; ■' sum ol 350 000 lm- /• u• ir j'n. rape her reeen-iy Miss Darts fold she CARD 1.1. VJ AN how J: if ,YJcl ,'|*f * came to her bons and to?'' her that Rayborn wanted h,' to do some work for hint a? Drhe-in, located r.u :•.<■ Rum highway. She all i that she got into the car will Rayborn and McC-rea ,it?d -started >-n a trip to where >’> was so he attacked by the white ntan and where sh> eventually had to ) ; ght I'm her life. She told t;J h ..; • • , . stifipiclous. wh.en the t .um.-j out the Garner his he *.y of going to a ard U ,;, , i;j .. ~ that the matt put Mo'".. , •, f the car v. r. r . <!■<• a krr; ;::m ~b.■ .; the work and going back to tip place he alleged he opv: : ; -u r-- he stepped on the gas, and w<;U in the opposite diiicv-'>n K: then toid of how he confess•■■d hi-; fondness for Negro avoiocii and how he enjoyed association with them. It was then that s!u to-d him he had the wtong woman and that, if he did not t •>. ].<;• back to Raleigh, he would be sorry. At this point Rayborn tv s.d to have offered hot $25.90. H; ■. (CONTINUED ON I'AGI n STATE TEACHERS OFF TO CHICAGO When (he National ErMe.iuor.- ‘a I Association opens its annual ■ convention in Chicago Illinois next week, a large delegation ol North Carolina Negro school fir ures will be present. A total of 19 will represent, the North Carolina Teachers Association there, c.- plementcd by over 100 represent atives of local NCTA groups Three persons have been c< rtifi rd to attend tin NaHov**.; Con ference on Teacher Education and Professional Standards to be held in DeKalb. Illinois, June 23-July 2. Two nave been named to at tend the National Conference of Classroom Teachers. This confer ence will run for two w.-eks. be ginning July U and will h< h ,u at Purdue University in incli.ms. Heading the Noui. Caroline delegation will be £. C Fur.dcr buck. Superintendent of Schools Elizabeth City and W. G. Bver.s principal. Fairview Street School. Charlotte. DELEG ATES I.ISTE l> Those certified to attend the national convention and affiIiat (CONTINUED ON PAGE 1J; raid further that she had ■•i- - d upon Mrs. Horne as he! fostc • daughter and wanted her to get bulk of her estate, upon h«-r .oath. .Vlr WilSi.imsort testified itiaf she told flint she fell, t b . t There would he much discus sion amt bickering after tier death and that is «by she left Northampton County to have the will drawn. She had a suspicion that her relatives would not like what she was doing and that was the way "he wanted it done. The ease was still going on 'sdnesday. The white kin of Mrs. Hawks, g childless widow, me at t< ONTlMiilli ON PAGE lit FDGDFGSDG i 10c \ | *£iu«eut UjCMitttf Utee&iftf... "} —7 iOc | l 3B ‘ ~ 4 -«E* N : VOLUME U RALEIGH, N. C WEEK ENDING SATURDAY. JUNE 25, 1955 NUMBER .«» First Desegregati on Suit Filed In A l . C. * * -k k -k k k ★ -k so so "so so so so so -ir k 1 f ■* 4 so so so | Daughter, 12, Watches; \ i 111- :r' m" vJ , 'C M a U j wSy ,-irva* .-.c/c di V yjSj “.vim.' -ejx* •;/*# .v/c-j .... * '> tY. f* - ,’V. \. .* :.*i i layfiisSue ip AToi Iho » iltss "i i X | I 1 I C# -rui |L g>j* ... G > if' ) w i i f HfRHAM Whether the three -'c'lid w ■....* licuij-d for admission m ’I. Cr.'-Mi.-vy of Norih Carn ■ r. wiki ;k pfiipittr-d to atienc ■-vi* - It .-i i.uuozi v. j,x t.!u'own inti •:u U O; i:.' --: - ■ Id') vh'-n attorneys lov trie* bo %-. .1 d -- : i ;.;u,o io Judge John son J ifn; ;< hearing on the •?u.’• t Ad 1 '5 •■- TiU'vj Monday. Gin or too ;■. yers ic’d the CARO! '11..' iiii; they were ex hU’.Dt,!:'! every ;e.m-dy at law and ; !; '■ : rove tor case heard .. . ,—. . , ; - to,'. r X fii C' ? UJ't fell . .0 3 ■ Do-riot 01 North Car olina. The t h ss cau*<fd much i-tinmy .0 since the tlirei* were [in fi-. <! im mi mission b.V uUii.r y ( . <) Pearson. There wus a lie a! ot five who ai .cm;; to r* lister at tin • ha).! (fill iiisiitu? ion, but only tun: have brought suit to force their admission. They • ere ■<, o: ti b> ail officer of •in -v.saol iit.i i.tter they were oiei ft v Prcsitlenf Gordon '.i,n li.ai u w is against tfie poii. > o! D'-v Irusie.c Board in admit Ner.ro stuiknts to unib rgvaduaic studies at the university. Tiie uii it: being puslied by the ■ ;-.ationui As.-uycraiion tor tiic Au vanccnn t t of Colored People. Six i focal lawyers arc handling the ) orc-e. wile, C O. Pearson as chief ' count 1 !. Intere h«d persons feel • that it will be tlic k« v to the re cent ruling .a ;he I'iafrd States f ON i 5Ni i.D ON 5’ \GE 11 ' ¥ )if.f .) IT rVnat s riappenmg 0.1 The D esegregatlon Front 1 CARTHAGE - A 16-man study , commission, four of those mem- * t bf.-rs are Negroes, was set up here . . fast week by the Moore County ‘ . board of education to make a ' ; compre.fier.'.i <• study of problems . of school desegregation in the i . county. j! The commission, which will i . formulate and recommend plans j . for solving the problem, includes 1 R. O. Taylor. Huey Davit,. Charles i Brown and H L Bryant as mem her-. W. D. .Sabiston. Carthage attorney. was named temporary [ chairman. MORGANTON A go-ahead ; order for the construction of a new Negro elementary school has i been given by the Morgonton city KOVliNrhl) ON PAGE 111 EARNER WBftlAN SHOOTS HUBBY Bv Staff Writer GARNER J. D Wright came, to the realization here Monday; that a womarrs fury is really too much for a man to try to cope 1 with and us the result he is now m St. Ac ties Hospital with a bul let wound tnrouph his right ‘chest and trying to reconcile himself as to where his wife got the pistol and why she shot him. The whole matter is rather ba ity to Wri >hr. He told the OARO-i L.INIAN that he was in court in Raleigh to answer a charge brought against an old girl friend of his for a wound that she re ceived at a “friendly” party some time earlier at the home of a neighbor, near Garner. He says that he tool: his wife and child ren back home after the case was! continued, and that when he turned around in his yard, he noticed that his wife. Mrs. Be -1 atrice Wright, had a pistol. Sens- i ing that she meant business, he attempted to get out of her way.' it'ONTi.NUEIi ON PAGE 111 ffiKgj6jß6sj : -jife'^ia :a; • SCENES I 'ROM 68TH CON VENTION Os OUI NORTH STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY The fidlii armuai convention of the Old North State Medical Society, field in Raleigh last week. v. as one of the most suc cessful in i's Song history. The above scen’ s depict some oef the 1 highlights of the rootab Top left photo shows a few members of tiie Woman's Auxiliary which met at the same time. They ale school board after announcing that no action will be taken on de segregation until the governor's commission makes its report. The building will be located on a 10-acre tract adjoining Mor gan's new Negro recreation cen ter and swimming pool which was formally opened early this month. '■l <** " I ' PitEdOUS PLASMA —The blood of IWi volunteer donors is helping IS-year-old Thouston .Whiteside, Jr. of Eos Angeles, Calif., successfully combat a ran; kidney disease. The boy’s mother stands h> with a grateful smile wo » nurse at Whitt Memorial hospital gives the youngster bis 20th transfusion of vrrum within ten days. The American Beal ( Voss, which provided ail serum without charge, yiid that five pints of whoto blood are required to make one unit of the serum. (New-,press Phots! 'Point and Airs. K. E Blackman, from left to right: Airs. t. O Gramly, Durham. Mrs. W. C Shanks. Burlington; .Mrs, K tt Jones, R'-idwille and Airs. J M Clark. Reids villi- At top figlil, Dr. Murray T. Day: left. High Point, adjusts the bailee for Dr 1 ,. E. McCauley. Raleigh one ol ihe Society's members and sup porters of long standing. Al lot bottom. Mrs. fi H. f rest. Airs Murray Davis, both »f <1 1g It ■ WADLEY- Ala. - - With threats . of ‘‘get the Negroes out of here . or we’ll blow up the place,” some * 30 white men, armed and masked, • invaded an interracial meeting on i the campus of Union College here - Monday night and forced the Ne~ • groes to pack their bmps and leave : for Atlanta. Clyde C. Flannery president of Charlotte, chal iluin:.- the mu door reception a! the h.-nic o* Dr. and Airs. W I? Pcltiloril iii brothers of Rock, .Mount, bnt iom right. exii?;uue notes on ! new drug. 'They are tV. E. Are. strong, a pharotaci-.t and -iuiir man of that gr< ;;p »rul Dr. W i. Aiiiistrong, tfie secre tary-treasurer. Tin- third broth er. Dr. I. P. Armstrong, was not present I'e.r lh.»* p.-toss the church school, stud that the leader told him: “It would be bet ter if you packed your J.,;': and left town, too.” Some 50 white and Negro delegate:;, ill South erners, were attending : n insti : tute on international relations. D U R H A M ''Dexegrtga (CONTlNl ED ON I’Afii IJ ; Quarrel Over Other Woman Ends Jn Death By 1,11,1 1 \\ S. U V 5 SON WILSON'S Mil I S A mm' | of tfi cb-ldrrn. nine of -vl; m arc j living fatssiiy sho? hei huijbar d j here Tiiosday afternoon at s:*m { before f;er .horrified 12-vcar-old I ! daviKlitf.T. Eunice Bovkun, S”, 1 nan! on the farm us (1. C. S Mr I, two milo wesi of VYilswo’s '.Vfills. died in Johnston Me morial Hospital ;jt .i .1 01. Vy lioo-'l:!V of S j;; gunge shotgun wound in (hr abdo men Mrs Sue Web:-. Boy lan 38 is being held in *-:ii hm- • ;timyi; i privilege of bond v. the death of | her hu band. Siv •• ehv.rg-.'d -' if:. i ftrst.-dtri’ev murder. G'THfty ,-ShirJft J-. r Jr •• -. a t> p ■ ;f . : hot : fir: y.'it-iKMJt fTas-ip.- • oortiy before he died. The wife-, arciuding to (he deputy, I old investigating of (iters lha! her husband came home rirrtiik after being out all day with another woman. Airs. Boy lan was quoted by Deputy Smith as saving that she and her husband started '<! argue and he went i-miiing for his gun. hut she found the weapon first. Tin- warn on declared shat h> r hu'-oand then picked up chair and yiic shot him once The shooting occurred in the kitchen of the home occupied by , tb<; Boykins and was witney-sod -jv their daughter. BilUe Ann, 12. : The other 8 children were about ■he:? farm and home work and did not .set the incident. The Boykin children, all ot whom are quite voung. arc still • living in the death house and are 1 being taken cure of by the oldest • daughter, who B about IV-voars- ] old. HABNETI COUPLE HP. 3 IN SI HYING DUNN .heno: Williams and ' wife. Erhei, are bcirsi; held in Ihe Harbftt County jail for the fatal stubbing of .fame:; Murchison, nor v Ldincjon, Saturday night The couple was lodged in jail ■ fter Murchison war pronounced dead upon arrival at the Du nr Ho; 0 0 1 The cutting began when Ghiisr; l accused Murchison of pawning » gun that belonged to him at the home of a neighbor. Investig.ihtig officers report ed the argument started ir. the. home of John Murchi son. who is reported to have toid them that they would have to do their arguing else where. They took the house holder at his word, but did not get any farther than the yard It was there, witnesses say, that Gilliam's wife began attacking James on she front and Gilliam was bringing ■> penetrating attack fro m the rear I .Tome- found himself the cen | tCONTINUED ON RAGE 111 First Baptist Installs An Air Conditioning Unit Fieri. The First Baptist Church here, Dr. O. S. Bullock, minister, has l taken the props from under its members and friends, who during \ the hot weather season have been ! staying away from the church with the excuse that it was too j hot there. Tills has been accomplished through the installation of a com i piete air conditioning system that is guaranteed to maintain a tem perature; of 75 degrees on the hot test days and with a capacity audience Tiii.-: progressive church which has been keeping pace with the demands of the times for over a hundred years, has been plan ning and working lowa id this much needed improvement for two years Realizing the fallacy of MJCRS AUTO GTVXKft The iucky car last week was the one hearing the tap num ber K.-3873. If the owner of that oar took It to Dnnn'£ Esso Service, corner Cabarrua and fllooiiworth Streets, here In fin- ' Icigh, he received a free grease job. This will happen every week Watch for your tag number, IT h follows the asterisk, y*»w will get she grease job. Tho num ber wit) be taken from r,rty car tearing ». N. (J. The numbers tills weak are: X *1,5022; f)-232 ,t . Ij-5?550; X#-'*<l*>: >-51*59: and X-57175. j j ODDS&EK9S | Or, Thf RALEIGH ftCENE Tic’ now Negro r.n-c.anir ztion re cent !v cc ! up in liiicT;} car: fill 5 cap long b«dljr needing o bn fill* ed. here. Its announced ; urpose Is to foster democt a tic R ' 'crcmem by encouraging and wc, iking so: the election df candldur s who represent, and will serve a?! thf people Special emphasis will nr directed toward gctfcir\\ Negro ... CH ibm.-icii. There axe no fees ano no duos. MfHabet.-hi; is open to all persons qualified o vote Here i« an excellent, op; ortunity for Raleurh Negroes to do a lot of good, both for themse ves and the community. •w <w * W Accord in rr to a local do news roitipicrp itor, « poll recer Jy con ducted by an unnamed "cduca* 'or' : ti<• ved conclusively that a majority 01 tilt Negro \ incipais ami teachers in Halt gh are aguinst UH( v. r at!on in the public rrhoolr This comment.: tor can do a great servk.- it, o.li concern ed by simply taking U.-o vraps off lx!th the “educator'’ and he Ne gro reach' ..: who favor \to re tention of segregatfotn. Everyone has n right to his opinion and personal f< clings without being amain! d of them. It would seem however that the time has come for evc-rv person to be willing to .stand up and be counted and not tell one person he is against segre gation end another that he is in favor of it. There has been rut ai tempt on the part of anyone (CONTINUED ON PAGE 11) og-' ■ VICE PRESIDENT T. V. Jervav, who was named vice president of the Nations! Negro Publishers’ Association *( ip annuai meeting held last week at Kansas City, Missouri. Mr. Jervay is editor f the Wtlming ton .Journal. Wiln-> sgton, N. C. expecting people to leave com fortable homes with all types of church services at their fingertip* on radio and television and go sit and suffer in a sweltering church building, the church decided to meet tiie challenge of the time* and offer its worshippers the comfort they have every right to expect. As one member put it. “You don’t expect people to attend a cold church in the winter so we give them heat, then why expect tnem to attend, a hot church in the summer? As a matter of fact, nothin': is too good or expensive (nr God's house and God's child ren.” Aside from the standpoint of comfort this latest addition to (CONTINUED (XV PAGE 11)