TFfin £MI Jli 0£ Ml FMIE EID OMI SI Ali IP Ei Cp Ml in SI! Hi EIS 0 jqpp rnggam ■ ■ ' ■:• . JP* fBMMWHPgft ; : « m } •**•«& ? ’■'t'. ■/§;s'? •i • JOil 111 #5 : lgjßß fITTI.r I \MBKINS-Mii of .55 of roping Kau- Ci SIMJ TO. OIAiH (t/ER gin CHARLOTTE Corporal .Tame;, LnL. 27 of U:r- city is dead of s ad wounds and Airme.r. Volin Fawlinson of Dobbins; Air Force Bast, Marietta. On., has been chaired with murder. Little, home on furlough from r. h ■ ' :.. Vi . bington. was stabbed to death early Sunday morning during an argument, over a bottle of gin. Also arrested at Dobbins was Cic.t'.e Jones who was charged with being an accessory before and after the fact of murder. Both urn are bring returned here to face charges. The tragedy oc curred at the Veterans Club on Seventh Street. Acrordiny. to police. Rawlinson and Jones returned to Marietta o j }.pr lih p &i,f\ p/D B> STIFF WRITER Jauu.s Kakei. 23-year-oid ex- GI of 315 S Haywood St. had the um.•.mil experience last wee!; of being locked up in the Raleigh City -jail on a fugitive from jus tice charge only to be released later on after the charges had been withdrawn in Washington. D C where they had originated. The storv as told by Baker's mother. Mr-. Louise Barer with whom he resides at the Haywood St. address goes back to lari. April when Baker was serving in the Army near Washington He was arrested by the Wash ington police and - charged with being the father of a child born to ii girl he was alleged to have been dating. Baker was released at the Wash ington heaving because tne girl who had caused his arrest failed to appear at, that time. Although released, the charges against- him ''or held open, pending further development and investigation. iCONTINUED ON PACE ID Woman Lawyer Wins f irst Case In Supreme Court Mrs Elretta Alexander. Greens boro attorney, and first Negro wo man lawyer to argue before the North Carolina Supreme Court, last week, won a new trial for two men convicted in Guilford Coun ty Superior Court of armed rob bery Thomas Davis and Billy Cathy, both of Greensboro, were convicted on -lan. 10 and sentenced !n 5 to JO years each on charges of taking ssk from Fred Fuller at knife is a part of the h<-rd !>•• •>'...! in a h pr-‘- it. ! < <■’4 n$ v ua * irrIo? v: -i i* *! 'Km?, s&, who ** 3bo ri> .rant of the alU’.srd ven:: Albert TLab r-uh-H. that t.virrf was not. sufficient <- v: • drnc#i xiresfntcd at Hk iH ; - ! *rs Citv Court to • tar nit it the 'i r.i» hr ordfjred the youth released. njscoverea xfjt yi/U*-£ t.-&/i (y pres'~nuid many promt-; to y - vomle t-'o.i school ; r :t:- h 1 n'l-i ;me ! proba .( ON IIM i;> ON I*AG» II > DURHAM Mrs. Elnara N t an was not able to convince the judge of Recorders Court here recently that she lent impetus to whatever Melvin Harris might have done to her, which resulted in her having him arrested fur rap.* ih e njinpfaimng witness told a sad story. Sin* told <>t how Harris came to lea and induced he; to listen to him saying he had a message from a friend. She brought fit e clothing along which she claims that she was wearing that night and showed how Harris. Iri his hopes, had torn them to shreds, in a desire to satisfy himself. She displa' erf several flesh wounds, which she said she suffered in an effort to save herself from ■he ravages, of what she icrm iCONTINUED ON RAGE ID and pistol point last Christ mas Eve. ' Mrs. Alexander contended that Judge Don Phillips who presided i at, the ciial. should have instruct ed the jury on leaser degrees of the crime charged. The Supreme- Court justices agreed with her. Said the court “Evidence was in sharp conflict as to what, hap ; pened at the time of the alleged irobbery with firearms . . . that defendants were entitled tc have the judge instruct on lesser. . charges." * .red by a national > .-..ii;; I inn. ,VU; s Dru ... -pi..- • uni e and Miss' ! ; junior, will become . .•(•; it.a bei'i. upon, graduation, V'H s'P li'PlA/Q i, *» lu * lUiVv -•■IN 5.0?«• f < f> M.AVC X IIHOH VS C'tlMW h,STOf/ ’• 0. Flunk GainD. 37. ol J'.itk^mvihe . a. impr-r ■rrv.:. : -i i • * Sunday wbnrs he Ms irura stern of a y.n tnnr :• D a l Q \. 1 ti Fw he ries. y: yttjjic's nd. Police' • :• ■ M .v i’il i hat vims m n,' su 1 n oi i;r boa; when •:«■, ’her boat pa.s r'uvjftw v, sv.'f'}] which made <;.v.!.'-,; I .* hi<- •jnhmee. He fell into the water and drowned. Ntß l:> FOR GAMBLING I > U’; lj i il\ I • A i tej a neig hbor "i\ -y tilt h of x-y.'i 1 in the wee be sirs ol Dip morning 12 local »npr> f {■»’old tiiooDselvery tinder :tjt rosi. wit it gambling. The • Doiglxbor is .said to hav tipped of] police so that he could go to sleep. The can) biers were arrested ,jround M. 30 a.m l/iev were found by police at the home of William Perry. 35. who aUeyedly had the •si ing yoh-e on in a room of ho house with tightly drawn .Machs, p. wj ?hc largest mimbei caught, foj rumbUnr here in some i imc It: : : 1 . »on 1 o Perry, i hose ••..r.o-'d u iciuded Calvin Ma rk - i(OMIVI i.n ON 11) What s Happening I Describing the NAACP as “the implacable enemy of our South ern social structure,'' I. Beverly Lake, assistant attorney general of .North Carolina, told members of the local Kiwanis Club here Friday that problems raised by the tJ. s. Supreme Courts’ de « gre-pution decision must be giv en immediate and thorough con sideration. Stressing that he was not speak ing in an official capacity, Lake, who wrote the brief which the siat.e filed with the high court, in the school segregation cases, said that the stakes ir; the solution of the schoool problem “are your children and grandchildren. That FIRE RAZES FARM HOME; THREE DiE GREENVILLE Police were continuing their investigation this week of a fire which swept the (arm dwelling of ft tenant farmer ' near her'- rai l.v Saturday morn ing. killing three members of the family. The charred bodies of June Crawford. 34, his wife Mary. 33 and their son. William. 13, were found in the four-room farm house. The bodies of the parents were in bed. The body of the boy was found at the rear of the house where he was apparently overcome trying to reach the back door. Pitt County officers were told by one of the Crawford's neigh , hors that, the house was seen a , blase around 3 a. m. THE I.oc V * ill I liflMTiri (n/fiSQL msv.nr«kdt VOLUME 14 WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 9 IQ.SI RALEIGH, M. C NUMBER 41 ★ •* * -ft tSr ★ -A A A -4 >c ♦ ¥ # *¥ ¥ Embezzlement Charged: « tfliSSw*. BgSsfP skS^ ‘s?f jV trett' pRs /rffi. ’s!&•' '?}*;*'•■ ‘V’-., •Ivjw? Isi® -. ; '/v. ■•sxSs , £ &£k v&2»V **!iv* NAACP Plans School Suits To Force Local Admission The decision b.v the Raleigh j School Board Tuesday to continue its present segregated system, ac cording' to person? l close to th« NAACP. can easily serve as the spring board which will start Ne mo children on their way to the schools nearest Them. Representative* of ihe mili la nt organization told the CAROLINIAN that not only were they anticipating the derision that the Board hand ed down, but lhat petitions bad already been prepared NAMED TO HIGHER EDUCA TION BOARD W. J. Ren nrdv, Jr., Durham, president of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, was named hv Governor Luther Hodges as one of nine persons to serve on a State Board of higher eduea !ion recently. Kennedy 1* a prominent religious and civic leader and «il! serve with the Board in supervising the state supported colleges and universi ties. He was the only Negro ap pointed to the Board. * is why the decision to be made is too grave for hasty, impulsive ac ■ non.” BURLINGTON BURLINGTON —An interracial! committee of 10 men and women to survey the local school system and make recommendations on what can be done to comply with the U. i>. Supreme Court decision against, racial segregation in the , public schools, will be appointed , on July 27. Members of the Citv School i Board in regular meeting last{ week resolved to name the spec ial committee and authorized the; school system's administrative staff to collect, data to be given! to the committee regarding the physical, educational and social' Norfolk Board Will Integrate Schools NORFOLK, Va. The school ■ board of this city—largest in the l State broke Virginia's previously • solid front against desegregation i in public schools by an announee , ment on Saturday that it approv ■ ed tne principle of integration as 1 laid down by the U. S. Supreme r Court.. “We intend without mental reservations,” the board de clared, “to uphold and abide by the laws of the land.” The statement added, however, that the board is powerless to to be presented to the body. asking that Negro children . no longer cross district lines, but that they he permitted to * attend the school* nearest their home*. This means that Needham Broughton High School and Hugh Morrison will be requested txj accept race students. The spokesman also took into con sideration the fact that white chlldtcn from the Caralemh sec won should not have to pass Washington Jurm r High School to get to Hush Morrison. They pointed out cJe-arb' that it was riot a matter of trying to set Negro children into white schools, but . a matter of easing hardships on I-a children that would not have to be thrust upon them oe canse of race or color They felt I that it was just a.-; fair for white ; children to attend what, war a Negro schfxH if tt happened to be i near them an h < r <.« f»r Negro (CONTINUED ON PAGE M> FEDERAL JUDGE IN ACCORD WITH HIGH TRIBUNAL j ASHEVILLE ... The McDowell ; County Board of Education found 1 itself face to fact with the in tegration problem here Tuesday when Judge Wilson Warlicfc. Juri st for the District Court, dismiss ed a suit brought by parents of Negro children v.-bo have beer: forced to travel from their dis trict, in which there whs no school for Negroes, to another district, obtain an education. The suit was brought lon*, before the Supreme Court rul ing of May IT. 1954. It was brought to make the same facilities available to Negro have b'H n : old ! race resident In the cdred Monday at, 11.45 p. rn a• S.; Agnes Hospital She would ino ■ been 100 on October 15. Mrs. Andrews, wbi* was born in IHUsboro, was active until she siifcrcri a broken hip in a (ail on Jane 12. She entered Saint Agnes Hospital that night, marking the first time that she had ever been in a federal district courts application of its decision that racial scare gatipn in public school;, is un- j constitutional. W. C. Patton, NAACP field sec retary here, said that Negroes ' would be encouraged to seek ad- • mittance to the university at Tus caloosa. University officials either 1 were unavilable or declined com ment. WINSTON-SALEM WINSTON-SALEM The For syth County Board of Education is naming a 24-memb ■: commit tee including four N*-roev to (CONTINUED ON PAGE IF VA. SCHOOL CASE OP TO 3 JUDGES RICHMOND, Va. -- The three federal judges who were reversed; in their 1952 decision upholding school segregation will meet hen on July 18 to consider a decree *o carry out the Supreme four' .- .mandate for racial integration in the public schools. Resident District Judge Sterling , Hutcheson will be assisted by Cir- 1 cult Judge Armistead M Dome of i Charlottesville and District Judge Albert V. Bryan of Alexandria. , These three judges heard the . ] case originally and ordered Prince ] Edward County to equalize school 1 facilities for Negroes as compared < with those already provided for ; white pupils. < Suit, was brought by a group (CONTINUED ON PAGE ID < hospital as a patient. Her hip is said to have healed rapidly, hut she di veloped a stroke in ttie throat, which is believed to have caused her death. |j,. r daughter-in-law. M r. David The CAROLINIAN that Mr*. Andrew? had a vivid recollection ut slavery and the Civil War. She w0p)..1 often astound the residents of Oberlin by relating historic <<)*,TIMED ON PVf.l 11 ■ DDSS & ENDS | On The RALEIGH SCENE “All men are created equal and are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights among which a»e life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." These im mortal words the heart and soul of the Declaration of Indepen dence. introduced to the World the Divine concept of the equality of man during the 4th of -hoy celebrations just ended. Speakers from one end of ibis Country to another retold this oid story of the unalien able rights of man to the pur suit of happiness. It was told in Raleigh where Ihe heads of the stale government are burn ing the midnight oil in a iast ditch effort to circumvent, it v. as told in Georgia where they sav thry would rather se cede agatn from this union than grant equal rights to all men It was even told down in benighted Mississippi wil *' • CONTINUED ON T U»l 111 Charlotte Golfers Lose Plea To Use City Course The State Supi eme Court last 1 week turned down efforts ol , Charlotte Negroes to gain access < to the city's municipal golf course 1 located in Revolution Park. < It. ruled valid a clause in a deed l donating a portion of the park land and restricting its use to members of the white race. If ! Negroes are admitted to the golf ] course, said the court, and land 1 must be returned to its original i owner. Land for Revolution Park was donated to the city of Charlotte BV O.M-f WTHTTR ill K J, .'i -ro; f r.-le Pi-j--- p,, ».<.!- • 1 *** i'*" st. Mr s Eligsbelh fun.- 1 -,p. .Idt-s n.Pe tolh , at *;-c h., ) .1 s f. - * ■ {.’ ST , and Fa: ip.'-i s Bank fnrmtil ch«: t." • ' dnbezzi -.g (uo*s n * cs.-hicr, still ed that to dale the actual amount ; involved in the alleged shortage has not b> on determined ana fee • era 1 agent.* arc conlinutriß the.- sfivestiKatv.n According to M-. H c- n lev. the*, 1 ? investigation- . which !>•' last Apr.;, resulted f- .... a n-mne check of the bank s .ids 1 d v• ;c r.ot prompted by o suspicion / Mrs Jiles. Du- r-.p. This routine check, lr -1 cgulai ities were discovered. : h when exc.Tnined. pointed to the accused woman. Subsequep? investigation by the agents of the Federal Government, strengthen ed V-.' suspicion against the note T"))et and led to the formal charg ' '