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Citizens Will File
Sciiool Petitions Here
! State News!
; Brief j
I j
Pleads Guilty To Ambush
ROANOKE RAPIDS -•• An 18-
year-oid local resident, Joe Bus-.
seii Kearney, has pleaded guilty
•n the ambush shoot iris of a
young farmer near here last
Thursday afternoon, Kearney i.- :
being charged with assault with
, deadly weapon and inflictir.,
serious bodily injury on James E.
Hockaday. 26. of Routt 1 ;■'
noke Rapids. He entered his plea
before Justice of the Peace S.
Henry Akers and was bound evo'
;o Superior Court in default of
a 53,000 bond. Hockadso «-a.-; shot
in the back with a shot-gun on
Thursday afternoon as he plowed
a field about a mile from his
home. He is now undergoing treat
ment at the Roanoke Rapids Hos
pital. The .12 guage shotgun used
in the incident has been recovered.
"Might Hart life Chance**’
OI'KHAM Mrs. Gertrude
I angst-on. local woman, told
police here that she was stab
bed last. Friday night by her
husband, hut she refused t*»
press charges because "it
might hurt his chances ’ when
he is tried next week for the
attempted rape of her daugb
(CONTNEED ON PAGE Jli
FBI Report Mystifies j
Fire Deaths In Pitt
WINTER VILLE--Local off: errs
were further baffled here in fry
ing to solve the burning of an
entire family near here July 1,
when, a report from the FBI of
fice, Washington. D. C, revealed
that an axe found near the scene
of the fire, nor! human hair on it.
The officers suspected foul play
from the beginning and this re
port tended to substantiate their
beliefs. The mystery grew, how
ever- when the fact was
brought, out that the axe could
not have been where it was found,
during the night that the three
persons- June Crawford, his wife.
Mary and young son. William,
lost then jive--. This is predicated
on the fact that had it been there
it would have shown damages as
the result of the fire.
Pitt County Sheriff Rue! W,
Tyson, and other investigat
ing officers are of the opinion
Emergency Meeting Held
Here By State NAA CP
By Staff Writer
The North Carolina Conference
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People;,
helot an emergency meeting here
last Saturday at the Bloodworth ■'
Street YMCA, The confab, pre-;
sided over by Kelly M. Alexander, j:
state president, was attended by,:
over 100 members of the Execu
tive Committee and local chapter i
officers from all over the stale. ,
In his speech to the aisserm- j
Wed state and branch of- j ■
fleers, Alexander cited some
cf the accomplishments of the j
state conference to date and ji
outlined to them a pattern |
to be followed in the fight for !
full compliance by this state I
of the. Supreme Court’s edict |
that public schools be deseg
regated !
Local chapters were urged to
Miss HOTf for the past two
years, an unusual honor. An
honorary eol->ne! she • cars the
summer unit firm nt the Air
force ROTE,
Sr,.-, jaJ To She t tF.ftSJN! 1 X
The CAROLINIAN b-anv-d fibs
week Mr at, Negro parents here ’ !l -*
soon file p-rt-ittaJis w;tn me Ha
ir igh School Board mines: me tha
I heir obi id ret) o- v, ■, -.t w ■ cl -- - eni-er
the schools lit;;'-rest tita n-
U will be remembered that the
■Rake.;;: Branch of the XAAf’P
petitioned the school board some;
weeks, ago tor a hear Hr-’ on t.r.iA
'matter. That request war e.-uort-fj
by the board, which hw . j -ach
a public statement to the or let t
that the schools here would be.
operated this year as they have
been in the past.
Last week, three represent
ative Negro organizations, the
Raleigh Ministerial Alliance,
the Raleigh Citizens* Associa
tion and the Raleigh Branch
NAACP, joined in issuing a
statement, to the School Board
which stated that the Negroes .
nf this fit - considered the ac
tion of the Board "deliberate
defiance" of She C. s. Su
preme Court and that they,
the Negro citizens, were not
satisfied and would seek re
lief through "concerted ac
tion." The term "concerted ;
action" was later explained
bv a spokesman for the three
groups, as meaning court ac
tion.
There are several areas in Ha
} ieigfa where Negro children are i
•' compelled to pass by schools that
; are located in their com mu mum
: in order to attend schools de-.ig
l nated as Nt-y;o schools. Such
• areas include Oberlin, North R-a
--! ieigh, Washington Terrace, Nazis -
| reth. the Boylan Heights fringe
i and the sections ad Gcent u>
iCONTNt'ED ON PAGE 11
(hat the axe wav brought to
the scene by some persons who
did not want in get mixed up
in the affair, but wanted to
shed as much light on the
matter as possible. The*’ have
announced that any person
who might have information
that might help in the solu
tion can be assured of all the
protection necessary.
The Crawfords are known in
: have been seen as late as one;
;; o’clock on the night- of the fire.
.I in. and near Ayden. Th-'y are re-;
ported to have had car trouble
and the officers opined that they .
, j stopped at a filling tation i.tv
H have some repairs. They are also j
• • reported to have given an un- \
;; known passenger a lift. The search j
i is on for this passenger. Persons;
; who have left the vicinity of the;
i burning arc being hunted.
I
begin at once the task of securing
signatures of Negro parents who
desire their children to attend
Don-segregated school in the;
neighborhoods nearest them.
The*e petitions arc to he filed j
with the local school boards for
immediate action. Suits will fol
low whenever school authorities :
refuse to comply Alexander said, i
Alexander stated that, North j
Carolina has served official no
tice that it does not intend to!
willingly comply with the law and -
therefore there, was no alterna
tive but to tile suits in order to;
compel compliance.
Attorney C. O. Pearson, of Dur
ham, chairman of the N C. Con
ference’s Legal Redress Com
mittee, told the branch officers
that the time for making speeches
to the various boards of educa-!
fCONTNUEIi ON PAGE 11)
Clllitis Gird For School Showdown
The Carolinian
IQc \ Mu# r"7 lOC
VOLUME 14 RALEIGH, N. C WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 2.1 1055 NUMBER 43
Leaders Disagree On
■Jjffij wm ' ' mm’mL wR * v ffl§ SmiEs fPP iB. Wk jjSBMm ms yM |p| m Japf $8 p&k
a|yi. \9RL wgKLL igj§ ICS firs s®. -a®'. W: *jr{% WF
Mfi't' Aminct
hot ril'd al
O
integration,
So Bishop
Replying to charges that he ad- i
vocarod a "ainiaa.iniiW or; the ;
ac-iiofi! desegregation issue. Dr. P. I
A. B;.:-hi.;a a Rich IqiJarc is.yjcd
{■: :.a. i Th*- CARO- ‘
iINLAN !o;s a-;-,.
Dr Bi.nojj one of several;
leaders invited, to express their i
views on the school desegregation|
i.sx.vie 'dl Ion: the Pt-u:■;;1 Comn'ut
• U :' k aij d se*me N A.-■ >CP officiais;
' present, a Pet ‘.be s ion was over. ;
w;v a hi tn us ■ - hi.i .-.!,: j'-iHien'ienH‘
; donour.-cn'e-- ' bur program nr 'up -
vvorka ble r
Eeac'hv'b r-> iur home. Dr, Bis
: ue;j stating that be tried to it live
; no doubt in the minds of the com-;
i ! b members, vhar he was first
: arid last an advocate of law com
iCOS'fSVi:') ws v.% GF 1 !j
“Y” Seeks
? 3,500 And
New F fembers
Tile tent)), annual membership :
drive of the Blood worth Street,
’/MCA got underway here Friday;
; WSeri Dr. N. H. Harris announced,
i that the goal would be 1-000 jnern-1
i bci>. and a collection of $3,500.
(’ \. Marriott is the ay.so
i tii manager, J. I. Stredwirk
i- the carripaiftit director,
flthers whu iiave been enroll
ed for work m the drive, along
with t. I. Raiford. general
a i :>et , ,i n- ( . X. Goble < .
A, Haywood, f IV. Eaton, R.
H. 1 md;' .! A Mann, Or. O.
A Bulluek, A. E, Brown, Att.v.
F J Carnage. G. R. Frazer.
Or. J. T. Hamlin, H. C High,
■•r Ben I Johnson, Or. L,
» . MeCauley. Or. ,V. I, Ferry,
Dr IV. B. l'ettiford.
-A I - ■;« R alph Carnpbell. .». \.
Cooper, Olho Cox, George Ed
wards. IV V Evans. Andrew
j Fullers, i 11. Flagg. Waldo K.
Gay. Ennis Grant, C. G.
Hawes, Rev. I>. Howard,
(CONTNCED ON PAGE U) •
What s Happening
On The Desegregation Front
Bowles Quits
MILFORD, Del. Citing lack of
i interest in the National Associa
tion for the Advancement of White;
People (NAAWP) which he found-;
eri, Bryant Bowles told some 250
; to 300 persons that he was re
>2^J
GRID STAR DROWNS —Lt.
Jack Gibson of Akron, Ohio,
former football star at A&T
College, Greensboro, who was
drowned on Saturday while
swimming at a recreation park
near Fori Bragg. An officer with
the 504th Airborne Infantry
Regiment. Lt. Gibson was com
missioned in the Army under
the college’s ROTO program
; upon his graduation in 1952, i
- --
DR. .? A. BOYER
Boyer Named
College Head
Dr James A. Boyer who was
ho;n mi the campus of Saint An
;re- :- College, and whose fam
ily ha- been connected with the
: institution so: many .years, was
elec ten p "esident of the school on
; July 15 by the college board of
trustees.
He succeeds Dr. Harold L. Trigg
who resigned last January. Since
Dr. Trigg's retgrnation, Dr. Boyer,
dean of the college, has served as
acting president.
Saint Augustine's new pres
ident is a B.A. graduate of
Morehouse College, holds a
master’s degree from Atlanta
University, and earned bis
doctor of education degree
from, the University of Mich
igan. He is a member of the
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity,
;t 3 And degree Mason and a
Shriller.
Dr. Boyer is the son of the late
. Dean and Mrs. Charles H. Boyer,
who for many years served as
dean of Saint Augustine's College
and who served the cohege for,
more than 40 year:-;.
He became a member of Saint!
Augustine's faculty in 1934. serv
ing in the English Department, I
and in 1949 was elected dean of
the college a position he has held:
! since that time. He attended the;
j fourth and fifth grades in the city!
; schoooLs of Raleigh and gradual.-!
jed from the Junior College de
partment, of Saint Augustine's
ICONTNt'ED ON PAGE Sis
signing as president.
Sneaking at nearby Harrington j:
; Airport Bowles explained: “I j
j don’t, fee] like helping people whoj
| don’t, try to help themselves.” He 1
indicated that he would return to
I his home in Florida .
I Statesville Cagy
; STATESVILLE Although it;
was generally assumed that whenj
j land was acquired for a new!
| $71,5000 public school to be 10-|,
I eateri on Race Street at. the edge!
I of the Negro district, that it would •
( be for Negro pupils, the city ,
schoool board, in a statement Sa t- i
i! urday said that it was not desig-J
jnating whether school buildings;
;; shall be for Negro or white use. 1
The board did not say when ac-,
tual construction would begin, but.'
• j
I Segregation On Buses Is \
Illegal , Court Declares \
[| RICHMOND, Va.—ln a unani- i
!; mous opinion handed down here j j
j; Thursday, the U. 8. Fourth Cir- j i
I; cult Court of Appeals ordered an;;
] end to the practice of segrega- j i
! ti.cn on city buses.
Pointing out the recent U. S. li
Supreme Court decisions have, re-j<
pudiatod the “separate but equal” ;
doctrine, the court declared that,
such repudiation applies to pub-;:
lie transportation a? well as to' ■
l other areas and affects Iranspor-1;
| tation within a state as well as 11
across state Hues.
I The decision came in a South;;
BY HARMS W * £
I DURHAM -
! This tobacco town win- all aglow
‘Tuesday morning when daily new
! sp&pers broke a story alleged to
! have been made possible through
!an interview with R. N. Hiuris,
| only race member of the City
j Council in which he is reported
Ito have recommended a middle
j of-the-road approach to desegre
! gation.
The interview is believed to
have been made due to the
direct appeal by more than
130 rifizenv last week, that
desegregation begin at once.
.Vlr. Hatris tv <tnoted as say
ing that lie feels that the laws
of the land should be com
plied tilth, but that all of the
elements pertaining to dese
gregation should he taken in
to careful consideration. He
is, reported as saying that he
believed that many children
living in the Walltown area,
lo- Us <i m the far western
section of the city would pre
fer passing the white high
school to get to Hillside, which
is in the extreme southern
end of the city and has been
maintained, under the dual
•m, for Ncg.ro children.
Harris is reported to have made
' the following statement;
"l make this statement with tiv
full realization that if will not
meet the approval of extremists
(CONTNI'F.f) ON PAGE 111
V #4* »"»-t
Lire 1 erm
To “Dream”
Killer Here
David Rhodes 42. was sentenc
. ed to life imprisonment here Mon
day far killing a woman whom he
, ‘'dreamed'* was trying to poison
him.
Rhodes entered a pica of
guilty to first degree murder,
thus averting possible death
in the state’s gas chamber.
; The man entered the dwelling
of Miss Mildred Mack. 29. of Mark
i Street on June 3 and fatally shot j
j her. He fired two shots at the I
woman, the first load hitting her;
jin the wrist and the fatal load :
lodging in her back
A short time prior to the killing
! Rhodes had wounded another wo-j
man. He told detectives that hr'
dreamed that he was about, to be;
killed by both women.
did say that, "it is reasonable to
assume that the Supreme Court
of the United States did not mean
that all school construction should
halt to the detriment of our
schoool children.”
Right To Swim
DAYTONA BEACH. Fia. Alter
525 Negroes petitioned for a pub
lic statement on city policy re
garding use of the beach, the City
Commissioners named a three
man group to select an interracial
advisory committee to “see what
can be done about opening the
beach to Negroes.”
Sanford Committee
SANFORD—A seven-man com- j
(CONTNEED ON PAGE 11)
Carolina suit brought by Mrs. Co
ra Mae Fleming against the South
Carolina Electric and Gas Com- j
pany of Columbia, She had ap- 1
pealed from a decision of the)
Federal District Court of Eastern
South Carolina in Columbia which
dismissed the case for “lack of
jurisdiction.”
The Fourth Circuit Court said,
however: “There can be no ques- •
tion as to the jurisdiction of the
lower court,” thereupon reversing;
the District Court and sending j
the case back for further proceed- i
.tags. I
life AA
; i'Nfez.. I w
WmmN, * ■>•
API ENDS BAPiIM MEM
IN LONDON Mis. KiU-.ji S
Alston oi Raleigh, )>e-< *i< -. <
Secretary of the Viuniau's Bap
tist Home ami Foreign Mission
Convention oi Norm farolm.t,
is a delegate from the slate and
the Lott Garry Go livers Hop to it
Husband Kfe'sr Convicted;
Draws 3-5 Yr. Sentence
MRS. FI-ON NIK THOM VS
county school authorities how and
when to proceed with integration
•in the public schools.
Negro members arc W T Hor
i ton. local funeral director, and
the Rev. C. V. Flack of Cumnock.
iCONTNUED ON PACE 1»*
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mm
m. -
ON GREENSBORO BOARD
—Dr. William M. Hampton.
! former city councilman, who
has been named to succeed Dr,
David D. Jones, president of ,
Bennett College, as a member
of the Greensboro School Board.
Or. Jones tendered bis resigna
tion because of ill health and it
; was accepted “with eotntnanda
tiffin.” Although a native of En
! glewood. N. J.. the new ap- j
pointer has been a North C >r»-
j Una resident most of his life.
He took the oath of office Tues
-1 day night.
tend the World Baptist AUismi
:mv tiling held nr- London. Ei’t
’•Hid The. A Hianee winch <'rn
brace- Baptists from si! ever the
globe, go! undrew;;-, Thor*«:':.
of this v vr-l: ;uh! In evpectect tf.i
last fur Ni-ven d,ty s
M: s. Flonnie Walden Thom-.-,
resident of the New Hill section
of Waei: County. v.ho faced a
charge of of killing her husband.
La'ia, j’iiorn during May or
this year. heard Judge Fountain,
presiding over the July term of
Wake County Superior Court, in
tone the words, "You are hereby
assigned to the Woman - :- Divisr’v
■of the North Carolina Prison for
a term of three to five years"
here Wednesday morning, altei
she had been found guilty of man
: slaughter, by a jury on Tuesday
The defendant, through her at
torney. served notice of appeal U
the State Supreme Court. Aftei
hearing the sent oner, the medium
built, woman showed no signs oi
; emotion and after the appeal war
1 noted took her seat in the court
room alone -trie her aged father
June Walden.
The rase went to the fury,
composed of nine men and
three women, shortly before
the noon recess on Tuesday
The jury is said to have taken
man* ballots. The first being
on whether she was guilty of
second degree murder. There
is reported to have been no
chance for conviction on that,
charge and it took a long
time to determine that she
was guilty of manslaughter.
The jury came hack to the
court room, on one occasion,
to have point cleared up by
the court.
I The testimony revealed that the
woman had born out with hei
! husband, accompanied by her chil
dren on the night of the shoot
tCONTNUEI) ON PAGE 111
One Killed, Two Hurt
LtJMBiSRTON —A man was kill
ed and two women were seriously :
injured when the automobile in
which they were oaasengers went, i
out, of control on a curve and;
j overturned twice here Sunday
; evening.
Dead is Albert Steve Detane. 36.
, of Socitey Hill, 8. C., who died in
■ Robeson Memorial Hospital about,
12:46 a m on Monday, oi a fract
ured skull and chest injuries.
Reported in “fair” condition at
the same hospital were Miss Re-i
beccsi, Edwards with internal in- j -
| juries and Miss Ethel Lee Sim- i
toons with fractures of the pel-,.
t vis and right, leg Both live on
'Route i, at OiTum.
State Patrollman K. K Daniels
The luefcj car tart w-rfcr tea*
the one hearing the tag num
ber 'K if the owner of
Vi it an took It to Bunn's Esso
her vice corner t,a harms anfi j
Blood worth Streets, ~ ere tn I
i Raleigh. he re« cived a tree
! grease job.
This wiil happen every week,
j IVatch for your tag number, it
| it fellows the asterisk. you will
j C«‘i the grease job. The hub
i her will i„ tat;'"', from any car
J hearing a. N (:, license,
| The ifumitrfy t)i? \s arr.
! E•• :j 11 48; X-• *3 J ; <t, zs*A: W-
I 51858; i sni tmi X. 51859
Rakish attorney Fred J Car*
j nage, t lf* lone race member of
i the local. School heard, allegedly
j disagreed lav week with other
; race- leaders wbu are theatening
c'evi, a<-',!cn ;.o bring nI., nt coro
ie. .ncr vhh tb, U. s. Supreme
Courtde-segregation edict,
R-e-contiy the Raleigh School
Dotitd i'-ovied a stiiteracut of pol
! it: wring mat children v;H re
ffl-iin tn .segregated schools dur
: in« the coming year. 'Three local
N gro ljuup? dcv.tihed t:.-c pol
: icy as "de-ifoerai.; defiance" of the
nation’s Inghesr- tribunal
Cauugf; is reported to havr
sau.i that Ik- docs not inter
pret the board's policy "as not
showing rood faith." He said
that he was speaking for him
self and not f«r the Raleigh
School Board. “Positive ac
tion !-• planned for the 1056-
5< sc.h<tool >w?. he added
Critic;,-in? trie board’s policy
’..i- the R,-v. G. A Fisher of the
Rakish CiU-Muy;’ Association. Dr,
L. 'Verne of tiic Raleigh
. Branch m the NAACR and the
Di-v. r. c. It rnniv of the Halcigh
MianUsrtal Ajuamw
Rev. Fi; her rn oi« it clear That,
he ovviTi:;--.--inn n! . , ‘'immediate
'coirn, action" to bring a start, to
j Or The RALEIGH SCENE j
Auc: ei.-nmmrn.-ns: on how pim
t■ ; walk down S. Salisbury Street,
; ::r other day end behold the smil
ffls but perspiring face of mail
caret; i S. O. Turner on an over
d camera shot. This refresh
es photo is one in the Raleisrh
Com'::, o.ibk "Prim of the
Month" _ dirplavs. It might give
• , you a lift to peep at it,
a One of Role;oh's radio news,
i. commentator., whose zeal for race
t baiiing is equaled perhaps only
s. bv that of his predecessor, said.
,f -chile giving the rampaging Dr
- I. Beverly Lake a pat on the back
v the other day, that Dr. Lake
a “.stood she U. S. Supreme Court
< or; its head.’' He was referring of
course : o the lost cause Dr
r Lake was pleading before that.
.. Court last Spring when this and
oi.be: southern states were making
.. a futile effort to chair.'.- the
o Court's mind Mayb, Dr. Late did
r stand the court on its head when
n: he told it that integral ion in the
if public schools could never be ac
si compbshed in this state. After
1 the Supreme c art’s htstci ic
r. • unanimous decision that segrega
tion in the public schools was un
, constitutional, therefore contrary
; t.o law. it must have made that
! Court quite dizzy to have a high
ranking -date law enforcement of
fice! ted ft. that hi: state did not
intend to comply with law When
it. rot back on if feet and had
recovered somewhat from the Jolt
; given it by Dr. Lake, the Court
directed Dr Lake, et al. to “make
a prompt and reasonable start to
ward full compliance with the
May 1954 ruling” It may be
that, the trouble with ail these
; unhappy dissidents is that they
; are jus! learning that Dr, Lake
lost bis case before the U 8. Su
r preme Court
■r * * * *
When was your last visit, to Joe
- Lotus Park? Maybe you have nev
iCONTNUEI) ON PAGE 111
said that Delane and the two wo
men were passengers in a car dri
ven by Willie Mae Harrington of
Orrum. Route 1 when it went out
of control on a rural road south
of Fairmont.
WOMAN DROWNS
WILSON— Miss Thelma Reid.
23, seeking relief from the 96-de
gree heat, was drowned late Sun
day afternoon in a swollen stream
oi water where she was wading
near the Atlantic Coast Line
railroad track here.
Several men and women who
were with her told the sheriff
that Miss Reid coind not swim.