«t#®w 4&* >»-- 0 '*<>• I if V .■ 14 I t y&» '*# "MISS ROTC ,! \T UT—At- 1 tractive MHs losif Williams, Greenwood- > (~ ■>. iunioi >I A 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 • 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»* "I j 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 ; 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.