DFSFSDF
i Th<- Infkif ear last v>eel* waf
j ihf one bearing lb* tag: now
( V-r ‘X 46862 If the owner of
I that tar took If to Oumi's fcs: ■■
! jtct-vicf. riiiri f 6ab*n »s and
Bhiotlv orth otreeti- h.e rt* tf>
Raleigh, ha rere!v«d * (ter
' grs3.se job.
The will happen every '<erk !
! Watch foe your lag number. If |
j it fellows the asterisk you will I
' *■*«, the grt sse job. The ruitrt |
j i-ei tvill he taken from any car j
| be ••ring a N. ('. license.
the numbers this week are !
| D-M24; 'X 5715; X '(3l4b, X- i
| 46862: X-'AftSh: and R 5314'! j
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I’rapped By Flames:
R-Jeigb I v 3 t* fSehocTs. l.ic a
*:c»»i-sif>ck corpe to < r.’''
O; \ C' : .t*MJt '■< '
o' si! kinds." was *»s..iod a ch.,-
tor i v the off- t t.f Nenn (..>••
line ; Secret try of Slate Thao.
F: -e this »<. •
Attorney Vaughan " Winbnrue
of the three incorporators.
- A today the 4: a nas not I ■-.. 2
to say "at this time'' about pie.... >
or purposes of the organ:? vt:
C:hc-t incorporators were lilted
William Noble Sterling and
•Jo'-n H Andersen. Starling is an
trsur3r.ee agent. Anderson was
as a University of No:in
student.
Wtribornr, who Is the son of
{ burrp.ir> Stanley Winborne
of the state t'tilitirs < ommift
‘ion. vw idr-nthied nv star,
tine as 'hr ''.founder” of the
sroup.
A : .t A My. Gen. 1 Beverly Lags
has suggested his pe :sor -i !
ophnjor 'o3’ citizens >n Tar Heel
romntunuies should charter non
•look corporation* to operate pn
schools in order to preserve
jifgntton < f white and Negro
pupil*.
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NC Pythians Complete Plans
For Twin City Meet, Aug. 15
State News
-w-
Brief
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DIES FROM PISTOL WOI VOS
ASHEVILLE l5-year-old Phil
hr I) Ledford of Wilmington,
Del., died early Sunday as a re
sult of a pistol wound inflicted
by Robert. Lee Conner, 24. Re
cording to n Buncombe County
Coroner’* jury The jury recom
mended that Conner ne held for
n grand jury which will sit Aug
22 H« ;k now being held without
bond in t.he Buncombe county
is; It is alleged that young Led
ford. a white youth, became in
volved in an argument with Con
ner in a Negro neighborhood. !
Conner, according to testimony,
had told Ledford and another ,
white companion that they “had
better leave here: you are in the
wrong territory,"
MCKDER BEING PROBED
' LlNTON—Ntmpson t'oun-
Sheriff Coleman Carter
l-rt week investigated the
murder of Roosevelt Vann 23
of Clinton, who was reported
>' fatally wounded by his
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Hit By Lightning,
She lives To Tell It !
SANFORD Shirley Buie,
20. was recovering at Lee Hus- i
Pit* I tliis week after having j
been knocked unconscious by »
holt of lightning while priming
tobacco near Broadway dur- j
in? an electrical storm here. |
Saturday.
The same bolt which bit her j
killed * mule 4-hat standing
near her. The .voting woman
was not burned
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JAY ALLEN DAVIS
. held tor murrirr
m HELP IN
WIFE’S DEATH
DURHAM Gavford C: i. r
33 of 330 1 Enter price Sti'-v v; -
arrested early Sh tarda' and
charged with shooting has wife.
Marjorie. 36 in the hip.
Duke Hospital officials stud t-hat
the wound did not. appeal to oe
serious. The shooting .s said to
have followed an nrgumer t. be
tween the couple Carton was ar
rested about 30 minutes after the
shooting at. the bonae of friend,
on Lincoln Avenue.
BY .! B HARKEN
WINSTON-SALEM The gen
eral committee on arrange
beaded by W. W. Hoover of Hi. h
Point, is rapidly completing platu
for the entertainment of >
hundred members and friends of
the Supreme Lodge Knight' of
Pythias arid Council of the Court'
of Calanthe which will meet here
August 15-13. The North Carclir; a
Jurisdiction of Pythianism headed
by Sir John Alexander Mebane
• Grand Chancellor. Tarboi o. anc
Mrs. Clara Williams Nesbit. Grand
Worthy Matron of the Court of
Calanthe, will be hosts.
SOTH ANNIVERSARY
Co-incident v, :th the Supreme
Lodge meeting Sir R. A. Hester of
Dallas. Texas. Supreme Chancel-
I lor, will be the 50th anniversary
meeting of the North Carolina
Jurisdiction of Pythians and
Calanthe. The state lodge was or
ganized here In 1305. The Nonn
State K of P. will meet in ex
Wilkins Speaks Friday
At Churchmen’s Meet
POY WILKINS
GASTONIA .-. IOC,:! police sav
1 that Jay Allen Davis. IT. arrest
ed Tuesday morning, has confess
! ed that he sta.tnr.led Mrs. Othelia
Reid W c • TO to death here i; at
week, clearing up the tnysterv
1 which had baffled them since her
j body was found early Tuesday.
Mi-. G’ice's boor was found
propped ay•:'.'..-a the hacy steps of
’ the John Dulin n sidenco on Ran
-sin Avenue Tire woman, former
resident of Loa ell. had come here
tor a vacation last Sa tut day and
attended a dance at the Costner
; Building Monday night.
Tt.lt: that Davis was seen .leav
ihf: the fiance about 12:3-0 a.in.,
i few mi-.u’i-s ,if‘.er the woman
had left police sought hint tor
oucstiormp. At 1 he domed
any conmtetion with the crime,
saving that he was drunk and
couldn’t remember very much.
VJ.Mirx KILLING
After being questioned all day,
Allen, police say broke down
around 5 pm. or, Tuesday and
idnutted that he killed her. He
said ' he add hi: hand over
tier mouth for 15 or 20 minutes
until she went limp. A local phy
-ician who performed the autopsy,
-as: that .Vlrs Grice definitely
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tra-ordinary session at the same
time of the Suprem. Lodge.
Arno n g other prominent
Pytbjans expected here wtt!
be Dr George D. Homing of
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SEEK SLAYER OF
MOTHERIN-LAW
GREENVILLE -- After finding
his 1946 model car hidden in a
wooded path in the Aydyn area,
Eestern Carolina police this week
redoubled their search for Henry
Lee Darden, sought for the murd
er of his mother-in-law, Mrs.
Georgia Williams. Sunday.
Mrs. Williams was lulled by a
.'-hot-gun blast st her home six
miles eaf.'t of Grifton. The blast
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By J, h. HARKEN
| BED ALIA •- The annual two-.
! day Retreat of Presbyterian Men,
of t.he presbyteries of Yadkin.
Catawba, Cape Fear and South
ern Virginia is meeting at Palmer
j Memorial Institute.
Principal guest speaker for
j the opening meeting on In
i' day evening. August fi. will J
be Roy Wilkins, successor to
| the (ate Walter While as
| head of the NA.AOP. Preened- i
| ing Wilkins’ address wUI be a
panel discussion: “The Christ
ian Responsibility in the. j
Challenge of Desegregation.”
Discussant!-, will be Dr. Ralph
; D. W< lions. Dr. J. Neal Hugbleyc
;W. E. Debnam Dr. A o. Steele,
hand A tty. Fred J. Carnage, serv
|ing a- moderator.
: Registration opens at 10 AM
. Friday and trie Retreat, closes at.
1, 8 PM. Saturday.
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• ’Rmwai’iTirm tnis"*!! taw m*r:i «teo-..'.»y sa - w,-.- .v^iaHcs..: resn Tttr 1 -- me synffaagwttgr^xsc'tPvsra^ny-wMy , Kgaie-~- .-vr^n-ia:
SPECIAL ISSUE IS PUNNED
Juvenile Delinquency is one of the most critical problems
. the. country today.
There are no reliable figures available to show exactly the
xtent and cost of child crime in the nation, since most states
in not make pul.he the no me? and dimes of law violators
under ci rtam ages, but law enforcement bodies estimate that
|n> Delinquency is our most expensive problem. This
true not only occuuss of the actual loss in property and
mat rials and the cost of institutionalization, but primarily.
■ tiie misery, squalor and heartache of the mdundua) and
the onsequent loss, of useful and worthwhile future .tizen:;
to th« community and to society.
In tin effort to curb and minimi*' juvenilf DeTinuuenct
n Wake County, next week's issue ■■■■!. The CAROLINIAN
will b devoted largely to the peobiem of child . rime in tl.-
county.
Leaders of the county—outslai : c • r -he-t .
professions will inaugutate a scru y of murks giving iit< u
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BENNIE T. PERRY
, . . stung to death
Franklin Man
Stung To Death
BV NAK< 4SNIK UAKHIM
LOUbBURG - Benn p Thomas
Perry, a saw mill worker, was
stung to death by yellow.iackets
last Thursday
Mr Perry, who at ti e time, whs
working fur G T CuiL n. on,-"
woods owned by J. C Matthews,
near the Louisburg Airport, got
into a yellow-jacket n. 'U Tuesday.
These stings, to which he was
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HOMEWARD BOUND A ten* of “the best Otani soldier®.'' (see
Sim) Who JH.ee, also members of the 16th Infantry Regiment, First
intantry Division, die up the gangplank to board the CSNS Upshur in
Brwnerbnven, Germany The ship brought them to the Coded »»»*•*
the first contingent of the First Division under Operation
seoive, t be Army's now rotation h'a-O Two more unite follow the- sum
mer nnd like the first, will exehatups stations with the Kith Infantry
Division. at Fort Riley, Ram. tNewspres* Photo)
finv ii fjces
Cfpr cHr.ppF
RV ( tV BARBER. TR
G ANTONI A- A capital r..:.
nf burglai-y has been filed ■ i.uosr
a 14-yi .ir-p'ti i. ■■ who Hfuciltrc
Ito pf-iu'c that be broke ji t■. s
v. :i w.irr.en :s whu® • ■. ; y
ri'Sht.
If found cu lly. ih.< boy cmj rt
be sen tent ■ J to the g a:-. cha.,,:>< :
Tht youth. Tart., s Brown of the
King's Mountain Highway.
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s-n-n-rwi , .«*
Trunk (itir^les,
Man Arrested
BURLINGTON—After fruit
lessly si-arch ing the home of
Henr.v S. Smith, 48. on Old
Alamance Road, one of the of •
fleers moved a toot, looker. II
gurgled.
Smith said that he had mst
(he key and couldn't open tin
locker, officers placed him
and the locker in a polite car
and went to a local locksmith.
Inside the locker, they found
two half-gallon jars of white
whiskey, so Smith was charged
with illegal possession. Smith
said that his sister had been
using the locker at Black
Mountain arid that the liquor
must have come from there.
4 Mt i Meet
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BAM LET Fo u
woman met their <it Tn lure
Lundy v when tnt.ii -r ; .■:■.-•.: ■;
a curve, overturued v- ;» ,
. and burst into flat s- ; . -
Highway 74 about
cast of here
The; dead. . . of H
i'ki'titled >.
HIAiVATHA llivis
HtLi.n: BtiGfi.AN
mviy: gam •<
4AMES STICVUN -ON <• ,
MISS SARAH .it;;., s 4 /«,
i-’ohr.y .■. •.rrU'i, j; ;. j,he
• re *r-j-p.- d hi iht: v> :
;•( caught f<rc and all .
horned to neal.ii
TI HN'S OVER SFVFK M Ipn
The cp r was D -velly:.'
tween Htarulek nrui ’ . . .
w hen th e <ti i v •*r. Da visat-ua c?j 11 \
i control rcandu.,/ a r-n*ve '»
car roared througli ’be f •
vard of a homo and r. —d
1 t :m* • ijr :> • * rr«»i’
rest oil i ? .' top in : he ’ ■ :e. ‘ ; -
burst- into ‘j, n;-- ;
Acflarding to Sco:: d tx ••
Deputy Sin-riff Geo:;.-. ■ ;
CONTIMTII ON fAf.i: :
What’s Happening
On Desegregation Front
(IS\PEL HILL
DELAYS
CHAPEL HILI., -
discussed the Issue of public school
de.wgrt*RfitioK. members o.r u;<
Chapel Hill school board Monday
night postponed adoption of
i official policy for Lit: comm:.:
' school year.
; The board members indicated
; that they would not set a forma!
; policy until after Gov. Hodycs
makes his policy spi eeh on in
tegration next Monday r.\: hi.
HARNETT (XH NIA
PETITION
; DUNN— A petition filed by the
llocal NAACP aski:.;: an end '
] compulsory segregation in tne
| public schools was referred to a
i .‘jpecial committee b:> the Har
nett County board of education
here Monday.
The pctition, si u o«d by w •
Ham Steele, president oi the coun
ty chapter, called on school of
Integration No Job For
Children, Says Horton
j Speaking before an audience of
| approximately' 75 per..,,-re’ why
| braved very inclement weather
! last weekend to be pie sent, she
! Rev. Isaac W, Horton, p;\ • dent <••
j the Raleigh Chaplc', NAACP, to;.-;
! his YMCA i:st< oners that to,
: ahead required the sitrv.-o/ < ■
! strong backed men and women of
| conviction and counts:*, "This >s.
j no job for children, foi boys ..no
I Kiris, tis-:-. is n<u. j pl»v iniug T:.ir
\ forces wc must combat are stropc
and deeply entrenched, but with
the help of God we w: i win be
cause we are on His m or
The Reverend Horton v - in
troduced to the audience by Mr.
Carl Devann, Director Dcd.
of Social Sciences. Shaw Univer
sity, and chairman of the Execu
tive Committee of the local NAA
CP branch
The speaker ve very ap!
precise in lus presentation and
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ho I- s.-l. /cr Scut- anct j,..nh
JU ti*?C O*' (■•■»>!{h> i \ "iitil l.
nikd buses t»» va.
d« sjdviy hi 1 r < il\t > u rot .
the t>S Latimer f»r ;a
n <t i*, ffiii'.-f. i ti<- •-tup .i -x
iiidGi jo rem h port 4? .New
><>rK Harbor Ind.iy '(l'nif-k,
day, utvipg ih* Scouts « ionr
I jjc& <q g* s”s *•-?• If I*l <#*l I 1 4r%**\T •
A t aCII vI 0 1.-4 litl v 1 . w t j
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V
HOUSTON'. Tov • m >*■ CJ-.a!
pi onorticemcht?, by if.-rr
*.•'! ••••f.andinu character l htehtifhtei
ft» miier-il convention of tie
American Teach# .A; wniim
v. nich me h< •< .<■■ T>.xa. -Souther:
■ .’nivi-rsjty. Sunday. Monday a
Tuesday.
H.iinrood Mai 'h-ill, NAACP at
; iOiTif-v. described th . two Suprcjn<
Oourt Docj ..oil- a;- jurat fie ton
<• for Democracy. I)r John Davi
i '.anted mu j;, ~
the Amentan !e ! h had . < frnr. -
pam and suffe t>: ,-vcty rn •..
Period in America's iusiory.
florals to take immediate steps
!<i reorganize the .schpois on an
integrated basis.
Meanwhile, the board pirns to!
; operate the schools on the usuai
segregated basis when the tail
WAYNE HITS SNAG
GOLDSBORO - - The Wayne
County board of coramissiohm;
w;.t: advised lasi: week by New
York bonding attorneys that there
' was no market tor 51.000.0t.0 in'
unsold bond:? of a 52 33(1,000 bond
, issue approved by the voters in
i 05*
According to attorney.-:, the
ICON TIN t 'ED ON IlGl. Hi
Durham Fair Sept. 26
DURHAM The 19th annual
Durham Count y Negro Fair will ■
oe held Sept. 26 - Oct. 1, at the
American Legion Fair Grounds.
it was announced this week.
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REV. ISAAC B HORTON
«'•« , ki»nd in. the ‘Bur City S')
iiher Fv!il'iri r;'i in the Ocennw
;h<-r Division sir piiuunt to
•iUcjhl in "Ait lux'.smpnu’nt' at
■ ■-))>■ Ai- Finve n» ••* X. r . tu g
* ’-J-! Ineiaiiei! t j > lis f- atiove
ivuit.i It-S’t tft right !>;' Meuni'
'■'■ , ! ‘!< - I'im Hluti hyivrster
li*t< j; ii, and Du-v. (artet
AH activities in tilis
■iuisjof! atv interracial
! Dr Horace. Mann Bond con*
■e chided weh the prediction that
••i ;hr ir .’ditic.n o* absolute equal! •
<•- tarianixm m: Au:u :<• i:i education
>n w.li depend upon: the extent lo
'it which it k: practiced during the
t - uming yeat- in thy dfegrcg-i-
Hon and irit . * odinn of public
!:- - ,■;;(>(,! education
!• The eor.seniion begu . on Sun
i- d: ad.’ noon wit h a Cower iri*
- i- 'in deee.-i.'.ed life members
of the yea• the. c-:-change of ho t
d greetings, ite- keynote address of
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fflS ° ENDS !
On The RALEIGH SCENE
Two local lawyers, one a Me
. gro, were arguing >< cai e irvolv
ihe custody of a t hiici. in
Donusi-ic Relation:: Court her*
laat week The i'y thei, represented
by the white iuwyi,-;. wanted to
the child to Baltimore where
he .sfiic). his son would have the.
advantage of better amt unae?-
icrated school: The niother work
ed the child to remain here and
, her Negro attorney i.r!d too court
that the schools in North Caro
lina were ! -ust sr. good as the oner
in Maryland. Whereupon the
while attorney told his Negro op
i ponent. 'T hope you will rem
ember I hn.r sirdemet-t later on '
"ep. I hope you will remember
. you said it,”
* * * *
Some parents in th« Oberlin
section ure bilking about taking
’•he "bull by the horns" by taking
!-hi ir childrens bands next Sept
ember and going with them to
• re/: •!•••)• at the Broughton ard
f iixnir!; hr h schools The Dame!'-,
101 is loci, ted on Obrrlin Road.
'■‘he Broughton school, on St
| Mary's St., i.s close by
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Overheat cl in a local Super
, Market lasi, Saturday.
"Rev. J! looked for you a! the
NAACP meeting last night, where
v. ere you?" Replied the Rev,,
"No, Bro. . I just couldn’t
"'.l around to if. Did you have a
•'.ood meeting?” “Never mind
•whether we had a good meeting
or not since, you were not inter
' ••ted enough In come.” replied
the i'Toe prii: boner. “What I
ea’ly want to tell you is that one
of these Monday mornings. I'H be
telbr.fr you I just couldn’t get
around to com:! •: to church and
giving you ray money the Sunday
bes oi “ Tun ling to a friend close
h\ the soo(i brother continued.
"I’m Ark and tired of giving my
money to a preacher who Is al
wji.vs telline me bow' I can die
■ivr‘ b- frr I wart, someone to
help me get. free now.”
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