■Stciie Scitiii Heal mcks Sep-. ition Issue
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WOODROW IN.IURLI)—This is Use scene that a C\HOU Ni A V
photo man found when he arrived at St. \ane-- Hospital Monday
ni'iht, Alexander Barnes CAROLINIAN representative, is shown as
he interviewed Woodrow Montague, 41-year-old Raleigh figure, who
was rushed to the hospital after having been struck at the intersec
tion of South and McDowell streets at 6:30 P.AI. Woodrow does not
seem to he in much pain, as shown, and talked freely about the ac
cident. When asked if he had his drums, he readily replied that he
left them at home, A medical examination showed that his injuries
were slight. STAFF PHOTO BA Cl I AS. H. JONES.
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OK VO \\ VTCHMAN PAY
COSTS
Robert S. Ev.-uis. 47, explained l
In City Court. Judge Albert Doub ■
■ art weekend that lie was a watch
man for Bishop C. M. Grace and
that was why he wax carryingi
a gun. The man had been charg
ed »ith impersonating ars officer.
-Judgement in his case was de
ferred on payment of court costs
A Raleigh police officer told the.
judge that Evans did not weat a
ui.iiovm but wore, an officer’s
badge and earned a pistol and
a- fin •-blight. 'I help keep order
for Daddy Grace,” Evans declar
ed,
NEW DRAMATICS DIRECTOR
Carl W. Smith, 1310 Oak
wood Avenue, a 1054 graduate
r>f Saint AugutsineV College.
I was recently named director
of dramatics for the college
by President James A. Boyer
Smith, who is a iso an instruc
tor in English and secretary
iCONTIM’M) ON PAGE 2)
NAA CP In
Suit Asking
$120,000
SUMTER, S. C.--.A suit, asking,
$120,000 of a dozen local Negro;
leaders was filed here Saturday
bv Shepard K Nash local school
board attorney
The defendants, members
of the executive committee of
the Sumter chapter of the NA
AIT, are charged with sign
ing a statement that “falsely
mi maliciously caused So be
published with intent to in
hire (he reputation of the
plaintiff as an attorney.
Nash alleges the NA.ACP char
ges he induced Roland E N
Blanding to make “False and un
true assertions with the motive
of serving the Citizens' Commit
tee.”
Blanding: said that hr signed
a statement that did not ask in
tegration in the public schools but
suggested that, leaders of both
races talk the issue over
WHAT’S HAPPENING ON THE
Desegregation Front
X. C (h'Hngc Okeys
Jim Crow Schools
GOLDSBORO Endorseesn: oi
the stand of Gov. Hodges on pub- ‘
lie school segregation was given
by the 27th annual convention i
oi the North Carolina State;
Grange in session hire Thurs- ;
day.
The delegates adopted a reso-;
lution commending the governor
and the legislature for "leader-j
ship in matters pertaining to pub- i
principal speaker at -the dedica-.
Stnneviile, chairman of the edu-i
cation omninit,fee. explained thatj
the resolution is an endorsementi
of the governor's stand on volun- :
tary attendance of segregated
schools.
State PTA Wants
Sc par ate Sc h ools
ELKIN—Mrs. Joint W. Crr.r • j
ford, of Raleigh, president of the j
frtate PTA organisation, told some';
WIFE FATALLY
SHOT HUSBAND
GIVES SELF OP
GREENSBORO FGlny.-m: a
three-hour chase through South
east Greensboro, in which blood
hounds were used. Jaou * E
Haineswort!;. 34 of 280 G-B IP
band Street sun<ndered qtn •
Saturday morning t.o police woo
“.ad sought- him in the fatal shoot
ing of his wife. Rosa. 31.
Mrs Ho hiesyeorth died of ;<
single shot through the chert
from a .32 caliber revolver fid
to wins an argument between
ihe two about riavhnak. p
tree said. Hainosworth. the of
ficers saici, (led the house and
sheriffs deputies ami high
way patrolmen were .Sened
to join in the hunt. Blood
hounds were brought from a
nearby prison camp.
When officers corncie.l Haines
worth in s hnuiT on Pear Street
around ID am., he gave them no
trouble and, according to police,
banded ' hem the pistol from
which me fatal shot wax fired.
He is bring held without bond
or, a choree of minder
Bi-Racia! Group Hears
Reformation Address
A Reformation Service held!
i here Sunday night at Memorial
■ Auditorium and sponsored by t he. i
| Interdenominational Ministerial
• Alliaricce an the MMinisters A:~ <
sociation. Negro and white group:; (
i respectively, heard a stirring ad- i :
| dress by Dr, John Southerland
! Donnell, pastor of the Fifth Ave- i
| nue Presbyterian Church. New ;
York City.
sons were told that the birth
of Protestantism 1.18 years ago
paved the way for human (if
mor racy and freedom.
i Dr. Betmell told his interracial .
i audience that Martin Luther's re- ■
. volt acainst Roman Catholic the-',
ologv made every man a priest and
figured prominently m changing
• the structure of European poll- ‘
I tics.
He warned that the added re
ligious freedoms obtained through
Luther's revolt also brought more
responsibilities and that every;
i American should ask himself i
j what he was doing to preserve,
j for his children's children the 1
j liberties; now enjoyed
| 250 parents and teachers from 10
; counties, ere Thursday that the l
; Supieme Court decision on pub-,
lie school segregation does not,
alter the objectives of t.ne organ!-1
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‘Not Fighting Cops Over St. Agnes:’ Poole
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Homecoming Aftermath:
Reports Os
Police
Hospital Ad m int sfcr a tor Go rd on
Poole r.old the CAROLINIAN
Tuesday there is no fight- going
on between -hiiti and the local
police over the situation at St..
Aimes Hospital.
Referring In an article in
a local daily. Mr Poole said
Ihe paper seems to think
the police and S are having
an argument, but that is not
true. There is no argument.”
Die article had mentioned sev
eral police report:, whieh e.iarved
that sc\ ;j police patients had
not obtained treatment at the
horpcai because the: i were no
doctor;: <y, duty and that tne staff
is madedv. :t v
Mr. Punic d;r; uteri this and said
it was a m.'iVer of jv.cenrc and
waiting for medical men to be
come available. H> admitted
there an no internes at St Ames,
but said there ere two resident
niiys,cians, along with 14 colored
doctors and 64 while doctors who
have hospital privileges there.
Blasts ‘Free-Loaders'
Mr. Poole fired a blast in de
fense of the St. Agnes program
by criticizing the strain placed
on St. 'Af n facilit les fa? people
who seek free treatments.
UONTIM FD ON PAGE 2!
The taftiislcr said that, on. Oct.
hi. 1517, when a German monk
named Luther nailed his “95
Thesis" :•> the door of the Castle
Church m Wittenberg the Roman
Church already had Overstepped
its rights.
“The Reformation was appeal
to God.” said the speaker. He
added that Luther didn't, think
the Grace of God could be chan
nelled between man and his
Maker through officialdom.
The Rev William A. Perry of
the Alliance, told the CAROLIN
IAN that ho thought the service
“was verv good, very timely and
is a prelude to something great
..-fry, mp.h.
• -m——; HfWW WHMI .
SHAW I Ari’LTV MEMBERS .
HONORED Members of the '
Shaw University f»»:uUv who
The Carolinian
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VOLUME I S
-• Jli
C -c *jflf
C. F. Carroll;
“flodgef !
Segregation
Tar Media's top man in public >
education this week declined to
become involved in the current
“hot issue" of integration or seg
regation of public schools in this j ;
WHC !
Dr. t bar Us F. Carroll, State 1
Superintendent of Public In- 1
CONTIMTTI ON PAGE 21
Must Uphold Constitution,
N. C. Bar Association Told
GREENSBORO-
Some 300 members and visitors i
'tending a meeting of the North j
Carolina Bar Association here Fri-'
! day, heard a young Greensboro!
1 attorney declare that it is the
have served the school for twen- j
tj years or more were Honored j
Friday, October 27. at a rerep.
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RALEIGH, N. C.
IKE'S MEDICAL STAFF — it was a bis li.if at I ■ ~ Arm.
hospital in Denver, Colo, recently when President l «*r me "d
for the first photos since he. was stricken with a heart attack in 'ate
September “Posing" in a wheelchair, ihe s-h/rt «--ee u rrmtnrC;! that
his medical staff get in the picture. Among those who h:n :pitied him
back to health is Sgt. Joseph B, Vaughn isecond frotn right;. hi- on
slant companion. tNewspress Photoi
Student Journalists End
Annual Confab At Ralsigii
The North Carolina High School
Press Association convened on the]
campus of Saint Augustine's Col-1
lege Friday. October 28 A total i
of 180 delegates arid advisors rep-;
resenting thirty high schools from I
throughout the state attended the j
local school boards “to proceed)
with a!! deliberate -rpced to es
tablish non-segregated schools." i
dut y of the members to advist? •
ILONTIM ED ON PAGE 2)
Uoo giver by President and Mrs.
W. H., Slrassner. From left to
rijht »r« Dr. Sties, wer, Harry
WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1955
conference, which was held m ihe
Peniek Hall of Science
Speakers toi the meeting and
their toiues of discussion wm<• as
follows. Ur. W. H Watson, prin
cipal .1 W. Ligon High School,
Raleigh, “How To Improve Ad
ministration - Teacher - Student
Writer Relationship". A. J Tur
ner. Raich-h. “How An Advisor of
High School Newspapers Faces
Integration''. Miss Ethel Lewis,
Darden High School, Wilson
"How Student Writers Face Inte
gration”: iv-cJ Mrs. Eva Sf.ev.Tir!,
William Pi nn High School, HUM
Pom:. “Hi m Yearbook :7:.;fi; Ftee
Problems of Integration."
Carl DeVanc of Shaw Univer
sity spoke on the g.eni rol theme
(CONTINUED ON PAGE :H
(iil-Smyttif 1.. SI Cook j r
| Lytle. Its- N H Harris a.ui Dr.
| F, y Payne.
Halifax Man
Succumbs In
Freak Wreck
LKWISBURG, w. V;i William
Bayard Davis. 52 pniemal of
the Halifax County Induing:
School. Weldon, N r . joy s hc
l>a;,i 16 years, was killed instantly
near here Sunday niorninju whpn i
his ear skidded or. an ic;, high-,
wav and plunged down an em
bank merit
Davis, who v i< retiirnii!."
from the \\ e-t Virginia snip
f iilk'O l hoivioeominr itani*
Institute, v\ . \ a., was accom
panied by Airs. Carrie Win
ter- a teacher al tb. Weldon
Si hoot, whose da tighter was
crowned Miss West Virginia
'' ‘ ■ *(' , an utm.eni, i
, m Ml.
-v s .i ; *ii,. e.i.
' Mrs G. i’C Butte-rficid of \V:i
■-•on. M; L’avi." sister, (nig m-.c
■ --iROLINIAN this wwk that her
brother was thrown f-om Uu
anci his head hit a rock, causirr
nst&nt death.
Davis, a native of Wilson,
attended Livingstone College!
Salisbury, where tie received
Si's A B degree and Boston
1 diversity. Boston. Mass.,
where be was awarded (be
H. degree He was mem
ber of Phi Beta Sigm.i fu.
trsrofty.
•'unorai services were conduef
•;;) f hur-das of this week from
• 'j' 1 ' Un st. Baptist Church. Wilson,
imei ment will be held at the
heH Haven Cemetery.
Surviving are his wife. Mrs.
'Uric Ingram Davis: one son
William Bayard Davis. Jr.: two
. emsh;eis Dianna Marie Davis
■ :,nr! 9 loria ~f,an lUvis. all of Wil
nn. four sabers, Mrs. D. L. Bland
Sanford: Mrs Bertha Bullock
Enfield Mrs. Ruth Potter WiL
* ' sor! end Mrs. Addie Butierfield
Wilson
$50,000 To
NAA CP’s
Fight Fund
NEW YORK--A $50,000 grant
cc made to the NAA CP Legal
> f I I t’l f n A L A ! inn f y ... ; 9.1
«h and Educational Fund
■nr by the Fund for the Rrpub
l)f' Thurgood Mar,hall, Direr ter-
i r ’iiuir-i'! of l,rtrs! Defense an
nounced last week.
The grant is the firs* marie
to the NAACP Legal Defense
j Fund by the Fund for the Re
roibb. and is the largest given
*<■ »t by any fund since the
•Way 17, 1954 l : . S, Supreme
(on it decision proclaiming
segregation in public schools
a violation of the Federal Con
| slitution,
The Fund for the Republic Is
I ar. independent. corporation
J founded in 1952 to promote the
j fI'ONTJNTf'Ii ON PAGE 2)
i Raleigh Sigmas Endorse
Ruling, Back Rev. Fisher
A Raleigh chapter of a national
greek letter fraternity has gone j
on record approving desegrega-;
tion in the public schools as ai
step inwards securing total tnte-j
gration m community life The:
opinion vas voiced during a regu- i
las meeting of Eta Sigma Chap
ter of Phi ijetn Sigma Fraternity.)
Inc., recently at Mae residence of.
j Dr. and Mrs. N. L. Ferry. 3. Per
son Street.
The group, composed of
| some thirty piofewiional men,
cited the Rev. George A. Fish
; cr, rector of St. Ambrose Epis
copal Church, for his leader- {
ship a»d effect i» prrwtafing
ebif light-, ami nominated i
I him far Kpocfal recognition hy
the i; !tonal social action j
NUMBER *
BV ROBERT G. SHEPARD
| Tt !:- ;i3io Kcihcr th * >
’ -ore Dr s F D;.nc:m w confine
; k of im'ding o;jf. wiiai is
scholasi left Uy vvronc. v* uh o?: ?•
| £T* o < to ,'i profound a.nrj
I searching study of mu second --’v
i out *« *:i Hmmar ana h.ign
•schoola, he would come to i ho f ■■
od cone?us*on that in the -vr'-n
--; ]V|pp ro ‘O'rond u’v" ' v ,,' ■' ' '
| den? iood of much nf no- ;n.- 4 .. V-.
■ 1 i.on ihe s houi.d i o c ejv *- . p lf *
|Oe /earners .re loaded dV.wr wro
• • fxtra-rurm-ular duties and artr.-j.
I !ii s vv »!h fund raising taking a!-
s «m*‘ *»me i«o. i.mc before
(hr r<.>m*ral Irrhioatjonal Board
announced that exhaustive
/('Ms made for /hr purpose of
finding the ranipjraHve inf-i
--legonce of Negro fnd white
iotiegp Mudritt? in (hr sooth
had revealed the ttgly faitf
sh4 > only a bool tier- petre-m „l
n;e \cg ro .fudrtih equaled
the white students in j< f.;*~r. ..
m< '"» ijsiofient. Odds ~,<•) Knd*
hdff pointed out the alarming
intellectual disparity between
!i3 »' Negro and white high
sel!,»>l students taking the
■ '»r Cadet test given to appii.
e.s applying ii i j enlistment
ip the Air Core.*, If was point
r-fi out at that time thai gener
ai 1.(1, ir-i s proved that the
Negro applicants were nos
defiefent sn ability to iearn
she trouble lav in the fart <(-, vs
the qua Htv of insf ruction rr.
reived I . them was interior
in that received In ih f while
st intents
. A leading 10-: c , Negro ‘d UCs V’r
bt’Canjig very .angry when this fact.
■covtam i n on r vc.F ;t
| DURHAM - Petitions /signed hr
more than 350 Duke University
• student," protest-in? that schools
ban on students from N C Col*
h'-ge attending prrformanc.es of
i dramatic productions at, biike
: h;ur hc’pn snhnsif i cvHl fr» rv*- xji „ „
nave been submitted to Dr. Hoibs
j Edens, president
Student leaders »f V <J,
College ha ve invited Duke *t#»
dents to their production!, and
<be desire to return the in
vital ion was expressed by the
students but denied b.v Dr.
Edens who reiterated a stand
ing trustee policy forbidding
I “integration"’ at Duke,
i Miss Ann Robertson, n. junior
] psychology major from Richmond
| Va„ one of the sponsors of the
| petitions, said . “We are not asking
! integrated audiences, only that,
i one section at Page Auditorium
1 be reserved for the NCC students ’’
Dr Frier.- was nut, of town and
1 unavailable for comment.
commission of the fraternity.
The Rev. Air. Fisher is presi
dent of the Raleigh Citizens’
Association, and has been in
the forefront as a civic and
religious leader. He organised
(he North Carolina Commit
tee on Negro Affairs, and hu
been a member of the NAACP
since 191?.
Dr. w. L Greene, executive sec
retary of the N c Teachers’ As
sociation, is president of the chap
ter. Other officers are. A. J, Tur
ner, vice president; John D. Har
ris, recording secretary; Attorney
F. J. Carnage, treasurer; the Rev.
Oil: L Hairston, corresponding
secretary; the Rev O. L Sherrill,
chaplain and Di L. U. McCauley,
program cbeirmnn.
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