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COURT OUTLAWS flip IM PEf I REATIOM RFKORC THE BOOS BEGAN'—Gov. Luther Hods sir- i n i hr spoke during drdi« ;Hor> exercise* held at A<\. f (•ih :• in <•««•<•!, v boro Friday, lost before students booed him for Id- niiuitlai 1 ' ri>i>.i( segregation pica and for his slurring pronunciation of the word “Ne gro.” Behind him at left is Or. F. T> Bhiford, president of live college, who later apologized in a tetter, and Ben I. Smith, superintendent of Greensboro schools, f Photo courtesy Greensboro D:iil> Vewst State s B anti sis k > Blast Segregation By STAFF CORRESPONDENT I WINSTON-SALEM — A proposal t.o the board of directors of the National Baptist Convention that May 17. 1956. be set aside as a ■ day of fasting and craving over i the segregation issue will be made ivy Dr. J A. .liickr'.n. president of that body according to an addre::? here last week. Addressing tire 88th annual ses sion of the General Baptist State • Ci> i vent ion of North Carolina at j Shiloh Baptist Church here. Dr.; Jackvh assorting that “no vio-; lory is won through bloodshed," i added: “Wr. don’t, want to change our j role. Let white be white and; clock be black. But let every man, be free. Dr. Jwckson, who was among j 11 churchmen ••vim visited Russiai rest nMy. said in reference to the; Supnine Court -, ruling: "If w«; have a Supreme Court and fail! to hear it whom will we hear?"! Hr urged hn lisfehers not to | “get bitter" about the. dekegre- j Ration issue. Ihe Chicago rninirlei told the | croup .that "any senator, con-j pressman cu government official i who teaches its citizens to dis-! respect the constitution is the; most, dangerous person in Amer-; ica.” ODDS-EN9S BA ROBERT G SHEPAUD | i' Lam.. *a~*—***mm.’ Sevoi. al weeks ogo. Gov. Hiii'uri. ] at their i• - inest. addr» -d a group ; .if Negro Uache: ■ at Shaw Un.- . versity. The governor's epe.ee h to j ::ic .v ;.s n pirn for them j to accept h\~ "voluntary svgrega* : Don’’ rl.sn The governor follow-| od up hi- plea with the usual | I'treat that nnle his wish*.*:, wore ! followed, iiir ptlbhc school.- V.U'ilUi i rkdy • ••• i All dm mg ihi- . peein | M Hott*. • v to fi!..i it very ; riiffirut to pronounce ti-.e word! NEGRO r ; ettv. There we:« ■'no or two instances when tvs pro- ] roum'i.itiou of the word had the ! distinct sound of N • Mean-j ‘a bile the teachers, whose .■» ue t hr! v.as, remained coldly sdent until j nr had finished. The slight tipple ! of applause that followed n: speech was a eouruo;;-. tveogni- i ’.on nf re-pert tfn ihe office of gove: nor .•.•ha h ic ; (-presented. ‘ The r. xt d-r. Mi He.received ; Ins answer ■ a fiat t, action of! his request In Greensboro list week, Hodges was the invited guest of the faculty and student body of .AAT College. What he I raid to his hosts may not hate | been palatable to ail of them. « ONTIM FI) ON PAGE ID What’s Happeni g On Desegregation Front Tenn. U. Plans Integration KNOXVILLE, Term. A plan for "gradual” integration of Ne- ! ernes on the undergraduate level i was adopted b,v the board of trus- : tees of the University oi Tenn essee here Friday. The plan calls lor the admin-1 sion of Negroes to the .senior class 1 beginning next fall, with the junior class to be affected the' follow in a .-.ir and ,o on until i integration ,s completed by ITS 9. i Patriots Seek Members Here Tli< Patriots of North Carolina.! recently incorporated to promote j i acial segregation, are seeking to: ret up county organizations throughout the state and seeking: membership of si each, it was ported in. Raleigh this week. ! ! He e set ted mat the N< ..ro s ; not x.sklng for r Gun. c in the . constitution, but Hi,,; it. bo • "We want." 1-c said “what the! i constitution promise;. u: We i dom’ v.tnt ati niuii tnan the • constitution promises. but we want; : what it. !>:cm: >!•.. . i.< added Bishop Re 11* ted Dr. P. A. Bishop of Rkh Lnu'ce.l whs reelected president to: the tcontinued on page in No Voluntary JC Declares NC Teachers SALISBURY ho;iv. 2.000 : neii'-t and ■>■. j trig 40 Western Noi Ut Caroiui.s | counties passed a resolution here 1 Friday unanimously opposing Gov I Hodges' pica lor srv.i-soi.'.m ii; I the state’s public schools. ! The resolution said in part: "We heartily endorse the feu-, Uireme Court’s decision’s of Mavi j 17. 1954. and May 31, 1955. us i j being just, courageous and timely. ■ “Some local school boards have! : accepted in good faith the respon-1 i sibility liven them by the recent. I ; legislature of Norm Catolir.a and' | are proceeding with plans to im-j | plemenl the Supreme Court's deci- ] Ision. It is our hope that these > | school boards will receive all poi -; ! rible encouragement front state! i official- as they proceed wit.ii the! , implementation of tin; court's tie-j i cvee of May Hi. 1&55. j "We recommend that local | | boards u.se tl >• experiences of i school boards in .such city a;"as • as Baltimore. the District of Co- i : lurnbia, and St l o •:- and m such! i stare- u? Delaware, West Virginia. ; I CONTINUED ON BAG I it) |Man Arrest “Flammed” LUMBEHTON Chvn-d with • slim-slamming one lawyer out of : SIOO and with attempting to do j the same thin.’ to two other ai ' torneys. James Wilson, Wi of ! Loris, S. C, was .railed hen on ' Monday. According o the -stony told po-i ; lice, Wilson called John Camp- j { bell, an attorney, from Wtiming-1 | ton on Friday but because Camp- i j bell was out, J. C Ward Jr. an j attorney in an adjoining office., | answered the telephone. Wilson : ! reportedly told him that he need- j !ed a lawyer and asked Ward’s, ; In a letter mailed over the Signature of Allison James, ex-! j ecutive secretary, the Patriots are! (.seeking to enroll ‘every white! ! man and woman m North Caro- 1 j . i .it He AD” The Carolinian 10c VOLUME 15 'Convict Recaptured In Two-State Hunt ****** ************ ****** ****** » . k araS? jpgiSw aSMSt . 'l-Vw ' -A*i ?4& yrf.Tv'"' ;V£vi,i c | r. <r IPII ■ m w A ' ,r ,v -"- 1. .I,' . - j.!'' ‘ og ‘M lot oi AT" T ; r "M ; |!| r :,s {• ’ -■" fevi T: '■ '"’'•.•S’ sM MM W 1 : ' ' vi to .r ; ' ’■■ :■ ~ -:X V'.,,. . Vv !■}■> A'""; if fev," . " I. • , .. ... ■ ! . 1.1 F Escaped Con Taken After Dig Manhunt GREHNHBQRO James Do’-; •.card.-. 26. escaped convict, want ied in c:>uf ; ciK’n wit.h a burglary • and assault at a Mmuicello store two weeks as o, surrendered with- 1 out a •aruuale at. 2:30 a.m. Fri ! day to sheriits' deputies and po-' .lie. u. a Gilmer Street, house| I where he was spending the night.: 1 Officers had learned that Ed»i \ wards, said by prison authorities * !to be dangerous, had returned |to Greensboro Thursday from : Port: mouth, Va. where he had es caped from r- hospital while be , ing treated for a bullet wound believed suffered in the M- nticeilo ’ break -in. ! At first. Edward.':, who wa-. ■ found crouching behind •<* stovi e,. :‘ii ■;.. ... in «tm sought, rating that his n one wn . Cherry but Police Corporal Fred (FONTINFED ON PAGE 11) CHARLOTTE CHIEF WILL FIOHT KLAN | CHARLOTTE—Swift action a-; ; gainst any new organization of i I)- Ku Klux Kian in this city, ; was promised -this week by Chief jot Police Frank Littlejohn. While the Klait has been inac-; Give here for the last five years,; j reports are current, that at least; J one person in the city is attempt-; ;ng to sell membership into a I new organization to be formed! j here. | Said Chief Littlejohn “I don't; i hnov about any action we could! take to forestall the organization! J ON I SNA MD ON PAGE 1i I ed Who ’ Lawyer help after informing him that, be i ween $40,000 and $50,000 was in-j voiced. When Ward, accompanied by; | his wife, got to Wilmington, he j raid Wilson told him that the | hunt sunt of money was in his: room in back of the store of a j man named Hinson but that he: ; could not get into the room until ;he paid Hinson SIOO that tie owed him. Once he got the SIOO. Wilson is reported to have (C’ONUNTI D ON PAGE 1!) lina over 21 years ol' age. In then statement, of objectives,! ; the Patriot;; argue that "segrega-1 i l ion serves the best interests of ! the white race and the best in-1 j teres t of the Negro race Ex-(Governor Fears i Schools Are Doomed j ; .NEW YORK A fear that the! : 0- 8. Supreme Court decision out- j j la wing racial segregation in pub- j 1 he schools may destroy the public : Mi ■ ysteni “in many loculi- j u< '-as expressed here hist week. by John S. Battle, former gov-! I ernor of Virginia Speaking at a meeting of in-: duslrial and business leaders, the! former governor said that there: is no method "short of dictator ship'' that can force local offi-! ; rials to provide fund- for schools; in which Hie races are mixed. 'Unless there should be a com -1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE 11) 1 \ 1 'Tt&ir&L 1— 7 ~ ■ RALEIGH, N. C WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1955 ' , 4 !* ij t % ii !| ; I .i , d ELECTED EDH OK —• The Kev. K. 15. Turner, pastor of the First • iidist Church, Lumherton. was elected editor of the BAPTIST .VVORiITER, (The Official Organ the General Baptist State Con- i vention of North Carolina. Inc.) <t the eighty-ninth session held ; hist week at the Shiloh Baptist < htireh. Winston - Salem, gr' ' Burner, ;i graduate »i Shavs Civ. ; •■prsity, where he received the . A ??. and It.!) degrees, has rnro |deted the off-eampus require mriits for the M. A. degree at Midwestern Graduate 15 i b i e School, Indianapoiis, Indiana. Jim Crow Hospital Is Nixed By Raleigh Citizens Group i BV STAFF WRITER | Raleigh Neyn; citizens, who will I ! !>■ called upon to help foot the j ; iiill for thi proposed new- county : general hospital, are planning to ! | use every moans at their disposal j : to prevent any racial discrimina- ■ i tion in this proposed new facility. The understanding here is that • Wake County will seek federal j aid to assist ji m building a new | hospital. ; In addition, a multi-million doi ! iar bond issue is slated to lie pre ; sentod to the voters next month, i With this bond money, plus federal ; aid. the hospital authority of Wake : County plans to put up a hospital j j that will adequately serve the 1 i needs of the county for quite a j long time, Negroes are not protesting the . building of this hospital. In fart, ; there is presently much more need j j lor a hospital to care for the Ne- I gro sick than for the. white as ; Negroes in Wake County are prat WOUNDED CONVICT CAPTURED—James Edwards, 26-.vear-old escaped convict, is questioned at Guilford Couetv Jail in Greensboro ahout a, burgariy and assault at Monticelio, escaped from a Virginia hospital and escape from a Spruce Pine prison camp Edwards was taken in a pro-dawn raid, biding behind a stove in a house in the 200- block of Gilmer Sireei. He is being held without bond. (Photo cour tesy Greensboro Record) Court Rules j Recreation Open Fori WASHINGTON By a unani ! mous vote, the V. S. Supreme | j Court on Monday called for an l j end to racial segregation in public j : parks, playgrounds and golf corn - • j ses. j It unanimously upheld one low- ■ [j er court decision which said that; •• the doctrine of “separate-but :: equal’’ facilities for Negroes and ; whites was dead and then unar.i --; moucly upset other lower court i rulings which had hold that (he: i doctrine had not been swept com • pletely away by the Supreme j Court’s opinion last year that! I segregation in the nation’s public : schools is unconstitutional. The nation.- highest, tribunal! j gave its full backing to the IJ. S. i District Court at Richmond ; upholding its decision which ap ! plied to public beaches and bath j houses operated by the City of Baltimore and by the state of Maryland. The city and state in; i fCONTINUED ON PAGE 11) | tically without any hospital fact ! lilies. St Agnes Hospital, which i I I i has served this area for a num- ; j b» r of year :, has long outlived its > j usefulness as an institution ca-! | j pable of adequately serving aj i i cooununity as large as Wake Coun- ! ( ty. In addition, due to the poor ■: condition of the hospital plant, St i < Agne.- iri« been condemned as an !' unfit place ten- hospital use. What Negroes reportedly will ; - insist utpoit in the new proposes!; 1 hospital is equality. They will i 1 ask not only for equality in treat- j • men! out for full equality in em ' | j ploy mem in all areas of the insti- i ! tution. Their feetuigs in this re- j I «neet were fully brought out dufiug a meeting of the Ka- ( teigh Citizens Association J j Tuesday night at the Blood- , worth Street YMC’A. Negroes are aware that man for tnan. [ fCONTINUED ON PAGE 11) ' > \ si#" 4 ' s -<i : <gk *■ , HI m ■ 4k.. -. & Sit AW SPEAKER Dr Den- j ms Branch, Newport. Tenn., physician, who will deliver the. address when Shaw Umvrrsify 1 observes its 90th Founder’s Day ix! the University Church, I ri day, November 18. at tl a.m. A native of Rale: h, who re - reived the A. i». degree from Shaw in 1909. Dr. Rraux h niirqed a dire- Ur of the N>«v iHu) Chamber ci < omjn i c s, 1951. a post believed to fe the firs! ever held by t Ncaro in the South. f? *4* *s* nf x •-■ah iSlfili? liyiiu . IN llripf PEDESTRIAN KILLED HERE Easnu Hutchinson. 43. of 1204 Bender Srrent. beeai'.K- Ralei-Jife third traffic tatnlit.v of 1955 Fii day night when he was struck by! a car at the intersection of Lenoir: and Alston Six act;: at muintglit Mho. driver of Hie death car ha- , been identified as Jair-.v. Alex ander Brandon. 23, of 820 Cole man Street. Brandon has since, been freed of any blame in the j accident.. Observers charged that \ Hutchinson stepped from the curb in front of Brandon’.- car which is said to have been traveling; at a speed of 30 miles per hour. Brandon said that he saw Hut chinson about three feet, from i the car and that, his vehicle hit: him as brakes were applied. It was reported that Hutchinson j “staggered” in front of the au tomobile. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 11) j ! Apologies Follow | ’L ’A fra ir Ho dges | By STAFF COB RESPONDENT j GRELLfeBOHO Following his (statement that. Negro institution;-: ! of higher learning will be needed I and will continue to be used by ! Negroes. Gov. Luther Hodges we I booed near the end of his address i ai A<SjT College hero Friday movv.- 1 1 V! . i The governor was 'ho principal | speaker at- exercise < commemo-' j rating the tit h Founder’s Day of ! the coUrt e nud >• dedication of eight new buildin:-..-:. j As murmurs, coughing and j shuffling of feel and a few boos: ! crew louder, the chief executive turned to Dr. F. 1). Bluf-cd. pres ! ident. of the college and asked: ' "Shaii I quit now .-'” Told t.o continue. Gov Hodges : then said - “Some of your leud ei'e-lup could very easily destroy : t.he groat progress mad-' b' ilu'. ; Ne.;r<> raco in Jus w. I':-.?/ Time «n hirrcr Ho said that it was the firal ! ; time in his career that he had; ; rvrr «i si»ch <\n 6xyc*i ionct‘ Dr. Rluford, who di'iuribcd Die xh-nunrslr it ion as “repre hcr : :-ic." ur; tr a letter of .'ll *>f-i to tbo Governor on Salurdav ami on Sunday. ni:nthor- of !h*> facility and of Hit* Student ( ouneil wrote j similar Ictieis of apology, i Student:, who asked that, their ; names not be u.-ed, had stated. ; that, there was objection not only: :to the tiovcrnor’.s point of view, I 1 ’ "***"* ‘ * Tale Os Two Cities Bluford To Hodges ; “Dear Gov. Hodges: : "I wan; to express my deep sn -Ipi eolation for the excellent, ad jure:-.'. which you delivered at. our Pounder'.-; Day-dedication yo,sUT j day. I have hoard many favorable ! comment,-; from people of both races who heard you. and I want j you to fenow that they were high-’ j ly pleased with it. and they would : want me to congratulate you for' j them. “Mr. Hines, chairman of our j board of trustees, and most, of the other members, wish to join me j in expressing our apology to you for the most unfortunate incident j . .we are all grieved over it . j it will hurt us for the people to j know that our audiences here are ; so impolite that they do not care j to hear a sound and thoughtful j address, delivered in good faith. “I might say also that Messrs, j Hines and Framer thought that 1 j the disturbance started in the; j balcony where i large part of the, | audience v.u- from the city. By; j saying this, however, I do not! mean to absolve all of our stu-j j dents of any connection with this' / unfortunate situation 1 might say j for the students that there are j many of them who feel that, your | address was excellent and ex- 1 1 tremely timely and who would; j want, me to express their pardon: <CONTIXI ! U ON PACK 11 State Won’t Defy Court, School Principals Told DURHAM- -The State of North Carolina is not. going to defy the U. S Supreme Court’s decisions regarding segregation in the pub lic. schools Thomas J. Pearsall, of Rocky Mount, chairman of the i State Advisory Committee on Ed-1 uoatkm. delclared here last week j Pearsall told some 300 princi • j pais in convention here that there; jure two reasons why tlvs i.s true.-! : <1 > North Carolina is made if law-abiding citizens and ! 2) there is no way to avoid it—the court has too much power. Pearsall said that the volun tary segregation plan of Gov. Hod-i ges hasn't met with wbolr.lv-art- • ed support in every quarter but ■ added: Our faith in it has not.: j been shaken and vve intend to! i continue to try to sell it.'* Throughout his talk, he cm-' I phakized that the aim of the -rrr,-rum.r j1... n r uumrinn'inm.i wuriliwi»*ir«Tim.l The lucky car fast week was the one heaiing the tag num her X-518fi8. If the owner of that ear took it to Dunn’s Esso Service, corner Cabarrus and Uloodworth Streets, here in Ra. li’ich, he received a free grease job This will happen every week Watch for your lag number, 0 it follows the asterisk, you will get the grease job. she num ber will he taken from an> car hearing a N. C. license. tiie numbers this week are X ..46863; X-2325; 946- 147: K-5314T and R-3872 ICc NUMBER 7 j on public school segregation but. to lit.: pronouncintiou of the word "Negro” which wnt. slurred to •sound like 'Nisia or something oven worse, < EDITOR'S NOTE: Many Ne groes throughout ibe state nv.de similar protests to the pr> .s and television stations • i<er the governor's \ugust 8 av'd. v in which he advocat ed vtouu’ar.v segregation) While Dr. lihiforrl declined to cve:>l t-lic cent.-nts of his letter : i.o the governor, the faculty and ; student council, however, released ; copies of .j-.' ir wriu.cn apologies. H ;u! Council Said The It-, us- from the students ; said. "Wc the members of the Stu dent Council of The Agricultural and T elia', s; c Is a:, deepiy re vet tin incident tlnv occurred to ■ wnijn your speech during our ; CosnueiDay activities An oe cureucc of this type is net d. keepun: with toe traditions and cultural life of this college farrillv. "Vi i v truly yours, members of * the Student Council. “Sinned, Herman Sutton of I Gold.bom lire-i do at. Robert Lane i iii Hander.-on, vice president; Rob ; ert I). Sis e of Lumberton, seere | tary; John Griffin of Fayetteville, i Burt of J«- i maica N. Y„ and E H. Preston ;of Winston-Salem." ' The facility s-nff letter signed (CONTINUED ON PAGE ill Hodges To Bin ford f hereby acknowledge receipt, os' your communication of Nov. 5 regarding the unfortunate inci ■ dent. at A&T College. Sincerely, j l '•/‘v! Hodges ” Till Case Trial Underway Again j GREENWOOD, Miss.--Two star witnesses in the Emmett l,ouis 1 Till kidnaping ease testified Tues day before the grand jury which will decide whether lire men will j stand trial. If an indictment is returned, the two men. Mose Wright, 64- Vear old former sharecropper and ; Willie Reed 38, are expected to be the key witnesses for the ot.aUk Roy Bryant. 24 and his half brother J. W. Milam, 36. will learn this week whether they will stand ! trial for kidnaping the 14-year- I old Chicago youth, whose mutilat i ed body was pulled from the Tal i lahatchie River, near Money, Miss. ; eight weeks ago A trial jury in Sumner, near here, found the two innocent of the slaying of the i youth six weeks ago. Wright spent 24 minutes in the grand jury room while Reed was (CONTINUED ON PAGE 11) committee and the state officials ! is to work out a solution to the problem “within the framework of the public schools of North : Carolina ” “You can be proud of the opening of the North Carolina schools this year,” Pearsall told . the principals He said there were “no serious incident, no mixing !of the races and only one law i suit.” However, he cautioned the school leaders 1 to expect problems, beginning next spring. After say ing that he hopes and prays that i the present situation will con tinue. he added, “But I cannot 1 hold our any hope for that. I think our problems will begin to arise in the spring.” He then sug gested that the entire, segregation matter i* one which “we will have - to live with >2 months at a time-.
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