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Ministers’ Association: from
Mixed Ministerial
Body Moving Up,
State News!
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Brief
TAXI STOKI SAID FALSE
RALEIGH Reports that the;
parking space allotted City Taxi j
Company, Raleigh s oldest call ■
company, had been abolished and .
the cabs ordered to find other j
parking spaces, have been labeled j
inaccurate Ly ebticels of the coni- j
pany and city officials- A story j
was allegaedly going the rounds J
that the taxi firm was being mov- j
erf from the location which it. has
held since the turn of the century.
Wiil.em Laws and Edward Sher
ri, n, co-owncrs of the firm, ex- j
pre.-.cd surprise when approached
h y a CAROLINIAN newsman rela- ;
f ir- t« the move The company it
..tip doing business *u its same ad- ;
dress,
DRIVER FREED IN FATALITY'
RALEIGH Dr Luther R
Stanley, ‘lB. T*‘-S1 Anderon. ;
whose auto struck Rufus « 1 "
vault, 65-yew-old racr man, on
New Year s Eve on the Down
town Boulevard, has been
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MAN, WOMAN GO
KILLING TERMS
DUNN Zebedee James, 3<
was sentenced to 20 years m
State Prison Thursday for man
slaughter after being convicted
of killing his wife.
Solicitor Jack Hooks had sought
the death penalty on a first de
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j Judge Says Dixie
I Courts Are Fair
—
j JACKSONVILLE After 1
Shelby Brown of New Jersey j
was cleared of manslaughter j
charges in Onslow Superior ;
Court here last week, Judge;
Richard Bundy suggested that j
when he returned home he
should ‘‘tell other Northern j
Negroes" that he received as
| “fair a trial as any other man”;
Brown had been charged in
connection with the death of
a woman who reportedly fell
from his ear. After he was ac
quitted for lack of evidence,
.fudge Bundy made the sug
gestion. “And I hope the NAA
CP hears of this,” he said.
Kentucky Points Way
In School Integration
COLUMBIA. Ky.- First, court- 1
ordered integration in this state!
became a reality here on Monday !
when 17 Negro pupils attended \
classes at the Adair County Con-:
solidated High School.
Integration at the county’s only j
high school was ordered by Fed-1
oral Judge Mac S' in ford after he;
and two other Federal judges had
heard an injunction suit request-;
ing immediate integration. He set j
Feb. 1 as a deadline, but since j
the second semester began on j
Monday, the time was advanced ■
voluntarily.
Judge Swinford also ruled that
the county's elementary schools
should be integrated no later than
next August or September. Os the
county’s approximately 3,300 pu
pils. 103 are Negroes
Principal Joe Jones, in welcom
ing the students, indicated that
“It’s lust another day’s work for
me,” and a bus driver summed it
up by saying: "Everybody that
#ets on my bus will be treated the
! left, Rev. T. L. Parsons, Ireas- j
| urerf Rev. Thomas E. Y'oung, |
j secretary; Rev. J, R. Funder- I
| SOUTHERN PINES - Integra- j
i lion presents no problems in the;
| Moore County Ministers’ Associa-i
tion, first in the South to result!
; from a merger of white and No- j
I gro county groups, which recent-!
j iy became first in the South and!
| possibly in the nation to elect a!
' Negro as president.
Said the new president. Rev J.
! R. Funderburk, a presiding elder j
in the AME Zion church, this
week, “We don't talk about inte
gration O)- worry about it. We just
! ARE it. and it works.”
“We have no axes to grind
and aren't trying to challenge
any other group. We are just
i frying to do a better job as
ministers,”
The association was formed last
j April 19 through unanimous ac
| tion on the part of the Moore
| County Ministerial Association
(whitei and Moore County Min
isters Alliance 'Negro* after they
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! NC Must Pay 53, 000
| For Eleanor’s Death
j R A LEIGH Overriding a
i Highway Commission appeal, the
j State Industrial Commission lust
! Thursday ruled that, $3,000 dam
| ages should be paid to Mrs. Ge
| nova Gould of Albermarle lor the
1 death of her daughter. Miss Ele
| anor Rush at, Woman's Prison
i the night of August 20. 1954.
j The commission upheld its ex
; aminer’s findings that Miss Rush
was the victim of negligence on
the part of slate prison employees.
The 18-year-old young woman
died in an isolation cell after she
had been gagged and bound by I,
;D. Hinton, then superintendent,
and four guards.
The examiner, Hugh M. Cun-in,
of Oxford, had held that it was
“evident that Hinton failed to
give Eleanor Rush the projection
and care required by the law.”
Cun-in found that Miss Rush died
MAO JO PRISON
FOR 2NDMURDER
GREENSBORO For the sec -
ond time in his 34 years, James;
Hair/.sworth must go to prison for
admitted murder.
Judge Allen H Gwyn of Reids
ville. ordered the man to serve
16-20 years at Central Prison sor 1
the single-shot slashing of his j
wife, Rosa, last October 29.
Haines worth, who served 10 j
years of a 20-year term for kill-;
ing a Southern Pines man when i
he was 19, had pleaded guilty to!
second degree murder. He came to |
Greensboro in 1954 and married.;
According to testimony, he was;
infuriated with his wife and shot;
i her in a fit of jealousy.
I same way, Whoever doesn’t like it
j can walk "
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White Parachutist
Owes Life To Buddy
FT. CAMPBELL. Ky Quick
I thinking on the part of Pvt,
! Lessie Smith, of Cleveland,
Ohio, a paratrooper here, was
i credited with saving the life
j of Sgt, James Glosson when
the latter's parachute failed to
open during airborne maneu
vers here last Wednesday.
As Sgt. Glosson flashed past.
Smith got a desparate hold on
Glosson's parachute and both
men landed safely. Brig. Gen.
Joe Stilwcll. Jr. commander of
the 11th Airborne Division, pro
moted Smith to private first
class on the spot
| burk, president; and !)r, W. C,
: Timmons, vice president.
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80-Drop-In
Padlocked
After Raid
I
BURG AW - Police last Thurs
day padlocked a Pender County!
: 'juke Joint.” described as a breed-;
in.: ground for “murder and a|
host, of other crimes,” following a
raid led by Distinct Solicitor John
J. Burney of Wilmington and
Sheriff L. E. Howard.
The Do-Drop-In, owned and
operated according to court or
der. by Haywood and Evelyn Ban
j nerman. is located in the Calico
; Bay section of the county, and,
' according to Sheriff Howard, has
long been a hotbed of trouble.
1 The raid and closing of the es
j tablishment was brought about by
: a mistrial in Pender Superior
! Court in which Clarence Pickett,
1 19. was charged with the murder
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of a broken neck, dislocated after
the specifically forbidden gag was
applied.
The Rush case aroused state
wide attention arid resulted in sev
eral changes in prison disciplinary
policies. It was brought before the
Indust; ial Commission by Taylor
and Mitchell, Raleigh attorneys,!
and John H. Rennick of Wades- j
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Married Man Shot,
Single Woman Held
HENDERSON - After reported-j
ly admitting the fatal shooting of]
Sylvester Richardson. 35. about 8!
a.m. on Saturday. Miss Martha]
Higgs was placed in jail without
bail and charged with his death. I
; Richardson, who she sajd was
I cursing her. was shot m the right
i side as he was leaving Miss Higgs’
] house and fell on the opposite side
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Girl, 11, Is Mother
Brother, 15 Is Dad
WILMINGTON Believed
h> be tiie youngest girt to be
come a mother in the city's re
cent history, an 11-year-old
girl gave birth to a six-pound,
15-ounce beb.v girl at James
Walker Memorial Hospital here
Monday.
Father of the rhild, author
ities say, is the girl's 15-year
old brother, now serving an in
definite term for incest at the
training school in Hoffman.
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ji at left, reported stolen from j
j] Judge L. Richardson Freycr, i
ij crashed into a taxicab at left j
J in front of L. Richardson Mg- i
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Hold Rites
For Pioneer j
Mortician '*
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WILSON Las! rites for the |
late Camillu? Lewis Darden, 72,
veteran funeral director, were held
\ from the St John AME Zion
r ’ Church at 3:00 p. m., Tuesday.
The Rev. K. Melvin Taylor, pas
tor, was in charge of the cere
monies The church choir rendered
v the music. The Rev. R- J. Johnson
read the scripture. Rev. O. J. Haw
-1 j kins uttered the prayer. Miss Xiz
’’; menna Moore sang the “Lord’s
* j Prayer.”
Persons of both races (csti
!
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A & T PREXY LEFT
$13,000 ESTATE
o! GREENSBORO An estate
j valued at $13,555 was left by Dr.
jF. D. Bluford, president of A. and
; T. College when he died Dec. 21,
Ja Guilford Superior Court inven
tory showed last week.
What’s Happening
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On Desegregation Front
Jacksonville Clergy
To Hold Mixed Meet
j JACKSONVILLE Local Ne-!
]gro ministers have been invited,
;by the Jacksonville Ministerial |
] Association to meet with them on]
'February 13 to discuss how the
Negro feels about "mixing the rac
es in religion.”
The Rev, David Morris, pastor
of the Midville Baptkrt Church,
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I morial Hospital, in Greensboro,
j Friday night, causing injury to
j the cab driver, his passenger,
j and ArdcSl Reece, reported dri
j ver of the stolen car. Occupant*
RALEIGH, N. C.
White Girl, Sawmill
Hanct Face Charges
MORGANTON - - A 20-year
old white woman who claimed
that she was “drink : and didn’t!
know what happened, and a 40- j
year-old sawmill e ; '•yee were!
sentenced to long t.. us on the
roads last week for adultery and
fornication,
Superior Cour, fudge T. Earl;
Fr anklin imposed tire sentence on I
Louise Carson of Harmony after;
pronouncing him and the girl guil-;
ty in a trial before some 100 per-;
sons who packed the Burke Courr-;
ty courtroom, The woman receiv- j
ed 18 montlrs in Woman’s Prison, j
Car-son was sentenced to 6
months.
Both defendants, appearing
j wilhout counsel, pleaded m
! noccnt. Deputy Sheriff Harry
i Feimster testified that he
v, found the couple in bed in a
H sawmill shack near here a
roucid 5:30 a.m. He said that
both had been drinking and
were “in a general state of un
dress.”
! Carson said that he became
i cold in the shack and crawled into
Site Chosen For 300 j
Housing Unit In City j
RALEIGH The Raleigh Hous-j
ing Authority answered the long
asked question as to where the
new three-million dollar housing
unit would be located, at a meet
ing held in City Hall. Tuesday
with members of the City Plan
ning Commission and the City
s Council.
The site selected is a tract
! of land located south of Lee
Street, east of Walnut, north
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told the association that 96 per;
(cent of his congregation is from]
| the nearby Camp Lejeune Marine
; Base. Churches and Sunday
Schools on the base have not been
] segregated for the past two years.
! Chaplain Roderis Smith of
Camp Lejeune. said that all re
ligious services on the base are
completely integrated “One Ne
gro sergeant,” he explainned,
"teaches a class in one of the
Sunday schools. All but two or
of the cab were treated and re
rticrntn* had received a suspend
ed sentence in Guilford Superior
leased but Recce, who just that
C ourt run a charge of stealing
WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1956
I the bed to get, warm. “X didn’t
I know anybody was in bed with
, | me,” he declared j
Fires Leave
!
4 Dead, More
Homeless
i
i
! FAYETTEVILLE - Five start
ing from a defective chimney,
spread rapidly through the paste
board partitions of the dwelling,
taking the lives of three children,
here last week.
Mrs. Ella Mae McMillan, tire;
mother, was barred from the j
house! by the Harries. She had Cone *
to draw some water. Tim badly i
charred bodies were identified as
those of Eddie. Jr., 3, Daniei. 2.
and Priscilla Mae. 1
.
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2 POLICE FIRED
ON BRIBE COUNT j
j
CLINTON After allegedly j
drnitt.ing that they had accept.-j
ed bribes from bootleggers, Arthur |
Harmon and Zack Landis were
dismissed from the police force
here last week.
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; three of the youngsters in his
j class are white.”
White Farmer J ells
What Negroes Want
DURHAM "The Negro wants
just what any other American
i wants,” writes James Mcßride
Dabbs, a white South Carolina
, farmer, in the current issue of the
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the auto of Ben Cone, textile
executive, was detained. He will !
fare charges of auto theft and I
possibly additional traffic char- !
ges. (Greensboro Record Photo)
NUMBER 17
MARC H OF DlMES—Charles
11. Bynum, of New York, director
of interracial activities for (he
national Foundation for Infan
tile Paralysis, who came here
Wednesday to confer with heads
of the Negro Division in the
IVake County March of Dimes
; campaign.
Riley Hill’s
! No. 1 Citizen
Laid To Rest
;
RIT.EY HlLL—Funeral services!
for Guy&n Perry, one of the oldest
residents of this community and
a leader in the community life of
Riley Hill, were held Sunday af
j ternoon at the Riley Hill Baptist
;ChU:eh at 2 o’clock The Rev. G.
|S. Stokes, pastor, officiated and
j burial followed in the church
, cemetery.
M Pc ry died Thursday as his
i home.
Surviving are hi? wife, Mrs. Eli
za Perry; three sons. Billy and
Aaron of Wendell; and Willie W.
of Providence; two daughters, Mrs.
Bertha Manguin, Wendell: and !
Miss Penny Perry. Charlotte: 15!
grandchildren; and 17 great - j
grandchildren.
Mr. Perry was the son of the
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Highway Safety Drive
Launched By Weekly
RALEIGH This week The )
CAROLINIAN is happy to print
messages from four leaders in
government, politic? and highway
safety: Governor Luther Hodges,
Col. .Tames R. Smith, Edward
Scheldt and Raleigh's Mayor Fred !
Wheeler.
These messages are aimed at re
ducing the shocking number of
accidents and fatalities on the!
state’s highways during 1956.
Lust year North Carolina set
an all-time record in the num
ber of deaths on its highways,
This record could have been
avoided if motorists bad obey
ed all of the traffic laws com
pletely.
i The messages listed on page 11, j
I 12 and 13 of this edition are spom- j
j orod by Die firms listed on those |
j pages, in cooperation with this j
publication.
The lucky car last week was
the one hearing the tag sum
her ; R-5249. If the owner of
that ear took It to Dunn s Ete#
Service, corner Cabarrus and
Bloodworth Streets, here in Ra
leigh, toe receives! a free grease
job.
This will happen every week.
Watch for your tag number. If
it follows the asterisk, yon will
get the grease job. The asm
her will be taken from any c»r
bearing % N. C. license.
The numbers this week are
*X-51856; X-3324; R-5714; X
-46863; R-3872 ami 946-147.
Tired Wife
Cheated In
Suicide Try
RALEIGH Although she
slashed her right wrist and throat
with a razor blade in an attempt
at suicide. Friday night, Mrs,
Fiances Autrey, 838 E Lenoir
Street, will live,
A suicide note, signed '•Frances,'’
and scrawled on a. small piece of
paper, said: Please, do npt hold
anybody responsible for my death.
I'm tired and I want to die,”
Police, called to the scene by
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I ODDS- ENDS
Br ROBERT O* SHEPARD
j In the coming race tor the
I Wake County Senate seat, in the
j 1957 legislature, the only differ-
I cnee between the two men, who
! have already announced for the
| post, so far as Negroes are con
| cerned, is tweedle-dee and twee*
j die-darn. The two who have e«.
| to red the race are, incumbent Sen.
i James M. Poyner and Martin K.
Green. Mr. Poyner is an attorney
and Mr, Green is a local business
man and a member of the Ra
leigh City Council.
In making his announcement
that he is seeking the Senate
post, Mr. Green openly admits
that one of the issues of his eam
i paign will be what he calls the
i “great social question of our
time.” He then defines this great
social question as the public
school integration issue, saying
that “our schools have developed
into social institutions.”
■ Green seem* to feel that Gov
Hodges has done a remarkable
I job in the segregation battle for
j he says in his announcement that,
“the governor cannot do the job
alone he has been ever
lastingly right in his efforts to
approach the matter calmly, fair
ly and with dignity.”
With reference to Mr. Green*
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St Augustine’s Grad
To Teach In Africa
RALEIGH A 1950 graduate
of St. Augustine’s College, George
Clarke, has been named professor
of history and sociology at Cut
tingdom College and Divinity
School in Suakoko, Liberia, it was
reported this week
A native of Clayton, N, C„
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Day Os White Rule
Over-Billy Graham
LOUISVILLE “Two third*
! of the people in the world ar«
colored and the day of white
j rule over (hem is over,” Evan
| geiist Billy Graham told lay
men at the Southern Baptist
! Theological Seminary here Fri
| day.
The evangelist,, who spoke <m
"Chaos, Cause and Care,” said
that "we have lost the cold war
to Russia.” He fold the SOO del
egate from. 29 state* and
i da attending at; interdenomi
i national institute, that religion
may bare lumome too invoiEjedi
I for the. average man to eompre*
j hend,
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