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Rowland, completes huge Valentine which makes it clear how she feels about that certain
someone. She is a musk major.
State News
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CABBIE SENTENCED
GOLDSBORO Frank At
kinson,, 64-year-old local taxi dri
ver. was given a six months sus
pended sentence, and assessed the
costs of court in the Wayne Su
perior Court after pleading nolo
contendre to a charge of killing
a fellow taxi cab driver. The man,
Thedie Moses, was shot to death
in April, 3954, The judge also
placed Atkinson on probation for
for five years. The shooting took
place at the railway station here
and allegedly followed an argu
ment between the two over the
payment of a fare, Atkinson said
that Moses followed him to his car
and allegedly started advancing
on him He claimed that he shot
Moses with a pistol that he was
holding as pawn for a fare.
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FOG THEIF TRIED
r COS BORO Ransom
Lobln&vn pleaded guilty in
the Wayne Superior Court
Thursday to the larceny of
51,500 worth of eggs from
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Adlai Stevenson Favors
Gradual Desegregation
LOS ANQELFS Democratic
presidential candidate Adlai E.
Stevenson, addressing a group of
Negro leaders in the Southern
California area, said Tuesday that
he favors desegregation, but
thinks that it should be accom
plished gradually.
"Whatever racial progress Is
made depends upon the spirit of
men, not troops or bayonets,” he
said.
The former governor of Il
linois predicted that the 100th
anniversary of the emancipa
tion proclamation, January
1963, could well be the date,
of the full flowering of the
spirit of equality in the Unit
ed States of America,
The Rev, George Cofield asked
Stevenson whether he favored us
ing federal might to enforce the
Supreme Court s decision of de
segregation. Stevenson then made
reference, to the above statement
JAILED IN DEATH
OF CLINTON YOUTH
CLINTON—A true bill was re
turned b.v the Sampson County
grand jury last weekend against
Lloyd Baggette, 37, who is being
held here on a first-degree mur
der charge. His trial is expected
to take place during the latter
part of this week.
The murd> r toe* place Sun
day afterno n about 3 o’clock
at the Bagiette home In Dis
mal Township. The defendant
reportedly was in an argu
ment with Floyd Jones, 18, of
the same community. Jones
allegedly had engaged in an
argument with Baggettc's
wife,
Sampson Sheriff W. D. Hall and
Constable Albert Jackson arrest- i
e€ Baggette. and placed him in
jail without privilege of bond.
He allegedly killed Jones with
» -12 gauge shotgun.
Nab “Slowpoke”
Auto Driver
HIGH POINT—When a high
way patrolman spotted James
! Rogers. 33, driving along at 1C I
miles an hour, eating an or
ange, while a long line of traf
fic barked up behind him, he
arrested him Sunday. . . , j
Rogers thus became, the first
local resident charged with a !
new statute forbidding motor- j
is to to drive slowly enough to !
impede traffic.
Man Denied Blank
IFor Police Test
CHARLOTTE
Indications this week arc that
the refusal of County Police Chief
Joe D. Whitley or. Monday to give
a police examination application
blank to Jack Keith Moore. 28,
2230 Celia Ave. may bring a full
scale court test of the validity of
the state statues.
The CAROLINIAN learned
Wednesday that the local NAACP
Branch is intensely interested in
the denial of Mr. Moore’s request
for an application blank to take
the Civii Service examination on
Friday night of this week.
The Mecklenburg County Police
Department admits it is woeful
ly short of manpower and adver
tised for males to take the exams
in a, local daily last Friday. The
ad made no mention of race.
Last Thursday this news
paper earned a front-page ar
ticle about the coming exams
and on Friday night Mr. Moore
conferred with the editor at
his home. The young man was
advised to ask for the blank
and to take the exam.
On Monday morning he
went to the County Police
headquarters to ask for the.
of ‘troops or bayonets’.
"It would be the revival of;
civil war,” Stevenson declared.
We must go about these, things
gradually. Its the spirit of the men
that will change things for the
better.”
When asked what appeasement
he was making to the South with
out hurling the colored people?,
he replied;
“I have never found it neces
sary to appease anyone. I’m not
running for the office for the
honor, I’m running because I be
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ferred him to Chief Whitley,
Mr. Moore said.
Air. Moore said the chief
took him into His office and
told him the coming exam is
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N. C. College
Wants Honey
DURHAM—A request for $145.-
666 in emergency appropriations
for the 1955-57 biennium will be
requested by North Carolina Col
iege. following a vote of the local
school's executive committee.
Dr. Alfonso Elder, president,
and Dr. J. M. Hubbard, Sr.,
school irepsarer, will submit
to the Council of Slate a res
olution asking 559,320 for the
present year and $106,413 for
1955-57.
The school needs $38,717 “to
cover the estimation in receipts”
and $536 “to cover the cut in the
travel budget of itinerant teacher
trainers in the Department of
Home Economics from $1,500 in
1944-55 to $964 in 1955-56 and
1956-57.”
The school needs the same sum
for 1956-57, plus SI,BOO "to cover
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The lucky car last week was
the one bearing the tag num
ber ’946-147. If the owner of
that car look It to Bunn's Esso
Service, corner Cabarrus and
BSoodworth Streets, here in Ra
leigh, he received a free grease
job.
This will happen every week
Watch for your tag number. If
it follows the asterisk, you will
get the grease job. The num
ber will be taken from any car
bearing a N. C. license.
The numbers this week are:
* : R-3872: X-2324; X-46862; R
-5714; X-5i856 and R-5349.
The Carolinian
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VOLUME 15 RALEIGH, N. C. WEEK ENDING SATURADY, FEBRUARY 11, 1956 NUMBER ~2o'
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Term For
Niece Rape
RALEIGH Willie Johnson,
54-year-old farmer of Raleigh
Route 3. was sentenced in Wake i
Superior Court to 15 years im- J
prisonment after being convict- j
ed of an immoral assault, upon his!
nine-year-old neice.
Johnson orginally pleaded guil
ty In the offense but then with
drew his plea and asked for a
jury trial.
In another case, an eight-year
old girl, hospitalized with first, j
i and second degree burns, told j
j county deputies that a man set
] fire to her dress when she threat ■ i
i enqd to expose him for snakin' j
sexual advances to her.
Leo Gan us, 31, of Route I,
Wendell, is being held in Wake,
Jaii for investigation pending
the outcome of the child’s
condition. The child was rush
ed to St. Agnes Hospital
where it was discovered that
she. had been burned over a
wide area.
According to Deputy R. H. Lin
ton, the child told him that Gan
us was spending the night at her
home Her mother was away. She
said that she objected to Ganus’
attempts to feel her chest and legs
and that he set a match to her
clothes when she threatened to
tell her mother.
Ganus, on the other hand, said
that he was asleep and didn't,
know’ anything about the charges.
Arresting officers reported find
ing him asleep in bed when they
went to arrest him and say that
he offered no resistance.
Liberian
Heard At
Local ‘Y’
RALEIGH Liberia is * Und
of great opportunities, mid-way
between an early culture and
modern civilization, declared
David N. Howell, of the YMCA
World Service Division, at the
Bioodworth Street YMCA on
Thursday night, now on leave
from the YMCA at Monrovia, Li
beria, capital of the only free re
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What’s Happening
Oil Desegregation Front
Shelby Plans Mixed
Ministerial Group
SHELBY The prospect of an
interracial ministerial group in
this area loomed bright last week
as members of the Shelby and
Cleveland County Ministerial As
sociation voted unanimously to j
study the possibility of admitting i
Negro members.
A motion adopted on Wednea-1
day directed "executive officers
of the association to take such
steps as might be necessary to ex
plore the possibility of formula
tion of a Cle -eland County Min
isterial Association with no racial
barriers."
Golfers Seek Right
To Florida Course
MIAMI, Fla. A petition de
manding that they be allowed to
play on the Miami Springs golf
course was sent to the city com
mission this week by five local
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! ACCEPTS NEW POST Fran
l vis J. Poole of Raleigh has ac
cepted * position as Budget
Controller, at the Agricultural,
Mechanical and Normal State
College, Pine Bluff, Ark, Mr.
Poole, a Raleigh native, is a
graduate of St. Augustine’s Col
j lege. He has done further study
! in the field of Business Adminia-
I tniloH at N. C* College at Dur
j •'*■>>■ He is the former manager
of the Washington Terrace Hons-
inf Project, a member of the ]
Methodist Church and the Omega ]
Psl Phi Fraternity,
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Put Out
Os Classes
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. Miss An
ther ine Lucy, first of her race
to attend the University of Ala
bama, was barred from classes on i
Monday until further notice as |
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Rodman, NAACP In
State Laws Deadlock
RALEIGH The courts, in all
probability, will be called upon to
decide whether the NAACP is do
ing business in North Carolina.
The NAACP says that it isn't.
William B. Rodman, attorney
genera), says that it is
Rodman said that he has
asked the NAACP to comply
with two North Carolina stat
utes. One requires foreign cor
porations doing business in
North Carolina to register with
the Secretary of State’s office.
The other requires organiza
tion* engaged in influencing
public opinion to register with
i Negro residents.
Four of the petitioners, includ
ing two attorneys, were refused
i admission to the course last Thur
sday. During the last several
: years, Negroes have been using
I the course on Mondays, with gol
fers using it, the rest of the week.
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li RALEIGH A domestic spat
j between a. Method man and his
wife ended Wednesday morning
I at about. 10 o’clock with Lonnie
! Ewey, Raleigh barber and taxi
cab driver, being placed in the
Wake County Jail under a $5,000
bond and with S4OO damages to
the Deluxe Hotel, located at 220
E. Cabarrus Street after declar
ing that his wife cut up his clo
thes.
Police officers say that Ewey
first went by the Wake County
sheriff's office to swear out
a warrant against his wife.
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Jailing Os One Pastor Ends
Church Row At Goldsboro
GOLDSBORO When the,
Rev. James F. Elliott of Mt. Olive j
was found guilty here Friday of |
“frivolously and maliciously” in-;
stigating charges against the Rev.
W. H. Summerville and his fol
lowers. the long squabble between j
two factions for control of the!
New Bethel Free Will Baptist!
Church appeared at an en^
Judge Henry A. Grady or
dered the Rev. Mr. Elliott to i
pay the entire eosls of the
case, which had come up
j through magistrate's and
j County Courts, and to be tak
j en into custody until the costs
I were paid.
the same office, disclose (heir |
officers and finances and the
sources of their funds.
"The NAACP,” Rodman said,
"says that it does not in any way
operate In North Carolina. It cites ]
cases to the effect that State laws j
cannot apply except to those In
and engaged in the State of North
Carolina. That is, of course, a
sound principle. We cannot make
our laws apply to the citizens of
New York unless they axe down
here.”
He said he had gone over the
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Jazz-Pastor Can’t
Talk In Mississippi
OXFORD, Ohio Because he
contributed a part of his $32,000
winnings on a national television
quiz show to the NAACP, the Rev.
Alvin Kershaw' white Oxford,
Ohio minister, will not be able
to fill a speaking engagement at
the University of Mississippi.
The jazz-loving Episcopal cler
gyman received a telegram from
University Chancellor J. D. Wil
liams advising that he felt that
it would be "unwise” for him to
speak to the students.
Charlotte Golf Case
To XL & High Court
CHARLOTTE The U S. Su
preme Court has been asked to
i review the segregation suit of a
group of local Negroes against the i
Bonnie. Brae golf course,
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I Council Told Plan
Creates Hardships
RALElGH—Following the angry protests of more than 40
home owners in the area, the City Council on Tuesday disapprov
ed the site previously selected for a public housing development
, and tabled temporarily a proposed Minimum Housing Standard#
ordinance.
The site is located south of Lee;
: Street, east of Walnut. Street. ;
north of Hoke Street and west!
-of the right-of-way line on High- ;
i way 70 and 15A.
i Plans had already hern ap
-1 proved to erect a 300-unit,
low-rent development to cost
$3,000,000 on the 25-acre site
in South Raleigh but. it seems
ihal no one thought to con
suit the present residents of
the area to see just how they
felt about it. Approving the i
plan were the Raleigh Housing
Authority, the Raleigh Plan- i
The case was also ordered to
be kept on !he docket, with the
minister to be arrested if he ever
again interfered in the affairs of
the church. Costs amounted to
$947.
A verdict of not guilty was
rendered against all other 21 de
fendants. including followers of
Rev. Elliott and Summerville.
Church Padlocked
Rev Summerville, from Wilson,
was named pastor of the church
in an election last May ordered
by Judge J. Paul Frizzelle. The
two factions, headed by Elliott,
and the Rev. T. T, Platt, had been j
in court before, charging each j
other with padlocking the church.:
door against the other. Each man J
claimed that he was the rightful:
pastor of the church.
The latest charges were filed
last October when Summerville |
went to the church to hold re-1
vival services and allegedly ■
found Elliott behind the pulpit,
conducting a service of his own j
Summerville admitted leading hi: |
group in singing to drown our:
Elliott's sermon. i
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The protestors, many of whom
waited for more than two hours
before being given the opportunity
to be heard, were unanimous in
their objections.
Said one. "There are too many
families ownint homes there to
be put out, with no place to go.
It’s doing us nn injustice."
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ODDS -ENDS
By KOBEKI G. SHEPARD
Now that the Raleigh City
Council has heeded the pleas of
the distressed home owners in the
South Park area and has proper
ly refused to sanction the “grab ”
the Housing Authority was about
to make of their property, it is
to be hoped that both the Council
and the Authority can find a
site for the 300-unit low-rent
housing project that will be more
suitable from every angle.
There is a, site inside the
city limits that would affect
only a small number of prop
erly owners if it were, chosen
and would remove an eye sor«
that is now a serious blight
(n (hat community and (he
entire city. The area in mind
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