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"WOMAN OF THE YEAR"
Pictured here is Miss Elizabeth
McMillan Thompson, Public
Health Nurse for Fayetteville
and Cumberland County, who
was recently named ‘'Woman of
the Year” by Fayetteville’s O
megt Beta and Gramma Cpsilon
Tet* Chapters of the Zeta Phi
Beta Sorority, Inc, The honor
came to her on the occasion of
the annual vesper program in
celebration of “Better Woman
hood Week” at the Fayetteville
State Teachers College on Sun
day, February 2fi The guest
speaker for the vesper program
was Mrs. Nora E. Lockhart,
principal of the Crosby-Garfield
Elementary School in Raleigh,
and Regiorl Director of the
Eastern Reg on of the Sorority.
Barnes Blasts Democrats,
Challenges Republicans
(Special To CAROLINIAN!
DURHAM—The political pot. as
it affects Republicans in this area,
i tarred boiling here Saturday,
when the Durham County Repub
lican Committee, met in the court
house.
Aside from electing A. A, Mc-
Donald, white, chairman for an
other four years and unanimously
electing Dr. J. W. V. Cordice, vice
chairman there was no excite
ment until Alexander Barnes be
gan blasting the Democrats and
challenging the Republicans.
The veteran newspaperman
called attention to the. fact
that the Republicans had the
best opportunity to elect a
governor that they have had
since 1898. He pointed out
that Governor Hodges had
kissed the Negro vote good
bye, by his stand on integra
tion.
He also reminded the Republi
i cans that there were two things
that, the Democrats haled in the
state—a white Republican and a
Negro. He told them that, he saw
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What’s Happening
On Desegregation Front
Civil Rights Meet
Uses Gov't Building
WASHINGTON—Protests by 30
Southern Congressmen against
the use of an auditorium in the
Labor Department Building for
a three-day national civil rights
assembly were turned down by
the General Services Administra
tion.
Charles K. Ford, acting GSA
regional director, wrote Rep. John
Williams (D-Miss> that the meet
ing was not political but “rather
•one to discuss non-partisan so
* cial problems "
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Ala, Suits Called
“Two-Bit Publicity”
. NEW YORK Damage suits for
four million dollars filed against
' the NAACP. Miss Autherine Lucy,
Mrs. Polly Hinton and three
NAACP attorneys by three white
construction workers' and a truck
driver were termed “two-bit, pub
licity of a counter-attack to es
cape prosecution” by Thurgood
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Fifth Man
In Hospital
Near Death
DUNN—Foui‘ men are dead and
one more is expected to die as
the result of a head-on collision
of two automobiles on a curve
Saturday afternoon about a mile
and a half south of Erwin,
Dead are:
ISAAC .1, AVERY 27 of
Durham, a soldier stationed
at Fairfax, Va., and driver and
owner of one. car;
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Heroic Boy
Scout Saves
2 From Fire
NORTH WILKESBORO—SyIves
ter Graham, a tenderfoot Boy
Scout, is credited with saving two
children from a burning home
here last Wednesday.
The youth, a pupil at Wood
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ALEXANDER BARNES
Marshall, chief NAACP counsel
here this week.
The suits claim that the four
were .falsely accused of being
members of a mob that prevent
ed Miss Lucy from attending the
University of Alabama.
In a radio interview here, Mar- 1
shall said that anyone who tries i
to keep Miss Lucy out of the urn- i
versity “is going to have to an- j
swer to the highest court of the |
Chambers Os Commerce
Urged To Aid Integration
ATLANTA —* An appeal to the
president* of state chamber* of
commerce in seven Southern
States was made by the bi-radal
Southern Regional Council, here
Sunday in an effort to promote
discussion and understanding be
tween the races regarding Integra
tion,
The letter, which went to
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DANCE OF SEVEN VEILS
Willie Moseley, a member of the
A&T College Richard B. Harri
son Players, almost stole the
show In her “Dance of the Seven
Veils” in the production of
1,000 Attend Civil
Rights Meet In DC
By J. B. HARKEN
WASHINGTON (Special)
More than 1.000 delegates repre
senting 51 co-operating organiza
tions gathered at the Metropolian
Baptist Church. 1225 R Street,
N.W., for the biennial Delegate
Assembly for Civil Rights Sun
day afternoon, and received in
structions regarding calling upon
their respective, congressional rep
resentatives in the interest of civil
rights legislation at this session
of congress.
General chairman of the as
sembly was Roy Wilkins, execu
tive secretary of the NAACP, a
round which the 50 other na
tionally-known organizations ral
lied. Fully one-third of the dele-
land.” Meanwhile. Miss Lucy,
brought here last- Thursday in a
nervous and exhausted state, was
reported “much better” at Mar
shall’s home where she is resting.
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Suit Against Ala.
Attorney Thrown Out
MONTGOMERY. Ala.—Ah un
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chamber presidents in AiafcS'
mi, Georgia, Louisiana, Missis
sippi, the Carolina* and Vir
ginia, warned that the present
controversy over segregation
might well wreck the region's
economy and culture.
The letter said that the “reason
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“Salome” at the college last
week. Miss Moseley, a Washing
ton coed, is a senior. Other
members of the "court” observe
from the rear.
gates were white citizens from
the industrial labor unions and
religious groups.
Some of these represented were:
AME Zion Church, American Civil
Liberties Union, American Coun
cil on Human Rights, AFL-CIO,
ADA, American Jewish Congress,
IBPOEW, Brotherhood Sleeping
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NASH COUNTY GETS PRIZE
MONEY— William ». Poe, left, 1
associate editor of a farm journal
(The Progressive Farmer) at Ra-
Icig', presents a cheek tor SSOO
to Warmoth T, Gibbs, right, pro- ;
sident of A*T College, as A. 11. j
Bryant Socks on from winter, j
The lucky car last week ws»
the one bearing the tag num
ber “X-132. If the, owner of
that car took It to Dunn's Esso
Service, corner Cabarrus snd
Blood worth Streets in Raleigh
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 fob. The num
ber will be taken from any car
bearing a N. C, license.
The numbers this week are:*
-ww-1.25; It, -5349; WP-342; X
-1517; C.X-4295 and R-3872.
Crash
Fired Agent
Then Turns
Gun On Seif
GREENVILLE -- Mol ton R.
Zachary, 38, district supervisor of
the A&T College Extension Ser
vice, was shot and killed, here on
Monday about noon,
S, G. Gibbs, police chief, stated
that his investigation indicated
that Talmadge Mitchell, 34, as
sistant county agent for Pitt
County, had shot Zachary and
then wounded himself.
The shooting and alleged at
tempted suicide took place in
the Pitt County agent’s of
fice following action by the.
Pitt County commissioners
which requested Mitchell's re
signation. The decision had
b»e by Zaeh-
Hospital officials stated on
Tuesday morning that Mitchell
remained in a critical condi
tion and had a fifty chance
to survive. No charges had been
placed against him, pending
the outcome of his condition
and further investigation.
Woman Agent Flees
Mrs. Amelia Capehart. home
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OBDS-ENDS
By ROBERT G, SHEPARD
It. is comforting to know that
there are two members of the
Raleigh School Board who are
willing for the public to know
they are in favor of integration
in the public schools.
Two weeks ago school board
attorney, F, J. Carnage and Prof.
W. T, Clark, speaking to a nation
wide audience on the NBC pro
gram “Weekday”, gave their un
qualified support to school Inte
gra Lion and denounced the hy
pocrisy and bias of segregation.
Mr. Carnage is a successful Ra
leigh attorney. Mr. Clark is a
long-time member of the faculty
at N. C. State College here in Ra
leigh.
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Undoubtedly conditions at the
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The check represents first prise,
won by Nash County, in the
North Carolina Rural Progress
Campaign for 1955 with special
reference to achievement made
by Negroes in the area, contest
with 65 other counties in the
state. Gibb*, president of the
sponsoring Institution, toned
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FARM SUPERVISOR SLAlN—Officer points to body of Molton R. Zachary, 38, district
supervisor of the A&T College Extension Service, who was shot and killed Monday, allegedly by
Talmadge Mitchell, 34, assistant county agent for Pitt County in the Pitt County farm agent’s
office at Greenville. Reports are that Zachary (shown in mset) was killed because he recom
mended that Mitchell be fired .
UNC Integration
Stays, Says Court
WASHlNGTON—lntegration at the University of North
Carolina is here to stay!
This, in effect, was the ruling of the U S. Supreme Court on
Monday when it affirmed a decision that tax-supported colleges
and universities cannot deny Negroes admission solely on the basis
of race.
As in its May 17, 1954 decision
striking down segregation of
white and Negro pupils in public
schools, the court's decision was
unanimous.
It affirmed in 13 words a de
cision by a special three-judge
federal court in Greensbore which
ordered three Negroes admitted to
the University of North Carolina.
The lower court had rejected as
“without merit” the contention of
Miss Lucy
Fights On
NEW YORK-Although ‘•expell
ed” by the University of Alabama
and facing law suits asking four
million dollars in damages, Mis a
Autiierine Lucy this week said
that she would continue her fight
to obtain an education at the AIa
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the cheek over to Bryant, chair,
man of the campaign for Nash
County. The presentation was
made at a special celebration for
Nash County, held at the. Nash
County Training School in
Nashville last Tuesday night
February 28.
Cop Kills
Franklin
C’nty Man
BY ALEXANDER BARNES
FRANKLINTON—PoIice brutali
ty took another life here Monday
night when night officer C. P
Gibson, poured a volley of bullets
into the body -of .Tames Perry, in
front of the old police department.
The cause of the killing and
what actually happened is hazy in
the minds of most of the citizens
of this little town. A witness, who
asked that his name not he used,
told The CAROLINIAN that there
was no evidence of resistance on
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Guilford Woman Held
In Slaying Os Rival
GREENSBORO Miss Martha
Young, 25. is dead and Miss Willie
Mac Durham, also 25, is being held
in city jail without bond charged
with her murder during an argu
ment over a man in a Market
Street rooming house on Friday.
Miss Young was shot three times
and police say that any one of the
.32 caliber bullets could have
caused her death.
One went into her back,
through her stomach and fiver
and came out under her left
breast. Two others went into
her upper right arm, one pass
lug through the Sungs and
lodging in her left arui pit,
and the other ranging hack
wards to the upper spine.
Find Wife Guilty
In Mate’s Slaying*
LENOIR—-Mrs. Novella Metnp
hlll, 43, who blew off one side of
her husband's head with a shot
gun blest last Oct. 10, was found
guilty of manslaughter Thursday
by a Superior Court.
The slaying of Willie Hemphill,
63, occurred at, the couple's home
in the Cheraw seefcioti, Sentence
was not paesed immediately.
State News
—IN—
Brief
FIGHT PROVES FATAL
SHELBY-Part of a 35-year-old
man’s head was blown away Fri
day as the aftermath of an argu
ment which took place between
three local men. I. V. Sweezy has
been placed in .jail and charged
with first degree murder in
the death of Ernest Simon. Jerry
Brooks is being held for accessory
before the fact, Sheriff Haywood
■mien and Simon were in an argu
ment at a case near Lawndale.
™’- ■ were fighting at, the time
Sweeney allegedly came out ana
,i .. n on with a shotgun at
point blank range.
GIVES SELF UP IN N C. y
LUMBERTON Clarence
Alexander West, 36, of Balii
ruore, surrendered here at a
bout lOip.m, Wednesday to
City Patrolman .1. O. P. Regan
and said that he had shot a
man in Baltimore. West was
Dken in custody and a check
with police in Baltimore, show
ed that a William Massey had
been killed at the address
given by West on February 4,
but Baltimore officer* indi
cated that they did not know
who had done the shooting.
IV e. st. a. former resident of
Luinberton, admitted shooting
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Two bullets were removed from
her boay and police found the
third in a poolroom below the
rooming house The mortally
wounded woman fell inside the
poolroom door while attempting to
flee. She was pronounced dead on
arrival at L Richardson Memorial
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