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MAKE AIX "A” GRADES
These are three of the four
>haw University students who
maintained an “A” average dur
ing the. first semester. They are
left to right: Deicia Faye Dixon,
a senior of Kinston; Pattie Wat
kins, a senior of Brooklyn, New
NAACP Leader Laps
Ervin’s Race View*
State News'
—IN—
Brief
*
ALPHA WIVES ORGANIZE
RALEIGH The Alpha Wives, an
auxiliary of the Alpha Phi Alpha
Fraternity, held their organiza
tional meeting at the re : dence of
Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Newell, Fay
etteville Street, recently. Officers
elected were: Mrs. V. K. Newell,
president; Mrs. W. C Davenport,
.secretary: Mse.JL._T. Acting, treas
urer; Mrs. J, C, Levingston, pro
gram chairman, with Mrs. R. H.
Toole and Mrs. Garrett Laws as j
her assistants; and Mrs. J. A. j
Mann, reporter. Other wives pres
ent. included Mesdarnes A. T.
Whitaker, C. L. Hunt, M. H.
Crockett, F. L. Sherard, R. E. Bail,
R. W McDowell, Joseph Jones.
T. J, Culler, and M. G Batey.
DRUNK DRIVER FINED
CARY Fred Harrington,
Jr., 29, of Cary, was convicted
in’ the local Recorder’s Court
this week of a second offense
of drunken driving. The man
received a Li-month road
term, suspended on payment
of a S3OO fine and court costs.
Harrington filed notice of ap
peal to Wake Superior Court
and posted a SSOO bond.
KNIFE WIELDER TAILED
RALEIGH—PoIice reported that
20 stitches were required to close
knife wounds inflicted Friday a
teout noon on Miss Mamie Branch,
of 1290 E. Edenton St., after she
wa s involved in an altercation
with Miss Mary Singletary, 1235
E. Edenton Street. Miss Singletary
is reported to have admitted the
cutting. She alleges that the
Branch woman cams to her house
and cursed her. Officers charged
Miss Singletary with assault with I
a deadly weapon. The cutting
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BISHOP NICHOLS
TELLS OF VISIT
BEHIND 'WAIN'
BY X B. BARREN
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - More
than 800 worshippers, many of
them gayiy bedecked in Easter
finery, packed the immaculately
clean Mt. Pisgah AME Church,
List and Spring Garden Sts., Eas
ter Sunday to hear the Rt, Rev. 1
Decatur Ward Nichols. Presiding
Bishop of the First Episcopal Dist
rict, AME Church, deliver the
message and tell a few of his ex
periences while traveling in Rus
sia with the American clergymen
recently permitted behind the Iron
Curtain.
The Rev, Mansfield E. Jack
son, a native of Nashville,
Tenn„ who has been pastor of
the Mt. Pisgah Church for six
years, vu the delighted host
to Bishop and Mrs. Nichols.
Three choirs served the ser
vice which saw the addition
»f two adults and six children
to the membership roll of over
400.
- Rev. Jackson praised Dr. Nichols
as being a staunch leader of his
people who could be depended up
on for true leadership Jackson
said: We've come to the point
where words do not count but
actions do,* as we battle for our
economic and political freedom of
opportunity.
Proud To Be American
Bishop Nichols said: 'Anybody
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York; and -idine H. Hern
don, a senn of Apex. Frank
Sellers (not shown on picture)
a iso maintain-' an average of
“A”. He is an advanced transfer
student from Storer College at
Harper's Ferry, W, Virginia.
! LILLINGTON cial > Wi
l-1 liam Steele, preside, of the Har
nett. County Branch NAACP, in
a letter to Senator Sam J. Er
vin, last week took the North Car
olina solon to t. for his views
on integration.
Mr. Steele wrote: “J have just
finished reading aloud to my wife
your article. "The Case for Seg
regation,’ along with the other ar
ticles of the report published m
Look magazine for April 3, If
the implications of your remarks
were not so terribly tragic for
the citizens of North Carolina
and the South, they would be
instantly laughable. Heaven
knows, they are ludicrous enough.
“If you were at all objec
tive about the matter of de
segregation and of what the
Negro and the nation think,
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Alphas. Urged T o Fight
For Full Citizenship
DURHAM Frank L. Stanley,
Louisville Defender publisher, ex
pressed hope here last week that
North Carolina could be counted
upon to desegregate in spite of
its recaJcitrant neighbors like
South Carolina and Virginia.
Stanley said: "In this pres
ent war of ideas, the army of
Jove, tolerance, and Christian
brotherhood has been openly
and defiantly attacked by the
protagonists of hate, prejudice
and selfishness. These forces
are resorting to all sorts of
nefarious tricks to preserve
their way of life which is con
trary to all concepts of Chris
tainity and jurisprudence.”
The publisher, who is general
president of the Alpha Phi Alpha
Fraternity, was main speaker at a
public meeting at Mt Vernon Bap
tist Church. The fraternity held
its Southern Regional Convention
at North Carolina College.
Mayor E, J Evans welcomed the
group to Durham; Dr Alfonso El
p
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hONG-~Wier y«a» of «upn>m«
on ib« French music bed) stag*, famous Am«iiean-bom singer
and dancer, Josephine Baker is to r»!\r*. She has Just com
pleted a triumphant Scandinavian tour, and will make one
snore appearance, before a Paris audience, before retiring
with her husband to a French country home. La Baker is
shown being greeted at « Park airport by three of her
orphans, of Negro, Chinese, and French origin- (Newspres#
Photo).
NAACP LEADER RAPS SEN. ERVIN
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VOLUME FIFTEEN
Rush Case Headed For Supreme Court
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Rush Case
Heads For
High Court
RALEIGH—The long bandied
about case of Eleanor Rush ap
peared this week to be headed to
the State Supreme Court.
Miss Rush died of a brok
en neck In Woman’s Prison af
ter she was bound and gagged
by prison authorities in Au
gust, 1954. In a hearing be
fore the State Industrial Com
mission, her mother, Mrs. Ge
neva. Gould of Aibemarie, was
awarded $3,000,
The Highway Commission ap
pealed the order to the Superior
Court where Judge Raymond B.
Mallard of Tabor City upheld the
Industrial Commission’s order. It
is from this order that the High
way Commission will now appeal
to the state’s highest .tribunal.
der, Dr. R K. Barksdale, J. S.
Stewart, and N. B. White, also
brought greetings from business
and civic groups in Durham. L.
B. Frasier, president of the host
chapter of the fraternity, presid
ed
FIGHT FOR CITIZENSHIP
Urging Negroes to continue the
fight for "first class citizenship,”
Stanley said: “American democra
cy has no room for the forces that
deny voting privileges to Negroes
through intimidation, murder and
illegal schemes; that expel a quali
fied Autherine Lucy solely be
cause she belongs to the Negro
race and seeks legal entry to her
home state university; that in
dicts wholesale Negroes who re
fuse to be second class bus pas
sengers; that impugns the estab
lished integrity of the U. S. Su
preme Court by the passage of in
terposition and nullification mea
sures,”
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ADDRESSES HOME DEM
ONSTRATION WOMEN Dr.
Flemmie P. Kitt-rell, an instruc
tor at Howard University, Wash-
ODDS-ENOS
By ROBERT G. SHEPARD
The Carolinian’s 4th Annual
Food Show, held at the Raleigh
Memorial Auditorium last week
should have produced an impget
upon the thinking of the thou
sands who enjoyed that event far
and above the things seen and
learned there. Os greater signifi
cance is the fact that merchants
and producers are becoming in
creasingly aware of the great Ne
gro buying market, and are eager
for the opportunity to take part
in Negro-sponsored events in or
der to learn how better to serve
the Negro populace. All of this en
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4th Annual Food Show Draws
Large Crowds To Auditorium
There were many happy people
Friday night when the 4th Annual
CAROLINIAN Food Show and
Homemakers Exposition ended at
the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium,
after six of the most exciting ses
sions ever offered local house
wives.
The show featured electric
cooking and the demonstration of
eiecti ical home appliances. The
Thompson-Lynch Company, local
Phiico dealers, set up an all-elec
WHAT’S HAPPENING ON THE
Desegregation Front
Vote League Leaders
Quit in Race Dispute
ATLANTA—As a protest against
racial integration and other poli
cies, nearly all of the officers of
the 1,100-member Atlanta Lea
gue of Women Voters resigned
last week,
lats week.
The resigning leaders, who in
cluded the president, three vice
presidents, treasurer, secretary
and five directors said that they
objected to the policies of the na
tional league which has no racial
restrictions on membership.
Ike May Call Meet
On Racial Problems
WASHINGTON— Calling anew
for “moderate and responsible”
leadership to solve racial prob
lems, President Eisenhower said
Saturday that he may set up
conferences on the subject If Con
gress does not act.
RALEIGH, N. C. WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1956
l&JfLn, D. €lt is shown m she l
addressed the annual meeting of !
the State Federation of Home j
Demonstration Clubs. The ses- j
sions were held at the Raleigh I
3 Kinds Os Schools
Suggested For N. C.
CHARLOTTE-—Three types of
schools to be operated in North
Carolina to meet the school seg
regation issue were proposed, this
week by Harry P. Stokely, local
Democratic candidate for gover
nor.
Stokely, who made his pro
posal in a radio-television
speech, said that he would
have (1) a school for Negro
students only; (2) a school
for white students only and
(3) a school for those who
wish to attend mixed schools.
Continuing he said:
Then—after we have had that
statewide registration, and every
trie kitchen, with every appliance
needed to make a home happy
and to save the housewife many
steps. Miss Rosa Lee Armstrong
and Mrs. Alene Mints, Home Ser
vice Representatives, Carolina
Power and Light Company, along
with Miss Virginia Black, Home
Economist, Phiico Corporation,
had charge of the demonstrations.
Beautifully decorated booths
were set up throughout the audi
torium. The Thompson - Lynch
Tiie President made the state
ment replying to a request of Gov.
Leroy Collins of Florida to call
a conference of Southern fcover
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j Memorial Auditorium last Wed
! nesday. belcgater* from ail see
j Mans of the state were in at
• tendance. (STAFF PHOTO BY'
j CHAS. R. JONES).
school child has indicated his ot
her desire as to the type of school
he or she wishes to attend - I
1 would keep the public school sys- j
tem operating just as it has al- j
I ways operated i nthe past, except i
for one thing. In each, county, ij
would designate one or more pub- j
lie schools as needed, to be mixed ;
schools. ) t
“All the rest of the schools
would operate as Negro schools
or as white schools, just as
they have always operated in
the past, since every school
child will be volnuntarily ai
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Company had three booths full of
Phiico products, which ranged
from the latest air-conditioner to
a huge refrigerator. Westing
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Ssost Ed Sullivan with a citation lor “furthering the cans® o| economic integration «4 «#~-
wmori* s '*" The citation was presented to Sullivan backstage at CBS Stands® SO. where hm
was whmmany lor his lamed Sunday night show. (Newpress Shoto),
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NUMBER 2R
Auto Accidents,
Homicides Listed
RALEIGH—VioIent death overtook seven persons through
out the state over the holiday weekend.
Five of the victims—one a child five years old, died as the
result of auto accidents. One was shot to death and another
was fatally stabbed.
Robert Forney, 30, an employee ,
of the city sanitary department at j
Morganton, was killed early Sat- ;
urday when his auto plunged 40
feet to a railroad track where it i
was struck by a Southern Railway j
freight train, |
According to Investigators,
Forney was alone in bis car j
when it left U. S. Highway IP j
near Glen Alpine, four miles ;
west of Morganton. for a
sheer drop into a railway cut.
It was struck at 1:45 a. m
by a, 112-car frieght tram
powered by a five-unit diesel
engine. i
Forney is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Cleo Forney and his mother,
Mrs, Catherine Walker.
POST RAMS CAR
Ed Gilchrist, 53, of Maxi on. was
killed instantly about 12:40 a. m
on Saturday when a sign post
rammed through the windshield
of his car and broke his neck.
State Patrolman James S, Jones
reported that Gilchrist was driv
ing south on Highway 71, at the
northern edge- of Maxton at high
speed when His car went oft the
—
School Board
Must Face
Integration
I
RALEIGH J. D White, State j
College professor and a member !
of the Raleigh Board of Education, i
in voting against any move to
postpone integration until the
North Carolina General Assembly
meets, told his fellow members
that they should declare them
selves to uphold the ruling of the
Supreme Court and that they
should demonstrate good ‘faith by
exhibiting a willingness to begin
complying.
This is believed to be the
j strongest statement any mem
ber has made openly any
where in the state. Clark was
joined by Attorney F. J. Car
nage, the only race member
on the Board in a minority
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Tfa» lucky car last week was
the one bearing the tag num
ber *CX-4295. It the owner of
that car took ft *o Dunn s Esso
Service, corner Cabarrus and
Woodworth Streets in Raleigh
he received a free grease job.
This will happen every week.
Watch for your teg 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:
X-193; R-3873; WP-342; »X
--3517; WW-m; and R-5349.
• highway to the left, hit the sign
i post, and was thrown to the right.
I The post came through the right
j windshield,
Leroy Harris, 32. of Durham,
j was injured fatally here on
Saturday when his car ran out
; of control and smashed into
j two Duke Power Co. poles and
threw him into the street. He
died at Lincoln Hospital about
four hours later
At Plymouth, five-year-oit!
Catherine Bell was killed
when, it was reported, she.
i darted aut in front of » car
driven by Henry Spencer,
white.
James Brown, 20, of Cerro Gor
do Township, was killed Satur
day in a tractor accident at his
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THOUSANDS PRAY
FOR BUS BOYCOTT
MONTGOMERY. Ala. t'ANP)
—Thousands of Negro and white
sympathizers in cities from Bos
ton to Atlanta and Los Angeles to
Honolulu paused for quiet prayer
last Wednesday on behalf of
Montgomery bus boycotters.
The prayer meetings were
pari, of a “National Deiiver
j ance Day of Prayer” proclaim
ed by Negro leaders for *‘de»
; liveranee from the evils of ra
cial prejudice.”
! Protestants, Roman Ca«h«-
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FUNERAL HALTED
AS OARS CRASH
TROY—Six pallbearers on their
way to a cemetery a white
textile worker all received emer
gency treatment in Troy Memorial
Hospital here Friday as the re
sult of an auto wreck on Highway
27.
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