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EXPLAINS CHURCH’S POSI
TION ON INTEGRATION—X h e
National Council of Churches of
Christ's plans to help .colored
or white ministers who may lose
their positions because they
State News!
Brief
KAB TAR HEEL SUSPECT
OCALA, Fla. Otis D. Blake, j
sought on a murder charge in Ra
leigh, N. C. since July 4, 1952. has
been arrested here by FBI agents.
R. J. Abbaticchio, Jr„ of Char-
Intt-r T>prjft! FBI 7i }?x "J^vcr.
of North Carolina, reported ttj-t!
Blake is being held under a $5,000
bond on a federal warrant charg
ing him with unlawful flight to
avoid prosecution. Gaither Alford
Alien was allegedly shot to death
by Blake in the 100 block of Mc-
Kee Street. According to Detective
Captain Robert E Goodwin the
two men had been drinking and
got into an argument. Allen went
home to set a gun and was re
portedly shot by Blake when he
returned. The suspect has in
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Recreation Area Likely
Will Be Integrated
*
ROCKY MOUNT The Board
of Conservation and Develop
ment’s Parks Committee ran
head-on into the race issue here
Monday when the matter of
whether Cape Hatteras Seashore
Recreation Area would serve both
races.
The point that Mrs. Lucille
Purser, white hotel owner of
Nags Head, wanted cleared up
was a restatement of
the policy of National Park
Services, It has been clearly
settled that all public parks
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SPARKED ‘PRAYER DAY The Rev. Ada® Clayton Powell
(right),, chairman of the National Deliverance Day of Prayer
movement, has his arm around the shoulder of Ed Nixon,
treasurer of ?h® Montgomery (Ala.) Improvement association.
Action took place during Ih# recent Deliverance Day rally at
New York's Manhattan Center, which wat attended by an i
overflow audience, and a record number of leaders of all 1
Jaitkts. i&evwptmi* Photo) „ .
j favor integration is explained to
the above North Carolina Col
| ■«£« Religious Emphasis Week
participants by Dr. Kenneth L.
j Maxwell. Shown left to right
Cilounty Board Members
Ruled Officers Os State
GREENSBORO County school
board members are officers of the
stale, Federal Judge Johnson J.
Hayes ruled her last week, at the
I same time denying the request of
| a Montgomery County group,
seeking desegregation its public
schools, to have tiu-ir case heard
by a three-j- dge court.
Judge H -os, prcsiticing in
SEEK TO PUSH
OLD FORT CASE
RALEIGH According to in
formation released this week the
State Supreme Court has con
sented to study an appeal, during
its current term, by a group of
McDowell County race citizens
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must be made available to all
races.
Mrs. Purser was joined m her
presentation by Major J. L. Mur
phy, who expressed grave concern
over the fact that white residents
would not be happy with a long
string of eastern North Carolina
Negroes and Virginia colored peo
ple using the boulevard in front
of their homes.
The C&D Board took no final
action in the matter, but passed a
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are Dr. J. Neal Hughley, college
minister; Dr. Maxwell, director
of the Department of Internal
Affairs, NCCC, USA, Charles
Smith and Miss Josephine Long,
both Durham students.
1 1 Middle District Court, ruled
that the case, brought against
the Montgomery County School
i board on July 29, 1955, will be
* heard in his court at 10 a. m.
on April 20.
"NULL AND VOID
1 : The jurist held that any state
j law or order requiring segregation
I ir stall and void insofar ,>, it con»
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j as interpreted by the U S. Su
preme Court.
“No three-judge court is neces
sary to make that, declaration," he
said.
In the opinion which accompan
ied his ruling. Judge Hayes said:
. i “If the defendants (the board
? | members) are discriminating a
. j gainst the plaintiffs, if will be the
• i duty of a onc-judgc district court
: i to hear and to determine the
i | facts.’
|
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r Mob Forces
Family Out
I
j DETROIT— -After a mob of some
j 500 people assembled before his
~ j bouse in a previously all-white
. ; neighborhood and hurled bricks
, | through two windows, John W.
S Rouse 70, and his family agreed
", to sell the home and to move eise
’ where.
“We arc not Negroes,” said
l Mr. Rouse, a retired private
policeman, after rumors that
1 he was a Negro set off the
j demonstration,
The Rouses were paid $18,300 !
for the house—s2,ooo more than j
they were paying for it—by the I
neighborhood association, known
as the Belmont. Subdivision Asso- !
ciation.
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! Democrats
Must Accept
Integration
DURHAM Carmine G. De
ss pio, leader of the New York’s
famed Tammany Hall political
empire, in a prepared release here
Tuesday night said that there is
no longer such a thing as segre
gation and that the only thing
his party leaders would have to
do would be to resolve themselves
to non-segregation.
The party chieftain made
no mention of the fact that
Democratic leaders here in
North Carolina were in open
defiance. Persons who read
the statement feel that such a 1
step on the part of the nation- 1
al Democratic party could very
easily split the party wide
open.
The statement was as follows: j 1
“The test of our national lead- 1
or,ship is in the extent to which 1
our nation can be unified. In- !
deed, the test of our national
strength is the extent to which 1
our country is unified. ;
“’The philosophy ot the Demo- \}
cralic party and the question of
segregation is clearly set forth $
in our 1962 platform. The post- 1
tion of our country in this ques- ,
j Mon is defined by the law of the 1
j land and .has been, interpreted r
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The Carolinian
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VOLUME FIFTEEN RALEIGH, N. C. WEEK ENDING SATURDAY. APRIL 14, 1456 HUMBER M
3 Candidates Seek Public Posts
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Political
Hats In
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By J. B. HABREN
WELDON For the first time
since 1898 colored men have an
nounced their candidacy for pub
lic office in Halifax County where
the Negro population amounts to
more than 60 per cent of the to
tal.
In a surprise and unprece
i dented move here last week,
Augustus C. Cofield, local mor-
I tician, announced his inten
tion of seeking a position as
| State Senator from the 4th
> j district, opposing W. Lunsford
Crews, incumbent i>f . Jtfby
iWwfioire Rapids. The’4thdis
trict includes Halifax and
Edgecombe Counties, both
with a majority of colored
population.
At the same time Dr Salter J.
Cochran, the younger of the
: town’s two Negro medicos, an
-1 nounced for the post of member
ship on the Halifax County Board
, of Education, subject to the for
■ thceming primary.
WALKER IS MANAGER
Manager for both of the office
seekers is Weldon's newly ac
quired attorney, James R, Walker,
Jr. Walker was one of the origi
nal plaintiffs who spearheaded
the fight to open the Law School
of the University of North Caro
lina to colored students several
years ago. He is a graduate of the
North Carolina College Law'
School and the UNC Law School
as well. He also studied at a Mas
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Local Clei
Paper’s Ec
j RALEIGH Nineteen members
|of the Raleigh Ministerial Alii- J
| ance, in their regular weekly ]
| meeting, held at the Bloodworth
j Street YMCA. Monday took sharp i
| exception to an editorial which ]
; appeared in a local daily news- ]
! paper Sunday, which was titled 1
“Reverend Troublemaker”.
The ministers not only express- ;
ed their great concern, but sent ]
a letter to the editor of the paper,
in which they showed their dislike. <
Excerpts from the letter were i
as follows:
RALEIGH MINISTERIAL
WHAT’S HAPPENING ON THE
Desegregation Front
Majority Would jj
End Segregation
WASHINGTON The 34-mam- \
ber-education committee of Pres
ident. Eisenhower, in a 50,000- \
word report issued on Friday f
said that “the majority of the c
American people “want to abolish t
school segregation” as soon as
possible. r
But. the committee pointed out,
“this is a problem which must be
worked out by each community in ,
its own way within the frame
work of existing legal structures
and the intent of the revelant
Supreme Court decisions,”
The report said further that ini
view of the “emotionally charged
atmosphere” surrounding the
whole problem, the situation
“makes special demands for un
derstanding and tolerance of dif
fering convictions.” •
LIBERAL - VICAR
TOLD TO LEAVE
ORANGEBURG. S. C, The $,
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DURHAM NAACP SPEAKER
—VaS J. Washington, Director
of Minorities, Republican Nat’l
Committee, of Washington, I).
C., will he the featured speaker | 1
at the monthly meeting of the
Dtp-ham chapter at the NAACP
Sunday, April 22, at 4 p.tri. The
session will be held at the Mount
Vernon Baptist Church. Wash
ington, who is reputed to he a
very forceful speaker, is a grad
uate of the University of In
diana, class of 1924, with a
double major in economics and |
journalism. He has served as |
a reporter, and insurance agent ;
and official, a free lance and a. j.
ghost writer for business, politi- j
cal and church groups.
Principal, Teacher
Killed As Cars Crash
GREENSBORO A head-on
collision between an automobilej
and a tractor-trailer on rain
slicked highway 29 near here Fri
rics Rap
Jitorial
ALLIANCE
Bloodworth Street Y.M.C.A
Raleigh, N. C,
April 9, 1956
Mr, Jonathan Daniels, Editor
News and Observer
Raleigh, North Carolina
Dear Mr. Daniels:
Your editorial under the cap
tion—" Reverend Troublemaker”
published in the Sunday issue
• April 8, 1956) of the News and
Observer was brought to the at
tention of the Raleigh Ministerial
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Rev Henry I. Parker, vicar of St.
Paul’s Episcopal Church here, has
been asked by the bishop of the
South Carolina diocese to “con
tinue his ministry elsewhere.”
Bishop Thomas W. Carruthers,
who made the request, said on
Saturday that it was not because
of alleged NAAOP activities by
the minister.
"It is a problem of church ad
ministration,” he declared. “This
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Let Us Do Your
Worrying For You.
Just Dial 4-5558
For Your
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NC Farm
Youth To
Europe
NEW YORK (ANP) Ed ware
King, a 21-year-old Negro fam
youth of Whitakers, N. C., \va:
among six rural young people whe
sailed on April 6 for London fm
a six-month stay m England anc
Wales under the Internationa
Farm Youth Exchange Program
the National 4-H Foundation an
nounced this week.
The other IF’YE delegates an
Theodore Kittreil of Bloomfield
N. M.: Hazel Creasy of Brooklet
Ga.; Shirley Cubilt, Sandusky
Mich.; and John Tanner, Big Pin
cy, Wyo,
King, who is a senior nt
Maryland State college, plans
to be a dairy farmer. He has
completed 13 projects in 4-H
club work. These included the
raising of dairy cows, swine,
and the growing of corn, cot
ton, peanuts and tobacco.
Since the IFYE program was in
augurated in 3.948. a total of 629
you tits from the United States
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day morning, snuffed out the
j lives of a school principal and one
of his teachers, and brought seri
ous injury to two other passen
gers in the ill-fated car.
Dead are: WILLIAM P.
BRODIE, 43, principal of
Brown Summit school: MRS.
DOROTHY JEAN WHIT
SETT, 27, a sixth grade teach
er at Brown Summit.
On the critical list at L, Rich
ardson Memorial Hospital here is
Mrs. Evelyn L. Hairston, first
grade teacher at Brown Summit.
Listed in fair condition at the
'same hospital is Douglas White,
18, a student at the school. All
were passengers In the. car, a 1955
model sedan—driven by Mr, Rro
die.
Taken to Moses Cone Hospital
and later released after treatment
for minor injuries was Edward
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t ATTACKED IN ALABAMA—
Nat ‘King’ Cole, one of the na
tion's foremost singers of pop
ular songs, was attacked by four
white men while singing on the
stage of Municipal Auditorium
in Birmingham, Alabama, Tues
day night. Although Cole and his j
microphone were knocked to the
floor, he was not hurt. The act- j
ion is believed to Have stemmed j
- from the recent action of a
9 Citizens Council which has urg- ;
■s i cd a boycott of ‘Negro music’ by ;
white patrons. Cole was accord
-1 cd a tremendous ovation by the
■ j all-white audience when he did
I not resume his singing following j
j the incident.
1
I ODES - ENDS
I By ROBERT G. SHEPARD
—— I
Memo To All Pastors, Ministers: j
■ Christ’s mission on earth was to I
free mankind from bondage and j
limitations. On one occasion He!
said. “I am come that they might j
have life and have it more abun- j
dantly,”
The ministers of Christ have j
but one job, that job is to preach, j
■ teach and explain the freedom j
> mission of Christ, to teach men
everywhere how to obtain and en
. joy this abundant life.
: In the South today, millions of
, Negroes are denied the privileges
and joys of the freedom that the
• aundant life implies. In this so- l
called Christian land of freedom,
they are not free despite the fact i
that Christ died for their free- :
dom, despite the fact that, “where
the spirit of the Lord is, there is ;
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-traitor and sedfasa involved In early
* «f William P- tomdie, Brown Sur
r at the school. Mia. Evelyn Hairs t<
rial Hospital xnl Itonct:as White, IS,
!>■*«, AH were in the ear
1,500 Quit
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Classes At
S. C. State
ORANGEBURG, S. C.-Protest
ing a proposed stale investigation
of NAACP activities on the cam
pus, some 3,498 students at S. C.
State College here, went on strike
Monday.
The strike was 100 per cent ef
fective. James Robinson, a junior,
said that everybody at the coed
institution was out of classes “in
definitely.”
According to Wallace C. Be
thea, chairman of the board of
-.trustees, tb* -«iiMtents were
scheduled to return to classes
on Monday following the Ea.v
! ter vacation. He said that stu
dents not in classrooms would
he marked “absent.”
The ‘ckiss boycott'* was the la*
i test episode in a series of dispute*
j over the school segregation issue
| at the state-supported institution
and at Claflin College, a neigh
! boring church school.
POLICE ON HAND
Since Saturday, by order of Gov.
| George Timmerman, Jr., the cam
j pus has been under police surveii
| lance. The governor said that he
had been informed that “certain
subversive elements” planned a
demonstration.
Dr. B. C. Turner, president
of the college, who along with
Rep. Hughes of Orangeburg,
was recently hanged in ef
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j LIBERIA NIXES
RUSSIA'S BID
WASHINGTON The little
African Republic of Liberia has
politely turned thumbs down on
Russia’s bid for closer relations,
it was revealed this week.
Ambassador George Arthur
Padmore of Liberia told Eisen
hower that the Liberian govern
ment “has not agreed.” to pro
posals for a friendship pact with
the Soviet Union, nor has it
agreed, to accept Soviet economic
assistance.
Immediately afterwards th#
new envoy from the African Re
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morning crush last Friday B*#ur
mtnll school principal and Mrs.
son, another teacher, is to erftttotdl
> » PUhil It the school, to *« 4h«
r which Mr. BnUe was deivtoaf.