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1,000 Club Women Meet At Fayetteville
AME Resolution
For Integration
State News
—IN—
Brief
BARNES GETS HIGH POST
PITTSBURG. Pa. Alexander
Barnes, %'eteran newspaperman,
was elected Public Relations Di
rector of the AME Zion Church
during the closing session of the
"'sth Quadrennial Session of the
General Conference, which ended
here Wednesday, Barnes Is well
known in North Carolina as ad
vertising and promotion manager
of the CAROLINIAN. A native of
Selma. N. C„ Barnes now makes
his home in Durham, N. C. and
Washington, D. C. He succeeds
the Rev. J. w. Findley,
DISC JOCKEY GETS JOB
CHARLOTTE Bob Raiford.
WpT-WBTV announcer who was
discharged last month, revealed
Saturday that he will go to work
for the National Broadcasting
Company in New York City June
1 Raiford was fired from the ra
dio station April 11 by an official
of the Jefferson Standard Broad
casting Company after reading &
20-minute statement on an at
tack a group of white men made
on Nat ’King’ Cole in Alabama.
Raiford said that he deplored the
incident. The station said it was
a question of disobeying orders
and insubordination, and that the
firing had no connection with
the race issue.
CHILD DROWNS
FAIRMONT—A 13-ycar-eld
race boy, Alexander Patterson,
was drowned in a pond on the
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WHAT’S HAPPENING ON THE
Desegregation Front
CHURCH BODY AGAINST
‘•VOLUNTARY” JIM CROW
RALEIGH— Criticism of Gov.
Hodges ‘‘voluntary segregation”
plan and a suggestion that he call
a "desegregation” conference were
voiced here last week by the N.
C. Congregational Christian Sun
day School convention.
President J. M. Burwell and
Secretary Marie M. Gibbs made
the sugegstion in a letter sent
to Governor Hodges and also to
the press, which said in part:
“We have always been loyal and
obedient to the law. But since the
Supreme Court has ruled that seg-
GO SLOW, SAYS
EPISCOPAL BODY
RALEIGH A cautiously
worded call for "gradual” solution
of tire racial problem was adopted
by the North Carolina Episcopal
Diocese here last week.
In line with this, the diocese
will appoint a committee within
the next six months to make, a
"continuing study” of the issue.
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IT MATTERS NOT HOW
SMALL THE AD. JUST
KEEP YOUR NAME BE
FORE THE PUBLIC.
CALL.,,'
4-5558
FOR YOUR CLASSIFIED!
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MIAMI. Fla. (ANP) The
general conference of the AME
Church, in session here, adopted
a resolution denouncing segrega
tion and pledging support, to “eli
minate this malignant growth,"
last week.
The resolution, released by
Senior Bishop S. L. Greene of
Georgia, stated:
“The AME Church stands upon
the principle of human equality
and the dignity of man. Though
founded by persons of African de
scent in a protest against race
prejudice in the Church of God.
it has never refused persons in
either its membership or ministry
because of race or color. Today
we reaffirm thus position and call
upon our ministry to actively
seek to integrate non Negro per
sons into the church.
“We rejoice that the Ecumeni
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Four Killed
In Va. Crash
FREDERICKSBURG ,Va.— Four
persons, one a. North Carolina
man, were killed and a fifth crit
ically injured Saturday in a car
truck collision on Highway 301
between Richmond and Freder
icksburg.
The dead were identified as:
LOVEST T ALEXANDER, 49,
'of Wise, N. C.
LUCY GARLAND. 53. Bronx,
N. Y.
LUTHER GARLAND, 61, Bronx,
N. Y.
AN UNIDENTIFIED woman.
Charles Winn of the Bronx was
hospitalized in Richmond.
The southbond car bearing the
group apparently veered into the.
path of a northbound truck driven
by William J. Soltz of Newark, N,
J„ who was not injured.
rogation in the public schools is
unconstitutional, it would be very
inconsistent for us to accept your
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(mining for this American Bscoiless 'Hill* team in West Berlin,
as they take cove? behind a burning auto in th® courtyard
of a war-bombed building. Th® structure is the Army's most
unique training center. Day alter day. American Gk of th#
Second Battalion storm the building, damaged by bomba •
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ESSAY CONTEST WINNER—
Miss Cleopatra High, IS, daugh
ter of Mr, and Mrs. James R.
High, 519 S. Haywood Street,
who won third pru* in a W
raeial essay contest here last
week. The Ligon Junior-Senior
High School sophomore received
a certificate at a banquet held
at the Sir Walter Hotel Tues
day night. The contest was
sponsored by the Raleigh Adver
tising Club. Miss High, who
wrote on the subject, "An
America. Without Advertising,"
was the only Negro to win a
prize.
Bishop’s Booklet Causes
Heated Zion Discussion
PITTSBDRGH, Pa. (AND
Senior Bishop William J. Walls of
Chicago donned his war garments
in haste Tuesday afternoon at
the AME Zion conference and, in
his well-known oratorical form,
answered a delegate who criticized
a booklet authored by the prelate.
Criticism was hurled by a, North
Carolina presiding elder, the Rev.
J. R. Funderburke, at the booklet
entitled “The Trials and Trium
phs of Bishops."
The booklet is be distributed at
the General Conference of the
AME Zion Church now in session
Statewide
Meet Ends
On Sunday
FAYETTEVILLE - Over 1,000
women are expected to attend
the 47th annual meeting of the
North Carolina Federation of Ne
gro Women's Clubs, meeting here
May 5 7-20. A reception Yer the
Executive Board members was
given by the host clubs of the
Eastern District of the Federation
Thursday evening.
The Federation will hold its
business sessions all day Friday.
May 18. The first general session
has been scheduled for Friday
night with the welcome addresses
by the Mayor, members of the
Chamber of Commerce, Dr. J. W.
Seabrook and leading citizens.
Workshops for adults and
rirto will be held Saturday
morning, May 19, followed by
an afternoon parade through
the city. On Saturday night.
Miss Geraldine Lveghorn i
blind artist, till! preseat 4
musical and dramatic recital.
There will also be exhibits 6f
bebbiee of the women.
The meeting will close on Sun
day, May 20, with members of the
Federation visiting and speaking
!to the congregations of various
churches at the morning services,
i throughout the city. The final
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Native African
New AME Bishop
MIAMI. Fla. First native
African to be elected a bishop of
the AME Church is Dr. Francis
H. Gow. 59, who by winning a
majority over 107 other candi
dates. was elected on the first
ballot here Saturday.
The new bishop, who came to
the U. S. at the age of 12, was
educated at Wilberforce Univer
sity, Tuskegee Institute and the
Lane Seminary in Cincinnati.
Attorney Arrested
In Vote Squabble
JACKSON James R. Walker,
Jr., Weldon attorney, was jailed
temporarily here Saturday after
noon on a charge of interfering
with an election registrar at Sea
board, m Northhampton County.
The arrest was mede In Gum
berry after Walker apparently
Questioned the registrar, Mrs. W,
H. Taylor, for refusing to allow
Mrs. Maggie Garris, a practical
nurse, and Alexander Faison, a
freshman at North Carolina Col
lege, Durham, to register.
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ODDSENDS
By ROBERT G. SHEPARD
What is now going on in the
4th North Carolina Congressional
District race is enough to make
a dog sick on his stomach. On
the one hand, there is a rabble
rousing demagogue, so inflamed
with racial bias and with so little
knowledge of even the elemen
tary aspects of democracy that he
believes that prejudice and race
hated are the only qualifications
a candidate should have to repre
sent a quarter million American?
in Congress.
On the. other hand, there is
the incumbent, a man who
has demonstrated a capacity
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Prayer Day
Held May 17
CHICAGO (ANP> The Rev.
Joseph H. Jackson, president of
tbs National Baptist Convention,
said hare that Negroes in 11 states
will join a day of prayer on May
17 to commemorate the Supreme
Court decision against school seg
regation.
Rev. Jackson listed the states
as Illinois, New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania. Wisconsin, Missis
sippi, Texas, Oklahoma Georgia,
Tennessee and Alabama.
“Numerous influential white
Christians axe quietly aiding in
the celebration plans” he said.
at Wesley Center.
First off, Dr. Funderburke ask
ed: "Who authorized the publica
tion of that document?”
"Nobody answered Bishop
Walls. "It is a private document.”
Then, Dr. Funderburke wanted,
to know: "Who is paying for it?”
The Bishop replied, "I am, I
expect to sell some at this Gen
eral Conference to help pay for it,
but I am responsible for it.”
Dr. Funderburke insisted that
the booklet challenged the neces
sity for the General Conference.
In support of hi* charge, he quot-
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NATIONAL WElf HERE'
Daughters *>f M# from JKabaU
Court No, <??. Raleigh, greeted
their Imperial Conuuidtm,
Mrs- SKrcelk Moore, of Buffalo.
W. Y. at tis* KateStfa-Mm:
airport *# she arrived last
LUCKY AUTO OWNER
The lucky car last week was
ike one bearing the tag num
ber *XX-2864. If the owner of
that car took It So Dunn’s Esso
Service, corner Cabarrus and
Bloodwortb 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 job. The num
ber will he taken from any car
bearing a N. C. license.
The numbers this week are:
ft-5349; CK-4295; WW-125; R
-3*72; X-192; and *WI*-342.
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Physicians
Sew Heart
Os Victim
RALElGH—Emergency surgery
during which his heart stopped
beating for a half minute, had
kept Louis Cotten. 17, of Apex,
alive as late as Wednesday when
he was reported in a still serious
condition at St. Agnes Hospital.
Cotton was stabbed through the
heart, Sunday evening during a
quarrel over a girl with Cornell
Scott, 16, also of Apex, Cotten
reportedly hit Scott with a rock
and the latter then stabbed Cotten
through the heart, the blade en
tering the front wall.
The wounded youth was rushed
to St. Agnes where doctors op
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SEEK STABBER
OF LOCAL WOMAN
RALEIGH Miss Bessie Lee
Larkin. 22. of 128 N. Fisher Street,
was admitted to St. Agnes Hospi
tal with a two-inch gash in her
stomach which was so deep that
her intestines jumped out every
time she coughed.
Miss Larkin was stabbed on
Saturday night at Sylvania’s
Place on Beauty Avenue, police
reported, but did not seek treat
ment until the following morning.
Police are still seeking her as
sailant.
Til re back:
SAYS MISS LUCY
TYLER, TEX. (ANP)—Authe
rine Lucy Foster, the Negro coed
who was expelled from the all
white University of Alabama sev
eral months ago, says she intends
to return to the school next fall.
“I have been to the university.
I have studied at the university
and I expect to go back to the
university with the help of God.”
the 26-year-old woman told 400
persons at a fund-raising meeting
of the NAACP here last week.
“No one told me I could not pay
my taxes in Alabama, so I decided
I should reap some benefit of my
tax money,” she said.
Meanwhile, in a brief order,
without a written opinion, the U,
S. Supreme Court on Monday re
jected the contention of the uni
versity's officials that the Lucy
case should have been heard by a
three-judge lower court instead
of by District Judge H H Grooms
alone.
Thursday afternoon. Command
reus Moore stopped at Raleigh
ewrontc from Houston, TcxaS to
Fayetteville where the annual
Bhriners Gaia Bay activities
war® held Saturday, Shows in
photo, from left to right, are
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NAACP RALLY SCENES—
Thurgood Marshall, chief legal
counsel for the NAACP. is shown
in top photo addressing a huge
crowd at the Raleigh Memorial
Auditorium Sunday afternoon.
J. S. Stewart, Durham business
man, is pictured at left, in hot-
‘Solid South Has Been
Shattered:’
BY CHARLES R. JONES
RALEIGH—"The Solid South
has been shattered.” With these
words Thurgood Marshall, chief
legal counsel for the NAACP. let
it be known that the impact of
the Supreme Court’s decision of
exactly two years ago had done
irreparable damage to the ego of
southern ‘tradition.’
He was the featured speaker
here Sunday as the state branches
of the NAACP held a 4-F Rally at
the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium,
designed to ‘Raise funds for free
dom.’ Approximately 2,600 persons
were in attendance.
Marshall argued the famous
school cases in 1964 before the
Supreme Court.
"The constant adverse pub-
Mrs. L. F. James. Past Commaa
dress. Mrs. Moore and Mrs. C,
C. B. Ligon, Illustrious Commas'
drew of the Raleigh Court-
STAFF PHOTO BY CHAS. R.
JONES),
I loin photo receiving an NAACP
; ife’ membership plaque from
welly M. Alexander, state presi
dent. The state branch of the
organization staged the 4-F Ral
- in order to raise ‘Funss for
Freedom.' (STAFF PHOTOS BY
■ ( HAS. K. JONES).
Marshall
Heity that the press is giving
to the. NAACP has resulted in
a larger membership and in
come than this organization
has ever had,” he said.
“It’s not what we (Negroes!
do that gives ‘food’ to the
Russians. We didn’t kill Elm.
mett Tii!, IVe didn't rough
up passengers on the buses in
Montgomery, Ala., and we did
not throw Miss Lucy out of
the University of Alabama,
"Only people who are doing
wrong don't want you to use Th#
courts. The only criticism that
whites make against theJSA&C?
is that is uses the courts "to settle
differences of opinion.
'lf segregation is voluntary
why not take the laws off th#
books for one year and see what
happens.” A thundrous applause
followed tills statement.
Marshall continued, “If the
city of Raleigh would spend
some of its segregation money
for good it could air-condition
this auditorium, pave its
streets and pay city workers
a decent wage.”
The speaker assured his audi
ence that the NAACP is ready to
sit down and work out a# reason
able plar toward desegregation.
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D. 0. BAR GROUP
ADMITS NEGROES
WASHINGTON (ANP) Th#
District of Columbia Bar Associa
tion has. at long last, let down
its racial bars to admit colored,
attorneys to membership.
The action came Tuesday night
when a motion to delete the word
“white” from the association’»
membership by-laws was adopted.
This successful vote climaxed
attempts by some members op
en the membership of this asso
ciation to all qualified applicant?
dace 1959.
Charles s Rhyne, president of
the Association, said prospective
members would be required to file
applications which the organiss
tion must approve by th* beard
of directors,,
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