ROBESON FACES CONTEMPT CITATION
> LUCKY AUTO OWNER
I The lucky car last week was
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i that car took it to Dunn’s Esso
! Service, corner Cabarrus and
j Blood worth Streets in Raleigh
he received a free grease job..
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it follows the asterisk, you will i
get the grease job. The num-l
her will be taken from any car
bearing a N. C. license.
The numbers this week are:
IVW -125; R-5349; R-3872; *VT. j
r. 14?.: CK-4295; and X-tM.
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May Use St. Agnes Land For Recreation
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MAGNA CUM LAUD E
GRAD Shown h«er.« ts Fay
etteville’s Maxine B. Andrew#
who standi at the Mad of the
Class of ‘56 in sehAbrsht' at
F;vetteville State Tewchers Col
lege. having been graduated
magna cum laude. Along with
her high scholarship of campus
activities, among them being
secretary of the freshman Class
and wdnner of the Esther Mc-
Neill Jefferson Award for ex
cellence in the freshman class.
Likewise she holds membership
in the Delta Sigma Theta So
rority and in the Alpha Kappa
Mu National Honor Scholarship
Soeie‘r, and recently her name
was listed In Who’s Who among
.Students in American Colleges
and Universities.
State News
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MITCHELLS SUCCESSOR
NAMED
GREENSBORO—H. M. McNeill ;
has assumed his duties as Negro l
District Farm Agent in Northeast- :
trn North Carolina. The former j
Edgecombe County farm agent |
Rill supervise the work of Negro j
county agents in that area, ac.-
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‘JET AGE’—99 FLUS!! Airman Bernard Witt adjusts a
crash helmet on Miss Do!!i* Johnson of Pittsburgh, who got
her 100th birthday wish —a jet plane ride!s Miss Johnson- a
resident of the Pittsburgh Home for Aged and Iniimied Col
©rad Women, had been so “thrilled" by the jets flying ever
the home that she requested et spin. The 54th Fighter Defense
group decided to, oblige her. (Newspress Photo)
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COL fI ME IS
Hospital Site
Thought Fine
For Park Area I
RALEIGH Use of the St
Agnes Hospital property on Oak
wood Avenue as a possible site fori
a. recreation area is being con- j
sidered by city park officials it
was learned this week.
St. Agnes will be closed when
the Wake County General Hos
pital is completed. City Attorney
Paul F. Smith said that the St. i
Agnes property might be better
suited for recreation than the Bari
Gatling Estate, on Battery Drive,
from which city officitls are said
to want about 10 acres.
Mr. Smith said further that J.
C. B. Ehringhaus, Jr. attorney for
the St Agnes Hospital board of
directors, had informed him. that
the hospital property could be. dis
cosed of as u.c directors see fit.
Since the property was originally!
a grant from St. Augustine's Col-j
lege, Mr. Smith felt that the board j
might, feel obligated to turn it;
back to the college for use as an
infirmary.
The City Council's law and fin- j
a nee committee agreed to call thej
St. Agnes property to the atten-;
tion of the Parks and Recreation i
| Commission for consideration.
NC Lawyers Pick j
Lee As President i
j ROCKY MOUNT All of the
Negro lawyers and law professors,
j in the state, comprising the North |
: Carolina Lawyers Association, i
j elected new officers at their an- j
nual meeting held here Saturday. |
J. Kenneth Lee of Greens
j horo was named president of
the group. Other officers elerl- j
*p<l were Thomas Wyche. !
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,j Tents To Hold Meeting
!In Rocky Mount June 25 I
By .f. B Harren
ROCKY MOUNT Plans are \
• rapidly nearing completion here \
RALEIGH, N. C
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HEADS WHITE CHURCH Dr. A. L Reynolds, j?,, new paster of the Sixth United Presby
terian church on Chicago's aouthside, accepts the well wishes of members of the congrega
tion, after he had preached his first sermon, at the church. The congregation, previously
numbering !59 whites, decided to call a Negro minister and welcome Negroes to the 59-year
old church. (Nowspress Photo)
| College Head j
; Retires After j
23Yrs.OnJob
FAYETTEVILLE—Dr. J. Ward!
| Sea brook, president of the Fay
etteville State Teachers College
since 1933. has submitted his res-
I ignation to the board of trustees
!to become effective on July 15,
| and the Board has granted his
j request.
On or before July 35. however
| the Board is scheduled to reas
j semble. to consider the naming of
i a successor to the man who has
| guided the destinies of the in
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for the south-wide convention of
| the Grand United Order of TENTS
i Which meets here June 25-26 at
the St. James Baptist Church on
East Thomas Street, according to
Mrs. Lucy Toney Bulluck, RWNG,
who is one of the four vice presi
dents of the Southern District No.
1.
Mrs. Emily Gilpin Cham
bers, Richmond, Va., is presi
dent and Senior Superinten
dent of the 89-year-old chari
table arid benevolent organiza
tion composed of women only j
and boasts of having more
than 50,000 members. The
Southern District extends over
Maryland, Virginia, Dec Cer,
North Carolina and Georgia i
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What's Happening
On Desegregation Front
PRESBYTERIANS TABLE
INTEGRATION PROBLEM
MONTREAT—Delegates to the!
96th General Assembly of the!
Presbyterian Church. U.S. <South-I
err.». returned to their churches j
last week with the problem of ran- j
ial segregation postponed for an- ;
other year.
The delegates voted down a j
proposal to put the issue, squarely •
before the assembly for a final i
vote, following a recommenda-;
tion from the Committee on Chris- j
t.ian Relationships. They also vot
ed to hold the General Assembly!
in Birmingham, Ala , next year as !
previously scheduled despite seg-1
relation ordinances there.
However, the Rev. A. Mathes.
pastor of the North Highland
Presbyterian Church where the
WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 195%
I State Business Group
Will Meet In Durham
! DURHAM Some 300 dele
j gates are expected to attend the
| 10th annual meeting of the North
j Carolina Negro Business League
!at North Carolina College, here
I June 18 and 19.
The business group is meeting
.jointly with the Housewives’
League, woman’s consumer study
organization.
Several nationally known busi
ness experts will speak and serve
as consultants during the sessions.
L. D, Milton, president of the
Citizens Trust Co., Atlanta, Ga.
is scheduled to address the open
ing session in the Education
JUDGE IN TILL
CISE TELLS OF
DEATH MAT
GREENVILLE, Miss. (ANPi _j
Circuit Judge Jordan, at the open- j
ing of circuit court here last Mon
day, said he received an anony
mous letter last fail threatening
him and his family if he “refused
to indict,” J. W. Milam and Roy
Bryant for the murder of 14-year
old Emmett Till.
•fudge Jordan said the letter,
mailed from "near Green
wood,” was probably written
by a crank. He added that he
.wasn’t disturbed.
The judge reported the incident
; ,n bis charge to the grand jury,
j He (old the jury:
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SMALL THE AD, JUST
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FOR YOUR CLASSIFIED!
Building at 10:4S a.m. on June 19.
■ W. D. Ketchum, director of the
i Office of Distribution, U. S De
partment of Commerce, Washing
; ton. wtli speak at 11:30 on June
19.
Serving as hosts for the meet
ings are. the Durham Business
and Professional Chain, the
Housewives League of Durham!
and Chapel Hill and NCC’s Com-!
merce Department,
In Small Business
Dr. L. J. Harrison of NCC’s
commerce department, chairman
of the host committee, says the
sessions will seek answers to such
questions as these: “How Can
Small Business Get Ahead?",
“What Makes A Business Grow?’’
and “How Can A Small Business
Attract, and Hold Customers?”,
j The sessions are open to the gen
j era! public.
i The Housewives League plans s
] social session in Chapel Hill on
| Sunday evening. June 17. However,
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Ex-Bondsman
Loses Appeal
GREENSBORO Samuel S.
Thomas, former bondsman, began
a two-to-four-year term in Cen
tral Prison at Raleigh on Monday
alter losing his appeal to the
State Supreme Court.
Thomas was convicted in Guil-
I ford Superior Court last Decem
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(sessions will be held, said: "For
several years. Negroes have at-1
tended our church on numerous j
occasions. We eat together and j
worship together and no one has
I ever disturbed us.”
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! BUS JIM CROW RULED
i OUT IN MONTGOMERY
1 MONTGOMERY, Ala.—A three
i judge panel, splitting 2-1. ruled
jin federal court, here last week
that racial segregation on city
buses here violates the Federal
Constitution,
The court, however, took no im
mediate action to issue an injunc
tion against enforcement of city
and state segregation laws. An
ticipating the city and state of
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Taking Care
Os Deformed
BoyToaMuch
DURHAM - A 33-year-old mo
ther who tried to drown her blind,;
deformed and mentally-unbalanc- j
ed six-year-old son has been sent'
to the State Mental Hospital at!
Goldsboro.
Police say that Mrs. Annie Rose!
Blakely attempted the killing but j
failed when her husband returned j
home to find the child floating.!,
face down, in a bath tub full of i
water. He Immediately applied!
artlcifial respiration.
The child was treated and re-!
leased at Duke Hospital and a i
Duke psychiatrist recommended!
treatment for Mrs. Blakely as aI
safeguard for herself and the!
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Son Kills Mother
in Freak Accident
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FAYETTEVILLE Mrs. Fran- ■
cis Melvin, 33, of Route 5, was
wounded fatally at. her home near
here early Saturday.
Officers say that she. was shot
when her son, Joe. 21. began fir
ing a, .22 caliber pistol in the yard,
i Mrs. Melvin stuck her head out of
a, window and was hit in the neck
: by a. stray bullet, police reported.
The son was held without"
I charge pending a coroner’s in
j quest
Methodists Urge
End To Race Bias \
MALDEN. Mass. (ANP) A
resolution calling for abolition of
racial discrimination and segrega
tion was adopted here last week
by Methodists attending the an
nual New England conference.
The resolve affirmed the state
ment of the church’s general board
of social and economic relations
which States;
“We believe it to be the duty
of every Methodist Christian
to exert to the full his person
al influence for the abolition
of race discrimination in ref
erence to employment, hous
ing, public facilities, hospital
and medical care, education,
recreation, justice in the.
| ODDSENDS
By ROBERT G. SHEPARD
local Negro legionnaires, smart
ing under the set back given their
bid for first-class membership by
| the state legion convention in
! Charlotte last week, are talking
j loudly about pulling out of the
| American Legion and setting up
j an organization of. their own.
The Negro division of the N. C.
Dept.. American Legion, designat
ed as Division Six, has never been
an Integral part of the legion be
cause it was not allowed mem
bership or representation on any
official committee or commission
| under the present set-up, no Ne
| gro legions ire can hold any office
J or have any voice in legion affairs
I and operation.
| A prominent local Negro
| legionnaire said this week that
be felt the time for a break
had come. Citing the long and
losing battle the Negro legion
naires in this state have been
waging for recognition since
the legion was set up right af
ter World War I, this vet
eran said he was convinced
it was useless to contend any
longer and that the only sen
sible thing for Negro veterans
to do Is organize their own
legion ’frhere they can be free
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NUMBER 38
GROOVKY MAN, GROOVEV :
—These young “CATS” are “out j
of this world,’’ enjoying them- j
selves at the Biggest ttork ’N |
Roll Show of 1956 In the Char- |
lotter Coliseum recently. More |
! Robeson Facing
\ Contempt Charge
j (Special to The CAROLINIAN) l
WASHINGTON Following a!
! heated session during which there j
| was considerable “shouting” on |
i both sides, the House Committee
lon un-American Activities voted j
jon Tuesday t.o cite singer Paul J
| Robeson for contempt of Con- 1
j gress.
I Following a. wordy exchange he
! tween the singer and Chairman
j Walter <D-Pa.) Waiter suddenly
• banged his gavel and declared the
hearing adjourned.
In a business session held
immediately afterward, the j
committee voted unanimously j
to recommend that Robeson be
cited for contempt. The ree- !
ommendation goes to Congress
which lias the power to vote
the actual citation.
Robeson had been called before
the committee in an inquiry be-;
gun last month, into possible use |
of American passports by com
munists or fellow travelers, He ’
| came to the ‘session with a pre-j
pared statement, declaring ‘ hisi
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courts, and all other relevant
aspects of our common life."
The resolution also stressed that;
"we as a church and nation must!
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HE SAVED HER BABY Tears of gratitude well in ft*
eyes o{ Mrs. Edith Birk, 28-year-old Estonian refugee, as she
hugs Henry Davis, a New York Central freight yard
m Bronx Magistrate’s court Davis testified that he scoop*©
Mra, Buie's three-month-old son from the path of an onoomfng
train, after the tot had been placed there by his deranged!
father, John. Btrk, (Newsptess* Photoj ' -
th in 12,292 lovers of the wierd
| beat jammed into the big dome
; to set, an atletrdanee record. And
Promoter Hrr> Crockett say*
I more of same is coming this way
: early in July. Another record
j crowd is In prosper.*..
iSTATE CLAIMS
iWEBSTEB CASH
| GREENSBORO Attorneys for
the. State of North Carolina were
this week preparing for a legal
battle, to retain loi ASsT College
$1,833 which the lei,?, N. C. Web
ster contributed from his salary
;to the teachers and state em-
I ployees’ retirement fund,
j Webster, former college bursar,
idled on October 25, 1955, Tried in
j Guilford Superior Court on five
! counts of embezzlement (totaling
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Unveil Bust
Os Dr. Brown
SEDALIA The first annual
| celebration of Charlotte Hawkins
{Brown Day here Sunday featured
i the unveiling and presentation of
j a portrait-bust of the president
! emeritus of Palmer Memorial In
j stitute.
j The program was conducted by
| representatives of the N. C. Fed
■-ration of Negro Women’s Clubs,
j Mrs. Rose Aggrey of Salisbury,
j president. Mrs. Sadie Griffin of
I Elizabeth City, was chairman of
j the committee on arrangements
j and gave the statement of the
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