SEEK SCHOOL SOPT.’S OUSTER
Oberlin Bus
Issue Brings I
New Demand
F ALE!OH A movement to
lover the resignation of Jesse O.
Sanderson as superintendent of
Raleigh schools developed this
week a:- a result of the raging ron
trnveisy over the barring of Ne
gro children from schools in the
Oberlin section
A resolution to that effect is
to be presented at, next Tuesday's
meeting of the Raleigh Citizens'
Association, according to the Rev.
v G- A. Fisher, association presi
dent,
Bi;ls for th p resouifton was
made public at 3 meeting of the
school board on Tuesday, when
the F°v Mr Fisher openly ac
cused Superintendent Sanderson
0: displaying "lack of integrity''
in the manner tn which hr sought
to evade the U S Supreme Court's
desegregation ruling by providing
free bus transportation to Dgon
High School for the Oberlin stu
dent?
I (son t think ,rt need tost
tort *»f lawlessness in >h« Ra
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'Shot In Heart
Takes life Os
Father Os 4
RALEIGH Police, op Monday j
were still seeking Jsmer McCuch
errs. 42. who is wanted for the.
fatal shooting of his friend. Leroy !
Crowder. 36, here Saturday.
Crowder, father of foui. and » .
resident of Sawyer's Lane. was
killed instantly when shot, in the
heart He was slain off old Gar
ner highway when he stopped to
visit, a woman, reported to be his j
"girl friend "
The woman. Miss Levada Ste- j
pbens, said that she heard the:
shot and ran to the doo;. He wasJ
lying in the street beside his cor."
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ART TATUM,
PIANIST, DIES
LOS A.NGELES Art Tatum, j
world-famous jazz pianist, died I
here monday from uremia. He was
46
Tatum, taken 111 about two
weeks ago while on concert tour, :
entered Queen of Angels Hospi
tal shortly before midnight Sun
day. Blind In one eye and with
only slight vision In the other, he
was * native of Toledo, Ohio.
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"MISS SHAW IT.” ANT! AT
TENDANTS Center is Miss
Coriene Dudley, s, senior of
Hallsboro, and 3 physical edu
cation major who will reign as
'-Mfe* -h in- University” o'«(?
City Voters Stick With Ike, Nixon
10 C —| 10 C
VOLTJMf Vo RALEIGH, N. C. WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10. tdSA NUMBER ?
Man, 80, Killed By Train
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Man, 60, Sitting On Track,
Killed Wiian Hit By Train
RALEIGH - Struck by Train
No, 13 near the Southern Railroad
underpass, Herbert Stephenson.
60-year-old garage employee, was
killed about 5:30 p.m. Saturday.
According to Deputy Sheriff
Earl Duke, the train's engineer, J.
B. McClentock, of Greensboro,
l the homecoming activities
! which will be held on Saturday,
| November l". Her attendants
i are, left Miss Patricia, Hall, a
I junior of Fayetteville: and right
i Miss Della P, Lewis, a junior of
j Littleton,
said that the man was sitting on
the track "in an intoxicated con
; dition ”
i McClentock was quoted as say
[mg that he saw the man when
‘the tram was 100 feet from where
he. was sitting. He said that he
j blew his whistle but. that the
i man did not move.
: j The body was dragged about
jSO feet. Death was termed acci
! dental.
ONE KILLED, 5
HURT IN CRASH
LTTMBERTON A 78-year-olri
South Carolina, woman, Mrs.
Ruthts Dupree, of Route 1, Bel-j
heim, S. 0.. died Sunday of in-;
juries received in an automobile!
crash which injured five others, i
one critically.
In a critical condition in a
Lauringburg hospital* is her i
daughter-in-law, Mrs, Clara Du
pree, 60, of the same address, j
with a. fractured left leg and hip. :
scalp lacerations and possible in
ternal injuries.
Cleveland Dupree, 63, son of the
dead woman, suffered minor cuts
about, the face. Walter I. Prance. >
28. of Pilot Mountain, suffered
a brain concussion and cuts on
the right knee.
State Highway Patrolman R,
A. Caudle said that the accident,
occurred about 31:20 am., Sus
day, about three miles south of
Maxton. He said that Cleveland
Dupree, driving north on Route
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LUCKY AUTO OWNER
The iueky car last week was j
the on ■ bearing the tag num
ber 'XX-125 if the owner of. j
that car took it to Dunn s Esso
Service, corner Cabarrus and
Bloodworth Streels in Raleigh
he received a free grease job | j
This will happen every week, i
Watch for your tag number. If j ;
it follows the asterisk, you will I
get the grease job. The num- i
her will he taken from any car i
bearing a N. C. license.
The numbers this week are:
X• 1 92: TP-357: “XB-421: W. I
133: rx fill-: a «H ry.su.
TRAIN KILLS RALEIGH |
MAN Police and interested j
onlookers are shown here stand
ing near the remains of Her
bert Stephenson. 60-year-old
resident of Hunter Street, who
was struck by a train Sat
urday. Photo at lower right,
shows Stephenson in 1952.
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HERBERT STEPHENSON
ODCS-ENDS
By ROBERT G. SHEPARD
STANDSTILL: "Stand ve still
and see the salvation of the Lord."
That command, given by God to
an Old Testament leade- when he
was pressed on all sides by a seem
ingly over-powering foe, should be
the watch word of the Southern
Negro today,
God has always proven him
self to be on the side of RIGHT
We know of no better present
day example of this trsith than
what is going on now on the
school front in the Obcrbn
section <>f Raleigh. The real
impact of the significance of
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Predicts Desegregation
Will Begin In Winston
CHARLOTTE A prediction
that a start toward public school
desegregation in North Carolina
will be made in September, A957.
was made here Friday night, by
Reed Surratt executive editor of
the Winston-Salem Journal and
Twin City Sentinel.
Mr Surratt, made the predic
tion in a talk before the North
Carolina Couhcil on Human Re -
Methodist
Church Hit
By Blast
RJSIDn VILLE —A small wintry
church was rocked bv * blast, be
lieved caused by dynamite Mon
day right
An explosion !:» the Topla?
Grove Methodist Church, lo
cated north of Greensboro on
the old Reidsvllle Road se
verely damaged the church
building- The blast was. beard
by several residents in the ru
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Man Thought Lynch
Victim Found Alive
WILDWOOD. Fia, ... Jesse ] reported bv FBI nrrpt.. wh<-
Woods, farm worker, missed for rated him as Heine in -and roo
st* davs after being dragged from j ditioo.’ Woods was flogged hv ihr
the local jail by a mob of white ; mob after he allegedly railed
men. was found alive Saturday' '‘Hello, there baby" m , , V )vt e
at Andalusia. Ala. I school teacher.
Presumed to have beer, a lynch
victim, the 39-year-old man was (CONTINUED on page
I Suicide Threat Charged To
Noted DC Woman Educator
WASHINGTON— (ANP) Dr
Margaret Just Butcher, a professor
at Howard University and former
member of the District Board of
Education, was admitted to D C.
General hospital last week for
mental observation.
Mrs. Butcher wa» booked by
Metropolitan police who had been
summoned to her home after she
A&T INAUGURAL
SET FOR FRIDAY
GREENSBORO Warmouth T.
Gibbs will be inaugurated as the
fourth president of A&T College,
in a day long celebration to be held
her e on Friday, Nov. 3.
t. M. Marlcena, dean of far
ulfirs at the college and chair
man of the cntnmiHre on ar
rangements for the inaugura
tion, said more than 150-per
sons, delegates from leading
colleges, universities, learned
societies, and national educa
tional and professional organ
isations are among the out-of
town guests expected to he
present.
Registration for the event is
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lations, The editor, the Rev.
Henry G. Rurak, pastor of First,
Methodist Church, Laurinburg,
and Dr. Carl E. DeVane, head of
the social science division at,
Shaw University, Raleigh, took
part in a symposium on "Citizen
ship Responsibility lr> the Pre
sen* Crisis in Race Relations"
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Ike Nearly 2-1
0
Favorite Over
Stevenson
Voters in Raleigh'.* two pre
dominantly Negro precincts Tues
day gave President Dwight D.
Eisenhower almost a 2-1 icari ov
er A dial Stevenson for President
of the United States,
A check with (ho two pre
cincts showed fh* following
results: Precinct 20, Inerted
a* Crosby-Garfield School,
gave Eisenhower 520 rot. s to
253 for Stevenson. Precinct 2t;,
Lucille Hunter School, gave
Eisenhower <SO vnfps io jsg
foe .Stevenson
The city's three other precincts
which have nniy n few Negro vot
ers, showed these results Pre
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4 Children
Saved From
lead Poison
SOUTHERN PINES Quick
| action by members of the staff a?
St, Joseph of the Pines- Hospital
is credited with saving the live -
.of four youngsters who gulped
handfuls of Rweeti.sh-ta.stinß nink
: powder that, they found in a"ho ;
in a garage.
j Hospitalized on Wednesday
I night, the children on Monday
| were believed out. of danger from
I arsenic-lead poisoning They are
: Johnnie Harrington, ft. his sir,{era
Brenda. 3. and Anita. 2. and their
cousin. Robin Ann Jacob
The Harrington children’* mo
ther came home from work ?.o
find all four covered with a oink
: i*h dust which she found had
i come from a bag on the top shelf
‘ in the garage. She rushed them
j a!! to Dr. C. H Daughters' who
; took them to the hospital where
their stomachs were washed out
j fbri medical,ion applied.
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had threatened to jump from the
window' of her seventh-floor &■
paitment.
Ihe 4,>-year-old educator, author
and lecturer, is reported as having
Pees under tremendous nervous
strain due to overwork She had
been advised by physicians to
fake » rest and had entered a hos
pital at Philadelphia two weeks
ago She returned to Washington
last week on personal business.
Early Sunday she had been
arrested at the Washington
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CHURCH DAMAGE EXAMIN I
ED— The Rev. M. L Johnson, !
above left, »«d Sheriff John Wai
ters of Reids ville. examine a hole j
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i '’2 'NO AFTER VOT
ING Miss Marjorie Williams
.« private secretary, in top photo,
pprai.'d to hr pondering the
v Lous impact of her vote as she
entered a booth at Raleigh's
precinct 26, Tuesday Mr and
Use "fear Gas To Halt
Rock V Roll Riot
FAYETTEVILLE ‘Tear gas
was used here Thursday night to
break up a near riot at a rock 'n'
roll dance featuring Fats Dorm no
and tus band.
Trouble broke out. it i report
ed. when an unidentified whit
man tru’d L dance with son'.-
Negro women No serious inju; >e:
were reported Domino receiv'd
treatment for cuts on hn hand
Arcording to reports tin, is
the third time that dances featur
ing Domino and his orchestra
have broken up in this fa.-Inon
NASHVILLE, Term A report
that 4(52 Negro teachers have ins*
their jobs as result .-J dr
Ration of public schools in south
ern border states was made here
Monday bv Southern School
News
Oklahoma, with 3(14 led the
list followed b.v Kentucky. West
Virginia, Missonii and Texas The
News, published by a board of
newspaper editors and educators,
also reported the addition of 22
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National airport and charged
with drunkenness, disorderly
conduct and assaulting an off!
rcr. She was released under
a .>250 bond pending a hearing
on Nov. 20. before a United
Males Commissioner in Alex
andria.
! Airport police reported tiidl
| Mrs Butcher slapped an officer
alli r nr and another policeman
I had warned her to talk less sou
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in the floor of the Poplar Grove |
Methodist Church, which vas
by an explosion Monday nigh* !
torn hv an explosion Monday |
Mrs. G. J,. t«K 71 fi E, Marita
street in hoi ton* photo, seemed
well pleased with their decision
*s the emerged front a voting
hootH at the *>?'< -,- precinct
(STAFF photos RV "rHAS',
R JONES,
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TOPS* N \B FATHER. SON
n m,eigh A l ether and >or:
team wa. biokcn up here Monday
nr lit. The father. Eugene Will is,
’• v ms nabbed it. hi- home in the
700 block o’ d We-jt Street, and
officers discovered three quart;
of il]c'.:;i| liquor jp his pe; sort-ion,
the son. Edcll Willis, of the 400
block oi tv Ler u Htreet.. vjj
chn :: cd it L pc, : ,r in : four
quarts of illegal whiskey.
CAR Kill S ANSON VOUTH
WADISBORO Wilbert
Mackey. 6. war tilled Sutrdav
nigbl when hji by n ,ntn.
mobile ‘>n < secondary bich
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High Court
Turns Down
Paul Robeson
WASHINGTON - The U 3.
Supreme Court here Monday de
nied Singer Paul Robeson a re
new of his efforts to compel the
State Department to issue him a
passport for European travel.
Turned down by the depart
ment. Robeson war t.oid that be
could ask foi a •.•nrw bv com
plying with certain regulations,
including the filing of a non
communist affidavit, which he re
fused f.o do
Tn hi,s appeal for a high court
hearing. Robeson said that he was
"the victim of an economic black
list, imposed by reason of his po
litical views and associations’'
night Police theorize that the
explosion wa* the work of a
group of “wild kb!&*’