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Bus Integration Leaders Map New Strategy
LOCK? AUTO OWNER
The luck? car last week was i
the. on - heat ins the tag num-1
her '■VI-20. If the owner of j
that car took !i to Dunn s fc'sso
Service, corner Cabarrus and |
Rloodworth Streets in Raleigh
he received a free grease job.
This will rsappen every week.
Hatch for your tag number. If
it follows the asterisk, you will
ret the grease job. The num
ber will he taken from any car
hearing a, N*. C, license.
The numbers this week arc: |
CX-6712; XX-125: X-l!*7; CX- j
,757; XB-421: and CX-823.
Local Woman ‘Taken’For $1,060
Cahiie Held For Rape Soys
• . ■ i i m . . i
SHOT BY COP ~ Shown on
arrival al Charity Hospital, New
Orleans, blood streaks the (are
of Frank Jones, 24. Mho Mas shot
Term. Parents Sue
Fo r Desegrega tion
KNOXVILLE, Term. A group
of adults on Monday filed suit, in':
Federal Court, on behalf of 14:
children asking that Knoxville be
racially integrated
The suit filed by the NAACF I
likely will hr heard by U. 8 Dis
State News
Brief
GI N KILLS (lllll)
NEW BERN Five children!;
Pcd with » shotgun today!;
v.'nile I,heir parents were away!
v.urkinc and. as a result, one of j:
taem. 3-year-old .James D. Scott 1 !
"•as shot to death. Acting Coroner !
Frank Ballard said that the child ]
>• re shot in the face at close range:
hy his 8-year-old brother, Ronnie!
I.yp. He said thath five children,!!
ranging in age from 2 to 8, ap-;
recently had gotten the gun after:!
their parents Jeff.
WOMEN FACE THEFT RAPS '
Hl(> H PCI N T Three 1;
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Guns and Knife
Bring Death To 4
RALEIGH Guns and a knife'
brought, death to four persons in |
widely separated incidents over 11
the week end.
Ai PiiisDo 0. Mrs. Helen G. I
Fproill. 30, l.s being held in Cha-!
I! am County jail on an open 1
i 1
« ONI INUSO ON PAGE 2) i *
THE CAROLINIAN
10c
| VOLUME 1 ft.
by a policeman after he hail pull
ed down segregated seating signs
on a bus In that city. When the
bus driver tried to slop Jones,
5 trict Judge Robert L. Taylor, who
: last year ordered the high school
; at nearby Clinton to admit, Ne
l gross.
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QUITS FOR good _ Jackie Robinson, for lfi years a star of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team
finds a. place to hang up ids jacket and glove on (he wall of the recreation room of his Stamford. Conn.. I
home. Robinson, traded to Hie New York Giants recently, announced hi . retirement from Hie sport in
which he, pioneered in an article lti Look niagarine, i
a
north caalina's leading weehly..
RALEIGH, N C.
he threatened the driver with a
knife. Jones was shot as he tried
io escape from the bus on Jan
uary 2. I NITI O PRESS TELE
PHOTO.
Expect Ruling
On Va. Buses
! |
ARLINGTON. Va„ Jan.. B—-A'
illusion in a case challenging
virtinia s law requiring racial seg-
I rogation at public meetings was
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WEEK ENDING SATURDAY JANUARY 12. 1057
I Attc 2 ked Her in Park
BY CHARLES R. JONES
“I didn’t do it!” shouted Ernest James Herring from his jail
| cell, when asked by a reporter if he was guilty of a rape charge
| lodged against him here.
“Hr did do it!” screamed Miss Malinda Mitchell, the al
I leged victim, who was contacted hy the same newsman for hei
j version of the incident.
Says Woman j
Gypped Her |
Out Os SIG i
RALEIGH Acting on a com
| plaint of Mrs. Maude Griffis, 56. i
local police officers arrested Miss j
Marjorie Williams, 36. on charges!
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_
Raloigh Catholic Bishop-
Fought Prejudice Within
Offer State Land
For Negro Resort
RALEIGH A 761-acre island j
j on the North Carolina coast has j
I been offered to the state for de- \
! veloprnent as a state park for Ne- ■
groes.
The site is Bear Island in Ons-1
low County and was offered by the 1
Hammocks Beach Corporation, a
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' ' rn ■ M.MHII in 777* ,
NUMBER 15
Herring, 45, of 816 8. Boun
dary Street, is charged with
raping Miss Mitchell, 18. by
force in the earl" morning
hours of January 1, but the at
tack was not reported to po
lice until January 4, He was
scheduled to receive a hear
ing in City Court Monday
morning. The hearing was put
off until Thursday us this
week, however, and he is now
languishing in the Wake
County Jail.
Ernest James is known to most
Raleigh folks as “E J and is a
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I RALEIGH (ANP)—Bishop Vin-.
j cp nt S. Waters of Raleigh who has
j won fame for his continual and :
| courageous fight against segrega
j tion in his diocese, had to first win
ihe battle against prejudice with i
himself.
In a talk given In National Litur
gy Week, the proceedings of which
have been published under the
iitle, “The New Ritual-Liturgy and
Social Order," the famed Bisi...p
tells how he himself had to over
come the dreaded social disease as
a young man. ■ j
Following an address, "The Mass
ODDS-ENDS
By ROBERT G. SHEPARD
I
! . :
OPEN LETTER: An open letter I
to the present of the United States. !
Dear Mr President: 17 million j
black Americans are very much ;
disturbed because of your openly
expressed concern for the Hun-
Kai ians refugees and your apparent
indifference to the sufferings of
your follow American citizens here
at hornt
It would be hard to Hud a
racial group more Interested in
(he welfare of suffering hu
manity than the American Ne
gro. A product of suffering
drprivalinn, hardship and wise,
his heart goes out in fullest
sympathy for all depressed and
grief stricken people. In spite
of this, however, Negroes ell
over America and particularly
those in the South cannot un
derstand why their plight has
not affected you in any degree
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Charlotte Muny Oolf
Course Open To All
CHARLOTTE The munici
pal golf course here was opened
to Negroes by action of the city's!’
Park and Recreation Commission, j *
j i
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| New Plans
Are Made
For Buses
ATLANTA Leaders oi lire bus
integration drives in Three key
cities have called a Southwide At
lanta meeting this week to spur
their movement and to discuss the
problem of racial violence.
The two-day meeting starting
Thursday was announced by the
Revs. M. L. King of Montgomery,!
Ala.; C. K. Steele of Tallahassee.'
1 Fla.; and jy. L. Shuttle,sworth of i
The plaintiffs sought an in
junction “forever restraining”
school officials from refusing
*o admit persons to any city
srhool ‘‘solely because of their
rare of color.”
Board of Education Chairman
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12 Ministers
Sit In Front
On Ga. Bus
ATLANTA. Ga.-—ln an apparent
attempt to break down segregation
in Georgia buses, 12 Negro minis
ters boarded an Atlanta city ve
hicle Wednesday and sat on front
seats.
Jhe bus, an etcctrical!y-oj>-
crated trackless (rollcv ear,
“developed power trouble" .nisi
slier the ministers were on
board ant! two mechanics were
called in to repair it. Ihe min
isters remained on the Inis, a!
though ai! but one of the five
or si\- white passengesr aboard
got off.
Finally the buy pulled away and
the preachers, led by the Rev, Wil
liam B-rders, pastor of the Wheat
Street Baptist Church, rode six
blocks before getting off. While
riding, they sang and read from
the Bible.
\t first (hr bps driver re
fused to permit them to leave
hv the front door, but they in
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Burn Cross Near
llandleman Store
RANDLEMAN - 17. and o1 p h
County Sheriff’s officers Monday
investigated the burning of a sev
en-foot cross in the front, yard
of a store near hen .
Deputy W. D. Bowman Jr., who
investigated the report, -aid there i
were no witnesses to the actual
erection of the cross or io the fir
ing of the cross. He said the cross
was made of cedar post •• wrapped
in burlap.
10c
and Interracial Justice", tie BL- !
hop answered questions, includin':
one which was whether there were j
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RE,STORED TO GOOD STANDING Rep. Adam Claylon Powell, tr , (D..NY.I second from
est. who bolted the Democratic parly in November, is shown talking to reporters after leading a Dews
■cralfr caucus in Washington which restored him lo good party standing with no more than » verbal
lap on the wrist. In background are some of the ministers who converged on the nation’s capita! tai
he Congressman’s behalf. UNITED TRESS TitOXO.
J-.i.0 * >il -\ \ !-i IOK !■ iir-ctKilrti American newsman, William
Woi ihy of Ballimre. is shown in Hong Kona as in' left for Red China
on < hrisimas !■ >*■ in defiance of a l'. s sUnto Department band on
iiaicl to 1) .•! ■'*>!,u«n. He Has given Red China i ,-i ~i the border.
I result of till’ action bj Worthy and two other newsmen, iho
State department revoked their passports. : NEWS PRESS PHOTO).
AS HE 8080 Richard Don
ald Mills, 15, was charßed with
I iturdet Monday in the fatal
: shooting of his father, Charlie
; Mills,
The bo.v told Randolph County
i authorities that he shot his t’a
; ther Sunday night, when the. eld os
.Mills assaulted the boy's mother
and then advanced on him. The
’ her died in Randolph Hospital
here.
j-wputy Shefiff Earl Coekerhara
; quoted the boy as saying he and
, his mother had returned from
. church to find his father drinking
: heavily. He said the father suud,-
cd io beat his mother and then
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Two men- one 70. and the oth
er G7—were killed in separate ac
cident,-: over tire past weekend.
At. ReidsviUc. a northbound
Southern R. ai! wa y passenget
train ■ truck, and killed 70-year
old Benjamin Heath at. a dovvn
| town crossing, Sunday. His body
: was hulled 81 feet.
At, Mt. Airy. Lacy Whitlock. 67.
• pedestrian, was killed Saturday
! night when he waltcpf! ito the side :
' of a car while trying to cross High
’ way 52 on the by-pass near High
way 89.
PoJ;is e Identified the driver of
the car a- Arnold Willis, Jr. 39,
of Huntington, w. Va.
W. I. .. lloway
Named acting
f•T ¥ S
i jr :'f n Hpa «rS
WtHiam Ju.ije.i'i. son Holtoeay
! dean o! boys at Ligon High
School, will take ove» as acting
p.stivipal o', Jamterv .18 when Di.
w. h Wat'•on leaves the. city to
take a position as a.-sir-tant pnn*
cipai oi Roosevelt High School,
Gary. Indiana
Hr Holloway is a native of
Smithfieid. Virginia. He was
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W. .1. HOLLOWAY