HELD IN SHUOTING oosevelt Williams, ’ ’ of O >iv V
a is ushered into a .nil r! 1 following a skn.iliu ■>
On-.ilia tuft', m which on< ni:iM w.is killed and mn »■. .-ms • -i
I 1 Cun battle rlimavd ill a .innnit ai>;i;-r< ns:-. )<>• ,n s r,
a. r an strpoed on n woman’s !op .liurr? I>. Sia*ks 21~. v <s sli:,i
d !h. .1 NT! t;) PREhS IEI I'HOTO .
Cl «n. -y e /L% J £ ft /| rs C? r% -
C 4 j «£► f » -I-ftX Vl, Ci- k I is..-*.I - ijL
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a 41111) ju±a j -* **.i a.. j *■.>.. •’.<
Ns 2 h f Vj in £ pvo vrd cos 11 v {o r
K'.vmond v/iikma 34 ot '-R
vVi^hinv'fon Ten ac€ who ws- re
portedly .v,pot b,v an uniden 5 in'd
mr«.n T>~ l?v r;:;hf nr the
ply Yj*i-M n 31 "5
Hooplt,!! that Wilkes ' hi
Pvob ? h\v bp pi m 1 ?7ed fr \m
fb#* «a(s.t rto’vp for the re*
rn:j* of hb« life His f »n
’ n *p •v.*-* fb >r* iiied as -j
" .■>> Mtf n<. TuesrJa v j
p f if*monn of i h is week. A ,22 ]
r\f\e s!jr s’r-rk hi* spinal
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iVj I/ IW/ J I ltd ;
RALEIGH— ('‘'r..v ■? *-uh a
request made bv Secrenn of State j
Thad Eure in Novenjjger. 1955, the J
NAA CP last. Thursday filed ae a i
corporation doirigl husino: i In this ,
state in compli-.ncc with toe state’s i
fovtign corporation statutes.
The organuation filed a list of its .
national officers and directors and j
named as “procr <s agent” Kelly M. j
Alexander, president, of the NAA- .
CP's North Carolina branch. The;
V A A.CP ■ ' /> -"!■:! -- -■ t
covet a $•". fthng fee and S4O in
After Eure rcouested such action i
t r . J 955. the NAACP re* only de- '
muvred but w ens in f o court for g i
declaratory judgment asking lilt- j
ftalion of the Association's rights j
and asserting that if mytrl. not be ;
eon->dered *n b>- dome ' c-iness jp i
North Cecil
The suit still pend’r.; tr. Wake '
Superior Court
smu THEN |
Hfrs f n niys
FAVF.TTFVIT..TF.',- After helping j
fmir other persona to • tenpe. Mrs. :
Victoria Smith Dawsoi atmit fii i
re-entered her blazing home Sun
day night and never fame out.
The building rollai ;ed as she
v ■ nt barl; inside Mrs. n.rvwn had
srnufecl h'T h';>h,->nd WilJjairt A i
Dawson. Fo -rod thi. prandchi.! i
’-en. aged 4-lS' and u i them out I
ACAIAST
i )ISMISSEO
NAA CP leader, agair.st a Frank- ;
Union nchcp officer in the death '
ot Perry's mn was db missed by a j
Superior Court jury last \vc k
Perry was assessed the court |
costs H' 1 sued Os fie r C. P. Ciirisuii [
for $”'1,000 f -ii th< "'vrongful 1
t’frith 1 of Jam ■ Perry arid $2.0,000 !
punitive damages
Perry, 20 was killed hv Gibson
on the Right I.f M,: d: 3, !');•)«, J
i'hlle the office*- vns allem.pting j
to arrest the .youth rn a disorderly 1
conduct chru ?s
Perry, a,-cording to evidence 1
given in com!, sti-ckod the of j
the head and knocked him down
after I'shieh Oibsoß shot Perry . ,
three times. j,
VV<r*p Co'intv r )pp*:'v
A44 r ■ • - J •
wmm :
r
J V ■
I WII KINS ;• i • :>. . :. nv .
H
i left; the hospil-i and to havn driven
j oil in a cream colored truck. He
| through Longview Gardens, Per
j sons who save him also failed to
I get the I icons-' mimo-r of the tuck
; said that Herbert Fort, a com
frONTINcED OS r.AGf P
HERIOC RESCUE When fire hrnl r out in the Omden. N. J„
home of Marvin Gilmore. :W, !.,st v-ev k. his four rhilttrcn were res i
rued. Gilmore is shown dropping (he youngest, Belinda, nine months
old. into the waiting bunds of on lookers. After dropping all of the
children to safety, he slid to safety, (UNITED PRESS TELEPHOTO).
Prisoner Hangs Himself With Own Belt
N. G. VOTING SUIT HITS LITERACY TEST
THE CAROLINIAN
||jl „
10c \ —l f 12c
| in N. C l =*■ T»sd_i, Elsewhere
j VOLUME ip RALEIGH. N. C. WEEK ENDING SATURDAY. MARCH 2, 1957 NUMBER V.
I' Washington Terrace Men Shot
j + 4* 4- + + + + + -d
--n
f*
Rsading Test
Unuer Attack
l.r CJpprT
leS •.. *.• 'Ll* ayfii
rI.; - Mi: Louis? Las
, u.“t. a rfioi<:l o nt of Nwi hi.ainplon
Cosp-it c 1 -•!•■■ .w i.h?>. her vot
■ .'ih’-d a mi;:, or. Monday in U. &.
i .:, rt Ci-..’ri a:;.-*in:if a
Norsbi-.ampt.on Cotmly vegtstrar
i .*■••-' fun., which named Mrs.
ifelrn H. T.-.vlo/ of Se-Hooai'd prt
i.me; r deif.-Kioiv. asks that a
r -.-tion oi licials from
•I •••:.•: •'.. • U . ! till ~H y U*;.:.-. in dc
• imi-. :A voting qua’ifications at
:■■!.■■ tihuiA-cd alf.o that both the
'< ( -shna constitution and
*’ . North C.’rrlir.a general st.ai
ajc utuo.n.MituUonal in giv
< . j IKI f.r> ON PAGE 3)
CdKOUNIAN’S 818 BOHUS MONEY!
IM3TION BEGINS THIS WEEK !
The Bis Bonus Money Promo-,
tion, ,: I .Hi’.u red in the CAROLIN-j
IAN last v.-eek. gets underway j
•„ h this edition and will net $100:
to lucky shopper every month |
n t!u Raieish-Wakf County Vi- :
\ family or person buying i
il,e gr, a, st total in dollars |
rid cents of merchandise
from merchants whose adver
iis -.--t-niS appear in The CAR
OLINIAN, from week to week, j
i Slats News j
!
I
PRORE I AIL BRE AK
cAILoBURY - Fletcher Wad-;
d<=ll Lilly is being heid here on I
i ■ < of a.vaul* and robbery:
wohe Rowan County officers in-j
his escape from the;
Nor h Kannapolis Jail. Lilly was I
oi ought, to Salisbury from Fort,]
. iiiatiu Saturday by Sheriff Arthur]
ihupmu. Shuping reported that
... mar*, b absent without officiai
b'-avc. fr...n the military cum; .
uilly turned himseif in to authori- j
ties at Foa Bragg early Saturday.;
He was arrested in North Kan-j
: • ;jv :.. last Wednesday by Police. 1
: thief A. J Hurkley, who suspect- j
■ d him of driving a car with a 1
•!01--:i license plate As he was be
.ns placed in jail. Lillv scuffled
i CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) i
during g one month period, i
will receive the bonus men
tioned above. At the end of
ttiis month (March 311 a
CAROLINIAN check for SIOO .
will be issued to the first I
bonus money receiver and his
or her picture and name will j
be printed in our columns the ]
following week.
Here’s what you do: Save your I
purchase slips each week in an:
envelope and bring them to our |
office, 518 E l .. Martin Street, prop-!
erlv dated, at. the end of the I
month, with your name and ad-;
dress. Keep the slips separated by i
the week in your envelope and!
place the total value of the pur- j
chase, slips on the outside of the \
envelope
No one purchase should ex
trOVTIM ED ON PAGE 2i
Listing Os Advertisers
In Bonus Money Program
The merchants listed below are CAROLINIAN Bonusj l
Money Stores.
Patronize these advertisers and secure receipts for whatever
merchandise you purchase The CAROLINIAN will carry a list
of its advertisers each week.
PAGE 3
Poole Pie Shop
Mother and Daughter Stores
Edwards Shoe Store
Wayside furniture House
PAGE 5
famous Bakery
Hudson.Beik t ompanv
Hunt General Tire Company
Wertz's
Southern furniture Company
PAGE fi
n. K Quinn furniture Company
Sureflt Seat Cover Center
Joy re and Hailey Furniture Compaa*
O K. clothing Company
Tip Top Food Stores
(ioodina ns
PAGE 7
Conn.Gower Pontiac Company
Carolina Buick Company
D. and s Motors
Sir Walter Chevrolet Company
Sanders Motor Company
PAGE 8
Ambassador theatre
f'ii-l Citizens Hank and trust Co
firestone Stores
Carte' s !nr.
Washington Terrace Apartment*
Police Seek
Dad Os 6 in
Wife’s Death
SELMA—Search cintinurd here
Wednesday for a 10-year-old fa-1
ther of six who slashed his wife's!
'read almost off her body and!
then fled without, taking time to]
dress, Monday
Andrew Edwards, a former town!
employee, is the man sought. A|
telephoned pica from one of the!
man’s daughters to ‘come quick.!
Faddy is killing mama.’ brought!
officers to the Edwards residence j
about 5:45 a.m.
Bin when Patrolman Albert
Braswell and Roger Strickland
got there, it was too late. Mrs.
Annie Lewis Edwards, 37. was
gasping her last breaths. The :
officers said that her jugular !
vein had been severed and her j
iCONTINUED ON PAGE 2)
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I
Hail Marian’s!
loner Beauty
j
NEW YORK— Actress Marlene j
Dietrich Tuesday named Marian ]
Anderson. Betsy Cushing Whitney, j
Edith Piaf and the late F.leanora '
Duse as the most beautiful women j
she ever had seen
Miss Dietrich explained in an ar- |
tide iri McCall’s magazine that she j
chose the four on the basis of in-j
ner beauty of goodness and hap- ,
piness. She said there was too much j
fCONTINUED ON PAGE 2) j
I ——
PAGE 9
i A. and P Super Markets
| Raleigh Savings and Loan Association j
j The Capital Coca-Cola Bottling Co
; 1 red Mitchell (Heater Cnali
j Southern Bell Telephone Company
PAGE in
Dunn's Esso Service
Carolina Builders C orp
j Caveness Insurance Compan,
Watson's Sevlond and Poultry C 0., Inc
Mechanics and Farmen Bank
Umstead's Transfer Company
Dillon Motor Finance Company
; Ridgeway's Opticians
; Bloodwortli Street Tonrlsl Home
j Heater Well Co.
! Pepsi-Cola Bottlim Co. of Raleigh
j Warner Memorials
j Deluxe Hotel
PAGE 1#
N. C. Produts
Centra) Drug Store
CT. S. Turker and P.ros. Furmiure Co.
Acme Realty Company
" M Young Hardware ,
firm Watch Shop
The Hood System Industrial Bank ]
Interest paid to hanks counts I
VICTIM OE RACE FIGHT Edward hi»r ,’ifi, who was fatally j
beaten In Boston last week after having been goaded into a fighl
with four while ni<-n who had called his v.hitc wo map companion.
Mrs. Dolores t.’oria, 26, insulting names. Two of the men are being
held in connection with the slaying, iUNITED PRESS PHOTO).
Teenager Says
Man Raped Her
CHAPEL HlLL—Faced with chan
ges of rape brought by a *e»-n.- : g<
girl, Willie Lesley, local laborer,
is being held here in jail without
bond
Police answering a call made by
a neighbor of the girl, say that,
they found the girl outside the
house and Lesley lying on a couch
in the living room According to
the girl’s report, Lesley knocked
on the door of the home, a bottle
of wine in one hand, and asked
her to let, him in.
When she refused, be reportedly
drew a pistol and said he would
shoot if she didn't Police sa;d that
the victim told them that Lesley
then came into the house and look
TEA AND REPARTEE A member of the “official family” of New York’* “First f.adv,” Mr*. Aireref
ftarriman (wife of Ihe governor). Mrs. Joyce Phillip*. Austin (second from rlghti provides tea. and repartc
during the weekly "socials’ 1 at ihe governor's mansion in Albany. Mrs. Austin, executive secretary of th*
New York Women’s Council, is joined (left to right! by Mrs. Sheridan Norton,' moiher of (he. governor!,
Mrs. Hardman, and Mrs. Rudolph Puma iright) of the Siena Women's Club Some, SOA women leg!*.
Istor-s, organization leaders and state officials attended the Tuesday afternoon teas, (New,press Photo),
. j™ 1
LOCKE AUTO OWNER
The lucky car last week was '
I the on bearing the tag num-!
! her *BD-322, If the owner of j
tuai ear took H in Dunr s r,sso
Service, corner Cabarrus and
Blood worth Streets in Raleigh
he received a free grease job.
This will nappen every week.
Watch for your tag number. If
it follows U»e asterisk, you will
get the grease job. The num
j her will be taken from any car
■ ! bearing a N- C. license.
j The numbers this week arc:
i BK-877; UP-952; BR-387. AVT- I
", j 125: Al 1 -691; and 1852-T.
I her in the back room where he at
j tacked her.
i She escaped and gave the. alarm
>*o a neighbor Patrolman Charles
! Byrd noted that Lesley had a pis
tol, which hr described as a "toy'.
but that Lesley denied threatening
the girl with it
FUNDS NEEDED
Because the Lassiter case
and ntlicr similar to it, repre
sent “class action," funds are
| urgently needed, f unds mav be
sent, to the Rev. X. K. Dunn,
I Weldon: Herbert Brown. Garys-'
; burg; or A <’. t’orfield, Weldon.!
| Succeeds On
Third Try At
EnJing Life
CHAPEL KlLL—After t,ro pr«-
: vious attempts had failed. Frank
Weaver. 39. of South Merritt Mill
Road, committed suicide by hang
ing in the Chapel Hill jail Satur
day, after being arrested in Carr
boro for public drunkenness,
Carrboro Patrolman Albert L.
Pendergrass, who slid that he ar
rested Weaver about 5.20 p ru.,
I discovered him dead about 6.50
I pm
The officer said that he took
two sandwiches for Weaver down
to the pul cell about 6;50 and
found the man slumped, facing
i the bars. He said that h« called
j Chapel Hill Patrolmen Amos
j Horne and Howard Pendergraph
| to the scene immediately.
According to the. patrolman.
Weaver apparently hanged him
, seif with his belt by suspending
it from a horizontal bar of the
; cell. Dr. William Joyner, called
' (o the scene, said that Hie man
had been dead about an hour.
The county coroner ruled fix*
drain a suicide
Integration
Federal and state action in ra
cial violence cases in the South
this week formed a backdrop to
protests of southern leaders in
Washington against President
Eisenhower's proposed civil rights
legislation.
Federal authorities at Knox
ville. Tenn., sought to re-arrest,
segregationist John Kasper on
contempt charges in connection
with school integration violence
laid. November in Clinton, Tenn
Kasper 27, already under a 12-
[ month prison sentence for the
earlier Clinton riots, was cited
with John Cates a Clinton case
ov.ner who was arrested Monday
night and freed under $5,000
bond.
In Miami Fred B Rockett of
Clinton describing himself as
j Kasper's right hand man. and
I three Miami men went on trial in
city court for frying to erect a
kerosene cross in front, of a. Ne
; gro s home
A Florida, legislative hearing in
; Miami %y-u. stalled meanwhile h
. finding that, slate rocerd,. cf fjy.
'NAACF have been shipped to
York, Investigator* demanded
their return
Washington
A . Georgia congressman said
members of his state delegation
! decided againr.t trying to impeach
■six U, s. Supreme Court justices,
(CONTINUED ON r IGE Z)
ODDS-ENDS
J By ROBERT G. SHEPARD
! ‘'SATISFACTION OF THE REG
, ISTRAR" It i- a good thing that
| some one has at lasi attacked this
1 state's arbitrary and despotic liter
; acy test for voting applicants. This
; week, a Negro woman, Mrs. Louise
Lassiter, filed suit in U. S. East
ern District Court charging that
'her constitutional rights to vote
) had been denied her when a regis
; Mar in Northampton County had
: lefused to allow her to register on
j the grounds that stw mispronounc
i rd some words while reading the
I constitution
The foundation of all laws is
I common sense The reason lor
I ail laws is fustier. There ts
neither romnson ser>»* nor ju?
tire In giving to one person
the authority to deny the right
to vote of hundreds of free and
sovereign rifizens simply he
rausr that one person, ih* reg
istrar. has not been '-satisfied”
with the reading of those, eiti
z.ens.
The persons taking the test mar
: bo. and in several proven eases,
1 are qualified, to pass college ex-
I animations but if the registrar be
! fore whom those persons must ap
! (CONTINUED ON PAGE 21 ,