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\ vrn \NTS- m si \a ostine’ ; illei «. th« ibove pretty
nftrndants to Miss Betty Byers, May Queen, on .Saturday, May I I .est to i :lit: It ivriat Bryant
Wilmington; Mabel W.vnn. Raleigh; Catherine Hushes. Winston-Salem; and Bessie Smith. Rocky Mount
i '4 1
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SGT. NOFKELL LEWIS
. * . commits suicide
ITT Or II YEARS
[ if ITS SUICIDE
FATETTFVXLLE ln a calm
aMI restrained manner, Mrs. Jo
sin.d! Lewis told the CAROLIN
IAN Monday morning how she
came hack to her home. 1218 El
Ir.jt.t street,, Friday afternoon and
found her husband. SFC Morrell
Lew-:?, dead from what she term
ed a self-inflicted wound
According: to Mrs, Lewis,
her husband left home in fine
spirds for Ft. Rrage at his
wsuai time Friday morning,
feu! returned about I p. m.
fv is reported to have made
himself comfortable and be*
ran watching television. Mrs
Fowls srys she left and went
io the home of a neighbor and
returned about 1:30.
Upon arriving back home she
met bv another neighbor, who
asked if Mr. Lewis was at home.
' ‘ * i epbed. 'I left him watching
television. It was then that, the
hitter neighbor told her that she
had. been there and was not able
to make him hoar her at the
door The neighbor t, o1 rs Mrs.
Lewis that she came to notify
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Woman Held In Slaying
Os Common - Law Hubby
F.T ALEXANDER BARNES
FAYETTEVILLE A kni fe
'vending common-law-wife, Mrs
Bessie Carroll, is being held in the
Cumberland County jail, for the
"lagging' slaying of her illegal
Mate. Aadreu David McLean,
Thursday, whom she sayr became
enraged when she refused to cook
him some bread
Police officers fold the CARO
LINIAN that McLean did not make
any statement before he expired at
Cape Fear Valley Hospital but
questioning of the woman brought
cm the following information:
in a signed confession, the
'lk is Week *s Advertisers
The merchants listed below are CAROLINIAN Bonus
Money Stores.
> AGE 3
Flip F'lrfe r s Rnll c.ilvpiw Stars
r T-: p atoms.
’- » if Mr-i s
S ■ r,clri - Motor Company
r i'.v i. ,y country Tire. Service
o k C'cthtn* Company
l one! Hampton Anri His Bond
PAGE 3
Sv.fhern Sell Telephone Company
Sotd/iein Furniture company
Mother 4- Daughter Stores
PACE
f'.’-now Bakery
Tt hn A>ke\v, Filnter 4 Peroratot
R'idsnn* BSeik Company
O' on ■, ioyville
-i v>!ien-- Appliance Company
F irune Henry Tourist Home
tire -ah s A Servite
Rri'eish Funeral Hole
PAGE 6
fi-Mir Sera ice Co. of V f . in.
-V :nc Realty Cninpiny
Cvsdsort's Crocerv A Meat Market
Bunt General Tire Cnmitanv
Amha.-.sador Theatre
foe Hood System industrial Bank
5 X Voting Hardware
Clvella Beauty rolle r
fi A R.mrl The Tailor"
PAGE 7
W.lf hint ton Tfr.ir? Aplj
tones A Christinas Pii- oil Service
8 ■ oit.iGrocery 4- Meat Market
Tilton :■ hoe Shop
Firestone Stores
N. C. State Baptists Open I
Sessions Hare Tuesday j
ji Mas-Sigmas
k Regional
Gcnfab Hers
i With the spot, light focus.-d ipo; j
j tie general theme Prevention ano :
Control of Juvenile Delinquency. i
1 of business for tiif 2i)o plus cidt?-
: Eat" , s assembling here from the I
| District of Columbia. West Vi: . e.
| the Eastern Regional Meeting of !
! the Zeta Phi Beta Sororitv. Ph; i
1 Beta Sigmas will meet at that j
j time. also.
Beginning at fivoelock I'vi
i day afternoon. May .1, on the' West
j Campus o# Shaw Univr,-; ity Gen
| oral Headquarters for »h« n• •: ehng
i itsgistraMon is expected to he com-
j < CONTINUED ON FAG! 31
2 Candidates
Place Among
Top Fourteen
j Two Negroes will be among the j
; candidates seeking office or the
j City Council Tuesday
Dr Catherine B Middleton.
Mho polled 1.481 votes and
Lawrence T. Lightncr, who
garnered 1,3.50 votes in the Sat
urday primary earned the right
to seek offires in the election.
| Approximately 1,000 of the . j
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* woman said McLean came home
| from work at 12.15 p. m and gave
her $5 to pay the rent.
She said he went, to bed while
she prepared lunch, He awoke
about an hour later she «airi
"quarreling and cussing because
1 did not have the. bread done
"1 told him thc-re was not enough
grease so cook bread and liver
she said -f fed him his meal with
cold bread. He wanted hot bread
and 1 told him the stove was cold
and I couldn't get the bread cook
ed fast enough " *
i FONTS NEED ON PAGE ?!
Gem Watch Shop
tells Radio A TV nil’y
'evre «v B&llev Furniture Compart*
T'< in Inn Oil Rervl' e
Alfred Williams 4- Companv
A S' P. Super Market
PAGE 8
Bloedworth Street Tnurtst Home
Hcatei Well Coitupanv
Caveness Insurance Agency
j Dunn's F:-,sr. Service
< arolina Builders Corp
Watson’s Seafood A Poultry Co. t■•<*.
Vmstead’s Tr.imfer Company
Dillon Motor Finance Company
B.riieway’s Opticians
Pepsi-Cola. Botlllrw > o or Raleigh
Mechanic:., A- Farmers Bank
Warner Memorials
OOIUXI Hotel
PAGE 9
Carolina Motor
Kir Weller Che violet Company
city Motoi Co
PAGE If*
Fisher Wholrt-ale Com pans
R C Quinn Furniture Co.
N. c Products
Longs (etv Plumbing A Heating Co
The Hood System Industrial Bank
First.-titirem Bank 4 Trust Company
Kimbrell’x
Edward’s Shoe Store
Ppoole’s. Pie Shop
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Electrical Wholesalers. trie.
BT R tFVJNG BOONE
RALEIGH -With the approach
.. Tu< sdnv. March 7. attention
is foct’ccd on the 90th anniver
sary cMrhrut ton o( the General
F-.nii.M. C:rite ConvenMon of N. C.
Inc... to be held here.
men, women youth -repi esJnting
the 300.000 Negro Baptists of the
.= fate', ate expect=>d in me Capi
tal City for this historic event.
The program lor this one-day
Assembly provides a full agenda..
There will he reports from vari
ous commiticcs pane! discussions,
dealing with srvrific phases of
the denominational work and an
impressive Pawn!, of Progress”
depicting 99 years of struggles and
achievements on the part of- the
The celebration will be climax
ed vifli an address bj the Rev
William Holmes Borders, pastor
of the Wheat. Street Baptist
Church of Atlanta. Ca. For many
years n: thsf forefront a : - an ex
ponent. of righteousness and prog
ress. Dv. Borders recently received
national attention as the leader
Ter. Winners Os B§nus Money
Afeisaiicssl Far Second Month j
The ton winn.'-' ? in the CARO- ,
; LI NT AN’? Bonn? Money Program !
: for the second month were an- j
; pounced Wednesday $l3O will be j
| divided between these persons. I
; The first p.-lre winner will re- j
1 ceive SSO, followed bv prizes of!
! $25. sls. SID and six $5 prizes. The i
i winners follow:
! (1' Mrs. Ella .Jones 1103 Smith- ■
Held St.. Raleigh reported $341.10. j
■ <2i Mrs. Thelma Keck, US R Pet - j
i tigrew St., f'.ty reported $312.48; !
| 1 31 Mrs. Ruby B Stroud, 124 S. j
Hettierviv St.. Raleigh, reported i
| $253.74'. ■4 l Mrs. Inez H. Peebles. !
i 118 Lincoln f't . Raleish. reported!
J $241.21, 'Til Mr Marshall Butler. I
309 E, Lenoir St.. Raleigh, reported
I $170.00: (fit Mrs H. R White, Me
| UlOd. $167.59; (7) Mrs. James T.
I Johnson, 815 Coleman St., City,
! $i62.94; (ft. Mrs. Elizabeth Davis, j
| 607 Quarry St., Cjtv. $149.73: (9)1
i Mrs Queen Perry. 23 Chavis Way. '
City. *130.14 and 1 10) Mrs. Annie 1
Judge Armond Scott, Gurney Hood
;New Shaw University Trustees
i __
VOTED IN LEA), ... i ivimhn.h n f KM t
Latte 'Si* vet, Is shown leaving (he booth at Precinct 20, located at
t or Hie Hunter School last Saturday after rusting his vote. Th'a pre
cinri, located on L Davie Street, recorded more votes than any other
i precinct m Raleigh as voters east over M 0 votes In the primary for
! the < <ty C owned election- The elections will take place Tuesday. ■
(STAFF PHOTO BY CHAS. R JONESK 1
IN. C. STATE BAPTISTS MEET HERE TUESDAY
/“ B§hus
k #y
•J \ jT T W -v/ |g' ‘ jS$ T'T
4 4 4 + 4 4 4 4* 4*
BLAST KILLS MEDIC
i. l
i o' th "Law Love, and Liberation‘
i movement in Atlanta
A merger of all of the organ!?-
j ed groups of the denomination in
I North Carolina, this assembly will
:j provide for" active participation
on the part of the several State
i auxiliary conventions. Including
the Woman's H<teF Mission* Con
vention the SS&BTU Conven-
I tions, the Ushers’ Convention, the
(Laymen's Convention, as well as
! the various associations and oth
■ | er district bodies.
| The Baptist Headquarters!
i building of the General Convcn- j
: tiers of North Carolina—the first!
: in the nation among Negroes - i
: was built three years ago, at, a!
: cos) of $75,000.00. This original j
i | amount has been reduced to $30,-j
:; 000.00. It is this remaining figure j
(which constitutes the. challenge of
this one-day session on May 7. j
Host to this statewide gather-j
g will be Raleigh’s First Bapt st j
- bur eh, located at the corner f i
• Wilmington and Morgan st; • *■
Dr. O. S. Bullock, pastor. Proud-1
-! ing at the sessions will be Dr. P. |
i | A. Bishop of Rich Square, veteran I
president j
i
, K Robinson. 117 W. Lenoir St .
; City. $134.64.
Winners of Bonus Money are
| requested to come to The CARO
-1 LTNIAN'S Offices. SIB E. Martin
| Street. Saturday morning to pick •
! up their checks
The third month of the Bonvi ,!
money Program (Slay) began
Thursday morning. April 25.
and ends Wednesday, May 29.
There will be five weeks for
competition In the third month
enabling more persons to par
ticipate and to spend more
moqev toward winning.
! $l3O is now being offered through
| ihe program, instead of SIOO which
was practiced during the ftrst
month. The money is distributed j
between 10 persons, instead of one
as was previously done.
Check the front page of THE
; CAROLINIAN each week for
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THE CAROLINIAN
! 12c y — —7 15 c
I !n N - c L — sm 20 PAGES Ei..wh«.
J VOLUME 16 RALEIGH. N. C WEEK ENDING SATURDAY. MAY 4 1957
SreensfiQre I
i
Theatre Bias
Under Attack
GREENSBORO—L-oca.l Negroes
were called upon Sunday to re
train from attending segregated
movie theatres because a minister
of their race was ordered to a
jim crow balcony when he pre
sented his invitation to attend a
preview of "The Ten Command
ments."
; Leaders described the move as
•a. "passive. Ghandi-type” resist- ,
lance patterned after the bus boy-.
• cott at Montgomery, Ala., where;
Negroes were finally victorious
when the Supreme Court ordered
transit integration.
The metropolitan population of
Greensboro, including all of Guil- i
ford County, is the 190,320 of
which 37,235 are Negroes. This
was the first such protest in this :
state, considered more liberal ra~ ;
ciclly than its neighbors.
The leader of the theater boy-j
cott was Dr. Edwin Edmonds, pro-1
fessor of sociology at Bennett Col- i
Ipge here and head of the local
unit, of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE ?,)
REFUSE JIM CROW
AT STATE PARK
North Carolina authorities found j
' fhemSelves facing another issue of ;
racial consequence Sunday when !
State Parks Superintendent. Tho
mas W Morse was asked to explain
why a group of Carolina students
moved from ‘he William B. Urn
stead Park where they had gather
ed to have a picnic, at Hogans i
Lake, near Chapel Hill, when Le- |
Roy Frazier was told to leave, due I
to the fact that he was a Negro.
The group is known as the
Cosmopolitan Club of the Uni- j
versity of North Carolina and
is reported as being composed j
mostly of foreign students.
There seemed to have been no j
objection to the foreign student, j
hut Frazier, who is one of the ;
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Dr. William R, Strasfim-r. presi- I
dent of Shaw University announc- j
ed Wednesday that Judge Armond ;
W Scott, associate judge of thf
Mtincipal Court for the District of |
Columbia, has been elected to the I
University’s trustee board.
Other appointments to the board j
are as follows: Gurney P Hood, !
president, Hood System Industrial
Bank, Raleigh; Harold T. Graves, !
vice-president, Summit Trust Com- j
pony, Summit, New Jersey.
Dr L. F McCauley of Raleigh
who has served on the board for
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•HJDGE ARMOND W. SCOTT *
JAMES SMITH GFORGF WILLIAMS
, * . hpid for nturd* t r « « * pistol victim
Man Faces Charges
la “Friend’s” Death
; State News
—IN
; Briaf !
CONVICTED IN DEATH
NEW BERN An all-male !
! jury recently found Albert. Sutton, j
\ 32-year-old iocs! resident, guilty j
I of manslaughter of a migrant field I
worker,
MINISTER BOUND OVER
WILSON Bishop ( Phil
lips, a Goldsboro minister, for
merly of Newark, N ,T was
hound over to the Wilson
county Superior Court last
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S3O Gs FOR
CAGE GIANT
NEW YORK The New York ;
Knickerbockers of the National
Basketball Association on Mon
day purchased Willie Gardner, (1-
foot, 8-inch, 22-year-o’d Harlem
Globetrotters player for a price
reported to be more than $30,000
Gardner, tabbed by owner Abe
Saperstein of the Trotters as 'po
tentially the best, player" in the
history of that team, will make
a summer tour of Europe with the j
Globetrotters and will join the
Knctks in September
j He joined the Globetrotters in
i 1954 after playing for Crispins!
; Attucks High School in Indian-!
j apolis. served two vents in the
I armed forces and came back to
: the Trotters last, fall
| Expect Over 5,00 J To Greet
Robinson Here On May 19
BY .1 R HARRIS
RALEIGH - Local and state
NAACf* officials arc making pre
parations to entertain an estimat
ed crowd of 5,000 NAACP work
ers and admirers of the world
famed Jackie Robinson, former
Brooklyn Dodgers baseball -tar.
when he speaks here at the 3rd
annual Fighting Fund for Free
dom i4-Fi rally to he held ip the
Memorial Auditorium, Sunday as-
BOY.I DROWNS
IN PORK Op
RALEIGH Walter Let Mr-
Lamb, ft, was drowned in Joe Lou
| is Park Creek Sunday when he
I slipped into a deep hole of the
I swimming hole where he and sev
eral other children had gone to
j swim
i Ernest Chavis, 27. of 520 Boez
j Street, dfyed for the boy and
i (CONTINUED ON PAGE 21
-James Smith, 21-year-old painter,
waived a preliminary hearing in
City Court Tuesday on a charge of
murder and was bound over to the
next term of Wake County Super
ior Court, to await trial in the
fatal shooting Sunday night, of
George Williams, 50, whom Smith
claimed was his “friend."
Smith allegedly shot Wil
liams with a .32 caliber pistol
in the right lung and back,
ignoring the victim’s plea to
"talk things over."
The charge of murder was lodged
against Smith, of 16 Ross Street,
a few hours following the death
of Williams at Saint. Agnes Hos
pital Monday at 7:55 a, m.. approxi
mately 11 hours after being shot
shooting, gasped to Detective
Williams shortly after (he
Sgt. G A Privettc ind H L
Peebles that he wax lying in
hed around 8:45 p m when
Smith came to bis room and
said. "Now. I’m going to kill
you'"
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 21
Dr. Stephen Wright
New Fisk President
RY VICTOR G. BACKUS
NASHVILLE (ANPi—'The. new
. president, of Fisk university will,
; be Dr. Stephen J Wright. presi*j
dent of Bhiefield State college, j
1 The announcement, of the sue-;
cessor to the late President j
Charles S. Johnson, which has j
been awaited by the, entire educa
tional world, was made before,'
a packed convocation of suspense -1
filled students and faculty mem- J
hers on Friday.
Retiring hoard chairman
ternoon. May 19 at 3:30 p.m. i :
Mothers Drive For SIO,OOO
Jackie Robinson is the 1957 i
chairman of the NAACP national
Freedom Fund campaign to raise !
one million dollars. He will crown j
as the "NAACP Mother of 1957”
one of the score or more mothers 1
j who are out to ain the coveted '
honor by raising the highest.;
i amount- of money over $300!
through the cooperation of the j
citizens of their communities.
It Is expected that Mrs. Rohm ;
son will accompany her husband !
here and add further glamour to j
the occasion.
During previous NAACP 4-F
rallies. Roy Wllkinr, NAACP ex
ecutive secretary, spoke In 1955 ;
shortly after the death of thej
• immortal Walter White's death: j
mid Thurgood Marshall, chief le- j
: yid counsellor for NAACP, was;
i the 1955 speaker to 3,000 peo- !
■ I pie.
1 1 Rock.v Mount Choir Sings
For the third time the noted i
;' St. James Baptist Church Gospel!
I j choir of Rocky Mount, has ,ac
! i CONTINUED ON FAG* 21
NUMBER 14
Shelby iedic
Dies In Fire
That Follows
SHELBY A local doctor wa#
killed by explosion and fire which
gutted his office early Monday
: morning.
Police, termed the explosion
"mysterious” and said an inves*
j ligation was underway An au
topsy and a coroner's hearing
with a jury were ordered.
Killed in the explosiotf was Dr,
G W Sing,eton 34 His charred
body was found in a hallway near
j his office.
Police chief Knox Hardin de
* dined to s.n whether foul play
| was .suspected. But he said there
1 were "Several theories” about the
j explosion.
Hardin said, a terrific explosion
j rocked the two-story brick office
building at 2 a.m. today, Fire
men rushed to the scene and con
fined the fire to the doctor’s of
-1 fire on the second floor, they said,
t Singleton’s body was found lying
in a hallway about 30 feet Irons
■ the gutted room
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yOTEILfWIL
PASS-POWELL
STATESVILLE— “I can guaran
tee that the right to vote bill will
; pass this Congress," Rep Adam
I Clayton Powell (D , N Y.) told an
' audience in the Morningside High
| School auditorium here Sunday
j night
j He also called for immediate
| but gradual integration in the
! public schools There, were eight
white persons in the audience of
j 500
America,' the Congressman
said, "is in danger of becoming
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Leonard M Reiser of Chicago
read (he board’s decision,
which had been made after
a. country-wide search for an
educator capable of stepping
into the. great void left by
the sudden passing of former
President Johnson.
Dr. Wright, who is 40 and *
native of Dillon, South Caro
lina, bas had wide training
and experience He holds a
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ODDS-ENDS
• By ROBERT G. SHEPARD
NEGRO BUSINESSMAN; Asa T.
Spaulding is a businessman, an
outstanding businessman and. As*
T. Spaulding is a Negro but. those
facts do not make us see why '.e
announcing that, Mr. Spaulding H
to speak in Raleigh, he must, N
described as a Negro businessman
There are many nationalized «uco
essful businessmen in this court*
try who were born in other rout*
tries hut when they are spoken n(
or referred to they are simply A
tnerican businessmen
If that holds true for per
sons not born in this country
nid for all >'he dependents of
the foreign born why can’t it
bold good for * Negro. Mr.
Spaulding is not ashamed of
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