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State Baptists Begin Quarter-Million Dollar Drive
Seek Funds
To Assist
Shaw Univ.
In .'in enthusiastic executive
meeting of the planning comrnil*
f ,-r I.r tli - Onei-al Baptist state
Convention of N C.. Inc., held ai
Ihe denomination';- headquarters
building in Raleigh, Thursday. Jan.
2. there was mapped out a com
prehensive program for the early
launching of an intensive fund
raising campaign foi Shaw Uni
\ ersi i v.
4Vilh a goal of S'JSO.OOO.OO,
tl<is effort is designed, specifi
cally, tor Christian education
and therefore, represents an
amount over and above the
General Convention's regular
budget for other objectives.
The over-all plan of this drive
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TWO GIRLS RAPED; VET HELD
11 R. ALEXANDER
H. Alexander
Bus. Manager
At Shaw Univ.
Dr. William R. Strassrier, presi
dent of Shaw University, has an
nounced the appointment of Har
vey Reginald Alexander as busi
ness manager of the University.
Mr. Alexander is a native of
Georgetown, 111. He received
his college education at Fisk
University and the University
of Illinois, The B.S. degree in
industrial management was
conferred upon him by tne Uni
versity of Illinois.
Ho received the ME. degree at
Duqut. ne University, and has done
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IIER SON DIED IN FIRE On the verge of collapse. Mrs. Vcstron Figaro, center, is assisted from
the teenc early last Thursday, after her 21 -year-old son. Michael, died hi a fire that swept a five-
Story tenement at 9E. 117th Street. The distraught woman was taken to Metropolitan Hospital.
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WOMAN, THREE CHILDREN BURNED TO DEATH
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hiN.C. J ~ 12 PAGFS 1 ifc Elsewhere r(th M(MyRy
VOLUME 17 RALEIGH, N C. WEEK IN DING SATURDAY. JANUARY 11, I«SR g NUMBER 15
City’s Policemen To Use Riot Sticks
Ex-Sergeant
Accused By i
7-Year-Olds
BY J. B. HARKEN
>: ROCKY MOUNT This To-
I hacco City' was shocked last week |
I when it was learned that two sev- j
I en-year-old colored girls had
libcen allegedly, brutally, criminal*
|j ly assaulted by a Targe man’ driv- ■
|i ing a late model car who had lur- j -
Ilea them into hLs auto and taken']
l| them t-o an isolated farm house in j
| the country.
With the report to the local ]
police department being made. j
Sunday night (December
29th), the entire detective j
force went to work with the i.
I meager description given of
ficers by the frightened chi!- <
drew—who had been given a
’ dollar and released in town
By Wednesday afternoon of
ficers had rounded up 44-year
old Mailie Howard, a resident
of 500 Cleveland Street, and
a veteran of 14 years in the
armed services where he Siad
attained the rank of sergeant
—and charged him with the
crime.
On the basis of testimony by of
ficers Howard was remanded to
Nash County jail without privilege i
|of bond on the two capital 1
j charges of rape; and had bail fix
| ed at $3,000 in each of two counts
i of crime against nature with the
i same two little girls,
j Howard, who, police say, ha
] operated under the alisa of Haz
i el Howard in the past, was also
| charged with assault with intent
■to commit rape on a 15-year-old
| unnamed high school girl of the
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wjzr&lf r;i zm? % s "“ ' '
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f- t > > ® E■: Y WS'r '-^E,
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AREA Cl \.' x; :> rr - city
rated on the side of Lucille Hunt
tall weeds, trees and holes that < ■
many .’. ears, ii v. as also a hasard
to ami from school. < S TAFF PI
Dr,, i. H. Ba
Os Am eric 2
WASHINGTON. D C. The
uerican Public Health Associa
■n elected Dr. H Barnhill ol
rth Carolina to membership,
’-ring him the first Negro to fc:
. ccogaiaed.
The American Public Health
Association is not only a so
ciety of professional persons
organised to further their col
ledive interests and advance
employees are jjichin i above last Saturday cleaning up the area lo
! r School, located >j East Raleigh. This section, which was filled with
tmtained rals. had Siren a menace to residents of the neighborhood for
i for young children who used a path beside ihe growth for traveling
HOTO BY f HAS. lx. TONES).
irnhill New Member
an Public Health Ass'n
agency concerned with the in- j dividual standing of each
public health in our her.iis- member.
! phere, it is also a service , icontimiro ON PADS IP
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I fwo Frozen Sadies Found
|As Cold Wave Hits State
|| WHITEVILLE Officers reported,
Ij ! hat the body of a woman who ap- :
- parcntly died from exposure had j
11 been found Monday at the under-!
i pass on U S. 701,
,! Police Chief Wad'- White said the •
j j body of Mr s Julia Mcares of
11 Whitevih- was found partially cov- j
Ij ered hy weeds growing In the area. ;
Officers are continuing Iheir m-j
; vestigation but said they believed
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• Police Arrest Youth , 14,
In 5. C. Shotgun Murder
Sj -CHARLESTON, S. C -A Char-
I j lesion County grand jury returned
j a true bill indicting a 14-year-old
J boy with murder Monday in con
j ncerion with the shotgun slaying
[ of a 18-year-old youth.
! Lawyer Announces Pre-Trial
Date For Holt Hearing Here
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Attorneys for h Negro youth |
.seeking admission to all-white
Needham Broughton High School
said Monday that a pre-trial hear
ing in the case in Federal Court
had been set l'oi Jan. Hi.
Attorney Samuel Mitchell said
the hearing will seek, to determine
the issues in the case. "Wo are
trying to boil it down to a situa
tion where there are no issues ex
cept those of law. In that case,
then a judgment is t.he next
i step,” he said.
Mitchell and his partner
Herman Taylor, nrr repre
senting 16-year-old Joseph
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:-ht> riir-d of exposure ill t.bo .nib
freezing weather of Sunday night.
Near Fayetteville Monday the
frozen body of a 32-year-old rmm
was found on a. creek bank
Coroner Alph Clark identified
the victim as Jesse Lee Freeman
of Spring Lake, The body was
found beside Barrow Creek, near
i Manchester, about 12 miles north
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Herman Smith, ot James Island,
is accused of shooting to death
Bern-line Davis. Trial was schedul
ed to follow in the January ter in
of Charleston County General Ses
sion'! Court.
ODDS-ENDS
By ROBERT G. SHEPARD
IS A CURFEW NEEDED?—
Some American cities have found
it expedient to use a curfew law
as a weapon against juvenile ( de
linquency. In the towns and cities
where this type of curb Is used,
I a notable decrease in teen-age
I offenses have been recorded. Al
though enforcement is practically
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l
Mob Rioting
lot Reason,
Officer Says
I Raleigh police officers Tues
! day began putting leather st-rair;
lon riot sticks which have been
! packed away at the Police Station
| for a number of years.
“They're almost ac deadly
as a shotgun if handled
right,” Officer C. H. *utter
Geld reported.
The officer denied T P- /
newed Us of the not sticks nad (
anything to do with the mob dem
onstrations. The riot sticks will !
bo placed in patrol cars to be used
only in cases of emergency.
Eugene Willis. 39, of 210 Cam
den Street, and James Worth, 34.
of 423 S. Bloodworth. Street, were
sentenced to a. year in prison
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: j blight Club
Owner Kills
! A Customer
\
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KINGS MOUNTAIN - A night- .
club owner was held on a murder j
I charge in the pistol slaying of a
j patron Saturday night.
! The victim, Vernon Odell Me- :
j Cresry, 20, was instantly killed hv
a ,22 calibre pistol bullet in the
j heart.
| Oakley J. Si-iv-nek. 46. owner of
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! State News
—IN—
Brief
FOUNDER S DAT SPEAKER j
RALEIGH -The Rev. Tollie L '
Caution, D.D. executive secretary, !
HAPPY KHMER NEW YEARS
REV. TOLLIE CAUTION
Home Department, National Coun
cil of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, will be the Founder’s Day
speaker at, St .Augustine’s College,
Raleigh, Sunday, January 12, at
11:30 a.rn. in the college chapel.
The public is invited to hear him. |
URGE TEACHERS TO APPLY
FAYETTEVILLE —Less than
two weeks remain fur prosper
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VNFJOIT
TASTE OK VICTORT Manhattan Borough President ftui?*)
K. lack, enjoyed t stew dinner after being sworn into one of th*
nation’s top offices four years ago. Mrs. Jack supplied the. culinary
art. Hc-clccted in November. Mr. Jack was sworn in itgairf'‘oit*T>e»
ccmber 31, and this time had caviar, no doubt. > V V. WSMPTMTa »
PHOTO).
Faulty Stoves Prove
fatal Per 4 Persons
STATESVILLE Three chil- children but managed to put)
dren weir burned u. death into „ n ly two of them from th*
; Saturday night when flames; blaring house. James Edward
swept, through their four- non. Mathis, 5.-and his sisters, De
frame house about a mile east of light. 3- and Catbline, 1 s
Siatesviib ; months died before she tonld
Their mother, Mrs. Virginia j ....
Mathis, tried l» save her five (CONTINUED on PAGE »i
Big Ministers’ Popularity
Contest To Cpen fiext Wk.
I
* K-’t \ ■ - o ■ i-PP it
! a sprinter knows that*a perfect
; and quick takeoff puts him ahead
of his rivals. So it is with the con
testants who propose to take pa>t
in the Statewide Ministers Popu
larity Contest which begins on Jan
uary 16.
Organize a newsboys club in your
church this week, so that your
pastor can make a Sputnik take
off and zoom into the lead for a
test run of eight' weeks. The con
test will end on March 10 at noon,
f irst prize is Sioo. A Botany
-.11 it will lie given as second
prize, and a Gleneagli's topcoat
will be. the third prize.
! Winners will be announced in the
j issue of March 15, and the winners
I have the opportunity of selecting
i the style, pattern and color of the
i
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First Congregational Church
Wins Top Church Bonus Money
THE FIRST CONGREGATION-j Submitting $4.121. in pur
|AL CHURCH of Raleigh won the chasm slips from BalHfcb
first prize of SSO in ibc CARO- merchants advertising in ft*
i LIN IAN Church Bonus Money CAROLINIAN, the first Co*
Program for tire second conic..f,
i period ending January l (continued on page »>
Church Bonus Money Rules
V i pun:!;,,: • slips <•>) receipt ’•••••.( r,i< ,i te mm vturen m Jit ramr trow
(tores advert v-atu? in the I'AROUMAM _
Each week carne a date in the bonus Mcn»y perie-d Purchase* eligible
1 mus>' conic from (lore during Lie week the ",,d eppearr.
No purchase -.lie lepichentln.: a bo.xmr- . nhnulrl be submitted AH receipt*
, must come fi'tiri individtm! purchases
All churches in Raleigh mid W 'kc Count*.- »r« eligible
All purcii.iM si (us must bear the mum oi the store from which the pur
chase was mad"
AH puich.i o slips should hr suhimth-<i m tti- name or the church; *»d
should hr m the other at the CAROLINIAN Use Monday following clou* of
' Bonus period.
In order that smaller churciic nn.v hao an equal opportunity to than SB
I the Bonus Money the follow ins regulation is expedient: No church group will
he awarded r,i Bonu- Money cot -.ecu lively, ie .iiovid a church receive Ist
Bonus Morn 1 at'lm the fn.,l period is. would have to welt until the third
Bonus period lo he nrcsonied Ist a waul os-ain However, lids dors rofIWUR
that, -.entd and third awards cannot hr sought consecutively. Consequently
cvi.i v chineli group Ims ihe opportunity lo • retire mi mwn every period.
No purchase of over S.3<*« from any onr merchant during « week can fc»
counted.
There Is a ceiling of *V> per person i week fro grocery purr ha sea
(u ipc event ol tin same amount »l purchases by more than one entry, the
award will Pc divided.
Weekly pun he.se totals should hr shown nil each packet and total planwd *»
| the outside ot the envelope carrying the period's entry along with name and
| add res >
Bonus moiuey u.-utiers will be announced In the Issue following Ui# rinsing
of finch period.
All entries remain the property of Thr C’AftOtINIAN.
All tally it ik Is final wlirn the names of the Bonus Money earner! s.io aa
oonnood in llic i AIIOMNIAN, and no responsibility is accepted by this news
paper bc.vond that poilil
No receipts from banks will Hr rousidcred, eM,cpt payment on mortgagee,
This Week’s Advertisers
The merchants listed below are CAROLINIAN Bonus
Money Stores.
PAGE :i Carolina Builders C.'orp.
Ik f. Quinn furniture Company j Watson's Seafood & Poultry Co,, Inc,
Fllrd's Department Store Unulead Transfer Co. ft rood Store
Carolina Power ft Light Co. .. ... ~, ~
PAGE 5 Dillon Motor Finance Company
Hiidsoußclk Company Dunn's Esso Service
Mechanics and farmers Bank • Ridgeway's Opticians
PAGE « Warner Memorials
N. C, . redact* Deluxe Hotel
Burnett's Soda Shop "AGE 9
Colonial Stores Southern Furniture Company is
The Hood System Industrial Bank I’AGE 10
Gem Watch Simp Keith Super Market
H M. Young Hardware Company PAGE IZ
| page 1 Acme Realty Company
Flrst-Cltterng Bank <V. Trust Company CiveJla Beauty College
A * P. Supei Markets Mr. C. Karl Utchman
l>\Gi: H I Raleigh funeral Home
8100d worip Si. Tourist Home Hunt General Tjre Company
j Heater Well Company Mr. Elvis Rand
I Cave ness Insurance Agency ; Ambassador Theatre
■ PrpaM'ola Hoitlln* Co. ot Relac.h . Town * Country Tire lervtfs
Confessed
■ 1
Rapist Is
1 Indicted
|
WINSTON -SALEM - A For
i-yth County Grand Jury thj>
I week indicted a High Point, Ne
i ;;m on a chru ;p of raping ilv
young wife of Wake Forest. As
.aslant Basketball Coach A1 D*
Porter.
The true bill was returned s •
1 gainst Charles Moore. 27. who po
lice said admitted "in a boast*
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