i'" LAST MIES HELD* * *)' BURIED IN CHESTER. FA.—The Rev. George A, Fisher, who sur •nimhed lasi, Friday afternoon in Philadelphia, Pa. was laid to rest a«u» Chester, Pa., Tuesday afternoon following funeral service* in Philadelphia, Rev. Fisher was the rer«or of St. Ambrose Episcopal if hureb here until December of 1957. SO REQUESTS AT HIGH POINT HIGH POINT Tne City of High Point apparently will maintain its racially segregated public school system ror at least one more year Schools Supfc. Dean B, Pruitt announced Saturday that: no N« gro students have requester reassignment to white schools here lor the nxt school trm , School officials m nearby Greensboro have 19 «uch requests be fore them. In Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. »t least. 28 pup*h have asked for admission to white schools, while nine such request: sre before school authorities at Winston-Salem. PRECINCT COMMITTEE NAMED HERE RALEIGH Members of Precinct Committee, No JO. met »t The CAROLINIAN Monday night and elected a committee to sen e during coming elections H. C. High. Sr., was named chair man of the committee. S. T. Gibson is vice-chairman The three members named to serve were: R. ,!. Clark. Charles R tones and F ? Carnage. ri „, OBSERVE 50TH WEDDING A NNfVERSART RALEIGH Mr and Mrs. Claude Jeffreys of 813 S West Street celebrated their both wedding anniversary on June 24. The couple re ceived many gifts, from their children and friends. »' YMCA-YWCA OPENING SET HIGH POINT A new branch YMCA-YWCA plant., a rift o. High Point's while citizens to the local Negro community at the lat ter s request was formally opened here Sunday The handsome structure, complete with, gymnasium, war pre viewed Friday night br directors, staff members and contributors,' who expressed delight- at. the quality and spaciousness of the new facility Os modernistic design, the building dominates a newly-de veloped community center on Fourth Street. iCONTINUED ON PAGE 2> 1 NC Women’s Clubs Hold Annual Meet ROCKY MOUNT The forty aujth annual session of the North Carolina Federation of Negro Wo men's Clubs was held at the Frank lin ton Center located at Bricks, N C recently Mrs E M Spellman j o> Elisabeth City, president of the Federation, presided. The convention opened with - Mrs Spellman delivering the an- : nual president’s message Sb» used j vs her subject, the Federated Clubs motto, "Lift As We Climb,” She compared the organization with asts with each club being a part of the parent, organization and doing i everything possible to make it a 1 growing and functioning group She urged the various clubs "ver the State te take active parts in j improving recreation, housing and | schools faeilitier in each comrr.un - ■ lty Immediately following the president's message the dele- . gates went into s, business see- ! tlen which Included reports from the club* in'the State A!- ■ - so stated In the report wjs the tact that nine scholarship* were fcoNTnotieo cin pav,t n i. —— ■ Win Gibson •! Defends At Wimbledon j '■'TKELEDON. England Miss i Althea Gibson opened defense of ! her Wimbledon cahmpionship Tims- S cist by whipping Miss Mary Hell- ] yet of Australia as most of the , favorite? advanced. Missss Maria Bueno of Brazil and Christine Truman of England, both teenegers, ranked with the 39-year old Harlem whiz as the great pow* | ers of women’s tennis, also won ! easily on another' rainy day. Seven of the twelve women from ; th.fc United States survived the i playing Was Gibson, ‘op-reeded player, v who '} as beaten by Miss Truman , V? Wightrr.au Cup play, eliminated i Miss Hellyer with the loss of only two parses, 5-0. 6-2 in a »ecor.d- Jbuse match AIRLINE HOSTESS - Grant, 21, of New York, the first Negro hostess of a major U. S. in tercontinental airline, la shown in training school in Kansas City Mo., as she pours coffee for a make-believe passenger Mias Grant began her schooling e«. June 16 and w!tt complete the course July 11 at ■ the TWA hea.douartjra (tlFf TELEPHOTO).. ƒwerqw ISSSSp^jSjjiiiSSjSj'SSSiSfPNMMM IMM Q - l I VOL. 17, NO 39 SATURDAY. JUNE 28, 1938 RALEIGH, N. C PRICE 12c IN N. C.; ELSEWHERE 15c ' _ _ ___ I ■ Rev, Fisher Buried Near Chester, Pa. PHILADELPHIA. Pa Funer- j ?) services for the Rev George A j Fisher, 62, rector of the St, Am- j brose Episcopal Church, Raleigh. 1 for many years, were held at the ! C hurch of the Crucifixion here j Tuesday morning at. ITa. m. Burial ! ' followed tn the family plot, near : : Chester, Pa. Rev Fisher died suddenly Fri day afternoon in Philadelphia At, the lime of bis death, lire Rev, Mr. Fisher was serving as rector of the Church of the Cru cifixion, a po«t he hud occupied since December of 1957. Rev Fisher was well-known in Raleigh and the eastern section of the state for his religious and civic work. tCONTINUED ON PAGE ?) Robber Os Tavern h Wounded NORFOLK Va. Norfolk Po hteman R E L Cooper shot and wounded a Negro who pulled e gun while trying to flee police after al legedly holding up a tavern keep er on a city street Monday. Cooper said the shooting occurred when police went to a barber shop ■coking for (he gunman who held up Nr rfolk tavern keeper Percy Johnson. James Lee Britt. 21. of Norfolk fled the shop and. with (CONTINUED ON PAGE II 4 Leaders Talk With WASHINGTON President Dwight D. Eisenhower met with jfour Negro leaders Monday and ! was informed that a court order j delaying school integration in Lit. - j j tie Rock, Ark. outraged the Negro! race. They said they received a j sympathetic reception, but no promises from the chief executive. A spokesman for the group fold Eisenhower that Satur day's ruling by Tj. S. District Judge Harry Lcmley, post wining integration for T years, 'is being construed rightly or wrongly as a green light to lawless elements in ♦heir defiance of federal au thorily." Attorney Genera! William P. Rogers was also present at the me-tbig The White "House visitors wet A. Phillip Randolph, a vice-prey dent of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Indus • rial Organizations and of the Brotherhood of Bleeping Car Porters. Lester R. Granger, executive secretary of the Nation al Urban League the Rev. Mar tin Luther King, Jr., of Mont gomery. Aia . president of the Southern Leadership Conferenr a and leader of the Montgomei i Bus boycott, and. Roy Wilkins o> ecutive secretary of the National; Association for the Advancement of Colored People For about, a year the leaders have been trying *o see the President. The latest request (CONTINUED ON PAGE Jl Local YMCA Membership Campaign Begins In July Dr Nelson K. Harris, chairman > of Bioodwortk Street Membership | Committee, has announced that 1 plan? ltp well underway for the j 1953 membership campaign that : will begin about the middle of | July : An all nut campaign wil! he con | ducted to secure 1000 "Y” members ■To do ‘his all present members ! are being urged to renew their : membership and ail former mem ; bers will be asked to come back into the field of active member- I ship | It i* eizpe>cted that practically ejl 1 of the many persons in this com* | ! African Woman Legislator To Address NAACP Meet i j* * j, - NEW’ YORK Giving an inter-, optional aspect to the 43th annual convention of the National Associ ation for the Advancement of Col ored People in Cleveland, July 8- 13, will be the appearance of one of the leading women of Africa, Madame Elia Koblo Gulama, a member of the House of Represen - tatives of Sierra Leone, a British colony on the West Coast of the continent Two Private j Schools Set For Virginia ARLINGTON. Vs. ~ A group seeking to establish a white pri vate school system here t.n replace any integration closed public schools ta planning to set, up two model schools early next month to demonstrate how the proposed pri vate educational system would work. Jack Rathbone. acting secretary of the tenth district Fundamental Education Organization, said ten tative arrangements had been made to equip the schools, one in a six room house and the other in a store building, with television i sets for a closed-circuit television ! teaching system He sa‘d the dem i castration would be staged ‘right i after July 4.” The building-®, both vacant and obtained rent-free bv the »f|h*jj|*attfof!, also will have ccoimiitaa* on page « iheyveDone Me Wrong, j JACKSON. Miss - | moved front the campus by state j highway patrolmen, held incotn-| (CONTINUED ON r(r,r gy . rounity who have had occasion . from time to time to use the vari ous facilities of the "V will be in duced to become members of the organization. In making hi? appeal for a larg er and more vigorous membership. Chairman Harris will stress the great value of the YMCA as one of the leading youth character building organizations in this com j munity. Final plane for the campaign and the names of the various campaign workers will be announced at s er date Mme, Gulama, who is Paramount Chief of the Italy am ba Chiefdom in , the Moyamba District of Sierra j Leone, and NAACP Executive Sec. ! retary Roy Wilkin* will address the : closing session of the convention in the .'Hiblic Auditorium on Sun day afternoon, July 13 . The Spiny am Me del will he presented to Mrs. L. C, Bate® and the nine Negro children enrolled In Central High School at Little Rock. Ark., by Or, William E Stevenson, president of Oberlin College, it the Fri day night session, July 1.1 Thurgood Marshall director counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, will also address that session. The Wednesday night meeting I will be devoted to a discussion of ' political parties and civil rights • with Senators Paul Douglas ! The accident oee Hired Saturday {CONTTNCIBB OH PAGE :>5 Matthew Phillip Bess, 43-year* old resident, of lift Grimes Alley, was form,illy inflicted by tin* Wake Countv Grand Jury Mon day fw raping a local while wom an on June 13 in the Occidental Life Insurance Company ofiics building in Cameron Village. He will be fried in Wake Su perior Court for his life on charg es of criminally assaulting Mu Sarah Keels Mahler of 908 Can terbury Lord. Baps is alto charged with as* vaulting the woman with intent to kill and inflicting serious in juries He alleged]'-’ cut. Mrs ’Ma hler with a- pocket knife several times across her body and head. Le*fcer v Chalmers, district so licitor. said he will prosecute the case just as soon ar- Mrs Mahler is able to testify He said he will not accept a guilty plea, but Will try Bass for Lb; life. The victim is still a patient at Re;-; Hospital, where officials list ed lier condition as ‘'satisfactory’ Monday. Others indicated along with Bass were J J. Williams and Mrs. Pearl Dollie Carlton, both white,, charged, with raping Mrs. Carlton’s 14-year ■dd daughter. The woman Is alleg ed to have hold the child down while her common-law’ husband was intimate with her. (CONTtWIEO ON PAGE t) Cole attacked the Ocean Drive administration for their refusal i la;-] month to tJlow his group to i hold a rally at the beach, The 1 Council had refused to let tms ! Klan come In after vacationers ; becan cancelling weekend re . J * (CONTINVEfI ON PAGE