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.
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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
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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)..
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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.
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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
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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
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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 <ANP) —i
Clennon King, 37-year-old eon- j
j troversial Negro professor, who]
. was hustled off to the Whitefield'
: state mental hospital after at-!
tempting to enroll at the ail- j
white University of Mississippi,!
shook the dust, of Mississippi! off!
his feet hurriedly last Thursday!
and. boarded a, plane for Albany. \
Ga.. hie native city
His parting words to reporters •
were. "They know they've done!
me wrong."
He is returning to Albany "for,
a change in scenery " He did not
say when, if ever, he would re
turn, but did sav:
"I don't want, to stay in Mis-i
sissippi if I’m not wanted. I:
haven’t been treated right In!
Mississippi."
King was -elrasrd last Wed
nesday from the hospital, in
which he had been held for
two weeks, to undergo sanitv
tests. However, hospital au
thorities. upon his release,
refused to make Immediately
available Hie results of the
tests.
King was arrested on the uni
Lilly campus after officials
i charged he went berserk while at
tempting to become the first Ne
gro to enter the all-white state
institution. Hr was forcefully r> - |
moved front the campus by state j
highway patrolmen, held incotn-|
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. 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 <D
i III.‘ and Jacob davit? (R.. N Y.i
ias the speakers Tire keynote ad
| drear will he deliver* d by D*
| Channrag H Tobias, chairman of
I the Association’s Board of Direc
; tor*, at the opening session of the
convention on Tuesday night. July
j 8.
A pre-convention conference of
I NAACP lawyers will be held on
j July 7.
“Catfish” Co
LITTLE RIVER, 8. C. Ku
! Klux Klan Wizard James "Cat
j fish” Cole, who has announced
| for governor of South Carolina a?.
: a write-in candidate, say? he can
beat, Donald S Russell, but can
defeat Ernest F Rollings 'Ten
times easier,”
Cole, of Marion at. s Klan
I rally hers Saturday night, bit-
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PRIZE-WINNING PHOTO _ The above picture won ». plaque for the CAROLINIAN at tb« ienod
meeting of the National Newspaper Publishers Convention, held last week in Philedeiphia- The photo,
which appeired in ih» newspaper during March of 1957 was adjudged best in the photo coverage di*
j vision.
,Carolinian Wins Oscar And
Plaque At NNPA Confab
PHILADELPHIA. Fa. The CA- ,
ROLINIAN, published in Raleigh,
j North Carolina, by P. R Jervay
I won first place in photography, :n
i the award? for outstanding feat
i ures of member-paper.- of the Na
! tional Newspapers Publishers As- ;
j sedation which met in its 20th an
i nual session at the Ben Franklin
Hotel, June 19-21
The uwsrd wap the m-mili of a
j
CAROLINIAN
j PAGE 3
, O Kci! Motan
O s Ctotiiinf, t'omiusv
PAGE
Tow® A Couatry Tt-e Service
i Poole's, PSe Shop
j Star lAnoteum A Tile Ccmrair
! Cross Poultry Compsat
i famous Bakery
! Ml retro Electtir Company
| John ton Msttrew Opsapam
I PAGE 5
SJudasiP-FH-lV Comiiairv
j G S Tudor Prat. Inc,
Mr folin W. Winter',
I PAGE 6
Carolina Power A Utfht Company
T C Ciaaiat’t Grocery
1 I. Morgan Stnrlali Eta tine
| Weaver Bros Auto Sale*
: Sir Walter Chevrolet Company
| Mr. B«nsU McNeil
I Swain Awntn* Ml* Co.
PAGE t
I Carolina Hu Irk Company
| foyer & BaUev furniture Co
! Dtiiets Motor Comoarr
|PAGE a
: Pirst-OltLeeny Bank A Trust Co
Harris Wholesale, for
j Colonial Stores
! Gem Waleh Shop
] Clvella Beauty College
Raleigh Funeral Home
Mr. C. Karl Llchtm.m
PACE 9
Security Realty Compiny
Je Attacks Negroes, Jews, Hodges
; forty attacked Hotfiiigs, North
Carolina Gov. Luther Hodges,
labor leaflet Walter Reutber.
Negroes and lew*, and the
town Administration of ocean
Drive Beach
Cole, who is out under appeal!
on a, conviction o' inciting a not.
in MfT*<sc. H C last January,!
i said alter tomorrow Hodges could
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. U. S. District Judge Harry J Lem-
Icy Monday refused to stay his own order delaying school in
tegration here for 7V* years
The federal jurist indirectly advised the National Associa
tion for the Advancement of Colored People tq try for the stay
in a higher court than his.
Attorney Willey Branton; who represented the NAACF. said
he would take the cue
Judge l.emlpy lenicd Branfnn’? motion Monday morning as-
picture it (hr on-br
-vene •jrrident when .lira Stan
ley, Tt, was fatal!,i .injured
Bass, Others Indicted By
Wake County Grand Jury
Arnb*.gM,ijor Thnalrs
i A. & P. Supel IRarkftt
Electrical IV hole tale u Inc.
Eftrtl's ril !Lr;»lih
?-Up Bnttlms Company
PAGE 10
Bliwrlwortb SC TouMH Home
Mechawlrs A farmer'- Sank
Heater Well Company
Cavrnesa Insurant» Ajenc-
Pvpat-CoL Bottling f o of Rsiaish
Carolina Builders Carp.
Watson's Seafood f. Poultry Co.. Inc.
Umrteed Transfer Co. d Food Slot*
Dillon Motor fins nee Company
Dunn s E so Service
RMsey-ay's Optician*
Warner Memorials
f»e!u*e Hotel
PAGE 11
The Hood System Industrial flank
S&ndv l,and Village
Piggly Wiggly Stores
Union Finance Compm
Wake finance Company,
Horton s f ash Grocery
Bavlrt G Allen
PAGE IS
M'das Muffler Shop
PACE 16
Kelly Auto Sales
Acme Realty <Jctnp*.ny
Hunt General Tire Corn pan l
Capita! Vacuum Store
S. M. Yourig Bard wars
N. C. Product* ,
It. E. Quinn furniture Co.
not extradite him "Because. tJu
people of South Carolina would
be using him as governor.”
Speaking to some 35-40 Klaus
men at the rally he said he nad
filed a complaint with the FBI
in Columbia against. Ocean Drive';
Mayor. Council and city lawyers
and Vvnen I get through with
them they'll all be in .tail,"
ter hearing six minutes of oral
argument and recessing court to
write the opinion
"From a practical standpoint
to grant this motion and stay the
enforcement of our judgement
would to a. large extent nullity
our order." the lodge declared.
Tr»r ordet dosing the school
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! The accident oee Hired Saturday
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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.
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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
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