V
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BROKEV CONNECTION The body of Miss Adele Shields, 35,
s! the Bronx New York, lies slumped in a phone booth in * bar af
ter being- shot is the Bronx last week. Police have arrested Faftol
sian 'arses Johnson, 29. in connection mth the shooting. He is mar
ried- (CPI PHOTO!,
Argument Over Light Bulb I
li Fata! Far Chatham Wan
F.TTTSBORO A 34-year-old
Ideal " Oman who shot her hus
band 'nth an automatic 22 rifle
and then put a pillow under his
hr-ad while someone called a doc
tor has been released under bond
of S’ mo,
Mrs. Ethel Mae Mt Dowell
admitted the fatal shooting of
State News
—IN—
Brief
INSTALLATION SERVICES BET
ROCKY MOUNT Mount 2:on
Baptist Church, Rocky Mount, will
engage in the installation of its
pastor ail day Sunday, July 27
Services will be held at It.a m.
and at 3:30 p m. Dr Hylton L.
James, pastor of the Berean Bap- I
tut Church. Brooklyn. New York, <
will preach at, both services The
Rev. George W. Dudley will be in
stalled as the new pastor.
GIVES BIRTH TO TRIPLETS
ROANOKE RAPIDS The
wife of a farmer gave birth to
triplets at her home last week.
One of the children was under
hospital care, but the other* are j
reportedly 'doing fine.' “The
triplets, tiro boys and a girl,
avers born to Mrs Frances
Jones, 71. of Henric, mother of
four children, ranging from two
to seven year, »f *,ge.
They were delivered by the wom
an’s mother, Mrs. Katie Owens (11.
Mrs Owens now has 55 grand- j
children.
The girl, Connie, five pounds. I
Si* ounces, was born at 11:25 a m. i
Ronnie four pounds, was born at
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Dr. Frank Toliver, Asheville,
Hew High Schools Supervisor
The appointment of Dr. Frame
k Toliver of Asheville as State
supervisor of Negro High Schools
"as mad® last Thursday by Dr.
Charles F. Carroll State Super-;
.Edendent of Public Instruction.
Dr. Toliver will take over the
DX 53.ANK, TOIfVXR I
her husband to Deputy Sheriff
J. A Farrell, Jr., but said she
was provoked in the act when
her husband argued with and
abused her about a light bulb
and the amount of light in the
home
According to Deputy Sheriff
Farrell, the woman related that in
the scuffle her husband, David
Lawrence Smith, was shot.
The Smith woman has been
charged with “assault with a
deadly weapon, to wit a rifle, in
flicting serious bodily injury, re
sulting in death."
The shooting took place at. the
Smith home at 10 pm, in South
Pittsboro.
2 Brothers
Drown In
Wayne Pond
GOLDSBORO Two teenage]
; brothers were found dead Sunday'
■ in an irrigation pond on the farm •'
'of Carl S Cox. m Grantham
! Township. 15 miles west of this
; city.
Robert Cox. IS, and Eugene Cox.
] 14, had reportedly gone to the
' pond with another youth, who fold
I officers that neither of the vie-
I tima couid swim. The unidentified!
I youth told Deputy Sheriff Mo, sen j
| Britt that one of the brother was
i wading in the pond when he step
ped in the water over his head 1
I The other brother as. tempted to j
save his brother, but drowned in
the attempt
Members of the Goldsboro Res
cue Squad recovered the bodies
in 14 feet of water, approximately ]
45 minutes after they had become j
submerged.
The youths were sons of Robert
Ccx, Route 1, Goldsboro.
post vacated by Dr Samuel E !
Duncan, who went to Salisbury to j
become president of Livingstone
; College on July 1.
The educator comes to the State
! Department of Public Instruction i
from the Asheville City schools j
where he has been serving as
principal of the Stephens - Lee
High School.
A native of Atlanta. Ga , Dr.
Toliver received his bachelor's de
gree at Atlanta University hie ■
master's degree at the University j
cf Michigan, and was awarded!
the doctorate degree by Columbia !
University
Before going to Asheville,
Toliver served as teacher and
principal in the Statesville
City Schools, professor of
mathematics at Virginia State
College, and for the past sev
eral summers has served as
professor of education at
Tennessee Agricultural and
Industrial State University. \
Dr. Carroll in commenting onj
his appointment stated that Dr i!
Toliver -'has demonstrated rout- '
' fffnj i m.. j ’
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SEX OFFENDER GETS 2-YR. TERM
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VOL. 17, NO 43
Inspectors Shunned At “Private School”
Faeflitles
Below Par
M Arlington !
ARLINGTON Va —A group of 5
county inspectors who wanted to
checs the safety requirements of :
s model private segregated
school were turned away Monday 1
at the school’s front steps.
-Jack Rathbone executive direc-:
tor of the segregationist 10th Dis
trict Educational Corp.. turned;
down pleas to enter by inspectors j
for the Arlington County Plumb
ing. Child Care, Electrical, Buil
ding Fire and Zoning Depart
ments.
The sc hoe! was opened last
week in a six-room stucco
house a:- a demonstration of
j how private schools <ou!d re
pb<-e public schools which
I close under integration. It
does not hav* ) fire escape,
1 contrary *o fire regulations, or
j (CONTINUED ON PAGE
\ Appealed To
State Court
BY MARCUS H BOULWARE
When the CAROLINIAN went!
to press last week the fate of [
Matthew Phillip Bass, alleged
.-apic-t waul being weighed in the
balance by the jury as it listened
to the final arguments of the
1 counsels for the plaintiff and the
defendant
The next morning as this re
porter expected. Bass was found
guilty by an all-white jury which
reached a decision after an hour’s
■ deliberation.
Judge Malcolm C. Fan! of i
(he Make County Superior <
Court sentenced Bass to die ji
j on September 26 in the State j ]
gas chamber for raping 35- ;
year-old Mrs. Sarah K. Mahl- j
er, white
Bass. 46, and the father of six j
! children received the sentence:
! with no outward show of emo
\ tions Neither did Mrs Mahler
. make a show of emotions when
the verdict, was announced. al-j
i though she did leave the court-1
I room when the solicitor was mas- i
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Famous Bakery- Company Borden Ice Cream
Prices Shell Service Station Efird’s of Raleigh
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Sure-Fit Seat Cover Center Bloodworm St. Tourist Home
i * Country Tire Company Mechanics A Fanners Bank
it. ffeater Well Company
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TV w ,” . wu } ter * Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co of Raleigh
. PpU * Be * Company Carolina Builder# Corp
Plrciv wiefu? 1 * Watson’s Seafood & Poultry Co., Inc.
_ Omstead Transfer Co. Sc Food Store
1 r < tu- nn Furniture Company DtUou Motor Finance Company
« GroCery Bunn’s Esso Service
I , ~ , . Rldgewav’s Opticians
Carolina Power * Light Company . Warner Memorial*
I -a Company Beluxe Hotel
I Allied Aluminum Company page 11
Rusco Window C - Dixie Loan Company
la , - , Davidson’s Jeweler’s
L ®; :lr b Furniture Company Jeffrey s Food Market
c,r."' Co ' Cus Russos Hatters A cleaners
Surety Exterminating Co. I Mitchell Printing Co
rw n D , i ' f,.Jl ar if* Lon* Meadow Farms, tnc.
n- i uick x.O. Nash Steele-Warrea. tec.
PAGE S Bynum Printing Company
« sto ' es i Viythe Safes A Service
David G Alien, C.rmtr. State Distributing Corp.
i fpltal Loan Co. Inc ! Byr \uvt Lumber Company
Clvella Beaufv Coliege ! Yancey insurance Agency
Gem Watch Shop : Martin’* Florist
rtv.sfgh Funeral Home Aladdin -ales Inc.
f, c „ fcstl Llchtman Ho-eveurt Super Market
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S-iLLloang Hardware Co I Acme Realty Company
p *“« .? . ! New Lincoln Case
ib" * is s 2f« Market# i Horton s Cash Store
Cross Poultry | New Fuquay Theatre
7-Ud Bottling Company ' I Tie Soot Bystem Industrial Bank I
SATURDAY. JULY 26, 1958
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In Little Rock School Cases
1 Judges Musi Rule
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WHERE THEY LIVE Six adult migrani farm workers, including this family of four, are housed
in this 10-by-14 foot one room wooden .shack in a labor camp at Cheriton, Virginia. Cooking is don«
on a two-burner kerosene stove on the shelf. The government has called the 1,000,000 migrant farm
workers who roam the nation “The most underprivileged people in America " Year after year, the, “fol
low (he seasons." moving on to where ihe crops are ripe- This is typical 0 f the housing in migrant labor
camps The average migrant family earns about SI,OOO per rear (ITPI PHOTO;.
Blind Man Held For Coroner’s “
Inquest On Suspicion Os Murder
BY E. RUDY YORK
FAYETTEVILLE—On July 16. a
40-year-cM farm laborer, Alonzo j
McGirt, was allegedly stabbed to
death and Sheriff's deputies arrest- !
ed blind Albert Smith on susptc
ion of murder. 'Blind Albert" as
the suspect is known, is a familiar
figure to many Eastovev and Fay- j
eHevilie residents.
Deputies arrested “Blind Albert” j
as he walked along Highway 301, j
near Rock Hill. He told the offs-
Bishop Spoitswood Stirs
Zion Bodies At Confab
RALEIGH N. C
j cere that he was or his way to the
: Sheriff's office to report a ‘Ta
; mentation” he had heard at the
McPhail home where he lived
| He said that he and McGirt had
. "had a few drinks together' at
about 10 p. m. Tuesday He said he
. went to bed. latching the door that
! separated his room from the one
in which McGirt slept
j Smith said he heard three men''
j come to the front door sometime
later He told the Sheriff that he
_c—.
COLUMBUS, Ohio “The !
church today must bear our Chris- |
tian witness for freedom It is not j
enough for u? to subscribe to the :
story of freedom taught by Jesus i
preached by Paul and proclaimed
by the early church fathers. It is
not enough for the church to en
dorse a credo of freedom.
The demand of society the ex
pectancy of God, the purpose of
the church call for the minute ful
fillment of the implications of free
dom in practice, in brotherhood, in
'he spread of free men and in a
free world of democratic ideals,"
thus said Bishop S G Spottawood,
in the opening message to the Gen- .
era! Christian Education Conven- i
tion ar.d National Youth Council,
A. M E. Zion Church, which open- j
ed here Sunday, at the All Ohio j
Youth Center with more than 1000 j
youth in atendance
Bishop Spottswood rang out a
clarion call for freedom to men
the world over “We must
preach freedom until the doc
trine penetrates all men every
where and translates itself into
the spread of spiritual inter
dependence among rhe peoples
of the worid Freedom en
circles the culture and histor
ies of mankind s false divisions*
based on language and geo
graphical barriers and include#
men of ail nations rares, cul
tures and custom#* in an ab- j
sorbing brotherhood of man
that proclaims the efficacy of
preaching freedom”, said the
(CONTiNVEtToS PAGX ft
PRICE 12c IN N. C.; ELSEWHERE 15c j
yelled to McGirt asking him not to !
let the men in the house. McGirt !
ignored his plea, the blind man j
| said, and opened the front door j
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ALBERT SMITH
SET ELKS' CONVENTION HEADQUARTERS—IJr Robert H. Johnson (right), Grand Esaltod Rule*
! ©J IBPOE of W, shake* hands with Theodore R. Hagans, Jr., genera! manager of the New Dunbar Ho
-1 te! fa Washington D. C. signifying agreement on arrangemets whereby the New Dunbar will serve 3*
' headquarters for the August 23-30, 60th anniversary national convention of the Elks. Standing by are
: Herbert E. Jones, convention general chairman; Clay Claiborne, Ihe Grand's’ proas secretary; and
Frank F Davis, convention committee member. An estimated 60..53# to 75,809 persons are ex<iecwi W>
1 be on hand for the convention.
Rulings us
Full Court
j I
j Ordered ;
>
j ST, LOUIS The chief judge
j of the TL 8 District Court of Ap-
| peals hM ordered all .-even judge; f
: on the court to rule on the appeal ;
: of an order delaying integration 1
jat Central High School, Little •
j Rock. Arkansas f
j Chief Judge Archibald K Arch. 1
: bald ordered Ihe judges to sit. en
• banc for the pleas to reverse an-j
j set as'd# the ord°r Tire hearing.
J were set for August 4.
i None of the judges is from tiv
! Deep South
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I
Johnston Man fen Victim;
[‘‘Accident/’ Says Accused
A 47-year-old Clayton resident
was shot and killed at a ctigr.t
spot near Shot well about 12:40
Sunday morning.
Novell Rave pronounced
dead on arrival at St Agnes Hos
j pital with a large bullet wound
j through his chest, according to
j police reports,
1 Lenwood Whitley, 24 alr-o of
I Clayton, reportedly admitted the
| shooting and said it was acciden
| tal. He is being held in the WakA
| Only 2 Weeks Remain In
Big Church Bonus Program
The fifth week of the current
Church Bonus Month began Thurs
day. July 24. and will end at mid
night Wednesday, July 30 The
month consists of six weeks and
will officially close Wednesady,
August 6
ftu*es of the contest are found
on page 2 nt each edition Kr *d
(hem enrrfuf!v, and look on the
front page each week for names,
State PTA Camp Observing
Twentieth Year At Bricks
The 19n8 camping season will 1
mark the 20th anniversary of the j
PTA Camp for Children held at
Franklmton Center, Bricks. Nortn
Carolina, for children ages 7-12
years, inclusive.
Sunday, July 27, will be a
Red Letter Day tor the Camp
I
Employe Os
Case given
Term Here
James Wilbert Saunders, 30. of
the 400 block of Dakar Street, ac
cused of assaulting an eight-vear
old white girl at a case here last
Saturday, drew a two-year sen
tence Monday m the Wake County
Domestic Court
Although Saunders pleaded not
puilty, he did not appeal his sen
tence.
The defendant had been
charged with placing his
hands on the girl in the rest
room of Toy's American Grill,
located on r Martin Street,
Saunders was arrested by
deteethr »n > warrant signed
by the girl’s aunt,
-L \
JAMES W SAUXDEKS
Detective Sgts J. B Upchurch
and B. L. Ennis, investigating of
ficers said that so far as they
knew Saunders had no prior sex
offense record
The man had been employed at
the case where the assault occurr
ed for several year;
The girl is reported to have
gone to the -omen's restroom and
could not reach the light switch.
She then allegedly went out and
asked Saundeis "ho >as dressed
in a. white uniform, to cut on the
light for her. He did this and left
the room,
Later he returned and asked
the child to stat'd tip. When
she refused, the man is said
to hate, stood her up and fon
dled het polios-- declared.
launder» left the restroom
afterwards by crawling out of
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County Jail without privilege of
bond pending a hearing.
Whitby was booked for murder
by Deputy Sheriff Ed. Watkins.
The. bullet entered Kaye's left
chest and came out of his back on
the right side Off icers dug out the
bullet which had lodged half-way
through a. thick door.
Watkins said that the bullet
was fired from an old make pistol,
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i of CAROLINIAN advertisers.
Patronise these merchants and
turn you* receipts or purchase
j slips «mer to a representative Us
your church every Sunday mor
ning.
Award.:, to wupnig churches are.
> ,o. fur-* second, sls. third:
) And $lO. fourth.
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when special observance 'rill
be held—pkuie lunch at noon,
and pageant presented by
campers at 2:00 p in. Suffici
ent recognitions,, tributes and
citations will be given the
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