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HOLT CASE LEAVES STATE':
Court flt
Richmond
Gets Case
The Joseph Hiram Holt- pc hoot
integration car** was appealed for
mally lo the U. S Fourth Circuit
Court of Appeals a< Richmond, Va.
last Thursday,
Aito<ncy? for the IS-year old
• !eoo High School junior, filed
the a line ? t after Federal Judge
Id” k! Stanley nf Greembew
rjj; c iii filial denial to Ihe
student's request for ari
wfisiw to Needham H Brough
Inn n I nit Vrflnnl I whifei .
A M: nd James court clerk, re
r sy i n,,t the suit's records would
h« mailed Friday to the Circuit
i"ntjrt whes f a time and place for
another hearing would bo set
A resident of Oberlin T?oad in
the rijv. young Holi sued for ad
i : mu In Broughton after the Ra
le-gin Scnool Board denied his re-
Jud.ge Sirin'”" ruled shut HoJl did
l i'-l r\ '• ;n i .3)1 nf >.; a administra
inn- re'nedier when hr failed In
i p 11• person at a hearing
i-rfr, r. the School Board last year
f-amuel llltrhtl! and Her
>v in I Taylor, attorneys for
Keif, had annniinrf d earlier
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Mental Exam
Ordered In
Poisoning
CAJRTtt AfiP'! .-Itjnje 1 VanCP
Fovr» of Moor* Recorder's Court
ha* ordered a. mental examination
for Mi ' Talilha McLeod. 42-year*
c’rf r 3ident of the Lobelia. Com
munity. who is alleged to have
dumped poison dust into the well
of a neighbor.
The case had caused can
«i den hie bead-scratching a
•norig the leral authorities be
cmof the lack of a law con
cerning the poisoning of
drinking water.
However, a law about contami
nation of foodstuffs, also the as
sault Jaws, "with intent to kill,'
wer<» used as basis for the »v
--ran* signed b.v owner of the well
Tommy McCnmmon.
Mrs. McLeod pleaded guilty to
dropping in a small quantity of
poison dust used to spray tobacco
and cotton, though she reported
that she hadn't planned to kill
y*' body, "only to scare them."
-dir said that MeX'rlmmon
had been ‘'nicking on her.”
Whether it would kill s tier-
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Collision
In Wake
Kills One
S.U'BU'LON An automobile at
tempting to pass one car dammed
into the rear of another one Satur
nr) - nipbi. knocking it into a park
ing lot at a mght dub where it
brushed agamet three others.
A vnung woman was thrown
fMM*i one of the ear’* and fatal
iy in,lured when hi* hr another
our fhre* other persons were
injured.
The Slide Highway Patrol iden
tified the dead woman as Miss
“*■ oldie*-- Harre IS. of Flt 5. Ra
leigh. She died before an ambu
lance could reach (he scene, on N
C fifi. three miles North of here
W h Fuller 25, Rt I. Wendell,
driver of (he 1954 Old;,mobile, and I
far! ti - "4. Rt i, Wendell, were i
ah-o in.iured None of the Injuries 1
were believed serious
Officer? said no chages had !
been fj: ;d pending an iiivestiga- I
:ion
ihr. mi«? Fuller's car jnd s j
IMS Chevrolet driven by K. A |
Terry. 25. of Mil 7th Avr.,
Hopewell. Va., were traveling
north when Fuller tried lo
f ' s Ferry. A t about (hr *,;itne
time, a 13.) ’ Chevrolet driven
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North Carolina’s Leading Weekly
VOL !7. NO a?
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Dr. King Improves After Bouts
With Blade And Pneumonia In NY
.MISS MARION ANDERSON AMONG 15. S. DELEGATION Singer Marian Anderson, attending,
Ibe United Nations General Assembly at United Nations, N. V. listens to speech hj Japanese Foreign,
Minister Ailchrio Fujiyama on September 18. Others shown are I>. S. Secretary of Slate John Foster:
Dules. center, foreground, and Delegates James Wadsworth, left, and George McGregor Harrison. (ITPl!
PHOTO),
First Race Fight Os Season
Staged At Charlotte School
CHARLOTTE—The only Negro
student at Central High School
here. Gustavos Roberts, .17, scuf- j
lied "-Pb a 15-year-olrt white pupil j
outside ino library of the school j
Priday after the white youth at !
REGISTERS IN ALL-WHITE LMVERSITY George A. Starke.
*>f Orlando, l'hi.. on front row sits in the auditorium at the TJniver
•- it v of Florida l.aw School last week shortly be fort registering to
| attend the all-white university, located at Gainesville, Fls Siarkc
Is an Air Force veteran. (iJPI PHOTO).
SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 77. 1938 RALEIGH, N. C.
I iegedly ; lammed a door in the face
|of Rone; ts and hit him with hi*
i fist
j Principal Edward Sanders, said
j ihat nc understood the two boys
I "brushed against each other acci
dentally and same word* were ex
changed. As a result there wa* «
tussle.” he concluded.
The principal said that "Gu*
tavus accidentally fell and hit |
hi* head on the. corner of •
swinging door,” The fight was j
broken up si that time by oth
er student* and Roberts cam*
nut of it wiib a, knot over his j
right eye and a bruised left eye.
Some bruises were reportedly I
sustained by ths white student, i
also.
Sanders said Hhe incident was ;
being investigated to determine i
what happened. He added that a !
boy bad come +n his office and j
identified himself a* the one who j
had pushed Roberts Sander* said
be expects to decide on some pun
ishment thi* week.
Gustav'us reported that th*
IS-year-old white boy bad
fumed to him iw the library
door and said: "Nigger, yen
want to fight?”
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| Segregation
i Ruled Out It
Graham Gaily
CHARLOTTE— Evangelist Billy
Graham has celled for his Char
lotte ciussde to be the beginning
of * revival throughout the South
that will sweep the nation.
A crowd of 13.175 persons white
end Neyro, unsegrejfated. packed
the Charlotte Coliseum Sunday for
the sermon in Graham's
hometown crusade. A), least 1.200
others heard the sermon by loud*
speakers in th* nearby Ovens Au
ditorium.
Graham pointed lo Charlotte as
an example of the world's troubles.
Charlotte bar. more churches
per canita than any other city
T-yel ft ba* on* of the highest
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PRICK 12c IN N. C.j ELSEWHERE 15c
Noted Cleric
Recovering j
After Ordeal
NEW YORK N V It war dis
j closed Monday that the Rev Mai
! tin Lather King, Jr Southern Nc-
I gro integration leader who war
{ slabbed and wounded critically
i lasi Saturday by s woman, has de
veloped pneumonia. D; King had
' recovered sufficiently Tuesday. i
j however to walk around some.
A Bjwkesman at Harlem Hos
pitai here said X-Rays reveal
rd a small patch of pneumonia
in the right lower lung of the
29-ye*r-old minister who led
the successful bus boycott in
Montgomery, Alabama two
years ago.
The spokesman said Hr. King " a
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OK M. I„ KING. ,IR
j Tlireateoifig j
Latter Sent j
ToFla.iom j
MIAMI A threatening letter
! was sen? to * Negro mother who
| sought to enrol] her three children
| in an ad-white elementary school
! here, Authorities sa'H ihii wonU,
j The letter was signed hv the ‘ Jr.
| K.K.K."
O. R Clin*. Jr,. Assistant U. s
! Attorney, said it. was sent Friday
| to Mrs. Wilson Thompson, whose
(COKBNOiifI <w park d
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ADVERTISERS
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Greett Clearer*
PAGE S
Pops * iM.ee stor*
Flrst-CRUccs Bank A fruit to
fsaiouj Bakery
VtraetOße Stores
Keith'* Tractor & Implement Co.
Elmo Com pan.v
Mother & naughtsr Store*
PAGE 3
tJur’Min fcViu Company
Mr, John *.V Winter:,
Ambasyvdoi Theatre
State Pliumua Company
Electrical Wholesalers. Uic,
Master Fa l ** A Service
Carolina Cleaner*
PAGE S
Cameron Appliance tetaparr
O Ji ' loililr.r
Thompßort-Lynch ( w'iui>’
Carolina power A l.igh? Compas'
Twin City K.idln * Appliance Co
Self-Service laundry
PAGE 5
Carolina Brick Company
Gws Russos Hatter* At < iratiet*
Washington Terrace Apt*.
O'Neal Motors, Inc.
Joyce At Bailey Curnitnrs Company
Billon Motor Co.
PAGE 8
Family Shoe Store
| Colonial stores
j Bavtd G. Allen, Contr
■ Taylor Radio C TV Company
* Acme RealG' Company
*
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Southern Governors Are
Urged To Obey Decisions
LEXINGTON. Ky. - Maryland s I
Gov. Theodore McKeldin said Sun-'!
j day he is willing to propose a res
j oiulion at the Southei n Governors'
! Conference endorsing the racial
I integration of schools,
i He conceded, however, that such
! a resolution would have little I
j chance of being approved by th- j
i gathering of. 14 southern and her I
der st.a > e governors which opened I
Sunday afternoon
Arkansas Gov. Orva) laubio.
speaking at a separate »e w * j
conference. said he would hare j
no objections In (be r.onfe
retire’* taking up the subject
of school Integration.
Faubns said the type of ir-.nlii i
Ex-Major League Star
Suspect In Arson Case
GREENSBORO —Thoma- F Al
ston, .!•'* of Route I. Greensboro,
held fO' the path several days on
charges of sotting fire to-a church
near nc.re. was identified last week
as former Major League baseball
star Tern Alston, according to po
lice reports.
Officers, arrested Alston on chat
gey of sotting two fires at the New
Goshen Methodist Church, located
about one mile from the home of
Alston's sister
Maurice Kornegay, district
solicitor, vs id Alston was being
held under S.'i.flOO bond for
trial !p Superior four), but
that he would ask that Alston
j he commit fed jo the mental
hospital at Goldsboro for a 3A
dav period of observation
Vl ake f orest College Reveals
5 Negroes Sought To Enter
I WINSTON -SALEM- According j
| to officials of Wake Forest Col-!
j lege here, five Negroes have, in- I
] quired abou* admission In t.h" i
j Baptist, college within the part!
I two year*.
A. 1,. Aycock, Director of
j Admissions, reported that two
! of the Negroes filed formal
i applications to enter Wake j
Forest this fail its freshmen.
The two were not admissa
hie because of their scholastic
records. Aycock stated.
He ru'd that he informed them
that he could not admit them
because of their race and because i
of then not having the academic j
requirements.
One of the applicants was a
resident of Sierra. Leone Africa.
?. British protectorate, bordering
Liberia.
The other freshman applicant
was reportedly a. North Carotin
i*At Plnae.i* Cbstjutn
i N.C. Ptoducta
j Ctve.Ua Beauty Colltge
I Ueot Watch shop
'S. M louci p.‘iri'v».ie Co
Raleigh funeral Home
Ml. C. Kart Licbtmd.i
PAGE 9
A A. P. Super Market,*
The Wool System Imtuatriel tUajt
The Capita! Coca-Cot* Bottling r.o.
Capital Loan Co . inn.
Ettrd • ot Raleigh
PAGE M
Sl,jcidworl.il »t, tourut Bam*
Mechanic* & Pause ri. Saab
Boater 'Veil Company
; Gave new tftittfAßcs Atteef
1 Pepst-Cbl* Bottling Co. of SalM{b
i c ,-foltaa Hull-tars Carp
| w*tw*'« Seafood * Poultry Co , let, i
Umsteatl Transfer Ce. & Pood Stcte I
EHUon Motor Ffanoce Company
| Bonn* Esso Service
i Rldgowev * Optician* <
| Warner Memorial*
l He luxe Hotel
j PAGT 11
| *5. H Ktrui Company
Raleigh Saving* & Loan Aaoot laitou i
j Goodman's Ladle* Shop
! PAGE IS j '
I Pigtrly Wiggly Stotrs
' P £ Quinn Furniture Company
I R.alctgb Cott-mlssloi House, In,
I Horton's Ca.-h store
1 New Lin,oli! Cats *ti
Lon he would support would Yi
for the national administration to
respect Lie rights guaranteed to the
states by the constitution and to
cease unwarranted interference w
state matters. ’’
McKeldin said, ! think ii
would be good lot Ibr south
for us to recognize that l!• c
Conxtttdtion and thr .Supreme
Court's interpretation > r the
law of the land ”
He quoted Abraham Lincoln
once remarking that "A revet cm -■
for the law, not obedience, nos re
spect. but. reverence for iav should
be Iha political religon of Ameri
ca,"
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.Investigation regaled tn*f Al
ston spent some time yt a mental
hospital ip 19.13.
A !ei -phone call was u-io-.H
by polite Saturday from SI Louis
in whith Alston s background a
former hie league player d;.
dosed.
Alston admitted having played
baseball in the Major League l
According to officer Alston
had (jtnrrelrd with liix sister
and had been having trouble,
hut gave no explanation for
setting ihe files which seamed
several hundred dollars worth
of damage
Hr was arrested, at Etc bone of
bus sister soon after the for:- were
rcwriNiJKO on r-u;r ::i
j tan, Aycock claimed that, he could
not, recall the names of the stu j
' dents, nor the home town of the
! Tar Heel.
Older inquiries h 1 Icc-c d! x
came from i Winston-Salem
resident who wished to enter
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OFFENDING HIS HONOR .Johnny Gray, a 15-year-old rest
dent of t ittle Rock. Ark., smashes his fist against the face of % whit ß
student during a scuffle on 14th Street in the Arkansas city last week
According to Gray, be and bis sister, Mary ipartially bidden behind
Johnny), were enroute to <heir segrwgpN’d school when two white sty
dents ordered them to get off the. sidewalk. Johnny chased <b r (,»o
oF with b<» Net- (HP! PHOtrt•
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THRKATENfeD George lam
prad, iigtit. ,t masonry ctntfree
tor, was arrested i'txf w-erfc on
suspicion of assault with a
deadly ueaintn affei guided
missile designer Harold Clark,
left, shown repairing gt.-vs, ar
cuscri him of throwing > chunk
>«f concrete through <he window
of Hie home dark had recently
purchased in a predotnittsntlv
while Hollywood. Calif., neigh
borhood Clark told police the*
Camptuu fbvcale ned "froubl*'*
il be occupied the riwollißs tl
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State News
Brief
IA» »..» MI'FDIF RAP
HEP i 1 ',)RD —* Arch.’.e T Boon,
.10. >vvuv --i hearing on a charge of
m.irdr-r n *be Porciuurutn-, Cotmf"
ilecoidvi ■ Court tin., -certk B'vsn
is charged «ith murder in tbs f-t
--'a! .shoopog of Mis-- M-tlr- - Re---'!
v: a lU.-.r: -,omt, jn Wtnfall a? 10
\ iq, '-;.irinay My-., fj S-. c-i it . a-, dead
i-n ai.-r: vc: a< the. C’hov. an Ho«pit -!
whete she -• a.- taken by a pni» a‘*
'chtclc
Slicrih White reported that Mi 1
Revel was the same person involv
ed in ton fatal shooting of a Negro
inan n-itt'ed Skmner about one year
•lyo in Hpslforri
COI.LCC.f-r-l lOlfMA! OPf'NfNG
R M • K,H— Iterimi •>o*'r ,, r's
;»i :-t, rtipivlipaV f ollfjc will
ii- hci-t Thursday. September
-.. j. o c?n in Ihf ,-nlJi-"r
r-ni«-K ehairm>n of the Bo»rd
r>{ r ne-ice.. is ill p-c-.i-l- The
w invited I-' -iffend
RI'siVESS mu Kf.F ori NS
OUKHaM - Freehmr-n and
u:rning students of the
arcs and 'i'enne - nr- began cla*-sc»
at Ihe Business Col-
Vcc here for the. third acaderote
• car on Mo"L" moniins Rng.
traliort fer tte- fa!! ouarter is .-til!
in proc.css The college w*as th«
redniert of a recent tiwAird gunn
h.v the Durham Business and Pre
tesional Chain to the now busi.ne -
'’cemed by the orgati!7nfiori ar, the
I c».l-t-ra i -in- in Ihr cite
rnroyi p c hj-aring ntlfl
KUPUAY SPRINGS—The Coron
n->. H-’aim- was held Mends—
eight it ‘he Recorder’s Court here
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