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ABOI’SED BY WHITE GROCER’S SNUGGLING These pk
tares we shown In the front of Marvin Wiggs’ store, H<gh Point,
white grocery nun who wu freed of a charge of ineleatlwg young
girls in hit store, by an oil white jury, loot week. Be faces ether chart*
eg es the same nature. Shown in picture, Hr, Mbs Sylvia Maltary. Rot.
D. D. Mason, Mies Gwendolyn Graham, Burt Rucker and Mr*. Della
Mltchsß. The NAACP Initiated the boycott for the alleged tamrita to
lirb, ranging in age from !• ta U.
Funeral Directors
Close 3-Day Meet
The Old session ad toe Funeral
Directors and Morticians Associa
tion ad North Carolina got under
way at 9t Augustine’s College
Tuesday morning when Governor
Terry Sanford greeted them. The
chief executive told them that he
knew what their problems were
and they knew too. He suggested
that they do something '' a
Ye did net tall them what ‘a 4q»
oowever.
Dr. John K Larkina presented
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PRINCIPALS AT FUNERAL DIRECTORS MEET
TTmm tour people were the principals at the 55th annual meet-
Ini el the Funeral Directors and Morticians Association which
began here Tuesday. L-r, J. J. Pi!trim, Hendersonrilte, outgoing
president; P. J. Brown, Greensboro, executive secretary; Mrs.
J. J. Pilgrim, wife of the president and head of the Woman’s
Auxiliary and Oliver Edwards, vice-president and stated to head
the organisation after the election Thursday.
CAROLINIAN
ADVERTISERS
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Horton'• Cash Koto
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Rare-Pit Root Cttft Confer
Inart Bsokiag A Tort Co.
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Bullion -Brilr
Stephen* Appliance Co- Inc.
Phelosale Etectrtc Rnpply. toe.
Bsleigii Paint A Wallpaper Co.
Piaher Wholesale Co- toe.
Dana*! Cm Reroic
Bsleigii Prmitorr Co.
Reren-l’p Hottltoß Co.
lUleifH Paint A Wallpaper Co.
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Wearer Brae. BaaaMer
Whoieeale Motor*
Rtroed Pontine, toe.
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CoMOlal Rtorrs
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Blare.
1 Governor Sanford and Dr. John It
■ Larkina presented Mayor W. G. En
- loe. Others wno appeared at the
, first session were W- C. Allen, J.
. H. Thompson, Rev. F. H. Johnson,
, O. H. Edwards responded to the
, governor and to* mayor. Frssic-nt
, J. J. Pilgrim pi* " 1 -d P. L. Rh-* s.
! chairman of th* uoard, mad* a re
art and V e Aetoey chaired an
(open forum
The subject What affect will
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Peprt-Caia MNhl Co es Balelgh
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Carolina Power A UrM Co.
Capital Bargain Rio re
Main Bsterartnattoß Co.
lirertawa Btore*
Capital Pnet Oil. Ire A Coal Co.
Gem Watch Shop
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•Wart. Watson A Lainer
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Chapel Hill Board Reverses
Earlier Segregation Policy
[THE CARQLINi AN |
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Raleigh Is
Test City In
Registration
Campaip
The Raleigh Citi
zens Association, in
cooperation with the
churches of the city,
the pastors and forty
participating organizations, hr
bringing a group of students
Jure. n«a weekend' d* aid in
pitting tst'4)o additional names
gma Msdo dr m l~i - f-. r. ritsm <*" '
B IB JCfUUluOll DOOKS.
R to to be remembered that J. J.
Sensom. defeated candidate for (he
County Board of Commissioners,
sold following ths primary
that th# time to being electing nee
members in Wake County was now.
The banker to chairman of this
drive and asking full cooperation
from-’the citizens.
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Court Frees
Merchant In
Morals Case
HIGH POINT Local citizens
wera left in a state of wonderment
here last week when Marvin Wiggs,
white grocery store owner, was
acquitted by an all white jury for
having molested young Negro
girls, while in his store, in one sc
tlon.
The CAROLINIAN learned from
reliable source* that the jury de
liberated for some considerable
| time and even came back to ask
the presiding judge, of the Supe
rior Court to permit them to hear
the testimony of a prosecuting wit
ness. A defense lawyer objected
and th* Judge sustained his objec
tion.
The testimony in question was
said to have been that of W. E.
Ptsnton. principal of the Leonard
Street School, which Me girls at
tend The school head to mid to
have testified that Wiggs told him
that he had put his hands under the
dram of ana of the girls and it tend
ed to help his business. Ha b also
reported as having said that ha
had enough money to pay for any
thing h* might have done to the
girls.
The testimony of the girl's moth
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IODDS-ENDS
BY ROBERT G. SHEPARD
"The Wall was finished be
cause the peepta had a mind ta
wart"
HELP POB A NEEDED WORK
This weekend, a group of 15 col
lege students will arrive in Raleigh.
They ate coming here at no ex
pense to ue tor Rw sob purpose of
helping us do a job we all mould
agree b a job badly seeding to bo
done.
These mutants an coming to
help us start our people to the im- ,
portonco of registering. They are '
coming to work with us and tor us
in the hope that whan their 8 weeks ,
stay will have ended, thousands at
names will have been added to our '
voting hot here in Balaigh.
Probably yon will be mocked to '
barn that percentage wise. Raleigh
.has the lowest Negro regbtraUoa (
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AND YET THEY COME Negro children continue to
regieter in New Orleans, La., to enter its newly-accepted inte
grated school system, ordered by a Federal Judga, in compliance
with the United States Supreme Court ruling. (UPI PHOTO),
Funeral Rites Are Held
For Miss Mary E. Phillips
Pf^sSp5 l P^MgS!|^2^wv sw Raleigh educational circle*, flank
ed by friend* and admirers, filed
into St. Ambrose Episcopal Church.
Friday, « p m snd peid the last
f -respect to a veteran educator. Miss
‘-fe. Mary Elizaoeth Phillips, who da
s V '-I- parted thia life Wednesday, at the
Mum Phillip* was symbolic of th#
j educational Ilf* of Raleigh and her
■* contribution to same was evidenced
time, a school was named In her
m w honor, the Mary £ Phillips School.
recently built in th# Washington
Terrace section.
She graduated from St Augus-
L#’x tines Normal and Collegiate School
m 1893 and later entered Shaw
HL ?.< ■ * University. She began teaching in
Hayjjgbfi V J t Warrenton and returned to Raleigh
m£ when a parochial school was open-
Sgtymr ed at St Ambrose Church She
r t *tk entered the local school system in
■■B** ■§ J 1913. She ended her career with
MIRR MART R. PHILLIPS (eOWTDTOBD raOM FAOB I>
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noun AT WAKE POBEBT
WINSTON -SALEM - From 20
to 29 Negroes art reported to have
registered lor the aurnmer aeaaion
of Wake Forest College The exact
number could not be ascertained
before The CAROLINIAN went to
Mooimnn drinkers foiled
RALEIGH White whiskey
drinker* in toe area are bemoar
ing the fact that 4SO gallon* of the
illegal “stuff were taken by off;-
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WELCOME STUDENTS
car* Saturday night in Garner
Sylvester Dixon is cnarged with
telling ATT agents 180 gallon*. It
i* argumentative whether this
large quantity will be displayed
a* evidence at the triaL
WOMAN CONVICTS HERSELF
WILKES BORO Many strange ;
thing* are known to have happen
ed in a court room, but the climax j
was reached in Judge H L Rid- .
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Four Charged With
Rape In Past Week i
The saying that in the apring time a young man’i fancy turns
to romance has been stretched somewhat in aad around Raleigh
for tta past week. According to arresting officers, one old man,
Herbert McLean, SB, and three other* are being held in (he Wake
County jail for rape.
Th# CAROLINIAN visited tbs
jail and talked with Herbert Mc-
Lean. H* to charged with having
raped a 13 year old girl whose
name is withheld by tha paper, dua
to her age When aaked whether
ha was guilty or not, ha replied,
Ta not guilty". Ha seemed con
vinced that he did not commit tha
eciM. Jail attendants chided him,
in saying that h* was too old to
b* charged with such a crime. The
order of Domestic Relations Court
was that he he held en th* charge
end await the next term es Superi
or Court,
Ho cay* (hat he farmed la the
lower section of th* county tor to*
greeter portion of his Ufa mid that
he was the father of nine children"
It was at tha home es one of hi*
daughters that tha crima is aaid ta
have been committed. Ha sage that
when his children grew up he had
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Tragedy Strikes Family
Mrs. Elizabeth Stewart, 1001 Ob
erlin Road, was reported fighting
tor her life at Wak* Memorial
Hospital Wed. morning, where ah*
was taken Tuesday as toe result of
Waltca Is Exonerated
In Wife’s Death
Eddie Edward Walton. 43-year
old resident of 3408 Pttagersid
Drive, walked out of City Court a
free man, after first degree mur
der charge*, against him, were
dropped because of Insufficient
evidence, recently.
Mrs. Willie
Mae Walton was
k>nnd b* the
blast from a
MM jljM shots un fired at
close In
m the kitchen of
mKv their home.
Det. flft Bow
llllEllfg,'gil ers testified he
th * body
■▼l: JB 'ring on the
floor when he
MRS. WALTON answered a call
to the home at 10:35 P. M. He
stated Walton was In another
room lying on a bad. Officers
John Baker and T. T. Street ware
present.
Wine, Dog,
Gun Result
In Hospital
One mould be careful how he
treat! a dog snd If he thinks he
should not. esk Robert Curdlty,
807 S. Person St He was Riot in
the face for slledgedly up braiding
Otis Rogers for kicking the dog. 1
Monday afternoon.
Witnesses to the mooting said i
that Curdity and Rogers, along
with smother man were sitting on
Curdity's porch and Rogers' kicked
(ccwnrosp nm raoa n
The five-Cay weather terecaaS
far the Baletfli area Seftaurta*
TkersCay. last 14. aa* cawtetwSw*
throat* Massay, ina SS, la aa
(Ottawa:
Trmpcrataree will average (raw
i *to 4 Basra** Vo low sorsul Tfcer*-
Say thread* ISoaSay. StaUaro*
•feowtrs sweat Sly tkrauskoet pari
a* wl» average areaas three
geartora at aa kck
Recreation Commission
Adopts BBL Precedent
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CHAPEL HILL—The hand ,of fate moved rather swifjßy
here and what teemed like an impossible venture Inst week IHB
bloasomed into a real tool of democracy.
The disbanded Baseball League, which sponsors sandlot
baseball, came to grip* with Toan Seism, coach, last week when he
refused to resign, due to the fact that he insisted on playing s
Negro boy on one of the teams. Ha
was put on the carpet and was told
that the league was for “White On
ly" Seism not only refused to resign
but told She "powers-that-be" if ths
league continued Negroes would
play.
Officiab of th* league decided
that they would disbond ths lea-
I gue and they proceeded to do just
I that. Monday night there was a
no one to help him make a share
cropper s farm end he cams to Ra
leigh and has no regular employ
ment
Three other accused rapists. Cle
veland Abrams, James Goings and
Sylvester Williams, Jr., are being
held tor raping Misses Lucille and
Hattie B. Williams, E. Hargett St.
two sisters, on e road back df Me
redith College, Saturday nigh. Thsg
wera arrested by Deputy SharMf
Wiley Jon*4 who told Tha CARO
LINIAN that the girls signed war
rants far their arrest.
jU. Jaraaa L Goings said he was
|he»t» to the'o*i «nd Ralto nothing
of (Ms women bstnfto ths car
Clarißsad Abrams alls't** that tha
women joined them at • drinking
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wsU—— ■ .in iino '———ran——
I a mysterious fire hi her hasre,
where she suffered multiple burns,
diagnosed as first, second and
third degree.
I The CAROLINIAN was told that
Bowers as id Walton told him
ha eras cleaning hi* gun and it
went off. He said Walton “told a
different story at the police sta
tion." There, Walton allegedly
said he was moving the gun from
one closet to another and it went
off. The rusty gun was found in
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PLANTED BY GOVERNMENT—-Mrs. Mlt Brown who WBB B
totmktr of the Cftaltl Party sad when the disavowed II MB*
hired hr tbs FBI U r—ttner her connection to gather as amah hto
forßMtton far It as poasMe. She hat been the ■overasaent’a ttar erit
m In s bearing bah* Md la Washington, abont the sarG a dafcWß.
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t - A
unanimous decision to not •*
reactivate the league but Lao Wag
ner, commissioner of the diaben&d
league and chairman of the beard
of directors, had the following to
my after the Monday meating. The
new league will be open to every
boy, regardless of race or ability,
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HERBERT MCLEAN
Mrs. Stewart was in the procsss at
cleaning paint from th* floor n<
on* of the rooms when fumes ar*
said to have ignited from the clean
ing fluid and enveloped her body.
She to reported aa having been
badly burned about the legs and
face, and head. It was furhter re
vealed that her leg* were so badly
burned, when she fell, tryinc to free
herself from the eauldion. that
much of the flesh was seared and
that it wee feared that some of th*
fluid penetrated the tissue* of her
I nody.
The fir* la aaid to have burned
'he eurtains and many other con
tents of tha room. The fumes gr*
said to have turned to flames when
they came in contact with the
flame* from a hot water heater.
This to said to be unusual and par,
sons familiar with the operation of
heaters say it to quits mysterious.