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' Bank Robbers ‘Grab’ 21 G’§ i Suspects Caught In v Maryland CHARLOTTE The FBI at Charlotte. Monday revealed t h a t two more suspects in the 21-thous and dollar robbryv of a Green ville bank last week were arrested Sunday night Special agent in charge of the Charlotte office of the FBI. W W Eromwell. said Monday night Bil ly Jackson, >on of Robert Jackson, the first suspect apprehended in the armed holdup of the PendClon Street branch of the S. C Nation al Bank, was arrested along with Jessie Lee Townes, 33. Bromwi -.11 said agents recovered ?! 1,330 of the loot, taken in the robbei v. Billy Jackson, about 29. v. at rested ’in Catonsville. Md. and i. Townes was apprehended at ih' Honor Reed Hotel in Baltimore. Md. Billy -Jackson and Townee were scheduled for arraign ment In Balitmore Tuesday morning. Robert Jackson was srralgned Frida? after his cap tore and is scheduled to appear V ' (CONTINUED ON PAGf i> Whiskey Kills Two More WINSTON-SALEM Mrs Pau line Polite Hone worth. 47, Win ston-Salem, died in a local hospital Monday, apparently another victim of poison moiishine whiskey The woman, whose brother died front the same apparent, cause Sun day night. died about 40 minutes after she was admitted to the hos pital emergency room. Before hr died. Bruce Polite, V®, told officers hr had been drinking moonshine and told them «here he had purchased it Police raided the hou < arn-MoH A Robert L c • stable'; arid r.-rifi'. rated * small amount of moor: shine which they *s»d ■■me lied bad " The liquor hh; sent to Ral eigh for chemical analysis. Stables denied selling liquor to Polite. Three other persons have died here in recent weeks from drinki ing moonshine containing trad salts, a deadly poison, and there have been several other cases of nan-fatal poisoning from liquor. The liquor containing the deadly ingredient is b< lie' "d to have been shipped hero from Fast Tenor sec. NC Drama % Groups To Raleigh Tire North Carolina High School Drama Association is approaching its annual busiest season, The three regions: •j The Northeastern, the Eastern and the Western Regions, have all had their annual fall meetings and well on *he way toward pre paration for the annual high school state-wide festival to be held st Shaw University, Raleigh, March 17. 13, lft The state-wide festival will in clude ati. class A representatives from all. over ihe state in three categories; A, A A AAA The Northeastern District held its business ineePng early h> the fall At this meeting the •ftglos plsnsjcd Its clink and <CONT©JTTEB ON PAGE 3) W'm.'wmmmrr fr-»-^- •'«**’-r~ f “BIG” JOHN BAKER SPEAKS John Baker, star performer for the Los Angeles Roms professional football team, is shown above, standing, as he answered questions for a number of lo cal sports fans during a banquet in tvs honor lust Thursday night at the YMCA. Baker's former >- high school and college coaches were present and paid tribute to him. j. Royal “ Skink ” Browning was the master of ceremonies. (Staff Photo By Chas. R, Jones). + + + + + + + + + + j ftU Winds Up 'Safari": j African Crowds See Billy Graham THE COROLINIAN j VOL. 19. NO. 1? At “Saturday Night tiuthvrinf/: " Stove Explodes, 6 Die j Evangelist Welcomed To Africa ACCRA Ghana Hu.di crowd* 1 flocked to the sports stadium to I hear Amcrh-: ti Fv.ing,; list Billy i Graham t<• 11 them men love t.hwn- I helves more than their neighbors. Graham’s fiery, 60-minute ■■., ; - vnons arc translated simultaneous ly info two local languages. SPECIAL! Franrcllsi Ril!\ (: in ha in s ‘Safari For Souls” in Ifrira is depicted in feature story on pane ’’ of this nifk's FtFtJ I.INItN. It teifs of his rvplnits In this far .|«:o roUPtre and ghr his iipprer-.lu>ts fit the in habitant* there. The evangelist ip on an ' African crusade" which will tak< liun i* tiiroughout tin African C'.iUlneni Graham told the crowds " . unless men chiitgc their hearts mc will never have peace on earth.'’ • FONT!.NII D ON f’AOt ») Federal i Help Is Talked ; | WASHINGTON 'No ,-uuUicru i senators said last Saturday that proposals to use Federal personnel I jto register Negroes in the south j | will not get through the senate, j Hut Sens Herman E. 'l’almad.c.c 'fiat and John J. Sparkman, (Ala. i in a joint radio interview weren't, as optimistic about other civil rights legislation "It’s my judgement ’’ Tahnadge said, “that if this registrar bill comes before the floor of tin® ,"n ate . . the people throughout America will rise up and strike that thing down " Th* Senate Bole* Committee hearing* ©« several fCONTTNBED ON PAGE 8) RALEIGH. N C.. SATURDAY. JANUARY 30. 19fi0 1 ' k-v v«i ■ . ’-V • CORONER’S JURY HEARS EVIDENCE — A Wake County Coroner's fury is shown ahovr . here Monday at the V-al«> County Courthouse hearing evidence in the < use of a 3 month-old \ 'hdd being burned to death on Cannister Street. The jury ruled “no criminal intent’’ m the , !of Mr, and Mrs. Thomas Bennett, who had left their tour children alone I,eh to right above are ■ J antes A. Shepard, Mrs. /, £>, Lewis, £. L. Rat ford. C. C, Gray, and W. Raymond June-. Nut hown is the Re\ N. Mitchell , who also served on the jury. With back to camera is unidentified , fireman . (Si AI K PHOTO Uv CIIAS. R. JONFS), ! Coroner’s Jury Finds No Criminal j Intent In Fire Death Os Kids Here I Coroner Marshall W. Bennett i empaneled an nil-colored iuryi Monday to rule in the di alh of a 1 three-month-old boy who was | After 2 Weeks Os Rituals, “Daddy Grace” Is Interred NEW BEDFORD, Mass—Final rites w'.-re conducted here Tups* day ; : s brightly costumed guards, angels and queens and black rob ed elders laid the body of Bishop Charles Manuel 'Sweet Daddy" t Grace to rest. ’ Mon wept unaehmedlT som® i burned to death last week after I being left in his home with three j other small children. The jury after lengthy cleiibera 1 1 women fainted and children Mar* ■ ed m wonder as the familiar voice ,j of "Daddy” Grace came back to 'them Grace delivered” his own > I eulogy, via tape recording mode I shortly before his death two weeks j ago in Los Angeles > I Over 300 persons jammed j the small House of Prayer for I All People which Bishop Grace j founded here -39 years ago. He I came to New Bedford as a boy from the Cape Verde Islands Outside the church were some 2,580 Interested, spect,a tors, while some 8,000 crowded around the grate of the Oats Grove Cemetery. Elder Robert Crosby of CImr rnONTINUBD ON PAGE 21 Chapel Hill Committee j Seeks Details On Plans | CHAPEL HILL— A citizens' i committee for Chapel Hill schools j asked the school board Monday night to spell out m details i»r plans for initiating integration 1 next fall, | The 27-memher committee also j asked the Chape] Hi!! Board of | Education to include In the plan j provisions for taking the burden for integration away from indivi dual students arid parents. The school hoard voted last year to begin limited integra tion at the first-grade level with the start of the fall se- j ■ mestor !n 196 ft. Negroes would be assigned to schools accord ing to geographic locations up on request by the students or their parents. The citizens committee said ‘‘it j is grossly unfair to place the bur- j den for requesting admission to a I • son, ruled there was tio crunune) j | i’tent on ih- part, of the child' i : (Kirents. Thomas end Virginia Ben j I rift t.. of Cannister Street, j Coroner Bonnet! .--aid' ' i think | the jury did the l ight thing. 1 eon ! gra tula tod them when they return . I ri and stated their verdict.” i He wat, interviewed by phone i Wednesday and expressed rom • pletc satisfaction with the selection of the alt-colored jury Young Thomas Bennett Ji died ns flames roared through the house in which be and three more email children had beer! left atone bv their parents Jury members said the evidence tended to show that the children 'were left alone' witfl a lark of proper care " Betn-ett declared he had heea gone about 4? minute® and Mr*, lie tin et &*i<f she left about five minute* before a Move, overturned and eeattasted hot coat* about the floor, Another child was burned here last week The daughter of Mrs. T* M Bass of Grimes Aliev war treat ed at Saint Agnes Hospital foi her wounds. non -segitgated school on the ; tu- 1 dent and his parents. Indeed, this I course of action might well lead I to bitterness and acrimony as well ! as violating the spirit and law | which wp are trying to imple ment." The school board was expected to take action on !he request next Monday night. In Us desegregation state ment, the committee did r,«i j recommend a plan by name but made reference to '‘a plan which does not place ilte bur den for desegregation on in dividual citherns.” A Quaker group, the Religious j Society of Friends, had earlier pre sented a similar plan to the Chape! Hill board. The Quaker proposal asked that, the school attendance area be divided into five geograph ic districts with each district serv ing one elementary school. PRICE 15c Others Are Injured In Explosion MANNING. $ C • Six p. rsonr died in in 1 s plosion 4ii'i i.nL>Bi= 1 queut fii' Hint jc-dneed a frami l tenant house to ashes in h matter of minutes near here parly Sunday r Fiir file slatted, according to stirvieors, after a aas can used to start, fires ill a wood slow over turned and exploded aftn t.hc fuel reached mi open fireplace. Semi :;n pi t-sen? \v, t , in Ihi four-room Souse for a ‘ Saturday night gath '■ring," 10 * .raping injury The Ipii ml fartnci'. I.rc tin it,ill. St. « ;j- In rtillt its iwitidi linn at (hr I l;!rrnttnn SI * rii.i‘l a? Ih* U.'Cf.r iv!|s In. •• a,ted tainift tvut jims«*s oil * A (■CONTINUED ON PAGE 31 Youth’s \ Body In SC Creek CHViHAW s r A 16-year i old youth was bemr held In the ] county ia’t today after admitting I shootlruv j ChPt'ow hich school; I student h.u i s t iiwlfl fiflil County Sheriff Don Hili said Hi chard ><e Blackwell said he shot .fames Shields also 18. but said the shooting was mi "accident," j t!j]l said Blackwell claimed hr • shot Shields with a shotgun hot ■ rower) from a, neighbor Until Shield's body was fished Irons Thompson Creak near Clip raw last. Wednesday. Blackwell hud denied any knowledge of the death Blackwell ha been held in con nection v.]tn 1-l<r* dentil since lib j arrest the Sunday following | | Shield's death At the time of his! arrest, he was driving Shield s car I I NA AGP Sets Goldsboro I For Meets I i GOLDSBORO The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will try at. th p conference table to secure Indus trial training for Negroes at a new industrial education center here. Charles Mrl/cau of Winston - i Salem, field worker for the NAA<"P j said Thursday ht> organization ! would seek admission of Negroes j (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2* 1 State News —IN— j Brief _ YOUTH EXHIBITS BRAVERY j RALEIGH William Oscar j Brooks, Jr., of 416 S. Swain Street, i was commended for turning in a j Sire alarm that possibly saved the life of Mrs. Gertrude Brown, who lived alone at 50? S. Swain Street. The in ,-ident ocurred Friday night about, ft p. m. when fire broke out in Mrs. Brown’s living room. {COKfiNVBD ON VU-iv ;}) fffm t - “« '■ ' J: " MA\ STJCCEFD TAR HhJ.I, Rrp. Ad»m Chiton Pow •H, (O-N 1 )rs nc.vf rn lmf foi she impoi tri/it government position uhu h h i !l he gi cert np h\ Ri p. C r >.ih i;v Burden (D Af.C.) *OOO. rVni ell r. s/khvr; fthin t -mining outogi pie- t->r one of hr. morn admirers. (See story this page). Clayton Powell Next In Lina For Top Position Held By N. C.’s Barden WASHINGTON. D. C; lin announcement lasi week by Hep <jiunain A. Barden ' L>. N.C.* ot New Bern Unit he will resign he post nest .fanuun brought im mediate Mw<‘ijlyfiun ’• to hi? .-.nc oessor in j.lv powerful Moiur i n ration am! Labor Commitb - *‘ Ba rii ijn .seniority the position would sutotn; ticuily :o to Hep Adam Clayton Boa el! 'LI, N.V.i Hr.-..! ever )§ if. expected th’lt sO’tt lieril -11 f.r,h 1 * ro<. ■ of Tin;- kind because Powell is 3 Negro. Powell ranks next to Barden in seniority among Democrats on ihr commit ter and thus would normally succeed ihc North Carolinian if Itemo cralic congress is elected ne\i year. At a news conference in his New York office several hours after Barden disclosed he would no! seek re-election, Powell announc Quiet Prevails As 2 Schools Comply FLOYD, Vs Racial •-••:;rcc3hon -ended qurtly a! :>• o more vim. ’nob eh.mi!k in Virginia Monday In Georgia, the stab legi: laiu? ' was asked to It t Hie voter. 1 decide ; if Ihe eynKtifutional ban on in ni Racial Discussion r.t Confab NTJW YORK l'he National As vociatioti for the Advancement of Colored People finds if. ‘incredi ble that no discussion of desegre gation is planned by the 1960 White House. Conference on Chil dren and Youth. NAACP executive | secretary Roy Wilkins said last j week WilMnn m .a letter *o eon fprenee. director Ephraim K froNTiNimn on page :u , CAROLINIAN ADVERTISERS _ BUY FROM THEM i*A til :t llox ten 5 f ash Stoic •die®' Grocery Store Mechanics S-. Farmers B*oU MAGE 5 Winn-Dixie i Came ton Brown rnmp.iii' PAGE 5 Hudson Erik Cdcipanr Watson’* Rtetautant Federal Acceptance Cerp j PAGE S Firestone Stores, in® I S. 0. Kress ! Gun Russos Hatters & Cleaners i Correil coal Company ■ Famous. Bakery | Griffis lo'.'li HI ore ! Speedy Wash ■ Urnstead Transfer & Grocery ! jerome s Tourist Home i Washington Terrace Apartments, Inc. iPAGE 7 | Carolina Butch Company j Consolidated Credit corporation | Stephens Appliance Company i Sanders Motor Company DAG IS 8 Colonial Stores, trie. It iv Quinn Furniture Company C. Kar 1 Utehman J’nyiii! pUMfte. & TV Service Acute Realty Company * ed how lie intend.' to guifi< ti . lions' commiPei 1! liettapsk p s over the iiuHem U- <h" said Borden was 1 idroiu:, forceful mull who conducbd .i! committee in » do"- m.'itjc manner. He said Barden had "suit trade union anti-civil iT-.his view..' and '.leered Ihr house croup in "oi-i man |:? h !o> 1 I will r-l < li'e-li :> ciim.'iic of h;mu.-:?v Mol nopoi lin|it' an Ihe 'raintnilliff’f.urli -siifl. "In 1 dentoeraiic iv.iy, ihr mi - jority vie«s «f rommiHec members will prevail. •’T'bere is no *iination miller which I would refuse to 1-t a t)il! eorm up for considera tion. "Even if there is » bill for sog iTg.iiion. i would lot M conic ui for con.-idemlion and then go U II on i isn:n ov pagi l<--gruled schools should ftp scrap pi d. The !• I,.lure hlso i.ruvi '.■ vcml other pro|»:r..-d bills to al : h'.v limited in leg rut ion At Chapel Mil! where limited in i< crafion " ili begin ;i1 the. (i> 1 grade level in Septemb« v r, 3 rih .•(-!!: comniit-tct urged the sclwol ' board to provide that Hie ‘'burden ■ fir desegregaiion" not b* put oc mdividiial citizens.. Thirteen Nceroca~*eight hoys and fix* irirlK pat htkidf xiilite slsnfrnis .)< lyn )ii|;h s. hnoh in mount.tinouv I luyd County xviiitnni trouhlr vipect ~l iswmiijips had been held trccntlv * n brief ihr vhite si>i .4e1;(.. on how thev should 9C* toward the*? new clavsmateß Floyd County has no Negro high schools Ts is the sixth locality in Virginia to desegregate its public schools The eitiv.cn" committee for Chap el Hill schools asked the school board to change its present plan under which Negro frtst grade pu j nils will be assigned to schools *c | cording to geographic location on I request by their parents "It i» gtosrly unfair to flwn flic burden f«r reqvesting sd> !CONTINUED ON PAGE »> 1 AGE 9 \A F Food store.-. In r r. & IV. Tire Company •ifird’E o' Raleigh *, E R-tnes. Esse Oil » ust-citlseus Bank * Trust <" PAGE tfi Eloou.vorth Street Tourist Bom* Ridgeway Opticians Caro.Usa Builders, tec. Cave ness Insurance Company 7-UP Bottling Company Dill jo Motor Finance Company I Watson s Seafood & Poultry Co. ! Bankers Fire Insurance Company Warner Memorials i The ncpsi-Cota Bottling Campxipv ! PAGE 11 j Thomas Food Store | PAGE IS I Hannon-Date, Snc, I PAGE IS l Standard Cinder Block Company Gem Watch Shop | Rale,go r»ait»s A WMlpaper Co Di.no'-, Esso Servtcenter i Odom Cut. Kale Ciothlnr 1 Hale'gh Seafood Company ! Smith Coal A; Oil Company, tnr s. M. Voting Hard wars Store l llout General l ire Company
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