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Tue aw-ndarfi Printing CJ>. 1* ,< TYCtUF 5/%C ~ £{.b iSO-226 3. First St. -V O> b .. I ’ ' R- ' 3. 'jMHr teU'HIS, Ky. "Tgß-' 560 ? Bg-|pm -K FUQUAY-VARim. Jesse J nines-type Hobbes* Held Elderly Woman Succumbs TOP Cl A A TOURNAMENT COACHES - The top tno more. Md., newspaper. Right photo shows George Singleton, • coaches in last weekend * CtAA basketball tournament held tv It secretary-treasurer of the CIAA , presenting the runner up i Greensboro, are shown above beini congratulated. In the left trophy to Jesse Clements, coach of St. Augustine's College Fa!- j photo, Coach Clarence ‘Big House Gaines, whose Winston- cons. The Falcons amazed the spectators hv moving into the j Salem Rams non the 15th tourney, receives the “Outstanding finals from eight place in the tourney rankings. (See story on Coach 1 ' award from Sam Lacy, right, sports editor of a Belti- sports page). “We Are Tired Os Ten Cent Judges, ” 1 Rev. Sharper Tells Palmetto NAACP MANNING: SC— The pr. • i dent of the South Carolina branch : of the National Association for the j Advancement of Colored People j Sunday said that the Negroes of ! the state are '“tired of fooling v'ith Dixie’s / Senate rs Disagree WASHINGTON - The South j split down the middle Saturday ; on a tes* of strength vote —possibly the only time that the Dixie Sena tors won't present a solid front in , the Civil Rights beetle Eight of the southern senators j voted for a motion to adjourn the j Senate at 5 p m Monday afternoon ] in preference to the round-the- j 'lock sessions scheduled. Fight others voted with majority j leader Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Tex.i against the motion, and in effect, i for Johnson’s edict of continous j ■ sions until a vote is forced on Mk- Civil Rights BUI Tiie proposal was killed B'MO. The reason for tire spilt ap parently was a breakdown lit the communications system be tween Sep, Richard B. Kussell ■■O-Ga,), the leader of the southern bloc, and some of the southern senators. Russell apparently decided sn the spot to fight Johnson's j test motion, but didn’t manage to convey hie feelings to the 'CONTINUED ON PAGE 21 i * SHAW'S GREENLEAF AUDITORIUM CONDEMNED— Tha assembly hall at Shaw University , Greenlecl Auditorium. <sbov«, was condemned last weekend, according tc Eire Chief JaSk Keefer and Captain J. W. Holmes. It was reported that the j cQrsdenivwtion followed attempts by the fire department io fhve' the steps to'tin sthtctura repaired and a back entrance pitmtiyi : in the. event of an emergency. Some 450 students and faculty mam- ! here had used the auditorium regularly. {STAFF PHOTO BY' CHAS R. JONES). 10-cent judg l- juch at f immerman. Grenekei, and Byrnes' Re- H O. Sharper of Spartan burg told a group of '.'oo Claren don County Negroes it was “time to tel! the white man it does rot matter if we die we will ha- a freedom . Sharper referred to U S. District Judge George Bel! Timm erman Sr., Circuit Judge T B Greneker and former U S. Supreme Court Justice James F. Byrnes, The original Supreme Court de segregation school decision result- Sliidonis. tldulfo Bii IT Debate NEW YORK, N. Y. - The nation got a bird's eye view of what the thinking is on the part of six south erners Monday morning when Miss Betty Johnson, 19, Va. Union Uni versity. Richmond, Va.: Lacey Streeter. 24 North Carolina Col lege, Durham; George B. Herndon. Mayor of Fayetteville; S Beverly Lake, avowed segregationist and former assistant attorney general for NoVtb Carolina, and Marion A Wright, attorney from Lim-ille Falls, appeared on Dave Garrc v.ay'i show '’Today". The panel was moderated hv Ganowaj and plßied some of the ie nsderg of the “sit-in 1 demonstrations against a mod crate and a downright objector Newspapers styled the show as a “polite debate,** but readily commented that it got a little hot when Lake wanted to know what rights she thinks would enable Her to go Into a (■CONTINUED ON PAGE ?.i ed troir: action taken in Clarendon i County Sharper said that “ninety ! percent of those original petitioners lin the now famous Clarendon. , County school case were present I at thfc meeting Sharper called on the group to “not be satisfied with equal schools or with integrated schools or with Say Shot Entered The Door MANNING, S C. Manning po i lice Saturday probed a claim by a : local NAACP leader that a bullet | was fired through the front door !of his combination home-funeral parlor. Police Chief Billy Joe Craft said Militant (Billy) Fleming, local NAACP president, report ed the shooting incident Fri day. Fleming reported two i-inular in cidents two years ago, but an In vestigation turned up nothing. Fleming did not find the bullet, a ; .22 calibre, until his mother told i him she heard a shot Thursday | evening about 7:30. His mother i lives about 200 yards from his | home. | Upon conducting a search Fleming said be found the bul let embedded In a back hal! i wall, ft had passed through the front door. He told police he didn't have any idea who fired the shot but added “it might have stemmed from the sttdown protests and increased NAACP activity in the area.'* State News -IN- Brief FIRST BAPTIST OBSERVES MISSIONARY DAY RALEIGH - First Baptist Church will observe its annual i Missionary Day here Sunday. March 13. according to the Rev C. W. Ward, pastor. The featured speaker on the program will be Miss Irene Rrishnappa, and Indian Mis sionary. Miss Krisbnappa was born in Bangalore, India in (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2> "Young Lady Off Year** Is Chosen Here (SEE PHOTO PAGE 7) Miss Martha R Harrison, a jun ior at St. Augustine's College j here was named last week as the J "Young Lady of the Year.” She was honored during a program held on St. Augus tine’s campus last week, spon sored by the Zcta Phi Bets j (CONTINUED ON PAGE intergaied restaurants but press on ; until every vestige of segregation has been removed from the so-call j ed southern way of life Clarendon County NAACP lead er Billie Fleming told the group "our youth are condemning aegre ; gation—it is a sign of the times— : the young Negro is not prepared 1 to put with the foolishness of such J people as Byrnes and southern ft j Übuster* in congress.' j Sharper and Fleming took Gov , \ Ernest F. Hoiimgc and tha staff! law enforcement division to task for what they called “ignoring the rights o! the South Carolina Ne gro." Fleming raid the Negro*-?' aim was to “go every place Rollings : roes." D.'k'i<'iii! CD' i'aim*: in Talk Here by staff writer Members of the Raleigh Cithsen- Association, meeting at-the Blood worth Street YMCA last Thursday night heard an address by James H. McCain, an official of the Com- : rnittee on Racial Equality Presiding at the session was the president, the Rev John W. Flem ing During the business session, it was reported that some $2,000 had been raised to enable ihe Associa tion to carry out its goals. The next meeting will be held at the YMCA Thursday night of this week and is open to the public McCain was in Raleigb milnlv to encourage students involved in the sitdown pro tests involving several down town stores here. He spoke at St. Augustine’s College and Shaw University. McCain told the citizens group that the fight for full equality must be aided by adults. He said the students had begun the fight and must be helped financially and morally by their elders. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) . ... . ■ vtM F'Jfii'*" ’_^jSJ||||* n b» jfc.gSfif' rgllii | CITIZENS ASSOCIATION HEARS "CORE Ot'FlClAl -Member* I tin R : rj CUi sens Association heard a stirring address last Thursday night by James H, McCain, field worker tor the Committee On Racial Equality (CORE), shown in inset. Others in photo, left to right, are: Miss Vivian E. Irving, vice-chairman: the Reverend John W. Fleming, chair man', and C. C. Smith, Jr., treasurer. (STAFF PHOTO BY CHAS. R. JONES). As Arm Blown Off Body THE COROLINIAN North Carolina s Leading Weekly VOL, 19 NO, 27 RALEIGH, N. SATURDAY. MARCH 3, 1960 1 PRICE !5« SOUTH SPLITS IN A STRENGTH TEST ON CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE + + ++ + + + + flu Italpigli KHdown ft'rotvsL IN her Issnes: Biers Take Stand Conductor I Relieved Os Money W.ALHALLA, S C ~ A 42-year o!d Washington man drew a six year prison term Thursday after being convicted of staging s mod ern-day Jesse James type train rob bery last Aug 2!?. '*■ Ernest eUupsen was convict ed of walking into are cabooe* of a train while no a side track near Seneca. S. C-. and rob- • bin? conductor B:im Boyd of "153, after .'■lugging hit, victim and slashing his wrist The FBI arrested Simpson In Washington shortly after the rob bery. He denied ti e crime but the robbery victim Identified him as tire robber and a tsxi cab driver who drove Simpson to Spartanburg. S. C.. the night of the crime told the court he picked Simpson up near the caboose Girl, 17, ! Freed Os j Assault DURHAM - A 17-year-old white \ girl, who police said spat popcorn j in a Negro's face, was cleared j Tuesday of charges of assault, and ; battery growing out .of a demon- i stration protesting lunch counter segregation Recorders Court Judge A. R. Wilson dropped the charges a gatnst Miss Linda Teston of Durham but fined Ronnie Dale Broad well of Chapel Hill $lO and court cost for disorderly conduct He was accused of shouting and cursing at Negroes during a sit (CONTINUED ON PAGE 21 CROWD AT CITY HALL ~~ Shown above are some of the 850 persons who were seen in an around City Hals here last Thursday afternoon as some 43 students were scheduled io be tried on trespassing charges in connection with the sitdown pro test. The trial was rescheduled for March S 4. (UPI PHOTO). Student’s Trials Now Set For March 14 At Raleigh According to a reported state ment of Pretlow Winborne, alleg ed to have been issued Monday, the trial of the 43 students, ar rested for what was termed tres passing, will be held March 14, less any of the anticipated frills and fanfare that was expected to go on. This is the second postpone ment- of the cose It was originally set for March 35th, but the pres ence of so many persons is said to have prompted th* trial judge to to set It for March 3. It wae then suggested that the trial be held in the Me morial Auditorium, by Mr Winborne it is alleged The changed his mind and will now hold it hs the city eourt room. Attendance will be limited to the defendants, witnesses and par ents of the defendants, plus one newsman from each local news paper. radio and television sta tion and the wire services. Winborne said court, officials, after studying the situation, felt that the courtroom was the pro per place to try' tire students. To enforce the attendance rules, policemen will be stationed at the courtroom entrance to cheek in (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) CAROLINIAN —— ADVERTISERS BITV FROM THEM™™ PAGE * Horton's Cash Bto** O. K. Clothing Cosnpeuy PAGE 3 Hei!ig-K*vine Furniture Store Federal Acceptance Corporation Community Florist Watson’o Restaurant Cuneton’is Texaco Service Station PAGE 5 Hurison-Bcik Store Cameron-Brown Company Speedy Wash, Inc, James E. Shepard CJmsfcead's Transfer * Grocery Jerome’s Tourist Some Cnr»sotd»ted Credit Corporation Pittsburgh Plate Glsrs Company Wsshimrfon Terrace Apartments Corrcli Coal Company Gas Rosens Batters * Cleanerr Famous Bakery Sop' a Sport Shop PAG* 8 Mother £ Daughter Store* Griffis Food Store Shot Mart Davie Street Colts latuadrejuai Moron's Barbo Shop PAGE 5 Sir Waiter Chevrolet, Company PAGE t> Colonial Stores, Inc, Taylor Radio * TV Service V. Sari Mehtroan B. 6. Quinn Furr,(tore Companj Morirvn Finance Company Sj, * W. Tire Company PAGE ® AAP Food Stores, toc- Asr«*s»aiiiic3 &■ Farmers Rant Ftrenicne Stores, Inc Statement Spells Out Cleric’s View to the first major move of its kind in the south, some 60 Ps leigh ministers, most of them white, appealed to the Raleigh public in a statement Wedn s day, urging it to employ Chri fiar. principles :n dealing with the current racial Conflict* i most recent of which wastiu sitdown protest, Urging citizens to inteerpe ft' public service,-educational and church facilities, the statement couiained five tr < jor points. This it the first time in in? city affected by the gtriv* that so many minister? tune jointly combined their effort? in attempting to qoell the cur rent situation. The ministers' statement fol ■ Sous: A PUBLIC STATEMENT FROM THE RALEIGH MINISTERS LISTED BELOW March 3. 1960 (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2i Shot Tears Woman’s Arm Away GASTONIA A (M-year-old woman was shot to death Sunday while scuffling with a mas who re id she attacked hire with n butcher knife and a gun Mr*. Carrie Stephenson died from a shotgun blast which (CONTINUED ON PAGE 21 Capita! tee Jfe Coal Company Erird’s Os Raleigh PAGE 19 Blocs. worth Street 'Fcnriet Bom* Rfdgewaj Opticians Caro.tna Builders,. Ife*. Cavenras Sb.suranee Coreyasy T OP Battling Compaay 1*11! 3.n Motor Fio-are Company Wstmsit’s Seafood to Poultry Co Backers Fire tunmua t&M»pan.\ Warner Memorial* Tot reps!-Cola ißoitlJiig Cotupau PAGE 12 ’ S&P Product* j Jobs Boo* Co. ®f Marti Caroßns , Tire Hairs & Service i Biyn Contract *. Senies ! 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