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The Standard Printing CIO* _ H2C-22G 3* First St*. fl • ■ uni+iiu, j rail m if«gilts Vote 1 hursday Dixiecrats Filibuster 157 j Hours As Session Closes j WASHINGTON, D. C,—Non-stop talking waA finally halt ed yn the Senate Tuesday concerning civil rights. Thursday of ’ This week was a vote on whether to halt the filibuster by I southerners The record-breaking oratorical session which started Feb ?9 finally ended at 8 10 p.m after sorne 18 southern Demo crats had talked for 157 hours and 40 minutes Chairman Thomas C Hennings i said he hoped his Senate Rules i Commiti/ee would agree on Negro ' oting guarantees The Missouri Democrat, who made hi* first aptrear stice at the debate after being out two weeks with a chest in fection, called the eommitte to Fire Mills Aged Man ARLINGTON, Va. The death of an elderly man Monday, when fire swept through his house pushed to 12 the number of fa talities attributed to the snow 1 and j severe cold that hit Virginia last Wednesday. The charred body of Willie Mays, 85, was found lying on a bed in a back room of his house here early Monde i Firemen, who fought their way inside in 18-degree cold, said the fire may have started from a kerosene heater Eight persons have died In fires during the cold wave, four from traffic a-cidents, one from asphix - iatfon, and two men died from, heart attacks, while shoveling snow. The State Highway Department reported Monday that all primary roads in Virginia were open for use without chains excepi route 250, west of Monterey, which was expected to be open Tuesday, and route 58 in the White Top Moun tain area Light snow was reported in the ■ west, southwest, and northern portions of the state, but no accu mulations were reported on the roads. Most secondary roads were op en by Monday night The only counties with any appreciable number of secondary roads block ed were Highland Frederick Floyd, Tezwell. Wythe. Grayson and London. State News Brief j STUDENTS CONVK TED "Hie first students to be tried on trespass changes in connection with demonstrations against segre gated lunch counters were- convict ed this week in Winston-Salem Judge Leroy Serna found 12 Negroes and 10 white students guilty of trespassing He itn- Mediately handed down a nil hte of judgment suspended straight* which, meant the* were frpf. without any punish ment. The next day, however Sams changed the judgment to 'suspended for 12 months The Negro students appealed im mediately but the white student? did not. The NAACP said the con victions would be used as test case? in. an effort to force integrated eat ing establishments in the south A;student at Kittrell College rear Henderson pleaded guilty to beat ing & white grocery delivery man who came to the school lasi Mon day. The Negro claimed the white man' had assaulted him during a demonstration at a lunch counter demonstration in Henderson the previous week SCIENCE FAIR GARNER—Extensive plans, ar* now underway for the Annual Sci* *nee Fair to be held at the Gar ner Consolidated High School on (QDNTDTOED ov PAGE 2> ' ! CONTI VIE ED ON PAGE T> r— CAROLINIAN - ———— 1 ADVERTISERS PAGE 2 Horton’s t*.sh Store -I C. Heines, Oil Dealer Raleigh Savings * Loan Association PAGE 3 Carters, tec N. C Mutual Lite Insurance Co Capita! Ice Si Coal Company Thomas Food Market Ftret-Citlien’s Bank & Trust Co PAGE S Griffis Food Store Cameron-Brown Cowem? Sunt General Tire Compare f amous Bakery Consoidatcd Credit Corpora!' Jerome’s Tourist Home Capital Coca-Cola Bottling t Botlsoa-Belk Store PAGE « Carolina Power & Light Cotupanv Firestone Stores, Inc, Jlles Grocery Watson’s Restaurant Federal Acceptance Corporation Speedy Wash, Inc. CorreU Coal Company Davie Street Coin Uimlr" PAGE 7 O'Neal Motors, Inc PAGE Jt Colonial Stores, Inc. L. * W. Tire Company Mod cm Finance Company ft- E Qk!kji.Furniture Compju Stoior Radio & TV Service a meeting Monday morning He said, T hope «e can come up something M At- the same time, the democra tic and republican leaders held private discussions with their, col leagues on the possibility of a compromise that would draw strop? support from civil rights backers and less fierce opposition from southerners •Sen Pam J Emn Jr. iD-NCh propoced at dawn that the senate adjourn until noon Monday and called a vote. But he quick!; vithdreu 'the motion when Sen Hugh Scott (F.-Pa 1 demanded a quorum ''all *JVo One Will Ever Know* * Note Declares: Man Murders Wife. His Sell Integration Edict Said Reason ROANOKI ; Va A Roanoke man accused of • riting a threatening letter to a federal nidge -ho order ed school dereyregation was ruled mentally imcomp*t c -n* of standing trial Friday, Federal District Judge Ted Dal ton ordered Frederick Ross Hen ley. 33, held for psychiatric treat ment until he is able to tried or until the chaise is d eposed of Hen! p y was cha r ?ed v Ith writing a letter threatening bod IP harm tn ,1 •- H- -- itchy f Thompson of * v,o. tober because Thonmson had ordered V' * ■ i;adn : '-<c- j t to white schools in Floyd County. Dr. Charles A Zdkr. medical director of Southwestern State Mental Hospital at Marion testified • CONTINUE!) ON PAGE Felice Prevent Meeting MONTGOMERY Ala.—A ring of law enforcement officers, armed with Hubs ?nd guns. Sundm thvvartcd ;>n a tie mot b~ some 2.o'tu ringing, shouting TVrroes to hold a protest meeting at the Alabama canitol However, the tens* situation al most exploded into violence as the Negroes marched across (be street from a church to the historic white-columned capitol and vere met by officers and some 10.000 jeering whites There were a few scattered fist fights, but no one I apparently was hurt and there were no arrests Fire trucks, with sirens, blaring. BUY FROM THEM C. Karl Lithtmin ,PAGE 9 I A>&P Food Stores ter 1 Eiird’s Os Raleleh Mechanics A Farmer; Bank lames E Shepard I Bunston's lexaco Service Station PAGE 10 8100-.ourth Street Tourist a-'we Riagev-a, Opticians Caro.tea Builders, tee Caveness Jnsurance Comuan' I-UP Bottling Company Oil! ;ir Motor Finance Compan Matson s feeatocri & Poultry to Bankers F:ro Insurance Company Warier Memorial* The J epsl-tola Bottling Companv PAGE H St. Augustine's College ; PAGE 35 Harmon-Dale, tec, Ttey If. i Odom Cut Hate Clothing 1 :-roy Standard Concrete Products < u. Gem Watch Shop -\tmt Realty Company I’rleieh funeral Horn* Ownn’s Eve Sc rvicen* er r-lth Coal & Oil Company An!) urn Pontiac Company rUleigh S-afood Company' ' Branch Banklue & Trust Company j S. M. Young Hardware ! Arhhassadov Theatre f Public Service Gas Co. of N. C, PROTEST MEETING THWARTED THE COROLINIAN North Carolina 's Leading Weekly VOL 19. NO 23 RALEIGH. N. C . SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1960 hr ICE 15c Segregationist Writes Jurist: Letter Threatens Va. Judge 4 + + 4- + + + + , i I\n FRUITY OF FI Ct At wn. '■ ! ■•'''•[ ■' i. AFRICAN CUFSTS L»*< # right o- John R Larkina , public " elf-ire consultant of Raleigh t Dr . Foster P Payne, dean of the college at Shaw University, Mr Motsuenyane and Mrs Jocelyn Motsuenyane visitors from Johannesburg. South. Africa who will live on Shaw University's campus for four months Dr Lar kins made the arrangements for the couple's stay on the campus Dean Payne welcomes the group on behalf ot the University. /tv®, • % m ® run (iiizens Ass 11 lo Sponsor .% Panel A, call mealing " '!! be sponsor ed by the Rateign Citizen; Asso • i-'; .:m here Sunday at the Martin Catholic Council Releases Views On Racial Conflict The Catholic Interracial Council of Raleigh, composed of members of the Cathedra! Parish, St Moni ca's, and Our Lady of Lourdes Churches released the following j resolution this week' ‘We view with sincere interest and sympathy, the efforts of our fellow citirens of the state of North j Carolina to obtain recognition of their human rights. The dignity j given by God Himself, to the hu- I man personality, requires our hum ble recognition, no matter what • rare, nationality or religious per Week Is Mar. 13-19 March 13 through 18 is Negro Newspaper Week. This is the an- I nual time when more than 200 • weekly and daily newspapers pub j lished by Negroes observe the founding of the first Negro news paper— freedom’s Journal in 1827 These newspapers make a concert ed effort to project the vital role they play in championing the cause of freedom for all peoples. ‘Negro Newspapers Educate for Freedom” is the theme of this 133rd anniversary -observ ance. The mere fact that there Is still need for a militant and crusading Negro press indicates the many inequ*tle? that yet exist end the freedoms that be vo7l. Thus, this observance is no mere indulgence in self-praise. Rather it is re-evaluation of original purpose iCONTINUED ON PAGE 2) . Street Baptist Church at 3 pm Lo i cal and area citizens are urged to i attend. The regular " eekly meeting suasion This undamental principle has been codified into law among most of the civilized countries of •he world, the local' customs of a f CONTINUED ON PAGE 2> >■ „ To’ - < ti? —■■ s voters tva/a chJtvii a»v, . lu\ > with Fayette County, / m:i„ Negroes waiting to register March 2nd. Negro leaders had called lor a "Match" of 1,000 Negroes to register, but nowhere near that number showed up, possibly because of bad weather. About 75 whites end the same number ot Negroes were registered. Negroes have claimed that Fayette Coun ty Democratic primaries are for “whites only*. (UP! TELEPHOTO ). '-•• ' ■ of the association will b* held Thursday night. March 10 at the YMC A The Rev John W Flemming chairman of the group, receiv ed s letter from James Roose relt, son of the late President of the United Static? Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and cur rently an official of the U S Government, stating that he would be unable to address the mooting, but setting forte his views on the rads! unrest In •he south ■ CONTINUED ON PAGE ’> Estranged Edgecombe Pair Dead BY 7 B HARKED ROCKY MOUNT- —It nearing the last hours of the Leap Year Day—7:3o p ro. February 29 —when 31-year-old James Hines climbed atop an oil drum at the kitchen window of hie mother-in-law’s home and fired a fatal shotgun blast into *ha back of his estrang ed wife's head and then •■ snt to the corner of the house where he z'eportedly emptied the gun into his own head. Both were de#d-on-arival at a local hospital according to a re port by Police Chief J ! Red' N ienols Hines had been separated from hig wife, Mrs Mattie Ruth Davis Hines, age 23, for some time and resided at 420 Raleigh Road some (CONTINUED ON PAGE 31 African Couple At Shaw Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Motsue nyane of Johnnesburg South Af rica arrived in RaH.gh Sunday night and will live on Shaw Uni versity’s Campus four months Muring this time Mr Montsue nyß.ne will study at, State College on the Leadership Exchange pro gram which is sponsored by the Afro-American Institute. In Johannesburg Motsue (CONTINUED ON PAGE r» KAMEL) TO CARDINAL ATE —Pope John XXllf ,na: 1 wren new Roman Catholic Cardinals March 3rd Among them is Lou t<an Rugambwa (above), Bishop of Rutabo , Tanganyika. He is non Africa's first native-born Cardinal and rhe first Negro to rise to the Cardinalate. (UPI PHOTO ) African Is First To Be Named To Cardinalate BY CHARLES 3 LIVINGSTON iTor Associated Negro Press i CHICAGO Pope John XXIH last Thursday made world history when he appointed the first Negro member of the College of Card! - rials of the Roman Catholic Church At the same time, the Pontiff gladdened the hearts of Negro Catholics throughout the world who had anticipated and hop d for such an appointment for more than a decade. The new. appointee, along with $200,000 Defense Fund Underway For Dr, Kina NEW YORK <ANP> Shocked that the State of Alabama has in dicted Rev Martin Luther King for perjury, Negro leaders from six cities came together here Thurs day and established a Committee *o Defend Martin Luther King The Committee announced that ’t has set the task of raising a $200,- 000 budge* to defend Rev. King ir ♦he state and federal courts, and ;to aid the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in its drive i to register a million new Negro - j voters hn the South this year 5* is eft-ential." said A. Phil ip Randolph, chairman of the committee "that every Ameri can icdire that the chargee against ar* vicious and without the slightest fotttt ' dation in fret,” Harry Belafonte is chairman of the committee's cultural division. Other members include Mordeeai Johnson, president of Howard Uni versity; Dr. Harry Emerson Eos diek, president emeritus of Union Theological Seminary in New York; Jerome Natl’ianson of the American Ethical Union; Jackie Robinson: Dr. John Bennett; and Mrs. Ralph J. Bunchs. Dr. Gardner Taylor. Chairman of the committee’s board of directors. Cause*! Sir milt Here* I \©t 11 Son i YOake County Coroner Marshal! W Eenett told The CAROLINIAN Tuesday that the death of Cleveland Sanders. 50. of Garner was not due to the blow he received on the head, allegedly administered by j Luther Albert Hinton. 43, of the 400 ! block of S. Swain Street, j Bennett said Sanders, according ! to an autopsy , died from the freer . <ne weather early Saturday morn- ; i ing. ?fls hod- was found "n Ds Ear Street, Hinton said he found Sanders in his bed, ask ed him to leave the residence. •ud wh»o Sander* refnsed, Hin ton said he hit hiui over the 'mad with a shovel, and tb r ‘ " Mm outside. Bennett *Bid blood wav found , outside the house, but Hinton stead fastly denied carrying the mars across to Dakar Street. iCONTTWUfOO ON PAGE At j six others trom France, Holland ! and Italy, is the Most Rev. Lauri an Rugamba, J.C.D 48. bishop of j Rutabo, Tanganyika, East Africa ! a brilliant, administrator and man of letters. In the group also were ! first Japanese and first Filipino : appointed to the college A CANDIDATE TOR THE PAPACY His elevation to the highest bo dy in the church, marked the sec | ond high appointment given to 1 fCONTINUED ON PAGE 3! ! announced that already, within .a week of its formation the commit ■ tee has raised SIO,OOO ■ wr:--- -yiV,::-*-' p • ■i.'C-* i ’ Jjjprelr? MSS RUTH L. WOODSOM LfgonPTA Will Hear Supervisor The J, W Ligon Jr.-Sr. High School PTA will observe Found er's Day Monday, March 21. accord ing to President J. C. Washington Featured speaker or the occas ion will be Mrs. Ruth Lawrence Woodson, state supervisor oi ele i merit ary schools. Ligoe's Parent-Teacher A.*, sortatfeu, which boast* Ss*o members, ranks cumber one in the state In Negro school PTA membership. Mrs. Woodson- received the $ S i degree at Hampton Institute and | the M S degree at Columbia Urn ■ varsity She has served as elementary school teacher ir> the Rocl.v Mount . schools, supervisor of Sampson I County .'’’bools, and holds honor i ary positions in the following or !| (CONTtNUED ON PAGE ti
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