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Doctor 'Face (tape Attempt Charge MURDER VICTIM'S WIFE, HER SISTER Sisters, Mrs. Rosemary King and Mrs. Inez Stevenson (right) are seen in Holyoke, Mass. Police Station June 18fft following the fatal shoot ing of Mrs. Stevenson’s husband, Eddie Stevenson, 29. Manuel King. Rosemary's husband, may be a suspect in the killing which happened in Stevenson’s tenement. (UPI TELEPHOTO). Raleigh Citizens Ass*n Sets T alks The Raleigh Citizens Association ■"■ill hold its next meeiing on Thursday evening. July 7 at 8:00 at the Blooduorth St YMCA. The purpose of this meeting is to act upon an agenda which u ill be presented to the asso ciation by it* Steering Commit tee. Ire'uried in this agenda are adoption of constitution and by Dr, James Nabrit Ho wa rd s Prexy WASHINGTON. D C Dr. James Madison Nabrit Jr noted educator and constitutional lawyer. Tuesday v. as named president of Howard University, the nation's largest predominantly-Negro insti tution of higher learning. He suc ceeds Dr Mordecai W Johnson who had headed the Washington. D C school since 1926. Dr Nabrit is enrnute home from Geneva where he served as a member of the U. S. Dele gation to the recent 44th Inter nationa! Labor Conference. He currently serves as Secretary of the University and Dean of the Howard Law School, w here he has been a member of the fatuity since 1926, Dr Nabrit s elevation to the pre sidency comes as he begins his 25th year at Howard Joining the School of Law following six years as a practicing attorney in Hous ton. Texas, he has served also as Administrative Assistant to the President, and Director of Public Relations The 59-year-old educa tor was named Dean of the Law "Roy Wilkins Given High Honor By His Alma Mater MINNEAPOLIS. Minn. Roy, Wilkins, executive secretary of the | Nations! Association for the Ad- 1 vancement of Colored People re- j reived the University of Minneso- j ta s outstanding alumm achieve-! merit award last week. Wilkins, who grew up in the ODDS-EKDS BT ROBERT G SHEPARD And. He that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all tilings new.” A MEMO TO THE NEXT GOVERNOR Before the June 25th pirmary I which eliminated Dr. 1 Beverly j Lake from any future political con- j sideration in this state, you were j credited with saying you felt that j I you had a good chance of winning ! the gubernatorial nomination if j “you could keep the Negro vote j from being hung around your I neck " Well. Mr Sanford, the Negro ! (CONTINUED ON TAGS 2) 1 : laws, the policy the association ! will recommend relative to shop ping in the various stores of the city, a city wide mass meeting and a more aggressive registration ap proach. Grady D Davis, executive secre tary of the Association, has issued a call for the Steering Committee to hold a dinner meeting at the Bloodworth Street YMCA Tuesday evening, July 5, at 6:00 p.m. School m 1958. Di Nabrit is a noted consutu (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) —_. 11 .——... .. _ i-smm Ztsgmm '■? i I ijyi JR DR. JAMES NABRIT , Negro district of St. Paul, Minn., 1 is a graduate of the university. He ; has held his present poet since j 1955 | In his acceptance speech, Wil kins seid “America cannot afford j today the continued denial of first-class citizenship to its Negro citizens." “We cannot afford disfranchise ment, withholding by trickery, in timidation and violence of the basic right to vote,” lie declared. Langston Hughe*. Negro au thor, poet and playwright, was presented with the NAACP’a Spingarn Medal, the. highest | award for Negro achievement. NAACP President Arthur B. i Spingarn said in making the i award, ‘ most of us believe hint to be one of the moat distin guished American Negro poets and the most beloved one,” I Hughes accepted the medal “In I the name of the people who have I given me the materials out of j which my poems and stories, plays | and songs, have come, i “Without them," he said, ‘.there i would have been no poems: *vttb- I out their hopes and fears and I dreams, no stories, no dramas ! without their music, no songs.” (CONTINUED ON RAG* SO + 4 4* + 4* + 4" 4- + 4* 4 s Victorious Sanford Stiii Silent On Race '■■>XyX-Z&$&:-&>>:->>:*:-:K*:<<&:*:J$8t<#i<^ VOL. 19. NO. 38 in War Heet €aurihautte: Cop-Killing Trial Underway Woman In Forsyth Is Plaintiff WINSTON-SALEM A hearing for a Winston-Salem physician charged with assault with attempt to rape a young patient has been set for July 5 in Municipal Court Dr. J. L. Harris. 38, was re leased on S3OO bond Monday after being charged with at tempting to rape a young wife who had come to his office treatment for a sore throat. Police said the woman called for nelp during the alleged attack Her husband. D. J. Whitley, came to her aid He and Harris got into a fight. In the scuffle some of the doc tor's furniture w-as destroyed. Harris swore out a warrant charging Whitley with simple as ault and malicious destruction. Whitley was also released on S3OO bond and faces a hearing the same day as Harris. NAACP Is Fed. Tribunal RICHMOND, Va. The NAA CP went in federal district court to challenge the closing of public schools in Prince Edward County. Va. this week. Attorneys for the civil rights organization said the would argue the closings last year were ordered by the county board of supervisors to avoid a federal court integration or der and thus were uncoristitu | tional. The sole remaining member of | the county school board, George ! W, Palmer, was scheduled to ap- I pear at the same time to ask that | the hearing be postponed. Palmer said since the other I members of the board had resign (CONSTNUED OS PAGE Z) LEADER SPEAKS « Congo political leader Patrice Lumumba . shown addressing Parlia ment, June i7th, won his first test of strength in Parliament, June 21st, and as a result was de signated to form a Government of the Congo. The Congo gets its independence from Belgium on Jum 30 th. (UPI PHOTO}. VISITS VICE-PRESIDENT Everett Jones, left, winner of a speech contest at Los An geles City College recently, is shown above visiting Vice-President Richard M Nixon in the lat ter s office at the Capitol. The contest was sponsored by the Los Feliz Kiwams Club (UP! TEL EPHOTO). Carolinian Staffers Attend: National Newspaper Publishers Conclude 20th Annual Meeting CHICAGO. 111. Attending (he | 20th annual convention of the Na- ! tional Newspaper Publishers As- j Hodges. Ollier Dixie Governors At ton full GLACIER PARK Montana Southern governors dropped plans for a Johnson-Por-Piesident Cau cus breakfast Sunday, Spokesmen said the meeting was called off because it would have RALEIGH, N C„ SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1960 j sociation held here last weekend | were many representatives of the | nation’s Negro press. conflicted wLh church services, ; - but it was no secret that advance | reports about the meeting had dis \ turbed Johnsonues who have been f CONTINUED ON PAGE Ti I Representing The I'AROI IV IAN, Raleigh. N. < were Charles R. .tones, managing editor, and Alexander Barnes, advertising and promotions de partment President William O Walker of the Cleveland Call and Pn>t was ’ succeeded by host John H Sr np- j stacke, publisbii of the Chicago • Daily Defender in the top position i State News —IN— Brief ■ ‘BRIGHT FUTURE AHEAD FOR A AND T COLLEGE GREENSBORO A really bright future lies ahead for A and ; T College This is the opinion of Dr Warmotb T. Gibbs, president of the college, who has served as teacher, dean and president over 1 a span of 34 years He will retire from the post later this summer as president-emeritus Dr Samuel , DeVVitt Proctor, president of Vir ginia Union University, Richmond, Va.. wiil succeed him. The prediction is based, not only on trends and deveIop (CONTINUED ON PAGE Z) ¥Mf'A Extends |»i •ive For Xew iMe m foe rs H ere i The YMCA Membership enroll ment campaign has been extended to permit more time for workers to complete reports, it has been announced by C. H. Flagg, general chairman. Reports will be made on [Friday -evenings until the goal is reached. All YMCA members and j (CONTINUED ON PAGE *) Attorney SoughtTo Move Case CHARLOTTE Selection of ju rors from a special venire of 2Si for til; trial et M - Hot Fa.«t. at cused Ot kih ng a Chari".'' polio • I man started Monday befon I packrd courtroom. laust, 21-year old < harlotte Negro, was indicted for first degree murder ill the staling of Policeman lohn R’ \nnis who was shot siv times with a fr! low oflieers gun while thri tried to break up a street fight (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) (CONTINUED ON PAGE 21 ■' :A '' : - ' LONE STAR PUPIL • In * .:/ass by Ivm- W/. Earn. is r/tp //rsf Negro ever to in all the way through the grades and receive his high school diploma from this one-room schoolhouse in the small Texas town of Azle, near Fort Worth The 1 8-year-old scholar worked as a part-time janitor while continuing his edu cation at the segregated school, which held a regular commence ment ceremony for its only graduate (UPI PHOTO). —— CAROLINIAN ADVERTISERS BAGS 2 Horton's Cash Store PAGE :i Flrst-Citlrens Bunk and Trust Co. Famous Bakery O. K Clothing Co Umstead Grocery A Transfer PAGE S Southern Bell Tel A Tel Co. Cameron-Brown to. Hudson-Belk Mechanics and Farmers Bank Firestone Stores S. M. Toung Hardware John W Winters 4 Co PAGE 6 Carolina Power & Light Co. Pittsburgh Paint A- Glass t o. Joseph Winters Promotions Washington Terrace Apts. PAGE 7 Sanders Motor Co. O'Neal’s Motor, Inc. PAGE * Colonial Stores Modern Finance Corn R. E- Qni.nn Furniture Co. Odom Cut Rale Clothing C Karl Lichtmin Taylor Radio & T. Service PAGE « Eflrd'! of Raleigh AiP Food Stores Former FBI Agent Ferry San ford refuses to credit his moderate •stand on integration for his im pressive victory over a staunch se gregationist in Saturdays Demo '•vatic primary runoff for Governor ■i North Carolina. Os course, the northern press would like to play up the race issue as overshadowing all others," said the 42-vear-old Fayetteville attorney. "We will not take this attitude. There were other issues." Sanford former campaign man ager so; the iate U S Sen. Kerr Scott (D-NO. pegged his campaign on "a positive program of pro gress." He aimed that, program at utilizing the state's booming econ omy for increased state spening in schools, industry, farms and high ways. Rut in the final days of the campaign, the debate between Sanford and former State Asst Atty. Gen, I. Beverly Lake cent ered mainly on North Carolina s | approach 10 integration. Sanford favored continuing sh •date's moderate approach, whicn has brought token public school integration in a number of Tai Hoe! cities while Lake sought ti deer the state toward a "climat l of oposition to all forms of into nation Sanford's victory was the lirst state wide triumph for a moderate in a campaign in tile South where segregation was a key issue. In most such elec tions within recent years a moderate label has been a handicap There''- direct racial action at Albany. Ga,. this week where the PRICE 15c , Federal Acceptance Corp j Bankers Fire Insurance Co Macon s Barber Shoo PAGF. 10 Ridgeway’s Opticians Carolina Builders C'orp. Caveness Insurance Agency j 7-Up Bottling Co ! Dillon Motor Finance Co | Pepsl-Cola Botltng Co. of Raleigh Warner Memorials Fayetteville St. Baptist Church Deluxe Rote! Blood w orth St. Tourist Home PAGF, 11 Griffis Food Store | The Shoe Marl ! Johnson-Lambe Co Harris Wholesale, Inc. S‘AGK 16 Standard Concrete Products Co. G. S. Tucker A Bros, ; Ambassador Theatre ! Acme Realty Co. Hunt’s General 'tire Co : Branch Banking amt Trust Co. Raleigh Funeral Home ! Gem Watch Shop . Raleigh Seafood Co, : Community Fiorist i (titan's Esso Serviceewiter 1 Ptsfelic Service Co. of N. C., Inc.
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