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I The Rpbesonian ESTABLISHED 1876 Published Saturday and Sunday Br THE ROBESONIAN, Inc. Entered as second class mail at Hie Post Office at Lumberton, N. under Act of March 8, 1878. J. A.

SHARPE, Editor Publisher 1007-1947 J. A. SHARPE, Jr. Editor PENN GRAY, City Editor A. E.

BRANNOCK, Adv. A. M. SHARPE, Business Mgr. The World Todaj By JAMES MARLOW PUBLIC FORUM Trial Opens In Says 'Rev.

Cole' Of Holiness, Gunshot Assault Not Baptist, Free Will Faith Trends Of The Times MEMBER Audit Bureau of Circulation Association Press -Southern Newspaper Publishers Association North Carolina Press Association. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to this paper and also the local news published thereto. All rights of publication of special dispatches in this newspaper arc also reserved. All carriers, dealers and distributors are independent contractors ana The Robesonian is not responsible for advance subscription payment made to them or their representatives. MAIL SUBSCRIPTION KATES Year 6 Mos.

3 Robeson and adjoining counties 58.00 $4.25 $2.25 Elsewhere, North and Carolina, 1 other States and APQ addresses 9.00 5.00 2.7.i By Cafrer home delivery per week WASHINGTON President Eisenhower's own Republicans made a shambles of his plea -wistful, maybe, but not realistic-to keep politics out of the defense problem. In view of what he knew his Trial got underway late this morning jn Robeson Superior court of the case of Alfred Ham- TV, thP Fditap. 'n monds Char 8 ed as- ony tends to obscure the real ls To the Editor: Your effort in our behalf will sault with a shoteun on AifroJi As of the Pee Dee be greatly appreciated in this en- SlerJ NoveSr TM Association fthe Original Free to disassociate Rev, James Prior 'to that, trial was com Will Baptists it is my wish to Cole with our denomination. I do believe it is of the (Charlotte observer) -the "incident at Maxton" may A thick layer of novelty and ir- have a mass tragedy. The affair merits investigation, sues that developed near Maxton perhaps by the SBI on orden over the weekend when several from Governor Hodges aquaint all the people that the Rev.

James Cole is not and has never been a minister in this association. rect denomination of the Rev He has used the name of Free Will Baptist ministe'r, and he is a pleted in the case of Thad John brok(S UD Ku ut. son, charged with non-support of TmSge of a Sd of hundred Lumbee Indians, many Legal action ought to be brought of them shooting off firearms, against the leaders on both sides. Highway in The State "delayed" role the dians again taking to the war- needs a full explanation. Patrol'! episodt most importance that your read- his wife, but the jury had not re- ers be informed as of the cor- turned a verdict just before noon.

Scheduled to follow the Ham- ij imaelnation and ihnir Cole-'-I am sure that this is monds case is trial of the charge and) smce must find legal means to pre- path is enough to excite the North Carolina and the right-hand man Sherman Adams Fl 11 TM ine f' proper fee to make such cor- enemy wore the robes of of manslaughter brought against Klan, the public sympathy. the was saying at almost the same moment, it's hard to see how Eis- The Pee Dee Association is a rections which wil1 separate the Carlton Ray Foley in the highway Rev. Cole from an law abiding people of the original Free Will member of the N. C. State con- enhower could have'made'the plea vemion.

and comprises a territory hanYvou on behalf nf at all. Adams played politics with located in Southeastern North Car- Bapnst a ou on 1 defense as hard as he could. Only if they were in a Ir is important that it be de- dream world could the politicians clared now that the Rev. James of the Democratic and Repcbli- Cole, known to be connected with the K.K.K., which was involved in an endeavor near Pembroke WEDNESDAY, 22, 1958 can parties be expected to refrain from making political capital out of the defense issue at each other's Jan. ISth is not a member or A LIFT FOR TODAY For tliou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with 5:4 "Not all the pomp and pageantry of worlds reflects such glory on the eye surpreme, as the meek virtues of a holy man." God, may Thy word so dwell in our hearts that we shall not sin against A first grade pupil at the Red Springs school is- quoted as calling it the "Crew Cut Clan" that was routed by Indian gunfire near Maxton last week-end.

The klansmen came at least that near lo having a close shave. 0 SPORTING COLORS expense. The reason is simple: rhe nation's whole interest is centertd on defense, not only in talking ad wodering about how it can be made better but why it is't better. There's ammunition for both political parties in this one. Neither the Truman nor Eisenhower administrations made the all-out drive on missile development that the nation now realizes should have been made.

minister of the original Free Will Baptists in tin's or any other conference within our jurisdiction. our people. Rev. GARY CHESHIRE, Moderator, Pee Dee Assn. P.

O. Box 403 Bladenboro, N. C. This letter is also in conjunction and an agreement with Rev. N.

B. Barrow, president of the State Convention of the original Free Will Baptists. accident death last June 14 SheHon Wayne Rich. In Tuesday action, LeRoy Townsend was convicted of assault on a 5-year-old child but a directed verdict of not guilty was entered as to a 6-year-old child. He had already pleaded guilty to non-support but judgment has not been entered.

Nol pros with leave was taken in the ease of Luther Parker, charged with assault with a rifle vent and puiish outrages by the Ku Klux Klan's hatefilled i ln cations of a Ku raux Encouraging the Indians of leader, dedicated to abusing the to hit the war path offers no sant rights of otiiers, charging that he approac h. was "discriminated against" by North Carolina law enforcement officers because he is white, makes a certain absurdity. (Baltimore Sun) Terrorism is the weapon of tht Ku Klux Klan. The mass meeting Even the New York Times nor- in the dark ni the 3 a rnally somewhat staid but almost gowns and hoods and the burning always accurate, departed both of crosses are all designed to send courses to comment: chjlls dwn o( "One of the chief tenets of the groups or individuals the Klans- r' Americanism. Last week in Ro- NC Highways To Receive $175-Million From U.

S. on Mrs. Luther Parker last Sep- beson County, N. the local RALEIGH (m North Carolina It did not include the recent Char- in a wil1 receive approximately 175 lotte to Canton, Ohio, addition to said in a at million dollars from the feer a Republican rally Chicago government after the 1958-59 fis- tember 30. Maceo McLaughlin was ordered to serve a 12 months term in prison for larceny.

The term was imposed at a previous session of the court at which he was sent to Morrison Training school but escaped. c.wv i i i aiici 11 ic ijuo-ua iia- Monday night: "Our urst objec- cal year as its of funds tive security and a just peace is not a partisan or political matter. Americans must never the interstate network. Money will have to be alloted to Norh Carolina to pay for this addition to the for the long-range road- state's interstate mileage. What the governor of North Carolina says to the governor But Eisenhower's building program.

th Directors of Highways W. F. let the issue of security and peace Babcock said yesterday this is fig- Become a pawn in anyone political chess game." Under the roadbuilding program the federal government pays 90 per cent and the states 10 per ured on the basis of a needs study cent of the conducted bv the state. Driver Hurt In Rear-End Smash Klan held a series of cross-burnings to protect the influx of some newcomers to the community. The newcomers were American Indians." But though the incident was novel and, so far as we know, unique, it was something other than humorous.

Here was a mob of armed men-- some angry, some merely boisterous-- firing wildly in ment. The Klan had singled out tht Lumbee Indians of Robeson county, North Carolina, a short distance south of Fayetteville near the South Carolina border. Indians had an inkling of what was coming when the Klansmen burned a couple of crosses in their commuity. Then came the announcement of the proposed Klan mass meeting on Saturday the dark as other Indians Klans- night Spokesmen for the Indians men, and spectators scattered for urged their 60 6 to keep away cover. Her was a band using But the Mans didn't scare, shotguns and rifles to stop auto- Nor they keep away.

In the Almond Baxley, 48, of St. Pauls, mobiles, search the occupants, end 5t was Klansmen who had route 1, sustained face lacerations blast the tires. and a bruised chest in a highway accident about 6:45 p.m. Mon- to be rescued by the State Police. Here was a crowd of several Tne report of the incident says hundred people, clearly bent on thousands of shots were fire but .,1,04.

ui iuj.ui "-aiunna says io we governor But Fispnhravor'- nroce Th nmn na auuui p.m. iviun- uuijuicu people, cieany oent on ui of South Carolina, if a Klansman has to be extradited, may tary Ha erivIsSoS Date's Sarf of mi les -hile a sheriff and three TM that hPfftrP wf ou: TM of monejr rtritr nanv on St. John church road. Ptl. deputies mingled with the throng few The Indians who did ,1 i -i i.

JIO.LUO in uic uct t-ciiLaxe U1 JiixJttcv uii ii. not go down in history like the traditional greeting, "It's a long that bos for Chi- each state ihe 532 mileage was originally estimated rSJCrn Via i 1 i T'ViiT'H- a i time between But already there is a report on what the Red Springs high school coach said to the Maxton coach. According to this report', the Red Springs coach sent word to the Maxton coach, before a basketball game this week: i "We're going to wear our white uniforms, but don't mistake us for Klansmen." And the reported answer from the Maxton coach was, "We're going to wear our red "CHEERFUL" CLASH Notably missing from national, as well as state and local, reports of the Indian action at Maxton was any reference to "the face of hate." That was something newsmen and spectators had observed at Rock, Arkansas, and on a smaller scale at Charlotte, when integration attempts were made at schools. Klansmen at the Maxton rally were not in a very good position to make faces at anybody, being outnumbered an esti- ir a ted len-to-one. Indians, aware of their own strength, gave enough of a demonstration to show their anger at 'the klan, but they also showed some amusement 'f The possibilities of "mass tragedy" were there, but actual developments indicated that the Indians had a good time at the expense of the klansmen.

That impression has been conveyed beyond ihe borders of Rcbeson County and the two Carolinas. Time newsmagazine jj reported the climax of the Maxton action this way: "Yelling, shouting and shooting at in particular, the Indians struck their cheerful terror until a plain-clothes deputy tossed a tear-gas bomb into the mob; then braves and Klansmen alike 1 That one word, "cheerful," does a lot to relieve the sting of another word, "backward," which the magazine used in describing Robeson County with its "three-way segregation in schools." (Incidentally, New York City has backed up a bit with its plan of forced integration in city stuclen's cago Monday he knew what Presidential Asst. Adams was going to int rsta te hi say in Minneapolis Monday night about the time Eisenhower was talking. Hagerty said Adams also knew what Eisenhower was going to say. What Adams said was plenty.

He accused the' Democrats not only of not spending enough money on missile development during the Truman administration but of lacking defense strength at the time of the Korean War. And more of the same. 142,055.000 needed to complete the 31 llion Tnirt vfive was driw vh already has been spent, and 105 a wnen nis car gmvay program. The needs study was completed and sent to Washington last July. church road.

Ptl. deputies mingled with the throng repor'ed Baxley, and four carloads of highway patrolmen waited Offscene Until trou- million is earmarked for the fiscal year 1957-58 and 1958-59. Deposed Holiness Group Plans New Congregation were few. The Indians who did most of the shooting fired into the air. In this they showed a kind of derisive Had they actual- The miracle of the incident near ly killed a Klansman or two the Bridge, which was stopped in the Maxton was that nobody was kill- incident, serious enough as it was', highway.

Damage to the truck ecl ana nobody critically hurt, as would have turned grim. But the bullets punctured the night. struck the rear of a truck, driven ble flared, by Willie Edward Ray of Lumber was S100 and 1 to the car $900- were no injuries in two other accidents. picture of the Klansmen running Mistake us not: We detest the from a fusillade of air shots re- Kian and its principles. The In- duces Klan pretensions to the rau- PEMBROKE The organization of a church was begun cording to Willard Locklear.

mile south of Lumlberton. and Cle- Fuller Locklear and four oth- veland Hunt of Fairmont, route 1, That was not all. Adams in Minon Moncia J'' ni sht when a group of ers were defendants in a civil was driving west on a crossover neapolis, like Eisenhower in Chi- Melodists met at the home of suit recently in Robeson Superior when their vehicles collided. Da- cago, was addressing a Republi- Fll ler Locklear in the Union Cha- court in which the finding was mage to the Barton car was S100 can dinner. But other big-wheel et area against them.

They were perman- Repttblicans were addressing oth- At the business session, it was ently and perpetually restrained er Republican dinners elsewhere announced the group has purchas- from interferring with members of around the country. ed a plot of land opposite the the Lumbee River Conference of service station in the Union Cha-. Ihe Holiness church and Union a Chapel church and were restrained permanently from interfering Membership is open to all Me- wiih any religious services to be thodists who are interested, ac- conducted in the church. Sgt. G.

D. Dodson reported that iian attack was provoked by two cously comic. Just because of the at 12:15 o.m. Tuesdav, Man Bare arlier acts of Ku ux intimida- fewness of their casualties Satur- ton of Merritt was tion Tne were warn- day's incident was a serious de- driving north on highway 301, one ed In( ian to break up feat for these sons of white immi- the rally. Under such conditions, it is tempting to cheer the Lumbees.

grants who tried to tell some original Americans what to do in the nanre of Americanism. For Secretary of Commerce Weeks in Tulsa, called the Demo- pel area for the location of crats hypocrites for attacking church building, as they have done (he Eisenhower administration's defense record. At Des Moines, Iowa, Secretary of the Interior Sea ton blamed the Democrats for chopping over billion dollars from Eisenhower's defense budget in 1957. And Sen. Potter (R-Mich) told Republicans at St.

Joseph, Mich. Soviet ascendancy in the missile Barton car was $100 and io the Hunt pickup track $250. Ptl. B. F.

Young reported S30 damage to each of two vehicles in an accident at noon Monday, 7.7 ant fanticism harder than ridicule. But the deeper intonations of nothing hits this kind of ignor- the recent events in Robeson County permit no applause. In burning crosses to frighten private citizens, the Kluxers are open to charges of assault. HAWAIIAN BARBECUE STILLWATER, Okla. (Si trying to stage a rally with re Fo.

a Hasvaiian studying miles east of Lumberton on high- pledge that the Indians were soil chemisiry at Oklahoma u-ay 211. Young reported Elbert Kobeson Bond Notes Sell For Low Interest Return aroused, the robed night-riders Lanier of Wilmington was driving dearly incited a riot. But the Indians participated as group, with a tractor-trailer truck west and coming up behind a farm tractor with discs when the two another truck, with Lanier attempt- te 4 mOTt aUth0ritieS My HS CWked 133 Und an armed nounced intent to use force. State, turned the tables on western barbecue lovers here. After sampling Oklahoma bar- pre-an- becue, he sent away for several ingredients and treated the na- Both state and local enforce- tives to barbecue Hawaiian style.

of the tractor. PUBLIC S550.000 in Robeson County Bond with money as fast as it can be WT; thr. in iiuucauu uunu i iiiuiiey as rase as can ce oiro Trirl-ioiici TrUma11 Anticipation notes were sold to- used for school construction and lIHliailS Trespassed administration. Democra's who will face the Republicans in th 1958 congres- blame on the Eisenhower administration for the failure of this country to be ahead of the Pus declded on bv commissioners as formed, made no apparent effort taking eight hours and 200 to avert the clash and had no suf- charcoal. iicient force to quell it imme- diately, TM to ac at an interest rate Of 2.296, a relieves temporarily from in'er- figure which county commissioners consider remarkably low.

Due date en the issue is April 1, 1959. The short term financing was wil1 aid with the sale of lon g- ed relatively fast and were able The Greek physician Hippo- 50B.C performed skull surgery with a est payment on the entire bond issue. When authorized funds are expended the short term notes sians in missiles. a means of saving interest c'iiarg- And it's a pretty certain bet poles on the bond issue which has been authorized, and is the sec- ff both parties will be who had been.transported to different neighborhoods to mingle 1 3111 Dla me on one another at ond such short term financhv least until next November. Last Nov.

16 the Democratic Advisory Council shoved a har- term bonds. Bids offered on the issue were: R. S. Dickson and Comp a 2.296; Branch Banking and Trust To the Editor: I am as an American citizen in regard to the fracas in Robeson County. It seems the Sheriff is overlooking one important fact.

He forgets (hat the Klan with students of other races, more recently have been allowed to attend schools in their own neighborhoods, presumably in Bank, 3.05; Wachovia Bank and move. This provides the county Trust Company, 2.9219. Company, 3.00; Northwester Rally was held on private pro- the interests of individual happiness and harmony among races.) It seems just possible that some industrialists, in other parts of the country, wanting to move South bu: wary about the race problem, might like the idea of setting up a manufacturing plan in an area where even a riot can be conducted cheerfully. The Pembroke area, and all of "backward Robeson County," can stand investigation from an industrial standpoint. This is an underdeveloped area, industrially, but it is cue of the top-ranking agricultural counties of the nation, and its people have demonstrated that they can develop skills in the things they undertake to do.

One of the most painstaking and exacting of all farm jobs is that of cultivating and preparing tobacco for market, and among the Robeson ciiizens who can do this expertly are the Indian descendents of thos originated the crop. poon inio the Eisenhower administration with this charge: "this is no time for complacent reassurances on the state of our defenses. We hav had too many reassurances on our military strength in the past five years- reassurances i are now Bank Commissioner Says Vacations Check Thefts perty, by virtue of lease and invitation, while the Indians were trespassers. I am neither a Klansman nor an Indian, and being at a distance can probably look at the fracas in a more abstract way than those in Robeson County. We all hear opinins expressed! as we go through life that we i4 MIC nuvv i shown not to have been justified employes of state banks would RALEIGH All officers and be discovered by the man who onlnio? can nf state hnnkc uu 1UL J1Ke tLrrQr or opinion can by the facts.

be required to take annual vacations under a new regulation REAL OTTAWA (ft Fourteen boy scouts from Port Hope, Ont made a 30-day trip to regulation to the State Bankin takes his place," said "A man can't manipulate those shortages unless he is right there proposed today by Ben R. Roberts on the job," Roberts declared, state banking commissioner. Roberts said he would present ing Commission at a meeting to- Pictoria. B.C., a back a used truck which they converted recommend its adoption. into a comfortable passenger and equipment vehicle.

Boy Roberts said he felt that such a regulation would make it easier who headquarters "hei'e" said" 1 t0 discover banl: shortages--and financed the trip by paper salvage and scrap metal drives. CLIPPED COMMENT SEND IX THE PARATROOPERS (Tampa Tribune) New York's superintendent of schools has rejected as "unthinkable" a Brooklyn Grand Jury's recommendation that a uniformed policeman be assigned lo every public school in the city to keep down crime and violence. The irony of his reaction is inescapable. Supt. William Jansen says, "we do not want a Little Rock in New York City." He is shocked at the thought of "an armed policeman regularly stationed in every school." We wonder whait BREAD OF LIFE By Dr.

A. Purnell BaUey A Sunday school teacher known he thought, there in the citadel of Northern liberalism, when for hi careful Preparation of the lo be absent from their duties at least six consecutive days a year in banks that operate days a week, and at least five days a year in banks which operate five days a week and are closed on Saturdays. Roberts said that in two bank shortage cases of recent years, it was discovered that the official involved had not taken a vacation in several years. a man is running a shortage, feel if he gets out of the President Eisenhower sent armed paratroopers to "keep down frieT teat Wi VOTER, DILEMMA ZANESVILLE, Ohio iff) Voters have approved a 40-hour He said also planned to propose a regulation to tighten up on "hip pocket'' money lenders by requiring them to register with the commissioner of banks. "We have information that there are qui a number of these hip pocket boys who have no office, and operate from an automobile, proposed regulation, he or some such place, in operation said, would require every officer in North Carolina," Roberts de- and every employe of all state clared.

banks to be absent to discover them quicker. be tolerated when freedom is- left for reply. It is th Indians who should be prosecuted, for invading private property with force of arms. Had I been the man who owned the land involved, I believe some Indians would have gone to the 'Happy Hunting Grounds'. Ezra L.

Austin Route 5, Box 85 Danville, Virginia "They are the boys who really make the big charges, and we are determined to stop them if we can," Roberts added. and insida Little Rock's rVitral High. New York unquestionably cheered Eisenhower on in oc- of Little Rock's school, but we wonder how tire city cts to the idea of education-under-the'-gun in its own schools. tco much lime writing out the ideas he was goin? to present to his class. The teacher came to the conclusion that he might be spending W0i lc week for policemen.

But at tco much time in preparation and (he same time the rejected a i i I i Cl I i i Actually, there may be more excuse for armed authority in said, "I am not going to sliv'y tw mi11 tax intended to finance York schools than at Little Rock. The Grand Jury had evi- for th lesson a ail Sunday. he i of seven additional po- Deaths And Funerals Mrs. Julia P. Stone Mrs.

Julia Philmore Stone, 63, widow of W. E. Stone who died in 1950, died this morning in Robeson County Memorial hospital where she had been a patient for about a week. She had been a semi-invalid for a number of years. The funeral will be Thursday Credit Executive To Speak Monday Lumberton Merchants Association and Lumberton' Retail Credit Association will meet jointly Monday to hear Al Gaut, director of credit bureaus in South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama, explain the establishment and the use of a credit guide.

Such a guide is planned by the credit association here. The meeting will be at Goodyear Restaurant at 7 p.m. Mr. Gaut, of Sylacauga, besides his credit bureau affiliations, is a local red cross director, past president of his Rotary and iu project chairman, past nce before it "to establish that conditions are alarming nnd 'Kit ihe school authorities have ben utterly incapable of coping i i the situation." by Jhe Holy Spirit. His friend met him at the office on Monday and asked, "Hovv If conditions are so bad, but New York authorities refuse to di Nt go then' it would time ror the federal 9t CVWy e11 Suifh the philosophy at Little Rock.

broken down in tht big city's school so how about it, 2y! when do the paratroopers vine' ot the gift that (I Timothy 4:14) I shall let it be inspired entirely licemen needed to keep the de- from Stephens Funeral chairman of the boartL 1 of stewards partment up to present strength where the body will remain. Bur- under a 40-hour week. ial will be in Meadow-brook cem- Policemen offered 10 continue etery. Rev. E.

R. Lineberger will working 48 hours a week, mean- officiate. Vrhiis accumulating extra vaca- A native of Lexing'ton, tion time at the rate of one day she is survived' by twd son? W. E. a Stone, Of may'not be jocd Jn 'the long run Lumberton; tvvo titters, Saif policemen' start tak'jng dij tional 52-day vacations each Ivey "of Aiigusta, a brother, J' car Nelson of Augusta, Ga.

of his Methodist church a chairman of its finance committee, and is a district lay leader for the church. In spite of the fact that it is over 90 MT qint kin if for fbput year in tTfie'United States, says the American Cancer to restore some measure of con- sma instrument resembling trol. Had they failed to do so-- day's circular saw, reports tht had things gotten far out of hand National Geographic Society. The Charge Of The Lumbee Indians By HAROLD GLENN CUTHRELL (Maxton) 4 The cold wind blew across the field Barren with winter's frosty hand, And the fate of the KKK was sealed In the gathering of the Indian band. The Ku Klux Klan with guns in arms Marched in with banners bright; i But the Lumbee braves from town and farms Were crouched and ready in the night.

Death was stalking in the winter gloom, And leering in the freezing night; There were no stars or a crescent'moon. Only guns cocking for a furious fight. The Lumbee braves were creeping in Resolved to put the Klan to flight, And Death grinned at mortal men, Ready to wield his scythe with might. The Klan by preaching hate and fear. And warning the Indians to behave, Had stirred the Indians far and near.

And Indians appeared in a solid The Lumbee braves -were on the scene To teach the Klan a lesson clear: Mind your own business and keep rktn, Stop peddling prejudice and fear. The Klan vowed to meet this night In spite of warnings to desist; They came all armed to make a fight. And spout their hate with iron fist. The Klan strung one light in the frosty air, And prepared a microphone for sound; The Sheriff warned them to take And disperse from the bleak and chilly ground. Tension xvas thick and choking in (lie crowd The Indians walked nearer the Jonely Suddenly a gun fired tierce and loud And hell erupted in the winter night.

The Indians charged the hucksters of hate, Shooting and yelling and chasing the Klan- Now the resuiU were in the hands of Fatt As guns roared like waves on the sand. The Klansmen fled into the winter woodj Leaving their arms and cars and gear; The Indians captured the banners and hoods And laughed at the bigots of hate and The Indians rejoiced and shouted with gladness, And breathed deeply of the pine-scented air For the bullies had fled in despair and sadness, And the night was cleansed of terror and care. And now Maxton's fields and woods are quiet, Lapped in winter's, peace and rest; No more will the Klansmen cause a riot, And ride to 'terrify 'arid The ot will bt Arounjl many a fire 6n a nifK And the bitter 'blows loud and cold Eyes of Indian children will glow warm and.