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i- CAROLINA J
Habie Espanola ?
| RALEIGH A In :il l'i> •
( Rican girl who maybe could;
‘habie t-..patted and liia.VUt couldn't;
speak the Spanish language may j
have time to catch up w ith the j
most popular .language in her na
tive country while Gw L a guest
for six month-, in the State Worn-'
eti's Prison.
Ida Lope/, who resides in Wash
ington Terrace hear d a (i- months ;
sentence meted out to her after,
she was found g-uilty of prostttu- j
tion and statuatory vagrancy after I
charges were brought against net ,
for "being with" a white man Miss I
Lope/ was ar rested when local of- j
litters noted a grouip of men at- ’
tempting to assault the driver of
the car m which the your/ woman j
was a "pickup." Sin- told the court ’.
that she had "teen out" with men i
of both races, receiving Sa for her
“time ”
4 Say It’s Murder
, LOCISBL'KG The fatal
wounding of a man here last
. week by another has been
mJI termed murder by local of
fich.lv
Scht* iiiied to face trial for
the shooting «1 Mil Webb lasi
IllStli Saturday following: an aru-
IraK ineiit is Blanch Ward, a 118-
year-old sawmill worker who 1
i||£P surrendered himself to the po j
9r lice about an hour after albg
edly Mill) ga ,l!i gauge shot-
W gun charge into the sioinacb of
the victim. Webb died in
Henderson's Jubilee Hospital
Faces Federal Rap
RALEIGH A resident of Route ]
4, Oxford, was given, preliminary j
hearing before, the U. S. Comrnis-j
sloner here last week on charges
of mailing worthies..; checks to
companies In payment for mer
chandise.
Pro-lev william: was hailed into
Commissioner Homy A Bland’.-
office here after being charged
with mailing checks amounting to
S3OO to Montgomery Ward Co., Bal
timore and Burnsteirii Appl.-bee
Co, Kansas City, by Post Office
Anstpector H !•. Beam. Williams
t J must now face trial in a Federal
District Court.
Visiting Minister
RALEIGH Many Raleigh
residents who recalled the
highly successful appearance
(Continued an page 8. this section!
COLDS BOKO . 42-y.- - - J
-woman urn , J.e us the Stale Hos
pital for Nt'gro Insane was killed
hectf this ' - jv iu a vutn attempt
to e-cape the institution.
Found dead of strangulation ui
t. r she tried to escape front her [
*r./e.m in the .-tut*- asylum was Mr-...
Beatrice Jo.u-s whose home an-;
di'i;.-. Wa.- 1. K:d as Route 4 AhOs
; Kit’.
A ttfiidani:. imtkhtg round lien*
morning ioufid Mrs s
! Julies* .•'tr;*£i; led he-i body h&ngiii& }
Brothers Have
i i
ll
! Double Funeral
! j
HKD SPRINGS—DoubIe funer
; ul services lor Council W. McClain
I and Ramon L. McClain brothei .
; of Raieigii ~nd Goldsboro rt-spee
j lively were held here Thursday
j from the Red Springs Mount. Zion
| Methodist Church with ministers
AS COURT HEARS PLEA
(Woman’s Fate
Hangs In Balance j
1—
i RALEIGH A woman senten-i
ced tu i-ive a lift- imprisonment
; Sentence for tin* ullC-od arsenic
j poisoning murder of hei hm-band
: was five.n :i new lease on life
i and Ireedom thi.-. weak when th?
j State Supreme Court heard a
! final plea in hot tehalf
I
Mrs. Carri. Green Hendricks, :
j who I-,;:., been lodged in the War
. ren County jail pending the out
-1 eoUie oj tin- appeal .-ho made when
-e.itenced to- life imprisonment
I mlinwma trial for the slaying of
j her husband in May, is seeking
| freedom from her sentence on tin
I com.-niron that tht state had
: failed to identify properly evr
i deiuv inti oduct-d in the trial be-.
I fore the Warren Superior Court.
Mrs. Hendricks’ attorney, Carl
! Gaddy of Rah igh told the court ,
I Tuesday that the state had oil- j
! cix-d no evidence that Henry ,
,; Greeii. the victim, had suffered
. 1 any symptoms of arsenic poison ,
: tup from which he allegedly sue |
- combed. i
I The attorney also contends r
; that the internal organs introduc- 1
eii us evidence an dsaid to have'
been those of the late Henry 1
; Green had not been identified by j
j exfpert witnesses and that the |
bottle from which M"s. llend- j
I neks (then Mr:. Green > allegedly;
I poured tire fatal potion trad never |
’ been analyzed,
The State’s high tribunal j
j is scheduled to (five its ver
dict on tile appeal tins week, i
rtcipy from whete hei neck had i
beeti caught between tiic top. o-|
,-i guard screen ..mb an outside
. window facing. T'ne top lock on
!lhc screen had been reported;
missing.
According to Dr. Ira Lung, su
yerniti'i.deiit of the institution,;
Mi - Jem. , had beta a-.aniited to
a.e ho..p;tal*on:.y a lew day-, cre
i.uUi t. her iaial t scape attempt
■ Her t■ i.tiuliOe date Vv,l listed as.
vpteluCer H.
of the area officiating and pastor j
of the local church in charge-
Yln- dual final rites were i
scheduled following the deaths
of the two brothers which
oeeurre dwithin u pe
{(.'imtinued U u puK*' N, ttri's section)
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GETS FELLOWSHIP Joel
W. Wallace, Assistant professor
of English and Publicity Direc
tor of Shaw University, Ims been
awarded a fellowship from the
General Education Board for
study toward the l’h. 1). degree
in English at Columbia Univer
sity. He is a graduate of Benedict
College, Columbia, S, C., with
he H- S. degree and received the, j
IVI A degree from the Univer- :
sity of lowa.
1 lome-State Edition
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VOLI Mh X\;Ty" IZaLEIGB, NORI H. CAROLINA WEEK ENDING SATL RI >A V, SEPTRMBER JJ. lii..i No U’
‘Cure-All’ Medic Faces Rap
Teachers Are Awarded
Deed To Beach Grant
BEACH IS
ACCEPTED,
BY TRIGG |
Impressive Ceremony j
Marks Culmination of
l ive Year’s Efforts
RALEIGH, N, C The Assemb
ly Room of the State Education
Building here was the site of u his
toric occasion last Friday when
Or. ii L. IVigg president of St.
. viir r -u.'.e :. CVUcge aliU chairman
of the board of the Hammocks
Beach Corporation was formally
awarded deed to tin- 4.000-acre
Hammocks Beach, N. C area in
the ria tneof the state s 7000 Negro
cache rs.
Forum i awarding of the
deed to the property to l)r.
Trigg by famed New York
iieiiro - surgeon Dr. William ,
Sharpe marked the successful ,
conclusion of five years of ef
forts on the part of the cor- ,
poration and the stale's teach
ers to secure the trek for use
as an assembly and recrea
tional area.
The Hammocks Beach project j
was conceived early in 1940 when ,
(Continued on page 8, this section) ;
[TWIN CITY MAN
FItES FEDERAL
IFBAUD CHARGES
Professor Barnes Is
Caught As Postal Man
Lays Cunning I rap
WINSTON-SALEM ~ Profes
sor B. B. Barnes of 1524 East
Seventeenth Street here,m|»de a
trip to Greensboro during the
week to have a talk with Federal
officials who desire to put the
•‘professor., in the Place on char
ges of using the mails to defraud
with a “cure-all*' medicine racket.
Professor Barnes, who is John
nip B. Barnes of the Seventeenth
Street address, was taken into
custody Tuesday after having un
knowingly played a game of tie
lac-toe'* with a Postal Inspector
In which Professor Barnes has
evidently been the loser.
The professor's arrest followed
almost six months of correspond
ence between the naltianally-ad
vertlsed “curer” and R. S. Fisher,
; U. S. Postal Inspect!/, who posed
j as a woman seeking a cure for a
j backache.
Fisher reports that, posing
fèkihg
CEREMONY AFTERMATH
Governor VV. Kerr Scott was an
interested listener to observa
tions being ma ie by famed
neuro - surgeon Dr. William
Sharpe, donor of the Hammocks
Reach area to the Hammocks
Child Reported Missing
Js Victim Os Drowning
WILMINGTON The body of
a sseven-ycur-old child, was re- j
covered from the Cape Fear River
here Tuesday following a three
day search of the entire city and
environs.
The body, discovered float
ing on the surface of the river
near the vessel, the former
"N'edra IT' which featured
prominently in the five-per
center investigations held in
Washington last Spring, was
EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNT
Clyde: GUILTY 1
EDITORS NOTE: Follow
ing Is an oil-the-scene account
of the exclusive articles which
appeared iu the trlai of Clyde
Brown, H)-year-old youth and
subject of a series of CA.KG
( INIAN)
By Sandra Bowen Mason
WINSTON-SALEM The trial
of Clyde Brown, 19-year-old Nc
Fines, Suspended
rip nri %/>
1 erms I o K.lv-ers
CHARLOTTE A Recorder's ;
Court Judge last Friday mated out j
fines of upwards to $10() each arid
suspended sentences to eight of
nine defendants in cases involving
a neight-month reign of Ku Klux j
Klan terrorism here.
Judge E. M. Currie rendered 'll '
judgements in cases growing out of I
efforts by hooded tei wrists to in- j
timidate Negroes moving into:
areas heretofore predominately I
white Tile men were also charged'
with alleged damage to property •
Beach Corporation following the
official presentation of the deed
to Dr. H. L Trigg at Kult-ifcis
last Friday, Pictured, right to
ieit are Dr. Trigg, chairman
of the board of the Beach Cor
poration who accepted the deed j
that of William Douglas VViSr
son, son of Mrs, Mary Wilson,
who had reported the child
missing Saturday.
According to Durham iNC) i
1 Morning Herald reporter William j
1 B. Whitley and Wilmington News
reporter Tom Eagle.son, the body
j bobbed to the surface as the two
j newsmen were aboard the famed
| "Mistery Ship" gathering story
material. t
gro youth accused of criminally
1 asraulting 17)year-old Betty Jane
’ Clifton on June 16, 1950, lasted
| for three days before a "guilty
; as charged” verdict was rendered
i rm dseutence passed on the morn-
I mg of Friday, September 15.
During the trial, State wit
d ness Dr, Henry W. GuHswick
j (Continued on page 8, this section)
and conspiracy to trespass.
In passing judgment in the cases,
the jurist reprimanded the de
fendants severely, pointing out the
fact that in the future persons may
be killed In the course of Klan
activities.
Each of the eight persons to
whom a judgment was announced
admitted that he was, or at one
time was, a member of the Klan,
which is currently cornin'* back
Into power throughout the state.
(Continued on page 8, this section)
for North Carolina's 7000 teach
ers and presented it to Governor J
Scott the ,G(-v rnor, Dr Clyde
Erwin, state Suprrinten! ent of
Public liisti Uclion, and ill
Sharpe (See Story tills i'agr.
Carolinian i'liutu IjV Veaie
I'iit- newsmen informed local
officials of their discovery and
investigaton wa.-» made, re
vealng that the youth had.
drowned accidental}' when he.
fell from a vv hurt on which
he was playing.
The child had been reported
missing after he left his grand
mother near the wharf area Sat
| urday
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! 1 FIRST PITTING: Private Theodore of U»© ißmonot, IXmr Tariff
, *« inductee, look* aMi surprised pher* reworded bIS cloth*
in* idsue at Port DU, New .Jersey Checking Uo Hi fcl (iiMporal Benoi*
km ah us tteiopttauL Long island
Inside This Week
O u HALLIBURTON Sec l.
P 4
W. L GREKNL her 1
P. I
GORDON HANCOCK See. !,
P. 4
! BILL VLALL See L
P, 7
LIN HOLLOWAY Set ‘1
i P
VOWN i'OPiC -. See l„
P. 2
SPORTS Sec. 2,
P 14-16
f irst Baptist ('limb
I trail Will Abide By
Will of Parishoners
\ < MftOLIN IAN-JOCRN At.
i: x c i, i s i v e
BY I L lERVAY
(tditui VV illmligion Journal)
WILMINGTON Tlie Rev. W
T veho has pastored
Fir. t Baptist Church here tor near
i ly three veal'.'., this newspap
er an exclusive story this week, ta
j wl lll'll ae -Kited that he was ’Hou
! per cei,t" m accord with the de
| ins.-on in Superior Court last week
in which JinL.e Henry Grady di
| reeled that a special secret ballot
jbe taken by members or that
church to decide whether the Rev
; Mr. Simmons is or is not head of
the flock of First Baptist, whica
: at one t.me boasted the largest ac
tive and dues-payng membership
1 in New Hanover County.
iJuiije Grady also directed
that .sheriff Porter Davis of
New Hanover County and the
(Continued on page 8. this section)