Ages Range From 50 to 107
AGED WOMEN FACE RAPS
Officials Seek Ways To Jimcrow Justice
COMING
Raleigh—A lull pictorial ac
iount of services marking the
re-entry of' the congregation
ul ravettcvitle Street Baptist
c hurch into tlieir recently re
novated church edifice will ap
pear in next week's issue of
THE CAROLINIAN.
Nr more than two years, mem
Deis 01 the church's congrega
tional carried on a spirited
drive to raise funds to refur
bish the site which was gutted
ty flames in January. 1941*. The
success ol their efforts stands
as a monument to them in the
form of their renovated church
home,
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f.ttlle one-year-Oid Ella Mae
Watkins oi M_dfJs«n »its ~n th.
lioor beside hte candle I ruin
which she was thrown when an
explosion destroyed a pumping
Child Knocked From Crib
By Explosion Uninjured
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MADISON - A ~iie-> ear- old child
Was lOpjaled fi >u. her crib ;,t'i t
esriy t2l3r? uvt'K when rt-peicussions
ticiii iiii explu.- un « inch desUuVed
c near-by industi lal plant station
iockeci 1 1 j f home Miraculously
iht on net who hud nut been ex
pected to live when bom and s
ticw hale and hearty, escaped in
v i - ThoUph tiii uWii uni of tile
cl lb onto a Hour lauding on tier
head.
Little Milt Mae Watkins,
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Willie Watkins fried only sli
ghtly, her tattler reports, w hen
she uas toppled from her cra
ene as tin* force ol the blast
uhieh destroyed the oil sta
tion at the Pine Hail Brick
and Pipe Company shook the
entire community.
At birth, the child was not ex
pected to survive. She was bot’n
prematurely and weighed only two
pounds, two ounces. She is now
considered “large" for her age.
LABOR TROUBLE
A Negro man. John Welch of
near Madison has been arrested
i. j connection with the blast which
ctiici;< is say was caused by a
powerful explosive. The blast
which reduced the oil pumping
station to debris >6l!o\ved closely
after oh.- which ton apart a water
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panetla, 8, sons of the Brooklyn
Dodgers famed second baseman
and catcher, respectively, •■sweat
ed out” the 1951 all-Star game
Tuesday as their fathers helped
tfee cause for tlf winning Nat- ,
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Tot Escapes Death in Blast
station near the Watkins home.
Ihe small child was in the cra
dle uiui was thrown out of it,
miraculously being uninjured.
A Madison man has been arrest
ed in investigation ot the ex
plosion.
jiumpiric lacihty ot the same com
puny Sunday
Welch, who was released
under $2500 bail, was defini
tely accompanied if he took
part in the blasting, local of
ficials feel. The Fine Hall
company lias asked interven
tion of the State Bureau of
Investigation in 'the matter.
MEN CONFESS
THEIR BOLES
!N SHOOTING i
ROXBORO—Two white men this
week admitted their part in a
shotgun assault from a moving au
to which may cost a young Negro
bis vision.
Police said the assualt took place
last Wednesday when a blast from
a shotgun struck Curtis Norwood
in tlie face as he and friends walk
ed alung a road here.
Arrested were Georg.- Thomas
El.; s of Durham and Riley Oakes
local residents.
Norwood i.- patient at Duke
(emit <nt page 8, this section)
tonal League team which took an
8 to :t victory in the fray- The
elder Robinson garnered two
hits and made a run in four
times at bat, while Canapanel
la never connected yet paced the
game skillfully. Over 52,000 Sans
, saw the gratae.
NORTH CAROLINA’S LFADING WEEKLY
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WEEK ENDING JULY 11, 1951
Murder - Suicides Claim 4
WOMAN, 3 MEN
LOSE LIVES IN
TWO TRAGEDIES
\ outh Kiiis Fiancee,
Man Slavs Employer
Os Wife, Hurts Her
RALEIGH- Incidents us murder
followed by suicide dav« claimed
tile lives of four persons in Ninth
Carolina during the past week.
Victims in the tragedies include,
a 22-.vear-old frustrated nance
who killed his 24-year-uld fiancee
before taking his own life; a mid
dle-aged husband, and a white em
ployer of the man s wife Tile
w iie barely escaped death.
Tin- hilarity of July 4 celebra
tion at a community center near
.Madison va» shattered when Ed
ward Jones 22. shot and killed
Ms fiancee. Miss Ellen Foote as
he stepped from a car and then
■•man shooting at random into
I lie rrovvl gathered at the center,
iVli.-s Foote died instntly from
multiple shotgun wounds.
Jones was found the nexxt
morning, shoeless and shirtless,
sprawled dead on the iaven of
a church near the site of, the
shooting.
leant, on page S, this section!
i Fun iral Rites Held For
Pioneer N. C. Minister
RALEIGH lmpressive rites
marked the state's final tribute to
one of its pioneer ministers last
Sunday as funeral services were
held for the Rev. Elias Wimberley,
81
Rev. Mr. tVimberley, who
died at his home here la&l Fri
day night following a lingering
illness, had for the last half
century been one of the states’s
most vigorous Baptist laymen
and ministers.
Rev. Mr. Wimberley a native of
Tarboro. served charges through
out Eastern North Carolina, the
most impressive of them being in
Attorney-General Seeking
Varied Laws On Race Bas r s
KICK-OFF MEET
FOB ANNUAL T
DRIVE IS HELD
RALEIGH, N. C.—The Sixth An
nual Membership Campaign of the
Bloodworth Street YWCA was
; launched Monday night with a
Kick-Off addres- by Dr. J. B. Da
vis of Fuquay-Springs.
Brief addresses were also made
by Dr. N. H. Harris, genera) chair
man, Rev. Avery Horton, associ
ated chairman, J, I Stredwicfc,
camipaign director. C. N. Coble, as
{copt. on page *, this aecsica)
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ESI* OF THE SEARCH—An
overnight search for a 22-year
old alleged minder of his svvect
heart elided in the yard of a
Warren ton church last Thursday
morning when searchers found
the body of Edward JXoues dead
of shotgun wounds Inflicted by
Raleigh. Durham and Ruxboro.
BUILT CHURCH
Under toe ministry of Rev. Mim
berley. Raleigh’s Martin Street
Baptist Church was built. A par
sonage for the church was also ob
tained under his leadership. He
■pastured the local church for 10
years.
MT GILEAD HEAD
Rev Mr. Wimberley also served
a v pastor for Durham’s Mount
Gilhead Church, where he was in
strumental in institution many pro
gressive innovations. He ’ remained
as pastor of the Durham
(com. on page 8, this section!
RALEIGH—North Carolina's At
torney General's office wants to
know exactly how jirncrow should
be pi aviict U in capital crime cases,
it has b eii learned.
The office of Attorney Gen
eral Mc.UuUan has asked a Fed
eral court Jnffde to clarify lor
it the exact proceedure to be
used in prosecution of cases
for which a death penalty may
be asked of Negro defendefsts-
The state's major legal prosecu
tion department voiced its request
for clarification of the laws through
which the state's citizens advanced
legal redress through assistant At
torney General Rajsph Moody who
last week told Federal Judge Don.
Oillman that the state would ap
peal the grant of a writ of habeus
corpus to Clyde Brown, young
Winston-Salem man facing execut
ion for criminal assault, because
"we want to know what to do in
Raleigh, N. C.
himself Jones was being sought
in connection with the slaying of
.Miss Ellen Kosette Foote near a
community house in .Macon on
the body of Edward Jones dead
the night of July 4. The deaths
have been ruled murder and
suicide. iPhoto by Robert Neal*.
GOVERNOR HINTS
AT BOND ISSUE
FOR NO SCHOOLS
RALEIGH Governor Ke’-"r ;
Scott has intimated that a bond is
sue of some $8(1 million will be eon-:
sidered if the state is forced to
equalize its school facilities.
The Governor made the rt-ve-;
lation following a speaking appear-1
ante before a public meeting of
the State Highway Commission at!
Banner Elk last weekend.
WILL FOLLOW ORDER
(cimt. on page 8. this section)
state courts where colored people
air involved."
Appearing before jhe jar
ist to protest the request made
by Brown's attorneys tor a
writ on grounds that the
youth's, constitutional rights
had been violated. Attorney
General V/«dy indicated that
the Attorney General's office
is uncertain of permissabie.
uses of writs of habeas cor
pus.
i!i reality, use of such writs are
“new” in North Carolina courts,
having first keen successfully been
employed of late in the Hale’-gh
Speller and Daniels Cousins eases
by Attorney Herman Taylor of
Raleigh noted NAACP and cviil
rights barrister.
The writ of habeus corpus, lit
erally, means ‘produce the defend
ant", and in the Speller and Dan
{etmfc. en page 8, this section)
Worth More
JUDGE BLASTS j
ROADS HEARING 1
DEATH CHARGE ■
DURHAM A sharp unmarked <
curve on a Durham County road
and not careless driving was blam- ;
-<! tin tin- death of a 21-year-old 1
woman. b> Recorder's Court judge I
hc-ie Tuesday 1
Burnice Lyon, of uh>2 Juniper ■
j Si., was acquitted on a charge of 1
, manslaughter in connection with ;
tile death of hi.s fiancee. Miss Dor- 5
1 othy B. Davis of iOO7 Cornell St. 1
: The woman, employed at the lo
cal N. C. Mutual Life Insurance i
(cont, on page S, this section)
Aged Women Face Kidnap
Whisky and Murder Raps
By A STAFF WRITER
RALEIGH Thi-f North Caro
lina women, one extremely aged,
and the other two "aging", have
had the news spotlight focused up
on them during the past week
through their respective involve
ments in incidents foi which court
charges ranging from possession of
illicit liquor to kidnapping and
murder have been preferred of
are pending.
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TEACHERS LEARN SPECIAL
TECHNIQUES IN TEACHING
HANOI CAPPED CHILDREN
Among the special education
projects at N. C. C.'s Summer
School this session are special
classes tor teachers of children
who have hearing problems. In
the above photo, Mrs. Effie C.
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IN WINNING I'lKfl.E.—De
spite her recent losses in tour
naments held at England's famed
Wimhleton courts, Althea Gib
son, ranking American tennis
player moved into winner's cir
clr this week, taking the worn-
First Negro Woman Sues
For Admittance To UNC
GREENSBORO Contending that
she has been denied admittance to
the University of North Carolina
solely on the basis of her race and
color. Miss Gwendolyn Lolita Hat
risen of Kinston has filed suit in
Federal District Court here for en
try into the Chapel Hill institu
tion
Even though similar action had
been planned by a young Raleirh
woman. Miss Harrison is actually
the tirst womn to rest r to tin
courts for redrctss.
Miss Harrison entered tin- suit
asking the court to issue a pre
liminary injunction against the de
fendants restraining them from re
fusing and denying the plaint tft
and -.11 qualified Negroes similar
ly situated, admission, registration,
and enrollment for courses in
Spanish in the Graduate School of
the University.
Defendants are Gordon Gray,
president W W Pierson, Gra-du
(eont, on page K, this section)
WOMAN. MIT, CHARGED
At Henderson last Tuesday, Mrs.
Emma Carr who claims to be H)7
years of age, was given a suspend
ed sentence of six months and re
mitted court costs after being
found in p>"session of , half-gal
lon iyi of non-las-i,-aid “moon
shine whiskey.
Mrs C.irr, according to the
Vance County Alcoholic Bev
erage Control agent. L. A.
Whitaker of (he State School for
the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind in
Siuleigh, is shown demonstrating
beating technique to Barbara
Benjamin, Kaieigh pupil, Other*
shown in the photo are; front
row. left to right, Barbara Croc
kett, Raleigh; Rosa B. Price,
Durham; Phyllis B. Uuttt, R»-
afcy. l • »;• §.(vV..: ;.■*,• <p> V«ffla*f3s
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en's singles \ ietnrv hi ail inter
national tourney staged at ilott
miind. Miss Gibson defeated the
former Crechoslovakiar; ci {m
pinn. Ilannaii Koseluh, t>-3. t>-2.
She i.s i( former resident of Wil
mington. N t
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SPEAKER FOR
LOST COLONY
EVENT NAMED
RALEIGH If was announced
here this week that Or ’ thumbs
A. Poag pre-idem of flic South
eastern Theatre Conference of
Nashville. Tc-nn., will be principal
Sj.pe.iker ill till annual Negro Ci
tizens I lay festivities on the sits of
the Lost Colony Drama at Man
teo, X. C Friday July 20.
Many of the state’s noted per
sonalities will play roles in the Ob
servance.
PLAN BUS CHARTERS
(cunt. «n page «, this section!
Jackson, was found to have the
illicit liquor during a raid on
her huirn-. Judge A. 15. Scott
announced sentence.
AGE APPARENTLY AUTHENTIC
Acceding to Mt> Carr’s neigh
bors. tucri is a definite possibility
that the '.voman is really of the
advance;; aye she claims Tile most
aged of them .-port that sinee
they have Hon iu tin- Henderson
i cunt, on page s, this section)
leigb; Mrs N. Crockett .Raleigh;
and Margie G, Taylor, Charlotte.
■Second row. left to right: Lottie
Dickerson. Raleigh; Alice Smith.
Kaieigh. Jennie Tbamsa, Char
lotte; an unidentified visitor;
/elms &. Drain?. East Stteneer,
N.C.; and Pauline P. Barringer,
Bailur. N. C-