WRECKS TIKE 4 ; LiO WNINGi 3
JEllffi
JOE IS
chip
FLASH!
PITTSBURGH, Bu tßy Wire*--
Tr,e new heavyweight boxing
champion ot tin world is Jersey
Jce Walcott —The oldest mart evei
to hcia the title
Walcott, 37, who tried (our
times w iihuut success to wrest
tht Coveted title 1 ' om Joe
Louis and Hazard ( harles, real
ijea his life’s ambition in a to
tal oasebalt stadium here Wed
nesday night when he knocked
out Charles in the seventh
round, or their scheduled 15-
rounder,
The riid came in • seconds af
ter the y?on #2 sounded to start tile
7tn stanza. Walcott utilizing Ins
unorthodox style of fighting, to the
best advantage throughout the
fray waded into Charles, plum
meting film Aitii n-tts and rights
xu the body and head Hi finally
landed the blow that a New \oi k
Times sports writer immediately
labeled "the cleanest knockout
he'd ever seen.
Charles fell tu bis face Af
ter the count of ten, be at
tempted to rise .♦ d b dropped
backward like a punctured bal
loon to ti*e canvas.
Surrounded by !5 to HO uoln’e
icor.t. on page 8, this sectioni
LAW INSTRUCTOR
WILL ADDRESS
ANNUAL EVENT
f iiAi iJlllH An in I factor In the
cjciwol of laiw at Vortn t arolitia
yjoiiege, Durham, has been chosen
speaker for one of Raleigh’* most
noted annual religious events-
H. Wilson Cray of the stall
H. WILSON GRAY
isj the Durham institution will
\ be principal speaker fur Men's
Day Set vees slates! at H’ul
leigh's, First Congregational
Church Siindait. -July 23. at
li A :u.
Mi. Dray is a native it
(taint Louis. Mo,, amt an affi
liate of the Colored Methodist
Episcopal Church. He is a (im
itate of Lincoln Cinrcvsity,
Missouri, and received it de
gree in iaui from the Universi
iy o f W<’s coftsift-
A. 32nd degree Mason and t
member nf tli»-* Phi Bets bigm.
Fraternity. Mr Gray also has th<
distinction of being a member
■the Bar of both Misaouryand Tex
as. *
The Rtrvices are under admin
isiration of the men of the churcl
for the entire day.
■n*wic*-le*-k’lrtr++*ie*+*-* ******£
| A Minute :
| Devoted To j
| God :
1 SUNDAY'S 1
1 SERMON j
i in this i
1 newspaper ;
■ ■
TWO OF A KIND— !he Brewster twins, XeuotMn ami Xt-moii* bait
New Vurkfis looking twiee recently when they t'runi Muskogee,
Okla, St intents nt Tcmu>M'*- State College, they will return tiieit li>i*
AUituuer school before soiiiK home.. ____ _
Death Claims Dr.
Henry McCrorey
' CHARLOTTE Dr Hc/J
Lciwivnce McCrorey. wlio served
wi tli distinction as president of
Jolinsun C Smith University tor
40 yea is i.- dead. 11. died at the
.. -of ,4b foilovviTic several weeks
i illness
funeral arrangements lor the
uoteJ editvalrw t and theological
[ scholar wert iieid Monday July
if, ai 11:00 o'clock at the Univer
sity Church with interment in
Pin-v',.“-(i C : ,t,: y he. •
Horn in Eairfield cou.il> S
4.March 2. 1803. the son of
lb.- Sale Janies ami Nancy i\!<,
Crorey D.r McCrorey receipt
ed his earlv education at Wil
liard Richardson school at
Willlisbolo. S. C, 111 188 b he
entered Biddle mow Johnson
,' C Smith i University and was
graduated from the high
school department ami college,
earning the VB. degree in
1892 In 1895 he earned the de
gree of S.T.B. from the Scliool
of Theology Ho studied at tile
University of Chicago in 1895
and 189 b.
i Following graduation he was ap
onted to the faculty of Biddle
| University where he continued ser
I vice .is principal of Jhe high school
I department instructor of Latin
[ prolessor of Hebrew and Greek.
' ind later dean tit the Theological
school He was elevated to posi-
L lion as president in 1907 and re
• tired a» President emeritus in 1947
During his teniae of office the
honorary degree of Doctor of Di
vinitv was conferred on him by
, ; Johnson C Smith and Lincoln uni
- i versifies.
I PIONEERED school
1 As a result of Dr. McCrorey’s
■ I influence, Mrs, Johnson C,
I i Smith gave 8400,080 to im-
B prove the physical facilities,
R • and 8302,500 for endowment of
the university. In appreciation
of these benefactors the name
of the school was changed
from Biddle to Johnson C.
Smith University.
| Believing in the influence and
j (Continued on page 8 s
I “PAGE ONE AWARDS”
Press Group Will
Honor 3 Persons
if
if
ot DURHAM— The Durham Press n
x Club will present Congressman *
£ William L. Dawson of Illinois as I I
ii- guest speaker during the club's j v
;-h third annual "Page One Award" jl.
. rograni to be held here Friday j g
night. July 27, at Hillside High , I
■k School Audtiorium.
* Three awards will' te given this j ,
» year. They will go to Dr. C C, j
* Spaulding, president of the Me- i
» chariics and Far-
* i
5 -
* I P. a:rid Lt Ellt-;
J | HEP. DAWSON son Wynn, win-!
I ; ner of the Distinguished Service i
J ; Cross for conspicuous bravery inj
* | the Korean war zone.
5 'Die star-studded program of the
* three year old press Club that j
1 gave its first award to Judge Wil-j
.? liam H. Hastie will .present thisj
Hfc year a series of nationally known 1
••.pGaVaalßt
!
SPEAKER—Judge William H.
H. Hastie, first winner of the
annual ’Page One Award” of
the Durham Tress Club, compos
ed of X. C. newspapermen, will
he among speakers at the club's
third annual awards program,
d stated July 27 at Durham. iSee
Story this page;.
figures including Judge Hastie and
Assistant Secretary of the Defense,
Dan K Edwards. Secretary Ed
uards is a former mayor of Dur
ham He has been invited to pre
sent Lt Wynn’s citation from the
Durham Press Club
j Lt. Wynn, a
j native of Greens- •
' boro and a long
i time resident ol
■ Durham, com
manded a mixed
unit of whites
and Negroes dur
ing some of the
bitterest Kortari
lighting. His ex
i ploits were ofii
mers’ Bank and'
the North Caro
lina Mutual Life-
Insurance Co.. ■
Conrad O. Peai
son, chairman of
tin- North Caro-,
; lina Legal Re
drt. > Committee;
i of the N. A. A. C j
r, . ...O I . Fin
cially recodded SPAULDING
, by Army historians as "among the
j bravest on. record.”
Pearson has been lor 20 yearn
in the forefront of the legal
| battle to get equal graduate
and professional opportunities
I for Negroes.
Dr. Spaulding, an internationally
I known religious, civic, and busi-
I ness leader will fee honored in his
•| home city for the first time on a
(Coni, oss page %, t bi» section)
THE CAROLINIAN
10c Per Copy
VOLUME XXX
State Law Is 'Bait' For Reds
HOSPITAL BOND ISSUE 0.K.-ed
$2 MILLION IS
SOUGHT FOR USE
ON HOSPITALS
Wake Commissioners
Approve Order For
Issuance of Bonds
RALEIGH The Wake County
Board of Commissioners this week
n+iroved a bond order for $2,800,-
000 with which to improve iaciii
ti.- at the white Rex Hospital here
; and at Saint Agnes Hospital The
i money will also be used to under
; write sh ro.s* of . stablishlng health
center sat sfesteru _<•<• i• itW r . V*
Uounty,
I Approval of th>- bond order the
county board is expected to set
into operation machinery throu *h
which a vote will be taken by
Wake eitivens to determine their
contentions
For the past few years, va
rious groups have protested
i nanitions at Saint Agnes Hos
pifai not only to the hospital's
board of directors hut also <n
the county executive group,
Th.- Saint Agnes facility the
(coat, on page 8, this section*
KLAN OPPOSES
BALL GAME - SO
ITS CANCELLED
WHITEVILLE i Special)— 'That
the Kn Klux Klari will allow no
semblance of equality among the j
races in Columbus County was:
further indicated here last week
end when hte Klan demanded and
had its demand respected that the
iocai semi-pro white baseball team
not play against a Nepro team.
The Whiteville Leafs, a leading
team in the Eastern Carolina
Legue has booked an encounter
with the Columbus Red Sox. one of
the area's leading Negro semi-pro
teams for Sunday afternoon at the
Leaf’s home park.
Fridav night (proceeding the
game, however, circulars bearing
the mark “KKK" were distrib % 'J
throughout Whiteville asking that
the game be cancelled.
CHANGE OF HEART
The management of the
Leafs, which before the KKK.
stepped ill had declared that
(Cent, on page 8, this section)
YOUTH TRYING
TO ENTER JAIL
NETS ASYLUM
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CHARLOTE —A young man who
tried to get himself locked in jail
as a murderer, has succeeded in
getting himself put into the state
asylum for the insane instead here
this week
Nathaniel Lipscomb, about
34, was arrested on a charge
of drunkeness a month ago.
and began telling officers at
the local jail that it was he
who fatally cut a young white
expectant?, mother and inflict
ed Injuries on the woman’s
daughter in a noted recent tra
! gedy here,
Results of s lie detector test and
inconsistencies in his "confession”
however, proved that Lipscomb
was obviously lying. _*
The man said that he had kill -
(Cord, os page *, Ud* section)
Noted Educator, 88, Succumbs
NORTH CAROLINA’S LEADING WEEKLY
I
VVEEK ENDING JULY 11, 1951
3is&ip& r &aas&Tßk&X ,T
W L*.
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t‘nt’,l) Al U III’ /i f\ /*/•;<'/•;/V H ttt:u HE t‘.s Eh enter ftilieij/h school
peini’i}Nil. I'rot. Molemtth !> Wilt nuns, mul his ilouijhtei. I rnnees.
rreeiveil ilei/rees ihtr-mi 1951 <•<> »i nee in evt crereixes Mr It d
eerxity. X,-..- Yuri, f'itt/, trhile .U is.* Williams vox reei/iient of «
liu,ns tists o if'i t'fl e.il a tin, lot of a! it iitt <u n ileo ere his I'uhi m hiu ’ -i
--haeheloi of o m inter <teoree in ithysienl etlnrotion Iron! Vu aitnt;
State t'lilletjr. Entershn-nj. i Sen story I'uiie 1. Section 2)
Who Says Raleigh s Bus
Strike Didn f t Create
Hardship On Citizens’/
By LIN HOLLOWAY
RALEIGH —Municipal officials
are contending that the bus strike
which went into effect here Sun
day night "played little hardship”
on local residents. How wrong can
they be? . . The strike has cre
ated havoc in many circumstances,
it is easily noted
Categorically. the strike in
which drivers tor the White Trans
1 '
~ 4’ - wß&Sßnmt? '.mV^^BBSK
m f Wsgmffi < ■
'.jortatioii Company wags in
creases has:
1. Disrupted the finances ot the
major portion of the city's estimat
ed 7.00 U regular Negro bus riders
and or a portion ot their employ
ers.
2. Caused many families to "miss
meals",
3. Provoked an increase in sales
(Cont. on page 8, this section l
; f WORLD SCOUTS JAMBO-1
ft££__T»u- Hrni «•<>»!i»K»*iH «f ■
*>->ll Kny Scout* arrive «( a New S
v York pier *<’ i”' l ' »c«t»t* frm*l tfi 8
itfltloai for ih* Srveitth Vt'nrM 9
Scouts Jamboree to Ho hold i»« |
y. tiu»tri» iVom du(. SI« 13. After 9
"V the Jumubor**, the 11. S. scoot* n
will go '■!« g uided tours of 9
yf Franc* »«d will -ail for hosise »« 1
j| Aug. lit Scout, (.‘eater, didn't I
M lutvs fstii* to do a is it unifoica. S
Raleigh, N. C.
CONVICTION Os
MAN GIVES REDS
PROPAGANDA
(.oinnnmists Giving
\ anuevv iilu Trial
Global Publiritv
B> A stall Writer
KA Llilti IT A (ii'i'iuiai te.'lici.
cal it > OI a Xortli CH!"lina 1-R-d
stilt tit e ba.- given the wurbi Coiti
lnunisl lliovelliellt a lieu iveu.poll
a.'ill; wliieh to i*a. ig. away al ihe
foundations of democracy .
Tim North Uhi oliu.'i suitin- which
decrees that a ainn does- not have
1.0 touch a woman to be guilty of
assault upon her. winch was in
voked in the recent trail of a
Yaiiceville Negro given » two-year
goad term tor assnald upon a
woman he had never been within
75 feet of, has stirred a new wav
of 'oniniunist propogtmda on a.
world.wide liasi’s_
Itt Sc,' York, and othn ittd
hut-linls in \ merit 1 /!, m Etttt-'
hind. tittd i ill of'*' c frit ruHtl
ne nt ot Kun>iie. com minus!
lii'oi'tiyaiirtists ore teeming the
COnrirtioit of farmer Hark I"
yearn of Yanoet /lie, mho teas
chaeaed with as suit upon ,j 17-
year-oU white girl, "a gross
misi arriaifr of jttstii e 7he
It ml pro into n di-st* are furthei
labeling the rase "tntfiralire
of the A inei'ii'un mode of Jl‘s
tire.”
the: case
Mr. ligratn, 44 and the tathii'
of nine children, was charged with
assault upon Wiilie Jean Boswell,
daughter of a farmer who lives
•tear Ingram’s farm in Caswell
county.
The Boswell girl chaiji'es that
Ingram came onto Bog well pro
perty. got out ot his car and began
lUont. on page 8, this section'
M•/ aBaT 'fWm |||||
Worth More
v r r—i it <i
back into MAJORS—Ven
eraoie Leroy (Satchel) Paige,
veteran of mam baseball wars,
returned to .» pitching post with
a .Major league club this week
when he was sined to the Saint
Louis Brown’s stjuad by the
clubs new owner, Bill \ eech
who owned the Cleveland Bl
it lasts when Paige w»t brought
into the Majors in 1949 At that I
time, the aged hurter helped tfe* 8
Indians win a pennant. |
2 Sets Os
Brothers
Victims
B> STAFF WRITER
RALEIGH—Death took no holi
day during the iast week as lour
persons lost their lives in automo
bile accidents on the states High
and by-ways and as three suc
cumbed to drownings during the
same period.
BROTHERS DIE
Two brothers were killed and
eleven people injured near (Eliza
beth City Monday when the auto
in which the brothers were riding
crashed head-on into another ve
hicle.
Driver of the death car was
id-year-old George Perkins of
Wilhacoochee, Georgia. Hi*
brother, General Perking of
Philadelphia, was the other
victim
What charges, it any, will be pre
ferred in the case had not been,
determined at CAROLINIAN press
time.
GIRL VICTIM
A Kiri. U'hose age was Hated
merely as -teen-aged" died in the
Lee County Hospital Saturday of
: injuries received in an automobile
i eatlipr in the day.
Miss Yvonne Pearson, who
lived at Route t. Broadway,
filled to respond to treatment,
riven her at the hospital for'
! interna• injuries sustained tet
the mishap. Two other persons,
were In toted.
HIES IV CRASH
Hfci-ii-m Gant of Flon Collett 1 ?
1 was killed Sunday night when the
i cm’ in which he was riding crash
: f<d into another car.
Cyrus Burton also of Finn Cnl
■ jfj/e was charged with rianst*u«fh.
w following the accident in which
tiit cs>- he was driving rcporfcdiv
,ii-oc-v„u {nto another one on s side
road in Alamance Court tv causing
the injuries which resulted in the
d-'-rh of Gant.
(Coat. oa page i. *JH* *dc4iaa»)
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