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H/X-Sliaw Head Denies Bias Charges
NAACP Official
Works In State
NEW YORK Mrs, Bernice N Mapper, assistant
field secretary of the NAAl'I’ will spend all >'f Au
gust in Ni rth Carolina organizing membership
drives. Gioster B Current director, of branches, au-
Ucunced this week.
Starting in Durham mo-. Mapper wilt visit an.i
assist branches in Raleigh. Fayetteville, Hamlet
Scotland County, Wilmington, unslow County. New
Bern. Lenoir County Goldsboro. Edgecombe County
and Washington County
KILLS SELF TO AVOID TRIAL
A A 'A- .Ar A A A ★ A r A A A Ar ★ A A ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A A A A A A A A
Claims Wife Took SSOOO, Fled To New York
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Raleigh Area Children
Are Drowning Victims
HAILSTORMS
LEVEL CROPS
IN SAMPSON
DUNN North Caro Hum's
farmers, especially through
this */ra and the adjoining
areas of Sampson County,
watch the skies w'Ui bated
breath this week, seeking jn
dication of a lepitiiion of last
week’s hailstorms which dam
a*ed an estimated SMI.OOu
worth of tobacco in the fields,
Negro farmers were among
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ffIAMWOM COUNTS—' "Frankly, I d«n‘t know what we would i
P»v» ideals witfemrt them.” Duke Hospital (Duke University, Durham
9ft. C.) flapMtafaNMlmt «f the «6 girts who have keen graduated tr on,
Ifee Bs**fe**ss Sakool o# Pnciiad Nursing for Negroes since isms, >|'lt<
ftwottosl wars® has became port of a nursing team which tea* aides
JBsfeo Uatwrottp So flgbt the country-white nunuug *fc»rt«g«. (Otbw
:.. i*~ -mmmmSßP s &k
ilt/H E Of' G. I s -■- Arnita,
rising young entertainer, has
been tabbed the “Pin-up Girl of
the Korean War" by number*.
*>f Gl's engaged in the current
conflict. Included among
bestowing the accolade upon the
youthful enchanter are members
of unit* of the tamed 24th Infan
try Division recently dishand
for integration under Presiden
tial orders.
It \LEIGH - Lillie Ray Garnet',
6 and Charles Garner, 2, children
of Mr. and Mrs Moses Garner of
Knightdale were drowned in a
too! near their home early last
; week. I. ,vi Cheek Wake County
coroner, reported here this week.
Cheek said there was "no foul
play' at id the deaths were acci
dental He said two-year-old
Charles Garner either walked or
fell into the yard pool as Charles
and Lillie Ray his six-year-old
sister, were playing,
Mr. and Mrs. Garner were across
the road working in tobacco. Lillie
Ray wa> -drowned when she at
tempted to rescue Charles.
Final rites were conducted from
the Malabus Crossroads Church at
2 i m last Thursday, with the
Ret Lee officiating, burial was in
Malabus Crossroads Cemetery,
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VOLUME XXX
MAN. 26. KILLS
SELF TO DODGE
FORGERT TRIAL
Note Protesting
Imioeeuce Left
Bv Gim Victim
GREENSBORO *Sjvcial.i - The
case of the man who failed to ap
pear m court to answer charges
of forgery \> as solved in a tragic
manner here .Monday where the
of bullet wounds allegedly self
inflicted some few hours after the
26-year-old suspect was found dead
tinu* of the scheduled court hea*.
ing. a note protesting his inno
cence near-by.
Nathaniel Gllliard of 2212
Spencer street had been sche
duled tor hearing dn a forgery
charge in the Guilford Super
tor Court, and should have
been in the courtroom to an«-
His » r t u i ! whereabout*
were not known to local police
officers, however, untii a half
brother. Andrew Corde, dis
covered the man's lifeless
body lying in a pool of blood
in a bedroom of the Spencer
Street residence about 4:30
p.tot.
Dr W. W. Harvey said that
death had come some two hours
earlier as the result of a Pistol
wound obviously self-inflicted
LEFT NOTE
The coroner further reported
that a not.- was found near the
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RALEIGH WAG
IS PROMOTED
MUNICH. GERMANY, - Miss
Mary E Alston, daughter ,il Mr.
and Mrs. James \V. Alston of 524
South Person Street. Raleigh, has
been promoted to the grade of
Sergeant first class in Munich,
Germany, where she is a. member
of Detatchrnent "G" of the 7822
Station Complement Unit,
Sergeant First Class Alston
the Women Army
Corps in May 1843 and served
until December 1945. she re
eniister in Jstrir 1946 and in
October 1940 was sent to Eu
rope. Upon her arrival in the
European Command she was
assigned to the European Com
mand Cost Accounting Office,
later transit-ring to the Bud
get and Fiscal Branch of the
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Blistering tight Seen
As Lawyer Faces Charges
BE S IN HOLLOWAY
RALEIGH Ever, though the
aiea'.s leading ad vacant of civil
rights, Raleigh's Attorney Herman
L. Taylor, is non
iipy
Wk
its charges.
Am. TAYLOR
Activated thf» week against
Attorney Taylor and In the
name of the State Bar sre
charges contending- that the
nationally -recognise# NAACF
barrister did everything bat
•'steal” the proverbial “kit-
NORTH CAROLINA’S LEADING WEEKLY
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DURHAM- A local grocery store
and market operatoi h;is sought
legal aid to recover funds he al
TO SCHOOL BOAR I* Dr W.
J, Trent, president of Living
stone college, Salisbury, was
recently appointed the first Ne
gro member of the Salisbury
City School Board, Dr, Trent has
oistH>ifiii»h<-d himself in educa
tional, social and civic tapaeil
es throughout the state. (See
Story Page i, Section 2)
eben sink".
Specifically, the State Bar group
(an organization of which every
lawyer in the state is compelled
to be a member and not to be con
fused with the lily-white NC State
Bar Association) charges that in
the conduct of a case for a Fay
etteville client, Attorney Taylor
was . . “engaged in unlawful de
ceit, fraud and unprofessional con
duct" “retained, without a
bona fide claim thereto property
received in the capacity of a law
yer . . , ” . and "violated the
Canons of Ethics adopted and pro
mulgated by the North Carolina
State Bar."
The Council of the State Bar
has, through its secretary, Edward
L. Cannon, summoned Attorney
Taylor to appear before a. h< Ving
to be herd at the Wake County
Court House on the morning of
September 8 to answer the char
ges
HAS WHITE SUPPORT
‘‘lt is them and there that the!
actual fight will be staged"’, the
i- J■ tWJOO , A,® IJUil
comm i la 1 con
cerning a multi
tu d e of charges
being preferred
against him by
th.- N. C Bar, in
dications .have
been givers here
and throughout
the state that a
blistering fight
.will be in the
making when the
I state bar group
| attempts to prove
WEEK ENDING AUGUST 4, 1951
A
Grocer Says Wife
AscorJed With $s
leges tii& wife '•lammed with even
after he had brought her limou
sines. diamonds and furs
O. C. Cain, well-known store
arid market c-peratoi' has tiled ae-
Uon in which he seeks to have 8
Mrs. Saiiie Cam return to him I
nearly $5,000 he charges she pi fro* I
ed from his store and took with her I
to New York City where she is fl
now living with a brother. I
NOT His, “REAL WIFE” J
In his action Cain reveals that I
Sallir- Cain isn't even his “tea i |
vile" despite their having b-en 8
identified as married-
He says that when he married" I
tie woman, she was already mar- I
ried to a man in South Carolina. I
This •marriage" was staged, he I
says, after he had taken the worn- f
an into his business as a part-time I
employee. |
Cain stays that hr hired 9
“Mrs." Cain as * part-time I
clerk in his store while she I
was still employed at a loc t i, §
tobacco factory. She worked in |
late afternoon and at night for |
him, he alleges, for which ser- *
vices she received room, board
and spending money.
GET “MARRIED”
The action further avers that in
1942 the two were principals in a !
“marriage ceremony and “Mrs."
Cain forthwith gave up her job in
the factory to devote her full time i
to the store. There she was per
mitted to draw small sums for “in
cidentals", the suit notes. i
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CAROLINIAN was told by a top
ranking white lawyer this week. |
This lawyer, who requested anon
rnity, said it. was hi
that there is an effort afoot to dis
credit Attorney Taylor and thereby
weaken his vigorous civil rights
legal activity.
UNPRECEDENTED
“Actually" the informant, contin- j
lied, “the action being taken by ■
the Bar is unpredented. Even j
though I have been practicing law j
in North Carolina for some few j
years. 1 have never heard of any i
case involving a lawyer being hah- j
died as this one. is."
Categorically, it was explained;
complaints involving attorney-cli-j
ent relations are not to be con
sidered in public domaim where as
the case has already gained uncom
mon publicity.
In the same manner, it was
learned, the State Bar group
within Itself is not the body *o
decide whether attorney is
"fit” or "unfit" to practice law
within tbo stole. The State 1
Worth More
TAKK LOOK-SEE Professor
and Mrs. .Milton M. Daniels of
Wilson, who were guest profes
sors at North Carolina College’s
Heading Clinic during the »uiu- ,
liter , are shown here during a
recent exhibit on children’s ac
tivities. professor Daniels is prin
cipal of the Sally Barber Hie
tnt-m.tr> heboo! in Wilson. Mrs.
Daniels is a teacher in tile Wil
eity school system. The third
person iat righti is unidentified. >
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LEAVES SHAH Walker «.
Quarles, ,ir,, secretary of Shaw
? niversity lor the past 15 years
has resigned his Shaw post to ac
cept appointment as personnel
director and administrative av
sistant to the president oi Vir
ginia -Stale College JJi. r. p
Daniel, former Shaw president,
made the appointment; i.See
Siory Inside;.
Bar can only resj»»e»t the su
preme Court to determine a
barrister unfit and disbar him,
The compliant filed by the Bar !
group, however, contends that
Attorney Taylor is ‘unfit" to
continue practice within the
state.
CHARGES QUESTIONABLE
; Interviews with lawyers ana lay
j men of both races and investiga- ;
; lions of the State Bar’s allegations j
j tend to give the charges an air of
I questionability
THE CASE INVOLVED
; Attorney Taylor is specifically
j charged with the commission of j
! fraud, deceit and other ethical pi id
; legal violations in failing to per- ;
feet an appeal to the State So- j
preme Court in Cumberland coUti
!ty case in which Robert Womble.
, contested the will >* his father, N.
1 Y (New Year; WOfible in 1948-49.
CITIZEVS TELL A LOT
The writer learned that on Mo
1 vember 31, 1948, Robert Womble,
i then of Fayetteville having recettt
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Extension Set
In YMCA Drive
RAL'h’UJH A temporary extension of the. ijlooil'
worth Street YMCA membership campaign, was a.y
pomiced this week.
The extortion, “Y" officials state, is to allow
workers additional time in which to complete
iheir reports.
The goal in this year’s campaign, the sixth annual,
was set at 1,000 members and *3500 The campaign,
to date, has been “fairly satisfactory’', it has been
revealed.
NO. 87
DANIEL DENIES
PLAYING DOLE
IN G. I. JIMCRO
Va. State Gollege
Heads Says Writer
“Misinterpreted*'
PETERSBURG. Va Or. "Robert
V. Daniel, president yf Virginia
st.ue College, denied aiding the
t. Lev segregation policy and in
dicated that the ShTOOli .Titn Crow
colored officers club, now under
•(■instruction on the fort, wag not
being constructed *> that "promi
mt citizens .>f th. colored com
.ininity .such as Dr Daniel '. may
have some place to come md hrin;'
their friends and he entertained
on the- post, in a statement releas
cd here this week.
He branded James L. Hicks,
NNPA correspondent, writer of the
report, us inaccurate and in ... six
point answer to Hicks, said an of
ficers club on an army post is a
provision for military personnel
'and is not needed by me. nor used
by m-. for the entertainment if
my friends Anyone acquainted
with the facilities at the president’s
home or on the campus of Virginia
State College, he said, knows that
ibc-s<- facilities are adequate,
DELIBERATE
MISREPRESENTATION
Ur .Daniel, former president of
Shaw University, -aid nig failure
to attend social functions at the
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NC Coliege to Learn Fate
Os PH.D Proposal Friday
RALEIGH - Durham's North
Carolina College should I*■ sr; i
whether ui xut it vvili be able to
offer doctor ~f philosophy degrees
during the 1952 school yfar fibs
week.
Indication of the school's
late should b. learned Friday
when a joint University of
North Carolina- N. C. College
Committee appears before the
Council of State ben- to re
quest funds for the setting up
of the advanced graduate sec
tion.
The joint committee is seeking
$271,000 from the state emergency
reserve funds with which to in
stitute doctorates in education at
NCC,
FACES CUBAGE World War .
H Army Sergeant Isaac Wood- i
ward whose eves wore gouged
nus by a South Carolina police -
man in was arrested In
Bronx. N. V. last week on a
“mugging" charge. A man charges
that the blinded vet helped rob
him of SR in a home brought
for Woodward by EJh mpa
th, iyers following the South' Caro
lina tragedy. The case to to be
heard this week.
Mti& ffi^lawSgpy '' " ' A
INVII'HS AIX "VOBLIK - *ua- I
peiiai Potentate Dr. Raymond I
fc. Jackson of the Ancient Eg>- 1
ptian Order Nobles of the Hfy# 1
tic Shrine has extended an invi- I
tattoo for "Nobles'' from all over I
the country to attend toe IS.>l I
national convention of Hue tA*- I
der to be held in New York: I
City Atixubt 10 through it*. Hub- I
deeds of NC Shriners ytfe sebetr- I
uled to attend. ■.
A LTiiiv< rMty -North jx.na
committee agreed' to aid an IvCC
gi*‘..<up in securing such funds fol
lowing a July ib meeting \
Tin- appropriation, if approved
Friday would provide $157,200 M>r
next year wh-n the graduate train
ing; would begin and $114,000 ioi
the current yeai before the Ph.D.
•program is instituted j
The University group also agreed
to support the Durham College
when it makes a request before “he
1953 General Assembly for $1,800,-
000 for the building program N.
C C. trustees have said is neces
sary ;or expanding graduate work..
The funds would be used to con
struct buildings for study in ed
ucation, biology and commerce.
NO ORPHANAGE
FACES TASK IN
NAMING HEAD
OXFORD - Trustees of the 0>;?1
! ford Orphanage will face “quite afl
task ’ in the selection of a new
i supervisor, it is felt here this wSfk
as Thursday, date for the trustee
, irn--t comes nearer.
The trustees are scheduled dur
ing Thursday’s meeting to select a
man to succeed thV late sifpeiViskr,
T. A. Hatnme. who succumbed to
a short illness earlier this year.
MANY CHOICES ' f
'Dr. E, E. Toney, chairman oi
thi trustee group says that a num
ber of persons “with very fine
oualocations and high recommen
dations" have applied for ♦*>* post,
These applicants, the CARO
LINIAN has learned, include
many of the state’s leading ed
ucators, clergymen and per
sons of other profession*.
D. O. Leatherherry, assistant
to Mr. Hanrnie has Teen in
, «f the institution store
the latter’s death. .
In addition to Dr Toney, mem
! bers of the board are;
Dr. R. L. Noblin. Judere B K
Lassiter. N. W. Weldon, M. S. Cur.
rin and W T. Yancey of Oxford?
Dr. C C. pnauldirig «nd L. F Aus
tin of Durham- S. E. Simmons of
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