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WEEK ENDING AUGUST 30, 1932 Crime Crackdown (Continued from pnge 1) Negroes drink 'Sneaky Pol and Negroes commit crime but *eme one should tell the New* and Obsserver ant! othei white SALE! t French Crepe \ Dresses j $3.95 Vahia BOBBY SOCKS With Crochet tops 48* Snowy White BeJbba A.pkhft Wijjt Those Pop* ul»r Thick Ct’ffs. T!ic-3 <- lope A*? Crocheted For Extra Bulk, Styes STREET FLOOR , „ .:|' l|i llf **"' ' v * '**" ******p , '*.;. ■■,. '• ■•;;>■’ Cut Your Worries With These Beady Made Slip Covers Choose Your Favorite Pattern and the Job is Done No Fuss, or Bother With These Ready Made Slip Floral Designs, Stripes and Solids. Davenport Covers $22.98 $lB.-98 Sofa Beds . . $18.98 $16.98 Studio Couch • . . . . . sl6-98 $13.98 Club Chair $1298 $ 9.98 THIRD FLOOR Hudson-Bet j Eastern C*roHn*. , t i Largest Store people that Negroes do what they s' e white people do Drinking ana crime are not original with the ; Nrgi.ro, when the white man set* h better example, Negroes wiH quit? liklv follow it However If the News and Oi server, Mr. Car* ’ per and the City of Raleigh is real i i,y interested in cneck'.ng and pre r venting crime in East Raleigh, we i would like to offe< a lew sugge*- I * tions. We would begin by clearing 1 out the slums of East Raleigh Ne groes in that area are living in | hovel and shacks unfit for aril. jn.als, because they hate no pine* else to live and certain real es i tote interests here who own these ! numan firetraps are now elamor img for the removal of rent, con | irol'- in order that they may reap a richer harvest from the unfor tunate people \\- ; o have to live lin them. If. I,a:* Ion;; been an ac cepted far: that over-crowded, un sanitary, run-down living quar . urs are breeding place.-, for crime of every description. If rent con i hols’ are lifted, this condition will Ibe magnified because to avoid paying higher rents, more people | will occupy fewer houses by doub ling up, crowding three and four iaige Jamilies in one house. I Next, Raleigh should see that its Negro citizens art v, ork to do with salaries in line wM.h the ever increasing cost of living. It i.s cer* j tainly not the Negroes' fault that i m Raleigh, less than ten percent i ;of the Negro population has a [monthly income over $200.00. Yet. [Raleigh i-s the Capital City where i the state, county and city gov ernments, using the tnx money of I both black and white citizens, pays out hundreds of thousand n j dollars each year to white work* | »:i s, while employing a handful of , Negro laborers at the lowest pay i [possible, not only do the govern-; jing bodies discriminate in the cm ! piovment of Negroes, but the I white businesses of Raleigh stead ! lastly refuse to employ Negroes ! for any but the stnckly menial j tasks at. starvation wages. Ail of | this, despite the fact that ninety [eight percent of the Negroes* | earnings is spent with the white merchants of Raleigh Better housing, better streets, i better job opportunities for No .gioes in Raleigh, would go a long , j ways toward reducing Negro crime JI in Raleigh although it would not -| wipe it out, since crime is not confined to the Negro in Raleigh |oi any other place. ’) finally, we would suggest that , , Mr. Carper follow the lead of j I Charlotte. Durham and many oth ter progressive southern cities and emp *iy i Negro police force, ad? ;quote to handle and to cope with tin- situation wnaiever it may be ;A city the size of Raleigh should j have at least ten Negro police of* [fleers, with then- own Captain and [ Lieutenants Although, we will tv i ve.r subscribe to the stupid idea that a Negro police officer's pov i»r to arrest be limited to Negroes [only, that idtea -however may be ii' line with Mr. Carper sapparem reasoning, that only Negroes com* j mit crime, it seems reasonable to I believe that an adequate nurhbei |of Negro policemen, stationed in j the Negro districts, would reduce ! Negro crime to a minimum and Inal the- elimination of crime breeding slums and better job oj> pominme* in Raleigh would make . Raleigh the Capital City ia reality i In conclusion, it might be in ; teresting to note, that the same i issue of the local daily | which carrier ,-lr. Carpers efc [ mand that the Raleigli police get ' ifugnei toward Negroes ano ! htch also intimated that "Sneaky | f-e.te' drinking and crime wh* . confined to East Raleigh, there |v. a a lengthy detailed story of i Sneaky Pete" drinking, rowed I ness, stealing and disturbing trie [peace in Raleighs all-white no th, jend But everyone knows tit ai [ciime is nos racial, well not quite ; every one. Remember the City Manager’s orders to his police duel get tough with N* groet* - BK* (LAYTON POLICE (Continued Irani page li merning . Ine stories told about the kill ling of Young Watson arc so con [fading that only a scientific test [ of the bullets used in the shooting [ can prove with any degree of cer 1 tamty, what story is true We in ! tfctviewed the mother of Watson who told us she was an eye wjl | ness 'o t-he shooting and said that | faei son was shot down m cold j Wood > ithout any provocation. We I interviewed Chiet Latte' who to id j t;> he killed Watson in self d*»- [ Both persons seemed quite ! sincere and honest m their seal* j ments but both of the statement* [cannot be true. j Both, Mrs. Watson and Chief Car* ! ter are in substantial agreement au i far as the story ofWats on's un i provoked attack upon Constant! [Moore. Both say that Watson seized [Moore from behind, overpowered | him and disarmed him for no ap j parent reason other than it was i something he sauted to do. But ino woere f ise does 'Re testimony jof Mrs Watson and Chief Carte* ! agree. According to Mrs. Watson. Chief , Carter ana two other officers carne , to net Rome about ten o clock ianl I Bur-day nig-ht and told her they ji.ad come to arrest hei son for hi* i assault upon Constable Moore >.«« her that day. Mrs. Watson say* *ht aorniticd the three of livers ano told them that Young Watson '*>. a,. asleep in an adjoining room. Mrb Watson goes on to say that the of i fleet s passed through her room » to her son's room and told him they had come to arrest him and ordered him to get up and dress so he could go with them. Mr* Wit son says her son was comply ing with the officers request when one of them remarked that Watson v/as not dressing fast enough antt without ftirther ado began shunt ling the Negro man, firing several | shots, some of them striking Wat i son and others going into the wall* |of the house According to Mrs Watson, her son. after he had been shot two or tnree times while sit ting on his bed, ran from the [house with the officers in hot pur suit. shooting st him as they fol | lowed him from the house. Mrs Watson told us that, she was stand [ | big in the door way of her .‘ton's* i room looking on whets he was I first shot, that he did not have; any type of weapon and Aid not ■ j offer any resistance to the demand j jof the officers that he get dressed [and go with them. After she THE CAROLINIAN saw him shot, and run from tho house, Mrs. Watson says she Be came frightened and ran to n neighbor's house. Later that night she was told that her son had been . pronounced dead when he reached , the hospital in Smithfield Mrs Watson is a middle aged woman. [I tall and. somewhat gaunt and given j the impression of an honest, truth nil person. < After looking at the many nut-' I PA holes in the house, we left Mi*. ■ Watson's home and called on [ i Chief Carter, asking him to give i us his version of ihe affair. A.- al • ie;<dy stated, his story of the «- vents leading up to the shooting: • was almost identical with Mrs. > Watson’s. He said he was out of town when the constable was at- 1 1 tacked by Young Watson, and lat er. upon hts return that night he, ■ the constable and another police officer, went to Watson's home to [ arrest him for hjs assault upon the Constable Moore Chief Carter said ; that when he told Watson to gei up and get dressed, Watson jump ed up and pulled a pistol from hts shirt and fired at him, the Bullet grazing his left cheek Seeing Watson's move, the chief says b r [fired at Watson bid that his atm ' [ was better than Watson's because' ■ tiis bullet struck Watson in the 1 chest According to the chief Wat- i ■on ran from the house as soon Jt - r - t|| ' ."" rT m * r " 1 1 " ‘ ■»* V'l. .*«**■.*.***» .1, Y<K»inw*~w»- R■ I' JIUl 1 kIWHQU'HJWnn 'fT** THURSDAY AT 9 A. M. ffllWßf IffiHll WHMIit Ii M [limn *TifTlWiWflffiiT w ifT r» f McLEJ LAN'S \ ■ RE-OPENS IT'S BEAUTIFUL NEW RALEIGH STORE! I j , YOU’RE INVITED! r 4 want to extend a most cordial invitation to the people of Raleirjh and neighboring cornrmmities to .... I visit mir beautiful new store and to share m the rnany ■&** *: m f ■ opening day savings, McLellan’s i* protid to keep abreast of the progress of Raleigh and has remodeled cur store as evidence of its faith and confidence in the future. I wish to thank each and everyone for their patience duntig the time our store wins closed, ||^^jjjp due to the remodeling.” w. J. EDWARDS, Manager 1 ' -’*•** added many hundred* of f„et of floor apaec ovifh our new addilion. and st rd it and save on all the hundreds of opening specials at extra sow nric.es! You’ll marvel at the many new items displayed on mu counters * * . The new addition is spa cious anu wonderful . , , be here when the doors me n. j ' 4 ■■Mi - >:niiiuiiiin imm >nn»n,ii.ftf.Yii unrfmitmirM ir mn r>r-?nnn«iwMiii'ii» iim«*nr*wu .«i.»-r)am*wm norun i»*i m ' t tiihi >i>iim n n*n i n wmirr > imnrwrwrww ]\/fr'l T* I I /Sl N.I EEEEEEEEEEEE: l'z========== * —.— - I "" ““ ” i ; fls he had f!red bis pistol and tn* twice ofiicers iollcwod after hirn, shooting him down as he m,n Af ter he had fallen, some distanc* from the house, tht: csitef says nc and the other t.-*vo officers picked Watson lip and earned him to the hospital but he was dead upon ar xival there. We .'coked the* chief what became of the gun Watson .‘.hot at him w.th but, he said i? could not be found. Lhicf Carter shoved us the side oi. his face .yftich was reared by « dark streak about three ir.elu's long. IU said that Watson had a very bad police record, had served I iinn on numerous occafiom and was under a suspended sentence at '•at time of the shooting. He told us that Watson had on one occas ion before tho Sunday incident, overpowered an officer taken his v capons and bis car from him and had made (he officer walk back to 'he police station. Chief Cartel said he has been a police officer for twenty years and hod never ‘h ■' any one before If,* *aid l-bat before coming to Clayton, he had wrverl as chief at Mount Olive and i rankiinton, North Carolina and was in the army for three years Hi- expressed deep regret over the killing and said he was sorry it bad to be that •-••ay but it was either him or Watson, V?c talked will* several Negroes in Clayton and Cvey all said that Chief C'a.ier had always treated; them alright and could not b" classed -w a trouble maker: The chief was very cordial to us and - was willing to answer all ques tions put to him and consented to j have his picture made between hi-' and Mi s Watson, it would be hard! to say which one was more sin- j cere or more honest apparently, but. with two stores, so widely apart, both of them can not be true and we make no attempt to I say which one i - true What became of (he pistol, Chief Carte r rav-s Watson shot at turn j with i; quite a mj story It won id seem tluit in the name of Justice that pisfni should he found. Wfiai Watson thought he could do v. ith these armed polca-men standing over hi.; bed i -* also a mystery, It, k. alto rather puzzling to attack three armed officers On the other i hand, we can not understand wh.n i going on in Waston’s mind • 1 Kunday afternoon when h" at -1 tack* d and over powered the con-, stable B"t dead men t<!) no tales,' Watson will never be able to an-! wer that or will he ever fell u-< what became of K:o ;nn the chief •avs n *v: fired at him one time. j Dal i t Build A Finn* ( aroiina; Say You Saw It In The CAROLINIAN ! !! Lcifpst p'’ hIi *h«H riqurp. l * show -ci' ♦ hOt C Orr^• « r Am^MCfJ \ rrpd popular J r\n l rjrolir' by fho wid«*f mfi*Cl'o in ; «,v***' % * iciorotto history I Try C'csroftls for 30 d'iv r v \ * * nnd -,«p why ("’.rim6l IpcjcU ci!l *% \ , othpr brrinds by hfllio/fz! ' * v> *' . PAGE FIVE
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