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VOLUMNE ao. N». 23 EHJRHAM. N. C. WEJSR E^ING SATURDAY JUNE «. 1 *58 Readies Tlic Mass Oi Readers' P1IIC£ Five CENT* Citizens Oppose Superintendent’ sSel ection Of Principal SUPREME COURT REVERSES Wf^ ■I '■ ■ ■■ oOo'" "■ ' "'' ■ ■ ■ - —“ " ' ^Slippery Eer Vanishes From Prison; Was Serving A 50 To 80 Years Sentence 'WIN SUPREME COURT VICTORY ASTHSUH MORRIS, batter known u the "Slippery Eel/' a n«m» with w4iich he waa tagged during his numerous e»- capea here from apprehension by the law, during a series of bur* laries he ia alleged to have been implicated in, and due to his smo«thneas in getting in and out of homes of suspecting • as well as unsuap'ecting citizens, es caped f^m prison last week as slick aa’^e eaeaped from homes. Morris, w4io was finally arrest ed here after he attempted to cash ft Ligl^tt and Myers tobac co company check which he is # alleged to have stelen from the of the homes he burglarised, made his esempe frem the prison IJtalTNQWtt MAN ATTACKS MRS. MARTHA^BEVILLE REIDSVILUE.^ (Special) — About 2;30 A. M. Monday, June 13, Mrs. Martha (^ville on Har rison iftreet was awakened by the sound * prowler who had en tered her *home through a win dow, and before she coul|] iden tify the intruder he had pounced upon her. He clubbed her three times over the head and fled the scene before help eould be obtained. - The intruder spread a coat on the groand below the window and stood on a can in order to gain entraace. It is believed tkat camp this week with the samgJ the coat waa used to prevent dexterity which characterised foetprints from being leff in tli« his entering homes here and in * mud. Raleigh. So perfect did Morris make his get away that priaon efficials had little infermation which they could diaclei^e as to thie time Morris took French leave. In fact it is believed that he was gene several days before he was even missed. Morris, who was serving n &0 to 80 year sentence fer the bur glaries,' wfis r^riei and sentenced here last February. David Fisher, whg was trie4 with him as being an^ accomplice" received a sen tence of from only' 6 to 7 years, due to the fact he proved «f geod character, while the record of Morris showed he had been involved in 20' dr' more crimes ranging from burglary to petty thievery. SCARBOROUGH NURSERY SCHOOL ANNOUNCES ITS OPENING Many are tff the opinion thal this crime was the work of someone who was well acquaint ed with Mnf. Beville and no pro bable motive for the crime can be found. " i i The unknown assailant is still at large. AMERICAN ENVOY ARRIVES IN PARIS PARIS, France, (ANP)—Daily papers in Paris last Thursday, I carried pictures ef Minister Les-1 ter A. Walton who had Just ar-' rivde in the capital of France from America. The minister and Mrs. Walton were scheduled to sail for A^ricA a week’s stay.r * ■ • ' Robbers Weufitd Minister Arid Stea] $29319 UTTLE ROCK, AA., Junm n, (ANPT Shot hr OB* of two eolered bm who fallow •d him iMM a to Ms 1 o m « aary ‘I'ueMlay nigliti th« Rev. O. Shermaa, 44, i^raaidtng edler af tl|a A. M. E. ;* W’ «>s wvumlad critically ^ a a d robbed «t fi,319 beloncing t# Tartar ^la|(a. R«v. Shtfrman had &t|tend> ed a meeting of the fiance committee o f Shorter's, board, of trustees h«ld at Bethel A. M. R church, dre.ye home alene in his car wiUi the nraney. Just as he entered his driveway, a car stopped at ^h'e curb. One of two ^bandits sprang out and ran te the preach er’s car before he could get out. He ahoved a gun at SeT. Sherman and demand ed the money. The elder’s wife was in the yard, and he attempted t« r . Kive her tlia funds. The robber shot him, grabbVtf up a satchel containing the 12,919 inJ ran ie Wa ca^*^ ^though the bullet entered JuBt, bejow his jaw. Rev, Sher- inan did think of first aid, but backed his machine out of the driveway and pursued the pebbers. H« waa only • few yards behind ijieir speeding car when they passed tite city hall. ^4 preacher shout^' to a seivemt 'standing outside iMifeiB "hMdquartera that he liad been robbed and fha bandits were in the car immediately ahMd. I Officers commandeered cars and took up tiie chase but soon lost the othe^ atitos in business district traffic. Soon a call came in that a man was shot in a automobile. Po)ice fbuod Rev. Sherman slumped over his wheel where her'i^d collapsed' after halting his ^r. An ambulance carried him tQ Southern hospi tal where he was found to be ci^tically wounded and ■ufF«r- ing from shock and loss o f blood. When questioned at the hospital he could not talk coherently. * . . iNight Police Cbief Anderson «aidthe rb1>bers evidently had previous knowledge of tJie meet ing of the iboard. of trustees. Funds raised in each the state’s li A. M. E. districts for the opeiatiew next year of the The Daisy E. Scarborougb Nursery School will open Mon day June 20, offering to the Negro Community a much need ed service, the supervision and instruction of pre-school children from the ages of two to five. ' The Nursery school will be operated in the Daisy E. Scar borough Home 4 t525 E- Petti grew Street. It is a new phase of the work which has been car ried on in the home thirteen ' yaars or more, in the interest of the well-being of Httle children The kindergarten term come to a cliOBe on Friday May 27, when eleven pupils, now eligible for public school were given certifi cates. The building has been renova ted recently and equipped for the capacity in which it will serve. The Nursery'school will be in operation from 6-.30 in the morning until, 6s00 in the after noon. Mrs. J. C. Scarborough, Sr. general supervisor of the kindergarten and Nursery School Miss Eva Patterson, instructoir, Mrs. R. N. Harris house superin tendent, a matron and her assis tant comprise the staff. All children between the ages of two and five are acceptable. In ordr that the school may serve those who possibly need it most, only five cents per day will be charged each child at tending. — Specific information may be obtained by contacting Mrs. J. C. Scarborough, Sr. at her home, 1406 Fayetteville St. Persons in terested are requested to do go prior to the opening of-4he Nur- sry School on Monday molrhing June 20. tELLS HOW TO OVERCOME BOLL WEEVIL Attorneys C. J. Gates and Ed-, ward Avant caught by the came raman Immediately after they had finished arguing the Jim Crpw bus case before the North Carolina Supreme Court which reversed the decisiorf of the low er' courts. TIhe attorneys repre sented Miss Ellen Harria who re fused to give up her seat in the rear of a Durham Pnblic Service bus when she had been asked to do so by a white, inan. (larp llielaldrMf Haytj 8ectJoD liitlii«iiceil BiirneU’s ippointMiit is, ScliodI M TUSKE5GEE Institute, June 15 —.(ANP)— T. M. Campbell, Ne- with headquarters «Jiere, warnt with headquairters here, worns cotton farmers that unsettled weather conditions this Spring which delayed cotton j>lanting the boll I are Ikely to encourage weevil. a. ^ co!i«gr were delivered to the meeting and the mony turned over to Rev. Skerman. Later, .two' men, described by officers aa familiar with ' pro* cedure at the college, were picked up for quettionbsf. “Fighting the boll weevil is largely a matter of getting the cotton matured as early as pos sible,” said Mr. Campbell, “be cause latter the cotton, th^^ more damage is likely to be done by the pest.” Quoting giovernnMnt jentomo- logists who are familiar with conditions in the deep South, Mr. Campbell urges f|he appficatfoA of poison in the pre square stage. One method in common usage is to m^> the small plants with a mixtvre of oiie pound of calcium arsenate, one gallon erf water and oAe gallon of molass-1 es. Other methods are to dust with calcium arsenate or to ap ply mi:tture with a spray. *^Using calsium arsenate.” con' The recent appointment of Prof. Frank G. Burnett as prin cipal of the East Durham ele mentary school struck -stiff op position here this week when a £opy of a letter addressed to Superintendent W., F.' Warren, opposing the selection of Prof. Burnett, found, ite way'i^to the hands of a Carolina -Ttmies re presentative. The vacant^ which o*f«reJ at the local school took'place when Mrs. F. K. Watkins^ who ■ had tinued Mr. Campbell, “at thej rate of five pounds per acre and. npeatinr the. application every five days is recommended as a weevil control method after the eotton has reached the squaring ■tage.” served as principal ’for approxi mately ten years tendered her resignation during the latter part djr die year., Scramble for the'po sition. began immediately and several, names of persiohs con nected With the Durham school system ^re prominently men tioned as choice by- various per sons and .organizatiofis in 'the city. — , Citizens of East Durham ex pressed their choice several weeks ago in a petition address ed tq Supermtend'ent Warren and siglSed by more than 200 persons living in the section of the city which the East Durham School serves. They named I?rof. Frank Q. Sowell ap their selection and were given ^oo3 reasons' to be lieve that their wishes would be granted by the superintendent, accordng to a statement issued tp the Carolina Times Wednes day. —As^it-aow. atanda' there 4aTHtacii- ,disappointment throjighout Jthe particular community, as well as much resentment, towards the action o^ Mr. Warrep,' and cer tain N^ro leaders of Durham who, citizens of l^st Durham believe, have used their infUience to place someone at the head of the school not, degired by them. Both Prof. Sowell and Prof. Burnett were born and retired in Durhain, and both attended .the city schools here. Prof. Sowell is a graduate of Kittrel ^olleg* an^ North Carolina College and holds two degrees B. S. and A. B. He hasnbeen teaching Jor eight years and Ijas had three years experi ence as principal. At present' Prof. Sewell is * member of the faculty of the Eaat End Schook Prof. Burnatt ia a graduate-^ West Virginfti State College and I holds the degree of A. B. from that institution. Ha has taught .in the Durham school system for 5 W years. The letter addressed to Supe-s, -jpintendent'^ Warren—thisweek, and signed by Andrew Morris Jack Stanley and William Bar bee, all ijast Durham citizens is definite and positive in -its tone, and is'as follo'w^ _ Eail Durham Hay«»to *n Cantmim.itia* To tfie Board of Education, City of Durham Gentleman: The Durham Sun of June 14, informs us that Frank G. Bur nett waa appointed, as principal of East Durham colored iclu>ol instead of our choice, Frank Geo. Sowell. * ‘ In this m5itter, the tax payers and wtera of our community -have been everlookodt 4iw^ gardpd. It seems that a few dic tators of' the Hayti community, from which all of our present teacheis have come, have even been' allowed to influence the se lection of ^r princjiwl; All toK) vividly wi recall the High Court says Miss Harris Did Not Viclate Jim Crow Law On Bus WHITE COLLAR WPA WORK ERS PLAN PROTEST march ON WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, June 15.—(A NP)—A masik march on Wash ington by more than 600- arts and professional WPA. workers and trade unionists to procesf; against the $1,000 a year plan which goes into effect July 1 will^ be staged' June 27, it was announced last week 6y the Trade Union Committee on Unemploy*-- ment and WPa. The wage cut, said the com mittee, would reduce the ave rage pay of white ’collar WPA workers to $700 yearly charging ofFicc rent, office suf^lies, su[^ eryision and other expenses against the , 11,000‘alloted each worker. As part of the campaigiji againat these cuts,, picket e dem in front of all the arts and ‘ pro fessional projects. MISS CRAWLEY FETES SILVER MOON CLUB APPOINTMENT OPPOSED^ PROF. FftANK'll. BURNETT, . A lovely social affair of the week odcured Tt^e^a,y evening when Miss Temple Crawley was hostess to the Silver M o Club at her home on Pine street colorful snapdragone and other garden flowers were effectively {paced aU^ut the home. Bingo was played for a time with Mrs. Elizabeth Ed wards as Mgh scorer. A ten»- pting «alad course was served to the following members, Me^- dames, Henry Holman Cornelia, Johmson, EM^abetl Edf^rds, Ida IRush, Roy De.bman, David Gf.l^re E^ant^ PattersjDn, Odellft Fuller. ^ OFFER PRIZES FOR DIVERSIFICATION OKMULGEE, Okla., June IS. -—(ANP)—TTie Negro .£Jyiq Lea gue of Okmulgee is offering valuable pri2^es to encourage the 1®38 Crop Diversification pro- gram. ' J. Si. Wnainngton, Negro^ci. Agent, states that" 150 Negro fanners are actually pledged to follow the program, white many othe» not enrolled are fnding it to their advantage to follow the practices. , Scoring will be based upon 'such ' pbints as soil maintenance and fertility, hei^lth and fertility, health and sanitation, farm man agement, food for the family, feed for livesfoek, —quality of 'ivestocK and crop yields. .school system who was appointed principal of t)ie^ East Durham school last week.”,The appoint ment of Prof. Burnett is being strongly opposed by patron* of the school who are in favor of the appointment of Prof. Frank George Sowell. CHILD PRODIGY DIES NEW YORK, (ANP)—Little Joyce Willis, brilliant child pro digy died here Thursday. Joyce the grand daughter of the fa mous orchestra leader, Lucketh Roberts and Mrs. Roberts passed after a Lrief illnesa. R.ALEIGH. June 15.—The Su- oreme Court of North Carr lina handed down a deciaio.i !iere to day reversing the veidicl of the lower courts in the action a:^in- st Mi*s Ellen Harris, Durham wo man arrested and charged witk violating tfie North Carolina Jim Crow law wnlch provi-Jes that Negroes riding cn public buses f'11 up from the rear while white passengers must fill up from tha \ front. ^ The ease was argued before the supreme court lasS month ty Attorners C. J. Gates pnd Ed. .\vant, repr*>sentinsr Miss Harfts, ' and is one of the many victories won by the partnership uf .Attor neys Gates and Avant In the past ■several months. The charge against Mias' Har ris brought by J. B. Harris, driv«» for the Durham Public Service Company. Jones haj| Misa Hairis arrested last February 12 when she refused to give op her seat, next to the last one in the rear of the bus, to a white man named R. B. Jones wh;n thi lat ter requested tlai she so. - The case was tried before Judge W. H. jturdccfe of the Durham Recorders court wfco inH- posed the co=‘ thp action oi» HartUh . Net sa.isfisd with the results, Mi.;s Harris appealed the case to the Superior court, tecured the services of Attorney* Gates and Avant. She waa con^ victed in the superior court and fined $10 and the cost by Judga (CooiltnMd oa p«ca ai«kO Killer Cop Bounil Over On ManslaugliterCliarge; Bofldls Set A! $1,000 —a«a — ■ T. D. Wilkie, chief of the the "Ehe first Doctor who Durhain~AJLH? enforcement squa^ fact, that, when a representative body from East Durahm came before you requesting a new Bcheol building, we were a»iWe »ttfta’ae^o#t outataadii^^ijA.piett ■ _ ^ _ T-r .. ■ X, r» to get certain Hayti gentlemen, long distance leadecsi to appCtt^ with ua. Now we have learned that these same gentlemen have come from beiiind to the fron|, and are responsible for recom mending a principal for vfST owtt well as selecting the principal of Lyon Park. AJtbongh, we ^ haven’t been favored with a fine school build ing like the Bayti sectioi^ we do feel that it ia time that com- (CoatiaeaJ as page WHO muraerea James mcNeif at his \ome May 27, was ordered held for the grand j.ury\on a charge of manslaughter uy re corder William Murdock after a hearing of about ten hours. The murder took place wh"Sii Wilkie with two 'other officers, R. G. Bobbit and T. L. Bailey, raided McNeil’s home sjujjposedly in search of whis^«y. Wilkie’s bond was Set at $1,000'. In order to complete the te»ti- rnon^ from both sidfe, a night session of recorder's court was held. Prosecuting this case for the state were four of North Caro- competent attojmeyi, namely, C. J. Gates, M. Hugh Thompeon, C. O. Pearsop and E. Avent. 't%ee» lawyers*, who were on the alert throughout the trial, lived their fine reputation for effici ency and proved that they are ledge^ of the fine points of the law and legal procedure. Among .the witnesses present^ ed by the stal# wer«; four physi- ciaiw who testified tllat. foa^d ballet wo«pd« in McNeill* ’abdomen and deep laflRM^oa. oa took the stand was 'Dt. A. S. Campbeli, county coroner, 'wlio" examined ,he ^ody;> about tavr hours aft|r.the shodtinc. Dr. J. Wr. V. Cordice who examioed McNeil scon after he was admit ted to Lincoln Hospital, said that he found,three pe f:^cated w onda in the pelvic region 01 Ch^abto» men as well ^ as foar bloodj wounds in the back cf hia head; the man was weak, cq^di sweats ing and in a dying conditiaa when he reached the hocpitai. said Dr. Cordice. Dr. Mays and Dff. Sertft froaa Lincoln Hosintal aaid that they ftlso found t£re« wounds in Me. Neil’s ’ab^nten about an inefet '^pa t» they alae, feemf—eyJlgA—^ laeeratioaa of scaip at back and base. Mm. R. P. .»lph and lliaa P. E. Glimp, iv •t the hoBpital who e: he victim when IM wa« o the hospital, , e was bleeding ./■S'f 7' i 3 voands Iiil. aBderwMt' wpS(.ter IPIMI
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