South Shaky /^ommg High Court Decision On Schools
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SAYWRECKS
Must Face Drunken Driving Count Thqugh
Principal Is Cleared
Of Morals Charges
Henry A. HUl, principal of the Hlokatown Streets by Patrolmen C. W. Webb and D. R.
scliool here, was cleared of charge* of aasault on Exum and booked on charfes of driving in-
a IS-year-old girl student of his school in Be- toxicated. A continuance until April 10 of the
corder’s Court here Friday, but must face an
other charge of drunken driving.
The 40-year-old principal did not take the
stand during the trial. His appearance in court
was made only three hours after he had been
bailed out of Jail on charges of drunken driving.
He was arrested around four o'clock Friday
morning at the comer of Main and Boxboro
drunken driving charge was granted by the
court.
In the morals charge, the girl took the stand
and testified that on February ZS, as on three
previous occasions, Hill called her out of her
classroom and attempted to molest her. She said
that he placed his hands on the private parts of
her body.
Neu) Ttcist To Oedipus Story
Father Slays Son; Son
Bashes Father’s Head In
The ancient Oedipus-Laius story was given two new twists in North Carolina this week
by incidents involving fathers and sons. At M onroe, a little town near Charlotte, a man lay
dead last Monday, shot to deatH by his stepfather, a reverse of the Oedipus-Laius tale.
And at Roxboro last Thursday, a son bashed his father over the head with a peice of stove-
wood, inflicting serious injury on his 65 year-old sire.
Mississippi League Team Defies
Jim Crow; Keeps Race Players
GBEENVILLE, MISS
A baseball team in the deep
South, refusing, for the moment
at least, to submit to the white
supremacy policy of its neigh'
bors, defied the harA segrega
tion laws of its territory by
giving up its league membership
because it insisted on keeping
two Negro players it bad hired.
The Hot Springs, Arkansas
baseball club was ousted from
Gl's Wont Bow
To Segregation
COLUMBIA, S. C.
Two Negro army sergeants
paid fines of $100.00 here last
Monday rather than knuekle
under to Jim Crow.
Sgts. Dillard Bice and We*-
iey W. Kelley, 24, whose base*
were not listed, were fined
950.50 each in city police court
on charges of refusing to sit in
the rear of a city bus.
The two servicemen told the
court that they offered to get
off the bus when the driver
told them they would have to
sit in the reM, but that the
driver refused to let than
leave the bus when he stopped
to telephone for a police'of
ficer.
the Cotton States class C league
in an action taken last Monday
because it adamantly stood by
its decision to keep two Negro
players It had signed.
At the outset, it was clear
that this democratic venture of
the Hot Springs club would meet
with much opposition. As early
as last Tuesday, the Mississippi
State Attorney General J. P.
Coleman isued a ruling banning
the two Negro players
competing in Mississippi, home
of four of the league’s eight
teams.
. Then, a week later, on Mon
day directors of the Cotton
States league, in a tliree-hour,
closed door meeting, announced
that the Hot Springs club would
have to leave the league for
keeping its Negro players.
The decision of the directors
was announced by AI Harraway
of Helena, Ark., president of
the league. He termed the de
cision a “matter of survival of
the league or transfer of the
Hot Springs franchise.”
Harraway apparently referred
to the choice the league liad, of
permitting the Hot Springs team
to stay in the league with the
handicap of not being able to
play half of their opponents in
their home towns, which was
the effect of the Miss, attorney
'ISee Mississippi, Page 8
Jim Autry, 43-year-old re
sident of near Monroe, was
placed in jail last week on
ciiarges of murdering his stepson,
Richard Potts, 31, at a tenant
house on the farm of Rchard
Hudson.
* It seetas that the two men
had been on a party together
Saturday night and a fist fight
climaxed an argument which
had been continuing for • the
past week. At about 1:30 Sun
day morning, Potts was knock
ed to the floor and Autry got
his shot gun and blasted a hole
in his stepson’s chest, near the
heart, killing him instantly.
Potts was the son of Autry’s
;^fe by another marriage
State Probe At
A&TContinues
GBEENSBOBO
The Investigation of records
at A. and T. College continned
here this week by State Audi-'
tor Henry L. Bridges who, said
early this week that the In
vestigation wonld last for sev
eral more weeks.
Already the Investigation has
resulted in the firing of N. C.
Webster, former bursar, who
was dlimlssed by the board of
trustees in February for "ir
regularities.”
Bridges announcement this
week that the investigation
wonld continue for "several
more weeks” even after Web
ster lias been dismissed led to
speculation titat the inves
tigating team may have dis
covered evidence which may
lead to the rolling of more
official heads at the college.
At Boxboro last Tuesday, a
ather-son difference had an
other, not quite so tragic, end
ing. Ed Pettiford, 65-year-old
father of James Pettiford, was
hospitalized with critical in
juries suffered when his son
bashed him over the head with
a peice of stovewood.
Apparently, an argument be
tween the two had preceeded a
fight, for when Sheriff C. C.
Holeman arrived at the Petti
ford home to investigate, he
found the son, James in one
room with several gashes about
his face and the father, Ed, in
another room with his face and
head battered.
Father Pettiford was admit
ted to Duke hospital where au
thorities listed his condition as
critical.
Son Pettiford is being held
for assault. The boy’s mother
swore out the warrant against
her son.
Hubert Robinson
Five More Enter
Municipal Races
In Tar Heelia
Five more Negroes entered
municipal election contests in
four North Carolina cities this
week, bri>iging the total of" Ne
groes so liar entered in munici
pal election races this spring to
a record 14.
Negro candidates “threw their
hats in to the ring” in races at
Asheville, Sanford, Asheboro
boro and Raleigh last week.
Already, Negroes were enter
ed in election contests at Greens
boro, High Point, Charlotte, Gas
tonia, Chapel Hill, and Durham.
At Sanford, two Negroes filed
for a seat on that city’s alder
man board from the fourth ward,
becoming the first Negroes in re
cent years to run for public offi
ce in Sanford. Robert Anders,
funeral director, and Rev. J.
Wesley Groves, retired minister,
both entered the race for the
fourth ward’s seat on the board
of aldermen. So far they are'
opposed by Tom Barker, local
automobile dealer, who has
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FOR THIRTY YEARS THE OUTSTANDING WEEKLY OF THE CAROUNAS
Entered u Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Durham, North Carolina, under Act of March 3,1879.
VOLUME 30— NCMBEB 13
DUBHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, APBIL 11, 19S3
PBICE TEN CENTS
Heavy
Boolcs
Registration Seen;
Open Again Satur^y
An unusually heavy registration is expected for Durham’s coming dty
council primary, most veteran political observers agreed here this week as
the final day for prospective voters to get their mimes on the books neared.
Registration books were opened last Saturday at all the regular polling
places and will be open again Saturday, Registrars will remain at the polls
from nine a. m. to nine p. m.
Three Separate Accidents Claim
Tar Heels In Highway Mishaps
Seven persons were killed and another seriously injured
in three separate accidents on North Carolina highways dur
ing the long Easter week-end.
Three died in a multiple crack-up at the Albermarle
Sound near Edeijton Easter Monday night. Earlier, in the
afternoon of ih^ same day, three others were killed in a
wr^', i^ear Shelicjc. And an eight year old boy killed
on last Tuesday, March 31, when he was struck by a car.
Killed in the accident at the
Albermarle Sound near Edenton
were Willie Manley, 35, of Eden
ton; Mrs. Ethel Harris, 30, and
DeWitt Harris, 35, of Washing
ton County. Joe Manley, driver
of the car, was hospitalized with
serious injuries. »
A child’s shoe, discovered in
the demolished car, led officers
who investigated the accident
to believe that possibly a four
th victim lost a life in the
derck. Proceeding on this as
sumption, they searched the
waters of the Albermarle
Sound for several hours,
thinking that a child might
have been tossed through the
bridge railing. No trace of a
body was found in the waters,
however.
A state highway patrolman
said that the death car struck
one truck on the north side of
the Albermarle Sound bridge,
bounced across the bridge and
crashed into another, and rolled
over two or three times before
crashing into another automobile
which finally stopped.
Traffic was held up on the
heavily used draw bridge span
for several hours while the
wreck was being cleared a-
way.
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At noon on Easter Monday,
Dixie Offidals Jittery,
Nation Awaits Ruling
Talmadge Defiant As
On Segregation
Uneasiness. was the domina
ting mood expressed by south
ern State offlciaU last week as
each day brings nearer the
expected Supreme Court rul
ing on segregation in public
schools.
The anxiety was expressed
in North Carolina’s .legislature
last week in the form of pessi
mism over the expected ru
ling' of the high court and in
the general attitude of bewil
derment over what to do with
a 50 million dollar proposed
bond issue whose purpose hin
ges on the outcome of the ru
ling.
In Georgia, fiery white su
premacist Herman Talmage,
governor of the Peach State,
declared that blood shed
would follow elimination of
racial segregation In that
State's public schools.
In Mississippi, Walter White,
executive secretary of the
NAACP, predicted that the
South would accept integrated
public schools without any
trouble.
The Supreme Court has been
deliberating on a suit brought
to end segregation in public
schools since the first of the
year. It was brought by the
NAACP and a group of Negro
parents in Clarendon, S. C..
Signs of pessimism cropped
up among Tar Heel lawmakers
early this week as the high
court prepared to hand down
its ruling in the case. Coupled
with this pessimism was a
general confusion over what
to do about the bond issue
proposed by Gov. William B.
Umstead which would go for
equalization of Negro schools
if the court allows segrega
tion.
Summing up the general
feeling of the legislators about
the impending Supreme Court
decision was speaker of the
House E. T. Bost of Cabarrus
County who said:
“For a while I was hopeful.
I thought they would decided
to let the situation stand as it
it, but they’ve waled so long
to hand down a decision
against segregation.”
It was made clear in the
legislature early this week
that the proposed SO million
dollars bond issue is simply
for equalizing the State's
schools if the Supreme Court
ruling allows the State to
maintain segregation.
“We might as well be frank
about it,” explained W. Frank
Taylor, Gov. Umstead’s legis.
lative counsel, to the legisla
tors last week, and recognize
“if the court is going to per
mit us to preserve our school
system, it must be done with
out segregation.”
Taylor also made it clear
that the bond issue would be
automatically killed if the
high court's ruling voids
segregation in public educa
tion. He said that the bond
issue would not even be sub
mitted to the people “unless
there is an” opportunity to-
use it for the purpose for
which it is proposed— to pro
vide equal facilities.”
This said in effect that Gov.
Umstead would not call the
proposed school bond election
to ratify the bond issue until
after the Supreme Court rules
on school segregation cases
now before it.
He hinted at some other pos
sible action in case the court
rules against segregation. Just
what the nature of that action
would bf is not immediately
clear.
“The National Guard doesn't
have enough troops in Ga.
and neither does the United
States Army, to prevent
bloodshed if segregation in the
schools of this state is de
stroyed," Gov. Herman Tal
madge of Georgia told a
news conference this week.
Many observers took only
slight notice of this statement
as simply an idle, threat since
Talmadge went on to outline
part of his plan for the state
to turn over the operation of
public schools to private or
ganizations. The threat also
lost much of its meaning in
view of the recent fact that
President Eisenhower's order
ending segregation in schools
at military posts all over the
country, including those at
Fort Henning, Ga., has been
See Dixie, Page 8
three Black Mountain residents
were killed when the car in
which they were riding skidded
off an embankment and literally
flew through the air, coming to
a stop wrapped around a tele
phone pole.
Death came instantly in this
accident to John SUuney, 45,
and Miss Ella P. Bowen, 18.
third -
Staley was rushed to the Shel
by Hospital where he died
shortly on arrival.
A witness to the accident said
that the car, proceeding on High
way 74 west of Shelby, skidded
and went out of control as it was
attempting to pass another car.
It plunged over an embankment
just west of Sandy Creek and
broke a large telephone pole.
The car was so badly twisted
around the pole that workers
toiled for nearly an hour be
fore getting the occupants free
from the wreck of twisted
metal.
• • •
Bernice Hester, eight year old
boy of Route 1, Varina, was kill
ed instantly Tuesday morning,
March 21, when he was struck
by an automobile while waiting
for a bus to transport him to
school. The accident occured on
Highway 15-A, about four and
0
one half miles north of Varina.
According to Coroner Mar
shall Bennett, the boy darted
into the path of a car driven
by Thomas B. Allen, 2%, of
Apex, to get a writing tablet
See Three, Page 8
New Effort to
Save Miller
A new attempt will be^ade
to save Lafayette Miller, sen
tenced to die in connection with
the murder of a Chocowinity
Farmer on Thanksgiving 1951,
according to W. Frank Brower,
one of the doomed man’s defense
attorneys.
Miller’s appeal to the Su
preme Court was rejected in-
ruling handed down this week
by the high court. ’ .
Brower, who is working with
attorney Herman Taylor in an
effort to save the man, said that
an attempt will be made to
schedule a rehearing based on
the contention that the selection
of the trial jury was prejudicial
to economic status of persons
residing in Beaufort county,
scene of the trial.
J. W. Goodioe, chairman of
the Pearson School Precinct, one
of the largest in the city, said
early this week that he is con
fident that his precinct registra-
ton would reach '-the largest
total ever.”
D. B. Martin, chairman of the
political committee of the Dur
ham Committee on Negro Af
fairs, issued a special plea late
this week for “every eligible
citizen” to register.
J. S. Stewart, chairman of the
Durham Committee on Negro
Affairs also felt that the regis
tration would be extremely
heavy. “Inasmuch as there are,
for the first time, two Negro
candidates running from the
Third Ward, the registration
should surpass that of any oth
er election we’ve had so far.”
Books will be open Saturday
and will remain open until
Saturday. April 18 for the pri
mary.
As the primary date, April 21,
neared, candidates began to push
their drives for votes. In the
Third Ward, where R. N. Harris
and J. T, Taylor are so far com
peting for the council seat, ac
tion picked up this week as both
candidates went about the busi
ness of vote-gathering.
Harris has so far received the
endorsement of the Durham
Committee on Negro Affairs
Bishop Jordan
To Speak Sun.
GBEENSBOBO
The Right Reverend Fredrick
Douglass Jordan, newly elect
ed Bishop of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church
and the Presiding Prelate of
the 17th Episcopal District,
which includes parts of South
Africa, will be the guest speak
er at Bethel A. M. E. Church
Sunday, April 12 at 10:45 a.
m. according to announcement
made by the Minister, Dr. Mel
vin Chester Swann.
Dr. Thomas E. Malone, pro
fessor of biology at North Car
olina College, received his doc
tor of phllosopliy degree from
Harvard University, Cam
bridge, Mass., on March 9.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Wiliiam
T. Malone, 1609 .Merrick .lI .
Durham, Dr. Malone rece.'.ci
his undergraduate training and
a master's degree in biology
with Dr. James S. Lee, bio
logist at North Carolina Col
lege.
Watchman Who
Shot G. I. On
Project Arrested
Hubert Hughes. 42 year-old
watchman at the McDougald
Terrace construction project,
was arrested last week on char,
ges of assault with a deadly
weapon with intent to kill in
connection with the shooting of
a young soldier Saturday night,
March 29. at the housing pro
ject.
Hughes was released under
bond of $j|,000 pencUng hearing.
Sidney Evans, Jr., 21^ year
old G. I. whose local residence
is 715 Plum St., part of whose
face was blasted away by the
almost point blank charge from
Hughes .12 guage shot gun, was
transferred from Lincoln hospi
tal to the Fort Bragg hospital,
is still in critical condition.
Hughes lived at the construc
tion project with Ms wife and
daughter in a trailer.
Rogers Grabs. Lead In First
Voting Heat For Cab Drivers
William Gilford Rogers grab
bed a slight lead as the first vot
ing for Durham’s most popular
tdxi drivers began this week.
Rogers polled a total of 400,000
votes to barely outdistance his
nearest rival, Fvte Goins who re
ceived 375,000 votes as the con
test entered its first week of
voting.
Closely behind this pair came
Marvin Page who had 3M,Mt
votes this w^ek. Delinger Kia-
xie and William Bulloek tied
for fourth place in this week’s
standing with 27S,eM votes
each.
The neJtt ten contestants were
bunched together with each get
ting 250,000 votes. They were:
Isaiah' Hampton, Marvin Allen,
Lee Lassiter, James Burch,
Theodore Page, Jfmes Justice,
Willie Gibson, Phillip Edwards,
Charles Creddle and Nathaniel
Sutton.
Other contestants received
votes totalling from £••,••• to
75,Me.
The first voting period will
end Monday, and all votes re
ceived up to that time will be
worth 25,000 each. All that is
necessary to vote for a cab driv
er is to simply clip the coupon
printed on page five and bring
or mail to THE CAROLINA
TIMES, 518 East Pettigrew St
Remember, anyone may vote for
a driver as many times h« he
wishes. But he must have a vot
ing coupon each time to vote.
Relative*' standing of
ants is as follows: . .
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