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White Family HHIOIMIONR.6-H.il s. / Protests Will Made To Negro Relative ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 7-Year-Old Son Accidentally Killed By Mother’s Gun The Carolina Timet It The Oldeat And Wide$t Read Negro Nempaper in The Two CaroUmu, , ^ PRICE 10c PAY no MORE / VOLUME 31—NUMBER 52 DUBHABl, N. SATUBDAt, JUNE 25, 1955 Pictured above a leMion of the Eighth Annual Realton In stitute held at the Univertlty o/ North Carolina last week. For the tint time in Nearo real estate, dealer* attended the gathering which held cowteee in Real Property Law, funda- mentaU of -Real Eetate, Broke rage, Applied Peychology, Ap praising and Financing. He- groet attending the institute were Clifton Oravea, Winston- Salem; C. M. Winches^. Win ston-Salem and Henry Gold- ton, Durham shown in the pic ture. The institute it sponsored by the N. C. Association of Real Estate Boards. Negro Teacher Fighting To Hold Cash And Property Left Her By White Aunt JACKSON More evidence in a trial con testing the will of Mrs. L. M. Hawks, a Qarysburg white widow, who left- #*#,06© in cash, a farm and other real ea- tate to Mrs. Amanda Peale Home, Negro, was heard here this week by an all white Northampton County Superior Court jury. Mrs. Home is an instructor at Hampton Insti tute, Hampton, Virginia and hol^ a Ph.D. degree from Chicago University. The documents presented as white woman’s will and al- ^dgediy signed by her, de scribed Mrs. Home as “one I have looked after and consider ed my foster daughter since her birth, and knowing her to be my brother Charlie's daugh ter." " Contesting the will is Mrs. Lucy M. Gay of Garysburg, Mrs. Hawks’ sister. The for mer filled a caveat rhTging that the signature to the will was obtained "by undue and improper Influence and duress. A Negro attomey, Charles Williamson of Henderson, tes tified yesterday that Mrs. Hawks came to his office Aug. 20, 1951, and had him draw the wffi. He offered it for probate shortly after her death on March 7. 1854. Mrs. Hawks Instructed him to hold the will hi his office, Williamson told the court, until after her death. One section of the docimient read: to clear up any question, I had this will drawn up out of this (North ampton) county so no one will attempt to change my plans and I have left this will in the care of an attomey in Hender son to see that it is properly carried out." The purported will bequeath ed to Mrs. Gay for her lifetime one-half interest In two lots the sisters owned Jointly in Garys burg and one-half interest in a farm of about 460 acres. At Mrs. Gay's death, the purported will stated, tiie “remainder of the said one-half Interest to go to Amanda Peale Home. Boatman Garris, a Negro ser vant, was given |S,000 by the Chapd Hill Business Man Fumbles Suicide Attempt Kennetli Jones Fails in Tl#ci Try To Taice N is Life purported will. Mrs. Home, in addition to |25,000 in cash, re ceived a 180-acre farm, a lot in Garysburg, and the one-acre “homeplsee.” The propoimders rested their case about mld-aftemoon. Mra. Home, SO, a graduate instmc- tor at Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va., identified a total of 332 canceled checks most of which were drawn and signed, she said, by Mrs. Hawks from 1051 to 1953. One of the checks, she ^stated, was dated Dec. 27, 1951, and was payable to Mrs. Gay in the amount of $600 for rental on the Newsome farm. Supporting the propounders that they considex«d Mrs. Hawks at the time the will was drawn to be of sound mind were the testimonies of some 19 witnesses. Expressing a contrary opin ion was lliomas G. Joyner, Mayor of Garysburg. He said that he thou^t Mrs. Hawks was incapable of looking after her affairs. Agreeing with him was T. D. Stephens, G^sbvvg business man and farmer, who e;cpressed the same opinion. What ia reported to have been the third attempt to take his own life was frustrated here Monday momiog when Mrs. Ella Boyd this dty discovered Kenneth Jones sitting in his parked car in the weatem section of the dty .with his wrists slashed and bleeding from the wound. Mr. Jones, who is legless and a prominent business man of Chapel Hill, Is believed to have made the latestattemptonUsUfe because of being despondent over his condition, although he ia al leged to have stated to relatlvef he attei^ suicide because of aomc»tie fairs and reverses in his business.' Jones legs were amputated as the result of diabetes. According to several persons interviewed here Wednesday Jones, wfao is a prominent mem bers ^ the Trustee Board of St. Paul A. M. E. Church and treas urer of Its building fund, had previously arranged ail of his THE COMMUNISTS WERE GLAD Augusta Georaia Canceb Soap Box Derby When Negro Boys Enter Race AUGUSTA, Ga. withdrawal from the event of Officials in Charlotte, have The entry of the names of two Negro boys as contestants in a Soap Box Derby scheduled to be held here July 18, proved to be too big a piece ot demo cracy for white parents to swallow. As a result, ithe spon sors have called off this year * the annually held derby, “with reluctance” and regret that youngsters, already at work building their racers, were doomed to disappointment by the action. Stating that the problem created by the entry of two Ne gro boys was only one of many, the sponsors sai^ “a multipli city of problems, innimHtig the a large percentage of the en' tries, led to the belief that a successful derby could not be held this year.” Prime movers for the can cellation were members of the State Rights Council of Ga., Inc., who demanded the action, the sponsors report. But they went on to r^rt that a large percentage of the parents of the white boys who had registered, when asked as to their reaction to Negro boys participating in the affair, were totally out of harmony with the idea. This and entry withdraw als the sponsors said, caused the dacldon to cancd tbM avtnt issued an invitation to all boys who planned to race in the Augusta event. Several are ex pected to take part in the Char lotte derby, open to Negroes, June 29. Last Rites Held For 98-Year Old Woman In Apex APEX lytieral services for Mrs. Pa- tlenee LoeUear, 98, who died Warrant Issued For James For Attacking Sisters Two warrants for assault and battery were issued for Sidney T. James, Jr., here Wednesday by S. O. Riley, Clerk of Durham County Recorder’s Court. James is charged with assault and bat tery by his sisters, Itlrs. Julia James Tancey and Mrs. Nannie James Lash. Each Sister, named the other as witness to the attack. When contacted here Wednes day afternoon the brother ot the two sisters denied attacking his sisters and stated he merely or dered them out of the home when his father expressed a de sire for them to go. Although the warrants gave no details of the assault and bat tery charges it is reported that it occurred when the sisters re fused to leave the home after they had been ordered to do so by their brother. Mrs. Yancey Is a resident of Newport News, Virginia and Mrs. Limh resides in Salisbury. ’The brother resides with his father here at 810 Uxnstead St. Up until about three weeks ago Dr. James was a patient at IJn- coln Hospital but since that time he taw been residing at his home. KENNETH JONES personal business affairs and that of the church in apparent preparation for the stuicide at tempt. Because ot ^ varied interests in business, dvic and church af fairs in Chapel Hill, Jones is highly respected and has many friends in and around the dty. He is considered by many as (Please turn to Page Eight) FU. GOVERNOR RE-CHECKING IRVIN CASE TALLAHASSEE, Fla. New evidence in the notori ous Grovdand rape case of '49 has caused Governor Leroy Collins to order an official check on it. Key Negro citizens appeared before the State Par don Board stating how they were convinced of the inno cence of Walter Lee Irvin, one of four Negroes accused of ra ping a young white housewife in Groveland. The incident set off a series of reprisals against Negroes in the area. New evidence consisted of statements by the local doctor that no evidence of rape could be found on the young house wife. This impressed the Gover nor as he said that attorneys interested in the case had told him that no medical testimony had been produced by the state WADE WAYNE PERRY Wade Wayne Perry, 512 Um- stead Street, Durham, has been selected the winner of The United States Law Week Award for 1955 by the faculty of, .fit^rth Carolina College, School of 'Law, according™ tt> Dean Albert L. Turner. The Law Week Award given annually by The Bureau Of National Affairs, Inc., to the seniors of selected law schools who, for the past year, have shown the greatest advance ment in their scholastic FU. FACtllTIES JOIN N/UiCP WHASSE NEW YORK All the teachers in the Negro schools of St. Petersburg, Fla., have become NAACP members during a local campaign, it was reported here this week by Miss Lucille Black, member ship secretary of the Associa tion. ■» Miss Black noted that the school principals were active in securing the memberships. The schools which have a 100 per cent NAACP faculty and their principals are: Davis Elementary School, Mrs. Amanda R. Howard, principal; .. Street Elementary School, John H. Hopkins, principal; Jordan Elementary School, Emanuel M. W. Stew art, prindpal; Sixteenth Stret-t Junior High School, Frederick Bumey, principal; and Gibbs High School, John W. Rembert, principaL that a rape actually occurred, ^hierements. (Please turn to Page Ugfat) Last Rites Held For Mrs. Oglesby InBaitimote BALTIMORE, Md. Mrs. Marie Plummer Ogles by, formerly of Warren Coun ty, North Carolina, and daugh ter of a North Carolina State (Reconstruction) senator, died on Wednesday, Jime 15, at Pro vident Hospital, Baltimore, af ter more than fifteen years an invalid. Bom June 6, 1879, of State Senator Hawkins W. Carter and Mrs. Nannie Boyd Carter, In Warren County, Mrs. Ogles by was one of four children. She attended Warren County Training School and later pur sued nurse training at St. Ag' nes’ Hospital, Raldgh, N. C. After the death of her hus band, Thomas Oglesby, in 1923, in Asheville, and one of her sons, 'Riomaa Jr., In 1924, she moved to Durham, North Caro lina. In 1948, she moved to Baltimore where her son, Isa- dor, had accepted a position sA Morgan State College. BIrs. Oglesby is survived by her son, Isador-B., Coordinator of Special Education, Douglass High School, Balthnore, by foster son, Willie McCracken, Atlantic City N. J., one grand daughter, Jerilyn Chrlsthie Oglesby, Baltimore; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Coles and Mrs. Helen Bowles, both of Rich mond, Va., and one brother, Hawkins Carter, of Warrenton, North Carolina. Funenl swrvices were hdd at Flzat Baptist Church, Balti more, on Vriday, June 17, at 2:00 PJI. Interment was In ^ Greenwood Cemetery. Bldi- About 47 years ago, Mn. ^nii, Va., on Saturday, June (Pleeae turn to Page Hgtat) 18. Boy IS Fatally Wounded When Pistol Falls From Woman's Apron Pocket at the home of her son, Willie L. Locklear, on Wednesday were! held at the St. Mary Free Will Baptist Church near here on Friday, June 17. at 2:00 pan. The officiating minister was the Rev. Mr. Burt ot Raleigh. He was assisted by Rev. Walter Stewart and Rev. Levi Yate*. Mra. Locklear was boro in Johnson Coimty. At an early age, she joined the Avery Grove Methodist Church, fo 1877, she was married to the late Alvemo Locklear. m DUNN The above trio of North Carolina College coeds, Kitty Sneed, Janice Jones, and Shir ley James, last week in Dur ham urged all Americans to cooperate with the Red Cross' many humane p r o g r a m s. Shovm here under a special Red Cross banner loaned bv the Durham chapter, the N C C coeds are pictured on the side of the college's regukMon sized AAU pool which is the scene of one of the Summer School's most popular recreation cen ters. Miss Sneed, 20 year old rising senior, lives at 1001 Drew Street, Durham, with her mother, Mrs. W. G. Sneed. Miss Jones, center, "Miss North Carolina College of 1956” (cor rect year), is a rising junior from Ahoskie. A runner-up for the "Miss NCC” title last year. A major catastrophe fell up on a home here this week when pistol feU out of a mother’s pocket. There was a sharp re port and the next instant, th* woman’s seven-year-old aok collapsed, fatally wounded by a shot that had tom into his tUt. Coroner Grover S. Hender son said his jury ruled that Mrs. Bessie Lee had acddental- ly killed her child. He reported that Mrs. Lee was seated talking with a visiting minister with a caliber automatic in her pock et. When she arose, the gun fell to the floor, fired and John Henry Blue, a son by a former marriage, was killed. In explaining why she had the pistol, Mrs. Lee stated that on entering the house about 3 o’clock, she picked up a pistol she saw on the dress(*r and put it in the pocket of her apron. The Rev. G. L. Ray, an eye witness of the tragic ' event, 'came in a few minutes later. He was still sitting at the table when the bullet felled the lad who was standing near tb* table. merce. Her pmrents are Mr. «ad Mrs. Jesse R. Jones (tf AltoeMe. Miss Jatn««, cditor-elect of "Campus Echo,” pH*e-wi**i# undergmduat* eewapeper, eer- ved last yemr ms praiMaat e# interracial CoUegUtte of the NAACP. SM , home i« JamaiwlHe. Iff. C.« Miss Jones is majoring iit com- **er mother, Mrs. loma Jm
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