KILLED
FRkAK
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Cat Burglar Draws Life Term
20 Year-Old
Pleads Guilty
To All Counh
Young Paul Cadlet, who earn
ed the notorious reputation as
Durham’s “cat burfilar” (or break
ing into at least 26 homes and
store buildings, was given a life
sentence in Durham County Su
perior Court Wednesday.
He pleaded guilty on four counts
or first degree burglary and six
charges of housebreaking and lar-
cency.
The first degree burglary
charges were consolidated, and
Catlett drew the life term on this
count and an additional 10 years
and five years for the other
charges. Judge I^eo Carr passed
Bcntencp.
Conviction on first degree burg
lary carries the death sentence.
Catlett’s plea of guilty possibly
saved him from the extreme pen
alty.
The slightly built (five feel, four
inches and approximately 100
pounds in weight), 20 year-old de
fendant was arrested by police
on Jun. l!f.
He confe.sseil to a wave of break
ins and robiierir.s which occurred
over a 30day period after Dec. 14,
Most of the break ins were made
in the North Durham section.
llis thefts netted about $175
cash, three diamond rings, about
20 birthstone rings, three coats,
a Pulariod Land camera, a watch,
nil.scellaneous jewelry, candy, a
radio and other wearing apparel.
All but one ring, a pair of
panties and the money were re
covered.
(Ste CADLETT, Pag* 8)
Shaw Accepted
RALEIGH—Shaw Univeriity was
formally accvpttd into full mem
bership of tho Annorlcan Ascocia-
tlen of Collegei for Toaeher Edu
cation at the recant mooting of the
association held at Chicago, III.
Dr. Nelson H, Harris, who at-
organlzation is playing an import
ant role in the improvement of
teacher education in all types of
lour- year accredited colleges
throughout our country.
Approximately 485 colleges and
Universities in all sections of the
country hold membership in the
American Association of Colleges
for Teacher Education.
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^^ThlTRUTH UNBRISeP^I
VOLUME 35 — NUMBER 8 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, FEB. 21, 1M9
PRICE: 15 CENT.S
Strangled as Scarf Caui^ in
Washer; Hubby Bums Her Free
FAIRMONT—A hooiewife and
teacher was strangled to death in
an unu.fual freak accident here
JOHNSON
Sons
Post
Of Slain Fuquay Motel Owner
$500 Reward For His Killer
Howard Univ.
President At
Chapel Hill
CHAPEL HII-L —Dr. Mordecai
Johnson, f^resident of Howard
University, Washington, p. C., will
i)C the guest speaker at a meeting
in observance of Brotherhood
Week The meeting at the Chapel lowered her upon rrtumin* home,
of the Cross on Sunday. February | *>'*♦
22. at 4 p.m. is spon.sored by tiie
Ministerial As,socialion of Chapel
abMrt SatimiQ, rtk. 7,
when it u bcUerad that Mr aesrf
caacht in the wriacer of a wa*h-
in( machine.
The dead woman is Mr*. Jaais
Floyd Wtl]is, 38, oi 2U Oakwood
St.
She was nishH to the hoapilal
when diacovered hot waa pro
nounced dead on amvaL Covaaer
Denis W. Bl*** ordered as satop-
sy which showed death waa doe
to straagulaUon.
Sheriff Malcolm B. McLeod
made a thonxish investisatlon.
but had one actual wttnesa, the
woman’s husband Daniel Jobnson
Willi.5.
Accordini; to Willis he had d*»-
UNCF HUDDLE—Dr. Benjamin
Mays (second from right) presi
dent of the UNCF listens to Dr.
William J. Trent, executive di-
lector, extreme right, durinfj
break between sessions of 13th
annual National Alumni Council
meeting at Bennett College last
week. Also left to right are:
Gustav Heningburg, alumni field
representative of UNCF, New
York and Walter Wathington,
president of the National Alum*
ni Council, Utica, Miss.
Justice One of Most Difficult Things to Give
In These Times, Brooks Hays Tells Audience
KALEICH—Former Congressman
Brooks Hays from Arkansas told
Monday, February 16, that there
should be a “great ingenuity of
skills so that affairs will be ad
ministered with concern for all
people, far and near, poor and
rich and of all races.”
our lines of communicalion
understanding have been scver-
We need ideas from Russia
and
the
ilussia needs ideas
Chri.stlan spirit.”
The greatest challenge of our
time, he said, is for the Christian
educated man in this complicated
, world to do things skillfully, go
“It is the problem and a great sp^ond mile and accord jus-
and slated.
lie enjoinel students, as they go
into .small communities
challenge for the educated Christ
ian to find those who are willing
to communicate,” Hays said, “as
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February for church goer-s who merchants advertising in
want to lake advantage of the of
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tliis
Following i.s a list of some of
week’s issue of the TIMES:
Tlie TIMES will give $50 to tlie
church or church group which
turns in the largest number uf
purchase slips from any of tiie
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olina Times at the end of Feb
ruary.
The purchase slips nuist be
djied no later than February 28,
and they must come from mer
chants currently advertising in
the TIMES.
The offer will be renewed at
the beginning of March and each
following month, but no purchase
slips bearing the dale of February
'vill be counted in the March bon
us.
Tiie slips must he turned j|j to
the TIMES for a verification be-
Kroger Stores
A and P Super Markets
N. C. Mutual Life Ins. Co.
East End Grocery
Regal Theater
Mutual Savings and Loan Assn
Davis Baking Co.
Mechanics and Farmers Bank
Kenan Oil Co.
Keelar't Super Market
Liberty-Purity Stores
Alexander Meter Co.
Burthey Funeral Home
Rigsbee Tire Sales
Winn-Dixie Super Market
Sanitary Laundry
Montgomery and Aldridge
Hunt Linoleum and Tile Co.
M. H. Head and Sons Coal Co.
New Method Laundry
Hudson Well Co.
Southern Fidelity Ins. Co.
Durham Builders Supply ■
Amey Funeral Heme
lice. Justice, he explained, has
i)een the term of the lawyer, spok
en of in connection with punish
ment for crime, but justice now
stands for love and not withhold-
inj; from man the things that arc
humanly his.
The Christian concept of man is
tiiat he is (iod’s child and is not
affected l)y racial affiliation.
He acknowledged the frailities
of political leadership and the mis
conception that the majority rules.
"The majority can i)e wrong,” he
Klan Said
Less Menace
('1IAI1I.OTTE — State Attorney
Ceneral Malcolm Seawell said
here this week that the Ku Klux
Klan and other such segregalloii
ist groups were far less danger
ous than .some civil rights or
ganizations.
Speaking before the annual
brotheriiood banquet of the North
Carolina chapter of the National
Conference of Jews and Christ
ians, the state official singled
out groups such as those whicli
worked with the celel)rated Mon
roe “kissing case” as offering
more threat to the slate than the
Klan.
The NAA(;i* and the ('onimlt-
tec to Combat liacial Injustice
were the two groups which took
issue with the stale’s posilion in
the case.
Seawell explained that such or
ganizations as the Klan and
Black Shirts of Salisbury, a new
ly formed group, were of less
consequence and offered no men
ace to the peace of the state be-
rcause the state law enforcement
authorities knew about them
and their members.
to be
part of the cosmos, not to worry
about recognition, not to become
cynical, and to never lose faith
in people as their potential good
ness will be seen sometime.
The speaker wa.s introduced by
Dr. Asa T. Spaulding, president of
the North Carolina Life Insurance
Company.
N. L to Better
its Education,
Officer Asserts
(iHKENSBOKO—“North Carolina
is doing a good job in higher edu
cation and it is going to improve
.so that its high prestige will con-
tiiuie to spread,” an A&T College
audience was told Thursday night
(Feb. 17).
The speaker was L. P. Mclx'n-
don, (ireensboro attorney anti
ineinber of the State Board of
lliEhcr F.ducation. He was deliver
Ing Ihe main address at a dinner
meeting for the Tractor Mainten
ance Sch«M»l for 4-11 Club Lead
ers being conducted at the col
lege. The affair was held in
Murphy Hall on Wednesday night.
“We can be proud,” he contin
ued, "for what we have done about
education in the' State, for wr
have come a long way in a few
years from the one room public
and i)rivate school to the modern
ctlucallonal .system which we know
tmiay.”
In referring to the objectives of
(he Board, he said that it began
operations in 1057 with the pur
pose of promoting a system of
higher education to meet the needs
of the people. “This was the first
Lime the people had officially en
visioned a ‘system’ as contractcd
to a group of colleges working in
dividually in their various func
tions,” he said.
"The State has an obligation to
give North Carolina youth an op
portunity in higher education,
but," he continued, "it has no ob
ligation to those students who are
unwilling."
Victim Succumbs to Wounds In
Duke Hospital; Rites Thursday
PUQIIAY SrniNCS A reward I pi.stol and fired point blank at
nf> $500 was posted this week l>y litni Tiie weapon was not loaded.
f»wir sons for the slayer of their Tho ttuef took the pistol, tied
father. McLamb up and left.
Hill and Carrboro.
The Chapel of the Cross Episco
pal Church i.s locate^l on Ea.st
Franklin St.
Bom in Paris, Tennessee, Dr.
.hn.son received his A.B. degree
fri.m Morehouse ('ollece, AtUinta.
;eorgia in 1911 In l»13 he earned
and A B. degree fmm the Univers
ity of Chicago.
After serving as Professor of
English at Morehouse College, he
(See JOHNSON, Page •)
The four sons of O. L. ,Srult,|
mptel owner here, notified police|
authorities early this week thatj
they would pay the $!)!)() for tliol
capture of the slayer of thrir f.-itli
SCOTT'S SLAYER CONFESSES
RALEIGH — William Brake-
field, 26 year old Negro of
Shreveport, La. who was ar
rested Tuesday night in Colum
bia, South Carolina for the
shooting of a Greenwood, South
Carolina white woman, con
fessed to the slaying of O. L.
Scott at Fuquay Springs last
Thursday?
■ u/-" ....
"Kissing Case”
Boys Released
i CHARLOTTE —After less than
I four months .stay in a reformatory
' .school, two young Negro boys who
were sent there after one of them
ki.ssed a white girl were released
: and sent back home to their nv>th-
I ers.
1 ' .Slitu. Board «jf Corjccliuns Com-
' mlssioner Blaine Macfisoit - an-
er who died at Duke hospital in | n„„ncefi jast week that James Han
Durham Saturday morning from a i Thompson and David Simp-
bullet wound. * j formerly of Monroe, were re-
Seott identified his as.sallanl as: i^a.sed Friday,
a “young Negro” just before he yijus ended North Carolina’s
diP'-l- famed “kissing case” which had
seen state officials lined up oncft
more in opposition to the NAACP
and critics of American race re-
His funeral services were sched
uled for Thursday afternoon at the
St. . AuguBta—Will—Baptist
Church at 3 p.m. He was 60.
He was shot during a robbery
attempt at his motel here last
Thursday.
Tl)c victim told police that his
a.ssailant checked in to his motel
Thursday night and later came to
ask for a towel, then pulled a
pistol and demanded his money.
Scott said he started to tussle
with the bandit and was hit on the
head with the pistol and then shot.
The bullet lodged in his spine.
Investigating police said the
killer appeared to have been the
.same person who robbed Ed Mc
Lamb of near Dunn of a pistol
during a hold-up Thursday morn
ing. The bullet that killed Scott
is believed to have come from Me
l,amb’s pistol.
McLamb had reported to police
that a young Negro surpri.sed him
at his home near Linden, look his
lations from abroad.
Judge Hampton Price of Ju
venile court had the youngsters
confinel in November after they
had taken part in a children’s
game which ended when one of
the two boys kissed a young while
girl.
The NAACP entered the ca.se
shortly after the two boys were
committed and sought unsuccess
fully to obtain their release.
NAACP lawyers contended in a
Superior Court appeal that the
two boys had been committed
solely on the strength of allega
tions that they had kis,sed a white
girl.
Judge Price stated in the Su
perior Court appeal that he acted
to commit the youngsters not only
becau.se of the kissing incident
but becau.se of their previous rec
ord of delinquency.
lie admitted, however, that his
records on the two boys did not
ccmlain any acts of previous de
linquency.
The NAACP contended that the
Judge had failed to prove that the
two youngsters were chmnic de
linquenls.
Following the unsuccessful Su
perlor Court appeal, the NAACP
relocated the boys’, mothers in
Charlotte. The young.sters return
ed to their new homes in fliar-
lotle after their release last Fri
day.
In announcing their release,
Madison said the boys’ new home
environment gave indication that
they could not receive adequate
supervision.
The ease drew world-wide at-
had been caught ia the wrin^r
He said he could fiad no knifc or
scissors, so be «a«d matchec • to
burn the scarf t» tree Uw victim.
Information waa thft the lady
was washio; clothes when the
srarf wai caught in the wrini;er
position from which she could not
and piiQed her head agafaist it in
fre*" herself.
Silrs. Willis wai a dutiful mem
ber of First Baptist Church in
Fairmont, and waa a teacher at
the Rosenwald Ifigh School of the
social and dvie circles.
Funeral sendees were held on
Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 10, at 3
p m at First Baptiat Church, with
the pastor. Rev. J. J. Johnson,
conducting the ritet.
Interment followed in the faoi-
dy cemetery. Sorrirlnc arc h«
Ivisband. Daniel Johnaon Witlia;
nine sisters; four brothers; and
her parents. Mr. and Mrs. John
II. Floyd and a host ot other rela
tives.
Rites Held
For Father
OfDwhatnile
tenlion and North Carolina offic
ials, including Governor Hodges,
received messages of criticism
from several foreign countries for
committing the two boys.
New Aid
CAMBRIIX;E. Mass. — Harvard
College has received a special
gift of $50,000 to help needy stu
dents from the South in the next
two years. At the request of fthe
donor, particular altentioo and
preference will be given to Negro
and white students from Southern
high schools.
The money, provided by a donor
who asked to remain anonymous,
is intended especially for "able
students from impoverished back
grounds who might not, otherwise,
have the opportunity to attend
(Continued on Pa«e t)
Nobel Prize
Scientist To
Winning
Talk At NCC
Professor Chen Ning Yang, of
the Institute for Advanced Stu
dy at Princeton, N. J., and co-
winner of the 1957 Nobel Prize
for physics for up.setling a funda
menial principle of physics, will
.serve as a visiting Icclurcr at the
North Carolina College at Durham
on Friday and Saturday, February
20 and 21.
He will visit under the auspices
of the American Association of
Physics Teachers and the Ameri
can Institute of Physics as part of
broad, nationwide program to
stimulate interest in physics. The
program is now in its second year.
The American Institute of Phys
ics is a federation of the five
principal societies in the field of
physics research and teaching, in
cluding the American Physical So
ciety, Optical Society of America,
Acoustical Society of America, So
ciety of Rheology, and the Amer
ican Association of Physics Teach
ers.
Lectures, informal discussions,
assistance to faculty members
concerning curriculum and re
search problems in physics, an«l
talks with students will feature the
visit of Dr. Yang. Professor W. H.
Kobinson, Head of the Department
of Physics at North Carolina Col
lege, is in charge of arrangements.
Dr. Yang with Professor Tsung
Dao Lee, of Columbia University,
was awarded the Nobel Priie for
having found a basic flaw in the
physical principle known as the
"conservation of parity in matter."
The Nobel Institute, in awarding
its 1957 physics prize to Dr. Yang
and Dr. Lee, honored them for
discoveries which threw new light
on the “behaviorism of the atom."
The original findings were made
early in 1957 and recognition
through the Nobel Prize came with
unusual swiftness.
Bom in China, in 1022, Dr. Yang
studied at the Southwest Associat
ed University of China and receiv
ed his Ph.D. from the University
of Chicago in 1948. He served as
a faculty member at Chicago and
has been on the faculty of the Id-
.stitute for Advanced Study since
1949. He is a member of the
American Physical Society.
Drs. Yang and Lee were ac
quaintances. in thei^ native China
and at Chicago. They were later aa-
sociated at the National Buieaa ot
Standards in Waahingtoa and Co
lumbia University as wril as the
Institute for Advanced Study.
RICHMOND. Va.—yuBeral ser
vices were h«M here Tuesday lor
Benjamin A. Cephas. Sr.. head of
one of Virgina’s oideat real estate
firms and a leader in ina«trancc
and banking for nearly a haU cen
tury.
Servic« were held at his home
died af’^tichmood Metnorial Hos
pital Saturday at the age o( 83.
A native- of New York, Cephas
came to Richmond while a youth
and was educated ia the public
schools here. After graduation
from Riehmoad high and Normal
school in 1893. be began his bav
iness career as an insurance man
in Newport News.
Returning to Richmottd, he re
ceived a license to engage in real
estate brokerage in 1910.
He was one of the founders of
the Virginia Association o Real
Estate Brokers, a director of Con
solidated Bank and Trust Com
pany and a vice pmident of the
Southern Air Life Insurance Com
pany.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Fannie B. OfAas; five daughters:
Mrs. Thelma C. Perry of Dorham.
N. C.; Mrs. Helen ’Thomas of Pet
ersburg, Va.; Mrs. Marian C. Davis
of Richmond: Mrs. Leoia Turpin of
Richmond and Mrs. Rubye Dogan
of Norfoflk; ti|| «ona: B. A. Cep
has. Jr., and Jaiaes B. Cephas of
Petersburg; two daughters ia-law,
five sons-ia-law; 11 grandchildren,
one nephew and one grand son in
law.
NAACP Counsel
InDurliain
Jack Greraberg. attency el the
National Asaociatioa tar the Ad
vancement ot Colored P«opi«, waa
in Durham tbia week for a eon
ference with Oe attorneys in the
s^od cases that are expi^Ml to
h« heard in the Middle District
Federal Conrt loaaetinw duH^
Ihe month of March.
Participatiai in the
were cwwrt IM> the pbmUttM,
c. o. pmtm, r. k Mrttiwirt.
W. A. Harsh. X a Wk«ri«r
M. H. TbMWPiB.
Creenbarfiii, aKmdad t*
lawyem ud»tn tin mm b
trial ne4 iipilL' II !•
yet «!#«■> Miwiwll.
d^flf «««pi ai ByiLAibr.