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FOR 28 YEARS THE OUTSTANDING WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Durham, North Carolina, under Act of March 3, 1879. VOLUME 29—NUMBER 28 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, JULY 14th, 1951 PRICE 10 CENTS NAACP May Defend Yanceyville Farmer Victim Of Yancey ville Prejudice Here is a close-up photo of the face of Mack Ingram, the man a young white woman in Yanceyville accused of attempting to at tack her, brought to you for your own study by the CAROLINA TIMES representative, sent into Yanceyville last week to get a first-hand account of the events prior to and leading up to the ar rest and conviction of Ingram. Although the young woman testi fied that Ingram never got closer to her than 75 feet and did not say a word to her, he was found guilty and sentenced to the roads for two years at hard labor. Photo of Mr. and Mrs. Ingram and six of their nine children appears at the bottom of this page. Funeral Of Former Durham Pastor Held In Raleigh Sunday, July 8 Raleigh — Funeral services for the Reverend Richard Elias Wimberly, retired min ister, and former pastor of the Martin Street Baptist Church of Raleigh and the Mount Gilead Baptist Church of Durham, were held at the First Baptist Church here, Sunday afternoon, July 8 at four o’clock in the afternoon. The Reverend O. S. Bullock, pastor, officiated. Rev. Wimberly was a native of Edgecombe County where he resided for a long number of years and pastored before his pastorate in Raleigh and Durham. He also pastored several years in Roxboro. During his pastorate in Ra leigh, Durham and Roxboro, the churches grew spiritually and numerically. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth King Wimberly; one son, Dr. R. E. Wimberly, Ra leigh pharmacist; three grand children and four great grandchildren. Interment was at Mount Hope Cemetery. Rev. Richard Elias Wimberly Jealous Suitor Kills Sweetheart, And Self Ball Changes Hands Again In N. C College Ph. D. Comedy Raleigh — The N. C. College Ph. D. problem left Raleigh yes terday with all its mysterious fury and flurry and headed straight for Durham where the Trustees of N. C. College have against been asked to state frankly under what terms and how soon the College will be able to expand its graduate courses to the Ph. D. level. The question has become a vertible football—a better de scription would be a “hot potato”—with no one being willing to get their hands burn ed holding it. Twice before the hot potato has been in the tender hands of N. C. College Trustees who have in turn passed it to the hands of the University of North Carolina Trustees, of their own chairman R. M. Gantt who in turn handed it over to Kemp Battle of Rocky Mount, mem ber of the University Trustee Board. The N.' C. College Trustees first stated they would need $2 million to install Ph. D. courses. After a few phone calls, private conferences and slippery shen anigans, they suddenly discover ed it would take only $86,400 to do the job. It is though that the UNC trustee members again raised the question in the Raleigh meet ing last Tuesday as to how much and when the courses could begin operating at N. C. College. Battle stated that a majority of the N. C. College committee wanted the College to again ex amine the question of expand ing its courses to the Ph. D. level. No deadline was set, how See BALL, Page Eight Mack Ingrain Out Under $U00 Bond In & 4 "Assault Case"; Jim Crow Bible In Court BY CALVIN JOHNSON YANCEVILLE — People are used to outrages in Caswell County but Negro people here believe that the case of the Ne gro farmer who got two years for “attempted assault” on a fe male at a distance of 75 feet beats anything the white supre macists have tried yet. Kelly Alexander, president of the North Carolina Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Col ored People, informed the CAROLINA TIMES by tele phone Tuesday that the case of Mack Ingram is now under investigation and if it proves proves that Ingram has not been given a fair trial, the NAACP will very likely take up his defense. Here’s what happened as told this CAROLINA TIMES report er who talked with dozens of Caswell County farmers about this case: On Monday morning, the 4th of June, Mack Ingram, a Negro farmer, needed to borrow a trail er to haul some logs to the saw mill. A white farmer named Boswell who lives a couple of miles away owns a trailer and had seemed half-way friendly so Ingram stopped by Boswell’s farm to ask for the loan of it. Ingram parked his jalopy and walked through a patch of woods to the field where he ex pected to the find the white man. Instead, all he saw two young Boswell boys some distance off. So Ingram left, borrowed a trailer from someone else and went about his business. Early that same afternoon two deputy sheriffs came and slap ped handcuffs on Ingram and drove him off to the Boswell home. The prisoner was locked up in the hot car for an hour while the deputies conferred with various members of the Boswell family in what seemed to be a rehearsal for the court room scene two weeks later. * Ingram was taken to jail in Yancey ville, the county seat, where he was “cursed” by dep uties and told that he better con fess to trying to rape 18-year-old Willie Jean Boswell. He said he didn’t even know what they were talking about. He was held without bail at first but when he got a white attorney and former solitcitor, E. F. Upchurch to represent him he was re leased, after four days in jail, on $1000 bond put up by rela tives. There was some talk a mong white people in Yancey ville that maybe they ought to go out to his farm and lynch In gram, but nothing came of it. Jim Crow Bibles In Court The trial was held in Record er’s Court in the Caswell Coun ty Court House. In this highly dignified palace of “equal jus tice” everything is jim crowed. Two bibles are used to swear in witnesses—a new one for white and an old, beat-up one for Ne groes. In front of the courthouse is a Confederate monument—a soldier with a gun, facing north. The learned and pompous judge named Vernon never finished high school. Solicitor Horton, an American Legion big shot is noted for referring to Negroes as “niggers,” “bitches, and “darkies” in court. The trial went off like cases involving Negroes usually do. The court house gang changed the charge from attempted rape to attempted assault. Two little Boswell boys got up and recited some lines about Ingram com ing across the field and trying to “head-off” their sister. Farm er Boswell repeated what he said he was told by his children. Then came the star witness, eighteen year old Willie Jean Boswell. Ingram told this report er: “Right there in court was the first time I ever laid eyes on that woman. She might have seen me, but I never saw her. I didn’t even know Mr. Boswell had a daughter. I only moved near here last Fall.” The star witness testified that Ingram never touched her and never said a word to her but just “looked” at her. When asked how close he got to her, she said, “about seventy-five feet.” Solicitor Horton called In gram a “damn black grizzly” and repeatedly refev ed to him sneeringly as a “nij r.” Due to a throat a. ment the defense attorney whi could not speak above a whisper, never let his client take the stand and rpade no serious efforts to cross examine witnesses. He did, how ever, successfully collect $55 cash from his client. When the “trial” was over, Judge Vernon said Ingram was guilty and after he got some signals from a corner of the court room where local big-wigs were seated he sentenced him to two years on the roads. See INGRAM, Page Eight Prep For Suit Against N. C. University Pictured above are the lawyers and the plaintiff in the newest suit to be brought against the University of North Carolina, seeking admission of Negroes to the UNC graduate school. From left to right Attorney M. E. Johnson, Miss Gwendolyn L. Harrison, whose application was Robinson Loses In London Fight London—Ray Robinson, mid dleweight champion and dyna mic fighter from the United States, had his crown lifted from his head here Tuesday night by Randy Turpin, 23-year-old Brit ish Negro fighter, in one of the greatest upsets in pugilistic his tory. The amazing thing about Tur pin’s victory is that he had never fought over eight rounds before he met Robinson. Although the American fight er has met many opponents in his several barnstorming trips over Europe, it was the second time in his long career that he has ever been defeated and the first defense of his middleweight crown since he defeated Jake Lamotta for it in Chicago last February to average a previous defeat at the hands of LaMotta in February 1943. Several followers of modern fight history said it was the greatest upset since Gene Tun ney defeated Jack Dempsey in 1926 in Philadelpha. Turpin’s victory over Robin son was no accident. He was confident from the beginning and waded into the champion from the sound of the first bell. Robinson has a guaranteed return bout with Turpin in New York in September. In an effort to overcome the early lead of Turpin, Robinson came back in the 10th, 11th and early part of the 12th with a accepted and then turned down by UNC official when it was discovered she was a Negro, and Attorney C. O. Pearson. Eurious body and head attack, out Turpin took all he could send. Nursery School To Present Rhythm Band Concert The Rhythm Band of the Scar borough Nursery will present a concert in the auditorium of the W. G. Pearson School at 7:30 Friday night. The band is composed of chil dren attending the nursery school. Their ages range from three to six. They are under the direction of Mrs. Virginia W. Alston. The school’s Parents Club is sponsoring Friday night’s con cert. There is no admission and the general public is invited. The concert is the final num ber in a fun raising con test. Gerald Garner and Patricia Lyons will be crowned Prince and Princess as first prize win ners in the contest. Eight boys and eight girls who raised the See NURSERY, Page Eight Part Of The Ingram Family Pictured here is a part of the Ingram family, the father of whom may have to serve two years on the road at hard labor as the result of an accusation brought by a young white woman, that he attempted to assault her. Ingram denies the accusation and says he never saw the young woman before she was pointed out to him in court. Left to right: Willie Houston, 12; Mr. Ingram, Ossie, 8; Larry Junius, 11 months; Mattie Belle, 10; James Earle, 4; and Barbara Jean, 6. Other children not in the picture are Bernice, 20; Haywood, 17 and Dorothy Mae, 14. TWO OTHERS SHOT BY BLAST FROM KILLERS GUN Dr. I. Foag Speaker At Lost Colony BY AYCOCK BROWN Manteo — Dr. Thomas E. Poag, director of the Division of Humanity, Tennessee State Col lege, Nashville, will made a brief preformance talk from the stage of THE LOST COLONY here in Maneto on Friday night, July 20, it was announced by William Hardy, general man ager of the Paul Green drama. Others having roles in the special program that will pre cede the performance on July 20 will be Professor S. D. Williams, president of Elizabeth City State Teachers’ College, and members of his Negro Citizens’ Day com mittee which includes Dr. J. W. Seabrooks, president, State Teachers’ College, Fayetteville. Dr. J. L. Atkins, president, Teachers’ College, Winston-Sa lem, Dr. Nelson Harris, Shaw University, Raleigh; J. R. Lar kins, State Department of Pub lic Welfare, Raleigh. E. M. Barnes, Darden High School, Wilson; Mrs. Ada M. Jarnagin, Raleigh; Dr. A. E. Manley, North Carolina College, Durham; Dean T. E. McKinney, Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, Dean W. T. Gibbs, A. and T. College, Greensboro, Mrs. Agatha M. Gray, Manteo. Dr. Poag, the speaker for the | program this year is a member ! of a number of regional and na tional theatre organizations. He is director of drama at Tenn essee State College in Nashville, and a member of the advisory council of the American Edu cational Theatre. Last Spring he was elected president of the Southeastern Theatre Conference at Abbing ton„ composed of both white and Negro dramatic groups through out southeastern U. S. A. Wil liam Hardy, general manager of Lost Colony is vice-president of the Conference. 300 NCC Alumni In July Fourth Celebration Plummer Acres, N. C. — Ap proximately three hundred members of the Durham chapter of the North Carolina College Alumni Association, friends and summer school faculty attended one of the most successful of the association’s traditional Fourth of July picnics. The gaily bedecked picnicers left the new college gym in three different motorcades, totaling a bout eighty cars. Among the holiday revelers were many families which included in some instances three generations who seemed to take this opportunity for family reunions. The natural beauty of Plum mer Acres coupled with every modern facility and its huge lake for swimming and fishing provided just the right setting for one of the gayest affairs the Durham Alumni Chapter has had. The spontaniety of merry making began about noon with various groups spreading lunch es, fishing, swimming and danc ing. Even a cloud burst, which lasted about thirty minutes, completely soaking the grounds, failed to dampen the high spir its of the assemblage. The fact that many stayed un til dust was proof of a good time had by all. Many, on leaving, suggested that “we should do this more often.” A. M. Rivera, | Jr., chapter president, stated that chapter members will be hosts to many affairs during the coming year but that the memories of this outing will have to suffice as far as picnics go until next Fourth of July. Warrenton — In a rage of jealously, 22-year-old Edward Jones, shot and killed his sweet heart, Ellen Roseta Foote, 24, on Wednesday night about 10:30 o’clock at the Macon Commun ity Center and seriously wound ed two others, Estelle Summer ville, 32, “Jackie” Alston. On Thursday morning, Ed ward Jones’ body was found in front of the door of Mount Zion Baptist Church. He had com mitted suicide, by placing the double barrel, hammer, shotgun to his right temple and pulling the trigger with his toe. Six shotgun shells were found beside the body, along with a shirt, jacket, a billfold and two small pictures of Ellen Foote, which he had apparently taken out of the billfold. There was also some small change and a pocketknife neatly piled beside his shoes. It was reported that Jones told Miss Foote Wednesday afternoon that he didn’t want her going out with a soldier, and that he would kill her if she did. She was shot as she stepped out of a car at the Community Center with an armload of groceries and died instantly. According to Horace Jones, Edward Jones’ father, the couple was supposed to be engaged. Miss Summerville, who was a passenger in the car, received a wound in the chest as she, too, stepped from the car. She craw led to the door of the club and was pulled inside. Witnesses said that Jones then came to the club and was pulled inside. Wit nesses said that Jones then came to the door of the club and shot inside on approximately 50 peo ple, who at first thought the house was from fireworks. They said they thought Jones fired as many as ten times. Horace Jones told investiga tors that his son was very calm when he came home after the shooting, and asked him “How many did I kill?” The father al so said that he was afraid to re main in his home over night where two other sons reside. He was still well armed with shells which he is alleged to have pur chased Wednesday from the Haithcock general store in Macon. Approximately 25 volunteers and officers ended their 12 hour search of a two mile area south of Macon early Thursday morn ing. The country church, in front of which Jones took his life, is located one mile south of the Community Center where he took the life of his sweetheart. Grandmother Drowns Baby In Pond Louisburg — A 55-year-old grandmother, who was known to have “spells,” is being held in jail here for the investiga tion into the drowning of her six-months-old granddaugh ter. Mrs. Geneva Todd is the mother of Mrs. Vera King, who with her husband Louis and their two children, had come for a visit, around 11:30 Saturday night. They left the baby with Mrs. Todd and made a trip to carry a friend home. When they returned, Mrs. Todd told the couple that she had thrown the baby in the pond. Mr. and Mrs. King searched the pond fruitlessly all Saturday night and finally discovered the body of their daughter at dawn. Mrs. Todd later denied that she had thrown the infant in the pond, but could offer no other explanation of the tra gedy. According to Coroner Wil liam O’Neal, Mrs. Todd may be charged with drowning the the baby.
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