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FOR 29 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 44
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, NOV. 10th, 1951
PRICE TEN CENTS
Four Doomed Men Down To Last Chance
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Segregation In "*arn
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City’s Idea Of Abiding
By Court Order Rejected
J. S. Stewart is shown receiving a Community
Chest “Oscar” from Floyd Fletcher, general
chairman of the Durham Chest drive which was
recently concluded here. Stewart, secretary
treasurer of the Mutual Building and Loan As
sociation, headed a section in Business Division
E in which 15 out of the 18 firms won Oscars.
This performance by Stewart’s group set a new
standard for the highest rating ever recorded in
the history of the Chest drive. Looking on, cen
ter, is B. W. Kennedy, overall chairman of Div
ision E which turned in a better than 100 per
cent report in the drive.
Wealthy White Farmer Held
In Murder Of Negro Tenant
NEW BERN — A well-to-do
owner of a riverfront farm and
son of a white wealthy North
Carolina family was being held
here this week in connection
with the murder of one of his
tenants.
Newton Hanes, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Will Hanes of Winston-Sa
lem, was held without bond in
Craven county jail on charge of
murdering Ishmel Simmons, 40
year-old tenant farmer.
Hanes, 36-year-old gentleman
farmer, has denied shooting
Simmons, according to deputies,
who say no motive has been
established.
The body of the victim was
found in an abandoned car on a
dirt road about three miles from
a hunting lodge. It was face
down on the right front seat
with the feet tucked up under
the dash board.
Coroner Frank Ballard said
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Indiana Senator
To Speak Here
The Honorable Robert Lee
Brokenburr, Indiana State Sen
ator, will be the principal speak
er at the Annual Armistice Day
dinner of the Weaver-McLean
Post Number 175 of the Ameri
can Legion, which will be held
in the dining hall of the North
Carolina College on Monday
evening, November 12 at 8:00
o’clock.
Senator Brokenburr is a prom
inent attorney and legislator of
Indianapolis, Indiana, where he
has lived and practiced for
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CHARLIE JACKSON
W. G. RHODES
"BIGGEST TRADE WEEK YET'
SET TO BEGIN HERE SUNDAY
The “biggest Trade Week yet”
will be launched here Monday.
It will continue through Mon
day, November 19.
Trade Week is co-sponsored
annually during the Fall by the
Durham Business and Profes
sional Chain and the House
wives’ League.
Meetings of the State Business
League, set for Tuesday, will be
incorporated into the Chain’s
Trade Week.
Features of this year’s Trade
Week program, whose theme is
“Building A Better Community
Through Better Business” are
the annual talent night program,
the annual banquet, a street
parade, and the giving away of
a television set at the talent
night show.
G. D. White, Jr., general chair
man of the Trade Week pro
gram, stated that thousands of
Durham’s hard pressed shoppers
are expected to take advantage
of the special markings on items
in all Durham and Professional
Chain member stores during
the week.
A sparkling line-up of local
talent for the talent night show
at the W. D. Hill Recreation
Center Thursday night has been
announced by Mrs. J. DeShazor
Jackson and W. G. Rhodes,
co-chairmen of the program.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Carolyn
Blue and other plaintiffs in
the city school discrimination
case heard here during July,
1950, were successful in ob
taining a Federal Court in
junction restraining the city
Education Board from further
discrimination against Ne
groes in providing school
facilities for both races. In
compliance with Judge Hayes’
order of no more discrimina
tion, the city board has plan
ned to erect a new elementary
school for Negroes in the
southwest section of the city.
The apparent plan of the City
Board of Education to comply
with a Federal injunction re
straining the city from further
discrimination in providing
school facilities for the two
races has been rejected as in
adequate.
The plan to comply with
Judge Johnson J. Hayes’ order
amounts so far to the erection
of a new Negro elementary
school in the Pine, Bern and
Lawson Streets section, known
to residents of the community
as “Wolf Den.” It is situated in
the southwest area of the city.
Attorneys who successfully
represented plaintiffs in the
Durham city schools discrimina
tion case have submitted a four
page letter to the Board of Edu
cation in which they list objec
tions to the site proposed for
the planned new elementary
school and suggest that two new
elementary schools are necessary
to comply with the Federal
Court mandate.
The latter, dated October 31
and signed by M. Hugh Thomp
son, J. H. Wheeler, Spotswood
Robinson, III, Oliver W. Hill and
Martin A. Martin, attorneys for
Carolyn Blue et als, states “the
present site is . . . unsuitable for
the purposes for which the
board intends to use it.”
In suggesting that the two
elementary schools are neces
sary to comply with the Federal
court order, the letter states “It
is our feeling that Judge Hayes’
injunction is aimed very point
edly at the over crowded condi
tion in this (W. G. Pearson)
school, and, to date, we have
been unable to learn of any plan
evolved by the Board of Educa
tion which may relieve this
condition. We take this occas
sion, to respectfully request your
immediate consideration of the
possibility of providing another
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Above is the tobacco barn on Marvin McMichael’s farm in
Rockingham County in which the slaying of his Negro tenant
farmer, Thomas Morehead, is said to have occured; and More
head’s family. The victim’s family is shown with Attorney M.
Hugh Thompson (seated), who helped in the unsuccessful pro
secution of the case. Members of the family are his wife, 20-year
old Mrs. Mary Morehead, and her four children, Mary Alice, two;
James Edward, three, Willie Thomas, five; and Percy Lee (in Mrs.
Morehead’s arms) 16 months.
MRS. J. DeSHAZOR JACKSON
State Business
Meet Set Here
Two Durhamites will be cited
when the State Business League
convenes here Tuesday for a one
day session at the Algonquin
Club.
Guest speakers for the meet
ing will be Jesse O. Thomas of
the Office of the Price Stabiliza
tion Board, A. H. Bryant of
Rocky Mount and J. B. Taft of
Goldsboro.
Delegates from all over the
state are expected to attend the
meeting.
Mrs. J. DeShazor Jackson and
J. J. Henderson will receive spe
cial citations at the meeting.
Mrs. Jackson, director of De
Shazor’s Beauty College here, is
well-known in business circles
throughout the State and the
East for her organizing activities.
An officer of the National Busi
ness League, she was instru
mental in establishment of the
local Chain and Housewives’
League, of which she is presi
dent-emerita.
Henderson, assistant comp
troller of the North Carolina Mu
tual Life Insurance Company,
has also been a leading figure in
the State Business League’s or
ganization. He is past president
of the State body and is chair
man of local Business and Pro
fessional Chain’s Board of Di
rectors.
Delegates to the one day
meeting will be entertained by
the home office staff of the
North Carolina Mutual.
WOMAN GETS TWO YEARS FOR
THROWING LYE IN MAN'S FACE
WILMINGTON — A 19-year
old woman was given two years
in prison for throwing lye in the
face of an estranged suitor here
Monday by a Superior Court
Judge.
Rosa Lee Galloway, who was
employed as a cook, was found
guilty of assault with a deadly
weapon by Judge John J. Bur
ney who handed her a two year
sentence for sprinkling the face
of James Hall with lye.
Miss Galloway also testified
that she had once burned her
irritator, Hall, on the arm with
an iron to cool his passions. She
said that she was scrubbing the
floor at a Harnett street address
when Hall threatened her with
“I’ve killed one person,” Hall
boasted—according to the testi
a knife.
mony — “and one more won’t
matter.”
The victim of the lye tossing
escapade, wearing a patch over
over his right eye, denied that
he threatened her.
Two Negro Cops
MORGANTON—This town’s
first Negro policemen began
work here last Thursday
morning.
Forrest G. Fleming of this
city and Jonathan Houston
of Charlotte were added to
the town’s force.
A group of Negro citizens had
for several months advocated
hiring of Negro policemen.
Jury Takes Only Half Hour;
Victim Leaves Four Kids
WENTWORTH — A Rocking
ham County Superior Court
jury, composed of 12 white men,
tried and true, brought in a ver
dict of “not guilty” within 30
minutes after it had left the
court room here Tuesday in the
trial of a white farmer for the
bludgeon slaying of his Negro
tenant.
The verdict, which freed Mar
vin McMichael, 54, slayer of
Thomas Morehead, 24-year-old
father of four small children,
came only a few hours after the
announcement in New Bern that
a prominent white farmer, New
ton H. Hanes of Winston-Salem,
had been jailed in that city for
the alleged slaying of Ishmel
Simmons, another tenant farmer
who worked on his farm.
In the Rockingham County
slaying, which was one of the
most ridiculous incidents of seg
regation ever heard of, the
young Negro farmer is alleged
to have had his skull bashed in
from the rear by his landlord
when he refused to submit to be
ing segregated in a barn where
he was working on tobacco.
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NCC SCORES
The TIMES will give scores
in the game at Institute, West
Virginia this Saturday be
tween North Carolina College
and West Virginia at the end
of each quarter. Call 5-0671.
For a complete report of
the game as well as other top
games in this section, see
next week’s sports page. To
keep informed of the latest
developments in local, state,
national and international
happenings, always read the
TIMES. Out every Thursday.
SOME GUYS NEVER LEARN
ATLANTA — You’d think a
guy would learn, but human
nature seems oblivious to past
experience.
At any rate James E. Smith,
26-year-old laborer, defied the
ordinarily impressive fact that
homemade liquor had wiped
out nearly 40 people here just
last week, and proceeded to
make up a batch of liquor
himself out of two kinds of
rubbing alcohol, water and
sugar.
He decided to take a few
drinks of this concoction first
before adding a half pint of
legal whiskey to the brew.
Smith never got around to
adding anything else to the
mixture. His funeral was
scheduled for Wednesday.
Two others who helped him
mix the deadly potion were
admitted in serious condition
to Grady hospital.
Two Die In Auto Wrecks
DR. R. P. RANDOLPH, prom
inent local physician, is one of
the members of a committee
working under Dr W. R. Stan
ford which will direct the Dia
betes detection campaign here
during the coming week. See
story, page five.
Two persons were killed in
auto accidents during the past
week.
Daniel Dupree, 58-year-old
Clayton resident, was killed
when an automobile driven by
William Edgar Pratt, 39-year
old Durham man, swerved off
highway 70 on a curve at
Hialeah, one mile east of
Auburn.
Clifford Marsh, Andrew, S. C.
native, was killed when an auto
mobile in which he was riding
collided with an Atlantic Coast
Line train on the outskirts of
Kingstree, S. C.
Two others in the auto with
Marsh, Willie James Pringle and
Clifton Harmon, escaped injury.
Freeman Harrison was not so
lucky. He wound up in the
hospital with a serious injury.
Pratt, driver of the vehicle
in which Dupree was killed, was
charged with manslaughter and
driving while drunk. George
Quacco, Jr., 27 years-old, also of
Durham, was charged with pub
lic drunkeness and was held as
a material witness.
Four In State Death House
Lose Appeal In U. S. Court
Raleigh — Four men in North
Carolina’s death house had their
chances of escaping the Gas
Chamber narrowed to one single,
flimsy hope here this week.
Bennie and Lloyd Ray Dan
iels, Raleigh Speller and Clyde
Brown were denied petitions of
review for a writ of habeas cor
pus from a Federal District
Court at Baltimore Saturday.
Their sole hope to escape now
rests with the possibility of
their attorneys obtaining a re
view of the case before the U.
S. Supreme Court.
In a brief telegram to Attorney
General Harry McMullan, Fed
eral Clerk Clyde M. Dean stated
that the three member appeals
court had affirmed Judge Don
Gilliam’s ruling in the case.
Judge Gilliam originally denied
attorneys for the four doomed
men a writ of habeas corpus.
The Daniels cousins of Green
ville were convicted in Pitt coun
ty court of murdering a white
taxicab driver in June, 1949.
Speller, Bertie County resident,
was convicted three times for
rape of a white woman. Two of
his convictions were set aside
by the State Supreme Court.
Brown was convicted in
Forsyth county court last year
of raping a 17-year-old Winston
Salem school girl.
DEADLY EMBRACE
KINSTON—Bodies of a man
and a woman were found
locked in one last embrace in
a car behind a church several
miles from this “garden spot
of the state” last Sunday.
Dead are Miss Helen Louise
White of the Georgetown sec
tion and Herman Aldrige of
Holly Ridge section of Lenoir
county.
Coroner Raymond Jarmon
said that carbon monoxide
poisoning caused the death of
the two lovers. The motor of
the car had apparently been
left on, for it was out of gear
when found, while the win
dows were rolled up.
The fumes finally overcame
the victims.
The bodies were found near
Patterson’s Chapel church on
Highway 12-, leading from
Kinston to Trenton. Aldridge
was married.