' Klri-t
Ilia, Ky.
TAR HEEL MAN APPEALS TO MD. GOVERNOR
ANNAPoLiS, Walktr, of Baltiiuoie
wild is sdiUfMCi-d ti liu liaiijrod fur assault with itili-iit lu
ru/mnit rapt-, appL-aled to ttu\t.i'iiur O'C'diiur Tiit.‘Sla\’ tu
spall- Ills life.
All utliiT appeals of tlie yuiitli In
' been rejeete.l and
Walker would have to die on a date set bv the (Jovernor.
but the K‘>\enor took the eunrnutatioii re(|UOst unier ad-
\isenient followintf a bi*ief hearing Tuesday morning.
E)r. 1. (i. X. Cushing. Baltimore psychiatrist, told
O’t'oiior that Walker, who i.s a native of North Cni'olina.
was an “intellectual moron." and L. C. Koger. attorney for
the youth, contend d that dea.h was too sene a punish
ment for an act which Walker did not have the mentality
to fully understand.
Kinston Honors Its
Negro Veterans
KINSTON Approximately I,-1 ih.-ii iii
r.CO p‘^r-un' aiiemlt-d tin- liun.ei'oin- ; Irmii (lit- i-
ine Jay crlebratiuii oi Uit Harn- i.i>-
. n ('r..,>rii ut me ..\iiuTii’aii Ur: wa- •
ukillt;
The Carolinian
iiai (Iit-
rarr Jiily 4
.nppri.ximau'l>
wa- ? v.J I'limijial .-pt-.iki-i
uorntuusu i,r On- .niabi u »Vjs liu- K. v iJso.t:
n.-l.l. 1 h,! invi l.ii-ul. l
veleuns U .S .Arn.y Cl.aplaii. t’iji-p:i.
VOLl'.MK .K.Wl. SO. 1
UAl.EKIll, Nor.Tll CAROLINA WEKK ENDlNti SATLIUDAY, .Il LY l:i. UI16
PROF. JAILED
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COLLEGE FUND DRIVE CLIMBING
Success fully Passes
Marginal Goal Marker
SHAW PROF.
DRAGGED FROM
BUS; ARJSTED
Ourhaii. N. C — Ur K
Y lun^. Iiead ol lli«; Ci-partnietii of.
biulu^y of Shaw Univeisily, Ha-
N C., was arrt'>ifd at Nash
ville, N C, laM Friday, ihaig.-d
>. nr. iiisorderly coiiituci and resi.s!-
i.-.j aritst .Shr i« rrp,.rttd i.i hav-•
bee,-, ur.igyiu tr.nn a bus oi. which
si'e was riding, ihruwn ui a puliii-,
.•«r ana rushed to ihc city jail,
she was uiterward laken fr>.m ll'«-
^ity jail and leinandtd to the coun-
;>• jail where sIk- w.a.s cuiifiiwd Ui ,
a cell
Ur Y jung was cn nnili- to Hocky
hiuuni from Durham, where she
w&s scheduled to meet with the to-1
fcavco workers of Rocky Mount, At
Nashville, the reports, a white
)''Uth boarded the bus anu the drlv-1
er asked Dr. Young to release lu|
iContinued on back page)
SLAYS 4 WHITES
Aun Dimno
Charle?. \V. Greene, presideot of
the National .Negro Insurance As-
sui'latlon which meets In annual
.session in New York City July
9-1. celebrating their Silver An
niversary. Mr. Greene U agency
officer of the .Atlanta Life Inaiu-
CIVIL RIGHTS
GROUP SEEKS
PRISONER
CAUGHT AFTER
II YEAR CHASE
Officials of the N.ational Sun
day School and Haptist Trainnlg
Union Congress, shown as they
chatter! at the Chicago Coliseum
la.sl week at the unni'd meet.
l.eft to right: Rev. S. O. S.
Cleveland, (ta,. president Georgia
S. S. convention; Rev. J. F. Har
dee. T.'Xas, (lean slate S. S. R. T.
C, Congress; I)r. W, H. Jemagin.
Washingti n. I). C., president of
Fight Waged Over
Tom Brown’s Body
WILMINGTON, .N. C.-Thomas, with thi- body. A largo crow
mount frum Durham, where she
v>b‘. rcheduled to meet with the to*
b;.cco Workers of Rocky Mount. At
Nashville, the reports, a white
youth boarded the bus anu the driv
er asked Or. Young to release tu
'Continued on back page)
SLArS 4 WHITES
AND BURNS
FARMSTEAD
Laurinburg — beiijaiimt Frank
.vii-1. lid lOnft.SNcd tiiat he shot and
killed four persons and set lit'
(0 .heir farm tiume in the norUioi:.
ssciioit oi Scotland County to di-
-troy ividc-nce ol the niurdeis, Sher
iff W D. Rryi.ulds reported ht-ie
Wedi.esjay.
Victim.^ of one >.f me most bru
tal rases ever reported in this sec
tion were Henry l.owery: Fannie
Lowery, his wife; their son, Wil
liam Kenneth, 18-month-old; and
George Edward Koonce, 17-yea'-
old farm hand, whose charred bod
ies were found in the ruins of their
i.ivf-rpdn. firm howre 12 miles
north of here on the night of July
I
Reynolds said McLoud denied
slaying the lour persons when he
was arrested July -i, but later add
ed that there had been trouble bi-
t-ween he and Lowery and that tSie
day before the murder, McLoud
had heard that Lowery had threat
ened to shoot him. He said the
defendant confessed the murder in
jail, because he didn't want anyone
else 13 hear what he had so say
—“ . . . nobody but me and you
and me Lord.”
According to the coiifessio.i.
Reynolds said McLoud went to tl.e
Lowery home about dark July I.
and told Koonce who was stand
ing in the doorway that there wis
•‘a bear out there” which caused
Koonce to get a shotgun to kill
the animal. Aft.-r the y uth had
returned with the shotgun, accord
ing to Reynolds, ho *nld McLh ud
to wait a minute while he went into
the rnoin of Mrs. Lowery to get
a shell and that McLoud shu*
Koonce as he started into the rocm
He said McLoud sh.")! Mrs. Low
ery who was lying on the bed be-
(Continued on back page)
GOVERNOR .\PP01NTS XALEIGH-Tunn,.. H. Can„„„.
th( Community Grocery Store,
was found guilty of usuuHing Mrs.
HiL-ecca Barnes, 2R of 215 Norl'i
^Haywinid St., with a beer buttle
:i.i his .stole on Saturday ni|*ht
'jun.- 22 He wa.s sentenc«-d to six
inionth.s oii the roads, suspend-d
ji pon payment of cost and ordered
to pay .Mrs. Baines' expen.se while
jin the ho.spital and her doctu:*
bill. Mr Cannon »:ave notice of
luopeul and Judge Paul F. Smi*. i
j.e* his bond at SHOO.
I Mrs. Barnes in Hospital
I Mrs. Bames. it was revealed
'at the trial, stayed in the ho.-
pital ten days and was treated
Officials wf the National Sun
day School and Baptist Trainnlg
Union Congress, shown as they
chattef.l at the Chicago Coliseum
last week at the annual meet.
Left to right: Rev. S. O. S.
Cleveland. Ga., president Georgia
S. S. coiiveiilion; Rev. J. F. Har
dee, Texas, dean state S. t». B. T.
U. Congrcs.s; Dr. W. H. Jemagin.
Washington. IJ. C., president of
National S. S. and B T. U., con
gress. presiding at the 41st annual
ses.Hion; Kev. J. W. Collins, Illin
ois; Rev. S. Y. Nixon. Texas, presi
dent Texas State S. S. congress;
Prof. E. W. D. Isaac. Nashville,
director general of congress, and
Rev. J. W. Gayden, Mississippi,
chairman of National KYPIJ
board. (ANTi
HASTIE ACTS TO
HOLD PRICE
CEILINGS IN V. I.
ST. THOMAS. V. I ANIN -G. v
Williom Henry Hastie .-icted hastily
last week to hold the price ceilings
u nfoud and basic i.-ommoditie.s for
poverty-stricken Virgin IslaiKlcis by
'•rdering the price cuiitrol cummis
siun (il the municipality of St.
Thoma.v and St. J. hn to step into
the breach left by the failure of
fedeial legislation to extend th?
fedi lal price control act.
■’1 ficl sure that the people of
the Virgin I.slands will give the
same cooperation to 'he price con
trol commission of St Th.mas and
St. John and the food commis-^ioi
of St. Croix that they have so
.splendidly given during the past
four year.s to the Office of Hric
administiation in our common
struggle to ci>mbat the forces of ii'-
ftalion,” the Governor said
iCuiiiitiotKl on back page)
Fight Waged Over
Tom Brown’s Body
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WILMINGTON. N. C.—Thoma.s
Brown, chairman of the Trusto*-
Board of St. Luke'h A M. E. Zion
church. wiKs buried Sunday after
noon. 2 o'clock from St. Lukv.
1.U It wa.s not until three under-
tnker.s were involved in some w iv
.Miss Mattie Hynum Is u graduate
uf Meliarry Medical Department
ut .Nursing. .Medical College ul
Virginia Department uf Public
Health .Nursing and attended
WlnsK n-Salem Teachers College.
.Miss Hynum a.ssumes Her new
Julies with many years nf Insll-
tutluiial and Public Health Nurs
ing experelnee.
with the body, A large crowd
attended the funeral and heard
orations by the Heva. 1-1, 13. Shaw,
A. J. Kirk, and S. J. Howie, all
OI whom spoke very highly of
the deceased.
When .Mr. Brown died, his nep
hf-w, Amos Brown, turned th'-
tody over to Sadgwar Funeral
Heme. ,Mr. Sadgwar had gone
aiiiad with urrangements for the
iuncral, including the preparation
of the body, when a sister of Mi
Brown came forward and said
that Mr. Brown was u member of
the Shaw Burial Association.
In an interview with the Jour
nal, Mr. Sadgwar said that he
gladly turned the body over to
the undertaker of the choice of
the sister, because “it is not the
policy of our firm to run after
iicJies Amos Brown, a nephew,
called UP but when another rel-
iij'.w; -uij i.iut sue want-
e:i the body released wo gladly
gave it up."
W. L Shaw, president of th«:
Shaw Funeral Ilome, said that
they got the body only after the
sister requested them to do so.
Mr. Shaw said had he gotten the
body first and had the family de
cided they wanted Mr. Sadgwar,
he would have turned it over
immediately. "The family must he
satLsfied," Mr. Shaw said.
The climax came when B'-n
McGhee, who is associated with
the Allen Funeral Home, located
Mis.« Bessie Smith, who said that
sill was the daughter of Mr.
(Continued >.n buck page)
J.OUISBURG Guiney Hin-
! iiant, alius Esau Ciiillon. who o-
j ciipcd from Stale Prison 17 year'-
ago while serving u il to 30 year
I senteote fur murder, wa^ arrested
I by I.ouisburg officers in Hender-
; sor, Sunday
i During his 17 years of freedom.
, he had been arrested three or fou»'
j times, having .served a road sen-
I teiu-e of Frankhii County on an as
sault charge, and although he spen'
‘ two weeJ-.>' in State Prison at Ra
leigh for dental Ireamieiit, he .*»•
c:ipt?d detection
I By Um' af photographs ttfficer-
M recognized Humant who has been
capea irom biaie prison I7 year'-'
ago while serving a il to 30 year
sentence fur murder, was arrested
by Luulsburg officers in Hender-
sor Sunday.
During his 17 years of freedom,
he had been arrested three or four
times, having served a mad sen
tence of Franklin County on an as-
saiili charge, and although he spen'
two weeks In State Prison at Ra
leigh for dental treatment, he
caped detection
By use of photographs officer-
recognized Hinnant who has been
confined in u Louisburg Jail re-
• cntly and who had moved to Hen
derson and was employed at n bag
ging factory
The prisoner who is also under
iKipd in a charge of bigamy In
Vance County, escaped from a pri
son ward in the State Sanatorium
on November 19, i929. after he had
served two years of his sentence
in connection with the murder d
his brother-in-law.
VETSW^E
CHIGAGyflTELS
CHICAGO (ANP) — Legal pro-
ceedings will be launched against
iwo Chicago hotels, the Continental
and the Stevens, for violation of the
Illinois State Civil Rights law, by
the United Negro and Allied vet
erans of America, it was announced
ut the headquarters of the orgnn-
izatiiiii here
The law suits will be based on
the lofiisul of the managements of
the hotels named to allow the or
ganization ballroom space for its
testimonial dinner to Joe Louis to
be given on July 23. Representa
tives of UNAVA applied for book
ings ul both hotels and received
rcfunuls after learning that the din
ner was being arranged by a pro-
dominattl.v - Negro ..rgunizalion,
'Membership of the United Negm
and Allied veterans is 80 ner cent
New York — C:ontribution>
and commitment.s have biough'
the third annual nation-wide ap
peal of the United Negro College
Fund beyond the $850,01)0 mark.
Frank M. Totlon, national chair-
ii.ait and vice pre.sid«.nt of th.'
Cliase National Bank, announced
Thursday. This is the first pro
gress report made by the Fun-l
derlng the campaign which seeks
to raise $1,300,000 to meet cur
rent operation costs of 33 Negio
piivaU* colleges and universities.
The "intensive phase” of the
; drive ends July 4, although a
■number of campaign cities whicii
Idid not start until laic will con
MINISTER HELD
ON VA6RANGY
nUARRFINnfl
The “intensive phase” of the
drive ends July 4, although a
number of campaign cities which
did not start until late will con
MINISTER HELD
ON VA6RANGY
GHARGEINGA.
(CoiUiiiued
back page)
' A7T-ANTA 'ANP) Rev. Hollis
' Elliiiglon, of South AtUiiita, was ar-
j re.'sti'd by Fulton County deputy
: Sheriffs last week in ;he lobby uf
I the courthouse and charged with
' vagrancy.
Ellington .-wiia he was gning to
the -Tdinary's office on business
when the police officers approached
him and said they were going to
lock him up for hanging around tl'.e
courthouse, telling Negroes t" reg-
i.ster and vote. One of the officers
'Continued on back page)
PROBE KLAN
AGTION IN GA.
.MACON. Ga. lANPi — Macuo
and federal officers were investi
gating an apparent attempt tu ter-
n rized Negro residents of Bellevue
lust week, after Z. C. Clay, labO'
organizer and a member of the lo
cal Progressive Colored Democratic
club, reported that a lirey cross hod
been burned on his property, about
a quarter of u mile from his house.
Sheriff Peacock said he was "rea
sonably certain" that there were no
organized Ku KIux Klan activities
here and .stated that the affair might
have been just a prank. Howeve*.
the cross stood lO feet high and
(Continued on back page)
linue for a few more wi:ek.s, Mr.
Totton announced. Alsu, a ft-.v
cities which for various reasons
could not .solicit t'arlicr will start
in the fall. With .such cummun
iti€%-‘ still to lx .‘'card from and
the New York City cainpaign
now in active progress, there is
evtrv likelihood of exceeding last
year's result of nearly $l.im).l)0U.
Hu- chairman said.
The Fund, a voluntary assoc,
fction of accredited colleges, an
nually conducts a financial cam
paign, Its appeal this year ha-s
'been dincted to founiJations and
business corporations in 54 cities
■and increasingly to indivdual
I givers in an effort to broaden the ,
■ base of support Especially is this
U'ller true with regard to Ni-
gioes who eonlribuU^ over $160.-
000 to tile 1945 campaign, and
have been asked with oven greai-
er success this year to help sup
port the colleges.
“The prompt and generous rc-
tU.. ,.r nnti^nnt
inually conducts a financial cam-
ipaign. Its appeal this year has
'been directed to foundations an:l
! business corporations In 54 cities
and increasingly to indivdual
I givers in an effort to broaden th.*
'base of support Especially is this
latler true with regard to Ne-
gioes who contributed over $160.-
000 to the 1945 campaign, and
have been asked with even greai-
o;' success this year to help sup-
'pcii the colleges.
"The prompt and generous re
sponse on the part of national
and local busine.ss corporations,'
, Mr. Totlon said, “is especially
encouraging and shows that more
than ever before, this important
,hi‘ld has come to realize the rJf-
llation between adequate educii-
lion for Negroes and better rat -
• leiatinns and the fact that only .i:i
■educated citizenry ran make its
best contribution to industrial
growth and .social progress.'
New York (ANP) — The Civil
Rights congress W'edncsday night
renewed its charge that the elec
tion of Sc:n. Bilbo was permeated
by fraud, and issued u demand
tliruugh its counsel. Emanuel
Bloch, that the department of
ju.stico and the senate privileges
and elections committee immedi
ately launch .eparate investiga-
ti*.n.s to substantiate the charges.
“The techniques used to intimi-
daet Negro voters away from the
pells consisted of actual assaults
on Negro veterans, admoflition to
Uariing Negro citizens to keep all
Nt gro voters away from registra
tion and from the polls, and, fin-
elly, continuous threats by pub
lic officials and private citizens
'that Negroes seeking to exercise
their right of franchise would be
subject to bodily harm," Blocn
a.-:strtcd.
The Civil Rights congress urg
ed Atty. Gen. Clark to launch an
immediate investigation with
sufficient safeguards thrown
arounii It to orotect Negro citi-
on Negro veterans, aumjaitian lo
leading Negro citizens to keep aU
Nigro voters away from registra
tion and from the polls, artd. fin*
elly. continuous threats by pub
lic officials and ^vate citizens
that Negroes seeking to exercise
their ri^t of franchise would bf
subject to bodily harm," Blocn
asserted.
The Civil Rights congress uig-
od Atty, Gen. Clark to launch an
Immediate investigation with
sufficient safeguards thrown
around it to protect Negro citi
zens who are ready to testify or
senate privileges and elecuoni
Ifiive evidence.
! The congress also called for a
separate givestigation by the
committee, which it urged include
a group of distinguishr'd public
citizens. It ur^ged the senate
committee to designate a group
'Continued on bnek page)
I\Iri. Mary McLeod Bcthuiic
(center) shown with Vclmer 1.
U'lward. national secretary and
Victor I. C'ow'trd. national presl-
lent of the Canadian .Society lor
the Adv ancement of olored People
as Mrs. Bethune arrived at Oorval
airport en route to Montreal to
zivr a public lecture under tbo
auhplcei. of the Canadian Society.
STOREKEEPER CONVICTED OF ASSAULT CHARGE
Lawyer F. J. Carnage Puts Up Strategic Fight in Winning Case Against Cannon
EXPOSITION
DE1.EC4TES
RALEIGH — Thret: Negro citi
zens were appuinied nerr this wtck
by Govern..! R Oreec Cljerry to
represent North Carolina at the
proposed Liberian Centennial and
Victory Exposition to be held tor a
two-year peri id beginning next
summer in Monrovia, Liberia.
In announcing the appointment.-.
(Continued on back page)
i'V l)i. VV. F. Clark. Her attorney,
F-ri .1 Carnage, told Judge Paul
K Smith that Mr.s. Barnes was
till under the tviilmeiu oi th”
d( cor and the extent of her injury
i.. (i ni'l been dil'-rmined.
Ml' Baine.' .-dated on th(- wil-
i!i S', stand that sh-- was hit on 1K(-
il'.n b-.' Mr Cannon with his fust
.'.r,d lha; she w.is later hil on thi-
f(,u he.'id with a be(-r h(»tt!e and
knocked down and that .she was
hil twice whih- on the floor. Sie
\Mi.s lifted frt-m the fkxir by Mr.s.
Adlein Peltiford and liiken to
!ur home. She wa.s later tak«‘ii to
the hospital, :;he stattd.
Cannon Charges Insult
Mr. Camion on the stand stated
that Mes Banre.s insulted him by
addres.sing him as "sugar” an.i
that he orden-d her out of hi.s
>tore. He also .staled that Mrs
B.'ines att«-mpted to hil him and
ft-ll upon the counter inflicting
the wound.s she bore.
Upon cross examination by at-
l'. ney Fred J Carnage. Mr, Can-
lum adiniited il would have been
impo.ssible for Mi's. Barnes to
have fallen upon h- i head and
iiiflieting the wounds which sle-
bud on her head.
He stated that lu- did not know
Mr.s Bartus and that he did not
recall having t-ver seen her b(-
fore the a.ssault. Mr. Cannon
stated that he did not waiit any
familiarity with "niggers" and
that when Mrs. Barnes called
him "sugar” he objected.
Lawyer Carnage objected to
the word “nigger”. When Mr.
Cannon persisted in calling Mrs.
B;:rnp.s a “nigger" her attorney
again objected and appealed to
Judge Paul F. Smith to inform
Fu defendant that the word Ne
gro is pronounced knee-gro and
not nigger.
Another interesting and distur
bing incident in the trial was ths
outburst of H. F. Cannon opera
tor of a store on South Blount
St., that if his brother had assaul
ted Mrs. Barnes he had a right
ito do so. Judge Paul F. Smith
rapped for order and the case con
tinued. When the trial was over
th>- brother went back into the
clerk's office to justify his open
statement that his brother had a
right to hit Mrs. Barnes and Judg«*
Smith told him that he had tried
the caee in open court and so far
as he wa.s concerned the case wa.-
closed.
Mr. C.nrnage asked the Judge
to convict Mr. Cannon of the
charge and make the penalty suf
ficient to protect womanhood
, frohm menica asaults. He refer-
j red the court to the record of Mr.
j Cannon which showed that he had
jbeen convicted as following: Jan
uary 15, 1936 for receiving stolen
gciod.«!. November 5, 1937, larceny
and sentenced to 60 day.-; in jail.
August 2. 1938. speeding and op
erating and auto without license,
fined $10.00 and cost: September
13 convicted for threatening a
cost and Di-ccmber 19 of the same
state witness, fined $25,00 and
y ar convicted of an assault with
a deadly weapon fined $8.55. In
May of 1939 he was convicted of
an affray and .sentenced to 30
days suspended. His last appear
ance in the city court, proceeding
hl'i arrest for the assault on Mrs
Barnes was in 1946 when he was
convicted for selling vine an.l
beer on Sunday. In this case he
,war convicteij and sentenced to
i.six months suspended.
Mr Carnage stated that his ab-
,sence from the court from ’3p to
'46 was due to his service in the
i United States Army and not be-
; cause Cannon had reformed.
I BAPTIST MINISTERS INBTITUTB
; AT MOREHOUSE
ATLANTA (ANP) — A four-day
I institute for Baptist ministers, spon-
! sored by Morehouse College and
I the Amreican Baptist Horr.a Mission
I society, was held at Morehouse last
i week under the direction of Dr
' George D. Kelsey, director of the
I Morehouse School of Religion.