COUNCIL HEARS REPORT ON SCHOOL SITE
,Six-Month Old Infant Is
Attacked Fly Sex Maniac
SMITH FIELD A preliminary hear ing was schedule'] for Wednesday afternoon in
the case of Paul Wise, white, of Clayton who was charged with performing a t rim
inal assault upon a six-month old infant
Wise, who was described bv resients f the community as 'mentally deficient <is
reported to have been involved in several other sex offenses-
The infant, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Hunter who lives about four miles
from Clayton, was left asleep in a car while its mother visited a sick neighbor.
Upon hearing the child’s screams, Mrs. Hunter reported she ran out of the house
to find Wise attempting to put the child back in the car.
An examination of the child revealed that its clothing was soiled, its diaper removed
and that it was bruised and bleeding from the genital organs.
The child’s parents took it to a Claytcn physician for examination immediately
after the incident which occurred about neon 1 uesday.
Later in the-evening they took it to Dr. Charles W- Furlong at Smith field, who con
firmed the findings of the (earlier examination and in whose custody the child wan
left overnight.
Wise was placed under arrest and held for a hearing which was slated for late
Wednesday afternoon.
The infant's condition was described as "fair by Dr, furlong the same afternoon.
CHAVIS HEIGHTS
LOCATION URGED
FOB NEW SCHOOL
Raleigh's effoil.s !•> secure a
site for a now Negro high school ;
irtoved nearer realization tin
week as member:, of the Citv
Council beard school off Duds -mi
citizens commit lee member.. ,|is- :
cuss the merits of •< site under
consideration.
The proposed .«.;»•• m the Ch -
vis Park section, was one of ti: ■ ■
first, discussed by the citizens;
group and. school officials nearly
a vear ago when the citizen.- '
made a determined stand again:''
the present Washington Seinol ;
site for extensive and n< . dec!
improvements and expansion.
The use of the suggested ssh
which is bounded by Davie Lane,
Smith Street and Boundary ana
Worth Street and one block i
Lcnior. however, would require
(Continued on page 8, Ist Section) ;
Fla . Candidate
Who Fled Threat
Loses Election
By JAMES B. LaFOURCHE
Perrine, Fla. (ANP) Ben
Shavis, who fled ?*ii.- city last
week after filing his application
with the city clerk to run for the
office of city commissioner, re
turned last Friday nici.t . and
served notice on both Negro and
white constituents of this nc-wly
incorporated citv of 3,500 inha hi
tents, tMa lie would seek the , f
fice regardless of the threat made
against his life.
Shavis. the most influential Ne
gro in Perrine was prevail* d up
on by whites to enter ' h city
commissioner's race. He rofusd
but on the eve of election he was
approached by me mayor, R. P.
Barfield, and persuaded him to
enter the race. Twenty minute,,
offer Jiis candidacy was mud.
known, he was informed that >-
must withdraw his name or risk
being killed and his home burned,
Shavis immediately fieri t.V*
city but returned last week With
its candidate hack, the Negro
communtiv snapped into action
realizing thatthe Negroes ha i
more votes than the whites.
However, the die had been easy
for when Shavis withdrew from
die election, his name was re
moved from the ballot. On re
entering the race the ballots
SOCIAL SECURITY IS
SEEN IN OFFERING FOR
FARMERS, DOM ESTICS !
WASHINGTON i ANP) D
tncsdc employes and farmers wilt
probably receive the benefit- »f
•sod*?] security protccliciu if cor*
gross passes legislation recommend
ed by Federal Security Adminis
trator Oscar It. Ewing. In hi;- rec
cmmendaUons to President Ti u •
man, this week, the F’S adminlslta
tor urged the passage of lcuislabon
to broaden the social security sys
tem to the extent that it wilt cove;
members of the armed forcer
well as 20-million additional work
COV. HASTIE SLATE!)
AS SPEAKER AT MIC
DURHAM Cvvenio: William
Henry Hastie of the V rgin Islands,
will deliver an address at North
Carolina College February 9, ac
cording to an announcement from
Dr. Theodore R. Speigmsr, advisot
to the Social Science Club which
i.; sponsoring his appearance.
Governor Hastie is a mnmtx
of xhe Carribean Commission and
is nn outstanding personality in in
ternational affairs. He is a member
of the Amherst Chapter of Phi
Beta Kappa.
- •- - ■ *»• •- -
m LBI 1
t I
'4Wm < i
i
1 •
' « '!•_> ...
: !
CHAIRMAN —A. E. Brown, i
North Carolina Mutual Life In- ■
surance Co. executive, who is
heading this year's annual
Wake County Christmas Th- 1
bcrculosis Seal ’Sale drive.
Mr. Brown has served in this 1
capacity for the past 3 years.
—— - —— ——.— j f
, u:-,ed on election day. were min- 1
: us hit, name To vote for him, ■
: his name had to be written in,
At-. toiling throughout e'ce-I
hi m day, bringing his political
: o. ; it.w ml ij and irom te.- 1
polls, Shavis by night was a tired !
man. He had canvassed from door
: to door, aim >st yanking voters ■
bodily from their homes and j
making them do what is required j
]of evexy real Amreican citizen—
. c ote.
The polls closed that night at j
7 ’clock sharp. The writer and ;
i Shav-i-s retired to the 'latter’s ;
homo. At 9 o’clock sharp wo went 1
|back to the polls to learn the •
j final returns. They were disap- :
! pointing, as Shavis was con
i cerned for he Its t been defeated;;
: however, the Negro vote had;
swept into office while people!
' who before the election and aftet
i proclaimed the Negro is entitled
|to those, rights which Jefferson j
I enunciated in the Declaration of.
Indopedcncc,
, A dm* k during the da\ '.s elec- I
. tion dis-cK-scd that Shavis had!
‘ lost more than 75 votes because j
of voters inability to write his j
] name on the ballot. It learned I
! that more than 215 Ncyroos re- 1
Imainc.r! away from the polls be- j
cause of threat.-.
. ers. j t
i Ewing recjur,,t"d .-ufticient funds] f;
• !•• include sori.T sccuriiy
j tion for ,sc If-(*ir. ployed pe-c&or.s, i*;
; whcthci they be doctors, demists jT
jor sets.- r-grindCtHe also asked;*
j that social security be extended.: 1
jit t only to domestic w* -rkers and i
Term 1 1 and:;, but also to kcU-k ngenlfiD
j and others not now coveted.
1 It wa.- stated that plans are “do- j r
'finitely under consideration" to in-j 1
j elude soldier.-, sailors and airmen) *
jin the civilian old-age pension sys-J .
[ lew. Ewing said that pension pay-! I
U' C! -- -.ud survivors benefits! |
‘■’hct.iid be increased at least by 50 I .
; percent. j
The administrator is quoted as' |
j rulijng the m!«i average old-age j.
: pcnsipn now being paid for a eou-1
i hi" per month »s“s!ov starvation." i |
Proposals ore under consider* •• i
i according to FSA spokesman,]
j lr> Increase direct aid for needy j
j aged, ?md blind. The administrator I <
, r. also asking for the passage, of ajj
i federal- aid to education bill al it !,
I first-year cost of $300,000,000 the]']
] launching of a federal health in-1 !
sui ance system, and a program of j j
j scholarship's to increase the supply i
]of doctors, dentists, nurses and j.
technicians.
T. 8. SEAL SALE
DRIVE FDR 1M
SETS UNDERWAY
A. IS. Brown generai chairman ;
of »,;h- Chi Lunas seal ..-ale. ha.?
served in this capacity foi !bc |
pad,, three year.'.. Three years- i.g
the Negro Division in W,P,
County led. in-- St;-*c Last v*.a,
fhov were among flic leaders.
Working with Mi Pm own i
Mi's. Non Frazier, chairman of Ur
drive m the city w iwot;, Mi's
Frazier has been a leader in h
henuioE.s work for the pa d teen
veavs and for many year:, served
ms general chairman. Lucille
Hunter, the sehoool in which she
i- a teacher, has already turned
in $24 in the present drive.
Mrs. Odessa Roberts, chairman
of the county school drive, has
contributed a great deal in Fie
past to the Seal Sale and tuber
culosis control program.
The Rev. Paul Johnson, chair
man of the church division, has
done much to make the program
a success.
Washington High School has
La, many years led ail schools in
the oitmty in Hs contribution h>
the Laic T O't) i'i’t-.' till':; j \' : J. s
they have entributed Sitt'.ku
They have won several awards in
State and National Essay Con
tests. For several years the
program at Washington High
School has been under the able
direction of Mrs, S. V. Perm.
In speaking of the work of the
Negro division Mrs. Lois D. Dur
ham, executive secretary of the
Wake County Tuberculosis Asso
ciation. stated ‘‘l have never
worked, with a more cooperative
group or one that I have enjoyed
working with more. 1 feel sure
(Continued on page 8 Ist Section)
FRATS TABLE RACE
QUESTION UNTIL ’49
New York (AND The Nu
ll on a i Infra temity conference ;
voted last week to bypass a stand
on the racial question until next
year. It. did recommend, however,
that fraternities would do better
to select members on the basis j
m character rather than race, re
ligion or color.
The conference voted to scud j
the issue hack to earn member
group of its 59 national fra ter- ;
nities for discussion until next
year.
Tlv ranai issue was brought to!
the front when the Amhert col
lege chaplet of the Phi Kappa i
Fsi recently admitted Thomas W. |
Gibbs. its first Negro member. ]
and the first colored frat. man in i
the college’s 127-year-old history, t
In unofficial votes, undergrad- !
uate chapters voted again- 1 libci- j
-i-lizing present restrictions ‘by i
eh -using lo keep bo ns on Nog * *>!
members and making local chap
ters subject to rulings of the na
tion;) 1 or ga nizat ions.
Upon presenting its resolution j
to member-groups the conference
aid. The fraternity system v.ll |
fl■ T'ish better if the character '
rand, personality of the individual
arc- itgardofl as paramount, la
ther than his race, color, religion ,
or nationality.’'
Tic resolution tor member]
groups reads;
“!. The conference believe-- that;
a college fratrn.ity inasmuch a- !
•it has certain aspects of a social j
organization, has the right to sc- '
PLANS FOR 1949 1
BAPTIST PARLEY!
LAID AT SHAW ]
In i< special meeting, Tuesday
on the campus of Shaw Univer-!
sity, the Board of Missions of the 1
General Baptist State Cc-nven- i
tion of North. Carolina Inc., com-1
pitted bask- plans for a mam- j
moth ;vll Baptist Assembly to ne I
held in Raleigh. August 1-5. 1919 ]
Tlit gathering will b* ing to- j
gather tne four state auxiliares i
'Continued- on back Ist section)
TfIT ACC Alii Trn
IUI AooAUL I ki)
■ • \ ■
The Carolinian
f'ohr'V \ ; v>-\> /.■ <*,*; / ' ' ' a v/f'ajLiM
—.—————— —— - SINCI P
16 Pages j NORTH CAROLINA'S LEADING WEEKLY j copy 10c
VOLUME XXVill RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA WEEK ENDING \T( HI»AV. PEC 11. Hi is AoTS*
NEW GRIME DEATH
★ * ★ * it * ★ ★ ★★★★★★ ★ ★ '# ★ ★ if *■
Action Hue Or Area Schools
\Ih!) iiina While Vlan
Gels I n Vcars Tor ihtpe
Ul T tpl’h \. M<- An all
white Alabama jury Thursday
sent John C Steward, Jr. 30
year-old white man to prison
for 15 year.' for raping •> young
woman here on April 35.
The .juror', asked by the
prov.-rut.or to show Hte victim.
Mrv Melinda Jack-on. that she
could get ms ire in the Alaba
ma court, found Howard guil
ty of rape and then acting un
der flap- Jcrrai itroc'diirc 1 »■*:«••€
tfi ■ penal * ••»», f*> \ >-ars
They asked through (heir
foreman. R, A Nelson, immed
iately heforc reporting their
verdict whether they could go
even further and fix it so that
Howard couid no: get i parole
or pardon.
Howard is one of two whir
men charged with raping to n
women. The other man. .lark
Oliver, ins cousin was srhed
ti!i ri to he tried Friday on an
indie men! th.H he raped Mrs.
Annie Grayson echo was ac
companying Mr*.. Jackson at
the lime of (lie attack
. If-ct its own members from amor -■
the .student- in •-> university cm
<. .'lle-Rc free (rom any domina
tion or pressure from the educa
-11 ionM institutinr* itself Upon the
j principle, the fraternity may, ii
lit chooses, adopt restrictive >nJ(-' :
■ for it;; own membership or i
i fra-i-n from adopting restrict ion.-'-
I Tii,. wisdom <-i desirability or ;■<>-
i social coTChderati m affectini;
: membershp, including religious
; racial or national qualifications
' are thus the concern of the fra
! ternity itself.
“2. The conference recognizes
i sh-it. in passing upon candidate;-
[ pres ntc-d for admission to mem
| bci'iihi-p. in cajes not governed bv
l national restrictions or by custom
ior tradition binding upon the
! chapter, a chapter member mav
cast iris vote upon discriminatory
i considerations, lie may cor.red*
i or refuse to concede the (.►pinion:..
] nr even the prejudices of his fra
ternity brothers. That is his in
i dividual right. The weight to be
; given to conflicting considers
] tiens arc for his individual do
j nision. The conference, -however,
! believes that the fraternity svs
] tem will flourish better if the
(hander and personally of the
individual are regarded as para
mount, rather than his race, col
or, religion, or nationality.’'
I -' : "A
DID DEWEY THREAT
BACKFIRE IN N, Y.?
By CONRAD CLARK
j N< w York -ANP) - The re a •
i son whv Governor Thomas Dew
) cy lost the rcjcenl election for the
; Prcwidcncy of lh«» United States
! was beotmac during a campaign
] speech, he remarked, “I am go
j ing to run Father Divine and
all of his followers out of New
j York City,’’
| This remark came to light m
i a recent article published T v the
! New Day, official organ of the
I peace movement, in which the
| article tells witty Dewey lost, and
| "that is why I put Mr. Truman
] back in the White House’’ tc
i quote Father Divine.
Titk remark of Mr Dewey was
PARLEY PLANNED
FOR ACTION ON
REGIONAL SET!]! 5
ATLANTA -- Despite m-io-a
them that !• i*' regional s.-hod
plain will nm into a snag when
it comers to its use to circumvent
court edict: for • dueationnl
equality, many of the South’-:
•governors and. educators are cs
•pet to move for action on the
o'an nest week.
This step is expected to result
u.-ivrrnors «» their represent;,
tives and college presidents and
deans of 15 southern states meet
at Savannah to discuss putting
t!ie first phase of the plan into
effect with the eslabh; hment. <•;'
regional veterinary schools.
A committee ol the southern
I'ducators and state ofttotals has
already drafted plaas for th r -set
ting up of such veterinary .schools
at Oklahoma A. and M.. Auburn
end the University of Georgia
The proposal which is expected
t<> be submitted to the Savannah
meeting also calls for the setting
up of such a school for Negroes
Tttskcitce Institute
Tuskegee s willingness * • «;>
(Continued on buck 1.-t- section)
STI DENTS 1101,1) <)TH
CHKISTMVS MEET AT
ST. Al (iI'STINE'S
Students from IS college:-, r* p
relenting both races in No: in t str
olt«a and Virginia met here at St
Augustine College Sate'day ten
the opening 1 f the ninth annual
C'hrist mas Con fercnce
The meeting was sponsored by
the American Friends Service
CommiUee and the North Csmliu-i
Council of Churches. Events in-,
eluded a scries of lectures and pan
el discussions centering around tr.c
theme “The Christinas Answer io
Communism,"
Speakers included the Rev. Car!
Key. executive secretary of. the
Stale Council of Churches, and
Samuel ft. Levering, member of the
Natici'.;;! Council of Uni led Wo* hi
Federalists
Colleges represented ymong d«*t-;
Cgates were: Shaw University. St.
Augustine’.-. College. U C State;
and Meredith, Mi of Raleigh: Uni
versity of North Carolir.'i, Chapel
HI; The Woman's Col led: at
Ui ao'nsbore; Salem College. Dirai-!
sou College, Livingston. N C. Cni-i
lr;'e, Catawba. Atlantic Christian
College, and Johnson C. Smith Uni
versity.
rt-cited to Father Divine by one ]
jest his followers Fa.ther Divint* 1 ]
celled the besrer of the zvwy ;
i liar.
I Afiter rebuking the woman for .
j the lie, Divine said, ’T am not
) saying khal Mr, Dewey is so much ,
lin harmony with mi; ! am not;
; asking birr to he. ’
! He further told of President i
I Truman‘s pica for an. FEPC bill j
■ and other Civil Rights measures. ]
j Father Divine added that the
] President demanded of the peo- \
pic the enactment of these Hills i
! and did not wait until after nice
! tion to call for justice and equity
] for all. j
(Continued op back ist, section j 1
' * W
\m\Jjgjjk I
h rl 1
i *• ;=i I# «,
v * lj|
t> V ( irtcr, president <if th»-
vt on romery t oxntv. licu'iiM.
branch c,f (lie National V.isoi i.i
tion foe the Advancement of i
ored People r.igning an appeal
to v.t.Jt 1’ branch presidents io
stand behind the Association in
its fight for the right of Negro
Dr. Davis Denies
Knowing Woman
On Indictment
Released under SI 0,000 rml
en charges of abbiiion and man
slaughter. Dr J, Busier Davis,
; well known North Carolina nhv
• sician and civic leader, made a
liat tn..• ] f-j the rrsa: s in an
exclusive interview with the
; CAROLINIAN on Tun.dny
The hi! yi’.'i
!* * _ * 0.1 d IWVSWSM,
office.; and ..pc- |
is 1 o:. ■ ;y\:pital ;
in F u tj u & v !
dieted" " in ' the!
W'i-ikv Co un i v ;
Sum ?•■ Court '
the m '
flu rung of vv ) j
true bill;-, K tie ,
Grand j
.indictinriJi D r, '
1 . J
Davis cnarg-1
ed <fl i ; h per- !
>. .• 1
i 4
*Pfc . .;
|||P M v - :
HLfSrS £'
—d| *
H .._ikc4_.»...• • .i.» ■
<* i"
nn / b. pa vis
I ;
i forming -n illegal operation uoon !
! Hj-:; Minnie Louise Goff of San- !
i f:,rd in 1946 and a ope- I
ret ion which re.- I’to.-; f/Sally
i upon Mi'?.- Colleenc Hill m tvlaicb i
| of 'this year. ;
Flat Denial
In hi - interview ' ith Hu j
! CAiROUI'ftAN r-i. I.Hivi« denied •
j all knowledKe of the S'ft ine»- >
| deni ami stated that he had acted .
' “o.olely in the interest:', of hn- ;
I rriaruiy ’’ m treating Mi.-.s Hill j
who came In him .-nfforou: from j
! peritonitis after having had the j'
' operation performed elsewhere.
I After treatment by Hr. Davis. j
j Mis:> Hill was reported to have j
retu ned to her home, whence |
she was taken to the Lee County
Hospital where she died severe. <
1 days later.
citizens in the South to vote
» iUi'Mjt fear of reprisal. Mr Car
ter was ruthievsiy beaten by ■
white nun because he had car
ried Negro vo'.ers to the polls on
the (lav of the Georgia Democra
tic primary election.
Tii" indictment.-; were returned
on the strength of information
furnished the grand jury as the •
result. O ap investigation by the
State Bureau of Investigation and
Assistant Soiicitoi Howard E.
Manning.
fti-'ietf-* r William A’. Biekctt. fur
'Continued on page S, Ist Section)
ATLANTA, GA. EDITOR
PREDICTS FEDERAL
ACTION IN LYNCHING
ATI, A NT A. C,j Ralph McGill ; o
said in his editorial column in the. v
Atlanta Constitution Werincsday.lt
Dcynbrr i, that Georgia’s refusal! a
to ••apply the vig'-r to bring a klil-i
oi *o jail, that would have been
ipplied were the dead mao a j
.'.l it- man” means that Congress "
surely par-s sonic sort of. uoU*l
iyncr*. legislation jv
"Thai, it wtil subject ?h*Hif,s and !r
other la»v -enforcement officers to!
some penally of federal law is
pi coabio,” McGill wrote. {.
lie it;cized the investigation as c
Gov Her man Te.lmadge admitted s
his slate (ictoofiveSi had been un
able io round up enough evidence v
:.o moke arresls for the umbus.h- l
killing of Robert Mallard.
The Investigation of the ambush-1 c
killing of the 37-year-old Negro J s
mortuary supplies salesman ap-ic
peered to have bogged down. jl
.Sheriff H p Gray at Lyon#. «eaf. * y
1 DEAD, 11NJURED
HERE BY GUNFIRE
SINCE WEEK END
Raleigh's crime toll, which has
been exacting at least a life a
vveeo f or more than a month ac
counted for another death and a
M'rmus injury from gunshot
wounds between Saturday night
; and Tuesday morning,
The latest person to die in the
sews ot weekend shootings
. which have terrorized crowds of
= local pleasure seekers was Robert
Hinton, 23. of 204 1-2 W. South
Street, who was shot twice in a
local night club.
According to eyewitness ac
counts the shooting took place
following an altercation between
i Hinton and Dexter Yates, 21, f
; Raleigh. Route 3.
Persons who- were in the chib
: at the time declared that Hinton
oud slashed at Yates with a pen
! knife and that the latter had left.
Ito return shortly afterward and
it'pen fire which resulted in Hin-
I ton’s death before he could be
taken to a hospital,
i The second shooting was that
’ Thomas Tate, 34, who was she?
through thr neck as he was waslt
| 'Tg .his cab at a stand in the 800
--•"•• of La*i Marlin Street at
about 9:30 Tuesday morning.
I - His assailant, Thomas Johnson,
24, of Fayetteville St... is being
he:d at City Jaii under default
jof $2,000 bond. Tate’s condition
: was described as “fair" at St.
: Agnes’ Hospital where he was
taken for treatment,
i Johnson also told police that
:he had shot Tate because the-:
| latter had cut him with a pen-
I knife several hours earlier.
| _ The current wave of firearm
| death:; began last November 6,
i when Henry Robertson, 43, of
! Knightdale. Route 1, opened fire
fatally shot Miss Lottie Per
ry, 31. as the woman walked thru
the crowded 100 block of East
: Hargett. St.
Robertson was sentenced, to
I'iTc irnprL -nrnem at hard laboi
bv Judge Henry Gradv on Wed
nesday morning.
j Johnson’s preliminary hearing
was also set for Wednesday, but
wrs continued for one week.
of Toombs County where Mallard
was killed, said he was prepared
to risk a grand jury for indictments
against a number of white men
who may have been involved.
Gray said he -till hoped that
Mallard's widow, who as aiding out
in Savannah in fear nt her life,
would swear out warrants against
men she identified by name as be
ing involved in the killing,
Mrs. Mallard’s attorney. Aaron
Kiavitch. contended that the crime
called for public, not private pro
secution.
In the slaying area, residenis
were described as most reluctant
to talk.
Mallard's slaying has been call
ed :t lynching by the Ti.iske.gee In
stitute. In Alabama, the first such
crime since the sensational Willie
Earle case in South Carolina two
years ago.