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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.