| Promised No Speech j
| For Elks Says Bunche
•SAN FL/vNCISCO (ANP) - - Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, |
head of the UN Tvuteesbip division, last week denied j
that he had ever scheduled to add -css the recent Elks !
convention here in San Francisco while he was in the j
city to address the California state bar convention.
Explaining his position in the Flks situation. Dr. :
Bunche said he had been invited several months ago to
address the conventon, but he had said that the urgency
ci tiie CN business would probably keep him away, j
(Since then, he said, he had heard nothing from the Elks. !
C • Here in San Francisco, most people were led to be
lieve that Di, Bunche would appear at the Brand j
m > G,EW International Ceremony? at which the public
paid to see.
Dr. Bunche in speaking to the state convention of
lawyers said he regretted that the Los Angeles group ■
excluded Negro lawyers while the state group admitted
them. He aso declared that the I N is the key to peace
in the world of the future.
Death Sentence
For Florida Pair
TAVARES, Fla Two Florida
V. Vi V SCEitetlCv ti to Clfc&th
and a ’bird to life imprisonment
Saturday nigh'; as .. climax to the
aliened i ..pc- i f a 17-yeat old farm j
wife which ied to a ren n c: terror
marked by the burning of Negro
rents and evacuation of Negroes •
from the vicinity of Groveland,:
tic j
Sentenced to die by the verdict
of an ail white jury were Samuel
Shepherd, 20, and Walter livin.j
22 Recommended for mercy be
cause or ins youth and (he lack 1
ci positive identification was
Charles Greenlee 16
NA/‘CP attic-ncys v.lin new c.r,-
dertaker th> defease ol the trio
were l..'::K(-d in their effoit to obtain
s chi ts ! venue tor !1 ■. trial c.i
greunits that new pUj Cr put?) city
c- ci lTiou vi;.ieniv
rtparts <;! trie inrun ii. ~ke .« tan
as ; ir.i Men eiie-i.i- i:.*,
.it (..aunty
four n;.-n were .iccuseo c.j the
«Tta:.-K Our of them Ernest Thorn
vs. was Killed by a ■ sc" ■inch’
s.ugr.t to caput! t- tun several
Scores injured at
Peekskill, N. Y.
t t .Special to tin l AROLINIAN
f>'f KAKIt j. .v 2 Despite
t)hr ptesei:( e d more *ha i i i.oth'
"Umw - enforcement officers the ef
icrus of Paul Roue sot; to deUvet an
ipti -air conceit :',r rt- flared :rd;
t ii.; violence on SuOCuj mght foi
(Li :-ecv..d firm- with h eight da vs.
Rioting which i suited in Urn
overt; riling of six automotiies the
stonmr of busses and oars carrying
ci net! tgoers as well as other Ne
groes who nad no connection with
a.e affair nospitalr/ation of 2.'i pir
s'cnt nd the arrest of 25 others
an estimated 14 000 perrons
Sunday night> i noen was a foi
tow. up f a s.iuiiarlv attimptcd
conceit last Saturday which was
t i Okrfa U* b> \ '> groups wilt.'
cc-mmunist utUranct> and lean
:r A^>
PKOI>.S»
Uiii tf.i week betv, nn the
two riots ho be-son sup,.to tie is pto
.fwted to Govei Dewey concern
i*C tne eUrged laiiurc i t state <1
uai police to provide police pio
ttcticn at the first concert'' whicri
w;s blocked by the overturning *>f
a number at autos and a litre- -hour
pitched battle betivi-.n the ■,■•'< ;ans
cr.d Robeson foil wen
Airei draft!lip: their plans for the
hi idtr.p of the second concert the
R. tresen group >•. .s.-.in an injunc
tion to bierk a pretest par«de and
2 Die, 11 Hurt In
*T"i l i
Car-1 ruck Crash
SHaLLOTTE Twenty - tom
picnickers wew thrown from a
1; \acit End larrov. n escaped with
their lives in a truck-car crash
which resulted in injuries for nine
Dnucwiio were in the truck and
marines who tv era in
vehki«.
|ng to State Highway pa
'*■ wFrWiMs of the crash winch oe
curred on Monday night 'tear Sfial
ictte. the truck, filled with 24 per
“Ph.D.” Proves A Phony j
No Record At McGill
Self-styled '•Dr " J. Clement A
F sugi who crashed the phges of
;*e Congressional Record r; well
a,?, several North Carolina dailies
and virtually the entire Negro ;
latest by virtue of his own «Uir.tsj
•4 having earned a PHD at the'
ag>: of 19, never attended 'McGill
University it was learned this
week.
‘'D t . : Paige, who laid claim to 1
daviti.j> earned .. PHD in physio
itveo! psychology from McGill, a ’
master:- in bacteriology t r o rn j
CCNY in 1947 and his BS in the!
Metogical sciences from A. and T. i
in 1945, was revealed by A .and T. i
sutnorltieg to have finished from
that school in 1948.
Furihermcre, it was pointed out,
weeks ago 1 i'lre* lilree in..* on 1 1 , j t
arc Wallet Irvll, 22. Samuel Si; y
hent 22 ar.d Charles Greenlee 16
WOMAN TESTIFIES
Testifying before an all-white
jury on Friday the alleged victim
.-aid that (hr tour youths had
fought, v ith her husband, beat him
insens.ble nnd threw him into a
ditch
She said that they then torc-.-o
their ivay into the car and drove to
a lone.lv spot where each in turn
raped her at the point of a gun A
•imila. story v.n- told by her hus
band.
The business of select.ng a jury
,or the t;,;*! ; the three Grove-
Und .’. until ai;< used of rapt? ire
... *i *.n Lake County Circuit Court
h> .v -t ten < 'clock Thursday and
ov in.,. djouviimcnt time tiie
N.-iACP ...a exhausted Ui. of the
tnitty peremptcry .- ch.vlrns.es ; :
mnspte’ivc jurors, and at ackiitio,
had ci, diet.gcd four .'tier jui-.-i
roi cause ,
Alex Akerrnari .ir of -Triand
H'-iace Hill of lju>t>'n.i Beach •
Continued on page 8. this -ertion
deruonsustiun planned uv louitre.,
Vn:dch« .ter i.ioiniy veterans -.siriis
This p'ea whk.!i vas fifed by
1 ; , F ; edcr ck Gc.tthnb, chairrnau
it th< Wcrnhc-ter Citirerip Cttn
iniUee lui Law uno Order, whir!;
had extended the invitation t
Robeson to appeal lor tt« Sunday
rriiui v denied bv Federal
Judge John J Clancy.
Jl DGF. FI. Ull—> If
Judce Ch.ncv in a flash witr.
Charles Rothenberg sitenirv for
:.".e i-ttiier.s committee, declared:
1 uc.i T K.no» Wile*!'!' y> J tile*
motion that 1 can iia.riere with
;i; tv olliculN Hi..s l : jrt has no
ju* -Hiiction i ihi> mutter What,
il the \ t came here «md ask
i‘d tr,t- to -t'-;. ou they
, assumed there would be violence
i and 3 granted itV \oa wouldn't
■ H tliat. Y u would think Jt an
• nilriige w .'uivin . vi".i
Governor Dewey, upon receipt
of the protests’ of tile Robeson group
lOidered r. full rep ,rl -l the earl e,
; incident n»d reared .di available
j state police to the sce’ic to prevent
;» iecurtern-e
District Attorney George XI Ta
iuili uh Westilu'stei County cori
j ferred with t»oii«* chief.-- of 82
' n.UncipuiilH.-;- ,|i the county who
assured hint that they would Ua»e
available every ruii from tiieir ■
i forces win. could h« r< (eased forj
't unii in back paue, thu wctiaiu
son-, re to: uing from a Labor Day
picnic was sides* iped by a speed-;
ihj. passenger car carrying four.
• marine*, lrom Camp LeJeune.
Two of Use marines Austin I, 1
: Love, 21, and Jerald ,). GreenauJt. j
18. were killed when the cur smash
ed 0't.,1 the side >i bridge span- '
nihg the Shall of to River. The other |
iwo marines, Bill F.»r<l 19. and i
Oil Joseph Beadly 20, were also j
(Con'd «n bark page, ihls section) ;
,he was a Jess than B average
' student white a.; A. and T. and I
no transcript ot his record has everl
: been sent to any mutitutior tori
: advanced or graduate study.
Among those whom “Dr Ik.ip I
I hoaxed were the officials of Be j
I thune-Cookman College v, here he j
| taught for a while as * Dr.' Pasae
In stories which were carried j
last week he whs listed as -the I
; youngest Negro ever to receive aj
1 PHD’’.
In a picture earned in the CA
ROLINIAN he was “shrw.A ,<•»■
I reiving rongrataletions Mrs. •
; Mii'7 Me: Bc-tii-ur.i* after r<v* 1
celMr.p an. irmf.tion to prevent a '
' paper before the British Assocls.- !
iieja a', Science”. | .
VPICIM o,m kl ¥ SillT
wimt%o ill i1« a b iiiy i
The Carolinian
| v ;, : ' ■s, . • \ 1 ■ \T,;u:/-Ny:V '■ : " r ' , ;, gatepj' '>:■*
24 Pages
VOU MB XXIX RAJLEKJH, NORTH CAROLINA WEEK ENDING BATI RDAY, SEPTEMBER iu, 19-19 " NO. NINE
GAS FOR SPELLER
» ¥■*♦** * y- ★*★*★**•
Lott Carey Elects Dr. O. S. Bullock
LAWYERS PLAN
FOURTH APPEAL
IN BERTIE CASE
WINDSOR Raleigh Spell'.-' •*
:r,< ntally <1 ficient farm hand end
(xid-job worker lieard lnmself sen-
U'ii--<.o ’ brat-, foi the IhPd ti.iiv
Mo Juy utter being declared , uilly .
bv an idl-whi*f' u>"v which delifc- ;
- V*' 1 ' t“« 18 minute* - A
u«j ult upon Mrs. Aiibry D.,-
vi.s ot Bertie Ci.untv on July lit.
1&41 He attorneys C T Gates
D> : ~-n. :.d Herman I . T 1. r of .
[R 3ei f *: u:.!!i»-diate!', .tim«um-c(i .
iu) it nhng ui an .ppeal !
Uid \vt*i\ fW <ia>> n, which'
Sr fenced to iteuth u lr.
del'her of 194', by u Bertie Conn-,
iy jury Speller was granted his
fir.-l reprieve when the state. Su- ■
to the I'.wti foi retrial on grounds
(it irregularities in jury sekctic-o
(< on'd un back pat- this section*
Change Plans For
Housing Project
A number t>f “ilV‘ moved into Ralri.N > bousing ]>;!•-
ture Tuesday.
Appearing befoiß tin* City Council, Builder Willi-
X ork nindo a request foi the extension of city sewer and
u ater lines, into twenty acres of land adjacent to the cit>
it He on which he holds options and. on which he had pie
viou'dy planned construction of a ‘272 apartment housing
project for Negro tenancy
The request was made by Mr.
York following his withdrawal oi
application foi C:tv Council ap
proval of plans for apartment type
housing project.
Instead of the apartment type
i project Mr York is now cons id*
jcruig the construction on the site
•of 148 single-family home* design
ed for Negro ownership.
The change in plans fallowed
several me nths of efofrts to secure
, approval for the apartment pro-.
'pvt whu-h were marked by ob
•i> clious fro:;: resident* oi adjacent
Longview Park who contended
j that erection of i tow rent apart-
I rrient type project would result in
■ the lowering of the value of their
homes.
After withdrawing his request
for approval of the apartment pro
ject Mr. York informed the Cuun
j i L oatinueq on p.-tge 8, this s< ctc*oi
Mixed Playground Is
Successful In D. C.
V) a.-thlngton i A.NT i “Tin younct.r the children and the more
super iisi on they get the easier it is; in achieve Interracial rwrea
liiui harmony''' declared Daniel Peacock work camp director of th
tw" district playgrounds which were ojk-iai -d this annuel try if,
American Friends Service committee.
Peacock s ataientem cami at the winding tip of the svmmar
operation 04 the parka which wen nt.i or. an exi»,-j mental interru
c;.al basis by the Friends. In reporting mi 1J• l*, project the director
.-iiueil positively that ‘every rw.rOHtict; activity from y, a •••di Grac
pc.ratio to soft hall cairtes hai- been \ntqrra/cl*).“
He furtbei repoTt-ed tiiai 'while i>ai';Jc.i.jjoti-in , C, *rfi<»l> pack
rce,. from ic:-* than eiy.lil pet .•-■l,? inribt. the week <0 mure than
13 tee cent,’’ >
Diiiia! oeigtiho; tio»>ti hostility ;■'* the projfei r v,- ;j y wjbsnmtially
overcome.," and child rest who*:-, pa rents -jißjifxi peril ion. objueuni
,t ' a “ intermDßl playground .hefo; ■- jj Bi arf«d aiv row playing there.
No viol once oeca.rr*d durnu, t,w -m timer. and. wbt-tc parent.:-
have voluntarily provide kwnr of Hit cqulpmeat, cnitidy and super
visory services
! NORTH CAROLINA’S LEADING WEFKLY
i ,
PICTHER
\s CITIZENS PROTESIEU
RESIGNATION—i. Raeiord.
chairman ot tliv Raleigh ( itirvns
Association and executive .\eere
tary ot the l.oodworth street
\Aft \ >tanding is shown a>
TOTS I IM) POLIO
HR \t K. (.11 SCitW)
DETROIT (ANT*;—Twin four
war-old hoys, one colored, and
the white, became 5250 richer
last week when they found a
brace belonging to a seven year
old polio victim
They split a reward offered
by the Detroit New* when the
parents of a little white girl
declared that some one had
robbed them and taken the
child’s hrace Their child had
ntver walked.
Bobby Mall and Tony San
dier, white found <he brace
while play ing • < owboys and |ri
dun*.”
he joined vi *th scores of Huleigli
* fvir lusine»i mil or ganixatutn
a*l kParit rs {« protes; rtsigna
iion of City Manager Uoy j*. Bra
ci n in the vuake of a Yihispering
i.inipaigti which it was charged
INDIANAPOLIS
GETS IST NEGRO
P. 0, SUPERVISOR
! ;;<! Kt IM jl' His i A Xl’ > A (!'! ■ (I '
tln-iyscm, vefer.ii. mall carrier and
nietnlx r r>f !h*> Indiana polls Vnstal
AnHiin*'. Irt*( ;iine last -vh-I i lit* first
V i■ o '"!!> •• -sHpervisur it tit-
IndianaiMslis postal system when
lie was apoia dcrteair OMKo-Diill
Jl*- wan appointed ••arrier *• ifr"k in
charge of mail
Carrier Postmaster George ,l
itoss made the appointment in lin»i
with his sui!enient "i am the post
master of all postal employees and
I intend to he fair hi ail of my |
ruling* and upgradings."
Mr. Grayson a scoutmaster for
VI vears i- also active in the N A
A C (' V M. C. A , and The
Alpha PIP Alpha fraternity.
SENTENCED TO DIE _ M«m
--1 roe Mfillin, 33-ytar old former ,
ton tier was sentenced Saturday i
to die in the gas chamber at
Central f*ri“Oii on October 14 for
the murder of his farmer em
ployer, Mrs E. u. Anderson,
; (karlotte social leader.
lit was convicted by a Jury
1 j nf ten white and two Sepm men
j which marie ho recommendation
i fir mercy. Apprehended the tl»v
j loliewm# «••• slay in B Med tin
j confessed. Several articles from
the home of the stain woman
were In his possession at the
time of hit arrest.
«•
had been aimed at the foi ring
of just sueh h move Following
c protest b> more tliait ;>OB etti
/ens the < its Couneil refused to
'*t the , sigtiation u.il u was
withdrawn. < UIOI.IMAS rhoU
h\ Shephard.
Braden Remains
As City Manager
BY JOE SHEPHARD
' f - .M:r y.T Rf-v s R -fen u ceived a vuh ul , o*-
iidencc from the citizens of Raleipfh Tuesday.
In nn hour tnd-a is,;: - -si>m marked 0> drama, humor,
and above al . sii-•* uv .. is from all walks of Ra
leiifh life made- it clear that they were on the side ut the
t ity executive who has been the lartret l’or a six-week
whispern p camiiaigr, of h.-. v.<*l' ass:tsinAlio<*,.
U f V. , ... v . f .St •. \. ». fit
WEST COAST HONORS
EORJ.E! f! \ WILSON
LOS ANGELES iANT: —-The
'! ittle Napoleon" of lACtlom.
J. Finley Wilson, grand ex.ill
eri ruler nf xhc I Iks. was hon
ored here in Los Angeles and
hi Ila Juana last week after
atteniiiog toe annual conven
tion of the Elks.
sh Los Angeles Mayor Flet
cher BOwrofl presented him the
key to the city. The press, both
weekly and daily, interviewed
him, and city and business of
ficials conferred with him.
The border town of Tin Ju
ana set aside a J. Finley Wil
son day for n'tn August 18 A
special J. Fifth v Wilson han
dicap «is the feature at the
track during the day.
I U. of Oklahoma wm
Enroll Six Negroes
! OKLAHOMA CITY, Okia. (ANJP) Six ot the
estimated 75 Negroes who attended the summer, »<•*- \
j sions at the tUniversity of Oklahoma phut to enroll in i
j the school in the fall semester.
These students are:
.Tames Ewery, seeking his master's in music edtt
| cation; G, W. McLaurin, for a doctorate in educatior .;
■Malcolm S. Whitby, master's in audio-visual education;
Mrs. Orpherlta Daniels’ master’s in social work, and
Mrs. Ada. Lois Fisher and T. M. Roberts, law.
They will attend classes with, the white students
but will be segregated from them in the classroom
just as were the 75 summer school students.
Negroes were allowed to attend the University of
Oklahoma and other state Schools that were all-white <
.for the first time this summer when the state legisla
ture passed a law opening courses not offered at Lang
ston university/the all-Negro- state school, to colored
I studcTifa. 1
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COPY lUC
RALEIGH PASTOR
IS ELECTED LOTT
CARET PREXY
NOFOL.K—Dr 0. S. Hullooi
;t r of i.hc t net Baptist (Ts.-.rch M
Rfi! T.-'ii. mu, elected to suercc-d t!ic
i i;if * Dj' N. L. Scarbor- ugh its pres
; io.. »it vs the Lott Carry Baptist ,
Pi f. Un Missioi'.ary i. env - .n at
, its otty second annual m m -.r» hold
i ius! w k at Norfolk V;t
. • ' eg! d 'lsitors
; .el*;ruled th*' fifty-sec*ind aiiiiuui
: '( -h'ln k 4 ihc I .ot i Cure;- lk.ptist:
F ueign Missionary Convention in j
;> si*•’! here iu Fir t C uiv .ry Bap
lisi Church, pastored by : R.
C. £. Griffin.
M.cctin,. jointly the W-cani Au
«,< iv r.-.-d Junior you . o* ■
Dx'pt I.m' .Mi * «»<-* «
• !'" New.- Calvary and Queen Btivc' *
r- .'.SI Chore,',?., pu. torch by tiie
Rev Samuel Wilson, and J. J
E;, '’man
Opt oh i,; hen on Monday ev,.. •
nut An; ust 2ft. in me im,i;,c*p:.l ,
•i .iJ'tiHuir:. H'th u mu.-s ;;io
am unde: the direction of T:of
''C,«yin e-d on page 8. tbit section •
When scores of citizens >*cgun,
ihov ... up r;n hnur before the ■'
Coum u meeting scheduled to act j
, -i Air. Br.nl mens resignation. ]
• • meeting place was moved sue-;
cc-ss ively from the Council cin-m
her t< *ht* irunuHji,',! courtroom r
Grid thence to the i ty Auditorium.'
The tenor of the meeting was set :
I ty C. A Dillon, fust of a line of;
v.bovt v; poishos who denounced
sme.i’’ campaign, urged if
to refuse to accept the re- j
f si.mati.'R ,»nd called :t*o« Uradwi
io withdraw* jt.
WOIIW BE TRAGEDY
Mr. Dill"]’ "md that Mr. Br-de* ;
n. d given Ihi city "an effective •
'arid progressive government" and
that his resignation would repre- j
.icnt :■ "tragedy" .
Dr. A J. CTiessor. president •
,h> Junior Chamber of COmmerc* .
, Lest*'.- Rose. executive s.-viotary of
i the Chamber ot Commerce. Or.
‘ <C*'»rs tinned or. page 3. tius seeUtuD
PACKS 1M HIE NEWS
' HEAUB BAPTIST BOOV
O. S. Hniltxl. pastm of iii i».\t
Baptist (.hurt'll of Koteigh »vm>
ua> elected president ir tin J.oH
( irev Baptist Foreign Miiiioui
CunvHUittji at the group s 'ln
mtal convention held lust week
in N'nmvik, Va. t Start on tb'-J.'
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el*J > ,
BA S TUINC HAKHIsrEBS -
Attorn* C .1. Gates ut Itar.nw
u»ui i., imao I. T ;<•! > -
Jeitl I ; <v h-»ve • .*<<-d flriot.
Uin«*() an*! relentless flgTtt io i.Avt
vht- life tis Raleigh Sjn tlcr !.';.., -
otiiu icled of criminal .. nut
on a white Bertie County its',
dent The two hare tih-,1 a>:!,c
appeal in the case eh.iiguig ju >
put I ureguD, itie.s in Value
Count* v. hoe the panel was
drav. n u; ,he latest trial tti thru
client.
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IJtVKOVING Dr 1., i De
laney. prominent KaieisK physi
cian whose conailinn was i-..-port
ed by officials ot St. A. .-.es Hcs
pita! as sitgntty miwtit-i. .i>ia
week f#ll<TO'i)){ a heart attack
lasi Saturday afternoon
* m r ' j
I'JVJ
ON COMMISSION —• The &«t.
li. Irving Bonne, pastor CenUa!
Baptist Church. Wilmington.
preriTi -nl of the Negro Cttifons'
Counrit of Wilmington, was ifcss*
week notifliej by the Mayos *
Ot’Ws'e of his appointment to *h«
City's Commission «n Vstt'ks rai
Recreation.
Th*s fuaiwisiiwi w compusnsd
of Wvr'n* ive members. iueu»d
iKjf three Negiws. Other N««rw
members, in addition to lht Ef>v
erenu ML are F. .1 E«s:eni,
pritK ipai of WiiiTioton Industrial
School and W. E. Bern, of U>*
* CenuMiaii} Boysi Club.