Three NCC Coeds Injured
In Scramble For Tickets
DURHAM —— Spectator space at future North
Carolina College games will be at a premium, col
lege athletic officials announced this week.
In a game at the college between the Eagles and
West Virginia State, three students were slightly in
jured bi a scramble at the ticket wudow.
C ollege nurse, Ruth Bibby, who gave the students
first aid, said they were: Nathaleiie Simpson, uS Ashe
ville; Vera Warrick, s/1 Selma, and Evelyn Whittaker
of Enfield.
Ihe three girls fainted and sustained slight
bruises about the legs. AH resumed classes luesday.
Dr. W. H. Robinson, chairman of the College
Athletic Committee, said the school employed three
city policemen to patrol the game area to avert the
minor disorder* which occur.
Athletic Director John B. McLendon said NCC
must adopt the A, and I. College plan of limiting
attendance at games to students and faculty until the
new basketball court is completed in the near future
A press photographer and news reporter were
among the estimated !(KHI persons refused admittance
after the game started. All seat:; were taken an hour
before game tune.
SHAW AFFAIRS
PLACED UNDER 5-
MAN COMMITTEE
A five -mrinU-i Interim Admim,-.-
tialive Committee to ,’Uide the af
fairs ol Shaw Ontveisity unfit a
new pies-aent c. eko-un wa„
1 ecu d Friday atlel aio.n at a foe, -i
--lUg id lilt- ExC'/litivi l.’> .Hi!fi litl e-!
the Board of Fr u K> ■ A nri'Ciner ■
merit of the sr-iecti-'-n wus made c>
Dr. C (' .Span'iding, Eye. umvc
Committee Chan man
The Interim Ceil: . it.it >- >• c- o:
posed of Dean W H. Sira-• .u; oi
the Shaw Univer,.ity Si-hi -1 of Re
ligion, Chairman- Dean Poster P.
Pavne of the Colleg? el Aits and
Sciences; Olenwood E. .lanes. Bus
iness Manager; W. H. Quarles, Jr..
University Secretary; and I)t. Nel
son H Harris. DirecUu of Educa
tion
The Committee will begin its
duties February j when President
Hebert P Darnel leaver to a-t time
the Presidency of Vtrgioi.i Starr:
College.
Dr. Spaulding, in investing the
committf-e. declared that "Under
(Continued on page g, lirst section)
‘Brutal’ Shooting Results
In 20 -Year Prison Term
4v, A .y'iHt-nee ot 20 years in the
State Pi Lon was handed out to
WiU|p < itOiir: tin . \vt-i t; m \v j,..e
Super > i (’Mii't, f.,i tlie shotgun
■/'footing of Wade T-.-.mg. -at
July.
Lighter s.t: litc-j i< s■■ ut from 8-10
years were given to Waiter (lodge,
and Willie Junes, who were found
guilty of aiding (Joins to escape.
Goins pleaded guilty ? oassault |
with intent to kill inflicting serious
injuries not resulting in death, \
while Jones pleaded guilty to a
Smalt Crowd Turns
Out For Klan
of a turnout of
over 2000 persons faded into
oblivion here Pen day u hen the
Hu Kins Klan held a long
promised public meeting, which
attracted a tune 200 spectators
Despite the public it y gi ten
the. meeting and the added at
traction of a personal appear
(lice by Imperial Wizard Pam
net ii Ropet of Atlanta, (la.,
<ix the main speaker, the meet
eng held, in a concrete bio- 1.
garage, failed, to attract the
targe group the hum had r >
pec ted.
The meeting itself was con.
ducted in an orderly fashion,
■with only one policeman patrol
illO the area on a motorcycle
Pie sent at the nice ting m
addition to Roper, were 00 rob
ed but unmasked Klansmen,
and dock Dempsey, an Augus
ta, On., liquor dealer .who was
identified ns the imperial re
presentat-ive of the Hina the
Pa rid incus and Virginia,
The chilli/ garage in which
the Klan met, is owned by
Tommy i Panther, i.disabled
World War II veteran, and
head of the Gastonia Ktaceni.
Panther, who has been ae
■ ‘five in attempting to set up o
Woman Asks 50G’s Balm
For Husband’s Lost Love
Washington, p. C. Usually ,
blase Washingtonians were shocked
rhis week when a socially prom
Jnent Negro woman filed a suit iri ■
District Court here, charging a ;
white woman w ith alienating the
affections of her husband and j
bearing him a child.
The action which asks ssu,o(io in
damages, was brought l»v Mrs. Olive
J. Perry, against Ruth Weyand. as
Blatant general counsel handling 1
Supreme Court litigation for the
National Labor Relatione Board. !
Mrs. Perry is be wife of Leslie
& Perry, legislative representative
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People.
In her complaint, Airs. Pen > ;
charged that Miss Weyand had 1
SPOUTS PAPER
Os robinsqn"
The constant rumor of Jackie
, kobiuson r. mpeiiding sate to ttie
. Burt ;n Braves, gained new nape
tar yesterday with the publication
! it; the Sporting Mew.-: of the pre
- diction that the second baseman
, I ivd'i be traded to the Boston team
The publication ■ ■ regarded rr
I something of an oracle in the base -
bale v.ori.i and it. prediction on
[ h . i i tile many rumors already in
. i’iiy:i lal ton add' f•, the tuhet that
’there may be real substance in the
1 trade talk.
It is believed that Robinson who
. received less than $20,000 last year!
-for iiis work, will ask Branch .
Rickey fur $50,000 for the current
year.
5 Rickey is known for never hav- ;
- uk paid any player that type of j
s-wary. de-pite any ,j.a ;:. v;. c r
- they displayed on the field
So far Rickey has laughed at
* the rumors but the report in the :
.Spurting News is believed tu cany •
more than a grain of truth.
charge of accessory after the fact.
Hod,>e wu: ti,<- only one c,i the
trio to plead innocent but a jury
lound him guilty
Th>' sentences 'were impeded by
Jite.ee Cktwi-.uti Williams. who
: t» rated the shooting "One of tin
most brutal acts 1 know of.”
The .'hootinr occurred last July I
: as Voung was entering his car utui i
| Roiesviile Coin:-: shot him and
when Young slumped to the j
I around. Goins shot him again, de- j
((Continued on page 8. first section> j
j Ktavern in Gastonia, has
claimed that he studied law at
| the University of North Caro
i Una for 14 months, but school
| officials said they had go rec
ord of Panther's ever haring
j attended the school.
At the meeting Roper told
las sparse audience that he re.
greited the meting place but
: that "pressure groups some
| tunes cause the Klan lack of
comfort
i ’ n/uest by the Klan far
use of the National Guard .1 r
mory. as a meeting /dace was
rejected at an eat tier date
DidUations that ail is not j
peaceful and sen tie within the
Klan itself. Here given when
Roper branded ’Torn Hamilton
| of Keesrille. R. as a “trail
i or" to the association of Geor
; gin Klaus.
Roper said Hamilton became
! angry when lie failed to get the
iat) as imperial ici-crd. and in
retaliation tor the insult, pull
ed tinny from the group and
started his own Klan.
Roper admitted that Hannl
i ton had succeeded in gaining
control of seven hla rents- in
Rnnth Carolina, but predicted
j that these groups would return
1 to the ‘‘Fold.'’
: "schemed" for four years to steal
i Perry’s affections, and to that, end
| had showered him with expensive
1 gifts, including an automobile, and
, had entertained him in her apart
; meat.
In commenting on the suit, Per
; ry said his wife had obtained a d,-
. vorre in the Virgin Islands, last
; August, and he had no further
! "comment whatsoever" on the case.
Mrs Perry is the wife of Leslie
hand and the defendant had com
mitted adultery between July 1947
and last April, and a child Pern
Weyand. w’as bom in the course
of the "illicit love affair " <
Identifying Miss Weyand, as a 1
person of "great wealth,” Mrs. Per- jj
(Continued on page 8, first section! I;
POLICE ACCUSED OF BRUTALITY
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volume xxix ualkioh, north Carolina week endinc Saturday, jani \u\ i i. i9:,0 no. nvvvrv-HRVEN
A A A A A A A A A ★ A' A A A A A A A A A ★ A
i BLAS T$
ACCEPTS NEGRO
I Austin Tex. (Special) Texas
; ffuiveit-.iiy ha : agreed to admit Xe
:gi ..■ ■ ,o the graduate and proies
‘ anvil schools of the university.
Dr. T. Painter, pieUdent of
.tin- iTmei-Tty of 'Texas said here
I kai urdfi.v, the initial procedure
called for the admission i»t Meg,roe.;
, on m i'.r-rgataat and limited basis,
j The iiuivei-siiv s capitulation on
the issue of admitting Negroes
ho tv ever is being widely viewed
Here and h.v NAACR official? in
New York a- an opening wedge
| which foreshadow* the evcnhei!
. overthrow of sa->-r- g-ti. s In >. • u>;
: ate and lirofesthoiiai nduOHfi.on In
!the South,
Accord mg tu preliminary tin
tiomu-emenr?., the first steps in tin
plan aii to be handled tc, Texas.
I niversity for Negroes, Houston.
Texas act inn is brine advanced
to nu-et Hie need; of ,-;tndents who
can not pet eoniparabiy adewuui"
facilities at Hie state utilversitj for
Negroes,
President Painter's* announce
j 'Continued on page ti. lis t section/
Violation of JC Law
Brings Senator 180 Days
Montgomery, Ala. -As an after
math to tie-, attempt lo enter a Bir
mitiftham building through the N-~
gro entrance, during; the 194 s presi
dential campaign, the Alabama
Court of A(i pea Is ruled this week
that Sen. (lien Taylor must serve
a ISO day jail sentence.
The sentence was imposed for
violat ion of Alabama's segregation ; •
law. j .
The Idaho Democrat, was origin- j .
ally convicted of disorderly con- ' -
duet in conned ion with a fracas •
at ,i Birmingham church, where a
youth meeting was being held dm i
ing the presidential campaign in t
which Taylor was running as vice-,!
presidentiai candidate on iiie Pro-
Citizens Association Sets !
Jan. 30th For Elections
The annual meeting; of the Citizens Committee, sche
duled for January MO, will he the setting for election ol
new .officers to head the organization,
The decision to hold the elections at that time was i
reached at a meeting of the group, Tuesday night at the
Ftl-.rodworth St. \. M. C. A., during which a nominating i
committee was formed.
Tin- nominating committee will
report o. the group at the annual
meeting on candidates, and the
election will follow.
Member;, on the oomrmtte are
Mrs. Hariett Smith Jones, Mr. L. H.
Roberts and the Rev. £. C. Law
rence, chairman.
The committee if. attempting to
obtain Mr L. E. Austin, Durham
publisher a;: guest speaker at the
meeting, which will be ht-ici at one
us the local churches
During the meeting, trie possibi
lity of an investigation of Raleigh
hospital:- wa.; approached, but no
definite action was taken. The
Committee is particularly interest
ed in an investigation of the hig.i
coat of hospital c-ave 'hat ha. in
sulted in denial o' service t.*» per
sons unable to sff-itd the cost.
At the meeting n progiam lAuri
mittee was also set up for the an
nual program. Member- are W. L
t ’remi, chairman; P it. jei-vay, and
Miss Vivian Irvin. Tuesday night’s
meeting was presided over by Mr,
E. L. Raidoni, present president.
Happy Khmer New Year.
r.ressive party ticket.
At tin meeting Taylor attempted ,
to enter tile building through the
Negro entrance but wan stopped by j
police, h; (he melee Unit followed
lit* was arrested and taken lo jail
Taylor said lie attempted to go i
through the entrance to test the !
■Urn Crow laws of the state, but city •,
officials refused to consider the
case as anything more than one of
disorderly conduct
in commenting on iris sentence.
Taylor has promised to carry the
tight to the Supreme Court, and i
luh next step in the tight to win
acquittal is an appeal to the Stan-
Appellate Uourt,
i Off /*' #Tptf
'jiSinyofs Os I fITBB |
Hunted By Possee
' i
1 t Kosciusko, Miss, An ever io-
I creasing search continued here to
• j day for two white escaped con-
I vic-ls, who brutally shot to death
j three small children sad critically
. ; wounded their father and sifter in
, j what police called a “revenge mur
der."
A posse of over 100 white nu n
is methodically searching this area,
seventy-five mile:; northeast of
- in the- search for the men
A man who was known to have t
| broken jail with the other two fa
j Ritireo, was arrested in a drunken
! stupor, near Louise, ’Miss a few t;
j mileo west of the murder scene. |
i but he has denied knowledge of j 1
1 the kißicgs. i
Winners in the "Doll Party’’
held at ttie Richard B. Harrison
Rubin library reading from left
ft* right:
Barbara Taylor, bate Faton,
" iiiilil Pretty, Beth l uruage ana
seated is Cheryl Hamlin.
FALSE STORY
NETS iVSAN
JAIL SENTENCE
IH’RfiA V The pitiful tale
u fTA-peat aid man used to o 0
tarn money (eon: sy a) jWlth et in
at owns, here, was exposed as
a fraud, this week. It hen Judge
.1. R Wilson sentenced the
man lo twelve months an the
toad, sue soliciting aid under
false pretenser,,
The man, William Hunter an
iiis arrival in Durham. claim
ed tto.it he had been chased
tram his farm in Georgia by
the Hu Hlwr Klan, and had
be n unable to obtain money
for his last farm crop
li until scat that he had es
enjjed the urc.th of tht organ
i a Han u ith hi s wife a nil nine
children, and the Her 11. M.
Harp rates unit his congrcga
(ion raised nearly S4O to aid
Hunter, hefote it aas gi. cui
(•red that his story nils false
Tbi' ileail are Sonny Harris, Jk.
Nell Harris, -I. and Mary McAtte,
7, a hail sister of the other chil
dren. The wounded arc Thomas
llarri., the f.ttliei of the dead ctiii
dren, arid another daughter, Ver
lette, 15.
Doctors reported that. Harris,
who was wounded in the hark and
lung ha.- scant chance for recov
ery.
According to police, the slaugh
ter was clearly u revenge act
against the Negroes who had the
three men arrested Im-.t month for
raiding and plundering their home.
In addition to Malcolm Whitt the
other two men were identified as;
Wendell Whitt, ana Won Turner.
’ Masked Groups Flayed
As Tarboro Votes Ban
9:i rbuiv C Uollowing the
lead of other North Carolina cities,
in tin fight against tile Ku Kiux j
Klan. She Tallinn: City Council this j
week passed an ordinance prohibit- :
tin- gathering of masked persons, j
The passage of the ordinance was i
the.result of a strongly worded re- j
solution submitted to the Council, j
by t.he Tarboro Ministerial Associa- i
tion, which asked that the Klan be
Out la Wed.
i p to the present the Klan has
made no overt attempts to organize I
in Tarboro, tint the ministers ask- j
ed for the resolution to forestall ;
i any possible attempts at organiza-I
lion, |t
The statement asking for the ban L
State Charges Man
Aided in Woman’s Escape
The trial of Silas Chapman, of Method,* N, on |
•charge of obstructing justice continued over into a second
j day when the Wake County Superior Court, adjourned
j late yesterday before completion of the trial.
The state is charging Chapman with obstructing odj'eers j
! rent to arrest Aldonin C.ofield of- Method, on a cutting \
' charge last October. j
(The Whiffs arc brothers, and po- J
. | lice identified Turner an a not or- i
| ions dead shot who recently com-i'
i pitted a teii year jail sentence.
The three men broke out of jail
here December SO, when they tun
neled to fn” dont with a knife and j
cun. opener. They had all been jail - j
ed on charges try the Harris fa*t- 1
ily, that, they broke into their home, j
stole .-.ome money and attempted
to rape Verlene.
in telling police what happened,
Harris raid that the three men
came to his tenant house on a than j*
tai.ion near Newport, late Sunday j
| night.
j Harris said'Turner told Him thrd j*
! tContinued on page 8, first section) »
NOSUPPORf FOR
HATE GROUP
Wll .M l>.t; Tu. . S i - Warniiig;
. that the ku Klux Klan will find
no official support or sanction for
'the. establishment of a Klavern
here, wc-i e ii>ued this week by of
ficials of the Wilmington ami New
Hanover County governments.
Officials made their stand clear,
'shortly ar'ler Tommy Paiifli'M’, of
Gastonia. district organizer for the
Klan, an no title < <-j plans to set up
a Klavern it) Wilmington, 1
! The si rougest anll-K'fan state
moot came from City Manager
| It. Ben on, who said “The Ku Klux
Klan will not in- toR rated here, if
; v.ft do hot have sufficient laws to
| prohibit its activity Then I certain
will ask the Council for such laws
as are net essary. There is no place,
for the activites of the Kl;«i In r> • “
Officials disapproval of the Klan.
followed by a few hours the burn
in;.: of a cross and the hanging of
;< life sized dummy in ’lie front,
yard of a Negro church at McCum
ber’s station,
The area of the cross burning
: (Continued on page 8, first section 1
on the Klan was approved unani
mously by the city council.
The statemenl read m part :
i ‘if has come to the 'attention of
; Iho Ministerial Association of Tar
1 boro that the Ku Klux Klan has
expressed its intention of organiz
ing in North Carolina. Feeling that
the Klan and other similar organ
izations are such whose main prin
ciples are to promote racial and
religious hatred which degrades
tins btinboi of the Christian faith
in burning a cross during its ne
farious activities, that it presumes
to administer just ice outside the
law, and that it violates the rights
and freedom, of individuals under
<C >nth ued on pa&t , first section)
Specifically Chapman is alleged j
to have helped Mies Cofielrt to es- j
! cape arresting officers. The woman 1
j managed so escape but was later |
I recaptured and sentenced to al2
! iiinniid prison term.
! The arresting officers told the ;
I court yesterday ihat they had gone I
|to Method to arrest Miss Onfield j
i.-ul when she resisted arrest. Chap- .
mail arid several other persons
came to her aid.
The officers said that the dis
turbance attracted a large crowd, j
ouu that when Miss Cofield get a
way from them and entered her >
home, the doorway was blocked to j
them, by Chapman and aevrat oth i
ei persons. !
They said they did not try to j
force an entrance for fear of stir
‘ring up the crowd, and when they
found out. that the woman had es- !
raped through the house, they ar- |
rested Chapman and another man. j
irWOOFFiOERS
i
Despite bis story of having been
beaten by tw.> poikvmen, Paul Can
field of Garner, received a sis
I mouths suspended sentence and a
j *25 fine on a disorderly conduct
I rkjJvyyv.-'y. • ... ,
PA I'l, Cal FIELD
chat ee in City Court, on Tuesday.
Canfield, u former employee of
the State Memal Institution, Ra
b’ich, vas originally charged with
disord’-riy conduct. a srili, and re.
•CsMog .sece, Ik;; the other two
charges were dismiss'd.
Appearing >n rear! still wearing
a bandage over the head wound lie
ro < . ■ d N"\v Years day C„ afield
! con funded the! he had been beaten
fir'd by C. W. Pile, a it liman
| am! special policeman at the lnstl
j-t ion, arid again by Price and
| County Sheriff Turner,
j Canfield said Brio.- v- >■■ ;
jilt the temple. eausim'
j that required throe s*; : .
I that while he was bei- -
Mai! both Price trod Ter. ■
j him
The thirty-siv v»ar <'T >»•«*•, wh .
war empinved ji the loaf! 1 niton
\ m Wfcjf < r ji\ ■. i • ],,'{ *; f- v/;rs VorVI ;
; ''Continued on pay ' 8, fi. t seciiOt
* S i«ft J 0 U ST! hE S
fell r ' y; h& i k
The S2ml annlv wary of the
i opening of Sr. Augustine's College
tttli he observed on Friday and
| Sunday, January JS and 15, in con.
jnection with the regular* chape!
| services. 9 a.ni. Friday and 11:30
a.m. Sunday.
The Rev George A. Fisher will
conduct the Friday exerciser;, and
the Rev. Wendell M Pasco, rector
of St. Philip’s Church, Grand Ra
pids, Mich., will conduct the Sun
day services both at 7:30 and 11:30
a.m.
August trie's was granted its
charter of incorporation by the
State of North Carolina July 19.
1807, and opened its doors for in
struction on January 13. ISOS, with
two teachers and four pupils ft
was incorporated to operate as a
“norma! school and collegiate insti
tute."
Years later it became a iunior
college, and in the year 1931 the
i-s were awarded bv the institu
tion as a college, and in 1931 tire
first degrees were awarded by the
institution as &• full four year col
(Continued on page 8, first section)
FOB NEGROES
New York (ANP> Theann. nl
“Balance Sheet of Race Relations,”
released here recently by the N. A.
A, c. p„ viewed 1949 ns a year of
“good gains' for the Negro in this
country. The report a seven-page
document issued hv Roy Wilkins,
acting N'AAfM 1 executive secretary,
treated with ihere point?:
! a. Failure of Congres * to enact
federal civil rights legislation.
is. Hi nfenres of progress m
sfafr legislation alone; this line,
v Political development.
j n Cowl decisions.
i f:., Lymehings,
r, Reconni'ion of personal- me
rit of ,Y rrjroes.
The report accused a coalition
l-of Republican? ,md southern Demo
|, ruis of voting “further obstacles
| to securing effective cloture rules”
Sin Congress, and pointed out tlmt
i the failure to enact federal civ!!
i rights with the increase In w®m*
• “has made if nrop-"-'
| ally more difficult” Mr
; obtain Jobs. In New York *ut
;of every five members of !-.?>• ,• !
: a roups seeking work h«« yw-ort-’d
i some form of dK<*ri«uni«ion.
spite the state’s PEWT law.
j llowc-'or, the report arnjej The
jio states which adorned FISTO »•' .> •
j fines, ft mentioned AVaßiiugfob,
I Oregon, New Mr*w, -nd RfioA® Ts
! i.-rd for their FKRC laws: New
i Jersey for it additional civil right a
' legislation: Wisconsin and Illinois
I for lows banning segregation In
i schools: and tin* 10 states which
; hav.- adopted measures to abolish
j segregation in ihe nations! guards,
i (Continued on page 8, first sc-cUou) I