SCOTT PLEDGES “FAIR DEAL
HE’LL SPEAK: Dr. Vlplionso
Elder, president of North (
Hna College. Durham. will be
the principal speaker at the pre
liminaries to The Tost Colony's
»nnaat Negro Citizens' Day '*»
Water*-ide Theatre, ,’VTanteo, frt
day night. July 21 Or. S. O. Hi!
Ham-, president of Elisabeth fit
r»a«;hers College, will t,l\ o par
ticipate in *he anno a! fete.
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HAPPENED
IN
CAROLINA
Wife Nets fprm
RA* EIGH V 45-vpar old
f if* has been found guilty of
i mufier ht the second degree in
Wake superior 1 ourt and
sentenced to a Isl *o r; year
prison I'rm for the meat cleav
er slaying of her 70-year-t*J<d
husband.
Mrs. (ora Mitchell Void the
Wake court that she hit h»r
husband on the head with a
Cleaver *r» May after he h<l
hit her with a stick or a poker
during an argument.
S~f notice of appeal of th*
sentence was given.
Child A "First ‘
KINSTON '. £ vuld ft .!*& >e-r
old child will neves know.’ that m
ta* small span of hi< life he set ~
lir.-t'' record
Little William Franklin Wither
spoon be on in** the first resident of
Kindon ■ die m > traffic accident
since October. 1948 when \c w.
struck by . car drr>*>. n bv Wtihe
o Utcers h ..»ve re
the accident was un
tto mffin a truck musing ilaog
tn front of Gardner's automobile
It was ’u '.possible for Gardner t ,
see the tiny tot bet ore hitting him,
investigation -hawed
They’ re Out Now
RALEIGH - - Included among the
persons released from Central i |
son on Parole this week are Dixit-
Brown, 30. who was convicted in
November. 1949, in put County of
abandonment and non-support to
cosecutive terms of six and 13
months, and Will Miller 2‘X con
victed m November 1948 in Ruth
erf ordt-on Superior Court of larceny
of an automobile, and assault with
a deadly weapon. He was sentenced
to serve three to five years on die
roads.
Traffic Victims
WINSTON-SALEM lnju
red in traffic accident during
the past ween were tour-year
•MypfcWre.vi Prince ot Hit East
fwwwtfft Street, and Samuel
a****, #B. of 1309 East Third
S*r«w*.
luile Mr. Prince was injured
when hit l y a car driven by a
Reidsi Hie minister on Sunday
afternoon while crossing the
t street.
Air. Roane was also hit while
crossing the street. He was
struck by a truck driven by
Hugh Dodson ot 692 Vargrave
Street on Saturday afternoon.
Youth Killed
GOLDSBORO - Gene Durham,
14. whose home is listed a» Brook
lyn, New York, was killed five
miles east of Goldsboro Sunday
'■•hen struck by a car being driv
en by Mrs Thelma Thomas of Ra
leigh.
The youth vas riding a bicycle
when struck, investigators say. and
died when Mrs. Thomas lost con
trol of her car after being stung
by a bee
An inquest was scheduled this
week.
SPBEO
WaPUpon lANP) Mrs. Mary
Church Terrell, a prominent lect
urer and civic leader, was one of
five persons who received certifi
cates of honor last week by the
~ Washington chapter of (he Ameri*
w» cans for Democracy Action:
Approximately 500 presons wit
nessed the presentation of awards
which were made at ADA’s fourth
annual garden party held last Sat
urday at the home of Mr and. Mrs.
Alfred Friendly.
THE CAROLINIAN
avKvv’
24 Pages
VOLUME XXIX
Facilities At N.C. College At
Durham Inadequate - Elder
* * b k jk k A r k k- '-k A A A As
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DIVORCE!* AND Wljl”: Pop
ular rumor in Winston-Salem
has it that Mrs. Vl,arb Strange
Burns popular socialite and
teacher, has been divorced from
her husbnad. James Burns, Safe
Bus Co., auditor, and is a recent
Medic, Awaiting His
Trie l, Kills Self
! WILLIAM AT ON - A 14-year-old
! physician. awaiting trial fm mur
der of lus nurse, is dean himself
this week, victim of his own hand
Heath name to voting Hr, Ed
ward L. Karl v, Ir.. following
what investigators have term
ed 'a long seigr with the spec
tre of death” on last Thursday
night He died after administer
ing the eontenis of three bot
tles of chloroform and the con
tents of several sleeping tab
let containers to himself vo
cally.
Dr Early was awaiting trial for
AXE-SLAYEB
jNABBEOIN
iLOUISBIIRG
1 1 LOUISBUFtO A 32-year-old
-j farm worker i.s being charged here
> j with murder i.i the commission of
!the most hieuous '-nine to take
i ! place here in many years the
icrime of butchery of a human body
Fai.iny ehnryes is Roy l.r.on
iirri, mho ran been inileil pend
•ny trial for the siryiny i'i<l
die memberment of the body at
j his wife. .1 nnie May. :;n.
f ! The woman's body, dismembered
.land placed i.i three burlap baits,
j iwas taken from a well near the
. house where the couple had been
jjllving for a few days on last Tues
- day. The body, bearing gunshot.
|wounds, was cut into three sec
- t.ions, with the torso, the Hips and
s the head, arms and legs being plae*
:i ed in separate packets.
-i Loral law enforcement "PM’
rers first become aware of a
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| NORTH CAROLINA’S LEADING WEEKLY
RALE!OH, NORTH CAROLINA WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 22. 1'.*50
t-ride The identity of the new
husband is unknown, ml no con-
S'irniatinn of the marriage an
iioui emeiit was forthcoming
trot the former Mrs Burns now
in New York, nor .Mr. Burns.
the pistol slaying of his house-
Keeper ’u.: e. Miss Odessa Keys ~n
May He is said to have stain
Miss Keys during a fit of jeal
ousy Inwin; her return from i
baselae game with '“the other
man.’ ! on SS.(KK) bail, he was
awaitii x trial in the next term
of Superior Court here.
FOCNiI BY MOTHER
Dr Early, a native of Washing
ton. D C who had been a practie
Ing physician here lor ten years,
.was discovered in a dying con
dition by his mother at about 11:30
Thursday night The elder Mrs
Man, It Must’ve
Been Hot Outside
WINSTON-SAI EM SLihiH
lordan and Ella Fitzgerald had
their .say with the weather
"hen they recorded the tune
Baby, it's (old Outside.”
An unidentified “second-story
man” had something of a, say
of Ids. own here last w eek when
lie entered the home of Miss
Sara Holmes at 705 S-2 East
Ninth Street and tried to show
her without, saying a word that
il was hot outside and in.
Miss Holmes awoke one morn
ing Ins! week to find a mart
sitting on the edge of her bed
l Continued On Page 8 1
Inside This Week j
SECOND THOUGHTS Sec. p. *
IN THIS OUR DAV See J, p. t
THIS IS IT See. 3, p. s|
GORDON HANCOCK, Sec. J, p, 41
EDITORIALS Section 1, I*, i
POUT BRAGG Set. 2, Pp. 1-3
THEATRES Set ?., Pp. 4-5
SPORTS Set Pp. 16-171
FARM NEWS Set. 2, P. 11!
WOMEN’S WORLD Set. ?„ p. 7
STATE GIS IN AC
BUDGET GROUP
HOMED
FIR eun DINGS
zzMnmMmsm
DURHAM- An impassioned pica
for more and better buildings for
the jte's mam-supported Negro
college was sounded here bust Tues
div by President Aiphoi: ; o Elder
■H. N<n to C <•• ’ll'.!: 1 Coliege as th".
’ State Advisory Budget Committee
ttickT* foui of roApecti'jn oi ■Hi ■
l £tc:i{ plant
it, i;,ioer told the V mum. •%
! at least three new buddoig.-
wf.uld be required immediately by
the roll" **» if it were to c<>rv»j
"• . . I ■
r., x 1 with t, i> e same can tare ot
service it has rendered before
Sj'-'. .ficrUly "urUned ' needs tor
the college were •» Bioivy Build
tar'. .in Education Building and a
Commerce Building
the state Bad eel Commis
sion. niiking a biennial tour of
college plants and other state -
supported hvsUtytios heard fit
Kidri declare that the situation
at North Carolina College "■>
"critical" in the need *»! >hr
eotntnc rce. seience and eduea
:,i->s ! oil ding facilities. He *it l -
♦ her showed documented evi
dences f, t other needs of the
on the present science Roild
eollcge including renovations
inn and the 4 tlm itiistr utint
Building.
Continued On Page 8 ;
Early summoned a doctor mri Ne
uojjc, wrifi found lise v letim dt’;-d
on arrival.
Mrs Early had returned to Wil
liamston with her son who hart
been ■> visitor in the Early home
in the Nation's Capital
During the decade he hid
been in practice here. Dr. Far!-,
had gained the respect and con
fidence of the townspeople un
til recent domestic trouble arose,
leading eventually to his com
mon-law alliance with Miss
Keys and her murder.
Funeral services were scheduled
for Washington.
Mother, 21, Births
Quints; All Five Die
Well, Dog-Goned
KINSTON lf the dog had
gone when she Sold them in
i< nefer would have happened.
But now Mrs. Lizzie Wiggins,
51. will have, to face trial for i
fatally injuring her neighbor
while faking a pot shot at a
which bad been bothering her. i
Mrs. Wiggins tee rd off with
a shotgun when dugs began
j fighting in her yard It is not |
reported whether or not she
hi! (he dogs, but she did. hit
Eugene Williams, a j5-ycar-old
neighbor, who died later from
loss of blood, Mrs. Wiggins wilt I
I be tried in August.
| Five other persons were
splattered by gunshot pellets
>,~'f wßv
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< HARMING BRIDE T O-Bf —
Miss Thelma lonise Wallace,
aL»v« is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs John H. Wallace, Wilming
ton. and het engagement to Sgt.
Walter I, Young, stationed at H
~. ANDTHEY
SAY THAT TIME
MARCHES ON ~.
WINSTON-SAI f>l V wife >v
facing (riiil. and, the husband, will
1 liobbie around a while simply be
came they didn't agree on the
lane to leave a part, olive report
ed here fhts week.
Kiting prosecution for the al
leged shooting of her husband
is Mrs Lottie Barnes, who, po
lice say, shot Benjamin Barnes
twice in the leg when they dis
agreed on what time to leave
a local house party.
Mrs Barnes contend 1 that her
.-rouse wantifvto nudge her on her
way home from the festivities with
a razor. She shot him in defense,
she adheres
f'ontimiert On Page 8)
• Wir.f .IAM3TON —A ?! year old
nintJii'r tin’ main actoi in two dru
itwis involving m \ iple births
v itohoct her newly-born quint u*
iPle! die here last week, joining
in Eternity three of a -(roup o t
jquadrirplrt.; born to her four years
i ago.
The young mother, Mrs. vi
ols. Kogers Brown, gave birth
i to the quints, three boys and
*mti girls on Wednesday. All
died shortly after birth. Mrs.
Brown mothered quadruplets
, when she was 17 years of age.
One of them, Oonnic, still lives
Attending the youthful matron \
jWas Miss Carolina Stalls, who re- j
| ported that all the babies were!
(horn within an hour. They report-I
jecily were six and a half months !
ideveloped and would have had a j
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NO. 32
Bragg, n. < is announced by her
parents.Sg >, Young is the son of
.Mrs Kthel G. Young, Raleigh.
Miss Wallace is >< senior at • • w
University. Raleigh
‘Forward Program
For All People-St ? » t
(IPEENSBORO Speoking before
the assembly of Negro I-H Clubs
u A and T College here Tuesday.
North Carolina’s Go vet nor W. Kerr
Scott pledged to the Negro race a
“fair deal" by declaring that no race
lino is going to be drawn in hi.s
“Go Forward Program" for North
Carolina
The Governor, main speaker
at the t-H Club Week exer
cises being held at the lor-ni
college declared that "North
Carolina is mindful of its pen
ile, all of its people," and that
his roads and other programs
would be administered through
state governmental functions
Next Week
A CAROLINIAN j
XSmSSBSSBk j
TALKED WITH
CLYDE BROWN”
BV SANDRA MASON BROWN
A CAROLINIAN REPORTER’S
STORY or THE HOY ACCUS- ’
ED OF BEATING BETTY
JANE CLIFTON IN WINSTON- j
SALEM’S CURRENT INI AM- |
OUS CASE.
V. , ( -.. •v, ' : v<- W '^isf
■ a,,—.,—. nii'vnvM.T.asr’ -v,, :
HONORED
Mrs. Collie Huston Lee, who
is librarian at the Richard B. Har
fixon public library and -upfti
visor of North l arolina Negro
pulie libraries, V|rs, fee !i,<r] the
STATF M isl
iSTMDG
INFO«
This, week .-• order to mown the
farmed Ifith Ttii-intr-, 'Tronic t'.igut.
nuir! Divi;-,i.”t) into the fighting
/.ode. in Korea give the assuran
that Tan Yknks from North Coro
iinn ate moving into action in tlm
Asiatic War
The- 25th Division »i; ordered
advanced from staMon in Japan in
the O.e k " area <T' ’the be hie?, or' 1
■yhen Anver lean troor-s vuecee-cied
m making an amphibious larding
on 'be Korean tnainiad.
Thi? Division, under the corn
mapd if Major * General William
B Kr included -om° ot Amer
ica'• top Negro tigmt'ng men.
j eluding mam* from North Carou ' l,
These men. fully treined . *•
tlm u'f . 1 modern battle ha* -
been on occupation duty in .Tapao
! Since the yl'-SC of W al'ld Writ : I
land we con idered the cieorn of
| the Infantry.
The 23tta is one of the battle
scarred veterans of the pacific
,Campaigns Stationed at Pearl Ha'
• bor op December 7 1941 hie r» r '
of the Ti-npi'c l igiitnina Divi ."i
i’vcr‘ : pres, ed p-ao combat cuts.' c-i
i R-Tchctely. After tafcin*-* par’ -n
the (Ujadaic.iriul Cam'paign. the Di
vi'-lou moved uc through ’ e■>*
Getu Vella La Vella Arun-dei
and K.o. 1 'uangara. Through its par
tieipati u, in the Luzon < >mpai m.
the 25th was instrumental in the
liberation of the Philippine:
Continued On Rage s
without regard to 'race, rdig
ton or the way von voted.”
(HiS GRAHAM
Tiie Gov'-cum intimated th-d. ••••
is not little pleased about the
come of th« recent U S. Senator) rt
Primary voting. A stuunrli support •
a of incumbent Senator Frank >'
Graham, the state's chief execute,
said “The people of this state r
cently turned down the best friend
the common man ever had ’
Citing hi* program of rural
electrification, the Govcrnty
asked the lot) persons in atten
dance the number of them liv
ittg in homes still without elec
tricity, About i dozen hands
Youths To T rial
|
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! "MARSHALL PLAN OF mrv,"
j . . Senator Herbert Lehman i~
j in favor of bill designed *o art
j up "Marshall Plan of Ideas’ In
1 bill Eeils, —•
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I Til! Tianfdm ad S ibSSQUSt
jdeatli of the f’r-U-.w 'outh repor
led! ■ a<■ •'.■■■■ ' r nue.r'e! dsg«
jhrtwef-:-. -r • oaths a: *:■<? y
jcreetm-n faeiht - Turner r Ti.-e 1
p ■. igftged in the fig■ - 1 ••
vhl'.'h F"lif ’ a-. i i!m Turn*
also bad - i-b-i, i 1 is reported,
Court appoint-a ntt-irneys ft
the voutht I defenrlents are Atto'
in \ Mari - , I,upton and AttomU
Fred F tii ish, Jr. ...