VIOLENCE TAKES 6 LIVES
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The FIRST; .1. S. ST! H7VRT.
prominent young businessman
and civic leader of Rnrham. is
the first Negro ever to he non
*d a member of the North Car
olina Democratic Executive t o»»-
mittee (Sec storv this page;
'EXODUS' STARTED
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%■ STATE ADVISORY BUDGET
f COMMISSION VISITS N. <
COLLEGE President Alfonso
Eldler of North Carolina College,
Durham, N. C.. extreme lett, is
shown here pointing out sites for
buildings in the proposed two
million dollar expansion program
to members of the state Advisory
Budget Commission, the Com
mission visile i the miiejrp last
week as a part of its biennial
summer tour of State institutions
Members of the Commission are,
• left to right, I’rank Turner,
x- Larry I. Moore, I) S. Coltrane.
D Harry B\ Caldwell, Edwin Fate,
P A, C Edwards and IV. Crank Tay
lor
WIFE ASKS LOOT
FROM POLICY ON
AiUNG HUBBY
RALEIGH—A suit was filed in
Wake Superior Court here this
week by a wife who claims that
she is entitled to receive the mon- i
ey from a policy on her husband, ,
a physician, who is now an inmate
of the State Hospital at Goldsboro, i
Fifing the suit against the
physician. Dr. John Thomas
Wortham, at* i the Pilot Life
Insurance Company, is Mrs,
Celia Jeffries Wortham, who |
says that she lias paid the pre
whims on * S.flnn endowment
policy which matured, in March
since 1029, two years before
her husband was admitted to
the State Hospital as an in
ebriate.
Mrs. Wortham contends that her :
husband wo;; a" prosperous and j
popular phvsician" at the time of
their marriage, but that her hus- 1
~-band’s condition made it manda- j
■ lory for him to remain at the State’s
, ;< »cilitv during l the period between I
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Lenoir Schools
Sell For $635
AT.VSTO.V — It anybody bad
kv<MjfL>\t'd to hint up the Umro
i-h Lenoir county — fire
»jnHw nui/’iap. they could
no 7nst week tor the
*mwm low price of s«3fi
That $«35 represents the u
mount naid hp the kin best bid'
dec at the auction last peek i> *
live ifil.riuidat6d find outmoded
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THE CAROLINIAN
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VOU \j} * xxiX KALEKiIf. ‘.'ORTH CARO! IP AV. i-.KK [tN Dl'-C SAT I 'R.DAY. 41 LY 29, 1950 NO. 33
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K C. Mutual Finances
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Tenn Durham Homes
DURHAM The North Carolina
.Mutual Life Insurance Company
this week agreed to invest SIOO,OOO
in jointly financing a housing pro
ject for Negroes in Memphis. Tenn.,
and is underwriting -i local pro
ject it has been announced by W
.1 Kennedy. Jr, vice-president 'and
aeerelary of the firm.
The -Hull,OOP Mr. Kennedy said,
r*. presented hall of the amount
that would be needed to finance
the construction of the homes in
the Tennessee, city which will be
known as EiUstou Heights.
The other hat! of the amount
it mis pointed- out a ill he ad
. rallied by the ! nivcrsul Fife
l n.iuroncc Votnpuny, which has
its home of fire in Memphis.
According to thi announce
i mint, some v,,i homes will he
hi lilt. They will he sold mid the
' loo insurance firms uill hack
l the inti ini dud I mortalities of the
[iii n f rise) s
The Federal Housing Adintnistra"
: tion, Mr. Kennedy said, has already
granted its approval to the project,
jit was noted, with conation tion al
ready underway. Hales on th**
; houses it was noted, will begin
;c soon as each unit is completed
j DURHAM PROJECT
Tile firm, Mr. Kennedy further
’averted, has agreed to also finance
the construction of ari apartment
< building project in Durham.
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| Housing Project Is
Slated for Gastonia
j GASTONIA---A $750,009 housing.
j project for Negroes will be under
construction, soon
I
According *o pin tin fisted hy :
lifiinid Dos ter and Aasocatex
all preliminaries have hern
cleared irilh the Federal Hous
■ri Auth i -it for the projc'l,
■ad mo/7 Kill net underway as
soon as possible,
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MANY GENERATIONS
When freshmen enroll at I'isk
in ,September 1950 there will be
two inirrl - generation Hskltes
represented - Ynlatide Duho\<e
Williams, of faltiinove, Mary
land and Joape lohnsnu, if Flint
Michigan.
YoUnrie Muftois Williams,,
grandaughter of Dr. W. E, B
Dlißoi.se class of 188 and daugh
ter of Mrs Tolande Dußois WH-
The ip'oiect. icinch Kill eon- ;
tain 125 apartments, uni! be
. .‘oiijf > i/r h a at the Garden type
! similar to the project which
nax recently (tpm ared for
Asher itte
RBUEVB SHORTAGE
A considerable shortage in hotm-1
ling facilities foi Negroet hud been j
' noted in the vicinity. Mr Doeter ’
iiarn*, class n(. 1921, is the recip
ient of scholarships from Epsilon
Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority, Phi Delta chapter of
Baltimore, an 1 Fisk University.
Joanr Johnson is the grand
daugther of the late Dr William !
N. Deßerry, class of 18915 and
Mrs. Amanda McKi.ssack Deßer- j
ry. class of 1897 Normal, and
daughter of Mrs. Ann Deßerry
Johnson, former student.
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I e.nnoucfsd. and be (eels that the
I -project will go far to alleviate, the
situation.
The coir ti action will begin
on the ten-acre tract at land
recently pv/r cased tram Oscar
Belt The tract is just north
i east of the Gastonia. city limit#
on the North Broad Ft>ret ex
i tension- 1
CITIZENS HEED
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By IJN HOLLOWAY
RALEIGH Concerted efforts
bv CAROLINIAN reporters to find
if the current Korean situation had
any influence on the lives of North
Caiolina's million Negroes reveal
ed the startling fact that an Exodus;
of vet mall, but still notable pro
portions ■' taking place in the
Tv’ ’ie and : ;tern portions of the
, vote
% North C r Mina oit tens are bevig
lured to the West Coast, to the
i Pennsylvania steel works districts
and to the Norfolk and Wilming
j i ton . hipning sectors by the pron.-
! tse of wartime" wapes
: The same phenomenon took
since at the beginning of the annu
lment period preceding World Wis
IT. when thousands of citizens of
ih» ; *ate migrated to the larger
industrial and shipping centers At •
Tie same time during that, period.
: the North Carolina area was;
swamped with residents of states i
further South who were seeking!
and given employment at the va
1 tr>us< military instalments, etc.. ■
which were constructed and rencs
v.hi c to handle conscuptees and
service unit, regulars.
Curiously, the CAROLINIAN
survey revealed, many of North
Carolina recent high graduates are
also taking part in the Exodus
not to the lush industrial centers, I
however.
Through Raleigh streets daily
march nearly half hundred youths j
who tome to the local Recruiting!
centers for processing.
These youths, mostly from the
area composing the Sixth Congres- j
sional District of the state, are!
being speedily dealt* with through !
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floiGs lie
cause OF
STATE DEATHS |
j !
i RALEIGH During the period !
iof single week, the lives of at j
j least six Negroes have been claim
led by violence within the bounds
|of the state of North Carolina
| Automobiles claimed the lives
|of four of there people, while a
i single drowning and a "shooting
; combined to complete the totkJ
! YOUTH DROWNS
j Dead of drowning in Goldsboro
jis t 2 year old Amos Smith, Jr.,
who died in the murky depths of
a sand hole near the hiehway at
j Broad hurst Bridge last. Thursday.
According to reports, the hoy
‘■lipped awa* from his father
at*l grandfather who were pul
-1 ting tn tobacco about » 1.08
yards away from the scene of
(he fatality.
! The father was made aware of
j what happened only when one
of the companions of the youth
in the swimming trip came and
j fold him that. Amos had not
j come on when he jumped into
j the bole.
! The lad was drowned at about
one o'clock in the afternoon. The
body was discovered five hours
later.
TFACHFR KIM Ell
; Mrs. Efie Johnson Lessitet', a
[school teacher of Chapel Hill, was
killed near the University city on
Host Frfdav night when the car in
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Demo Committeeman
RALEIGH— Conspicuous by ho
presence at the meeting of the
State Democratic Executive Corn,
inittee here Tuesday was J. S
Stewart, prominent young busi
nessman of Durham, md first No-
I gro ever to be a Democratic Com -
!mi freeman in the state of North
i Carolina
Perusal of old records failed
to reveal one ‘■ingle instance
in the past when a Negro was
so honored by the state’s fore
most political party.
During the Reconstruction Days
when Negroes were in lofty po
litical positions, the majority of
[them were members of the Repub- ■
jlican Party and therefore were in-
I eligible to serve on democratic
! committees.
Mr. Stewart, chairman of the
Durham Committer on Negro
Affairs, spearheaded ttic regis
tering of some 8,000 Negroes in
Durham in the recent US sen
atorial and local Primaries, and
has been active in civic and
political activities in Durham
for a decade and a half.
He headed the Durham Com
i mitten during Governor Scold’s
[successful campaign for the gov
ernship; was formerly on the Dur
20-G Damages \
| Awarded Man
i RALEIGH—A local man who was ;
maimed when struck by a drunk
en driver was granted S2O/100 dam
ages by the Wake County Superior
Court this week
Jessie Hunter, following a
hearing of civil action he
brought against Lewis Alton
Itronnks. white, was granted
$16,000 actual, damages and
SWIMM'NS POOL
IS PROJECTED
IN HICKORY, NC
HICKORY —A site has been do
nated for the construction of a
Negro swimming pool here ,!t was
learned this week.
The announcement was made
by Mrs. Don Hoyle, president
of the Hickory Junior Women's
(Hub. who said that the pro
jected, snnmtning facility for
the uxe of Negro citizens would
cost, about $25,000 and that
concerted efforts of alt 10ca1...
citizens -toere being asked in
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Rlhtfiali « J. ri Ot*
§5 4.» J? X Tbe ;? hftv* pjAtw?®
h,v:,.■ Counfv Executive Coctnutter
of the State Democratic Party, and'
was i member of the ejfecutuv
committee of the Sixth North Car
olina Congressional District
A- head of the Durham Cwn-;
mittee on Negri' Affairs Mr Ste-'
wart led Negro voters, to the polls
in uch an -effort as to make the
! number of registered Negro voters ■
■in Durham the greatest listed on
j the hooks in any North Carolina!
| c i i y.
The new committeeman was i
elected one of the five from Dur-i
, ham County is liable to a two
year tenure in the position.
He was named to the .date ex
ecutive group during l the State
Democratic Convention held here
during the early Spring,
i During Tuesday’s meeting here,
Mr. Stewart took active part in'
I the re-election of Everett Jordan
of Saxapahuw as chairman of the,
[ state committee 'rid the re-elec- j
lion of Mrs D A McCormick of j
McDonald as vice-chairman. The i
meeting l was ad cessed by Governor I
Scott.. [
Mr. Stewart is secretary
treasurer of the Mutual Euild- ,
im> and f.uan Association of
Durham.
54,80 n punitive damages by the
i Superior Court jury.
Hunter, 46, told the court that
Hie was standing near the scene
[of an automobile collision on. South
East street on Januayv 14 when
| when he was struck by the Stuck
'convertible driven by the defend
j ant.
i The automobile Brooks was driv
i ing was traveling at. the rate of
Ido miles per hour when it struck
Hunter, it was related, and. stop
ped only when it struck another*,
vehicle Brooks was staggering
drunk at the time, the complaint
stated.
DISABLED
Hunter told the couit that he
I suffered a mangled, mutilated and
! broken" right, leg and was hospi
i talized for many weeks.
He further stated that he will be
unable to work any more during
his lifetime
Brooks was not represented
during- the trial and made no
answer to the suit. Attorney
j (or Mr. Hunter stated that he
would seek to have Brooks jail
ed until the punitive damages
| are paid,
In such cases, a defendent can
[be mode to remain in jail either
until the damages are paid or un
i til he takes a pauper’s oath
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| ROCKY MOUNT'S FIRST DO
I ..ICEMAN Herbert Titmar
| ,‘U-year old World War Two vet
eran and native of- Rocky Moult
j has been seleeleri as the firs
! Negro police officer here aftei
citizens led it two-year fight so
i two officers. Officer Tilnxan W’!l
| soon he in uniform and confim
his duties principally lo the driv
i er-tralning course in the school*
• Citizens are continuing to pres
for another officer,
nr*i ♦ ii r i
This Week
! ,
“i
j Talked
with
Clyde
Brown’*
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| EXCLUSIVE
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