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I)ELE((Airh —.Misses t.c ll J anti
Jeannette Thomas, both of Win
’ ston-Salem teachers ( ollege,
were selected tu attend tint Gtu-
I dale Sorority meeting in New
Orleans last week. The delegates
Sell tttr Twin City last 1 uestlay
to attefid thr st ssjun
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HAPPENED
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CAROLINA |
J Laaw Exams
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H.iLEHiii“-‘Ab*ul 10 Neg rue.*
Hrft iiicltidr ; imoiig U*e i.'*U
OlliS North (.aii oliniuiiri who
gathrred in tUtleigh this week
to take examinations lor per*
mission to practice law m the
state's courts
One lit th« student* is
a graduate oi l>;aUe tutirgr
A >ui others mr liom the North
tinoiiiia. School ut t aw
*i. ifuTium
Calcs Up Again
DURHAM Attoiiify C Jerry I
Oates, one ot Uh- a utter v most not- |
td champions ot civil lights, lias j
reVuiiieu tu his practice Ueit t'oi*
la\V i i«£ a Lnet i l tile l.s
Coile&e Mourns
I'l.UAtElll l II V—The lac
ulty and student body of t.iuu-
Lt th ( ity Tearileis College has
expressed sympathy to the
(amity of Albert i.. Hinton, war
correspondent, who was killed
when enroute to cover the
Korean war for flic National
Negro Publishers Association
Mr. Hinton was one ot the
most active members ot the
teachers l ollege Alumni AfcSu
elation
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Digit Dotngs
RALEIGH -Because of Ills inter
est in mathematics, a Raleigh man
will spend a total ol 1U months!
on the roads
The man. Ernes! Kicks, had his •
mathematical attention sentenced j
on butter and ergs and oilier nurn- ]
her lottery operations, ,-.o .Indue i
Albert Doub thought it would be j
test if Kick; went to a quiet place |
where he would be able to eoncen- j
trate more an the intricacies of!
figures.
Kicks was given four months for
his new aippearance, and '« j
month suspended sentence was in~j
yoked
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Likes io Write
■Raleigh -Willie Arthur Car-1
rtey, Hit, combined hi.* writing and!
Tiftimetic lessons and mine opj
with charges against hiraself for
toraery
The man, a nuitve of Greenville,
was. arrested when he attempted
to cash a forged check in a local |
store last week. He is said to have i
been in possession of phony checks
for amounts ranging from $5 to 4*o !
The local Merchants Bureau put
an alarm for Carney after
several checks had bee nsuceessfud- 1
ly passed here He will face triad
in Superior Court
Insane Man Is Jailed
HOME STATE
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EDITION > X.y
VOLUME XXIX KALEkiH, NORTH CAROLINA WEEK ESDI NO SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1900 NO. 34
Woman s Suicide Try Is Futile
GOr ARTIST NABBED
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<\i .SCHOOL INST K TUTOR S :
Mrs, Louise H. Owens (leitj and
>f in TiuTina L. Turner (right)
dir |*r*:bfci»tiy 4**liployrti 4s ttuuh
Lad< 16/ Fingered
As "Crime Wave"
W I NSTON - SAL E .VI A ’(5 year
old youth has been lingered here
as a “one man crime wave” P.>l-!
lowing a hectic chase and a trip!
to the hospital. j
Local authorities vay (hat
I'l edcrick Heath, to, ts (he pci j
Min who broke into the home j
Os B E. tri stun, stealiny a
Woman Rescued
f rom Resevoir
Preferred Death to Idleness
WINSTON-SALEM A woman, 1 1
despondent because ol' illness and j i
loss of a jolsue had bold for moi i* |,
than tv. only year:-., wa.- jerked from)
the arm.', of death here la, t week I
iti a valiant eleventh hour rescue 5
.ittoiii; I by a filter plant resevoii |
employee. I
Despondent over tin- loss vt
Iter job, Mrs. Dora Hunter, 43. j
of 1454 North ( berry Street,
made her way by taxicab to the
t'liy I-titer Plant llesevoir on !
Vargrave Street last Saturday.
Site save taxi driver I. I). Me i
Neill a message to take to her I
brother as she made ready to
leap into the resevoir
When McNeil left, presumably 10l
give tin- tuessago to ti 1 ■ brother, but
in reality to inform the police
Mrs. Hunter leiilped ndo the rest;-
voir
Oniy the quick action of A K.
Tilley an employ <-e ;, t the filter
plant saved hex 1 from .-.elf destruc
tion
Mi: Hurdei was taken lo the
Kate Bittii'uh heynulds Memorial j
llacpil.il wha- doctor; said she was!
all right
She told mve twatixi,;' officers;
*rs at tilt Army Education Cen
ter, port Bragg. .Mrs. Owens is a
termer member of the West
• Southern Pines High School tac
uity at Southern Pines. -V t
shotgun, .clothing and $540 in
cash and then led pursuing
officers on a merry chase be
fore plowing the car (stolen
ot course) he was driving.
11 ;.th L accused of stealing an ■:
automobile belong to lie. men .
Swain and then wrecking the car
iii un 60 mile per hour flight from
that .-die had been recurrently ill
for more than four years and that
she was despondent, over the loss of
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They Took Clyde Down Town
WILSON SIGNS
iNEGBO SOPS
Ifv J it. HARREN
Wi 1 .SON N. C. - This City has
joined ha’ ranks ol the more pro
crersive towns in the state which
have seen the wisdom of giving
Negroes a part in the mainti nance''
of law and order. Accordingly, the
local City Fathers have approved
iuf and hired two colored men to
j servi. principally the Negro dis-
J tnct: ol the city as fully empow
tCGiiiiiiieu rm j.s fr t}
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while Mrs. Turner served for
“ l-:> years on the faculty of
' 1 .aurifiburg institute, Paurniburg,
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a highway patmlrnan.
I Patrolman j k. Muurt. who was
jcha.eitig Heath in the stolen car,
reported that the youth lost con*
tro! of the car as hr sped *into
Kt rncsviUe The car struck a truck
c.'U.-mg considerable damage io
both vehicles
it'oiitmied on pag'e 6)
State Education Board
Hears School Problems I
_LA!,EIGH An argument on,
i wuetuei funds could be spent on'
e-' r or white schools in GriAme i
'.. ount.v was heard by the State
ti> ani at Education this week with
no demtiiou yet iorthconiing.
White residents of the county
tbm the Mate group ap
'E ' . " plan tor building case- j
Clyde Brown’s ‘Girl’
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I Recounts Events
By SANDRA BOWEN MASON
It ruined the dav I visited Mrs. Mattie Mitchell,
sweetheart of Clyde Brown. The down pour of Thurs
day morning July 27th had drained to the noon time !
drizzle.
Boston bus stopped at Union Baptist Church,
across from it are steps that lead to as bridge. This
bridge leads to Wilson Street, although Wilson Street
mud, on dry days it is just a wide path lined! with
wasn't a street that day, it was just a broad path of
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I,IK FACING
CHARGES li
ffIETTFILE
TEXAS WOMAN SAID
TO BE PART OF
BiC EON RING
by STAFF REPORTER
, RAYE'i y.fVTLLE A woman
i whom many feel is the one who
, has annually been successfully
\ working “confidence 1 games at the
■ expense of gullible seasonal work
■ era in this area has been placed
under arrest here and charged
| with slim-slamming a woman out
of $l4O while giving her a “cure"
j for rheumatism
Facing charges of robbing Mrs.
Rovvena Campbell of Vanstory St.
lot the $l4O is Mrs. Pauline Stan
! ley, a 33-year old woman who lists
! her address as Houston, Tex.
Mrs. Stanley was arrested
when .Mrs. Campbell, her al
leged most recent victim pro
test,-a t„ police that money she
had on her person while re
ceiving a ‘Tub for rheumatism”
i from Mrs, Stanley was (uissiug
when the rub was done.
OTHER CHARGE
I Mr.- Stanley was already await
ing trial here for stealing S2OU
i timrii another Negro woman last
week A confidence scheme was
behind the intial incident also ,t
1 is reported.
PART Os RING
1 It is generally believed that Mrs.
Stanley is part of the huge ring
of llim-Hammers and confidence
iurusts who invade this area during
the seasonal work season and use
[their wiles to fraudulently part
, the workers from their wages and
other monies.
U is noted that these confidence j
persons usually travel alone or in j
groups of twos and threes, depend-j
iny on what • game’’ they ‘ will !
"l-'Ly" with their prospective vie-!
i tints.
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, terms at three white schools.
! ’''he Negro contention is that tht i
j state group should approve expert• J
;iitUM' of funds for the building of
additional Negro school classroms
A pane! has upheld the Negro
contention.
| Also to be heard by the state!
j education group during the week
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Epileptic Jailed In
W.-S. Needs Help
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FREAK BOLT IS
SS li! SLEEPS
ROXBORO 'The sure hand of
I God” as Erskine Caldwell would j
j describe it, guided u blot of lipiit- j
1 (ling into the frame home of a i
i mother tending her child here laset i
j week, kille dthe mother instantly!
and left the baby unscratched.
| Victim of the bolt is Mrs. A]dine j
I McClain, 32, of the Ceffo Comniun-i
; ity, who died instantly when struck j
iby a lightning charge which fifth
; *.‘red through the home last Wed-
J jiesday night. The five months old!
, baby Mrs McCain w«s attending
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IS GOVERNOR
AT GIRL STATE
WINSTON - SALEM Elected
Governor during l the second annual
Girls State elections session last
week was Miss Jeanette Bowser ol
Charlotte.
Miss Bowser was accorded the
honor during the staging of the
annual GiUs State event at: Wins
ton Salem Teachers College under
the au. pices of state American Le-.
(Contnui-u un page tsj
CHANNEL SWIMMER CONtiSTANTIGarneU Smith. 20-year-aid
Cm Mumu. veil] attempt to »wlm the English Channel in August
»r lit i - t.-ar. Smith, in training made a trial swim in the Hudson River
iron, the <-eur S e Bridge to the Battery, » distant* a &
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mujifiinitiUi ,-■ U.I i cu
WAR CASUALTY Albert L.
Hinton, Journal & Guide Asso
ciate editor ami NN'l‘A war cor
respon ent. was killed when a
plane in which he was flying- to
the Korean battle! 1 ! out i\ushed
j lirar lokyo, japan, (Story in this
' section.)
Doomed Man, 24,
Takes Own Life
t j ASHEVILLE Malachi Grant
: ' 24, knew mat no was a doomed
’ I man, and to prevent the state from
taking' his life, he took it himself
■ iin bis cell in the Buncombe Coun
■ity Jail house here last week.
; j Grant was sentenced n>
; death in tin* state lethal cham
ber recently altei being eon
t victe.l of (he murder of Clar
ence lit air, a 54 year oja.
j neighbor. The jury hearing
Gram's case recommended no
meet") a death sentence was
mandatory, even though pre
i siding jurist, Judge J. A. Rous
| st-,iii deferred sentence,
1 j Evidence brought out during
I Grant's trial revealed that he had
gone to the Blair residence with
the intention of killing frank
Walters. Blair's son in law.
The stale contended that Grant’s
jealousy over the marriage of
Helen, Blair's daughter, to Walters,
Inside This Week
| SECOND THOUGHTS. See, It, P. 4
IN THIS OUR DAY See. 1, P. 4
| THIS IS IT . . , Sec. 2, P. 5
|GORDON HANCOCK, See. i, P. 4
I EDITORIALS Section 1. P, 4
PORT BRAGG Set. 2, Pp. 1-3
j THEATRES - Set. 3, Pp. 4-5
SPORTS Set. Pp. 16-» '
I ARM NEWS Set, 2, P. id
WOMEN'S WORLD Set, 2, P, t ,
Mil ton (till lain Seen
Victim Os
Injustices
(EDITOR'S NOTE. Allege*
injustice to a mao * ..*>se
v.wx-mental condition tvogtd
have him termed as “insane"
prompted the CAROLINIAN
to launch an investigation.
Wmston- Salem correspondent
Saitdra Bowen Mason uticov
11ed the following facts fit the
rase ot the Insane Man Who
Was Jailed.)
By SANDRA BOWEN MASvtf
WINSTON SALEM -There we
two statements that greeted n
• when I entered the Gilliam how
I Mrs. Gilliam, stated. ”1 don't krw
where .Milton is." and the r
I quest of her son Robert -Plea
tell them that Milton did NC
maul and beat a local man vvi
| hie fists a-, it was stated so mat
‘ times. '
"I did that because the wait
j insulted, my mother, i wt f s
sentenced to serve thirty days
I on the county roads for it. I
> was not mentioned iu the pa
‘ pers at alt. ‘
| Milton Jesse Gilliam, an idi
pathic epileptic and schizophren
: was guilty of assaulting a win
woman end was to be commit!
to the State Hospital, but w
placed on the waiting list. Tt
was m May. Nothing’ was ev
: done about. His mother signed t
papers and waited
A few days ago.her son. Robe
reprimanded a man who had
teen mentioned m the case T
man is E.J. Potts, agent for t
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had resulting in the killing. ~
I Grant saved the state the c
[ of execution by hanging Turns
• from a cross bar in his cell.
Observance Os Dr.
Jas, E. Shepard
Proves Worth i
RALEIGH Giving proof
the classic statement of the 1
Dr. James E. Shepard, founder
, North Carolina College who t
I'the North Carolina State Legis
I I lure that ‘‘The cost of segregat
comes high,” the state this w<
| has issued a resume of the app
i' priations granted its Negro t
; | leges.
, | These appropriations total o'
]!1 million dollars, with the larg
! grant being given to A. and
| College's ambitious building (p
i! gram ar.d totaling about 5 rnilli
' | North Carolina College at D
ham has been granted appropi
'itions <f over 3 million doll
'and other colleges, including V?
jston Salem, Fayetteville and Eli
oeth City State Teachers Colle
have been granted funds over fc
dreds of thousands of dollars et
As Dr. Shepard said '‘The <
;of segregation comes high.*'