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«oA N O «i: KA r 11) S —’ W h*n
r u Walls, owner of a store
oear here asked IjSwffo.rf Mc-
Fhale, \l, ivhfrc he was nr*»itsc
last Irmay iruf Mcl*bale ans
wered. "On just leaving, *’ Mr.
* Walls possibly s.iiil “\<>t vet.
hit* ."
Times se*'»n to be the Mfiti
m<•>»!> expressed bei ui’e ,*t the
tint he askd Mr. Halls was in
vestigating a noise itt bis store,
an., found Mi t’hale making’his
v- ay »«t.
McPhale finally did leave,
His destination was the enmity
jail, however. He fa.ees break
ing and entering charges.
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FAYETTEVILLE GETS THIRD
POLK'KMAN Edward Taylor,
gradual,e of Fayetteville State
ami a member
of v)**** '■effcffcfo , #Ues» families in
T I^jwtMVllf*,* iltts sworn in as a
?«sja!itr is&tMWm policeman on
Antros* h ifortys the third colored
policeman who has been appoint
ed since the swearing in of> Dr.
tV. P. OeVane as Fayetteville’s
Negro city councilman. Two col
ored officers were appointed lasi
year. They VO rr Albert A. fbmVs
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VOLUME XXIX RALRIGH. ,*.OR7 H f'AROtJNA WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, AUGUST ?A 1950 NO, 38
Liquor Crackdown Spreads
Wife Heldl n Slaying Os Husband
Changes Tale, Fingers Two Men
OF ALL FACTORS
BEIfJO SOUGHT
t ha pH Hiiiif)ns Seek
Equal Staff And All
Other Particulars
' H \PK!,. HU.L \ mac. nee;
■iis; he;v *II i I v.-»!{ i.. -.,..,{ {.l ill
. s’Hwto an -tJI —if. sui’ ,<;• iit-vt the
i .f at tS< hoo| t' ta.-d -i.ter \ngr6 ?-ifi
v.» it.s obviously became fed up avi»h
■< "run around" they were being
given by the hoard on tlje matter
■f bringing Negro schools op to
! par v. i;h :he white -uo - >i tho
: ••iitmn iiuiiv
It was ut; ciitoiM-isly voted by To
: pees, ire in .-ittontl.ittco it . meeting
>1 the (join'd uni: y t'entrs here
Moiuhij thitt Attorney Herman I.
i Taylot of Raleigh tie retained to
handle the litigation in * suit
' which will seek to romp,.'.! the }<. •
cal School Board not only to equal
ize facilities of schools here attend
-d hv colored children, hut also to
bring the curriculum, teaching
staffs and other educational per- ;
finetus op to pat.
The alleged run around which
prompted the Chapel Hill Council
on .Negro Affairs and other local
groups to join in an all-out effort
to gain recognition of local Negro
educational demands got underway
rereutl> when it was revealed that
funds appropriated for the con
st rue, t inn of a new Negro school
building were roughly $100.04)0 less
than the amount needed to build
(Continued on page 8. this serf inn)
and Fred Truitt. Also, Dr. De-
Vane has ban 1 two Negroes add
ed to the recreation commission
in the persons of Mrs. Mary belle
Wllliston and Thurman Smith,
Dr. DeVane told the Southside
] Civic Club that he hopes very
soon to have two rural Negro
policemen to take care of the
I suburbs of Fayetteville, fastest
] growing city of the Upper Cape
; Fear. Above Dr. DeVane congrat
i litotes Officer Taylor
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T -w iify: ii f|T
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ACTION IN KOREA: Negro troops blast away at the enemy isoftlfuvhere along the Korea front Itne*
with their 106-ntnt howitzer. These soldiers have just fired a round of ammunition, evident from the soldier
who i« holding hts ear* in left foreground, %
| Littleton Youth
LITTLETON David Lee Clark,
the smal! son of Mi and Mrs
John VV. Clark, local resident. oar,
drowned in a fish pond neat here.
Hits week.
The youth Is reported to have
been in ■< party with two or l.lm
other boys oil Sunday when ilie
tragedy occimvd.
The youth w found missing
shortly after the swim mi tig party
pot underway, and was definitely
| found in be victim of a tragedy
! of some sort a|. a bout II a, m
I
| City's "Guests" i
j DURHAM T\> • > members n f j
I Route •» family spent last Saturday
j niahi as inmates of institutions ;
j under eii.y-comity jurisdiction ho>
One, a baby, aged five weeks,
! spent the night in the local Rin •!
coin Hospital, the oilui, the moth-!;
ci. aged dO, spent the night In tho]
local ja.ii.
j Police Investigating reports that, j
someom had "passed <■ tji" in tho :
ICiiurch yard of the Trinity Meth-j
! odist Church at. about. 9 p.m. Sa-!
1 | -turday night, found Mrs. Grace
| Jenkins of Route 'l so obviously
• \ intoxicated that a night in the
■ j local jail seemed the best prescrip
tion for her condition.
(Continued, on page 8. *Ms section)
When the other vouth.in the -
parly reported that voung Da'id i
, i. H *i been lost jp tn«- are of Heck's |
!'isiting Pond '--•here Hip X'-limuing
party was being held, a earthing i
party was organized by County i
- Coionei Rufus Britton, who ftgur- j
! ed in the finding of tin: body, which :
nas brought to the surface a! about
4 n in.
in addi! ion to his parents, the
' y.uing vlct*m is also survived by!
' 1 five sinters.
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County Home Fire
LJLIINGTON No serious darn- I
! age was done the Negro wing nf »hc
i Harnett. County Home here laid
j Thursday evening when a fire of!
undisclosed origin broke out.
According to Superintendent ,!
j I’. Parker, the fire burned a hole
j several feet in diameter between
the walls of two of the five bed
rooms in the wing.
When firemen from Liliington ar
jrived on the scene, the fire had
been quenched by neighbors and
I residents of the Home
in FEELS
pus Spin
! Eleven Rounded. I n As
4BU Officers Step Up
F?nee Throughout N, C
Pf RHAM The arrest of eie
s’r n person? here during the past
weekend on charges of possession j
of illicit whiskey reveals that, the j
■ tiiio wide drive in halt the rlistrl- !
j I>ulion and sale of corn whiskey
is moving into high gear .
Following sensational crack -
! downs which have placed more
| than 300 persons on trial since
j Charlotte's memorable July 4 raid
; spree in which some 25 persons
j were taken into custody, a wave
jof raids have swept, across the j
I
! Thousands of gallon,', of 'monte |
\ 'ain dew”, ‘ bard cutfin’ corn” and j
I other 111 frit whiskies have been j
confiscated during (he currently
ueteahinted efforts by ABC «nd I
other officers
Only la&t week, initial steps
made in the breaking up of a ring
nf moon-shine runners operating
jon the North Carolina Virginia
| border. In a sweeping highway
crackdown, five men were arrested !
and upward to 100 gallons of illicit
j whiskey we rp taken.
DISTILLERIES FOB NT)
In addifioin to numerous p/vrests,
l stale and local ABC and other offi
cers aie spreading fear throughout
jv*lie manufacturing sector of the
illicit whiskey business with their
well-organized raids on distilleries.
The largest illicit whiskey still
unearthed in years was found in
'Continued on page % this section)
22-Year-0 id Girl Puts
New Light On Case
After Stay In Jail
9
Kami
OXFORD - A 22-year old wom
an who was arrested here last 'week
and charged with the axe slaying
of her husband, has changed her!
account of the killing this week j
and implicated two men, fingering;
one as (he actual killer involved j
;in the slaying to which she had !
.first confessed guilt.
Held in jail pending thorough in-i
rest brat ion of an account she gave j
;of the bloody axe murder of her;
husband on August 15, Mrs. Essie j
. Roland told officers following a j
week in jail that she had lied when ;
shefold them that she killed her j
| husband. Johnny, in self defense]
with an axe as he approached herj
with a butcher knife.
MAN CONFESSES
.According to Sheriff F, P. Davis,
Mrs. Roland has later said Joe
Wake Winston, a neighbor, was
(lie person who administered the
feral mo blow to her husband.
Winston, when confronted with
] the woman's testimony, admitted
that it was he who struck the
blow.
Mrs Roland, who was first fac
ing trial as the principal in the
case Is being detained as an acces
sory along with Thomas Marshall
Cromwell, the other man who Was
allegedly on the scene at the Ho- ]
land bottle in the Rrassflnld Town
ship when the murder was eom
mitfi#!.
HAS BEEN ROBBED 6 TIMES
Man, 80, Is Robbed
| STAFF CORRESPONDENCE
WINSTON SALEM A tale of
I woe and defiance was told by the
i aged victim of a vicious robber
! here this week a. robber who
] brought, to six the number of times
]an octogenarian had been robbed
! Blood was still on the floor of
the little confectionery store at *■
■Chestnut Street when the CARO
LINIAN reporter arrived at noon
on Monday.
It's owner, the 80-year old vic
tim of a sadistic robber was then
returning from a local hospital
where he had undergone emer
I LEAF BRINGS RECORD PRICES
Hopes Os Faimeis Soar
RALEIGH With the highest
\ price in a decade being paid by j
1 markets in North Carolina's huge j
J Eastern Flue-Cured Tobacco Belt. !
j the hopes of many farmers of the
| area are soaring, despite the fact
] that many of them made their an
-1 nual trip to the markets with
| crops woefully depleted by rain,
] hail and wind storm which ripped
■ j through the near-Eastern sector of
• j the state last month.
. I Prices ranging from ssti upward
I j per hundred weight have been list...
iI ed through the markets which
> opened tfciij week. The lowest
NATIONAL MKNSS f*iANWSRS: i»m*» C.
tant ran R.5-.»i«! *<* Secretary of Defe«*»
»k»wn «i*h t»i» Ks«Npßttre Os fleer OH«n*l J«me» H . •
officer. Bo*h ait'*’ **» eespenVble for M»*
ywro ;u ift) 3is4 pr.v cd H CCS raf Ca”ebt rof if >*. t T.’
gfisnim»i within iK.. National Military Est»blP»l*r><enr. “ •
prised al 'he Anw‘, Air Forces, S*v| jggdl M.'U'ins ’
Clyde Brown
To Face Trial
■ f. DITOE'3 XOTE Th u is
the tilth in an exclusive CA
ROLINIAX series of irticles
concerning Clyde Brown. Win..
Ton Salem youth ' barged with
assault an Betty Jane Clifton *«
a white air! in *b« Twin City t
Bv St NT) HA BOWEN MASON
WINSTON SALEM - Clyde
Brown is scheduled to Be tried < ( i
~>r \ ■
TO I>F INAUGURATED - Dr.
K. p Daniel former president of
Sn»w rfUversfty, Raleigh, who
wall he fnaiiguratcd Sat«rda>
October 11 as the fifth president
of Virginia. State College. See
story in second section
geaejr treatment. His shirt, was lit- >
eratiy "soaked with Mood.”
.I'*” " (
I w. A. Eaton, the aged victim,
. related the following stovy.
t i • I was on. my way back into the ;
• store when a man ran in and grab- ,
bed uu <nd ran his hand down ]
’ jmy throat,” the victim stated.
’Tie then ran his hand in my j
pocket and took my purse, I had j
five or six dollars in it.”
Mr. Eaton further revealed that
; when he* made an outcry, the as- j
! sailant hit him with a bottle and j
I ran. meeting a representative of
! a wholesale firm as he fled.
grades of crude nondescript leaf
I were bring)ns, sl2 with prices as
j high as 170 being paid for (he finer j
leaf.
FACES* DESPAIR
: Hundreds of Negro farm owners
jc,#J tenant farmers of the Wake
j through Nash Counties area, would
, have faced a winter of despair and
i poverty had not the market offer
! i rings been of a record high at the
opening.
I ; In many cases, the furious rain
--i ami hail storms which swept the
i .bright leaf area left total losses,
'but iti sow '.{jatascea, farjyefss
§?Qi f b C'OUt? ( •; L - > .< ■
during the seren'd •••• ■■
jbev for his a-Hrgtd ■.■•--"■ ■
:ty Jane Clifton. Hi? :i .•! ■”’ o
j tract "it'C 'Vldc att •».*•••
i reau. a n organi ;' i‘ ■'
i Defense Comte "tee, ■ «•••;••
I interest it. seins • ; - ’'
i a fair trial" aud i- ■ ■
! solicited funds in h*
This report w.-i'. ir-!''.-'
ed nordented by th •’* • ’■ '•• *
Committee who A * ■ j :v
this r* nortei ,It i - ; ■ '■ 11
to rc-niaiii -*
Betty Jane f' lilr ■> c
week to refuse to e
subject of her
Mr. Gertrude id: I '. ■'. -r
the young victiu>. ' ; ‘ ‘
1 .INIAN lust
hud suffered a !».'
and was unable *« • i t
.happened on Jo ! ’f- " *
-cult is known »••, t, •. i 1 : - i »- J
I Pn ' ■'lllu.d’eje. -I , "*
vented personal ! < :t i -
Clyde Brown ! : ■-. »
ha.- been cu' --n. h' 1 -, -
Mon on this part ini: • s b«
forthcoming in the v ■ mi u
Shot Customers ;
ROANOKE RAPID' ’ ■'«' •
nes man is facing ■ T ■ '
shooting two peii'."' - ■■ hts
customers
j Herman pope. •> “ : *
| place of bu .to ■> - u?en.
1 charged with the
jshooting of .I'D ■■n-i s^nd
i George Dan if*' d 1
I cm iblismnenl. N< ■ *■ '
Mims was serioo-siy no.,
*iv Eaton i\\~ *. h a U
was a. stranger to >rr. v - : -*
colored and. about M
SIXTH ROBBER ■'
Mr. Eaton, bn ' ■’ - - ■ ■ ; 1 - - ” ! '” :
injury and age. b h? ;i,: ■■ ■■ ! ' s "
lAN that, the -- "o ■ ■■ ■ 1 ! !v?
i sixth tinm he l*-*d i*. -
When it was ■■><ggc- , ‘-d i 1
• rest. the aged man ■ 1; 1
; ‘No —no need to ■ ■ : !
not the first, t out in
pened about six tins- i
| loSS Os M'.lC'd ball's !•-! ' ■
Smiling faintly, w ’• * : ’
went anywhere
! too much blood an
were able tc sa!f<a« the rsmoante
of their crops and make eppear-
I ance at. the markets.
Roads leading into sh« market*
4ns area have been jammed this
■ week with farmers and famlltes on
• their way to market. The leading’
I markets in the Eastern Flu-cured
i Belt have employed special peace*
| officers in warehouse areas and a,
i festive alrpermeates the area.
This display of joviality on tho
i j parts of farm families stands in
■ i exacted contrast with the attitudes
, iot the same persona following th«
j 1 flild-yeaf storms.