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1 State Soldiers Recipients Os Award In Korea k if- ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ * A A n A ★ A ★ ★ ★ t it ★ ★ & .* it A s ¥ ¥ ¥ .¥ ¥-¥ ¥ -¥■ Ah Ah ¥. I FIFTH N.C. SCHOOL SUTT FILED Inside This Week t*. D. H A LLIB U HTON Set.. 1. P 4 W. i. GKEENE iiec. 3 P. 4 GORDON HANCOCK Sec. l P. 4 BILL VtALL I P i LIN HOi.i-OVv AY Lei - P. 5 T OWN TOPICS s*c 1 P. 2 sport;-; see *- i4-iti WOMEN L'-e. 2 P. 7 Winston-Salem Marine Dies As Flash Flood Sweeps Road IT HAPPENED IN CAROLINA Not Guilty, Sir WINSTON-SALEM John, Glenn, 21. and Sam Valentine- 25. ■ both pleaded not guilty to the char- • ges of assault on Emma Brown in the Forsyth County Court this week i and both men were found not tfuilty j as per thin plea. v T'«* ).-umti.» had contended that: the two assaulted her on August 15. Who Dun It LENOIR Police here are hold ing George Powell, a 48-year-oid rock mason on charges of fatally beating 27-year-old Miss Winifred Tilley here some time during the past weekend. Miss Tilley's battered body was found near the Freedman School early Sumf.iy morning. Powell’s arrest followed shortly there after. Police believe it was he "who dun it.’ Put In The Place WILSON A 30-year-old man has been charged with the fatal shooting of his wife here. Chargd with igaging in an alf ray with his wife in which a shoot was fired fatally wounding the woman is Winslow Little, whose wife, Ethel Mae, died of pistol wounds following a fight betwen the two. Little was placed in "the place" While police invstigated the death. Struck By Aato RALEIGH Glenn Lliliams, 12, of Garner. Route i, was seriously injured early this week when struck by an auto mobile as he was crossing High way 50 near his home. The youth received multiple body finises, lacerations of the scalp and fractures of the left arm and wrist. The youth was struck by a neighbor as he darted in front of the ear in an attempt to catch a bos, No charges were preferred against the driver of the auto in the incident. Past Get Away RALEIGH Reports were re ceived here this week about a youthful convict whd possibly was influenced by the outdoor signs which laud the fast get away of a certain automobile. This youth, Robert Carter, id, tried to make like the auto he’d heard about and took off from a North-hampton County road gang. His speed wasn’t quite up to that of the guards ori duty, however, and he was in a cel) before he could remember the name of the auto he was mimicing. A Coo! Cap RALEIGH -- The cases that local cab drivers wear may be hot to the head, but theyVe corn to have on when the Long arm of the Law reaches into the car. That particular fact was learn ed by Harry Dehnam, jr. tills week when he was h»U«i intis court by the local Cab Inspect or for driving his Capital Cab down Hargett Street care , /se*ar».. Home-State Edition ; I kfj? ! SINGLE COPY __ __ Vjr VOU MK XXIX RALEIGH, NORTH C UTOLiXA SATURDAY, -SEPTEMBER 16, 1953 NO. -U j COMSAT BADGES SIKES 10 STATE If! ON FROST Eight North Carolina Men In Lamed 24th \i t Accorded Honor ; t - WITH THE 24th INF. KEGI-j iMENT IN KOREA -■ Eight North] jCatoiuuyiii were listed , among the j ilil member* of the 24tn Infantry' j • Regiment receiving th highly priz- j ed Combat Infantryman's badge j here last week | The 24th, already a legendary { 'regiment in the current wai against : tin- North Koreans, is composed or 1 1 veterans of many long days of j actitn on the front here. In many j i situations, the valiant 24th has] i (proven the difference between, j ignoble defeat for United States ! ; forces and glorious victory. I The badges presented to the j ] men here last week can be earned] ; only by those soldiers who have ! been m close combat with the en ; emy The badge, a. rectangular fiiue-laeel object trimmed in bronze, has a musket stamped | upon it. A number of the mem bers of the 24th, including some of the North Carolinians so honored, were receiving the j badge for the second time, NAMES LISTED North Carolinians receiving the ! Combat Infantryman’s Badge due ling impressive ceremonies within ! sound of the front here were: Pvt. Luther Terry, Fayetteville, ]N. C. Pie. William R. Foster Louis j burg Pvt. K. C. Wiley, Durham I Pic. William Bright, Raleigh Pfe. Claude Springs, Charlotte i Cpl. Charles Simmon.-:, Clinton ] Pfe. Willie Terry, Henderson Pfc. Johnnie Meyers, Wilming- I ion jPEROMNSIS iSITE OF NEWEST | EISEJTI SUIT i ‘j Parents Demand Better ‘j Facilities For Pupils In Eastern County •I - ; EDITOR'S NOTE; According to the State Attorney General’s ■ j office, the action filed in Per quimans County this week is j the fifth such action taken by North Carolina Negro citizens in their quest for equal school i facilities. A suit for equality in I public schools in Durham Is i still pending. Decision in the ; University of North Carolina Law School Case brought by law students at the North Car olina College Law School Is expected momentarily. A suit has been filed in Washington County contested propose ! lo cation of a Negro high school, , ami In Wilson County, a suit has been preferred charging bias in the county’s building i Continue a so page $ this rectfanj i „ T ; t 1 Wm. : ■' MORALE BUSLDIS; Corporal Ralph E. Hargrave from Ypsii&atk Michigan, wounded in the fighting on the Korean hattlefrowt, received a surprise visitor at his bedside at the Tokyo General Hospital. It was none other than the Army Chief of .Staff General .J, Lawton Collins, who took lime from his conferences to visit wounded Gi’§, Gavin Opens Drive For Senate Vs. Willis Smith SMITH S OPPONENT Oppos- ] ing Democratic nominee for U. j S. Senate Willis Smith in the i November elections .will be Ed- j win L. Gavin of Sanford, who j opened his campaign for election to the post as Republican candi- ‘ date with a home-town rally ret- ] ejitiy. I 7, This 13 Unluckv LOUISBUHG The number ”13" | moy be lucky or ' unlucky, but \ Thomas Burrell, 23, will never I know. Murrell became the Kith i traffic fatality in Franklin County last Sunday when he i was thrown out of the auto mobile be was driving when , j ; Sanford A non-partisan rally : here last Friday evening marked j the opening of the campaign of of i Edwin L, Gavin, prominent Sanford | attorney . for United States Senator from North Carolina. Gavin, Republican candidate for | the Senate seat held now by Frank P. Graham, told the rally, “I think I that in the present serious situa be kept to a minimumtion, partpol ] tion, partisan politics, should be i kept to a minimum in ,the interest I of getting the best qualified (public j servants in public office." Gavin, former law partner of I Governor VV. W. Kitchen, was elected Mayor of Rose boro | before he reached the age of ! 21, He has also held the offices ] of Stale Senator from the Four teenth District, aui United : States District Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina. i The more than 1,200 delegates | to the 1950 Republican State Con i vention nominated him unani j mously to oppose Democratic nom inee Willis Smith fur the Senate j in the general election November the auto refused to negotiate a curve near Rocky Ford. Highway patrolmen report, that Burrell was fatally injured when ; he was thrown from his ear after having attempted to make a turn onto a dirt road Two other persons in the ear with the victim, Joe i (Continued ®n page 8, this section)! PFC PRICE IS DROWNED NEAR GAMP LEJEUNE Marine Loses Footing | And Falls Into Creek j Sholien Bv Flood ■J WINSTON-SALEM- • ar-j raiigcraent-.' were 'being t&rrspletetf j here early this week for Marina j private First Class Anthony Price. | port of Mrs Blanche Price of 602 1-2 ' W. Fifteenth Street here, who died! when swept into a swollen creek j bed near Jacksonville. N. C. last; week-end. Private Price toppled into the swollen water-, of Chapel ! Run Creek neon the Camp i.<- jeune Marine Base on Safur- j day as he and three other com panions attempted to leave a car in which they had been riding »fte rthe car had become stalled as heavy rainfall ere atn; a flood In the eastern area, i. According to Price’s companions,;, the youthful .serviceman was sweet j* away it the rushing creek waters • when iisbarkod from the car, 1 on the rong side. His foot slip- 1 ped upon the bank of the creek, and is body went dashing down- ! stream in the creek which had • swollen more than IB inches above - its usual level. The accident occurred about three miles from Rich lands. N. j C. after heavy rainfall had turned the highway into a (Continued on page 8, this section) ‘ ELECTED PRESIDENT —J. H. Wheeler, executive vice president and cashier of Mechanics and Farmers Bank, of Durham, was elected president of the National Bankers Association during the 23rd annual meeting of the asso ciation last week-end In Danville, Va. (See Story) LIFE OF SECOND YOUTH CLAIMED 8Y SHYING MULE HENDERSON A 10 - year- old youth became the second Negro boy to be killed this season by a shying mule. Thad Whitley, Jr, was killed last Friday afternoon When the nude he and a smaller brother were riding became fright ening when approached by a truck (Continued on page 8 ; this section) I llfelasb * ' ' gb ■ *V m t l & ‘/f Efc B@jS Ip 'V ' b m f Jhk K Imm ni Ejflj . BwSg.v £R B I Bcßshßl mH • H |jgPg| a ■' I !|| ■•"./•■• P®B' 1 p|g . ' K umwk ... SePse?- *"• irssv N snHniraßMiir . lnWlOWßinliilWnrr ' ' Y&SZ' 4 ®*# ’I .at ' 1 * ' ' ' Fs»i 4- ' , 11 P&SZE CATCH: (Left to Kiglit) Private First Class James Burnell of Fens. Texas, Corporal Charlie 9 Johnson of Meridan, Texas und Sergeant First Class 'Theodore Norris, Detroit, Michigan, all of the ;3tk I Infantry Division search l.io North Koreaai prisoners dressed tit stolen V. S, Anxny clothing. Report* 9 sure that many North ftoteau troops disguise themselves » Negro soldiers, hut la this vast their efforts 9 were fruitless, 9 Negro Schools Get Million Dollars From School Board HOCK! MOUNTS BOS BIAS CASE IS DISMISSED BY J. It. HARKEN ROCKY MOUNT. N. C. -Special) The charge that John D. Wil liams, prominent civic leader of Spring Hope, had violated the state segregation law s when he refused to move from the fourth seat from the rear to a back seat on a Caro lina Trail ways bus September 4th, fell flat in local police court here Monday before Judge Norman Gold. Mr. Williams was represented by attorney Conrad Q. Pearson of Durham Court spectators were not sur prised at the interest shown iri the lease by city solicitor Thomas D. | Dill when he held an extended con sultation with Mr. Pearson before calling Policeman Evans, who made ■the arrest on complaint of the bus (driver who did not appear to testify ]against Williams. Officer Evans ad ‘mined he thought all Negro pas- 1 Isengers were subject to the Jim- i | crow seting arrangement, ] (Continued on page 8, this section) OH HAPPY JANUARY Ist R. J. Reynold Company To Increase Wages N ext Year WINSTON-SALEM lt will be ‘New Year’s Day” but it will pos sibly seem like Christmas and that “Happy Days are here again” when the wage increases listed by the R. J Reynolds Tobacco Company j go into effect here on January 1, ! 1951. According to an announce* DURING DANVILLE MEETING Mechanics & Farmers Bank Cashier Named Bankers Heac DANVILLE. Va. -J. H. Wheeler, j executive vice president and cash- j ier of the Mechanics & Farmers! Bank of Durham, N. C. was elected j president of the National Bankers; Association here last week as the i banking group held its 23rd annuel session as guest of the local Dan ville Bank and Saving Company here September 8 and 9. Mr. Wheeler was elected to head the association succeeding j i NOT GUILTY “Not jruiity" was the implied verdict when i a Rocky Mount Sower court jud -1 ge had a violation of bus jint- I crow charge dismissed against j John I). Williams, civic leader of Spring Hope, N. C. The police- I man who preferred the charges against the Spring Hope NAACT j branch presiuKnt was not present at the hearing. (See Story) (j meat issued by the company this week, the 10,000 persons j ] employed by the company here and working on hourly-rated, piecework and salaried ar rangements will he eligible for the increases. The anouncement reveals that there j employees will receive a two-week : i ! Leß»y F, Ridley, president at | the Crown Savings Bank of Newport News, V'a, j The National Bankers Association ; is composed of representatives of i 14 Negro owned and operated banks with plants in Georgia, Tennesseee, North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina, Texas, Kansas, Pennsyl vania, the District of Columbia and Oklahoma, Busmess meetings were held here ; RALEIGH - More than a mil ! lion and a quarter dollars was ■ allocated for Negro school wori | by the State Board of Edue&tioi last, week as the Board reaches the half-way mark in its effort* to live up to the dictates of tin j 19-19 Legislative ruling that a funr of $50,000,000 was to be used t« wut the state’s school plants u | better condition. Negro schools were allocated the major rdiarc of the iuntU 1 set aside by the state group i for additions, repairs and gen eral betterment of schools, Tne state’s white schools were gtanted over a million dollars for needed works, with Indian projects running a very poor i third an' 1 being allowed only a measls $3,1)00. Granted lor Negro work in th stole, according to locale was: Alexander County, Happy Plain School, additions, $51,000. Bar Ur County, W. S. Ethridg .j School, additions, plumbing ant j Heating, SB-1,000. j Columbus County, Artesia School | additions Including auditorium j gymnasium, $87,000, ! Duplin County, Faison net I building, $129,000; Charity, nev | building $199,000. j Tarboro (city) Patiilo Hig I School. New building $117,000. Greensboro (city) Washingto ' (Continued an page 8, this section paid vacation after one year's set vice and .i three-week paid va cation after 20 years of service. FIGURES NOT LISTED The exact rate of increase ha not been listed by the company but company officials have reveal cd that the increases will cot (Continued u« page », this section [at the Textile Hall, Patton. Stree | with a public meeting being hel j Friday night at the Loyal Baptif 11 Church, the Rev. Doyle J. Tirana: f | ipastor. i | Member banks of the asaoclatio: I include: I Carver Savings Bank, fSavahnat -1 Ga.; Citizens Savings Bank an j Trust Co., Nashville, Tefm.; Cit! 1 sens and Southern Bank and Truf • (Continued *m. jage 8, this section
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