Baptists Converge On Wilmington
Baptist Meet Features
OR. SPAULDING >*R r: ' v
~ . Speaker'* Foie . . K?rß*»»«r
Big Attendance
Is Prospected For
Annual Sessions
13 ALEIGH Approximate!/
1.000 messengerand frir-nd:-. •;*
‘esenting 1600 Baptist Church*
a membership of 280.000. will
Ufiemble in Wilmington. N C.
feober 31-Novcmber 2, to ?•<■■■'■-
Mate in the 83rd annual ■■ ••-'*'!> >'
'®> General Baptist. State eon
v uiii-.i ui Carolina. Inr
Session- will bo ■ i-. :;*, tin* Sb:!nh
Baptist Church. Dr- J. H **>• •*■•*•
and :b- :!* *?• :
School.
Major concei :i will Iw ;* • i■ r•
In? the tore- days to h* ’ * >*
.1 oriel redemption. The to.. of
the meeting is 'World R n- ‘<;o. n
Through Applied ChrisM-i'iit--'
Dr. Randy Ray. p • ’
Corner-tone B »pti>? t o :• i
lyn. N. Y, wjil give ’■■>< ;ut
address centered rroun'i he t -
sion's theme The Rev Mi H-'v
lif' is a iso executive secretary of
the Social Service CommisSt-.M of
the National Baptist Convention.
Inc., will speak Wednesday even
ing November 1 at 8.
Other special a dresses will be
given by— Dean William R. Stras
stie rof the Shaw University School
of Religion; Dr. C. C. Spaulding,
.resident of North Carolina Mu
tual Life Insurance Company. Dur
ham; Dr W. C. Somerville, exa
ct!? ive secretary of the Lott Carry
Baptist Foreign Mission Conven
tion; the Rev. G. W. Thomas of
P.oxboro who will give the key
note address; T, A. Hamme, super
intendent of the Oxford Orphan
age, and Dr. M A. Huggins exe
cutive secretary of the Baptist
Slate Convention.
Gate City Freely
Supports Bennett i
GREENSBORO People in
Greensboro are proud oi Bennett
College and do their all to show'
it if the collections in the city's
phase of a current Bennett fund
raising campaign can be consid
ered indicative.
GIRL, 14, DIES
IN MYSTERY FALL
OFF SCHOOL BUS
FAYETTEVIDLE— Mystery sur
rounds the death of 14-year-old
pirl, student at the local Arm
strong High School, who was fa
tally injured near here late Mon ;
day afternoon when she jumped
ur fell from a moving school bus.
Victim of the unprecedented
tragedy is Bernice Smith, who
died shortly after having been ad
mitted to a Dunn hospital follow
ing her leap or fall from the
school vehicle carrying her home.
Two eye-witnesses to the inci
dent, James Williams, 19, and Clif
ford Godwin, la, reported that the
pirl suddenly got up from her seat
near the middle of the machine,
rushed to the front, door and fell
headlong into the road.
Site of the tragedy was soma
200 yards from the spot where the
victim was accustomed to board
ingand leaving the bus. Speed of
the vehicle was estimated at 33
miles per hour at lime of the
leap-
The young girl, who along with
'Wiliams, Ihe driver, and Godwin,
the bus captain, composed the en
tire occupancy of the bus, gave
dd uiuj.cai.ion of tun intention, but
hurried to the front of the ma
chine, turned the handle operating
the door and then disappeared
from view.
The bus was brought to a halt
arid the girl rushed to a hospital
where she died shortly after ad
mittance.
Investigation is being conduct
ed by Sampson County Coroner
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Scaedtded *° preach funnorr.
dui ttv ‘ z ‘?!svi iog are: D* I '
Bits 'lie, piuoi '.-I Lee Mono! YD'- ~
non B. ChurtM. Dutm-in,. Gw
B‘ v i p. :.TcJt,on pc i" of I •
vary Bs.Mi-! Church !I: r V' : .
the is Rpv. J. 1. Bowden of I■* ■
Ginngo
Influent*.* .it ?!}»• Church y-'-ili
rsn the True Basis for World
p, „co " vill i f reatnred Wer'sn. ■
dev i/ternobfl. November I at tStla.
The f?,.v o K Check.! nublic re'** 4 *
direi'lor of Rh.HW University
"di erve as chfriffri-m of the*
• ..j (j* j < > if i- ;>. • Hunant . •* : M hi.:
!*■,.- f>'*v .[ R f|.: npiirey. CPar
.uw til,., p* ■■ H. 1. MO W,'! 1
(,p. ;11,.. end the* Rev Thomas .j.
i.uyn. Raleigh.
Music f,*a 11 res will include H' "
ini selections by die Shaw Univer
sity Choir and Choirs ■' 'tie lo
ci Ichurctbes Harry G?i Smyth®,
director of music at Shaw will di
rect the University Chora! group
Officers of the Convention Me.
Dr P A B'- to Rich Square,
president; Dr W. H. Davidson.
Charlote first* vcic president; the
Rev. D C. Gore, Whin vilio. second
vice president; the Ret J. A.
Nimmo. Greenville third vice
president; the Rev. M. W Wyatt,
Salisbury, recording secretary. Dr
D. L Simon. Powellsville. treas
urer, arid !im Rev A. F. McCleave
Sanford, statitician. Dr O S. But
tock. Ralcigli is chairman of the
executive committee*. and Dr J T
Hairston of Greensboro is chair
ma nos the board of Missions.
!n the initial reporting meet
ing' ot the $2611.000 fund-rais
ing campaign for completion
oi the new Student Union
building and heating plant a
total of $22,193 was listed as
received already of the city'-
quota of s7o,o<P>.
This amount does not in
cvlude that which has been
raised in the campus phase of
of the campaign, it has been
pointed out.
Tin- Student Union Bidding is
to be dedicated Sunday when Dr
, Mary McLeod Bethutie, founder
l of Bcthune - Cookman College,
; Dayton i Beach, Fla., is scheduled
to deliver the principal address.
The dedicatory service is one
of the many event.- scheduled
durini* the Founder's Day obser
vances October 27*31-
They Represent 6000 NFA Members
j NFA OFFICIALS MEET j
| Sitting in conference ill the
j Cheshire ituildilng, Saint Augus
tine's College are these New !
| Farmers of America officials. ]
From left to right are J. L,
Moffett, president of tile Agri-
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In Salute To United Nations Week
t ! |s
: pi>a ' w 1 ! **! yl|f
■ #
N MFANS "U”? fnagurating f niteil Nations Week, 7« officers and enlisted men of th* Army'i
> Verb Port of Embarkation visited the ! V. Headquarters this week to attend eommittes tßsefinff
the General Assembly Giving the fif's » few '’pointers” on the workings of the in« emotional body <:
>?t Admiral Chester VV. Mmitr. Listening attent) vel.v are (left to right) M/Sgt. Joseph J H«g»a
■|/Sgt. C-ooper Clifford, Sgt, t.e Elmer Johnson ami 11 Sti. Sand) Finola,
All-Negro Station Bows In
Twin City On October 26th
WINSTON • SALEM Thins.-
day afternoon October 26 marked
>the opening of Winston-Salem s
newest Radio Station WAAA. This
is North Carolina's first all col
ored programmed station and eat h
of the programs and features arc
cultural association; Calvin Ijintcs
president of the state NFA As
sociation, Macksville; Tneophil
uis Miller, treasurer, NFA As
sociation; James Hill, reporter;
.faun's L. Newton, third vice pre
sJt.ent; Maeeo Hutchinson, si.iore
presented to cover activities of
Negro nitercst. Two other all Ne
gro -'Litmus are located jn Atlan
ta, Ga and Birin, .injrham, Ala.
WAAA is owned and operated
by the Community Broadcasting
Service, Inc., and is at 980 on
your radio dial. Ted Lee per, viee
j tary, North Carolina State As
i sociatlon; J, VV. Tumor, first vice
j president, North Carolina State
; Association; and VV. J- Fisner,
j executive secretary, State Asso
ciation, NFA. (CAROLINIAN
Photo by lUll Vcale.i
president and general manager is 1
a radio veteran of many years,
and he has secured a staff for
WAAA that is well trained and
capable.
The daily schedule of programs
on WAAA Monday through;
Saturday will be filled with
good music and they will be pre-:
seated in an appealing manner by
personality announcers. Beginning '•
at i.. 30 each morning, Larry Wil
liams, a former announcer it. sta
tion WNCA in Asheville, presents
| “Roll Jordan” -a full hour of
j familiar religious anti spiritual
• music
< Bruce “Sugarthroat” Miller is
| heard on a program "Red-Hot and
Blues” {fuelt afternoon, and as
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It Hupp
Some Here, Some 1 here !
RALEIGH All football action !
| involving leading North Carolina!
i football teams did nottake part in
i the state, the aftermath Vtars local
I consideration, however,
j Scores in major games in the
1 stale last week include:
Virginia Union 21, Winston
! Salem H)
St. Augustine's 36, Ellza
| both City 0
N- C. College 55, Shaw 0
Howard 7, .1. C. Smith 6
Washington High 13, Booker
T. Washington 0
: Bill Bull's A, and T. College Aggies j
! lost their first game oi the year j
to Coach Jake Gaither's Florida A. j
• /lid, M. flat tie is by a 14. to B count 1
- 'VOICES' TELL
' INMATE 10 SI AT
(IID ATTENDANT
•10-Yrar-OF! Man 1 scs
Iron Stakf Po Beat
Other, 51, P ,} l^ath
GOLDSBORO A. 51-ye?r-old
a p.aid xt lh- State Hospital
to death by an inmate here 1*. *’•
so-- N |4 gro Insane he*‘° was be a t *',;
day morning as the inmate sues,
deniy '.vent be-erk obeyed
■'voices” he'd heard
Dead is Robert Clark, who died
.liortly after ha ms Leer! boat* n
wound the head by John >1
Thompson, 18. as the two returned
from ran ing net ■ 4 V
Aceoiding to hospital official 4 ,
Thompson, until then walking
■ii it; peacefully •< ith the elder
m:,n," a nri ./tty pulled <i threc-foot
long i* on stake from the ground
and be, in to bludgeon *h*' atten
fiiiU, striking him seven
abn:.* the head. When aid arrived.
)he oilier man was already be
yond iieip.
Dr Ira C. Long, superintendent
•>{ the nospit.a! revealed iDt-
Thii.r • - son won ; -as dc'cribad as
a ■,eui<'ntia Ptiocox case, after
ward told him that voices" n.id
prompted him to commit the deed.,
Thompson, avno came here from
iitc iiospi , :il in Duplin County
some two weeks ago had been
temporarily classified and was to
have undergone further study this
week. Immediately following the
killing, he was placed in a ward
i tor iho criminally insane. t
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MSN WHO TOLD
WIFE TO KILL
HUBBY NABBED
SMITH FI ELD - A white man,
who allegedly did ‘-counsel, pro
cure and command” a Negro wom
an to slay her husband has been
arrested here as result of inten
sive State Bureau of Investigation
inquiry into the death of a 36-year
old Selma man.
Mrs- Gladys Richardson, who
hud been scheduled to be tried
this week for the murder of
her husband. James, 3<i. has
been Wngered as the woman
who Andrew J, Worreis, Bdm#
fish market operator, compell
ed to do the deed.
JWon-els was arrested this week
o na warrant sworn out by Sel
ma Police Chief Percy L. Moore.
The warrant charges Warrels with
being an accessory before the fact
of murder.
Mrs. RirfiardMon was charged
with killing her spouse on October
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»ened In Carolina
Shooting Off
! DURHAM The judge in Re
coder's court here may not mind
defendents “shooting off” their
mouths, but when they get to
shooting off pistols around child
ren that's just one act too many.
For that reason Sidney Lee
Allen has appealed a 7>month sen
tence imposed on charges of car
rying a concealed weapon and fir
ing bullets in to the ground in the
presence of children.
The judge tailed to impose a
sentence upon Allen for putting
! his hand under his coat in. a
j threatening manner and “shooting
: off” his mouth in an effort to get
1 another man in. to an aruument, .■
Heavenly Halloween
T\iK ABOUT HALLOWEEN
This pretty North Carolina
Collfjfo roed i's J*ll ?*♦'! to v*v>»**p
awav (hf. vltches who ar*'
to }> ** hob.jrohMntn.sr
4/-OUITH on fitted
w ith v*v« : 'ra! h r ot>m* Hind * c*oni«
Til h?t*. |plsif> Wearer,
A-hoskic frp'hnjan, h*n -* y
AT ST. AUGUSTINE’S
Mystery Shrouds
Prof’s Alleged
Suicide Attempt
RALEIGH Y ii. -hi of n
t» ry Ain surrounds the real story
involving an all •’fed suicide try
of a young S'. Augustine’s Col
lece instructor last week despite
valiant attempts on the port of
working prows personnel through
out the district to ferret out the
facts
It ,‘.'<s learneri that Vernon
Wi-tr. about .25, instructor at the
local college v. admitted to St.
A;nes Hospital e»i lv last week
suffer in £5 wounds mad ■ by some
, harp instrument and allege <i!y
inflicted by himself in a futile
suicide attempt.
White, who is said to have corn
-1 phted two years’ work toward his
Ph. D. degree at Harvard Unver
sity and who is a graduate of
Morehouse Cbliege oiid/ Atlanta
University, reportedly was driven
to his suicide attempt by a des
pondency which na ’ plagued nun
r since ms arrival here early this
Kali to accept a teaching position
•it St. Augustine’s.
HOSPITAL NON - COMMIT AL
Inquiries made of officials at
Mother Suceeds
In 2nd Death Try
WINSTON-SALEM The 23-
year old mother of a five-day-old
baby was killed instantly here
Tuesday night v.-hen she leaped
from an uiJpor-story window in
a local, hospital in a second at
tempt to destroy herself.
Death of Mr-. Pauline Wingo
Sad Was The Day
Leaf Went Away
DUNN “Sae sad. O. Sad
was the Day,
! They took the tobacco and went
j away . .
Repetition
RALEIGH —• Coach P. H
Williams of the local Wash
ington High School was
at pressUrne gettign his foot
ball squad in shape to attempt
a repeat performance of their
championship - gaining w i n
last year in the game against
Durham's Hillside High School.
The Durham aril Raleigh
schools, perrcntel rivals, are
undefeated this year in con
ference play, just as they were
prior to their 1943 meeting.
Loach Williams’ charges took
the victory then and leeway
to the state championship. Tlie
teams are to meet here Friday
swept numerous NCC swains aft
their feet, Miss Weaver 1* *
graduate of She Robert L- Vann
Hieh School- She is looking for
u-ard *o a career Info She dance
No hoys, solo dancing; so May
ynijr dlslttnce. or the brooms
will get you.
v. v * t A.3»e» and »♦-
Augustine’s ’ College here, have
failed to reveal reasons #6r Mr,
White.s alleged despondency or.
for his suicide attempt
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TEACHERS TOUR
TEE CEE PLANTS
■•'IMSTON SALEM The Twin
C’tt literally ‘’taken ov«r”
by local and Forsyth County
school, teachers Wednesday when
IS local plants were included in a
tour made by the school “'inarms'
and “pa-s.”
The occasion marked the
opening of Business-Education
Week, the local Chamber ot
Commeree's “let’s get acquaint
ed'* presentation.
School children had a half-day
as then teachers played at being
guests of the local Chamber.
was listed as a ‘clear sulcid®” by
officers investigating her leap
from a fourth floor window at
Kate Blttin.fs Reynolds Hospital.
Mrs. Wint'o, described as suf
fering from "post-delivery psycho
sc:;” reportedly had attempted to
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; That dirge is being mutual!}
chanted here by Ed Oakes, a Ne
gt •; sh.-'c crop fa row, and At
{ , len Thornton, .vith whom Otkei
works on shales, following dis
■ j .-'Very of Its: of some 2500 t'
! 3000 pounds of tobacco from '<
| storehouse adjoining Oakes' farm
j It was only last Saturday wher
Oakes, who in addition to shar
ing. owns 2.3 acres of the tarn
i from which the leaf came, fin
| ished grading the crops,
■ Following that process, th
j farmer then placed his year’
; yield in a hou,-e adjoining hi
j own and went to sleep, possibi;
J creaming of ihe greenbacks th
j Golden Leaf fetch on some ware
I house floor.
But, alas, that was not to to
' the case, for during Saturda,
I night, a thief entered the hous
| and made away with all of th
; crops except some few scatters
I nondescript leaves.
When Oakes stored the lea
! during the weekend on ius New
| ton Grove highway j.ann, ne las
| teneu uie door wnn a neavy pac
| lock and snut tne windows ,se
1 jLonuiititd m gagb $ t th.M secUpe