[GR 11)1 RON INJURY KILLS BOY
Tops With His Majesty
ij Dawlat Solinnin, sitting on the bar' ;Ps
of the new 1 v opened Negro case in Wj&.
| Berlin, gives the photographer a 'BN
j poae i omimmiy known as “cheese-nGy ->llll
j cake" art. Miss Selim&n, a famous - *> ggrflfffimfr
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Judge Hayes’ Decision
Is App - 1 It dTo District
Com e By HCC Students
GREENSBi''tO—Ti --ei-Un -G
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a f eaerat llcU-ct Court juugc who
ruled that facilities at tae North
Carolina College- Law School in
Durham and the University ui
North Carolina Law Senool stt
Chapel Hill were equal had been
appealed here.
Notice of appeal was entered
by counsel in behalf of tour
N. t . College law Students
w hos«- efforts to gain admis
sion to the t'NC law school
were- stymied by the decision
handed down by Judge Jolui
son J. Hayes.
* In his October 8 decision, run
reded tol!u\vin, J a week-long hear
ing in Durham and after a nonthV
deliberation by the jurist. Judge
Hayes ruled that tiie facilities at
the Durham school were equal to,
and in some ways surpassed those
at the Chapel Hill institution He
deemed the prestige of the Chapel
Hill institution negligible because
Negro attortiies would draw cli
ent ; troni members of their own
race "
The jurist further felt that the
NC ( ollt-ge school hud an “excel
lent 1 ’ faculty, an adequate library
and more space par capita than
the Chapel Hill institution.
It was this decision that the
four students, S’loyd McKlsskk,
, (Continued on page four)
GO TO THE POLLS, VOTE!
North Carolina’s Negro citizens are urged from all
Quarters to demonstrate their desire for first class jpitizen
ship by going to the polls in next Tuesday’s general elec
tion balloting.
* Despite convictions as to candidates, issues, and other
■+ matters, the states Quarter million Negro voters are re
quested to show at the polling places in record numbers.
Voters are asked to realize that they did only a por
tion of their duties as citizens when they participated in
/the primary voting. Tuesday's general ejection balloting
is to determine with a degree of finality who is to repre
sent the state’s citizens and in what capacities.
1 he CAROLINIAN takes this means of urging ©very?
eligible voter to go to the polls Tuesday. It is only through
exercise of the right of franchise that mute testimony of
aspiration for citizenship en toto is to he given. VOTE
■TUESDAY.
It Happened In Carolina
Hi-Ho, Roll Fast
REJDSVILLE —• Azzie Harris of
the Race Track section of this city
has a bicycle that -people hereabout
refer to as "Roil Fast." Azzie was
riding Roll Fast rather fast the
other day when a state highway
patrolman pulled up beside him
sfu3 said “puli over."
Azzie pulled over after a bit of
T effort andn the patrolman gave
him, a ticket no! for speeding,
but for drunken driving. It. was
determined by the age old “sniff
test” that Azzie had had om too;
many.
He was lined SIOO and costs of
court by the local Recorders Court
judge j
NEW ALDERMAN
HOLDS KEY TO ■
TIN CITY ISSUE
Resolution To Employ
1 i f emeu Could Be
Defeated lu V*w Vote
WINSTON-SALEM A new 1
vote by local City Aldermen may ;
be needed to determine whether
or not Winston-Salem is to become I
the first North Carolina City cm- j
ploy in.6* Negro firemen it was not- i
ed here this tvtn-k as the Board!
of Aldermen deliberated on the ;
selection of a ncu incmber to re- i
Place the Late O H Peddyeord,!
whose recent death created a va- j
caney on tlie grouo
It) a recent session, with Mr. |
Peddyeord voting in favor, the:
Board passed u resolution calling j
for the employment ol race fire- j
(('ontlnucd uu page four)
Lovely Love Letter
GREENVILLE Roy Ter
rell. 31, reclved a love letter
from a Kiri friend of Ms who
Is now "up north” recently, and
Instead of reading the letter
and tearing’ it up, decided to
keep it in his pockets.
His wife as women will
was cleaning tip one day and
found the- letter. She waited
until both were in bed, an,,!
turned to Hoy and asked him
about it. That’s when Roy got
good and mad and tee-ed off
on his spouse. The wife, Bea
trice, preferred charges and
Hoy was fined sls. The judge
tore up the letter,
U.M.C, DECISION APPEALED
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VOU/Mh X\f'{ R A LEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA WEEK ENDING SAl'i RDA\ , NO\Li. iEL tv C K> •>0 Nu. i S
Resolution Assuring State s hirst
hireinen Is Placed In Jeopardy
NAN ,53, DIES IN WELL
SONS FAIL IN
ATTEMPT TO
RESCUE FATHER
Mount Airy Man Dies
When Poison Gases
Seep info Deep Well
MOUNT AIRY tSpecial)—A 53- j
year old man is dead here b# the]
result of aspluxication by poison- \
ous gases in a well in which he j
was working some 60 feet below j
ground-ley .1. The elderly man was !
overcome as his two sons made
valiant attempts to rescue him. j
Victim of the Friday sub
terranean fatality was frank
Sawyers, a weil-digger who
lived in the White Sulphur
Springs sector.
Sawyers had gone into the well '
to remove hud and water After i
spending some- time in the hole,
he suddenly begun to yell to be ■
raised to the surface. Efforts by!
the son to raise the man proved ;
futile, and Laymon went into the ;
pit to attempt rescut He too be
gan to yell f u r help, rid Itaymon
went below.
All three were finally
brought out of the hole by res
cue workers who used an air
compressor to force the pois
onous fumes out. The youths
were revived. All attempts to
reseiturate the father, who was
breathing when he was taken
out of the well, proved futile.
Dr. A. M Gates of Ararat,
Va. pronounced the man dead.
(Continued on page four)
COLLEGE HOST
TO DISTRICT PTfti
ELIZABETH. CITY - The Dis
| trict Out: Association of Negro par
i ants and Teachers was scheduled
| to hold a one-day session at Eliza
beth City Teachers College here
i Thursday. The session was to get
| under way at 9:30 a. ra
il. S. Cooper, principal of the
jT. S. Cooper high school at Sun
\ burv and president of the associa
tion was delegated ((-esiding dut
ies.
Mrs- M. L, Woodson, state suo
erintendent of Negro eicmvntary
school was scheduled in the key
noter rote at the sessions
General theme of the meeting
hay been listed as “Using C'on.
munity Resources .fur the Develop
ment of Youth"
The association includes mern- j
hers from the nine counties in the I
Albermarle area.
A Long Time
PJTTSBORO O C. Currie of !
the Gulf section of Chatham Coun- j
t.v will be a guest of the state of;
North Carolina Tor a long time —j
j about 25 or 20 years.
This; supposition be dame fact j
here last week when the man was I
handed a sentence of that duration j
after entering a plea of guilty to j
| the second degree killing of Narije!
! Clay. " I
| John Currie, also involved in the ;
j killing, was given a sentence of j
| two years on the roads for assault;
l with u deadly weapon. The killing j
grow out of an argument the men;
j had while loading a truck at the j
! Gulf brick .yard i
Raleigh Unit's Mess Is Best At Camp
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A’ ■ ■/ :-- ■ •
KALEIGH UNIT HONORED— ]
Lt. Colonel, William Troy, Post
Guarternia.ster Officer, presents j
an Honor Plaque tor the best j
Charges Preferred Against
Two In Schoolgirl ? $ Death
By FREDERICK L. BURNS
FAYETTE VILE - 'two high
school students were placed un
der bond pending grand jury ac
tion Thursday night at an inquest
in the death of Bernice Smith, 14-
year-old student at Armstrong
High School-
A coroner’s jury recommended
that Clifton Godwin, lh. be held
for the grand jury and that James
Hearing Before NC Bar
Council Looms For Att’y
RALEIGH Herman L Taylor,
well known local atornoy, report
edl.v is .scheduled for a hearing
before the Council of the State
Bar A ociation on charges grow
ing out of client’s contention that
the lawyer failed to perfect an
appeal. At CAROLINIAN press
time, however, the barrister had
not been summoned oy the Bar
IT’S Mftfr IT’S
roue WVI la your
DUTY NOV. 7 DUTY |
Mess Hall in the 327th Quarter
master Battalion to Captain L.
1. Jackson, commanding offi
cer of the 465th Quartermaster
Edward Williams, 19 be placed
under bond as a material witness.
The Smith girl was killed near
Godwin last Monday when site
jilnped or was pushed from a
school bus.
County officer L. L. Guy said
his investigation revealed that
Miss Smith, Godwin and Williams
were th- only persons on the
school bus when she met her
group.
Accordiug to announcement
made by the State Bar secretary,
Edward Cannon, Taylor is to ap
pear before Bar group, possibly in
Favetetville, to answer charges
charges that he had received S3OO
Fayetteville client seek nig to car
of a requested $l,lOO asked of a
(Continued on page four)
service company, (a unit of the
Raleigh Organized Reserve
Corps) that was recently called
to active duty.
death. lie said that undvr ques
tioning Godwin finally stated that
he had approached the fc'irl in the
bus to ask for a pencil she had
borrowed and that he then placed
his hands on her, whereupon she
jumped up, ran to the front ol
tiu- bus and jumped from the ve
hicle.
Williams testified he was driv
j ing the bus and did not see the
! ~irl until she was going out the I
| side of the bus
| Godwin admitted on the witness I
i stand that he approached the girl
in the bus and had placed his
hands on her.
Witnesses included J. H. Lewis,
principal of Armstrong school; W.
A. HcGill, a. school bus mechanic;
and Miss Margaret Stricter, a stu
! dent,
Cumberland County coroner Joe
Pinkston set SSOO bond for God
! win and ordered a $250 bond for
! Williams- Both were released unr
I der bond.
Victim Os Grid Injury
GRID GAME VICTIM- tv it
iarn Barbee, J>., a native of
Chapel Hill and member of th-
Morristown ilenn,) College foot
ball team, w ar, fatal! s injured
in a game played between tie.
Tennessee team and the Etna
Chapel Hill Youth Dies
Following Injury In Tilt
At Elizabeth City, N. C.
CHAPEL HlLL—lmpressive fun
eral services were held here Wed
nesday from the Rock Hill Bap
i tist Church for William Barbee,
Jr., who died Sunday morning of
injuries received in a eoilepiate
football game being played iu
i Elizabeth City Saturday.
Barbee, ill-year-old son of
Mr. am I Mrs. William Barbee,
j Sr-, here, sustained neck in
j juries in the game being play-
I between Elizabeth City Teach
ers College and the team from
Morristown (Tenn.) College, of
which he was a member
Tile youthful athlete was Injur
ed when he dived into the Eliza
beth City line ki an attempt to
break up a play. He was taken
out of the game and rushed to
Elizabeth City's Albermarle Hos
pital. He died at 6:30 A. M Sun
day- His death has been ruled ae
i The War Is Not Ended
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rm, WAR !S STILL OH: Some people breve forgotten about- the ws*
; in Korea, but on the war front the bombs are still bursting in air.
Looking over » terrain cusp to schedule tomorrow’s next move sure
(left to right). Li. O. W Diilau, .M-uu'tpieet, Oklahoma; Lt. E. F. Hobs
; m*m mi U- Water &. &&d* .»wh> e ** —--.UJ’i'ltff ,
beth City Teachers College team
at Elizabeth city Saturday. Ba* - -
i»*i was an outstanding athlete
at Cimpel Hill’s Lincoln (Orange
County Training School Fun
eral services were held Wed
*»*•*.ay. (SEE STORE)
cidenta!
TOP ATHLETE
Barbe- had been an outstanding
athlete at Chapel Hill’s Lincoln
High School, participating in four
major sports-- football, baseball,
basketball and track.
According to Lincoln High
School’s Coach Carnegie, he
was '‘one of the most outstand
ing play. rs" who every took
part in athletics at the Chapel
ilill School. He took part in
scholastic athletics for your
years.
It was Barbee's athletic prow
ess that won him a scholarship
to the Tennessee school.
At Wednesday s funeral service,
arranged by Chapel Hill Funeral
Directors, Bargee's former team
mates fmm both the Lincoln High
School and Morristown College
(Continued on page four)