SCHOOL HEAD 'MUM' ON BURGLARY RAP
NAACP Split Rumors False; Plummer “Reneging ’
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SUPJ'ORT To THRUi OWS
srss i:xri;eetiisßs
It la a tact that in mini;’ of till'
Key marking citie of fin- Snut.il
XtjJl'O people are spending. the maj
ority in ther payroll money villi
while department stor-s otin-i
p«rs «*jt white businesses WlliAt.
in many’ cases, employ no colored
people on their entire staff. Many
of dies*- businesses making heavy
profits off colored trade, will not
even advertise in e„l<»i ed tu w
papers.
in {host minin' cos--, where
R tyioes itic enipiuyetl in ile
piXl t iltcli t Sturts, Ours s. onii
Lithe. big stoi cs uj 1.0. i it', they
tt/c holding me nidi jolts lilit
elevator hoy. jiinitui. miti'h
iimin, porter, messenger, hut
it I, chau/jeur, yen Uimiit. or
Some other lim-paying jot).
WHY XF;UHOBS’ WILL SPEND
trie majority of their money with
businesses that won t employ N<-
gtoes in dignified jobs and why
liiej uo uot spend tuoi« suhstunu
ally with the businesses operated
by their own people . . is a deep
inystei v.
It also is <i noticeble fact
that Regret businesses, tor the
•most port, nerer improve oi
i expand They dont do « n ;/ pro
motion to amount to anything
tangible . m/uI -they Imre u
si is (Klin foe advertising in
then hometown colored news
papers. They shun yh iny to of
garraanons litre the A -1 -U P
(Slid they hate to :niy then
church dues ifiui they don!
hen tiny an u'hmu hut white
(iailh newspapers irhi h ‘nr the
most port, ed a y oYtlu iun-i >tr
me a s in a lint non sectinn of
the nru simper, u hilt the color
ful newspaper* ore hum/tint)
m o their cause a in e j 'eni crisis
* the nice experiences in the ten
se racial watte u of the Deep
South. ' u' w yvw
NEGROES WAV' - HOC A!.
RIGHTS and opijortnniMe.. - "on a
F’lver platter - but how can thev
attain any racial aolhlaritv pen -
if they do all the things ihoueh?
igsslc which bold hscV ttm race'
The so.c.nVed “Dio *Vimi'*
vho owns a h> me and ■* late
model (liit'C-toh-lc ... the
hardest HP's, v xxnnllu *•/ the
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KOIKY MO I'NT MAN t>SOO X
AV( T* MKIIHKK Cieorffe W.
Mercer, veteran Atlantic, (oast
l ine railway fireman, above pur
chases tile first SlUlt membership
In the Kocky Aiount branch NA
ACI*. J. B. llarren, right, mem
Watery Grave Claims Two
Tots In Pond, Youth, 16
Hy STAFF ( OKKhSPONDJM
RAt t'.IGH Watery death this
Week lias claimed the. lives ol three
youth m North Carolina. Ages of
the victims range tiom a through
ltl V t:UI'6
At Builmgton Sunday, 16
yearnhi \lelvin lingers, son of
Mi. and Mis. Wesley Kogcis
was if row icvt when he tell from
flic innertube on wliich he had
been floating in Sharpe’s Fund-
Builington firemen amvefl on
the scene a short tin. alter Hop
era went under water and began
a search fur the tiociy with grap
pling hooks. Sheriff C. Hallie
Moot t- also assisted with the
Bimetal arrangements were n*>t
coin.ilete at CAKOHNIAN pre.ss
time.
tilt OH UK. SISTER II IE
The Hope Mills Sector, some few
miles from Fayetteville was the
locale of a drowning incident which
claimed the life of a 5-year-old
giil and her 3-year-old biother
Victims were Marv Madgeiei'e
IVlcDoUgal, of Hope Mill -and her
brother, Floyd, Junior, 3 The chil
dren drowned Sunday m Hope
Mills Pond No. 2.
Plans Made For Annual
Negro Citizens Day Fete
RALEIGH —A committee of Ne
gro citizens, representing a cross
section of the states (population,
met in Raleigh to make nlans for
the annual Negro "Citizens’ Day'
program that is to be presented in
• connection with the showing of The
i Lost Colony at Manteo, Friday July
; '2O,
President S. D. Williams, Eliza
beth City State Teachers College,
! preetded and outlined plans for this
| event. Advertising transportation,
1 and living accommodations were
' discussed by the members present.
Speaker Jot the occasion was also i
her of the stnt-' NAACI* board,
accents the membership while
Mrs Harrell, .in official "1 the
Korki Mount branch, looks on.
Me. Mercer has consistently ad
earned his NAACP membership
ratilm from $5 through $lO to the
par. ills o t the children are Floyd
and Mrs. yla i y Elizabeth IvlcDou
gkici,
it oiifiimefi em pagr 8'
Bears Joe Louis. Lz
Hilaries, Mrs. FDR
IHLt.tIN. S. C. (SPECIAL)-
lot Louis, !•.**»rd Charles and
l:le iiior itoosevelt were born l«
a w tiiuan here last Saturday
night,
joe. Lizard and Eleanor
were u,c names chosen by Mrs
Lottie Mae Johnson for the
triplets she bore near mid
night
Mrs. Johnson, wife «f tenant
farmer Sandy Johnson, in addi
tion to the new arrivals, has
mine other children, making
the tola! number of "little
Johnsons” an even dorm
"Joe Louis" Johnson was the
first child delivered, and ac
cording to the attending physi
cian. came into the world with
his fist closed. Ezzard and El
eanor were born in that order.
selected.
Those present at the meeting
were D -an T E McKinney of
Johnson C Smith University, Char
lotte N. C ; Dr J, w. Seabrook. of
Fayetteville State Teachers Col
lege. Fayetteville; Mrs. Ada M. Jar
nagin, executive secretary of the
' N. C. Congress of Colored Parents
and Teachers Associations Raleigh;
E M. Barnes, principal of Darden
High School, Wilson- Dean A. F-
Manley of N, C College of Dur
ham and j, R Larkins, consultant
of the N. C. State Board of Public
i Welfare, Raleigh.
!; At km: 11. NOU 111 fAHOI SNA
WKI K ENDING JUNE 30, 195^
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present SI do rating. He urges
membership in the association
lauding its actions which have
resulted in elimination of job op
portunities and the breakdown
of segregation in travel.
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VICTORY’ FOLLOW-UP IN
TRENTON SiX CASE Horace
Wilson (right), one of the four
defendants acquitted in the fam
ed Trenton Sue case, looks on as
Odell Clark (left), assistant man
ager, and Louis Simon, manager
SAW-MILL SITE
AS MAN'S HEAD
IS SEVERED
Worker Is Hurieti
Into The Paris Os
Razor-Sharp Blade
EXCLUSIVE
I.OUISBURG A saw-mill Wink
er's head was cut completely off
his body at the Bumgai'dner Saw
Mill at Centerville nut: hero on
Tuesday aftei noon
Cliaric* Bullock, a 25-year..
old resident of Loiiisburg, Ric.
a, wits victim in the freak mis
hap which occurred when a
board being sawed by (he man
caught in saw and threw him
into the machine.
Hullock, a cuniage rider at
the saw mill, was performing
his duties when the board
caught- ills head was totally
severed from his body by the
rapidly spinning razor-edged
blade.
A M'itnrss to the mishap wa:
Samuel Harris who is employed
a- ~ sa\vy.-r on the machine in
volved in the fatality.
Bullock is described as a 'fani
.l'. man . Employees of the mill
however, were unable to clarify
tin- denotation
Funeral arrangements arc be
ing made by a local mortician.
of ihe Laundry Workers’ Joint
Board, Amalgamated Clothing
Workers of America, CIO. pre
sents check for si.&OO to Arthur
B. Spiugatti, president of the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People,
IgUgfgi Jjßgji ag&jßft* M eray out lit'iil K<lmator
J® 5 T - - ; ' '■ Na!>lM*tl \ Kurelai
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.SCHOOL HEAP HOES to
JAlL—Charles Alvin Check, prin
cipal of a Wake County grammar
school, throws his hand over ids
face as he is being led from the
Raleigh City Court building to
tii»- Make County jailhouse las)
Alexander Says NAACP
Split Rumor Is False;
Plummer Denies Role
By Staff Writer
HAL. HIGH Tiie N-.rui Caro
lina Branch of tile National Ass.
edition tor the Advancement us
Colored People is vigorously deny
ing. any rupture in its ranks, and .i
Warieiiton fanner, who first gav<-
indication that such a rupture ex
si.stcd is doing his aii ;o "straigh
ten him sell" with N C citizens it
was learned here tills week
REPORTED NOT MEMBER
K'-lty Alexander. preside,.'. <»(
the state NAACI' group has assert
ed that thei *• has been (•-. contro
versy in the NAACP family
through the state Alexander for
th.: says that J. E. Plummer of
Warieiiton. yvhu claims to have
withdraw from the NAACP in
.-tone, hi; lily publicized in the
lain pr.-ss last week, is not a
member of the state organization
of tile NAACP. did not attend the
recent state convention, and '’ac
cording to the report” from the
Warren County branch NAACI’.
is not a member of the Branch in
the section of the state that he
says he represents. ,
REFUTING STATEMENTS
Plummer, described as a college
gi initiate and a successful farmer
of Waironion. N (.'. reportedly had
been •■stumping'’ Eastern Carolina
m an cl fort to secure r efutation of
• t-rtaii; statements published in
column in the daily press and at
tributed to him.
Raleigh residents report that
Plummer visited the Capital City
during the past week and early
this week declaring that he
(Continued on page 8, this sectioni
The check was a contribution to
the NAACP Legal Defense and
Educational Fund. Inc., for legal
work involved in the Trenton
case. NAACP Attorneys defend
ed Wilson and John MeKensien
who was alto acquitted.
week fidleing hi- waiver of pre
liminary bearing on ehages «t
five (mints of first degree bur
glary , Raleigh police pairiilm.cn
John Baker escorted the youth
tu! educator to the lockup, i Photo
Courtesy News A- Observer!
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PREDICTS EM) TO .lIMCKOW
Walter White, executive sec
retary of the National Associa
tion for the Advancement of Col
ored People on Monday predicted
before the T*ml annual National
convention of the NAACP at At
lauta tiie abolition oi segregation
throughout the South within (he
next decade.
YOUTH, 19, IS
GRANTED STAY
OF EXECUTION
(Hi 1.l I'OfS .1 0\7-;.s, EDITOR,
THE <\\nm.lSlA S )
WLVSTON-SAI.KAi i KxeiusVe to
The ( aroluiiau Newspapers)
Hoonicil !<■ die in the gas chamber
of Hie Central Prison fur criminal
■rape of the seventeen-year.old
daughter of a white radio shop
operator and a K'-yunhis High
School co cd .1 liIK- la. IbaU, a sc>.
mil of ft Use .-miiinitiril ill tin* lath
• is radio sho]). according tu evideii
..- Clyde Brown pi v.-at old Win
stun Salem youth was .Iramaticallv
given a 'wrolioiii' stay of exeutlon
Tlittrsdav. June 21 otic day before
Brown's scheduled death .Inne 22
The order Was gigneil b\ Feder
a! ftisi rict Judge Donald (iillinm
!« S'- i him 24 hours inoorc !h” soiled
die exeiiiti.oi. ihe .1,11.0! t.-int*
.a used |»\ yttv Miwrii \ Price
leg:,| eoniic-l for Brown, who tire
.seated h plea for a writ of habeas
corpus which charges that Brown
has been deprived of his liberty
without due i>! 0.-i-ss el" law as es
tablished by the Legislature of the
State '"• Vc •• h '•'<rnlina.
A Kir UR:\ fi-jyr, liR.-W’TED
Judge Gilliam ordered a new
in.. 'l'hmsdav, Julv 4, in Hal
e : gh. Tlds inter wiu-n l ion bv Ar
to Brie- removed front Oovl
, --m 1 W lv >»-i- 55,., n the
- ’•■;• of deridini.' vh.-the- Brown
-■’.mild A netftion W'lh leru-.
° nidi S'bill a'U res had beet;
nr.-.u, ,n,.,,| in t(i,, Governor, ns' Ins
■•'"" )< - --.oe. ••'>!) „ Hu* death sen tone
o '■• ’ ;..,,,inlent
(110 I*.■*,>~ r-y oiled fUs. T, :n’.
id<*-. ft -mmisdoii"'- T. C Johricoii
fold him o-i.'tv Thursday 'hat hir
s ,*■< .liHf'n.; t,-, flu. I'tnvio-e I.y
icon hi 1«* tn let Ihe death noivilfv
i-.ned ns t, LYrcsvlh Slnoerine
f.oo't e,i-,,siding; indite Dan K.
-, fifl <yy>v» t .ar|
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By f.JN HOM OHAY
RALKJGH A nervous and
li'iis< young "ieim-nUi; \ school
i I'incijial told the CAROLINIAN
Wednesday morning that lie has
"no statement to issue to tile press
Hoarding capital marges of first
decree burgulu’v nnv, being pre
pared against him.
Charles Alvin Cheek, '22-year
old head of a Wake County 3-room
scltoolhousc and. accordingi to his
superiors in education a "quiet,
neat -md well-uumne;ed” person,
has been lodged in the Wake Coun
ty jail since he \va> apprehended
iarly Saturday morning m the
home of a white woman one of his
alleged bur. ular victims.
Following pre
jHpipHK
gallon of the bur " x ' 'W$Sm
g 1 a r v said in
conimission a ’ flj|^
t h e time o' EIL
cheek's arrest flpgGaf
tile youthful ed-|P .ytsLer
icator was deem • a.
ed by local . .JM
. e : t; ~■ i; v to belggpOßSßtfr,
1 --dob HmS:
S* ot to ■ '
i.trie.- which bt ScL .;
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AKKI.VM It
BY I'OCR
Cheek w h iWlffliit'Sßßpi
stands six feet
and weigiis about < HI.LK
148 pounds, was apprehended by
four• ponce oilier rs at 4’ A. M- Oat
urday morning in the home of
Mis Annie Gosnell at 120 Herring
ton Street here
WOMAN HAD "lICNCH"
He was found crouching in the
closet in the woman's bedroom, of
ficers relate, aft ei the woman had
a "hunch" that the person who al
legedly took a purse from tier bed
t-arlie; m the night might have
made a "return trip to the site oi
the previous theft.
I.ON'tl INVKSTUiATION
Cheek - arrest was the result oi
lengthy detective investigation oJ
the series of burgularies, it was
learned Reportedly on The trail oi
the perjietratoi of the thefts, Pa
trolmen pearce and Williford early
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HAPPENED
IN
CAROLINA
Doomed Man Freed
RALEIGH A 45 year-old Benin
County man who was sentenced
chamber at Central Prison hers
nine years ago to die in the lethal
on charges ot murder, left Raleigh
this week a ire. man.
Gaither Watson 45. was convict
ed in the Bertie Superior Court in
Ift 4" ot first degree murder. He was
sent to await execution. After le
gal delays, his sentence was com
muted to life imprisonment in 1943
In th4B the sentence was commut
ed to a 40-yeat -terrri He was grant
ed h parole recently when several
persons including the judge whe
presided at the trial and eight ju
ros decided that the man was nqi
•»uilty of first degree murder
Appeal Hearing
ASHEVILLE The appeal of Mrs
Annie Hawkins, a local school
teacher, from a sentence of five
months' imprisonment on convic
tion on charges ot contempt ol
court, was slated fro hearing here
in the U. S. Court of Appeals Wed
nesday
Mrs. Hawkins was sentenced by
a Federal distreit judge after sb«
was seen talking to a juror in 4
case in which she had been a de
fense witness. That case, which
ended in a mistrial involves n\n*
persons charged with conspiracy
to defraud the Federal Government
of liouor tax money, has been sal
for July 23,