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‘WHITE LEGION’ INVADES M C. Parents Held For Poisoning Baby THE CAROLINIAN 10c Per Copy VOLUME IX SCHOOL 110 PROMPTS ACTION Football Results NCC 7-Tenn. State G A, & T 36-Morgari 6 Howard 20-Shaw 12 W -Salem 26- J. C. Smith 13 Hampton 7-Lir.cohi 3 Xavier 29-Tuskeg'e 19 Fisk 19-Alubuma State 0 r la. At & M 2fc - B *.. 11 1 une-C oo k - man 13 Va. Union 13-Va. State 6 Clark 12-Morehouse 0 Del. S ate 14-St. Paul’s 0 W- Va. State 17-B!uefield 7 »♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ j it Happened in Carolina Road Fatality LUMBERTON Amos R. Chap-! man, 25-year-old man o! Fort Bragg, died Sunday at 11 a m. in the crash of the car in wliielT*he was riding as a passenger. The ac cident occurred near Lumber Bridge on N. C Highway 20. According to Harry B. Ray, Stale Highway patrolman who in- , vestigag-ed. the car struck a slick spot on the rain-wet road and skidded. Tamil/ Trouble DARLINGTON. S C. I.eßoy; Jackson, Darlington County man is being held in the Darlington County jail this week on a charge of attempted murder. The man is accused of endan gering the lives of his five chil dren an.l his wife, with whom he had been separated for a short time, by putting Paris green in the flour at his wife’s home and arsenate of lead on the table and window sills. He is alleged to have crawled into his wife's home Sunday night, and to have pul the poison out the next day- The sister of the man’s wife discovered the Paris green in the * sack of white be fore it was used. The children narrowly escaped putting their hands into the arsenate of lead, which was scattered in one of the rooms. The ages of the children range from a baby to H years of age. They live in the Syracuse section of Darlington County. Eight Die j By Violence j During Week RALEIGH A CAROLINIAN j survey reveals that during the ] past week at least eight Negroes j lost their lives in violence in the i state The greatest tragedy during the , ■week was the one in which a mo ther and four children died in a j lire which destroyed their home i at Statesville. Victims in that halocaust were Mrs. Frances Mur- j ray, 28 and her children, includ ing a one-year-old baby- Other incidents are as folows: Edward Brown, 25 - year -old j Wake County man was shot and - killed by his brother as he tried | to grab a .32 caliber pistol with j which his brother was reportedly i gunning for another man. Alton Lee Sheppard, 20, was j stabbed to death with an icepick near Williamston Sunday morning. | Police saidhe was killed by a j woman he had attacked .Amos R Chanman, a 23-year- j old soldier of Fort Bragg, died j when his car hit a tree near Lum- j ber Bridge Saturday. ’ Wilbur Hughes, 46, of Washing- i ton, D. C., died when his auto ran j off a road near Elm City and j overturned Saturday. j ~~^ WEEK ENDING SATURDAY NOVEMBER 1951 ■* Jpa' ■ ■ a§ C'E '“ '. '■•' .. eeL- ' :k ' * Tra?h Desire WILSON - Because he had a liking for beautiful, gliltcry com modities, Jesse Atkinson must spend five or t, n years in prison. Tiic beautiful, glittery things At kinson so udn.iri • ''ere jewels and they belor.ged to the owner of a jewelry store he was found guilty of entering "and burglariz ing. Atkinson, who was found in Smithfield in posses...on of jewels identified as those pilfered from a local stoie, first void police that he had come in possession of the g «ns during the course of a gam bling gr.ne. He Infer admitted his role in the burglary. "f ive to ten years" sold Super ior Coin t Judge W. H, S. Bur- PROTBT BAKER BlAS—alter White, secretary of the National Association tor the advancement of colored people, takes his place in line with scores of notables who picketed New Fork’s ultra smart ‘Stork Club’ in protest of a slight to French singing star, Josephine Baker. Miss Baker and Mrs. Charles Bu chanan (wife of tlie manager of the world-famed Savoy UuUrocust) were refused service of food in the club. Legal action followed the official protest. • j EACH \ QEEE.s Each of the lovely ladies shown here is a queen in her own right. They are Misses La Vie Griggs am! Lucy Henderson. Miss Hender son, who hails from Elkton, KV., reigned as "Miss It $ .-lessee Four North Carolinians Among Baptist Leaders In African Pilgrimage (Special To The CAROLINIAN) NEW YORK lncluded among the- 26 churchmen and lay work ers from six states and 'he Dis trict of Columbia who boarded a Pan-American Airline here last Friday on an African pilgrimage RALEIGH. NORTH CAROLINA State" during homecoming event a» North Carolina College last Saturday. .Miss Griggs, a sopho more at the Durham college, has the distinction of being "Miss N C- College” of 1851. and trip to Europe sponsored by Lott Carey Foreign Missionary Convention were four North Ca rolinians. The persons from North Ca ro. ina in toe African and Eu (Continued on page 8) Worth More $1 MILLION IN i BUILDING BIBS | LET IN RALEIGH Groups Start Plans For Ceremonials Related To School RALEIGH The letting of bids for Raleigh’s proposed “million dollar" Negro junior-senior high school here early this week prompted several local groups into the action cf planning ground breaking and other ceremonial* tor the institution. The Raleigh School Board of Trustees let the eontracls calling for expenditure of $1,144,2*5 dur ing a call meeting Tuesday just some few hours following receipt of authorisation to construct the edifice from the National agency concerned with disposition of vital building materials. The proposed edifice, which will b. located on East Lenoir Street Just east of the Chavis Heights Housing Project, is to be a two story building. On the ground level will be a cafetrta, kitchen; gym, with showers and dressing room*; general shop classroom; ante mechanics and drawing clase rooias; a trowel trades class room; eight regular classroom; auditorium, with stage; choral Mid band rooms; dramatics room; two homemaking cia*»- r o o in s ; students’ activities room; and two regular class rooms. On the lop floor will he; (Continued on page $) HUNGER MAD KILLED GIVEN LIFE SENTENGE (Special To ’Flu- CAROLINIAN) BALTIMORE Md. L 22- year-old native of Henderson, North Carolina, fas neon sen tenced to spend the remainder of hi* life In prison because he killed a man in a fit of anger growing out of Itnaw- Ing hanger. David Lee Evans, native of the North Carolina town, pleaded guilty to the murder of the night manager of a restaurant in which he work ed when the manager refused to give him food. Evans told Judge Joseph Sherbrow, who sentenced him, that William Hinton, 56, the victim, refused for several hours to allow him to eat, Evans said that the elderly man taunted him about his hunger. In a signed statement the North Carolina youth repeat ediy stated that he lay in wait for his victim for more than two hours because the manager working the sans* shift that he was “wouldn’t give me no food.” Saint Agnes Hospital's Board o f Trustees Still To Name Administrator RALEIGH Despite “grape vine" rumors here last week that the board of trustees of Saint Ag nes Hospital had already named another white man. to succeed William Acton as administrator of the Institution, the CAROLINIAN has learned that selection of a successor to Mr. Actor, has not and will not be made until an official meeting of the board is held and recommendations from a committee set up to choose *. successor studied. The rumor* came t« furoi early Thursday following the publication «f a story in th* 1 -AiR .\’ ■ ■ ,’■ NUMBER 52 I’LL TELL YOU WHEN—The above artist's conception of for mer mighty Brown Bomber Joe Louis, indicates the wreck the Bomber's ambitious comeback battle has made of him. This comeback try was dramatically ended last Friday when Rocky Marciano scored an 8-round knockout over the former hea vyweight kingpin at New York. Violence Hinted As Mom A,nd tour Children Lose Lives When House Burns STATESVILLE ■ <Sivt-ial> - That violence may have been involved in the death of a mother and four children in a fire which destroyed their home here last week, has been inCTcaiod but *7Y* -?r? been proven at CAROLINIAN 'press time. Local investigators arc stilt making t sts and searching tor clues which may prove the Department of Defense illi Jteu ** liiillll mm \ aKss? *■- <SbskKSFZ» JBf ‘Vf'fxrA, an ;„„ \ fW&i&' V r mmmk iiwP*’ MW' . CAROLINIAN contending that ! the hospital beard may ap point a Negro administrator, who would became th»< second member of it-3 to be so employed, The rumors were said to be false Wednesday morning by J IC. B. Eringhaus, 111, attorney for and member of the board, j Mr Eringhaus pointed out the fact that no- official action could I be taken on naming a new admin j istrator for the hospital unit! the j entire board has met to consider I applications for the post and the (Continued on page 8) Os Heal Praises Role Os Military Integration MR. EVANS Follow ig die light, when asked of tinn] rrtir-mcnt plans, Louis was non- ’onnnit-a/, except to say that he would have a de cision upon retain from Japan where he will engage In a se ries of exhibition fights. Louis’ ambition had ben to become, the first heavyweight champion to regain his crown deaths; of Mrs. Frances Mur ray, ‘IS, and iter four chiUtrpi non-ucridcniul. RESCUE ATTEMPTED Mis Murray and the four chil dren died in a fire winch totally consumed i.aTr four-room frame house here at the height of a mock atom bomb raid last Tues day r.ight. Would-be rescuers, eon fContimied on page .8) DURHAM The role that the Armed Forces' new policy of non segregaMon of units is playing was highly lauded by a Defense De partment official speaking before a local college assembly this week HELPS MORALE James C. Lvans, civilian as sistant to Secretary of De fense Robert M- Lovett, told a forum discussion at North Carolina College Monday that the abolishment of segregation in the armed services has served to produce good results in both morale and battle. Speaking on the college’s fail term forum series which has st eeled as an overall theme "Inte ;rating Minorities into American ife”, Mr Evans showed the re sill's of the trend of integration n the armed forces, citing the anted Executive Order 9961, the '‘residential proclamation and oth •r military directives aimed at the mployment of Negro manpower (Continued on page Si HONORARY DECK E E i AWARD PRINCIPALS: Retiring , L"»«y Alexander P, Shaw of the Baltimore district of the j M. tbodlst Church, left, and Dr. David D. Jones, president of Dennett College," Greensboro, : right, were principals in cere monials held at Bennett Tues NORLINA SITE OF INVASION BY NEW GROUP Group Opposed By Negroes: Officials Call It “Pranking” NORLINA Fires of intoler ance are rooking preev tibly in 'he predominatcly-Ne.'ro North east sc:-ion here as it becomes morcand more apparent that at tempts are being made to "white wash' the recent invasion of a tew and sinister ton e called the White L -ion ' The White 1. : o" obviously ati u.t growth <•( infamous Ka NUix Klan which foß'erid b it did not “officially" participate in the race riot heit which in the early 1920's thn ah tied to have a tolling effect upon fotu’e interracial re lations throughout the state, is .ei mod by officialdom her.' to be corn; os. d of a group of “young sters having fun". In thr tightly concentrated Negro district here ,lne feel ing is altogether different, and efforts are oe.ng made to forestall toe invasion of the White I-cglon, n atch made Its at'earaiue much in the man ner of the Klan in the state iccentiy ty use of hanj • hills—. Hand-bills heralding • the arrival if the White Legion were first •luted when a deluge of rnch bills vevc poured noon the Negro sec or in ’he northeast h u'i Monday night Octol ■ r 22 CONTEND IT'S GEORGIANS These bills, of two types, mi meographed and about six inches wide and nine inches in depth, ontained two messages: The first declared: “We arc from Georgia and we’re here tonight. The next time we dime we re coming w itts the torch and the rope.” A symbol of a hooded figure and a cross « mbla.tenc t the hand hand-bill. (Continued on page 8i m PARENTS KILLED CHILD FOR INSURANCE Father Buys Four Policies Month Before Oiih! Dies RED SPRINGS - Two local ,arang parents have been jailed and face charges in the poisoning eath of their four ami a half v, ar old son last July 111 Local officials contend that Robert Leach and his wife. Mrs. Mattie Leach killed their child for mone tary gains. According to investigation which was climaxed here, this week when Leach and his wife were placed in jaH at Lumbcrton, the ehilH’s body, which was or\ red disintcred, contained a 1.-Ail dose of ar senic. The body was ordered oisinter od after local police chief Nor man Mcßainey, along with county sheriff M. G. McLeod and the Stale Bureau of Investigation net ted the many recently bought in surance policies covering, the child's lift In June, the month before the child died, Robert Leach alleged ly bought life insurance policies totaling $2500. They were in the amounts of $1000; and three SSOO policies, all drawn on different companies On July 13, the child became deathly ill and was taken to a Red Springs physician who re vealed an upset stomach and xire (Continued on page 8j day morning during which the i college awarded the retiring prelate the Lionorary degree of I Doctor of I aws. Also z warded an honorary degree during the 78tli annual Founder's Day ®b» j st rvance at the college was Bi shop f:. Bromley Oxley «f New 1 York,
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