Saturday Night Date Proves Fatal For Young “Lovers’ ’
N.C. State Baptists Report 114 Gs
NEW FIRST
IN EDUCATION
McCdlX A ■'first' 1 in edu
cation in North Carolina •»
scheduled to lie introduced
December 1 at the North Ca
ro.ina Sanitoiium here when
classes Tor the training of Ne
gro tuberculosis nursing tech
nicians are launched, it was
learner? Otis week.
The announcement reveals
that women between the ages
of 18 and 25 arc eligible for
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Ground-Breaking Forßaleigh School Set November 13
M
Happened
in Carolina
That’s A “L< e” |
WILMINGTON --It’s no lie ho re
this wet k that a local woman
faces imprisonment for engaging
in the time-tested violence of
tossing lye at a suitor.
Judge John J. Burney sentenced
Miss Rosa Lee Galloway, 19, to
two years in prison after she was
found guilty in New Hanover Su
perior Court here this week of
tossing acid into the eyes of James
Hall
Miss Galloway says that Hall
had twice assaulted her and on
the day of the lye-tossing told her
that he would ‘•kill" her Hall,
spot ting a large patch over his;
eyes, denied this.
Keeps Silent
NEW BERN The scion
of a wealthy manufacturing j
family is keeping silent in j
jail here this week as evi
dence keeps piling up to con
nect him with the. death of j
a Negro who had been a ten- j
ant farmer on fils huge plan
tation near here.
Newton Hanes, a member of '
the WPnlthy Hanes banking
end textile manufacturing j
family refused to discuss with j
officers just how clothing be- |
longing to Istimon Simmons, j
40, the tenant, whose body \
was found in Hanes’ station- j
wagon during the weekend, j
happened to be in his posses- j
Finn.
Neither would Hanes offer
evidence on how Simmons’
bods, with a hole front a
nmall calibre bullet in hjs
head, was found in the auto. [ (
The wealthy gentleman-farm- j
er, is being held without bond j
pending inquest Friday.
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Shame On Ya!
ELIZABETH CITY A local!
school teacher who ofifeers say j
war “very drunk” upon returning i
Iron a college football game here,
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THE CAROLINIAN
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VOLUME IX WEEK ENDING SATURDAY NOVEMBER 10, 1951 RALEIGII, NORTH CAROLINA NUMBER 1
NORTH CAROLINIAN AT |
• SCOUT SESSIONS Mrs. F, j
D. Bluford. wife of the pirsident
of A. and T. College, Greens
boro. was among the thousands ;
! of leaders of the Girl Scout
movement attending a recent
j conference of leaders held in I
NC LIEUTENANT
DIES IN KOREA
WINTON • The War Depart
ment announced this week that
Lt Travis Banks of 517 Vance;
St., Greenville, was killed in ac
tion in Korea on October 3. Lt.
Banks left the United States on;
September 10 and less than a
month later was killed in combat.
He was assigned to Co. G 7th Ca
valry Regiment of the Ist Caval-'
ry Division.
He served in World War II for i
1 two years with ten months of this I
! service in Alaska. He was recalled ;
|to service February 3, 1951 as aj
i rose: ve officer.
Lt. Banks was a 1948 gradu
ate of A. ant! T. College,
| Greensboro, X- C. He had
j completed the major portion
j of hjs work for hfs master’s
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Home Plans Boosted As
N. C. Baptists Hold Meet
By OTIS L. HAIRSTON T
HIGH POINT Approximately j
fidO Baptist messengers, represent-1
ing 1700 Baptist churches and i
membership of more than 300,000 I
meeting in the First Baptist i
Church, here October 30 through j
November 1, vigorously protested!
the recent action of President i
Harry Truman in nominating an j
ambassador to the Vatican in'
Rome,
In a strongly worded letter j
to the President, she body as- j
sorted: “The General Baptist
State Convention of North Ca- j
rolina, representing 1,T0,P00
Baptists, looks with grave con- i
corn upon any infringement of
| Boston. Airs. Bluford, a. mem
ber of the Girl Scouts National |
Committee, above, looks over ]
the convention-conference pro- j
gram wilit Airs. Roy F l . Layton, I
president of the National Girls •
Scout group.
“Lovers ” Die
As Gas Fumes
Mar Tryst
KINSTON The caE of an au
tomobile parked in the back yard
of a rural church was tfie site of j
the last embrace of a young cou- j
pie near here lust weekend.
Found in an area behind Pat
terson's Chapel Church in an au
tomobile locked m embrace which j
proved to be their last were the I
bodies of Miss Helen "Louise White;
about 18. of the Georgetown sec- I
or of L«-noir County and Herman
Aldridge, said to be 20, of The
Holly Ridge section early Sunday
morning."
Lenoir County Coroner Ray
mond Jarman said his inves
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the first amenanient to the
Federal Constitution, a. n d
therefore, protests the action j
of the President of the United j
States in nominating an am- !
bassador to the Vatican In i
Rome,”
Accepting a recommendation of
its president, Dr. p. A. Bishop of
Rich Square, the organization vot
ed to proceed as promptly as pos
sible with the erection of its new!
Baptist Headquarters' Building at
a cost of $122,000. Property was \
purchased at a cost of $1(5.000, and
in October the building commit
tee accepted a bid from the P. S-
West Construction of Statesville
to erect the structure.
NUMBER KING JAILiil
I Raleigh Worker
Electrocuted
Television Workman
Dies When Hot Wire
Strikes Equipment
RALEIGH A Negro television
ntetina installer and tester and
a white man helping him were
•allea instantly here last Friday
dternoon when they came ;r con
act with a high-voltage wire
1 hile making a TV test.
Koth Clarence Burtt, 36, the
Negro workman and Charlton
Misskelly, 54, the white mau,
were electrocuted when an
estimated 7,200 volts of elec
tricity coursed through their
veins when the portable TV
antenna they were handling
■ came into contact with the
“hot" wire.
OTHER MAN STUNNED
Coroner’s reports say rfi.lt the
wo men, employees of Mangurn
electricity Company, were mak
ing a test to determine television
reception when the tragedy oe
curren.
Another man, __ Charles Philips,
was knocked down by the fore,
of the shock, but suffered no ill
effects
OFFERED AID
Burtt and Phillips were
; testing reception at Misskelly’s
1 area when the incident took
i place. Mlsskelly, it 'was learn
was voluntarily aiding the two
in placing the mechanism
when the mariage glased the
wire.
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STATE COLLEGES
SLATE MEETING
SALISBURY —• The 26th annua
! session of the North Caroina Ne
| gro College conference will con
i vene here at Livingstone College
| in an all day meeting on Wednes
! day, November 14.
The theme for this year’s
„ conference is “The Implica
tions of Integrative Trends in
Higher Education."
Conference President Isaac
Miiler will open the session !
i at 1.0 o'clock Wednesday,
President W. J. Trent of Liv
ingstone College will extend
words of greeting at 16:15.
A series of committee reports
from groups representing Audit- :
ling, Standards, and Admissions
* will precede an 11:15 keynote ad
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The body also accepted propo- 1
sals to launch a two weeks’ rally j
for SIO,OOO as a special Founder’s!
Day gift to Shaw University; the 1
creation of an office of Promo-!
tlonal Secretary of Evangelism, I
and revision of a plan of minis-1
terial retirement.
According to a report of the j
Rev. O. L, Sherrill, executive
secretary, receipts from chur
ches during the year for Mis
sions and Christian Education
amounted to $114,248,59. Over
ss4lski.iX) itras received during
the three-day session on next
year’s receipts. Included in re- j.
oeipts were gifts from the . i
Woman’* Baptist State Coe- I
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min Franklin Smith, librarian
| in N. C. College’s new $950,00# |
I James E, Shepard Memorial Li- j
brary has received notice that |
New York University had for- |
craliy conferred the Ph.D. de
gree on him as of October 22.
vention of $500,000 and the
i Ji'ouiali Baptist Association of
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- SPEAKERS
j Emphasizing the theme “The
Church -- The Home Base for
World Peace,” the convention .
heard addresses and sermons from:
Dr. Gardner Taylor, pastor of the
Concord Baptist Church, Brooklyn,
N, Y.; Dr. E. McNeill Poteat, pas- j
tor of Pullen Memorial Baptist <
Church, Raleigh; the Rev. Wrn. R. <
Strassner, president of Shaw Uni- 1
versity; Any. Grover Jones, presi- ;
dent of the Baptist State Con- j
vention (White; Dr. Miles Mark
Fisher, pastor of White Rock Bap
tist Church, Durham; the Rev. T
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!TOP OPERATOR
IN THE EAST
DRAWS TERM
' “Big Shot \ Wife
And Two Others
i
Sentenced, Fined
i
WILMINGTON Earl Lewis
Black, who has gained state-wide
repute ss a "kingpin” in the flou- .
rishing numbers lottery racket, ;
was sentenced to an 18-month pri- j
son sentence in Superior Court;
here this week. At the same time j
his wif« drew a fine and two
Negro “assistants” also were fined
nd placed on {probation.
Black, known as a “banker”
of numbers throughout the j
Eastern sector of North Caro
lina, had originally been sen
tenced So serve a one-year
prison term after having been
found guilty in a lower court
here of participating in a lot
tery. The Superior Court,
however, tacked an additional
six months onto the. term.
Black, who is safd to be “The
j "Cast Man” in North Carolina num
i rs in the same manner that
Crip" Sniith was known as "The
1 date Man”, heard his wife sen
'enced to a 12 months sentence
suspended on payment of a SIOOO
fine and “not to be seen in North
j Carolina" for five years, and then
saw two of his “operators”, Mrs
Florence Howard and Edward Ja
cob:: both Negroes, receive sen
tence
Jacobs was sentenced to one
year In prison" suspended upon j
the payment of a SSOO fine and
five-year probation. Mrs. How
ard received a six-month*
sentence suspended upon pajr
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CEREMONY WILL
IE ON SITE OF
PROJECT!?, *»■
Name of School To
Be Revealed. During j
i Ground - Breaking I
By LIN HOLLOWAY
RALEIGH Ground-breaking
ceremonies will be held on the j
site of the (projected new “Million j
dollar” Negro Junior and senior!
high school here at 4 p.m. Tues- j
day, November 13. it was an
nounced -his week.
At the time of the ground- /
breaking exercises, It was fur
ther learned, the school will
be officially named.
According to F. J. Carnage, not
ed attorney and sole Negro mem
ber of the local school board, the
school’s governing board has giv
en the "go ahead” sign for the
ground-breaking event.
Expected to participate in the
event are representatives of the
Negro Citizens Committee, the
Inter - denominational Ministerial
Alliance and representative of va
rious civic and fraternal groups.
NTSAIE ns THE ISSUE
Since early last week, towns
people have been wracking their
collective brains to determine a j
suitable name for the structure I
to be constructed on Lenoir Street j
just east of the Chavis Heights!
Housing Project.
Already several individual®
and gtoup§ have submitted
names for the edifice Ut the
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Football
Results
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j Winston-Salem 6-St. Aug’s 0
N, C. College 3.3-J- C. Smith 0
Vi. Union 21-Shaw 0
Fayetteville 2J-Morristown f)
W. Va. State 14 Va. State 13
Ark. A. & ivT. 39-Sam Houston 7
: Fisk 28-Jftlufield 8
i Maryland 18-Dclaware State 6
Prairie, View 33-Texas State 6
| Xavier 45 Clark 0
! Langston 7 Wiley 2
‘ Voorhees 14-F)a. Normal 13
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do thee crown Alls* Saint Au
gustine’s College, 1951" are the
words being used above by Dr,
H. L. Trigg, president of the
Raleigh Institution as he placed
ine crown denoting the majesty
Attorney Will Renew
Effort To Save Four Men
RALEIGH Attorney Herman
Taylor said this week that he is
“certain” that appeals will be
made to the U. S. Supreme Court
'rom decisions denying writs of
labeas corpus to four North Ca
rolina men under death sentence
at Central Prison here.
A Baltimore federal court of ap- .
peals refused Monday to intervene
n state trials and convictions of
Bennie and Lloyd Ray Daniels. ,
Raleigh Speller, and Clyde Brown. .
All appeals had charged dis-H
crimination agatfist Negroes in the
seltction of juries- The Daniels’
appeal also involved a court argu- .
ment over a lower court dismissal
State Business League
Slates Durham Session
DURHAM The Durham Busi-tion”. S- S. Garrett of Greenville,
j ness and Profession Chin will play
j host to the mid-year meet of the
! North Carolina State Business
! League here Tuesday, Nov. 14,
: with the Algonquin Tennis Club
j House as headquarters for the day- 1
! long session.
In addition to bustness ses- ;
Sion®, the mid-year session
will also be featured by pre- j
mentation of Jesse O- Thomas j
of the Office of Price Stafoil- i
•ration. Washington, as speak- j
or at a public session and by j
the presentation of a parade
and talent show.
| Other top speakers will be A.;
j H. Bryant of Rocky Mount, an j
official of the state group and J. !
B. Taft of Goldsboro also a state
official.
TO BE CITED
Citations will be awarded out- j
standing persons in the League's j
! movement during the past half i
year by J. J. Henderson, chair- j
man of the board of directors of j
the state group. Mrs. J. DeShazor |
Jackson, an official of the House- |
wives League and secretary of the
state league, will assist in the
awarding of citations.
Theme of the session is “educa- .
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NEVER AfIAIV Singer Sa
rah t’auglum lias said that when
the current lour of The Big
fM’St Show Ol' w ilh which
she is starred is compi'-iori, she
ivill never again appear before
Southern audiences Miss Vaugh
an made the statement follow
ing an appearance in Atlanta
when thousands of Negroes
were routed to a sole door
while a handful of white pa
trons utilized the front entrance
. ueauti
fully-tr;-ssod head of Miss Viola
Del aine. Mis* Del,nine is a sen
ior at Saint Augustin* s and a
nati\ p of Raleigh. slip ruled
over the school's homecoffiiiog
festivities last weekend.
of an appeal that was filed one
•fay after *he tiO-da'y time limit.
The appeals court rulings han
ded down at Baltimore unheld the
iecisions given here earlier by
District Judge Don Gilliam.
The three appeals judges were
divided m the case of the Daniels
cousins, convicted of lulling a cab
driver near Greenville Feb. 8.
1949. Judge John J. Parker ttf
Charlotte signed the oipinion and
Judge Arrntstead M. Dobie of
Charlottesville. Va„ aTHrmed. \
Bui Judge Morris A. Soper of
Bahimoie, dissented. He said that
although Negroes comprised 44 per
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president of the League has an
nounced.
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MRS. De SHAKOR JACKSON $
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