H. C. Bootleggers ‘'Freeze Up’ 1 As Mass Raids Continue
B> CAROLINIAN News Network
KALI' IGll—Uenurts ri'tolvi >1
here this week I'rnm ( arolln
ian News Network reporters
all ovi i tile state contend that
persons en;, aging in tin husi
ness of let.iiliiif tax -nuld and
non-tux~pa>rf whiskey are
''frmint up" us mass erm K-
North Carolina's
Leading Weekly
VOLUMN XI
RALEIGH CITIZENS PROTEST MOVE
300 Attend Memorial For
F/a. Martyr At Durham
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! IVO MARTYRS FOR JL S ■
TICE— Modest, yet valiant Harry
I Moore, <i(l Ins wife, progrea
sive Mrs liarriet Moore, both
paid with llnir lives for at
tempting tn secure justice it
their people in hate-ridden Flor
ida Mr Moore, an executive of
COLLEGE MARKS
85TH YEAR
RALEIGH The Reverend St j
•Julian A Simpkins, Jr rector of
the Emmanuel Episcopal Church.
.Memphis. 'lYnr, will officiate at
the chapel service in celebration
us the 85th anniversary of St. Au
gustine's College, on Sunday, Jan
uary 18 at 10:80 A M.
Reverend ."oncer Simpkins, along
with his fa the i mother, two sis
ters and one brother, is a gzauu
ate of St Augustine's College
lie received his 11 A degree in
til:’ Cl as.- o' 1988 He went on to
finish tin- Bishop I'ayne Divinity •
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PRINCIPAL SPEAKER— .Mrs.
Isobel Chisolm Clark, instructor
of sociology at Saint Augustine’s
College will deliver the principal
addres sat the observance of Na
tional Founder’s Day by the !
Gamma Beta Sigma chapter of
the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
at Timothy Darling Presbyterian
Church, Oxford, Sunday, Janu
ary 13 at 4 p. m. Mrs- Clark, wife
of Raleigh’S Dr. W. F. Clark, is
an outstanding Delta, who was
formerly associated with the
Southern Regional Division of
the National Urban League and
the YWCA- {
downs l>> ABC and undercov
er 'Bents . ontiiuie in the bit
licr cities of the state.
Actually, the Network re
porters found, the freeze-tip m
ales of whiskey in commercial
establishments, homes and oth
er places where "a short
drink or a pint or more of
the I loriua state NAAFI*, died
Christmas night when a bomb
destroyed the Moore home at
Mims. I la. Mrs. Moore succumb
ed las'; Thursday to injuries re
ceived in the same hombiiu- fol
low ing a valiant attempt to sur
vive at i hospital in Sanford.
City Blasts Plans
|To Build Station
East Raleigh Citizens Joined
In Protest; Mass Rally Slated
By A STAFF WRITER
RALEIGH—Raleigh city officials
b.-fve tills week joined the Negro
citizenry of. East Raleigh in pro
testing the location o! a State pro
tect on a sit.- the State refuse.l to
. allow use of as a Negro recreation
al ami recently.
City officials Monday regis
tered a protest with the State
over plans of tile Weights and
FIRST VICTIM
IS LISTED IN
HOMICIDE CITY
By CAROLINIAN News Network
CHARLOTTE—The dubious hon
or of being l the first murder vic
tim of the year in the city which
has—for the past few years—rated
among the top three in the nation
with highest homicide records
went, to a 27-year-old man last
Saturday.
Frank Curry, wose address j
is fisted as 796-A Eldridge St
was pronounced dead on arri
val at a local hospital follow
ing a street-corner shooting.
Police have arrested Miss Jania!
Mvers in connection with the j
shooting.
’■ According to an eyewitness,
James Jones, the shooting took
place as follows:
Curry and Jones were walking
down the street when Miss Myers
walked up to them and began mak
ing remarks about an incident
which had occurred sometime be
fore m a nearby case
, The woman, Jones said, abrupt
ly pulled out a pistol and fired;
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intoxicant could lie had for a
nominal fee, begun last week
following a crack down t>v un
dercover men in Winston-Sa
lem which netted 40 arrests. 3b
of them involving Negroes.
Tile '‘deep" freeze developed
lb r oast neck, correspondents
relate, when raids staged In
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UAI.DICH, NORTH CAROLINA WEEK ENDING SATURDAY JANUARY 12, 1052
Fla. Both Mr and Mrs. .Moore
were noted eivie and ehurch
workers. Rewards for the appre
hension of persons involving in
the fatal bombing plot increased
this week follow mg Mrs, Moore's
demise
Measures Division to locate a
calibrating and weighing sta
tion from trucks carrying pe- j
troleum products at the she of
the tMii Soldiers Home at New
Bern and Tarborn Streets hero j
in the midst of a section heav
ily populated by Negro citizens j
ami in which direction colored
cummunities are being forced
bv commercial expansion.
The city’s feeling that the pro- i
posed location of a building some ;
120 by tio feet which would be re- j
quiied to house trie instruments;
needed in setting up the weighing
station is supported by the citizens
of East Raleigh, who also felt that
an automobile inspection lane
which was set up in the same area
was "in the wrong place”.
Nothing was done in the case
:of the inspection lane, however
PROTEST RALLY SET
Concerted action from East Ra
leigh is to be given its greatest
boast on Thursday night when the |
East Raleigh Civic Forum of which |
• the Rev S. F. Daly is president, j
; stages a mass protest rally at the j
; Martin Street. Baptist Church.
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j FRIENDSHIP KEY
| LIVEN SHAW HEAD j
RALEIGH At Shaw Uuiversi- j
ty’s initial chapel exercises for j
the year held Friday morning !
: January 4, in Green leaf Audi--j
.torhun, a friendship key was pro- j
sented to President W. R. Slias- !
suer by Dean P. P. Payne 0 u be- j
half of Dr and Mrs. T. J. Collier |
of Hot Springs National Park, j
Arkansas. The key was defined as •
a symbol of l u ng friendship and i
! acknowledgement of achievement!
made by Mr. Strassner with a,!
I continued wish tot much success I
: f roni the d o nor. ‘
Durham lasi I'l'iday through
Sunday netted ;!o arrests, all
Negro.
win re? next tssur.
The main issue among the
"hooileggers", it ha s been
found is “where will it lilt
next?
f ollowing the cruekdowq m
INTENTION TO
SECURE RIGHTS
AGAIN RESOLVED
Moore s Death Seen
Ailvoeaney For More
intensive Fight
DURHAM Over JOO persons
i holciiriL' a mass memorial service
!at St. J(/seph A M. E. C hurch
I here Sunday resolved that the
| memory of Harry T Moore "si.all ,
j inspire Tearless advocacy of our
rights and the right ol all men to
first class citizenship”.
Moor*' who was Florida coin'd i
uator for the National Association
tor the Advancement of Colored
People was killed by a bomb which
destroyed his Mims. Fla home on
j Christmas night.
His wife, Mrs. Harriet Moore
j n-d oi injuries received in to*
! blast last Thursday
in* Durham branch of the N. A
j a. c I*. ana several oilier organ
izations took an official position on
i ne death of Moore wh-a, they op
. . -Vt it a. resolution ciriiwn up uy
R N Han is. a member of the lo
se! branch.
The resolution stated that
Moore “advocating justice and
fair treatment for edch of u>.
has paiil w ith his life that the
world might sec die inhumani
ty of racial bigotry and hat
| red." i@S
Tile resolution further con
tends that "each of us shall
work more assiduously tor the
cause in which he died."
Principal speaker at the service
was Alexander Barnes, Washing
ton newspaperman and public ro
tations officer for AME churches
who visited the scene of the bomb
ing and attended Moore's funeral.
Remarks were made by a num
bed of loeai leaders, including Dr
C. C Spaulding, J. H. Wheeler, j
S Stewart and Attorney C O
Pearson.
Atorney M. E. Johnson, president
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! STATE PLANS PROTESTED
! Plans being formulated by She
; State of North Carolina *0 con*
! struct a weighing station in file
East Raleigh area are being vio
lently protested this week. The
above photos give indication of
the reason members of the East
Raleigh Civic League object Ut
Winston Salem, handlers of ll
brit alcohol sales in Greensboro
took for grunted mat they
were next on the list for the
undercover men.
The idea was prominent be
i ,mse of tin similarity of the
conditions involving Alcoholic
Beverage Controls in tin. two
MOTHER'S TEARS AND EX
HORTATIONS MARK RITES
FOR MARTYR— The exhorta
tions ol the Itev I, VV. Bruno
and others for the removal
forces of evil and the tears of a
heart-broken mother marked fi
nal rites held New Year's Day
at Mims, Florida, for Harry T.
Moore, Florida NAAFI* and eiv-
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IN RALEIGH SUNDAY— Ur
.Alordecai W. .Johnson, president
of Howard University. Washing
ton, II- C., will be the principal
speaker at the second annual
Shaw University Day services to
be held in Raleigh Memorial
the construction of the proposed
SfiO.OOo structure at the above
site. The photos show the area
already to be congested with In- j
ca! commercial vehicular traffic
despite the necesity of the use
of the streets thereabouts by
school children attending Lucille
Hunter and Saint Monica I
cities
ltolh Greensboro and Win
ston Salem, it is noled. were
die last tw o of tin*, state’s larg
er cities to initiate controls, j
both cities having established t
such controls and set up ABC
stoics only last year.
Gate City whiskey dealers
i! rights fight leader who was
killed when his home was de
stroy by a bomb blast Christmas
night Above, Rev, Mr. Bruno
commits tile body of the roar- -
tyred leader to the earth The
photo at right says more than
could a million wolds of the j
sorrow of Mrs Rosa .Moore, 71
year-old school-teacher and mo
ther of Harry T. Moore
Auditorium, Sunday, January Ft,
at I*. M. Music will he fur
nished by the Washington High
School Choral Society under the
direction of Airs E M. Kelly,
and the Shaw University t horal
Society under '.he direction of
Harry Gil-Smythe.
Schools each located within j
blocks of the proposed building
cite. East Raleigh residents Feel,
that tile construction of the
weighing station with its influx
of additional traps’ would se
riously indat'ger the lives of the
children. (CAROLINIAN staff
photos by Delany;.
contended that they were ''»n
the turn’ for the crack -downs
because ol what they thought j
was a concerted effort to make
their city and tke Twin ( ity
"safe" for the legalized sate of
' wiskey- i
WEST, EAST—NOW' WEFT? j
The failure of the second in i
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Farmer May Fry “Dixie’ Defense ||
NEW HERN "(letitltniiuii lui mei .W wton H.iuw. scion of thcH
wealthy inuuutai turiny family, on trial hm- >r the murder of a Xi -■
i ixro tenant on his farm, p ■ f .-C .ria ,; - :*: my this week tbu I§J
he will use a '‘Dixie" dHe/t" ;. ■ * .<■ ■ n uv. m-; In-m ?M
Hanes is expected to contend that lilt- muidei « ! Ixhm.'HM Simmon. H
for which he is being tried was tin- is-sult of his intention to malwl
Observers feel fh.it Hanes will rel'«-r le the ''snl'etv ,>!' his r- pmtedfvH
his home 'sal''" from the •(«-%••.ar-outt vietlm. ‘,a|
attractive wile :in<i 11 - yea i-ckl son (luring sfiliseiiia.it hetirllb-.s. Bj
ill lias not admitted the slaying. p£
institute For Sale?? J|
HKNDKHSON Th. sale o' 1 lendm .soil Institute, iohg a iatld-H
mark in education in North t'arolina is one nit tlie issues livolveoMß
in the recent approval of a million dolhn school ho ml issue ill VautvH
Plans call tor use of the approved funds lot city and county■
schools, both Negro and white Tin entire Iletul'-i -ou institute is toH
be purchased and tie high sellout there enlarged fte
(’on iit.v -fe?
“Meanest Man” Candidate jjj
PAYKTTHYILHE A hi-vear-old local man is this week’-M
candidate for .tile "Meanest Man' award SJB|
He is ,l o liii Smith, who i”<;U police say led a blind man away
his home and then went back to tin- hum-- m the biinu man
criminally assaulted his wile -yiC
Mrs. Catherine .Murphy told police that Smith led le.-i blind bus-™
bn ,td aw a v to the h,,mc of a triend and then retained and ciinuliai-™
; Jy assaulted her. she said he threatened to kill her it site told hm-™
husband. |B
Two Die When I
Train Hits Auto I
N.C.EDUCATOR
GIVEN HONOR
WASHINGTON. D C. Emi
nent educator, Dr. David D. Jobes,
was cited here Monday night Jan.
7 for Jtis 25 years of service as
president of Bennett College
Wreensboro, N. ('.
A framed citation, awarded by
Christian Kduca-
If® * v
mm i
M-'-v
tion magazine,
was presented t,>
Dr. Jones at the
annual meeting
of the Methodist
Church. Dr. J
Earl Moreland,
president of ltan
dolph-Macon c (> l*l
lege, Ashland. Va.|
and vice presi
dent of the association, made tie
presentation.
"Dr. Jones at all times and itt
many situations has been a
champion of better understanding
and more harmonious relation
si tins among men of all races and j
religions, and in his local com
munity of Greensboro he has made
,a record of excellent citizenship
high-lighted by an active interest,
in all civic agencies and efforts.”
the citation stated.
The presentation was made at a
banquet at American University,
attended by presidents ami ad
ministrators of 10 Methodist semi
naries and 125 church-related col
eges and universities staff mem
bers (1 f •be denomination’s board
of education, and otlvi officials
of the church
the series of mas* * aids to n«a
i leiiall/e in Greensboro now lias
i whj&key dealers throughout the
state playing a mental game of
"tie-tar-toe" in which they use
Ibe quern: “East, West—Dow
i Eas't or West . , .?’*
] The dealers conlt-nd that a dtft
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THOMASVILLF. Two aged
kb ids of tile Last End section er.Bt-T.
. outside the city limit-., were U>H|
.•J.iiuiy filled at. 6:50 n.ui.
> lien then i»:u coupe was struciaHb
at the street crossing I y a tram.
The dead an- Harry Thomas %iHS
about lid. for several yea is a
tec at vile Colonial Drive
and Wifi Mis Essie Thomusof^M
: abo it sc a pri-sser at
Fcm.iy Laundry
Wreckage of the car was can ie<
1 hoti bet to tiic next crossing. Im,'
i ..die> id both the husband
v,|,. were badly mangled
Investigating officers said it
in.pc Mt.dc (u say which of the Iwtjl M
I’jeisons was driving the car.
i crossing has no automatic signalsH
• hut is marked by a metal
.sign.
Tiu train was .said by train ofHjP;
fics.ils t,. have been running abouttsl
5u minuti s late as it reached
crossing where the accident ochb
currcd. |
Police Chief Paul M. Shore sajifflH
investigation has teen made u|ii j
unconfirmed reports that a thtriHa
: person who had been riding" in
i auto escaped just before the crushHH
j The victims were reported to ha \ draw
been on their way to work jfcjri
si vn: urn u\s 1
HAMPTON POST j
HAMPTON, Va. Miss Cl> 9*
deile E. Green, of Raleigh, N. CHH
is treasurer of the Hampton In-w|| 5 |
stitute senior class. i'M :
A senior majoring in busiues'ffig|||
education, she is the daughter oflBS
Rev. and Mrs. James E. Ocean
410 Denmark St. Goldsboro, i.'-’t.-;
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