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White Laborer On Trial
For Rape Os Shaw Co-ed
Ftt'S MV. f The trial
of 'i young white laborer,
rharzc.d with raping a Shaw
I'niversHv «.• ed last. Spnns
’ os to get underway in Aia
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‘ 1 ot doeror" shown or re with
his Invalid ulir, Mrs. Eorsle
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Four Get New Lease C.)n Life
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HAD NOTHING IQ DO
Commander Owen FnnilenMrr,
•hove. <>i Durham's tVeaver-Me
? cjii pf> t 175 Arnerlc-in Legion
and Po?:i Tdjutant Johnson Knv,
,ll , h< Morn, v ‘Te without - jot>s”
last weekend as tin staSr-wide
Arneriran Legion eonvent jnn held
sessions in Durham. Both !'##•
derberg and Raj reL'-eft to par
ticipate in tin* convention in
protest of biased arrangements
ACCEPT LEMON
MEEK B!SS
Dudfoaro Post Refuses
To Participate
DURHAM Members of Di
vision Six ithe Negro .section>
of the American Legion Depart.
(CAhtimted Of* Page #)
inancc County Superior Court
here Wednesday.
Durham Attorney C. Jerry
Gates is assisting the State in
the orosceeution of the ease.
•»*.> ii-'ior.=tys «>. iitu« *?*.
K Johnson, to merits considera
tion foe having heer, sent to a
prison camp allegedly without
benefit of trial. Tinker, who
says he is between Til and HO
Carolinian ■ ¥ . z< ~ .s-rsss
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jron.iHi
.. •£.-_• ■-——pw By Shirle>
QtTSSTION: Whs t »as your
reaction te the outcome of the
Walcott - Charles champion
ship tight last week?
MR T.HN WICKER, student, !
' Raleigh:
In ms opiates. Charles woo i
hat fi ht. B* the referee and !
m- t.. - hirigos not giv- j
’■ ng him the dc
ision with the |
~ : show i.n e he i
■WBf " X i nad< -* it will!
i W : aake other con'.vj
Sang. tenders for the:
'■BAj® ills feel that it •
s impossible to i
v •' vin the dwn* j
* ; pi.fnship unless;
hey are able to!
f)\n by h knock*
.s.n. T!:,*;* will
(v vhi.;:* V e them. ;
Also. Charles won't likely get
soother crack at the title for an-'
other four or five fights, yvhtch j
) means that Walcott will probably I
; lose one of those fights to a j
. white contender: which will in-i
i tertupt the Negro reign of hen-1
! vywejghl champs.
t (Onotinited on page S)
faring trial in tire ease Is
Eugene Reid, white employe
of a local manufacturing firm,
oho allegedly entered a bed -
(Continued on page Si
\ V.*** N t. , -S sit* 'ftif jiUp*
porter of his wife who has been
confined to the wheel-chair in
'• hit h she js pb tilled for near
ly a decade. Attorneys flairs and
Tohnson are asking Si 0,000 foi
Ins Jailing.—Staffoto Bv Shirley
WASHINGTON. D C At tor
■i ; > t»>i Ivor conneruod North ;
r-roJiT, Ncrroes w>*re notified J
Monday by teleiu am from the Os- s
fit* of the Cu*rk of the United'
Slates Supremo Court that the I
Curt handed down a rutin? in!
th<* three* casts involving the con
temn cri men. which required that
heir cases he rt-.-torr-ri !••> the com*:
iocKet jiiid -el Hoirr for rr-nrgu
mcnt or. October , D.li. The carer
.* hich have gained nationwide im
portance, were .ir meri before th<
M.r-rcrne Court >n the 2*lth and
:>t'n of A.-nl
In the first case. tv.<» teenage
Negro beys. Bennie Daniels
uni Lloyd Rat Daniels, cousins.
Here ronvieted and sentenced
to death m Pitt Countv, North
Carolina-, in June iDID. for the
alleged murder of a white
man .Since that time, attor
neys for the two bovs have
been atttempting to obtain a
new trial for them on two
federal constitutional grounds,
namely, the use of extorted
confessions to convict the boys,
and the exclusion of Negroes
from grand and petit juries
in Pitt County.
The second case, a middle aged
Negro man named Raleigh Speller
ands convicted for the race of
< white woman in Bertie County,
iContinued on page 8)
SDFSA
•lIMCROW LEGION SESSION
—■ Pictured Is a portion of the
executive group who head Di
vision Six. AMterkain Legion De
partment of North Carolina af
fairs as they enjoyed » "Oi
YOUNG WIDOW OF EXECUTED MAN ASKS . . .
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MUST I PAY FOR
MY HUSBAND’S SIN ?
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SADFAS
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VOU’MN XI RAI-HIGH. NORTH CAROLINA WKKK ENDING SAT i 1!I)AV JC.VR It. 1952 NUMBER P.O
. - . '.llfejljl S^jjgfe
LXKCLTED MAN S FAMILY—
Pictured is the destitute and sor
rowing family of John Andrew
Roman 29-year old Lexington,
N C- laborer who was executed
Decision Awaited In $125 G Suit
GREENSBORO Judge John
u’.n J Hnyrs in Federal Court
Tuesday reserved judgment in a
civil case involving a Greensboro
man who is asking $12,300 for sn
l Getter*’* hamjttct at She lade
Room. Donut Shop in Durham
j last Sunday afternoon. The Oo
| Getter* event was one of the
many events staged by Division
i •
ill the gas chamber ai Central
Prison. Raleigh on June 6th for
the alleged robbery rape.-nmr
dei of an aged white spinster in
his hometown. Shown are Mrs.
juries he Allegedly received in a
.temp from a railroad trestle.
Glover Harris -aid his left knee
• as injured permanently in Marcn
1651. when, he said, he was forced
Six sis it held its *;at«-vri«*
convention in the "Friendly
City" last weekend and early
this week, .Arrangements for all
events of the convention were
ti.zaiH'ui Roman. the widow,
.inti rhJidrpn Annie Ruth, 9;
Oorts. S; Johnny, ?, ad Aibert U.
A serial story depicting the life
of the Roman family before and
s, to leap from a trestle near tit*
! Print Works Plant of Cone Mills,
?; where he was employed. Two box
i cars,, 'kicked from a switch en
i t Continued on page 8)
made hr Division Cowwnsmier
E. A. Thornton {above, center'
after the Durham Legion post
refused to take part In the con -
vezstion. because of it* Maw?
setup.—Staff etc By Shirley,
FOUR FAIL UNC
LAW COURSES
STORY PAGE 1 SECTION 2
alter the execution of the family
|
' feread-tvinmer’ begins ia this j
issue of this newspaper.
Staffoto by Shirley.
SOLDIER AND
13YEAR-OLD
BOY DHOWNEO ;
RAYETTKVTi-7..E Two persons!
were drowned here Sunday after- 1
noon in a two-hour period
The victims were a Fort Bragg
soldier and a 13-year-old God ain
1 youth
Willie Daniel Murphy, 13. was
rtrowed in the T G. Braxton farm ;
pond near Godwin about 4 a.m.. \
while playing in water with other
boys.
Co i oner .Toe W. Pinkston saki|
the youth and his companions!
could not swim. Murphy went un-!
dei the water and the other boys j
ran for help. Bill Tarp Ezxeli. re- i
covered the body from eight fed I
; of water.
The youth was pronounced dead |
a narrivai at a Dunn hospital.
I
Murphy was the son of Wilbert j
and Isabel Murphy of Godwin. j
Pfc. Price M Anderson, 21 -year-1
old soldier .lost his life in Young j
Lake a; Port Bragg about 2 p.m. I
! Sunday.
Anderson had reportedly reach- 1
ed the middle of the lake *tnd had |
• grabbed a rope there tor support,]
But the rope sagged and the sol* j
’ diet went under. His companions ’
i reportedly tried to save him but I
•he struggled with thorn and broke j
, away His body was recovered 1
about JO minutes later.
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(VTK S EM Z A HKTII ROM AN
. Knows Suffering
PEOPLES' REVOLT
STUNS WIFE OF
EXECUTED MAN
<WRITER'S NOTE: This t*
a story «h»< Ml 'ST be told
fi is si ston which shmild
; con tern every in the
State of North CaroHnat It
will daring the eastth**
] *veeks —. depict the tonnes#
of the Negro's duidlnf. to W*»
state. and will attempt to ed" ■
catt its readers to *h» f»e +
that IS mi I O fJtsPpf * TO
YOU:
This, the first installment t«
the series, ?« meant merely to
acquaint *he reader with the
: farts cone ernring the fobs
Andrew Unman family. Sah
: sequent install me»yts *'t' show
that whaf happened and is;
happenhiE to the Homans
could Happen anywhere In.
North f arolina, and t« any
Vejro. —HOLLOWA V
Ry I.in Hollows v
Managing Editor
Carralinian Newspaper*
I KXINGTON Saturday
nijrh-t, June 7.1952 —“ Must
I pay for what my husband
is supposed to hav? done 1
. . . Is there more penalty
that Society demands than
his life? . Must my child*
i n be deprived of a place
to live . . food to oat .. .
a chance to become useful
citizens?”
Mrs. Elizabeth Roman. 2k-yestf»
o’.r, -.lender, nth*' »nd attraetlvtt
' wife of John Andrew Roman who
d;ed in the gas chamber at Cen
tral Prison in Raleigh just 36
hours ago wanted to know toe
answers to those queries.
And even as she asked herself
I and this reporter those questions
i —in one way or the other —Hie
hildren, ali four of them, though
maware of the tragedy that had
i entered their lives somehow
: retained a respectful silence
; We sat in the living-room of
! what had ones been the happy
I heme of John Andrew Roman.
(Continued on pare $)
VIOLENCE IS
CAUSE OF NO
FATALITIES
RALEIGH Weekend vie"!erne*
| has again claimed the lives H Nu
| :.;ro residents of North Caroling
Following is a re-nine of the
I event-, whirbi pruVecl fata! to mcm
■ hexs of the race in the state dar
ling this past weekend:
El wood Williams. 20. of near
I Clinton, was killed in Pender
Count? wbe he lost control of his
car on a curve.
; Hit and run drivers killed Ernest
| Brooks, 26, of near CherryvilS*,
Israel James Pope,2l, of New Bern
| Another poriegrisn fa'slity was
| Miss Nora Marjorie Fox. 13 of near
I Burnsville.
Robert Edward Ker.d-rsas. IS.
lof ‘Henderson >»■ killed in that
| city -while driving on the wrrouf
| side of the street
i James Buchham. 22 year old
■ Goldsboro man was killed fey %
I del Phillips, 1». another Goldsboro,
’shotgun blast and police held Ho
lman in connection with the kill
ing. . ]