ADFA 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 ■• t v^^ f r * II.IS 4 tS <; t;. i !t,\ jmia K ?> < 'C<i->- well-M i’ll 5”-rham , ’•..••!• ”r-ii *> j,_ Met nrt ‘ 1 ot doeror" shown or re with his Invalid ulir, Mrs. Eorsle 1 to-ks i . js stilt it vans’, th» ottgh Four Get New Lease C.)n Life £• W i : " Sit -■* m jm ’^fflF'* s w ■ - "lirftf %i «frg»>aafljfe»* 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 IM 1)11) 1 ||llii» ji 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 . . . 11.I 1 . ■s'. 1 ' ■ ''•...'■ ■;■■=■■' s;,S; vCt''•■'■ . ■' -•.■■'- .■ . ■ ■■•'■■. : Sy’" ■ 1 ,„■ 1 MUST I PAY FOR MY HUSBAND’S SIN ? . ‘> . ... ——- - ■- - SADFAS IMG y~ jJJjj 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. *-■ flw. ..'4t (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. . ]

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