SHK R1 VT THE HEAT
North Carolina resident?
kurii hnn to brat the torrid
heat which covered flu* Stale
last vicek. \ perfect example is
the young mermaid pictured
here who bested the weather b>
taking a dtp in Raleigh Chavis
Park Swimming fool. Tempera
tutres soared to 104 degrees riur
ins the past week throughout
the area. STAFFOTO BY
MUIR LEV.
MD WHO ADMITS
ABORTION HAS
LICENSE TAKEN
CARTHAGE It was learned
here this week that the State
Board of Medical Examiners has
taken action preliminary to revok
ing the licenses of a West South
ern Pnes Negro doctor who ad
mitted performing-’ criminal abor
tion.
Dr. W- H Ross, who con
fessed in a Superior Court
hearing here May 2 i that he
had performed such an opera
♦ ton, still .through the Board's
action, become ineligible to
practice medicine In the State
opt? such time that the group
sees fit that he should regain
his license.
Notification of the revocation of
license has been sent to Judge
Zeb V Netties, who presided over
the criminal court bearing here
■>n May 21. it which testimor.'
as introduced of the doctor's con
fession of having performed an
illegal operation A copy of the
le.tt.ci of the board was also sent
to state's attorney. M G. Boyette
MAN ACCUSED 0!
ASSAULT TRY BY
BABY-SITTER
Man Already Held For
Inte?*-rac*e Attack \om
Facing \cw Charges
DURHAM A v '.i ong white
mar. who allegedly attempted to
criminally assault, a young color
ed girl whom he was hiring" a« 1
"bah-, - si'tor" for . non-existent '
child, was arrested hei ehis week
and identified by h,- accuser and
+l >rce other r'rpy *\ omen as the
man who h»d made similar over
tv;-es to then-.
The J2-year-old man. who al-■
ready has -< 'sv-' pending in Sn
perior Court here on a charge of
assault ith attempt to commi
rape on atiotlier colored woman •
’■ as picked out of a lineup of six
men. local police report.
USE-S Fit doors NAME
The arrested man, Thomas W
Clark, had. on occasions appeared
in Negro-populated areas, com
plaint.-, again.-; him sav. identify
ing himself as "Dr. Warren' arid,
saying thrP hr was -meking n
ha '■y-sitter'' to work at a site
for which there > no address
listed.
Clark, who local detectives sa
admitted an assault on a colored
-•Oman he got *o his home, last
May 11 on pretense of having hoi
do some house work, denies the
neb charge, "it's all a frame-up,'
he says.
The prosceeutin- 1 witness deter
fives say reported that she agreed
to ahy sit foi the man, but in
ster.d of driving to where he said
he lived took her Into the cotin
fry and then turned off on a
dirt road. The woman was quot
ed as saying she tried to get Clark
to take her back but. instead he
tried- to make love to her and |
look his shirt off. She said she,
excused herself for •a minute and I
fled to Roxboro Road where she
hitchhiked a ride with a white j
uiiiplft who later gave her a dime:
(Copti«Heii on page $)
Negro Nurses Not 4 Protected' At Huge Army. Base
FORT BRAGG’S BIAS IRKS; SIX RESIGN
Outbreak of Dreaded Disease
" * In North Carolina Feared
.if.
Wt* »*k* " .
1
BY J B. BARREN
(Exclusively For The Carolinian)
OKLAHOMA CITY. OK LA. A white student from
Oklahoma A & M College was guest on the program of
the Bird annual NAACP Conference here last Wednes
day night and spoke on the subject: Ihe l hanging
South". Oeorge Rucker, president of the
Student Senate of the A & M College cit ’d
many innst.an.ee;- of the changing attitudes
of white Southerners, particularly the 'Su
younger generation, in regards to granting & . _■*
human rights to finority groups t
Rucker said there have been enrolled
more than 500 colored students in the '
state university since if was opened to all.
One coOr -d student has been e!<'c*.ed to
the Student Senate, ‘‘integration is tne au* J *0
swer to tli • so-called ‘Negro policy’, Rucker ~ei||
' said, adding. “WV need to know thorn (Ne- |y|p|fe NR*,
gvues) hott 'V "
Thvee-quartci million Negroes wen to the MR barren
polls in the South in 1918 and it is est.imat d that one and
i half million will vote in the 1952 national election, ac
cording to NAACP representative? throughout the South.
OH. WRIGHT STEAKS
Dr. Louis T Wright, Georcia
: ->orn physician vivo was the first
at his raw: to join the staff of
Harlem Hospital where he i,- now
head, spoke Wednesday night on
Quarters Unsafe, Food Not
Adequate, 6 Nurses Declare
Building In Which Nurses Lived
Twice Broken Into By I nknowns
RV MATT WRITER
FORT BRAGG Six Negro ci
whan mirsr-s, irked by living con
. di’ions. including transportation
attained, inability to obtain cor
net food and lack of adequate
protection, resigned ma body last
e-ck from toe United States Ar
; my Hosrind located on the world’s
largest aimed in., (-.-* in-i. ohm ut
| neve.
il-tnr.'on of the nurses
climaxed ;» 9-m<mths-long ob
viouslv unsuccessful effort to
better the condtiions causing
the action
FROWSTED IN 1951
Even though seven race civilian
mirse-: lodged protests. with Ar
my officials against conditions in
i 'he Hospital area as of September
Hi, lufil. action nas beers negligible,
he nur-c- routed. Ihi-s the pi ass
esig nation
BUILDING rt: OK I V INTO
One of the spedife grievances
listed bythe nurses concerned the
lack of protection they received
,in the arc:-, in which tens of thou
isands of miirary men arc station
's! medicaily treated, orocessed
NBDFKBDSK
j NEGROES EJ ECTED TO PO
j SmONS ON NCC SOAJlih—Dr,
i K. M. Hendrick or A* tievOlie \
*NC> <not shown) was circled :
! rice chairman of North Carolina
Oodf-ge-’* trinim at Durham re
l.c i offer's .<>n the health of Ne
groes which .segregation causes
Dr. Wright. whose two daughter?
,ir, t o-medics vith their t»fhct
< onOnncd on page Si
mid tr iii'ii’- 1
On "a ,) specific occasions, the
nurses i c-pori, the budding in
’ which they live has been broken
' in:,-. - ■ the ‘lx- ■ incidents
o curing; recently Previously
'■ another incident of the same no -
ture oreurrre!.
rnOTl.f THIN LAt K TOLi>
! in their original grievance thru
L,ci/i Col. Helen M. Malmberg,
chief oi the ifospitm’s Nursing
be. vices to Hi s unru u-.ding
General the Negro nurses noted
that tht building in which they
•Afi't q.-H. tv; ed .- so .--Lusted, be
ing iK--,r dense wood.-'. Hi easily
! aceivsible to mtre, .- without
■ being deterte dby g.iards or Mill
i larj Police .
The original grievance lur
, thcr states tliat ,iru- of the
nurses making (nr complaint
was 'attacked ,mrt roughly
handled 1»> mi unknown party’
Mho entered the hiiitdini; un
invited riurins (he month of
I August, 1951.
later in August. 1951, an
other oi the protesting muses
l (('ontinued on page B,i
<•< ntfy and l>r. J. ML Hu Ward
of Durham (second from right
j -landing) was reelected of the
| group. Drs. Hendrick and Jfnb
bar (lari two of at he four Ne
gro members of the board. Oth
er Negro members are Di C.
UHi-.K' ■ ilOiU) Tim death of ■
■in ayr d white farmer near here
thi< week from an infection diag
noscria- dreaded Rocky Mountain
GROOM-TO-BE
FOUND DEAD AS
BRIDE WAITS
Wedding Time Whs
r>
Three Hours Liter
MOCKS VILLI:; N. C. A co
ma net which had its beginning?
on the North Carolina A. and T.
’ College campus culminated in true
Shaks.-pe.-iian form last week
when the groom--o be was found
defid in his room tluce hours be
fore he was in have taken his
nuptial vo'**. s to the ohtarain*
Miss Marion Linn- his fiancee.
Wesley C. Cain, a teacher at the
Unity High School v-ns found dead
by his room mate. A Sanders a
teacher., at the same high school.
According to oniclals tain
had just returned from :i tour
of several of the Northern
States with h group of teach
■-« and students «le was lasi
seen going from the ear which
had brought him to Ids home
and his last words were "I’m
tired and I going to get some
sleep." He entered his room,
never again to leave again un
der his own volition
His room mate who had
gone ona trip to the mountains
returned Thursday and found
Cain lying across his bed with
his pajamas near his side in
dicating that he. was getting
ready to put them on when
it ontinued on page H-
ATTKMI’T MADE TO
GASS (rREEASBOUO
POEITICIAA "RED"
•-,RTT.NSFIORO An effort. ■-,
i oel I-.cal Xi’fr.) polite"i: gro ip
head a Red because lie signed
a document which inter wa- term
ed "communist-inspired" back
fired here this week during hear
ings in which the race politician
seeks to prove . while man un
fit to bold office.
1,,-Ru. sell, cho accused W.
A Man!* y. while
tition which cir
culated through s|-r. ri:sSEI.L
the country last year.
Russell admitted having signed
(Continued on page 8)
j C. Spaulding of Durham {second
from loft seated) and Dr J
W. Black o- Rocky Mount (ex
j trcnio right) standing. The new
■ ly elected chairman of the hoard I
| is *■ M. Gantt of Durham '•»-
! court from left seated who In
wp'itM-di fever, has prompted the
i.: ne.-- ,;i i.e inimgs to resident ••
of tie •-,!ea -■inr] the stale by Itenlth
(Uontinticd on page -8)
THE CAROLINIAN
1 lo
YOLtKMN XI RALKIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
INSTALLMENT OF
SERIES DELAYED
Rot-ausp of unfor.-teen dit'fi
culfies, the fourth instail
m.'iil of the “JoJhn Andrew
Roman" story will not ap
pear this week.
Next week, a highly sen
sational presentation in the
series will be published.
Watch for it 1
DFDFDFD
IN RI At I. TENNIS MELT
\ jovial movent between rnrnds
o! the bi-raciat Southeastern
Open Tennis Champions.,.ps j.i.st
week played in Durham, shows
partieipants enjoying a light
Laugh. Left to right are. How
ard Minnis, Southern University;
WHITE CATHOLIC RECTOR PLAYS !N
TRADITIONALLY RACE TOURNEY
DURHAM —One of the iast few
barriers associated with tradition
ally 'Negro' athletic events in the
area fell witha resounding crash
here last week when at least one
white participant took part in the
annual Southeastern Open Tennis
;-..nqui:i Teni> Club courts.
Chtampionships play ed on the Al
i'ather John Dillon .rector of
Saint Monica Church, Catho
lic, Raleigh, took part in the
shown here studying plans for
Preside*® Alfonso Eide> !center
seated) Trustees standing left to
right are Malcolm McLeod, San
ford; Walter Jones, Rockingham;
B. Satterfield, Timber lake;
l)r Hnhhan?., and T>r. Black.
Babi|Sitter Accuses
WOULD-BE ASSAILANT
Negro Tennis Players
Drop Color Bar
lather Dillon of Raleigh, a
((hit" participant,; Althea Gib
,-on, national!} rated tennis ten
nis player; Edgar Lee Washing
ton, D new men',, xingl*
champion; and Eamrst Inifr.im
nl pvi *am and Wai*i(t’St( ,!l . D
C".
meet. si;>> mg in play until
the semi - finals in the dou
I les matches. He was defeated
eaii\ in the singles matches.
Highlight;.- ,;-f the t-arriament in
cluded the winning ”1 Uu men's
'.-ing'c-s championship by Edgy.
Lee jf Washington. D C. *nd the
ippearanco of A-lis:- Althea Gib
son, •-•ieventh ranking woaii.ii -
r;is nk.yoi nati n: ■ illy in .-x
(Continued *>n page k>
Seated left to right are Raoewn
1 phynic.il 1 expansion with NCC
Baynes, Durham: Or sp««Miiifi
Dr Elder. Gantt, and Airs Lil
lie Ur*»t9B Dean of l.oulsburg.
NEW S m'RKAi; PHOTO
iYEEK END INC SAT! RDA 5 JIM.Y 5 1 ur._
j . . ,
Masl Gets LitY- In Lingula ry
WINiCI-: )>; A•" ye n
old rn-ari recc, ori , life teem for
a ;•=>:.bery in less fime than it l-aok♦
for t-> pi-eyetrato ht? crime
The men, Arfrii i’ Ford who
sometime-- --ses the aims h,x
worth" told nfii/’ers that he plan
;i the •;:!!' while v. orkinu ,t
lb, re -A 1 ;ia .i r on West Filth
Street
I'oli , --- -i that on the morning
N. ('. Heat Fatal To NY «t
FOCKY MOITf, Orn.oad
Wih civ. 1:7-year-.Id Brooklyn
man died nf a neat -tr -I*• near
here Sundae
Nash County Cor- nor Van Math
ews -aid Williams 'as a passenger
i.. a a. traveiir.a from Brooklyn'
Youth Loses LiU In River
i\” nr-RW A 19-year-old
boy Tb'-nia May. drowned in
1 b'ivet near the foot if
,t,n. ■*■'. Street. Monday morning
v bile hi; 1! -year-okl brother and
■ other Negro boys looked or.
The yrmnrs.'er unaware of tin
voter’s depth and inable • , .win:
S w‘i mrning-H o1<? 1 > o ut Fa ta I
GHKKNVIJ.LU - A Pitt Co-.o'v
n-an was arrested Suriduy after
noon in connection v ith the knife
'.'laying of antithet man at a swlm
rning hole near Scuffloton
Pitt Sheriff tßuci W Tyson said
Richard f.e’vi:-. Caiman. 27. of 'he
Her. -1 on community, is being held
l.- Greene County autl >: ties
j,ending an inquest into the doath
of Fred Smith, 2«. also of the
Kc/u.t.on eomiriunil v
Louis Fight Card Lined Up
WINSTON -SAJLFM Tea Hal)
Wil.-.on o f WipstOn -Shlerri and
yo Brown of Jacksonville Fla .
v. ill meet in a six round light
heavyweight match as a' prelimi
nary to the Joe l-ous and Joe Mc-
Padden exhibition fight at B”V
--i men Gray Stadium. Ain; 15
The announcement was made
| <his week by A. ,J. •Hfimtr.onds and
IE. C Hill, local fight promoters.
1 Wilson, a 174-pounder, has won
his last four fights via the knock
out route He was impressive in
NCMBER 38
m ■ < Ford pr:-H veil a
house on West Fifth S» and was
!).- c-tc t.he I odS’dft M
Mi:--. Nor-:i ft.-yant -hen she
ivokened and saw him there.
Miss loynni ."vd the other
■ '■■r..if>ants and d- s from the
J'OiiSi' 'i-'ord, he- i’U'-t r«" re-
I'd e'e prison 'Oder '—rCV-g
fix-, • e.ii on*'-!" -for hr<?9kTh'jr
and entering.
to Ro Mount, to -dtcnrl a fcxtt
ti'ti!.
Shortly after Williams and his
four rii-npyom; stopped f ‘ "hsnflta
tire, tie- vi-Min • 'H-’paefl and
I died
plltn sod \ - - b~f
lorft-dope to 15 f> "< i ! ' off shore,
A rescue ;c| ■id if the ; Bern
Fir.-- (>.-fmr»remit. c;i the
iceciy c:>pri xirftately 30 ruinM'S- lat
er but efforts to te-. i-.v h‘.v.'n
mechanical oquipment i» --ft >n«
.successful.
Tyson said the investigation M&
i,o Kn-ith'> death brnu b+ out that
the two men got a fight at
th* swimn mr hoi- :*t Edward
Uridßi about aWr and one-halt
miles from SeulSfleton Saittrdsv
'Morning nhotlt :r:-'-0. S-.nltn reheiV*
cci a deep -dash m the calf of Ms
- f and ded from lt> rtf ' iond
lii/i f.'vn flours later c 1 f’it-t M®«
nrsfinn: Hospital in f irccnviUe.
: local fights ivt r-MV Brown
i weighs i(T. pounds and ?« t?u> eaten
. In five I"iijls
Angus <Jo-Go) 1 ■ ' if;:- of Wirt
sinn-Salem will also be ori -the
. cord, hut his oppeuen l has not
teen namod
Tickets for the fight ■program
* wifi go on saV next ' veefc. Ham
monds pointed out ''.hat d-DOD tick
ets will be available for wftSie
spectator*, alortt* with I,©W ring
side tickets.