2 DIE IN FIRE
| LAWYERS SEE
IN. C, RACE VOTE
|BACKING DEMOS'
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Ha!.HIGH Two RaloU'h law-’
jti's v. t: i included this Wf-t'k a
iitimu ih<- ?< veral N,* ro "leaders |
y.H.ecl in an Associated press, su) - ;
\vv vln thej the Democratic Par-:
h could or could not rely on the i
V -i'll vote in i*i< Nuv, mbet i’i'ij
lr elitiel tit etinn it i.uv of tin
V.3t< tttl - do'vCil D, JiliMlui Hi parly i
eiv.l ii; ;i plank and the non ll it-;
i-.i on of .vif,E-i.nill. - :'.., Jolm J. Spark
riiUo t; . tilt v. t ■ (tit idem-y. i
.-vttorri.'-v 's’. J. ('anuiitf, Raleigh
tchoo) boa it nn-iiibr who once!
ioifc.ht elt'Cliol; to pub lie office,
in-.il an. a L>< He? that met of;
! < N. ■' -» voi ■in the state r,s»-*
IF l, njt.‘ii i , :>uo note.- t >3t then
i- not - nouyii different between j
t!i'- Democrat!' and R. publican
I'-Ui ties io any chan-o in |
tin- voting !\i in- of tile race In!
til, state
Attorney Herman 1,. Taylor, j
Uadim advocation for the av-j
coi.-uion .! civil rights through;
litigation, said that Use Democrat.-, i
ham do*s. tsttl. ft>r th< NV. ro ini
two-part t- >r would help Ne-j
.)•• SiHitn and that h, fc-t< •> a ’
UOW\ Hi 1 XOI Ot I —l.ittir
WkSl’il Malloy, e ii,> wen top
f.oiiorv in the jnsanl Soapbox
»*<, tsj sate at Ihsrium July Hi*
ua down hut not (>llt. hi the
i Mian/., to* the national Soap
box tH-ctij honor,, at Akron last
Sunday. Out of a sirid os 154 en
tries. Hallos lautt in eighth, be
jsif knocked out of the race in
the tjUaitrrfiiials. He was the
out, Negro lad participating in
the annuli event.
DIGIT BACKET
810 SHOT OUT
AWAITING TRIAL
’I win I tty Lottery
Operator Has Four
Cars, Finish Flat
WINSTON - S.-.LEM - An al
leged 'numbers rack," k;nv ’ vcho
local police ,y had enough ' >'oll
tne >.ti« i. ' t four oar-, including, an
i so-K-ivi Cadillac! to c;nil..- a
funeral home, .a? nal>b>-d here
last week after the diseovvy oi
"butte: ;nd • . -s" slips phis a
; mal! amount of cash in his !«-
t is'lii.v-i criushed spartme-nt.
Hfi iHei-bk'i Radiiff Kaley,
4.7. v, rio lists his occupation as
I ‘truck or” has been released on
; I Os. ' bond pending trial un char
ge- of operating a lottery.
Officers raiding the apartment
occupied by Haley at 720 East
Fifth Street say that they found
evidence of. lottery operation in a j
tea installed in the haVroom.
IViust incriminating of this
evidence, they related, was a I
nnbon vho\, nir tabulation of
the 'take" ~j daily operations |
in tin butter and efg» husi-
Only Sk! .hfi in small I
change wits found in the cache j
This amount was: found stuffed
into a lin-. • bag- made of can
vas tlckinj;
Officers siren-facd that Hales
was either h 1 sinker or was top
cotection man for a batik. “He .
was too smart to keep large
Mans ot money on hand” they
said.
The apartment in which the dis- |
cover!es 'were made contained a j
raodei'iiif-tic bedroom suite and:
new living room furnishing? in-!
tC-oniinnea an pegs. t)
WIFE KU.LED WHITE M. P.
Hubby Dies Fleeing A Mob \
Following Florida Shooting
I.TVV O > K f'l.A One of the
iv-ost vvideiy disc,!'.:ed subjects
th- uughou’ L’im ida anti many parts
if th, ti! 1 i<>ji is tin vrin. seory
i the ,Sa rath moruina August 3.
■n.iotiii. .-.•bite die ter here
iv t.■.• of Central Lift In
ur.iut'i i.'s.i' -t .. '- i.t. v.a apir
.l, d awa t urti i-' 1 ti\ to Haiford
Prison lo: sun. • keeping.
Oitic? r , am.-tancre, Ln the dra
i:a:.c chain of events ilk, a fast
... un; action-uacked motion pic
ture arc Hu wild dash ot the hut*
arid to ( ..cap; reprisals from an
,. v o;ti/' ns aroused over the kill
ing of the v iiiely loved doctor
.ho v/a- nuc.iim t to tin.- Slutr
.S nali. 'l'h. , -a’up, ?vB-s followed
by the reported death from a
heart attack of Samuel McCollum.
iat, d one of the »•. ffiUhn'rt men
n hive Oak, v tio hart - ict,- ,n>er
st- :.• u* i.... til. , tucks and non, is in
-i-vcrci busim.-.'. and Industrial
indusuia) firm- as ,11 as a to
.:ceo farm of mo/, ttian a hun
dred acres.
Charged u itii t!te killing i*
ill,- shape!,., rliucol* L.rowi*
skinned, Mrs, Ruby Met oiium
vim ac.ordil.s lu njxnt sln.l
lie. Attain sin ins downtown
ottiet Miillr her iiusl.a.id and
ihlidf.u M e r < attendiii't
church, during an argument
over a medical bill. The accus
ed woman has refused to give
a statement relative to tin- dc
tails ot tin shooting.
Shei iff Sim Howell s lid lie ar
i • ~t R'.i'.n McCollum, and rusli-
COST OF DISCRIMINATION HIGH
jV. C. College Needs Seven
Millions During 2 Years
DURHAM ■ President Alfonso
Elder oi the North Carolina Col
ui Ouriiam re'Cu:ttmend«-d «x
--.t'nditurvs <>! *7.192,237 for the
I ccllestc during' the 1953-4985 bien
r,h m last week, she recomnicncla
ioi: vinade to the Advisory
t Co?v; wTicso
bevisiteo NCC on W, dnesday.
VV \.\ t in L BITLDINDS
Ot the lota! requcsicd. #3,-
tOp.'.Al was requested for ope
rations and 3C3.*k5,8iil for
■permanent improvements. The
latter reques ttneiuded five
lievv bull,tings which l>r. Eider
said are necessary if the col
lege Is *.s meet present edu
cational demands.
The NCC president tdlti the
o .tt:;/: ii ■ft hi.? recommendations
v.-t-rv being made on the tasis of
tlj<s needs ot the college’s 2.693
si-, ci, ut-. lie rr, i- wed NCC's work
a dice the commission’s 1951 visit,
c;.\is'i£. in part; "The mos. signi
ficant happening during the past
two years has been the coopera
tive action between the Board of
Trustees of the University of
North Carolina and the Board of
Trustees of th<* North Carolina
College at Durham, This coopera
tion, through a joint committee of
the two uo&rds. resulted m the
Irustees oi the tNCC) College ac
c-.pt;i*L; the offer of the: UlllV* r
t.ity of North Carolina to Join
them in seeking an emergency
appropriation of $114,009 for the
®*^^BRIEF
m . SPAULDING
LEFT §138,000
DURHAM- Dr. C. C. Si-mlding
wins headed three firms with total
asSM-U ai more than $43.1*00,C00.
left an state valued at $ 1t5;.),703. 85
;.t h> death on Aug 1
An inventory of the estate of
the nationally • known business
lead-- was filed Monday in Su
perior Court.
The inv< ntory showed personal
property totaling sl7 953.85. teal
estate Rax value ai 22 houses and
lots) list'd at $38,250. find $82,500
t ii. insurance.
All but SBOO of the estate was
; l.eque.-ithed to hi:- wife and chil
dren.
Dr. Spaulding, 78, was president
of the North Carolina Mutual Life
; Insurance Company and the Fsrni
' or* and Mechanics Banks, the
| largest Negro institutions of these
types in She world, and president
. ■ the Mutual Building and Loan
Association.
HOUSE Si, NEEDED
IN SALISBURY
| SALISBURY New housing ft
j reded for an estimated 75 Negro
| families who will be pemuuMtnr
!ly employed by the Salisbury VA
'hospital a commit cee has reported
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TRACEU'. STRUCK Trage
dy struck in Live Oak and Zu
ber, Florida last week when Mrs.
I; ul* > Ali i olluni. 37-year-old
housewife allegedly shot uud
killed l)i. < . Leßny Adams, 52,
white, in his otliee in the for
mer , its , and her husband Salli
ed her io Raiford at a 90-mile an
uour dip when several eu;s tol-
Itiwed him.
Hu adoed: ‘ She was on her way
d - vv’d;.. jmsfeZ
DR. ELDER
1951-1352 fiscal year and $137,200
foi the 1952 fiscal year in order
to strengthen the present under
eraduat* work at the College as
well as its graduate work and So
c/v-v ide ft,r.ds fur library and in
structional service needed to ia
si..ei-,rate a doctoral program m
Fcuii-auor, in September. 1952."
The NCC president w ont on to
tCmntlaued on page 8)
to the local Chamber of Com
meres*.
Spunking fat a -roup of five
Lading dtiro-m P, r., L H Hail
told the chamber .««•<•; clary, Wil
liam P. P.-nee that the VA esti-'
nrPed ipcotne? of civil service
classification of jobs at the ties* i
pita! would run between $2 400 to 1
per year, a:id that probably
bi tter quality housing than now
available would be needed for *ev
oi the Negro employees
RFC
MAN MANGLED BY
FREIGHT TR AIN
NEW KKRN A 45-year-old
Cove City man, Saul Johnson was I
found dead early Sunday morning
by a train crew of the Atlantic
Coast and East Carolina Railroad
<t mile west of Cove City.
There '.ear evUUr.ce that the
man bad been fatally mangled a
houf 10:30 Saturday night by the
"astbound freight train and had j
been struck a second time when ;
the train was making a return trip j
en route to Goldsboro.
Members of the crew did not
see Johnson lyins on th» track
'.-hen he was struck the first time,
C rsmen County Coroner Prank
Ballard is continuing an investiga
tion There appeared to he evi
dence Ballard said, that Johnson
had been drinking before being
struck.
lid McCollum 52, (inset) died
oi a heart attack in the latter
town a lew hours later in the
home of his moUter-in-law. Mr,
.McCollum was fleeing to gel not
of the way of what many
thought to be tile wrath of irate
~ ili/.etLS.
out o! iK-re sixty seconds after I
reach, d her, bei-aus* In. SUI«
there w usii.f have been tioubid.”
PERSON COUNTY:
ASKED TO MAKE
SCHOOLS EQUAL
ROXB; >BO A charge -d dis
criminaiio;. in l’>-. Person County '
School system L'r-,.-n lo.lged '
against the ccrnmy's -::).ool board ’
>l<e..ikint on be hail ot about
2b \. »ro citizens ot the Per- 1
son area, Durham Attorney 1
Hugh Thompson ta) t Eiidaj
told \he s,ho«i board that Ne*
» re, sell,mis of the ,-ounty wer)
inferior to the white sehixits 1
and that immediate steps to r '
bring about equality «l U.e
schools should be taken.
Indication was given that a suit '
in F-'dc-j .1 Court would be resort- ;
cd to ill 11 , the Otak/'d 1
(oiaiity.
( O.WTAR VIIM FIC.I Ri s L
In barking up the discriminatory I
'■oaigcs *o. aifornt-s paoted a sec- .
tion of the State Constitution. He r
..iso pr. >. nied the board with a i
group "i comparative figures on i
the two school setups. i
The board of education plans to {
meet with the board of county t
■ ce.rnmi-•; mors at their next meet- t
:nt in Se: tember b, fore announce I
:n; what action will be token
H'ortimied im page ki
E **«**». oja
CELEBRATE HIS ffTllGN—Cnnqoiejding Don of the Tribe o? Judah,
H»he Selassie 1, Elect at God, Emperor of Ethiopia. fc> pictured! during
the recent celebration in honor of his titellar reign. Emperar Selassie
, was h.-,fled by lenders, ail over the world far Site role he has played in
ptittln* JEthiopi'a teck on her feet following Stalv't Inntsinn ,
•mr "i tsc *—*— —1 -7..:-. ~ WHiititfliiMtii '
CA DILL A C-DRIVING, _ WELL-FIXED
NUMBERS KING JAILED
THE CAROLINIAN
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VOLUMN XI RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA WEEK ENDING SATURDAY AUGUST 18, .1952 NUMBER 29
CRUEL COP'S VICTIM
HAS LEG AMPUTATED
TRIGGER-HAPPY ;
OOP IS BLAMED j
FOB VET'S FATE J
Wake Forest Youth
Shot From Hear By
Bloo<l-T!iirst\ Cop
MV I \>IFS V SHKPAUI)
RAIJiIGH Following the .-.eri
jutioiiai expose of police brutality
Wake Forest recently in last
vv«. i: i CAROLINIAN. ihi- news
paper in ordci to obtain further
••jbstaatxatiaii o: the repos t.« ro
•:ctvvd by it. >vm a staff photo- I
4 apher and one of its feature I
iter.-, to Saint Agnes Hospital I
this woke for an interview with I
ar:it a picture of one of iht victims I
t'i the near lav'. riot, staged in I
H. Forest a tew weeks ago. j
s <»ncv' Wioston. the hospital
in c vii tie. iv a jtvrwvnable "our.it I
f< Uow. in his late tvventi, - young '
Winston .v> !• i nly • seven
r . til fii ■- > • ;ri )1. try me to i
;•< ip i,. > th>- • enemy ' frost*, our j
dyo. ana Ik war honorably dis- ]
••ha .erf . i ,it.i si.- return I
Foil,. j.u: 10-c <>iu ts hi- ltd I
for serve -ht h. •■■. via -he did j
YJOI vii>. •'
Hai oi t■‘ ■■ la i-iity - .-even j
•s.onths wer. at , ■ so duty, .
fighting thi Gertiuuo in Europe. |
Winston va- foitunaw enough *o )
he spared to return to hi- native ■*
L-tld, Without V' jt i' .fil.i Uil* 1
harmed, hot ii< w.i* not to/Umate |
Clough '<. cm ;i;.v a • . • <?\ after |
I. •et • il. •• : m iii(S j
cripple him ti<« ns u< ; : ■• j
.•'.i-gvo women are kick- d and |
beater f■. police oftuie ■ .eid Me- I
nll an? ar si;.;: cier-. n nle I
Arner. 3io*usi> pontts i i ity.o
critK-ai firiger ol accusaic-tii sn Ihe
direction of the Iron Cat tain, and
prattles incessantly about the Vir- :
tees of Democracy to which she.
only gives sip service.
But. let us give you Spence) ■
Winston's story given lo •-•■ he
lay on his hospital bed last Mon
day patient, uncomplaining arid
resigned to his tat-. waiting fry.
the tom O' iow that would brink;
him relief from the agony he has j
been suffering since policeman <
Charley Ball os the Wake Forest .
oolite fui’« si.-ot him dev. n from _
the rear s 1 t tit* over two weeks ,
before. ;.
We said he vras waiting for
iCominued r>» page Si
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it. iI s ALL A BOV T n
Spencer Winston, young Wake
Forest veteran at.,, was shot in
the leg by Wake Forest’s trig
ger-happy Police Officer Mall,
tclK (AKOMMIN reporter
James A Shepard all afe-ant ttse
Teachers Out-Number Jobs 2-1
V
i A.Mi’f There is no tCc.. ihcr
>l:.>r;n N. C. Net-rc schools
fit pert ,-nt. In fact the state
schools turned out this year twice
rnans teacher* as there arc jobs
in the state, it was disclosed last
Many of th-- women graduates
■■ill be forced to accept office
jobs and other positions instead
of teaching, in y<-ar pa.-i North
C .••count; received a number of
teachers from Virginia because
the Ta lice! state paid a higher
salary than Virginia.
A focal new'.paper made a
survey which reveal*-d that
the slate’s It Negro e#lict«*
tradtiated 1J24 teachers this
sear. The estimate is that
there ate jobs for only O<MI new
teachers tor the 1933411 term.
Broken dawn i*t means 298 se
rondary aehc»oi anti l»5t! ele
mentary sehoo! teac hers vi iii
uwk.
TRIES TO STOP
FUSS; IS KUXKD
ROXBORO Oscar 'Boots)
Cameron. 23, is beirit held in Pey.
eon County jail this week charged
with the fatal slabbing Friday
night of James Shave. 26 sawmill
worker, at Shaw's Inn. u nightspot
on “Sugar 'HilF' here.
Shaw died in Person Coun
ty Memorial Hospital a few
minutes after admittance. The
Tuannd was in the neck and
severed a main Wood -vessel,
tnmtitittnf; officers said
that witnesses stated that
Shaw was attempting to he a
peacemaker in an argument
that Cameron was having with
several tithe.* persons. Cam
eron turned on Starve w'.k-ji he
intervened and stabbed itim
one time, Cameron had been
drinklng, officers said
Cwmerci nls being held wl th
en t bona pending * toea.ri.u4 (v
tor w* ii
. .... A.
ineidem which resulted in tt«-
loss of a ley; by tile V.ciittl WHO
spent iSj months in the Armed
services without suffering an In
jury. Winston steadfastly denies
cutting Officer Ball. sa\s that
he nt«d id
School officials feel that as far
a- Negro colic-.e students are con
c* rac'd, teaching is a position for
v.-hk'h they can secure the neces
sary education ana college .le-gret*
ioexpt-nsic near horn*-.
Alowov* 1 they say teaching
. gives the Negro college graduate a
stable income, prestige and a
JVMttimum of -ec-urity in a white
coliai po iiion.
Hie N. u college graduate.- is
TiO MEN DIE AS
FIRE DESTROYS
FRAME DWELLING
Six. or Seven Others
Possibly Saved By
Being A wav From Home
LAURINBUHG Two men tect
their lives in s fire the origin of
which is still unknown here ear
ly Sunday morning.
Listed as, victims in tfefc
blaze which totally diyrtroycd
a frame house in which they
lived wish several other peo
ple were Tom Hall, 39. and
Walter Mr Aft taler, Jr., 1".
Acecu iimv to Scotland Comi
ty Ikejmty Coroner Hewett Me*
Donga id imcsUgaßov showed
that the deaths were the direct
result of the blaze and no foul
pliry was indicated
The men were supposedly asle?v>
i In the house when the fire broke j
|t ut amet v.-err unable to escape.
; Si* or .teven other persons po»- :
isibly escaped death in the oar. .fi li
gation because of their absent*
ii arc. the area. »
Jl h’V Fills TO
AGREE IN RAPE
TRIAL HEARING
t 11 ARLOTTK -- When an aii
'iliit* iill-malf jury failed i«
reach an agreement, a young
Ntsro charged wftli assault
uith intent to commit rafm on
a 22-vear-old white woman was
malt red re-tried in the next
term of SupMor Court here.
sud • /eh Nettles declared a
mistrial Tuesday in the case in
which James Foster is accused
of entering the home of the
mother of two small • hllb»vtj
and attempting assault.
Hi will lie retried in tRc
session which gets underway
on August >5
he didu't even have a knife, it
is generally felt that Bali either
purposely cut himself or had a
confederate to cut him in an ef
fort to substantiate his alleged
motive" lor shooting Winston.-
STAFF OTO »V SHtRI.LV.
f-iiitun|C--,--. Gains h;<v« been made
in reem* v<-.*!> as a result of the
tiovk -.f the campaigns of the Na
tional Ui ban League-, the National
A.--. .-C’• ft.<. tk.i- A,.lv is ucvusent
of Colnr-.-d P'.*o»le and Fair Em
ployment Pi ut-Ucus Commisrioas
in M-vi-ra. states, but the problem
I.' still for from solved
And is for other professions
open ti> Negroes, the oast of
education three or four year*
beyond the undergraduate lev
el is well nigh prohibitive Jo a
large major it 1 * of strident*.. Ex
jw-rienev shows that teach in t
is frequently a Negro student's
second choice ot a .stop tap
between collvgv and
sionai school.
Statistics show that of the 1,472
graduates of North Carolina Ne
gro colleges this year, 1,124 pre
pared to loach Os th- 1.47& who
, v.-ere graduated last. 3 070 prepar
i seriouslv limited in vocational op*
H ontinwed on page til
M\\ SENTENCED" '
IN MURDER EASE
CHARLOTTE Edward Lercy
Potent, 29-year-old Gaston County
white man, was senlonced Monday
ic five so eight years in prison
foj knifing to death a Mecklen-
I burg Negro barber, George Counts.
Judei William T. Hatch pro
nounced the sentence after receiv
ing a verdict of manslaughter
Thursday from a male, all-whit*
jury’. The trial began Wednesday.
! Pate at. who pleaded self-defense,
, said he met the elderly Negro the
• night of July S on the Shuifie*
town Road.
He testified that Counts called
to him and when he went cIOUST
Counts cursed hmv He then, ete*-
j f'd and fell trying to ward off *
' blow as the man raised hi? arm.
Fote.at told the court that he
| was hit fey a rock in the scuffie
and didn't ren. ember wySbint.
after that. t> ,