Wheeler Named President
Os Durham, Raleigh Banks
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CONVICTED DOCTOR DIES
UPON ENTERING N. C. PRISON
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Louthem him- liuv'ioi convicted
i'i, al oi tiiiii ciiai • died shortly
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i.yl> < s-.iio jji acticcil mcdiciiic in
I» before .jejiumiiii.; a JSj-your
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‘ (/lints Litis died Ol a In.-ai t at-
Wake Forest Policemen
Must Face Trial For
Brutality To Negroes
Miss ARI.KNE IK AS, whu
suffered assault at the hands of
Wake Forest police of Herrs,
drew a 30-da\ roads sentence
suspended on payment of StO
i ust'i during Saturday's trial at
Wake Forest. .Miss Lucas was as
-auflrd with hands and feel by
the officers.
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MISS LGRENINE MITCHKX,
wiiose ear drum was punctured
b> a Wake Forest officer “per*
htmimg his duty,” was s*nt«n
red to a Jti-day road term sus
peijdetl on payment of vis cost
at W .!.<• Forest last Smo-’day.
Mlc Was I,junked down l»5 tk*
officer.
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JOBNXY HAYES, well-known
Wake Forest resident, was sen
tenced to a DO-day roads sen
tence at Wake Forest Saturday.
He was found “guilty" of m
suuSting a pulieraran tind inter
fering with a put lee man’£ per
roirnsnoe of duty
FONDERBURG NAMED CASHIER
DURHAM John H. Who elor. i , vice president and
cashier of the Mechnnies and Farmers' Bank, ha.- Swi!
elected president of the firm, succeeding the late Dr. C,
C. Spaulding. V\ heeler lias been aspoctal d with the hank
since 1911 i» and vice president-cashier since 1911.
Other ehan;/e> announced by the
boa d ol clii t (.toes at their meeting
here last wool included the elec•
tit on of lion Owi n Fimderbiii k,
■r cashier; Dr. Clyde JDonneP,
chairman of the bo aid: M N Hat •
cis. replacin'/ Dr Spaulding on Un
ix i:rt:v. conunilt«.v; and the elec
tion of Dr Spaulding's on,
Cha It. Clinton .Spauldirijh J: , to
the boa. d of directors.
At ‘the time of his death on
Aur list i. Hr. Spaulding had
headed the lunik more than 30
fears It is tin second largest
hank in the United States
owned and operated by Nr
lines. It was founded in LAW,
the same year in which
Sick ,d, the potiil dinary Ini- , vvi)
i-'Cloi--: lie Could tj* Otfieially in
eaivcrateci > Uittfe photor,i aph«d
rui 1 in/.-rpriiited,
Ur armed at tin prison it
uooii t-riday on an ambulance
am! was pronounced dead a
bout an hour later, It. had
told a prison physician, Ur.
Alfred T. Hamilton .that he
was feeling "pretty good"
when he was transferred ftuiu
Decisions of Lower
Lour! Appealed Bv
Accused Women, \lan
XV. KK FOREST-’ - A ' test case"
In wliieh far-flung police brutality
toward N.-tnj and othe-i citizens
ir. to be die principal issue was
initiated hen la -t Saturday when
Raleigh Attorney Herman L. Tay-
I'lf preferred charges of assault
oi itir.st tv.. Wake Forest Police
officers follow ini; conviction of
tl ri-i.l local N • iro residents on
charge.' of interfering with th«
dticers in Uu performance of
their duties.
On behalf ol Misses Arlc-n. I.u
--; and 1 .orotine Mitchell, and
Johnny Hay.-, the noted civil
' b;,r:-,>:er .-kerf rhip Pohce
' • n t B.«i! and W O. Knuc-
H - re L-rov hi to trial on as
sault charge-
Specifically. Offi. er Hill,
whit is known thr..in-.h the
H uiitiiiued tin page «t
OR. BROWN AT
SEORLIt IN
ALTERED ROLE
_ SEDA LI A. N. C. (ANT*! Dr
Char!ot'u ! Hawkins Brown will ro
rrain at Palmr- Memorial Insti
tute here as an advisor and teach
er Mi-:- Wilhelnuna Crassen of
’ 80-ton, h protege of 'Dr Brown.
v.-iH take ever administrative and
d'Ani! duties.
When news \» ns vcleris. d bis?
v<ar th.-r Dr, Brown Wuuld re
the school- wur Uomßardt <5
w'iin an avalanche of letters from
nnrents and friends asking her to
‘ vtay. Attendance dropped off
■c.Ji-jji. -Mm. 30 per cent Dr
. 15-own snid.
Apparentiy t It * parent*
flutught slic was leaving the
s'litKJl. Kiit she will remain
thcj'c as teacher and advl««r
ss well as vice chairman t>f
the hoard of trustees.
Ifndci th.- leadership of Mr*.
; B 'own. who was trained in New
Er land nnd who studied nbrord
'le school has devoted it. '..lf
u.raely to cultural subjects and to
: U scTilng gracious and useful liv
|to its students.
Mis- C'rosson was trained by
Mrs Brown. -She is from Boston
: and a product of the culture of
| that urea
Raleigh Woman First
j Negro Named to Staff
I Os Delaware Hospital
WILMINGTON, DEL. The up’-'
itrointtnent of the first Negro tned
' ital staff member to a hospital in
! Delaware was made last week by
I Dr. M. A. Tarumianz who an
i nounced that Dr. C. Patricia Tur
ner of Raleigh, N. C. and Wil
mington, Delaware would become
a Resident In Psychiatry at the
Delaware State Hho-pital at Farri
' hurst.
Wh< elec inc new prcsidi ut
X' iw horn,
Wheeler is a nativi of Kit!roll;
Colic e -'Mi ' 1 where his fntltor
formerly rved a.- president of
til*. Mt-lifuiiis! insliiuliuit. Hi- was
Vlincaied in the Athmt;,. (G a.)
S’ublic -it tools .ml at Idol ej-muso
Doilt-'/e there. Wheel''! who ha.-t
won corisiderabli recounilion -js
a lawy- r received his !e-..al edu
cation el the North Carolina Go) ■
U;,v l.a>v School in Durlumi.
Ahio o i the nrgiitthiMions
with which Wheeler is affili
ated are the following: Mem
bership nn the hoards of trus
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1 tile ullbolaiu e slielelier ill <
belt tn the prison hospital
1 ward, fin- tidal heart attack
occurred about !f. minutes lat
er.
Di Ro - wa: setitenc d to 3 tu
S yea - imprisonment at Caithete
last Thursday by Moore County
Superior Court Judge .1 VVd) Pies...
who ruled in :us sentenced that
Dr. should l-a accorded the best
in nicdieiii .itteiition because of an
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COtIKt SESSION LVTisi Alth«* Gibson. kmerieaYi top ratikitig
N'ejsro tennig plaxer H jihototfraphed witte Kurt Nielsen, Denmark's
J'ower-twden xini'k and iloubli* court n*'t star, i’hoto was taken sit
the Eastern Grass Court championships in Orange, New Jersey
recently. The svelte sepia tennis star hail a bad day. She wa* be»Us»
by America's top-ranking junior player, Anita Hunter.
1 O^^%BRiEF
hex breakim; pi is
WOMAN D DUTCH
HIGH POINT -- \ woman
who threw sticks, stone* and
e'ber debris against the house
o! a neighbor she believed vm
"working roots” upon her,
found herself 'in Dutch'' with
(be law here this week.
Dr. Turner, who has been 10-:
caked in Raleigh for tin past year;
is a graduate of Howard High •
School. Wilmington, and of Terri-j
pie University, Philadelphia. She;
attended Mo hurry Medical College,;
Nashville. Tennessee, eom-pketing j
her work there in 1949 and taking i
her Internship at Hubbard liospi- j
tal, and a Residency at Sstnt A'g-!
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MR. ff'MIER liIKG
SAMFORD HIRES
; FIRST NEGRO
: POLICEMAN
SAM OKU Sanford tbU
week joined tin* ever-increas
ing number of North Carolina
towns and cities hiring Negro
police officers.
H. G Harris, 39-year-old
tin ensboro native began pa
trol duties in the predomin
antly - Negro populated see-
Mrs, ,Minni. Kitov, G7, tojel
Recorder,. Court .lodge J. A
Myall that she opened si bar
rare against the home of Mrs.
Minnie Beil Butler, because
Mrs Butler and family 'fixed
n c so t can’t sleep at night.’
Mrs Knox declared that she
was trying to ‘’shake off a hex
<!u-\ out oti trie.”
The Judge told Mrs. Kitov
that if she didn’t slop lit-r
monkey - shines, she would
have to go to jail for thirty
days. The sentence was- sos*
pended for two rears.
MAN’S FREEDOM IS
SHORT-UVED
WINSTON - SALEM -- Win
ston - Salem police arrested a
34-year-old Twin City mart
Tuesday afternoon .less than
24. hours after he fled a Stoke*
County prison camp.
Officers said James Pinson,
formerly of 4;;5 Kendall St.,
who was sentenced to serve
20 to 25 years for robbery with
firearms in 1841 was arrested
after Information of hi* form
! m address was received
After Victims Are Convicted
2 WAKE FOREST COPS
FACE 'CRUELTY' RAP
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| VOLUMN XI RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA WEEK ENDING SATURDAY AUGUST 23, 1932 NUMBER 40
Atßaleigh ’$ Chavis^ Park
POOL IS CLOSED AFTER
SEARCH YIELDS BODY
Sailor (»i\es Self
[ p, Hangs Self In
\\ ilson Jailhou.se
&
WILSON A Goasl Guards*
man nho had given himself up
ju.sS an hour before on a pub
lic drunkenness charge, was
found dead in his cell, at vic
tim of suicide, just art hour
later here last Saturday night.
Hie Guardsman, identified
as Leroy How ard, a Marion,
South Carolina native, was dis
covered hanging from a steel
bar in the cell on a noose
t made from a kerchief by a
cell-mate tvho was roused
from sleep by a kicking''
sound.
Investigating authorities rul
j ed the deal hsithide a mili
tary escort accompanied the
body to South ( troiiiia where
Mineral services were schedul
ed
NEW CHARGE OF
RAPE TRY ON
SITTER FILED
fH.J’FL HILT. - A 28 - yea-r
--: nin white res'di >n :,: C.u'rboro |
near here has been <Ti:i. ped with
attempted rope h.v youii;- colored
Mi J'T I'c p-j: port‘.'dl> vMit hiring as i
j a bo fay sitt.-i.
This is the third sue;, charge'
:to have been brought a .aunt
' hilt men in tfit OurharrM hapi-i
i Bin nby N« ,;ro git ls and worn
rui were Mippo.’-edly nclug
;• Hi ployed a- baby sitter-'
JiHL: Lloyd hat teen r< leased
r, t> lr200() hoi ici afl e. 14-vear-iiJd
Shirley Hcavis charged him with
as>ault with intent to commit ra;ie.
, The man, father of a child and a
veteran of World War (i was ar
rested at his burnt after the char
ges’ were made Monday.
According to Miss Reavis Lioyd
can e to her house about 7;30 Won
: day night to hire her as a buoy
sitter. II- had been referred to
be; by a neighbor whom he knew
and had first .sought, as a sitter
‘l'he «*rl Mated that Lloyd
leaded snti it ha pci Mil after
leaving her home instead of
toward his Carrboru home tie
fondled her in the t-qj and
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Party Would Make Bunche
President, Powell Veep
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POOL YIELDS BODY, DIRT.
TALK The Chavis Park «v im
mmg pool ul Raleigh gave up
Hie body «l a !fi-\eai-ald Uny
Sunday morning and set ton
gues a-wagffing ami officials to
hn cslig.i flag, T.>|» photo shows
Dim .or of Park Chambers and
Chavis Lark Pool Director Krai
nev conferring about the death.
In venter is brush used to scrape
bottom of pool, flinging to brush
is some oi 2-mch derp slime
covering pool's hot tom. The
young: nvitm«rr pictured, like
many other persons unaware of
the danger of the pool took a
swim even after the water winch
yielded the bod* was allowed to
remain in the pool. City Coun
cil action Wednesday closed ii
Staffotos by Shirley.
! NEW YORK 'Special) A matt
who has the vice-presidential ««-
munition ot one “political" party
has suggested that a new party be b
formed which would offer Dr. j
Ralph Bunche. United Nations:
mediator, as candidate for the I
presidency of the United States'
and Adam Clayton Powell. New j
York Congressman .as candidate 1
for the vice-presidency.
T!i£ suggestion was offered by
Symoii Gould, vice - presidential
nominee of the American Vege
tarian Party, who told Congress
j men Powell in an open letter that
ihe (Powell) should follow through j
jon bis “courageous stand and not'
go hat in hand pleading with this.
; candidate or that one for justice
t ' v 'S * •
and mercy .but declare a ‘plague
on both your houses' and form the
Negro Freedom Party (or some
such which will indicate in a def
inite mariner what the Negro de
: mand as his rightful heritage.”
Gould further insists that
tiie organization of such a par
ty w?U« conventions, etc.,
would result in the polling of
millions of votes for that
party's candidates “which will
spell disaster to either of the
uarties which have been false
lv courting your support be
fore elections and then giving
vow the same old run-around
after.”
Gould says that a boycott of
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ONE BOY’S 890 Y
FOUND £$ DIVER
SEEKS ANOTHER
Bov's (la used
Bv NV’iliiMitcc; Pool
hi Terrible Shape
B U I- L F.TIN
RALEIGH The* swimming 1
pool at Chavi* Park was
ordered closed by the Ka*
leitfh City Council 5n ses
sion Wednesday afttrno#
as direct result of the drown
ing of a 10-year-old fc«y
there last Saturday. The
poo), on Council order, will
remain cio-sed until such
time it is put into accept
able condition.
BY JAMES V. SHtfAHH
At aoinctiine Inst Saturday after
noon. 10-year-old. Stev.-n Crews at
,M«» risvUl- drowned in the- Chavis
’’ark st imming poo; according to
: Ufi ruards on duty at the pool.
1,-st Saturday. there were approxi
i nlately a thousand persons in the
uooi air of Saturday afternoon.
C no one knows when Steven*
.t: teo-d th< pi 01. in fact no one
had any ides hi- body was in the
-,‘ooi until Sunday afternoon, life
?uard- found the body while
: searching for another boys body
• nicTi was thought might be there
'ft i- really bard, to believe that
such a thing could happen, but it
did happen. It happened m the
day tint- with a thousand or more
1 people present., at the time.
Stevens. accompanied by bt»
mother and father, Mr. and Mrs
j John Cre.’. ■ and three other child
ren, carot to Raleigh last Satucr*-
iday morning will, a picnic group
from Mcarisvilie bound for Chavis
i Park As id:' as can be learned.
: Slovens wont into the pool,
after the Cre ••■'•• family reached the
i However hi ; : mother says he came
; out and ’ 'rf iter be wa- going to
I a movie up town, where upon if
is q .tin- Til, !y -he then forgot all
i about him. No one seems to know
i when hr returned to the park, but
it' is reported that a movie ticket
stub was found in the pocket of
his clothes in the locker room.
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