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Is City’s Crime Crackdown Aimed At The Negro? ... .... A ■ .«**** lillfSk. fc. it MKRHK'K , ' '*•»*" -KW- < t: " ' fc ■ . ■ gr^-v; G. VV. COX. SK .1 S. STEWART I I<» I It I IN Rl'SlN'l S > YillAtvl-l ’l* Another business -shake-up’' occasioned by the d> utb «*! Durham business leader financier C C. Spaulding result 'd this wit Ik n’t the elevation *«t 11. It. Mi rrii k son id North ( .»r --ollntt Actual life Insurance vo louoder and lirst president John Merrick to the position <»i pr\t d. <ii «l the Muttra! Savings and Luati \s-«M t.Hiott ot which the !atc Dr. SpauldiM; Was a found- C| ant! president. \t the same ttilie. t» H Cox. Sr a member ot the boaid »l tile tumpasi). «as given a vice-prrddcnev. iohn s stew ;-L!t. who has sort ed as secretary-treasurer of the lirnt continues in the role of ac tive excvotivi S 5 E sIORY IN SIDE I NEGRO MADE TA I.VMUS A. sm i'AKU L,; ! ;■- H M-if’ 'U i ;1 _• illUMi:-- S'%-) , Wi.'iiam C.ir. caked a» 3 OHI-t i/tt - 1 K 8 Tiara -jve atl4 J ' Hi )i'- 'I- is\- a' JOjJ la :k- J.-i\ n . rr. i: of in. Raleigh police fcivo a 'set tough" po licy >.i Hit matter ot law enforce- T'cni. With -o rcanj ca tr thiaas > on n tin Rr.ieinh police d*- «■? ' f*' 1 fu t $M f^-w.' , ’ iiSi/‘WMfjSlßßiKpajßaWml;£«& % *», 6®ij; :-ndggl 'S§®»SB? f‘ isfej^awr * jßKrffi ?*'■ mellk/t'lc v*. '** iljßi . •• wtt ■ . . S» C«4<%lXm’N AIMES At VHIOW--** the ambitions Rsleiyh police d< partTuMil crack - down mimed hi the majority of the €ttj>- i*ai dry’s. Negro tinjcjjr. wha HOSPITAL DENIES REFUSING AID TO INJURED WOMAN r.OUISBUKC Rc.'orts thul an w e;! N>:um v. Oman was denied ad ’ mission to a public-owned hospital wsir denied n< -t late last w- ok Gi an vilie County Coroner F-.u'l Hunt f-s'! In v.'fi - told it! iliVt-tf /atjii.' i-.u' death of Mrs. Narcissi!* i J'-i e If. ! J'u ■ i lit llitd the avail ; :i;i >.• Mi run OVvf be- a tractor-pulled traiice. w . | . hied . t>:v- 1 . ,(,i| in tta Franklin '.ttmo'i.i: Ho ; ..eriu.'M: nu tur- . dcOr, v.. - on duty Sh«- died a situ it time later brim; i ■ turned No tier home c.etir Wilton lit terming the repeat- "ir'-'spun- j sibU- and rnisleadin-f" Inst Friday, i *> • M. G. Stewart, a member of j in iin natal ’ail said that two ' men who bi oufsb; the ?0-v. ar-old j vvuniiiti to the hospital w-ap try in* j Ci i .seea.' till■ ir is- !>ou ability in j , tiie inatlr; Dr. M<-'.art ,a\’i- thi - vet. ion of! 'the incident; He was called to the trm rgcncy j jenfrarire of the hospital early I T'lrsday ri'dd by two men and! thev 'old him tin- woman h'-d heel' i am over ry a totiaivo trailer i St- v. art aid <n examined the! woman on sit. bat.'!: seal of the • 'oar she came in and loitnd that *-t had a■; vendi <•!-. -he.l chest. (Continued uu page Hi N.C. CHAMPION FARMER INS : SECTION AWARD! j WILSON -A North Carolina ton- j I ant farniei who has proven him- j 1 frit "tops in his own home slate, j 1 was chosen top man in the entire j South in his particular lie Id of j i endeavor. Turner Lancaster, of Wilson | ;County who this year was chosen ! ; North Carolina's nurriUoi one sot! j ] conservation farmer was last 1 Thursday chosen the South's chatn- I nion Ne.ro conservation farmer at i : the annual Southwide Soil Con | t-ervation Jamboree in Hancock 1 i Ga Lancaster lives un the farm of J. I>. High, Jr., in the Nruse River soil conservation district and is the flr-t tenant to win the title since the contest start ed six ••cars ago. Hr is father of ten children who In Ip him j fa t in. He won the honot over contest - j i .o.t s li .nn 11 other • Ftteh e. inn. r ■■■ a ;u i male,l a -or.-., a- 1 v. rd of SKid cacti while !..Micas Veil ;j0 ext* a as the, futlthw ide .w inner. Alou*. .it It C W. Foster N.aroi f. agent and J. D Hieh owner i ] a the f.inr.. Lancaster jnurtM ycd .<, al i 1 \' 1.1 !>(.-■. -'Cfl l :.d 'o heceive it is .award. j Lm;-. .(■•:; worked out his soil. ;md water consct vat .on plan sev • u! ye:.;;.- y.;o in tin effort to \r'i - l I'Oltt Mias,hitiy way All th >!o.vii.g ■ crop land wii- icrruc tl witi; farm - nutnji ciii and meadow uutleta w' re ' . -'dcd ii> lake can i»f sue i plus w.iU: irom the terrac* K<l»' \s«r,- plaoneci on » ( AH tf«r basis using terraces as guides. 1 Ins was applied to to* acco as well as corn row-, lie was a-sisted in Ins plan by his landlord md Hunt. •*.i jxirtiiiont. with a nuiubti of un- ’ t-iti-d .-nine:- hancm- o\ .:■ z its • head. ». ivoru-'i ■ walking out at ml -police caught si. i-.iiri:.- jjtd - nft - v behoved to be in league : '■Hit: t'i'V.kt and uamblers, it would appear that the City Man •iy«?r it ; bit lardy, to say the * * : - 4 •■ ith his order to his police chief to r ack down on law vin- : must accept menial jobs similar to M»«mj pictured here*.' On-ort records reveal that dtutnf the first few days of the cnwMwn ordered by fee City’s fr'wfeec* THE CAROLINIAN lie PEP, COPT VOLUMN XI KA Li 'Kill, NORTH CAROLINA t _ THAT’S MV BOYS BLOOD— Mrs Ludic Watson, mother of i Young Watson, young Clavton ■ resident shot and killed by ('lay : ton Police Chief Frank, Carter Sunday night, points to blood spots on the bed from which Watson had reportedly risen in obeying orders of the police of ficer when he was fatally wound i ed as five 1 ntlets tore through his body. Mrs. Watson denies (lainis that her son was shot a* ASS'N OFFICIAL'S FALSE ARREST CASE DOCKETED j Bv I. It IIARKEN SHKI.NO HOPE. N C - It H r. ;»o-ted thitt the sui: filed by local NA/sCP ui •. Sldellt -lir.it) D Wil- Um- ac.-.mst th. Carolina Tsail. w..v Bus C.i lost year charging fail. . i —folluwi -■ Lie. refusal ■’i VViLiian.- to sr.»vt- to a rear seal . v.-hie- traveii:;;.- an uilersta'.e !■ ■ •» n..ei. im':! e;::;. I > trial Scp t'.h m Richmond. Va At the f-mc Williams was irav < ti .■ tic", ecu Sj»rir.c Iloue. N C a id Neri-.dk. Vu and heid a round* t o t.- .■•:. A* he approached Continu 'd on page 8 RGET IN BIG CRIME CRACKDOWN iUtt'ii>. -itill it iici >i''ai)U\ : thing that su.-s an ot dvr was issued. Wi.at is sit a nee, to this writer, is that within oxer sixty thousand biopk iit Rak’ii'ii two thirds of " h ns 'm- wh:*.v why did the vhen the white crooks, gamblers, aeo< ■ os the law violators of Ra ifiigh Am. 'hy dees the Nows tit.cl Observer intimate in its story more .><• seces were hauled raeta jail and Ija.ik'd into court th&x> tors been the. casw in many stber shnfly time pswasaf/e,—SfiUtLEl' StIiTOIO. n— 10c PER COPY I i.uct w .’vn the three or more of ficers who came to arrest him. SHIRLEY STAFFOTO. lie allegedly engaged in a pistol ■Y '• ' " • if , , /' WBrnh I THE CHIEF. THE CHEEK AND THE SCAR Clayton Police Chief Frank Carter, who says he shot and killed Young Watson, Clayton Negro, after being graz ed on the check by a bullet fired by Watson is shown here with the MjU'-stioned check' facing the camera of the CAROLINIAN staff photographer. I shout the iih->' *;i; 1 shat crime in fb tfih » confined to East Ra . bjigh and all the "Sn* .>ky lvte“ i finnkiug sn Ra’eign it don. b> the No: I'o i.-uU-nts .' thu: section. > In a daj mid ..ci, who:', ciirne , u increasing in every aua and . • oi. all levels of society, it would i «vm that th <uty manager of ■ Raleigh ...ilo i x»int out to hi* chief of police, instances of law lessness and evidence of police laxity and ineffii iency. tar more distoibinc than two Negr e- fight ing an the street, doing n<» one any harm t.-tu th< mselves. Wt ;•••: taint'- do not condone crime of an- type be the violators black or white, but w. feel that • city manager is tn -ding on dan ge. n:s yTi- rsd when he tells hi* Chit { of police in effect, to have his policemen to get tougher tow- \ aid Ni - gr<» law violators and to t* move alert toward detecting and > tinning down Negro lew breakers 1 * I Mr. Carpi-, knows, or least he should know, tlicit crime docs not bear a aciat stamp, he know* that in the City of Raleigh. law Ve-sness is by no means confined to N-- o- s He knows xh.it ther* \ ar. a!) v line goctions of Eaiehilt ■wfere tb.-iv is just as much law- . bssnesf, drinking and brawling as there is it. Fast Raleish. but what it of mor< lirijiortance than all is. that lib”. Caroer should know, that when ho point? his police force ie !*me hres of the city as the on* . roof needing their attention, he 1* 1' Illn? iktem to never mind the !ether crime areas of Bnleigh, fust; j«o*»oentPßt€ your attention on East Raleigh. Jv* one has to be h aro ,phet U: forse- what will happen, v hen the whitecrooks, gambler*, thiev*-s, brvr.titggers aad eUnw a immai = get the word that its* •heat 5s off them. li ina;v be that our city mana- WHO SHOT WHO QUESTIONED AS COPS SLAY MAN 4§§g n ■hr dfIMIBIBII^ i|^B9OHNHf| | MBHP i v/ araS j^jHMHPB^HS -IT MUST HAVE CONE CLEAN THROUGH II1M"—Geo Watson. brother of Young Wat- of Clayton who was fatally shot Sunday night by Clayton Fulice Chief Frank Carter, above t, 11s Carolinian Managing Editor Man Who Tossed Wife In River Given “Life” Term j LEXINGTON A 37-year-old construction work*-;- who weighted the dead body of his’ wife down jtmd tossed it into a river near . here in June was this week :enecri to spend ih. rest of hi.- i*T».* in ji) iron Janies Clarence Shade, who ] admitted that lie killed his wife Bernice, and then threw her sand -pump -weighted remains into the Yadkin Kiser was giv en the term by Superior Court Judge 11. Hovle Sink just » few minutes after pleading | guilta to a charge of accessory j to the fact before first degree murder. i Such a pic.i means mandatory i*t:' would ;:k.■ iuv til; police de partment to pattern its behavior aioiig the line? of same of the smaller town: in Wake County, Maybe hr- would like far them to imitate the police of Wake For ‘■>t who pend ninety-five p.-r cent of their time in the Negro dis trict, intimidating, terrorizing and •ssssulthv. the rw-dents. We say nisbyr that is what he wants done her. but we mw. earnestly houc it isn't because n is not likely that the Negroes of Raleigh will lfcl '' ‘* ct^ Tvt. „ J$ M > 4 ' | ARREST WAS WT-LCOMED-- With the wha-rtagr «atf hrnng for Raleighs rapidly iai7«ttte( Negro swassutla-e** and v.-ith “hon.ft.” like the *mv. shcwa .atwwj- <n«w fully fcalritfttefil as ttte. ■ftemattve. sooie of the Cap <MU. City's coi-ored rtfurea* p«ssi WEEK EN DINE AUG ESI TO, 19*2 Lin Hollow a> that he believes the .38 calibre slug being exumin ei! by the newsman went "clean through'’ the body of his brother and was one of the fire repvrt < diy pumped into Young Wat son’s body.—SHERARI) TiIOTO. life imprisonment LV ~ity Sheriff Floyd Stsouf was the only w:tm .•< to appear in the case. Shoaf told ot finding an uniden tified body of a woman floating in the Yadkin Rive r between Dav and ttovan Counties early if June and of th. arrest of Shade •t me three days later, The body was identified as that of Shade's wife. The off:CVS:-. aid Shade made a statement to him and other officers that he and his wife had family difficulties and that she had threat ened to return home and live with another man. (Continued on page H\ stand .or that tj pc of police bru tality. Whatever Mr. Carpet hart •in mind when he could not think am instance of police laxity to poin; out to his chief other than two Net-roes fighting m th* street. Wt would suggest that he look uve— the police files, keep Ms eye- and ears open and h* might r that crime i- by no means confined to the East Ra l<-lgh section oi to any Negro section. iContinued on past 1 5i bly welcome arrest during th* current “crime crackdown" or dered by Raleigh’s city manager i as a pi rasing change from the ! feottsias- conditions they are . *bi- I polled te accent, sthkliiY sTAFFOTO, 4 NUMBER II CLAYTON POLICE CHIEF CLAIMS VICTIM HAD GUN Five Bullets Pumped Into Cops* Victim By JAMES A. SHEPARD j CLAYTON Youiv, Wat.-on, *y.- : year-old Clayton Negro was almost instantly called last Sunday night at Ins home in a Negro section oi Clayton by Police Chief Frank Carter. The killing took place af ter Carter and two other j.olire officers had none to Watson's home ito arrest him for attacking Con stable Cook Moore earlier '.fiat day. ; According to testimony presented •La witnesses, five pistol bullets l were fin d into the body us Young Watson as Lie was dressing to ac company lire officers to jail. The trouble began Sunday af ternoon. when Constable Coos v ent to the Negro section, which L- just a few f.-et from the towns mam slice', to serve a warrant i pun Rudolph Watson, another >.'e mo man not related to Youn_ Wat on. It i. alleged that Young Wat son and a yet unidentified Negro man.' attack’d the Constable from 'he rear, overpowered him and h»ok las black jack from him. No . is a son was offered by bystanders' for tvn attack upon the officer Ly the two Negroes. According to , I'ivir story, Watson was alone in his attack upon the constable ant! r they described it as a prank say* , inti that Watson immediately re turned the weapon to the officer, , u. ho, according totheir story, told 1 j Watson he would no’ arrest him then for attacking him but re cjit' S'ted that he iWatson) report I te police headquarters the next (Continued on page 5) **®^JsbrPef GREENSBORO MARINE KILLED IN ACTION , GREENSBORO Bennie Brn . nett, Jr.. 21-year-old Marine of , Greensboro, was killed in action on /the Korean war front August 15. iiis parents of 1208 East Wash | iugton Slre<-t were notified thj« 1 week by the Defense Department. ittorn in Wadesboro, Bennett at tended Washington Street School in Greensboro. He served in the Navy from 3946-48. He joined the Marine Corps at Green*!* eo in Augu*t. 1953. On May 5, he arrived in Korea and was assigned to the Jfjrs! Bat talion, First Marine Division Surviving in addition to his pa rent.-;, Mr and Mrs, Bennie Ben in tt. Sr., are two brothers and six sister* COMPLETION NEARS lon new hospital | OXFORD Granville’s $500,000 | hospital improvement program, ! including a new hospital for Ne gro patient* is nearing comple te uTI, Trustees, headed by Arch L Taylor chairman, announced Mon day that the name of the new Negro hospital on Raleigh road erected at a cost of $327,000. will honor the late Dr. G. C Shaw, it,under and lor many years head , of Mary Potter School here. The institution will replace Su sie Cheatham Memorial HosJltai, which has operated tor more than ,25 years in a frame builditur on Sycamore Street. Finish is being RALEIGH GIRL WINS NATIONAL SHRINER HONOR jSS* ffi r *' ! lijfifci k St- ; ; fffvMJSBBBI * yPSlltfay, i 9 sj*‘ I * ■ f |e 3 i V/h i I ’ P •■? ; : - ; i : :|-M . J j !?: : : . i WtKHtHfmßKmrnmmßtUm MISS WEAVER \ oii! fifnl Singer Is Nobles* 2nd (Jioicc [ RALEIGH Charming Clemen | tine Weaver returned to Raleigh I last week with a trophy and sl.- ! 000 scholarship awarded her js * i place W’innei • in the na ; t:oi.al finals of the Shriner’s Tal • ent and Beauty Pageant held in : Indianapolis, Ind. .Mr Weave i whose personality > and rendition-of "My Hero" rated •inch with the jucin-s. modeled sir' ct, evening, and beach wear »• lonp with the othet conte-tants. She placed first in the pageant Held in Oxford and Durham, N. C, which won he.' the expense paid (Hip to Indianapolis, to part in; pa ta in the nationals. The contest was limited to high school seniors with beautiy and talent (Continued on page 8) applied to the single-story brick end steel building and contracts . arc to be let next month for equlo rr.ent and furnishings EX-CONVICT HELD FOR MAIL THEFT WILSON Charlie McCullough of Wayne County is being held in the Wilson County jail for alleged ly stealing Hire- bags of mail from the railroad depot in Goldsboro December 'JO. 1951. Tt is reported that the man had recently been released front a T-i-ison camp where he had been serving time for another crime. His trial is scheduled to come tip at the November 3 session of tils tviet federal‘court here. CAR FALLS ON MAN;, CLAIMS HIS LIFE DURHAM ~ Duke Hospital W ihorUtcs raid Sunday that Ernest M»n phis. 23-year-old resident WC Chatham County, was dead upon being brought to the hospital by an imb;.-lance. Saturday. The ambulance driver 5* report ed to have said that Morph is was working under a oar when the dbr fell upon him. The driver said Morphi* v.-as still alive when tljiey left Chapel Hill- Duke officials said a superficial • examination bore out the story of ihe car fading upon the man. 1 but withheld 3« official veeikt , pending a coroner’s examination. Ihe Chatham County coroner was notified. ,
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