N. C. POLICE CHIEF FAVORS NEGRO JUDGES
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UGANDAN STUDENT AMONG
FOREIGN VISITORS AT NCO
I IST WEEK Rif hard (Dick)
hatoiigole ot Uganda in Central
Alika, (extreme ilijlil top row)
tu« among «!»** foreign visitors
At Clayton—Not Only One, But—
-3 COPS CHARGED
WHITEWASH BY
CLAYTON ACTION
Entire Police Dept.
Oi Johnston t own
Uiariied In **> iUirc
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SMITHFIELD The entire po
lice department of Clayotn was
scheduled to race preliminary fa-nr
iiit it* Recorder’s. Court here
VVt ,!i,.. day on charges growing
in: <t tilt fatal sliooting of a X*‘-
*ru laborer-truck-driver at Clay
t«n tv a vvct-ks ago.
Because of a docket crowd
«fl *\iil> jur e cases, the Re
corder was unable to hear
< bargees by Attorney S. S
Mitchell that the admitted
shooting of Young Watson, by
the < laytrtn police chief, was
j ease of felonious, unlawful,
wilful slaughter.
Wat. on teas slain on Sunday
i.vid August i? at the home of
i.- mother at Clayton who he al
hyediy sou:; ji to evade arretlk.
.Continued on page Kl
HCC GRADUATE
LISTED IN TOP
10 IN NATION
DSJTtHAM, N. C. Calvin H.
Norman, J:. president of North
i'aiulifM CulL-ge 1952 Student
iJot i'i‘)usiviii tun L*< i-n
d u it- of ii;i 10 i: astandiii: 1
fi idi lii li-ai.il »':• ill i9t>2. The selec
; e. m.i-u try Lender Pub-
Ji. ittii.iii.‘ i i ILf-vvi lv HLi- i iih
inriii.i
Nona-an a veteran ol Worj a !
U'.. 11 . v,’ho tool'. U pi e-fOOdiCal
v-ii-M- at MCC. we- tin only rc j> -
*•• H- i: a native of Jamaica,
K v . iU'k, Other instifutions rep
i< i-fitativi ot Ni's i o colli uc choc
i i-.'t-.'iu U incluih Stan lord UniVPi
i"’, and till- great Robert Brute
ivlsstiua.- noted track star from
'i'oiaie Calif; UCLA and Tame,-:
Uullthuied on patfe kt
( fuwfjcd Docket Ma\
Cause PostjMmement
In (Irtiel Cops (last*
(UliKlflH—A crowded Wake
t iiunty Superior ( i.urt docket
o.aj «eee*N«Ule postponement
m trial in the case in which
lue Wake forest police of
lue- are t harmed with assault
upon four Nejfro residents ot
the Wake County town.
Wake forest Officer C, A,
Walt anil IV. O Knuckles have
tfc.-ii charged with assaulting
lotv colored women and tw o
men, one of them to such a
decree that amputation of a
pistol-shot-wounded leg- was
necesary.
The case was originally
übeduSed lor trial before the
VViilic high court during its
current sesesltm. The extent of
the docket rausese it to appear
that the ease will not he heard
nnth the next seession of the
Superior Count is held here
it ii refs ted- hawevei.
to the campus of the North
Carolina College at Durham last
week, Mr, Katanga It- is shown
here during an interview with
Charles \ Itav. direelor of tho
i x^ot
ill
IN THE FIRST PEN
Cals, in H. Norman, former
president of the Strident Gov
irnmriit Association at North
( arolina College, Durham, has
keen selected by Leader Publi
cations of Beverly Hills, l alii.,
as one ot 1952 s 10 outstanding
college students in the I’nited
Stales. He was the only repre
sentative oi a Negro college so
honored. A war Veteran and
nanied, Norman a native ot
lamaica. V V. was pre-med ma
jor at NCt .
uS^^RIEF
Bo\ \M) GIRL ARE
RI D EEVTHER KIDS
DURHAM A Xcu.ro boy and
i.:irl an two of the "Four Red
Feather KUls'' who will take part,
in the Community Chest campaign
i in i < this yi-fir.
The tty to colored children are
Jessie Parks. Jr., a Boy Scout ..nd
Catherine Burnette, who along
v iiii two white children, will'
rt-.-ik, personal appearance- ure
irc f•>.(!>]»ort of the Chest during
the campaign.
, The .-elections were made here
. Tuesday
111 BUY MAYS MOM
01 SIX. THEN FIFES
REIDSVILLF - Police said here
Tuesday that a 26-year-old worn
, . ti. mother of six children was
; fatally - not by her estranged has-.
band early in the day.
Officer- said one of tin- children .
ii < ported the shooting occurred
about 8.30 a.m., at th< residence j
of the victim’s mother, with whom ;
she had been Uving following sep
I .’.ration
According to officers, the father,
r,iuiit-,(fj 'Thomas, fired three- bul
jUU into the wife, who was. ruaSt-j
(ci to a local hospital but died en 1
route.
Officers have launched an inten- j
tensive- hunt for the husband.
Neighroi - told police that Thom- 1
as jumped into a truck and hastily i
: departed following the shooting j •
CONVICT ESCAPES I
FOR THIRD TIME j,
! STATESVILLE— Theodore Daw- J ■
i son, a convict who escaped from |
'an Alexander County prison camp
. work gang near Scotts Friday is J .
NCC .News Bureau (extreme
right front row). Other students
pictured lali of whom are cur
rently studying at Guilford
College. N. C ar. back row
CHARLOTTE CHIEF BELIEVES RACE
JUDGES WOULD DECREASE CRIME
Negro Jurists, Detectives Would
Also Serve Need, Officers Feels
CHARLOTTE Th, Chief of
Police in this City where the n>-
eu.er,. of murder has sot stunt:
■few yciJis keen the second high
est in the nation is in favor of the
appointment or election of Ne
groes as court judges in an ef
fort to .•triu an < vei -increasing
; row!.a of crime anum.- membi rs
’o! their race.
I'olice t hies Frank N Little
juhn. known widely as one ot
the most efficient law enforce
ment agent .. h, ads in the na
thin, intimated that ne favored
Negro judges in one of a series
of articles published in a to
eat daily newspaper recently
dealing with the city’s hi b
rate of homicides among Ne
groes
FAVORS JURISTS, DETECTIVES
Chief Littlejohn also wve.'iH'i!
that he favors naming of N’e roc-.
t.o juries .and appointment of Ne
gro detectives and policewomen as
other is'f. : native.- thfoouh which
to light the growing menace of
still at largo and prison officials;
have (xpressed the belief that h>-1
has left this part oi the country.!
Dawson was a “C" grade ori
forter at the time of his escape
and was wearing stripes.
This is his third .-scape since
1649. He was convicted of break
i'igr.nd omering and larceny in I
Cumberland County arid war sen- \
Kneed ts) from three to five years, i
In 19-19 he escaped t-hc- Rowan 1
prison camp and v. a.- later aopre- j
bonded Jo Baltimore. He escaped I
the Beaufort County camp and this j
tins- tie vas recaptured in Wash- ;
im-.ton. -j
IT NF.RtI, SERVICES
HELD EOR MINISTER;
CHARLOTTE- Funeral services 1
•er Rev. Robert Milton Mitchell |
Jr., pastor of Stonewall AMF. Zion j
• Church, were hold Tuesday after- ;
noon at 4 o’clock at the St one wall j
church. Rev. Mr. Mitchell died
FAriday at his home 994 N Long j
Street.
The service- were conducted by;
Rev, S. W Hamilton, presiding!
elder of the AMR Zion Church, i
* ssbting ir. the service* were
R. v J. r Clark-, ffev. H D Till- \
man. Rev. G. W. Hunter. Rev. I. I
L. Hoti-tm, Dean ,f. ii. Suffer- !
whit Dr t Van CatHdre Rev. I
-’ E. McCall Rev A NT. Gibson, j
and Rev. F R. Rh-kcy.
Active p.’illbeersr were Rev. i
P. F Tliurstnri, Rev W .1 Row- !
ell Pr-v. N V .la->ev P»v T T.!
Johnson. Pee. J. W Davis, and;
Rev. M. L. Houston. Honorary pull- !
bearers were officers of the Stone- I
wall AMR Zion Church. j
The body lay in state at the j
church from 1 p m until the hour
of the service. After the service,
the body war- shipped to Jasper,
Ala., for burial
Surviving are the widow, two j
sifters, and his stepmother.
trotn left Donald Trom»arore, •
Italy; Oscar Koth<-nhueehcr, j
Germans Kalangolo; and front ;
low As Ifainmagal, India; and !
Anty Vcihejdem, vfix* Vcrbcy
deli is of Belgian ih.e.iU
killing of Negroes by Negroe,-
Thc police head says that he
feels that Negroes as judges,
jurists, policewomen and d<
Peetives, have the advantage »F
being closer to the problems
of the Negro and would there
fore be inclined to avoid len
iency or protectiveness
The scries of ariick - in which
Police Chief Litth-john made !,..-.
observations noted the tact that
th. annuo! tau of khliug of Ne»-
■ gtots by Neg-.rocs nt Chariolte !■
jf t. p«-r itkhOOO as compared to the
natioHa! ■ i.tt oi ~ 4 per 100,00t> poi
' son.- .
! The scries further violet! that
the incidence of homicides among
N" cues s occasioned by loose
narerstal control ove; X. ::c,i yotita.
,' Mie inovitahk- fruit- of life- in
-him-w pr b«u?iri the Umitod fa
. eililies for reel cation and rcligi -
i -o,- euidaiov: the notion held by
•whites liiat ihe jN-'sro is .m-soon
sibie, the p.»v.-n of hi.-, own e*hild
. like aand arovnal in.-tmets and Mie
I extension of this concept to tiv
-1 ~ ... .- . rl . t v,.. :.. *»
courts and enforo men; agencies
In recapitulation, ti,. ><•, i<-.- i
jp tor observation the facts:
I. That Charlolts 1 homicide
rate is a shameful picture, and
one too Lint tolerated and
sense what i ernored.
J. That the need lor re-evaJ
uatinc and perhaps readjusting
iftmUnued on past’ Hi
- -»■. - ... L
--C-. • -'15 s ' oc.y.>.. **
step up the pace as they march
last week. Negro laegrionlitres com- ’..
THE CAROLINIAN
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VGUJMN XI WEEK ENDING SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 1952 RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA NUMBER 42
In N. C. County
rNTERRACIAL VICE
DEATH CLAIMS 4
DURING HOLIDAY,
RALEIGH -- At least four of
North Carolina's 1.3 Labor Day
weekend deaths involved Ne
groes, a survey revealed this
week.
Listed as dead during the ho
liday period were:
Little Clara Mae Alston, i.
of Route S, Essex, who was
fatally injured in an automo
bile accident which occurred
in Nash County.
Major Chapman, a resident
of Charlotte was killed in- *
staidly when struck by an au
tomotiile on a Charlotte street,
Lester Leech. 33, of Robeson
County .was kilted in an au
tomobile accident near bis
home at Pufklon.
Clarence Evans of Charlotte
was reported drowned follow
ing a leap into a swollen creek
near his home town,
MOTIVE FOR LABOR
DAY DEATH SOIOHT
FAIRMONT Police officers
ut e st;ii lookii,-; fin .he motive
behind ih. fatal sbootirm of a 20-
yi. ar-oid odni vd ytn.;k by .*r-.<it;■.• J’
one in a combination hotel-cuft
hen Monday night.
As far as essuld be k-arned,
Aitenuis Thompson wa- tatal-
Iv injured when shot with a .22
calibre pistol by a south iden
tified ws Jaitirs Pierce.
A H’i'nfss to the shooting.
Bill Williams says that when
It ewas about to enter the
hotel-case, Tierce ran from the
building chased by Thompson
anil Slabbed Williams for use
as a shield.
Williams further told offices
that he wrested away from
Tierce who then drew a pis
tol ami fired at Thompson,
still in hot pursuit.
Follow ink the shooting Pierce
made -'.nod an escape and had not
been apprehended at Carolinian
p-esstimr.
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ALERT SOI THER.N
INVESTIGATOR FINDS
UQUOR RING WORKS
N. r, TO NEW YORK
SCOTLAND NECK - The arrest
of a man identified* by ABC of
ficers as the "runner” for a New
York-to-Nurtlv Carolina illicit
whiskey ring, her* last week set
in motion one of the most am- ;
bitious racket-busting operations
. ever launched in the area.
MacFonville. 28. of Brooklyn,
was nabbed •here early last Sat
u: day morning after acting sus-
I piciously and attracting the atten
tion of an ABC officer.
Fonville, who was driving an
ever-sized Cadillac, freely admit
ted a “runner" for the North to
| South whiskey ring after the car
!ht was driving was foun dto be
i hauling 200 gallons of booth g;
j '.v'hiskev
Fonville said that he made rrgu
jlar trips between New Bern, N. C, i
i and New York City with loads o(
! whiskey, pointing out the fact t-hat j
jhe picked up the loads from a
I person he "didn't know" in New
i Bern and delivered it to equally
las unidentified persons on the.
New York end of the run.
I The “don't know nobody" driver
was taken into custody and jailed
here i nliett of SIOOO bond. It is
expected that his efforts to gain
. freedom will help to remove sorm
of the mystery in which the
!whiskey ring has shrouded itself
LOCAL SCHOOLS
! ENROLL 2,740
RALEIGH A total of 2.14(1
; Negro students were enrolled
. In Ruieieh schools on opening
day Tuesday, reports from the
| local schools superintendent
reveal.
Os the total number of stu- j
| dents 1180 are enrolled in the j
elementary and high school i
departments ai Washier*
i ton school: 8M are at Lucille
Hunter School; 596 at Crosby-
Garfield; aud 163 at Glwrltn.
AN Oi l REPEATED SC ENK—
The above scene was repeated
scores of times in Raleigh and
other North Carolina cities and
towns this week as public schools
opened for the current seeassm.
Mrs. Elizabeth Peebles is pic
tured here as she escoretd her
son, Dwight, on his first trip to
the Obf.rlin Schcool at Raleigh
where about 160 students were
enrolled on Tuesday, the open
ing day. A total of 2,4*6 students
enrolled in Raleigh schools and
elsewhere through the state
record numbers of students an
swered the call to places of
learning, STAEFOTO BY
SHIRLEY.
Drive Safely —
School Is Open!
jr - "-' i - •
*1 %y '■ . .. jT
JhHbMKL
KNOWS WHAT BLOOD CAN
DO Pvt. Harry Johnson, a St.
Matthews, S. C., GI now in the
li. S. Army Hospital at Fori
Bragg, knows what a pint of
blood can do. Pvt, Johnson owes
hii iife to tbs. jyersss who don-
BOYS AND GIRLS
OF BOTH RACES
ARE IMPLICATED
Parents ami Others
Involved In Ring
LUMBERTON (Special)
An attitude of "it’s been happen
ing al! the time" was noted here
: ‘ii; week when official announce
ment was made that a sox ring ij.
volvhr: whit, and Negro girls arid
• boy> va- -orating within Roue
! son County.
Tin.* -.ittitudo received a
je-;. .owever. when n V. as noted
thw hat officials considered the
majority of the persons; involved
have been arrested on charges
n iming from prostitution to and
thinugh contributing to tin deUn
. quency oi a minor and carnal
know ledge.
Indication that soawthins,
was amiss was given more
than a year ago when high
was patrolmen discovered
teen-age*-* () f both races "hfv
•!nt sport” in automobile*#:
parked in lonci* stretches a*
Ions; Robeson county roads,
h't lit!-.-, an. invi tiyation, it was
learned that Negro nkn ana
v ..me-! ini lading in on. ease-*-
parents of mini.: girls, at well le
w-hit e me., hav- take apart, in a
profit--v and vice ring in
whicii vo.. • • u: :.uth races par
ticipated.
In indictrm nt* band.d down by
'-be Bo!.h-.-..!i County prand Jury
Tuc-day. Mt.if .Sis;it-:s and his Wife,
Mr- Louise Smith were charged
;ii c, mribuiini; to the dela.-
< Ontimicii on page 6!
HE'S TOPS AS
PLUG-CHEWER
GOLDSBORO, N. C. (A*P)
—Some 'iO.OiXi persons were on
hand last week to witness the
ushering in of G ddsboro s
sivth annual laycee - sponsor*
edFarmers- Day. A high spot of
(he day's activities was th#
winning of the tobacco chew*
nig by a Negro.
The rontest w nner was
.lame* Bailey, Go! boro raj.
dent, lie took the prise over
five other to rite si a . ts, At the
same time he won the right
to compete In the national con
test in September in Danville,
Va.
ated the blood which was placed
in his veins after he suffered an
Injury while fighting on the K»-
tean front earlier this yf«r.
(SEE COMPLETE STOEY PAGE.
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