WOMAN SLAIN IN NfTE-CLUBs OWNER CHARGED
Trail Os Violence Follows “Framers” Os Race Medic
MYSTERY FME HITS SCHOOL
Cl A A EXCLUSION OF TEAMS IRKS PATRONS
By I.IN HOLLOWAY
RALEIGH - When the Central
Intercollegiate Athletic A.-sociaium
ICIAA* Kie nation ." oldest colored
collegiate athletsc conference, re
fused to permit two recognizably
'■eligible" colleges to parti' n re
in it-, activities during sessions
held at Washington last w*-< tie
The Stale-iii Brief,,.
4 If ACMKVKitim
mmms usji:d
RALEIGH Miss Nancy M
Li-we and Clai i-riee WaUinHtun.
both ol G utlioi d County, have
been named achievement cham
pions u, tii, statewide cont, -i fm
Negro 4 11 Club members mark
ing the fnrt time any county has
t.;i:en both tup honor*.
The achievement awai-.C plus
alio:h--t \\m fur Wellington in trie
Held crops were -announced by
tii, stall- -11 Chub of Pee here this
week Titbit records will be ei>-
tiied m the national contest
To win the achievement awards,
the two hail to excel i hi then
over-all 4 11 Club projects.
Mis.-; Lowe.-. projects have net
ted a labor profit of $3,226.9) dur
ii,K the past five years and Wal-
Imgton s proji-ct have netted ‘him
a labor protil of $4,030.12.
"Laboi ’ profit includes amount
saved by the club member m do--
mg rus oi h.-i uvvn work.
VIAN, :ir,. HIM) ON
ASSAH.T ACCOI NT
WILSON George Burse, a lo
cal resident, 33. is being held t»
the Wilson city jail lor criminal
c l vault i;n Mis.-. Annie Neal. 22
The assault allegedly took place
inday night Miss Neal told ol
hft-ithat Bu: e came to her
i.Ot.Stl th.it eight Ulid tl.'.lved it
anyone was iLer* \V ; io ; Id ti.at
■ veryonr was: gone lie forced ms
.. - into the liOuai .
Tfit- mats struck the woman on
the jaw witn a sock filled with
and the act then reportedly
took place on a single Led that'
v, j - in the -house Officers report
that the victim was seriously hurt
by hei assailant.
liur.se is being iield without pri-
Vl.etje ut bond
WOKE I MJIKW VV ON
SCHOOL VI II WHET
ilAiillT Work was started
here last weekend on the hew :
.Monroe Av- hue Hi. h School for
Negro student.-, Cor: bunion is by
the Jesse P Hnilt-r company ol j
RoCkin&Lain.
A low bid of $1(54.456 for this
worn was approved last week by
the State be:,rd of education
Dr. Charles F Can oil. Stale
Superintendent of Pubhc Instruc
tion, said that the Sun- appropri
ated $128,265 17 toward expenses of
the school Other costs are to come
Tom local funds
GIFTS NEEDED KOI!
HOSPITAL PATIENTS
GOLDSBORO Christmas gifts
for patients at the State Hospital
tor Negro Insane in Goldsboro are :
now being solicited by Chaplain j
J Si Brown and Recreation Di
rector Charles P. Batten.
Hospital Superintendent Dr Si a
C, Long said that while many ol
the patients " ill receive gifts from
idatives, a number of others will
not receive any gifts at ail unless
ii ter-acted individuals c-r org.-miza- .
lions eotih ibute them Os the 2,tkki
patients at the hospital, there are
about 65 children unde: 16.
Clothing - especially hosiery »~
would be -particularly appreciated
by the patients, Dr Long said.
Gifts will be given out at a
party in the ‘hospital chapel on ,
Chi i' tmas Eve.
Recreation Director Batten said
gifts should be addressed: "Gifts
to Patients State Hospital, Golds- !
boro." and should he marked whe ‘
ther tnev are for men or women.
CHILD,Tin JHRKD
BY MOVING AI TO
HENDERSON Alien Edwards, j
8, being treated at Jubilee Hos- ;
pita) thw: week for injuries sus- j
tamed when struck by a car u,
front of his home on NO 39 last
Friday afternoon.
The State Highway Palroin i'i
who investigated, reported the |
youngster r»n our into the high-1
way and was hit, by a 1953 Pontiac j
driven by Samuel Moody, white
oi .Rouie l, Manson No charges |
war* preferred. _, »
loop incurred the wrath i.-rd only,
;oi those attacked to those colleges
but also that of th« Negro "Sports
Fan In General" throughout the
mid-South area serve! bv tin con
t'< rente.
Sport;: Lins me contending that
the Cl AA, m te.iin: to consider
application. t < i: Kayett-viH'-
'■ ■ ;
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' 2HF- ■ v -SB
M-fimm-L fc, j mmsm k
MEBANE MARINE AWARD
ED PURPLE HEART Marine
Corporal Earnest A. fate, whose
wife, Mrs. Elise late, tics at
Route ! Box Alt-bane, \C\
is pi t--t nti d the Purple Heart
-Vfeda| tiy ills < omitiautling offi
ce! t i (ol inthony ( aplitt ,
for wounds tcceivctl in action
against Chinese < ommuiiixt lor
ies in Korea, tpi late is the
sen of Mrs Atherta Show »j
Washing ton DC ilt is .t tire
team leader serving vvilli the Se
venth Marine Regiment of the
1 usi Marine lliv esion
HAMLET SCHOOL
HIT OT MYSTERY
FIRE AT NIGHT
Origin Os $12,000
Blazu IV'Khlerv: Fast
Work Saves Buihitit**
v.
ITA.ML.EST A tiro of myster-
[ i<us origin swept thlough a Ne
gro .school building here last
T ursday night leaving damages
■ Miniated ,d $12,600 in its wake
Razed the halocaust w Inch
struck early in the night was the
j Capital Highway School, which, as
' iis'lt <4 the fire. v. ill require par
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Protests Versus New Bible
Result of Ignorance Says
Raleigh Minister on Radio
RALEIGH 'a local minister
; this week took a “side-handed"'
ciavk at rc'li.acuis fanatics who
~it makim spt-ctacles of them
■ selves by denouncing the new Re
vised Standard Version of The
Bible by labeling them persons
who ignorantly critieikod the
iem nesl efforts of those who have
! Driven to help" in the fuller i.m-
I • h-rsiariding of t’Ne WnlU-n Word
Making the "crack" was the
Rev. Doe ar d Cunning ham.
pastor of Raleigh’s 1 ‘rsl f on
gregationai Church who told
a radio audience Sunday morn
ing The Bible is one of the
lew hooks which should be
chewed and digested" . , with
out regard so version or any
other such minute aspect,
fiev. Mr Cunningham made his
j observation during the Sunday'
• brc-adcas! of the local Chordsmen
'•horns obviously in reprimand of
a white Rocky Mount minister
! who recently garnered front-page
| newspaper space throughout itie
n Hlloti L*Wr' V* *»f v» D ft fx D rv. • ‘‘\ f t’lb -f* i
Rt vised Standard Version of The
Bible before a pitiably poor g»
the ring before he church, aftei j
procotmdng the version a "hand- 1
i. i Teachers College and Mary
land State College 'formerly Prin
cess Anne College) is fosteHng
an attitude Fused on tradition ra
ther than merit.
The fans who have been making
their stand in the matter known
ii, a ound-the-s'ovo conversations,
letter.; - to - the - editors” end
‘HUMILIATION’ j
CAUSES SUIT
AGAINST RR FIRM
SJ O.OOO Sought R\ ;> 1
In Suit Against RR 1
Company For jinn row j
NORFOLK A North Carolina-J
woman is among five Negroes who ; 1
Hied suit her last week against! J
tin- Seaboard Airline Railroad for i I
‘•humiliation" resulting from their i 1
having been forced to accept uni- I
t-rovv accommodatiom- on trains 1 I
operated by the company
The five are asking SIO,OOO in
their action
They claim injured feelings, hu- .
1 miliation .wounded pride and in- 1
: dignities ' *
In l-.ie I suit Hu live -aid liny! f;
Wore passengers abi-ard the Palm *
laid, a Seaboard train, having; |
boarded the lium at various ; 1
on its New Turk to Florida •on |
Inst month t
Ttic; ..tat, they were allow-d to |
sit it- comfortable mixed ears until.
: they arrived at Jacksonville when |
they were made ny u conduc'or
to move into a "dirty, cold cm |
without ventilation or toilet ta
-1 ilities.
Tti, plaintiffs Include Miss Anne
L.oiiitts of l.iiicolntiui. N C
WIKE ( LEARED OE
It! Dll IN DEATH I
FAYP IT E Vll ■l. K A Cumber
land County eoronef’s jury last
Monday nie/.it cleaied Mrs Fan
nie Huston, 30, of Hope Mills ol
• all blame in the Novem’oei 29
shooting of her husband. D:rf;ife.
34
Evidence indicated Boston had
r< un neu to his home from a "hog
killing’' and had threatened to kill
hi-, wife and theii 13-year-old .son.
lie reportedly grabbed up a
t-.,( and ins wife attempted to
,iht- vveai 'Oil away from ,iiu
fjui 'ml the scuffle the pistol Lied
and Boston fell dead with a bullet
>.- -uir,c! in in left chest.
DR. COZAKT.Np._6
Violence Has Hounded Men
Who Testified Against MD
i FUQLJAY. N. C Repercussions
!■ «f an attempt to persecute Dr. J B
s Davis, prominent Negro physician
- here, by labelling him with an a
btortion several years ago, shroud
tolo of the Devil”.
In his radio talk, based on "The,
Bible" m general. Rev. Mr Cun-!
(( ontimicd on pag-' 5i
Wf ‘
I . - XimsM
REV. CSUJiNINOHAM
, . , Supports Bible
'other manners this we. x feel that!
if the Cl A A must retain the 16-j
school format that it has carried
during the past decade-plus, it j
should at least make certain that I
the 16 member-teams an repre-!
sent.it ve of the esteem the loop l
enjoys nationally.
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08 Fl< EKS OF INTFJUt \C’E
GROY’P J. H, Wheeler, Dur
ham hanker lawyer - business
man .and J. K Larkins, Negro
consultant to (tie slate Board of
Public Welfare, are among the
ofieers of the newly - activated
NT Division of the Southern Re
gional Council. Mr. Wheeler >-
the treasurer of the group and
Nlr Larkins is vice - chairman.
The group is the outgrowth of
Ike now-disbanded NC < oiiunis
sion lor innriacial Cooperation,
.si 1 STOltVi
ed the -laying of Fuquay Doctor-;
Mayor. W S. Cozart. as memories
: foretold that he was the sixth per
son to meet the tragedy of un
timely ch-atli since t-he abortion
trial.
The sixty-year-old mayor who!
was shot at his desk Friday, al-;
legediy by a twenty-four-year-old j!
Negro who claimed that the doc- j,
tor "put a spell on him.” is be- j
iu.'ved to have engineered the con- |t
vn-tn.n oi Dr. Davis for abortion i.
Five other persons who testified
against Dr. Davis during the hear. I.
ing and trial preceded Dt Cozart |
in death.
I'aiice officer ,le(eus K Jones
a witness against Dr. Duv»s.
lost his son in an airplane
crash the next day after hi*
testimony on the witness stand, ;
and dropped dead from un
known c auses while working
in his garden three months lat-
Shotgun Woui
Woman In N
WILSON A nitc-Club owner |
wiUi an itchy trigger finger is sac- !
ing charge- this week in the shift-1
gun slaving of a woman patron,
he alleged was trying to "raise
sand" >n his establishment last]
week.
Cecil Junes, proprietor of the
Airport Supper Club near here is
charged with shooting and fatal
ly injuring Miss Susie B. Lucas I!
of Elm City at the supper club! j
iusi Friday night anti is to to* • .
given preliminary hearing on 1 1
Monday, December 22
Club-owner Jones allegedly kill- j;
mi Mu Lucas with a 'shotgun after ’ i
THE CAROLINIAN
IOC \ ]OC
| voirxn WKfiß’Wt)?N , rt""sATl : t{t)AY DKC’fcMBER 20, J9!>2 ttA 1 Mr, I CAROIjTRC^WSfHKO
COURT TO ORDER
JC‘ ABOLISHED?
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| Commission Joined
Regional Council
i
RALEIGH A spokesman be
fere North Carolina s foremost
j group designed fer the purpose
of bettering racial relations con
tended last week that the end <>l‘
segre.ajition in the nation e jOh
j sequent.
i "The U S. Supreme Court’s de
; cision will ultimately be against
■ segregation if not now. a de
cade from now,’ declared Marion
VViight, Lmville Falls lawyer, in
a penal discussion Saturday at the
first annual meeting of the North
' Carolina Division of fie southern
Regional Council, at Eden ton
Sheet Methodist Church Eighteen
(persons attended the meeting
This group succeeds the old
N"ith Carolina Communion on In
terracial Cooperation Guy John
son of Chapel Hill presided over
the stssion. A feature was the
Rev. Leon Russell ol Greenville
■ejection of officers
■was elected chairman; J H Lar
kins ol Raleigh, fir -1 vice chair
: mar,; C. II Hamlin, Wilson, see
; end vice chairman; J 11 Wheeler,
Durham., treasurer, and Johnson,
GtG'retu rv
‘There is one thing which we
in the South should not do if the
i court’s decision is against segrega
i tion," the speaker said "We should
i not, by evasion arid subterfuge, at
tempt, to evade to any extent the
ti ll consequences of that decision.
I believe intelligent and
forward-looking men through
out the world will be in our
corner it vie accept the deep
sion with that respect which
men should always have lor
(Continued on tiage S»
er.
Fatropuan Greenburg, who
gave information in an at
tempt to l‘nk Dr. Davis with
the abortion of a Negro wom
an, was run out of town for
attacking a Negro girl
; Allegedly both doctors on the j
i Medical Board, who quizzed Dr i
| Davis, with intention of incriminkt-j
i -<ng him and revoking hislicensej
i died suddenly about four months,
i after the hearing
Deputy Sheriff Tom Rogers who!
i had a hand in the case against
jDr Davis also met with an un-!
| timely death through a serious!
i illness that lasted only a few
! weeks.
It is reported here that one or:
I two other persons who had aj
: hand m the prosecution of Dr. j
' Davis shudder wUh fear,a fear;
| that stalks as the Black Death, j
(Continued on' page 5)
nds Fatal To
lite-Club Fuss
f pushing her with the barrel of j
! the gun. It went off without hi.m;
I pulling the trigger, he says. Jones
, related in this story that Miss
! Lucas and some friends went to
I his place Friday night, a fight
! started, and he was trying to
break it up when the shooting
took place.
The victim died a few hours!
later in a local hospital and Jones j
gave himself up Saturday mom-!
nig to officers after learning of *
the death.
He is being held hi the county ;
jaii without privilege of bond prior j
to next Monday’s hearing. 1
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LEWIS' KIN AND HOME --
Parents of Linwood Lewis, al
doctor slayer, with two
Navy Vet Back In Asylum
After Allegedly Shooting
Doctor Who “Jinxed” Him
MvyM.afrfltfNv Kswiwik: -'"W: ’
LYNWOOD LEWIS
• « . Accused ol Murder
of their eleven children as phot
graphed by CAROLINIAN pho
tographer following interview
Pictured also is (he home In
YOUTH STILL REFUSES TO SAY HE
KILLED FU9UAY MAYOR-PHYSICIAN
By LEON l. LEWIS
j FUQUAY, N C. The picture,
of hi*- bleak house above, the
! mother, father and two little -is
■ tors of Linwood Lewis, who is.
; lodged behind the barred windows
: of the State Hospital in Goldsboro
i puzzied over the charges against
■ him for the gun slaying of Dr
! W S. Cozart here last Thursday,
j offers no clearing of the mystery j
i that surrounds t-he case
! Located about two miles from
• the scene of the tragedy on the
i Lester Scott farm, the house was ;
j getting its daily cleaning, as the;
! father, Jake Lewis slowly drew
i water from the aged well, pvopar-,
ing for a hog-kiinnc last tsaiur-i
, day. "I just don't know what to i
; think," he said m an, evident pon*
] der.
1 The eider Mr 1 Lewis stated L*a; i
which the* lewis’ live two miles
smith of t'nquay -Vafina. N. t'. •
phohw by shirlcy. i
1A i l wood asked him early Thurs
day if there was enough gas m
the ear lor him to go into town
Ht -aid he gave X.iuwood the keys
to the eat ■
"He didn't seen; to be HP
set or unusually disturbed user
anything when he drove away
Un never uikt-d much »-
land himself or Isis condition
since he «as discharged from
the navy," the father related.
Both father and mother said
they never felt ho would harm
anyone; but something was troub
ling him. "He complained about
•his lips and head hurting all the
tune, and went to the doctor fre
quently tor some type of treat
ment,” ; he mother, Mrs. CteUa
Lewis, said
The parents said... that lAttwcod
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