Where Klein Threat Failed where cross blazed I'idurtil is tlit* residence of Wai st r Sanders, Jr., before which a cross was burned last we<-k --e(til in an effort to stare Mr, PRAYING WIFE BLUDGEONED TO DEATH BY IRATE HUBBY WIFE, BACK FROM DANCE, SLAIN AS SHE PRAYS Husband Kills Wilt*. Sets House Afire. Washes t p, Leases GIUvLNSRQRO -A Mount 'Tabm i mother of two children came home i front a dance on Easter Monday night. undrassed and knelt down beside he • *• dto - *. ; t-rs",' She never arose from h> r • kneeling position, tier head was! u. in by hummer allegedly ! weilded by sc.*, husband ns sb -■ prayeci The husband then set fire! to Uits mattress upon which she knelt, polio* say Georgr Ingram. JO. is brine held at local jail here this vitek pending the bringing of charges against him lor the al irged murder of his 27-year old wife, Mrs. Mary Beatrice Ingram. Acc'-rding to police, in.:,earn, a textile woi ker. smai-.ted his wife's 1 head with n machine hammer as -e niyi-ti and than set the house« I i i t ' . Investigators further say that the man calmly washed his bands in the kitchen of their four room home at Mount la bor, tossed die hammer away and then left the house be fore the tire could lie discov ered. Mrs Ingram s body, the h cad r»-siting near the spot where the fire was ■ ignited on the mattress,; was discovered early Tuesday | morning by firemen who went in* ■ tv the house to fight the flames which had gained headway and at- ; traded the attention of neighbors ! The lire had spread !o the walls and the ceiling of the bedroom v. the firemen arrived. Charges are to be made against Ingram during the week, it was revealed. The Ingrams are parents daughters aged ? and 11 vein-:. Lead Pipe Death Weapon; One Held WINSTON-SALEM- -Paul Adams ; ol 1436 Blast Fourteenth Street. do d in Kate Billing Reynold Hospital Tuesday night some 20: hour.-; alt' t his skull was crushed bv a blow from a lead pipe. Officer said they would charge ltusvoe Frost of Fin y Grow with nutrtlei Aceotdm to of fie*' is, Frost cun ts, ted police al 1:30 a.m. Monday and iniu mod them that he had "bealen , p Adams and his wife. Mrs. (,*ra Fro-* t.. when it- learned; that thev had been seeing each other frequently. Frost ado that he met the pair on a street corner and struck both, of tioTn v. ; th a piece of pipe. Adai ■ knocked unconscious bv lb,, bow. ■as taken to the Imspi tai bv aml.Tt.lanee. Adams died , w re. aiding consciousness. Ilos.Jtt.'il attendants said that i> , t;» ( |c nine si itches to close a wound; on the top ui (lie woman's head.! She was released from the hospi- j tsl .fter fast aid treatment OiTo-rw vho originally signed & v. a« rant charging two counts of St;• suit with a deadly weapon, said that one of the w;,rants would be , chang'd to murder. Police -aid that Junior Lee Mar-j tin, rv.V of 1101 l North Trade St,! was shot to death Saturday night ] in an argument over a $1.75 debt., The accused slayer was identified as Theodors B. Crosby, 31 of lieu. Oak Street _ i "orb ,x .into withdrawing' from (tie race fur election to the Smithfield, N( Town Board of < ninmissiuners. ihe cross, was burned beside the shrub at tin 1 THE CAROLINIAN VOL. XII IIA LEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1053 NO. 20 Violence Mars Holiday Death Takes No Holiday Thru State RALEIGH—-Vioence wa- ori -hand to play a role in the observance <>jt Ka.-tcr holidays by colored citl r-.'ns of North Carolina, investiga tion by the CAROLINIAN News v.twork points out this week Here in brief is a resume of the role that violence pursued duping tiie long holiday week-end 4-Year-Old Boy Is Killed By Car v. LIN LON "A 4-year-old boy, Lay mono .Junior Corbett was kill ed las' weekend when struck by - ear driven, police said, bv Hen s'' Stewart Clement, .111. of Route 2, Clinton, b'oiico said the accident occurred three miles southeast of hero Two Killed in Auto Yfishap \i Shelby SHELBY Two persons were killed on a highway west of here near Muorestoro when the car hi which they were riding skidded out of control and clipped ofi a telephone pole Friday, Police identified one of the dead as John SLanev 45. believed to be iroin Black Mountain, Also dead ■ .is an unidentitied woman about '■Hi years old. , .T B. Staley, ridiny in the tar was uninjured, Sund av Night Slayer Fares Charges CHARLOTTE L)avul Thacker, a Charlotte resident, was bound ov er to Superior Court on a *na»- -k: tighter charge Tuesday in the MOtgun death of Gene Grover Bennett, a Greensboro man, Sun day nirht. > Testimony at the hearing was that B' nnelt went to the Thackm home and threatened the tifu ul Thacker and his wife. Woman Injured In .Automobile Crash WINSTON- SALEM —Mrs. Geneva Brooks. 38. of Kernersville. receiv ed chest injuries Monday in a two ear collision on Thirteen and one haif Street at Cleveland Avenue oolice reported. She was admitted to Kate Bit tCONTINUED ON PAGE 81 nil o» me walkway leading to the porch ot the house located en North Fifth Street in Smith field.— ST A 1-TOTO lit SHIR LEY. (See Story.t Seek Election To Concord Boards - ail *” . FIRST TO OFFER IN THEIR t ITlES—These two men are first Negroes to seek public office in die citv of Concord. N. C, A. T. t'ordery, shown at left, is seek ing election to the Concord Hoard of Aldermen while Rev, I! M Coley is seeking election ' to tin Hoard of Education. Mr. Corderc is, at present business manager of Barber-Scotta Col lege and Rev. Coley is pastor Asheville Y Secretary Is Rallied To (BY STAFF F REPORTER) ASHEVILLE - This newspaper ! learned this week that Asheville | citizens are not taking the* dismiss iwl of the executive secretary of ■ their YMt'.’A "laying down". Local j citizens have already begun to i, circulate a petition protesting the J i firing of Hugh A. Johnson from ! tile YM post because he stroke out ] : :.m;dnst segregation and dlscruni-1 'nation in this resort city. 1 Some 500 names had by Monday j been signed to a petition asking 1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8) CANDIDA TE DEFIED ‘KLAN’ \ Negro Vote Denial Indicated In Sisithfield.N. C/s Primary Itchy-fingered W atchman Faces Charges At Raleigh K.-.I.FHiU The vl,i *. night Watchman ;:t ;. local coll---. who b'ca-i.e input-r-happv when a • X- i- man apparently intoxient : n . dnrnhh'd iut-> hi-- domain .sack ing aiu. ..a c-t.-n charged ill; »* -Suit oy tin 1 victim <»i In itclrv •i:u: rod’ 01 gy ”1 the First Congregational Church. Both candidates are Raleigh Links Club Pu Mw¥' IffizMSSk# \ f ''^ , 'vySj: -> ju jfeLaßL . i j PRESENTS LIKE TIME MEM j BEK SHIP TO NAACP—The Ra- ; | leigh chapter of the National ; | Links, liu*. climaxed the eelebra- . j lion of Us fourth anniversary's j reception oa the West Campus '■ S F Wcniicll. a-in - night watch* 1 .r.iii Peace Coilegv shot six or .i.-’-',-n time: at Odell Cooke Wake y < mty re.-idem on the morning -) March IT ■ hen Cooke report •Jiv lookin.a tor a place from which in ,al| j taxi-cab to take hi'n home, lumbered onto the c.f backed by the Civic Improve- j merit League. ; of Shaw University last Sunday I by presenting a SSOO cheek to j cover a lifetime membership to ! the NAACP. State president of j | the NAAC’F. Kelly Alaxander of j 1 Charlotte, above accepts the lege campus. Most of WodeJl'- 1 j snots hit the 30-year-old victim, • placing him as a patient in Sail# ,'Agues hospital here until fast | veek-end. In preliminary investigation. : i Woodell was cleared of blarnc ini (C ONTiNTnen on pack »i Two Seeking Sanford Post SANFORD Two Negroes are seeking t-1 < • c-1 io 11 to the Sanford i Board of Aldermen .becoming the *’J-t candidates of their race to • vt-r seek election to public cost in local election.'- it wa? nnnounc :' d here last \\ eek. The two Negro candidate* are the Kev, .1. Wesley Groves .nut Itobert Anders, both of whom wish election to tlie- al ! dermanic group from the pre dominately Negro - populated I Fourth Ward. Tin two Negro candidates are ! being opposed in the race for the | Fourth Ward seat by two white men. T. A. Bakei and Reece Lem j oiid, ■ Sanford is promised a spirited | race t'oi its May 5 municipal elec j lion with a grand total of 20 can ; didates seeking seats from the city’s seven wards Two candidates ! are running for mayor also RETIRED WOMAN PRINCIPAL INTO CHARLOTTE RACE j CHARLOTTE—A Nvgro woman j with some i>o years of experience (in the field of education is seek-, ling election to the City School ' Board in the forthcoming munici j pa! elections. ; Mrs. Emma R. Anderson was en do’sed by the powerful Citizens i Committee for Political Action | here in her quest foi election to ! the school' governing group, j Subject to nomination in the Ap j' il 27 primary. Mrs. Anderson is I a retired iocal school principal, ; whose experience has bridged a j half century. NEORO FILES IN SELMA RAGE FOR ELECTIVE POST j SELMA— For If: ■ •' rst time in] recent history, a Negro is seeking ( (election to local public office A shoe shop operator, R Erie Colev iast week filed as. candidate for election to the town board of commissioner j j in the forthcoming elections (In announcing his candidacy. Mr i Coley noted that he was not seek ing election to the town govern- j jmg group a.-; a representative of; j any particular group, but that, he aspired the post in an effort jfc, be able to servo all the people. [ The political picture began tak- I (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8) i irchases SSOO NAACP Membership | • . ■ '■> ' s '* "WSHBI - > • «>•*«»<.**»*<Wl» *aftH6 y t&jpzzSilbfr j&y*StF<ffr 'juL sgjgp -g Jaf lift i^t, jfw-- ig ?<v £o*f«s -4sb|B»<. (? * ir® &, » iMHh jjflMßßcf * lip* 3E jL» JL '.{lkjßF JL' ? * *®%HHii JHHL« ; i : *• *‘i 'fejft W* W -.- ■•: mM, & * Cl mi B &*J IjWmMKk >f] |it —» i ftf s 1 j wmHMB ||,||| I ■ ® 111 ■■y&wcik %KMnRaUi HHHHHHV <4Mh It .w. .jSb iU 1 - BKBMMRHBBflfflWKnfcftSSßßtfliyt^ membership check from Raleigh Links’ president, Mrs. Mildred Otey Taylor, Looking on ati ! members of the chapter. This | membership includes Mesdames Taylor. Dora Otey, Llzsie Cou Defied KKK Warning S»|SS3S!SuaKi tgMgKNgS’ ) DEFIES KLAN WARNING— Walter Sanders, Jr.. Smithfield , funeral director, defied a warn | ing of possible Ku KHix Klan origin last «eek and remained | in the Smithfield race for a seat I NCSolons Show Concern As Supreme Court Ruling On JC Schools Come Dm j RALEIGH—At least two of North ] Carolina's law-mat *.-r,s attending * ! the Legislature in session here, are' • j somewhat concerned about what l the state will be able to do if tie \ United States Supreme Court t should hand down a decision fav-; joring abolition of segregation in I public education in cases it is now | pondering. | The time that the high tribunal iis taking in .studying the issue of ! segregation in public education i j causing the Speaker of the House' jof Representatives no little worry : Candidate Loses As Vote Denial Arises By STAFF WRITER SMITHFIELD -• Even though, j Siiiithfietd’.s KKK-thteatened and otherwise embattled first Negro !candidate for public office receiv jed more votes than the total cast' |by Negroes in this town's Easier: j Monday primary, there was con crete evidence found bv this news j paper here this week that not only | was the candidate, Walter San* j ders, Jr., intimidated, but that the. i town’s Negro voters were also ; subjected to alleged vote denial Mr Sanders, manager of a local funeral home, received 125 votes in the Monday polling in which a | total of 963 voters voters partici pated to come in lasi in a field of 10 persons seeking election to the ; Board of Commissioners. He had ; n fused to leave the race even though a cross, trademark of the Ku Klux Klan. was burned before: ! his home last weekend and lie (received a note warning him to sttuiH, Chloe Laws, Ruby Fisher, | Louise Perrin, Louise MeUlen j nan, Gertrude Harris, Maude i B&ss, Marguerite Cook, Minnie ! freeman. Mamin McCauley, Ame -1 list Hamlin, Belle White Julia De- on the Town Board ot Commi* stutters fci en though lie was (if f rated at the polls during: Ui Taster .Monday primary voting Sir. Sanders' resolute fight w r oi tor him much admiration.—Sta foto •Speaker th, T Bust of (’a burn ('■■■ims. si.. .•.king of the tbri cases before the Supreme Court which abolition of segregation public schools is Mu- primary fa tor says: “For a while I was hop*tul. 1 thought they would deride to let the situation stand as It w, but they've waited so long t» hand down a decision. It looks bad to m>- and I'm afraid they will decide against segregation, Gordon IVtaddrey. chairrnun i (( ONTINUEB ON PAGE 8) withdraw irorn the race , j Investigation b,y this newspajx '•wealed that the cross-burnir was possibly not only dc-signt to frighten Mr, Sanders from V; 'race, but was also meant to thin ' a scare into Smithfieki’s Nefii voters. ; Evidently tiie tactics used by Mr. Sanders' foes bore fruit, because of tiie 450-odd eligible voters listed on the book* a* having taken part in previous elections, a count made at poll* here Monday showed that only loti east ballots in the primary, Mr Sanders’ plight possibly r< ceived consideration from othei than of his own race In that tb mial number of votes he- receive as 19 more than the number of N< g.oes voting. Further Investigation by this publication pointed uu the fact that some few Negroes who (CONTINUED ON PAGE Hi I lany. Nan luborden, Geraldbae I Trigg, Ernestine Hamlin and too- I bei Clark. Also looking on is j Raleigh’s branch NAACP Prod : dent. Charles .Jones, —CAROI-iN . IAN PHOTO R¥ HINTON.

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