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
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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
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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.