N. C. Numbers Racketeers Sentenced
WJ)MA]±EYEWnmSS ASKS . . j
Did Death Os 2 Men In
Gas Chamber Really Pay
Their Debt To Society?.....
(EDITOR’S NO IK: As iar us
CouJd be determined, the "cov
erage" of the executions of Ra
leigh Speller and Clyde Brown
- ii> the. lethal chamber at the
Central Prison, Raleigh, mark !
fd the first time that a Negro
woman reporter has accepted
«teh uii assignment in the
Slate of North Carolina or
elsewhere in the nation. Wo
men have her »t speciatois at
By Shirley Delany
RALEIGH Was society actu
ally paid a penalty as the lives ot
two men were snuffed out in the
i.ethai Chamber last •Friday roc r fl
int at Central i ii-o.:'
“I -at i: the question Fiat ran.
through n:;. mind a . with twenty-
Lur other witnesse. i oi>:.i*rveo
the t»x<- uiuui of Raleigh Speller!
and Clyde Brown, convict* J ra
pist:;.
Alt hour*: i Brown had made a
clean confession of his K till. Spell-;
t-r maintained his innocence to the ;
end. it was Speller who was first;
Jed into the execution chamber j
clad only in white underwear'
shorts, and strapped to one of the;
two large oaken chairs that stood |
aide by side in the small otherwise!
empty room. To his body was tap-j
ed a stethoscope Mat was to la - j
ter recoid his weakening heart j
heat.
Surprisingly relaxed, and obvi- j
ottslv lone since resigned to his fate {
the condemned f>i -yr.-oid man man- j
aged to nod his head in recogni
tion of one of the spectators as hr--
Their Vigil Was Also Hopeless j
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Persons and groups represent
ing the NAACP. an affiiiate
union of the American federa
tion of Labor, and the Quakers
world peace movement waited
at North Carolina Stale Capitol
at Raleigh last Thursday night
and Friday morning for news of
executive clemency announcing
stays of execution for Raleigh
News Os The Carolinas in Brief 1
LONG SENTENCE
IS GIVEN MAN
RALEIGH- Marshall Adams, .23.
Os T.ifi Fayetteville Street here ■; as
sentenced to from eight to ten
years in Wake Superior Court
Tuesday. Adams was convicted of
armed robbery and assault wiTft
a deadly weapon iviCi Intent to
kill. He was charged with shoot
ing R. Cliff Bagwell, 2ft, in the
lower part of the stomach on flic
night of May 9 while robbing a
store at winch the victim was .em
ployed. Adams was identified'
the assailant by Mrs. Lillie Pearce
who operates the Friendly Grocery
at 907 S. Blount St. However, Ad
ams steadfastly denied his guilt.
NOVI PRESIDENT
NAMED TO GROUP
DURHAM--W. .1. Kennedy, Jr,
president of the N. C Mutual Life
Insurance Company here has been
named a member of the board of
directors of the United Fund of
Du; iarn.
Tite occasion marks the fir."
time that a Negro has been named
to the executive committee of
the group The Fund is newly or
ganized in the city.
MINISTER REPENTS,
MISSES SENTENCE
• GREENSBORO-A minister who
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executions, but in ail eases for
which records were available,
they were cither relatives of
the "victims'' of the person or
persons faring execution or
were persons merely manifest -
in? a curiousiiy us to the pro
cesses and proeeedures involv
ed in the taking of a life by
I e “"u I means. I hi* following
i**i v crage m.is assigned)
, faced h;s doom.
’J he prison attendants then es- \
coned 22 vi.ar i.i.i Brown ,;iuu
i..;.iv clad - iiiti> tlie ey- r:!liOr
ehumcei With eyv rust un- I
ward a if it cuiistant prayer he
was •t; ipped to the chair which \
m-rien.ii.ed : i- death m payment
I f*u- to • crime which he had »*<>:>
ie.va.-a ivl;»«<». that left only the j
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Speller and Clyde Brown which
never came. Brown and Speller
were executed -on schedule .. .
Friday morning. At upper right
is the Rev, David Andrews of
near Greensboro, Quaker mini
ster, who took vigil on the Capi
tol steps Thursday morning in
protest of the executions. Above
Is a group from Durham which
includes Nathaniel B a r n e s.
;-':ad a "change of heart" and re
| turned monies received when he
i stole and forged five $25 defense
j bonds war. let off with a fine in
i federal Middle District Court here
This week.
‘! The Rev. Hooker T. Howard of
i S plan College told presiding' Judge
J Johnson J. Hayes that he paid
; ] back $101.25 proceeds from c.n
t! bonds. The Judge fined the "re
i j deemed" minister S3OO,
PUPILS ESCAPE AS
:| EIRE HITS SCHOOL
. | GREENVILLE, S. C -Sixty pu
rl pits escaped injury and with their
. I three teachers passed in an order
ily manner out of a school which
j :iad*’emight .ire hen Tuesday.
I A ‘.passer-by noticed flames on
jihe roof of the Bakers Chapel FJ
jementary School on Old Piedmont
j Highway near here and warned
Jihe persons inside who were just
!about to begin another day’s wS?ft
i | Volunteers were able to save
i j nearby properties, but efforts to
; | salvage any of the school’s posses
[jsiotis from the five proved futile.
;| Execution
Sidelites
by ynjitucv
* | RALEIGH The other assi«n
--; merit I had at. Central Prison here
J -was not nearly so "confining” as
| the one Friday. Here last year,
* I ctm tinned on Ta»e 8
! Women Also Draw j
| Stiff Penalties, Fines I
SPECIAL TO CAROLINIAN
j GREENS BO HO As trials for ;
persons arrested and charged with '■
. participation in Lie butter and!
; eggs’ numbers lottery got under-j
! way here Monday. Federal Middle!
District Court Judge Johnson J. j
Hayes was indiscriminate in met- j
out his l*-! ms He tsamieci j
; women just u-i stiff sons dices as
! %’ rave V'” .r' fna!*' % ’
One woman v.*:r :fivcn a 2-vr-ar i
He Waited
In Vain
1 Jfj
I
- - -
( N.-VACP officer and Jesse Turn
er, officer of an AFL-affiliate
union. The Durham group staged
a midnight march on the Capi
tol in an effort to urge Gov W,
B. (.'instead to stay the exeeu- J
tion.s. Gibers in the Durham j
group are Mesdames Barnes and i
Turner, Frank Turner, and Mrs. j
Rosemond Wagstaff. j
BANKER HEARD AT
1 POOL DEDICATION
I
LENOIR -Durham banker-la wyes
jJ. H. Wheeler was principal speak
|or at: the dedication of a swim
j ruing pool for Negro use here
fuesday and admonished the resi
dents of tiic area to "live in such
j away in which you must have:
i iived to make such a gift possi
i hie."
| Mr. Whether president of the
j Mechanics Sc Farmers Bank oj
j Durham and Raleigh noted that th,
jpcfol was a portion of the Broyfiii
i Recreation center, a tract accord
ied for Negro recreation througl
I grants made by the Broyhill fam
iiy of Lenoir.
NC BUSINESS GROUP
l ists SESSIONS
' fIRKENVILLE-According to- an
nouncement made by D-. D. Gar
| rett, president, the sixth annual
j sessions of the North Carolina Ne
igro Business league will be held
jin Greenville June SO) and 30.
j Tlu- tentative program includes
i the meeting of the State' House
i wives league and a business ses
| sion on Monday night,
| On Tuesday morning un finish
•! ed busies? will be pursued. Dur
t j ing Tuesday afternoon a business
• ! clinic and election of officers will
,J be held A mammoth talent show
jis to bo held Tuesday night
; term, then the judge added an
iother 2-year term to -her sentence,
ialt of which is to run concurrent
jly with a 2 and a half year term i
j the woman already has to “pull" I
■ for her part in perpetuating the i
j •lumbers r acket in the area,
Mrs. Maggie Mills I)ye, 47, !
was handed the two-year raps j
i and .fudge Have- ordered them i
| fKi-U* effect at the eo-tnjdetiph of . !
i a % 1-2 year stint Mrs. Dye a!- i
I ready faced as the result ot
Guilford County Superior
Court action. A male corapan- i
ion of Mrs. Dye's John O. j
Martin, 51, was also given a j
two year tern*. Both Martin
! and Mr*, five are High Point i
f residents
Martin v. as nobbed iu November, i
'052 and charged with being a 1
••turn-in" man for the writers. His j
Continued un Page 8
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100 y~"Tj Qo !
VOL. XII RALEIGH, NORTH OA.RQI.iN A VV RLK ES T) 1 NCSA TIJR DAY, JUNE 6, U>so _ NO. 2F
Child, 5, Playing ‘Cowboy/
Killed By The ‘Crook \ 10
Rifle Slug
Marks End
To “Game”
Child Struck By
Blast As Rifle
Is Discharged
GREENSBORO A five-year
.old would-be “cowboy” hero is
dead and his 10-year-old next
door neighbor and companion, who
played the part of “the crock" in
their ill-fated game here Tuesday
Is accused of having taken his life.
Willie James Johnson, five
year old son of Mrs. Willie
Mae Johnson of E. Washington
Street was shot and killed with
a .12 guage rifle reportedly
fired by 10-year-old Franchot
Dillard, his neighbor as the
two played cowboy with the
young victim as the "star” in
the game and the older boy as
the outlaw. The shooting oc
curred early Tuesday morning
in the Johnson home at 3005
on E. Washington Street.
Continued ori Page 8
Priest Welcomes Negro Worshippers
II Mk f *l' «‘W 4<XES ■« . ?
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An unidentified priest wei- (
coined Negro worshippers into I
the Church of The Redeemer
at Newton Grove Sunday de
spite threats and jeers from
;
Carolinian Staffers Escape Injury
IRATE IfEWTON IROIE
mm ATTACKS RACE
NEWSMEN, WOMAN
NC Soldiers See Atomic Cannon Fired
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Pvt. RALPH L. GATXIS
Hillsboro
Tlussc three North Carolina
i soldiers were among the 3,000
' handpicked men who watched
| the most awe-inspising specta
i cle of the atottiic age Che
] firing of an atomic cannon
| last week at Desert Rock, Neva*
i da. The cannon has been de
i scribed by North Carolina Con
i gresaman Carlyle a s being so
' powerful that it lould cause the
[ groups of white ‘■p.'ii»*hi>n«r«"
i angered by dun order from the
Rt. Rev. Vincent Waters. Bi
shop of the Catholic Diocese of
Raleigh that the congregation of
the Redeemer Church (white)
Pvt. CALVIN LAWRENCE
Halifax
end of the Korean War In just
; two days. Ail three of the men
pictured here are members of
the crack 3rd Armored Calvary
Regiment which is stationed at
; Camp Pickett, Viginla. Each of
j them has had extensive imloctri
: nation in atomic warfare. Pvt.
i Gattis is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
i Galtis o f Hillsboro. Pvt Law
i rence lists his next of kin as liis
and that of th e St. Benedict
Church (Negro) should merge
in acceptance of the true princi
ples of tin- Catholic Church.
—STAJPFOTO By SIfIRLEV,
Fvt. niOM.VS BYERS
Mt. Holly
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank I.aw- I
1 ence of Rt.. 1, Halifax. Pvt. By- •
f ers. who was a barber before 1
entering (he service, is the son i
of Mr. and Mrs. Doek Byers of
419 W Glendale Avenue, Mi,
Molly. liS ARMY PHOTOS,
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DESPITE RACISTS
Newton Grove Incident
Marks Victory For True
“Christian Democracy”
By JAMES A. SHEPARD
Staff Writer
NEWTON GROVE-Even though
attempts were made to run down
a photographer and to scare an
other, this writer, and the Bishop
of the Catholic Diocese of Raleigh
away from the scene, a weak, but
neverteless clear-cut victory was
made by Christian Democray hero
last Sunday,
Fur it was in this smail fanning
community in the northern sector
of Sampson County that a Catho
lic Bishop, The Rt. Rev. Vincent
Waters braved the threats, curses
and jeers of a crowd of angry
whites to say three masses to an
unsegregated congregation.
Even while the holy services
were going cm Inside the church,
the “Christtans" were gathering to
gether in small groups on the out
side planning harm to the Bishop
j when he left the church.
| The bishop was not harmed bod
ily although his spirit must have
been crushed by what he saw, but
■his escape from physical harm vras
due only to the protection given j
him by two deputy sheriffs and a j
small corps of priests who threw I
themselves in front, of the mob j
that was shoving, pulling and
pushing to get to the bishop.
All of this show of “Christian- i
Youth Tries
To Run Down
Lensman
NO ONE HURT
Children Fire
| KLies, Pistol
I At Press Crew
By STAFF WRITER
NEWTON GROVE—Two
photographers of The Caro
linian staff—one a woman—
and an accompanying writ
er, assigned from the same
newspaper to “cover” the
merger of a Negro Catholic
church congregation with a
white one here last Sunday;
narrowly escaped serious in
jury at the hands of local
white residents, purported
ly “Catholics” angered by
■the order to integrate the
two church congregations.
Carolinian staff reporter
i James A. Sljepard, and re
| porter-photographers Mr s ,
j Shirley Delany and Charles
j Jones, were, each, at one
Time or another during their
1 short stay here Sunday eith-
I er shot at with BB rifles or
; pistols or were victims of at*
| tempted run-downs by auto
ists.
Charles Jones narrowly
escaped serious injury when
a teen-aged driver attempt
ed to run him down in an
automobile as he (Jones)
was photograhing the Saint
Benedict Neg r o Catholic
Church.
“Pot-shots’’ were fired at)'
(Continued on Pit}*** 8)
, iiy” was caused because the bis
hop of the diocese had ordered
i iun end to church segregation in
i Newton Grove and was on hand to
I see how his order would be obey
i' ect.
1 1 Sixteen or seventeen years ago.
.! Negroes of the Newton Grove sec
i j tiem worshipped with the whites
ij in the Holy Redeemer Catholic
i Church in Newton Grove. The Ne
; i gro Catholic dead were buried m
• | the church cemetery behind the
| church. However, Doth the vt,or
. j ship servicer and the burials fol
■ | lowed the well worn path of seg
regation. In the church, the Ne
j groes sat in the left', * the whites
jon the right. Sacrament was adr
j ministered to the whites first, the
| Negroes last and the Negro dead
! were buried in the back end of
jibe cuhrcti cemetery.
It could not be learned with any
certainty just what caused the
church hierarchy to build a sap
i orate church for the Negro Cteth
jolies in Newton Grove. Some snv
jthc* whites grew tired of look in*
jat Negroes in what they called
j "their" church, others contend it.
I was the Negroes who wanted a
(church where they would not be
j segregated. A combination of -31*
i two thoughts caused the erection
i (Continued on Page 8)