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 1 jf’ i| . |ji B|Svl|lt§^ LA - Jf A- i ~y. t-th ■k • *?r% •• -yi 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 .r - i 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 < ontinued on Page 8 "-iJ/ ll ;v l ffi#a|jßaf& Mg * A .v. ■i'„.^*w J ,-.’vi3i PwwP' f jaBBSBBBM&fe.-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 4n«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, * .—_____ 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)