4 From N. C. Among Released POWs
THE BIGGEST YET
“SHOP IN' RALEIGH DAYS'" annually e n tail the
“Biggest Bargain Event,” in the city, but the 1953 ob
servance, set for August 13, 1 I, 15 and 17 tends to be
♦the “biggest” yet. The annual Raleigh. Merchant.?
Bateau promotion this year offers free bus rides and
free parking space in the .uptown section to shoppers,
inside this week’s Carolinian, see advertisements of
the manv bargains available during “SHOP IN RA
LEIGH DAYSG
VOL. XII
Western North Carolina
School Suit Cites Bias
Race Man To
Gain Post On
labor Group
V.-'ir'.rp.'GTON - (Special)
From this time hence, a Negro
shall be elected to at least one
place on the nine-member execu
tive board of the North Carolina
I ederation of Labor ..." Sucii
was the context of a resolution
passed by the Federation (AFL>
during its regular session being
held, nere this week.
The resolve to name a Negro to 1
the executive group comes as an;
anti-climax to a resolution passed
during the annual session of the
federation in 1932 That resolution
made it permissible, but not man
datory to have Negro membership
on the U duration's governing
board.
The executive group is com
posed of the federation’s presi
dent: first vice-president: secre
tary-treasurer, an rlslx didn't
vice presidents.
Nominations fm po: ts were be
ing rumple ted at presstime this
week.
“THE TRUTH WILL OUT . . .
Inmate - Writer Tells True j
Story Os Footless Convict
‘ EDITOR'S NOTE: The best
place to get an inside .story" is.
<•}> rionsly, from "the inside", and
the story which is reprinted It ere
ir. from the inside of the Central
Ptison at Raleigh and was writ
ten by a staff writer for "The
World", inmate publication
ot North Carolina's major penal
institution The story of the re
arrest of Robert Barnes, footless
Charlotte men. was published in
THE CAROLINIAN (issue of July
18) and drew comment from many
sources. The story-bebind-the
story of Robert Barnes, however,
ia most fully related as written
beneath the caption‘‘Robert Barnes
Returns To Central Prison" and
under the by-line of Charles M.
York and reprinted here from the
August issue of “The Inner World".
Mr York s story follows:)
Robert Barnes is back in pri
son again,
The prison bus from Meck
lenburg County brought him
through Central Prison’s cas
tle like gates on July 20, 1988.
Persons investing faith in Dir
w In’s assumption of the body
adjusting to its enforced en
vironment should see and talk
(o Robert. He ll teil you that
his two stumped legs haven’t
grown an ineh. They still re
main in the status quo of six
inches below each knee, where
they were amputated by a
prison surgeon in lit 55. He
walks on pads of ripped-up
blankets, tied above bis shrun
ken knees. He was eighteen
when his legs were taken
from him, and now, at thirtjj
slv, his philosophy Is rather
nVjlpr-of-fa'Jiy and strangely
unbitter. He has hobbled st
boot foi eighteen years <vi
state provided atiifit'ial tegs,
•obtaining. life through a bene
ficial state "pension” of twen
ty dollars a month.. Yes, Robert
Barnes is back In Central Pri
son again, and I rather won
der where we should place the
Funeral Rites For
Rev, C. F. Pope
Set For Thursday
RALEIGH Funeral services
for the Rev. C. F. Pope of Raleigh,
pioneer minster-educator, who
died Sunday in Washington, D. C..
while vacationing there, were to
be held from the First Baptist
Church here Thursday afternoon
at t o'clock. Burial was to follow
in the Mount Hope Cemetery .
For 28 years, the noted minis
ter was principal of the High
School in B irgaw bearing Ids
name, retiring in 1940. He held
pastorates in Liberty and in Hert
ford County. For the past two
years he had lived with a niece
in Mount Olive.
Surviving are several nieces and
nephews,
VsficviUe - A suit preferred by
a group of Negro parents in coun
ty const here Tuesday asks a “per
•na/feitt injuticlion" against thej
•f.-Dowell Cos ist Board of Edu
cation f.'H-'.Vi restraining and
enjoining" the board from provid- ;
ing better school flacilities for :
v hite students than are provided
tor Negro students.
The Raleigh law firm of Taylor ;
••rut Mitchell represents 30 parents
who filed them action for 53
•'bool children as ' next friends".
The -of expressly asks that the
•chool board be restrained in its
• dieted action of discriminating
.;Sin:t three individual colored
-• t 00l children “and other Negro
children similarly situated.”
Spccfic violation:; are charged
in the schools in and around the
town of Oid Fort near heie.
The parents say that "the dc- '■
fendent (Board) has established
■ iid niauitamt in McDowell Coun
ty several :•!. ategically and con
veniently located accredited ele
mentary and high schools fur the
education, convenience and use of
white: school children, while will
ful!;,- uid unlawfully' failing to
maintain similar facilities for Ne
gro children of Hie county."
The action points out that all
of the plaintiff-children are of: le
gal school ago from six to 21
years of age - arid all the parents .
arc. taxpayers of the county It also
points out that all the plaintiffs
are Negroes and are bringing this
;i finger of accusation? At Rob
ert? The "System"? Who bear*
d the guilt? Where lies the
e blame? it should like to know
il without the usual tiresome al
legory tv this or that super
r cliiou.s assumption in intellect
n ual roulette. The "WHY" of
d Robert Barnes is insistent in
my eats. Amputating all dog
's malic conclusions, and irrcla
n vent theories of propagandists
y eloquence. 1 herein state the
y facts of Robert Barnes, or per
• haps "tragedy would he more
apt in description,
n In January, 1935, Robert Barnes
''" tf r l l i Efi/
!
Assault Try With Mule Fatal
DUNN Robert Sanders, 33-
year-old Harnett man was shot
to death Saturday afternoon when ’
. lie allegedly tried to assault his
1 sister-in-law with a mule in one :
I ( ,f Harnett’s most unusual bond-!
i rides of the year.
M>■<•'. Maiy Crenshaw, about 33,
' said Sanders jumped on ~i mule
• and was trying to run her down
Rooming - House Owner Shot
DURHAM - James Liiley, 53-
year-old local opei ator of a rourn-
I mg house at 1004 Pine Street was
:in ci itical condition in Lincoln
; Hospital Monday night, a;: the re
sult of a bullet wound in the;
! chest inflicted by one of his room
| ers.
Police were holding William S.
1 M Queen. 38-year-old roomer,
without bond pending the outcome
of the victim's condition.
Vance Tobacco Needs Rain
i
HENDERSON -- Tobacco in,
■8 | Vance County, is still desperately !
h | in need of rain. Some observers!
0 ; .'»•(-1 that unless there are soaking
| rains within this week the crop
0 | wfll be so far toward maturity
>t j ii will be unable to benefit from
n I
Will # Probe Death Os Convict
£ | KINSTON Corner R. T. Jar
man said Sunday an inquest would
be held into the death of a con
vict who fell from an asphalt
* spreader and was run over by
„ the machine.
g
Fred Herring, 34, of Btirgaw,
d died m Lenoir Memorial Hos
pital Friday. Officials of the
THE CAROLINIAN
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SIXTEEN PAGES RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
suit in their own behalf, claiming
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H. H. Holloway, Durham na
tive and currently business man- ;
ager of St, Augustine's College, j
Raleigh, has been named the
first national executive secretary I
of the Kappa Alpha Psi Uratern- |
nity. Tin; fraternity plans to
set up national headquarters la
Fbilarilphia where Mr. Holloway
will likely make his offices.
was convicted in Mecklenburg \
County Superior Court of receiving j
good.- He was sentenced to a peri- j
od of nine months on the roads of j
North Carolina. Prior to his transit i
for to a Prison Camp In Mecklen- !
burg County be had been ill and!
was not fully recovered on his
arrival at this Prison Camp •to
begin .serving his term in penal
servitude. The second day after
he was assigned to the camp he
was too II! to "meet the man at
the gate”, therefore he was placed
m a small wooden hut. humorous
ly called. "The Hole.” It was freez
(Continued on f’age S)
with the mule when she took a '
rifle and fired at him twice. One j
shot hit him in the right chest
and the oluer in his right leg.
A jury empaneled by Harnett \
Coroner Grover C. Henderson j
ruled, after quick deliberation that
the ‘woman shot in self-defense
and absolved her of all blame.
Hospital attendants described
Lilley's condition as "very poor"
,iiiu - iia hue bullet passed into
the chest cavity near a lung.
When McQueen was arrested, !
; he still had the .25 caliber auto
matic pistol on his person, offi
cers said. The prisoner admitted
drooling Tilley, police repotted
because "be hit me with a stick".
I Officers at rested McQueen ghort
i iy after the shooting.
such pfercipitation
Scattered thundershowers have
been received in a few localities
but have not twen general, and
are in adequate even in places
where they fell.
| Greene County prison camp said
: the accident, happened on a road
i project between Tarboro and La
j Grange.
Records showed Herring was
' sentenced, at Recorder’s Court in
| Farmvilie, April 14 to a six-month
term.
111-YEAR-OLD MAH IS WED;
THE BLUSHING BRIDE IS 22
City Renews Bid
For Race Officers
WASHINGTON. N. C. <ANF’)
i - Negro lenders of this city last I
| verk made further moves to get j
j the city to appoint Negro police. I
; Tile effort is spearheaded by thei
| Civic f ea pie. composed of leading
Negro citizens '
The league i~ making -in effort
to have tlw City Council back
its proposal for the naming of N‘ -
"joe: to th.e city police force. One ,
| report raid the sponstus of the j
j nolice project desire that Negroes '
500 NO Elks,
To Attend Gi
By .1. B. H 'rren, S. C. Elks
Publicity Chaim an
| ROCKY MOUNT Approxi
j irately five hundred North Caro
lina ' Bills" and Daughter.-; of the
! Improved Renevcjrnt Protective'
j Order Elks of the 'World < IBPOE
j of W) will begin a "victory march
j through Georgia" on August 21st
l w hen they start at riving in At
; lanta via car, bus. train and plane
ito attend “»Ith annual Grand
\ Lodge of Elks with the Honorable
j Robert H Johnson of Fhiladel
i pitta serving as Grand Exalted
j Ruler.
j GRAND KMGIIT battle leads
The North Slate contingent will
i be headed by Grand Esteemed
Lecturing Knight K. P, Battle ol
tlii.s city, who is also State Presi
dent. Battle will be supported by
Jack W. Faison, first vice presi
oent of Seubord, N. Cd Daughter
Leticia Smith of Hickory, presi
dent of the State Temple and Dt.
Sadie Artist Goldsboro, vice presi
dent of the Daughters.
Other key stare officials cx
i peeled to attend include Dt. Nora
: E. Bailey, Rocky Mount, second
| vice pi evident of the Temple; Dt.
| Lenora Baird, Asheville, financial
| secretary; Dt. • Rhoena Brown,
; Washington, Treasure of Temple;
i '
Announcement Os Prisoner Releases j
Joyfully Met By Relatives In State \
By Carolinian News Network
, RALEIGH Throughout North
i Carolina this past weekend and
[ this week, reports that loved ones
i were being released from Commu
nist prisoner of war camps in Ko
; iea confined to be met with joy
! md elation.
Here, briefly are the names of
| North Carolina colored service
! men who were freed by red forces
' during the first few days of
soner returns. Returnees incl :
CPL. ROGER STATEN. 23.
of 227 Coulter Avenue, New
ton, N,
MAJOR JOHN C, HA RIAN,
formerly of Shaw University,
Raleigh, now of Institute, West
Virginia;
SGT. PRESTEE DAVIS, of
301 Walton Avenue, Durham;
and
SOT. JAMES J, BROWN, Jr.
of 213 Corporation Street.,
Durham.
Several other North Carolinians
were among the first Americans
released from red camps during
j 'he weekend and week’s activity.
The processing, however, was not
completed in time to Indicate
the race of the releases.
JOY REIGNS SUPREME
Announcements of repatriation
were received with varying de
wees of visible emotion. Here at
Raleigh. N. C., persons who had
been familiar with Major John
Harlan during his tour of service
at Shaw University: recounted
many anecdotes from the fifly
ish Major’s adventure-packed ea
rner as an Army man.
Major Harlan was one of the first
fop-ranking Negro officers to be
captured during the recently-ter
minated Korea struggle. His cap
ture was widely heralded in the
race and daily press some four
and a half years ago. He had been
WEEK ENDING 37 TURD AY. AGGHST <5, ! DAT
j be appointed to work in the see- j
I lion of the city which gives much 1
trouble to the community.
The Negro citizens of Washing- :
I ton have in recent years taken,
a. more active part in civic work,
. '•ports, and genera! community
j projects. The increase of such
• activities, leader* said, make it
; more necessary that there be ade- i
, quale police protection and super- *
j vision in toe Negro sections of 1
’ (Continued on Page 7)
, Daughters
rand Lodge
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■ ill- I ” • ’-"'•
! iSS'
Dlt. ROBERT )l. JOHNSON
- - - “The Grand
H. R. Haywood. ftaleigh; Cartel
I | Mock! High Point, second vice j
j president of state association! S. I
I T. Enioe, Shelby, third vice presi- ;
dent: W, E. Davis, Kinston, finan- j
; (Continued on Page 7)
i assigned to duties in Korea fol
j lowing tours of service with Re- i
! serve Officers Training Corps at'
j colli -es in North Carolina, Dis- j
(net of Columbia and West Vir
i ginia, as well as other states. j
Shortly following his release
last weekend at Panmunjom,
Major Harlan noted that A
meriean army officers had
NC G. L Was Brave In Korea
J * 4 > V" 'bUv jv.' •■ ‘ "
Army Cpl. Leroy Webb of
j PikesviMe, N. is eongratu- '
j iate.il by Gen. Lewis T. Heath, j
| commander of tbe 25th liifan* I
| fry Division, after receiving the ;
Sliver Star, the nation's third j
j highest combat decoration at » !
] recent ceremony in Korea. Cor- j
: jjoral Webb, son of Mr. and Mrs.
COMING NEXT WEEK !
—THE CAROLINIAN PRESENTS A
FULL PHOTO-BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE
LIFE OF DR. J. B. DAVIS, NOTED N. C. PHYSICIAN
(PICTURED BELOW) WHO DIED AT HIS FUQUAY j
SPRINGS HOME TUESDAY.
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Dr. Judge B. Davis, noted phy
sician in North Carolina for
some decades, died at his F.uVi
quay Springs clinic Tuesday aft
er a lingering illness. Dr. Davis
is pictured above in a rote for
which he gained repute through
out the state as speaker at a
civic event. The late physician
been iried bv their refl cap
tors on charges of “obstructing
the peace."
The Major was not available for
iurther comment.
WAS COUNTY’S FIRST
A Negro soldier. Cpl. Staten,
tva? the first Oitawia County ci
tizen released in Operation Big
Switch.
Viola Webb, Route 2. Box 1808,
was cited for gallantry in action.
Holder of the Combat Infantry
man Badge, he entered the Ar
my in August J 952 and arrived
in Korea in March. In civilian
life, he was employed by a con
struetion firm in Charlotte,
US ARMY PHOTO
THE INSIDE STORIES
CAROL INI AN READERS WANTED TO KNOW the
complete stories involving a footless man who was
recently sentenced to a prison term and a 111-year
old man who last week became a bridegroom for the
"fifth or sixth” time. Beginning on the front page this
week, The Carolinian gives its readers the full inside
stories on those two personalities-—plus other on-the
scene coverages.
civic leader was a staunch sup- !
porter of Shaw University, his j
alma mater, and activities of the j
NAA.CP in the state, Funeral j
services are scheduled to be held j
from Main Street Baptist Church i
at Loulsbtirg, Nf, Sunday after
noon, The Rev, D. I*. Lewis is
pastor of the church.
The car-old soldier, whose |
wife, Mrs. Mae Staten awaits him j
at their Newton home, volun- j
leered for service with the Army |
i in Aukusl, 1049. He was shipped j
1 to the Far East in November, 1949. j
with the 24th Infantry Division,!
! and a year later was reported
i missing in action. He was reported
1 a prisoner of war by the commu
| nist.s a month later, in December,
1950.
SHOT WHILE C APTIVE
Cpl Staten, who was able to
write to bis wife every two or
three months, told tier in one
letter written while he was im
i prisoned that he had been shot
! m the hand.
i In his letters, Mrs. Staten re
] vealed, the Corporal reported that
i -he had Been receiving good treat -
ment. Whether he said this to
quiet her fears (or his vell-beig
j has yet to be earned, however,
The son of Mr. and Mrs. George i
| Staten of South Davis Avenue,
i Newton, Cpl Staten is the oldest
! of three sons ant! one of the five
| children in the family. He has
| another brother, O’Neil In service
! and stationed at Fort Jackson, S.
! C.
Op!. Staten was awarded the
| Bronxe Star before bis cap
’ turc fur meritorious sendee.
THOUGHT SON WAS DEAD
S Julius Davis, aging Durham resi
dent, was “almost certain" that, his
| son a sergeant in the Army and
! prisoner of the communists, was
; dead, before receiving announce*
\ merit, last week that the son was
very much alive and was being
treed in Operation Big' Switch.
Speaking of his son. Mr. Davis,
of Walton Avenue, Durham, said
“I bad made sure Prestee tSgi.
Pres tee Davis of the 24th Regi
(Con tinned on Page 7)
NUMBER 35
Bridegroom
Said Father
Os Forty-Six
BY J, B. HARREN
GRIMESLAND. N C. (Special! -
After driving almost 150 miles,
having gone to Nov Bern and
then back to this small Pit* comi
ty village we finally found i*he
ram shackled shack which Alexan
der Osman (some say “o;;h'!rr; er s
calls his' home; to which he law
week brought his brand new
year old bride, which reports /
is his "fifth or sixth” wife
MAYBE TWENTY WIVE a
Ogman told this reporter that
the "wnite folks” however credit
to him with about twenty .wives.
Perhaps this was because.the same
white folks have counted up his
i children which they find readies
tile staggering total of 46 for the
African native who -ays he '. :/ m
one hundred and eleven years old
born on a slave ship enroute to
this country about twenty years
before American slaves were
freed.
FATHER NEVER SCBMITIFD
Alec says his father Neal Og
tnan— never did submit to slave
!v, altho he had no real refuge
j Neal w.is the fattier of three chit
j dren by Alec’s mother, but al
| ways ran away into the wood#
| where he’d remain many weeks
| until recaptured by the whites
(Continued on Page 81
A & T Plans
i For Nurses’
Training OK
! .
I GREENSBORO A school of.
nursing will definitely open at
! A. and T. College with the b*~
; ginning of the Tall session ac
cording to an announcement re
leased early this week by Dr. F.
■ D. Bluford, president of the col
; lege.
Full details of the official
i opening were worked out in
a conference held last week
l in Raleigh which included.’ It
S. Coltrane, assistant director
of ihe State Budget Bureau of
Itoleigh; Warmoth T. Gibbs,
dean of the college's school of
education and science and or.
Biuford.
Governor William B. Umstead
had decreed just two weeks before
that, nursing would begin at the
Greensboro institution .just as soon,
as 20 or more students had quali
iied to begin the first year of
training. He also instructed th#
A. and T. administration to pro
ceed with the employment of a.
director of the school.
The governor had acted with
Hie authority given him by the
last Legislature and with the u«
nammous recomr A■ nd atio n of a
committee named to help hirn do.
cide how a '*”00,000 biennial ao
p! opriation for the purpose should
be spent.
According to Dr. Bluiord. (ha
nursing school will be operated
in cooperation with L. Ric hardson
Memorial Hospital and others in
the community. A four year
course, granting the bachelor of
science degree and a three year
course lor the training of reen
tered nurses, will be available to
the first enrollees who begin th*(r
training with the opening of the
Fall Quarter on September 14. He
expressed confidence that the re
quirement for a minimum of 20
students will have been met for
more than that number have al
ready filed application.
The president suited to reporters
in answer to a query concernina
the proceedure for applying for
admittance ‘Applications should
be mailed immediately to C R. A.
Cunningham, Register here et the
college”.