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i. ERNEST WiLKiNS
W ilkim Is Vice-Chairman
Os New Civil Rights Group
WASHINGTON, D. C—T. Vrnest
Wilkins, prominent attorney from .
Chicago, Illinois, has been desig- !
nated Vice Chairman of tae Presi-!
dent's Government Contract Com- j
rnittee, the FEPC 01 the Federal ;
Government. This Committee, is!
chaired by Vice Presidertt Richard
M. Nixon.
Attorney Wilkins was born in
Farmington, Missouri. He received
his A. B. degree from the Univer
sity of Illinois, J, D. degree from j
the University of Chicago Law
School, and an honorary I.J_,.D. de
gree from Lincoln University. Mo.,
in 1941. lie has practiced, law in
all cf the courts in Chicago con
tinuously since 1921, and is a mem- j
t>er of the Illinois Appeals Board!
of the U. S. Selective Service.
Attorney Wilkins has a unique!
family background. He ie a Phi j
Bets Kappa from the University j
of Illinois. He is the father <>fj
three sons two of whom are grad- I
uate lawyers from Harvard Uni- j
vtrsity. j. Ernest Wilkins. Jr., a !
scientist, i* the youngest person |
to receive a Ph.D. from the Urij- \
versitv of Chicago. Young Wilkins ;
worked on the atomic bomb pro- j
;ect during World War !i.
Attorney Wilkins is a member j
of the Cook County, Illinois, Bar:
Association; the Illinois State Bar j
Association; the National Bar Ae- j
sociation arid the American Judie- ■
attire Society. He L a Mason, a
member of the Kappa Alpha Pm
fraternity, and' Methodist Church.!
He holds the distinct honor of be- !
ing the first Negro to ever be
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Youth Admits Break-ins
RALEIGH Eight youngsters, j
ranging in ago from 7 to 13 su
spected of breaking on two sepa- |
rate occasions were arrested here I
Tuesday by city detectives.
Detectives E. W. Rhodes and G j
A. Privette, who apprehended the j
boys, reported they admitted !
breaking into the Veterans Grocery !
Has Shooting Spree
LUMBERTCN— Fvander “Buck",
•Sinclair is charged with assault,
with a deadly w eapon with intent!
to kill as a result of a shooting \
Sunday night at the home of Char- j
he Bowden in the Meadows near i
I.umbertoh.
Sinclair is charged with shoot- •
jng David Inman in me hand and !
thigh and Forrest How den in the i
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NCC Instructor D,Ed.
F.. LANSING, Mich. Ray j
Thomson, Counselor-Trainer at
North Carolina College, Durham, j
ana Guidance Consultant with the ]
NC State Department of Public j
Instruction was awarded the D Ed. j
degree here recently, s 'iSjonipson,;
u native of Gadsden/ Aia, sub-j
mitted a dissertation on ,f Coun |
celor Training in State Supported \
Negro Colleges and Universities in j
the States with Dual Educational i
Systems, 1 *
Dr. Tlsompson received the B. S. j
in Education from Alabama State j
College in Montgomery, Ala. in [
194fi. H<- received the M, A, degree
front Teachers College, Columbia j
University, in 1947. Thompson did j
one year's advanced study at 1
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elected a member of tile Judicial i
Council id the Church. The Judic
ial Council is the Supreme Court
of the Church. The Judicial Coun
cil is the Supreme Court of the
Church. He served from 1942 to
;‘J4B as a member of the Execu
tive Committee of the General
Commission on Worid Service an d
Finance.
The President's Government Con
tract Committee, of which Attor
ney Wilkins is Vice Chairman, de
termines whether industries arid'
businesses holding Federal con
tracts are engaging in diserimlna
lory employment practices, in the
preamble to the order setting forth
Utis Committee, President Fist-re
bower said: “It is the policy of the
United States Government to pro
mote equal employment opportuni
ty for an qualified persons employ- j
t d or seeking employment on gov
ernment contracts because .such
persons are entitled to fair and
equitable treatment in all aspects
of emeployment on work paid for
from public funds.”
This Committee will include, in j
addition to the 9 public members, j
government representatives from!
the Departments of Commerce, De- 1
tense. Justice and Labor, plies the j
Atomic Energy Commission and !
General Services Administration, j
The Committee will make re
commendations to contracting a*
gencies for making non-discrimi
nation provisions of government
contracts more effective, It will
ab'G receive complaints of viola
tions. then take them uo with the
agency involved.
it 817 Fayetteville Street on Au
'ust, 8 and 27
The first time, the boys report
edly took $lO in cash, and the sec
ond time, about. $lO worth of mer
chandise. Entry to the store was
made through a side window.
All eight boys were turned over
to juvenile authorities.
I back with the same weapon. The
affray occurred at 10 p. m. Sunday.
| Arresting officers say the assault
I followed an .argument over a pock
| etbook which Sinclair had lost ajid
, which he said contained S2O to S3O.
Inman received first aid at Ro6e
| son Memorial Hosoital and was
, :aken to Bladen County Hospital
j Bowden was released after reeeiv
i *ng first aid.
i Teachers College and later enroll
ed in graduate school at Michigan
j Kiati? College He also has had
I special training in Radio Ertgi
, iwering and Electronics schools in
| Brooklyn. N. Y.; Washington, D.
; C.; and Groton, Conn.
J Before coming to NCC in 1951,
i Dr. Thompson taught at various i
j times at Carver H S„ Gadsden,
| Aia.: Industrial H. S.. Tuscaloosa. |
Aia.; and Alabama State Teachersj
1 College, Montgomery, Aia. He has j
! had considerable experience as a j
i reassurance person in Guidance, j
. Measurement and in teacher train
ing projects also. Included in his
i memberships in professional orga-
I lilzations are; American Teachers j
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Nurse Fined On Dope Rap
t EXINGTON A young nurse ,
has been given a suspended sen- j
terne and fined for taking nar- I
colics from a hospital at which j
she worked in Tbomasvillc.
Daring sessions of the Davidson j
County Superior Court here Tues- j
The Csrolinian
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VOLUME XII RALEIGH, N. C. WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1953 NUMBER 37 j
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Newspaper
Is Housed In
Its New Plant
—Carolinian Goes
Into New Home
Service Continues
RALEIGH An institutional
land-mark of almost 13 years'
standing was lost to Raleiah'a Har
gett Street this week when THE
CAROLINLAN on Wednesday be
gan publication operations from
its new home-office nlant loi-ated
at 516 East Martin Street.
THE CAROLINIAN, formerly
housed In the ok! Lightner Arcade
Building, now the Home Takers j
Building at lib East Hargett. |
Street, succeeded The Carolina j
Tribune in the Hargett Street edi- ;
ftcfc as me Negro weekly publish- |
td in -North Carolina's Capitol
City. Another race newspaper used
East Hargett Street as its office
plant location prior to the founding
of The Tribune local historians
point out.
In making its “eventful move''
during the past weekend and
into the current week- The
Carolinian encountered several
difficulties which on occasion
on seemed deemed to force j
suspension of the publication,
for at least one issue. The 13- j
year record of The Carolinian j
in which an Issue was nev
er missed, was kept intact, !
however, b y superhuman j
effort of members of the pa- j
per’s staff and printers, adver
tisers, subscribers, et al, those
who hold the publication's in
terests at heart. Construction
on the new bonne-office-plant
building of The Carolinian was
begun just eight weeks ago.
Erection and placing of print
ing and office equipment will
still be underway when this
story Is read.
Even though The Carolinian ex
pects to be fully housed in its
new home building within a few
weeks, the full expansion-program
of this newspaper is bv no means
completed. The program calls for ■
the utilization of a rotary news-1
paper press arid a complete change |
in mechanical operations as nece-1
sitated by the use of this press. >
This press will also allow the news- J
paper to offer merchants use of j
color lines in their advertisements, !
The management and staff of j
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Ylouth, 16> Confesses Murder Which
Launched Manhunt In Three States
CHARLOTTE -- A 18-year old,
youth, one of a pair of admitted
purse-snatchers, Tuesday night
confessed to a slaying here which
resulted in a three-state manhunt
for a ‘colored man”.
Two juvenile purse-snatchers
were arrested Tuesday and charg
ed with knifing a spinster nurse
to death on a dark street here I
when they mistook a paper bag I
she was carrying for a purse.
The boys, Karay Harris, 16. ar;d j
‘William A. McQuerry, 14. both j
Negroes, each accused the other of!
the fatal stabbing of Miss Helen j
Sw ink., 54, Aug 2. Harris finally j
confessed that he did the stab- >
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, day, Miss Dorothy Lee WilKte.
j who works at the Thomosville
! Hospital, was ordered to pay a
| fine of $25 plus court costs and
| was handeu a suspended jail sen
i fence when she was found guilty
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SWBAR TO FTftllT BIAS— : lentbewt• of the nc-v g«v>-r«obent cooniiiUee designed to fight dlaeriesi•!
f nation and other unfair employment practices in plants working under government contract were, sworn j
j hn by Judge Sylvester Ryan in the New York Waldorf-Astoria suite of President Eisenhower !&*t week.
! Chicago attorney, 3. Ernest tVitkins (tar right), was appointed vice-chairman of the committee by
j Elsenhower (center). Others on the panel include chairman Vice-President Richard Nixon (second from
left), Helen Rogers Reid of New York: Fred Lazarus of Cincinnati; John Minor Wisdom, No* Iffbaot,
John Roosevelt, and John L, McCaffrey, tNewipress Photo,) s
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Old North State Elks Back\
Battle For Prexy; Smith
ATLANTA, Go.. The North Caro
lina delegation of Elks and Daugh
ter-Elks—-here more than two hun
dred strong--are making a con
certed effort to re-elect State
Flim-Flammers Catch Ist
Victim of Leaf Season
WHITEVILLE -- That the flim
flam boys will follow closely on
the trail of the bearers of the big
wads of bills derived from the
i Hue-cured leaf was proven here
I this week as a woman inadvert
; antly became the first victim of »
! llim-flant “grab” as the local i>>-
I bacco season bursted into bloom
: Officer Wade White of the local
I Police Department said that the
j slim-slam artists gave the old poc
ket book trick a new twist by
bmg. ■ j
'The arrest and statement brought I
a climax to one of the biggest •
manhunts in Charlotte history j
The slaying baffled detect iv/j I
until the possibility that It was j
the work of a youthful gang of |
purse snatchers was explored. That j
! theory had been over looked be- ~
I cause Miss Swink had carried no i
! purse, and s!la pinned to her un-j
| derclothes, a diamond ring and j
I wrist-watch were not disturbed. j
| Miss Swink, who lived a shel- |
I tered, retiring life was i
j a quart jar of ice water in 8 paper j
i bag as she walked from the nurs- i
jo£ pilfering domorai from the hog
| pita! storage.
! State Bureau of Investigation A
! gent Lou Williams told the court
' that Miss Willite had taken the
| narcotic from the storage of the
I institution on several occasions for
| President K. F. Battle to the posi
j tion of Grand Esteemed Lecturing
! Knight of the national body and
to elect State Pi evident of Daugh
ter Elks Letitia Smith of Hickory
- giving the victim, Mrs, Macey
, j Floyd of Rt. 2, Whiteville. the
! sum of $25 after she had turned
: | over SB3 as her .part of the “good
; I faith” money.
*| The woman said two Negro men
-1 gained her confidence, sat her
i | down in a chair near a local
• | warehouse, and left with her mon
j ey, Two hoarse later she reported
i j her loss to police.
; | The old gag of finding a pock
•; etbook was pulled about 3 p. m.
• 1 ibis past Tuesday.
I ing home where she worked to
i her apartment.
The youth, lurking in the davk
j ness, mistook the paper bag for a
1 purse and leaped at her.
| Miss Swink ran a short distance
| then collasped from deep stab
S wounds in the breast,
j Before she died in Presbyterian
i Hospital, a nurse and detective
! heard her say: “A Negro man
chasing me. He didn't get me." A
j motorist had' found her lying on
j tne sidewalk,
I The knife, a switch-blade pocket
j knife was found at the home of
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l her own use.
Miss Willite said that she bad !
token the narcotic for self-use |
! because she was sick. She told j
i the SBI agent, however that she'
Misted the drug in the records for
I patients' use. |
i to the office of Grand Assistant
| Escort.
Battle was elected to his pre
! soni position tit tin Atlantic City
| convention, and has received
I strong support toward cyminuinß
i in the post. Dt, Smith has :, vvdj
as North State president of the]
Daughters for 13 years. Btyile hs- j
been president of Tarheel Elk. fm
seven years, during which time’
much improvement has been
wrought in the association, accord
ing to officials. The following is
j a list of the Tarheel “Bills” and !
j Daughters here who have regis- j
I t< red at the state headquarters on j
“Sweet Auburn” Ayenue, which
I I means tin same to Atlanta as
| Beale Street does to Memphis:
| State Deputy H. H. Beatty, Napo
j Jeon Jones. Dt. Sarah D. Shaw,
| Fayetteville: Luther Kimbrough,
l Lee Lanier. A. V. Walker, Dts.
Hattie Leach, Hortense McClain,
High Point: Dts. Annie B. Davis,
Tcmpsie McLaurin, Wilmington;
Lottie Belcher. Greenville, Bea
trice M. Gorham, Farmville, Dts.
I Leola Graham, E, Saunders, Eve
j lyn Adams, Directress of Publjci
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dldSl Miinsen W. Johnson,' recently repatriufed in Korea, were present, at the
Jkinwjfh President's office in Brooklyn last week io receive n citation
* l, f? lor ‘ n * t-orp. Johnson who demonstrated exceptional courage os »
prisoner of war. He defied Ceniniwnfe.t commands to desecrate the jjHHfaHSaEgSNS
BihSe. Left to right: Charles Manatvn Johnson, ton; Brooklyn Borough
! Joe Louis Nixes Title
Os “Race’s Spokesman”
NEW YORK—Joe Louis, former
| heavyweight champion, said this.
week, he was often troubled by;
i the fact that people generally con-1
! rider him "a spokesman, for the!
' v,-!iole Negero race." Writing in •
j the current issue, of Sr-E Magazine, |
• just released, the Brown ' ..ntw:
told of his constant tear that ~e:
"would do 01 say something wroi.g ■
and Si.tufce 01 harm colored people 1
everywhere "
Louis states iii.s “toughest fight” j
'as alv.-ays been the fight within
i lun self not to "do anything that!
would only stir up trouble and ]
make things worse than ever for i
others.” !
“I don't pretend to be any great |
amhoiity on racial relations." Lou-j
is said, "and certainly 1 don't!
kid myself that my toughest fight i
i will change the nature of the j
I world.” i
| Louis asserted in SEE that "the j
j American Negro is very slowly but j
l surely winning the fight against j
j prejudice. It’s been a hard battle j
! but 1 think the final round is com
| ing up in our lifetime.” he added
I in the SEE Magazine article.
! Louis recalled an example of :
segregation witnessed by him in
i the Army, in 1942 —a scene in
j v Mich a careless word of action
i on his part would have resulted
| in trouble. After his induction he ;
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Jealous Husband Shoots
Wife’s Former Suitor
lU U. lIA KEEN
! TARBORO “Demon jealousy”
got the better hand of Linwood
Burster), age 26. of Route 2, when
he went to the home of his father
in-law and found, not only his
wife, but ttn old acquaintance and
former suitor of his wife’s there
j also. Result: The suitor gut shot,
i The unfortunate victim was
| Mack Williams also of Route Two.
} Tarbor, who happened to be at
ivira. Hurstons father’s home Sun
‘ day afternoon when hubby Bur-
| Homemakers End Sessions,
| Met At School In Raleigh
RALEiGH—Some 100 North Car-
I olina Vocational Homemakins
| Teachers held their 15Ui annua:
| summer conference at Crosby-Gar
i field School here last week to eon
! sider the theme, “Strengthening
| Homernaking Education for Bette
! Family Living,”
Speakers included Dr. Russell
Smart of the Department of Child
Development, Cornell University,
Ithaca, N. Y. who addressed i s
sessions held during August 17-21.
Miss Catherine T. Dennis, sian
su per visor of Home Economics Ed
ucation in the State Department
of Public Instruction, Raleigh, wav
I m charge of over-all activities
Associated with her were Mrs. Lo
ry F. James and Mrs. Marie C
Moffit, area supervisor*.
The teachers' planning commit
j tee for She conference included
; JJrs. Georgia H Weaver, Bernice
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One Old Man Plus One Old Knife
Equals One Dead Younger ‘Bully*
ROCKY MOUNT That youth
does not always succeed over a 1
frail oldster was clearly demon- j
strated here last weekend when j
“brawny” 35-year-old Sylvester j
Staton of near Pint-tops engaged j
in an altercation with 64-year-old j
Walter Gibson of 532 South Frank- \
I
JOE LOUIS
. iton arrived and saw lam It is
| conjectured that thoughts of old
| romances welled up in Mr. Buy
; .'ton’s mind as he. allegedly went
j m the house and sefcured a shot
i gun and let the unsuspecting Wil
; liams have one thru She window
over the protests of his wife and
her sisters. Burstrm then caught
a ride to meet the Sheriff who
vas looking tor him Meanwhile
| William* is m a critical condition
i in a local hospital.
Ex-St. Augustine’s
Mentor Gets Post
| With NC College
DURHAM— Russell E. Blount, i
| head coach at St. Augustine’s Col
| lege in Raleigh during 1946-1950
' and chief athletic figure at Saint
I Paul's Poly tech. LawreneeviUe, Ya.
! H orn 1950-53, will join the depart
i memos physical education at
I North Carolina College on Sept. 1.
! Blount, who is expected to assist
: NCC’s football coach Herman H.
! Riddick with drills starting in ear
| ly September, is a native of Me
] Ilmen, Mass., who received a fcach
| tier's degree at St. Augustine’s
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lyn Street, this city. Although Sta-
I ion was young and strong he came
I oui second best with the weak o|*|»
|er man he’s dead,
j Gibson, according to police re
ports, was trying to collect a three
i uollar debt from a man near his
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