North Carolina Minister Elected Head Os World-wide Baptist Group
Three Dead, Three Facing Murder Charges As ...
POISON BOOZE SCARE SPREADS
federal Post Created for
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Former Area Faim Agent
John Mitchell Worked The
Horse and Buggy Era In NC
WASHINGTON". D. C. (Special*
Promotion o£ John W. NUtcfteiL
Extension Service fi>-ki of
the U. S IX-;. artmcnt of Agricul
ture, to in* newly crt-ul -u post of
Director of* Copper wive Extension »
V/O! iv V. j iitmCimCCli t i -I.
nuliofcii .., tic sUif S ot the
Secretary of Agiicultur*,- Jura Tats
Benson.
Mr. Mitchell, who bejran
work for Extension Service a-x
a buggy-driving emergency ag
ricultural agent in two North
Cuolioa counties 'X> tears |
ago, is the first colored Exten
sion w orker to he promoted to
national leader. Hi- headauar
ters wilt he transferred from
Hampton institute. Hampton,
S a., to the Department here in
Washington by September 15
The promo lion broadens the I
pcope o Mr! Mitco elite duties j
from regional to national level, i
And although the larger part of ;
ins work v.-ill still be with State i
Extension directors and Negro Ex- •
tension supervisor; in the South, j
he also ’.vill counsel with Extension !
Director C. M. Ferguson on na- :
tional problems relevant to Ulo i
stemy’s program.
"I regard Mr. Mitchell as highly
qualified for the position to which
he "is being assigned", says Di- ;
rector Ferguson. “And I consider -
his -promotion only as a first step j
Planning No w Underway Fo r Home
For Young Unwed Race Mothers
-
Charlotte i
Home Would
Be A “Ist”
CHARLOTTE ■ Negro commu
nity leaders and members of the
Social Planning Council of the
United Community Ser.vico or
ganization have come together j
here to lay foundations for the j
estabiisium-M of a home for uu- j
wed Negro mothers*
Realisation of the planning
would result in the setting up
up of the first establishment j
of Us hind In the area.
Dr. Nathaniel Tross, prominent i
local physician heads Ute Negro I
community leaders group which is j
working in collaboration with the j
United Services organizat ion, set.;
tip here last year to foster a single
fund-raising campaign annually.
Already Charlotte has a home j
for white unwed mothers, one of '
a national chain, but Charlotte nor I
snv other city in the state lias a
home for unwed Negro mothers j
Purposes of the establish
ment of such a home arc two
fold, It has boon pointed out.
Not only will unwed young j
Negro mothers have a “home”
to turn to in their time of di
stress, but will also lie aided in |
soda) rehabilitation.
Dr. Tross revealed this week
• hat u committee of which he is
the head has already received ap
plication for admission to the pro- |
jected home from 12 young vac* i
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Scare Grips State As 3
Drink Bad Booze And Die
BY STAFF WRITER
HIGH POINT With three per-!
sons dead as result of drinking
poisoned whiskey and three others
in jail facing murder charges
growing but of the deaths, the
‘‘fatal moonshine" scare which
first came to light in this area
early this week shows signs of
gaining state-wide proportions.
Already High Point and
Thinnasvflle have seen results
derived by partaking of tie
lethal mixture, and police de
partments of other cities and
tovras in the state are urging
residents to think before they
drink "stump hole", “white
lighting” or other moonahin* j
mixtures, i
in a long range program to further
dev dop and .'lengthen the work
'wiii: Negro farm families and 4-H
(flab youths/’
As an Extension career em
ployee. Mr. Mitchell has work
ed his v;tj up IktilSl'l) the
ranks from eraeftencj- agent
to county agf-nt. to district a
gent, anti then to State Exten
sion .agent of Negro work in
North Carolina. From that post
he joined the federal staff as
field agent in 11413, succeeding
I the late John ft. Fierce
For hi.> v, i.,rk in North Carolina,
; Mr. Mitchell was awarded a num
- her of -ign.il honors. laist spring
the V. S Department of Agrjcul
| turc wise honored him by present*
i mg bi.'n Sujh rior Service A
| ward -for his '-ontribution to the
I development of effective and prac
i deal Extension work for Nostro ;
S farm families ',
Mr. Mitchell was bom in Nlore-
I head City. NC. and it a graduate j
|of ’-be Agriei itu; a! and Technical !
j Colleg*-, Greensboro. NC. Also, he
| bolds a master's decree from Cen
-1 tral University, Indianapolis, Ind,
j and an honorary doctorate from
Livingstone College. Salisbury. N-
C.
The national leader of Extension
j work is married and has six grown
i children. One of his sons, Tal
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NEWf
IJGON HIGH HAS
BOOSTERS’ CLUB
RALEJGII - A t agon High
• School little Blues Boosters Chib"
j is being organized in Raleigh,
j Purpose of the organization is to
’ Und financial and moral support
to the athletic teams of the J. VV.
j Ligun (.formerly Washington High
, School here.
In addition to the 40-man Ligon
; High football squad, the boosters’
organization has Coach P. H. Wil
; tiams, Silas Webb, Wiley "Bull”
i Latham and G F. Newell in offi -
! eial posts. Initial plans call for
| the sale of special boosters tickets
locally at the rate of admissions
I to six home games to bo played
I by the Little Blues for $5.
i Persons wishing to obtain boo-
I .-ters’ tickets arc asked to contact
jG. F. Newell by ’phone at Ligon
i High School and tickets will be
I delivered.
! EIGHTS
FOR LIFE
i
i WILSON -• Muck Jackson, who
has a gaping wound in his head
“ENOUGH TO KILL AN ;
ELEPHANT”
The mixture which caused the j
death of a 24-year-old woman at
ThomaaviJle Saturday night or
Sunday morning has been describ
ed aw being “strong enough to kill
an elephant, and weaken a whole '
herd of them" by an unofficial i
police department spokesman.
The “whiskey” which caus
ed the death of Miss Doris j
Bsumes at Thomasville was said
to have been merely a mixture j
of paint thinner “spiked” with j
“stump-hole”,.
Miss Barnes is said to have |
i drunk several, glasses of the vile I
j mixture before becoming deathly J
i ill at (be home of three persons i
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EXTENSION LEADER John
W. center. Extension
Service field agent of the V. S.
Department of Agriculture, who
has been promoted to National
Extension leader, is being con
gratulated by Assistant Secre
tary ui Agriculture. .1. Earl Coke,
right, and Director of Extension
( . M. Ferguson. Mr. Mitchell,
, from the forehead back inflicted I
;by Jimmy Joyner who shot him!
jat close range with a shotgun!
j still ! lings to life.
| He has been unconscious since
i (he shooting took place Saturday
morning where the two men re-,
| sided.
Jackson was shot by Joyner as- |
! ter he forbid him to ■ nter iii*
j home, .h yr - told investigating;
| officers that he did not mean to .
shoot him that he*',cant to use the,
gun to push him off.
Joyner is being hoid in jail pend- ;
ing the outcome of Jacksons con- !
dition.
j MAN“APPEALS IN !
| ARSON ARREST j
R. .LEIGH Charged with!
| breaking into the home of William !
Winter of Joe Louis Park and set
! ting fire to a mattress in MinterV
j home, Thomas Jackson was bound j
! over to Wake Superior Court to a- j
i wait trial. Hit bond was set at j
I SSOO.
Magistrate H. A. Bland found
I probable cause in the case heard |
1 last week. A cording to testimony, j
j Jackson broke into the home on
August 20 by cutting screen.
j who are being charged with mur* j
| der in her death. k
FACE MURDER CHARGES
Thomasville police officers have
arrested Manking Joiner. 27:
Johnny Simms, 23, and Sirnm's
wife. Dorothy, 19, all of Number j
' 10 Finch Row in Mis® Barnes’ j
! death.
j According to reports. Miss Barne-s j
j called at the Finch Row address j
j late Saturday night or early Sun--
! day morning and proceeded to:
“have a few" which were alleged- |
; iy sold to her by one or ail of the j
| three persons charged.
Shortly alter drinking the i
| “whiskey”, Miss BwHet he- !
j pame Ml and was rushed away i
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who has hern in agricultural ex
tension work for ,3b year.-*, is the •
first colored worker to he pro
moted to national leader. His
ofii«-e will be transferred from
Hampton Institute. Hampton, Va.
to the I S. Department of Agri
culture in tVa.shitigton. He began
his rareei in North I ,uollna,
"Cain and Abcf'"
Killing Shorks
V C. Comtntmi!v
TA VLORSVII.LE The 27-year j
: oid f, d her of four small children!
i was the victim in a (Min and |
! Abel" slaying which shocked thU !
; community last Salutday nidi?. |
He -.Vi!-- the victim of his 21-year!
oid brother in a shooting which J
! occur- :! at the home of the two j
! men’s mother
Killed instantly by a. charge I
; from a 43 0 gouge -shotgun was R. j
T. 1 Dude) James The gun was !
welled by Di< key James, "Uubv j
; brother'' of the victim.
Police- re-ports .so.-- that the two i
: men quarrelled in Uv yard of the j
boric of :hejr mother and that j
Dickey J airier, went into the house. !
st. cured the shotgun and came I
, back into the yard to iiie one j
! blast at hi.-, brother.
The riiarg-' was caught full in j
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I
j FIRST OF A KIND Mi»»
Toni Stone, female second btfe
i man of Byd Pollock's Inetianapo
j Hs Clowns will make her first
j appearance before the fans of
i North Carolina in Raleigh, Mon
• day night, September 14, when
\ the Negro American League
i ciuanpioEs clash with the Negro ,
The Carolinian
10c y~7f 'jt&i&L r:? IQo
VOLUME XII RALEIGH, N. <' WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1 DAG XI UP,EIi l' o'
CRACKDOWN SHOWS N.C. MAN
AS* BIG-SHOT’ DQPE-HANDLEK
Dunn Man Is
In Syndicate
Fed. Declares
DU’NN' The . M.-r' ot the fed* •
i-nj mrc'divs squad tn North Caru
iir a ci no word ■■ t'is week
n s. dt>sc*ibe<l the ownet of
.. k>v,d Negro mvht-Uub. nat>bv-‘
in Nov York on a dope raj. ?>**.
voi r:, ' "Dt,:; OJXM'ifSO:
-Jot Hamm. *}(>, ".as one of two
! 'Prsi picked up by federal n.ns
: cot it,-nen Sunday as operatives
\ in Nov, \'" s. a:at in i* U 3 oftcviKi*
i,a , itb stop aatch timing.
' Hamm. who, along with his r> th
an. v. as known locally as owner
‘.a the IV. ••.liioitl clue, was
} niii'Wl, si: No ! Another
| man. \V. TL t.Doct Griffin was
| w«pr.ored ;••' toe same time near
I the Cumberland County court
i house in Fayetteville a* he conf
’ pitted a dope so to a federal
| a. font,
Hcmra desci i •■•<' federal
* < \
, * k Ys Oi.: vptuate. UJ a pow-
I erful natiort-wlde dot** syndicate'.’'
W T. Atkinson of Greensboro,
| chief of the narcotics squad in
: North Carolina, revealed that the
! Dunn ex-convict was one of the
biggest suppliers of dope in this
j part of the eountr> and that t‘ie
i government had bmt after him
! for-■ t |e ».»t three years,
j Hamm t*<‘V> is under SIO,OOO :>oud
j for appearance at the September
|2l term of U 3, District Court at
| r’aycueviHe,
Atkinson said that within i mat
ter of minutes after ifenm was
arraigned in New York, sydirate
i lawyers and hondsmen appeared
| w Ith the .> 10,000 hail.
! Hun-tn. who drive.- u Cadillac
convertible still owns the Bird
Land Club establishment, rr.uin
taining another apartment in New
York City.
In 19,id, he escaped a death sen
tence by becoming a state's wit
: ness in a famous Dunn murder
j case in which one of his aecorn- i
j plices went to the electric chair *
land another got life imprisonment
! Hamm and two other defendants
j escaped with light prison terms.
His brothers, A ••.out and David'
i Hamm, have been convicted of
| federal narcotics charge.-- Avan! •
Recently completed a prison term
! for dealing in dope and David is !
| now serving a term in New York, ;
Atkinson said
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i
f engiie All-Stars in an exhibi
tion tilt. Miss Stone, who has
earned herself a regular starting
berth with the Clowns is the
first woman to sign an official
NAL contract and become a reg
ular on a professional baseball
! team.
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' Mrs Wiltetta S. louch, left, of
Deep River, ( imn„ recently ,tp
pointed director of the n<'«
S-rhool of Nursing to open at A
Principal. Farm*;
Drunk Dri\ in« Kan,
i I
liWN School Post
DURHAM The principal nf
a local elementary school, now
awaiting trial on -> charge of
diur.keii driving and v :iu ' Lic-.it.'’
a morals charge la-ought against
him last spring by a 13-year-old
student at his school, v\ replaced
a head of his sehoo* early this
wet'k as local schtfbLs prepared
i for Ve-fini Sfiiii morning's opening
] exercises.
W. L. Bradsher, ,lr. was appoint
'ed acting principal until further-
I notice’’ of ii : "i. ••. --I here
I Monday.
Bradsher rep km - H V Hill
i who is awaiting trial in Superior
| Court on drunken driving charges. ;
i The trial is expected to be heard
: next week
| Last cpricia* Hill was acuuitD'd j
lon a morals t-ham brought by |
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Dead Child's Body
\tlacked By Hals
WILMINGTON Before hi-
I death was reported, a two-year- i
i (,ld boy was attacked by ruts it
I was revealed litre last wck
I County roroivr. Dr. Fred H :
Coleman, estimated tf»o child had
been dead two or three hours -be- ,
tore hi- mottle;. Mrs. Mattie Smith, j
reported his death, j
According to Coleman, rats had :
chewed part of the yoths legs oft j
during that period.
The dead youth. James L. Smith, j
'died of bronchial-pneumonia, the
coroner said, lb reported that he
would turn the case over to City-
County Health Department for a
full investigation after lie had d<- •
termfned if the child also suffer- i
C:d from polio at the time of bis !
death.
Man, Sitting On Railway
Tracks,. Killed By Train
SMITHFTSELD ~~ A Kenly red-
I dent, Freddy Lee McDonald, 27.
■was killed last Wednesday night,
about 10:30 while sitting on the
northbound track of the Atlantic
Coastline Railroad about 500 yards
from the Main Street Crossing
in Kenly. McDonald was killed
when struck by a freight train,
Pittman of Selma.
The train engineer and fireman
according to Coroner James E.
, ti‘i T. College this Fall, discus
... . (he «ew program with Ih. 1
1) Kluford, president of the col
Or. F. A: Bishop Elected
Lott Carey Group Head
BV S. R. JOHNSON. ,IR.
BALTIMORE - Dr. A. Bl- j
shop, of Rich square, was elected j
‘president of the' Lon C’arey Bap
tist Foreign Mission Convention,
I the world'.-- leading Negro Baptist
j group, hew Thursday afternoon.
S'-ptcmber 3, at the r> polar busi
| uess - oMaon of Uk- organization
in tti fifty- annual cession
• here at Loon Baptn-' < hurcii that j
■ opened on Monday. August 31. end I
cIo.--.ed on Friday tmhil, September I
4 -it!! Hu. honorable Cl-'irencc L. !
i Simpson, Liberian Atnba».-..>doc to j
j the United Stat-.v bringing the do*- ;
| mg message lt> the more than 2,000 |
; messenger.-; and visitors from t.vvi-n- !
■ty four States, foui foreign coun-
I trier, mid Hie District of Columbia.
| Rev. Mr. Bishop ialso president
'-1 the North Carolina Bapli l Cim
| vent ion and holds several ot-.u-r
j lop Baptist post - both on a state
: end national level,
| In the piesidoncy of the Lott |
| Carey convention, which has tile j
1 largest mc'iit-t-iship of any Negro!
| Baptist group in the world, the. j
I Tarheel churchman succeeds Dr. •
' U G. Wilson, p- dor of Zion Bap- j
' list i ’iauiw'i. ForUmonth. Va.
$.114,000 < OI LH I KI)
i According 1o the annual report |
of Dr. Wendell C. Summerville. i
j of Washingtoin. D. C., executive j
I secretary of the convention, u total i
i of $114,019.81 was raised from all I
sources for the year 1952-53. Funds |
were spent for mission work ir j
Haiti. Liberia China, India and;
South America.
COLLEGE HEADS PRESENT j
j Presidents of Virginia Seminary, j
j Shaw University and Virginia i
stated that they saw Ihe man only ,
w-hen the train was about ,-.00 feet j
from him. He was sitting on the ;
track with his head in his hands ;
mid his elbows on ids knees. I
they reported,
McDonald sustained a fractured
skull, broken neck and his left
arm was broken in two places,
Coroner Pittman said.
He was killed in front of the
home of his father, David Me
I—BIIF- ' ll -*.■lll min .
Icsje. She will offlcialy as-umr
;)>•• nriv post with the opening
of the Fall quarter at the cot
lege on September II
f ' '
.
DK I*. A. BISHOP
: 'nii v University were present,
iPi <•;vient M <’ All>;r., William
I p iyli' i - in.') and John KHiSOttii
: i aril madr t strong approi ,r oe
| trained religious worker., to com*
! bat the troubles and conflicts in.
I the world today
RETIRING PRESIDENT SPEAKS
J Dr. Ulyses.se,; G. Wilson, retiring
j president of the convention Li
j vis annual address declared that
) ‘-the missionary task of the church
jit becoming more ."I’ld more diffi•
' .-u.lt, and its sphnv oi activity will
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, Donald, the father stated that be
i had not seen his son since Monday
jand that he was asleep when the
i accident occurvd.
McDonald was o;nployed by the
Wilktiffon Lumber Company of
Kenly. The coroner stated that
his investigation was complete and
no future investigation would bo
held unless further details de
veloped in the ease.