FATHER BREAKS $165,000 D. C. THEFT CASE — - »,— ——— mmtaamm mini mmmuiiii—emu mi i hhth. ruT- gigi mi H» miu*i --i n Patronize Our Advertisers The iisms and businesses that Invite yea? patronage by advertising in the CAROLINIAN are worthy oi your consi deration, They realize that the Negro mar ket is worthy ol consideration and take this means oi telling you they welcome you. Tell them you saw it in your iavorite news paper. yijji hi.,i,t m * j JH ? Myg-. S. 3gg Bp-' f| f' - ' DC-V- I Pv • V .;.- . j , SltrE BEMEMBBRS LINCOLN ~ Born in Jefferson county. Georgia, In IMS Mrs FrisciUa Boatwright recoiled memories ol Abraham j l Lincoln a* she celebrated her 107th birthday in Philadelphia last week. ! Although partially crippled, Mrs. Boatwright can see and hear remark* /* 1 sably well and her mind is very alert. (Ncwspress Photo.) \ Long Drawn Out Tax I i Fight Aids Domestics mum tinn i-nTMi~r-iirr P jScribblings 4 I BY 5 > WIGHT '* H \ i-t IIIL LIS WILSON , I ? ON HANGOVERS I have been having a good deal of fun the past few days visiting the unwise people who over-in- j bulged in “Old Bust-head". They | forgot that whiskey should be used i as a social solvent (to make other people interesting) and not fori the purpose of liquefying the liver | or grilling the gizzard. The pallid face, the pain evoked ! by an ant's stomping across the j rug, the trembling hand, the de- j pressed mood, the head that rolls j under the bed whenever lifted off] the pillow ail these point up! thp profound wisdom of the oid j Chinese proverb, “A golden evening; makes a leaden morning." The afmous physician. Sir Will- j iarn Osier, when asked to pie- j scribe for a badly hung-over pa tient, gave forth with ihc ur,wel come news that nothing would help i such a condition but “tincture of time and essence of patience,” Os course the condition is apaprently ameliorated by continually taking j some of the “hair of the dog” until j you and the dog are peeled to, the bone. ** « • NOSTALGIA With the basketball season under! way again, I sometimes think of j Shaw’s great basketeers of years j gone by: Cecil Flagg, Wiley La- 1 tham, Bill and Nat Walker, Buddy j Bass, Henry Peace, “Navy” Arm- j strong and others- (My memory is] beginning to fail.) That gang could i do more with a basketball than a j hungry dog with a half-eaten ham i bone. “Where are tne snows o£ ■ yesteryear?" »» » » KNUCKLE DRILL Now that the holidays have come j and gone, this column will start | 1954 by inaugurating a new depart-1 spent calculated to hold knuckle drill on selected skulls. The title of this department shall be: GAPIN | OF THE WEEK. “Gapin'’ is an cx- ! pre&sive Polish word meaning ‘‘one; who looks, but does not see.” Thus,! a gapin is twin to an ultracepi darian. My first nominee for “ga pin of the week.” is the person who A is always griping about the bad ■features of his job rather than ■praising the good features; who spends valuable time deploring the I limitations of the job instead of! exploring the possibilities thereof. ♦* « * COMPLAINT One or two “Scribblings” readers j have complained about some un jusual worus in this column, f air. ftorry, but some yea’s ago I re- Continaed on Page 4 ■ *l© !?) -'„ >]' v,‘ i» v- .*,'A -, Louic'VXiiO L* • w a THE CAROLINIAN VOLUME THIRTEEN RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1954 NUMBER FOUR WASHINGTON, D. C. Seven' thousand housewives received the news from the United States Su preme Court here Monday that no longer would they be permitted |to ignore the plea of domestic : house servants that’ they are be ing discriminated against by their i failure to recognize the overall I picture of Social Security laws- The high tribunal ended a three year fight by a Texas housewife to exclude this group from the employed people, sharing in the benefits of Social Security. The de j cision was an adverse ruling fori Continued on Page 4 Race Minister Seeks S. C. Council Seat COLUMBIA. S. C. Political | ! circles buzzed with fervor here j Monday when Rev. McKinley Bow ! man announced that he would seek j ; a seat on the City Council subject; ! to the forthcoming; election Kev. Mr- Bowman will be the second race member to seek the position. A. P. Williams, local undertaker, sought the policy making job four years ago and ran hist in a field of j | six. Dr, Strassner Delivers New \ Yearns Address A t Shaw U, : i WOMAN HELD |IN FATHERS ! !SHOTGUN DEATHj ASHEBORO — Jessie Lee Jordan, I Pleasant Grove Township, was notj | able to explain to Sheriff Coble! I Maness why she shot her father i ! with a 18 guage shotgun last Sun- \ J day and night and was sent to jail j i to await tire March term of court; for the first degree murder of the j . i parent. Sheriff Coble was called to the ■ home of the victim after it had j been reported that there had been | a killing at the home. The report j | is that Jessie became r,raged and : ! seized the murder weapon and j aimed it at her father. She is al- j Jeged to have shot him first in! tne thigh and after he had fallen j j she carefully aimed at him as he j ed wounds into his chest, on both ; sides. He is alleged to have died ] sprawled on the ground and inflict- j Continued on Page i I SCHOOL DUGERS SEEK BY WHITE ★ ★★★★★★**; 2 White Men Held ' In Warren Rape \ Tells Story ;To Carolinian Staff Writer BY JAMES A. SHEPARD LITTLETON This week in' Warren County Superior Court., two white men, .Jesse tRc-d) Har as. 35, and his cousin, Walter' Harris, 19. both of Embryo, near' Littleton, are scheduled to face; j trial on a first degree charge of j forcible rape, upon a 16 year old I Warren County school girl, mark j in:> the first time in the history! oi Warren County that white men : | have been Indicted for this crime! against. Negro women. Both men have been held in the county jail, in Warrenton, with out privilege of bond, since being bound over trorn a Recorders Court hearing, early in December. The older Harris has a previous record ; as a bootlegger and Walter is an | alleged parolee from California, ; where he is said to have served j part of a sentence, in that state. The victim of the crime, for | which these two men have been ! indi.-ted, Bcttie Mae Mills, a tenth grade student, at Mclver High School, Littleton, unfolded to this reporter, a story of beastial brutali -1 ty. She told of being lured to the home of Jesse Harris, by the two men, on the pretext that the mother of Jesse Harris -wanted her to do some house cleaning for ■ | her. j Bettie says that when she ar ■; rived at the Harris home and did | . not see Mrs. Harris, Jesse told her j his mother had gone to a neigh-; bor’s house and would be right j back and she could begin the; ■ cleaning. According *o Bettie, the' two nn i e '.gaged in a drinking party, insisting that she stop work j ; and join them. After she con-1 Continued on Page 4 I Mr. B< lan is pitching his can didacy oil ,ne theory that the elec tion of a Negro to City Council | would serve as the best possible I public relations” in demonstrating. | that the greatest opportunities for! j Negroes right here in the j South.” He plans to campaign; ! which will serve “as a deterrent to i ; those outs forces that tend to I ! point up j the bad side” of j j race relath Continued on Page 4 1 ] RALEIGH Shaw University’s j president, Dr. William R. Strass | per, delivered his new year’s ad i dress to the student body and faculty Monday in Greenleaf Au ! ditorium Speaking on the subject | “The Challenge of 1954” he stated i that the challenge of the new j year grows out of the amazing a ; chievements which we, as a na i ti.on, experienced during 1953. He i gave a vivid review of our ac-; ! complishments in the areas of fam- j ; ily income and increased purchas- i ! mg power making possible more i cultural pursuits. Construction pro-1 jects, he stated, reached an all ; leisure time for recreation and I time high at a cost of more than i thirty four billion dollars spent j cor new homes .school houses, j office buildings, stores, highways, | parks and bridges, i Speaking of military equipment I he said "the development of atomic ! and hydrogen devices, guided roc ; ke.ts, Jet-propelled planes that j travel at supersonic speed new ] armored tanks .and radar screens I and detectors at the out-posts of ; the nation, stagger the imagination ! of man ” I Continuing bn stated that fn» I present generation of American j youth is the beneficiary of the I era in our history, and on tne | ! * \ \ I ■■ MISS BETTIE MILLS D-‘v; ' :~| > j | APPEARS ON ‘‘MORNING j j CHAPEL" PROGRAM — ■ The I Rev. D. N- Howard, above, was in charge of the radio program j "Morning Chapel” Tuesday and i Thursday mornings of this week. ] . j Rev. Howard who is assistant \ | pastor of the First Baptist Church ! , here is field Scout Executive of f Occonncchee Council of Bov f Scouts. "Morning Chapel" is a 3 daily devotional program heard : | on radio station WPTF. This program began on January 4. It is heard dally from 9:00 A. M. until 9:15 A. M." The Raleigh In terdenominational Ministerial Al liance will appear jointly with | the Raleigh Ministerial Associa ! tion. The Alliance will serve on each Tuesday anti Thursday with each church serving for one week The First Baptist Church was in charge of the first week's services. Other pastors who will j ! he presented in succeeding weeks ! are Reverends George A. Fisher, j r i Paul H. Johnson, C. A. Kearns, j I J. VV. Jones, T. C. Hamons, and j j basis cf this fact, we also face the greatest challenge in our history, t He asked the question “are we < better persons by being belter off! t economically?” Our material a-; c chievements", he stated “have far; surpassed our social, moral and! 1 spiritual development.” “What doth! ) it profit a man if he should gain j • the world and lose his soul? The j 1 Continued on Page 4 W.C. Handy, Father Os Blues, Takes Wife At 81 i 7 YONKERS, N. Y. W. C. Hun- f dy, 81, blind comopser of national , a fame took to himself a bride in A a very impressive ceremony here j Saturday at the Christ Lutheran ’ Church when the Rev. Richard I I Koenig gave him the hand of Mrs. ; Irma L, Logan, 51, for belter or t for worse. The composer went to the altar ‘ ried his secretary who had looked j after his affairs for 10 y.ars- Han- r dy, a widower, is a g:cat grand 1 Braintrusters In $165,000 Washington Theft " ' " : " J T ’: -' f" - "''' '' ■ , 01 ]““'» L “ dls » •»<"*.> "»«», or. tho S ho„,d..; o’, h„ j Ulc, ~ shown ol U«o'." "“So husband. lames, as the, rode together 10, a he,,.;.,; :, to,.- cart in the unprecedented haul . Tho ?hSo were ™“ U. 5. Commissioner Cyrus S. Lawrence ior theft of $165,300 j to jail after the heating. ' "' ‘ naacpHead BLASTS SOUTH'S SCHOOL STAND NEW YORK Abolition of the public school sytem with state sutsiriios to individual students, would lead to all sorts of "edu-1 rational quackery and racketeer-! i»g”. Walter White .executive! secretary of the aNtional Associ-, stion for the Advancement of Co- j Continued on Page 4 rr —~ "" j | State News Briefs wifi: kicks hubby FAYETTEVILLE Mrs- Gene va McLaughlin, 34 year old resi dent of Fayetteville is free under a $1.(10 bond charged with the death oi her husband, Lee M. Mc- Laughlin. The shooting took place last Sunday morning after he had threatened his wife for not giving him a Christmas present, accord-1 ing to Fayetteville police. The j shooting was witnessed by 'Mrs. j McLaughlin's nephew, fteco Me- j Lean, 12. A charge of homicide J has been lodged against the wo man. KILLED IN COLLISION NASHVILLE Bernice W. Cash. 44, of Louisburg, was killed in a j collision on a rural road five j miles north of here at 10:20 o’-j clock, last Thursday night. According to patrolman E. D.j Wheeler, Garmon West. Negro of,! Route 1, Nashville .driver of the i second car, has been charged with i manslaughter, wreck less driving' Continued on Page i father. The bride is a divorcee and has lived in New York for a number of years. Handy, who has a home here, ’as a publishing business in New York. He is blind. His best-known comopsition is' the “St Louis Blues", but others including "Memphis Blues”, and “Beale Street Blues.” also are r>* «••«.'i i - .n ote a score of other com posite--, including marches, and Continued on Pago 4 | Local Man freed In Assan't' RALEIGH -- Judge Henry T. j Stevens, of Wake Sup -.dor Court ( here, quoted literary phases in j considering an assault ease which i ; charged John Brook , 31 year old j Raleigh resident with beating his | girlfriend. The phrase quoted by the Judge , fallows: "A woman, a dog, a bee- h nut tree the more you beat j them the better they be.” i In the witness chair trying to suppress a smile- was the victim of the assault, Gastonia Edge: ton Brooks. The woman had previously ruf- ! ; fled her closely cropped hap- on; ■ the back of her head to show where i jan axe blade laid her low. At! I the time that she drew out. a war | rant against Brooks, she was sure i that he was the one who had i whipped her- In the courtroom i | however she contended that s*lo ! didn't really know who had cut her with the axe. Under questioning she admitted, I that she and her boyfriend had "partly" made up. John Brooks, who works at the residence of Wake County Coro-'I BMPBCSB FAYS A VISIT— Her Imperial Bfsjeaty, Bmprt** Mfenee of PStftiopia (right), In one rt illli ta MUUfol a i BY ALEXANDER BARNES M I DDLEBURG, Va. ~~ Torn be tween the love for his daughter and a desire to appease his con science, Irving Grant, tenant farm- j or, related the most fantastic story • of how he was forced to cache a ’ considerable amount of the report-S ed $165,000.00 alleged to have Ten stolen from the United State Bu reau of Engraving in Washington, New Year's eve. The excited father of one of the; •uspecl.s told how hi- conscience! had worked on him since his bob- 1 bv sox. daughter, Mamie Landis. 26. i walked out of tht? court room s her husband, James Landis, 29, and Wiliium Giles, 29, rolled inu> : their yard v, a a shining ne.v. i Oldsmobilo and told him that they ; ' td . •me ''; •'i Mono;/’ and want -1 ed him to keep it until the “Heal" 1 was off. In a heart rendering revelation he told of )Vi ivluciancy to take (lie "loot" and how one of tit.; men pulled a .gun and demand; 1 i that he keep the money. Mr. L r ”- • lis said that he took the box and i put it. in the li< n u. He was a j worried man and j t had to im- Continucd on Page 4