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Sunday Mottling Fire Wipes Out Entire Family Advertising Fays The columns of the CAROLINIAN are road by the richest concentrated market in North Carolina, Its readers represent every walk of life and yet they are people with a taste for values and a sense of quality. If it is to be sold, the CAROLINIAN will sell it. .. ; *®r »-W ; y P ■ ss*•; f'>'t iVffifflMJl tff HISTORIC RANDSRAKK ■■— White newsreel and television cameras ground away, and a record crowd Cheered, new Manhattan Borough President HuUn R. lack (!eft> accepts the congrhtulaftons of justice Joseph DiKaico. who administered the oath of office. Looking on are Mrs. Jack and the couple’s 17-year» old son, Edwin. (Newspress Photo, t J Boy Ist ? 54 Highway Vi ctim j ■ OR, BENJ, MAYS UNITED CHURCH SPEAKER,MN, 25 RALEIGH The fifteenth an nual Institute of Religion will fea ture six nationally known speakers on the theme of "The Responsi bilities of Freedom”, it was an nounced today by B F. Carter, general chairman These lectures are held on six consecutive Mon day evenings, beginning this year on January 18, in the auditorium of the United Church at Hillsboro SfW'SB Pj j|g)g[^^jsjjsjs^S■ • ■ ifflm. % 4-J ;~'V-' '•' •" ; ‘" , >l& 4 sPsk?&st ■t£j,\i, a - *HKS£^«h^c^si^K DU, BENJAMIN MAYS and Dawson Streets, and are open to the public without charge. The opening meeting will sea- Cnntinued on Page 8 Mo P r WjSl WEIjCO3J.es GUESTS Forty-six-year-old Paul Magi lore, who became the tirst President elected in Haiti two years welcomes guests from all over tiie world who attended festivities marking the Caribbean republic’s 150th year of independence. The anniversary was observed by Haitians in other countries on .Jan. 1, VOLUME " THIRTEEN MWMM— twwwmiMl<ia»vw»«^cw—m aMMCMIMBMWKINIMCaMMMMM' jj ! IJcribblings 4 i f ay dwtght H!Uf;> WILSON , i k ! - fl -®-„' *«* | HEADACHES I Last week I ran off at the fin ! gertips about hangovers and Sir | William Osier’s discouraging pre : scription for the relief of same ; This week, it may help yu i to : know what you could have done i back in the sixteenth century. Then, you would have simply! called in a surgeon v.ho would 1 have rolled up his sleeves and; bored into your skull with ale- ■ vatory (a device that resembled • i a brace and bit). Without anesthet- 1 ■ ies, of course. In a book published in Paris in j 1579, Ambrose Parel shows greatj ’ delight in boring holes in patient’s ; j skulls. Here is what he reccom-; | mends for the treatment of a con : fusion of a child’s head: “If the j j boner, does not springe back them- 1 I selves, you must apply a cupping glasse with a great flame; withail command the patient to force his breath up as powerfully as he can, keeping his mouth and nose close shut; for thus there will be hope to restore the depfest bone to its place by the spirits forced upwards to the brains and scull, by the ► powerful attraction of the cupping glasse.” Sounds uncomfortable, but just wait. He goes on to the next step if this failed to get the dent out. “Then you must make an incision in the skinne. and fasten such a Trepan (levatory or brace and bit' •! into the deprest, or settled part of I Continued on Page 6 THE CAROLINIAN YEffiTH, IS, SILLED US TIM FAILS TO KSE SERVE 1 1 HENDERSON Eugene Brown, j 'j approximately 16 years old, be cam I | Vance County's first 1954 highway ■ i automobile casulty when he died! , at Jubilee Hospital at 2 A. M. Sun- j day, as the result of injuries su- j • stained when a truck in which! he was riding failed to make a ■ curve. Investigating officer. Patrolman; A. C. Gray said that Brown was | thrown from the truck on the Chicken Farm Road about 10:30 ; Saturday night. Isian Lee is said to have been I i the driver of the truck- The vie- j ■ t ; rn is believed to have been rid- ! | ing in the back of the truck, while! there were five other passenegers: ! riding in the cab with Gray. Brown ; land Gray were the only two in-: i jured in the mishap. Gray is con-! Continued on Page 6 Six Perish In Fire At j , j Vance Farm Home BY ALEXANDER BARNES [ ' ' ENGIJEHARD —When the smold- | | ering embers os’ the frame house occupied jj/ Willie Spencer and hi amily, co ned so they c*..u!d 1 be examined the charred bodies; j of six poisons were found, bringing < 'to Vance County its most! serious tragedy of all its history. | The fire which is believed to j have started from a stove or a | defective chimney was noticed a- j bout 3:30 Sunday morning by Dave Spencer, local merchant. The tra- 1 gedy was rehearsed by neighbors! who told of sighting the inferno in the early hours of the sabbath rnorn and how there was evidence that members of the family awoke LOCAL BLIND [ HAN NOBBED j Local police took into custody, j Willie J. Jacobs 37 Washington! Terrace, for one of the meanest j jobs of thievery that Raleigh has! had this year—stealing from a | blind man, ■ Jacobs, who was found in thej room of Joe Freeman, 11G Hill Street, by other occupants of the house, after he is alleged to have entered through a window about 11:30 Saturday night told the- ar resting officers a fantastic tale- Jacobs alleges that he went to Freeman’s room earlier in the night and requested a “touch” of $3.00. Freeman is supposed to have told him to get the money out of his pants. This Jacobs did and left the house. Later Jacobs found himself want ing some more money and decided to revisit tiie house, hut not by the conventional way and chose to enter by tne window'. Once in i’ide the house, he made his way to the pockets of the blind man and was in the act of ‘lifting” the legal tender from the pockets of Freeman’s trousers, when he Continued on Page <* RALEIGH. WORTH CAROLINA" RAPISTS GET LIFE Four Gei Life Terms In j Rape Case | DURHAM Four Orange Coun ty men, Willie Shaw, 24. Otna Rob erts, 19, John D. Brooks, 25, and Claudius Parrish, Jr,, 20, drew life imprisonment sentences for assault on a thrice married, and now divorced white woman, Mrs. Hipe Sims, Lloyd, 30. here Mon- i day as a climax to a six day trial, from Judge Q. K- Nimocks. The trial was sensational from ! start to finish and the sudden de- j eision by the defendants to piend guilty brought varied opinions from | most of the packed courtroom. The I decision came after the state fin- j ished its rebuttal of the defense ■ testimony. The trial had b(x?n a show for ! most of the spectators and was' taken rather casually by the de- j fondants. More than two days were j taken in choosing the jury. One j hundred persons were called a - with many being excused for either having reached a de-} vision in the case, or being against > capital punishment. Two Negroes were on the jury ! and made history when they were locked up with the other inentbeiL of the Uaibcurcit- Hotel to the night, after being selected This was the first time that a Ne gro is known to have slept in the local hotel as guest. The assault .according to Mrs. | Lloyd took place about 2 p- m„ | August 30, in ,a patch of wmxjs j oft of the Old Fayeteville Road,; in the vicinity of the Silver Dol- | lar, local eatery, which does the , most of its business at night. When the incident- was first made known, there were vai tons and sundry rumors as to w ; hat ac tually took place. The nunc ( ranged all the way from rape to trafficking. Upon the arrest of the four. Sheriff Belvin relate that all of the men confessed t< being at the scene. They were held in jail from th time of arrest until Continued on Page C to find themselves entirely envel oped by the flames and how there i were signs of some of the occu pants trying to escape from the j burning frame house, but were; evidently overcome by the smoke i and lost their lives trying to; escape. Persons who visited the- scene, tried to reenact the trap -dy. but j the best evidence of the fatal fire i were the bodies of Spencer, his; wife, -Mary,- and tnelr four chil dren, Willie, Jr., Bobbie, Tula and! Shirley, The evidence left by the | Lames showed that most of the family did not have the slightest chance to escape. Sortie of the Continued on Page <5 N. C. News In Brief 1 YOUTH KILLER FREED | PLYMOUTH Vernice Lucas j might not have had much luck on his hunting expedition on the nighti of December 12, but he v, as i lucky in Superior Court here this 1 week when he was absolved of ] all blame for the iklling of Joe j Louis Wilkins, Jr., on the night of j his hunting trip. The evidence showed that nn ur argument developed when Lucas stopped at the Wilkins home, in Mackcys as to whether a pint of whiskey had been bought, there. Lucas decided to go home fal lowing the argument and just be fore he arrived home, he saw - Wilkins following him. Ho toid Wilkins to not come any farther and when it apepared that Wil kins did not heed his request. Lucas shot him. CAUGHT NEAR FOCZE STILLS DUNN Edward Lee, 41, 7' it- < thew James of evens, 35, and Y/il ■iam Leech, 55 were bound over t-> United States Di..tricl Court under bonds of SSOO each for being 1 caught near several whiskey stills 1 in Harnett. County. The trio was arrested by Fede- WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JANUARY IS. 1954 ★ ★★★★★ ★ ★ ★ * * if * * * 1? * it Gunman Kills 3; Wounds 2 DFSFS Miiion Man leaves Note; Kills Seif ZEBULON— According to a note left by Lee Ernest Patton, just be { ■ he placed a .38 calibre re \ v or to his head and pulled the trigger, about 12:05 Tuesday, he wanted his Masonic apron buried with him. The note did not say whether he wanted the other vestments of the Or , but it is believed that the members of the lodge will carry out 'Ms request when the body i. into d. C uer M. W. Bennct, when called to St. Agnes Hospital, thought there might have been foul play and summoned a doctor. It'was found that powder burns; were on his temple and gave ere-1 dence to the story told by Mrs. j Patton that Patton was alone in j their home and that she heard a \ pistol 'hot. She says she went i into tl room and found him- He j was rushed to the hospital, where he succumbed. Continued on Page 8 — ! ial officers. Arresting ofifeers said | that two of the stills captured | were of the submarine type and I had capacities of oUO and 2JO gal- j ions, respectively. SCHOOLS GET STATE GRANT RALEIGH The State Board of Education is not undaunted by the pending Supreme Court rul ing and have authorized the spend ing of some of the recently voted school money for schools known ar. “separate”. Two race schools have been slated to get fundi, £. E. Smith High School, Fayetteville, and the J. 11. Hayswood School, Lumber ton. The Fayetteville School will get $70,000 and the Lurnberton school $40,000. STATE PATS OFF CHARLOTTE -- Like Banquo's ghost, the 20 year old cold torture of state prisoners raised its head j here this week to the embarasi- j iient of state officials when Wood-! row Wilson Shropshire received a check for $4500, which solons hope will forever rid the state of any liability in the matter. Continued on Page 8 FSAFSDF bU'.NLS lit CM M.’JUJAM | RAPE TRIAL—Iop photo shows I four alleged Orange county j | rapists as they confer will* at- j j torneys Conrad O Pearson, WH- j I lie Morris, tv», siugii Thompson, und Edward Gadsen. This photo was made Monday in the Durham County Court. House. In Ik? bot tom picture, the lour rape de fendants arc shown as they were ric n fenced by Superior Court | Judge Q. K. Nimmcnks to life Miss. Scene Os Bloody Shooting In Town Store BY ALEXANDER BARNES I COXBURG. Miss - 'Lord l am' coming up and bringing five white! men with me" seems to be the j prayer of 23 year old, crack marks-! man. Eddie Noel, who staged a! one man w; here over the week- i end and w.'wrt the smoke cleared from his .22 calibre automatic Interracial Insurance Agency Helds Sessions At Charlotte BY J. B. HAT REN CHARLOTTE— The W- R. Saxon: Insurance Agency, with state' headquarters in Asheville and a. iorce of forty agents scattered j over the state, held its annual j convention and dinner at the First I NUMBER 5 \ Imprisonment Monday, Junu- j ary 11. Standing left to right : they arc J. D. Brooks, Willie j | Shaw, Otho Roberts and Claudi i us Parrish, Jr The men pleaded guilty of arping Mrs. Hope Sims Lloyd a s she and her 19- year-old companion were out on a date on the morning of Au gust 30, 1353- The Judge recom mended no parole, pardon or commutation. : rifle three white men were dead I ! and two others injured and a feel- j ! ing of fear throughout the com- j inunity. Noe) went on his killer expedi- j tion here Saturday night when William Raymond Dickard, local store keeper is said to have gotten Continued on Page 6 Eaplist Church here on South. Church Street, December 29th with key officials from the home office in attendance. SAXON A LEADER Mr Saxon, a veteran of fifty five years in the insurance bltsj News Coverage \ In this issue of the CAROLINIAN is a I complete coverage of hometown news. If I you want to know who had a party, who | got married, what the preacher preached f about Sunday, the top sports news,, or all I the news that is fit to print, it is in the f CAROLINIAN, Follow our staff through | North Carolina, | ! CITIZENS ASS ? N SEEKS BOARD POST FOR RACE BY .1. A. SHEPARD RALEIGH The Raleigh Negro Citizens Association at us regt* lar monthly meeting, hold Tees day evening, January 12 at th- Bloodw.orth Street YMCA, direct* that a letter be sent to the Raleigh Housing - Authority, requesting the appointment of a Negro to tha. body. The group also approved a mo tion that a request be made to the Raleigh City Council for tine ap pointment of Negroes to the re cently form planning and develop ment committee. In a letter to the council, the Association lauded the turns and aspirations of this new committee but pointed out that Continued on Page 6 . ness ran put any agent bo ha? to ~’name when it comes to writing ‘new business” in the health and accident und hospitalization field Ke has built up during more than twenty-five years w’th his Continued >m Page i»
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