BISHOP WATERS FLAYS HATRED
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WASHINGTON NAACP HEAD
KEYNOTE* < iarence Mitchell,
director of the Washington. J>. C.
Bureau of the National Associa
tion for the Advancement of
Colored People, addressed dele
gates to the North Carolina N.
A. A. C. I’ Conference's meeting
at the .Martin Street Baptist
< hureh here last Saturday alter
Youth Kills His Father
In Mother’s Defense
SA.NFOHD A son’s i-v. f<r
his moth. was tec apparent c-iimv
of the death of his father here!
last week.
The 14 year-o id youth, Chester i
McLean, has been pl aced under a |
|S.OOO bond p adir.. grand jury’
action in the shotgun flaying ol j
bis father.
Sandy McLean, V- the bny's i
father, was killed at. hir hotnr on
Sanford, Boute !,- following an!
alternation .vitJ, hie- do
Lee County Coroner. P J B. i
yerly ordered the boy held after j
an inquest was conducted
The youth's mother, Mr**. Ids
McLean, testified that she had (
County Officials
Face Health Job
The 'lid question of What arc
»e going to do about the Negro" s <
has put. the county commissioners j ,
and the special committee, recent*! ,
ly apopinted to explore the matter, |
n a bad spot.
There are many citizens and one
Raleigh newspaper, The Times,
that say Raleigh has too long been j
without the facilities of proper!
hospitalization and that the health ]
of the entire community is in sen- j
ous jeopardy, due to this woeful j
situation.
Dr. C. Horace Hamilton, head of!
rural sociology, State College, ‘old:
the CAROLINIAN that the need j
for proper hospital facilities, in
Wake County, for all citizens, is
appaling. He is known to have i
made an exhaustive survey as ear-!
ly as 1950 The survey showed that
there was need for 4H beds pet
y*- one thousand population- This,
meant that the need in ’53 would he
*ls beds and 968 for 5960 The a*
variable hospital beds now are less j
than >i that number, with facili- j
lies at s»t. Agnes and Mary Eliza- ,
beth, far below par.
The. College head also deplored,
the fact that there were those who j
v ouid expand Rex and St. Agnes
as separate hospitals. The report
showed that if was not only ecu-
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iffl
STATE NAACP OFHCIRS
Officers of the North Carolina
*t CTjf.Ten'V <•) the NAA r P rre
•■>} show n shave. The c ofuccrs xt
-1 Icitdcr a one-day session tu la at
jßaleigh last Saturday. Included
fHR the group are Kelly M. Alex
noon. He warned tlie citizens to
‘•look at the record of the rap.
didate, irrespective of party la
bel". tpproxxmately 500 NAACP
1 workers were present, repre
senting every major city and
i countv in the state. State NAACP
president, Kelly M. Alexander,
; presided, Photo by (.'HAS. R. i
! JONES.
jjust come from church and
her husband had been drinking
heavily. She stated that he
started "fussing around" while
she vras trying (o prepare sup
per for Use family.
Th« woman reporter! that as she j
started out of the kitchen door
j her husband blocked her path.
• iriling her he Aould shoot her if
-he --vent out the door. Again she,
started out the door and again she j
j w*.s restrained fey her h'tsoamf
j ‘ Airs McLean said that she final- |
j ly made bet way to the bedroom j
land was struggling with her bus-!
j hand for the possesion of a pistol |
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comically unsound, hut that the
question of health was not a mat
ter of race or color, but a ques
tion of human relations. He was
employed to make the survey
when ihe county fathers sought
aid from the Hill-Burton Act to
live Wake County proper health
facilities The report also tended
to show' that small clinics should
Soldier Dead In
Lillington Wreck
LILLINGTON George Wash
ington Powell, 28 year old spldier,
became the fifth road fatality here
Sunday morning when his late
model Biuck overturned twice, 15
feet from the town limits.
Highway Patrolman Paul C Lu
cas of Angler stated that the Pow
ell egr left iire skid marks for 445
feet, skidded 400 feet, over-turned
twice, and then uprighted itself
when it hit a telephone guy wire.
Cotton and Montgomery told the
patrolman that, the car was going
. ssnder, Charlotte, president; Rev.
j L. W. Wert*, Itamiet, Rev. A. If.
j Owens. Rdilsvil’c, W- R. Saxon.
| Asbevil).-.; and Mrs. Ruth Mor
! gan, Wendell, all vice presidents;
i Hev. E, B Turner, Lumber ton,
(N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE)
NEW YGfJK—’Rcdal «arnS religious hotted, tuijust discri
mination and undosnocwrtic *#§relation "are symptoms of the
very sore® dineose which ho* already prostrated hall the
world, Bishop Vincent S. Waters of Raleigh said at In
terracial Sunday obnervance ort Ford ham University here.
A Solemn Mass which stacked She observance of the
The Carolinian
nirth ca
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VOLUME THIRTEEN
Carney Gets Death In
RAPE TRIAL
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“Look At Candidate, Not Party:” Mitcheii
FLORENCE, S. C.—Raymond Carney, the object of a
two slate hunt, lor the slaying of a tryst-keeping white
couple was sentenced to be electrocuted here Tuesday night
lor the death of the man in the case.
Due to the wide publicity given,
the case and the fact that the girl’s j
head was cut off and it took a long !
time to u.nd the body of the man !
, caused a sensation in the state and i
(here were many curiosity seekers
; in attendance at the trial.
The trail moved swiftly and there j
i was very little let up from the
| time the case started, just before j
I 10 a. m. until Judge Steve C. Gris- j
: fith pronounced the sentence.
1 The picking of the jury did not;
take long. It finally ended with an j
’ all-white jury, U took about 501
, minutes to select the jury. The
tsvo Negroes who made up the j
i venire to hear the case were die-!
i missed £•••,!he state The defense'
' jury made no mention of an ap- j
i pta! and n is thought that the
| fact that there were no Negroes
I cn the jury would not be a basis
! for an appeal
he set up at. Wake Forest. Wendell
; Zebulcn, Fuquay and Apex. This
| would only serve one-tenth of the
j rural population
The fact, that it. was found that,
i only g per cent of the white popula-
I tion of the county received hospital
! care, as against 4 per cent of the
j I on-white population was alarm
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75 miles an hour when it approach
| ed the curve coming into Lilting*
: i ton. Cotton said Powell applied the
s| brakes and the car began to skid,
i The car traveled 400 feet after it
began to skid and finally landed
just 15 feet from the l.illington
City limits on Highway 321 West,
i Officials at the Ft. Bragg Hoe
: pita! revealed, that Powell died of
f internal injuries However, the ex*
. tent of injuries received by the
: ether two soldiers in the car was
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I secretary; Charles McLean, Win
! ston-Sn’em, field secretary; At
! terney Floyd B. McKlsslck. l>or
! I am, secretary executive eommlt
i tee; Attorney C. O. Pearson, I>ur-
I ham, chairman legal committee,
j rhoto by CHAS. R. JONES.
Raleigh. N. C WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 27. 1954
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The defense lawyers, appointed'
■ by the court, were successful in j
i barring any reference to the deijth j
| of the girl in the trial, duo to the)
! fact that ho was only being tried j
I for the killing of the man m the
I case
The defense presented ao.Aesti
• many. Carney's three court-ap- 1
| pointed lawyers urged the jury to!
: show mercy.
WALTER WHITE
BLASTS BYRNES';
ATI AMT A The attempi «-r
Governor James F. Burner, of South j
Carolina, to equate the role of h-ej
National Association for the Ad- j
vancement of Colored People with i
that of the Ku K!ux Klan, a- an!
instigator of racial hate, was de- j
nounced hero Sunday by Waller j
White, NAACP executive secretary :
in an address prepared for de
livery at, the opening of the an
nual membership drive of the At
lanta NAACP
I Shanng the platform with Mr. |
White was Thurgood Marshall, the j
| Association's special counsel, who;
i headed the battery of lawyer-*
| challenging the constitutionality of (
j segregation in public elementary j
I and secondary schools, before the j
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! MURDER TRIAL |
| BAFFLES JURY
LULLING TON A mistrial vas !
declared by Superior Court Judge,
George M. Fountain, Saturday]
night, in the case of Mack Vinson,'
4S, of Bunnlevel, who was charged !
with the murder of Theodore Wil
liams, McLeans Chapel resident.
The juror« wee all tied up when
called out by the judge. They re- %
ported .‘hat they were" helplessly
deadlocked
William* died on February
22, 1953, from pistol wounds in
the head which were received
in » fracas, at a, email store,
which Vinson ran, near Bunn
, level.
Police officers found Williams;
dead on the ground, a few feet.,
! from the store, or 'juke joint" as*
' it was called by the prosecutor.*.
An innocent plea was* entered
by Vinston. who claimed self-de-j
fens.?. He told the jury that he
shot Williams because the man
trireatened to "cut off my head.
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State News
Briefs
BOY 12 KILLS HIS COUSIN
TABOR CITY A six year old
boy was killed instantly Friday j
afternoon in the Cedar Branch sec
tion of Horry County, S. C. when j
his 12 year old cousin accidentally j
discharged a one-barrel shotgun,
that he war using to “scare the;
small boy into staying in the'
house.” Aaron J. Hemingway ad- j
rnitted to Deputy Sheriffs Odell!
Floyd and Roy Huggins that he was j
attempting to scare the child. J. :-
sic? Lloyd Hemingway, when the
gun went off. Both of the boj s j
were ill from an attack of mumps.
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second annual event was cl tended by over 708 persons
including leaders in Catholic interracial work.
iri his sermon Bishop Waters said that the modern
age was experiencing the "most brutal attack ever re-
corded in history upon vast num-j
fcers of the human family " and one |
j which "reveals a sickness at the!
I core of civilization."
With atheism, malice and the de- !
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CITY COUNCELMEN MEET; !
PRAISE PRESS Rencher N.
Harris, prominent Durham (N.
C.) business man and first. Ne
gro member of the Durham City
Council '.right) is shown here
exchanging counclhnanic tips
Rev. Lawrence’s Rites Held
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MSN MED 1
IN ASSAULT
Raymond Dickerson, lit?} S.
Hast. Street, charged with as- I
satilt with a deadly weapon o?t i
h's step-daughter with intent,
to kill, was given * four months
suspended sentence in City
Court Wednesday morning,
j The sentence, mm suspended
however, on condition that Die- I
kerson pay the cost of court,
a $lO hospital bill and not vi
olate any law for a. period of
two year*.
It seems that a neighbor of
Dickerson's James Lee William. 1 !
tried to intervene as Dicker
son was assaulting his daugh
| ter and received shotgun bruis
es in the face, Dickerson toil! a
different story. He said that
he was simply "chastising" the
giri when Williams came a
long. He said that his daughter
had hit him with a brick, ife
also claimed that during the
affair, someone hit him with
au ax. This is the time that the
shotgun came into the picture
and began the round of events
!F«i~STQRY
TO HIGH COURT
i The Supreme Court of North Ca
i roltna was given an opportunity j
Ito ray whether a man should d ; r ;
so ■ attempted rape, upon a conf f -:> i
I si on in »hich he trial judge did
not lay a 1 ! the facts before the
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| struction of human rights in con
j trol behind the Iron Curtain “we
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NUMBER 14
with Earl L. Brown of the New
York City Council. Brown de
livered National Newspaper
Week speech at North Carolina j
College in Durham on tjjirrh j
15. "There will always be a j
j j
i Final rites for the Rev, E. C. ]
Lawrence, former Raleigh pastor!
I who died Saturday. March 20 were !
i held Wednesday afternoon at the j
Davie Street Presbyterian Church.
] The Rev. Howard Cunningham, pas
! tor of the First Congregational !
Christian Church here presided. j
j Rev, Lawrence served as pastor i
|of the First Congregational Church j
for a period of 20 years.
Tributes were paid to the
distinguished religious leader
! by the Rev. George A. Fisher,
on brhatf of the Raleigh Inter
denominational Ministerial Al-
Ilance; Dr. O. S, Bullock, pas
tor of the First Baptist Church
here and by a representative
of (he V C. Congregational
Christian Conference.
The Rw. C. Andre Kearns ae- j
livered the eulogy, following Mrs.]
Maybelle Wortham s rendition of j
j The Lord’ Supper’,' which was a j
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Apex Lions Back Bagwell
APEX The moving of the
Inal of the two men. alleged to
| have been beaten by Police Chief.
S. L. Bagwell, to the Wake Coun
| vy Superior court seems to have
i not abated the interest in the case,
according to Town Commissioner
George T. Rogers
Rogers, speaking for (hr- Lions
Club of Ihe little town said, this
week, that the Lions Club is square
ly behind Bagwell. “We think ne
is a good officer", saui Rogers,
Rogers’ statement came on
the heels of the general unrest
! that has accompanied the beat
ing of two Negroes by the town
officer. There a-e many per o«;
who felt that Bagwell shou’d
lx- released of hi.; duties as an
officer of the law, due to the
fact that liis method* of dealing
Promotes Racial Justice j
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i Following the celebration of »
j Solemn High Mass, which marked
the second annual observence nf
InterriU’ial Sunday at Fordham
University, four prominentt fig
ures in the interracial movement
are shown in the University
Church. Left to right they are
Rev. Laurence ,1 McGlnley, S.
A VOTELESS PEOPLE IS A HOPELESS PEOPLE
200,00 Voters Wanted
JOIN THE MULTITUDES WHO ARE REGISTERED
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place and a prominent one for
the Negro press. In these times
of crisis while the battle lor
full equality is still on, the Ne
gro press is Indispensable”,
Brown told an overflow' student j
audience.
1 'h y\
KEV. LAtVRENUE
with Negroes have not been in
i ! the best interests of law and
; order.
j The CAROLINIAN learned that
■ i only a few of the instances or
. | ills handling of' persons of color,
■ | in 3 brutal way, have been brought
! to the attention of the public.
, : He is known to have beaten one
, ; person because he wanted to light
i a cigarette. There arc other in
' | human reports which have been
| reported to the FBI to determine
J whether there was a question of
! civil rights being violated.
It has long since been known
j that Bagwell works and acts as
1 if no Negro has any right (hat he
i should t peel. Tire recent baat'ng
j of Alfred Scott bears out this be
j lief, in that Scott is reported to
| have been apprehended for being
1 J., president of Forhaw TTnlversi
tv; Most Reverend Vincent S,
Waters, Bishop of Raleigh, who
preached the sermon; Rt. Res
Jlsgr. Cornelias .1. Drew, pastor
of St. Charles Borromeo Church,
New York; and Rev. John La
farge. S. J., associate editor «i
■’America."
BY J. B. BARREN
In « stirring address trl th«s
closing of the North Caro
lina MAACP Conference's
Got-Out’The Veto" meeting
at Martin Street Baptist
Church here Saturday, Clar
ence MitcheiJ, NAACP Labor
Secretary and Director of ih»
Washington Bureau, warned
colored citizens to "look at
the record” of all candidate
—•irrespective of party label
—and study them closely to
ascertain whether or not the
would-be office-seeker has
voted '‘fight” on legislation
of particular interest to mi
nority group citizens, partic
ularly in the area of civil
rights.
After passing out ‘‘the record"
of senators and representatives.
Mitchell warned that race voters
no longer felt bound by tradition
to vote any particular party ticket,
bu< chose to select their candidates
or the basis of “performance rath
er than promises".
VOTERS SOUGHT
The approximately SOO NAACI’
workers gathered from over the
state some coming 200 miles
for the one-day meeting to team
about voting techniques, were
briefed by officials and attorneys
regarding their “rights" when ap
plying f or registration during ’he
spring primaries and elections to
follow. A goal of 500,000 voters has
been set as an objective, with state
president Kelly Alexander of Char
lotte and field secretary Charles
McLean, Winston-Salem directing
the program of action, augmented
I hy political action chairmen in the
I twelve congressional districts as
I follows. First district Prof. W, y
C Chance, Sr., Parmeln, 2nd Dis
trict Rev. K. P. Battle, Rocky
Mount and Mrs. B G. Burnette,
Tarboro. 3rd district. Harold
Taylor, 4th district Mrs, Ruth
Morgan. Wendell. sth district
T. C. Mitchell and Charles McLean,
Winston-Salem. 6th district - Atty.
W. M. Marsh, Durham. 7th district
Rev. ,T. J. Johnson. Laurlnburg.
Bth district Rev L, W. Wert?.
!oth district Kelly Alexander
Hamlet. 9th district Oscar Knox,
and W. M. Turner, Long Island, N.
C. 11th and 12th districts unan
nounced.
Other key speakers on the state
level included Alexander, who key
noted the meeting with an appeal
for more work on the precinct
level, and McLean, who advised on
registration procedure, and a pan
el by attorneys; Floyd McKissick,
William Marsh and E. H Gadsden
also a pledge by state. Elks presi
dent K. P. Baltle to support the
program with 18,000 Elks.
E. L. Jackson, CIO Political Ac
tion chairman for Eastern North
Carolina, said “you must decide to
“o regardless of what reactionary
whites or ‘Unde Torn' Negroes
think”.
drunk. There arc those who doubt
I the fact that Scott was drunk »e
--j cause Bag’.vcli states that he had
.i to give him a "going over" in
; j erder to a-uvst him. A drunk man is
. not in position to resist, it is be
lieved. The taking of a 17 year
. old boy to a dump, placing a pistol
to his head and threatening to
, blow his brains ouf, certainly is
■ not considered the proper thing
i for a law enforcement officer, ac
: cording to many citizens of both
: races.
Dr. 6. S. Goodwin, a physician
i and also a Lion, reportedly took
i the lead in castigating The News
• and Observer at last Thursday's
meeting, which wc devoted al-
I most entirely to tirades against the
ij newspaper.
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