Clinton Mac Held For Rape Os 9-Year-Old - ■anMVMiimMciMnM'iaMM-uiJaMMram- ■■ '• ~ » ati>.Mniire—wnMMOTniiwniiiiiniiwuii i■ i hhhi—mi AGED CITIZEN DIES AS HOME BURNS x -k ★ ★ ★ * ★ ★★★★★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A- ★ -A k ik -k .Anery Elders Disturb Communion s a/ j The Carolinian __ _ _ ) VOLUME THIRTEEN’ WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1354 RALEIGH. NORTH CAROLINA’ " NUMBER XXX Dntn :en lMother Exclaims • My Son 1 -- ! IMHSHI W 3@Br Jpfi& &Egllk MOBSk mm 8 HBK Jli» MS& Wm§ m. w * mix i -rs& wm te' Ip® ’W Till && wT' ® w| m M fc flB i g| mb 88w| |i 8 W i§m BST B B *' ihßk 88 BP sfg|| Be $aM i P ■!■« fejp B■ ■■ fc® fly w mm ' wmmm Mi Ml Ms MMMI HHHI Bis regrgfĝdfg Oti IUALS WERE RAFF- | 4 < } As to the cause of Wr it* Johnson's death as this ! I'l’oto was taken Sunday. No | ■ : ;e macks of violence '.vert* Kosky ML Churchmen Walk Out On Communion BY li HARKEN AjCrA MOUNT Ail Rocky | Ainu:'.! is talking about looking i bending an ear in the three ■•on of Mount Pisgah Presbyterian (. . i'.M.ii, i ESA) where, on Sunday, J 4th independence Day !.■•:• o ot the elders, followed by mb. : .-: of heir families, are re i!BN CHURCH 111 DISTRICT ! MEETiNSS ! Church School leaders of the Fayetteville and Raleigh Districts ot Uu: A, M. K. Zion Church, pre sided over by Revs. J. A. Brown and G. P Madkins. respectively, heid very successful Church School conventions at Oak Grove Cnurch, near Erwin and Si. Joseph, Oxford, last week and the ! reports show that, the meetings j vi re the most successful ever held. Th c Fayetteville District ( on: - riuo ope ned on VVed u and c'.osed on Friday Persons who directed • r-k cT the conference, ii P Brown. Finn (C olinued on page 11) Stricken Man classes Old Killing DURHAM Rudy Faucet’e, 54, \ *'ded the police in solving a mur- j < ■ winch took place here in ki 11, when he walked into the 1 police station and told them that hi. conscience had whipped him j so until he became homesick and j - upon o'tio;; back, decided to tr 11 ' ihe turhi about the shot gun j slaying of a ?1 year old woman, i Mis. Hattie Patterson, at 511 El liott Place. 16 years ago. The confession sent the officers j info the files and after dusting ‘or sometime, they found that the ' rime had been * committed and that they had written it off as 1 : found on the victim's body. Later. however, an autopsy j ordered by Coroner M- W. Kcn | nett and performed by Ur. < T. Wilkinson of Wake Forest, i ported to have walked out of ! Communion Services being ad i or and two deacons whom Rc.v- James W. Barnette, another eid er and wo deacons whomt Rev, Mr. Barnete had "drafted' for the occasion, allegedly, prior to the tale arrival of the elders who "walked.” PR EVID IIS TE N SlO X S ft is generally known that ail has not been complete harmony at Mt. Pisguh, a church dating back to about 1867 but, with only I 105 members on roll, about sixty per cent of whom are. active in the church. A score of the others have moved away, a few of whom occasionally send or bring an of fering. Only recently a flare of tempers was shown between Pas tor Barnette and his Sunday School Superintendent, Prof- K. R. Armstrong. Members and friends had been led to believe that Pie mailer had been recon ciled between them. However, Rev. Barnette, upon preparing for Communion, hud alerted two deacons that they i aught be needed to assist with commuion. as he observed only one elder present, it was learned. Dur ing the process of Communion two elders are said to have arriv ed, whereupon one of them was reportedly invited to help serve the Sacraments. After an apolo getic statement in the way of "ex (Continued on page 3) ! unsolved. ; Fauceite told of how the wo man kept cursing he and his 1 wfe. He said they occupied j separate sides of a 2-family I house at the Elliott Place address, j there had been a drinking party j at the house and the Patterson I woman began cursing Faucetle | and his wife. Fauccttc says he | sot tired of Die cursing and got j bis trusted shot gun and aimed : at the woman. She fell mortally wounded and Faucette took off. He told of how he look a freight i train .way from Durham and (Continued on page 8) revealed that the man was the probable victim of a blow in the region of the head. ST Vi EOTO BY tHA S. R. JONES. i T' : ’ ' I k INSIDE VIEW -- Show* a j portion of the congregation at | tending the annual Sunday j School Convention of the. Fav- j ettf ville District of the AMEZ I . _ I | News Os North Carolina - - - in Brief | “NEVER DISPUTE A WOMAN” Walter Horton, 34year-old I Ze billon man, was being j treated at St. Agnes Hospital earlier his week for head wounds allegedly inflicted by liis wife. Horton is said to have been struck with a glass tray from a refrigerator, j Twenty stitches were requir ed to close the wound- He lost considerable blood, of ficers said, and had a trans lusion of three pints at the j hospital. Horton’s wife is quoted as saving that she struck him because he was "after me” during a domestic squabble. No charges were, preferred pending Horton’s outcome. SCHOOL TEACHER CLEARED HERE Charged with issuing a worth -1 less check, Mrs. Haze! Long Sor rell of 2404 Bedford Avenue was ; cleared of the count in court j hero Wednesday. It was brought ! out in testimony that Mrs. Sor ! roll had made the check good. The woman, who is a former Wake Fci sst Man Loses | Life In Sabbath Brawl WAKE FOREST ~ “He was . i drunk and is gone to hell," were j | the sobbing words of Mrs. j i Mamie Johnson over the body of i her son, Willie Johnson, who was ! killed in a drunken brawl here : Sunday. The slaying marked the end oi a ; drinking party that .round the mother, her two sons and many others engaging in the sr» of con suming intoxicating whiskies Cm an early hour on Saturday until the wee hours of the morning on ; Sunday. When representatives of the CAROLINIAN arrived on the scene about 1 I’, M. nutuiay. ; they were told that the mra j hers of the party, including the mother were too drunk to give any facts about the kill ing and the officers lsad to piece together what informa tion the newsmen could get. According to investigating of ficers, McCoy Johnson, 39, mar ried and the father of 5 children, | Church held at Oak Grove Church, Erwin, lasi weekend. ! The yearly affair attracted a ! record crowd and, according » resident of Weldon, was arrested for cashing a $45) check at Brit tains, Inc., drawn on the Bank of Halifax, where officers said she had insufficient funds to cov er the check. DIES IN BURNING CAR KINSTON Elias “Buck” Coward, 48, Kinston, Route 5. Was Cured to death Tuesday when his car flipped over after hitting another car and burst into flames Coward died in the flam ing wreckage while passers-by tried unsuccessfully to remove him. Highway Patrolmen report ed that Coward was driving a iong a rural road, struck one of two parked cars and overturned. The gas tank exploded before the man could free himself. INFANT GOES TO JAIL SMITHFIELD A seven week old baby was taken to the County Jail here this week, but not through any fault of its own. Its -mother was the offender. Helen Berry, 27, was jailed V*’ed nesday on a charge of public j drunkness. The woman was try- | in* to get it) * door of the closed : I Daniel, Keith, a roomer at the i home of Mrs. Mamie Johnson, lo- I rated on me Wake Forest-Durham i highway, two miles from town, ! an 4 abcuc 12 others, including the I dead man had been drinking for ! somethin::. There carnc a tune i when ’he two brothers and Keith get into an argument. It was then tiiat Willie is alleged to have beer struck in the temple by his i:- ' act. I Jills juncture it became a ; free for ail- Keith Is alleged to | have been hit in the head, but S was able to leave the scene. He | v.v.s traced by a trail of blood : that, he is supposed to have left I as he fled the scene. Ho is being held in jail along with William Hicks and McKoy Johnson. The officers were baffled to as- | certain the cause of Willie’s death 1 find Coroner Benr.ott ordered an i autopsy. The body was ordered j removed to the Hoy,star Funeral Home, where Dr. C T. Wilkinson fContinued on page 8> to presiding older J. A Brown of Henderson, was "The finest convention held in many years,” ~ STAFFOTO BY ( HAS, R. JONES, Colonial Store when arrested, Chief of Police Bill Horton said. Shortly afterwards, the woman’s mother come tc jail and told poiice officers that it was time for her baby to be fed. Olficers proceeded to the home and found a younger sister taking care of the child. Both were carried to jail where still another sister happened to be confined. This sister took the baby to its mother to be nursed. Later the officers carried the infant and the young er sister back home. The mother was released when she became sober again. STABBED IN HEART NEW BERN Donald Gibbons is being held here for grand jury action following a Craven County j coroner’s inquest into the June ] 2d slaying of another resident, j George Dawson. Gibbons allegedly stabbed Daw son in the heart while t h e two were waikig along Queen Street, : in the early morning hours, with i j a Negro woman, Lillie Mae Wii* I Rams. The Williams woman took i (Continued on page J 5) Ai^, . j£s£sSjKsj GjjliSfcrit ft i«i. »»-. iJjjfeieSfrg j Fatally Burned J : " EXCiW TAYI.OR Crying Baby Sounds Fire Alarm In Greensboro By PEARLINE FOSTER GREENSBORO The hungry ) cries of Brenda Ann Brooks, age : 5 months, of Suggs Street here, saved the lives of Mr and Mrs Anderson Brooks and their two other children and possible di struction to the house next to theirs, when their four room frame j house was completely demolish ed by fire early Saturday morn- j me. STATE BAPTISTS! SLATED HEBE JULY 28-30 Baptist from every section of North Carolina are expected to ; converge on the Capital City July ! 26-30 for the historic Baptist As* J sembly which will be hold under j the auspices of '.he General Bap- j list State Convention of North j Carolina, Inc. For he first time the delegates j will get- a look at the new and j ultra-modern Baptist Hoadquar j ! tors Building located on South i Wilmintgon Street, which will j I house the convention, j The structure cost, approximate ly $75,000 and Is made of brick j It was dedicated at impressive i ceremonies last January. Raleigh is singularly honor ed in having this new build ins, as it is the first such edi fice of its kind among Negro Baptists in the United States. This facility ts said to symbolize the multiple ministries of the Gen eral Convention and its auxiliary bodies while it serves as a clearing house and a unifying influence for the various denominational ac tivities. In addition lo providing offite ! space for the executive and ser vice personnel of tiie convenlior, the building houses a spacious, fully stocked book store which ; se r ves the general public. Tlir assembly will stress all of the objectives of the Gen eral Convention including home and foreign mission, heneveienoe, Christian educa tion, evangelism.n Special re ports will also be mode by the various local churches, asso- I .’Dions and district conven tions. j LO( V£, TRADEGY Pictur ed above are the remains of I the residence of 83-year- old ’ Exum Taylor, of 3211 1-2 Van j | Roving Worker Faces I Rape Charge on Child CLINTON—-Distort Butler, a SS-year-old Negro of the railroad section of Clinton, is being held in the Sampson County |ai’ awaiting the August term of Superior Court on a charge of attempting to rape a nine-year ole girl LOCAL CITIZEN MEET DEATH ; IN HOME FIRE An aged Raleigh resident, who , | lived s hermit’s existence in the j ! Oberiio. section for many years, ; ! was burned beyond recognition last Friday morning. Eighty-y ear-old Exum Taylor, perished ir. a fire which complet ely destroyed his three reora frame house at 2311 1-2 Van Dyke Avenue. According to a report b.v Wake County's Coroner M. W. Bennett, the elderly man was burned to death before he could be reach ed by neighbors and firemen. An alar m was turned in by a neighbor at 1:05 a. m Capt, J. G, Harrison of the Raleigh Fire De partment said that the old frame house had burned almost to the (Continued on page 8> Mrs, Brooks, waking for ttw baby’s early feeding, noticed the strong smell of smoke in the house and roused her husband. A • quick search revealed the begin- j mug of fire in the atUce of the i house. Choking with smoke, the ■ I couple grabbed their other two j j children, aged 16 month and' 3 j | years and the baby and rushed. J j out nf the house CITY FIRE DEBAR TMENT REFUSED HELP The house, located on Sugg* St. is approximately 100 feet from tar. city line. Knowing from past experience that tb<* (ire deportment will not come outside the city limits, the 1 couple began to arouse neigh- ] burs for help. Water from th* j electric pump in the honoe was cut off when the. wiring ; in the attic burned out first. Repeated calls, to the City Lire | Department, substantiated the fact ; that the firemen would would not I come outside the city limits. Po (Continued on page 8) j NAACP Urges March On Nation’s Capital DALLAS. Tex. Restriction of the federal loyalty and security program to ‘‘security-sensitive de partments’’ of the government, repudiation of- "McCarthyism” which "aims to lead the nation to fascism,” and an annual civil rights mobilization on the na tion’s capita! were among actions called for at the 45th annuai con vention of the National Associa tion for tile Advancement of Col ored People here. The 766 delegates from 40 states i and the District of Columbia adopted a lengthy list of resolu tions ranging in subject matter frciri tnntcvnational affairs to ra* ca! and religious tensions in the U S. The contemplated civil rights mobilization, described in a reso lution as sponsored by the NAACP would have as its objective such measures as a federal FECP with strong enforcement powers, fed eral legislation to abolish the poll tax, strenghening of the civil « rights section of the Department of ! Justice, initiation of a government f Dyke Avenue, who was burned beyond recognition ta an ear* - morning fire on Friday. ; STAFFOTO BY (HAS, 15. JONES. i The victim, who ts the daughter of Mrs. Sarah Lewis Williams of i Ferrell Street, was enticed by Butler to accompany him into a nearby cornfield near the res ; - Juice of Mrs Annie Marshall, who was tending the child while iur mother was away working in die tobacco fields. At about 6 p. tn. Mrs- Marshall who was attending the girl, be ' came alarmed because the child i had been away from the house i for several hours. She sent the child’s younger brother to look for her. In a fev. minutes the boy return ed crying. He told the woman that hi? sister was in the corn* field with a man At this point Mrs. Marshall is said to have proceeded to the com field where she found the scared child and saw a man walk ing away- Several people quickly congre gated at the field One of them recognised Butler and called his name but he failed to cease walk ing. Newly sworn in Negro police officers wore notified of the ir--'- derit and within fifteen minutes | they had arrested Butler on Pine : Street, near the child's home The man was given a prelimin ary hearing before Mayor A, P. Winfrey, Jr, and he is being held for trial in Superior Court here. Butler k reported to have been away from Clinton for about 25 years and to have spent the past eight years working a* a cook in My trie .Beach, S,