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Sudden Death Claims Tuo Wake County Educators LQ r&M:. >" I ~ s* i ■#*£■ ■?‘:> v % : " ' I s .nr. Vlr» H T SHOOT f N G—Kr t•• he. >•.', ov I«Mi, Ti-ye-.it -old res ■ ■' *-f Ealeigh, Route 3, is •■■ o !i iemit'j io a warrant :r,g rp <4 hr Highway ratrol ■ ■ h H Kirby charging him t di i -iU with a deadly wea n.:*h intent to kd! follow - . a -.hooting --crap- in which :’'hf-e Deals Farm Family ' - 'iciher Blow; Homs Bums .'"/SBITLON —An exploding oil. i'o \ v fiar fcc<: s ToutlCl to b- J «-- .• r.--isirSi- ' ■'■ a fire that visited » '. r .' .:, r> Cv <ls > r t - ; » h-lyliUl -•• p~. ■''- -jj • i S' . . . •- '.’ ai t - -, '. ■ f . 'TT "'}, ** ’': .*‘, ' |s- f» $ f . ;. .. i.■v •' h» iai J* •r> V :• —...„! i. -.* *f ,•: rif fl . s .-.t have a good instinct •' •?. hut 'vr >■■'•'■■' ■ t .- r.i 't; a snat» that -. peo. is i-.c p : - :j -' to con* ; ~ j i,n..00?:f in. 1; oonecl here Monday morn : i pcltvoik Z Ot'fiCei'S p3t's - t , 5..-CP Sinr.it Pftt'Jor, :■• v .-> oz East Washington Street, 2 o'clock. They are said to h -.- ... snic iied smoke and got out of •:v- ,;:;• to investigate. Their nose 1 1?.:-. -■■■» \V >hOCS *rt r::;'d& to look better. Convinced •.. »h... Mv.oke was not coming t. ■■.■■•■ <;-.<; strokes of the shine boy, ■n y decided ! o investigate further. T,;ey tried to a'vaken Ihj occu p«irioS( hut to no svsih **■ ? er ■-; ;he ri • c ojicn am! found Robert F.ob’nson, 42 : ASiccri on- -: burl',mg bed Robinson i ci'Uy nrorested their coming into hr piacc of abode and even after it:. • t.ro load been extinguished he to remain. The officers not only did r.ot listen to his protests, '• tiled him off so jail to an ■a or to cartk-ss and negligent charges of setting fire to the prem ; es. Robinson was nor particular About completing his nap in the lockup and posted SIOO tor his ap p. stance m Municipal Court. •i OXTtMRD 0 PAGK RIGHT) riffji nfiiMT him rill! * FiGH FOrh T T—The prime r.us r••••.• t. :i a kniing here that upset | the usual r-rnri routine of this small cr.y a Sl-ycai-oid bakery •., irj.r-r ji- being held without jr ¥ »• r.< bond follov in 1? a ? iO!iru that claimed the life of nil co ■ n, late Monday after toon- O! :i Rc-s-roc Goodwin was for »:••••-:y '.hai'i' d wRh murder alter h: con in. Woodrow Brown, a 40- •. ■■■■■'■■'. < lurni'i: - e worker, died on route to a local hospital as » i . a fa .vound inflicted by a 2'’. calibre, pistol. l'o ; '. ; aid Goodwin, who liv r : ame rooming house on 1 >r :'; ■: i vs the victim, F f i OX PAGE EIGHT) l 5 - Yaar-OSd Wayns Man I;'ji.s !:i To Rape Girl j P, JSonrv C. Mitche!) fSOLOSTOItd (MIB) V.’il- , li• r; F \y. -'3-yr-a.r -old odd job 1 v.-'-rk«r oi Davis Street, is in | W:,yne Co,.nty jail without prl- ! i result of I B™” o' roping a nine year j I old ST'.irdav. July 10th. I.a Th< v.; '-o'. |h - • od- | * » d of T-.■ i.'o. Pattie Sasser. j to :i d: 'cot y T- W. Garris, that j the rnsr. pushed his way in the I front door of her grandmother's | house on youth George Street - and offered her money to be j with him and when she refused, ! tour tnen. sit white, escaped serious UGury The affair grew out of t. near accident nt» High way 15-A South last Wednes day at midnight. McCoy ts al leged to have been racing with another far when he came upon a large truck hearing the four men. Ills auto forced the truck him sr.d him family homeless in its wake. The family of Ruber* Pretty, lien; about five miles northwest of here on lands ov. tied by promi n.t nt Rale: a phv. •', idn, T" . I. :>f j Procter, v, as left destitute when ; ‘ the residence went up in flames i ! at approximately 3 p.m 1 Pretty's wife is -aid to have, narrow!y est aped sermu;. injury n the bia<t i The fir? is rep-rted to have „,., yi. ijirejd through the dw-iling and three pur« of w.-rc the only yar-,- -ions saved h\ ti c iirti,, of cv’ppt for *bc cloth),-, t'-.it th»y were wnartng at the time of the. fm F’.’-r:it«rc •tRd other poss'.’-slons were tic sire- cd. Pretty ras v, o-xed f- - V," R . Bunn and Company, local wht»i-? ,a.U cs, for the past. 21 yea: r Hi s' ' j family, including thr-r grandchil | c.f.r;. farmed while he commuted 1 to his job here Mrs. Bunn said Sunday night that efforts were being made to : oD‘ajn a place for the taniiiy to l-ve. and also to collect cioth';»>g that they might he able to make use of. All-cut efforts h-rr-r been laun ched whereby the family midht be able to receive aid. Several local vc-ll as outlying areas i reported ropoiiu-s begun yc U!V ' ing in imemdiatcly following f e ordeal. Crops on the farm were d.'•■•:• • £o;,:d ;./ the reecnr. h<ni ti.iiin, , airl Pretty had tn ob'ain s.-.r.tc of . 1 tiie stirplu- foods distributed from stocks' of the federal government for his family That, rood was de Mental Parolee Drives j Wild Car, Escapes Jail | MILTON A new twist in driving came out m Danville, Va, when Warner H. Brandon, 43, j i a parolee from the Centra! In- ! | stnution. Petersburg, Virginia, j drove out of- parking lot at the ; ; alleged rate t.! 35 miles per hour, j ; went tnrough traffic came in S damaging contact with two cars, j ; crossed the Main Street bridge j and succeeded in straightening j | out a curve that landed him in- , ; to a tree The twisted driver whs arrest- J j f.-d and placed m the Danville | jml. It was. rxpeced that he ’ would have to face charges for ; driving under the intluence of j | intoxicating beverages, hit and i run driving and reckless driving j The officers were ready to I | testify as to how the driver acted ; i and how much damage he had | done. One woman is known to ' lave been treated for shock when i | the seeming crazed auto hit. a j cn* in which she was riding. This he the i rip cod off h-;r undergar ment and raped her. Detctive Garris, in an inter- i view with your reporter, said | that the accused v/as a former j convict and had a venereal di- j sense. The victim was examined by 3ir. E. U. C-orkcy of the j Wayne Health Department who found that the child h d been tampered with and ex- i posed to a venereal disease, j The child was treated by the Health Department (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) off the road -it which time an argument ensued; and McCoy produced a gun. The four men, Oxford residents, all sitting in •he cab of the truck barely es caped being hij by 5 bullets fir ed bv McCoy He is scheduled *o be fried in Garner's Record •-rs Court next week. stroyed too L .<:.v fiit-men were- called, but when they, a rived the building i .. ■ ‘ it- conient.s bad burned to the g'-panci WAYNE JURY SHOOTING special To GARBLIN'AN KIN'S! -N (Mlß't At the intis-! -•-• of Editor Sam Byrd of the . T.iGrsng*- Gazette and the La Gsn.ge Clnef of Police J, A. Wheeler grand jury action has been promised in the mysterious pistol death of Willie Tate, 32-year old. on the night; of July 5. District Solicitor Waiter Britt of Clinton has promised that a bill of indict- . meet charging Woodrow Clark, Negro, with Tate’s death will be 1 i presented to the grand jury. Clark i was oaf of the four persons pre sent when the shooting occurred. A packed courtroom Thursday. July 8. heard Recorders Court : j .judge H. A Rouse release Clark after hi found no probable cause I against the 37-year-old Negro. Clark was taken into custody again Thursday afternoon by officers of Lenoir County Sheriff's Department and char- j ges were preferred against him ! as a result of a July 3 brawl | tbai took place on the outskirts j of LaGrange. It was the third i (CONTINUED OV PAGE EIGHT) | also was supposed to he dam- j aging evidence against the man. j f The whole situation look; a new j ! turn when if, was, found tha* he j : was a former inmate at the in- j i stitution. j When i! was found that he had been paroled, it was decided that th' best tb.ing to do was to have him returned to the place of I menti-ii confinement and the . marges disposed of by awaiting | his recovery. Court observers I held little hope that he would be ' returned for trial, and felt that it might, be well to forget the whole incident, if they could be assured that he would not be found in Danville parts any more, ;EUS TRAVEL 1 TO BE AIRED j WASHINGTON—Hearings on a j i comprehensive case concerned i j with ‘ compulsory segregation in j interstate transportation will be held by the Interstate Commerce Commission here on July 27. The case, brought to court by the National Association for the I Advancement of Colored People, deals with segregation of inter state passengers by railroads, rail road stations and restaurants in i raUroad stations . The NAACP filed the com plaint with the ICC on Dec- 14 1 past, asking that “after due hear* ! ing and investigation, an order ; be issued commanding” the rail* | read companies named in the case i “to cease their discriminatory ; practices against Negro possen* j gers in violation of their eonsti* i tutional rights.” j Tile railroads against which the complaint Is filed *re th* i St. Uouis-San Frame into, Louis * ! (CONTINUED ON PAGE EltfWm The Carolinian VOLUME THIRTEEN WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 24 .1354 Fate Visits Stricken Family AS WAKE HOME BURNS ★ ★-A- ★ ★ ★ * it it ★ •& ¥ ¥■ ¥ Winston-Salem Robber - Murder Faces , . ' ■ >::;. -J; s o', . v ;f:' .;■ qfepi Wk»- HSfe 'M¥sSk Wms, ■;': ... •. •/•. 5* 7. f~''M il&ff 11s j ||| B ® |p <; ii§| || ; '"v; || ;v -.. §;|l>||f|| 8“ |gp|| 1 «%»a r ?M, poA :-v ; fe •?. ‘iv ! F©cf fSi' ;0 : ‘- jg|| M| ; ISlllt : W®im ' Wmm iiMMafe g: rr v#f 1BB9& H II | •<***>»• * ■* lwHS ••* **«*'••'• -'■■■ -••=•“«• •*•'•«* -•'■*■' v ••...’■ &w 4 &>k: mgsn*-jmt-‘ ■MsmiStim'S -aw «« Camel Giy Juiy Says j Guilty Without Mercy BT ALEXANDER BARNES WINSroN-tsALEAI Robert S ; Connor, convicted robbe-r-murdere, : faces the death chamber for the 1 murder-robbery of Langston Rob erts, on May 28, in a store, located at Third Street, and Cleveland Avc The trial was one of the swiftest ever io be held in the local Superior Court. It began with the selection of the jury which took more time 4ha n the presenting of the evidences The task of selecting the jury was made harder when it was found that there were many ROBERT S, CONNER J , LOCAL GROUPS ! PLAN TO STUDY I INTEGRATION i I Meeting Wednesday evening a | group of citizens voted “to study j j and plan ways in which the com- i j munit.v of Raleigh can respond | to the decisions of she United ! States Supreme Court with re- I spec*, to segregation." Represents | fives of twelve organizations were present at the first meeting, held at he YWCA Report# w ere presented on . other communities' steps to com ply with the decision on segrega tion in public schools, and on ! | Cincinnati's effort* to integrate ; | teaching staffs. It was decided to j j invite representatives from addi- : | tional organizations to a meeting i for setting up definite goal;- of study and action. Present were persons from the Fellowship of Southern Church- j men. Human Relations Commit tee of V W.C A., United Council ; of Church Women, Ministerial , Alliance, Citizens' Association, ■ | Council on Human Rights, United ! War Mothers, Raleigh. Frogres- j rive Business League, Friends j Meeting and Unitarian Follow- : ! ship. N. C. News In Brief ennui immiih mw mii iixtcMißinMm «v m nm* mnwiniMn ■ « '*»»»» urn-.. WOMAN BEATEN, MATE SOUGHT DURHAM —Mrs. Algema Shep herd, of 408 Canal Street, is in serious condition at Lincoln Hos pital following a besting alleged ly inflicted by her husband. Ho race Shepherd earlier (his week. Shepherd, who Monday after noon, was acquitted in Superior Court of a charge of non-support, is alleged, to have beaten, kicked, and choked his wife- A warrant charging him with assault and battery on a female, resulting m serious bodily injuries, has been issued by police. MTTKOEREK PAROLED imr*. Srtiscilla. Currentnn, 48-yejir-oM woman convicted m her husband In persons who were opposed to capital punishment. I lie jury was picked from ,>. regular pan el of 23 and a special venire of 75. Three. Negroes wore a tnong those chosen to listen to the evidence, one of them be ing a woman. The case hingc-d on an alleged i confession by Conners, which was reported to have been given to : the arresting officers. The confess ed kjivr is alleged to have arriv ed in Winston-Salem on the morn ing of the killing and going di rectly to the store for the purpose :of robbing it. ; The weight of state's evidence, i based on that confession, was p.re -1 sent.ed by Capt. W. R. Burke, Sgt. J H Lentz, Sgt S C Cable and S ; C E. Styerx. a’! of the VV n 'dioii-Saiera Police Deperlffiont i Sgt. Styers and Sgt. Cable told J of Connor's arrest on Burke Street i about 4:30 p. m. the aay of the shooting, and corroborated details of the confession outlined by the I other officers. Twice defense counsel attempt* ;ed to crack the testimony under cross-examination. "Didn’t Connor tell he was drunk 1 and that he'd taken some w hite I pills before the robbery 9,1 Attor ney McClain asked Sgt. Lentz at | one point. "Ho said he’d had a drink nut ' that he wasn't drunk, the wiimr-s ; replied. “Nothing was said about I any white pillp.” Witnesses also denied that Con nor had said bis first shot was ac cidental, though they quoted him j as saying he didn’t know the vic ! tim was hit 'til he saw him slump ing over a meatblork at the rear l of the store. The only contradiction showing up in the testimony was the a mcunl of money involved in the ; (robbery. First accounts indicated SIOO or more was taken. Connor insisted, officers said, that he got: only sl4 or sls. (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) ■ Citizens ’ Petition Draws Results In Tobacco Hub ... ~-jL - i■. i.. 4 ■ > As a re- , suit of a petition signed by 1,000 : local citizens and presented to i the Wilson Board of aldermen : ' lequestmg a fire station east of | the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad i tracks, the Wilson Board of a!- j ! derrnen voted last week in favor : of the project j Tile action was the result of j a petition that was presented to , j the Board several weeks ago. The j i petition signed by 1.000 colored , citizens, was prepared by a c-iti j jen's committee representing ■ j many colored organizations. It ; ' was presented to the Board by j | Rev T A. Wilkins pastor of the | First Baptist Church. The petition, requested thai I a fire station he. plated east . Richmond County five years ago, was among several pris oners whose paroles were an j nounceri Monday. Mr*, Ctir ■ renton was sentenced in An- j i gust, IDID to 15-30 years for second degree murder fell (he killing of her husband, tins sell Currcntow. j 1 HUMAN SKELETON FOUND WILMINGTON-Workmen dig- I j ging a ditch on a construction J | project, here this week unearthed j I a human skeleton which a phy* j | sirian said apparently had been j | buried for many years- “It, is pos- I sibly the skeleton of an. Indian , or Negro,” said Dr. Fred Cole- ! man, coroner, Traces of hair vVe-re • found upon the skull. WoE-;•••>.,-* j found it. ai a depth of about, four (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) I RALEIGH, N. C. 1...,... (-'AN HE DO H ?—The bis baseball poser on everyone's tongue this season is -Can WiUie do it'*" cf Miusf, "- the amazing New York Giant outfielder, who is ahead of the timetable set up hr Babe Ruth w blasting a record of CO home runs in one season. The “.Say Hey” kid has passed the half way mark., and is shown looking at i!;r sluggers who tried to rqtmi the record of the Herculean Rath (center). Top, Jimmy Vox and Hank Greenberg; and bottom, Ralph Miner and Hack Wilson, <N«wspr-as £ TlOtO. } Wake & Jolmston4-H Clubs Plan Calf Show /at Saint Augustine’s ~. j t i , » i » < *.* »_ _ i«_ j_ ry-Tt. _ .. t. , _ .... _ * 1 . t* a.. -i .-J Wake and Johnston comity 4-H Clubs W'U hold a Kc\? Farmers of America Dairy Cali Show here. • as the Athletic Field, St. Au’uv i tine's College. Wednesday. August 4. according to W- C. Davenport, Wake County agent of the State . College Ex'ension Service This xx-ill he the second of <!. * it.* , Co Lin# KaiSroa.d tracks to afford bet ter protection to Negro citi sons living in that section. T HacSktr.cy, president of Hackney Brothers Body Com , pan./, added hist weight to the re quest for expanded fire, prelec tion. He said the current lack of ■ fire protection east, of the rail roa-i is a shame in view of The great industrial buildup which has taken place In. that section during recent years. "However," argued Mr. Hack ney, "a new fire station is not | ,ne answer. Wilson's main fire station is within a stone’s throw | ; of the effected area. What the ; I city needs,’ he said, ‘is an under- | i pass or overpass to get the fire | trucks aceross the tracks when I i they’re needed ' from a fire ; ; protection standpoint, tire com- j missioners did not look with j favor upon Mr. Hackney’s idea. | On the other band, they said it j would he a fine thing to relieve | - the niruruns; traffic burden and , | erase the vehicle snarls vrveh i ] develop when trains arc hlock ; ing the crossing, j For the price of an underpass the law-makers reasoned. Wilson | can build 10 fire stations. Then ’ 100 the process of condemning j property for approaches to such | a route would be practically inv - possible, Newtheless, the board ; seemed to give serious considera : tion to such a project, authoriz- • | ing the mayor to appoint a three- ; ; man committee to work with the j board on developing it in the dis | lant future Dr. G K Butterfield, the city’s . j Negro alderman who backed the \ | petition all the way, stated that j ! the move was long over due i (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) NUMBER XXXI such shows in be held by the , tary The show is not only staged two counties 'and will bring I show the prize calves that are .... .. . . . being raised in the two coun tie*, to the Inca! scene the best m ; . . . , . , ■ ! but serves to create interest, in thoroughbreds to be found. j is,*, industry and to show the The members of the 4 H Clubs I many advantage* that can be de nd the NFA have vowed that * rived from engaging in it. this will he die best show j The committee is composed of ever staged. ; W. C Davenport, Negro county F*ans for the show were com- agent: B. T McNeill, assisant Nf . pt ted at the Blood north Street ; gro county agent; J T. Lock". ’ ' ‘A a few day-i ago when in- j vo-ac teacher; all of Wake Coun -1 listed person? from both coun- • ty; Clinton Boon*', assistant N< i; s met. The show is staged by j gro county agent; and E G. i Raleigh Merchants of which j Swann, vo-ag teacher, both of G esley Williams is the seer#- t Johnston County. Breast-Loving Bee Frees Woman Driver In Accident GREENSBORO - Hard boiled , police officers have listened to many stories about speeding. I drunken driving and accidents, but local highway patrolmen had to ac- | •! eept a bee story from Mrs. Pearl I Fox. here Tuesday, when she told ! of how a bee had taken refuge in | i her clothing and caused her to j i loose control of her car at; ldo s 1 l crossroads, on the Jamestown-Guil- ! ford Road. When officer* reached the ESCAPE ARTIST ! BASK IN PRISON ! i GREENSBORO Jbdge Allen H. Gwynn proved here this week, j in Guilford Superior Court that j justice can at any time be tern- , pored with mercy, even with a defiant violator, when be sen- I fenced Classic King, self acclaim- ! ed. professional escapee, to eight 1 years in the Centra IFrison and j to two years in the Guilford ( : County jail, with the understand- j irg that should King prove wor thy he might not have to serve j the two years. This happened Tuesday af ternoon when King was being sentenced for receiving stolen goods at the July term of court King sat in the witness <CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) I ! RITES HELD I FOR PRINCIPAL |TEACHER R L. Best, prinripa! n f Thu- Bois School at Wake Forest tor IS years, died suddenly Saturday afternoon at his home there. Here in Raleigh, one of the most * ell-known former school teachers in the city, Mrs. Fannie Greene Ful ler, was also claimed by death on Sunday. Mrs, Fuiter had a record of 47 sears as an instructor >.n the public schools of Raleigh and Wait t County to her credit. Funeral services were conduct ed Wednesday at Dußois School's auditorium at 2 pm. for Mr- Best, with Rev. G. A. Fisher, of ■Raleiah, officiating Burial fel. •mved in a Wake Forest Ceme i I.' ONTfV|7Kr> ON FAGF FIGHT 1 )' scene of the. accident they were not only confronted with ih* fact that the. woman swerved from her lane and collided with a, ear driven by Will James, white, but that there were two persons injured in the mishap Henry Mitchell and Michael | White, who had to be treated , for minor injuries at the High point Memorial Hospital, i They began their routine line of ; questioning. The frustrated woman j lost no time in telling them that she was driving at a moderate rate j of speed and giving strict attention ! to what she vias doing, when sud j deny a bee, certainly suspected of i being the stinging kind, flew into | her window, and found no better - place to lake refuge than down the . front of her dress and into her ; brassier#. The flight, of the bee I changed her plight and she no long- Icr gave attention to her driving. 1 but immediately decided to rid her* i body of the uninvited visitor She. ! began disrobing so a# to not suf fer in undue pain from tit# much j feared lhseit. From the results as , the wreck she might have fee#* | lagged by the bee, but it is defi nitely known that she tagged th# j other car. | The officers took # look at tb* | woman and after a conference d# ! cided that no charge would be plM j ed against her. The AS year old wo i man went on. her way convinced | that inside her brassiere is ao pise#, i for a bee
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