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Durham Group Chartered To Preserve Segregation S* wu-Ff* I V Jlgr r ... " i - v ?*w. i_. : a.. — - a . ®L .«f.'.t..u»... .<&.•*&* <; •,. .Jk WOMAN'S PRISON SO- NER—In the top photo is shown £ lease 1.• year-old native of Charlotte, shortly after she was ' ;••’ ’red f-ier a short-lived stint of freedom Stain-day afternoon, serving a term of 15 to 18 months for breaking. entering larceny. ;• e.«us:n of Eleanor Rush IS. whose death late kke Salutes Elks At Chicago; f 66 T* ¥ ¥ Iff A A f\ 4** f\ ** lar Heeis Among % u ? u. j K. P. BATTLE HEADS N. C:s DELEGATION By ,T. B HARES Poblif Relations Chairman. V C. Association IBPO Elks of the Vt orid CHICAGO. 111. -- Among the expected 40,000 Bills and Daugh ters of the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World gathered here this week 1 August 21-27) there is a liberal sprinkling of North Carolina mem bers of the ;. v .-'od old order" pre sent. BATTLE AND SMITH LEAD Headed by State Proxy Rev. Kemp P, Battle of Rocky Mount. **■ N. C., and State Daughter Presi dent. Letitia Smith of Hickory, the Tar Heels began arriving as early as Thursday for the various can cases and pre - convention meetings which go to shape the t general program. (CONTINUED ON PAGE Si SHAW TO HOST NGTA CONFAB The first annual Leadership C'rfcrcnce for leaders of local rnii:* c.f the North Carolina. •f-p-Sttf- Association will convene f Bli r r University, Raleigh. U't. 27 and 28. 1954. f v.ncina] speakers for the con s 7t -r ® IP be Dr. Charles F. Car- C. Eiate Superintendent of r T Inrtr.tcticn. who will ad ' - t’-e groan at its luncheon • r ;rd'. • Ausust 2S. 1854. Mis;; 7 Slevenson. Assistant Ex f Ssfitcwvj of the National ’ due:; r.ion Association Depart in', u.t of Classrcash Teachers, who ■ rUI serve as general consultant, end Mr. C. L. Blake. president of the North Carolina Teachers As sociation. Local leaders of ah NCTA urdts ** have been .invited to attend all sessions of the conference, which is betas sponsored jointly by the' * National Education rod North Carolina Teachers Associations. ; The conference director. W. I. Morris, HE A-NCTA Field Repre- j tentative, urged all cleie^ v es to register for the conference Friday. | ftugust 27, between 2.00 and 4:00 i F m. (wemmffi) on page *> Two Teen-Age Youths Are Held In Hit-& -Run Death SILER CITY ~ Two Siler City boys, Charles Lours Burnette. 19. and Andy Carter, 18, art being held in the Chatham County jail in Pmsbo.ro in connection with the hit-and run death early Mon day morning of Nathaniel Brewer, 16. of Route 3, Suer City. : Brewer's body, found in the middle of the Alston Bridge Road across from the Siler City swim : using pool at 2:25 a m. Monday by Bill Lowe and Bobby Stovall, was allegedly in a very badly mui • iiated condition. The two boys notified State Highway Sergeant Victor Aid - ; rtiige. Man Held On Kidnap Hap DUNN A. man. who bar not | been identified, is being held in : I jasl r.ere pending investigation of j the kidnap and abandoraent of a three-year-old boy in Dunn I sometime Saturday Meanwnlle, Ch.ef Alston A.. CTb said that the irfant has j been hospitalized here and doc- j tors report his condition as serf ; our. I Cobb said the mother of the child. Mus Annie Ruth Short. 18. reported him miss’ng Saturday < around J p. m However, she was uriabic to give any clues as to , Numbers Suspects Fined j With Judge Albert Doub pre siding in City Court, last Thurs day morning. Raleigh’s alleged numbers bankers learned that the old saying "crime does not pay” is more fact than friction. The conviction of ih tec men charged with operating a numbers j ! racket here is "just the beginning” of an investigation on the butter ana egg lottery the City Detective . Division promised Friday. Found guilty by Judge Doub ! were Bill Bell, 29, white, of 1335 Clark Avenue; Charles Dean Neal, of 813 Fayetteville Street an an- ■ : ployee of the Old North State Bil- 1 lard Parlor, located in the 108 1 block of East Hargett Street' aarij Fred D. Bridges. 731 S. Blood- j j worth Street, operator of Bridgesj Place, Corner of Worth and Friday night at Womans Prison created a riot among ' ixhh races. Ele&se is said to have been t>*>e of ~' •-.-- , , r’f't. Photo at bottom right shows where the girt escaped. Big r*h«to gnef a side v tew of the building in which Eleanor Rr r d;ed The guards are unidentified. With the aid of Chatham Coun ty’s Sheriff John W. Emerson, Aldridge worked on the case, checkins the movements of all cars owned by persons living in the neighborhood and having the Patrol check rhe local service sta tions for freshly washed cars. Carter was picked up at a sta tion where he was washing the black and yellow car belonging to Burnette A check of the vehicle <ls-closed blood add hair under the ho -6 arcs the chasls of the auto. . It )• alleged that Carter •be ti ar- knowledge of the hit-and-run. however, and • CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 what might have happened to 1 ; the. child at that time. Cobb said. ! Ponce officers K. M. Fail and j If. H Alpin spent considerable • lime Saturday looking for the ; nuss'ng oo,v, but were unable to ; locate him. The chief reported j the search was continued Sun- | ! day by Officers E. J. Whaley and j K. C Johnson who were also un i successful in finding him. Around S a. in, Sunday, Cla.r- j SHitv Washington. who lives near i Harnett County Training school, ' reoorted finding the infant in j )CONTINUED ON PAGE 8) Blood worth. Bell, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of North Caro lina anti at ’present manager of the Humply Dumpty Grill on the Wake Forest Road was sentenced to six months or. the reacts The sentence was suspended upon con dition that, he pay a ftSOC fine and tin: com of court and violate no lottery laws for a period of five j years. He it believed to be in some wav tied up with the Negroes involved in the racket. Loth Neal ami Bridge- were sentenced to four months an t'.i roads, suspended in each case on payment of SIOO and j costs, and a violation of rto i lottery laws for two years. i CONTINUED ON PAGE 3) j MOWER LAUDS wtm OF RAGE MS Following is a message received from President Eisenhower. ;d --dressed to National PresaCten;. Ro bert H. Johnson: THE WHITE HOUSE- Washington Dear Mr. Johnson: You have my host wishes foi a most enjoyabie :tk yjnee . meeting as the Improved Benevol ent Protective Ordei of Elk? of (he World meets for its fifty-fifth an- ' ; nual session in Chicar:-.'. Your members' dedication to the high objectives of J. 1; - dona have built f«*r our or ganization a rapid!' grov. me reputation. In striving tor these ©bjeetive-s, your tine fra ternal organization contri butes substantially to the wel fare of our own nation whose strength depends in large measure on the voluntary v - (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8) FARMER KILLED IN “JUKF ionjt” GREENVILLE - A fifenstisii: j “juke joint ’ was the death hour.c ] for a 22-year-old farm laborer ; last Sunday night i Siam was Ben Lindsay of near i Fountain, who died 'run; a calibre outlet wound in the right ! temple, acceding to Pitts Coun :ty Coronm, Griffin H. R r ■ Rouse said that Lir.id;:ay die" uV- Btnntly. Being neld fnr the murder of Lindsay is Bruce Ncw'.'-ri. vrt'O iivt.-p b. 'r.veen Bruce and tarmviUe. Newton left the scene uSitci ti«t Knuoiuis, Sunday night j before tit® arrival .-if soot iff .- officers and the Fountain police An all-night search for the man proved turtle Monday mornim however, .Newton walked into the Farrr.v Tie Police Station and eui -eridered In company with the Far mi he Chief of Police. L. T J as. he : returned tv the scene of die fetal shooting: -aid recovered the raur- j Oar weapon, & Spar-isb-mudc pit. The &un had deer discarded, in some woods near the “juice (CONTINUED ON PAGE S'- GROUP VOWS T O FIGHT RACE INTEGRATION Secretary of State Tliad Eur. s office issued papers of in- ters as 112 N. Queen Street n Durban*, corporation to an 01 ;;ani?ati.on designed to '‘preserve segrega The incorporation papers were signed by five Durham men: tion possible within th*' law” carlk- this wok. R T Pitts. V. 1). Estes. H D. Daniel, D. O. Brodgen and 1. E. Iho Nor ir. e-arouna Association for the Preservation of the Byrd Whin Pact Inc . a non-st a,corpora’ion, listed its headquar K ONTINCW) OS l’\Gr S THE CAROLINIAN r ; -"- ' *'■ Pr- EMDI-iG ;„i i ... :L,V> , «LGUS'f tK, X**r>i NUMBER XXXV! vA ** ?\¥ f 'A - r-'i-f - " ‘' ' ’* *' - bertes Os Incidents .. * And Now ojjsi « |3 ||| & flsj ; 4-'A li- •£&. : MiV ' wb*f WH® pnttrt- *|«w- T'eA, sJ2|s? .i'.~ ~ • •- * * v *. : W w ItJP IS fill Jlnti ift Miff "E t y S t§Ac i^J§ KfjS C-:>:■•■: *'•• :: . tWj- VZ- <'y' A .. ’ -V.' ’;w ★ ★ *★★★★★**** ****** li3K Clhief Siei For $30,000 Gw i Dias Mysteriously - PT~z >n; SB! Enters M CHARLES R. .lONic* i c : ' ! death of Miss Eleanor Ku: i. . .at-old former Aioei mark domestic worker, in amby mw f isolation cel; at Womans Prison last Friday night* has brought forth much hv'tofore suppressed public sentiment. i .m. s Rush, described by prison officials as a “problem priso ner . v. -v s rente net o. to prison last Flay 1 to serve a six month term for ios ~.hk trespass and was reduced to “C-grade* ’ on June 1 for '"e-'-diy creating a disturbance in her cell block. • i -;->n record - show that she • feed been confined to the isoia-' tion cell tor sever, days before ’ her death: The call is equipped with a mattress lavatory and ; commode. Twenty-five minutes before her death her bands had been truss- • ->d behind !u-: hack by Prison Superintendent I. D. Hinton and appfiai'.iinatciy three guards in an Apparent effort to restrain her from disturbing the peace of the o he” inmates. Shortly after nhcl iv.rrht she was found dead, her head hanging off a mattress. In an interview v.ith Wake County Cornorer M. W. Bennett, the CAROLINIAN learned fcli&t no reason could br*. advanced at- this time as to how Miss Rush could nave broken her neck. Bennett did relate, however, that it was possible that he: death could have been caused by her continual ! The examining physician. Dr.; C, E, Flowers, termed the cause of death as a "dislocation of neck; with compression of the cervical.; Shortly after the girl's death. was discovered Saturday morning a riot ensued. The majority of the approximately 200 Negro and ■ ISO white prisoners, became hos tile and hurled threats anti ac cusations at officials of the insti- j tu'.ion. The riot lasted for three. and half hours. Elcuse Jackson. 16- year-old prisoner of Charlotte, who claim ed (hut she was a cousin of the dead gill was heard to exclaim ; i "they hilled my cousin" shortly; : after the rioting began. After law enforcement officers had some ' what Quelled the disturbance.! i Elea.se escaped but was captured i a short, distance from the insti- j <CONTINUED ON FACE 8} i }" ! * i j ? ■' - Nt.. iH V . JUNA ODD FELLOWS made the ituuai payment c.o a life membership in th« National Association for the Advancement (if Colored P ,-ople when they rati m V ins ion - Salem recently. Mfisi*bers of the Grand United Oraer shown from icii *o right are Fred Joint*, New ©era, deputy. Jessie W. Rogers. Williairn?- tnn, r, ran ft master: .fosepii Blake, liatrigh. dis- WORRIED ABOUT CALL FROM ARMY; DROWNS HIMSELF . ELIZABETH ClTY—lgnoring the ph as of his sister not to jump,. Royce Lee, 24. who had been I worrying about receiving a call 1 from the Army, drowned him- ■ • »>M n the Pasquopank River car * }y Sunday night His bodv still ; has not been found. . Dragging operations m *. he - water, some .25 feet d> have bee.*! cont-rued by a crew from : ‘ the EMzabvth City Coast Guard ■! A.r Station and bv members of the Elizabeth City Fire Depart- I men*. Reports show that i,*r bsd been th; xtening suiciric while ; watkmg along the water front i with his f-ster. Miss Susie Lee. [ who was pleading with him not lo lump i! has. been reported that, be told his niolher before he left home that he was sick, i and th< next time she would see hint, he would be in a funeral parlor Tee man'; father said that he had been drinking heavily since Friday of last week. The police, j who received a call at 6.05, Sun- ; day. saying there was a mar on j the wharf threatening suicide j and who answered the cail with < a patrol car manned by officers .1 S. Anderson and C. M Sexton, (CONTINUED ON PAGE H> ~ C'HLvj-' 81«'.i LL ATTORNEY GATES . . Defendant I« Suit .. , File* Suit Two Apex Girls Sue Chief Bagwell For False Arrest Actions of Arrest and Bail for $30,000 was filed in the Wake County Superior Court Friday. August 20 against Apex's Chief of Police Sam L Bagwell. The actions, filed for two teen-age girls, charge false arrest. Attached to the court papers were requests for orders for Bagwell's arrest. The arrest orders were signed by J. Russell Nipper clerk of Superior Court, and he set bail bonds at $4,000 in each of two civil suits involving Lucille and Menn-e Lee Smith of Apex, Under the law the Sheriff’s de *- pratmeni has 20 days to serve the arrest, and bail orders, a court, of . ficial said. They had not been : served at press time. Bagwell read the complaints in the Wake County Sheriff’s office. Metmie Lee, 16 and her sister, Lucille Smith, 13, earlier swore ' oul warrants against Chief Bag well, charging him with kidnap ping and making immoral pro position: to them or. April 25. Bagwell was tried in Apex's Recorder's Court on the immoral! proposition (assault) charge and was acquitted last, dune 2. Judge C C Cunningham also found no probable cause aga inst the chief, on the kidnapping count . He rui-! cd that Bagwell, in ordering the j trie), grand director: 3. H. Alexander, Winrten- Salem, district, grand secretary: D. M. SeW, Raleigh, grand treasurer; and Charles A. Mr l*an, North Carolina field secretary for the NAACP. The group held its seventy-second diinuat meeting at Wfests®-Salem recent?.?. Another officer of the lodge fe F. C. Bwtee. Washington. -wfee is deputy grand waswr girls to accompany him to the Apex Town Hall, was acting m his scope as a law enforcement officer. Both of the girls testified that the chief, apparently' drunk, came ; to the farm dwelling near Ape* where they resided with relatives and ordered them to accompany him so that he could question them about a. fight, that had oc curred at the house They said when they arrived s.t the Town Hall, he drove behind the building and proceeded to make improper advances toward them. fCONTINUE© ON PACE *) North Carolina j State-Brief SLEUTHS BREAK UP BOOZE PARTY GREENVILLE A week end ! party was broken up by Pitt Coun !ty ABC officers resulting in t of , arrest of a man and his wife on ! charges of possessing non-tax : pa.i dliquor here last week end. | Arrested were Mrsfl Mildred Jones : and her husband, Sam. ABC Ofii j cer Jim Ward said that Mrs. Jonas i was attempting, to pour out the j '‘boot-leg” liquor when the raiders i invaded their home. The two are ! slated for trial in an early session of the local court. SEGREGATION UN-CHRISTIAN DURHAM Methodist youth from Eastern North Carolina echo** their belief that "segregation is un-Chris tian” and voted at Duke Uni versity t® present resolutions urging support of the recent supreme Court decision By » vote of 191-IS, with some of the 40C delegatee abstaining, the third annual, conference session of the N. C. Confer ence Methodist South Fellow ship passed a proposal of its Christian Cttiaenship Area Cmmnittm i» present nearly •Aeoticfi retolKtiopt U> both tUeWHBBHMBP ON PAW* Si
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