North Carolina Newspapers

FATHER AND SON IN GUN BATTLE lucky auto owner j The lucky oar last week was ! the ono bearing the t** mun j biri, SB3-146. If the owner of | (hat i.ir took it to Dunn’s Esso Sit lice, corner Ca.barrus and ; Bloodworth Streets, hero in Ra leigh, he received a free grease job. Tins will happen every week. Watch for your tag number If it follows the asterisk you will I set the grease job. The num- j her will be taken from any car j j bearing a V C. license J i The numbers this week are: j i 50-085; 915-6V:i, -K54-605; 289- | 898; 300-930 and X 76-030. 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No.; Ttl- EUc.s. have launched a drive; iu Raleigh to organize a oom- ■ mans, y concert »rd marching > hand This organization would be; sc tir- dispoal of local groups; desire:.!. o f sponsoring civic as- ; fairs inter. ..ted pc.sons with; • ..me musical training are asked| to coros-ct L, S. Wilcox, Elks; Hora’'. 619 K. Davie Street, Ra leigh. Mr. Wilcox told the CAR-! GLINT AN that the band will not r.e i mited tc men hut will wel come female members also. The date of the first rehearsal will i he publicized in the near future.. Shot In The Eye- Dies MANTEO John Davis i local resident, was bound over to Superior ! ourt last'Friday after receiv ing a preliminary hearing on a charge of slaying Ephraim Daniels. Jr, with a .22 cali bre rifle. Scarborough, who hah been in jail since the shooting, March 2, pleaded not euiltv Daniels was shot in the e.vc and died almost nsfantly. The state introduced three witneses. Sheriff Frank Cahoon. who investigated, said that at the time of the ar rest Scarborough admitted shooting Daniels and repeated that statement the following morning, when he added that he intended to shoot over Daniel's head, “but he was a j :CONTINUED ON PAGE 8) Offer Os Car Ride Traps Man Sought in Shooting j GOLDSBORO A local man.' who has beer, sought by police in g near-fatal sbooiing winch took' place here on March 19- was in the custody of police Thursday as the result of a daring ruse by another race man ,1 nliri Henry Leggett era* charged with shooting Edward Holt, of Princeton, Route 2, ; on the night of March 19 as Holt sat in a car in North { Goldsboro Following the shooting, Holt is reported as having driven the car to the vicinity of the local City Hall, where he collapsed after gar-, nering enough strength to sum-; mon aid. He is still said to be' in serious condition at Wayne Me morial Hospital from a gun-shot wound in the left side of the face. and head. City Detective Archie Car ter said that the shooting was j the aftermath of an argument between Holt and Leggett at the home of Major Winn of North George Street. After the argument, Leggett left the residence. A witness. Miss Pearline Fil-; more, told Carter that as she and Holt were later starting to leave in a car, Leggett approached with a shotgun which he fired through the window of the car at close range. Carter said that Holt’s jaw bone was shot in two and wadding from the gun shell had to be picked from his ton gue. Or Tuesday William Raynor, I Goldsboro resident, located Leg gett at a house outside Fayette-; ville and offered to bring him toj town. The Carolinian j ' | 10c 10c | VOLUME 14 RALEIGH, N. C. WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1955 NUMBER M I By CHARLES E. JONES A typical detective story end-j : tag was written on police files; here Sunday morning a to trie, whereabouts of James Wilson, 25, j former local taxi cab driver of 608 Cumberland Avenue, whose; decayed remains were exhumed, from a shallow grave in a back-; • vard as would-be church goers; and sabbath strollers alike laid; ; aside their current business to; iconverge on this usually quiet: I neighborhood, located just out-; | side the city limits off the Rock ; ; Quarry Road. A murder investigation has been launched because a dog dug tip a bone in the back yard of 1104 Rock Quarry j Road, which later turned out ; to be a. portion of the skclc- i ton of Wilson, who was re ported missing last Septem i ber 18. The beginning of the story, as; ■ far as the police could ascertain, , was written, on the above date, ! when Wilson reportedly was in a fight with Edward Andrews, bet ■ter known as "Smokey". of 613: E. Davie Street. The fight is alleg ;ed to have taken place at the! I home of Mrs. Sarah Curtis on the; Rock Quarry Road. Someone took young W«.l- j son to Saint Agnes Hospital j following the encounter where j he was treated for knife wounds In his face. The man j then allegedly returned to his residence and no further in- I ‘ formation as to his where abouts were known until Sun da v. Police are seeking Andrews for 1 questioning in Wilson's death. The . 35-year-old suspect has bee n ; heard from only once since the; night of the fight He is suspected : in the shooting of John Wesley • Barnes of the 400 block of East; I Davie Street several weeks ago, ; Barnes suffered only slight, i wounds. • (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8) j Leggett is said to have gotten into the automobile and on the: way Raynor called Goldsboro po-l lice to meet the car at Grathans Store on Highway 102. Carter Chief Deputy Roy Per , ci.se and Constable Hubert Har i rell were on hand when the car i arrived at the store and arrested | Leggett. Pregnant White Inmate i Puts Blame Upon Trusty A white inmate of Woman’s Prison reported last weekend that sire had been intimate with a Ne~ j : gro male trusty on the prison! ! grounds and is now pregnant. | Stare Prisons Director, William | Bailey, confirmed the report that j Miss Sue Penland became preg-j ! nant last November. The trusty j ! the woman named, Holton Young-1 1 er, is being questioned at Central; j Prison. She was entered from Bun combe County in April, 1944 to serve 15-20 years for sec ond degree murder. According to prison records, the young i woman is mentally disturbed and Is said to have been a | patient at Dix Hill, the state's | white mental hospital. The prisor file states that she | was pregnant when she entered j j prison and that child, is now 111: ! years old. j Bailey said. Miss Penland has:, j told, several stories about her cur- \ \ | rent pregnancy. j: She. is reported a* saying i 1 tN J y • ; ■ FIND B<ri?V IN BACKYARD —The body of James Wilson, . ' f s-v' bottom left, 25-year-old former ,tael driver, was dug up Sun- jOP fjjf day morning la the backyard of | | a home on the Rock Quarry ''’*’***'% Road The crowd in the above . J- *,'+ w * photo gathered at Wilson a v home. 608 Cumberland Avenue. %£.. Mm' U % shortly after news of the dm mm, JH n .-0 f> overy was made. Police are :<*>■ ■■■Jmfc ,/ seeking Edward (Smokeyj An || Ikj * drews, 35, bottom right, for puestioning in connection with % \ the death. Several hundred per- J djt sons jammed the spacious back- jF"; / , ■ l - i s i yard which is used by several i ■*■ a ' " ; ** JAMES WILSON families EDWARD ANDREWS Bums Fatal | To Baby Girl | MORGANTON Diane Conley 1 18-u'ionth-oid daughter of LXi . and, Mrs. Jacob Conley of Route 2, Ne j bo, was burned to death here ' Monday when fire of undetermin jed origin destroyed their five ; room dwelling. The child was seated la a stroller while the mother was taking the family cow to pas ture. Two other children, ages •> and 4, ran from the house hut the quickly spreading flames prevented efforts ol the mother and two highway workmen, from rescuing the j baby girl. Assistant Burke County core-; ; ner Harry Setzer said that defec- ’ : live wiring or sparks from an; open fireplace could have caused the fire Besides the parents, seven ! brothers and six sisters survive. that last November 25 and 21 j she slipped over to a men's restroom, adjoining a boiler room, and had relations with j Younger, who is reported as having very fair skin and is ! a native of Richmond County. The woman has steadfastly | insisted that she thought Younger was a white man. The prison;-: director said that j Younger, who is a Central Prison inmate, was assigned to a boiler j tending shift at the Woman’s Prison laundry. Every effort will be made to determine flow they were able to carry on their affair, Bailey said. She said she made j her arrangements with her lover by notes. A prison doc- j tor has examined the woman j and attests to her pregnancy. Younger was sentenced from Richmond County in April, 1842 to 18-25 years for manslaughter. His race is listed ns Negro, but j prison inmates and guards alike; sometime take him to be caucas-j ian, I Stop Beefing and Register (An Editorial) i i Talk m many quarters is that Car! DeVane can t win in : the forthcoming May primary. With this, we agree ~. if so many of us continue malicious ly or unknowingly, to set up a defeatist attitude before Mr. DeVane can get an opportunity to ‘Tun” or to present himself to the Raleigh public as a councilmanic candidate Here m Raleigh, we need to give our Negro candidates a chance. From what the CAROLINIAN has heard in other recent campaigns and in this one, Raleigh will never take its place among other cities • in North Carolina, which have enjoyed the representation of a Negro on their governing bodies. Such expressions as "he belongs to the other crowd,” "he doe n : represent, the people,” ’’who does he think he is?”, "he cant’ represent , me," “I’ll fight him and his election" and many, many other deroga tory assertions, keep Raleigh so mixed up and so frustrated until one would believe much of the hogwash could continue throughout | generations to come. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8) r '%sW 11 ' -• *,-j : ■ ■'** ! J t.'''' STATE PRESIDENT AD DRESSES TEACHERS Mrs. Ida H Duncan, president of the North Carolina. Teachers Association, it; shown last Thurs ! day night to » welcome add reus to teachers from all sections' of the state. Approximately 3.900 delegates attended the "4th an nuai convention which lasted for three days, Dr. W, L. Greene. | executive secretary of the body, I is pictured at the extreme left, NO-CONTRACT LAW AIMED AT ooe teachers Tn<? lcsi*>l£i jiTopoMY ’ uo i.m inate continuing cor.: , : c“t seeks primarily to rr-duee the num ber of Nogm t, c: . it: 'i —v f l: i Carolina, it was icaiv.d i:hp tiu week. Teachers, at present, are tin?!-' contract for one .«•:•.<v>l V'.sr. Sv;- : they are. ncvvrtheU ct.nut r > ; under cont.' acf uni is ::i ;d of i terminauoa before tfc* »n ■ ■ enrls. I Move to do away with the con tracts was not conceived until af ter the s : Siipricri'' Co ■■ 1 c - ■ cision last May holding publu school -epegciuon U> be ur:cor.. : ,4 XjuGwlu'Qji, D« . v : ;.tiLW' ;• v.rtii 'U . state Buperintend» -nt of pc fc ;• | siructior.. revealed this week ' •he had sent cut letters to corn ‘ and city sdrnh:: . .svr u-w c to hold up appointment of . : school commit tees . be' •• ,f • impendinc ley'isiaiion to r. s t continuing coi'tryru. Wants -To Br *ure” He said :f.M he ns.r- V-. I gesuon ' ■ ~st otn j> ' ih.s ■ pointments for is-- r- xt ; year are not. mdse before the li "’'Kemontndum com'rlT "A- i 1 torney general's oli.rt (■■.'Lined ' that, if integrate i: orderoed |i following the t). S. supreme Court i| hearsmt;- on Ap: ! 11 it mivhr be !! “impractical'' v. Inn all ol t? e . present corps o' N; .-.t eadiiv. ■He made no memi :-n i r ':. •>: ; any po-:.-;t>iiity <:t )-./■• ; ■ ;u • | white teachers at a result, j Meanwhile, a resolution, spon sored by the state administration. I asserting that “mixing of the l races m the public school-, within | the state cannot be aci ■mpli.vhed j and, if attempted, woulct alienate i public support of the schools to | (CONTINUED ON PAGE g> Anti-Integration Moves Doomed, Teachers Told The 74 th annual convention of the North Carolina Teachers As sociation ended last Saturday with the. reelection of all officers and the election of three new mem bers to the executive committe. Dr. W. II Watson, Raleigh? 11. E. Brown, WhitevJtie and E. I*. Armstrong, B#rk\ | while Dr. S. E. Duncan, state supervisor of secondary educa tion. is shown second from left. Dr. Kenneth B. Clark, psychol ogist of the College of the City of New York, served as expert , consultant to the meeting. ' i • ' *n-U Sandm Ray !8, m <".!« ago en «Sjß!y joy*, a kim,-ske cigar .i.-nl flashes fen a $140,001* smile ai tb-* news sg The pa. king plant uurt’.'f ae- j aSstm clared ibat he wasn’t pla: r.mg T, an:v i,lir t elebratlon or lavish spending spree. However, hr ad mitted that hr would buy a. ear, “f.m nothing big and fancy.’* i Newsnress Photo I | |A IIP . ' \ ■ ■ 1 ’ nV/cSw f&SSRri-;.*■■■■•■+;.*s&>&■' ;«sß*&£xT •?/. :* * VST YE * S 1 tNNF'Vi • t V ..'., ■ ». { ts. mnnth-old non of Mi and Mrs. Ralph < ampbeil. Sr„ nf 81* F lamoir Street wnn ihc first )■!(?,e of '>.".(») fie!' in the First Vnnu.'.i Curna tiort Healthy Ka by < oPtesi finals held at the I W Elgon Junior. Senior Hit 6 School on December 6 2t§ CARNATION BABY CONTEST IS LAUNCHED HERE Tlu:- the writ:* Yes. if• ■ jj, th“ big week wiicrt the Carnation: Milk Company starts its annual' search to find Raleigh's healthiest ; and cui.ee; babies. To the heal-' driest one of ail. Carnation will award $300.00 in c?.sh. Nineteen other lucky sets of parents will j receive cash prizes, too. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8> Mount, were named to the <**- Motive committee. Also approved by the con vention was a budget of SSB - 000, including a grant of 5,000 to the Hammock's .Beach j Project. The .sessions, which got under way Thursday, were sparked, with addresses by leaders in several i fields. ! Daniel E. Byrd of New Orleans, assistant director of teacher i:n --; formation and security for the : National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People, told j the approximately 3.000 delegates : that North Carolina’s recently -1 passed school law should not. cause I concern. The law empowers local : school boards to allocate pupils to the various schools, Byrd con tinued. “There is nothing in such a law to become disturbed about (CONTINUED ON PAGE Si j Leaders Ask Ike To Stop JC In U. S. Housing ' WASHINGTON ' ANP) —Eigh - i teen prominent national leaders 'of civic, religious, labor veterans] ! and educational organizations | called on President Elsenhower, ’ last week to bar segregation from i all federally-assisted housing pro- j | grams. The leaders charged that ; “some opponents of school in- ; leg ration have frankly stated that they hope to achieve their ends by using federal housing aids to set up ghettos on a large scale.” The plea to the President was! sent by the National Committee] Against Discrimination in Hous FATHER AND SON IN GUN BATTLE; BOTH ARE JAILED GOLDSBORO (54281 -- When tbs ;*2iiok>' had r<d after a ;Uis h;Uiie hov ia.st t *'k between iathoi and ,*oh. - tie fa liter load a rule bullet in a. lee sad the son iruTi ■.no. "nf-l’e- \m ;; : ; 3. left -.iioul tier. B>f h n i.’ 1. ». • n bound OUT to bi-.iht.-r court for trial A. cord;n,.’ f, the stony told officers the son’? alleged 'kid ding’’ hi;; about fc.iiinc in the river led to th- double shoot- UiR. Governor Sot; 5;; of SCO South Geo: e t and. ;rai:a, *: ■■■■ ' ' <;:H, went ■’ ' ■ Wiv , rer- hiring according to the son, th? elder B'-ev 'hi! A- tr> rive; end hod to be fished out by bis son. who began kidding him. Angered At Taunts According to the story toid Depr uiy Sheriff Roy Precise the in vestigating officer; the father : hreaioned to snoot, the son after he v angered at the letters com ■ tufrr; 'T he son t'v.ik the ta Biers irile alter tie> threat. The ’.fin -.aid that the father G .j.-..c; .v■ r trie -la.;.frir nt; and ’.ht f»c< that the rifle was taken arid that a day later while lie arid u companion were at the HON TIM TM) ON PAGE 8) ovEToiT a chance NOW! Attend Church Every Sunday SABOT CLERICS AGREE TO MERGER i SALISBURY An agreement of 1 the Salisbury - Spencer Ministerial . Association, white, to combine its membership with that of the Salisbury Ministerial Alliance, was l voted here Monday. President of the associa tion, the Rev. Thom Blair, rector of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, said that while no roll-rail vote was taken, a large majority of the mem bership favored the union. Approval of the merger had i previously been given by the aI (CONTINUED OS PAGE 8' 1 mg and signed bv the 18 leaders. . Among them are: Roy Wilkins, NAACP admini strator: Lester B. Grainger, Na . tionai Urban League, executive .! director; Walter Reuther, presi dent of the United Automobile | Workers CIO; Irving M. Engel, ' president of the American Jewish ; Committee and Patrick Murphy j M&Un, executive director of the ' American Civil Liberties Union. The message asserted that the government continues to grant funds to local bousing authorities for the construc tion of segregated housing. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8)