Auto Crash Claims Lives Os Two Virginia Men
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The Carolimian
VOLUME 16 RALEIGH, N. C. WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29? 1936 NUMBER 1
WEULD -BE LOVER SLAIN
Man Flees Fire, Falls From Bridge
<'< t M ■",i' K1 ’! Ai KOI.« VUON
IF I CHEF Mis* luanit* i.
Thorpe. a 1956 graduate of North
Otoiina College at Durham, has
am pled » position as Cominer
i- j;> 1 Education teacher at the
Richard B Harrison High School,
geirna, N. C. Miss Thorpe is also
the school treasurer. She h a
meiribes of the Martin Street
Baptist Church here and the
daughter of Mr and Mrs. Mar
' vmi Thorpe, iso? F Edcnton St.,
K Heigh
> GDOS-ENDS
By ROBERT G. SHEPARD
"ZkGBO TEACHERS
tContinued from last week)
The result of this poorly-con
ceivrrt trend in the training of
our youth has boon almost, dis
astrous. Now wo have thousands
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WHAT’S HAPPENING ON THE
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Desegregation Front
vanpeebilt law school
ACCEPTS FIRST NEGRO! •
NASHVILLE. Tenn, l ANP ■— j
The first. Negro student* to at- j
tend the Vanderbilt University!
school of law enrolled info the
college last week.
Vanderbilt thus became the 1
first privately endowed law school
in the Southeast to lower racial
barriers.
The U.B. Supreme Court riese- 1
gregation decision did not affect!
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PRISON ft*OT SCENES—Pho- j
to on left shews group of in- !
mates *♦. tVomenV Prison who i
Teenagers
Accuse 2
Os Assauli
DURHAM - A t'.-year-old
youth and a 55-yrar-ola m?n
: have been arrested and charged
in two separate case- of assault
upon underage girls, here this
week.
Eugene Rogers. 55. of 41? Plum
Street, war arrested Sunday and
charged with assault on a fcmals
with intent in commit rape on an.
!. 1-year-old girl. The girl, a rest
dent, of East Pettigrew Street,
reportedly told officers that. Rog
ers made her go into his bedroom,
held her and committed an un
natural sex act with her.
Arrested at 5:35 a.m. Sunday
and charged with assault on a
female, was Tony Markham Me - ’
Clinton, IS, of 710 McMannen
i Street, after a 14-year-old Chapel
Hill girl accused him of rapine
her behind the Community Sport
■ Shop at 312 Poplar Street.
Detective C. L. Wooten, inves
tigating the case, said That, Me-
Clinton was charged with assault,
ion a female after the eir! admit
ted in the accused man's presence
that she followed him to a creek
.side behind the shop where the
act reportedly took place.
She told officers further. Woot
en said, that after McClinton com
pleted the act, another man had
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privately endowed schools.
Vanderbilt graduated its first ,
Negro divinity student m 1954
Edward M Porter, 26, a grad
uate of A&I State University, and
Frederick T Work, 21, a Fisk
University graduate, were among
the 145 students who completed
registration for law school.
Dean John W. Wade said the
decision to admit, the Negroes was
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-i escaped from the. Raleigh instl- ‘
| tuttas Saturday but were quick- 1
I !y rounded up. Included in photo j
SHIP’S CREW AIDS NAACP— Crew members of S-S United States present checks i
:o the NAACP. represented by John A. Morsell (center), assistant to the Association’s ;
gfcutive secretary.. They are members of the NAACP membership committee aboard ship
which, in a special drive during July and August collected approximately SI,OOO for NA i
ACP in memberships and initial life membership payments. (NEWSPRESS PHOTO)
ian Flees
Fire, Falls
Off Bridge
WINSTON-SALEM - A man.
burned when his house caught
fire Monday, ran from it. and
either fell oi jumped from a near
by railroad bridge.
Charles Lee Brown 29. of 61s E
lith Street, suffered second de
gree burns of the right shoulder
and first degree burns of the
chest.
Personnel at Kate Bitting Rey
nolds Memorial Hospital said that
Brown's condition was “good'' as
late as Monday night, as no bones
ere broken in the fall.
Mystery shrouds the origin
of the. fire in Brown's home
at about 1 p.m. Monday. Fire
men received (heir first call
on it at 1:02 p.m. At the
same time police officers were
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! are Henrietta Vance, Duplin
I County; Jean P (Lard, Rowan
i County; Mamie Smith. Mec.k
Crowds Pay Final Tribute
To ‘‘Mother ’’ Joella Gary
RALEIGH- Mrs. Joella Thorn
ton Gary, 150 G E. Lane Street.:
died Friday, September 21, at the
home of her daughter, the Rev.
Mabel Gary Philpott. known more
MRS. JOELLA GARY
lenhurg County, Bertha Wal
ker, Mecklenburg; Zora Farrow,
Forsyth County; and Louis*
|] 100 STITCHES TAKEN
GREENSBORO it took 100 stitches, to close the wounds
of Miss Ruby Lee Williamson after she. was cut and stabbed by
Mrs. Margaret. Steen, here last week.
Admitting that she: assaulted Miss Williamson. Mrs Steen
■ told officers that, she did so after she surprised her with her
husband. Miss Williamson received multiple cuts on her back,
arms and hands and two stab wounds, one under her right breast
and another in her abdomen
Mrs. Steen posted $.300 bond for trial later
familiarly as Sister Gary.
Mrs. Gary was a native of Ab
ingdton, Va.. but had made her
home in Raleigh for many years
Hundreds of local and out-of
town friends turned out to pav
last respects to her
■She was affectionately call
ed tin “Mother” of Grace
A.M.E. Zion Church, where
the Rev. Philpott is pastor and
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Prison Rioters Get Extra Time
RALEIGH - A brief escape
from Women’s Prison on Satur
day following a cold-lunch riot
brought six more months of,con
finement to two of the six in
mates who fled by scaling a
fence.
Three others face the prospect
of even longer additions to their
sentences when their cases come
up in Superior Court, while the
j Jackson, also* of Forsyth, Che-
I icr photo «h«ws dining area
Killed Man
Defending
Her Honor
RALEIGH Clarence Day. 6ft
year-old Zebulon man is dead and
Miss Dorothy Bake 29. also nf
Zebulon. is being held in Wake
County jail charged with his
death
Day died at 9:45 a,in Tuesday
in St. Agnes Hospital alter hav
ing been blasted with a shotgun
Monday morning
Deputy Earl Duke said that
Miss Bake admitted shooting
Day and claimed that he was
"making improper advances” at
at her hard? about 11 am. on
Monday. She told Duke that, she
pushed Day out of the house and
fired oner with a shotgun to
scare him."
“But he kept coming.'' she
is quoted as saying, "so I shot
to kill."
Day. who never regained con
sciousness. was hit in the side and
the stomach Before hi- death
Miss Bake had been chanted with
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WARNS AGAINST
PEARSALL PLAN
ASHEVILLE - Dr W H. Plem
inons, president of Appalachian
State Teachers College, said here
Friday that prophesies of des
truction of the public school sys
tem resulting from adoption of
the Pearsall amendment must, be
fulfilled.
The constitutional guarantee of
a. general and uniform” system
of education for all children lias
been removed. Dr. Plemmons said,
by adoption of the private grant.s
local option amendment.
Addressing the opening gen
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sixth, believed to have been for
ced into the escape attempt, has
not been prosecuted.
Sentenced in City Court
Tuesday to the six-month ex
tensions were Henrietta Vance
of Duplin County, serving six
months, and Jean Harlow
Ballard of Rowan Conn ’, ser
ving 24 months, both on
charges of assault with a
befors riot began, allegedly a* a. |
rabelMon against cold food, and j
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HYING PRESIDENT— War
moth T Gibbs, president of A.vT
College, who visited some of the
college's Air Force ROTE ca
rtels in slimmer ramp a( Tin
dall APR, Florida a few weeks
Auto Crash Claims
Lives Os 2 Virginia Men
RATTLEBORO <Specsa i This
town, which is located eight miles
north of Rocky Mount, was the
' with » gasoline truck the wreck
wbioh occurred F- iday night and
claimed the lives or two colored
men from Virginia.
The men were riding on an
"empty pulpwood truck which wa
involved in a head-on colli: tort
with a gasoline truck, the wresfi
age of which immediately caught,
fire as the tanker exploded.
The (lead men have been
identified as Ernest Singleton.
11. of Gohlsnnville. Va.. and
John Stuart, of Lawrence
vilie, Va. Singleton was burn
ed to death immediately and
Stuart died inter in a hospital
at Rocki Mount.
Alfred Moseiy. 19. also of Gohl
• sonville. was. listed as she driver
of the truck carrying the two men
R. C Morrison, Castle Hayne N
C was listed as the driver of the
gasoline truck. Morrison was,
booked and held under a Si.ooo
■ bond pending further invest iga
, txon of the wreck by Highway
Patrolman J. E Blackman, Nash
County Sheriff Glenn O. Womble
; and Coroner M. C. Gully.
Testimony by witnesses tend
ded to indicate that Morrison
was in the act of completing
the passing of other traffic
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deadly weapon,
Bound over to Superior Court
under SI,OOO bonds because they,
were serving time for more seri
ous offenrrs, were:
Mamie Smith of Mecklenburg
County, sentenced in 1952 to life
as an accessory to murder; Bertha
Ann Walker, also of Mecklenburg
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| photo on right, shovs matrons
| at institution cleitaing up after
; ago. accepted an Invitation for
j a flight in a ie! fighter. Hr
! climbs aboard a T-33 .let Train -
i cr in preparation for the trip.
“Sensational" he said, upon ht*
! return.
Staid Nows
—IN
Brief i
FARMER CLEARED OF RAPE
KINSTON - John Bynum, 43-
ycar-old farmer, ha? been cleared
of a charge of statuatory rape in
volving v.i.s 1 3-. year-old stepdaugh
' rev. No probable cause was found
ai ,■ preliminary hearing held Sat
urday before Magistrate W. J.
Thomas.
KNIFING SUSPECT SKIPS BOND
HIGH POINT Local pniic*
are looking for James Rogers,
•VI, after hr failed to appear
in Municipal Court Monday
morning to he tried on a
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"robber raip”
GOT NOTHING
| BUT TROUBLE
DURHAM Two Duplin Coun
ty men who drove 100 miles
: through five counties to break in
a bank. a. drug store and school
and a garage and who attempted
to break, into a U S Post Office,
; sot plenty of nothing for their
pains that, is. nothing of value
to them.
But In U t-' : Middle Distnol
Court here this week, they will
receive their ‘"reward" from -Judge
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escaping Inmates had tom arp i
dining area,