Phony African Prince Receives One Year And A Day
Fla. Prison
lew Home Os
Fake Prince
TAMPA. Fin. A young man
" ho travelJd over the country pos
ing as an African prince was sen
tenced to a year and a day in fed
< prison Friday on a bad check
charge.
Kdward lee Woods, 26. alias
prince Nka.bouri Awn mu. Mboyta
or Übangisheri of Portuguese Fast
Africa, pleaded guilty in U. 8. Dis
triet. Court to Interstate, transpor
tation of a worthless $137 check.
The man, a former farm hand
from the Macclenny Community,
had traveled about the. country
checking into hospitals whh his
story about being h prince and
complaining of a kidney ailment.
Each time he left without paying
his bill.
He. was arrested at For!
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Brooks Hays
Os Arkansas
ToShaw^on.
Brooks, Hays, representative of
the Fifth Congressional District
of Ark&ncao. will speak at Shaw
University on Monday, February
16. at 30 00 a m. in Greenleaf Au
di forium.
Congressman Hays is a native
of Russellville, Arkansas. He was
educated In Russellville public
>choo!f., received the bachelor of
arts degree from the University
of Arkansas and the bachelor of
laws degree from George Wash
ington University at Washington,
D. C. He holds the honorary de
grees of doctor of laws and doc
tor of humanities,
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Requests Os
Teachers To
Lawmakers
James T. Taylor of Durham,
Chairman of the Legislative Com
mittee of the North Carolina Tea
chers Association, last week out
lined key proposals which the N
CTA is expected to bring to the
attention of the 1959 North Caro
lina. General Assembly.
Top item is the proposal that
escheats funds be distributed,
"equitably among nil State in
stitutions of higher learning”. Es
cheats funds accumulate from tine
estates of deceased persons who
don't. Mil! their properties to rela
tives or others. Such funds revert
to the state. At present the Uni
versity of North Carolina at.
t'Tiapet Hill is sole beneficiary of
tiie fund
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VOL 18, NO 20 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1959 RALEIGH, N, C. PRICE 12c IN N. C; ELSEWHERE 15c
Dr. Julian, Chemurgist, Here Mon.
Father Tells 3 Chained, Starved Kids, i Should
“Beat Your Brains Out!"
Kids Survive
Long Ordeal
In Cold Room
ULUNGTON Welfare offi
cials nursed three undernourish*
| od children Monday w hile officers
j sought to learn why their father
chained them in a dirty, unheated
| room.
The children, ranging in age
from 8 to 12 years, said their
father chained them in th<
debris-littered room without
food from last Monday to Fri
day, They tetd officer* they
escaped Friday nig hi but their
father found them and chain
ed them again uni?! officers
released them laie Saturday.
The father, Russell Allen, 3a,
sajd he chained the children only
since Friday "because T couldn't
do anything with them.'' He was
held in jail here ponding com
pletion of an investigation.
Harnett County Sheriff Wade
Stewart said scars and blisters on
the children’s arms indicated they
had been chained longer than Al
len said. He identified the chil
dren as Mary Lee Allen, 12, Ger
aldine Allen. 10, and Jerry Alien
8.
Stewart quoted the oldest
child as saving she managed
to free herself Friday from
the chain that ran through a
hole, in the wall to a log out
side the house. She released
the other children using a file.
They ran to a, house some five
miles away, she .-aid. and had
their first meal since Monday. But
their father found them, she told
Stewart, arid returned them to the
chains warning "I ought to take
a stick and beat your brains out."
96 Jars Os Booze
sf.r;a vc i s. nt. j. if
Charles Knox LaNisier. popular
Raleigh, V. (!. resident, hadn't
bad a flat tire last Sunday, he
eiigitl have reached hi» desti
nation. However, he stopped
his car on Ihe New Jersey
Turnpike to change a flat
(ire State Trooper John Burns
was cruising by and wanted lo
lend his assist;!nee. Ac LaSis
ter opened the trunk of bis car.
(hr trooper spotted 96 half
Gallon Pinson .jars tilled wilh
‘white lightning” whiskey, re
portedly. The man was charged
with transporting liquor with
out a license,
i Taylor Radio A TV Servi-e
Standard Cinder Blm-k to
!> M Voung Hardware
R E. Quinn Furniture *. n
Modern Finance Co
Odom Cut Rate Store
PAGE 9
A * P Supe; Markets
>t or ha nil g j .inner* Bank
i Raleigh Funeral Home
Ambassador Theatre
Gem Watch Shop
PAGE 1(1
Woodworth St. Tourist Home
i Healer Well Company
Cavenoss Insurance Agency
| Penal-Cola Bottling <o. of Raleigh
Carolina Builders Corp
I W atson’s Seafood A Poultry Co , Inc.
j Cmstead Transfer Co. A Food Store
Olilon Motor Finance Company
Burma Esso Service
Ridgeway's Optimally
Warner Memorials
Deluxe Hotel
PAGE 11
ll( Hig-Ecvlne Furniture Co.
Cl'lrd's of Raleigh
.Sullivan's Grocery
PAGE If.
Carolina Muriel Home fnrp.
N, C. Produrts
Acme Really Companv
Kearney's Grocery
The Hood System lndUfln.il Bank
Martin Street Self-Servlet Laundry
North Carolina's Leading Weekly
'GREENE COINTF TRAINING SCHOOL - The students of the Greene County Training School,
shove, <1 id not attend classes Tuesday and the buses were also idled. It is beleivcd that grevlence* over
facilities caused the mass drop.out in Snow Hill, Other schools were also affected.
Schools Empty As Greene County
Pupils Stage “Stay Home’’ Strike
SNOW HILL Ninety percent of
Greene County's 2.300 students did j
not attend schools Tuesday. Ail of j
the schools have been forced to i
shut down in the wake of a coun
ty wide strike, resulting in a bus
driver being beaten by his feiiow
drivers.
Att'y Gen. Says Reds May
Use Carolina Kissing Case
FUQUAY-VARTNA -Atty. Gen,
Malcolm B. tScawell warned Mon
day night the "hands of Comu
nists arid fellow travelers are
seeking to reach the public poc
ket book through exploitation of
racial matters” such ns North
Carolina's highly-publicized ‘‘kiss
ing ease,'’
lie told a women's club
meeting here that the state's
chief interest in the case was
the welfare of the two Negro
Imps sent to a correctional
school after a complaint that
they fried to kiss a white girl.
He said others who have tak
en up <he ease supposedly in
the interest of the boys, do not
welfare.
share that concent for their
Sealveil said the activities of
“questionable groups” and. indi
viduals were net limited to the
case of the two Union County Ne
groes. ''There is now before the
Supreme Court of the United
States a case which seeks to void
North Carolina’s literacy test for
voting,” he explained.
State News
-.IN—
Brief
FACES BAT* CHECK CHARGE!
RALEIGH Lynwood Daye, 22,
of Younggviile, was arrested here
last week on charge of passing
worthless cheeks at Freeman's
Shoe Store on Fayetteville Street
and Sears in Cameron Village,
Detectives said Daye had ad
| nutted passing bac! checks also at
j Durham and Roanoke, Va, He had
: purchase a pint of whiskey after
i passing the "rubber” check at
j Freeman's. He was caught, how
| ever, before he could open the
! pint.
| OPTS HIS TWO FRONT TEETH
WHITE VILLE Whitevllie
Policeman Bill Rhodes, chief
character in a "Dear .Santa,*’
story last Christinas has re
ceived a two-tooth bridge, de
stroyed when three former
Clarkson Negroes, more recent
ly of New Jersey, jumped him
when he sought to arrest them
for speeding during the, bolf
| davs. The were finally quelled
and jailed after a battle. In
Members of tbe countr’s
School Board were scheduled
In meet to an emergency se*
‘-ion Wednesday morning to
bear any complaints and to rie
termlne whether the strike will
become indefinite,.
It had been alleged but not de
Referring to that case, against
the Northampton County Board!
of Elections, he sa.id an organiza-i
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AT HOUSING HEARING Former Brooklyn IMtcr baseball star Jackie Robinson stands in front
of a chart showing % breakdown of where while and colored people live, as hr appears before the Federal
Civil Righto Commission In New' York last week. The Commission was holding a bearing on discrimi
nation In housing In New York City, Robinson said iho.l he was seeking action which would grunt (be
Negro “some progress toward equal rights in housing.” (DPI PHOTO).
DIAMOND AMONG PRIZES IN
OFFING AT HOME & FOOD SHOW
See Range At YWCA Davie Street
TO BE GIVEN AWAY AT FOOD SHOW
finitely determined that the stnke
couid have 'correlated with an
NAACP announcement recently
(hat, “concerted intetration effort?
in Eastern North Carolina would
be launched."
Rumors in the county alter
the strike were that the Negro
school troubles were the cul
mination of discontent by
schools patrons over the ap
proval of a new consolidated
white school and !he need for
more classrooms, a gymnasium
and a new cafeteria at the
Greene County Training School
in Snow Hill.
L. H. Smith, principal of the
; lliool, reported that he had nut
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Afifehus
|tt Mofy
I Institute
|To Present
Or. Julian
Trip grandson of a Jus.- w j lo
rose to become, in tin; opinion of
Newsweek Magazine, • the nation ,
most prolific living chemurgial'
will be the speaker ai. Monday
night’s Instituts of Religion at the
United Church at 8 o’clock.
Dr Percy L. Julian, eminent,
scientist and churchman, will
sifcak on "The Moral Rcsponsi
hiltty of tho Scientist.’' Born in
Alabama, Dr. fulian worked hi.?
was through DcPauw University
where be graduated Pin Beta
Kappa, then through Harvard
•a hen; he. eg mod hk, master's de -
gree m one yeat while also stoking
furnaces, waiting on tables and
teaching, and m 1931 was awarded
his Ph i) degree from the Univer
sity of Vienna.
From 1936 In 1952 Dr. Julian w:u,
instrumental in developing a wide
variety of chemical matter such
as pure protein for coating paper,
» foam for smothering oil and
gas fires, lecithin for making
foods creamier, and female hor
mone progesterone. From yams
growing wild in Guatemala he ex
tracted the ingredients of corti
sone and his experiments with
soybeans resulted in the synthetic
production of proteins and ’'won
der" drugs. Today ho heads the
Julian Laboratories, Inc.
Dr. Julian is active in laymen's
activities. He is currently presi
dent of the Congregational Coun
cil for Social Action. Included a-j
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jUnff If -- "'“i
BBSS’'' rB
|F. fticiLu
A| f 111 !|! ItSS 1,1 Miss Betty Jean Reed, tile !»»<• N":ro nit|.
j *« br integrated into Norfolk’s Gronli.v Rich School arrived for
1 1 j.ssps last vii'i'K. A iota! of ! 7 colored students vetr In ten; raft’d into
j previously all-white schools throuthoui the elt.y, thus shuttering Vir
",mts historic segregation policy. No incidents were reporird. HIM
I I M PHOTO).
Alexandria is 3rd Virginia
City To Integrate Quietly
ALEXANDRIA, Va This his- ,
lone Virulnla town rehictariSv ■
but quietly admitted nine Negro
children to three of its public
schools Tuesday.
Five of the Negroes went to two
elementary schools, the first in
Virginia to be integrated. Two
others entered a prevtouik all•
white high school.
Alexandria., .in.- ’ a few mile:
from George W;r. liimlon’s home
at Mount Vernon joined Arling
ton and ( Norfolk ir. the re tree i
from vtfginia’i "massive rcris
faiep” to school integration
The action brought to 10 the
number of schools that have ad-:
mis tcri Negroes in Uvc three com- 1
mur.ities.
Heavy police guard? were,
placed around the three Alex
andria schools and precautions
were taken to avoid and crowds
gathering. But there was no
demonst-atiou of any kind.
City scaool officials fought in- j
tin ration up until last Saturday j
Jones Bros.
Freed By A
Local Jury
Deliberating about 15 minutes
Tuesday, a coroner’s jury freed
two brothers on charges of murder
in the Saturday night Slaying of
a man near Kniyhldaie.
Wilbert “Snip" Jones, 158, of
2fi 1-2 Pettigrew Street, Rn
leigh, and his brother. David
Jones, Raleigh. Route 7. had
been charged with murder by
Sheriff's deputies in the club
pistol death ot Frank Bumpass,
24. of Garner. The killing al
legedly took place at Seale's
Dace on Toole Road about
11:30 p in.
“Snip" Jones, in a sworn state
ment said lie shot in self defense
after Bumpers had fired a shotgun
or nfle at bin: in the yard of the
night club
Hi* brother, also in * worn
statement, read at the Inquest, *d
««:omTNt!El> ON PAQB r»
Fire Claims
Mother, Four
Children
ARKEBOKO ~A fire inroad
through a two-story frame dwell
in* in a lo< a! community Tuesday,
taking the lives of a mother and
her foui small children. The home
is located some .‘SOO feet outside the
city limits of Asbeboro.
Dead are Mrs. Inez Masuenburg
•10, and four of her children: Alice
II: Joe, 10; Mae. 7; and Helen, 6.
The kids and the mother were all
sleeping in the he.nc on the second
floor at the time of the blaze. They
wore apparently overcome by
smoke.
The father arid a teen-age son,
sleeping on the first floor, escaped
without any injury.
Clarence Rush, fire chief, report
ed that the building was beyond
saving when his crew arrived al
the Wood lawn Street residence at
3:08 a. m. After being informed
members rs the family wore trapp
ed in the structure, firemen placed
■ ■ ladder at the upstairs,bedroom
fCONUNUED ON PARK *1
”'bett { lic.n asked Chief Judge Sim'
on r. So&fJof! oi flit: U. o. ruurUT
Circuit Court of Appeals to delay
the move
Bui. whin) Soijeioff ruled that
tCO.N’f tNUf.f: 0> f.AOK 2)
DEAN ROBINSON IN tMi
CAGO Dr. V. It. Robinson,
dean of St. Augustine's College.
»s attending the American As
sociation ot Colleges and 'Teach
ers Rdtica icisi at Chicago, on
I ehiuary lltJb through 14th.
The purpose of this meeting is
to study the I rends in the area
of teacher education, and in
make suggestions how colleges
offering- programs in teacher ed
ucation might adius< their pto
gram to meet the needs of sci
entific education
Dr. Ward
Invited To
1 st Baptist
In a special meeting last Wad.
night, attended by some 300 *et»-
hrra. the Bint. Baptist Church, here
extended an invitation to Dr,
Charles. W Ward of Macon Goor
tf»a, to fake over the church's pas
torate if he so desires The veto
in favor of the minister was unan
imous No reply as to irhcUier ho
wil? accept, the offer has pecs
advanced.
Pastor of the Pjrgt Baptist,
Church in the Georgia city, Dr.
1 Ward delivered a very st'rring aer
| men in this city las: year.
Presiding at the meeting;, which
lasted almost two hours, was DfJl*
tCONTTNUKD ON PAGE m
I Mother Is
Raped A t
Charlotte
CHARLOTTE! A heavy . art
man attacked a,nd raped a whtio
woman at her home here Friday
night, police reported.
The woman, whose name was
withheld, was examined and treat
ed for shock at a hospital here.
Police continued a search for the
asaallont.
The .14-.vcai-old woman -aid
the man attacked her while
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