m IcDOUG ALD FIGHTS FOR I 11 t"H I I I "I >*** I Edition j niinni ■»i 11II» n I n m n i III \Quam 11 ' nwiiBi* *7 DURHAM. N. G., SATURDAY. JULY 30tb. 1»40 nici nvc cum TWO MURDERERS GIVEN DEATH PENALTY 7 Face Charges Of Mnrder In Charlotte Court CSASLOTTE — In a •eries of lirat decree murifer indictments la tlM Superior Court of Meck- liobarir County last week, caaca triMf* Negroes killed Negroes in Cterlotte^ tto eonvictiona obtain ed in tfroj 'eases resulted in a daath aei>t«nce in the state fas tkn9>b«r a^ priaon sentenee cf fr^m 10 to 12 on a tuiHy second degCee murder plaa. Ib tha third case q{ the week an actd N^o pan was declar ed Hot tailty; Presiding was Jad(* Cleii^t ^nd prosecuting: waa Soliciior Carpenter, who ■ought first degree murder con- vietions for each of the three defendants. Tlw f^rth msrder caaa, one Mrs. Martha Williams ehuc* with killing her husbakid, was note i»OMad wirt j|?ave ftftar it Had been established before tbe court that Mrs. Wil- I'Mm killed her mate while be was :Wvancin? upon her with a'Re volver. It was stated that ha had threatened to kill. Still another case this week on a murder > charge brought forth a m^slaughter convie- tlon. The Jury found Nathaniel Edwards guilty. He had' killed another, Negro, Alfred Smith, but Judge Clement reserved sentencing until a later date. To die in the gas chilmber In September is Noah Cureton. whfo was charged with shooting to death John W. Heninken. also a Negro of Charlotte. Getting the 10 to 1'2 year sentence for mur der is Luther Withers. He was charged with clubbing another Negro, Lonnie Collins, to death. The Cureton death senteacel is the second given within recent weeks as a reanlf' of «a»! where Negi’oesr killed Negroes. , j ‘July Blue Mooo’ Blamed For k 4. . . Violence ^ GRBINSVILUB, S. C., (ANP) ^ne old folks down here at- a qieeial aignificance to the ^■ly liew*nioun. Alwikys preceding the appear ance ^ the July new moon there H a Wave of fatalities. The July jHOOn i)|jlet.tJ)e Cllrolina moon of ■wag and atgry, it is a blood ■MOB. !^lood kin will fight and kill iMfiore ttie July new moon. Blood trin did fight in ’76. July 4 fatalities are not result c* the holiday spirit, the coming laly n«w moon makes the blood hot and people kill. With the coming of July 5, the old folks sagely no^^d their heads tte report after report reaches them of what the rest of world call* Fourth of July fatalities. At Bishopville as the resalt of a near riot ak a colored g^ll game, one man was killed, eight nten and women are in Jail, and two policemen who attempted to qwell the riot were injured. "Kie dead nuln was Johnny Le^ Truea dale, of Kershaw, stabbed to Continued on Page Eight Some Say This Started It All “BUSTER” McDOUGALD Did “Buster”, McDougald frighten his wife with the toy pistol shown above? This is one of the many Angles now being i discussed in Durham’s latest' tragedy. Where is the real gun? , Janes Jones Ms In Old Oily Reseivior DUEHAM year old boy of 611 Troy Street was drowned Tuesdi^fy afternoon at 4:40 when he'slipped from the mossy Jbanks of a slipped from the East Durham. Two Durham police officers went to the scene and dove iiito Ihe water in an attempt to get the boy’s body out befort it w^h to late. The body was brought to the 'surface by one gt the police lifeless. Artificial respiration was attempted but it was too late. Several witnesses were at the scene when the tr|jlgedy occurr ed. Among them was Purvis Jones, 11-year-old brother of the drowned boy. They sent the alarm for help. All of them were forced to stand and idly look un able to help the boy in the water. Jamcr je*eS;*'l3 He WSt sitting oH the edge o| the water when he slipped from the moss-grown banks into the wei'er. He could not swim. Around his neck was wound a fishing line and other articles. Which he had pobably started a fishing trip. . *. * He is siAvived by his parents, Mrs. Adel and Lexie Jones, and other brothers und sisters. FBI INVESTIGATES TENN. LYNCHING NEW YORK The situation at Brownsville, Tenn., where El bert Williams was lynched and nearly a dozen Negroes driven out of town beCi&laae of their effort to register and vote, is be ing investigated by the Federal Continued on Page Eight The photo at the left is that i Lincoln (Hospital, rf McDougald who is now fight- (Photo by Reuben-Rudolph) ing a grim battle to . (.live at | Durham Bankers Attend Carolina Conference CHAPEL HILL ~ A new mile stone in the progress o/ of inter racial cooperation in the Uld North State was passed last week when four^executivt's of the Me chanics and F4limcrs Bank of Durham and two oUiec Negro business men of Durham parti cipated in the fourth annual North Caroling Bankers’ Confer- er.ce held at the University of Norl3» Carolina on July 8 and 12. The conference, sponsored jointly by the North Carolina Bankers Association, the Univer sity of North Caroling and the Slate Banking Department, at tracted 215 bankers, 23 of whom came from South Carolina, Vir- pnii^ and Pennsylvania. The Mechanics and Farmers Bank, the largest Negro banking institution in the world, was rep resented at tlie conference by C. C. Spaulding, president; li. U. Merrick, vice president^ K. L. McDougald, executivo vice presi dent, and J. II. Wheeler, cashier. J. J. Henderson of the invest ment department. North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Qtoipan^, and J. S. Stewart, assistant secretary. Mutual Building and Asiociation, both of Durham, also attended. ' The conference lasted four days and a half, with five class periods four dJIys and three class periods on Friday, lion. Edward Continued on Page Eight Wounded Man Given Fifty- Fifty Chance DURHAM — Clem “Baeter” McDougaldM who shot and killed his pretty wife Mrs. Elizabeth McDouglad here last week with the samtT gun with which she had few seconds before sent two bullets crashing into his body is fighting a grim battle for his life at Lincoln Hospital this week. Physicians give McDouglad a fifly-fifty chance to ‘survive the shooting which Was d bloody climax to, an estrangement bet ween him and his wife. Several blood transfusions were given McDougald this week after which physicians announced bis londition as fair. Because of the large number of friends of the couple, inter est in the case was running high as to the outcome, if it goes to court. So intricate are the circUms- t^lnces leading up, to the shoot ing that “curbstone lawyers’* were hesitant in predicting on what charge, if any, McDougald will be tried and what the pen alty,- if s-liy, will be. Conflicting stories with refer ence to the tt^y jpieti^ that Me- Dougald is said to ^havif^frigifcteii-' ed his wife -with were rampant in the Hayti section this week, fVorta aa tlM part of the reeenUtives of the CABOUNA TIMES to give it* retUen m inm account Uie affair resoilKd aa no definite informatioa aa ta whether McDougald had th« tay pistol which_very much reeeaiMea a real whea he approtl'had h» wife or not. The only thing definite is that a toy pistol was found at tlM scene of the shooting. Whether it was in the possession of tha man at the time of the shootinc or wUt placed at the scene by some one else before or after haa not been definitely deCerauaed. CAROLINA TIMES repreaeat^ tivea in interviewing several persons who claias to have seen the affair frees beginning to ei^ find as many who claUm Mc- Dougald did not have the toy pistol as there are who *ay ha did. ~ ^ The toy pistol, a picture of which appears Tu this week’s i»- sue the CAROLINA TIMES, is now in the btmds of the police.' The real gnn with which th« shactti^ W** had. ana kcaa located by police early this week. Bar M To M In Olil« GOLUMBUS, Ohio, (Spec^) —The Sixteenth Annual Conven tion of the National Bar Associa^ tion will convene in Columbia, Ohio onAugust 1, An interesting and educational program has been ^I'l'Anged and a large at tendance is expected. Delegates from the forty eight States tRd Territorial Possessiona are ex pected to be in attendance. Ray E. Hughes, a member of the AMERICAN TEACHERS ASSOCIATION HAS FEATURE PROGRAM FOR JULY 23-26 MONTGOMERY, Ala, — A Stellar array, of speakeia and officers of state and natioivdl professional or- ganiaationa will assenkU^e at Pine Bluff, Arkansas July 23-06 for the S7th annual meeting of the Anerican Teachers Ass’a. Colon^us Bar, is in charge »f arrangements i n Columfaaa. Scenes At Meeting Of N. C. Bankers At University Of N. C. (act a fin* esouaple for other .Famars Bank of Durhdm attend- eoQt2iarB stittee to follow when I ed A« fourth annual s«»on. of Meftenkt aiid j Ti® pheto gt, the left ^owi William A. Irwin of New York .The center photo leading from and J. H. Wheeler, Cashier of (left to right, front row; E. the Mecbaseit Ffinaer Bank. illMrick, preaident and dirao- tor; K. L. MoDougald, executive l preeideat; Back row; Williaaa A. I vice president; J. H. Wheeler, 1 Irwin, Mtw Ttfk; OarMQr f. 1 ^ q^i«T| and C. C, S^uWiag,' Hoo^ Coauuk^amr ai • bWMV-,