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Mother Adandons New Bora Babe, Faces Murder Chara ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3 White G. I.’s On Trial For Rape Vidim Is Wife Of Guie MltolMU Gray, tt y«ur- oid KboztU1«, T«^ yonth, tbe first Nacro to k« Admitted to k« VslTmtty of T«bb- tme ends hto first day m a aMkat at ttie Ualrenlty. He is siiowiaf iMTiaff Ayres hall, olaasroom balldlBf on the oanpas of Ike Vaiveriity. Gray, who works as a hellhop In «»e of KaoxvOle’s hotels to pay Us fees and snpport his wife and two small diUdren, was admitted to the UnlTer- sity whea his appeal to the Sapreme Oevt for admission was wtOdrawn vafter ptedge from university offioials that Negroes would be pemfltted to enroll immediately In tiie university’s fradnate and law schools. Gray has not enroll ed in any graduate eoBrsea, however, but is taking an undergraduate eonrse tor cre dit and has signed to review two graduate courses. Before becoming a full fledged grad uate student niext quarter, he deeided he should "brush up.” He graduated tnm Knoxville ” College and Swift Junior Col lege. '* N. C’s "Butter, Eggs” Lottery Is Crushed FAYBTTEVILLB—1^118 city’s number rackets was struck a crippling blow here last week as the nation-wide crack down on the numbers lottery hit Cum berland County and resulted in Indictments against the Western Union—oari>nwitlttP- and _ 10. others. ' District solicitor Malcom Sea- well of Lumberton told the press last week that a grand jury has returned three true bills on indictments charging conspiracy to operate a lottery, setting up a lottery and opera ting a lottery. Defendants named in the ac tion were the Western- Union coiporation; Harry Yates, white, alias J. A. Small, reported to be the boss of Fayetteville number rackets since Francis Smith left the county several years ago, J. F. Price, white, manager of the local Western Union office and 17 Negroes. Cumberland County’s num bers racket, a ‘‘butter aod eggs*!^ type, was described as being the largest in the State. Local ob servers around Fayetteville who claim to have inside knowledge on the workings of the lottery, stated sadly here last week that the crack down will all but crip ple what had come to be one of the city’s most thriving indus tries. The racket, which at one time was supposed to have been wor th thousands of dollars, has been 1W0 YOUTHS HELD IN RAPE OF54YEAR-OLD GHAPEL HILL—Two Chap el HIU youths were this week bound over on charges of rap ing a B4-year-old Negro wo man here last Friday night. Bond for Willie J. Moore, 16, and Haywood Cole, 17, was set at $7S0 each. According to the woman, the youths grabbed her on South HerrittHill Road as she was walking home and dragged her into a patch of weeds \diere they they assaulted her. The assailants were discov ered at a local store following a description furnished author- Ittes by the victim of the at tack. under inv^^^tigation for nearly a year by Police chief L. F. Wor rell and his officers. Bonds for Yates and Price had not been set here last Thursday, but $500 had been posted by most of the Negro defendants Isite. -WediiBKiay. Solicitor Seawell' said that Yates entered into a contract with Western Union at duur- lotte to provide daily butter and egg quotations from northern markets through regular Wes tern Union chaAnds. Seawell said that the messa ges were sent in the name of J. A. Small which Yates allegedly used as an alias, and then tur ned over to Yates, whom the Western tTnion manager Price claimed he knew as Small. Investigating officers got their lead on the huge racket when Yates, detained by ABC officers, was discovered to be in posses sion of cancelled checks contain ing notations and other data in- ^cating an aaBociation adtlL ttis “butter and eggs” lottery. He also had a notice from Western Union that the charge for their services had been increased. The Solicitor said Yates tore up the letters containing the no tations while he was in the ABC office, but officers recovered from Ills telegrams bearing "but ter and eggs” quotations which Yates received dally. Apparently, Yates had pur chased a Cadillac and several Other automobiles and listed for tax purposes under the names of other persons. Described as “well known” in Fayetteville, Yatas resides in what police termed a “fine, (Please turn to Page Ten) Gets Contract Ernest Warliek, North Caro lina College’s AU-Amerlea gridfron end, received a eon- traot from the Los Angdes Rams, member of the Ameri can ProfessloBal FoetbnU Lea gue this week. Warliek, a two sport latter- maa who is also an all-oonfer- enee basketball player, was the unanimous ehoioe of eon- ferenee eoaehes for the Pltta- burgh OOVBHB’S AU-Ameri- can seleetlon. Tlie six, four, ttS poond sn- Iw from Hiekory Is on»;A In the draft, however. FOR THIRTY YEARS THE OUSTANDING WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS Entered as Beeond Class Matter at the Peet Offlee at tlurhaia. North Carolina, nnder Act of March S, Itlt. VOLUME S«—NUMBER 4 DURHAM, NOWTH CAROLINA, tATURDAT, JAN. 2«th, l»St PRICE TMN CENTS Numbers Racket Is Hit Hard ★ ★ ★ ★ Rites Held For A.M.E.Z. Bishop HUNDREDS AT FUNERAL FOR B. F. GORDON CHARLOTTK — Throngp of mourners crowded into the Ut- tle Rock A.MJ:. Zion church final respecta to Bishop Buford Franklin Gordon who died in Good Samaritan Hospital here Saturday afternoon after a three day illness. Bishop Gordon died at the age of 58. The late Bishop’s son, Charles R. Gordon delivered the eulogy. Fimeral services were under the leadership of the Board of Bishops of the A.M.E. Zion churdi which Bishop Gordon had served with much distinc tion since his ordination as min ister in 1020. Graveside rites jvere held at the ^amoriJU‘-cemetery. Bishop Gordon and his fam ily had lived here since 1931 when they moved from Akron, Ohio, where he had served as pastor of the Greater Weslejr Temple A.M.E. Zion church— a |200,000 structure which he built during iiis pastorate there. Bishop Gordon came to Char lotte to take over duties as ed itor of the church school litera ture of the A.M.E. Zion church. He-lteld that position until 1944 when he was elected to the church’s highest office, that of bishop. During his more than 30 years service to the A.M.E. Zion chur ch, the Bishop has led several congregations to build churches, travelled in many sections of the world and had become a mil itant' and outstanding leader, much in demand as a preacher and lecturer. For his first four years in the episcopacy, he was supervisor ol the denomination’s 'Ninth Epis copal District which embraces theJElorida, South Florida, West Tennessee, Mississippi, South Mississippi and West Alabama Conferences. Since 1948 he had been su pervisor of the Seventh Epis copal District, including South Alabama, Central Alabama, Al abama and West Alabama con- (Please turn to Page Ten) GREEN HEADS N. C MUTUAL IN DANVILLE Edwin W. Oreen of tiiis etty was formally Installed Thurs day as Manager of the Dan ville, Virginia distriet of the Norilt' Carolina Mutual Life Inqaranee Company. He was Inilalled by W. A. Clement, Assistant Ageney Dlreetor. Wlteesslng the eer«au»lss were Green’k faOier and his fonnw manager, W. L. Cook of the Durham distriet. Green began work 1m flie North Carolina Motaal In . IMt. He has served as dabtt and assistant Manage* fer the Durham district. He was ap pointed temporary nuuiager in Danville on the death of Paul S. Crane, former Danville dis- trict. manag^. The Mntnal’k Board of Direeten efflehlly named him to manage tiie DahvlUe disfatm beginning Jannary 1. Grean was very aetlve In the elvto aal rdlg- tous Ufe el DariuuB dnriig Us stay here. Korean War Vet CARTHAGE — A ninetecn- year-old mother testified here tills week against four para troopers who raped her during Army maneuvers in tlie Sum mer of 1051. Mrs. Lula M. Artes, mother of tliree ctiildren and wife of a' Korean veteran, told a Jury bow I Pfc. Alex C. Elder, 21; Pvt. Har- | old L. HiU, 21; and Cpl. Louis Wilson, Jr., 20; forced her to submit to ttieir demands by tiireatening her with a sltotgun on a rural road in Moore Coun ty last August. The trio of paratroopov was participating in the Army’s “Southern Pifie” manuevers and accosted the young motlier as she returned from church with relatives. A companion, Paul Williams, was forced to re main in a truck wiiile the sol diers attacked Mrs. Artes. An extensive search, for the men identified the attackers, al- thou^ two others, Floyd Bre land and Roliert .H. Orpheim, ap parently did not participate in the attack. The Army has re fused to released Breland to civil authorities, and Orpheim tias been AWOL since Septem ber. True bills were earlier return ed by a grand Jury against the three paratroopers who admit ted assaulting Mrs. Artes. The Army’s Criminal Investigation DepartnTent had obtained confes sions from the paratroopers be fore they faced the grand jury. Solicitor M. G. Boyette was being assisted in the prosecution of the case by Attorney C. O. Pearson and E. R. Avant of Dur ham, who were retained by the NAACP. Presiding at the trial Three sl|^eia vhe enJeyeA ikjMplHU of Dvrhi^ ieeater, was hnsisss to her sIm rli^t. Mrs. Pennie has reeently returned to SMI makes her hame In Chleago, Dl. Mrs. Lula Bfae Artes, yeog wife of a G. L, teatifled ttis WMk daring the trial of Oree wUte soldiers fer rape on her, that she was forced to submit to them last August during tte Army’s gigantte war BMUinev- ers, “Exercise Southern Ptne.** Mrs. Artes told reporters that she is “expecting” in the Spring.' was Judge Zeb T. Nettles of Asheville. Interest in the case apparently did not match tliat of tlie trial of Mack Ingram wiu>, in No vember of last year, was tried in YanceyviUe for assaultii^ a female via malicious ogling de livered from a distance of 75 feet. The accused paratroopers are from the midwest, and Mi« Artes, although a native at Moore County, lias been livins in Baltimore, Maryland for a number of years. eoahtry : : are shewn above. Mrs. Ndl Hunter I^, and Bfrs. Mafttye Jackson, a three year visit abroad. Mrs. Jaek- Loms Paves Way p. G. A. Permits Negroes To Play In Tournament PHOENIX, Ariz.—Three Ne groes were entered in a field of 130 of the nation’s topflight golfers for the annual Phoenix Open, scheduled to get imder- way here Thursday. Eural Clark, an amatuer, and Bill Spiller and Ted Rhodes, professionals, all of L» Ange les, shot qualifying scores to en able them to get a crack at the $10,000 prize money. They are the first Negro professionals to compete in a Professional Golfers’ Association - sponsored tournament. The three were enabled to play in the tournament because of Joe Louis’ successful fight in cracking the PGA color ban last week. Louis’ insistence on play ing in the PGA-sponsored .San Diego tournament last week, af ter he had been invited by a lo cal committee and then denied the right to play by PGA offi cials, caused the PGA to amend ita rules to permit Negroes to participate in its tournaments. Although the fight waged by JOE LOUIS . . . Wins Big Fli^t. . . the ex-heavyweight champion made a sizable cradc in the PGA’s wall of segregation, he will be fon»d to wateh the toumam^t along with the rest of the gallery. His score of 80 was not sufficient to qualify liim for the Phoenix tourna ment. The amendment permitting Negroes to participate in PGA tournaments, adopted by an overwhelming majority of the PGA tournament committee, al lows Negroes to play but does not allow them to belong to the PGA. It hiu'dles the PGA constitu tion which denied non-Caucas ians membersliip by permitting non-members to participate in its toumments provided that the local sponsors approve. A poll on the amendment, con ducted among -the seven mem bers of the PGA tournament committee, resulted in approval by six. A seventh could not be reached. Louis was allowed to parti cipate in the San Diego tourna ment liecause of his amateur status. Spiller, a professional, was denied the right to play in the San Diego open, however. Four Tots Die In Blaze; Grandfather Saves Motlier GALA, Va. — Four young children were burned to death here last Friday as their 95- year-old grandfather struggled to rescue their sick mother and and blind granmother. The victims’ ages ranged from one to six years. Hie fire re duced their mountain home to ashes in a matter of minutes, eyewitoesaes said. Hie children’s aged grand father, helped a passerby carry out the children’s bed-ridden mother and then returned to lead his blind wife to safety. They were blocked freon re scuing the young tots, however, by heat and smoke. .ently started in the room where A. B. Vaughn, who helped to the chUdren were playing, the rescue, was working outside This town of Gala has no fire the home when his attention was department, no town officials called to the fire, which appar-1 and only two telephones. IS-YEAKOLD HOIHER FEAKEB BABY NOT HER HUSBAND'S CLINTON'— A 15-year-old wile who abandoned her new bom baby l>oy after giving birth to it in a field in an attempt to conceal the birth from her hus hed was charged~with murder here last week. Mrs. Geraldine Carter of Honeycutt must stand trial lor murder in connectioh with the death of her baby when she re covers from the ordeal of the tmattended delivery, according to sheriff P. B. Lockerman, who filed murder charges against here last Wednesday. The young wife, who is being held in the sick ward of the County home, told the sheriff that she tried to hide the fact ol the baby’s birth because her husband was not its father. The couple was married on Saturday, Jan.. 12, three days before the incident. Jolm Walker Carter, husband 01 tile young wife, told sheriff Lockerman that he found the abandoned baby, crying in the field Wednesday morning around nine O’clock, a lew hours after it liad been abandoned by his wife. . Carter further told the sherilf that his wife went out into the field, near their home, around 2 O’clock Tuesday morning. When she returned, he said, he noticed blood on her dress. The three day-old husband said that he followed the trail of blood the next morning and discovered the baby crying in field, near their home, around baby home and went for a doc tor. When he returned, however, he staged tliat the baby was dead. Coroner J. S. Ayers said that the baby died of exposure. Negro Seventh In Race For i«v. NEW ORLEANS, La. — Ker- mlt Parker, the first Negro to run for Governor in the South since the Reconstruction days, placed seventh in a field ol nine candidates'for the gub ernatorial nomination on the Democratic ticket in Louisiana last week. Parker polled 4,896 votes out qf a total of 6*^2,120 cast throughout the State in the initial primary. A run-off will be held for the two high vote getters tn the primary. Carlos Spaht, Gov. Earl Long’s choice, and (Please turn to Page Toi) MAN KILLED IN WRECK IN TWIN CITY WINSTON-SALEM, N. C.—A preacher was killed and' two ottier persons injured when a car ran into a stop sign on ^obin Hood Road and crashed into a convertible, turning it over on its occupants. Reverend John Jackson, 50 year-old resident of llsTlVorth Ridge Avenue, died last Friday evening seven hours after he was taken to a local hospital. He suffered a ^ctured skull. Rev. Jackson, who works dur (Please turn to Page Ten) Miss Viyella MiteheU, ham native reeently aasfgnad by the Board of Natioittl Mis sions of the Prea^terian Church to the Granada. Arisr- ona .Miaaion staff, will be honored with a leteptlen here at the Covenant Presbyttflan Church Sunday aftnneen at 5:30. A resident ot 1102 Fayetta- vUle Street and a mfhar e the Presbyterian Chnrdi ham, where she holda many eftieaa, including that ef trastee, IObb MiteheU resigned har paiittaa with the^.FnbHe Heaitt D«- partment to aeeeyt tlM aaidgn- ment which beglna arwnni Fehruary 1. She wiU be aaslgned to iha staff ef the Saga Msmartal Heapltal ef tka ndsalaa. whUh includes a a haapital, a school, a farm and a aaaa- ounlty center. The mlariaa la chiefly pepnlatad by under privileged Indian' tribes, a- mong which are NavalM, Hepn, Laguna, Pnshto and Mere Oan h^ af ttM dUl- d^ are wttheut adMela aad SS per cent et'tt* aduMa u* said to be ilUtarata. TiMae tribea, in great Med el aaadlay asalatance, have a high rate fram ttw nnaiiMa— eaaaa tar whlah ttay kav* aa tar Ueked care.
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