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6 Mort DAYITO LIVE TOP RANKIHG STUDENTS Two Hillside high school students of Durham made high scores on an examination given by the National Honor So ciety to scholarship candidates recently. Although no student from a southern high school received a scholarship from the Society, James Schooler, left, and Yvonne Miller both made high scores on the examination. Schooler, who is the highest ranking student in the graduating class, missed by one point of falling in the highest ten per cent of the candidates. L Yvonne, second highest ranking Hillside senior, also missed by a few points of ranking with the highest ten per cent of those taking the examination. Both students are 4ctive in Hillside activities. Schooler, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Schooler of Durham holds, among many other offices, that of president of Hillside’s National Honor Society. Yvonne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Felix Miller, co- edtor of the student newspaper, a member of the band and active in a Durham church. She resides with her aunts. Misses Felicia and Catherine Miller. Death Row Men Counting Hours ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Seven Teachers 'Axed* In Moss Firing ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ Raleigh Woman, Shot Six Times, Lives On RALEIGH Six more days to live. Tbat’a the score for tour men who have spent together a ^ tal of 17 yearn In North Caro lina's Central prison. Unless the State’s Chief Exe cutive, Oovemor William B. Unutead, steps in an calls a halt to the planned mass execu tions, the four will die in the) State’s gas chamber on Friday morning, May 20, Juat six dajM from now. The condemned lour, whose homes for the past several years has been the bleak coniines of death row, are Raleigh Speller, Clyde Brown knd Bennie and Lloyd Ray Daniels. rape or murder on white per sons. A long, valiant but apparently fruitless effort has been made on the part of attorneys for the con demned men to save their lives. Appeals on their behalf have been taken, through an almost interminable series of channels, all the way to the Siq;>reme Court The only hope remaining for the four men is a commutation of th^ sentences to long term imprisonment by Gov. Umstaad, who was given last Thursday records on the cases and rec- commendations for clemency. Aa late as Wednesday, no word was received from the Chief Execu tive’s olficc; on his decision in the cases. All fotur of the condemned men, who have now turned to reli^on in what may be their last days, steadfastly claim that they are innocent of the crimes for which they were sentepced to death. Raleigh Speller, 51, oldest of the death row inmlitaa, haa made Central Prison his borne slnoe 1947 when he was convicted of rape of a whito woman of Wins- dor. The Daniels cousins, Bennie and Lloyd Ray of QreenvUle, were convicted in 1M9 of the murder o a v^te taxi cab dri ver. Clyde Brown was sefitenced to die on a conviction in 1050 of the rape of a white Winston- Salem girl. ' A recent visitor to four of Clyde Brown’s relative reports that he has been a frequent cor respondent with them and that the tone of all of his letters re veals his strong belief that “everything is going to turn out aU right." Brown is reported to have written regulurly to his sister, Miss Ada Brown, of Lexington and to an aunt, Mrs. Claudine Campbell, also of Lexington. According to a report, a re cent letter to Margtster stateO^ in part; “1 get the news that people are fighting to save my life... (Please turn to Page Eght) Fort Jackson G. I. Empties Gun On 'Friend' RALEIGH A 20 year old woman recelvad six shots from a .22 calflaref pistol here Tuesday night, May 12—and lived. Miss Ida Mae ColUiis of 1S16 HoUnan Street waa reported in “satisfactory condition” at St. Agnes hospital late last Wednes day where she waa taken after her “boyfriend" emptied his .22 calibre pistol on her. A 25 year-old soldier of Fort Jackson, S. C., Cornell Whitley, (rank not given), was placed under arrest on a charge of as sault with intmt to kill. Whit ley admitted the shooting after his arrest. Police report that the woman was shot three times in the stomach, twice in the chest and once through the leg Tuesday night around 10:30. No further information on her condition was available from St Agnes authorities early this week. Whitley is reported as telling officers that he came to' Ralei^ ^Saturday night, May 0, got ac quainted with Miss Collins and began a whirlwind courtship with her. According to Wtiitley, the argument which led up to the shooting occured on the front porch of a house at 206 Hoke Street on Tuesday night. He said that she started to argue with him over a telephone call, accusing him of having tele- (Please turn to Page Eght) FOR THiBTTt YEARS THE OVTSTANDING WEEKLY OF THE CAROUHAS Entered as Second Chua Matter at the Poet Office at Durham, horth Carolina, under Act of March 3,1879. VOLUME 30—NUMBER 19 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1953 PRICE 10 CENTS PAUL R. WILLIAMS, Los An geles architect, will receive the 88th Spingarn Medal at 44th annual conventton of National Association for the Advance^ ment of Colored People in Sfc Lwis, Ji^ 23-^^ ■ EMBK/ZI EMENT CHARf.E DENlEn Citizens Rally To Indicted Ex-Bursar Fire Leaves 12 Persons WitlKHit Home ASHEVILLE A mid-morning lire last Thurs day morning at 4 Smathers Lane just off Clingman Avenue com pletely gutted a five-room wood en frame structure, destroyed all furniture and personal belong ings, and left 12 persons includ ing 7 children homeless. All per sons escaped without injury. The fire is said to have start ed about 8:30 A. M. and in a matter of minutes had complete ly engulfed the wooden struc ture owned and occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Cornell Qladsby. Fire man, arriving shortly, were able to bring the fire under control and prevent any damage to near by dwellings. Mrs. Gladsby estimated her loss of furniture and other per sonal (^longings at about $3,000 and damage to the houite at a- bout $2,500. According to Mrs. Gladsby, the list was not cov ered by insurance. Fire Chief Fitzgerald said that it would be hard to say just what caused the lire, although it is believed that the cause was a delective llue. GREENSBORO Friends and sympatMzers of a former A. and T. College official who was indicted last week on charges of embez zling more than $116,000 in college funds rallied to his support here this week. N. C. Webster, who served for some 30 years as bursar of A. and T. (Jollege until his dismissal in February for “ir regularities” in his office, has reportedly received numerous oilers of help Irom long-time Iriehds, members of the college community and citizens ol this city. Also this week, Webster, in his lirst public statement since his dismissal last February, told a Greensboro daily that he did not take any of the $116,000 which investigating auditors say is missing from the college’s cof fers. “I want to say right now 1 never even saw it (the $116,- 000),” part of Webster’s state ment to the Greensboro paper read. “1 don’t have a thing ex cept my home, which 1 took 15 years to pay for, and my car, which Is a four year-old Chry sler.” The offers of aid from friends of the ex-A. and T. official began when he was lirst dismissed and mounted to unusual height at his indictment. It is reported that a line ol individuals formed to pay his bond when he was booked on the embezzlement charge last week. A battery ol lawyers, in and out ol Greensboro, has reported ly oUered him legal aid Iree. Four Greensboro lawyers are (Please turn to Page Eght) Above is pictued the architect’s conception of the drive-in branch of the Mechanics and Farmers Banfc to be located in Durham a t the domer of Elm and Fayetteville Streets. Durliam Banl( To Set Up New Facility Additional banking lacilities will be made available to Dur ham residents living in the Hayti area soon as construc tion is expected to be started on the proposed drive-in branch ol the Merchanics and Farmers Bank. The last hurdle lor setting up the branch was cleared Mon day when the board of direc tors of the Federal Deposit In surance Corporation approved the bank’s plan to establish the drive-in branch. The pro posed new facility had already been approved by the State Banking Commission. To be located at the corner of Fayetteville and Elm streets in Durham, the branch will be constructed along modernistic lines, with drive-in windows and space nside for lour tell ers. Accordilng to J-. H. Wheeler, presidant of Mechanics and Fanmra, the branch will of- (Please turn to Page Eght) Turmoil Grips Spaulding Higli And Community SPRING HOPE —By Alex Bames This fair little farming town was in a dither Wednesday morning as the result of what many termed the wholesale firing of seven teachers by Joseph Ancrum, ailing principal of Spaulding School. The “trouble” started some time ago wiien Ancrum la al leged to have become infuriated with many of tiie teachers be found on the faculty when be took over from John Brown, now a meml>er ol Shaw Univer sity’s laculty, at the beginning ol the present school term. He is reported to have relerred to some ol the teachers aa “John Brown’s Trash”. It is rumored that he stated he was going to get rid ol tliis so-called “Trash”. Ancrum reportedly tlireatened 17 ol the ’ school’s 26 teachers by terming them “undesirables.” This kept the school in an up roar most ol the year. Signs ol the “wholesale ax ing” became evident when An crum, hospitalized for three months, allegedly placed Mrs. Grace Massey in charge ol the school. Mrs. Massey, a former ^teacher at Hillside high school in Durham, figured in a lamous controversy at the Durliam school some years ago. She was given "the gate’’ in that incident. TEACHERS S - GOOD RECOitD Four o£ the seven wh i rr- ceived their "pink slip:;’ a/e (Please turn to Page Eiihl; Gastonia got its first Negro councilman recently when Nathaniel Barber, extreme left, was elected to that city’s governing body in recent elections. Barber, prominent and popular civic leader in Gastonia, won his seat easily oa his candidacy drew support from both races. He is. shown above being sworn in with other successful council candidates. — (Photo CouHTKSY GASTON CITIZEN.) CRnilP HAD f.RlTir.lZKn YMCA Y HEAD HITS NAACP ASHEVILLE A. S. Reynolds, principal of Livingstone Street School and chairman of Market Street Branch YMCA’s Com mittee of Managem^t has severely criticized and “taken to task” the local NAACP for its action in protesting the dismissal of the Y’s executive secretary, Hugh A. Johnson. The NAACP, in its last membership meeting, had drafted and passed a resolu tion “condemning the unjust and unreasonable action” which the branch Committee ol Man- ment took in dismissing Johnson as its executive secretary last March 27. Reynolds took exception to the action of the NAACP in a telephone call to Mrs. L. B. Michael, Chairman of the Ex ecutive Committee of the NAACP, and accused Mrs. Mchael as being one of the “ringleaders” against the Y. M. C. A. Reynolds was quoted as saying that the affairs of the YMCA is of no concern to the NAACP, and that she (Mrs.) Michael) no longer had his re spect as a result of her activi ties as a NAACP leader on be half of Johnson. Reynolds is further quoted as saying that he would use his in fluence in the future to prevent his teachers from joining the lo cal NAACP, and that he person ally from now on would send hia membership money to the na tional office of the NAACP, ra ther than join locally. Mrs. Michael, teacher for 29 years and now retired, is cliair- man of the current N. A. A. C. P. membership campaign. Reynolds is also reported as criticizing the NAACP for having its member ship campaign at the same time the Market Street Branch YMCA was in its membership campaign. The telephone conversation in which Reynolds verbally assailed the local NAACP and Mrs. Michael, one ol its leaders, took place last Thursday evening, May 14, following the receipt of letters by members ol the Com mittee ol Management’Irom the NAACP requesting a meeting with the Committee ol Manage ment for the purpose ol present ing the adopted resolution and discussing the issues involved in the dismissal action taken by the branch Y’s governing body. It is reported tiiat Reynolds stated that the NAACP could write all the letters “they wanted to" but that 'YMCA would not meet with (Please turn to Page Eght) 5 Year-Old Boy^ Dies After Being Hit By Car ASHEVILLE Five year old Roosevelt Morgan of 355 Vfe Henderville Road died in the hospital shortly after having been struck by an automobile Sun day afternoon about 2:30 on Hendersonville Road near Vanderbilt Road. On Monday, a Coroner’s Jury absolved of all blame the driver of the automobile, James T. Kennedy of Atlanta, and termed the accident un- (Please turn to Page E^t) Asheville’s Officers in the State Federation of Negro Women’s Clubs which recently met in Elizabeth City are Mrs. Maggie Jones, who was re-elected first vice-president and Mrs. Ruth King, elected as one of the state advisors and organizers of Junior Federation C[ubs. Elected to the presidency and succeeding Miss Ruth Rush of Durham toas Mrs. Rose Aggrey of Salisbury. Jewelry Valued At $2000 Looted From Store ASHEVILLB Watches and rings valmed at more than $2,0t« were takes from the show window of W. E. Roland Jewelry Cempaay on Market Street aboat Z;3t A. M. Tuesday. Charged with the bnlgary and break-in is Hermaa Oweas. are 32 of BrMklya Baad. Shiloh. Owens m^as arrested at the corncr of Eagle and Mar ket Streets shortly after the robbery. .According to W. S. B*laa, ownrr of the Jewlery Coaap- an«. Irss thaa $15* of tk« mar- rhandise was found near the scene of the arrei«t. Owena was srrested by poH»» offVen D. K Maney and E C. HlMaar foliowIbk a it|wrt pbaMd ta the police by a pawer-by Grady Flial of 5t Blaataa. who aotiead Oweaa aettag snspieiaaaly aad haard taia af tha asevckaadiat featag dla- oa Um earaar at iM^la aad poaad at aaar tka Savaf Balal Markat Steaate.
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