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**So Youse won, Wait ’Til”
WMIER DESCtlBES FRUSTRATION iS DODGERS DO IT AGAIN
• •
BY LEROY WALKER
NEW YORK V
Well, it’s all over. The
milUtms of people who
have stopped aU activities
for the past six days for
four hours in the afternoon
— house work, business,
studies, etc.—can return to
their normal ways. TTie
Bronx Bombers are once
again world champions of
baseball.
Casey Stengel has accom
plished the feat of winning
five championships in a row.
An accomplishment which -es
caped such
great m a n-
agers as Joe
M c C a r-
thy, John Mc-
Graw, and
Connie Mack.
Ole Ca^y
a n^ h i s
charges this
year denied
the greatest Mr. Walker
of all Brooklyn teams the pri
vilege of annexing the first
series win for the borough of
Brooklyn.
Brooklynites take the game
of baseball serious. It was
touching to sit there in mas
sive Yankee Stadium and see
a tough looking brute of 200
pounds openly weeping. Weep
ing because his Bums—the
greatest Dodger team of all
time—had lost to the “Ole
Pros.” As we made oiw way
down the ramp we overhead a
flatbush faithful giving a new
twist to the old saying “wait
'til next year." He pointed a
finger at what we assumed to
be a Yankee fan and said, “So
youse won. Big deal—^youse
the world champions. I tlnk
dem bums (Yankees) are a
great money team. Youse wait
’til next year, we will win.
Now I am not giving the old
cry, I mean the next year
we’re in and the Yankees are
not.”
Mantle’s Blow Deciding
That Is about it. You fans
saw it on TV. Some Raleigh-
ites and Duirhamltes we saw
at the park in Brooklyn aad
at the Stadium saw it. The
story is obvious. A bunch of
below 300 hitters rose to hit
ting stardom in the clutch.
This coupled with silent bats
of the Brooklyn stars who had
been overpowering at the
plate during the season was
the difference. Silence in the
clutch, that is. IMantle-who
was threatening the strikeout
re^rd for a series-struck the
big blow in the critical game
Sunday which broke the 2-2
tie in games. It was a bases
loaded line drive poke into
the left field upper deck of
Ebbets field and from the left
side of the plate. Billy Martin
who hit a low 207 during the
season was again the Brook
lyn nemesis. With 12 hits, in
cluding 2 homers, 3 tripUs
and a double, he equalled the
record for niunber of hits In
a series set by Pepper Martin
of the St. Louis “gas house"
gang. But the Btmis-who out-
hit the Yankees in every game
except two and tied them with
12 hits inone of those-could
not deliver when a hit would
mean a run or a prolonged ral
ly.
GUliiuH SeHd
Gilliam was a solid ball play
er. His hitting was good and
his fielding was excellent. The
error given him in the last
game was a questionable one.
Had he come up with it, it
would have been a double
play for sure, but Martin’s
blow was a pistol shot to his
right. It was imtimely for it
came with the bases loaded.
Billy Cox was also given an
error in the last game on a
hard smash to his right and
close to the line. But Jackie
Robinson was not given an er
ror on the single which he
boot^ Sunday nor was Rizzu-
to given an error on Gilliam’s
pop fly to short right which
he handled but dropped in
Saturday’s game. In the Fri
day game at Ebbets field, Gil
liam was spared an error on a
much easier chance which got
away from him. It all depends
on &e scorers’ point of view
at the time of the play. Fans
say they can’t understand the
basis for deciding.
Martin Hero—Several ‘Ooate’
The hero of the series? Well
that is easy. Billy Martin of
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NO LEADS ON
BABY’S BODY
72HOURFASTTO LAUNCH MEET
OFCHURCHGROUP IN DURHAM
DURHAM
The General Council of the
Church of God In Christ Jesus
will convene in Durham, Octo
ber 15-29, it was announced this
week by Bidiop C. L. Faison,
Senior Bishop *(»f the church.
The host church for the Council
is located on the comer of Queen
and Mt. Vernon Streets.
Beginning Wednesday night
October 14, at 12 o’clock will
be a 72-hour fast that will end
mirfnight Saturdayt^ October 17.
Other bishops who will at
tend the annual meeting are
Bishop W. R. Nesbitt, Jackson
ville, Fla.; Rev. Paul Peters
Bridges, Brooklyn, N. Y. Some
of the other outstanding officers
are. Rev. Paul McKoy, General
overseer. Rev. H. L. McBryde,
Business Manager, Rev. C. H.
Tillman, Treasurer and Rev. R.
W. Tillman, General Secretary.
Some of the outstanding wo
men of the council who will be
present are Mothers L. Williams,
J. B. Faison, L. Kier and V. C.
EUiott.
Following the fast the Coun-
BI8H0P C. L. FAISON
cil will go into business sessions
In which reports from all states
will be given.
Friday, October 23 will be
Women’s Day, Saturday, Oct 24
Youth’s Day and Sunday Oct.
25, Chief Apostle’s Day.
DURHAM'S FIRST UNITED FUND
CAMPAIGN POISED FOR PUSH
DURHAM
The United Fund is a real
ity. After several years of
hard work by a countless
number of Durham citizens,
the United Fund has been
established in Durham. This
was no easy task, for many
problems had to be worked
out over a period of seven
months.
It all came about in March
of this year when the City
Council requested Mayor E.
^J. Evans to appoint a special
Wtizens’ committee to study
the question of a United
Fund for Durham.
On May 4, the United Fund
was formally organized in
Durham, and Mrs Mary Trent
was elected its first president.
Admission of eligible agegncies
was then opened, and Worth
Lutz was appointed chairman of
the Funds’ admission committee.
All of the Conunnnity Chest
Agencies Joined and many
other of the national larger
agencies, inclndlng the local
chapter of the Bed OroM.
The Fund’s overall goal Is
$305,246.65, and John B. Wil
son, prelsdent of Wright Mach
inery Company was named gen
eral campaign chairman. Sub
sequently, divistenal chairmen
have also been named, and this
week, names of leaders in the
Southside Division were named.
They are Kathaniel B. White,
Colonal; WUUaxa A. Ctomant,
Lt. Colonel and Irwin R.
Holmes, Lt. Colonel.
The Sonthslde Division has
already formed plana to get its
campaign rolling. White an
nounced this week that a kick-
off meeting for the Division
has been scheduled for Oct.
15 at eight o’clock at the Har
riett Tnbman Branch of the
YWCA.
Key officials of the Fund will
appear at the kick-off meeting.
The Sonthslde Division goal
has not yet been set.
DR. HORNE IN
NEW POSITION
WASHINGTON
Dr. Frank Home, for 15
vear head of the Racial Re
lations service of the Fed
eral Housing Administra
tion, has moved into a new
job in the housing agency
to make room for a GOP
appointee, Joseph Ray,
Louisville, Kentucky real
tor to his old job, sources
close to Horne said this
week.
The removal of Home from
his post had been in the offing
for several weeks, and, al
though it was not confirmed
this week, it was not unexpect-
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DURHAM
No lead has been uncov
ered by Durham police late
this week in the search for
the identity of the partially
decomposed body of a pre
mature baby found early
this week by a group of ele
mentary school students oh
a nature stu^ hike.
, Sheriff E. ,G. Belvia and
Detectives Frank McCrae,
and C. L. Cox, all of whom
were working on the case,
told the TIMES Wednesday
that their efforts to turn up
evidence which might lead
to discovery of the baby’s
identity had so far proved
fruitless.
The body was found by a
group of elementary sci
ence students of Pearson
school who were on a na
ture study field trip. It was
found alongside a small
creek in a wooded area near
the intersection of Lawson
and Lincoln Streets.
It was surmised that the
baby, born prematurely,
was probably abandoned as
the result of an abortion.
Sheriff Belvin said that it
was apparently dead at
birth.
No Answer
From Officials
In Sciiool Case
DURHAM
No answer was forthcoming
this week from city school
officials to a letter threaten
ing possible court action un
less what the letter charged
as further discrimination
against Negro pupils was halt
ed.
It was reported that Attor
ney R. B. Fuller, one of the
attorneys for the city in the
school discrimination case
tried here in 1950, replied
that he had no answer to the
letter and that he may not
nncxvoi* i4'
The ikter, dated Sep
tember 28 and si^ed by Dur
ham Attorneys M. H. Thomp
son and J. H. Wheeler and the
members of the Richmond, Va.
law firm of Martin, Hill and
Robinson, said that action would
be sought “unless prompt action
la taken to remedy more of the
points at which discrimination
was proved.”
A group of Durham Negroes
won an order from Judge John
son J. Hayes in Federal Court
here in 1851 restraining the city
from further discrimination
against Negro pupUs in the mat
ter of school facilities.
The attorneys’ letter was ad
dressed to Superintendent L. S.
Weaver who turned it over to
Attomey Fuller.
The letter noted the proposed
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JOHN WILSON
NATHANIEL B. WHITE
W. A. CLEMENT
I. R. HOLMES
Some of the leaders in Dur
ham’s first United Fnnd Cam
paign which Is getting under
way, here are shown aoove. At
top Is John Wilson, eampalni
chairman, second, Nathaniel
B. White, Colonel of the
Sonthslde Division, third and
fonrth, W. A. Clement and I.
R. Helmet, Lt. Colonels for the
Sonthsida Divlsioa.
200 Pounder Weeps
m0
FOR THIRTY YEARS THE OUTSTANDING WEEKLY OF
(
OLINAS
Entered as Second Class Matter mt the Post Office at Durham, North Carolina, ut^dH^Aet^ ^ March 3,1S79.
VOLUME 30—NUMBER36 DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, (XTT. 10, 1953
PRICE TEN CENTS
Hopefuls Line Up For
$10,000 Contest
MODICAIS
AQUIHED IN
SHORT TRIAL
ASHEVILLE
A few moments conversation
with his counsel, and then Har
vey Modica hurriedly dashed
from the courtroom, past astoun
ded spectators and some mem
bers of the jury, who still did
not know what had happened,
down five flights of stairs and
out the front a free mani He had
just been freed in the alleged
murder of his wife, Luyretta
Modica.
It was the close of day about
5 o’clock last Tuesday, Sept. 29,
just after the final arguments
to the all-male jury by the state
an thf defense that Supericur
Court Judge Itbyle Sink direct
ed a verdict of not guilty and x-
dered the defendant, Modica, re
leased. The state liad failed to
produce,Sufficient evidence, so
ruled'^lu^e Sink.
Harvey L. Modica, about 40
years of age, had been returned
last month to Asheville from
Philadelphia to stand trial for
the murder of his wife who had
been found dead on the bed in
their Southside Avenue apart
ment in May, 1950, Dr. P. R.
Terry, County coroner, stated
that death was the result of suf
focation and that Luyretta Mod--
ca had been dead for 3 or 4 days
when her body was discovered
in the couple’s second floor
apartment. The Coroner’s report,
entered as testimony for the
state, further stated that thera
were no marks of any kind of
the dead Woman’s body to In-
indicate that she had met
death through violence.
In attempting to convict Mo
dica for second degree murder,
the state relied substantially on
circumstantial evidence present
ed by a parade of witnesses in
cluding the dead woman’s sister.
'The defense put one one on
the witness stand.
According to testimony by tha
state’s witnesses, MAdica was
seen putting two suitcases in his
car during the period which is
wife was alleged to have just
met her death and that he had
tried to borrow money from
several persons by telling them
some one of his relatives had
hied or was sick out town.
Also entered as evidence was
a note which Modica is alleged
to have left with some insurwce
policies on his life to the effect
that he wanted ^'everything to
go to his sister.” The state con
tended that at the time he left
this note on the dresser in his
apartment, that his wife waS
therein dead and that Modica
was intending to take his own
life also.
During the course of the trial,
Modica, who was about 5 feet
10 inches tall, showed little if
any strain as he listened to the
testimony and conferred with
his Attomey, George Pennell,
who is recognized as one of the
ablest-criminal trial lawyers hi
this state. It was reported that
Modica while awaiting trial in
his jail cell, told one of his vlsi
tors that he was not at all wor
ried.
The mystery of his wife’s
death has been a source of much
speculation—and for that mat
ter,' still is—during the past two
and a half years as Modica dis
appeared b^ore his wife’s body
was found—^found only after tha
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Representatives of Trans World Airlines, the airline which has been selected to carry winners
of the CAROLINA TIMES “Everybody Wins” Contest on their joomeys to the Holy Land and laxu
are shown during a conference with TIMES officials In Durham last week. Shown discussing trip
routes are, left to right, Jesse Coefield, TIMES CIr cnlatlon Manager, Harry Sigmund of TWA, L. B.
Austin, Publisher of the TIMES, and Grahame Smallwood of TWA.
CHANGE IN DATES ANNOUNCED
AS INTEREST MOUNTS IN STATE
DURHAM
Forty-two persons had been nominated in the
CAROLINA TIMES “Everybody Wins” subscription
contest at press time, 6:00 P. M. Wednesday, October
7. The number was expected to reach fifty by press
time next week, according to J. H. Cofield, circulation
manager of the CAROLINA TIMES, who is managing
the campaign.
With the starting time moved up to Monday, Oct
ober 12, when working material will be in the hands of
all contestants, the campaign is expected to take on
fever high interest and continue to gain as it nears the
end of the first period, October 19. From then on un
til the final closing hour Midnight, November 21 all
contestants will be hard at work in an effort to win
one of the free trips to the Holy Land and Paris that
will be made via Trans World Airlines.
The contest will last for a total of six weeks and
the prizes will be awarded to the person securing the
highest number of votes during the campaign. Each
week the CAROLINA TIMES will publish the relative
standing of each contestant with Ae actual standing
and the name of the winner in the issue following the
close of the contest on November 21.
Upon nomination each contestant will receive
5,000 votes after which the votes will coimt as follows:
No.
Tears
1
2
3
4
5
Sub. Price
$ 3.00
6.00
9.00
12.00
1S.00
1st Period
OCT. 12-24
5.000
12.000
17.000
22.000
30,000
2nd Period
OCT. 26-
NOV. 7
4.000
10.000
15.000
20.000
25,000
3rd Period
NOV. 9-21
3.000
5.000
10.000
15.000
20.000
lAimcAii \laloc
jUitfuUfi JKiIuj
Durham Speech
Dr. Mordecal W. Johmait.
president of Howard Univer
sity, who will deliver (ha
Men’s Day Address at Saint
Joseph A. M. E. Chareh, Swa-
day, October Ig at 11:M A. M.
On Saturday precedhig Dr.
Johnson’s addrM the earner
stone of the edncatlonal bnild-
ing of the church will ka laid
at high noon by Dorie Ladga
of Masons.
Contestants who have been nominated up to, 6:00 P. M
Wednesday October 7 are as follows;
NAME CITY
REV. R. IRVING BOONE—Wihnington
REV. J. F. WERTZ —Charlotte
PROF. HUGH V. BROWN—CJoldsbcro
MRS. SUSIE V. COOPER—Oxford
PROF. J. A. TARPLEY—Greensboro
REV. E. T. BROWNE—Durham
REV. WILLIAM LAKE—Burlington
REV. J. A. BROWN—Durham
REV. JAMES R. BESS—Philadelphia
PROF. G. L. HARPER—^Roxboro
MISS MABEL POWELL^Unton
MRS. NELL BALDWIN—Wilson
MRS. MABEL DAVIS—Wise -
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FREE
VOTES
5.000
5.000
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5.000
.5,000
5,000
. 5,000
5,000
5,000
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5.000
5.000
5,000
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