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Prssldents of four Oreetuboro colleges admire plaque* which were presented to Dr. F. D. Blu- ford and Dr. David D. Jones, presidents of A and T and Ben nett Colleges, respectiioely, for outstanding contributions over the years to the cause of educa tion. They were cited by the Kappa Lambda and Beta Epsi lon chapters of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity at the annual Founders Day program held at A and T College last week. Shown from left to right are, Dr. S. K. Graham, chancellor of Wo man’s College of the University of North Carolina who made the presentation to Dr. Bluford; Dr. H. H. Hutson, .president of Greensboro college who made the presentation to Dr. Jones and Dr, Jones. 2 Whites Held For Rape Of Teen-Ager Littleton School Girl VicUm Of Auackt By Comins; Charge Of Rape Returned By Court WARRENTON It didn’t get printed in the Walren Record, the only news paper in Warren County, but one of the moat lordid rape caaes ever to occur in thia area took place hwe on Saturday, Nov, 21 when a 16-year-old Negro achool girl was raped by two white men after she was duped into going to the home of one of them under the pretense that his mother wanted to hire her to do some house cleaning. Although the case was tried in Recorder’s Court here, probable cause found and the two mea are be- Aged Apex Man Held In Killing RAldEKm A near septegenarian who has already served time for one 'UdGrder, must face a trial for another murder, this time be fore the January term of the Wake County Superior Court. Oscar Chavis, 68 year old resident of Apex, confessed to the axe slaying of Frank Small, 42 year old Raleigh man whose address was given as 412 Har rington Street. Chavis was bound over to higher court Friday after the Re corder’s Court foimd "probable cause.” His victim. Small, died in St. Agnes hospital last Wednesday from a severe blow on the back of the neck, causing a serious dislocation of one of the verte brae of the neck. DetecUve Lt. W. G, Maddrey said that Chavis admitted strik ing the man with an axe follow ing an argument at the home of Mrs. Gertrude Smith of 16 Ross St. In the "80’s, Chavis served a sentence of 16 years for the shot gun slaying of Vance Leech, a Wake coimty resident. ing held in jail without bond to await the January term of Su perior Court, the Record has failed, utterly, to mention one word about the case. As in the instance of the never-to-be- forgotten Caswell County case, in which a Negro was sentenced to a two-year term for looking at a white wo man 75 feet >away, it was an alert member of the Carolina Times, too late for publication last week, that the local news paper, the Warren Record, in its apparent effort to hush, iiush the crime had refused to print one word about it Upon investigation here is what the Times discovered: Bettie Mae Mills, 16-year-old high school girl was temporarily out of school and residing at the home of Mrs. Corine Norton in order to catch a truck each morning to go pick cotton While she was at the home, Jesse "Red” Harris (white) came there in a truck to sell some wood and finally t«quest- ed that Mrs. Norton inform the Mills girl that he wanted to hire her to do some house cleaning for his mother on Saturday. Af ter inquiring of the Norton wo man if it would be alright to go and being told by her that it would, the yoimg girl agreed and accompanied the man in the truck he was driving. Upon ar riving at the home, which is lo cated in the remote vicinity of Embro about eight or ten miles from Warrenton, the young girl was put to scrubbing floors by Jesse. Upon discovering that his mother was not at home but in stead another man by the name of Walter Hill Harris, a cousin of Jesse, the young girl testified that she became frightened but was afraid to make any attempt to escape because of the dis tance from her home in Little ton and because the two men ap- (Please turn to Page Eight) CHAIN OFFICERS N. B. WHITE MRS. jr. DeSHAZOB JACKSON MRS. P. H. McNEILL ★ ★ ¥ ¥ Bludgeon-Slayer Says Vicrim, His Cousin, Was *Mean* To Him Charlotte Man Faces Trial Decomposed Corpse Full Of SttA Wounds CHARLOTTE Because he said she was mean to him, a man confessed here last week-end to bludgeoning his cousin over the head with a hatchet-type hammer, stabbing her body several times with a Knife and leaving her dead in tier house. A hearing was scheduled for Monday, December 14 In Re corder’s Court for Joseph Fos ter of 1102 Polk St. here on charges of murder. The slaiu woman, Mrs. Mattie Lee Paige, alias Rosemary Jones, is his cousin. The grisly, brutal murder was brought to light on Monday^ December 7 when the ptartialiy decomposed, badly wliacked bo dy of Mrs. Paige was found at her residence at 1301 Ashby St. Foster, who liad earlier de nied the killing, broke down and confessed to the slaying over the week-end, accordi^ to Detec tive L. W. Ballentine. Foster first told police that he had not seen his cousin since Nov. 28, but tiiis week-end, ac cording to Ballentine, he signed a written confession stating how he crashed her skull with a ham mer and stabbed her several times before leaving her for dead. County Coroner W. M. Sum merville said tliat Mrs. Paige, who was about 35, had been dead for at least a week when the body was discovered. He said tliat she died of a fractured skull and-^veral stab wounds. Foster, who was arrested and cliarged with the tnurder Ox^ Friday, is being held without bond. White To Head Mam Group DURHAM Natlianiel B. White, manager of a Durham printing firm, was elected to head an organization of Business and Professional men here last week. White, a former vice president of the Durham Business and Professional Chain at an elect ion meeting held here Sunday. He succeeds L. E. Austin, pub lisher of the TIMES, who is completing a two year term. Nine other executice officers were elected along with White at the meeting. These included re-election of four officers and the naming of five others to new positions. Mrs. P. H. McNeill, second vice president; R. Kelly Bryant, Jr., secretary; J. J. Henderson, treasurer; and D. F. Reed, prd- gram director, retained their old offices. New executives elected were Mrs. J. DeShazor Jackson, who is considered a pioneer in the organization, first vice-president (Please turn to Page Eight) Talks End, Suspense Rearguments in the public school segregation case* before the Supreme Court ended last Wednesday, but the suspense began as the nation and parts of tthe world await a fateful de cision from the “nine men in black”. Indications that the suspense had already taken Its toll among North Carolina pub/ic officials were not hard to find this week as the state’s top official, Qov. William B. Umstead, announced his hope that the court render a speedy decision in the ease. At Dunn, school officials were so caught in a quahdry by the court's possible aotldn that plans for improving the coimty’s school qrstem bas been post poned tmtil a ruling is made by the court in the school issue. And, one of the Supreme Court Justices came through with what some' lawyen tann Reaction Subdued In Tar Heelia an unusual statement for a member of the court during the closing days of the argument. Justice Jackson ventured the opinion that it might take "a generation” of laW suits to im plement a court decision ban ning segre^ttion. Gov. Umstead’s anxiety con cerning the court’s decision was made known at his weekly press, conference last Friday during a discussion of a formula for dis tributing to the state’s 100 coun ties half of the SO million doll ars, voted in the last bond elec tion, for school building pur poses. Realizing that the high court’s decision will have an effect on the state’s school building pro gram, Gov. Umstead said. "It would seem to me and It would be my hope that there should not be too long a delay" in receiving the court’s decision on segregation. The Governor added that he was not “undertaking to say what the court will do or when it will do it.” He repeated that he is "still not assuming” that a decision reversing previous ones upholding the separate but equal- doctrine will be rendered. The Harnett County school board, apparently not content to “put all its eggs in one basket,” announced a decision to post pone a program of school im provements it had planned. This decision of the Board of Education was announced this week by County Superintendent Glenn Profitt who said that the board felt it unwise to take any Begins steps ^til the Supreme Court renders^a decision in the school cases. The plan in Harnett County is to “sit tight” and wait. Some lawyers were inclined to feel that the action of Justice Jackson In commenting that it would take several years of law suits to implement a court decision which ruled against se gregation was unusual in that it constituted an indication of the justice’s opinion on the whole iiisue before a decision is an nounced by the whole court in the matter. It is customary, they felt, for the justices to closely guard their opinions until the court announ ces its decision. It was not entirely clear to others, however,, that jtutice Jackson had committed himaelt by the statement. It was pointed (Please turn to Page Eight) FOR THIRTY YEARS THE OUTSTANDING WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS Entered a» Second CUus Matter at the Post Office at Durham, North Careltiw, tender Act mf March 3,1S79. VOLUME 30—NUMBER 46 DURHAM, N, C., SATURDAY, DEC. 19, 1953 FRICfe TIN dNTS ^The new Russell Memorial C, church Mmilding was form ally dedicated at services -in Durham last Sunday afternoon. In the above picture are seen a portion of the crowd attending the opening services and in the upper left inset Bishpp W. Y. Bell presiding Bishop of fourth Episcopal district, is shown (standing) delivering the main address at the dedication ser vice. Seated at the Bishop's right is Rev. C. R. White, presiding elder of the Durham district. The neve structure was erected at a cost of $115,000. CRASH OCCURS IN DOWISPOVR Dies After Wreck Bishop Calb On Church To Use Power For Good DURHAM The Church must use its in fluence for good in the com munity and the world at large if it is to retain its vital and ag gressive heritage, a senior Bi shop of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church said here last week. “When the churches ceases to be aggressive, when it ceases to liave an influence for good on its community, it ceases to be foimded on Divine Revelation," said Bishop W. Y. Bell in the main address here last Sunday at services dedicating the new Russell Memorial CJI.E. churdi building. Bishop Bell, presiding Bishop of the Fourth Episcopal district of the C.M.E. church, urged the membership of the Russell Me morial Church to tiirn their at tention to the needs of the com munity now tliat it has erected a new home. The Bishop was the main speaker for the special three o’clock afternoon services dedi cating the new structure on Al ston avenue erected at coet of me $115,000. He was introduced by Rev. W. A. McEwan,^ pastor of the church. Also appearing dwiag the service was Rev. C. R. White, Presiding Elder of the Durham District. The Russell Memorial mem bership was burned out four years ago by a fire which levell- (Please turn to Page Eight) « LAURINBURG Fimeral services were sche duled to be held at nearby Max- ton Friday for Rev. Joseph Wes- lex McLaughlin, principal of the Shaw high school near Wagram. Rev. McLaughlin died of in juries sustained in an auto truck collision in a pre-dawn torrential rain on highway 15 near Camp McCall Saturday. Rev. McLaughlin will be eu logized at the church over which he pastored, Shiloh Baptist, in services beginning at one o’clock. Rev. E. D. Pipkin will officiate and the rites will be as sisted by Rev. J. J. Johnson. The school principal-preacher died in a Moore coimty hospital Saturday around 11:30. He was 46. The fatal accident occured early Saturday morning, before dawn, on highway 15 where It is intersected by the Camp McCall road. Heading north on route 15 in the driving rain. Rev. Mc Laughlin’s car collided with a truck driven by a white man wliich entered the highway from the Camp McCall road without stopping. Witnesses say that the impact of the collision threw the oc cupants from both vehicles, but Rev. McLaughlin’s wife and adopted daughter, who were riding with him, escaped serious injury. His wife was hospitali zed for shock treatments, how ever. The driver of the truck, whose name was not available, was hospitalized with serious Inju ries and reportedly given a SO SO clmnce for survival. Rev. McLaughlin and his family were said to have been on their way to Greensboro. A (Please turn to Page light) ALL AMERICA Action Started To Consolidate Anti-Bias Gains In RR Travel WASHINGTON, D. C. In a “mop-up” drive to con solidate gains made in securing anti-fegregation rulings in rail way travel, the NAACP widen ed its legal battle this week when it filed complaints Mon day with the Interstate Com merce Commission against ele ven railroads, a railroad station and a railroad station restau rant. The NAACP said that the complaint was filed on behalf of 17 individuals, including one white person. In its first effort to halt se gregation in railway stations and station resteurants, the asso ciation cited the Richmond, Va. Terminal Company and the Un ion News Company and charged that the practice of segregation at these two places was in viola tion of a previous order of the ICC to railways to halt segre gation in interstate travel. Also included in the com plaint were the St. Louis-San Francisco, Southern, Santa Fe, Texas and Pacific, Atlantic Coast Line, Missouri Pacific, Seaboard Air Line, Kansas City Southern, Illinois Central and and Gulf, Mobile and (Milo. These line's, the NAACP char ged, were continviing the {Nrac- tice^of segregation in direct vio lation of a previous ICQ order. In its first attack on segrega tion in stations and station res taurants, the NAACP charged that the Union News Company operates a Jim Crow restaurant in the Richmond station. In addition, the association charged the Richmond Terminal Company with practicing se gregation within the station. In both cases, the NAACP de clared that the ICC order ban ning segregation in interstate travel had been violated. 2NCCGRIDDERS ON ALL-STAR 11 Durham — Capt. Joe Person, guard, and Amos Thornton, left halfback, on North Carolina College’s 1953 ClAA footbaU championship team have been named to the Courier’s All- American football squad of 1953 NCC Coach Herman Riddick read the announcement from a telegram sent by W. G. (Bill) Nunn, Jr., sports editor of the Courier, at a Durham celebra tion Tuesday night The event was a special pro gram sponsored by the Durham Business and Professional Chain and the Housewives’ League. In a brief spee^ to the assem bled representatives of the championship gridders, towns people, and members of the NCC community, Riddick also told of othi^ honors he and Thornton have received. They were given awards in Washington last week by the Pigskin Club. Among the citizens attending the Tuesday night affair in Dur ham were Dr. Helen G. Ed monds, Miss Yvonne Scruggs, {Please turn to Page Eight) JOE PERSON AMOS nMtNTON
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