Son Stabs Mother to Death In Sick Bed
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MURDER ENDS LOVE
Dreamed Of Act
Ohen, Son Admits
See Pietttres of (loin tooman
and funeral scene thi* page, coU
umnt two, three and four.
WINSTON-SALEM
Funeral services were beld
here Sunday for a 68 year-old
woman who was killed as ahe
lay in her «ick bed by her ion
who Bald he had often dreamed
of killing his mother.
CURTIS SBsnra
Dreamed Of Act
Last rites for Mrs. Belle
Smith Campbell, of 812 East
12th street, were held at the An
tioch Baptist Church Sunday
afternoon. Rev. I. D. Dunlap,
iwstor, officiated.
Mrs. Campbell died last
Wednesday, October 10, from «
stab wound inflicted by her 4S
year old son, Curtis Smith.
Mrs. Campbell had been mar
ried for 30 years to L. 1>. Camp
bell (her second husband), and
was the mother of three sons:
Edward Smith, Curtis Smith and
Hanes Campbell.
Smith is alleged to have stab
bed his mother with a butcher
knife while she was lying in her
sick bed. He told officers that
he had dreamed of stabbing bis
motiier in the h^ul and that she
succumbed to the stabbing.
Campbell, half brother of
Smith and his whole brother Ed
die told officers that Curtis had
threatened many times to Idll
their mother like he had dream
ed. “He told us he’d do it, then
get off by acting like he is
crazy”. Jus a result of his threats,
his mother was afraid to be
alone with him, they, stated.
The mother, who was ill and
unable to work, had been trying
to borrow $3 to give Smith so
he could get his shoes repaired,
but had been unable to do so.
He nagged her so at break
fast that she 1^ her bed in the
front room for one in another
room, Campbell stated.
A representative of the Coro-
olina Timet who talked with the
wife of the accused, Mrs. Annie
Brisbon Smith, teamed from her
that Curtis was' a “good pro
vider, husbimd, and father, up to
two years ago.” They have been
separated since that time. Mrs.
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VOLUME 32 — NUMBEB 41
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, OCT. 20,19,56
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Nip And Tuck Contest Develoi»
Like the recent Wmrld Seriw in baaebaU, tto Caro^ TIm
Sehoiarship Ceateet In Bezbero la devel^i^ ii^
affair wttt Alexander Braadm this week JmniMBC from ttird te
flrrt place to nose ont Mte by a umw mar^ and
Frank Bradshar numlng a eloee third, TTie ramor stlU persists thiU
In Ohapel >tm was eiingi^ to tte
Warren Jonea and Blisa Mary HaaM.
leal wUh WUUe Peadttrnaft^i^f» hi^ fhe^j^t inrprte
•In Chapel Bill last wfiek was taking ever ^ Otard place by
As the seoenAneriod ef ttw eenteat gets onderway, ^e race for
the fliree seholan^ la enacted to get j«eltlw wltt
oonteatants organlsteg r^ainree and fnanda to asiiat them In thetr
****Tnkh week’s standing at th» eloae the flrat parted Is aa fel-
BOXBOBO SCHOOL
Alexander Brandon 877,000 Clarice Tucker
Qlovenia Bass S82.000 Nathaniel Pulliam
Frank* Bradshere 886,000 Emanuel Timmons
65.000
65.000
20.000
20,000
5,000
KatlwrinB Vincent 106,000 Charlotte Norwood ....
Leasie Pulliam 102.000 Charles Streat^
Clarence WUkeraon 6,000
OHAPBL BILL SCHOOL
Muscle Stone 125,000 Mary Wdwln — 66,000
WlEBePendergraft 86,000 Mary Mason 86,000
Warren Jones 75,W0 Alcean Guye 20,000
BCBLINGTON SCHOOL ,
James Hogan 20,000 Joe Wilson 6,000
„ 50,000 Bobby Mills 5,000
_ 86,000 Alice Haith 6,000
.... 86,000 Third Dors^ 6,000
Some 2,000 persons passed the bier of
BIrs. Campbell as she lay in an undertaker’s
parlor in Winston-Sal^ last wedK. The pic
ture in top panel is of Mr*. Ounpbell lying
in casket at Winston-Salem jhneral home.
services were conducted ior the slain wo
man. Picture at bottom shows crowd as
sembled around the outsije of the church as
pallbearers leave church with coffin. Mrs.
Campbell was stabbed to death with a buch-
er k^e by Jier son. See story, column one.
PRICE: 10 CENTS
SPEAKS AT TRADE WEEK PROGRAM
Montgomery’s King Has Not
DMfded Between Ike/ Adloi
[Man
Waltena Ctigp
Sarah Moore
Charlie Khig
Dr. Martin Luther King, lead
er of the Montgomery, Alabama
bus boycott and perhaps the
most highly regarded member
of his race, said here this week
that he had not yet made up
his mind as to whether he would
vote for Eisenhower or Steven-
Dr. Player Pledges Her "Devotion”
In Inaugurd Rites At Bennett
' QBEENSBOBO
T A pledge to use her “full
strength and unfaltering devo
tion” to keep Bennett College
“among that small group of in
novators whose bold tod imagi
native thinking has always
moved mountains without count
ing the cost,” was made here
Sunday by Dr. WiUa B. Player
foUowlny her formal Installa-
-Jion as president.
An audience of some 2,000
persons filled the Annie Merner
Pfeiffer Chapel, the adjoining
Little Theater auditorium and
overflowed the lawns around
these buildings where loud
speakers carried the historic
proceedings.
Seated on the main floor of
the chai>el were some 200 dele
gates representing colleges and
universities, learned societies
and professional organizations,
thm Methodist Church and the
graduates. Dr. Frederick D. Pat
terson, Tdirtctor of the Phelps-
Stokes Fund, and a Bennett
trustee, presided.
Dr. Player, who began work
here as a teAcher 25 years ago,
and who served successively as
director of admissions, coordina
tor of Instruction and vice pre
sident, before succeeding, the
late Or. David D. Jones asj^resi-
d«nt in October. 1955, was in
stalled by B^op Edgar A.
Lov*, of the Baltimore Area of
the Methodist Churdi.
^ ace^ the presWency of
CoUege,” die declared,
an tnaaipresslble depth of
Br. Kari W. Bigelow, inaugonl speaker, and Dr. WUla
B. Playa^ ac» canght in this scene outside the chapel at Beo-
nett Cdl^ lut Smdiw wli«re Dr. Flayer waa formally in*
rtdhd «» pwldwt oi tu IttttUntlon. Dr. Player was a form'
»itndirt Dr,
tk« «t CohiiMMa Pi
low, wiM b prftfessor of higher «dac«
mAj.
son in the coming national elec
tions.
The schorlarly young Baptist
preacher was in Durham early
this week to deliver an address
at one of the programs in the
Trade Week observance spon
sored by the Durham Business
and Professional Chain.
Beaeiged by a seeming un
ending round of autograph
seekers, old friends and well-
wishers whose hands he pvimped
for nearly two hours, straight
at a reception given for him
following his.,address. Reverend
King managed to make known
his position on the national elec
tions to this reporter between
the autograph signing and hand
shaking routine.
“I am uncommitted at the
present. I have not yet come to
(Continued on Page Ten)
Class Reunion
To Spark NCC
Itomeconiing
A class reunion for North
Carolina College's Class of 1048
will be one of the highlights of
27th annual Homecoming acti
vities at North Carolina College
this wMkend.
NCC graduates from all sec
tions of the country are expect
ed to begin arriving in Durham
early Friday afternoon to take
in the festivities. Big feature is
the football game on the cam
pus’ O’Kelly Field at 2 pjn.
Saturday between NCC’s Eagles
and Maryland State College’s
CIAA d^ending champions, the
Hawka.
A parade sponsored jointly by
NCC and the Durham Busing
and Professional Chain will be
Jield Saturday to mark climax
of the Chain’s Trade Week and
the NCC Eagles’ Homecoming.
Joseph A. Beebe and W. G.
Rhodes are co-chainn«n of the
ttade WeA program. Q. W.
(Continued on Page Tm)
Ex-Durltafflite
Heatb Alabama
Savings Firm
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.
Samuel O’Neal, formerly a
practicing attorney and housing
project manager of Durham, has
been appointed to manage the
newly formed Citizens Federal
Savings and Loan Association
here.
More than 1600 ' citizens of
Jefferson County met at the
16th Street Baptist Church here
on Oct 1, to organize the Sav
ings and Loan association. Some
$400,000 has already been
pledged for the institution’s
capital.
O’Neal’s appointment was
made by the board of directors
of tiie young association, who
were elected at its first organi
zational meeting.
A native Alabaman, the man
ager of the new Saving' and
Loan Association is the son of
Mrs. Sophronia and the late
Cleveland O’Neal of Tuskegee.
He earned an A.B. degree at
North Carolina College and re
turned to take a law degree
later.
O’Neal has served as execu
tive director of the John Avery
Boys’ club in Durham, and prior
him ratuilpiHUto Alabenu, he
served as manner of McDoug
aid Terrace, a 247 unit public
housing project in Durham.
He is married to the former
Miss Vernese Boulware of Char
lotte, also a graduate of North
Carolina College, and they have
two children. Mrs. O’Neal is pre
sent!;^ a member of tTie Mires
College faculty.
The board of .directors of the
Savings and Loan association
are A. G. Ga^n, Arthur D.
Shores, John J. Drew, John W
Nixon, B. M. Montgomery, Af-
(Continued on Page Ten)
MRS.
EMMA EDWARDS
Th* Victim
LEROT HARGRAVES
The Boyfriend
Body Of Mother
Found In River
CARRBORO
A love triangle which had
existed iot at least two years
was brok«i tragically here last
week ily&e body of one of the
principal^-was discovered in
Haw RhHK.
The body was that of Mrs.
Emma D^ Edwards, 30 year-
old vidfe of Oscar T. Edwards
and mother of a 14 year old
daughter.
Leroy Hargraves, neighbor of
the Edwtards, has confessed to
slaying tte woman and is being
held withbut bond in the Carr-
boro jaUb,'
The 38 year old First Baptist
Church choir member revealed
that Mrs. Edwards and he had
been going together for the past
two years. He said- he killed her
following an argument which
they had.
Funeral services for the slain
woman \«^re held Tuesday af-
temoon^^om the St. Joseph’s
CME chuirch, B«v. W. B. JBpu-
shee officiated. Interment rites ^ hcfmc^ jkhortly ^before
were held at the Chapel Hill o clock Tuesday evming
addition to her husband, are a
14 year old daugiiter, %lrley;
her mother, BCrs. Lois Clark oi
Chapel Hill; four sisters: Mrs.
Annie Bumpass and Bfrs. Doro
thy Morrow of Chapel Hill; Mrs.
Mary Ellen Smith of Bridge
port, Ohio; Ulyssess, Margin and
Cletus Clark of Chapel Hill,
Octaviusy of New Castle, Pa.,
and OdeU Clark of Hillsboro;
four uncles and three aunts.
The grim story of clandestine
love and murder was tmravelled
by Carrboro police as they
checked out a “missing persons”
complaint from the dead wo
man's husband.
Mrs. Edwar(&’ husband re
ported her missing to police on
Wednesday morning. Following
the “missing” report, Shetlfi
Odell Clayton received tefor-
mation that Mrs. Idwarda waa
last seen by her dautfiter Tues
day.
Her daughter reportedly told
^ poUce tiut Mrs. .Edwards left
seven
with
cemetery.
Surviving
Mrs. Edwards, in
ii’, reportedly headed for
(Continued on Page Ten)
Dr. Martin Luther King is
sliown in center in this picture
as he stepped from plane at
Durham-Raleigh airport this
week prior to his address
in Durham on Monday night.
A part of the reeeption.com-
ndttee can be seen in picture.
At Dr. King’s left is Attorney
F. B. McKissick. At right are
N. B. White and Rev. D. E.
Moore.
Six Backs To WaUtowner
A lucky guy was Nathaniel
Brown of Walltown last week.
He had one of the winning li
cense numbera and got $6.00. It
starts all over this week. It
your number is below, produce
your registration card by Satur^
day at the Carolina Times office,
and the dollar is yours.
AH—8484
AT—8«tt
AT—18M.
rOU'LL WANT TO READ
^One^of the “MUST” ttaag on your Tea^ig^llst sllosld
be the series on election procedures in North Carolina,
currently appearing In the TIMES. The series was pre
pared by Rieverend S. F. Daly, a former elections judge
and presently a precinct chairman in Raleigh. ’Hiis we^
Reverend Daly writes on “POLITICAL ORGANI
ZATION AT THE PRECINCT LEVEL.” (See page two.)
By the way, if you haven’t registered for the coming
national elections, you still have a chance to do so thfa
and next Saturday, October 20 and 27.
SOMEBODY VP THERE LIKED HIM
Dramatic Mid-Air Rescue Saves
Paratrooper From Certain Death
FORT BRAGG
A quick mid-air grab and
some cool thinking under pres
sure averted what could have
been a disaster at Fort Beimmg
this week when a 82d Airborne
Division paratrooper grabbed
the imopened parachutc of
fellow Negro trooper 1,200 feet
up.
About 200 spectators who had
come to see a full-scale rehear
sal of the 740-man parachute
jump staged' later for the Joint
Civilian Orientation Confer
ence, watched breathlessly as
the two rode to within 200 feet
of the ground on a single para
chute, then separated for safe-
landings.
Master Sergeant Raymon F.
Johnson and Corporal William
H. Wise, the Negro i>aratrooper,
were the participtants in this airi-
borne drama. Both men, from
Tank Company, 325th Airborne
Infantry Regiment, had jtmtped
from the same C-119 Flying
Boxcar.
Cpl Wise, 26, is the son of
Mrs. Relarm Williams of 442
Flordons Street, Vallejo, Cali
fornia. The Fort Benning jump
was his 30th. Sgt. Johnson, also
26, is the son of Mr. James P.
Johnson of Route 2, Fayette
ville, N. C. It was his ninth
jump.
“I got a terrific opening shock
when my ‘chute deployed,”
said Sgt Johnson, “then before
I had a chance to look up and
check my canopy (parachute) I
felt a tugging on my suspension
(Continued on Page T«x)
Con^ral William Wbe, (lei«gyee»dd iii«, m
ter Sergeant W. JdkuMBt the catdbar, wWi tilw
gle ’chute oB which they ro^ •— OP%ato MalMitB.)