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White Jlkin Indicted For Stalile Rape Of 16 Year Old Girl
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WRONG MAN SHOT IN LOVE TRIANGLE
Pauli Murray, former Dur-
hamite currently a member of a
prominent New York law firm,
returned to Durham last week
for a series of lectures and a
speech at Stanford L. Warren Li
brary, where she discussed her
recently published autobiogra
phical work, “Proud Shoes."
Here the distinguished author-
attomey i shown, second from
left, with library officials at a
luncheon given in her honor. At
far left i« Mrs. Ray N. Moore, li
brarian; John H. Wheeler, third
from left, secretary of the. li
brary trustee board; and Mrs.
Lyda Merrick, chairman of the
library board of trustees.
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Says South Must Accept Tnitli Of Court Edict
Tar Heel Lawyer Defends NAACP
/ RALEIGH
A prominent Wlngton-Salem
attorney spoke out in defense of
the Supreme Court ruling
against public scliool segregation
and called upon the South to
accept the "truth” of the court’s
ruliiig.
In an address before the Chris
tian faith and human relations
conference at the Good Shep
herd Episcopal church here
Tuesday, Irving Carlyle declared
“the truth that all men are en
titled to freedom is on the side
of the U.S. Supreme Court’s se
gregation decision.
The South "must confront and
accept the truth on the side of
the law against segregation,”
and “we should try to do some
thing constructive regardless of
how unpleasant and disagree
able the task may be.”
The prominent Baptist lay
man also called for a halt to pre-
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VOLUME 33 — NUMBER 47
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1957 PRICE: TEN CEN18
"King” Cole Blames Admen
For Failure Of TV Show
Ice Cream
Arguments
Bar Case
Heard
NEW YORK
The Nat (King) Cole once-a-
week television variety show,
slightly less than four months
old, is schedided to be seen for
the last time on December 17, it
was revealed this week.
buy his show for their clients
because they felt sponsorship
would hurt the clients’ sales in
the South.
Quoting Cole further, the
story said,
“You can’t always put the
popular crooner-^ I blame on the South for these
pkUB aiyi.ttBhuK- 'We'f always using tlw
North is that Southerners are
outspoken.
“In the North, they smile at
you once' and t^en knife you in
the back. In the South, at least
you icnow wliat to do.”
Cole is a native of Alabama,
^and was the victim of an on
^sta^ in Birmingham by
Defense Claims
No Trespass Was
Committed By 1
RALEIGH
The State Supreme Court
Tuesday listened to arguments
froin l>oth sides Tuesday in a
case in which seven Durham Ne
groes have been convicted of
trgpfepass at a white ice cream
INK.
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Wocd last week tfaikt
Ing iqr'tbe variety mSms'’ivaa
Tuesday nights over NBC-TV, to
fulfUl personal ai^earance en
gagements previously contract
ed.
According to a signed article
in the New York Post Thursday,
Cole took national advertising
u^BudeB to tHsk and placed the"
blame for the failure of his show
on their refusal to obtain na
tional sponsors for it.
“They could have sold it if
they wanted to,” the Post story
quoted the popular entertainer.
T^e story further said that
Cole feels agencies refused to
New Zealander
Lauds Schools
In Fayetteville
FAYETTEVILLE
W.A.B, Goodwin, Member of
the UNESCO Technical Assis
tance Missions in Sierra Leone,
British West Africa, and super
vising teacher now on a one-
month leave from the New^ Zea
land School System, recently
made a three-day visit at the
Fayetteville State Teachers Col
lege and at certain ,of the city
and county public schools.
Fayetteville was one of the
many teachers colleges and uni
versities in thin country which
Goodwin included in bis itiner~
ary.
Asked for impressions of A-
merican education as he had ob
served it, Goodwin concluded:
“There is a freshness and vitali
ty in all schools visited which
is most encouraging. The atten
tion given to oral use of English
Language in the first year of
elementary school before pro
ceeding to use reeding boolcs
seem to be productive of excel
lent speech. I have seen excel
lent teaching methods in social
studies. .
Father Of Four Felled
Three Shots From .38
By
Pistoi
Iilatthew Lee Tyson. 37 year
old father, of 608 Roxboro St.,
is being lield by police in con
nection with the fatal shooting
early last Sunday morning of
James Lloyd Fowler.
Tyson admitted firing three
bullets into the body of Fowler
at 1110 Braswell Street shortly
after one a.m. Sunday morning.
Funeral services for the slain
man were held Wednesday after
noon.
Tyson reportedly told inves
tigating police that he shot Fow
ler following an argument and a
fight they had at the Braswell
street address.
However, reports circulating
throughout the city in the wake
of the shooting say that Tyson
became jealous because a rival
for ills girl friend was to marry
her and waited outside the house
to ambush him, but shot the
wrong man.
The same reports did not state
who Tyson’s rival, tor wiu>m the
bullets were intended but
felled Fowler instead. The
“other man” in a love triangle
reportedly involving Tyson and
Miss Nola Newkirk, who lives at
the Braswell street shooting
scene, was not identified beyond
the statement that he was a
taxi driver.
Both Tyson and Fowler were
booked with the,1110 Braswell
street address, but it was learn-'
ed that Fowler actually lived at
1115 Fourth street while Tyson
maintained his family at 608
Roxboro street. The victim of
the shooting, Fowler, was the
father of four children.
According to police patrolmen
C. W. Rogers and R. L. Barnhill
who investigated the shooting,
Tyson telephoned police head-
Bosnc NIXES jn,WLAnN TOUR
NEW YORK
Saxophone star Earl Bostic on
last Tuesday told this reporter
that he had just turned down
a $50,000 otter (and, that ain’t
hay, brother) from Universal
Attraction, Inc. for a twenty-day
tour of South America to follow
Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong,
who winds up his tour Down
Under on November 29th.
Bostic sitid that the reason be
refused the tour was “because I
want to be home for Thaniss-
givlng and 1 don’t feel lU|e fly
ing that far right now.” How
ever, the dapper musician con
firmed his physician’s optimis
tic outlook on hit future as. t
bandleader because he has com
pletely recovered from the heart
attack which he suffered last
year.
quarters around two a.m. Sun
day morning and reported he
had “just shot someobdy at 1110
Braswell St.”
Policeman Rogers discovered
Fowler’s body in a driveway at
the Braswell street residence and
Tyson waiting at the house. An
open knUe was located near the
body, officers said.
County coroner Dr. R. A. Hor
ton ruled that Fowler died of
three pistol wounds, one in the
right shoulder blade, another in
the back of Ills head and a third
which ploughed into his right
pelvis.
Though there was no report of
witnesses to the shooting and no
conunent from police, the belief
XNir Ishi a ifcflSiwiwnt appAl In
Su^rlor Court and received an
increased fine of |25Mch. Tues
day's arguments before the State
high court was the first step in
the second appeal made by the
defendants.
The action originated from an
incident last June 3, when seven
young p(k>p1e entered' the white"
side of the Royal Ice Cream
company, asked for service, re
fused to leave at the insistence
of the manager and were arrest
ed.
Judge Wilson of Recorder's
Court found them guilty and le
vied a $10 fine. Later, on an ap
peal from Wilson’s decision,
Judge Clifton Moore of the Su
perior Court upheld the convic
tion and fined each of the seven
$25.
In arguments before the state
his pocket because he expected high court Tuesday, defense at-
trouble, then followed Fowler! torneys based their arguments
out of the house. on 1, the contention that no tres-
Outside, Tyson said Fowler pass had been committed by the
attacked him, knocking him to j seven under existing North
the ground, whereupon ' he Carolina laws, and 2, that the
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that Fowler's back was turned
to Tyson when the shots were
fired gained support in specula
tion around the city.
However, Tyson told police
that he shot Fowler “three or
four times” after he had been
attacked by Fowler. He said aq
argument between the two of
them began in the basement of
the Braswell street residence, he
invited Fowler outside, went up
stairs in the house to get his .38
calibre pistol which he put in
Among the 1500 educators at
tending North Carolina College's
Eleventh annual Resource Use
Conference here last Thursday
were Mrs. Lottie Villines, Rox
boro, shown pinning conference
badge on Mrs. Roxie Wagstaff,
teacher in the Person County
Trainine School, Roxboro. Dr. T.
R. Speigner, NCC's RVE direc
tor, was in charge of the session
that featured 15 resource use
emphasis clinics and workshops
in reading, directed by Dean
George Johnson of Winston-Sa
lem Teachers College, and a sci
ence workshop headed by Dr. T.
E. Malone, professor of biology
at NCC.
Virginia Demo Says Reds Would Use
NAACP, Levels Blast At High Court
Girl Lured Away By Man
On Baby-Sitter Pretext
CLINTON charges of rape here last week. Monday aftemooi
A white man who picked up a
Negro girl from her home on the
pretense of wanting her to baby
sit for liim was being held on
Daryl Clegg of Bronx, N. Y..
past president of the general or
ganization of Industrial Arts
high school, has won a $2,000
one year scholarship to Bard
College. He is son of former
Durhamites John Clegg and the
late Mrs. Katie LilHon Clegg.
charges of rape
A formal charge of criminal
assault on a female was filed
against Devane McLamb, white
Honeycutt township resident, ini
the wake of charges by Lula Bell
Lamb, 16 year old Negro girl.
McLamb was arrested four
days following the incident and
held without bond pending
Grand Jury action.
According to reports from
Sampson County sheriff W. D.
Hall, the assault allegedly took
place at a stable about six miles
from here on Nov. 11.
The sheriff said the white
man admitted having sexual re
lations with the girl but declared
she submitted to him.
First indication of the inci
dent came from a Negro physi
cian here. Dr. R. H. Lewis who
reported the incident to sheriff
JlaU on Nov. 11. Or. Lewis told
the sheriff it looked as if a girl
had been raped and asked him to
come to his office.
According to the stieriff s re
ports, he want to the physician's
office where he talked with the
Lamb girl. He said site told him
the following story:
A white man whom she did
not know came to her home late
Monday afternoon (November
10) and asked her to baby sit
for liim. She said after they had
ridden around for several miles,
the man drove to a stable, drag
ged her from the car and as
saulted her.
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RICHMOND, Va.
A Virginia Democrat told the
Richmond Bar A^ciation here
this week that Communists are
trying to “use” the NiVACP to
“break down rights of the States
as a prelude to establishing a
dictatorship.
Senator A. Willis Robertson
told Bar member* that the Com
munists set out to break down
States' Rights after failing in an
earlier drive to make the United
States spend itelf into bank
ruptcy.
The communists will do "all
In their power, not only to fo
ment racial discord and antago
nism, but to use. If they can, the
NAACP as a political instrument
to destroy oiic form of govern
ment through the destruction of
the fundamental principles of
States Rights.
His speech also attacked the
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Segregationist
Parents Attack
Pearsall Plan
RALEIGH
A re;uest by a group of white
parents in Greensl>oro that the
token school desegregation per
mitted by the Pearsall Plan be
reversed raised anew questions
about the status of the recently
enacted law
turned to all GrcensbsRM
imtll an appeal which ''
entered against ■ ‘StgMrlor
Court decision uoholdlng
school board’s assignment of Ne
gro pupils to white schools could
be heard by a Jury.
The request is being made in
the form of an appeal to the
State - Supreme Court which
heard arguments from attorneys
representing the parents and
counter arguments from lawyers
for the Greensboro school board.
The Greenalx>ro school tKMird
voted in an historic session late
last summer to admit six Ne
groes to previously all white
schools. The assignments were
subsequently protested by some
white parents who asked a Su
perior Court to issue an Injun'-
tlon restraining the assignm?nt
of the Negro pupils to the white
schools.
Judge Richardson Preyer oi
Superior Court refused to grant
a petition by the wiiite parents
that Negroes be prevented 'rom
attending the schools. Hl« court
held that the petitioning parents
had failed to apply for reassign
ment of their children to white ^
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Sentence Meted
In Gob Slaying
NEW YORK
News was received here that
Pfc. Robert Allen, of Nashville
Tenn., first of six Negro Marines
to face trial, has been convicted
of the murder of Navy corpsman
New Policy For President'sCommittee To Prevent Bias
In Government-Contracied Jobs Needed: Wilkins
NEW YORK
The fourth annual report of
the President's Committee on
Government Contracts indicates
“the adoption of a regular re^
view policy,” Roy Wilkins,
NAACP executive secretary,
said here last Thursday. "Thia
has been badly needed,” he ad
ded.
While expressing the Associ
ation’s appreciation of this inno
vation, Wilkins noted titat ttie
report, issued on Nov, 10, reveals
too little about the enforcement
of the non-discrimination clause
in U.S. government contracts.
The committee, he asserted, was
eBtablished to secure compli
ance with these contract clauses.
AccorUng to the report, the
■committee last year received 293
complaints of which 187 tiave
been closed with the remaining
106 "still under study and inves
tigation.”
If the contracts reviewed are
key ones within large industrial
groups,” Wilkins said, "the re
sults oould have a salutary ef
fect.”
Further, he pointed out, "vi
gorous action q;) the part of the
committee is essential to end
racial discrimination in enaploy-
ment because the federal govern
ment plays a vital role In de
termining the course of civil
rights In America.”
Currently before the com
mittee are cases filed by the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People
against many multi-plant xor-
poratlons operating in basic sec
tors of the Ainerican economy.
Among these are complaints
against several major aircraft
manufacturers including Boeing
Aircraft Company, Wichita,
Kans.; the Hayes Aircraft Com
pany, Birmingham: Rohr Air
craft Company, Riverside, Calif.;
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation,
Marietta, Ga.; and Cessna Air
craft Company, Wichita, Kans.
Adrien R. Nokleby of North
Dakota, in Okinawa. Alien was
charged with kicking and (Mat
ing the white corpsman most
viciously In a "savage tribal at
tack” as described by the prose
cutor. For. this, he was sentenced
to 12 years. Trials of the other
five will begin before the holi
days.
Coming at the time when Gi
rard was tried and freed, ^ia
Marine court martial sentence
came as a surprise. Counsel for
the defense. Major J. E. Stauffer
of Oceanside, California, tried in
vain to iiave the case thrown out
on grounds of prejudice. He only
succeeded in having two of the
nine court members removed.
He insisted. on knowing which
memt>ers were from the south.
Eddie Chestnut, 21, a Negro
marine frwn Walterboro, 3. C.
(and one of the six under trial),
testified that Allen had kicked
the corpsman several times, nie
prosecution called the beating “a
head hunting.”
Nokleby, attacked outside
Marinc Batracks last
4th, died of injuries lmmjB4tij|f||e
afterward*.