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VOLUME 34—NUMBER 48
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1958
PRICE: 10 CENTS
MISS LUCILLE INipli|UI ‘
-Waii she victim nt fonil'^jr?-
Cause Of Fire
Undeteimined;
Police Probing
A statement itfUa Durhani
police that they are still inve^-
gating the death ot ■ S9 y««r
old woman in a fira SatuhMy
night led to speculation hera
that foul play may htiva b^«n
suspected in the woman'* deatb.
Miss Lucille (halt pint)
died fa a fire which
away $2,000 in damages at a tw9
story Irame apartment 6ouie at
406 Cozart street late Saturday
afternoon.
. According,, to police reibfttr
Miss Ip^es’ body wAs i^nl tw-i
hind a drester in Uie uiMtiairs
apartment which sbA skared
with 26 year old Rom Garter
Euquhart.
An unconfirnred repo^ said
that other persons in the house
,^t tMe time of. the lire esca^wd
wlfnout injury. '
One unidentifi^ eye witnasa
reported that btWH a
muffled explosion and wiir
flames all over the ipsaitoent
which Miss Inges ocouplitd.
Police say that Euquhart told
See FOUL I^LAY, page 8
Group Seel(s
Scholarsliip$Si
HILLSBORO
The Hillsboro ImproV^fent
Association scholarship fu^.
raising drive is in full swing
now, according to the ohaicman,
Earnestine Price.
The organization is attempting
to raise $500 to be awarded to a
graduating senior at Central
High School next May.
Mrs. Audry Burt, chairman of
the association’s scholarship
committee, revealed this Week
that the $500 award will be pre
sented to a senior who has' been
admitted to an accredited col
lege to pursue work towards a
bachelor's degree.
The award will be made on
the basis of academic achieve^
ment, character, ai^d competi'
tive examination.
Others on the scholarship
committee are Mrs. Lula Cath-
cart, Mrs. Hazel Payne, Richard
O. Simpson, and Harold Russell.
One of the first activities on
Price’s fund raising agenda is a
dance scheduled lor the Central
High School Gymtorium on Fri
day night, December 19,
Clark Edgerton’s Hillstde Joy-«
makers, a popular, musical ag
gregation from Purbam, will
furnish music for the occask>n
Shanklin is being assisted in ar
rangements by Ed Nash Fau-
cette, Wilbur Faucette, Simpson
and Price.
DiMBbers
Darluun orgiinlsatlon, to be held Friday,
Ki^ACP social commiMee ase
here wttb NAACjP
prestdeat tbe Rav. W. H. Falter
Deoember 5 at the Darbam
Boslaeu College. Billed
“Dance for Freedttm,” proceeds
pl^qftjig a benefit dance for tbei from tbe affair will be used to
belp the organization defray i the Amce. Committee members
expenses of school suit being! seen iiere are, left to right, Vir-
brought in the city, Dave Clark’s' ginda Williams; Dorothy Waller,
ownbo, refreshments and prisesj co-ebairman; Fuller; Doris Me-
will be featured attracUons of* bane and Juanita Crowe, co-
I chairman.
state HAD HAILED RUUNC
Discount
iffett Of Alabama Decision
Attojmeys for the plaintifls toi the Alabama pupU placement
the Purbam school integration law on its face would have little
suit expressed the view Wediies- bearing on the outcome • of the
day tbiit the recent U. S. Su- Dul'ham case,
preme Court decision uptMlding I In a ruling handed down Mon-
REV. LAWSON
Dedication Of
HolyCliurcIi
Opens Sunday
’The dedication program of
Fisher Memorial Tabernacle of
the United Holiness Church of
America will begin here Sunday,
November 30 and end Friday
December 12, it was announced
here this week by Rev. A. W.
Lawson.
The new church edifice which
is located at 420 Piedmont Ave
nue b^s been built from the
ground up at a cost of $90,000.
Rev. Lawson is now serving his
14th year as its pastor.
Formerly known as the Gos
pel Ti|bernacle of the United
Holiness Church, the new name
will be in the honor of the late
Bishop H. L. Fisher, its founder
and former pastor.
Participating in the dedica
See DEDICATION, page 8
Action May Follow Golf Refusal
CHARLESTON,-6. C.
Two Negroes, both members
of a group which a month ago
petitioned the City ooupcil for
racially mixed play, made an
unsuccessful attempt on Sunday
to play on the Charleston mu
nicipal golf course.
•The two men were Mentified
by a spokesman for the group as
James White of Charleston and
llarence Brown of James Island.
The two men, who tried toi
register for course tickets within
an hour of each other, were po
litely, it was reported, declined
by John £. Adams, manager and
golf professional for the ci^
owned facility.
John M. Cummings of Char
leston, one of the original 12 |0'
cal Negroes who petitioned the
city council to ailow them to
play on the municipal course,
told a Charleston local paper
after Sunday’s attempts that “we
feel that our constitutional rights
have been det^ed us. We have
no alternative flow but to seek
legal advice on the matter.’*
For Rape
Automatic life sentwjces were
given to eight Negro youths,
aged 14-17, who pleaded guilty
Friday to charge of rape. The
victim of the mass assault was
blrs. Piiyllis Mary Louise Her-
The sentencing on Friday
brings tg\ 14 the total number of
Negroes receiving life sentences
in two cases in North Carolina
in the past week.
Six youths between the ages
of 14 and 20, were sentenced in
Goldsboro'last Wednesday, Nov.
19 for the rape of one white wo
man. Another Goldsboro defen
dant received the death penalty
in the same case.
Pleas written and signed by
the defendants and their attor
neys, were entered in the Ashe
ville case after testimony began
Thursday. It had taken three
days to select a jury to serve on
the case.
“North Carolina is too en
lightened in this year, 1058, to
put to death a boy 17 years of
age, a boy 14 years of age...”,
Superior Court Judge J. B. Cra
ven observed in passing sentence)
on the boys.
The defendants were chargedi
with raping 23-year old white
woman, Mrs. Herron on the edge
of^a park here the night of Oct.
24.
All eight were charged with
rape, although only four were
accused of participating directly
in the sexual - attack. She was
held by four other boys after the
youths had clubbed her com
panion, Ernest Anderson, 40, in
the darkened pa.rk.
The defendants were James
McAdams, 15; Jackie Gentry,
14; Albert Falls, 15; Elbert
Williams, 16; Frederick Shaw,
16; and Randall Cunningliam,
18.
The cases had' been consoli
dated for trial. The youths were
held without bond since they
were bound over for trial, aifd
were all represented by private
counsels.
day, the Supreme Court said that
the Alabama statute, providing
for special regulations assignini
students to schools, was const!
tutiojaal “on its face,”
This gave rise to speculatton
wai
proving the. doctrine of states’
rights on which many southern
states iiave built legislative pro-
gramj to impede or ^tall school
desegregation.
Attorney General Malcolm
I Seawell said Monday following
the court’s opinion that the de
cision “is very favorable to
NortlrtSrroltna*5 posttton:**
Assistant Attorney General
Ralph Moody, who is handling
school segregation cases, said the
ruling “should be of great sup
port to us” in pending suits at
Raleigh and Durham.
However, attorneys for the
plaintiffs in the IXirham case
said Wednesday the court’s Mon
day decision “would not affect
the outcome of the pending Dur
ham case.”
The full text of the statement
issued by the attorneys read:
“We have not had the oppor
tunity to read the formal opinion
of the Supreme Court relative to
the recent Alabama case dealing
with the placement of pupils in
that state.
“It appears, however, in our
opinion, from newspaper ac
counts that this case is not
similar to ours, and that the de
cision in that case will not af
fect the outcome of the pending
Durham case.”
Arguing for the plaintiffs in
the Durham case are attorneys
C. O. Pearson, M. Hugh Thomp
son, J. H. Wheeler and William
A. Marsh.
Charles Berryman, at 12 years
of age, in happier days
3 Injured
RIV. SOMERVILLE
Lott Carey Head
To Address Mt.
Vernon Program
Deacon T. L. Rowland, Presi
dent of the Laymen’s League at
Mt. Vernon Baptist Church and
Vice-Pfesident of the National
Laymen’s League of the Lott
Carey Convention announced
this week the annual Men’s Day
observance at Mt. Vernon on
Sunday November 30th.
Dr. Wendell Somerville, Presi
dent of Lott Carey Foreign
Missions Convention, will be the
speaker at 4:00 P.M. Music will
be furnished by the Male Cho
rus of Ebernezer baptist Church
Choir No. One.
All Sunday School classes,will
be taught by men. W. J. Ken
nedy, Jr., President of the Nortln
Carolina Mutual Life Insurance.
Company will be guest teacher
to 110 members of Tonkins Bible
Class.
The day’s worship will close
with this service.
Bi^op s Address To Central AMEZs ]n(on,en'$ Clubs
To Set Church Action In School Crisis Qonventions Set
‘ WILSON
June 4-6 has t>een set aside as
those to task who would deny 'the date for the observation of
SANFORD
The 79th session of the Cen
tral North Carolina Conference
opened at Fair Promise Church,
Wednesday morning, with Rev.
D.W.I.' Mclnnis as host pastor
and Bishop R. L. Jones, pre
siding.
Theme of the five day meet,
“A Challenge to Christian Edu
cation in the School” will draw
some sharp lines as 'to the part
the church should play in the
present school crisis.
The bishop’s episcopal address
will chart the course of the dis
cussion. According to reliable
sources he is expected to tell the
Conference that cowardice has
no place in the Christian re
ligion.
He will call upon the pastors
to take the leadership in build
ing a better world and to be
vocal on second class citizenship.
The address is expected to take
By Alexander N. DeVeanx II
Thirteen persons lost their
lives and three were wounded in
acts of violence in North Caro
lina, a mid-v?eek couiit revealed.
Traffic accidents accounted
for nine deaths, while shootings,
fires, and strangulation took the
lives of two and left two in
jured.
Dead as the results of traffic
accidents are Mrs. Janie Mc
Lean, age 65 of Raleigh and hen
employer, A. A. Bryant, a 73
year-old retired railroad engi
neer; who were killed in a two-
car collision on the outskirts o£
Raleigh; two pedestrians, Moses
Smallwood, 37, Of Route 4,
Windsor and Robert W. Walker,
34, of New York City, were
runned over and lulled on U.S.
17 near Windsor;, Harry E.
Douglas, age 42 of Concord, was
killed in a mishap on a Cabarrus
^unty rural road about four
lnflw tiTSfai‘"CSiiftS5#a. The dfead'
man the patrol suftd aaurently
went to sleep am- a
bridge abutiAiAt. LHa Evans, ilo-
years-old of Charl(tfte died when
struck by a car on,p,S. 74 about
a half-mile fnsn Charlotte. r
60 year old Lutii^r Nick, re
portedly walked into the path of
See VIOLENCE, page 8
Mother Of 17 Year Old Son Says
He Should Be Punished For
Merrick-Moore Freshman Held Rille
On Mom For 10 Minutes: Gets 18
“I’m not even sure that he split the money with him.
realizes yet what he has done.” j During Perry’s testimoay.
These were among the final Berryman interrupted and said,
comments Aiade to the TIMESi “You aren’t going to put all
Tuesday night by the mother of: of the blame on me. You told
a 17 year old Durham' youth' me you would blast my father
sentenced to 18 months for' didn’t you? 1 was going to take
threatening to kill her. | the money and you agreed that
Her face showing obvious we would split it, but you’re
signs of emotional strain, Mrs. the one who suggested we kill
Carrie King of ^2800 Beechwood
avenue told the TIMES of the
events of last Friday which led
up to the conviction Monday of
her son, Charles Ray Berryman.
them.”
Veteran police officers were
puzzled at the lack of logic in
the robbery theory behind
Berryman’s actions. They
For ten of the most harrowing
minutes in Mrs, King’s 41 years,! impossible for him to get
she pleaded last Friday after-himself
noon with her son—dropping onj have known that,
her knees finally—not to kill ^lie Time*
her as he stood just inches away Tuesday that although Berry-
with a loaded .22 rifle pointed at ^
her. 1
'This tense drama was un
folded in the kitchen of the com
fortable, two story brick home
of the Kings in a newly de
veloped residential section be
hind Beechwood cemetery last
Friday afternoon shortly after
two o’clock.
“I Relieve that he might have
actually shot me. The gun was
loaded,” Mrs. King said.
Mrs. King was unable to say
just why her son did not pull
the trigger during those ten
minutes.
He had walked up to her
while she was leaning over in.
the deep freeze cleaning up a
mess her son and his companion
had made when he came up to
her with the rifle and said,
“Momma, I’m going to kill
’The story of young Berry
man’s threat on his mother’s life
and subsequent facts brought
out in his trial Monday were ao
bewildering that even veteran
Durham police officers tended
to discount much of the rob
bery motive which play^ a big
part in. tog trial. ^
‘ -jJpyjnPerry, !♦, mam
BeifTytnan’s companiifti/Friday,
,'UcstlHed in court that'several
bo]^ had told him thal Charles
was planning something. He said
tW he stayed oiit of work last
^iday after Ctmrles had told
him of a plan to rob Jiis mother
of $700, kill both his parentsi
and his younger brother then
See THREATENS, page 8
6 lb Boy
Born To
Girl, 12
CLINTON
Two 12 year old girls gave
birth to sons last week, in two
different States.
A Negro girl, who told a doc-
vtor she was 12 in-September,
gucf ifth to a six pounda
fully ...^.-veloped son in a
Sampson Memorial Hospital,
in Clinton on Saturday morn
ing.
’The doctor said that both
mother and baby were doing
fine.
In Los Angeles, a 12 year old
;White girl gave birth to an 8
''pottn^ 6 eOBee aon at tlM Uni
versity of California at Los
Asigeles medical center. >
Authorities - at tbe hos{Mtal
said tbe delivery laat Monday
was ndhnal.
The jtoung mother who will
be' 13 in FetMruary, and the
baby went home on Friday.
Elijah H. Herrlag, Sr., right
center, Greensboro business man
and stormy figure in Greens
boro’s desegregation issues, was
last week cited with the annual
“CItlien of tbe Year” award by
the Omega Psi Phi fraternity.
Participating in the ceremony
were from left to right: B. A.
Hall, basileus of Tan Omega
Chapter; C. W. Pinckney,
man of tbe obaerraBee
right. Dr. Walter N.
president mt the tttxabd
State Teachers College,
betb City, tke mala sfmter.
any citizen his rights.
Those who will not exercise
their right to vote will be singled
out and told that the ballot is
one of the weapons that Chris
tians have to fight sin in high
places.
He is expected to make a
strong plea for the NAACP and
other militant organizations that
are fighting for underprivileged
people.
The address will also flay
communism and any other ism
that is counter to Americariism,
iricluding those who would cir
cumvent, evade or resist the de
cision of the United States Su
preme Coui|t.
the 50th anniversary Of the
North Carolina Federation of
Negro Women’s Clubs, it was
tannounced by Mrs. E. M. Spell
man of Elizabeth City.
A special program, imder the
direction of Mrs. F. T. Newsome
of Rich Square, will include a
banquet and many outstanding
speakers, ’nieme of the program
is “Woman’s Role in World-
Wide Brotherhood and Peace.”
In the State of North Carolina
there are approximately 5,00<}
women currently with member
ship.
Members of the Federation
have undertaken many projects
See CONVENTION, page 8
Greensbora Desegregation Hguif
Gets Frat's 'Man Of Year' Award '
GREENSBORO I Chapters of the Omega M ^
' A stormy figure in Greens-> Fraternity at the annual oIh '
boro’s recent desegregation is- j vance of Achievement WMk>
sues was last Sunday cited by Herring was voted tiM
local chapters of a national fra
ternity. .
Elijah H. Herring, Sr., a de
fendant in the famed Gillespie
Park Public Golf Course case,
which later resulted in its clos
ing and whose two sons were
among the first of his race to
enter previously all white public
schools here and who has be«i
the victim of telephone threats
dynamiting attempts and hurled
missiles, was presented the
“Citizen of the Year” award at a
public program at the Union Me
morial Methodist Church.
’The citation Wal’ given by the?^ CoU^ge '
local Othega 'iind Mu CarCffiK.'
for “his convictions :
in a noble stand
rii^lits.”
It was presented by B. A. ^
basileus of tbe Tbu <
ter.
In responding, tlH
said the position he
after prayer and
ful consideration and W
feared because
side.”
The main aiiilrn
Uvered br Dr. WaBar N.,
newly elected
Elizabeth City
i.