Keep Up With the Tim FU1 VOLUME IV, NUMBER52 Judg Law! FIVE PERSONS HURT I WHEN BUS OVERTURNS ON BURLINGTON ROAD. At least live persons were Dllitlhlllr Ininro/i on/1 ?l r - "J ?"J ?? ??1U o o T C 1 II 1 7 others sustained minor lacerations and bruises about 6 p. m. t Wednesday when a 29-passenger Carolina Trailways company bus overturned off Burlington high-! way near Buffalo creek bridge about four miles east of the city. Ambulances rushed to the scene, where passengers were freed from the wreckage by smashing a windshield, the door v-s way exit being pinned to the ground, "There was no disorder to speak of," said Joseph F. Still, ?- 41, of 617 North Eugene Btreet, a front seat passenger, who sustained neck and right shoulder injuries. ''We were just piled on top of one another and finally / realized what had happened and scrambled out the windshield place." The windshield he referred to was the right front section of the bus smashed by Still's front ' seat companion, W. ,E. Hlnshaw, I 48, of 129 Bishop street, who was injured about the head, ; right leg and right knee. Both gwere patients last night at Piedmont Memorial hospital, i . , Also at the hospital was Frank |V -Huckabee, 42, Y. M. C. A., Bin ; swinger Glass company employee 1 who sustained bruised and un- 1 determined injury to the right 1 jjp shoulder and right hip. ' Patients at L. 'Richardson hos- ' J pital, victims of the accident, ' | Wednesday night were Crlstohel 1 | Smith, 23, Liberty, route 1, and 1 ?>; . Naomi Haith, 42, Gibsonvllle, & - whose injuries were- undeterm- 1 inejl. % Hinshaw said the bus was appreaching an' incline and was ? meeting two large trucks, one of 1 $j\ >' ' which was in the center lane, 'r facing the bus. He stated further ' S"; that the bus driver turned to the 1 iy right to avoid colliding with the 1 B v " truck and the bus apparently Stli skidded and overturned. State highway patrolmen reg? ported the driver, Robert Lewis X Guffey, 22, of 1509 Nineteenth Sp street, had just rounded a curve and the bus began skidding 75 Ww? yards west of the bridge, overturning after traveling 90 feet. H&7 They quoted the driver as sayBfe ing that the bus turned over on Er. >, 118 top an<^ then to the side. SpjJ,'' Investigation of the accident aEj, was continued Thursday, patrol-! Kga, men said. les! URE GREENSBORO e All Must A Carolina Trail ways bus, si near Buffalo creek bridge, four only ininor Injury. They crawlei H ins haw, 1129 Bishop street, wh smashed'in overturning, JASPER BRIDGES APPOINTED TO CITY SCHOOLS OF NEW YORK Jasper A. Bridges, formerly supiji ?iaui ui musiu at jonuson County Training School, Smlthtleld, N. C., who also taught music In Greensboro, and In Washington, D. C., has recently been appointed as teacher of music In the public schools of New York city. Having receleved his M. A. iegree In music education from reacherB College, Columbia university, his masters certificate In English, history and public " school music from North Carolina, Mr. Bridges is organist and ' choir director of Grace Baptist church, Mt. Vernon, N. Y., and 8 coaches private students In pt- 1 ano, voice, and harmony of high ? merit. s A graduate of A. and T. col- i lege, Mr. Bridges was formerly organist of the Institutional Bap- t tlst church here. 1 r CITY AND COUNTY USHKHS I 1 WILL MEET SUNDAY !l The city and county ushers ^ union will hold ltB regular monthly meeting Sunday at 3 p. m., at the Ebenezer Baptist 1 church, Sedgefleld. The usher ( choir will render music. I j"-THE? I. N. C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBJ ey V ; B@ f lown above, overturned early U miles east of the city. Passenf 1 out of the right front windslii o was In one of the front seats. EMANCIPATION EDITION The "" ure Outlook will feature in its Emancipation Edition, (January 5, 1944 issue), iaminos or generations In the county (Guilford), who have inherited some security and have earned for themselves a reasonable amount of training, high school or college. Older ones must have been residents of the county for more than 2H years. Please call 3-17S8, or mail information with picture. WILLING WORKERS CLUB IIEETS WITH MRS. MILLKlt The Willing Workers club met it the home of Mrs. Callle Mller, 606 Bennett street, with ilrs. F. A. Hargett as the guest peaker, who chose as her subect, "Thanksgiving." Refreshments were served by he hostess. Members present at he meeting were Mesdaines C. illller, Janie Mack, Mattle Buter, Elsie Crawford, Alcroa Rigg>ee, Elizabeth Webb and Miss rene Slier. Mrs. Grace Wade was i visitor. Mrs. Laura J. Walker, of Etnnd, visited her sister, Miss leorgla Walker, and Mrs. N. E. Inrgett. 1 Reac ferns lespc n lyHRHmBHfllKBKili^ &Mm#**J& ednesday lilght on Burlington road era, excepting live, escaped with Id shattered by kicks from W. K. Windows on the right side were t ' FOUNDERS DAY AT BENNETT COLLEGE MARKS 72ND YEAR Bennett College held its Founders' Day exercises Friday, No eiuuer io, ai iu:su a. m., marking 72 years of service to Negro youth, 20 of which have been for women, exclusively. Dr. Roy A. Burkhart, pastor of the First Community church, Columbus,' O., spoke on "The Kinship of Learning and Faith." Dr. David, D. Jones, president of the college, presided over the exercises. The invocation-was given by Rev. G. M. Phelps, pastor of St. Matthews church, and Rev J. E. Brower, superintendent of the Greensboro district of the Methodist church, read the scrlp( ture. Greetings were extended by Mrs. Julius W. Cone, chairman of buildings and grounds. Appre, clatlons were expressed by Miss Doris Lowery, chairman of the Student Senate, who represented the students; Mrs. Juanita Morlsey, '34, who represented the t alumnae, and Miss Bessie Jones, ! who represented the faculty. , Music was furnluhed by Miss Carrie Kellogg, soprano, and the college choir, under the dlreci tlon of David Holland. The college was founded by a (Continued On Page Five) { The Future Outlook! | PRICE: So ?Vet icted T. L. Dixon, ExSoldier, Draws Road Sentence Judge Felix E. Alley. Waynes ville, speaking from the bench at Wednesday afternoon's session of Guilford Superior court, voiced the warning that "soldiers returning home, whether or not they-have an honorable dischargo cannot be permitted to take the law into their own hands." Expressing himself as having "all the sympathy in the world" for returning servicemen and consefiuently finding it doubly i hard to punish them, the judge made his statement prior to postponing judgment until Wednesday In the case against Lorenthaus T. Dixon, ex-soldier, against whom a jury returned verdict of guilty of aiding and abetting assault with a deadly weapon. Charges against Dixon grew out of his alleged participation in the assault of John Hansberry, Southern railway porter for 43 years, when Hansberry refused Dixon's brother, William Harrison Dixon, entry to a crowded northbound train. The state attempted to prove that the defendant had boarded the northbound train to hit and hold Hansberry while his brother put thp nnrtar with a Vnlfo dftnv the plaintiff had informed them there was no room for them. The state contended that Hansberry. defenseless against the two, sustained a cut which permanently Injured his hand. William Harrison Dixon, who allegedly wielded the knife, has not been arrested and his whereabouts are unknown. Defense counsel contended that Lorenthaus Dixon hit the porter in self-defense after Hansberry had kicked at him in ap effort to keep him from climbing into the car vestibule. Dixon himself was cut on the hand by the knife allegedly In the hands of bis brother, who joined in the scuf1 f'e. Dixon drew 12 months. In another action Wednesday, | Willie Lee Young, entering plea > of nolo contendere to two charges of manslaughter, was sentenced to two years suspended for 1 five years, put on probation and i ordered to pay the costs after he had placed himself at the court's mercy. The charge grew out of the September 6 deaths of Miss Martha Brice, a Bennett college student, and Norrls Lee Headen, (Continued On Page Pour)

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