Newspapers / The Carolinian. / March 7, 1964, edition 1 / Page 1
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Stories Os Victim, Deputies, Hospital Differ NAACP ENTERS BRUTALITY CASE ++'AA A ■ j . Rumor Cassius May Marry Granddaughter Os Elijah •f.vt - ■ “ <?7Wsy^^ v >-' £wWmjgl -W dTjapk MmmBSSEwW- CASSIUS MARCELLUS CLAY, H , .>. nur riutt Nubanunad's Un * Premised Med If He Won Fight, Sources Say CHICAGO (ANP)—Officials of "Black” Muslima denomination last week would neither confirm nor deny that newly crowned world heavyweight champion Cassius Clay has romantic interests in a granddaughter of their leader, “The Shaw Prexy, Wife Feted By Citizens On Wednesday, Feb. 25. the mem* bers of the Shaw Camaraderie Club sponsored a reception in honor of the newly-elected president of Shaw University, Dr. and Mrs. James E. Cheek. The reception was held in the Conference Room of the Baptist Headquarters on Wil mington Street The purpose of the entertainment (CONTINUED ON PAGE t) W EATH E R ■— - Rata tonight and tarty Thursday, followed by cooler Thursday and Friday. Moderate temperatures re mainder of period, with tempera tures averaging several degrees be low normal for the period through Monday. Showers likely again a bout weekend. ADVERTISERS BUV FROM THEM page * lif, ,1 Cash Slure V T. I ram Co. 1 : .TO S.. D ipery Shop la . lor Radio & tl -uliul Co I A K J I >» I AGfc J 1. _n INlk—Eftrds j \y ttifi-r* * Co l-.t inasional Morl*jOt» A»s«< i.itr» S.-chaD—k & lanurrt Bonk CurrrM ir-l Co. southern Bell PAGE f Rjlcigh Funeral Bom* Acme Realty Co. I Times Sanders Hie Co. M Laurin Parkin* Company Medlin-Oavis Amknrn Pontiac. Inc. Branch Banking * Trust Co Jesse Jones Sausage Dixie Dry Cleaners - Laundry PAG* ! Wearer Bros. Rambler, Inc. Raietfh seafood Co Rawls Motor Co. I K. Wells Semer-Sanders Tractor Corp PAGE * JMoaial H* rn Jmlth Coal A Oil Co. Bant General Tire Co. r. r. Qnten mrmtnre Co PAGE • AAP Store* . noeoteo TWO tales A oernco Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Clay himself was still regaling in Miami in the glory of his great up set victory, which he said “shook up" the world, and was unavailable for comment about the rumor. Ef forts to reach the girl’s father, Ray mond Sharieff, commander of the Muslim elite guard, “The Fruit of Islam”, were also unsuccessful at presstime. The most sensational part of the rumor Is that Clay sought and had been promised the girl’s hand In marirags if ho won the title. Re did. Meanwhile, Clay, in a new out burst of oratory, confirmed Mr. Muhammad's "official" announce ment in his “message" to the Mu slim convention here, that Clay is (CONTINUED ON FAGR t) Registration Aide Coming To Raleigh Mrs. Alma Polk, special represen tative of the National Council of Negro Women, will arrive in Ra leigh this week to implement the efforts now being made in the area of voter registration. (CONTINUED ON PAGE » Firestone Store* London Oil Co. Estates Bnildln* Co.. Ine. Emma Jane Dress Shop Washington Terrace Apts.. Inc. PAGE 19 Carolina Builders. Inc Ridgeway’s Opticians Inc I PAGE II The l.cirnant Shop lialeich Furniture Co. A Storage. Ine. Goodman s Ladles Shop Arme Laundfy A Cleaners, Inc Terrace Insurance A Realty Co. W’rrnn Electrical Co. L’mstead s Grocery A Transfer Co. College Paint Shop PAGE U Carolina Power A Light Co. Ambassador Thaetre Central Drag Store Joe W inters Promotion Lincoln Theatre Community Florist PAGE M Buffalo Battery (hop PAGE U Supreme Brake A Alignment 5 mce Johnson-Lornbe Co. SrhlMa Beer PAGE I* Rhodes Furnitore Co. Better Brake Serrice Wsod* S-lOr Store Security Meal Market Abram's Vailed Rent-Alls Capitol .'eel Oil. eo A Coal Co. Dunn s Esso Serrieo THE CAROLINIAN VOL. 22. NO. 18 Dr. Lake Center Os Attraction As EDITOR , M. D. DISAGREE LBJ APPOINTS LOCAL WOMAN’S SISTER TO RIGHTS COMMISSION President Praise* Newest Appointee WASHINGTON, D. C.—Attorney . ankie Muse Freeman of St. Louitt lo., last Satureßy became the first woman member of the Civil JUJht* Commission. She was appointed by President Lyndon Baines Johnson as the first step in his new cam paign to give top posts in govern ment to women. It .. .. :WhH m MRS. FRANKIL M. FIREMAN Mrs. Freeman, a native of Danville, Va„ Is the only sister of Mrs. A Hie Muse Peebles, 721 Calloway Drive, Raleigh, N. C., whe Is a teacher at Hie Fuquay Springs, N. C. Consol (dated High School. The 47-year-old attorney was de St. Augustine’s Alumna, 105, Given Rites In City Dr. Anna J. Cooper, writer, teach er and school administrator, an alumna of Saint Augustine'* Col- Jk jk CHARLES MITCHELL Man Given Term Here In Rape Try Charles Mitchell, JS-year-oW resident of 1202 E. Martin Street, was sentenced in Wafce Superior Court last Thursday to a three to fire year prison sentence on a charge of attempted rape. (COMTtNVEB ON PAGE *> North Carolina's Leading Weekly RALEIGH, N. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 7. 1964 scribed by President Johaho a -“distinguished Wtorouri will fill one of the two vacancies on the Commission. The six-mem ber Cornmlasion was authorized by Congress in 1937. The body is charged with In vestigating eases of voting dis rrlmlnaUon and with studying and recommending major fed eral pollciea affecting civil rights. President Johnson con ferred at length with her re cently. Daughter of the late William B. and Maude B. Muse, the noted St. Louis barrister also has four bro thers: William B. Muse, real estate broker, Martinsville, ,Va.; Charles S. Muse, .who is completing work for the Ph.D. degree at the University of Oklahoma; Edward B. Muse, with H.1.A.5.. New York City; and Attorney Andrew C. Muse, Dan ville. A graduate of Hampton Institute, she received her law degree at Howard University. Attorney Freeman is a tnem of the beard of directors snd national first vice-president of the Delta Bigma Theta Soror ity. She was named “Woman of the Year" by the National Council of Negro Women In (CONTINUED ON PAGE Z) lege, and native of Wake County who celebrated her 105th birthday in August died in her tleep Thurs day, February 27, at her home, 201 T Street N. W.. Washington, D. C. Funeral services were held Wed nesday. March 4. at 2 p. m. in the Saint Augustine*' College Chapel. Interment was in the Hargett Street Cemetery. Dr. Cooper, who began her educa tion at Saint Augustine's as a young child under Dr. J. Brinton Smith, was one of the first Negro women (CONTINUED ON PAGE t) Suicides Os 2 Leaders ‘Shocking’ NEW ORLEANS. La (ANPi - The suicide deaths last week of two Louisiana lntcgrationisu— a Shreveport woman NAACP work er and the brother of a prominent Baton Rouge lawyer—shocked civ il rights circles throughout the South. Mrs. Amse Brewster, <3. died of aa apparently self-inflicted ballet wound. Police mid she left a note stating that she was “so tired of fighting not only srhHc's for the eaase of civil rights, hut the Negroes who seemed ungrateful." (CONTINUED ON PAGE t) I mmmm DK. SAMUEL D. PROCTOR Dr. Proctor Returning To Corps GREENSBORO—Dr. Samuel De witt Proctor has resigned as presi dent of the Agricultural and Tech nical College, here. Notice of the resignation, to become effective March 23,1964, was filed late Saturday by wire to members of the ART College Trustee Board. The question immediately arose as to who will replace him as head of North Carolina's largest pre dominant! v- Negro college. Dr. Proctor announced that ha will return to Washington, D C., as associate director of the U. S. Peace Corps. • position he held for eight months, from January (CONTINUED ON PAGE 1) p»fJE... jaP- 1 -" ',,' r ' ,•» a h H" i; 1 < f I f < I i tiiiliJPllilAJX |w r a *IHHp WHK3b IT K M BL #* JRHT m w F * gel r ; : J f *- 1 - ,y.> * JH W wRERhr RACIAL INCIDENT BRINGS OUT THE DOGS Maryland State Police use dogs to guard the crowd ot demon strators after a Princess Anne crowd became unruly last week in protesting an alleged segregation case at a restaurant. Some 150 Negro college students marced in the town to prdfesf police •PRICE 15c Backer Os Lake Angered Thomas C. Jervay, editor of The WILMINGTON JOURNAL Wilmington, N. C„ and Dr. William J. Wheeler, Wilmington physician, are at odds over the worth to the Negro race of gubernatorial candi date, Dr. I. Beverly Lake of Ra leigh. Dr. Wheeler is reportedly ah avowed Lake supporter. In his newspaper last week, Mr. Jervay printed the following arti cle on the front page: FANATIC ON RACE BSUE (An Editorial) No matter to what extreme I. Beverly Lake goes to cover up this time, it remains (hat he is a great fanatic on the race issue and is (CONTINUED ON PAGE I) Winners Os Silver $ $ * Announced The following persons were win ners In the Weekly Silver Dollar Contest the pest weekr Mr*. Charles Pepper*, 919 Had ley Road, A&P; Mr*. Loomis H. Manuel, 911 Hadley Road. A&P, j Mr. R L. Young, 848 Newcombe Road, Colonial Store; Mr*. H. W. Pope, 852 Newcombe Road, A&P and Security Market; and Mr*. Ed ward L. Towne*. 819 Newcombe Road. Wood's S-lOc Stora and Hud- ; son-Belk. MRS. LOME BRYANT FOREMAN .. . arm broken by deputy “I Was Wronged,"Claims Former Raleigh Resident BY CHARLES R. JONES Charges 'and countercharges flew fast and furious this week af ter the arm of a 42-year-old wom an was broken Sunday night by a Jailer "bccaiK=c she wfcr too slow raising her hand U> be flutter printed." x The case to now being investi gated by the Raleigh branch of the NAACP, whose president to Ralph Campbell. Sr. The victim, Mrs. Lovle Bryant Foreman, former, Raleigh resident who now lives at' 816 Street, Greensboro, waa Intervene ed by this newsman Tuesday gf femooa In hW fleet floor seml irlvate room at Wake Memorial "I had Just left the drugstore and was going home alter I bought some lteterlne for an ah cess on my gums, which caused my Jaws to be puffed." said Mrs. Foreman. She said she woke up with a swollen jaw Sunday morn ing. She continued, "The police car drove up beside me in the 400 j block of S. Bloodworth Street and the officer told me to get in " Mrs. Foreman further stated that once Inside the car she was questioned about the death of El mer Parker, who was found dead on the same street last Saturday night. Mm. Foreman, who arrived in the city Friday night from Greensboro to visit her ill mother In the hospital, said she informed the officer that she knew nothing about Parker's demise. She was then taken to the Wake County Jail by Raleigh Police Os fleer W. A Lamm at 7:18 p in., according to records and files, where the alleged incident took place She was charged with public drunkenness, disorderly conduct and assault on an officer 'Lamm). “I was not drunk.” declared Mr*. Foreman. '"They didn't give me time to raise my hand.” "She was drunk snd dlsor- , drrly," swore the two night Jailers on duty. Mahlon L. Bagwell and Kenneth D. Mc- Daniels. Both McDaniels and Bagwell agreed that Officer Lamm held Mrs. Foreman In the back of the! rciusal to drop charges against lour demonstrators arrested Feb'. 22nd. An estimated 200 white farmers, teen-agers and oth ers milled through the downtown area as the Negroes ma*eh*d and sang. ( UP! PHOTO). neck, Bagwell held one arm toe - hind her back, she twisted and tried to face Bagwell and he said he heard her arm pop. "I told hir to sit down and cool off g few minutes," staled Bagwe 1 -4«- h'.t I HWfiCri «4 {*a*v »*>»*» to ants. She was flngrrprtnt'd trior being taken to the hospital, how ; ever. The victim said die waited in the office of the Jail while Bag well entertained some "guests" far three hoims before finally get Uri" ‘ to the hospital. ‘Hiey were laugh ylnrf’and talking,” she swid. . V Official* at Wake Memorial (CONTINUKDON FACE f. MdTown Point Os Struggle PRINCESS ANNE, Md. (ANPI - Despite the clamping down of a 915 pin. to 8 a m. curfew, and th’ mililary occupation of the city by the National Guard, stale troopers and sundry other regulatory loves to aid local police, the all-out cam paign waged by student* of Mary land State college for the total in tegration of restaurant fac'Htic* continued unabated last week- Threat* of arrest, dog-bites, club whipping*, dynamiting*. walcr.Jtose treatment* and everything else fail ed to ouell the militancy of tfleStu dent body to secure the right to patronize any restaurant which they desire. This newest wave of protest dem onstration was kicked off last week after Negro college student* dis cover cd that a pledge made them during the summer school sessions last July was not being kept by four restaurants in the downtown area. This pledge was aocurcd through the medium of a blracial council which had been established following a series of massive sit-in*. Two es the rMtauraata have indicated a willingness to renew (CONTINUED ON PAGE *>
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