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Hunters Stumble onto Macabre Find aVUndertaker's Farm > ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ DOGS UNCOVER BODES OF MFANTS AUTO PARTIALLY BURIED HARGETT IN HANDCUFFS INFANTS’ GRAVE UNCOVERED BY DOGS The above scents, ilumbled upon by Jwo hunters in Gil ford County Ust week, were mute evidence of a series of mysterious incidents on pro perty just outside of Greens boro owned by the Hargett, prominent Greensboro family. At left is ■ smell foreign car shown partiaiVf buried in a grave dug to fit it. The car was reported stolen by Nathan iel Everett Hargett, Jr., last week. He was arrested at the scene by Guilford deputies when he arrived with a wrecker and shovel. Arresting officers said a tug at the right place from the wrecked would have pieced the car perfectly in the grave. In the center, Hargett is shown after having been placed in handcuffs by Guilford sheriff standing near- MEMBER OF PROMINENT GREENSBORO FAMILY by. . Photo at right shows a shallow grave containing re mains of five infants. It was uncovered by one of the dogs belonging lo hunters who dis covered the graves. Several other mounds found on the propleilly aroused suspicision of officers that more bodies were buried an the property, —photos bf HichoUon. court esy Greensboro Daily News. yihETPUTM UNBpi&LED^ VOLUME 37 — No. 51 DURHAM;. N. C, .SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1961 Return Postage Guaranteed PRICE: 15 Cent* from the TIMES Staff Hargett Charged with Fraud Car Reported Stolen is Found Half. Buried No One Injured Bomb Tossed while Muslims, NAACP Debate Race Issue Truce Reached In Albany, Ga. Demonstrations ALBANY, GA.—^The trial of more than 700 Negroes was post poned indefinitely this week for “cooJing-off” period after two weeks of racial strife. The delay of the court hear ings was the first break in the Impasse between Negroes and city officials of this south Georgia town. The arrests began on Dec. 12 after several. Freedom Riders were arrested here on Dec. 10. To date, more than 700 have been arrested. The Negro citizens of Alblny, protesting racial segregation under the sponsorship of the Al bany Nonviolen't Movement, stated they will continue to de- See ARRESTS, page 5-A A molotov cocktail was ex ploded outside a bookstore in West Durham Monday night while representatives of the NAAiCP and the Black Muslin movement were debating before an integrated audience. No one was injured. Only minor damage, to an automo bile windshield, was recorded. A patrolman was dispatched to the scene and Investigated an area behind the West Dur ham Post Office. The Rev. Arthur Thomas, who was in charge of the meet ing, said the bomb was tossed from the roof of the Post Of fice building. However, police headquarters said Tuesday there was no of ficial report of the incident. The homemade t>omb, consist ing of a soft drink bottle fill ed with an inflammable liquid, disintegrated with a muffled explosion on the sidewalk in front of the Covenant', Book See BOMB, page 5-A Kennedy Criticized For Delay In Acting on Housing Jim Crow NEW YORK—^The continued delay in issuing a Presidential order banning racial discrimina tion in federally-assisted hous ing is arousing "grave concern . . . considerable skepticism and resentment across the country,” Roy Wilkins, execu tive secretary of the National Asaociation fw Advance ment of Colored People, warns in « telegram to Presi dent John F. Kennedy. The telegram, re'leased this week, was dispatched to the White House on Dec. 14. “There is real fear,” the NAACP leader asserts, that unless the ex ecutive order “Is issued at this See CRITICIZED, page 5-A ISAIAH X. KARRIEM Funeral Held For Wife of Former Resident Dr. Thelma Clement Spauld ing of 10 East 138th Street, Pro fessor of English at Bronx Com munity College, died Friday at Morrisania Hospital, the Bronx. She was 61 years old and the wife of Royal Spaulding, an ac counting officer with Pan American Airways, and a native oif Durham. Dr. Spaulding received an A. B. at Talladega (Ala.) Col lege, an M. A. at Teachers Col lege, Colunuhia University, and Sec SPAULDING, page a-A Kinston Stores To Discuss Fair Employment KINSTON—A mass meeting of merchants, city officials and members of the National As sociation for the Advancement of Colored People is slated here in January in an effort to get all Kinston stores to discontinue discrimination in facilities and employment, it was announced this week. The' move was made after four local stores, which had been on the Negro citizens’ boycott list, agreed to conditions set by the NAAOP Youth that they end discriminatory Practices. The fcHir stores, i^ntified as Brody’s Department Store, Belk-Tylers, Winn-Dixie, and See KINSTON, page 5-A OHO ' A half buried automobile . . .fifteen infant graves. . . and sT store house full of household articles all provided a series of myster ious circumstances which led to the arrest of a prominent Qreenst>oro funeral director here Monday. Placed under $10,000 bond on a charge of making a false re- port to police radio in'connect- ion with the alleged theft of his automobdle, was Nathaniel Everett Hargett Jr., 34,' identifi ed as operator of Everett’s Funeral Home, 1011 Ashe St., Greenst»ro. Events leading to the arrest of the funeral director are as follows; Rabbit hunters on Monday dis covered a half buried foreign model automotttle about ten miles south of Greensboro on property used by the Hargett family and notified the Guil- iford County Sheriff’s Depart ment. Deputy Ailvin Bailey said he had scarcely concealed his car behind a nearby house when Hargett drove up in a wreck- See BODIES, page 5-A Newsman Arrested In New Orleans NEW ORLEANS, LA. —The manager of the McCrory store pulled the stools from under 50 CORE members sitting-in t» protest lunch counter discrimina tion last week. Two newsmen, reporters from WWL-TV, who attempted to photograph the incident were arrested at the request of the store manager. Later, store of ficials offered to drop charges If the film w?s dcstorycd. The See REPORTERS, page 5-A Taylor Ordered To Pay $20,000 Fine By March Herman L. Taylor, prominent Raleigh attorney who was con victed last week of filing false and fradulent income tax re turns, Wednesday was given a two year suspended jail term and fined a total of $20,000 for the federal violation. U. S. Middle District Court Judge Edwin M. Stanley also ordered Taylor to pay the fine and civU tax liabilities and in terest, totaling more than $40,- 000 by March 1 or go to prison. Indictments charged Taylor with reporting no taxable in come for 1955 when he should have 'reported income of more than $5,000, and failing to file returns on time for the period 1956-57. He was fined $10,000 CHRISTMAS SPIRIT—These at tractive coeds at A. and T. Col lege took time out last weeic to^ observe the beauty of a bumper crop of poinsettas, pro duced by the A, and T. Flori culture Department, which burst in;'o full iiloor.-i |ust be fore the holidays. Jacqueline Lesane, left, Eliza- | bethtown^ N. C., holds, a white { bloom, while Glenda Jones, i Waterbury, Conn., prefers Hi» ! conventitonal red. DURHAM CHURCHES SLATE SPECIAL WORSHIP SERVICES FOR CHRISTMAS Shaw Trustees Plan For 3 New Buildings RALEIGH—Dr. William R. Strassner, President of Shaw University, announced that, in its first semi-annual meeting which was hesld in November, See SHAW UNIV., 2-A Below are some of the high-! lights of Sunday’s Christmas! worship services at local church-1 es: I ST. JOSEPH’S A. M. E. CHURCH — The Rev. Melvin Chester Swann will deliver the 11 a.m. services. His subject will be, “Christmas in Parti- culsr.” -M the 11 p.m. services, Li -, .’.unes T. Cleland, Dean of tiie Cliapel at Duke University wiijel spfeak £rom the subject, ■‘Glory to God in the Highest”. MT. ZION BAPTIST CHURCH —“The Child Jesus” will be the topic of the Rev. William U. Fuller’s sermon at the 11 a.ou services. The Sunday School will take over their Christmas ex ercises at 7:30 p.m. Sunday night. Services will again be held Christmas Day at 11 a.m. I WHITE ROCK BAPTIST CHURCH—The Rev. Miles M. Fisher will speak frorh the subject, “The Preparation” at the 11 a.m. servifces. At 7:30 p.m. the Rev. Fisher will use See CHURCHES, page 5-A NEWS BRIEFS Rev. Barnes Replaces Rev. Wade At Creedmoor's Piney Grove DURHAM—The Rev. Johnny Barnes of Durham has accept ed the pastorate of the Piney Grove Baptist Church of Creed- moor, it was learned this week. Rev. Barnes will replace Rev. Louis Wade, also of Dur ham. who resigned sometime ago to take a pastorate in Ox ford. Barnes is a member of the faculty at Hillside High School and also pastor of Ter rell's Creek Baptist in Orange County. ROBINSON PROMOTED NEW YORK—Jackie Robin son, former baseball great and a memljer of the NAACP’s board of directors since 1958, was this week elected a direct-! or of the Chock Full O’Nuts' Corporation. Robinson has ser ved as vice president in charge of f)ersonnel for the past five years in the firm which t^;>erates 37 restaurants and markets coffee in 17 states. CATHOLICS CANNOT HIDE FROM RACIAL JUSTICE PLAQUIMINE. LA. — Catho lics “cannot hide from racial justice,’’ Bishop Rol>ert E. Tracy of Baton Rouge. La. said here recently. Listing racial justice as one of the four maior fields in which modern w(^en must be informed to live a Christ- like life, he added- that the others are public worship, social wel fare and home Ufe. FOUR mnrjK collisiom DURHAM—»ur person.^ w*re See BRIESS, page 9>A Hargett Land Becomes Illegal Grave Yard GREXNSBORO—Property be longing to, the Hargett f^iqily on the outskirts of the city here had apparently been turned- into an iUegal, private cemetery. This was the speculation of local observers here this week on the heels of the discovery here early this week by hunters of the shallow graves of several iilfants. Several of t^e uncovered graves bore tages reading, “The Hargett Funeral Servies.” The speculation was given ad ded weight when a spokesman for the Hargett Funeral honte was quoted as saying; “We receive no pay for 75 per cent of the infant burials. Yet we are forced to make pro per disposal of the body. Lots in a-eity cemetery coet $50 per chikL -We simply can’t afford It is believed. that bodies ot infants were taken to'the Har^ gett property for burial rather See GRAVE YARD_ 1-A NAACP Takes Sides in House Leader's Election NSBW YORK—Branches of the N'atfobaX Association for the Adyaaeement of Colored People located in congressional dis tricts repre^nted by Democrats have been cailed upon to urge their Congressmen to vote for Repovsentative Richard Bill ing of Missouri for House majority leader. In telegrams dispatched to these branches this week. NAACP Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins contrasted the civil rights' voting record of Re presentative Bolling with that o Representative Carl All>ert of Okljkhooia. the other candi date for majority leader. The leader will be chosen by the Democrats as soon as Congress convvnes in January. ~St*ietty on their voting re- corda «a civil rigtUs ' siaeo If*)." WUkins eat. “'Bmp. Albeit has wrong n times and Ra»> Uav haa -voted risht M The selection of leader, he added, mense importance e«sily affect civil 'm' tion in the Houa« odme.’ Among civil which the Se«
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