NATION DEMONS DEATH OF NIT (OLE
Former
Ex-fe'y Blasts
Islai Group
As Terrorists
NEW YORK A former Black
Muslim denounced the
organization this week as a fraud,
and described it as "another lit
tie money-grabbing scheme" feed
In* on Negro frustrations and
Igr.orance.
Aubrey Barnette, who served as
secretary- of the Fruit of Islam of
Boston's Mosque No. 11, said in
a , Saturday 1 Evening Post article
that his career was one disillusion,
oie'nt after another.
"Now, after more than three
as a Muslim, I see the basic
contradiction between the Mm
mils' dogma and all that fine,
And talk about uplifting the Ne
£o."
I "Ttte Muslims," h eharged,
1 a vested Interest in
 failure, in discrimination, in seg-
relation. The Muslims, no less
than the Kti Klux Klan, want to
I 'ketep the Negro in his place,."
[ '"■ Barnette, a 1958 graduate of
Boston University, insisted that
been misled by
claimi that the Muslims have ac
tive "praams for education, bro-
and moral re
frtbilftatiqiTL, "All myths," be ob
, served..The organization "is a
aionoyrttfking proposition •whicti
bleeds' Si followers dry. When its
quackery fails to bring
I in money in the name of charity,
ft rcsofctk.to terror, violence and
fx(ortifiLV;
" The vlcun of a severe revenge
beatlnjl Qfcfr quitting the Mus
lims laid? SUmincr, Barnette said "I
found S9(m program to be a myth,
every 3lalm to be an iUujuoh"
Cbntttrrjr tto reports of vast mem
bership in €ttt££.2,tbi3}tshout' the
coantnß Barnette estimate! that
the nsttiUinal strength of Muslims
totals ]tms than 7,000 men,
And children. And, hfe emphasized,
tfie population "is not growing. It
h collapsing." The public, Bar
nette stated, has "exaggerated no
tion?" of Muslim strength and
power.
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NCC Legislative
tOMuffee In
Budget Meeting
The Legislative cSotartittee of
the North Carolina College Board
of' Trustees, under the chairman
ship of Clyde Shreve, Greensboro
attorney, met on the campus Tues
day and discussed the 1965-67 bi
ennial budget request to be fur
ther presented by President Sam
uel P. Massie before the Joint Ap
propriations Committee the
1965 General Assembly Tuesday,
February 23.
President Massie. Mated later
that while he Was pleased that
the Advisory Budget Commission
had recommended appfoval of the
entire "A" budget requested by
.the college, he was disappointed
as were othfer state tollege presi
dents, in the recoiwhendations
See
SIOO,OOO Improvement Planned
For Hammocks Beach by Teachers
A ppogram allocating SIOO,OOO
for nqjjt development or expan
sion ptoft* approved by, the Ham
mock jfeqch Corpaajtjpn includes
plans fcg- a motel wßKhgalt water
pool aftd: a nine-h*KjMf course.
To answer tnlr criticism
agaiost* expamflWjfcproposcd
and fifftfti raising «sßgi%n amend
mcnt ig, the IkMßßpts Beach
Charter has becMHMiged and
officiJlM recordeAjMfc amend
ment dissolves Ham
mocks. Bpard of directors and
makes, the North Carolina Teach
ers Association, through its Board
of Di£e£tors, responsible for the
development and ppgriltfon of the
corpoi^pn.
Aloftg with the motel, which
will some $44,000, and the
gdlf Bourse, to require a $29,000
investment, the following amounts
of have been earmarked for
various pcojecta: \ ' (
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Member Black Muslims Says Organization Is A Fraud
Che CarStiga Cimcs
VOLUME 42—No. 8
SICK FLORIDA NEGRO
BEGS TO BE EXECUTED
rj w. ■ BE ■ £ *V' Mfc .4
>■- *. JBOTMHNIMI&SMMI "• - »■ "BH*»JW««
THK LADS AMD LASSIES of the,
Wlriston-Salem Chapter of Jack'
and Jill of America, Inc. (I to r, |
frtont te back) Roland H. Hays, Jr., i
Lois P. Hauser, Rhea J. Gordon,!
May Boycott Ins. Firms
over Mortgage Bias
NEW YORK CITY Thousands
of collectors, representing some of
tTTe nation's giant insurance com
panies may knock on doors of Ne
gro policy-holders this fall at
tempting to collect millions of dol
lars in premiums which will be
with herd from them.
This is the prediction made by
Dempsey J. Travis, organizer
president of The United Mortgage
Bankers of America UMBA) which
held a three-day clinic here.
Main focus of the clinic is the
attempt to persuade banks and
insurance companies' to join in a
major onslaught On housing segre
gation by dropping barriers in
See INSURANCE 4A
i • $5,000 for a survey of the
■ property and a master plan of
development (completed).
; • SIXOO for a boat landing and
launching ramp.
• SSOO for a softball diamond,
i • SIO,OOO for an all-'*°eath ten
nis courts.
• $1,500 for playground equip
ment.
• $2,000 for a trailer court.
• $7,000 for a full-time em
ployee to promote and manager
the-project-. - - -
• $4,009 for a full-time main
tenance man.
With the reactivation of plans
to renovate the project, teachers
throughout the state are being
i asked to pay a specified assess
i ment to aid in financing the pro-
I gram, through the district of the
i North Carolina Teachers with
1 which they, are affiliated.
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DURHAM, N. C.—SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1965
Kathy R. Graves, Aurella W. Er
win, Gail Brandon, Lisa O. Gaines,
Donna E. Oldham, Cheryl R.
Jones, Halimena M. Creqwe, Lsr
ette R. Williams, Carmen Russell
Continental Oil Official to Be
Luncheon Guest at NCM Feb. 26
L. F. McCollum, chairman of the
board and chief executive officer,
Continental Oil Company, will be
a luncheon guest of the North
Carolina Mutual Life Insurance
Company on February 26.
This announcement was made
by A. T. Spaulding, president of
Nbrth Carolina Mutual. Prior to
his Durham visit, McCollum will
deliver an address at Shaw Uni
versity.
A native of Texas, where he
graduated from the University of
Texas in 1925 with a degree in
geology, McCollum has been in
the oil business all his life. His
first position was with Humble
Oil and Refining Company, an af
filiate of Standard Oil Company
(New Jersey), as a scout and geol
ogist, and was stationed in Wichita
Falls, Amarillo and San Antonio,
Texas.
In 1947 McCollum was elected
president of Carter Oil Company
for four years. McCollum is a
director of several oil and finan
cial corporations. He holds honor
ary degrees from the Colorado
School of Mines and Texas Techno
logical College and is a member
of the board of trustees of the
California Institute of Technology
and the advisory boards of both
the University of Texas' Geology
Foundation and department of
petroleum engineering.
He is a trustee of the Committee
for Economic Development, mem
ber of the National Petroleum
Institute, the world's largest oil
and trade association; and is vice
, See McCOLLUM 4A
•nd Denlse Wade. This photo
graph was made at the February
meeting *Cien the group heard
Fay E. Hauser tell of her trip to
Bucaramanr.i, Colombia.
Wr
McCOLLUM
Again, Thanks!
Due to the fact that I have re
ceived so many birthday greeting
cards and gifts from friends in
Durham and othor cities all over
the nation since I published a
card of thanks in the January 30
issue of the Carolina Times, I feel
it necessary and proper to again
say THANKS to all of you dear
friends who were so kind as to
remember me in such a tangible
way. Un until Tuesday of this
week birthday greeting cards and
gifts were still continuing to come
in. SO AGAIN THANKS TO ALL
OF YOU! ■ '
PRICE: 15 C«ot.
TAVi&lhs, Florida—NAACP Le
gal Defeiise Fund Attorneys are
still prdsslhg to save young Jerry
Chatman from the electric chair
insplte of his desire to give up
to death.
The 24-year old Negro, along
with Robert Shuler, were convict
ed of raping Charlotte Wass, a
white woman. She is now confined
to a mental institution, having a
history of mental illness.
More than four years ago, Cir
cuit Court .Judge D. R. Smith pro
nounced sentence on Jerry Chat
man and Robert Shuler, using the
usual line, "may God have mercy
on your soul.''
After his defense attorneys had
exhausted the normal appeal pro
cedures and the death penalty
stood, Jerry Chatman decided to
seek his own brand of mercy.
In a letter to Legal Defense
Fund Attorney Tobias Simon, he '
said: "I ask you, Sir, as my at
torney, to make the arrangements '
with the governor so that I may |
be executed as soon as possible." |
In the same communication,
young Chatman claimed that he
is extremely ill and cannot re
ceive adequate medical treatment
at the Florida State Prison.
"I haven't become all of a sud
den unafraid of death," he con
tinued, "it is just from my illness
I suffer every, day and death
I can only suffer !pnce so I will
take death in placi of this mad
house."
Chatman has been ictpt in
"death rdw" during his fout years
of appeals. t ,
Legal Defense Fund Attorneys
said k "We can well understand
the desperation which may have
prompted such a letter. Hc-vever,
we find it impossible to volun
tarily comply with the request of
the- defendant, Jerry Chatman."
The attorneys sought and were
granted permission, by the Federal
District Court, to continue their 1
efforts to obtain a Writ of Habeas
Corpus and a new trial.
In th« meantime, they are at
tempting. to secure an order sei- j
ting aside the death penalty and
imposing upon Shuler and Chat
man a maximum sentence of life
imprisonment.
NE€JSK> ARCHITECTS
3 Bros, to Design
11. 1 Embassy in
ftfer, Senegal
WASHINGTON William J.
Crocked Deputy Under Secretary
of State for Administration, has
announced the selection of the
Cleveland arcitectural firm of
Madison, Madison, and Madison
for the desisn of the nrv Ameri
can chancery (embassy office
building) in Dakar, Senegal. The
firm will also design a residence
for the Deputy Chief of Mission
and a staff apartment building
in Dakar.
The first Negro architectural
firm to be given such an assign
ment, Madison, Madison,and Madi
son is a partnership of three
brothers, two of whom are archi
tects and the third a civil engi
neer. Robert P. Madison, A. I. A.,
and Julian C. Madison arc cur
rently in Dakar for discussions
with the Amrican Embassy con
cerning the designs. Construction
is scheduled for 1966-67.
Robert P. Madison, senior mem
ber of the firm, holds both Bache-
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BISHOPS OP
Three Methodist Groups Use
Joint Office In Washington
Former NCC Professor to Receive
Ph.D. From Colorado U. in June
BOUtDEK, Colo. The Eco
nomics Department of the Univer
sity of Colorado announced this
•veek that Earl W. Phillips has
completed all of the requirements
for the Ph.D. in Economics and
would be awarded this degree at
the June Commencement.
Phillips is a former Assistant
Professor of Economics and Busi
ness Administration at North Car
olina College. He taught at the
College in Durham for 13 years
beifore joining the faculty at the
University of Colorado, lie ha*
taught in the University's Den
ver "Center' sfnee' 1960.
Phillips has the following aca
demic degrees: B.A. from Samuel
Huston College, Austin, Texas;
MB.A. from Boston University,
Boston, Mass.; LL.B. from North
Carolina College Law School, Dur
ham; M.A. in Economics from the
University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, and now the Ph.D.
in Economies from the University
.L-f. Colorado, Boulder. Colorado.
Noted Singer Succumbs
In Bat lie With Cancer
HOLLYWOOD—Nat (King) Cole
the velvet-voiced singer who was
born the son of an impoverished
Alabama mihister and reached the
pinnacle of fame and fortune as
an entertainer, died Monday, after
a bout with cancer.
The genial, 45-year-old singer
had entered St. John's Hospital in
Santa Monica last Dec. 8 where
his left lung was removed three
weeks before he died. Doctors had
administered X-ray and cobalt
treatments in efforts to shrink
the tumor prior to Cole's opera
tion.
Maria, his wife, a onetime band
vocalist, and the former Maria
Ellington, had kept a constant
vigil at his bedside and was with
him when he died at 5:30 a.m.
PST. Leaving her husband only to
spend time with their five chil-
dren, she said, of her hospital
visits, "This is the time every
woman must be strong," and add
ing the children were depending
on her "for strength."
Born Nathaniel Adams Coles,
the sinjer in later years dropped
tlit irca lit last aaaie sad
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PHILLIP
He has earned Certificates of Pro
ficiency in specialized areas in the
field of Econ.omics from Case
Institute of Technology. Cleveland,
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NAT "KING" COLE
served as pianist with the "Nat
Cole Trio." HP was given the
nickname "Kins" by enthusiastic
fans who said he was, indeed, the
'King," —without equal amon2
popular vocalists, •
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The ecu
menical nature of Washington's
Methodist Building was expanded
this month as three bishops Serv
ing as many Negro Methodist
denominations occupied a suite of
offices.
They are Bishop George W. 15a
ber, African Methodist Episcopal
Church; Bishop Henry C. Bunton.
Christian Methodist Episcopal, and
Bishop Raymond L. Jones. African
Methodist Episcopal Zion.
The trio said the opening of
joint offjees demonstrates not only
their interest in greater coopera
tion among their own groups but
also their "Wilingness to enter
into a large church union."
For all but the CMS, this is the
first time these denominations
have had Bishops headquartered
in Washington. The three groups
comprise- approximately 2.500.000
members in the United States.
'She process of working together
has grown especially during the
past year, when the bishops began
conferring. At their . respective
general conferences during 1964,
each named a commission on
church union to begin develop
ing a plan of union among them.
They also are represented by ob-
See BISHOPS 4A
Known for perfect diction and
adept phrasing, Cole began his
trek to stardom while leading his
trio in 1937 when a tipsy night
club patron insisted Cole sing
"Sweet Lorraine," his favorite
song. Though insisting that he
didn't sing, the pianist obliged,
and subsequently concentrated on
singing. Some 50 million copies
of his records have been sold,
ranging from his first hit,
"Straighten Up and Fly Right," a
nonsense ditty, to such tunes as
"Nature Boy," "Mona Lisa," "Too
Young," "For Sentimental Rea
sons," "Paper Moon," and "Ramb.
ling Rose." )
He -was often sought by song
writers who knew if Cole record
ed their number, they could al
most be assured it would become
a hit. His smooth delivery, cou
pled with a high degree of sin
cerity, could make the most banal
lyrics sound like words of wis
dom. Urbane, and sophisticated,
he was as poised in real life as
he was on television, radio, the
'spiste, screen or making a record-
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