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SMASHES EGG ON WHITE DEMONSTRATOR —Robert Fehsenleldt owner oi the Dix-
Byland Restaurant in Cambridge, Md., smashes an egg in a white demonstrator's face last week
during an eleven-person, fifteen-minute sit-in in front of the restaurant, shortly after Maryland
National Guardsmen left the town. He also kicked several demonstrators and threw a glass of
water in one’s face. (UPI PHOTO ) *
Rat Poison Kills Husband;
N. C. Wife Held For Murder
Ask Whites
To Maintain
Segregation
N. C. WHITES URGED
DURHAM At • man rally in
•n open field here Saturday night,
acme 250 white persona were urged
to band themselves together to
stem what one speaker described
at “the tide of invasion of human
" rights by Negroes.”
The scene of the rally was a field
*• adjacent to an airstrip located *-
bout ten miles from the heart of
downtown Durham.
Listeners were called on by
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Solon s May Flee D. C.
To Avoid ‘Marchers’
WASHINGTON (ANP) As ci
vil rights officials and Washington
police met here last week to plan
the logistics for the massive march
of 100,000 persons on Washington
next month, a rumor swept through
the capital that Congress may run
out on the monster demonstration.
Meeting for nearly an hour and
a half in the offices of Washington
Police Chief Robert V. Murray, par
ticipants discussed the practical ar
rangements necessary for handling
a crowd nov estimated to total
100,000 persons.
Such items as comfort sta
tions, medical care and first aid,
and out-lining the porposed line
of march for the demonstrators
were discussed. Arrangements
also for feeding and providing
transportation were rnnsidered.
According to the Rev. Walter
Fauntroy. pastor of New Bethel
Baptist Church and Southeast Re
gional director for the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference
the demonstrators are expected to
converge on Washington by 10 a.
Youth Project Designed To
Aid Young School Dropouts
WASHINGTON Secretary of
Labor W. Willard Wirtz and Gover
nor of North Carolina Terry San
ford met on Thursday. July 11,
and signed formal approval of a
new Manpower Development and
Training Act demonstration project
designed to uplift the work career
propsects of several hundred young
school dropouts in North Carolina,
b an Initial phase es the pro
ject which will be carried an
in three State areas selected on
the basis sf specific ysath em
ployment problems, dose to. 1,-v
be sangkt oat surveyed, and
provided with guidance and
counseling services. Subse
quently. aroand EM as these
wfli be offered training epper
taniUeu In skills In demand in
the particular area,
rmpimsis in this Labor Depart
ment special project centers about
FAYETTEVILLE Mrs. Mary
Rouse, 33, of Fayetteville, has been
formally charged with murder in
the rat poison her hus
band, Haywood Rouse.
The former local bricklayer, who
had been paralysed since early
May from the arsenlr solution, died
Monday morning at-; 'hieh time Me
Hertfe w H murder.
Mrs. Routs had been held in thg
Cumberland County jail ainee July;
S. after the admitted giving Rouse
two doses bf the poison.
The woman confessed that she
gave rat peison to her mate in a
glass of nailk about April 25, and
another dike in a cup of coffee a
bout m week later.
Motive given for the acta by Mrs.
Rouse was that her husband had
been “runping around with other
women and buying them things.
This was (lie only way I could stop
him,” she Mid.
A hearing for Mra. Rouse is ex
pected this week in Fayetteville's
City Court.
m., Wednesday, August 28.
At that time, said Rev. Fauntroy,
delegations from various states are
expected to call on their Repre
sentatives and Senators. If the de
legations are too large to visit the
congressman or aenator’s office, at
tempts will be made to have the
legislators come to the delegations.
Speaker John McCormick (D,
Mass.) was asked if the reports a
bout a possible Congressional run
out were true. He appeared fluster
ed and finally replied that he had
not heard them.
The rumor* were that the House
would pass the remaining appropri
ations bills and the President's 13.8
billion dollar tax reduction bill,
then take a holiday.
Chairman Wilbur D. Mills. (D„
Ark.) of the tax-writing House
ways and means comratltee disclos
ed that the tax bill, in a legislative
limbo for three weeks, is back on
the calendar.
On the other hand, almost no le-
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the increasingly difficult problems
arising from declining farm em
ployment and consequent in-migra
tion to dfties on the part of young
members of farm families.
Each of the three areas will be
selected on the basis of particular
economic characteristics. One will
be almost entirely agricultural;
another, a commercial-agricultural
admixture; a third, principally
commercial-industrial with somt
surrounding agricultural activity.
BULLETIN!
MOST THEATRES TO
ADMIT ALL
At CAEOLDOAN pram time.
Charles JL LymsJ^mtfalr-
High Point ■
Hospital
Integrated s '
HIGH POINT The Congress
of Racial Equality (CORE) scored
a major victory last Thursday in
High Point, when Mayor Floyd
Mehan announced the “total inte
gration” of the local General Hos
pital after a series of CORE dem
onstrations. CORE leader, lira, Del
la Mitchell reported the Mayor's
commitment and quoted his pledge
that the hospital would bo “totally
integrated immediately.”’
Mra. Mitchell reminded re
porters of the tragic eeadltlem
that led to COM’s action. “For
literally hundreds es years.
High Point has had vtrtaally
Be hospital facilities far Ita Ne
gro citlsens,” she said, “It k al
most impossible to count the
number of tmnecetaary deaths
and serious Illnesses and
malmtngs that have resulted
from this policy of not accept
ing Negro patients in the fall
heapitoL
“In some small way, I hope this
victory will help to atone for the
death of bluet singer Bessie Smith
who was refused help in a South
ern white hoepital after a near fa
tal car accident and died of her
wounds. 1 applaud the Mayor's de
cision. But I must point out” she
continued, “that High Point is still
a basically segregated city and that
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Th* five gay weather forecast.
Temperatures will average near or
somewhat above normal through
Monday. Rainfall ona-quartor to
out-half Inch and almost dally
scattered thunder showers.
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Violence Besets
Integration Front
Arrests And
Battles On
Pictet Lines
DANVILLE, Va- - After two
wNtto observertokojh Held worth rs
for the Student Nonviolent Obor
dlnatlng Committee, were arrested
Saturday afternoon, some 48 Ne
groes picketed in protest and they
too, were tarried away to jail.
Meanwhile, leaders of the Dsn
vflls Christian Progrssaive Associ
ation and SNCC announced a
“massive picket link” on Wall St.
In front of the headquarters of the
Dan River Mill*, which suly hires
about nine percent of Negroes out
of a 10.000-man working force
GADSEN DEMONSTRATIONS
TO RESUME
GADSEN, Ala. Anti-segrega
tion demonstrations are e*peeled
to resume in this Northern Ala
bama city thia weak. Negro protest
demonstrations were halted here
two weeks ago when promises of
negotiation seemed to develop.
LIQUOR STORE PICKETING
REVEALED
ATLANTA. Ga. Picketing
of a liquor store, I ousted in the
heart at a Negro community
continue* hare after the store’s
owner refused to hire mere co
lored employees.
Leaders of a human‘rights group
have requested that four Negroes
be added to the store's present
work force.
GOVERNOR TO ACT AGAINST
PICKETS
SAVANNAH, Oa. Governor
Carl Sanders of Georgia promised
last weekend to take “whatever
steps neceaaary" to end anti-segrega
tion demonstrations in this state.
His statement earn* on the heels
cf a 2-hour disturbance involving
seme 2,000 Negroes and local police
officers, who allegedly used tear
gas and dubs to subdue the pickets.
VOTE WORKER JAILED
FOR VAGRANCY
TUSCALOOSA. Ala. A
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RACIAL DISORDER REACHES NcW PEAK—mmirnnt
Negroes above ignored the mobilization of the National Guard
unit and demonstrated tor the fourth straight night as racial die
cord reached a new peak in the Eastern Shore community of Cam
bridge. The above demonstrators march from their section of the
dty to the courthouse square, escorted by helmeted police with
doge. Two white men were shot in the neighborood of the court
house as they stepped out of their houses. No arrests had been
made in the shootings at press time. (UPI PHOTO)
Durham s J. H. Wheeler
On Federal Housing Unit
DURHAM John H. Wheeler,
president of the Mechanics and
Fanners Bank of Durham, Raleigh
and Charlotte was the only Negro
among six North Carolinians nam
ed to the Federal Housing Agency's
Defense Executive Reserve The re
cent appointments made the body
bi-racial for the first time.
Wheeler and eleven other persons
have been appointed during the
past year, it was revealed Monday.
Members of the Executive Re
serve of the housing agency are on
alert to serve In key executive po
sitions at local, regional or nation
al headquarters during a period of
national emergency.
Nationwide Bovcott Os Chain Stores Looms
WASHINGTON James L
Farmer, national director of the
Congraas of Racial Equality, dis
closed plans Sunday for s nation
wide boycott of chain stores which
discriminate racially among cust
omers or In employment.
The integrationut leader said he
expects the boycott to be launched
shortly after the mass march on
Other North Carollnalns appoint
ed were: Charles C. Cameron, pre
sident of Cameron-Brown Compa
ny; J. G. Poole, executive vice pre
sident of Gregory Poole Equipment
Company; and James Willie York,
president of Cameron Village, Inc
all of Raleigh; George W. Hill,
board chairman of Central Carolina
Bank and Trust Company. Durham;
and Roger P Klavanagh. Sr., pre
sident of Klavanagh-Smltt Compa
ny. Greensboro.
Although Housing Admini
strator Dr:' Robert Clifton
Weaver, Sr., b a Negro, the
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Washington, scheduled for August
28.
Mere then IMAM perse— are
slated to take pert In the gi
gantic demonstration in the
capital to pretest the high rste
of Negro anempieymeat aad to
preao for the peaaage es eMi
rights legislation.
According to Farmer, some In
Claim! .3
Set To Halt
Graduation
College Board of Trustees met last
Wednesday, hut could nbt agree on
a decision aa to whether to ask the
federal court for permission to ex
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Raleigh Man, 47, Denies
Charge Os Girl, Father
John Tyson of 220 Bledsoe Ave.,
was jsiled early Saturday morning
on charges of burglary and rape.
The rape charge was lodged after
an eight-year-old girl described
how he dragged her out of bed and
ravished her in her beck yard. A
hearing scheduled for Monday of
this week had to be postponed in-
Duke Med
School To
Admit Negro
DURHAM A 20-year-old Ne
gro, W. D. Meriwether, of Charles
ton. S. C., will become the first of
his race ever to enter the Duke
University Medical School, under
a National Modlcal-Sloan Founda
tion Scholarship. It wu announced
here Sunday.
The National Medical Fellow
ship. Inc., with headquarters m
Chicago, 111., said to a prepared
released that young Meriwether
ie singled eut as one es three
Negro students whe will enter
the medical schools of John
Hopkins University. Emory
University and Duka.
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EX-CON FACES
MORALS CHARGE
JACKSONVILLE I-ee White,
a Rich lands Negro, is being held
oy Onslow County authorities und
er s $2,500 bond, charged with en
gaging in unnatural sex sets with
a 10-year-old colored girl.
According to sheriffs depu
ties, White wee recently re
leased from Central Prison.
Raleigh, after serving a 18-
year term for incest. He wse
nabbed fallowing a complaint
lodged Thursday night by the
girl’s father.
dustrie* have been negotiating with
CORE with regard to discrimina
tion, of the units in Southerp states
in the use of facilities, and also
with regard to employment of Ne
groes who ere qualified all over
the country.
“Negotiations have been conclud
ed'successfully with several of the
Industries.’' Former sold, “but e
‘Will Appeal
All The Way,’
Mitchell Says
BY CHARLES R. JONES
A tension-packed City Court
room was the setting Saturday
morning tor one of the moat elo
quent verbal legal battles in re
cent Raleigh history. Center of
attraction were sixteen students,
Including two young women, ar
rested during sit-in attempts at
two of Raleigh's white hotels for
attempting to receive service. The
arrests took place on June 10. 11
and 12 in the coffee shops and
lobbies of the hotels.
Eleven of the demonstrators
were c evicted of trespassing at
the Ho el Str Walter on Fayette
ville street. They appealed their
convictions to Wake Superior
Court. Five were found not guilty
for lack of positive identification
by the prosecuting witneiles.
Arthur Buddenhagen. general
manager of the hotel, and several
police officers. The other hotel in
volved was Andrew Johnson on
McDowell Street.
The attorneys tn the eases
were Bamuel 8. Mitchell, not
ed civil rights lawyer, repre
sent! nf the defendants; and
Thomas Ellis, Special Prose
cutor, who is a former assis
tant City Court Judge. The
presiding Judge was 8. Fret
lows Wlnboms, former City
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definitely while the eourt found an
attorney who would defend Tyson.
The 47-year-old defendant was <•
Mentitled by the victim and bar fa
ther. Leroy Raney, of 115 1-2 N.
Carver Street.
Officer* Alfred L. Grigsby
and Norman Artis were told by
th* young girl that she waa a
wakened by someone putting a
hand ever her mouth and said
that aha waa dragged from her
bed to the kitchen to the back
yard where the attack alleged
ly took plaeo.
The girl’s father told officers that
he was awakened by screams com
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MAN NABBED FOR
TRESPASSING
RALEIGH John Melvin. 47 es
E-31 Washington Terrace, was ar
rested on trespassing charges
Tuesday night after he was caught
peeping into a house on the campfis
of St. Augustine's College, accord
ing to arresting police officers. The
Incident was reported by Herman
Mangum. security officer at th#
college. Melvin is expected to be
tried in City Court this week.
VANCE STATES' RIGHTS GROUP
TO MEET
HENDERSON A rally for th*
North Carolina Defenders of States'
Rights was announced for Tues
day. July 23 at 8 p. m. in th# Vance
County Courthouse.
The Rev. J. L Matthews, presi
dent of the local group, made the
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boycott is planned against otters.
mainly chain, department and Va
riety stores.”
Interviewed by New York’s Sen.
Kenneth B. Keating, a Republican.
Farmer said be tees very little
danger of violence during the
Washington demonstration.
The interview was tor New York
radio-television audiences.