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Rev. LaGarde Comments On Arrest: ‘I WAS FRAMED:’ MINISTER ♦ + + ♦ * + ♦ + ♦ ♦ + ♦ ♦ + Urge ‘Mourning Day’ For 4 Girls Birmingham Map Cries; Gov. Blamed m oi«A Twfln sight to tef*toV Negr? Zu'Z'JZ ttt ktoMg M s ehareh at The roqaaeto ware tit by aer» oral U. S. Senators, the ten others asked Me Chief tan tire to honor their reqoeet Ho reaetieo from the White Hooee wee terteeewiag at CAIOUN RAM greet tfaoe Wed. afternoon. BIRMINGHAM. Ala. Mayor Albert Boutwell broke down Mon day and "cried like a baby" whan he talked of live bomb blast that ripped a Negro church hare Sun day morning. In Washington President John F. Kennedy expressed a "deep sense of outrage and grief’ over the inci dent He has pledged full U. S. aid. The Rev. Dr. Martin Lather Xing; Jr, predicted "the went racial heleeaast this nation haa over seen" aaloae the federal alee aecased Governor George C. Wallace of being indirectly reopeneible for the bombings by hie "defiance as law and order in die heme " While these Isadora ware talking, four eats of parents were quietly making arrangements to have fun eral services for their daughters, who were kilted while attending Sunday School at the 16th Street Baptist Church in the racially tense city. Twenty-three worshippers were inJurfd in the exptoeten. enlng that e few infßHduals\ould commit such a horrible atrocity.” The entire incident te believed to bate Stemmed Rom the integration last Wad. es to Negro students into tsanarly all-white high and i*y fa Birmingham, Mobile and Tuskegee, Alabama. This marked the first "mixing" in schools below the college level in the history of Alabama, which in tegrated tore colleges earlier in the During the same day. a 11-year old Negro bey was shot to death by two white youngsters while rid •kg Ms bicycle; and a 16-year-old youth was killed by police officers who wars reportedly trying to dis perse a crowd of Negroes which gathered after the blast and "were ON PAGE 2) Protestants, Catholics, Jews Honor Bishop Walls NEW YORK, N. Y. History was mode ben Friday night In Christendom, at the Roosevelt Hotel when Protestants. Catholics and Jews, more than 1300 strong, gathered in the ballroom, and paid a fitting tribute to Bishop W. J, Walls for mom than 67 yean of aervice to the A. M. E. Zion Church. The affair dlmaxxed a week long celebration of 167 years of existence by the denomination, fighting for freedom through Christian aervice and the 100 years of the signing of the eman cipation Proclamation. The pregram was sparked by a telegram from President John F. Kennedy, which told es the service rendered by the church and the contribution that Bishop Walla has made to' Charlotte To Host State NAACPMeet Oct. 10-13 BT J. B. HARREN CHARLOTTE Top officials of /'the North Carolina Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People met here Saturday at the call of state NAACP president Kelly M. Alexander. Sr. to plan ttie program tor the. coming 30th anniversary convention, scheduled to convene here Oct I*4* The executive officers review ed the acthrttles at the peat summer. partieelarty as NAACP efforts were eemiated with theee e# ether rfsatatieni en the civil lights front ft was observed that - in some communities • there have been du plication of efforts with the result THE CAROLINIAN ■ - ■mm—CM——wcwemiseto——a—m—■ VOL. M, NO. 47 RALEIGH, N. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMEBER 21. 1963 PRICE 15c MAN HELD FOR INCEST ‘RALEIGH MARCH’ UNCERTAIN m *9 r| •s MW ■ , O SCENE OF BOMBING A Birmingham. Alabama police officer points eat damage to an automo bile outside the bombed Sixteenth Street Baptist Church there Sunday morning. Blown out windows of the church indicate the force of the blast which tot* the Uves of four young girls attending Sunday School. S 3 per. ,vcre tajurefl -wifash i .1 s ..~~.L »*♦.•! —* • ’• • the development of American ideate. Mhyor Robert Wagner led an array of outstanding speakers and told the diners that the founding of the A.M.E. Zion Church waa not only a credit to the dedicated men who set it apart, in their quest for religious and civil free dom, but praised those who have carried on up to now. He was loud In his praise for the leadership that Bishop Walls baa given the church, the rwoe, the nation and the world. Mrs. Betty Murphy Phillips, speaking for the Afro-American Newspapers, pointed out that Bishop Walls had not only been a leader In the church world, but that his leadership In civic and (continued on pact » | that NAACP has not gotten the most possible gain from the finance and effort spent. As a result NAA CP has had to ‘pick up the tab' for others when legal action and bond ing of demonstrators were requir ed - this even tho NAACP did not initiate the demonstrations and was not aware of what was going on in many cases. President Alexander urged Tarheelisns to Increase their - gtvtng to the NAACP freedom fund, “mil the while remember ing that it was the NAACP which has been faithfully plug ring away knocking down tho wails at segregation to the ex (CONTINUED ON PAGE Z) North Carolina *s Leading Weekly Telegram Sent To Ala. Church Editor's Nate: The following telegram waa tent to the Bar. Cram and congregation of the 16th Street Baptiat Church, which waa the target of a bombing Sunday morning. This m imago waa mui by the Ra lelgh Ministerial Alliance: The Rev. J. H. Cross and Congregation fCONTIWMHPbw PAOI l) CAROLINIAN ADVERTISERS — BUN FROM THEM PAGE I Dunn'i Esse Service Barton’s Cam Stem Goodman's laStsa Shop PAGE S Town A Country ParnHar* Mother * Daughter Fashions PAGE S Hudson-Balh—Eftrd’s John W. Winters * Ce. Mechanics A Barman Bank Sliver Bene Shea Senter - Sanders Tractor Carp. Taylor Radio A Electrical Co Jehnaon-Lamhe Ce. BiMki Appliiscc Co. PAGE S tames Sanders no Co. ■aleish Fane ml Mesne Pine Stats Creamery ' Baletgh Paint A Wallpaper Ce. Branch Ban Mas A Trust Ce. McLanrtn Parfctoy Company PAGE 7 Ealelgh Seafood Ce Rawls Meter Ce. PAGE S Colonial Stores R. E- Quinn Pnmlture Ce Bant General Tire Ce Tuuie Appliance Ce. PAGE b AAP Stans Tire Seles A Service Greene’s Shoe Repair Acme Beatty Ce. Gem Watch Shop Standard Concrete Prodacts Ce. Victim, 13, Says Father ‘Traded’ Her For Booze WEAT H E R ~ —^ Xemparaturea win ba average, aonaal or slightly below Thursday through Monday with only amall day-to-day ckurn and little or so rainfall indicated during the five-day parted, beginning Thurs day. September IS. Emms gene’s Dress nop Washington Terrier Apartments, lac. BoSdara, toe Warner Memorials Milan Meter Finance EMgeway*s Opticians, toe. PAGE U Browning Berber Shop Thomas Rod A White Grocery Wholesale Motors Castleberry-Bedge Hardware Capital Vscunm Store Thiem's Record Shop tlnton Finance W. T. Grant P. W. Woolworth's Raleigh Paint A Wallpaper Ce. Buffalo Co. A Bonders Elactrenles Service Center Consolidated Credit Carp. Breaks Appliance Ce. Weed’s S. Is A toe Store toy’s American Grin O’Neal Motors. Inc. PAGE U Carolina Power A Ught Co Lincoln Theatre N. C. gtate Pair Dehme Grill La utter's Enterprises PAGE M Sanders Motor Ce. Mater Finance Ce. iemeowners Mortgage Ce.. Inc. Firestone Stores f Everyone Is ‘Surprised’ But Frinks Due to the treatment received by Negroes in Wtlltsmston, Eden ton, Elizabeth City, Wilmington and other parts of eastern North Caro lina if It is definitely decided to “March on Rilgtgli for voter regi stration and to urge Governor San ford to use his power to eliminate all racial segregation, Negro etß> sens will turn out by thfc thousssMi to support this cause," according to a reliable source in Will isms ton, during'an Interview with’ a repre sent stive of The CAROLINIAN Wednesday morning. * , North Carolina clvjl rights lead era, along with the Birmingham. Alabama headquarters of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, have no information on a proposed “March on Raleigh.” scheduled for Friday, October 4. it was revealed Wednesday morning. Announcement of a coming dem onstration here A made Mon. night jj^^Hßkij by Golden Frinks of Edenton, field W/-..&4W* secretary of the Southern Christ- ml lan Leadership ; ''o Conference o f which Dr. King Is CL Kelly M. Alex- FRINKS ander, president of the State chap ter of the National Asaociatlon for the Advancement of Colored Peo (CONTDTOED ON PAOI I) DUNN An Indian father has been charged with Incest Involving his 13-year-old daughter and a 43- year-old Fayetteville Negro was charged with assaulting the child, allegedly with the father’s consent. Walter Scott, 47, the father, and Jim Geddie were bound over to the Harnett Superior Court for trial and are being held without bond for the next term of court Mae Betty Sne Scott, the victim, testified at a hearing bars Saturday that her father farced her to submit to rape by the Negre man for a quart es whiskey. She further stated that Scott had been forcing himoetf upon her since she waa nine. Both defendants were arrested when police officers raided the Scott home in Falcon, near here, after receiving complaints from neighbors about a “steady stream* of Negro mid white men going to the house. Mrs. Llssie Scott, mother of Betty Sue, said she was aware that her husband had been inti mate with their daughter, but had not reported it because “I was afraid.” jgf> Although neither man tolw the stand at the hearing, both denied guilt Die alleged assault occurred on (CONTINUED ON PAGE *1 First Voluntary Integration In Deep South Okayed ATLANTA, Ga The U. S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals last Fri day cleared the way for the first voluntary school integration by a daap-south School Board, thanks to NAACP Legal Defense Fund in tersesrion. The Court told Mrs. Constance Baker Motley. Donald Hollowell and Horace Ward, Defense Fund at to Says Third Person Was In The Room BT ALEXANDER BARNES The Rev. Fred LaGarde, in a statement to The CAROLINIAN Wednesday morning mid "I was framed,” in reply to whether bo was guilty of using s room tor im moral purposes, in Norfolk. Vs. Ju * VVZ— - risiMsnni Baptist Chareb, E4- mtsa. and a raeagalsad leader hi the Integration movemeat said that ba bad the support of hie eengregatien, which he has bean beading tor 6 yearn. The Baptist BBiHi minister Mid that B '''>4' it was another at- ipf 9B tempt to impede the integration wHHKi movement and II was the work of sinister persons who would (top RpflHl short of nothing LAGARDE to stop the movement Rev. LaGarde admitted being in (coNTDtuab* oiT pagi n Sanford Appoints Mrs. Herbin To Help Further Job Opportunities Governor Tetnr Isntasd am nouncad teat Fttdoythht Mhft*Sa r rah H eahtn of Greenlboco has haan appointed to holy further a pro* gram of equal Job opportunities in *mjESBB+ UNCFIn Greatest Drive WASHINGTON A SBO minion campaign for the immediate (level* opc&nt of the S 3 Southern collages In the United Negro College fund was launched Thursday, Sept II al the White House, "to hate create more trained, educated and quail* tied Negro applicants for Jobe.” Headed by Charles G. Marti* nwr, chairman of General reads f'-r tffln, fPIlJfj T* '* \ P. Y„ national chairman of the development campaign. It members of a 35-member uetl campaign committee, oad presi dents of some of the member eollegea, United Negro Callaga rand officials and special guests mm# to hear President Kennedy deliver the campaign kick-off speech. At the same time, a ltd million grant to UNCF colleges by tbs Port! foundation was announced in New York by Dr. Henry Heald, foundation president. Dr. Hoald said that the grant to help streng then Negro colleges approved by die foundation trustees will bo di vided (1) $5 million directly to UNCF, subject to matching from other sources on a two-to-one ba sts, and (2) $lO million to a small number of UNCF member colleges, to ha selected over the next year by the Ford Foundation. The grants to Individual colleges may alao en tail some matching provisions. Dr. Heald aald. In a brief talk at the Whits House, Mr. Mortimer called today'a meeting "no leas meaningful a demonstration,” he said, "in sup port of one of the essential step# that has to be taken in order to bring America’s 10 million Nsgro citizens into the mainstream of our national life. It is also a demonstra tion that we who represent Ame rica's business and philanthropic force shall have a sensitive aware ness of the breadth depth and in tensity df the nation’s civil rights problem." FUND MEMBER* Included among the member colleges of the United Negro Col lege Fund are Shaw University and St. Augustine’s College, both locat ed in Raleigh. N. C. torneys, that it has set aside a tem porary restraining order blocking integration of the formerly all white high school In Glynn Co., Ga. This order was secured by local segregationists on August 37th the day before opening of Glynn Aca demy on an integrated basis. The Glean County School Board had made history by vel ■ K| -rjN Bp ' it PH iL Ij* jdKi ■V HBlMr i,' I kM | '. MRS. SARAH HERRIN ... to work with Good Neighbor Cornell Mrs. Hartoifl 4$!H work with the North Carolina Good Neighbor Council in cooperation with the De partment of Administration and tea State Personnel Dmarttoent Her official position wifibe employ ment services representative. According te Governor Sanford, MM. Harbin will ba primarily re sponsible tor recruitment as people whe are qualified far employment in the government hi a latter asm to heads es eO State departments, instltu ttans, and agencies, the gover ner stated teat Mrs. Herbln i appointment re prawn te “an sf fort to assert all eltlseaa of North Carolina, white or Negro, that equal Job opportunities ex ist In Stole employment. Os course, wo must Insist upon qualified applicants and emplo yees In the public interest of the State. “Your cooperation and support,” the Governor continued, “will b» appreciated as we work together to assure opportunity of employment in State government baaed upon T*T , ww n i*KA 9s iWrt Aft MU" AAt?«RlflSl National Sorority DENVER, Colorado Mrs. An- , nla Whitehead Neville, a ret idem of Rocky Mount was sleeted grand baalleus of Sigma Gamma Rtao So rority Incorporated, at Ha 41st Boule hold In Denver, Colorado re cently- Hundreds of delegates, re presenting chapters throughout the United States, were in attendance. All session wore held at the Brown Palace Hotel. The theme of the Boule waa “Pre paring Youth for Leadership and Participation.” The theme was highlighted by an address by Mr. Lorenio Taylor, Am latent Director, Youth Opportunities Board of Greater Lot Angeles Co., Califor nia. Mr. Taylor spoke on the sub ject "Prepsring Youth for Leader ship and Participation. Process and Responsibilities." Mrs. Kate J. Hicks, Executive Director of the Vocational Guidance and Workshop Cantor, New York City, conducted an open forum on Implementing Vocational Guidance Techniques (CONTINUED ON.PAGB S) Mitchell Ordered To Pay Taxes; Taylor Is Denied The Revenue Department of the State of North Carolina began steps last weekend to collect $1,637.92 from Raleigh Attorney Samuel S. Mitchell forjndividual Income tax untarily ordering school inte gration. Negro parents eaOed In. the NAACP Legal Defense Fand when segregattoniato en joined the School Board. U. S. Ddfatrict Court Judge Prank M. Scarlett granted the ardor sought by the segregationists stat ing that Glynn Academy would “suffer irreparable injury by ras individual training amd eaparlance and net upon racial considerations.” Mrs. Herbin hag had long expo rloaeo la tfete. urn. having son* (COKTP.. (fr' gw PA— I) Proof Os Brutality Shown ATLANTA, Oa. The Student Nonvlolenct Coordinating Cenunit tee brought 14 Americus. Da. resi dents to Atlanta last week to tell newsmen of incredible JaQ condi tions and police brutality In Ama i leus, Ga. (continued m paw d - : "llP’' MRS. ANNIE W. NEVILLE es, penalties and interest for th< years 1934 to 1957. At abont the same time, (arm or Raleigh Attorney HemU U (CONTINUED - ON PAGE 3? son of disorganization and demor alization. . Judge Scarlett also cited “reciaii tensions in Brunswick (site es the court) end elsewhere at this giei ttcular time.’ He ceiled for a hear ing on Sopt 9. However, the Appeals Court dis (CONTBtUED OK PASS 3}
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