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Controversial Officer Bobby Coats In News Again: ——■■■ ■ - y Beautician Says Local Cop Mistreated Her llr" Sflfl I hKNEHM, v ' 1 MSm jmsnSM^^BSSßSSSßSßw^eSsm\ al WKt &s£&iSBB3&Sk. * Ms . - . . JKM | BL b JP? V |' MMk fl f*jF & ; m - ■r i \ ' f pw* ''' 1m Wk P;' ' np fflj K B IV' .-1 PREPARED TO GO TO JAIL Their belongings in sacks thrown over their shoulders, these uniden tified civil rights pickets are ted to a police bus to bo taken to county jail, tas Cheater, Pa., aa they were among more than 156 demonstrators arrested following picketing of the Chester municipal building last Wednesday. The Negro and white pickets were arrested as they protested against the crowded conditions at the all-Negro Franklin Elementary School. Later in the week, however, the school board relented and promised that a new school weald be erected soon. (UPI PHOTO). Citizens Association Sends Note To Reid Backing Bonds In a letter dated Friday, Novem ber 15, to Mayra* James W. (Jim) Reid, the Raleigh Citlsens Asso ciation, headed by the Rev. Dr. Grady IX Davis, went on record U Thursday as being in favor of the * r- t_-. lch S.C. Sheri Gives Chase, Then Shoots DILLON, ft. C.—Harry Eugene Sloan, a 54-year-old resident of Charlotte. N. C., was finally ar rested here Saturday after a wild 10-mils chase from Dillon across the North Carolina border to Row land and a damaged sheriff’s car. Sheriff J. D. (Fete) Rogers said, “I tried to stop him. Each time I tried to pass him he would turn into me.” Sheriff Rogers had Joined the Dillon police in pursuit of a trac tor-trailer cab after a business man said the truck driver had beaten him. The chase was then on. It pro ceeded through a surprised Row land and about three miles pass the ctty limits. The sheriff said he finally fired his service re volver at the vehicle and it stop ped suddenly. “I almost ran up bis tall pipe,” said Sheriff Rogers. Arersted was Solan. He was Jailed in Dillon on charges of as sault and battery with intent to kill. He was further charged with resisting arrest and driving under the -influence of narcotics. fepBVDDHBMRpMmHHBpB W EATHER — r Temperatures will average 2 to • degrees above normal Thursday through Monday with little day to day changes until turning cooler about Sunday night. Precipitation will total about one quarter Inch or leu In scattered ihowen Sun day night or Monday. Rev. W. B. Lewis New Pastor Os Fayetteville Street Church wtr JmrmßnEm; UMV. WILLIAM B. LEWIS • . . miitfc tote «*». taw will be decided by the city’s voters at an election next Tuesday, No vetnoer zo. Tno letter follows: " Tr with its policy of work in, v *e betterment of our the Raleigh Citlsens Association has gone on record as heartily endorsing the November 26«kbahd program. °to studying and diseasing the meantag and significance sf mfttee, *7nd John winters, a member of the City Council, explained the program and an swered the questions raised by the group. “After a thorough discussion, the program was endorsed. But believ ing that endorsement must go be yond the verbal stage, the Asso ciation set up wgys and means by which it could, help encourage people to support the bond pro gwmx Wives Os Clerics To Aid Cause WXLUAItSTON, N. C— 'ibis racial "hot seat" is an ticipating more demonstrations this week announcement that the wives of seevral of the 15 white ministers may be on their way here to join their hus bands in this civil rights crusade. Some IS white women from the New England States are sched uled to arrive in this town of 6,- 000 residents before the week is over. ‘ Negro leaden, however, have agreed to comply with the law and request a permit for any marches which might be forth coming. Approximately 104 persons were arrested here be tween last Thursday and Sun day. Capua Waynick, Governor Terry Sanfords' mediator in Tar Heel racial disputes, indicates that there is little hope for resumption of bi-racial committee negotia (CONTINUE® ON PAGE 2) ing that The Rev. William B. Lewis, a na tive of Battelboro, has accepted the pastorate of the Fayetteville Street Baptist Church here, succeeding the Rev. Johnny W. Jones, who served the church as minister for 31 years, until his death early in May of this year. Bey. Lewis completed Us ele mentary and high school work at the Central High 8c bool, Nashville. He holds the A. M and B. D. degrees frees Shaw University. Ordained as a min ister at Fayetteville Street Bap tist, Rev. Lewis was for setae time an assists at to the late pas ter. He has held former pastorates at the churches which are listed: Wake Chapel Baptist. Millbrook; Bethlehem Baptist, Millbrook; and New Bethel Baptist. Clayton. He is a former clerk of the Johnston County Association, and has served as president of the Nash County B T. U. Convention. (CONTmIED OK PAG* Z) “It voted to undergird its ver bal support with the following ac tion: \ 1. “By making public its en dorsement of the bond program. (CONTINUED ON PAGE t) Mss Malone Could Have Been Target TUSCALOOSA, Ala.—Thia col lege city was the scene of a pre dawn explosion which was beard throughout the area on Saturday night, ripping a hole In the pave ment of a street, 100 yards from the dormitory in which Miss Viv ian Malone of the University is living. No injuries were reported. Officers said they did not know what type of explosive caused the blast or whether It was connected with integration which came to the university in June for the first time since 1954 when Miss Auth ertne Lucy was admitted for a few days. Miss Lucy (who Is now Mrs. Autherine L. Foster of Tex as), was later expelled from the university far her own safety. A bole about four inches deep, one foot tong and six inches wide was torn in the "pavement in front of Mary Burke Dormitory east. Miss Malone, one of two Negroes admitted to the University, re sides in Mary Burke Dormi tory west. A narrow hallway (CONTINUED ON PAGE t) of the , Nov- Hk hjjggfe %'" ::: f^ r ' -SaH 111 j^ny,'. jk^iSs ,Jshht i w • I 'JKi* w yjl.** . ■■< •. *i *v .jufjfy 4 MH JBpL S ’J?£> ... yET OKI ' ’>' ' * SHAW UNIVERSITY OBSERVES FOUNDER’S DAY “Unfin ished Emancipation,” was the subject of Dr. Leon C. Riddick’s mes sage at Shaw University’s Ninety-eighth Founder's Day observance, Friday, November 15. Standing at left Is Dr. Biddteb. Center, kneeling is Miss Lacey Speight, of Durham, ’Miss Shaw University.” who pteees the traditional wreath an the grave of the late Henry Martin Tapper, who founded the school in 1885. Standing at right is Dr. Nelson H. Harris, interim president, Shaw University. May Sue Cop For Actions By Chaklbs R. Jones. Raleigh Police Officer Bobby B. Coats, who is already “on die carpet” for his alleged re* Cent statements to a represents tie of a national magazine say ing die white race is biologic ally and mentally superior to die Negro race, was accused Sunday by a middle-aged beau tician of falsely arresting and mistreating her and her hus band as they were calmly ob serving a day of relaxation in their own home. Mrs. Savannah Carter, who owns Carter's* Beauty Parlor at • N. Swain Street, told this newsman one of the moot bl sarre stories of police brutal ity that has ever been related in the eity of Batotgh. Mrs. Carter farther stated that she weald seek the advise of coun sel this week, recording the feasibility of instituting a suit for compensatory and punitive damages resulting from the arrest. Repeated attempts by thi swrlter to contact Officer Coats, both at Police Head quarters and at his home have been futile. THREATENED TO KICK DOOR DOWN “When I first saw Officer Coats,” said Mrs. Curley, “he was at my door looking for a niece of my husband. I told him that Lilly Mae (thp niece) did not live here and that she had never lived here”. He said that he had a war rant for her arrest. The officer left after' a while, according to Mi*. Carter, and re turned ig shout IS minutes an# read what be said was a searifc warrant. “He ales threatened • kick the door down If he was not admitted,” she continued. " <^°* ,wwtJ * p . Q» y G " |> Mrs. Bates, Others To Rocky MJ. BY J. B. BARREN ROCKY MOUNT The revitalis ed Rocky Mount Branch of the Na tional Association for the Advance ment of Colored People is host this week - Nov. 22-34 at the St. John AME Zion Church, Goldleaf and Atlantic Avenue just off U. S. 64 East - to a Statewide Registration and Vote clinic under the joint sponsorship of the N. C. NAACP Conference headed b y Kelly M. Alexander, Sr., and the N. C. Youth Councils and College Chap ters with Quentin Baker, president. Many other distinguished NAACP personalities ars expected to par ticipate. Such names as Clarence Mitchell, , Mrs. Daisy BatesJ J Mitchell, Jr., Mrs. Daisy Bates es Little Reek, Arkansas fame; Georgia State Senator Leroy Johnson; Mm Brooks, NAAC- P National Voter-Begtstration (CONTINUED ON PAGE Z) JAILED MINISTERS’ WIVES TO NC |The Carolinian! North Carolina’s Leading Weekly VOL. 2a, NO. 3. RALEIGH, N. C„ SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1963 PRICE lSc Woman, 43. Faces “Reefer” Charge FA TAL CRASH KILLS 5 Biltmore Hills Resident Is Bound Over For Trial - vjlßpSej l ' 1 }' pH I I K MRS. LENA LOFTON ... faces reefer charge Mrs. M. P. Lane, Teacher For 33 Years, Succumbs Friends and relatives heard the Rev. Charles W. Ward pay a fi nal tribute to Mrs. Moxello Pat terson hens at Raleigh's First Baptist Church Tuesday after noon. The minister told the mourners that certainly there was no question about a life herea/ter. and how one would determine how he would spend that life depend ed on how he assodtaed himself with people and things while here. He pictured Mrs. Lane as ost who had transmitted tbs Ideals of an abundant life to the children she taught, the persons with whom she aaso At Shaw U.t - Founder's Day Speech Is Dynamic "After 100 years both the white man and the Negro in America are victims of a slave psychosis that contributes to the neurotic beltavior of too many of us,” said Dr. Leon Clanton Riddick, minis ter, Fountain Baptist Church, Summit, New Jersey, as he deliv ered Shaw University’s Founder’s Day message Friday, November 15. "The more we try to eliminate racial segregation by the applica tion of external remedies, the more in grained our hyprocrisy be comes. Therefore, neither the white man or the Negro Is free in America," he stated. Dr. Riddick named seme of the reasons as follows: 1. The white man has made two sets of people merely on the basis of laws to govern two groups of skin color. Z. The white man thinks of the Negro Com munity as a source for cheap labor. 3. The white man has taught the Negro to think of Religion as a dying insur ance—something to get him in God’s kingdom when done with this world. When the Ne gro takes his religion ont of the pews Into main street to (CONTINUED ON PAGE t) Mr*.- Lena Lofton, 4S. of 218 Newcombe Road, BUtmore Hills, was bound over to the next term of the Wake Superior Court tor trial on a charge of Illegal paa seealon of marijuana ctgarette (aometimee called “reefer)’ fol lowing a hearing to City Cogrt Friday. Robert MrMlßan. Mr*. Uf tens’ attorney, contended that t she had been. arrested on an Invalid warrant Mute it «u issued to aftteen 'far Mte Mte purpose of searching the Lor* ton residence la aa effort to detect Illegal liquor. However, the trial judge, 8. Pretlowe Wlnbome, ruled that a warrant specifying the nature of a search Is valid on an arrest of aa entirely different nature when (CONTINUED ON PAGE i) elated and her life of service to mankind. Mrs. Lane died in Memorial Hospital, Chapel Hill, last Fildajr after an extended illness that be gan Just as rite was retiring from 38 years of teaching. She began her teaching career in Selma. She served as librarian at Fayetteville State for sometime and then ac cepted a position with the NY A here. (CONTINUED ON PAGE t) jp \y.y, ''y&ffi": MRS. MOZELLE P. LANE .. . taught fee 33 years NC Masons Plan Confab In Guilford BY R. IRVING BOONE GREENSBORO - With s record breaking attendance in prospect, the stage is fully set for the 03rd annual communication of the Prince j Hall Grand Lodge, Free and Ac- ] cepted Masons, jurisdiction of i North Carolina, convening in Greensboro, Dec. 0-11 with St Johns 12. and Invensibk.', 351, as host lodges. Some twelve to fifteen hundred men of the Craft, from all sections of the state, together with fraternal representatives from various other jurisdictions, will converge upon the ‘Gale City” for this historic (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) ROBERT fITKTEI PULLET ~ ♦ held hi shooting ‘Fuss’ Over Pecans Ends In Shooting Local police officers arrested two men on charges of engaging in an affray with deadly weapons Sunday after a fight erupted over some pecans which they had knocked from a tree. Robert “Fete” Pulley, 53. of 513 8. Swain Street, was char ged with shooting Thurmond Blue, of 585 E. Cabarrus Street, In a pbrtol -knife dnel between the two. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 21 Gels 0 Months . E D E NT O N—Golden A. Frinks, 41-year-old Integration leader was sentenced to serve six months In s North Caro lina prison Monday for viola tions of a court sentence he received here last year. A field representative for the South ern Christian Leadership Con - ference and leader of Wil liam ston’s anti-segregation de monstrations, Frinks gave no Immediate notice of appeal and It Is believed that he has already begun servivtng the term. CAROLINIAN ADVERTISERS PAGE 2 Horton * Ca»h Store Ivey's of Baleifh Mac Joseph’s PAGE 1 Boss# Jewelers Community Beauty Salon Central Drug Store London Oil Co. PAGE I Budson-Belk—Eflrd's J. W. Winters A to. .Brooks Appliance The Capitol Coca-Cola Bottling Co. PAGE S Baiclgh Funeral Boms Acme Beatty Ce. James Banders Tils Ce. Mdanrln Parking Company MedUn-Davis The Britt Company Amburn Pontiac, Inc. Branch Banking A Trust Co. Bayes Barton Laundry A Dry Cleaning at Five Potato Pepsl-Cola Bottling Co. Bateigb Paint A Wallpaper Co T. A. Loving A Company PAGE I Auto Discount Ce. AI Smith Dutch Ce. WaSe’s Auto Sales Raleigh Seafood Co. Bawls Motor Co. PAGE • Members Os One Family Dead, Hurt ENFIELD An auomobile, traveling at high speed on the wrong rid* pf the highway, wg* blamed Monday for A hesdon col- * lMrai which killed five persons and • injured six others Sunday night. Thu* of the dead and five of ths injured were members dt ths same family. Pol Isa smears Hated these killed as Mrs. Claudle Battle. IT, and three of her children Denise. IS; James Arthur, 15. and Jehp William Battle. 18. all of Route 4, Seaboard; and Denial Bowser. 15. of Routs 8, Littleton, Five members of the Battle fam ily were among those injured. They were William Arthur Battle, 35, husband of Mrs. Bsttle; and four Say Zuber Can’t Run In Primary CONCORD. N. H. (ANP)—Atty. Paul Zuber, who announced plans to run for the Presidency to air the oranplalnts of Negroes and ed ucate both the Democratic and Republican parties on civil rights, last week was ruled ineligible to enter the New Hampshire primary on March 10. The attorney who broke In to national headlines after winning successful school In tegration court fights In New Rochelle. N. T. and Engle wood, N. J„ was declared In eligible for the New Hamp shire primary unless be Is a member of an established par ty. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) i Homeowners Mortgage Co.. Inr | Umstead’s Grocery A Transfer Co R. E. Quinn Furniture Co. ! colonial Stores PAGE • AAP Stores Standard Concrete Product* Hunt General Tire Co. PAGE M Carolina Builders, Inc. Warner Memorials Dillon Motor rtaanre Bidgeway’s Opticians. Inc. PAGE 11 Mechani'a A Farmers Bank Taylor Radio A Electrical Co Dunn's Esso Service PAGE 11 Terrace Insurance A Realty Co. Lincoln Mantra CPAL King Colo Motet Emm* Jane Dresa Shop Community Florist Baptist supply Store PAGE M SC Augustine’s Callage PAGE IS McLeod, Watson A Lanier Shaw University SchHta PAGB IS Tire Sales A Service Amburm Pontiac, Inc. Raleigh Business College Capital met Oil, tee A Cool Ce.
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