OTHER EDITORS SA Y v SHOWMAN SLAMS NAACP (By George Whittington) The first interest being served at Poplarville Is that of commun ism, a Negro comedian whose name became a Byword 30 years ago declared here Thursday. Stepin Fetehit, who parlayed a shuffling gait and a lazy whine into a million dollars and a name synonymous with laziness, made that rtrrl analinri. **Wng that in any such situation, “Communist participation, Communist interest, and Communist interference might be found.” retxaut stopped^ in Jackson to day on his way to the gulf coast, on a booking tour for “little Rich ard”, noted bop-singing Negro evangelist. He went to the office of the State Sovereignty Com mission, where he met Hie press, voluntarily lumping a barrage at both the Poplarville mob and Hie National Association for the Ad vancement of Oolored People. Fetehit—real name Lincoln Theo dore Monroe Andrew Perry in hon or of four US. Presidents—made his observations in commenting on the mob kidnaping of Negro M. C. Parker in Poplarville. He said he sees Communist in fluence within the NAlAiCP, even if the Communists don’t dominate the organization—and he issued a warning to all Negroes against those who would pretend to serve their purposes through force. “You can’t destroy the rights of one person or one race without en dangering the rights of all,” Perry asserted. “You can’t give power to one big group without having Evinrude , OUTBOARD MOTORS Cruisers, Inc. & MFG GLASS BOATS GAS PUMP & BOAT STORAGE FREE Boat Ramp for Ovr Customers "Complete Outboard - BOATING SUPPLIES KIMBRELL’S OUTBOARD SERVICE' Located across street from New Bern Power Plant 1305 Pembroke Rd. New Bern the ever-present .danger of that group to use its rights against you,” he said. He added tint he is flatly op posed to the program of the NA AGP in the South* “although I once gave benefits in its behalf.” He said that since the time he ■worked in behalf of the then fledgling organisation, he is con vinced Ha aims have changed. “1 knew Walter White personally,” be said, “and I don’t ♦>»**■ the NAiACP today is what he wanted it to be.” As for the possible use of the NAiACP by the Communists in fur thering its own program, FetcMt declared, "The Communists use Hie organization—anybody. I’ve seen the influence even in the pul pit. “And if tbey’Te using the NA AGP, you can only say that the people in that organization are human.” But, he went on, he doesn’t think the current program of the or ganization—whether Oomnnunist inspired or not—is the right pro gram for the South. “You can’t force integration,’’ he said. “If it came as a natural order, that would be right.” Fetchit denied sharply that his characterization of the Negro ever belittled his fellow man. . “1 think I was admired by every body, Negro and white, for what I DARK - ' KINSTON, N. C. STARTS FRIDAY "Some like It Hot” %f:r ' ' ’ yjg Technicolor ■ STARRING Marilyn Monroe Tony Curtis Carolina KINSTON, N. C. NOW thru SATURDAY Go Johnny Go - STARRING - Allan Freed SUN. -r- MON. 'Bom Reckless’ —STARRING— Mamie Van Doren For AMBULANCE Service DIAL JA 3-5143 JA 3-2412 JARMAN 208 E. Bloant St. Kinston, N. C. IIDONT TAKE CHANCES Let US Recap Thoae Tire* Now! C. A BATTLE & SON Phew Richland* MM Comfort, N. C. was,” he said. <4I was a human being with a talent, aod respected as such. I don’t think I ever be Negro to become famous in movies, littied the Negro race. “On the other hand, as the first I think I helped to lift the Negro a little higher .than he was.” Febcfcit said he hasn’t appeared in a movie since *1060, when he made “Send of the River” with James Stewart And be only made that, he* said, because Hoityvrood bed begun to pick up untalented actors and casting them as Stepin Fetchit types. He said he resented the cast ing of such types as much as did the NAACP in denouncing the type as such. And just to prove that the old Stepin Fetchit isn’t dead—in spite of his soon-to-be 06 years—Fetch it donned Ms rubber baldy cap, to make him appear bald, put on a floppy, moth-eaten felt hat, and went into a comedy routine. 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