Lumumba's Slaying Stuns World
300 Visit ‘Chain Gang 9
IIWI Garold [A, n |
VOL. 20. NO. 19
Boy, 13, Is Victim:
SlraTßullet Kills Bov
Bystander I
Shot; Man
In Custody
FOREST CITY James Hsmp
bm. 13, of Foreat City died last
weekend tn a local hospital after
being hit by a stray bullet.
Police are holding a South Caro
lina youth in connection with the
slaying of the youth who was pass
ing by a group of persons arguing
after a basketball game.
Officers said young Hampton
•was shot in the head by a stray
bullet from inside a dance hall.
Alonzo IJttlejohn. 20, of Gaffney,
S C.. was charged in connection
with the slaying,
Deputy Sheriff Mite* Cooper
Mid the argument developed at
at * dance hail after a high
achool basketball game at Spin
dale He Quoted witnesses as j
saying that a group ganged up
on s companion of Littlejohn,
who went to his car, got a pis
tol and returned to the hall.
He then began firing, it »a*
reported.
His companion was wounded :n ,
the ehooting.
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SUSPECT HELD Cinan-l
neti Redleg ball plaier, Frankie
Robinson, tn shewn here in the
Cincinnati, Ohio Jail where he
was being held on suspicion He
was picked up lest week in a
Psamburger stand and when
searched, officers found a load
ed pistol in his pocket. (UPI
TELEPHOTO ).
CAROLINIAN —— ——— —-
ADVERTISERS
BUY FROM THEM _
*>\GE S
Horton * ( ash St -re
Mother A Daughter Store*
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Johnson ljimh» Co.
Goodman'* Indies Shop
< ommunln Florist
Sh' view Drlv»-ln
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HiuSson-Betk Co.
Carter’s, Inc.
Sunshine Bakery
La w renre Bros * o
S M Younts Martin.ne Co
Standard Concrete Product* Co.
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Gua Russo* Hatter* ii Cleaner*
Correll Coatl Co.
Macon’s Barber »,sop
" Martin St. laundromat
(Jmstead's Gror. *> Transfer
Central Drug Store
Carolina Power & Light Co.
©ova Music Co.
Mechanic* & Farmer* Hank
Brook* Appliance Co.
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Sander* Motor Co.
Sanders Tractor Di.vliion
o’NaAi Motors, Inc.
Weaver Bros. Rambler
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Colonial atemt
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North Carolina's Leading Weekly
RALEIGH. N. C.. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1961
f|| , ’W’ f
MOBUTU ON THE OFFENSIVE. Major Gen Joseph
j Mobutu, shown at a recent press conference in Leopoldville before
leading an Army battalion up the Congo River on an expedition
against the late ex-premier Patnce Lumumba's supporters tn O
nental Province. He emerged as a more conrov eraial figure Mon
day when it was announced that Lumumba is dead. Mobutu said
that the. Congo Army would go to war to prevent disarming. i
Lottery Tern Appealed
By Raleigh Resident
Edwin McKee Freeman, 819 E.
Hargett Street, was sentenced to
six months on the roads Friday fol
lowing a conviction in City Court
on charges of operating a lottery.
He gave notice of appeal to Wake
ODDS-ENDS
B Y ROBE ST G. SHEPARD
“What ! ut unto one, I asy
unto all: WATCH.
' I DO WE WANT A COUNCIL
1 MEMBER* During the first, week
' in April, a primary to select 14
, j persons as candidates for the May-
City Council eieet’on will he held
If we follow our usual m*•
1 tom we will select a candi
date and. It is likely that be
will receive sufficient rote* to
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R E. Quinn Furniture Co.
Mouern Finance Corp.
iay lor Radio A TV' Service
< Karl Lirhtman
Washington Terrace Apt*, Inc
PA«»K s
SAP Food Store*
Cameron-Brown Co.
firestone Store*
Taylor Radio A TV Service
f irst Citizen* Bank A Trust Co.
Turner's Florist
; Acme Realty Co.
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Bioodworth St. Tonrb Home
Ridgeway's Opticians
Carolina Builder* Corp.
Caveness Insurance Agency
; 7-Cp Bottling Co.
Dilion Motor Finance Co,
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co of Raleigh
Warner Memorials
Deluxe Ho'teJ
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Thomas Pood Mkt.
Capita! Ire & Coal Co
Rhodes. Inc
Major Finance Co.. Im
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Raleigh Seafood Co.
| Dunn s Esso Service
Branch ’Banking A Trust t
| Hunt General Tire Co.
Superior Court His bond was set
i at SSOO.
Detective Sgt. E. C Duke
testified that Freeman was ar
rested Dec. 7 and had in his
possession papers which indi
cated he was a "pickup man”
for the numbers racket here.
The papers allegedly showed that
Freeman had collected $120.11 from
four numbers racket pickup sta
tions. according to Duke
Duke said the stations were list, i
ed as 1, 2. 6. and 20. beside each
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i
The five day weather fpre- j
east for Raleigh, beginning
Thursday, February 16. and
continuing through Monday,
February' 2d, is as follow*:
Temperatures will average 8
to 10 degree* above normal.
The normal high and low tem
j peratares will be 54 and 38 de
! grees. Rainfall will average
one-half of an Inch or less.
Showers are expected during
the weekend. Mild weather is
i expected throughout the pe
riod.
NC Master
Barbers T o
| Meet Here
The Master Barbers Association
will hold a one-day convention at
! the Elks Horne here Sunday at 2
! P m.
Main speaker for the event
will be J. J. S&nsom, vice-pres
ident and manager of the Ra
leigh branch. Mechanics apt)
Farmers Bank.
The two-year-old organization
started in Winston-Salem. Its pur- !
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Uprisings
Staged In
Many Areas i
I
EI.ISABEVILLE. Katanga— The j
d‘ ath of Patrice Lumumba. 35. ex- !
premier of the Congo, w as announ
ced by the Katanga government
Monday The government defied
the United States or anyone else 1
to do anything about it.
President Moise Tshombe’ti
office said the deposed Lumum
ba's body lie* in an unmarked
grave and the village tribes
men v» ho slew him arc going to
receive sg.ftflO as a reward for
capturing a criminal. Tshombe
was an arch foe of Lumumba
Following the announcement., ri
oting broke out in many «re*w. ■
eluding Russia, where African stu
dents arc studying. Crowds eon
verged on many embassies, tnelud
ing those of ti e United States in
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Youth Dies
After Being
Hit By Car
i FUQUAY SPRINGS—A teenager
'was fatally injured here Saturday
i night when struck oy an automo
bile.
Charles Judd. 16, of Holly ;
Springs. Route 1. was struck by
a car as he was ■. -ik on West ;
Academy Street about R cm Judd
mod about 10.30 p n at Memorial
Hospital. Chapel Hill.
Police Office) Ha. . Rail of Fu
] quay Springs investigated the acci
; dent. The car was driven by Robeit
iG Horton. 35 of this town
Ball said that Judd may have
I walked into the patn of Horton's
! car
Fuqauy Springs Police Chief
Chester Holland said a coroner's
inquest into the death has been
set for Fib 24 Horton is under
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DR WEAVER APPROVED - Chairman A. Willis Robertson of the Senate's Banking
Committee refused to start hearings on the nomination of Dr. Robert C. Weaver, seated, as Federal
Housing Administrator until President John F. Kennedy vouched for Weaver's loyalty. Dr. Weaver
is shown here conferring with Sen. Kenneth Keating ( R-N.Y .) while waiting for the hearing to
begiq. The Committee later approved Dr. Weaver. ( UPI TELEPHOTO).
Sit-Inners
Receive SC
] Caravan
ROCK HILL, S C—Thirty-day
chain gang sentences were accept*
ed by eight members of Friendship
CORF and CORE field secretary
Thomas Gaither recently in prefer
ence to paying $lO Olines for sitting
>n. They are now on the York
! County Chain Gang. -
300 persons visited the prison
Sunday to see the prisoner*
and were admitted in groups of
30 by 100 policemen.
The nine CORE member*
were given the option of the
flhatn gang or of the fine by
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THOMAS GAITHER
Woman
Beaten,
*Robbed
Dl RHAM A widespread
search a.-' underway this week
for a yo ~ Negro man. who al
; legr-dly c n i;i iited an assault-rob
i bery at Ihe Mangum Street Store
j here Monday.
| Mrs C !>do F Copley S 9 wife of
jihe store's owner, sustained a fiac
tured jaw and was knocked uncon-
I scions by the 'unidentified assail
j anl
Her condition wa* described
as "good" hr official* at Watts
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Group Ends
Boycott Os
One Store
The joint committee of the Ra
leigh Citizens Association and the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People, lead
ers of a "selective buying" cam
paign .n the city by boycotting
several chain stores announced
Tuesday that it* patronage would
be returned to the Piggly Wiggly
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PRICE 15C j
■ .. &* i. S
PROTEST JAIL SENTENCE Pickets demonstrate at Me’ ;> > t .;i \'-,w York':
34th Street, to protest the tail sentences recently imposed on nine Negro youth - lor their si tot
demonstration in a southern store of the company. The youths were sentenced to jail terms it
Rock Hitt, S. C., for refusing to teave a segregated lunch counter. The pickets, from the Con
gress of Racial Equality (CORE), wear striped orison costumes and carrv sledge hammers. CO
RE said the nine jailed youths were sentenced to labor on a chain gang. (UP! PHOTO).
White Ambassadorial Corps
Chosen For African Nations
WASHINGTON (ANPi lt ap- |
peared tht* week that America's
top echelon diplomatic representa
tion m west Africa will be all
whita.
Chapel Hill
Group Prays
At Town Hall
1 CHAPICL HILL Sixty portion*
| marched from the First. Baptist
i Church here Sunday down Franb
jl in Street and converged on th«
I Town Hall singing hymns.
A brief prayer meeting was held.
! asking for an end to segregation in
j the theatres and other public pla
leea of (be Chapel Hill srea
The march vu undertaken
In observance of Brotherhood
Sunday and in support of pic
keting. conducted during tho
past week at two downtown
movie house* her*.
The group was escorted down
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Appointment
Os Weaver
Confirmed
WASHINGTON <ANP» ln
what turned out to be the first of
President Kennedy's appointments
to encounter major Senate opposi
tion, Dr Rrebert C Weaver of
New York was confirmed last week
as federal housing administrator.
The Senate was urged on to
speedy action by the White House.
Senate confirmation climaxed
hours of debate in which Weaver,
.13. a Harvard graduate, was de
scribed by critics as a zealot for
integrated housing and by support
ers as a dedicated American who
will do a fine job.
About IS to 20 senators were in
chamber and there was no recot*
vote. Confirmation was by von*
vote A number of scattered "ayes'
and "noes" was heard,
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| It was reported this week that
Dr. John H Morrow, the only A
merican Negro with ambassadorial
| rank in Africa is to be recalled
from Guinea end replaced by Wil
liam Atwood, foreign editor of
Look magazine,
CONFIRMS WHITE
APPOINTMENTS
Simultaneously the Kennedy ad
ministration renamed » number of
white diplomats already serving
in Africa Their appointments were
confirmed last week
They ara Wendell Black*,
anihamador ko the Congo end
a to* *n Chad and the Gabon
Republic; Joseph Palmer n,
ambassador to Nigeria.
R Borden Ream*, ambassa
dor to the Ivory Coast and also
the Republics of Dahomey and
Niger; Francis H. Russell, am
hasoarior to Ghana; Henrv A.
Vlllard. ambassador to Senegal
and also to the Islamic Repub
lic of Mauritania and Thomas
N. C RISHOP CONFERS WITH BAHAMAS GOVFP
NOR—Bishop H. B Shaw, Wilmington. N C . who presides
over the third Episcopal District. AAIE Zion Church. in< hidmt
the Bahamas, shown on the right, recently discussed the work ot
the church, national and international affairs with Sir Robert
Stapledon, (left), governor of the Bahama Islands. Re v. A. C
Rolle is presiding elder of the Nassau District. Both the governot
and the bishop were well pleased with th outcome of the meeting
Thj« scene took place in the Bahamas
j <5.000 Physicians To
i Attend 4'onvenfion
j NFW YORK. N Y—Plan* for
| th* 06*h annual eonvention of th#
I National Medical Aaaorsation » «■«
announced here last week at a
meeting of th* organization's board
of trustees
The convection, wtieduled to
be held here August T through
19 with the Hotel Commodore
as headquarters, is expected to
be attended by approximately
5.008 physician* and their fam
ilies, according to l>r. Murray
Davis, High Point. N. C„ chair
man of YMA board of trustees.
The meeting held Saturday and
1 Sunday at the Hotel Commodore
was addressed by the N"MA presi
dent. Dr. James T Aldrich of St
Louis and president-elect. Dr.
Vaughn C Mason. New York
Dr. John B Johnson of Washing
-1 ton, D C , scientific chairman of
the association, announced that a
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tandidaie?
The name of John W. Winters,
local real estate dealer, was ap
proved last week by the Raleigh
Cltlaens Association as a candi
date for the Raleigh City Council,
subject to the May elections.
It was not known whether Mr.
1 Winters would accept the approv
al and announce his candidacy.
Several other prominent persons
1 here were considered by the Asso
ciation.
K Wrlcht. ambassador !o Mali
Morrow, who has been in Gun's* *
since 1939. was p;of< >:or at Noi'U
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Teachets : f
Wake Choose
2 Officers
METHOD The v; . «• Co v
Teachers Association m-t in si v >• -
at tap Berry O'Kelly 1' St-.u ”
; here and named two additional of
| fleers. Several hundred teacher;
! were present.
Presiding was President F I.
Sander*. Sr Flirted vie* presi
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I number of nationally renowned
phvsjcisns ha”# accepted mvita
ticns to appear on the program A
wide rang* of problem* and meet
! sigificant new advances are to b«
discussed including a symposium
on canoar
Th? scientfie program. Highly
rrarded a* * '‘capsule po**
graduate course* has become a
highlight of the annual conven
tion under the chairmanship of
Dr. Johnson. Many of the na
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1 State News
Brief
TO DISCUSS “CUBAN PROBLEM*
RALEIGH—Dr. Thedra Oliver,
professor of physics at Shaw Uni
versity, will speak in the West
Campus auditorium a1 Shaw Uni
versity, February IS. from 0 until
7 pm The title of his address will
be: “The Cuban Problem in the
United States. 1 ’
The event will be under th? aus
i pices of the Beta Rho chapuP* of
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