* m 3My &mi§o Crime is Meinff Simek ** Williams In Cuba, Blasts JFK ionroe Man Sought By FBI Talks in Cuba HAVANA—Robert F Williams, of Monroe, N. C., wanted for the kidnaping if a white couple in his hometown, told newsmen here this week that President John F. Ken nedy had “personally ordered his arrest. -1 Williams. 36. who last week was granted asylum by the Castro re gime. told a news conference on Monday that he “fully supports the Cuban revolution." and will try to inform the American Negro popu lation of “the truth about Cuba.” A grand jury in Union Coun ty, N. C., indicted Williams in August on a charge of helping to abduct a white couple for several hour* during a racial disturbance. He said here that he actually freed the couple. Mr and Mrs. Bruce Stegall and protected them during the rioting in Monroe. He said that he gave the Stegals refuse in his home and had been wrongly accused of abducting them. Williams said that when he was told that National Guardsmen had been ordered to attack him and his followers, he decided to escape be cause “alive I wmuld be more use ful to our cause." He said that an order h id been issued to shoot him on sight. He said further that if Amer (CONTTNUED ON PAGE 2} Howard Homers As Yanks Win NEW YORK—Elston Howard and. Bill Skowron both scored home runs to back up Whitev Ford's stel lar pitching performance as the New York Yank defeated tire hard pressed Cincinnati Reds 2-0 before 62,397 paid spectators in the first game of the 1961 World Senes in Yankee Stadium here today. The Yanks' runs were scored when Howard hit a home run in the fourth inning and Skowron hit » homer in the sixth inning. The winning pitcher was Whitey Ford and the losing pitcher w as .Tim O Toole, who was in the box when both runs were scored. The Yanks scored two runs, six hits, and no errors and the losers scored no runs, two hits, and no errors. T uskegee’s L. A. Potts To Aid Ag Sec’y Dean Lawrence A. Potts of Tus kegee’s school of agriculture was named Wednesday as a special; consultant to Secretary of Agri- j culture Orville L. Freeman. In announcing the appointment, i the Secretary said Dean Potts will j advise him on methods of more effectively implementing the De- j gartment's policy of equal employ-. ment opportunities. This will in clude, the Secretary pointed out, (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) See Senator Eastland Opposition To Marshall’s Court Appointment WASHINGTON (ANP>— An early adjournment of the Senate will de lay until next year an expected fight over the nomination of Thur good Marshall to the Second U. S. j Circuit. Court of Appeals " Chief counsel for the NAACP and one of the nation's strongest voices for racial equality, Marshall will square off with Sen. .lames O. East land (D.Miss.) an equally strong defender of the cause of segrega - ADVERTISERS Bin FROM THEM—— PAGfc 2 Heilig-Levine ( Thomas Food Market Washington Terrace Apartments, Inc. PAGE 3 Carter's, inc. Capita) ':tt & Coa! Company, Inc. Raleigh Tire Terminal Gem Watch Shop PAGE 5 Hudson-Beik The Capital Coca-Cola Bottling Co. PAGE 6 S M. Toung Hardware Company Discount Used Furniture Co. Consolidated Credit Corporation Mechanics & Farmers Bank Goodman's Indies Shop Firestone Sti res Lightner Funeral Home Public Service Co. of N*-C., Inc. PAGE 1 Reiltg-Tevine North Cwoliiu srjaie Fair Auto Discount Company Electrical Wholesalers, inc m^Stephen* Ltaeoln Theatre A Casco (Solomon Re vies Community Florist Smith Coal & Oil Company' Horton Cash Grocery PAGE S Cot"ni"i Stores R. E Quinn Furniture Co. C Karl Lirhtman Tire Distributors Taylor Radio <fe TV Service First, Citizens Bank & Trust Co, PAGE S | 4 4 4 4* 4 44 4 Seek Ouster Os Priest THE COROLINIAN North Carolina’s Leading Weekly VOL. 20. NO. 50 RALEIGH. N. C, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1961 PRICE 15c [Guns Kill Man, Woman NAACP Prexy Says School Head Unfit CLINTON—-George Foreman, lo cal NAACP leader, filed a formal protest with Bishop Vincent Wa ters, who presides over North Car olina Catholics, for alleged treat ment afforded him, by Father Al den Davis, who lives in Kinston The protest was in the form of a letter sent to Bishop Waters in I Raleigh. Foreman, charged in the ! letter, that he went to the Kinston j school, which is operated by the Catholics, and asked for the rec ords of Jannette Boyd, his grand daughter so that he might enter her | into Elizabeth City State Normal. | He further charged that when ne | toid Father Davis what he wanted j that father Davis told him about I her going to St Francis in the first place and that Jannette had 'enough education to do washing and ironing" Foreman, reached by tele phone, by the CAROLINIAN, Tuesday, said that he felt that Father Davis should no longer h-ad the school and that he had asked Bishop Waters, in the letter, to discharge him. He further stated that a roan who displayed such an attitude was not fit to promote the welfare of children. | Jannette is said to have had nint j years of training in Catholic | schools. One year was spent at St j Francis. Powhatan, Va. SCHOOL HEAD AWAY Father Davis could not be leach- J eh at the school in Kinston. A re i ply to the telephone call said that 1 he was away and Sister Hildegarde j who says that she is the principal ! of the school said siie had no direct I knowledge of Jannette having gone ito the Kinston school, in view of ! the tact that she had only been | there two years. Jannette is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jake Boyd, who live at 102 Miller Street, Kin ston. Sister Hildegarde said that (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) ♦ion, when his name comes up for ! (onfirmatlon. Eastland heads the powerful Sen | ate Judiciary committee which gets i the first shot, at U. S. judicial ap j pointments. It is public knowledge i that there is no lost, love between ■ Eastland and Marshall. Marshall. 53, has been a key lead- I er in the legal fight for desegrega : tion of public schools in the south, (CONTINUED ON PAG* Z> AiF Food Stores j Standard Concrete Products Co. ! Champion Atlantic Tire Center Town & Country Furniture Fisher Wholesale Company Branch Banking & Trust Co' Central Drug Store t'mstoad’s Grocery & Transfer IPAGE 10 i Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Raleigh I Watson's Seafood & Poultry Co., Inc. J Dillon Motor Finance Co. i Seven-tip Bottling Company | Carolina Builders t'orp. Ridgeway’s Opticians. Inc. Bloodworth St. Tourist Horn* Deluxe Hotel Warner Memorials PAGE 15 Raleigh Paint * Wallpaper Co, Major Finance Company, Inc, Shoe Mart Becker'* Chsttn | apital Bargain Store Baker Shoe Shop l Idea! Plumbing <& Heating Co, | Joy's American Grill i Seven-Up Bottling Company I Webster & Hicks Grill ; Buffalo* A Company. Builders ! American Credit Company j PAGE IS | Plggly Wiggly ; Hunt Generis! Tire Company | Dunn's Esso Service ! Acme Realty Company i Rhodes Furniture. Inc. I Raieigh Savings & loan Ass’ffl | Raieigh Funeral Sons* I Raleigh Seafood Company QUIET INTEGRATION Two youths sit at a lunch coun j ter in downtown Atlanta variety s tore September 28 alter prin ‘ cipal eating places voluntarily desegrated their facilities in accor dance with a pre-arranged plan. No incidents were reported and j the integration by the token groups of students was made without | prior publicity. (UPI TELEPHOTO) Story Os Minority Progress RepiyToßed Propaganda WASHINGTON—The answer to Soviet propaganda about racial dis crimination in the United States is to tell the story of progress being made by racial minorities in this country. That was the suggestion given Thursday to United States Informa tion Agency workers by John G. Field executive director of the | as polios keep an eye on the procedings. A mob o‘ between 600 and 800 predominantly Negro young- j | chanting let s jump the cops,' attacked police with fists arid rocks outside a junior high \ | school and a police station in Newark, N. J. Police had been called to break up a fist tight between 1 ; two boys in front of this West Kinney St. Junior School. The melee lasted two hours before police j land firemen, wing the high pressure hoses, were able to disperse the juveniles. (DPI. PHOTO), j President’s Committee on Equal I Employment Opportunity. Mr. Feild j addressed the U.S.I.A. Forum at the I agency office "We hear everyday that sto ries of racial discrimination in the United States are the best propaganda weapon the Communists have,” Mr. Feild told the group. “Conversely, the true story of progress being made by racial minorities is tbe best weapon to offset such propaganda. “I do not contend that racial dis crimination does not exist in this country. If that were true, there would be no need for agencies such (CONTINUED ON PAGE Hold Suspect In 1 Slaying, Seek Another FAYETTEVILLE—A 31-year-old Fayetteville woman and a 22-year old Robeson County man were kill ed by gun blasts Sunday in two separate homicides Police arrested James Dixon, V . on a charge of murder after Mrs. : Elizabeth Alford was found dead of a shotgun blast in her apartment tn downtown Fayetteville. Sunday afternoon. Cumberland coroner Alph Clark, who investigated the in cident. with city detectives, said that Dixon admitted shooting the woman in the upper chest with a single barrel 12-gauje shotgun loaded with hirdshot. Clark said that the woman was seated on a bed clad in her slip when shot Death was instanteous. he said. Witnesses said that they saw Dix » val'. into the house where the apartment is located and saw him leave with the gun after hearing a shot. Although police arrested Dix on a few moments after the shoot (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) Disc Jockey Held For Rape | DALLAS, Tex A 22-year-old | British girl who said she served a month in a Jackson, Miss., jail as a freedom rider, was held in Dal las Saturday as a material witness against a Negro disc jockey charged with raping her. Police Captain Will Fritz said he put the girl, Pauline Kathleen Sims, in jail as a kindness, because she had no other place to go. The YWCA told her it need ed her room “for someone else” and she telephoned the NAACP. She said the NAACP told her a room would be provided at the ■Ui-N'egro Oakland Terrace Hotel. She said that Anthony Thomas Davis, 340-pound ex-convict and disc jockey who allegedly raped the 95-pound Miss Sims, introduc ed himself at a nearby restaurant (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) ATTENDS MOSCOW SCHOOL Huldan Clark (right), the 14 -vear-nld girl from Newark, N, J„ chats with her new friend, Soviet pupil Tanya Lusheva, at Moscow Boarding School No 12 here Sept. 28. Both girls are wearing the traditional Soviet school girl's costume. Huldah came to Russia earlier this week because is was the opinion of her father that the schooling -91 -viable to the girl in the U. S. was not as good as that in Rusia. (UPI TELEPHOTO). Diggs Denies Fraudulent Charges In Insurance Suit DETROIT (ANPi—Congressman i j Charles C. Diggs, Jr. has denied ! | charges filed in Circuit. Court by I ; a policyholder that he and his fa- j | ther have mishandled thousands of j ! dollars in operation of the Detroit ; Metropolitan Assurance Company. The suit filed in Circuit Court by i ! Lida Glover, charged that Rep. ! j Diggs had charged political cam- j ! paign expenses to the company j ! along with hotel bills, travel ex- j penses and clothing bills. It charged that his father. Charles C Diggs, Sr,, had used 528,000 in company funds for airplane trips to Africa and other places. SI!,000 to remodel his summer cottage and $2500 for a portrait of himseif. ASKS FOR ACCOUNTING The suit asked for an accounting ' r.f the funds of the Detroit. Metro j pohtan Assurance Co., and also seeks to block merger of the firm with the Mammoth Life and Acci dent Insurance Co. of Louisville, i Ky. Diggs said: "Anybody can bring a lawsuit j and bring charges. It is another ! thing to prove it. “I couldn’t make any eotn- Peace Corps Croup Welcome In Nigeria | LAGOS. Nigeria (ANP) The • first group of 38 American Peace 1 Corps volunteers who arrived here j iast week will begin a t.hree-month ; special training program at the University college at Ibadan before being assigned to teaching posts in high schools throughout the coun try. Accorded red carpet treatment upon their arrival at. Lagos airport (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) People Everywhere Want Dignity, Says Fisk Head NASHVILLE, Term —“People ev erywhere are sick and tired of be ing denied the simple right to live in dignity as human beings," Dr. Stephen J. Wright, Fisk University president, has told the convocation nBIXLETIK! WILLIAM A. ALLEN RITES TO BE HELD FRIDAY' IN NED WINSTON-SALEM —William A Allen of the U. S. Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rank of Free Masonry, Prince Hall Affiliation, pasesd away Monday. October 2, 1961, at 7 o’clock. His funeral will be held Friday. October 6, 1961. at 1:00 p.m. from the Enon Baptist Church, on Ed mondson Avenue and Shroder St in Baltimore. Md The Illustrious Grand Depart ment of the Valley of N. C„ James T. Diggs and others will attend the funeral. W' r €M*U Mews in Brief \ WESTERN AIRLINES HIRES NEGRO SALES EXECUTIVE IOS A NOBLES (AN") Vet.- sran public relations and news man Herman Hill has been trade an account (executive by West ern Airlines with headquarters in Los Angeles. Hill will work closely with the sales and public relations departments. 118-TEAR-OLD EX-SLAVE GETS $7 PENSION HIKE NEW ORLEAiNS (ANP) Charles Smith of Polk City, Fla., and an ex-slave sold in. the New ment at this time. Once web e been served with the papers an answer will come from our at torneys.” Diggs. Sr., 67. denied completely the charges made in the suit. DIGGS, SR EXPLAINS Diggs Sr. said money for hi? airline trips came out of his own pocket. Tire company paid to have a portrait of him painted, he said, and it now hangs in the office of Detroit, Metropolitan. ‘ I don't know about mv son's ex- I penses. but I’m sure Lie charges air false,’' he said.' Detroit Metropolitan was origi nally organized as a burial society by Diggs Sr., also founder of the House of Diggs Inc., a funeral homo here; The burial society qualified as a mutual insurance company in 1954. SERVING FOURTH TERM Diggs Jr., 36, a Democrat, is in his fourth term as congressman Brown Gets KY Housing Post NEW YORK (ANP)—City Coun cilman Earl Brown, Harlem Demo crat, last week was sworn in by Mayor Robert Wagner as a member of the Housing and Redevelopnu ■■ Board, His appointment is for a three-year term at an annual sal ary of $22,500. The appointment of Brown fills a vacancy created when Robert C. Weaver *jsft the three-member board last year to become administrator of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2> i opening the university ? 95th aca demie year. The convocation also gave recog nition to 10 ranking Disk students, and heard traditional greetings from neighbor institutions, Mehany Medical College,. Tennessee A&I State University, and American Baptist Theological Seminary. Speaking on the subject, “Ed ucation for Survival and Free dom”, Dr. Wright said “the ferment taking place in Africa and Asia and Latin America is not going to stop until the peoples of these countries find some relief from their un speakable poverty, ignorance and humiliation.” “Whether we like if. or not,” he added, “our country cannot be neu tral or indifferent to the forces moving at this very moment to ue termine the kind of world in which you will live—if indeed there is to be a world at all.” Orleans market over a century ago. recently received a $7 raise in his social security allotment H Temperature* next five day* thru Monday will average 3 to ' S degrees below normal. Cool at the beginning of this period, warmer over the weekend, turning colder around Monday. Norma! high anti low for Staleigh IS to M degree*. Rainfall will he moderate and will occur mostly about Sunday and 1 Monday. ! from the 13th District. He replaced | his father as president of Detroit i Metropolitan in 1958, with the elder ; Diggs staying on as chairman of | the board. Diggs Jr. resigned the ! presidency last January. His father l reassumed the post (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2> 0. C. Rector Consecrated DETROIT < ANP) -A former De i troiter last week was nominated ito become the croud Negro eve r j consecrated a bishop of the Protes i tant Episcopal Church j He is the Rev. Dilia: i H Brown. ! Jr . now rector of St. Luke's church. Washington. D. C, who will b«- I come bishop co-adjuter with right jof succession to the Rt Rev Bravid W'. Hai of 1 ' " ■ since 1 1945 and also an American Negro I The bishop-elcct was born in Ms ! riotla, C.a , ' in 1912. and received his high school education in De- I troit. Rev. Brown was not present j at the 60th genera! convention at Cobo Hall here, where he was. elect ed by the House of Bishop' and j confirmed by the House of Depu j ties. i ODDS-ENDS BY ROBERT G SHEPARI) “He that formed the ear. sh3ll He. net hear?'' LESS THAN ONE HALF A'] the citizens in Raleigh, both colored and white should be con cerned about the fact that less than 50 percent of last year « graduate* of the I,mon High School are en rolled m a school of higher educa lion That 55 percent of last year’s graduating class who for possible carious reasons- are not back in school this year, unless they even | tually return to school, will never be abls to make their fullest con tribution to the community’s econ cmy, they will never be able to reap for themselves the fullest pos sibilities of which they are poten tially capable It is more than likely that eco nomic reasons are chiefly respon sible for the failure of these Negro boys and girls to enter college this fall. We believe that many of them, had they possesed the foresight, the initiative and the proper motiva tion, would have found some way to continue their education. On the other hand, many of these young people, come from homes where the total family income is so low that it, is a day to day struggle to try’ to make ends meet. It is ”ery prob able that manv of logon's 196 b graduates became so disillusioned by the hardships they had to con (CONTINUED ON PAGE 21 bringing the amount of his mon thly check to S4O. CHURCHES OF GOD IS CHRIST HOLD FIRST CONVENTION IN NEW YORK NEW YORK CITY (ANP)—Top officials of the Churches of God , ir. Christ recently held their first ! constitutional convention here at Faith Temple on Amsterdam Ave I nue. the Rt. Rev. Alvin A. Childs. I host bishop. SUPPORT UNITED | fund:

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