* 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
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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,
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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,
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| 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
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♦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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: