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jPfli*# Os Face Mitotnt A.*vaw dks ( , ¥9 L NG BOY MURDERS FIRST COUSIN Must Act Aon : Fleming RCA Meets Here Tiiurs. At The YMCA BY CHARLES R. JONES The Raleigh Citizens Associa tion, which has not held a meet ing this year, will meet. at the Bloodworth Street YMCA Thurs day, March 4, at 8 p. m. The Rev. John tY. Fleming, president of the organization, informed The CAROLINIAN of this important meeting, ad ding. “We have been derelict in meeting. During this period of inactivity on the part of Ihe Association, many things have passed by.” Tie continued. “It is not too late for u to redeem ourselves. Perti nent matters confronting the community need our immediate aUr 111 1. >i; the Povei ty Program under the Economics Opportunity Ac 1 hov tin. Civil Rights Act alien,' ikw light on what we have hem trying to do. our stand on " >o do about the city’s blight ed ■. the upcoming May elec tfi ■ e'l' council and school b ■ d. and proposed voter-regis - I'•"i.iu campaign. All of these * hit - n< ed our attention.” Ihr Raleigh Citizens Asso ciation has hern active in m,in> tn.t*- of Raleigh and surrounding community life. D was this organization that drafted supported and urged a hravv turnout tour years ago » lohn H t\ inters became tin til l Negro ( its Council mm i* Malimil's history. It I I <>s | |». | ||, ~s |> \i,j •)) (M'Pfks It ml I'apilol ( OllCtT'tilf E WASHINGTON. D. C.—Leaders of Greek Letter organizations from throughout the nation held a. two day conference at the national headquarters of the Omega Pei Phi Fraternity‘here recently, in an effort to coordinate tlie plans and principles that were formulated at the Community Assembly, spon sored by the National Urban Lea gue. Dec. 9-11. The Greeks went into every ramification of the Anti-Poverty program with an rye as to how it can be propelled to reach the peo ple for which it was designed. They were not only interested in Negroes, but built an image that (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) HOLDS HEWS CONFERENCE Chicago: Close up of Black Muslim leader Elijah Muhammad during a press confer ence at hi s Chicago home Feb. 22. Muhammad denied any con nection with the slaying of Malcolm X. Malcolm , the former mim % man in the Muslims who defected and set up a rival movement, was a“vsctim of his own preaching," Muhammad said at the con j Jtaenoih {UPI PHD TO). v •-‘-‘■■^ iatlai:j^ — IA ~~ I - AA ~ h ~ 2; ‘** j:, “ :s:ik ‘ afc -~ —— VOL. 24, NO. 17 HERO’S BURIAL GIVEN ALA. RIGHTS WORKER Shoots Kin After‘Fuss’ Over Auto BURLINGTON An Alamance County youth blew off part of his first cousin's face near here last Wednesday night, following an al tercation over tire use of a family car. The dead boy. 17-year-old Doug las Elliot, lived on Route 2, Bur lington. His first cousin, who lived with Douglas, James Elliot, 18, is being held on a charge of first degree murder in the County Jail here, according to a spokesman in Sheriff John Stockard's office. No bond had been allowed James Elliott as late as Wednesday morning of this week. Car’ Crabtree, Alamance County Coroner, stated young Elliott was pronounced dead on arrival at the County Hos pital, having taken the full charge of a 16-gauge shotgun, which reportedly tore apay a portion of his face. Funeral services for young EI (CONTtNUED ON PAGE 2) im • i —' j temperatures for the next fiv* flays. Thursday throueh Monday, will average around 5 degrees be. low normal, and rainfall will be rather. neavy on Thursday and Friday and again about Monday. The norma! high and low temper atures for the Raieigh area will be, VB-35. North Carolina s Leading Weekly RALEIGH N. C.. SATURDAY. MARCH 6. 1965 ■ftaga&bfe-. ■?. V HIGHEST PAID NEGRO WOMAN IN AMERICA New York: New York State Senator Constance Baker Motley, a former lawyer for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, raises her right hand at City Hall here Feb 24th while be’ng sworn in by Mayor Robert F. Wagner as Manhattan Borough President, the highest and best-paid job ever held by a Negro woman in the United Stales. She was elec i*d to the post Feb. 23rd at a special session of Manhattan's eight councilmen. She filled a vacancy created New Y ear's Day when former Borough President Edward R. Dudley moved to the State Supreme Court. The $35,000 a year position is another “first" for 43-year-old Mrs. Motley, who entered politics 13 months ago. (UPI PHOTO). Mrs. Motley First Woman President NEW YORK <NPI) Mrs. Con stance Baker Motley former top lawyer with the NAACP Legal De fence Committee was picked last week tor the coveted $35,Q00-a-year job as president of Manhattan. She is the first woman to serve as head of New York’s richest and most populous bor ough and becomes the highest paid Negro woman in elective office bi America, Mrs. Motley, now * state senator, was a late entry into the hotly-con tested race The pom has tradition ally gone to a Negro for the past several years. Other candidates for the job in cluded Civil Court Judge James L. Watson and Earl Brown, a writer and veteran New York politician. The vacancy was created when Edward R. Dudley took his seat on the state Supreme Court breach last January 1, Elijah Is tin liar inegf At Confab CHICAGO fNPI) “There is no chicken about Muhammad. . . The speaker wa* (57-years-old Elijah Muhammad who, exact ly one week later, defied threats ®f a “Malcolm X fate" be addressed hi* faithful followers at the final session of a three-day “Black” Mus lim rally. The Muslims held their annual convention in the huge and anti* quatod Chicago Coliseum, amidst perhaps the tightest security meas ures in Chicago history “We are going to guard him like he was the President of the Unit ticmmivm mt mm rt Brown, Deputy Borough Presi dent, had been serving as acting president and reportedly expected the support of Mayor Robert Wag ner in his battle for the post. A total of nine names were be ing considered by Manhattan mem bers of the City Council. Five of the aspirants were Negroes. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) ADVERTISERS ——— Bin FROM THEM-—- PAGE * Horton's Cash Store The Fabric Shop Raleigh Commission House, Inc. PAGE 3 Gem Watch Shop Correlt Coal Co. Taylor Radio and Electrical Co Washington Terrace Apts., Inc. PAGE 5 Hudson-Belk-Eflrrf s John W. Winters and Co. First Federal Savings and Loan Assn, Carter’s, Inc. Southern Bell PAGE e James Sanders Tile Co. Raleigh Seafood Jesse Jones Sausag. Hilt more Hills Antburn Pontiac, Inc. Medlin-Oavts Cross Poultry Co. Ivey’s of Raleigh Branch Banking at.d Trust Co. Hudson-Be Ik-Etirds of Raleigh Newsome Roofing Co. Pepsl-Cola Bottling Co. Harmon Motor Co. Ready Mixed Concrete Co. PAGE 7 Auto Discount Co. Carolina Motor Sales Rawls Motor Co. Aamce Transmission Kelly Auto Sales Weaver Bros. Rambler, Inc. Perry’s Grocery and Market PAGE 8 Colonial Slore* London oil Co. Acme Realty Co. *■ B. Quinn Furniture Cf*. Marion Man Slain Trying To Register MARION, Ala. (NPD ln life, Jimrme Lee Jackson, 36, was just an average person, and average Negro with the average Negros gripes. He was also a fanner who had joined with others of his race to push for the first class citizen ship too long denied Negroes. There was nothing special »- bout him, but in death, he was ascended t« the role of a here In the integration movement. Wednesday, Jackson was giv en s "Freedom Funeral," an* (CONTtNTJED ON PAGE 2) I. S. i iU s Race's Aj* Jim ( row WASHINGTON, D. C. Negroes in rural South have been consist ently discriminated against 3rd segregated in four major Federal programs administered by the De partment of Agriculture, according to a report to the President and Congress released Monday, March 1. 'by the U. S, Commission on Civil Rights. The 136-page report, “Equal Opportunity m Farm Pro grams," cites corrective ac tion recently Initiated by the Department but documents the agency’s prevailing; practice of following "local patterns of racial segregation and discrim ination in providing assistance paid for by Federal funds." This practice, the Commis sion reports, has results in sharp disparities in the amount and quality of services provid ed white and Negro farmers and their families by four a gencies which serve rural resi dents at the county level. The Commission reported that 98 percent of Negro farmers tn (CONTINUED ON PAGE Z) Factory Outlet Sportswear RAGE » A and F Stores Estates Builders Co. N'elsoa’s Wayside Furniture Community Florist Roy's Drive-In Cleaners Community .Dru* Store PAGE 10 Carolina Builders Corp. Pcpsi-Coia Bottling Co. of Ralel„h Ridgeway’s Optician. Inc. PAGE 11 Raleigh Business College l.ighmers Funeral Home williams Grocery KWIX Public. Service Co., of N. C., Inc. Mechanics and Farmers Bank Stephens' Appliance Co. PAGE 15 Carolina Power and Light Co Wrenn Electric Co. Dunn.’* Esso Service Cinstead’* Transfer and Grocery King Cole Mote! M. *L Jackson Central Drug Store PAGE 14 Lincoln Theatre Ambassador Theatre PAGE 13 Flsiser Wholesale Co., Inc. McLeod, Watson and Lanier Red Wlffltr Tackle and Bait Shop Raper’s Market Smitty’s Bait and Tackle Shop PAGE 18 Tire Sales and Service Hunt General Tire Co Terrace Insurance and Realty Co. Wilaow-Forrall Fnrnltor* Co, White’s Oil Co,, Inc. ■taeferteai Wholegtlors. *»«. GIVEN HERO'S BURIAL The body o< Jimmie Lee Jackson, 26, w ho died last Friday a; the result of a gunshot wound, received while he was attempting to register to vote in Marion, Ala on February 18, is viewed by Negroes, who hold crossed hands as they look at their hometown hero, who was given that type of funeral in Selma, and burial in Marion Wednesday of this week. (UPI PHOTO). PRICE 15c Ala., Miss. NAACP’ers Attend Charlotte Meet; Cite Atrocities BY J. B HARREN CHARLOTTE Mississippi and Alabama delegates to the 13th An nual Southeastern NAAGP Region al Conference meeting here in the . .: -mE MRS. EH,I,IAN W. McDANIEL , . . national prexy to speak Nat’l Head Os NACW To Raleigh Sun. On Sunday, March 7. the Raleigh Branch of the National Association of College Women will celebrate National Founders Day Observance at the First Congregational Church. At the morning worship hour Mrs. Lillian W. McDaniel national pres ident of the Organization, will be the keynote speaker. Annually, branch organiza tions pay tribute to their foun ders and, at the same time, re dedirate themselves and renew their allegiance to the princi ples and purpose of the NACW. Prior to corporate worship service Sunday morning, Mrs. (CONTINUED ON V. GE 2) Jones Still In Jail After Dove Case Mistrial Although Wake Superior Court, Judge Leo Carr declared a mistrial last Wednesday night in the case of John Ulysses Jones, 59, of Lynchburg, Va., on a robbery rap. the defendant was still lan - guishing in Wake County Jail early Wednesday of this week, in lieu of a $2 000 bond, according to Mrs. A. J. Froescher, wife of the county jailor. Arthur Dove, well-known Roy Wilkins Is Held 4 Prisoner ’ In Own Office NEW YORK (NPI) NAACF Executive Director Roy Wilkins was held a virtual prisoner in his office for several hours last week when young demonstrators staged a sit-in outside his door. (CoKTmvm~m tags *> Queen Charlotte Hotel, February 25-27, told amazing stories of hard ship, police brutality, even death, as the answer for their persistence in attempting to gain the unfetter ed use of the ballot in their suites, Charles Evers, brother of slain NAACP field secretary Medgar W, Evers, told news men he holds no bitterness a gainst anyone because of the death of h»> proOnr at the hands of an assasin's bullet which struck Medgar W. Evers Dr. Watson Anniversary Orator Sun. Dr. Melvin H. Watson will be the keynote speaker here Sunday at U a. m. a.s the First Baptist Church observes its 153rd anni versary. A nationally-known scholar, teacher and preacher. Dr. Watson is an associate pro fessor at the Interdenomina tional Theological Seminary, and pastor of the Liberty Rap iist Church, both in Atlanta. Ga He holds ar. undergraduate <3c gree from Morehouse College, At lanta, and received the B. D. and S. T. M. degrees from Oberlin College. Ohio. He also holds a Pb. D degre from the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, Califor nia. The first years of his profes sional eare-r were spent at Shaw University here, where he served as dean of men and director of Religious Life. He served also at Dillard Univers ity, New Orleans, in a similar capacity. From Dillard, Dr. Watson wen! to Howard University's School oi Religion, where he was appointed dean of the chapel. First Baptist Church has a long and proud history and it feels it fitting that it should turn aside and call upon all the friends of this church to observe also the sig nificance of such an occasion. The rburrh has contributed (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) From Raleigh's Official Police Files: THE ( RIME BEAT BY CHARLES R. JONES Couldn’t Dance With Woman, Shoots Her Miss Mary Carolyn Patterson, 22. of 112 Camden Street, told Of ficers C. C. Heath and P. A. Dean, at 12:11 a. m., Saturday, she was dancing with a man called “Smit ty” from Fort Bragg at Club 54, comer of E. Davie and S. Blood worth Streets, when another man whom -she did not know, tried to dance with her. “Smltty” said no. and the man, who hails from Bragg, also, said: “I will shoot it out, then.” He fired two shots, one striking Miss Patterson in the right hand, travelling from her thumb to the little finger, where It emerged. She was admitted to Wake Me morial Hospital for overnight ob servation. The "stranger” had not beer, apprehended at press tun®.. in the back one lonely night two years ago The shot echoed around the w orld, as did the 19- l( (»M INI M» ON P \<;E ?) It JiS* 4 * Ifpj OSSIE DAVIS Ossie Davis Says Malcolm Was ‘Prince’ NEW YORK (NPI) ‘Malcolm was our manhood . . . our living black manhood. In honoring him, we honor the bent in ourselves .. .” ■‘He was a prince . . . our own black, shining prince who did not hesitate to die because he loved us so. . . .” The eulocy, from the lips of actor playwright Ossie Davis, was for the slain black nation alist Malcolm X, a controversi al figure whose death threat ened to set of? a "Black Mafia" vendetta. Only a few hundred people were able to crowd into Harlem's Faith Temple Church of God in Christ — a converted mot ie theatre—where Moslem services for Malcolm were (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2) Wouldn’t Move From Highway, Man Beaten William Powell, of 1304 E. Edetv ton Street, repotted to Office! B. C. Nipper at 5:33 p. m. Saturday, he was crossing New Bern Avenue at Park Street, when a car stop ped a.nd Robert Ramsey. 22-year old white man of 2127 Rowell Rd., got out of the vehicle and hit Pow ell over an eye with his fist. The cop also talked to Ram sey, who declared, "He was standing in the middle of the highway and 5 asked him to move,” He further stated that Powell cursed bins, provoking him out of his car t© hit aw# cat Powell’s eye. Powell signed a warrant, charg ing assault and. battery, and Ram sey's warrant alleged disorderly conduct. Both men were then ar rested. ocoHTimntD on pawr y$
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