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Confusion Abounds As LISTON K.O.’D IN HEAVY BOUT \ i L* l 4** , *Vt ( r I ms .jUII Kt :• i • VVWMGHT Hi 'XING HISTORY—L.EWISTON: Overhead view List ol ead-< igled on the canvas as heavyweight champion Cassius Clay jumps f or ,•,. t : , i i: titl< bout M.r, J. lo bo'oe Joe Walcott watches. Clay re tained his title ! .. k. ockout. (UPI PHOTO). Stuns Sports World; Boos, Cries Os 'Fake’ Are Heard LEV. IST ON, 'll ine - The sports world, at liornr and a broad was .suioord, i-oi-'n.aosbe yond complete recovery, here Tue sci: i y night, Ma \ 25, a s Charles “SomwListon' was knocked out in a , .•■•Nig world record -breaking* time: J. ESTES i VERS Byers Heads New School In County WARRENTON - At a recent meeting oi the Warrenton Dis trict School Rea h J. Estes Byers was re-elected principal oi the Hawkins HU'.h School, At this same meeting, Mr. By ers passed in his resignation as principal of the high school. He lias been eh ct, I and has accepted the principal ship of the (See BYERS NEW, P. 2) From Raleigh's Official Police Files: THE CHIME BEAT BY CHARLES R JONES Man Tries To Shoot Worn® hi Automobile Police Officer George Phil lip Donovan reported .it 7;25 a. m. Sunday, that he x,ss turn ing from Hoke Street onto Wal nut Street, when lie saw Mrs, Mary Elizabeth Byrd, 27, of 1324 Walnut Street, and i < zan der Byrd, 26, same address, fighting in a car. Mrs, Byrd was in the front seat, while Byrd was seated in back. The officer stated that the man had a .12 gauge shotgun pointed toward the front seat, and Mrs. Byrd was holding the muzzle of the deadly weapon down with tier left hand, while trying to defend herself with the right hand. Both were'arrested: She for assault and battery, and Mr. Byrd for assault with a dead ly weapon. This newsman was unable to track down the rea I one minute, by “mouthv” Cas sius Ma! cell us Clay, Jr, Raleigh, N, C. viewers j Mui-d > ttic.se in Lewiston when U> y j yelled “take’ and booed th« • decision. Clav is said to have dropped ! Liston, the ex-champion, with ’ a solid, short rirtit. Sonny j Rape Claim Os Local i Girl Said Unfounded BY CHARLES R. JONES The tales of a 16-year-old Raleigh girt, who told Raleigh police officers two different stories of being raped, were marked off as “unfounded” on the offense report we picked up Sunday afternoon in the Re cords and Identifications Bu reau of the Police Department. Miss Mary Dell King, of 861 Campanella Drive, reported to Officers T. T. Street, Jr., and Joseph Winters, Sr., at 11:20 p. in. Saturday, that she and Miss Carolyn Watson, 17, oi | 1227 Booker T. Avenue, along j j with John Joseph Evans, 18, j of Route 6, Raleigh, had walked ' to Chavis Park and several o her places, when they met ■; A1 Bobbie Raines, 16, of 423 j S. Bloodworth Street, at the : corner of S. Bloodworth. and E. Cabarrus Street. She declared the four of them then started walking east on WEATHEftI Temperatures for the next five days, Thursday through Monday, will average 3 to 6 degrees above normal, or 82 and 60 degrees. Af ternoon and evening showers and thundershowers wilt average one half Inch, with the Raleigh area rereiving this amount or more It will toe fair during most of the mornings, with the showers oc curing in the late afternoons or at ) night. * son for the altercation between the two. Cuts Man Because He Ceddft’f Drink Wine Will Thomas, 62, of 820 S. East Street, told Officer Nor man Artis and James E. (Bobby) Daye at 6:15 p, m. Monday, was cut because he refused to let another man drink his wine. Haywood Ferrell, 60, same address, was the alleged wield er of the sharp object which sent the complainant, to Wake Mem orial Hospital for treatment. Ferrell is said to have cut Mr. Thomas on the head, "because I wouldn’t give him any wine,” Thomas was treated and re leased at Wake Memorial Hos pital for two head wounds. He signed a warrant, charging as sault with a deadly weapon and Ferrell was "hauled in” in the 800 block of S. Bloodworth St. (gee CRIME BEAT, P. 3> rolled over, attempted to get ! ,<-k up, then fell back to the ivnv is * 1 - aln. The poetry-spouting Clay clh :, “Get up, Get up,” then I , | . an to dance around the i in.- shouting, “I want Floyd Patti-i son.” (See SPORTS WORLD, P 2) C.ii.,: rus Street, and wound up at ,i spot behind 505 Alston Street, which is a path between Alston Street and Montague Lane. Th" girl said she was raped (See GIRL CLAIMS, 3* t) Jim Ciork Says Life Threatened SELMA, ALA.(NPI)- A threat on his life was given last week by Dallas County Sheriff James G. Clark as the reason he asked for a police file on slain Detroit civil rights, Mrs. Viola Liuzzo. The file, which traced Mrs. Liuzzo’s three marriages, e ventually got into the hands of the Ku KTux Klan. Clark obtained the file from the War ren, Mich., police commission er, Marvin Lane. Lane "had obtained it from a Detroit detective inspector Earl Miller, Miller was sus pended from his command last week and assigned to the .crime (See JIM CLARK. P. 2) ' ( NCII.MAN Dr. Moses A. Ray, Tarboro, den tist, won a seat on the Town Council recently by defeating V, H. Creech, Incumbent Mayor Pro-Tom and publisher of The Tarboro Daily Southerner. Dr. Ray, a graduate of Shaw and Howard Universities, becomes the first Negro to serve on the town’s governing board since the days of Reconstruction. ******** ***************** GOV. MOORE MUM ON NC KLAN ’S A CTIVITIES THE CAROLINIAN North Carolina s Leading Weekly VOL. 24, NO. 29 RALEIGH, N. C . SATURDAY MAY c* I Bn- PRICE 15 CENTS State. Tutors Differ ★ A - ’* *★★★★★ CORE S NAT L MEET TO DURHAM Jas. Farmer j Will Keynote! 22nd Meet HIGH POINT, N. C. --“The Black Ghetto: An Awaking Giant’ will be the theme for the 22nd annual convention of the Congress of Racial Equali ty to be held at the Civic Center in Durham, Thursday through Monday, July 1-5, , - torney Floyd Llxler MeKi.*' cV, of Durham, serves as National Chariman. More than 700 members from 200 chapters across the coun try are expected to attend the convention. Pre - registration begins Tuesday, June 29, and will con tinue through Wednesday, June 30, at the Jack Tar Hotel in Durham. The convention is open to the public. Farmer Will Keynote James Farmer, National Di rector of CORE, will deliver the keynote address at the o pening session on Thursday. Other major addresses to be delivered during the convention have been announced. CORE was founded in Chi cago, 111. hi 1942. It is a national multiracial member ship organization, composed of affiliated chapters, and of di rect national individual asso ciate members. The purpose for which CORE exLsts is to abolish discrimination based u pon skin color, race, religion or national origin, stressing non violent, direct action methods. Elks Will Give $54,000 In Scholarships PHILADELPHIA, PA. —Elks Grand Exalted Ruler Hobson R. Reynolds announced this week that the Grand Lodge will award $54,000.00 In scholar ships to Oratorical Contest win ners and other worthy scholars and students this year. Mr. Reynolds also revealed that every state Oratorical Con test winner this year will re ceive a scholarship, and that the 32 students already on the Elks scholarship roll will be granted their annual funds. The $54,000 to be granted in scholarship awards in 1965 will boost to over $2 million, the money expended by the Elks’ Grand Lodge for scholarships since establishment of the Elks Educational Department in 1925 It was at the Grand Lodge Con vention in Richmond, Virginia, 40 years ago, that the resolu tion was passed creating the Department oi Education. The resolution stated in part, that: “Said department shall be operated and controlled by a Board of Education, composed of the Grand Exalted Rider, Grand Secretary, the three Grand Lodge Trustees, and a Commissioner of Education, who shall be Secretary of the Board and who shall be elected by the Grand Lodge annually.” . . .The 1965 Grand Commis sioner of Education Is George <S«•- ELKS GIVE. P. 2) EX-GOVERNOR-COMMERCE SECRETARY, HON*IRK!)- University president, Dr. James E. Cheek (left), confers the honorary Doctos oi 1 i« re, ■ i former North Carolina Govei nor Luther Hartwell Hodges, .it the 100th annual Cora:. •• mrtit it Shaw University Monday. Governor Hodges, who retired tide ve.tr a 1 . s. Sen ■ i,: Commei n*, drtiteied the corn- mencement address. _ _ Teachers, NAA CP Join In Protest Over Stale And Raleigh Claims Editor’s Note; The follow - ing information was supplied to The CAROLINIAN by the I AT JEWISH DINNER —NEW YORK: Vice-President Hut ert Humphrey and Dr. M irtin Luther King, Jr. converse after the 58th annual dinner of the American Jewish Conimittee May 20th In New York. King told the audience that “Whei Negroes took to the streets to demand jo- opportunities for themselves, they helped to stimulate a broad war-on-poverty concept which ul timately will benefit more whites than Negroes (UPI PHOTO), North Carolina Teachers As sociation, through its execu tive secretary, E. B. Palmer, and relates ordeals endured by this State’s teachers: Since February, 1965, cases (See STATE, TCTOKS. P 2) Ist Negro Woman Ambassador Is Appointed By Pres. Johnson WASHING! ON(NPI) -- Mrs. Patricia Harris, prominent Ne gro lawyer and associate pro fessor of constitutional liv at Harvard, has received Presi dent Johnson’s nomination as ambassador to Luxembourg. If confirmed by the Senate, Mrs. Hands will set a pre cedent as the first Negro woman to serve In a top foreign dip lomatic post for the United States. A native of Matton, 111., and , NCs flk Congress ✓ To Miami Sessions The National Convention of the National Congress of Col ored Parents and Teachers will be held in Miami, Florida, June 19-24. Convention headquarters will be the Biscayne Terrace Hotel, 340 Biscayne Boulevard, Mi ami, Florida. Accommodations are also a vailable at the Alcazar and McAllister Hotels. Applications for reservations (gee. PTA CONGRESS, P. 2) Cithern Are Alarmed At His Cairn BY ALEXANDER BARNES In an intensive effort to reach Governor Dan K. Moore to get a statement on how he felt about the Klan activities in this State, The CAROLINIAN .'..is told Wednesday morning that the chief executive had n< statement on the controversial matter. This information came Lorn Moore’s office. Iho statement was sought in tin' hope ttiat Governor Moore would tell CAROLINIAN read ers whether lie countenanced the parading of the three accused Uab.ima white men, of the mur !< of Mrs. Viola Gregg Lulzzo tdtc freedom worker, by their .ittormn, a few days ago in Dunn, the holding of a Klan ill\ in Wake County recently and u . much-publicized Klan : . , it. > in I armville last Sat urday night, or not. It is ils e hoped that the Gove urn could announce any action pi. timed to take in ■ upport i 1’; esldent Johnson’s <S«v CITIZKNS, F I) [lodges Is Keynoter At Shaw j i ■ mei N >"th Carolina G »v --1 entie l.u.iir 11, Hi nil res ueged Sii. Untversii graduates to “go On 1 am! w irk an t serve.” Speaking at the University’s 100th annual Commencement, Monday, Hodges called for a dedication to the state and ttie nation and told the 106 graduates that he hoped they have learned from their years In college “to do something for the other fellow.” “Shaw. University has a great history in its 100 years since its founding by Martin Tupper in 186"),” he said. “If Shaw can turnout dedicated studeats to help make its future sure, a new world will open up to the University.” The former U. S. Secretary of Commerce, under both the Kennedy and Johnson adminis tration, urged the graduates to be students who will “give something back to those who have given so much to you.” An audience estimated at more than 1,600 witnessed the 100-year old institution’s clos ing exercises in the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium as Pres ident James E. Cheek conferred 106 undergraduate degrees, one Bachelor of Divinity degree and four honorary doctorate de grees. Governor Hodges, who is also honorary chairman of the Shaw University Centennial Develop ment Fund Campaign, was a (See HOUGES. P. 2) -—■■■ —— .. mmmmmmmmtmmmmmmmrn former resident of Chicago, Mrs. Harris replaces a Chi cago lawyer, William R. Llvi kin who was appointed to the post in November, 1962 by Pres ident Kennedy. Mrs. Perle Mesta was U. S. minister dur ing the Truman administration, Mrs. Harris came Into na tional prominence when the late President Kennedy appointed her co-chairman with Mrs. Es ther Petersen to the National (See FIRST NBGRO, P. t) Mrs. Motley Glvms Coveted Wm Awcrd NEW YORK--Manhattan Bo rough President Constance Baker Motley last Monday, May 17, became the third Negro wo man in succession to receive the Louise Waterman Wise A - “for distinguished serv ice to civil rights” presented annually by the National Wo men's Division of the American Jewish Congress. Mrs. Motley was honored at a luncheon in the Plaza Hotel (See MRS, MOTLKIS, 2*. X)
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