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f* L ' WALKING AMONG THF K1 AN - A N*wro youth is shown in Atlanta, Ga„ last week attending a rally of the Ku Klux Klan. This youth, who was among several Negroes in attendance, seems undaunted as he walks among the uniformed, unmasked mem bers of the Klan. (UPI PHOTO). KaleiglTs Mrs. t owns Dies On Way 'To I). C. Mrs. Sophronla Crenshaw (Tompsey) Towns, well-known Raleigh resident, died at the wheel of her automobile Sun day about 11 a. m., enroute to the funeral of her only bro ther-in-law, who died last week in Washington, D. C. Mrs. Towns, 66, of 323 Can non Street, suffered a heart attack about seven miles out of Raleigh, on U. S. Highway 401 North. She was enroute to Washington for the funeral of Charles E. Johnson, husband of her sister, Mrs. Mable John son. Mr. Johnson was buried In the nation’s capital Monday, and Mrs. Johnson came to Ra leigh to make plans for the funeral of her sister late the same day. A native of Raleigh and a product of Its public schools, Mrs, Towns w'as the widow of Hubert Towns, who served as a letter carrier for a number of years here. Mrs. Towns attended Shav, University, where she pui sued a course in tailoring, mci later became quite popular here s a seamtress of note and a caterer. Funeral services will be con - ducted Friday at 4 p. rn. In the chapel on the campus of St. Augustine’s College. Fruhei Arthur J. Calloway, rector of (See MBS. TOWNS, P 2) PTA Congress Meet Should * Draw Hundreds MIAMI, Fla. The Nation al Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers will attract some 600 officers and delegates June 19-23 for Its 39th annual con vention ir. Miami. Mayor Robert King High will bring greetings to the group at its opening general assembly meeting at 9:15 a. m. June 2!. Whitney M. Young, Jr., execu tive director of the National Ur ban League, will deliver ttie keynote address. Mrs. Jewett Hitch, presi dent of the organization, will preside over two days of gen eral sessions. The Congress also will bear Dr. Joe Hall, superintendent of the Dade (Mi ami) County Board of Public Instruction; Mrs, Jenelle Moor head, president of National Con gress of Parents and Teachers and Dr, Joseph N. Patterson de partmental head at Winston- Salem State College. , The group’s activities June 19 and 20 mainly will be de voted to member registration and committee meetings. The day will conclude with a vesper (See PTA CONGRESS, P, 2) f “Self Image” Dr. Weaver’s Subject At RBC s Finals PR. FRANK B. WEAVER MRS. SOPHRONTA TOWNS Progressive Baptists To Durham Soon DURHAM - Mount vernon Baptist Church, 1000 S. Rox borc -dree-, will be the scene o. the Progressive National Baptist Congress of Christian Education June 21-25, and ac cording to Dr. S. T. Browne, pastor, more than 1,000 per sons will be in attendance. The Baptist churches of the Dur ham area will host the meet. The city Is expected to roll out the red carpet In a wel come program that will be held June 22, at 7:30 p..m. Music will be furnished by the Young Adult Choir of Mt. Vernon Church. Rev. L. A. Miller, St. Mark A. M. E. Zion church will lead the devotion. Mayor Wensel Grabarek will be in troduced by H. M. Michaux, Jr. and he will greet the visit ors on behalf of the city. The City Council will be rep resented by Councilman J. S. Stewart, and Dr. Thomas Bass, t rustee of Mt. Vernon Church, will bring greetings for the host church. Rev. L. P. Per ry, president, Inter denomina tional Ministerial Alliance of Durham and Vicinity, will tell how happy all of the ministers are to have the confab here. The welcome exercise will close with a greeting from the State Sunday School and BTU Convention, by E. M. Bu’ler, of Wilmington. The week-long event Is ex pected to react) for new hori zons in the denomination’s pro gram of Christian education. (See DURHAM HOSTS, P. 2) The 15th Annual Commence ment Exercises of Raleigh Bus iness College were held at the Crosby-Garfield School Thurs day, June 10. Dr. Frank B. Weaver, State Supervisor of Elementary Ed- j ucation was the Commencement. speaker. Dr. Weaver’s subject was “The Challenge for Living in a Rapidly Changing World.” There are three challenges one must face up to in the space age, he said: “You must prepare to live with yourself. You must take a close-up picture of yourself to see what you are really like.” “If your self-image is blur red, you cannot smooth of! your rougli edges, and people will avoid you. You might be pre judiced. You might find In others what you dislike in your self.’’ “So often, we draw conclu sions about people before we know what they are like.” “Do not wait until you have (See RBC GRADS, P. 2) Man Sentenced To Lif e r - ; - t n .nm«- c». SAYS WHITE WIDOW ASKED HIM TO KILL N. C. HUBBY ***** * * * * * ***** ***** State’s Methodists Integrate Woman's Promises Disclosed HALIFAX - A murder case, which at first involved three Negro men, took on a new twist when the mother of two children was accused last Thrusday of being an acces sory before the fact of murder In the ambush slaying of her husband, Elmer Taylor, 34- year-old storekeeper. The three Negroes received life sentences in the slaying, and the widow will be tried at a later date. The woman, Mrs. Be’ty Ann Taylor, 33, was ordered held under a bond of SIO,OOO, in the death last December 18 of Taylor. The three men convicted in the plot are accused of having placed logs across a road and having shot Taylor as he e merged from his truck to re move the logs, blocking the deserted country road as he drove toward his store. Receiving life sentences were Johnny Johnson, 25, Clark Brin son, 20, and Arthur Harper, 33. The jury deliberated only 45 minuses before finding the trio guilty of the death in Hali fax Superior Court here. Harper, who pleaded guilty to his part in the crime, told the court that Mrs. Taylor asked him to rig her husband’s pickup truck with him to rig her husband’s pickup truck with an explosive, “so it would blow up and kill him.” He testified further that the woman promised to give him “everything, including the store and ail of his insurance.” According to Harper, Mrs. Taylor had been friendly with (See WHITE MOM, P. 2) Farmer And Gregory Are First Jailed BY CLARK MILLER CHICAGO-(NPI) — National CORE Director James Farmer, comedian Dick Gregory and some 350 other demonstrators were arrested last week as police called a halt to a pro posed march on City Hall to protest the retention of Dr. Benjamin C. Willis as superin tendent of the city’s public schools. Civil rights leaders claimed public school absenteeism con tinued high in the second day of an “unofficial” boycott. A two-day boycott proposed by civil rights groups was can celled as the result of a court injunction secured by School Board President Bernard J. Whiston. The arrest was the second within a week for Gregory. He was arrested earlier during a demonstration in fron of the Board of Education. He had posted bond In order to par ticipate in the march. Others arrested included Gregory’s wife, Lillian, and two of their children, Michele, 6 and Lynne, 4; Albert Raby, convener, Coordinating Coun cil of Community Organlza (#ee VASMm, OTOKStS. P. 2) PROTEST IN CHICAGO—CiviI rights leaders and followers hold hands as they marched down Chicago’s Balboa Street last weekend, eriroute to City Hall to protest alleged school segrega tion in the Illinois metropolis, and the rehiring of Benjamin Willis as school superintendent. Originally, this group had planned a two-day school boycott in protest, but they were blocked by a court’order. The Carolinian VOL. 24, NO. 32 "CIVIL RIGHTS BILL HOT CURE-ALL” Morticians' Convention 9 is Concluded STATESVILLE Robert J. Brown, president of B & C Associates in High Point, serv ed as the keynote speaker for the 38th Annual Convention of the N. C. Mortician and Funer al Directors, Tuesday, June 8, in Sta' ?sville. Luring his speech, Mr. Brown told his audience, “The Civil Rights Bill is not a ‘cure all’ for the Negro comnnnity or the Negro businessmen. It brings with it a greater responsibili ty. (Seif Rl. rfTS BILL, P. 2) $45,000 Goal Set By Elks in 65 Drive PHILADELPHIA. Pa. The Grand Lodge of Elks has set a goal of $45,000 for the 1965 Elks Freedom Fund, and this money will be used to assist the Civil’Rights Revolution in all sections of the country. It has previously raised and donated $30,00 which has been donated to rights organizations, schools, colleges and universi ties through the generosity of the Brothers and Daughters of the Order. The Freedom Fund Goal was announced this week by Hobson Reynolds, Grand Exalted Ruler of the Elks. Simultaneously, Judge Perry B. Jackson, Grand Treasurer, and Mrs. Nettje B. Smith, Gran d Daughter Ruler, stated that proceeds from the dinner honoring Grand Exalted Ruler Reynolds during the Grand Lodge Convention here (See ELKS SET, P. 2) Off’s Ban 0b Demonstrations Ended if Court / JACKSON, Miss-(NPI)-- The city’s racial atmosphere has so improved the State Supreme court ruled last week, that it is no longer necessary to keep the ban against civil rights demonstrations. The court dissolved a per manent injunction of the Hinds County Chancery court, Issued in 1963, on the grounds that “an emergency situations has substantially diminished.” The county court’s order had been issued after the arrest, of 626 demonstrators in racial protests in the city. North Carolina s Leading Weekly RALEIGH, N. C„ SATURDAY. JUNE 19, 1965 “A TIME FOR MOURNING” The wife of slain Negro Deputy Sheriff O’Neal Moore, near Bogulasa, La., last week, is shown hugging her daughter, Tressler, at burial services for Moore, who as killed in an ambush slaying. Behind the casket, from left to right, are: Mrs. Audrey Nichols, mothe'. of Mrs, Moore, Steven Moore, father of the slain deputy, Tressler, Mrs. Mae vella Moore, and another daughter, Regenia Moore. (UPI PHOTO). Spokesman For Ku Klux Klan Declares LIJ 'Negro’s Foe’ ATLANTA (NPI)--President Lyndon B. Johnson “has risen to power on the back of the black man and he will turn a round and destroy him," warn ed Matt Murphy, a Klan at torney from Birmingham, Ala., Miss Newell Selected For Trip To Germany Miss Deanne Newell has been selected as a participant in the Experiment in International Living for the summer of 1965. She is the first and only Ne gro from this area to take part in high school program. This selection entitles her to spend two months in Germany. One month will be spent with a family and the other travel ing throughout Germany. Deanne has taken German for two years at Needham Brough ton High School, where she will be a senior in September. She has studied German also at the Yale-North Haven High School during the summer of 1964. There will be ten students in her group, under the lead ership of a competent person, who has been well-versed in the area of travel and German culture. The students will be from Massachusetts to Califor nia. The ‘rip will commence at a Xu Klun Klan rally here last week. A cheerLng crowd of between 800 and 1,000 persons, includ ing more than 500 Klansmen and their followers were pres ent. Theme were also a fe\y Ne fflgs .?■ MISS DEANNE NEWELL on Jane 27 and end on Septem ber 8, 1965. In addition to visiting Germany, she will spend a few days in Belgium and France. The Experiment In Interna tional Living has produced such national, figures as Robert Sar gent Shrlver. The Experiment has been in operation for 35 years, and has Increased its membership from 12 to over a thousand. Deanne Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Newell of Raleigh. She is a member of the Jack and Jill Club where she Is secretary, a member of the Teen Dems Club and a member of First Baptist Church where she Is a pianist. She has been an honor stu dent since entering Broughton in September of 1963. Miss Newell will leave by- Icelander Airlines from Ken nedy International Airport June 27 after orientation. She will land in Brussels, Belgium the 'following morning, at which 1 time another orientation will be given her and the nine oth ers accompanying her. She will then take a bus to Frankport, Germany. She will reside with a Ger (See MISS NEWELL, t». 3) PRICE 15 CENTS groes on the outskirts of the crowd. Murphy described Mrs. Vi ola Liuzzo, a Detroit civil rights worker shot to death in Alabama, as “no martyr.” Similarly critized and label led, was the Rev. James Reeb, white Unitarian minister from Boston, who was slain during the civil rights demonstration in Selma, Ala. “The real murderers of Reeb were communist conspira tors,” Murphy said. Also attending the rally were a sprinkling of civil rights workers, but there were no Incidents. In Birmingham, a stained glass w’indow, donated by the people of Wales, England, was dedicated at the 16th Street Baptist Church, where four young Negro girls were slain by a dynamite blast two years ago. In Bogalusa, La., the state last week offered $25,000 for clues in the ntghtrider slaying of Deputy Sheriff O’Neal Moore, the first Negro to serve as a peace officer. " Murphy has paid visits to several North Carolina cities recently. During the month of May he, along with at least one of the suspects in the Liuzzo murder. 1 attended a Ku Klux (Bee CAXXJS LB4, P 2) From Raleigh's Official Police Files: THE CRIME BEAT BY CHARLES R. JONES Sssfs Two Sons W «rt Msdkd! if Females Mrs. Katie Brand, of O'Kel ly Street, Method, reported to “the law" at 10rl8 p. m. Fri day, her two sons, Robert Lee, 14, and his 13-year-old brother, Charles Walker Brand, were attacked by two females, Misses Louise Lockhart and Ethel Mae Lockhart, both of whom reside on Hogan’s Lane. The boys were reportedly bitten on the ear and struck on the hfead with teeth, bands and fists, respectively, Mrs. Brand stated she would find out the correct ages and address of the girls, then sign warrants or petitions, charging assault and battery. Two rain coats, worn by the boys were torn up, the mother stated. The incident took place near the Self-Service Market on Hillsboro Street. White Body Extends An Invitation The Southeastern Jurisdic tion of the North Carolina Con ference of the Methodist Church, for the first time In State history, has Invited the Negro Methodist Conferences to become affiliated. This action took place here Monday and was approved by a whopping 196-27 vote. Only a vote of two-thirds was needed to invite the Negro body to join. This Invitation satisfied step one of a two-step plan adopted by the Methodist Church’s Gen eral Conference last year to eliminate the all-Negro Con ference Jurisdiction. The second step calls for the merger of the all-Negro annual conference with white confer ences in the Juris diction. North Carolina Methodists had received a recommendation by the Jurisdiction to adopt step one, inviting Negroes to join, but had not recommended merger of the annual confer ences. However, If the all-Negro Conference Is Invited to join by all the annual conferences, (See METHODISTS P. 2) Allen Univ. Seeking New President COLUMBIA, S. C. --- The Board of Control of Allen Uni versity met last w’eek and named a five member committee to recommend a new president following the resignation of Dr. Howard E. Wright, which will take effect July 31. The Rev. L. L. Farmer, of Summerville, was appointed chairman of the nominating committee. An Interim committee was also named to carry on the affairs of the Institution with Dr. H. I. Fontellio-Wanton, dean of the university as chairman. Others on the committee are E. W. Waddell, business man ager and Mrs. Henrietta Gall lard, registraur. Bishop C. A. Gibbs, chairman of the Board of Trustees ex pressed appreciation on behalf (See AXJLEN PRS3CV, P 8) 111 Delegates lit! 1$ Off One-hundred delegates from across the State converged on Raleigh, Wednesday, June 16 to attend the Third Annual Or lentation Conference of NEA delegates from North Carolina. The morning session began 10:00 a. m. In the Greenleaf Auditorium of Shaw University. On Wednesday afternoon, NCTA and NCEA delegates met in a joint session in the NCEA Cen ter Auditorium. The purpose of this confer ence was to give all NEA dele gates some orientation regard ing NEA Convention operating procedures, the issues to come before the convention, and their roles as delegate Son Stabs Bad Thrn* Tints, Ms Arrested Willie Robert Graham, of 2215 Roberts Street (Oberlin) told officers at 7:38 p. m. Satur day, that he was arguing with his son, Willie B. Graham, 38, same address, trying to per suade him to stop drinking on the front porch. The son got mad, Mr. Graham stated, and “stabbed me in the chest, sto mach and back,' ’ Mr. Graham, who refused to sign a warrant against hi® son, was treated and released at Wake Memorial Hospital. However, Officer Lindsay Goodwin saw things different ly. He signed warrants, charg ing men with assault with a deadly weapon and they were “hauled off” to Wake County Jail. (See €*mw *• *>
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