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Dr. King Blasts Both Groups As . co. aru t. _ , r Lo.'.is. i lie, iQr. co;! . COREJOINS 'DEACONS FOR DEFENSE r NC’s Mrs. Koontz Given Anotl National Office THE CAROLINIAN VOL. 24. NO. 35 Ala. Couaty Drops Literacy Tests POVERTY WORKERS MOVE Cops Mold Ex-Marine In Craven NEW BERN William Balles, a 42-year-old white ex-marine, was jailed here late Saturday after shots were fired at the passing car of two white men employed in the North Carolina Volun teers and Craven County Ope ration Progress, Bailee, who lives in the Broad Creek community, engh. miles east of New Bern, was identified by Prank In gram and Leon Capetanos as the man who fired shots at their automobile. The defendant lives two miles from a cabin where Negroes and whites of tooth sexes had been living and working with the pro gram since iate June. When confronted by the two men, Bail®® denied that he had done the shooting or that he recog n’zed the two. Craven County Sheriff Charlie Berry stated late Sat urday that he had uncovered nothing to connect Bailes with an earlier shooting Sat urday morning at the group’s cabin. Five shots were fired through a window at the ca bin at about 2 a.m. Saturday. Deputy Sheriff Bruce Edwards said a sign erect ed by the group to guide wmm maw, p. a> Alphas Set 59th Annual Conclave | CHICAGO (NPD—The 59th iUpcrai convention of Alpha THk Alpha fraternity will be at the Sheraton ®|@ag'o hotel August 8-12, un a theme of “Continuing ’ SSsfcThrust for Equality of Gp portnity," convention general chairman, Bennie D. Brown, disclosed last weak. Dr. Lionel H. Newsom, president, .Barber- Scotia College, Concord, N. C., heads the Alphas, the old est Negro college organisa tion in America- The fra ternity was founded toy seven students at Cornell University, Ithaca, N„ Y. In IWHS. Indications are that more than I,COO delegates from ev ery state will be in attendance. Keynote address will be deliv eiM toy Dr. Charles H. Garvin, Cleveland, Ohio, who served as the fraternity’s fourth president (3912-13). Henry A. C&Uia, lone surviv or of the seven founders, will attend as honored guest and <S*v ALPOAS ms, 9. ® klan mm ATLANTA, Ga.~ The to tal (Fialton County) Dem ocratic party has refuged t® srecognlie an uiMds-ned aPTltoatten from the Ka I&Sisx Klan, it was learned here last Saturday. The executive dfcrector, Mrs. Sxw’fe! Cormartie, reported that the uuffMd paper asking membership was re vived in her afifee Thtsrs day. The woman stated, "The party’s standing policy Is not to wmtr ntemhersbitw to organisations, but fndl ddEftl Democrats interest* ®d t» the democratic form of Wcnuseat," she con eisjded. The United Slant ©f A* merica had sought the fetoakrt naemlmraiite. North Carolina *s Leading Weekly RALEIGH. N. C, SATURDAY, JULY 17. 1965 WOMAN REFUSES TO GIVE COPS BOMB - St. Augustine, Fla.: Mrs. Luciile Plummer, secretary of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference here, shows a beach-ball firebomb found during last week under a partly-filled fuel tank at left. Her son’s bedroom window is near the tank. She refused to give the ball to local police, asking instead for federal help. (UPI PHOTO). Judge Marshal! Gets Nod As Solicitor Gen. WASHINGTON Thur good Marshall, the former chief counsel for the National Association for the Advance ment of Colored People, and who was directly responsible for the passage of the May 17, 1954 school desegregation e dict, was nominated Tuesday of this week by President Johnson to be solicitor gen eral of the United States. If approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee (chair ed by Sen. James O. Eastland, D.-Miss), Judge Marshall will be the third ranking lawyer for his country', under the at torney general and the depu ty attorney general. Bom in Baltimore 57 years ago, the judge of the 2nd U. S. Circuit, which includes New York, Connecticut, and Vermont, Marshall has visited the U. S. Supreme Court on 32 occasions, and won 29 vic tories in the interest of the Negro cause. He will succeed Archibald Cox, a New Eng lander, who gave as his rea son for resigning the $23,500 a year - post, “I have deep roots in Massachusetts,” to "Closing Os Gaps’ Theme Os Urban League's Confab - NEW YORK Closing the economic and educational gap which separates Negroes from whites will be the theme of the National Urban League's 55th annual conference in Miami Bead's August 1-5. Some 900 delegates will eonvene t» map plans for aiding Negro*# better themselves by self-help methods. League officials in 72 cities long have toil ed to crack racial barriers restricting Negroes in hir ing and other fields. Now they are expected to ham mer away at the personal shortcomings of many Ne gro cltfsens handicaps wrought by generations of poor schooling, slums and inadequate health care and vocational knowledge. According to Ramon S. Scruggs, conference chairman and League vice president: “As the barriers fall, our op portunities will soar. We must THVHOOOH MARSHALL which he must return. When Judge Marshall was nominated to the judgeship by the late President John F. Kennedy, in 1961, it took al most one year for Eastland’s committee to confirm him. match our expectations with determination and our hopes with grit. We must not allow our flaws as individuals to hold back our progress as a people.” Opening the five-day con ference will be keynoter Whit ney M. Young Jr., the Lea gue’s na+ional executive di rector. His topic: "Action Now to Close the Gap: Ame ria’s Great Opportunity.” Much of the delegates' work will be concentrated on Fed eral and local anti-poverty programs. Young said. Tills theme was chosen in light of the Urban League’s profes sional interest in the War on Poverty. "We are confident that this meeting, coming as it does at a time of vast social change, at a time when Negro citizens are struggling for their proper recognition as other Ameri ism vmjtN uukiam, p. n PRICE 15 CENTS Action Is Hailed In Lowndes Co. HAYNESVILLE, Ala. —The Lowndes County Board of Registrars has agreed to elim inate the literary test from voter registration applications. The agreement was reached last week, after a series of ne gotiations with United States Attorney for the Justice De partment Carl Gabel. 'The literacy test, form erly Part 111 of the regis tration application, is of ficially designated as “In sert IO” and contains questions which demand extensive knowledge and understanding of both, the federal government and the United'States C w ti tutkm. This part of the application form is widely known to have been a ma jor discriminatory means by which Negro citizens, who constitute 81 percent of the population in Lown des, have been systematic ally denied the right to vote. Stokeley Carmichael, Stu dent Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) project director in Lowndes County, has called for a vigorous vot er registration drive in that county. “We’ve fought for the re (9ee UIHACT TEST, P. I) Raleigh's Witnesses To MY Talks “There will be fifteen dis trict conventions of Jehovah’s Witnesses in the United State® this summer,” Joseph Taylor, presiding minister of the Ra leigh South Unit congregation, stated last week. “These con ventions are sponsored by the Watch tower Bible and Tract Society of New York,” he add ed. Mr. Taylor said the members of the Raleigh congregation would be attending the Con vention at-Yankee Stadium in New York City, August 24-29. The expected attendance is 50,000. The assembly in New York (»e« wtnrmtxs, r. m CORE MARCHERS PROTECTED - Bogalusa, La.: State and city police are shown guarding the parade of almost 250 members of the Congress of Racial Equality as they marched through the streets of Bogalusa last week to protest the discriminatory hiring practices and police 1 brutality in the town. The march, held during a light rain, came off without. Incident. A white man was shot during an earlier march there. (UPI PHOTO). President Appoints Teacher JOHNSON CITY, Texas Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan Koontz, president of the 250,- 000 member Department of Classroom Teachers of the National Education Associa tion, and former North Caro lina governor, Terry Sanford were appointed last Saturday to the National Advisory Council on the Education erf Disadvantaged Children. MRS. E. D. KOONTZ Mrs. Koontz, sister of Dr. Samuel S. Duncan, president of Llgingstone College Salis bury, N. C., is herself a teach er of special education in the city school system of Salis bury. Mrs Koontz and Sanford were among eleven persons named to the Council by the President. She is believed to be the only Nesrro member asms, koontz, r. *> Jfk 111 MINISTER CHARGED IN EM BEZZLING - Shown is the Rev. F. D. Reese, of Selma, Ala bama, who was freed on a bond of $5,000 last weqk after being charged with embezzling civil rights funds from Dallas County Voters’ League, of which he is chairman. The Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, assistant to Dr, M. L. King, Jr., of the Southern Christian Leadership Confer ence, flew into Selma, and when he departed for Atlanta later in the day, said the SCLC “has confidence that the minister is not guilty.” Trial is expect ed to take place soon. Raps Derision As Inviting Violence DURHAM (NPD—Express ing himself as opposed to any organization that might resort to arms, even for defensive purposes, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., last week put fils personal stamp of disapproval on the Deacons for Defense and Justice, and the Congresss of Racial Equality. CORE and Dr. King are at variance, beeauc the group has aligned itself with the Negro vigilante group. Earnest Thomas of Jones boro, La., vice president and full time organizer for the Deacons, told CORE’S annual convention that civil rights workers need the Deacons “to let the Klan know that the Negro as a whole is not non violent.” National director James Farmer said CORE, which re portedly has been working with the Deacons in Jonesboro and Bogalusa, La., will coop- Molester Os Child Sentenced WILSON A 30-day road sentence was given 22-year old Sylvester McDonald after he was convicted in Record er’s Court here last weekend of assaulting a 14-year-old white boy. The defendant, an employ ee of the Center Theatre, was charged with the assault after he reportedly tried to molest. Charles Vincent Lively,in (he balcony of the movie house Monday of last week. As he sentenced McDonald, presiding judee Allen W. Har rell also activated an earlier suspended sentence he had imposed on the defendant for a larceny rap. The two terms v-ere ordered to run consecu tively. McDonald, through his at torney. gave notice of aDDe°‘. and his bond was set at SI,OOO for future appearance in Wil son County Superior Court. Wallace Snobs Ala. NAACP MONTGOMERY (NPD The request for an audience wi h Gov. George C Wallace was reportedly ignored last wrek, according to spokesmen of the Alabama NAACP. Dr. John W. Nixon, presi dent, Alabama State Con ference of NAACP branch es, had asked for an audi ence with the governor to discuss “adversely affect ing the registration of Ne gro citizens of Alabama." The request, made last June 16, has not been an swered, Dr. Nixon reveal ed. Among the specifics which Dr. Nixon sought to discuss with Gov. Wal lace were: The literacy test for voter registration; the alleged in humane-like manner the board is exemplifying toward Negro prospective voters and intim’da ■ ion and harnssm / ’nt by law en'orcemcnt officers or any other group during the summer vote r-registration sponsored by the NAACP. Dr. Nixon’s letter further stated: “We do not want in cidents like the Selma or Mis sissippi incidents." prate with them in any com munities where the Deacons are organized. The vigilante groups are needed in Louisiana to protect Negroes from the Ku Klux Klan. Farmer said. In direct opposition Dr. King said: “We can’t win our strug gle with violence and to cloak it under the name of defensive violence really is no answer. “The line of demarca tion between aggressive and defensive violence is very slim.” “The Negro must have allies 'o win his struggle for equal ity,” Dr. King continued, “and our aliies will not surround a violent movement. What pro tects us from the Klan is to expose its brutality. We can’t ou shoot the Klan. We would only alienate our allies and lose sympathy .'or our cause.” Whether the alliance with the Deacons, as both are preparing fund-raising efforts, will help or hinder CORE remains to be seen, observers agree. A spokes man said CORE is $250,- 060 in debt and plans a broader, more intensive fund-raising campaign to meet operating expenses of $900,000. The organization, according to Alan Gartner, director erf fund-raising, Is aming at a a $1 million a year income. Negro Gets Top Job In Peace Corps WASHINGTON, D. C. Robert T. Freeman, 47, of the Peace Corps, has been named to one of the highest positions in U. S. government manage ment ever held by a Negro. Peace Corps Director Sargent Shrtver last Fri day, named Freeman, who haa been his special as sistant since last April, to be Associate Director for Management. As Associate Director, Freeman will hold one of the five key positions in the Peace Corps. In his new alignment. Free man will direct, all of the per sonnel, budget, finance, man agement, procurement, travel, printing and supply functions of the Peace Corps. This office is responsi ble for all Peace Corps ex penditures, both in the Wash ington office and in the forty six countries around the world where the Peace Cospe is op erating. Assisting Freeman will be Chester Lane, current ly serving as director of the Peace Corps contracts division, who has been named deputy associate director for management. Freeman succeeds Max Med ley, who will continue to serve the Peace Corps as a special assistant to Shriver. Freeman came to the Peace Corps from a career as a New York businessman who found ed three insurance companies In A'rica and served for nine years as insurance director and trade negotiator in Accra, Ghana. “Bob Freeman joins a distinguished List of Amer icans to bring hi* business know-how and foreign ex pertise to Peace Corpa s-rvice. Shriver said. “The Peace Corps is ex 'remely fortunate to have an expert in management who is also intimately acquainted <§»« PR ACS CORPS, P. 2) From Raleigh s Official Police Files: THE CRIME BEAT BY CHARLES R. TONES 3 Girls Fight Over Same Man Raleigh police officer Jasaea E. fßobby) Daye reported at 1:07 a.m. Saturday that Miss es Alberta Banks, 17, of 1602 Cross Street, and Janice Lee Bumpers, 39, of 1457 Sawyer’s Lane were fighting over a boyfriend of one of the girls at the Club 54, comer of E. Davie and 8. Bloodworth Sts. Mise Queen Esther Hop klne, 22, &t 317 Sdwin Al ley, soon joined the affray. All were charged with en gaging in an affray and amasted, by the officer. When the “dust clear ed ” Queen Esther had received lacerations below ter left eye, and ont the side ©f her meek; Janice had a lacerattuk «m her bottom Sip; and appar ently Albert* eame out ©f SEEKS TITLE - Miss Doro thy Spain, a 1962 graduate of A&T College Is one of several alumnae who is seeking the title of “Miss A&T Alumni,” in a national contest sponsored for the benefit of the A&T College Alumni Scholarship Fund. Laurinburg Dedicates Big Church LAURINBURG Led by Bishops W. A. Stewart and R. L. Jones, the pastor, Rev. T, H. Murphy, officers and mem bers of Franklin Chapel AME Zion Church held special serv ices Sunday, July 11, in con nection with the didication of a new edifice, valued at $150,- 000. Church leaders from throughout the State were on hand for the ceremonies. KEV. T. H. MURPHY Bishop Jones, who presided over this area until 1964, was the speaker for the morning service. He admonished the congregation that Just as it was necessary to rebuild the walls of the church it w*as necessary for man to rebuild the walls of their hearts. He said that every man, regard less of the color of his skin needed to rebuild the wall of love, of brotherhood and of (B«* IBM 6 CfflMCB. f>. I) • • l > TV WEATHEH Temperatures for the next five days, Thursday through Monday, will average one to three degrees below normal, It will fee wiira during the first part of the period, turn ing cooler toward the latter part. Rainfall will average a> boat 1 Inch, but heavy «» mounts should fall in some areas. Showers and thunder showers are expected on Thursday, Saturday, and t~ gain about Monday. Normal high and low temperatures will be 88 and SS. it all unscathed, as afe» was not visibly injured. Beaten, Slapped By Ex-Boyfriend Miss Moselle McCieod. 20, of 822 E- Hargett Street, told Officers C. E. Ay cock, and J, A. Perry at 8:30 p.m. Friday, she was pulled from the front door of 721 E. Davis Street onto the Hv her es> boyfr'er'r? Je. _ . • ”’nsa, 19, of 721 E. Lenoir Street or K-2 Washington Terrace. Once outside, lamented Mis© MeCieod, lline* started slapping *«d hit ting her in the face, and finally knocked her to the sidewalk, The complainant, who had bruises on her face, signed a warrant, charging assault and battery, and the coca went looking for young Hin.es. m* emsm beat, r. n
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