BOLD ROBBER IDENTIFIES HIMSELF TO VICTIM HERE run, a u. u. * JK J* * 4r + + + # * * * Teenage Burglar Tells All BY CHARLES R. JONES I A 18-year-old Raleigh boy I brought about his own undo ing last Friday morning by Identifying himself to a rob- ] bery victim. He is now lan- | gulshing in Wake County Jail on a charge of first degree I burglary. Police Officer H K. r Wall was Informed by Mrs. Emma Mae Dunn, 45. of 26} N. Pettigrew Street at 9:48 sum. Friday, that James Robert Hopkins, alias “Charlie*’, 18, of 1124} E. Edenton Street entered her house while she was asleep. "I was awakened Mrs. Dunn said," by movements in my bedroom,” She stated she saw young Hopkins beside her bed with her pocketbook, from which he stole $1.90. Mrs, Dunn further stat ed she recognized him and declared he spoke to her saying, “Everything Is al right. This is Charlie.” At this point, the com plainant said,” he ran out the back door, taking the money.” After she signed a warrant, charging burglary. Hopkins was arrested. At the time he entered the home, he was wearing brown pants and a tee shirt and was attired in the same dross when he faced Mrs. Dunn for positive iden tification for the police rec- S ord p A date had not been set for the trial as late os Tuesday night of this week. The jailer on duty at the county jail, stated the question mark ap- 1 pearing behind “date- of trial," Indicated to him that mere evidence was being gathered or an attorney being secured. Detective Sgt. F C. Greg my also is investigating the c. MC Mutual Veep Spanks MIA Meet NEW YORK. N. Y. Tire 45th Annual Convention of the National Insurance As sociation opened Wednesday fyith 400 delegates from 25 states in attendance at the Roosevelt Hotel. The Home Office Section keynote speak er, J. W. Goodloe, executive vice-president, North Caro lina Mutual Life Insurance Company, Dirham, North Carolina, urged the executives of the 45 predominantly Ne gro member companies to take a “good hard look at the myriad of changes in the making and meet the ‘chal l&nge csf change’ with a shift, in management outlook, per spective and practices in keeping with President John son's “Great Society" con cept.” “We are meeting less than three weeks after 1965’s big gest date for the history books,” Goodloe stated. “The date when Title VII of the 19- 84 Civil Rights Act marked the end of one era in race re lations and limited opportun ities and the beginning of an other of vastly increased chances for self-realization. Possibly no other group of life Insurance companies in Ame- rlca is so profoundly affected by this legislation as our own. For, N. I. A, member com- Cttee ETOGL&R. P, 2> yiFlFii five day*, Thursday through Monday, will average 1 to * degrees below normal. The normal high and low tempera tures for the Raleigh area will be. 88-B®. Precipitation will average one-half to three quarters of an inch, mostly as widely scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers during the weekend, and be coming more numerous Mon day. From Raleigh s Os THE CRIME HEAT BY CHARLES R. TONES Beats Up Dad, Mental Patient With Stick In Sister's Yard j, Mrs. Ludle Virginia Ashe, of f 601 Rosetnont Avenue (Ober- Ita), told Officers E. D. Whit ley and G. W. Williams at fi:s9 p.m. Saturday, that, Lou -5s Rochelle, ZB, of 2502 KtJ \ tore Street., chased his own father. Worth Rochelle, into her front yard with a knife. f«mi Rochelle 3s then .said to have picked up a stick with a smII In it, which war? ]»y>.«s to Mn. Astis*® yard, and struck his father sp the left arm. tfcea suddenly assaulted For Basic Adull Educatjorr NEWKIRK FIRST SUPERVISOR THE COROLINIAN North Carolina s Leading Weekly V 1 «I» Dlv w,| g WE Will FIGHT VIOLENCE WITH VIOLENCE,” JUSTICE DEACONS SAY freedom Defenders' Speak Out BOGALUSA, La. (NPI) This strife-ridden town wire re race hate was at a fever pitch last week faced threats from an armed Negro vigilante group to "meet violence with violence” as white segrega tionists threatened reprisals by enforcing common-law marriage laws of the state. lit an effort to ease the racial tensions Gov. John J. Me Kelt hen met with civil rights leaders in the Bogal&Sft movement —■ A. Z. Young, pesident, Civic and Voters League and Robert Hicks, vice presi dent—to appeal for a "39 day cooling off period.” Seen us a retalltory meas ure by a segregationist group —the Citizens Council of Lou isiana was its announce ment that the council was starting a drive against com mon-law marriages among Negroes. Warrants for the arrest of "three prominent niggers” were sworn out last week, but no action had been taken, it was disclosed. The trio was not Iden tified. but it was believed that one was Charles Sims, local chapter presi dent of the Deacons for Defense and Justice. Sims allegedly has a common law wife. According to L. C. Ter rell, assistant police chief, (See ‘DEFENDERS’, P. 2) Roy Wilkins' Life Threatened DENVER (NPI) —A 53- year-old man, who serv ed time in Colorado and OklaJhpma and Utah, was arrested last week in con nection with a death threat he made against Roy Wilkins, NAACP ex ecutive director. The man, identified as Jack Keeley, was arrested in Hilton hotel, NAACP convention headquarters, as he allegedly sought to phone Wilkins’ room for the second time. Police said Keciey ad mitted calling Wilkins’ room the day before when the death threat made made, fficial Police Files; her brother, Frank Chav is,” a mental case.” strik ing him on the. sidle of his head and left arm. Worth Rochelle suffered bruises about his left arm and hand, while Chavis had three stitches taken in hia hand, and also had bruises on the head, Mr, Rochelle, Sr„ and Mrs. Ashe signed warrants. tx>tb charging assault with a dead ly weapon, and Louis Roehelte was ‘‘hauled off” to Wake County Jail on two counts of same. RALEIGH,'N. C.. SATURDAY. JULY 24 1%5 \ 1 W* ' Hip CVg ' % .s*nt^ *>?&&** ■j**' ( * Vf .> ■ 4 4. .j# BOWED HEADS OF GRIEF - Miami, Fla.: It was a sad day that ended last-weekend for these Boy Scouts. With their heads low, and their hands hiding tears, the youngsters mourn the- death of one of their companions,'who drowned as he tried to s.im ashore from a raft. Under the leadership of Joe Raimaing, left, they assisted Dade County deputies in the search for the body of 13-year-old Kelly Scott, of Miami. (UPI PHOTO). White Citizens Council Now Located Sn North NEW YORK, N. Y.—Efforts to form a Northern version of the infamous Southern White Citizens Council were made in New York City last week as 27 white zealots met in a Ger man Beer Hall in Brooklyn. Unknown to the racists, CORE members and newspa per reporters had infiltrated the group. The meeting, which had the usual ludicrous group of florid-faced, beer mug banging bigots, spent a good deal of time specifically de pone! ng CORE and named the "abolition of CORE” as I Ry a, i■ l ? n-- 1 ’ * • a |fp' ■ • ■ vfflflMHEXe SUFFERS COURTROOM SICKNESS - The assault and battery trial of Jim Brown, famed fullback with the champion Cleve land Browns football team, was interrupted last Wednesday as 18-year-old Miss Brenda Ayres became sick on the witness stand. She had been testifying previously about her relationship with the football great and how he had beat her. (UPI PHOTO). one of its primary goals. “Every time CORE sticks up its black head,” said group leader John Sullivan "a man wearing a William Duckley for Mayor button should ap pear.” Shouts of "John Lindsay (Republican - Liberal candi date for N. Y. Mayor) is a CORE lover,” and “CORE Jerks" spiced the meeting. The meeting was held in the Bay Ridge area of Brooklyn, historic center of the pre- World War IT German-Ame rican Bund.. ' PR ICE i s'cents" Says Mis Statements Hurt Image ATLANTA (NFI) --Charging 'hat Dr, Martin Luther King, r , maliciously defamed ham in the shooting death of a Ne ,ro teen-ager in New York .art year. Police Lt. Thomas L. Gilligan, New York, has fil 'd a $1.5 million slander suit against Dr. King. Gilligan shot and killed 15- year-old James Powell last • run ’• after he -said the youth attucsexi him. A grand jury and departmental inves tigation later cleared the po lice lieutenant of charges that he had. fired hastily and with out justification. The suit, filed in U. S. Dis trict court here, asserts that Dr. King said publicly last Ju ly 27, "Murder has been com mitted. The shooting of Pow ell was murder.” Jk —■ * i jfVJGW’ li GETS FEDERAL JUDGE SHIP - Washington: William Benson Bryant, shown in his law office here last week, has been appointed to the post of U. S, District Judge for the District of Columbia. He became the second Negro appointed to the federal bench by President Lyn don B. Johnson. (UPI PHOTO). Ambushed Negro Dead In Alabama ANNISTON, Ala.—A 38-yr.- old resident of nearby Mun ford, Alabama, Willie Brew ster, who was shot in the neck on a lonely highway near here Thursday, died Sunday in a local hospital without ever regaining consciousness. Brewster was shot through a rear window of his moving car as he was returning home from work. The shooting fol lowed two rallies staged here by States Rights spokesmen and the beat ing of & Negro student. The shooting of Brewster took place about five miles west of here as he and three companions headed homoward after working. He was struck in the spine and would have been paralys ed from! he waist, down had he lived. An occupant of the car Stat- ISw AMBUSHED JfIBGRO, P. 2) t T'' o. ’ay* • 3HU Jp ' ‘mtffiiy'jß yg&Mj&JzMW AixiiJiiit iiucwi.iA.wn - w&sninpcn: wstnoat fjus*ar« or court orders, many u. s. airlines have begun to employ Negro young women as stewardesses. The crew of one national airlines flight is shown le u hr’ its plane here. Captain L. L. Treece escorts Stewardesses Carol DlPasulemie, ri it, and JoAnn Tartaul, left, to the crew lounge after their trip from Chicago this week. (UPI PHOTO). Wilmington Native Accepts Area Supervisor's Position In Ealeigh Alfred T. Newkirk, of 856 Oampanella Drive, an instruc tor at the Garner Consoli dated High School, has been appointed the first Negro Area Supervisor of Basic A dult Education for Wake and Franklin Counties. The re sponsibility for building a curriculum for the entire pro gram is also his. His office is located at the W. W, Holding Indus tial Education Center, Highway 401 South, Ra leigh. His new position will not affect his teach ing career, it was an nounced. Robert W. LeMay, direc tor of Basic and General Adult Education, is New kirk’s immediate super visor. A native of Wilmington, Newkirk graduated from the WillLston Industrial High School there, and holds an A. B. degree from Shaw’ Univers ity here, with a major in Eng lish and social studies. He has done further study at* Dur ham's North Carolina College in the above-mentioned sub jects and commerce. The Korean War veteran holds the Distinguished Fly ing Cross for completing 63 combat missions as an engi neer-gunner into enemy ter Mrs. Shepard Resigns Job In Harnett; To Shaw University Mrs. Kathryn Young Shep ard, 424 S. Bloodworth Street, this city, has resigned her po sition as supervisor; of ele mentary schools in Harnett County to accept a post as as sociate professor of Educa tion at Shaw University here. In addition to her duties at Shaw, the educator has been engaged to conduct adult ed ucation classes in the city and is slated to become an area supervisor for the Adult Edu cation Program in October of this year. M s. Shepard, a native of Wake Forest, holds an A.B. degree from Johnson S. Smith University, Charlotte; an M. A. degree from Teachers Col lege, Columbia University, New York; has earned an ele mentary certificate from Shaw; and holds an elemen tary principal’s certificate from North Carolina College at Durham. The North Carolina Depart ment of Public Instruction, in 1959, granted Mrs, Shepard a graduate certificate in Spe cial Education and certified hem as a psychological exami ner. Both certifications were Hospital Suits Are Filed In Six Southern States WASHINGTON, D. C.—The NAACP lifts a i Defense and Educational Fund and the NAACP Thursday filed com plaints charging 12 federally assisted hospital". In six South ern States with discriminatory practices. The complaints, filed against hospitals in Ark ansas, Texas, Louisiana, North Carolina, Georgia and Florida, make a iota! of IM> such complaints tiU «& with Anthony J. Cele bress&e, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, by the -two or ganisations sines Febru ary. ritory. Mr. Newkirk is a mass her of the Martin Street ALFRED T. NEWKIRK Ti 'W's',- • * jgptyf i '' l ;*/ MBS. KATMtYN YOUMI SHEPARD made as a result, of special graduate work done at the University of Illinois, Syra cuse University, the Univers ity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and North Ca.ro (See MRS, SHEPARD, P. 2> A letter to Cteleteaws, J&ste Greenburg, I>egal Defense Fund director-counart, and J. Francis Pbhlhaus, NAACP Washington Bureau, oounsel, asked "that appropriation be taken to insure immediate compliance with the noniUs crimination provision* of Ti tle VT of the Civil Rights Act. of 1984." Under the law, federal fund* could be withheld froaa facili ties that practice diwprteiM,- felon. The NAACP ansi the Defense Fund, an ind«p®adsrA organiaatton, repress®i to®- vlduals who tuwfre enocmafoßWl discrimination in the hospi tals. Baptist Church and is, at present, serving on the steering committee of the Community Action Pro grams of the comity, a di vision of the Economic Opportunity Act. The history and English teacher at Gamer Con solidated is also director v >ee SRWKJRK, P 2) Mayor Daley Meets With Leaders Sat. CHICAGO (NFI> mile the campaign against de facto and de Jure segregation in the ctity schools continued una bated, two shifts were record ed on governmental levels. On the heels of the post ponement of the congression al subcommittee hearing into the school situation by Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (D-N. Y.) until July 31, Mayor Rich ard J. Daley dispatched a tel egram to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr„ setting July 24 as a day which he would be avail able to meet with civil, rights leaders. Dr. King is scheduled to launch the Northern cam paign of the Southern Chris tian Leadership Conference against de facto school segre gation in Chicago on July 24. In his telegram, the mayor stressed that ‘all of us are deeply concerned with the is sue of human rights and op portunities.’’ He added, "In Chicago, we have many programs under way. and since you are visit ing our city, I look forward to discussing these and other programs with you, and to re ceive the benefit of your learned thoughts and sugges tions,” On his visit to the city last July 7, Dr. King said he would be willing to meet the mayor. However, he stipulat ed that he would do so "on ly .. . with the local civil rights leadership.” Whether the invitation also included the local civil rights (fee MAYOR DALEY, P. J as. Farmer Explains New Stand NEW YORK, N. Y.—James Farmer, National Director of CORE, spoke out last week in defense of the Louisiana-bas ed "Deacons for Defense and Justice” organization —a group of Negroes in the South who have armed themselves to defend their homes against racist violence. Speaking in his weekly column, which ap pears in a New York’s Negro weekly, Farmer said, in part: “Let's get two things straight regarding the Bea cons for Defense and Justice down in Louisiana. Yes, they Soto guns and no, they don’t shoot first, A good deal of nonsense has been talked a boat the Deacons, most of it coaling from the Southera press—in an effort to discred it COR®, the Deacons, and even to justify violent repris als and assaults from the BJaa.