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HIMSELF TO VICTIM HERE
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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>
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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
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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.
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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
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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.”
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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-
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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
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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.
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