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i / o/ v i _ / , ssimse , 8* - ~ / /<-? •—r / *iJf ,7 \ Uwfc *i ta» eneg- ftwlaaiji > o](f' ■■ ■" r#P ■ % f m.?. to. 212 ' ' ' 11 ; §MfiyAfr¥ARINA. W. C- 2752 S ANOTHER NEGRO BOMBED TO DEATH !N MISS. PIC SCENE OF MISS, BOMBING —NATCHEZ, Miss: Crurobl- Jackson. Police cooler tier February 28 behind roped off ed hood lies in mute testimony to powerful explosion which area Where tarp covers remains of truck. (UP!) ripped pickup truck fatally injuring Negro leader Wharlest 2 NAT L FIGURES MOURNED Marshall Shepard Buried OXFORD —lt cars never be said of Marshall L. Shepard that he was without honor to his home town. This was evi denced Surd ay when crowds gahtered a; the First Baptist Church to mourn his passing. Certainly no local citizens has brought as much honor as this illustrious preacher, civic worker, fraternal leader, poli tical star and humanitarian. Born the son of a Baptist preacher, 'no chose to follow to his father’s footsteps and was quite a success. He was so much the image of his father until it is reported that he was asked to pastor the famed White Rock Baptist Church, Durham, which one of his kin was In strumental to leading to suc cess. Even though he was elected to the Pennsylvania legislature, was Records’ of Deeds for the District of Columbia and at his death was a member ol the City Council, of the City of Philadelphia, he held fast to the faith delivered to the saints and continued to serve Mt, Olivet Tabernacle BaptLst Church, 42nd & Wallace Streets, <Ss» SHEs?A«B, S*. Z) Wake Comity Board Moves To Integrate In deference to federal de segregation guide line s, the Wake County Board of Edu cation voted Monday to mate* a giant move, to meet the re quirements. The West Cary High School, the Cary High School, the South Cary Elementary and Junior High, the Jeffreys Grove Ele [ WEEKTAKES NUMBERS i ! 4068 5232 3173 ; ! wo*™ iso worm sis wotra $lO ■ | Anyone having currant P.NX tickets, dated Fefc 25. SP67, wth proper mt- teers present same a to The CJUtOtLiNIAN office ana receive amounts listed above from the SWEBF-oTAKBS feature. * EDITORIAL FEATURE The Thought Exchange BY GORDON B. HANCOCK MACE VERSUS RIGHT In my travels cn four continents and a vttm many nations and among diverse peo ples, I wag most impressed with Germany and the German people. The Germane are a vfrito. vigorous and an up-and-coming peo ple such as cannot be eqwaSwfi among the peoples found anywhere; and to compare Germany with Pre.net- and England, is to compare youth and age with the English drinking their tea and. the French, their wine; while the Germane dririk their strong kSaefc beer. Upon nay return to this ommtcy. is I said to my friends. aitd even wrote it for toe press, that there is only one way to keep toe Gomans from ruing this earth, and that is to osnqusr the German pecpte *>nd partttfen the 'land. The Germans Just have eoaserfctn* the other rattens do not have and brae little or no tiamsm of getting. The <2crams* huve something! Ntetamlie. a great ©cksbus philosopher, was the first to declare that mlsht la right and eßheegh strongly disputed in theory, tw d‘«tun> is everywhere approved ki practice! Stmywere we turn the ,person or PtolHe with the might, is the per son or the people who set toe right. KJatory WHIN tots **J6r truth. MettMchc to disput ed but rigidly stW9Sf,i: end wtwwc darker REV, SHEPARD Sweepstakes Net Winners 85 Dollars There is no need for any one to tell Mrs, Mary E, High that it does not pay to trade with s'ores and firms that are participating in the CARO LINIAN Sweepstakes, She won $70.00 by having #IOOO this {See SWEEPSTAKES, i». ?,) mentary and the MißbrookKigh School, now under construction, will figure in the move. All O! these schools are located in the Cary aria Mtllbrook sec tions. The plan was worked out last summer and it was agreed that it would go to effect at the {See WAKE, P. i») peoples have the might it to the wane sor did story. Out of Germany there came only ft few years ago. one Adolph Hitler with, his Mein Karnpf with his doctrine of race su periority and Rome within an Inch of taking over the entire world. Hitler to dead but hi* doctrine of white supremacy Is sweeping tbs earth. The race prejudice that his doctrines have begotten to the most powerful tfteotogy in the world and takes precedence Os the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Just as MSSfeuehe said might was everything and the world believed him; so Hitler says rase to every thing and the world bdiem him! Whether ■a mss; is right or wrong deee not m& rly marie* as much as wtei to hia race 1 ? Race comes first and one's mom) post ion comes second, or not at all. Seeauec df his rmtt in Ms dealings with darker peoples, hto race wu'ssm him right. The tragedy of the current intermetai sit uation in this country to that beoaus* of the aggravated race ooiuselouanwss which to rac ism. every white man to w-rewag in the ne gro* sight and by this «®» token every Kegro i* right; or tste It the other way around frmn the White man* point of view, every Hegro to wrong and emy white man f®e* KffIWJ«CAE. FasATOVHS, S'. 4;» Murphy’s Career *an i I .Elided BALTIMORE, MD. Citizens from ail walks of life, beginning with Lyndon B. Johnson and running the gaunt • let of human endeavors, bowed in humble submission to the death of Dr. Carl Murphy-, when the last rites were held at a reqiern mass, at St, James Protestant Episcopal Church, Lafayette St,, and Arlington Avenue, Wednesday, 10:00 a.m. “Mr, Carl” as he was known to fellow workers of the Afro- American Newspapers, was eulogized ir, a simple Ep isoco pal rite, and yet there was the feel tog that Baltimore had lost one of the greatest citizens that it had ever produced. This was evidenced by the fact that his cherished friend and co worker, to the field of human relations, Mayor Theodore R. McKeldin, ordered all flags f-own at half mast Wednesday, out of respect for the ser vices rendered by the nobleman. He succumbed at John Hop kins Hospital, Saturday, at 6:30 a.m„ after ha ving entered there Feb. !9 ; to be treated for a slipped disc. However, h e suffered a stroke and Is believ ed to have died as the result thereof. He was 78 years old and was born to Baltimore. He served as president of the Afro chain from 1922 to 1961 and was chairman of the Board of Directors at the time of his death He was a grad uate of H o \vard University, Class of 1913 and was an In structor and professor of Ger man and head of the Depart ment of German there from 1913 to 1918, The publisher took his mast - er’s degree from Harvard Uni versity to. 1913, He attended the University of Jena in Oer <S*e MUIWWr, 9 2) jipArrv#-. DR. MURPHY Gov. Sticks To Guns In Law Squabble When the question of wheth er he had changed Ids attitude about North Carolina College’s Law School, by the CAR OLINIAN at his Monday press conference, Governor Moore said -'‘No.” He said he would still entertain a discussion on it and was leaving the news men to meet a delegation, re- Otes. GOVERNOR 9. 2) Fraternity Founder fmmmiimi in 0. C. WASHINGTON, D.C. -The shades of 1911 hovered over the campus of Howard University Tuesday when final rites were held for Dry Frank J, Coleman, one of the founders of the O mega Psi Phi Fraternity. The funeral was held In An drew Rankin Chapel and at tracted a number of fraterni ty members, Howard University administrators, faculty mem bers, army brass and townspeo ple. It was a high Episcopal ceremony, yet simple and In the fashion Frank Coleman would like to have had it, Fath From Raleigh’s Official Police Files THICmfKAT j Shot Misses Intruder Police were called to 237 W, Hargett Street, Saturday night, about o*3o, by Howard Christmas, who lives at 516 S, Saunders St., to investigate a shooting. Christmas reported that he was sitting inside liar, front door, at the Hargett St, address, when a. white male, about 25-yrs-old, 5 4 i0" inches tali, with light hair and wear ing sport clothes, entered. Christmas avers that the man began cursing him and reached for the rifle he had across his lap. lie alleges that the rifle west oft and the* man ran. Aft- &&&& | &&&& &&&& Rep. Conyers Takes Stand With Powell ... 1 il.-.' Mi t mm North Carolina jg Leading* I V&kly VOL 26, NO. 15 RALEIGH, N. €., SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 196? PRICE 15 CENTS Dillon Denies Discrimination U/AMTC CTATE CIIUMIT IK A t<* 1 > j IAII .lIIIH 111 i: Dillon Company Surprised C, A. Dillon, president, Dil lon Supply Company, told the CAROLINIAN Tuesday that he knew of no dissatisfied em ployee in any of Ms far flung enterprises and could not ac count lor the recent charge brought by the United States Just: ce Depa ran ent. Mr, Dillon said that he had heard rumors that his company was being investigated, but had never been confronted with any documented information that was specific. He also said that certainly there are misunder standings in business as large as ours and there are hirings and firings that are not pala table According to the president upgrading has been done on a qualifying basis and persons, regardless of race, who meet the requirements for the jr#> or the position open get the job. He pointed to the fact that there are several Negroes in super visor) position and there conies times when these super visors have to replace or de mote persons of both races, for the best interest of the com pany. Persons who know the policy of the company attest to the fact that Negroes hold responsible positions with the company and serve as managers of certain divisions, not necessarily man ual. The civil action charging DU- Son Supply Co. with racially discriminatory employment practices was filed hi U. S. Eastern District Court, Signers of the complaint In cluded Acting Attorney General Rainey Clark and Eastern Dis trict Attorney Robert Cowen, They asked for a court order permanently enjoining the Dil lon firm from *‘engaging in any (&ee mUJ3M, 9. t) er James 0„ West was to charge and was assisted by the Grand Chaplain of the Fraternity, Father H, Albion Ferrell, Fath er Mulatto, of the Cathedral of Washington, Rev. Evans Crawford, daar. of Chapel, and Dr. Mor decal Johnson. His was a military funeral, due to the fact he served to World War i, Frank Coleman graduated from Howard University to 191*3 and went to what was then 3. K. Bricks Norman &, Industrial Institute, Enfield, NX., where he h'?»dsd the Science Depart ment. He became so interest fg« m&Teem?m*x, 9. r> MBffiwsißwna er the incident, Christmas is said to ha ve called the police. It is alleged that he named one Charlie Hopkins as the sus pect, but did not want to press charges. The bullet Is said to have broken a front plate glass window, los#s Wallet iM Grocery Ransesi; Moses Seott, 332 Camden Street, reported that while be was at Cottlagtaunto Grocery Store, Friday, some one lifted his wallet, from his pocket. He reported having found the wallas. later. C«*e crimes S*. 3> REP. CONYERS Callegue Fights For N. Y. Solon WASHINGTON - Congress man John Conyers, Jr, (Dem- Michigan) Who was a member of the nine-man Steed Commit tee named by Speaker John Mc- Cormack to investigate the right of Adam Clayton Powell to take his seat tn the House of Rep resentatives today declared, “I fully agree with ani support, the Committee’s recommendation that Mr, Powell be allowed to take his seat. The Commit tee fully and carefully consid ered the right of the people of New York’s 18th District to rep resent in the House of Repre sentatives and decided that be cause any allegations of mis conduct on the part of Mr. Powell were fully known by the electorate in his district prior to his election, and that with this knowledge he was duly e lecteti In November; that he does have full right to be seated as r Member of Congress. “I would like to commend my colleagues on the Committee for the’vary careful distinction which they made between the responsibility given thaws by the House of Representatives and all the other matters not, directly relating to the question of seating Mr, Powell which ■were raised and aired In the public press,” said Conyers. “They can only be respected for (See COKUEACtK, 9, 3) King Called To Pay Off WASHINGTON (U P I) —A Harlem civil rights organiza tion, criticizing Dr, Martin Lu ther for failure to take "mill fast action” or. behalf of “em battled* Hep. Adam Clayi m Powell, Tuesday urged King to ,4 come to the forefront” be cause "Black America must not. accept a powerless Powsil " In a telegram to King hi At lanta, the S3 7 ?-member Harlem citizens for community action urged King to come to Washing ton "tomorrow or as promptly as possible* ’ to make a plea to retain Powell*s senior Ity to Congress, “This is not the feour to prac tice internal politics,“thetele gram said,” Months ago you expressed Interest to the Har lem community. It is our po sition that your action to date, or. behalf of Powell, is toeonsis <s«e teem, ». Negroes March On Kluxers Racial tension, fanned by the brutal bombing of Wharlest Jackson’s truck Monday night, that resulted in his being 'blown to an untimely death, has be gun to soar and forecasts are that civil rights leader may come to grips with more than peaceful resistance. The fM lowiag was released Tuesday on the overall situation. Angered by the booby-trap staying of a civil rights leader, Negroes threatened a confron tation today with alleged Ku Klux SQan employes of the plant where the ‘-letin; worked. “We’re going to meet the Kluckers face to face,” Charles Evers, Mississippi Field Sec retary for the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), told 2,000 Negroes Tuesday night. Evers said Negroes would march to the Armstrong Rubber and Tire Co. Plant for the change of the day and night shifts at 4 p. m, CST (5 p, m. EST.; Wednesday, “We just want them to know we mean business, ” Evers said. "We want them to know we want the Kluckers out of there.” “Known” Irfans men, and he indicated the Klan was involved in death Monday night of Wharl est Jackson, recently promoted to a plant job, formerly held by a white man, Jackson, 37, was killed when his pickup truck exploded and crashed into a pole three blocks from the plant, A similar accident in 1965 seriously Injured George Met calfe, another Negro worker at the Armstrong Plant, who had been active in civil rights. Rewards totaling $36,000 have been posted by city, state, Arm strong, business and private in terests, in connection with the (Sec WEGROEB, 9. 3) Legal Aid Asked Os )MC WJjiSmSWI © The Supreme Court of North Carolina ecu Id have placed more on its shoulder than it cares to carry when it a Guilford County Superior Court decision to hold Rev, Frank Williams in contempt for falling to divulge information that is alleged to have been given him, in confidence, about a serious case. The case has attracted wide interest and the General As sembly has been asked to pro vide a law that would protect ministers in keeping Inviolate any information given as spirit ual counselors. Rep. Wesley Bauisy, Forsyth County, intro duced such a bill this week. The bill would rule out a minister having to come into court to give such information except that received in a non professional way. He would only be sailed when he was e wit ness to an tocieSant or had knowledge that he reeelvad to the average course of things. Any toformation given him to penitence, to social or relig ious guidance, and even in an effort to reach a conclusion, as to the best direction to fol low, would not be given to any court of law. Clergymen in North Carolina have actively been setssisg “privileged com imrnleat to” pr-bteettos from the taw under which they e-ouid be forced to testify eonearQi&g given them confideiiiiall.y, Soiloy’s Ml! would go beyond “privileged communication” to my that “no clergyman, or dained minister, priest, rabbi DR. SOMMERVILLE Asks More Aggressive Leadership Within recent years it has become apparent that the. Ne groes of North Carolina have become leaderless.. There appears not to be one or . a group of Negroes to the State of North Carolina who can publicly eispress a con census opinion of the masses of Negroes to the State. Os course there are several enlightened, brilliant and intel ligent leaders in the State who are capable of accumulating and analyzing all facets of data re lated to the Negro problems to North Carolina. However, for the most part each leader seems to isolate himself and his par ticular interest Into a fixed category, thereby preventing a unified voice and concensus as it relates to the total economic, civic, social, educational and political exposure and view •ee A#tPs, 9. Zi or accredited Christian Science practitioner of an established church or religious organiza tion shall be competent to tes tify in any action concerning in formation given him in his pro fessional capacity.” This means that the minister coaid not testify for or aroinst a person on the bask of in formation he received as a pastor. The law now provides that a judge may force a minister to (toe ItoOAL, V *? Rites Held Wed.for Mrs. J, C. Raines JETERSVKJLE, VA. —Last rites were halt! hare Wednes day for Mrs. Catharine Brown Haines, whose early years wre spent tore, Siie married James C„ Raises, prominent buftinessiran of Raleigh, Mr. Haims en joyed a fins petroleum oil bus iness and In recant years hae (See .Ritas Held p. 2) WEATHEt toMNymNlMm *wr as# mm: ftvs: Says, ’ScmmSum Dmmsfc Witaitev, -turn »v»twg» towc Hawaii. Kvsto ritetjr ißs** m&an ss, aswwwJ sigh* ss*e Stfestas, ». 'Stoss mm/Am mmarnmt m feu mwm, tofessy pernHm *»*";- m tow #srty jjwrt m asset wwtou rtrvrtjieajfetet fePi toad i~c to tea, tumttti *» sfewvw, «s»rtag wwtouna*.
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