North Carolina Newspapers

$ Atm C ities Hit Riots Strike Nation’s Capitol D C Faces civil JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES INCITY Disorder WASHINGTON', D, C. - The aaMen*s capital was one ol the new cities hit toy racial vio lence this week. Groups of bottle-throwing Negro youths roamed a district v.iihfa a mile ol the *A"hite House, stoning cars, smashing store windows and chanting Black Power slo gans. In Washington, President Johnson’s new Anti- riot Com , mission held it.s first working * session and heard FBI Direc tor J. Edgar Hoover say that evidence failed to show any conspiracy in the outbreak of big-city violence. Pittsburgh mayor, Joseph Barr, head of the U. S. Con ference of Mayors, warned that 5 reaction to the violence of a * ‘minority*' may shut off aid to American cities. Ten liberal House Democrats countered that the crisis in the ghettos -was more urgent than the Viet nam War and called for an end to the war and the launching of a “Marshall Plan” for Ameri can cities. In Milwaukee a hecJding mr>b of 400 Negroes was dispersed without incident Tuesday night as racial violence mounted a round the country. The 20th consecutive day of racial turmoil saw eight more U. S, cities hit by violence, and tt** warn* rm ®c. r *» <■ B,oooHere For Big ♦ Convention “Thousand- of person.-, asso ciating together without harsh words, prejudice or disagree ment is a rare sight in our day but one that w ill he wit nessed in Raleigh,” said Mr. Samuel L. Brower, 604 Quar ry St., assistant presiding min ister of the South unit congre gation of Jehovah's Witnesses, at the assembly's headquart ers on State St. The occasion is the “dis ciple-Making” District Assem tay erf Jehovah’s Witnesses at the North Carolina State Fair grounds, Aug. 3-6. The key to this unity, accord ing to Mr. Brower, is the Wit nesses' devotion to Bible stu dy, individually, as a family, w as ~ congregation and. as e» ” peeled a) Dorton Arena, as an organization. While many disagree that Bible study and knowledge is necessary to gain peace and essfcstitsnaai: and, eventually, % ewMhuUng life, Jehovah's Wit mtaJNPP wsemesm. 9. m BEAUS RIOT GROUP - Wash faptes: 'Theodore A. Jones, »-w*ettsr of Revenue for the State of Illinois, shown Aug. 1 ! he was named staff dir ec _ tor of the President's special rfcite in vestigat trig con; tn i sston. CUH PHOTO:. SHtMnni ssia «wrs»s mrw wnria -m fjjp xmrwM nes *SO *32 «sg •3581 iWgr^T'WHS ®g wfi Wfi~W£ &&W* W& \ffl&'WrU&P* 1 SIEPSTAKS NUMBS i s 4 m -am mu \ h * l "gagßMarajgssss&tsars*s^ w jss.rErjss*ssyms^ «9s 'SraTwsS aw W IBP WKTW& W+ ‘fiSTWIKS p£p €H| HSB t 5& 4KSS SIR U®B SSB jpg BgB'IBS' f&8 ggg gg Swacpstekts IS New $l7O ThOOte Ss go n@«d ter Swsep- • tftsims memy to go satioud's « ad, That te wh*t tesppened ixist. WC®&., «¥«M thOtigh *l* was the itgaat pet m»r nf~ fatped there were no takers, - Teu, the reader, should set Ist that k ted of mmtsej lie a roaad and sottoeclaimed. Three as you could hare teen $570 rtefeer. AH that was aeces *®ry was for ywu to tew gone to one of the «iows that scad it* Iwisy watte" and mk tor a. iktstoL 1 te Jiatt that «*y, '®%K£i ym wwwjivad yoar Msfeei The Carolinian VOL. 26, NO 3? LOCAL NAACP HEAD Ml it jy Mi ®<P M Hk M Jm %* mjy C' m m w M ‘MsLm M M m mmrm Mm m m m \sfek JMi & m mm 9 # m m mm mm m m v W " * ?■ '* WOULD RETURN W. . . - Hantoft. Ca^rtasmsn-elect Adam Clayton Powell tells newsmen at Bimini the Bahamas July 26 that the black revolution is going to purge American democracy of its dishonesty and hypocrisy. Powell, who said he would return to New York if authorities would guarantee he would not be arrested on Sunday, also said “Black rebellions are a necessary phase of the black revolution.” (UPI PHOTOX Durham Mayor Goes To D. C. To Air Woes V. ASHEvGTON, D. C, - May or Weiise Gar bar ek, who has become a storm center In the Durham’s racial turmoil sought reliei from Vice -presi dent Hubert Humphrey Tuesday, but got very little consolation from the one-time mayor. Humphrey listened to Garba rek, but was not able to give a panacea for the ills that have beset him Nick Gslafinankis, sth district congressman, is said to have arranged the con ference between the two, & a® attempt to offset the hues and cries of Ms Republican col league, James Gardner. Durham citizens are not too sure that the whole matter does not have political overtones. In some quarters G&rbarek is said to be "spanking” Ksgroes for their failure tc support him in a. recent political race. There are some who feel that Garba rek has aided the tension, by his NEW WAY' OF DYING It is important that somepeo pk choose death by lying down in the road or taking a nap on the railroad track. It was re ported in Morrisville Saturday night that a man became too drunk that he choose the South ern Railroad tracks to take a nap. Fortunately for him he was in the back of the ABC store and the lights that beam from the store made him visible to the engineer a? a train and he stopped In time and the smd aotaparod it with the mxm - tors on the frost psga, that would sm.ve been the jay-off. Took at those namterc above aßd go to one as the stores and. mate a purchase, pay ftbffl or even aonspare prices. sfe«n you have Ifotehed ask for the ewaapetaltes fctahet. Ttontev® are listed on the dwMpKtataw page- They are ail over town smd am aeytttiflg ym swad from ehewiag spssm to mt.immo bfi«s. There is me rml m t»te agnsey Mated. *fM® wtmus North Carolina ’* Leading Weekly RALEIGH. N C , SATURDAY AUGUST 5. 1967 ineptness and slow action fa the matter. He brought the wrath of John S. Stewart, veteran cirv coxi cHn-.an down on him, when he called the national guard into Durham to quell a disturbance that stemmed from the housing situation. There is also the tiarl; lash of his failure to name J. J. Henderson chairman of the Housing Authority, even though he has been vice-chairman al most from the beginning of the agency. Garbs rek is charged Cl wbm §mikts CALLED ON CARPET CHARLOTTE - Dr. Reginald Hawkins, Charlotte demist who has long been a stormy petrel because of his civil-rights acti vities, is fa the Headlines again. Dr. Hawkins and two other Negro dentists have been charg ed with malpractice by the North Carolina Board of Dental Ex aminers, the dsarges growing out of work the three did here last summer with an Operation Uplift Program. When reached in his office and questioned about the suit, Dr. Hawkins said, te l tiave no com ment on that.” Others charged were D> . John P, Stinson and Dr. George T. Nash. The suit alleges they: ♦Submitted bOls arid state ments making financial charges for dental work which was not performed. ♦ Left decay- under and be that if yon are Interested in resting a home, or even buying one, you can get a ticket by going by that office. The tickets are white this week and are dated July 29. Ticket number 440 will give you $125; the ticket that Is number ed 3*Bl is worth $75 and if you have 6641, you have yourself S2O. Certainly this is worth yo«r Sfs&f into all of the stores, K possible, and pfefJetog vp a tUSbat (fiat you haw finished 'Vm tastes**. Everyone should try tar this largo emm »f money. Results Os Local Speech Mrs. Millie D. Veasey, lo cal NAACP president-, who ap peared in an informal talk be fore the Raleigh Exchange Club, Monday was asked toy local me dia to issue an official state ment from her organization ap praising the Raleigh siroaifaa as seen by local NAACP. It is understood that Mrs. Leaser's observations and re marks v ere cordially received and she was warmly accepted as a guest speaker by Raleigh*® number one business organi zations. Hating no transcript to pass or when approached toy the media world, Mrs. Veasey prom:sed a release whitdi would have the hacking of her fellow officers. Her prepared statement fol lows in its entirety. The NAACP, consistent with its past practices, is railing upon the community in this time of mounting racial crisis to respond with responsible leadership. This is a call to Black America and "White A merica alike to show progress in the areas that cry out for action. In making this appeal, we are calling upon Black A mertcans to have faith in the promise of America and re ject the desperation born of despair. We m ist realize that grave harm is done to our ef forts to remove the root causes of racism and poverty toy a re sort to lawlessness. The NAACP is mindful of its res ponsibility to seek redress through the norm structure of American Society. We are cal ling upon White Americans to recognize the urgency and the immediate demand toy young Black Americans who are not fs®e local, kaacp, 9. tj neath fillings, ■"Engaged fa dental practices on children which resulted fa loss a!' teeth, loss of fillings, noncorrection or nontreatmeat WORKERS WANT NO SOCIAL RETREAT W ASHINGTON - In a July 26 wire to President Johnson diaries I, Schottland, presi dent of the National Associa tion of Social Workers, warn ed that the current violence and disorders in many metropoli tan areas “must not be read as a signal for social retreat,*’ Rather, he said, “the current disorders shoiMbea spur to the nation to move aggressively and with greater speed to meet the acknowledged social and eco nomic steeds oi 32 million peo ple subsisting in poverty.*’ Sehottland said that his asso ciation of 46,000 professional social workers lias emphasized the profound and serious obli gation of all citizens to ad dress them .selves purposefully to the ways in which the Ne gro and other minority groups can be integrated into Ameri can society, economically and socially. - r - . ■«* § Fmm Police Files | mcmniAT Machine Pilfered Cm Stripped Gwendolyn 1 igon HJekarawe r sported that someone entered Thompson School on Hargett Street during the night of July 2C and broke into the drink machine. Nothing else ms found disturbed. Subsequent tovesti fatten showed the vaastel g«is«s eitouiße toy a v'lmiow m tt® west side of the InsSdteg. Tto break-so wasnetdtoaßiwrwjiß-- tO .? p*m„ July STi, PRICE 15 CENTS NORMAN EARL LEACH, JR. Youth Shoots Father Norman Earl Leach Sr., 66, was said to be in serious con dition after he was shot twice July 31. The shooting alleged ly wag done tor his son. Nor man Earl Leach, Jr. of 115 Idle-wild Ave. A spokesman at W ake County, Memorial Hospital termed the senior Leach’s condition “ser ious.” He is hospitalized in the intensive care unit there. The younger Leach, who is being held without bond in W'ake County Jail, still was re fusing to make a statement to police at press time. He was not allowed to post bond because he had failed to appear in the Wake County Su perior Court on a prior charge, according to a spokesman at the jafl. Officers said the younger 'Leach had been informed of his rights and had told them he al ready knew his rights. The 28-year-old Leach had .said nothing more about the crime, or lus alleged part in it. “This means no less than an assurance of jobs for everyone read; 1 and willing to work, an in come floor below which no one must be allowed to fail ana mas sive developments in the areas «Set- masmests waasr, a*, xt WEATHER Tiiwg>f<uiM etm»s a» s»«* Mos* raaf«U»y OkTuttgii Ti Eo»- wii! Ktmng* tram s above jmsmmsS te SHr Hastens necd«a mtex-T the r.outiK Us a tarn Sr.~ Vram below aaraana la «be wuwtwtM. SSwiysiuw 'n&ghs sr» «pdM te aoersge tram ’tS *® R <Sesreet hi «»<: ssjoaatejJsw. to *rouaa AS to SI «bH«wn. Zatw* mt night wPJ ncui gmstsrmUy from about «T to to «Keeps mmtJv SB to AD to tbe motMtateui Cooley weaiber hMSis;«&affi tor mewt mouataiffi ares* through the pet-tog with raaittoulin warns snS rather htuaM weather elsewhere thru Monday. S»recSpitotlsiTi win to tal from 3-4 of as Inch to «*> inch ®r as ere e>cc«rrlag ms scntte-rwS sshowerc mostly al tomoun ass*! evening' thtuader (tooorara with most activSSy to sh« Refl and central mctUjis. as toe Carol!nuts. ’%'nyms.i Turner of 409 W, ■Lenoir St. didn’t have murihlelt to drive alter he reported l*r e««y from on auto at Blount amd L«B»ir Streets July 22. Soowace caim£bali»d Ms 1956 Ford ter « ite® am pMt®, two tires and two The thtef «r ffeiiww sos tm tires and Rthwft* % jsetids® the mr dp ««a »* am mm,m' SCe• OF VIOVE •• ''' *■ rolt: liie trtnz* «f to ft* 4Mh«lMi caused by two days of rioting in Detroit's west side. A service station continues to tours? (right) pouring sir, -kc and Hanses ;,nfo other structures. At le.tst 23 persons have bee* killed and more than a thousand injured m the two days of violeace. (UPI PHOTOX Hope Hos Pnoriiy in Coping With Riots [AS } ; T Oi< I AJ.. ‘ js, imae o 6 « c*jst:.: ty :r «c*-geacy. T%ri prone ic esu. ' 9dt.xch » send vasarar jcrtni t ..s *:mc. For mgtaart vhc Florid*. Education As aocifcrjoc rrr -.Z'vzrc. &u.r\rtuyza, v* a (be Staxe bee* -**• Thf Iqpatkesace was r. c rt2Vp»x;r- *»« to the rv“cd* cd ■*•**&rbtrs us z Seim* bills w-e mtr.<.‘oc«d t .if * c FE4 T hr There :s r■»«.'. otf .k U7K»c frrrj'. -s. kcj* If igs&±t*an xl. A i.-t.-as stslrv intaodaor dJJ* t; i ounrrrKS tbt asizuneZ tawfe Wb-r. c*':r.~* nses. w* 6 b* o i RJita-mme b.lls When Pre»x»erjt Krcnrd) was es«a»;rji*.: ' tiurr-rro-w s b’t* ngninT purchfctn*, gens verr irtrtKSLced. I*.kr«P3R' m "the orake Df thr vnoirr.r nc<- ’u«! »boxr rver> *t»t? a. acti nc® Ifcwi And r that we wmst upon the calamiT* tc svR-np wi hrs v ; *,cT ing We gftvt Lrttt tbotogL* t tr tht Dh iOß opfcy of prev’tntiar. Fh;s txfm'spjspcr ;y aett ccaidaininf no iearc notr riots becstase thouc r with « €i'«m of logic know ful,' welJ the coaae- Quettsrf as such bthstnar Sk«meho*- there is the tender :y to -wer look the causes of polity cel -Ui4 nvH phe nomena For decades, -civil rights Levy* have been iust 'wordy. r»n paper' and ixi-! rfec tivc Tht civil nghts knw* of were nothing nesgp but rather & mnforcemeaßt of the hajMc tior of the muon W< have dwii contended that the so-called victory in T9W was not th' result of new laws, but Thieves Caught in Fayetteville The Raleigh Police Depart ment, working on inform .aion gi \ en them by M*s. Del oris Leo, 710 S. McDov -11 gt„ caused the arrest of two n.ns alleged to have rdt*<«J Mrs. Evelina Ethel Dozifir’s toed room, .tnd to have made s haul. Mi's. Lee alleges that the two m "-n, know- 1 as James and Ralph, took frozen food, which includ ed chicken, turkey and ham. They are also alleged to have takei sonic butter. According to Mrs. Lee’s information these items were valued at S4O. After having satisfied their desire lo; food and so-, te.hini. to cook it with, they are alleg ed to have b?ea interested, or charmrd so: n.usteai instru ments. This crave is said to have been satisfied w:th tho taking ol a Zenith Clock Radio, valued at S3O; a RCA Clock Radio, also valued at $35 Tin .• then are alleged to ha e bi eomi fascinated by a tolu:- ha! box and its contents, \ ic’-th: made oft with, same r>?ing vato - ed at $43. The two are said to have then DETROIT RIOT BAFFLING ' DETROIT (NPi) - It-was cas ed a race riot, tiut the looter? were integrated. It was aubbe'J im attack or; the “white tut,** hut “Soul Brother” failed to save many a Negro businessman from disasre:. It was proclaimed to 1* a “racial revolution,” bin th< thousands oi honsele; • Negro families were the rn ajor vic tiiri.,. ' What then, was the sure madness that wredkea more ha voc since the anti-Negro riots of 1963 in Detroit and New York. A Presidential commission, headed by Illinois Go.. Otto Kerner, was to look into the riot’s causes and como up with PIC yxoassk fatality—a mgm min ister lost his life Sunday when Ms car went out. of control %n a'curve on N. C 24 during a driving rainstorm and zy Piefcfierfl aV wa* :rarzaj|- ' •'■r-* t w - - T't* 3f Prm • Jr-inOD t he *W Tb t*K :-:Trr«i*3o» of men ■/ hgh tc ” r -- wit the }* y the land T - t 14 that made the 1964 Cr d *'-'-fc kv s L » toppra- rjew vat the mß.'*ts g< • - - •ve-t N:ng and gaad pJtyhc rciaTwjf p: -moti.:«r And •* v g( this ai , r.sh/n of otsrms our grapple sucrrtshilH -.: pro' .iton.!. 1 the minority r’-r m* - the legartlraa a har 3 12 .* ge Prrt ftz*. •- knew and owr beat Vr' • • - der ka*w the nation had fic3- ; : -' •■u 'Ri.’v .n c;»; WTt\ basjc problems c 7 r adcQaate eeipVn-mepft. -.- K'-'j- nrt ... Negro's nghtfoS p i-a ,r. the **Ov. v pokbc These Sasax profci jcj-a *YC3~A-m tJv Negro more rutidameo ': c-'. r.sr:r|, t set*, a* r y.e loncd: cooo tjc.t b bed ir. the fftaac’s beet raoertt, 4 ses' '»n WOT super-lets A man Vk • iob iv unck-* her; smp pt ’ at iiis ;•'-sacra' pnde snd oagnitjr and most of all sci » ”' j sertfui Ht estfcii- be rcr: ' • vtuorrer !» to the pstss-urjrtr orgrtagy ce •t * • H Brtmrn of rerent SN CC fame. .A py. *—e'-t sa*rf-.ert nesespaper egas '■« *c* . - -y o; the ;»• tibjsdy: ' .5 ’.*th *?t took (Congress) definite e' s-niK < t'»'i w —V.-ng aui * se>- h:*’t *h* u ' « f.ge-~ i»* tb* too: Thai tscK it M-aats m:r e than s bone ** satisfied their jewelry desire toy taking S9O worth of that com modity Mi s. Lee alleges that she was forced to look a? the pillaging and robbery, by being forced to remain in the room. The size ol the roar: was not disclosed fa her information, tout from the article' reported stolen it must have served many purposes. The mfaior.s of the law vvre< told that tlse accused men said they were going to Florida. That w re also told that tiiey left the house fa a City cal . The sleuths got busy sad found that two men, answering the de scriptioa, given by Mrs. Lea, go; oft at the bus statical. Tire bus is said to lave left Raleigh at 11:30 a. m. Sgt. M. L Stephenson notified the. Fay etteville police and when the tons arrived Ralph M. Bailee tire, 34, whose address was given as 139th St. and St. Nich olas Avenue, New York City, ano Jar •'> L, Butte: 23, no address, were taken into custo dy. Mrs. Lee signed a war rant. another srudy of the urban riot ing that has left the nation baffled, sagrt and indignant.. The Detroit Viotlng was seen tv some as a general rei>el lion ovei an taterracial range. It was said that Detroit may b< j starting point of what has ai read; been intimated - ar, uprising of civil rights and p* act iorce? and a general re bellion against the pie sent patli Oi society. ol this viev. scoffed -it the idt of a “peac< rg— bell it ir” being accomplished througl. a halt million dollars* clan <ge to propert; and the homeless of the rioters* own brethren. One factor in tlie rkr.tagpar ■stnick a tree. The fatally mfared mm was pinned in the wreckafe wlsfeii had to he puHed apart by two wreck ers. {Ohs«srv«r f^wto—Sfeaw) Fund Chief Denies Charges George H Esser Jr., execu tive director at the North Car din.. Fund, said at a press con ference V> ettoesday thzt diargep made against the fund toy 4tto district Representative Jsur.es Gardner were based or, Veres&y evidence wbicii not stand tip m a court erf law, showed am 5. sunder standing of the con test of events os simply were not true. Utofle refusing to deny all of Gardner’s 12 charges categori cally because, as he said, “a categorical denial is a broad thing.” Esser showed plainly that he thought the charges fatuous aid 01-grounded. Gardner had charged, am jhg other things, that the N.C . F and and other anti-poverty organizations were trying to build a polsticaJ machine fa Durham. Esser also said to*, thought Sargeant Shrivet, director of the Cdiice of Economic Oppor t unity, “acted hast fly and with out sufficient talortr.aTion’ fa requesting tliat all federal bands y,. v. ifhdrawn from tli€- salary o' Howard Fuller, the contro versial Durham anti - poverty worker. Fuller was erne of a group of Negress who appeared before the Durham city council July 17 to voice complaints about the council’s public-hocsfagpolicy. The fund provided reporters with what it said was a tran script of rtiller's remarks at the meeting. According to die transcript, these were Puller’s coadadiag statements to the cutmciL “...you all better wake up, you ail tetter wake up, tot all bettor wake up to what’s hap pen fag, and you better listen, because these are the voices of the r*eopie. and they’re peo- P?. ?’ at you have forgotten, they’re people tliat you have pushed across the railroad tracks, they’re people that, you have moved out of urban renew al areas so you could get tßurt r ice, expressway so that you r*w fuvs cmmF, r. r> ticuiarl’ puzsielod observer*; cotter at km hetrweesa white m 3 . Negro looters daring DefcnoSt rampages that express Negro grievances a ga.inst whites. “This was m Negro rtot,** a Negro woman who lives tes the riot area said. ft ft wi* an all-of-them riot.. TtoertTe putting it on one side, bat it's both sides.” “There were almost as mam’ (white looters; as negroea, said Mrs. Theresee King, a white woman who watched Iter street being turned into a pile of rubble. Mrs. King saw an integrated crowd roam up and (town the street, “Daughter, talldteg, hav mrmmt mm. 9, m