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5 KILLED IN LOCAL PRISON RIOT; 2 NEGROES When the word was oat Wed nesday morning that five per sons had been killed in a riot, at Central Prison Tuesday night, the office of the CAR OLINIAN was beseiged with in quiries as to the identity of / . ..• UPRISING HITS PRISON - Raleigh: A charred mass of debris is all that remains of the bath house at Raleigh’s Central Prison following an all-night spree of violence in HELD IN MARIJUANA CATCH - NEW' YORK: Police April 13 seized 1,000 pounds of marijuana and 2 2 pounds of cocaine from a camper truck in Harletn and charged its owner with operating a roving business in the sale of narcotics. The suspect, Major Cobh. 25(shown r tn police photo), oi (3550 Ed son Ave.) the Bronx, was de scribed by police as “one of the biggest dealers in the area,” Police valued the seized nar cotics at $1 million. Cobb was arrested by a team of detec tives who hid themselves beneath cars and trucks in a commercial garage in Harlem and waited until the camper arrived. Police said the garage at 673 St. Nicholas Ave., near West 144th Street, Is owned by Cobb’s father, Walter. (ITT) Eggs Sell For SSOO SMITH EIELD - There might be more food value in one duck egg than in three lien eggs but the record does not shov that there was ever a dozen duck eggs that solo tor S2OO, Hold your hat before your head blows off--that is what happened at . the 21st annual Johnston County f Ham & Egg Show Sale, held in the Agricultural Build ing Thursday. The Grand Champion Dozen of Eggs, produced by Mrs. Sadie Merritt, Rt. 1, Clayton, was sold (See ECKJS BBIX. p. a) ' Memphis Strike Ends MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Council mats J. O, Patterson, Jr., one of the three Negro members of the Memphis City Council said when the sanitation strike was settled here Tuesday, “This could have been settled saver, weeks ago. We could have avoided all this, includ ing the death of Dr. King. 11 * The strike of the 12 hundred garbage workers, most of them Negro, which really came into focus when Martin Luther King went in to aid them to get better working conditions, was g settled on practically the same s®rms that were drawn up seven weeks ago. Dr. Ralph Abernathy, who succeeded King as the leader fef the Southern Christian Lead ership Conference and Mrs. King, came back and led the march the bay beiire King’s funeral was held. It was then that Abernathy vowed to return to Memphis. Now that the strike ha® beer, settled no one seems ■on* *>. rs those slain. A report from the prison revealed that two Negroes and three whites were killed. The two race men were Wil liam Matthews, 29, from Hali fax County, who was serving Rioting Dies Down But Not The Reason CHICAGO - This city’s rioting has come and gone -- but not the efforts to seek its causes. Several explanations of the city’s turbulence, which followed the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., has been given. Each of them may tell only part of the story, or may be part of a larger picture. In particular, those seeking to make sense out of the rioting wanted to know why so much of it took place on the city’s \\ r-stside and so little on the Southside, which has a larger Negro population. Was the rioting planned? Or was it the spontaneous outpour ing of volatile emotion after Dr. King’s slaying? These “explanations” of the outbursts were given: —The disturbances were set into motion even before Dr. King’s assassination. Protest demonstrations and marches planned by high school students in the riot ai ea turned into violence when the civil rights leader was slain. --The community hit the most by rioting has a high propor tion of young people. Os the Westside riot area’s 200,000 residents, 100,000 are under 19. --Police made little effort to restrain the looters, accord ing to black State Sen. Charles Chew, a former Chicago al derman. --Some businessmen invited rioters to loot their stores, in an effort to prevent further damage, according toCapt. George T. Sims, poiice commander in the Westside trouble area. The result, he said, was a "breakdown of law and order.” —Some persons evident!} took advantage of the rising ten sions to commit arson during the rioting. The arrest of sev eral black militants on the Westside supports this contention. --Dr King’s assassination itself had a traumatic effect on the black population. Without a leader, an authority figure, a symbol oi the collective Negro superego, many black people felt that the civil-rights leader’s slaying had released them from their restraints and obligations. --The more usual explanation was that the rioting was a re taliation against whites for age-old injustices and abuses. -The rioting fended to concentrate on the Westside, because that is the port oi entry for many recent migrants from the •South, who have not yet developed a stable community life. (Be# RIOTING. P. 2) Dr, Hawkins Blames Injustice For Riots DURH AM - Di. Reginald A. Hawkins, Nogro gubernatorial candidate, was the featured speaker at a quadrennial ban quet, held at St. Mark AME 7 lon Church, Monday night, for Bishop W. A. Stewart, who has presided over the sth episco pal district, AME Zion Church, for the past lour years. The banquet was arranged by Rev. L. A. Miller, host-pastor. Di, F. G. Shipman was the master of ceremonies. A STRIKE ENDS - Hie soOto of a mmtfaAtotos at work ia fram ed through the doors of a Memphis aardtation truck April 17. Ha was c-ne of 1,200 garbage collectors who returned i© their job® to end a 10-week" old strike that brought. Dr. Martin Luther King to Memphis and Me death, (UPI PHOTO). an 8 to 10 year-sentence for breaking and entering. The other was Nathaniel Lotta, 33, serving a 15-yr.-sentence for attempted rape on a female. The whites were Jerry Wal ston, 22, with a 5 to ? year which five inmates were shot and killed by guards shooting from the pi'ison walls. Auth orities said 78 inmates were wounded in the uprising. (UPI PHOTO). Representatives from the Central North Carolina were in attendance. Others who took part were Mrs. Barbara Dan iels, Rev. J. A. Brown, Miss Katie L. Frye, Mrs. Annie Thorpe, Mrs. Estella McMil lian, Mrs. Ethlind Sim mens and Miss White. Hawkins’ speech ranged over a wide spectrum oi subjects dealing with what he termed the need for “a new political, -octal awl economic system 1" • - foxATiK- fdtb fci i .•v t 2 *ar - sentence; Donald Fox, 26, who was serving two life sentenc es for murder and Andrew' Branch, 40, who drew a 14 to 15 sentence or assault on a female with intent to commit rape. WANTS NEW START - MIN NEAPOLIS: Robert F. Daniels 53 of Minneapolis, a janitor wants a fresh start. And he wants that start in a place where he feels he is wanted and will be given the chance to prove himself, Gabon, Africa. Though he was born in Georgia, he feels ties to Gabon where his parents were born.” All my life, I’ve been trying to get somewhere, but nobody gives a poor man a chance.” Daniels also said “I’ve come to the end of my road In the United States. I’m too young to retire and 1 can’t get a better job.” (UPI) North Carolina.” Although he did not mention G-v. Dan Moore by name, Haw kins charged that the adminis tration in power “the last few years” has been more con cerned for the protection of property than human spirit or human lives. “Immediately when black people march ior justice the National Guard is called out. But when we ask lor protection (SeeKl P. 2) The bodies of the slain pris oners were said to have been turned .over to local funeral homes, to be prepared for ship ment to those who might claim them. However, when Light ness Funeral Home was con Local Youths Face Arson Rap 1 ' " 11 " « ' ■" '"I .. . I I ■! || ■! —— -- : - - —— VOL. 27, NO. 21 CLUB DYNAMITED Protests Get Results High Bonds Held Four For fires A web of evidence was woven around four youths Tuesday so tightly, in the firing of Raleigh Rescue Mission warehouse, by a classmate of two of them, until the quartet was bound over for action by the Wake County grand jury on arson charges. Herbert Smith, 18, 930 S. Blount St., gave a running de scription of what he alleges he saw on the night of April 4, when the warehouse went down, in the wake of racial repri sals, tliat were evident over the nation, over the slaying of Martin Luther King, Smith, a student at Ligori School, told Brooks Poole, who held the hearing, such a con vincing story until Daniel Wil liams, 18; William Thurman Washington, 20, and Dennis O’- Hara Davis were held in SIO,OOO bonds. Ernest James McDow ell, 17, was held under $21,000 bond. He is also being held for Chatham officer in connection with the breaking and entering of a place of business in Pitts boro, where $6,500 worth of clothing is alleged to have been taken. Smith told of being in the front yard of his home, across the street from the warehouse and was attracted by the noise that the four were making, in front of the warehouse. He alleged that Williams was on. the steps (Be# NICE BONDS. P. 2) Council Modifies The Raleigh City Council Tuesday decided tc do some thing about the protested high water bills of Mrs. W'ilma Col lins and Mrs. Helen Lucas. It decided that the bills would be cut in half. Die council also decided that it was time to actually do some thing about water bills in gen eral. This is said to have been long overdue. The Housing Committee was told to make a thorough study of the policies being used and ordinances gov erning water bills. The matter of the relation ship between landlord and ten ant, as it applies to the paying oi water bills, is expected to come in for close scrutiny. The decision to make a tho rough investigation grew out of the protests by the two wo men. Mrs. Lucas is said to have received a bill for $37.- Man Shot By Guard A death, believed to an after math of the recent unrest here, caused the arrest of Norman Watson Davis, 21-yr-oldprivate detective Saturday night. Davis is being held on a $3,000 brand tor the fatal shooting of Robert Wilis Spencer, 18. Piedmont Investigators was employed by Abe Greenberg, owner of the apartments, to guard (be property,accordtogto Davis. Police quoted Davis as saytag he noticed a window brotes to the west slate of a vacant apart ment and me & person near to® side of the building. When b* ops&ed the door of tits apart ment, Spencer lunged at sdm and (1h MAM SHOT. P. *} tacted, due to the fact that the information revealed that Mat thew's body had been carried there, it was found that it had been carried to Wake Memorial Hospital. A spokesman for the hospital said that Dr. W. W. North Carolina's Leading Weekly RALEIGH. N. C., SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1968 4s?*?' “S’?*-? -'■ -V RELAXING - khe Sanh. S. Vietnam: Marines find h jew momenta relaxation prior to going on an operation again at the Communists out side the Khe Sanh outpost recently. Marines suffered their heaviest single loss ol the Khe Sanh campaign April 16. Eighty-nine men were killed, wounded and missing, when a patrol ran into a heavily entrenched North Vietnamese unit in the mountains four miles to the southwest, a spokesman said in Saigon April 17. (UPI). Woman Sets Man Afire Miss Senora Elizabeth Truesdafe, 627 E. Hargett St., will face Magistrate Brooks W. Poole Thursday, 4p.m. for attempt to destroy the body' of David William Clark, by pouring kero sene on it and then setting him afire. The incident is said to have taken place Monday, at the home of Joseph Clark, brother oi the victim, 320 1/2 Love's Lane, Police were not able to determine what enraged the woman so until she decided to make a human pyre out of Clark, Neither was it disclosed as to what Clark was doing to permit her to pour the kerosene on him and then light it. According to Ralph Johnson, the officer who arrested Miss Truesdale, the fire did considerable damage to Clark’s body. He to said to have suffered burns to his arms, face and trunk, Joseph Clark and another man, are said to have smothered the 4 »6* WOMAN, P. 9) r mmnm ■ 2628 880 5761 i ! $25 $45 S3O ; i Anyone having current BLUEtickets. datcdApri. 13. 1*» *» numbers, present same to The CAROLINIAN ***** H amounts iast«cJ above from the SW’EBPSTAKEto Feature, Garner Housewife Wins Certainly no one can tell Mrs. Ethel H. Collins, 300 S. Haywood St., Garner, that there is not much to be gained by going to the siores that are par ticipating in Sweepstakes. She witnessed it herself. She went FROM RALEIGH’S OFFICIAL POLICE FILES mcmißtAT CHILDREN SUSPECTED Mrs, Catherine Brinkley Thomas. 1&08 Boaz Rd., told police that 10 p. m. Thursday she heard the doorbell ring. She is alleged to have heard voices, but no one answered. When her husband came home about 4 a. m. Friday, h 6 to ©aid to have found the mail box against the front doer. They have reason to suspect some of the children in the neighbor hood. * * * FORCES WAY IN Emma Egerston, 741 Eoek Quarry Rd., did not like the w»y Edward Hinton, 45, enter ed her house, at 5:80 p. m. Friday. She was further dto settotted with the way ha treat ed her, after sett tog to. She signed a wrraist for breaMag Hedrick would have to give any information pertaining to the handling of the body. Dr. Hedrick said an autopsy was being performed and as soon as this was over the body would be released to the fun lif Durham to Natural Health Foods, 8 E. Hargett St., and picked up tic ket # 2 and when she knew' anything she was $l5O richer. This meant tliat she would have a happy Faster. BWEBPSTAKE6, P- *> and entering and also assault with a deadly weapon. Site de scribed the Incident as Hinton having kicked in the door and assaulting her by cutting her at. the left side of her nsek. The cut to said to have been 4” deep, AAA CHARGED .WITH STEALING Howard Walton, 16, 23 Meck lenburg Terr., has been charg ed to a warrant, signed by Wil liam Harris, 608 1/2 Coleman St., with stealing an auto. Har ris reported that his *59 Chev rolet was stoles from the 3 00 block of Fayetteville St. 6 p. m, Friday, The car was said to have bean recovered to the 1200 block of E. Jones Si at U p. m., the same day. Officer Mai ne is said to have seen the suspect driving the car. tauwib WK«r, **. » eral home. Lotta* s body was carried to Rex Hospital. 8. was revealed that the same process was being followed at Wake Memorial. Prison officials said that the (See 5 KOjLED. «* 2> PRICE 15c Suspicion Points To Klan Hate DURHAM - “They stuck a stick of dynamite in here and blew the place to hell,” were the words that a white specta tor uttered to the CAROLINIAN, Tuesday, in describing the ob vious bombing of the Stallion Club, well known rendevous for nite life lovers and entertain ment seekers of both races. The spot was the object of a dynamite blast about 6 a.tn. Tuesday, which rcx only dam aged the building to an _ ap proximate extent of $25,000, but awakened many residents in the community and broke windows in many of the homes, located in the area. The cause of th© bombing and the persons re sponsible were both unknown to investigators. The blast happened after an Easter Monday night affair took place and It was reported that the last person left the place about 3a.m. There was much speculation about the cause, but it was definitely establish ed that it was not a recur rence of the racial unrest that followed Use assassination of Martin Luther King. It was apnarent that the person or persons responsible gameu en trance through a back window, laid the dynamite on the floor in the rear of the building and lit the fuse. The blast tore a hole In the concrete floor a <B*e SUSPICION, P. t) Candidates To Appear Dr. C, W Ward, president, Raleigh Citizens Association, announced Wednesday that many of the candidates, offering for the May 4th primary, will be in attendance at the monthly meeting of the Association. Thursday, 8:15 p, m,, at. the Bioodworth St. YMCA. The meet tog to being held, in the hope that Raleigh citi zens will take advantage of the opportunity to question the can didates, as to their stands on the issues, tliat are of concern to the citizenry, so that voters will be able to choose, on the merit oi the candidate. All persons seeking office, from U. S. Senate to the coun ty court house have bean in vited to appear. Many of them have said that they will attend and will be happy to give their views on the matters facing the state and nation. Negroes have expressed much concern ovor the candi dates who are oaf to replace Sam Ervin, Jr., ia the Senate. It was not determined whether any of his opponents would be present or not. Many of the state candidates are on the (See CANDIDATE, *». *) WEATHER Temperatures aurin* the pe riod Ybutvday through Monday will average above normal. Daytime high* are expected to avenge In the tower IS* to she mountain* »nd 79 to 46 elsewhere. Low* at*night in the SCt ranging from th* up aer 40s in i'm snow* tains ts> tee upper BCs «n to* ee**s.. Warm Yfcuwduy tati Friday, turning a Witte esoter wvirtna weekend, Mild Monday Shre clf»it»tto*s wJSi tew! 1-4 t» tli a* m inch to the wwttes Hit then I<4 atewWtowe. with mi* VI me W*» «ad mlmm to* mm. A tew ahs-fat* «r thun der ahaawK* J£S»ly about th*
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