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> Black Power Advocates Blast Race Leader ADMITTED U. S. COMMUNIST'S COURSE ATTRACT, i. 900 STUDSNTA-dos Angeles: some 1,900 students at UCLA applauded the first lecture Monday by Anegla Davis, a U. S, Communist club member, then requested other members of the university’s faculty to stop teaching until Miss Davis' course is given college credit. Some 100 students were turned back from the jammed -pack ed lecture ’nail as the Afro-coiffured professor talked on the philosophical selements in Black li terature. The shapely lecturer is awaiting decision on the appeal she has before the California Board of Regents. She was fired last month by the Regents after she stated that she was a mem ber of a Communist club operating in the country. Though the outcome of her appeal is pending, she still receive her $9,684 annual salary. (UPI). Bill Would Moke it Crime To Bock Civil Rights Groups ROBERT S. TURNER R. Turner ■Pies Here., Rises Held Funeral services for Robert St. Clair “"rain” Turner, Sr„ 1200 E. Hargett Street, were conducted Wednesday, October 8, at 4 p.m. at the Davie Street {See R. TURNER. J* 2) 23 Students Suspended In Rocky Mount ROCKY MOUNT-In a speci al three hour call-meeting on , Tuesday, October 7, the Rocky * Mount School Board acted upon a recommendation that some 23 Negro pupils be suspended from the local high school. The board then subsequently su {**B SUSPENDED, f. 4) CIVIL RIGHTS HEARING HELD IN GREENSBORO-Greensfcoro N. C.: Claude Barnes (R) a Dudley high school student whose disqualification as a candidate for president erf the student council touched off protests which eventually led to disorders at A&T University here last spring appears before the North Carolina Advisory Committee to the U. S, Civil Rights Com mission. Barnes told the committee that the problems at Dudley high school had been brewing for several years. (UPI). WASHINGTON, D. C. - The Southern Conference Educa tional Fund (SCEF) has joined other organizations in warning against U. S. Senate Bill 12, fathered by Sen. James East land of Mississippi. SCEF quotes Thomas I. Ern es son. professor of lav.- at Yale University, as saying that the bill “could even make it a crime to support civil-rights, Negro, or peace groups withir the United States.’’ Racial J ustice Body J Supporting Strikers Bill Land, national director for the Committee for Racial Justice, spent the previous night in a Beaufort jail after par ticipating in a striking work ers’ march on the town’s court house. The 10-week-old strike stemmed from what striking workers called poor working conditions. Mrs. Oden charged that the Mill “called workers at unusual and unscheduled hours; provided little or no heat in buildings in which workers per formed their tasks; engaged fe males workers in unduly heavy manual labor; and “pro vided no avenues of advance ment for Black workers.” Workers maintain that the strike is split along racial lines. Nearly 90q- of the HO Mill work ers are Black. However, Mrs. Oden contended that out of the 135 workers who went on strike, “only one white worker walked out” with other strikers. There were also Black workers who remained on the job. Land stated that sympathy for the strikers led to his participa tion in the Thursday night march. He and some two dozen other marchers were charged Senate Bill 12 is in a posi tion to be sent to the floor of the Senate at any time by the Judiciary Committee. If has already been approved by the the Senate at any time by the Judiciary Committee. It has already been approved by the Senate Internal Security Sub committee (SISS), Both the com mittee and the subcommittee are headed by Eastland. Eastland says that his 100- (Bee BULL WOULD) under local and state statues prohibiting parades without a permit. The vocal Land count ered that his arrest was illegal (in reference to the recent Su preme Court ruling that work er’s portests in support oftheir civil rights need no parade per mit). Tini Kilgore, one of the march participants, noted that the law officers of Beaufort failed to re - spect their own laws. Said Miss Kilgore, “The city ordiance prohibited parades of groups larger than ten people. We were in groups of nine or less.” “However,’’ she added, “the (Svo STRIKERS, P ’) Walker To AddressNC Tutors Here ROCKY' MOUNT-The North Central District of the North Carolina Teachers Association will conduct its Annual Dis trict Meeting on Friday, Octo ber 10th, at the Parker Junior High School In Rockj Mount, The Reverend Dr. Wyatt T. (See REV. WALKER. P. 2) Two North Carolina INAACP To Nix Haynsworth 4-. :.-'*■ ■'■-,!*v -,!.. VOL. 28. NO. 50 On Fur Heel C ity Street * t *>* #■'**>* Oppose Tax: Hawkins Sales Tax Measure Criticized Meeting at Shaw U niversity last Wednes day Dr. R. A. Hawkins of Charlotte, chairman of the North Carolina Committee for more Representative Politi cal Participation, said his group “will work ac tively in local organiza tions with others* 9 to op pose added sales taxes. ttio-i *>» &AWKINS, P. 2) WILL LEAD '‘MARCH A GAINST DEATH”~Washington: Mrs. Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King, J'rwill lead the “march against death,” protesting the Vietnam War No vember 14-15 in Washington. The New Mobilization Com mittee to end the war in Viet nam said Mrs. King would be at the head of a single-file march from Arlington Na tion Cemetery to the capitol, (UPI). From Raleigh's Official Police Files BEATEN BY MAN Mrs. Marvelene Harris Als ton, 826 E. Martin Street, told Officer Norman Artists at 10:08 p.m, Monday, that her husband, Everett Julius Alston, 31, same address, beat her about the. face and body with his hands and fists. She was taken to Wake Memorial Hospital by ambulance, suffering from bruises about the face and an injured right arm. She said she would sign an assault warrant against Mr. Alston. * * * ASSAULTED AT JAGUAR? Miss Barbara Ann Allen, 11- 04 E. Martin Street, reported to Officer J. C. King at 1:20 a.m, Saturday, that she was assaulted by another colored female by the name of Mrs. Raymond Williams of Fountain Drive (Southgate). The alleged Incident occured at the Jaguar club, located at 1805 Curtis Drive. She had a two-inch la ceration on a hand and was cut by flying glass (from bot tles and glasses). No other action was listed on the re port, (Sec CRIME BEAT. P. 3) North Carolina s Leading Weekly RALEIGH. N. C.. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 11. 1959 STUDENT NABBED AT SCHOOL-Chicago: A student is taken into custody at Tilden High School by police during renewed outbreak of racial violence October 7. He was one of 174 per sons arrested. Os the 132 juveniles arrested, 64 were white and 68 Negro. (UPI). Nixon Names Goodloe To Minority Council DURHAM-President Richard Nixon named North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Com pany president Joseph W. Good loe to a 63-member Advisory Commission and set the initial J. W. GCODi.OE 1 SWEEPSTAKES j $lO $5 $7.50 | Anyone h»\in(r current YELLOW tickets, d.ited Oct. 4, ISS3, with : X : : : proper numbers, present same to The CAROLINIAN office and : : : receive amounts listed above from the SWEEPSTAKES Feature Two Win Sweepstakes Cash A lady and a gentlemen were the wtnners In last week's CAROLINIAN Sweepstakes Promotion. With ticket number 1255, first place, Herman White, 111 N. State Street, obtained the meeting for October 13, at the White House. Headed by founda tion head Sam E, Wyiy of Dal las, Texas, the advisory Coun cil will hold an all-day meet ing to launch the Administra tion's most controversial but likely to succeed program. In a statement, President Nix on acknowledged “encouraging increased minority-group busi ness activity Is one of the pri ority aims of this administra tion. I have often made the point that to foster the economic status and the pride of mem bers of minority groups we must seek to Involve them more fully In our private enterprise system. Blacks, M exican-A mericans, Puerto Ricans, In dians ar.d others must increas ingly be encouraged to enter the field of business, both in the areas where they now live and in the larger cornmerical community -- not onls as work ers, but also as managers and owners’* (Sec J. w. GOODLOE, P, 2) ov/eepstakes ticket at Thomp son-Lynch Company, 20 W. Hargett Street. When he pre sented it at The CAROLINIAN, he received S2O in cash. Mr. White ts a first time whiner. (See SWEEPSTAKES, P. 2) SINGLE COPY 15c Cops Use Gas In Sanford SA N FORD - Pol iee us ed tear gas to disperse a group of some 40 to 50 Negro students who had walked out of clas ses at Sanford’s Central High School. Police of ficials charged that af ter the group left the school grounds, the stu dents marched down a main city streets‘chant ing, shouting, and tos sing objects at passing cars.” Police officers followed the students ur.ttl they reached a railroad trestle, then threw tear gas canisters into the group to dispell them. Kenneth Brison, Sanford School Supt. stated that all of (See TEAK-GASSED, P. 2) NAACPTo Durham DURHAM - “Stop Hayns worth,” “Stop Haynsworth” Is expected to be the battle cry when delegates from the 105 branches of the State Confer ence of N. C. Branches, NA AC.P, converge on this city for thier annual meeting, from the time the ministers open at St. Mark AME Zion Church, S. Roxboro Street, until Rob ert Ming, Jr., famed civil rights (See STATE NAACP, P 2) WEATHER During the period, Thursday through Monday, temperatures will average near normal. Day time highs will be mostly In rhe 70s, except in the 60s in the North Carolina mountains. Lows at night will be in the lower 49s in the mountain- 47-56 else where, except 55-65 alostg the coast. There will fee little change In temperature until about the beginning of next week. Precip itation will total over one-half inch, occurring In the east por tion on Thursday and spreading throughout the state over the weekend. PLEADING WITH GUARD-Paris; Mrs, Andrea Rander (L) of Baltimore, Md„, pleads with guard at gat® of villa occupied by Viet Cong peace talks delegation in suburban Berriera-le- Buisson October 6. After some discussion the guard accepted two packages containing 100 letters from the families of serv icemen reported missing in Vietnam ar.d medical supplies from Mrs. Hander. With her are two other members of Na tional League of Families of American Prisoners in south- • east Asia M rs , Sybil Stockdale of San Diego, California., and' j-.rs. Patricia Mearns (R) t of Los Angeles, California. (UPI), A. Banes Clarifies Position DURHAM-It was re liably reported here Monday that Alexander Barnes, president, Dur ham Branch, NAACP, and veteran civil rights fighter, was the victim of some vitriolic re marks by. two alleged proponents of Dlack power, Howard Fuller and Be*" Ruffin. The a..... e k Barnes Is said to have been caused t>y an article that appeared in The CAROLINIAN, dated Septem ber 20 and carrying Barnes’ byline. The article reported a meeting which was called by Ben Ruffin to try to make the black community aware of Its condition. •Howard Fuller Is said to have approached Barnes’ car as he attempted to pull away from the curb, on East Petti grew Street, about mid-day Monday and began berating him (See BUCK POWER, P. 2) ALPHONSO A. VANCE Vance Gets High Post With Elks Hobson R. Reynolds Grand Exalted filler. Improved, Bene volent suia Protective Elks of World, announced recently that he had appointed A. A. Vance, local Elk leader, to head the Shrine Commission in the State of North Carolina This commission was set up to be a telling factor in the program of the Elks. It Is to be remembered that a site has been selected hi the eastern part of the state to construct a building and to afford other facilities that will not only perpetuate the memory of those who built the Order, but will serve as a haven for cider (See VANCE GETS. P. 2) RCA Album Winners Are Revealed Running into its third week, the “RCA Choose Your Hit- Of-The-Week Contest” an nounces the selection of ten CAROLINIAN readers as the Contest’s latest winners. The winners will receive al bums in the mall during the early part of the next week. The following persons will enjoy the sounds of their favorite RCA recording artists as -winners hi the “RCA Choose Your Hit <«e* MCA ALBUMS, P, 8)
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