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SCENES FORM PEEBLES* HOTEL FIRE-Shown above are
scenes, taken from carious positions last Wednesday, as the
Peebles’ Hotel went up in flames. The establishment has been
deemed a total loss. Photo at far left was taken a couple of
blacks away from the burning hotel. In the next picture, the
Blacks Boycott Church Meet
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VOL. 29, NO. 4r
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Manifesto Warns White America
'Redress Or Revolt’
Jerry Walker Nabbed
Ist City Knife Death
The cops have finally caught elusive Jerry
Walker, near 60, wanted in Raleigh since Feb
ruary 8, when he alleged stabbed a city wo
man to death. Walker’s local address was
listed as 212 1/2 W. South Street. The victim
jwas 32-year-old Mrs. Ruby Ann Lanier Hor
*ton.
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After receiving a tip that
Mr. Walker was in Jackson
ville, N. C., Raleigh officials
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VIOLENCE IN ST. PETERSBURG-St. Petersburg, Fla.:
Store manager, Mickey Williams, saw an unidentified young
Negro apparently shoplifting a pair of shoes Jme 26 and a
scuffle developed (top) when Williams tried to hold the youth
for police. Two other unidentified youths them jumped Wil
liams, knocking him to the ground. The trio then fled and police
are searching for them. (UPI).
At Unitarian Convention
RALEIGH. N. C„ SATURDAY, JULY 4, 19"0
sent a description of him and the
charge to police riesdquarters
there.
Walker v/as arrested at the
Jacksonville Bus station by
Patrolman Levi Simmons.
Jacksonville Police said
Walker had told them he had
been in Jacksonville for six
months.
Lt. Russell A. Liles of the •
Raleigh Investigation Division
said two detectives were br
inging Walker back to Raleigh,
Mrs. Horton, 32. was found
dead in her apartment at 5081/2
East Hargett St. on the after
noon of February 8 by her fath
er.
An autopsy report later show
ed that Mrs. Horton died of in
ternal bleeding from knife
wounds.
Walker, no “stranger” to Ra
leigh pokice, will face charges
of murder in Waker District
(See KNIFE DEATH. P. 2)
photographer was in front of the business. Third P ;> to was al
so taken at a distance. In picture, 4th from left, ex-Cit\ t «
oilman, Dr. John W. Winters, is Shown talking •.< ith a police
officer. The final photo was taken as U e otel v complete
ly gutted.
GETS MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT-Chicago: Rebecca
Beasley, 27, Indianapolis, Ind., is wheeled out of Chicago cir
cuit Court June 29 by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo
Beasley, after Judge Joseph Wosik awarded her what fa- tei
ed a nation-wide record sl-million settlement for a plane
crash victim. Miss Beasley was para, . zed from the hips
down after a North Central Airlines eras! Deco . her 27,
1968 at O'Hare airport which killed 27 persons and left 26
injured. Jury returned verdict after a three week trial. (UPI).
Manifesto
Says Redress
Blacks Now
“Americans created the
military-industrial complex
and ghetto prisons for blacks
in the same way: by failing to
ask the right questions at the
right time of the right people,’*
writes Arnold Schuchter in his
forthcoming book, Reparations:
The Black Manifesto and Its
Challenge to White America,
which Lippincott will publish
August 17, Examining the moral
and religious failure of white
society in America to live up
to Its declared values and be
liefs, Reparations issues a
manifesto of its own that proj
ects a vision of what America
might be like and, beginning
where James Forman left off,
offers the churches and other
agencies a prophetic role in a
program of redress for all dis
advantaged Americans.
Because of its paranoid fear
to Third World Revolution,
wherever it might occur, Mr.
(Sec MANIFESTO, P. 2)
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CRIME
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From Raleigh’s Official
Police Hies
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WOMAN CUTS MAN _ _ „
Harold Watson, Jr., 25, 102 S,
Fisher St., was involved in a
knifing incident last Saturday
near his house. He refused
to talk to Officer W. E. Rad
ford about I:ov he was cut. His
girlfriend, however, “spilled
the beans,” by telling the cop
how Watson received his wound.
She said he was playing cards
at 115 N. Fisher Street, when
lie got Into a “fuss” with Miss
Lenora Fields, 20, 115 N. Fisl -
er. The girlfriend, believed to
be Miss Ora Cooper, who had
earlier called “the law,” said
Miss Fields went into the
kitchen, got a knife ” came
back and cut Watson on t! e left
hand. He suffered a one arid one
half inch laceration. He told Of
ficer Radford tha* he would not
sign a warrant against Miss
Fields.
(See CRIME BEAT- P. 3)
Peebles’ Hotel IsTotd
Loss; Was 49 Years Old
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Eve-Witness Describes Fire At Hotel
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About vo take a shower on the second floor
of Peebles’ Hotel, 122 E. Hargett Street last
Wednesday about 5:10 pan. was Robert Taylor.
However, the shouts of “Fire”! from the third
floor apparently changed his mind. Mr. Tay
lor ran out of the 49-year-old establishment
with only his trousers on, and everything he
According to Ira Frazier,
ownet of “Sweet Pea Green's
Record Shop,” located In the
same building, two women came
Into his shop and reported they
saw smoke coming from a third
floor window.
Mr. Green commented, “I
went outside and saw the smoke;
real heavy smoke. I ran up to
the floor, trying to find where
t tie smoke was coming from and
kicked open the bathroom door.
There were heavy flames tn
there. It was really bad. No
one was up there, though.”
“f had told the desk clerk
to call the fire department on
my way upstairs, and by the
tin;, T came down they were
here,” Frazier said. He said
he saved $6,000 to $7,000 worth
He fuse To lake Part
In Church’s Sessions
BOSTON, Mass.-The General
Assembly of the Unitarian IJni
versalist Association (UUA),
being held at Seattle, Wash.,
June 29 through July '4, will
be officially boycotted bj the
Black organization of that de
nomination.
The Black Unitarian Univer
salist Caucus (BUUC) refuses
to participate in any activities
of this convention - business
liturgical or social. Its na
tional chairman, like most of
its membership, declines to at
tend the Seattle event.
Rocky Ml. Workshop
Has Ten To Create
OlCGrads Leaders
BY J. B. HARKEN .
ROCKY MOUNT - The local
unit of Opportunities Industrial
ization Center (OIC), the small
est of an hundred self-help
training centers founded by Dr.
Leon H. Sullivan of Philadel
phia, Pa, graduated its first
class of ten-3 men and set 1 ...:
females - Hospital Attendants,
(two of whom already ha've jobs)
June 29, wit! “words of com
mendation” from Dr. W. Thur
ber Armstrong, local medico,
who is president-elect of the
fSec ROCKY 'l l P. 2)
MMCP Session Concludes
Church last Safe USA
BY ALEXANDER BARNES
CINCINNATI, Ohio - The o
perung sessions of the 61st an
nual meet ing of 11; eNA AC P were
marked with strong declara
tions of the purpose and intent
of making America the citadel
of demorcracy by three nation
al personages as the more than
2,000 delegates assembled for
the meet, which began Monday
and will continue thru Friday,
Roy Wilkins, executive di
rector, in a Sunday release said
that he felt that President Nixon
meant well, but was receiving
devastlng advice as it relates
to tne civil rights movement
and tire cause of freedom. He
was .optimistic that not long
hence Mr. Nixon would rise
to the occasion and take the
brakes off the freedom move
ment and move toward the oath
he took as the leader of the
greatest nation in the world.
In his annual address Tues
day morning, Mr. Wilkins pic
tured America as moving to
ward two societies, one blapk,
one white--seperate and un
equal. He said, “This deepen
ing division is not inevitable.
of merchandise, but sustained
$4,000 to $5,000 in damages
from smoke and water.
The first alarm reached the
fire department at 5:11 p.m.,
and two pumpers, a ladder
truck and the rescue squad
were dispatched. By 5:12 as
sistant fire chief C. R. Pur
year had called in the sec
ond of five alarms that came
in quick succession until 5:26
p.m.
Four pumpers, three ladders,
the rescue squad with a crew
of about 35 men worked on the
fire. The four pumpers, at full
blast, poured out 4,000 gal
lons of water a minute.
ASKea if his men were awe
to pour enough water on the
(See HOTEI. IS, P. 2)
This boycott, decided sever
al months ago, is the Black
organization’s first massive
response to the April 26 de
cision of the UUA trustee board
to cut off funds from the Black
Affairs Council (BAC), the na
tional foundation for Black em
powerment the BUUC estab
lished three years ago through
the Unitarian Church. At that
time, by a vote of the denomina
tion's membership at a similar
assembly, it was agreed that
the UUA would find the founda
(Sei- BOYCOTT. P. 2)
DURHAM-The 25 Durham and
Person County teenagers who
will live on the campus of North
Carolina Central University
from July 12 through July 24
will be heard from, if the two
week program does what it is
supposed to do.
The program might be de
scribed as a leadership school,
or even a citizenship class.
Instead, it is called a “Youth
Development Workshop” and
that description is accurate.
Co- sponsored by the educa
(See WORKSHOP, P. 2)
The movement apart can be re
versed. To pursue our present
course will involve the continu
ing polarization of the Ameri
can community.” He said such
a course would result in the ulti
mate destruction of democratic
valuable democratic - values.
“The alternative Is not blind
repression or capitulation to
lawlessness. It is the realiza
tion of common opportunities
for all, within a single socie
ty, ” he said.
Bishop S. G. SpOttswood,
chairman, Board of Directors,
In a rip-rousing keynote speech
(Sec NAACP, P 2)
Cancelled
A Golf Clinic, which was to
have been sponsored by the Tee
Off Club, Rocky' Quarry Road,
and was to have started on Mon
day, June 29, has been cancelled
because of apparent lack of in
terest on (be part of the local
citizenry. The Clinic was to
have been followed by a Tourna -
ment in which prizes would be
given to the best golfers in sev
eral categories.
owned as was destoryed in the fire as was the
hotel itself. Mr. Taylor was one of about twenty
guests in the hotel when the five alarm fire
broke out in the bathroom of the hotel. The
hotel was operated by Mr. and Mrs. Victor
Peebles, who also operate Peebles’ Charcoal
Flame, S. Wilmington Street.
L D. Haywood, Principal,
Teacher, Is Fane rallied
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LEONIDAS D. HAYWOOD
Unify Week
Is Backed
By Officials
PHIL ADEL PHI A-Two gover
nors and seven mayors are a
mong the thirteen new hon
orary chairman of Black Unity
Week, Sept. 21-26, recently an
nounced by Samuel L. Evans,
general chairman of the ob
servance.
Governor William T. Cahill
of New Jersej and Governor
Robert S. Scott of North Caro
lina have officially endorsed the
goals of the week and of the first
Annual Philadelphia Black Unity
Football Classic that cli
max its activities on Saturday
night the 26th at John F, Ken
nedy Stadium.
Municipal support of the
week-long celebration - aimed
at demonstrating the achieve
ments of the Philadelphia area
black community in working
with all i res toward common
ends-has u,. ; pledged by Mayor
John C. Gilmour, Jr., of Cherry
Hill, N. J.; Mayor Harry G.
Haskell, .Jr., of Wilmington,
Del.; Mayor John H, Nacrelli
of Chester, Pa.; Mayor Victor
, R, H. Yarnell of Reading, Pa.;
Mayor Joseph B. Conahan of
(See UNITY WEEK. P. 2V
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Funeral services for Leonid
as D. Haywood, 60, 1027, Ober
lin Rd., former principal of the
Oberlin Elementary School, and
a teacher for many years at the
Crosby-Garfield Elemental y
School, in New York and Hali
fax County, were conducted
Tuesday, June 30, at 3 p.m.
at the Wilson Temple United
Methodist Church.
The Rev. J. H. McCallum of
ficiated and burial was in Caro
lina Biblical Gardens.
Mr. Haywood v/as found dead
last Friday, lying face down on
his bed in the bedroom. He was
born in Raleigh, the son of
Claude and Laura Haywood,
February 10, 1910. He died June
26, 1970.
He was a lifetime and faith
ful member of the Wilson Tem
ple United Methodist Church,
where he also served as organ
ist for 17 years. He was ed
ucated in the public schools
in Raleigh, at Saint Augustine’s
College and he received his
Master of Arts degree at
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SEES TROUBLE AHEAD-
Washington: Samuel C. Jackson,
general asst. secy, of HUD, the
highest-ranking black man in
the Nixon Administration, says
the nation may be headed for
racial warfare unless politici
ans at all levels of govern
ment stop feeding the prejudices
of the white middle class. Jack
son said he is convinced that
Presideh.t Nixon is committed
The cause of social justice
but that inflammatory rhetoric
by some officials has damaged
the Administration’s credibili
ty in the black community.
(UPI).
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