Mass Arrests Are Made By State Troopers Is W»rr§if§ts 75 Black Protesters Fill Jail WARRENTON - Mass arrests of black stu dents were made by city police and State High way Patrolmen here Wednesday morning at John Graham High j*School as the smalltown entered its third straight day of school protest. Approximately 75 blacks were arrested early Wednes day morning in front of the school and charged with dis rupting school activities aft er more than 100 blacks walked out of school Tuesday. A spokesman for the Black Student Movement told The CAROLINIAN that so many stu dents had been arrested that the W’arrenton City jail was full and the students were being bused out to the Warren County Pri son Unit to be processed cm the misdemeanor charge. Bond for the students win be posted as soon as the police officials have booked them. State Troopers were sent to Warrenton Tuesday afternoon 4t the request of local offici als. Col. Edwin Guy, command er of the highway patrol, said , late Tuesday the troppers were sent in at the request of the city officials in War rent on. City police said the 28 state troopers dispatched to the city began making arrest Wednes day morning after school had taken in for the day. It was re ported that the black students came to school Wednesday morning and assembled in front (See MASS ASSERTS, ?. 2) Resister Os Draft In Prison NEW ORLEANS, La.-Walter Collins, 24-year-old activist in tlie black liberation movement, fs arrested at his home here v. 27, to start serving a five u sentence for refusing to drafted. !lgf , The arrest came just II days ||f after the U. S. Supreme Court |jgs declined to hear an appeal of his sentence, while his lawyers were still preparing a petition for reconsideration by the high court. They have 25 days to file such a petition. Collins himself had been touring the country organizing draft counselling services in black communities. He was scheduled to speak in the next tv/o weeks at black high schools and colleges and also white ones throughout Louisiana. He was also scheduled to lead a national conference of hlack. draft eoun cnllm-t; in Chicago on Dec. 4. wOiiuis's mother, Mrs. Vir ginia Collins--who is a na tionally-known black leader charged that he was arrested w ith “gestapotactics.” She said federal marshals came to their home and took him away in hand cuffs, refusing to allow him even time to get a coat or tooth- brush. * v Mrs. Anne Braden, executive of the Southern Con ference Educational Funds (SCFJF) on whose staff Collins works, charged that the arrest was time to prevent any furth er public appearance by Col lins and to stifle growing pro test around his case and the situation of other black draft t*«« rcsistkql ?■. EXPELLED ». C. HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS GATHER- Wlnsicn-Salam; A battery of motorcycle policeman stand ready as ar. estimated 300 black students who were expelled from North Forsyth High for five days gather on a downtown side walk instead of going home as the principal instructed. The group was expelled because it refused to attend classes Dec. 1 morning. (UPI). In Fatal Knifing Os Black Man Club Members Bound Over THE COROLINIAN VOLUME 30, NO 5 Mystery Shrouds Cmse 01 Fire As Woman Mi* Ig% 11/%4| Ip Ik'. V Ills I w Jill % pi i iii ' ■ §, J- JL %J 1 F ft-! 1 _ __ p|pp fgfSSI tmmF* nor Wr w&\.-W &&&& Police Chief Indicted Victim, 77, Perishes Inflames DURHAM -Funeral services for Mrs. Min nie Pratt Moses, 77, who was burned to death in her home, on Fayette ville Street, 8:50 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 24, were held from St, Joseph AME Church Saturday, with Rev. P. R. Cousins. i'he exact cauot u. u,.. fi. was not determined. One of the (See Etj.-XR CO, .. 21 line. Os NAACPTo Durham DURHAM-Edward B. Muse, Director, life Membership Division, NAACP, New York City, will be the principal speaker at "Awards Night,” 8 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 3, at (*m sxßCvnvs or. p. *> EDWARD B, MUSE North Carolina's Leading Weekly RALEIGH, N. C„ SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1970 “1 REFUSED” TO SILL FOR GALLEY -Ft. Denning, Ga.: Robert E. Maples, 22, of Freehold, N. J„ testified Dec. 1 at the court martial of Lt. William Calley, that Galley asked him (Maples) to shoot civilians with his machine gun. Maples, who was a machine gunner in Galley s platoon, said on the stand, "1 refused”. (UPI). 3 Motorcycle Club Members Face Trial CHAPE LI. Hill-Three mem bers of a Durham Motorcycle Club were bound over to the Widow Os ix-Dewt Is Buried Hem Mrs. Daisy Christian Fraz er, widow of the late Charles Rivers Frazer, Sr., noted Ra leigh educator, business man and civil ~ leader, was fu neralized here Sunday, N0v.29. * She died in East St. Louis, 111. on Nov. 25, Prior to her going to East St. Louis in 1963, she had made her home In Raleigh with her family since her marriage to the late Prof, Frazer in 1907. Her last husband was one of the nation’s pioneer Negro ed ucators and served as the first academic dean of Shaw Univer sity from 1910 to 1921, He was also active in the business and civic life of the state as man ager of the Raleigh Branch of the Mechanics and Farmers Bank and later special repre sentative of the bank and N. C, Mutual Life Insurance Co. Dr. Charles W. Ward of the First Baptist Church of Ra leigh and the Rev. Lorenzo A. Lynch, pastor of White Rock Baptist Church of Durham, of ficiated at last rites for Mrs. Frazer in brief and simple ceremonies at Raleigh’s Lightner’s Funeral Home. Dr, Ward delivered the eulogy and the Rev. Mr. Lynch gave pray c*®e WIDOW or, S* Z) Orange County Superior Court Tuesday and held without bond on charges of the first degree knife murder of James Lewis Cates, Jr., a 25-year-old black man of Chapel Hill. Ronny Broadwell, William Johnson and Rufus Paul Nel son were bound over on prob able cause arid ordered held in the Orange County jail until the next session of Superior Court begins December 7. Calvin Edwards, a 17-year old Negro who witnessed the slaying which occurred early Saturday morning, Nov. 21 at a (S««> THIUKE rACING. P. 2) In The Sweepstakes SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK & A ijk& C I4EC MJ |I ¥ \lf sMI Where Discount Prices Stretch Dollars a Long Ways See SWEEPSTAKES Ads (See Numbers, P. 12) Sweepstakes Mowing Merchandise au. gifts con tinue to mount for some lucky winner or winners in The CAROLINIAN’S Revised Sweep stakes Promotion. Continue to check your numbers. You may be a lucky winner this week, Numbers valuable this week follows: Number 08660, first prize, is worth $25 in trade at Liles’ Shoes, 131 Fayetteville Street; 08825, second, will bring its hearer the sum of sls in SINGLE COPY ISc Charged In Killing Os Blmk Man WILSON-A true bill of indictment was return ed by the Wilson County Grand Jury Monday af tu. noon charging’ Elm City Police Chief Ber nice L. Wall with second degree murder in the pistol slaying of Herbert Black, a 25-year-old black man, who was killed Nov. 1 on a rural road in Elm City. Armstrong was shot once in the lower chest by Wall during a struggle which occurred aft er a high speed auto chase. The death of Armstrong set off racial tension in the city that Involved as many as 100 blacks at one time. The Grand Jury heard tes- CRIME BEAT f f tuts ft ii»4 - 1 S U ,,( 111 File* TWO ASSAULT COP Office Donald Raymond Turnage told Officer J. D. Nar ron at 5:22 p.m. Saturday, that he went to 313 E. Cabarrus St. to serve a capias on Johnny Goggins. He said Goggins, 57, refused to get into the police car. Turnage said he was at tempting to get Goggins into the car and Miss Mattie Mae Smith, same address, attempted to pull the cop away. She was then ar rested for interfering with an officer. Goggins was charged with resisting arrest, assault on an officer and for the capias, which charged assault on a female. Turnage suffered skin ned places on his left arm. (Be* CRIME SEAT. P. 3> merchandise at Roses in Cam eron Village; and Number 08861, third ward, is worth $lO in trade at Smith's Shoe Shop, 1811 Old Garner Road. The Sweepstakes Spotlight this week is on Arlans Depart ment Store, 1920 North Boule vard. It is important that the per sons who have these: lucky tick ets understand that 'he or she «»#* BWKEI»ftTAte.Se, r. i> WOMAN W'OUNDED BY GUNMAN-New York: A wounded woman, allegedly shot by a man identi fied as Charles Mathis of Philadelphia, who held her and two others hostage in a Bronx apart ment here, Dec. 1, is carried away from the tenement after poiice seized the gunman. The suspect held off police for over two hours before they could make the capture, and allegedly shot and killed anotner man in the tenement. (UPI). State Representative-Elect Gets 4 Top Recognitions At Fairmont FAIRMONT - Four recogni tions were presented to Dr. Joy J. Johnson, pastor of the First Baptist Church here, Sun day during a special service held at his church. Dr. Johnson, representative elect to the North Carolina House of Representatives, re ceived the Distinguished Citi zenship Award, presented by the General Baptist State Conven tion oi North Carolina, Inc., the Youth Leadership Award given by the St. John Baptist Association Youth Department, the Ambassador of Goodwill Award presented bytheLumbe: River Baptist Association, and Ihe Man of the Yea: 1 Award which was presented by a group of in terested citizens of the Fair- Bottling ‘ Piuiaer Soccoafcs SELMA-Thomas H. Free man, Sr., 80, and one of this town's most respected citizens ■will be inner all zed at the First Baptist i . Church, 3:30 p. 4 tn., Friday. He ' succumbed to an extended illness at the Betsy Johnson Hospi tal, Sunday * night. "FREEMAN, SR. The deceased could easily he termed the father of the art of bottling soft drinks in Johns ton County. When the Worley Company, (nov. Pepsi Cola Bot tlers of Selma), began the bottl ing business before teens, he was the chief bottler. It was his to mix the formula and to see that if received the proper treatment, to bottle same and in many instances to see that the finished product was de livered, In those days it was delivered by horse and wagon. A spokesman for the com (Sc« jreKtCMAN. V 2) PRESENT $27,085 CHECK IN N. C.-DeWttt SnUtan (second from left) and R, Edward Stewart (center) are shown last week presenting a $27,083 check from the North Carolina Manpower De velopment Corporation to Rev. George W. Dudley, chairman; Mrs. Vivian Tillman and Willie Powell, Jr., (extreme left) co-directors of the Rocky- Mount unit.. Opportunities Industrialization Center(OlC), the self-help training project for the unskilled who desire to advar.ee their job po tentials. (Killebrew Foto, Courtesy Rocky Mount Telegram). rr.ont community. Rev. Robert 1.. Mangum, di rector of the Community and Church Center gave the invoca tion for the afternoon while spe cial music was furnished by the Mt. Airy Church Brotherhood Choir of Pembroke with Mrs. Landa Gaddy and Mrs. Dorothy Mitchell in charge. Mississippi Demos To Challenge Seating CLARKSDALE, Miss.- The biracial group of Mississippi ans who won the right to rep resent their state's Democrats at the 1968 Democratic Con vention in Chicago will chal lenge the right of Mississippi’s recently elected Congressmen to take part in the party's House and Senate caucuses when Con gress reconvenes, it was an nounced Tuesday by Dr, Aaron Henry, prominent civil lights leader and chairman of the Democratic Party of Missis sippi. "When the new session of Congress meets tn the first weeks oi 1971,” Dr. Henry said, "we shall challenge the right to each of Mississippi’s five Congressmen and of Senator John Stennis to he seated and to participate in the Democratic Party caucuses of each house on the grounds that they have refused to identify and work with the organization officially rec ognized by the National Demo cratic Party. We will report that these men refused to file Stocky Mount’s OIC Is Given Grant Os $27,083 BY J, B. HAPPEN ROCKY MOUNT - The hard working Board of Directors and Staff of Rocky Mount Oppor tunities Industrialization Cen ter breathed a sigh or relief, and gave special prayers of THANKS as officials of the Durham-based Manpower De The pasted's aides of First L.ptist Church were hostess es for a reception which fol lowed in the fellowship hall of the church after the program. Dr. Johnson is the second Negro to be elected tothe North Carolina General Assembly since Reconstruction days. The (See TOP HONORS. P. 2) to run for office as members of the Democratic Party rec ognized nationally but instead chose to qualify as members of the group unseated by the Chi cago Convention. For the past two years, these men have consistently refused to par ticipate in the affairs of the on ly Mississippi party working with the Democratic National Committee,” he noted. '•To our way of thinking,’’ Dr. Henry added, "Mississippi's five Congressmen and Senator Stennis have now forfeited their right to be called Democrats, They can call themselves Bull Mooses, Whigs, Wallacties, or whatever they want, but they no longer have the right to use the cherished name of Demo crats since the} 1 refuse to ac cept the responsibilities which go with being a Democrat," he said. The importance of the initial Congressional party caucuses is, Dr. Henry observed, that these informal meetings deter ge OEM OS TO. P 2) veloprnent Corporation pre sented a signed contract certi fying to a grant-In-aid for $27,- 083 to assist the local OIC in itis program of training the seemingly untrainable and giv ing hope- and opportunity to old and young who dropped out of in** oie cam. 9. rs

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