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
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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)
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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
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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>
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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