Acme Cab's James P, Freeman Skin in Raleigh - *• .Woman Free On Bond Sn Death Os Cab Co. Head ■MM ’ -r.r- • --^Lt ilonci Set At $5,000- Hearing Held Next Day “It looked to roe as though he had been shot : . ght in the heart,” stated Wake County Coroner Marshall W. 'Bennett-, early this week in com menting on the death of James Palmer Free man, who was shot to death around 3 a.m. Jan. 1. Mrs. Lucy Harris Be coat, 55, 3 052-A Woods Place, was charged with murder in the death. Released unde: a bond of ss,ob( in the custody of bond man M. E. Williams of w&w Bonding Company, 305 Pace street, Mrs. Becoat was given an earlier hearing on Saturday, Jan. 2. She is believed to have jpen a dispatcher at Acme Cab ftftjmpany, where the shooting occurred, Freeman, 60, a native of Ra- I leigh, was borr, on Dec. 3, 1910. Police officers were called ( v Miss Hattie Yvonne Moore, 83: S. State Street, at 3:07 a. n.. She is believed to be a dispatcher) for the cab.company, owned by Mr. Freeman, who also operated Acme Auto Serv ice and other business enter prises here. According to a witness, she observed Mrs. Becoat and Mr. -• reema:. walking out ofthe dis patcher's office, heard sounds of an argument, then heard a gun go oft. Officer B, B. Bitucum was the first to ar • :v< at the scene of the shoot ing, 529 S. Blount Street. She also said she saw Freeman iving in the street, then saw' Report Gainful Work Kor Minority Bodies * JEW YORK, is. V.-AR in crease in the proportion of gainful employment by minorl t workers or. State-aided hous ing developments during the first year of operation of the State Division of Housing and Comm unit} Renewal’s Affirma tive Action program was an nounced last Thursday by State Housing Commissioner CharleE J. Urstadt, "Our Affirmative Action pro gram,*' said Commissioner Ur stadt. "was initiated in an ef fort to promote maximum em ployment opportunity, without discimination, during construc tion of these protects. Althoug) the State does not hire, o; place, construction workers on these State supervised proj ects, we feel a strong responsi bility to aid minority group construction workers in gain ing employment consistent witii the availability of such workers in the area of the project." The statistics cited by Com missioner Urstadt are based r on an analysts of data on mi r-m rtty employment in the major •• employment categories of foreman, journeyman, laborers and apprentice compiled in the field and reported by the general contractor on 38 State-aided middle-income housing proj ects under construction during the four quarters beginning Ju- T 1, 1969 and ending June 30, 1970. Tiie Division’s program uses man-days as a unit of In 7 he Sweepstakes j SPOHIGHT THIS WEEK fe Famous Name Brand Appliances a; j Prices ] I X (See Numbers, P. B) f * h Sw«*g*stdkss ftomfim Keep Y&m Tkkets H&mfy Happy New Year Maybe your Luekv numbers this week are luck in The CAROLINIAN** Re- as Mlows: Number 08880, first vised Sweepstakes Promotion prize, is valuable in the amount "‘lll be better this year that; of S2B at Williford's Gulf Serv ian and more winners will show ice, ’2lO New Bern Avenue; up to claim their prlr.es, t«*» swssmtaxks. s*. ai two men pick him up and place him In an automobile. According to officers, when they arrived at the scene, Freeman was sitting in an up right position in the car. It could not be ascertain ed just how the hearing was held on Saturday, since that was a part oi the Rev. Year's holiday weekend. However, according to Jailer W. £. Bagwell, Mrs. Becoat v/as freed on the $5,- 000 bond at 3:45 last Saturday. The coroner said the weapon used is believed to have been a .22 calibre pistol. Only one shot was fired. The Acme Cab Company was founded bv Freeman in 1939. He made his home with a sis ter, Mrs. Pearl F. Williams, at 211 K. Tarboro Road. Funeral services for Mr. F reeman were conducted Sun day, jan., 3 at the First Bap tist Church wit.-, the pastor, Rev. D>'. Charles W, Ward, and Father Arthur J. Calloway , rector of Saint Ambrose E piscopal Church, presiding. (Sc. BOND SFT, P. 2) measurement rather than a simple head-count to ascer tain actual amount of gainful (See MINORITIES P 2) 'f reach The Gospel Os liberation/’ [mancipation Bay Audience Is Urged DURHAM - Osofo LaFayette M cDonald challenged the m blis ters of the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance of Durham and vicinity and the general audience to "preach the gos pel of liberation to ever} man, woman’and child until justice runs down like a might stream" as he delivered the speecti for the Emancipation Proclamation one hundred and sixtt anniversary service which was held at West Durham Bap tist Church at 11 o’clock on New Year’s Day. McDonald, who is pastor of the Northside Baptist Church in Durham and also college minister at Durham Business College, was a last minute sub stitute speaker for Dr. Sandy F, Ray, pastor of the Corner stone Baptist Church in .Brook lyn, New,York. Dr. Ray was unable to get to -the services because of the inclement weath er. Learning he was to he the speaker for the services about an hour and a half before the Over 60 Involved jNC Marines Engage In Bi-Raeial Fist Fight THE COROLINIAN VOL 30. NO. 10 Poisoning Believed Cause As Two SS|BRI a 1M rnHShk m" 40" 0, -'ii m m-Jr pf fp- » Kff BLw JBP £§j if M|g 1* £1 ;A p| gs SM A p jj£ W W BK On QE j HR J/ftT Mil wK HU Wl K si YA aIP S(s He 11 Jr Pfl 11 fi i! p ill 111 II If ill $§ m f OK Jv B 9B jg& jjnpj |BL wfi SB Wgk raft J* *S •#:<£<&<£ *&&&& Council Sees Huggins Igniflaa On, lit Gas Out A laulty rnuffler iebe lived to have been the cause of death for two Raleigh ; re a residents earl y Monday. Wa k e County Sheriff’s Depu ties found the bodies of Miss Shirley Ann Tay lor, 23, Route 3, Ra leigh and Marvin Jones, 24, Route 1, Raleigh. The car in which they were found was parked ten miles northeast oi the city on a dirt road, oft V. S. 401. According to Wake County Coroner Marshall V,. Bennett, early reports link the deaths to carbon monoxide poising. The coroner stated, “When the sheriff's deputies got there, the ignition was on, hut there was no gas in the car. The muf fler v/as in awful shape. The (See IGNITION P, Z) 6. L. MCDONALD ' Son Os Ex-Residents A mong32US Scholars BALTIMORE, Mri.-Kurt Sch moke. Baltimore native arid il A KURT SCKMOSCE North Carolina s Leading Weekly RALEIGH. N. C SATURDAY JANUARY 9. 1971 BOXER CHARLES “SONNY” LISTON FOUND DEAD-Las Vegas, Nev.: Former world heavyweight boxer, Charles “Sonny” Liston, 38, was found dead in his home here late Jan. 5. Authorities said Liston had teen dead about one week. Liston developed his boxing skills in prison and after being released at the age of 21, he went on to teat 33 of 34 opponents before winning the championship from Floyd Patterson. Sept. 25, 1962, on a first-round knockout. He lost the title to Cassius (Muhammad Ali) Clay Feb. 25, 1964, He also lost a rematch to Clay May 25, 1965. The cause of his death has not been deter mined. (DPI). time for the program, Osofo McDonald spoke from the sub ject, "The Gospel Os Libera tion’’ taking his text from the fourth chapter of Luke, the 18th and 19th verses. The former chaplain of Lin coln Hospital and presently a member of the Board of Direc tors for Operation Break through, told the audience at the beginning of speach, "1 am not going to try to fill the shoes of Dr. Ray because 1 have teen walking in my own shoes for 33 years and the; feel pretty good to my feet.’’ During ids 40-minute talk, whici yra® aimed at the young, old, educated, uneducated, those who have it ana those who haven’t gotten it yet, McDonald encouraged his audience to make room for the young people (tjee Lit»*,KATlotv P :’) Yale University senior, has been selected as u Rhodes scho lar, one of 32 students in the U. K. picked for the honor. He is the grandson of the late John H. Sclimoke and Mrs. Pearl Schmoke Freeman, former Ra leigh residents. Kurt is a graduate of Balti more City College. In a school of 3,800 boys, he was elected president of His 19th ana 11th grade classes and in his sen <«»« SON OF, P 2) "National Product Is Not Helping Blacks:" Burrell Washington, u. c,-"Th» recently announced trillion dol lar grow national product is not helping the nation’s Blacks at all,” declares Berkeley G. Bur rell, president of the National Business League, the nation's ANGELA GIVES BLACK POWER SALUT E-San Rafael, Calif,: Accompanied by a Sheriff’s ir.atro n, black mili tant Angela Davis (rear)smiles as she renders a "black power’ salute on entering courtroom where she arid Bar. Quentin Pri son convict Puche3l Magee(cen ter forag'd, in profile) were to he arraigned on charges of murder, kidnap and conspiracy for the Marin County Court house shootout that left a judge and three others dead. (UPI), ctueet business association. “Quite toe contrary, the ap parent upsurge in the economy has been drastically offset by Inflation, the cut back® in de fense spending, end tb* General t*» tP ¥. SI SINGLE COPY 35c Refuses lo Grant Request Harry. Huggins appeared at the regular bi-monthly meeting of the Raleigh City Council Monday afternoon and r equest ed that the council set-up a civilian review bear'd to review hie case of charges levied a gainst Black patrolman Flc-yd Lee Rountree for police brutali ty. The council decided not * ■ take any action on this mat’ or until after the case is beard m the Raleigh District Court Feb. 3. nrrm.-iN*. e Increased Cash Set For V ets Increased payments, averag ing between 9 and ID per cent for approximately 1.6 million veterans and survivors or the Veterans Administration pen sion rolls, are provided in a bill signed into law by the President on Dec. 24. The bill, VA reported, also raised income limitations that determine if, and how much, VA pension can be awarded to disabled veterans, and widows and children of deceased vet erans. VA pension is paid for dis abilities and deaths not due to military service. The new law was designed to avoid a drop in income for those "current law" pension er* whose Social Securit; in creased during 197© and who would have had veterans pen sion benefits reduced beginning Jan. 1, 1973. An increase in benefits was also given to parents receiving dependency and indemnity com pensation (DIG). The income limit controlling the receipt of pension was in creased by S3OO for both "pro tected" and "current law" pen sioners. as well as parent- re ceiving DIC. Increases of 10 per cent were also authorized for veterans on the current lav pension roils entitled to aid and attendance, as well as for widows receiving death compensation, DIG or current law pension. The house bound rate for veterans entitled under the current pension law was also increased by 10 per cent. The new law also removes the requirement for persons age 72 or older who have teen in receipt of VA benefits for two consecutive years to file annual income questionnaires, al though they are still required to report changes in income or net worth. This provision ap plies to income reports to be filed at the end of IS7I, TO READERS! Due to circumstances beyond our control, Tit* CAROLINIAN ic only priming sixteen pages this week. Hometown news, lo cal and MS&omi photographs net mm in the iww*p*p*r this w*sk, will tee handled in the next sditior.. spacs* jssmfttto®. FRST 81-AC'K on GMC’S BO ARD OF DIF EC TORS -Re* You. The General Mott/r® Cor;. t. »ard oi directors e leefe"- Dr. Leon Howard Sal iva: Jan. 4 ’o ■■ tht ft.: sr black " '■ ' her of tte hoard in rte corp'*ra+l'..o sociation her* Jan. 20-22. I w,.‘ in- : art! e.’ s first maj or addi ess since leaving his Ad it: inistrat mo pom. He willspaai at a dinner meeting on Jan. 21 at me Netherland Hilton Hotel where the Workshop is to he held. Others who are to speak be fore the body are: Gov. John J. Gil fan of Ohio; Michigan Secretary of State Richard Aus tin; anc Abraham B tin, and Abraham S. Venable, director, Office of Minority Business Enterprise of the U. S. Department rtf Commerce. Additonal features of the Workshop, says John H. Beng stacke, head of Seagstacke newspapers and president of NNPA, will tie discussion ses sions aimed at further improv ing V e Mack press and making it more useful to its readers. In addition to discussing civil rights, black political power, and Hack Capitalism, tm pub lishers will concern themselves with; Special editions, cooking schools, nev. st; ling, new edi torial and advertising ap proaches. and the role of the black press in the 1970’5. A gk I \ jL I b x j. : fi v X V FIRST MOTHER OF YEAR POSES WITH BON-Mrs, Mar garet Ruth Johnson Prince, 26, of si« Cleveland Street (off Gleriwood Avenue) poses with her infant son, Billy Ray Prince, Jr,, borr at 2:47 p.m. Saturday, JSan.2. at Wake Memorial Hos pital, The baby weighed in at si* elevto ounces. Mrs. Prints*, the mother of three titter children, is married to Billy R. Prince, 26, As th® mother of the first toby torn at Wake Memorial, eh® will receive gifts from«JS»iJtotoen busi nesses, including The CAROLINIAN, vfctehaponsortotteyearly promotion. A native of Apex., Rwto 1, tost 48, Mrs. ftriaee*s mother still resides at that sMmm. X J Cops Given Assistance By Military JACKSONVILLE -Mili tary police Assisted city policemen for the city or J a cksomi Me, S o r t h Carolina in breaking up fights here lasi Thurs day morning at the local bus station. More ttuu f,n Mar Les were loaded on a truck and returned to Camp L-eietae earl’ Thurs day tcorT.ing after a 1 raw; tor :•*« oti! between a white an: Hack Marine in the bus station . r *>und 12::SO sum. After this one Incident ac cured. tfe bus station develop ed into a •■‘massacre." Twelve Marines: were held tortsCy ■ ' questioning, but no charges were preferred. Charles Miracle, efty police department detect :ve, said racial tensioo (tad beer grow ing big 1 it th® city since pvt. Alonza v arts a black, was ar rested and charged wit- t*. ■ (Sot «■ M*«£SIES r CRIME BEAT fr-,-r Rater*- ‘ Of.VijL. ', ■ S Editor’s Neste: This column or feature is produced in the put - lic interest with an aim tov. at ds ei ini mating its contents. Num erous individuals havereques' - ed that they foe given the cor— slderatiot of sme'looking ihi listing or tiie police bßir-e-. This we would like • v v Be*-- - ever, it is not our po-Irion ic be judge or jury . We mere: publish the facts as we fine them reported by the arresting officers. To keep out of The Crime Beat Columns, mere ly means not teing registered by a police officer in report ing his findings while on dut. . Do simp!; keep off t’rie»‘Blot ter" and oil won’’ be n y>, Crime Beat. USE .AXE, KNIFE William Roger Ray, 34, 514 S. Saunders Street, told Office: R„ L. Johnson at 2:38 a.m. Fri day, that he was in a fight wit! Donzell Williams, age and ad dress not listed. Ra; said he had an axe and Williams was ii. possession of a knife. War rents were signed against both men charging engaging it- ar affray where a deadly weapon was used. The cop was unable to locate Williams, but Mr. Ray wan jailed after being treated and released at Wake Memorial H ospltal for numerous cuts and lacerations about his head, shoulders and left arm. The melee occurred at Ray's house. CHIMfc BEAT, I s . 3)