ARTK’l I.ATKS ON ( AIMTAI. PIMSIIMKNT - Allanla • Hep.
Bobby iliil. I)-Savannah. Hfslurcs as he speaks out against the
capital punisbiuenl bill in the (ieorgia House February 111 as the
Georgia (ieneral Assemhl> entere<l its second day of business after
a three-week recess. Hill, on the .ludiciar> Committee, said the bill
would mil meet I .S. Supreme Court tests.
Last Rites Said For
Raleigh Dentist
Funeral services lor l>r
Robert McKinley Bell, retired
Raleigh dentist, were held from
St. Paul A M K Church. 4 p.m .
Tuesday, with Re\. Nathaniel
Gaylord, officiating
Dr. Bell was born in
Morehead f*il> \fier finishing
the elementary school of his
native city, he attended A&T
College. He completed both his
high school and college work at
the Greensboro school
He was a catcher on one ol the
schools best ba.seball teams. He
is said to have possessed one of
the best throwing arms in
baseball This is attested to by
the fact that he joined the tamed
Homestead Grays and re
mained with them lor 10
seasons
He also entered the leaching
profession and served as
principal of a school In Sanford.
He later matriculated at
Meharry Medical College,
where he finished dentistry He
opi'ned an ottice here and
served the profession until
(See UKNTIST. P. 2>
BELL
Harren Visits Littleton
Kin Of Infantryman
BY .1 B
LITTLETON - The writer
journeyed -lo mile.s from Rocky
Mount here to hunt up the listed
Spanish American war veteran
and Cuban fighter (i;vOR(iE
BEAT
I'rom Raleigh's Official
Police Flka
EDITOR'S NOTE: Thli: coiumn
or ftoturc is produced In (he Nub
ile Interest with an aim towards
•Uminatini its contents. Numer
ous individuals have requested
that they be given the considera
tion of overlooking their listing
on the police blotter. This v.e
would like to du. However, it is
not our position to be Judge or
Jury. We merely publish (he (acts
ai we find them reported by the
arresting officers. To keep out of
The Crime Beat Columns, merely
means not being recistered ov a
police officer In reporlinK his
findings while on duty So sim
ply keep off the "Blotter" and
you won't be in The Crime Rear.
(;0<)l)S.\M MU I AS IKIHHKI)
William Henry I'prlunTh. 4.'>.
402 E. Hai'Ci'H SI Iricil m lie a
good Samaritan »hi‘n he nave
two women and a man a 'lili '
in his car .As he slopped In let
them out in the .'iiiit hloek of E
Martin St . lhe\ allettedly
pushed him down, ■ swiped" his
wallet eoulain.ng ST.i and ran.
He. however, stated to (itlieer
C. R Ayeoek that he emild
identify tite suspeils and one
Marv Smiiti or Haltersnn. .'Hu K.
Hargett St . Apt le knew, as
his wife's eousm
(See. t'HlMi HIM t’ 2.
ffAKREN _
WA.SHINGTON HARRIS, or his
relatives, following the AP
release from Charlotte stating
that '13 North Carolinians "
were among the 167 members of
Ihe "Companies B, C and D of
the I old I Negro 25th Infantry"
accused of having "shot-up
Brownsville. Texas. Aug. 13,
1006,"
.Allegedly, a white woman has
eharged a rape attack by a
Negro soldier, and after no one
could be pen-pointed as Ihe
supposedly guilty culprit, then
President Theodore iTeddy)
Roosevelt, reportedly, expelled
from Ihe Army the entire 167
men. many of whom had fought
'.See HARREN. P. 2r
Pistol Victim
Recovering
At Home
.Miss Diane Robinson, a
11-\ car-old l.igon Junior
High School student, is
re|»4Mied recovering well at
home from a pistol wound
siillered last Tuesda> after
noon on Swain Street near
the Lenoir Street intersec
tion.
Diane w as released frt»ni the
Wake Memorial Hospital
ruesdav afternoon. Her
Sff VICTIM. P 2(
Grand Slani-S Recipients
Ttvo Native Sons
" ^ ^ PJIES? RUN THIS WEEK 9,200
3 Blacks Among First POW’s Releaseu
Army Mum: No
ROWAN COUNTY FACES JC RAP Details Available
* ▼ I'fJlV- nicllll'ed t
VOL. 32, NO. 16
North Carolina's Leading Weekly
WEEK ENDING S.-Vl’.. EEB. 17, 1973
SINGLE COPY 15c
Airing March 1st
Council - Tenant Talks Set
Gov.AssuresN.C.
Blochs A Place
Appointments
Speaking His
Convictions
Governor James Hols-
houser, N.C.'s first Repub
lican governor in 74 years,
over the weekend bolstered
his campaign promise that
blacks would be a vital part
in his administration.
He assured the members of
the Second Episcopal Dis
trict. A,.M.E. Church, in
Washington, D.C., Friday
night, at a dinner in honor
of Richard Allen, the
founder, that he would not
only keep his campaign
promise but had already
begun.
On Monday of this week,
he told Kelly M. Alexander,
president, N.C. State Con
ference of Branches
NAACP and other inter
est^ persons, that every
interest of blacks would be
served for the next four
(See APPOINTMENTS, P. 2)
400 BUCKS
DISCHARGED
FROM NAVY
National Black News Service
WASHINGTON - The Navy, in
an effort to get rid of
troublemakers and those who
have become a "burden to the
command ", has dismissed 2,959
sailors. 414 of whom were black.
The dismissals, which have
been underway since late
December, are being carried
out under an order issued by
.Admiral Elmo Zumwalt. Jr,,
chief of naval operations. The
Na\\ said it expected another
(See 400 Bl.At'KS. P. 6'
SeekWayTo
Get Tenant
On City Unit
The Raleigh City Council
postponed seeking changes in
laws that would help low income
residents last week.
Over the objections of Mayor
pro-tern C. E. Lightner and
Mayor Tom Bradshaw.
Interested citizens, however,
may appear before a March 1
meeting of the Council to voice
their views.
Last week's action featured a
recommendation of the Coun
cil's legislative advisory com
mittee.
After meeting for more than
three months to draw up
legislation for the 1973 General
(See TENANT, P. 6)
I'PI's pliotoprinler pictured
three hlavk GI's among the 142
POW's released this week.
Two of the three are officers,
the other an unidentified but
obviously elated soldier without
Sheriff And
OfficialsNamed
In Federal Suit
SAI.ISBURV ■ Rowan County
Sheriff John K. Slircwalt and
eight county officials must
answer charges of racially
segregating prisoners in the
County jail.
U S. Attorney General Rich
ard Kleindienst filed the suit in
Middle Districl Eederal Court
in Greensboro last week.
Named in the suit were
Sheriff John K Slirewalt. four
jailers, the five county commis
sioners. and the county itself.
The Justice Department's
suit against the Rowan county
officials charges that racial
segregation of prisoners vio
lates the public facililies section
of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and
the Constitution's equal protec
tion clause
This is the second such suit
brought by federal authorities
against a county unit. In 1970
the Justice Department lost the
MAJOR HARDY
outward trappings of rank
On February 10, UPI, work
ing from Pentagon files,
identified Army Major William
H Hardy, whose liometown was
listed in Pentagon files as
Wintcrvillc. N.C.
Efforts to reaeli Major Hardv
proved futile. There is no listing
in the Wintcrvillc telephone
director under that name.
Several calls to Hardy last
names in the area turned up no
information.
On February 11, UPI printed
an official Pentagon picture of
Air Force Major Norman A.
McDaniel of Fayetteville, N.C.
A public relations ofticer at
Ft. Bragg at midweek positive
ly refused to give any informa
tion concerning the POW’s
On February 12, I'Pl distri
buteda photograph showing Air
Force LI. Col. James Warren, of
Vacaville, Calif., lighting the
cigarette of a recently released
POW. The POW was not
identified.
Speculation about the paucity
of photos of. black POW’s
centered around the report
earlier in the war that more
than 21) percent of the combat
soldiers were black.
Televison cameras showed
few black POW's among the
initial group.
One unoftieial source said the
first men released were those
who had been imprisoned
longest
Later units are expected to
contain more blacks among the
POW's
MORRIS KEA
FIRING SQUAD VICTIM - Mbala. Uganda - Ugandans remove
body of one of twelve men executed hy firing squad throughout
Uganda February 10 in first puhlie executions in the country’s
recent history. Thousands of Ugandans turned out for the
executions of the tw elve, most ol w hom were sentenced to death tor
alleged guerrilla activities. I UPI)
ED CARSON GETS
STATE OEO POST
A fter 8 Mos. Plus
Wrong Man
Win Freedom
One of Raleigh's hottest
political Issues is believed to
have heen settled this week
when Ed Car.scn, unsuccessful
candidate for City Council, took
over as head of the State
Economic Opportunity, in the
Holshouser Adminislralion
Carso.i was a controversial
issue in the appointment of the
widow of the late .Mayor Reed,
to the Raleigh City Council
recently The appointment was
the object of much criticism,
due to Ihe fact Carson was
eighth in the last election that
named seven council members.
It was Ihe thinking of many that
Carson should have been named
to Ihc vacancy, due to the fact
that Raleigh electorate had
given some approval, by voting
for him tlie last election.
Carson was named to head
l',(e ( Ft) program for the state
at a time when the agency's
existence is questionable. Its
phasing nut has top priority on
the list oi eulbaeks in funds in
.See ( AHSdN, P. 2i
BY EARL MA.SON
including the NAACP and just
everyone elsv as he puts it.
His fatne: ueg.in his crusade
iSi WP.'.’.iG MAN. P 21
NOl'
^c.aNIEL
NAACP tweets Sunday;
To Discuss Housing
Sole Survivor 'Exonerated'
MINNEAPOLIS. Minn • Uor-
sie Williams, perhaps the sole
survivor of a black regiment
that vvas dishonorably dis
charged from the Army in IWK).
was ‘ exonerated ' on February
One Army
'See SI RS 1V(JR
source said
P, 2i
the
For the first lime in a good
while. The (■All(>i.lNI.\N s
Appreciation .Money beaiure
experienced a ..i.itid -vloiii V*'.h.
all three uiniDM',-. (.nue in lo
claim then ^ i > [tri/e- l.« •' ‘‘‘‘k
The latest addit.ons to the
uinning list melude Haeford F.
McKinley Mrs Lctha McLean
and I'harhe Howe
MeK:nle'. lives at WK Harley
Drive here in Ualeigh His name
apj'( art'd m the Hliodes Fiirni-
'S.f. \i'PHi;( 1VIION. P. in
I
Appreciation Money
SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK
A i. A AllfO PARIS
Wholesale I’rices to Everyone”
Will the real Joseph Harris
stand up?
The real Joseph Harris did
stand up last Thursday morning
and this time when he stood up
he was set free from prison hy
Governor Jim Holshouser who
communted the five-to-seven
sentence which was given lo
Harris about eight months ago
when the youngster was sent
enced to prison on the record of
another Joseph Harris
When Harris. 20years-old.
was set free last Thursday it
ended an eight month crusade
by his father. Thomas B Harris
of Route 6. Jeffreys Grove, who
said he had been rejected by
lawyers, other citizens of the
community, local organizations
Pat Bryant, local housing
expert, will be the speaker at
the Raleigh Apex Thapter of the
NA.ACP at 4 p.m Sunday at the
Oak City Baptist Church on the
Method Fioad.
Dr C. W. Ward, chapter
president, said the agenda will
deal with housing and other
welfare issues cutback In recent
action of the .Nixon Administra
tion
The Rev. Clyde Walton,
pastor of Oak City ('hurch. will
extend welcome and make
remarks lo the group.
Dr Ward is urging all chapter
memhcr> and other interested
citizens lo attend Sunday’s
meeting lo 'demonslrale con
cern lor vital isues.”
Plans are expectetl lo be
made lo divert the trend to
cutback on numerous public
work.'* and welfare programs.
Ward was described as "still
concerned over the moving of
Polk Youth Center, the culling
out of so many social programs
designed to help people become
sell supporiing and independent
citizens,”
one NAACP spokesman said
he would ask the chapter to
investigate the report that
disproportionate numbers of
black children are being
expelled from the schools
"Our cfincern.’’ this spokes-
man said, "is that all .should gel
lair trc’iiment - the students,
teachers, and the citizens of
Raleigh "
“Y” Membership
Enrollment To
Be Launched
Mrs. Minnie Brown of .N.C,
Stale University Life Sciences
Department will discuss ' Fam
ily Kevililizalion” at the
Bloodworth Street YMCA. Puh
lie Allairs t'orum. Tuesday,
F'eb. 20 at 7:30. This is the first
in a series of seminars on the
general theme in anticipation ot
a new proposed family type
(See MF:MBF:RSHIP. P. (1*
Muslims Deny N. Y. Times Story
SOI.KSI RVIVOR.
. Minneapolis ■ While his son. Reginald. 65. (3rd from left) and hjs friends Itwk on.
It Col William Baker (left) presents the American Hag lo Dorsie Willis. K'. frIghD during
ceremonies at the Zion Baptist Church in Minneapolis Fehiuar> It. Dorsie. believed to
survlvttr of an all black unit dishonorably discharged f» '*tn the Army In V.\m for an unsolved murder
in Brownsville. Tex., was exonerated February II at ing f.ncetl to shine shoes for h(i years.
(I Ph
WASHINGTON - An oliieial
spokesman for the nation ot
Islam in Chicago has denounced
as "completely untrue” a New
York Times article slating that
Libya has denied a $3 million
loan to the Black Muslims, as
the Nation is commonly called
Last year. Libya loaned the
Black Muslims $3 million
toward the purchase of a church
tor use as a mosque on
Chicago's Southside. According
to the New York Times story the
Muslims have recently been
seeking another interest-free $3
million loan
"We have not applied for a
second loan. ' said Abass
Kassoul. secretary of the
religious gnuip headed by the
Honorable FMijah .Muhammed
"F'.verything the .Messenger
(Mr. Muhammad' has asked
(Libya) for has been provided.'
(See Ml'SLLMS. P 2'
Chains Denied
l%ew Location
W M.MINfiTDN • .Vetivist Ben Chavis' upcoming (rial will not
he moved out of New Hanover C'ounty.
j lhavis anti two Wilminglan women are accused of being
] iictessories lo the murder of Clifton Eugene Wright. 17. In
h March. 1‘I7L
Mrs. Mollie Hicks and her daughter, Leatrick, are charged
with Chavis.
The motion to change the site for the trial was denied by
■Supfiior ( oiirl .lodge Robert Rouse,