PRESS Rl'\ Q AOCt
THIS W EEK
In Moslem Murder Triuls
Jurist Frees Death Suspect
^Sinrlnir JL
^Sinclair
Must Be
Acquitted^
On Income Tax Evasion Hai)s-lilach
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WASMINd'lON ■ One o!
the fivt* defendants in tlio
Handi: Moslem mass
der trial has been freed bv a
direcletj verdict of acquait-
tal bv !).('. Superior Jud^o
Leonard Ibaman.
As the lllhweek ol testimony
and the i .ise i«»r the ,prosecu
tion ended. .nid«e briiman
approveil n tlelense rnnlion.
ruhtm that Jerome Sinclair
mii.st he ac piiiii'd on Xi counts
of nuirde:. rohhery and
* assault, because there vsas
insufficient ev uh*nce presented
against him during the trial
The naltih-dressed .Sinclair,
who had ;i bro.ul smile on his
face, wa^' led nut ot the
courtroor.. ti,\ f < marshals.
He will not l>e tieed. howeser.
fiending the outcome o| armed
rohlMr\ < horges m Philadel
phia
The reru.s.il ot < 0 detendant
James I'lK'e, to testilv in the
trial, hnkinp. Smclaii with the
fourothei deienilants. plased a
maioi p.,M ,n Sm. i-.M- .s
releii 1
Hill at the • i!*!,- rum- the
pidge leii cHfl erdicts of
ac(|Uillal auauj'-! the other tour
defend >te. He I:-.-,.,.r, d,d
di.stmss !}„ |j:th couiit ot the
indi. tnn i.t. « liarpmg them
■Uth a ve.e mlejd In kill
ila.nii.t- Kh.i.ili'., le.nler ol the
llaii.iti vMit) noi pieM-nl
at the H.'ia' ol tlie minders
Siiii,. Kh i.il: ftid not lestifs
Hrarn.m ruled there was not
SUttici.-hl e\ Klein e In |Ust|f\
. -hat . f« I He
Tile deS I.il.,.)'- u, m nn Inal
‘■d f-' h 'o: t killings
of , 11.11-.!; '.Insli Ii.v af Iheir
.ooihwe-' -i:ii H'lin Imuse
Jarh, Jill
In Rnleifrh
The Kaleigh Chupler of t^rk
.d.d Jill ,f .Vm.n ,. :..c . ^,ai.i
trihiiie to (’hireiiie K l»ighl-
he.-. Mayor ol the cit> of
Haleigh; .Mis c Wimlicrlev.
member ot the Haleigh .Schrml
Board, \ernon .Malone. Hal-
eigh .Si imoi Hoaid. and
William |{ Knight. Haleigh
(Tty t oimcilrnan. for Ihetr
dedication and sei\ues to the
eommunit, ol Haleigh, Sun
day. at a lecepimn. given in
their honor Mrs K H Cofield
was .ilso honorinl
^ .Mrs Klame \\ Ht-rrv
. president ol the Haleigh
chapter ot Jack and Ji]|
presideil ovei the allair Mrs,
Marjorie Dehjiam presented
each honoree w ith an i-ngraved
plaque. Hecogmlmn ol special
Ruests was given h\ Mrs
Perry
The ho.'ts .mil hostesses fur
this oci-a-'.on were lunior and
senior l< .mis of Jai-k and Jill
The Heceptioii Pommiltee of
Nurry T Johnson, Alice T
Solomon. KKie H Perry.
Marjorie lietmam. pro\ ided
delicious udrc sfnneiit.s for the
occa.sion
Apprerifition
(Jiecii It on Hy
tf illiam (iPX
William K of J9 pare
Terrav e in Chavis Heights, saw
his nanit in the advertising
slot, pan! tor h\ the one Hour
Mart linking .Serv ice. 3911
Western Boulevard. last week.
» .nd cl limed a clu ck ;n the
amoiini $10 j.-,, , ,|,y,
(See APPhKCIATIU.N i‘. 2)
Senator Pleads No Contest
Maryland
Solon Is
Accused
BALTIMORE, Md. -
Prominent State Sen.
Clarence M. .Mitchell. Ill,
has pleaded no contest in
federal court to Cargos of
failing? to file income tax
returns from 1967 to 1970.
The -n. contest” plea is a
legal device identical to that
used bv lormer \ jce fTesident
Spiro T Agnew - with two
important e.xceptions
I ft was determined that the
Inlcrnal He venue Service
a.tually owed .Sen .Milehell
small relund.s lor the \ears
!!Hi7. I'lii'i and 197!) and thill his
total ta\ for I9fi« would have
been ahoul SI22 Subtracted
trom the refunds due. .Mitchell
oweil onlv $,',11 47 for the
tour-year [MTiod, according to
the IBs estimate
See SEN Pf.KADS. P 2j
A hip To
XAACP In
A Fifiht
.National Black .News Service
WASHI.NfnON The chief
VSaslunglon !ot>b\isl lor the
\.\.\(’P. scureil olt two armed
nibliers who shot him once in
the hand He threalem*d lo
"blow then heads oil” with a
gun he told them he had - he
fe.illy didn’t
I wa^ outraged that this was
hapjverimg on mv dfxirsiep.s.”
!■<! ' ’ -- liiMi . r li rights
leader (‘laience Mitchell
"This IS my territory ”
Mitchell commutes between
Washington and Baltimore,
where he lives, daily and had
arrived at home alxiut in p m
whi'M two men slopped and
asked directions-
Theii one pulled a revolver
and demanded (he w allet of the
man who has long l>een a major
(See AIDE TO. P 2)
THw-mmoLmAM^
^orth Carolina's Leading Weekly
VOL. 33 NO. 27 RALEIGH. .N.C. WEEK K.NUINd .S.VTL HD.AV. .M.AV n
Lawrence Christmas Auditing Trial. But
BULLET KILLS
1974 SINGLE COPY 20c '' ” '"ii- iloi i) i>r \r, phks-s i-o.\|.-krk\( k
Allgeli
Mr
Hi.otic
a( rilN Hall p,i.,i to (he slart’of VhirciIVs tineo fie Mavu
ns r—' 1“**’’ ’“’hPdiiled llirouglioul the dav ii. the
I os \ni;eles (ivie ( enter. il PD
(Kiavio Semies. is joined liv Mavoi foni
' -\iigeles Sunday. at a dual press eonfei enre
★ ★ ★ ★
In Deinooratie Primarv
^
Greene Leads Jud^e Voting
Ti»
‘Wasn
Wanted:’
) Sister
BY STAFF WRITKK
"My brother was not
wanted for questioning by
the Raleigh Police Depart
ment as was reported in the
two Raleigh daily news
papers, especially in the
afternoon paper one day
M last woek. He was free on
bond, furnished by Mr. J.
E. Cofield, who know that
he lived at 1408 Savanntih
Drive (Kingwood Forest)
and who would have known
where he was.” These were
the words spoken by a
distraught sister of 26-
vear-old Lawrence Christ
mas, who was mysteriously
shot to death by a single
^ bullet as he walked along in
percent of the Coast Guard’s Walnut
black enlisted men and 39 ^treet in Walnut Terrace,
percent of their white counter- late last W^ednesday night,
parts, consider the racial Christmas had judt turned
climate of the service lo be 26 in March of this year.
It had previously been
reported that young Christmas
was being sought for failure lo
appear in court on a charge of
breaking and entering. Chri.st-
mas formerly resided in
Garner.
He was killed by a single
bullet that struck him in the
head as he was reportedly
(See BULLET KILLS. P. 2)
LAWRENCE CHRISTMAS
Coast Guard
Jim Crow
Is Disclosed
National Black News Service
NEW YORK • Only 13
N\A(PS MITCHELL IS
.SHOT - Hallimorr - Clarence
.Mitchell. .Ir.. director of the
V.\\CP's Washington office,
was shill and slightly wounded
late May 2. in a robbery
attempt hv tuo men in front of
his home, cilv police said.
(I PIi
good, a two-year study by the
National Urban League.* has
concluded
Admiral Chester R. Bender,
the Coast Guard commandant,
said steps were already being
taken to improve race relations
in the service as he praised the
report.
The study, conducted bv (he
New York research staff of the
National Urban League to
questionnaires sent to all 3.571
minority-group members of
the Coast Guard and about the
same number of whites in the
-service, pointed out that 80
percent of the black Coast
Guardsmen and 36 percent of
whites, said they had observed
incident.s of racial bias.
However, only a third of the
minoniy-group members and
HI percent of whiles reported
them.
"Black and other enlisted
personnel do not feel the racial
climate of the Coast Guard Is
good." the report said. "Blacks
do not agree that there is racial
(See COAST GUARD. P. 2)
CRIME
BEAT
1 roiii
•••oli.-.- Fil«-s
feiniTOR'S NOTft. Thiv ctlumD «r fralur*
|irA4«irrtf In ikr iiiihllr Inifrrti ttnii an
•Im inaar^t rllminallnf lii canicnu.
Samrrauk IndUldual* hatr rrquritrd Ibal
Ihf} br fUan ihr (antitfrraiton a(
atrriookini Ihrir Itki.nf an Ihr palirv
biwit-t Thik or Muald !'kr IB da
4 Ik nm aur uokliiua la br Jndfr ar Jur^ Hr
ntrilv I'utiiiNii (Hi (acik at ar lind ibxn
rriwrlrdb) ihr arrrviinf olllrrrt. To ktrp
MM at Tbr rnmr Bral Columnk. mrrrl*
fMank nei brin^ rrgitirrrd b> a paHr*
u(n>rr in rr|»ariinf bit lindindi whilr m
d«i) -iku kimpi) ka«p a« ibr "B’aiirr'’ a.-id
‘oa aun'i br in Tbr C.-lmr Btai.
WINK BOTTLE IS WEAPON
Miss .Marie LaJove Rone. 29.
555 New Bern Avenue, told
Officer R. W .Miller at 2:4.5
a m. Tuesday of this week, that
she w as at Bruce Ev ans’house.
721 E Davio Street, when she
got mio an argument with a
Negro female w hom she did not
know Miss Hone declared that
the unknown woman struck her
in the head with a vvine buttle,
while a Negro male naineii
■’Pee Wee ’ held her A suspixl
was listed as being Doris Ann
Evans, ol the Davie Street
address, .\liss Hone sullered a
two inch laceration behind her
lelt car
iSee CRIME WEAT. P
LAKNIE G. HORTON
Nat’I Post
Goes To
Dr. Horton
Dr. l.arnie G. Horton, special
assistant for Minority Affairs
lo (Jovernor Jim Holshouser,
was elected vice chairman of
the Association of Black
A.ssislants to Republican gov
ernors at the newlv-formed
group’s organizational meet
ing. held in Kansas City,
Missouri last week.
The association covers 12
states and one territory, the
Virgin Islands. California.
Indiana. Massachusetts. New
York. Michigan. Oregon. Miss
ouri. Tennessee. Iowa and
North Carolina are included.
Ms. Cora Douglas, assistant to
the Governor of Iowa, was also
elected to the executive
conimillec.
’allerned after the Republi
can Governor's Association,
the purpose is to contribute lo
the improvement of black
^ communities through the offic-
I es of their respective gover
nors Utilizing the association
as a medium for an exchange
ol ideas, methods and strate
gies. the gubernatorial assist-
unis will be able lo present the
lickt advice lo the chief
exeeuiives of their individual
stales
.■\l the meeting, hosted by
c.ilvin Johnson, counsel lo
Gov’ei nof Kit Bond of Missouri,
the association established
goals to: improve the condition
o( blacks; devise programs
and ^lt’alegies lo increase
black membershio in the
Republican Party; devise
methods whereby aides can
'-hare b<»ih Iheir positive and
negative e.vperiences with each
other in an effort lo achieve
more elfeciive indiviclual
skills, work toward increasing
ll.e number ot black aides to
Hc-|iub!ican Goveriuirs. and
c('‘ipera’e with other entities
lor the overall improvement f»t
al! citizens ot Iheir respective
Lawyer
Tops All
For Post
As the votes were tallied in
the late hours of Tuesday
and early morniixg of
Wednesday. May 8, it was
clearly seen that, in the top
position being sought by a
black Raleigh attorney.
Richard E. Ball, that of
Wake Superior Court
Judge, that Judge A.
Pilston Godwin had sound
ly defeated the North
Carolina Central University
law school professor. Ball,
in the Democratic primary
race.
However, in the District
Court Judgeships, black Ral
eigh Attorney George Royster
Greene. 43. led a five-man field
in the balloting and will ho
challenged in a Tuesday. Juno
4, runoff primary by white
attorney John Hill Parker, who
placed second.
Attorney Greene, a veteran
of 17 years of local law-
practice. failed to get a
majority of the voles in
Tuesday’s elections.
After all of Wake County ’s 74
precincts had reported*, (he
final vote was Greene, 8.74.5
Parker. 5.044. W. Brian
Howell. 3,907; Carlos W.
Murray. Jr.. 3.605; and Donald
E Wynne, 3,103.
■See GREENE LEADS. P 2j
Sales In
Realty-
Biased
lli:i.l: \sl:r, l\ zkhr 4 KlI.r.lMiS ■ San Kraiidsc,. Pah.-..
. '*f tin- 7 siispeits ill |Im> Zehi;i shivinus Inn-
m i. Ill i 'l 'Tn atlornev represeiuinn (hr T l.hi, k
ujii.-ilu trillin'iTimiiiHiij. three will evenliiallv he freed for the
s.um- leak,.11, II,e „,.ie released after tliev apoeareil in
polii. tineiip ,n„i iiH-ir plioins were shown to witnesses. Two of
iio.se let. ,,sed in.uglas Hi.rtoi.
Nine States Pressed
On College ^Mixing’
National Black News Service
government intends lo sue the
individual stales or lo I»ogn,
(See NINE STATES. ?'
Senate Is
Near Vote
On Busing
National Black News Service
WASHINGTON The Senate
is close lo passage of the
strongest anti-busing legisla
tion yet passed by that Ixidy.
according to preliminarv vote
checks that show it virtually
split over the anti-busing
provisions sponsored by Kep.
Marvin Esch.
The House adopted the Kseh
provisions on March 26 by a
vote of 293-117 That amend
ment forbids federal agencies
and federal courts to order a
student bused for desegrega
tion beyond the school "closest
or next closest to his place of
residence."
But even more alarming to
(See ANTl-BUSI.NG. P 2)
\\ \Mll.NGTON - Nine slates
- including Pennsylvania and
Oklahoma, outside the South •
are lieiiig pressed bv the
Department ol Health. Educa
tion and Welfare lo submit
more accejnahle plans for
desegregation ol their public
colleges and universities
HEW .s Ollici' ol Civil Rights
lias given the stales until June
I to suhniil revised plans that
would sjierd up d(*segregation
to accomidl.sh integration of
student iHidies and faculty over
the next two years.
Found defioieril in their
desegregation plans are Mary
land. .-Xrkansas. Florida. Geor
gia, Mississippi. North (’am-
lina. l)klahon;a. Pennsylvania
and \’irginia
HEW is acting under an
order Irom U S. District Judge
John Pratt, who found in
February 1973. that the
Dciiariment had failed to use
Its powers under the Civil
Rights .Act lo require desegre
gation ol public eollcge.s and
univei.snu.s
Pratt ordered HKW to report
to him by June 21 of (his year,
that the v.inous stales have
suhinilied acceptable college
desegregation plans or that the
hec DH HttHTliN, P 2<
( ITKI) I-OH ( OMMIMTY SERA (( E - Mr*. Marjorie Debnam. left, chairman of the Jack and Jill
Reiepiioii ( on. mill, e. and Mrs. Elaine Ferry, president uf Jack and Jill, are shown with Raleigh’s
elev-ted olla. i s j ,.fi right: Mrs. Elizabeth B. tdfleld, William R. Knight. Mayor Clarence E.
l.igntiier. Mi.- I ightner. and \ernon Malone (See storyl.
Appreciation Money
SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK
( ARDIJW BIBLICAL
(.ARDENS
"A Beautiful F’lnal Resting Place"
HARTFORD. Conn. • Seven
of the larger real e.slate
concerns in the Harltord area,
have been accused ot promot
ing resegregation of neighbor
hoods by showing black home
buyers integrated area.s a-
round town and steering while.s
away from them
The concerns named in the
suit by the U.S. Justice
Department were Barrows and
Wallace Realtors of Harltord,
the T R Preston Company of
West Hartford, the Heriiage
Group of West Hartford.
Richard C Cucklev Associates
of Wethersfield. Hurwit and
.Simons Realtors of West
Hartford. J. Watson Beach
Company ol Hartford and Colli
and Wagner Realty Company
of Hartford
Contending that the real
estate companies had violated
the Federal Fair Housing Act.
the Justice Deparlmen' char^
ed that the real estate
companies had issued at least
■30 statements to prospective
white buyers, advising them
not to buy homes in the
Bloomfield or in Hartlord’s
Blue Hills sections, because of
black homeowners (here
Blue Hills is a section in the
north end of Hartford and the
town of Bloomfield is a
comfortable suburb on Hart
ford’s northern border.
In asking that the companies
be barred by U.S District
See REALTY BIAS. P. 2t
■NIXON ( OM.MITTED IMPEACHABLE ACT”: COWERS
V^akhiiiglon • Rep. John L. Conyers. D*.Mich.. a member of thi
House ludiciary Committee and an outspoken critic of lh<
President, saul .ALiy 7 his reading of the transcripts convince him
lliut Ni\oii hud committed “an impeachable act.” He said Nixon'*
• liliKkinail • discussions on March 2t. 1973. with John W. Dean
eom ei iiing demands by Watergate conspirator F. Howard limit
was "the best evidence of the commission of a federal crime.’
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