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■/III// ( ily' Murder- illeued
JACKIE Md.MS MARI.KV
‘Moms’ Is
Given NY
Last Rites
BY ALKXANOKH BAHNK''
NKVV YORK Cn"!
Kven though Jackie
(Moms) Mabiey, 7h, did not
boast ot the tact that she
rose from the sidewalks of
Nev^ York, very few who
were of that ilk attract^
more people m death than
she did. When the word
reached Harlem that the
idol of many theatre goers
had passed in a VVhite
Plains hospital, there was
w much reminiscing that will
^fontinue long after the
minister said Ashes to
Ashes and Dust to Dust"
Tuesday afternoon
Perhaps e\en though she
Mds buried from the House
that Adam Buill " Ahvshinia
Baptist, ilir crowd that
mourned her passing is
lielievcd In have rivaled that of
the throng which atiended
the funeral of .Adam t'lavhin
Powell Jr The sireani of
admirer'- began as soon as her
bixlv was read> for viewing m
a liK-.i! uo'tei’.iv ■ i' - rt'ir and f
conliniied unlit ihe caske' was
closed for the last lime ^
Very few who began w ither
in the early .'Uls when she was
discovered by Shep Allen and
went on the stage of the
Howard Theatre. 7fh and Tea
Streets, northwest, Washing
ton, l> r . were in attendance
It was (here, as indicated in Ihe
reopening of (he famed show
(Sj* MO.MS' MABI.KV P 2>
^im Croiv
Cited In iSC
Housiiiff
WASHINUTON I) f The
Department of Justice last
week, filed a motion for civil
contempt asking that a
Wilmington. North Carolina,
builder and seller of homes be
required to abide by court
order arising out of a housing
discrimination suit or be
imprisoned and fined daily
until he does so
Altorney (Jeneral Kdward H
Levi said the motion was filed
in I' S District Court in
Wilmington against Keavis
Homes. Inc . and C L ^eavis.
Its president
The motion said the Justice
Department filed suit against
Keavis on Oct IS. 197:).
charging that the firm would
not sell homes to blacks, m
vin^tion of the Fair Housing
A^rof 1968
Keavis failed to comply with
"yg reporting provisions of a
’ consent order resolving Ihe
suit. Ihe motion said
I,,as(July3 the court entered
iSee NC HOUSING P 2-
CHEATER KILLED
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Bljn k N. C. Cliildrcn Honored .As Slate's
Farm Family Of The Year
Accused
Attorney-
War ns Of
Dangers
In a quiel but. resounding
appeal. Attorney Margaret
Bush Wilson, recently
elected to head the Board of
Directors of the NAACP.
convinced the more man
1,500 persons who attended
the annual ■ Freedom Fund
Mother’s Day” program,
held in Memorial Auditor*
ium Sunday. N’ay 24, that
perhap.s a more sinister
image of hate was rising in
tiPPtTKTl SITA (OMAIISSION CHAIRMAN- Arnerica. than the one
—Pre>ideni Ford rongmiulales I.oweil Perry, of which has attended blacks
after he WHS Nwoi II in May as chairman of the and minorities since the
Pilgrims landed on Ply
mouth Rock,
ST ATF'S - I- \ini F \MM.Y DF THK YK.AH" — .Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Tann. with Iheir children
i|. to R): tharles. Jr., (iary. Kenny. Judy and Barbara .Ann relax by w''tching TV in (heir
tnmftirUhle (arm home near Rich ^uare. N.C. The Tanns were selected .s North Carolina's
1-armet s Home Administration Farm Family of the Year for 1974. and were later selected by a
distinguished panel of judges as one of the top five FmllA families in the nation.
Rich.'Square Family-
Honored By State
The Charles C. Tann family of Northampton County
was honored last Friday as the Farmers Home
Administration Farm Family of the Year at a ceremony
at the Sheraton-Crabtre*- .Motor Inn • in Raleigh.
Congressman L H Fountain, in his remarks at the
luneneon. applauded the efforts of the Tann family that
led to this recognition.
Kll I.S .•<FI F AFTKK Ml R-
DFItS. It APFS— Djyton. Ohio
— Itu^M'll i ee Smith. 2K. is
shown in .i liHiT file photo.
Smith kiilrri J people enrly on
Mhv JI wounded h others and
rnped and then Imik his own
life js poltee closed in. Smith
hjs been on piobjlion sincr
I'lT.t III 1970. Smith pleaded
guillv to first dettree iiian-
slauithter 1'he cross citv
shiHiiing spree started about
midntchl and ended at '2-22
am •tPI>
DC March
Saturday
BY RICK HIGH
Mac HuLsIander. the chair
man of the Wilmington Defense
Committee, held a press
conference on the Capitol
ground.s here last Thursday
afternoon
The purpose of Ihe press
conference. Hulslander said,
was to acquaint the people of
the .Mav li march in Washing
Ion. D C
The march in the nation's
capital, will probably draw
people from all over the nation,
savs the local organizer of the
iSee DC MARCH P 2»
Nearly 4(X) agricultural lead
ers. stale and local officials,
and friends of the family
attended James T Johnson,
slate director of FmHA.
presided at the program
The Tann family is an
outstanding farm family, not
only in their farming opera
tion. but also as community
leaders and as a close-knit
family group The family of
Charles and Dorothy Tann
have worked together toward
financial security and owning
:..L.r own home and farm, plus
assurance that each child
would attend college or obtain
job (raining Their progress
has bet'n steady over the past
18 years
Mr Tann was reared on a
farm in Northampton County
After serving in the arm^
forces, he*, with bis wife,
returned to their native
community to till Ihe soil and
.rear their children
When the Tanns contacted wr wf/.
Farmers Home Administration i »O Ir tfltlprs
for the first loan in t9S4. their
net work was only $35C Their
sole possessions were a brood
sow. a cow. two pigs, an
outdated tractor. Ihe bare
necessities of household goods -
and a debt of $1,110 (Carles
was eager to buy the farm he
was operating After counsel
ing by the county supervisor of
FmHA. he decided to wait until
his financial condition improv
ed before taking this step He
expressed il this way ' Learn
(See FARM F.AMILY P 2i
aiar - - —
In Poker
Argument
DURHAM — Accused of
cheAlmg in a poker game,
which is said to have gone
on all night Saturday, at
920 Hopkins Street, Willie
Hayes is alleged to have
left the game and recruited
four of his associates about
11:25 a.m. Sunday, and
when the smoke from a
shotgun blast cleared away,
Raniolph Dewberry, 19.
IIO*' Calvert Street, was
d«ad and Randolph Wil-
lianu Helms, 22. of the
Hopkins Street address,
was being hauled away to
the Durham County Jail,
where he was charg^ with
murder.
A report of investigating
officers is said to have
revealed that Hayes was
caught cheating in the duration
game, by Heims, known in his
cirlce as “Peco, ’ In an
apartment where he and Willie
Wooten lived. It was not
disclosed what the cheating act
was. whether Hayes had 4 aces
up his sleeve or whether he had
a -Royal Flush” that enabled
him to win.
The information said to have
been given by Public Safety
^fficer E. D Warren was that
when he arrived at the house
'■ (See CHEATER. P 2)
Links^
Proposal
Approved
The Raleigh chapter of
Links. Inc . recently received
notification from the Histone
Sites Section of the Division of
Archives and History, N C
Department of Cultural Re
sources, that the organization’s
request for the erection of
historical markers for James
H Hams and James H Young
had been approved The
• See CITY'S LINKS. P 2)
Appreciation
Feature Has
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W \SHIN(iT(»N
Drlioil. Mich
F«iuhI Kniolov men! Onnnninit\ I otiiiiiisHioii in a cereniunv in the
line House Rose (harden. The new chairman's son. I.owell Perrv.
.Ir looks on. Perrv previoiisjv worked for Ihe Chrvsler Curp.
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More Violence Seen
In Boston Schools
National Black .News Service
Boston Fear of contin- >(ol>hing
ued violence in two Boston high
.schiMils • South Boston and
Hyde Park - resulted in a
warning by f S District Court
Judge \A Arthur (iarrilv that
he would close the schools
The warning followed a C S
Supreme ('ourl decision to let
stand a Dec 19 decision by the
First C S Circuit Court of
Appeals that upheld Garriiv 's
finding that the Boston School
Committee deliberately oper
ated a segregated ’school
system
After making that iinding.
Garrily ordered into effec’ a
temporary busing plan tor
18.000 of the city's 87.000
students The plan has bwn in
effect throughout the current
school year and has been the
source of widespread violence
The current situation, Gar-
rity said, "parallels the course
of events that led to Ihe tragic
episode at South Boston High
last December, when there was
almost a life lost in a
Charged
In Death
Of Kin
National Black News Service
PORT OF SPAIN. Trinidad
— Michael Abdul Malik, known
as "Michael X,” was handed
here last week for the machete
murder of his cousin.
Malik. 41. a Trinidadian, was
executed on the gallows after
spending 2>3 years on death
row Pleas for commutation by
an international "Save Malik”
committee whose members
inc'uded Angela Davis and
Dtc> Gregory, were ignored by
the government here
A popular chap. Malik was a
prominent figure in London's
black power movement in the
)960s He had established a
commune in eastern Trinidad
after his return here from
England in 1970
(See MICHAEL X. P 2)
The cuuri leels that il has
an ohligalKin to head otf an
exploMvesituation intwoof the
sehooK that could eause
serious injury to young
ix-iiple ■■
-After the violence that
marked Ihe opening of the
sehiMils last September, there
was relative calm in (he
ensuing months But. two
week.s ago. violence erupted
again when about 300 demon
strators tried to block (he
entrance to South Boston High
Garriiv's new integration
(See IN BOSTON. P 2'
J. Alston
Athletic
Director
DURHAM — Joseph L.
Alston, an alumnus of North
Carolina Central University
who was for 3 years head
basketball coach at Charlotte's
Johnson C. Smith University,
has been appointed athletic
director at North Carolina
Central.
Alston, whose appointment
becomes effective July I. will
succeed Dr. James W, Younge,
w ho was his tennis coach when
he played that sport at NCCU
from 1934 to 1958 Alston olaved
(See NEW ATHLETIC. P. 2)
She began by .saying that
-America was founded by
ml^fll.s. the frustrated, politic
ally-cistraci/ed and even those
who said they were not allowed
to worship God according to
the dictates of their own
•See NAAt F MKKT. F 2>
Deanship
Is Denied
To Black
National Black News Service
ANN ARBOR. Mich A
black woman, chosen by the
University of .Michigan's board
of regents to be dean of its
15.500 students m literature,
science and the arts, has been
blocked for the post by the
university's predominately
white, male faculty
Jewel Cobb, a zoologist who
has been dean of Connecticut
College's 1.600 students, was
technically blocked from the
(See SAY BLACK. F. 2)
JOSEPH L ALSTON
SMTOK'S NOTE; ThU M
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rtduttud ibai ibtjr b« alirta Iba
aaatMtraika al a»crla«i'iaf ib«tf llaitaf
a« Ibt aailct bladtr. Tbit «* vtald llba
la da. Havtvtr, Il It n«t tar potUlaa la ba
Mg* ar Jury. Ht mtrtl)' publUh tba
tacit at m* Had (b«m rtparud by Iba
arrttllju ilflecrt. Ta hacp am ot Tba
Crima Sail Calumnt, maraly maaaa aai
balBf rtfltiarad by a palka oftlcar la
rapartlac bit fladlaft ahila oa duly 8a
almply kcap aft Iba "Mallar" and yaa
waa'i ba la Tba Crima Saar
vSTABRKDINBAC'K
Ms Rosa Jean Snelling told
Officer J. S Carroll at 9:50
a m Monday of a slabbing in
the 300 block of Hill St. Alex
Nicholas, 56. of 1318Pender St.,
was stabbed by his alleged
common-law wife during an
apparent domestic disturb
ance. according to the police
report. Nicholas suffered a
stab wound in the left side of
the back, piercing the kidney.
(See CRIME BEAT. P, 3»
PROTEST COST OF Kl.KCTRICITV — Petersburg. Va. — Led by a marcher carrying an effigy of
see commibbionrr Preston .Shannon, about 50 demonstrators march across Ihe parking lot of
Vepco's Petersburg office. The marchers were protesting the skv rocketing cost of electricilv in
Virginia dPli
There were no winners in last
week's CAROLINIAN Apprec
iation Money Feature, spon
sored by this newspaper and
participating businesses, listed
on the back page of the front
section of The CAROLINIAN
each week
However, the names of three
persons were placed in the
slots of as many businesses and
had there been any claimants,
(hey would each have been
iSm APPRECIATIO.Y P 21
Appreciation Money
SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK
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CHAMPION BECOMES AUTHOR — New York — Muhammad All holds up his book. 'The
Greatest: My Own Story,” during a May 26 press conference held to publicize the book. All plans to
unveil his latest gimmick, "The Russian Tank," which calls for him to stand erect with his hands
crossed over hit face, when he defends his heavyweight title against (he Joe Bugner of Britain in
Kuala Lumpur. June 30. tUPD