The Oklahoma Eagle (Tulsa, Okla.), Vol. 44, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 19, 1963 Page: 1 of 14
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Human Rights Committee
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hour of national grief and shame."
At the same t.me, it called for dra-
matic action by all Americans of
good will.
‘ What forms this action will take
will be determined locally.” accord-
ing to Bayard Rustin, deputy direc-
tor of the March But a list of sug-
gestions has been rushed to March
committees and contacts from Bos-
ton to Los Angeles. Included is the
wearing of black arm bands "until
the murderers are found and pun-
ished "
Negro ministers are also being
urged to lead their congregations in
leaders in the wake of a church dyn-
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country and to dedicate their Sun- to provide forms of activity in which
day morning services to the dead
children.
In addition, prominent intellectuals
and celebrities have been urged to
ask their neighbors and colleagues
to join them in walks and vigils in
public places to be chosen by local
groups.
"Given such short notice.” Mr
Rustin commented, "we are depend-
ing on local groups to use their own
initiative in dramatizing their out-
rage at the bestiality of the Birming-
ham racists. But we urge these
groups to adhere to the spirit of the
Lincoln Memorial pledge and also
everybody can participate."
In their strongly worded telegram
to President Kennedy, the March
chairmen declared:
"There must be an end to racist
power in the United Slates, and the
full force of the government of the
United States is required to end it.
Enactment of the civil rights legis-
lation now pending, augmented by
across-the-board authority for the
Justice Department to intervene to
protect basic rights, and including
.ederal guarantees against the per-
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disagreed with
"By posting a
Let George Do It!
to concern yourself with attending
voter registration meetings anyway.
You don’t want to accept committee
assignments and extra responsibili-
ties. Let George do it.
Hate you heard that in some 100
counties in eight Southern states,
Negro citizens are prevented by dis-
crimination or by fear of physical
violence or economic reprisal from
exercising this right to vote?
Why not let old George register
and vote for you today?
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Rev. LeRoy K. Jordan
REV, LeRoy K. Jordan, pastor of First Baptist Church North
Tulsa, will be presented in a travel talk entitled. "Echoes
from lhe Holy Land,” Sunday, September 22. 7 p m. in the
sanctuary of the church. Rev, Jordan is pictured above in
the native dress of one of the countries he visited while on
a tour of the Middle East in July. (See Related Story on
Church page.)
At the close of two days of testi-
mony and arguments Thursday, a
D strict Court jury, after three hours
of deliberation, found Glenn T.
Vann. 22. guilty of second degree
manslaughter and sentenced him to
a year in the county jail.
Vann was found guilty of the June
traffic death of Bennie Metcalf, a
32-year-old Tulsa rodeo performer.
Metcalf was a passenger in an auto
driven by Vann.
Three slate witnesses. Yvonne
Washington. 1717 N. Rockford Ave.,
a
Birmingham's black Sunday that
left six Negro children dead and
more than a score injured from a
church bombing and shots fired by
white police and white hoodlums
brought reaction from around the
world.
It also proved, if such costly proof
was needed, that Birmingham Ne-
groes live in an atmosphere of race
hate arising from years of morally
criminal public leadership both on
a 'oca! and state level.
With the dawning of Monday, hun-
dreds of heavily-armed white police-
men patroled Birmingham, hoping
to stem a new wave of racial vio-
lence.
The Federal Bureau of Investiga-
tion rushed in 25 agents, including
bomh experts. Atty Gen. Robert F.
Kennedy sent his chief trouble-
shooter. Burke Marshall, and two
Americans across the country to other aides.
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Birmingham Has
One Smart White
Youngster In City
BIRMINGHAM (ANP'-One of the
smartest white youngsters in this
city refused to join his schoolmates
who last week were boycotting West
End High School because Negro
students have been admitted.
Ignoring a rowdy picket line, he
walked in declaring:
"I came here stupid three years
ago. I ain’t going away stupid."
Last Rites Slated For
Crash Victim, Haynes
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longtime employee of the Frisco
Railroad until his retirement sev-
eral years ago.
His survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Lorrain Haynes of the home,
1416 North Boston Avenue, who has
berm hospitalized at Pawnee since
the smash-up. Her condition is not
critical: five sons, Cedric and Sam-
uel of the home. Monroe. Jr., and
Alton of Wichita. Kansas, and Leo of
Detroit, Mich.; two daughters. Jan-
etta of the home, and Gladys
Haynes. Tulsa; six grandchildren;
a sister. Lavola Dixon of Wichita:
two aunts. Annie Green, Tulsa, and
Velma Ervin, Perry; a mother-in-
law. Mrs. Pearl Rhodes of the home;
a father-in-law. H. S. Newlin, of the
home; a nephew. James Ervin, of
Oklahoma City, and other relatives.
The Metropolitan Funeral Chapel
is in charge of arrangements.
Homer "Sugar” Ray, 122 North
Greenwood, owner of Sugar Ray’s
Studio who has been hospitalized
at Hillcrest Hospital for !
the victim of thieves
again at his place of business
Several months ago. the studio
was burglarized, and much of his
camera and photography equipment
was taken This time, articles miss-
ing included a phonograph, type-
writer. a Polaroid camera and mis-
cellaneous items.
A reward is being offered for news
concerning the theft.
Archibald Hill, attorney and presi-
dent of the Oklahoma City chapter
of the Congress of Racial Equality,
revealed in Tulsa yesterday that he
natural delivery.
Tlie triplets were the first born at
St. John's in several years. They
are now on a diet of glucose and
water solution. If they survive the
first 24 hours, they will have a good
chance for life.
Mrs. Cox had no idea she was to
lie the mother of three. Her husband
is an unemployed waiter. She has
one other child, 18 months old.
lazy as you like. Or you can just
have fun The more the merrier, I
always say.
My services are available to you
for all the tedious, time-consuming
things which are needed and you'd
rather duck doing.
If you haven’t the time to Register
and Vote, let George do it. If you
feel you are too busy to take an in-
terest in the government, let old
George tend to those things.
There is certainly no need for you
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 19,1963
March Leaders Demand Action
In Alabama h Children s Death
ority groups, particularly Negroes,"
the clergymen agreed.
The clergymen decided to contact
the businessmen after representa-
tives of the Urban League, the
Congress On Racial Equality
'CORE1 and the National Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Colored
People presented their programs in
civil rights in the state.
Tlie representatives, Herbert Ty-
S'iii of the Urban League, Archibald
Hill and J J Simmons of CORE.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
tn the name of God and
lluman'ty. the Tulsa Branch of
the NAACP calls upon all citi-
register their protect
the murder of Negro
in Birmingham. Send
wire to President Kennedy pro-
testing atrocious bombing of the
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.
Birmingham. Urge Administra-
tion support Part HI in pending
civil rights bill and all-out federal
assistance to apprehend bombers.
Also wire Mayor Albert Routwell.
Birmingham. Send sympathy
mess.sgec to Sixteenth Street Bap-
tist Church. Rev. John Cross,
pastor. Ask local pastors to
drape churches in black, signify-
ing mourning for bombed vic-
tims. Ask citizens to flood eon-
gross with letters in support of
civil rights act and send similar
wires.
Funeral services will be held for r
Monroe Haynes. 61. Saturday, Sep-
tember 21 at it a m. at St. Andrew
Baptist Church, Rev. M V. Fergu-
son. pastor. On the same day
other service will be held at
New Prospect Baptist Church at
2 3<> in Perry. Oklahoma. Burial will
be in a local cemetery there.
Mr. Haynes died early Monday
morning at Hillcrest Hospital of in-
juries received September 10 in a
two-car crash near Pawnee. Okla-
homa on U. S. Highway 64.
His auto collided with one driven
by Alvin I^adingfox, 23. of Pawnee.
A native of Oklahoma, he was born
at Tishomingo. Later his family
moved to Tulsa. Mr Haynes also
lived at Wichita, Kansas for a num-
ber of years, and was a member of
St. Mary Baptist Church, the Fred
Douglas Masonic Ixvdge. and was a i
33rd degree mason. He had been a
Ventura C Watson, 36 was arrest-
ed in Los Angeles on charges of aid-
ing in preparing 12 fraudulent tax
returns and cashing a forged treas-
ury check.
The interne tax violations allegedly
occurred in 1959 and 1960 while
Watson operated a public tax ac-
counting office here in Tulsa. The
forgery count charges Watson with
cast ing a treasury clieck for M74,
payable to his uncle, with a forged
endorsement.
Wat-on was secretly indicted by
a U. S. grand jury here last week.
Oklahoma City —After a spirited
argument Tuesday, members of the
Oklahoma Human Rights Commis-
sion decided to demand the posting
of signs in state lodges, declaring a
non-discrimination policy.
The Planning and Resources Board
turned down a similar request last
week by the commission that the
signs be posted.
T. W Harris a commission mem-
ber, charged Negroes had been de-
nied accommodations at Western
Hills State I-odge near Wagoner.
Harris, a Tulsa pharmacist, men-
tioned the names of prominent Ne-
groes he said were turned down and
added: ‘ When I take my wife and
family who are beautifully dark-
skinned I run into trouble.” See RIGHTS
, Harris was joined by two other
Terror, Violence On
Rampage In South
BIRMINGHAM (ANP) Seeds of hale and defiance
sown by Alabama's Gov. George Wallace produced a har-
vest of death and deslruction here turning a tranquil Sab-
bath into a bitter "Black Sunday” and leaving this city with
black eye and America shamed before the world.
A department of justice spokesman
said that although the FBI auto-
matically investigates such bombing
incidents, the department has spe-
cifically ordered a full investigation.
In this tense atmosphere, three
public schools began their second
week of integrated classes. Officials
had taken special steps to head off
violence.
National guardsmen were placed
on alert by Gov. Wallace who had
earlier sent 300 state troopers into
town at the request of Mayor Albert
Boutwell.
Negro leaders made outraged pro-
tests. and the Rev. Martin Luther
King. Jr., flew to town to urge Ne-
groes against violence.
Meanwhile, expressions of regret
came from both white and Negro Harriette Pierce. 2635 E. 26th Place
North, and .Anthony Darwin. 2637 N.
Rockford Aw, testified Wednesday
that a drag race preceded the crash.
They told the jury that the defend-
ant. the dead man and others were
at a northside night spot and left in
two cars.
A race followed. Vann’s auto,
they said, went out of control at a
railroad crossing at 36th St. North
and Harvard Ave. and crashed
against a telephone pole.
Vann was charged with first de-
gree manslaughter, but the jury
was also instructed to consider the
of Oklahoma City, in urging second offense of second degree
recon- manslaughter.
which--
faith who form the Oklahoma Con- problems of the Negroes
fercnce on Religion and Faith state lie in these areas ________
agreed to meet with businessmen of -When schools were integrated in
this state to discuss tlie civil rights 1954, more than 5'X) Negro teachers
question. lost their jobs. Few have been re-
"We will attempt to prick their employed as teachers.
consciences and to prevail upon Tht. NAACP presldent mentioned
specifically Bristow which, he said.
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party. Davis plans t_
himeymoon at the World
Newjork. according to a statement
mar-
Mrs Calvin Cox. 21. of 507G E.
Latimer Place, gave birth to three
sons late Tuesday night at St. John’s
Hospital.
The first boy. born at 12 36 am.
weighed 2 pounds and 1’i ounces;
:he second arrived at 12 38. weighing
2 pounds and 4 ounces and the third,
at 12:42. weighed 2 pounds and 3
ounces The smallest of the boys
was in serious condition early yes
terday afternoon.
Mrs Cox had no family doctor,
so the babies were delivered by a
resident physician The births were
12 weeks premature, but were by
To Change Hiring Policies
At a meeting held Monday in J J Simmons. Jr., of the NAACP.
Oklahoma City, clergymen of every told the clergymen the principal
in this
Education
Former Tu’sa Ad Man
Arrested For Tax Fraud
U S. Atty John M Imel said his
office has initiated steps to return
Watson to Tulsa for arraignment
Tuesday. Imel said Internal Revenue
Service agents have been searching
for Watson for a year. They went
to Watson’s residence in Los Ange-
les and found him hiding in a closet.
During the period when Watson
operated a public tax accounting
office in Tulsa, he was also adver-
tising salesman for a short-lived
newspaper, the Oklahoma Sun He
also wrote a column. “Ventures
with Ventura." for the Sun.
Imel said Watson studied income
tax accounting while serving a
California sentence for armed rob-
bery from 1952 to 1956.
The other counts involve alleged
assistance to clients of Watson's
tax accounting office in preparation
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will file a suit within the next two
days against officials of the Fred-
erick School Board.
Tlie suit, the first to be filed by
the two-month-old Oklahoma City
chapter, will charge school officials
with blocking the admission of a
Negro child to the school. An effort
to settle the dispute between CORE
and the school txiard ended in fail-
ure Monday with Prather Brown,
Frederick School superintendent,
maintaining his policy of keeping
grade scohols segregated.
Brown said the decision to deny
admission to the Negro student at
Central Grade School is in line with
a policy of integrating the high
schools and junior high schools
while keeping grade schools segre-
gated.
He said grade school attendance
is based on zoning regulations aimed
See CORE
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To Los Angeles
Dancer Last Week
Ry CALLA SCRIVNER
LOS ANGELES < ANP' — Dodgers
star Willie Davis. 23. last week was
married in Lx»s Angeles Superior
Court to dancer Jeanna Limyou, 25.
The couple met a year ago at a
party. Davis plans to spend his
honeymoon at the World Series in
New York, according to c
to the press. This is the first
riage for the star centerfielder and
the second [or Miss Limyuu.
Sugar Ray
Hospitalized,
Burglarized
Signs Be Posted At Lodges
commission members. Alfred Aaron-
son of Tulsa and Mrs M. B Glis-
mann
that the board, be asked to
sider posting the signs___
would give the state’s policy of equal Dodger Star Wpd
accommodations to all persons. —
Herman Kaiser, a Tulsa investor
and commission member, opposed
the moves, saying signs “wouldn't
help any.' After commission director
William Rose read the Planning
Boards letter saying it would not
place the signs in lodges, Aaronson
said. "Why anyone should object to
posting a sign ... 1 don't under-
stand."
Kaiser said he
Aaronson, saying,
The ten chairmen of the March on
Washington for Jobs and Freedom
have called upon President Kennedy
to guarantee federal protection for
the beleaguered Negro citizens of
\labatna.
Signed by Mathew Ahmann, Dr.
Eugene Carsen Blake. James Far-
mer, Dr Martin Luther King, John
Lewis. Rabbi Joachim Prinz. A.
Philip Randolph, Walter Reuther,
Roy Wilkins and Whitney Young,
the telegram to the President warn-
ed that “when people cannot look
tn their government to defend them
they will take steps to defend them- -------- ~ ,
selves." | silent marches in cities across the
"The chain of responsibility for t ,
mass murder in Birmingham,” as-
■erted the March leaders, "extends
dirertly to t.'^ Governor of Alabama
... If no federal protection can he
found for the Negroes of Alabama
and elsewhere in the South, the
'inks of that chain will extend to the
national government because help-
lessness in Washington is an invita-
'!<>n to lawlessness in Birmingham.”
In addition, the March chairmen
announced that they were calling
Dear Mr. and Mrs. North Tulsa:
My name is George. I’m an all-
around hand} man. and I'd like for
you to feel free to use my services
for any and all chores, errands, and
duties which you may be too busy to
perform.
Anytime there's something that
needs doing and you'd rather not,
you just let old George do it.
III write to your congressman for
you; III write your newspaper
editor; 1'11 do anything you're too
tired or too preoccupied to do.
With me around, you can be as
ME H. NUMBER is THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 19. 1963 123 N. GREENWOOD TULSA, (JKLAH')M '. TWO SECTIONS — FOURTEEN PAGES — PRICE K'c
BIRMINGHAM’S BLACK SUN. STIRS WORLD
CLERGY UNITE TO FIGHT DISCRIMINATION
Businessmen Will Be Asked
on
observe this Sunday, September 22.'
as a Day of Mourning for the slain
children of Birmingham. They di-
rected their appeal especially to the
quarter of a million people who
participated in the August 28th
March on Washington and who
pledged "my heart and my mind
and mv body, unequivocally and
without regard to personal sacrifice,
to the achievement of social peace
through social justice.”
The appeal, issued by the March
on Washington office, urged March-
ers to fulfill their pledge "in this
Duke Ellington
Stricken While On
several Tour In Middle East
DAMASCUS, Syria (ANP'-Inter-
nationally famous band leader-
composer Duke Ellington, currently
on a tour of the Middle East, was
hospitalized briefly here last week
with a high temperature and a
stomach disorder.
Ellington was confined to bed for
a day. but was expected to lead his
band in a concert the following day,
i according to Dr. Yusef Sayedh. |
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