New York Amsterdam News — 1963-00-01027

> Odi 1 ■* Bunche Answers Adam Powell Malcolm NEWi CARL T. ROWAN NAMES IN THE NEWS — These names made news this week. Father John La Farge died at 83. Dr. Ralph Bunche wrote a letter to Jackie Robin­ son about Jackie's November IS column attacking Malcolm X and Adam Powell. See stor­ ies below and Inside. Ambass­ ador Carl Rowan was expected to move up tai President Lyn­ don Johnson's plans. Backed ‘Goodbye Daddy!” “I Solemnly Swear He Will Keep Top Negro Staff men ~ Bulletin President Lyndon B. Johnson told the nation’s governors in Washington Monday night that ho will press for the enactment of civil rights and tax legislation proposed by the late President Kennedy. By JAMES BOOKER WASHINGTON — President Lyndon B. Johnson was expected to tell a joint session of Congress Wed­ nesday that he plans to continue the basic Kennedy policies, including his strong civil rights stand, the Amsterdam News learned. FATHER LaFARGE JACKIE ROBINSON Dr. Bunche’s Letter Dear Jackie, I am deeply grateful to you for your kind words about me in your column in the New York Amster­ dam News of 16 November 1963. May I say in return that among the many reasons for my long admiration of you not the least are your courage in standing by your convictions and your intellectual probity. I treasure your friendship. The attack upon me by Malcolm X and Adam Powell to which you refer had escaped my notice, but it is not the first by either of them. I claim no immunity from attack but naturally fee?, that those attacking should be honest and not falsify the record, as was done by Powell and Malcolm X. I note for example, that you quote Powell as saying that “we have not heard from Ralph Bunche since we helped fight to get his son into the Forest Hills Tennis Club”. I was unaware of Mr. Powell’s “help” in this matter. The facts are that when my son's application for a Junior membership in the ?lub was rejected, I reluctantly I permitted this to become known you an idea, I list some of the publicly solely because to do speeches I have made in the otherwise would be to protect the deep south in recent years, all discriminatory policy of a club of them dealing frankly with race which depended heavily on public relations and integration: and municipal support. The pub- Montgomery, Alabama (in the lie reaction against the Club’s midst of the bus boycott) 1936. policy was spontaneous and sur- Huntsville, Alabama, 1936. prising,y strong, quickly changed presidents and reversed its policy. My son, however, no longer wished to join the Club and did not do so. Incidentally, Jackie. I never sought membership in the Club — my tennis playinfc days are far behind me. and the Club Chapel Hill, North Carolina What was in July I960. As to Mr, PowetT -rX* saving heard from me since then, this may be due to the fact that Adam does not speak very often in the deep south as I do and seems to avoid NAACP meetings. Just to give Major speeches at NAACP ’ tional Conventions: Atlanta, Georgia July. 1961 Dallas, Texas July. 1954 Atlanta. Georgia July, 1962. < Continued on Page 3) Malcolm X’s Letter Dear Good Friend, Jackie Roosevelt Robinson: You became a great baseball player after your White Boss (Mr. Rickey) lifted you to the Major Leagues. You proved that your White Boss had chosen the “right” Negro by getting plenty of hits, stealing plenty of bases, winning many games and bringing much money through the gates and into the pockets of your White Boss. In those days I was one of your iriany ardent fans; your speed and _$hifty base running used to .bold me spellbound , . . and, according to the attack you leveled against me and Congressman Powell in your recent column, I must confess that even today you still display the same old “speed,” the same “cunning,” and “shiftiness,” . . . and you are still trying to win “The Big Game” for your White Boss. Shortly after the White Man lifted you from poverty and obscurity to the Major Leagues, Paul Robeson was condemning America for her injustices against American Negroes. Mr. Robeson questioned the intelligence of Negroes fight- fng to defend a country that your White Boss send you be treated them with such open con- fore a congressional hearing ii tempt and bestial brutality. Washington, D. C. (the capito Robeson s Stand an(j pon< Robeson's brilliant stand in be- cause he half of our people left the can whit guilty American whites speech- Your 1 Washingl lesa; they had no defense. They sought desperately to ried wh find another Negro who would be were stil dumb enough to champion their White Ft bankrupt “white" cause against America Paul Robeson. grateful It was you who let yourself not bein be used by the whites even in tens), a those days against your own still lay kind. You let them sic you on fend this this sa Paul Robeson. You let them use you to wasn’t r destroy Paul Robeson. You let (Co QUR NEW PRESIDENT - President Lyndon B. Johnson takes the .oath of office in Dallas as the 36th President of the United States aboard a plane which took him to Wash­ ington immediately after the Assassination of President Kennedy. Mrs. Kennedy is at right Mrs. Johnson also wit­ nessed the swearing in. UPI Photo Number One Target Threat On Roy Wilkins Life The New York City police have had a police guard around NAACP executive secretary Roy Wilkins since last Friday when three death threats were phoned to the NAACP’s national office at 20 W. 40th St. One of the callers reportedly said, ‘‘Kennedy’s gone, and Wil- The calls came within a few kins is next,” while another said, hoars after President Kennedy’s "You're the number one target assassination. now among the niggers.” Although Wilkins and NAACP .. ** oflicials have received almost weekly Ihrea,,. «m,e suffer. fel. ««g££? £ S“were X" * ““ •”* Am‘"ds" nZw. UaeT police were called. w'r‘ . LITTLE 9OLD1ER — The late President Kennedy's brave little son, John Jr. 3, tugged at the heart of the nation Monday as he saluted his father's casket when it was carried from St- Matthew's Cathedral prior to burial at Arlington Cemetery. Lena's Daughter Is Married Lena Horne's daughter, Gail, was married this week to film producer Sidney Lumet i n a quiet ceremony witnessed only by a few friends. Eyewitness Report I Saw Dallas Die! By ROSALIND CHAMBERS (Mrs. Chambers, wife of Amsterdam. News advertis­ ing solicitor Julius Chambers, was in Dallas on a busi­ ness trip at the time of the President’s death. This is Her story as she told it. DALLAS, Tex “I had stood on the streetcorner waving proudly as I saw President and Mrs. Kennedy broadly smiling in the open-air car, and after they passed, I left to go do some shopping. It was while 1 whs in a nearby store that the word swept through the city that the President had been shot. " ~ wh““ ’*em' “Dallas became a morbid city. "I was shocked. I Just couldn't e<,..!?be.ln Powell Ordered To Court In s last ditch move seeking to force Rep. Adam Clayton Powell to pay the 9211,500 libel Judgment awarded Mrs. Esther James last spring, attorneys for the (56-year-oid domestic Sunday had a criminal summons served on Powell charging him with assets. The summoos, which was ser­ ved on Powell outside of A«bys- sinian Baptist Church Shinday afternoon following the morning services, was signed by Criminal Court Justice J. Howard Ross- bach and requires him to be present la court to answer the charges on Dec. 12. Lawyers and court aides said that such • criminal summons can be served^at anytime, while a civil summons is only good when served during the week, attorneys for Powell are due in Civil Court this week to oppose a summous which was nailed '0 a post on his Puerto Rican iome two weeks ago. Mrs James, In the criminal summons, is alleging that Powell has fradulently converted his iisetx so that they cannot attach Ibem Io collect the judgment. Jackie Robinson May Still Get That State Position Denying published reports, high Republican sources told the Amsterdam News this week that Gov. Nelson A. Roc kefeller is still planning to name Jackie Robinson as State Athletic Commissioner as soon as a new state post can be found for Gen. Melvin L. Krulewitch,»the present chairman. Z r" .The Governor conferred with ------------ .------ "" " 1 Robinson in his New York offices state that Robiason was being a person with a license from the last Wednesday where he report- ruled ineligible for the Job bo- State Athletic Commission, edly surveyed the whole situs- cause of conflict of interest, point- couldn't handle boxing licenses, tion and informed Robinson that lag out that Robinson and former Sources said that the Governor he still plans to make the ap- heavyweight . boxing champ completely rejected these conten- Floyd Patterson are partners in tlons and indicated to Robinson pointment. an upstate housing project. that he hoped to make the ap- Puhllshert reports In local dally These reports sought to allege polntment bufora the first of the Rejected By Reeky newspapers last week sought to that Robinson, as a partner of year. believe it "One of the first reactiohs I * heard was that it had to be a 1 white man who did It This was _____'Continued Crowds at the airport seem- ” \ «•“»* 2>____ made by a white person ____ Many Negroes “As this city awaited word on Tw ||||« PofirlprC VUI l\CUUCI3 whether the President was dead or alive, the Streets became de­ serted and it appeared as If all Ttie N.Y, Amsterdam News published a special tribute to life stopped. President John F. Kennedy on Saturday, November 23. 1983. •When the word came, however, This was the first EXTRA pub- ot President Kennedy s death, hshed by the Amsterdam News cars began moving and this Tex- tn its M year history, as city seemed to make a com- Due to the extenuating cir- plate change, almost as If they cumstance of time, a 4 page didn't teal any sense of loss. supplement, with limited dls- “My only reaction was to get tribution of 25,000 copies, was home as soon as possible, even put on sale in New York City, though I had planned to spend Brooklyn, Bronx and Queeens. If you were unable to get a few more days here. “As I rode to the airport in a your copy and desire this tri- local cab the majority of people 1 bute to a great American, it who lined the streets awaiting .can be obtained at our offices the passage of the ambulance 2340 Eighth Ave., N.Y. - carrying the President’s body Circulation Department /** The nation’s 36th President will ~~~ back the Kennedy civil rights BBMBBHBBBBHBBBBBBBK bill and will in all probability S kwv most of the Kennedy Ad- ministration's top Negro appoint- . . ». , ees. a source disclosed. ........... • While most department heads, j£&|B|| - '^BB » Ambassadors, and White House staffers, including Assistant Press Secretary Andrew Hatcher will be offering their resignations. It is believed the new President (Continued on Page 3) Meet On "LBJ" Gravely concerned over the pace and direction of the civil rights movements as a result of the death of President Kennedy, leaders of the nation's “Big Six” Negro organization! will meet here next Tuesday, Dec. 3, to discuss where to we go from here. "We will discuss the whole situation,” Roy Wilkins, NACCP executive secretary, told the Am­ sterdam News. Leaders meeting wiU include Whitney M. Young, of the Na­ tional Urban League; Mr. Wil­ kins; Miss Dorothy Height, of the National Council of Negro Women; Jack Greenberg, of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund; Rev. Martin Luther King, of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; A. Philip Randolph; and John Lewis, of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Conn­ ell. ; Subject Among he problems the lead­ ers will discuss will be their re­ lationship to President Lyndon B. Johnson, particularly because he is a Southerner; the possibility of passage of the civil rights bill; should demonstrations be suspended or halted for any length of time; and other phases of the civil rights revolution. Earlier this week in Interviews both Mr. Wilkins and Mr. Young expressed optimism that Presi­ dent Johnson might dd equally as well as the late President, because of his legislative skill (Continued on Page 3> HOBERT TAYLOR See Hope In LBJ's \ Policies WASHINGTON — Negro leaders who came to the nation’s capital to join in the worldwide mourning for John F. Kennedy, were gen­ erally expressing optimism that President Johnson will follow the path chartered by his predecessor as far as civil rights are concern- Rev. Martin Luther King, who said he hopes to meet with Mr. Johnson with the next few weeks, declared, “I am con­ vinced that President Johnson is committed to civil rights gen­ erally and am sure he will take the same position as President Kennedy.” NAACP executive secretary Roy Wilkens. who doubted there would be any letup In pressure over (Continued on Page 3) What's inside Your Amsterdam News! Amusements .........— 16 James Beeker —_— 11 Brooklyn Section _ IB, 24 Cborcbos -_____ 22, 23 ClessHiod Ado___ 24-34 Crossword Puzzle____ 35 Editerials______ ______ 10 Untitled Document file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Administrator/Desktop/hello.html2/18/2007 11:01:03 AMThomas M. Tryniski 309 South 4th Street Fulton New York 13069 www.fultonhistory.com