New York Amsterdam News — 1963-00-00116

M > N. 1 AMSTERDAM NEWS, Bat, Feb. 18, IMS ev. King Sues ecord Company would not be exploited. Dr. King, nor anyone connected with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference knew anything about the record until it was being advertised and distributed.” Rev. Martin Luther King has filed a $200,000 dam- e suit against West Qoast recording executive Dootsie lliams and his recording company “with great reluc- ice,” the famed integration leader told the Amster- n News Sunday. ommenting on the suit filed Los Angeles Superior Court week against Williams and producers and distributors of ecord titled, “Martin Luther g at Zion HUI.’’ Rev. King his chief assistant Rev. Wyatt Walker said that they had 1 the suit after five months persistent attempts to persu- the record company to volun- ly withdraw the record had Ml. eanwhile in Los Angeles, Wil- ns, one of the West Coast’s [est Negro record company lers, said that he was pre- ing to file a counter $500,000 ach of contract suit against King because of King’s suit rh contends the record was de without his consent, anti [landing a full accounting of all records sold, and an injunction barring future distribution of the record. Walker charged that the re­ cord was enjoying brisk sales throughout the country, and ac­ cused Williams of “attempting to cloud the issue by pretending that the suit grew out of a money squabble.’’ He said that the re­ cording was made without King’s permission and “was not the quality he desire^/ King’s complaint alleges that the special recording was made last June at the Zion Hill Bap­ tist Church, Los Angeles, when he spoke at a freedom rally spon­ sored by the Western Christian Leadership Conference. $250 Check He said that In response to an alleged verbal agreement, Wil­ liams talked to Dr. King once about withdrawing the record from the market, and Walker hinuolf had made several calls to see ’f the matter could be settled oui o* court. HANDS ACROSS A CROWD— Anxious to shake hands with President Kennedy, a woman •tretches past a crowd of women blocking her way, in turn the President reached forward to oblige. The hand­ shaking efforts were made following a speech made by the U.S. Chief Executive at the 50th anniversary meeting of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority held in Washington, D. C. (DPI Photo). Handyman Begins Life Term BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Har- lis Miller, 31-year-old handyman whom police captured la Soper­ ton, Ga. after a nationwide hunt last November, was sent to begin a life sentence for the murder of Westport society ma­ tron Mrs. Isabel SUIan. Miller, who wfll not ba eligible for pardon during his imprison­ ment, escaped the electric chair on the Jury’s recommendation of mercy as the trial ended last week when Miller took the stand In his own defense. Miller had denied during the trial that ha was the man who entered the fashionable West- port home of the Sillans last Nov. 12, but the woman’s 14- year-old daughter. Gall, positive­ ly identified him as the man who strangled her mother and then beld her captive in his car for almost 12 hours. She said she managed to escape from the car when Miller stopped to pick up some food in Norwalk. Meanwhile, Rosalie Mill- edge. Miller’s girl-friend who appeared at his trial as a de­ fense witness last week, is still being held in the Bridgeport State Jail awaiting trial on a kidnaping charge. No date has yet been eet for her trial. $1.50 Minimum To Rocky ALBANY, N. Y. — New York City’s Mayor Robert F. Wagner hinted Tuesday that Governor Rockefeller’s failure to increase state-wide hourly minimum wage to $1.50 may become a key issue if he makes a bid to run for the White House. The Mayor made the statement to a message to more than 500 labor, Negro, Puerto Rican, re­ ligious and civil rights repre­ sentatives who converged Tues­ day on the capital to urge the Governor to act on proposals to tacreaae the statewide hourly wage floor to $1.90. “Wo demand action in Al­ bany.” Wagner said In a state­ ment to A. Philip Randolph, only j Negro vice-president of the AFL- CIO who came here. “We must accept no excuses,” added Wagner. “This must be made one of the key issues of 1963 and 1964.” Jewelry Workers Settle | Ad agreement on the terms of « Three ($) Year Contract be­ tween Local No one. Interna­ tional Jewelry Workers Union and the Jewelry Manufacturers Association covering 2,000 Jewel­ ry Workers employed In the New Yo. , New Jersey Metropolitan Area was reached last week. The total package settlement amount ed to 34*4c per hour which in­ cluded 26c per hour as a wage Increase — and Increases in Wei fare. Pension and other Items which amounted to an additional •We per hour. The settlement came after an eight (8) day strike which start- ad on February 1, 1963 upon the expiration of the previous con­ tract SAT. • JAZZ & COMEDY JERRY MULLIGAN QUARTET WOODY ALLEN Queens Set For Capital Projects Residents of Queens fared well In having a long list of capital projects and other improvements processed by the Board of Estimate at its meeting last Thursday, according to Borough Pres. Mario J. Cariello. He said Mayor Wagner will put those projects into effect as expeditiously as possible. Queens College was the bene­ ficiary of more than half a mil­ lion dollars for alterations and modernization and additional equipment. The Queensbarough Community College in Bayside is to receive temporary library facilities and administrative of­ fices amounting to $100,000. New Schools The hearing was closed for new P.S. Wl, at 149th Avenue and 230th St., in Rosedale, to cost over $2 million. This will provide additional facilities in an area of considerable resi­ dential development, and will permit the abandonment of old PjS. 137, a wooden structure. It will also relieve overcrowding in P.S. 156, 137th Ave. and 229th St., Springfield Gardens, to which children are being bussed from the Rosedale area. Action Is ex pected soon on a $710,000 audi­ torium and gym at P.S. 163 in Flushing. A million - and - a - half dollar capital project would provide spaces and athletic fields re­ quired for physical education programs, at Forest Hills High School and high schools In Brook­ lyn and Manhattan. A Park Department project to arrest shore errosion in the Rock- aways and along the Brooklyn and Staten Island waterfront, to cost $3 million, was advanced with the public hearing closed by the Estimate body. Under the new City Charter, which went into effect Jan. 1, the Board of Estimate no longer votes on appropriations, conduct­ ing only the required public hearings. The Mayor has sole authority to progress the projects. Meet Employment Demands In Ga. ATLANTA, Ga. — Last Sun­ day 400 Negro ministers behind Atlanta’s Operation Breadbasket told their congregations that Southern Bakery Company has met all employment requests. This will cancel plans for selective buying campaign. The promotion of 15 Southern employees into jobs \ not previously held by Negroes marks the second time a com­ pany has met all of Operation Breadbasket's requests. Colonial Bakeries has up­ graded 18 employees Into new positions with combined total salaries of $80,000. Southern Bakeries has pro­ moted 15 employees into Jobs wi«h yearly salaries ranging from $3300 to $6200 Their total incomet will add $68,000 to the Negro power. communities’ buying The selective patronage cam­ paigns against the other baker­ ies will continue. Operation Breadbasket, like a [many of the other selective buy­ ing programs across the country, was inspired by the highly successful Philadelphia campaign. Since March 1960 when that program started over 20 companies have been affected and more than 1,000 new white- collar Jobs for Negroes have been won. Ministers groups in Atlanta, Baltimore, Detroit, Atlantic City, Boston, Providence, New Haven, Chattanooga and Wilm­ ington, Del. have all started selective consumer campaigns in recent months No Choice “We had no alternative but to file the suit,” Rev. Walker sak “This is the only way we could be sure the American public More Negroes Moving Into White Areas A significant number of Negro families in New York have been able to move to homes in prev­ iously all-white areas, George H. Fowler, chairman of the State Commission for Human Rights, declared last week in urging housing officials from four states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico to pattern their ur­ ban renewal policies after those in New York State. A study based on recent cen­ sus figures showed that nearly 5,000 city blocks which formerly were all-white now have one or more Negro families, Fowler told officials of the Middle Atlantic Regional Council of the National Association of Housing and Re­ development Officials. Rentals Hailing New York’s laws, Fow­ ler also noted that in another statewide survey there were 91 rental - for - sale cooperative housing projects that had one or more Negro families as contrasted with only nine such developments with Negro famil­ ies throughout the state in 1955 Asserting that integration in housing has not resulted in mass exodus of whites, Fowler said that New York’s results have shown that Negro and Puerto Rican families have been welcomed into new neighbor­ hoods, and their coming had not affected the building of private housing. In urging the housing officials to adopt policies similar to those in New York, Fowler said that "We must not only rebuild our cities and towns so that they will accommodate in comfort and convenience our many millions of residents, but we must also insure against replacing old slums with new ones, and we must guard against clearing away high - density residential areas only to erect new ones." Great Men Lives of great men all remind Ml, We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints in the sands of time. — Longfellow Another Angle (Continued from Page 11) money and mine to spend studying you. Another group got $250,000. Now you may think I’m lying, but this _ All of this money was given to has actually happened in New York, not once, but twice in recent months. I have been very close to it. In fact, I was at one time asked to sit on the board of one of the groups that got $230,000. “study” you! Beginning next week I’m going to tell you how it is being spent. Stick around. I might need some friends. New Church Drive On NAACP Memberships If the Rev. Richard Allen Hil- fled until all churches are mem- debrand’s abilities live up to hi' hopes, every church, white and Negro, in and outside of Harlem, will have membership in the New York NAA^P. At present, most of the major churches in Harlem are institu­ tional members of the civU rights organization, said the minister, who was elected president last year to head the city’a major NAACP branch. But that Is not enough, he told the Amsterdam News. He won’t be personality aatia- bers. Cnrrent Drive Additionally, the minister Is seeking to enlist all the area's churches in his membership drive to increase the strength of the branch. "The churches could easily produce 10,000 new members, said the Rev. Hildebrand. "And I plan to ask each minister to help In his church to get more members Into the NAACP.” The Rev. Hildebrand, who pas tor's Harlem's Bethel AME Church, the foremolt denomina tional congregation, said work to get the churches involved in the membership campaign has not yet gotten into the operative stage, but will be within coming months. Churches also will be urged, said the NAACP official, to roll up their sleeves and get busy with an educational campaign to teach its members the his­ tory of the civil rights organiza­ tion and outline its goals. IRWIN VINCENT POWELL — Former securities salesman I. Vincent Powell, who pleaded guilty to assaulting his lawyer, U.S. Attorney Morton Robeson, was sentenced to a term of 8 months to three years in pris­ on Monday by Judge Mitchell D. Schweitzer. Powell, a resi­ dent of Greenwich, Conn., Is In Federal prison awaiting trial on Feb. 14 on federal charges of violation of SEC regulations. Walker admitted, however, that a $250 check from Williams ac­ companying a proposed contract was processed through the SCIC account last year when King was in the Albany, Ga., Jail, but that King had "no knowledge of the existence of a record, contract or anything else at the time.” Williams said that the cash­ ier’s check was a binder agree­ ment and alleged that King had asked him for 20 per cent royalty, which he refused, and halted pro­ duction of the record when he talked to King. Counter Suit CRASH SCENE — Wreckage is all that remains of the North­ west Orient Airlines plane, flight 705, that crashed in the swampy wilderness of the Florida Everglades, Tuesday, minutes after taking off from Miami to Chicago. All 43 per­ sons aboard the ill-fated plane died in the disaster. He said that his counter 6uit was based on “the fact that we feel, we as well as Dr. King and his organization, are losing $500,- 000 in sales on the Album.” We proceeded with our con- tractural arrangements despite the fact that there was some questioning the claim that his speech was solely the product of his labors since he freely quoted others, including Emerson; and, we feel placed the material in public domain by allowing him­ self to be quoted freely on radio, television, in newspaper and ma­ gazines without recompense,” Williams said. Says Rocky Uncertain Over ‘64 DURHAM, N. C. — Tom Cos- tigan, WCBS-TV News Chief, and a CBS correspondent, asserted at North Carolina College Mon­ day that Governor Nelson Rock­ efeller is uncertain about the 1964 presidential campaign. Jamaica Council Ready To Work The Jamaica Coordinating ed comprehensive questionnaires Council, comprising 46 organiz- to the citizens for information ations in the Jamaica area of in the general area of urban re- Queens, has initiated a com- newal and neighborhood con- munity-wide campaign to get* 1 servation. grass roots support for its 14 nominees to the four planning . _ M“y S~ boards in the area. A C<>™™n>ty Planning Com- And the Council has asked ‘"lttee the Cou"cd hSaded by Woodroffe is, newly elected Queens Borough1^ President Mario J. Cariello for "lth developing an audience to discuss the Coun- Counci s study and plan for oil’s work and wavs to ^ure the area' 11 has dlvlded ** cooperation between the borough area and teams are . office and the Negro commun- h(Xn€s, ^courage and help all out the questionnaires. These actions were taken fol- Us“* *he "turned question- and the lowing a general meeting of the naires' the Council held Feb. 5, at the W'*‘ hope 7“tually to d«- Health Dept. Auditorium, 90-37 urban renews Parsons Blvd. at 8 p.m. Final £ rehJ±d,^lG° pIan' would steos to make the Council a •sl*brn,tted to the planning , ... boards, the Borough President permanent body were completed . with adoption « byelaws and >"tl «“ C'«' Pla“”‘"8 Coramis- determination of membership Slon' and dues structure. p , , . ’ „ . „ p0 Appoint ! Interviewed after he spoke at: Mr Gulnier said the Council; hopes to obtain the cooperation of these groups. A query on the the college s regular forum as- Borough President Cariello is status of the request of the semtoly. the newsman said thatexpected in the near future to Council for a meeting with Mr. Rockefeller has the assurance appoint between five and nine Cariello revealed that the Bor- that t(je majority of the state members to each" of some 30 ough President had ben indis- Reputrtican party chairmert are planning boards in Queens. In posed for some days and that behind him but feels a bit wary the area of South-East Queens might affect scheduling of the about public opinion. “He has there is a concentration of Ne- interview. professional pollsters working on groes grouped into four planning chairrnan Guinier also stated this now.” Costigan said. “But until hl? feels certain that the public wants him to run, he will not make a decision,” he added. Costigan, who has covered two Rockefeller gubernatorial cam­ paigns and was with him at the Republican convention in Chic­ ago in I960, said: He doesn’t want to lose any race and realiz­ es that the image of Kennedy is popular.” . that the Council has set up an- These are South Jamaica-St. other project headed by Mita Albans; Cambria Heights which Dorothy Alexander, president of is mostly St.- Albans; Jamaica Bisley Park Community League. and Springfield Gardens. “We It woulC explore ways to in- didn t feel we should take all a v -t'imunity-wide youth the seats on the planning boards,—_ n hke HARYOU or the for these areas, so we p'd up East Side Project in Manhattan. 14 names”, said Ewart Guinier, Council chairman. areas. Arrest Mail Fraud Suspect A man sought since 1958 on suspicion of mail fraud in South Carolina was arrested last week by United States Marshals 1 n Jamaica, L.I. Cafe Knifing Holds Customer Besides Mr. Guinier, names submitted for membership on the planning boards include those of Rev. James R. Moore, pastor of Amity Baptist Church; Kenneth Epps, 28, of 1385 Fifth Rev. Walter S. Pinn, pastor of ^ve., charged with assaulting Calvary Baptist Church, both co- chairmen. Also Miss Myrtle L. Taylor, Council secretary. Robert Morgan of 228 W 135th St., floor manager of Small's, In addition to seeking com-, 2294 Seventh Ave., was paroled munity support for their nom- for a hearing in Criminal Court inees, the Council has distriibut-j Friday, February 16. Wife, Man Face Trial For Murder Mrs. Ariela Sargeant, 39, and James “Choia” Proctor, 24, in­ dicted on murder one and at­ tempted murder, are scheduled to go on trial Thursday before Justice George Postel and a jury. The couple are charged with the murder of Richard Baldwin, 36. who lived at 14 W. 128th St., and shooting Mrs. Sargeant's husband, Carl, on May 21, 1962, near the Sargeant’s home at 18 W. 128th St. Although they denied any knowledge of the murder and shooting Assistant D. A. Robert Reynolds will try to prove that the two acted in concert to do away with Carl Sargeant and that Baldwin who was given a free ride home from a local tavern was also killed. According to the District At­ torney both men were shot be­ hind the ear in gangland fashion but Sargeant recovered. Mrs. Sargeant is the mother of four children. No Heat? Call Here Having trouble with heat la your apartment? If you believe the heat is below the required temperature, call the Health Department. City health regulations re­ quire that when the tempera­ ture is below 55 degrees out­ side, landlords mast maintain a minimum of 68 degrees of heat in their buildings between the hours of 6 a.m. and 18 p.m. If you’ve been shivering, the numbers to call to complain about a lack of heat in Man­ hattan is WO 4-3414; Bronx, LU 3-5500; Brooklyn, TR 5-9400; Queens, OL 8-6600; and Staten Island, SA 7-4000. The suspect, identified as Alex Hunter, 23, grew suspicious as Deputies Benjamin Butler, Wil­ liam Gallinaro, Joseph Denson and Frank Devoy closed in on the two-story home at 116-29 160th St. where he had rented an attic room. Hunter leaped 20 feet to the pavement and fled about a bloclc where the deputies surrounded and subdued him after he alleg­ edly assulted Gallinaro in a last desperate escape try. Hunter, a laborer, was held in a total of $12,000 bail in the U.S. Eastern District Court, Washington and Johnson Sts., Bklyn., by Commissioner Max Schiffman. He was remanded to the Federal House of Detention to await a hearing Thursday on the assault charge. HunteT and his two brothers, Paul, who is in custody i n South Carolina, and Murray, a fugitive, allegedly ordered var­ ious auto and home items such as seat covers by mail under fictitious names, and then moved to new addresses without pay­ ing. They then allegedly hustled the items for sale on the street. . Theft Operation reportedly earned them a minimum esti­ mate of some $10,000. A search of Alex Hunter's person and his residence turned up only $2:38, marshals said, and he asserted ly owed back rent to his land lady. t HONORED - Shown with The 0 citations awarded them re- , cently at the annual lunch­ eon of the Manhattan Council of the National Council of Ne­ gro Women. Inc at the Belmont Plaza Hotel Mrs. Wilhelmina Adams, presi nting a plaque to Mrs Kate. Hicks and Julius Th mas receiving his plaque from Mrs. Ruth Price Brown. »--■ 'McAdams Photo) V . 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