New York Amsterdam News — 1963-00-00407

am, Ala.—Federal Judge H. H. Grooms Wednesday warned Alabama Governor Wallace Judge Grooms said Wallace has nd right to bar the students and enjoined him from interfering, ten years in jail for contempt of court if he attempts to bar two Negro students from On hearing of the court’s ruling, Wallace’s office issued a statement saying his stand is as it always has been and has not changed. This presumably means he will “bar the door” to the students on June 10. University of Alabama next Monday. TEAMTNG UP FOR SWEEP- STAKES PROFITS — Joe Pot­ ter, (left> White Rock Bever­ age Company representative, is checking the supply of While Rock available at Paul’s Sup- want to enter the “Diamond ermarket, 41 Lenox Avenue, to Sparkle Sweepstakes. At right make sure that there is plenty in Danny Zabin, owner of Paul’s available to the customers who Super Market. dam News Reporter On Scene J ♦ J- ' ge Set For Crucial Showdown In Alabam he’s Knocking ... He Says She The Door . . . ! Can’t Get In ... ! ... He’s The Keeper Of The Keys! When pretty 21 year old TUSCALOOSA, * Ala. - By SARA SLACK Vivian Malone walks into the pages of history here next Monday in a showdown between the state of Ala­ bama and the Federal gov­ ernment, the Amsterdam News will walk by her side. We will not be alone. God, the Constitution, pos­ sibly some Federal troops and certainly about 150 newspaper reporters will walk with us. The tension is already so heavy here you could al­ most cut it with a knife. Governor Wallace of Ala­ bama has vowed to stand in the door to bar the pretty ■ GOVERNOR WALLACE VIVIAN MALONE Negro co-ed from tho all white University hero. Presi­ dent Kennedy, on tho other hand, solidly backed up by the Federal courts (and Fed­ eral troops if he needs them) says Vivian must and will be admitted. The issue is thus joined. The battle lines have been formed. We will go to our places early next Monday morning. The objective will be Foster Auditorium on the University campus where Vivian hopes to register as a Commerce student. The historians may write what follows next. One thing is certain those who walk here will walk into the pages of history. PRESIDENT KENNEDY AwtciWnn Netos Vol. XUI, No. 23 2340 Eighth Ave. New York 27. N. Y SATURDAY, JUNE », 1963 assessar ,«< - **c 20. The Job Is For Whites High City Official Turns Down Negro Secretary ens Raped Dixie Jail ;ro teenagers were raped in the Jack- )i jail and a white teenager was forced y before her jailers in Albany, Georgia, Height, a New York YWCA official a press conference late Wednesday. B-U-L-L-E-T-I-N , MISS.—Cleve McDonald, a Negro student, lpus and ready to register as the University second Negro student Wednesday afternoon lam News went to press. There were no in- ie arrived on the campus. 5 Of The Week National nt Kennedy was rushing new civil rights be sent to Congress and ordered ending on all federal construction and In federal ftgrams as the nation’s civil rights crisis inting. monstrations were breaking out in more throughout the South as younger Negroes demand integration of all public facilities action to end the slow school integration - r, ,, - Lena Horne Going To Jackson, Miss. Mayor Moves “On Bias >rk’s Senators Jacob Javits and Kenneth joined by Gov. Nelson Rockefeller in de- t the administration take stronger steps rights legislation through Congress, ers’ union head Jimmy Hoff a and seven ates were indicted this week (again) by ind jury charging them with fraudulently re than $20,000,000 in loans from the Cen- ension Fund. • - a a a International m processions and the assembly of more sons was imposed in Georgetown, British ie British Governor General in the wake d violence during which Prime Minister i and his wife Janet, were stoned. Tension ed as the general strike there entered its Many demands were growing to oust City and State ttle over Breezy Point flared out into the ek as Mayor Wagner announced that-he ing a park out of the area. Homeowners :ed the idea as a fantastic and impractical Iworth gregation Eyes of the F. W. Woolworth Co., one of the jest chains, met in New York this week a formal statement indicating that they regate lunch counters in the South as part y cooperation campaigns, of the company’s sd by an official rMlowa: att-fa* demonotra- iith began In Feto- im been our policy under local lead- ties In our stores, and in other local department and variety stolen, have been desegregated cooperatively and peacefully In Mobile and Huntsville. Alabama; Columbia, South Carolina; and New Orleans, Louisiana. We be- hout violence, our lieve thto record of eucccwrful de- segregation of loach counters In there, along with department and variety stores la local department unmatched by any o or group, including pfoymeol of Ne- date In virtually Virginia. North rids, Texas, Ten- Icy, Maryland, Ar­ man, and some (to- ’ facili- “During thia three-year period, Woodworth’s has oot caused the arrest of * single ’sit-in’ demon­ strator and our local managers have treated them with dignity and respect "We feel it la most Important to emphasise that it would be (Continued on Page Two) BULLETIN JACKSON, MISS.—More than 1200 Jackson, Mississippi Negroes pledged here Wednesday to put on the demonstration yet” when singer Lena Horne and her son arrives here for a mass rally Friday. By SARA SLACK JACKSON, Miss. — The Amsterdam News learned that singing star Lena Home has promised the National Association For the Advancement Of Colored People’s officials that she will fly to Jackson, Mississippi, Friday, to sing to a mass rally for integration and to have her son address the rally. Meanwhile this is how it is hl Jackson: —Even though this city’s Ne­ gro children know that they face being lined up by Jackson po­ lice and being shot at with emp­ ty carbines they continue streaming down to picket lily- white films on Capitol Street where upon being arrested each chfld says “we’ll keep coming back.” Cadets Graduate At ‘Point9 I rode in the station wagon which carried 8 sub-teeners to picket Penny's Department Store, Tuesday afternoon. A half Mock away from their post, carrying American flags the children scrambled out of the station wa­ gon playfully happy and anxious to be arrested picketing the store. Before leaving the Masonic Temple, which is the children’s NAACP Marching Headquart­ ers here, Willie Ben Ludden, NAACP Youth Field Secretary gave them their instructions. As they sat listening scrubbed, shiny WEST POINT, N. Y. — Four Negro cadets received Bachelor of Science de­ grees and Second Lieuten- anFs commissions on Wed­ nesday, June 5, graduation day at the United States Military Academy. These cadets are: Edgar Banks, Jr., (25), son of the Rev. Edgar Banks, Sr., of 1711 West 166th St., Compton, Calif.; a 1956 (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Two) Open Occupancy Now City’s Policy Mayor Robert F. Wagner Wednesday made public a report setting forth a program to foster integration, open occupancy and equal opportunity in housing developments under the jurisdiction of the City’s Housing and Redevelopment Board. The report summarized poli- ties and procedures which have billty with other public agencies been adopted by the Board in the for positive administrative ac­ past year, and promised further tion to assist families of varied action. The Mayor said that he racial and ethnic background to expects the move to be the first housing tai in • series of similar actions by al City agencies in furtherance of the general goal of eqaui rights and opportunities. obtain occupancy of our development “Our program today In the report, Milton Mallon. Chairman of the Housing Redevelopment Board, said: Housing , and Redevelopment Board goes beyond a mere pledge that the doors of its projects are open to all on the We also accept Joint of policies and procedures de­ veloped and put into edtect by the Board over the past year, in to the Mayor s call in 1962, for programs to ad vance the«cause of an open city, and to giW afttrthattve meaning to the guarantees against dis crimination which are sndindllT In present law. Uneasy over growing un­ dercurrent racial tensions in New - York City as ex­ pressed in local civil rights meetings, school dropout rates and studies showing Negroes and Puerto Ricans with the highest unemploy­ ment and lowest income rates in the city, New York City officials have begun a series of moves hoping to hold off any possible local violence this year. Mayor Robert Wagner kicked off the city’s moves last week in an executive memorandum call­ ing on all city departments and agencies to step up their attacks on racial discrimination “Whatever we have been do­ ing along these lines until today is not enough for tomorrow,” the Mayor said.( As part of the city's stepped up drive, the Commission on Hu- (Continued on Page Two) To Hit Bias In U. S. Jobs The U.S. Civil Service Commission announced Tuesday that five-man teams of its representa­ tives, acting under direc­ tion of CSC’s Atlanta re­ gional director, Hammond Smith, will visit a series of communities to assure that full opportunity is given to all citizens to compete for Federal positions. The teams begin their work thia week in Jackson, Miss., Montgomery, Ala., and Naah- vtUe, Tenn. About the middfe of June, similar teams will -visit Albany, G«., Savannah, Gs., Rai eigh-Durhavn, N.C., and Greens- j,|. boro, N. C. Further visits may be scheduled for mid-July to ad­ ditional cities. In working to strengthen the equal opportunity program in ’bama Bound RIGHT THERE! Harvard "straight A” student Barry Fletcher-Brookings tells Am­ sterdam News Librarian Lau- reen Gunther that he will be present to enroll in the Uni­ versity of Alabama on June 10 if and when Governor Wal­ lace stands in the door to bar Negro students. (Gilbert Photo) Harvard ‘A ’Student To Alabama Univ. A “straight A” student from Harvard University is on his way to Tuscaloosa, Alabama where he will present himself to the registrar at the University of Alabama and seek to enroll as a student of psychology on June 10 when Governor Wallace has threatened to stand in the door” to bar Negro scholars. The student is Barry Fletoher- Brooktaigt, Harlem born 1960 graduate of Columbia Univer­ sity who lives at 1907 Pacific Street, Brooklyn. Taylor In Key Post In Court Brookings, who during the past year has made a “atralght -A" average in the Harvard Univer­ sity graduate school, visited the offices of the Amsterdam News Tuesday on his way to Alabama. Asked why be would leave Harvard to go to the University of Alabama, Brookings said: I feel like thia. I can under­ stand what Negroes are trying to do and I’m for it 100 percent But I feel that there are many Negroes who are only qualified to a certain degree to challenge the big Universities* standards and this often leaves the letue in doubt H and when they are “But if an individual with su­ perior qualifications la refused tbeo It wiU be made dear that the refusal was based solely on race. Governor Wallace said on TV he bad never mat a Negro who was qualified to go to the Uni­ versity of Alabama. If the gov­ ts at the door I wiU most Attorney Timothy Taylor, who had been considered as a possible City Council candidate from the West Side 7th Assembly Dtotrict, was appointed last week by the Appellate Division as a special referee for incompetency a countings. The post carries no salary, but is considered one of the beat patronage posts in the court sys­ tem as the lawyers receive fe from each of several hundred accountings they are assigned by the Supreme Court. The 31-year-old lawyer, the first Negro to ba assignsd to one of the eight referee pants by the Appellate Division, was sworn in last Wednesday by Justice nard Boteln. Taylor, who at 277 Former Secretary To Mayor By JAMES BOOKER A career New York City government worker, who served as Mayor Robert Wagner’s personal secre­ tary for 13 years and was rewarded with a Deputy Commissfonership last fall, is being probed on charges that she made a racially discriminatory job order re­ quest to the State Employ­ ment Service and became angry when they refused to fill the racial job order, the Amsterdam News learned exclusively Wednesday. This newspaper has teamed that Mrs. Anne M. Kelly. De­ puty Commissioner In tha De­ partment of Commerce and In­ dustrial Development, phoned the state agency on March 29 seek­ ing an administrative secretary to work with one of the Com- (Continued on Page Two) Lawyer Didn't Tell (Photo on Page 161 Hariem liquor store owners Theodore Parris and Harry An­ derson who were ignored in their attempts to transfer their Uquor store for over three-and-a-half years, knew nothing of the trans­ actions their lawyer conducted. It was reported this week. Harry Andrson, co-owner of the Parris - Anderson liquor store at 100 W. 124th St., said they were aimply “paying a lawyer’s fee, and whatever he did, we knew nothing about M,” he told the Aansterdssd~~NBvs. Their lawyw, Hyman D. Ste- gal, received $5,000 aa bis fee for helping them to obtain transfer of the store from 108 W. 124th St., to UO W. 124th St. t week District Attorney Frank Hogan announced the In­ dictment of had bribed Liquor Authority official with $1,50$ for helping to get approv­ al to move the Both Parris _ . ity's he commun­ (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Two) (Continued oa Page Two) activities. 2 • N. Y. AMSTERDAM NEWS, Sat , June S. 19G3 —Secretary * HI -Woolworth -Mayor (Continued From Page One) (Continued From Page One) of wages and employment," Me-, Fadden said in his telegram to, make any inquiry in connection with prospective employment, which expresses, directly or in­ directly, any limitation, 6pecifi-j* cation or discrimination as to I age, race, ereed, color or na­ tional origin, or any intent to I make any such limitation, speci-j fication, or discrimination, un­ less based on a bona fide occu­ pational quaiif icat ion. * ’ At City Hall, it was reported that Mrs. Kelly had worked with Mayor Wagner from the tune he was Borough President of Man­ hattan until last fall when she was promoted to the Deputy Corn- miss ionership. She has been in | city service for more than 30 years, working with the Borough President’s office for many years. Madison S. Jones, executive di- ector of COHR, confirmed that the agency has been probing a ctecruninatory request by a city officialv-but—refused to comment further. Many Complaints A spokesman for SCHR chair­ man George Fowler told the Amsterdam News diat a batch of complaints had come from the State Employment Service on May 27, and indicated that such! a report might be with them. The Amsterdam (News learned that the State Employment Serv­ ice had notified COHR of the situation more than a month ago, and that it was considered a “political hot potato,” and rubi­ ed to City Hail. The complaint, however, was not forjvarded to SCHR until late last week after the Amsterdam News had made inquiries con­ cerning whether any such situa­ tion had occurred. Uoncauei From Page Oae) missioners in the recently-creat­ ed city agency. A formal report sent to both the State Commission for Humm Rights and the city’s Cosnmissiou on Human Rights, by the inter viewer, who atoo happen*, to be white, asserted that “She would only want a white secretao be­ cause it ia in an office where important officials are greeted." The telephone interviewer, who turned down Mrs. Kelly’s Job or- der, asserted that the city of­ ficial bad specifie-uly turned down a suggestion that she ac­ cept “a well groomed, skilled ap­ plicant who mi^it be Negro,” aa completely unacceptable. She also reportedly attempted “to throw her weight around. ” a source said. Violation ef Law Such a request would appear to be » dear violation not only of the Mayor’s recent orders to city agencies, but also of Arti­ cle 15, Section 296, of the state’s Lawr Against Discrimination, which states: “it* shall be an unlawful dis­ criminatory practice for any em ployiec or employment agency to print or circulate or cause to be printed or circulated any state­ ment, advertisement or publica­ tion, or to use any form of ap­ plication for employment or to (Oontinucd From Page One) graduate of the John C. Fre­ mont High School in Los Ang­ eles. Robert C. Handcox, (22), son of Mr. and Mrs. Caeser Handcox, 52 East 50th St., Chicago, HI. Graduated from St. Elizabeth High School in Chicago in 1966, then attended DePaul University for one year. He entered the Academy in 1959 through an ap­ pointment from Rep. William L. Dawson, 1st district of Illinois. William L. Ivy, (23), son of Mr. Erzo Ivy of 1011 East 10th St., Stockton, Calif., and Mrs. Luerean Ivy, 637 Pierce Rd., Menlo Park, Calif.; graduated from Edison Senior High School in Stockton in 1958, after which he served in the U.S. Air Force at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, until June 1950. Late Tuesday a city official, who had learned that the Am­ sterdam News was checking on the discriminatory request, call­ ed to say that City Commerce Commissioner Louis Broido would issue a formal statement later this week declaring that his agency has a non-bias po­ licy, which would show that there are three Negro women in secretarial and clerical positions there now. David S. Jackson, (22), ward of Mr. Lawrence Jeffries of 3363 While the spokesman for Fow Chope Race, Detroit, Mich.; a ler would not confirm or deny 1950 graduate of Cass Technical High School in that city, Cadet 1 that they had received such a Jackson entered the Academy report, the Amsterdam News through an appointment from feels that should the state agency have received it, it wobld vigor- Rep. Charles C. Diggs, Jr., 13Qi oustjrTnvestigate such a request. district of Michigan. The SCHR spokesman said such a complaint comes within the jurisdiction of the state's an­ ti-bias agency and promised the agency would “follow through and investigate, whether the com­ plaint is against an individual, union, industry, or govemmen- tai agency. No one is exempt that is the Negro.” from the law,” it was said. With Dignity “Walk near • the curb, keep moving, answer no one. Provoke no quarrels and as you agreed accept arrest with the dignity -Lena I Continued From Page One) faced and with childlike inno­ cence Ludden told them: “Remember now you are going to picket Penny’s. Hold your flags high and wave tliem proudly This is your flag. It stands for | the finest and highest ideals in this world. .You’re going out now to help make this ideal a reality.” that we tore up the cots and mattresses but we didn’t But did we have fun singing freedom songs at the top of our voices and this made the police mad be­ cause we sang all the time. Cooking Grito "Looking out of the window we watched our police jailers in their helmets cooking our meal of grits. They were cooking the grits in garbage cans and emp­ ty discarded oil drums set on open fires held up by bricks. Every once in a while we kids would give a loud cheer for our cooks and clapped our hands as With that the children rode off stirred the «rits with to their posts. "I 8«ess y°u know of us After debarking’ near the de-, partment store they joined 14 other children lined up in front of the store waving flags. And as they moved along a score of policeman suddenly pounced upon them and pulled them into police cars. These children faced the same that 500 other Jackson Negro 8 faced before. children have They will be taken to the fair grounds in East Jackson, called the “pen,” because of lack of space in jails already over­ crowded with Negroes. I them we’d starve before we would eat this and that our deaths would be on their hands if we starved to death. Word From Roy “When they saw that we wouldn't eat the grits cooked in cam<> 6 back with some meat -be­ tween pieces of moldy stale bread. They told us that they were bologna sandwiches. We said no to that hlso. Next they brought us some bitter white stuff they called milk. We tasted it and spit it out. 3 All On Floor Willie Palmer, a teenager who 2 hours ago returned after hav­ 'Most of us arrested kids stay- ing been held in the “pen” with 200 other Negro children for 2 ed from 1 to 4 day® in jail. We wanted to stay longer but Mr days told this reporter: 1 Roy Wilkins sent us Word that the NAACP didn’t want us to stay in there too long because he knew that we couldn’t eat that pig slop. “About 20, of us from Brink- ley High were arrested for pa­ rading without a permit. They took us out to the "pen.” When- Palmer went on to describe ever new kids are brought into1 one way Jackson police tried to frighten a group of girls arrest the “pen” those in jail give a ed Saturday along with Roy Wil­ loud cheer and hurrah for us new Jail birds then/they put us in a kins room with a concrete floor. "My gang and I made a little over 200 kids in that room. There were 12 cots for all of us to sleep on. The police toW us to go to bed. We asked for some more beds. The police told us to use what was there and take turns sleeping. "We folded up the cots and mattresses neatly and set them outside the door. We figured if there were not enough for all we’d all sleep on the concrete floor. But there wasn’t even enough room for us to sleep on the concrete floor. We took turns sleeping on that concrete floor. “The white papers here said "In another building where girls were kept some were lined against the waU and told by Jackson police: 'We’re going to shoot you niggers. This will teach you niggers a lesson and stop others from wanting to mix with white peopje., At this point the girls reported that the police rais­ ed their cartines, took aim as two girls fainted and fired. But the police had fired blanks. There was a thunderous “bang" but nothing came from the guns ex cept smoke. Some of the girls got sick from it. "When the word got to the fellas they were ready to break out of the jail and fight. But First in Style and Quality Since 1880 inqx>ssible for any manager of national variety store in the South to assume the leadership in any desegregation program, because if he did-so he would be regarded as being under the supervision and influence of ’out­ siders., But the individual co­ operation of such managers, und­ er local leadership, in doing so, has proved very effective. We, and other national variety stores, have learned thia by experience. We have aleo learned from experience that the desegrega­ tion of food facilities in depart­ ment and variety Mores—in cities sucb as Raleigh, Greensboro. Durham and Tallahassee— has not achieved the objective of Negro groups. "In many southern communi­ ties, restaurants, theaters and hotels are still segregated, even though department and variety stores desegregated their food facilities as early as 1960 and these cities are now experiencing demonstrations and violence. “Should <we and other national variety chains attempt, by our own acts, to desegregate im­ mediately every one of their still segregated lunch counters, wc are certain this would not only generate violence but would pro­ long segregatiin, Such violence would be most harmful to our nation's image In other coun­ tries,” the company stated. -Taylor (Continued From Page One) his own law practice under the referee’s appointment. He is a graduate of Yale University and New York Law School, and has been practicing since 1957. man Rights will make a physical;the officials, asserting that the head count of the number of Ne- time has passed for delay, grots and Puerto Ricans in vari-j ous agencies on Friday, June 7, when employees pick their pay- checks to find out where minori­ ties are in city agencies. Violence I-ear Officials of the city’s Youth Board, at a two-day conference this week, expressed strong con- cern over possible violence this summer unless something is done to help the estimated 250,- 000 unemployed city youth. Act Now Joining in the city’s concern, Acting City Labor Commission­ er James McFadden, in a tele­ Joining in a possible fear of gram to more than a score of violence from the unemployed the city’s top labor leaders and youths was Attorney Paul B. business executives, called for a Zuber, who told the Amsterdam conference on Tuesday, June 11, News that "whites don't want to in his offices “to correct the in­ accept the fact that we have a heritance from our past now.” problem here in New York City. “The problem that faces our “They have been so conditioned minority group citiaens — all to compromising and giving a too often trapped at the bottom token, that they have never real­ of the economic ladder, has be- ly come to grips with the prob- come of grave concern to many Rtght now they are going of us as leaders of labor, business to have to face John and Jane and government. Statistic MterljJ^*"^ how he and they statistic clearly indicate that ""‘ won’t be able to find a Negro right here in New York City buffer any more. The unrest is many of our Negro and Puerto mounting throughout the city Rican workers are making little from the unemployed and low- true progress in the vital fields paid guys at the bottom. —U.S. Jobs (Cootinucd From Page One) "I’m afraid there is going to be violence in New York City because while there is so much talk, nobody in the city is doi’.g anything real to recognize .his guy's problems and to help to Federal establishments, the; alleviate the causes. teams will mret with local in-> to him. Zuber said, stallation heads at the beginning of each visit. They will inspect Civil Service Examining opera­ tions in tlie various Federal agencies, particularly with a view to making sure that infor­ mation about these examinations is widely circulated and reaches all segments of the community. Where necessary, they will ini­ tiate action to insure effective­ ness of such notification. They | will also make sure that positive , recruitment efforts to fill vacan-j cies in Federal positions are such ’ I as to reach all citizens. Earlier, the Commission took | action in Birmingham, Ala., to assure that the opportunity toj compete for existing Federal;* job vacancies is made available, I through proper publicity and re-, cruiting,1 to all citizens who wish I 1 to apply. In all such situations, the Com- • mission said, agencies having | vacancies will make their selec-jj tions from among those qualified, in accordance with the regular * rules and regulations of the Civil | L Service Commission. Teams are composed of Com­ mission representatives working i* out of CSC’s Atlanta regional * office. — BRIGHTON'S JUNE SALE -YOUR CHOICE" .793 4/5 Quarts A.B.C. BRANDS 2. Imported 100% Scotch 1. Bonded Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey 100 Proof 3. Imported Canadian Whiskey HAVING A PARTY? See Our Counter Specialsl BRIGHTON LIQUOR & WINE CORP. 136 LENOX AVENUE At West-116th St. Subway EN 4-8484 | police permitted the girls to par­ ade out and show tliemselves and prove that they had not been harmed. “After that we gave loud cheers in unison for the NAACP, for Roy Wilkins and for Medgar Evers,’’ the youth concluded. The youth continued telHng tales of horror and fun of being jailed in Jackson, Mississippi’s fair ground. He said that when he was told by some of the girls what,they went through he was "sick.” Taylor’s Democratic district leader, Franz Leichter, of the 7th A.D., bitterly assailed has ap­ pointment, writing to Democrat­ ic County leader Ed Costikyan that he was not informed of the recommendation or appointment, and considered naming Taylor a move to compromise his reform position of opposing court patron­ age Many pretty Negro teenage girls arrested objected and com- plained after"belng released from jail that their jailers made dirty, nasty, obscene remarks to them to their faces. One of the girls said she was told by the jailers: “You sure have pretty breasts, you B—h! Nobody has a prettier can than nigger women. You sure have some pretty legs, you He said he was “shocked” that luggtr whore. ’ Another girl said Taylor had accepted the post, that one jailer said to her “I but Taylor told the Amsterdam wish I could get you alone for LThour?r A^r 7a“id“sh7 w'^s News he fedt his club was not giving him full support for the Council post against Council­ man Ray Jones. told “you u'gger whores, what are you ou there parading for?” jlsk Out Many of the girls told this re­ porter that at this point they sent for their parents and the NAACP to get them out of jail. They said they could take any­ thing but that. The NAACP had them released immediately. One last experience a youth told this reporter was that while he and 200 or so others were locked in a room a truck came to the door and sprayed aH of those in the room with mosquito spray. "We all got sick as dogs and began vomiting. We all pitched in and cleaned up the mess. As soon as one boy vomit­ ed a bunch of us would clean It up and in that way kept the room livable.” Suspend Sentences In Gadsden GADSDEN, Ala — Seven CORE Freedom Walkers w*ho decided to plead their own cases received suspended sentences in Etowah County Court here. The whites— Nelson Barr, Jr., Albert Uhrie end Bob Kachnowski — got six months suspended sentences. The Negroes—Claudia Edwards. Ben­ nie Luchion, Arlean Wilkes and Vardwick Jackson got three months suspended sentences. Three others—Gordon Harris, Don Johnson and Jonny Jackson are stUl imprisoned. Madeline Sherwood, a stage actress, had been previously released on ball. The 11 attempted on May 19 to complete the walk to Jackson initiated by William Moore, the murdered postman. They started out after a memorial service at the murder site and were ar­ rested Immediately. Twelve Freedom Walkers ar­ rested May 2 and 3, Including CORE Assistant National Direct­ or Richard Haley, are still Jailed io Kilby State Prison, Montgom­ ery, Alabama. Their trial is scheduled for June 10. -"A" Student (Continued From Page One) him there and I’m qualified in every respect.” Continuing, Brookings said; “The average Negro in the North sympathizes with the Negro in the South but refuses to partici­ pate by actually going down there. “I think Dick Gregory, Jackie Robinson and others are just great for g">ing down and giving their support. I’m qualified tor I’m going into psychology and In this field I must learn to keep composed under all types of pres­ sure and when I leave I intend to leave with the highest aver­ age ever made at the school. I’m shooting tor a straight A av­ erage. I know if 1 can do it at Harvard I can do it at Alabama University.” Brookings was a star halfback at Columbia while a student. 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