New York Amsterdam News — 1963-00-00796
1963
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Dad Of 5
Never Made
It To Work
Alexander Johnson, 39. father
of five, waa shot to death Wed
nesday night in front of 544 W.
147th St. His friend, Woodrow
Williams, 47. of 544 W. 147th St.
la being charged with murder
and held without ball for action
by the Grand Jury.
Police said Johnaon, who waa
employed In a New Jersey alum
inum plant, left hit home at 1101
Madison Ave. Wednesday night
on his way to work. Police aatd
he met Mrs. Helen GUI, mother of
four of 159-20 Harlem River Drive
and they decided however, to
visit friends In 544 W. 147th St
The couple, police Mid. had
visited another friend before go
ing into the bachelor apartment
of Williams, a contractor. After
a few drinks Williams reportedly
offn^lo reatyieKn. Gill's hair
and the infuriated Johnaon in
formed his host that they were
leaving.
Met In Front
Johnson and Mrs. Gillleftbythe
side door reportedly and when
they walked to the front of the
building they were confronted by
Williams who had left his apart'
ment by the front door.
After a brief exchange of words.
Williams allegedly shot Johnson
a knife. Wdliams, who retomed
to hia apartment and turned on
his Hi-Fi. was arrested by Det
Herbert Matthews of the W. 153rd
St. detectives.
Correction
In a story which appeared in
last week's issue regarding a
hearing held at the Department
of Licenses on an application to
operate a billiard parlor at 10®
W. 125th St.. It waa Hated that
Mrs. E. Marie Julien waa at the
hearing and made known her ob
jection to the proposed club on
125th St.
It was Miss Goldie Myrick of
aoother employment agency in
the area who made the statement
at the hearing and not Mrs. Ju
lien. We regret the error. t
every type, equality of opportun
ity and full employment
Dr. Jagan left New York last
Thursday for London to continue
his conferences that may lead
to a solution of the internal prob
lems that plague British Guiana.
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HARVEST QUEEN - Song
stress Marge Matthews was
named Grape Harvest Queen
at Freedomland during Its Har
vest Festival this week. The
lovely singer hails from Butler,
Pennsylvania, but is now resid
ing in Manhattan.
Burnham Asks For
Freedom In B.G.
Forbes Burnham, leader of the
ment. We could not see eye to
People's Nationalist Congress
which la opposing the leftist re
gime of Premier Cheddi Jagan,
returned home Monday after a
fruitless series of talks with a
24-man United Nations subcom
mittee during his ten-day stay
in New York.
Speaking before an audience-of
100 at the British Guiana Benevo
lent Society hall at 127 W 120th
St. last week Burnham said lit
tle progress was made In ef
forts to find some ares of agree
ment for a unified BG.
What we did Mod." he added,
"was a wide area of disagree
eye on any of the issues where
an agreement could be reached.’*
Dr. Jagan, who heads the pow
erful People’s Progressive Party
attended the UN mediation com
mittee talks, refusing to com
promise on several points rais
ed by the PNC leader, including
a demand for free and regular
elections and the abolition of ra
cial injustices.
Calling for a free and demo
cratic rule in BG. Burnham said
his party would fight until it can
achieve four freedoms. He list
ed these at: freedom from hunger
freedom from discrimnation of
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Formerly 8H1 Avenue at 125th St.
264 West 125th Street
Directly opposite Apollo Theatre
Stratton Opposes
Vinson Bias Bill
WASHINGTON — Upstate New
York Congressman Samuel R.
Stratton declared thia week that
he will oppose "as vigorously as
possible” the hill Introduced last
$13,500
Hits 4 Over
Tax Stamp
Feur Harlem gamblers who
failed to buy the $60 federal tax
stamp were hit with a total of
$13,500 in fines last week by Fed
eral District Judge Thomas Mur
phy.
The four, who were arrested
after a federal raid on a numbers
operation in the W. 143rd St.,
area ia January, 1902. were con
victed in Federal Court two weeks
after a seven-day trial.
Judge Murphy gave the heavl
eat fine and a six-months jail
sentence to Lionel "ChiUi" Mar
ques, 31, of 524 W. 160th St
who was described as the boss of
the number's group. He was fined
$6,060 and was released in $10,000
bail pending an appeal.
Slapped with heavy $2,550 fines
by Judge Murphy were Eugene
E‘gkth Ave.?
“r. *
of 1K
131st St.; and James Richard
ton, 27, of 259 W 144th St. The
extra $50 on each man’s fine was
for the price of the $50 govern
ment tax stamp levied on gam
blers.
week by Georgia Rep. Cart Vin
son, chairman of the House Arm
ed Service* Committee, seeking
to prevent Defense Secretary Mc
Namara from Implementing a di
rective to help end segregation
and discrimination near mili
tary bases.
Vinsoa introduced the segrega
tionist legislation last week
claiming that Secretary McNa
mees had exceded the powers of
his office la issuing the direct
ive.
Stratton, a member of the Com
mittee. however, hailed MaNa-
mere's directive and Mid he
would opposed Vinson's bill be
cause he feels he is “complete
ly wrong'* on the bill.
Impair* Morale
“The practices of segregation
and discrimination which are in
effect in areas * surrounding a
large number of our military bas
es in the South are indeed ser
iously Impairing the morale and
efficiency of hundreds of thou
sands of our men in uniform.
"In view of these facts, and
also in view of the profound so
cial Upheaval that is already in
progress in this country, thereby
aggravating the harm which
these practices do to the fighting
efficiency of our men in uni
form, the Secretary of Defense
would indeed be gravely neglig
ent were he not to take the ac
tion he has taken to try to elim
inate these practices in areas
surrounding military bases locat
ed in the Southern states, where
most of our bases are located,"
Rep. Stratton asserted.
Court officials said they were
Form a good
probably the heaviest fines yet
levied for failure to purchase the the Amsterdam
tax stamp in recent months. week:
habit and read
News — every
Powell Says
Passivism
Has Limits
Reaffirming his belief in the
power ef non-vtoleace, Rep. Adam
Clayton Powell warned Sunday
that *1 do know that God has
never made a human being yet
who will stand by for too long and
see his house* of Worship de
stroyed; his men shot down by
assessing; and his babies bomb
ed.
"For even the temper of Jesus
could not stand but so long
scribes and the pharisees who
had misused the House of God
Even he threw aside the gentle
two-faced pdtience of a Christ,
and with whip in his hand,
scourged the Temple.” Powell de
clared.
The powerful Harlem minister-
Congressman made the com
ments in regard to the recent
bombing murders in Birmingham,
Ala., in a speech Sunday on “The
Black Revolution," in the Muni
cipal Auditorium in Richmond,
Calif.
In his address Powell also warn
ed that the United States is spiral
ing downwards at such a mo
mentum “that I doubt whether it
can be saved."
States of America is finished as
a grest power in the eyes of the
world unless it solves this prob
lem and solves it now."
Bombed Church
To Get $$$$
He bitterly criticised the coun
try for spending billions for the
U-J, and for other defense pro
jects overseas and falling to act
i civil rights violations in the
nation.
"If the United States can fin
ance and train troops and used
U S. ships to transport an army
to the soil of Cuba to Invade
them in the infamous Bay of
Pigs Invasion, and they -can’t do
anything in Alabama. then what
is their excuse In Birmingham,
Ala.’" Powell asked.
Self Importance
To quell tMMwtoe. even of the
greatest, we should reflect how
much we owe to others, and how
little to ourselves.—Colton.
A drive for funds, to aid In
reconstructing the*16th Strati
Baptist Church in Birmingham,
Ala., has been launched by the
West side Committee for Civil
Rights according to Marvin Ksr-
petkin, chairmen.
The committee has also an
nounced plans for an intensified
campaign against housing dis
crimination and unequal employ
meat policies by banks and eth
er West Side organisations.
The Civil Rights Group which
was formed last Spring Includes
approximately 45 local citlaens
organisations and churches. It
will meet Monday at the West
Park Presbyterian Church Wth
St., and Amsterdam Ave.
GILBEYS GIN
"the world •*■*••• on'OILBEVU, sImm'I"
dry,
smooth,
flavorful
Would Destroy Us
“Khruschev signed the nuclear
test treaty because he doesn't
need the nuclear bomb any more.
We have the H-bomb of hatred.
The majority of white people in
this nation seemingly would
rather want America destroyed
than to have equality for black
people,” Powell declared.
Powell said that the question
of civil rights “is the problem of
the United States. The United!
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