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4 THE NEW COURIER JAN. 2, 1971 1 Black rapist Sentenced to 'Country Preacher' if for By REV. JESSE L. JACKSON LET ME BEGIN BY THANKING THE CAST OF SESAME STREET you were BEAUTIFUL LAST WEDNESDAY. The major dailies have somewhat erroneously announced that I have lost my bid for mayor because my plea on election laws took a nosedive in federal court this past week.

Quite the contrary I consider this case a real victory. Atty. Gen. William Scott of the Stats of Illinois has entered the case as friend of the court, on our behalf, and Gov. Ogilvie, at Scott's request agreed to convene an emergency meeting of the state electoral board to determine if in fact, the election laws are discriminatory with reference to independent candidates.

So we are still in the ball park and have no intention of running away from this match. The present electoral law requires an independent to "obtain the signatures of 5 percent of the number of qualified voters who voted in the last mayoral election. The major party candidates on the other hand are required to secure only of 1 percent of those who voted in the last mayoral election for their respective political party. I and my attorneys (directed by a gifted incomparable duo, Bob Tucker and Thomas Todd) have contended that I would need at least 58,858 signatures to qualify for the race, while Mayor Daley can file with less than 5,000 and qualify! Dick Friedman can qualify with less than 2500! Listen now! This is not unrelated to the fact that we have over 535,000 unregistered voters in this city, the vast majority of them black and poor. The city election commission has a budget 65 percent greater than the combined budget of the human resources Dept.

bodies in the city, yet provides no neighborhood elections because it is said to be "too expensive." But the mobilization of such overwhelming machinery against an independent candidacy obviously tends to discourage such candidacies. So people are in fact, denied an alternative because, as I indicated in a press statement at the court," the two major parties control the whole political process." We are saying that they have neither the constitutional right or authority to do so. Now in addition, a three judge panel at the federal court is scheduled to sit to address precisely to the issue of whether the election laws here in Cook County are in fact constitutional and legal. Now a lot of people have been told that we are doing something farfetched and 'out of But the classic case on this issue was a case won by Gov. George Wallace.

George Wallace in the case of Williams Rhodes successfully fought before the Supreme Court the whole issue of the exclusion of independents from the ballot, and therefore from the central part of the political processes. In that case, the Supreme Court stated that Ohio would have to provide a way for independents to get on the ballot by a reasonable process. Now. my attorneys have argued that there is no other provision for independents to get in on the ballot. There is no independent primary that is officially recognized by the city or the state Now by making it mandatory that independents secure 58tns of the vote, the two parties practically guarantee that they will be left but and "locked out" of the political processes.

Then there is something else to consider: You see it would be foolish to submit only the 5 per cent or the 58,858 names as the organization or parties would most certainly challenge your signatures and get you off sure enough then. If we are going to build a "new Jerusalem" here in this city, we are going to have to use the legal mechanisms to challenge the political autocracy that prevades. We cannot let political tyranny turn into political despair and apathy. I am saying that the political processes have led black people not into ap thy but into alienation. Now we must transform that alienation into an alliance for justice.

Black people and poor people must have an alternative, or the nation has no democracy. You see, this is what Black Christmas is all about. Seeing that black people and poor people will participate in the political processes of this city without fear, regimentation or intimidation. We do not subscribe to the belief that Daley's slating of Joe Bertrand (without consultation with the black community) as candidate for City Treasurer blunts the possibilities of a black mayoral candidacy. A city treasurer's slot is not a Mayor's candidacy.

And it is already rumored that the price we are paying for Bertrand is too high because of the following things: namely, that Warren Bacon is definitely being "bombed" out by the mayor; Cecil Partee, whose chances of becoming Senate Chairman Protem were at least marketable, but who will now take a secondary role at best. But when it is remembered that some who slated Joe, undoubtedly resented the fact that as a black he made his mark as an outstanding athlete at Notre Dame and were even more hostile at the time he attended Notre Dame, some progress is being made. It was George Wallace, of all people, who opened the door for us to battle this case. He is the symbol of the American Party but what he intended to garner for the evils of his own candidacy has worked for the good of the American system period. It means that people are freer because of the decision of Williams v.

Rhodes. Wl cv ui pit! fill tVrr III! mm i I iiiiiii iBiniitlr amm MS3S1I1 Hfc. lillil! BREMEN, W. GERMANY An ad. ministrative court in Ansbach, Bavaria recently granted political asylum to James Henry Grant, a black GI who married a German girl following his alleged desertion from the U.S.

Army in 1967. In its precedent setting verdict Grant's the first pressured army deserter to win asylum here the court held the 32 year old native of Mississippi had become a victim of "racial persecution" at the hands of U.S. authorities. Grant, who now lives in Bremen, is shown here in a recent photo. (UPI Cablephoto).

Says blacks were spy targets ot U.S. Army WASHINGTON (UPI) Army In telligence agents were assigned to spy on civilian black athletes, activist priefsts and Negro militants, according to a former military intelligence officer. Quentin Burgess, a Washington resident and former 1st lieutenant in army intelligence, told UPI in an interview "blacks and anti war groups, were primary army targets" for surveil ance during late 1968 and early in 1969. But that other civilians came in for security from time to time. Burgess first reported on his military activities in an NBC television interview arranged after former army intelligence agent John O'Brien told Sam.

J. Ervin, N.C, army agents had spied on three leading Illinois Democrats and other civilians. Army Secretary Stanley R. Resor strongly denied O'Brien's charges Thursday. Burgess, a Negro, said he had not himsefla dually tailed civilians around except for Olympic athlete John Carlos, Miami's Council for International Visitors greeted and entertained 40 visitors 13 Latin American, African and Asian countries, last week, at the of Dr.

and Mrs. George Simpson. Miss Edna DeVeaud is the chairman and Mrs. Theodore R. Gibson, is the vice chairman of the organization, which was holding its sixth Christmas leadership Seminar December 20 26.

Its president is Maurice A. Ferre, Miami industrialist. This program is jointly sponsored by the U.S. government through agency for International Development and the Department of State. It has been called one of the most successful of its type in the nation by State Department officials.

These visitors from these countries are presently attending American universities, completing their education in various technical fields, including economics, engineering, education, medicine architecture, a black power advocate who returned from the 1968 games in Mexico in the company of black athlete Harry Edwards and Negro militant Stokley Carmichael. But Burgess, said he knew Army agents were in attendance when Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver spoke at Howard university here in late 1968. Army agents also were assigned to spy on a 1968 dispute over birth control policy between Washington's Catholic Archbishop here and a group of dissenting priests. Burgess said. He said the agents at one point were sent to a downtown hotel to cover a protest meeting called by the pries ts.

Burgess said he, knew of no day to day surveillance of any political figure here, but he was sure addresses' and comments by those strongly against the war were noted and analyzed by the army as would be those of an enemy. "The enemy, as I think military intelligence defines it, is the people or forces which are dissenting against a way of life which the army defines as status quo," he said. Greet DrotemationaD visitors in Mia rati It is the function of Miami members of the Council of International visitors to provide a "valuable non technical experience in allowing each participant the opportunity to observe the American home, family and society. Thus se young visitors, many of whom will be tomorrow's leaders of the own countries, can see first hand the quality of life in a free society." During the seven day seminar in Greater Miami, the visitors learned abut our community, its city and Metro governments, as well as looking at many public and private agencies that are concerned chiefly with pressing social problems. The visitors also were guests in Council of International Visitors' volunteer host homes throughout the week of the seminar.

Hospitality honoring the distinguished visitors was also offered by the organization's young professional group, National Council of JeVish Women and many other civic organizations. OCALA, Fla. Accused of raping a young white woman, Bobby Fields, 32, of this city, was sentenced last week to the electric chair. Fields' contended to the last that he was innocent. But Curcuit Court Judge D.R.

Smith imposed the sttotence following Fields' conviction by a jury of 11 men and one woman. The jury did not recommend mercy, which makes the death penalty mandatory. Judge Smith told Fields that the evidence against him was overwhelming. Asked if he had anything to say before sentence, Fields said that be was innocent, and that was all he had to say. Fields displayed no emotion as the death penalty was pronounced.

M'iMfi MM rfkawj I'ii WASHINGTON, D.C. In Washing, ton, D.C, Dr. Ralph Abernathy, from left, who succeeded Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Con Rep.

John Conyers (D. Indict 3 Miami blacks WASHINGTON (UPI) Attorney General John N. Mitchell announced the' indictment of three members of a group called the Black Afro Militant Movement in connection with bombings in the Miami area. Mitchell said sealed indictments were returned by a federal grand jury Wednesday in Miami against Alfred Featherston and Charles Riley Jr. An open indictment was returned against Jerome P.

Trapp. The Justice Department said one of the men was still a fugitive but it did not say which. Trapp was charged in two indictments with conspiracy and possession of unregistered firearms in the fire bombing of the University of Miami Computer Center and a store in Miami. Featherston andRileyj were charged in a st'paratei indictment with teaching Trapp and others how to; make and use an incendiary device in furtherance of civil disorder and with possession of unregistered firearms on May 27, 1970. Trapp and Riley were accused of transporting an explosive device to the Com puter Center on May 5, 1970, 1 where Riley placed and, ignited it, the indictment said.

The device consisted of cigar tubes, fuse and ex plosive materials. Trapp also was accused of helping make molotovj cocktails for the firebombins; of the Allepattah Five and Ten Cent Store and the attempted firebombing of, the F. E. Hamilton Lumber Yard on March 13, 1970. i is 4 die The evidence against him was that he entered the rape victim's mobile home last July on the pretext that he needed some water for his automobile.

The woman said that she was raped at knife point. After the sentence Fields was delivered to death row at Raiford. An appeal to the Florida Supreme Court is automatic. Three persons living in Ocala and knew Fields, but will not reveal their identity, have pledged to get the support of some civil rights organization to obtain legal aid for Fields with a view to taking the case to the United States Supreme Court, where a new trial might be ordered for Fields. Probes racism at German base NEW YORK The National Association for the Advancement to Colored People will send a three man team to Germany early in the new year to investigate persistent and serious charges of discrimination at U.S.

military installations. The Association's general counsel, a a iel R. Jones; Julius Williams, director of military and Viet GI returning home to bury murdered wife Continued From Page 1 appeared, has arrested one juvenile, and is seeking four others for questioning in the case. The four, who all have relatives living both in Hopkins Park and Chicago are Leon Bolton, Charles Marshall, Leo Collins, and Tommy Watkins. Area 2 Homicide investigators in Chicago were enlisted to aid in the search, which indicates that the men, described as all around 20 years of age, live on the West side of Chicago.

A bullentin for the four has also befen circulated nationally through the National Criminal Information Center. According to Dobberthul, the body was buried out of sight from searchers, probably until shortly before dawn Sunday, when someone "probably one of the suspects" Hinexplainedly unburied it, and left it only 200 yards from her house. Chicagoans Mrs. Hattie Wash, 22, 6513 S. Harvard; Miss Dora Collins, 23, 6435 S.

Yale; Miss Delores Amos, 18, also of S. Yale; Mrs. Vanzant's sisters; and a cousin Isaac Robinson, 33, formed two search parties themselves and discovered her body, clad in nightclothes and an overcoat. Before they found her body, the young women and other members of the family were upset by seemingly unprofessional behavior on the part of black deputies Frank Luster, and A 1 Shepherd, who the women claimed act ed like "they thought she had run away and left her children, or was trying to fake a crime to force the Army to release Donald (her husband)." Chief Dobberthul, told the Daily Defender, however, that his own men, with whom Luster and Shepherd are not in cluded, worked without letting the family know what they were doing, to prevent any possibility of the suspects eluding them. "Now it's obvious that those guys know we're looking for them," the chief said in a telephone interview, "so we're releasing their names' in the hope that someone who knows them will i us off." civilian affairs; and Mel vin Bolden, an attorney on Jones' staff, will make the investigation, John A.

Mor sell, the Association's assistant cutive director, announced. This team, he said, "will sefek, through inquiry and consultation, to a more precisely than is now possible the extent and the variety of problems faced by Negro servicemen in which the NAACP can appropriately and effectively be involved." Morsell expressed confidence that the team will have the full cooperation of the command at all levels as well as that of the aggrieved black servicemen. "We expect to be able to talk with them in privacy and frankness," he said. "We have no rigid preconceptions, and we believe that there is considerable sincerity and good faith to be found among both military and civilian, who run our military establishment," the NAACP spokesman said. "But we would be naive if we did not bring with us the in.

sights and the knowledge of our years of experience with race prejudice and discrimination and our assumption that both are still likely to be in evidence wherever one looks." Morsell cited the NAACP's long involvement in assistance to and defense of Negro military personnel dating back to World War I (including the 24th Infantry case at Houston in 1917) and continuing through World War II, the Korean War and thereafter, notably aid to servicemen at the air base at Goose Bay, Laborador, earlier this year. "Our activities," he said, "have included legal defense and counsel, investigation of conditions, protests against unfair treatment and exclusion from elite branches of service, the fight to end segregation in the armed services, and assistance to discharged servicemen seeking their rights and accommodations as veterans." Mich); and King's widow, Coretta, met newsmen in a press conference after conferring with national leaders in a renewed drive to have King's birthday, Jan. 15, declared a national holiday. Published By NEW PITTSBURGH COURIER PUBLISHING COMPANY 315 E.Carson Street Phone AC 412; 431 8302 Pittsburgh. P.T..1S21 9 Second Class Postage Paid At Pittsburgh, Pa.

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