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layer's Offer To Aid UNCF Is Flatly Negro College Fund, with mixed emotions last week turned CALLED FALSE Liberal View Of YW Hit Conference of Black Women of the Young Women's Christian Association, blasted that organization here last week for their false liberalism. Led by Mrs. Donald Dam mond of New York City, the group presented a list of several demands to the parent Also demanded by the group was a nationally established drug information center, and the information of nation wide task forces, to work for the lib eralization of drug laws. A.B. McCaw is Elevated WASHINGTON, D.

C. Arthur B. McCaw, veteran federal employee, has been assigned new duties as a Deputy Administrator, Food and Nutrition Serviice of the U. S. Depart Refused NEW YORK Since an out idown a widely publicized offer standing athlete travelingby South African prize winning abroad cannot help but sym i golfer, Gary Player, to take bolize the policies and struggle1 part in series of exhibitions within his nation, the United ment of Agriculture.

Previously acting as Deputy Adminstrator for Management of the agency, he will in his new Deputy position assist the Administrator in fulfilling President's commitment to put an end to hunger in America. In his new assignment, McCaw will work with voluntary agencies and organizations who are interested in feeding the poor, to develop their full cooperation in utilizing programs of the Food and Nutrition Service. His current work in this field has grown to such an extent that it has required more of his time; in his new post, he will be able to devote his full time to this work. McCaw has been active for against top American Negro golfers for the benefit of the fund. In making the offer upon his arrival in the United States on March 9, to play in five tournaments including the Masters, and in light of American and black Africa's resentment over American Negro tennis star Arthur Ashe's refusal of a visit! by South Africa to play tennis in Player's native land.

Player was all apologies for his nation's official actions. Player's native land, Play er was all apologies for his na tion's official actions. Player said he "deplored" South Africa's action in deny ing Asne a visa to compete in HOUSTON Texas A black; the South Africa located tennis delegation from the championships. He said he had also spoken out in South Africa against barring a black South African, Papwe Sevvgolum, from participating in the South African golfing "open." Player said he had hoped his sympathy for the cause of racial equality by inducing American Negro to golfers like body which drew an estimated! Charles Sifford, Lee Elder and 2,500 at the national Y.W.C.A., convention held in this city, "We will no longer tolerate this false liberalism in this group which should be, but unfortunately is not the vanguard group, combatting the roots of racism in this country, read Pete Brown, to participate with him in the series of proposed exhibitions to benefit the United College Fund which is attempting to raise $i0 million this year as the UNCF 1970 goal. Resentment of American Ne the black Y.W.C.A.

women was! "mL" "as a mandate thereby making the HT said: "The institutions which m'ake the UNCF have sought to I inoiilratp in annnrolinnc r( transcends color, race or na tional origin. Some of the leaders and citizens of the new. African nations were educated and have taughtt on our campuses. He added: "It is nn reflection on Mr. Player, himself, nor the sincerity of his offer.

But when symbol and act are so closely related, the UNCF cannot in justice to our our institutions, and our supporters, appear even indirectly to ignore or contenance the blat antly racist policies of South Africa." Ray Seeks Freedom MEMPHIS, Tenn. James Earl Ray's latest attempt to gain freedom from the 99 year sentence he received for the slaying of Dr. Martin Luther King was filed here recently in a formal brief which claimed he has," never really many years in social service: had a trial, nor has he had his work of the type on which he day in court." will now concentrate. He at 1 The brief, filed under Ten I i Was PROTEST DOUBLE STANDARDS Being the wife of a Congressman might certainly have it's advantages, but according to the protests being raised by this group of office workers in Pride outside of the Washington Congressional Club, the double dealing, double standards of letting Congressional wives double park in front ol the club must not be permitted to remain one Fires (Increase In Slum Areas Back came one of those most often controver sial memorandums on the subject directed to President Nixon from Dr. Patrick Moynihan, which said, in part: "Fires are in fact a leading indicator of social pathology vmmf hiaf.t Amo.in,no for a neighborhood.

They come strong sense that human worth! and the rcst. fo1 lows. It was also about this same time that Dr. Arnold Hutschnecker, New York con sultant to the Violence Com mission, also forwarded to U. S.

Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) director Robert Finch a memorandum, proposing in part that "Camps to be set up immediately for poteniial criminals who may be detected at age 6." The same memo said the plan was to speedup the otherwise "slow process of alleviating poor housing conditions and successfully used in the Soviet Union be used to mass scale among black children. A recent article in the New of those priviledges. On this particular day Mrs. Richard Nixon happened to be the guest of honor at Jhe club.

Lower photo shows Marion Barry dir. of the organization explaining to Mrs. Winston Prouty, wife of the senator from Vermont, exactly how other tax paying citizens feel, who are not extended Jhe same curtesy. npnAc Cine f.n Tim inir nnnpi nnnlnfl vpar ort. fmir nf thD KlirW unmpn Help.

6 3 wmies inai noi one of the black women aeie American Xegro or eyen a of fires both accidentally or times those of 19fi0 and that "aCS hitp lihpral malicinuslv set. in America's' the Droblem is Still i Tl 1. 1IT '1 4 i ii 1 jii iiir i 1 Grand Rapids Mich equalit of the rac can be central cities went up 200 per oY tat PtwS South. Africa during the 1960's but the tlio Ho OlIUlll rtlTlCa WnilCS like mta mc j. thp rfe WnilCS, like ronH in fntal with mands commenting," The roots' lu? entpr of racism are entirely too dcep ed States taLke ly entrenched in this country." thjtic evems has been ex Included in the demands 6T els i A marlni in lion responsible for the Profss'onal Golf mainly and is accelerating the arc A nl i promised fulfillment Christian organization.

The group pledged that fulfillment was not soonj forthcoming, they, the black fullfill the purpose of the or at SlfinS estab" ganization themselves, whetherlllshm.on.,s Pla'er has. en it be inside or outside of thelga''ed hls. latcr circle of the organization." The black delegation with i lu.ii.i i of the "wiL irfiiuii iampionsnip aycuu.v icisi dveiuig exouus oi uayton, Ohio, spectators i "lore allluent whites and even that ico and a soft drink in'b'acks and business, industry i layer iace. anu erosion io me emergency no more demonstrations or generally during the same period only increased 2 percent, reports of such groups as the National Fire Protection Association show. This means that fire is be Last August during the third coming a central cities problem 7 Panthers Vs.

Mayor Tensions i Ease In Toledo TOLEDO, Ohio Tensions were somewhat eased in this city after an international group of ministers intervened in the building fued between members of the Black Panther, Party, and Mayor William Ensign who finally retracted a statement he had made referring to the militant group as Although there have been P'nt of ail semblance of stolen. The Pittsburgh talked' the, "Ku Klux Klan of the strong central cities tax base. Since Federal government funding channeled through the almost in I a ti hankrnnfpH and state police and even some I states is the only financial mi dj enis nave always been remedy availab to correct members in the age groups. lo 8Udra riayer since mese ana other ills of every between 17 to 35, demanded he ls comPeting in kind of the central cities, the the establishment of a national Vlmea slalcs Administration recently standing committee with a In turning down, "with; put the subject to its to White I 1 it. re yearly budget of $20,000 to be onor 01 Player i louse level team of urban ad rnnrprnnH with vpnn lu Fau.

iidie ill a series Ot VISOIS. uork. I i xiiiDiuons wan American Ne gro piayers lor the benefit of the United Negro College Fund, Vernon E. Jordan, the UNCF's ecutive director a removal of fire alarm boxes from all black ghetto areas, to Even on false alarms, fire departments in cities like Detroit are seriously considering depend only on voice taped phoned alarms. At one point last year, a Pittsburgh firemen's union threatened to only answer alarms phoned a secondtime in ghetto areas because in answering some alarms, false or real, firefight ers were allegedly being stoned or shot at, fire equipment was the fire fighters out of adopting! black community." that fflblicy.

The Maayor, who had been What makes so many fires in; disturbed because members of the central cities? First homes the new Panther group had and building construction are! patrolled the ghetto streets the old, decaying and flimsy. Lack! night before Easter carrying of precautions against spon unconcealed shotguns, con taneous combustion, short cir ceded last week that his un cuited wires over load with, fortunate comparison was, "un modern living appliances justified." such as color televisions He issued the concession af refrigerators, stoves, washers! ter he was requested to do so and dryers, air conditioners plus faulty heating equipment of all types raises the num ber of accidental fires in the central city, which become day to day incidents of conver sation, nes and living. substantailly by an amazing number of owners of older multiple unit properties as their reason for abandoning them. The long rows of abandoned ten ements or apartments invite fire bugs or trash spontaneous combustion and add to the number of fires. Thpn thprp is the nsvchologi hunger, and to see that future of frustrated unem black criminals should be loved or under employed separated irom society." I rights violated ghetto dwellers Hutschnecker suggested that settjng a fire Even a faise ui i aiuidii jiii'iuuua alarm makes the Estabiisn ment's blic omcials answer such a false call silly." who look To the frustrated, identity at a meeting between a half dozen white and Negro clergy leaders belonging to the Inter denominational Ministerial Alliance, and the Toledo Area Clergy Fellowship.

On March 26, Holy Thurs Overcrowding causes day, a white parole officer which cause more overcrowd ing because the supply of moderate and low income housing daily become less and less. Urban renewal adds to overcrowding and some youngsters just set fires "to help the urban renewal demolition along." Fires and loss of fire insur snot and killed an exconvict in the latter's apartment. The cor oner ruled the homicide justifi able, and said the white parole officer had acted in self de fense. The Black Panthers became angry, and took to the streets Palm Sunday, a dozen of ance because of them are given; thom Paid brief btlt disruptive visits to nan a aozen iegro churches, causing worshippers to express anger, dismay, indignation, and fright. But the Panthers only stayed long enough to shout blackj power slogans and leave somel of their militant literature.

Onej clergyman said he recognized few of the Panthers as friends of the black people, while others described them as members of their churches. After the Panthers manned their shotguns, the Mayor made the KKK comparison, and then said he would urge the passage of a law, that would prohibit, carrying any weapon, conceal York Times Magazine that a ro hi.ttn resident icd or unconcealed. "cell" of German descent ad jre means momentary. This began a two day period visors on such urban instant power attention and of meetings that resulted in "laughingly called behind their "at uss abo'ut wnat he has the Mayor issuing the retrac backs 'The Germans," is nowidone rom the manv pieces Ortion of the accusation, but still making serious consideration ipment and individuals who! contending that he was defin on central cities remedies to' rp tmii instantly summoned! ately against the Black Panther the President. Aar tho The four German descent advisors were listed as Dr.

Hutschnecker. Dr. Erlichmann, More than that since a match is more easily to acquire or hide than a knife, and gasoline Robert llaandelman and Kon or Kerosene or other tombusti from Dr. Patrick Moynihan to Dr. Erlichmann, Dr.

Moynihan addressed it: "To Dr. Erlich tended public schools in his 'ne ssecc's post conviction relief mann, Uie article more oh an easier tool of i is agreement, home town of Omaha, then the'; states that the accused said University of Omaha, and went on to graduate from the Uni er sity's Law School. He and his wife, Valaria Lec, now reside in Silver Spring, Maryland, McCaw joined Agriculture's hunger fighting team last sum mer after long and wide ex perience in Government. He car ried out important assignments was deprived of legal counsel both thru contracts, and condi tions tinder which he was held for nine months in the Shelby county jail, without benefit of counsel. Ray contends the contracts were made by attorneys Arthur Hanes and Percy Forman, with William Bradford Huie revenge.

movement, and stating that he was not in sympathy with their announced plans to overthrowing the government. At the same time concerning bles more easy and cheaper to the explosive issue, the Mayor acquire than a gun, as people said, "We are going to capua hopomp nnorer. firn hcromps lize on those areas where there anu coiiiuiut meeting to seek solutions." In addition, a recent Associ i Rut firos thus spI for nersnnnl The Black anthers, nau ated Press release said: Presi revenge most often burn more! nothing else to say about the. dent Nixon will visit Georgia May 9 for the official dedication of the Confederate carving on Stone Mountain just east of Atlanta." A recent Wall St. Journal than the intended victims and in the overcrowded ghettos make more persons homeless than most instigators originally intended.

While "Burn, Babv, Burn" article quoted a White House! became the slogan of hundreds matter. Mrs. King Honored BOSTON MASS. Coretta Scott King, widow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

has been aide as having told Moynihan: of otherwise hopelessly frustra named to the Boston Univer Cir Hip Anpne'v for Internatinn the author who are accused in "The fire statistics are telling ted Drotesters acainst a million sitv's Board of Fellows. The al ncvekmment, both in Wash the brief of," conceiving the; us that some pretty scary at impossible conditions of the! honor was bestowed upon the ington and at overseas posts. In diabolical idea, that thru altitudes seem to be wide slums and the poor in the Watts i famous widow one week after 19H5 6B, al the request of the guilty pica he could provide, spread in some black areas." Riots and many other central April 4th, the date on which White House, he served a nne or more writers with ex Fire statistics spokesmen for, cities disorders, where the pro Dr. King was slain in 19(8. Administrative and Budget Of 1 elusive rights to Ray's version' departments in New York, testers had no other Since the assassination Mrs.

ficcr for the White House Con of the slayings." Washington and Los Angelcsjlhe slogan is dying out. But' King has become a celebrity in fcrence "To Fulfill These According to Ray, this is have officially estimated thatf, the fires, many set, on an in her own right due to her dedi Rights." why he signed the guilty plea. I cases in which arson was sus dividual basis still continue. cated civil rights activities. XENIA, Ohio A 21 year old black Air Force recruit who was orginally admitted to Chanute Base Hospital and then air evacuated to Wright Patterson Air' Force Base Hbs pital here for treatment of severe headaches, has been arrested and charged with first degree murder in the slay mg of a while Air Force Base Lieutenant's wife who had visited the white officer recovering from surgery in the same hospital.

The accused black Airman First Class David Simms, described as a mental patient, was arrested and carried to an arraignment by Sheriff Russell Bradley of Greene County last week before being returned to the Greene County Jail. He had been arrested at the base hospital. The body of his alleged white victim, Mrs. Nancy Pierce, 24, of Fairborn, Greene County, had been found in a roadside ditch the weekend before, about two miles southeast of Fair THE NEW COURIER APRIL 23, 1970 Page 3 Black Mental Patient Held For Brutal Murder She had been stabbed in the When brought from the Base chest between 45 and 50 times, hospital to the jail in Xenia, police said, and marks on her Simms was still wearing his body also indicated that she had been torturtd. A farmer found the body.

She was the wife of Lieut. Waller Pierce, who was in the same hospital with Simms, and who was recovering from surr She was last seen when she viisited Lieut. Pierce at the hospital on a Friday A bloody scarf and an Afro hair comb were found at the spot where her body was dis covered. Agents of the Ohio Criminal Indentification and Investigation Division were said to checked the Pierce automobile for fingerprints. Simms, the black Air Force mental patient who was apparently quite rational much of the time and walking about the hospital, was given a week end pass on the same Friday He had been stationed on the same floor as the recuperat ing Lieut.

Simms, but in a different wing. hospital clothes. A crowd ot more than 100 onlookers, mostly white, gathered when he was beeing escorted into the jail by the sheriff but only looked on curiously. Sheriff Bradley said that the. break in the case came when people reported having seen Mrs.

Pierce's car at an intersection in Fairborn the Saturday before her body was found. Coincidently, on the same night Simms had also been seen walking in the vicinity of Fairborn. He had been stopped by Fairborn police while walking and had presented his weekend pass from the base hospital, police said. They said Simms was in civilian clothes at that time. Sheriff Bradley said: "It's coceivable that the homicide may have taken place in Fairborn." Police said Simms was ori, ginally from Lynchburg, See Page 4 LONJIDER 3 mil if ii i mLL 1V1ALL wo on so friendly to your taste g)eLr5 to If SOMETHING? 1 USE THE I COURIER'S JMk MAIL ORDER PAGES FOR RATES WRITE JJ.J.

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