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Millions til i It CO I 1 Hi C4 WWO I 00 :2 "j) 1 CO 0 1 1 to tr vi 01 3 0 YOCMi IAL Vol Newsmakers '0 WASHINGTON Fresh woman Congress woman Barbara Jordan, Texas, was named to the House of Representatives powerful Committee on the Judiciary. Hep. Jordan is one of three black women in Congress. LOS ANGELES The Rev. Jesse L.

Jackson was reported to be slowly improving after a bout with what was described as the early stages of pneumonia at a hospital here. The Rev. Mr. Jackson, the National director of Operation PUSH, was hospitalized in West Adams Community hospital with an extreme case of the London flu earlier last week. WASHINGTON HUD General Assistant Secretary Samuel C.

Jackson announced jointly with the White House his resignation from duties with the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development to re enter the private practice of Saw here. 'm 1 fly honor the lafeDr. Martin Kor the fifth straight year, the Lite Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

was honored across America on his birthday, Jan. 15. Millions of people part in a variety of observances. From Atlanta, the Martin I Ait her King Jr. Center for Social Change rexrLs that people joined in local activities across the country, participated in ongoing movement programs in the tradition of Dr.

King, and supported the continuing drive to make each Jan. 15 a national legal holiday. Mrs. Coretta Scott King, President of the Center, said that Questions still remain. New Orleans sniper buried in E(ansas EMPORIA, Kan.

Mark "Jimmy" Essex, who died a sniper on a New Orleans rooftop a thousand miles from his Kansas home, was buried Saturday in the black community which gathered to bid its "Christian brother farewell." Cop, janitor slain in City Hall jail IIL'RTSBORO. Ala. A policeman borrowed from nearby Tuskegee and two auxiliary squad members are standing watch following the predawn Thursday fatal shooting of the town's only black patrolman and a homeless black janitor at City Hall. Police Chief Johnny F. Turner said he 'believed the assailants, who pumped four .38 caliber slugs each into the two men, were connected with burglaries at two stores late Wednesday or early Thursday.

The victims were Algie Long, 33, a member of the four man force in this east central Alabama town for about 18 months, and Robert Jimbo Threet, 60, who "didn't have a home," Turner said. Mayor John Williams said he accepted the offer of Tuskegee Police Chief Ray Tapley to loan the town a policeman "for a couple of nights." Williams said he didn't want anyone on duty alone as Long had been. Long's service revolver was missing and the assailants fled in the town's only police car. The green and blue cruiser was found later at a motel in Columbus, about 30 miles east of here. Turner said he could not say whether Court rules against bar NEW ORLEANS Juke boxes, shuffle boards and pool tables bring neighborhood bars under the Civil Rights act of 1964 if the coin operated machines were built in another State, the 5th U.S.

Circuit Court of Appeals ruled. The Justice Dept. sued the Northwood Bar of West Palm Beach, last April, claiming that it refused blacks the same service as whites. But a U.S. District Court at Miami ruled the mere presence of three coin operated machines built outside Florida boundaries did not qualify it as a "place of entertainment" within the framework of the Civil Rights Act and granted summary judgment in favor of the bar owners.

The Justice Dept. appealed to the 5th Circuit Court, which remanded the case to the lower court. Marines have racial strife WASHINGTON One white Marine has been convicted and six black Marines are under investigation for a series of fights aboard a Navy ship off Vietnam last Fall. The Marine Corps said the disorders occurred aboard the amphibious warefare ship USS Sumter last Sept. 7 and 8 and included "assault, fighting in groups and incidence of disobedience." The disorders came one month before racial incidents involving Navy personnel occurred aboard three other ships.

A Congressional subcommittee has been probing the Navy outbreaks. A spokesman said the marines were all members of a battalion landing team consisting of elements of the 2d Battalion. 4th Marines, and attached supporting units. (Ik purple of the birthday ot servunces was "to involved people meaningful in the celebration of my husband's life and the perpetuation of his work and teachings." In Dr. King's home city of Atlanta, a commemoration service was held at Monday, Jan.

15. at Kln'neer Baptist Church, where Dr. King was co pastor with his father. Main speaker at the service as Andrew Young, the first black Congressman from the Deep South since Reconstruction. The interfaith program was spoasored vsflw AAA ILA.

America's January Essex, 23, was killed by 40 bullets fired from police rifles last Sunday as he ran a suicidal sprint across the roof of the dow ntow Howard Johnson's hotel. Six other persons were killed in the attacks, including three policemen. Long's pistol was used in the shooting, but he said the evidence indicated there were two guns. He said a total of eight shots were fired. He added that two different types of .38 caliber cartridges were found on the floor near the bodies.

Turner said he was called shortly after 3 a.m. by Bishop Henderson, 48, ho was sleeping in one of the two cells at the rear of the one story city hall, and Willie Ow ens. Scott named to succeed Brown in White House WASHINGTON Former newsman Stanley Scott will become the White House liason official with minority groups and the highest ranking black on the White House staff, officials report. Scott, 39, will be a Special Assistant to the President. He succeeds Robert J.

Brown, who has held the job for four years. Brown plans to return after the inauguration to his public relations business in High Point, N.C. Scott has been an assistant to Herbert G. Klein, White House, director of Communications for the past 18 months. Vf SL by tin King Center in co operation with the Church ami the Southern Christian I atk rship Conference.

Tint night in Atlanta, Flip Wilson led a group of musical artists in tlx second Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Benefit. Tlie concert was held at the Omni, Atlanta's new sports and entertainment center, and leatured RCA recording stars Wilson Pickett. The Main Ingredient. The Friends of Distinction.

Jose Feliciano. the Jimmy Castor Bunch, and Linda Hopkins. Proceeds of the benefit go to the Center. MEW )( Best 20, Investigators have not been able to dctcimine if Essex acted alone in his vendetta against whites. They are certain, from ballistics evidence, that bullets from his carbine killed at least tw 0 people.

"We are not here today to take issues," intoned the Rev. W.A. Chambers in his eulogy. "We are not here to blame. We are not here today to solve the problem.

We are here today bid our Christian brother farewell." A banner attached to one of the floral displays in St. James Baptist church read "Power To The People." The black casket bore a spray of red roses with a banner reading "Jimmy." The Navy Veteran's casket was without the American flag which had con ij symbolize his frustrations and tiw p.u he voiced when he wrote in his sh. room: "Political power comes of a His parents, Mark and Nellie Essex, appeared strained by the emotional services, but they did not break down. He is a native of Atlanta. He has worked for United Press International in New York, for black oriented newspapers in Atlanta and Memphis and for Westinghouse Broadcasting co.

He is married and has three children. Klein's staff is gradually being reduced, and Klein himself is expected to leave the administration within a few months. White House Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler has said he does not plan to take over the Klein operation. VKJIMJ Weekly Beaten DETROIT Hayward Brown, 18, with one eye swollen shut and his face badly beat up, closes his eyes and leans on his handcuffed hands against a courtroom wall prior to his arraignment on murder charges.

Brown is one of three men who have been the subject of one of the city's most massive manhunts since the fatal shooting of a Detroit plainclothes police officer Dec. 27, 1972. Luther Also in Atlanta, the public schools and city government closed for an official holiday. The King Center is spoasored a poster contest in which amateur artists depicted nonviolence as symbolized by Dr. King.

And a documentary film on Dr. King's life was shown on educational television in Atlanta, on both Jan. 12 and 15 The same documentary, "KING: A Filmed Kecord Montgomery to Memphis," was show across the Nation at about 200 schools, community groups, and churches. MM Sniper laid to EMPORIA, Kan. Borne in a Essex is transported from St.

site Saturday. lr xt 4t 1 guilty, 2d innocent in Kitty Hawk melee SAN DEIGO The fifth of 19 black sailors accused or participating in a riot aboard the Carrier Kitty Hawk pleaded guilty to reduced charges and was sentenced to reduction in rank and 30 days confinement at hard labor. Earlier, a 19 year old sailor was acquitted of actions in the same incident which took place last October. Seaman Apprentice William Taylor, 19, Los Angeles, originally was charged with assault and rioting but pleaded guilty to communicating a threat to a Navy Chief Petty Officer, breach of peace and other lesser offenses. A three officer jury panel at the special court martial then sentenced Taylor to reduction in rank to Seaman Recruit and confinement at hard labor.

A pre trial agreement, however, stipulated there would be no more confinement and no bad conduct discharge. A four man jury deliberated 31 minutes before returning the innocent verdict against Arnold Petty, of Philadelphia. Trustee kills guard in Georgia prison break FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. A prison trusty working in the kitchen of the Fayette County Public Works camp used a butcher knife to disarm an elderly guard, then shot him to death before escaping early Saturday, authorities said. Warden Aubry Evans said Guard John Banks, about 72, had been shot repeatedly with his own gun.

Banks, who had begun work at the Camp 13 days before, was the only guard on duty at the time, Evans said. The Warden identified the escaped prisoner as Ira Franklin Wright, 24, who worked as a cook. Evans said Wright, who was serving a 45 year prison term for burglary, pulled a butcher knife on Banks, took the officer's gun away and following a struggle, shot him repeatedly. Wright then fled in a camp truck, Evans said. A Statewide search for the inmate was concentrated in Jonesboro, his hometown, and near Atlanta where his ife reportedly lives.

Evans said the shooting occurred around 3 a.m., and authorities were alerted by another trusty cook at the camp. 1 King Jr. FLIP WILSON a cruftCTirirc ill HEWSPAHR Two Sections 20 cents rest. casket, the body of Mark (Jimmy) James Baptist church to a burial Petty had testified that he was not present when black sailors beat up white crewmen in the Carrier's bomb assembly area as the Carrier cruised off Vietnam. One charge was dropped earlier when a noncommissioned officer testified that Petty bore no resemblance to the black who assaulted one of the whites involved in the charge against Petty.

Specifically, Taylor was accused of joining in an attack on three white petty officers aboard the Carrier during the rioting last October that left 46 men injured. But the only testimony that came out in the penalty phase of the trial was that Taylor was told by a Chief to replace a fire extinguisher but refused to obey and threatened the Chief. In previous trials, two sailors were convicted, one acquitted and one pleaded guilty. The next trial is for Airman Apprentice Ronald Glover, 21, Columbia, S.C., who is accused of five counts of assault and one of rioting. There were 33 prisoners at the work camp, located about a mile and a half east of Fayetteville.

White students now walkout PENSACOLA. Fla About 300 white students at Esnambia high school, angered by a school board decision intended to remove "racial irritants" from school functions, walked out of classes. School Board Chairman Peter Gindl appealed to the students for a "cooling off period" in which to try out the board decision. In an effort to end a black boycott of classes, the Board had asked the students to find some new words for the song "Dixie" and to stop' using Confederate flags at pep rallies and football games. Escambia high has about 3,000 students, about 300 of them black.

The black students returrd to school Monday after the weeklong boycott..