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REMAINS All indications, last watlt, pointed tdMor rit F. X. Jaf abova grd. uata of Xavitr and Michigan, ramaininq in hit job at director of tha Negro division of tha New Or leant Recreation Depart ment, with the changeover in city government headed by Mayor Vic Schiro. The World Today By GTJOTGB 8.

SCHUYI KP. MOURN the passing of bi it llant Jurist lrvin C. Mollison, first Negro on the continental U. S. Federal bench as a 17 year Juige or the U.

S. Customs Court. Up from Vlcks burg. formally educated In the North, he added lustre to the Court since 1945. AXOTHKB GREAT In an other field was able journalist Louis R.

Lautier who passed in Washington. D. C. fast week where he was special assistant to the chairman of the GOP National Committee. Up from New Iberia, he came to be the flrstiegro reporter admit ted to the Senate and House press galleries, in 1947: and in 1955 battled his way into the previously lily white National Press Club.

INTELLIGENT white South erners bemoan the fart that they lose so many capable young Negroes to ether sre tions of the country because of the senseless color bar which so many cannot accept Along with them go many ex ceptional white youths griped by Jim, crow and cultural lag, VICTIMS of color bias In high places is your brilliant son. Judge Thurgood Marshall Mr. Civil Rights." who is still waiting to be confirmed by the Senate as Judge of the U. (Continued on Fage t) VoL5S 3io. 20 1 lal at Pittsburgh, May 19, 1963 Jk "MISS TEXAS HIGH" Lovly Cheryl Mc Intyra I center I of Bonham, accept the Press Club Trophy following her crowning at "Mitt Taxat at Prairie View Collage.

Tha presentation was Freedom Because CHICAGO What's I I 17 (j nnnn i 0 1 1 A 11 UY Los Angeles Negroes. Make Great Strides In Decade See Page 2 Sections Price 20c VVCC's First 'Free Rider' Jobless By G(X)RGE V. BROWS RK The ng a bright, forth bu NEW YORK dream of finding new life up North bit for Louis Bovd his brood of eight sent here by the White Citizens' Council of New Orleans three weeks ago. Boyd's a i check bounced. His employer.

Harvey J. Brudner, who made a big show of giving Boyd a job at $100 a week and transported him to work in a Caddillac is confined in a Washington, D.C.. Hospital for mental observation. VBfuaner nrm Metucai ve Velopment. has not met it Ml fwyrU tr two Weeks and onlv a skeleton crew is working.

Bvd said he didn't want to talk about his plight. He lives at an undisclosed residence and had trouble catching the right subway and bus to get to work in Fort Leo. N.J.; now that he Is no longer working, this problerh is solvwrtor the time being, but tnc matter of feeding his wile eight children is most pressing. No doubt h. x.

to obtain relief trom tne Welfare Department. In a great lar.f.ne of publicity. Boyd and his familv ar rived in New York New (Continued on Page Clear Stabbed Paine Student (Courier Press Service! AUCUSTA. Ga. Charge of disorderly ronduc' hiv i dropped against Willie Didlcy, 22.

Paine College was stabbed by a white man who attacked him during a "sit in" last month. "Die white man was also freed of the charges against him by Recorder's Judge William McKibben. The white man said Didlcy struck him. Didley denied the chav Meanwhile, quid reigns on the loi al scene. 'V v.

ft i I Charlotte Young (left) of Dallas, Prairia View," and Barbara Chicago last Thursday to return to New Orleans, his home town and headquar ters for the Citizen Council which sponsored what they thought would be a one Wilson Says Thornion Charges Lies fr 0 1 Ilk fvv rzlpi The 'JACKET QUEENS Winnart wart chosen for' tha titles "Miss Wast Virginia Stat" and har attendants, for tha school year 1 962 63, In a general alaction by the student body. In tha picture art, left to right: Mariana Price, "Miss Junior," from St. Albans! W.Va.; Sandra Allen. "Miss Wast Virginia State." from Becklcy. W.Va., and Brand a Clarkson, "Miss Sophomora," from Hopkins, S.C.

Pittsburgh way tide out of Dixie? According to published reports, Moffitt quit Chicago because he couldn't find a job and because the climate was too hard on his asthma. These were indeed contributing factors to the Free Rider's decision to bus it back to New Orleans which he had vowed never to see again. However. The Courier has learned that j.t least two other little known facts were compelling reasons behind Mof fitt's return to New Orleans. A resentment was steadily building among unemployed Negroes against Mof By HAROLD L.

KEITH (Courier Managing Editor). PITTSBURGH "If you want to print those lies, go ahead, and print them." With these words, Boyd L. Wilson, a National Vice President of the Ne gro American Labor Council, answered a Courier re Mae Mallory Granted Stay CLEVELAND. Ohio ANP Mrs. Willie Mae Mallory, wanted in Monroe, N.

on a kidnaping charge which grew out of that city'. racial strife, won a 10 day stay of extradition from the Court of Appeals. The decision in Mi Mai. Ilory's favor was granted to enable her attorney, Walter S. Ha IT nor.

could appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court. wmp 1 i i i i Gillespie of fr Jf) 24 Paces mad bv who it 'Mitt Pttdtet 'Whitewash' Pratt 5wtthaart. Rider Quits Chi Flo Job Available the real reason "Free Rider" Rezzie Moffitt. 45, left EI). NOTE: See olher stories and pictures on pace S.

fitt and othfr "Free Riders" who rode into Chicago on the wave of tremendous newspaper. TV and radio publicity and found number of job offers waiting for them. Several Jobless Negroea descended upon the offices of Travelers Aid, the agency which assumed the responsibility for these men. and with some hostility demanded to know the porter's query regarding his opinion about John M. n's resignation from the NALC and the charge that he (Wilson) was a "saboteur." Another oi tnc gentlemen involved in the dramatic resignation of Thornton was Jo Beavers, also an NALC ice president, who was quick to tell a Courier porter I a shington, D.

tha t. "i here is no truth to what Thornton has told The Courier." Mr. Beavers asserted that the issue arose because ot "political differences" between Mr. Thornton and Charles Street, also en NAI national boaid member In Younsswwn. un.

(Continued on Page 4) Mr. Keith Midland, Mist Camput lion of the openings puhliciird job Iwo younger men wno ac cepted Citizens Council tickets to Chicago have obtained env ployment although there is some concern that the Southerners have sufficient skills to hold the jobs. 1 The other factor In Mof fitt's decision to return to his old life in New Orleans was the man's inability to eepe with Northern "big city" lifr. The complexities of the metropolis left Moffitt bewildered and he shrank from such mundane thing as el trains, revolving door, nus traffic and the breath leM spred with whk le city moves. If this seems strange for a man who lived in New Orleans, which is no rur area.

Moffitt "Reverse Freedom Rider." supplied the answer himself when he told reporters before leaving Chicago that he felt the people of New Orleans will accept him back with no HI will because: "I always kepi my place with them and I will when I get back." Fire Victim Dies at 102 NEW ORLEANS Records of Charity Hospital, here, last week showed that 102 year old Mrs. Gray of Covington, died of bums received in a fiif. Hospital attaches said Mrs. Gray was admitted several days before (or second and third degree burns she re ceived In a fire that swept her home Covington. Dei TJariton; if Florida By WILLIAM KENNED 1 PERRY, Fla.

Joseph Hill Dumas 19, a native son of this town, haa been missing since the morning of May 5, and no one Hi body is still here, but that' alL 1 took a good look at it in the Tillman Funeral Parlor. There was bis hole in Joseph's back beneath the right shoulder blade where the bullet went in, and a neat hole in left aide of hi stomach below the ribs where it came out The powder burns proved the pistol was so close it couldn't miss. It was that bullet which took Joseph out of the land of the living, but the (jUciuon remains as to why Joseph, himself, was the and even in death he still looked puzzled. After struggling to his ry Sauls ordered him up Joseph had asked the law Why did you want to thing." That the story I was Uharies, za who was when it happened. Josephs niece.

12 year there too and saw it all. They were all three riding Saturday morninfi taking a TV Slaying Youth the railroad tracks where Joseph's grandmother, Mrs. Lizzie Gaines, raised ail seven of the Dumas children. Besides those already mentioned, there are Jerry 16; Har ry. 22: Isaac.

24: Georgia Mae, Grandmother Gaines has left Jerkins High School a few family. They had almoit reached it was fired. first to put the question, feet when Hen after shooting him down, man shoot me? I didn do any I told by Joseph older broth standing ngnt cesiae mm old Joanne Williams, was along In Charles' truck that set to the unpainted shack by 20. and Lucille. 2b.

been ailing lately, and Joseph weeks ago to help suppuit the home with the Charles told over to the Constable's car. license. Constable Saul handed paper and ordered him to write had come over too. Constable told Joseph to get ordered, climbing out hi 1 Li. a.

i M. me. when Consume overtook them and signalled mem to stop. Charles got out and walked After examining his driver's him a pencil ami piece of his name. Bv this time Joseph "What are you looking at?" Saul asked Joseph.

Tm just standing here," Joseph replied. "What are you 4oing with your hands in your pock eta?" Saul wanted to know next. "They're just In my pockets." Joseph said, taking them out. hoth Charles and the back to the twiek, and he turned to do so. Walt a Sauk i nan pnuutx nu P1" wiia ow ten hmn.

i suu. reach you damned a some raaat Put up yW hands!" Joseph raised his hands. Sauls held the pistol his back with bis left hand, reached into Joseph's panto pocket, and extracted a pocket knife. r. If you move, HI kiU you!" Saul said.

Joseph did not move, but the gun went off anyway. He went down, but got up again at Saul's order. And that was when he asked why he had been shot. Bytwav of reply, the Constable ordered him to get into the car. and Joseph stumblingly went toward it.

When Sauls next looked for him, he was nowhere in suht. "Where did that go?" he demanded. "Hp done fell on the other side of. your car," luirles explained. They tried to bundle Joseph into fhc BACK seat of the Constahic's car.

a 'CI Chev rolet, but were unable tu set him' in. So they carried him to a nearby porijh instead, and after examining his wound Sauls radioed for an ambulance. At the hospital Charles gave a pint of IiIimhI.1 and an Incision wan made in Joseph's arm to receive it, lull the intern said. "Too late." Later. Charles asked questions as why he had been 5topicd in the first place.

"II was only a routine check." an officer of the law told him. "Someone had been paming had checks, hill we hail already caught him earlier that same rooming." End of life story of Joseph Hill Dumas Jr. "An accident, was all Constable auls would say to newsmen. He had explained everything, he said, to the state's attorney1 over at Live Oak. Four days after the event, that worthy had not made the journey to Perry, a distancf 50 miles, to view the remains or conduct an investigation.

(Continued on Page I) 'mm, ft MOTHER OF THE YEAR Mrs. Jessit Adamf. of 5332 S. Wll Chicago, was chosen by the PhoTographart Guild as tha "Portrait Photograhper's Mother ot tht Year." Mrs. Adams i tha mother of 14 children and has 24 qrandchildran.

i seems to know exactly why. Tap Negro For U.S. Marshal LUKEMOOBeV i supervises V. S. marshals WASHINGTON A 38 year old Assistant United States Attorney has become the first Negro to serve as U.

S. Marshal for the District of Columbia since Frederick Douglass, a former slave, tilled that post from 1877 to ISM. Luke C. lofre. who served in th" Hi' i sion of S.

1)1 rict sii't here, was nam 'd to lh 730 post by Presidtit F. Kennedy, wh his pred cessor. James 4. B. Sha te, was named chief of the Nation's marshals.

Only the second N'ejjro to achieve this office. Moore will supervise 90 puties in maintaining courthouse urlty aiVl serving warrants and other papers. Moore, who lives with. wife and son at l3.13 Tiiiiii.ad N. has been a government prosecutor for three years.

His most rrccnt fam was attained in the trial of Daniel Morgan on clurses of impersonating a locai ci iminal lawyer. Monre was born In ollins vllle. III and att ml I.e Mnyne College in 1 'mph's, and Howard I niversi ty, wher? he earned a de in business arim.ni trutioii. In I9.VI he received his law degree from (corgetuwii Before joining the prosecu tor's office. Moore as a member of the law firm Cobb, Howard Hayes, lie also served at one time a foreman of mails at the city post office.

In his new post, which calls for Senate confirmation. Moore (Continued on Page I) Negroes Vote In Police Chiefs Office LIVE OAK. Fla. Talk about the Twistthis town lias hit upon a new one in intimida tory techniques to deter NeJ gro voting. All residents ot Live Oak.

white and Negro, cast their ballots in the City Hall during" the city election held May 8. i Only difference was: whites voted in the Are department while Negroes were directed to the office of the Chief of Police, upstairs! VS. ,4 i.