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nit THE PITTSIUKGH COUKIEK My M. I1U i. HA1TIE tev g. Missing child whose headless body thought to be that of child found In Philadelphia rtvpr, and artist's drawing of suspected layer FBI Presses Kidnapping Slave By BOB QUEEN PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Missing from her family and playmate is a little 5 year old girl whose headless body was found floating in the Schuylkill River here three weeks ago.

Either dead or alive is 7 year old Hattie Yvonne Jackson, who disappeared from her Washington, D.C., home last Jiilv 21. ISfil. Turning up for the first rime in the FBI's ten "most wanted list, is Thomas Welton Holland, w'uie a 30 year old Baltimorean. wanted by the bureau for interstate rohberj'. but possessor of a record of vicious sex attacks on chil Jhe kWnper of little Hat tie Jackson was described as "white, about 3040 years of age, around 5 9 tall, of medi urn muscular build, well suntanned, with long, dark brown hair brushed straight back, and at the time was wearing sun glasses.

Philadelphia FBI author! 4m said that at the present time there Is no Imitation that the kidnapper of Hattie mi Kilt be Holland. They did note, however, the similarity of the artit's drawing of the awpert with the rogue's gallery photo of Holland. But where c.o the significant factors place the hack ground of the headless body found crammed in a milk crate floating past the Atlantic Refinery property in Philadelphia? An autopsy and studv by a pathologist ha ruled tile hotly ou as bi'ing th.it of Hattie Ja kirn of Washington, yet there hasn't be a single report of a mis tr.g fie oll girl in the PhiladflpWa area. In (act. homicide detectives hfie state that thp medical rctvoit indicates that the headless victim mny not even i)e five year of ae.

'A nesaiN'r tnund under the filiating bodv wi iilenti fU'd as y. v( 11. iili tion of the Philadelphia re ning Bulloiin. Her killer had to he in the Cji.aker Cit" area at 4hat time: Capt. D.iid E.

Bruwn of Philly's homicide bureau, 'reported thtt is detectives are "working relentlessly" in the quest to find a missinf child, also stated tr at the V. S. Coast Guard had been checked as to Sc i River tides and cuirerts. "It was (ietermmed that the Schuylkill, which slices tftriKijTh the center of the city. Ikiws Soutnw.

id touaid its in teisii tion ii'i the Sonevvher'. ihlv the Ka or West Drives, or wiiere the lu.vlkiil cut through hea tly pifpulated areas, sim or.e fit ip ct the muk crate its grisly con ttnt in 'he water. An attempt had been made lium the body, or the hunts mi the feet may have iieen the results of torture "by a "vevUElly depraved as Sailant. Jesse D. V1S.

43. of 10 Washington St, Pa ii sixmo. worker on a b.ti se. fiahed the ciaie our of the fiv.cr. i'v.

I llllllin? JeUim ll.ii:i uses to the FBI lop n. tiiere are factors vrmlh noting. IDtile Hattie Jackson was snatched from Rock Creek Park in Washington, while liLiying with other children. If was" her playmates who pro vided th description from whence came the artist's draw Allowances can be made. Wetropojt.n police report tEt the stranrer was reported Ijttii ivipg a vehicle, apparently ajr bluishg ay Plymouth car ri'iiig lica g.iiwiiii a yellow backgruur.d.

in 11. this color back wmiiid could if fer to possibly fcastern str.ies. Oeorgia Vni k. the latter, more riQinge tiried' One ti Da ltotaa and California, would 1 JACKSON Hunt also fit, it Is conjectured that th? cistant tags might have drawn more attention yet Washington, the nation's capital, is loaded with vehicles from the 50 states. Thomas Holland is also known by the aliases.

"Rob Mitchell." "Robert Clay Mitchell," "Bud" and "Tommy." According to the official FBI dossier on him, Holland ha a history of vicious srv attacks on children." and wa released on parole from the Urtnd State Peniten tiarj" on March 28, 1S6. A condition of that parole was that he Eerure psychiatric help. He rever appeared for such treatment, and In May, 11, disappeared. When it became apparent. said the FBI.

that Holland had fled the state of Maryland, a Federal warrant was issued on August 29. 1961. at Baltimore. charging him with unlawful Interstate fight to avoid con finement after ciVictknr of robbery. The Federal arrtt of In vestigation flyer on Holland bears this rim reminiler: "HE HAS BKK.N AHMED WITH A Gl AND A K.N'IFE IX THE PAST.

CONSIDER HIM EXTREMELY DAXGERCX'S." Rather mild manner in out ward appearance, witii almost the demeanor of an intellectual. Holland wa identified as the person who in February. held up the proprietress of a grocery store in Middle River, at kiufepont. At the same time he uaa Identified a the person who had committed a number of crime In tlie area which Included burgti of some firearm and a small amount of cash from the home of a couple that had befriended him, attempted rape at gun pont, and an assault on a young boy. In December.

19.VI. Holland was sentenced to ten years for his parti pation in these crimes, rnd the parole of March I960, ended his confine ment, His recoi includes convictions for breaking and en lenng. larcn; larceny of an a ut I e. transoi ting a stolen automobile intet state. indecent cxiosure, a vaLlt and robliery.

He was born in Baltimore. 3h miles Xoilh of Washington. Nov. 26. mi.

5' 11" tall, weight, 173 pounds. Hair brown; eyes, hazel. Holland has worked a a baker's helper, clerk, dairy helper, hotel worker, laborer, salad chef, and warehouseman. He han a Miull Mar under his chin, mole on right side of throat, small scar on hack, of right hand, and numerous tattooN, including star on upper left arm, "Blond le," Mae," "212 2M159." left forearm, "Bud" and dagger, right forearm, "BJC" left side of rhettL Even If the corpse of the five year old found in the Philacelpi.ia River, and Hattie Yvonne Ja k. on.

of Washington. D. are r.ot one and the amf. or if fates urn vlaliil. th FBI expresses hope that the hereabouts ut mii turn up.

fi wuh ins liberty tuns the iik v.oieni and possibly death to small child. pgpiagMHf THOMAS W. Maa haaUd fey FBI in connection with disappearance aakaing child from Washington Struggle Between HAACP SCLC Denied (Coo tinned from Page 1) ing expenses were paid for five sULff members 1st coiiaertio 1th mm alleged rift. Walker said that atatesnent mav JMitea that the Ber. Mr.

bling in not in control 'of bis or gantaatlon ajai bt surrouaded by persons whoae kaiefrity bt netUtOMble." Walker explained that SCLC has so desire of taking over territories where the N'AACP has already been established but instead, SCLC puts people into the struggle in areas where AACP has not been organized. TkK" bo said, came about wbeu the organhiHon was formed aa an outgrowth of outiawiBf of the NAACP by the State of Alabama." He emphasized that in certain districts in the South. where the NAACP might lose ground, the SCLC picks up. and both the N'AACP and the SCLC are working hand in nana. Appro imateiy church people have been organized to challenge voting rights in the South.

Walker said. In the recent swing through the Southeast, a total of 1X8 persons were recruited to work for voting and regis ration rights. In the recent trip to Louisiana, L500 person were recruited. In the last six months. 2V) selected persons were sent tu Dorchester community in Mc Into.

Georgia for special training set up by SCLC. This is the only community in the State of Georgia where Negro registered voters outnumber the whites. alker said Person as old as 70 have The World Today By GF.OBGC S. SCHIYLER, Kontinued frocn Pag ahsni which holds much of its territory and one third of its ieple. AFRICANS are not all biuke and hansjrv.

John of Johannesburg, and In ir.iee asMH iaies Africans ail have invested $112,000 in the Sparta Dian Company to pmsptvi in Basulo land. They uiU hii Ji Ba su'o miners to out the prei ions i. KOttni ll mies are bedeviling Africa. So gieat has urbanisation become that Ji African nations held a jie idl conference in Addis Ababa t. discuss the srioa Bright Fla.

Jury 'Whitewashes' Killing of Uegro Lad (4 ontlniwd Innn Page It did examine biiy and testi fied the jury. Dr. Dal was even rnoie reluctant to "I don't kn.w wheiber I have any infortnatimi I raa release on that." he ml4. "You did examine the body, did yu we asked. "Vev but did a lot of other peopl.

don't you auk Ihem?" "Vou did leMif hrfnre the grand jury, did ou not. lat Thursday." do not know whether it wa a grand jury or not. or Thursday or n4." )r. I)vaj replied. "Who asked you to rvam Ine the My? parting shot.

"I don't know who my hill Is made out to." Ik said. "I would have to Mm it up." He surjested that 1 turn to the local huiary" Ux information find" ttw fne tended to ki.i.w ihe si.er iffs name. 1 turn r. v. to Joseph confided to th: KB! had fitally ex.

rr.r ed j. hjiv before it was State Attotr.ev Sia; ghter HOLLAND i been registered during these campaigns and youngsters at Hie age of 18 have been signed and urged to cast ballots. Soui hern Christian Leadership Conference, according to Walker. 34 yeaa old pastor who held the rostrum of Gillfield Baptist Church in Petersburg, for eight years, was organized five years ago as a serviie agency. It has a budget of $375,000 to this calendar year and has 2A persons on bie executive staff.

Members of the executive staff include the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy. pastor of Hunter Street Baptist Church, secre tary treasurer; Dorothy Cot n. Leadership Training School's director of education: the Re.

Andrew Voting, Field Foundation program; Mrs, Sep. tima Clark, Superintendent of Teacher Training; Gould May nard public relations; Jack Dell, director of Voter Registration; John H. Calhoun, assistant director of Voter Reg ration; Dr. Samuel Williams, third vice president SCLC and president, Atlanta Branch NAACP; Dr. Aaron Henry.

State Conference president N'AACP, Ciarksdale. and national board member SCLC: C. K. Steele, Tallahassee. FUu national board member SCLC and president of Territorial N'AACP; Benjamin Hooks, attorney and pastor.

Memphis, assistant public defender and member of the Legal Redress Committee of the N'AACP; Rev. James Lawson. snecial projects director. Nashville. and others.

Mr. Walker concluded the interview with: "Its amazir.g that John MoCray is unin formed of the facts." lights, schools, cinemas and hospita draw the country folk, but there is no business or indus'ry to employ them. This dis'urbs the politicians fearful of Red agitators. APABTHKID boorwranged on South Africa last week when its two best track men had to be drop(ed lrom competition ith Rhoiiesians and Portugu because thev are non Also, hen' Japanese swimmers were biirred trom the Pretoria pool, the South Africans had to hack down when it was learned that the Japanese were connected with the Vamata In.n and Sleel Company hie had Just closed a $126 million deal with South Africa! Money makes a different. was not at all re luctant to reveal' the findings and testimony of the doctor, even befoie the grand jury re turnea 11s no irue Dill.

"I the body mv self," Slaughter told m'e. Lw nw been i r.y ar gument about his having been shot in the back. The 'o table doesn't deny that at "He is quoted in th? press as saving it was an accident." I prdmpted. "Probably, r.ohi. dv will ever really know but him." ihc' slate attorney mused.

"His was the only hand on tlie! gun." WILLIAM 0dicat Yearbook MULUN'S. S. C. The senior class of Palmetto High School has announced its Yearbook I lJWHa. The 112 edition is dedicated to the businessmen OJKl lillHI III Language Group At NCC DURHAM N.

C. A chapter of Pi Delta Phi. National French lienor Society, has heen established at North Carolina College. I Police Bias I widespread (Con tinned on page 4) Watles Waring, and James i Testimony will indicate that in a significant number of American elties the police, the courts and tails have been. nd are beuig used aggressive ly against, the civil rights movement in an nlmnnt tn in.

timtdate it, to Immobilize lead ers, to bankrupt and ban civil rights organizations, and to. d. ter the liberal minded public in tnese' cities from supporting civii rights. Events In the following cit ies will be' disclosed: Shreve part. Baton Rouge, 'nd New Orleans in LouMana; Jackson, McComb, and Liberty In Mississippi; HumavUhh Talledega, Anniston ar.d Birmingham, in Aiaoama; Albany in Georgia; Sumter and Rock Hill in South Carolina; Brownsville.

Tennes see, and Richmond. Kentucky OFF TO AFRICA Poting on the ramp of a plana which will take har on the first leg off a trip to her foreign servVe pott in Tunis, Tunisia, Yvonne Williams waves goodbye to a host of well wishers. Miss Williams, 23, junior officer of the U. S. Information Agency, is the first Negro woman to join the foreign service under the USIA's recruiting program.

Profs End Censure Of Allen COLUMBIA. S. C. The American Assotiation of University Professors "has removed Allen University from i's list of censured adminisrra tions. Di Howard E.

Wright, pres Iident of the university, was notified of the virtual rein 'atement action in a telegram i illiam P. idler, gen r.il 1 secretary of AAl'P. who il a motion to remove cen me was adopted during the meeting in Chicago. III. Allen University was cen sii.

iil by AAl'P for of three professors in IJfiS. Pr John Rideout, Forrest Wiggins and Edwin Hoffmaa Removal of censure, the teneral secretary said, waa Iwsed on efforts of Bishop arey A. fiibbs, chairman of the Allen Board of Trustee, and Dr. Wright and other administrative officers to tahlish academic freedom, tenure and other regulations anil "appropriate financial redreW with the dismissed prof triors. AAUP telegi am dLs 1 iiK.st that Dr.

Wright, under taking to resolve this dispute ivre taking office last year, had the dismissals "un iii 'itiable and disreputablejin fe co: th at A 1 IV letters to the pro assured "preferential leratitm" to them should seek employment in. Rilcout. Wiegins and Hoif tT.an were dismisserl at the HUH OFFICE 2(21 CENTRE Aft tutkt e.nfrk ea kv ii pirmunoM con mi VM.IWIM COMMMT. IMC ms mm mm at etnwwta. e.

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Mill 1MII Sl MONTHS MONTHS rm nun aaaa aanar MONTHS TWO YtA KENOIX Tha 'following chanqti nd naw appointment, with the Most Ken'drix public relationi firm in Washington, D.C. Left to right: Laslio M. ledbaHer. editorial attittant; Mil Joyce Nelson, Donora, tacretary, and Mii Stricken by Food Poisoning 250 Kids Scattered on Floor (Continued from Page 1) had to be assigned to shunt some over to nearby Brewster Hospital for Negroea. Although state and Federal health agencies intent upon tracking down the source of the poisoning had not at this writing, pin pointed it, all the preliminary evidence pointed to a turkey salad served In that school's cafeteria, May 15.

r.len E. Johnson, acting Mtpervtso' of the County' school lunch program, told this correspondent that the Mtspert turkey was the last of a largo lot used on various holidays In school cafeterias. The left over turkey was in eold storage, and, with the end of tho school year, only a few days away, was "worked Into the menu" of the Negro school as a Cambodia Rejects All Racial Bias, UN Official Says (Continued from Page 1) and civilization in human his tory. Jlr. Measketh was answering a series of questions dealing with his attitudes toward the American Negro and the rising tide of African Nationalism I asked him.

"Mr. Minister, talking with a number of Negro leaders and people in the I nited St ites, 1 find that they have an extraordinary inter est in your country and your leaders like Prince Norodom Sihanouk, ukI they ate very anxious to know your attitude toward the Negro in the United States." Mr. Measketh replied. "The people of smbodia. who are convinced Buddhists and Pacifists, reject all vtolenrc and discrimination, be it racial, sexual, religious, or language.

'They share the faith of all those who believe in Hie equality of all men in rlipnity and well being. We regret that fact discrimination still exists in some countries, but, with great we recognize also the fact that a gi ea num her of the people of the couq: tries do not share the behav ior of their countrymen. "We hope that with the cooperation and goodwill of all the citizens of these countries, this problem will he solved In the very near future for the prestige snd prosperity of theirtnnntry." State Board of Education and lormer (lovernor lieorce Bell Timmerman Jr. revoked certif ication of graduates planning to. teach in state public schooLs and were critical of the pres ence of the men.

CONFERENCE "Th R0, 0f Oiu a I ii II 11 mp.r mwJ a I Ill II I I. I I I i I I 1 a I I I I' al in Aiding Atncan Siudsntt in ths United Statsi" if ditcujied on "Labor Newt Con forence," over MBS. Rsportert are Harry of Prtu A and Edward Peaks (far riohtl mi, 'if i ft T' Li rtotalit Diqqt. Kontington, MA, adminii trativa aitant. Far right; Moss H.

Kan drix who hat boon graatod military laavo and will bo ttotioMxT at Edward Air Force Bat in California, as second lieutenant. "substitute hem," In John son's words. All told. wrU over half of the student body of (N was taken to the hospital, as well aa of the teacher. A few random eases of adult slso being strkkea.

who had ostensible connection with the school, panled official nnttl It wan ascertained that they had a romantic Interest la certain members of the school's staff, and had had liach there on that fateful day. School Principal Eiilene J. Jones was also among those hospitalized. It was only bv strenuous effort that the ere delivery of several hundred seriously ill Ne to the already fuil medical center was met with I then asked Mr. "I find the Negro people of the United States are al interested In your attitude toward the African renaisance.

You of Cambodia are very active in the Afro Asian bloc In the United Naiioi, and yon your country's representative, playing an Important role in it, could speak on this with authority He answered. The pmpla of Cambodia have nailed with emotion and joy the re rent secession to Independence of many African countries. "Cambodia, once a eolo nlsed country. Is la favor of ending colonialism la all Ha out fatalities or the walls jira crow being let down. The day shift of asme oa duty at the oeatcr wars kept on all night, other norsea and sappUes wore bromgmt hi from other hospitals, aad ta white doctors aad directors aad staff did their daty around the etook.

Director Wood In proud of the Job done, and the way in which the well rehearsed "disaster plan" row to the occasion. Jacksonville long boasted tho highest homicide rate tn U.a world, and Director Wood says this county's medical center handles 60,000 emergency cases each year which puts it in the same big league with Chicago's Cook County clinic, and New York City's Belle vue. forms aad whew II 1st. "At the Bandung aad Bel rrade Conference, as well as at tho L'aited Nattoas. Cambodia ha always supported all Bwejueabs toward National Uberatina.

The Committee, of Seventeen, which is a special committee on the situation with regard to the implementation of the declarat'on on the granting of indeperder.ee to colonial countries and peoples, and of which Cambodia is a member, recognizing the urgeny of the situation in the continent of Qica. has granted priority to this region. "We share ti.is point of view and we hope that all the African territories under the yoke of colonialism will be libeiated very soon and that the; will Join the family of African members of United Nations, ho already play an important part in favor cf the goals and principles of our great International organization." American colleges and uni employment this year, it anions have been asked help find Jobs for African students during the swnmrr months. President George Meany said that where aeons ry the AFLCIO will pay up to half the cost of sack employment Citing CARE and Group Health, as organizations which cooperated in the program last year, Mrs. Springer welcomed the support of all individuals and organizations with summer Job opportunities for African students.

Mrs. Springer was questioned by Edward Peaks of the Afro American newspaper, and Harry Conn of Press As sociates. Incorporated. AFL CIO to Aid Africa Students WASHINGTON The AFT no 11 Airican atudenta attending vcrsiues in niiwng summer was announced. Mrs.

Malda Springer, rep resentaiiva nf thai Intama. Iltional Affairs Department of the AFL CIO and coordin atrr of the employment program said she has received close to five hundred applications and already has "a number of confirmed Job placements." Appearing on Labor News Conferem over the Mutual Broadcasting network iWAVA in Mrs. Spring er said the program will not operate in "areas where the trade union movement has a serious hardship employment problem." All AfXrTIO affiliated na 1 1 on a I and international the AFLCIO Afro American I Interiiawees ar Maids Spring loft AFL CIO represent, et.v. and Mary Ibrahim of Tanganyika (lecond from right). Moderator (conterl is Harvey W.

Flannery,.

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