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SrT- ''t'N V-'J 'V? r- 1 t- j. T-r1 to Get Land Sbuflh LA. Us Stubbed Youth to EDeath From IFace- Dim 0119 Warfare 'Blighted Areas7 B1 YEARS OF CONTINUOUS THURSDAY, NOV. 9, 1961 2101 Death dealing gang warfare was believed responsible for the fatal stabbing Monday: night of Douglas Rodger Casey, 18, of 704 E. 79th street His body was found shortly before midnight WEST VERNON L.A.

CALIF. VOL LXXXI No. 34 Approval last Tuesday by the City Council of request for federal fund to survey the area adjacent to the University of California for redevelopment purposes has caused grave concern to Negro residents. 1 Cause of that concern is the Tim Crow housing pattern in tjo Angeles, and the question i Itfol lings worth Recall Petit ions Circulating Throughout the 10th Betwesen 600 and 700 people crowded into McCarty Memorial Church Monday night as the Hollingsworth Recall -movement got down to the serious task of organ- Long the signing of petitions jn addition, close to. 61000 was donated or pledged to help the where the displaced persons will find comparable and uitable dwellings.

800 NEGROES Although definitive plans will to await the results of the survey, it appears now that not many of the Negroes living in Ihe affected section will be able find accommodations in the district once it is rehabilitated. Close to 40 per cent, or about 300, non-whites are involved, out of a total of approximately 2200 persons. Most of the non-A'hites are. Negroes. The area includes some 900 homes and about 350 business establishments.

Involved in the proposed redevelopment are some 178 acres, a good slice of which will to to enlarge' the campus of JSC. Privately owned property that would participate in the proposed plan I 1 a the Shrine Auditorium and the College of Optometry. The 32nd Street School would also prob- ably be retained. NON-RESIDENTIAL Joseph Bill, executive director of the citys Community Redevelopment Agency, advised the Eagle Monday that the refurbished area would be largely nan-residential. He said, however, that file agency is aware of the problem (Continued on Page 4) LEAGUE HEAD Whitney M.

Young, new head of the National Urban League, tells newsmen of League plans during interview here Tuesday. See Page 2. (Adams) 1 Out-of-Town 15c campaign. MANY VOLUNTEER Approximately 175 of those present volunteered, to donate their time to the precinct-by- precinct task of canvassing the voters. Frank Terry, executive secretary, said the Recall Committee is in immediate need of people, printing and postage.

Rev. H. H. Brookins, committee chairman, touched a sensitive chord when he said, We must make ourselves felt as a united group. The people' downtown are waiting to see if we can get together.

WIDE SUPPORT In addition to those at the meeting, support for the recall has come from many sources Among those who have pledged their backing are the Baptist Ministerial Alliance, the Western Christian. Leadership Con ference, group of AME chest Laborers 'Local "300 ahd CORE. Circulation of petitions, Terry said, was to get under way Tuesday afternoon. Recall Committee offices are located at 3112 S. Western avenue, RE 1-3175.

Anyone having any spare time was urged to get in touch with the- office. Rev. L. Sylvester Odom, pastor of Ward AME, presided. Said Rev.

Brookins in his talk to the serious and determined audience: CANT FALL The purpose of the recall is to return the government of the people to their own hands. Eight councilmen have abused the people of the 10th District, and we. have a chance to show our support of the ideals of the founding fathers, by affirming our 'faith in the democratic process. We are part of a world revolution, and we must acknowledge it, glory in it. We must be happy that we can bring the fight before our children.

What if we lose the fight? As chairman of this committee, I say we are already embarrassed and left out We can't fall off the ground. He commented further that, "The principle we stand on has no price tag. That same point was also (Continued on Page 4) w14- 1 Drivers to PicEcets'MPiea Crippled Man Kills Opponent In Bar Battle A man on crutches, coming out of a bar on Santa Barbara early last Saturday morning, got into a quarrel with a man foing in the opposite direction, struck him with a knife and dlled him. Alfred Wilment Fair, 52, of 2162 N. Euclid avenue.

Upland, hen called police and an ambulance. SLUMPED TO CURB After the cutting. Fair's adversary, Theodore King, a metal inisher of 415 i E. 27th street, slumped to curb and' died without arTOrd. Fair, who has crippled right eg, told police that as he was (Continued on Page 4) Send a Sub To the Eagle' For Christmas Its only Christmas! May we suggest that one of the best gifts you can give to a brother, a sister, a friend is a year's subscription to the EAGLE? Such a gift Is a compliment to the intelligence of both the giver and' the receiver.

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ilx week til Teamster Committee members picketing the Greyhound Bus Lines this week welcomed a statement of support from Amalgamated Union leadership and called upon bus drivers of the union- to honor the Teamster Committees picket line. Carroll Shaw, international vice president of the Amalga- UJT. HIGH POST-Dr; Ralph Bunche, for long aft undersecretary at the U.N., was named as one of the first two advisors selected by U. Thant of Burma Friday immediately after his election as 'acting Secretary of the United Na-. tioni.

Judge to Rule On Santa Fe's Test of FEP Whether or not the Santa Fe Railroad will have to carry out an order of tfte.CslifarniaJFair was being weighed this week by Superior. Judge Gordon L. Files in a testing the commissions authority. Under consideration is the order issued last Feb. 25 by the FEP Commission finding the railroad guilty of discriminatory practices and ordering the reinstatement with back pay of Lennie L.

Andrews, 36, of Bar-stow, and his promotion to mechanic at the first available opening. FIRED After repeated unsuccessful efforts to obtain promotion from file Job of coach cleaner, Andrews filed a grievance with (Continued on Page 4) Thompson Off For Convention Of Labor Group L. B. Thompson, national vice president of file Negro American Labor Council and secretary treasurer of the L. A.

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, left here Wednesday toattenc th second annual convention of the Labor Council in'j Chicago, Nov. 10-12 The sessions of the council, which seeks an end to all barriers to Negroes within the union movement, are expected to give whole-hearted backing to A. Philip Randolph, president, In his running battle with AFL-CIO President George Me any. Meany and his top lieutenants last month rejected out of hand Randolphs charges of discrimination in the unions and his de-. mand for action against unions that tolerate such practices.

outside Fremont High School There was a trail of. blood about 400 feet long from the spot where the body lay, across the lewn and into the street. MANY WOUNDS The coat the youth had beefe wearing was found on the grass! turned inside out. There were cuts in the left sleeve at the elbow and in the back shoulder. There were blood stains on the coat.

Casey was found bleeding from wounds in the chest, the ieft arm and the left and right shoulder biades. Police said the killing looked ike the actions of a gang. Earlier In the day, Casey had visited Diane Ford at 7615 S. San Pedro street. It had turned cool by the time he left and Diane's 1 father, Lynward Lee, had lent the youth his coat 'CASEY HURT Shortly after 11 oclock a youth by the name of Willie came to Lees door and told him that Casey had been hurt.

When Lee. arrived at 76th lace and San Pedro-street, he saw Casey lying on the pavement. He was dead. The slashed coat was file one Lee liad lent him. Acording to file physical evidence, it appeared that Casey lad first been attacked on the comer next to Fremont High School.

Lee said that as far as he mew did not run around with any gang and that he had never heard of him being in Diane Ford said that Casey lad had a fight with another (Continued on Page 4) Death akes Retired Head Of NAACP NEW YORK Channing H. Tobias, 79, whose name for many years has been synonymous with the NAACP, died at Presbyterian Hospital last Sunday. Funeral services for the veteran educator, lecturer and traveler were held Wednesday. Mr. Tobias' served as president of the NAACP for many years.

Retiring several ago, he was president emeritus of its board of directors at the time of his death which came several weeks after he entered the hospital. A native of Georgia, he returned to his alma mater, Payne University, after he received his B.D. degree at Drew Theological Seminary; He taught at Payne from 1905 until 1911. He married Mary C. Pritchard in 1908.

For many years he served as secretary of file Student and Colored Work Department of the National YMCA and traveled extensively at home and abroad for that organization. He was actively associated with the Masons, file Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, the National Assn, for the Study of Negro Life and History, and the Interracial Committee of the National' Council of Churches and Inquiry. the nations ten largest cities has increased from one and half million to more than four and a half million in the pas1 three decades. He pointed ou that (me fourth of all American Negroes now live in those ten cities. Slum clearance has become Negro clearance in almost every city, Mijler told his audience.

(Continued on Page 4) if, APPOINTED -Atty. Jams R. Akers, has been appointed assistant to U.S. Atty. Gen.

Robert Kennedy. Atty, Akers Named Ass't Gen'l Att'y Atty. James R. Akers, former captain in the Los Angeles' Fire Dept, and former president of the local branch of the NAACP, 'has just named assistant to If. S.

Atty. Robert Announcement of the appointment was made Monday. He will serve in the Los Angeles office, which is headed by Francis Whelan, U. S. attorney general for Southern Akers appointment was to take place immediately, but he advised that he requested, and was granted, a two week interval so that he could close down his law office and arrange for the transfer of his current cases to other attorneys.

South Africa Lets Luthuli Go to Oslo Albers John Luthuli, former Zulu chief who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, was granted a passport last Wednesday to enable him to travel to Oslo to collect it but he will- only be allowed to be away from South Africa for 10 days. And lest anyone might interpret the permission given Luthuli as a softening of apartheid (segregation) policies. South African police arrested 1242 persons last Friday night in massive jaids in Transvaal and Natal. BURNED PASS The police commissioner of Pretoria, who personally led the raids, said those arrested were wanted for crimes of murder, rape, assault, theft and illegal possession of firearms and drugs. Luthuli, 61, has been restricted to his native village in Natal since the 1960 bloody Monday police massacre of unarmed demonstrators at Sharpeville.

Luthuli did not participate in that demonstration but, to show his sympathy for victims who were protesting against the passbook law, he publicly burned his passbook. CANT TARRY The African National Congress, of which hfe is president, was also outlawed. The 10-day permit-given Luthuli will give him time to go to Oslo and collect his award, which includes $43,744 in cash, of which the goveixment will take a big slice in taxes, blit it will not enable, him to tary along the way. He will not be nMe to accept any of the many speaking offers he has from the United States and England. His application to visit Tanganyika was rejected.

mated was asked by John Williams of file Teamster Rank and File Committee for Equal Job Opportunity to advise your members employed at Greyhound of your sympathy with our issue, thereby creating the condition for your Inis drivers at Greyhound to respect our pisket line and refuse to operate Gdeyhounds vehicles until such time as this racial discriminatory hiring policy is reversed IGNORE PICKETS In an interview with the California Eagle last week, Shaw said his organization was 100 per cent in sympathy with the Teamster Rank and File Committee in their fight against the racially discriminatory hiring policy of Greyhound. But the drivers turned a deaf ear to the appeal for support. Pickets, frorre the Teamster Committee were joined in their third week erf. marching by the NAACP, CORE, and the Com-. (Continued on Page 41 2 On Race Issue In MTA Test The issue of race discrimination simmered' just beneath file surface this week as two unions started campaigning against each other for the right to rep-' resent the drivers operating the Metropolitan Transit Authority buses.

Neither union, officially, was charging its rival with bias, but members of both unions were expecting their opponents to make racial appeals. CHALLENGE ISSUED The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen won the representa-' tion election an May 13, 1959 and is the bargaining agent for the approximately 2800 drivers who work for the MTA. An election, challenging that representation, has been sought by the Amalgamated Ass'n of Motor Coach Employes, Division 1277, which now represents the MTAs mechanics. An election- has been sched-( Continued on Page 4) Thugs Get Sav-Way Money Bag The manager and stock clerk of the Sav-Way Drug store, 1700 E. 103rd street, were kidnaped and robbed at gunpoint last Friday as they were about to get into their car outside the bank at 1600 E.

123rd street. A man pointed a .45 caliber pistol, concealed in a newspaper, at Charles D. Dickerson, 2308 E. 113th street, and ordered him to keep walking. Noting that Dickerson had leit the money-filled bag in the car.

he retrieved the bag. then ordered Dickerson to get going. He took him to the parking lot where he was joined by another thug, who ordered Dickerson into a car with them. In the meantime, a third member of the robber gang ordered Audrey G. of 1902 Wellington road, manager of the store, to return to the bank door and stay there.

Dickerson was being driven around by' two of the thugs, one of them hit him on the head with a hard object. He was let out at the corner of 97ti and. Beach streets. EVERYBODYS HAPPY A. Philip Randolph got quite going over from his fellow vice presidents on the AFL-CIO or his brashness in demanding that the labor movement do something to eradicate racial discrimination.

Before it was all over he was sitting in the defendant's chair and found himself accused of stirring up ill feeling between Negroes and or ganized labor. Everybody was iappy, his accusers intimated. before he began to. agitate. If the accusations prove they demonstrate the fact that file AFLrCIO brass has been reading the southern ewspapers, and the handouts of the White Citizens Councils.

The complaint down home is that Negroes were happy as little birds with segregation and Jim Crow until the meant old NAACP went charging down that way and riled them up. Southerners just simply refuse to believe that a Mississippi Negro resents having to step off the sidewalk when a white prostitute happens along. labor chieftains are (Continued on Page 4) Featured in the Eagle Church Activities Editorials BUI Smallwood Sports .4 .7 6 Social 7 Show Business .9 People 9 Chazz Crawford 10 Mousing Gey to IBiaSj AAilleir Tells Meeting SAN FRANCISCO The nation cannot escape increased segregation in public facilities of all kinds unless it stems the tide of residential segregation, Loren Miller, publisher and lawyer told the National Association of Intergroup Officials in his keynote. address at its Tuesday luncheon. We need hard-nosed legisla tion on state and local leels forbidding discrimination in the sale and rental of all housing, he said.

We must match those laws with administrative rules and regulations denying the benefits of the mortgage insurance system to discriminating FHA builders and developers. NEGROES DISPLACED Miller cited statistics to show fliat tha Negro population in if present Urban Renewal plans are carried jouLY, RESIDENTS MUST MOVE Residents now living 'in the shaded area on the above map will have to move Kft.