Bronze Reporter [Volume: 8, Issue: 25]

VOLUME 8~NUMBER 25

Rev. Rebs Speaks;
But Acts Otherwise

REV. ROBBS PREACHED
ABOUT FORGIVENESS WHILE} an Baptist Church.
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On Sunday. December 3, 1961 auc auower is ne wants tne CanaRev. Robbs the pastor of Canaan|~! D#pust Caurca tor iufe;. to
Baptist Church preached about tual it gust line me Waats tov. He

_ forgiveness at the same time his

- actions speak otherwise. Let us
check the records together. Rev.
Robbs and his comrades, along
with the help of a few local
people who were not members
of the church, packed the chureh
on May, 22,'1961 and withdrew
the righthand ~of fellowship from
about 14 members without - notice, warning trial or any thing
else.

Seven. months have passed
since May 22 and those ~members
haven~t been given a trial yet,
but additional charges have been
mailed to those members and
many others who dared to speak
what they thought was right,
but no trial on those charges
have been set during those seven
months some people who have
never been to Canaan Church
before, have -become members.
Some of those chartered members
who have been -voted out on
May 22, 1961 went before the
church and asked forgiveness for
> any wrong that they had done.

Rev. Robbs told them on Sunday, August 6, 1961: ~we can
forgive.you, but we can~t take
you back into this church.~ On
Sunday August 27, 1961 five: of
those ousted members went beforgiveness, this time a young
fore the church again to ask
deacon ~got up and made a motion that the righthand of fellowship ion ene~ from he err 4

tces uf ullicers tO ME elected mm
widt Luluicl. me Wants a temate
Cumiuttce appullted vy numseif
tu Hdliuse ali sivhey Deionging to
tmat Caurea, ana tor his: saary
uc Wants a Olank check every
week to fillout as he wisnes.

What proof do I have for these
Statciucins? Ine Canaan Baptist
Cuageal aS bechnh Gung More tor
Aulvea swoops tan iey ~ nave
tur any pastor of:-tnat Cnurch m
tie Sane ~period ot time, yet he
is Nut satusfied.

He has received~ a 14room
fuuse tu live In with heat and
ugnts turmisned. He is receiving
dicv each Week, no ~its and maywes.~ bisinospital bill avas paid -
in full py: tne cnurch, the caurcn
also gave. him over. $300. in cash
walle he was in the hospital andcuntnued te_pay nis salary after
he returned home. to go to Hot
Springs;: Ark., for~.a-rest: Each
year ne is given more than $2,000
sn anniversary monies.

The pastor aid committee gives
him ali the money that they raise
aud taat 1s quite a bit. He. ~re~celvés vacation with pay. each
year and pays another. preacher
wnile He 1s away. He received
cash money 2 or 3. hundred dollars for a.Christmas present
each year and~ repends: much~ ~of

has pear a infbtlon~ dealing with the same members over
a 60 day period.

Our committee held some pubstool pigeons there with
lic. *meetings. Robbs_ sent-. his
stool pigeons there with pencil
and paper in their hands and
charges were placed against those
members who didn~t already
have charges against them. On
Sunday, October 22, 1961: Rev.
Robbs told those ousted members
that they weren~t wanted at Canaan Church and he; ~Robbs~ can~t
see why you keep setting around
here. Our committee also had a
public meeting scheduled at Barston Field house, and again local
politicians who are not members
of Canaan Church were used to
have that building closed for him.
Yet he preached about forgive~-ness after violating every known
rule of the Church and the New
Testament. But things will never

the Church know anything at. all
about the business of the church,

My ~source of information also~
tells me that the church is loaded with guns every Sunday morning. Maybe we should request
an investigation.

Written by Johnson Buchanan,
director of Public Rélations

Written by the Committee tor
Religious Principles and Democratic Action at the Canaan Baptist Church:

~

2956 Jehovah~s Witnesses assembled at Cass Technical High,
Sunday December 3, to ~conclude
a three day conference of 18
local congregations,

The climax. ot the assembly
came at 3 p.m. Sunday when
Nicholas Kovalak, Jr., District
Supervisor. of ~the Watchtower
Bible and Tract. Society delivered |
the public discourse, ~UNITING
THEM IN A~SPLIT-UP WORLD.~

Stressing~ the need. of wunity,,
Kovalak pointed to. the international and inter-racial harmony
of Jehovah~s Witnesses-as proof
that unity can be achieved. Kovalak said: ~the present worldwide unity of Jehovah~s Witnesses points to~tne future when all
men will exhibit love of God
rand love~ of neighbor.~

Kovalak pointed out, ~world~wide Jehovah~s Witnesses a$-a
New World Society are united in
their Worship of the true God,
Jehovah. They have a comimon
hope, ~the destruction of the: wicked world by God. at the battle of}
~Armageddon~ and the gift of
everlasting life under God~s ane
dom tule of ee pels net ae

Ist Chief Inspector:

PHILADELPHIA ~ = Inspector
Allen B. Ballard became this
city~s first Negro Chief Inspector
in the Police Department last
week.

Ballard, 55, will take command
of the department~s community
relations program, a new. post
which has been established on
recommendation of Mayor Dilworth. The postition pays $9,146
to $11,487 annually.

Survey N.J. Schools.

EAST ORANGE, N. J. ~ The
thirty member-branches. of the}
New Jersey NAACP state organization are conducting a statewide survey of public. schools,
accorrding to Samuel ~Williams,
president.

The three-fold seeks
to find out the extent at of delib- |
discriminatory educational policies and practices; and teacher
integration.

~be as he wants them at the Cana- 4

uuvsut Wailll any Geacuns, trus
be, s ~the~ c! 2% Only~ ~
three er ~four of the officers of |.

1 Vices.

| Steel~s product development wrich
| be has. headed for four years.

Product

e| direct. the Company's, new Sales

Conrad Lynn
To Address
~Protest Rally~

Cenrad Lynn, counsel for the
~Committee to Aid the Monroe
Defendants, will be the main
speaker at a ~Protest Rally~. Friday, Dec. 8, 8 p.m. at Hartford
Ave. Baptist Church, 6300 Hartford at Milford. Rev. Charles A.
Hill ~is pastor.

Other -speakers are Bernard J.
Fieger, Detroit President of the
National Lawyers Guild, and John
Williams, brother of Robert: Wil
FBI. shoot-on-sight directive.

local authorities to. sidetrack the

ers Judge Wade H. McCree
has resigned fromthe UAW~s
public review.board, the union
announced last week. r

McCree, a member of-the board
~since it Was established in 1957,
said he resigned bécause of possible conflict arising~ from his
appointment to the federal court
bench.

In accepting the resignation,
Rabbi Morris Adler, board chairman, and UAW President Walter.
P. Reuther praised McCree~s ser
McCree ~called the board ~the
most ~significant development. in
voluntary self-regulation to have
been undertaken by an concentration of economic power in
our society:~

His: suéeessor will be chosen by
~the UAW International executive
board from a panel of. candidates
named by ~the board~s six remaining members.

GLSC Announces:
Re-Organization

A re-organization involving the
Quality Control, Sales and Product Development departments,
and the reassignment of: certain }
> key personnel of Great-Lakes
Steel is a division of National
~Steel Corporation.

Clarenee L. Altenburger, Technical Assistant to the President, -
has. been assigned to head~ the
~Quality Control Department, sueceeding Daniel H. Dellinger, who
will coordinate Great Lakes
Steel~s services ~to Midwest Steel
| Corporation, its affiliate at Portage, Indiana.

~ Mr. Altenburger will continue
to be in charge of Great Lakes

ee ~Avery rier: Sagres ge of
has been

DepartSines: sate: fhe: WD Seana snd

liams, militant leader of the
Monroe, N. ~C.. Negro. community |
who has been forced to. take:
asylum in Cuba because of an|

~Lynn made public, a~ demand}
that Attorney - General~ Robert |.
| Kennedy reveal the current stat-|
us of the FBI investigation of; |
the néar-fatal beating of Free-}~
dom Rider Riehard Griswold~ in}
the Union County, North Caro-| |
lina jail, Lynn indicated that the}
timing of the comimittal of. self-|confessed assailant Howard. Stack |~)
to a_mental institution showsan}.
obvious attempt on, the part of, =

investigation ~ of ~possible ee i: pe infringement.

Hale Junior, Hast:

lio, Vice President and
~a Rad shairman of.

tident, fooks -

aaea a * Certificate aA Dheemnendadion a the ieepienn~ ~Lesson ~dacittned 2c
General Manager of WJR accepted the award~ front. Mrs.

Char ies Young, suai Now 72

b
WASHINGTON ~ Fight: biajor
industrial: corporations, ~ three
trade unions~.and: two- railroad
companies.ate charged with racial discrimination in 127 affidavits filed on~Wednesday,: Nov.
29, with the President~s Committee on Equal~ Employment
Opportunity.

The enbieatits: tatavicd giant
corporations and powerful unions
operating in the North as. well
as in the South, were submitted
by Herbert Hill, labor secretary
of the National-Association for

the Advancement of Colored
People. ae

Naméd in~ the complaints are
General. - Motors Corporation

plants in Cleveland and Atlanta;
the Firestone Rubber Company,
Petroleum Chemical Industries,
Inc.; Davidson ~Chemical Company, Lone Star Cement Company, and ~Cit-Con Oil Company,

the Atlantie Steel~: Company, Atlanta; and the: Republic Aviation
Company, Farmingdale,. Long
Island, N. ~. All of the com
all: located at Lake Charles, La.;., Industry And Unions
d With Bias

panies are engaged in otaiiietion
under. government contracts
which: forbid racial dis~rimina
~tion in employment.

(Continued. on Page 3)

Charge James Howard
With Murder of Wife

A warrant charging James, L.
Howard Sr., 29, with the first
degree murder of his wife, Ruby
Lee, 23, was signed Thursday by
Recorder~ $ Judge Elvin L. Davenport. Homicide~ detectives. said
they are continuing pepe search
fér Howard.

Portions of the. woman~s dis
membered body were found last,
week in garbage receptacles and |

in ~the.couple~s apartment at
2665 Gladstone. ~
Police said they learned that

Howard purchased a hatchet, bu
tcher: knife, brown paper and | is the first: of its kind to be is
twine two weeks ago from a}
hardware store.

teens Steps
Joh Placement
Discrimination

WiCHITA, Kan.~fne NAACP
secured an unprecendented in- |
juhiction against the Kansas State
ginployMent Service this week.
A U.S. District Court judge -or~dered the state agency to. cease
refusing to place. qualified Negroes mm available jobs; aecepting or filling racially discrimin- |
atory job requisitions from employers and labor unions; and
denying~ Negroes the right to
utilize and enjoy all facilities of
the. Kangas State Employment
Service.

Chester I. Lewis, president of
the local NAACP, filed suit in
October off 4960 on behalf of
Donald E. Pryor, s

Mr, Pryor took the action before the U.-S. Federal: District
Court when an interviewer refused to refer him toa local
firm on grounds that he was too
intelligent for the job and would
not be happy because no other
Negroes were employed by the
firm. Mr.- Lewis, a member of
the Association~s National Board,
pointed: out that this injunction

sued in any of the 50 states and
should inmates ~ 6 Wace

ment ~of 4 nation-wide project designed to spur interest of young

persons, particularly. Negroes, in|
tthe opportunities in business/

was urged here last week by
Julius A; Thomas:of New York,
industrial relatiéns consultant of
the National Urban~ League..

Mr. Thomas spoke at. the ~Na
tional Conference on Small Business in the Hotel Statler rape
addressing a ~sessit devoted
personnel r

WASHINGTON | ~. Eetablish- |.

prises operated by Negroes be
prepared as aids. to incentive

and to show how these firms! some assurance (to young Ne
conduct business. Also needed,|

he added, are informational ma-| not become a. constant series of
terials showing how to assemble, indifferent and casual jobs.

| necessary ~capital, techniques in|
market research product. research, advertising, personnel |
development and other business
0| essentials.

~The young men non women

| of today are destined to take over

|

|

Urban League Calls For Project:
To Interest Youth In. hone,

He further~ recommended that, needed to ~be developed are
case studies of successful enter-| those ~that give meaning to life,

~Texas. this sarees hss wled arg
2S "Gis aie wien |b

Against NAACP.

afford a reasonable degree of |
economic~. stability and provide

groes) that working careers will

He urged that Negro business-|
men. give impétus ~to: incentive
among young people toward bus-,
iness careers: by working. more}.
clesely with. schools and col-|
léges where. thcy are.presently
in training.;

Texas Drops Charges

DALLAS, Tex, ~ The State Of | lan,

- portant.
questions which this state must
face.~

and are unable to rent or Pon
housing aceommodations withou

color limitations outside of gin
tain: geographical enclosures:

u/Rebert Catter
~Advises Con-Con
~Committee

LANSING, Mich. ~ fivieeni

| tion of a comprehensive civil
~rights article.in the new Michigan state constitution has been:
urged ~by Robert L. Carter, 'general counsel of: ~the National~ Association for ~the Advancement
of Colored People.. Mr. Carter appeared before

the committee on declaration of
rights, suffrage and elections of. the state Constitutional Conven
-tion here.on Nov. 30, on invita
* tion of James Pollock, chairman
of the committee.

The presence of a large Negro

population in the state, he told
-the committee,
_ Possible for public authorities to ~
' delude themselves that race re
~makes it im- ~

lations issues do net pose imand pressing ~ publit.

He pointed out four areas~

housing, employment, pre-college
education, and law enforcement
~in need of strong constitutional
~ proteetion.

Specifically. he charged:
~~Rigid patterns of housing

discrimination exist today
There iso ~

~ ~With ceeteunet: Sag > mond

comes segregated sc
tion officials, until recently have

been prone to look upon the

growing. proportion of. racially
homogenous public schools as
outside the scope of ~their re- ~
sponsibilities. But defacto segregated schools in the North are as
deleterious.to equal educational
opportunities
growth as the dual school system:

and educational

in the South;
~~Employment opportunities

open to whites are not available
to Negroes, and ~often this is
so despite the latter~s equal
or even superior qualifications.
Many jobs-are regarded as ex:

clusively for whites; for the
simple reason that no Negro

has ever been so employed, and
the employer, the union or both

do. not have ~the comenee te

~break new ground.

"Tt is 6 commonplace~ that

in the North the police tend to.
disregard the civil ri

ights of Negroes and to treat th~m as criminals without pro~f of crime.~

The NAACP -counsel recommended that~ the. committee

adopt a broad proposal already
before the ~convention. This pro
~posal, No. 1216, reads as ~fol
lows.,.

~No. person shall be. denied
the equal protection of the laws

of the state or any subdivision

thereof. No person~ because of ~

~race, color, creed, religion, na
~

~

tional origin, ancestry, age or sex, ~

shall be subject to. any discrim--
ination. in. any civil right -by any

pérson or by any firm, corpora
tion, institution labor, organization,. or by the. state or any
agency or subdivision of the
state. Each person-shall have the
right fo equal opportunity to

secure employment, education,
housing and public accommodations.~

They Song Allan Morrison,
New Seek Editor of Ebony Magwas named this week to