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Evening star., 1961-04-07
New Zealand Poet Sees
His Lond as Moodv

Smiling through the smoke
screen his cigarette sent up,
Allen Curnow, the New Zealand
poet said. I've always thought
we were a moody and intro
verted race. Certainly our in
Sularity affected our poetry
it is much more introverted
and personal"
This was a fourth-genera-
ton New zealander speaking.
Mr.. Curnow says the older New
Zealanders still speak weepily
of England as home" but
quickly adds, THE more alert
and sensitive court their devo-
ton first to New Zealand"
He also hastens to point out
the thousand or SO miles of
rough waters separating New
Zealanders from Australia.
Its been so to go years since
we looked much to Australia, :"
he says.
Mr.. Curnow, so, gracious and
soft-spoken, is the author of
several volumes of poetry. He
will read from his new and
published works tonight in the
Meridian House, 1880 Crescent
place NV.
Early New Zealand poetry,
written by settlers under the
influence of the long hand of
Queen Victoria, was pretty
bad" says Mr.. Curnow.
After the 1920s, social-hiS-
torical poetry began to be writ
ten, containing descriptions of
the land. A love of the wild
bush country had grown up.
THE first settlers found it
an alien landscape" Mr.. Cur
now went on. Iney were
pretty scared of it. This just
wasn't England. I described it
once in one of my poems. &.
What great gloom stands in a
land of settlers with never a
soul at home"
1t was through common
love of New Zealand that Mr..
Curnow became good friends
with Dylan Thomas.
Thomas always felt bit on
the outside in London and he
had a sympathetic bond to New
Zealand. I think it was that
more than poetry. We never
discussed poetry much"
Evening star., 1961-04-07
Two Women Sentenced
In Air Ticket Foroery

Two young women were SEN
fenced in District Court to-
day in a case involving $1,000
worth Of fraudulent air line
tickets.
Judge Henry w. Schweinhaut
placed Mrs. jeanne D. Coan,
26, of Nazareth, Pa, on pro-
baton for Is months and or
dered Miss Cecilia Karikas of
the 1900 block of Columbia
road NV. to serve a 6 to 18
month jail sentence.
Mrs. Coan plead guilty last
month to forging a refund
check from Pan American Air
ways. Miss Karikas was found
guilty of 18 counts, including
forgery, uttering, and interstate
transportation of the refund
checks sent from New York
to Washington.
The women had been charged
with fraudulently canceling six
Evening star., 1961-04-07
Canals Antics Beset
Maintenance Crews

The Chesapeake g. Ohio
Canal evidently has been try
ing to pull the plug on itself
for a long time. The results
to date have been:
l. A gaping hole in the
sturdy wood bottom of Lock
No. 8 at Twenty-nin street
NV.
2. Catastrophe for several
catfish, an eel, and a foot-long
carp, last seen in extremis in
the water-filled hole.
3. Solution to the mystery
Of a disappearing willow tree
beside the lock in the HOO
block Of Twenty-ninth street.
4. A trace of the worldly
travels of one William Edwards
Beaven, late of the United
States Merchant Marine, and
Built About 1880
5. A repair headache for the
National Capital Parks main
tenance crew for the canal, but
no progress in the canals es-
cape attempt.
The water in the lock, built
about 1880. apparently ate its
way gradually through and
under the heavy timber cribbing
and plank Sheeting spiked to it,
according to Hugo Habluetzel,
in charge of canal maintenance
and long familiar with the
antique waterway.
! The water, he said, was foiled
by a sound clay seal thought
fully placed under the canal by
Evening star., 1961-04-07
Four in Baltimore
Held, Seen Part
Of Bandit Rino
FERNDALE, Md, April

FER NDALE. Md. April
AP).-The arrest of four per.
sons having loaded pistols, face
masks and stolen cars in theil
possession may have uncovered
a professional robbery ring
Anne Arundel police said today
Capt. George w. Wallham
chief of county detectives, sale
the four were arrested yester.
day in Baltimore and more ar.
rests may be made.
The captain said the suspects
had five guns, two stolen cars
and several plastic face masks
Officers are questioning the
three men and a woman about
a series of robberieS in Balti-
more City and Anne Arunde,
County, including a $4,000
holdup of Eddie's Supermarket
in Glen Burnie.
Bandits used face masks ir
the 1859 supermarket robbery
police said.
Evening star., 1961-04-07

to cheer the yacht carrying
President Kennedy and Prime
Minister Macmillan and to
bring attention to the yet-un-
finished George Washington
Memorial parkway.
Using signs, the citizens ex-
pressed fear initial parkway
construction would be doomed
by apartment development in
the area.
Evening star., 1961-04-07
Maryland Bans
Two Films and
Cuts q Third

BALTIMORE, April 7 (AP).
Two movies dealing with
nudity, THE Immoral Mr..
Teas" and "Shangri-La," were
banned in Maryland yesterday
as being obscene.
The State Board of Motion
Picture Censors also recon-
mended five cuts in a third
film, Career Girls on a Naked
Holiday" before it is shown in
Maryland.
Maryland is one of the few
States which still censor
movies. This was the first time
IN six years the board has for
hidden exhibition in the State
OF an entire motion picture.
Board Chairman c. Morton
Goldstein said he disagreed
with the two-man majority ban
Of "Shangri-La" because it
treats its subject matter in a.
comic vein.
Evening star., 1961-04-07

tions as populations of sub
urban counties in these dis
tricts continue to expand.
by winning a referendum
fight at the polls in 1862 there
is an excellent chance that the
1868 session of the General
Assembly will heed the wishes
of the majority and pass a
more equitable bill"
At-Large Vote
State Attorney General
Thomas B. Finan has held, in
formally, that a referendum
would force the election of the
9th congressman by voters at
large.
Mr.. GUIDE said an at-large
election would be far better
than to accept the Tawes bill
which was sponsored to main
tain Democratic control of
seven districts without regard
to the constitutional rights of
equal representation"
In what appeared to be a
reference to Mr.. Lee, Mr.. GUIDE
said a referendum was the only
chance of obtaining an equit-
able rediStricting and added:
Doubts as to the merits of
this by any member of the
General Assembly can only be
construed as Endorsement of
the unfair bill which has
emerged from this session"
Mr.. Guide added he is enlist
ing the support of other G. o.
P. groups to back a Republican
sponsored bill which called for
compact districts of approxi-
mately equal population.
Evening star., 1961-04-07
Thieves Get $500
In Safe at Goodwill

Thieves broke into Goodwill
Industries on Dodge street,
Rockville, early yesterday and
removed a 200-pound safe con-
tanning 5000. Montgomery
County police reported.
The intruders entered the
building through a window in
the basement. No merchandise
was taken, police said.
Evening star., 1961-04-07

its builders to prevent leaks.
Instead of going down, the
water ate sideways through the
canal wall, and this led to the
puzzling partial disappearance
of the willow tree, and its ulti-
mate destruction.
The 25-foot tree suddenly fell
into what is now a hole 20 feet
deep and 80 feet across, but
which started as a small hole
Thursday, according to en-
ployes in the Washington Gas
Light service building next
door.
Lock Drained
The tree was cut up and re-
moved, and District workers in
vestigated the possibility that a
sewer line at the edge of the
hole was the culprit. Suspicion
then shifted to the lock, which
had been almost completely
drained for spring cleaning.
1t was pumped again Mon
day, leading to the discovery of
the hole. More pumping finish
ed off the fish. Among the beer
cans and debris in the lock
was an expired Merchant Ma
rine Identification card which
belonged to Mr.. Beaven, to
whom it was issued in 1946. He
is no longer listed as active by
the Coast Guard.
Mr.. Habluetzel said that re-
pairs with stone, concrete and
timber will not delay the canal
boat season.
Evening star., 1961-04-07
Teachers to Meet

The Washington Chapter of
the American Association of
Teachers of Spanish and Portu-
guese will meet at Q pm, to-
morrow at the Pan American
Union Building.
Evening star., 1961-04-07
Message to Kennedy

Thirty residents of the Swan
Creek area lined the Prince
Georges County shore of the
Potomac River yesterday both
Arizona sun., 1961-12-14
THE NEGRO PRESS CREDO

The Negro Press believes that America
can best lead the world away from racial and
national antagonisms when it accOrds to every
tman, regardless of race. color or creed, his
human and legal rights. Hating no man, fearing
no man, the Negro Press strives to help every
man in the firm belief that all are hurt long
as anyone is held back.
Arizona sun., 1961-12-14

This momentOus crisis In the nie Of or
ganized mankind may be likened to the cui
minating stage in the political evolution OF the
great American Republic the stage which
marked the emergence Of unified community
of federated states.
Arizona sun., 1961-12-14
Golden To Address
Dinner For R. wilkins

New York--Harry Golden, the
distinguished North Carolina
journalist, author and philosopher,
will be the featured speaker al
the New Years Day dinner in
tribute to NAACP Executive Sec
retary Roy Wilkins. Mrs. Jessie
Vann. chairman of the dinner COM
mittee announced this week.
The dinner to be held at the Ho-
tel Roosevelt in N. Y. Jan. will
honor Mr.. Wilkins for his 80 years
of service and leadership in the
Fight for Freedom as top ex-
ecutiye of the NAACP.
A life member of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, Mr.. Golden is
author of such bestsellers as "Only
in America" "For 2 cents Plain
and Enjoy, Enjoy His latest
book, carl Sandburg" is an In
innate account of his good friend,
the great poet and biographer OF
Abraham Lincoln.
Although long resident in Char
lotte. N. c., Mr.. Golden has been
a consistent and outspoken liberal
constantly spoofing segregation,
white supremacy and other ex-
[pressions of bigotry. He has lect-
ured effectively throughout the
South as well as elsewhere in the
country.
Arizona sun., 1961-12-14
McCRACKIN IS JAILED FOR
HELPING TO EvICT FARMERS

White-supremacist officials of
Fayette and Haywood Counties,
Tennessee, are jailing those who
come to aid the embattled Ne
groes of the area. Imprisoned since
Oct. % is Rev. Maurice McCrackin,
well-known Cincinnati pacifist.
McCrackin is treasurer of Opera
tion Freedom organized last year
to aid tenant farmers and share
croppers evicted in retaliation
against efforts of Negroes to reg
lister to vote in the two counties.
Operation Freedom set up Tent
City for homeless families, rented
land and made crop loans to per-
secuted Negro farmers.
McCrackin was in Brownsville,
Tenn, to settle the years crop
loans and investigate the needs
arising from the impending evic-
ton of so more families in Hay
wood County. Neither friends nor
newSmen were allowed to attend
his trial for '1oitering." Upon be-
ing asked how he pleaded, he re-
piled: 81 am pleading for justice
Arizona sun., 1961-12-14

Baltimore - The first memorial
ever raised to a Negro and the
first to be placed in the Maryland
State Capitol was unvailed at An
napolis last month. Matthew Alex
ander Henson, we should remember
was the co-discoverer of the North
Pole with Robert Edwin Peary.
Henson was born near Nanjemoy
in Charles County, Md. three years
after the signing of the Emancl-
patton Proclamation. When he was
II years old he ran away from
home to escape a step mother
who often mistreated him. His
first Job was in a restaurant In
Washington. He attended briefly
the N Street Elementary School.
In Washington he became acqualnt-
ed with an old sailor named Balti-
more Jack and from Jacks tales OF
the sea became interested In be-
coming a sailor. After about year
in Washington he walked to Baltl-
more and shipped as a cabin boy on
a schooner commanded by Captain
Childs. The captain became inter-
ested in Mat to teach him simple
Mathematics and the rudiments OF
navigation.
After five years as sailor ne
left the ship and got a job in a
Washington hat store. While here
he met young Lieutenant Peary
who hired him as a man-of-all-
work for an expedition to Nicara-
qua. The two became fast friends
Arizona sun., 1961-12-14

in Africa, India, Cincinnati and
Brownsville and everywhere" Nc
Crackin refused to pay the fine and
was jailed. He Immediately went
on hunger strike which he intends
to continue until his release.
Rev. Richard Hudson, secretary
of Operation Freedom was arrest
ed almost as soon as he arrived
in Brownsville to continue Nc
Crackin'S work. Freedom Riders
Heath Rush and Ed Bromberg
have been arrested twice and jail
ed overnight each time since they
went to Haywood County to see
what they might do to help.
David Henry, Philadelphia paci-
fist and McCrackin supporter. was
jailed in Brownsville Nov. IA on a
trumped-up speeding charge.
Friends are concerned for Henry
because no one has seen him since
his arrest. 1.-The jailer knocked
me through the door when | asked
permission to visit Henry" Rev.
Ernest Bromley reports.
Arizona sun., 1961-12-14

Charles area charge that the COM
panies and the Metal Trades Coun-
Gil had negotiated collective bar
gaining agreements which provide
for separate racial seniority lines
limiting Negroes to unskilled and
menial jobs. Under terms of the
agreement, the affidavits allege,
Negro workers are denied equal
seniority rights and opportunity to
develop skills which would qualify
them for more desirable job classi-
fications. Negro workers are or
ganized into separate locals of the
Metal Trades Council in this area.
The AFL, Mr.. Hill said, had
been informed of these practices
in 1854 and again in 1855. Never
theless, no action has been taken
to rectify this situation even though
the Metal Trades Council is a di-
rect agency of the Federation.
Twenty-Five Negro workers, MA
ACP members in Atlanta, charge
that the Atlantic Steel Company
bars qualified Negro employees
from participation in the in-service
training program; that Negroes
are initially hired in menial and
unskilled job classifications ex-
clusively; and that the company an
the United Steel Workers of Ameri-
ca have negotiated separate racial
seniority lines in the collective bar
gaining agreement in violation of
Negro workers seniority rights and
their opportunities for promotion
to production and skilled craft oc-
cupationS.
Their complaint further charges
that Negro employees are the
victims of dishonest and false job
classifications which designate
them as laborers and keep them
Arizona sun., 1961-12-14
CuBANS PUSH NEGROES OFF JOBS
REFUGEE INFLUX
CAUSES THREAT TO
NEGRO ECONOMY

Washington - The mounting in
flux of Cuban refugees and es-
capees from the Castro regime
in the past two years has created
a serious threat to the economic
security of Negroes in the Dade
County (Fla.) area, a Senate Sub
Committee was told.
The assertion was contained in
testimony by H. Daniel Lang, ex-
ecutive director of the Greater
Miami Urban League, at hearing
conducted by the Senate Sub-Com-
mittee on Refugees and Escapes.
"In Dade County (MiamD the
Negro worker forms the largest
number of bottom-of-the-ladder la
borers or marginal workers." Mr..
Lang told the Senators, adding he
had noted a sharp uptrend in al
legations by Negroes that they are
being systematically pushed out
of jobs to make room for Cubans"
who accept the employment "at
reduced pay rates"
He said he has found consider
able resentment and hostility in
the Negro community toward the
fntmigrating Cubans who, they
charge, are receiving preferential
treatment in school and other fa-
cilities.
The UL official told the Sub
Committee there is widespread
feeling that the Cubans are en-
joying freedoms of choice and
other advantages which have been
denied Negroes, thereby seriously
curtaiIing equal opportunity in an
area where unemployment rates
for Negroes are approximately
twice those for whites.
Mr.. Lang expressed the opinion
that the problems arising from the
Cuban influx demand attention in
volving "a closer look at the causes
and their resolution" He assured
the Senators that facilities and CO.
operation of the Miami League
are available to aid in plans to
remedy the situation.
Arizona sun., 1961-12-14
Proctor Gets The
Niqeria Peace Post

It was disclosed in Washington
that DIR. Samuel Proctor, president
of North Carolina A & 7 College
was slated to become director OF
the Peace Corps in Nigeria.
The past was turned down by
several college presidents for vari-
GUS reasons. Among them were
Drs. Stephen Wright Of Fisk. Je-
rome B. Holland of Hampton and
Lawrence Davis Of Arkansas A
& M. When DR.. Proctor, accepted
the search that had been on for
two-months was ended.
The post which pays up to $50, 900
a year informed sources say is re-
garded as one of the most sensitive
and challenging in the Corps. Top
administration aids helped recruit
the most outstanding candidates.
Meanwhile. Atty. Marjorie Law
son was named to the Equal 0p
portunity Committee Board.
Arizona sun., 1961-12-14

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.
Named in the complaints are
General Motors Corporation plants
in Cleveland and Atlanta; the
Eirestone Rubber Company, Pc
troleum Chemical Industries, Inc,
Davidson Chemical Company, Lone
Star Cement Company, and Cit
Con Oil Co., all located at Lake
Charles. La; the Atlantic Steel
Company, Atlanta; and the Re-
public Aviation Company, Farm
ingdale, Long Island, N Y. All
of the companies are engaged in
production under government con-
tracts which forbid racial discrim-
ination in employment.
Among the AFL-CIO trade
unions charged with collaboration
with employers in discrimination
against Negro workers are ALL
CIO Metal Trades Council; Oil,
Chemical and Atomic Workers In
ternational Union; and the Brother
hood of Railroad Carmen of
America.
The two railroads are the Illi-
nois Central and the st. Louis and
San Francisco lines.
In presenting the complaints to
John Field, executive director of
the Presidents Committee, Mr..
Hill noted that the AF CIO Metal
Trades Council is directly response
BILE to,the national labor federation
and, accordingly, can lay no claim
to local autonomy.
Affidavits signed by Negro work
ers in the oil refinery, chemical
and rubber plants in the Lake
Arizona sun., 1961-12-14
new RIGHTS
ARTICLE URGED

/ Lansing, Mich. = Incorporation
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 for
the state Constitutional Convention
here on Nov. 80, on invitation OF
James Pollock, chairman of the
committee.
He pointed out four areaS-hous-
ing. employment. pre-college ed
ucation, and law enforcement-in
need of strong constitutional pro-
lection.
Specifically he charged:
-"Rigid patterns of housing dis
elimination exist today through
out this state. There is no full and
open housing market available
here. Negroes are relegated to
Isubstandard housing and are unable
to rent or buy housing accemn1o-
dations without color limitations
outside of certain geographical en-
closures.
with segregated i1Dnsihg
comes segregated schools. Edu-
cation officials, until recently, have
prone to look upon the growing
proportion of racially homogen-
Gus public schools in the North are
as deleterious to equal educa-
tional opportunities and education
al growth as the dual school sys-
tenn 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 exclusively for
whites, for the simple reason that
no Negro has ever been so en-
ployed, and the employer, the
union or both do not have the
courage to break new ground.
1T is a commonplace that IN
the North the police tend to dis
gard the civil rights of Negroes
and to treat them as criminals
without proof of crime"
The NAACP counsel recommend
that the committee adopt broad
proposal already before the con-
vention. This proposal, No. 1915,
reads as follows:
mo person shall be denied the
equal protection of the laws of the
state or any subdivision thereof.
No person because of race, color
creed, religiony national origin,
ancestry, age or sex shall be sub
iect to any discrimination in any
civil right by any other person or
by any firm, corporation, institu-
ton, or labor organization, or by
the state or any agency or sub
division of the state. Each person
shall have the right to equal op-
portunity to secure employment,
education, housing and public =ac-
lcomm0dationS. -
Arizona sun., 1961-12-14
Mat Henson Is Given Recognition
Photo Clovis CampDen

and Lieutenant Peary made Hen
SON his assistant. They made six
unsuccessful trips attempting to
reach the North Pole. Twice Hen
son saved his friends life; once
from an attack by a musk OK and
another time from starvation Peary
said of him: He is my most valu-
able companion. l could not get
along without him.
On the day that the Pole was
finally reached Peary sent Hen
son on ahead to make final OBJ
servations. Peary was unable to
walk because Henson had been
forced to amputate Peary's toes
with an axe to avoid gangrene.
Three-quarters of an hour later
Peary arrived on dog sled and
confirmed the discovery OF the
North Pole.
Peary received many honors for
his successful expedition to reach
the North Pole. One was promotion
to the rank of Rear Admiral. Hen
son was praised for his skill and
courage and for his mastery OF
the Eskimo language but lecture
tour arranged for him failed to
attract audiences and his book "A
Negro At the North Pole" sold
very few copies.
For a time the world forgot
about the man who was actually
the first to reach the Pole. But
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