'4'; : i . ■■ k I : IC 9 I - X y ç L FBI Catches 2 Suspdpts^ ¡M.4, A Newspaper Witnesses “Sinister” Plot With A r i- JT By LLOYD HOLBECK ?'■ ' Gonslruclve LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UPD - The FBI looked for a connection (UM» M C Aì 8TÀNB AH.B Tuesday between a smashed "sinister plot" to blow up a Negro Policy college dormitory and the bombing of a public school warehouse in a city that has had a series of integration-provoked blasts. VOLUME 29, NUMBER 101 Thè FBI said its agents early MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1960 PRICE SIX CENTS Tuesday caught Emmett E. Miller, 44, and Robert Lloyd Parks, 39, y. touching a lighted match to a Sen. Kennedy slow fuse that was supposed to set off 40 sticks of dynamite under a < <>• ;$ 'staircase of Budlong Hall at Phi­ 1 lander Smith College. Wins Democratic H [B They later seized Hugh Lynn Adams, 33, of Bassett, Ark., and ac­ cused him of being an accomplice, Parly Nomination;’ Two hours after the FBI agents & seized Miller and Parks, a bomb SPORTS ARENA, lot. M blew a 15-by-G-foot hole in the » side of a public school warehouse. gelei (UPI'- Senator John >i IIS t g NO ONE HURT Kennedy won the Democrat!« i gl The explosion didn’t hurt any­ presidential nomination WW* body but it also blew out seven 1 F O' White Grocer Calls ■\'\i g windows in the home of Odell nesday night with a smash« 1 »’■ T Withlns and caved in the back wall ing first-ballot victory th^F By STANLEY S. SCOTT JW of Mrs. T. T. Roundtree's home. will pit him against VUo •• ’ vl ■ ' W®si: ÿ ' Little Willie Marvin Gant, two years old, was rushed to John Both Withlns and Mrs. Roundtree President Richard M. Nfejlfe H • I .J Gaston Hospital Friday night by his mother, Mrs. Josie Mae Gant, are Negroes. B J. J. Casper, special agent in in the November 1294 N. Watkins, after receiving multiple burns about the body ;>• • - charge of the FBI office in Little when a connected pressing iron fell on his stomach. Rock, declined to comment on the ,s-:- Mrs. Gant stated that "Willie must have tangled his arms or possibility of a connection between legs up in the ironing cord that was on the foot of the bed and the bombing and the attempted ATLANTA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY DEPOSITS $10,000 - The bombing. pulled the connected iron over on his body." Atlanta Life insurance Company, in practicing its policy of finan­ VICTIM OF BURNS COMFORTED - Willie Marvin Gant, two years cial aid in the Negro market to provide finances for home build­ "I could not make any comment bld, who received first, second and third degree burns early Mrs. Gant arrived at the hospital on that," Police Chief R. E. Glass­ Saturday morning'when a hot pressing iron fell on his stomach, "about 1 a.rm., Saturday and wait­ ing, and making money available to the communities in which cock said when he was asked about ed until 5 a. m., before they gave is comforted by his mother, Mrs. Josie Mae Gant, (right), during it serves, has done it again. Pictured left to rights Mrs. Grace the possibility of a connection. my crying baby a shot." “They told Donaldson and Atty. A. W. Willis of Mutual Federal Savings and Another official source however, visiting hours at John Gaston Hospital. me to bring the kid back Tuesday Struggle Not Loan Association, 588 Vance Avenue, recelving ’$l0,000 deposit doubted that there was a connec­ (Staff Photo by Robert Morris)" and that my kid wasn't burned bad tion. enough to put anything on him,” from Charles W, Greene, director of public relations for the At­ Dr. R. E. Arnold, dean of in­ Mrs. Gant statement declared. For lanta Life Insurance Company. Watching with interest is Lt. George struction at Philander Smith, said WILLIE BLEEDS Lee, manager of the Memphis branch of Atlanta Life. Mr. lee no students were sleeping in the Mrs. Gant, mother of seven and Greene are members of the board of directors of the Atlanta dormitory when Miller and Parks children, stated further that “I were arrested. carried Willie home and sat up Negro-Mays Life with home offices In Atlanta, Ga, ALL HELD JOBS with him all day Saturday, and he The struggle of the Negro for (Staff Photo by Robert Morris) Meller, a West Memphis, Ark started swelling and bleeding." "I his rights is not for the Negro alone, bookkeeper; Parks, a West Mem­ didn't know what to do, so I went but for the healing of America, phis automobile parts Btore opera­ to Mr. Walter Doxey’s Drive-in President B. E. Mays of Morehouse tor, and Adams, a plant foreman, grocery down the street, he Is the College told an Atlanta University Troops Attack In Congo; were the first persons arrested un­ white landlord who owns the house Summer School audience this week, der a new-anti-bomblng provision A Negro teen-ager was fined $26 field of 3236 Edgeware, said he ask­ we live In, and he called John Gas­ in the new federal civil rights law. ed the coed to move and that when Dr, Mays said that he found his in City Court this week for re­ ton hospital and talked with Mr. fusing to move to the rear of a they didn't, he called police. The own motivation to oontlnue the The FBI obvmusry was informed Robert C. Hardy." Aid Is Asked Of Ghana Memphis Transit Company bus. 15-year-old coed was turned over struggle in his conviotion that the i. in advance about the dormitory Mr. Hardy is administrative head plot, although Casper refused to first to to Juvenile Court. time would come when even In By GEORGE SlBERA Police officers R. L. Williams and of operations for John Gaston. Mr, Mississippi a man would, be judged say so. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoo­ bama LEOPOLDVILLE (UPI) - Belgian shock troops smashed into S. A. Bibb testified that Miss Nel­ A suit was filed in Federal Court Doxey stated that after he talked as a human being rather than by ver in Washington called it a "sin­ Lone S lie Crlglar, 18, of 916 Alma, and here by 0. Z. Evers of 3618 Crystal with Mr. Hardy, "permission was the color of his skin. > Congo army strongholds Wednesday in a major offensive to ister plot." His nomination’ a 15-year-old companion were ar­ seeking to Integrate the city bus­ granted to bring the child to the Speaking on ways of social pro­ safeguard whites In the chaotic Congo. The Belgians wrested those of Kennec rested after they refused to obey es. A decision in this suit, filed Coates signed a temporary com­ hospital Sunday." Mr. Doxey fur­ test, Dr. Mays likened (he current Leopoldville airport from African troops and then seized the mtngton, Gov. Herschell orders to move back* four years ago, dismissed In June ther stated that "after the mother mitment ordpr for Miller and Parks Iowa, GdV. George > student sit-ins to the practices of capital city itself. The Incident happened on the of 1958, ordered re-heard by the arrived with the child at 2:30 p. Jesus who constantly flew in the and set their bond at $25,000 each. Kansas, Stevflnsbn,, C 4-Walker 8-Chelsea Memphis United States Supreme Court in m., Sunday there was no service He postponed their arraignment Meyner of ' December of 1958, recently, re-tieard face of established customs and The Congolese government an­ complete restitution of the sover­ Transit Company lint which is given this child until 6:30 p. m." mores and violated laws because he until 4 p. m., e4.t., Tuesday, how-' surprise no and taken under advisement by the nounced it had appealed urgent­ eign rights of the independent re- predominantly used by Negroes and DOXEY’S STORY regarded human minds and hearts ever, because they didn't have.. » Barnett of which is onelof the company’s three federal judges who dismissed ly to its slater African republic of public of the "Congo” tuid accused lawyer when they' first'eame before nominatic Mr. Doxey said that “after the as more important than man-made Ghana for troopsto .restore order NATO of mar^eoding the '‘con­ most popular Mines. The incident it, Is still pending. iawB. ihe students/ .M . did Jgaua-, him. i •• Mnnt'- of .Memphis Transit Com- people seemed relucant to put the "bgause ol.thB.taig'dw before spiracy" M .Coiigolese, . 'opcurred at Fifth and Mill- chlMkin ¡tRe ’hospiUj, T Wld them. h V . .W-are Negroes, compty U.'w troops could become avail­ r ■ The Sovietstateriteht altfo Budlong Hall and the wardioute ted to bedlam When .the t officials said several years ag(J. > If your child was burned this bad able." • ’ " V- charged that the United States are both within the* vlcmfty of -Kennedy and.tyndon.B.. you would have him In the hospi­ out bitterness and hatred. ’ The Belgian troops went into ac­ was "working (iiit ■ plans ' for ex­ Central High School,' Where para­ were placed before the tal.'.' Doxey stated that one of the Although Dr. Mays refused to tion in defiance of a Congo gov­ tending the intervention of the troopers ordered in by President convention. But tpose det intern^ told him, "we don't even saji which methods of. protept he ernment ultimatum that they re­ Elsenhower protected nine Negro tions were dwarfed by thé have ¿oss bandages to treat all oUr thought most effective*— violence turn to their bases Immediately.