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NronAuieu' A Vol. 5 Paul Robeson Dead At 77 After A Stroke PHILADELPHIA - Paul Robeson, 77, who thrilled and inspired world concert audiences with his rich bass voice, but who became a target of anti-Communists because of Man Is Arrested In Son’s Stabbing Augusta police Saturday arrested a 57-year-old man and charged him with aggravated assault with intent to murder in connection with the stabbing of his son. Sam Mims Sr., 1599 McCauley St., was released from jail on $2,500 bond on the charge. Mims’ son, Sam Mims Jr., 1599 McCauley St., was admitted to University Hospital Saturday morning Man Shot To Death At Club Reggio A 36-year-old Augusta man died early Saturday of gunshot wounds received in a Walton Way nightclub and police arrested the shying suspect Saturday afternoon. Bobby 0. Dyer, 36, 1502 12th St., died at 3:20 a.m. in University Hospital of wounds to the throat and right shoulder, police said, after he was shot in the Club Reggio at 9th Street and Walton Way at 2 a.m. Police arrested Homer Davis, 26, 1820 Cooney Circle, Saturday and charged him with murder. He was in the city jail. Det. Sgt. D.S. Lewis said Dyer and Davis had argued at the club after Dyer put Davis’ sister out of the club earlier in the evening. Black Barred From Nunn Speech by Bob Oliver A Black newsman was barred from covering a speech, being delivered, by U.S. Senator Sam Nunn at the Milledgewille (Ga.) Country Club earlier this month. Bill Green, WMAZ Television Macon, Ga , was on an assignment to cover the event when he was told by a club spokesman, “You cannot attend this banquet, because the policy of this club is not to admit Blacks,” according to Tim Dobbs, political editor for WMAZ, who accompanied Green to the event. A subsequent news release' ncMRIA. sMfWbSM tw \j r" - IMEMMb? wZ..Hn B J ,-| P Ul IM MB - LT. GOVERNORS ADDRESS BLACK PRESS WORKSHOP - Lt. Governors George L Brown of Colorado (2nd from right) and Mervyn Dymally of California (2nd from left) addressed the Mid-Winter Workshop of the National Newspaper Publishers Association -- the Black Press of America - during the closing banquet on Jan. 23 in the Virgin Islands. At left is Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett, NNPA president and editor-publisher, San Francisco Sun-Reporter/Metro-Reporter. At right is Publisher Ariel Melchoir, Sr., Daily News of the Virgin Islands and workshop host Sessions were held at Frenchman’s Reef Holiday Inn on St Thomas. P. O. Box 953 his praise of Russia, died at noon Friday at Presbyterian Hospital in Philadelphia, Pa. He had been admitted to the hospital on Dec. 28 after suffering a stroke. with a stab wound in the stomach, police said. Officers R. Williams and M. McCauley said the senior Mims Comedian Clay Tyson, 46, Dies OF Heart Attack WsMEHI Clay Tyson at recent Augusta appearance The statement “You can make it if you try” sounds old and corny, but comedian Clay Tyson showed how true it can be. After he suffered a crippling stroke in 1964 that paralyzed the left side of his body, many thought his show business career was finished. But they were wrong. The 5-foot-tall Tyson wanted to from WMAZ indicated Sen. Nunn wrote the station’s general manager a letter of apology. Nunn was unaware of the incident, he learned of it through a news telecast. He issued a statement condemning the club’s actions, and that if he had known persons were barred because of race, creed, color or sex, he would not have spoken and will not in any place that practices such discriminatory policies in the future, according to the letter. The Georgia Association of Newscasters president. Bob Young (WBBQ-Radio Augusta), said there should not have been AN OPEN FORUM FOR PEOPLE WHO CARE Robeson was an outspoken critic of the treatment that he and fellow Blacks received in America. He said that the Soviet Union was where he had found the greatest personal told them he and his son had argued at the house early Saturday morning. The son struck his father and the older perform so bad that he worked himself back into shape. Within a year, he was back on stage, happy as ever. And he continued to bring chuckles to the public for the next 11 years until he died last week at the age of 46 from a heart attack in the lobby of the Atlanta International Hotel. Starting his career as a tap a color barrier in the reporting of news. “For any organization to use race as an excuse to bar a reporter is ridiculous,” he said. Young commented that there must be respect for those representatives who have more of an access to private areas than other citizens. But, he expressed a desire that those who do control access to private areas would not attempt to interfere with a reporter trying to do his job. “I take it as a slap in the face to all reporters and an insult to the good judgment of the public, as well as a Augusta, Georgia freedom. There, he said, “I walked the earth for the first time with complete dignity.” Because of Robeson’s political views, his passport was revoked in 1950, at the man stabbed young Mims, police said. Police did not find the weapon used in the attack. dancer 30 years ago, Tyson subsequently became a singer and finally a comedian. More recently he was a frequent performer on James Brown’s syndicated television show, Future Shock. His pantomime of a lover taking his girlfriend for a car ride was what he called “my bread and butter laugh-getting routine.” As a featured performer with Brown’s revue during the past 10 years, Tyson credited the businessman-enter tainer with giving him a break when nobody else would after his recovery from a stroke. Brown said Clay was a gifted comedian “who wrote his material from real-life experiences.” Although he was a resident of New Britain, Conn, (where he was buried), Tyson was planning on moving back to his native city, Atlanta. He had appeared in revues with Ella Fitzgerald, Lionel Hampton and Pearl Bailey. He is survived by his wife, Geraldine; a son, Clay Jr., 19; three daughters, Cassandra, 20, Demetrich, 26, and Mis. Regina Myers, 25. disrespect to the letter and intent of the Constitution of the United States with its provision for freedom of press,” Young stressed. Green is a member and past president of the newscasters organization. The Georgia Association of newscasters on Jan. 20, passed a resolution encouraging its membership to report to the public the actions of those who exclude reporters because of race and to disengage themselves from newsworthy events in such areas where reporters are excluded solely on the basis of race. beginning of the McCarthy era. The Supreme Court ordered it i returned in 1958, and Robeson ' 1 spent the next five years in 1 Europe. For the last 11 years he had lived with a sister in West Philadelphia, refusing 1 interviews and seeing only ! family members and a few 1 close friends. Robeson was the son of a ' runaway slave who became a minister. Born April 9,1898, in Princeton, N.J., Robeson was the third Black admitted Rutgers and was named an All-American football player there in 1917. He was valedictorian of his senior class in 1919, and a Phi Beta Kappa. While studying law at Columbia, Robeson played professional football on weekends and took roles in amateur theatrical productions. Eugene O’Neill saw him in a play at a New York YWCA, was impressed by his powerful voice and physique, and persuaded him to join an acting company in Blacks Urge Julian Bond As President By Thomas A. Johnson Leaders of the National Black Political Assembly have announced that they intend to draft State Senator Julian S. Bond of Georgia as an independent candidate for President of the United States. This marks the first attempt to form an independent political organization by the f our-year-old amalgamation that grew out of the First National Black Political Convention in Gary, Ind., in March 1972. It also puts the group in conflict with Black elected officials who are under strong pressure to support their parties’ political choice. Many of these officials were among the assembly’s strongest supporters years ago. The assembly’s leaders said that Mr Bond best represented that assembly’s campaign to create “a society based on humanism, democracry and self- determination, free of oppression and exploitation of humans by other humans; an end to racism, sexism, militarism, imperialism and all the insane derivations of monopoly capitalism.” Mr. Bond’s reaction to the assembly move was to say he was “flattered” but that he had no plans to involve himself in national politics “until the 1976 legislative session is over in March.” Ata news conference at the offices of District 1199, Drug and Hospital Workers Union, Mtangulizi Sanyika, chairman of the assembly’s political and organizational development said the group was “entering Presidential politics as independents with no intention of compromising or negotiating with the Democratic or Republican parties.” He said the effort would offer “our people and the American public a choice, a human agenda" so they “will not be forced to choose between the lesser of two evils.” Mr. Sanyika, a Boston-based political activist whose name was formerly Hayward Henry, said that Mr. Bond had been Provincetown, Mass. Robeson starred in O’Neill’s “All God’s Children Got Wings” at the Provincetown Playhouse, and appeared at the same theater in the title role of “Emperor Jones.” He made his debut as a concert singer in Greenwich, Conn., in 1925, and was an immediate success. In 1930, Robeson made a triumphal concert tour of Europe, and also played the lead in “Othello” in London, where he was acclaimed. A.G. Gaston Kidnaped A G. Gaston A.G. Gaston, one of the nation’s wealthiest Black men, was kidnaped Saturday in what police said was a ransom attempt “that fell apart at the seams.” Gaston, 83, was rescued within hours after a man broke into his home and beat him and his elderly wife and abducted Gaston in his own car, Maj. David Orange of the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department said. “This was definitely a ransom kidnaping that fell apart at the seams,” Orange said. Charles L. Clayborn Jr., 44, a Black man who last worked in a Las Vegas, Nev., nightclub, was charged with kidnaping, robbery, burglary and two counts of assault with intent to murder. Gaston, who rose from chosen out of a field of five Blacks. The other four under consideration were Democratic Representatives John Conyers Jr. of Michigan and Ronald V. Dellums of California; the Mayor of Gary, Ind., Richard G. Hatcher, and Dick Gregory, the comedian and social activist. The assembly’s co-chairman, Mashariki Kurudisha, said that the group would have chosen a woman candidate had they found one “better, able to carry these issues.” Ron Daniels, the assembly chairman, who lives in Youngstown, Ohio, said that the organization would also assist in the convening of the first National Committee for People’s Politics in Washington, DC., Feb. 20-22. The committee will attempt to unite them “Black, third world, and white groups and persons” with similar interests, he said. The assembly, with support of the committee, will then seek “ballot status for the candidate in 25 to 30 states,” he said. The assembly’s own third National Black Political Convention is scheduled for Cincinnati March 17-21. The group’s first convention in 1972 attracted some 8,000 Black Americans of diverse political interests to Gary. Many of the elected officials and civil rights people dropped out of the organization after nationalists pushed through resolutions calling for the “dismantiDing of Israel” and an end to school busing to achieve racial integration. Fewer than 2,000 attended the group’s second convention in Little Rock, Ark., in April 1974. LESS THAN 75% ADVERTISING January 29, 1976 No. 43 Paul Robeson poverty to make his fortune in insurance, real estate, a funeral home and other ventures, was found in the back seat of his car about two hours after he was forced from his home. Officers halted the car and found Gaston in the back seat, his head covered by a paper sack and his body by a blanket. “I’m A.G. Gaston. That’s the man that got me,” they quoted Gaston as shouting. He was taken to a hospital where Mrs. Gaston already was being treated for multiple head cuts and a dislocated shoulder. Gaston received a head cut. “I’m alive, he shouted to relatives and friends as he was carried into the hospital on a stretcher. Orange said the kidnaper got into the couple’s large house by boring enough holes with a brace and bit to cut a large enough opening in a back door to wiggle through. The Gaston home has an alarm system, installed after a bomb was thrown into the house in 1963 during Birmingham's racial disorders. There is an alarm on the house itself, but Mrs. Gaston said she had forgotten to set the house alarm the night before. Mrs. Gaston said she was awakened by a noise in her husband’s room, went in and Editorial Earth, Wind And Fire And CBS - Thanks During the main thrust of the civil rights movement in the 1960 s entertainers, Iboth Black and white , marched in the front lines of battles in Montgomery, Birmingham, Selma, and Jackson. Some of the biggest names in the entertainment business contributed their time and talents to provide needed financial resources in support of the NAACP, SCLC, SNCC, CORE, National Urban League, and other groups leading the fight against discriminatory laws and an unjust social system. As we know, the Nixon Years brought a “benign neglect” and a wanton conspiracy to defame and destroy, through the CIA, FBI and other subversive means, tfag civil rights movement and its most militant leadership. During these dark years, other civil rights-oriented organizations have been weakened by the lack of financial support. On the second day of the New Year, there was an encouraging sign that at least one aspect of the period of corporate neglect of urban needs may be gradually coming to an end. More than 14,000 persons jammed the Oakland Coliseum to see Earth, Wind and Fire, in the first of a series of “Save our Cities” benefit concerts. Earth, Wind and Fire, one of the hottest groups in the country, contributed* their services, and so did promoter Bill Graham. And CBS Records picked up the tab for all promotional costs for the concert. Co-chaired by Dr. Margaret Mead, noted author and anthropologist, and Mayors Maynard Jackson of Atlanta, and Kevin White of Boston, the “Save Our Cities” Committee has planned a series of six concerts to benefit two organizations actively involved in the business of improving the oualitv of life in our cities - the National Urban < Coalition and the National Council of Negro Women. Top executives of major recording companies serve on the committee and are providing the leadership for this national effort to re-focus public attention on the urban uisis and to mobilize resources to deal with this crisis. Earth, Wind and Fire, who are products of urban life, and the leader- s»iip of the CBS Records Group are to be commended for helping to hunch this vitally needed campaign to “Save Our Cities.’’ On Broadway he starred in “Porgy and Bess,” “Black Boy,” and “Showboat,” and also appeared again in “Othello” in 1943. That ran for 296 performances, an all-time record for a Shakespearean play on Broadway. Robeson’s first movie role was in “Emperor Jones” in 1931. In the movie version of “Showboat” in 1936, he starred with Irene Dunne. He also made many hit phonograph records-among them “01’ Man River”-and sang often on radio. saw him struggling with a masked man. The man, armed with a hammer, swung on her. “He hit me two or three times on the head with the hammer, as hard as he could,” she said. She was stunned but conscious. The man pushed her onto her husband’s bed, handcuffed her hands in front of her and tied her feet to the bed with a piece of rope. She struggled free of the rope and called Smith & Gaston Funeral Home and asked them to get the police. Deputies Richard H. Landers and Frank W. Clifton found Mrs. Gaston lying on the floor, still iia nd cuffed, bloody but still conscious. Gaston’s car was missing and the two deputies began patrolling the area, looking for it. In the meantime, the abductor drove around, making several stops. Officers said he apparently was looking for partners. Eventually he got on Alabama 79 northeast of Birmingham and was sighted at about the same time by Landers, Clifton and other policemen. Landers said they saw Gaston squirming under the blanket in the back seat, yanked open the door, guns drawn, and arrested the man. 2W