Monday, February 26, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Black Muslims seek alliance with black nationalists
By John L. Taylor
CHICAGO—(UPI)—Elijah Muhammad, Black Muslim "Messenger of Allah," Sunday challenged other black nationalists and civil rights groups to join his segregationist followers in "the struggle for freedom, equality and justice."
The wispy elderly Negro in his star spangled velvet cap harrangued for two hours the largest crowd of Black Muslims ever assembled for the sect's annual convention, held annually on the birthday of Wallace Fard — a white man who founded the movement in 1930.
"A world of equality, justice and freedom is coming and
In remarks directed at other Negro leaders, Muhammad—born Elijah Poole on a Georgia farm about 70 years ago—said, "Since you're representing black people and you got your information here from the Muslims we should all unite. You teach black but you want the white man's love.
"I will join you if your organization can lead us to freedom, equality and justice," he offered. "Until then I will stand here on this platform."
Urges unity
they're whites fighting all over to keep the black man under their power but a savior has come." Muhammad said, "apparently referring to himself.
Muhammad said, "Black brothers, it is time for you and I to unite and stop letting white people divide us."
Muhammad said that every time the Muslims meet here he receives "dreadful threats from white people."
Shooting 'a mistake,' Wilkins tells students
ORANGEBURG, S.C.—(UPI)—Civil rights leader Roy Wilkins called on Gov. Robert E. McNair Sunday to admit state troopers "made a mistake" shooting into a crowd of Negro students Feb. 8 in a clash that ended with three Negro teenagers dead.
Wilkins drew cheers from more than 900 students returning to the South Carolina State College campus to resume classes today for the first time since the killings. Wilkins is executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
The patrolmen "shot without any gunfire coming from the campus—it was a tragic error," Wilkins said.
Greyhound also sent teletype messages to its various stations to be on the lookout for the waybill numbers immediately preceding and following Hammons' parcel.
It was learned that one package sent from Salt Lake City at about the same time Hammons' package was shipped, contained only a model airplane.
When he opened it at his home later, the package exploded, seriously injuring Hammons. He was taken to a hospital for emergency surgery but died shortly afterwards.
NASA said Hammons worked for the Health Physics Department of the Nuclear Systems Reactor Division of the Lewis Research Center in Cleveland.
The two nights before the clash Negroes had hurled bricks and bottles at passing cars and smashed windows in stores. They had been turned away from a segregated bowling alley, now ordered desegregated, near the campus.
The FBI here said the package was transported by Greyhound bus from Salt Lake City, Utah, and said it was "investigating all aspects of the case."
Greyhound officials, meanwhile, were trying to track down packages sent from Salt Lake City immediately before and after the parcel received by Hammons to see if there was any connection.
Samuel Hammons, 42, of Avon, Ohio, a scientist employed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), picked up the package at the Cleveland Greyhound Bus Station Saturday night.
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— The FBI and Greyhound Bus Line officials were investigating Sunday the circumstances surrounding the death of a nuclear physicist when he opened a package containing a bomb which exploded at his suburban Cleveland home.
Officials said Hammons "was cleared for secret work," and his job at Lewis included monitoring scientists for radioactivity.
He said whites would "stop all outside wars" to kill Negroes. But he said, "I am not afraid. I've taken that out of me."
FBI probes bomb death
On the night of the shootings, newsmen saw Negroes near the edge of the campus hurl "Molotov cocktails" at a warehouse complex, and a group of Negroes ripped off bannister rails and boards from an empty house to build a bonfire in the street.
McNair said a line of 50 highway patrolmen with buckshot-loaded shotguns opened fire after a patrolman slumped to the ground, bleeding from the head. He said officers thought the patrolman had been shot, but it was learned later he had been hit by a thrown object.
CHICAGO—(UPI)—R. Sargent Shriver, director of the war on poverty, gets his last chance at bat today before the Illinois Democratic slatemakers who may decide whether his political career is behind him.
Shriver's chance for slating good
Muhammad also attacked the late Malcolm X, of whom he has rarely spoken since Muhammad suspended Malcolm as his heir apparent following Malcolm's applauding of the slaying of the late President Kennedy.
Shriver's chances of being slated for either governor or U.S. senator improved slightly when state Treasurer Adlai Stevenson III, the pre-meeting favorite for the senatorial nomination, apparently made an unfavorable impression on the slaters.
Shriver pleaded a prior commitment when the slatemakers heard party office seekers in Springfield Friday, a part of the slatemaking sessions for the June primary.
Slating by the party leaders virtually assures nomination in the primary.
Stevenson, who, like most other leading Democrats appeared reluctant to run against Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirk森, insisted in his appearance before the slatemakers that he was the strongest candidate for governor.
Muhammad said Malcolm—who went on to found a rival Black Nationalist movement before his Feb. 21, 1965 assassination in New York City—"double-crossed you."
"He (Malcolm) was a wicked hypocrite. He did not die an unjust and unrighteous death." The standing room only crowd of more than 8,000 rose from its seats and cheered.
Stevenson apparently ruled himself out for the Senate nod, which he said he would accept if the governorship was not forthcoming.
By Bob Butler Kansan Staff Reporter
Friday underground flicks not so fleshy as expected
As a result, members of the Society can now afford to rent more and better films for campus performances.
Underground movies—a term which conjures up visions of nude bodies doing things on the screen which polite society won't even talk about—apparently are becoming a serious affair at KU.
Just how good Friday's collection was is a matter of debate. Some films, like Ed Emshwiller's "Totem," a photographic study of a ballet, were serious attempts at producing a work of art, some observers noted. Other films, like Storm DeHirsch's "Peyote Queen" and Marie Menken's "Dwightiana," left the viewers wondering about the producers' "aesthetic" objectives.
The Film Society had reason to laugh, too. Friday's shows were both packed. The crowds waiting for tickets to the second show stretched down three flights of stairs and out onto Jayhawk Boulevard. A similar showing of experimental films filled the Kansas Union Ballroom three weeks ago.
But thrill-seekers who came to see the KU Film Society's program of underground films Friday evening at 303 Bailey Hall may have left somewhat disappointed. The only film about sex was George Kuchar's "Hold Me While I'm Naked," and the audience was laughing too hard to care about any skin flashing across the screen, anyway.
The Film Society so far has not scheduled any more under- ground films this semester.
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