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5percent — Part 1
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jem. Mr. Wingate sald he was!
frightened for his own lite:
divulge any details of the
ovement.”
““I¢ I tell you too much about
is organization, I'll be ‘the
date Wingate.” he said.
So he refused even to give:
rent he was talking about a)
young Harlem hate group’
the “Five Percenters.”!
can-
ed
funder investigation,
‘Members of the group told the
police they had adopted the;
name “5S per centers” because!
“85 per cent of the Negroes are|
hike cattle, 10 per cent are Uncle
irqms, and we are the 5 per cent
lwo know what belongs to us.”
ihe Police Department re-|
comment when asked if
ay. Wingate was serving as in.
termediary between the police!
jand the “Five Percenters.”
‘Growing Bapidly’
Mr. Wingate sald the move-
ment. was “growing rapidly”
land that “the lid may blow off|
“Perhaps TH be called an
alarmist.” he said, “so if you;
want confirmation, you can calli
some key police officials." He’
Imentioned, among others, Depu-
Ity Chief inspector Harry Tay-|
Hor, who he said had met with!
representatives of the move-
fment.
Ins]
night that Harlem was on the
verge of racial violence’ “We
not.” he said, “in a danger-
pector Taylor denied last;Watts look like a tea part;
ashington Préceedings
|gate, all Whitey wants ts to
keep us quiet.’
‘wy said: ‘Never mind what
—¥
6:26 PM. until Monday noen.
Foreign Affairs subcommit-
YESTERDAY
(Oct. 14, 1965)
THE PRESIDENT
Continued at Bethesda Na-
Ambassador to the Soviet
; Union Kohler.
tee received briefing trom .
{Whitey wants. If Fruryo A¢t is
c
in better position to get funga-
evist hogs Mateese
Use of Funds Explained
+ During the summer there was
val Hospital. ‘DEPARTMENTS & AGENCIES a tense moment, Mr. Wingate
THE SENATE Defense department re- /Said. when “5,000 kids threat-
Not in session. quested 45,224 draft quota for
Finance Committee began
hearings on suger. bill passed
by the House yesterday.
Internal Security subcom-
mittee issued report on vir-
tual elimination of churches
and Roman Catholic schools
in Communist Cuba. !
Civil Service Committee
met on its version of the
House- passed Federal pay
tise DILL
Korean War.
“Agriculture Department an-
nounced national allotment
of 6 million acres for the
1966 crop of upland cot!on.
SCHEDULED FOR TODAY
(Oct, 15, 1965)
President Johnson conva-
lesces at Bethesda Naval Hos-
pital.
Senate meets at noon;
House not in session,
_Completed Congressional ac- |} NASA officials on Gemini
tion on a $4.3 billion suppie- j VI orbital mechanics and ren-
mental public Works appro- | dezvous hold news conference;
pristions bil; adjourned et | 2 PM.
THE HOUSE
jat the National Urban League“‘crack down,” Mr. peinzate said gram that gave Harlem respite
conference that Harlem was in but they remain defiart:
‘imminent peril of bloodshed: !BO¥S. :
that in that event the disorders, move. ;
December—biggest since the {
‘Let ‘em crack down, £
lened to break us asunder.” That
twas when Haryou-Act had
‘fallen $400,000 behind in pay-
ments,” the director went on.
To keep faith with “the kids”
jwho had been given job com-
Imitments by 8 staff member.
Mr. Wingate said: reached
un and took the money, I didn't
igive a continental what account
iit came from.”
.. The agency has been criticized
itor “commingling” Federal and
“elty grants.
_ It would be “a lie” to suggest
iany wrongdoing, Mr. Wingate
. said, The books are not in dt-
“der, he explained, simply te-
fcause of ah emergency program
sinvolving the payment of than-
‘sands of Harlem youths, 2 pri-
rom a threatened “long hot
:summer” of violence.
“You think just because the
‘Mr. Wingate warned that if jong hot summer has ended and
could spread to the Bedford-rtne public continued to “listen
Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn
and to Rochester and other up-\.
state cities,
“I come to you with a deep,
touch of fright in me." Mr.
storted press”
tguns” to contain Harlem.
Wingate told the conference. He’, “1 ca" see bloodshed in Harlew:
Cera to daca meeting with and then in Bedford-Stuyvesant,
aigh-level poli with nd then Rochester and Syra- say: ‘That’ belie
aigh-level police about an “omi- aD Ree eT a eenne ARE, uaES what I pelleve
nous movement” of youths pre-" i
pared to die. jsa
38 Deaths Recalled
ia.
the autumn chil] has begun
to the asinine. tying and dic-, ,
ot RE, and Givvthat the tension, is over.” Mr.
lit would have to rely on “naked munity is loaded with dynamite.
“Wingate said, “but our com-
kids don't give a
raice my hand to God
Mr. Wingate said the idea
‘for the emergency program
"Later, at the news conference was suggested fo him Inst June
‘in another room, Mr. Wingate 7 by Senator Robert F. Ken-
“There will either be a change said that he had talked to mem- nedy, Democrat, af New York.
in the situation.” he said. “or!bers of the group at the start of By July 1 the program had
you'll see something tha'll make'the
the deeply
sumer and had foun:
suspicious
He was referring to the Nej
Killed last August.
situation.”
5
rh ut Mr. Wingate told about
leaders of poverty pro;
Members of the movement: as follows:
‘Whitey (the white man) and
riots in the Watts ghetto of Los of the white man’s intentions in Washington: ‘Roy
‘Angeles, where at least 33 were regarding Haryou-Act. He de- ministrative impossibili
jscribed part of the conversation I replied
id 4,000 youngsters and a staff
about of 500. Mr. Wingate said: ,
“I'd been warned by friends
‘T can't tum
mill en.’
rams know the police are about to’ “The, kids said: ‘Look. Win- ‘So we ran the program and
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