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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-01-30
Harvard Has First
Negro Pres. Of
Student Council

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-(Special)
- For the first time in the his
tory of Harvard University, a Ne
gro has. been elected president of
the university's student council.
Elected to the post was Clifford
Alexander, 20, of New York city,
junior majoring in American
government.
Alexander was elected president
after serving as vice-chairman and
treasurer Of the Harvard Student
union in his freshman year.
He also served in such capaci-
ties as delegate to the National
Students Association and president
of the New England Region of
the NSA.
He is active in college sports,
playing basketball, soccer, base
ball and golf on his Lowell House
team.
Alexander attended Fieldston
High School in New York prior to
coming to Harvard. While at Field
ston. he served as president of
the Student Council, chairman of
the Student Leaders conference
for New York High schools, and
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-01-30
united NATIONS HEARS RUSSIAN
DELEGATE ACCUSE WESTERN
COUNTRIES OF INCORPORATING
In CONSTITUTIONS CONCEPT
OF White SUPREMACY
Debate Arose On Covenant Of
Civil And Political Rights
American And British Delegates
Charge Russian With Using Body
AS Sounding Board For Propaganda

United Nations, N. Y, Jan. 25
(SpeciaD-A Russian delegate last
Wednesday accused western coun-
tries of having incorporated into
their constitutions the concept of
the supremacy of the Write Race.
He asked the United Nations sub
commission of the prevention of
discrimination to recommend that
governments legislate to put stop
to such propaganda.
The attack by Nikolai p. Emely-
anov drew a vigorous retort from
Justice Philip Halpern of the
United States, who commented on
the "brazen effrontery" of the
Soviet Union in submitting the pro-
posal in view of conditions within
its own borders. Although anti
semitism is forbidden by name in
the Soviet, Judge Halpern said, it
is "virulent under another name
anti-cosmopolitanism."
Justice Halpern added that the
Soviet Union was using the sub
commission as a sounding board for
propaganda and emphasized that
the resolution was out of order be-
cause it had been submitted in the
name of the Soviet Government.
All members af the panel are sery-
ing as individuals rather than as
governmental delegates.
Mr.. Emeylanov had asserted that
there was "a burning need" to
what he termed "the ever
extending racial discrimination" in
many countries, in violation of the
United Nations Charter. He cited
the situation in South Africa and
alleged that Western countries
were perpetuating the domination
of the Majority by a few.
Justice Halpern's views were
by Philip Hiscocks, Brit
ish member of the group, who ex-
pressed the opinion that the dis
cussion was futile because it dupli-
Gated arguments at previous meet
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-01-30
Negro Policemen
On Montgomery,
Ala, Force Soon

MONTGOMERY, Ala. Jan. 90
Especially - Police Commissioner
Dave Birmingham has promised to
place six Negro policemen on the
Montgomery police force within
three months.
Montgomery in doing this will
become the fourth Alabama city,
and the only major one, to employ
Negro law enforcement officers.
Eighty-seven Southern cities are
using Negro policemen.
Commissioner Birmingham said
plans call for eventually having
IL Negro police officers on the
force. They will patrol the Negro
district and have instructions to
confine arrest to members of the
Negro groups.
Police Chief G. L. Ruppenthal
said that the new officers will be
given extensive training at police
headquarters before being put on
Continued on Page Three)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-01-30
NEWLY ELECTED DEMOCRATIC
MAYOR NAMES NEGRO ENGINEER
COMMISSIONER OF water
SUPPLY, GAS AND ELECTRICITY
FOR new YORK CITY
Salary Of Job Is $4,000 Per Year
Arthur c. Ford First OF Race In Top Level
Job AS Head Of Important City Department

NEW YORK, N. Y. Jan. Is -
Especially The newly elected
Democrat Mayor of New York, Mr..
Wagner, last Thursday appointed
Arthur C. Ford, a Negro as Com
missioner of Water Supply, Gas,
and Electricity, to succeed Domi-
nick F. Paduano, a holdover from
the administration of Mayor Vim
cient R. Impellitteri.
The Mayor announced also the
designation of Joseph P. Spagna,
lawyer as Commissioner of Pur-
chase to succeed John Splain, who
held the office under Mayor I'M
pellitteri, and Mayor William
O'Dwyer.
Mr.. Ford who is 62 years old has
been a consulting engineer in the
office of the Borough President
of Manhattan since 1850. His ap-
pointment was described as nom
political, and as based solely upon
his qualifications as observed by
Mayor Wagner while he was Man
haitian Borough President.
Mr.. Spagna, who is so years old
and lives at 1912 East Fourth
Street, Brooklyn, has held public
office in the Federal service. Like
Mr.. Ford, he is a Democrat, but
his appointment was also charact-
erized as nonpolitical.
Both of the latest additions to
the Mayors official family will
succeed men whose original ap-
pointments were credited to James
A. Roe, Democratic leader of
Queens County, who supported for
mer Mayor Impellitteri last Sep
TENDER in his primary contest
with Mr.. Wagner for the Demo-
cratic nomination for Mayor.
Since taking over at City Hall,
the Mayor has ignored Mr.. Roe in
patronage matters. A few hours
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-01-30
Policeman Slain,
81 osIeml
League Foes Rally

DACCA, Pakistan, Jan. 20 -
One policeman was killed and "a
were injured yesterday during the
first anti-Moslem league campaign
in Barisol, home district Of Faz-
lul Hug, leader of the opposition
party.
Nuril Amin, the chief minister
of East Pakistan, said on his return
tonight from the island community
which is 100 miles upriver from
this provincial capital, that the
assault followed a two-hour dem
4onstration by students, during
which the unarmed police tried
TO break a road block.
The opposition to the league con-
sists of four parties who are form
ed in a United Front Party. The
parties began campaigning in the
province last week for the Feb.
Is election.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-01-30

New Pastor Pearl
Street AmE
Church Is YmcA
Week Speaker
Public Program At
Jim Hill School
Sunday Afternoon

Rev. 7. W. Gaines, new pastor
of Pearl Street AME Church, who
will address the public Sunday,
Jan. 81, on behalf of tho irish
Street Branch of the Young Mems
Christian Association as the climax
of the local observance Of National
Y. M. c. A. Week.
The public is cordially invited
to hear Rev. Gaines speak on the
subject, "Life's Second Chance"
The members and their families
are expected to attend.
The auditorium of the Jim Hill
School on Dalton Street has been
made available for this program
which will begin promptly at 4
o'clock pm. Sunday.
This is the third year in which
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Say Education In
The South Is OF
National Concern

BOSTON, Mass, Jan. 3d.
Especially - The weakness of the
United States today lies in its
ideals, DR.. Lindsey F. Kimball,
vice-president of the Rockefeller
Foundation, last Monday night told
a Boston audience of 1400 persons
attending the United Negro Col
lege Convocation held in that city
for the first time.
ain the very center of these
considerations lie the 10 per cent
of our population and the involve
ment of their institutions of high
err learning" he said.
Education in the South, he said,
is Of national concern, not only be-
cause graduates of the 81 Negro
colleges, all but one of which are
located in the South, are conduct
ing 10000 businesses and raising
the economic level if the country,
but because of sheer justice and
because 80 per cent of the leaders
of the Negroes are graduated from
these colleges.
DR.. F. D. Patterson, founder and
president of the Fund, which helps
to support the member colleges,
praised New England as a con-
structive source of moral and fl
nancial support for these colleges.
He pointed out that many of these
colleges had their beginnings in
the interest that New England pr
oneers had in the education of the
Negroes in the South.
The process of the growth of
the nation, he said, has resulted
in situation where youth, re-
CARELESS of race ond religion is
expected to measure up to sertain
standards.
To do this, he said, all youth
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-01-30
Howard Univ.
Denies Reports
Mordecai johnson
Will Resign As
President
Say Reports Of iii
Health, Congressional
Criticism "Contrary
To The Facts"

WASHINGTON, D. c. Jan. 21-
Reports circulated by two nation
al publications recently that DR..
Mordecai w. Johnson, president of
Howard University, would resign
soon were labeled as contrary
to the facts" by Otto McClarrin,
director of public relations at How
ard, in an interview today.
Commenting in particular on the
statement of one of the publica-
tions that President Johnson wants
to "step down now because of
his health, Congressional criti-
cism of his administration, and
Continued on Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-01-30
Mother Of Five
Victim In my
Man. Staying

TULSA, Okla, Jan. % Especially
Mrs. Blanche Beatty Wallace AZ,
pleaded innocent to murder
charge in Peas Judge Lewis c.
Johnson's court, Monday morning
and was ordered held in the county
Jail without bond. Preliminary
hearing is set for Monday, Jan.
25th. Common-law wife of Charlie
Wallace, sc, ex-professional bonds
man, she was charged with the Fri
day evening Staying Of Mrs. Elnora
Beck, 46, Wallace's secretary.
Wallace is now engaged in the
loan business and his office was
housed in the home of his mother,
Mrs. Mary Jacobs, 90, 1911 N.
Lansing St., where the fatal shoot
ing occurred. mi I
Mrs. Wallace went into the resi-
dent-office Friday evening and shot
Mrs. Beck through the left side
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-01-30
Columbus AAcP
Branch Studies
Discrimination

COLUMBUS, Miss, Jan. 25.-
Especially - Meeting in a regular
session on Sunday, January II, the
Columbus, Miss, Branch of the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People dis
cussed the following Is areas Of
activity in which there is definite
discrimination in Columbus and
Lowndes County:
/. The two downtown theatres
in Columbus have no rest room ia
CONTINUED on Page Two)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-01-30
Co.
Negroes Pay
Poll Tax For
First Time
Leaders Praise
Sheriff's Stand

Belzoni, Miss, Jan. 25.-(DSN)
Negro citizens of this Mississippi
Delta county have been permitted
to pay their poll tax, and have been
given the poll-tax receipt, prime
requisite for voting in the States
Democratic Primary elections, for
the first time in recent history.
Behind the change in the situa-
ton is an investigation last year
of complaints of Negro citizens
that they had been denied the right
to pay their poll tax by the U. S.
Continued on Page Two)
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versity of Mississippi at Oxford,
and the applicant has signed a re-
tainer requesting and authorizing
Attorney Thurgood Marshall, spec
ial counsel Of the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Col
ored People to act as attorney in
any and all matters pertaining to
the admission of the applicant to
the University of Mississippi.
Continued on Page Seven)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-01-30
Voters League
Reflects Officers

In the first monthly meeting of
the year, the Jackson Branch of the
Progressive Voters league recount
ed it activities for 1853 and charted
its goal for 1854. President James
A. White said that much had been
done in the last few years to gain
first-class citizenship status for
Negroes, particularly in Jackson,
The progressive Voters League,
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-01-30
Thurgood Marshall Gives Views On
Outcome Of School Segregation Case

are expecting something more than
a separate but equal" ruling from
the Court, and of saying that the
NAACP will follow a line of COM
plete cooperation, not upheavel, in
regard to the Courts decision.
He was also quoted as saying
that Negroes will abide by the deci-
sion peacefully, and that if the
Court outlaws segregation in the
schools he will advise Southern
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-01-30
ALc0RN GRADUATE APPLIES
FOR ADMISSION TO UNIVERSITY
OF MISSISSIPPI Law SCHOOL

COLUMBUS, Miss. Jan. 25 -
(DSN)-Medger w. Evers, acting
director of agency Of the Mag
nolia Mutual Life Insurance Co.
of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, and
1852 graduate of Alcorn College,
Mississippi's only state supported
institution of higher learning for
Negroes, has filed application to
enter the September 1854 session
of the School OF law of the Uni
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-01-30
STATE NEGRO TEACHERS ASSN.
URGE APPOINTMENT OF
NEGRO SUPERVISORS

quest in a letter transmitted to the
Governor and members of the reg
ular session Of the state legisla-
ture now in session here.
The Boyd letter is as follows:
To The Governor and to Members
of the Legislature Of the State
Of Mississippi:
Many negroes Of our State feel
that you have made an honest ef-
fort to improve the educational
opportunities Of our group. To us
Continued on Page Six)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-01-30
South African
Labor Party
Which Once
Backed White
Supremacy Cast
Lot With Natives
Move Backing Vote
Right For Natives
May Split Union

PRETORIA, South Africa, Jan.
25-(SpeciaD-The South African
Labor party came out last week
for the principle of universal
franchise for all literate inhabi-
tants."
Thus, the Labor party, which
once participated in a Cabinet as
the representative of white suprem-
acy, threw in it's lot with the Ne
gro and other colored inhabitants
of the nation.
The Liberal party also came out
flatly for franchise, ignoring the
Continued on Page Eight
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-01-30
STEWART DIVORCE CASE
HEARING RESET FOR FEB.

A reliable source told the JACK
SON ADVOCATE this week that
the testimony of two local detect
ives, if called upon, will provide a
new sensation in the Stewart Di-
vorce Case, originally set for trial
early this month, but has been re-
set for trial on February 9th, be-
fore Judge Pyle of the Kinds Coun-
ty Chancery Court.
The trial was reset for hearing
when Walter Stewart, defendant in
the case, was unable to appear on
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-01-30
Angry Buganda
Will Not Welcome
Queen Elizabeth

KAMPALA, Uganda--(Special)
Queen Elizabeth's scheduled visit
here will be cancelled if the ad-
vice of a high police official and
the feeling of the Buganda people
are followed.
The police official said the Queen
probably would be exposed to hos
tile demonstrations on the part of
the natives here who are angry
over Britain's custer and Danish
ment of their king, Mustesa, ii.
Expressing the sentiment of the
Continued on Page Eight
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-01-30
NIGERIAN CHARTER Farley
FACES PROBLEM INCORPORATING
BALkY SOUTH CAMEROONS

LAGOS, Nigeria, Jan. % (Spec-
ial) - The working of Southern
Cameroons into the contemplated
federal system for Nigeria is one
of the problems facing the con-
ference here on Nigerian con-
stitution.
British Cameroons, trust ter
ritory under the United Nations,
is attached to Nigeria. Northern
Cameroons has been quite content
to settle down with the northern
region of Nigeria but Southern
Cameroons has not been happy in
its association with the eastern
region of Nigeria.
The future of Southern Came
Continued on Page Eight
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-01-30
Insurance Head
Dies At Mayo

ROCHESTER, MINI. Especially
j. Leonard Lewis, az, president
of the National Negro Insurance
Association and active in civic
and political affairs, died here last
week following an operation at
famed Mayo Clinic. Born in Jack
sonville, Fla, Lewis is the second
president of the NINA to die in
office. The first was Frank L.
Gillespie who died in 1925.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-01-30

the original date due to illness.
The suit for divorce was filed
early last November by Mrs. Ruby
Stewart, wife of the widely known
and successful Burial Insurance
and business man. The divorce bill
charged the husband with cruel and
inhuman treatment, and asked for
$4,000 property settlement, 5000
per month alimony, and custody of
the two children.
In spite of the reports of pos
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Montgomery, Ala, Jan. 90
(DSN) Thurgood Marshall, famed
NAACP Lawyer in a copyrighted
interview with the Montgomery
Advertiser, influential Alabama
Daily Newspaper, Saturday, gave
his views on the outcome of the
school segregation cases now
awaiting decision by the United
States Supreme Court.
Mr.. Marshall was quoted by the
Advertiser as saying that Negroes
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-01-30

Columbia, S. c. The men were
fined a total of S1,573 on charges
of disorderly conduct.
The Army also announced it did
not plan to court martial or other
wise discipline the servicemen.
This announcement came from
Hugh M. Milton, Assistant Secre-
tary of the Army to a question
from Clarence Mitchell, director of
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-01-30
Cairo Movie House
Ends Segregation

CAIRO, Ill.-(Special) -Segre-
CATION in movie houses took a
beating in this southern Illinois
town last week when a theatre
formerly restricted to white per-
sons only agreed to admit Negroes.
The movie house changed it's poll
icy in the face of threatened court
action by the local chapter of the
Continued on Page Two)
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Jackson, Miss, Jan. 25.-(DSN)
The Mississippi Negro Teachers
Association last week urged the
employment Of Negroes in super
visory work on the state level, in
order to eliminate suspicion, and
to assure fair administration Of
the school equalization program
enacted by the recent extra-ordi-
nary session of the state legisla-
ture.
Prof. J. D. Boyd, president of
the organization, presented its re-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-01-30

medical society.
The 52-year old doctor was voted
into the Lauderdale County Medi-
SO, Society unanimously when ap-
piled for admission, and in turn
received Alabama association men,
bership. He was also made a men,
Der of the staff at Eliza Coffee
Memorial Hospital, where he had
been courtesy staff member pre-
Continued on Page Eighty
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-01-30
FIRST NEGRO DOCTOR JOINS
ALABAMA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

FLORENCE. Ala, Jan. q -
(SpeciaD-Th first Negro doctor
has been admitted as 8 'esynber Of
the Alabama Medical Association.
DR.. J. L. Hicks, general prac-
titioner at Florence for twenty
years, qualified for membership
after tbs Alabama Association
last year voted to admit Negro
doctors to membership after they
had been accepted by their local
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-01-30
African Prince
Takes Finnish
Girl For Wife

LONDON. = Especially - Inter
racial marriages between Africans
of royal blood and white Euro
peans again made the headlines
here last week.
The latest couple to "tie-knot'
was Miss Sinitta Toibonen, IT.
year-old blonde Finnish school
Continued on Page Two)
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Russians Accuse West Backing White Supremacy
NEGRO NAMED COMMISSIONER N. Y. WATER SUPPLY
Rockefeller Foundation Official Saws
Weakness Of u. S. Today Lies In Ideals

must have equal educational OPP
portunities.
eve are now waiting" he said,
f'to hear what the Supreme Court
will say on the issue of segrega-
ton and whether it can find in
the law the opportunity to say
what we know in our hearts, that
you cannot have democracy in ed
ucation while having segregation. "
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-01-30
Committee Urges
Hire Of Negro
Bus Drivers In
Washington
Urban League Praises
Stand On Job Bias

WASHINGTON - Especially -
The Washington Urban League,
last week commended the Public
Utilities Commission; the Capital
Transit Company; and the Street,
Electric Railway and Motor Coach
Union for the professed intentions
to break down the company's dis
criminatory hiring policy.
CONTINUED on Page Sky
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-01-30
JUSTICE Department PROBES
ARRESTS OF so SOLDIERS

WASHINGTON - Especially -
The army last week asked the
Justice Department to investigate
the arrest of so Negro soldiers
last Thanksgiving to determine if
the civil rights of the servicemen
had been violated.
The soldiers, including one lieu
tenant, were arrested when one of
them refused to move from a seat
beside white girl on a bus near
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-01-30
Arrest Two More
In $4,000 US.
Bureau Theft

WASHINGTON, Jan. Is Two
more persons were arrested last
week in connection with the $780,
900 robbery at the U. S. A. Blu
reau of engraving and printing.
Arrested in the latest roundup
were Charles H. Nelson, 27, a
bowling alley pin boy, and Edith
Irene Chase, "a, a domestic en-
ployee. Nelson is a cousin Of James
Continued on Page Four}
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-01-30
Local March OF
Dimes Group
Windup Drive With
Four Big Events
Public Asked To Turn
On Porch Lights At 6
O'Clock Friday Night

Four big events are scheduled
this week to bring to an end the
March of Dimes campaign for
1864: Mothers March, Bethlehem
Lodge of King Hiram Grand
Lodge, A. F. & "A. NJ; March OF
Dimes Ball, and a Basketball Elk
Continued on Page Six
The Southern Jewish weekly., 1954-01-29
ORLANDO, FLORIDA
Washington
Moods

WASHINGTON MOODS: Th e
State Department is watching with
close interest the dual of state
ments" between the Austrian Gov
ernment and the Jewish organi-
cations claiming lump sum from
Austria for heirless property left
by Nazi victoms The U. S.
Government favors settlement of
the Jewish claims and American
officials in Vienna have indicated
his to Austrian officials on more
than one occasion Washing
ION is therefore startled to see that
the Austrian Government blames
the Allies for it's alleged legal in
ability to meet the Jewish claims
Representatives of Jewish
organizations with whom t h e
State Department keeps in touch
on the claims against Austria have
been given to understand that the
Austrian Government may hear
unofficially from the American
authorities about it's refusal to
recognize the Jewish claims :.
The entire sum asked by the Jew
ish organizations amounts to $12,-
100000 to be paid within period
of several years The refusal
on the part of the Austrian Gov
ernment even to negotiate the
payment of this comparatively
small sum is considered in Wash
ington an expression of ill will
toward Jews, poorly covered up
by sophistry.
Doris Smolar)