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Evening star., 1954-10-06
Golfer Sinks First Ace

John w. Stevens made his
first hole-in-one, a four-iron
shot, on the par-3, 150-yard
fourth hole at Langston today.
He was playing in the company
of Walter Hughes, Vic Edmond
son and Joe Collins.
Evening star., 1954-10-06
Two Forty-Niners Out
For Rest of Season
By the Assoeiafed Press

PALO ALTO. Calf, Oct. g.
San Francisco Forty-Niners line
men Art Michalik and Don
Burke both were operated on
yesterday for torn ligaments of
the left knee and will be out for
the season.
DR.. William O'Grady, team
physician, said excellent repairs
have been effected" but talked
only OF seeing the boys back in
the lineup in 1855.
Evening star., 1954-10-06
By Bob Hanson

One Of the lesser known but
most appreciated coaches in
the District public high schools
is Dutch Axt Of Eastern.
Evening star., 1954-10-06
CoIonials Up in Air
Over Use Of Passes
Against West Virginia
By George Huber

To pass or not to pass is one
Of the problems facing George
Washington as 1t gets ready for
Saturdays game against West
Virginia at Morgantown, w. Va.
Last year against the Noun
taineers, GW's passes backfired
when five were intercepted. Only
Z of "a were completed. although
one was for GW's only touch
down. It was a 79-yard play be-
tween Quarterback Ray Fox.
now gone, and End Richie Gas
kell.
On the other hand. GW's
ground gain was worth only rs
yards, and the Mountaineers
may be even better defensively
this year if their 1856 upset over
South Carolina last week is any
indication.
CIV Running Improves.
George Washington's running
attack showed a big Improvement
last week against Virginia even
though the Colonials lost their
third straight game. Len Glenn
niecki was the big gun, but
Quarterback Bob Sturm and
Halfback Bill Weaver also helped
a bit as the Colonials increased
their average to 1873 yards a
game.
Undoubtedly, though, West
Virginia will be on the lookout
for Ciemniecki, and the Colonials
will have to keep the Mountain
GERS loose with passes. If they do
pass, there always will be the
memory of those five intercept
tions last year, two Of which led
to touchdowns.
GW's passing game, as en-
sineered by Sturm and Arnie
Tranen, has been only $3.50
thus far, with 20 competitions in
~ attempts for 306 yards. Two
of GW's four touchdown have
been through the air.
Wyant Dangerous in Air.
West Virginia has played only
one game so no pattern of attack
can be gained from that. The
Mountaineers just had enough
ground power to run over South
Carolina and tried only five
passes. The only completed one
got one of their touchdowns.
Mountaineer air defenses per-
mitted six of IA completions for
q total of only A yards.
West Virginia again is run by
Quarterback Fred Wyant, a jun
ior who has been guiding Coach
Pappy Lewis split-T since his
opening game as freshman. The
word from Morgantown is that
a pass can be expected from
wyant at any time. He has a
pair of fine receivers at ends in
Joe Papetti and Billy Hillen,
and his backfield mates, such as
Joe Marconi. Bobby Moss, Carl
Norman and Dick Nicholson,
also are highly-rated receivers.
Evening star., 1954-10-06

ADVERTISEMENT.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-05-08
Negro Lawyers Form
New Association

DURHAM, N. c., May 8, (Spec-
iaD - At a meeting held in the
Masonic Building in Durham,
North Carolina, on Friday, April
%, an assembly of practicing Ne
gro attorneys in North Carolina
formed and organized an associa-
ton dedicated to the purpose of
elevating the proficiency and pro-
fessional standing of members of
the association and increasing their
service to the community. The or
ganization was named the North
Carolina Lawyers Association, and
membership in the organization is
open to all persons admitted to
practice before the bar of any
state who are residents of North
Carolina.
Practicing attorneys from over
a wide area Of the state attended
the initial organizational meeting.
Among those signing the register
of attorneys present were: E. R.
Avant of Durham; Mckinley Battle
and Harvey Beech, of Kinston;
Charles Bell. of Charlotte; Rob-
ert Bond of Wilmington; w. Frank
Bower, E. H. Gadsden and CD.
Gates, of Durham; Mitchell Gads-
den, of Clinton; Harry f. Johnson,
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U.S.. SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS
14TH AMENDMENTS GUARANTEE
OF EQUAL PROTECTION OF Law
Case Hits At Exclusion Of Minority
Groups From Jury Service
See Opinion AS Indication Of Courts
Action In School Segregation Cases

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 8
(DSN)-The u. S. Supreme Court,
in upholding the guarantee of equal
protection of the law as stated in
the 14th amendment, in a unani-
nous decision Monday said that the
constitutional guarantee against
discrimination are broader than a
two-class theory based on differ
ences between whites and Negroes.
1t said different treatment can
be based ION some reasonable clas-
sification" but gave no definition
as to what this might be.
In an opinion by chief Justice
Warren, the high tribunal over
turned the murder conviction of a
Mexican, Pete Hernandez, who
complained that persons of Latin
American blood are excluded from
jury service in the Texas County
where he was tried.
Texas sought to have the court
reject the appeal, contending Mexi-
cans are not a separate race and
that the jury which convicted Her.
nandez twas composed of white
men,"
"No discrimination against the
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Father II Held
For kiIIingSon

A 77-year-old father, Judge Tur-
ner, fired both barrels of a double
barreled shotgun in Staying his "a
yearold son in his home at 401
Minerva ST., here shortly before
midnight Saturday night.
According to reports, the son
who lived with his parents at 401
Miner va St., went home shortly
before midnight Saturday, changed
his clothes and went into the room
where his father and mother were
in bed, and with hammer in his
hand told them "I'm going to kill
you both," whereupon, his father
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Anti Discrimination Move Brings
Threat OF FiIibuster In tn Debate

WASHINGTON, May S, (Spec-
iaD-A surprise anti-discrimina-
ton amendment threatened Tues
day TO snarl Senate action on a bill
to revise the Taft-Hartley labor
relations act.
Chairman H. Alexander Smith
(R. N. j., of the Senate Labor
Committee predicted a filibuster
by Southern Democrats if the
Amendment is called up.
Sen. Lehman 3D., Lib, N. ",
served notice on the Senate that
he would "do everythirg in my
power to bring this pr sal to a
VOTE"
Lehman's Amendment caught the
Senate by surprise yesterday as it
opened debate on the revision bill,
aimed at carrying out most of
President Eisenhower's labor rec
concentrations.
AS drafted, the Lehman proposal
would make it an unfair labor prac-
tice for either an employer or a
union to discriminate against any
worker because of race, creed, col
or, national origin or ancestry"
Sen. Ives R., N. W had ready
a similar amendment.
The Senate operates under rules
permitting unlimited debate and
Southern senators have used this
right in the past to prevent civil
rights legislation from reaching a
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Negro Appointed
Supreme Court
Justice In Jamaica

KINGSTON, Jamaica.-(Global)
For the first time in Jamaica's
300-year history as a British COL
ony, colored jurist has been ap-
pointed Chief Justice of the Su-
preme Court. He is Justice John
Edward Dostin Carberry.
The new chief justice was born
in Grenada, West Indies, in 1893.
He received his early education at
the Grenada Grammar School and
was admitted to the English bar
lat Middle Temple in 1925. In
1927, he joined the Jamaica Civil
Service as Clerk of the Courts in
Westmoreland Parish. He has act
ed and served as Resident Magis-
trate for Westmoreland and Han
over, and as a Justice of the Su-
preme Court on various occasions.
In 1949, he was named Senior
Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court
and appointed Acting Chief Justice
in 1861.
Justice Carberry's appointment
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-05-08
Adv. Award Given
Associated
Publishers

BOCA RATION, Fla, May s.
(SpeciaD-An international adver-
Using Award of Excellence was
made this week to Associated Pub
fishers, Inc, of New York City,
Sales representative of the Sun
Reporter and 27 other Negro news
papers.
The honor was bestowed by the
National Advertising Agency Net
work, a group of 27 advertising
agencies located throughout the
United States and Canada, who
each year hold creative competi-
ton among members.
Associated Publishers award was
won in competition with more than
400 entries. 1t was for service adj
vertising in publications devoted 20
Continued on Page Two)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-05-08
State Progressive
Voters League In
Annual Meeting
A. w. Wells Is
Elected President

Clarksdale, Miss. = The Missis-
sippi Progressive Voters League
closed its annual state convention
here Thursday night with the
adoption of the following resolu-
ton:
Whereas the year 1868 will
mark the Tooth anniversary of the
signing of the Emancipation Proc
lamation, which was intended to
make all Negroes in America free;
and since this objective is only
being accomplished step by step;
and realizing that the ballot and
suffrage privileges can gring about
the full realization of that great
proclamation: be it resolved, that
the state convention of the Pro-
Eressive Voters League go on rec
ord as fostering the following OBJ
lectlves in pursuance thereof:
Il. To encourage all americans
to register and vote in all city,
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FEDERAL GRAND JURY DECLINES
TO INDICT FORREST COUNTY
OFFICIAL ON COMPLAINT OF
RESPONSIBLE NEGRO CITIZENS
Had Refused Right To Register
And Qualify To Vote
NEGROES LISTED AS SERVING
ON GRAND JURY HEARING CASE

JACKSON, Miss, May 5.-(DS
N)-The Federal Grand Jury which
concluded its work here this week,
according to unofficial but we'll
founded reports, declined to indict
the circuit clerk of Forrest County
for refusing to register Negro cit
liens of the county, thus prevent
ing them from becoming qualified
to vote.
The evidence on which the in
dictment was asked had been gath
cred and was presented to the
Grand Jury, according to the I'M
official report, by agents of the
United States Department of JUS
tice who had spent considerable
time in Forrest County in direct
investigation of complaints made
against Circuit Clerk Cox by some
of the most responsible Negro citi-
zens of the county, among them
doctors, undertakers and other
business and professional men.
The move to indict Circuit Clerk
Cox was not the first time he has
been faced with the efforts of Ne
gro citizens to obtain the right to
register and vote in the county.
A civil suit was filed against
him in the federal court two years
ago by group of Negro citizens
but was dropped when the appellate
court in New Orleans ruled that
Ehey had not exhausted all the
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and contacted the college Chaplain,
the Reverend w. T. Peters, VIII
notified Dean H. A. Wilson. Dean
Wilson placed a call Immediately
to Sheriff Middleton, Claiborne
County, at his Port Gibson, Miss.
office. Having no pulmotor, Sheriff
Middleton called the Natchez Fire
Department for the equipment.
Both the sheriff and the Natchez
Fire department arrived within
As minutes after the call for help.
The body was recovered a few
minutes before the arrival of the
equipment by the Alcorn night
Waterman, Dovie Pegues, and Char
les Humphreys, 1853 graduate
of Alcorn, and presently a member
of the Armed Forces. A makeshift
graphing hook was used. Previous
ly, divers had failed to find the
body which was in nearly the
same place where he was seen to
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ALABAMA PE0NAGE TRIALS
START THIS week IN FED. COURT

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, May g.
Especially - Seven white farmers
charged with holding Negroes in
slavery and beating them will face
trial here Monday in Federal Dis
trict Court.
The men were indicted by fed
eral grand jury last September on
peonage charges for holding the
Negroes as slaves on their farm in
Sumter County near the Missis-
sippi line.
The defendants are members of
the Dial family and operate a large
farm west of Livingston.
The men are charged with fore
ing the Negroes to work in fields
by paying the fines of the Negroes
held in Mississippi jails. The Ne
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ALc0RN FRESHMAN IS VICTIM OF
DROWNING SUNDAY, May End

ALCORN, Miss. May 5 Especially
B. j. Noman, Jr., Alcorn fresh
man, drowned, Sunday, May 2, dur
ing swimming outing with a
group of boys from the college. His
home address was 2101 Barrett ST.,
Jackson, Miss.
According to eyewitness accounts
Norman and another student, Yer
non Anderson, were attempting to
SWIM across the lake behind the
MIA camp in one of the colleges
pastures when Norman tired or
caught cramp and yelled for
help. Anderson who was far ahead
and only a few feet from shore
proceeded to the bank where an
other boy, James Hill, threw him
a log and an attempt made to get
it to the distressed youth in time.
Before the log was towed to him,
Norman went down.
Leaving Anderson behind at the
scene the other boys went for help
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-05-08
Thugs Ransack
Schools; Leave
Khan Trade Mark

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, May 3 =
(SpeciaD = Eight Little Rock
Schools, among them the Gibbs
and Capital Elementary schools
for Negroes, were ransacked and
plastered with the hate xxx let
tiers by hoodlums in the past three
months, school officials have dis
closed.
One of the schools, Capital Hill
has been ransacked five times, and
in three cases the letters XXX
were splashed in red paint on the
buildings.
Police, school and Negro officials
do not think the evil work was
done by members of the Klu Klux
Khan. But Little Rock residents
have been specializing on whether
the dreaded Khan terrorists are on
the move again.
However, l. S. McClinton, colored
president of the Arkansas Demo-
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GrambIing Prof.
Accepted As
Member OF Social
Science GROUP

GRAMBLING, La. Especially -
j. Edward Blackwell, member of
the social science faculty at Gram
bling college, has been accepted
for membership in the Southwest
Social Science Association.
The announcement was made by
Roy L. Mcpherson, secretary-trea-
sure of the association from his
office at Southern Methodist Uni
versity, Dallas, Texas.
Mcpherson said Blackwell was
one of seven Negroes recently ac-
copied by the organization for the
first time. =
Blackwell attended the associa-
TONS spring convention in Dallas
during the Easter holidays.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-05-08
State Republican
Leader Buried
In Meridian
c. T. Butler Funeral
Rites Held Monday

MERIDIAN, Miss, May (Spec-
ial) = Funeral rites were held at
st. Pauls' Methodist church here
Monday morning for c. T. Butler,
nationally known political and Fra
ternal leader who died at his home
here last Friday night following
a brief illness.
A successful contractor d
builder, Mr.. Butler became ma
tionally known as a leader of the
Perry Howard organization of the
Republican Party in the state serv-
ing as secretary of the Republican
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Regional Conference is expected to
use the money to study the situa-
ton in the South if and when in
tegration is decided upon by the
Supreme Court, and then to help
in building cooperation and mutual
trust among local whites and
blacks so as to avoid friction.
Marion Wright of Lincoln Falls,
N. c., is president and DR.. George
Mitchell of Atlanta, director Of
the council. DR.. Rufus Clement,
president of Atlanta University,
is chairman of the executive COM
mittee of the organization which is
dedicated to working along inter-
racial lines.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-05-08
Negro Groups
Hit GreenviIIe
Baseball Policy
Want Negro Players
On League Team

Greenville, Miss, May 3.-(Spe-
ciaD-A committee of the follow
ing organizations met Friday night,
April %:
l. Inter Denominations Minis
tiers Alliance.
2. Washington County Negro
Democratic Club.
3. Negro Voters League of Wash
ington County.
a. Washington County Negro
Business League.
5. All fraternal organizations.
We the undersigned committee,
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SOUTH PUSHING HARD TOWARD
REAL DEMOCRACY FOR ALL
SAYS MRS. Jane SPAULDINc

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. 3 Especially
TN the South there is oppor-
tunity, challenge, vitality, and a
forward march toward the achieve
ment of real democracy for all of
it's citizens"
That was Mrs. Jane Morrow
Spaulding, special consultant, War
Claims Commission, Washington,
D. c., speaking Tuesday night at
the Eighth Annual Town Hall
Meeting sponsored by Club I'M
perial, Inc, at the 10th Street
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-05-08
Ta|madge Hits SRC Ford Grant

ATLANTA, Ga, May 3.-(Spe-
ciaD-Striking at the recent grant
of more than 100000 by the Ford
Foundation to the Southern Re-
gional Council, Gov. Herman Tai
madge of Georgia declared through
his political organ, the Statesman,
last week that the money would be
spent to foster a fight on segre-
CATION in the South. Talmadge
sought to arouse Georgia taxpay-
ers by claiming with far-fetched
logic that the fact that founda-
tons are tax exempt meant that
the whites of the South were help
ing finance an organization seek
ing "to destroy our way of life"
The truth is that the Southern
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-05-08
Jeff Davis County
Negro Candidate
Is Defeated

PRENTISS, Miss, May 5 (DSN)
The eyes of Mississippi Tuesday
were centered on Jeff Davis Coun-
ty school board election in Dis
trict four where a Negro, Isaac
Hartzog was a candidate, the first
of his race to bid for public Of
flee since the reconstruction days.
Hartzog was defeated by Law
renee Polk, a white candidate, by
a 80 to 139 vote.
There are 553 registered voters
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Nearly Quarter OF Million Negro
Farm Homes Have Been Improved
Through Extension Program

Nearly quarter of million Ne
gro farm homes have been improv-
ed in construction, maintenance,
diet of the family, care of the chill
dren, or in family relations as a
result of the Extension Service
home demonstration program, the
U. S. Department of Agriculture
has announced in connection with
the observance of National Home
Demonstration Week, May 2-8.
AS part of the annual observ-
ance, over a million and a half
rural women, including 10000 COL
ored homemakers, will join in a
program designed to call attention
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-05-08
Prentiss Institute
Holds 47th Annual
Commencement
Diplomas And
Certificates To
81 Graduates

PRENTISS, Miss. May 8 (Spec-
iaI = The Attn annual gradua-
ton exercises of the Prentiss In
stitute were held in the school
auditorium on Thursday afternoon
April % Hundreds of students and
visitors were present. The morning
was spent in the inspection of ex-
hibits in the various trade and art
departments. This display of stu
dent skill and accomplishment is
an important part of the commence
ment program.
Promptly at 2 o'clock the gown
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to their achievements in home i'm
provements and to the benefits
they have gained through member
ship in home demonstration clubs.
The programs will include tours
of rural homes in thousands of
communities, teas, and meetings.
In part, this is recruitment drive
for new club members. Theme of
the observance is: "Today's Home
Builds Tomorrow World"
A look at the achievements of
colored homemakers shows that
they have 1924 organized clubs
with membership of 128,695, and
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J. S. SUPREME COURT UPH0LDS 18th AMENDMENT
Negroes File
$4,000 Suit
Against Registrar
Of Voters
Charge Trickery Used
To Deny Right
To Ballot

NEW ORLEANS, La, May -
(CpeciaD = Five Negroes of Ra-
pides Parish filed a petition ask
ing a total of $4,000 against the
Rapides Parish registrar of voters
for denying them and other Ne
groes the right to register. The
class action suit, which is a dec
laration of right damages. and asks
for an injunction, was filed in the
U. S. District court for the West
ern district of Louisiana at Alex
andria by Atty. Louis Berry of
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Negro On Kinds County Grand Jury

A Negro is serving on the Kinds
County Grand Jury which began its
sessions Monday. He is A. ]. Ed
wards of 1912 West Silas Brown
Street an employee of a local
laundry.
The foreman of the Grand Jury
is Sam Hughey, a Jackson tire
dealer.
Other members are: r. E. Still
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Federal Court Rules
Negroes Must Be
Admitted To
Louisiana School
Sought Admission
To Study Law
And Business

LAKE CHARLES, La, May s.
(SpeciaD-a federal court ruled
last week that Negroes must be
admitted to Southwestern Louis
lana Institute at Lafayette, La.
The United States District Court
for the western division of Louis
lana rendered that decision in con-
nection with a suit filed by four
colored residents of Lafayette who
desired to matriculate at South
western.
The plaintiffs-Clara Dell Con-
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YWcA Initiates
Radio Program
For Teen Ayers
Mrs. c. C. Mosley
Program Director

The Branch YWCA is happy to
announce "TEEN TIME HOUR.
This is Radio Program designed
especially for Teen-Age girls and
boys. The Program is sponsored
as public service by Dotty Cab
Co. And Station WJXN. Special
facilities have been installed at the
Branch for the accommodation of
this program. The purpose of the
program is to provide further OPP
Continued on Page Eight
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Baptist Church.
She presented herself as meth
er a visitor nor a critic from the
outside of the South but as a
Southerner, Kentucky born who
welcomed all opportunities to see
of change and growth going on in
the Southern States"
She asserted that "our own
American society has exploded in
a flood of new ideas, new stand
ards, changed customs and goals.
Continued on Page Six
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House Committee
Would Stop Use
OF Mails For
Biased Stories

Observation-Disclosures Ed
ward H. Reese (R., Kans.) said
last week that the House Post Of
flee and Civil Service Committee
would investigate the use of the
mail for sending out anti-Negro,
anti Semetic literature under the
Continued on Page Two)
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According to reports, McNair in
a detailed confession told how he
went to Florence and got Con-
stable Mullican and swore out af-
fidavits for the arrest of three
companions with whom he had en-
gagged in a drunken fight on the
road between Byram and Florence,
and of how he shot the constable
to death with his own gun after
he was unable to locate his three
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hospital after recommendation by
a grand jury.
At Whitfield, authorities said
they did not know when Noel would
arrive. They said he would re-
celve the usual treatment but would
have a special guard because of
the murder charges against him.
They said the usual time for OBJ
servatlon and tests run about 80
days but it may be shorter or ex-
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