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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-20
SENATE SUB committee ACTION
AGAINST SOUTHERN CONFERENCE
EDUCATIONAL fund CALLED AN
ATTACK UPON The NEGRO
Community OF The NATION
Says Racial Discrimination And
Prejudice Hurts America As Much
As Espionage Agents Who Turn Over
Weapons To A Foreign Country
Eastland Under Attack For His
Announced Role Of Chief Interrogator

NEW ORLEANS, La, Mar. 10.
(DSN)-Senator William Jenner,
chairman of the Internal Security
Sub Committee Of the United
States Senate has been asked to
call off the investigation of the
Southern Conference Educational
Fund, which has been set to begin
here Thursday of this week in a
letter signed by 80 widely known
Negro leaders from Is Southern
states.
The investigation Of the fund,
whose sole concern throughout the
years according to its records, has
been the evil effects of racial seq
regation in education, hospital ser.
vices, transportation, and other
public facilities, has been ordered
by the subcommittee as a result
of charges from certain quarters
that the activities Of the fund
makes it subversive organization
within the meaning Of the internal
security law.
The text of the letter to Senator
Jenner follows:
Dear Sir:
IN the opinion Of the under
Continued on Page Two)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-20
SAY STATE CAN FINANCE SCHOOL
PROGRAM WHICH WOULD SEE
ATTENDANCE IN ScH00lSALL
LARGELY White OR LARGELY
C0LORED and W0ULn MEETTh
APPROVAL OF SUPREME COURT
Say School Attendance Fixed By
Existing Pattern Of Residential Areas
See Filing Of Suits Upon Failure;
Legislature To Finance Program

JACKSON, Miss. March Is -
(DSN) - The Mississippi State
Conference of Branches Of the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People, last
Saturday, through its president,
DR.. E. J. Sturges, Columbus dent
list, in a letter to Governor White
said that Mississippi can morally
and financially afford to adopt a
school equalization program within
the framework of consolidation and
indignation which would see school
attendance all largely white or
largely colored but one which, at
at the same time would meet the
approval of the United States Su-
preme Court.
Meanwhile as the state legisla-
ture entered into its tenth week
still in a stalemate over the fl
nancing of the school equalization
program adopted as the law of the
state by the recent extra ordinary
session of the legislature, Cover
nor White, an ardent supporter of
the equalization program met the
threat of postponment Of financ-
Continued on Page Two)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-20
Bishop Jordan Back Home With
Part Victory Over African Racism

LOS ANGELES, Calf, Mar. IL.
-(SpeciaD -Fortified with writ
ten persmission to re-enter Central
Africa and remain a year, with
the privilege of requesting an ex-
tension of the time," Bishop Fred
erick D. Jordan, Los Angeles only
resident bishop in the AME church,
has returned home this week from
Central Africa.
Back in the states several weeks,
during which he reported his brief
but significant stay in Africa in
full to church officials, Bishop
Jordan will preach this Sunday at
his former charge, Ward AME, the
pulpit guest of DR.. Fred E. Steph-
ems, who followed him into that
position with the Ri. Rev. Jordan's
election to the AME Bishopric.
His wife, Mrs. Artishia w. Jor-
dan, who has shared the past two
years rebuffs of her husband from
the various state heads of Africa,
will speak to the Ward Sunday
School at $3.50 am. She is q for
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-20

ing meeting of the association
which holds it's election for the
important office of President only
every two years.
Prof. Burgers announcement
brought to two the number of &C
tive candidates seeking to succeed
Prof. J. D. Boyd, of Utica AIS,
President of the association who
must retire at the meeting in
Jackson next week.
While her friends say that she
will serve if elected, although she
is not regarded as being an active
candidate, DR.. Arenie c. Mallory,
President of Saints Industrial
School at Lexington, may also be
added to the list of candidates for
President of the Association. She
Continued on Page Seven)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-20
Leader Pledges
To Support MIRA
Plan For Africa

CAPETOWN, SOUTH AFRICA,
March 15-(Special)-Mr. William
Nkomo of Pretoria last week
shared the speakers platform with
a minister of the Dutch Reformed
Church at a Moral Rearmament
civic assembly which attracted
some 1000 persons to the local city
hall. The Meeting was multi-racial.
DR.. Nkomo founder and first
president of the African National
Congress Youth League, and the
Rev. George Daniel pledged them
selves to fight for the remaking of
South Africa on a new dimension
under the direction of God"
The Moral Rearmament group
Continued on Page Three)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-20
Nationwide Broadcast Features
Annual Negro Newspaper Week

chairman of the Newspaper Week
Committee.
On CHS from 10:45 to 100 pm.
EST, Thursday, March 10, NNPA
will announce the winner of Russ
wurm Awards of 1868. Participant
ing in the broadcast will be Will
liam G. Num-, managing editor Of
the Pittsburgh Courier; Julius Ad-
ans, general manager Of the New
York Age; Dowdal Davis, and one
of the Russwurm Award winners.
Negro Newspaper Week is Of
ficially sponsored by the member
papers Of NNPA but its observ-
ance is cooperated in by schools,
colleges, civic groups and individ-
uals over the nation.
Since their inception in 1913, the
Russwurm Awards have gone to
individuals, organizations and in
(Consinued on Page SKI
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-20

NEW YORK, Mar. 14-(Special)
The National Newspaper Pub
fishers Association will observe it's
18th Annual Negro Newspaper
Week, March Id to 20, commemor-
ating the founding of the first Ne
gro newspaper, freedoms Jour-
nal," by John B. Russwurm, in
New York City, March II, 1927.
Featuring the observance will be
broadcasts over the National
Broadcasting Company and Column
bia Broadcasting System networks.
The broadcast will feature q
dramatization Of news highlights
from the Negro press that made
headlines during 1868. Speaking
for the NNPA will be William o.
Walker, publisher of the Cleveland
Call-Post, and secretary of NNPA
and Dowdal Davis, general man.
ager of the Kansas City Call and
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-20
Negro Legislators
Predicted For La,

WASHINGTON, D. c. March is
Especially The election of Ne
gro legislators, first since the years
following the Civil War, was pre-
dicted for the State of Louisiana
in the next month by Alexander
P. Tureaud, New Orleans attorney,
considered the South's leading civil
rights attorney.
Tureaud spoke at the annual
Howard University Charter Day
Banquet Of the 87th anniversary
of the university. Earlier he had
been presented one of the annual
Howard Alumni Awards for out
standing postgraduate achieve
ment. Tureaud said that registered
Negro voters in Louisiana are in
excess of 100000. Their votes have
been the balance of power in sew
eral local elections, and the Negro
vote kept Louisiana in the Demo
(Consinued on Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-20
Southern Conference Educational
Fund Summarizes Its Activities

NEW ORLEANS, La, Mar. II
(DSN)-The Southern Conference
Educational Fund, onetime adjunct
of the Southern Conference for
Human Welfare which was dis
banded after a study by the Harv-
ard University Law School proved
that charges of being subversive
made against the organization were
unfounded, now faced with the
same charge plus an investigation
by the Internal Security Sub-Com-
mittee of the United States Senate,
which is set to start here Thursday,
issued the following summary of
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-20

mer vice president of the United
Council of Churchwomen of South.
ern California, is regarded as an
earnest missionary worker, and her
return and the recital of her ex-
periences is being awaited by
many.
Upon his arrival here, Bishop
Jordan viewed as "My most sig
nificant achievement. the sue
cess of our diplomatic contests Tin
the struggle for the AME admin
istration to re-enter Africa to as
sumo charge Of its missions there).
after congenial conferences
with the Prime Minister of the
New Central Africa Federation
cabinet officers, and members Of
Parliament, l came home with writ
ten permission to re-enter Central
Africa and tc remain for one year
with the privilege of requesting
an extension at that time.
"This assures the church full op.
portunity to pursue its work ir
Continued on Page Eighty
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-20
Robert Durr Nationally Known Editor
Writer Is Heart Attack Victim

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. March Is
Especially - Robert Durr, nation
ally known editor-writer died at
his home here Saturday morning
following a brief confinement a.
the result of a heart attack which
he suffered last week.
Durr who published the Birming-
ham Weekly Review, one Of the
states leading and most influen.
tial Negro. newspapers became ma
tionally known for his column
"Views and Reviews" which at one
time were published in the leading
Negro newspapers Of the nation.
A native of Mississippi he re.
ceived his early education at Piney
Woods Country Life School at
Piney Woods, Mississippi, and Of
ten returned to pay his respects
to the institution during his life
time.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-20
Site Bought
For New Kinds
Negro School

JACKSON, Mar. 15.-(Special)
"A 21-acre site for new Negro
elementary school for a heavily
populated area west of Van Wrinkle
has been purchased by the Kinds
County Board of Education. The
price was $4,000.
Robert Mayo, Kinds county sup
erintendent Of aducation, said the
Continued on Page Three)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-20
N. H. BURGER IS CANDIDATE
FOR PRESIDENT OF TEACHERS

HATTIESBURG, Miss. March Is
-(SpeciaD - Prof. N. H. Burger,
Principal of the Senior high school
here announced last week that he
is a candidate for the office of
President of the Mississippi Teach
ers Association, state organiza-
ton of Negro Teachers which holds
its annual meeting in Jackson next
week.
Prof. Burger is widely known and
liked by members of the school
teaching profession, and his work
at the high school here has mark
ed him as being among the top
school administrators of the state.
Meanwhile there was evidence of
mounting interest here and
throughout the state as teachers
began to look forward to the COM
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-20
Randolph Tells
Senate Group
FEPc Need

WASHINGTON, March Is -
Especially - A. Phillip Randolph,
president of the Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car Porters, told a Sem
ate civil rights subcommittee last
week that an "iron curtain" exists
in hiring practices of all federal
agencies as we'll as in private in
dustry.
He was testifying in support of
the Humphrey measure to out
law discrimination in employment.
Randolph said that Negro en-
ployees on Staff of congressional
committees or in offices of con-
(Consinued on Page Six)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-20
mississippians
Attend NAAcP
Conference In
Washington

WASHINGTON, D, c., Mar. Is
Especially Included among the
delegates who attended the NAACP
conference here Wednesday and
heard the president of the United
States announce his support for
the aims of the organization as it
launched it's 1O-year crusad e
against race bias and segregation
Continued on Page Eight
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-20
Archibald Carey
To Receive Human
Relations Award

CHICAGO, Ill.,, March Is -
(Special)-The Rev. Archibald ].
Carey, Jr., former first alternate to
the UN general assembly, has been
selected to receive the Abraham
Schwartz Award for human rela-
tons this year.
Rev. Carey, pastor of famed
Quinn Chapel AME church and a
city alderman, will receive the
award at the annual dinner of the
Chicago Council Against Discrimi-
nation that was held March 4 at
the Hotel Morrison here. The coun-
Gil presents the award annually.
A native Chicagoan, Carey was
Continued on Page Eight
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-20
Gustava cooden
Candidate For
Registrar Mia

The friends of Mrs. Gustava NJ.
Gooden, the wife Of Mr.. Gooden,
Supervisor of Negro schools in
Jackson, Mississippi announces her
candidacy for the Office of Regis
trar of the Mississippi Teachers
Association.
Mrs. Gooden does not actually
seek this position, but her friends
who have seen her work quietly in
the Association through the years
feel that she has merited this posi-
ton. They also feel that Mrs.
Gooden will accept the nomination
if it is the will of the majority.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-20
Supreme Court
Declines To
Reconsider State
Republican Case
WASHINGTON. d. c..

WASHINGTON, D. c., Mar. Is.
- (DSN) - The U. S. Supreme
Court Monday declined to recon-
slider the order issued on February
8, through which the court held
that the Lily-White Republican
faction Of Mississippi had the ex-
elusive right under a recently en-
acted state law to appear on the
ballot as the State Republican
Party.
The order issued on February
9Th, directed a special thres-judge
Federal court sitting in Jackson,
Miss, to reverse it's ruling that
the Mississippi secretary of state
must register the name, "Republi-
Continued on Page Three)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-20

its activities through the years
after a vigorous denial Of the
charges prompting the investiga-
ton:
1947
Circulated more than 125,000
copies of a special edition of the
Southern Patriot devoted to a gra-
phic presentation of segregation
in Education"
1913
Coordinated a Conference at the
University of Virginia and the
adoption at Monticello, home of
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-20
President Eisenhower Assures
Support Of Its Aims As NAACP
Launches Ten-Year Crusade

WASHINGTON, D. c., Mar. Is
(Special)-Personally assured of
President Eisenhower's support in
its aims, the National Association
for the Advancement Of Colored
ePople last Wednesday launched it's
10-year crusade to eradicate racial
barriers.
The President delivered an in
formal five-minute address at 1890
p. m. yesterday to approximately
1900 delegates of the association
from SO states and the District of
Columbia in the Interdepartmental
Auditorium.
The one-day Freedom Fulfill
ment Conference was held as a
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-20
cIobetrotters
Marion Anderson
Concert Spotlight
The Growth Of
Apartheid
Policy Here
Local Whites Get
Taste OF Segregation

The game between the famed
Harlem Globetrotters here last
Thursday night, and the concert by
famed singer Marion Anderson
here Tuesday night, both held at
the College Park Auditorium spot
lighted the growth of "apartheid"
here, policy that has become
more and more in recent years like
(Consinued on Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-20

kickoff" meeting for the NAACP's
drive for the elimination of racial
barriers by the Tooth anniversary
Of Lincoln's Emancipation Procla-
nation on January /, 1868. To
achieve that goal, the association
is seeking one million dollars each
year for 10 years. At the close of
the meeting, Walter, White execu-
tive secretary, announced that a
total of $500,651 already had been
pledged.
In an off-the-cuff speech Mr..
Eisenhower pledged his Admins
tration to keep pushing the cause
Of racial equality. He was intro
Continued on Page Two)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-20
Negro Democra
From Over State
To Be Here For
Meeting Friday
Public Is Invited
To Meeting At
Central Church

Negro Democrats from all over
the state, among them some of
the most prominent and influen-
tial members and leaders of their
respective communities will gather
here Friday afternoon for the
sixth annual meeting of the Mis-
sissippi Association of Negro Dem
ocrat Clubs.
The meeting is expected to give
impetus to great revival of the
organization, and the activities of
Negro Democrats throughout the
Continued On Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-20
Mrs. c. c. MosIey
10 Speak At Mt.
Helm Church Sun,

Mrs. C. C. Mosley, program d.
rector of the Bette Marine Branch,
YWCA, and author of the widely
read book, "The Negro In Missis-
sippi History" will speak during
the eleven o'clock service at Mt.
Helm Baptist Church, Sunday
Continued on Page Eighty
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-20
Local Branch
NAAcP Launches
embership
Campaign
Daniel E. Byrd
To Speak

JACKSON, Miss. - The local
branch of the National Association
for the advancement Of colored
people, will launch its annual men,
bership campaign here in its regu-
lar meeting Monday night, March
the 22nd.
Daniel E. Byrd of the NAACP
Legal Defense and Educational
Fund, Inc, will be the principal
speaker. Mrs. G.. N. Bates, Chair
man of the membership committee
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-20
Eisenhower
Names j. Ernest
Wilkins Assistant
Secy. Of Labor
Chicagoan Was
Member OF
Pres. Contract
Compliance Com.
Has Never Held
Elective Public Offic,

WASHINGTON, March Is -
Especially - j. Ernest Wilkins
last week was officially named
assistant secretary of labor, a job
paying $4,000 a year and the
highest executive post to which a
Negro has ever been appointed.
Wilkins, Chicagoan will be out
ranked only by Secretary of La
Dor James P. Mitchell and Presi-
dent Eisenhower.
An attorney, Wilkins is held in
CONSUMED on Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-20
Columbus
Launches Drive
For 500 NAACP
M embers

COLUMBUS, Miss. March Is -
Especially - Rev. Amos O. Holmes
of Amory delivered the principal
address at a kickoff meeting in
Columbus, Mississippi on Sunday
afternoon, March Ia, officially
opening the 1854 Membership
Drive for the Columbus Branch.
The 10 members of the Columbus
Branch have set out to write at
least s members each during the
Continued on Page Seven)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-20
WIDELY KNOWN YAz00 CITY
Man HEART ATTACK VICTIM

his home here shortly before noon
Monday. His death was attribut-
ed to q heart attack which he
suffered during Sunday night.
Funeral arrangements were in
complete today pending word from
relatives.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-20
Negro Named
Deputycity
Attorney For
San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO, March 20
(Special)-Opening the door Of op-
portunity to a legal representative
of the Negro group, Dion Holm,
City attorney, on March /, ap-
pointed X. J. Reynolds to the posi-
ton Of deputy city attorney in
his office. This brought the num-
Der Of deputies of his staff to q.
Reynolds has been a practicing
attorney in San Francisco for the
last five years and prior to that
Continued on Page Eighty
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-20

Yazoo City, Miss, Mar. Is
(Special)-W. A. ]. Williams, who
has operated one Of the leading
blacksmith shops here for many
years, and who is widely known
throughout the state as a leader
among Sunday School and Baptist
Training Union workers, died at
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-20
Dawson And
Powell Not On
Floor When
Puerto Ricans
Shoot-up House
Negro DO0rman
Captures One
Would Be Assassin
Single Handed

WASHINGTON, D. c., March IL
Especially - Neither Congressman
William L. Dawson of Illinois, who
is vice-chairman of the Democrat
National Committee nor Congress
man Adam Clayton Powell of New
York, the two Negro members Of
Continued on Page Five) I
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-03-20
White Settlers
Oh ject 10 Efforts
OF Colonial Office
ToAppease
mau mau
Gen, China Gets
Some Response
From Former
Conspirators In
Brush
Letters Placed In
Jungle Mail Boxes
And Trees

NAIROBI, Kenya, March 49,
(SpeciaD-British efforts to arrive
at solution to the Mau Mau sit
uation received another jolt here
last week when white Kenyans OBJ
jected to a method used to negoti-
ate a truce.
White Kenyans arose in indigna-
Continued on Page Two)
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1954-03-27
MELROSE CHARITY GUILD
HOLDS REGULAR MEET

The Melrose Charity Guild
held it's monthly meeting at
the beautiful home of Mr..
and Mrs. John CAVITY on
Fairfax Avenue N. w. Mrs.
Mary Jeffreys, tn e vice
pres, presided. Devotions
were led by Mrs. Jeffreys,
after which she gave a short
talk on the Lenten season.
The club gave their annual
$1,000 donation to the Red
Gross drive, also $1,000 to
a sick man for medicine. The
hostess served a very tasty.
menu. The color scheme was
green, in honor of ST. Pat
rick.
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1954-03-27
Christiansburg Institute Receives
High Rating In Musical Festival
THE TRIB U N E

Director, Mr.. r. j. Lewis
and presently the depart
ment is trying to outfit the
band with new uniforms,
therefore, on March &c at
8 P. M. it is presenting it's
annual concert with its pro-
ceeds to be used as funds
for that drive. The formal
program will be presented
in the new ]. Henry Scatter
good building on the Insti-
tute's campus. The choir
will offer the blouse I Live
In" and the Spiritual, "Sit
Down Servant" among it's
selections. The band will
offer "Funiculi Funicula"
CA Merry Life) and "Sleigh
Ride" among its selections.
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1954-03-27
YMCA Notes

Mrs. Matte B. Morris and
Mrs. Wade Jeffreys, leaders
of tn e 1854 Membership
Campaign of the YWCA set
We'd, March 31st, 600 p.
M. for the next report meet
ing.
In the meeting Wed,
March 18th, &C members
were enrolled and $500
added to the fund, making
a total for this year 229
members enrolled, and $500.
towards the goal of $4,000
and 700 members.
The regular membership
is $3.50, with a sustaining
membership of $500 do
mated by some who wish
to give the larger fee. So
far, FL ladies have enrolled
as Sustaining Members.
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1954-03-27

M. Dabbs, president of the
body, ''the impending crisis
of adjusting to a Supreme
Court decision faces us. 1t
is the unmistakable obi
cation of every Christian
to take the initiative in en-
couraging our people to
think and act with calmness
and courtesy"
In addition to Mrs. Dabbs,
others taking part in the
discussion included Miss
Paricilla Shaw, mayor of
Sumpter, and Mrs. Horatio
Nelson, Benedict College
professor.
The action taken by the
churchwomen is directly OPP
posite to the stand taken by
Gov. James Byrnes of that
state, who along with
Georgia's Gov. Talmadge,
has threatened to abolish the
states public school system
if the Supreme Court out
laws racial segregation in
the public schools.