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Arizona sun., 1955-11-04
The Family
RoundtobIe
BY ELGIvA BALL


Dear Miss Ball:
l have recently married a man
who 1 thought was very nice but l
received letter a few weeks ago
telling me about his escapades be-
fore we married. 1t seems as if
during his single days, he sired
son. He meets his obligations finan-
eially but would not marry the girl.
He didn't tell me these things and
now that I've found out, 1 don't
know what to do. My girl friend
agreed with me when 1 said /
would leave him. Do you think
that would be the proper move. /
was hoping to have a perfect mar
riage and now this turns up. Hon
estly, 1 wish there was some way
we could give these men a good
shaking. They surely seem to take
pleasure in making us women un-
happy. 81
Elena-Ala. i.
Dear Elena:
You are still a bride, yet you are
talking about leaving your hus-
band. Have you forgotten your
marriage vows so soon? Your Girl
friend cannot know or see the en-
tire situation and so cannot give a
1alr and objective opinion. Also. she
may be jealous and not want to
really help you. Think of these
Things before taking her advice or
1nat OF any other person.
There are those of us who believe
IN complete confession before mar
rage; yet there are manv who
Vehemently oppose this view. That
IS not the important question now
ror some reason, your guy did not
contlde In your earlier, SO YOU are
now learning the truth. 1t NAV he
frard, but if you truly love him. for
give him this error. Consider how
lt would be, were you the person
VINO had withheld the truth.
Your husband, as did manv
others, sowed few wild oats. He
is meeting his obligations financial
~ He probably had a very good
reason for not marrying the child's
mother. Before you make a hastv
move or decision, tell him what was
SAID IN the letter. Give him
chance to tell you about the situa-
lion. Discuss the thing together
calmly and then come to a sensible
decision. The letter could be false
you know.
Arizona sun., 1955-11-04

There are about 29O miles of
electric cable aboard the aircraft
carrier USS FORRESTAL which
will be commissioned October /
1855.
Jackson advocate., 1955-10-01
Say State to Attack Validity Of 18th
Amendment To The Constitution OF
The S. to Fight to Keep Segregation
Legal Education Advisory Committee
Presents 6-Point Proposal For
Next Session OF State Legislature
See Proposals Aimed At Further Reducing
The Rights And Privileges Of
Negro Citizens Of The State

A law to give the State of Mis-
sissippi the power to arrest FB1
agents and other representatives
of the United States Government
sent into the state for the purpose
of investigating crimes and other
acts in violation of Federal laws;
a law limiting the right to peti-
tion the government for the re-
dress of grievances as provided by
the constitution of the United
States, was contained in a six-point
legislature program announced by
the States Legal Education Ad-
visory Committee during a meet
ing here last week.
The proposals to be presented
to the legislature for enactment
into law at it's coming January
session.
The six-point program also con-
tanned a provision calling for the
creation of a state authority for
the maintenance of segregation.
Governor-elect J. P. Coleman
who takes office in January told
the committee that in its fight to
maintain segregation the state of
Mississippi will attack the valid
ity of the 14th amendment to the
constitution of the United States.
The Governor said that the
Continued on Page Eight
Jackson advocate., 1955-10-01
Negro Lecturer
Excites More
Interest Than His
Subject in Europe

Hampton, Va. - DR.. Charles H.
Nichols, Hampton Institute Eng
lish professor, returned to the cam
pus last week after a years lee
ture tour of Europe.
Sent as Fulbright Lecturer, the
Negro professor taught at Aarhus
university in Denmark for 9 months
lecturing on authors, works, history
and philosophy of American litera-
ture to enthusiastic European stu
dents whom he said had previously
thought little of literary efforts
from the "New World"
In addition, the Hampton profess
sor gave 65 public lectures to Euro
pean scholars at the University Of
Oslo in Norway, Uppsala Univer-
sity in Stockholm, Sweden; Oxford
University in. England and to
groups in Italy, Germany, Switzer-
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate., 1955-10-01
new YORK MAYOR FAILS TO
RE.APP0INT JUDGE HIT. DELANY

New York, Sept. 26. Mayor
Robert F. Wagner Tuesday denied
reappointment to Negro judge HUI
bert T. Delany, whose term as a
justice of, the Domestic Relations
Court expired that day.
At the same time the Mayor an
nounced the reappointment to the
same court Of Justice Justine Wise
Polier, whose term expired at mid
night Tuesday.
The Mayor said that pending ap-
proval by the Bar Association of
the City of New York, he was ap-
pointing Edward r. Dudley, a Ne
gro lawyer, to replace Judge De-
lany. 1t was the first time that
the Mayor had not submitted to
the Bar Association the name of a
judicial candidate in advance of
public announcement Of the ap-
pointment.
Mr.. Wagner's action was sharp
ly denounced Tuesday night by Mr..
Delany and DR.. Claiming H. To
bias, chairman Of the Board Of Di-
rectors of the NAACP.
Asked by reporters why he was
not reappointing Justice Delany,
the Mayor said:
Differences
II feel that / don't agree with
some Of the positions taken by Mr..
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate., 1955-10-01
Jewish Group
Hits Results
Of Till Case

NEW YORK.-The Jewish Labor
Committee tonight branded the de-
cision in the Emmett Till murder
case a grave miscarriage of JUS
tice" and demanded Immediate
intervention by the Attorney Cen
eral of the United States"
Adolph Held, national chairman
CT the organization of a half mil
lion Jewish workers IN the AFL
and CIO, also issued an appeal
asking "every American" to "raise
his voice against this outrageous
decision"
Meanwhile the National Associ-
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alton for the Advancement of Col
ored People tonight issued strong
statement terming the verdict of
the jury, in the Emmett Till mur-
der trial Shameful"
NAACP Board Chairman, DR..
Charming H. Tobias said the "ver-
dict is as shameful as it is sur
prising."
He praised Judge Curtis M.
Continued on Page Eight
Jackson advocate., 1955-10-01
Negro Legislator
Heads State
Smog Inquiry

LOS ANGELES, CAL, Sept. 26.
One of the two Negro assembly
men in the California State Legis-
lature will be sitting as chairman
when an Assembly Interim Com
mittee on Public Health COM
mences it's inquiry into Los An
geles' smog problem Wednesday.
The committee chairman is AS
semblyman w. Byron Rumford; of
Berkeley.
Rumford, pharmacist, will
chair the 11-man committee which
will hold public hearings into "The
Problem of Air Pollution Abate-
ment," starting at 10 am. in the
Los Angeles Police Dept. auditor
ium, at $50 N. Los Angeles.
Anyone desiring to be heard on
the causes of smog lay address
the committee for -.ssion at
Room Alb, Earl Warren Hall, Uni
versity of California campus,
Berkeley 4, Calf.
Jackson advocate., 1955-10-01
Dr.. 7. R. N. Howard
Speaker al Baltimore
NAACP Rally

BALTIMORE, Md, Sept. 90
DR.. T. R. M. Howard, the Mound
Bayou, Miss, physician, founder
president Of the states Regional
Council of Negro Leadership, who
recently became president-elect OF
the National Medical Association,
was the principal speaker at an
NAACP rally here Sunday.
Howard, who worked as La
ison between witnesses and prose-
cutting officers of last weeks En-
NETT Till trial, said: "It's serious
thing that the FBI can never seem
to work out who is responsible for
killing Negroes in the South"
Howard said: "A wave Of terror
has hit the South. It is in Mis-
sissippi." He said he himself is q
marked man" and keeps two body
guards on duty "a hours day at
his Mound Bayou, Miss, home.
He urged national Negro lead
ers to confer with President Eisen-
hover, Attorney General Herbert
Brownell and FBI Chief J. Edgar
Hoover "to find out why they (the
FBD. can't solve crimes in the
South"
Describing the Till trial as "a
Roman holiday" Howard branded
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate., 1955-10-01
Guaranty Life
Board Elects
2 Directors

Savannah, Ga. - The officers
and directors of Guaranty Life
Insurance Company elected two
new members at the semi-annual
meeting of Board of Directors,
which was held last week at the
Home Office here.
The new directors are John A.
Singleton of this city and Mrs.
Gertrude Scott Martin of Chicago.
Singleton has served as agency
director of the company for three
years and has been associated with
Guaranty Life for 16. Mrs. Martin
is daughter of the Guaranty presi-
dent, Walter S. Scott, and wife of
Louis E. Martin, officer of Guar
anty and newspaper publisher.
President Scott reported a net
gain in premium income in excess
of 6 per cent for the first six
months of this year and predicted
larger gains for the last half OF
1866. Assets of Guaranty reached
an all time high of $1,36O,0OO as
of June 80, registering gain OF
CONTINUED on Page Eight
Jackson advocate., 1955-10-01
Houston Makes Ready For National
Business League Sessions

Houston, Tex, through which res
ervations of the tour may be Sc
cured.
DR.. S. J. Cullum, president of the
Houston chamber, announces that
the convention sessions for October
S and 6 will be held at Texas
Southern university, while the
meetings for A. & M. college, will
be held in Prairie View, Tex. A
number of well-known experts in
business will address the conven-
ton.
Recently Horace Sudduth, Gin
cinnati banker, real estate man and
hotel owner, who is president Of
the NNBL, visited in Houston for
planning sessions with the local
committee headed by J. H. Jem-
ison. Mr.. Sudduth expressed the
opinion that the Houston meetings
will represent high point in the
more than half century of the busi-
ness league.
Jackson advocate., 1955-10-01
president EISENHOWER ON
GOOD ROAD TO RECOVERY

Denver, Colo, Sept. 2S.-Presi-
dent Eisenhower was reported on
good road to recovery from the
heart attack which he suffered St
Saturday. y
His condition was so improved
Wednesday that he spent several
hours out of the oxygen tent this
morning after long, restful
nights sleep and doctors and fam
lily found him comfortable and
cheerful"
Personal friends said privately
it would be "unthinkable" to sub
ject him to the burdens of 1856
political campaign and another
four years in the White House.
At the same time they ruled out
the possibility that he would even
consider resigning before the ex-
piration of his present term in
the absence of any complications
that would block the complete re-
covery" for which his physicians
are hoping.
Jackson advocate., 1955-10-01

HOUSTON, Textile Houston
Negro Chamber of Commerce is
making final plans for the 1866
annual convention of the National
Negro Business League to be held
in Houston, October 81.
According to Roscoe Cavitt, NM
BL secretary and executive director
of the Houston chamber, plans for
the early October meetings include
workshops and educational pro-
grams and a series of social func-
tions to be held at Texas Southern
university, Prairie View A. & M.
college and at other locations in
Houston.
A highlight of the sessions will
be a post-convention goodwill tour
to Mexico City and other points of
interest in the Republic of Mexico.
Further information about the
goodwill "trip may be obtained
through Roscoe Cavitt, Houston
Negro Chamber of Commerce,
Jackson advocate., 1955-10-01
Diggs Plans to
chaIInge State
Members Of Con.
Has High Praise
For Judge SwangO

DETROIT, Mich, Sept. 90
(DSN) = Freshly returned from
Sumner, Miss, in the Delta section
of the state where once was the
home of his parents, where he
spent the better part of four days
attending the now world famous
Till trial, where two white men
were found mot guilty" of the
charge of murder in the kidnap
Staying of Emmett Louis Till, IA
year-old Negro boy in the "wolf
whistle" incident, Rep. Charles c.
Diggs, Negro Democrat member
cf the Congress of the United
States, said he intends to challenge
the seats of every white Congress
man in the State of Mississippi un-
til the Negro wins representation
there. The five Mississippi Con-
gressmen presently repres t
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Jackson advocate., 1955-10-01
School Teacher
Found Shot to
Death in Bed
Husband Uses Car
To Escape Scene

Brookhaven, Miss. Sept. 26 -
Mrs. Annie Ruth Smith, comely 23-
year-old teacher of mathematics in
nearby Liberty public school was
found shot to death in bed at the
home of her father, Jess Smith,
near the Franklin County line early
Saturday evening.
Examination revealed that the
young teacher met her death from
two wounds, one in her left chest
and another through her scalp, al
legedly inflicted by her husband,
Earl Boston, with a 12-gauge shot
gun.
The fatal shooting followed a
quarrel that the couple had early
Saturday afternoon.
Sheriff Robert. E. Case said Mon
day that a murder charge had
been filed against Boston who fled
the scene of the Staying in a 1851
Pontiac.
The sheriff said the teacher had
just received her monthly salary,
amounting to something over 5000,
but no money could be found in the
house.
Boston, a native of California re-
Gently discharged from the army is
believed to be heading back to
California.
The young teacher was a gradu-
ate of Alexander High School here
and graduate of Jackson College.
Funeral arrangements Monday
were incomplete.
Jackson advocate., 1955-10-01

At am. MIST, bulletin said:
"The President had a very good
night. He slept almost continu-
ously from 8 o'clock until 6:15
this morning." An even more en-
couraging bulletin came at 1915
pm.
"The President continues to
progress satisfactorily without COM
plications.
after spending restful night
he had breakfast of prunes, oat-
meal, soft-boiled egg, toast with
marmalade and milk.
"He remained out of the oxygen
tent for a large part of the morn
ing. His temperature is normal.
His blood pressure and pulse re-
main stable and satisfactory.
His morning cardiogram con-
tinues to show the expected evo-
luton.
"The President is comfortable
and cheerful"
Jackson advocate., 1955-10-01
New York
Congressman Sees
Miscarriage Of
Justice in
Emmett Trial .
$4,000 Attend
New Yor Rally

New York, N. Y. Sept. &c -
(DSN)-Rep. Victor L. Anfuso, a
Democrat Congressman from New
York wired U. S. Attorney General
Herbert Brownell, Jr., asking an
immediate Investigation of the Till
trial after a protest rally attend
ed by an esti nated crowd of $4,000
here Sunday
Rep. Anfuso aid following his
message to Brownell ne Otherwise
will ask Congress to undertake a
prohe when it reconvenes in jan
'4ary.
The Justice Department has al
ready said the government had no
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate., 1955-10-01
Mississippi Underworld Spotlight Of
Criticism Following Not Guilty Verdict
In Case Of White Men Charged With
kidnap-murder Of Negro Boyin
Wolf Whistle Incident
State Negroes See Verdict In
Keeping With Southern Tradition
See Case Sparkling Large Scale Migration
Of Mississippi Negroes To Other
Sections Of The Country

Clarksdale, Miss, Sept. 90
(DSN)-Mississippi Negroes were
deeply hurt but not surprised at
the mot guilty" verdict returned
Friday afternoon at Sumner by an
all-white male jury in the trial Of
two white men, Roy Bryant and
his half-brother, J. w. Milan,
charged with murder in the kidnap
Staying of Emmett Louis Till, the
14-year-old Negro boy in the now
famous "wolf whistle" incident.
How deeply they were hurt can
be judged only by future incidents
growing out Of the tense and
strained race relations now all too
evident in the state.
Their attitude and thoughts in
regard to the trial and the verdict
could be determined by simple tes-
timony to the discussions and con-
versations in barber shops, cafes,
pool halls, in the homes, or where
ever groups of Negroes could be
found as the news of the verdict
spread over the state.
Negroes of the state see the ver-
dict as having been dictated not
by the facts and the law, but by
the southern tradition of the sa-
credness of white womanhood, now
being revived in all of its violence
provoking fervor because of the
NAACP drive for mixing of the
South's and Mississippi's public
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate., 1955-10-01
State Officials Will
Appeal Ballot Case

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Sept.
26. - State Attorney General Mac
@. Williamson announced Monday
he would ask the Supreme Court
to overrule the no-dismissal de-
cision in the U. s. Court of Ap-
peals' ruling in the suit filed by
A. B. Mcdonald TO have the word
Negro removed from the ballot in
designating Negro candidate, be-
cause it is prejudicial, discriml-
natory and unconstitutional. Will
hanson, according to statement
Continued on Page Two)
Jackson advocate., 1955-10-01
Negro Man Gets
Life For ATTEMPT
Rape Of eenage
Negro Girl

KOSCIUSKO, Miss, Sept. 28.-
Especially - Bean Thompson, so,
Negro service station employee of
Kosciusko, who pleaded guilty to
attempted rape of Emma Williams,
11-year-old Negro, was given a
life sentence at Parchamn peni-
tentiary by Judge Henry Rodgers
Tuesday during the final week of
Circuit Court in Attala county. The
grand jury was reconvened Mon
day to hear evidence in the case,
a rare event in court annals, and
indicted Thompson. He has a Grim
inal record, with several arrests
for drunkenness and one term at
Continued on Page Four)
Jackson advocate., 1955-10-01

MOUND BAYOU, Miss, Sept.
2e.-Newsmen coming here Friday
after the mot guilty" verdict in
the Till murder trial at Sumner
described number of interesting
sidelights noted during the four
day trial.
Most agreed that the most in
teresting sidelight took place Fri
day when two Negro women sat
in front of the court house with
two white men.
AS the heat and humidity be-
Jackson advocate., 1955-10-01
Anti-Semitic
Remark Leads
To killing

LOS ANGELES, Calf, Sept. 26.
-Name-calling and anti-Semitism
were the apparent causes of one
mans death and another mans
jailing on murder charge this
week following a rental squabble
at a Westside house.
Dead is Harold June, 46, re-
tired, of 4422 9Th Ave., who was
almost literally shaken to death
by Willard Holman, 37-year-old
Continued on Page Four)
Jackson advocate., 1955-10-01
Newsmen Name Most Interesting
Side|ight During Till Trial

came more oppressive after hard
shower of rain, one of the white
men went across the street, got
glass of water and brought it to
one of the Negro women seated in
the car, and after she drank took
the glass back to the drug store.
Later, one of the white men
brought a glass of ice cream to
one of the Negro women in the lar.
A few minutes later the jucv
returned the mot guilty" verdict
in the "wolf whistle" Staying.
Jackson advocate., 1955-10-01
Mississii ppi Has
Lowest Income
OF 48 States
1854 Drops Two
Percent Below 1858

Washington, D. c. Sept. 26 =
Mississippi still remains the lowest
among the 48 states in average
personal income but four states
dropped more and six others as
much in average percentage of in
dividual income from 1853 to 1904
as did Mississippi, the Commerce
Continued on Page Four)
Jackson advocate., 1955-10-01

Greenwood, Miss, Sept. 2S -
Preliminary hearing will be held
Friday for two white men charged
with kidnapping a 14-year-old Chi
cago Negro boy.
Judge Charles Pollard said no
exact time had been set, but he as
sumed Roy Bryant, "a, of Money,
Miss, and his half brother, j. W.
Milan, SO, of Glendora, would ap-
pear before him at 10 am. Bond
Jackson advocate., 1955-10-01

A series of shootings from pass
ing automobiles disturbing Negro
neighborhoods in various sections
of the city are reported as having
occurred here during the past few
nights.
The first of recent reports OF
such incidents came last Wednes-
day night when a number of shots
were fired from passing cars in
the Lanier High School neighbor-
hood in northwest Jackson.
Jackson advocate., 1955-10-01
Calls Man
Uncle Tom
IsShot to Death

WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. "a.
Thomas ]. Peters, "a, of Tulsa,
Okla, was shot to death here last
Friday by a man whom he called
an "Uncle Tom"
Young Peters was slain in a
government office by a fellow
craftsman John E. Maxwell, 81,
who surrendered to police a few
moments after the shooting. He
was charged with murder.
Maxwell, whom Peters had been
teasing" and calling "Uncle Tom
told police, 81 just couldn't take
his teasing anymore"
Jackson advocate., 1955-10-01
SHOOTING FROM CARS DISTURB
LOCAL NEGRO NEIGHB0RH00DS

Later in the week a similar Incl
dent was reported in Washington
addition in the southwest section
of the city.
A report from West Jackson
Sunday night said that a young
Negro man was hit in the finger
by one Of a number of shots fired
from a passing car.
Witnesses say the occupants OF
the cars appeared to be young men
and teen-age white youths.
Jackson advocate., 1955-10-01

New York, N. Y.-The editors
of Jubilee, national Catholic pic
torial monthly published here, have
devoted the entire 81 page Sep
tember issue to the general theme
Catholicism And The Negro"
The decision to publish the special
issue was made with the conviction
that Catholics and all men con-
cerned with justice stand in urgent
need of clarity on so vital SUBJ
ject as the racial one. Recent po-
litical trends and Supreme Court
decisions have brought interracial
harmonies and tensions into new
focus in America and Jubilee's
editors believe that new light must
Jackson advocate., 1955-10-01
catholicism And The Negro" Theme
Of Jubilee Special Issue

continually be shed on these real
tiles, that the past must be sub
jected to examination and that new
directions and tendencies need to
be reported and evaluated.
Say the editors of Jubilee: "There
are certain contemporary issues in
which may besseen, magnified and
inescapable, the timeless Christian
proposition that man is his broth
er's keeper. Such an issue is the
interracial question, most pointed
ly as it affects whites and Negroes.
In no area have Christians faced
a sharper challenge or had
wider opportunity to give body to
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate., 1955-10-01
PLANS Law TO ARREST FBI INVESTIGATORS
Nose Wright Gets
Many Letters
During Till Trial
Say None Received
From The South

Sumner, Miss. Sept. 26 (DSN)-
Nose Wright, uncle of Emmett
Louis Till from whose home the
14-year-old boy was kidnapped and
slain told newsmen here Friday
that he had received "stacks of
letters" many of which contained
money and offers of jobs, since
the start of the trial on Monday
which ended in the mot guilty"
verdict Friday afternoon.
Wright said most of the letters
came after his testimony Identify
ing the two white men charged
with murder in the case, but none
Continued on Page Eight
Jackson advocate., 1955-10-01
Preliminary HEARING SET
FOR friday ON kIDNAP CHARGE

is expected to be set at the hear
ing.
Mississippi has two categories of
kidnapping. The charge against
Milan and Bryant carries a maxi
mum penalty of death.
It would be up to a grand jury
as to whether the men would be
indicted on this charge, or one the
lesser category which carries
CONTINUED on Page Six)
Jackson advocate., 1955-10-01

MOUND BAYOU, Miss, Sept.
26.-(DSN)-Mrs. Mamie Bradley
said upon her arrival here from
Sumner Friday afternoon that she
expected the acquittal of the two
white men charged with numbering
her son.
Jackson advocate., 1955-10-01

DIR. Robert A. Henry will serve
as head of the music department
and chairman of the area of Fine
Arts at Jackson College. He went
to England as a Fulbright scholar
to do research for his dissertation
in September, 1854. Following
England, he was enrolled at the
University of London with the
eminent composer DIR. Herbert
Howells, King Edward VII pro-
fessor, as his consultant. DIR.
Henry is a native of Houston, Tex.
Jackson advocate., 1955-10-01
Mother Expected AcquittaI Verdict

Mrs. Bradley, Rep. Diggs and his
aides left Sumner when the jury
went out to consider the case.
She said, T was expecting an
acouittal and | didn't want to be
there when it happened"
Jackson advocate., 1955-10-01

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