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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-03-17
Supreme Court
Defers Action On
Marriage Laws

Washington, March IL The
Supreme Court Monday put off
indefinitely any decision on wheth-
er states may ban interracial mar
riages.
An appeal which attacked Vir-
ginia's law against such marriages
was put on the shelf with no.
tation that the record in the case
is devoid of a properly presented
federal question"
The Virginia Supreme Court last
Jan. 10 rejected a U. S. Supreme
Court order calling on it to send
the case back to trial court in
Portsmouth, Va, for additional evil
dence. The state court said there
was no provision under its rules
for such step. At the same
time, the state court said it was
leaving intact its ruling that 9
Norfolk couple had violated the
law.
The case specifically involved
the 1852 marriage of Chinese
seaman, Ham Say Main, and Ruby
E. Naim. They were married in
Elizabeth City, N. c., and later re-
turned to Norfolk. About year
later Mrs. Naim obtained an an
nulment of the marriage under
Virginia's miscegenation. law.
Naim appealed from the Virgin
ia Supreme Courts action OF last
January. but the high tribunal de-
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The white man, w. L. Lynch,
Jr., was put under the $1,000 bond
after a preliminary hearing before
Judge George r. Noble Monday
when he was charged with murder
and shooting with intent to kill.
The victims in the shooting were
Jeffie Lee White, who died a few
hours after the shooting, and 1som
Cassell, who was critically wound
ed. Areport from the University
Hospital Monday said that the
critically wounded man has SUI
fered complete paralysis.
According to reports, the white
man testified that he shot the two
Negroes after they had started a
fight in the cafe, when both start
ed advancing on him, one with .
rifle in his hand, and the other
with an ice pick, when he ordered
them to stop fighting or leave the
cafe.
During the preliminary hearing
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am, March s, to provide for her
readmission in time for the fall
semester.
The attorneys did not urge her
immediate readmittance because of
the time Miss Lucy has lost as a
result of the University's expulsion
order. The lawyers termed the ex-
pulsion order "a legally ineffective
interference with the performance
of a duty incumbent on the Board
under this Courts order"
The suspension order was issued
on February 6. Miss Lucy was ad-
mitted to the 125-year old Univer-
sity February l, after almost 4
years of court battles.
Miss Lucy earlier stated that
she hopes to be readmitted to the
University of Alabama. In state
ment made on March Z she said:
Despite all that has happened
continue to hope, wish and work
that l may be able to pursue my
education at the State University
of my own home state. But up
until the present time, / have been
thwarted in my effort to do that.
Therefore, l have got to follow
two courses: to persist in my eff
forts to be admitted to the Uni
versity of Alabama next fall and
also to make applications to other
schools because l am sincerely in
terested in getting an education in
the University of Alabama if l
can, but if not, in another school.
81 would hope that there are
unsegregated universities in the
Southland on whose campuses l
may find welcome as student"
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Marked Money
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1--WE know mutilation of United
States currency is against the law
he said and added:
It appears to be a trick of some
of our enemies to harass u.s."
Earlier Atlanta Police Superin-
tendent J. H. Brown had disclosed
that a. defaced 81 bill was turned
over to the police department
Thursday.
Superintendent Brown indicated
that the bill had been given in pay
ment for gasoline at service sta
ton at Simpson and Chestnut Sts.,
NV, by a Negro.
Atlanta Police Sergeant E. T,
Tumblin, who operates the station
while off duty, said the defaced bill
was given to him in payment for
gasoline and quoted the Negro as
saying he had paid S. for the bill
He promised to return and re-
deem it Friday.
Police said the defaced bill,
which was turned over to U. 5.
Secret Service agents bore q round
stamp Of red ink. Inside the circle
was the inscription: Help
NAACP."
Police said they had received
numerous reports" Of defaced
money being circulated in the west
section of the city, including which,
according to reports, bore an ap-
neal to stop the lynchings as in
the Till case. Help the NAACP."
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-03-17

ucation?"
Friday morning the meeting will
begin promptly at 8:45. The main
feature of the morning session
will be an open forum, conducted
by Mrs. Cleopatra Davenport
Thompson, instructor at Jackson
College. The subject, Meeting to-
days challenge through improved
local program techniques." The
second item will feature Mrs. Flor
ence Octavia Alexander, Of the
State Department of Education as
guest speaker. Following the guest
speaker will come the election Of
officers.
Friday afternoon at pm. the
second general session will open
with reports from workshops, re-
ports from delegates who attend
ed the National Convention in San
Antonio, Tex. Memorial services
and installation Of officers will
conclude the meeting.
The public is cordially invited
to attend the Both annual session
Of Mississippi Congress Of Parents
and Teachers.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-03-17
Fire Starting In The South

FROM Inc Manchester Union Leader, Manchester, n. HI
This newspaper hates and opposes segregation.
Nevertheless predicts that the u S. Supreme Court
decision abolshng segregation of Negroes in American
pubic schools will be unsuccessful in changing long,
standing customs as was the attempt to do away with
the use OF alcoholic drinks by passing constitutional
amendment. The prohibition amendment failure.
Its main products were gangserism and widespread
disregard for law and order
. Editors of leading newspapers in the Deep South in
dcate that the Supreme Courts desegregaton decision
has brought to standsti the lessening of tension be-
tween the two that had been marked in late years
and that was resulting in the Negro gradually obtain
ing his proper place in the life of the South The Su-
preme Court decision against segregation is example
OF trying to DO the right thing in the wrong way.
Northerners, especially those who have not lived
IN the South have no realization of the fact that rightly
or wrongly segregation has existed for so long in the
South that it is way of life for the white people.
lhey Will not stand to it abolished because of
court ruling.
The impact of this issue on the nation as a whole
mas not been generally realized The question of segre-
cation will dominate the Democratic convention next
summer.
Candidate Stevenson's position on this question has
pleased neither the North the South Kefauver by
coming out against segregation has pleased the North
ern Democratic city bosses who depend on the Negro
vote to control their BY his position Stevenson
mas PROBABLY cost himself Southern support. Without
the South, the Democratic party cannot win national
election.
Probably this means that the Democratic party will
turn for its nominee to dark horse who has not been
forced to commit himself before his nomination on the
question of segregation.
Certain Republicans recently, with questionable
TASTE have boasted that it Republican chief JUS
tIce who presided the Supreme Court when it
handed down the antisegegation decision Chief JUS
forna favored socalized medicine an example of the
shallow and superficial political and legal fraud of late
years, fraud believing in the apowerful government
and in Improvement not by evolution and growth but by
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-03-17
INTERSTATE UNITED NEWSPAPERS, Inc.
National Advertising Representatives
SIS Fifth Ave. New York City Murray Hill 2-5452
STOP A Fire Before II Starts
(FrOm The Christian Science MOnitOr)

(FrOm The Christian Science MOnltOr)
Make no mistake; positions the segregation issue
hardening tensions rising, temperatures go
ing up The trouble at the moment centers in the Deep
South in the state of Alabama in the cities of Tusca
oosa and Montgomery but rising tensions widen excite
ment Higher temperatures can cause combustion. And
fires spread.
For these reasons what Governor Folsom has pro-
posed for Alabama and Adai Stevenson has urged for
the entire nation brings notes of sanity into situation
fast becoming far too emotional They both propose BIZ
racial commissions that for Alabama to be appointed
presumably by Governor Folsom himself. And Mr..
Stevenson calls on President Eisenhower to
for the whole country.
Such steps should receive the strongest possible
support from every thinking person.
What might such commissions accomplish in to-
days situation? Study commissions sometimes
set up devices to postpone defnitive action. But
these should not be primarily study commissions They
should provide concentrations of leadership for both
toward reasonable thinking, toward cooling tenn
pers, and away from bitter resentments and frantic
fears.
for compromise between hostile positions al
ready far advanced There is but perhaps
less time than one might think Compromise however,
may not be the first business The first necessity may
be to agree to disagree for the time being.
Important may be full abolition of segregation
to Negroes greater value greater to everyone
at stake That is the unity of these United States and
of the people who dwell within them.
The two races, with some 1000, 900 whites
and 100000 Negroes will have to continue living side
by side in North and South alike for time out of mind.
Are they going to live in peace and friendness in
conflict and bitterness? Not so much how the segre-
cation issue is finally worked out how that working
out is approached is likely to form the answer
Respected and trusted commissions might do much
to persuade the leadership of both compromise
not principles but pressures, and that to push
porary advantages and win local skirmshes could lose
for each the goals it seeks
Those goals longer white supremacy" in the
sense whites have meant racial "integration
as no doubt, some Negroes have defined it. The goal
for all is modus vivend in which races and individuals
are neither kept apart forced together by LAWN
which voluntary association and dsassociaon both are
given the freeiest play
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-03-17

The more letters we put in this
young races's brains
The less Christ we can get in their
hearts
They know too much to accept the
word of God,
That makes their chance very hard.
Christ asked people to give him
their heart
He said he would create new one
My fathers love will abide in it
Guide you from sun to sun.
l study my people every day of life
And beg the Lord to show me the
way
But when we stop and think right
Jesus Christ is the right way.
Jesus says to all az am the way,
Why not obey his way
Our ways are ways of sorrow
And sadness for many days.
We must get understanding,
Then everything will be right
Mistakes ar not the Holy Ghost
And degrees are not your might.
When Moses led our people
Across a dry gap in the sea
Old Pharoah and his host was
drowned
In the gap, where Moses cross free.
The preacher the Sunday school
sends out
Ought to always preach loud
If he breaches behind the other
preacher
He trys to show the people the
man is wrong.
Jesus ordained a preacher, he is
right
He said whatsoever you ask of my
father
In my name he will give it to you
You need not look any farther.
The Lord doesn't rub out any
brains
Jesus ordains the right man
Jesus said, go preach the gospel
And there man will stand.
Finishing up in school isn't all
You have to be born again
Born of the spirit of living God,
And free from your sins.
By Rev. John R. Perkins,
2611 Lilly Street,
Jackson, Mississippi.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-03-17
.17s Negro Papers
In Circulation
Survey Shows

Jefferson City Mo-, Mar. 12.-
There are II fewer Negro news
papers operating in the United
States today than there were a
year ago. The annual countrywide
poll conducted by the Lincoln Uni
versity (Mo.) department of jour-
nalism arrived at a total of 179
papers by mid-February.
Results of the survey have been
published in a state-by-state list
ing arranged by cities. The count
includes only commercially-operat-
ed newspapers of predominantly
weekly frequency.
Fifteen Negro newspapers are
published in the state of Alabama,
which leads the country. Only
three other states number papers
in double figures-California and
Tennessee with IL each, and Texas
with IL.
The 179 total includes two
dailies, five semi-weeklies, three
biweeklies and 1859 weeklies. They
have combined weekly circulation
of slightly less than two million,
or 1889, $50 copies.
The last Negro newspaper to be
established is daily-the Daily
Defender at Chicago. The Daily
World at Atlanta, Ca, has been
in existence since March 13, 1882.
During the past year 16 new
papers were started or added to
the Lincoln University record.
Twenty-seven newspapers expired
during the year. Alabama and
Ohio head the casualty list with
four each. Pennsylvania had three
and California, two.
Missouri tied Alabama at three
in launching additional papers in
1855 and early 1856. The three
Missouri papers are confined to st.
Louis.
Fifteen states have no Negro
newspapers: Delaware, Idaho, New
Hampshire, Maine, Montana, YER
mont, Rhode Island, Wyoming,
Connecticut, North Dakota, South
Dakota, New Mexico, Nevada,
Utah, and West Virginia.
Single papers published in the
District of Columbia and Alaska
are included in the grand total.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-03-17
Jackson College
Names Religious
Emphasis Week
Speakers

Two leaders for Religious EN-
phasis Week at Jackson State Col
lege were announced today by the
Reverend A. l.. Rice, College Chap
lain and Chairman of the Religious
Affairs Committee. The Reverend
John D. Mangram, Assistant Pro-
lessor of Religion and Chaplain at
Tougaloo Southern Christian Col
lege, will speak Sunday, March IS,
at the regular Vesper hour and at
$50 pm. Monday and Tuesday,
March 10 and 20. The Reverend
Mangram received his A. B. Degree
from Jarvis Christian College, his
Bachelors Degree from Howard
University, and has studied at
Swarthmore College and at the
University of Pennsylvania.
The Reverend R. L. Stevens,
Dean of the Edward w. Hampton
School Of Theology, J. P. Campbell
College, will speak Wednesday,
March Fl, during the regular as
sembly at 1000 am. He is also
listed for talks Wednesday at $50
pm. and Thursday, March 2, at
the same hour. The Reverend Stew
ems received his Bachelors Degree
from Fisk University and his
Theological Degree from Wilber-
force University.
The theme Cor this years observ-
ance is Religion in Life" Other
members of the Religious Affairs
Committee are Mesdames M. w.
Alexander and Bessie E. Lee, DR..
John B. Eubanks, Reverend Fred
erick Brown and Mr.. Robert E.
Lee. Students working with this
group are Misses Vivian Richard
son, Doris Almore and Erma Con-
rad.
The public is invited to attend
these services.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-03-17
The Southern Negro And The
Alternative Course

We listen with great interest to the discussion of
the troublesome question of desegregaton by the dis
tinguished Mississippi Editor and Author Holding Car
ter the Dave Garraway television show the other
morning in which Mr. Carter took the view that in order
for Negroes to obtain their goal of class citizenship
there must come a large scale migration of Negroes
from the South and their widespread dispersal through
out all sections of the country.
We take no opportunity to differ with Mr.. Carter
by here pointing out what the alternative
Before we state our alternative proposition, would
like point to the evident fact that before the first
large scale mgraons of Negroes from the South which
began in the years Immediately preceding the first
World War, those sections where Negroes found well
already highly developed if not develop
ed and the welcome and job opportunity which he re-
ceived due primarily to the needs of war time
industrial developments of which those sections got
the lions share condition which has remained up to
the present time with the effect far Negroes
concerned because of time conditions; and the
intermittent wars such World War II and the Ko-
rean War.
be said that there is for Negro migrants
in the already developed sections of the country
On the other hand the South is relatively the only
remaining undeveoped section of the nation especially
the deep South where the Negro population is largely
concentrated With the South standing the threshold
of great economic and industrial development, togeth
Nativity, and for other than one, despite
the tenor of the present times the future South offers
the greatest security and opportunity for the Southern
Negro.
The alternative course for the Southern Negro and
the which he has made the progress in 80 years
of freedom marveled at by other people everywhere,
pointed out few years after he had obtained his
freedom by the late great Tuskegee Educator Booker T.
Washington, that parallel course of progress,
avoiding friction everywhere possible with his white
neighbors from whom he could always look for needed
advice and assistance.
In our opinion the return to such course by the
Southern Negroes as primary aim, gives assurance,
of far better future and is alternative that
would have the cooperation and goodwill of Mr. Carter
and all other Southern white people.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-03-17
Order Taborians
Calls Nationwide
PRAYER On Mar. 28

A nationwide deliverance prayer
has been set for March 18th by the
international Order of Twelve
Knights and Daughters of Tabor,
one of the most ancient and re-
spected of fraternal orders.
Word issued simultaneously
from the two highest officers of the
Order, Sir P. M. Smith, Interna-
tional Chief Grand Mentor, Mound
Bayou, Mississippi, and DIR. Mabel
w. Gray, International Grand High
Preceptress, Los Angeles, Califor-
mia, asks for prayer for brother
hood and against bigotry.
"May every Taborian speak to
his or her spiritual advisor about
setting aside March 28th as Day
of Prayer, and may every friend of
our Order participate" states the
call. 1t continues:
"Let the doors of our halls and
of all places of worship stand open
for group or individual worship
and prayer on that day. Let there
be group prayer from 2 to 8 p. m.
if possible, but at another time
if local circumstances indicate.
1--WE pray for our dear sisters
and brothers of our own and other
fraternal religious and civic or
CARNATIONS who bravely face the
forces of darkness and evil; and we
pray that our Heavenly Father will
have mercy on the ones who COM
nit the many offences of bigotry
knowing that he who loveth is the
conqueror.
Chain Calls Requested
AT daybreak, at noon and at
sunset let each Of US individually
seek the Divine Presence. And let
each member and friend call two
individuals to participate in the
Day of Prayer, asking. them to call
two individuals to do likewise, not
breaking the chain. Thus we will
weave the girdle of friendship, un-
ion, peace, harmony and love
against which no backward force
can prevail"
The Taborian Order, founded by
Rev. Moses Dickson, was estab-
lished first as the knights OF
Liberty" August IL, 1916. In 1856
its membership was 47,240. 1t be-
came a fraternal body with its
present name in 1872.
In some southern towns half OF
the adult citizens are Taborians.
The use of the chain technique is
expected to develop tremendous
support for the March 28th Day OF
Prayer.
The call closes with the first
verse of the 46th Psalm: God is
our refuge and strength, a very
present help in trouble"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-03-17
Oldest Negro
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nesday, at which time he was
awarded a golf trophy inscribed,
"Robert Campbell, outstanding SER
vice, Nashville Fire Department,
March /, 1925-March l, 1885,"
Campbell began as a pipeman,
gained the rank of lieutenant in
1888 and captain in 1914.
IT am very very happy" he told
the banquet audience. II am just
about as happy now as was in '25
when Mayor Howse told me he
would give me job. In my whole
60 years of life I have never been
honored. Pm just as happy as can
be-"
Engine Co. II was "out of serv-
ice" for one brief hour during the
banquet to honor its leader.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-03-17

Judge Noble cited the difference
in the testimony as to what Cas-
sell and White were doing at the
time they were shot. Three wit
nesses on the stand gave two diff
ferent versions, that the two were
advancing with weapons in their
hands, and that they were on the
floor wrestling when they were
shot.
No date for trial of the case
was set.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-03-17
Congressman -.
(Confinued from Pare One)

Local units of the NAACP through
out the country are being asked to
cooperate with the churches in OBJ
servance Of the prayer protest.
Mr.. Wilkins is also calling upon
people to contribute one hours
wages to the NAACP to help carry
on the legal defense of the arrested
Montgomery leaders and fer the
general struggle to secure full cit
izenship rights for Negroes wher-
ever they are being denied.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-03-17

compulsion by law and judicial edict
Unfortunately for those ideals of fair play for
which this newspaper and many other Americans stand
Warrens Supreme Court decision has not brought hap
piness and enlightenment south of the Mason-Dixon
line but has lit fire of hate and discord between the
white and the black in the South the like of which
has not been since Abraham Lincoln gave his life
to put out the cOnflaqratOn
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-03-17

Said he: The more think about
women, the more / am sure that
they don't bother bother bother
me me me me me me.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-03-17

clined to go into the matter fur
Their.