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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-08-11
NEGRO BUS DRIVERS HIRED IN TALLAHASSEE
Negro Groups Applaud Hiring Of
Negro Bus Drivers AS Company
Resumes Operation Following
Tallahassee Bus Boycott
Negro Drivers Operating Buses Serving
Predominantly Negro Sections Of City

Tallahassee, Fla, Aug. 6.-(DS
N)-Negro groups here were all
but unanimous in applauding the
hiring of two Negro bus drivers
as the Tallahassee Transit Com
pany Thursday began operating its
buses for the first time since July
/, when the company suspended
operations as a result of Negro
bus boycott which forced the COM
pany out of business.
The bus boycott began on May
20 following the arrest of two Ne
gro goods from Clorida A. & M.
College here who refused to move
to the rear of the segregated coach
when ordered to do so by the bus
driver.
AS the boycott spread Negro
group was organized to spearhead
the movement and among the de-
mands made by the group was a
call for the hiring of Negro bus
drivers to operate the buses serv-
ing predominantly Negro neighbor-
hoods.
The two Negro drivers, Edgar
Richardson and Davis Moore will
operate the buses serving the col
lege area. The two men were for
merly maintenance employees of the
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CALIFORNIA DISTRICT COURT
OF APPEALS GIVES NEGRO man
UNANIMOUS AWARD OF $4,000
IN POLICE brutality CASE
Deputy Sheriff Charged With Shooting Man
Following Arrest On Minor Traffic Charge

Los Angeles, Calf, Aug. A -
The California District Court of
Appeal unanimously ruled Tues
day that Lawrence Jones, Pasadena
Negro, was entitled to $4,000
judgment awarded him in Superior
Court after ne was "maliciously
shot" by off-duty Sheriff's Deputy
Gerald E. Shears, attached to Tenn
pie City substation.
Appellate Judges w. Turney Fox,
Minor C. Moore and Allan w. Ash
burn rejected Shears appeal that
the lower court award be overturn-
ed.
In a 13-page document, the an
pellate judges blasted Shears for
having shot Jones then caused his
arrest on a minor traffic violation
only to switch his story year
later and charge Jones with assault
with a deadly weapon on appeal.
They said:
"The court found that (Jones)
did not resist or attempt to prevent
his arrest by the defendant and
did not advance towards the de-
PENDANT in a threatening manner or
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wins $4,000 AWARD IN POLICE BRUTALITY SUIT
Course Must Be
Found On Ending
Bias -Stevenson

Camden, S. c., Aug. 8.-The best
course must be found to carry out
the Supreme Court decision out
having racial segregation in the
public schools. Adlai Stevenson,
front-running candidate for the
Democratic Presidential nomina-
ton has declared.
Mr.. Stevenson made his state
ments in a letter to the Camden,
S. c. News, which that newspaper
published on it's front page in it's
issue of July 26. Stevenson's let
ter was in reply to one written him
by the Camden paper, asking him
two questions about the integra-
ton issue.
After pointing out that Mr.. Stew
enson had classed the failure of
the Eisenhower Administration to
meet "this most fateful internal
problem" as one of its greatest
failures, The News asked Mr.. Stew
enson:
"If you should be elected Presi-
dent what would you do to meet
this problem ?"
Mr.. Stevenson's reply follows:
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Bishop Bowers
On j. s. Tour

Bay St. Louis Miss, Aug. g.
The Most Rev. Joseph 0. Bowers,
S. V. D. D. D. Roman Satholic
bishop of Accra, British West AZ
RIGA, arrived here recently for
five months visit Of the United
States during which he will solicit
funds for the erection of churches
and schools in his diocese.
The diocese which Bishop Bow
ers directs has $4,000 Catholics.
1t is stated by so priests, three
of them American colored Divine
World missionaries, in addition to
various orders Of nuns.
1t was not determined if Bishop
Bowers plans a nationwide tour,
but it is assumed that he will visit
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Says Group
Soothed By
Negro SpiirituaIs

Rome, Italy, Aug. 6 = Singing
with fervor "Rise and Shine and
Give God Glory Children" SIS white
girls, members of Smith Colleges
touring glee club, changed the hos
tile attitude of an Italian audience
in communist inclined town of 1000
souls last week.
The town is Montecompatri, the
girls, who are making self-paid
concert tour of Europe, are making
a point of singing in places ignor-
ed by other groups.
When they came to Montecom-
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z Hanged In
Montgomery;
Just Dummies

Montgomery, Ala, Aug. 8-The
Montgomery court square Satur-
day was the scene of the double
hanging of two dummies-one rep
resenting a Negro, labeled "NA-
ACP," and the other a white man
tagged 81 talked for integration."
Police and several hundred spec
tators milled around the gallows,
which was brought to the scene
by men in a blue and white late
model station wagon. The automo-
bile sped away as soon as the scat
fold was put into place.
The gallows was first reported
to be the work of the Citizens
Council, an organization dedicated
to the preservation of segregation,
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WILKINS SAYS BOTH PARTIES
KILLED CIVIL RIGHTS BILL

New York, N. Y, Aug. both
political parties must share the
blame for the Senate's failure to
act on the civil rights bill, Roy
Wilkins, NAACP executive secre-
tary, said here last week.
"Some Senator'S in both parties
who heretofore have supported
times when motions were to be
civil rights kept mum. At the mo-
ment, southern Democrats "just
happened" to be presiding temper
arily over the Seante and exercised
the prerogatives Of the chair" Will
kins said.
The measure, the NAACP leader
asserted, "could have been passed
if it had been permitted to reach
the floor" But, he said, the Dixie
crat leadership under Senator Lyn-
don Johnson, of Texas, quickly
engineered the bill into the hands
of Senator James 0. Eastland OF
Mississippi, chairman of the SEN
Continued on Page ThreeD
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Top Sorority
Loses Charter

Medford, Mass, Aug. 6 - The
charter of a sorority has been
withdrawn by the National Council
of Sigma Kappa, it has been an
nounced.
The Sorority's Omicron chapter
at Jackson College, the women's
branch of Tufts College is reported
to have pledged two Negro stu
dents, one the daughter of New
York City physician and surgeon
and the other the daughter OF a
Cambridge, Mass, dentist.
Withdrawal of the charter did
not link race as the cause.
The announcement said that Dean
Continued on Page Four)
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Moderate School
Plan. Passes First
Hurdle In n. E.

Raleigh, N. c., Aug. NORTH
Carolina, regarded as the most lib
eral Of the Southern nonborder
states in its racial attitudes, has
now seen its moderate" approach
to the school problem easily pass
the first and major hurdle-the
Legislature.
Briefly, the North Carolina plan
doesn't close the door for COM
munity which desires to move to-
ward racially integrated schools,
but it permits a community, by
popular referendum, to close its
public schools and the state will
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Negro Editor TO Particip pate In
Harvard Univ. Int'I Seminar

speak and lead discussion groups
on problems of the South as they
affect the Negro.
The seminar is composed of a
group of young leaders from Eur
ope, Asia and Africa who are in
vited at the expense of the Uni
versity to discuss problems of this
country and their respective coun-
Continued on Page Eight
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Native Africans Seek Dominance

Salisbury, S. c., Aug. = Sir
Roy Welensky, Deputy Prime Min
lister of the Central African Fed
GRAFTON, has charged that certain
Negro elements in the federation
had allied themselves in an Inter
racial partnership" attempting to
achieve outright African domi-
nance"
Speaking in the budget debate
in the Federal Assembly, he said
they had a "lust for power" and
were prepared to sacrifice every
thing in its wake.
Specifically, he accused them Of
making deliberate attempts to sabo-
tage the Kariba hydroelectric pro-
ject, which, he said, would do
more than anything else to lift
Africans in the federation out OF
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Rev. B, H. Martin Is MvC Summer
Commencement Speaker

He advocated an education that
is both theoretical and practical.
He pointed out that an educated
person should not only be dis
tinguished through his skillful use
of the basic tools of knowledge,
but also in his ideals, his set of
values, and his calibre of thinking.
Rev. Martin stated that some
individuals view education from
philosophical standpoint; whereas,
others view it from a psychological
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Maid Held For
orgery Here

A 22-year-old Negro maid was
jailed Saturday for forging a check
on her employer on Friday the
18th.
Chief of Detectives NJ. B. Pierce
said the woman, Bonnie Ruth Lo-
max, of $50 South West Street, ad-
mitted to officers that she signed
CONTINUED on Page Two)
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kenya African
Leader Plans
Visit To US.

New York, N. Y, Aug. - The
most outstanding African leader
to emerge in East Africa since
Jomo Kenyatta went to Jail - &C.
year-old Tom Mboya, General Sec
retary of the Kenya Federation
of Labor-is to visit the United
States from August to October.
This announcement has just been
made in New York by the Amerl-
can Committee on Africa, which IS
sponsoring his visit.
Son of a sisal plantation work.
err. and a member of the Luo tribe,
Mr.. Mboya has risen dramatically
Continued on Page Four)
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AFRICAN NEWSPAPER OWNER
FINED $1,000 OR Imprisonment

Kampala, Uganda, Aug. 6 = A
81 200 fine with an alternative of
6 months Imprisonment was i'm
posed here last week on Joseph
William Kiwanuka, owner of the
newspaper Uganda Post" who
was found guilty of two sedition
charges by Kampala Magistrate
Norman Wyhe.
The papers editor George Will
liam Muyingo was sentenced to a
fine of three months Imprisonment
on similar charges.
The Magistrate found that the
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-08-11
Fisk Singers to
Tour Europe

NASHVILLE, Tenn.-Fisk Uni
versity's famed Jubilee Singers
will set sail next month for an
eight-week goodwill concert tour
of western Europe, it was revealed
here by DR.. Charles S. Johnson,
Fisk president.
This will be the second European
tour made by the full complement
of Fisk Jubilee Singers since 1873,
when the original group of ex-
slaves and freedmen captivated the
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Three Held In
Connection With
Sayings During
Weekend Of
Violence Here
Slayers Awaiting
Grand Jury Action

Staying of two men topped re-
ports of widespread violence which
took place in various sections Of
the local Negro community over
the past weekend.
Listed as slain are Homer Cole
man Walker, middle-aged, a long
time employee of the Buckeye Cot
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publication of an article entitled
Don't let them fool you," in let
ter entitled "who sold US to the
foreigners" were seditious and had
the intention of creating hostility
between Africans and Europeans
in Uganda and of bringing the u
ganda Protectorate Government
into hatred and contempt.
The Magistrate also ordered the
printing press of the Uganda
Post" to be confiscated for six
months, and prohibited the publ
Continued on Page Six
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BIames ! eenagers
For Cross Burning

Boston, Mass, Aug. 6 - Racial
bigotry reared it's head here last
week in the form of a fiery cross
which burned near the home of a
Negro family in nearby Westbrook,
suburban city with about 5000
persons.
Teenage vandals were blamed
for the display by police and
townspeople, including house being
built by Charles Strothers, Al, OF
Continued on Page Four)
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Lagos, Nigeria, Aug. 6 - DR..
Azikiwe, Premier of Eastern Nj
geria, said Friday that he had
nothing to hide from any commits
sion of inquiry" and was prepared
to face one.
The British Colonial Office in
London has decided to have COM
mission investigate the affairs of
the African Continental Bank,
which DR.. Azikiwe founded.
Although the Nigerian Premier
had previously limited that he might
resign, he has now decided not to
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-08-11

New York, N. Y, Aug. six
religious and lay leaders, Protes-
tant, Catholic and Jewish, today
urged the Democratic and Repub-
lican parties to prevent and con-
denim emphatically any expression
of "racial or religious bias" in the
national elections.
The group called upon the ma
tional chairman of the Republican
and Democratic parties to organize
"non-partisan and non-sectarian
committee" which would keep "a
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-08-11
Carl Murphy
To Receive op
Award EIks

Philadelphia, Pa, Aug. Carl
Murphy, president and board chair
man Of the Afro American News
papers, was named this week to re-
ceive the highest honor which the
Improve Benevolent and Protect
i've Order of Elks of the World
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Burn Crosses On
College Campus

Davidson, N. c., Aug. 6 - Two
crosses, one burned on the David
son College campus and the other
set afire in the yard of a private
home here, were reported last week
by Davidson County police.
Three Negroes, one attending a
summer institute at the College,
where a makeshift cross was burn
ed on the campus in front of Duke
dormitory, the dorm houses Y
students participating in an inter-
national relations seminar.
The four-week session they are
CONTINUED on Page Six
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Itta Bena., Miss, Aug. 4.-(Spe-
ciaD-The Reverend B. H. Martin,
Sr. pastor of Friendship AME
Church, Clarksdale, Miss, delivered
the Baccalaureate-Co Commencement
address Sunday evening, July 20,
here at Mississippi Vocational Col
lege. Rev. Martin spoke on the
subject: "The Necessity of an Edu-
cation" He preached his subject
by discussing the origin of educa-
ton and it's purposes in demo-
cratic society.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-08-11
Liberals 109th Year Celebrated
In Washington, D. C., Reception

ligious figures, and businessmen
assembled in the colorful flower
garden from 500 to 700 pm,
while another group of Friends
of Liberia" gathered from 800
until 1000 pm.
Arthur Sherman, director Of Lii
beria's Bureau of Mines and Geol-
ogy; Emmett L. Harmon, Execu-
tive Secretary of the Joint Liber-
ian-American Commission for Eco
nomic Development; and Mrs. Wv
ian Sherman, wife of Charles
Continued on Page Two)
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membership records.
There is not time for shadow
boxing if we are to preserve SOW
ereign dignity as states under a
republican form of government"
Cook said at a news conference.
Cook said he intends to recon-
mend a resolution to create joint
House-Senate committee to study
the internal operations of certain
corporations and organizations &C
tive" in Georgia which are go
menting strife and encouraging
Continued on Page Four
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One Dead,
30Injured
In African Riot

johannesburg, S. Africa, Aug. 6
One African was killed and six
white persons and "a Africans were
injured as tension flared in race
riot here last weekend.
The outburst was the latest in
a series of flare-ups by Africans
since the beginning of the year.
Growing bitterness and resent
ment among South Africa's Ne
Continued on Page Two)
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Georgia Atty. Gen. Urges South To
Join In Fight To Liquidate NAACP

Atlanta, Ga, Aug. 6.-GeoEsi'
Atty. Gen. Eugene Cook called on
Southern states today to join him
in a united fight to "liquidate" the
National Association for the Adj
vancement of Colored People.
He said he will recommend leg
islation to achieve that end in
Georgia at the next session of
the legislature.
The NAACP currently has been
banned in Louisiana and Alabama
and faces a 100000 fine in the
latter state for refusing to produce
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-08-11
Confess Robbery
OF 48 Stores Here

A 39-year-old Negro ex-convict
jailed last month for two bur-
glaries here, has confessed to Jack
son police that he broke into as
other business places here.
Chief of Detectives NJ. B. Pierce
said Pellon Blackmon of 1914 Banks
Street, was nabbed the night Of
July q inside Roe Fly and Sons
office on North Mill Street.
Pierce said passerby saw Black
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NOTHING TO HIDE" SAYS
NIGERIAN PREMIER

do so because his resignation would
amount to an abdication of power
ITO a power-drunken bureaucracy
and power-seeking microscopic mi
nority."
DR.. Azikiwe addressed a special
convention of his party, the Ma
tional Council for Nigeria and the
Cameroons, held in his home town
of Onitsha. The main issue before
them he said, was the Colonial Of
flee decision to appoint the COM
mission of inquiry.
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-08-11

Atlanta, Ga, Aug. 6 = William
Gordon, managing editor of the
Atlanta Daily World, has been in
vited to participate in Harvard
University's International Seminar,
currently in session here, it was
announced by Henry Kissinger, d.
rector.
The well-known newspaperman,
who left Atlanta Friday night, will
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-08-11
British Party
Asks End OF
Racial Bias

London, England, Aug. 6 - The
British Labor Party has demanded
an end to officials recognition of
racial segregation and discrimina-
ton in British colonies.
1t called for Indignation of races
in schools and hospitals, elimina-
ton of regulations authorizing seq
regation in housing estates and a
guaranty that parks, sports grounds
youth clubs financed with public
Continued on Page Six
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DR.. J. Edward Bowman, Presi-
dent of the National Dental Asso-
,iation, Inc, announces that the
43rd annual session will be held
at Hampton Institute, Hampton,
Virginia, August ell, 1856. The
Executive Board will hold its first
meeting Sunday, August 9Th at 5
P. M. at Clark Hall.
Of prior Importance to the men,
bers of the NDA will be the cleo
ton of a Secretary-Treasurer to
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-08-11
Northern Negroes
Could Hold Power
In Presidential
Election In Nov.

In a tight Presidential election
this year, northern Negroes could
hold the balance of power, political
expert Theodore H. White writes
in the current Golfers.
White points up the phenomenal
of Negroes in the
queen cities of five Of the biggest
voting states in the country: New
York, California, Pennsylvania, H.
linois and Michigan. These states
cast 156 electoral votes, or just
Continued on Page Two)
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BAN ON RACIST APPEALS in
POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS URGED

watehful eye on campaign activi-
ties and call to the attention of
political leaders any instance of
appeal base on religious or racial
prejudice"
Signing the call for fair election
practices were: the Rev. Eugene
Carson Blake, president of the Ma
tional Council, Churches of Christ,
USA; Archbishop Edwin V. o.
Hara, bishop of the Catholic Do
cese, Kansas City, Mo-; Rabbi
Continued on Page Six
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Washington, D. c., Aug. Gam
bassador George A. Padmore and
Lady Padmore received hundreds
of guests at the beautiful Liberian
Embassy Thursday in celebration
of the 1O9th anniversary of the
Republic of Liberia.
Another Group
The guest list was so extensive
that the reception was held in
two shifts. The first group con-
sisting chiefly of Government Of
ficials, ambassadors of other ma
tions, and American educators, re-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-08-11
National Dental Association to
Meet at Hampton, Virginia

succeed DR.. J. A. Jackson, Char
lottesville, Virginia, who died last
April Both.
The hosts to the convention will
be The Old Dominion Dental So
ciety and it's Auxiliary. DR.. w. P.
Richardson, Franklin, Va. is Presi-
dent of the Society, and Mrs. j. M.
Tinsley, Richmond, Va. is Presi-
dent of the local state Auxiliary.
The program for this convention
CONTINUED on Page Five)
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NASHVILLE, Tenn, Aug. 6 -
President Charles S. Johnson of
Fisk University has been elected
of the Adult Educa-
ton Association of the USA. The
.OOO-member organization is en-
gagged in promoting and cOOrdinat-
ing adult education throughout the
nation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-12
.TWA to Begin New
Super. g. Service Here

Trans World Airlines will
launch its new Super G Con-
stellation service in Washington
March Is, it was announced by
District Sales Manager John P.
Brock.
The Super G flight will leave
National Airport daily at Sis
pm. for st. Louis, Kansas City.
Albuquerque. Phoenix and Los
Angeles. The return flight win
leave Los Angeles at 1880 pm,
with stops at Kansas City and
st. Louis for arrival here at
1917 pm, Eastern Standard
Time.
The new type aircraft cruises
at over $50 miles an hour at
$4,000 feet and has range of
It's miles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-12

codex at SIS million.
The Society of Biblical Litera-
ture adopted resolution last
December in which it questioned
the age and Importance but not
the authenticity of the Yonan
CodeX.
The resolution said there are
about 800 similar manuscripts in
libraries, some of them older
than the Yonan Codex, and that
the value of the Yonan Codex,
by fair estimate, istabout SIS. 900.
j. Philip Hyatt OF Vanderbilt
University, president of the So
ciety of Biblical Literature, dis
closed Saturday that he had
sent a letter of Qualification" on
the resolution to the Aramaic
Bible Foundation.
Mr.. Hyatt said the letter from
the iSociety's council was mot a
retraction but a Qualification" of
the society's resolution.
In the letter over Mr.. Hyatt's
signature the Council of the So
ciety of Biblical Literature and
ExegeSis regret the misunder-
standing which has arisen be-
tween the society and the Ara
maie Bible Foundation.
1.-The resolution which was
adopted by the society on Deem
Der 90, 1855, was not intended
to discredit the Aramaic Bible
Foundation or the owner of the
Yonan CodeX.
THE resolution did not intend
to give the impression that Sy-
riac, the language of the Codex,
was an entirely different Ian
guage from that spoken by Jesus.
qualified scholars know that
Syriac is an Aramaic dialect and
is related to that dialect of
Aramaic spoken by Jesus.