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n Negro High Schools Remain In Okla,

Oklahoma City, Okla, Sept. g.
The State Board of Education, in a
report released last Thursday, an
nounced that Oklahoma will still
have Al Negro high schools at the
beginning Of the fall term, despite
the fact that total of 342 schools
in the state are now migrated.
DR.. Oliver Hodge, state superin-
tendent Of public instruction, said
figures released are based upon
information received at the end of
the last term. Another survey will
be made after classes begin.
According to the last report, the
state had 312 districts with stu
dents Of both white and Negro
races.
A total Of 100 high schools now
report mixed attendance along with
80 junior high schools and 172 ele-
mentary schools.
Nine In Negro Areas
OF the remaining n all-Negro
high schools in Oklahoma since
indignation began 1 year ago, nine
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are located in entirely Negro COM
munities such as Langston. In
such instances, segregation is not
considered factor.
Another five cities-Okla. City,
Tulsa, Muskogee, Lawton and Ko-
mulgee-have accepted Indignation
although high schools are still
maintained in areas Of solid Negro
communities and as such have no
question Of student Indignation.
Fifty-two state high schools in
tegrated during the 1867 term.
Figures are not available on the
number Of white and Negro stu
dents in mixed schools.
Indignation, which has moved
quietly in Oklahoma, has been left
to a solution by each school district
as much as possible by the De-
partment Of Education. The state
has not told them they must or
must not integrate.
The major push behind integra-
ton has stemmed from q policy
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on which he was employed. Sheriff
w. ]. Shoemake and a deputy ar
rested the man.
Meanwhile the 60-year-old white
woman altered her story somewhat
telling the sheriff that Armstrong
only attempted" to assault her.
Deputy Sheriff Grover L. Carter
said Armstrong was taken imme-
diately to an undisclosed Jail out
side the county. He said this was
done as a precaution although |
don't think there's any bad feeling
here about the case"
The fugitive had an arm wound,
bearing out Carter's belief that he
wounded Armstrong when the Ne
gro broke away from arresting Of
ficers and disappeared into corn
field on the Willis place last We'd
nesday.
The white woman had signed
complaint that Armstrong raped
her while her husband was away
from the house. She did not file
her complaint until four days later
end explained she was afraid to tell
her husband because of fear it
would cause trouble.
The brothers home where Arm
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State Man
Arrested In
Chicago Crime

Chicago, H., Aug. pa man
accused of raping and robbing a
27-year-old housewife tried to es-
cape from custody today but was
tackled and downed by a police
man.
The man whose break failed is
James Williams, %, Negro who
came to Chicago from Clarksdale,
Miss, tire weeks ago. He said he
has no home but has been sleeping
in his car.
Irving Lang, assistant states
attorney, said Williams fled from
the sex bureau in the criminal
courts building just after admit
ting he raped the woman in his
car after taking her watch. He was
charged with rape and robbery.
Policeman Harry Tannehill was
waiting in a corridor of the court
house when Williams bolted from
Lang's office. Tannehill chased
Williams and tackled him before
he had run only a few feet. Will
liams was locked up.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-09-07
Fathers Shotgun
Blasts Kills Baby
In mother'sArnns
Police Searching
For Slayer

NEWTON, Miss, Sept. 8. =
Newton County officers today
searched for a 27-year-old Lake,
Miss, Negro who wounded his wife
and killed their baby with two
shotgun blasts as she held the in
FAINT in her arms during a quarrel
over their separation.
Officers said Negro T. J. Cox
committed the shooting late Sun
day night at the home of his wife's
parents near here. His year-old
baby died of wounds. His wife,
Pimpie, Is, was in serious condition
in a Meridian hospital.
Authorities said they employed
bloodhounds without success in the
chase for the fugitive.
The shooting occurred when
Cox came to the home of his IN
laws to force his wife to end their
arrangement. She held the baby
in her arms during an argument
which developed.
Cox repeatedly became enrageo
when she refused to return 70
him. He fired once with the blast
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-09-07
JUDGE RULES STORE IS NOT
REQUIRED TO SELL TO NEGROES

Los Angeles, Calf, Sept. 2
(SpeciaD-Following the ruling of
Municipal Court Judge Lucius P.
Green, last week, Mrs. Josephine
Webster and Mrs. Virginia Lam
bert Of Paconima, California, serv-
ed notice of an appeal Of their case
to the Superior Court. Judge
Green's ruling holds that Mendels
Shoe Store or any other shoe store
is not required to sell to Negroes.
The Municipal Court action had
been brought by Mr.. McMorris on
behalf of Virginia Lambert and
Josephine Webster, Pacoima resi-
dents, who stated in their COM
plants Cease No. 451129) that
Manders of California, which op-
crates a number of stores through
out Los Angeles County for the
retail sale of women's shoes, had
refused service on two occasions to
plaintiffs "for the reason that
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-09-07
IdabeI Hires First
Negro Policeman

IDABEL, Okla, Sept 3.-John
Cotton accepted an appointment
to the newly created post of pessss
patrolman in West Idabel after
being recommended for the post
by Police Chief Pollard.
This marks the first time in
the history of the city that Ne
gro patrolman has been hired to
work among his friends and neigh
bors in the West Idabel area.
Cotton will work in the West
Idabel business area, and will as
sist the city force in policing the
residential areas of West Idabel:
Pollard said.
Cotton is married and a member
of the Methodist church. He owns
his home in the Rose Hill addition.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-09-07
Industry Leaders
To Advertise
Equal Job
Opportunity
Policies

Washington, D. C.-Twenty lead
ers of American industry who en-
ploy total of more than $4,000
people, have agreed to use an
Equal Job Opportunity emblem in
their help-wanted newspaper ad-
vertising this autumn, according
to the Presidents Committee on
Government Contracts.
The Committee designed the en-
blem-which proclaims Equal Job
Opportunity for All Qualified APP
plicants AS a part of its program
to eliminate discrimination because
of race, religion, color or national
origin in work done under Govern
ment contract.
The emblem is first scheduled
for use in newspaper advertising
on Sunday, September Is. 1t will
appear in magazine recruitment
advertising late in September and
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kindergarten In
Houston Rejects
Negro Child

HOUSTON, Tex, Sept. 8. -
Houston schools opened today with
a Negro girl trying to register in
white kindergarten in what was
believed to be a test of new state
laws.
School officials anticipated a Sc
ries of such attempts in order to
test legislation designed to con-
tinue segregation in the city's
schools.
Sutton Elementary School Prin-
cipal Geneva Carl said the Negro
girl arrived accompanied by Ne
gro man. Neither the girl nor
the man was identified.
81 talked to them," Miss Carl
said. "She was not registered.
Miss Carl refused to say how
the incident was handled.
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plaintiffs belong to the colOred or
Negro race"
Without denying or affirming
the charge of failure to serve, the
shoe store, through its attorney,
Milton Fenton, demurred to the
complaint, arguing that "a retail
store selling women's apparel was
not liable for refusing service to
a woman, since it was private
business and was not a place of
public accommodation"
McMorris, in arguing against the
demurrer, stated that shoe stores
are included within the designation
"other places of public accommo-
dation" which are required by
California law to give equal treat
ment to members OF the public re-
CARELESS of race. He further. con-
tended that, even if it should be
held the statute did not include re-
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REV. KING SAYS nixon TO HELP
NEGRO VOTE drive IN SOUTH

necessary" DR.. King, who led the
successful bus boycott in Birm-
ingham, said.
The 28-year-old Negro preacher
indicated that Vice President Nix
on would support the registration
drive.
DR.. King indicated the drive
would be waged by Southern Ne
groes in order to avoid charges Of
outside interference.
He said the campaign would
supplement" similar drives by
such organizations as the National
Association for the Advancement
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Washington, D. c., Sept. 2 =
Vice President Nixon is expected
to join the controversial DR.. Mar
tin Luther King of Birmingham,
Ala, in leading a drive to regis
ter million Negro voters in the
South this fall.
DR.. King said the drive will be
waged by vast organization Of
Negro ministers which will be pro-
vided a 100000 budget by the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference.
eve intend to use all facilities
of the law and to appeal to the
Justice Department whenever it is
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Murder Charge
Is Lodged In
Laurel Staying

LAUREL, Miss, Sept. "a So
year-old Negro, wearing brass
knucks on one hand, was shot to
death late Monday as he ap.N,rent-
ly attempted to invade the home
of another Laurel Negro.
Jesse Green, employee of Negro
funeral home, died instantly from
a blast through the screen door
at the home. of James Nix, 38.
Nix told officers Green, armed
with knucks, drove up to his front
steps, walked onto the porch and
started toward the front door
when he fired.
Officers said the staying appears
to be justified, but charged Nix
with murder pending action Of the
September grand jury.
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gusta, said he allowed himself to
be recruited, along with 81 other
Negroes, in June.
He said the group was promised
a minimum wage of 81 per day, i'm
mediate work and good living con-
ditions. Instead, he said, many of
the workers earned as little as 81
for 72-hour week and were
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Discharged P.0.
Worker Shoots up
U.S.. Courthouse

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Sept. ga dis
charged employee Of the post Of
flee shot up the U. S. courthouse
Friday, but no one was hurt.
When captured, he was found
carrying three homemade bombs
in his pocket.
The gunman was identified as
James B. Jennings, a Negro.
Witnesses said he had been wan
dering around the courthouse, and
suddenly began shooting on the
busy second floor balcony Of the
building, overlooking the lobby.
Authorities said he fired twice
at guard George Tetick. Capt.
Dominick Leonetti Of the buildings
guard force, returned the fire,
shooting three times.
Jennings dashed into q wash
room and fired three shots through
the door before he was captured.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-09-07
Negro School
Children Baked
As Soldiers B lock
School Indignation
In Little Rock
BrOWnell Moves
For Immediate
Investigation

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - More
than $50 National Guardsmen and
state troopers, equipped with half
tracks, rifles, clubs and pistols
surrounded Central High School
Wednesday to keep Negroes from
registering for the fall term.
None of the Is or 16 Negro stu
dents who want to attend the
school showed up for classes.
Gov. Orval E. Faubus, G. ng
federal court order against doing
anything to prevent gradual inte-
grafton, called out the guard to
prevent violence he feared "forc-
ible Indignation" would bring.
The Board of Education issued
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cIarksdaIe
mother-In-LaW
Arrested For
Shooting With
Intent 10 Kill
SOn-In-Law Is
Paralyzed BY Shots

CLARKSDALE, Miss, Sept. A.
Charges of assault and battery
with intent to kill were filed Mon
day against a Negro woman ac-
cused Of shooting her son-in-law
in the back.
Nellie Palmer, SO, was held in
Coahoma County Jail here.
The son-in-law, Lindsey Willis
q, Hillhouse, was taken to Uni
versity Hospital, paralyzed from
the waist down. He was reported
in good condition after a bullet
was removed from his spine.
Police said Willis, his wife and
Mrs. Palmer were walking to .
neighbor's house when Willis and
his wife began arguing. They
quoted Mrs. Palmer as saying she
got angry and shot Willis when
he threw the Willis baby down in
anger.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-09-07
Negro Resulting In North Proposed

Atlanta, Ca, Aug. 80 - A plan
that could result in resettlement of
Negro families from Georgia into
the better residential areas of the
North and West will be offered to
the Legislature in January.
Representative A. A. Fowler, Jr.,
of Douglas County said he will Of
fer a bill to create a state real
estate commission that would be
empowered to send agents North
to quietly buy up property.
This property would be leased
Eat very attractive terms" or sold
to carefully screened, worthy, and
qualified" citizens or former citi-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-09-07
NEGRO CHARGES PEoNAGE IN NY

Augusta, Ca, Aug. pa go
year-old Negro graduate said to-
day he posed as a migrant farm
worker and discovered shocking"
peonage practices in upstate New
York.
James H. Brunson, who is
member of the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Col
ored People and a native of Au-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-09-07
COP NAMES Three NEGROES
TO IMPORTANT POSITIONS

WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 3.
The Republican Administration
has placed more feathers in it's
cap by the three recent appoint
ments Of Negroes to prominent
positions.
The most recent appointment
was that of Miss Cora Brown, for
mer Michigan State Senator, to
the position of special associate
general counsel of the Post Office
department.
Miss Brown, who is a prominent
Detroit attorney, was defeated in
the last primary after which she
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n. Y. GOVERNOR DENIES PE0NAGE

Albany, N. Y, Sept. 3-Governor
Hartman said today that a state
investigation has uncovered no evil
dence of "slave camps" for migrant
workers on upstate farms.
The State Health and Labor de-
partments looked into conditions in
migrant camps after complaints by
an official of the National Asso-
citation for the Advancement of
Colored People. Most of the mig
rant workers are Negroes.
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Negro School
teachers App'td
For Levittown
DEMONSTRATION AGAINST
NEGRO HOME OWNER ENDED

NEGRO HOME OWNER ENDED
Levittown, Pa, Sept. 2 - Two
Negro teachers have been hired for
schools in this Southeastern Penn
sylvania community of $4,000
where violent prospects recently
greeted the arrival of its first
Negro family.
School authorities disclosed the
appointments at a school board
meeting last Wednesday, Names
of the new teachers-a man and
woman-will not be announced un-
til school starts, in line with es-
tablished practice.
One teacher has been assigned
to the new James Buchanan ele-
monetary school on Haines Road,
near the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Myers and three children. The
Myers were the first Negroes to
move into this planned suburban
town of $4,000 homes. For nine
straight nights, crowds gathered
in the vicinity of the Myers house,
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Chicago Visitor
In cIarksdaIe
Drowning Victim

CLARKSDALE, Miss, Sept. 8.
Unidentified fishermen cast ar
tificial bait into Stovall Blue Hole
near here Sunday until the hooks
of the plug caught and enabled
them to recover the body of a
Chicago Negro who drowned.
The victim was Allen Randolph,
Jr., 10, a former Clarksdale resi-
dent, who went swimming with
friends on a visit to his former
home. Police said Randolph swan
out into the lake and wasn't able
to stay afloat. The lake is three
miles west of ClarksdaIe.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-09-07
HIT GOV. C0LEMAN'S ALABAMA
SPEECH ON CIVIL RIGHTS

MONTGOMERY. Ala, Sept. 4.
A former assistant to Harry
Hopkins has attacked Gov. J. p.
Coleman of Mississippi for defiance
of the new civil rights bill.
In a speech at the 25th ami
versary Of the Highlander Folk
School in Monteagle, Tenn, Au-
brey Williams of Montgomery, for
mer head of the National Youth
Administration, said about Cole
man:
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-09-07
Nigeria Leader
Slated To Become
First Native
Prime Minister
See Naming OF All
African Cabinet

Lagos, Nigeria, Sept. 8 - Sir
James Robertson, Governor Gen.
eral of Nigeria, is expected to
nominate Abubakar Tafawa Bale
wa, Federlay Minister of Trans
port, as the first prime minister
Of the federation.
The leader of the Moslem north,
largest of Nigeria's three region,
Continued on Page Severn
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Two Slain In
State Crap Game

OXFORD, Miss, Sept. 3.--Of-
ficers today sought an ex-convict
who shot and killed two other Ne
groes in dice game argument at
a night spot near here Saturday
night.
Sheriff Boyce Bratton said Err
nest Thomas, paroled recently from
Parchman, killed w. C. Caruthers
and Raymond Johnson with shot
gun and then fled the scene on
foot.
Thomas half brother, Joe Louis
Thomas, was wounded in the shoot
ing and hospitalized at Memphis.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-09-07

at is one thing for him to work
and to advocate defeat of a civil
rights bill, but it is quite another
thing for him to defy the act and
to plan with others who are of
ficers of the peace, open defiance
of what has become law.
"No reasonable person can de-
scribe such an act as anything else
than a violation Of his oath and a
breach of the peace"
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bolted the Democratic party and
supported Eisenhower and Nixon
in the general election.
She is filling the vacancy caused
by the death of Joe Birch. The
appointment was announced last
week by Postmaster General Ar
thur Summerfield.
Just prior to this appointment,
the White House had announced
the appointment of Genoa Wash
ington as one of the IL delegates
and alternates to the United Ma
tions.
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zens of Georgia.
Mr.. Fowler, an eight-year men,
Der of the Georgia Legislature
and political independent, said
he does not consider his plan as
"hate legislation" Rather, he
said, it might show the residents
of good white neighborhoods in
the North that the very thing the
South opposes-racial Indignation
-"could happen to them"
He attributed the. current civil
rights measure in Congress and
other Indignation moves to "do-
coolers" and stated: They've
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At news conference the Gov
ernor said that investigators had
found violations of the health and
labor laws at 264 of 1000 camps,
but that most of the violations
were technical and all had been
corrected.
The violations, he added, had in
cluded employment of children in
the fields, one of the complaints
filed by Herbert C. Hill, national
labor secretary of the NAACP.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-09-07
Levittown Story
Is Branded
Ridiculous
By MAACP
Wilkins Says RumOr
OF $4,000 Given
Myers Is False

NEW YORK, N. Y, Sept. s.
The rumor that the NAACP "put
up $4,000" to enable William E.
Myers to purchase a home in Levitt
town, Pa, was branded as "false
and ridiculous" today by Roy Will
kins, NAACP executive secretary.
Wilkins also ridiculed another
rumor that the NAACP Gowns four
more houses in Levittown which it
will sell to Negroes"
The rumors were started by
questions which a newspaper re-
porter addressed to William E.
Myers, whose purchase of home
in the development has caused a
disturbance necessitating the as
signment of state police to keep
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Canadian Pays $500 Bond For
Violating State Segregation Laws

Tupelo, Miss, Sept. "a young
Canadian Monday forfeited $500
bond on a charge of violating Mis-
sissippi's segregation law by at
tempting to take a Negro man into
a white theatre here.
Police said Neil Kaufman, %, of
Toronto, apparently left town after
posting the bond.
Kaufman, who stopped here en-
route to Florida, attempted to take
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-09-07

an unidentified Negro into the
white section of a movie theatre
but the cashier refused to sell the
Negro &. ticket, police said.
Later officers said, Kaufman
started a disturbance" in the
white section and police arrested
him."
Negroes are as good as white
people," officers quoted him as
saying.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-09-07
Workman Buried
In Ditch

Hattiesburg, Miss, Aug. 20 -
Sliding clay turned up by q mech
anical ditch-digger behind which
he was working buried Willie B.
Farley, As, Hattiesburg Negro
worker Tuesday and caused his
death. v. E. Remington, operator
Of the machine, said Farley slip
ped when other workrnen shouted
q warning the clay in 10-foot
sewer ditch was slipping.
The body was recovered by work.
men after 20 minutes digging.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-09-07
Negro Accused Of Rape Gives-Up
As Woman Changes Her Story

Pittsboro, Miss, Sept. 3-Negro
farm hand Vernon Armstrong sur
rendered Monday and said he could
not remember whether he raped
white woman Aug. % because he
was drunk at the time.
The 32-year-old farm worker, OBJ
ject of q five-day manhunt, sent
word to officers that he was at
the home of brother on a farm
adjacent to the Monroe Willis farm
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-09-07

NEW YORK, N. Y, Sept. e.
Trans World Airlines announced
last Thursday the appointment Of
James o. Plinton, a Negro, as ex-
ecutive assistant to the director of
personnel and industrial relations.
Mr.. Plinton is 43 years old and
served as an Army Air Forces pilot
in World War II. He is believed
to be the first member of his race
to be named to an executive post
with a major American passenger
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KALEIDOSCOPE read books for pleasure Others
Sadie Delaney d. chief librarian Of the
Alabama books for
purpose mind determine their hepuness to
n need.
been Onspcu
called bbotherapy Whatever its
kind service to others for
On Brae Moon Point
than 400 paen develop
NOR readers among them.
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SALISBURY, Africa, Sept. g.
Less than six months after win
ming independence in a blaze of
glory the new West African nation
of Ghana is grinding through some
Of those major problems forecast
for it at that time.
Today it must be serious faced
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