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Jackson advocate., 1957-06-08
zanuck Offers
To Pay For
Race Movies

MEXICO CITY, Mex, June A.
Following reports he saw from
Charlotte, N. c., indicating that
theatres in that state and South
Carolina would face penalties for
showing the film "Island In The
Sum-" moviemaker Daryl F. Zan-
uck said he would pay any fines
levied on theatres for presenting
the film.
The offer came after a legis-
lative committee had warned movie
operators in the two Carolinas not
to show the movie, which deals
with inter-racial romance In the
West Indies and features Harry
Belafonte, Joan Fontaine, and Dor
othy cambridge.
AS result Of O bill introduced
in South Carolina, any movie house
showing a film would be hit with
$1,000 fine. The film IL to be
released next month.
Said Zsnuck, Ito penalize film
before 1t Is seen is the worst kind
of q censorship"
Jackson advocate., 1957-06-08
WORTHY SAYS SEcY. DULLES BAN ON REPORTERS
TRAVEL ARBITRARY Unreasonable AND UNWISE

ACLU has pledged Worthy full
legal assistance in challenging the
State Departments decision.
Asserting that since 1855 the
State Department considered the
granting Of passports q matter Of
obsolete discretion within the ex-
ecutive branch Of government, the
memorandum notes that without
any expressed delegation Of such
authority, the State Department
has become the supreme arbiter as
to whether a person should be per-
mitted to travel abroad for legiti-
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NEW YORK, N. T., June B.
Secretary Of State Dulles refusal
to permit American reporters to
travel to unauthorized countries is
arbitrary, unreasonable, and un-
wise and violates two fundamental
constitutional concepts, freedom of
the press and the right tostravel,"', :,
newsman William Worthy, Jr., ar
gued today.
Attorneys assigned by the Amer
ican Civil Liberties Union submit
ted a memorandum Of law and
fact to the State Departments
Passport Office urging reversal
Jackson advocate., 1957-06-08
Supreme Court
To Hear nAAcP
Appeal In
Alabama Case
Agree To Review
Contempt Conviction
And 100000 Fine BY
Alabama Judge

Washington, d. c., June 4-The
Supreme Court agreed last Mon
day to review the conviction of the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People for
contempt. The association was
fined 100000 last July for refus-
ing to produce records ordered by
an Alabama court.
Arguments are expected to be
heard after the Supreme Court re-
turns in October from it's summer
recess.
The contempt case arose from an
effort by Alabama to bar the
NAACP from operating in that
state.
Last June the Circuit Court of
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of the Departments refusal to re-
new Worthy's passport. The Bal
timore Afro-American correspond
ent lost his passport following his
travel to Communist China and
Hungary last winter, despite the
State Departments ban on visits
to those countries. He appealed
the decision and was given an in
formal hearing on April 20. The
memorandum, prepared by ACLU
cooperating attorney William M.
Kunstler and ACLU staff counsel
Rowland Watts, supplements the
oral argument at the hearing. The
Jackson advocate., 1957-06-08
u. S. Grand Jury
Probing Police
Brutality Here

A federal Grand Jury convened
here this week is reported to be
investigating cases of alleged pol
icy brutality here.
According to reports the investi-
cation is directed mainly at the
cases of two Negro men, Jessie
Thornton and David Calhoun of
Greenville who is alleged to have
been brutally beaten while being
held in the Kinds County Jail, and
Beatrice Young, a local Negro
woman who was allegedly brutally
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chana Aide
Returns Home
After US. Tour

CHICAGO, ILL.,, June 4.-The
distribution officer Of the u. s.
Information Service in Ghana
stopped in Chicago last week after
completing an extensive tour
throughout the country and highly
praised American interest in the
newly-independent state Of Ghana.
Benjamin Hanson, distribution
officer for the U. s. Information
Service in Ghana, cited the "tre-
mendous interest that Americans
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Jackson advocate., 1957-06-08
AIcorn Student
Is First To Get
Crosby Award

Alcorn, Miss. June 8 Especially
Helen Mae Johnson becomes the
first recipient of the Crosby Schol-
arship Award for Negroes. Mr..
Crosby personally presented the
award to ]. D. Boyd, President of
Alcorn College, at a public meet
ing at Picayune, Mississippi. In
accepting the award for the college,
President Boyd said that through
this kind and generous gift by Mr..
and Mrs. Crosby, the hearts of an
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Jackson advocate., 1957-06-08
Negroes To Be
Barred From
White Areas
Under New Laws
South Africa Adopts
New Omnibus Native
Laws Amendment Bill

Capetown, South Africa, June 4
In few days the South African
Government will be armed with a
series of new laws to prevent Me-
groes from causing a nuisance"
in white areas.
These measures have been been
adopted by both houses of Parlia-
ment in an omnibus native laws
amendment bill. They await only
the signature of the Acting Gov
ernor General and formula promul-
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Atlanta Negro
Hailed In White
School Year Book

Atlanta, Ca, June 4 Venson
Baker, a 64-year-old Negro who
has been the janitor for 26 years
at Druid Hills High School for
white children, is in q nursing
home suffering from cancer.
When he was taken ill, students
and faculty members donated about
$500 to help defray his medical ex-
Continued on Page Four)
Jackson advocate., 1957-06-08
New Provisional
Gov'tUnder
Daniel Eignole
TakeControIsI In
Haiti As Capital
Remains Tense

Port-Au-Prince, June "A new
provisional Government headed by
Daniel Fignole, leftist politician,
took office last Sunday.
However, there was no assurance
of it's durability as the capital re-
mained tense, with rowing mobs
holding up automobiles and threat
ening what little law and order had
been restored after yesterdays
rioting.
The selection of NJ. Fignole, one
of the leading Presidential candi-
dates, was a political maneuver
through which the forces of Sena-
tor Louis Dejoie apparently were
bypassed. M. Fignole was joined in
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Jackson advocate., 1957-06-08
GRANDSON OF MAHATMA GANDHI IS OPENING
SPEAKER FOR MORAL RE-ARIlANMENT ASSEMBLY

MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich,
May 30.-The grandson of Mahat-
ma Gandhi, Rajmohan Gandhi, de-
clared tonight at the opening ses-
sion Of the Moral Re-Armament
Assembly of Nations that, "Only
with MIRA can we the Asian coun-
tries unite amongst ourselves.
When we Asian countries unite on
the basis of absolute moral stand
ards and Moral Re-Armament that
unity will not be in opposition to
the rest Of the world, but will be
to serve the rest of the world" he
said.
Jackson advocate., 1957-06-08

negotiations.
Gandhi said his grandfather, the
Mahatma, fought for the freedom
of my country, but he also fought
the real enemies of hate, lust, fear
and pride in his own person and in
his nation. Moral Re-Armament
challenged me to apply to my own
life the standards my grandfather
applied to his.
II have decided to give all I
have to Moral Re-Armament be-
cause / am convinced it is the one
answer on which the Eastern and
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Jackson advocate., 1957-06-08
State Baptist
To Meet Here

Local Baptist leaders this week
began stepping up their plans for
the entertainment of the General
Missionary Baptist State Conven-
tion which will meet here July 23-
25, with the general convention
headquarters at the Masonic Tenn
pie on Lynch Street.
Plans call for the various auxil-
iaries of the organization to hold
their meetings in some of the
churches located in the community
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San Francisco
FEPc Proponents
Try Compromise

SAN FRANCISCO, Calf, June
4.-Advocates of the proposed
Fair Employment Practices ordi--
nance for this city Monday asked
the Board of Supervisors to delay
action for two weeks. 1t is their
hope that a compromise can be
reached with opponents of the
measure.
Request was made following an
hour-long City Hall caucus between
the legislation's sponsors and busi-
ness groups opposed to it.
The ordinance, aimed at elimi-
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Gathered in the huge assembly
hall were bitter enemies Of the
Pacific-Japanese, Koreans, Aus
tralians and Filipinos. From the
Asian Assembly for MIRA held in
the Philippines in April, Gandhi
cited evidence Of the reconciliation
between national leaders from Ja-
pan and the Philippines, and Japan
and Korea. He quoted the former
Prime Minister of Nationalist
China, General Ho Ying- Chin, who
said that more was achieved in
ten days at this Assembly than
in ten years of postwar diplomatic
Jackson advocate., 1957-06-08
75-Year-0Id
Woman Highway
Mishap Victim

Holly Springs, Miss, June q
(Special)-Mrs. Ella Rountree, a
75-year-old Negro woman was
killed when she was struck by a
truck on highway 78 about one
and one-half mile east of here
Monday.
According to reports the accident
happened when the elderly woman
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NegroP Proposed
For New York
School Board

NEW YORK, N. Y, June q
The Urban League of Greater New
York and various city chapters of
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colcred People
asked DR.. William Jansen to ap-
point a Negro to the Board of
Superintendents.
A vacancy exists in the board,
which consists of nine associate
school superintendents. 1t is GUS
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to renew the assistantship for
students whose work and academ-
ic progress are satisfactory.
Mrs. Thompson finished under
graduate work at Alcorn A G. M
College, received the M. A. De-
gree from Atlanta University and
has done further study at the Uni
versity of Chicago and Cornell
University. She has given many
years of fruitful service to boys
and girls as well as men and wom-
en- of the state and nation. Teach
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Jackson advocate., 1957-06-08
FignoIe Forms
Coalition Cabinet

Port Au Prince, Haiti, June q
Provisional President Daniel Fig
mole announced the formation of
a coalition Cabinet last Wednes-
day.
The Cabinet, which is distinctly
political, is composed of repre-
sentatives of the President and
two Presidential candidates who as
sisted him to power-Clement Ju-
melie and DIR. Francois Duvalier.
1t is difficult to break down
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Jackson College Instructor Gets
Otter From Cornell University

Mrs. Cleopatra D. Thompson,
Associate Professor of Education
at Jackson State College, has been
notified by DR.. Alfred L. Baldwin,
Head of the Department of Child
Development and Family Relation
ships at Cornell University, of an
offer of graduate assistantship
for the academic year 1888. The
assistantship offer is in the prac-
tice teaching program as an assist
ant to Miss Helen Wardeberg in
the supervision of undergraduates.
1t is a policy of this department
Jackson advocate., 1957-06-08
South African
Parliament Ready
ToApprove
Segregation
In Universities

Capetown, South Africa, June 4
Prime Minister Johannes G. Stri-
jdom's Government will obtain
parliamentary approval this week
of the principle of racial segrega-
ton in South African universities.
The Governments plans do not
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WASHINGTON, D. c., June A.
Mrs. Richard M. Nixon, wife of
the Vice President, tonight received
the international relations award
Of the Capital Press Club at its
annual dinner. The club, predom-
inantly Negro organization of news
Jackson advocate., 1957-06-08
MRS. NIXON RECEIVES AWARD
FROM CAPITOL PRESS CLUB

correspondents, cited Mrs. Nixon
for the Increased humanity she
has infused into international rela-
tionos as the charming companion
of her illustrious husband in his
worldwide travels on important
missions for our country"
Jackson advocate., 1957-06-08
$1,000 Delegates
Expected At
Baptist Meet

Dallas, Texas, June a - DR.. E.
c. Estell, Sr., Chairman, Local
Entertainment Committee, working
in the interest of the coming ses-
sion of the National Sunday School
and Baptist Training Union Con-
gress, June 1928, announces tnat
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nounced today.
Barbara L. Hill, a graduate of
Bishop College, Marshall, Tex;
Donna NJ. Wood, of Knoxville Col
lege, Knoxville, Tenn; and Dorothy
Continued on Page Three)
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State EIks To
Convene In
Natchez Sunday
Grand Exalted Ruler
Principal Speaker

Natchez, Miss, June 8 - The
State Association of the Improved
Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks of the World (IBPOEW) will
hold its annual state convention
here beginning Monday of next
week.
The convention proper will get
underway Monday following the
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Graduates From UNcF Colleges
Win FIorina Lasker FeIIoWships

New York, May 81 - Florida
Lasker Fellowships have been
awarded to three 1857 honor gradu-
ates of United Negro College Fund
member institutions, w. J. Trent,
jr., Fund executive director. an
Jackson advocate., 1957-06-08
Haiti Provisional
Presid ent Plans
Election Race
Fignole Says He Will
Seek Confirmation
In Early Vote

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, June
4.-Daniel Fignole, head of Haiti's
provisional Government, disclosed
Thursday that he would be a can
didate for election as permanent
President. He said he would soon
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Public Invited To
Lawyers Program
AT Parish Street
Church Fri. Night
Atty. Wiley Branton
Of Pine Bluff, Ark.
Principal Speaker

The principal speaker to address
the lawyers of the Southwest Bar
Association will be one of the
south's outstanding young lawyers,
Honorable Wiley Braton, of Pine
Continued on Page Seven)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-05
Citizens Group
To Take Poll
|On Hecht Plan

The Friendship Heights Citi-
zens' Association last night APP
proved a plan to take a mail poll
of its members on the much
debated Hecht Co. commercial
proposal in Somerset.
The group. which last January
voted nearly unanimously to OPP
pose the Hecht rezoning request,
met in the Christian Church
Parish Hall at Wisconsin and
Hunt avenues to hear further
arguments on the firms plan to
build a store and shopping
center.
Speakers for the proposal in
cluded Attorneys James r. Miller
and Nicholas Orem. jr. OPPOSE
ton spokesman included Robert
Merriam of Somerset. Llewellyn
C. Thomas. a Friendship Heights
resident. and John Bischoff of
Chevy Chase Village.
There were indications that
some Friendship Heights home
owners who had previously OPP
posed the commercial request
were changing their opinion.
The 26-acre tract proposed for
commercial use adjoins the
northern boundary of Friendship
Heights west Of Wisconsin
avenue. The tract lies within
the corporate limits of Somer-
set. whose residents have at
tackled the plan bitterly.
The Friendship Heights bal
lots are to be sent to about $50
qualified voters. They are to
be returned and Tailed by
April Is.
The Hecht Co.'S coming app
plication will be given a public
hearing by the Montgomery
County Council on April 26. 1t
is opposed by the Bethesda
Chamber of Commerce and
other groups.
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Lawyer Faces
Tax Charges

BALTIMORE, April S (Spe-
ciaD Samuel F. Beach, Sc,
Washington attorney. pleaded
guilty in Federal Court to a
three-count charge Of failing to
file Federal income tax returns
for the years 1858, 1854 and
1855.
United States Attorney Leon
H. A. Pierson told the court
that the lawyers gross income
ranged from $500 to $500
for the years in question, but
that returns had not been made
for those years and also for
some earlier years.
A tax liability of about 81, 900,
plus more than $4,000 in penal
ties and interest faces Beach,
the court was told.
The lawyers guilty plea was
entered through j. Crossan
Cooper. Baltimore attorney. Fed
eral Judge Roszel C. Thomson
deferred disposition Of the case
pending appearance of Bureau
of Internal Revenue agents later
today.
Mr.. Beach served as assistant
United States attorney in Wash
|ington from 1885 to 1888. when
he resigned to resume private
practice. During that period
he helped direct an antigam-
bling drive.
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PTAs to refrain from taking a
stand on the situation.
Even while the PTA council
was being attacked for this
action of last night it was meet
ing in Rockville.
Won't Seek Information
At that meeting the council
decided lit would not seek any
further information at this
time" on the Norris situation,
Mr.. Howard said today.
He said the Executive Commit
tee had decided unanimously that
it was mot the function of the
PTA Council to demand or press
for more information at this
time"
Mr.. Howard said that 80 far
as we can observe, no principle
of education policy or anything
else Is involved" He added that
the council does not pass judy
ment on the merits of individual
personnel actions except when
they involve educational prin-
cipleS.
Mr.. 'Scull said the PTA Coun-
Gil spokesman argue they do not
interfere in administrative mat
tiers. but nevertheless assert that
they Sepak for 80, 900 members
when they appear at school
budget hearings and discuss line
by-line budget recommendations
w. Lawson King. prominent
Gaithersburg farmer. scored the
school boards handling of the
Norris situation as "the most dis
graceful thing that has ever hap
pened to the county"
Sam Fig. Silver Spring bust
nessman. said he did not want tc
defend or accuse the school board
at this time.
But this is like the old coun-
try, That's why I left the old
country" he said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-05
|CAA Is Pressed
For Site Decision

Senator Monroney, Democrat
of Oklahoma, today asked the
Civil Aeronautics Administra-
ton to expedite in the fullest
possible manner" a decision on
the Belmont Bay airport pro-
posal.
The Senator. chairman of the
aviation subcommittee. sent a
telegram to CAA Administrator
James T. Pyle criticizing DELAYS
in studies of the area on the
banks of Occoquan Creek and
the Potomac in Prince William
County.
The site was suggested by
Representative Broyhill, Repub-
lican of Virginia. an opponent of
proposals to build a second
Washington airport at Burke, in
Fairfax County. Belmont Bay
has been turned down once by
the CAA. but it is being re-eval-
uated at Mr.. Broyhill's request.
Senator Cites Delay
Senator Monroney's telegram
said 80 much delay has been
caused in examining suggested
sites that air passengers are be-
ginning to feel the critical prob
lem Of Washington's second air.
port never will be solved.
please expedite in the fullest
possible manner a final report
on the Belmont Bay site so
the suggestion can be properly
evaluated against the merits
of the already-approved Burke
site"
Two other phases of the air.
port situation are presently all
but dormant. A Senate Appro-
ipriations subcommittee has had
the matter in hand since early
February. The Civil Aeronautics
Board has set UP procedure lead
ing to a public hearing on the
adequacy of service and facilities
at National Airport and at Bal
timore's Friendship. The ten
Itative hearing date is sometime
in September.
Weeks Queried
Meanwhile. Commerce Secre-
tary Weeks referred to Congress
an inquiry as to whether the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-05
Arlington Democrats
.Plun Dinner tuesday

Arlington Democrats will hold
a jefferson Day Dinner at $50
pm. Tuesday at the Terrace
Room Of the Washington Ma
tional Airport.
Senator Frear, Democrat Of
Delaware, will be principal
speaker, william l.. Winston,
dinner chairman. announced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-05

to employ "the best legal talent
available" to investigate the
situation and assist DR.. Norris
in any way that appeared
practical.
Both Parties Represented
The first resolution, submit
ted by Arthur P. Brigham. scored
the school board action as being
harmful" to the county's school
system and drew seconds from
top officials of both major po-
iitical parties.
Ward w. Caddington, chair
man Of the Democratic State
Central Committee, blasted the
boards action as ian atrocious'
way to handle a professional
man as he seconded the motion.
George c. Warner. treasurer
of the Republican State Central
Committee. said he felt DR.. Nor
ris is entitled to know the rea-
sons ne is being released and
should be allowed his day in
court"
Leave with Pay Urged
The session at the Hotel WASH
ingtonian also heard President
David Scull urge that the school
board "at least grant DR.. Norris
an extended leave of absence
with pay" Such a leave, he said,
obviously was necessary and
should extend until the superin-
tendent's present contract ex-
pires or a new one is signed.
Mr.. Scull also attacked the
Executive Committee of the
County Council of Parent
Teacher Associations for trying
to gag" its member organiza.
tionS on the Norris situation.
Paul Howard. president Of
the PTA council, shortly after
it was learned the school board
was refusing to renew DR.. Nor
ris' contract. directed individual
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-05

Washington area is near a solu-
ton of the airport problem.
Asked about the prospects of
an additional airport here. he
said II wouldn't know. You'll
have to ask the boys on Capitol
Hill. spent four years on it
and now they're giving their
time to it,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-05
Montgomery Chamber
Hits Custer of Norris

The Montgomery County Chamber Of Commerce night
launched bitter attack the county school board
refused to the contract Of School Supt
The chamber adopted without dissent two resolutions:
Calling the school board the contract
give Immediately positive definite dismissal
Ordering appointment Of special committee with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-05
Park Ruling Put OFF

NORFOLK, Va, April 5 R.-
"A permanent injunction to open
Portsmouth's City Park Golf
Course to unrestricted use by
Negroes has been continued for
q year by Federal District Judge
Walter E. Hoffman.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1957-03-14

children were approved for Aid
to Dependent Children. Three
reasons for such approval exec
eded in number the unsuitable
homes reinstated by County
Boards of Public Welfare:
1853 families with 5,496 chill
dren lost income or other re-
sources; 702 families with 2,20l
children had been living below
the Welfare Department budget
standards for longer than six
months; 289 families with 906
children were transferred from
one county to another or had a
change of payee.
AS contrasted with $500 cases
approved for Aid to Dependent
Children involving 1896 chill
dren, the number of cases closed
was 2,463 involving 1913 chill
dren. The net increase for the
period represented 837 homes
with 1888 children. This recon
Giles with the net increase OF
3,l44 children indicated above
when suspensions because OF
temporary employment are taken
into consideration.