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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-05-18
Senator Irving Ives n. Y. Republican
Predicts Prayer March On Washington
Will Lead To FiIibuster In The
Senate On Civil Rights Bills
Say Senate Leaders Winking At
Filibuster Rally Going On Now
Sen. Case Say Implementing Of Court
Decision Up To SOutherners Of Goodwill

New York, May 10 - Senator
Irving NJ. Ives said last week that
a march on Washington by civil
rights crusaders" would lead to
filibuster in the Senate.
He said that Senate leaders "are
winking at a filibuster that is
really going on now" in the judi
ciary committee.
Senator Ives, New York's senior
Republican Senator, and Senator
Clifford P. Chase, Republican of
y. j., appeared on the WCBS-TV
Congressional Closeup"
Senator Case said he thought
that 1--WE can break a filibuster" if
one should take place. Senator Ives
was not so confident, although he
said he would welcome the
chance" to defeat one.
Both legislators said that any
attempt to put pressure on Con-
gress on civil rights would "stir
up" the opposition and force it
into an inflexible position.
Program Called Moderate
Senator Ives held that the pro-
Continued on Page Six
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SEGREGATED SCHOOL PLAN FOR
SOUTH AFRICA UNDER PROTEST

Capetown, S. A., May Is -
Professors and students alike
staged one of the last major pro-
tests here the night of May z
against government plans to seq
regate the universities in South
Africa on racial lines.
The government is planning to
remove nonwhite students currently
attending mixed universities in
South Africa and, give them
higher education at the new sepa-
rate colleges which it is to build
exclusive for non whites. After
Jan. l, 1858, mixing Of the races
at universities will be barred.
The latest protest meeting is
significant for its apparently un-
animous support by the univer-
sity staff and governing council
as well as by the student body
at the University of Cape Town,
which university organized the
protest. Both the university's cham
cellor, A. van der Sandt Centliv-
res, former chief justice, and
Acting Principal Prof. R. w.
James delivered protest speeches
at the mass meeting in Cape
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-05-18
Report Cites
Inteqration Gains

Nashville, Tenn, May Is -
Southern School News reported
that 6S5 school districts in nine
states had begun or completed de-
segregation since the United States
Supreme Court decision against
public school segregation three
years ago.
About 3,100 bi-racial districts
remain segregated, the publication
said. Legislatures in eleven states,
It noted have adopted more than
1870 pro-segregation laws since the
courts ruling on May II, 1854.
Some $4,000 Negro children and
100000 white children-most Of
them in border states-are now
in "integrated situations" South
ern School News said. But 2,400,-
600 Negro children and more than
1000, 900 white children remain IN
segregated school districts.
The publication is put out by the
Southern Education Reporting Ser
vice. This was set up after the
courts ruling to assemble and ev-
aluate information on migration.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-05-18

Towns City Hall.
One question confusing to out
siders is just why the govern
ment should pursue this contro-
versial issue in the face Of stead
fast opposition from both inside
and outside South Africa. Non
white students from only small
minorities at the Universities Of
Cape Town and Witwatersrand
the two universities primarily in
volved, and segregating them ap-
pears to some observers hardly
worth the hornets nest Of adj
verse publicity.
For example, the British press
has taken Prime Minister johann
mes G. Strijdom's government sew
erly to task for what the Man
chester Guardian terms per-
feet instance not merely Of racial
segregation but Of totalitarianism. /"
Then again 20 principals and
vice-chancellors Of British univer-
sites have protested the segrega-
ton plan. British university stu
dents have repeatedly demonstrate
ed in the streets Of London against
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-05-18
Say Communist To
Try To Infiltrate
Prayer Pilgrimage

Washington The Communist
Party is making an about effort
to infiltrate a big Negro pilgri-
mage to Washington next Friday,
third anniversary Of the Supreme
Courts school desegregation deci-
sion.
Reports pieced together by the
United Press from centers Of Conn
munist activity around the country
indicated today that injection Of
its followers into this pilgrimage
which has definitely non-C ommun-
list sponsorship-is the party's cur
rent No. ! objective.
Negroes Cooperate
Sponsors Of this prayer Pilgri-
mage for Freedom" expect it to
draw $4,000 participants to mass
CONTINUED on Page Eighty
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Noted Educator Appointed Director
Student Talent Searching Project

race and creed. The project, made
possible by a three-year grant of
100000 from the Old Dominion
Foundation, will offer consultation
and technical assistance to commu-
mites wishing to start their own
programs. This plan for. service to
local communities stems directly
from ideas and material in the re-
cent MSSFNS publication, Blue
print for Talent Searching, written
by Mr.. Plaut.
DIR. Keller brings to his import
ant new post a nationwide reputa-
ton as a distinguished educator
and writer. Starting as a teacher
in the New York public schools, he
rose to become principal of the
city's unique double purpose high
school. The school not only trains
CONTINUED on Page Four
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Haiti InstaIls
New Atty. General

Port Au Prince, Haiti, May 13-
Ernest Sabalat, nominee of Presi-
Dental candidate Louis Dejoie, was
installed last Tuesday as attorney
general.
1t was M. Sabalat's appointment
to the post that caused three men,
bers to quit the Executive Coun-
Gil twelve days ago. They had been
ministers supporting the President
ial candidacy of Francis Duvalier.
The Supreme Court then ruled that
the remaining seven members of
the council were qualified to exc
cute authority.
The Executive Council was
formed April 5 by five potential
Presidential candidates after two
provisional Presidents had been
forced to resign.
Although most Haitians realized
that only an armed truce existed
between the political factions, there
was a holiday atmosphere as
crowds thronged into shops that
had been closed by an eight-day
strike.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-05-18
Negro Coed
0usted From
Student Opera

Austin, Texas - A coed remov-
ed from the lead in a University
of Texas student opera because
she is Negro says the action may
have been best to insure har-
monious Indignation at the school.
The. coed, Barbara Louise Smith
of Pittsburg, Texas, said Dean E.
w. Doty of the College of Fine
Arts told her she would not appear
in the opera because complaints
had been made about her having
the role.
She was ousted from the pro-
duction "Dido and Aeneas." State
Representative Joe Chapman OF
Sulphur Springs said he had asked
she be removed for the betterment
Continued on Page Five)
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DR.. Franklin Jefferson Keller,
who will retire in June as principal
of New York City's famed Metro
politan Vocational High School,
has been appointed Staff Director
of the new Community Self-Ser-
vice in Talent Searching" project
of the National Scholarship Service
and Fund for Negro Students. The
announcement was made today by
Richard L. Plaut, Executive vice.
Chairman of the sponsoring organi-
cation.
AS director of the Community
Self Service Project, DR.. Keller
will help selected towns and cities
launch programs to identify early
and raise the educational sights
of students with potential college
ability from among their UNDER
privileged groups, regardless Of
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-05-18
Church Fire
Linked To
NAACP Meeting

Cleveland, Miss. - Fire today
damaged a Negro church where
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
has been holding it's local chapter
meetings.
Medgar Evers, state executive
secretary for Mississippi NAACP
branches, said in Jackson the fire
followed threats to members who
had been attending the meetings.
He said the threats were made
through anonymous telephone calls
The last NAACP meeting was held
in the New Hope Church last night,
Evers said.
Firemen here said little damage
was done to the church and the
origin of the fire was not determ-
med. AHgta &
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-05-18
Africa's Belgian
erritory Scene Of
Political Strings
By New Negro
Middle Glass
CONGO STRESSES
SOCIAL ADVANCES

Leopoldville, Belgian Congo, May
ia story often told here ex-
plains the secret of the political
calm that has prevailed so long
in the Belgian Congo.
1t seems that Negro from
Brazzaville, in French Equatorial
Africa, and one from Leopoldville
were debating the merits of their
two countries. The rival capitals
face each other across the Congo
River.
I've are free, we are French
citizens" the Brazzaville man de-
clared proudly.
YES" the Leopoldville man re-
Continued on Page Five)
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New York - Three of Americas
outstanding clergymen are in sup
port of the Prayer Pilgrimage For
Freedom. it was releaved in letters
released today by officials of the
organization.
Officials releasing contents Of the
letters were: Co-Chairmen, Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr.. Roy Wiki
ms and A. Philip Randolph.
Under the auspices of the or
ganization, some $4,000 persons
are expected to attend a religious
ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial
in Washington, D. c., on May 18th.
I'm the midst of such persistent
attempts to confuse the issue and
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-05-18
Ghana Governor
General Retiring

Accra, Ghana - Sir Charles Ar
den-Clarke, who has been Cover
nor General of Ghana for 8 months,
is On tour of inspection of the
newest member of the British Com
monwealth, preparatory to retiring
within two months to settle in pri-
vate life in South Africa.
Often paid tribute by Prime
Minister Kwame Nkrumah for his
intelligent submission to the Ill
innate fact of independence for
Ghana, Sir Charles in a farewell
statement here last month, said
ne had looked upon "the relation
ship between the Gold Coast and
Britain (asl that of pupil and
teacher now the pupil has
safely left the school to begin
Continued on Page Six
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Three OF Nations Outstanding
cIergymen Back Pilgrimage

discourage people of good will. the
high decision to meet hate by love,
to seek heavens help, stands out
like ray of light.
"You can be assured Of the
wholehearted support in prayer
and hope of your many friends of
the Catholic faith" wrote Rev.
Father John LaFarge, associate
editor of the national Catholic
weekly, America.
Letters from the Very Reverend
James A. Pike, Dean, The Cathed-
raj Church of st. John The Divine,
and DR.. Reinhold Niebuhr. profess
sor of Ethics and Theology at
Continued on Page Eight
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-05-18

New York, May 13-The friends
of the National Council of Negro
Women gave luncheon last week
at the Waldorf Hotel to
honor six leading Negro women.
They are:
Mrs. A. G. CASTOR of Birming-
ham, Ala, director Of the Booker
T. Washington Business College
and sponsor of economic and educa-
tional projects to improve the liv-
ing of the Negro in the South.
Mrs. Ruby Hurley of Washing
ton. coordinator of membership
campaigns in five Southern states
for the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie.
Mrs. Juanita Jackson Mitchell OF
Washington, a lawyer whose suits
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-05-18
BERMUDA NEGRO GAINS CITED

Hamilton, Bermuda-"We color
ed people are very optimistic. We
keep telling ourselves that things
will not always be as they are
now"
The speaker was the head Of the
African Methodist Episcopalian
Church in Bermuda, the Rev. ]. D.
Smith, venerable patriarch Of a
man who has been guiding the
destinies Of his flock Of the tiny
Atlantic island since he graduated
from Wherefore University in
1912. In his time he has seen many
improvements in the lot Of the Ne
groes, who make up about 60 per-
cent Of the $4,000 people in the
colony.
"There are still some things that
leave US little less than happy"
he says, "but we parents tell our
selves that our children are having
a better time than we did, and
perhaps their children will find
themselves full and equal citizens.
The important thing is that this
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-05-18
Six Negro Women Honored For Work

filed in 1853 led to the Indignation
of Negro and white schools in Bal
timore.
Miss Leontyne Price, an operate
soprano and star of stage and tele-
vision.
Miss Mazda Springer, a labor
leader who served as representa-
tive of the united labor movement
to the international Confederation
of Free Trade Union meetings in
Africa.
The citations were presented by
Miss Lena Horne, recording star.
Mrs. William Thomas Mason, pres.
ident of the national council, greet
ed the $50 persons at the lunch
con and said that her groups men,
bership was open to women of all
colors.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-05-18

progress is being made quietly,
without high feelings, bitterness or
bloodshed, and that makes it doub-
" welcome to US, who are peace
able people,"
Faith in Future
A few days after the Rev. Mr..
Smith had expressed his faith in
the future, there was another indi-
cation that his optimism was not
misplaced. This was the appoint
ment Of a joint select committee
Of the House Of Assembly and the
Legislative Council to study the
question of racial discrimination
in Bermuda's hotels and restau-
rants. The committee was APP
pointed after two debates In the
Assembly on a motion to make dis
elimination of this kind illegal in
Bermuda. The motion was put for
ward by E. T. Richards, . barrister
and one Of the nine Negroes in Ber-
muda's Colonial Parliament, who
was chosen chairman of the special
Continued on Page Severn
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-05-18
Southwest Bar
Association To
Convene Here

Jackson, Miss. - The Southwest
Bar Association, composed Of Ne
gro lawyers Of Mississippi, Louis
lana, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma,
Tennessee, Kansas and Missouri
and this year embracing other
states, particularly Of the South,
will hold it's annual meeting at
Jackson, Mississippi on June TIN
CONTINUED on Page Severn
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-05-18
international Florists Association
Prepares For July Convention

Washington - Preparations are
being made for over 500 delegates
and visitors expected to attend the
fifth annual convention of the In
ternational Florists, Association,
Inc, to be held here July 6-10 at
Hotel Statler.
Officers of the organization, Will
liam 0. Perry, of Miami, president,
and j. Wesley Lee, Pittsburgh, Sec
rotary, met with Evelyn o. CHS
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-05-18
Say Negroes
Efforts To
RegisterIn
Discouraged
An Official Says
Limited Facilities
Restrict Results

Montgomery, Ala, May 13 -
Efforts to get more Negroes reg
istered as voters in Montgomery
County will continue despite Every
discouraging" results so far,
Negro leader says.
In adjacent Elmore County, con-
tinued efforts also were promised.
Large groups of Negroes applied
in both counties May 6.
In Macon County, which adjoins
Continued on Page Two)
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Haiti Merchants
Strike Fails To
Gust Army Chief
Ruling Council
Confirms June Is
Election Date

Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. May 13-
A" eight-day strike affecting a
large part of business here was
called off last week.
The strikers were unable to win
their demand that the Army Chief
of Staff, Orig. Gen. Leon Cantave,
resign. The city returned to nor
NAL following the announcement
that stores would reopen with
the protection of the Army flar-
anteed.
Merchants had closed their shops
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-05-18
Widely Known !
Night Club Man
Lists His Third
Gunshot Victim
Woodrow Biggs
Released On Bond
In Staying Of
Paul Spates

The widely known Night Club
Operator, and Cafe Manager,
Woodrow Biggs, listed what is re-
ported as being his third gunshot
victim in shooting in north
Jackson Mite spot last Tuesday
night.
The victim of the shooting was
Paul Spates, himself the owner of
Continued on PAGE SKI
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Harlem Described As One OF
Nations Missionary Areas

There are still thousands of
unchurched families" he asserted,
land many thousands more of wan
dering children and teen-agers
who have no church affiliation or
religious guidance. Most Of these
are from homes of potentially
Protestant orientation.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-05-18

ley, executive secretary, in Wash
ington recently to round out the
convention program.
The organization was founded in
1852 by Mr.. Perry in an effort to
meet certain needs of Negro flor
lists not otherwise being served at
the time. The organization now
has membership in all sections Of
the nation. Members are set up
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-05-18
AIcorn Host State
Convention

The nineteenth Annual N. F. A.
State Convention got underway at
Alcorn College, Lorman, Mississip-
pi, Tuesday morning, May Ia, at
1000 Am. The closing session is
scheduled for 500 pm. May II, in
Oakland Chapel,
The $50 members and advisers at
tending the conference will repre-
sent $500 New Farmers Of Amer
lea who could not participate in the
Continued on Page Fourl
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-05-18

New York, May Is - Harlem
was described last Sunday by the
Rev. DR.. James II. Robinson as
"still one of the great missionary
areas of the nation" He preached
at the nineteenth anniversary Of
the founding of the Presbyterian
Church of the Master, sc Morn
ingside Avenue.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-05-18
Milton Barnes
Local Disc Jockey
Arrested For
Second Burglary
May Face Charges
Calling For
Death Penalty

Milton Barnes, the popular Disc
Jockey of the widely heard Radio
Station WOKJ, whose followers
were startled last year by his ar
rest for breaking into Kerr Tire
and Rubber Company, was arrest
ed here early Monday morning for
breaking into the Country Club
and beating and seriously wound
ing the aged White man, night
Continued on Pa2e Ski
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-05-18
House Group
Rejects Move
To Deny School
Aid To Nom
Integrated Areas
Rep. Adam Powell
Declines to Attend
Meeting

Washington, May Is - A pro-
posal to deny Federal funds to
school construction projects where
local officials refused to integrate
classes was defeated by the House
Education Committee last week.
The vote was 16 to 10. If the
program reaches the House floor,
another test will take place.
The last time a similar show
down occurred, the House insisted
that aid be withheld from areas
Continued on Page Five)
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His remarks were brought
through an amplifier to party lead
ers from IL southern and border
states attending a regional con-
ference whose theme is "Concen-
trate on 49," The meeting is the
fourth in a nationwide series.
Mr.. Eisenhower said the party's
weakness in the South has been
Continued on Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-05-18
PRESIDENT SAYS REPUBLICAN
PARTY IN SOUTH TO STAY

Louisville, KY, - President Ell
seinhower, speaking by long dis
lance telephone, told Republican
leaders the Democrats have lost
control of the "Solid South" and
the COP is in Dixie to stay.
Citing impressive increases" in
COP strength in the South in the
last 20 years, Mr.. Eisenhower
called for a political offensive to
recapture control ca. Congress next
Evening star., 1957-12-15
LIFE IN
THE COUN TRY
Snow MeIts or Far Too Fast
BY JAMES BiRcHFleLD

There Is only one trouble
about our early SHOWS. and
that is they go away too
quickly.
Just about the time you get
the driveway beaten down and
a path out to the barn. a nice
warm rain comes along and
the snow is gone.
And. OF course. you've been
through the Washington traf-
nc tie-up and you are just get
ting set to enjoy the snow in
a sort Of normal way.
Not fair. ! say. to have to 90
through all that trouble and
then end up with no snow.
So now I'm waiting on a
really good freeze. There is a
big dead elm on the island in
my pond and It has to be cut
down.
I figure that 1t will take thick
ice to hold 1t. so I'm waiting
for the pond to freeze over be-
fore tackling the Job. II I cut
that tree now. I'm sure I would
never get 1t out of the pond
and sawed up In fireplace
lengths.
/ But with a good. thick layer
Of ice. I should be able to slide
1t right on over and pull II out
on the farther bank. Then 4
can saw at my own good time.
There could be nothing messier
than a lot Of small tree limbs
floating about in my pond.
Since the woolly bears didn't
show up last fall In numbers
SUFFICIENT to give me q winter
forecast. I've simply no way Of
figuring out what 70 expect in
the way Of weather.
It sort Of looks hike We might
have wet winter--one Of
those good old winters that
gets the water down into the
ground and leaves the sur
face like q thin soup.
I'll know that we are back
Evening star., 1957-12-15
'BiIIionth Tree
To Be Planted in
Georgia by Griffin

Gov. Marvin Grimm viii plant
q symbolic "billionth tree" in
Macon. Ga. Wednesday to CON-
memorate 1857 as q record year
for tree-planting. Agriculture
Secretary Benson announced
today.
Mr.. Benson estimated l bill
lion forest trees will be plantet
in the United States this year
for the first time in history
The 1857 total viii exceed last
years previous peak by about
100000.
Tree-planting this year will
total almost half the number
Of trees planted by the Civilian
Conservation Corps between
1898 and 1912. the Secretary
continued. Even at a billion
a-year rate. he added. 1t would
take another so years to dc
the needed job Of reforestation,
Georgia was chosen as the
site Of the celebration because
its private landowners had
planted more trees by the end
OF last year than any other
State. the Agriculture Depart
ment explained.
Evening star., 1957-12-15

to normal again when the mud
In my barn lot gets knee-deep.
S&A
Tweed Howser says he will
meet me some Saturday up in
the back Of The 40 Acres and
we will stretch some wire be-
tween his barley field and my
thicket.
told him ! would be glad
II he didn't walt on me-that
It would be perfectly fine with
me II he and his boys would
Just go ahead. I don't want
to slow up any fun he might
have.
But Tweed said he didn't
want TO have all the fun. He
wouldn't feel right. he said. II
he went ahead and didn't let
me in on stringing the barbed
wire
You can have lots OF fun
with barbed wire. No matter
how you handle II. you can
be sure to get q few cuts. and
maybe. II you're lucky. a torn
pants leg.
Tweed said he already has
mad q lot Of fun on that fence.
Evening star., 1957-12-15

town University at I pm. Nom
day in CASTOR Hall on the
campus. His topic will be "The
East and West. From Where
We Stand"
Evening star., 1957-12-15
Minister to Speak

DR.. Thomas H. Palmquist.
minister Of the Foundry Meth
odist Church. win address the
regular luncheon Of the WASH
ington Rotary Club at 1918
pm. Wednesday in the May
flower Hotel.
Evening star., 1957-12-15
THE SUNDAY STAR CT
Washington, D. Gill
SUNDAY DEcEMBER 20. 1887

He and his boys have cleaned
out all the underbrush. and
now the only job left Is to
weave the wire in between the
trees and stretch II tight.
Then ! can turn the cows
into the pine field and let them
get after my good crop Of
honeysuckle.
They say honeysuckle doesn't
have much feed value. but 1t
is filling during winter SHOWS.