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Negro Worker
Says He Got
Newspaper
Clippings For Pay

BIRMINGHAM, ALA Negro
handyman charged in court Friday
that white woman employer had
been paying him for three years in
newspaper clippings instead Of
money.
Harvey Sparks, IS, said he's
been putting his unopened pay en-
velopes away for "a rainy day"
When the day came, he charged,
they didn't add up to enough to
buy an umbrella. There were q
few coins in some Of the envel-
opes, he said, apparently intended
as camouflage.
Sparks asked $4,000 damages
from his part-time employer, Mrs.
Sam Jacobs, who his attorney said
had acted as Mrs. Adler's 'agent."
Continued on Page Four)
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New Orleans, La, Apr. ia
two-judge federal district court
today declared unconstitutional a
Louisiana law which sought to halt
enrolment. of Negroes in white
colleges.
The statute, passed by the 1866
Legislature, required state college
enrolees, white and Negro, to have
certificate of eligibility signed
by a parich County, school Of
ficial. The certificate attested to
the students good moral character.
Negro college students and their
lawyers attacked the; law in fed
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GENERAL MOTORS GIVES SIS, 900
TO UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND

General Motors thus far has given
to the Fund.
eve recognize their needs and
are pleased to support the United
Negro College Fund.-" Mr.. Seaton
said. eve know that from the
$4,000 students enrolled in its
member colleges will come many
of tomorrow's outstanding Negro
leaders"
Leonard N. Simons, partner in
Simons- Nicholson Go. and Michi-
gan co-chairman of the Fund, ex-
Continued on Page Six)
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Virginia Governor
Declines Comment
On Dinner Error

Richmond, Va, April 15-Gov.
Thomas B. Stanley Of Virginia de-
clined to comment yesterday. on an
invitation issued "in error" by his
office to a New York Negro pub
Usher to attend dinner for "dis,
tinguished Virginians" in Rich
mond next month.
He referred all questions to
Frank Arthur Ernst, president Of
the Virginia State Chamber Of
Commerce. The invitation had been
accepted by DR.. Gillian B. Powell,
physician, business man and pub
Usher of the Amsterdam News in
Harlem. DR.. Powell said he plan
ned to attend unless Governor
Stanley personally withdrew the
invitation.
He expressed himself as "sur-
prised and somewhat shocked" that
the Governor had sought to hide
Continued on Page Seven)
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See End Segregation In Six To Eight Years In USA
Negro Death
Held Reduceable
Anesthesia Professor
Sees Need For Special
Care In Surgery
And Childbirth

TUSKEGEE, Ala, Apr. IT,
Deaths of Negroes under anes-
thesia and in childbirth, custom
arily two or three times the NOR
tally rate for white persons, can
be sharply reduced, professor of
anesthesia said today.
The professor, DR.. Robert A.
Hingson of Western Reserve Uni
versity Medical School, reported
that in University Hospitals in
Cleveland from Jan. 6, 1854, until
midnight last Monday, 1884 Negro
mothers had given birth without
a single anesthetic or maternal
mortality of any kind during the
hospital stay"
DIR. Hingson spoke at the 43rd
annual meeting of the John A.
Andrew Clinical Society at Tuske-
Continued on Page Six
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trict of Columbia and Commission
err of the City of Philadelphia, will
be the speaker FOR the opening
mass meeting on Tuesday evening,
May 7, at o'clock. DR.. John
Wesley Dobbs, the Grand Master
of the Masons of Georgia, win make
the appeal for memberships.
Bishop S. L. Greene, the president,
will deliver his address on We'd
nesday evening, May s.
Other persons appearing on the
program are: DR.. Robert H. Alex
Continued on Page Eight
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Special Exhibits To highIight
TougaIoo Annual Spring Festival

ment with the American Fedora
ton of Arts. One hundred and
fifteen illustrations have been OBJ
tanned to show the skill and inter-
est of this famous Renaissance
scholar who took all knowledge as
his province. Included in the ex-
hibition will be reproductions made
from the original drawings in the
Royal Library at Windsor and
from private and museum collec-
tions.
Of special interest to Biblical
scholars of today will be the in
spring collection of charts and
scrolls showing various transla-
tons of the early Bible. This un-
usual exhibit will be loaned es-
pecially for the festival by DR.. L. +.
Larsen, former professor of Phi
losophy and Religion at Tougaloo
College.
In keeping with the general
theme of the festival, "The quest
Continued on Page Two)
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Montgomery Bus Violence Flares

Montgomery, Ala, April II -
Police reported the first outbreak
of violence on Montgomery city
buses Tuesday since shortly after
they were integrated by federal
court order Dec. 81.
Detective Capt. E. P. Brown said
a white man and three Negro
women were involved in an ex-
change of blows. 1.-TWO entirely
different stories" were told by the
white man and the Negroes, he
said.
The Negroes said the man hit
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See Big Advance
In Self Govt In
French ". Africa
Elections Under New
System Provide :.
Greater Control BY
Negro Inhabitants

DAKAR, French West Africa,
Apr. 16.-A new political system
representing big advance in self
government is beginning to take
shape in French West Africa.
The system was inaugurated II
days ago with elections among the
100000 inhabitants of an area
three-fifths the size of the United
States. Eight French West Afri-
can colonies took part. All are Ne
gro territories except one, the
Berber Arab territory of Mauri-
tania.
The elections were held under
the new Franch Loi Cadre, law
that diminishes the powers of
French administrators and increas-
Continued on Page Six
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the gathering and reporting of
significant information on agricul-
ture and agricultural trade in
France.
In carrying out this response
bility, Mr.. Thorburn works with
a staff of French nationals in
gathering and translating the in
formation.
Mr.. Thorburn also assists the
attache in promoting and safe
guarding the agricultural market
ing interest of the United States
in France. Among other things,
Continued on Page Six)
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tend the meeting by a committee
headed by Bishop Samuel Crouch,
of Los Angeles, Calf, and others.
Bishop L. H. Ford, Of Chicago,
chairman Of tn. Jubilee Holy Con-
vocation, in-along with a commit
tee, introduced plans for the pub
LEGATION of a special Anniversary
Program Book to include the pro-
gram of the meeting along with
comprehensive history Of the
church. Plans were also introduced
for the publication Of a Golden
Anniversary edition Of the Holy
Bible, honoring the founder and
Senior Bishop Of the Church Of God
in Christ, Bishop Charles Harri-
son Mason.
Continued on Page six)
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Report Of Vice President Nixon On
Visit To Africa Released By White
House See Continent Important Target
For International Communism
Say We Cannot Talk Equality To People Of
Africa And Asia And Practice Inequality
In The United States

Washington, April 16 - Vice
President Richard M. Nixon pro-
posed a broad program for assist
ing African countries in their
struggle for political and economic
advancement.
A report made public by the
White House emphasized that the
continent of Africa had become an
target for international
communism requiring new atten-
ton from the free world.
Mr.. Nixon declared that the fu-
ture course of African development
could well prove to be the de-
cisive factor in the conflict be-
tween the forces of freedom and
international communism"
Stronger Programs Urged
In general, Mr.. Nixon suggested
more help from the United States,
both in governmental and private
funds to help the African coun-
tries lift their standards of living.
He also urged a step-up in the
United States Information Agency
program for Europe, and, in gen.
eral, strengthening of the cali
Der of the United States represen-
tation at all levels.
The Vice President cautioned that
continued racial discrimination I'M
the United States was handicap
to United States influence through
Continued on Page Eight
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Election Put Off
DictatoriaI Rule
In Haiti Is Feared
Observers Doubt
The Present Ruling
Council Will Be Able
To Survive To Election

Mexico City, April 13 = Haiti,
which has seen much turbulence
and violence in its 13T-yesr history
as a republic, appears to be wide
open for either a military dictator
ship or strongman rule.
The populace is weary and cyni-
cal after repeated Illustrations.
Three Governments have toppled
since December. Haitaians from
the lowliest plantation worker to
the most acute political observer
are aware that the present Gov
Continued on Page Two)
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East Africa
Census Due

NA1ROBI, Kenya, Apr. 10
Between now and the end of 1860,
East Africa's population is to be
counted for the first time in nine
years.
Organization of the census, in
which 10000 enumerators will
count the people of East Africa's
$40 tribes as well as the non-Af-
rican population, has been planned
by the East African Statistical De-
partment from its headquarters
Continued on Page Five)
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Louisiana Anti-Integration Law
Is Declared Unconstitutional

eral court because a companion law
made It criminal offense for
public school official to sign
certificate for a Negro seeking ad-
mittance to a white college.
The court also struck down the
companion law, declaring the Leg
islature had used a transparent de-
vice to accomplish with two laws
what it knew it could not do with
one.
The ruling by Judges Herbert
Christenberry and Sicily Wright
was on cases involving Louisiana
CONTINUED on Page Eighty
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Prentiss Institute
Observing Its
50th Anniversary
Public Invited
TIC Commencement
Sunday And Monday

Prentiss, Miss, April 15-Pren-
tiss Normal and Industrial Insti-
tute here, widely known both in
and out of the state for it's contri-
button to Negro education, is OBJ
serving fits Fiftieth Anniversary,
along with it's annual commence
ment program Sunday and Monday.
The Commencement program in
cludes the Sermon at 200 P. M.
Sunday by Rev. ]. R. Davis, Pastor,
First Baptist Church, Columbia,
Miss, and the Commencement ad-
dress at 200 P. M. Monday, by
Continued on Page Four)
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one of them with a wrench after
cursing the woman and ordering
her to move to the rear of bus.
The man said he asked her to
move and she slapped him.
Jail officials identified the man
as James E. Grice Jr., 81. They
named the women as Joseph Bold
in, 10, Annie Burch, 81, and john
ME Mae Eaves, 80. All are Mont
gomery residents.
They were charged with assault
and battery after Grice signed
Continued on Page Six
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DETROIT, Apr. ia s35, 900
General Motors gift to the United
Negro College Fund was announced
today by Louis G. Seaton, GIN Vice
President in charge of Personnel
and chairman of it's Committee for
Education Grants and Scholar
ships.
The GIN grant comes at'the be-
ginning of the 1857 nationwide
drive by the United Negro College
Fund which provides financial aid
to 81 Negro Colleges in IL states.
1t brings to $4,000 the amount
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-04-20
Negro AgricuIturist On Staff
OF American Embassy In Paris

Winston G. Thorburn, first color
ed agriculturist to be appointed
to u. S. agricultural attache
post in a major foreign country,
is serving as diplomatic repre-
sentative of American agriculture
in Paris, France.
Mr.. Thorburn, a graduate of
Hampton Institute, was appointed
assistant agricultural attache at
the American Embassy in Paris
last September by the U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture. In this
key assignment, he is charged with
the responsibility of assisting in
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SENATORS SUPPORT NIXON
ON AID TO AFRICA

Washington, D. c., April Is -
Four senators of both parties have
supported Vice-President Richard
M. Nixon's Recommendation for
more emphasis on United States
relations with Africa to offset
Communist infiltration and intri-
que.
Senator Mike Mansfield Cd of
Montana, Assistant Senate Demo
cratic Leader, said the Nixon pro-
posal for a new Bureau of Afri-
can Affairs in the State Depart
ment already has 'been approved
by the Senate Foreign Relations
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-04-20
Negro Homes
Begun By
johannesburg

JOHANNESBURG, South At
RIGA, Apr. 16.-The johannesburg
City Council has started a major
Negro housing slum clearance
drive.
In Negro townships southwest
Of the city it has begun a 10000
home program that its to be COM
pleted in three years. The main
Continued on Page Five)
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Dr.. Laurence c.
Jones Honored
By Hometown
st. Joseph, Mo-, Rolled
Out The Red Carpet
For Native Son

st. Joseph, Mo. April Is (Spec-
ial) - What does it mean to re-
turn to your old Home town after
many years? To DR.. Jones it meant
an all day escort in the person of
Prof. Evan Agenstein, the presi-
dent of the Teachers Association,
starting at 800 ain. to meet the
city school Superintendent and his
assistants and supervisors where
they recalled many familiar names
and incidents.
Pres Interview
At 900 am ne was interviewed
Continued on Page Four)
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Pharmacists To
Meet In jackson
Next Week

For Mississippi Pharmacists, all
roads will lead to Jackson, April
1925, for the 18th. annual con-
vention of the Mississippi State
Pharmaceutical Society.
In a recent meeting the program
committee convented and formu-
lated the plans for the convention.
The guest speaker will be Mr..
Squirting Clark, president of the
National Pharmaceutical Associa-
Continued on Page Severn
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InterraciaI
WorshipStirs
South Africa

JOHANNESBURG, April 10
South Africa's Dutch Reformed
Church said today it was satisfied
with proposed Government legisla-
ton that would outlaw interracial
worship.
In Capetown, the Nationalist
Government presented a second
Continued On Page Three)
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Negro Plans To Attend Dinner
Unless virginia Governor Balks

New York, April Is - DR.. Gillian
B. Powell said yesterday he was
preparing to attend a dinner for
distinguished Virginians" in Rich
mond next month. The New York
Negro physician, businessman and
publisher of The Amsterdam News
in Harlem said he planned to go
unless Gov. Thomas B. Stanley
himself withdrew the invitation.
"My position is that | received
the invitation under the Governors
name and the seal Of the Com
monwealth of Virginia." DR.. Pow
ell explained. 1.-THE invitation was
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LANIER OBSERVES COLLEGE DAY

Wednesday, April 10, was OBJ
served as the first college Day"
at Lanier High School and repre-
sentatives from six colleges gave
their support to the success of the
program. This was just another
phase in the overall expansion of
the guidance program at the school.
On hand to enlighten the stu
dents of entrance requirements and
opportunities to be found at the
various colleges were: Dean H. T.
Sampson of Jackson State College;
Mr.. Army Daniels, Miss w. E:
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chana 10 End
Special Stamps

ACCRA, Ghana, April Is -
Ghana will withdraw the special
commemorative stamps issued to
mark the achievement Of independ-
ence last month, the Ministry Of
Communications announced here.
The last Of the stamps will be sold
June and the former Gold Coast
issues will serve until new perma::
nent Ghana series is issued next
year.
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Virginia Asks Negro To A Dinner,
Then Cancels Bid As A Mistake

A physician, business and a life
member of the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Col
ored People, DR.. Powell was born
in Newport News, Va, in 1894.
He was unavailable yesterday for
comment on the dinner. His Sec
rotary, Miss E. NJ. Tolden, said,
however, that the invitation has
been received and accepted a week
Continued on Page Eight
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embossed also with the name Of
Frank Arthur Ernst, president Of
the Virginia State Chamber Of
Commerce, but it was issued from
the Governors office. the Capitol.
"He extended me the invitation
as an official of the Common
wealth. He Is the only one who
can withdraw it. So, unless l re-
ceive a notice from him withdraw
ing the invitation, I shall attend
with my wife"
DR.. Powell deprecated telegram
that arrived Tuesday signed by
Continued on Page Eight
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Committee"
Senator John j. Sparkman CD
of Alabama agreed that the idea
of a separate bureau was better
than Jumping this area together
with South Asia and the Middle
East, as was done in the past"
Senator Karl E. Mundt (R) of
South Dakota said: "This is vast
new continent that requires new
ideas" He lauded several of the
Nixon suggestions.
Senator George D. Aiken (R) Of
Vermont said Mr.. Nixon's recon-
Continued on Page Six
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HeartIine OF
Uganda, kampeIa

Kampaia, Uganda - Newsmen
from various parts Of the world
who foregathered here this week
at Kampala's famed Imperial ho-
tel, were amazed at the hustle and
hustle of the city, due to the top
position it holds as the commercial
center Of Uganda.
Kampala's shipping industry and
marine services provide valuable
link in communications between in
Continued on Page Six)
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S. African Prime
Minister Aims
At Colleges
Warn On Theories
That Endangers
White Race

PRETORIA, South Africa, Apr.
16.-South African Prime Minis
ter Johannes G., Strijdom said last
week the Government had to pre-
vent universities from PROFOUND
ing doctrines that endangered the
white race.
Mr.. Strijdom, in opening a new
Continued on Page Five)
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Boyd and Mr.. Nebraska Mays of
Alcorn A. & M. College; Mr.. Mel
son T. Mitchell, Lanier instructor,
representing Morehouse College;
Mr.. ]. E. Marshall, Pine Bluff A.
M. & N. College; Mr.. A. w. Wal
ker, Tuskegee A. & l. Institute;
Mr.. Ozzie Payton of Mississippi
Vocational College; and Mr.. Henry
Briggs, Tougaloo Southern Chris
tan College.
Principal Luther B. Buckley in
troduced the occasion with timely
Continued on Page Five)
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New York, N. Y, April 16-An
invitation to a prominent New York
Negro to attend a dinner in Rich
mond for distinguished Virgin
ians" was withdrawn yesterday as
"a mistake" DR.. Gillian B. Powell,
publisher of The Amsterdam News
in Harlem, had accepted the invi-
tation. The dinner is to be held in
the John Marshall Hotel on May
II.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-04-20

IN VOICE RECITAL: Talented
Miss Janet Dozier, Jackson State
College Senior Music Major, was
heard in a voice recital Sunday,
April ID, at 8 pm. in Dansby Hall
Auditorium. Miss Dozier is a mem-
Der of the Jackson State Vesper
and concert choirs and of Sigma
Gamma Rho Sorority. She is the
daughter of Mrs. Bessie Lee Dozier
of Laurel, Mississippi.
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they appreciate your
trade.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-05
Lopez Moteos Seems
Sure in Mexican Race

MEXICO CITY. Nov. S up.
The dominant government
party has in effect confirmed
that its candidate for president
in the 1858 elections will be At
year-old Adolfo Lopez Mateos.
now Labor Minister.
The Party of Revolutionary
Institutions said yesterday Mr..
Lopez Mateos' backing was so
overwhelming there was no
possibility of anyone else being
picked to run.
The PR has never lost a
presidential race.
Gen. AuguStin Olachea Avi-
les, president Of the PR Gen.
trail Committee. said the party
has received a flood Of tele-
grams. telephone calls and mes
sages indorsing Mr.. Lopez Ma
teos
The committee rushed it's
plans for its national conven-
ton November 1917 which will
officially name Mr.. Lopez Ma
teoS. He is expected to resign
his cabinet post at that time.
Several minor opposition par
ties are expected to name token
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|Gai|Iard at 80
Seen Sure 10
Head Cabinet

PARIS, Nov. S (P).-Feliy
Gaillard, 38 years old today and
the youngest man to seek the
French premiership in more
than rs years. appeared certain
Of winning National Assembly
approval today.
Endorsement of Mr.. Gaillard
and cabinet drawn from all
factions except the Communists
and the extreme-right Pou-
iadists would install Frances
oath postwar government and
end a 36-day government crisis
The previous age record in
the premiership was set by Ar
mand Fallieres, who took the
job in 1883 at Al.
Experts reckoned the young
financial expert should get al
least $50 votes in the 695-mem-
Der Assembly, even allowing for
some individual defections
Some estimates ran as high
as 1896.
Reds, POujadists Opposed
Only the 149 Communists
and fellow travellers and AZ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-05

informed the industry there is
no contractual obligation for
mine owners to give diggers a
3-day Christmas holiday and
$40 holiday payment. it was
learned today.
The soft-coal industry has
labor contracts which continue
antil terminated. They could
have been terminated by notice
August / effective October /.
But Mr.. Lewis. repeatedly
feeling the market for coal
sales is soft" at the moment,
has held up making any move
for new contract terms. The
still-continuing pact provided
for the three holidays and $40
per-man Christmas bonus only
for last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-05

Poujadists were ranged solidly
against him.
In assembling his cabinet,
Mr.. Gaillard succeeded in the
apparently impossible task of
getting Socialists and Con-
servatives to serve together for
the first time since 1851. But
this was no promise that he
could keep them on the same
track in tackling the grave
problems of finance and AL
gerian rebellion facing France.
The top men of both parties,
ex-premiers Guy Mollet and
Antoine Pinay, refused to join
the cabinet.
AS finance minister in the
last cabinet headed by Maui
rice Bourges-Maunoury. Mr..
Gaillard made headlines with
a sweeping austerity program
to bolster Frances tottering
government finances and for
eign exchange position.
Devalued Franc
He trimmed the budget, de-
valued the franc, slapped a 20
per cent tax on most imports
and propagandized for a switch
to cheaper foods to combat in
flation.
Mr.. Bourges- Maunoury re-
signed when the assembly de-
feated his bill to give limited
home rule to Algeria. Mr.. Gail
lard chose his former chief to
be Interior Minister.
In his cabinet lineup, Mr..
Gaillard also retained Socialist
Christian Pineau as Foreign