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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-10-12
MISSISSIPPI NEGRO STATE FAIR
OPENING HERE MONDAY FOR
FOURTH ANNUAL SHOWING AT
STATE FAIR GROUNDS
Mammoth Street Parade Monday
Morning AT Eleven To Mark Opening
Great Army Of Negro Performers In
Featured Attractions On Midway

Record breaking crowds from
every section of the state are ex-
pected to attend the Fourth An
nual Showing of the Mississippi
Negro State Fair, opening here
Monday for three days and nights.
October 14-15-16, at the Missis-
sippi State Fair Grounds.
A mammoth street parade, up
Capitol Street to the fair grounds
directly behind the old State Cap
itol, at II o'clock Monday morning
will mark the opening day of the
fair. Featured in the parade will
be bands from the state colleges
and leading high schools, each COM
plemented by bevy of high-step-
ping and beauteous girls. In addi-
ton there will be many decorated
floats in the parade competing for
the prizes that have been offered
for the best decorated floats.
The educational exhibits which
includes all types of agriculture
products, canning, preserving, live
stock, poultry, home-making, sew
ing, arts, masonry, carpentry, and
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-10-12
Haiti Hopes Pinned To More Us. Aid

Haiti has held relatively free
election and president has been
elected according to unofficial re-
turns, but the question remains
whether q stable peaceful govern
ment will evolve.
A poverty-ridden, largely illit-
crate 600 per cent, one Of the high
est rates in the world) country,
Haiti is beset by severe economic
problems and political immaturity.
It's history has been punctuated
by emergence Of series Of strong
men, usually members Of the Army.
In the 10 months since the fall Of
strong man Paul E. Magloire, Haiti
has been through q recurring cycle
of violence, strikes, drought, and
successive provisional presidents.
Junta Keeps Order
It is now temporarily ruled by
q military junta headed by Brig.
Gen. Antonio Kebreau who brought
CONTINUED on Page Eighty
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-10-12
Grand Jury
Refuses To Indict
Three White Men
In Beating Of Rev,
ShuttIesWorth
Negro Minister Was
Beaten In Attempt
To Enroll Negroes
In White School

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Oct. A.
The Jefferson County Grand Jury
Friday refused to indict three
white men accused CT attempting
to murder a Negro minister seek
ing enrolment of Negro children
in a white school.
The attack was made on Rev.
F. L. Shuttlesworth when he at,
tempted to enroll several Negro
children in Phillips High School
here.
Cleared were |. F. Gauldin, az,
w. H. Cash, so, and J. E. Brecken-
ridge, &c, all OF Birmingham. They
had refused to plead guilty to les
Continued on Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-10-12
\ National Council
OF Churches
Lauds Eisenhower
Action In Little
Rock Dispute
President Hailed
On School Stand

President Eisenhower's steps to
uphold Federal law in the integra-
ton dispute in Little Rock, Ark,
were commended yesterday by the
general board of the National
Council of the Churches of Christ
in the U. S. A.
The 250-member board is the
governing and policy making agen-
cy of the National Council, a fed
Grafton of thirty Protestant and
Orthodox communions with 1885,
100000 members. The resolution
on racial tensions was among those
adopted on the first day of the
boards quarterly meeting at the
Belmont Plaza Hotel. The board
also approved an extensive study
of clergy salaries.
The resolution on racial ten
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-10-12
-Four Soldiers
Slain At
Haitian Outpost

Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, Oct. T.
Four soldiers have been shot dead,
the first casualties since last SUM-
days presidential election in Haiti,
q military junta spokesman re-
ported today.
The spokesman said the incident
occurred at II o'clock last night at
an outpost in the nearby mountain
resort Of Kenscoff. Three men ap-
peared, asking passes to 60 to Port
au-Prince after the 10 P. M. curfew
to get a physician for q woman
about to have q baby.
While the sentry was talking
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-10-12
Bomb Home Of Negro Who Sent
Children To White School

apparent damage to the house was
from mud and rocks thrown by the
blast. A small piece of siding was
knocked off the front of the house.
This was the first violence noted
here since five Negro children en-
rolled at Gillespie five weeks ago
and one Negro girl began studies
at the white senior high school.
Mr.. Herring's two sons, Russell,
IL, and Elijah Jr., 16, attended
school today without incident.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-10-12
CHARGE DELIBERATE STALLING
ON new YORK HOUSING BIAS BILL

at City Hall and urged prompt pas
sage of the anti-bias legislation.
After the delegation left, Mayor
Wagner announced that he had af-
firmed to the group his support of
the measure and had promised:
"There will be a bill"
A new development in the skirm-
ishing over the holly contested leg
islation was the submission Of a
new amendment that would drop
the the exemption Of cooperative
apartments from the basic bills
provisions. It also would set up q
fair housing practices review board
to weigh disputes referred to it by
Continued on Page Two)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-10-12
Negro Youth
Arrested In Race
Disturbance

CAMDEN, N. j., Oct. Five
Negro teen-agers, all Of Phiiadel-
phia, were convicted today on
charges Of disorderly conduct.
The youths were arrested while
lettering around Camden high
school following a racial disturb
ance. Police said the youths ig-
nored orders to leave the school
Continued on Page Four)
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Powell Says Date Already Set
For Meeting With Eisenhower

leaders of the North and South to
talk over the issue.
Mr.. Powell said in a television
interview on the National Broad
casting Company program youth
Wants to Know" that the White
House yesterday gave him an APP
pointment with the President. He
said lie was not at liberty to reveal
the date yet.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-10-12
Negro History Association
To Meet In Montgomery

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Oct. g.
The forty-second annual meeting of
the Association for the Study of
Negro Life and History will meet
here November 14-17 inclusive.
Colleges of the state will be CO.
hosts to the Association, under the
leadership Of Alabama State Col
lege on whose campus the meetings
will be held.
Negro and white scholars from
all over the nation will gather for
the three days and this year spe-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-10-12
Bill TO Close
Schools Beaten
In Florida

Tallahassee, Fla, Oct. 8 - The
Florida House last week defeated,
at least temporarily, move by
the Legislature to pass the so-called
"last resort bill" That measure
would give counties the option to
close public schools rather than
permit Indignation.
The bill was identical to one
passed by the Legislature earlier
this year but vetoes by Gov. Leroy
Collins.
The Governor has fought the bill,
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cial effort will be made to encour-
age college and high school stu
dents to attend.
The session will concentrate on
improving the teaching Of Ameri-
can and World History by inte-
grating Negro History into these
studies.
Special topics such as: The Free
Negro In The South, Negro Sol
diers in the Wars Of the United
States, Africa In the Modern World
Continued on Page Seven)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-10-12

relations in Newark. The survey
was ordered by the Mayors Conn.,
mission on Group Relations.
The report was devoted mainly
to an analysis of relations between
the white and nonwhite groups in
Newark. 1t said the nonwhite
population in the city had been
growing rapidly and consistently"
Continued on Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-10-12
Negro Night Club
Bombed In Illinois

Colp, H., Oct. 8 - Investigators
said they had evidence linking the
bombing of night club operator
by the Negro president of the
school board with an Indignation
dispute here.
The explosion last night heavily
damaged the club and shattered
windows in the neighborkood. The
club had been frequented by Ne
groes and whites. 1t was empty at
the time.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-10-12
Georgians To Form Relocation
Firm To Send Negroes North

ATLANTA, Ga, Oct. A plan
to form a non-profit corporation
designed to move Southern Negroes
into northern white neighborhoods
was ANNOUNCED Friday by state
Representative A. A. Fowler, Jr.
of Douglasville, Ga.
He said Atty. Gen. Eugene Cook
advised him that incorporation
would be the quickest and the
best" way to carry out the pro-
posal.
with the support of the people
of Georgia and the nation we can
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-10-12
NcNW Head Works To Complete
Program For Annual Convention
And Youth Conference

Washington, D. C.-Mrs. William
7. Mason of Norfolk, Virginia,
President Of the National Council
Of Negro Women Is in Washington,
D. c. this week to complete ar
rangements for the End Annual
Convention and Youth Conference
to be held from Wednesday, Nov
ember 6 through Sunday, Novem-
Der 10, 1857 at the Willard Hotel
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-10-12

have a Christmas present for some
worthy Georgia family and some
politician of the North or West"
he declared.
The Douglas County representa-
tive said earlier that Northern or
Western politicians in favor Of in
tegration would receive filst at
tention under the plan he said was
designed to point up the Southern
problem to other parts of the coun-
try"
Representative Fowler's an
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-10-12

Greensboro, N. c., Oct. 8-The
home of Negro who has sent his
two children to a former all-white
school was rocked late last night
by an explosion. No one was in
jured.
The police today continued the
investigation of the explosion,
which occurred in the yard of
Elijah Herring. He lives about two
blocks from Gillespie Park School
where his children attend. The only
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-10-12

New York, N. Y, Oct. 6-Mayor
Wagner and the Democratic leader
ship Of the City Council were ac-
cused of deliberately stalling" con-
sideration of the housing anti-bias
bill until after election.
Minority leader Stanley M.
Isaacs, Manhattan Republican
Liberal, made the charge after a
day Of City Council committee
hearings during which the contro-
versial housing measure came in
for only minor attention.
Earlier in the day q committee
headed by Dean James A. Pike Of
the Cathedral Church Of st. John
the Divine called on Mayor Wagner
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-10-12
CHURCH GROUP BACKS lKES USE OF TROOPS
Ghanas Amazed
As Lawyers
Battle Over
Deportation Case
Bare Legged Africans
Jam Court AS WiggeG
Lawyers Argue Case

KUMASI, Ghana., Oct. s. - A
crowd of Africans, bare legged
and baffled looked on in wonder
while two Englishmen in wooden
wigs fought out the meaning of
law and liberty in Ghana.
Under whirril fans in crowd
ed little Supreme Court chamber,
they heard arguments on constitu-
tional challenge that will decide,
among other things, the suprem-
Continued on Page Severn
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-10-12
Rhode Island
Group Reports
Gains In Fight
On Bias

PROVIDENCE, R. L., Oct. T.
The Rhode Island Commission A.
gainst Discrimination has been sue
cessful in bringing together the
parties involved in evry case it has
handled.
Not once, says Robert ]. Ber-
geon, commission supervisor Of ed
ucation, has the agency had to ex-
ercise its powers Of holding a for
Continued on Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-10-12

in Washington.
Mrs. Mason will leave New York
Friday, October II with a group
of distinguished American citizens
travelling by air under the auspices
of the Crusade for Freedom. Her
itenerary in the Radio Free Europe
Munich Inspection Trip includes
Munich, where briefing sessions
Continued on Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-10-12
Coca Cola First In Contest Featuring
Negro Market Merchandising Posters

New York, N. Y. - The Coca
Cola Company, Atlanta, Georgia,
was awarded first place citation
for distinguished service in Me-
gro market merchandising. in
nationwide display poster contest
held at the Woldorf- Astoria here
last week.
Coca-Cola was one of twenty
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-10-12
Race Controversy
Sweeps Babados

Barbados, West Indies, Oct. 7
"A story Of racial discrimination
by the Governors Colonial Chief
Secretary Is causing a political
storm on this Caribbean island.
Secretary Jack Adie is alleged
to have transferred his 15-year-
old daughter, Susan, from racial
ly mixed government school to q
white-only institution.
Barbados Gov. Sir Robert Arun-
dell Cancelled a scheduled passage
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-10-12

Washington, D. c., Oct. 6 =
Representative Adam Clayton Pow
ell Jr. said last week that Presi-
dent Eisenhower had agreed to
meet on the problem of racial inte-
grafton in the SCHOOLS.
The Manhattan Democrat also
said that he and Representative
Brooks Hays, Democrat of Arkan-
sas, had been studying the posi-
bility of calling a conference of
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-10-12
Negroes Called Underprivi|eged In
Jobs And Housing In Newark. \. ].

Newark, N. j., Oct. - Negroes
in Newark were depicted today as
Clearly underprivileged" in the
field of employment and housing
despite the city's Exceptionally
fine" record in establishing and
protecting the civil rights Of all
groups.
That conclusion was reached at
ter three-month survey Of group
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-10-12

leading products which entered the
contest, promoted by special mar
keting interest committee in con-
nection with testimonial held for
Ed Brandford in observance of his
tenth year as head of Ed Brand
ford, Inc, Observation-Disclosures
Park Avenue Negro modelling agen-
Continued on Page FourC
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-10-12
NAAcP Says Deliberate Segregation
Of Negro Students In Chicago

alternative to executive interview
ton would be resort to the courts.
He suggested a meeting of white
and Negro leaders to plan integra-
ton steps. Mr.. Bullock said more
than 100000 Negro children were
attending all-Negro schools in 16
counties.
In Springfield, Governor STRAIT
ton said he. had no comment.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-10-12
New York Labor
Leaders Work For
College Fund

New York, Oct. 6-Morris Iushe-
WITT, secretary-treasurer of the
AFL Central Trades and Labor
Council, will head the Labor Com
mittee for the United Negro Col
lege Fund. Announcement of their
acceptance of the co-chairmenship
was made today by Lee H. Bristol,
president of Bristol Myers Com
pany, who serves as national cam
paign chairman for the College
Continued on Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-10-12
Haiti Accused
In Beating
To Death OF
American Citizen
Say Man Who Gave
Up For Questioning
Murdered BY Police

Washington, D. c., Oct. 8-The
State Department has accused the
Haitian police of numbering
United States citizen. The man had
been given into their custody for
questioning.
In harshly worded note that
betrayed deepening United States
distaste for Haiti's military re-
gime, the State Department de-
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-10-12
Negro Students In
West Virginia
School MauIed By
White Students
State Troopers Quiet
Trouble Laid To
Little Rock Crisis

MATOAKA, w. Va, Oct. s.
More than 100 white teen-agers
mauled six Negro students today
as they attempted to enter Ma
toaka High School. The State Po-
lice were called to escort the Ne
groes to class.
At the same time, white junior
high school students marched a
mile-and-a-half to try and stir up
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-10-12

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Oct. 8.-The Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People today asked
Gov. William G. Stratton to call a
conference to end what it called
deliberate segregation of colored
and white children and teachers
in Illinois public schools.
Gerald D. Bullock, president of
the Illinois Conference of Branches
CT the association, said the only
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-10-12
Southern Negro
Leaders Plot
Racial Agitation
Says agent"
Meetings Held At
Red Dominated
Folk School

ATLANTA, Ca, Oct. 8. = An
"undercover agent" told the Geor-
gia Education Commission last
week that southern Negro leaders
plotted "racial agitation" at La
Dor Day weekend meeting in an
inter-racial school in Tennessee.
CONTINUED on Page Seven)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-10-12
New York City
Schools Held Still
Segregated
Board Of Education
Accused Anew Of
Not Doing Enough

NEW YORK, N. Y, Oct. g.
The Board of Education was ac-
cused anew yesterday of not doing
enough to integrate the city
schools.
The charge was made by spokes-
Continued on Page Eight
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-25
Answers to Our Presidents

Answers to Our Presidents
Gov. Calvin Coolidge well
coined President Woodrow VIII
son when he returned from his
first trip to the Paris Peace Con-
ference February "a. 1919.
2--Secretary Of State John
Foster Dulles was born in Wash
ington. d. C.. February IS, 1888.
His grandfather. John w. Foster,
was Secretary of State under
President Benjamin Harrison
1929.
3-John Adams was appointed
Minister to Great Britain by the
Continental Congress on Febru-
larry "a. 1875.
Questions on Preceding Page)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-09-07
Charged With
Rape, Negro
Man Escapes

Pittsboro, Aug. &c Blood
hounds, sheriff's deputies and
highway patrolmen continued their
search Wednesday for Negro ar
rested in connection with the rape
of a white woman who fled in
hail of bullets as he was being led
to Jail.
Sheriff's deputies said the search
continued throughout the area.
Calhoun County Sheriff, w. ].
Shoemake identified the Negro
as Vernon Armstrong, about 30,
and said he was arrested after a
6O-year-old white woman complain
ed he raped her Sunday afternoon.
Shoemake said Armstrong broke
away from him and fled into a
thickly wooded area about II
miles west of here. Officers fired
in vain at the fleeing Negro.
Justice of the Peace w. S. Ma
lone said the woman, accompanied
by her husband, signed complaint
stating the Negro raped her while
her husband was out of the house.
She repeatedly had told her hus-
band about the attack only We'd
nesday because of fear.
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-09-07
The Labor Drive On Bias

An application from the Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen for affiliaton with the American Federation
of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations sup
submitted recently to the federatons executive council
1t is important for two In the first place. the
tranmen the second of the four brotherhoods to
break their long tradition of independence Last
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fremen and Enginemen
admitted to the federation Should the trainmen be
accepted their 900 members Largest of the brother
hoods, would bring about three-quarters of all the
conductors and the locomotive engineers still remain
aloof
Important also-and gratfyng-is the effect of these
affiliations the campaign of the A.F.L.-CLO to end
racial bias throughout the American labor movement.
Discrimination against Negroes has always been practc
ed by the railroad brotherhoods and imbedded in
their constitutions But of the federations obec
workers without regard to creed color national
origin ancestry to share equally in the full benefits of
union organization The federation therefore, is making
the elimination of racial restrictions condition for af
liation
The executive council admitted the firemen last year
the of its officers that discrimination would
end in practice and that they would recommend to the
unions next convention that the anNegro provision in
it's constitution be stricken out The council is said to be
requiring like guarantees from the Brotherhood of Train
We trust they will be given and will be resolutey
acted on.-The New York Times
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-09-07
Foreign Students

Probably one of the best methods of winning con-
verts to the free worlds way of life is through educa-
ton in the nations of the Western democracies them
selves. Students from colonies, from economically back
ward countries from which not able to offer
the opportunities of higher education in than few
fields able to for themselves the advantages of
the democratic way of life that of the Soviet die
tatorship One outstanding example is Prime Minister
Nkrumah, of the state of Ghana, who studied for
ten years IN the United States. There is every ndca
ton that his leadership of the latest addition to the
United Nations will be national but not neutral align
ed with the West
The Institute of international Education has lust
reported that record 666 foreign students attended
United States college and universities during the past
academic year. These are the and women who will
return to their native countries to become leaders in
the fields of medicine teaching law engineering and
business Representing 1876 nations they should be able
to spread the story of democracy and of the free world
among hr fellow cOuntrymen And the technical nowl
edges which they have acquired will help advance the
progress which some of the backward countries
are making in the of industry public health agri-
culture and education.
is interesting to note however that As percent or
near half the total studying here last year. pri-
vatey financed, while only II per cent aided by
either the United States foreign governments CO.
operation with organizations such as foundations col
eges and universities An additional 90 percent were
financed entirely by these organizations In view of
the Importance to the United States of training these
students here of offering greater opportunity to gift
ed youngsters whose parents cannot afford transpora
ton to the United States in addition to tuition and living
expenses for four years. it would be graft
Tying the percentage of those financed by
and organizations could be increased Corporations which
do large export business might find to their advant-
age to offer scholarships in of the small poorer
countries. Our government would certainly find it
worth while in the long run to have Americantraned
tecnncanS In such countries to say nothing of the added
good will. - New York Herald Tribune. cess