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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16

Washington, D. c. - The annual
Brotherhood Luncheon of the Ma
tional Council of Negro Women
will take place Saturday, February
%, 1857 at the Continental Hotel,
Capitol Plaza Room Washington,
D. c. at 1890 pm. The guest of
honor this year is Madame Felisa
Rincon de Gautier, Mayor and City
Manager of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Mrs. William T. Mason, president
of the National Council of Negro
Women stated: "The National
Brotherhood Committee of the Ma
tional Council of Negro Women af-
fords the Washington community
a rare treat in honoring Madame
Gautier, one of the most disting-
uished women on the inter-Ameri-
can continent. Her achievements
in what is primarily a mans field,
support the theory that more wom-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16
ScEF Urges President Eisenhower
To Explain To The Nation Need For
Proposed Civil Rights Legislation

the ballot are employed with free
dom can orderly social change take
place."
"We believe in education and we
deprecate resort to violence, threat
and intimidation as current used to
thwart the emergence of demo-
cratic changes. We commend the
restraint which, in many instances,
has been as impressive as its oppo-
site; and we urge upon all elements
in our society support of legal and
constitutional channels of action"
Because we believe in orderly
change, we advocate the recogni-
ton of the right of Negro citizens
to vote, and we look with profound
concern upon the proposals of Of
ficials in many localities and of
organizations which are seeking to
purge Negro voters from registra-
ton lists"
1--WE respectfully urge the Ma
tional Congress at its present ses-
Continued On Page Seven)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16
Annual B'hood Luncheon Of NCnW Set

en- should seek positions of City
Manager for their natural assets
as homemakers, housekeepers, and
budgeteers is invaluable in this
field"
During the Brotherhood Lunch
con Mrs. Martin Luther King of
Montgomery, Alabama will be a
guest to receive an award.
Mrs. Aliene C. Ewell is chair
man of the Brotherhood Committee
of the National Council of Negro
Women. Mrs. Muriel Alexander is
chairman of the Program Commit
tee. They will be assisted by a
committee of hostesses who will
be announced later with final de-
tails of other participants on the
program for Saturday, February
%, 1857, Capitol Plaza-Room, Con-
tinental Hotel, Washington, D. {.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16
Cooperative Efforts By All Elements
Of The Community Particularly
Business, Industry, Labor An Schools
Urged To Stimulate Negro Youth
To Higher Training
Conference Sponsored By Presidents
Committee Called Most Important National
Conference On Job Training In Recent Years

WASHINGTON, D. Cooper
ative efforts by all elements of
the community - and particularly
by industry, labor and the schools
are necessary to stimulate more
Negro young people to acquire
skills for better employment,
speakers told a Youth Training
Incentives Conference here Febru-
airy 4.
The one-day conference, spon-
sored by the Presidents Commit
tee on Government Contracts with
the cooperation of the American
Personnel and Guidance Associa-
ton, was attended by more than
200 leaders of business, labor and
education from Is metropolitan
centers.
The Presidents Committee called
the conference because it is con-
WINGED that the motivation of more
youth to seek better training sis
an indispensable part of the total
effort to free the potential of
millions of Americans for useful
and, indeed, vital contributions to
the growth and progress of the
nation" according to Secretary of
Continued on Page Two)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16
Fourth Virginia
School Ordered
To Desegregate

New Port News, Va. Feb. IL
Federal Judge Walter E. Hoffman,
who recently declared the Virginia
pupil placement law unconstitution-
al gave school officials here Mon
day until August 10Th to begin
desegregating their schools. 1t
was the fourth school system in
the state ordered to desegregate
by a Federal Court.
A fifth suit, filed as compan-
ion to the New Port News suit
was set hearing in Norfolk Mon
day.
Meanwhile, Virginia Attorney
General J. Lindsay Almond, Jr.
Monday appealed to the US. Su-
Continued on Page Three)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16
General Strike Threatened As
Legislature Picks New Haitian
President Following Resignation Of
joseph Nemours PIERRE Louis Sunday
Frank Sylvan, Lawyer And Expert On
Constitution, Picked After Office
Is Vacant Five Days

Port Au Prince, Haiti, Feb. IL
A new president of Haiti, picked
by the legislators was named last
week. He is Frank Sylvan, law
yer and expert on constitutional
law.
Mr.. Sylvan has been one of
seven presidential candidates. He
withdrew when five of the candi-
dates offered his name and those
of two other to the legislature as
possible choices for provisional
president.
Mr.. Sylvan received % of the
80 votes cast at joint session of
the Chamber of Deputies and Sen
ate
His election gave Haiti a presi
dent after the office had been va
cant five days since the resigna-
ton of Joseph Nernours Pierre
Louis last Sunday night. The cleo
ton is expected to touch off dem
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16

Atlanta, Ga.-The board of d.
rectors of the Southern Conference
Educational Fund, Inc, has urged
Congress to pass legislation imple-
menting the Civil-Rights program
of the Administration, and has re-
quested President Eisenhower to
make an appropriate declaration to
the nation of his position on the
issue.
The SCEF board meeting in At
lanta, Ga, adopted the following
resolution:
"The Southern Conference Edu-
cational Fund, an organization of
Southerners whose principal effort
is to create understanding and con-
structive cooperation between
White and Negro citizens, believes
in the soundness of democratic pro-
cesses; and we think these pro-
cesses should operate without
boundary lines of class and race.
Only as the processes Of redress
through the costs and the use of
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16
State Farmers
Winners In 1856
Cotton And Corn
Production
Honored Here
This Week
DIR. J. H. White
Principal Speaker

State College, Miss. - The first
statewide Negro Cotton and Corn
Award Day program was held
Thursday, February ID in College
Park Auditorium, Jackson, begin
ming at 10 am.
The cotton winners were Negro
farmers who competed in the regu-
lar 1856 Mississippi Five-Acre Cot
ton Contest. They received cash
awards for their standings in the
overall contest, plus certificates
for one bale, two bale, or more,
per acre official averages. This
contest is sponsored by 16 differ
ent kinds of businesses that are
interested in advancing the econ
omy of Mississippi.
Continued on Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16
S. Africa Seeks
More Race Laws

Cape Town, South Africa, Feb.
1.-THE South African Parliament
has opened it's 1857 session in an
atmosphere dominated by the gen.
eral election next year.
The legislators convened eager
of the five months session, for this
is the last major session before
the voters go to the polls to GUST
or re-elect Prime Minister johann
mes G. Strijdom's Nationalist Gov
eminent.
Wooing of the voters therefore
keynotes this session. Neverthe-
less, the government is presenting
some legislation to extend its seq
regation policies which, though it
may win approval among govern
Continued on Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16
F|int-Goodridge
Hospital Silver
Anniversary

New Orleans, La, Feb. IL
Especially - Flint Goodridge Hos
pital here this week celebrated its
25th Anniversary on its present
site in uptown New Orleans on
Louisiana Avenue. 1t was origi-
nally started, however, in 1896,
some 81 years ago as the Phyllis
Wheatly Sanitarium, and later
Flint Goodridge Hospital and Med
ical School. 1t was then located on
Canal Street.
For the past 25-years the hos
pital has been q part Of billiard
University and has operated as q
hospital and nurse Training School.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16
Police Guard
Pulls Out OF
TrumbuII Park

Chicago, ILL.,, Feb. II Especially
After about three years and six
months police assigned to halt ra-
cial disturbances at Trumbull Park
Housing project have finally pack
ed up and moved to new stations.
For three years Negroes have
been inundated, terrorized and
forced to go to and from their
homes in police cars. For the same
period of time, few if any prose-
cutions and arrests have been made
of whites responsible for the dis
turbances.
Trumbull park was the scene OF
racial flare-ups in July 1863, when
Negro families began moving into
the 1O6th and Bensley Region.
Shortly after 1900 police were as
signed to guard Negroes in the
CONTINUED on Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16
Mass Boycott Of
Negroes In South
Africa Erupts In
Violence As Police
Fire On Meeting
Determination Of
Government To Smash
Boycott Is Announced

Cape Town, South Africa, Feb.
1.-THE mass boycott of buses by
$4,000 African Negroes erupted
into violence last week when police
in Pretoria opened fire on meet
ing of boycotters and charged with
batons. Some 20 or more of the
boycotters received medical treat
ment after this action which came
after the governments announce
ment of it's determination to smash
the boycott.
Until the police action the boy
colt had remained non-violent in
character in this land where the
famour Indian leader Gandhi tested
and developed non-violent resist
ance.
The stubborn and persistent boy
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16
Khan Blamed
For Montgomery
Race Violence

Montgomery, Ala, Feb. II -
Members of the Montgomery
branch of the Ku Klux Khan are
blamed by police for the four re-
cent bombings that marked the
outbreak of recent race violence
here.
But Khan spokesman said the
organization does not sanction, nor
does it condone such violence. The
Klansman who refused to be man,
ed said he understood some of the
seven white men charged with
participating in the bombings
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16

London, Feb. ia New con-
stitution for the Gold Coast, to
take effect when the British West
African Colony becomes the indie
pendent state of Ghana, March 6
was submitted last Friday to the
House of Commons.
Approval of the document as an
Order in Council will be the final
parliamentary step in establishing
the Gold Coast as an independent
member of the British Common
wealth, after Queen Elizabeth gives
her Royal assent to the Ghana in
dependence bill. The bill has al
ready been approved by parlia-
ment.
The proposed constitution is
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16

The 18th Annual Race Relations
Day program, sponsored by the
Mary Church Terrell Literary Club
was held at Central Methodist
Church Sunday with the Theme
being christian Relationship
Among People"
A larger number of white peo-
pie than last year. and in most
previous years helped to make up
the large and appreciative audience.
There were also several white
participants on the program, in
GLIDING the Girls Sextette of the
Northside Baptist Church.
The principal speakers were Mr..
H. C. Harper, Associate State
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16

Houston, Tex, Feb. II Especially
&C. w. Rice, Editor and Publisher
of the Negro Labor News stated
last Wednesday in an address be-
fore the Business and Professional
Mems Luncheon Club that the eco
nomic side of school Indignation
and race relations should be thor
oughly considered in regard to the
Indignation issue.
Editor Rice pointed out that the
Supreme Court has not considered
the question of teacher integration'
That matter has been left entirely
to local school boards without the
courts jurisdiction.
Teacher Indignation has not kept
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16
Gold Coast
Law Set

London, Feb. 7 - Final details
for Britain's Constitutional pro-
posals for the Gold Coast were
discussed last Wednesday by the
Colinial Secretary and the Gold
Coast Finance Minister, and Min
lister of state.
The proposed Constitution for
the British Colony which is to be-
come Independent on March 6, and
change it's name to Ghana is sched-
uled to be submitted to the House
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16
Editor Says Negro School Teachers
Face Indignation Problem

pace with student Indignation
where schools have been desegre-
gated. In the state Of Oklahoma
where student Indignation has made
greatest progress, over 400 Negro
Teachers have lost their jobs.
Many of these are in the prime OF
life and have invested their all in
their profession"
kentucky, he further pointed
out has taken some steps towards
integration and yet, while liz Ne
gro teachers are on the integrated
staffs, 81 qualified Negroes have
lost thir jobs, and some have left
the work. This is not encouraging
CONTINUED on Page Two)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16
senate HEARINGS ON CIVIL
RIGHTS STARTS THIS Week

announced later-before the Senate
Judiciary Subcommittee on Consti-
tutional Rights, under the chair
manship of Senator Thomas c.
Hennings, Jr.
at was soon discovered that
starting the hearings on Tuesday,
February II, 1874 holiday: Lin
coins Birthday-as originally sta
ted, would have Inconvenience
some Subcommittee members and
prospective witnesses; consequent
ly, to accommodate them, the date
was changed.
Attorney General Herbert
Brownell, Jr., will be the first wit
ness. The names Of other persons
testifying will be published in the
near future"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16
Race Relations Day Program Is
Held At Central Church Sunday

YMCA Secretary, and Mr.. John
M. Goodrich, Insurance Agent, La
mar Life Insurance Company and
a lay leader of the north Jackson
Presbyterian Church. Both speak
ers were we'll received by the
audience.
Music for the program was fur
nished by the Coleridge-Taylor En-
semble, under the direction of Mrs.
G.. r. Gooden, and the Central
Church Choir.
The program was under the d.
rection of Mrs. Doris Tharp Hall,
1st Vice-President Of Terrell Liter
airy Club.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16
State Mutual Loan Association
In First Anniversary Meeting

The State Mutual Loan Associa-
ton, savings and loan organiza-
ton designed for people who want
to save by depositing a small sum
weekly or monthly, and to provide
lending services for home builders
held it's first anniversary meeting
here last week attended by men,
bers from all sections of the state.
Membership in the organization
requires only the opening of a
small weekly or monthly savings
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16
Ella Rests
After Surgery

New York, N. Y. Feb. 11-Sing-
er Ella Fitzgerald underwent an
operation in a New York hospital
last Thursday, and doctors report
ed her to be in satisfactory con-
dition.
A hospital spokesman said the
singer was operated on for an
abcess in the region of the ap-
pendix.
Miss Fitzgerald was rushed to
a New York hospital after she
complained Of illness.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16
Bill Of Rights
Week Feb. 1923

New York, Feb. II = State
Schools will observe Bill of Rights
Week, Feb. 1928 with emphasis
this year placed on contributions
of individuals who have been seek
ing refuge in the free air of Amer
lea since Colonial times, according
to James Allen, State Education
Commissioner.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16
lEW PRESIDENT OF HAITI ELECTED BY LEGISl TORS
Natchez College
To Celebrate
72nd. Birthday
Rev. C. L. Franklin
Principal Speaker

Natchez, Miss, Feb. 11.-(Spe-
cial)-Natchez Junior College, a
Christian institution owned, oper-
ated and maintained by the Cen
eral Missionary Baptist State Con-
vention of Mississippi, DR.. H. H.
Humes, President, was founded
January 5, 1885. On January 9Th
of this year, this great citadel of
learning had been in existence for
72 years. Negro Baptists of old,
even though just shortly removed
from the era of slavery, saw the
great necessity for trained Chris
tan leadership. From the fertile
minds of these Negro Baptists
CONTINUED on Page Two)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16

Washington, D. c., Feb. II =
Charles H. Slayman, Jr., Chief
Counsel and Staff Director of the
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on
Constitutional Rights, today issued
the following statement:
81 have been authorized by the
Chairman, Senator Thomas c. Hen
nings, Jr. (D.-Mo), to issue this
statement in answer to several in
quiries which have been made con-
corning the exact date on which
Senate civil rights hearings will
begin.
Public hearings on pending civil
rights legislation will commence at
10 a. M, on Thursday, February
Ia, 1857, in the Senate Office
Building-the room number to be
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16
See Segregation
Increasing In
New York State

New oYrk, N. Y, Feb. liza
cial segregation is increasing in
the cities and suburbs of the state,
Robert C. Weaver, State Rent Ad-
ministrator declared in statement
here last Friday night.
Despite scattered progr s
against discrimination in the sale
and rental of housing Mr.. Weaver
said, existing Negro ghettos in the
cities are growing and new lily
white subdivisions are extending
Continued On Page Severn
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16
Dot cambridge
Sues Magazine
For S2-miIIion

Los Angeles, Calf, Feb. IL
Singer-actress Dorothy cambridge,
last week filed a $2-million libel
suit against the publishers OF
Hep Magazine charging an article
in the January issue embarrassed
and Inundated her. She is suing
Good Publishing Co., Mutual Cir
culation Sales. and Jerry Town
send, author of the alleged libel
Gus article entitled, "Red Hot Elk
elusive, Dorothy Dandrige, Her
1000 Lovers.
Continued on Page Two)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16
House OF Commons Gets Charter
For First A||-Negro State In
The British Commonwealth

based on the Gold Coast Constitu-
ton of 1854, which brought the
colony to the brink of complete
self-government. The Gold Coast
Legislative Assembly will become
the Ghana Parliament with cabi-
net of ministers on the British pat
tern, and the country will be re-
moved from the jurisdiction OF the
British Colonial office.
Ghana will be the first all-Negro
state to achieve membership in the
British Commonwealth of nations.
The new constitution provides
for universal adult suffrage and
for freedom Of religion. Racial dls-
elimination is outlawed.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16
Ohio Rep. Says
Powell Bill
Hurts Negro

Washington, D. c., Feb. II -
Especially - Republican Congress
man, William Ayers of Ohio has
charged that Cong. Adams Clayton
Powell's proposed amendment to
the school aid bill is doing more to
hurt the cause of the Negro than
anything that it being done in Con-
Continued on Page Six)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16

account.
President Jacob L. Reddix Of
Jackson College, who was a leader
in the founding of the organization
is its President.
At the meeting here last week,
Grand Master j. c. Gillian Of
Clarksdale, and Rev. L. T. Smith,
local letter carrier and business
man became members of the Board
of Directors of the organization.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16
Campbell College
Celebrates
Founders Day

The Annual Founders Day Cele-
bration of Campbell College, AME
Church Institution here, under the
direction of the 9th Episcopal Dis
trict, comprising the states of Mis-
sissippi and Louisiana, was held
Friday.
The Guest Speaker for the pro-
gram was DR.. William. Heard
Barnes, who graduated from Camp
Continued On Page Seven)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16
Bombings Hit East Texas Town

Supreme Court decision, and the
subsequent admission of Negro stu
dents to Lamar Technical College
here.
Following the bombings pro-seg-
regation leaders appeared before
the city council and said that any
attempt to break down segrega-
ton on the buses and in the public
schools would lead to even greater
violence.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16
1857 UNCF Goal Set Al S2-MiIIion

scholarships and help underwrite
student health programs, bring
faculty salaries closer to those of
comparable institutions, supply
science laboratory, library and
classroom equipment and help
maintain physical plants.
Thirty of these colleges are To-
Gated in the South. More than co.
900 of the $4,000 students now at
tending these colleges are men,
bers of southern Negro families.
Continued on Page Three
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16

Beaumont, Texas, Feb. IL
(SpeciaD-This bustling little city
in East Texas last Monday became
the first Texas town to join the
bombing violence that has terror
lied several southern cities, when
three blasts went off in this race
conscious community.
While official sources refused to
admit it, the bombings have been
laid to racial tension that has been
smouldering here since the U. S.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16

New York, N. Y, Feb. 8-An-
nouncement of 100000 as the
1857 United Negro College Fund
campaign goal was made by Lee
Hastings Bristol, national chair
man for the 14th annual appeal,
TODAY. The nationwide campaign
will be conducted April 1-June Is
to raise 10 percent of the annual
operating costs of the Funds 81
privately-supported, accredited col
leges and universities.
Monies will be used to provide
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16
Georgia Merchant
Who Slew Wealthy
Negro Doctor And
NAACP Leader
Victim OF
Mystery Shooting
No Arrest; No Witness
To Shooting,
Police Say

COLUMBUS, Ga, Feb. II. =
Lucio Flowers, department store
owner who shot a Negro leader to
death last year, was fatally wound
ed by a pistol bullet early Monday
morning.
Flowers died at 1908 am. in the
emergency room of City Medical
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-02-16
Georgia NuIIifys
Amendments US.
Constitution

Atlanta, Ga. Feb. II (DSN) -
The Georgia State Senate, last
Thursday adopted resolution de-
claring the Is, IA, 18th, amend
ments to the US. Constitution
CONTINUED on Page Six)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-14
WHERE
AND WHEN
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Stage
Arena-"The Doctors Diem
ma; $3.50 pm.
National THE Country
Wife; $50 pm.
Screen
AmbaSSadOr-"The Tin Star;
LIS, 1925. SIS. 1928 and 9:25
pm.
Apex-"Escapade";; /, PAS,
4:20. $40, 8:O5 and 9:55 pm.
CapitOl-"Jailhouse Rock;
l1:40 a m. lao. $40. 5:45, !. as
and $50 pm.
Midnight Story:
HAS am. las, 3:45. 5:45,
7:45 and GAS pm.
Dupont - PERI; /. $50,
4:40. $50. 800 and 1905 pm.
Keith's-" Slaughter on Tenth
Avenue: 1880 am, 1885, $40.
5:45. 1855 and 10 pm.
Notwithstanding in the
Parlor"; $50, 8:15 and 10 pm.
Metropolitan THE Tin
Star; 1925 am, l:25, 1925,
$50. 1885 and 9:40 pm.
OntariO-"Raintree County,;
$3.50 pm.
Palace topover Tokyo:
l1:40 I'M, l:4O. 3:45, 5:45, 7:45
and GAS pm.
Playhouse-"The Joker Is
Wild; IL am, $40. 4:20, 7
and GAS pm.
PlaZa-"And God Created
Woman; 1870 am, 1880. $3.50.
$50. 1870. $50 and 1870 pm.
Trans-Lux-"Pal joey; 10
am, 1910. 2:l5. ago. $3.50,
$50 and 1890 pm.
UptOwn-"Around the World
In 30 Days; $3.50 pm.
Seven Wonders of
the World; 2 and $50 pm.