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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-02-08
Hattiesburg High Junior To Attend
Williamsburg Student Burgesses

Williamsburg, Va. - A Royal
Street High School (Hattiesburg)
junior will be on hand when the
Williamsburg Student Burgesses
convene here February 8 through
IL. He is Arthur James, 500h
Ruby Street, Hattiesburg, who is
president of the Magnolia State AS
ISOLATION of Student Councils.
A new educational event for
young people sponsored by Colonial
Williamsburg, the Student Burgess
SEES will bring together outstanding
high school students from coast to
coast with their cohnterparts from
35 foreign countries to discuss
Democratic Leadership in the
World: A Challenge to Youth"
The American representation
will consist of public, private, and
parochial high school students who
are presidents of all Of the So
state chapters Of the National As
ISOLATION of Student Councils, a de-
partment of the National Education
Association.
The students from abroad are
members of-The New York Herald
Tribune Forum for High Schools,
all between Is and 10 years Of age,
selected in national competition in
their own countries held under the
auspicies Of their Ministries Of
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Churches To
Seek End Of
Housing Bias
Three Year Project
In Three Cities Aim
To Sway Opinion
Against Segregation

Buck Hill Falls, Pa. Feb. ga
three-year grass roots project to
create among white homeowners a
Climate of opinion" favorable to
non-segregated residential housing
will be started this fall by five
Protestant denominations.
Tie project will be conducted in
three cities-one small, one middle
sized and one metropolitan center.
They will probably be located
somewhere between the Great
Lakes and the eastern seaboard.
In each city full-time director
will be employed whose assign
ment will be to use all available
resources in establishing among
white gentle residents a climate
of opinion favorable to nonsegre-
gated occupancy"
He will also enlist TIE aid of
Protestant churchgoers who are
real estate dealers, mortgages,
builders and Government housing
officials.
Project to Cost S175,00O
The three-year project is expect
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| AME Group Seeks
Changes In
Supervision Of
Church Schools
Recommendation In
Report Of Commission
On Education

Nashville, Tenn, Feb. 3-An al
most complete revamping of the
supervision Of colleges and univer-
sites supported by the AME
Church was recommended by the
denominations executive commits
sion on educational institutions,
here last week.
The recommendation was con-
tanned in a report issued by the
commission, which showed the
Church gave a total of 100000 in
1857 in support of it's nine colleges.
The money was allocated through
the local offices of DR.. Sherman L.
Greene, chairman of the commits
sion.
The report followed a survey
conducted by the comm'sr; n i-s'z
the operation and supt Il
the colleges. Taken as a step to-
ward improving the colleges for &C
creditation, the survey showed the
following:
1. A total of 5000 students, only
1,179 of which belong to the AME
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influential white people are not en-
tirely in favor of their registering"
the letter states. "This impression
generates a fear complex which
makes them somewhat afraid to
try"
"We earnestly seek your cooper
alton in this effort to further the
cause of Democracy in our state"
the council told the officials in
the letter signed by executive Sec
rotary Aaron Henry of Clarksdale.
The letter went to officials in
the following counties:
Calhoun, DeSoto, Pamela, ITALIA
hatchie, Carroll, Humphreys, Issa-
quena, Sharkey, Clay, Lowndes,
Monroe, Lee, Alcorn, Choctaw,
Noxubee, Attala, Montgomery,
Yazoo, Bolivar, Tunica, Sunflower,
Webster, Holmes, Tate, Jefferson,
Walthall, Clarke, George, Lamar,
Pearl River and Wayne.
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Hearing Held On
Savannah Public
Housing Suit

New Orleans, Jan. 80 - The
Savannah public housing suit was
argued again today before tie US.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Cir
cult in New Orleans. NAACP Lee
gal Defense and Educational Fund
attorneys seek to have the appel
late court reverse the dismissal of
the case by a federal district court
in Savannah on July 10, 1857.
The case was originally filed with
the U. S. District Court for South
ern Georgia on May 20, 1854, on
behalf of 10 Negro families. Named
as defendants in the suit are the
Public Housing Administration, the
federal public housing agency and
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New York, Feb. 3 - TIE Ma
tional Council of Churches says
its annual race relations message
holds that "the commandment to
love our neighbor has been honor
ed more in the breach than in the
fulfillment."
The announcement added that
the message says that in the final
analysis "a neighbor is any one
of any color, in need, whether ne
may be-"
ITO love our neighbor and to
show mercy today" the announce
ment stated, "means to support
those who seek freedom and justice
in the face of discrimination, segre-
cation, and neglect ="
The message, issued by the coun-
Gil Jan. 81, will be read from thou
sands of pulpits on Race Relations
Sunday, Feb. 8. The 1,500-word
message is addressed to the 80
million members-of the "a Profess
tant and Eastern Orthodox denomi-
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See Congress
Aid ToSchooIs
As Doubtful
See Lots Of Talk
But No Action About
Crisis In Education

Washington, D. c., Feb. 3.-Con-
gress will talk a lot about the
crisis in education, but will it do
anything about it?
Leaders on Capitol Hill are
doubtful. Not that the crisis is
denied. Indeed, it is recognized
as more imperative than ever.
"The heart of the contest with
the Soviet Union is education"
says Senator J. w. Fulbright (D)
of Arkansas.
Serious Talent Loss
The Soviets, in proportion to
population, are now training "twice
as many professionals as we," is
the warning of Admiral Hyman
G. Rickover.
More than 100000 of the coun-
try's most promising boys and girls
quit high school annually after
graduation to take lucrative jobs
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Say Suggestion
Heard On Sending
troops To
Brooklyn

Washington - Sen. Herman E.
Talmadge (D-Ga.) told the Senate
today he has heard suggestions
that President Eisenhower send
federal troops to Brooklyn "to
preserve order in the public schools
there"
He said the people of Georgia
would support the right of the peo-
pie of Brooklyn to solve their diff
ficulties themselves without "such
unconstitutional interference"
Talmadge's statement drew a
sharp retort from Sen. Jacob K
Javits (R-N.Y.), who accused the
Georgia senator of shedding "croc-
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GROUP SETS CAMPAIGN TO
INCREASE S0UTH'S NEGRO VOTE

Negro leaders will launch a
southwide campaign. in two weeks
to increase voter registration
among Negroes in II states. The
goal is to double the present num-
Der by 1860.
The Crusade for citizenship" be-
gins Feb. IL with Lincoln Day
rallies in FL cities.
''The main function of the cam
paign is to educate our people on
their basic rights" the Rev. Mar
tin Luther King Jr. of Montgom-
cry, Ala, said yesterday.
"This movement is not simply q
medium of protest.
States in which the drive will be
carried on are Virginia, Georgia,
Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Ar
kansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, and
Texas.
The conference, King said, in
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Federal Judge
Weighs Further
Action Against
Tuskegee Boycott
Testimony From Both
Sides In Case Taken
Under Amusement

Tuskegee, Ala. Feb. - The
struggle in the Deep South over
Negro voting has been carried one
step further with a case being
leard before federal judge to de-
termine whether an alleged Negro
boycott of Tuskegee white mer-
chants should be further enjoined.
The Negro Tuskegee Civic AS
ISOLATION is under a temporary re-
straining order granted at request
of the state attorney general last
year. 1t was charged by the chief
legal officer of Alabama, Attorney
General John Patterson, that Tea
last summer began a boycott
against the community's white
merchants. Negroes were known to
be pressuring for voter registra-
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NEGRO ELECTED TO HEAD
lafayette univ. Fraternity

EASTON, Pa, Jan. 25.-Lafay-
cite College announced today the
election of a Negro president of a
social fraternity for the first time
in the 103-year history of the col
lege.
Leonard Jeffries, Jr., 81 years
old, of Newark, was unanimously
elected president Of Sigma Chap
ter of Pi Lambda Phi by the more
than fifty members of the national
fraternity. He is the son of Leon
ard Jeffries, ST., tailor, and Mrs.
Jeffries.
He joined the fraternity in his
freshman year and served as vice
president until his election as pres
ident. He has lived in the fra
ternity house for year and half.
Mr.. Jeffries is taking the pre-
law course. He plans to enter the
University of Pennsylvania Law
School. He is taking honors in
government.
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Brooklyn School
Principals
Suicide Victim
Violence Troubles
Integrated Schools

Brooklyn, N. Y, Feb. 8 - The
principal of a Brooklyn public
school that has been beset by juve-
nile crime committed suicide yes
.terday.
George Goddard, 55-year-old
head of John Marshall Junior High
school, plunged to his death from
the roof of the six-story apartment
house in which he lived at POI
Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn.
His body was found at 11:50 A.
M. in a rear courtyard. He was to
have appeared at 10 A. NJ. for the
third time before a special Kings
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Race Relations
Day Task Set By
National Council
Of Churches
Pulpits To Stress
Racial Harmony

New York, Feb. 3.-"Support of
those who seek freedom and JUS
tice in the face of discrimination"
is urged in the annual race-rela-
tons message of the National
Council of Churches of Christ in
the y. S. A.
The message is being distribut-
ed to the councils thirty-four con-
stituent denominations They have
a membership of 38,000,000. 1t
will be read from pulpits a week
from tomorrow, Race Relations
Sunday" in Protestant churches.
Stressing the ancient concept of
love of ones neighbor, the message
says that a persons neighbor can
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SOUTH AFRICA PRIME MINISTER'S
aide CONVICTED FOR SEX
RELATIONS With AFRICAN GIRL

PRETORIA, South Africa, Feb.
l. - Prime Minister Johannes C.
Strijdom's private secretary was
sentenced today to four months
Imprisonment and four strokes
with cane for having had sexual
relations with 19-year-old African
girl.
Gideon Andrew Keyser, 39-year-
old married man with two children,
pleaded guilty at a private court
hearing here of having broken the
immortality act. The act prohibits
intimacy between white and nom
white persons. MI. Keyser will
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EXCLUSIVE NEGRO SUBDIVISION
PLANNED BY LOCAL REALTOR

Jackson Realtor Wade Conner,
has announced plans to develop
the city's first Exclusive" SUBJ
division for Negro families. 1t
will be located at the corner of
Ridgeway and Main Streets in
North Jackson.
Mr.. Conner, who recently pur-
chased a 1856 acre plot of land
from Christ Missionary and Indus
trial College, said he will create
subdivision on the land with plots
enough for 100 homes in the $4,000
to $12,500 price range.
The subdivision will be located
roughly between Livingston Road
and Main Street, east of Shady
Oaks subdivision. 1t fronts 1910
feet on Main Street and $50 feet
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on Ridgeway Street.
Construction on the houses will
begin this month.
Mr.. Conner said che is extremely
happy he was able to purchase this
land" because he felt he would be
able to offer the colored people of
Jackson the type home they have
waited for a long time in a re-
stricted area.
A restricted" subdivision is one
in which the quality of the housing
is held to high level by prevent
ing construction Of houses below
a certain price and size.
The property is located within
800 feet of the new G. N. Smith
Elementary School and about one
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Little Rock Student Kicking Victim

Holt, Prosecuting Attorney, today.
Mr.. Holt said he had declined to
issue a warrant for arrest of the
white boy, but he said his office
would make an investigation.
Virgil T. Blossom, Superintend-
ent of Schools, said last night that
he had not received full report
on the incident. But he did say
that the boy involved had been sus-
pended earlier in the day for scho-
lastic reasons and had gone home.
The Brown girl has been involved
in several racial incidents at Gen.
trail High.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Jan. 30
An unidentified white boy report
eddy kicked a Negro girl at Gen.
trail High School yesterday.
School officials said that an in
cident had occurred, but declined
to name the participants.
Others said the girl was 16-year-
old Minnie Jean Brown. She is
one of the nine Negroes enrolled
at Central High, where federalized
Arkansas National Guardsmen are
still on patrol during class hours.
Minnie Jean and her mother, Mrs.
w. B. Brown, conferred with Frank
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100000 Negro
School ForLaureI

Laurel, Miss, Feb. 3.-(Special)
Approval of the low bidder on
contract for Negro high school in
Laurel which when completed, will
cost approximately one million dol
lars, had been given by the State
Educational Finance Commission
and construction will get underway
before the end of the week, D. u.
Maddox, chairman of the Laurel
board of education said Tuesday.
The school, named Oak Park,
will replace a structure that burned
more than a year ago. It will
house grades one through IL, and
will include the latest in equip
ment. The work order was issued
Tuesday, Maddox said.
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RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 31.-The
parents of a Negro school child
today filed a suit challenging the
constitutionality of Virginia's Pu-
pill Placement Act, the first line
defense of the states program to
maintain school segregation.
The suit in Federal District
Court here asked that the city of
Petersburg be enjoined from en-
forcing the law under which all
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j. S. JUDGE DECLINES TO ADMIT
NEGRO STUDENT FLORIDA U.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.U. S. Dis
trict Judge Dozier A. DeVane this
week refused to issue a temporary
injunction enjoining the University
Of Florida from refusing to admit
Virgil D. Hawkins to the Univers-
ity Law School in time for the
start Of the February 1858 term.
The case has been before the Flor
ida courts eight years. Three times
it has been before the U. s. Su-
preme Court. The U. S. Supreme
Court, upon the third appeal. sug-
gested that Harkins take his case
to the U. S. District Court.
The motion turned down by
Judge DeVane on Tuesday, Janu-
airy %, sought to restrain the UNI
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Finch Gets
Wilkinson Post

The Wilkinson county board Of
education in a recent meeting un-
animously elected Anselm ]. Finch,
head Of the Finch High at Centre
vile, to serve as principal Of the
Wilkinson county training school
said to be ready for occupancy in
January Of '69.
The building alone will cover
three acres on So acre tract. It
is being built to care for $500 stu
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appeal the sentence.
The African girl told the court
she first met Mr.. Keyser when
she went to a dairy to buy milk
The next day Mr.. Keyser met her
again and said heA. would like to
visit her, but she refused, she
said. She said she refused a Sec
ond similar request on another
day, but later, on Jan. 20, she
talked with him in the dairy and
agreed.
The girl went to the police and
told about the arrangements.
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School Bills
Death Laid To
nAAcP Aide
Montana Democrat
Asserts Negro Leader
Helped To Kill The
Construction Bill

Washington, Jan. 31-Represen-
tative Lee Metcalf, Democrat of
Montana, charged today that a Ne
gro leader had "cynically and ma
lisiously" helped to defeat last
years school construction bill in
alliance with President Eisenhower.
The charge was leveled at Clar-
ence Mitchell, legislative spokes-
man of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People.
Mr.. Mitchell replied:
II am not guilty of a cynical
approach to this question"
The exchange occurred at hear
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UNCF Distributes
$535,529 Third
1857 ALLEGATION

New York, Jan. 31.-The United
Negro College Fund has distributed
third appropriation of $535,529
to 81 member colleges from the
proceeds of its 1857 campaign. An
nouncement of the ALLEGATIONS was
made here today by DR.. F. D. Pat
terson, UNCF president and d.
rector of the Phelps-Stokes Fund
Since the College Fund was
chartered in 1914, it has raised ap-
proximately 10 per cent of the com
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Pasadena'sLone
Negro Fireman
Now Engineer

Pasadena, Calf, Feb. 3-Some-
thing Of a record was set here last
week in the matter Of promotions
in the Pasadena Fire. Department.
William (Bill) Duncan, son Of Mr..
and Mrs. James Duncan, ST., Of
1887 Worchester avenue, this city,
was promoted to the position Of en-
gineer, after serving in the de-
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South Africa
reason Trials
Gets Underway
156 Are On Trial
For Opposing
Racial Policy

Cape Town, Africa, Feb. 8 -
South Africa's mass treason case
has been taken a significant step
further with the committal for
trial Jan. 80 on charges of high
treason of 95 South Africans Of
various races.
These represent slightly more
than thirds of the 1876 persons
who were held originally in dawn
swoops by detectives of the spec
ial political branch of tie South
African police in December, 1856,
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versity from excluding Mr.. Hawk
ms pending final disposition of. the
action. 1t asked that Mr.. Hawkins
be admitted by February 4.
Judge DeVane said he would not
issue the order without a final
hearing and refused to permit Mr..
Hawkins attorneys to present wit
nesses. He said such testimony
was not necessary at this time.
Mr.. Hawkins first applied for
admission to the University of
Florida Law School on May Is,
1949. Four other Negro students
applied at the same time for adj
mission to other schools and col
leges of the University. They were
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School Bias Deal Laid To Tennessee

Attorneys for the Nashville
City School Board argued that the
law was constitutional and cited
Federal Court decisions on a sim
liar statute enacted by North Car
DINA. They asked the court to
dismiss the two-year-old lawsuit
in which a group of Negro students
sought Indignation of the Nashville
schools.
Judge Miller allowed fifteen days
for the filing of briefs. He gave
no indication of when he would
render a decision.
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Gov. Collins
Raps Coercion
Of South

Raleigh, N. c., Feb. Gov. Le-
Roy Collins of Florida said here to-
night that "reformers" should re-
move the "heavy hand of coercion"
from the South and permit us to
resolve our sins of racial discrimi-
nation, such as they may be, by
our own efforts in our own time"
He added that the South must
accept universal brotherhood as
"our Christian as we'll as our legal
obligation" and move toward the
solution of the racial problem when
it is reasonably sound to do So"
The courts, he declared, should
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LevittoWn Anti
Negro Trials
Have Started

Doy1estown, Pa, Jan. 81 Two
men went on trial in Bucks County
Court today on charges growing
out of the harrassment of the first
Negro family to move into Levitt
town, Pa.
Howard H. Bentcliffe, 45 years
old, is accused of malifious mis-
chief and of sending anonymous
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vireina PUBL Placement Law Hit

Virginia pupils are assigned to
segregated schools. 1t was filed
by w. Tee and Theresa Walker of
Petersburg on behalf of their
daughter, Ann Patrice Walker.
Named as defendants were the
three members of the Virginia
Pupil Placement Board, the Peters
burg School Superintendent, John
D. Meade, and the Petersburg
School Board.
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Color Charges
Tops New York
Bias Cases

New York, Feb. 3.-Charges of
employer bias because of color
have accounted for 70.8 per cent
of the 1852 cases handled by the
State Commission Against Dis
elimination in it's twelve-year his
tory, Chairman Charles Abrams
said last week.
A total Of 1877 per cent of the
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Nashville, Tenn, Feb. 3.-Ten-
nessee's pupil placement law was
described in Federal District Court
today as part of package deal"
aimed at preserving racial segre-
cation in public schools.
Attorneys for the National AS
ISOLATION for the Advancement of
Colored People asked Federal
Judge William E. Miller of Nash
vile to declare the 1857 placement
act Unconstitutional on its face"
and direct that Nashville schools
be completely integrated next Fall.
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ALABAMA NEGRO TO run
FOR STATE LEGISLATURE

fiddle said he is not a member
of the NAACP and is not being
sponsored by any group.
He said he had been a quail
fled voter since 1866 and is men,
Der of the Motion Picture Machine
Operators Local No. 236A, which
he said was an all-Negro group.
He said, 81 plan to openly and
frankly discuss every problem ia
cling the people i. d.. and to present
my views concerning them"
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Calf. Governor
Reappoints Negro
Board Member

Los Angeles, Calf. Feb. 8 -
Governor Goodwin J. Knight to-
day announced the reappointment
of John Lamar Hill, II, of Los
Angeles, to the State Board of
Funeral Directors and Embalm-
ers, for a new term ending JAN
uary Is, 1862.
Hill, president of an organiza-
ton which operates funeral homes
in both Los Angeles and Long
Beach, originally was appointed to
the Board on February 10, 1854.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-02-08

Birmingham, Ala, Feb. 8 - Ar
thur B. fiddle, Negro motion pic
ture machine operator, said today
he would seek election to a JEFF
ferson County seat in the state
Legislature.
fiddle, who is 49, is TIE second
member of his race to ever seek
election to the House from JEFF
ferson. Attorney Arthur D. Shores
made the race four years ago but
polled only 1000 votes.
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Colonial Williamsburg, q nom
profit educational corporation, ID
the organization carrying forward
the restoration Of Williamsburg,
Virginia, the eighteenth century
capital Of the Virginia Colony. 1t
was founded 81 years ago by John
D. Rockefeller, Jr.
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