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Diario las Américas., 1958-05-04

dose a afirmar que ell proximo pre-
sidente, cualquiera que sea, no po-
dra gobernar a nombre de SUI pro-
pic partido, sine que estara COM
%prometido por la reforma consti-
tucional plebiscitaria que estable-
clio un gobierno conjunto.
Agradecio la actitud del minis
tro de guerra, del Comandante Ge-
neral de las fuerzas y O. ciales del
ejercito, y de los commentaries de
la armada y de la fuerza aerea,
"quienes escribieron una pagina lie
honor que honra u vidas y enor-
gullece a la republica."
Expreso SUI gratitud, por ell apo
20 que ell Cardinal Crisanto Luque
dio, tanto al dirigente liberal Al
berto Lleras Camargo, como al con-
%servador, Laureano Gomez, asi Co
mo a los directories de ambos par
tidos, a los sectores bancarios y CO.
merciales, a la sociedad, al trabajo,
a los intelectuales y a los estudian-
ties.
Piedrahita recordo que ell pro-
grama de la junta militar, al asu-
mir esta ell gobierno, incluia la &C.
lebracion de elecciones libres y
agrego: "Hemos llegado, pues, al
momento de cumplir esta prone
sa, que constituye una aspiration
del pueblo"
Afirmo, que es evidente que "he-
mos ganado ante TODD la plena
confianza de la ciudadania en- la
palabra Official"
"La ~abrumadora mayoria de los
colombianos -observo- estamos
de acuerdo en- que ell pals necesita
regirse por I'm sistema de respon-
sabilidad compatible del poder."
ia hegemonia e%xcluyente no ha
dejado otra herencia que los odios,
la pobreza y la muerte".
"Vamos a realizar elecciones pre-
sidenciales pacificas y puras para
demostrarle al mundo entero que
Colombia es un baluarte de la de-
mocracia" dijo Piedrahita y termi-
no pidiendo "a los d%irigentes, cor-
dura, y a los sufragantes, respeto
al derecho ajeno."
Diario las Américas., 1958-05-04

fueron tomados prisioneroS en- sus
propios residencias por los rebel
des, antes del amanecer. Los Qua
tro fueron pueStos mas tarde en-
libertad.
LleraS Camargo tambien fue dete
nido en- la batida de las primeras
horas de la manana pero una pa
trulla naval logr6 rescatarlo POGO
mas tarde.
Diario las Américas., 1958-05-04
Rojas PiniIIa Hacia Barbados

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico,
Mayo 3. (UP). - FL ex die
tador de Colombia, Gustavo
Rojas Pinilla, paso por esta
capital en- transito a las Is
las Barbados. Ell avion de la
British West Indies Always
en- que viajalel general, ate
rrizo en- San Juan en- medic
de una fuerte lluvia.
Rojas' Pinilla no descendi6
del aparato explicando que
padecia I'm resfrio.
Diario las Américas., 1958-05-04
kubitschek AdVierte a 0breros
Brad|enos Sobre las "Doctrinas
Exoticas" y A|gunos Po|lticos

BELO HORIZONTE, Mayo 8. -(UP)- Ell Presidente Juscelino
Kubtschek pidi6 anoche a los trabajadores brasilenos que esten alerta
contra las "doctrinas exotcas" y los polticos que suprimen la Ii.
bertad, con Ell pretexto de proteger a la clase trabajadora.
Diario las Américas., 1958-05-04
Gobierno Haitiano Suspende las
Garanfias e |mpone Ell Toque de
Queda Ante Graves medicines

HIATT, Mayo 8 -(UP)- Ell gobierno suspendio las garantias
individuales, impuso ell estado de sto y declare ell toque de queda,
desde las ocho de la noche hasta las cinco de la madrugada, a con-
Jackson advocate., 1958-03-01
Little Rock Asks
Inteqration Halt

Little Rock, Ark, Feb. 20-The
Little Rock School Board asked the
United States District Court TO-
night for a stay Of compliance with
It's plan for gradual school inte-
grafton.
The board said the quality of
education at Central High School
had been impaired" by integra.
ton.
A 24-member committee Of Little
Rock business men and civic lead
ers suggested to the school board
yesterday that it ask such a delay,
citing racial incidents since nine
Negroes enrolled at the School
Sept. 25 while United States troops
kept order.
A similar request by the board
for such a stay Oct. 8 plea was re.
jected by Federal Judge Ronald N.
Davies Of Fargo, N. D., sitting on
the Arkansas bench temporarily.
The petition was signed by
School Superintendent Virgil T.
Blossom and the school board.
Jackson advocate., 1958-03-01
South Africa
Denies Bias
In Fruit Sales

johannesburg, South Africa,
Feb. 18-The policy Of TIE South
African Government Is to market
produce grown by Africans in the
same manner as that grown by
whites, a state Information Service
spokesman declared today. Never
theless the spokesman conceded it
was possible that deviations from
the policy could occur.
One such instance involving tan
gerines was described in a dispatch
published in the New York Times
Feb. 10. It referred only to tan
gerines grown on one farm in one
area of the country.
The spokesman said there was no
law discriminating against Afri-
can produce. Produce grown on
native trust farms, which are lands
set aside for Africans, is marketed
by Government authorities. lie
said 25 per cent Of the native trust
produce is sold to Africans in urban
areas on specific order. TIE bal
ance is offered in the open mar
CONTINUED on Page Eight
Jackson advocate., 1958-03-01
THE COUNCIL OF CHIEF STATE
SCHOOL OFFICERS URGE
OUTRIGHT FEDERAL SHARING
in COST OF SUPPORTING
The NATIONS SCHOOLS
Bill Drafted By National Education
Association introduced In Congress.
Principles Of Federal Responsibility Liste


Washington, Feb. 19-The Council
of Chief State School Officers
urged today outright Federal shar-
ing in the costs of supporting the
nations schools.
"A. John Holden of Vermont,
president of the council, told the
Senate Labor and Public Welfare
committee that financing the ma
tion's education program was
joint local, state and Federal re-
sponsibility.
He set forth these principles of
Federal responsibility:
Federal funds should be made
available to the states to the ex-
tent necessary to provide an ade-
quate education program after
reasonable state and local efforts
have been, made.
The Federal Government should
provide financial assistance and
consultative services to help the
states in the planning and con-
struction of public school plants.
The Federal Government should
assist the states in financing state,
interstate and regional educational
Continued on Page Seven)
Jackson advocate., 1958-03-01
BRITISH HOUSE OF COMMONS
APPROVE new ELECTORAL
SYSTEM FOR CENTRAL AFRICAN
federation INCLUDING
RH0DESIA AND NYASALAND
Federations Population More Than
7-MiIlion Africans, 275,00O Whites
Increase African Seats In Parliament
Increase African Seats In Parliament

London, Eng, Feb. 24.-After a
House of Commons debate which
will echo throughout the emergent
nations of Africa, the House ap-
proved by 305 votes to 256 a new
electoral system for the Central
African Federation, comprising
Northern and Southern Rhodesia
and Nyasaland.
The Labor opposition requested
the debate and pulled no punches
in its criticism of the new system
as one which Disseminated unfairly
between Negro African and Euro
pean.
Many of the Labor arguments
are in line with those already
widely publicized by the African
Affairs Board, unit written into
the federal Constitution to safe
guard African interests. This board
held that the new franchise threat
ened Africans with disabilities to
which Europeans are not subjected.
The board objected by majority
of four votes to one that it is a
discriminatory measure.
The new franchise system fol-
lows constitutional amendment
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate., 1958-03-01
Negro Insurance Companies Merge

Chicago, Ill. Feb. % -- In one
Of the biggest mergers in the
history Of this city's Negro busi-
ness community, the Mammoth
Life and Accident Insurance Com
pany Of Kentucky and the Jackson
Mutual Life Insurance Of Chicago
last week merged into one big fl
nancial giant, bringing their COM
bined assets to more than $50 mill
lion.
The merger followed competitive
bidding by several Negro-owned
insurance companies for tie assets
Of jackson Mutual, which report
edly was experiencing financial diff
ficulties. It was rumored that the
insurance department Of the State
Jackson advocate., 1958-03-01
Nations Negro Catholics Increase
By 80, 900 During Past Year

mong the colored people and In
dians, an agency of the U. s. Bish-
ops, noted that there are 499
churches and missions for Negroes,
319 of them in southern dioceses.
Catholic Indians living on or near
reservations number 1898. They
are provided with 413 churches and
231 priests to look after their spir-
itual needs. Fifty-seven day and
boarding schools, with an attend
ance of s,072 Indian children are
Continued on Page Four)
Jackson advocate., 1958-03-01

Of Illinois had cautioned the COM
pany to bring It's reserves and bal
ances up to an adequate safety
point.
Under the new setup resulting
from the multi-million dollar mer-
ger, Mammouth will reinsure the
business Of Jackson Mutual, but
the field force of Jackson will re-
main intact. The most marked
changes are in the joint adminis-
trative setup.
J. E. Hankins, president Of Of
flee, with Leonard J. Livingston,
former president Of Jackson, serv-
ing as vice president. Livingston
will also serve as q member Of the
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate., 1958-03-01
Say Russia Not
Promised Land
For Negroes

Chicago, ILL.,, Feb. 25 - Russia
is not the promised land for Ne
groes and its MUCK publicized ra-
cial equality is actually a low-eco-
nomic equality" writes Homer
Smith in the March issue of Ebony
magazine.
Smith, who spent ID years in
Russia as a postal employee and
foreign correspondent, only re-
Gently returned to the u. S. He
says that the America he finds to-
day is much better for the Negro
than the one he left 25 years ago.
Life for Negroes in Russia, even
Continued on Page Eight
Jackson advocate., 1958-03-01
Ghana Embassy
Felicitates Race
On History Week

Washington, D. c., Feb. "a
Fluctuations to the Negro of Am
erica on the observance of National
Negro History Week were sent
last week by Ambassador D. A.
Chapman from the Ghana Embassy
here.
Ambassador Chapman said, "It is
a proud day for Ghana when we
can extend our cordial greetings to
our American friends and kins-
men as free and sovereign state.
Continued on Page Three)
Jackson advocate., 1958-03-01
Government May
Recognize High
Scholastic Work

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. "a.
Secretary of Health, Education
and Welfare, Marion B. Folsom,
said the administrators education
bill includes a plan to recognize
outstanding scholastic work by high
school students throughout the ma
ton.
Mr.. Folsom said the plan is de-
signed to focus attention on schol-
astic achievement, regardless of
whether a student can qualify for
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate., 1958-03-01

Washington, Feb. 22. Negro
Catholics in the United States to-
tai 575,925, which is 10000 more
than a year ago.
The Catholic Church maintains
343 schools especially for Negro
children, with a current enrolment
of 1884 pupils. No statistics are
available for the total number of
Negro children in Catholic inte-
grated schools.
The annual report of the Com
mission for Catholic Missions a.
Jackson advocate., 1958-03-01
MRS. ROOSEVELT TO SPEAK AT
TEXAS NEGRO COLLEGE

AUSTIN, Tex.-Huston-Tillotson
college, one of the colleges highly
accredited by the Southern Asso-
citation of Colleges and Secondary
Schools, has just completed ar
rangements to present Mrs. Flea
nor Roosevelt in a public lecture
under the auspices of the colleges
Lyceum and Programs committee.
The college has recently adopted
a policy to feature at least two
national figures each year.
Mrs. Roosevelt will appear in
the colleges Mary E. Branch audi
Jackson advocate., 1958-03-01
Faubus Ruling
DissoIves NAAcP

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-The MA
ACP suffered another setback in
it's struggles here last week when
Gov. Orval Faubus signed a proc
lamation which in effect dissolved
the civil rights organization in
Arkansas. The governor, who said
he was not aware that his action
affected the NAACP, revoked the
franchises Of the NAACP and
about 800 other domestic and out
of-state corporations because they
Continued on Page Eight
Jackson advocate., 1958-03-01

LOS ANGELES. -- The Presi-
dents Committee on Government
Contracts this week carried its
fight against discriminatory en-
ployment practices into one Of the
nations most rapidly expanding
areas Of industrial employment
when it opened a West Coast Re-
gional Office in Los Angeles.
The opening Of the regional Of
flee and the appointment Of Leland
L. Wilder, Newport Beach South
ern California civic leader, as Re-
gional Director, was announced
when the Presidents COMMITTEES
held a series Of meetings in Los
Angeles on February 10 with lead
Jackson advocate., 1958-03-01
Plan More Self Government
For French TogoIand Africans

LONE, Togoland, Feb. 25-French
plans to grant a greater measure
of self-government to 100000 At
ricans in this former trusteeship
territory won the approval Of the
Legislative Assembly Monday.
The Assembly approved with few
changes plan to amend the statu-
te that will goven Frances rela-
tions with this 20, 2,000-square-mile
autonomous republic sandwiched
between Ghana and French Da-
honey.
Jackson advocate., 1958-03-01
kingfish Trial
Date Is Set

Los Angeles, Calf. Feb. "a -
Comic Harry (Tim) Moore, 7O-year
old "Kingfish" of the "Amos m
Andy television show, found him.
self laughing out of the other side
of his mouth yesterday as Super
ior Court Judge Maurice C. Spar
ling ordered him to stand trial
Mar. "a for taking a pot SHOT at
his wife over apot roast.
The "Kingfish," who from the
beginning has taken lightly his use
of firearms to settle family dis
putes, and who chuckled gaily, to
police. Here I am, boys - the
Continued on Page Eight
Jackson advocate., 1958-03-01
Sammy Davis,.Jr.,
Signed To Play
'Sportin" Life

Los Angeles, Calf, Feb. 22.-
Sammy Davis, Jr., has been en-
gagged for the role of "Sportin'
Life" in Samuel Goldwyn's produc-
tion Of "Porgy and Bess."
The decision sets at rest innun-
cradle rumors as to who would
finally be chosen for the highly
important role in the first screen
version Of the George Gershwin-
DuBose Hayward classic, for which
Goldwyn and director Reuben Ma
moulian have been interviewing
CONTINUED on Page Four)
Jackson advocate., 1958-03-01
Federal Sharing Cost OF Operating Nations Schools Urged
Local Negro
Legion Post
Facing Permanent
Loss OF Charter
Hearing To Be Held
In War Memorial
Building Sunday

The Local Negro American Le-
gion Post informed the JACKSON
ADVOCATE early this week that
it will be ready for the Hearing
which may mean the permanent
loss of its charter, set for ten
o'clock Sunday morning in the War
Memorial Building.
The charges against the Negro
Post, and the call for the revoking
of its charter, which brought it
automatically under suspension
was made by the State organization
allegedly because of the activities
of Albert Powell, the Post Com
Continued on Page Seven)
Jackson advocate., 1958-03-01
Negro Woman
Gets License
To Book Actors

HOLLYWOOD. - Mrs. Lillian
Cumber became the first Negro
woman licensed to book actors in
movies on last week when the Lii
Cumber Attractions agency, 4619
South Western, was granted q
Screen Actors, Guild Franchise.
With such forthcoming produc-
tions as "Porgy & Bess," The Tar
zan series Ito be filmed in Africa) /,
"Anna Lucasta," 1.-THE Henry Arm
strong Story" etc., utilizing Ne
groes holding Guild membership,
CONTINUED on Page Six)
Jackson advocate., 1958-03-01

torium on Monday, March 8, at
8 pm.
internationally known as a lee
turer and author, and for her lib
eral views concerning world and
domestic problems, Mrs. Roosevelt
is rated as one of the foremost
thinkers of our times. Huston
Tillotson and its president, DR.. j..
]. Seabroow, deserve much credit
in making it possible for Central
Texas to see and hear her.
In commenting on Mrs. Roose-
Continued on Page Three)
Jackson advocate., 1958-03-01

Changes include the transfer to
Togolanders of control over justice
and a revision of the Constitution.
Togoland already has won the
right of the rogoland Premier to
choose his own ministers as well
as "full and complete self-gov-
ernment - except for control over
defense, diplomacy and currency
matters.
But Jean Louis Philippe Berard,
French high commissioner, still will
Continued on Page Eighty
Jackson advocate., 1958-03-01
Jamaica Outlaws Gambling But
LoophoIe Allows Betting In Hotels

new skyscraper resort on the north
shore just west of Ochos Rios, had
started operating small casino
off the hotel lobby for the edifi-
cation and entertainment of it's
guests.
The 176-room Arawak did not
plunge idly into Jamaica's first
casino. The matter apparently had
been investigated and these facts
ascertained: Jamaica law forbids
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate., 1958-03-01
Air Lines Hires
Negro Woman
As Clerk In
Records Dept.
Test Showed
Best Score Of
Applicants For Job

Tulsa, Okla, Feb. 24.-American
Airlines here has hired a North
Tulsa woman as records clerk in
the new wing office at Tulsa Mu-
nicipal airport, according to an an
nouncement by the Tulsa Urban
League.
Vada Palmer, 2116 North Quin-
ly avenue, began work with the
airlines company last Wednesday.
Her job involves handling records
Of pilots, navigators, stewardesses
and other aircraft employees.
M. M. Taylor, executive director
of the Tulsa Urban League, said
Continued on Page Eight
Jackson advocate., 1958-03-01
United Negro College Fund Ups Goal
For Fifteenth Annual Campaign

New York, Feb. 21 -- A $2,-
$4,000 goal has been set for the
1858 United Negro College Fund
Campaign, 1t was announced here
today by Stanley c. Hope, national
campaign chairman. Mr.. Hope is
president Of ESQ Standard Oil Co.
Mounting costs Of education and
the recent addition Of two colleges
10 Fund membership have made 1t
necessary to increase the goal by
O quarter-of-a-million dollars this
year." Mr.. Hope said. 1.-THE two
Jackson advocate., 1958-03-01

newly admitted colleges, Barber
Scotia, Concord, N. c., and st
pauls, Lawrenceville, Va, bring
tie current membership to 49,"
The 1858 campaign, scheduled be-
tween April and June Is, marks
the College Funds 18th annual
nationwide appeal. Formally-or-
ganized campaigns will be conduct
ed in 120 cities and towns through
out the country, including the COM
munities in which the member col
Continued on Page Eight
Jackson advocate., 1958-03-01
NAAcP'S Marshall Declares Negroes
Want F Freedom OF Choice

cases tried before the Supreme
Court, says, marriage is between
the individuals involved, and "there
must be no law saying they can't
do it If they happen to choose
someone Of another race"
In the Ebony article, what the
Negro Wants Now" Marshall says
"the Negro wants to move away
from the slums, into a better
neighborhood, which sometimes
Continued on Page Four)
Jackson advocate., 1958-03-01
Expelled Little
Rock Student
To NY. School

New York, Feb. 24-The New
York Post said Tuesday that Min
ME Jean Brown, expelled from Lit
tie Rock Central high school, will
complete her years education here.
The newspaper said 1t learned
the 16-year-old girl will accept q
full scholarship from the new Lin
coin school, a private inter-racial
institution with 432 students on w.
10th street.
Jackson advocate., 1958-03-01
WEST COAST OFFICE OPENED
BY ANTI.BIAS Committee

ers of business, labor and social
agencies and representatives Of
Government contracting agencies.
The office here Is the second
regional headquarters the COM
mittee has established in its ex-
panding program for the elimina-
tion Of discrimination because Of
race, religion, color or national
origin in work performed under
Government contract, according to
Vice President Richard Nixon,
Chairman of the Committee. The
first regional office was opened
in Chicago in May, 1867.
1--WE expect that the Los Angeles
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate., 1958-03-01
African Premier OF Cameroons
Quits Office In Rift With French

PARIS.-A new political crisis
broke out in Franch Africa today.
Andre Marie M'bida resigned as
Premier of the Cameroons, western
equatorial coastal territory.
M. M'bida has been feuding with
Jean Ramadier, French High Com
missioner for the territory, charg-
ing that M. Ramadier caused the
resignation of two ministers from
the Cabinet last week.
Jackson advocate., 1958-03-01

NEW YORK, Feb. %. - Adam
Clayton Powell, dynamic New
York Congressman, this week dared
the Democrats to slate another
candidate for his seat. Calling
Harlem Democrats "Slaves to the
white folks who control them"
Powell is quoted as having said
that there 'would be no Demo-
cratic Governor in Albany" next
year if he (Powell) is purged.
There have been rumblings for
some months that Carmine De-
Sapio, Tammany leader, is still
Jackson advocate., 1958-03-01
POWELL DARES new YORK DENIS
T0ATTEMPT HIS CUSTER

seething because Powell came out
for President Eisenhower during
the last Presidential campaign.
Powell, himself, is known to have
been building up an organization
loyal to him first and to the New
York Democratic organization Sec
ond.
Since his warning" to the or
ganization it was reported that De-
Sapio has tried to establish con-
tact with the fiery pastor of the
worlds largest Baptist church.
Continued on Page Seven)
Jackson advocate., 1958-03-01
Paper Says Negro
know-how Helped
Launch Satellite

Philadelphia, Pa, Feb. 24-The
Philadelphia Tribune carried a two
column story last week credit Ne
groes with playing vital roles in
every phase of the building and
launching of the Army Explorer"
the first U. S. "baby moon" Laun-
ching of the satellite, the paper
said, Gifted the United States
scientific prestige out of the mud"
Calling the launching an all-Am-
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate., 1958-03-01

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Feb. "a. - Me-
groes as a group do not want in
terracial marriage, nor do they
necessarily want to move into
white neighborhoods, but they do
want freedom Of choice, according
to Thurgood Marshal in the March
issue Of Ebony.
Marshall, who heads the Legal
Defense and Education Fund, Inc,
and who has directed the NAACPs
successful 81 out Of 81 civil rights
Jackson advocate., 1958-03-01

The Cameroons was the scene
of terrorism, apparently Commun-
ist fomented, months ago. Two
companies of French troops were
sent in.
France has administered the ter
ritory under a United Nations
trustee ship but turned over much
local autonomy last May to the
newly elected Legislature. France
has promised eventual independ-
ence.
Jackson advocate., 1958-03-01
Rochester Resting
Well In HOSPITAL

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb. o.
Eddie (Rochester) Anderson, who
collapsed during rehearsal for the
Jack Benny show last week, Is re-
portedly resting we'll in a Holly
wood hospital.
Gravel-voiced Andy Devine SUBJ
stituted for Rochester on the Show
er Of Stars TV program last week.
Andy is best known as Jingles on
the Wild Bill Hickok TV series.
Jackson advocate., 1958-03-01

Kingston-The calm, easy-going
people Of Jamaica have just fin
ished two-week wrestle with their
consciences on the question Of
legalizing gambling in their resort
hotels. It was a tough fight and
1t was not until last Tuesday night
that the Legislature made the final
decision against gambling. The ex-
citement all started around Feb. 8
when 1t became known around
Jamaica that the Arawak Hotel, a
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