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BIanehe V. Reeves buried

Services for Mrs. Blanche v,
Reeves, 695 Iglehart Av., who died
suddenly Thursday afternoon Aug
ust IA, were held at 1870 pm.
Tuesday August 10, at the Toliver
Funeral Home. Mr.. Jess Stalling
Of Jehovah Witnesses officiated
Mrs. Reeves was born in Den
yer, Colo, and had lived in the
Twin Cities for the past thirteen
years.
She is survived by one daughter
Elaine Grant; her mother, Mrs
Mabel Phifer; two brothers, An.
thony and John Phifer, all Of Min.
neapolis and other relatives.
Burial was in Crystal Lake Gem.
etery. Toliver Funeral Home was
in charge Of the service.
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Pre-Labor Day Matinee Dance
given by Just For Fun Club Red
Feather, Saturday August 80, TO
8 pm. Oscar Petiiford music. SIPS
advance; $3.50 nj doOr.--Adyt.
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George Harvey Rites
Held August 40

Services for George Harvey, who
died Saturday August 10, in a
state hospital, were held at pm
Wednesday August, 20. at Brooks
Funeral Home. Rev. p. A. Jones.
Episcopal minister. officiated In
the absence Of Rev. ID. A. Carly.
The deceased had been in poor
health for the past several years
and a patient in the hospital for
six years prior TO his death.
Surviving Is his wife. Mrs Cert
rude Harvey OF Philadelphia, Pa.
and other relatives.
Burial was in Elmhurst cene-
terry with Brooks Funeral Home IN
charge OF arrangements.
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creafesf Yeti
Centennial State Fair
Opens Saturday For
10 Days Thru Sept.

bigger and better Minnesota State Fair viii open its
gates Saturday for the annual Today through Labor Day.
September /.
This years exposition win salute the Minnesota Statehood
Centennial with special exhibits and attractions
Fair officials expect than million attendance for
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A. Long Lost;
~ Tong kdsFi
Eisenhower Finally Warns
State Governments On
Supreme Court Defiance

Washington d. CWednesday in answer TO the rising tide
Of opinion that he had been firm enough gave national
leadership the school indignation crisis President Eisenhower
called state governments to suppress unlawful forces
attempting TO halt court ordered school indignation
The Presidents two days after the sth
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Blow Against Ssgregoiion'
Blow Against sssresO'iOn'
Appeals Court Rules
Against Delay In
Little Rock Indignation

st. Louis, Mo.-ln an important and momentous decision
the eighth federal court Of Appeals Monday reversed federal
district court judges decision granting 2 year delay N IN
tegratng Central high school In Little Rock, Ark.
The Little Rock school gained international notorey when
necessary for President Eisenhower TO send federal
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The
HIGH
And Low
DOVE
BY BAnEE THOMAS

Happy John Sims, the shoe
cleaning expert at City Valet in
the Metropolitan Building in the
Min City says he gives the best
shoe shine in the Twin Cities
and he wants the public to know
this truth via this column.
gaines: Althea Gibson,
woman's tennis champ tells her
life story in current SATURDAY
EVENING POST. Gibson's piece is
titled Il Wanted To BE Somebody"
and sketches her life and career
from dead-end Harlem to a Queens
congratulations at Wimbledon.
ESQUIRE reports on Americas
81 outstanding young men. Two
American Negroes made the list.
One is George Brown, Denver daily
newspaper night city editor and
state legislator and James Bald
win, author, GO Tell the Noun
tain" and "Giovannis Room"
Walt Lowe, Mldnighter and
printer compOsitor has been
driving a 1888 Mercedes-Benz
since May. He may be the only
sepia driving a new foreign made
car in the Twins. He claims he
saves money in gas on the for
eign job.
II is true that neither Alpha
Phi Alpha or the Omegas are
active on the University of Mime
sofa campus? An official of the
Interfraternity Conference says
the Kappa Alpha Pal is the only
predominantly Negro fraternity
now active at the "U".
At least two Pennsylvania Ne
gro prep football players plan
TO enroll at the "U" thanks TO
the assist by Carl Rowan. Coach
es predict great things for the
two youngsters at Minnesota.
That Arkansas arch-demogogu,
Gov. Orval Faubus now wants tbs
Negro parents on the Little Rocl
Central high kids and the MACE
to bail him out of the mess h,
made in 1857 disgracing both Ark
ansas and the entire nation. Tn,
nerve of some people!
J Eighty year old S. Ed Hall, st
Paul businessman, civic and social
welfare leader and church laymar
suffered a heart attack Saturday
After three days In the hospital
he returned home. Tuesday he was
seen up on Selby at the barber
shop owned by he and his brother
A. V.
Hall the youngest 80 year old
in Minnesota worries his friends
by his inexhaustible energy. They
think he should slow down but ht
claims he's not going to go sill
in a corner because Of his years
As secretary Of the Master Bar.
bers Of St. Paul he holds one Of
CONTINUED ON Page 81
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"a Century Of FASHIONS In an
Autumn Nocturne". Grand Rail
room Lowry Hotel. Friday Sep
tember &c. Cameo Social Club.--
Advt.
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LiIliun BoIenger
Pilgrim Women's
Day Speaker Aug. "a

Mrs. Lillian Balenger, Of $40
Dayton Ave, will be the Women's
Day speaker at Pilgrim Baptist
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columnist for the st. Paul Record.
er newspaper.
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Approve Circuit Court Action:
Approve Circuit Court Action:
Local Daily Press
Editorials In Praise
Of Judges Reversal

The Twin City daily press in editorials printed this week
praised the decision of the Sh us Circuit Court of Appeals
reversing the decision of Arkansas federal judge Harry Lemey
granting the Little Rock school board pa years ntegrae
city schools.
The MnneapoIs Morning TRIBUNE had this to say in an
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1958-08-22

What a lot Of women would like
to do with last years dress is get
into IL.
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5 Garland Hunter, as ", Central
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-08-09
Visitors Day
Is Held AT
Scout Camp

Virgins, Miss, Aug. 1.-(Spe-
cial)-More than a hundred Wis.,
itors came to visit their sons and
friends on Wednesday July 30,
1858, and most of them stayed for
he campfire program. The pro-
gram was filled with scouting
songs and stunts which was Il
grand affair. The boys are from
all four divisions Of the Pine Burr
Area Council. Camp Attawah is
located IL miles north of Virgins,
off highway 20 on the Forrest
road 319, All boys seem to bc en-
joying the scouting program and
activities being offered. One hun
dred and five boys and leaders are
attending camp this week and more
than a hundred arc expected next
week beginning Sunday, August 3.
1853. Visitors are expected on
Wednesday afternoon and evening.
Boys and leaders attending this
Continued on Page Two)
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French Africa Negroes Stirred BY independence
Full independence First Is Demand
OF French African Negroes From
De GauIIe Government
Brilliant Negro Lawyer Asked To Help
Write Constitution For Fourth Republic

PARIS, France, Aug. /. - Full
independence first-and then only
joining France in "a confederation
of free and equal peoples"-is the
new and unpleasant gauntlet sud-
denly thrown down by French Ne
gro Africa before the de Gaulle
government.
Coming right on the eve of the
discussion by a special committee
of the new draft French constitu-
ton, this surprise has caused shock
and confusion in those government
circles which have been unable to
resolves the Algerian bid for indie
pendence after more than three
years of conflict.
The bid comes from one of the
two main political groupings in
French Negro Africa, the African
Regro9pment Party (PRA), the
more left-wing of the two African
groups. The other, the African
Democratic Reassemblement Ord
Al, under the leadership of Min
lister of State Felix Houphouet-
Boigny, stands for a more organic
Continued on Page Four)
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[ARIEM DEMOCRAT RIVALS EXCHANGE BITTER WORDS
PoweII-Brown Battle For Democratic
Victory: Both Bitter And Personal
Brown Hits Powell Attendance Record
And Failure To Get Jobs For Harlem
Folks: Is In Turn Called Uncle Tom

New York, Aug. 4.-(SpeciaD-
Along Harlem's hot and crowded
streets an odd and tempestous po-
litical war is sweeping to a climax.
The key figures are Democratic
Representative Adam Clayton
Powell, Jr., 49-year-old minister,
and Democratic City Councilman
Earl Brown, 55-year-old magazine
editor.
The immediate objective of their
fight, which has split the Harlem
community, is the Democratic NOM
inaticn for Representative from
the Sixteenth Congressional Dis
trict. The winner in the Aug. II
primary will have the right to run
as the Democratic candidate in the
Nov. general election.
But considerable more is at stake
in the primary race than the abil
ity of either candidate-they are
both Negroes-to achieve a person
al victory in the heavily Democratic
and heavily Negro district.
For one thing, the attitude of
Continued on Page Eight
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Haiti Assures
United States
On Relations
President Sees No
Effect Despite Fact
OF Americans In
Last Week Revolt

Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, Aug. /
President Francois Duvalier said
today that the participation of Am
orleans in last Tuesdays unsuc-
cessful revolt here would have no
effect on Haitian relations with
the United States.
President Duvalier made his
statement at a news conference
after Haiti had received an Off
cial United States apology for the
participation of the Americans in
the attempted coup.
Five Americans and three ex-
lied Haitian Army officers were
killed in an assault on army bar
racks Tuesday Seven Haitian
Army officers and enlisted men
were killed in repelling the assault
and seventeen were wounded.
In his statement to the foreign
CONTINUED on Page Five)
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BILLIARD PROFESSOR Tells OF
TRAVELS IN EUROPE And RUSSIA
BY VICTOR G.. BACKUS

New Orleans Nowhere in
Europe or America is Christian
fervor more pronounced than in
the avowedly atheistic Soviet
Union.
DR.. Samuel L. Candy, dean of
the chapel of billiard University
here, said upon his return from a
tour of Is countries of Europe and
the Middle East that Christianity
appeared more vital to the lives of
the people of the Soviet Union
than in any other country he
visited.
The university chaplain was one
of five clergymen who made an
on-the-spot survey of the status
of religion on both sides of the
iron curtain. Their six-week tour
was sponsored by the commission
on religious organizations Of the
National Conference of Christians
Continued on Page Two)
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Indignation Delayed Seven Years In
Virginia County BY Federal Judge

RICHMOND, Va. - A federal
district judge-ordered by a higher
court to fix definite date for de-
segregation of schools in the "black'
belt" county of Prince Edward
Monday set September 1866 as
tentative date.
This seven-year delay granted
by U. S. District Judge Sterling
Hutchinson was hailed by Virginia
political leaders as a victory. Ne
gro attorneys declined to COM
ment.
National Assn. for the Advance
ment of Colored People attorneys
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-08-09
South Africa
Treason Trial
Seen Drawing
GIobaI Interest
Large Scale Non
White Demonstration
Greets First Days
Hearing In Pretoria

Worldwide interest is being
evinced in South Africa's mass
trial Of go persons on charges of
high treason.
Indicative of this interest are
the numbers Of foreign newsmen,
as we'll as diplomatic and other
observers, who are gathering for
the scheduled start of the trial in
Pretoria Aug l and who will be
transmitting reports to various
foreign agencies and governments.
They include prominent overseas
legal observers, one of whom is
the head Of Harvard University's
Law School, Prof. Erwin n Girls
void
The formal trial follows a long
Continued on Page Five)
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How To Give Away $500, 100000
Big Problem Of Shrine Convention

Chicago, ILL.,, Aug. 4 - The
problem Of giving away money
nearly $300,0 to be exact-will
be one Of the biggest issues on
the agenda when the 57th annual
convention Of the Imperial Coun-
Gil of the Ancient Egyptian Arab
ic Order of Mobiles of The Mystic
Shrine meets in Chicago on Au-
gust 1922. With a total Of 1896.
271.48 already allotted to the
Shriner's medical foundation and
earmarked for medical research.
the problem stems from a scarcity
of applicants who have asked for
one of the $4,000 grants.
In the past 10 years, since the
Shrine tuberculosis and Cancer
Research Foundation was founded
by the Imperial Council in session
at st. Louis, Missouri, upwards Of
$123,000 have been given away
Continued on Page Seven)
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Negro Girls
Admit SIashine
ENJOYS Daughter

New York-Two teen-age girls
admitted Monday, police said, be-
ing involved in the slashing four
months ago Of the daughter of
Trans representative to the United
Nations.
Harriet Fleming, 10, was arrest
ed at her home after the other
girl, Shirley Sherard, 16, implicat-
ed her in the incident. Both girls
are Negroes and live in the Bronx.
The case was broken when a
patrolman noticed they resembled
sketches based upon the assaulted
girls description.
Police said Shirley had spent a
year in a training school for girls
after she was adjudged a juvenile
delinquent in a larceny charge.
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See Nations Shriners In Final
Plans For Chicago Convention

Chicago, Ill. Aug. 8 - Delegates
from some $50 temples of the An
cient Egyptian Arabic Order of
Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine were
making final plans this week for
the big trek to Chicago and the
57th annual convention of the I'M
perial Council on August 1922,
which promises to be the biggest in
the organizations 65-year history.
Nearly 10000 Mobiles and Daugh-
tiers of Isis, who will be meeting
concurrently with the Prince Hall
affiliated Shrine group, are expect
ed to be on hand for the huge Ma
sonic confab.
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for Negro parents in the case had
asked for September of this year
as date for compliance with the
Supreme Courts desegregation de-
cree.
The Prince Edward case was one
of five school segregation cases
on which the Supreme Court based
it's historic 1854 decision calling
separate schools unconstitutional.
The case has been in Federal Dis
trict Court for augmentation
ever since.
Judge Hutcheson made it plain
Continued on Page Severn
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GHANA WOMEN take COURSES
TO BECOME ideal HOUSEWIVES

Brighter Living Rooms" "The
Housewife in Her Kitchen" and
on child care, sewing, and handi-
crafts.
The courses for women are part
OF Ghana's campaign to raise liv-
ing standards here and improve
village homes.
The Ghanaian woman tradition
ally is working woman.
In rural areas, she not only cares
for her family but also markets
the farm produce. In urban areas,
Continued on Page Five)
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See Educational Gap Between Negro,
White Students In South Narrowed

New York, Aug. 4.-The educa-
tional gap between Negro and
white students in the South has
been narrowed significantly by the
pilot project of a small private
fund.
Now beginning the last year of
a five year undertaking, the
Phelps-Stokes Fund has been help
ing Is Negro colleges and 16 Me-
gro high schools in the South to
raise their educational levels.
The results show that NEGRO
children in the South do not have
TO remain one or two years behind
white G children in classroom
achievements" said the funds re-
port issued July go.
"If they receive better instruc-
Continued on Page Six)
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Accra, Ghana, Aug. a. - Thou
sands of Ghanaian women are en-
Enthusiastically attending courses de-
signed to turn them into the near
est possible equivalent to the ideal
housewife.
More than 10000 women so far
have enrolled in the courses, or
ganized throughout the country by
Ghana's department Of social well
fare and community development.
Trained female teachers lecture
on such subjects as 1.-THE Healthy
Family" 1.-THE Good Housewife,
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-08-09
Haiti Votes Full
Powers ToPres.

Port Au Prince, Haiti July 81
The Congress of this Caribbean
Negro republic today invested Pres
ident Francois Duvalier with full
powers to cope with any further
revolutionary attempt by his OPP
ponents.
The Duvalier government was
in firm control following an abor-
tive revolt two days ago alleged
to have been spanked by ousted
President Paul Magloire now an
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knighted Africa
Leader IS
Death Victim

ACCRA, Ghana. - Sir James
Henley Coussey, X. B. E., one Of
the best known of Ghana public
figures, has died in. Accra at the
age of 81.
Born in Cape Coast, was educated
in Britain and established a legal
career in the Gold Coast in 1913.
The Coussey committee, an all
African body named for him was
set up after the riots of 1948 to
consider the question of constitu-
tional changes for the country. It's
Continued on Page Two)
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Host to the meet will be Chi
cago's Arabic Temple No. ID, which
last hosted the national body Is
years ago, and which is sometimes
referred to as the Mother Tenn
Pile" because of the fact that 1t was
in Chicago that Negroes were first
initiated into the Shrine on June
/, 1893. It's convention commit
tee, comprised of 26 separate SUBJ
groups under the direction Of IL
lustrious Potentate Benjamin A.
Gore, has as general chairman
Noble Corneal A. Davis, Illinois
State Representative.
Continued on Page Severn
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Negro Teachers
Are Seen Hurt
BY migration

LOUISVILLE, Ky.-Supt. Omer
Carmichael told a group CT Ne
groes at Fifth Street Baptist
church here Sunday evening that
even though white parents will ac-
cept mixed classes, they are not
ready to accept Negro teachers for
their children.
In addressing the group attend
ING TIE Baptist Training Union,
DR.. Carmichael, who spoke on the
subject of "The Christian Ap-
Continued on Page Two)
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Three Early
Catholic Popes
Were Negroes

Los Angeles, Calf, Aug. A.
While "three Of the early Popes
/. may not have been Negroes,
in the opinion of Father John V.
Sheridan, director of the Catholic
Information Center, 800 S. Flower
St., "they were almost certainly
'colored'."
Writing in the Tidings, Los An
geles Catholic newspaper, Father
Sheridan answered the question of
a letter writer who wanted to
know if there is any definite his
torical evidence that some of the
Popes were Negroes"
Father Sheridan qualified his
statement that three of the "early
CONTINUED on Page Severn
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PRINCIPALS and SUPERVISORS
ATTEND TUSkEGEE WORKSHOP

Tuskegee, Ala, Aug. = The
Regional Supervisors and Princi-
pals WORKSHOP sponsored by the
Southern Education Foundation
convened at Tuskegee Institute,
Alabama, June % to August S,
with 43 participants representing
13 Southern states. A unique fea-
ture of the program was that both
principals and supervisors parti-
cipated in the same workshop.
The underlying purpose of the
workshop was to aid principals and
supervisors improve competency
through planning and carrying out
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-08-09
Powell Opponent
Wants White
Conference On
lntegration
Problem
Brown Appeals To
Eisenhower To
COnvoke arley

New York, Aug. 1-(SpeciaD-
Councilman Earl Brown, who is
seeking the Democratic nomination
for the House of Representatives
in Harlem's Sixteenth District,
asked President Eisenhower yes
terday to call conference of Ne
gro and white leaders on "the
school Indignation crisis"
Continued on Page Severn
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Civil Rights
Groups Head
Defines Aims
George NJ. Johnson
Is Heard By 1000
NACW Delegates

Detroit, Mich. - An official of
the Commission on Civil Rights
said this week that Congress ex-
poets the Commission to produce
the needed facts for future zap
propriate legislation" to enforce
the Fourteenth Amendment.
George M. Johnson, director Of
the Commissions Office of Laws,
Plans and Research, and former
dean of the Howard University
law school, made the statement in
an address to the biennial conven-
ton of the National Association
of Colored Women's Clubs, Inc, at
Continued on Page Severn
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Funeral Directors
Meet I'm New
York This Week

New York, Aug. 40. P. Chiles,
President and Robert H. Miller,
General Secretary of the National
Funeral Directors and Morticians
Associations and their families will
travel from all parts of the coun-
try to attend the Associations
21st Annual Convention. The meet
ing will be held August Al, 1858
at the beautiful Hotel New Yorker
in New York City.
The automobile displays featured
this year are the very latest in
design and performance. Those at
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17-YEAR-0LD GETS MVc DEGREE

ITTA BENA - Miss Barbara
Mason, age IT, received the B. S.
degree in Elementary Education
from Mississippi Vocational Col
lege on August 8, becoming the
colleges youngest graduate. She
is a 1856 graduate of Saints In
dustrial High School, Lexington,
Mississippi, at the age of IA, and
is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Willie Mason of 404 South 18th
Avenue, haywood, Illinois.
Miss Mason was a consistent stu
dent and has maintained a 2.5 av-
erage while studying at MVC. She
finds mathematics the only course
where extra concentration was
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-08-09
FLOWER and VEGETABLE SHOW
PRIZE WINNERS ANNOUNCED

The Kinds County Flower and
Vegetable show was held at the
Utica Rosenwald School, Utica,
Miss, recently. There were ten
home demonstration clubs and
three All clubs participating. The
winners were as follows
Largest Number Different Flow
ers; first place, Mrs. Marguerite
Younger, Cynthia; second place,
Mrs. Mary Whitley, Midway:
third place, Mrs. Curesae Moore,
Midway and Mrs. Jean P. Wilkin-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-08-09
Washington Bar
Hits Exclusion
Of Negro Lawyers

Washington, D. c. August 4 - A
District Bar Association commit
tee has strongly criticized the as
sociation's policy of excluding Ne
gro lawyers and hos urged the or
ganization to admit qualified nom
white attorneys.
In report given last May but
made public yesterday in the AT
gust issue of the Associations
Journal, the Committee on Civil
Rights declared.
1.-THE advantages of enhanced
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action research. 1t is to be two
year program-a local and region
al research effort to clarity role
concept.
Workshop participants began a
two-year study of problems related
to their school situation. Twenty
one research studies were planned
by teams, most of which were
composed of a principal and a
supervisor from the same school
system.
In addition cooperative region
al study Ia project to improve the
Continued on Page Four)