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cation of women on its three prong
ed drive for $4,000 new members,
the establishment of an Education
al Foundation Fund and a new
national Headquarters Building in
Washington, D. C.
Actress Hilda Haynes will re-
peat her television triumph in the
role of Mary Mcleod Bethune,
Clarence Cooper, rising young folk
singer and guitarist will supply
musical interludes for the perfor-
nance. William Branch, the rising
young playwright, author of the
play, is a former student of Wash
ington's Dunbar High School. The
talented playwright is currently at
work on script projects for the
Philadelphia Commission on HUI
man Relations.
The National Council of Negro
Continued on Page Two)
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Washington, D. c., April 27-
Twenty-one heads of national
women's organizations affiliated
with the National Council of Negro
Women have issued Call in sup
port of campaign to strengthen
family life with special emphasis
on the welfare of youth, Miss Doro-
thy l. Height, President, announced
today. The Call launches so Day
Mobilization Campaign-April n
June Is, 1868. Mrs. Daisy E.
Lampkin and Mrs. Mary N. White
of Pittsburgh are the Co-chairmen.
The campaign will be conducted
with the support of the national
organizations who reach $4,000
women in church, fraternal, BUSH
ness, professional and civic groups,
using the slogan,
each ONE-REACH ONE
EVERY DAY FOR
FIFTY DAYS"
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on campus at the beginning of a
school year is like watching a light
flash on in a dark room. They
bring so much enthusiasm and
brightness and hope"
The Presidents wife, warm and
vibrant, is an attractive woman
who accepts with relish her chal-
longing role as helpmate to the
chief executive of one of Americas
great liberal arts colleges. And
despite her love of the classroom,
she wears the housewives apron
with ease.
Mrs. Wright has two deep inter
ests which complement her enthu-
siasm for home-making. She i.
an ardent gardener and a Jealous
collector of recipes.
"It's taken me 20 years to de-
velop my recipe collection" she,
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anne Church Court Finds Bishop
Guilty Of Charges Including
Mis-Appropriation Of More Than
$500, 900. 900 Of Church Funds
Trial Date Set On Charges Of Having
Taken The Church To Civil Court

Philadelphia, Pa. April 81 -
Especial to the Jackson Advocate)
The suspended Bishop D. Ward
Nichols was tried the second time
within year by a Church Court
in the A. NJ. E. Church last Tues
day, April 18th and found guilty
on all charges and specifications,
and according to law was suspend
ed until the General Conference
of 1860.
The charges involved the mis-
appropriation of funds amounting
to around two hundred thousand
dollars. maladministration of the
law, and placing burdensome asses
sments upon the pastors and people
for his personal gain.
The testimony of the witnesses
for the Church was heard by hun
dreds of ministers and laymen who
had assembled from all parts of
the country.
The charges were signed by re-
representatives. of The First Episco-
pal District, headed by DR.. J. S.
Bon, and served by President Ell
der ]. Winsmore Mason of the
Philadelphia District.
Bishop R. R. Wright, President
Continued on Page Eight)
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Bishop u. Ward Nichols Is Again Suspended
NATIONAL ScH0L ARSHIP SERVICE
AND FUND FOR NEGRO STUDENTS
no MARK TENTH ADVERSARY
Organization Has Helped 500 High
School Graduates To Eenter College

New York, April 81 Especially
The National Scholarship Service
and Fund for Negro Students will
mark ten years of expanding ser
Eice at an anniversary dinner Tues
Jay, April 20, at the Columbia Uni
rersity Club in New York City. At
hat time, tribute will be paid to
he foundations, educational insti-
ltions, and government agencies
which have helped NSSFNS make
i possible for 5000 Negro high
school graduates to enroll in more
han 300 interracial colleges, with
81 100000 in scholarship aid.
Among the distinguished guests
will be: DR.. Arthur S. Adams,
President of the American Council
pf Education; DR.. Ewald B. N.Y.
sluist, Deputy Commissioner, New
York State Department of Edu-
cation; DR.. Clarence Faust, Presi-
Gent, Fund for the Advancement
Continued on Page Severn
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New First Lady Of Fisk University
! IS A School Teacher AT Heart

Nashville, Tenn. April % The
ew "first lady" of Fisk Univer-
.ity is, by her own admission, a
School teacher at heart"
Mrs. Rosalind Wright, whose
husband, DR.. Stephen J. Wright,
vas inaugurated Saturday april
36) as the seventh president of
fisk University, is no longer
chool marin. Sc is, however, no
larther removed from young people
% whom she has already devoted
lmost 20 years of her life.
II enjoy young people, SO" she
aid. 81 have worked with them
1 II my life. Even though 1 am no
songer in the classroom, l am de-
fghted and honored that will
ontinue to be in a position to help
hem reach their dreams and am
itions.
Seeing students as they come
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Urge Africa
Commission
Without US.
And Russia

United Nations, N. Y. - Britain
proposed April % that both the
United States and the Soviet Un-
ion be excluded from the projected
UNITED Nations Economic Com
mission for Africa" The move has
the support of the United States.
The British proposal was made
in the United Nations Economic
and Social Council in the form of
an amendment to resolution sub
mitted by Sudan calling for estab-
lishment of the commission, and
inviting the two big powers to
join.
Before Britain acted, Georgy P.
Arkadev, Soviet delegate, express
ed the view that participation of
Continued on Page Four)
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Fear Apathy
Blamed. Lack
OF Negro Voters
Meeting Is Held
In Washington

Washington, D. c. April % -
Ignorance, apathy and intimidation
are given as reasons why many
Negroes do not register to vote in
Louisiana and Mississippi.
These views were expressed Sat
urday in Negro white Con-
ference on voting rights for Ne
groes in nine states. The confer
ence was held under the auspices
of the Southern Conference Edu-
cational Fund. The fund is headed
by Aubrey Williams, Montgomery,
Ala, publisher and former head
of the National Youth Administra-
ton in the Roosevelt administra-
ton.
Saturdays reports are to be turn
ed over to the Civil Rights commits
sion when it gets down to business.
Continued on Page Four)
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New York, April q - Battle
ines were drawn yesterday between
he Government and a potential
runaway" Federal grand jury in
yestigating the tax returns of Rep
-esentative Adam Clayton Powell
pr.
When the grand jury reconvenes
pn Monday the Government will
ask the panel to sit daily until It's
presentation is completed. This is
expected to take until the second
week in May.
On the other hand, an aggres-
i've group within the grand jury,
which was repeatedly dissatisfied
With the Governments prior hand
ing of the case, has asked Thorn
Is J. Bolan, former assistant Unit
I'd States Attorney, to be avail
4sble" as a legal adviser.
Mr.. Balon presented evidence to
] he grand jury in December, 1856,
md in January and February,
1857. He had been in charge of
Ehe investigation. With him the
possibility of his becoming their
#pecial counsel.
Mr.. Bolan presented evidence to
y by a Federal judge. The grand
Jury would have to say that it no
onger wished Government lawyers
70 assist it.
New Data Prepared
4 The jury was angered when the
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sissippi had declared, 1--WE believe
that since the general assembly
took its original action on the race
question in 1854 there has been "a
growing tendency to pressure the
church to accept the Indignation of
the races, and as times has gone on
eliminating in 1857, the efforts to
have the churches accept integra-
ton have been carried to the ex-
treme."
However other racial segrega-
ton matters were almost certain
to provide a stormy session when
they reach the floor tomorrow. A
committee handling the matters
vas-reported sharply split.
The general assembly earlier had
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Washington, D. c., April 81
The State Department has relaxed
its restrictions on foreign travel by
Paul Robson.
1t has informed the singer and
actor that he is free to travel in
the Western Hemisphere, where no
passport is required. But he is
still unable to go to Europe or else
where because he cannot obtain a
passport.
The partial lifting of controls
was made known to Mr.. Robson
in a letter to him last Aug. 8 from
Miss Frances G. Knight, head of
the Passport Office. The letter
was made public in the course of
new legal proceedings that Mr..
Robson started recently to obtain
passport.
"The department has determ-
ined," Miss Knight wrote, chat the
restraint on your travel to coun-
tries in the Western Hemisphere
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-05-03
New Cabinet
Announced For
West Indies

Port of Spain, Trinidad, April %
Sir Grantley Adams, Prime Min
lister of the new West Indies Fed
Grafton, announced formation of
his Cabinet.
Sir Grantley's Socialist Federal
Labor party holds twenty-three
seats in the forty-five-member leg
islature. The opposition Demo
cratic Labor party won twenty-five
seats in the March rs elections held
throughout the island territories.
The eleven-member cabinet in
cludes three Senators. One member
is woman. Seven Of the Fedora
tons ten territorial units are rep
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Southern Presbyterian Church
R e-Affirms Liberal Racial Stand

Charlotte, N. c., April 28-The
General Assembly Of the Southern
church, with surprisingly little dis
sent, today reaffirmed the church's
liberal attitude toward racial mat
ers.
The statement came in reply to
petition from the Presbytery of
Central Mississippi questioning the
zhurch's stand.
The assembly replied:
1.-THE assembly trusts the agen-
hes of the church in their field
] responsibility to be faithful to
he standards Of the church, and
believes that they will continue to
bide by these standards in liters-
hre and plans"
The overture from Central Mis-
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Faubus AppeaIIn
Federal Troops
Case Denied

st. Louis, Mo-, April 27-Dis-
missal of suits by Gov. Orval Eau
bus of Arkansas and others against
government actions to enforce inte-
grafton at Central High School in
Little Rock was upheld today by
the U. S. Court of Appeals.
The appellate court rejected
Faubus' appeal from an injunction
against his use of Arkansas Ma
tional Guard troops to keep Negro
children out of the Little Rock
school,
Also rejected were parallel ac-
tions appealed by Mrs. Clyde
Thomason and Mrs. Margaret
Jackson, members of the Pro-Seg-
regation League of Central High
Mothers.
The three-judge appeals court,
which held hearings on the three
cases March IL, upheld the rulings
Continued on Page Two)
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Negro School
Jewish Church
s.Dynamited

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Dyna-
mite explosions damaged a Negro
school and Jewish synagogue
early Monday.
The blasts occurred outside each
building and resulted mainly in
broken windows at the synagogue
and dislocation Of the roof and one
wall Of the James Weldon johnson
Continued on Page Eight
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Travel Ban On Paul Robson Eased
Will Be Allowed Hemisphere Travel

for which passport is not gener-
ally required should be lifted"
Miss Knight said that the Gus
toms Bureau and the immigration
and Naturalization Service had
been advised of the change. Pre-
sumably this was done so that Of
ficers of the two agencies would
not stop Mr.. Robson if he at
tempted to leave for hemisphere
travel.
The action in Mr.. Robeson's case
calls attention to the complex net
work of legal restraints that may
now inhibit Americans travel.
Most of these provisions are cur
rently under challenge in the
courts.
First, it is now a Federal crime
to leave the United States for
travel outside the Western Hemis-
phere without a passport. A 1852
statute invokes this provision in
Continued on Page Seven)
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Civil Rights Act
Spurs Opposition
To Negro Vote

ATLANTA, Ga, Apr. 27.-The
1857 Civil Rights Act has perhaps
spurred rather than curbed efforts
to keep down Negro voter registra-
tion in the South, the bi-racial
Southern Regional Council said to-
day.
A special report of the council
said:
"This is especially true in three
of the Deep South states, Georgia,
Alabama and Mississippi, where Of
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Negro Elected City
Councilman

Muskegon Heights, Mich. - DR..
Frank Howell, prominent dentist,
was sworn in Monday as the first
Negro Councilman of this city.
DR.. Howell, a former University
of Michigan halfback, led the tick
ct in the spring election, and drew
heavy support from non-Negro pre-
eincts. Muskegon Heights has a
80 per cent Negro population.
winning the election was my
biggest thrill" declared the dem
fist.
DR.. Howell said one Of his first
jobs as a councilman would be to
Continued on Page Two)
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Dr.. S. J. Wright Is
1naugurated 9TH
Pres. Fisk Univ.
Thirty-Six College
Presidents Attend
Impressive Ceremony

Nashville, Tenn.-Thirty-six COL
lege presidents were among the
hundreds of persons who witnessed
Saturday april 26) the inaugu-
ration of DR.. Stephen J. Wright
as the seventh president of Fisk
University.
The investiture of the president
by DR.. Phillip M. Widenhouse,
General Secretary of the Ameri-
can Missionary Association and
Chairman of the Fisk Board of
Trustees, was an impressive rite.
1t signalled the beginning of an
other era in the history of the
internationally known liberal arts
college, now almost 100 years old.
A total of 181 delegates to the
Inauguration marched in the color
full professional. One-hundred and
Continued on Page Two)
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South Africa
AssaiIed By
Church Leader

The racial policies of the Gov
eminent of South Africa were
assailed as the "cruelist of hui
man crimes on record" in a re-
port received yesterday by the
Bishops Council of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church.
The report also said that the
school "crisis" in Little Rock and
the denial of a passport to Pau
Robson were constant sources of
anti-Americanism among Africans.
The report was submitted to
the church body here by DR.. A.
Chester Clark, executive secre-
tary of the African Methodist Ep-
iscopal Church missionary de-
Continued on Page Eight
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Negro Hospital
Nursing School
Proposed Here

A Negro hospital and school of
nursing would be constructed un-
der a bill approved in the senate
and sent to the house for considera-
ton today.
Sen. Mitchell Robinson of Jack
son steered the bill to passage.
The bill authorized Kinds County
to contribute $187 800 toward the
hospital to be matched by $750,000
in federal funds and $1S7, 900 in
state funds.
The hospital would be construct
ed near Dalton and Lynch streets.
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Swimming Pool
Case Settled
Out OF Court

Albany, April 81 - The first
upstate public hearing in the his
tory Of the State Commission
Against Discrimination failed to
materialize Monday. The case was
settled "out of court"
The commission had ordered a
hearing on charges that the mid
city swimming pool Of Menands, an
Albany suburb, had refused admis-
sion to Miss Barbara Ann Sharpe
Continued on Page Six)
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Paul Robson
Tossing In
Carnegie Hall

New York-Paul Robson, snub-
bed by the Soldiers and Sailors
Memorial Hall of Pittsburgh, was
readying his first performance in
more than 10 years in Carnegie
Hall today.
IT, Hall management disclosed
e1at Robson, who at go, is on the
comeback trail has engaged the IA
cility for Nov Q.
Gilbert Cloonan, superintendent
Continued on Page Eight
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Chicago, Ill. April II - Paul
Robeson's scheduled appearance
on the Norman Ross "VIP" network
television show was cancelled be-
cause of the singers alleged lef-
fist leanings. This would have been
the first television appearance for
Robson, who recently celebrated
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-05-03
Negro Judge
IsAppointed
To Court OF
Domestic
Relations
Justice Page Is
Promoted By New
York Mayor

Special Sessions Justice Myles
A. Paige, the first Negro to serve
in the Magistrates and Special
Sessions Courts here, was named
yesterday by Mayor Wagner as
Justice of the Court of Domes-
tic Relations.
Justice Paige will be sworn
Continued on Page Eight
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Station Kills Robeson's Appearance

his Goth birthday in Chicago. ABC-
TV vice president in charge of
WBKB, Chicago, Sterling Quinlan,
fatty said: "I'm not going to furn-
ish q podium for any fuzzy think
er who praises Russie and refuses
to help his government in the
fight gainst communism.
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Chicago Ward Swears In 1st Alderman

to 1866 for his opponent, Arthur
N. Hamilton, also colored, is the
first Negro alderman the erstwhile
all-white ward has had. The ward,
once Jewish and Italian, is now
heavily populated by Negroes.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-05-03

Chicago, Ill. April 81 - Benja-
min F. Lewis, city building inspec-
tor who won the recent primary
election as alderman Of the oath
ward, was sworn into office last
week by City Clerk John MARGIN.
Lewis, who received 11,671 votes
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-05-03
Burn Negroes Home In White Suburb

ton was being conducted into the
cause of fire. Feaster said investi-
CATION showed cit was a set fire"
The fires were set in both bedrooms
of the house."
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-05-03

Lincoln, Neb. April 81 - The
home of a Negro family in an all
white suburb near here was set
Attire by an unidentified person who
broke into the home. Fire Chief
Paul Feaster said as an investiga-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-05-03
South Africa Move
Awaited After
Striiidom's
Election Victory
Vote Seen AS Backing
White Supremacy
And Victory For
Racial Fear

Cape Town, S. A., April % =
Prime Minister Johannes G. Strij-
dom's sweeping victory in last
weeks election has raised some
serious questions as the, future of
the country.
The white electors have given
Continued on Page Eight
Diario las Américas., 1958-03-09
ORDENASE
(Viene de la Primera)

sin trabajo, aumento en- 1877 300
durante la semana que termin6 ell
% de febrero. Ell numero total
de los desempleados era ese dia
de 1888. 900.
Este es ell numero mayor de ira
bajadores que solicitan subsidies
por h~allarse sin trabajo desde que
Sc estableci6 esta ayuda en- 1888.
Ell numero de los obreros que
tienen derecho a este beneficio ha
lido aumentando en- ell curse de los
amos.
Quarles ~contesto, en- su carta,
a la que johnson lie envio ell 10 de
febrero al Secretario de Defensa,
Neil H. McElroy, proponiendole
acelerara los gastos militares para
luchar contra la crisis.
En- la condensation, Quarles di-
ce que durante los seis ultimos me-
ses del e~jercicio fiscal actual, que
terminara ell 80 de JUNO de este
ano, ell promedio de gastos sera
."un so por ciento mayor" que du.
rante los seis meses anteriores.
Diario las Américas., 1958-03-09
'Cla. Navierd Pide a TribunaIes
.Dicten Orden a los TrabajadOres
Para que Regresen al Trabajo

Segarra que elias habian sido d.
senadas y relaizadas por puerto
%rriquenos que empezarian a difun.
dirse en- Estados UNidos en- la pri-
mavera entrante. Manifesto que es.
tas creaciones de la moda eran
una muestra de hasta que punto
habia progresado en- Puerto Rico,
la industrial de la costura, a la cual,
afirmo, espera I'm porvenir bri-
llante gracias al espiritu creador
y renovador de los puertorrique-
nos.
Segarra manifesto que esta era
la segunda vez que Sc presentaba
en- I'm programa de televisi6n en-
Estados Unidos para dar a como
e al publico norteamericano los
valores de la Isla, y que esperaba
y estaba SECURE de que ell esfuer-
20 rindiese positivos beneficios pa
ra Puerto Rico.
Ell programa de hoy, ahadi6, era
ell primero de una serie iniciado
precisamente hoy. La segunda pre-
sentaci6n de esta serie "Saludo a
Puerto Rico" Sc transmitira ell 10
del mes en- curse en- los estados
norteamericanos de Nueva Ingla-
terra.
Diario las Américas., 1958-03-09
LA AYUDA A BUSCAR HIJO


NUEVA YORK. (UP). - Los
tribunales norteamericanos estans
ayudando a la sonora Maria Ele-
ma Sent, de Buenos Aires, a bus.
car a SUI hija de seis amos que
vino a este pals con su padre de
la Argentina hace un ano.
Aver ell Juez Henry Epstein,
miembro de la Supreme Corte de
Justicia, ordeno al sheriff de Nue.
va York, que arreste a William
Sent y 10 p~resente con su hija al
Tribunal.
Sent recibi6 la orden de compa-
recimiento del tribunal hace algun
tempo, en- momentos en- que sa-
liza del consulate argentine. Las
autoridades desconocen su para,
dero.
La madre de la nina Sc encon-
traba aver en- la Corte, con la es-
peranza de yer a SUI hija, despues
de is meses de separation, pero
Sent no Sc present6 y Ell juez or
demo su arresto.
La sonora de Sent es %profesora
de una escuela normal en- Buenos
Aires y bibliotecaria de la divi-
sion meteorological del Ministerio-
de Aeronautica.
Diario las Américas., 1958-03-09
E
EXPERIMENTAL MEJORIA

SAN JUAN-El general de di-
vision Luis Raul stoves, ex co..
mandante de la Guardia Nacional
de Puerto Rico, ha Experimental
una leve mejoria en- su condici6n
de salud, segGn inform6 SUI hernia
no Guillermo Esteves. Ell general
Esteves ha sido transferido del Hos
pital San Patricio, a donde fue re-
cluido originalmente, a la Clinica
Mimiya, en- donde 10 asisten los
doctores Enrique Perez Santiago
y Ramon M. Suarez.
La familia Esteves inform6 que
Sc encuentra asistiendo tambien
al enfermo ell doctor William Da-
meshek, notable especialista en-
intermediates relacionadas con Ell
descenso de los gl6bulos rojos,
quien fue traido directamente de
Boston para atender al General.
Sc inform6 aye rtarde tambi6n
que ell tipo de sangre que Sc lie es-
taba administrando al paciente, eel
A-RH-Negativo) Sc habia agotado
en- Ell Banco de Sangre, por 10 que
estaban solicitando donantes de
este tipo.
Diario las Américas., 1958-03-09
NUEVO EMBAJADOR
~VENEZOLAN0

CIUDAD TRUJILLo. (UP).-El
General Hector Trujillo Molina,
Presidente de la Republica Domi,
nicana, recibi6 hoy las credencia
les del nuevo Embajador de We
nezuela, doctor Gilberto Urdaneta.
Mas tarde, ell diplomatico vene-
zoIano deposit6 una corona de
flores al pie del altar de la patria,
erigido como homemade a los fun
dadores de la nacion dominicana.