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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-02-01
Anti-Troop Bill
Is Introd uced
In Virginia

RICHMOND, Va, Jan. ga
bill to close automatically any
school policed by Federal authori-
ties was introduced in the Legis-
lature today.
1t carried the approval Of Gov.
]. Lindsay Almond, Jr., and was
sponsored by 80 Of the 100 House
members and SO Of the 40 SEN
ators.
Senator Earl Fitzpatrick, chief
sponsor, said the effect would be
to assure. the people Of Virginia
there will be no occurrence such
as took place in Little Rock, Ark.
Before the bill was introduced,
the Governor told news confer
ence it was needed "for the State
Of Virginia to exercise its author
ity in keeping the public peace and
order as a state function, not q
Federal junction."
The measure would leave intact
q constitutional provision that the
Governor or Legislature could APP
ply for assistance from Federal
authorities.
Continued on Page Two)
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Voice OF Free Africa Broadcast Twice
Daily In African Dialects Urge Natives
TO Drive Whites From Their Lands
Violent Anti-Western Campaign Seen
Resulting From Asian-African Farley

CAIRO, Jan. ia new "voice"
has been added to Cairo's violent
anti-Western babel.
It is the Voice of Free Africa,
a two-hour daily short-wave broad
cast from President Canal Abdel
Nasser's Cairo radio exhorting At
ricans in their own dialects to drive
the "white dogs of the oppressor
countries Of the West" from their
lands.
The campaign is aimed with
special vehemence at President
Nasser's chief enemies, Britain and
France, who still control vast
stretches of the African Continent
from the Atlantic to the Indian
Ocean. But for good measure the
United States comes in for contin-
ual drubbing in the Cairo broad
casts on the propaganda charge
that it is the banker for the ster-
ling bloc countries" and therefore
Africa's Second colonial master"
These are the type of words the
people Of Africa may pick up on
their radios. They are spoken in
Swahili, the lingua franco of most
of the East and much of Central
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-02-01
South Carolina Governor Demands
anne Church Fire Teachers

Columbia, S. c., Jan. 81 - An
Associated Negro Press-datelined
story in Negro papers Of this state
last week charged that Governor
George Bell Zimmerman, Jr. has
called Bishop j. H. Bonner, before
him and demanded the dismissal
Of three professors Of Allen uni
versity, the denominations college
here.
According to the reports, Gov
ernor Zimmerman told Bishop Bon
ner that the restoring Of state &C.
creditation to Allen so that its
graduates would be recognized to
teach in South Carolina, hinged on
the firing this month Of three
teachers, two Of whom are white
and one Negro.
According to reports, no charges
have been brought against the
teachers, who are: DR.. Edwin D.
Hoffman, DR.. John G. Rideout, and
DR.. Forest Oran Virgins, DR.. Wig
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-02-01
$1,s34,407 Raised
BY Negro Colleges

New York, an. 27.-The United
Negro College Fund received ST.
934 ,407 for its 81 member institu-
tons last year, Lee H. Bristol, ma
tional campaign chairman, an
nounced yesterday. The figure
compared with $2,0s4,s41 in 1866.
Donors in New York City gave
$510,181 of the 1857 total, a 10 per
cent increase over 1856.
In 1867, money received for OPP
Grating expenses totaled $1,774,-
$50.
Gifts for the recently concluded
separate capital funds campaign
to cover building costs totaled
$131,15S.
Last year, contributions from
unrestricted legacies and requests
aggregated $28,634, bringing to
$240,36S the total in this category
since 1861.
The total number Of donors in
Continued on Page Four)
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Presbyterians
Urge Fight On
Segregation
Council Cautions
Churches Not To
Back Bias In
Private Schools

Mount Pocono, Jan. 20 - The
North American Area Council Of
the World Presbyterian Alliance
called upon its member churches
today to combat segregation
wherever it existed.
The council said in a resolution
endorsed at the closing session Of
it's annual conference that race seq
regation was an evil that found it's
manifestation in Chicago as in
Little Rock, in Levittown (Pa.) as
in Virginia"
The resolution was submitted to
the meeting in Hanor Hall at Po-
como Manor Inn by the councils
nine-member Clerical and Lay Com
mission on Civil and Religious Lib
erty. The chairman is the Rev. DR..
Paul Calvin Payne, director of the
Board of Christian Education of
the Presbyterian Church in the U.
Continued on Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-02-01
ARO RADIO URGE NATIVES TO DRIVE WHITES OUT OF AFRICA
Brooklyn Dodgers Baseball Teams
Great Negro Catcher Is Critically
Injured In Automobile Accident
Four And One-Half Hour Operation
Performed To Relieve Paralysis

New York, N. Y, Jan. 28.-The
colorful and sometimes brilliant
career of Roy Campanella, great
Negro catcher of the Brooklyn
Dodgers baseball team, whose pres
ence was being looked forward to
as being an important part of the
ceremony when the team opens
the 1858 season as the Los Angeles
Dodgers of Los Angeles, Califor-
MIA, was brought to an end by an
automobile accident near his Long
Island home early Monday morn
ing.
Campanella is the owner of a
popular liquor store at the corner
of Lenox Ave. and 138th st. in
Harlem, which he assists in oper-
ating at the eri Of the baseball
season and commutes by automo-
bile between the store and his
home near Glen Cove, on Long
Island.
Fhe accident happened near his
home when the car in which he
was driving alone skidded on the
ice-slick highway into a telephone
pole, with Campanella suffering a
broken neck, and other injuries,
which all but ended his life. The
broken neck brought about immedi-
ate paralysis from the shoulders
down. He was rushed to a hos
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-02-01
Howard Univ,
Observe 91st
Anniversary
Three Alumni To Be
Cited For Outstanding
Achievements

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Howard
University will observe the 91st
anniversary Of its founding Mon
day, March 3rd in Charter Day
programs scheduled on the Uni
versity campus at II am. and 8
pm. The morning program, the
annual Charter Day assembly, will
be held in Andrew Rankin Chapel,
and the evening ceremonies, the
annual Charter Day banquet, at
Baldwin Hall.
During the morning ceremonies
three Howard alumni will be cited
for outstanding post graduate
achievement. They are DR.. Julian
w. Ross of Washington; Mrs. Ruth
Stephenson Norman of Charles
ton, w. Va; and. Judge Scovel
Richardson Of New York City. DR..
Ross will be honored for his work
in the field of medical education;
Mrs. Norman in public education;
and Judge Richardson in law.
Continued on Page Eighty
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-02-01
HATTIESBURG NEGRO MINISTER
IS FREED OF CONTEMPT CHARGE

Hattiesburg, Miss, Jan. 27.-A
Hattiesburg Baptist Negro minis
ter was absolved of contempt by.
the Forrest County Circuit court
in a decision by the State Supreme
Court today which reversed a
guilty verdict and discharged the
case against him.
The Rev. w. D. Ridgeway had
appealed the lower courts verdict
that sentenced him to pay fine
Ct $40 and one day in Jail for fail
ure to appear as a witness.
Chief Justice Harvey McGehee's
controlling opinion, concurred in
by Justices Lee D. Hall, John Kyle,
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-02-01
See Haitian
Outlook Better

Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 81
Haiti's economic outlook has i'm
proved, according to the new Eco
nomic Planning Board.
Revenues and bank credits have
increased 20 per cent during the
first quarter Of the year.
At present the Government Is
meeting monthly Expenditures Of
about $2,500,000 out Of revenue. In
addition tie Government has q &c.,
10000 credit with the Information
al Monetary Fund on which it is
entitled to draw.
AS result the economic plan
ners hope Haiti will escape this
year the usually difficulties Of the
so-called dead season from June
to September.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-02-01
SEE BIAS CAUSING MORE NEGROES
T0PASS FOR WHITEIN LOUISIANA

New Orleans, La. Jan. 81 Seq
regation legislation which was de-
signed to keep races apart in LOU
isiana has actually encouraged
more Negroes to pass" for white,
according to the February issue of
EBONY.
In order to prove how easy it is
for light-skinned Negro to pass"
in New Orleans EBONY sent Chi
cago Negro model Audrey Saund-
ers, accompanied by white photo
grapher to tour the city on both
sides of the color line. She SAM
pied the best accommodations Of
fered travellers of both races. The
EBONY story shows her visit, liv-
ing as white, and as Negro.
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Once, according to the magazine,
it could have been argued that Geo.
Monies was the basic reason for
passing. But it was actually the
increased emphasis on the human
differences between the races-tke
back seat of the bus, the inferior
schools and living conditions, as
we'll as other reasons-which SEEM
ed to heighten the lure of passing
at the same time Louisiana law
makers were attempting to increase
the dangers.
1t is possible for a light-skinned
Negro to go to Texas, request a
delayed birth certificate, and be
declared white just on his say-so.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-02-01

gins is the Negro.
The AMP story said Bishop Bon
ner has bowed to the Governors
threats and notified the three that
they could resign this month and
receive pay up to the date Of their
resignation, or he would fire them
Immediately and they would receive
no further pay.
President Frank r. Veald, Of Al
len, has refused to comment on the
situation.
The State Board Of Education,
whose exofficio chairman is the
Governor, withdrew teacher certi-
fication from graduates Of Allen
Sept. 8.
Thus far. Gov. Zimmerman has
refused to answer TIE request for
information on the. action from the
general secretary Of the American
Association Of University Profess
sors.
CONTINUED on Page Eight
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James G. Holmes and w. N. Eth
ridge, said:
= !" =. The state must prove, a
constructive contempt beyond a
reasonable doubt the defend
ant is clothed with the presump.
ton of innocence until such proof
Is made"
The record shows the minister
appeared at court pursuant to the
subpoena on Sept. 4, 1857"
"While in the defense witness
room with other witnesses, some
other witnesses whose names he
called, and which fact Is undis-
Continued on Page Eighty
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West Told TO Help Halt Reds In Africa

Capetcwn, Africa, lar. n -- So
called Western indecisiveness to-
ward Soviet activity in Africa has
been sharply criticized here by
Francois C. Erasmus, Defense Min
lister of strongly pro-Western
South Africa.
In a weekend speech. Mr.. Eras-
mus charged that Western nations
had so far been handling the "burn-
ing question Of the security of
Africa" like someone walking up
an escalator that is going down."
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LOS ANGELES CHURCH NAMES
NEGRO ASSOCIATE MINISTER

Los Angeles, Jan. II. = First
Unitarian church, at 1886 w. 9Th
street, which advertises its policy
Of non-discrimination in the Los
Angeles Tribune, added Negro
minister to it's staff this week.
He Is the Rev. Lewis A. MCGEE,
and his title at First Unitarian is
Associate Minister In Charge of
Administration.
The Rev. MCGEE, formerly ad-
ministrative assistant Of the Amer
lean Humanist Association in Vel
low Springs, Ohio, was introduced
to the congregation Of First Uni
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NeWSouth Africa
Bible Alters
Songs Of Solomon

Capetown, s. A. Jan. II - A
new version Of the Bible has APP
peared here in which the Song Of
Solomon has been rewritten to
comply with the country's stringent
segregation laws.
The version is in Africans, the
language of the South African
Dutch, who have enacted what are
perhaps the sternest color laws in
the world.
established version of Verse
s, Chapter I of the Song of Solo
mon describing the "Rose Of Sha-
Continued on Page Four)
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Sheriff Says
NAAcP Charges
TOO Absurd"

Indianola, Miss. - Especially --
Charges that civil rights of George
Love, Negro arsonist-robber killed
by posse while resisting arrest,
had been violated were dismissed
yesterday by Sunflower County
Sheriff Ed Williams as "too alb
surd for comment"
Love was killed by highway pa
trolmen and county officers in a
tree-top near Ruleville Jan. 8 while
resisting arrest for the wounding
Of police officer the day previous.
The rights violation charge was
Continued on Page Eight
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Tulsa Negro
Home Bombed

Tulsa, Okla, Jan. 27.-A crude
bomb exploded last Sunday night
in the front yard of home occu-
pied by a Negro family. There
were no injuries, the police said.
A 14-year-old girl was treated for
hysteria then released.
The blast shook the predomi-
nately white neighborhood in North
Continued on Page Two)
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tartan by the Rev. Stephen H.
Friedman, minister Of the church,
last Sunday. He was appointed to
the newly created position of as
sociate minister by the church
board Of trustees as Of Jan. and
brings his wife, Marcella, to live
in Los Angeles.
The Rev. MCGEE attended the
University Of Pittsburgh, Payne
Theological Seminary where he re-
ceived his Bachelor of Divinity de-
gree; Loyola University School Of
Social Work; Carthage college;
Continued on Page Eighty
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Nashville Invokes Pupils Placement
Law To Block Integration

Nashville, Jan. 81 - The NASH
vile School Board invoked Ten
nessee's new Pupil Placement Law
as a defense against complete and
immediate Indignation of the city's
public schools last week.
In brief filed in United States
District Court the board asked
diamissal of a suit in which the
National Association of Colored
People is asking for complete de-
segregation.
BY court order, the city schools
first grade was desegregated last
fall amid an outbreak of racial vio-
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DIGGS ASKS CLOSING POST OFFICE
IN ALABAMA BE INVESTIGATED

tion that Post Office at Magazine,
Alabama scheduled to be closed
February 1st. Since last white
family including the Postmistress
has recently moved out of Maya
zine making it now an alltNegro
community, suspect that decision
to. close has racial implications.
Respectfully urge immediate in
vestigation and report of your
findings and suspension of sched-
uled closing until matter is cleared.
CHARLES C. DIGGS, JR.
Member of Congress"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-02-01

The Defense Minister claimed
the West was pursuing a policy
of drift" while the Soviet grip
was tightening, and said the West
needed "dose of urgency" to jolt
it out of its dream world"
In particular, Mr.. Erasmus called
for an agreement between all free
nations on defense of the Cape of
Good Hope sea route around Africa,
and not only between South Africa
and Britain as at present.
Continued on Page Four)
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State Legislators Discuss New Law
10 Preserve School Segregation

fourth week of the 1853 session,
House Speaker Walter Sillers had
presented at least three proposed
amendments to chairmen Of the
Senate and House Constitution
Committees.
The veteran Bolivar County law
maker also is preparing two addi-
tional amendments, one to revise
the requirement for assessment of
property at full value and the other
to remove any possibility. the Bal
ance Agriculture with Industry
Continued on Page Four)
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Capetown PreIate Condemns Racism

Church in South Africa.
The Archbishop said 1t might he
possible to work out a just system
of territorial division to keep races
separate, but added: l am certain
that BE christian l shall never be
able to discover any justification
for White Supremacy. l can un-
derstand a principle trusteeship
during the minority of a benefic-
larry, but cannot accept the prin-
ciple of permanent White Supre-
macy in any form or guise. l have
to admit with shame that I have
been told of congregations where
segregation operates.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-02-01

Your organizations decision to
cite Senator James o. Eastland, of
Mississippi, for his 'unselfish de-
votion to his country and distin-
guished service in the United
States Senate is a shocking af-
font to the Democratic ideals Of
your state. To award Americas
number one race batter, who Is in
our nation and in the entire world
the symbol of demogoguery and
the inhumanity which has led to
civilizations present crisis, hardly
Continued on Page Six
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Washington, D. c., Jan. 81
Congressman Charles C. Diggs, Jr.
(D-Mich.) asked Postmaster Cen
eral Summerfield today for an i'm
mediate investigation of the sched-
uled closing of the Post Office
branch serving the sll-Negro COM
munity of Magazine, Alabama. The
text of his telegram read:
Honorable Arthur E. Summerfield
Postmaster General
Post Office Department
Washington rs, D. c.
Has been brought to my atten-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-02-01

Mississippi legislative leaders arc
discussing the feasibility of remov-
ing all reference to education from
the 1890 Constitution as a means
of preserving school segregation.
It's one step under consideration
by forces which defeated Gov. ].
P. Coleman's plan for rewriting the
Constitution. They want to prove
their claim that the dangers he
cited can be removed more safely
by amendment.
As both houses prepared to re-
convene at 2 p. m. today for tie
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-02-01

Capetown. Africa, Jan. 81 The
town Anglican Archbishop of Cape
town Thursday condemned the rae
ial segregation policy of the South
African Government. He warned
Anglican congregations that if they
practiced segregation he would
withhold episcopal administrations
from them.
This was the first major, pro-
nouncement on the subject by tie
Most Rev. Joost De Blank since
his enforcement as Archbishop
last October.
His utterance appeared as New
Year message in Good Hope, the
official newspaper Of the Anglican
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-02-01

Alabama reports that Mr.. and Mrs.
Swain have proved it doesn't take
Q large herd and a lot of acres to
make a go Of dairying. With less
than 30 acres in improved pastures
and only eight Of their ID grade
and purebred Jerseys and Guern-
seys fresh at a time, they produce
30 to IS gallons Of milk . day
which bring them more than 500
every two weeks year-round
CONTINUED on Page Six)
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Little Rock Students Faubus honored

Little Rock, Ark, Jan. 81 - The
"Little Rock Nine" received the
annual Americanism award Of the
American Veterans Committee
Sunday in ceremonies honoring the
nine Negro students who integral
ed Central High School last fall.
The racially migrated veterans
group annually presents the cita-
ton to those who, in the organiza-
TONS opinion, made significant
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-02-01
Members Of Race
Supremacy Club
Arrested

New York, Jan. 27.-The police
disclosed yesterday that they had
arrested two more members of a
Queens racial supremacy club that
had planned to rob bank in Kew
Gardens. Eleven youths have been
arrested in the case so far.
The two most recent arrests
took place Sunday. One Of those
arrested was d 17-year-old youth
who surrendered voluntarily at the
Continued on Page Two)
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Cong. Diggs Protests EastIand Honor

Washington, D. c., Jan. 27.-
Congressman Charles C. Diggs, Jr.
(D-Mich.) sent a telegram on yes
terday to Mrs. Allen N. Dryhurst,
President of the National Society
of New England Women, protest
ing the organizations planned CT
tation of Senator James o. East
land. The contents of the tele-
gram follow:
"Mrs. Allen N. Dryhurst, President
National Society Of New England
Women
West Hartford, Connecticut.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-02-01
Khan Leader
Gets Six Years
In Prison
Three Others Draw
Lesser Terms In
Beating Of S. C. Negro

Greenville, S. c., Jan. 81 -Four
Ku Klux Klansmen convicted in the
beating of Negro man were sent
enced today to prison terms.
General Sessions Judge James
M. Brailsford Jr. sentenced An
drew Marshall Rochester, 3O-year-
old Greenville Khan leader, to six
years at hard labor.
Wade Henry Howard, "a, who
with Rochester was convicted of
assault and battery, received g.
year sentence.
Jack Bentley, "a, and Robert E.
Continued on Page Eight
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lence. The board was given until
Dec. 81 to submit plan for de-
segregating the remaining eleven
grades.
At the insistence Of a local seq
regation organization, the Parents
School Preference Committee, the
board proposed voluntary inte-
grafton" program. This was SINH
lar to voluntary segregation"
program previously rejected by
William z. Miller, Federal District
Judge.
A hearing on the new proposal Is
set before Judge Miller for Jan. %.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-02-01
Virginia Court
Bars Appeal
OF NAAcP

Richmond, Va, Jan. 81 - The
Virginia Supreme Court ruled last
week that legislative committee
had acted within its rights when it
obtained a court order requiring
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People to
surrender a list of members and
contributors in Virginia.
The tribunal held that a lower
court, which issued the subpoena
last year, had received authority
Continued on Page Two)
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contributions to democracy in the
previous year.
The award was made in one of
the city's largest Negro churches
one day after the Arkansas de-
partment of the American Legion
presented it's Americanism plaque
to Gov. Orval E. Faubus, who used
National Guardsmen at first to
bar Negroes from Central High.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-02-01
kenya Bars
Capitol To
Native Africans
Political Meetings
Government Says
Action To Preserve
Security, Public Order

NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan. 23.-The
Kenya Government announced to-
day that no native political meet
ings would be permitted in Nairobi
until further notice.
The official statement said the
Government had decided this in the
interests of security and public or
der in view Of the disorder and
rock throwing at the police that
Continued on Page Two)
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SMALL COTTON farmers DAIRY
ENTERPRISE SETS EXAMPLE
FOR Other ONE CROP FARMERS

Z Washington, d. c., Jan. a -
Many low-income one-crop farmers,
who are afraid to expand into live
stock enterprises because they
think their farms are too small,
may find the answer to their prob
lem In the achievement Of Arthur
Swain, . highly successful cotton
and. dairy farmer Of -Uniontown,
Ala.
C. A. Williams, acting state
leader Of Negro extension work in
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-02-01

To SPEAK HERE: Jackie Rob
inson, the first Negro in organized
professional baseball, will be the
featured speaker Sunday, February
Is, at a mass Jackson, Mississippi
rally sponsored by the Mississippi
State Conference of N. A. A. c. p.
Branches and Youth Councils. The
occasion is termed the Jackie
Robinson Day Program" The pub
lie is invited.