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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-09-20
Police Kills
Negro Man In
Atlanta incident

Atlanta Negro man was kill
ed by police tonight when a large
group Of Negroes stormed q po-
lice car in an unsuccessful effort
to take prisoner from police
custody.
Four persons were arrested dur
ing the incident in a Negro section
of northwest Atlanta. Hours later
curious crowds were still in the
area but no further trouble was
reported.
Police 1t. Ellis Barrett identified
the dead man as Joseph Franklin
Jeter ST., and said the shot was
fired by Patrolman w. O. Demp-
sey.
Dempsey and Patrolman N. C.
Oliver gave this account:
They said they received a report
that Negro man had pulled a gun
in a drug store. They caught the
man after a short chase and put
Continued on Page Eight)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-09-20
Virginia Seen
Seeking Return
To Separate But
Equal Education
Formula
Editor Gives Reasons
ALL RACE PROGRESS
NOW ARRESTED

NEW YORK, Sept. 16.-The Su-
preme Courts 1854 decision has
completely stopped progress in race
relations in Virginia and the rest
of the South, (which until then had
been going forward steadily" says
Richmond Times-Dispatch editor,
Virginius Dabney. In an explana-
ton of Virginia's actions in the
school Indignation battle written
fer the current (September 22)
LIFE Magazine, Dabney says that
because of existing tensions at is
hard to get white Virginians to
give much thought to the need for
equalizing health, welfare, recre-
ational and educational facilities
for the colored people" At the
same time it is the hope of most
Vilginians, he says, that only a
Continued on Page Two)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-09-20
Say Negro Progress Set Back
Fifty Years BY Court Decision

VICKSBURG, Miss. = (SpeciaD
"A Mississippi-born Negro evang-
elist, who has been holding SER
vices at Tallulah, La, just across
the river from Vicksburg, said to-
day that southern white people
shouldn't be alarmed over the Su-
preme Courts decision Friday.
Prophet M. D. Willett, former
resident of Little Rock, stated
that the Supreme Courts decision
merely re-affirmed their May II,
1854 ruling to integrate the state
owned public schools.
Southern Negroes should not be
jubilant over the ruling" Willett
said, "for this ruling has given
them a setback of about 80 years
in progress from an economic and
even an educational standpoint"
~ believe this action by the
Continued on Page Eight
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-09-20
New Execution
Date Set In $1.95
Robbery Case

Montgomery, Ala, Sept. ia
Negro sentenced to the electric
chair fora $1.95 robbery was de-
MED today a chance for a rehear-
ing by the Alabama Supreme
Court, which reset his execution
for Oct. "a.
The court denied the motion to
reconsider the case of Jimmy Will
son, So, who has been held in death
row at the Atmore, Ala, prison
farm for the past IL months.
However, it is unlikely that Will
son will be executed since Gov.
James E. Folsom has given the
strongest hints he would commute
the sentence to life Imprisonment.
Wilson can also appeal to the U. s.
Supreme Court.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-09-20
President Grants
Retirement OF
Judge LemIey

Newport, R. l. Sept. Is - Pres
ident Eisenhower today approved
retirement from active service for
U. S. Dist. Judge Harry ]. Lemley.
1t was Lemley's decision granting
a delay in school Indignation at
Little Rock, Ark, that led to an
overruling go-ahead by the U. S.
Supreme Court.
The summer White House an
nounced that Judge Lemley re-
quested retirement for reasons of
impaired health. He is past the ell
gible retirement age 70 years.
Continued on Page Seven)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-09-20
AFRICA-ASIA GROUPS REALIGNED
DURING UN DEBATE ON MIDEAST

United Nations, N. Y, Sept. Is.
"A re-alignment within the %
nation Asian-African bloc, which
represents more than a third of
the total United Nations member
ship, has emerged during the re-
cent debates on the Mideast sit
uation before the General Assem-
bly's special emergency session.
In the past the bloc was an
anonymous grouping of nations
with nothing in common but their
geographical location, past of
colonial subsection for most of
them, and various degrees of eco
nomic underdevelopment. It's pol
icies were vaguely negative even
if pursued in the name Of peace
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-09-20
Negro Child
Says White Man
Raped Her

COLUMBUS, Miss.-(SpeciaD-
A nine-year-old Mayhem, Miss.
Negro girl claimed today she was
raped by a white man who offered
her a ride home yesterday after
noon.
The girl told Justice of the Peace
Robert Whitaker the man stopped
her in Mayhem as she walked home
from a friends home and offered
her a ride.
The child said she was returned
home within half an hour after
the man picked her up.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-09-20

Ball Room, opening with lunch
con at noon on Friday, September
26. DR.. Frank Davis, director of
research for Johnson Publications,
will be the luncheon speaker.
DR.. Davis will devote attention
to changing factors in the Negro
market and report on Ebony's an
nual Beverage Survey. The princi-
pal speaker for the afternoon sales
clinic will be Tony Pasan, vice
president and agency director,
Mid Continent Insurance Company,
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-09-20
Racial Tension So Far Kept Out
Of British Schools And COLLEGES

London, Eng, Sept. 15.-The ra-
cial tension in Britain has kept
out of the schools. Education au.'
thorities insist in will stay out.
Said the 'leadmaster Of a grade
school in London's biggest Negro
area:
81 don't known how many COL
cred children we have and | don't
want to know. So far we've had
no color problem. We might get
one if We start thinking of chill
dren in terms of black and white"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-09-20

all authority, power and
control over such schools, it's prin-
cipal, teachers, other employees and
all pupils now enrolled or ordered
to be enrolled will thereupon be
vested in the Commonwealth of
Virginia to be exercised by the gov
ernor," the governor said, quoting
provisions of the law.
Almond called on "all local Off
Gals and all citizens to cooperate
with the department of state po-
lice and local law enforcement of
ficers in the protection of public
Continued on Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-09-20
Chicago Called Worst Segregated
Large City In Magazine Article

New York, Sept. IS Chicago
today was called the worst segre-
gated large city in the United
States in a national magazine arti-
Gle.
The article in the current issue
of Look Magazine, "Chicago's
Segregation Tragedy" reported
that almost 100000 Negroes are
confined in the city's "Black Belt"
an area defined by "unspoken rules
and, too often, by mob action"
Every week, the magazine said,
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-09-20

Negroes are taking over 225 white
housing units, expanding the
"Black Belt" west and south to
middle class neighborhoods.
"The racial frontiers of our time
are not in the South but in the
Northern metropolitan areas" Jo-
seph D. Lehman, sheriff of Cook
County, declared in the article.
Look also noted charges Of the
NAACP that 80 per cent of the
city's children 60 to segregated
CONTINUED on Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-09-20

He pointed to red-walled yard.
Teen-age girls, white and colored,
were walking and talking together
in the same uniform of white
blouse, blue skirt, and white bobby
sox.
The night before some of their
elders had fought with bottles in
nearby street.
"If you write about this school,"
he asked, don't name it.
"These children read the papers
Continued on Page Seven)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-09-20
Governor Takes Over Virginia Schools

Richmond, Va.-Gov. ]. Lindsay
Almond Friday night took over "all
power and control" of the Warren
County High School which was
closed earlier in the day in the
wake of federal court indignation
order.
The governor in a letter to the
school board and school superin-
tendent of Warren County notified
them of his action and requested
that they inform teachers and par
cnts involved.
Almond said he was taking over
under provisions of state law.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-09-20
Tendon Paper
Reverses Stand On
CoIored Emigrants

London, Eng. Sept. 10 - The
Liberal London News Chronicle,
which first called for control Of
immigration Of persons into Brit
ain after recent race riots, has ad-
mitted it was wrong.
In a frank editorial Sept. IL,
the News Chronicle said that fol
lowing riots in London and Mott
Continued on Page Seven)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-09-20
New Prime
Minister Outlines
South Africa
Racial Policy
Policy OF Total
Segregation Aim
Despite Threat Of
Burning African
NatiOnalism

Capetown, Soutr Africa, Sept.
ia weekend press conference
with South Africa's new Prime
Minister, DR.. Hendrix F. YER
woerd, has strsna efs@ NE belief
that South Africa will become a
republic under his rule.
The new Prime Minister stated
frankly that his government is
dedicated to making South Africa
a republic but refused to be drawn
on the date of its declaration.
However in debating whether or
not such a republic would remain
within the British Commonwealth,
DR.. Verwoerd said significantly:
"This can only be decided at the
time republic is introduced and
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-09-20
Negroes Urged
ToE Enter Scarce
Job categories

Omaha, Neb. Sept. Is - A
United States Labor Department
official has urged Negroes to get
into scarce job categories to pro-
tect themselves against economic
recession.
Barriers of racial discrimination
fade away when there is an urgent
need for workers with certain
skills, Joseph S. Zeisel, chief of the
employment analysis section of the
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-09-20
PRESBYTERIAN Churchmen Would Use
Troops And Tanks If Necessary

NEW YORK.-Two leaders of
the United Presbyterian Church
said Wednesday they favor en-
forcement of Indignation at the
Little Rock, Ark, Central High
School with troops and tanks, if
necessary"
(The United Presbyterian Church
is recent union of two branches
of Northern Presbyterians. The
Southern Presbyterian Church de-
clined to join the union.)
The statement was made by the
Rev. DR.. Eugene Carson Blake,
chief administrative officer of the
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-09-20
Market Developers To Hold Sales
Clinic And Board Meeting In Chicago

Chicago, lII.-The National As
ISOLATION of Market Developers
will hold its annual board of d.
rectors meeting in Chicago in con-
junction with a sales clinic on
September 1927, according to an
nouncement made this week by Le-
Roy Jeffries, NAMD national pres
ident.
Mr.. Jeffries, who is vice pres
ident of Johnson Publishing Com
pany, Chicago, further announced
that. the sales clinic will be held
in the Blue Room of the Parkway
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-09-20

church in this country, and the
Rev. Dr. Theophilus M. Taylor,
presiding officer.
They said they drew up the
statement in the hope of influence
ing anyone who has anything to
do with the Little Rock situation
including the U. S. Supreme Court
which holds hearings on the case
Thursday.
Statement Said
The statement said in part:
eve deeply sympathize with the
citizens of Little Rock for the an
Continued on Page Seven)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-09-20
FIRST NEGRO STUDENT ENTERS
FLORIDA univ. Law SCHOOL

GAINESVILLE, Fla. Sept. Is The
first Negro ever granted admis-
sion to an all-white Florida school
reported today for enrolment in
the University Of Florida law
school.
George H. Starke, a husky, we'll
dressed Negro from Orlando, walk
ed into a side entrance of the uni
versity law building and took
seat on the front row of the audi
forum where all the students gath
cred.
There was no demonstrations or
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-09-20
New InterdenominationaI Center
For Negroes To Cost 1900, 900

of religion at Morris Brown Col
lege, Atlanta, AFRICAN Methodist
EpiscopaD; the graduate program
in religion at Morehouse College,
Atlanta, (Baptist); and the semi
nary at Phillips School of Theology
at Jackson, Tenn, christian Meth
odist Episcopal).
The center will provide faculty
instruction, library, chapel and
buildings for general use. Each
of the cooperating denominations
will provide supervision of denom-
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-09-20
Study Group Won't Recommend
Partition OF Alabama County

tive session, a group of legislators
was named to draw up some plan
for abolition of the county, or re-
duction Of it in size, if either me-
thod were found to be desirable to
preserve white supremacy.
Recently, after a number of pub
lie hearings over the past few
months, the study group reported
that it was unwilling at the pres
ent time to recommend either par
titioning of the county or it's aboli-
ton.
The group had encountered some
opposition in the surrounding coun-
Continued on Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-09-20

ATLANTA, Ga. - Construction
of the buildings of the projected
interdenominational til illogical
center for Negroes on a new cam
pus adjacent to Atlanta University
is expected to begin Immediately
with a recent s1,5OO,O00 building
fund grant from the Sealantic
Fund.
The INSTRUMENTATION Theo-
logical Center will combine the
educational functions of Cannon
Theological Seminary, Atlanta,
(Methodist); the graduate faculty
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-09-20

disturbance other than that Great
ed by about 25 newsmen and pho
tographers crowding around the
youth.
He told a UPI reporter he was
UNDERSTANDABLE nervous"
~ would rather not say anything
at this time until I know what
my status will be-" Starke said.
Most of the white students en-
tered the law building by the front
entrance but Starke suddenly ap-
peared on the campus and walked
Continued on Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-09-20

Montgomery, Ala, Sept. 10 -
Macon County, Ala, with Ne
gro population seven tines as large
as the white population, is not
soon going to be abolished as had
been proposed during the last ses-
sion of the state Legislature.
White sponsors of such move
had argued that this was the only
way to prevent an ultimate ascen-
dancy of Negro voters over whites.
The number of registered Negro
voters, however, remains substan-
TALLY lower than that of white
voters.
During the most recent legisla-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-09-20
Negro Students
Quit Arkansas
Integrated School

Ozark, Ark, Sept. Is - Three
Negro girls who integrated the
Ozark high school have quit after
white girls pushed them in a hall,
it was learned today.
The mother of one of the girls
said they were walking down the
hall Tuesday when a group of
white girls pushed them.
She said school Supt. R. L.
Graves went to the assistance of
the Negro girls and the white
girls turned on him."
Graves sent both the white girls
and the Negro girls home. The
white girls returned to school We'd
nesday, but the Negroes stayed at
home.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-09-20
Seek Return To Separate But Equal Educational Formula
President Asks
Little Rock To
Avoid Defiance
Of Court Order
Statement Issued
Following Courts
Unanimous Decision

Newport, R. I. Sept. 10 - Pres
ident Eisenhower today appealed
to the "sense of civic responsible
ty" Of Little Rock residents "to
avoid defiance" of the Supreme
Court order that the school board
there proceed with immediate in
tegration of Central High School.
The Presidents statement:
"The Supreme Court of the Unit
ed States has rendered a unan;-
Continued on Page Ski
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-09-20

and the ACKNOWLEDGMENT in the
quarrels among the great powers
or blocs of powers.
But as the Asian-African ma
tions came to face mounting po-
litical responsibilities, and the need
to define their policies toward
other parts of the world, it was
inevitable that subgroups should
emerge.
Shortly after the first confer
ence of independent African states
held at Accra, Ghana, last April,
Ethiopia Ghana, Liberia, Libya.
Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, and the
United Arab Republic organized a
subgroup within the Asian-African
Continued on Page Two) {
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-09-20
White Preacher
Didn't Know
College Mixed

Houston, Tex, Sept. IS. = A
white Baptist preacher today
walked into Texas Southern Uni
versity, a Negro institution, and
announced he was going to register
ITO prove to these people that
neither the Supreme Court nor
the NAACP is the law of the
land"
The Rev. E. A. Munroe, AZ, pas
tor of the Lindale Missionary Bap-
fist Church, was accompanied by
10 of his followers.
He carried a huge American flag
Continued on Page Two)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-09-20
Negro Students Unwanted At LSU
Advised To Go I o Southern University

Baton Rouge - Louisiana State
University has warned Negroes
they are "unwanted" and their con-
tinued attendance at LSU or its
branches would result in "enmity,
instead of feeling of mutual re-
spect
1t was the strongest statement
issued by the LSU Board of Su-
pervisors in a series of racial in
tegration suits dating back almost
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-09-20
Jamaica Leader
caIIs.For Great
Patience In
Dealing With
britain's Race
Problems
Chief Minister
Norman Manley
Opposes Limiting
Colored Emigrants

London, Eng, Sept. 15.-In the
course Ct his fact-finding tour O.
Great Britain, Norman Marley.
Chief Minister of Jamaica, has
called for great patience" in deal
ing with Britain's minority racial
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-09-20
Rev. cIennon Kline
Stops Fasting
And Praying

Gulfport, Miss, Sept. 15-Rev.
Clennon King has quit fasting and
praying in his Gulfport church and
one of his stewards said he ap-
parently got favorable results"
King started fasting and pray
ing in his African Methodist Epis-
copal Church last Monday night.
He had said he would continue un-
til some Negro family offers to try
to enroll a child in a Mississippi
Continued on Page Severn
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-09-20
Pittsburgh
Courier Editor
Gets College Post

Pittsburgh - Robert M. Rat
cliffe has resigned as managing
editor of the Pittsburgh Courier to
accept the positions of director of
public relations and alumni secre-
tary at his alma mater, LeMoyne
college, in Memphis.
Radcliffe had been associated
with the Courier for Is years.
Before going to the Courier, he
was a member of the editorial
staff of the Atlanta Daily World.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-09-20

10 years.
After a three-hour discussion
Saturday behind closed doors the
board revealed it had asked the
State Board of Education when
the New Orleans branch of South
ern University, state supported
Negro institution, would be ready
for business.
State Education Supt. Shelby
Continued on Page Eight
Smyrna times., 1958-10-09

Green, Donald Kozicki, Lynn
Wheatley, James Wilkinson,
Lynn Pietschmann, Sandra Hurd,
Carolyn Davis, Ruth Ann Con-
ner.
Special Grade, Mrs. Fox,
teacher-Ricky Foraker, Patri-
cia Ann Sapp, Shirley Schmeus-
ser, Emma Satterfeld.
Smyrna times., 1958-10-09

teacher-Jerry Johnson, Larry
Pedrick, Jay Pratt, George
Straughn, Lynn Thornton, Allen
Davis, Clinton Robertson, San
dra Darrell, Hope Hutchinson,
Mildred Ryan, Nancy Wheatley,
Rebecca Wiley, Sandra Turner.
Grade 8-B, Mr.. Whaton,
teacher-James Fox, Jam e S
Smyrna times., 1958-10-09

secretary.
Grade l0-2-William Conner,
president; Clara Louise Cole,
vice president; Lana Reed, Sec
rotary.
Grade l0-3-Bruce Pearce,
president; Carol Gordon, vice
president; Joan Stevens, secre-
tapy.
Smyrna times., 1958-10-09

er-Ernest Blendt, Robert Cross
ley, John Ellingsworth, William
Shockley, Glenn Wright, Eunice
Ziegler, Mary Ellen Voshell,
Doris Savin, Fern Paxon, Shir-
ley Long, Sandra Gonce, Viola
Duchatel, Rita Diemicke, Patri-
cha Diemicke.
Grade ga, Mr.. Kohland,
Smyrna times., 1958-10-09

personnel giving the course
Registered Representatives and
that this Investment and Securi-
ties class will start promptly at
seven o'clock and endeavor to be
finished each evening by nine o.
clock shortly thereafter.
irginia And is she going to let good old Virginia:
Henry attend? -
ohm: Yes as a matter of fact she rushed
right over and told him that if he
would telephone Dover, Delaware
6-1453 in the morning he could
get copy of the agenda with
description of the various subjects
which to be covered indicat-
ing the films which are to be
shown on each evening" the names
of the personnel from the Dover
Office of Laird Bissell and Needs
giving each lecture and also the 1,;;;
name of each guest speaker sin'
'rgnia: Well if Mrs Jones and Henry are
attending most certainly think
that should attend What did
you say the dates for the classes
are?
ohm: They are held in the ballroom of
the Dover Hotel on these days:
Tuesday, October IA, 1850
Tuesday, October FL, 1858
Tuesday, October, 49, 1858 Viroinia.
Wednesday, November 5, 1858
TUESDAY the 4th is Election
Day.
Wednesday, November IL, 1858
TUESDAY the 18th is Veterans
Day. -,
Tuesday, November Is, 1858 John.
rgnia: What about the cost for all of this?
ohm: There is cost except just
time and told Mrs. Jones that
because there the matters of
refreshments and arrangements
to be made, registration for the
course is necessary and of course,
told her that when Henry called
Dover 6-1453 to be sure and give
their names, their mailing address Virginia:
and their telephone number to
to either Mrs Nichols Mrs.
James.
'irginia: What do you mean refreshments? John:
ohm: AT eight o'clock each evening
that the meets they have
break at which time coffee and Virginia.
cokes served and this will GER
Smyrna times., 1958-10-09

Junior High School Football
Team Travels To Milford
Coach Tom Mulligan will take
Smyrna times., 1958-10-09
CLAYTON SCHOOL

Chase, Robert Heller, James
Hewes, Andrew Jackson, Robert
Justis, Judy Kane, Paul Mast,
Lewis Morris, Martin Schmeus-
ser, Charlotte Sylvester, Patricia
Travis, Nancy Wilkins.
Grade 7-B, Mrs. Mears, teach