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Jackson advocate., 1958-12-27
SCHOOL TEACHER CLAIMS 100000 DAMAGE FROM DEFAMATION
FARISH Street NEWSSTAND
OWNER LEADER IN movement TO
GUST PROMINENT LOCAL PASTOR
Judge Orders Immediate Election
To Settle Church Controversy
Big Crowd Attends Hearing Wednesday
Big Crowd Attends Hearing Wednesday

The affairs of greater Clark
Street Baptist Church, one of the
oldest and one of the leading Negro
Baptist churches of the city, whose
pastor is one of the leading min
listers of the state, and secretary
of the General Missionary Baptist
State Convention, were aired last
Wednesday afternoon during a
hearing held in the crowded court
room of Chancery Judge A. F.
Summers.
The hearing was held as re-
suit of a petition to oust Rev. c.
L. West, the pastor of the church.
The leader and instigator of the
movement to oust Rev. West as
pastor of the church, identified at
the hearing, is Tom Armstrong,
owner and operator of the Fafish
Street Newsstand, and part-time
photographer, who is Joined in the
petition by William Lowe, Wilson
Torrey and Lewis Tucker.
Although the petition bears only
their names, Armstrong and his
three associates attempted to show
the judge that their actions and
efforts to oust the pastor repre-
sented the views of the majority
members of the church, but
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MONTGOMERY, ALA, NEGRO
SCHOOL TEACHER FILES $100, ,00Q
DAMAGE SUIT AGAINST JET
MAGAZINE PUBLISHERS
CHARGE Defamation In Article
Published After Rift With
Martin Luther King Aide
Suit Filed In Montgomery Circuit Court
Suit Filed In Montgomery Circuit Court

Montgomery, Ala. Dec. % - A
Negro school teacher who was re-
GENTLY acquitted of attacking a
Negro preacher, and integration
leader with a hatchet, repeatedly
because of his attention to his
wife, filed 100000 suit against
the publishers of Jet Magazine last
Wednesday for an alleged defama-
tory article against him published
in the Magazine.
Prof. Edward w. Davis filed the
suit in Montgomery Circuit Court
against the Johnson Publishing Co.
of Chicago publishers of the wide
ly read pocket sized Negro week
ly magazine.
Davis recently was acquitted of
assault with intent to murder the
Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, aide of
the Rev. Martin Luther King, pres
ident of the Montgomery Improve
ment Assn.
Davis suit stems from an article
entitled "Rev. NJ. L. Kings court
fine paid by police commissioner"
which appeared in the Sept. Is is
sue of Jet.
The suit charges the article con-
tanned "false and defamatory mat
ter or charges reflecting upon the
conduct" of Davis, "subjecting him
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Jackson advocate., 1958-12-27
The|dor Lang
Given Second
Life Sentence In
Laurel Rape Case
Lawyers File Notice
Of Appeal To State
Supreme Court

Laurel, Miss. Dec. % - Theldor
Lang, local Negro man, and for
mer school teacher drew his second
life sentence in the state peniten-
tiary here Thursday, on the identi-
cal charge for which he was first
sentenced, the rape of a white
women here four years ago.
Lang was granted a new trial
by the state Supreme Court after
evidence uncovered at the scene of
the crime following his first con-
viction pointed to the possibility
that another man, not Lang COM
mitted the crime. Lang has stead
lily maintained his innocence.
However, after testimony in his
defense by the prose cutting attor-
ney in the first trial, and despite
the action of the state Supreme
Court, a jury here Thursday after
noon returned another verdict of
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Jackson advocate., 1958-12-27
Laurel Man
Executed For
Baby Staying

Parchman, Miss. Dec. 20 - A
youthful Negro man met death
sobbing in the gas chamber of the
State Penitentiary here Friday af-
ternoon. He was Allen Dean, Jr.,
%, of Laurel, Mississippi, executed
for the Staying of an 18-month-old
Negro baby, Shirley Ann Hayes
last April.
Dean was strapped in the gas
chamber at 1907 pm, and was pro-
nounced dead Is minutes later.
Dean walked quickly into the
gas chamber, was silent as guards
strapped him in the death chair,
but began weeping and muttering
shortly before the deadly fumes
snuffed out his life.
Chaplain R. B. Hicks said Dean
told him shortly before his death
that he was ready to die, but re-
fused to discuss the crime.
Witnesses testified during the
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Jackson advocate., 1958-12-27
Ark. Supreme
Court UphoIds
Anti-NAAcP Law

Little Rock, Ark.-The Arkansas
Supreme Court today held that
cities have the right to examine
financial and membership records
Of the National Association for the
Advancement Of Colored People.
In q 4-to-2 decision, the court
held valid Little Rock and North
Little Rock city ordinances based
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Jackson advocate., 1958-12-27
Christmas Is Very Different Now
For Thousands OF Ex-Sharecroppers

Washington, D. c. Dec. % -
Christmas is very different now
for thousands of former tenants,
sharecroppers, and day laborers
who have bought farms Of their
own over the years with the help
of the Farmers Home Administra-
tion of the U. S. Department of
Agriculture.
Things are much better for them
at Christmas time and all year.
round, say officials of the agency.
But it Is during the holiday season
that many Of the families are re-
minded how far they have come.
Typical Of the B8,674 white and
colored farmers who have received
ownership loans from Farmers
Home are Mr.. and Mrs. John Bran
don Of Tchula, Miss. They can re-
member some sharecropper years
when the cotton crop wss short and
Jackson advocate., 1958-12-27
Detroiters Sign $190,000 United
States Agreement For Expanded
Lumber 0nerations In Liberia

The loan is the first granted for
development in Liberia by the re-
cently-created Development Loan
Fund, . u. s. Government agency
established by Congress to promote
foreign economic development.
Operating under the corporate
name Of Liberian-A American Enter
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they came out in debt with Christ
mas just ahead.
eve came out in debt about
half the nine years we sharecrop-
Ped" says Mr.. Brandon. 1--WE just
didn't have enough good land, and
we didn't know much about i'm
proved farming practices"
Their sharecropping days ended
It years ago when they applied to
Farmers Home for a loan to buy a
small farm. The loan was approved
and they purchased 48 acres with
a fairly good house on it.
"When the Government made US
= loan to buy our farm" Mr.. Bran
don recalls, ut was the only place
in the world that would extend us
that kind Of credit, because wa
didn't own = thing 1ut q cow and
. little furniture"
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Pretoria, South Africa, Dec. 20
The South African government
has officially announced that it
will not take part in the first
meeting of the Economic Commits
sion for Africa, due to be held in
Adds Ababa, Ethiopia, Dec. 70.
The government states that the
terms of reference Of the commits
sion, which was set up by the
Jackson advocate., 1958-12-27
nationaIisnl In
Africa Seen As
Force To Be
Reckoned In
Accra confab
Observers Impressed
By Moderation And
Tolerance OF Ind.
African States

Capetown, Africa, Dec. 18 Al
rican nationalism has clearly es-
tablished itself as a force to be
reckoned with at the Accra confer
ence.
Attended by African nationalist
leaders from all parts of the con-
tinent, the conference has just end :
ed in the Ghanaian capital on a
note of vigor and determination.
The gathering was at the non
governmental level and so many Of
it's resolutions have no guarantee
of implementation.
And yet it a United States of
Africa run by Africans is as Far
off as ever, the conference has
nevertheless seen the birth of P
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Jackson advocate., 1958-12-27

lens of a social nature.
The clinic, which was established
at Southern two years ago, is now
housed in the million dollar class
room building, occupied by the Uni
versity this past September.
A large portion of the special
education program is devoted to
in-service teacher training. Cur
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Jackson advocate., 1958-12-27

Washington, D. c., December ~,
1958-American everywhere will
Join in the 34th annual celebration
Of Negro History Week, February
e-i5, 1869. The theme of the OBJ
servance will be NEGRO History
A Foundation for a Proud Ameri-
ca"
A special feature of the 1869 Ne
gro History Week will be the Sec
Jackson advocate., 1958-12-27
Diggs Urges The United States To
Improve Attitude Toward Africa

Pointing out that many impor-
tant African leaders, including
Ghana's Prime Minister, Kwame
Nkrumah, were educated in this
country, the Negro Congressman
warned that this favorable factor
will be forfeited unless the United
States "takes a more realistic atti-
tude in it's relations with African
governments"
He said Americans dealing with
African countries reflect both Gin
difference and a lack of under
standing" and emphasized that
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Jackson advocate., 1958-12-27
SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY HAS
SPECIAL EDUCATION CLINIC

Baton Rouge, La, Dec. 49,
Public school pupils in four Louis
lana parishes and Southern Uni
versity students are fortunate in
having the service of a Special
Education Clinic, established at
Southern, which is designed to de-
tect, diagnose, and provide remedial
services for those having difficult
ties in speech, hearing and prob
Jackson advocate., 1958-12-27
cO0pERATIVETESTINc PROGRAM
CONDUCTED FOR UNcF COLLEGES

New York, Dec. 19.-The United
Negro College Fund will admin
ister group examinations for its
member colleges again in 1859, ac-
cording to DR.. Benjamin E. Mays,
Fund president. The tests are
available to high school juniors and
seniors seeking scholarships and
admissions to any of these private
Jackson advocate., 1958-12-27

Detroit, Mich, Dec. 22.-Con-
gresham Chas. c. Diggs, Jr., told
a Detroit Press Conference that
"the United States is in danger of
losing the present advantage it
holds in Africa to the Soviet Un-
ion."
Diggs attended the All-African
Peoples Conference in Accra,
Ghana, December 5-13, as an OBJ
server for the United States Gov
ernment. He was the only elected
American public official at the his
toric meeting Of Independent At
rican nations.
Jackson advocate., 1958-12-27
South Africa Government baIks At
Coming African Economic confab

United Nations Economic and So
cial Council last April to coordi-
nate African economic develop
ment, deal with Africa as a single
and indivisible region.
The South African Government
has always held the view that
there is a division between the
interests of the countries south
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Jackson advocate., 1958-12-27
Supreme Court
To Examine
NC. Voter
Literacy Test

WASHINGTON.-A challenge to
North Cardinals literacy test for
voters has been accepted fer ar
gument before the Supreme Court.
The court agreed Tuesday to ex-
anime Negro woman's suit, which
is also on the docket of special
three judge federal court in Raj
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Jackson advocate., 1958-12-27

Vicksburg, Miss, Dec. 20.-A
Negro woman Saturday charged in
a civil suit filed in circuit court
that Warren County Supervisor
Paul A. Pride beat her in her home
last Sunday.
Winnie Terry asked $4,000 dam
ages for alleged injuries.
After the suit was filed it was
disclosed there had been criminal
Jackson advocate., 1958-12-27

ly supported, accredited, four-year
colleges.
'More than 5000 candidates are
expected to take the UNCF's CO.
operative Intercollegiate Examina-
tions this year." DR.. Mays said.
The tests will be given in 265 CEN
ters throughout the country be-
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Jackson advocate., 1958-12-27
Florida Student
Placement Law
Held Valid

Miami, Fla, Dec. pa federal
Judge today ruled invalid the pro-
visions of the Florida constitution
requiring separate but equal ia
cilities for white and Negro school
children.
However, Judge Joseph P. Lieb
said the state pupil assignment
law-enacted in an effort to pre-
serve school segregaticn-was not
challenged and remains in effect.
The ruling came in suit against
the Dade County School Board
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Jackson advocate., 1958-12-27
FLORIDA MAYOR DEMANDS
punishment FOR HATE GROUPS

Jewish groups was quoted in an
article "The South Fights Bomb
ing" in the new issue of Look Mag
azine.
Reporting that the SOB has
made excellent initial progress"
the Mayor pointed out that cit
cannot become a complete success
until every responsible citizen,
North, South, East and West, for
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Jackson advocate., 1958-12-27
Thirtv-Fourth Annual Celebration
Of Negro History Week Set

ond celebration Of Proud Ameri-
can Day, which is slated to occur
on the birth dates Of Abraham
Lincoln and Frederick Douglass,
February 18th and February 18th,
respectively.
Negro History Week ID sponsor
ed by the Association for the Study
of NEGRO Life and History, with
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Jackson advocate., 1958-12-27
Negro Woman Files $50, 900 Suit
Against Warren County Official

action in the case in Visksburg po-
lice court, but Police Chief Herman
Wicker refused to discuss the case
R. Jess Brown, Negro attorney
representing the woman, said she
went to police after the alleged
attack and charged Pride with as
sault and battery. Brown said po.
lice did nothing about the case un-
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Jackson advocate., 1958-12-27

Little Rock, Ark, Dec. 18 - A
former Communist today drew for
an Arkansas Legislative Council
investigating committee history
of Communist conspiracy in the
United States, detailing particular
ly the party's influence on race re-
lations in the south.
Manning Johnson, New York
Negro, said he was a card-carrying
Jackson advocate., 1958-12-27
Negroes Picket
Five Stores In
Kansas City

Kansas City, Mo.-Negro pickets
paraded in front of five downtown
department stores Saturday pro-
testing what they said was dis
elimination against serving Ne
groes in their cafeterias.
The protest began as a boycott
last Tuesday by the Community
Committee for Social Action. At
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Jackson advocate., 1958-12-27
MANNING JOHNSON LINKS REDS
TO NATIONS RACE RELATIONS

Communist from 1880 to 1910 and
left the party because he was disil-
lusioned by Moscow's betrayal of
German Reds in a Nazi-Russian
treaty.
Johnson was the author of an
article recently published in one
of the nations leading periodicals
urging Negroes to return to the
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Jackson advocate., 1958-12-27
Confidential Saws
Faubus Attend ed
Reds College

NEW YORK. Confidential
Magazine, a publication that has
made headlines with Hollywood
exposes has turned to national fig
ures in its broadened editorial pol
icy. A copyrighted article in the
current Confidential probes the
background of Gov. Orval Faubus
of Arkansas and reveals that Fau-
bus was at one time student
leader at Commonwealth college,
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Jackson advocate., 1958-12-27

New York, Dec. PA demand
that the groups and individuals
responsible for a wave of "hate"
bombings in 1858 be tracked down
and punished was made today by
Mayor Hayden Burns of Jackson
vile, Florida.
Mayor Hayden who formed the
Southern Conference on Bombings
last May to gather evidence on the
operation of anti-Negro and anti
Jackson advocate., 1958-12-27
$437,548.oo
Contract Awarded
For Marion
County Negro
hieh School

Columbia, Miss, Dec. 20-Bill
Archer, Architect-Engineer said
Thursday that q contract for con-
struction Of the Marion County
High school for Negroes has been
awarded to Polk Construction Co.,
Of Columbia which submitted the
CONTINUED on Page Three)
Jackson advocate., 1958-12-27
Christmas Party
Launches Drive To
Equip Wing In
First alive
Operated Hospital!
In kenya
Lena Horne Cuts
Ribbon AS Many
NOtables Attend
Delta's Event

New York City, December 21-
With various prominent persons in
attendance, Delta Sigma Theta So
rority launched at it's annual
Christmas party today national
drive to equip a maternity wing
for Africa's first native-operated
hospital.
Lena Horne Cuts Ribbon
Stage and screen star Lena
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Jackson advocate., 1958-12-27
Haitian Revolt
Rumored Police
Chief 0usted

Port-Au-Prince, Haiti-Amid ru-
mors that a group Of officers was
plotting to seize the government,
President Francois DuValier fired
his army chief and the entire gen.
eral staff this week.
Col. Pierre Merceron, chief of
police, Port-au-Prince, was named
the new chief Of staff and raised
to the rank of brigadier general.
Ousted was Maj. Gen. Maurice
Flambert. No reason was given
for his removal.
Jackson advocate., 1958-12-27
cHANA PRIME MINISTER MOVES
T0PERFEcT UNION With GUINEA

Guinea, immediately.
The two governments also had
agreed to set up an economic mis-
sion, he said.
DR.. Nkrumah and Sekou Toure,
premier of newly Independent
Guinea, announced Nov. % their
agreement on constituting the un-
ion. At the same time, Ghana de-
clared it's intention Of lending $685.
100000 to Guinea,
AS first step, the two countries
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Jackson advocate., 1958-12-27
Segregated Parks
Again 0utIawed
By High Court

NEW ORLEANS,-The U. S.
Supreme Court has reaffirmed for
the second time an injunction pro-
hibiting segregation of facilities at
New Orleans sprawling City Park,
according to reports here.
Word of the action was received
by the clerk of the Fifth Circuit
Court of Appeals here yesterday.
Judge J. Skelly Wright issued
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Jackson advocate., 1958-12-27

Accra, Ghana, Dec. 18.-Ghana
Prime Minister DR.. Kwame Nkru-
NAH introduced in Parliament Dec.
IL a motion approving the recent
Ghana-Guinea declaration consti-
tuting themselves the nucleus OF
a union of West African states.
Moving the approval motion, DR..
Nkrumah said he had appointed
N. A. Welbeck, Minister Without
Portfolio, as Minister OF State for
Guinea Affairs. Mr.. Welback was
going to Conakry, the capital OF
Jackson advocate., 1958-12-27

Washington, D. c., December 10,
1854 100000 U. s. loan agree
ment was signed in Washington,
D. c. this week by q group OF De-
troit Negro business and profess
sional men for expansion Of : lum-
Der operation In Liberia, the To-
cation Of West Africa's finest for
ests.
Jackson advocate., 1958-12-27
Negro Man In
State Prison
For Unlawful
Capitalization With
White Woman
Ordered Freed
Supreme Court Rules
Crime Not Subject
To Prison Sentence

Laurel, Miss, Dec. 22.-James
Scott, 45-year-old Negro man,
convicted for unlawful cohabitation
with a white woman, now serving
a 15-month sentence in the state
penitentiary, has been ordered
freed by Circuit Judge Lunsford
Casey.
Judge Casey, last Wednesday,
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Jackson advocate., 1958-12-27

PASTORS DEFENDER: Atty.
Sidney r. Tharp, whose brilliant
defense of the pastor of Greater
Clark Street Baptist Church before
Chaneery Judge A. F. Summers
here last Wednesday has won the
highest praise from the large group
cf ministers present during the
hearing.
The people's voice., 1958-06-20
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
By GRETCHEN G. BILLINGS

further away from the people-whose
contact is through the legislature.
Already 500 of state income is
earmarked which leaves the legisla-
ture out in the cold as far as con-
trolling expenditures and thus gov
ernment itself. 1t is generally ac-
cepted the way to control govern
ment is through the purse strings
held firmly and tightly by the leg
islature.
But the biggest frankenstein we
are building is through our bond
ing practices-in particular at our
units of higher education.
There is this thing called "open
end bond issues. hope to have time
to do little background research
on this matter, but for the nonce the
fact of the existence of the practice
is enough for discussion purposes.
Using this open end bond issue the
university units are continually in
creasing their physical plant. This
practice is mentioned by Attorney
0ChCIdl alQCloOiI III CllC oCOIy CloC-
where in this paper and brings us to
the question of where does it end?
These bond issues are floated on
the principle that they will be paid
for by student fees, which seems
practical at first glance, but it
doesn't end there-because there is
the additional cost of maintenance
that must be found by the legislature
out of our pockets and we
had no choice on whether we thought
we could afford the physical plant in
the first place let alone main
tain it.
1t is entirely possible all the things
that have been done at these uni
versity units are vital and necessary,
but obviously we have no means to
check the matter as things presently
stand and it is about time we
found a means.
The people's voice., 1958-06-20

No column last week, but was
working a wonderful time
working, too, by golly.
| spoke at the Fallon County Farm
ers Union Picnic at the new state
park between Baker and Ekalaka
called Medicine Rocks. The park is
most interesting I was surprised
to see such colorful country.
Everyone was real nice to me, and
following the picnic l was taken to
Ekalaka to see the museum they have
there.
The museum is an amazing thing.
They have put together a dinosaur
out of bones found in that area and
they have gathered together artifacts
that have been dug up there that are
remains that go back to the time the
area was dense jungle and lake
bed. l tried to visualize it as it was
many millions of years ago when
those ugly, awkward mammoth mon
sters roamed the country, and the
changes up to the present that are
represented IN the Ekalaka Museum.
The people there are rightly proud
of the collection representing Mon
tana history and geography back
through the ages.
But this week l was again back at
my chains, covering meetings and
for my mean old boss.
This was Montana Legislative
Council week, and they got into this
business of whether the Board of Ex-
aminers or the Board of Education
Cor any other state board) has au-
thority to purchase property without
first having the consent of the leg
islature.
1t is we'll for the legislature to look
into matters like these. For 10 these
many years the fiscal policy of state
government is moving further and
The people's voice., 1958-06-20
Fair Labor Standards
Act In 10th Year

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The Fair
Labor Standards Act, one of the ma
TONS basic labor laws, will be 20
years old this year. 1t was signed into
law on June 25, 1888, and became
effective the following October "a.
The Act is also called the Federal
Wage and Hour Law. 1t sets forth the
statutory minimum wage, overtime
pay requirements, and child labor pro-
visions that cover employees engaged
in interstate commerce or producing
goods for interstate commerce.
Since its passage the ELSA has
proved its worth as valuable instru-
ment for protecting the basic stand
ards of wages, hours, and working
conditions of American workers. An
advanced instrumental social justice
when passed, it has been improved
since as steady progress in the well
fare of working men and women has
been made.
More than "a million workers in
100000 plants, businesses, companies
and other establishments are now
covered by the Act, 9 million more
than were covered by the original
Act of 1888.
The people's voice., 1958-06-20

Water is rapidly becoming the ma
TONS most precious natural resource.
For any farmer who needs low-cost
electric power, for the irrigation
farmer, and indeed for any farmer,
this is a critical problem. 1t is gen.
orally conceded that unless America
does something to preserve it's vast
water resources now, it will face Sc
we're water shortages in the future.
According to the Department of
Commerce, use of water for drinking
and bathing will increase IS %-from
% billion to 81 billion gallons per day
by 1867; the use of water for indus
trial processing and steam electric
power generation will increase 1000
from 120 billion to 246 billion gal
Ions per day in 1875, and the use of
water for irrigation will increase AZ %
from 12O billion to ITO billion gal
Ions per day by 1875.
To illustrate another increasing