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Arizona sun., 1958-05-22
Six Fire Victims Bodies Sent To Texas

gone to sleep and was awakened
"by the heat" He said he saw
his bed was on fire and jumped
out the window.
The dead are Aaron Williams,
J., and Larry Eugene WilliamS,3
children of Mrs. Freddie Mae
Williams: and Leroy Warrick,
Jr, 3, Hickey Joe Warrick, /,
Wanda Lou Warrick, S months,
and Leonard Joe Cleveland, 8,
children Of Mrs. Betty Warrick.
Leroy Warrick. ST., father Of
three of the children, who was
in Los Angeles, his mother, Mrs.
Henrietta Warrick of L. A. and
the maternal grandmother, Mrs.
Olivia Shaw of Ell Paso joined
the grieved mothers here for
the trip to Littlefield.
Arizona sun., 1958-05-22
NEWCOMER TAKES OVER
RECORD SHOP

Clarence. "Chuck" Lane an
nounces this week that he is
the new owner of the Valley
Record Shop, 1852 East Wash
ington, formerly the 18th Street
Record Bar.
Mr.. Lane, newcomer here,
originally from Chicago, said,
he attended De Paul University
there, where he majored In
merchandising, and at the early
age of 19 was in the furniture
and appliance business.
After serving a stint with the
US Air Force as an academic
instructor, he headed West,
Lane stated, and finally settled
in Phoenix.
Chuck" as he prefers to be
Arizona sun., 1958-05-22
Graduation Exercises At Two
Elementary Schools Wednesday

The Percy L. Julian School
eighth grade class of 1858, will
participate in Roosevelt Dis
trict's combined graduation ex-
erciSeS at South Mountain High
School, Wednesday, May %, at
800 P. M.
On Achievement Day, Friday,
May %, the outstanding boy
award will be given to Louis
Herrera, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Louis Herrera, 1645 East War
ner; outstanding girl award
will be given to Linda Bennett,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Bennett, 5043 South 21st
Way; Julian Award, Raymond
Warren, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Warren, 2161 East Violet
Drive; Principal Award, Rachel
Ramirez. daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joe Ramirez, 25O1 East Mo-
bile Street.
There will be 125 pupils grad
uating this year listed as fol-
lows:
Kenneth Baker, Margie Bak-
er, Mary Balderas, Joseph
Barnes, Geraldine Barnett, Lin
da Bennett, Alice Brandon, Al
fred Branham, Alfredo Bran
ham, James Brooks and Linda
Drummer.
Also Leroy Brooks, Shirley
Calvin, Leon Chambers, Jean
Chavez, Lexther Cheatham,
Betty Cobbs, Bertha Coles, Ber-
tha Golfer, Bernice Connor, Lar
ry Criddle, Melvin Culver, Ro-
bert Daniels, Willie Daniels,
Georgia Davis, Kermit Day, An
drew Demby, Ethel Jean DEM
cry, John Dryer. Leslie Dunlap.
Bette Jean Dunn, Leon Dur
ant, Kenneth Ellis, Ella Fig
ureS, Inez FoStor, Mary Ann
Fulton, Walter GainOuS, Esther
Garcia, Cheryl Geissler, James
Glider, Marvin Graves, Mar
shall Green, Terry Lee Green,
Willie M. Greer. Martha Ham
mondS, Margie Hawkins, Buell.
ah Haygood, Louis Herrera,
Brenda Hightower, Clayburn
Hutchinson and Jerry v. James.
Also Edna Johnson, Eddie
Johnson, Joseph Johnson,
Robert johnson Theorda john
son, Bessie Jones, Coleman
Jones, Edgar William Jones,
James Jones, Burnard Jordan,
Shirley King, Charlie Kirven,
Sammie L. Kitchen. Nathaniel
Knight, Josh Earl Lacy, Doro.-
thy Cozette Lagway, Lonnie Lee
Landrum. James Earl Laws.
ErneSto Leon, James Malron,
Arizona sun., 1958-05-22

called, said that in addition to
operating the record shop, he
is kept busy with his nightly
radio show over KONI (14O0)
from II to II which features
Jazz, swing and blues, and also
week end appearances with hi
fl sound show in the lounge at
Prince Hall, 4th Street and
Jefferson.
He said he wants to make
good on his own and hopes with
the support of the community,
to get fOothold here in order
to- better serve the community.
Arizona sun., 1958-05-22

Mr.. Hill said that "the eco
nomic level of Negroes remains
substantially below that of the
white population"
Arizona sun., 1958-05-22


Of attendants choen from Ousand
ing group high schools The
Schwaemme,
attendant JOnnie
Union S. senior Second aen
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new VOTERS REGISTRATION BILL
DESIGNED TO CURB NEGRO VOTE
CERTAIN OF PASSAGE after
GOV. vET0ES ORIGINAL BILL
New Bill Will Restore Power To
Register Voters To Circuit Clerk
GOV. AND LEGISLATIVE LEADERS
REPORT IN AGREEMENT ON NEW BILL

A New Voters Registration Bill
was enroute to enactment by the
State Legislature Tuesday follow
ing the Governors Monday Night
veto of a bill previously passed
during the current legislative ses-
sion. The new bill a substitute for
the vetoed bill will allow the Circuit
Clerk to continue as Registrar,
but with a lawyer added to his
office as an advisor on deciding
who is qualified to vote.
Both the Governor and the
House Sponsors of the bill which
he vetoed are reported as being
in agreement on the substitute
bill.
The Bill which the Governor
vetoed took away from the Circuit
Clerk the duties of Registrar and
authorized the Chancery Judge
to appoint a registrar at his dis
erection to serve for a period of
Continued on Page Five)
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Prime Minister
ehru Resents
Color Bar Against
Indians In Africa
Threatens Recall Of
Indian Diplomats

Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia,
April 5 - What Lord Malvern,
chief architect of the Federation
of the two Rhodesias and Nyasa-
land, once called "the unfortunate
and unhappy position" of diplomat
ic representatives from India and
Pakistan here has again been
starkly emphasized.
Prime Minister Jawaharial Me-
hru of India las threatened to
withdraw diplomatic representa-
ton from the Central African Fed
Grafton, consisting of Northern and
Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland,
unless discrimination against In
dian diplomats ceases.
During the last few years there
has been a series of incidents"
ranging from the exclusion of
widely-known diplomatic figures
from hotels and restaurants to
which they had been invited by
prominent Europeans, to the re-
fusal of Salisbury BARRIERS to serve
Indians during normal shop hours.
On each occasion full official
apologies Lave been rendered with
out in any way moderating the
rigid Southern Rhodesian color bar.
Mr.. Nehru's warning comes di-
rectly after the case of P. j. Rao,
press attache to the Office of the
Continued on Page Five)
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Mississippi Voc.
College Eighth
Anniv. Hailed
Program Sunday
Is Outstanding

1tta Bena, Miss, April 14-"In
the loss of our best trained young
people we are losing our most valu-
able assets, so stated Hon. A.
Boyd Campbell, prominent Jackson
businessman, and former President
of the United States Chamber of
Commerce here Sunday, as the
guest speaker on the program con-
Guiding the weeks observance of
the Eighth Anniversary of the
founding of Mississippi Vocational
College, state supported institution
for the higher education of Negro
youth.
During the course of his ad-
dess, in fixing the basis for his
assertion that Gin the loss of our
best trained young people we are
losing our most valuable assets"
Mr.. Boyd identified outstandingly
Continued on Page Four)
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AFRICAN NATI0NALISM SEEN
developing A UNITED FRONT

Formation Of q United African
Action Front among tie leading
political groups of the French ter
ritories is new proof that the tidal
wave Of African nationalism 10
gaining momentum.
The French are surprised and
somewhat dismayed by this de-
yelonment. The charter law, pro-
mulrated two years ago and aim
Al at granting local self-govern-
ment, Is now considered by the
Africans as little more than q
ateppingstone toward full inde-
psndence.
A Dakar meeting March $3.50,
ratified the tactical merger Of the
three, leading African parties, the
African Democratic Rally, the AZ
ricsn Convention, the Socialist AZ
rican Movement, and Of five small
er regional groups
CONTINUED on Page Two)
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Haiti Plagued
Seasonal
Tourist Slump
Unemployment
Widespread AS
Government Presses
Economic Expansion

Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, April IA
The new Administration has been
overtaken by the annual summer
slump in tourism and seasonal ex-
ports that heightens the poverty
of this island republic.
The next six months are con-
sidered politically delicate. I'm
employment and hunger are wide
spread. The public mood demands
social improvement and quick re-
suits after the year of turmoil and
economic hardship that followed
the overthrow of President Paul E.
Magloire in December, 1866.
The Opposition is making poll
teal capital of the situation. FL
nance Minister Fritz Thebaud has
been under particularly heavy fire.
President Francois Duvalier is re-
ported planning a shake-up in his
Cabinet, which would be the second
since he took office Oct. %.
Development Contracts
Congress approved five major
development contracts before its
Continued on Page Four)
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School Teacher
In Tiff With
Store Manager
Attorney Says
.NAACP Aid
Not Requested

Greenwood, Miss. April IA -
(Special)-A Negro School teach
err, Mrs. Constance Allen, of Green
vile, who becomes involved in q
tiff with the manager of local
department store last Wednesday
was fined 500 and sentenced to
3O-days in prison on a charge of
assault and battery.
According to reports the teach
er and the store manager came
to blows during an argument over
her credit. The store manager,
Charlie Carroll says that the
teacher struck him without pro-
vocation. During the ensuing meles
they rolled down a flight of stairs
when the teacher received a brok-
en- arm.
The teacher was released follow
ing the trial in Municipal Court and
an appeal had been filed in the
case.
A brother of the teacher, 49,
year-old Bernard Allen was fined
500, and teen-age sister, San
dra Allen was turned over to juv-
emile court. Both were witnesses at
the scene.
Following widespread newspaper
reports of the incident the state
office of the NAACP at Jackson
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SaySouth Snubs
ku kIux Khan

New York, April Ia - The
South has greeted the revival Of
the Ku Klux Khan with hostility
and aversion, says the Anti-De-
famation League Of B'nai Birth.
'In virtually every southern
community" the league said, "the
Klan has been identified as a tool
of violence and lawlessness and
as a movement that constitutes
more of police problem than any
thing else"
The league, a national unit of
3'nai Birth, Jewish fraternal
group, issued a report on the Khan
prepared by Arnold Forster, the
leagues civil-rights director.
Since the Klan's reemergence in
1866, the report said, it "has ach-
ieved little effectiveness as q Soc
ial or political force"
Even though it Is paper drag
on" the league said, the Khan
"is not to be dismissed or taken
lightly"
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Negro Woman
Sues Union And
Packing Company

New Orleans-A suit for $34, 900
was filed in federal court last week
by Mrs. Lucille D. Cobb against the
Nat Burning Packing Company and
the Amalgamated Butcher Work
ers and Meat Cutters of North
America.
The suit charges that Mrs. Cobbs,
one of the oldest women employ
ees in the Burning plant, was
"wrongfully discharged" when the
plant moved into a new location
because no provisions were made
for dressing room facilities "for
Negro women"
The petition charges the union
with acquiescing to the discharge
and with failing to protect Mrs.
Cobb under the U. s. Constitution,
the National Labor Relations Act,
and its exclusive bargaining agree
ment.
It is believed that the packing
company has a government con-
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Saw Bible Stradd|es Fence On
Indignation Segregation Issue

A speaker before q forum group
at Millsaps College recently said
passages Of the Bible can be found
which supports the views Of both
the integrationist and the segre-
gationist.
Atty. John Satterfield Of Yazoo
City, who Is also Methodist lay
leader, said that segregation IL
neither un-C Christian or unconstitu-
tional.
Quoting from the Apostle Paul's
words in Acts II, Satterfield said
"God has made Of one blood all
nations Of men for to dwell on al
the faces Of the earth"
This portion Of the Scriptures, he
said, was used by integrationists to
support the mixing Of races the
DRY.
Says Paul Misquoted
He added, however; "But Paul
was not talking about Indignation.
Continued on Page Five)
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State Park
Jim Crow Bill
Is Blocked

Efforts to offer new legislation
aimed at preventing the mixing of
races in state parks were blocked
in the Senate Wednesday.
Senator George Yarbrough of
Red Bank sought to gain unani-
nous consent to introduce bills that
would tave given the governor or
the state park commission authori-
ty to close the parks in the event
it was considered to be "of the
best interest" of the county or will
preserve the public peace, order
or tranquility"
Both Houses had already approx
ed March q as the deadline for
introduction of general bills.
Senator Flavous Lambert of Bel
mont offered objection when the
Continued on Page Five)
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Doctors Kill Sickle
Cell Anemia Bill

Mississippi joined four other SOU
thern states that have defeated leg
islation requiring the labelling of
blood in blood banks by race.
The Seante Public Health Com
mittee killed such a bill Thursday
by reporting it out unfavorably. It
had passed unanimously in the
House after its author, Rep. Elmo
Anderson of Canton, said Negroes
have one disease no other race has
sickle cell anemia.
Doctors in the State Medical
Assn. testified before the Senate
committee it would be impossible
to transmit the disease through
blood transfusions.
The doctors said the bill would
hamper practice of medicine in an
Continued on Page Four)
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coIored Elect Two
In South Africa

johannesburg, South Africa, Apr.
8E"Unoffical' candidates Of the
opposition United party were elect
ed today to two seats in the South
African Parliament to represent
Cape Colored voters.
In one contest the Cape Color
ed, who are persons Of mixed
blood, Stunned candidate identi-
fed with the governing National
list party. The Nationalists pursue
a policy Of apartheid or rigid racial
segregation.
The United party favors white
supremacy also, but in q more
modified form. No unofficial" Ma
CONTINUED on Page Six)
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Virgin Islands
Reports Record
High Employment
Insular Service Says
There Are More Jobs
Than People

st. Thomas, v. l., April Is
Employment is reported to be at
record level in the Virgin ISLAM Is.
The Insular Employment Ser
vice has revealed that there are
still "more jobs than people" in
this archipelago forming the
southernmost possessions of the
United States.
Mrs. Louise Scott, director of
the service, said that unemploy-
ment here was so low it could not
be measured.
Some sources feel the Virgin
Islands is suffering it's most acute
labor shortage since slavery was
abolished. To help alleviate Immi-
grafton Service has permitted
nearly 1000 alien workers to be
brought in, mostly from neighbor-
ing British-owned islands in the
Caribbean.
The aliens are mainly construc-
ton workers and clerical people,
sponsored by their new employers
for a limited stay from six months
to a year. The stay may be re-
Continued on Page Four)
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Haitian Counselor
Shot To Death
In Washington
Secretary Shoots Aide
After Being Ordered
To Return Home

Washington, April 1.-The first
secretary of the Haitian embassy
today received orders tc return
home, walked into the adjoining
office and shot and killed the
embassy's minister counselor.
The secretary, Ander Toussaint,
38, was being questioned by po-
lice amid reports he might be TAX
en- back to Haiti under armed
guard for trial there. He was
married to an American girl last
Saturday.
The victim, Samuel De Vieux,
Continued on Page Five)
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chana ToForm
Financial Board

United Nations, N. Y.-Informa-
elton has been received here that
X. A. Gbodomah, Minister of FL
nance of Ghana, has announced
that the West African country will
shortly set up a permanent COM
mittee Of British financial experts
to advise on the investment of
Ghana's sterling assets amounting
to $448 million.
Ghana's assets are in sterling
currency only good in the sterling
area but Gbodomah said the forma-
ton Of the committee did not mean
Ghana was going to turn its assets
into dollars although it is known
that. Ghana hopes to do some bust
ness with U. s. firms.
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Recruiting Office
Film Available
To HIGH Schools

TIE U. s. Army Recruiting Serv-
ice has just received q 9-minute
16mm, film on the Army's Elk
plorer I" satellite launching, which
Is recommended for showing to
high schools and various civic and
veteran groups.
This film was developed by the
Chief Of Research and Develop
ment, Department Of the Army,
and it shows the various compnn-
ents Of the Army missiles that
made the successful launching pos
sible, preparations for the launch
ing and the actual launching Of the
satellite.
A special folder will be handed
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Los ANGELES NAACP REFUSES
TO PRESENT DUBOIS In LECTURE

church is sponsored by the San
Francisco NAACP.
According to reports, permission
was given by the NAACP national
headquarters in New York for the
Los Angeles NAACP to do like
wise, and the board Of the branch
was polled and found to be over
whelming in favor of sponsoring
the scholars appearance, but the
administration still ruled against it.
HonOred BY Ghana
The thaw in NAACP and other
attitudes toward Dubois, decidedly
signalling that the old war against
American leftists is at an end, was
also undoubtedly aided by the fact
Continued on Page Two)
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Eighth Annual
Law Institute
At Southern Uni.

Baton Rouge, La, April 1.-The
School of Law at Southern Uni
versity will hold it's eighth annual
Law Institute, April 24-25, it has
been announced by A. A. Lenior,
dean of the school.
The program of the institute is
designed for continued education
at the bar. The institute is being
held, this year, in conjunction with
the Annual Southwest Bar Asso-
citation and the Martinette Society,
an organization for Negro lawyers
in Louisiana.
The institutes schedule begins at
9 am, with DR.. F. G. Clark, presi-
dent, Southern University; Leon
ard Avery, attorney, Baton Rouge
and Dean Lenior bringing greet
Continued on Page Six)
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Methodist Church
Set To End Bias

Miami Beach, Fla, April 10
migration Of white and Negro
units Of the Methodist Church
moved closer today through action
Of the Council Of Bishops Of the
Church.
The council. ratified . constitu-
tionxl amendment to permit trans
fer Of q church or conference Estate
organization) from one jurisdiction
to another. The Central (Negro)
Jurisdiction IL now separate.
The amendment, ratified 22,-
687 to 1923 in the general con-
ference, provides change in juris-
diction may come with the consent
CONTINUED on Page Three)
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hehru Lauds j. S.
Gain In Fight
On Racial Bias

New Delhi, India, April 9-Prime
Minister Jawaharlal Nehru said to-
day that efforts in the United
States to solve the problem of ra-
cial segregation were meeting with
growing success.
"The Government wants to solve
it and public opinion is helping in
that process" he declared.
In a speech to the lower house
of Parliament, Mr.. Nebru said In
dia was concerned that racial seq
regation had been adopted as Off
cial policy in South Africa. More
than 100000 South African ma
tionals of Indian origin are af-
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Soviet Amity
Group Halls
Paul Robson

Chicago, April IA - Paul Robe
son was guest of honor tonigh,
at melting sponsored by the Chic
ago Council on American-Soviet
Relations in a former Masonis
temple here. The meeting marked
his sixtieth birthday.
The former concert singer and
college athlete, who arrived fror,
New York, addressed the gather
ing Of several hundred persons
and sang several songs.
He will sing Saturday and Sum-
day in Mandel Hall at the Univer-
sity Of Chicago. The meeting vii!
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Pentagon Denies
Do-Nothing Order
In Little Rock

Washington, Apr. ID - The PEN
tagon has denied "that the federal
lied troops on duty in Central High
School Tin Little Rock are operat-
ing under orders to do nothing in
the case of disturbance, except to
observe"
The Army position was set forth
in letter to Roy Wilkins, NAACP
executive secretary who previously
had reported to Wilbur NJ. Brucker,
Secretary of the Army, that he had
received information from Little
Rock "that the soldiers on duty at
the school are said to be operating
under orders to do nothing in the
case of disturbance, except to
Continued on Page Four)
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Georgia Teaeher
Reinstated After
Bus Furor

Lakeland, Ca, April o-Mrs. A..
B. Baskin, a Lanier County teacher
who said she had been forced to re-
sign because Of a segregation incl
dent, was reinstated yesterday.
The reinstatement was voted by
the county school board at q meet
ing attended by state school Off
Gals. It was made effective Feb. l,
the date Of her resignation, and
Continued on Page Four)
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Los Angeles, Calf, April IA
The Los Angeles branch NAACP
has refused to sponsor the Los
Angeles appearance Of DR.. w. E.
3. Dubois, who is one of the found
ers of the NAACP, and the only
local appearance of the 90-year-
old scholar and civil rights fighter
will be next Friday night at 8
o'clock at First Unitarian church.
After a freeze of DR.. Dubois of
almost two decades, many figures
identified with the NAACP came
forward to lend their names to
Goth birthday celebration for him
in New York last month.
This Sunday, his appearance in
San Francisco's Third Baptist
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High School Grads
Urged To Contact
Recruiting Office

Within the next few weeks sew
eral thousand young men and wom-
en- will graduate from high school.
In Mississippi, as elsewhere
throughout the nation, the 1858
high school seniors are confronted
with making decisions which will
guide their futures.
Some of the seniors will 60 on to
college. Others will seek employ
ment and begin their business ca
reers. Some will remain on farms
and other lines of endeavor. With
Continued on Page Six
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White Masonic
Leader Backs
Negro Group

New Orleans, La. April IL =
White Mason, Charles Van Colt,
SIND degree, editor Of Z Masonic
journal, Masonic Inspiration" IN
the February issue 1868 advocated
recognition Of the legitimacy Of
Prince Hall Masons as a means Of
combating bogus Missionary among
Negroes in the USA.
Van Colt stated: millions Of
fine American Negroes seek q fair
CONTINUED on Page Four)
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White Woman In
Capitalization Case
With Negro Man
Denied Jury Trial
Judge Also Denys
Bond In Case

Laurel, Miss. April II - A 30
year-old White Woman, whose
husband lead arresting officers
to her tryst was denied her plea for
a jury trial following her conviction
on q plea Of guilty when Circuit
Judge Lunsford Casey denied her
motion to be allowed to withdraw
her guilty plea and have . jury
trial on charge Of cohabitation
with a Negro man.
The motion alleged that the con-
victed woman was promised = light
CONTINUED on Page Seven)
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