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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-01-12
AR FARE
Bells 3 Miles Up?
Answer the Phone
JAR FARE

Trying TO escape the tele-
phone BY taking an air trip
That may soon be impossible
Northwest Orient Airl!nes 10
experimenting with passenger
telephone service on one Of It's
Stratocruisers. When the plane
Is within q i7S-mile radius Of
two special ground receiving
stations In Chicago and De-
ltroit. passengers can call any
point In the world. The tests
will last nine months.
Alaska Airlines has asked for
permission to begin fights 10
Siberia. The line Is seeking CAB
approval TO ny from Nome and
other Alaska cities to Irkutsk.
principal city In Southeastern
Siberia, and such intermediate
points a. the Soviet Govern
ment may allow.
49,
Naples-on : the Gulf. Flor
ida, now has its own scheduled
airline. The newly organized
Naples Airlines offers daily
service between Naples and
Miami, and connections with
major carriers.
Sabena Belgian World Air
lines announces a winter
schedule of daily transatlantic
service from New York to Brus-
sells via DC-7-C,s with two ad-
ditional DC-6 fights Thurs
days and Saturdays: six times
a week service to Leopoldville
in the Belgian Congo; three
times a week TO johannesburg,
four times a week to Cairo and
twice q week TO Beirut. For the
pilgrim. Sabena. along with
Air France. now serves Lourdes
directly.
&9
Qantas inaugurates round
the-world services from New
York on January Is. Australians
overseas airline thus becomes
the first single carrier round
the-world service flying de
rectly between the San Fran
cisco and New York gateways.
With women now accounting
for IS per cent Of the total |
Transatlantic air travel, Pan |
American World Always is
bidding for the women's travel |
market by appointing Miss Pa |
trieia Ann Farrell TO the new /
Job Of manager. women's pro- |
motion. She win advise on adj
vertising that appeals 10 wom-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-01-12
Oregon PIuns Aheud

Oregon Is already making
plans for Its Centennial Expo.
sition and international Trade
Fair. The dates: June TO Oc-
tober, 1859.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-01-12

MIAMI. Fia.-Miami's per-
manent population has in
creased ct the rate Of $1,000 q
year for the last 10 years.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-04-12
Haiti To Seek
j, s. Loan

Washington, D. c., Apr. T.
Haiti intends to seek a $4,000, 900
additional loan from the Export
Import Bank for the long-pending
Artibonite power and irrigation
project.
A mission will arrive in WASH
ington this month, Senator Victor
Nevers Constant, Government floor
leader in the Haitian Senate, said
at news conference yesterday
at the Overseas Press Club, IS w.
seth Street. The United States
bank has hitehrto allocated $27,-
100000 for the stalled project, of
which $24, 100000 has been drawn.
Senator Constant said the State
Department had assured him that
planning for new technical assist
ance projects would be resumed.
He expressed hope that this would
mean doubling the present rate,
which has been running this year
at about 100000 in United States
grants.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-04-12
Negro Woman
Lawyer Gets
High Post

DETROIT.-Miss Marjorie Nc
Gowan was sworn in Friday as De-
troit's first Negro woman assist
ant prosecutor. The ceremonies
were conducted in the office of
Wayne County Prosecutor Samuel
H. Olson, in the presence of many
officials of the prosecutors office,
Recorders, Court, Circuit Court and
other offices in the city of De-
troit.
The appointment was made by
Prosecutor Olsen.
Before coming to the Prosecu-
tors office, Miss MCGOWAN served
as legal advisor to the Commander
of the Detroit Air Procurement
District, on contract matters and
personal matters, and acted in the
capacity Of the Judge Advocate for
the military personnel assigned to
the Detroit Air Procurement dis
trict.
During her tenure with the De-
troit Air Procurement district, she
Continued on Page Two)
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GoIdsby Denied
Another Try
For Freedom

Oxford, Miss, April 7.-(Spe-
ciaD-Robert Lee Goldsby, a Ne
gro man sentenced to death for the
Staying of Mississippian has been
denied another plea for freedom.
U. S. District Judge Claude
Clsvtor, ruled here last week that
Goldsby is barred from raising the
question in federal court that he
was denied his civil rights in Mis-
sissippi state courts.
Goldsby was sentenced to death
for the 1854 Staying of Mrs. Bryant
helms, at Walden, Miss.
Judge Clayton said Goldsby's at
torneys failed to prove that there
was systematic exclusion of Ne
groes from grand or circuit jury
service in the county where Goldsby
was convicted.
Clayton also said there was proof
that Goldsby was ably represented
by counsel at the time of the pre-
liminary hearing, arraignment, and
the appeals to the Mississippi Su-
preme Court, and the Federal
Court of Appeals.
The jury question was argued
Continued on Page Seven)
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REP0RTSSAY GOV. EXPRESSED
FEAR THAT NEGRO QUESTION
HAS PUT A CURSE on STATE
Lead Opposition To Bill To Give
Money To Citizens Councils
Given Power To Close Schools
To Halt Efforts At Indignation

The Negro question, from meas
ures adopted during the past few
days, and others yet to be consid-
cred, was still holding in its grip
the state legislature, now in reg
ular session year, a circumstance,
according to reports from reliable
sources, which prompted Governor
]. P. Coleman to express the fear
that preoccupation with the Negro
question has put Course" on the
state.
According to reports the Gov
ernor expressed the fear that the
Negro question has put a curse"
on the state while testifying to a
closed door session of the Senate
Judiciary Committee considering a
house bill to give state tax money
to the white Citizens Councils.
The Governor is reported to have
said further in respect to the Cit
liens Council bill, Sometimes l
think we are repeating, step by
step, the same performance that
destroyed US before. If this bill
is passed and disaster befalls, then
some wise man will point it out
as the first step. The preserva-
ton of the sovereignty of the State
Continued on Page Four)
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Capetown, s. A. April -
Color is the overriding issue in the
South African general election
campaign now building to its cli-
max.
Other issues have been drawn
across the campaign trail. But
there seems little doubt that VIC
tory on April 16 will 60 to the
party which convinces the all-white
electorate it can best handle the
nations difficult color problem.
This IL the question which over
hangs South Africa's whole future
and there 10 wide and heartfelt de-
sire for its satisfactory solution.
Unless there is a dramatic poll
ing-day turnabout, current indica-
tions are that the voters will once
more repose their trust for a fur
Their five years in the Afrikaner
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-04-12
GABRIEL NOW HAS UNDERSTUDY
REV. POWELL SAYS I'm final
tribute TOW, c. HANDY
Funeral OF Author Of St. Louis Blues
Draws Crowd Of $50, 600 To Harlem
Memphis Offers Final Resting Place
In w. G. Handy Memorial Park

New York, Apr. 7.-(SpeciaD-
Gabriel now has an understpdy,
Rev. Adam Clayton Powell said a
few minutes before the sad trumpet
of "Cootie" Williams blew a
requiem for famed Negro compos-
er, W. C. Handy, Father of the
Blues" last Wednesday morning.
Mr.. Handy, who was 81 years
old, died Friday. Last rites for
the composer of the "St. Louis
Blues" were conducted at the Abys-
sinian Baptist Church, 1872 West
138th Street.
The police estimated that $780,
900 persons watched the slow prog
ress at the funeral procession, led
by the 30-piece brass band of the
Prince Hall Masonic Temple, Asa
West 151st Street.
A sleek maroon Cadillac hearse,
rather than the traditional black
plumed horses of New Orleans,
bore the coffin of Mr.. Handy to
its resting place at Woodlawn
Cemetery, the Bronx.
$500 In Church
Nearly $500 persons crowded
Continued on. Page Eight
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1872 Registered
For MIA confab
AT AIcorn

Alcorn College, Miss, April o.
They are here from Lafayette's
cultured hills to the Zephyr-fanned
shores Of Biloxi Bay and from
the Oak-covered banks Of the
mighty Mississippi to red clay hills
Of the Alabama line.
The talent show took the spot
light during the evening. It was
an exhibition Of talent Mississippi
and the Nation share in deep pride.
For those girls were worthy Of our
finer heritage and did themselves
great for Mrs. z. P. Price, State
Advisor; the members Of the Ad-
visory Board, and Advisors Of the
local chapters Of MIA, scattered
throughout the state.
The very atmosphere responded
to their theme: 1.-THE New Look
Through MIA" These young
Continued on Page Eight
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COLOR IS OVERRIDING ISSUE IN
S. AFRICAN GENERAL ELECTION

nationalist government of Prime
Minister Johannes G. Strijdom
which has held office since 194s.
Mr.. Strijdom's pattern for hand
ling the problem is plain. A few
days ego he told an election meet
ing that the Nationalist believed
they had been placed in South At
RIGA "by the Almighty" with a spe-
cific purpose-to maintain Christ
ian white civilization" Therefore,
said the Prime Minister, it was
their duty to govern TIE coun-
try in such way and to take such
steps as to ensure the mainte-
nance Of Christian white civiliza-
tion.,
Government strategy has been to
play down the sacrifices which
South Africa's 100000 whites
Continued on Page Four)
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Negro Gets New
Trial In Staying
OF Cafe Owner

The State Supreme Court, Mon
day, ordered a new trial for Toll
bert Buddy" Mckenzie, 21-year-
old Negro, who was convicted and
sentenced to death in the 1866
Christmas Eve Staying of j. q.
Jones, a White man during a hold
up of Newton Cafe.
The court threw out the convic-
ton and the death sentence because
the nine attorneys appointed to
defend Mckenzie did not seek to
confer with him until the day of
the trial.
A new trial was ordered in the
case.
One Negro man, Joe Louis
Thompson, 20, has already been
executed in connection with the
hold-up Staying.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-04-12
VIRGINIA co. ASKS REVERSAL
OF INTEGRATI0N RULING

Washington, Apr. 2.-School au-
thorities of Arlington County, Va,
asked the Supreme Court today to
reverse a ruling that would allow
seven Negro pupils to attend white
public schools
Attorneys for the pupils par
ents have 80 days to reply. The
court then will decide whether to
hear the case and hand down
written opinion.
The high tribunal has not &C
copied a school segregation case
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-04-12
Pittsburgh Hall
Cancels Paul
Robson Concert

Pittsburgh, Pa. Apr. 7.-(Spe-
ciaD-Gilbert Cloonan, Supt. of
Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall
said last Monday that Paul Robe
sons concert, scheduled for April
81, has been cancelled because it
would not he Consistent with the
Memorial character of the building.
The official said the promoter Of
the concert had made no mention
of Mr.. Robeson's appearance when
he engaged the hall.
Lee Mathews, local promoter who
booked Mr.. Robson said he dis
agreed with his politics but be-
lieved the singer was being &C.
copied again. He said he would try
to engage another hall.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-04-12
New Handy Tune To Be Sung
In Coming Movie st. Louis Blues"

"Shine Like A Morning Star" and
was presented as a spiritual. Ac-
cording to Handy's music publish
ing house, the song has not been
heard in public anywhere except at
small and selective recitals in
Memphis, the composers home
town.
Morning Star" is one of Is
Handy compositions which occupy
approximately 40 minutes of "St.
Louis Blues" Several of them are
sung more than once by various
performers in the all-star cast.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-04-12
Conference On Southern Negro Voting
Restrictions I 0 Be Held In Washington

Washington, D. c., April Z -
Leaders in the effort to wipe out
voting restrictions maintained
against Negroes in southern states
will report on their respective
states at a one-day conference to
be held here at the Asbury Metho-
dist Church 9th & X. NV
Sunday, April 81. Keynote speaker
for the conference will be Aubrey
w. Williams, longtime advocate of
human rights and editor Of the
Southern Farm and Home, Mont
gomery, Ala.
Heading the list Of those sche-
duled to report is Charles G. Com
illion, faculty member at Tuskegee
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purely voluntary basis. He said
the state sponsored committee
would operate with tremendous
moral persuasion toward improved
race relationships"
He said it could be offered in
federal court here in reference to
the Indignation stalemate.
Thomas said he had not asked
Gov. Orval Faubus to accept the
plan which is designed to solve
the indignation crisis here and set
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for review since its decisions on
the subject in 1854 and 1865.
Should it do so in the Virginia case,
arguments would not take place
until next term.
The long Arlington fight in
wolves Virginia's massive resist
ance" to Indignation. A Federal
District judge ordered the county
to admit the Negroes by last Sept.
%. The order was never carried
out because of an appeal by the
school board
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-04-12
Langston u. Graduate Helps Author
Bulletin On Livestock Marketing

Victor B. Phillips, Langston,
Okla, University graduate, who is
now an agricultural economist in
the U. S. Department of Agricul-
ture, has co-authored a recent
USDA bulletin, Market Outlets
for Livestock Producers"
Sharing with Mr.. Phillips in the
authorship is his chief, Gerald En-
gleman, head of the livestock Sec
ton of the Market Organization
and Cost Branch.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-04-12
Negro Population
In England Rising

London, April 3-Britain's Ne
gro population now numbers more
than 100000 and is increasing at
the rate Of about $4,000 year.
The figures were made public
today during a House Of Commons
debate on the status Of Negroes and
other "colored" peoples-from In
dia and Pakistan-allowed to trav-
Ell unrestricted into Britain because
of their British. Commonwealth sta
tus. Most of the Negroes emigrate
from the British West Indies.
1--WE are starting on the road
to becoming a multi-racial .coun-
try" said Martin Lindsay, Con-
Continued on Page Severn
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-04-12

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-A simple
plan under which an interracial
committee would advise Arkansas
school districts on the speed of
desegregation was outlined Monday
by insurance executive Herbert L.
Thomas, Sr., of Little Rock.
1t would keep the eight Negro
students in Central High School
here at least until the end of the
current term.
Thomas told the State Education
Board the proposal would work on
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-04-12

Institute and president Of the Tus-
kegee Civic Association. Mr.. Com
illion will give highlights Of the
development that focused national
attention there earlier this year.
Others reporting will be the Rev.
Others reporting will be the Rev.
Ben F. Wyland, Fla, executive Sec
rotary Of Florida Council for Ra-
cial Cooperation and former execu-
tive secretary Of the st. Peters,
burg Council Of Churches; Austin
w. Walden, Ga, an Atlanta at
torney who has figured in many
civil rights and voting rights legal
cases; Kenneth j. Walker, La,
Continued on Page Sikh
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-04-12
BANDS LEAD W. c. HANDY TO FINAL RESTING PLACE
Cong. Powell
Faces Reelection
Fight With
ammany Hall
BOlted Party To
Support Eisenhower
Reelection In 1856

New York, April 7-(SpeciaD-
Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, Harlem
Negro Democrat Member of Con-
gress started his reelection cam
paign last Wednesday in acknowl-
edged fear that he faced reckon
ing with Tammany Hall.
Tammany Hall is the powerful
organization with a dominating in
fluence in New York city as we'll
as in national politics.
From the pulpit of the Metro
politan Baptist Church, the indie
Continued on Page Seven)
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HOLLYWOOD.-An original w.
c. Handy song, composed 30-odd
years ago, will be introduced to
the general public in Paramount's
"St. Louis Blues" dramatization
of Handy's life from childhood to
his 10th year.
The new song, now titled "Morn-
ing Star" is sung twice in the pic
ture, first by Nat King" Cole in
solo, and later by Cole and Mahalia
Jackson, the renowned gospel
singer.
When first written, it was titled
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-04-12
Senate Votes
Director Of
Civil Rights
Commission
Gordon Mclean
Tiffany OF New
Hampshire Gets Post

Washington, D. c., Apr. THE
nomination of Gordon Mclean Tiff
fanny of New Hampshire to be the
Director of the new Civil Rights
Commission was approved Wednes-
day by the Senate Judiciary Sub
Committee on Cons itutional
Rights. The vote was So.
The opposition came from the
South, but not on personal grounds.
At issue was the installing of the
man who would start the Commits
sion's work on complaints that mi
nority groups were being denied
Continued on Page Six
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ed to the second grade this fall
and move up one grade a year un-
til the 18th grade is desegregated
in the fall OF 1868.
The first day of desegregated
schooling last fall was marked by
violence capped by the midnight
bombing of Hattie Cotton Gram
mar School. There were no dis
orders after the opening week.
Seven Negro first graders still at
tend formerly all-white classes.
Five others transferred back to
Negro schools.
The board was under orders from
Judge Miller to submit by April Z
plan for desegregating the remain
Continued on Page Seven)
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NCNW CAMPAIGN GAINS SUPPORT

Washington, D. C.-Miss Dorothy
1. Height, National President of
the National Council of Negro
Women announced today that IL
national affiliates, more than 60
member councils and the Life Mem
bers Guild have pledged nation
wide support to the three-pronged
Mobilization Ca m paign to be
launched April q, 1868.
This announcement followed a
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-04-12
NASHVILLE OFFERS GRADE-A.YR.
SCHOOL DESEGREGATI0N PLAN

Nashville, Tenn, April THE
Nashville School Board will submit
to federal court grade-a-year
desegregation plan whereby COM
pulsory racial segregation in pub
lie schools will be abolished in 1868.
The plan, passed by II vote,
will be offered for final approval
to United States District Judge
William E. Miller, under whose
orders the first grades here were
desegregated last fall.
The dissenting vote was cast
by Coyness Ennix, the sole Negro
member of the board. He said he
felt the plan was too slow.
Under the boards proposal, COM
pulsory segregation will be extend
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-04-12
Supreme Court Affirms Suspended
Sentence in ''Baby-Sitter" Rape Case

The State Supreme Court Mon
day affirmed the suspended five
year prison term given a promi
nent white attorney of Pascagoula,
Bernard Gautier, on conviction for
the rape of a young Negro baby
sitter.
Attorneys for the prosecution
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-04-12

The publication presents brief
resume of the development, growth,
and change in pattern Of livestock
market outlets in the United States.
The data show a decline in sales
through terminal markets, and an
increase in sales through auction
markets and country" for direct
selling during the past 35 years.
Mr.. Phillips, who joined the staff
of USDA's Agricultural Marketing
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filed an appeal following the con-
viction carrying the suspended
sentence
The appeal was based on the con-
tention that the circuit court jury
did not have the authority to sus-
pend the sentence.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-04-12
Catholic Chapel
Closed Because OF
Negro Priest
Ordered Reopened

New Orleans, April A Catho-
lie chapel closed in 1866 by Arch
bishop Joseph F. Rummel after
Pensioners prevented a Negro
priest from offering Mass will be
reopened Easter Sunday.
Services at st. Cecilia's Mission
Chapel, Jesuit Bend, La, Is miles
south Of New Orleans, have been
suspended since November, 1866.
The Archbishop revealed his de-
CONTINUED on Page Eight
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N. C. Negro Dairy Specialist
HELPS Write State Cow Bulletin

L. Wynn, extension dairy specialist
at A. & T. College.
The bulletin points up the advan-
tages of families owning a COW,
explains what to look for when
buying a COW, and tells how to feed
and care for one.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-04-12

planning meeting held March 81
during which the famous team of
Daisy E. Lampkin and Mary White,
Mobilization Co-Charmen, met with
Campaign Director, Dorothy c..
Quinn and Executive Director, H.
Elsie Austin in a planning session
at the Councils Washington Head
quarters.
Reviewing the enthusiastic re-
Continued on Page Two)
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In a move to encourage more
North Carolina farm families to
own a milk cow, the States Agri-
cultural Extension Service pub
lished a bulletin recently entitled
"The Family Cow"
One Of the three authors is r.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-04-12
Sou. Presbyterian Church To Be Asked
To Repudiate Liberal Race Stand

Charlotte, N. G. = The General
Assembly Of the Southern Pres
byterian Church will be asked late
this month in effect, to repudiate
the church's previous endorsement
Of a liberal approach to racial
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-04-12

problems.
TIE assembly also will be asked
to state it's position on whether
churches should permit their build
ings to be used as private schools
Continued on Page Four)
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Mr. Mrs William A. Clement of Durham North Carolina have
made known the their daughter Helen Aexne
Gordon Mississippi The bride grad
Speman College 1856 received her masters degree
from the University of Iowa. Iowa City, 1858 She Of
Delta Sigma Theta Miss employed speech thera
ps the Rehabilitation Reistersown Maryland. Mr.
Jackson Morehouse College, Atlanta, Class
of 1856 At he student the School Medicine Howard
University Washington d. c. He member of Alpha Phi Alpha
The wedding is planned for June Fl, 1855
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-04-12

INVITES PUBLIC: DR.. ]. H.
White, President of MVC College
at Itta Bena, Miss, extend an in
vitation to the public to 9Th Ami
versay Program Sunday featuring
speech by A. Boyd Campbell, for
mer President U. S. Chamber of
Commerce.