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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-05-09

Hampton, Va, Apr. 30. - DIR.
Alonzo G. Moron, president of
Hampton Institute, told a group
of more than 100 high school stu
dents from seven states, who were
attending the colleges first Tech
meal Career Conference last week,
that their opportunities for train
ing and employment are greater
in the United States today than
ever before.
Students from high schools in
Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Maryland, Florida, Ken
lucky and the District of Columbia
attended the three-day conference
to compete for the II scholarships
offered in various technical and
engineering fields.
"The manpower need is chang
ing" the President said, at the
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-05-09
PsychoanaIyst See
Racism Linked To
Inner Conflict
See Patient Changed
From Pacifist To
Rabid NegrO-Hater

Philadelphia, April rs - A Sc
riously disturbed patient who was
transformed from a depressed paci-
fist into a rabid racist under the
eyes of his psychoanalyst was de-
scribed here today by his psychia-
trist.
This change occurred not as a
result of the analysis, but as re-
suit of series of external pres
sures, he explained to a scientific
session of the American, psychoan-
alytic Association.
DR.. Terry c. Rodgers. Of New
York City observed that the case
was worth examining "since men,
bers of hate groups are not prone
to subject themselves to psychology
ical investigation" The patient
came to his attention while he was
manifesting his emotional disturb
ances as professional pacifist. !"
Through this example, DR.. Rod
gers said he was able to observe
how unresolved childhood conflicts
could drive q person to racist alb
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SAY NEGRO JOB OPPORTUNITY
BETTER Than EVER BEFORE

awards banquet terminating the
program. "Unskilled labor, with
this great advance in technology
and science, is no longer needed
and we can no longer afford to
be Indifferent to the nations need
for skills," DR.. Moron reminded
the assembled audience of faculty,
technology majors and guests
The President was quick to as
sert, however, that although there
is a need for skills there is also
a need for the development of an
other phase of our education
known as the liberal arts. DR.. Mo-
ron pointed out that Hampton has
always offered combination OF
vocational or professional and
academic education and is COM
mitted to training the whole"
man,
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-05-09
7BI FINDS BODY OF POPLARVlLiE LYNCH[NG VICTIM
PopIarviIIe Mob
Members To Be
Tried In US Court

Poplarville, Miss. May 1 - FBI
agents still seeking a clue to the
identity of members of the mob
who broke into the Jail here and
Negro man awaiting trial on the
seized M. C. Parker, 23-year-old
charge of having raped a white
woman are believed to have made
plans Wednesday to try the mob
member in the Federal Court.
Agents have not reported any
progress in their concentrated hunt.
But Special Agent R. w. Bach
man, directing the search locally,
said if an arrest is made the pri-
soners will be lodged in the nearest
federally approved Jail for arraign-
ment before a US. commissioner.
Poplarville is in the southern
Mississippi federal court district,
which has headquarters at Jackson.
The nearest federally approved
Jail would be at Hattiesburg, or
probably at Biloxi.
More than 40 FBI agents re-
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Negro Scientist Awarded Gold Medal
For Best Paper On Animal Fats

Joseph E. Coleman, U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture scientist
employed in the Philadelphia area,
was awarded a gold medal last
week in New Orleans by the Am
erican Oil Chemists Society in rec
ignition of paper on animal fats
research presented before the So
ciety last fall in Chicago.
The paper described some of the
research Mr.. Coleman is doing to
help find new uses for animal fats
now in increased surplus since the
development of synthetic deterg-
ents.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-05-09
South Africa's Race Pot Continues To Boil
South African Government Takes
Further Steps Toward Complete
Segregation In Spite OF World Opinion
See Tension Mounting With Growing Current
Of Pan-African Nati0nalism Hitting Union

CAPETOWN, South Africa, Apr.
25.-The Union of South Africa
took further steps this week along
the road to complete apartheid or
separation of races which since
1948 has been it's goal.
A series of measures, all relat-
ing directly or indirectly to race
policy, were advanced stage by
stage in Parliament under gull
lotine," or closure, motion whereby
the Government majority sharply
limited debate.
In every case passage of the
bill is assured. The two measures
that drew the strongest, though
no less futile, protests from the
Opposition were the so-called uni
versity apartheid and Bantustan
bills.
Officially the regime titled the
former the "bill for extension of
university education" Actually it
is intended to deprive Negro stu
dents of the right to enroll in the
two "open" universities, Witwaters-
rand and Capetown
An exception will be made for
medical students. Other Negroes
will have to go to non-white insti-
tutions, yet to be established.
The other measure was officially
titled the promotion of Bantu
seh-government bill" But its key
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-05-09

TOWN ON TRIAL: A Missis-
sippi Negro, Nathaniel Hooks,
above, has his first book, under
the above title, published this
month by the Exposition Press,
Inc, $50 Fourth Ave-, New York,
n. Y.
Nathaniel Hooks wrote his first
manuscript when he was in the
United States Navy in Camp
Perry, Virginia, and on Okinawa,
but rodents destroyed it in his
sea-bag. Town on Trial is his
first published novel.
Mr.. Hooks was born in 1926 in
Crawford, Mississippi, and was
educated there, in Winston Coun-
ty, Alabama, and in Milwaukee,
where he now works as a welder.
The author joined the Navy a
month after his sixteenth birthday,
during World War II, and served
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-05-09
j. S. Fund To Help Nigeria Education

Lagos, Nigeria, May a - In re-
Spouse to a Nigerian Federal Gov
eminent request, the Carnegie Cor
poration has agreed to meet the
cost of a survey of Nigerias needs
in the field Of higher education
over the next 20 years.
The survey will be joint Nj
gerian, United States and British
operation. A commission, whose
membership will be drawn. from
the participating countries, will
carry out the survey and make
recommendations on how Nigeris's
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-05-09
Grand Jury Called
To Hear Florida
Rape Case

Tallahassee, Fla. - The county
grand jury will go into special
session Wednesday to consider the
case of four white men charged
with raping a Negro coed.
Circuit Court Judge w. May
Walker summoned the jurors for
10 am. after state Atty. William
D. Hopkins told the court "some
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A committee of judges selected
Mr.. Coleman's as the best of 72
pepers from the standpoints of
scientific merit and effective de-
livery. This is the first time that
this prize, known as the Bond
Award, has been given.
An award certificate went to
Daniel Swern, Mr.. Coleman's sup
ervisor and coauthor of the paper.
Both are employed at the Agricul-
tural Research Services Utilization
Research and Development Division
in Wyndmoor, Pa. (near Philadel-
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-05-09
ceorqia Posse Out I 0 Prevent Another
PopIarvi|Ie After Rape Cry

Qultman, Ia, Apr. SU. - Con-
scientious possemen hunting for q
rapist prevented Quitman from be-
coming another Poplarville, Miss,
Brooks County Sheriff VIZ Jones
said today.
Nearly 500 men, the great bulk
Of them local citizens, made up
the posse that trotted through the
dark swamps here on the heels Of
bloodhounds in q hunt for. 17-year-
old Negro Jesse Graham.
Graham was suspected Of having
raped . 24-year-old white mother
on the bank Of q nearby fishing
pond that afternoon.
He surrendered later that eve
ming, and Wednesday was cleared
Of any implication In the attack.
Authorities have already arrested
. new suspect 16-year-old re-
form school graduate-who has
been identified by the victim.
But Tuesday night, pushing
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needs can be met.
The Vice Chancellor of Queens
University, Sir Eric Ashby, has
agreed to act as chairman of the
commission. Sir Eric and the Brit
ish and United States members
are expected in Nigeria May 8 for
a brief visit to meet their Nigerisn
colleagues, still to be named, and
discuss arrangements for the sur
vey.
Nigeria, with about 1000 stu
dents leaving its high schools an
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-05-09
Stepin Fetchit
Says Communist
Stirring Up
Southern Negroes

Stepin Fetchit, 65-year-old Negro
early "talky" movie actor declared
here last week that the Communist
Party is attempting to undermine
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People.
Fetchit, who stopped at the state
capitol en- route to the Gulf Coast,
said the Communists are trying
to use anything they can today.
the NAACP, churches, unions, and
even the government"
II don't see how the NAACP can
avoid 100 percent infiltration when
the movie industry and every other
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GHANA SEEKING $1-BILLl0N
FOR development PLANS

Ghana's cocoa bean economy and
anchor the nations economic indie
pendenee safely.
"This is the time for us to be
ambitious" he told the nation.
without ambition nothing can be
done"
He added realistically that the
success of the plan would depend
pretty much on what we can do
to obtain capital from overseas"
He mentioned two main sources
international institutions such as
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Another Rape
Cry Heard In
Mississippi

Lucedale, Miss, May "a 20
year-old white woman said q Ne
gro man jumped from behind =
roadside shack Sunday night and
tried to rape her, George County
authorities reported.
The woman, who is married,
said she was walking to . store
near the Shipman Community, be-
tween here and the Alabama line,
when q Negro attacked her.
She was taken to the George
County Hospital here, where .
physician said she definitely had
not been raped" He said he found
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until the end of 1916.
The book tells the story about
what happened when golden haired
Anna Lee Sandsby branded Robert
Bryson, a young Negro husband
and father with rape and set in
motion a series of events that was
to bring the town to the brink of
calamity and make it the cynosure
of the nations eyes Angry
men led by Anna Lees unlettered
father deliver an ultimatum to the
towns Negro population D.. Hooks
has created a memorable gallery
of characters, whites and Negroes
Not the least of these. is
Sheriff Mark Iverson, whose cour-
age and fair-mindedness play key
roles in the electrifying drame :. . i.
In the light of today's headlines,
Town On Trial is narrated with
power and compassion.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-05-09

Accra, Ghana -Ghana is 60
ing to embark on a billion-dollar
development program in July, with
only quarter of that amount in
the national kitty.
The big question is where the
money for the five-year plan will
come from - East or West. And
the Ghanaians are just as eager
to get the answer as the foreign
diplomats here.
Prime Minister Kwame Nkru-
NAH admits the plan is ambitious.
But he is determined to strengthen
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-05-09
Decision DELAYED
In Little Rock
School Case

Little Rock, Ark.-The National
Assn. for the Advancement of
Colored People said Monday the
Arkansas school closing law was
designed solely to keep a handful
of Negro students from continuing
at Little Rock Central High School.
The law was used by Gov. Orval
E. Faubus last fall to close four
public highschools here after court
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-05-09
White People Back
Negro In Child
Modest Case

SOUTHPORT, N. c., May A.
The state asked for a jury trial
today for a "highly-thought of"
67-year-old Negro janitor charged
with molesting the 7-year-old
daughter of the chief of South
ports two-man police force.
The request was believed spanked
by large group of residents who
volunteered to testify in behalf of
the janitor, Charlie Lee. A spokes-
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-05-09
Cong. Diggs
Plans March
On Mississippi

VICKSBURG. - Mayor Johnny
Holland learned of a Michigan
Negroes plan to organize march
on Vicksburg and commented: "Tm
sure anyone who chose to pay US
a visit would be enriched by it.
Charles C. Diggs ST.. of Detroit
whose son is U. S. Congressman
has announced he will organize
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j. S. Law Men
Do What Most
People Thought
Was Impossible
Parker's Body Found
Floating Among
DriftwOOd In
Pearl River

Poplarville, Miss. May look
ed at as what most people here
abouts thought would never hap
pen, the body of a Negro who
was dragged from his Jail cell after
being accused of raping a white
woman, was found among drift
wood in the Pearl River.
The FBI identified the bleached
and decomposing remains through
fingerprints as the body of Mack
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-05-09
NEGROES WANT PARKS RE0PENED
ION ANY KIND OF BASIS"

parents wanted the parks opened,
even if it meant segregation.
"We recognize" Israel said, "the
only way the parks will be re-
opened is on a segregated basis"
The parks have been closed since
Jan. 1 because of a suit by a group
of Negroes seeking a federal court
injunction to prevent segregation
at the parks.
City attorneys Monday were
given q two-week extension in
which to answer a Negro petition
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Montgomery. ]. Israel, presi-
dent of the Restoration and Ameli-
grafton Assn, said today a "repre-
sentative group" of local Negroes
will ask the city park and recrea-
ton board to reopen city parks
"on any kind of basis"
"We're not asking for integra-
tion," he said. "We just feel most
Montgomery parents would rather
have their children playing in seq
regated parks than playing in the
streets"
He said a survey showed Negro
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-05-09

VIII work primarily with State
Extension supervisors throughout
the South in developing more ef-
fective educational programs to
assist the millions Of rural Negro
people in the region.
Providing on-the-farm and in.
the-home Cooperative Extension
advice are some 900 colored farm
and home demonstration agents
who base their counsel on research
results obtained by the Depart
ment, the State land-grant col
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-05-09
State Negro Extension Supervisor
Named 10 High Agricultural Post

A. s. Bason, State supervisor Of
Negro Extension work in Georgia,
has been appointed to the admin
istrative staff Of the Federal Ex-
tension Service of the U. s. De-
partment Of Agriculture.
Already at work, Mr.. Bacon will
succeed p. H Stone upon his re-
tirement on June 80 as assistant
to the Assistant Administrator in
charge Of the program work Of
the agency, which Il the educa-
tional arm of the Department.
Like his predecessor, Mr.. Bacon
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-05-09
Sou. Presbyterian Church Leaders
Renew Effort For Race Harmony
500 Commissioners Joined In
Statement On Race Relations

Atlanta, Ca, May 1-Southern
leaders of the Presbyterian church
last Tuesday called for intensified
efforts by church members in re-
concilling differences between the
races.
Five hundred commissioners of
the General Assembly, governing
body of the church, approved a
statement on race relations which
said civil courts do not provide
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-05-09
Moscow Forms
New Group
For American
Friendship Drive
Diplomats From
North Africa Attend
Organization
Meeting, Radio
Liberation Reports

NEW YORK. - Formation in
Moscow of an Association of
Friendship with the Peoples of AT
RIGA" demonstrates the Kremlin's
heightened interest in the affairs
of that troubled continent, accord
ing to Radio Liberation.
The anti Communist station
which broadcasts to the Soviet
Union announced it had monitored
an April % Moscow Radio news
cast which disclosed that the
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-05-09
NEGROES TO SERVE ON YAz00
COUNTY MURDER TRIAL JURY

Yazoo City, Miss. May A -
Three Negro will serve on Yazoo
County juries as the trial of two
Negroes charged with the murder
of white man comes up in circuit
court.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-05-09

an adequate answer.
Christians must keep safe the
freedom of the two races to meet
voluntarily in unhampered assem-
bly, and genuine fellowship, the
church leaders said.
Suggestions toward dealing the
estrangement were presented by
the assembly's Committee on
Christian Relations.
l(Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-05-09

Circuit Judge M. M. MCGOWAN
of Jackson empaneled ] o h FAX
ins as the first Negro on a grand
jury in nine years, and T. J. Hud-
dleston Jr. and Sam Myers on petit
trial jurids.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-05-09
Florida A. E N.
Students Call Off
Strike When
Grand Jury Takes
Coed Rape Case
States Attorney Acts
To Block Delay In
Action BY Grand Jury

Tallahassee, Fla, May STU
dents at Florida A. & M. Univer-
sity called off their classroom
strike tonight shortly after grand
jury was ordered back into session
to consider charges against four
white youths who said they raped
a Negro coed.
Student president Clifford Tay-
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-05-09

BACK FROM WASHINGTON:
Jackson Advocate Editor Percy
Greene was back in his office We'd
nesday after a trip to Washing
ton, d. C. Saturday where he was
a guest panelist in the Capitol
Press Club discussion of What The
Press Can Do To Better Racial
Understanding. Included among
panelists was Harold Burt Myers,
of Time and Edwin Tribble, Sunday
Editor, Washington Evening Star.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-05-09

Delaware Gets
Order TO Begin
School Indignation
Start hextFaII
u. S. Court Orders
Schools To Admit
Negroes Yearly On
Grade-B Basis
Wilmington, Del, April 25-The
State Board of Education has been
ordered to integrate the races in
Delaware's public schools one grade
year starting with the first grade
in the fall.
The order, issued late yesterday
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-05-09
Public School
| eachers Seen
In Growing
Opposition To
Prosegregation
Laws In Arkansas
Show Opposition To
Loyalty Oath And Bar
Of NAACP Members
T.
In Arkansas

Little Rock, Ark, May 4 -
Growing opposition to two pro-seg-
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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-06-23
POWhatan Becomes
54th County Using
Dog Warden System

Powhatan county will become the
Saith of Virginia's 80 counties to en-
ploy dog warden when the switch
relieving the game warden of re-
sponsibility is made July l.
With PoWhatan, the counties Of
Highland. Fluvanna and Wise are
the latest joining the dog warden
ranks. according to Webb Midyette
law enforcement chief of the Vir-
ginia Game Commission.
Midyette made this observation
in announcing the new warden to-
tails:
In every county making this
change. game wardens are able to
spend nearly double the time pre-
viously spent in game and fish law
enforcement, and the local dog war
den is also able to spend full time
in dog law enforcement. meaning
fewer livestock losses and in
creased license revenue for the
locality
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-06-23
H-SC To Get Share
S2,05O,OOO Estate

Twenty per cent of the income
IF o m an estate appraised at
s2.050.000 left in perpetual trust by
the late Albert F. Patton. Danville
businessman, will 60 to Hampden-
Sydney College.
Patton. an alumnus and trustee
of HampdenSydney, also provided
shares of the trust income for other
Presbyterian institutions, including
Sunnyside Home for the aged Is
per cent, Union Theological Semi
nary, Richmond. 40 per cent, and
the Assembly Training School for
professional church workers at.
Richmond five per cent.
The will provides a total of as
per cent of the income for certain
relatives during their lifetime. Upon
their death their shares will 90 back
to the trust and be distributed to
the institutional beneficiaries ac-
cording to their portions.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1959-06-23
New Buckingham Principal And Coach
Named; Powhatan Principal Resigns

Two Herald area schools, Buck
ingham Central High and Powhatan
High will have new principals this
fall Irving s. Driscoll, division
u p G r n e n d n t in Bucking-
ham county announced today the
appointment of new principal and
new coach In PoWhatan division
superintendent j S. Caldwell re-
Gently revealed the resignation Of
B. W. Letson to take a position
in Loudoun county. The PoWhatan
vacancy has not yet been filled.
A new principal and a new mem
Der Of the physical education staff
AT Buckingham Central High School
have been selected, according to
an announcement made today by
Irving S. Driscoll, division super
intendent.
Ted Alexander, Of Miami. Fla.
will assume duties as principal on
July |, succeeding N H. Hurt. Hurt,
principal Of the school for ten years
plans to return to the University
of Virginia for graduate study.
Earl M. Glover, Of Jacksonville.
N C. win join the physical edu-
cation staff jill September. He will
coach baseball and assist with foot
ball and basketball. Glover will Re-
place Martin R. Conway. who was
head Of the Physical Education
Department during the 1859 scs-
sion
The new principal Il a graduate
OF Milligan College in Tennes see
Alexander obtained his NJ. A. de
gree from East Tennessee State
College Johnson City Tenn He did
work toward a doctoral degree at
the University Of Virginia and the
University of North Dakota
A native Virginian, Alexander
has held administrative and super
visory positions in Virginia, Tenncs
see, and Florida and he holds
teaching certificate from each o.
the three states. For the past three
years, he served in the navy.
Alexander. his wife and two chill
dren have already located IN Buck
ingham- Superintendent Driscoll
said today Alexander was Wen
qualified for the position to which
he had been assigned. and he had
every reason to believe he would
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