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St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-18
Please!
Is Money. Law
& Order Ahead
Of Jim Crow

Most Southerners prefer several
things to segregation - money,
law and order, and the mainten-
ance of their reputation for good
manners and these things are
bringing indirect pressure on
Southerners to accept integration.
So says DR. Howard Zinn, his
tory department head at Spelman
College, a Negro women's college
of the Atlanta (Ga) University
Center.
Writing in the August issue of
Harpers Magazine, Dr. Zinn says:
ANY pollster, any white South
erner, or any Negro will tell you
that white Southerners are over
whelmingly for segregation if the
question is put to them in isola-
ton. What is often overlooked,
however, is that, like everyone else,
the white Southerners cherish a
large number of values; that these
values are arranged roughly and
unconsciously on kind of ladder
of importance; and that although
the Southerner may not conscious
ly acknowledge it, segregation is
scarcely ever at the top"
DR.. zinn names these examples
of the values which white South
erners may consider more precious
than continued segregation:
1. Money. The power of the boy
colt, directed against the bus
companies in Montgomery, and the
white tradesmen of Tuskegee,
needs no elaboration" Also, a
white plumbing contractor will hire
a Negro helper and sit beside him
on the front seat of his truck
rather than hire a white helper
and pay ten dollars more per week.
Too, Negroes are respected GUS
toners in the stores of the Deep
South, and white and Negroes
stand on the same lines in super
markets, handle the same food,
encounter for the most part the
same courteous service which is a
special pride of the South.
2. Law and order. Even in the
most fragrant cases of violent op-
position to integration Little
Rock, Clinton, the Nashville school
dynamiting, the Autherine Lucy
affair - only a small minority of
Southerners has preferred violence
to quiet if unhappy acceptance.
There are still Southerners who
talk in terms of "1ast ditch resist
ance." But greater numbers are
succumbing to the doctrine of in
evitability. Many who talk I'M
compromisingly withdraw in sill
ence when the time comes actually
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-18
ROCKEFELLER PANNED
FOR NAACP LINK

Washington (ANP)-New York's
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, who re-
Gently enrolled as a life member of
the NAACP, has been panned by
Sen. Olin D. Johnson ID, SCI.
Calling the Senate's attention to
Rockefeller's endorsement of the
NAACP, the senator said,
ut is regrettable that the gov
ernor Of a state would enlist him
self in such a controversial, parti-
san organization, which is promot-
ing forced integration upon people
all over this land"
johnson also charged that racial
integration in New York City, sup
ported by the NAACP, is respon-
sible for much of the racial viol-
ence in the city.
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-18
Mon Practices Law
Behind Bars: Hos
Helped MonY Inmdfes

The most spectacularly success
full lawyer in Illinois, and perhaps
in the United States today, is a
36-year-old Chicagoan with no for
NAL legal training, who has spent
the last ten years in prison, ac-
cording to the September issue of
Ebony Magazine.
In an article called Convict
Counsel" the man is identified as
Talbot Jennings, who was sent to
Stateville, Illinois maximum sec
urity jail for armed robbery. Three
times Jennings has gone to the
United States Supreme Court and
established, as one noted lawyer
said, "the greatest revolutionary
precedents in the annals of the
states criminal procedure"
According to Ebony, the third
case which Jennings carried to the
Supreme Court, without any as
sistance at all, overturned the Chi
cago Federal District Court and
the 7th Court of Appeals. In addi-
ton, Jennings, who has a 149 10
and completed his high school edu-
cation while behind bars, helped
free more than a score of convicts
He has counseled so others. Iron.
ically, the man has not been able
to help himself.
Jennings, who maintains he was
illegally convicted, has his owr
case in the Federal Court. A ruling
is expected in September. Should
he lose, he says he will go to the
Supreme Court again. If his court
strategy fails, he will appear be,
fore the Parole Board in 1866.
Studying law was no easy jot
for Jennings, says Ebony. He stop,
ped smoking and used the money
he saved to buy law books anc
legal paper. He sold his blood fol
IS a pint and put the money into
his case. He also created what he
claims to be a Frankenstein ir
state courts when he won a casC
which forced the Illinois State
Supreme Court to adopt a rule
under which a free transcript i.
made available to INDECENT de,
PENDANTS in felony cases. Thousand.
of prisoners have asked for trans,
cripts, costing the state of nlinoi.
millions of dollars.
Ebony says that despite his prov
en- proficiency, particularly in ap,
peals, Jennings does not plan to
practice law when he is released
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-18
to defy the laws.

8. Traditional Southern qualities
of good manners. Many Northern
ers have noted with surprise a
phenomenon which the South takes
for granted: a vociferous segrega.
zionist, in personal contact with a
Negro, can often be gentle and
courteous. AS the Negro dares to
appear in places and situation
where he has never been, the
courtesy will face a genuine test
for the first time.
And in many cases the individual
white, facing a situation where
he must violate ordinary rules OF
courtesy in order to defend racial
separation, will maintain his con-
duct at the cost of permitting a
breach in racial tradition.
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-18
CHARGE MAN IN
SHOTGUN ATTACK


Texarkana, Ark. (ANP)-Rob-
ert E. Muldrew. a 24-year-old Ne
gro has been charged with assault
with intent to kill in connection
with the shotgun wounding of a
white man.
Billy Sutton, 21, victim of the
shooting is repeatedly in satisfac-
tory condition at a local hospital.
Muldrew is in Jail.
Muldrew told police he grabbed
his gun and started looking for a
car load of white boys after some
whites in a passing car had thrown
some kind of liquid at him after
calling him names. He said he
saw a parking car and assumed it
contained the same group of youths
who had taunted him, and the gun
went off before he realized his
mistake.
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-18
Friendly Merchants

Are those who regularly adver,
tise in the community paper. They
tell you they want your business
and at the same time support the
news media which presents the
events which occur in this com,
munity and are of particular in,
terest to you and yours.
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-18
STANDINGS TEN STRIKE

Team High Single: Woodard 909;
Sun-Observer, 888; Western Rec
reation, S76.
Team High Series: Woodard's, s,
1866; Sun-Observer, 2464; Western
Recreation, 2406.
Individual High Series: Ralph
Jones, 573; Charles Lam, $50 and
Lamar Collins, 568.
Individual High Single Game:
Sy Johnson, PAP; Ralph Jones and
Robert Graham 211, Thad Tombs,
21O.
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-18
DUO-CITIES PACESETTERS
September 10

September 10
The Pacesetters settled down for
some serious bowling Thursday
The rosters of the majority of the
teams are now filled. Team No.
had as a Sub" Ceola Webb.
Among the gallery bowlers were
Nancy Norman, Mrs. Washington
baby sitting for daughter "Marge, u
Sandra, Althea and Clifford Mar
ity. Cliff was a cheering section
of his own for his mother Joseph
inc, pint sized" tbs true, but he
surely had a big voice.
Elaine and Jackie" Glanton
added charm to the occasion while
watching their mothers team
Wash" Joe Norris, Jim Bardner,
Howie Barrett, Art Moore and
Teddy" Russell.
Jack Adams and Art Moore
couldn't believe the girls" could
call a meeting for five minutes
and actually have it over with as
quickly, but we did.
What two gallery bowlers (male)
decided that 'ff I didn't spot bowl
man! I wouldn't be nowhere.
Methinks we should give "Vern'
Barrett, a donation to have her
towel laundered, or purchase her
another one. How about it Duo
Cities Pacesetters?
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-18

Team High Single: Team l, 764;
Team No. 5, 765; and Team No
2, 761.
Team High Series: Team No. 1,
2154; Team 2, 2O74 and Team No,
5, 2O56.
Individual High Single Game: r,
Green, and Jno. Webster, 200, Lou
verne Williams, 100.
Individual High Series: r. Green
56S; Louverne Williams, SOC; Jno
Webster, 494, Bessie Green, $50;
Alice Jones, 446 and Helen Under
wood, 436.
PLEASE!
"BOWLERS: Do be punctual!
You interrupt and delay the game
when you come late and try tc
make up time. You owe it to your
teammates, your sponsor and the
rest Of the league to be on time"
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-18
HUNDREDS

OF newcomers to the Twin Cities
get acquainted through the col
umns of this newspaper. The Twin
Cities are friendly cities.
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-18
BY PERCY VILLA

We wondered when we last saw
Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong a few
years ago in a Las Vegas night
club with a star Of David dangling
from his neck, whether like Sam
my Davis Jr., the great star had
secretly converted to Judaism. We
noticed it again in his current
picture with Danny Kaye in Five
Pennies.
We checked with his friend and
long time manager-Joe Glaser
at that time said Glaser: Louis
has been wearing that medal for
more than twenty-five. 1t was
given to him by some Jewish
friends. don't think he belongs to
any particular church. He's
grand man in any religion. I doubt
if he would hesitate a second if
you invited him to go to any
ShuA I'll vi SyldSOSuC.
Lionel Hampton also wears
a Star of David given to him by
David Ben-GuriOn In Israel. But
he isn't Jewish either. He car
ries a st. Christopher medal,
too. He's playing it safe all
around.
All which reminds me of the
current gag on radio, stage and
TV. 1t goes something like this:
Marilyn Monroe calls up Elizabeth
Taylor and asks how to make a
certain Jewish dish To which
Liz snapped back: why ask me,
why don't you call Sammy Dav-
is?"
The alert New York Post, had
full page feature story written
by Senator Hubert Humphrey
titled: The Khrushchev Met.
Beautifully written and sorry
that so many this way had to
miss it. In case you missed it you
can write to the Post for the Sep
tember 18th issue.
Have you noticed that people
don't go around whistIing as
they used for? The reason
Is tOday's music Just try
to whistle tOday's popular songs.
Bill Seabron, ends his interest
ing letter with this line about a
recent movie he saw: Movies
are like sex. Despite disappoint-
ments and ridicule they remain
popular"
Archie Givens who was visiting
California and Las Vegas says it's
the only place where people sit in
Cadillacs and count nickels.
My Las Vegas friend Jimmy
Gay writes about the three atom
scientists, where only one of them
goes up against the games pretty
heavily.
Jackson, observes one of the
other scientists, lis gambling as
though there's no tomorrow"
Maybe" says the other. 'he
knows something"
THE GOSSPILE TRUTH: Guess
there is nothing wrong living the
way Perry Como and Pat Boone
do, but wish they'd do some
thing silly and get criticized once
in a while Is it 19 or 20
months since Minneapolis had it's
last professional boxing show.
Saw a preview of The Big Fish
erman" Looks like good cast
ing E. Ny pal, Jackie Cohen says:
There's only one trouble with
Alcoholics Anonymous. 1t louses
up your drinking" Prediction
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-18
DUO-CITIES STANDINGS

Team High Single Game: Bar
rett Realty, sO2; Sally and jays
800, Williams Dancing, 766.
Team High Series: Sally and
Jays 2245; Barrett Realty, 2236;
Team No. 7, 2174.
Individual High Single Game.
Cathy Toombs and Mary Russell,
17S; Gwen Laine, 176, Louise
Thomas and Pat Schuck, IT'S.
Individual High Series: M. Rus
sell, 497; v. Robinson, 454 and A.
Stevenson, 451.
PLEASE!
"Bowlers, become familiar with
and follow the rules of the game,
learn to score"
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-18

THE PAPER WITH SOLID READ
ING,
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-18
TWIN CITY
Pin PATTER'
BY LOUISE THOMAS
MIdwGy 5-S373

The last shift of four teams bowls
at S:45 pm.
NORTHERN LIGHTS
STANDINGS
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-18
NORTHERN LIGHTS
September I2

The Lights" eliminated all
shadows on the E,z. Lanes, Sat-
urday, September IL. The league
is now composed of ten teams,
bowling two shifts. The first shift
of eight teams begins at $50 each
Saturday (please be on time) the
league secretary asks us to say.
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-18

All which reminds me of the
current gag on radio, stage and
TV. 1t goes something like this
Marilyn Monroe calls up Elizabeth
Taylor and asks how to make a
certain Jewish dish To which
Liz snapped back: why ask me,
why don't you call Sammy Dav-
is?"
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-18

Lionel Hampton also wears
a Star Of David given to him by
David Ben-GuriOn In Israel. But
he isn't Jewish either. He car
ries a st. Christopher medal,
too. He's playing it safe all
around.
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-18

The alert New York Post. had
a full page feature story written
by Senator Hubert Humphrey
titled: The Khrushchev I Met.
Beautifully written and sorry
that so many this way had to
miss it. In case you missed it you
can write to the Post for the Sep
tember 18th issue.
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-18

Archie Givens who was visiting
California and Las Vegas says it's
the only place where people sit in
Cadillacs and count nickels.
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-18

Bill Seabron, ends his interest
ing letter with this line about a
recent movie he saw: Movies
are like sex. Despite disappoint-
ments and ridicule they remain
popular"
Evening star., 1959-11-29
Morocco Studies
u. S. Food Laws

RABAT, Morocco, Nov. %
(AP). - Moroccan authorities
are considering legislation to
prevent a repetition of the
disastrous food poisoning scan
dal in which almost 10000
Moroccans were paralyzed after
eating adulterated cooking oil.
The United States embassy
has supplied the Moroccan gov
ernment with a copy Of the
United States Pure Food and
Drugs Act which government
authorities are studying as a
possible model.
At least 9,544 Moroccans are
suffering paralysis of the arms
and legs after eating cooking
oil allegedly adulterated with
lubricating oil the state security
department says was purchased
by merchants from United
States Air Force surplus sales.
Aid for the victims is pouring
In from all over the world. In
response to an appeal by the
international Red Cross, Brit
ain, the United States, Den
mark, Norway and Sweden are
sending a total of "a doctors
or physiotherapists while Swe-
den and Austria are supplying
equipment for two special
hospitals.
Evening star., 1959-11-29

like we're q travelling sales
man"
Travelling" is the word.
WRUL will soon start beaming
programs to the heart of
Africa. The service will seek
to open new opportunities for
United States business, but a
good deal Of time will be spent
on cultural programs and radio
classrooms on subjects from
languages to sports.
These people have been
badgered with overdoSes of
Communist propaganda" Mr..
Lennon says. II think they'll
respond to more news, sports,
culture and entertainment"
In its Office here, a Mexican
sportscaster and a Norwegian
news analyst are likely to be
working at adjoining tape re-
.corders. An attractive Danish
girl may lend a hand to a
Brazilian staffer with crash
coveFage of a cabinet crisis.
"We're selling countries to
each other" Mr.. Lennon says.
People in Buenos Aires al
ready are sitting on the side
lines of soccer games in Chi
cago. Businessmen in Bolivia
hear their stock quotations be-
fore janitors are through
sweeping away the ticker tape
in Wall Street.
But we won't rest until we
have the Watsuis dancing to
Lawrence Welk." He smiled
when he said 1t.
Evening star., 1959-11-29
Youth StruneIes
Woman, 50

NEW YORK Nov. % (AP).
"A 69-year-old white woman
was found strangled in her
third-fioor Brooklyn apart
ment today and a 17-year-old
Negro boy has admitted the
Staying, police said.
The body of Katie Cohan
was found by a son, John. 38,
who lived with her. She had
been punched in the face,
kicked and choked with a belt.
Police said Jasper King, II,
who formerly lived across the
hall from the woman, told
them he visited her early
today.
They quoted him as saying
II had an Impulse to punch
her"
Police also quoted him as
saying the woman was "an old
friend" from the days when. he
lived in the building.
The victim, a widow, was a
cleaning woman for a Brook
lyn dentist. King, a helper on
a garbage truck, was booked
on a homicide charge.
Both lived in the Bedford
Stuyvesant section, a racially
mixed area.
Evening star., 1959-11-29
Navy BoIIoonists AIoft
To Photograph Venus

in the flight was designed for
the Navy'S strato-lab balloon
program by DR.. John Strong,
director of the laboratory of
aStrophysicS and physical
meteorology at Johns Hopkins
University, under contract with
the Navy.
Navy tracking crews following
the balloon said the trajectory
apparently would carry the big
plastic bag to the st. Louis, Mo.
area.
Comdr. Ross and Mr.. Moore
hoped for a clear look at Venus
after sunrise tomorrow when
the morning star" will be at
its brightest.
The balloon took of from
the Strato Bowl launching site
near here this morning. Made
Of plastic III ,000ths of an inch
thick, it has an inflated diam
eter of 172 feet and carries
2 million cubic feet of helium.
Evening star., 1959-11-29
Trailer Heater
Deaths TotuI 16
By the Associated Press

Deaths attributed to use Of
a small type of bottle gas
heater in travel trailers have
climbed to Is, the Public Health
Service said yesterday, and re-
emphasized its warning againsN
use Of such heaters.
A spokesman said two deaths
in Colorado last July originally
thought to have resulted from
defective refrigeration equip
ment, now have been attributed
to probable use of the small
type heater made by Thurm
Engineering Co., Elkhart. Ind.
The health service previously
had reported IA deaths at
tributed to use of the heater
since d-September.
1t said about 2,100 of the
heaters were sold and until
the last one is run down there
is q bobbytrap to hit the un-
Suspecting."
Evening star., 1959-11-29

RAPID CITY, S. D., Nov. %
(AP)-Two balloonists, aloft to
study the planet Venus, drifted
over Nebraska at nearly 10000
feet late today sealed in a gon-
dola attached to a huge plastic
balloon and radioed they are
feeling fine"
A veteran Navy balloon pilot,
Comdr. Malcolm Ross, and
Charles B. Moore, a Cambridge
(MaSs0 scientist, carried with
them on the scheduled 24-hour
flight a powerful telescope
through which to take photo
graphs of the planet as well as
Spectographic shots for study
Of; its atmosphere. They hoped
to take the pictures from
1000 feet.
Comdr. Ross lives at 4441 N.
10th street, Arlington, Va, with
his wife and two children.
The telescope system used
Evening star., 1959-11-29
Ex-Deputy Held
In Paris BOMBING

PARIS, Sunday, Nov. 20
(AP).-Robert Pesquet, a for
mer rightwing parliamentary
deputy, was arrested early to-
day in connection with a bomb
blast in the National Assembly
in February, 1858.
Pesquet recently has been in
the news in connection with a
machinegun attack on the au-
tomobile of Senator Francois
Mitterrand. Pesquet has said
he stage managed the attack
but claimed it was pre-arranged
with Mitterrand.
The Senator has denied Pes
quet's account. Pesquet was
charged with keeping arms as
Evening star., 1959-11-29
Shah Says Iran
Needs More Aid
Than u. S. Gives

TEHERAN. Iran, Nov. 20
(AP).-The Shah Of Iran, dis
cussing the Forthcoming visit
of President Eisenhower, said
today Trans relations with the
United States have never been
as good as now"
The Shah was asked at q
news conference what he
planned to bring up in talks
with Mr.. Eisenhower. While he
did not say Iran would ask for
more United States military and
economic aid, the Shah re-
piled:
THE United States never has
hesitated in extending help to
Iran but our expectations are
greater than what we receivs.
1T is our duty to safeguard
the interests of our country on
every occasion and it is def
nitely of benefit to the United
States to see that Iran becomes
successful in this aim"
Asked by a reporter about the
possibility of a change in United
States foreign policy as a re-
suit of improved American
Soviet relations, the Shah re-
piled:
Il do not know how far
these changes are true, but I
believe there is nothing better
than the establishment of peace
so that people can work for the
betterment of their living condi.
tions without anxiety.
But I definitely do not think
it is true to believe the United
States will make any agreement
with Russia against small gov
ernments."
Evening star., 1959-11-29

q result Of his statement, but
he has been at liberty during
the investigation.
Friday night he was called to
criminal police headquarters
-Four inspectors then accom-
panied Pesquet to his home for
a house search. All then re-
turned to police headquarters,
where Pesquet was questioned.
Shortly after midnight, the
magistrate investigating the
Assembly explosion sent a for
NAL request that Pesquet be
held by the police. No formal
charge has been filed.
The explosion occurred Feb
ruary S, 1858, in a wash room
in one wing of the Assembly
building. No one was hurt but
there was some property dam
age.
Evening star., 1959-11-29
Commands Sturt
YuIe Toy Drive

The Commands, a new unit
Of the Washington Junior Po-
lice and Citizens Corps, are
collecting toys and clothes to
give to the needy at Christmas.
About 65 youngsters of from
7 to 16 are ringing Northeast
neighborhood doorbells and
looking through their atticS in
search of goods for their Christ
mas project.
The unit, headed by Weldon
Hemphill of the Metropolitan
Police Department reserve, is
headquartered in the 1900 block
of G street NE.
Formed in September, the
Commands have just COM
pleted a Thanksgiving project
and collected four baskets of
food, which they turned over
to impoverished families.
Evening star., 1959-11-29

Of them still in pajamas, were
marched at gun point to Quis-
ling microphones to read pre-
pared orders for all ships and
crews to report at once to the
nearest Axis-held harbor.
But as bewildered Norwegian
shippers pondered what to do,
q dramatic counter-command
came through ship radios in
every ocean. The angry voice
Of Wilhelm Munte de Morgen-
stjerne, Norway's Ambassador
to America, sounded an order
they could trust.
Report for War Duty!"
Norway has fallen victim to
Nazi treachery! All previous
orders from Oslo are false.
null and void Set your course
for the nearest allied portl Re-
port Tor war duty!"
The score? Nine hundred
Norwegian ships sailed to allied
harbors. None of those at sea
showed up in an Axis port.
That story, nearly 20 years
old, today is tied by a radio
band to Swedish farmers, teen
ayers in Tegucigalpa, priests in
Paraguay, whaling crews an
chored on Antarctica and
Spanish-speaking sports lovers
in more than a dozen coun-
tries.
The link for these contrast
ing climates, tongues and per-
sonalities is a privately owned
radio station almost unknown
in America but meaning Amer
lea to thousands of peoples in
many lands.
Station WRUL, studios in
New York, transmitters in
Boston, is the brainchild of an
inventor engineer, Walter S..
Lennon, who decided years
ago that radio could convert
the world into a giant navion.
With the support of private
foundations in radios early
days, he ran the worlds biggest
blackboard - teaching English
to Scandinavian farmers and
hygiene to Peruvian Indians.
Operation Different Today
The operation today is
greatly different. Some 90 pro-
grams weekly are directed by
short wave into homes in South
America, Europe, North Africa
and ships at sea. News, sports,
commentary, music. cultural
and religious programs crackle
around the world in half a
dozen different languages.
And to complete the differ
ence, WRUL is unique in short
wave operations in that it is as
commercial an operation as
any local station on the stand
ard dial. Major advertisers in
clude rubber companies, soft
Evening star., 1959-11-29
Angus Calf Named
Champion Steer

CHICAGO, Nov. % CAP).-A
1,050-pound Aberdeen Angus
calf shown by a young Iowa
farmer today was named grand
champion steer of the 6Oth In
ternational Live Stock Exposi-
ton.
The prize calf, shown by Roy
Mass, 81, of Remsen, was ac-
claimed best of 1872 steers in
the contest. Earlier, the same
steer was named grand cham
pion steer of the junior feeding
contest.