Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1960-05-20
National News
Week Digest

liam M. @. Hahn said in Milwau,
kee, race relations in his country
are excellent -. George Max
Ankengo, 20, one Of the Kenys
natives airlifted to America fol-
college entrance by a fund set ur
by Jackie Robinson and Harry
Belafonte found himself job with
the Corn Products Co, and Is sup.
porting himself while he attends
the "U' Of Chicago. Eighty-ons
students from Kenya came here
ON the Mboya sponsored airlift.
A TanganyilSan artist, Sam j
Nitro opened a two week exhibit
at the Martin d. Simpson gallery
in New York Pope John wired
congratulations from the Vatican
to the Togoland Catholics on the
occasion Of that West African
country receiving its independence
The North Carolina Medical
Society turned down the applica.
ton of Charlotte doctor Emery L
Ram. The physician heads the all.
Negro medical society in the state
Johnnie HI. Watts, women re-
search associate Of the Carver
Foundation at Tuslegee was
given a three year $4,000 grant
to study amino acid nutrition
problems. The grant was made
by the US. Dept. Of Health,
Education and Welfare, Amino
acid makes up the muscle tissue
of the human body.
DR.. Daniel w. Wynn, chaplain
and professor at Tlskegee was
recently elected editor Of the Ma
tional Association of College and
University Chaplains Newsletter
=. The Americans for Democratic
Action blasted the Eisenhower ad.
ministration for lack Of effective
leadership. ADA Chairman Sam
uel G. Beer said the President
spent too much time playing goli
on segregated golf courses to dc
q real job as president.
A Birmingham Negro school
built of wood was burned to the
ground in that city last week.
The fire was reported as the
work OF arsonlsts. Negroes
I'm Haywood and Fayette count
les in Tennessee charge whites
with economic bOycOtts against
any Negro who seeks to register
to vote.
In anticipation of continued
peaceful protests by Alabama Ne
groes and resentment Of whites
Alabama highway patrolmen and
other police have been under four
weeks training in mob control tao
tics. An unofficial group Of Ala
bama horsemen have been organ
lied and supposedly deputized also
to assist in expected Negro up
risings."
Jimmy Davis, new governor Of
Louisiana upon his inaugural
pledged his state will preserve
segregation. We win maintain
our way Of life without COM
promise, without prejudice, with
out violence" A few days later
Federal Judge J. SkeIIy Wright
ordered New Orleans parish
county schools desegregated
in June. Wright's order came
after the school board failed to
submit q plan to desegregate
schools as ordered by his court
several months ago.
The National Baptist Sunday
School and Baptist Teachers Union
convention meets June 1928 In
Buffalo, NY. The Negro Amer.
lean Labor Council to be formed
in a meeting Of Negro trade union
lists May 27-29 in Detroit on call
Of AFL-CIo vice president and
Porters Brotherhood leader A.
Phillip Randolph viii boast such
speakers as Cong. Chas. Diggs
Martin Luther King, Walter Reu-
Their and George Harrison of the
Brotherhood Of Railway and
Steamship Clerks.
Queen Elizabeth last week In
Quoted NIgerian Prime Minister
Tafawa BaIewa M q knight COM
nnander Of the British Empire.
The Conference Of Prime
Ministers Of the British Com
monwealth voted 10 admit Niger
In TO membership when that
nation formally receives Its In
dependence this year.
Holy Cow! A Chicago woman
drew a 5000 fine for attempting
to bride a Chicago detective. Mrs
neen Pearson Is the woman who
must spend two years in jail fol-
doing what most people think they
can do with most Chicago police
Wasted Effort: A committee has
been formed in N.Y.'s Harlem to
stop the use Of the word Negro
Illinois man who rode to the
voting polls in a funeral hearse
was reelected as a precinct com.
mitteema, William q. Straube
funeral director suffering from a
heart condition rode up in the fun
eral car, walked into the polls to
vote. ..