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The Nome nugget., 1960-03-21
MacArthur Operated On

NEW YORK, R-Gen. Douglas Macarthur was operated on Sat urday for a prostate gland ail- ment. A 1st Army spokesman said his postoperative condition was excellent.
 The 80-year-old general had four doctors in attendance during the operation at Lenox Hill Hos pital. Dr. George w. Slaughter was in charge.
The Nome nugget., 1960-03-21
Help for Crippled Children

IENI1E EASTER SEAL CAMPAIGN in Nome starts today and those familiar little jars placed in business houses for the next couple of weeks will be little reminders of the many children who have been aided the past year, and the many more who need assistance.
 1860 marks the 39th year of service to crippled children by this volunteer fund-rasing campaign at Easter time.
 In 1859, 1,744 persons were aided from this fund for rehabilitation.
 Many people will receive direct appeals, with the receipt of envelopes with Easter Seal stamps Use these stamps reminders to others to do their bit for the handicapped children of Alaska They buy research to aid them and improve their conditions. From the Mcclure, Pa, Plain Dealer: "There are two kinds of taxes: good ones and bad ones. Good taxes those that levied upon other people, and bad taxes those that we must pay
 Likewise there wise and foolish expendi- lures of public funds, the former promotes ideas of public necessity and the latter does not put cash into pockets.
 From the Chewelah Wn,. Independent: Legislation is being drafted to regulate all actions of the petro leum industry in the State of Washington As contemplated, the board would regulate production refining transportation distribution and sale.
 Passing another law, licensing the gasoline dealers and forcing price control gasoline is not in the best public interest If this be done with gasoline who or what product will be next on the list of government contro?"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1960-09-17
See Coming Split I'm National Baptist Convention
Rebel Forces Take Over Baptist
Convention To Claim Election
Of Gardner Taylor As President
JACKSON GROUP WINNERS IN
FIRST ROUND OF COURT BATTLE

Philadelphia, Pa, Sept. ID. -
The National Baptist Convention,
USA, Inc, the nations and the
worlds largest Negro Protestant
religious body, which met in its
80th annual session here Sept. g.
IL, In one of the most riotous and
uncontrolled meetings in it's his
tory is now seen splitting into two
rival organizations as a result of
the bitter contest over the presi-
dency which came to light in all
its fury during the meeting here.
The bitterness in all of its fury
came to a head Thursday after
Rev. Joseph H. Jackson, the in
cumbent president had been de-
clared officially reelected. Fol-
lowing the announcement of the
reelection of Jackson the conven-
ton recessed, whereupon the Tay-
lor forces took over the conven-
ton hall, and held an election in
which they declared Rev. Gardner
Taylor elected president of the
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ANOTHER CIVIL RIGHTS SUIT FILED BY l. s. GOVERNMENT
Federal Government Files Civil
Rights Suit In Tenn. Negro Vote Case
Name II Whites In Indictment Charging
Use Of Economic Pressure To Stop Negroes
From Registering And Voting

Memphis, Tenn. Sept. Ia - The
Federal government filed civil
rights suit Tuesday, naming q
individuals and two banks, charg-
ing that economic pressure was
used to prevent Negroes from reg
istering to vote in Haywood coun-
ty, a west Tennessee farming Sec
ton.
One of the individuals named
resides in adjoining Fayette Coun-
'ty which is presently under inves-
tigation by the Justice Department.
The charges against the white
defendants ranged from "termina-
ton of sharecropping and tenant
farming relations to refusal
to sell necessary goods, even for
cash" to the Negroes, the suit said.
The government charged that
various white persons residing in
Haywood County including some
of the defendants arranged,
conducted and attended meetings
held at various sites in Haywood
County for the purpose of discuss
ing, planning, and organizing a
course of conduct of threats, in
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One 6-Year-0Id
Girl Is DoIIarWay
School lntegration

Little Rock, Ark, Sept. Z -
Indignation began quietly today in
the Dollarway School District,
where segregationist feeling has
been running high for year and
a half.
A 6-year-old Negro girl, De-
lores Jean York, slipped into the
previously all-white Dollarway
School without being seen by some
20 persons who watched the open
ing.
The school board president, Lee
Parham, announced after classes
had begun that the York girl was
inside the school.
The jefferson County sheriff's
department and the state police
had officers patrolling the area.
The sheriff, Harold Norton, kept
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Two Teen-Agers
Start Richmond
School Integration

RICHMOND, Va, Sept. 6.-Two
teen-age Negro girls attended
classes at a formerly all-white
school here today, marking the
beginning Of school Indignation in
this former capital Of the Con-
federacy.
No incidents were reported dur
ing the girls first day as pupils
at the Chandler Junior High
School.
In at least nine other Virginia
communities, Negro and white chill
dren attended classes together.
without incidents.
For some cities, the fall term
means the first breach Of the
color line while some schools
throughout the state have been
operating on q non-segregated
basis since February, 1869.
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CONGO Rivals Turn To Parliament
For Help In Drive For Power
President

Leopoldville, Congo - President
Kasavubu and Premier Patrica
Lumumba were looking to Parlia-
ment Sept. Z to bolster their rival
drives for power Is violence flared
between the warning Congo leaders.
Mr.. Kasavubu was expected to
request parliamentary approval
for . new Cabinet headed by Jo-
seph leo, moderate Senate lead
er, whom he has chosen to re-
place Mr.. Lumumba.
Mr.. Lumumba was reported
seeking . vote Of confidence from
Parliament for his left-leaning re-
gime.
But observers wondered whether
Parliament could do much to break
the deadlock, frightened by the in
sistence Of each leader that he has
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Students Leave
For American
Youth Exhibit

Washington-Two Negro youths
were among the % American stu
dents who left last week for Ger
many to participate in the "Amer-
lean Youth" exhibit to be held
Sept. 1927.
They are Wayne Tells Of Har-
vey, ILL.,, and Charles J. Beard Of
Detroit. Tells is . recent gradu-
ate Of Thornton Township High
school with major interest in me-
chanical engineering. He was an
honor student for the four years
in high school and was elected in
his senior year to the National
Honorary Society.
Beard il . student at Phillips
Academy. He graduated from Cass
Technical high school and has been
active in the school orchestra and
the Church Youth Fellowship Of
the Episcopal church. He is q
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Howard University Choir Returns
From Tour OF Latin America

Washington, D. C.-The Howard
University Choir returned to the
United States this week follow
ing a 30 day tour Of Latin America
which was described by Warner
Lawson, choir director and dean
Of the Howard School Of Music,
as absolutely fantastic"
Some 800 relatives and friends
Of the singers cheered wildly - the
Varig Airlines Super Constellation
landed at Washington National
Airport Sunday, following It's
flight from Port-of-Spain, Trini-
dad, w. l., the site Of the choral
groups final concert. On hand TO
greet Dean and Mrs. Lawson as
they came down the gangway were
Howard President and Mrs. James
M. Nabrit, Jr.
~ have never seen anything like
it." Lawson said, referring to the
plaudits for the singers in the
Is countries where they perform
ed. Everywhere we went the re-
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Short Breather Won For nAAcP
Minister Facing Florida Jail

TALLAHASSEE, Sept. 2. -
NAACP attorneys secured an ad-
ditional month Of freedom here
this week for q Negro clergyman
facing six months jail and 81 200
fine for refusing to expose fellow
NAACP members to Florida bias.
Lawyers for Father Theodore r.
Gibson, President Of the Miami
NAACP, revealed the State SUI
preme Court decided Tuesday
September 9Th, to consider his case
on merit.
The period Of time necessary to
check into the validity, Of the low
er courts sentence, insures Father
Gibson Of an estimated 30 days
freedom.
Father Gibson was convicted Au-
gust 30th in the Circuit Court of
Judge w. May Walker. His con-
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myoba Rejects
j. S. Fund Offer

WASHINGTON. - Tom Myoba
in Nairobi, Kenya, recently reject
ed the U. s. State departments
debated gesture" Of 100000 to
bring $50 African students here
to accept college scholarships.
He accepted, instead, an offer
made by Democratic presidential
aspirant John F. Kennedy to ii.
nance the ginat student airlift.
It is too early to determine yet
whether Mboya's decision ends the
controversy which Sen. Hugh Scott
Of Pennsylvania started when he
accused Kennedy Of trying to out
bid the United States to finance
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81 Africans
Attend Seminar
IN Israel

TEL AVN, Israel, Sept. g.
Farmers from 10 former French
and Belgian colonies in Africa
began today . study Of new pat
terms Of cooperative life that have
been developed in Israel.
The 1O-week course Is under the
sponsorship Of the Foreign Min
istry and the General Federation
Of Labor (HistGdrut). The course
Is part Of . campaign Of. technical,
economic and cultural aid for the
newly emancipated nations. The
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Negroes in Brooklyn, NY. Plan Is
School Sit Out to Spur Integration

A Negro parents group, demand
ing greater school Indignation, has
submitted to the Police Department
a list Of seventy-six public schools
in Brooklyn where 1t plans to hold
"sit-out" demonstrations.
The demonstrations, coupled with
q pupil boycott, are planned for
Monday, when the new school term
begins. Parents would bring their
children to school, but the pupils
would sit outside the building on
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1960-09-17
Negro Lawyer
Charge Governor
With UnduIy
Influencing Trial
Of GoIdsby Case
Appeal From Death
Penalty Argued In
State Supreme Cour1

A prominent Chicago Negro
lawyer and a former Assistant
States Attorney for Illinois,
George Leighton told the Missis-
sippi State Supreme Court Tues
day that Governor-elect Ross Bar
nett exerted undue influence in
the second trial of the Robert Lee
Goldsby case.
Attorney Leighton declared that
the Governor-elect intruded upon
the court proceedings without sta
tutory authority.
The appeal to the Supreme Court
was the 10th appeal of Goldsby,
34-year-old st. Louis Negro con-
victed twice of the September,
1854, murder of Mrs. Bryant
helms of Walden.
The court took the case under
advisement and set no date for a
decision.
Goldsby was convicted for the
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krumah Asks For
Restraint In
The Congo

Accra, Ghana - President Nix.
rumah of Ghana has appealed to
the Congo people and government
leaders to exercise restraint and
to refrain from doing anything
which might jeopardize their indie
pendence and sovereignty"
He warned against improper
interference" from outside Africa
in the Congo crisis and said he
was certain that if independent
African states exercise a wise
initiative the present difficulties
can be easily resolved"
DR.. Nkrumah SPOKE Sept. 7 in
a broadcast after two days of in
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Negro Models
On biIIboards
In London

LONDON.-The first CONNER.
cial posters in London using Ne
gro models in advertising were
ordered taken down last week with
the explanation they had been dis
played only to enable an agency
to obtain pictures Of them.
The four posters were displayed
for three days in crowded north
east district Of London, and were
advertisements for beer, whiskey
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ATLANTA, Ga, Sept. 1O.-A
new test of the legal right of
Georgia's Negro citizen to attend
state institutions Of higher learn
ing is being made by two Atlanta
high-school graduates.
The federal court at Macon was
asked by Charlayne A. Hunter
and Hamilton E. Holmes, both
graduates Of Atlanta's Negro Tur.
ner High School and both Is, to
grant q permanent injunction
against the University Of Georgia
at Athens to bar it from refusing
to consider their applications for
entrance, failing to act promptly
on the applications Of Negroes,
and setting up requirements for
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Kennedy
Faces Problem
In Dixie State

Washington, D. c., Sept. 10 -
Campaign aides Of Democratic
presidential nominee John F. Ken
nedy last week declined to dis
close what will be done about TAX
ing Negro advisers along on trips
into Southern states.
At a news briefing, Kennedy =
press secretary, Pierre Salinger,
was reminded that Kennedy h a d
named Frank Reeves, national
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chairs brought from home, in q
variation Of the Southern sit-in
demonstration against segregation
at lunch counters.
The Rev. Milton A. Glamison
president Of the parents group, the
Parents Workshop for Equality in
New York City Schools, said the
list Of schools involved might ex.
coed $50 throughout the city. He
said he had pledges Of support
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Negroes Sue Georgia University
Seeking Fall Term Entry

them that are different from those
facing white students. The regis
trar, Walter N. Danner, was named
as defendant.
Rule Pointed Out
The two students first filed
their applications for admission
to the university in July, 1859.
They asked in their court suit
that the applications be "consid-
cred as continuing"
However, state officials have
pointed out that there is no such
thing as a continuing applica-
tion," and that white students
who are not admitted in a specific
year must file new applications If
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SchooI Dismiss Whites After Being
Told To Admit Negro Students

RICHMOND, Va.-Token deseg-
regation progressed without a
hitch in three more Virginia To-
calities this week but ran into a
snag in the Southwestern city of
Galax.
Richmond, Roanoke and Pulaski
opened five formerly white schools
to "a Negroes as the new term
began with more than ITO Negroes
attending classes with white chill
dren in 10 districts.
But Galax, faced with federal
court order to admit egiht Ne
groes to its white high school, drew
the line. The Negroes live in
neighboring Grayson county which
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Colleges Form
School Plan
For Africans

New York - A program for
bringing between 100 and 200 AZ
rican students each year t. the
United States was announced FRI
day by "a American colleges.
The colleges are to provide tut
ton, room and board and other
essentials. The students govern
ments are to underwrite travel ex-
penses.
Colleges taking part are AM
herst, Barnard, Brandeis, Brown,
Bryn Mawr, Columbia, Cornell,
Dartmouth, Harvard, Haverford,
Minnesota, Mount Holyoke, Notre
Dame, Oberlin, Pembroke, Penn
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White Church Visitors Seeking /.
Better Relations With Other Christians

New Orleans, La. Sept. II -
Negroes attended services at two
all-white Protestant churches here
Sunday.
The "kneel-in" occurred only two
days after lunch counter sit-in
demonstration the first in the
city.
The Negro church goers were
accompanied by white persons
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1960-09-17
Negro Banker
Arrested In
Memphis Sit-In

MEMPHIS, Tenn.-Jesse H. Tur.
ner, newly elected member of the
Shelby County Democratic Execu-
tive Committee, cashier of the Tri-
State Bank and veteran NAACP
officer, was among 81 arrested for
sit-in demonstrations here this
week.
The NAACP-led demonstrations
took plcae at local restaurants, de-
partment stores and bus stations
Kneel-in demonstrations took place
at local churches.
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Negroes File Federal Suit For Right
To Peacefully Assemble

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.-Two Ne.
gro leaders filed suit in federal
court here Sept. z to establish
their right to assemble peacefully
without harassment by police.
They asked the U. s. District
Court to stop the Birmingham Po-
Nee Department from sending de-
tectives to regular weekly meet
ings Of the Alabama Christian
Movement for Human Rights.
The suit charges tina this prac-
tice is form of intimidation and
violates right guaranteed to Am
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also educates some Of its white
children in the Galax school.
Federal Judge John Paul ruled
that as long as Galax accepts
white children from Grayson it
would also have to accept quail
fled Negroes from the county.
The Galax school board voted to
end its contract under which Gray
son has been sending white chill
dren to Galax high for 10 years.
When Paul's order was issued
Friday, Galax school officials
promptly told 282 white Grayson
students they were no longer en-
rolled at Galax high and sent
them home to await instructions
from Grayson's school board.
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New Half Million Dollar Facility
Opened At jackson College

and the Area of Education. Also
included in the completely air
conditioned structure is a langu-
age laboratory which will house
facilities for recording and playing
various records in the teaching OF
languages; a psycho-education lab
oratory for the administering and
Interpreting of all kinds Of tests;
an audio laboratory which will
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California Governor Names Negro
To State Board Of Education

Senate confirmation.
! Colley is a former member OF
the Democratic State Central Com
mittee in California and is active
in NAACP affairs both on a ma
tional and local scale.
He is a member of the NAACP
National Legal Committee, chair
man of the NAACP Legal Com
mittee in the west coast region and
counsel for that organization in
Sacramento and San Francisco
housing cases.
CONTINUED on Page Five)
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A new half-million-dollar facil-
ity will be put into operation for
the first time next week when
classes begin at Jackson State Col
lege for the 84th school year.
The newest addition to Jackson
State Colleges physical plant is
a General Classroom Building.
Sixteen basic classrooms are in
cluded in the building which is to
house the Area of Language Arts
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erican citizens by the First Amend
ment to the U. s. Constitution.
The First Amendment provides for
freedom of assembly, speech, press
petition, and religion. The suit
also cites the Fourteenth Amend
ment, which makes the U. S.. Con-
stitution applicable to the states
The action was filed by the Rev
Fred l.. Shuttlesworth, president
Of the ACMHR, and the Rev.
Charles Billups, another leader Of
the civil rights organization. Mr..
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Sacramento, Calf, Sept. 10 -
Governor Edmond G. Brown today
announced the appointment Of Ma
thaniel S. Colley, Sacramento at
torney, to the State Board of Edu-
cation.
Colley, Al, will fill the unex-
pired term of Warren Christopher,
who is to be appointed to the Co.
ordinating Council for Higher Edu.
cation. The term expires January
Is, 1864.
The appointment, which is ef-
fective Immediately, is subject to
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African Rioters Widen Attacks In
South Rhodesia Factory Area

SALISBURY, Southern Rho
desia, Sept. There were re-
newed outbreaks Of terrorism to.
day in the textile-manufacturing
area Of Gatooma, 81 miles south
Of here.
The police fired tear gas al
groups Of African rioters who
continued q campaign Of arson
stoning and intimidation that
started yesterday after cottonmill
workers had gone on strike fol
more pay.
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Memphis Adds II
eqro Policemen

Memphis - Police Commissioner
Claude A. Armour announced last
week that IL new patrolmen and
the first Negro-manned police
prowl car would be added to the
Police Department in mid October.
Employment Of the IL will bring
the strength Of the Negro COM
plement to 20, the number hired
in 1913. Commissioner Armour said
two men would be assigned full
time to the Homicide Squad -
another first for the department.
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The trouble spread from Ri.
muka, an African township or
the outskirts Of Gattoma, to Ngezi
another African residential quar-.
ter four miles away.
A European who drove into
Ngezi to bring employees to work
fled when his car was heavily
stoned. At Rimnka q large crowd
forced its way into q beer hall
that had been partly demolished
and stole the remaining stocks OF
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ShuttIesworth chi|dren's Bus Case
Sent To Juvenile Court

are the children of the Rev. and
Mrs. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, Birm-
ingham civil rights leaders.
Adams admission came during
sharp cross-examination by Pa
tricia's attorney, Len Holt Of Nor
folk, Virginia. Patricia had been
charged with conduct tending to
cause a breach of peace"
When Holt moved for dismiss
sal Of the charge, County Judge
Rayburn transferred Patricia's
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Gardsen, Ala. - A police lieu
tenant admitted in Etowah Coun-
ty Court here that the only rea-
son he arrested three Negro teen
ayers on Aug 16 was that they
refused to move to the rear of a
Greyhound bus.
The admission was made by 1t.
Jesse Adams at the trial Of Miss
Patricia Shuttlesworth, II, on
Sept. 6. She and her sister, Fred
erica, IL, and her brother, Fred,
IS, were the three arrested They
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when they entered the st. Charles
venue Baptist and Rlyne Me-
mortal Methodist cnurchs,. They
were seated without incident.
Negroes have attended services
at New Orleans Catholic churches
with predominantly white congre-
cations for some years.
All Negroes taking part in Sum
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Alabama Grand
Jury Returns ~
Count Indictment
Against New York
ewsman
Indictment Stems
From Articles About
Ala. Race Relations

Bessemer, Ala, Sept. 6 APP
A grand pury indicted Harrison E.
Salisbury of The New York Times
today on Forty-two counts of cri-
minal libel. The indictment grew
out of articles about race relations
in the Birmingham Bessemer area
Continued on Page Five)
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Discrimination Of
Race in the North
Is Subject Of
Coming Series Of
1-v Breakfasts
ABC Sets Sept. ~ To
Begin l OF Tvs Most
Ambitious Public
Service Projects

New York, Sept. 9.-In recent
years television has been coming
up with occasional documentaries
that show the effects of discrimi-
nation in the South. Rarely, how
ever, has the subject of discrimi-
nation in the North been touched
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