St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1960-05-20
National News
Week Digest

Ghana Ambassador to us. VIII
liam M. Q. Hahn said in Milwau-
kee, race relations in his country
are excellent George Max
Ankengo, 20, one of the Kenya
natives airlifted to America for
college entrance by a fund set up
by Jackie Robinson and Harry
Belafonte found himself job with
the Corn Products Co, and is sup
porting himself while he attends
the ~" of Chicago. Eighty-one
students from Kenya came here
ON the Mboya sponsored airlift.
A Tanganyikan artist, Sam j.
Nitro opened a two week exhibit
at the Martin D. Simpson gallery
in New York q. 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 II. Watts, women re-
search associate of the Carver
Foundation at Tuskegee 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 Tuskegee 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 C. Beer said the President
spent too much time playing golf
on segregated golf courses to do
a 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 arsOnists. Negroes
in 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. Sicily Wright
ordered New Orleans parish
County schools desegregated
in June. Wright's order came
after the school board failed to
submit a plan to desegregate
schools as ordered by his court
several months ago.
The National Baptist Sunday
School and Baptist Teachers Uniol
convention meets June 1928 IL
Buffalo, NY. E. The Negro Amer
lean Labor Council to be formed
In a meeting of Negro trade union
lists May 27-29 in Detroit on cal
of AFL-CIO vice president ant
Porters Brotherhood leader A
Phillip Randolph will boast sucl
speakers as Cong. Chas. Diggs
Martin Luther King, Walter Reu
Their and George Harrison of tn
herhood of Railway an
Steamship Clerks.
Queen Elizabeth last week in
Quoted Nigerian Prime Minister
Tafawa BaIewa as a knight COM
mander of the British Empire.
The Conference Of Prime
Ministers Of the British Com
monwealth voted to admit Niger
La to membership when that
nation formally receives its in
dependence this year.
Holy Cow! A Chicago woma
drew a $1,000 fine for attempting
to bride a Chicago detective. Mr.
Ileen Pearson is the woman VIII
must spend two years in Jail 70
doing what most people think the
can do with most Chicago police
Wasted Effort: A committee ha
been formed in N.Y.'s Harlem t
stop the use of the word Negro.
Illinois man who rode to tn
voting polls in a funeral hears
was reelected as a precinct CON
mitteeman. William G.. Straub
funeral director suffering from
heart condition rode up in the fur
eral car, walked into the polls