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y. S. Acting
To Create Ties
With Congo
Africans Invited For
American Tours AS
ENJOYS Visit
Coming State

Brussels, Belgium, March 2 -
United States officials are making
study tours of the Belgian Congo
and Congolese leaders are being
invited to the United States in a
program designed to foster good
relations with the emerging state.
The colony will attain independence
June 80.
Ambassador William A. M. Bur
den is scheduled to leave Brussels
Monday by plane for Leopoldville.
He will travel throughout the Bel
gian Congo and probably will visit
Ruanda- Urundi, the former Ger
man territory that Belgium admin
listers under United Nations trus-
teeship.
Fulton Freeman, the second
ranking official in the embassy,
toured the Congo from Jan. 20
to Feb. 5. He visited the main
towns and conferred with Congo
lese leaders and Belgian officials.
Continued on Page Eighty
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Liberia Official
Is Accused OF
EmbezzIement

MONROVIA, Liberia, Mar. A.
DR.. Joseph Maybe Togba, former
director general of the Govern
ment National Health Service, has
been arrested for a second time
on charges of having embezzled
more than $250,0O0 in government
funds.
DR.. Togba, prominent figure in
the United Nations World Health
Organization, ran the health SER
vice from 1947 until last Deem
Der, when auditing reports showed
public-health payrolls were pad
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Negro Students
Jailed Briefly In
Columbia, S. c.

Columbia, S. c. - Four Negro
students were jailed briefly today
when a group allegedly attacked
automobiles at a white drive-in
restaurant with clubs after a cross
was burned on a Negro college
campus here.
The incident was the latest de-
veIopment in a week of demonstra-
tons by Negro students protesting
segregation of lunch counters in
variety and department stores.
Police Chief William Campbell
at first denied there were any ar
rests made in the case but later
said four Negro youths had been
picked up, questioned for several
hours and then been turned over
to Allen University officials.
Campbell said mo charges at
the present time" had been filed
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Ghana Getting
Ready To Become
A Republic
Nkrumah Proposes
Change In Status On
July | With Adoption
Of New Constitution

Accra, Ghana, March 6-Prime
Minister Kwame Nkrumah pre-
sented tonight his Governments
proposals for a Constitution under
which Ghana would become a re-
public but remain in the British
Commonwealth.
In a broadcast speech he said
the keynote of the new constitution
was lone man, one vote and the
unity of Africa, namely the poll
teal union of African countries"
A plebiscite will be held next
month to obtain approval for the
Constitution, according to a White
Paper published with the draft of
the document today. If the vote is
favorable, it said, DIR. Nkrumah
will inform the Commonwealth
Prime Ministers at their conference
in London in May that Ghana will
become a republic but wishes to
remain in the Commonwealth, like
Continued on Page Six
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Ohio Governor
Rams NAACP For
SitdoWn Pickets

Columbus, Ohio, March Z Gov.
Michael v. Disable has accused the
National Assn. for the Advance
ment Of Colored People Of provo
cative conduct without justifica-
ton" in picketing dime stores in
Cincinnati and said such action
would aid the forces of discrimi-
nation.
The governor Thursday took the
NAACP to task for picketing F.
w. Woolworth stores.
Picketing was expected to con-
tinue in Cincinnati today.
CONTINUED on Page Four)
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Woodrow Wilson Foundation Lists
College Teachers For The Sixties

ing SCI institutions. They will
study at So different graduate
schools in the United States and
Canada. Most are in the Humani-
ties or Social Sciences but there are
also 224 scientists and mathema-
ticians among them.
The shortage of qualified col
lege teachers is one Of the most
critical problems facing American
education today. 1t is estimated
that 10000 new college teachers
will be needed each year during
the next decade to take care of the
tidal wave of college students ex-
pected in the sixties. The Wood
row Wilson Fellowship Program
was established in 1915 to recruit
promising students for the college
teaching profession and to support
them during their first year Of
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Princeton, N. j., March THE
outcome Of a year-long nationwide
hunt. for future college teachers
was announced today when the
Woodrow Wilson National Fellow
ship Foundation made known the
names Of 1889 winners of its fell
lowship awards for 1e60-61. The
announcement was made by Sir
Hugh Taylor, President of the
Foundation and Dean Emeritus of
Princeton University's graduate
school. The awards carry a basic
stipend of $500 plus family allow
ance and full costs of a years
graduate study at any university
of the recipients choice in the
United States or Canada.
The winners come from 355 uni
versities and colleges in the United
States and Canada and were select
ed from $500 applicants represent
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streets.
The lot is already zoned COM
mercial but Thompson indicated he
was. against the construction OF
the pickup station because it could
trigger race troubles in Jackson.
"These are not ordinary times.
This city stands as shining ex-
ample all over the country. Every
body is getting along here. They
are having troubles everywhere
but not here. And you can't say
Jackson is lucky. 1t is more than
luck. 1t is the result of a lot of
people working together, planning
and praying" the mayor said.
"Here you have fine colored
section next to one of the finest
schools (Lanier High School for
Negroes) in the country. This is
a request to build q write business
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Texas Southern College Sitdowners
Earn NEGRO Man XXX Branding

inches to 8 inches in length and
went from Turner's chest to his
stomach, the doctor said. Rope
marks were on the Negroes wrists
and ankles.
Police said Turner told them he
was walking near his home in a
Negro residential area at 1915
p. m. when two masked white
youths leaped from a car and
grabbed him. They carried guns
and forced him into the back seat
of a sedan.
Two other masked white youths
were in the front seat, Turner told
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Houston, Texas, Mar. 8-Felton'
Turner, a 27-year-old Negro man,
was hung to a tree by his heels,
beaten with chains, and branded
with the letters xxx on his chest
by four marked White men here
Monday night.
According to police reports, Tur-
ner freed himself from ropes
around his ankles and wrists, stag
gered to a nightwatchman's shack
and called police.
A doctor at Jefferson Davis
Hospital said Turner was treated
and released this morning.
The six KS ranged from 11s
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Students Arrested For Attacking
Official Opposing Demonstrations

Montgomery, Ala. March s -
State, city and county police ar
rested an estimated As Negro STU
dents on the Alabama State Col
lege campus here today after they
allegedly manhandled a school Of
fetal who tried to stop a demon
stration.
Authorities said some 80 Negro
men and Is to 20 goods were or.
rested by city police reinforced by
some 90 state highway patrolmen,
city detectives and firemen. The
officers were armed with tear gas
containers and billy clubs.
The brief flareup occurred short
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ADMINISTRATION READY ACTION AGAINST JOB DISCRIMINATE
Virgin Islands
Enjoying Boom As
Tourist Increase
Many Newcomers
Settling Permanently

WASHINGTON. - The Virgin
Islands are no longer sleepy east
ern outposts of the United States.
The characterised Caribbean isles
have awakened to a boom that is
bringing in new visitors, settlers,
and revenue, the National Geo
graphic Society reports.
The 10000 islanders expect 1885,
0C0 vacationers to arrive in jet
planes and cruise ships in 1860,
compared with $4,000 travellers
ten years ago. Many newcomers
are settling permanently.
The American Virgin Islands lie
just east of Puerto Rico. They
include St. John, st. Croix, ST.
Continued on Page Two)
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interest to men and women engag-
ed in specialized marketing pro-
grams directed to Negro consum-
ers.
NAMD President Leroy w. JEFF
fries, vice-president, Johnson Pub
fishing Company of Chicago, pre-
sided and also spoke at luncheon
clinic on "The Negro Market: New
Horizons for Negroes in Business. "
Continued on Page Eighty
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new ELECTION COMMISSION IS
NAMED FOR tennessee COUNTY

Brownsville, Tenn. Haywood
County finally has an election COM
mission, 10 months after the old one
quit when it became apparent Ne
groes intended to register to vote.
The newly qualified commission
still won't be able to register vot-
ers until mid-April, a year from
the time the last resident, white
or Negro, registered. The West
Tennessee county is 60 per cent
Negro.
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NATIONS MORE Than 200 NEGRO
PUBLISHERS SET week OF MARCH
1919 TO OBSERVE NATIONAL
NEGRO NEWSPAPER Week
RussWurm Award Winners Named
Nationwide TelevisiOn And Radio
Program To Feature Observance

March IL through 19 is Negro
Newspaper Week. This is the an
nual time when more than 200
weekly and daily newspapers pub
lished by Negroes observe the
founding of the first Negro news
paper-Freedom's Journal, in 1927.
These newspapers make a con-
certed effort to project the vital
role they play in championing the
cause of freedom for all peoples.
NEGRO Newspapers Educate for
Freedom" is the theme of this
133rd anniversary observance. The
mere fact that there is still need
for a militant and crusading Ne
gro press indicates the many in
equities that yet exist and the
freedoms that must be won.
Thus, this observance is no mere
indulgence in self-praise. Rather.
it is re-evaluation of original pur-
pose and function in the light Of
our atomic age, and will include
nationwide television and radio
programs beginning Sunday, Mar.
18th
The primary purpose of Negro
newspapers, which is of great sig
nificance to the public, is reflect
ed in the 1860 theme-"Educators
for Freedom
One of the most priceless of our
freedoms is the right to know and
to be informed. AS the eyes, ears
and conscience of it's readers, Ne
gro newspapers jealousy guard
every human right by supplying
the facts and information neces-
sary to achieve full citizenship.
Only through an exacting aware
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a former student at the Univers-
ity of Chicago.
Kennard's Negro lawyer, r. Jess
Brown, said he will appeal.
Kennard tried to enroll at Mis-
sissippi Southern last fall. He
drove his car to the campus and
went into the presidents office.
When he returned to the car, two
officers arrested him.
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ly before IL am. on the campus
of the state-supported school.
College grounds superintendent
E. B. Campbell, a Negro, said,
"They came marching up the street
bearing placards and signs and
when | told them it was against
the law to demonstrate they threat
ened me. They crowded me AMI
showed me and l called the police.
Both Police Chief G. ]. Ruppen-
thai and Public Safety Director
Floyd Mann would say little about
the incident that lasted less than
10 minutes.
Continued on Page Seven)
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Atlanta, Ga. March 8 - Negro
students demonstrations against
segregation Tuesday had spread to
Atlanta, Georgia and New Orleans,
Louisiana, two of the south's larg-
est cities.
In New Orleans more than 200
students at billiard University pa
raded in front of the college in the
first demonstration of its kind in
the city. Another 200 stood on the
sidelines and watched along with
motorcycle policemen and plain
clothed officers in unmarked cars,
No violence was reported.
In Atlanta a spokesman for
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NEGRO MARKET DEVELOPERS
HOLD MID-WINTER BOARD meet

Philadelphia - The mid-winter
Board meeting of the National As
ISOLATION of Market Developers
was held here last week at the
Sheraton Hotel, the Copper Door
Restaurant and the Pyramid Club.
Twenty-one Board and other ma
tional members were present in the
City of Brotherly Love. During its
two-day sessions, the Board acted
on a number Of issues of vital
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Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity To
Award $4,000 In Scholarships

credited high schools, five scholar
ships to students in undergraduate
colleges and universities, and five
fellowships to students in graduate
or in professional schools.
Applicants must possess an
above-average academic record and
must establish the need factor.
Either male or female seniors
are eligible for the high school
award, but each applicant must tie
Continued on Page Fourl
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DR.. w. ID. Poston, chairman Of
the new commission. said six weeks
will be needed for the registrar,
Clarence Berson. to acquaint him.
self with his duties.
DR.. Poston and w. r. Caters
and X. w. Turner, both farmers,
were sworn in Feb. 81.
Hayward's next election is sched-
uled for Aug. 4, when most county
offices are to be filled.
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kENNARD CASE TO GO TO
STATE SUPREME COURT

HATTIESBURG, Miss.-The at
torney for a Negro who tried to
enter all-white Mississippi South
ern College and instead was fined
$500 for reckless driving and whis-
key possession says he will take
the case to the State Supreme
Court.
Circuit Judge Stanton Hall Mon
day affirmed a justice of the peace
ruling against Clyde Kennard, 26
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1960-03-12
KNIGHTS & DAUGHTERSOF TABOR
Celebrate 18TH anniversary

Mound Bayou, Miss, Mar. T.
The Knights And Daughters CT
Tabor celebrated the 18th Ami
versary of the founding of its hos
pital here Friday with a large
attendance from many sections of
the state.
Guest speaker for the occasion
was Rabbi Herbert Hendel of the
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First Negro
Cardinal In
Catholic Church
Is Native OF
Tanganyika
East Africa
New Prince Of Church
Outstanding Scholar

Rome, Mar. Z. - The Roman
Catholic Church's first Negro Car
dinal, named last week by the
Pope, was born a pagan in the
Tanganyika Territory of East At
RIGA in 1912. Thus in four decades
the Most Rev. Laurian Rugumbwa
has bridged the great chasm be-
tween paganism and princedom in
the Roman Catholic Church.
The Cardinal designate, a for
mer member Of the Nsiba Tribe, is
the most illustrious product Of the
White Fathers, a Roman Catholic
Missionary Order that has trained
$50 Africans for the Priesthood.
Bishop Rugambwa has been
guided all his life by the order,
first at local schools in Mugana.
Continued on Page Six
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Richmond Police
manhandIe Wife
OF NAAcP Head

Richmond, Va.-The wife of an
NAACP national board member
was dragged from the scene of a
student sit-in protest here this
week by two white policemen and
a K-9 police dog.
Mrs. Ruth Tinsley, wife of DR..
]. M. Tinsley, said that she was
not involved in the protest. II was
merely standing on the street wait
ing for a friend" she said.
"The two policemen came along
and told me to move. l asked why
but received no answer. Instead,
they lifted me bodily by my arms
and dragged me away. The dog
Continued on Page Four)
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Billy Graham
Challenged To
Healing Contest

Nairobi, Kenya, March a The
Rev. DR.. Billy Graham was chal-
lenged today to a healing contest
to see whether Christianity is
more powerful than Islam.
On his return to Nairobi from
Ruanda- Urandi on his African trip
the evangelist was handed a let
ter from the chief of the Ahmaiis
we Moslem mission in East Az
RIGA, Maulana Sheik Mubarak All.
mad.
Contending that Islam alone is
the living religion on earth thru
which man can attain salvation and
that Christianity is utterly devoid
of any heavenly blessing or true
Continued on Page Severn
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Student Demonstrations Spread
To Atlanta And New Orleans

Rich's, the city's largest depart
ment store, said seven Negroes
were refused food service after 5e-
ing permitted to eat in a white
cafe in the store Saturday.
Bennett Tuck, the stores general
superintendent, said the group
turned away quietly was accom-
panied by white Atlanta Uni
versity student identified as David
Vineyard of Springfield, Ill. The
university is predominantly Negro.
Georgia's Gov. Ernest Vandiver
promptly issued a statement in
which he said he has repeatedly
Continued on Page Five)
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Hebrew Union Congregation, OF
Greenville, Miss.
In his message Rabbi Hendel
commended the people who have
supported the hospital and also
commended the hospital staff fol-
its splendid service to humanity
for the past 18 years, admonish-
Continued on Page Eighty
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Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
again this year will award $4,000
in scholarships and fellowships, &C
cording to Lionel H. Newsom, di-
rector of educational activities for
the fraternity.
The awards will be made on The
basis of scholarship and need, New
som said.
The grants will be made in three
different categories: Five scholar
ships to graduating seniors Of ae-
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Norfolk Store
ba|ks SitdoWners
Everybody Stands

Norfolk, Va. - The L. Synder
department store has solved the
problem of Negro-white equality
at it's lunch counter.
Previously the counter would
serve only whites. Negroes could
get service on a carry-out basis
only.
Last week, the store manage
ment removed all the stools at the
Continued on Page Four)
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Rhodesia Merger Faces Break up
As Whites Talk OF Secession

Salisbury. Southern Rhodesia,
March 5 The seven-year-old Fed
Grafton of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
is in danger of breaking up.
This is the opinion of obsery-
ers here. who base their appraisal
of the situation chiefly on two fac
tors. One is the reaction of many
members Of the dominant white
minority TO political advances by
Africans in the Belgian Congo and
Kenya. The other is increasing talk
among the whites in Southern Rho
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1960-03-12

desia of secession from the Fcd-
Grafton with Northern Rhodesia &
Nyasaland.
Formerly, talk of secession was
heard only from Africans in Nyasa-
land who were displeased with
their treatment from the whites.
Unrest among the Federation's
100000 whites has mounted. sharp
ly since the announcement t h a t
Kenya would have an African-dom-
mated Government. They fear that
Continued on Page Seven)
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-Four Burned
To Death In
Farm House Fire

West Point, Miss, Mar. 8AFour
Negroes burned to death in their
farm home seven miles southeast
of here last midnight.
They were Ben Cowson, so, a
farmer; his wife, Lettie; a son,
MILFORD, 5; and a niece, Mary
Cunningham.
A relative, Mckinley Cowson,
was the only survivor. He told Of
Continued on Page Six) M
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Teenage Idol
Chuck Berry
On Trial For
Federal 0ffense
Charged With
Transporting H.
Year-Old Girl For
Immoral Purposes

St. Louis, Mo-, Mar. 5.-Teen-
age idol "Chuck" Berry denied in
testimony in Federal Court this
week that he was ever intimate
with a ID year old girl that he
brought here from the South last
year.
The guitar stunning, rock and
roll singer was fighting for his
freedom in the court of Federal
Continued on Page Five)
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Alabama Negro Students Abandon
Plan To Boycott Spring Glasses

Montgomery, Ala. March z -
Students at Alabama State Col
lege apparently abandoned their
pledge to boycott spring quarter
classes today by standing in long
lines to register at the state sup
ported school.
The administration building was
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crowded with students paying fees
and making out classroom SEIZED
ules. Elsewhere there was much
activity as students sought coun-
selling from the faculty on what
classes to take, purchasing supplies
and textbooks.
Continued on Page Five)
Evening star., 1960-10-16
Districts CIosed-Do
Sessions Face Study

A House subcommittee Is
investigating the District Com
missioners' practice of adopting
regulations at closed door
sessions.
The House Government In
formation subcommittee has
called on the Commissioners to
cite legal support for taking
such action at executive
meetings.
The Board of Commissioners
also was asked by the House
unit, headed by Representative
Moss, Democrat Of California
to spell out the rights Of the
public to information on board
meetings.
In a letter sent last week to
Commissioner Robert E. Nc
Laughlin, Chairman Moss said
the questions are part of the
subcommittee's &c ontinuin &
study Of the restrictions or
the availability of government
information :"
Asked to comment. Mr.. Nc
Laughlin. president of the
board, said q reply is being
drafted by the Corporation
CounSel'S Office.
Repeatedly, there Is no stat
ute dealing with the question
Of action at closed meetings
In the letter. Mr.. Moss 1irst
stated that his subcommittee
has been informed that tht
board, while meeting in execu'
Evening star., 1960-10-16
Nearby Talks
Set tbyLodee
And Kennedy

Both parties will put major
candidates into the nearby
Maryland area today and to-
morrow in an effort to swing
the big suburban vote into their
columns.
Senator Kennedy will speak
at $3.50 tonight in Montgomery
Blair High School, Wayne ave-
nue. at Sligo Park. Silver
Spring.
Tomorrow Henry Cabot
Lodge, the Republican vice
presidential candidate, will
make two appearances in the
suburban area. He win address
a rally at the Prince Georges
Plaza Shopping Center at 7:l5
pm. and then 1sspeak ct
Wheaton Plaza in Montgomery
County.
County Seen Close z
Senator Kennedy's appear
ance was urged by Democratic
officials who see the Montgom-
cry County vote as Of major
Importance in the Statewide
picture. The county is now
considered close and local
Democrats think Senator Ken
Fnedy's appearance win swing
it. r
Senator Kennedy has made
only one appearance in Mary
land since he was nominated,
although he campaigned ex-
tensively in Maryland before
the State primary.
Mr.. Nixon also has made
only one appearance in Mary
land. at a Friendship Airport
rally before he took of on his
first campaign tour. State Party
Chairman D. Eldred Rinehart
said he expects either MIR. Nixon
or Mr.. Lodge to make another
appearance before election
day.
Beall, Butler in Group
Accompanying Mr.. Lodge to-
morrow will be Maryland Re-
publican Senators Beall and
Butler and Mr.. Rinehart.
Vernon E. Jirikowic, Demo-
cratic chairman Of precinct 4,
district 5, in Montgomery
County, has been selected to
sit with Senator Kennedy to-
morrow at Montgomery Blair
High School.
The prec inct chairman's
name was drawn out Of a hat
yesterday at the Rockville
Democratic headquarters by
Col. Ward w. Caddington,
chairman of the Kennedy
JohnSon-Foley Committee for
MONTGOMERY County.