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Arizona sun., 1961-10-19

state LIBRARY & Archives
state Capitol Bui lding
Phoenix, Ariz. u. S. Postage
Phoenix Arizona
Bulk Rate
Arizona sun., 1961-10-19
CREENBERc NAACP new LEADER
ELIJAH MuHAMMAD COMES TO PHOENIX FOR Meeting
J. Greenberg Replaces
Thurgood Marshall As
General Counsel iiia

The Board of Directors of the
INAACP Legal Defense and Ed.
uoational Fund, Inc. announced to-
night that Jack Greenberg has
been elected to succeed Thurgood
Marshall as General Counsel.
The Board, at a dinner meeting.
accepted the resignation of Mr..
Marshall, who had been Director
Counsel since 1850, and has for
twenty five years been assocl-
ated with the legal work of the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People.
Mr.. Greenberg, 81, was Mr.. Mar
shall's principal assistant, and AS
sistant Counsel of the Fund since
1949.
DR.. Allan Knight Chalmers, Pro-
feSSor of Applied Theology at Bos-
ton University School of Religion.
and currently Chairman OF the
Funds Board of Directors. will de-
vote more time to the day-to-day
work of the organization.
Mr.. Marshall has been nomi-
mated by President Kennedy for
a federal judgeship on the U. 5
Court of Appeals for the Second
Circuit. For a quarter of century
he has been in the forefront OF the
fight for civil rights
Mr.. Greenberg is native New
Yorker, a graduate of Columbia
College and the Columbia Univer-
sity Law School, who has devoted
all but one year of his professional
legal career to the work of the
Fund. During his twelve years on
the Fund staff, he has worked on
virtually every major civil rights
case in which it has participated.
He helped to prepare the Legal
Defense Fund brief in the School
Segregation Cases of 1854 and 1855,
and argued in those cases before
the Supreme Court. He will argue
the defense of Negro students con-
victed in sit-in demonstrations In
Baton Rouge, La, before the SUI
preme Court on October 18, 1861,
the first sit-in case which the SUI
preme Court will hear.
Mr.. Greenberg is the author OF
RACE RELATIONS AND AMERI-
CAN LAW, a book which the NEW
YORK TIMES reviewer called in
dispensable for anyone seriously
interested in this cOuntry's Oldest
and probably still gravest domestic
problem, the status of the Negro.
He is now conducting a study,
under the auspices of the Columbia
University Council for Research
in Social Science, of civil liberties
in seventeen countries.
He is married to the former
Soma Ann Tanzer Of Wilmington.
Del. The Greenbergs, who live
in Great Neck, L. l., are the par
ents of four children.
Arizona sun., 1961-10-19
BRITISH LEADERS
PETITION PRESIDENT
JOHN F. KENNEDY

Washington, D. C.-Twenty-five
British leaders, including nine
Members of Parliament and the
chairman of the British Trades
Union Congress, have petitioned
President Kennedy to free two
Americans serving prison sentences
for contempt of the House Un-
American Activities Committee.
The imprisoned men, who are
in Federal prison camp at Green
vile, S. c., are Carl Braden, South
ern integration worker and field
secretary of the Southern Con-
ference Educational Fund, and
Frank wilkinson, civil liberties
leader and field secretary Of the
National Committe to Abolish the
House Un American Activities
Committee.
Among the signers of the British
petition were E. J. Mill, chair
man of the Trades Union Congress,
and Give Jenkins, trade union
leader; religious leaders, the Rev.
DR.. Donald o. Soper, R. W .Soren-
sen, and Lester d. Weathermead;
and authors and journalists Phyllis
Bottome, Vera Britain. c. Day
Lewis, Philip Gibbs, Compton Mac
Kenzie. Ethel Mannin, Gavin Max
well, and ]. w. Robertson-Scott.
Members of Parliament who
signed the petition were Frank AL
Continued on Page Five)
Arizona sun., 1961-10-19

rights leader Robert F. Williams
and four others. Williams eScap-
ed capture and is in Havana where
he recently was accorded political
asylum.
The brutal beating of G~iswold
was interrupted only when another
arrested Freedom Rider, Kenneth
Shilman of Oceanside, N. Y, hap
pened to be conducted past Girls
wold's cell. He heard means and
saw a figure, bleeding from the
eyes, nose smashed, covered with
blood, in semi-consciOus con-
dition. He did not at first recog-
nize his fellow Freedom Rider un-
til the latter managed to gasp out
his name. Shilman raised an out
cry demanding that Griswold be
taken out of the cell Immediately
before he was killed. The turnkey,
also afraid that Griswold might
be Killed, complied.
In the following days in Jail,
Stack boasted to them of the ar
rangements made by the police
for him to beat a Freedom Rider.
He also revealed that they had
promised him a knife for the job
but had backed down on that pro-
mise at the last minute.
Full text of Stacks confession
follows:
On or about 4th Sunday of Aug.
1861. was in the unin county
jail on five charges of worthless
checks and 2 assault charges. The
Monroe police and deputy deputy
forces of the city of Monroe put to
Continued on Page Five)
Arizona sun., 1961-10-19
Stack Confesses Beating Exchanging
For Freedom OF Multiple Charges

The Committee to Aid the Mon
roe Defendants has sent Attorney
General Robert Kennedy a hand
written. signed confession by How
ard Stack of Union County, stating
that the savage beating which he
gave Freedom Rider Richard Girls
void in a cell in the Union County
Jail was arranged beforehand with
Monroe, N. c., police officers.
According to Stacks confession,
the police had promised him that
five charges of passing worthless
checks, and two charges of as
sault pending against him would
be dropped as payment for the
beating.
Conrad Lynn, counsel for the
Committee to Aid the Monroe De
PENDANTS has forwarded the
confession to Attorney General
Kennedy asking a federal investi-
CATION and prosecution of police
officers and other authorities IN
Monroe guilty of violating prison
ers' civil rights.
Griswold, of Brooklyn, N. Y,
was one of the Freedom Riders
and anti-segregation pickets ar
rested in Monroe, Aug. 27, when
a police-encouraged mob estimat-
ed between two and five thousand
rioted against Freedom Riders and
Negroes. 1t was out of this dis
turbance that a white couple was
detained by an excited crowd in
Newton, the colored district, for
several hours and then released
unharmed. This incident serves as
the basis of the trumped-up kid
nap indictments against civil
Arizona sun., 1961-10-19

Atlanta-Two distinguished H0l
landers are here to observe the
hearing on the motion for new
trial for 15-year-old Preston Cobb
The hearing is scheduled for Fri
day October g. at Milledgevllle,
Ga.
Convicted of Staying Frank Cole
man Dumas, Sr., 7O-year-old white
farmer, young Cobb was sentenced
to be executed on September o.
Upon request of the boys mother.
Mrs. Leatha Cobb of Monticello
the NAACP retained Donald L.
HollowelI, Atlanta attorney, to de-
fend Preston Cobb in further legal
proceedings. A motion for a new
trial, filed by Mr.. Hollowell on
September IL, secured stay of
the execution order
News of the conviction and death
sentence aroused citizens of The
Netherlands who organized Pres
ton Cobb Committee and secured
Arizona sun., 1961-10-19
Dutch Representatives Seek
C|emency For Preston Cobb

would be the same if he were
white, or Asian. 1t is the death
penalty for child that gravely
concerns us and the nearly 2,0O0,-
600 Dutch men, women and chill
dren we represent "
what we want to do Mrs.
Diemer-Lindeboom said, is to
get all the facts in the case and
to find out if there is some way
by which this boy will have the op-
portunity to escape the death pen
atty. We want to help him, if we
can, to have a chance to rehablll.
tate himself" !"
AS a mmber Of The Netherlands
delegation to the United Nations
Mrs. Diemer-Lindebo0m helped
frame the child welfare aspects oi
the Declaration of Human Rights.
In Holland, they pointed out, the
death penalty, except for military
courts, has not been imposed for
more than a century.
Arizona sun., 1961-10-19
Local Leaders Will Be
Invited To Hear About
Mohanlmadanisrn

Elijah Muhammad, leader of the
Black Moslim movement in Ameri-
ca, is expected to arrive in Phoe-
nix today sometime He has pur-
chased the Louis Jordan home
and has had it remodeled. Plans
are being made according to Bas-
HE Muhammad, to construct a.
mother home which will be used to
house his guests.
A public meeting is being plan
ned for some time soon after the
arrival of Elijah Muhammad. Time
and place will be announced later.
Invitations will be sent to all the
religious leaders in this area and
a press conference will be held
at which time he will discuss his
views and teachings.
His minister, Bashie Muhammad,
states that Elijah Muhammad' S
purpose is to unite the so-calleo
American Negro and he will speak
on why the American Negro must
unite.
Arizona sun., 1961-10-19

nearly 100000 signatures to a
petition asking clemency for the
youth. The committee, headed by
j. van der Mollen of Amsterdam.
designated two representatives to
come to this country.
Representing the Dutch commit
tee on this mission are Mrs. F. I.
Diemer-Lindeboom, member OF
the Municipal Board of Rotterdam
and a former member of The Meth
erlands delegation to the United
Nations, and Judge B. W. van Hou-
ten, vice-president of the Court of
Arnheirn. They arrived in New
York City on the night of October
2.
1--WE come here" Judge van
Houten explained in New York,
mot as critics of American law,
but as people with real concern
about the death penalty for a mere
lad. Our concern has nothing to
do with Preston Cobb'S race; it
Arizona sun., 1961-10-19
Dixie Employers
Charged With
Job Discrimination

Washington-Two railway COM
panies, a trade union, manu-
facturer of electrical equipment,
missile structures producer. a
major tobacco firm, an aircraft
manufacturer and a state agency
all located in the South are
charged with racial discrimination
in complaints filed here Tuesday
morning (Oct. 1O) with the Presi-
ldent's Committee on Equal EN-
ployment Opportunity.
Named in the complaints filed by
Herbert Hill, labor secretary of
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
are the Atlantic Coast Line Rail-
road and St. Louis-San Francisco
Railroad Company; the Brother
hood of Railroad Trainmen; the
Western Electric Company, Nash
vile, Tenn; AVCO Manufactur-
ing Corporation, Nashville, Tenn;
Liggett & Myers Tobacco Com
pany, Durham, NJ c.; Douglas
Aircraft Company. Charlotte, N.
c.; and the North Carolina State
Security Commission, Durham.
In support of the charges of job
Discrimination Mr., Hill submitted
q total of 80 affidavits by Negro
workers, NAACP members, who
had been denied employment, pro-
motion or referral. The complaints
we're filed with John Field, execu-
| tive director of the Presidents S
Committee
Negro workers in st. Petersburg,
Fla, and Memphis, Tenn, signed
affidavits charging a broad pat
tern of, collusion between the Broth
hood of Railroad Trainmen, on the
one hand, and the Atlantic Coast
Line and the st. Louis-San Fran
cisco Railroad companies. They
charge that the Trainmen'S union
conspires with the railroad COM
panies to classify Negro brakemen
as porters, to deny promotional
opportunities to Negro employees
and to depress their wages. They
further charge that the union is a
'lily-white" organization which ac-
cepts only white employees as
members.
There are only eight Negro en-
ployees in a work force of 300 at
the Nashville plant of the Western
Electric Company, the NAACP
complaint asserts. The eight Ne
gro employees, including one with
20 years service with the company,
are all in the lowest labor clasSi-
fication. The company bars Ne
groes from production employment
and training programs for skilled
job classifications, the complaint
charges.
The AVCO plant at Nashville,
engaged in the production of air.
craft, space vehicle and missile
structures and assemblies, employs
only AZ Negroes as janitors, labor
ers and general helpers in the
lowest paid and lowest rated jobs.
Moreover, the complainants charge
Negroes are Systematically denied
admission to job training programs
Continued on Page Five)
Arizona sun., 1961-10-19
Texas National
Guard Accepts
First Negro J5'.

The NAACP regional ID f flfdf
here has been infoIMHdI that
the 49th Armored Division "a Texas
National Guard unit, has begun
token desegregation. 1t had been
lily-white previously.
Clarence A. Laws, the iAssocia'
tion's southwest regional secretary
said here this week that lin re.
sponse to letters to Major Genera
Harley B. West, commander Of
the 49th Armored Division, we
have been informed that the or
ganization has been desegregated.
General West further informed
him that NEGRO veterans are eli
gible to enlist subject to the re-
quirements applicable to all Other
enlistees," Mr.. Laws said.
The NAACP representative re
vealed that the first and only Ne
gro known to have ever been ad
mitted to the Texas National GuarC
was enlisted in one of the tank
companies of the divisions about
six weeks ago.
But, more Negroes are likely
to be assigned when the unit is
placed on active duty October Is
Mr. avs added.
He based this assumption on In
formation contained in letter
from the office of the Assistant Sec
retary of Defense in Washington
ID. c., dated September 22nd.
1.-The policy of integration which
presently prevails for the active
service will, of course, apply to
Continued on Page Five)
Arizona sun., 1961-10-19

This momentous crisis in the life Of or.
ganized mankind may be likened to the cuF
mnating stage in the political evolution OF the
great American Republic the stage which
marked the emergence Of a unified community
of federated states.
Arizona sun., 1961-10-19
Los Angeles Police
Charged With
UniustifiabIe Brutality

Los Angeles-Police in Los An
geles were called, next to those
in Birmingham, Alabama in their
treatment of Negro citizens by Roy
Wilkins, NAACP executive secre-
tary, in a speech at a civil rights
rally. here Sunday, Oct. II.
The NAACP chief said he was
Continued on Page Five
Arizona sun., 1961-10-19
w. "a. Robinson

The Arizona Republic of Satur-
day, Oct IA, carries story an
nouneing that the candidate for
Mayor on the Charter Government
slate is making ascampaign issue
of the main argument of the SAC
slate whether or not the City OF
Arizona sun., 1961-10-19
Mayor Sam Mardidn's Bold Challenge

Phoenix should have a minimum
housing code for already construct
ed houses, now being occupied by
Phoenix citizens in order to pro-
tect the health and safety of all
Phoenix citizens. The Mayor an
nounces blue ribbon commit
(Continued on Page Five)
Arizona sun., 1961-10-19
THE NEGRO PRESS CRED0

The Negro Press believes that America
can best lead the world away from racial and
na.ional antagonsms when it accords to every
man, regardless Of race, color or creed his
human and legal rights. Hating no man, fearing
NO man, the Negro Press strives to help every
man in the firm belief that all are hurt long
as anyone is held back.
Arizona sun., 1961-10-19

WILLIAM p. MAHONEY, Jr., Chairman of the
National Conference of Christians and Jews Re-
giOnal Board of Phoenix, announced today the
appointment of the NCCJ Director, Frank
j. Magrath of Louisville, Kentucky. Margrath
replaces j. Douglass Foster, who retired June
3Oth. Margrath assumed his duties October 4th.
He will supervise Tucson, Ell PasO and Albu-
querque NCCJ offices in addition to being Direc-
tor of the Phoenix office. Magrath, 81, native
of McCOOk, Nebraska where he attended par
ochial and public schools, holds Bachelor of
Science degree in Sociology from ROckhurst
College, Kansas City, Missouri, and Master of
Arts degree in Sociology from the University of
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-07-21
Mrs. L. r. Womack
Is Hostess For
Centenary WSCS

GUINEA, July 20-On Wednes-
day evening, Mrs. L. R. Womack
entertained the WSCS Of Cente-
nary Church in her home. Mrs.
John Holman was in charge OF
the program. Missions and Mis-
sionaries." She was assisted by
Mrs. Conduit Mathews. Mrs. w
D. Walker and Mrs. L. R. Won
ack. Hermitage news was pre-
sented by Mrs. Mathews.
Among the business items it
was decided to have a song
service at Centenary on July 80
at 8 pm. Members of other
churches and friends are in
vited. Two guests were the Rev.
l.. w. Brandt and Miss Phyllis
Mathews.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. B. Addleman
and Mr.. and Mrs. w. D. Mylum
we're Sunday luncheon guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. R. L. BlantOn and
Mrs. A. M. Blanton. Mr.. and
Mrs. Mylum were f e rno 0 n
guests of his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charlie P. Mylum, of Abb
lene.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arlo Sheldahl
and sons. Edward and David, of
Arlington. were guests Of her
mother, Mrs. w. B. Walker. Jr..
and Mr.. Walker, July 1915. Other
recent guests were Mrs w. E.
Peterson and Dee Dee. of Mary
land, the Rev P. Cary Adams
and Mrs. Adams. Mrs. j. P.
Stratton and Mrs. Carl Matthews
and daughter, Mrs. Andrew Stan
ley.
Home for the week end we're
Miss Lucille Ferguson. of Long
wood College, Miss Betty Sue
Garnett, Of Richmond. and Ed
mund Garnett, III, of Fort Jack
son. S. c.
Mr.. and Mrs, w. P. Halle
grove, of Roanoke, spent the
week end at their country home,
Little Mortified"
Tuesday afternoon, Mrs. w. D..
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-07-21

Walker. Mrs. r. E. Garrett and
Mrs. J. P. Stratton were guests
Of John A. Addleman in a nurs-
ing home near Pamplin.
Many from here attended the
Agee-Martin wedding at Thomas
Chapel Church, and the reception
at the home Of the bride on Sat-
urday.
On Tuesday afternoon, Mrs.
William E. Peterson and daugh-
ter. Deirdre Ann, of Hollywood.
Md, arrived for visit with the
formers mother, Mrs. j. P.
Stratton, and Mr.. Stratton. The
Petersons returned home on Sat-
urday.
Mrs. r. 3. Walkers guests, the
Rev. William G. Walker family,
left Tuesday for visit with Mrs.
W. G. Walkers sister, Mrs. V. V.
de Angels. and family. Of New
Jersey While on the trip. the
Walkers we're sightseeing in New
York City and Washington, D. c.,
also. On their return here,
Walker had the sad news one of
his beloved members had died
Unexpectedly, and they had to
leave Immediately on Friday for
their home in Lebanon, Tenn.
Mrs. Ernest c. Davis returned
home Saturday after a visit with
relatives in Delawa are. She was a
Sunday evening guest in the j..
P. Stratton home.
Patricia and Bobby Davis, of
Farmville, we're week end guests
at "Hors du Monde" Sunday
guests were Mr.. and Mrs. r. T..
Davis. of Farmville, and the E.
w. Blanton family, of Cumber-
land.
Recent guests of the David
Hazlegrove family were her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. George Per-
kins, Of Petersburg.
Nancy and Jean Hazlegrove
were Sunday luncheon guests of
Miss Geraldine Simpson, and ac-
companied the Simpsons Sum
day afternoon to see A. U. Bry-
ant.
Recent guests of the R. b.
Addlemans and W. D. Mylums
were the Billy McAbee family.
Sunday luncheon guests of the
j. A. Hazlegrove family. Of
Portland" were C. T. Stimp-
son and Mr.. and Mrs. j. p. STRAIT
ton. Afternoon callers were w. P.
Hazlegrove. Woodfin Lyon. Jr.,
and Michael Forbes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson Mylum
were Saturday night guests of the
Billy McAbee family.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-07-21

Md, and Mrs. Harriet Charlton,
of Washington, we're week end
guests.
Other recent guests In the
same home were Mr.. and Mrs.
Duane Barney, of Whippany, N.
j., Mrs. James Sardell and chill
dren. Of West Orange. NJ j., and
Mrs. Lorenzo. of Mine Hill. N. J.
On Sunday, Commander Pat
rick Lair and family had picnic
dinner with friends near Gordons-
vile at their Krahanvill farm.
Snaps are plentiful. Mrs. Billy
Inge canned % quarts at the
Appomattox cannery one morn
ing last week. Mrs. Ed McPhil-
lips has put up 80 quarts at
home.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-07-21

tended Georgia Christian Col
lege. preached at the Jetersville
Christian Church. Mr.. and Mrs
Gibson and Mr.. Nichols, also Of
Richmond, were dinner guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. N. j. Hall
Other guests of the Halls on Sun,
day were Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Mar.
tin and Mr.. and Mrs. N. j. Hall
Jr.. of Richmond, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Wayne Keener and chill
dren, of Amelia.
j. E. Stone, Jr., of Richmond
spent Sunday with his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. j. E. Stone.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Martin
of South Boston. visited Mrs
Martins mother. Mrs. Garland
Wingo. during the week end.
Guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Ross
Nolan on Sunday were Mr.. and
Mrs. R. T. Nolan, of Petersburg
Miss Ann Nolan. of Richmond
and Graham Raeford. of Green
Bay. Miss Page Clark and jim
mie Nolan, of Emporia. Mr.. and
Mrs. E. j. Carr, of Richmond
and Mr.. and Mrs. Willie Wells
and children.
The Amelia High School grad
uating class of 1851, held re
union at. the War Memorial
Building on Saturday nj G h t.
Those from this neighborhood at
tending were Mrs. Willie Wills,
formerly Myrtle Nolan, Mrs.
Noel Simons, formerly Pat Stone
Billie Sout hall and Mickie
Farmer.
David Bedford, who has been
spending some time with his
grandparents. Mr.. and Mrs. L.
NJ. Sanderson, has returned to
his home at Richmond.
Willard Parker and Willard
Parker. Jr.. visited Mr.. and
Mrs. Ollie Cole last week.
Miss Lucy Page Stone and
Frank w a gner. of Salem. at
tended the diving meet, spon-
sored by the Virginia Associa-
ton, A, A. U. at Willow Oaks
Country Club on Friday.
The Misses Thelma Redford,
Arie Hardy and Doris and Grace
Brockwell. of Petersburg, called
on Mrs. j. E. Stone on Saturday
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-07-21
Mrs. ollie Cole Back
After Month-Long Tour

JETERSVILE RURAL, July
20-Mrs. Ollie Cole returned
home last Tue day after a
month of visiting and sight
seeing Mrs. Cole left on June
10 with her nephew. Tommie
Cole. who is working in St. Paul.
MINI. They visited Angola, Ind.
and Mansion. Wis. and on to St.
Paul, MINI. There. Mrs. Cole
left Tommie and went on to
Seattle. Wash. to be the guest
of one of her oldest friends, Mrs.
H. A. WELDING.
From Seattle Mrs. Cole and
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-07-21

Mrs. Welding went in to Del
lingham and Blain which is one
of the larger summer resorts on
the West Coast. Mrs. Cole also
spent some time with the Clyde
Richmonds in New Westminster
and visited Vancouver and Vic
toria. On her return trip Mrs.
Cole stopped over for a night in
St. Paul. then on to Washington,
D. c. where she was met and
entertained by friends and from
there on to Richmond.
On Sunday morning Vernon j,
Gibson, of Richmond. who at