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Arizona sun., 1961-03-09

During his talk, SmoOt Salu
that the NAACP and commun-
lists are behind integration for
the reasons given above. He
talked against DR.. Weaver,
Kennedy appointed head of the
federal Housing Agency. He
further commented that Weav-
er should not be in that posi-
ton because of his affiliation
with the NAACP, as the form
er president of the organiza-
ton. Smoot, with his anti
libel method of oily speaking"
indicated that N A A c P was
communistic and Indirectly in
simulated that Weaver was
communist.
In very convincing manner
which would make the average
person agree with him, he de-
liberately planted fear in
peoples minds-fear that the
Negroes main goal is to inter-
marry. Dan Smoot, who is
connected with the White Cit
izens groups proved that his
lessons in psychological war
fare" were well learned; that
his Investigations of commun-
lists during his FBI days. prov
ed valuable because he learned
many tricks of the commies in
brainwashing. He well knows
that the average American
white is not opposed to living
on the same social level with
the Negro; and not opposed to
equal rights for the Negro, but
through very strong traditions,
they fear the mixing of the ra-
ces and nationalities whether
it be Jews, Greeks, Italians,
etc.
Arizona sun., 1961-03-09
IS NAACP A COMMUNIST GROUP T?
LOCAL TV SHOW INFERS
THAT NAACP is RED

"The Negroes are trying to
lose themselves as race COM
pletely-this is the reason why
they want integration. They
hope by living intimately with
the whites that interracial
marriages will follow. Then
the Negro race will be COM
pletely lost and just light tan
people will remain said Dan
Smoot, during his controyer-
sial TV program, "Dan SmO0t
Reports" on Channel 3, Sun
day night after the late movie.
Arizona sun., 1961-03-09
SE SARANT REPORT

A few Arizona citizens
are fighting the housing code
and the continued existence of
the City Urban Renewal De-
partment. One of these in
volved is a high state govern
mental official, who is using
his official capacity and influ-
ence indiscreetly. A lawyer
is fighting it because a relative
has influenced him. Another
is a part of the fight because
of her business interests. She
is known agitator or IAN A
merican Citizen" as she calls
herself. One of the group has
communistic leanings and an
other was involved in a real
estate manipulation that was
mt kosher"
Arizona sun., 1961-03-09
The President
DisappOints
Floyd Patterson

Floyd Patterson was keenly
disappointed to learn that
President Kennedy would not
attend the Patterson Johans-
son heavyweight title fight.
The president decided to watch
the fight on TV. Patterson
said he would have been happy
to have given the President his
own seat between rounds if
that would have assured his be-
ing there to witness the fight
in person.
Arizona sun., 1961-03-09
Wilson Says
Fan Is Ill

Jackie Wilson says he does
MT want to send Juanita Jones
to Jail for shooting him in his
apartment two weeks ago. He
is fighting for his life now in
hospital in New York because
of wounds which were inflic-
ted upon him by a love-sick
fan who entered his apartment
carrying a gun in her bosom.
Wilson said the woman
should be sent to a hospital and
not to Jail, for she is obviously
an ill woman.
Arizona sun., 1961-03-09
Ellington Men
Ndbbed on Dope

Chief of detectives, Captain
Lloyd Bell of Las Vegas re-
Gently arrested four members
of Duke Ellington's band on
charges of violating the Mar
cartics Act. All four of the
members are accused of being
in the possession of narcotics.
Lead saxophonist Paul Con
salves, trumpet players, Will
lam R. Nance, John w. Cook
and Andrew Ford were the
ones booked on the alleged
narcotics OffenSe.
Arizona sun., 1961-03-09

gram, which so far has had
1907 cooperation from Phoe-
nix property owners. This
long-range program has al
ready eliminated unsanitary.
unsafe conditions in thou
sands of Phoenix homes. II
Continued on page 81
Arizona sun., 1961-03-09
800 PERSONS AT
CHURCH RALLY
FOR ESCAPEE

Three hundred persons, in
Guiding ministers and laymen
turned out for a successful
rally for Garsie Williams, the
shOe-shiner who escaped from
a Mississippi prison and is be-
ing sent back to the authOri-
ties there. The meeting was
held at the New Home Baptist
Church. Lets tun
Arizona sun., 1961-03-09
BAND WONT PERFORM

Forty-three members of the
Jolly Whalers Drum and Bugle
Corps of New Bedford, Mass.
refused to perform for the Jun
ior Chamber of Commerce con-
vention in Atlanta, Ga. when
they discovered that seven Ne
gro members of their group
were going to be given segre-
gated quarters.
Arizona sun., 1961-03-09
White Mother Whips Boy

A four-year-old African boy
was given more than 100 lashes
by a white woman of Jansen
vile, South Africa simply be-
cause he played with her chill
dren. The child is recovering
from the effects of the whip
ping now and the white woman
was fined 1924 for her offense.
Arizona sun., 1961-03-09
FILM HAS NEGRO STAR

Choreographer for the new
three million dollar film, go
dom and Gomorrah" will be
Archie Savage. Savage, who
is the first Negro to be given
such an assignment as this, was
at one time a member of the
chorus line at the old Ebony
Club in New York.
Arizona sun., 1961-03-09
Ex-GIANT IN ROBBERY

World Series star of 1851
and 1854, Hank Thompson
has had a history of arrests
throughout his life as an ath-
lete. AT present the former star
of the New York Giants has
been arrested on the charge OF
taking $37 from a Harlem bar
and grill.
Arizona sun., 1961-03-09

No definite word was given on
it.
"This is more than just a
fight for Garsie Williams-it's
a fight for freedom and fair
play for individual rights. We
can set a precedent for all
Negroes who seek refuge and
sanctuary from the tyranny of
the South by letting Williams
remain here. -" said George
Arizona sun., 1961-03-09

ARIZONA SUN fea-
ture writer, who spoke to the
well-attended meeting.
A collection of $110 was
given to help defray expenses
for Garsie Williams in his
fight against extradition.
All ministers are going to
talk to their congregations
Continued on page y
Arizona sun., 1961-03-09
WILLIE O'REE
BREAKS BARRIERS

The fast moving right wing
er on the Boston Bruins has
overcome all obstacles and
barriers to attain a place for
himself in the field of hockey
He is the first and only Negro
to play in the National Hook
ev T,eapI1e
Arizona sun., 1961-03-09

Members of the Inter-de-
nominational Ministerial Alli-
ance turned their weekly meet
ing into rally with Rev. Har-
per as the host, Reverend Aus
tin as head of the committee,
and several persons as guest
speakers.
Arizona sun., 1961-03-09

Lets tumble those walls
down. We can do it because
God is on our side. We can do
it together!" Reverend Austin
said, during a stirring talk to
the awed listeners.
A committee of several min
listers approached the govern
or and were told he would take
the matter into consideration.
Arizona sun., 1961-03-09
WILLIE MAYS
READY IN PHOENIX

Willie Mays arrived recently
in Phoenix with his family to
go into training camp. I'm in
good shape and ready to play"
he told San Francisco Mana
ger Alvin Dark.
Arizona sun., 1961-03-09
GEORGE SARANT REPORT
SOME ARIZONA NEGROES TO LIVE
IN SLUMS REST OF LIVES BECAUSE

Just this small handful of
people have almost killed this
progressive program "a pro-
Arizona sun., 1961-03-09
THE NEGRO PRESS CREDO

The Negro Press believes that Ameri-
ca can best lead the world away from
racial and national antagOnisms 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., 1961-03-09

State Library l. Archives
State Capitol Bui 1ding
Phoenix, Ariz.
Evening star., 1961-08-11
Schools and National Proqress

she is prepared. able and
willing to take.
This especially is true Of
those elementary and second
ary pupils whose work and
tests have revealed excep-
tional abilities. Not to give
them every chance to develop
such gifts for use in the So
ciety we call Western civili-
zation Is inexcusable.
Wherever they are, in
whatever remote villages Of
our country, these students
must be recognized and given
opportunity. To do less is to
deprive ourselves of one Of
society's scarcer assets-ex-
cellence.
The fact that so many of
our rural schools, and some
of our city ones, offer no
advanc ed mathematics, no
secondary school chemistry
or physics, inadequate prep
aration in general science is
a harsh indictment of our
educational system. There are
States which are offering in
ferior education because they
can't pay for it. Some are un-
willing to do so.
Is this what we may mean
by the promise of American.
Evening star., 1961-08-11
Calm in the Face of Soviet Threats,

coined. too, by the leading
politicians in both parties
here) For in plain truth, Mr..
Kennedy is the spokesman
for great power and for a
country already deeply with
him in this trouble.
He has no need to terrify
his own people into support
ing him. Moreover, he knows
there never was any future in
trying to outshout any Com
munist, whether a two-bit
cell organizer or the present
Car of all the Russias. Some
body. in any contest, has got
to have some sense Of re-
sponSibility. And. SO far in.
human history. that some
body also usually wins in the
end. .,
Indeed, there are very high
officials here who believe the
main effect of Mr.. Khru-
shchev's bouts of violence is
to destroy his alternating
claims that he is a reason
BILE fellow at heart. And they
even believe that the uglier
he talks the less likely he is
to push the Berlin crisis over
the abyss into war.
Evening star., 1961-08-11
Cosmonout With Foot in Mouth?

never given the world the
essential facts about how
Mai. Gagarin conducted his
flight, some scientists who
developed . skepticisHn be-
cause Of contradictory state
ments made by Maj. Gagarin
after his flight are equally
doubtful now about the Titov
story of what he did aboard
q small satellite.
European newspapers, for
instance, are carrying dis
patches from Washington
written by their own cores
pondents. pointing out that
the Russians have never told
the whole story of the Ga
garin flight.
The London Daily Tele-
graph correspondent attrib-
uted to officials of the Ma
tional Aeronautics and Space
Administration in Washing
ton the statement that the
Russians have given only
three salient facts about
Maj. Gagarin's flight: The
launching site, the landing
points and the flight time.
These bare facts were filed
by the Russians with the
Federation Aeronautique In
ternationale in Paris, the
International agency which
certifies flying cords.
American officials are said
to have expressed q hope the
Russians would be more in
formative about Mai. Titov's
journey than they have been
about Maj. Gagarin'S ~
BY contrast, the United
States Government has made
to the scientific world full
disclosure of the details of
the flights of Comdr. Shep-
ard and Capt. GrisSom and
intends to follow the same
policy in the future for its
space flights. So far as SCI
entific proof available to
other countries is concerned,
everything that was trans
mitted by radio from the
Titov craft could have been
recorded on tape ahead Of
time and played back on
schedule from an orbiting
satellite, and all the speeches
could have been rehearsed in
advance.
(copywright, 1se1)
Evening star., 1961-08-11
Better Mood of Decision Found
In Kennedy's News Conference

controversy with Congress
and his efforts to gain his
point with his former col
leagues are marvels of pa
tience and persuasion.
Without directly attacking
the heated outbursts in House
and Senate with respect to
recent hijackings of planes,
Mr.. Kennedy reviewed the
exact circumstances Of each,
including the evidence that
the perpetrators were not
Cubans and were mentally Ill.
The President hammered
hard on the plain fact that
the important South Amer
lean story today is in Mon
tevideo where Secretary Of
the Treasury Dillon and 9TH
ers are trying to put to-
gether the Alliance for Prog
ress. The future of freedom
lies there, as of now, he said,
and it deserves more atten-
tion that it is getting.
Montevideo has a further
distinction which merits its
rank as a Kennedy first. It
represents a new policy of
partnership with other ma
tions and with the recipient
countries in the effort to
extend foreign aid wisely and
efficiently. If the Alliance
for Progress succeeds, it will
dim the Castro revolution
with its undoubted appeal to
the masses.
A new Berlin policy is In
Evening star., 1961-08-11

Government to talk softly
and not even to mention that
big stick which all the same
1t is carrying. Think Of it
always; speak of it never"
Winston Churchill once said
of what the then hard
pressed Allies had in store for
Hitler's Nazis.
Our line now is about that
Think of it always; speak
Of it never" Thus, the Presi-
dent has adopted a manner
which though not jaunty Is
deliberately casual. He re-
fused to dignity by so much
as an indirect comment Mr..
Khrushchev's latest threat,
that the Soviet Union might
build a rocket having explo-
sive power equivalent to 100
million tons of TINT.
1t is, of course, impossible
to tell from this side Of the
world what effect this cool
ignoring of one Of the most
inflammatory speeches in all
the cold war may have had
on Mr.. Khrushchev himself.
1t is reckoned here, how
ever, that If all human ex-
perience, among Western men
anyhow, has any meaning at
all, the Presidents attitude
has largely broken this latest
of Russian propaganda
spears.
For Western peoples at
least know that any man who
in any conformation with
another begins to use an al
most hysterical violence - of
words-is rarely speaking
from strength, but usually
either from Illustration or
uneaSe.
Bound up in the Presidents
policy Of treating Mr.. Khru-
shchev's worst outbursts with
the thunders Of silence is
something more than a mere
propaganda tactic. Ut is well
Evening star., 1961-08-11
President Stresses First Thinqs

preparation; its shape as yet
unclear. But the United
States will obviously be bet
ter able to lead there If its
affairs in this hemisphere
are in order.
Even Castro has treated
the Montevideo conference
with. relative respect. appar-
entity fearing to get in wrong
with his neighbors if he does
not.
Chairman Fulbright of the
Senate Foreign Relations
Committee was the big per-
sonal gamer in the Presi-
dents well-conSidered re-
marks. The President strongly
backed the Fulbright memo
randurn to the Defense De-
partment demanding that the
military cease trying to edu-
cate the public on political
issues.
Mr.. Kennedy let it slip
that the memorandum had
been sent at the request Of
Defense Secretary McNa-
mara, a fact the Pentagon
had refused to concede. Sen
ator Fulbright, said the Pres
ident, had performed a public
service.
Senator Fulbright has been
attacked by right wing Sen
ators and is threatened with
a primary battle. next year
by Representative Afford, the
Little Rock Segregationist.
Evening star., 1961-08-11
Soviet Spocemon's History Called
Lesson for u. S. Education

the value Of a trained mind.
When they discover gifted
young men and women they
are careful not to waste
them.
This, in q sense, is their
one great secret weapon,
though, in fact, there Is
nothing secret about it.
In this country a shocking
percentage of our high school
graduates who are in the top
10 per cent Of their class do
not 60 to college. ut is by
no means the loafers and
the ones who just scraped
through who drop out of
schoolD Reasons for the loss
of many of the best of our
young men and women are
varied. There often is par
entail insistence that they 60
to work. Now and then there
is family need which indi-
Gates to such high school
graduates that they must
sacrifice their desire to train
for some profession, to sup
port their parents. AS often
as not the family background
is apathetic. There is n.
urging or encouragement of
the talented graduate to 60
ahead with education. Or COL
lege is too expensive. ct is
becoming more so.) If there
is no local institution of
higher learning, the added
expense of board and room
is a barrier to many.
Whatever the reason, the
harsh fact is that the United
States each year is deprived
of several thousand of its
more talented young peo-
pie, its more gifted minds.
No one suggests we initiate
the Soviet educational system
as a system. But we most
assuredly are required, by
conscience and the demands
of national security, to as
sumo a Federal responsibility
for an educational system in
which no American boy or
girl shall lack opportunity to
have all the education he or
Evening star., 1961-08-11
Missile, Delayed
By Ship, Fails

CAPE CANAvERAL, Fla,
Aug. II (AP).-The Army last
night delayed firing a Pershing
missile until an unidentified
vessel sailed from the down.
range target area, then de-
stroyed the rocket when it ap-
peared to go off course.
The range safety officer blew
up the 34-foot solid fuel rocket
after the first and second
stages had appeared to ignite
normally.
Four failures in 20 tests have
now been counted for the
weapon. scheduled to be de-
ployed next year with troops
in Europe.
Evening star., 1961-08-11
DORIS FLEESON

President Kennedy used his
press conference this week to
tell the American people they
should put first things first.
Then he discussed some Of
the firsts.
In his anxiety to drive
home his lesson in perspec-
tive on current events he
even answered yes or no oc-
casionally to shut off ques-
tionS he considered untimely
or irrelevant. These useful
monosyllables are normally
anathema to politicians.
It was one of his better
efforts, incisive and informa-
tive. 1t did not exhaust all
the headaches of today's
world-no one conference
could-but it created the
mood Of decision which many
Of his critics have felt was
lacking.
That mood he extended to
cover the Russian horseplay
on the somber subject of nu-
clear testing. The President
all but said that decision to
resume testing was near un-
less the atmo ospher re at
Geneva changed rapidly.
It was also clear that he
felt the tendency here to
froth at the mouth over
Castro's Cuba before all the
facts Of q given situation
were in had to be halted.
Mr.. Kennedy hates to be in
Evening star., 1961-08-11
WILLIAM S. WHITE
Presidents Unmoving Attitude Viewed
As Making Khrushchev More ShriH

The dialogue across the
world between President
Kennedy and Nikita Khru-
shchev of the Soviet Union
is falling into fixed and vastly
different tone patterns
though Mr.. Khrushchev's
pattern is in two predictable
parts.
The Russians is alternate
ly the voice OF coaxing and
Of strident threats. Mr.. Ken
nedy's has now settled into
the voice of a calm, un-
moved determination which,
among other things, is be-
ginning to make his antag-
onist sound a little shrill, a
little unsure..
Mr.. Kennedy, these days,
is refusing to respond either
to Mr.. Khrushchev's bait of
a heavy "reasonableness," or
to his inevitable secondary
mood, in which he brandishes
new atomic weapons of un-
thinkable frightfulness.
Always, whatever the eld-
erly Russian says and how
ever he says it, the younger
American says the same
thing: We will neither give
up nor negotiate" any of
our basic rights in Berlin.
We will negotiate, more or
less anywhere and more or
less anytime, on anything
and everything that is truly
negotiable. We seek no war
and will go to any honor
able length to avoid it. If
fight we must we will fight
a war-not simply "for Ber-
lin" but for Western Allied
rights in that last outpost
of the free world, that token
of the Western right to stay
in Europe itself.
Mr.. Kennedy's most recent
press conference sharply H.
lustrated the deeply conscious
policy of the United States
Evening star., 1961-08-11
POTOMAC FEVER
BY Pete Wyms
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

The Army will draft $4,000 men into uniform next
month One nice thing about having the Democrats in office
A fellow never has to worry about what to
Hjacked pilot to tower: We'll put it this way. Some
body up here doesn't like U.s."
Vice President johnson gets agreement to take
In Kennedys disabled Nothing urgent but with all this
youth fitness going Uncle Lyndon when
Jack may overdo.
Q-Senator Proxnire talked 26 hours against Kennedy
nominee Is this record A-No 1t isn't tape which
is something to be thankful for.
Bob Kennedy cancels two flights for home out Of Paris
Bobbys ambitious enough but he has desire to become
our man in Havana. ..
Evening star., 1961-08-11
RALPH MeGILL

We must begin this story
with a prelude about Mai.
Gherman s. Titov. The 26-
year-old Soviet man in space
was born of peasant stock
in a remote. tiny, unknown
village in the Altai region Of
southern Siberia, 1900 miles
east Of Moscow.
This tiny town is in the
Kuznetsk Basin, which is
said to contain coal reserves
amounting to 900 billion
tons. There are also vast
amounts of zinc. Chemical
industries abound.
Twenty years ago in the
entire Altai region there was
one college graduate. Today
there are hundreds. At the
age Of eight the young Titov
attended collective farm
school. After the war, the
family moved to a larger vii
lage. The young mans talents
were observed. His mathe-
matics and science teachers
recommended him. He chose
aeronautical science. He has
become, since his Is hours
of orbits around the earth,
one Of the major performing
and propaganda assets of
communism.
There Is q moral in this
story for our free society.
America already has lost
thousands Of potential Cher
man Stepanovitch Titovs. q.
We have no way now to be
sure the abilities and talents
Of thousands of youngsters
now moving toward, or in,
secondary schools become a
national asset.
Maj. Titov is, like Mai.
Yuri Gagarin, a product of
the Soviet Unions strongest
weapon-an educational sys-
tenn which recognizes ability
and sends it on to the in
Stitutes of higher learning.
The Soviet Union wants
to train such talents to
strengthen the objectives of
communism. Russia's Com
munist leaders have never
been so careless as to ignore
Evening star., 1961-08-11
DAVID LAWRENCE
Titov's Account of Guiding Ship
Strs More Queries on Authenticity

IN EUROPE.-Unquestion-
ably Nikita Khrushchev has
overplayed his hand in the
propaganda speeches he has
delivered extolling the Soviet
orbital flights as the product
Of the Communist Socialist
system. This is resented
throughout Europe. Many a
newspaper in countries like
Sweden, Norway and Den
mark has just expressed the
criticism that celebration Of
q scientific experim ent
should not be cloaked in the
language of international
politics or polemics.
In addition, there is some
skepticism developing about
Mai, Titov'S feat itself. While
this is not as outspoken as
the doubts that were ex-
pressed about Mai. Gagarin'S
story Of his flight into space,
some significant questions
are nevertheless being raised.
Thus, Maj. Titov told
newsmen in Moscow that he
controlled the ship himself.
When asked how he did this,
he replied:
II began manual guidance
Of the eosmic ship according
to program at 10 o'clock ION
Sunday. My ship is a very
cleverly constructed machine,
and easy to steer. 1t was pos
Sible to orientate it in any
direction, to direct it where
you needed, and where you
wanted it to land. When !
had the steering of the ship
in my hands, ! felt just like
a real pilot. My first impress
sion from manual operation
is very good"
Now, here is what the
Reuters News Service re-
ported to the European press
in a dispatch from Stanford,
Calf:
&c. Stark Draper. head of
aeronautical engineering at
the Massachusetts, Institute
Of Technology, described as
tmalarkey' press reports that
Cosmonaut Gherman Titov
controlled the course of his