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'volume'x'fll—NUMBER 49 '" JACKSON, MISS., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1955 ~ PBIC» TEN CWTW
STATE NEGROES NOT SURPRISED AT TILL VERDICT
MISSISSIPPI PLANS LAW TO ARREST FBI INVESTIGATORS
Say State to Attack Validity of 14th '
Amendment To The Constitution of
The U. S. to Fight to Keep Segregation
Legal Education Advisory Committee
Presents 6-Point Proposal For
Next Session Of State Legislature
See Proposals Aimed At Further Reducing
The Rights And Privileges Of
Negro Citizens Of The State
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A law to give the State of Mis
sissippi the power to arrest FBI
agents and other representatives
of the United States Government
sent into the state for the purpose
of investigating crimes and other
acts in violation of Federal laws;
a law limiting the right to peti
tion the government for the re
dress of grievances as provided by
the constitution of the United
States, was contained in a six-point
legislature program announced by
the State’s Legal Education Ad
visory Committee during a meet
ing here last week.
The proposals to be presented
to the legislature for enactment
into law at its coming January
session.
The six-point program also con
tained a provision calling for the
creation of a state authority for
the maintenance of segregation.
Governor-elect J. P. Coleman
who takes office in January told
the committee that in its fight to
maintain segregation the state of
Mississippi will attack the valid
ity of the 14th amendment to the
constitution of the United States.
The Governor-elect said that the
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The r«w Counselor of Women
at Jackson College is Mrs. Bessie
E. Lee. Mrs. Lee is a graduate of
Tennessee A. & I. University and
Indiana University. She is a for
mer member of th*e faculty of L
Swift Memorial Junior College,
Rogersville, Tenn.
Houston Makes Ready For National
Business League Sessions
HOUSTON, Tex.—The Houston;
Negro Chamber of Commerce is
making final plans for the 1955
annual convention of the National
Negro Business League to be held I
in Houston, October 5-7.
According to Roscoe Cavitt, NN
BL secretary and executive director .
of the Houston chamber, plans for
the early October meetings include ,
workshops and educational pro
grams and a series of social func
tions to be held at Texas Southern
university, Prairie View A. & M.
college and at other locations in
Houston.
A highlight of the sessions will
be a post-convention goodwill tour
to Mexico City and other points of
interest in th4 Republic of Mexico.
Further in/ormation about the
goodwill Jirip may be obtained
through Roscoe Cavitt, Houston
Negro Chamber of Commerce,
Houston, Tex., through which res
ervations of the tour may be se
cured.
Dr. S. J. Cullum, president of the
Houston chamber, announces that1
the convention sessions for October
5 and 6 will be held at Texas
Southern university, while the
meetings for A. & M. college, will (
be held in Prairie View, Tex. A
number of well-known experts in
business will address the conven- ]
tion.
Recently Horace Sudduth, Cin-1 j
cinnati banker, real estate man and
hotel owner, who is president of 1
the NNBL, visited in Houston for 1
planning sessions with the local
committee headed by J. H. Jem- i
ison. Mi'. Sudduth expressed the
opinion that the Houston meetings
will represent a high point in the
more than half century of the busi
ness league.
NEW YORK MAYOR FAILS TO
RE-APPOINT JUDGE H. T. DELANY
New Vork, Sept. 26. — Mayor
Robert P. Wagner Tuesday denied
reappointment to Negro judge Hu
bert T. Delany, whose term as a
justice of the Domestic Relations
Court expired that day.
At the same time the Mayor an
nounced the reappointment to the
same court of Justice Justine Wise'
Polier, whose term expired at mid
night Tuesday.
The Mayor said that pending ap
proval by the Bar Association of
the City of New York, he was ap
pointing Edward R. Dudley, a Ne
gro lawyer, to replace Judge De
lany. It was the first time that
the Mayor had not submitted to
the Bar Association the name of a
judicial candidate in advance of
public announcement of the ap
pointment.
Mr. Wagner's action was sharp
ly denounced Tuesday night by Mr.
Delany and Dr. Channing H. To
bias, chairman of the Board of Di
rectors of the NAACP.
Asked by reporters why he was
not reappointing Justice Delany,
the Mayor said:
Differences
“I feel that I don't agree with
some of the positions, taken by Mr.
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Negro Lecturer
Excites More
Interest Than His
Subject in Europe
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Hampton, Va. — Dr. Charles H. ]
Nichols, Hampton Institute Eng
lish professor, returned to the cam
pus last week after a year’s lec
ture tour of Europe.
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Sent as a Fulbright Lecturer, the
Negro professor taught at Aarhus
university in Denmark for 9 months
lecturing on authors, works, history
and philosophy of American litera
ture to enthusiastic European stu
dents whom he said had previously .
thought little of literary efforts
from the “New World.”
In addition, the Hampton profes- .
sor gave 65 public lectures to Euro
pean scholars at the University of >
Oslo in Norway, Uppsala Univer
sity jn Stockholm, Sweden; Oxford 1
University in England and to i
groups in Italy, Germany, Switzer- 1
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School Teacher
Found Shot to
Death in Bed
Husband Uses Car
Fo Escape Scene
Brookhaven, Miss. Sept. 26 —
Mrs. Annie Ruth Smith, comely 23
^ear-old teacher of mathematics in
learby Liberty public school was
found shot to death in bed at the
borne of her father, Jess Smith,
near the Franklin County line early
Saturday evening.
Examination revealed that the
young teacher met her death from
two wounds, one in her left chest
and another through her scalp, al
legedly inflicted by her husband,
Earl Boston, with a 12-gauge shot
gun.
The fatal shooting followed a
quarrel that the couple had early
Saturday afternoon.
Sheriff Robert E. Case said Mon
day that a murder charge had
been filed against Boston who fled
the scene of the slaying in a 1951
Pontiac.
The sheriff said the teacher had
just received her monthly salary,
amounting to something over $200,
but no money could be found in the
house.
Boston, a native of California re
cently discharged from the army is
believed to be heading back to
California.
The young teacher was a gradu
ate of Alexander High School here
and a graduate of Jackson College.
Funeral arrangements Monday
were incomplete.
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Negro Legislator
Heads State
Smog Inquiry
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 26.
One of the two Negro assembly
men in the California State Legis
lature will be sitting as chairman
when an Assembly Interim Com
mittee on Public Health com
mences its inquiry into Los An
geles’ smog problem Wednesday.
The committee chairman is As
semblyman W. Byron Rumford; of
Berkeley.
Rumford, a pharmacist, will
•hair the 11-man committee which
will hold public hearings into “The
3roblem of Air Pollution Abate
nent,” starting at 10 a.m. in the
l^os Angeles Police Dept, auditor
urn, at 150 N. Los Angeles.
Anyone desiring to be heard on
he causes of smog "'•ay address
he committee for , lasion at
Boom 413, Earl Warren Hall, Uni
versity of California campus,;
Berkeley 4, Calif.
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Calls Man
‘Unde Tom’
Is Shot to Death
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 24.
—Thomas J. Peters, 24, of Tulsa,
Dkla., was shot to death here last
Friday by a man whom he called
in “Uncle Tom."
Young Peters was slain in a
government office by a fellow
iraftsman John E. Maxwell, 31,
who surrendered to police a few
noments after the shooting. He
vas charged with murder.
Maxwell, whom Peters had been
‘teasing” and calling “Uncle Tom”
;old police, “I just couldn't take
lis teasing anymore.”
Anti-Semitic
Remark Leads
To Killing
LOS ANGELES, Calif., Sept. 26.
—Name-calling and anti-Semitism
vere the apparent causes of one
nan's ‘death and another man’s
jailing on a murder charge this
veek following a rental squabble
it a Westside house.
Dead is Harold June, 46, re
ared, of 4422 8th Ave., who was
ilmost literally shaken to death
>y Williard Holman, a 37-year-old
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New York
Congressman Sees
Miscarriage of
Justice in
Emmett'Till Trial
25,000 Attend
New Yo; ft Rally
New York,. N. Y. Sept. 26 —
(DSN)—Rep. ,Victor L. Anfuso, a
Democrat Congressman from New
York wired U. S. Attorney General
Herbert Brownell, Jr., asking an
immediate investigation of the Till
trial after a protest rally attend
ed by an esti nated crowd of 25,000
here Sunday
Rep. Anfuio aid folio/ing his
message to Brownen ^^herwise
will ask Congress to undertake a
prnl £ when it reconvenes in Jan
uary.
The Justice Department has al
ready said the government had no
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Diggs Plans to
Challnge State
Members of Con.
Has High Praise
For Judge Swango
DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 26.—
(DSN) — Freshly returned from
Sumner, Miss., in the Delta section
of the state where once was the
home of his parents, where he
spent the better part of four days
attending the now world famous
Till trial, where two white men
were found “not guilty” of the
charge of murder in the kidnap
slaying of Emmett Louis Till, 14
year-old Negro boy in the “wolf
whistle” incident, Rep. Charles C.
Diggs, Negro Democrat member
of the Congress of the United
States, said he intends to challenge
the seats of every white Congress
man in the State of Mississippi un
til the Negro wins representation
there. The five Mississippi Con
gressmen presently represent
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PRESIDENT EISENHOWER ON
GOOD ROAD TO RECOVERY
Denver, Lolo., bept. 4o.—Presi
dent Eisenhower waS" reported on
| good road to recovery from—Hie
heart attack which he suffered^%t
Saturday. v
His condition was so improved
Wednesday that he spent several
hours out of the oxygen tent this
morning after a long, restful
night’s sleep and doctors and fam
ily found him “comfortable and
cheerful.”
Personal friends said privately
it would be “unthinkable” to sub
ject him to the burdens of a 1956
political campaign and another
four years in the White House.
At the same time they ruled out
the possibility that he would even
consider resigning before the ex
piration of his present term in
the absence of any complications
that would block the “complete re
covery” for which his physicians
are hoping.
At 7 a.m. MST, bulletin said:
“The President had a very good
night. He slept almost continu
ously from 8 o’clock until 6:15
this morning.” An even more en
couraging bulletin came at 12:15
p.m.
“The President continues to
progress satisfactorily without com
plications.
“After spending a restful night
he had a breakfast of prunes, oat
meal, soft-boiled egg, toast with
marmalade and milk.
“He remained out of the oxygen
tent for a large part of the morn
ing. His temperature is normal.
His blood pressure and pulse re
main stable and satisfactory.
“His morning cardiogram con
tinues to show the expected evo
lution.
“The President is comfortable
and cheerful.”
SHOOTING FROM CARS DISTURB
LOCAL NEGRO NEIGHBORHOODS
A series of shootings from pass
ing automobiles disturbing Negro
neighborhoods in various sections
of the city are reported as having
occurred here during the past few
nights.
The first of recent reports of
such incidents came last Wednes
day night when a number of shots
were fired from passing cars in
the Lanier High School neighbor
hood in northwest Jackson.
Later in the week a similar inci
dent was reported in Washington
addition in the southwest section
of the city.
A report from West Jackson
Sunday night said that a young
Negro man was hit in the finger
by one of a number of shots fired
from a passing car.
Witnesses say the occupants of
the cars appeared to be young men
and teen-age white youths.
Mississippi Has
Lowest Income
Of 48 States
1954 Drops Two
Percent Below 1953
Washington, D. C. Sept. 26 —
Mississippi still remains the lowest
among the 48 states in average
personal income but four states
dropped more and six others as
much in average percentage of in
dividual income from 1953 to 1954
as did Mississippi, the Commerce
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StateOfficlaisWill
Appeal Ballot Case
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Sept.
26. — State Attorney-General Mac
Q. Williamson announced Monday
he would ask the Supreme Court
to overrule the no-dismissal de
cision in the U. S. Court of Ap
peals’ ruling in the suit filed by
A. B. McDonald to have the word
Negro removed from the ballot in
designating a Negro candidate, be
cause it is prejudicial, discrimi
natory and unconstitutional. Wil
liamson, according to a statement
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Dr. T. R. M. Howard
Speaker at Baltimore
NAACP Rally
BALTIMORE, Md., Sept. 26.—
Dr. T. R. M. Howard, the Mound
Bayou, Miss., physician, founder
president of the state’s Regional
Council of Negro Leadership, who
recently became president-elect of
the National Medical Association,
was the principal speaker at an
NAACP rally here Sunday.
Howard, who worked as a lia
ison between witneses and prose
cuting officers of last week’s Em
mett Till trial, said: “It’s a serious
thing that the FBI can never seem
to work out who is responsible for
killing Negroes in the South.”
Howard said: “A wave of terror
has hit the South. It is in Mis
sissippi.” He said he himself is a
“marked man” and keeps two body
guards on duty 24 hours a day at
his Mound Bayou, Miss., home.
He urged national Negro lead
ers to confer with President Eisen
hower, Attorney General Herbert
Brownell and FBI Chief J. Edgar
Hoover “to find out why they (the
FBI), can’t solve crimes in the
South.”
Describing the Till trial as “a
Roman holiday,” Howard branded
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Mose Wright Gets
Many Letters
During Till Trial
Say None Received
From The South
Sumner, Miss. Sept. 26 (DSN) —
Mose Wright, uncle of Emmett
Louis Till from whose home the
14-year-old boy was kidnapped and
slain told newsmen here Friday
that he had received “stacks of
letters,” many of which contained
money and offers of jobs, since
the start of the trial on Monday
which ended in the “not guilty”
verdict Friday afternoon.
Wright said most of the letters
came after his testimony identify
ing the two white men charged
with murder in the case, but none
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Jewish Group
Hits Results
Of Till Case
NEW YORK.—The Jewish Labor
! Committee tonight branded the de
! cision in the Emmett Till murder
case a “grave miscarriage of jus
; tice” and demanded “immediate
intervention by the Attorney Gen
eral of the United States.”
Adolph Held, National chairman
cf the organization of a half mil
lion Jewish workers in the AFL
and CIO, also issued an appeal
asking “every American” to “raise
his voice against this outrageous
decision.”
Meanwhile the National Associ
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ation for the Advancement of Col
ored People tonight issued a strong
statement terming the verdict of
the jury^in the Emmett Till mur
der trial “shameful.”
NAACP Board Chairman, Dr.
Channing H. Tobias said the “ver
dict is as shameful as it is sur
prising.”
He praised Judge Curtis M.
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Negro Man Gets
Life For Attempt
Rape of Teenage
Negro Girl
KOSCIUSKO, Miss., Sept. 28.—
(Special) — Bean Thompson, 50,
Negro service station employee of
Kosciusko, who pleaded guilty to
attempted rape of Emma Williams,
11-year-old Negro, was given a
life sentence at Parchamn peni
tentiary by Judge Henry Rodgers
Tuesday during the final week of
Circuit Court in Attaja county. The
grand jury was reconvened Mon
day to hear evidence in the case,
a rare event in court annals, and
indicted Thompson. He has a crim
inal record, with several arrests
for' drunkenness and one term at
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Guaranty Life
Board Elects
2 Directors
Savannah, Ga. — The officers
and directors of Guaranty Life
Insurance Company elected two
new members at the semi-annual
meeting of Board of Directors,
which was held last week at the
Home Office here.
The new directors are John A.
Singleton of this city and Mrs.
Gertrude Scott Martin of Chicago.
Singleton has served as agency
director of the company for three
years and has been associated with
Guaranty Life for 16. Mrs. Martin
is daughter of the Guaranty presi
dent, Walter S. Scott, and wife of
Louis E. Martin, officer of Guar
anty and newspaper publisher.
President Scott reported a net
gain in premium income in excess
of 6 per cent for the first six
months of this year and predicted
larger gains for the last half of
1955. Assets of Guaranty reached
an all time high of $1,360,000 as
of June 30, registering a gain of
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Mississippi Underworld Spotlight of
Criticism Following Not Guilty Verdict
In Case Of White Men Charged With
Kidnap-Murder of Negro Boy in
Wolf Whistle Incident
State Negroes See Verdict In
Keeping With Southern Tradition
See Case Sparking Large Scale Migration
Of Mississippi Negroes To Other
Sections Of The Country
Dr. Robert A. Henry will serve
as head of the music department
and chairman of the area of Fine
Arts at Jackson College. He went
to England as a Fulbright scholar
to do research for his dissertation,
in September, 1954. Following;
England, he was enrolled at the
University of London with the
eminent composer Dr. Herbert
Howells, King Edward VII pro
fessor, as his consultant. Dr.
Henry is a native of Houston, Tex.
Clarksdale, Miss., Sept. 26.—
(DSN)—Mississippi Negroes were
deeply hurt but not surprised at
the “not guilty” verdict returned
Friday afternoon at Sumner by an
all-white male jury in the trial of
two white men, Roy Bryant and
his half-bi'other, J. W. Milam,
charged with murder in the kidnap
slaying of Emmett Louis Till, the
14-year-old Negro boy in the now
famous “wolf whistle” incident.
How deeply they were hurt can
be judged only by future incidents
growing out of the tense and
strained race relations now all too
evident in the state.
Their attitude and thoughts in
regard to the trial and the verdict
could be determined by simple tes
timony to the discussions and con
versations in barber shops, cafes,
pool halls, in the homes, or where
ever groups of Negroes could be
found as the news of the verdict
spread over the state.
Negroes of the state see the ver
dict as having been dictated not
by the facts and the law', but by
the southern tradition of the sa
credness of white womanhood, now
being revived in all of its violence
provoking fervor because of the
NAACP drive fox' mixing of the
South’s and Mississippi’s public
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Mother Expected Acquittal Verdict
MOUND BAYOU, Miss., Sept.
26.—(DSN)—Mr's. Mamie Bradley
said upon her arrival here from
Sumner Friday afternoon that she
expected the acquittal of the two j
white men charged with murdering
her son.
Mrs. Bradley, Rep. Diggs and his
aides left Sumner when the jury
went out to consider the case.
She said, “I was expecting an
acquittal and I didn’t want to be
there when it happened.”
Newsmen Name Most Interesting
Sidelight During Till Trial
MOUND BAYOU, Miss., Sept.
26.—Newsmen coming here Friday
after the “not guilty” verdict in
the Till murder' trial at Sumner
described a number of interesting
sidelights noted during the four
day trial.
Most agreed that the most in
teresting sidelight took place Fri
day when two Negro women sat
in front of the court house with
two white men.
As the heat and humidity be
came more oppressive after a hard
shower of rain, one of the white
men went across the street, got a
: glass of water and brought it to
one of the Negro women seated in
the car, and after she drank took
the glass back to the drug store.
Later, one of the white men
brought a glass of ice cream.-to
one of the Negro women in the k&r.
A few minutes later the jdfrv
returned the “not guilty” verdidt
in the “wolf whistle” slaying.
PRELIMINARY HEARING SET
FOR FRIDAY ON KIDNAP CHARGE
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Greenwood, Miss., Sept. 28 —
Preliminary hearing will be held
Friday for two white men charged
with kidnapping a 14-year-old Chi
cago Negro boy.
Judge Charles Pollard said no
exact time had been set, but he as
sumed Roy Bryant, 24, of Money,
Miss., and his half brother, J. W.
Milam, 36, of Glendora, would ap
pear before him at 10 a.m. Bond
is expected to be set at the hear
ing.
Mississippi has two categories of
kidnapping. The charge against
Milam and Bryant carries a maxi
mum penalty of death.
It would be up to a grand jury
as to whether the men would be
indicted on this charge, or one the
lesser category which carries a
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“Catholicism And The Negro” Theme
Of Jubilee Special Issue
New York, N. Y.—The editors <
of Jubilee, national Catholic pic
torial monthly published here, have ,
devoted the entire 64 page Sep
tember issue to the general theme
“Catholocism And The Negro.”
The decision to publish the special
issue was made with the conviction
that Catholics and all men con
cerned with justice stand in urgent
need of clarity on so vital a sub
ject as the racial one. Recent po
litical trends and Supreme Court
decisions have brought interracial
harmonies and tensions into new
focus in America and Jubilee’s
editors believe that new light must
continually be shed on these real
ties, that the past must be sub
jected to examination and that new
iirections and tendencies need to
ae reported and evaluated.
Say the editors of Jubilee: “There
ire certain contemporary issues in
which may be^sc^n, magnified and
inescapable, -the timeless Christian
proposition that man is his broth
er’s keeper. Such an issue is the
interracial question, most pointed
ly as it affects whites and Negroes,
[n no area have Christians faced
a sharper challenge or had a
wider opportunity to give body to
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