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VOLUME XVI—NUMBER 5___JACKSON, MISS., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1957 | 7 ' PRICE TEN CENTS
Negro Dean Defends Rights Of Segregationist
SET OUSTER SUIT AGAINST DR. JOSEPH H.' JACKSON
U. S. Attorney Consents To Baptist
Group’s Suit to Unseat President Of
National Baptist Convention
Ten Ministers File Petition Charging
Dr. Joseph H. Jackson Of Chicago
Holding Position Unlawfully
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 18.
—The United States Attorney for
the District of Columbia today
authorized a suit in the name of
the United States by a group of
10 ministers, challenging the right
of Reverend Joseph H. Jackson of
Chicago to hold office as President
of the National Baptist Conven
tion of America, made up of 25,
000 Negro churches in the United
States and its territories, with
4,500,000 members.
The action came in a petition
to the U. S. District Court for the
District of Columbia. The petition
stated, in part, that Rev. Jackson
has “usurped, intrduded into, or
unlawfully holds or exercises” his
office. Having been chartered in
the District of Columbia, the Bap
tist Convention and its affairs
come under Federal jurisdiction.
The petitioners brought the sel
dom used action of “Quo War
ranto” in which the United States
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ON CIVIL RIGHTS COMMIS
SION: J. Ernest Wilkins, the Ne
gro member of the recently ap
pointed Civil Rights Commission.
Bishop Accussed In $2 Million Theft
Greenville, S. C., Nov. 18 — A
suit filed in Federal court here
recently charged a bishop of the
Negro religious sect known as the
Fire Baptized Holiness Church of
God of the Americas with stealing
more than $2 million dollars in
church funds. Accusing Bishop W.
E. Fuller, Sr., of Atlanta of mis
handling church funds, the Rev.
J. P. Petty has demanded in his
suit that the church official give
an account of funds which have
been turned over to him during the
past 50 years. The suit also charges
that the bishop’s son, D. E. Fuller,
Jr., was an accomplice in the al
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Eagle Eye Editor Sent To Whitfield
Jackson Negro newspaper editor
Arrington High Wednesday after
noon was "declared incompetent”
a>-the Whitfield State Hospital and
will be retained for treatment, ac
cording to Dr. W. L. Jaquith, hos- ,
pital director.
Jaquith said High was present
ed to the staff of the hospital for
examination Wednesday. He had
been committed for observation
by chancery court here after phy
sicians recommended that action.
A lunacy affidavit was filed
against High in chancery court
here by his foster father, a funeral
director in Canton.
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The African-American Institute
Opens West Africa Office
Washington, D. C. Nov. 18—The
African-American Institute of 1234
Twentieth Street, N. W„ Wash
ington, D. C., announces the inau
guration and official opening on
November 19, 1957, of its West
Africa office. Headquarters are in
Accra, Ghana.
Special guests at the inaugura
tion of the Institute’s first office in
Africa are expected to include the
Prime Minister, Dr. Kwame Nkru
mah; the Minister of Education,
Mr. C. T. Nylander; the Ghana
Commissioner of Development, Sir
Robert Jackson; the American Am
bassador, Dr. Wilson C. Flake; and
and other members of the Ghana
Government and the American
community.
The Board of Trustees of the
African-American Institute will bo
represented by Mr. Harold K.
Hochschild, Chairman of its Execu
tive Committee and Honorary
Chairman of the American Metal :
Company. Mr. Nylander and Mr. I
Hochschild will deliver the inau
guration addresses.
Mr. E. Jefferson Murphy, form
erly Director of Programs of the
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Editor Calls Scattered Racial
Violence In South Misleading
Boca Raton, Fla., Nov. 18 —
Scattered racial violence in the
South has made headlines but mem
bers of the Southern Newspaper
Publishers Association said last
week most areas were calm.
J. N. Heiskell, editor and presi
dent of The Little Rock (Ark.)
Gazette, said during a discussion
at the convention that the “po
litical action" of Gov. Orval E.
Faubus in calling out the National
Guard had heightened the crisis
there.
“No more than two or three po
licemen," he said, were needed to
handle the situation.
The Little Rock crisis has “hard
ened the strong core of resistance"
to integration in Georgia, Bert
- Struby, general manager of The
Macon Telegraph and News, said,
Louis P. Cashman Jr., editor of
the Vicksburg (Miss.) Post, said
there was no pressure for integra
tion in that State. Relations be
tween Negroes and whites in Mis
sissippi are good, he said.
UNCF Distributes
$450,000 To 31
Member Colleges
New York, Nov. 15.—The Unitec
Negro College Fund is distributing
$450,000 to its 31 member colleges
and universities today, according
to W. J. Trent, Jr., Fund execu
tive director.
Today's allocation is the second
distribution of money raised in the
College Fund’s 1957 appeal. It
brings the total amount received
this year by the participating col
leges to $1,395,388. Final grants
will be made after the official
closing of the 1957 campaign Dec*
31.
“Since it was established in
1944, the College Fund has an
nually raised approximately 10 pei (
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Kenya Increasing
African Deputies
In Legislature
Council Of State
To Guard Against
Harmful Racial
Legislation
NAIROBI, Kenya, No. 18.—An
increase in the African membership
of the Kenya Legislative Council
was announced last week. Under
the constitutional changes an
nounced by the British Colonial
Secretary, Alan Lennox-Boyd, six
more elected Africans will sit in
the legislature.
A few hours before he left by
air for Britain Mr. Lennox-Boyd
said that the African popoulation
was “under-represented in relation
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Africans In Kenya
Veto Charter Plan
NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov. 19.—The
eight African elected members of
I Kenya's Legislative Council re
! jected today proposals that would
seat six more Africans in the
; council.
Instead, they urged the British
Government to call a constitutional
conference under an impartial
chairman to study the govern
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Plans For New
Negro School
Here Approved
At a recent meeting, the Board
of Trustees of the Jackson Mu
nicipal Separate School District ap
proved preliminary plans for a new
junior-senior high school for Ne
groes to be located on Livingston
Road.
The 22-acre site is bounded on
the east by Livingston Road, on
the west by the Y. & M. V. Rail
road and the north boundary is ap
proximately 775 feet south of
Northside Drive.
The school has been designed to
care for an enrollment of about
1,400 pupils.
Facilities include 47 total teach
ing stations for junior-senior high
school. Also included in the plan
are an auditorium, gymnasium and
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Nigerian Leader
Asks Americans
Sympathy For
Errors In
New Nation
Prime Minister
Balewa Answers
His Critics
LAGOS, Nigeria, Nov. 19.—Abu
baker Tafawa Balewa, Prime Min
ister of the Federation of Nigeria,
asked Americans to show “real
sympathy and moral support” for
the New African countries in their
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Haiti’s Ex-Pres.
Says Junta Acted
Illegally In Taking
His Property
Magloire Says
Action Violates
Human Rights
New York, Nov. 18 —Former
President Paul E. Magloire is pro
testing the confiscation of his
property in Haiti as illegal, i po
litically inspired and a violation
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HOMECOMING QUEEN. The charming Miss Jessie Mildred James
reigned as queen of the recently held homecoming activities at Coa
homa Junior College. A business education major, the winsome and
versatile sophomore is an honor student, a stellar athlete, a student
council member, and a club leader
Florida Governor Calls Racism
Greatest Drawback To Progress
Boca Raton, Fla., Nov. 18—The
“disease of racial intolerance” is
the greatest roadblock in the way
of Southern progress, Gov. LeRoy
Collins told the South’s newspaper
publishers last week.
We can either miss our greatest
opportunity and go blindly down
a road of turmoil and frustration
or we can seize the opportunity to
clear the emotional atmosphere,”
he said.
“We can tear ourselves to pieces
in civil strife and become, in effect
a ward of the rest of the nation
: or we can join hands and provide
an example of human relationships
and government responsibility for
; the rest of the nation to follow.”
Addressing the convention of the
Southern Newspaper Publishers
Association, the Florida Governor
told the members that they had
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THANKSGIVING DAY -1957
By the President of the United
States of America
A PROCLAMATION
At the autumnal season of the year our hearts move us to
follow the wise and reverent custom, inaugurated by our Pilgrim
Fathers more than three centuries ago, of setting aside one
special day for expressions of gratitude to a merciful Provi
dence for the blessings bestowed upon us.
It behooves us to dwell upon the deep religious convictions
of those who formed our nation out of a wilderness, and to recall
that our leaders throughout the succeeding generations have
relied upon Almighty God for vision and strength of purpose.
As a nation we have prospered; we are enjoying the fruit
of our land and the product of our toil; we are making progress
in our efforts to translate our national ideals into living reali
ties; and we are at peace with the world, working toward that
day when the benefits of freedom and justice shall be secured
for all mankind.
For such blessings let us be devoutly thankful, and at the
same time let us be sensitive and desponsive to the obligations
which such great mercies entail.
NOW, THEREFORE, I DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, Pres
ident of the United States of America, having in mind that
joint resolution of Congress approved December 26, 1941, which
designates the fourth Thursday in November of each year as
Thanksgiving Day, do hereby call upon our peoole to observe
Thursday, November 28, 1967, as a day of national thanksgiving.
On that day let all of us, in accordance with our hallowed cus
tom, foregather in our respective places of worship or in our
homes and offer up prayers of thanks for our manifold bless
ings. Let the happiness which stems from family reunions on
Thanksgiving Day be tempered with compassion and inspired
by an active concern for those less fortunate in our own country
and in other lands; and let us ask God’s continuing help and
guidance in our conduct, both as individuals and as a nation.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand
and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be af
fixed.
DONE at the city of Washington this 18th day of November
in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-seven, and
of the Independence of the United States of America the one
hundred and eighty-second.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
By the President:
CHRISTIAN A. HERTER
Acting Secretary of State
Seven African
Nations Accept
Ghana Bid For
Conference
Meeting Early Next
Year To Discuss Race
Problem And The
Colonial Situation
Accra, Ghana, Nov. 19 — The
government announced today that
seven other independent African
states had agreed to confer here
on mutual problems, including the
future of African colonies and the
race question.
1. Prime Minister Kwame Nkru
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Parliament Bill To
Give Ghana
Emergency Power
Accra, Ghana, Nov. 18 — A
bill arming the Ghana Government
with emergency powers is to be in
troduced in Parliament next week.
Information Minister Kofi Baako
said that there was no emergency,
but that one could always arise.
He explained at a news confer
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British Governor
Goes To Ghana
London, Eng., Nov. 18 — Lord
Listowel left London by plane last
Monday for Accra where he is
scheduled to be inaugurated Wed
nesday as Governor General of
Ghana.
Lord Listowel, a former Minister
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Haiti Grants
Amnesty To
Political Prisoners
Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, Nov. 18—
The Government declared an am
nesty today for all Haitians accus
ed of subversive activities during
the last ten months. Specifically
exempted from this declaration
were those charged with complicity
in the May 25 upheaval.
Among those jailed at that time
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Second Klansman
Get 20 Years In
Castration Case
Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 19 —
The second maximum sentence of
20 years was given by Judge Alta
King to another of the six men
charged with the brutal castration
of J. E. Aaron, in a case the judge
termed “the worst I have ever
heard of in my years of experience
as an attorney and on the bench."
Sentenced was Bart A. Floyd
during the second trial of the men
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Jamaica Begins
Self - Rule
Kingston, Jamaica, Nov. 19—Ja
maica has become the first British
West Indian colony to achieve in
ternal self-government.
Gov. Sir Hugh Foot read a pro
clamation of Queen Elizabeth II
putting into effect a new Constitu
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Joe Louis, Wife In
Legal Separation
Chicago, 111., Nov. 19 — Ex
heavyweight boxing champion Joe
Louis and his wife, Rose, married
on Christmas day, 19S5, agreed
this week to legally separate.
It was reported their decision
to separate stemmed from the
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Negroes Urged To Meet Challenge
To Provide A Climate Of Acceptance
Desegregation At Community Levels
Noted Civil Rights Lawyer Condemns
Extremists Who Use Inflammatory Tactics
LAW SCHOOL DEAN: Prof.
George E. Johnson, above. Dean
of the Law School, Howard l ni
versity, Washington, D. C.
Durham, N. C., Nov. 18—Dean
George M. Johnson of the How
ard University Law School de
fended the rights of opponents of
desegregation to use legal means
to state their case, but he con
demned extremists who use infla
tionary tactics, and urged Negroes
to meet the challenge to provide a
“climate for the acceptance of de
segregation at the community le
vel” in a NCC forum speech here
Thursday.
The 1054 and 1955 U. S. Supreme
Court decisions constitute (1) “a
judicial conclusion that racial seg
regation in education deprives stu
dents of equal educational oppor
tunities and (2) a judicial directive
to states requiring racial segrega
tion in public supported education,
to eliminate such requirements,
that is, to desegregate,” Johnson
said.
The noted civil rights lawyer
warned that “certain powerful and
influential opponents of desegrega
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CITE PROGRESS OF PROGRAM
FOR EQUAL JOB OPPORTUNITY
WASHINGTON, D. C. — The
Federal Government is making en
couraging progress in developing
a program of equal opportunity in
Government employment regard
less of race, religion or national
origin, Dr. Archibald J. Carey, Jr.,
Chairman of the President’s Com
mittee on Government Employment
Policy, said today following a se
ries of Western area conferences
with Federal administrators.
Dr. Carey paid tribute to of
ficials of Federal agencies in their
approach to the extesion of Equal
Job Opportunity in Federal em
ployment. “It was very gratify
ing to observe the genuine concern
of many administrators of the
Federal Government in this re
gard and heartening to note the
degree to which some individuals
and agencies have already under
taken a positive approach to ef
fect these ends,” he said.
Four members of the President’s
Committee met with nearly 500
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NAACP Refuses Membership Of Ben
Davis Negro Communist Leader
NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 18.—
A membership application and do
nation by Benjamin J. Davis, state
chairman of the Communist party,
has been rejected by the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People. His $3.50 mem
bership fee and $50 gift, submitted
at an association rally last Sun
day, have been returned.
Russell P. Crawford, president
of the association's New York
branch, wrote Davis in a letter
made public yesterday that the
association had repeatedly “passed
policy resolutions condemning ath
eistic communism and directing its
units to reject the applications fcr
membership of Community party
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LEGISLATIVE GROUP HITS
NAACP ACTIVITIES IN VIRGINIA
Richmond, Va., Nov. 18 — A
special Virginia Legislative com
mittee declared the National As
sociation for the Advancement of
Colored People and two related or
ganizations “are now and have
been engaged in the unauthoriza
tion of law.”
That statement was th« chief
finding of a report to the Legisla
ture and to Gov. Thomas B. Stan
ley from the Committee on Law
Reform and Racial Activities.
The committee, headed by Dele
gate James B. Thomson of Alex
andria, was set up last year by a
special anti-integration session of
the Legislature that also enacted
a series of laws aimed at curbing
NAACP activities in Virginia. The
state is resisting integration in the
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YALE DEAN HITS AT THE
CHURCHES ON SEGREGATION
Boston, Mass., Nov. 18 — Dr.
Liston Pope, dean of the Yale Uni
versity Divinity School, said today
that the church was the most seg
regated major institution in United
States society.
Speaking at the annual ecumen
ial service of the Massachusetts
Council of Churches, he said:
“The church has lagged behind
the Supreme Court as the consci
ence of the nation on the question
or race, and it has fallen far be
hind trade unions, factories, schools
department stores, athletic gather
ings and most other major areas
of human association as far as the
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WILLIE SAYS “SAFE AT HOME”
Liberia Hits Anti
White Bias
MONROVIA, Liberia, Nor. 18.
—President William V. S. Tubman
condemned business concerns to
night for dismissing white em
ployees who had married Liberians.
In his annual address to the Leg
islature he said that this should
be made a criminal offense. Heads
of discriminating concerns would
be expelled from the country, he
added.
San Franciaco, Calif., Nor. 19—
Willie Mays is “safe at home”—in
San Francisco.
That's the kind of big-league
community feeling San Francisco
has just voiced in favor of Willie
and Marguerite Mays after a one
day uproar over reports he was
buying a house here that matches
his style of work and pay.
Everybody knows that Willie
works for the new San Francisco
Giants and that he and Marguerite
have to have a place to lay their
heads down at night, and have a
nice, cool, shady back yard to
dream in when Willie isn’t out at
the park or on the road—a little
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