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VOLUME XVIII—NUMBER 21
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1960
PRICE TEN CENTS
Congressman Powell Denied Motion For Mistrial
IN THE U.S.—Bishop Laurean Rugambwa, of Rutabo, Tanganyika, who has been named the first
Negro cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, is sh?wn here during his 1956 visit to the United States
with the Very Rev. J. Alfred Richard, W. F., United States Provincial of the White Fathers (so named
because of their distinctive white attire). Bishop Rugambwa attended catechism classes at the White
Fathers’ missions in his native Tanganyika, where he was baptized at the age of nine. He attended
seminaries operated by the missionary society in Tanganyika and Uganda and was ordained to the
priesthood in 1943. Later he studied in Rome, receiving a doctorate, and in-1952 he was consecrated
Bishop, becoming the first Negro and the first native-born African to become a member of the Sacred
College of Cardinals.
Haiti Politics
Seen Blocking
Nation’s Biggest
Aid Project
U. S. Suspends
Irrigation Fund
In Dispute Over
Summary Dismissals
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Mar. 16.
—The largest United States aid
program in Haiti, a $4,300,000 ir
rigation project, has been sus
pended.
At issue is the question of
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Election Year
Spurs Attendance
For Annual
Teachers Meeting
More Than 6000
Tax Local Facilities
The welcome mats were out
Thursday in all sections of the city
for State Negro Teachers attend
ing the Annual Meeting of their
organization being held here over
the week-end with most of its ses
sions at the College Park Audi
torium.
The attendance spurred by the
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Civil Rights Commission Head To
Speak At National UNCF Conference
New York, March 18 — Chair
man of the Commission on Civil
Rights John A. Hannah will be the
major speaker at the national Con
vocation of the United Negro Col
lege Fund March 25-27 in Denver.
He will address a mass public
meeting Sunday evening, March
27, at Denver Auditorium Theat
er.
Dr. Hannah has been president
of Michigan State University, East
Lansing, since 1941. In 1957 he
was appointed chairman of the
Civil Rights Commssion by Presi
dent Eisenhower.
The Denver conference is the 11th
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Choirs Open UNCF1960 Appeal;
Begin 11th Year On ABC Network
New York, Mar. 18. — UNCF
choirs will observe the formal
opening: of the United Negro Col
lege Fund's 1960 nation-wide cam
paign during their April ABC
Radio Network broadcasts. The
months' programs also mark the
10th anniversary of the “Negro
College Choirs" series on ABC.
The regular weekly radio series
presents choral groups from mem
ber schools of the United Negro
College Fund.
The opening program the week
of April 3 will feature choirs from
the following UNCF member col
leges and universities: combined
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ANTI-BIAS TO BE PRESSED IB ALL
GOVERNMENT CONSTRUCTION
Washington, March 16 — The'
President's Committee on Govern*
ment Contracts decided today to
press its anti-discrimination cam
paign into all Government con
struction.
Pressure is now being applied
by the General Services Adminis
tration to electrical contractors on
two buildings in the District of
Columbia. Under the new plan, six
Government agencies will extend
the campaign to all states.
Labor Secretary James P. Mitch
ell, who presided at the meeting
in the absence of Vice President
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Ghana Orders $25
Million In Ships
ACCRA, Ghana.—Ghana recent
ly signed a contract for eight new
merchant ships worth 126,000,000
The Hinistry of Transport and
Communications also disclosed that
four extra ship berths will be
added to the plans for the new
Tema Harbor, making it, when
completed, the largest shipping
outlet in West Africa.
Harvard Prof.
Says Nation’s
Science Teachers
Out Of Step
Physicist Says Most
Do Not Know Subject
Well Enough For
Today’s Needs
New York, Mar. 20—Only a small
minority of today’s science teach
ers in the United States knows
the subject well enough to teach
it in the broad aspects now re
quired, Prof. Edwin C. Kemble of
Harvard University charged yester
day.
Speaking at the annual meeting
of the Federation of Science Teach
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Ghana Girls Train
For Air Hostesses
London, Mar. 21.—Eight pretty
African girls from Ghana are
here going to school training to
become receptionists for Ghana
Airways.
The curriculum includes lessons
in walking, traffic study at Lon
don Airport • and experience in
cabin service.
The group will be in school here
for two months.
$3,640,000 Fund
Established For
African Education
Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia,
.March 16 — A $3,640,000 fund has
been established to expand educa
tion for African children in the
copper mining region of Northern
Rhodesia.
The money is being provided by
the Rhodesian Selection Trust
group of companies and the Anglo
American Corporation, which own
the British protectorate’s copper
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6 School Children
Die In School Bus
Train Crash
Coy, Ala. — A freight train hit
a school bus at a' crossing near
this rural community today, and
at least six teen-aged Negro chil
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Nation’s Youth
Seen Threatened
By Decay In
Ethical Values
White House
Conference Paper
Urge Cooperative
Effort Against Trend
Washington, March 19—Home,
school, society, church and syna
gogue must reverse the process of
decay in ethical values threatening
this country’s youth.
This was the conclusion drawn
in a survey paper for the White
House Conference on Children and
Youth of Rabbi Henry E. Kagan
of Sinai Temple, Mount Vernon,
N. Y.
His was one of thirty survey
papers published in a single volume
today as recommended reading for
the 7,000 delegates who will spend
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First Negro
Cardinal In The
Catholic Church
To Be Formally
Elevated To
New Rank At
Vatican Ceremony
Will Give Leadership
To Vast Work Of
Church In Africa
Rome, March 22—The first Ne
gro Cardinal in the Catholic Ch.,
Laurian Cardinal Rugambwa of
Tanganyika, will be formally ele
vated to his new rank at a Vatican
Consistory on March 28. His ele
vation to the second highest dig
nity in the Church marks a mile
stone in one of the most remvk
able growths of Christianity in
history. It also testifies to the cap
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Ex-President Truman Admonishes
Negroes To Stop Sitdown Protests
Kansas City, Mo., March 21—
Former President Harry F. Tru
man, last week admonished U. S.
Negroes to stop the sitdown dem
onstrations.
The former President who was
heard in a radio interview said the
sitdown demonstrations were hurt
ing rather than helping the Negro
struggle for first-class citizenship.
Indicative of a strong belief in
the right of owners of private busi
ness concerns to operate them as
they see fit, when asked what he
would do if his place was invaded
by sitdowners, in characteristic
strong language he said that he
would ask them out, and if they
did not leave then he would kick
them out.
In the interview the former
President emphasized his continued
desire and ho >e for the rights of
first-class cit zenship for the Ne
groes of the country. During his
tenure of the office of President
of the United States it was Presi
dent Truman who issued the call
for the Four-Point Civil Rights
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U. S. NEGROES HAIL NAMING
OF FIRST NEGRO CARDINAL
New York, Mar. 2 — The news
of the Vatican appointment of
Cardinal Rugambwa brought a
quick response from Negro lead
ers throughout the country. AIsj
in the wake of the appointment
came press releases concerning
Negroes and the Catholic Chur- h
in the United States.
Dr. Ralph Bunche, Under Secre
tary for Special Political Affairs
of the United Nations, viewed R-ig
ambwa’s elevation as “an especial
ly striking application of rac’il
equality” and “a highly signifi
cant recognition of the world ir.a
portance of emerging Africa.”
Mr. Channing Tobias, chairman
emeritus of the NAACP board of
directors, cabled the Pope, saying
that the appointment “gives A
merican Negroes a deep sense of
pride and an abiding feeling of
encouragement.”
Many of the same papers which
brought news of Rugambwa’s ap
pointment also carred a brief no
tice of a declaration by Bishop
Walter Foery of Syracuse, calling
upon Catholics to observe a poli •.y
of ‘open occupancy’ in respect to
housing. He issued the statement
to halt racial segregation of
neighborhoods. Bishop Foery V:
statement adds one more name ‘.o
the growing list of American bish
ops who have taken strong stands
against segregation in any form.
Cardinal Meyer of Chicago ma
public last year his unqualified *>p- \
position to segregated housing.
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Negro Catholic Bishop At One Time
Governed New England Diocese
INKW i UKK, Mar. 22. — Few
Americans, even among Catholics
are aware that an American Negro
bishop governed a New England
diocese for nearly a quarter of a
century. Bishop James Augustine
Healy, born in Georgia in 1830,
served as bishop of Portland
Maine from 1875-1900.
Not all his flock realized at
first that he was a Negro because
of his relatively light complexion.
Most, however, did know and some
at first protested his appointment.
But as Albert S. Foley, SJ. notes
I in his biography, Bishop Healey:
J Beloved Outcast, “They were still
I overwhelmed by the impression of
strong personality, by the impas
sioned oratory, and by the com
manding eyes,” and they grew to
admire and love him.
Two other brothers were also
priests. One of them, Patrick F.
Healy, S.J., became president of
Georgetown University in Wash
j ington, D. C., the oldest Catholic
college in the country.
U. $. MAKES STRONG PROTEST
AGAINST S. AFRICA SUITINGS
Washington, March. 23 — The
United States Government, in an
extra-ordinary action Tuesday de
nounced police violence against Ne
gro demonstrators in South Africa.
The statement issued by Lincoln
White, State Department Press of
ficer said: “The United States de
plores violence in all its forms and
hopes that the African People of
South Africa will be able to obtain
redress for legitimate grievances
by peaceful means."
“While the United States as a
matter of practice does not ordi
narily comment on the internal
affairs of governments with which
it enjoys normal relations, H can
not help but regret the tragic loss
of life resulting from measures
taken against the demonstrators in
South Africa.”
The government’s statement fol
lowed the slayings of native Afri
cans which began Monday when na- i
tives started demonstrations and 1
refused to carry identification
cards in compliance with a section
of the segregation laws of the Un
ion of Soqth Africa.
On Monday scores of demonstra
tors were slain, and many others
wounded at Sharpeville, a native
quarter near Vereeniging, which is
30 miles from Johannesburg, capi
tol of the Union. One police offi
cer described the scene: “A world
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Survey Reveals
Biracial Groups
Working In Many
Southern Cities
Effectiveness Varies
But Efforts Aimed
At Better Race
Relations
Atlanta, Ga., Mar. 21.—Surveys
recently made by leading press
groups revealed existence of bi
racial committees, several of them
appointed during recent disturb
ances, functioning in many South
ern cities in efforts to ease racial
friction.
Some cities have had such com
mittees for years. The degrees of
effectiveness vary, but the theory
is to deal with racial problems and
situations on a local basis. Pres
ident Eisenhower suggested this
course today as a possible solution.
Many Southern cities are with
out committees and do not plan
for any among them being such
lunch counter trouble spots as
Chattanooga, Tenn.; Atlanta, Tal
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Hulan Jack
Freed From
Payola Charge
New York, March 21 — Hulan
Jack, Negro President of the Bo
rough of Manhattan Which includes
the City of New York, freed from
Payola charge returned to his office
last week.
Jack voluntarily furloughed him
self without pay when he was in
dicted for accepting a $4,400 a
partment-remodeling job from
realtor Sidney Ungar.
Although he said he had been
“advised there is no legal impedi
ment” to returning to his Munici
pal Building desk, Jack in effect
is risking action by Gov. Rocke
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Miami Negro
Policemen Get
Jobs Boost
MIAMI, Fla.—Restrictions that
have prevented Negroes from ris
ing to high positions on the Miami
police force were repealed by the
City Civil Service Board.
Previously, Negro uniformed of
ficers have been limited to the
tanks of patrolman, patrolman
first class and patrol sergeant.
Under the new regulations,
which are subject to ratification
by the City Commission, Negroes
will be eligible for dective rank
and may take examinations to be
come lieutenants and captains.
Atlanta Negroes
Richest In Nation
Buy 10,000 Homes
Atlanta, Ga., Mar. 21 — Atlanta
Negroes whose total wealth might
well make them the richest in the
nation are buying more and better
homes than Negroes in any other
southern city according to a recent
Urban League Study.
Robert A. Thompson, Associate
Director of the League says that
one reason for the housing pro
gress was the sizable portion of
Atlanta Negroes who vote.
In a research paper for the Hous
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Report Local
Sitdown Bid
Is Turned Down
Reports that efforts to promote
sitdown demonstrations in Jackson
were turned down was current here
over the last week-end.
According to reports student
leaders were contacted at Campbell
College, Tougaloo College, and j
Piney Woods School. Officials and |
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Federal Judge Overrules Motion For
Mistrial; Orders Testimony Continued
In Powell Income Tax Evasion Case
Rules Government’s Case Restricted
To Charges Made In Indictment
NKRUMAH’S OPPONENT: Dr.
Joseph B. Danquah, who will op
pose Prime Minister Kwame Nkru
mah in the presidential election in
Ghana next month.
New York, Mar. 18.—Federal
Judge Frederick vanPelt Bryan
overruled yesterday a defense mo
tion for a mistrial in the income
tax proceedings against Repre
sentative Adam Clayton Powell
Jr. However, he restricted the
Government’s case by barring any
testimony on alleged overstate
ment of expenses in 1952.
Judge Bryan limited the Gov
ernment to the terms of its 1958
indictment and to the original bill
of particulars and an amended bill
filed last December. He said that
to introduce testimony on alleged
illegal deductions in 1952, on which
the defense had not been fore
warned even in general terms,
would seriously handicap it.
To permit this, the judge said,
would be tantamount to letting
“the tail wag the dog.”
Edward Bennentt Williams, chief
defense counsel, of Washington
had predicted one of his two mo
tions for a mistrial on a finding
against the Government on that
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Ex-Secretary Testifies Adam Powell
Ordered Income Deduction Changes
New York, Mar. 17 — A former
private secretary to Representative
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. testified
yesterday that he had directed her
to transfer certain apparently non
deductible income tax items to de
ductable categories in his financial
records.
The statement was made by Mrs.
Hattie Freeman Dobson when she
appeared as a witness at Mr.
Powell’s trial for income tax eva
sion. She said she had worked for
the Harlem Democrat from 1945
to 1956.
Mrs. Dodson spent most of her
time on the stand identifying docu
ments she said she had used in
helping him to prepare returns for
himself and for his wife in 1956.
One of the documents was a
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Political And Economic Doors Open
As Race Bars Ease In Rhodesia
SALISBURY, Southern Rho
desia, Mar. 17.—A study of racial
attitudes among white persons in
Southern Rhodesia has disclosed
a willingness to grant Africans
more political and economic oppor
tunities but an insistence on seg
regation.
The study was made under the
direction of Dr. Cyril A. Rogers
a psychologist of the social sci
ences research committee of the
University College of Rhodesia
and Nyasaland. He was assisted
by Dr. Charles Frantz, an anthro
pologist of the University of Chi
cago. The project took three years
and was financed from funds pro
vided by the Ford Foundation.
The researchers’ conclusions are
based on information obtained
from a carefully selected cross sec
tion of 500 of the more than 200,
000 whites who live in this British
colony.
The study produced a volume of
nearly 400 pages.
Biracialisin Preferred
Summing up their findings, the
authors state that of three ap
proaches to inter-group relations,
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Togoland Premier Says Ghana
Charge Ruse To Put More In Jail
LOME, Togoland, March 17.—
Sylvanus E. Olympio, Premier of
the United Nations trust territory
of Togoland in West Africa, dis
missed today Ghana’s charge of
plans for an armed attack as a
Ghanian pretext for jailing more
political opponents without trial. '
Togoland, a d m i nistered by
France but scheduled to achive in
dependence April 27, is Ghana's
eastern neighbor'.
According to Prime Minister
Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Togo
land is about to be used as a base
for an armed attack on Ghana.
Togoland has no army, Premier
Olympio said in an interview, and
France was never permitted to
raise one there. In any case, Togo
Iand would have enough on her
hands building up her economy, the
Premier' addad.
M. Olympio is a member of the
Ewe tribe a million strong, which
lives on Ghanaiau-Togoland fron
tier.
Prime Minister Nkrumah has
charged that an armed attack was
being prepared with Premier
Olympio’s secret support by Ewe
leaders on the Ghanaian side of
the border* in the former territory
of British Togoland, which was
integrated into Ghana on her in
dependence in 1957.
“Our brothers in former British
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President Eisenhower Urges Biracial
Conference In All Southern Cities
Death Claims
Tuskegee Prof.
TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, Ala.
—Jefferson p. Davis, Jr., acting
dean of the school of engineering
at Tuskegee Institute, died early
Sunday in a New York hospitak
He was 54.
On leave from Tuskegee for a
year Of advanced study at Colum
bia University, Mr. Davis was due
to return to his post June 1, 1960.
He had been in declining health
since entering Columbia for work
last September, suspending his
study for a time during the first
semester.
His widow, Mrs. Ruth Davis, a
student health nurse at Tuskegee’s
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WASHINGTON, Mar. 16.—Pres
ident Eisenhower called on South
ern Whites and Negroes today to
sit down together in local confer
ences to deal with* growing Negro
protests against segregation.
He told his news conference
there should be “biracial confer
ences in every city and every com
munity of the South."
The President said people had
a right to demonstrate as long as
their protests remained peaceful.
But he did not express an opinion
on the underlying issue—whether
Negroes should be served at lunch
counters and other facilities from
which they were now excluded.
The protest movement began in
Greensboro, N. C., on Feb. 1, when
four Negro college students sat
at a Wool worth's counter and asked
for coffee. When refused, they
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