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Volume XVI—Number 2 Jackson, Mississippi, Saturday, November 17, 1962 PRICE TEN CENTS
George Meany Foundation Establishment Announced
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GUNS BLAST LYNCH STREET BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENTS SATURDAY
ROME, Italy—Dr. Joseph H. Jackson, Pres
ident, The National Baptist Convention U.S.A.,
Inc., is seen in private audience with Pope John
XXIII in the Pontiff’s private chambers. It is
believed they discussed world peace, freedom,
better human relations, and the world need for
the influence and power of the Christian church.
Dr. Jackson, attending the Vatican Council as
an observer, has expressed great respect for
the devoting and Christian spirit of the Pope.
“We must not overlook the religious and spirit
ual values of other leaders and people who are
not members of our particular church or de
nomination. For people of different groups are
! brought close together in their devotion to
l Christ and in loyalty to his Cross.
Eighteenth 4-H Club Round-Up
Will Honor State Winners
Jackson, Miss. — Mississip
pi’s Negro 4-H Club boys and
girls who are state or district
project record winners will be
honored November 19 and 20 at
the eighteenth annual Negro
4-H Club Round-Up in Jackson.
About 200 members and
adults will attend the event.
Sponsors are the Jackson
Chamber of Commerce, several
Negro businessmen in Jackson,
and the Mississippi Council of
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Revolution For Freedom For
African Women On In Uganda
Kampala, Uganda
Africa is still a man’s world.
All the shouting about freedom
leaves most women grubbing
for food, carrying water «$nd
firewood on their heads, and
being sold to their husbands.
But a gentle revolution is
under way in Uganda, thfe lat
est African colony to become
independent. A small group of
women is leading a campaign
to bring women into the new
world of freedom.
British colonial officers, the
churches, and a few progressive
Ugandins have made some
progress in emancipating wom
en in the cities. In the rural
areas, where 90 per cent of the
population live, tribal customs
condemn women to a life of
toil and bearing children.
Uganda fathers still extract
a "bride price" for their daugh
ters from prospective husbands.
In some places this may amount
only to a goat and a few small
presents. In northern Uganda
it may run tp 10 or more head
of cattle.
The bride, once paid for, be
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Agriculturalists From Kenya
Complete Studies At A&T
Greensboro, N. C. — Eleven
agricultural officers from Ken*
ya, Africa, who have been study*
ing at A&T College during the
past six months, left last week
for their homeland with new
concepts of America and its peo*
pie and of the job back home.
The group came here last July
to etudy agricultural extension
methods under a grant by the
Agency For International De
velopment (AID) under a coop
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Quarter-Million Research Wing
Being Occupied At Southern
Baton Rouge, La., Nov. 8—
The Health Research Wing, a
quarter-of-a-million dollar struc
ture on the campus of Southern
University, is now being occu
pied by University Professors
engaged in Health Research or
related areas of health, it has
been announced by Dr. Felton
G. Clark, president of Southern.
Dr. Clark said that the spec
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United Nations
Hits. Africa
Race Policy
United Nations, N.Y.
The United Nations General
Assembly has recommended
severe trade and diplomatic
boycotts of South Africa with
the aim of forcing- an end to
that country’s white-suprem
acy policies.
If such punitive steps fail,
the Assembly recommended,
the Security Council should
consider ordering South Af
rica expelled from the United
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S. Africa Hits
United Nations
Sanction Plans
Johannesburg
Government and opposition
leaders have Joined In de
nouncing ss unfslr and un
reasonable the United Na
tions General Assembly's
recommendation for toon omit
and diplomatic sanotlons
against South Africa because
of Its .racial segregation poll
dtt.
But liberal voices warned
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Four Negroes
Arrested For
Student Death
NATCHITOCHES, La. *
A 45-year-old Negro and three Ne
gro youths were in custody today
after a white college student was
shot to death from a passing car
Ip an apparent cast of mistaken
Identity.
Officers said the student was
John F.^Fiaher III, 22, a senior at
Northwestern State College. Fish
er, from Detroit, Mich., was shot
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African Natl
Congress Party
Leader Jailed
In S. Africa
Nelson Mandela
Given Five Years by
Special Court
Pretoria, South Africa
Nelson Mandela, former
underground leader of the
banned African National Con
gress Party, was sentenced
Wednesday to five years in
.iail for incitement and illegally
leaving the country.
A special court sentenced
Mr. Mandela to three years on
the incitement charge and two
years for leaving the country.
The court magistrate said
there was no doubt Mr. Man
dela, known as “the black
Pimpernel” because of the way
in which he eluded police for
more than a year, was “or
ganizer, mouthpiece, and mas
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The Church Of
God In Christ
To Name A
New Leader
Fifty Fifth Holy
Convocation To Be
Held In Memphis
Memphis, Tenn — An election
to name a new leader will be
the major business item fac
ing delegates attending the 85th
Holy Convocation of the Church
of God in Christ, when it con
venes here, in Memphis, Nov
ember 25 to December 8 at 958
S. Mason Street.
The new elected leader will
fill the vacancy created by the
death of Bishop C. H. Mason,
founder of the church. He was
senior bishop and titular head
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Police Reported Investigation
Of Shootings On Lynch Street
Local Police officers and de
tectives were reported early
this week as having launched
an intensive investigation of the
shootings, believe to have oc
curred late last Saturday night,
during which several business
establishments owned and op
erated by Negroes of Lynch
Street were hit.
Hardest hit during the shoot
ing was the Jackson Central
Insurance Agency and Lula
Belle’s Fashion Center both lo
cated in the Masonic Temple.
Several shots apparently fired
from a small calibre rifle hit
the plate glass window of the
Jackson Central Insurance of
fice located on the ground floor
of the Masonic Temple next door
to the Fashion Center. One
large hole was found in the
plate-glass window of the Fash
ion Center along with what ap
peared to be scatterd smaller
shots.
According to reports shots
were also fired into a beauty
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Dr. George W. Lucas Chairman
Central State College Board
Dr. George W. Lucas, a native
of Collins, Mississippi and a
graduate of Tougaloo Southern
Christian College, was elected
chairman of the Board of Trus
tees of Central State College,
Wilberforce, Ohio at the Board's
statutory meeting on November
1, 1962. Central State has a stu
dent body of 2,200, representing
thirty-three states, the District
of Columbia, the Virgin Islands
and fourteen foreign countries.
Dr. Lucas attended Hopewell
Vocational High School, Jack
son College, Tougaloo College,
Fort Wayne Bible Institute,
Indiana, University and the Uni
versity of Chicago. He hqldt
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National Business League
Honors West Coast Affilates
Washington, D. C. Nov. 10 —■
A group of Washington's top
echelon business, professional
and community leaders, and key
government officials, joined the
officers of the National Busi
ness League, at a reception,
held at the Statler Hilton Ho
tel here this week, honoring
three National Business League
affiliates from the West Coast
The honorees were: Afamis
Fouche, Chairman of the Board,
George R. Vaughns, President
and Jefferson A. Beaver, Execu
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Dorothy Dandridge Ask Divorce
To End Interracial Marriage
Dorothy Dandndge, noiiy-'
wood's first siren of color filed
suit Friday in Superior Court
for divorce from her popular
Greek husband, restauranteur
John (Jack) Denison.
The attractive singer-actress,
currently appearing at the Club
Chi Chi in Palm Springs, asked
the court to end her interracial
marriage to Denison, after three
years, four months and one day.
The honey-colored, brown
eyed beauty charged Denison,
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Edith Sampson
First Chicago
Woman Judge
XHJCAGO — Mr*. Edith
SOrapwn, 60, former U-S.daie
S?st* to the I7N, wag elected
^Tueeday to a poet of muRtdpal
judge, martrisgr.ttia that time
In tMa cHyVhietoey a Negro
women had bald mdr a pop*.
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U. S. Court
Asked To Name
Master For
Meredith Case
Master Would Take
Evidence Regarding
Governor’s
Compliance With
Court Order
New Orleans, La. — A U.S.
court has been asked to appoint
a master to take evidence on
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Meredith Cuts
Two Tests For
Weekend Rest
Oxford, Miss. Nov. 12 —Ne
gro student James Meredith was
back on the campus of Ole Miss
bright and early Monday morn
ing after having cut two tests,
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Labor Mourns
Death Of Mrs.
Roosevelt
Washington, D. C. Nov. 12 —
AFL - CIO President George
Meany today issued the follow
ing statement on the death of
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt:
All the world mourns for Mrs.
Roosevelt, and nowhere will her
loss be more keenly felt than in
the ranks of labor. This grac
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Jim Gilliam’s
Wife Files
For Divorce
Asks $800 Monthly
Alimony From
Dodger Star
Los Angeles, Calif. Nov. 12—
| Jim “Junior” Gilliam, star
infielder of the Los Angeles
Dodgers, was this week try
ing to field a high-flying di
vorce suit batted at ham by his
wife of three years.
Mrs. Edwin a Gilliam, 27,
charged her husband with ex
treme cruelty. She asked the
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Negro Elected
To Michigan
Supreme Court
■ LANSING, Mk*. — Otto M
rShaith, a Negro Democrat
Paused to state office by e*)
Gov. G. Mermen Williams, was
elected Tuesday to a full tend
on the State Supreme Court, "i
He had been aervtog a pro
tem appointment
Two years ego Smith waa
elected state auditor general,
after aervtog briefly on the
elate power oommi—Ion.
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Negro Elected
Massachusetts
Attorney Gen.
BOSTON — Massachusetts,
a state with Negroes number
ing only 2 percent of the total
population,. elected its first Ne
gro attorney general this week.
Edward T. Brooke, a Repub
Hew was elected Attorney,
General, ,
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Foundation To Further The
Understanding Of Ethical
Principles By Which Men Live
Foundation Created By Trade Union
Friends Of AFL-CIO President
NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 8.
—Establishment of the George
Meany Foundation to “further
the understanding of the eth
ical principles by which all
moral men live” was announced
here today. The foundation wag
created by trade union friends
of the AFL-CIO president, and
has already chosen its first two
projects:
1. Sponsorship of one pro
gram each year in “The Eternal
Light” television series, pro
duced under the auspices of the
Jewish Theological Institute
and broadcast weekly over the
National Broadcasting Company
TV network. This year’s pro
gram, devoted to the life of
William Green, late president
of the American Federation of
Labor, will be seen on Sunday,
November 2.
2. Sponsorship of a series of
lectures at the Institute for Re
ligious and Social Studies of
the Jewish Theological Semi
nary of America. This series,
under the general title of “The
American Character: The
Search for Self-Understanding,”
is already in progress.
The Meany Foundation has
been established within the Her
bert H. Lehman Institute of
Ethics at the seminary.
George Harrison of Cincin
nati, president of the Brother
hood of Railway Clerks, is pres
ident of the foundation. Joseph
D. Keenan of Washington, sec
retary of the International
Brotherhood of Electrical Work
ers, is treasurer. M. S. Novik
of New York, the AFL-CIO's
radio and television consultant,
is secretary.
The foundation, its sponsors
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Negro American Labor Council
Hears Meany Ans. NAACP Attack
NEW YORK — (AFL-CIO)
President George Meany, speak
ing Friday night before a Negro
audience, denied charges of dis
crimination in the labor move
ment and lashed out at Herbert
Hill, labor secretary of the Na
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People.
Meany spoke at the convention
of the Negro American Labor
Council.
Today’s scheduled speaker is
Walter P. Reuther, head, of the
United Auto Workers.
Referring to Hill, who has
charged discrimination within the
ranks of the International Ladies
Garment Workers Union, Meany
said: “When anyone tries to say
that the trade unions are the chief
barrier to the economic opportuni
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Bishop Spottswood NAACP Board
Head Urge More Troops For State
Cleveland, Ohio. Nov. 12 —
The use of government troops ir
Mississippi to protect Negroes
trying to register as voters is be
ing sought by the National Asso
ciation for the Advancement of
Colored People, the association’s
board chairman said here Sun
day.
Bishop Stephen G. Spottswood
of the Fourth Episcopal District of
the AME Zion Church said in an
interview that the NAACP board
at its monthly meeting in New
York this week will discuss the
protection of registrants and or-'
ganiaers of the voter registration
drive among Mississippi Negroes.
Bishop Spottswood said the re
quest for federal troops in vari
ous parts of Mississippi to avert
what he called violent interfer
ence with voters registration is
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Negroes Back Democrat Party
Rebuff Bid From Republicans
Washington, D. C. Nov. 10 —
Negro voters throughout the
the country Tuesday gave the
Democratic Party and Presi
dent Kennedy a vote of confi
dence for the efforts in the last
two years to extend to all Am
ericans full civiji rights and
equality of opportunity.
None of the widely publicised
Republican Presidential hope
fuls, neither Governor Nelson
Rockefeller of New York, Wil
liam Scranton of Pennsylvania
nor George Romney of Michigan
showed unusual vote getting
ability in key Negro districts
in Tuesday's election.
Louis Martin, Deputy Chair
man of the Democratic National
Committee said, “Our analysis
of the voting pattern in key
Negro districts across the na
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First Congressman Elected West
Of The Mississippi As Negro
Negro Democrats Win High Posts
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Negro Elected
State Treasurer
Of Connecticut
Hartford, Conn. — Voters in
this state last Tuesday chose be
tween two Negroes for State
Treasurer and elected Gerald
Lajnb, a Democrat.
It was the first time for the
stai? that a Negro has won in
a statewide election.
wasftington, u. u., xnot. is.—
Chairman John M. Bailey of the
Democratic National Committee
said Wednesday: "Negro Demo
cratic candidates across the na
tion wrote a new chapter in po
litical history in Tuesday’s elec
tion.’*
Democrat Otis Smith was
elected to the Supreme Court in
Michigan; Gerald A. Lamb was
elected Treasurer of the. State
of Connecticut; Leroy A. John
son was elected to the Georgia
State Senate and Augustus F.
Hawkins of Loe Angeles became
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