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Volume XVI—Number 29 Jackson, Mississippi, Saturday, December 7, 1963 PRICE TEN CENTS
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South Africa Segregation Under Growing Attack In United Nations
THE NATION’S FIRST FAMILY: Mrs. Johnson, daughter Lynda Bird, the
President Lyndon B. Johnson, daughter Lucy Baines.
Religious Groups Seek Racial
Accord In Philadelphia, Pa.
Philadelphia — Leajders of
31 major Protestant, Anglican
and Orthrodox bodies gathered
in the City of Brotherly Love
Saturday to oil the machinery
of inter-denominational coopera
tion and seek a united stand on
race relations, foreign policy
and other national problems.
The triennial general assemb
ly of the National Council of
Churches-America’s largest re
presentative religious meeting
brought together more than
5,000 church leaders from every
part of the country.
They were marvelously varie/i
group-reflecting America’s un
ique religious diversity. Plain
speaking Quakers rubbfcjd el
bows with bearded Greek Orth
rodox bishops. Delegates from
the African Methodist Episco
pal Church shared luncheon
tables with delegates from the
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Leaders Of Kenya Freedom To
Get Presbyterian Scroll
Nairobi, Kenya — A major
American church body will be
officially represented at cere
monies marking the first anni
versary of the Government of
Kenya on December 12.
The Rev. James H. Robinson
will present a scroll to leaders
of the newly independent nation
on behalf of the 3.2-million
member United Presbyterian
Church, U.S.A.
Dr. Robinson is the founder
and director of Operation Cross
roads Africa, under which A
merican students of different
racial backgrounds have partici
pated in work camps and re
lated projects in several Afri
can countries.
He also serves as a consult
ant on African affairs for the
United Presbyterian Commis
sion on Ecumenical Mission and
Relations and the U. S. State
Department.
Dr. Robinson will participate
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Additional $75,000 Is Given
To Train Rights Lawyers
New York — The NAACP
Legal Defense and Educational
Fund this week received a com
mitment for $75,000.00 from the
Field Foundation in continued
support of its Legal Intern Pro
gram.
Announcement was made by
Jack Greenberg, director-couns
el of the Legal Defense Fund
following communication with
Maxwell Hahn vice president of
the Field Foundation, long time
supporter of the civil rights
struggle. •
Mr. Greenberg announced the
unprecedented Legal Intern
Program in August of this year.
The Field Foundation granted
the intial $25,000.00 with which
the Intern Program was start
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Pres. Kenedy’s Equality Appeal
Slated For “Bill Of Rights Day”
WASHINTON. — The nation,
plunged deeply in mourning for
its fallen leader, will hear a
now heart-rending appeal from
President Kennedy for rededica
tion to the principles of free
dom, justice and equality, in a
short speech in observance of
Bill of Rights Day, Dec. 15. The
speech was filmed before his
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assassination on Friday, Novem
ber 22.
Filmed in the White House,
the Him was made at the re
quest of the Council of Motion
Picture Organizations, Inc., as
part of a drive sponsored by the
movie industry to remind the
American public of the signifi
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African War
Threats Looms
Border Dispute
See Tension Rising
On Kenya Ethopia
Frontier
MOGADISHU, Somali Repub
lic ' —The threat of new Af
rican war looms over the horn
of Africa as tension grows along
the Somali Republic’s border
with Kenya and Ethiopia.
Thousands of restive Somali
tribesmen are on the warpath^
raiding Ethiopian and Kenyan
police and army posts,
and demanding annexation to
Somalia. The Somali govern
ment says the raiders have
been spurred to action because
of “arrests, killings, atrocities
and torture.” The government
denies aiding the rebels but
warns it may not be able to
remain inactive for long.
In the Somali capital, the
dream of a “great Somalia,”—
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Several Dead
In Senegal
Election Riots
DAKAR, Senegal
Rioting killed several per*
sons and injured 30 others in
Dakar on national election day
Sunday. Early returns in the
balloting favored incumbent
Leopold Senghor and his Sene*
galese Progressist Union.
Police said the rioting was
started by youths from Da
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Kenyatta Asks
Stern Measures
Along Frontier
Prime Min _ ___n
yatta has called for tough
measures to deal with violence
on Kenya’s northern frontier.
His warning came in the
wake of a report that a Shell
oil company employee — be
lieved to be British—and an
African soldier were missing
after the ambush of their jeep
near the Somali border Thurs
day morning.
The ambush took place about
seven miles from an oil test
camp.
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Adoula Taking
Charge Of Congo
Foreign Policy
Foreign Minister
Dismissed From
Office Arrested
LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo,
— Foreign Minister Au
guste Mabika-Kalanda was dis
missed from office and arrested
Sunday.
Sources close to the govern
ment said the arrest followed
lisclosure that Mabika-Kalanda
lad provided Katanga’s exiled
former president Moise Tshom
be a Congolese passport without
consulting others in the govern
ment.
Radio Leopoldville, announc
ing the dismissal, said
Premier Cyrille Adoula was
personally taking charge of
the Congo’s foreign policy.
Mabika-Kalanda, a 30-year-old
teacher brought into the govern
ment last April to help provide
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Say Aparthied
Abhorrent To
The Conscience
Of Mankind
A Norwegian
Resolutibn On South
Africa May Be
Considered
-The U.N. Security Coun
cil holds its third straight meet
ing on South Africa’s race seg
regation policies Monday and
may consider a Norwegian reso
lution branding apartheid—ra
cial segregation—as “abhorrent
to the conscience of mankind.”
h*,y.S. Ambassador Adlai E.
Stevenson became president of
the council Sunday in alphabeti
cal succession to the United
Kingdom’s Sir Patrick Dean
with the start of a new month.
The Norwegian resolution is
expected to be introduced Mon
day or Tuesday, and one U.S.
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Industrial Relations Manager
For Ford Motor Company
Jackson was born on August
2, 1926, in Branford, Conn., at
tended New Haven public
schools and was graduated from
New Haven High School in Jan
uary, 1945.
He entered the armed servic
es the same month and served
in the U. S. Army quartermast
er corps until July, 1946. He
was discharged as a sergeant.
Enrolling at Yale University
| in the fall of 1946, he was
graduated in the class of 1950
with an A. B. degree, with stu
dies in sociology, psychology
and economics.
He was a member of the Yale
footbal Ream, from 1946 to
1949, and captain of the team
during his senior year. In 1946
he received the George Bulger
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Levi A. Jackson, Industrial
Relations Manager
Ford Motor Company
One Million Dollars By 1973 Is Goal
Negro Women’s Business Group
New York, Dec. 2—“One Mil
lion Dollars By 1973” is the
goal agreed to by a group of
nearly one hundred women
meeting for a luncheon work
session on investing under the
leadership of Wilhelmina B.
Drake, Director of Women’s
Activities for Special Markets
Inc. The meeting was held at
the internationally famous res
taurant “The Coachman” in
New York’s financial district
on Monday November 11, 1963.
The women represented various
organizations and clubs in Penn
sylvania, New Jersey and New
York, and were invited by Spec,
ial Markets Inc., 55 Liberty St.,
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Esso Education Foundation
Grants For 1963-64 Near $2 (M)
Grants of nearly $2 million,
the largest annual program of
the Esso Education Foundation
since it was established in 1955,
were announced today by M. J.
Rathbone, chairman of the
Foundation. The current grants
are for the 1963-64 academic
year.
Mississippi institutions re
ceiving grants included Bel
haven College, Jackson and Blue
Mountain College, Blue Moun
tain.
By the end of the current
academic year, the Foundation,
since its founding in 1955, will
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State Supreme Court Upholds
SIS'OQC Award Against A. Henry
. The State Supreme Court
Monday upheld a $15,000 judge
ment against Aaron Henry
State President of the NAACP.
The Court ruled that there
was no evidence that Henry was
framed in a morals case in
which he was charged with
making improper advances to
a young White boy.
The high court upheld a $16,
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Two Methodist
Conferences In
Joint Meetings
Hold Convocation
On Parish Minister
In The Church
Nashville — Two Methodist
annual conferences, one in the
Southeastern Jurisdiction and
one in the Central (all-Negro)
Jurisdiction, came together here
November 22 for a convocation
on the “parish ministry” of
their church.
The Tennessee Conference (C.
J.) headed by Bishop Charles F.
Golden, and the Tennessee Con
ference (S. E. J.) headed by
Bishop Roy H. Short met to
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Johnson To Get
Lafayette
Freedom Award
NEW YORK s. _ Presi
dent Johnson was named to re
ceive the Order of Lafayette’s
freedom award and was invited
to the order’s dinner here on
Feb. 10.
An earlier dinner was can
celled on Nov. 22 after Presi-!
dent Kennedy’s assassination..
Former President Dwight D.|
Eisenhower and others who are
to get awards are expected to I
attend the February gathering!
The order confers the award
upon leaders distinguished for
fighting Communism. The or->
ganization is made up of offi
cers who served in France dur-i
ing World War I and II.
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Advocate Editor
Recalls Letter
On ‘60 Editorial
Backing Johnson
Recent developments in Am
erican history have led the Edi
tor of the Jackson Advocate to
recall a “letter to the Editor”
received on his editorial back
ing the nomination of Lyndon
B. Johnson as the Democrat
Party’s Vice-President candi
date in the 1960 convention.
United Press International,
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Meredith Says
Johnson Will
Slow Down
Civil Rigths
Los Angeles, Cal. Dec. 2 —
Janies Meredith the Mississip
pi Negro whose enrollment at
the University of Mississippi,
backed by federal troops and
U. S. Marshalls, led to the
bloody rioting in Oxford, Mis
sissippi, who subsequently be
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The Battle On
Rights Slated To
Begin Monday
WASHINGTON -Presi
dent Johnson Tuesday threw the
full weight of his administration
behind an all-out campaign to
win the earnest possible pas*
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Pres. Johnson Given Enthusiastic
Assurance Of Confidence And
Support By NAACP Executive Sec.
Wilkins Expresses Great Faith In
President’s Attitude On Civil Rights
PRIZE FOR SKIING—U. S.
Ambassador to Finland Carl T.
Rowan holds the new Finlandia
Trophy Cup in Helsinki after he
received it in behalf of the U. S.
Ski Association. The award,
designed by Tapio Wirkkala and
presented by the Finnish Ski
Association, will be awarded to
the outstanding cross-country
skier in the U. S. beginning in
1964.
► WASHINGTON. — President
Johnson Friday won enthusias
tic assurances of confidence and
support from Negro leader Roy
Wilkins as a Southerner deter
mined to carry out the goals of
the Kennedy administration, in
cluding civil rights.
During a strenuous day of
high-level conferences at the
White House, the new chief ex
ecutive also told his military
chiefs he wanted them to make
sure the government gets ‘a
dollar’s value for dollar spent”
in the next budget.
Fiscal r e s p o nsbiility and
prompt action on civil rights
legislation were keynotes of
Johnson’s speech before Con
gress Wednesday. He reaf
firmed these policies Friday, a
long with renewed appeals for
help and support.
Arriving at his office at 9:36
a.m. EST after a quiet Thanks
giving di.ineV with his family
the night before, Johnson im
mediately plunged into a heavy
schedule of meetings that
ranged over the entire spectrum
of domestic and foreign policy.
Wilkins, executive secretary
of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP), emerged
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Johnson Stand Against Bigotry
fold In ‘62 At AJC Awards Dinner
New York, N. Y. Dec. 2 —
“I am against bigotry and dis
crimination because I think they
are wrong. I am for human un
derstanding, for equal justice,
for equality of opportunity be
cause I think they are right.
“May this country always be
the kind where a man needs—
and the people demand — no
greater explanation than this.”
With these words Lyndon
Baines Johnson concluded an
address before the Maryland
Chapter of the American Jewish
Congress in Baltimore on April
3, 1962.
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United Presbyterian Group Pledge
Unflagging Support to Johnson
New York, N. Y. — The Unit
ed Presbyterian Commission on
Religion and Race has pledged
its “unflagging support” to
President Johnson as he seeks
to carry out the civil rights
policies of the Kennedy Admin
istration.
This pledge was made in a
telegram to President Johnson
from Dr. Marshal L. Scott, com
mission chairman, and the Rev.
Gayraud S. Wilmore, Jr., its
executive director.
The telegram expressed sym
pathy to the Kennedy family
and assured the new Chief Ex
ecutive of the commission’s
“most sincere good wishes and
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President Johnson’s Commission
To Probe Kennedy Assassination
Washington—President John
son’s special commission pre
pared quietly Saturday for its
investigation of the assassina
tion of President Kennedy amid
now demands for a full public
accounting.
It’s chairman, Chief Justice
Earl Warren, was reported in
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Washington Man Arrested On
Charge Of Threatening Johnson
WASHINGTON (
—Robert A. Weatherington,
40, was being held here Sun
day on a charge of having
made an oral threat against
the life of President Johnson.
Weatherington, who has a
record of erratic behavior,
was arrested by secret serv
ice agents at his home Satur
day night on a warrant ob
tained earlier in the day.
Secret service agents said
Weatherington complained
that he had been discharged
by the Corps of Army Engi
neers because of a nervous
condition. He alleged that the
President and beads of three
local banks were involved in a
news blackout >6n files which
would clear
■ The
thcTblackout were raised by
the president, Johnson would
have to die.
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