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- imm&stjif ate Capitol W/ Mrs. Roosevelt Urges Women To Attack Segregation WASHINGTON—The 300 wom en attending the four-day con ference of the National Council of Negro Women meeting here last week heard some of the nation’s leading citizens ex pound the necessity of better race relations in this country. Foremost among them were Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt who un derscored the importance of de segregation in America as it affects the present internation al situation. Dr. Mordecai Johnson, presi dent of Howard University, crit icized the churches for their failure to take the lead in the desegregation movement. Mrs. Agnes E. Myer, wife of the board chairman of The Washington Post Co., urged the Federal Government to take the lead in solving racial problems. Dr. Graham, special U. N. mediator, discussed the glob al concept of human and civil rights. Mason Sears, U. S. Re presentative of the Trusteeship of U. N. urged a closer relation ship between America and Africa. Mrs. Roosevelt declared that America would never be able to succeed in the fight against Communism unless “we are able to solve the problems which confront us here at home.” She urged the women to at tack the barriers in their own communities which hinder prog ress toward desegregation. Dr. Johnson challenged wom en—both mothers and teachers —with the responsibility of help ing implement the Supreme Court decision. Women could have profound HIS CROWNING GLORY—New world heavyweight boxing champ, Floyd Patterson, places a crown over the head of his first child, Seneca, who was bom on the day he won the title by kayoing Archie Moore. Proudly watching the “coronation" of their daughter is Mrs. Sandra Patterson, who watched her husband become the youngest heavyweight title holder in history from a television set near her hospital bed in Queens, N.Y. (NEWSPRESS PHOTO). influence in America and the world, he said, if they became aware of their potential strength and face up to the problem of human relations. He further stated that the de segregation decision “ought to have been inspired and exem plified in the churches.” The conference was climaxed with a banquet at the Willard hotel Saturday evening which was addressed by Mrs. Myer. This well known lecturer and writer took issue with President Eisenhower’s contention deseg regation of schools is a state and local matter. The Supreme Court decision made it a Fed eral responsibility, she empha sized. This calls for Federal lead ership and it must come from the President. Mrs. Myer pointed out that the growing disrespect for law because of the high court rul ling should be a concern of the President. “He should be interested in implementing means by which a renewed respect for law can come into being. She .suggested that this could be done by appointing a Fed eral commission to study the social reasons underlying the problems of desegregation. It should also study the general tension, unrest and intolerance that endanger the national sta bility. This commission would consist of leaders of both races and be staffed by experts who could bring the approach of scientific research to the job of collect ing available information and summarizing it in language (Continued on page 8) PHOENIX, ARIZONA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1956 TWO SCHOOLS COMPLETE FIFTH SKIN TESTING PROGRAM FOR TUBERCULOSIS The Roosevelt Pilot Study Mantoux Testing Program has completed the fifth in a series of ten tests. Two tests per year for five years are to be done during the study. The primary purpose is to determine the number of children who convert from a negative to positive skin test, showing that they have picked up the germ that causes tuberculosis. Another purpose of the program is to find new cases of tuberculosis by attempting to find from where he has got ten this germ. When a child has a positive reaction he is X-reyed and the Maricopa County Public Health Nurse visits the family and re quests that all members of the family or household have skin tests or X-rays to determine the source of the infection of tuber culosis. The County Health Depart ment is now taking X-rays of the positive reactors from the fifth testing program. The re sults of the tsets show that there have been 40 converters or 4.2 per cent of the 952 tested in grades 1 through 8 since the last test in May of 1956. The X-ray and skin test is being done at no charge to the family and this same service is available to the public at the Maricopa County Health Depart ment; 116 So. 12th Avenue. DIPHTHERIA INOCULATIONS GIVEN AT HEALTH DEPARTMENT An intensified effort is being made by the nursing staff of the City Public Health Depart ment to have every pre-school age child in the City immunized against diphtheria. It has been the practice of the staff to stress the value of diphtheria immuni zation during home visits where pre-school children are concern ed. Arrangements have been made for the inoculations to be given each Thursday from 8 to 9:30 a.m. at the Health Department. V Jill m 1 JHK ißf ' v fp| . ... --w,..,. ■ ■ mmmm «hi hup n§jfii§H» • mm 3 w jpPWB || K->: i-::..:.-' I & ••• . • Sk : 1 HERE'S HOPING Dodger backstop Roy Campanella says a silent prayer, as his hand is bandaged by muse Ingeborg Jordal at Long Island College hospital in New York. Campy submitted to surgery recently ior the removal o! several bone chips which were pressing on a nerve in his thumb. The long-suifering slugger, who had one of his worst playing seasons this year, is hoping to have a much better grip on the bat when the thumb is healed. (NEWSPRESS PHOTO). Anti-NAACP Laws Face Test In Va. RICHMOND, Va.—ln a frontal attack upon a package of seven anti - NAACP statues recently enacted by the Virginia legis lature ,attorneys for the Na tional Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People Thursday filed a, complaint in the United States District Court here asking the Court to de clare the new punitive laws un constitutional. The complaint, filed by Oli ver W. Hill, NAACP attorney of Richmond, and Robert L. Carter of New York, NAACP general counsel, further asks the court to enjoin and local law enforcement offciers from enforcing the statues which, the complaint charges, violate the constitutional rights of citizens as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment and Ar ticle I of the U.S. Constitution. The laws were enacted dur ing a special session of the General Assembly last Septem ber. The open purpose of the legislation is to curb the NAA CP. The laws (1) prohibit the SEND Seaian l Cfieettiuj,*, To your friends and customers through THE ARIZONA SUN with lovely emblems, appropriate verses to suit the holiday spirit. CALL AL. 3-3682 FOR PRICES Deadline—Tuesday, December 18, 5 p.m. A GOOD newspaper and the Bible in every house, a good schoolhouse in every district, and a church in every neigh borhood, all appreciated as they deserve, are the chief support of virtue, morality, civil liberty, and religion. — —Benjamin Franklin 10 CENTS PER CO! solicitation of funds to defray the costs of litigation in anti discrimination suits; (2) ban. public advocacy of desegrega tion of the public schools in compliance with the Supreme Court ruling; (3) penalize at torneys who accept fees raised by persons or organizations not directly involved in the litiga tion; (4) restrain organizations from encouraging citizens to secure their rights in the courts; (5) forbid giving financial as sistance to persons involved in law suits against the State of Virginia; (6) require a public listing of the NAACP member ship in the state; and (7) de mand a filing of all monies raised and expended by the NAACP in Virginia for any purpose. The NAACP in Virginia, At torneys Hill and Carter assert in the complain, had raised money for legal cases and “pro poses to continue to contribute, from funds solicited for the purpose, toward the expense of litigation and counsel fees" in pending desegregation cases.