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Arizona sun Vol XVI Not One Negro Voter In The Co. 0£ Lowndes, Ala. MONTGOMERY. Ala.—A wit ness told the Federal Civil Rights Commission Monday that not one of 13,000 Negroes in Alaba ma’s Lowndes County is register ed to vote . Another county official, one of the handful who agreed to take the stand at the first hearings conducted by the mew commis sion said that of 8,000 registered voters in Dallas County, Ala., only 128 are Negroes. Five other county officials flat ly refused a direct order by the commission, appointed by the President, to take the oath and answer questions about allega- MISSOURI NEGROES JOY OVER TRUMAN'S DESIRE 10 RETURN TO (IS. SENATE Missouri Negroes were enthu siastic this week over the news that fcjrmer President Harry S. Truman would like to return to the White House scene. Mr. Truman made his feelings National Press Club. The Mis sourian was asked if he would like to run for Mr. Symington’s Senate seat if that Senator is elected President two years from now. “No," Mr. Truman replied, “but I would be interested in being appointed to fill out his term in the Senate.” David M. Grant, lawyer and Legislative Research Director for the St. Louis Board of Aldermen, commented: “The Negroes of the country would certainly welcome any thing that would bring Presi dent Truman back to official Washington. Senator Syming ton’s perfect voting record on and civil rights matters readers him attractive to us as presidential material and if his election also returned Truman it would be a ten-strike. Mh Grant said the retention of Paul Butler as Democratic Chair man with the support of Mis souri’s Nat’l Committeeman, Mark Holloran, was evidence of response to liberal policies even in that border state. In a sharpfy worded statement, the Democrats accepted a “state of the union” message which re commenced ending Senate fili busters by a simple majority of the total membership, a reduc tion in the bottleneck House Rules Committee, and enactment of the enforcement provisions of Title 111 cut out of last year’s pivil rights bill. NOTICE The SUN, as usual, will su spend publication during Christmas week. In the mean time, (due to poor health of the publisher,) the company's reorganization plans will get underway. And for this rea son, no definite date, at this time can be set to resume publication. Advertisers and subscribers will be advised when publica tion will be resumed. The Publisher NO. 36 PHOENIX, ARIZONA -i THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1958 tios that Negroes are denied the right to vote in six Alabama counties. Commission officials indicated the group may be laying ground work for a court test of its powers to subpoena witnesses and require them to testify under oath. A circuit judge not only re fused to testify Monday but de fied a subpoena to appear at the hearings. Testifying Monday, probate judges Harold Hammonds of Lowndes County and Bernard A. Reynolds of Dallas County pre sented figures on Negro vote reg istrations in their counties. Those who refused to take the oath in cluded Bullock County Registrar M. P. Evans, registrars J. W. Spencer, and W. A. Stokes of Barbour County, and two Maconi County registrars. PROTECTION FoTrIGHTS WITNESSES ASKED NEW YORK, Dec. 11. Roy Wil kins, executive secretary of the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People, has called upon U.S. Attorney General William P. Rogers to provide protection for the “phy sical safety of those Negro wit nesses who have recently appear, ed before the Civil Rights Com mission fitting in Montgomery, Ala., to testify concerning the disfranchisement of Negroes in that state.” In a letter dispatched to the Attorney General today, Mr. Wilkins said that such action by the Department of Justice “is vitally necessary lest other Ne groes be discouraged from as sisting federal agencies in mak ing similar inquiries in the fu ture." The NAACP leader expressed the opinion that“the testimony, so far adduced at the hearing in Montgomery, has revealed suf ficient infringements of the con stitutionally guaranteed voting rights of Negro citizens in Ala bama to warrant institution of injunctive proceedings against the Ajabama registration offic ials ... We earnestly urge that such action be taken by your department without undue de lay.” Urban League Guild President Resigns Post The SUN was informed this week of the resignation of the president of the Phoenix Urban League Guild, Mrs. Gordon W. Fritch. Mrs. Flritch who lives at 1715 North 20th Street, was serv ing her third term of the aux iliary body. The local guild is a member of a national association Os guilds whose purpose is to aid financially the National Urban League and its affiliates. Mrs. Fritch said she informed the League’s Board of Directors at their last meeting that the guild was unhappy over critic isms which grew out of the last public forum of political candi- Ala. Election Officials Defy Rights Commisson This Desi ance Justifies Enactment Os New Laws, Williams Says MCFARLAND LAUNCHES DRIVE TO CURB HOLIDAY ACCIDENTS Governor Ernest W. McFarland today launched a drive to cut traffic accidents during the com ing holiday season. Kicking off his campaign with a proclamation setting Dec. 22- Jan h 5 aside as a Holiday Season Traffic Safety period. Governor McFarland is asking law enforce ment officers throughout the state to exercise particular vigil ance during the Christmas-New Year’s period. The Governor has requested that Greg Hathaway, Superin tendent of the Arizona Highway Patrol, call out every availabe patrolman and auxiiary officer for round-the-clock-duty. Augmenting the Highway Pa trol’s stepped up activities, Mc- Farland has written to all Arizo na sheriffs and mayors declaring, “With the holiday season now upon us, it is imperative that we take every precaution to prevent tragedies on our highways. Negro Broadcasting Station Insult To Race Says Owner (Special to the SUN) ST. LOUTS. —Most Negro em phasis radio has been termed a “cheap insult” to Negroes “a source of self generated bigotry, religious quackery, charlatanism and a wallow of ugly, primitive and harmful sounds” by a young president of a station that beams to the Negro market. Richard J. Miller, president of St. Louis Radio Station KXLW, leveled his blast at the media in the Dec. 3 issue of Variety, the theatre world's most respected publication. Miller told Variety’s Art Wood stone, that any white man who lingers momentarily over a Negro emphasis station hears poor pro gramming and crummy talk, he dates. She also states that she had been offered another posi tion which is affording her an opportunity to take part in ad ditional activities in a field that has interested her for some time. Alton W. Thomas, Executive Director of the Phoenix League, said that during Mrs. Fritch’s administration the guild has nade many worthwhile accomp lishments for the community. Other officers of the guild are: Mrs. Robert Wilson, vice-presi dent, Mrs. Hilde Spieker, treas urer, Mrs. Alice Marriot, record ing secretary, Mrs. Eamestine Beatty, corresponding secretary. MILWAUKEE Dec. 11.—The refusal of Alabama officials to submit, voting redords to the Civil Rights Commission “is suf ficient testimony to the nation to justify enactment of further civil rights laws by the Congress at the session opening on Jan. 1,” Roy Wilkins, NAACP executive secretary, said here tonight in an address at the annual dinner meeting of the Milwaukee branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. “In away their actions can be understood,” the NAACP leader said. “They have a smelly scandal under cover and they know that it full revelations would con vince the rest of the nation that the states’ rights doctrine is, in stead, a states’ wi:ongs policy... We of the NAACP knew it all the time. Negro citizens know it. Students of know it. But now Alabama officials them selves have told the world. Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court anti-segregation ruling of hears Negroes exhorting and ca joling other Negroes to buy, he hears low down music arid is left with the strong impression that they are really different. *■ avCm , - --- - I I -X fiSH 1 -i ryw Mpll Wk SitaJ ‘ ‘ ' S&r - - . - OHjk MILLER “How come operators don’t try to peddle religious fakery to say, Italians?” Miller quoted as saying belligerently. “How dare they assume the Negro is more superstitious?” Miller had previously express ed his views along this line in Sponsor magazine, a trade publi cation. Speaking to the St. Louis chapter of Frontiers of America, the young executive predicted a new trend in Negro emphasis radio. He said the time was “over” for the kind of programming typical of most of the stations beaming to the Negro market. The owner of KXLW who (Continue on 4? 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 COPY May 17, 1954, the segregationists have based their defiance of that ruling on the ground that “the Court is not a law-making body and that its opinion, therefore, is not ‘law,’” Mr. Wilkins pointed out. “This is, of course, nonsense,” he added. “But the 1957 Civil Rights Act, under which the Civil Rights Commission func tions, was enacted by the Con gress. In defying this congress ional act, Alabama is saying that regardless of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, or the Con gress, it is going to treat Negro citizens as it pleases.” The actions of Alabama’s at torney general and Governor elect John Patterson, of Circuit Judge George Wallace and of the registrars are “so at variance with United States practice that in the human rights field, at least, Alabama has already se ceded from the Union,” Mr. Wil kins asserted. NAACP AFFIRMfiITsUPPORT OF LABOR In addressing the California State AFL-CIO Convention, at San Francisco recently, Franklin H. Williams, Secretary-Counsel of the West Coast Region of the NAACP made the following state ment; “Down through the years the leadership and membership of the NAACP have identified with and supported organized labor in their efforts to gain recognition and to improve the lot of the little man. “More than that, many of our members are at one and the same time members and leaders in the ranks of labor unions. “Throughout the nation, we have assumed the obligation and the privilege of assisting in the defeat, if not the complete rout, of these forces and ideas which would stifle and destroy organiz ed labor. Here in California we have worked closely with your leadership in doing this. Over the past year it was encouraging to observe the cooperation between the NAACP and organized labor extending beyond the leadership level and firmly establishing it self on the local community level of operation. This trend is a healthy one and should be en couraged by all of us. “Few or your goals are not shared by us and few of the pur poses for which our Association: exists are not supported vigoro usly by you ... When you unleash your forces to oppose legislation designed , to hamper your ability to organize, you may know that we stand with y0u.... and sim ilarly, as the Association aspires to have written into our statute books, principles of law to wipe out racial prejudice an ( d discri mination in the effort to earn a living. w e know that you aspire and struggle with us.”