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~PICTURED ABOVE is lovely Miss Carolyn Jean Wright
of 817 E. Pasadena. The 19
year old Miss is a sophomore
in Elementary Education at

the community college. Miss
Wright is interested in sports,
parties and dancing. She is a
member of T. I. D. (those interested in the Delta Sorority.)

Hamilton Violated Code
Says Editor Gibson

By Juan Risco
The B. R.~s most controversial writer, Herman Hamilton,
Jr., may have written his own finish when he named the

source of certain information
of two weeks ago.

The turbulent writer was |
hauled on the carpet at a

which constituted his article

not capable of taking a hand
in a~plot against. Negroes. They
believed that Hamilton was jus
stormy staff meeting last Sun- | ~titieq in naming the source of

day by Editor John Gibson, Jr.

Hamilton was charged: with
violation of~ newsmen~s code in
that he named his informant in
his column.

Gibson said, ~I can appreciate
- the position that Hamilton. had
placed himself when he attacked
the Buick local president before
checking for the facts. Hamilton
did a splendid job in his subsequent column except for naming the source of his information This was almost unforgivable.

~We take pride in our city,
although there are many conditions that exist that need to
be corrected.

~The average citizen can be
invaluable in providing clues
and pointing out situations
which are unsavory.

~Suppose a person is in a position that he cannot afford to
have his name connected with
a story. I want that person to be
assured and confident that his
name won~t be made public.

Need Hamilton

~We need a person of Hamilton~s stature, but I cannot blindly ignore the position he has
placed the B. R. and himself.
I certainly admire him for admitting his mistake as a man,
but he- should have known better than to point his finger and
call names.

~T shall not be brash in this
matter, although I feel like
discontinuing his column forever, We'll just suspend Hamilton~s column until everyone
concerned has his proper perspective.~

The members. of the staff who
were present took a stand on behalf of Herman ~Listen Flint~
Hamilton. It was their contention that Hamilton was on a spot
with his fellow workers who

his information.

Gibson was asked: if he could
be quoted in an article explain
HERMAN HAMILTON

ing the absence of Hamilton~s
column. He gave his consent.

Hamilton declared, ~I have
stirred up a hornet~s nest it
seems. The fact that I~m being
suspended doesn~t disturb me as.
much as the feeling of being

the goat in this matter. Gibson
is boss so I can~t appeal to anyone,

~ ~T certainly don~t want to contribute to any internal confusion
among the staff members. Let's
drop it if Gibson doesn~t see fit
to permit me to write agair, it
will ~be all right.~

Yours truly has warned Gibson that his remaining staff
might desert him if he decides

to fire Hamilton. Gibson would
not commit himself as to the

~Appeal

'\spond to appeals to be

to Nation
for Funds

Chicago, Illinois.

Joe Louis~ woes with the
Internal Revenue Department may be over as result
of efforts of two Nebraska

men who never met him,

tiring efforts of his Chicago
lawyer.

Announcements from
Chicago Wednesday indicated that Louis~ lawyers
favor allowing the internal
revenue to take the $66,000

children, and then with.an
initial down payment by
John Youngbein and Geo.
W. Reeves, Jr. start the
Fund.

Jack Dempsey, former
Heavyweight champion of
sthe world, like Louis, will
serve as honorary chairman
of the Nationa] drive to

with Uncle Sara. |

~Louis reportedly, oa
Uncle Sam in the neighborhood of million dollars, His
lawyers maintain that re
venue agents are not exactly sure themselves how
much the Brown Bomber
owes his uncle.

~The Joe Louis Fund, Inc., |
was incorporated in Den
ver, Colorado last October |
by Younghein and Reeves.

It is hoped that the nation~s boxing fans will re
made over national television and radio hookups be
tween rounds of boxing
shows. It is expected that
most contributions will be
no more than one or two
dollars. The drive wil last
through Feb. 6.;

Contributions may be
sent to Joe Louis Fund,
Box 1174, Chicago, and the
La Salle National Bank will
handle the funds.

before last Oct. and the un-|}.

trust fund, ~set up for his?~

~bail~? Louis~ out of ~hock~~ |

DELTA GUEST: Pictured
are left to right; Dr. Henry
Crane, minister Central Methodist Church; Dr. Deborah
Partridge, Queens College, N.
Y.. and Dr. Martin Luther

_ King, minister of Dexter Ave.

Baptist Church, Montgomery,

Ala., who were guest ai the.

z25ih National Convention of

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority,
' Ine.

Budget in It

NEW. YORK.~With the largest budget in its history, the
NAACP in 1957 will carry on its
civil rights program with ~increased vigor~ both in the South |
and the North, Roy Wilkins, the |
Association~s. executive secretary, announced at the NAACP,
annual meeting here today. |

The year 1956 was character
ized by the executive secretary

as one of ~real gains in the
tace relations field,~ in spite
of ~ugly spots.~

Some of these gains, he said,

NAAC PSeeks Largest

| thought,

ithe area of civil liberties,

s History

Anti-NAACP legal action taken
iii Louisiana, Alabama, Texas
and Georgia, as well as aniNAACP legislation in Virginia.

~These attacks, ~restricting
freedom of speech, assembly, pe-}
tition, redress of grievances in|
lthe courts, and even freedom ~a

illustrate that the attempt to enforce racial inequality has entered dangerously into
in
violation of the Bill of Rights,~
he declared.

White Moderates Intimidated

were ~actual and concrete in the
form of changed conditions and
eularged opportunities,~ while
others were ~in the form ofa
widened and improved public
opinion, stimulated in no small
measure by the extreme, irresponsible, unreasonable, and often violent pronouncements and
tactics of our opponents.~

In 1956, Mr. Wilkins noted, the
NAACP for the first time was
~direcly attacked as an organized body, through state legal |
and legislative action.~ He cited

~It is accurate to state that
southern white people of moderate views who do not subscribe
to. the extreme segregationist
position have been intimidated
and are being denied their fundamental liberties as Amerieans.~ he adde2.

The meeting was attended by |
ene 150 officers of state and

~local NAACP units, members of
the Association and of the Board
of Directors, NAACP officers and
| staff.

High Court Reverses
Two Death Sentences

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(Special to Herald Publications).

WASHINGTON, D. C~Two Alabama Negroes sentenced to death for rape and robbery were ordered
given new trials this week by the United States Supreme

Court.

Hot words reportedly were exchanged between members of the High Court as a 6-3 decision upset a death

sentenced for ~Earl Fikes,

Fikes was found guilty and
convicted of intent to rape and
rob the daughter of Selma~s
mayor,

| Jeremiah Reeves, Jr., senitenced to death by an Alabama
~court for raping a white woman,
s also was given a second hearing.

Chief Justice Ear] Warren
delivered the court's opinion
which held that the circumsiances. under. which confes
liam Earl Pikes, 27, ~cannot bé{"~
deemed other than weak of will
or mind,~ and;~the circumstances of pressure applied against

the power of (his) resistance...
deprived him of due process of
law.~:

For the dissenters, Justice
John M. Harlan said the decision
~oversteps the boundary between this court~s function under the 14th (due process of
law) amendment and that of the
state courts in the administration of state criminal justice.~

Hampton Cagers

~in 5-Tilt Slump

Hampton, Va.~In the
throes of a five-game los~ing streak after a highlyindpressive start, the Hampton Institute Pirates attacked Morgan States in a
home game, and Elizabeth
City Teachers~ in a non
conference road tilt, over
the weekend in an attempt
to right themselves before
the season wanes.

Coached by Ben Whaley,
the Bucs dropped successive
January games to Shaw,

84 - 67, North Carolina
' College, 82 - 79, and Elizabeth City, 71 - 52, after~

ecember losses to Morgan!
and Delaware State.

Warten ~gar ark Rie win!)

27, of Selma, Ala.;

Justice Stanley F. Reed and
Harold Burton joined in Harlan~s
dissent.

Warren spoke for a majority
composed of himself and Justices

Hugo Black, Felix Fr

William O. Doula an

Clark and William Br
The decision meatis ~
can retry, but without - ~using

the disputed eulngony: as
_oridence. ae?

In other. actons My

sikh Bs af:: COur 5 ~"
Hearing 10. Reeves whi ee
victed in Montgomery~ County,

Ala, in May, 1955. _

Spingarn Starts
18th Year as
NAACP Head

NEW YORK.~For the 18th
consecutive year,~ Arthur B.
Spingarn, longtime president of
the. National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
opened the Association~s annual
meeting here on Jan, 7.

Members and officers of the
Association were welcomed to
the 48th annual NAACP meeting by Mr. Spingarn who noted

that 1956 had been ~an arduous:

and trying year.~

Re-elected by the Board, following the annoal meeting, he
began his eighteenth year as
NAACP president. ~

The _ Association~s veteran
president presided at the session
and presented the NAACP execotive officers for their reports
to the membership on. the activities of he previous year.

Leading the list of staff officers who reported was Executive Roy Wilkins.

Mr. Spingarn has been president of the Association since
1939 when he succeeded his late
brother, J. E:. Spingarn,. originator and donor of the Spingarn
Medal.

The only other president the; Association has had was Moor-_
| field Storey of Boston who
served as head of the organiza
~tion from its founding until his

Five prominent Michigan leaders. appeared in Lansirig today
before Governor G. Mennen
Williams in support of the 1957 -58 budget request of the Fair
Employment Practices Commission The group participated in
one of a series of hearings being
held ~by Governor -Williams to
evalfate agency needs and
services.:

Present to support the FEP
Commission~s: request were:
Clinton Fair, Lansing, Educational Director, Allied Industrial

Workers of America, AFL-CIO;
Msgr. Albert H. Kehren, Sacred
Heart i Muskegon, and
tral Methodist Church, on behalf -
of the Division of Christian Life
and Work of the Michigan Coun-;

believed that Jim Bishop was length of Hamilton's suspension.

FEPC -REQUE

S FLINT OFFICE

of Detroit, co-director of the Michigan Conference of NAACP ity services program, bad also' asked for additional funds to es-~

Fair Practices and Anti-Discrimination Dept., UAW-AFL-CIO;
Edward M: Turner, Detroit, at
Branches.

for research and survey pro
~tablish field Offices in Grand

Most of the expanded budget grams in cooperation with Mich- Rapids and Flint in order to

sought, it was pointed out, would

igan industry, commerce and

torney and president. of the be used to increase the Commis- labor.

Detroit Branch NAACP and the

sion~s educational and commun- |

The Commission has also

Morgan State College Choir to Inaugural.

BALTIMORE,: Md.~The Mar
gan State | College Choir has
been invited to participate in~a

pre-inaugutal program arranged}.

at the request of President Eis-}

enhower in che gaa, ~D. ae
Sunday, January 20

The program, ~America~s

Dedication to World Peace,~

cil of Churches; William ne

ee

~Republican Activities Commit~tee of the Inaugural Commiitee and will be held at 2:30
~pan. at the Sheraton-Park
[sotel.

" ~The program will be iat a patriotic nature with speeches by the
Viee President of the United
~States, the Hon. Richard M.
Nixon, the Hon. Henry Cabot
Ledge, Jr., United..States Dele
n

gates to the United Nations, and

Governor Joe Foss of South

Dakota, -World War II flying
ace and Congressional Medal of

Honor winner..

Patronize Our
ADVERTISERS

provide locally-based service to
western Michigan and to the
Dean of Muskegon Deanery;
Rev. Paul Morrison, pastor, CenGenessee County-Saginaw Valley area,

The Commission~s executive
director, John G. Field, stated
in his budget statement that
~Experience gained during this
first year has indicated the need
for expansion of educational and
community services activities in
erder to further develop a well
rounded, cooperative merit employment program and more
adequately ~fulfill the responsibility placed upon us. by this

legislation.~

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