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VOLUME 4~NO. 22

FLINT, MICHIGAN, Ff

/BRUARY 23, 1957

1301 Lapeer St. ~ Tel. CE. 8-6688

Ex-Bailiff
Convicted

A jury of 10 men and two

women convicted James M.
King, former Wayne County
Common Pleas Bailiff, of second
degree murder in the slaying of
a Newaygo Couny farmer. *
The jury rendered their verdct in two hours deliberation.
The second degree murder
charge carries a. penalty of life
imprisonment. Alternative verdicts could have been manslaughter. or acquittal.

ADMITS SHOOTING

King admitted he shot and |
killed the farmer in an argu- |
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~ment November 16 over wheiher |

King~s hunting party had encroached on the farmer~s property.

King on the witness stand
for five heuis, insisted that he
shot Krise in self defense. He
said the farmer was armed
with a shot gun,

TRACED:
King was traced after the

shooting by an advertising sheet

which had blown out of his car.

The sheet.had a,name-and ot

dress On which enabled the~ police to locate hirh: -: een}

He was-* arrested in Detroit
and said his gun had - been

stolen. He later told police he |.

threw it into the Detroit River.
The small courtroom was
packed with over 200 persons
during the course of the trial.
It was the first murder trial in
18 years for Newaygo County.

Instructor's Father
Passed Tuesday

Mr. William C. Loving Sr.,
father of William C. Loving, Jr.,
instructor at Northern High
School, passed Tuesday morning
in Highland Park General Hospital after a brief illness.

The deceased resided at 1557
Labelle in Highland Park.

Another son, Dr. Alvin Lov
ing, is an instructor at the
University of Michigan Extension Service in Flint. Beside
the two sons, he leaves a sister, Mrs. Mae Lloyd of Chattahooga, Tenn., to mourn his
death.:

Funera] arrangements had not |
been made at press time.

NACIREMA CLUB presented
theiz Annual Ba
gram eh,~

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~Miss Nacire-~; Brown, ~ Ruth ~Burtiey~ hie

ma~ pictured left to right are:

mittee here today.

fore the Sub-commitiee on
Constitutional Rights of the
Senate Judiciary Committee
Was prepared on behalf of 25
crganizations including the
NAACP. It urges support of
civil righis measures which
were passed bv a bi-partisan
majority ~n the House of Rep1esentatives last~ year.

In a prepared statement, the
NAACP leader says opponents

~ that passage of such bilis ~wiil

-,a~00m their empire of thoughtry a:. control: and secret police.~

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LANSING ~ Lt. Governor
Philip A. Hart has declared
the Michigan Republican ~new
look~~~ has ~strange and disturbing angles~ which indicate a
new effort is being made to
foll the public.

~By way of example,~ Hart
said, ~the GOP has elected a
new)-state chairman who is advertiged as: a ~young liberal~
but whose vote in the. staie
House of Representatives in 1952
killed the fair employment
practices bill or that session.~
The House vote as 46 to 45,
with Lawrence Lindemer, now
Republican state chairman, voting with the majority, against
the bill.

The Lt. Governor: said, in a
speech to the Oakland County

iil Hart Knoc
GOP's New Look -

Demoratic convention, that as
a result Lindemer ~would seem
to wave a tarnished sword as
he sets out to do battle for
what he calls ~Eisenhower Republicanism.~ ~ Hart said he
thought Lindemer might want
to-explain to the public whether opposition to FEBC is part
o ~Eisenhower Republicanism,~
and, ~if not, what do we make
out of this numbo-jumbo?~ Hart
entinued, ~Is this new Republican state chairman still opposed
to the FEPC even after the excellent record it has made since
its creation in 1955? Or is this
another. case in which Republicans will concede that history
proves their bitter~ opposition

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by southern opponents of civil
rights legislation who maintained before a House sub-committee that such legislation

Mr. Wilkins~ testimony be-.

Dixie ~Gestapo~
Charged Before Senate |

WASHINGTON, D. C.~A ~Gestapo~ has been estab- preserving rules, ~both in comlished and is operating ~in certain areas~ of the South in/|mittees and on the floor,~ to.
an attempt to maintain racial segregation and the status |
quo, Roy Wilkins, NAACP executive secretary, charges in.
testimony prepared for delivery before a Senate sub-com
The Journal clipping repouted
~that a teacher may not hold. theories ~contrary to Georgia~s
traditional policy of segregated
schools.~~ In addition to ~thought
~control~ and ~secret police,~ Mr:
Wilkins cites denial of the vote.
to Negroes through administra-!
~tive devices, economic pressure
and violence in some sections ar
lthe Sou'~h.
Voting and Personal

Security

The NAACP of?-cial urges the

~prevent or obstruct an expression of majority will.~
~Earlier this year,~ he recalls, ~efforts to modify Sen-.
ate rules, so as to make it
somewhat easier to bring leg- ~
islaticn to a vote, failed by a
relaiively narrow margin. It
was repeated~y stated at that
time that a filibusfer on a
meaning~ul civil rights bill
could and would be overcome.
Now is the time to demonstrate that this ~s indeed the
case,~.. Statement Prepared

In addition to the NAACP,
Mr. Wilkins~ statement was prepared on behalf of these organi
of civil rights legislation fear passage of a ~meaningful~ civil zations: American Civil Liber
rights bill to safeguard.~the two ties Union, American Council on
most basic rights~the right to Public Affairs, American Jewish
vote and the right to security Congress, Americans for Demohe n cratic Action, American VeteP Alth ~ such AM MLE i
passed by the House last: yeat;|:mittee.on~ National:-Le tion, -
he pi sme was never com-| New Yotk Joint Board of Hotel
pleted by the full Senate Ju-|and Restaurant Employees and
diciary Committee and no such | Bartenders International Union,
legislation ever reached the and Improved Benevolent and
Senate floor.~ | Protective Order of Elks of the

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to a needed social reform was
tragically wrong?~

Hart reminded his audience
that just before the 1952 House
vote on FEPC, 25 Republican
representatives. walked out on
a pro-FEPC speech by Representative Crampton, Lapeer Republican. At the time, recalled
Hart, |'Crampton said bitterly
that his father and grandfather
had voted for Abraham Lincoln,
and that ~I never hear a Republican discuss human rights.~

The Lieutenant Governor added that ~The new GOP chairman may want to enlighten us
as to whether he was one of
the 25: who walked out.~

Dr. William A. Simms, local
dentist, discussed the contributions of the Negro to the
field of science; Melvin Banner,
an Emerson Junior High School
teach~r, pointed out the accomplishments of Negrogs in
~Art. He cited Flint~s Al Washington talent for art. Washington painted the portrait of C. S.
Mott which hangs in the Curtis
Building of ~the Flint Community College.

Don Coleman, All-American
football great and presently a|
coach at Central High School,|
spoke on the influence of sports
on human relations. Dr. Thomas
J. Edwards, instructor at the
Flint Community College, talked abou the two basic differences ~between Negroes and
whites; the color of the skin,
and the way -we feel about it.
He pointed out that people are
are not born prejudiced, this is
a learned process... President of the Flint NAACP branch, Herman Gibson, was
moderator of the program: A
question and answer period followed the talks.

~Mrs Mae Johnson, treasurer,
and Mrs. Robert Steadman, for
NAACP Pays Tribute ~
To Negro History Week

An inter-racia] audience of about 200 persons attended the NAACP program at the Pioneer Hall last Sunday
observe Negro History Week. The audience heard four
speakers discuss aspects of

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over the lace covered tea table.

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racia] understanding.

The table was adorned with
a center-piece of a lovely bowl
of yellow carnations.

NAACP Rejects
Biased Offer

NEW YORK.~The National
Association for the Advaricement of Colored People this
week rejected an offer of support from the Communist national convention here.

The Communist convention
voted on Feb. 11 to support
the NAACP in its efforts to
_end southern school segrega-!
tion. | ie4

On the same day Roy Wilkins,
NAACP executive secretary, issued a statement asserting that~
the Association ~does not, and~
never has, sought the support of
the Communist party.~

~We reject their support and:
do not need ~it,~ the statement| Chaplin. A. A. Bolden: parliacontinued ~As a matter of fact,| mentarian, Wardell Jones; re
the Communist party does not:
really to do anything about
the
fusion, not solution.~

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~ Mids., Daily. News and State: Leadership Training Workshop

syouth leadership in internatiorial

al issue Of desegregation. ci
What the party seeks is con- of
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would establish a ~Gestapo~ in
the southern states,

As evidence of his contention that a ~Gestapo~ already
exists in parts of the South,
the civil rights official submitted to sub-committee members exhibits of newspaper
clippings from the Jackson,

Times and the Atlanta, Ga.,
Jonrnal.

The Jackson State Times~ exhibit states that ~secret facial
investigators~ hired by the state
will ~interview persons involved
in integration moves in the
courts~ and will ~keep an eye
on meetings of Negro groups.~

Leadership
Workshop |

"HAMPTON, Va. ~ Some 100

students will participate in the
third annual follow-up Student

at Hampt Institute on Feb.
22.

Using as its theme ~The
Making of Leaders,~ the oneday meet will have as a primary objective the ~understanding of the preparation,
functions and responsibilities
of leadership.~ "

Dr: Philip S. Campbell, chairman of HI~s Social Science Department, will deliver the keynote address, ~On Being An
Adult,~ at the morning session.

Dr. Alonzo G. Moron, HI president, will discuss the role of

affairs at the dinner meeting.

Givike Kereasen
Named Prexy of
A.M-&N. Alumni

The Arkansas State A. M.
N. Alumni Association has released the names of its officers
for 1957.

The officers are es follows:
president, Clyde Ferguson; Ist
V. P.. Herman L. Feester; 2nd
V. P.-J. Dansby: secretary. Mrs.
Mattyann Edwards: assistant
secretary. Mrs. Estell Gould;
treasurer, John A. Feaster:

Mrs. Theresa F. Feaster.
on was held at the home

_ 475 Arthur St., by a jury of

He charges the Senate with

World.

Montgomery Found

Not Guilty

A 52-year-old Pontiac man
has been acquitted in the fatal
shooting last fall of his 37-yearold bride of one month.

Herbert B. Montgomery was

found not guilty of man
slaughter in the fatal shooting of his wife, Elizabeth, last
October 29, in their home on

10 women and two men in a
two-day trial before Circuit
Court Judge George B. Hartrick,

Mrs. Montgqmery~s body was
found at the Arthur street address last November 1, three
days after she had been_ shot

in the chest with a.32 caliber:

revolver.

Herbert Montgomery became
the prime suspect in the slaying, and Pontiac police began
an extensive search for the husband.

Montgomery was _ captured
last November 14 in Monroe,

La., and brought back to Pontiac |;

where he admitted shooting his
wife during a quarrel last Oct.
29. He claimed the shooting was
accidental,

Montgomery admitted holding

Cong. Diggs
to Africa

Detroit Congressman Charles
C. Diggs Jr., will be a member
cf the official United States delegation which will welcome the
birth of Ghana in Africa next
month. ae

Diggs, Vice President Richard
M. Nixon and Rep. Bolton (R.,
O.) will travel to the Gold Coast
to participate in ceremonies
markng the end of the area as
a British colony and its beginning as in independent member
of the British Commonwealth.

Diggs said the official pariy
will leave March 1, and he plans
to return within three weeks.

~I want to visit some of the
places in the vicinity of Ghana,~ he said. ~I would like to
make. some observations in
South Africa, where the seggation porblem is more pronounced than in any part of. and rMs. Walter Stewart,

the.32 caliber revolver which
killed his wife after the woman
threatened him with the: gun
because he was leaving her.
He said in the scuffle for the
gun, the woman pushed him
away while his finger was on
the trigger of the revolver.
Montgomery said that he fled
the scene because he ~was
scared.~:

Mrs. Robbie~Samples. of 582
Arthur St., was recently hired
as a cashier at the Wrigley
Supermarket on Saginaw St.

Mrs. Samples is the wife of
Herbert E. Samples, a Fisher
Body employee. The Samples
have a 5-monh-old daughter.

Mrs Samples is a 1950 graduate of Pontiac Senior high
school, and a graduate of PoroBeauty School of Detroit, she~s
a member of. Newman A. M. E.
Church.

Urban League

Honors Stars

HOLLYWOOD ~ Singer Dorothy Dandridge and Actor Glenn
Ford are the first two West.
Coast personalities ever to receive the National Urban
League~s annual American teamwork award. >

They were honored or ~enhancing the cause of better human relations and understanding~ between white and non
our country.~

white citizens.
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