Bronze Reporter [Volume: 5, Issue: 53]

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MONTGOMERY (Special)
~A witness told the Federal Civil Rights Commission that not one of 13,000 Negroes in Alabama~~s
Lowndes County is registered to vote.

Another county official,
said that of 8,000 registered voters in Dallas
County, Ala., only 128 are
Negroes.

Five other county officials
flatly refused a direct order
by the commission, appointed by the President, to take
the oath and answer questions about allegations that
Negroes are denied the
right to vote in six Alabama
counties.

The Federal Civil Rights Commission adopted a no retreat
policy. in its determination~ to
investigate Negro voting rights.

~We would not have decided to meet in Alabama, if we
didnt) intend to see it

most of them Negroes, have
been subpeonaed fo testify
about ~a pattern of discrimination~ that causes even Tuskegee Institute professors to
fail voter registration tests,

The six-man agency and its
top Washington ~ staff members are quartered at Maxwell Air Force Base because
Montgomery~s hotels will not
assign rooms to J. Ernest Wilkins, and some staff members
who are Negroes.

Circuit Judge George A. Wallace said he would jail any federal agents attempting to seize
voter registration records. for the
hearing.

VOWS ACTION

~If any agents try to seize
the records | have impounded, | will use my powers as
judge to put them. in jail,~
Wallace said.: It was in Montgomery that
~~-Negro residents, under the

Rev. Martin Luther~ King,

waged a boycott against seg
regated seating in city buses.

The last 16 months, Negroes
have refused to trade with
white merchants in nearby Tus
kegee, where all but 10 cf the
town~s 420 Negroes have been
disfrancshised from voting by
an Alabama legislature act plaeing their homes out of bounds.

In Macon County, home of
Tuskegee Institute and a veterans hospital, Negroes outnumber white residents nearly 6 to 1. On the voting lists,
there are 1,707 Negroes out.
of 27,000, and 2-160 whites
out ef a white population of
5,000.

Big-Time Dope
Pusher Gets Time

GRAND RAPIDS. ~ Twenty- |.

four-year-old James O~Neal of
Grand Rapids has been convicted.
of illegal possession of narcotits.
A Circuit Court jury in Ionia
County deliberated less than one
hour yesterday to end the trial,
which started Thursday before
Judge Morris K. Davis.

O'Neal has been returned to
jail under $10,000 bond to
await sentencing December 16.
He could receive a prison term.
of up to ten years or a fine of
five thousand dollars.

O~Neal and a companion were
arrested by State Police in September, and officers say they
found a quantity of heroin and
syringes in the car.

Police halted the car because
only one of its headlights was
working. Still awaiting trial is
O~Neal~s companion, Cameo Kirby Crump.

hheakaconaiy, Ala.~William FP: Mitchell,

first witness called before the Civil Rights ~Commission

héaring here Dec. 8, The Commission met | ~here to investigate. alleged ~discrimination of Negro voting rights in the first ~real test~ of. the. ~Commis sion power. Mitchell is being questioned re Vice

Chairman Robert G

G. Stery, second from left.~ (UPIT)

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Jamaican Woman Mayor

Refused Service in Ky.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. 7 alla vinel s ~face was red this week, ager at the store said he did

eshington offiel aE
wete 4

Mrs. King, viet fully conversant with the South~s peculiar

School Posts

LITTLE ROCK, Ark ~ The
desegregation deadlock remained after an election in which

three integration candidates
won seats on the Little Rock
school board.

All 13 candidates for the.
six board seats had professed to be segregationists.
Their differences centered
on price.

~This is the first crack in the
faubus edifice and I predict
that his entire political empire,
counded as it is upon misrepreentation and bigotry, will soon
be crurobling at his feet,~~ asierted Ted L. Lamb, an execu:
ive who defeated two segrega
-ionists.

But Amis Guthridge, for the

segregationist Capital Citizens
Seuncil; analyzed the ~ voting
this way:

~Our people took the election for granted and refused
to run scared.~

Faubus said these five candidates were integrationists:
Lamb; W. F. (Billy) Rector.
ain insurance executive;. Everett

' Tucker Jr., execufive director of
} m industrial development com
pany; Russell, Matson, Jr., a contractor, and Mrs. Charles W. Stewhens, former president of the
Central High School PTA.

The Faubus-denounced five
laced great emphasis on a need
to preserve public schools ~
oven in the midst of racial cri8S,

The city was Icft without a
board when~ five members resigned together, citing their
~helplessness~ in the face of
the federal-state pence struggle.. The new board soon will face
an.order from U.S. District
Judge John E. Miller of Fort
Smith in compliance with a
mandate from the Eighth U.S.
Circuit Court cf Appeals. The
higher court demanded that positive steps be taken toward integration in Little Rock.

Shei te... TREASURE OF LOVE

that~s what children~s por:
traits are when made by

VAN! DYKE PHOTOGRAPHERS

and. Acting Mayor R. C. Bing
didn~t make up to Mrs. Iris Kin
maica, for. the, insult~s~e had.
with the.folks. back in.her~ homg or

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mayor of Kingston, Ja
admitted it, but his apology
ing nor did it sit well

~a cup

ie. ie: told: ~We don~t
serve. ~colored people,~ and then
~@dvised that. she would have to

{take the coffee outside to drink

it.

Mrs. ing said ~this constitut
éd ~humiliating~ treatment, and
left, without the coffee.
No Exceptions

Vincent Rizzo, assistant man
~not know about the incident
at the time it happened, but
added that it is the store~s policy to provide only ~carry-put
service~ - for

As as Acting
telephoned Mrs, King and tentered her a formal apology on
behalf. of the city. But Mrs
King let it be known that the
insult loomed. much larger to
her than Mayor Bing~s explanation.

NEW YORK ~ ~The rise of
the African peoples to the status of free nations has inspired
Americans of African descent
and others of our fellow citizens
who love! freedom. for freedom~s:
sake,~ NAACP Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins says in a message of greetings to the AllAfrican People~s Conference in
Accra, Ghana, this. week. The
conference which opens on Dec.

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3 continues through Decs 12.

~The emergence of independent African states and the
struggle of other peoples to.
attain that state have aided
us in our crusade in this country,~ theh NAACP leader told
Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Prime
Minister of Ghana, to whom
his messave was addressed.

In extending greetings to the
conference on behalf of the NAACP, Mr, Wilkins expressed re~that we will be unable
to be represented by an officia!
members are with you and with
those who gather to consider.
the next steps to freedom for
the peoples cf Africa.~

Summarizing the ~status of
race relations in the United
States today, Mr. Wilkir& saic
it would; be a mistake to think
that Little Rock, bombings and
discrimination present ~a true
nieture cof -America~s treatment
of its Negro citizens. We have
no desire to gloss over cr excuse
these practices, but it is accur

Louis Ex-Spouse

Refuse Tax Biil

Mrs. Ma a Trotter Spaulding,
former wife of Joe Louis, told
the U. ~S. Tax Court that.
didn~t ae that ~it~ was her.

~or. res flity to pay $152,498 i for the once heavy~wei tide and that they

iad waited too long to proceed
Cistnnd send: senate the in:

ternal Revenue on grounds that
large of money had been
turned over to her by Louis,

Wilkins Hails African Confab

ate, we believe, to emphasize
that they do not represent either national policy or the sentiment of the vast majority of
white Americans.~

The message, dispatched on
Dee. 1, pledges ~our continuing
interest and our cooperation in
such ways as may be feasible
and effective to the end that
subjugation, exploitation and
discriminataion based upon race
and color may be abolished.~ |

Sought
Caught

GRAND RAPIDS.~The search
is over.

Since November 26th, police in
the Mid-West have been looking
for a 23 year old Grand Rapids
bookkeeper wanted for the larceny of nearly $20,000.

Monday, Leo A. Bechtel, the
father of three children, was
picked up by Wilwaukee police,
after a Milwaukee auto dealer
~tot: suspicious about his purchase
vf a car.

Bechtel, a Standale residént,
was wanted on a warrant charg~ng him with larceny by conversion of almost $8,0u0. However,
iis former employers, the Grand
~tapids Asphalt Paving Company, |
~eported that a~C. P. A. audit
shows Bechtel actually t a
total of more than $18,000.

Milwaukee authorities i
Bechtel admits he embezzled
that much from the company (
in the past two and one-half

years. - ae?

Police say Te~ ~admitted em:
bezzling the by. making
eut checks to elf and then

covering the trafsaction through
Piped ~payroll ~which he ees
dl

About $11,000 was recove
in Bechtel~s hotel room in
waukee. Grand Rapids police will
wait to see. Sicgerming ives

Reward
~Committee

Negroes. Head-}~ | quarters of the store is im. Chi
sisi $9

Bing heard of the incident, he, 4 to. ~Adele Wells~ ~Committee. If

Formed

~L. Mrs. Leo A: Greene was -elect
3d chairman of a committee for
~The Adele Wells Fund~ at a
-Nieeting held Monday, Dec. 9, at
Macedonia Baptist Church. Other
nembers of the committee are
\irs. Geneva Harvey, Rev. A. F.
Cfhomas, -Mrs. Melvin Center and
Mrs. Ola Hughes Smith. The comnittee has contacted churches in
~lint, Grand Blanc and Mt. Mor~is for contributions to create a
$1000.00 fund which will be
awarded to the person giving in.
formation leading to the whereabouts of the child.

Adele has been missing from
her ~home since November 21:
Numerous rumors have been circulated in the past week, but no
trace of her has been uncovered.

At the.meeting Monday night,
Elder.Aaron Childs,. Adele~s
grandfather, expressed the appreciation of the family for the
kindness they have _ received
from. Flint~ citizens during their
mishap. He also stated that
Adele~s mother, Mrs. Karl Wells,
who ~was taken to the hospital
recently because of a nervous
disorder, is improving.

Contributions to the reward
fund have been made by various organizations such as the
Elks Vehicle City Lodge No.
1076, Genesee Temple No. 550,

fe Sout W. Divisi

the child is not found, the
money will go toward the welfare
and education of Adele~s sisters
and brothers.

Ail- New

of the Southern Negro Youth

Officials

_ At a meeting Sunday~ December 7th, Edgar B. Holt,:
738 Eldridge Court was elected President of the Flint
Branch of the NAACP. Two weeks ago this newspaper revealed that in 1947 Holt~s name was listed as an_ official

Congress, a communist front

organization. This information is part.of the récord of ~the
House Investigating Committee and is found in the Library

of Congress.

At Sunday~s meeting, a motion
was presented to investigate the
tuth of. the charge against Holt.

ARTHUR BLACK
SEEKS CITY
MANAGER POST

-Arthur D. Black, Manager of
the Palace Theatre, submitted
his letter of application for consideration as a candidate for the
City Managership of Flint on Noyember. 29.

The applicant has had 30 years
of top-level management and administrative experience; age 53,
married, and a resident of Flint
since~ assuming the management

{of the Palace Theatre 8 years

ago.

~A graduate of Alexander Ham
iiton in Business Administration;

a degree of Juris Dortor in Law.._The recipient of many achieveis during the 1

- teoning Agency in ping Pointe |:

Park.

For. five years, he was employed as Assistant General Manager of James Steele Enterprises. For eighteen years as
General Manager of Chargot Enterprises.

BATIIMORE, Md.~~The big
job of. American education today
is to educate our people to live
by the code of freedom, justice
and equality to which our nation
is committed.~

An American educator has
come back from the troubled
Middle East thoroughly convineed that this is what.m-rica
must do.

Dr. Virgil A. Clift, prof scor
and head of the de:artmert of
education at Morgan State Co.lege, on a two~ year U.S. stute
Department assignment ~in Libya, watched trouble burst into
revolution and watched mounting public opinion question
~America~s gcod inientions.~

He is now convinced that. what
America is:trying to do through
its Mutual Security Program is
a ~noble ideal~ that could win
friends and the cold war~if it
is backed up. by America~s actions at home. ~

Dr. Clift shared these convietions with the Morgan community as he discussed ~Education
in the Middle East~ during the
college~s observance of American
Education. Week.

He says that never before has
educating the people to believe
in demoeracy been so important
to the nation abroad.

He gays:.

~I believe ~that Amcricans do

keepping aS many people as possible friendly to the West. Alreadyy there are some 700,000,000
peo behind the Iron Curtain.
Another 700,060,000 people are
brink of going either... and this 700,000,000 peoIle who haven~t decided whether
join-with the West or go behind the Iron Curtain come from
an area rich in resources and

welfare of the whole world.
~The United Statés cannot afford to be an island cut off from
such large. numbers of people
who subscribe to another political and economic system which
is so adverse to the ideals and

| welfare of the Free World.~

But, Dr: Clift: warns that these
people have become suspicious. of

~truth

not. realize-the importance of.

could contribute to the economic|

Sepia Educator Returns

From Middle East

America~s good intentions by the
stories they read about. dissension and discrimination in American life.

Dr. Clift gives this explanation

of the situation:

-~The United States has become a military, economic and
political leader in the free
world. Millions ~f people who
have beon less fortunate have
looked to America to provide
insp:ration, moral courage, and
an exampie. which could be followed in achieving demecracy.

~The success cf our leadership
s gravely hampered because we
it home are not mature, stable
and enlightened enough to deal
effectively with Littieo Rek.

~Little Rock and the bombings

-~ places of worship here have
~done~ more~ damage to American

~restige -abroad' than any propa~wandathe U. S.S.~R. could have
devised: People throughout the. |!
-yorld have learned to recognize
~ropaganda and treat it as such.
~hey also im this case recognize.acial discrimination and relig
~ous bigetry as the truth, and in
this gase it is certainly the
hat hurts~.~ ~

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Calyin of St. Louis to New York at

C. F: Robinson amended this motion and substituted a demand
that Herman Gibson and Herman Hamilton present their
proofs forthwith or be suspended. from local membership in
NAACP.

Edward Turner, State President of the NAACP, detlared
the motion to suspend Gibson
and Hamilton was out.of order.
Robinson appealed the ruling of
the chair. The State President
was over-ruled.and Robinson~s
motion went through.

Gibson and Hamilton both
stated they would present formal charges against Holt to
the National Office. Holt made
references to his attorney and
possible court suit. He did not
deny that he was an official in
the organization in question.

Among those seen at the meeting: were such well known people as Génora and Sol Dollinger,
mic - Rodgers, a and

The dibas nade practically
a clean. sweep of for.
and executive board members.
In the coming weeks we plan to
bring you a complete profile on
the individuals who now comprise the local NAACP _leadership.

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A -& W Root Beer Stand, N.
jJaginaw~ and Moore Street ~
Dec. 16, Tuesday, hours. 9 to
i2.am. and~1 to 5 p.m.; Dec. 17,
Vednesday, hours 10 to 1 p.m.

nd 2 to 7 pm.; Dec. 18, -Thurslay, hours 10 to 1 n.m. and 2 to
i p.m.

Negro Official
Reports Shots

HOUSTON, Tex.~Mrs. Charles
E. White, first Negro-to be elected to the Houston School: Board,
~ Police Tuesday -air rifle pel
srayed' the windshield of
ra alitomobile Monday night.

Meanwhile, the Houston: School
Board heard the first specific
proposal for. integrating what is
believed to be the largest. segregated ~ system ~in the na
tion. 4: of Manhattan, left,

City Hall. The Calvins received the weekend trip from the Jack
and Jill Club of St. Louis in cooperation with Anheuser-Busch, Inc.

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