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FLINT, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1959

_ Michigan Rights Group

Urge Broader FEPC Laws

DETROIT ~ Members of
the legislature from Wayne
County. were given a tally
sheet.on civil rights needs
in Michigan yesterday at the
first in a new series of meet
~ Re s arranged by the Coordi
ing Council ~on Civil
Rights.

The Coordinating Council, a non-partisan group
which are affiliated~ with
more than 20 state-wide oris seeking sup~port for legislation to expand the scope of the Michigan Fair Employment Practices ~Commission to include
housing, education and public accommodation.

The meeting with Democratic law-makers.is. part of
a continuing effort by the
Coordinating Council to gain
bi-partisan endorsement of
its program:.

Atty. E. Turner, co-chmn.

of the Coordinating Coun
~cil and president _ of the
Michigan and Detroit
branch. of.the NAACP,
emphasized that the Coordinating Council~s hope
was that an adequate bill
would be jointly introduced by members of both
parties. Meetings similar
to yesterday~s are. being
arranged with Republican
legislators.:

During the pasi year, the
Council. met with. Governor
Williams and Mr. Bagwell,
the Republican candidate, as
well as with Democratic and
Republican leaders in both
houses of the legislature.

Father Robert F. Allen
director or Social: Action of
the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit, referred to
the ~unequivocal moral is
forts to extend full rights to
Americans~~.

In speaking of the Catho
Civil Rights.

ales

in Detroit on Jan. 30 and 31,
a Negro aide.

Gov. Williams Sets

Talks

~Mennen: Williams-of. ~gan has invitéd the governors to a civil rights egaitrekes ij

according to Charles Brown,

The chief executives of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Massachusettes, New Jersey and Colorado have already accept
ed. Tentative agenda: A model fair-employment practices,
a staff report on a year-long probe

law for all states...

of civil rights laws in the fields of employment, housing,
public accommodations and education.
Almost no southern governors were asked to attend.

School Laws Declared
Void By Va. Court

RICHMOND, Va. ~ Courts

~struck down Virginia~s massive

resistance laws by which the
State closed public schools.

The decisions, with significance across the South, came
from a Federal Constitutional
Court in Norfolk, Va., and from
the Virginia Supreme Court of
Appeals.

In its~ unanimous ruling
which can be appeaied only
to the United States Supreme
Court itself, the Federal court
based its blow at massive resistance o2 the principle of
equal protection of law under
the United States Constitution.

Virginia cannot close:individual schools because of integration and ~at the same time keep
other public schools throughout
the state open on a_ segregated

N.Y. Governor
Appoints Race Judge

ALBANY, N. Y. ~ Governor
Nelson Rockefeller announced on
Tuesday that he will,appoint as
judge of the General Sessions
Court Atty. Samuel E. Pierce,
37, long considered one of the
more brilliant young Negro lawyers in Manhattan.

A Harlem _ Republican,
Pierce will fill the vacancy
created in the $34,500 a year
post when former General Ses
- gions Judge George M. Carney

resigned on New Year~s Day
to take, an appointment in the
State Supreme Court.

Pierce won the appointment
as a matter of personal choice
on, part of Governor Rockefeller
to whom six other names had
been offered by New York City
County Republican~ chairman
Gernard Newman.

When informed of the Governor~s intention to name Pierce

the Republican chairman, imme
diately fell_in line. His statement was: ~.

~It js a brilliant appointment,
he will ~make an outstanding

basis.~

It added Virginia also had the
responsibility of maintaining its
public schools.

CALLED ~TRAGIC~

It called school closings under the massive -resistance
laws tragic. Its decision struck
down ~the law under which the
State could close a~ school to
stop integration.

The State court decision,
split 5-2, held ~invalid a resistance law which would automatically close a school in
which classrooms are integrated and cut off state funds.

It appeared that some integration might occur in Arlington
County, Va, Arlington is under
Federal Court order to admit
four Negroes to the junior high
school Feb.. 2.

EFFECT 9
The Court decisions wiped out
the State~s control over nine
schools closed since the start of
the school term, affecing pupils in Norfolk, Charlottesville
and: Front Royal.

It left it up to~school boards
to decide whether to re-open the
closed schools~all of which are
under Federal court orders to
admit Negroes..

It was unlikely that any of
the closed schools would ~be reopened immediately.

Martin Luther King

~In New Who~s Who

Dr. Martin Luther King has
joined Booker T. Washington

and Dr. George Washington Car-.

ver as the only Alabama Negroes
to. be listed in ~Who~s. Who in
America.~

The 1958-59 ~Who~s Who,~ just
off the press, is the 60th anniverSary edition.. ~ Sn

On page aes

ments his lcaditehtp tw the sue, ating $
- cessful Montgomery bus protest."_In 1959, ~be\38 colleges wil

sue at the heart of all ef-|
lic Church~s. position on discrimination, Father Allen referred to.the unanimous
statement of the Catholic
bishops in the U.S., adopted
during the past year.

~The heart of the race
question is moral and_religious,~ the bishops said.

pressive conditions and the
denial of basic human rights
for the Negro../..~and cannot. be rupaiatied: with. the
truth that.God ~created all
men with equal ~rights and
equal dignity~.

Father: Allen. further! emphasized that~ it ~is~

cisively to bring about the

Michigan.~

In tracing the activities
of the Civil Rights: Council, Donald Slaiman, secre
tary, e of the neces
sity gettin an ade-. quate civil ~rights bill on:
the floor ~early

in the session fo insure se~rious cae and _
ssage this:

these: rithts-is ibd ~to the

cut removal of these discriminations, Michigan will
not be keeping abreast of

ready taken
steps,~ he said.

Responses from the legislators ~indicated an appreciation of the importance of action during this coming legislative session.

~Plans were also announced for additional meetings
with lawmakers in Lansing.

POLICE BRIBER
AWAITS TRIAL

GRAND RAPIDS.~A man who
is charged with attempting to
bribe a police officer is awaiting
trial-in the Kent County Jail.

Nemer Nassiff, of 1136% So.
Division, has pleaded innocent to
the charge, at his Superior Court
arraignment.

He is accused of trying to
bribe Vice Squad Lieutenant
Robert Anderson so that he
could operate an after-hours
~drinking business.

Anderson says Nassiff attempted to use another police officer
as a go-between.

significant

~Segregation has lead..to op-|_

~vital
that we act now and act de)!

fulfillment of equal rights in|~

other states which have al-}: ra

George Howard, Ie @),

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~resident. Ascii

aprehiony COURT has given~
9-rule on. the constitutionality
e John B. Sanborn, St. Paul,
tatives from the NAACP were

Robert Carter, New York, (C). Behind
him is LC. Bates, husband 6t Ae. Daisy Bates (R), state NAACP

other, that without ~a~ clear- |: )

SAGINAW ~ It ate
learned that an. -11-year-old

(boy was. beaten and attack-|
ed last Saturday morning.

In an exclusive interview Jef-'
frey Harris, of 10006 No. 3rd)
Ave., stated that. while he and)

Kirk, they noticed that a mani
kept watching them. He left
and returned. ~later and asked~
him to come inside of the build-|
ing and. ther ordered him to

make any noise,

Harris stated that he. screamed and his attacker beat him
about the head. He ran home
and noified his parents of what
had happened. Police were called and he described his attacker to them.

He ~and his parents were taken in a police car on Potter
St. where a man was seen trying to get in,a taxi. He was
arrested and identified as his
attacker..;

James Carter of 1748 No. 2nd.
Jeffrey is the son of Mrs.

a friend were shoveling. snow on|

remove his clothing and not to!

Police said they were -holding}

Slate Bias Charge
|For Public Hearing

DETROIT~The Detroit ing
Board was ordered to appear at
a hearing before the Michigan
Fair Employment. Practices Commission on charges of discrimination against a Negro employe.

The FEPC voted to schedule
the hearing..The investigating)
commissioner said that repeated
efforts to settle the case through

| conciliation ~proved fruitless.~:

The case involves a claim
made by William Ragland, a
former employe at the department~s sewage disposal plant,
who subsequently died of a
heart attack on Nov. 18,~1957.
He had charged that he was

fired on Jan. 13, 1957, in retaliation for making a FEPC complaint about alleged ségregation
in assignment of lockers to plant

employes,
Ragland, 37, of 1997 W.
Grand Blvd., died during a

| lengthy Circuit Court. battle of
the FEPC io get the depart| ment to turn over certain rec| ords in the case.

Ci Harris of 10006 No. |

The case will be heard in Febpoary.

HAMPTON, Va. ~ Hampton
Insctitute is one of 28 colleges
~participating in the cooperative
intetcollegiate examination proed Negro College Fund. The magram, a part of the ~special services to education,~ of the Unitjority of the colleges use the
test results as one of the criteria ~for selecting; successful
candidates for scnolership awards
of more than $200,000 which
they distribute eacn year.

Hampton, which is a member
of the southern: association of

ah

cooperate~ in the testing of 3300
500 high schools throughout: the
to 4000 scholarship and admission candidates~ from more than
U. S. and in one territerial possession. ~~.

Scoring of the tests will be done
by the Educajonal Testing Service, Princeton, N. J. The test
scores of the individual candidates will be sent te the colleges which the examinees list. as
their choices.

Scholarships hr Now. Available
To Talented High School Students

high schools, by writing to one
of. the participating colleges or
by writing directly to the office
of the director, CIEL, 22 East
54th St., New York, N. Y.

Admission to the examination
will be by a ticket of admission
which will be sent to each candidate who has filed application
and submitted an examination
feé of $2.50. Applications and
fees must be mailed before Feb
|rurary 1, 1959, to the CIEP.

~The participating colleges are

|} Benedict, Bennett, Bethune-Cook.

man, Bishop, and Clark colleges;
Dillard and Fisk Universities,
Hampton Institute, Huston-Tilson College, Johnson C. Smith
University, Knoxvilie, Lane and | wife
Lemoyne Colleges.

Also Lincoln Univ., Livingstone,

orris. ]

J. Ernest Wilkins, 64, a mem~ber of the. Civil Rights Comion and former assistant

\secretary of labor; was found

dead Monday we his home in

re Washington, D ~ C. e

~). Mr. ~Wilkins,~ who once was
_|employed at Buick here, served..|in the labor post from 1954 un
til last November, when he resigned. His body was discov
' |ered by a maid_at his home, ac_ |eording.to Washington police..

_ He had the distinction. of
| being one of only. two Ne
_ groes ever to hold sub-cabinet

posts. He was appointed by
President. Eisenhower.

Mr. Wilkins served in World
War I and was graduated from
the University of Illinois, While
in college, he came to Flint
during the summer to work at

| Buick. Hé received his law de
gree at the University ~of Chi
eago and his doctorate at Lin
coln University, in Missouri. -
Before going ~to Washington,

are County Airport
Committee Meets

=i thee eee ~County nky Cobamittec:

seeking further investigation of
the plan. The groups hope to
present the idea this week to
Kent County supervisors.

Twice the Kent County Airport
Board of Control has _ rejected
any new Study of the Tri-County
field. They said it was unwieldy
from economic and administrative viewpoints. Kent County is
planning to relocate its present
airport to a site in cascade township. However, the Cascade Airport Committee opposes the airfield and. petitions reportedly
are~in circulation.asking that
county voters decide on the ats
port relocation.

J. Emest Wilkins
Of Fatal Heart A

he practiced. law in Giza for

35 years. He is a former presi~dent of. the Cook County. Bar

Association.

Mr., Wilkins was born in Farmington, Mo. He attended. high
school at Jefferson City.;

He was appointed to the Civil
Rights Commission in 1957.

Scholarship
Fund To Be
Resumed ~

FLINT ~ Dr. Evelyn V. Golden, president of the Flint Urban League, announced today
that the League has réceived
$1000.00 for the resumption of
the Joseph N.. Birch Nursing
Scholarships. These funds were
made available. anonymously by
a local lawyer friend of ' Mr.
Birch who wanted to see this
scholarship program continued,

The scholarships. will be in
the amount of $100.00 per year
and must be awarded to 2nd
or 3rd_ year students-at both Hurley and -St. Joseph: Hospitals.

these two schodls. He

no. better way to say ~thanks~
for the many kindnesses extended to me. by the girls in

white.~ Birch underwent a se-.

ries. of operations.on his larynx
which. left him without a voice.
He died May 8, 1957, at the age
of ~51. He had been a practicing
attorney in Flint -for more than
20 years and. served as~ assistant
prosecutor for Genesee County
from 1949 until his affliction in
1953.. The ~Urban League. will, continue. to administér the scholarships. Applications will not be
available until: sane

hearing before Recorder~s Judge
W. McKay Skillman.

His attorney, Allen Early, successfully argued ~that the State
Constitution permits bond on the
charge except when ~proof is evident or presumption great~ of the
defendant~s guilt.

The only evidence against Kaigler is a tape recording of a quar
he said.

when t Prosecutor
trait uel H. Olsen had no objection
it.

~The decision touched ~off an
angry explosion by Inspector
Richard Miller, of the Homicide
Bureau, who hotly disputed the
argument that the tape recording
is the- only conclusive evidence.

Miller said he was especially
irate because his bureau was not
notified of the hearing and because detectives had no opportunity to appear.

_ ~Premeditation is shown by
statements. taken from the four

Kaigler. children,~ he said.

~They heard Kaigler threaten

Kaigler told police he fired a
warning shot before he shot his

wiih id thet laut asedd
the bed at the same angle as the

e, |one which struck Mrs. Kaigler in

the mouth.
~He evidently shot at her the

s, |first time and missed. He we

a warning shot,~ ~ said

rel which, preceded the killing, |{j
Judge Skillman set the bond Ey
Charles E. Smith said Prosecutor | ~

~ Mrs. Kaigler was killed in the

Rev..Kaigler Released
On $5,000 Bond ~

DETROIT.~Police Homicide totem heads protested the
release on bond of the Rev. Elzie Kaigler, a Baptist minister,
held on a charge of murdering his wife. ~, Rev. Kaigler, 66, of 4492 Burns, accused of first: degree
murder, was released on $5,000 bond

Tuetiay ind a

ee:

REV. KAIGLER ~
s+ & &
bedroom of the couple~s home.
Police found - the tape recorder
in the room., Without the tape or sin chil
dten~s statement, detectives ~still

can produce evidence of premed
itation, Miller said. -
~if he shot her in

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MUSKEGON Muskegon Coun. ~sectar

his gifts by saying ~I know of