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o o Letters NAACP Have Become Symbol of Whites As Worst Woe in Race ? (Editor's note: This is another in the series of dispatches on the big issue of the desecration controversy by the United Press Atlanta bureau chief who is tourine the states of the deep South.) By AL KUETTNER United Press Correspondent Greenville, Miss. !U.PJ The letters NAACP have be come a symbol to the White South of the worst of its woes in the race problem. The letters stand for the Na tional Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People. Organised in New York 48 years ago, it is now in the forefront of he Negro battle for equality. Many sincere Southerners are convinced that the NAACP has Communist leanings. Conservatives hate it pas sionately. Many moderates, while sympathetic with some of its aims, argue that the NAACP is carrying the banner of racial integration so fast and reckless ly that bloodshed may result. Whites who do join or en dorse the NCAAP do so at the riskf community abuse. Negro lefeiers of the organization find themselves subjected to all sorts of pressures, usually economic ones. Nevertheless, the NAACP is growing sttadily in the South. Practically all the large cities and towns have organized of fices. Even in this Mississippi delta country, with great ex panses of flat plantation land separating Negro settlement houses the NAACP has its mem bers. The organization's aim is to crumble segregation barriers wherever they exist. It has scor ed some notable victories, its greatest being the part it played in the Supreme Court ruling on desegregating public schools. Getting Tougher But its task in the South has been tough and will get tough er. Right now race relations are at a new. low in the core of the deep south Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Louisiana has filed suit to outlaw the NAACP on the ground that it failed to file menership lists in compliance with a 1924 law aimed at the old Ku Klux Klan. Georgia Attorney General Eu gene Cook gave the White Citi zens Councils an effective prop-ag-da weapon a research project that Cook claims proves a Communist front tie-in with NAACP The organization calls Cook's findings a smear. Lodge Sees Reds Starting Economic Hold Onto Africa United Nations, N. Y. OJ.R) Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. warned today that Soviet Russia has begun an ec onomic penetration of Africa. Lodge, chief U.S. delegate to the United Nations, returned on Tuesday from a three-week in spection tour of U.S. and U.N. economic air projects in Libya and the Sudan. He said he had prepared a re port for Washington on the "battle of assistance" with Rus sia and that he expected to testi fy before Congress on the U.N. technical aid program. "I think the Soviet Union is beginning to establish itself in Africa in a general way," he said. "There is a competition in the world as regards economic de velopment. The free world is in that competition. How to meet it without making the people scrap their freedom is a very big question." Strings Attached Lodge refused to identify the African countries concerned but said he had heard pf "a numb er" that had received and are considering Soviet offers of aid with "strings attached," to the Kremlin The "strings," he said, are Russia's insistence that Soviet personnel be assigned to any ec onomic project so they can "work behind the scenes." "The Soviet Union has shown," Lodge said "that when it goes into a place, freedom dis appears. "What we do has no strings. We do not offer the type of as sistance we have seen behind the Iron Curtain." Lodge said the .Kremlin has been offering African countries "things which are desperately needed in most parts of Africa." Among them, he said, he had heard of offers of cement, road materials, farm machinery and hospitals fully equipped and with personnel. A. P. Tureaud, NAACP lead er in New Orleans whose court battles cracked the racial bar rier in Louisiana colleges, scoffs at efforts of the state to outlaw the group there. He said individ ual lawyers like himself would keep the work going even if the NAACP is banned. Tureaud contends that the South might have been spared All-While Jury Acquits Man of Slaying Negro Sumner, Miss. (U.R) A white cotton gin operator was acquitted Tuesday night of slaying a "highly respected" Ne gro in the same courtroom where two white half brothers had been freed of Negro teen ager Emmett Till's slaying. An all-white jury deliberated only four hours before finding Elmer Kimbell, 34, innocent in the shotgun slaying of Clinton Melton, 33-year-old Negro ser vice station attendant. The shooting, last December 3 in nearby Glendora, Miss., re sulted from a squabble over a gasoline purchase. The local all white Lions club called the shooting an "outrage." The verdict failed to cause even the slightest commotion in the little Tallahatchie court room where half brothers Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam were acquitted last September of the "wolf whistle" slaying of 14-year-old Chicago Negro Em mett Till. The verdict was hand ed down at 5:25 p.m. (EST). Kimbell, claiming he shot Melton in self defense, testified he was fired on three times be fore he reached for his shotgun to return the fire. Three state witnesses testified however, that Melton was not armed. Kimbell's wife followed him to the stand and testified that her husband, on returning home the night of the slaying, told her he had been wounded at the sta tion where Melton was employ ed. Dr. . Paul Googe testified he treated Kimbell for a shoulder wound and said it was caused by a pistol or rifle. The bullet was not found, Googe said. Be Your Own, OPEN 'TIL 5:30 P.M. Be your own HANDYMAN ... see your HELPFUL HARDWAREMAN! 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This correspondent has discussed Tureaud's viewpoint with several Southern editors whose papers have taken the middleground, moderate ap proach to the desegregation problem. "Our profession should hang its head in shame," a Louisiana editor said. "We failed to stimu late the public's interest in help ing Southern Negroes before all this trouble started. We are partly to blame for NAACP." Hodding Carter, the noted Greenville editor, is one who be lieves it's time for the NAACP to apply the brakes to its inte gration drive. "One of the arguments advan ced effectively against integra tion ii. schools," Carter says, "is the vast difference at present in the intellectual levels of the Southern Negro and White child. "The NAACP should turn its activities inward for a while and try to prepare the Negro people for acceptance and use of the opportunities they are requesting." Expelled Student Offered Education . Atlanta (U.R) Georgia Gov. Marvin Griffin has offered to "guarantee personally" a col lege education for Leonard Wil son, 20, student segregation leader expelled from the Univer sity of Alabama. Griffin told his news confer ence he sent Wilson a telegram Monday night, a few hours after the trustees of the University of Alabama announced his ex pulsion. Wilson was expelled for mak i n g "outrageous statements" about university officials in the wake of their prior expulsion of Autherine Lucy, Negro co-ed whose presence on the Alabama campus as the first Negro stu dent in the university's history led to three days of rioting. Wilson said he had "no com ment to make on the offer. I just don't have anything to say today." Griffin, a last-ditch foe of inte gration, last made national head lines on the issue in December when he tried, unsuccessfully, to prevent the Georgia Tech football team from playing in the Sugar Bowl against Pitts burgh, which had a Negro player. District Suggests Annexation Fee Portland tU.R) A charge of $300 per house should be made on builders of housing develop ments which seek annexation to the Portland school district, members of the board have as serted. Directors said that would still be less than the per-child cost of education for one year. They said large suburban develop ments coming into the district put a strain on school district finances ' with unanticipated ex penses charged against the budget. - Superintendent J. W. Edwards said a case in point was the 50 or 60 homes in Southwood Homes development. Though lo cated in Clackamas county, the project is closer to Portland schools than to Oswego schools. Director James Yeomans said Southwood was typical of the kind that should be charged an annexation fee. Forrest Sentenced to 180 Days in Jail Hillsboro, Ore. (U.R) Circuit Judge Glen Hieber Tuesday sen tenced Louis Forrest to 180 days in Washington county jail on his conviction of an assault and battery against Mrs. Esse Rob ertson. Forrest, 25-year-old former member of the Scofield school board, was accused of beating Mrs. Robertson, a teacher at the school, in an argument over placement of furniture in the one-room Scofield school. Wednesday. March 14. 195S MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBTTHE FIVE Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS Manchester, N. H. Gov. Lane Dwinell on the write-in vote for Vice-President Richard M. Nixon in the New Hampshire pri mary: "If the trend continues it could be interpreted as a mandate to the convention to re-nominate Nixon." Washington Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson on Nixon and the vice-presidential nomination: "I know nothing but good about him (Nixon)." London General Sir John Bagot Glubb, former Arab legion commander, on his abrupt dismissal by King Hussein: "Similar things have frequently happened in history when young kings do not fancy their grandfathers' advisers much." Ottawa Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces in Europe, on a possible Soviet invasion in Europe: "I am not saying that we would win because I am ab solutely convinced if a third world war came there would be no winner." New York Nancy Hamilton, 13, calmly facing death from a rare blood disease, on the spiritual guidance she received from a visit to the French shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes: "I felt it the day I got there. The shrine was so holy and beautiful." Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent ti ' s Hollywood (U.R) Audrey Hepburn, back in Hollywood for the first time in iVz years, has a com eback for what she calls "the wicked tong ues" that have been sniping at her mar riage: She in sists her hus b a n d is no Svengali. Aline Mosby The notion that handsome actor - director Mel Ferrer rules Audrey with an iron hand has been filling the gossip columns and fan maga zines. Audrey admits (1) He taught her modern dance rhythm; (2) "I don't have to make decisions alone now," and (3) "We like to be together." But the slender Oscar-winner insists he does not run her life or career. London Papers Reported "Why, one of the London newspapers reported that I in sisted I be addressed as Mrs. Ferrer. Ferrer. Really!" She said. "Every young girl calls herself by her married name. It's unnatural to do otherwise. "And I'm certainly not going to defend the fact we like to be together." Audrey's first film at Para mount since "Sabrina" will be her first musical, "Funny Face," co-starring Fred Astaire. When I visited her rehearsal set, thin Audrey in black tights was danc ing an exotic sight in one cor ner and thin Fred was warming up in another corner. How these two toothpicks can fill a vista vision screen is a wonder After rehearsal, Audrey curl ed up with a cottage cheese-and-pineapple salad and talked hap ily about her husband. "I am very happy," she smil ed. "To some people marriage only complicates their lives. But I am much freer and happier now than when I was single. I am never alone to worry about things." Careers Don't Interfere . "Our careers don't interfere. We planned it that way accept ing scripts so we can be togeth er. Naturally we discuss all of our projects together but we make our own decisions. I could n't follow anybody else's decis- Court Records DISTRICT COURT Jimmie H. Day, illegal possession of intoxicating liquor, $15. Chester Boyd Keene, inadequate emergency brake, S6. Earl Franklin Burwell, no signal device, $10, (bail forfeited). Frank Calvin Brown, no PUC per mit, S15, (bail forfeited). Forrest Glen Jones, failure to yield right of way, $10. Donald Wayne Blankenship, inade quate muffler, $15. Virgil Durant Jackson, violation of basic rule, $15. Henry Francis Padgham, Jr., failure to stop at stop sign, $10. Abraham Lincoln Halfhill, failure to stop at stop sign, $10. Weldon Mack Agnew, passing on crest of hill, $10. Jack Everett Dunlap, failure to stop at stop sign, $10. CIRCUIT COURT Rawley P. Rogers III vs. Delores Mae Rogers, divorce decree. Gloria A. Smith vs. Robert J. Smith, divorce decree. Louise M. Dye Schultz vs. Paul L. Schultz. decree of annulment. Fernando P. Palacios vs. . Marcene Palacios, divorce decree. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATION'S Charley T. Williams, 3935 Board man St., Klamath Falls, and Mildred C. Stevens, route 2, box 558, Klamath Falls. John Olaf Green, 838 Dakota st., Medford, and Myrna Maureen Potts, 48 '2 N. Orange St., Medford. ion. If anything went wrong it would be his fault. "Of course, he has a great deal of experience and I benefit by listening to him. And I make some sense to him, too." Audrey will dance for the first time since she was an un known chorus girl in London stage musicals four years ago. Ferrer, she added, taught her "modern rhythm" because she had been taught ballet in the European classical manner. The Ferrers are strictly, non Hollywoodites. After this film they'll return to Paris for more movies "And we would love to do one together, if the parts were right for both of us," said Mrs. Ferrer, as she stretched happily in her skin-tight black leopard. Tokyo Rose Ordered To Leave Country Chicago (U.R) Tokyo Rose today was given until April 13 to get out of the country. 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