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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.
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CENTRAL POINT
roblem
the pain of quick integration de
mands had the region "faced up
to the problem years ago."
The fact is that the South
dragged its feet on providing
adequate schools arid recreation
facilities for Negroes until the
NAACP went into court to fight
for them. Outstanding excep
tions exist, but as a region the
South is far behind the rest of
the nation. Part of the reason
was economic cured by a post
war industrial boom but part
was the old notion that Negro
children don't need much
schooling.
Bond Voted Down
Tureaud says he went to the
New Orleans school board for
12 years trying to get a second
negro high school. In 1946, he
says, a suit for separate but
equal facilities brought a school
bond election to authorize the
money. The bond issue was vot
ed down. 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.
The Immigration and Natural
ization Department notified her
that if she has not left volun
tarily by then, It will start de
portation proceedings.
Tokyo Rose, the disc jokey
propagandist for Japan during
World War II, has been living
here since her release from the
Federal Women's Prison at Al-
derson, W. Va., last Jan. 28.
Her real name is Mrs. Iva
Toguri d'Aquino. She is an
American-born citizen. Her hus
band is living in Japan.
Her attorney, Jiro Yamagucho,
said he doubts that she will'
leave the country voluntarily.
He said he also doubts the legal
ity of deportation proceedings
against a native-born citizen.
"Rose" had hoped to live an
inconspicuous life here as an
assistant to a doctor or dentist.
She served six years and two
months of a 10-year treason sen
tence and is now under the su
pervision of the local parole office.
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