Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1966-06-11 J. A. Beauchamp Negro Voters Doubled In The State Of Alabama Less than 16 months after enactment of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. the number of Negro elected public officials in Alabama, has nearly doubled. There already are two Negro mayor. Election, or nomination, of four Negro public officials in the May 31 Democratic primary increased from about six to ten. All but one is in Macon County. About 100 Negro candidates sought election in the May 3 Democratic Primary. This perhaps set a record for Negro candidates, an item which has not drawn much attention. Many of these were first-time candidates. A number of Negro candidates were elected to the county Democratic executive committees. In Jefferson County about 16 Negro candidates were elected to the Jeffcho Democratic Executive committee. Twenty-six of the 100 Negro candidates won run-off spots in the May Democratic Primary. Some contests in two Black Belt counties may be challenged. Some others reportedly are under investigations. Nominated to represent the Democratic Party in the Nov. 8 General Election were: Louis D. Amerson, sheriff L. A. Locklair tax assessor Harold W. Webb. Board of Revenue, all in Macon County and the Rev. Peter Kirksey, of Eutaw. Board of Education, Greene County. In Bullock County Negro run-off candidates were: Henry Oscar Williams, sheriff; Rufus Hullman, tax assessor; Alonza Ellis and Ben McGhee, county commission. There are more Negro than white voters in Bullock County. The Rev. L. T. Spears, Jr. offered for the Coctaw County Commission. Robert Perry. Selma, ran for the Dallas County Commission and Mrs. Alberta Branch ran for tax collector. Mrs. Braxton of Demopolis, was a run off candidate for Marengo County tax assessor It once ap peared that, she would have won a clear victory in the May 31 primary. Yet she lost in the run-off. There are more Negro voters than white voters in Marengo County. C. H. Montgomery, candidate for the state legislature and Dr. W. L. Russell, candidate for the Mobile County Board of Education, both of Mobile, lost. Mobile, a Gulf-port town and with heavy Catholic influence, was regarded as Alabama's; most likely biggest goodwill - vote city. The goodwill vote did not show too well in the returns The Rev. Henry McCaskill ran for sheriff in Hale Conty and Pat Davis was candidate for sheriff in Perry County. Hale and Perry have more Negro than white voters. Willie Martin, Isom Atkins, ran for the Perry County Commission and the Rev. Obie Leonard Scott ran for tax collector. In Jefferson County, Ally. Arthur D. Snores, L. S. Gaillard, Jr., Dr. James Theodore Montgomery and Atty. David H. Hood, Jr., ran for the Alabama House of Representatives. It was the third try for Mr. Shores and the first offer of the other three. With Negro voting strength outweighing that of white voter in several of the Alabama Black Belt Counties how does one asses the showing of Negro candidates in Bullock Hale, Perry and Marengo counties? Who did the counting of the votes? Studies and analysis will have to be made to try to dredge up the answers. Here are a few things to put in mind. Negro candidates in the mentioned and other Black Belt Counties were up against "courthouse politics". This is the toughest of all politics. Secondly, they were fared with batling established political organizations and experienced campaigners for most part. Third, there was the so-called "plantation vote" which might, not have been untangled. The Negro candidates had to try to build-campaign organizations and raise money to finance their campaigns. They tried not to run campaigns with excessive emphasis on their race. They avoided a hot emphasis on emotion. Obviously they were hot able to get thorough to white voters and also lacked the pull to carry all of the Negro vot ers with them. J. R. Striplin is mayor of Hobson City and Clyde Foster is mayor of Triana. Two Negro men are serving on the Tuskegee City Council; two on the Macon County Board of Education and three others in elective office in Macon County. SEE JACK at ALG LIQUOR STORE OPENING DAY FRIDAY - JUNE 10th DOG RACING AT ITS BEST summer home of champions INTERSTATE# 55 WEST MEMPHIS ARK. Air conditioned for your comfort UNCF Announces College Choirs June Series The ABC Radio Network will present the choirs of four member colleges of the United Negro College Fund during the June "Negro College Choirs" broadcasts. The choir of Oakwood College, Huntsville, Ala., will initiate the June series with a program of sacred music ranging from classical masterworks to Negro spirituals. The program is to be broadcast the week of June 5. The Oakwood College choir is directed by Harold L. Anthony. The choir of Bishop College in Dallas. Texas, will be featured the Week of June 12: the choir of Saint Augustine's College, Raleigh, N. C. will be heard the week of June 19; and the final broadcast of the month, during the week of June 26, will feature the choir of Virginia Union University, Richmond, Va. Red Cross Swim Classes Announced The Memphis area chapter of The American Red Cross announced registration dates for its 1956 "Learn-to-Swim" classes. Classes will be held at four municipal pools. Fairground. Fravser, Gasman and L. E. Brown, beginning June 13 and each two weeks thereafter through August 1. All classes are free. Registration will be held at each pool from 9 until 10 a.m., on June 22 for classes beginning June 27; July 6 for classes beginning July 11; July 13 for classes beginning July 18 and July 27 for classes beginning-August 1. Classes will be one hour in length beginning at 8:30. 9:30 and 10:30 a.m., each weekday except Wednesday. Dr. Sam Sheppard To Gel Freedom Or New Trial The Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 Monday that Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard must be given either a new trial or his freedom because unfair news coverage and "bedlam" in the courtroom tainted his celebrated 1954 conviction for wife murder. In the majority opinion, Justice Tom C. Clark gave Cuyahoga County officials "a reasonable time" to bring "Dr. Sam" to trial again or else abandon all proceedings against him. Sources in Cleveland said a trial probably could not be held until the fall term, between Sept. 1 and Dec. 31. Sheppard, a prominent Cleveland Ohio, osteopath, was convicted of second-degree murder in the bludgeon slaying of his pregnant wife, Marilyn, after a sensational trial. He is out of prison now after having served nine years of a life sentence in the Ohio Penitentiary. Informed of the Supreme Court Decision. Sheppard told newsmen: "I'm ready to go to trial now . . . . They don't have enough evidence to convict me." Cuyahoga County Prosecutor John T. Corrigan announced he would decide Tuesday or Wednesday whether to initiate the new trial, probably on charge of seconddegree murder. In Worcester, Mass., lawyer F. Lee Bailey, who fought Sheppard's case through the Supreme Court, said he wants a retrial with the proceedings moved to "some Ohio community not infected with a deep-set prejudice or influenced by an irresponsible press." In ruling that the first headlinemaking trial was unfair, Clark asserted that, the late trial judge, Edward A. Blythinl had failed to "fulfill his duty to protect Sheppard from the inherently prejudicial publicity which saturated the community and to control the disruptive influences in the courtroom." Specifically, he said: "The fact is that bedlam reigned at the courthouse during the trial, and newsmen took over practically the entire courtroom, hounding, most of the participants in the trial, especially Sheppard." He noted that 20 newsmen were allowed to sit inside the railing of the court within a few feet of opposing counsel. "The erection of a press table for reporters inside the bar is unprecedented," Clark said. When Blythin assigned almost all available seats to news media covering the trial. Clark said, the judge "lost his ability to supervise that environment." Justice Hugo L. Black dissented from the decision but wrote no opinion giving his reasons. The long Sheppard case began on July 4, 1954, when the doctor reported that a "bushy haired intruder" had broken into their fashionable Bay Village suburban home on Lake Erie and beaten his wife to death. Sheppard, who had hoped for a complete reversal by the Supreme Court, told newsmen: "My first reaction was 'Thank God'. 'Sure, I'm relatively happy. I'm happier than if I had been ordered to prison. I want what is proper for complete vindication but I don't want to put my family through an ordeal."' ASKS DIFFERENT SITE The Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 Monday that Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard must be given either a new trial or his freedom because unfair news coverage and "bedlam" in the courtroom tainted his celebrated 1954 conviction for wife murder. In the majority opinion, Justice Tom C. Clark gave Cuyahoga County officials "a reasonable time" to bring "Dr. Sam" to trial again or else abandon all proceedings against him. Sources in Cleveland said a trial probably could not be held until the fall term, between Sept. 1 and Dec. 31. Sheppard, a prominent Cleveland Ohio, osteopath, was convicted of second-degree murder in the bludgeon slaying of his pregnant wife, Marilyn, after a sensational trial. He is out of prison now after having served nine years of a life sentence in the Ohio Penitentiary. Informed of the Supreme Court Decision. Sheppard told newsmen: "I'm ready to go to trial now . . . . They don't have enough evidence to convict me." Cuyahoga County Prosecutor John T. Corrigan announced he would decide Tuesday or Wednesday whether to initiate the new trial, probably on charge of seconddegree murder. In Worcester, Mass., lawyer F. Lee Bailey, who fought Sheppard's case through the Supreme Court, said he wants a retrial with the proceedings moved to "some Ohio community not infected with a deep-set prejudice or influenced by an irresponsible press." In ruling that the first headlinemaking trial was unfair, Clark asserted that, the late trial judge, Edward A. Blythinl had failed to "fulfill his duty to protect Sheppard from the inherently prejudicial publicity which saturated the community and to control the disruptive influences in the courtroom." Specifically, he said: "The fact is that bedlam reigned at the courthouse during the trial, and newsmen took over practically the entire courtroom, hounding, most of the participants in the trial, especially Sheppard." He noted that 20 newsmen were allowed to sit inside the railing of the court within a few feet of opposing counsel. "The erection of a press table for reporters inside the bar is unprecedented," Clark said. When Blythin assigned almost all available seats to news media covering the trial. Clark said, the judge "lost his ability to supervise that environment." Justice Hugo L. Black dissented from the decision but wrote no opinion giving his reasons. The long Sheppard case began on July 4, 1954, when the doctor reported that a "bushy haired intruder" had broken into their fashionable Bay Village suburban home on Lake Erie and beaten his wife to death. Sheppard, who had hoped for a complete reversal by the Supreme Court, told newsmen: "My first reaction was 'Thank God'. 'Sure, I'm relatively happy. I'm happier than if I had been ordered to prison. I want what is proper for complete vindication but I don't want to put my family through an ordeal."' LOST SUPERVISORY ABILITY The Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 Monday that Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard must be given either a new trial or his freedom because unfair news coverage and "bedlam" in the courtroom tainted his celebrated 1954 conviction for wife murder. In the majority opinion, Justice Tom C. Clark gave Cuyahoga County officials "a reasonable time" to bring "Dr. Sam" to trial again or else abandon all proceedings against him. Sources in Cleveland said a trial probably could not be held until the fall term, between Sept. 1 and Dec. 31. Sheppard, a prominent Cleveland Ohio, osteopath, was convicted of second-degree murder in the bludgeon slaying of his pregnant wife, Marilyn, after a sensational trial. He is out of prison now after having served nine years of a life sentence in the Ohio Penitentiary. Informed of the Supreme Court Decision. Sheppard told newsmen: "I'm ready to go to trial now . . . . They don't have enough evidence to convict me." Cuyahoga County Prosecutor John T. Corrigan announced he would decide Tuesday or Wednesday whether to initiate the new trial, probably on charge of seconddegree murder. In Worcester, Mass., lawyer F. Lee Bailey, who fought Sheppard's case through the Supreme Court, said he wants a retrial with the proceedings moved to "some Ohio community not infected with a deep-set prejudice or influenced by an irresponsible press." In ruling that the first headlinemaking trial was unfair, Clark asserted that, the late trial judge, Edward A. Blythinl had failed to "fulfill his duty to protect Sheppard from the inherently prejudicial publicity which saturated the community and to control the disruptive influences in the courtroom." Specifically, he said: "The fact is that bedlam reigned at the courthouse during the trial, and newsmen took over practically the entire courtroom, hounding, most of the participants in the trial, especially Sheppard." He noted that 20 newsmen were allowed to sit inside the railing of the court within a few feet of opposing counsel. "The erection of a press table for reporters inside the bar is unprecedented," Clark said. When Blythin assigned almost all available seats to news media covering the trial. Clark said, the judge "lost his ability to supervise that environment." Justice Hugo L. Black dissented from the decision but wrote no opinion giving his reasons. The long Sheppard case began on July 4, 1954, when the doctor reported that a "bushy haired intruder" had broken into their fashionable Bay Village suburban home on Lake Erie and beaten his wife to death. Sheppard, who had hoped for a complete reversal by the Supreme Court, told newsmen: "My first reaction was 'Thank God'. 'Sure, I'm relatively happy. I'm happier than if I had been ordered to prison. I want what is proper for complete vindication but I don't want to put my family through an ordeal."' Methodists Vote To End Central Jurisdiction A major step toward racial desegregation in the Alabama West Florida. Conference of the Methodist Church was taken Friday when the conference voted to permit the all - Negro Central Jurisdiction to merge with it. The resolution making the change had been expected to meet stern opposition but was passed almost routinely by a vote of 24074 with eight abstaining. No deadline for completing the merger, urged by the church's General Conference since 1964, was set. The resolution said it would be a "Jurisdictional matter to be worked out when it is mutual agreeable." The action came on the final day of the conference's 138th annual meeting at Huntingdon College. Some 1,000 ministers, and laymen attended. Dr. Lawrence Dill of Anniston chairman of the advisory council which drafted the merger resolution, urged its passage. "Do what the General Conference asked us to," he said, "We will be making a drastic mistake if we do not do something posttive. We face the severity of compulsory measures.'' Only attorney Kenneth Cooper of Bay Minette, Ala. . . spoke against the proposal. He was quickly followed by Mrs. Alice Lee of Monroeville, Ala., who moved for adoption. District Supt E. L. Hardin of Marianna, Fla., pointed out the North Mississippi Conference approved a similar resolution Thursday. Other conferences in the south will meet during the next two weeks to vote on the matter. BLAME PLACED ON ENGLAND — His Excellency Michael Lukumbuzya, left, ambassador to the United States from The Republic of Tanzania, Africa, who last week delivered the keynote address at the Africa Day Celebration at A&T College, blamed England for the troubles in Rhodesia. With him from left to right are: P. L. Makumula, educational and cultural attache, representing the Republic of Malawi; Miss. Geneva Holmes, advisor to foreign students at A&T; Moses Kamara, Sierra Leone, Africa, a student at A&T, and S. Kishosha, educational and cultural attache from Tanzania. Strife Erupts Between CORE And States Rights Pickets Angry Negroes hurled stones and bricks at teen-age pickets from the white supremacist National States Rights Party Saturday, forcing police to order the demonstrators out of racially tense East Baltimore. Police hustled the 16 young pickets, two of them girls, into their cars and told them to leave the predominantly Negro neighborhood where they had been picketing the offices of the Congress of Racial. One State Righter was hit on the arm by a brick thrown by a blueJacketed Negro who quickly ran up the street, but no arrests were made. The pickets, between the ages of 16 and 20, vowed to return to stage counter demonstrations where ever CORE members turn out during the summer. CORE has chosen Baltimore as its national target city for integration and has been demonstrating daily for two weeks. Riot-trained members of the police tactical force moved in as a large crowd gathered around a CORE leader standing beside a sound truck parked outside CORE headquarters. In Philadelphia, Penna, three persons were held in $1,000 ball each Saturday and a youth was turned over to Juvenile authorities in a lye-throwing attack on police who were sent to quell a neighborhood disturbance. Four policemen were hit by a lye solution thrown from the front door of a home and from a thirdfloor window, but none was injured seriously. They were treated at Graduate Hospital. Officials said two policemen went into the neighborhood, described as a hotbed of hostility toward police, on a complaint neighbors were arguing in the street. They found Mrs. Mina Sanders, 48, in the midst of a crown arguing with a neighbor. Police said her husband, Samson, 45, came put of the house, punched an officer and ran inside and locked the door. At this point the crowd of onlookers swelled to about 100 and an assist officer call brought in 20 more policemen to keep order. Police said officers were pounding on Sanders' door, ordering him to come out when he suddenly opened it and hurled a bucket of lye solution on them, then went in and locked the door again. Two other policeman among the reinforcements were hit by a rain of milk and wine bottles filled with the solution which police said was tossed from the window by Sanders' wife and her son, Sherman Baer 17. Police forced their way inside and arrested the Sanders family. As they led them to a patrolwagon police Said, Elbert Williams, 47, a bystander, stacked them and was placed under arrest. Detecties said some residents of the area were known to keep a caustic solution handy in their homes. The family was charged with inciting to riot and additional charges of assault on an officer were lodged against Sanders. Williams was held on a charge of being drunk and disorderly. Equality, CORE Angry Negroes hurled stones and bricks at teen-age pickets from the white supremacist National States Rights Party Saturday, forcing police to order the demonstrators out of racially tense East Baltimore. Police hustled the 16 young pickets, two of them girls, into their cars and told them to leave the predominantly Negro neighborhood where they had been picketing the offices of the Congress of Racial. One State Righter was hit on the arm by a brick thrown by a blueJacketed Negro who quickly ran up the street, but no arrests were made. The pickets, between the ages of 16 and 20, vowed to return to stage counter demonstrations where ever CORE members turn out during the summer. CORE has chosen Baltimore as its national target city for integration and has been demonstrating daily for two weeks. Riot-trained members of the police tactical force moved in as a large crowd gathered around a CORE leader standing beside a sound truck parked outside CORE headquarters. In Philadelphia, Penna, three persons were held in $1,000 ball each Saturday and a youth was turned over to Juvenile authorities in a lye-throwing attack on police who were sent to quell a neighborhood disturbance. Four policemen were hit by a lye solution thrown from the front door of a home and from a thirdfloor window, but none was injured seriously. They were treated at Graduate Hospital. Officials said two policemen went into the neighborhood, described as a hotbed of hostility toward police, on a complaint neighbors were arguing in the street. They found Mrs. Mina Sanders, 48, in the midst of a crown arguing with a neighbor. Police said her husband, Samson, 45, came put of the house, punched an officer and ran inside and locked the door. At this point the crowd of onlookers swelled to about 100 and an assist officer call brought in 20 more policemen to keep order. Police said officers were pounding on Sanders' door, ordering him to come out when he suddenly opened it and hurled a bucket of lye solution on them, then went in and locked the door again. Two other policeman among the reinforcements were hit by a rain of milk and wine bottles filled with the solution which police said was tossed from the window by Sanders' wife and her son, Sherman Baer 17. Police forced their way inside and arrested the Sanders family. As they led them to a patrolwagon police Said, Elbert Williams, 47, a bystander, stacked them and was placed under arrest. Detecties said some residents of the area were known to keep a caustic solution handy in their homes. The family was charged with inciting to riot and additional charges of assault on an officer were lodged against Sanders. Williams was held on a charge of being drunk and disorderly. Racial Fighting Flares At Inquest Fighting broke out between Negroes and whites Thursday during a coroner's inquest into the death of a Negro youth who was beaten to death by a group of white toughs last week. Cook County sheriff's police put down the disturbance. The coroner's jury ruled that four youths charged with the murder of Jerome Huey, 17. Chicago, should be turned over to the county grand jury for possible indictments. Fights erupted after a Negro woman began taking pictures of several white women, believed to be the mothers of the accused youths. Someone grabbed the womans' camera and slammed it to the floor. Fighting began inside and outside the County Morgue hearing room. Police moved in quickly and ended the oubreak. There were no arrests. The four accused youths - Martin Kracht, 18, Frank Hough, 18, Dominick Mazzone, 17, and Arthur Larson, 19 - attending the hearing. County Jail Warden Jack Johnson said the four were beaten in their cells by Negro prisoners Wednesday night and again early Thursday before the coroner's inquest. Johnson said the prisoners who assaulted the youths had been confined to special cells for disciplin ary action. Huey, the slain youth, died Sunday from injuries he received in a beating last week in Cicero, where he had gone to seek a job as a dockhand with a trucking firm. Police said he had been assaulted, with a baseball bat. County authorities said 30 detectives worked 30 straight hours until the arrests were made. About 300,000 persons, including hundreas of newly registered Negroes voted Tuesday in the first major Mississippi election since passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. U. S. Sen. James Eastland, DMiss., will be seeking his fifth term and four incumbent congressmen will be running in the Democratic primaries. In addition, for Democrats will compete for the seat being given up by Republican Congressman Prentiss Walker. Two Republican candidates also will be vying for Walker's post in the state's first, major GOP primary election in modern times. In the past, Republicans have usually entered only one candidate and no primary was necessary. The Negro vote was expected to have little chance of influencing the outcome of any of race, partly because of its small size and partly because of an apparent apathy. There are no official figures but there are believed to be about 125,000 registered Negro voters compared to about 457,000 whites. Strength of the Negro vote could possibly be shown in the November general election when the Democrats face opposition from able Republicans. Eastland's opponents in the Democratic primary will be Meridian cattleman Charles Mesby and Clifton Whitley of Holley Springs, a Negro backed by the civil rights oriented Mississippi Freedom Democratic party. Walker plans to oppose the winner in the general election. Rep. William Colmer, D-Miss., the senior congressman, faced possible stiff opposition in the 5th district from Edward Khayat of Moss Point a well-known official. FDP Chairman Lawrence Guyo was also on the ballot. Rep. Thomas Ahernathy, D-Miss., faced only token opposition from FDP candidate Negro Dock Drummond of Kosciusko, Rep. James Whitten, D. Miss., is opposed by FDP contender Hayes, a Negro farmer from Tchula, and Rep. John Bell. Williams, by the Rev. Edwin King, a white civil rights advocate. Penn, Gov. Scranton Removes Name From Public Office Races Gov. William W. Scranton announced Thursday that he will never run again for any public elective office, including the Presidency, the U. S. Senate or Congress. With his wife, Mary, seated in the audience attending his first news conference since his return from Viet Nam, the Governor said. I am not going to run ever again for any public office under any circumstance — and that includes being drafted. I am not going to run this year or ever for Congress, I am not going to run for the United States Senate in 1968.I am not going to run for the presidency in 1968 or ever. Scranton, who was a congressman before being elected to the governorship in 1962, made an unsuccessful last - minute attempt to wrest the Republican presidential nomination from former U. S. Sen. Barry Goldwater at the party's 1964 national convention. h schools in Alabama, Georgia and Florida have, been sent bids to participate in the Annual tional Track Meet at the Florida High allanssee, Florida, ten A. M., Saturday, June 11. Birmingham and Jefferson Coun high school track teams who wish to participate should where immediately to: Capital City Kiwanis Club See P. O. Box. da Secretary Maldox said that the annual track meet provides an op and high school track to compete Medals and trophies will be awarded to the place winners in here a so will be tropies for the eams. Mr. Maddex suggests that any one who has ficial invitation should contact him immediately. for the meet are he ants, Mr. Maddex said.