Memphis World
Memphis World Publishing Co.
1962-08-25
J. A. Beauchamp

Jamaica's Independence
Celebrations End After
Unexcelled Hospitality
While many of the hosts of visitors 
who attended the Jamaican
Independence Celebrations have departed, 
throngs still remain in this
"enchanted island" basking in its
sunshine, enjoying its abundant
green foliage, wonderful climate and
hospitality.
Jamaica proved to be a generous
host. While scores, even hundreds
of the visitors came from various
countries in the West Indies. Great
Britain, Canada and America accounted 
for many more.
Princess Margaret, representing
her sister Queen Elizabeth of England, 
was of course the star attraction 
accompanied by her husband, 
the Earl of Snowden. There
were other titled folk such as Lord
and Lady Milverton, he was a former 
governor of Jamaica, and Sir
Hugh Foote also a governor, the
Lord Bishop of Birmingham,
representing the Archbishop ot
Canterbury and the Archbishop
Giovanni Ferrofino, from Haiti but
representing the Pope.
The more than 100 especially invited 
guests were housed in the
plush new Sheraton-Kingston hotel
in which they were the only guests.
A car and driver had been signed 
each guest for the entire tenday 
period of the celebrations so
that they could negotiate the considerable 
distances between events
with ease.
Special invitations and admittance 
cards awaited, each of them
to numerous "events such as the
raising in the sparkling new stadium 
seating 30,000 people, the opening 
of the first session of the new
Jamaican Parliament, the recaptions 
at King's House where Princess 
and her husband were housed. 
Cards were required at many,
places including the reception at
the Prime Minister's House which
had just been refurnished by the;
outgoing chief minister, Norman
Manley, only to have the first event
staged there presided over by Sir
Alexander Bustamante, the new
chief.
The State dinner, the State ball
and the mayor's dinner were held
in the magnificent ball room of the
Sheraton. Visitors were constantly 
on the move There were numerous 
musical and artistic events,
plays by Jamaican playwrights, impressive 
exhibitions of sculpture
and paintings by Jamaican artists.
Fourteen of the sculptures and
paintings were of the Mrs. Norman

Manley. The day the celebrations
closed the Pan American athletic
games bringing athletes from all
over the West Indies and South
America opened.
Among those from the United
States were Vice President Lyndon
B. Johnson, who headed the American 
delegation, and his wife and
daughter: Dr. Ralph J. Bundle,
who represented the United Nations, 
and Mrs. Bunche; Elmer Anderson 
Carter, who represented
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New
York, and Mrs. Carter.
Others from Nek York included
Roy Wilkins, executive secretary,
NAACP; Congressman Adam Clayton 
Powell; State Senator James
C. Watson with his mother, the
widow of the late Judge James
C. Watson, with her daughters,
Barbara and Grace; Rick Haines
of Rockefeller. Brothers foundation; 
Mr. and Mrs. Kelvin Wall of
the Amsterdam News; a Wendell
Malliet; Maj John Silvera, and
Mrs. Joseph Davies of the Carver
Federal Loan Association.
From Chicago, Judge Richard A.
Harewood; Atty. and Mrs. Bindley
C. Cyrus; and Mrs. Claude A. Barnett 
of the Associated Negro Press:
Mrs. Jerry Mardis; Mrs. Frances
T. Matlock and Lee A. Blackwell.
representing the Chicago Defender. 

Mrs. Gladys Badeau of Kansas
City and J. R. Alveranga wellknown 
engineer of Detroit, as well
as George W. Westerman, editor of
the Panama Tribune, and Principal
and Mrs. Williams of Trenton, N.
J., were present.
Nigeria was represented by J. M.
Johnson, minister of labor, Mao
Olarwaju, minister of state for police 
and A. O. Niniola. Liberia sent
Dr. and Mrs. John Mitchell, minister 
of education.
Sierra Leone had two delegates,
Paramount Chief Bakabsanah Marah 
and Kelphala A. F Williams,
M. P.; Tanganyika, A. Z. N. Swai;
Ghana, A. K. Puplampu, deputy
minister of foreign affairs; H. C,
Yemokpe, third secretary and H.
Omnyad public relations officer to
Ghana Mission, New York.

Bunche, Wilkins,
Powell, Johnson
Celebrate Affair
While many of the hosts of visitors 
who attended the Jamaican
Independence Celebrations have departed, 
throngs still remain in this
"enchanted island" basking in its
sunshine, enjoying its abundant
green foliage, wonderful climate and
hospitality.
Jamaica proved to be a generous
host. While scores, even hundreds
of the visitors came from various
countries in the West Indies. Great
Britain, Canada and America accounted 
for many more.
Princess Margaret, representing
her sister Queen Elizabeth of England, 
was of course the star attraction 
accompanied by her husband, 
the Earl of Snowden. There
were other titled folk such as Lord
and Lady Milverton, he was a former 
governor of Jamaica, and Sir
Hugh Foote also a governor, the
Lord Bishop of Birmingham,
representing the Archbishop ot
Canterbury and the Archbishop
Giovanni Ferrofino, from Haiti but
representing the Pope.
The more than 100 especially invited 
guests were housed in the
plush new Sheraton-Kingston hotel
in which they were the only guests.
A car and driver had been signed 
each guest for the entire tenday 
period of the celebrations so
that they could negotiate the considerable 
distances between events
with ease.
Special invitations and admittance 
cards awaited, each of them
to numerous "events such as the
raising in the sparkling new stadium 
seating 30,000 people, the opening 
of the first session of the new
Jamaican Parliament, the recaptions 
at King's House where Princess 
and her husband were housed. 
Cards were required at many,
places including the reception at
the Prime Minister's House which
had just been refurnished by the;
outgoing chief minister, Norman
Manley, only to have the first event
staged there presided over by Sir
Alexander Bustamante, the new
chief.
The State dinner, the State ball
and the mayor's dinner were held
in the magnificent ball room of the
Sheraton. Visitors were constantly 
on the move There were numerous 
musical and artistic events,
plays by Jamaican playwrights, impressive 
exhibitions of sculpture
and paintings by Jamaican artists.
Fourteen of the sculptures and
paintings were of the Mrs. Norman

Manley. The day the celebrations
closed the Pan American athletic
games bringing athletes from all
over the West Indies and South
America opened.
Among those from the United
States were Vice President Lyndon
B. Johnson, who headed the American 
delegation, and his wife and
daughter: Dr. Ralph J. Bundle,
who represented the United Nations, 
and Mrs. Bunche; Elmer Anderson 
Carter, who represented
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New
York, and Mrs. Carter.
Others from Nek York included
Roy Wilkins, executive secretary,
NAACP; Congressman Adam Clayton 
Powell; State Senator James
C. Watson with his mother, the
widow of the late Judge James
C. Watson, with her daughters,
Barbara and Grace; Rick Haines
of Rockefeller. Brothers foundation; 
Mr. and Mrs. Kelvin Wall of
the Amsterdam News; a Wendell
Malliet; Maj John Silvera, and
Mrs. Joseph Davies of the Carver
Federal Loan Association.
From Chicago, Judge Richard A.
Harewood; Atty. and Mrs. Bindley
C. Cyrus; and Mrs. Claude A. Barnett 
of the Associated Negro Press:
Mrs. Jerry Mardis; Mrs. Frances
T. Matlock and Lee A. Blackwell.
representing the Chicago Defender. 

Mrs. Gladys Badeau of Kansas
City and J. R. Alveranga wellknown 
engineer of Detroit, as well
as George W. Westerman, editor of
the Panama Tribune, and Principal
and Mrs. Williams of Trenton, N.
J., were present.
Nigeria was represented by J. M.
Johnson, minister of labor, Mao
Olarwaju, minister of state for police 
and A. O. Niniola. Liberia sent
Dr. and Mrs. John Mitchell, minister 
of education.
Sierra Leone had two delegates,
Paramount Chief Bakabsanah Marah 
and Kelphala A. F Williams,
M. P.; Tanganyika, A. Z. N. Swai;
Ghana, A. K. Puplampu, deputy
minister of foreign affairs; H. C,
Yemokpe, third secretary and H.
Omnyad public relations officer to
Ghana Mission, New York.


While the House Un-American 
Activities Committee geared itself for a possible full-scale
probe into their activities black muslims stepped up their outcry
for separation of the races and black supremacy.
In San Francisco, they threw
themselves into a school desegregation 
fight and were reported as
urging that Negroes have their own
schools instead of attending schools
with white youngsters.
In St. Louis, 64-year-old Elijah
Muhammad, Georgia-born black
muslims leader, repeated his request 
that part of the United
States be given to the Negro people 
as their own homeland.
Disagreeing with Negroes who oppose 
black supremacy, he said:
"If they never lived under black
supremacy, how do they know they
won't like it." Muhammad was
speaking at the city convention hall
to a crowd estimated at 3,500 including 
about 50 white persons, who
were seated together.
In Los Angeles, tension between
whites and Negroes mounted as
nine muslims indicted for assault
and resisting a policeman await
trial as an aftermath of a riot involving 
muslims and polimemen in
which one member of the sect,
Ronald T. Stokes, was shot dead
by a law officer.
In Chicago, headquarters of the
movement, muslim resentment has
been on the increase since May,
when the musli- school was dropped 
from the list of accredited private 
schools by the Cook County
Education Office. The office acted
after muslims refused to permit
inspection of the school's curriculum. 

The resentment in Chicago was
compounded last week with the ap
pearance 
in a metropolitan paper
of a controversial "expose" of the
sect written by a Negro reporter
Ben Holman, who got his material
for the articles by joining the
movement under an assumed name.
A federal judge here last week
refused to stay a court order granting 
religious privileges to black
muslim members in District penal
institutions.
The privileges had been granted
in the wake of two riots at the Lorcon 
Youth Center staged by young
members of the sect, It was this
riot, coupled with the one in Los
Angeles and the "general preaching 
of black supremacy" that led
a Southern Democrat, Rep. L. Mendel 
Rivers of South Carolina to
urge that a probe be conducted by
the House Un-American Activities
Committee, observers here say.
The resolution approved by the
powerful House Rules Committee,
charged that the black muslins
are "undemocratic and subversive."
But an FBI spokesman commented 
that neither the Justice Department 
or the FBI had found the
muslims subversive.
Meanwhile, a Negro minister here,
Rev. Wallace H. Terry of Merecian
Hill Baptist church, warned that
unless the racial injustice that produces 
the black muslim movement
is corrected, the idea of "an integrated 
democracy nourished in
brotherly love may be lost."

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Jersey Asked To
End School Bias
The National Association for the Advancement 
of Colored People recently filed a petition with the New
Jersey Commissioner of Education calling for elimination of existing 
school segregation in Bridgeton, N.J.
The petition, which was filed on
Aug. 15 on behalf of 29 Negro
school children and their parents,
specifically protests the extension
of the present pattern of school
segregation by the construction of
an addition to the all-Negro Buckshutem 
elementary school. It further 
protests the construction of
a new elementary school in the
predominantly Negro Buckshutem
school district "upon a physically
undesirable and unsafe site."
The Bridgeton Board of Education, 
the petition alleges, maintains 
double sessions in two virtually 
all-Negro elementary schools
It protests the failure of the Board
to eliminate the double sessions
by the beginning of the 1962 school
session. Negro enrollment in the
Buckshutem school is 99 per cent
despite the fact that white children 
of elementary school age live
within the school district.
In April, the NAACP protested to
the Bridgeton Board of Education
the proposed site for the new elementary 
school and strongly urged
that a new location be selected that
would be accessible to both white
and Negro children. The Board was
also asked to redraw elementary
school lines to eliminate existing
segregation. Two elementary schools
are virtually all-Negro and six are
predominantly or all-white.
The NAACP has now requested
that the Commissioner of Education 
for New Jersey grant a hearing 
so that the legal and constitutional 
issues involved may be determined. 
The Commissioner has
also been asked to issue an order
to the Bridgeton Board of Education 
"requiring it to take concrete
positive steps to eliminate all aspects 
of segregation in the Bridgeton 
public school system, effective
no later than September 1, 1962."
NAACP attorneys representing
the plaintiffs are Robert Johnson
of Camden, N. J., Robert L. Car
ter of New York and Miss Barbara
A. Morris, of New Jersey.

Ellington And
Armstrong Set
For Commercials
The
music of band leader-composer
Duke Ellington and trumpetist
Louis Armstrong, both internationally 
famous, will soon be heard on
records, and in motion pictures and
television throughout the world in
sales advertisements for the Goodyear 
Tre Co.
The employment of the two jazz
immortals as super salesmen for
Goodyear's new multi-million dollar 
marketing and advertising program 
was announced last week by
Richard V. Thomas, president of
Goodyear International, during a
torrid jazz session at the Basin St.
East night club here.
Ellington and Armstrong, Thomas 
said, are among a number of
jazz performers who will be featured 
during the sales campaign,
slanted exclusively to overseas
markets. The records will be sold
through dealer stores at prices
about one-third the normal cost
for similar albums. Neither the records 
nor the films will be made
available in the United States,
Thomas explained.

Mississippi
Told To Gather
Vote Records
A
Hinds county circuit clerk has been
ordered to produce his voting
registration records for inspection
by the Federal government.
H.T. "Bubba" Ashford, the clerk,
said last week that he had been
served with formal papers from the
U.S. District Court office here,
"requiring production of records
copying."
for Inspection, reproduction and
He-is-required-to-appear-in-court
Aug. 21, for a hearing.
Two deputies from the federal
court served the papers which were
signed by Robert Harberg, U. S.
attorney.
The U. S. Attorney General's office, 
represented by Burke Mar
fice, represented by Burke Marshall, 
assistant attorney general
handling civil rights matters first
called upon Ashford in July by letter 
to permit inspection of his records. 

Ashford, represented by his attorney, 
Weaver Gore answered and
declined voluntarily to submit to
inspection.
The Hinds clerk is expecting to
ask for specific charges, who
brought them and what the violations 
are for which the action was
brought.

Negro Maid One Of Few
Guests At, Monroe Rites
Miss Florence Thomas, the Negro maid
of Marilyn Monroe, paid her last respects to the glamorous film
actress by attending her funeral rites along with some 30 invited
guests.
It is believed that of those present
Miss Thomas was the one most
closely associated with Miss Monroe. 
Not a single Hollywood celebrity 
was discernable in the tiny
group of mourners that filed Into
the chapel of the Westwood Village
mortuary.
Neither Miss Monroe's second husband, 
Joe Dimaggio, the ex-New
York Yankee star, nor the star's
half-sister, Mrs. Bernice Meracle,
were as closely associated with the
actress during her lifetime, as was
Miss Thomas. According to Marilyn's 
close friends, Mrs. Meracle
had met her sister only once in her
lifetime. DiMaggo and Miss Monroe 
were divorced after only nine
months of marriage.
As I stood with other members
of the press behind the ropes near
the entrance to the mortuary, I
couldn't help thinking to myself:
"This is the strangest Hollywood
funeral I have ever witnessed —
absolutely not one big Hollywood
name."
I couldn't blame Miss Monroe's
Intimate friends, actor Peter Lawford 
and his wife, Pat, President
Kennedy's sister, Frank Sinatra and
Dean Martin, for being peeved
The Lawfords had interrupted a
vacation at the President's summer
resort at Hyannis Port, Mass., to
fly here for the funeral. But they
weren't invited. Lawford, before returning 
to Hyannis Port, blasted

the poor handling of the funeral,
allegedly by Mrs. Meracle, DiMaggio 
and Marilyn's business manager,
Inez Melson, saying:
"I am shocked. Pat flew in Monday 
night from Hyannis Port,
where she had been vacationing
with the kids, just to attend Marilyn's 
funeral. But we were not invited. 
I don't know who's responsible, 
but the whole thing is badly
handled."
The press, including this reporter,
was also barred from the rites.
I can say this for Joe, however.
He must have loved Marilyn deeply 
and sincerely. Several times
prior to the simple rites, he had
spent hours in the chapel alone
with the remains of the famous
actress. To me he was the most
sorrowful mourner in the whole
funeral procession. He plucked one
lone carnation from the snow-white
blanket which had covered the
bronze casket just before it was
placed in the mortuary crypt.
However, Miss Monroe's public
was not so considerate. After the
funeral, crowds stormed the mortuary 
grounds, ripping flowers from
the colorful funeral wreaths for
souvenirs
During the rites and burial, I
stood on the grass and on the bare
ground for over three hours, but
I was glad I had come. I had only
one regret. I bad not worn my
"Walking" shoes.

ELEANOR
"This Evening," said Simple, "I feel like talking about the
word Black".
"Nobody's stopping you, so go ahead. But what you really
ought to have is a soap-box out on the corner of 126th and
Lenox where the rest of the orators hang out."
"They express some good ideas on
hat corner, said Simple, but for my
ideas I do not need a crowd. Now,
as I was saying, the word BLACK,
white folks have done used that
word to mean something bad so
often until now when the NAACP
asks for civil rights for the black
man they think they must be bad.
Looking back into history, I reckon 
it all suited with a black cat
meaning bad luck. Don't let one
cross your path
"Next somebody got up a blacklist 
on which you get if you don't
Me right. Then when lodges come
into being, the folks they didn't
want in them got BLACK-BALLED. 
If you kept a skeleton in your
closet, you might get BLACKMAILED. 
And everything bad was
BLACK. When it came down to the
unlucky ball on the pool table, the
eight - rock made it the black
ball. So no wonder there ain't no
equal rights for the black man."
"All you say is true about the
idiom attached to the word
BLACK," I said "You've even forgotten 
a few. For example, during
the war if you brought something
under the table Illegally, they said
you were trading on the BLACK
MARKET. In Chicago, if you're a
gangster, the Black Hand Society
may take you for a ride. And certainly, 
if you don't behave yourself,
your farmily will say you are s
BLACK sheep. Then if your Maine
burns a BLACK candle to change
the foully luck, they call it black
magic."
"My Mama never did believe in
voodoo so she did not burn no
black candles," said Simple.
"If she had, that would have
been a black mark against her."
"Stop talking about my mama.
What I want to know is where do
white folks get off calling everything 
bad black? If It is a dark
night, they say it's black as hell
If you are mean and evil, they say
you got a black heart. I would like
to change all that around and say
that people who Jim Crow me have
got a white heart. People who sell
dope to children have a white mark

against them. And all the white
ramblers who are behind the basketball 
fix are the white sheep of
the sports world. God knows there
was a few if any Negroes selling
stuff on the black market during
the war, so why didn't they call it
the white market? No they got to
take me and my color and turn it
into everything bad. According to
white folks, black is bad.
"Wait till my day comes. In my
language, bad will be white. Blackmail 
will be white mail. Black cats
will be good luck and white cats
will be bad. If a white cat crosses
your path look out. I will take the
black cat for the cue ball and let
the white ball be the unlucky eightrock. 
And on my blacklist —which
will be a white list then — I will
put everybody who ever Jim Crowed 
me from Rankin to Hitler, Talmadge 
to Malan south Carolina
to South Africa.
"I am black. When I look in the
mirror, I see myself, daddy-o, but
I am not ashamed. God made me.
He also made F. D. dark as he is.
He did not make us no worst than
the rest of the folks. The earth is
black and all kinds of good things
corm out of the earth. Trees and
flowers and fruit and sweet potatoes 
and corn and all that keeps
people alive comes right up out of
the earth - good old black earth.
Coal is black and it warms your
house and cooks our food. The
night is black, which has a moon,
and a million stars, and it is beautiful. 

Sleep is black which gives you
rest, so you wake up feeling good I'm
black I feel good this evening."
"What Is wrong with black?"
(The Langston Hughes Reader
Published in 1959).

That Word Black
"This Evening," said Simple, "I feel like talking about the
word Black".
"Nobody's stopping you, so go ahead. But what you really
ought to have is a soap-box out on the corner of 126th and
Lenox where the rest of the orators hang out."
"They express some good ideas on
hat corner, said Simple, but for my
ideas I do not need a crowd. Now,
as I was saying, the word BLACK,
white folks have done used that
word to mean something bad so
often until now when the NAACP
asks for civil rights for the black
man they think they must be bad.
Looking back into history, I reckon 
it all suited with a black cat
meaning bad luck. Don't let one
cross your path
"Next somebody got up a blacklist 
on which you get if you don't
Me right. Then when lodges come
into being, the folks they didn't
want in them got BLACK-BALLED. 
If you kept a skeleton in your
closet, you might get BLACKMAILED. 
And everything bad was
BLACK. When it came down to the
unlucky ball on the pool table, the
eight - rock made it the black
ball. So no wonder there ain't no
equal rights for the black man."
"All you say is true about the
idiom attached to the word
BLACK," I said "You've even forgotten 
a few. For example, during
the war if you brought something
under the table Illegally, they said
you were trading on the BLACK
MARKET. In Chicago, if you're a
gangster, the Black Hand Society
may take you for a ride. And certainly, 
if you don't behave yourself,
your farmily will say you are s
BLACK sheep. Then if your Maine
burns a BLACK candle to change
the foully luck, they call it black
magic."
"My Mama never did believe in
voodoo so she did not burn no
black candles," said Simple.
"If she had, that would have
been a black mark against her."
"Stop talking about my mama.
What I want to know is where do
white folks get off calling everything 
bad black? If It is a dark
night, they say it's black as hell
If you are mean and evil, they say
you got a black heart. I would like
to change all that around and say
that people who Jim Crow me have
got a white heart. People who sell
dope to children have a white mark

against them. And all the white
ramblers who are behind the basketball 
fix are the white sheep of
the sports world. God knows there
was a few if any Negroes selling
stuff on the black market during
the war, so why didn't they call it
the white market? No they got to
take me and my color and turn it
into everything bad. According to
white folks, black is bad.
"Wait till my day comes. In my
language, bad will be white. Blackmail 
will be white mail. Black cats
will be good luck and white cats
will be bad. If a white cat crosses
your path look out. I will take the
black cat for the cue ball and let
the white ball be the unlucky eightrock. 
And on my blacklist —which
will be a white list then — I will
put everybody who ever Jim Crowed 
me from Rankin to Hitler, Talmadge 
to Malan south Carolina
to South Africa.
"I am black. When I look in the
mirror, I see myself, daddy-o, but
I am not ashamed. God made me.
He also made F. D. dark as he is.
He did not make us no worst than
the rest of the folks. The earth is
black and all kinds of good things
corm out of the earth. Trees and
flowers and fruit and sweet potatoes 
and corn and all that keeps
people alive comes right up out of
the earth - good old black earth.
Coal is black and it warms your
house and cooks our food. The
night is black, which has a moon,
and a million stars, and it is beautiful. 

Sleep is black which gives you
rest, so you wake up feeling good I'm
black I feel good this evening."
"What Is wrong with black?"
(The Langston Hughes Reader
Published in 1959).

PLANNING 25TH CONVENTION—
This committee of the National
Funeral Directors and Morticians Association is" shown completing 
details of the organization's silver anniversary convention in
Chicago, III., August 26-30. All sessions will take place in the
Morrison Hotel. Headline speaker at the installation banquet will
be Federal Judge James B. Parsons of Chicago. Seated, left to
right, are O. P. Chiles of Richmond, Va., a past president; Charles

Latimar, Madison, Ark.; Fulton E. Culkin, St. Louis, Mo.; J. W.
Renfro, Cincinnati, Ohio; Roy Lay, Dallas, Texas; and R: H. Haile,
Jr., past president, Camden, S.C.; C. J. Clark, Dallas, Texas; Leon
Harrison, Los Angeles, Calif., and David Lane of Brooklyn, N.Y.
More than 800 delegates are expected to participate in the meetings. 
(Nolan A. Marshall Photo)

KENJA CONVENTION
A convention, 
described as "The Kenya We
Wont" conference, was held Aug.
12-17. Politicians of all parties and

races, representatives of commerce,
industry, agriculture, and trade unions 
attended the convention with
the aim of hammering out a blueprint 
for Kenya's future.

Morticians
Will Meet
In Chicago
Chicago, "the world's most exciting 
city", will be host to the National 
Funeral Directors and Morticians 
Association when it opens
its silver anniversary convention
at the Morrison hotel on August 26
More than 800 delegates are expected 
for the business sessions
and social events which on August
30 ends.
The Association represents a
membership of nearly 3000 progressive 
morticians and funeral directors 
who are highly respected
and useful citizens of their communities. 
F. H. Purnell of Houston, 
Texas, is the president; and
Aid. Robert H. Miller, varsatile
businessman of- Chicago, Ill., is the
general secretary and editor of the
associations monthly publication.
George W. Jones, president of
the Illinois Selected Morticians Association, 
the host organization,
stated that plans for the greatest
convenion in the Associaion's 25
year history have been completed
by the Chicago group in conjunction
with the national body's convention
committee.
Memorial services for deceased
members will be held on opening
night at. Greater St. John's Baptist 
Church, 4821 S. Michigan Ave.
Rev. William A. Johnson, the pastor, 
will participate with the chaplain, 
J. R. Weatherly of York. Ala.,
the 1962 recipient of the Morticianof 
the year" trophy.
The president's breakfast on
Monday August 27, will be followed 
by a 10 o'clock public meeting
at which greetings will be brought
by Mayor Richard J. Daley and
other leaders in the city's community 
affairs. A fashion show,
featuring the Carl Scott models, is
on Monday's evening program.
A multi-million dollar exhibit of
embalming supplies and automotive
machinery featuring the latest developments 
in the industry will be
on display in the Morrison's Constitution 
room.
Another convention highlight will
be-the awarding of certificates of
merit to members who have been
in the association since 1938. The
"Woman of the year trophy, awarded 
annually Aid. Robert H. Miller
will go to Mrs. Birdie Beal Anderson 
of St. Louis, Mo.

Racial Bias
Seen As Main
U.U.I.A. Woe
The major obstacle facing the
United States Information Agency
is racial discrimination, Edward R.
Murrow, UNIA director, revealed
last week.
In speaking to 3,500 college age
summer Federal workers attending
a White House seminar, Murrow
said America's race problem helps
keep the United States' message
from getting to the rest of the
world.
"We will succeed in our current
campaign to project our policies
and programs exactly to the extent
that we are able to extend a great
er 
degree of political, social and
economic equality at home, the
USIA director declared.
"We will succeed to the extent
that people who look at us from
the outside believe that we increaseingly 
are creating the kind of society 
that they themselves would
Ike to have in their own countries,"
Murrow said.

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Shriners Urged
To Push For
Human Rights
Five thousand Shriners here for
their 61st annual Imperial Council session were urged to take
the front ranks in the struggle for human rights.
Speaking at a pre-convention
public program, Carl T. Rowan,
State Department Deputy Assistant 
Secretary' of public affairs,
commended the delegates for their
outstanding assistance to Negro
education but emphasized that
Shriners must help strengthen democracy 
in our time for all Americans. 

Meeting at the Leamington hotel,
delegates to the Ancient Egyptian
Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine,
heard Imperial Potentate Booker T.
Alexander of Detroit keynote the
annual session with an appeal for
Shriners to assume new roles of
leadership in communities across
the country.
Alexander said members should
provide frontline leadership in
registering -and voting drives, encourage 
Negroes in business and
fight for a redaction in crime.
The Potentate declared that the
huge influx of Negroes into metropolitan 
areas of the North, East
and West make it important for
Shriners to begin a new program of
assistance.
A highlight of the convention was
the awarding of plaques to Rowan,
a native of Minneapolis, and former
reporter for the Minneapolis
Spokesman and St. Paul Recorder,
and Cecil Newman, editor and publisher 
of the papers, for their work
in human relations areas.
Their awards were the highest
that may be accorded citizens by
the Imperial Council.
Not all of the convention agenda
was in such a serious vein.
The 61st annual Shrine Parade,
led by Imperial Marshal James P,
Nelson of Newark, N. J., swept
down the principal business thouroughfare 
in a blaze of color and
pageantry before thousands who
cheered along the way.
In the annual competitive precision 
drill team show, New York
City's Medina Temple Patrol, a
dark horse, captured first place
honors, nosing out Philadelphia's
Pyramid Temple, which took second 
prize. One of the new features 
of the competitive drill was
the appearance of a Motorcycle
Patrol from Kansas City, Kan., led
by Capt. Warden Bailey.
More than 740 young people of
the Twin. Cities turned out for the
first Youth Night dance sponsored
by the Youth Department of the
Prince Hall Shriners at the National 
Guard Armory.
An international aspect was injected 
into the convention with the
appearance of Past Grand Worthy
Matron Sarah Simpson of the Central 
Grand chapter of the Order
of Eastern Star, Monrovia, Liberia.
Election of officers of the Imperian 
Court, Daughters of Isis, the
auxiliary to the Shriners, was completed. 
New Imperial Commandress
is Ercelle Harmon Moore.
The Imperial Potentate's Ball,
complete with all its glitter, was
held in the National Guard Armory. 


Carl Rowan Says Group Must
Help Strengthen Democracy
Five thousand Shriners here for
their 61st annual Imperial Council session were urged to take
the front ranks in the struggle for human rights.
Speaking at a pre-convention
public program, Carl T. Rowan,
State Department Deputy Assistant 
Secretary' of public affairs,
commended the delegates for their
outstanding assistance to Negro
education but emphasized that
Shriners must help strengthen democracy 
in our time for all Americans. 

Meeting at the Leamington hotel,
delegates to the Ancient Egyptian
Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine,
heard Imperial Potentate Booker T.
Alexander of Detroit keynote the
annual session with an appeal for
Shriners to assume new roles of
leadership in communities across
the country.
Alexander said members should
provide frontline leadership in
registering -and voting drives, encourage 
Negroes in business and
fight for a redaction in crime.
The Potentate declared that the
huge influx of Negroes into metropolitan 
areas of the North, East
and West make it important for
Shriners to begin a new program of
assistance.
A highlight of the convention was
the awarding of plaques to Rowan,
a native of Minneapolis, and former
reporter for the Minneapolis
Spokesman and St. Paul Recorder,
and Cecil Newman, editor and publisher 
of the papers, for their work
in human relations areas.
Their awards were the highest
that may be accorded citizens by
the Imperial Council.
Not all of the convention agenda
was in such a serious vein.
The 61st annual Shrine Parade,
led by Imperial Marshal James P,
Nelson of Newark, N. J., swept
down the principal business thouroughfare 
in a blaze of color and
pageantry before thousands who
cheered along the way.
In the annual competitive precision 
drill team show, New York
City's Medina Temple Patrol, a
dark horse, captured first place
honors, nosing out Philadelphia's
Pyramid Temple, which took second 
prize. One of the new features 
of the competitive drill was
the appearance of a Motorcycle
Patrol from Kansas City, Kan., led
by Capt. Warden Bailey.
More than 740 young people of
the Twin. Cities turned out for the
first Youth Night dance sponsored
by the Youth Department of the
Prince Hall Shriners at the National 
Guard Armory.
An international aspect was injected 
into the convention with the
appearance of Past Grand Worthy
Matron Sarah Simpson of the Central 
Grand chapter of the Order
of Eastern Star, Monrovia, Liberia.
Election of officers of the Imperian 
Court, Daughters of Isis, the
auxiliary to the Shriners, was completed. 
New Imperial Commandress
is Ercelle Harmon Moore.
The Imperial Potentate's Ball,
complete with all its glitter, was
held in the National Guard Armory. 




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