Memphis World
Memphis World Publishing Co.
1963-03-09
J. A. Beauchamp

Virginia County
Drops Race Factor
In Employment
Arlington 
County, Va., has adopted a
policy which eliminates race as a
factor in the hiring of personnel
for all county departments, including 
the police force.
In confirming the policy, County
Manager Bert Jones said "Negroes
will not be given jobs just because
they are Negroes, nor will they be
Prevented from having jobs, because
they are Negroes."
Johnson has directed that any
instances of racial discrimination
be brought to his attention. About
one-fourth of the county's 1,400 employes 
are colored.

Death Asked
For Seven In
De Gaulle Try
The government 
prosecutor asked for death
sentences Monday for 7 of the 15
defendants charged with attempting 
to assassinate President Charles
de Gaulle. Prison terms ranging
from five years to life were sought
for the other defendants.
Only three of those for whom the
maximum penalty was asked were
present in the prisoners' dock. The
other four were being tried in absentia. 

The procecution concluded its
Case Monday. The defense will present 
its summation Wednesday after 
a one-day recess. Prosecutor
Gen. Charles Gerthoffer asked the
death penalty for: Lt. Col. JeanMarie 
Bastien-Thiry, 35, confessed
master-mind Of the Aug. 22, 1962
machinegun ambush attempt; Alain
de Bourgrenet de La Tocnayre, 37,
who allegedly led the ambush party,
and Gerard Buisines, 36, a former
Foreign Legionaire who admitted
firing the machinegun.
They listened to the prosecutor
call for their executions without
showing any emotion.
The four fugitives were: Georges
the Gimp Watin, 40, suspected as
the planner of another frustrated
attempt against De Gaulle 10 days
ago; Serges Bcrnier, 29, and two
Hungarian exiles, Lajos Marton, 31,
and Gyula Sari, 31.

Proposes Union Ouster
As Discrimination Cure

An examiner for the National
Labor Relations Board recommended 
that the big oil-drilling
equipment firm oust the unions
because of a 35-year "pattern of
racial segregation among the employes, 
both in their jobs and in
their unions."
The examiner, Frederick U. Reel,
said Hughes should make it "inexorably 
clear" that bargaining
rights would be denied any union
which permits raical discrimination.
Mr. Reel commented that in the
history, of labor relations at the
company's plant, one fact, had remained 
"constant from the enactment 
of the Wagner Act, to the
hearings in this case: all jobs at
the plant were either 'white men's
jobs or 'Negro jobs."
He charged that various labor
organizations have teamed up
with Hughes to divide white and
coolred employes into separate affiliated 
unions — and that whites
always got the better jobs.
The case arose when Ivory Davis,
20, a Hughes employe, filed a complaint 
that alleged that Local I
of the all-white Independent Metal
Workers Union had refused to
process his bid for an apprenticeship. 

Davis, a member of the allcolored 
Local 2, wanted to be promoted 
to one of the bettor paying
jobs always held by white men.
Through an arrangement between
the unions, Local 1 was supposed
to handle all grievances, but the
local ignored Davis' appeal for the
most part, saying only that it would
"follow the 199 contract ... and
would consider all 'eligible' employes." 

However, in addition to Davis,
some 70 odd employes, all white
men, submitted bids for the apprenticeships. 
Six of these were accepted. 


TEAM-UP CLAIMED

An examiner for the National
Labor Relations Board recommended 
that the big oil-drilling
equipment firm oust the unions
because of a 35-year "pattern of
racial segregation among the employes, 
both in their jobs and in
their unions."
The examiner, Frederick U. Reel,
said Hughes should make it "inexorably 
clear" that bargaining
rights would be denied any union
which permits raical discrimination.
Mr. Reel commented that in the
history, of labor relations at the
company's plant, one fact, had remained 
"constant from the enactment 
of the Wagner Act, to the
hearings in this case: all jobs at
the plant were either 'white men's
jobs or 'Negro jobs."
He charged that various labor
organizations have teamed up
with Hughes to divide white and
coolred employes into separate affiliated 
unions — and that whites
always got the better jobs.
The case arose when Ivory Davis,
20, a Hughes employe, filed a complaint 
that alleged that Local I
of the all-white Independent Metal
Workers Union had refused to
process his bid for an apprenticeship. 

Davis, a member of the allcolored 
Local 2, wanted to be promoted 
to one of the bettor paying
jobs always held by white men.
Through an arrangement between
the unions, Local 1 was supposed
to handle all grievances, but the
local ignored Davis' appeal for the
most part, saying only that it would
"follow the 199 contract ... and
would consider all 'eligible' employes." 

However, in addition to Davis,
some 70 odd employes, all white
men, submitted bids for the apprenticeships. 
Six of these were accepted. 


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STUDENT GROUP GETS CHARTER —
D. A. Schrom, left, Pougskeepsie, 
N.Y., national president of the American Society of Tool
and Manufacturing Engineers, presents the charter for the new
Student Chapter of the organization which was set up last week.
Accepting the charter is Harold Hicks, New York City, a
junior major in mechanical engineering. Looking on from left
center is Andrew A. Williams, and at right, Hardy Liston, Jr., both
faculty advisors to the new organization.

Alabama NAACP Case
To Court Third Time
Robert L. Carter,
NAACP general counsel, this week
announced that the Association will
shortly ask the U. S. Supreme court
to review, for the third time, Alabama's 
injunction stopping the organization's 
activities there.
The decision to return to the U.
S. Supreme Court followed a judgment 
handed down, Feb. 27, by the
Alabama Supreme Court upholding
the permanent injunction imposed
on the NAACP in December, 1961,

by Montgomery Circuit Court
Judge Walter B. Jones.
The adverse ruling by the Alabama 
court, Mr. Carter said, will
enable the Association, after seven
years of litigation, "to raise in the
Supreme Court of the United States
the validity of the state's action
barring the Association from Alabama 
in terms of due process, equal
protection and association rights
and obligations."
A temporary injunction imposed
on the NAACP in 1956 banned the
Association from all activity in the
state. The organization was banned
without notice or opportunity to be
heard on a charge of having failed
to register as a "foreign corporation." 

Subsequently, the NAACP was
found in contempt and fined $100,000 
for failing to turn over its state
membership lists, The U. S. supreme 
Court voided that fine.

Hawkins Names Two
To U.S. Academies
Rep. Augustus F. (Gus) Hawkins
(D.-Calif.) has announced two
nominations to the U. S. Air Force
and Naval Academies, Both nominees 
are from Los Angeles.
The Naval Academy appointee is
Judge M. Holmes, son of Peter G.
Holmes, and a graduate of Fremont 
High School. Clifford Washington, 
son of Mr. and Mrs. Roger
Washington, and a graduate of Jefferson 
High School, is the Air
Force Nominee.

HOWARD SPEAKER
Gerald A. Lamb, Treasurer of Connecticut, 
was scheduled to speak
March 8 at Howard University on
the topic, "The Need for Active
Participation in Political Activity."

BELAFONTE
AND QUINN
SPEAK OUT

In the new issue of Redbook
Magazine, Harry Belafonte and
Anthony Quinn, two men who
grew up surrounded py poverty
and hatred, talk about self-respect, 
independence and love.
"One day I had to make up
my mind whether I was going
to be Mexican or Irish," Quinn
said. "I chose to be Mexican...
What do I do now? I've got a
whole new responsibility as a
man. Not as a Mexican...

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dedicated and sensitive
artists talk not as Negro to Mexican, 
but man to man, Be sure to
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Halt US. Funds For Jim Crow
Schools, NAACP Urges HEW Dept.

In a telegram, dispatched Feb.
27, NAACP Executive Secretary Roy
Wilkins calls the new HEW plan
"illogical, incredible and indefensible, 
and urges Mr. Celebrezze to
"adopt and enforce a policy in line
with Constitutional requirements."
The HEW plan was disclosed on
Feb. 26. It proposes to build new
schools on bases in Alabama, Georgia 
and South Carolina for all eligible 
children, irrespective of race,
while continuing to pay about $180
a year to the county system for
the education of any such child who
wishes to attend a segregated offbase 
school.
Reminded that this type of plan
for tax - supported "voluntary"
segregation had been banned by
Federal courts, James M. Quigley,
assistant HEW secretary, admitted
that "if this plan were being put
forward by a school district as a
suitable way of complying with the
1954 Supreme Court decision, it
would be turned down."
Under this plan, the county systems 
will not only receive Federal
money, provided for impacted areas,
to operate segregated schools off
bases, but will also be asked to
run the new on-base schools which
are intended to be integrated, They
would receive Federal money to
conduct these schools. A regulation
issued by former HEW secretary
Abraham Ribicoff in 1962 banned
segregated schools as "unsuitable"
to receive Federal aid.
Informed of the Department's
new plan, Mr. Wilkins said it "nullifies 
the modest step" announced
by Mr. Ribicoff. He proposed that
the new Secretary "adopt and follow 
a policy which square's with
the Constitutional mandate."



In a telegram, dispatched Feb.
27, NAACP Executive Secretary Roy
Wilkins calls the new HEW plan
"illogical, incredible and indefensible, 
and urges Mr. Celebrezze to
"adopt and enforce a policy in line
with Constitutional requirements."
The HEW plan was disclosed on
Feb. 26. It proposes to build new
schools on bases in Alabama, Georgia 
and South Carolina for all eligible 
children, irrespective of race,
while continuing to pay about $180
a year to the county system for
the education of any such child who
wishes to attend a segregated offbase 
school.
Reminded that this type of plan
for tax - supported "voluntary"
segregation had been banned by
Federal courts, James M. Quigley,
assistant HEW secretary, admitted
that "if this plan were being put
forward by a school district as a
suitable way of complying with the
1954 Supreme Court decision, it
would be turned down."
Under this plan, the county systems 
will not only receive Federal
money, provided for impacted areas,
to operate segregated schools off
bases, but will also be asked to
run the new on-base schools which
are intended to be integrated, They
would receive Federal money to
conduct these schools. A regulation
issued by former HEW secretary
Abraham Ribicoff in 1962 banned
segregated schools as "unsuitable"
to receive Federal aid.
Informed of the Department's
new plan, Mr. Wilkins said it "nullifies 
the modest step" announced
by Mr. Ribicoff. He proposed that
the new Secretary "adopt and follow 
a policy which square's with
the Constitutional mandate."

DISCLOSED RECENTLY

In a telegram, dispatched Feb.
27, NAACP Executive Secretary Roy
Wilkins calls the new HEW plan
"illogical, incredible and indefensible, 
and urges Mr. Celebrezze to
"adopt and enforce a policy in line
with Constitutional requirements."
The HEW plan was disclosed on
Feb. 26. It proposes to build new
schools on bases in Alabama, Georgia 
and South Carolina for all eligible 
children, irrespective of race,
while continuing to pay about $180
a year to the county system for
the education of any such child who
wishes to attend a segregated offbase 
school.
Reminded that this type of plan
for tax - supported "voluntary"
segregation had been banned by
Federal courts, James M. Quigley,
assistant HEW secretary, admitted
that "if this plan were being put
forward by a school district as a
suitable way of complying with the
1954 Supreme Court decision, it
would be turned down."
Under this plan, the county systems 
will not only receive Federal
money, provided for impacted areas,
to operate segregated schools off
bases, but will also be asked to
run the new on-base schools which
are intended to be integrated, They
would receive Federal money to
conduct these schools. A regulation
issued by former HEW secretary
Abraham Ribicoff in 1962 banned
segregated schools as "unsuitable"
to receive Federal aid.
Informed of the Department's
new plan, Mr. Wilkins said it "nullifies 
the modest step" announced
by Mr. Ribicoff. He proposed that
the new Secretary "adopt and follow 
a policy which square's with
the Constitutional mandate."

Rights Group
Hearing Set For
Indianapolis
The
U. S. Civil Rights Commission will
take a hard look at civil rights
problems in Indianapolis on March
29 and 30, it was announced Thursday. 

The city was selected, the Commission 
said, because it is in the
midwest and has a civil rights
commission without enforcement
powers.
Of main interest to the group,
will be problems in housing, public
education, employment, and health
services and facilities.
Staff Director Berl I. Bernhard
said Indiana Gov. Matthew E.
Welsh and Mayor Albert H. Losche
are among witnesses who have been
invited to appear.

Drury Sees Race
Hostility Threat
To United Nations
The United Nations may not survive 
the bitter resentment of the
many new colored nations for their
former colonial masters, warns Allen 
Drury in a March Reader's Digest 
article, "Can the U. N. Survive?" 

"Behind the polite bowing in the
corridors and the awkward attempts
at goodfellowship on the floor of
the General Assembly there stalks
the relentless fact of racism, bitter 
ghost from a bitter past," says
Drury.
"Understandably, but tragically,
centuries of colonialism have left
many African and Asian states,
whose votes now control the Assembly, 
this legacy of hate. Because
of it, the U. N. has increasingly devoted 
its time and energies to excoriating 
various white nations for
sins, past or present, real or fancied, 
against the colored races."
Drury also sees danger in the
growing tendency of Communist nations 
to default on special assessments 
to finance police missions.
"It might be well for the United
States, once in a while," he suggests 
"to refuse to be there with
the bankroll whenever the U. N.
gets into trouble."
Drury, a veteran political correspondent, 
won a Pulitzer prise for
his first novel, "Advise and Consent," 
and is also author of "A
Shade of Difference," a current
best -selling novel with a United
Nations setting.

GUARANTY AGREEMENTS
WITH TRINIDAD, TOBAGO
The U. S. Agency for International
Development has concluded investment 
guaranty agreements with the
government of Trinidad and Tobago
to encourage the expansion of industry 
and commerce in the newly
independent Caribbean nation.

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NAACP Seeks Review
Of New York State
Education Ruling
The NAACP appealed 
to New York Education Commissioner 
James E. Allen, Jr., this
week for a "review and reversal"
of a ruling that prohibits admission
of a Negro to an electrician teacher
training program,
Elmer Hatton, a teacher of electrical 
installation and practice at
Grady Technical High School in
Brooklyn, sought to enter a teacher 
training program sponsored by
the New York City Regional Center
in the fall of 1962.
His application, according to
NAACP General Counsel Robert L.
Carter, "was rejected because of
lack of any current practical experience 
in the field.
Mr. Carter pointed out that this
seems fair on the surface, but a
closer examination reveals "this
requirement as a rigid barrier to
Negro participation in the Bureau's
teacher training program.
"As a reault of the long and
unbroken history of racial discrimination 
enforced by the electrical
trade unions. Negroes have been
prohibited and prevented from becoming 
licensed," and thereby securing 
work.
"Thus," Mr. Carter stressed, "it
is virtually impossible, purely because 
of race, for Negroes to obtain
the necessary practical experience
which the Bureau demands."
On the other hand, Mr. Hatton
holds a current electrician's license
issued by the State of Massachusetts. 
He has also completed a refresher 
course in electrical theory
at New York University's School of
General Education.
In order to secure a license from
New York State, to teach in this

field, he must enroll in the teacher 
training program offered by the
Bureau.

A GIFT FOR THE PRESIDENT —
Mrs. Jessie C.
Thomas, left, "Miss Sandhill Chapter," presents
a gift to Dr. L. C. Dowdy, acting president of
A. and T. College, during the recent annual dinner 
sponsored at Hoffman, N.C., by the Sand
hill 
Chapter of the A. and T. College General
Alumni Association. Looking on from center is
Hosea C. Brower, president of the chapter, and
at right is E. S. Douglas, who presided.

New Rochelle Gets
Negro Planner;
Jackson Named
The appointment 
of Joseph T. Jackson,
77, Caligni Avenue, to the Planning
Board of this city was announced
by Mayor Stanley W. Church. The
appointment is believed that he is
the first Negro appointed to a City
Planning Board in the country. He
is a native of Atlanta, Ga., coming
to New York in 1934.
The addition of Jackson to the
New Rochelle Planning Board is
another first for Mayor Church. In
his more than twenty years as Mayor 
of one of the largest cities in
Westchester, Church has been the
first in the state of New York and
the country to appoint Negroes as
both the head of and as members
of many of its city's governing
board. In 1946 he appointed the
first Negro to the Board of Education, 
He was the first city official
to establish a Council for Unity
to deal with inter - group and
community relations. His lead in
this direction was followed in the
rest of the state and country to
bring about establishments of Civil
Rights Boards, Human Rights commissions 
and Commissions Against
Discrimination. He has a number
of other appointments to his credit. 

An operating engineer, he has
wide and varied experiences in the
construction and building trades industry. 
As such, he participated in
the construction of the New England 
Thruway, the New York State
Thruway and many public utility
and private developments.
For the past seven years he has
been associated with the Yonkers
Construction Co. It is one of the
largest in the eastern part of the
nation.

Tampa Seaman Is
Missing With Crew
Of 'Sulphur Queen'
The
relatives of a Tampa merchant seaman, 
among 40 crew members of
the ill - fated freighter "Sulphur
Queen," missing in the Florida
Straits since Feb. 3, stand to collect 
insurance if the shipping firm
which owns the vessel goes through
with its promise to institute legal
action and declare the crew dead
and the ship lost.
The missing Tampa seaman is
60 - year -old James M. Bodden,
Bodden, who left Tampa Jan. 2,
called members of his family by
telephone Saturday night, Feb. 2,
just hours before the ship sailed
from Beaumont, Tex., for Norfolk,
Va., with 15,000 tons of molten sulphur. 

Hopes for the rescue of the men
were dimmed last week after the
Coast Guard all but gave up its
search for the ship and its crew.
The Coast Guard had renewed
its search after a flare had been

sighted and a life - jacket, labeled
"Sulphur Queen," was found in the
area, It was believed that both the
flare and the life jacket may have
come from the 523 foot freighter.
But after "checking out" the
flare and the lifejacket, the Coast
Guard issued this report:
"A thorough, round - the -clock
search of the area was made without 
results, There were no wreckage 
sighted and the Coast Guard
has assumed the ship sunk off the
coast of Drytourgas, an island near
Key West."
The last radio message was received 
from the ship late Feb. 3.

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ELEANOR
—By Mrs. V. Scott Ellis, 11-5-60
(NOTE): This poem is written especially 
for the Scott Newspaper
Syndicate papers, and it is dedicated 
to Rev. M. L. King Sr., and
Dr. M. L. King Jr., pastor of Ebenezer 
Baptist Church of Atlanta,
Ga. These two ministers are great

leaders of violent battle against
inequities and discrimination in
America.
—By Mrs: V. Scott Ellis, Dec., 1960.
(This poem is dedicated to all
who believe in and love full freedom 
and civil rights).

Jim Crow
—By Mrs. V. Scott Ellis, 11-5-60
(NOTE): This poem is written especially 
for the Scott Newspaper
Syndicate papers, and it is dedicated 
to Rev. M. L. King Sr., and
Dr. M. L. King Jr., pastor of Ebenezer 
Baptist Church of Atlanta,
Ga. These two ministers are great

leaders of violent battle against
inequities and discrimination in
America.
—By Mrs: V. Scott Ellis, Dec., 1960.
(This poem is dedicated to all
who believe in and love full freedom 
and civil rights).

Freedom Down Sooth
In Dixie
—By Mrs. V. Scott Ellis, 11-5-60
(NOTE): This poem is written especially 
for the Scott Newspaper
Syndicate papers, and it is dedicated 
to Rev. M. L. King Sr., and
Dr. M. L. King Jr., pastor of Ebenezer 
Baptist Church of Atlanta,
Ga. These two ministers are great

leaders of violent battle against
inequities and discrimination in
America.
—By Mrs: V. Scott Ellis, Dec., 1960.
(This poem is dedicated to all
who believe in and love full freedom 
and civil rights).

High-Level Equality
Unit In Labor Dept.
A
high - level Advisory Committee for
Equal Opportunity in Apprenticeship 
and Training has been established 
in the Labor Department.
Composed of outstanding representatives 
of labor, management,
education, minority groups, and the
public, the committee will study
and advise on discrimination in the
nation's apprenticeship programs.
Under Secretary of Labor John
P. Henning, manpower administrator 
for the agency, will serve as
chairman of the new group.

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Russians Reject
Basie Type Jazz
In a
switch in the Russian - American
cultural exchange program, the Soviets 
have rejected the offer of
Count Basie or Duke Ellington for
1963.
Last summer the Russians accepted 
Beny Goodman and his orchestra. 
At governmental talks in
Moscow last week it was agreed
that the Baird Marionette Theater
of Chicago will tour Russia and
the Obratsov Puppet Theater will
perform in America.
While the Soviets gave no reason 
for the change, it was apparent 
that a press campaign against
foreign influences in music and the
arts, which began here last December, 
had been effective.

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Why did Ronald sit with Melba
Instead of Simone Saturday in the
library? "A writing may be lost-a
ie may be written; but what the
eye has seen true."

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Millions In Food
Slated For Congo
The United States will provide the
Congo Republic with $23,966,000
worth of food under the Food for
Peace Program, the Agriculture
Department announced.

POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS
Negro population of Atlanta
A solution to the housing problem 
for the minority will not come
easy. The Negro population in this
city which represents one-third of
the total end occupies less than 18
percent of the land area, must be
considered when the city fathers
gather at the planning table and