Memphis World
Memphis World Publishing Co.
1965-03-13
J. A. Beauchamp

NLRB Examiner Curbs
Plumbers Union Bias
A ruling by a trial examiner of the National
Labor Relations Board prohibiting discriminatory practices by the
Plumbers Union has been hailed by NAACP Executive Director
Roy Wilkins as "a significant step forward in the struggle to end
racially discriminatory hiring practices forced upon employers by
some unions."
The ruling was in response to
a complaint filed by NAACP General 
Counsel Robert L. Carter on
behalf of two of the four Negro and
Puerto Rican workers whose employment 
by a plumbing contractor 
on the huge New York City Terminal 
Market in the Bronx led to
a walk - out by white plumbers,
members of Local 2 of the AFL CIO 
union, last April, and the discharge 
of the non - union plumbers. 

Under the new ruling, unions
would be forbidden to require applicants 
to take journeymen examinations 
and the employer, would be
the sole judge of the applicants
competence. The hearing on the
charges against the union was held
here Aug, 12 and 13. A. Norman
Somers, the NLRB trial examiner,
handed down his decision on Feb
25. It is subject to approval by the
Board.
If the Board ratifies the examiner's 
ruling, "non - union membership 
can no longer serve as a legal
basis by which unions may close
off employment in the construction 
industry to Negroes and member 
of other minority groups." Mr.
Wilkins noted.
"This is an important break
through and the NAACP will in
testify its efforts to eradicate similar 
discriminatory practices so that
elimination of persistent unemployment 
problems of Negroes and
Puerto Ricans may be more rapidly

achieved," he added.
The sweeping ruling called upon
the union to agree in writing to
cease attempts to block hiring of
non - union plumbers; drop from
its contracts any requirement that
union membership be made a condition 
of hiring; shun any behavior, 
direct or indirect, to pressure 
any employer into hiring union 
men exclusively; and pay back
wages plus interest to the four men
discharged because of union pressure 
and to continue such payments 
until the men are either rehired 
by the contractor of the union 
informs the employer that it
has no objection to there are employment. 

In the course of the dispute.
George Meany, president of the
AFL - CIO, and a member of Local
2, intervened. Arrangement was
made for tests to be given by the
union to the Negro and Puerto the
union workers. This plan had the
blessings of Mayor Wagner. The
four at first balked on taking the
tests. Later three of them took the
test and were nut passed.

NAACP Protests,
Jackson Deputies
Are Dismissed
NAACP protests 
over the murder of 18-year-old
Ollie Shelby by a deputy sheriff
while in custody paid off this week
when 21 Hinds County deputy
sheriffs were fired, including the
chief criminal deputy as a grand
jury prepared for an investigation
of official conduct.
In his charge to the grand jury,
Circuit Court judge Leon Hendricks
called for a probe into the death of
young Shelby. He also told the
jurors to investigate liquor sales in
the county and rumors of "habitual
drunkenness in office."
Judge Hendrick's charge followed
an NAACP call for nationwide protests 
against the wanton slaying of
the youth on Jan. 22 Gloster B. Current, 
NAACP director of branches
and field administration, called upon 
100 key branches throughout the
nation to hold protest demonstrations 
and send telegrams to Attorney 
General Nicholas de B. Katzenbach, 
Governor Paul Johnson and
Allen Thompson, mayor of Jackson, 
for action against the deputy
who admitted killing Shelby, allegedly 
in Self-defense.
The Association demand immediate 
suspension of the accused deputy 
pending the outcome of a full
investigation into the slaying.
A committee of eight prominent
Negros in this city, led by Sam
Bailey, president of the NAACP
branch, and Charles Evens, the Association's 
field director for Mississippi, 
met with Howard Evans,
chief criminal deputy on Jan. 27,
and filed their protest with him.
Evans was among the 21 deputies
who handed in their requested
resignations on March 3. The delegation, 
was unable to see Sheriff
Fred Pickett.

WHEN YOUR
SKIN CRIES . . . 





LOVELIER COMPLEXION





ELEANOR
Excerpts from the Dairy of Dug Hammarskjold.
"I have no hesitancy in calling this work the noblest self-disclosure
of spiritual struggle and triumph, perhaps the greatest testament
of personal faith, published in this century." (By Rev. Henry P.
Van Dusen).
A brilliant, quiet, idealistic man,
Dag Hammarskjold was known
throughout the world as the Secretary 
General of the United Nations.
From the time he assumed the post
in 1953, he was admired by many
as the model of all that a selfless
public servant should be. At the
same time there was an aloofness, a
reserve, that made him an enigma
even to those who revered him.
After his death in a plane crash
in Africa on September 18, 1961 he 
was on a mission to negotiate
a cease fire between U. N. and
Katanga forces - the manuscript of
MARKINGS was found in his house
in New York. With it was an undated 
letter. This, Hammarskjold
explained, was his diary whose entries 
provided "the only true profile" 
that could be drawn of him.
"It was begun without a thought
of anybody else reading it and I
have continued to write for myself,
not for the public. If you find these
entries worth publishing, you have
my permission to do so as a sort
of white book, concerning my negotiations 
with myself and with
God."
*The longest journey is the journey 
inward.
*I don't know Who-or What - put
the question. I don't know when
it was put. I don't even remember
answering. But at some moment I
did answer Yes to Someone - or
I Something - and from that hour,
I was certain that existence is
meaningful and that, therefore my
life, in self-surrender, had a goal.
*Around a man who has been
pushed into the limelight, a legend
begins to grow as it does around a
dead man. Mut a dead man's in
no danger of yielding to temptation
to nourish his legend or accept it
picture as reality. I pity the man
who falls in love with his image
as it is drawn by public opinion
during the honeymoon of publicity.
*Only he deserves power who

every day justifies it.
*He is one of those who has had
the wilderness for a pillow and called 
a star his brother. Alone But
loneliness can be a communion.
*Never look down to test the
ground before taking your next
step: only he who keeps his eye fixed 
on the far horizon will find his
right road.
*Never measure the height of a
mountain until you have reached
the top. Then you will see how low
it was.
*It is more important to be aware
of the grounds for your own behavior 
than to understand the motives 
of another.
*You cannot play with the animal
in you without becoming wholly
animal, play with falsehood without
forfeiting your right to truth, play
with cruelty without losing your
own sensitivity of mind. He who
wants to keep his garden tidy
doesn't reserve a plot for weeds.
*If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, 
quieter., warmer.
*On a really clean tablecloth, the
smallest speck of dirt annoys the
eye. At high altitudes, a moments
self-indulgence may mean death.
*The only dignity which is genuine 
is that not diminished by the
indifference of others.
*The "men of the hour," the selfassured 
who strut about among us
in the jingling harness of their success 
and importance, how can you
let yourself be irritated by them?
Let them enjoy their triumph - on
the level to which it belongs.
*If, while pleading another's
cause, you are at the same time
seeking something for yourself, you
cannot hope to succeed.
*A successful lie is doubly a lie:
an error which has to be corrected
is a heavier burden than the truth.
*When the morning's freshness
has been replaced by the weariness
of midday, when the leg muscles
quiver under the strain, the climb
seems endless and, suddenly, nothing 
will go quite as you wish - it is
then that you must not stop.
*When shut out of the room, you
must not peep through the keyhole.

Either break down tone door, or go
away.
*It was when Lucifer first congratulated 
himself upon his angelic
behavior that he became the too! Of
evil.
*You have not done enough, you
have never done enough, so long as
it is still possible that you have
something of value to contribute.
*Never "for the sake of peace and
quiet" deny your own experience or
convictions.
*Do not look back and do not
dream about the future. It will
neither give you back the past nor
satisfy your daydreams. Your duty,
your reward - Your destiny - are
here and now.
*God does not die on the day
when we cease to believe in a personal 
deity, but we die on the day
when our lives cease to be illumined
by the steady radiance, renewed
daily, of a wonder, the source of
which is beyond all reason.
(Reader's Digest March 1965)

MARKINGS: 1925-1961
Excerpts from the Dairy of Dug Hammarskjold.
"I have no hesitancy in calling this work the noblest self-disclosure
of spiritual struggle and triumph, perhaps the greatest testament
of personal faith, published in this century." (By Rev. Henry P.
Van Dusen).
A brilliant, quiet, idealistic man,
Dag Hammarskjold was known
throughout the world as the Secretary 
General of the United Nations.
From the time he assumed the post
in 1953, he was admired by many
as the model of all that a selfless
public servant should be. At the
same time there was an aloofness, a
reserve, that made him an enigma
even to those who revered him.
After his death in a plane crash
in Africa on September 18, 1961 he 
was on a mission to negotiate
a cease fire between U. N. and
Katanga forces - the manuscript of
MARKINGS was found in his house
in New York. With it was an undated 
letter. This, Hammarskjold
explained, was his diary whose entries 
provided "the only true profile" 
that could be drawn of him.
"It was begun without a thought
of anybody else reading it and I
have continued to write for myself,
not for the public. If you find these
entries worth publishing, you have
my permission to do so as a sort
of white book, concerning my negotiations 
with myself and with
God."
*The longest journey is the journey 
inward.
*I don't know Who-or What - put
the question. I don't know when
it was put. I don't even remember
answering. But at some moment I
did answer Yes to Someone - or
I Something - and from that hour,
I was certain that existence is
meaningful and that, therefore my
life, in self-surrender, had a goal.
*Around a man who has been
pushed into the limelight, a legend
begins to grow as it does around a
dead man. Mut a dead man's in
no danger of yielding to temptation
to nourish his legend or accept it
picture as reality. I pity the man
who falls in love with his image
as it is drawn by public opinion
during the honeymoon of publicity.
*Only he deserves power who

every day justifies it.
*He is one of those who has had
the wilderness for a pillow and called 
a star his brother. Alone But
loneliness can be a communion.
*Never look down to test the
ground before taking your next
step: only he who keeps his eye fixed 
on the far horizon will find his
right road.
*Never measure the height of a
mountain until you have reached
the top. Then you will see how low
it was.
*It is more important to be aware
of the grounds for your own behavior 
than to understand the motives 
of another.
*You cannot play with the animal
in you without becoming wholly
animal, play with falsehood without
forfeiting your right to truth, play
with cruelty without losing your
own sensitivity of mind. He who
wants to keep his garden tidy
doesn't reserve a plot for weeds.
*If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, 
quieter., warmer.
*On a really clean tablecloth, the
smallest speck of dirt annoys the
eye. At high altitudes, a moments
self-indulgence may mean death.
*The only dignity which is genuine 
is that not diminished by the
indifference of others.
*The "men of the hour," the selfassured 
who strut about among us
in the jingling harness of their success 
and importance, how can you
let yourself be irritated by them?
Let them enjoy their triumph - on
the level to which it belongs.
*If, while pleading another's
cause, you are at the same time
seeking something for yourself, you
cannot hope to succeed.
*A successful lie is doubly a lie:
an error which has to be corrected
is a heavier burden than the truth.
*When the morning's freshness
has been replaced by the weariness
of midday, when the leg muscles
quiver under the strain, the climb
seems endless and, suddenly, nothing 
will go quite as you wish - it is
then that you must not stop.
*When shut out of the room, you
must not peep through the keyhole.

Either break down tone door, or go
away.
*It was when Lucifer first congratulated 
himself upon his angelic
behavior that he became the too! Of
evil.
*You have not done enough, you
have never done enough, so long as
it is still possible that you have
something of value to contribute.
*Never "for the sake of peace and
quiet" deny your own experience or
convictions.
*Do not look back and do not
dream about the future. It will
neither give you back the past nor
satisfy your daydreams. Your duty,
your reward - Your destiny - are
here and now.
*God does not die on the day
when we cease to believe in a personal 
deity, but we die on the day
when our lives cease to be illumined
by the steady radiance, renewed
daily, of a wonder, the source of
which is beyond all reason.
(Reader's Digest March 1965)

"MOST WANTED" —
The FBI
adds Samuel Jefferson Veney
(above) to its list of "Ten
Most Wanted" fugitives at
large. Veney is wanted specifically 
in the murder of a
policeman in Baltimore last
December. He is 6-feet-1,
weighs 185, has a medium
build, and a curved scar in
center of his forehead.

VIET CONKED —
A napalm bomb leaves a South Viet Nam
A-IE Sky raider (upper) and explodes (lower) on a Viet
Cong field headquarters in a heavily forested aim.

Seeks End Of
Discrimination
In Immigration
Secretary
of Labor W. Willard Writz has added 
his active support to proposals to
eliminate the national origin quota
system from immigration legislation.
In testimony before the Subcommittee 
on Immigration and Naturalization 
of the Senate Judiciary
Committee, Mr. Wirtz urged passage 
of S. 500 which would amend
the Immigration and Naturalization
Act.
"The objectionable feature of the
national origin quota system", the
Secretary said, "—a system established 
under a law enacted over
forty years ago — is that it discriminates 
against peoples of other
nations on the basis of their ethnic
or national origin.
"The enactment by the Congress
last year of the historic Civil Rights
Act was a demonstration to the
world, that our democratic institution 
share founded on equal recognition, 
equal status, equal opportunity 
and equal dignity without regard 
to race, creed, color, or ethnic
origin. This action attuned one aspect 
of our laws to the philosophy
of our society.
"Today we are joined in common
cause with nations throughout the
world - with the people of Asia,
Africa, Europe, and our own hemisphere 
— to stem the creeping menace 
of communism. In the light of
our total dedication to the preservation 
of democracy - its principles
and ideals as a way of life for all the 
national origin quota system is
anachronistic. Four Presidents have
urged its reform.
"S. 500 will abolish the archaic
and discriminatory features of our
immigration law in a gradual, equitable 
manner, and without any substantial 
increase in the total quota.
At the end of five years the total
annual quota of approximately 166,000 
would be used, subject to certain 
family and occupational preferences, 
on a first-come firstgranted 
basis. Artificial barriers to
the reuniting of family members
would be removed. Except for certain 
emergency provisions, no country 
would be allowed more than 10
per cent of the quota annually.
"Not only are these provisions humane 
and in our best interests internationally: 
they also make economic 
sense. They would promote
the admission of individuals with
qualifications and occupations needed 
in the United States. And they
would do this without disturbing
the domestic employment situation." 


STAMPS FOR SUBSCRIBES
The publisher 
of the Elk City Daily News
has offered four different kinds of
stamps with new rural and city subscriptions. 
The $8.45 rural subscription 
gives 100 trading stamps and
the $16 city subscription offers 200
trading stamps.
LAKE WORTH Tex. — A $500,000 
school to accommodate 475 students 
has been built underground.
The new school located near Carswell 
Air Force Base is all-electric
with year-around air-conditioning.
The school was built under the surface 
of the ground to keep out the
noise from the jet bombers.

LIGHTING UP —
Hobson R. Reynolds, grand exalted ruler of the
Elks, and Bruce Taylor, vice president of Blue Cross of Greater
Philadelphia, take a light from pert model Mary Ann Roberts during 
Tuesday night's organizational meeting of a Philadelphia
humidor (chapter) of the Cigar Smokers of America. CSA is a
national organization comprised of such "dedicated" cigar smokers
as columnist Art Buchwald, actor Rudy Vallee, singer Robert Merrill, 
former While House press secretary Pierre Salinger, and
comedian George Burns. The Tuesday night affair was attended
by some of Philadelphia's top civic, government, sports, professional 
and business figures.

The Past Week
In Washington

Expressing his thanks to House
Speaker John W. McCormack (D.Mass.), 
Conyers said: "Sitting in
the chair while presiding during
general House debate was quite an
experience."
Mrs. Charlotte M. Hubbard, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for public 
Affairs, participated in the Mar.
5-7 observance by the Peace Corp
of its fourth anniversary. She is the
highest ranking colored woman in
a non-political job in Washington.
The D. C branch of the NAACP
announced the appointment of Carl
T. Rowan, director of the U. S.
Information Agency, as honorary
chairman of its 1965 membership
campaign. Rep. John Conyers, Jr.,
(D.-Mich.) will give the keynote
address at the drive's kick-off meeting 
at Shiloh Baptist Church on
Sunday, Mar, 14.
Atty. William S. "Turk" Thompson 
was selected by the Washington
Urban League to head its 1965 membership 
campaign. The campaign
gets underway March 21, with a
goal of bringing in 10.000 new members 
and raising $35,000 to finance
community programs.
The Urbanites are having their
dinner and cocktail dance at the
brand new Hilton Hotel on March
26, under the honorary chairmanship 
of Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa, 
Ambassador of Nicaragua and
dean of the Washington Diplomatic
Corps.
Sign observed Friday on the wall
of William M. Seabron, assistant to
Secretary of Labor Orville L. Freeman 
for civil rights coordination:
"Dear God, give us strength to
accept with serenity the things that
cannot be changed. Give us courage
to change the things that can be
changed, and give us wisdom to
distinguished one from the other."
The House Republican Conference's 
Committee on Planning and
Research announced that Massachusetts 
Attorney General Edward
W. Brooke has been named a consultant 
to the newly-established
House Republican Task Force.
Brooke holds the highest elective
office held by a colored person.
First meeting of the committee was
set for this week.
In another GOP move, Senate Republican 
Leader Everett M. Dirksen
said Brooks has been mentioned as
the possible head of a national panel
on minority policies.
Dr. Robert C. Weaver, administrator 
of the Housing and Home Finance 
Agency, outlined in detail last
Wednesday dramatic new proposals

for better housing for America's
senior citizens, in an address before 
the National Council on Aging
at the Shoreham Hotel.
New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy 
and Dr. Paul Cooke, director
of Washington's Model School Program, 
were among those slated to
take part Saturday, Mar. 13, in the
legislative conference sponsored by
the Teachers' Union of Washington
at the Sattler Hotel.
Rep. Augustus F. (Gus) Hawkins
(D.-Calif). and Mrs. Hawkins were
on the invitation list for the White
House reception last week honoring
members of Congress. The week before, 
Michigan Rep. and Mrs.
Charles C. Diggs, Jr., attended a
similar affair.
Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (D N. 
Y.) took to the House floor last
Wednesday to continue his expose
of crime and corruption in New
York's Harlem. He used only 10
minutes of an hour that had been
reserved for him.
After giving seven names of
racketeers and mobsters, he said
softly: "There have been many
threats on my life since I made my
last speech two weeks ago I've passed 
them on to the FBI."
The President's Committee on
Equal Employment Opportunity
headed by Vice President, Humphrey
reported it is "moving to bring into
coordination" a number of manpower 
profile reports received from
300 companies under its programs.
Hobart Taylor, Jr., Associate
White House Counsel and executive
vice chairman of the committee
said the change would "create a
more usable pool of information"
for the committees work.
In a statistical resume of enforcement 
action in fraud and mailability 
cases for January, the Post Office 
Department, said it made 143
arrests, prosecuted 103 persons and
suppressed 1,136 illegal promotions.
In addition, there were 102 convictions. 

Julius Hobson, the controversial
former Washington area CORE
leader, asked District Court last
Thursday to cut off poverty program 
funds from the United Planning 
Organization, local coordinating
agency for the war on poverty, until 
it puts, poor people on its board.
Hobson also asked for an injunction 
forcing UPO to open board
meetings to the public.
In a report on Africa, a subcommittee 
of the House Committee on
Agriculture said U. S. officials, including 
the Peace Corps, are generally 
doing a good job in Africa,
but more colored Americans are

needed for Peace Corps service.
Among other things, the Foreign
Agricultural Operations Subcommittee 
found a "long-range potential"
for the development of agricultural
markets in Africa and recommended 
that these ''opportunities be pursued." 
The committee said it feels
Congress and the public should give
greater attention to what is no longer 
the "Dark Continent."
Bobby Mitchell, Washington Redskin 
flanker, conducted a football
clinic on March 8 for the organization 
known as Help for Retarded
Children, Inc., at their new $225,000
building on Riggs Road N. E. It was
the first clinic of its kind.

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U. S. Organizations To Meet On
South African Apartheid Crisis
The meeting on "The South African 
Crisis and American Action
sponsored by 38 national religious,
labor, student and civil rights organizations 
will be the first ever
held in the United States to consider 
steps to be taken to avert
more bloodshed in South Africa and
an international conflict along racial 
lines.
Senator Frank E. Mass of Utah
and Congressman Donald Fraser
of Minnesota will be among the
many internationally-known speakers 
scheduled to participate. Rt. Rev.
James A. Pike, Episcopal Bishop
of California, will chair the meeting
at the Willard Hotel.
The March 21 opening date marks
the fifth anniversary of the Sharpeville 
Massacre, when 72 unarmed
and peaceful demonstrators against 
racial discrimination and
segregation in the Union of South
Africa were slaughtered by South
African police.
James Farmer, national director
of CORE, who has just returned
from a study tour of Africa; Victor
Reuther, director of international
affairs of the United Auto Workers,
and Oliver Tambo, of South Africa,
deputy president of the African
National Congress will speak at a
public meeting that evening on the
general theme "Five Years After
Sharpeville."
In calling the assembly, the sponsoring 
organizations stated that "we
wish to assist South Africans to
end racism there. We hope that
with international help change can

be initiated before there is mass
bloodshed."
In addition to their examination
of present apartheid policies, the
participants will assess to what extent 
American business and government 
is perpetuating racism by
strengthening the South African
economy, plan programs of citizen
action, and make recommendations
to the U. S. government on how
forces for change can be strengthened 
inside South Africa.
Among the other speakers and
panelists will be Mason Sears, former 
U. S. representative on the
U. N. Trusteeship Council; African 
experts from eight universities;
South African exiles; businessmen,
lawyers, clergymen and organizations 
leaders.
During the three-day meeting,
groups of participants will visit
members of Congress, the State Department, 
and the White House.
George M. Houser of the American 
Committee on Africa is executive 
secretary of the Conference,
which is being sponsored by the
following organizations:
African Methodist Episcopal Church
(Department of Home and
Foreign Missions)
A.M.E. Zion Church (Board of Foreign 
Missions)
Amalgamated Clothing Workers A.F.L.-CIO. 

American Committee on Africa
American Jewish Congress
A.F.L.-CIO, Industrial Union Dept.
American Society of African Culture. 

American Student Movement
Against Apartheid.
Americans for Democratic Action
Association of Artists for Freedom
Campus ADA.
Catholic Interracial Council
Collegiate Council for the U. N.
Congress of Racial Equality
Episcopal Church (Division of
Christian Citizenship)
Friends Peace Committee
International Union of Electrical
Workers. A.F.L.-CIO.
Methodist Church (Board of Christian 
Social Concerns)
National Association for the Advancement 
of Colored People.
National Catholic Conference for
Interracial Justice.
National Council of the Churches
of Christ (Commission on Religion 
and Race)
National Federation of Catholic
College Students.
National Newman Club Federation
National Student Christian Federation. 

Negro-American Labor Council
RWDSN, A.F.L.-CIO, District 65
Students for a Democratic Society
Student Non-Violent Coordinating
Committee.
United Automobile Workers. A.F.LCIO. 

United Church of Christ (Council
for Christian Social Action)
United Federation of Teachers
United Presbyterian Church (Office
of International Affairs and
Commission on Religion and
Race)
United States National Student
Association.
United States Youth Council
United World Federalists.
Women's International League for
Peace and Freedom.
World University Service
Y.W.C.A. (National Student YWCA)

South Africa's apartheid policy will be spotlighted at a na-
tional conference to be held in Washington, D.C. on March 21-23.
The meeting on "The South African 
Crisis and American Action
sponsored by 38 national religious,
labor, student and civil rights organizations 
will be the first ever
held in the United States to consider 
steps to be taken to avert
more bloodshed in South Africa and
an international conflict along racial 
lines.
Senator Frank E. Mass of Utah
and Congressman Donald Fraser
of Minnesota will be among the
many internationally-known speakers 
scheduled to participate. Rt. Rev.
James A. Pike, Episcopal Bishop
of California, will chair the meeting
at the Willard Hotel.
The March 21 opening date marks
the fifth anniversary of the Sharpeville 
Massacre, when 72 unarmed
and peaceful demonstrators against 
racial discrimination and
segregation in the Union of South
Africa were slaughtered by South
African police.
James Farmer, national director
of CORE, who has just returned
from a study tour of Africa; Victor
Reuther, director of international
affairs of the United Auto Workers,
and Oliver Tambo, of South Africa,
deputy president of the African
National Congress will speak at a
public meeting that evening on the
general theme "Five Years After
Sharpeville."
In calling the assembly, the sponsoring 
organizations stated that "we
wish to assist South Africans to
end racism there. We hope that
with international help change can

be initiated before there is mass
bloodshed."
In addition to their examination
of present apartheid policies, the
participants will assess to what extent 
American business and government 
is perpetuating racism by
strengthening the South African
economy, plan programs of citizen
action, and make recommendations
to the U. S. government on how
forces for change can be strengthened 
inside South Africa.
Among the other speakers and
panelists will be Mason Sears, former 
U. S. representative on the
U. N. Trusteeship Council; African 
experts from eight universities;
South African exiles; businessmen,
lawyers, clergymen and organizations 
leaders.
During the three-day meeting,
groups of participants will visit
members of Congress, the State Department, 
and the White House.
George M. Houser of the American 
Committee on Africa is executive 
secretary of the Conference,
which is being sponsored by the
following organizations:
African Methodist Episcopal Church
(Department of Home and
Foreign Missions)
A.M.E. Zion Church (Board of Foreign 
Missions)
Amalgamated Clothing Workers A.F.L.-CIO. 

American Committee on Africa
American Jewish Congress
A.F.L.-CIO, Industrial Union Dept.
American Society of African Culture. 

American Student Movement
Against Apartheid.
Americans for Democratic Action
Association of Artists for Freedom
Campus ADA.
Catholic Interracial Council
Collegiate Council for the U. N.
Congress of Racial Equality
Episcopal Church (Division of
Christian Citizenship)
Friends Peace Committee
International Union of Electrical
Workers. A.F.L.-CIO.
Methodist Church (Board of Christian 
Social Concerns)
National Association for the Advancement 
of Colored People.
National Catholic Conference for
Interracial Justice.
National Council of the Churches
of Christ (Commission on Religion 
and Race)
National Federation of Catholic
College Students.
National Newman Club Federation
National Student Christian Federation. 

Negro-American Labor Council
RWDSN, A.F.L.-CIO, District 65
Students for a Democratic Society
Student Non-Violent Coordinating
Committee.
United Automobile Workers. A.F.LCIO. 

United Church of Christ (Council
for Christian Social Action)
United Federation of Teachers
United Presbyterian Church (Office
of International Affairs and
Commission on Religion and
Race)
United States National Student
Association.
United States Youth Council
United World Federalists.
Women's International League for
Peace and Freedom.
World University Service
Y.W.C.A. (National Student YWCA)

Juror's Slurs
Gain Man A
New Rape Trial
Racial slurs passed 
by a member of the jury deliberating 
the verdict in the rape suit
against George Whitmore, Jr., will
mean a new trial for the 20-year-old
Negro previously accused falsely for
the murder of two manhattans career
girls.
The NAACP entered the Whitmore 
case on the basis of reported
bias in the jury room. Under the
leadership of Ray H. Williams,
chairman of the legal redress committee 
of the Brooklyn NAACP
Branch, the Association has fought
to gain a new trial for him and has
also protested a "confession" which
resulted in Whitmore's indictment
for another murder.
Because the youth's "confession"
in the double murder has been discredited 
the NAACP has challenged
the validity of all confessions attributed 
to him.
In what has developed into a rather 
tangled legal situation, the
NAACP and Whitmore's attorney of
record, Stanley Reiben, hope to
clear the young man of all the
charges against him.
Brooklyn District Attorney Aaron
E. Koota consented to the motion
for a new trial because "a cloud has
been cast on the validity of the
verdict."


The National Association 
for the Advancement of
Colored People has called upon the
government of the West German
Republic to void its present statute
of limitations on Nazi crimes, now
effective May, 1965.
A statement, adopted by the executive 
committee of the Association's 
Board of Directors, calling
for amendment of the German
Constitution was dispatched on

February 25 by NAACP Executive
Director Roy Wilkins to the German 
Ambassador, Heinrich Knoppstein, 
for transmittal to Bonn.
The full text of the NAACP
statement follows:
The struggle of the Jewish people 
to bring Nazi war criminals to
justice for the wanton slaughter
of millions of their fellow human
beings receives the firm support of
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People.
We note current efforts of Jewish 
groups to have the West German 
Government amend Article
103 of its Constitution. Without
such an amendment the statute of
limitations will go into effect in
May, 1965, and thereby offer immunity 
to many of these Nazis who
perpetrated such hideous crimes
against the Jews and mankind.
We therefore, call upon the
West German Government to make
such constitutional provisions and
enactments as will insure that
these individuals will continue to
be legally confronted with their
monstrous wrongdoing.
The need for such governmental
action goes beyond publishing particular 
individuals, it also will reaffirm 
world - wide faith in the
integrity and effectiveness of the
judicial process. It will also lend
encouragement to concerned people
everywhere who are working diligently 
to forever banish the crime
of genocide from the earth.

Don't Let My Age
Stop You," Says
Granny, Who Won
Mrs.
Ruth Powell told a jury the thing
that really made her mad was when
Mrs. Dorothy Reese said, "If you
weren't so old, I would jerk you
out of their car and stamp you."
Mrs. Powell, a spunky grandmother, 
said she replied: "Don't hold
back on that." Then the battle
started last September. It ended
with Mrs. Powell being charged
with assault with intent to murder. 


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The teacher of the week is Mr.
Milton Barber, a very fine and
industrious instructor of social science. 

The junior class recently launchled 
a new project. This project
will recognize students in excellence 
and achievement in school.
This week Fred Leatherwood was
selected as student of the week.
To the students of Manassas,
try to be the next student of the
week by showing your best behavior 
at all times find achieve

more scholastically.
Edward Thompson, Lavell Whittaker, 
Melvin Herring, James Herdon 
and Samuel Currie.
Dorothy Bowles, Diane MeKinney, 
Peachie Thomas, Norma Hollowell 
and Gwendolyn Harvey.
So until next week this is Sylvia
and Claudean leaving a few words
for the reader of books.




Helmented officers rushed to the
town limits Friday and turned back about 200 Negroes attempting 
to march on the Wilcox County courthouse to protest alleged
discrimination against Negro voters.
Mayor P. C. Reg. Albritton said
he stopped the match "to preserve
the safety of the town."
The marchers stepped off from
St. Francis Baptist Church and had
trooped about three miles down
Whisky Run Road when Albritton

and his men came wheeling up in
two cars.
They walked toward the line of
marchers and stopped, blocking the
road. All of the officers carried
billy - clubs. Two were armed with
shotguns.
The mayor refused to let newsmen 
get close enough to hear what
he told Negro leaders but he said
later he explained the voter registration 
procedure.
At one point Albritton was heard
to say: "NO one, black, or white,
can no down there and register today." 

Later the mayor said "I just told
them it wasn't registration day."
He said he explained that registration 
days are on the first and
third Monday of each month.
"We're not hunting trouble," the
mayor said, we're trying to avoid
it."

CIAA TOURNAMENT STARS —
Robert Saunders (52) with the A&T
College Aggies, makes a layup shot two aces from Norfolk State
College, in the finals match in the CIAA Basketball Tournament
played last week at the Greensboro Coliseum. The Norfolk players 
are: Richard Pitts (40), at left, and James Grant (14) at right,
All three were picked for the All-Tournament team. Norfolk won
the contest 100-87 to capture the tourney crown.

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