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READ THE FEATURES NEWS WHILE IT IS NEWS FIRST PICTURES IN YOUR ARTICLES VOLUME 27, NUMBER 31 PRICE SIX CENTS MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1957 k Pleasanton, Texas Roy Wilkins Tells Film World To Be Realistic LOS ANGELES—The NAACP doesn't propose Io censor movie Peaceful Affair TV scripts; it has no rule requiring the use of a Negro pro fessional or business man in every film in which a Negro maid PLEASANTON. Tex. — Nine or menial appears and it is not opposed to the use of Negroes Negro pupils have been admitted to in comedy roles as such, Roy Wilkins, executive secretary, told MOVIE INDUSTRY CONFERENCE between N. A. national executive secretary; Leon Ames, pres .Pleasanton High School., with a a luncheon meeting-of producers, directors, writers and actors ident-elect, Screen Actors Guild; B. B. Kahane, welcome by white students who A. C. P. officials and Heads of the screen guilds joined in to implement peaceful at the Beverly Hills Hotel last Friday. held , at the Beverly Hills Hotel Friday/ October vice-president and acting chairman of the Board integration. ' Wilkins, . who met with Negro 25, to clear up misinterpretation of role of of Association of Motion Picture Producers, It was the first integration under actors and actresses’at the Broad way assembly room Thursday night, NAACP regarding Negro ,actors. L to R, seated: which broup hosted the luncheon conference; a new Texas law requiring a local standing: Bill Walker, chairman of the Los An option election. The new law, which quoted from a 'letter written by WATCH Rev. Maurice A. Dawkins, Los Angeles NAACP Daryl Zanuck after a 1942 meet President, whose six months efforts were re geles NAACP Screen and TV Actors Committee was urged by prosegregationists in efforts to slow down Integration, ing with the late Walter White to THE warded by this meeting; Charles Boren, vice- and member of the board of Screen Actors' has not been tested, However, the drive home the point that the Asso president, Industrial Relations, Association of Guild. ‘ Dallas School Board, under a fed ciation has been consistent in its WORLD Motion Picture Producers; Roy Wilkins, NAACP eral court order to integrate schools, demand that the movie makers de lias asked for a federal ruling on pict the Negro in a realistic man * Attend Goodwill Homes!- its constitutionality. ner. Celebration at Mt. Olive -f SIX MONTHS OF MEETINGS But this had no effect on the The luncheon conference was the Cathedral, Thursday, Pleasanton School district which result of six months of meetings, November 7. Klansman Gets 20 Years consists of 750 white and 37 Negro letter writing and conferences on * Register To Vote students. Integration was brought the part of Rev. Maurice A. Daw about after Supt. J. D. Kllnge- kins, president of the Los Angeles man, the high school principal, and NAACP, with actors and actresses the principal of the student body here-¿.locally, with members- of the revealed a canvass had been made Negro Actors Guild in New York, of white students and no oppo Minutes of deliberation.. uild, and several conferences with German« Editor BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - (INS) - a Birmingham man. sition to their entrance was found. Roy Wilkins in New York in Au Joe P. Pritchett, the first of six WORSE CASE Both officials welcomed Negro An all-white jury.convicted a Ku Judge Alta King, who sentenced gust. —, Klux.KJansmqn of Mayhem and Klan members to be tried for beat- students when they attended school Among.those- prekeent -lyn^ 'iftg and; emasculating Negro’-Judge PrHchett-to the.-maximunv>2<M'ear 'for the first Uiiut’ assault with intent to kill Thura^ imprisonment penalty, described FOREIGN STUPENTS WELCOMED — Representatives of the ch'eon meeting were the tdp ¡ exe (CQ) Aaron, was found guilty by cutives of the Hollywood Motion day, for a mutilation attack on the white male jury after only 20. the crime' as “the worst case I’ve The remaining Negro students In Foreign Sluedrit Service Council are shown with President Eisen had in my experience as. an at the town are elementary school hower during their recent visit to the White House. Left to right: picture industry. torney and during the ten years pupils, and will be. moved Monday Lowell Davis, Jamaica, BWI; Carlos Alindada, Philippines; Bahieh The NAACP executive, Wilkins, Like Hitler Days I have been on the bench.” to former white schools where they Mousa, Jordan; Eisenhower; Usha Bahadur, India; and Paul blasted rumors repeated by Negro ATLANTA, GA. — (SNS) actors that the Association has de The attack on the 32-year-old will be taught by Negro teachers Spargnapani, Switzerland. AU wore given mementoes of the In many ways segregation; Prac an in separate classes until contracts manded withdrawal of scripts or Negro, was said to be' “integra visit (Newspress Photo). tices towards the Negro in the ScHith tion warning”, to Birmingham Ne- for those teachers expire in Janu has intervened to select particular resemble oppressive Tactics, tcwqrdi gro leaders who sought to break ary. ... actors for roles in pictures or TV. Jews and other minorities in Ger the public school segregation bar (Continued On Page Six) many by Adolf Hitler, a former rler. Three Vie For Honor of Nazi paratrooper said Thursday. ' Trial date has nöt been set for Karl Lankau, chief editor^ql,,the ‘the five other Kansmen. Each fac "Miss Miss. Vocational" LeMoyne Board Of Trustees I Walker Homes Civic Lubecker Nachrjchten, a metro es the same charge as f Pritchett, ITTA BENA — Three lovely Mis politan newspaper off^ÿbek, but two, have turned state’s wit sissippi co-eds are competing for Club To Hear Mayor many, made thS-.bbsi ¿^on ThLr- ' nesses against him. the “Miss MVC” title' on the cam day while visiting- AinaJfâ'Tnf’a;üi- John N. Griffin, testifying for Are Given Special Citati&is Orgill On Wednesday pus of Mississippi Vocational Col Residents of Walker Homes, con S. State Department - 'sponsbrea Î the second time in the trial of an lege. These girls represent a cross tour, ‘ , i alleged accomplish, said he stood Two members of LeMoyne Col per Co.. Memphis; George Forbes, cerned with., becoming annexed .to section of student life in the soph- lege’s Board of Trustees were sin •realtor of Cleveland, Ohio; Charles the city, have, arranged for Mayor Lankau had been to Little Rock guard while the attack on 32-year- more, junior and senior classifica and talked with-Gov. Faubus, while old. Negro Judge (CQ) Aaron took gled out fqr^special citations during (Goodman of American Finishing Edmund Orgill. to speak to them tion. ■ ............. an.academic convocation at the in I Co., Memphis; T. R. McLerno^ the, on ‘Annexation to the City.” trying to get The broad pérsjwçtlve place, and was “shocked’’ to learn stitution last Friday. of America’s integration-segregation what had happened. The contest Is under the spon Alumni Trustee, United States Pos He will speak at 7:30 p. m. Wed sorship of the homecoming com The two cited were: Mrs.* Eva tal Service, Memphis: Rev. S. A. nesday at Ford Road School at a picture. The German editor, Who SELECTED AT RANDOM mittee. The committee’s project is Hills Eastman,and C. Arthur.Bruce, Owen. Metropolitanr _____ Baptistr.._________ Church, meeting being sponsored by the was captured in thé Battle ci Nor Griffin said Aaron was selected to raise funds for the Athletic pro charter members, who are still ser- ’ Mephis; Rev. Philip E. Widenhouse Walker Homes Civic Club. mandy and was a prisoner of war at random, simply to warn Bir gram at the college. The winner, vlng. They .were among the incor of the American Missionary Asso Other civic leaders who are in the united States during the mingham integration-leader Rev. will reign as “Miss MVC” at the porators of LeMoync as a four- ciation. New York; scheduled to share the speaker’s last years of World War H com F. L. Shultleworth not to proceed Homecoming Festivities and thru- I year college in 1934. Rev. Allen Hackett, Pilgrim Con platform arc: James T. Walker, mented that the Little Rock affair with plan for mixing of races. He out the 1957-58 school year. Her Ernest Hooper, professor of his gregational Church, St. Louis; Prof. president of Bluff City and Shel had made Gov: Faubus “the best said earlier, he had heard the de coronation will take place on Nov. i....tory. .........spoke briefly , _of............. the functions . Phillips Bradley of Syracuse Uni by County Council of Civic Clubs; known American in Europe.” fendant Joe Pritchett, give the or 14, in the college auditorium. I of the trustees and expressed gra- versity; Dr Truman B. Douglass Felton Earls, club president. and Lubeck is located about five der to emasculate the Negro. The contestants are: Sylvia 1 titude for ' tlieir services. After and Dr. William Frazier, executive Mrs. Rubye D. Splght. miles from tho zone separating "I believe the men intended to Spearman, Annie Doris Bennett Chairman Bruce, introduced the vice-president, and treatsurer. re Music will be supplied by Mit give Aaron a good beating.” Grll- and Babara Smith. other members of the board. Dr. spectively, of the Board of Home chell and Ford Rond Schools. (Cvntlnucd On Page Six) fln said before an all-white jury. Hooper rend the citations. IMrs. “ Missions of the Congregational All residents of the area arc urg ” .to impress Shuttlesworth Hot The freshman class has a con- Eastman was unable to attend. Christian Churches. ed to attend. to integrate the schools.” test of its own with three young The gratitude of the students ladies competing for the title of .was expressed by Miss Gloria Wad'c The accused are being tried se The contestant parately, since some of the men "Miss Freshman." — of the senior’ class.