^Memphis Area News Briefs MONTGOMERY PROTEST MISg. NEORO TEACHERS ASS’N RAH LAW REQUIRING THEM TO LIST ORGANIZATIONS THEY abk w tR| HALTED; PASTOR FINED $500 JACKSON, Miss. - <£N6) - The Mississippi Negro Teachers Assoc la t Ion last weekend described a re­ cently passed Mississippi law re­ quiring teachers to list the organi­ zation to which they belong or have supported as "an instrument of fear to every law abiding Negro teacher in the state." The law, one of several passed by Mississippi to deter public school desegregation, was designed TAMBA», A.ACC UOVÂ.MÀ-C to curtail Negro teacher support of the NAACP VOLUME 24-NUMBER 80 MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, TUESDAY, MARCH 27, -955 MEMPHIS COED NAMED SWEAT ER QUEEN AT UNIV. OF N. DA­ KOTA _ Miss Gwendolyn Crawford, of 675 Jaycees Push Aferechal Nell, now a student at •the University of North Dakota a has been elected Sweater Queen of Young Man Of No Compromise On Equality the campus. 'MAYOR THORNTON' MEETS THE SPIRIT ' “ Matthew’“ Thornton Miss Crawford 20. a graduate of Melrose high school, is majoring (right) the blind, philosophical Mayor of Beale Street, was host In music and is president of the to Miss Maxine Perrymon, Spirit of Cotton Makers Jubilee, at on Year Contest Pi Lamba Theta sorority chapter informal gathering al his residence last week. Seen with the The members of the Memphis Ne­ at the university. "Mayor'* and Miss Perryman is H. L. Chandler, assistant cashier gro Junior Chamber of Commerce Earl Dickerson Tells Group are working hard toward the selec­ TWO CITY RACE POLICEMEN at the Tri State Bank. - (Staff Photo by Tisby) I tion of a young man to which its BY RAYMOND F. TISBY SUSPENDED FOR ATTENDING T Young Man of the Y<ar" award The Negro "connot compromise'on the question of equality* MOVIE WHILE ON DUTY can be given. The members met re­ Negro police patrolmen J. W avowed Earl B. Dickerson, president of the Supreme Liberty Life cently to draw up further plans to Jupert and Frank Peebles were Insurance Company, in a speech here Friday evening in the Uni­ help make their program a suc­ given ten day suspensions last versal Life Insurance Company al a luncheon sponsored by the State GOP Leader cess. week by Police Chief J. C Mac­ All clubs which rare to partici­ two Tennessee branches of the Chicago based company. donald (he spells It with a small pate arc urged to send thteir nomin­ *'c") for allegedly attending a movie Mi Dickerson traced lor the the insurance executive said. ations in as soon as po&tiblc so as while they were supposed to be on i luncheon audience, a c :*»..< .s -ction Mr. Dickerson who lauded the Urges Compromise to give the Judges more time to of Memphis proiesMonal, business duty. leadership and urged support of the scrutinise each nomliiee carefully . civic and religious areas, the pro­ NAACP. felt that the historic May The Shetby County Republican R A Trippeer as tire other and make a more intelligent decis­ BLOW FROM STEAM SHOVFX gress of the Negro shut- the "sepa­ 17 decision was liilluenced to some fissure which widened at the re­ This proixisal appears to have ion. ■*. ,v rate but equal" doctrine that i>-gan extent by world opinion. SCOOP KILLS WORKER HERE cent county GOP convention when been accepted by both factions, The qualifications of any nominee with the famous i’lcssy vs. Ftigu- The Mississippi iCanton) born in* The blow from an ascending the Old Guard-Hamilton Club and however, the second proposal by as previously set .forth bv the pro­ ton case and then outlined a course prance executive, who told of how steam shovel scoop loaded with New Guard factions split and held Smith that the county chairman­ gram committee arc as foltows: Any of action to be followed In light he was "smuggled'' from Canton to sand proved fatal to Coy Mytt. 39 separate conventions was adminis­ ship be divided into a co-chairman­ man between the ages of ?! and 36 of" the May 17 1954 U. 8. Supreme Chicago by inoperative train porters of 2737 Weaverly, Thursday while tered healing water by state GOP ship between New Guard county who is of good moral | character and Court ruling • becuu.se his mother didn’t have directing the unloading of sand chairman Guy Smith during a visit chairman Walker Wellford and Old has shown evidence cd active parti­ The long time Supreme Liberty enough money to pay His f»re, uro­ trom a railroad car. < Guard county chairman Newell cipation in his commtinit,»‘s civic or here last week. I executive believed that complete de­ cd tlie Negro to continue to push social affairs is eligible (or the a- Mytt, an employee of Lehman- Smith, a Knoxville publisher, sug­ Fowler, was flatly turned down by segregation "te bound to come with­ forward "courageously, calm, peace* ward. However each applicant must Roberts Construction company. 1098 gested a factional compromise on the New Guard. in the next quin ter century" Every lul but determined." be nominated by a business, social Wilson, was standing inside the two levels. In case the factions fail to reach vestiagc of segregation," Mr Dicker Hollis Price, president of LeMojmq or professional organisation, but the railroad car directing the shovel Smith proposed that Ute two an understanding on the county son felt, “will be eliminated in the College, responded to Mr. Dicker* operator where to drop his scoop national delegates posts be split chairmanship a second county con­ nominee does not have to be a mem next 25 years in light of the May son's sjieech. A. Maceo Walker, Pnl- ber of such club ' and was fatally struck n the head with Old Guard leader Lt George vention to elect a chairman may be 17 decision" vt-imI Life president and presl* as the scoop ascended with a load. All nominations Should be mail­ W; Lee as one and New Guarder I ordered by the state committee. Therefore. Mr Dickerson reason­ dent ol the National Insurance As* ed to: ed. Il is incumbent upon the Negro soclation. welcomed the meeting to MEMPHIS NEGliO JUNIOR Memphis W D.’ Isabel, Supreme CHAMBER OF COMMERCE to prepare himself aud "get oW businesses in older and be able to Liberty area director, presided. c-o M L. Hay* ood 395 Jensen 8trec t compete in the mainstream of Memphis, Tenne isae, American life" SPIRIT OF THOUGHT Passive Resistance The award will Ike made Tuesday Tlie 14th amendment holds .the Remember now Ihou Creator key to America's dream of Incom­ i night. May 1st al. Tony's Inn. All in the dayt of thy youth. I reservations for the banquet can be ing a true mixing pot »litre per­ i made through bwquet chairman. sons of all races, colors and < reed.', - ECQ. 13-1. i Leonard J. Small by calling either can walk on equal basis, rising or of the following falling by their own Individual mer­ there 7-6661, (night) I it" but If was not until the May Goal To Continue 17 decision did America decide to ßortet actually and concretely state this. I bloc countries eluding 23 other ministers, were postponed pending the outcome of — King's appeal. The 90 Negroes were indicted by a grand Jury last Feb THE MAYOR SIGNS FIRST—The first signature affixed to the scroll i i 21. of ’ °56‘a Spirit of Cotton Makers Jubilee, vivacious Maxine Perry- • Montgomery Protest Appeal J Thursday night, an estimated Beating Deacon mon. a |unior at Mississippi Vocational College, was put there by 3.000 Negroes roared their determi- LOG ANGEL! Is —(ANPi— Tie Memphis Mayor Edmund Orgill at his office Friday. Spirit Maxine „ BY ROBERT H. DENLEY I Continued on Page 6 Los Angeles Bra rich of the NAACP departed yesterday (Monday) on her national and-international MONTGOMERY, Ala. - (INS) - The Rev. M. I. King, Jr„ demanded an Investigation into the tour of goodwill in behalf of cotton adding the name of important began an appeal Friday of his conviction os a Montgomery bus "peculiar death" of Talmadge Da­ persons al each »top.—(Staff Photo by Tisby) boycott leader while fellow Negroes vowed to continue their mass vis, Jr., who was taken Into cus­ protest. tody by two poRicc officers after a minor traffic accident last March Defense attorneys for the 27- 2. Xavier Concert Choir To year-old pastor of the Dexter Ave­ Rev. Morris Dgvis, the dead What’s In The nue Baptist Church, who was found man's brother, hila charged that guilty late Thursday of violating the victim "was murdered and Appear At LeMoyne Tonight t Alabama's seldom-used anti-boy- robbed" by the arresting officers. cott law, said his appeal may lead The National Ltf.e and Accident The Xavier University Concert group come io dote to perfection World Today ultimately to the U. S. Supreme Insurance Company has refused Choir of New Orleans will appear as a complete aesthetic presenta­ Court. to pay on Davii' pulley terming it gt LeMoyne College on April 5. at tion." Sam Brown lakes to horses today Circuit Court- Judge Eugene W “not an accidental death." 8:00 P. M in C Arthur Bruce Hall PART I In Along The Sports Trail — Can Carter, - who conducted tile four- A number of ’witnesses to the The student choir, under the di­ Ciiligavcrunt oculc Mcl — Vittoria the Negro compromise on the ques­ day hearing without a Jury at the traffic accident state that Davis rection of William Benjamin Mer- Adoremus te — Palestrina; Cantate tion of equality? Earl B.