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I ■ fi •' T » ■ t X FEATURES E3 r« ,;y < PICTURES t» ARTICLES -, VOLUME 27, NUMBER 5 MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1957 PRICE SIX CENTS The President Is Dissatisfied K + + + + + + + + + + + + + I Tells Ike House-Senate Group May Compromise G r BY ROSE McKEE WASHINGTON - (INS) - Senate GOP leader William F. Knowland told President Eisenhower Saturday he hope» Congress Leader Threatened still will find a "Middle Ground" and agree on an effective vot- ■ ingillCI rightsI'inktc billhill nla! thisfTvic session.caccinn a The California Senator reported tights in criminal contempt cases, But "Not Alarmed" to newsmen. a! tep' a breakfast con- -’’’he liepnbjlclan leader said the de. HL lerence with the President that vision is especially bad because qia» ¡3? .there is ”ai least a possibility’-’ of ROCK HILL, S. C. - (INS) - The Rock Hill Negro Minister bus trial proviso extended to all other .Congress' adjourninj .for the year types of criminal contempt boycott leader, already threatened with bomb retaliation, vowed ■3 by Aug. 24. uliecting anti-trust and other gov Saturday to continue the concerted action until transportation is Knowlnnd's feeling, that House- ernment suits & Senate Conferees on the Civil integrated. COVINGTON, Tenn. -- A 30- waler on speculation that the pre The Rev. C. A. Ivory, who report Rights Bill might work out a com sident’s vs denunciation Friday of year-öld man....... from... Chicago______ was promise sharply contrasted with ed tliree threatening, phone calls to tí bound over to state' court under a The GOP Leader threw 001(1 police Friday night, took tire stand his earlier warning that the Sen tlie Senate Jury' ti ial amendment : • V ■ V "4 $6,000 bond after he was convicted ate's approval of a Jury trial a- Saturday tliat: "This boycott, will on two’ minor traffic charges and | ¡spelled a probable veto of such • “Island In The last until we get justice. By justice mendment had killed the measure. bill fined a total of $100 and cost before I HOPE IS SHARED I mean until my people are allow DID NOT DISCUSS VETO • Judge William Lanier. His fresh hope was shared by ed to ride the buses on an equal The man, identified ns Royal Rol "Did not read that into the Pre- basis.” He added: aS some other legislators. S i d e n t statement, "Knpwland land Hill, was fined $50 and cost Sen. Hubert Humphey (D) Minn., "All we want is justice and fail on a speeding charge and $50 and said But lie emphasized that ha treatment.. We're waiting until the said: “It would be much better if cost on a reckless driving charge. those of us for the bill would.not and Mr Eisenhower did not dis In Theatres Here other people agree to obey tile law He was held over to state court shout about its pending death. We cuss the veto question during theli of the land. We know It is uncon on three charges .......... felonious breakfast meeting at the White should be * attempting to' breathe House To be shown or not to be shown stitutional to be forced to ride in assault, carrying a dangerous weap Knowland said there is “no Knowland said much will d-p-nd — that is a decision facing West a segregated maimer." on and fraudulent use of driver's doubt” in liis mind that Mr. Eisen ■ Paul Knight, owner of the city license. upon wluch Senators are named to Memphis' City Council concerning hower is “disappointed” that, the the Conference Committee which the controversial film "Island In bus company, issued the franchise Hill Is reported to be wanted In three weeks ago. maintained "I Senate wrote into the bill a gua Tire Sun,” which was banned from Louisiana and Illinois' on “bad rantee of jury trial for violators of (Continued On Page Six) movie houses in Memphis recently. intend to obey South Carolina laws check” charges, Reportedly, he al A decision is expected early this and only Sou'll Carolina laws as S ■ so Served terms in both state and week. long as I am in this state: -- The federal prisons. M. A. Lightman, Sr., owner of buses will remain segregated.” . It all started last Thursday when Tlie two-week old boycott began ■ AME BISHOP NICHOLS the Maicon Theatres and the Avon ? - Hill was stopped for speeding in a Theatre in West Memphis, Ark., when Miss Arlene Austin, 23, a Ne Cadillac which he admitted he stole asked members of the city to let gro, was ordered by a bus driver S-x HS from Chicago July 2 . the fate of. tire film be decided by io leaVe a seat just given to her He was stopped by a state patrol SUSPENDED FROM DUTIES by a white ’ woman. Miss Austin a majority vote. The city fathers K man. Hill unarmed the patrohnan, saw the movies at a private “run.’’ said it was the only vacant seat jumped back into the car -and JACKSONVILLE, Fla.—(5NS) — Bishop D. Ward Nichol» .was Mayor H, B. Price ask the city on the bus. sped about five "miles down the found guilty of. five counts of irregularities in the African Meth ivory received tliree threat-phone roqd -before ditching the' car and odist Episcopal Church at the conclusion of a five-day trial dit (Continued On Page Six) calls last night, he said, by “pro escaping, on -foot. bably two different .--men.’' In., onb He was captured; about three Mt. Zion Church and suspended until the next meeting of Gen* oall lie was told 'T just wanted to TUSKEGEE LEADERS TELL SENATORS OF ALA described a» a "shocking" situation are, reading hours walking down a railroad eraT Conference in 1960. Under church law he is privileged tô To be sure you’d be there when it BAMA VOTE DENIALW. P. Mitchell and L. T. from left to right, Sen. Gordon Allott (R., Colo.), track. appeal the decision to the Judicial Council within ten days. goes off.” said the second caller, Dorsey, officials of the Tuskegee, Alabama, Civic Sen. Clifford P. Case (R., N. J.), Sen. Paul H. Officers said Hill,"appearing high Worship In Newly “If you don’t call off the boycott Douglas (D., III.), Sen. Jacob K, Javits (R., N. Y.), ly intelligent, seemingly had a taste The dramatic trial, of the sus E. Walden, of Grant’s Chapel, Chi there won’t, "be a n—-r working in Association, flew to Washington last week and for “good books" and Cadillacs. pended prelate of. the Florida dis cago: Dr. T. W. Gaines, of Greater town.” fold eleven United States Senators of their strug W. P. Mitchell and I; T, Dorsey. Other Senators trict ended late Saturday night, Bethel, New Orleans, La.; Dr. Alvin Consiructed Church The minister said he duly re- gle for the ballot in Alabama. They testified at present but not shown in the picture were Sena having begun Tuesday morning be E. Shaw, of Columbus, Ohio, add Members of Avery Chapel AME ported the threats to the police, a conference in the Capitol, arranged by Clar tors Beall of Maryland, Pat McNamara of Michi fore a record throng of bishops, Bishop H. Thomas Primm. Church have abandoned their struc "but I wasn’t alarmed.” • gan, Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania, Richard Neu high clergy and laymen of the .con Attorneys for the prosecution ot ture at 145 S. Fourth St. On Sunday ence Mitchell, Director of the Washington Bureau, nection. Specific charges had been the case were Mis. Sadie M. Alex berger of Oregon, Thomas Martin of Iowa, Hu they will worship for the first time NAACP, and other officials of the. Leadership made by Presiding. Elder M. M. ander. of Philadelphia, and Ezra M. in a building at Mississippi Blvd, Conference.on Civil Rights, with Sehate leaders. bert Humphrey of Minnesota, and Thomas Ku Lindsay and former Edward Waters Johnson, Hot Springs. Ark., while and Jeannette St. until a new build MRA Leaders Pay Listening to what Senator Kuchel of California chel of California. College President W. B. Stewart, defense counsel consisted of- E/ij.’ —- ing is constructed at the corner of whose ouster from the Jacksonville Jackson Jr., of Jacksonville, and Neptune and Trigg Streets at a cost school exploded a number, of ac L. O. Thomas, Miami, Fla. --’.Yi’ . of $203,000. cusations against Nichols, long a The case, involving alleged Irra- • . Presently, Avery Chapel, one of Tribute To Gandhi Tenn. State A&l sitonmy petrel in the church. gularlties forbidden by the -MSB the oldest Negro, congregations in TRIAL PERSONNEL budget law adopted at the Miami MACKINAC ISLAND Mich., — 25 More Southern School NASHVILLE — Printing Is the Memphis, has more than 600 mem- (INS)—Tl-jc Moral readmamen|t Bishop Richard R. Wight Jr., General Conference, was the first __ . bers. The church was established newest industrial arts offering which president of the' AME Council of of its kind since that historic meet _Assembly..jof _Nat'.tons„ paid-tribute -Tennessee-State Unlverslty.’s indus immediately after slavery ’days and' Saturday to. the late Devadas Gan Bishopsr-satr-as-trlal-judgc-with^Drr ing. Lindsay's-chargesincluded'al*—* members met in the basement of trial education department will Dwight Kyle as recorder, and R. leged illegal handling of church dhi; son of the Mahatma and in make available to students come First Methodist Church at Second fluential Indian Journalist. Districts W. Greene of Cuthbert. Ga., as re funds, placing burdensome taxes and Poplar Sts., several years. About September, porter. Juws were Rev. Benja- upon churches and ministers fdq The 58-year-old Gandhi died of The announcement came' this 14 years later the congregation pur a- heart attack in Bombay^ NASHVILLE, Tenn.

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