Story Ol Negro Taylor Named to Inaugural Group

A Newspaper With A Constructiva Policy IAME«.ICA*S STANPAIt-D PER COPY VOLUME 25, NUMBER 51 MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1957 PRICE SIX CENTS -------------------------- 1----------- :-------------------------------------------;----- -——------- ;--- .... Would Set Up Bipartisan Board To Probe Violations WÀSHINGTON, D. C. — Prsident Eisenhower reaffirmed his four-point Civil Rights .program Thursday in his Staie_of-the Union message. ■Í Thè program calls for: 1. Creation of a bipartisan com America's economy is "strong, ex 1 i mission to investigate tiny violation panding anq, fundamentally sound." y i ’S ’ of civil rightsjnd make recom He said that inflation has been held 3 _. mendations. — 111 check so far, "but it Is clear 2. Establishment of a civil rights' that the danger is always present.” NATIONAL COUNCIL OF NEGRO WOMEN Walker, president of the local chapter of the | division in the Justice Department. He urged management and labor, -HONORS MRS. ALMA BOOTH AFTER LECTURE: National Council of Negro Women, I . Seen left 3. Enactment of new laws to-pro to keep prices and wages at reason tect the right to vote. ■ able" levels - and to subdue "the A group of members of the Notional Council to right are Mrs. Effie Flagg, Mrs. Booth, Mrs. 4‘- Amendment, of existing laws to forces that, threaten a steady de of Negro Women áre seen around a refresh E, Frank White, Mrs. Floyd Campbell, Mrs. Leslie permit the federal government to preciation of the value of . pur mo » ment table in the reception hall of the Vance Taylor, Mrs.. Flora Churchville Cochran, Mrs. seek "preventive, relief" from .civil ney?’' ' ■ .■ w vi Avenue Branch of the YWCA on Thursday be Mary Collier, Mrs . Walker, Mrs. R. Q. Venson, courts in civil rights cases. STANDING OVATION Mrs. W. A. Bisson, Mis”. Jewel Gentry, Miss Fred The Chief Executive told- Congress The President, making his second fore the holiday season. Mrs. Alrrfa Booth, in his annual State of tlie Union appearance" before congress in a principal of Keel School for Crippled Children,_ da Westley, Miss Cornelia Saunders, Mrs. Ber- ■ message ..that the menace of coni- week,' 'was lightly applauded five : spoke to the group on the needs of the Children tha Ray, Mrs) Delora Thompson and Mrs. W. H. miuiist- aggression eposes a continu times during, nis 32-miiiute address. at Keel. She was.ypresented by Mrs, Maceo Young. ' ing threat, to tlie free world’s and He received the customary stand thus to our-own nation’s security ing ovation when he finished. He and peace.” spoke ' quietly,- without oratorical Eisenhower reported that (Continued on Back Page) AKA s PRESENT ANNUAL FOUNDER'S DAY thy Tolliver, Faye Wade, Georgia Harvey and Porter School Late Dr. Charles Johnson Sorors of Bela Tau'Chapter of AKA Sorority Margaret Johnson, bosileus of the Beta Tau take time out along with Mrs. G. V. Harvey, Chapter. Bottom raw (l.to r,): Sorors Mary Jones, basileus of Beta Epsilon Omega Chapter, to To Dedicate GYM Named To Hall Of Fame pose for this picture after a brilliant 49th Jean Harris, Lassie Lee, ’ Sheridan Hicks, Lila Founder's -Day Program,, Top row (I. to .r.),- Smith, Gloria Wade, Gloria McKinney and Shir- , NASHVILLE, Tenn, — Dr, Chas. At Fisk University, Dr. Johnson S. Johnson, Fisk University's, late headed the department of ■’social Sorors Yvonne Brown, Morelia Woodson, Dora- ley Westbrooks. (Withers photo). Thursday Jan. 17 president, has been elected by read sciences from 1928. until ills election ers of Ebony magazine to the Ebony to the presidency In 1946. It was Calisthenics, gymnastics, a n d Hall pf Fame, which memorializes during Illis period that he publish dances will highlight, the Dedicatory distinguished American Negroes ed many of the standard reference $200,000 In Scholarships To ’ Story ol Negro Services of the Porter Junior High whose achievements have contribut works ill tlie field of race .relations School Gymnasium, Thursday. Jan. ed to the progress of the Négro In all, he wrote 18 books and hun 17, at 8 P. M. people and th the American way dreds of articles and reviews. The regular monthly meeting of of life. _ Under President Johnson, Fisk Be Offered High School Seniors Sell-Hanging the.-Porter P. T.. A.'will be held Dr. Johnson is the twelfth per took its place as one of the na prior Ufthe Dedicatory Services be tion’s foremost i small liberal arts ■ NASHVILLE Tenn. Scholarship . Knoxville. Yenn.:T'enn.: Lane, Jackson,J.,ck^,.w, son to be named to this gallery of aid valued at over 200.030. will fee Tenn,; LeMoyne, Memphis Tcnii,; ginning witji a short business 'ses- imitìortajsjpr .the race, located, in colleges, .irrespective of laccorre- ’-”'8ion-af'7«tt-’P0-'li£?-'nie.i'presidteiit/ -gion. During ■ His iriciirilbtrncy^ awarded to high school seniors Lincoln, Lincoln University, rtl.Pa.: j Ebony's home office in Chicago. this- year’ ‘23 ’co'dptrilling ■ pri Xavingstorie, S’Alisbury, N. C.; More ■—MH Mrs.'Dante Strong, will preside. Im - A' man of varied ' talents and major buildings' Were added’’ to - the portant on the agenda will' be' plans institution's physical‘ ■• plant, ■-and vately-endowed colleges In 11 states hciise,. Atlanta. Ga.;.Morris Brown; . ‘ (ANP)—My broad Interests, Charles’ S. Johnson ¡Awards will be allocated on the Atlanta, Ga.; Paine, Augusta, Ga.; stery and speculation beclouded th# for the annual Tèa, April 28. Some achieved national eminence before Sl'i million to the endowment, Important matters pertaining to the He served his nation on various basis on scores made on the Co Johnson C. Smith, Charlotte, N. story by Mississippi officials that he was thirty years old with the operative Iiitercolleg ate Examina C.; Philander . smith Little Rock,. a Negro, accused of killing a white community will be discussed for publication of The Negro in Chi presidential commissions u n d e t -possible action. Hoover, Roosevelt. Truman and Eis. tion. to be given 'In 182 ’ high Ark.; Shaw, 'Raleigh, N. C.; Spel- man, hanged himself last week cago. considered a landmark in so schools'throughout the country be ir.iin. Atlanta, Ga.; Talladega, Tal here In Hinds County Jail. - • ’ Porter Gymnasium has been a cial research. enhowcr. Ill 1946 he went to Japan nt the request of General Douglas tween Fab. 23 and March 8. ladega, Ala.; Tougaloo. Tougaloo, -According to the jailer, Robert -, welcome addition to the school, this During the 1920s. he edited Op . year;' filling a vital need fnr the MacArthur to help reorganize the The examination program was Miss.; Tuskegee, Tuskegee 'Inst - Clark was found hanging from the portunity magazine, which became oignnized six years bro to help physical education classes which educational system of Japan along tute, Ala,; and Wiley, Marshall, bars of his death cell of the Jail > r I , • ■ i ,, UIIc.lt-1under lllohis IIIimaginative 1U 111<A LI y v guidanceLUlUu-HUU thevizr. eliminate some of the'duplication Tex. ' • • wlie nhe entered to serve breakfast are part of the curriculum, as welL..j dl medium of expression ol democratic lines, and the same year was. called by President Truman to- of examlnatlonsTor evaluating High ~ Three of the colleges, Fisk More Officers claim that Clark knotted" as Intramural sports and games. .the Negro. Renaissance. ’ Many of The importance of physical edu-' serve as a delegate to the first ses school seniors. The partlcipnt ng house and Talla'defea; have an early his socks and under wear together the race's great; creative artists- first sion of tlie United Nations Educa colleges use the test results as one entrants program, and students in to serve as a noose. A corner’s jury cation for physical fitness will be achieved recognition through this exemplified during the various per tional. Scientific and Cultural Or of the criteria for determining the lOtli and l'ith grades arc per- returned a verdict of suicide. magazine, at a time when other ganization. their scholarship awards, and sev liiitted to take tlie examination for Clark. 32, was awaiting trial lln formances of the boys and girls. publications were closed to them. R. B. Thompson,, principal and Mrs Dr. Johnson's election to Ebony’s eral of them require all candidates entrance to these three institutions. the slaying of Thomas Rogers. O. S. Shannon, assistant principal Hall of Fame’will be announced in for admission to take the examina All of. the cooperating colleges are urge the attendance of all parents the February issue of the magazine. tion. members of the United Negro Col-' and the public at large. Wm. F. Nabors Named The cooperating colleges are Ben lege Fund and are accredited by nett. Greensboro, N. C.: Bethune- Among the guests expected arc C. of C. President their regional’ associations. Marion Hale of the Recreation De Judge McCain Keynotes Cookman. Daytona Beach. Fla; •The Cooperative Intercollegiate partment and members of the Wiliam F. Nabors, Memphis Douglass Community Bishop-Marshal), Tex.: Clark, At Examination Program maintains a Board of Education. Housing Authority staffer and pub lanta. Ga,; Dillard, New Orleans liaison office at Fisk University. lic relations agent tor the Coca Center Dedication Sun. La:; Fisk, Nashville, Tenn.; Hamp Nashville, Tenn., from which in Taylor Named To ton; Hampton, Va.; Knoxville Cole bottling company, wn$ elected Juvenile Court Judge Elizabeth formation may be secured. president of thé Memphis Negro McCain was principal speaker Sun Arres! Hurricane ’le relat ons agent day for the ■ dedication program of Inaugural Group the Douglass C'-mmunity Center', for the Coca Tenn. Governor Presents WASHINGTON — (ANP) — Mrs; Jackson In Car Death Cola bottling com the first Negro youth center to be built by the Park Comm ssion held Ida Smith Taylor, a local Negro pany, was elect PROF.

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